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Q&amp;A-m Baker talks about how
REV-UP maintains retirees' UB link.

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Faculty Senate sees/ack f!faculty
amsultation in mission review.

februarv 25.1!HI/VIi 30. No.22

Ancient
tradition
Wearing a mask used to
represent a young woman,
Fukano Shinjiro demon·
strates techniques of Noh,
a 600-year-old japanese
theatrical form, to students
during a worl&lt;shop
presented Friday in the
Center for the Arts Drama

SILS, Communication to merge July 1
School ofInformation Studies to offer programs in information and communication technology

a,

PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

T

HE School of lnforma·
lion and Library Studies
(SfLS ) ana th&lt; D&lt;pan·
ment of Communica tion, part of the Colleg&lt; of Arts and
Sciences, will merge on July I, creating a unit that will enable VB to
oonduct more produ ctive educa-

tional programs in information
and communication technology.
The new School of Information
Studies (SIS) will consist of a De·
partment of Communication and

a Department of Information and
Library Studies .
Provost David Triggle sees the
new school as vi t al to the
university's mission.

"In that TV series, 'The Prisoner,' now of cult status, Number
2 is always s tating to Pa trick

McGoohan , Number 6, that ' he 1
wants information.' That is still an
appropriate quotation for todayinformation and its use are hot
co mmoditi~s." TriggJe said ... The
scient ific and social aspects of in formation gat hering , tran smissio n . recept io n and analysis are of
JACGeSON
increas ing importan ce i n this
kno wledg&lt;-based wo rld .
Sll.S Dean George Bobinski and
.. The volume of informati on Thomas Jacobson, chair of the Ded o ubles at an ever-increasing rate panment of Commun1cat1on, sa id
and o ur ability to communicate ef- the merger IS bencfic1al for both
fectivel y in the future will depend umts, since the work of both focuses
ever mo re o n our effective use of essentially on the users of mformainformation," he said, no ting th at tlon and th e human aspects of the
"the ' information technologies' will impact of informatlon technology
increasing]y dominate the educa''We share com mon values, do tion , research and service missions mains of interest and research meth of the un iversity. The formati o n of odologies that provide o pportuna ·
the School of Information Studies ties for productive collaboratio n, a
is an important first step for us m fa ct reflect ed in the m1ssion state·
executing these missions."
mcnts ofhoth Sll.Sand the Depart ·

ment of Communication," Bobinski
said, adding that both units are con cerned with the information system
and th&lt; delivery syst&lt;m, and with m ·
terpersonaJ networks, social net
works and mass net work5.
"We are also both concerned With
the effects of faithful, correct infor·
matlon circulation and of incom plete, mcorrect and m isleading in formation." he said, noting that .. the
rwo areas are becoming increasing.ly
mtenwined in our increasing]y net
wo rked society with concerns t..fta1
are, in some cases. parallel and m
ot h e~. complementary...
Ja cobson a lso appla uded th e
merger plans. noting that hiS dcpar1 mt:nt facult~· hOb \\'Orked wnh the
Sl L'\ fucu ll'" on thts plan for somt'
tame ... Wc'rt' alllookrng forward to
the m erger," he. sa1d. "' It p ro\•td~ J
Conu..-.d-,....4

CIT installs new software to prevent system failure
was shut down again

briefly this week to allow
Computing and lnfor·
mation Technology to install software that should prev&lt;nt a system
failure similar to the one that occurred Feb. 3 from happening again.
According to Hinrich Marten s,
associate vice pres ident for com puting and informatio n techno !
ogf, the problem that ca used the
crash, crippling emai l servi ce at
UB for nearly two weeks, has been
identified by Veritas, the compan y
that supplied the server's software .
.. We're cert ainl y ve ry reli eved
thai this has been identified and
pinpointed and we' re also certainly relieved that email has been
restored," Marten s said.
Veritas notified UB on Friday
that the system · wide fai lure was

indeed ca used by the number of
files o n the server, which had grown
to mo re than 8.5 millio n files.
CIT personnel are relieved that
the source of the problem has been
fo und , a nd that th e software
company's fmdings "confirm what
we'd suspected ... ( and) confirm that
we took the right tact when we d 1
vided the filesystem" into 12 smaller
fi les because the p rob lem wa~
..dearly related to si1.e," Martem !lo3ld.
Veri tas has provided U B with a
"fix," or softwa re pa tch that was
mstalled early Tuesday m o rmng to
prevent the problem from occur rin g agai n . Se nding custo mer!&gt; J
" fi x" is a co mmon practice when
a problem has been Identified by
a software manu fac ture1, he saad.
Gaven what the university was up
against, Manens said he felt the soft war&lt; problem had b«n identified
in ..a very reasonable time frame."
In fact, given the severity of the

server crash. he sa 1d he thought
things had been handled as well as
they possibly could have heen . And
while tht' reacllon of t he universitY
community could haw bt"en vatn
o hc. feed bad, has been "amazmgh
positive ... very understandmg and
very sy mpath eti c, (.'XCCpt for a few
1solated exception!&gt;," he sa1d .
" VVe vc been able to dn prett\
wcllm livmg through and surv1 v
mg this process," Martens added .
A!&gt; he had md1ca ted earl u:r, Mar
tt~ns said a ca mpu.s- w1de comnut tt't' has been set up to rcv lt'W the approach that was taken in restorat1on
l)f th e uni versi ty's ce ntral em ail
server and recommend changes. an
el uding possible long· tcrm change.
such as replacement of the system ,
1f that is deemed necessary. That
committe&lt; was scheduled to hold its
preliminary meeting th is week.
While some members o f th e
university commun ity found two

weeks wi tho ut em a il to be a hugt·
othe rs ba rely noticed ,
espec1ally departments that U!ot' .a
o;epara te ero a1l server.
!'luch wa!l thc: (ase ...,,1th the Ul
fi~,.e of AdmiSSions , \vh1ch reu.'IVl''
an average of 80 em ail me~~agc' .1
d a)' from prospective :,tudenh .
sa1d Mary Wea therston , ass 1 ~tant
d1rector of admasMnn' mJrkt•llng
d1~rupt1on,

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hJve had an awful lot of Jnntwnl
pm!&gt;ptctl\'t' student\. The\ wt)uld
have thought we wt'rl' 1gnon n ~
them , and how wou ld tht•v h.avt·
known (diffcrt•ntlv )1 " sht· .~... J..cd
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nliSSJons may have been affel'tt·d .
she noted, smce many of the mes
sages th ~ office receave!l a re fo rwa rded to a no ther department lo r
a reply. If those departments were
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sources d~velopment in P~rsonnel
Services, along with m~mbers of
the university's Emeritus Center.
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the 1986 Empire State Games,
when more than 20 UB retirees
helped out with all aspects of the
games. Three years later, it was determined that this concept needed
a coordinator and in February
1990, I became a part-time employee of Personnel Services. Under RosaJyn's able guidancr and
mentorship, I assisted in the further development and direction of
this expanding idea.

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spring of 1974 , authorized by
then -President Robert Ketter, led
to the establishment of the Emeri tus Center in 1977 to provide all
retired university personnel with
a means to continue their relation·
ship with the university community. The cen ter now is housed in
the South Lounge of Goodyear
Hall on the South Campus and has
a membership of more than 500
retirees who may attend monthly
meetings featuring a guest speaker

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period. In addition , members en joy field trips and tours, and the
opportunity to participa!&lt; in REVUP. Emeritw Center membership
($3 per year) is a prerequisite for
REV-UP.

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upon REV- UP for his performance whers; similarly, much \001unteer service at the Center for the
Arts comes from REV-UP. The
hours of service are greatly in creased for the Division of Athletics during football season, when
nearly 30 retirees maintain an imponant usher presenu for home
games, and during special athletic
events, such as last summer's
NCAA Track and Fi&lt;ld Championships. Much volunteer service is
rendered to medical school areas.
including admissions, medical
education, Office of Medical
Computing and the mini-medical
school program. Much of this is
•ongoing service,"' when a volunteer oomes to the department once
or twice weekly, for an average of
three to four hours, to support
clerical staff on. special projects.

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During the past nine yean, REVUP has grown from an interesting
idea to an exci ting reality. At
present, more than 35 univeTSity
departments have benefited from
the volunteer service of more than
90 retirees, both in short-term assignme.nts and longer, ongoing
situations. Retirees learn of the program during pre-retirement semin.ars; upon retirement, they""""""'
Emeritus Center membenhip information, along with a letter explaining the REV-UP program and an intmst survey. Within this questionnaire, retirees can indica!&lt; their inlereSIS and the specific area or areas
where they ""uld liU to \'Oiunt=.
Ther. is absolutely no prossure put
upon the member. of the Emeritus
Center to participate, bt!t for many
ofthem,REV-UPserviabecomesan
ideal way to stay oonnected to the
placewheretheyhadbeenemploy&lt;d
for 10,20 or even 30-plwyean.
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Three times a year I compile a Service Hours Report, and the volunteered hours for a given department or area often will change depending upon the period of the
report. However, the most consis·
tently high numbers of service
hours are given to the music department, medical school, Center
for the Arts and Athletics. The
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MART consum ers will take
some precautions to pro tect their personal fi .
nantes in tight of possible
Y2K problems, Lewis Mandell,
dean of the Schoo l of Management , suggested to a "UB at Sun- rise" audience on Feb. 18.
Although he believes th ere is no
reason to panic--estimating the
possibility of a major Y2K problem
in the U.S. at "less than I0 percent"-MandeU offered some tips
for those who want to be prepared.
He advised audience members to
withdrawS 1,000 from a savings account at the beginning of December. The Federal Reserve, he noted,
will step up its reserve of cash from
$60 billion to $250 billion in antici pation of such withdrawals.
"Anybody that doesn't do thai is
really footish," Mandell said. "Don't
wait until the week before Christ mas to go to an ATM machine. If
nothing happens, the money can
go right back into the bank."
Individuals also should keep all
their receipts, and have their bank

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books balanced by late December, he said. He urged
those with stocks. bonds and
other investments to determine if the brokerage house
keeping the certificates is
Y2K comptiant. If not, investors sho uld switch brokerage houses or obtain the actuaJ paper certificates and store
them in a safe deposit box until any
problmu are straightened out, he
suggested.
On Jan. 3--the first business day
of the year 2000-the world will
know who really was prepared for the
coming of the new millennium and
who was not, Mandell said While the
U.S. '" is better off than any other
country," there are some foreign
companies that don't "have a clue..
about the Y2K problem, he said
He added that he believes there
will be fewe r corpora te mergers
this year than in past years because
companies do not want to intermingle computer systems.
The Y2K problem is only one of
the problems to be faced in the coming millennium, Mandcll noted in
his lc:cru..,, entitled "Coping in a Be-

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I wouldn't begin to touch the "age
component" ofREV-UP. lt is not a
factor of the program at all There
is a quote from Samu.d Sinclair
Baker's "Conscious Happmess"
wtpchsaysitb&lt;st;"Youan:asyoung
as your c:nthwiasm, as old as your
disinterest." REV-UP volunteers
and all volunteers stay young at
heart because they are focusing on
helping othen, finding ways to be
needed and acting upon those ways.
I have sent 80th birthday cards to
numerous REV-UP member. in the
past nino yean. There an: 18 retirees who have been activdy involved
in REV-UP since before 1990.
Tell me SCNIIethlngyourself that most people
don't know, but should.

After 24 yea rs of active involvement in the UB Women's Club,

Protect finances from Y2K
By JOHN LAVIU£
Reporter Contributor

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nearly 10 years of association
with the university's retirees
and a personal.ity that c.an
hardly be oonsidered shy aod
reserved, my life is pretty
much an "open book." Ptthaps
this is the opportunity to an swer one question I am frequently asked: My hair is not
permed, but naturally curly! I
also run 2- 112 miles, three
times a wrek, with my husband, Jack.
wish I

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You might have uked if I had
a favorite REV-UP volunteer,
and I would have bad to answer, "'yes, my husband, Jack
Baker!" Jack retired from ExerciSe Science in 1995, currently is president of the
Emeritus Center and is an ongoing volunteer in the Office
of Medical Computing. An other question I would have
liked is about the annual
REV-UP Recognition held in
May to coincide with the
Emeritus Centtr meeting.
Most of the volunturs would
prefer no formal recognition
and tell me that they volunteer
because they want to and they
enjoy iL But it is a lovely event
with printed programs that list
each REV-UPmemberandth&amp; · hours served. Last year, 83
REV-UP volunteers gave 3,718
hours of service to UB; since
March 1990, tbe total hours
volunteered was 22,912, and
counting! This is truly a wonderful program, but it is the
wonderful, giving VB retirees
who make it happen. I have
said many times, I fed honored
to be part of it with them.

Mandell urges
wildering Financial Environ ment."' Another major problem is the number of bankruptcies being filed
The dean said that more than
2 million families nationwide
filed for bankruptcy last year.
He said that

States, notin g
that cons umers
today must make
many more decisio ns concerning their finances than those in past years. For
example, he compared the defined
benefit pension that in the past had
been offered by most employers,
whue an employ.e who worked for
a company for a cenain number of
years could expect a pension based
on the number of years of service
and his or her exiting salary, to the
defined contribution pensions that
have become popular today, such
as a 40 I k plan, where the employ.e
makes a contnbution, the employer

contributes a like aniount and the
sum is invested in S«Urities, oftrn
of the employee's choice.
"This demands that you make,
ala very early age, a very sophisticated choice of instruments ...
without any training." he said.
Mandell said that th&lt;r&lt; is much
conum about the ability of young
people to make decisions that may
have lifelong ramification s. He
pointed to the results of a question naire used to detamine students' financial titeracy as part of a 1997
benchmark survey be oonducted of
1,500 high-school seniors. Ov.ral.l,
students answ'&lt;l'ed cor=tly just 57.3
peroent of the 31 questions in the
survey, questions .. that everyone
needs to understand at the age of 18
in order to go out into the world,"
said Mandell, wbo published the
survey results in a book "Our Vulnerable Youth: The Financial Lit eracy of American 12th Graders."
He stressed that the public mwt
become"OWU&lt; of the need to teach
young people at the junior-high
and high-school level "life skills"
that will prepare them to make
wiSe financial decisions.

�februall 25.1!B/VtU1.1c.Z2 Rep

What are the possible legal ramifications ofY2K
problems and how can they be avoided?

Lack of faculty consultation in preparation ofdocument cited

T

HE latest iteration of
UB'a: mission-review
statement underwent the

scrutiny of the Faculty
Senate on Thesday, with many of
thas&lt; speaking criticizing Provost
David Triggle for what they called a
lack of faculty consultatinn in the
preparation of the dowment
One senator went so far as to
suggest that faculty members attach their "&lt;llisenting voices" to the
document as an appendix.
Faculty members ' criticisms
ca me de spite the fa ct that the

senate's Academic Planning Committee (APC) had reviewed three
versions of the document.
The documc~t. which will be
submined to SUNY central admin istration within the next few weeks.
o utlines the direction the university will take as it heads into the 21st
century. It proposes UB make rna lOr investments in four major sci entific areas: Molecular, biological
and biomedical sciences; computer
sciencr and information technology; materials sc ience. and th e en-

vironment and infrastructure.
AJthou8h Triggle was out of town
and did not attend the senate merting, President Wtlliam It Greiner
called the provost's document a
"conceptual and forward-thinking
~ew'" of the future of the insti-

tution_ Although based on former
Provost 'Jbomas E. Headrick's academic planning document--in fact,
Headrick prepared two earlier versions of the document-Greiner
said the 'IHggk v=ion tried to "focus on the main institutional mues..
and not "fall into the trap of selecti.ng out every area of the university
for comment."
Much ofthe quantitative data that
were in the main body of Headrick's
text will be included in th e
documen(s appendices, he added.
While the document focuses on
the so-called "big sciences" and docs
not address research in the sociaJ sciences and the humanities, it "'assumes we will go on and continue
to do research in those areas," he
said.

Claude Wdch.Jr.• SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the
Department of Political Science in

the College of Arts and Sc~ences
and chair of the Aademic Planning
Committee, told senators that his
comm.jttee has reviewed thrtt versioru of the mission statemen tincluding the o ne before the senate-and forwarded extensive
oomments to Triggle.
In reviewing Triggle's document,
members of the APC had noted that
large partS of the College ofArts and
Sciences were "conspicuously absent'" from the mission-review statem ent, Welch told senators, panicularly programs in the second

quartile of the National Research
Council rankings " in which modest
personnel investments might both
enltana academic quality and boost
enrollments ...
Welch pointed out some gaps
between Triggle's document and
the 37 questions posed by system
administration that were to be ad ·
dressed in campuses' mission- re view statem ents, including a lack of
clear performance indicators, lim ited attention to US's genera l education program for undergraduates
and deta iled d1scuss1on of links

~~hmen agree with Access '99

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a survey of freshmen en ring UB in Fall 1998 is any
dication. the universit y is
on the ri ght track with At cess '99, the initiative requiring aJI
freshmen to have access to co m puters beginning this fall .
The survey of incoming fresh men con du cted during o rient a tion sessions last summer by the
Office of Academic Information
and Planning found that almost all
freshmen - 98 percent-agreed
that a requirement of compute r
literacy is .. an essential feature of
J university curri culum as we pre-pare to en ter the 2 1st century."
And 97 percen t expected to br
asked to use educational technol ogy in their cou rsework at UB.

UB will become a "high -tech institution" with the impiCJllcntation
of Access '99 this fall Campus in forma tion-technology o fficials say
that universities that have adopted
such strategies have seen increases
in admissions applications and acceptances, as well. as improved retention. Providing"convenient and
affordable" computing access to
students also will personalize and
customize instruction and increase
student s' computer proficiency,
making t hem more employable,

officials say.
Students apparently agree.
Sixty-nine percent of freshmen
surveyed by Academic Informa tion and Pla nn ing expected to
have their own comppters at the
start of the Fall 1998 semester, an
in crease fr~m 61 percent a year
earlier. Most of those students had
a desktop unit (87 percent ) with a
modem (93 per ce nt ), a Web

browser (87 percent), a CD-ROM
drive (9 1 Percent ) and multime -

dia capabilities (89 percent).
Of the 31 percent who would not
own their own co mputers by the

beginning of the fall semester. 89
percent expected to need equip ment and 9 1 percent expected UB
to provide computer access.
Computer access was an impo r·
tant factor in students choosing
U B, accordi ng to the survey re ·
suit s. About 40 percent of respon dC nts agreed somew h at or
strongly th at they would have been
further encouraged to apply to UB
.. hecause computers are important
to my expec ted career plan s."
About 40 percent were neutral ,
neither agreeing nor disag reeing
with th e statement. Only 20 percent disagreed so mewhat or
st rongly th at a mandated com
puler purch ase would have en cou raged them to apply to UB be ·
ca use of the importance of com pu ters to their career plans.
O nl y about IS percent of those
responding felt that the additional
financial burden of purchasing a
co mputer migh t cause them to reconsider UB. with a majoriry of respondents saying the requirement
would not cause them to reconsider
attending US and 30 percent re· maining neutral on the issu e.
The survey found that freshmen
entering UB in Fall 1998 already
had a solid background in the use
of computer - re lated so ft ware.
Nearly all indicated they had at least
basic proficiency with word-processing software (95 percent ) and
usc of the Internet (91 percent ).
About 84 percent reported at least
ba sic pro'ficie ncy with email. A
majority indicated at leas t basu.:
proficiency with database software
and presentation software (66 per
cen t and 61 percent, respective ly).
Only 9 percent of respondenl.s
felt that a mandated computer
purchase might have led them to
recons ider applying to UB because
their .. level of co mputer skill s
wo uld put (them) at a competitive
dW.dvantage ."

The data were provided by en
teTing freshman via a UB question naire, as well as the College Student
Inventory (CSI), a component of
the retention -management system
implemen ted b)• the umversity last
yea r at the recommendation o f the
consulting firm Noel- Levitz..
In additio n to the information on
students' computer proficiency,Aca·
demic Information and Planning
uncovered other details to ro und
out the profile of the freshman class:
• The entering freshmen had ex tremely high , lo ng-term academic
goals. with 84 percent expec.tmg to
earn a graduate degret'--t"tther a
master's. doctoral or first profcs.sl(.maJ
d&lt;'grec. Nearly half-49 percentexpected to earn that dcgr('(' at UB.
• More than four out of five mem
bcrs of the class rated "being vt:n
well off financiaUy" d.!!&gt; the m o~t
highly rated of 18 personJ l, longterm goals. That fi gure indudcd 4i
percent who rat(•d that goaJ a:, .. (":, ·
se:ntial " and 35 percent that rated
it as "very important." About two ·
thirds rated "raising a famil y" a:, an
essentia l o r very important goal.
with 61, percent ratin g " hclpmg
o thers .. as essential or very important. The o nly other goal to lx rated
essential o r very important by more
than half the class was "obtaming
recognition from my colleagues for
contributio ns to my special field ,"
whJCh was scored highly h y 59 pt.&gt;r·
cent of respondents.
• More th an three -quart er:, of
student s cited "to get a better Job"
( 78 percent ) and .. to make mo re
money " (77 percent ) a.s ve ry Im portant reasons to go to college.
Among the other rcaso m rated by
more than half th e class were "to
Jearn more about things that m ·
tcrcst me" (76 percent }, "to gam a
genera l educatio n and apprecia tion of tdeas" {7 1 percent ) and .. to
become a mo re cu ltu red person ..
(54 percent ).

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Senate eyes mission-review statement
11y- WUETCHEII
Reporter Editor

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Readi ness disclosure statements should be included on aJI Y2K sta
tus reports, internal memos, Web sites and replies to vendors, bust ·
ness panners and others.
A fuU copy of the federol legJSiatwn, Year 2000 Readiness Dtsdosure
Act (Public Law 105·27 1). is available at &lt;http://WWW-J 2k-&lt;om /
~-htm &gt;.

Frequently asked qu~tions o n Y2K legaJ &amp;ssues are addressed at
&lt;www-yllt-com/leg-"llq.htm&gt;. Enacted and propas&lt;d legislation at
federal and sta te levels relating to Y2K is available at
&lt;www-211011Uw-com/htmllloglslatlon.html&gt;. Other legal links are
the Year 2000 Law Center &lt;www.ye•r2000.com/ la wcente r /
-..oter.htmi&gt;; Duke Univemty Legal !.inks &lt;-olt-cll*e_odu/
doa/ y:zk/ y:zk-leglolresources_html&gt;. and Texas A&amp;M University I.e
gal !.inks &lt;www..odu/ ch/ tums/yr:zk/ Unlu_legol_html &gt;
In the eve:nt that litigation does arise relating to Y2K. you will need to
provide evidence that reasonable effons were made to try to resolve
Y2K issues. For that reason, all documentation showmg how Y2K IS
sues were addressed for your area sho uld be reta ined. l&gt;ocumentat1on
should include the Y2K plan, inventory and assessment. test plans Jnd
results, contingency plans and other relevant mformat&amp;on. See tht&gt; Y2K
Compliance Steps--and ot her mformatum, d..\ well as useful hnk.oi--nn
U B's Web site at &lt;hnp:/ / wlngl.buffalo.edu/ ye•r2000 . .&gt;
And don' t forget the Y2K Issues and ~lu t1 o n s Workshop. to he:
held from 8:30a.m. to 12:30 p.m luesday m 120 C lemens. Des1gnl·J
for the general user, presentattom wtll focu" on Y2K co mpiJance lnr
specific hardware a nd ~oft ware products . .1s well a.:, on Y2K utJiil \
programs, gencraltnformatlon and great Y2K link!.
If )'O il llavt· Y2K lf ll t'st/Om that you would 114.t• Ufl fh'l ·n~d m rlu•
um11, rmatl th,-m to &lt;y2k-questions@acsu.buffalo.edu ·

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BrieBy
PSS to offer workshop on building
personal commitment to change
The Professional Staff Senate will present a symposi um , .. Butld
mg Personal Commitment to Cha nge ," from 9 a.m. to l :30 p.m
March 12 in Oa((odil:, restauranl , 930 Maple Road. WiiJJamS\'JIIc
The symposium, des1gned for members of all)' organization or de:.·
partmcnt who want to adapt to chango Ill the workplace. will be led hy
lacktc Stroh , prestdent of Jacku· ) troh Pt:rsonal and Professional Oevd opment. The Lrammg and human r('\OUrccs consulting firm special t~
m tc-J.m -buildmgand mterwntum-.. TQM facil itation skills. managemelll
development, ronfl td pn·,·cntlon and unc-on -onc workplace coac.hmg
Regist ratio n will begm at \l J .m .. followed hv a wclcommg addre~'
lrom Senior VICe Pr('Sidcnt Robert I. Wagner. Among the tOp iC) tu he:.·
d1scussed arc "llndcrstandmg th e Need for Change," " Partnermg tor
C hange" Jnd " Thlll~l\ to Do 111 Your Office to Fo:,tcr Cha nge."
The cosl o tt he:.• sy mpmtum '' S~i. wh1ch willmdudc:.~ a conttnt'n
tal breakfast and lunch. Cht•(b shou ld he madt· out wl/BF/ Pmft''
s10 nal Staff ~enate and madeJ to lht· Prufrsstc.mal ~ tafl Sendti.' 01
lice. 543 La pc:.•n HaiL Nort h &lt;.ampu'. 1\uffalo. N Y 14."!60 l·u r nwn·
mformntton , \..a ll 045 - 2003.

FBI agent Bernard Tolbert
to speak at senior alumni lunch
Be rnard A. Tolbert, FBI :,pt'(lal Jgt~ nt tn charge o( th e Buffo1ln ol
fice, a Buffalo natiVt' and a UB graduatt•, will offer lip:, nn ho"' tn
dVO id fa lling prt·y to .. ~.ams and cons durmg a presentatiOn 1\.tar(h \l
Jt a UB semor alumm lun(h con. to be held at noon 1n the Ccntn
for Tomorrow on the No rth Campu!l.
Before Tolbert JO mcd the FBI 1n 1980. ht· hndl v t.Htght !'!lh()UI
o111d for five )'l·ar!'&gt; was a soual- \vo rk prufe:,smn.1l w1th 't'vera l Jrt',l
serVICe agencic:,.
For the pa!~-t 30 vears. ht' ha:, been acti vely mvolvcd with Lradk
Keach. a rc~ii dcntial summer camp that serves roungsters With a ran~l'
of phys1cal. emoti onaJ and soc1al developmental di sabiliti e!'l
An o ut standing track star. he wa:, named to the L1 R At hit'! h. I!Jll
of l·ame m 1988.
&lt;:ost of the luncheon. dcs1gned fur l lB "en10r alumnt, the1r :,pou!&lt;c ..
and gue!'&gt;b,l:, S 10 per person .
For mon: mformat1on o r rc:.•:,ervatwm. ull the.· {lffin· ol Alumm
Rd.1tions at 829 -2.608

Study seeks adults with bad breath
Are you concemH about your brea th 1 The Department of Or .1l
D1agnostic Sciences in the School of Dental Med~em e IS co nductmg
a twoa-week clinical study of treatment for bad breath. PartiCipant !'~
must make three, one- hou r vaslls to the dental schooL hc:.'t' treat
ment will be offered in co nn ection w1th the study.
PartiCipants must be age 18 or older and m good ~en(• ral health
Call Leslie Gai nes at 832 -983 5 fo r a scree-nmg appo mtmc:.·nt.

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T

HE most volcanically
active pbce on Earth

products eruptions

that no human being
has ever seen.
But Tracy Gregg, assistant professorofgcology,is gcttingprettydosc.
From now until early March ,
Gregg will be traveling with other
scientists on the Research Vehicle
Atlantis, a National Scien~ Foun-

dation-supported cruise, explor-

"I want to know what these eruptions arc liU, and what you would
sec if you witnessed one,• she said.
" How would it compare, for example, with a volcano on Hawaii?"
Unlike volcanologists who study

like if the submarine
became caught in
one, Gregg responded that it
would be quite dangerous, mostly be-

eruptions on land and who can

cause the divers
wouldn't be able to
sec anything.
"The net effect
would be like being
caught in a blinding

access detailed historical records

about each eruption, Gregg has
almost nothing to go on.
" Ies as if I'm a detective and I'm
trying to figure out who the murderer is, and all I have is a chalk
outline of the body," she said

ing a place about 500 miles southeast of Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
About once a week. an 18-footlong submersible vehicle called Alvin
tam Gregg on dives about two miles
undern~th the surface to a place
called a mid-ocean ridge, where the
earth's tectonic plates arc broken up.
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samples and data obtained on the
cruise to develop the fim-cvcrrom -

puter simulations of undersea erup·
tions. These simulations will help
Gregg and other scientists begin to

figure out how these eruptions contribute to the formation of the
earth's crust, and to the whole sys-

tem of plate tectonics, as weU as how
the chemicals and sheer heat they
unleash may impact climate change.
"This is the place where most

of Earth's volcanoes erupt," sajd
Gregg. " We don' t think about it
because we don't see them, but
they are very important because
they are constantly putting heat
and chemicals into the ocean."
Gregg bdiCV~:S she is the only scientist in the world wbo bas dedicated
a career to figuring out what an ac-

. rive undersea eruption looks like.

TRACY GREGG

During dives, G regg enters a
strange, dark world where the only
light is that provided by Alvin. Inside an 8- foot-long, titanium
sphere, Gfegg kee p s her eyes
trained on the view outside th e
submarine's tiny porthole. She
searches for interesting rocks ,
pieces of Java pillars-beautiful,
arched structures _as high as 15
meters that form in layers after
eruptions-and other evidence
that can be manipulated into the
sub's basket to be studied back on
the ship and in Gregg's lab at UB.
Images of the ocean floor that are
taken on dives will be digitized, aJ.
lowing scientists to make accurate
measurements of volcanic features.
Asked to mala: her best guess of
what such an eruption would look

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heat from the lava
would warm the
overlying seawater,

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all the sediment
down there, as well as bacteria hiding under the sea floor."
By reconstructing what undcnca
eruptions arc liU, Gregg-hopes to
help determine their impacts on the
world, both above aod below the
ocean's surface. Elfcctsofpasteruptions may have been nearly apoca·
lyptic, Gregg said
.. The aster9id that may have
killed the dinosaurs was just one
a.ample of how a species became
extinct," she said.
It may turn out that the in ten~
heat aod chemicals that undersea

eruptions spew into the oceans
and, subsequently, into the atmosphere .could have caused mass ex·
tinctions as well, she said.
Gregg noted that there is some

evidence that mass extinctions, including the one that occurred at
the end of the jurassic period, may

have been caused by a massive increase in the rate of volcanic activity at mid-ocean ridges, which

heated the oceans and ca used
ocean basins to become more shal-

low. That caused the oceans to
flood much of the bod that was
the dinosaurs' habitat.
· once we have an idea how big
these eruptions are, then we can
estimate how much heat they put
into oceans and during what kind
of time frame," she said.
During her trip, Gregg has been
in regular communication with
her students at UB, correcting
homework assignments and providing fresh insights from her
dives.
So far, Gregg has reported back
to her students about the unaported discovery of a fresh lav-.
flow and a brand-new hydrothermal site she and her . shipmates
dubbed "Bhudda's Pbce" after the
submarine pilot's nickname. They
also turned up evidence that a hydrothermal site that was teeming
with sca.lifc in 1993 is now nearly
dead, typical of the short life-span
of hydrothermal vents tliat arc
nourished hy the beat of indi vidual Volcanic eruptions.

SILS, Communication
Contlnuedfrompagel

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

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fram&lt;W9rk within which the challenges that derive from the evolu tion of information technology can
be addressed."
A national search is under way
for a dean to head the new school,
which will continue to offer de grees now available through SILS
and the Department of Communication, including bachelor's,
master's and doctoral degrees in
comm unication ; a master's de gree in library and information
science, and a post-master's degree certificate and a cooperative
doctoral p rogram with the
Graduate School of Education in
higher ed ucation /aca demi c
librarianship.
In addition, the school plans to
offer two neW' degree programs: A
doctorate in library and informa Qqn science and an interdisciplinary master's degree in informa tion anc.tcommunication that will
foc us on the use of computer and
nttwork applications as e~ploycd
in a wide range of organizations
and jobs.
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brary Studies and Communication has been under oonsideration

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for several years. Former Provost
Thomas Headrick addressed the
issue in his academic planning
document, recognizing the
program for its low cost and effi ciency of operation and calling it
a "successful graduate professional
program" with a "respectable
reputation."
Bobinski pointed o ut that
Headrick saw SII.S as a major part·
ncr in a very important proposed
initiative in information and communication technology, proposing
that the school link with cognate
disciplines in information science
and technology and broaden its
program.
"This," said Bobinski, "was a decision that concurred with the
findings of the 1995-97 Sll.S Task
Force on Program Expansion.•
The work of the task fotU involved ,extensive dis.cussion with

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faculty from the departments of
Media Study in the College of Arts
and Sciences and Management
Science and Systems in the School
ofManagcrnent,as well as the rogni#vc sciences, and in particular,
the Dcpa{tmcnt of Computer Scieqce and Engineering in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as
Communication. The eventual r:esult was an increasiQgly d,. rc·
lationship between S!I.S and
Communication.
In 1997, a joint tonunincc was
appointe!~ by Bobinski and
Jacobson to study a possible
merger. In the 'Pring of 1998, the
committee issued a report recommending a merger, which was approved by both faculties with oo
opposition and only one abstcn·
tion.
Ja100bson and-Bohinski point to
several advantages of the merger .

for both academic areas. In addi tion to offering the ne:w fifth -year
interdisciplinary mastcr's-dcgrcc
program and the previously ap.proved doctoral program in library and information studies, it
will enable the combined faculties
to:
• Leverage their limited resources
to strengthen existing programs
and hire new faculty
• Incorporate a cognate area in
communication into the new doctorate in library and information
science
• B:ccomc major pbyers in a proposed Institute for Information,
Communication and Computa·
tion, particularly in the area of
knowledge and research into the
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transttr
.. Develop an intcrdisciplinaryn:scarcb program dealing with the
personal, organizational and societal aspects of information transfer
• Seek and obtain funding from
sources whose missions concern
public policy on information
organization, retrieval and de~
livery.

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Gallstones linke9: to~~~~

Study implicates sugar, fat, lade ofexerase m chrome medical cimditwn
.,LOISIIAIWI
News SeMces Editor

T

HE Western lifestyle of
little exercise, lots of
saturated fat, loads of
refined sugar and little
fiber is a major risk factor for the
d~velopment of yet another
chronic medkal condition-gaU·
stones--a new UB study shows.
Published in the February issue of
the American Journal ofOiniCJJI Nutrition, the study is onl' of the few
population-based investigations of
factors affecting the development of
gallbladder disease over time.
lksults showed that body mass
index and intakt of refined sugar
and saturated fat were directly as-

sociated with ·the formation of gallstones. The relationship between
saturated fat and gallstones was
stronger in men than in women .

Co nversely, physical activity and
a diet high in monounsaturated fat
and insoluble dietary fiber were
protective against gallstones, re sults showed.
"T his study confirms that gall -

mon pathophysiological mechanisms may underlie the chronic diseasesaffiictingWestempopulations.
Gallbladder disease is increasingly
common with age. and affects more
women than men. '!Wenty percent
of women are reported to have gallstones at autopsy.
11le study was conducted in the

gallstones than in those who did
not. Dieting, caffeine and smoking
appeared to have little effect.
Dietary analysis showed higher
intake of monounsaturated fats and
higher expenditure of calories lowered the risk of gallstones, while
higher consumption of refined sugan and saturated fat were directly

sma ll farming co mmunit y of
Castellana in southern Italy. In
J985and 1986, researchersadm.in -

related to gallstone formation.
Particularly interesting was the
finding that saturated-fat intake

istered ultrasound scans of the gallbladder and took

appean to have a stronger relation ·ship to gallstone for-

blood samples from

I ,429 men and I ,043
women selected ran doml y from the
population. Persons

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marion in men than

dMit ~
disease bone o f -

women, Trevisan said
Women had higher
rates of gallstones at
the Ml three quartiles

Western

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creased. However, the

andcompletedq uestionnairesconcerning socio-demographk status.
medica) history, dietary habits and

risk doubled for men at each
quanile of consumption and at the
highest quartile, men were at a

physical activity.

higher risk of developing gallstones

The 55 men and 49 women who

than women.

bladder disease is one of the dis-

haddevelopedgallstonesduringthe

"These findings seem lo sug·

eases of Western civilization,.. said
epidemiologist Maurizio Trevisan,
chair of the Department of Social
and Preventive Medicine and au thor of th e study.
"It is one more message that a diet
igh in fat and refined sugar and a
p ttern of low ph)i;ical activity can

st udy period then we.re. matched
with controls from the study popu lation. These participants provided
information on how often they ate
certain foods to giv~ a more com plete picture of dietary intake.
Analysis of the data from new
cases and controls showed that age,
body mass index (an indication of
obesity) and prevalence of diabetes
were higher, while physicaJ activity
was lower, in those who developed

gest tllat other factors, suc h as
hormones or metabolism. may be
m o re powerful risk factors for
gallstone formation a m o n g
women than sat ur ated - fat in
take," he sa id.
The research team was head ed
by Giovanni Misciagna, chief of
the laboratory of ep id emio logy
and biostatisti cs at the Jnstitut(·
S. De Bellis in Cas tell ana .

ge you into all kinds of 1rouble."
The results are interesting to epidemiologists. he said, because they
suppon th e hypothesis that com-

Plant fats may cut prostate-cancer risk
By LOIS IIAIWt
News Services Editor

R

LANT -based fats may CUI
e risk of prostate cancer

y reducing the levels of

both testosterone and certain enzymes that metabolize tes tosterone into more active form s,
a new study by UB nutrition researche.rs has shown.

The study, published in the Journal of Nut ritional Biochemistry.
reported that feeding rats a diet

rich in phytosterols, the type of fa!
found i.n plants, reduced testosterone in the blood st ream by 33 percent. A high level of testosterone
has been implicated as a risk fa ctor for developing prostate cancc.r.
The levels of two enzymes-S-a
reductase and aromatase-that
metabolize testosterone into end

products that also are implicated in
the development of prostate cancer
were reduced by 44 percent and 55
pen:ent respectively, results showed.
Lead researcher Atif Awad, head
of US's nutrition program. and
coUeagues have been trying to un derstand the mechanisms responsible for vcgctariaris'lower rates of
hormone...c:Jependent cancers, and
for the lower mortality rate from
prostate cancer in Asian countries,
where populations eat little meat.

With fats known to play a role
in the-development of several cancers, Awad's group has been focusing on the phytosterols for possible answers. He reported at an
international conference on can~

cer research in Greece last October that the phytosterol B· si to sterol appears to play a role in in hibiting the growth of human
prostate-cancer cells by st rength ening an intracellular signaling
system that inhibits cell division.
The object ive of the c urrent
study was to examine the influence
of vegetable fats on the metabolism of testosterone in live r, testis
and prostate tissue in rats.
The fact t hat prostate ca ncer
doesn't develop in men castrated
before puberty or in men who have
low levels of 5-a redu ctase sug gested to Awad's group that suppressing the action of the enzyme

might be useful in preventing prostate cancer in high -risk groups. The
enzyme aramatase converts test osterone to estrogen, also consid·
ered. a possible risk factor fu r pros·
tate cancer.

To determine if high levels of phy-

the basal and control groups.
The enhanced diet reduced the
activity of 5-a reductase by 44 percent in the liver and by 33 percent
in the prostate, but did not affect
the enzyme's activity in the testis.
results showed. Phytoste rols re ·
duced the activi ty of aro matase by
57 percent in the prostate, but had
no effect in the liver or testis .
Awad said hi s research team
continues to examine exactly how
phytosterols bring about these
changes, but he believes one path ·
way involves the .. fluidity" of the
membranes that harbor the en ·
zymes ... Every enzyme requires a
specific fluidity in the membrane
in which it resides in order to be
activated," he said. " If the mem brane is too fluid, the enzymes
may not function properly."

Other options include the poss•bility that phytosterols compete with
testosterone and its produc.ts of me-

tosterols could inhibit these e.n -

tabolism fur the enzyme's active re·

zymes, the resean:hm fed one group
of rats a standard, or basal, diet. A
second group, designated the control group, ate the standard diet. plus
cholic acid, which stimulates "the
absorption of vegelllble fats. A third
group ate a standard diet enhanced
with a mixture of phytosterols, plus
cholic acid The trial lasted 22 days.
lksults showed that rats fed the
phytosterol diet had betwten 33 and
48 pen:entless testosterone than the
animals that recrived no additional
phytosterols. There was no difference
in serum testosterone levels betwe&lt;n

ceptors, or that they reduce production of the enzymes th&lt;mselves.
"At any rate, the combined effect of reducing levels of testosterone a nd the activity of its two
main enzymes suggests that a diet
high in foods containing phy tosterols could he.lp reduce the risk
of prostate cancer," Awad said.
O ther researchers on the study
were Maria Sri Hartati, a master's
student, and Carol S. Fink, clini cal assistant professor of nutrition.
The research was supported by a

grant from the Allen Foundation.

5

The millennium sans hype
The millennium as a cultural phenomenon will be impossible to
1gnore during the next 10 month s, but you can rise above the hype
with a few Web sites that eschew th~ frivolous and focus on schol arly or practical considerations. The Ce nt~r for Millennia! Studies
has an academic Web site at &lt; http: / / www.mUie.org/ &gt; that re searches apocalyptic thought and th e
millenarian movements it generates. CMS
publishes scholarly article.s in its online
}ourntJI of Millennia! Studies and offers a

highly informative FAQ, glossary and bib
liography. rher~ are many well -orgamzed
links examining the millennium histo n callv
and cu lturally, plus an exceptio nally luod
overv1ew of the Y21&lt; compu ter problem
The Millennium In st itute Web sit e at
&lt; http:/ / www.lgc .org / mlllennlum / ~
promotes env ironmental sensitiVit ieS and
seeks to u ~e the renewal properti es of tht·
Year 2000 tu move the world towards a mo rt
sustainable::, peaceful , just and humane fu
ture. It link_o;; to several documents propo.,
mg strattgle!o for personal. communlly, na
tiona! and tnternationa l chan ge. and hsb
worldwtde even ts that have been planned Ill
co njun ction with 19991200\ , wh1ch thev
refer to as the Millen nial Moment
Even the 'A'hite House IS gettmg mdlen
nium mileage w1th 1ts Web stt e a t &lt; http :/ 1
www . whItehouse . g ov / In It I at lve s I MIllen nl u m I
lndex.shtml&gt;. A White House Mi11ennium Council was created to
promote meaningful activities to mark the new m!llenmum . To that
end , it is supporting a series of Millennium Even1n~.
which are lectures and programs featunng scholars, creators and visionaries that havf' been or will
be cybercast around the world v1a satellite. Tran scnpts of those that already ha\'C' taken place are
available at &lt;http:/ / www.whltehouse.gov/
lnltlatlve.s/ MIIIennlum / evenlngs.html&gt;.
Virtually all millennium Web sites feature
or link to one, and usually more. co untdown
clocks showing how mu ch time is left before the new
millennium arrives. The reason for multiple clocks, which is acknowl edged by most Web sttes, is that the actual date is debatable. Although
the majority of experts agree that the second millennium won't begin
officially until midnight on Dec. 31, 2000,it'squitedear that the masses
are intent on partying hearty come the end of 1999. You can track
their co urse via the Co untdown 2000 Web sue &lt; http :/ I
www.countdown2000.com/ &gt; and 1ts hnks to news stories about
millennium -related travel and celeb rations, doomsday alarm1sts and
the turn of th e century as a time of religious significance.
'
For assurance w con nectrng to the World Wide Wtb, contact the C l1
Help D-sk at 645 -3542
- Will Hepfer and Nancy Schiller, Unlvenlty Libraries

BrieBy
Center for Computational
Research to present lectures
The Center for Computational Research will present three lee
tures given by Thomas Fu rlani. the ccnter's,associate d1rector, tom trodu«' parallel computing to the universit y community. All lectures
will be held at 4 p.m. m Room 215 of the Natural Sc1encts Com plex.
Feb. 25 : .. An O verview of CCR" will focus o n the ce nt~r ·!i
supercom putin g resources, mdudmg the SGI Origin2000 and the
IBM SP. It also will include a very basi c discussion of parallel com ·
pulers and programming. including distributed versus shared
memory mod~l s of programming.
March 4 : "Code Development for Distributed Memo ry Computen,
Using Message Passing Interface ..
March 18: ..Open MP: Programming Language for Shared Mem orv
Comp uters."
For m ort information, contact FurltJm at 645 -6800, ext. 2120. o r

&lt;furlani@ccr. buffalo.edu &gt;.

FSA to sponsor food extravaganza
FKUtty, staff ....:11 stuclenb who are interested in fr~ food and fun

can participate in the Fourth Annual "FSA Day.· sponsored by Lh&lt;
Faculty Student Association, to be held from 10 a.m. 10 2 p.m. Mon·
day on the fin;t Boor of the Student Union on the North Campus.
The event is a food extravaganza that will feature several local
food vendors who will be providing free product samples. There
also will be giveaways and prizes. For more information, caJI Scott

Beahen at 645-3519.

�february 25.1!!1!1Nol. 30, 18.22
" One America: Conversations That Bring Us Together"

UB, Buffalo to join for race dialogue March.24 D1

Mc-

. , MAliA
New5 Services Editorial Auistlnt

EMBERS of the UB
and Buffalo oommunities will have an opportunity to voice
their ideas and conams regarding
the issue of race during •one
America: Comenations That Bring
Us Together; a fonnal dialogue on
the issue that will behddfrom 3-5-.30
p.m. March 24 in the Center forT&lt;&gt;morrow on the North Campus.
The &lt;Yen~ port of the White House

M

lnitiativt on Race: ..One America In
The 21st Cennuy." will be moderated
by William E. l..dtwich, Ill, deputy
assistant secretary of defense for
equal opportunity. It is sponsored by
the CoUege of Arts and Sciences.
.. US's 'O ne America' dialogue
prom ises to be an affair which will
move us closer to a community that

is absent of the fear and suspicion
that too often chatacterize communities all over the country today,"
said Brenda Moore, associate pro -

fessor of sociology and organizer of
the event. A mil itary soc iologist,
Moore serves as a presidential appointee to the American Battle

Monuments Co mmiss ion and to
the Department of Defense Advi -

sory Commi ttee on Wom~n .
In 1997, President Clinlon asked
his advisory boa rd fo r the .. Initiati ve o n Race," chaired by historia'n
John Hope FrankJin, to reach o ut
to local communities and organize
co ns tru ctive dialogues with
Americans from different races
and background!i to better understand the causes o f racial tension.

In September 1998, th&lt; advisory
board submitted a report calling for
a continuation of these types of discussions, which have been held in
cities nationwide since the initiative
began. The current initiative for

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Award from the National Association for the Advanc.ement of Colored People (NAACP).
Moore explained that she chose
UB u the venue for the event in
the spirit of"building bridgeo" betw&lt;en the City of Bulf.alo and the
university.
"The UB administration is committed to promotin&amp;plurolism on
campus. Hosting this dialogue will
reflect and reinforce this commitmmt,• said Moore, who chaired
the Faculty Senate Committee on
Affirmative Action from 1996-98.
Among the UB participants in
the dialogue will be Oaude Welch,
Jr., SUNY Distinguished Suvice
Professor in the Department of
Political Science; Barbara H.
Tedlock, professor and chair of the
Department of Anthropology;
Henry L Taylor, Jr., director of the
Center for Urban Studies, and Donna
Rice, associate vice president for
"OneAmerica,"head.dbypresiden- ' from the City of Buffalo.
student affairs. Mark Devasagayam,
tial appointee Be.n Johnson, will
President William R. Greiner a!J&lt;I a former student in Moore's • Race
continue through 2000.
Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello will and Ethnic Relations" class, will
.. Several race and ethnic issues give opening remarks at the &lt;vml
represent students.
Moore noted that Leftwich will
already have been identified in the
City of Bulfalo participants will
City of Buffalo and it is important submit a report to the White House include FrankMcsiah,presidmtofthe
that we examine these issues," said initiative based on roncerns raised by BuffilbNAACP; Lana Benatovidl of
Moore. "UB needs to be part of the the participants during the dialogue. the National Conference forConunudiscussion. As more people of difLeftwich direcu the develop- nity and Justice; Ellen Grant-Bishop.
ferent cultural b:ickgrouhds niove ment and coordination tif equal- rornmissionerforthe Erie County Deint o leadership positions, we can- opportunity polici'i' and programs partment of Mental Healthi Brenda
not function as a university, a city, affecting virtually all ' civilian em- · McDuffie, president of the Bufl3Jo Uro r a nation without eliffiinating ployees and military personnel ban League, and J&lt;lmes Pitts, president
the existing stereotypes."
within the U.S. Department of De- of the Bufl3Jo Common Council.
Dialogue participants will in - fense and exercises staff supervision
The UB "One America" dialogue
clude prominent figures of differ- over rwo directorates of equal-op- will be free and open to the public for
ent racial and ethnic groups from portunity professionals.
observation only.Ttckrtsait requiled. ·
A member of the Advisory To ob&lt;ain tick&lt;IS or for more inforthe Buffalo and UB communities
who arc weiJ aware of the racial Committee on Minority Veterans, mation, call Bruce Kolesnick at 645and ethnic problems in th e City of he also is an a-officio member or 3705.' Mo re information on th~
Buffalo, Moore said.
the Defense Advisory Committee Whitt Ho use Initiative ,.O ne
The di scussion panel will be on Women in the Services. In America" is avaiJ.able at &lt;http://
co mposed o f approximately 40 I995, he received the Benjamin l. www.whlteho&amp;ne .gov/ lnltla members. 20 fro m UB and 20 Hooks Distinguished Service tlves&gt;.

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·rneM«ii•Bollingen Prize, not sports, should have been featured
Ladles and Gentlemen:

UB is striving to becom~ a great
public university, the Berkeley of
die east coast. Great universities
~re measured by the greatness of
their academic programs, not by
the quality of their sports activi ties. The prominence given the
latter in American cuhure can be
traced to lV commercialization
and trivia.Utes how university
performance is. and should be,

measured.
I wa s therefore quite appalled
to sec the cover page of the most

recent issue(Feb.ll.l999) of the
Reporter. The top splurge wa s a
large picture of the UB women 's
hockey team practicing at dawn ,
while the award of the prestigio us
Bollingen Prize in Poetry to Rob ert C reele y, Samuel P. C apen
Chair in Poetry and the Humani -

edition and followed it with an
eloquent edirorial on Friday.
The Friday Spectrum didn't
even care to comment.
It is crucial that we make sure
Dawn" should have been left for
to stress what is most impqr·
one of the back pages.
Even The Buffalo News, not th e tant at our university, namely,
greatest newspaper by any mea - quality academics and the Resure, reported the C reeley award porter can, and must, lead the
quite prominently in its Thursday way.
-Michael ltam, Professor of Phys1cs
ties at VB, was relegated to a shon
co lumn on the side. The Reporter
banner should have been the
C reeley award and " Hockey a t

Counseling Center oflers infunnation on assisting rape or assault victims
To All Memben of the C.mpus Community:
Sexual assau lt, sexual abuse, support and assistance, there is

sexual harassment, stranger rape
and date or acquaintance rape
arc monumental problems for
our society. Unfortunately, col·
lege campuses are not i~lSulated
from these harsh realities. It is
likely that as a member of a college campus community, you
will know someone who is o r
will be a .rurvivor of rape, assault.
abuse or harassment lbere are
imponant steps we can take to
assist someone who has been
victimized. If someone who has
been raped or assaulted chooses
to come to you, as a friend , for

much you can do to help.
Note: Both men and women get
raped and assaulted. The suggestions bt-low are framed in terms of
the women, since more women report these incidents than men .
However, the suggestions are for
ALL rape and assault victims.
Listen:
• Allow her to express her feelings
without interruption.
• Be patient with silence, as she
may be slow in talking.
• If she needs help continuing, try
repeating back what she has said.
Be reassuring:

• Believe her. A great fear of survivors is that they will not be believ&lt;d.
• Reinforce that the incident was
not her fault, no matter what the
circumstances.
• Comfort her as much as possible
verbally.
• Be aware of physicalrontact,asshe
may not want to be touched, but you
can always ask if you can hug her.
Don'i treat her as if she is amtagious.
• Provide things that make her
feel warm and saf~a blanket,
sr-uffed animal, hot tea.
• Make sure she has a safe place
to sleep that night.
• Do not talk about getting n-

venge; focus your energy on her
and her feelings.
Encourage her to seek help:
• CaU Crisis Services hotline
for professional guldance834-3131.
• Go with her for a medical
examination immediately;
contact Center for Student

-Health at 829-33 16.
• 10 preserve evidence. discourage ber from changing her
clothes or taking a shower.
• Help her~ munsding to ....X
through the trauma, even if the
rape ocntmd some time: """ but
she still hasn' t~ through it.

�Software

~"--'
on UB's c:cntr111 emaiherver, the answers obviously would have been
delayed
Electronic communication in

the student-services node also continued pretty much as usual be-cause people in that area all are on
a separate server and were not affected by tile crash, said Susan Eck.
coordinator of the student services
information technology node.
Except Eck. he....,Jf, that is.
Ironically. she was the only one
in the node who had opted for an
.. acsu" account and lost her email
during the two-week period when
the server was down . lt wasn't en -

tirely a bad thing, Eck said.
"I spoke to people I've never spoken to on the phone before." she
said, noting these were peo ple

whom she emails on a regular basis and has met from time to time
in meetings. but has never actually
conve~d with on the telephone.

Even classes that rely heavily on

address is available and used by

technology were able to carry on

some students and faculty to reach
me. However, the UB account is

without major disruption.
John Ellison, associate professor
of information and library studies,
uses distance learning to teach a
number of his cl~. While the
server crash had an impact on com munication with students who at tend his classes in remote locations,
the courses themselves are delivered over a Web Bulletin Board and
were not impacted by the email

forwarded to my local Net server.
Should one account go down, slu dents and my coUeagues can nearly
always reach me," he said.
Unfortunately, his students who
have just a UB account were at a
disadvantage while the central
server was down ... Many students
working on course-related r~rch

projects develop their design meth-

problems, he said.

odology in cooperation with me via

But "students were unable to
reach me via their email accounts
at UB, so we lost nearly a week of
'personal communication tim e,'
which is a significant part of teach ing via distance learning,"' he said.
Ellison has an email account
through a local Nel server in ad dition to his UB email address.
.. I have never had a problem with
my local Net server. My UB email

email. Those with only UB email accounts lost their ability to reach me
during the time the email system
was down," Ellison said

The temporary loss of email was
not com pletely without bendit,

though. "On the up-side of the UB
ema il down-time,! was able to focus
more on my own academic projects.
since neither my coUeagucs nor students could reach me." he said.

Facultv Senate

But despite the APC's review of
several versions of the document as
outlined by Welch, some senators
said they did not feel that faculty had

been adequately consulted during the
preparation of the mission statemenl
Samuel Schack. professor of math-

technologies on teaching meth~
which the provost had written would
displace the "traditional Mr. Chipsian
mode of instruction" -and what
Schack called "grandiose" statements
~ding the uniqueness of the Ac-

administration's instrud.ions to the
campuses on the mission - review

in

pro=s"rc&lt;Juired (thecampuses conduct) extmsive discussions with the
faculty ... There has been,! would say,
not evm adequate discussion, much
less extensiv. discussion (at UB)."
Schack said he would not find the
lack of consultation as "troublesome"
if Triggl&lt;'s statement had been just a
"reiteration" of earlier vmions of the
statement prepared by Headrick when
he was prtMlOI."But. in f3ct. in my reading ofi~ it commits us to major dir«tions and major ideas that have not
been subjea to any f3culty scrutiny;" he
said. For example. he wondered, how
did 1liggle determin&lt; that UB should
invest in those four areas of sciencx.
"Where do these come fromr· Schack
askod. "How can an entire institution
be asked to make a commitment to
tho6e areas ... if they haven't been subjeaed to serious faculty analysis?"
He al.oo questioned assertions that
1liggle made in the document r.garding the impact of distance-learning

pro sing that the senate inform
cent
administration, if the UB
admihistration chooses not to do so,
..that more faculty consultation is essential before we can commit to the
directions outlined 111 this mission
review."

form to Albany," Schack said,

John Boot, professor and chair of
the Department of Management Science a nd Systems, agreed with

Schack's complaint about a lack of
faculty consultation. "It shouldn't
have been a one-man show," he said.

He suggested that faculty attach its
response to the document as an appendix, making the statement "whal
it in fact is, an administrative report ,
not a faculty report." Attaching fac ulty comments to the document as a

ing to be held to the fire if the faculty
has not discussed the document," she
said, recaUing that the faculty got to
"kick around" Headrick'~ planning
document quite a bit .. before we got
sort of wrestled to the floor."

Dennis Malone, SUNY Distin ·

Exhibits

documenu from the Arduves' frank Uoyd
~~rwin 0 . MartWl Manuscript

. . . . . _ . - . . Condldates

~~~~
condudes tOfTIOI'T'OW, is on view in the

Schotmhlp ls on display in the Att
Wllery, Center fDf the ArU,
and wift continue until ~rch 4. Gallery
hours •re Tues.. 10 a.m. to S p.m.;.
\Yed.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Silt., 1 t
a.m. to 6 p.m.
~rtment

~,......,.Exhibition

~~~~s!c~~ty=~~=:~~~
Arts, fNtures rKent wortcs by iktjunct
membel'l of the Departnlent ?f Art. The
show will concl~ tomOfTOW. Houn for
the UB Art 'Gallery a~ Wed.-Sal, 10:30
a.m . to 8 p.m.; Sun., noon to S p .m.

contnbution to th~ document
Max Wickert, associate professor
of English. said he found particularly troublesome the second para graph of TriggJe's cover letter ac companying the document thai
states that the document must be
written ... by one person and not by
a committee of the whole.n Wickert
said, lbe implication of that paragraph is that the document is essentially written by o ne person, and that
will be the voice of the unMrsity,"
adding that that one voice will suppress other, dissenting voices.

Jeannette Ludwig,associate profes-

Events calendar

annual Evelyn Rumsey lord Sdl()(aMip
and the S.Hy Hoskiru PotMZ.a Memorial

guished Service Professor ll1 the Department of Electrical Engineering.
propoocd the senate devote an entire
me&lt;ting to discussion ofthe document
"if we feel we haven't discussed this
adequately; we all feel this is a critical
issue." The meeting would be held
with the undemanding that discussion generated would be the faculty's

sor of modem languages and litera tu res, questioned the true " importance" of the document. .. I wonder
the extent to which our feet are go-

con,_trom_a

A show of wort by candidates for the

""""-hall,

~sanda~t7

pcina and added ..,. robounds"' load
&amp;..&amp;lo-- Nonhem
snapped • t 1&gt;-pme ~core"""" lor &lt;he &amp;&lt;Is.
~back to a M-1 CMr f-bwai..t-Mo on Dec. 29. The point~ Ym the~ U8
has g;on up since an ~ wW&gt; &lt;NO&lt; Oiaco Swe IX&gt; dose &lt;he 1996-97 season
Campbell's ei&amp;tlt rebounds matched a career high. He also hit liour threepointen to sparlt the BuUs' offense.

-The,..,

M'"nwtllle,junior Jon l(le;don had a areer-h.gl&gt; tO .-.bounds and~ had

a areer-best eight bkxked shots to pace the UB defensive effort. Ubomfs e:1ght
bk&gt;cked shots are the third-best toa.l for a pne in schoot history. tying htm wrth
KeMn ~ . who aca&gt;mj&gt;lished &lt;he feat durlrc &lt;he t 993-94 season.
On senior night. Johnson had seven rebounds. four points, nooo assists and
twosteals.
WOMEH'S

'99 student-access· to-oompul ing initiative.
'"The genuine problem here is that
should not be sending even a draft

ematics, stressed that central

eamoc

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Con--~-)

between UB and other SUNY units.

two MAC opponentS lost -.losin&amp;

"'t'brshal.73-63.on Fob. t7,but
its ftrn conference w;n
~ Nonhem lftinois.S7.-47,on
Sownby.
Apinst Monhall. BufhJo pbyed a
tnllin&amp; 39-33. despite
shoo&lt;in&amp; 50 pen:en&lt;lrom tho field.
The _.. led by sopl&gt;omo&lt;-e
Louis Campbell. who nea.d 22
points on 10-ol-tS shoodn&amp;- MaHso
Ubomladded t I points lo&lt; UB.
t
AJexeiVuiffev had IO. Senior center
Nate johnson mat:dted his a.reerhigh with 10 .-.bounds.

andothe&lt;t';,.,""'::v:t~

Special Collections ReodMlg Room. 420
Capen Hall, North &lt;;amJX". Fo&lt; """"
mfonnatlon, al6&lt;5-2916.

Martto..n-.:a~

Marl&lt; Dean Vec.o's instat~tion. 8
Gloominator, is dest:rib«J as '"a great
liquid blob lutting ttvough spac1!

and

~rtho~gai~~OO)ik

fTU"af. which C&lt;Wef'S ~wals of the
Ughtwelt &lt;;allery, w.s insp;r.d by cartoon.
pop art and~ worits. lt wil be

on display in tho l.lghtwolt Galto&lt;y n tho
Center for the Aru ttvough J~.

Hours fOJ ~ Lightwdl Gal~ a~ Wed.Sat, 10:30 a.m . to 8 p.m.; Sun., noon
to5 p.m . .....,.

-Histooy-~
L.od&lt;wood --.wl..lbowy

1Jl&lt;Y. Too, Had~ o...m, •;, tl]e theme

fom1al appendix will make the comments ..a matter of record,.. he said.
Greiner called Wicken 's suggestion a good idea, and urged sena lors to also submit thcir co mment ~
on the report to Trigg.le in writing.

Akron 84, UB 58
The women's basketball team lost Its k&gt;ne MAC game of the &gt;Neek a.s It dropped
an &amp;4-58 decision to host Akron on Saturday
Samantha Cerny and Marl McCiu~ scored in double figures for Coach
Che:f}i Dozier's squad. with 12 and I ] points. respecttvety Ta~ Perrier added
mne points off dle bench

Wrestlin~
liB 28, Duquesne I 5
Spen&lt;:erport High School
Feb. 18 and defeated host Ouquesne. 18-IS,in the Bulls' final dual meet of me
season on Sunday.
..,._ Cornetl.lhe - g o t twO viaorles '"'"' • couple ollhe team
c:apc:Uts.Jacob Sc::haus won a 2- 1 cwerdme dedsion at the 17+pc:x.nd woetght cbss
The win ~ Schaus' record to 30-9 on the season as he beame just the
t 3th n US history to .-.con! a 30-wW&gt; ....00. and &lt;he ~ t.roder
rurnnt ~ coach Jim B.ek:Mer: Matt Rkci wn the only ocher Buns winner,
Wciog a 9~ decision at 184 pounds.. RJcd irnproYed to 11-10 on the season.
UB got early wins at Duquesne from John ~ at he2vyweight and
Brian Scha.aJ. who recorded a p4n at 125 pounds. Despite those two wins, the
Cornell 28, UB 6

The wresdin&amp; team k)st to Cornell Unr.oenrty. 28-6, at

tr~Ued I S-12 before taking the last four weight classes to secure the W~n
The four nnlght wins to end the meet sQned with Jake Pa.rdow at I 57
pounds with an 8-6 dedston. ~ry Cooper rewmed to action after a midseason injury to record a 6-5 win at 165 pounds and Schaus continued tus
impressive season with a 10..2 win. improving to ll -9 on the yur. Rkd then
finished dllnp off With a win by fall for dle 18-1 5 vK:tory

Bulls

lnooor lra~K
The Indoor cnck

team tnVeled to Kent State UnJYen•ty lnt &gt;Neekend to ake
the Sam Ba.Jr Open
Theresa Hummenn apwn!d top honon 1n the YttOmen ·s 600-meter F'\Jn
( 1:38.10). while Jen Kilborn won dle triple jump (1087 meters) The women 's
4x-400 rtiay squad wn also 111ctorious (3:59.64)
Ben Moskel wn the top performer for the men Wldl a second·pbce fin1sh
•n dle 800-meter run ( 1·55 &gt;4)

~rt in

!Obituary
Ferdinand A. Paolini, 74, emeritus
clinical professor of medicine
A Mass of Christian Burial was hdJ hh. 19m St. Benedh.'fs
Catholic Church, Eggertsville. for i-=erdmand A. Paohm. 74. a phv·
s1cian who had a long association with tht• UB Schoo l of Medicmt•
and Biomedical Soences. Paolini. " 'ho rt't1reJ 1n 1979 as t'Olt'fiiU ll
chmcal professor of mediCine. d1ed l·cb. I h 111 hit' Cu untv Med•
tal Center {EC MC) after a lo ng 11lm•ll:.
Pao!Jm gradua ted fr o m thr l ' H meJ~r..alll(hooiJn 19-t i' After hill
re-sidency tn mterna l mcdJ cme J.t the former l:.. l Meyer Memonal
Hospttal. nO\\' ECMl . he served Ill the Army Medical Co rpll
After hill army serviCe, he: returned to ECMC and durmg hlll long
tenure there serwd a.o. dm."\."1ur of t:h n1c.' and amhubtnry carl~, a1o well a":~
president of the hospital 's mcd•..:al ~J c nlaJ staff.
AI UB. Ill addition to hts teach1n g dutlt'S, he lle rved formam
years as a member of the medJcal schoo l's Admiss1ons Com nlltttT
After hts rt't1rement from UB , he het:ame medi cal dJre( tur olthl·
Brothers of Mercy Nursing Home Ill C larence, where he wa o; m
strumentaiJn t')t.thlishtn g the fa(I !Jtv as a ma1or rehah1htawm
center.

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                    <text>PAGE 2

Q&amp;A- Tom Rtz/abate talJcs about a
dance educator's CTttlliYe challengeS.

Dtmor gives another $800,000
to fund Honors Scholarships.

PAGE 4

february 18.1!91/Ym.30.No.21

Swingin'
·n the
•
Zodiaque Dance Company
membffi Chris Pemcelli and
Michelle Willadsen (front)
show off some swing-dance
steps in the Student Union
Social Hall Feb. 10 during a
demo sponsored by the
Office of Student Activities.

UB's central email service back online m
Tentative analysis shows failure caused by size oftvtal mailfile system, wayfiles are distributed

aY~VIDAI.

News Services Ed itor

F

OR the third weekend in
a row, UB's central email
server was dow n thi s

week. But unlikt' previous
weekends, this tim e the shutdow n
was deliberate.
T he u n iversity's central email

server went offline at midnight Fri day to allow Computing and Infor-

mation Technology (CJTJ to di&gt;·
man de the temporary email server
and resto re to th e ce ntra l em a il
server all the co m puter hardwa re
that was scavenged to create it.
As o ( Mo nday evening, after a
n ea rl y two- wee k abse nce. US 's
ce ntral e m a il se r vice 1s back
o nline, albeit with a lim ited num be r o f co nn ect io ns, but wi th all
fo ld ers and inbox m essages da ted
Feb. 6 and earlier resto red.

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the decision to taU th,e server down
for three days, has been delivered
and the nearly 500,000 m essag~
that were sent to the temporary system and queu ed-ma il received

between 12:0 I a. m. Feb. 7 and midnight Feb. 12-have begu n to be
delivered, a process that is expected
to take at least a week..
T he mai n em ail se rver, wh1ch
stored more than 8.5 m illion fib..
has bee n reco n fig ured mto 12
smaller segments, a move that IS cx
pccted to prevent futu re problems.
And desp it e the crash. which
Va ldemar ln n us. sen ior as~ocia t e
vice president for university services
and US's chief info nnation officer,
called "catast rophic," the va.st maJorIty of the nearly 500,000 p1ecL-s of
L·mail received between Feb. 3, when
the problem first eru pted. and Mon -

day, when the centraJ email s-erver
finally went back on line, has been
received o r is recoverable.
There's no question that the crash
was an extremely seriow event, Inn us
said In fact, he added, the o nly scenario that could have been WOrst'
wouJd have been 1f there had been a
fi re and the universit y had lost aU of
11." cent ral email server hard"A'3.rc.
Hut a.lo ofTut·~da' aftt·rnoon, all
mdica t10ns " look Ilk&lt;' 'A'l' rr tum
mg b. h.: k fine ." he.~ satd
\o wha1 happrnt~d ~
!'he fa tl ure of the u•ntral t'lll.ld
scrver w-as caused hy tht· ~ 1.te of the.·
totaJ mail file system, wh11:h cxc:L't"dc..-d
8.5 million files. c.ombmed wtth thl·
way the files are distributed over the
d i.o;;k arrays, said Hinnch R. Mart en~.
as.soaate \'lCC pres1dent for com put
mg and infonnation trchnologv.
But that analys1s 1., tcntatiVl' , ht·

emphas1zed. T he software vendor,
Vrritas, IS asse m blin g a d u plicate
system the size of US's in an effo rt to reproduce the failure and
confirm the analysts.
The crash came as a comple te
surp rtse, bo th to UB and Verna ..
according to Inn us
.. We were rev tewmg our stratcg'
on the growth of that file wt th the
vendor all along, and the vendnr
l!avc no md~t.atJon that the growth
wo uld G lU!-K' a problem:· he s&lt;ud
l'hrnughout the crtsls. l .IT ha'
ht't' n m LOntaCt "nh Vent.ts, and
la't wn•k th e o;oftware Lompam
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the pruhlem,'' ~!Jrt c n o; ~1d .
( .onf1rmat1o n notw1th.lo tand1ng .
C IT ha... taken a numhet of o;tcp., '"
prevent the cent r-aJ c1n.ul ~.-rver fn ~m
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Enrollment is 'top priority; Triggle says
By SUl WUETCHER

Reporter Editor
changes gears and establi shes himsel f as UB 's
ch ief academic officer.
Provost David Tr igglc
points to enro llment , both at the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
as being the issue that must become
the to p prio rity fo r every m em ber
of the UB comm unity.
" Beca use. if we don't fu: the en·
ro llm e n t issue, th en basica ll y
no thing el se m arte rs,"Tri gglt' says.
But fi xin g th e ISS ue- an d re- versing the dcc hne- in e-n rollm ent ,
particularly at th e grad uate levelco uld m ea n m a king some harJ
dec isions a nd shi ftin g rc ... o u rce!&gt;
that som e fac ult y m e m be r ~ m;n
no t be happ )' wi th , he says.
Mo reover, a fai lure by depan
m ents to m eet thelf enrollmC"nl
targets coul d prove to be the deat h
knell fo r so m e progra ms, he say~

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In a Wldt' - ra nging 1n terv1t.· w
wa th the Reporter, Triggle outhned
what he sees as hi s top pn o n tlt.'.lo
as he begin s his ten ure as p rovo ~ t
And en ro ll men t tops the li.'Jt
.. It's not too m uch to S3) that the
fu ture of the mstHutlon as we k.ilO'A'
1t rea lly dcpend.lo on our att ractive ness to th e stud ent s: that's wha t
we're here for," he says. "And if \"t'
fail to att ract students, for wha tever
reason, then we won't he hl"rt' ··
UB h ~ been foc usmg ItS effo rts
o n strategies th at in crease student
mterest 111 the unive rsi ty at the u n
dcrgrad uate, grad uate and profe_..
sao nal levels. as well as incrca.~ "stu
de nt s' potl'rltlal"- rcta m themonce t ht~y are here, Trigglc say.lo.
He no tes tha t he has sched ukJ
two mec tm gs this week--one with
the dea ns a nd o ne with depart ment cha1rs- w1th th e agenda of
both bem g devo ted so lely to en ro llme nt str ateg tes.

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NKk { •t'ltKhnan's prohlcm, 1t \ nnt
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graduate t'nroll mem (Ontmut'~ 111
dcdmc. ln fa(t.a h hough ~radu..ttt­
siUden t en rollmen t has ~non th l'
downturn nat1onal lv- a Jc-..: l111t' tll
.t couple of percentage pomh over
the past coup le of wa r
"unfor
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we're dedm mg f.J.ster than tht· na
tlo nal average."
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How dkl you flnt get lnYolved
In d•nce7

)'X'"&amp;""'· I would rome home
from school ev.ry day to Vl&lt;W Dick
Clark's "American Bandstand." The
show was tlped in Philaddphia. where
aft&lt;r school they would bring in local
high -school stud&lt;nts to dance. My
cousins, who livtd in Philadelphia,
""uld oh&lt;n appear on the broadcast.
As I look«! for my cousins on the
dance Ooor. I found myself imitating
the rn&lt;J'ieft1Cf1ts to the popular rock
·n' roU sounds. My sister. who is 22
months younger than I, was a perf&lt;et
panner IO play and fool around with
the Jinerbug danas that ~ popu·
lar at the time. Having tittlr interest in
sports; I asked my Dad if he would
send me to dance school to learn how
to do that which I was watching on
lV. To my surprise. he started my sister Kippy and me in tap and jazzdance classes. About the same time.,
my parents beg;ut taking group baUroom-dance classes with friends and
deaded that,.., should also learn how
to do more social -type dan= like the
Waltz. Foxtrot and Ola O!a.Littlrdid
any of us know, this ""uld lead to a
compctitiv&lt; Ballroom and dance career. Despite the t&lt;aSing of my peer&gt;
for studying dancr, I never deserted
my dream, knowing it ""uld always
As a

be a major focus in my life. Being
blessed wlth supportive parents made
11 ea.s:1er to pursue this goal

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•wanh from D•nce Masten
of A.meric•, Including the Ivy
Hall Foundation Award, also
won by Gene Kelly. What does
It take to get this kind of recognition In the dance world 1

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REPORTER

1\eing a rcxtpu:nt of any award ha.o;
always given me cause for humhle re
ncction. For these achu:vcments are
never the result of a single pt"f'SOn, hut
thf.· colh."cuve mnuence of many tal ented indivtduaL... Surroundmg my:&lt;&gt;elf with exceptio nal teachcn., artist-;
and colleague!&gt; in my field hns all o"~,·OO mt· In grow and mature a.' an
artl!&gt;t . You take all n( tht~ knowledge
and taJ&lt;.·nt and applv lll'Omtslenth•

pr~nt

Dan~

SiJver Anninnary, its spring concert , this weektnd.

throughout one's career,always strivmg to make a difference, creating tht
opportunity to set higher standards.
Perhaps consist&lt;nt hard """' is 99
pcrcml and tal&lt;nt is merely I perrent of the equation. The Ivy Hall
Foundation Award was awarded to
mt for outstanding oontnbutions in
the establishment of educational
standards fot- dance. Oeating a jazz
dance syllabus and jazz exam for
teacher mtification into Dance Masters of America entailed all of the
compon&lt;nts pmoiou.sly mentioned:
hard work. life experi&lt;nce and taking a chance by making others aware
on a national lcvol of the growing
need for educational standards in
dance education.
Wlult type of d ...ce do you
enjoy most?
I truly &lt;njoy aU types of dance and re-

the different approaches and
journeys one tak&lt;s to discover movem&lt;nt Jazz dance.~. embodies
a spirit which is free and rich in tradition. I S&lt;O I= dance as a multi~
baUct heavily based in African and
Euro-Am&lt;rican traditions. Its colorful terminologybo"""" from historic
roots. =ulardanas,social danas,
tap, ethnic, American lllOddn dance
and musical theatre danCE. II connects
socially and politically to the pulse of
the time. Sin« Jazz dance and Jan.
music evolved together, this style of
dance allows for a marriag&lt; between
music and ITJO\Ielllel'll Being a musi spect

caJ person, my cho reography and
~room instruaion tend to ut:iliz.e
this type or union.

What Is your most memorable
perfonnance7
As a pcrfom1cr. my most memorable

performance was with m y sis te r
Kippy at the North American L..aun
Ballroom Da nce ChamptonshiJh.
Bemg the youngest couple compe1 ·
ing 111 what was our first exposure to
an mtcmatio nal competitive pcr(or
mancc, we were not expecting to win.
llu· ("ven ing was magical. Ou r dances
were eXC"CUted as dose to perfection
J.S pol!Si hl c . \\"hen we wert' an -

nounced as tht winners, m y eyes
shifted 10 my dance coaches. 8arbar.t
c:arn...on and Jeff Hensen (fonner
Canadian professional dance champions), whose faces wer-c calatic with
joy and approval ofourpcrfonnancr
and accomplishment The fuJi )UC
of prq&gt;aration paid of[ And while I
will always remember the look of joy
and approval on their faces, the real
value of what lleamcd was the importance of proc&lt;SS and preparation,
and that winning a trophy is just
frosting on thecak&lt;.As a choreographer, I have had many memorable
moments. If I had to pick one pcrforrnana, it would be a duct I choreographed in 1993 titled "LOVE
GIFr." Stephen Hunneshagcn and
Martin Nagel. performing tneritbm
of the Zodiaque Dance Company,
performed the male pas de deux for
a spring concert titled "International
Afiiurs.• A month before beginning
this project. I viewed a new play presented by the Department ofThcatn:
at the UnivesityofMaryland&lt;ntitled
"The Quilt A Musical Celebration."
The play is based on the individual
stories of love, pain, fear and rom passion that comprise the many stories from the Names Project AIDS
Mmlorial Quilt Thesubj&lt;ctofAIDS
inspired me as a vehicle for a piece of
choreography. This performance became memorable wh&lt;n I heard an
array of bravos at the curtain call for

the two performers. Of coune. along
with the bravoo camc the objections
and disdain for this contnMnia! subject IT13ner, and the choreographic
dtoires I made to pr&lt;S&lt;~~t this work. Bemg able to """" an audience to such

heights on so many emotional levels
WiJ5 a first (or me. This experience
opened a door for me to explore and
take risks with my work. and integr.tte
more oontroversiaJ topKs with dance.
What Is the most challenging
aspect of putting on a
Zodlaque performance1
The most challenging aspect ts ere
att ng a repe rtoi re that cha11engl"5
the company members on a tech meal, arttst ic and educational level.

The per(orming and ed ua ·
tiona! focus of the participants
has &amp;om its inuption been a
strong tradition established by
Linda Swiniuch, founder and
director of Zodiaque and t.l)e
UB Danct Program. As the
newl y appointed dir ector of
Zodiaque, my cballengt is to
hold onto this established Ira·

dition and move the company
rorward with a promise for the
future. This semester, I fed I
lutvc met this challenge. inviting
for tht first time two distin guished Zodiaque alumni as

guest artists: Jeffry Denman and
Jon Lehrer, who have choreographed works for Silver Anniversary, our J999 spring con cert.

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This spring semester, ..., will accept our first candidat&lt;s into ·our
newly approved degree programs:
BA in dance. BFA in dance and
theatre. and a BFA in music theatre. In offering a professionaltype degree program such as the
BFA. I wish you would have asked
what makes one a professional?
To be a professional, you need to
ask yourself, "Do you lav&lt; what
you do?" If the a.nswer is yes, then
it is expected that you take responsibility for the well-being of
your professional life. As a pro(essionaJ dance educator and
company director, a part of my
profcssionalljfe is the type of instruction and program that I provide to students. lfs paiamount
for me to make sound choices..

takingastronglookat myscll and
asking what have I done to ensure that the teaching methods

and programs I hdped institute
are the best they can be. My ac tions indicate the value I place on
my profession. In doing so, I be-

come a role model and amtplar
of responsibility for students.

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Research vital to med school's future, Bernardino tells PSS
By LOIS BAllER
News Services

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Editor

SEA RCH and biOt&lt;eh -

nology will dominate
the future ofthc medi cal school and th e o ther
health sc ien ces at UB, Michael Ber·
na rdm o, v tce president for health
affai rs, told th e Pro(essional Staff
Senat t' at It s Feb. II met"tmg.
"The growth of UB's Hea lth So
ence Ccnt,•r as no t o n the cllmc.al
s1de. but o n th e research S1de.'' he
told th e group mect1ng 1n thrLtpp!&gt;c hut z Co nference Room on
the So uth Ca mpu s. "If we mtcnd
to ge t good, qualit)' (alu h y, we
have to be o~c kn ow ledged a1o ,1 sttc
when· (alu lt )' arc nurtured ."
A!l ,1 ulll!&gt;t.'lJUt'nlt.~. he .. a1J thl·
monn that h.t!&gt; lx-t·n o~lln~. .ltc:d lor
,, ( llllll.ll ll t.·ahh Suenu..~ EJul.t
t1un ( t·nt l't . ( ' !I S!·( ., wtll hen·
... h&lt;lltlll'll'lj \tl ltl\.U!&lt;Ill n thl !~ llli~HIIl ,

w1th emphasts o n ga mmg nati o nal
and international stand ing in (our
resea rch areas. Pedia tri cs, along
wHh cancer-m partn ership with
Ro)well Park- are two natura l
chotces, he no ted, wtth three or
fo ur other 1deas bemg considered
fnr the rcmaming two slo ts.
The goal is to mcrcase research
dollars by S25 millton with in five
yea rs. to rehabilitate 10 laborato ·
nes per year and bnng m scien t1s1s ro work m them, he said.
" \r\1tth the NIH ( Nationalln sti tutcs of Health ) do ubling its reo;ourlCS for med ical r~arch. we
Jlsn will have to double our rt' \l',trc h effort."
Tu pos11ion Itself for tht!&gt; challc ngt.·. the mcd1 cal sc hoo l IS rc \Jillptng 1ts cc ntrdl and depart mental admtntstrntiom and reas..e!&lt;t.lllng tl !&lt;. hulldingll and accoun! •ng prml1pab a nd pral"ti\.C!&gt;, ht·

said. "To be a better-rated school,
we need to use ou r resources in a
st rategic m anner."
A maJo r item on
this agenda is up-

tions services will take lo nger.
"We're not sure we know what
the statutes m ean in this health ca re e nviro nment ," he noted .
pomting ou r that the dimcaJ prac

dating the physi -

tice plan was established by SUNY
before the advent of managed ca re,

--

cians' clinical
prac u ce pl a n"bringing it mto

the 20th ant ury."

Bernardtno
noted . In re sponse to a question concerning
the time frame for the revamping,

he said some changes will lutppcn
quickly, others will tal« longer.
AJI department s within the
medi cal school are converting to a
w mmon corporate structure, and
a central accounting servtee with
departmentallockboxes is bemg sct
up. both or whtch should be com

plcted br th&lt; end of 19'1'!. he s:ud.
But M·ttmg up billmg a nd collcL

a nd that its do min ance no" ' may
req uire statute changes.
Speaking britfly about the
university 's relatio nship with 1t s
teaching hospitals, Bernard ino re-

ported that UB and Roswell Park
have been working very closely.
recruiting a nd hir ing jointlv 111
some c35es. and capitalizing on
each other's strengths to bring in
faculty and grant support.

The challenge, he said, will be to
conv in ce all the hospi tals to view
UB as a partner, rathtr than as a
comptt itor. " That (competitivd
ap proach does no t servt the com ·
munity well~" Bernardino said.

�februaryllJ!I!!INoi:JJ.Ioll Repa...._

Distinguished Honors Scholars
Anonymous donor gives another $800,000 for scholarships
By SUZANN£ CHAMRII1AJN

and research for talented students

Reporter Contributor

who lack financiaJ resources.
President William R. Greiner

T

HE gift comes anony ·
mously, but the results--

noted that the scholorships funded

US's Distinguished Hon-

by the donor's gifts .. have bro ught
som~ ofthe nation's top students
to UB." The first participants
graduating this spring .. have been
true leaders in our classrooms and
labs and have contributed greatly

ors Scho lars Program
and the talented undergraduate
students it attracts from across the
country-arc highly visible and in creasingly well -known on campus.
Co me May, the program,
launched when an anonymous donor in 1995 made a S 1.6 miUion
cash gift to fund it , wilJ graduate
u s first class of I 0 students, who
entered US in Fall 1995. Some have

taken double majors. One studied
a semester at Oxford. Others have
combined graduate and undergradua-te studies. Most are plan ning to attend graduate o r profes sional schools, st udying in areas
from medicine to management, to
mathematics, to computer science.

to the quality of campus life."
The latest gift from the anony·
mous donor, Greiner added, is ..a
gencrow and fitting tribute to tht

exceptional students in the Distin guished Honors Scholar. Program."
He noted: ..The word is out about
these fine schola rships and the
high -calil&gt;~r education we offer,
because we're seeing a greater num-

ber of top students opplying to and
an ending UB...

·

Kerry S. Grant, dean of the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. said the

A recent cash gift of $800.000

value of the donor's gifts is greater

from the same donor will provide

than the individual scholarships.
"Scholarships that allow excep-

full scholorships for 15-20 fresh men entering UB this coming fall,
when more than 75 Distinguished
Honors Scholars will be studying
in all four undergraduate years.
It brmgs the anonymous
donor 's total cash con tribution 10
datt: to S4.8 millton .
"The success of thts program
smcc its m ceptio n ts a testament to
L!B's commitment to ensuring high
Lalihcr undergraduates arc bencfit mg from tht: exceptional &lt;.-ducat ion
1 offered by the university," the donor
sa1d. The goal of the gifts has been
to expand opponunities in learning

tional students to attend a premier
public-research university are excel lent investments... Grant added... In

addition to benefiting good students
directly, these scholarships enrich
tht: entirt: campw community. This

core ofbright.highly motivated stu dents elevates the gencraJ level of
academic performance among thei r
peers and constantJy challenges our
facu lt y to be their best."
Among the lO Distinguished Hon ·
ors Scholars who will graduate tn
May are Lisa dos Santos of Long Island and Joshua Berne of Brooklyn.

DosSantos chose UB hcLJU'tl' or
the Distinguished Honor~ \lhol
ars Program. which has pJaJ ht·r
tuition , room , board, fen .tnd
transportation to and frum lJJH
pus for the past four year!~
.. Th~ program gave ml' J 1TUl'
love of learning and the sc hol.:ar
ship freed me financially so I could
study and continue my figure
skating ... the other pan of my life.''
she explained. DosSantos will at -

tend UB medical school.
Bcnie is still selecting a graduate

school, where he will prepare to become a research professor in math ematics. The Distinguished Honors
scholarship kept Berne safely in
school, even after his father lost hos
job during his freshman year at U 8.
"The scholarship was very valu ·
able because I didn't have to worry
abou t earning money, so I could
spend my time taking g raduate
rourses along with my und~rgradu ­

ate work,• Berne added
While the anonymous donor
has offered a st rong base for the
Distinguished Hon o rs Scholars
Program , he believes university
alumni and friends must contrib ute as well so that this program can
conti nue into the next millen nium. One such response was the."
an nouncement last May by the latr
Eleanor V. Millonz.i that she wa~
donating $150,000 to endow lh,·
Robert I. a nd Eleanor V. Millon1t
Distinguished Honors ~chuLH
sh1p, whiCh every four years wdl
fund a full scholarship for an ou t
standing stud ent in art or mustl.

Asia residency to be part of EMBA
By JOHN DEllA CONTRADA
Reporter Contributor

NROLLMENT in the Executive MBA (E MBA )

E

program in the School of
Management now will in-

clude a first -hand look at the world's

largest emerging market, Asia.
Beginning next semester, the
EMBA curric ulum will f~a tu r~ a
one -week rcsi d~ncy in Asia, during which studen ts will tour Asian
businesses, 11'\FCt with officials
from top Asian compa nies and
visit regions where many of the."
students' employers do business.
The residency reqUirement will
take plact during the fourth semester o f the 22-mooth program as
part of the EMBA's interrtational business course. The EMBA pro gram is designed for high -achiev mg managers who wish to develop

the skill.!. needt•d to co ntr1butt'
more effectively to tht: stratt'g~t 1n1
tiatives of their organazataons.
.. International experience as par ticularly important to Execu tive
MBA students, most of whom are
likely to assume greater responsi bilities in international bu saness.''
says Co urtney Walsh, executive dt
rector of th e EMBA program .
"This experience will build profound understanding of interna tional economics. the role of govern ments,emerging trends in the global
market and the inOuence of culture
on busmcss prnctaces," she adds.
The international- resadcncy pro·
gram will benefit from the School
of Management 's lo ng history of
tnnovation in Asia. From 1984-91 ,
the school operated the first and

only U.S. MBA program on Ch onesc soiJ, which graduated 216 stu-

dents before funding from th e l 1.!'1

&lt;:ommerce Ocpartment expm·d
Tht' school this year launcht.-d .tn

EMBA program in Beijing and

11

also op(:rates an EMBA progrdlll
m Singapore that as m 11~ fou rth
vcar. Through the !Ot£&gt;rnat!Oilal
residency program, UB studen t!! m
Buffalo, Beijing and S1ngapo n •
t•vcnl ually will work to get her on
group proJeCt:..
"We have bef_un to dt~ vd o p nt'\0.

ways for Srhool oi Managcmcnl
students world\"'lde to mteract anJ
learn from one another." !o3\''
Lew1s Mandell. dean oftht• ~chool
of Management. " In add1tum to
lnterna! Jona l-rt·stdcnno pro}!ram '
and study tours. we plan to tmpk
men! dl.stancc -lcarnmg anJ \-Vl'h
based progrJmS that \votll a lim' ll"
to deliver managem&lt;.·nttmtruLI\1111
anywher&lt;.• tn the world ."

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In Hadighi's award-winnirig work,
a glimpse of the architecture in 2020
!If PAlliiCIADOHOVAN
News SeMtes Editor

N 1989, a natio nal compe·
tition for a proposed "peace
garden" at Hain~ Point in
Potomac Pa rk in Washing·
ton , D.C., ga rn ered mo re
than 2,000 proposals from landscape archittcts, botanists and horticulturists across the country.
In fact, the winning entry proposed a conventional garden of white
flowering planu, bushes and trees
lhrough which peace-seckingvisiton
could meander. Pretty. Predidable.
Nothing scary or "darey; either.
Mehrdad Hadighi, associate
professor of architecture, in col laboration with his wife, Shadi
Nazarian , assistant professor of
architectu re, submined a very different proposal for the garden.
Their proposed " Peace Armor"
would employ the materials and
visual language of war to product
a 160,000-square-foot metaphoric
landscape in which the visitor
co uld actually move toward, and
then experience, a sense of peace.
Their submiision called for the
construction in wood of an el egant, open rectangular landing
gro und ed in the bank of I he
'Potomac. Out of the landing
would rise at a 20-25-degree angle,
a long, svelte, armor-plated ramp.
The landing appears to "la un ch"
the ramp into spact where finally,
it is cantilevered over the river to
caHy th e visitor into a broad,
open, empty, space that would alte.r the visitor's surround in a man ner conducive to contemplation.
As she moved up the ramp toward
its farthest edge, a visitor would
tntverse a sleek, steel surface whose
flat planes and riveted edges suggest
the steel casing of a battleship, tank
or bomber. The sur-face is designed
to reflect the sky above, and as she
progressed up the ramp, she physically would "leave" the earth and be
taken into the open air, into a silence
punctuated only by the sight and
sound of the river below.
.. Peace Armor .. is designed to
physically replicate the meditative
journey and to provoke a sense of
"satori ..-enlightenment through a
sense of universal peace and oneness
-by "melting" visitors into a unified sensory landscape of sky, rdlectiV&lt; ground and flowing w.&gt;ter.
T h e projec t received the
competition's award for best conceptual design and was also named
joint winner of the '"Landscapes
for the 21 st Century"' competition
by the American Society of Land scape Architects magazine.
Hadighi joined the UB architec ture faculty in 1994, where today he
teaches upper-lcvd graduate studios
and seminars, along with courses for
incoming freshmen. In 1996,hewas
elected by a nationally recognized
jury as one of six notable "Young
Architects" in the U.S. by the Archi·
tectural League of Now York.
In his work, Hadighi says, he
"investigates the nature of archi tectu re so as to uncover th e possibilities of architectu re, which architecture itself obliterates."
Because he is, above aU, a conceptual architect, Hadighi's awardwin ning work represents an inves-

tigation into the nature and possibilities of architecture iUclf. It is
experimental, theoretical, investigative and architectjlra] at the same
time and, as with the peace-park
proposal, th""' is always more to his
projects than meets the eye.
His thinking and complex conceptual approach illusttate the changing
world ofarchitecture, a world that the
holders of the public purse are not as
yet quite willing to embrace.

'1te brings to h i s -

pedlgogy I

fresh-

deslgn. ...He's been • gr.lnsplmlon to his studonts."
BRUNO FRESCH1

It takes many years for an architect to be recognized , and more
time to have his or her proposals
actually constructed. Since he is
you ng, Hadighi 's work offers a
glimpse of the public architecture
of the year 2020, an era in which
the architects of Hadighi 's cohort,
then in their '50s or '60s, will be·
gin to sec their work become flesh.
Bruno Freschi, dean of the School

of Architecture and Planning. calls
Hadighi"one of our really prized faculty memben and, I think, an extraordinarydesigna in his own right
"He brings to his studio pedagogy
a fresh and idiosyncratic approach to
design,.. Freschi continued. "He's
been a great inspiration to his stu·
den~y of them haY&lt; said that
to me directly--and even more interesting is that he has an architec·
tural practice as wdl. That's very unusual for the faculty of this ~ool"
Hadighi is in private practice with
Nazarian. Their firm specialius in
the design, documentation and construction phases of residential, commercial and institutional buildings.
The two architects, together or sepa·
ratdy, also haY&lt; been commissioned
to design renovations and original

homes h...., and in other states.
Among his professional work,
Hadighi counts a stint as project ar1
chitect jjx- Japan's Kansai lntmlalioml
Airport Competition, out of which
arose the design ofthe newmil&lt;-long
intematioaal airport built on a construcl&lt;xlisland in Osaka Bay. While living neat lthata, he wori&lt;ed as project
architect, and befor"t'tha~ as a junior
architect for several school-design
projemand prMte residmcrs inCen·
tral New York, Ithaca's Citizms Savings Bank and lOr Promenade, a 12·
story condominium in 5araso1a, Fla.'
The many prius he has received
in national and international design competitions-too numerous even to list-indicate
Hadighi 's prodigious gifts in several media.
A 1995 prize was for "The World
O utside." a limited edition handmade book later distributed
thro ugh Printed Matter at the Dia
Art Foundation , the only distributor of artists' books in the Un ited
States. The book also garnered a
New York Foundation for the Arts
fellowship for Hadighi, along w:ith
a $7,000 cash award .
Another 1995 prize carried a
cash award from a German juried
competition for best conceptuaJ
desigri. His proposal was selected
by a nationally recognized jury
from among 500 mtries.
Both Hadighi and Nazarian are
trained in the fine arts as weUas in
architectur~e in music, he in
studio art and art history-&lt;~ fact
that they say informs their intenlis·
ciplinary work. In fact, they have
collaborated on a project called
" REALtheaTER." in which they
proposed to "construct" the threshold between theatricality and reality, the actual and the virtual
In 1997, a project funded by a
UB Multidisciplinary Pilot Project
gnnt, was undertaken jointly by
Hadighi and Henry Sussmao, professor of comparatiV&lt; literatures.
Together, they explored the poten·
tial of textual space (S ussman's

realm} to delineate architectural
and urban strategies to support
construction of unprecedented
spaces in the City of Buffalo.
In one of his most conceptual
projects to date, Hadighi pre·
sented at Buffalo's Big Orbit Gal lay a study of"hinges in time, location, construction method s,
families and behavior.• This was
articulated by a hinged, moving
st ructure that could s imu.lt aneously define a specific space and
hinge itself into a Oat W2ll form.

rnschisays his students hav&lt;done
extraordinary work under Hadighi,
gui&lt;lana. They hav&lt; entered national
competitions that put them up
against ca::dlent architects and stu·
dios &amp;om all over the country, and
in many cases hav&lt; come up with at
least an honorable mention.
"This is very unusual," rnschi said,
"since the competition deadlines do
not usually
with the studio
time frame. This places great pr&lt;SSUl&lt;'
on the students to complete complex
proposals in a rdativdy short time.
" In ad4ition, he designs his work
on the oomputer and is very up-to·
date on the latest programs and
techniques," said Freschi. "This is a
terrific boon for the students, of
course, and it's necessary because
today a skilled designer must not
only link mind to hand, but mind
and hand to digital tools."
Colleagues often cite Hadighi's
intellect in describing him as one of
the more interesting and provocative thinlttrs on campus. According
to Freschi, "discourse is a passion
with him." adding, "by dint of this,
a very courteous manner and his
engaging personality, he's brought
a civililing air to the school•
"You sec flashes of brilliance
among young architects like
Mehrdad." Freschi said, " He's brilliant, engaging, very creative,
strongly grounded in professional
skill , daring, full of fresh ideas,
well-liked and seems to haV&lt; a real
p edagogi cal edge. He's exceptional. Keep your eye on him."

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Plans are dropped for WNED-AM
to simulcastWBFO programming
WIIIETOiia

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Reporter Editor

LANS for the financially
troubled WNED-AM to
suspend operations this
month aod simuk:ast programming from WBFO 88.7 FM will
not happ&lt;o at thi.s time, said }enoifer Roth, WBFO general manager.
However,whilethetwonona&gt;m·
mercia! stations will not pursue
plans to apply for a gnnt to study
ways they could work tog&lt;ther,
WBFO-UB's National Public Radio affiliato--mnains open to the
two stations possibly working together in the future, Roth said.
An outcry from the comrnunit y
prompted officials from the Western New York Public Broadcasting
Association (WNYPBA), owner of
WNED -AM, WNED-FM and
WNED- TV, to drop plans to suspend operation ofWNED-AM and
haveWBFO'sprogrammingsimulcast on WNED. Critics bad called
the proposal to suspend operations
ofWNED-AM, the former all-news
station WEBR-AM, another blow
to local radio journalism.
1n the meantime, the WBFO Advisory Board has opposed plans for

the""' stations to apply jointly for a
Cocporation for Public Broadcasting
gnnt to fuod a study of ways the
public-broadcastingmtitiesin Westem New York might oollaborate.
Roth said that although the
WBFO board did not take a formal
vote on the issue, it was the "sense
oftheboard"thatWBFO"isastrong
andsuccessfulstationmovingahead
intherightdirection."Theboardfelt
it should not do anything "that
might change that direction ," she
said. She stnssed that although the
rwo stalions rumntly are not pwsuing joint fuoding. WBFO will a&gt;ntioue discussions with WNYPBA regarding ways the stations might wllaborate in the future. "There might
be projects we could do together
that would be beneficial to the community; Roth said.
She pointed out that while WBFO
and WNED-AM both broadcast
NPR's weekday news magazines
" Moroing Edition• and "All Things
Considered"-programs WBFO
has aired since their inception and
that had been picked up several
years ago by WNED-the majority
of the ""' stations' schedules consist of different programming, both

locally and nationaUy produced.
And evm with that small duplicationofprogramming.list="get
dilfm:nt local S&lt;rVic&lt;s altogether" in
the presentation of that programming. such as local news, public serviceannouncementsand oommunity
infonnation, she emphasized.
WNED-AM will kick off a nine·
day, on -air fund -raising campaign
just prior to WBFO's spring fund raiser, scheduled to run from Feb. 27
through March 6. Roth said that
many Western New Yorkers might
believ&lt; WBFO is pan of WNYPBA
and she hopes that will not impao
WBFO's fund-raiser. "We're not legaily or techni&lt;:ally connected in any
way, but share oommoo missions,
goals and needs," she said.
-w,bopeWBFO'slist=uoderstaod and~ the distinctions
between the ""' entities and gM as
gmerously as they can to WBFO, especiallytheUBoommunity. Asoftoday, there are (in Western New York)
three noncommercial public radio
stations, each filling a marker niche;
that's aterrific thing," she added. " It's
saying something about the people
ofBuffillo that they are willing to support these three different services."

We advocate all sorts of changes for
the outside world, but wben it comes
to change in our own environment.
we're extraordinarily reluctant to
rnake these changes," he notes.
AL:ademics tend to believ&lt; that "if
you only bang on long enough, thi.s
problem wiU go away and I can go
back to doing what I've alway&gt; done.
But it isn't golng to go away," stresses
Triggle. "We are going to have to mal«

and not simply move on 110 the
next toy in the sandbox, which we
have a bad habit of doing," he says.
For example. sina: UB has made a
major invr:stment in the Center for
Computational Research, that has to
be a major focus of the llfliv=ity for ·
the immediate future, he says. "We
have t'O see the romputer sciences and
supercomputing center as integral to
our future in education at the under·
graduate and graduate level, in service
to the community and in research. It
has to he one of the things we now
focus on," he emphasizes. "We've
'made it a priority by investing all our
money. and now it's insane not to ron·
tlnue to invest in that and make sure
""absolutely maximi7.e the benefits."
In addition to the information
sciences, Triggle identifi es three
other areas in the sciences where UB
should concentrate its resources:
• Molecular biology. The 20th
ce ntur y wa s dominated by the
great discoveries of physics, and
the 21st century will be dominated
by molecular biology, he says.
• Materia! science. This science will
derive new materials that are supe·
rior and have better properties than
anything we've seen before, he says.
• The environment and infra ·
st ructure. UB already has signifi.
cant strengths in this area, includ·
ing the Environment and Sociery
Institute and the Multidisciplinary
Center for Earthquake Engineermg Research, he says.
Triggle notes that 10 the rc ·
sou rce·all ocation game, the liberal
arts "clearly need a lesse r scale of
mvestmcnt." In fact, UB already
has anvestcd significantly in the
liberal arts. he says, citing as an
example the Center for the Arts.
But the sciences "demand a scale
of mvestrnent which is really so
large that one must be careful in
making an investment ," he says,
adding that a more modest invest ·
ment in the liberal arts brings a
bigger payoff for the university.

Triggle
c_,_,_,
only monitor applications. but also
wiU provide a longitudinal database
of every graduate program so UB
can compare its programs against
those of other universities, he says.
Neverthde.ss, failure to meet e.n·
rollment targets will continue to
bring a financial penalty, Triggle
says, adding that with a Resource
Allocatio n Methodology in place
in Albany that links enrollment to
resources, UB has little choice but
to assign these penalties.
To turn the decline in enroll·
ment around , he says, UB must
look at the areas that are not at ·
tracting students and ask a series
of questions: ls it due to a lack of
interest? A lack of quality? Is some·
thing missing from the program,
o r is there no further need for the
program? Should it be smaller, or
should it vanish ahogether?
A failure to meet enroUment tar·
gets, as well as the quality of a program, could be among the facto rs
that determine which programs
con tinu e and which ones are
phased out, Triggle notes.
But, that doesn't mean that priori·
ties only will be deterJllined by "the
bonom tine;' he stresses, adding that
programs that do not pay for themselves may continue if the university
decides it is irnponant to the institu·
tion to retain them. Those decisions.
he says, must be made "in terms of
the context of knowing what it
costs ... with full knowledge of all the
variables and malcing sure those variables are known to everyone."
Thellfliv=ity must be able to shift
its resources to meet the demands of
the student and the institution, he
says. "Since we play basically a zerosum game, much of that shift of re·
sources has to come internally; there
has to be an internal decision to move
resources from one area to another,"
he says, "And that's something that's
anathema to the academic;~ don't
like to make changes. Academics are
a paradoxically conservative species.

substantial dlanges~
The changes that he talks about
are linked to the university's mission·review process, which the provost identified as another top priority. UB is in the final phase of refin ing its statement for submission to
SUNY central administration.
"The mission statement ought to
be your guiding principle," he says.
"The trick is to draw it in broad
enough tenns that it provides you
with the ability to still respond to the
microenvironmental changes that
are bound to occur in the next 25
years~ If UB fails to chart its direction and simply responds to what ·
ever happens , it .. will flounder
around over the next 25 years. One
has to rnake basic, strategic decisions
about what the university is going
to look like in the next century."
Triggle prai~s former Provost
Thomas Headrick's academic plan·
ning document, calling it " key in
providing, perhaps for the first time
in the university, a university·wide
planning mechanism that enables
us to think about our future."
With ever· tightening reso urces.
UB must set its priorities and
make critical decisions in terms of
programs and research direction ,
he says. Headrick's document ha.s
.. provided the basis for progres sive ly sharpening our focus on
where we want to go."
Some of those decisions will be
easy to make. "We hav(' to learn that
when we invest in something, we
have to maintain that investment

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" Pulp Fiction" ( 1994)? Which author's works were made into mov·
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If you' re interested in the answers to these questions, popular Ill
erature and film . stories o( vJolenQ and redemption, nuclear para
noia, or postwar alienation , then check out the University Libranc-.·
George Kelley Paperba ck and Pulp Fiction Collecti on Web sue
&lt;http:/ / ubllb.buff•lo.edu/ llbrorle•/ unlt./ lml /kelley I &gt;.
As Quentin Tarantino rcmmded us, pulp is .. a magazme or book
containing lund sub jed matter characteristically pnnted on rough ,
unfinished paper." The Kelley coll ect Jon consists of more than 29,000
pulp·fiction books and magazm~:. from the 1940s to the present
Kelley, an alumnus of UB, donated the collectio n to Lockwood I•
b rary in 1994. To find Kclley-co llectJon materialm the library cata
log, look by author, uti&lt;. subieu or by the keywords "kelley" and
genre heading- for example. "kelley and detective and mystery sto
ries." Material from the Kcllev Lolleo •on may be used at Lockwood
Library only.
The KeUey Web site con tams an extens1ve liM of resources about
puJp fiction. The homepage mcludes lmks to an annotated bibliog
raphy of print reference sources a nd- under " Internet Links" -an
annotated list of links to literature metasites. popular lucrature and
pulp· fiction sites, and o ther speCial collections of pulp fiction and
magazines. The "'Collections" link on the Kelley homepage provades
links to many mor~ print and online resources concerned with the
various genres that comprise th~ Ke.Uey coUection, including adven
ture, detective, erotic., fantasti c, horror, legal, science fictton , war and
western tales. From the collections page, dick on the genre you are
most interested in to find annotated lasts of specialized Internet Sites.
bibliographies, biographies and encyclopedias and handbooks.
l..ockwood Library recently received a gnnt from the United l1niv&lt;rsiry Professions Technology Grants program to create a database providing extensive, critical subject access to the detective and mystery fiction in the KeUey coUection. Library staff will be looking for volunteer
abstractors/indexers among
faculty, staff and students Anyone interested in being pan of
this initiative should contad
Austin Booth at &lt; habooth@
acsu.buffalo. edu &gt;.

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For assrstana m con
nectmg to tilt World Wrdi'
Web, contact the CIT Help

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Desk at 645-3542.
- Austin Booth
•nd Nln• C•sclo,
Umvenlty L1brones

Answen:

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Bla1M'" b)' Pt't~r O'Don ndl: hm ThompMtn, all of the
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�6 Reporiaa February 18. 1!!19/VIi :11, lo.21
Son of late Israeli prime minister to discuss ways to bring peace to the Middle East

JoBs

Rabin to speak at Wasserman Conference
By MAltY 1ET11 SPINA
News Services Editor

UVAL !Ubm, son of the
te Isradi prim~ minister
tzhak lUbin and head of a
major Is raeli gra ss~ root s
movement dedicated to finding ways
to bring peace to the Middle East, wiU
b&lt; the keynote speak&lt;r at the 13th
annual Wasserman Confcr&lt;no!, to b&lt;
hdd from 1-5:30 p.m. March 21 in
Norton Hall on the North Campus.
The conference is presented in
memory of the late Arthur and
Louise Wasserman by Hillel of
Buffalo.

Co-sponsors are the American
Jewish Committee, the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropy and
the Jewish Student Union.

Admission is $10 for members
of the community and Si for stu-

dents at the door: There" 1s no cost
fo r students who register in ad vance by calling 639-8362.

Rabin , who heads the movement Dor Shalom (Generation of
Pea~ ). will discuss .. Pathways to
the New Millennium" at 2 p.m . in
Woldrnan Theatre.

The movement, which

aro~

in

protest of the 1995 murder of
Rabin's father, is dedicated to promoting peace in the Middle East
and unity between the religious
and secular right- and left -wing
factions in Israel
A younger generation views its
nation's future path differently
than did the previous one, which
fought for Israel's independence,
Rabin says.
To those who were born after Is rael won statehood in 1948 and

fo ught in the Arab-Israeli Wars of
!967 a nd 1973, the younger gen eration feels it has a choice about
Israel's future. Its goal is expressed
in the slogan
"Dor Shalom
Doresh Shalom"
(A Whole Gen eration Demands
Puce), he says.
Curreouy· living
in Washington
with his wife and
two chiJdren, Rabin is a software
engineer and product-line developer for the high-tech firm Emultek.
Following Rabin's speech, six
workshops will be held from 3:305:30 p.m. in nearby classrooms in
Norton Hall.
Major topics addressed will b&lt;
freedom of speech, retigious free·

dom and freedom for all. 5peakm
and moderators will include Rich

When mail stored in the bold
queue-mail received betwe~n
12:01 a.m. Feb. 7 and midnight
Feb. 12-is released, it will be delivered in reverse order, with the
most - r«ently received mail sent
out first and the oldest, "stale" mail
delivered last.
Mail in the hold queue will b&lt;
streamed into the system during
off hou~s. a process that was ex pected to begin yesterday, lnnus
said.
Unfonunately, not ~ery piece
of email rectived since Feb. 6 will
be recoverable, according to Marten s. He estimakd that as many as
o ne out of four email messages received on Feb. 6 has b&lt;en lost, with
the most criticaJ periOd occurring
between noon and midnight Du.rmg that period, th•log file also was
lost, so there is no way for CIT to
trace which messages wc-e affected
..Chances ar~ about 15,000 pieces
of mail were lost , and unfortu nately, there's no way to tell how or
to whom it happened ," Martens
said uEveryone must be aware of
that and try to deal with that."
He recommended that mem bers of the univ~rsity community
who b&lt;lieve they should have been
in communication with someone,
during that period of time contact
senders and ask that they resend
any message that may have been
transmitted at that point.
.. Individuals have to decide in
their own way if that 's something
they need to do," he said.
F.ven when th e central email
server is up, running and full y
functional , C IT will be working to
make sure that something like this
never happens again .
C IT is in the process offo rm1ng
a campus -wide committee that
will be asked to review the ap ·
proach that was taken in the res ·
toration of the universit y's central
email service, examine the central
e mail system and recommend
changes, including longer-term
changes, such as replacement of
the system, if necessary. However,
US is not considering chdnging its
central email system in the short
run, Martens said.
"O ur goal is to recover to where

we were two ~ks ago, but with
the appropriate changes to safeguard against aoother sysfem failure." CIT also plans take further
steps to continue to improve the
system, he added.
Those steps include having the
committee look at other large in·
stitutions to provide some sort of
b&lt;nchmark of where they, and Ull.
are in terms of email.
uEmail is something most insti rutions at this point an'WOrking on
hard , grappling with," lrmus said.
"Th• big thing here is, with this
experience, we need to review
what the institutional strategy for
email needs to be."
Eartier, UB looked at the general
approach olh&lt;T institutioos are taking to their informatiolf-technologyinfrastructure str.llegy and budget.
uwe knew where we were compared to other places, but we didn't
look at specific systems like email
and administrative systems. As we
move forward with IT planning,
we' ll be looking at those areas ,"
lnnus said
Should UB have brought in out side help to sol"e the computer
crash?
"When you tisten fully to the details of what went on and steps that
were taken to restore st"rvice, ev eryone will be in unanimous support of the expertise of our sLaff.
That 's not to say we can't benefit
from the input and wisdom oft he
review committee," Martens sa1d.
"We believe we're doing our best
and our staff is highly qualified ,
but we welcome recommenda tions rar the future."
O n Monday, Martens sa id he
had '"a ver y high level o f con fi
dence that we have a so luti o n to a
full y resto red server."
But he asked that the umvers1t v
community be patient o nce m es·
sages that have been stored begm
to make their way from the ma il
server to individua1 email a ccoun ~.
.. It will be at least a week be fore a ll queued - up mail is del iv·
ered ," Martens said. During that
time, C IT will continue to post
updates as necessary on its Web
site at &lt;http:/ / wlngt.buffalo.

Kellman, senior news correspon dent at WGRZ-TV/Channel 2;
Debbie Katchko-Zimmerman, cantor at Temple BethEl; Rabbi Hescbel
G=nb&lt;rg, director of the )&lt;Wish
DiKovery Center; !Ubbi Michael

FtschOOch oCTem pie Beth Am; Elio&lt;
Kkinman, regional director or the
Union of American Heb...W Congregations; local civil-rights lawyeDavid Jay and Helene Kcrshntt, assistant chair and lecturer in the UB
Department of Computer Scieoce
and Engineering.
A photo alllbit of the Jews of
Kiev and how their lives and
economy are suffering in the aftermath of the breakup or the
former Soviet Uoion will be displayed in Norton Hall.

Email service
Continued from ,.-ge 1

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

"What we've done as part of the
restoration process is broken the
file system into 12 smaller systems,
and we ' re absolutdy sure that
we 're not going to run into the
same probl e m a s before ," said
Martens. " If the (total of) 8.5 mil lion files wa s the source of the
c ra sh. we won ' t experien ce it
aga in. Thi s al so gives us a more
manageable size if we uperience
a problem again."
Breaking the server into smaller
sf stems also decreases the chances
that all of them could b&lt; affected
at the same time, so that if another
system failure were to occur, there
would be a smaller number of files
to recover. and restoration could
o ccur in ''a matter of hours, not
days," Martens said.
The decision to shut down the
server for the weekend wa~ made
. Friday morning, taking into con ·
sidcration the limits of both the
equipment and the people work ing to ftx the problem.
"We took it (the centra l email
server ) down tQ give people time
and sleep and the resources and
the wherewithal to bring the system fully back up," said Mar tens.
The bulk of the work th'at went
into toggling together a temporary
server and restoring central email
service has been performed by
eight members of the CIT staff:
Gretchen Phillips, Paul Graham ,
Lisa Maira , Matthew Stock,
Stephen Comings, Steven Roder,
Leonardo Miceli and Patricia Den nis. All are part of the UNIX sys·
tern support group and have expert
knowledge of the mail system, how
it is constructed and how it operates. They also are the individuals
who are most familiar with the soft ware company, Martens said.
" People were working literall v
night and day to restore service.
We know how important email• ~
t o the universit y communit y."
Inn us said.
Martens added : " ll 's not an ex·
aggeration to say they' ve been
working close to IS-ho ur days.
Some people spent ent ire nights
here monitoring the system t o
make su re the vital signs were
there to assure continued progress

of the recovery plan.
..On Friday, we decided to cut
our losses short. take the system
offline, rebuild it and give people
a c hance to sleep a little
bit.. .. When you're tired, you make
mistakes." he said.
Those people "are owed a tre·
1
mendou s ' thank you ' and a cknowledgment for their effort in
sustaining this restoration ."

"It's not., euggonllon to

..,. they've-. wortdng
dose to ls.hour cloys. Some

people _ . , t - nights
'-e monitoring the system
to...aulre mndnued

HINRICH MARTtNS

By las t Friday, CIT personnel
weren 't the only ones reaching
critical mass.
Weekdays , the universit y re ·
ceives new, incoming email at a
rate of 160,000 to 180,000 pieces
each day. \.Veekends, roughl y
60,000 pieces are received daily.
The temporary email server that
was in place last week was configured to allow users to read their
mcommg mail and respond , but
because the server was not co n ·
nccted with the permanent central
email server, mail received could
not he filed . So C IT set up a hold
qu eut• to make a copy of each piece
o f em ail received by the temporarv
ser ve r. O n ce t he: central e ma1l
se r ve r wa:. res t o red . th e h o ld
queue: wo uld rt"Se nd all messages
11 rece1ved :.o use rs co uld sa ve
th em 1f des1red .
1\v J·eh. 12, the sys tem had ac ·
uunulat ed bcrween 400.000 and
450.000 pieces of ma il in the hold
queue, Mart ens said.
" If we'd let the interim system
continue, we'd haw acc umulated
between 800,000 and I million
pieces of mail," he said, and there
was con ce rn about the server 's
ability to handle that quantity.

edu/ computlng/ •lert/ &gt;.

�Job placements 'promising' for '99 MBAs
lly jOHN DU1A COifRADA
Reporte&lt; Contributor

P

REUM!NAitY job-placement statistics for the MBA
Class of'99""' very promising. acmrding 10 staff of the
Carttr Resource Center in the School
of MaJl3!1"1'l"rlL Thirty MBA students
ll3Y&lt; been hir&lt;d to date at an . , . .
startingsalaryofS50.300. withrustudents reporting starting salaries of
mo"' than S65,000.1f this tmld continues, it would marl&lt; a dramatic upturn in starting salaries fOr UB MBAs,
oomparod tothelMr.lll'salariesofJ'Hl
and 1998 graduates, which"""" about
$41 ,OOl and $42,00), respectively.
Among the Class of '99, one student fielded six job offers befo"' acceptinga position with IBM in Denver. Other students, likr Lauren Is-

rael, had ""&gt;or three job offen. brad

bendilal &amp;om ~demand in the
houclt&lt;IMBA jobmarlcm, wnsulting.
and lidded threeoffm &amp;om big-lliUTle
firms beK&gt;re aa:epting a position with
Arthur Andenen Business Consulting.
Cynthia Sho..,, assistant dean and
director of the Carttr R&lt;sourc.e Center, said her office has experienced a
busier recruiting season than usual,
with most of the increased activity
coming &amp;om companies seeking to
mi multiple positions. ibe big boys
... ddinitdybod&lt;and ... eager to hire
lots of talen4" SOO.. said, ..Cerring to
the large firms that visited campus.
"We'"' very pleased with the quality
and the salaries d the positions. Many
d oorstudentsll3Y&lt;Jandedgreat jobs."
While some of the incm!SCd ..,_
cruiter activity is attributlble to marketplace trends, Shore and her staff
ll3Y&lt; helped to sparl&lt; r=uiter int=

by aggressivdy markrung student.&gt;
capabilities to blue-dup compante&lt;.
which usually offer the most -anracuv.positioos at the most -atlmctiw sala
ries. GE already has htred five UB
MBAs &amp;om the Class of '99, M&amp;1
Bank has hi..d ""&gt;and EV&gt;I:.ntcr
prise Solutions has Jured II student;,
at MBA and undergraduate levels.
Praxair, Inc., which traditionally ha;
hired MBA students only from
Harvard, Northwestern and other top-

10 business schools, has hired one
MBA &amp;om the0assof'99.lmpressed
with the quality of VB candidates,
Praxair has commined to an annual
recruiimentstopintheSchoolofManagernent Other companies that ll3Y&lt;
hir&lt;d Class of '99 MBAs include National City Bank, Xerox, Fisher Price,
Dun and Bradstreet, IBM, Eli LiUy
Pharmacruticals and Paine Webber.

TheMuD .

myself in favor of a motion of
no confidence in the Board of
Trustees. A5 appears to happen
all too frequently, Prof. Boot
seems to have gotten some o f
hi s facts a bit skewed.
In the senate meeting to which
Prof. Boot evidentJy refers, the

point I raised was whether, should
such a motion of no confidence
arise at a (then) forthcoming meeting of the SUNY Senate, what
would be the opinion of our local
senato rs on the issue, since th e
SUNY senators represent their colleagues' opinions-not necessarily
their own-a point which occa sionally escapes Pro( Boot.
Had such a motion come to the
floor of the SUNY Senate. I would
have opposed a censure of the entire
board for the same reason I opposed
a si milar motion in the maner be-

The men's buke~ tum dropped

Mid·Amenan Conference games
on the road lut week to Toledo.
101 -Sl,and Bowltng Green, 84-lll
Fruhman Bogcbn turebm had
a career high 19 poinu and I0
rebounds to lead Coach Tim
Cohane's squad a.pinst Toledo on

Feb. II .
In the pme ap•nst the
Sowting G!"Mn Falcons on Sa[Urdl.y.
NikoW AJexuv sc~d 16 pomts
and added seYen rebounds, while
Louis Campbell contributed 14
points.

~

.....

......_!Yda ca· ·
reer high 19 points
and TO rebounds to lead
the men's-basketball ream
in a loss at Toledo.
Sophomore Tiffany Bell
again led the women's
basketbitll team, pouring
in 26 points and pulling
down 16 rebounds for her
ninth double-double of the
season in a home MAC loss
against Western Michigan .

WOM£N'S
W estem Michigan 56, UB SS
The women's baskecbill team s:zw ItS I()..prne home W'l'lnrC SO"eak CCJrne to VI end
last~ apna Mid-Atnencan ~e opponent~ 1'1id'wp\.as 1t lost.~
SS.nAUmArrna on Feb.IO.
The Buns once apr! were led by soph~ Trfbny Bdl. who scored 26
poina and gn.bbed 16 rebounds for her mndl double-double ol the seuon
»rnat\tha Cerny added 10 po1nu for Coach Cheryl Doz.er's te&lt;am

Facts 'skewed' on comments about censure

TO THE EDITOil:
In a recent Letter to the Editor
( Feb. 4 ), Prof. Boot objected to
a co mment of mine in which I
cha racterized a motion to censure .. the administration .. as
being a silly thing to do and
then claims that I expressed

~asketoall
M£N 'S
Toledo IOI,UB Sl
Bowling G reen 84, UB 6 1

fo"' our own senate. I would have
moved 10 either list by name the
offending trustees, or to use a
pllr=suchas"thosetrusteessup·
porting the (offending) action."
At the meeting in CortJand,
the sena te indeed rejected a
b lanket ce nsure in favor of a
motion asking reasonable ac commoda tion to th e matters
raised by the board's actions,
least as an initial step, partiall y
because of the blanket indict ment. I would hope that we c.an
bl" equally rational here.

a'

-D.P. M•lone, Dtstmguished Service Professor

ln~oor lracK
Bodl the men and women's mdoor tnck turns took part 1n the KMle
lrMt:ational, hosted by Cornell Unrversrry. on Sawniay
WMe seven! UB runnen pbced second 1n evenu. dle lone vktory for th.e
men's ~dwu from the ''A" 4Xo40()...meur~ tum (3 22.91)
Ruth Con6on captured the women's we1ght thi"''W ( 16
metei'S) and Udo
Okel&lt;r: won the 'NOfllen's800-meter n.Jn (2 IS BS )
•

n

~wimmin~
MEN 'S

Ohio, 146, UB 90
The men's swrmmmg te;am lost to hoSt MAC opponent Oh1o UnfYff'Srty 146-

90,on Feb 9
In their fi~l du;al meet or the season. the Bulls were led by Enc Sumson

(200 bockstrol&lt;e · I '52.89).john Ntl., (50 fn•enyle · 21.H) ond Dan Hockey
(200 frfts~ - 1·41 .8l).W'ho each had first-place finiShes •n the meet. Somson
;and Niles also were members o( the v1ctonous 400 medley r-eby tevn (3 :28. 19) .
;along wtth Josh Punn and C..rl C..rlsor-.

!Obituary
Irving Cheyette, 94, director of music education
Funeral services were held Feb. 7 in PaJm Beach,
Fla., for Irving Cheyette, a pioneer in music educa tion who came to UB in 1955 at the invit at ion of
Cameron Baird, founder of the Departmen t of Mu sic, 10 develop a mu sic-ed ucati on program in cooperation with the School of Education. Cheyettc.
professor of music who served as director of mu sic
ed uca ti on u ntil his reti rement in 1972, died Feb. 3
in Palm Beach at th e age of 94.
He earned a bachelor's degree 10 1929 and a
master's degree in 1931 and became- one of the first
to receive thl' newly creat ed degree of Doctor of
Education in 1936, all from Teachers College. Columbia University.
The au th or of 33 texts on musi c teaching. he was a
composer of m usic for school band~ . orchestras and

chotrs. Tramcd a ~ a v1olin1st and violist. he wa.s a
Fulbrigh t profcs)&gt;ur 111 Iapan in 1954-SS, where ht'
helped to found th e Japanese Music Educators Na tional AssoCiation . \\'hilt• there. he learned to perform on traditional Japanese instrumen ts and dur
mg hts ret iTt'ffi l.'nl wntmued to g•ve lecture perfor
mance)&gt; on JapanL'M' I11U!&gt;II. and thl' arb.
MemonJJ~,. ,m trihutum s may be .!lent to th e lr v
ing Chcyettc Prt7l' 111 [\lu\11. EdulatJOn, 10 Lare o l
Endov.•ment .111d hlLOillt' t:und Re1mbu rsabll' Al
count ServtlC'!I, Room ]06. Croft!&gt; H.tll. Buffalo.
N.Y. 14260-7009. The prize ts awa rded to out
standing UB undagraduate music-ed ucatton stu
dents. Contributions also may be se nt to the h
tcr Rcss lnstltutl' of New Duncnstom of Palm
Beach Communnv &lt; ollege. Palm Bea(h, Fla

Wre~tlin~
Slippe ry Rock ll, UB 17
C entral M ichigan •1 . UB 6
The UB wr-estlmg tum lost iu l;ast home meet of the suscn. fallmg to
Slippery Rode Un•vers!ty. 2J - 17 . Feb 9 mAiummArena,;and then losing to the
e •ght-ranked team m the n;auon. MAC opponent Central M1ch1pn. ~ 1-6 . on

Sund.y
The Bulls (ell behmd e;arly. losmg the f•r-st five matches ;and trallmg 17-0 to
SRU. but fought back to m;ake 1t close m the end Jacob Schaus stan.ed the
comeback w1th a I S-0 techniCal (all wm ;ar I H-pounds He was followed by
M;att R1cc1 who dommated h1s opponent. p1nnmg Trav1s Fnedman .n the 2 ~7
mark. Josh States then won by forfe1t at !97 pounds io ue the meet at 17- 17
Slippery Rock held on to wm the fmal two m;atches 1n close dec1s1ons for the
2J-17wm
Agamst the Centr-al M1ch1g;an Ch1pewas. the Bulls got off to ;a good stan.
wmn1ng the first twO we1ght classes John Eschenfelder won a 9 -S dec1s&lt;on 1n
the he;avywe•ght d1v1s!on He wu followed by sen1or tn·Capta•n Bnan Schu l
who took a I S-9 dec•s•on n 125-pounds Those would be the only two w1ns
on the d;ay (or the Bulls. ;as Centr-al Mtch1gan pr-oved 1t IS one of the top teams
1n the country

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Phll.,.......y Colloquium
The Nkhe/T'he Ontok)gy of Biology
Barry Smith, UB. 280 Parit. 4 p m fref'
for more information, call ~5 - 2444
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2Jrd Annual Martin luther lUng,

1•- c......._..tlon

Keynote Addreu. Mart10 luther King. Ill.
Matnstage !heat~. Center for the ArU
Notth Campus. 7:10p.m. Free admlwon

rrlet .-.qu;..d. Spomon!d by

and the Salty Hoskins Potenza Memonal
Scholarship opem tOOay and Will conbnut'
until Man:h 4 tn the Art Department
Gallery, Center for the AfU Gallery hou~
areTues.., IO.J.m to5p.m . Wed -J-n 10
.tm to 8 pm , Sal., 11 d m to6 p m

( enter lOr l1ll.' Aru. ~

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ephe'nera 1'6ated 10 farro..rl, .ArlrOn

Adjunct Faculty E.ahlbltlon

Mart. Dean Ve&lt;:a'\ •nstatlatiOf"l, El

The Adjunct f.teulty E.xhtb1t10n m the US
second floor, Center lor the
Aru, features recent woriu by adjunct
members olthe De:pan.ment ol Art The
~ w.N con t1nue to feb 26 Hours tor
the us An Callery are ~ . SdL, 10 10
am to8 p .m . Sun . noon to S p .m

Cloomuwtor,

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~'til ~n°t~~'Y~~~theUghAru~ruugh
june~n for the lightvoldl Cal~ry art'

lectu~

and group seaung.. cal 64~1-4 7 To
obtain bekeu, vtSrt the CFA Bo111 Offic.t'

Wed -Sat , 10]0am -8pm , Sun
noon-S p m

Exhibits

Bl•ck History Month Exhibits

A show of WOI't by candidate tor thfo
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$5.7 million Nlli grant to fund hearing studies
Investigators to expand multidisciplinary research into causes of acquired hearing loss
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mvestigator on the grant .
"This grant as wonderful news for
the university," said President Will tam R Gremer. "It will enable Pro-

fessor SaJv1 and h1s team to expand
thc1r pathbreakmg research mto the
causes of acqu1red heanng loss.
.. The1r outstandmg work lS a stel
lar e.x.&lt;uTJple of r.hco interdisciplman
rt"search that we foster at L~ B .'
C. remer added "Thor studies prom
1se not only to advance SC1ent1fic
knowledge about acqum:d hearmg
loss, but to benefit millions of people
who suffer from thlS affl.icuon.
"We are proud that our center
received thas presllg~ous NIH
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The crash:' CIT working to restore email service
·y~VIOAL

News Sefvk:es Editor

F

OR the sewod time in less

than a week, UB's central
email server crashed this
past wedc.eod,and n:mained
down for about two and a half days.

leaving the majority of the
unM:r.ity's 13culty,Siaffand studmts
unable to send or receivo email
And despite round-the-clock
work to fix the problem and restore
the system, its cause has left Computing and Information Technology
(CIT) administrators and personnel
with as many questions as answer&gt;.
(See ~ted story, Page 2)
There was no way to foresee the
aisis,and ona: the problem has het:n
solved, the university will need to
examine how its email system ls set
up to c:nsu.re that this does not occur
again, acrording to Hinrich Mart=
associate vier president for computing and information technology.
"We have to live t hrough this
week and come to some stable
operation again ," Martens added .
'lhm we need to do some seriow
thinking and evaluation. The server
failure looms as a rnl worrisome
problem because we have a major
commitment nat fall with Ac:u:s.s '99

.._

hllve to live through this week •nd come to some

IUble

opera~

ageln. Tben we need to do some serious

ternoon and a temporary server
was o nline by mid-afternoon
Tuesday. The previous week, the
system went down late Wednesday
afternoon and was available again

by Thursday evening.
Hardware for US's cent raJ email
se rver is supplied by Sun
Microsystems. Inc.. a leading provider of network computing sys tems, including workstations and
~rvers. and US's preferred vendor
for more than l 0 years, Martens
said. The server's software is supplied by Vcritas Software Corp., one
of the largest ind~den t suppli ers of storage management soft ware th at has partnerships with
Sun, Microsoft, Hewlen Packard
and numerous other vendors.
While no other university that ht•
knows of uses this hardware/soft ware mstallation , Martens sa id.

Part of the problem may li&lt; wtth
the uni~ersity's decision to centraJ -

izc the majority of its email functions.

thinking •nd ..,...,.tlon."
_ , . MAIITtHS

and don't want to 1x exposed to this
risk again under any cimunstances."
The system crashed Saturday af-

some son of point where the- system IS getting wacky," he satd .

many compan1es around the world
use it for ftle storage ... Given UB's
performance requirements. there is
nothing bener out there," he said.
The problem is the quantity of
email that UB generates, he noted.
Each day, UB faculty. staff and stu ·
dems send and receive 160,000 to
200.000 pieces of email. In addition , the ce nt raJ email server sto res
m o re than 8 million files. And
those numbers grow daily.
"To provide an ema.il serv1ce of
this magnitude, in terms of mes
sages-per-day and total volume of
files, puts us near the edge of tech nology," Manens said ... We have
the capac it y to process those 3!&gt;
long as the system remams OK."
UB has had thts particular system.
hardware and architecture m place
for a year, he added. The only difference between now and a year ago
IS "the volume of the load bcmg pro
cessro and the number of files we
are storing have IOL"feased bevond

"We have made a choice to pro vide- a centralized email server, and
.put ourselves at the leading edge
of what 's available. Basically, we're
usi ng software that is commg out
of the development laboratories
with the ink drying . (It's) been
tested, but we're into the first de
livery of the softwa re. and exposed
to th e problems.'' Marten s sa1d.
So exactly what happened '
Although the problems now seem
to have begun a f(W hours ear~er, at
abou1 8 p.m. las1 Wednesday, Feb. l .
CIT staff noticed that the centrJI
email system was not performmt!
normally. Maneru SOld. Th&lt; probl&lt;m
was traced to a faultydiskcontroliC:'r .
wtuch did not wve a dear trouble s1g
naL In add1110n. the overall l ' ~IX
svstem faUed to aJen opcra10r' nr
managers that thcrt• "'"m .t pmbk·m
lhremaght,anempt.s wen· made h 1
rt:store the fih:~ . but even at th.n
pomt. CIT operators d1d nul k.no"that rhc problem hc~d heen c.~u:.c:d
lw a hardw-are fuilun.· That pn1hlt~m

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february 11.1!!19/'lui.JO.Io 1D

BRIEFLY
Correction

--lhe

Charles Bernstein, award · wmning poet and essayist considered
by many critics to be one of the major literary theorists of his
generation, is David Gray Chair of Poetry and Leners.
He has been a member of the UB faculty si nce 1990.

An item thlt ~In the l(u.
dossedionoflost-.-

of
C""'flUle' SdenGoDopnnent
ll1d ~·
ing. w. regrot the "'""·

Asian Studies offering
summer faculty grants
The Asian Studies Program.
through • u.s. Educotion [)e.
portment Title...,-~ b - ·
ing tw&lt;\ summer focuhy grants
ol $2,500 9dllor undergraduate coune dewtopment in Asiln
m.dies. The locus must be on
hunilnlties courses It the 300/
400 -·The end product con
be a neYt Asia-centered murse,

• signillantly . - Olr.ring 0&lt;
an Asian module in an exbting

or project&lt;d coune.
Appliations- be sent
by Morch 1~ to Tlmolhy

Rutenber,-...,.

proYOSt

lor lntenolionol educotior1. 411
Capen Halt For more """""'"'
tion ond oppllations, contoct
ThomasW. ~ - o l
Asian studies, It 645-3414, 0&lt;

Your wort&amp; as a poe:t. crtttc
and e.ss.aybt has received
much acclaim from those In
your field, but Is little under·
stood by the rest of u s. What
Is " language" poetry?
The
name
co mes
from
L=A=N=G= U=A=G=E,a magazine
I edited with Bruce Andrews &amp;om
1978 to 1981. In the magazine. we
focused on con temporary poetry
and poetics that was not conventionally representational, som&lt;lhing that
is perhaps more familiar to some m
tmns of painting (at least in the pe·
riod &amp;om Picasso to Jackson PoUock)
than in terms of writing.
- b I t - contemponry
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etc.-It
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DIBenedetto to head
dental alumni unit
for second year
Paul R. DiBenedetto, 1 1979
grodua~ ol the School ol [)en..
tol Medicine, ..... be&lt;n named
prosid&lt;nt ol the 4,!JOO.member
UB o.nt.l Medidno Alumni ,.,..
sodation for a second year.

DiBenedetto served as c~&gt;
chair tOr the 1998 Grutor

~=~~ng
lllet!llng as woll. He poKtlces in

Cheektowaga.
Michotl D. Ehlen, who
graduoted from the dental
school in 1985, will """' ..
president-elect lor. second
year. He b • dinial k)structor of
rostonotive dentistry at UB and

has a p&lt;Ktlce In Boston. N.Y.
David R. Ric••• 199-4 dentotschool graduate, begins his first
term .. SOCI&lt;ta!y. He b • clinical
instructor ol res!Dfotive dentistry .
and has a poKtJc• in Bulfolo.
Richard J. Lyneh, a 1983
dental·schoof g r•duate, will
serVe as treasurer for a second
y•ar. Lynch i1 1 past pruldont
of the de'Otll alumni assoda·
lion. A partner In the Western
Now Yorlc Dental Group, P.C.,
he practkes In Williamsville.

REPORTER
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The major problem may simply be
a lack of familiarity with it. Any art
form with which one has no famil tarity wliJ seem difficult. For me, the
most int eresting poetry does things
wtth words that cannot be done m
any other medium. Some of the poems I like may at first seem strange
t o ~o me o n e wh o primaril y read s
straightforward narratives, whether
fiction or nonfiction. If you try to
read these poems~ if there is a mt•s
~gc to be extracted, or as if they are
teUmg a story, o r Cb 1f they are de !&gt;4-.ribmg a ~cn e, then you are likely
to he.~ frustratt."&lt;l. lt '!t not a question
of exlraL·ling infonnatJon but of at
tendmg to mood , style. vocabulary.
~tr w..1ure and syntax. II"~ .IS 1f you
.1rc: trymg to use ))OS ...:o mmand.s
m a Windowsenv1ronmenl and yo u
kt:ep typ1ng ''click" at tht· t.:o mmand
wmdow rather than enterm g tnt o
the operattng environment
In playing with langu•ge a nd
me•nlng, what Is the best
thing you 've le•med ?

POt·try l.an be playful and much ol
mtnt' L~ howcvcr. meantng is not a
game wtth fued rules. Words mean
many more things than we mtcnd
when Wt' try to control what tht•y say.
Poctry's a wav to tap mto that lingu1s

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What Is I t - t h i s - that
lntltg!Ms , _ so much has
led to,......_. to- .....
ets using- - . y forms?
So much contemporary culture IS
made to be easily consumed and

readily disposed. The obsession with
simplifying everything pervades not
only mass culture, bu t also education and journalism. Complexity
and difficulty are too readily
frowned upon and that means our
level of public-but also private-disco urse is disturbingly limited.
The problem is that the emphasis on
the accessible often produces very
bland an that may be high on moral
or emotional sentiment but lacks an
mtellectual and aesthetic and ethical intensity. Besides, "unpopular"
art can be the most fun and also the
most enthralling.
How should we •s re•den •pproach these new forms of ex pression?

W.th open tar~ l.istenmg for sounds
and textures and rhythms and tones
and turns and tumbles before asking
what 1t's "about." It may be about
about , or amund about, or beside 11
self and then some. A good introduc·
uon would bt· UN.Ebreak, a radio
series of haJf-hour readings and mterviews I dJd Wlth about 30 poets
omd novelists. wtuch was broadcast
lib! year on WBFO and other statJOll!t. The whole series IS available m
Rea1 Aadjo on the Web at the Elt.-c
Iro ni c Poetr y Ce nter &lt;http:/ I
wtngs.buflalo.edu/ epc &gt;.
Wh•t Is so unusu•l •bout the
UB Poetks Progr•m ?

What makes our program umque is
that "'-'C have a core group of poet!~
and fidi on wnters who teach litera ture at the graduate and undergradu ate level. At most universities. liter-

ary artists teach creative wriung, but

at UB there has been a }().year tradi·
tion ofbaving poets teod1 what llik&lt;
to call crea!M reading. Presently, our
co re faculty consists of Robert
Credey, Susan HOW&lt;, D=nis Tedlock
and myself~and in the Fall I am
thrilled that Samud R. Delany wiU
be joining us. Raymond F&lt;dmnan
has been for me a auciaJ presena in
the program, so I greeted word of his
retirement from VB with sadness,
though I exp&lt;ct he wiU continue to
give readings and talks at UB. But focusing on the faculty misses what really makes the Poetics Program
work-and that is our remarkable
graduate students. The Poetics Program is especially designed to allow
poets to work as literary scholars,
while at the same time providing a
forum for their continuing development as anists. The goal of the program is to produce graduates who art
well·suited to teach both writing and
literature classes, and who...., capable
of combining aspects of the scholarly
and artistic approaches in their criti cal writing and their teaching. This
approach has produced poets and
scholarswhoarehavinga ~and
n=ry infiuena on the 6cld of lit·
erary studies. I'm glad to= that some
of the most intcresting)'JWlg&lt;l' Amcri.
can poet ·scholars have UB Ph.D.s.
onduding Juliana Spahr, lena Osman.
Elizabeth Willis, P&lt;ter Gizzi and Mark
Wallacr-and I should add B&lt;n Fried·
lander and Yunte Huang, who are just
completing their degrees.
When you consider asking •
poet to read here, wh•t do
you look for?

\o\.''hile I coordinate Wednesdays at 4
Plus. the writers are selected by all

cor&lt; faculty of the Poetics Program
and we also consider suggestions by
the graduate students in the Poetics
Program. We try to pick writers
whose \.\fOrk is relevant to our classes
and who are not only able to read
their work. but also to mc..'Ct with students. The key to the series is that it
is student·centered. Before ~ch of

the readinJ!'o the gu.... mc&lt;t with
a class of undergraduates who
have read at leas! ooe of their r&lt;·
cent book.&lt;. The undergr.tduates
also attend the readings. For
many US undergraduates, this is
the lint chance they ba"" had to
meet with poets and fiction writ·
m and to attend li1=ry readings.
Taking poetry out of a book and
putting it into perfo~ is a
crucial dimension for appreciat·
ingUt&lt;ra~ not just of the
present. because the S3J1l&lt; lessons
can be applied to older writing.
And getting to mc&lt;t writ= and
hear them talk about their back·
ground and their work tends to
personalitt what for many stu·
dents maySttm a very distant OC ·
cupation. We also ammgc for the
visitors to meet with one of our
graduate poetics seminars. This
can be as m-varding for the visiting writers as for the students.
What's on this sp&lt;tng's
Wednesclloj lit 4 Plus ule that someone new t o
thb subject shouldn 't ·mlu7

The schedule is posted at the EPC
and listed in the Reporur week by
week... I don't think it 's so impor ~
tant which reading one goes to-but just to start to go to pocuv
(and prose) readings in the war
one would go to concerts or TllOV ies or sports ~ents.. So Why not
stan with the next one. on Feb.
24 at 4 p.m. in the Center for the
Arts Screening Room--Joanne
Kyger and B&lt;n Friedlander.
Wh•t question do , _ wish t
h..t llSked. -would

you hne answered tt7

Where &amp;n you ge1 poetry books
in BuffaJo? We are very fortunate
in having one of the very best tit·
erary bookstores in the U.S.: Talk·
ing l.eav&lt;s Books (across &amp;om the
South Campus). I consider Talk·
ing Leaves an integral part of our
Poetics Program and am grateful
for their suppon of poetry and of
the writ~ we bring to town.

Faculty looks at consequences of email crash
By ELUN GOLDIIAUM
N~ Serv•ces Editor

O M E people arc callmg
this week 's email system
crash a prev1cw of Y2K .
Others describe a kind of
email withdrawal, wondering wh o
has been trying to contact th em.
Still others fear an irrevocab le loss
oi important material. And fo r a
campus steeped in the virtues of
educat ional tech nology. the:.- crash
has fo rced faculty to see just what
1t s limit s are and how they will
work around them in the future.
" If we're becoming so dependL"flt
on this tL'Chnology. then what are we
going to do when there are problems?" asked Deborah Burhans. a lee turer tn the Department of C..om puter SctenCt' and Engmt.-enng, a department that has its own server and

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t1c and sonu. nchness. both for the
pleasure of the activity and to explore
how language shapes our ways of
perceiving the world. Language is as
much a probe for discovtry as a way
of capruring the already known.

""was unaffected by the cr.tSh. "Thb
experien(e argues for a course 's
onlint' component to be Web-based

and not email-based," she said.
For students expected to email
their assignme nts to professors.
the crash has earned them a short
extensi on on their dead lines, whi1e
course listservs have been silenced
temporarily.
But on Tuesday, when Burhans
asked the ISO st udents in her
Com pUler Science I 0 I course how
many of them were severdy ham pered by the crash , the answer sur prised her: Almost none .
She also was surprised by the fact
that about a third of her students
said they had ou tside emai1 accounts, a point that makes sense,
she said, considering many of them
live outside the area and need to
have an additional account for use
during vacations and the summer.
faculty, staff and students infor-

mall y polled by the Reporr" sar
that while they have been seriously
mconvenienced by the email sys -

tern crash. they have been able to

work around the problems so far.
But for others, the consequences
are far more serious. One facu1ty
member noted that there could be
critical ramifications if email me~ ­
sages concerning grant applica tions or paper publications a re
mtssmg.
Of course, the longer the prob lem continues, the more se ri ous
the consequences .
"It'sacompletedisastc:r."said Hank

1. Bromley, assistant professor of edu·
cational organization, administra tion and policy. ... It is as though
someone came into my office in ttK:
middle of the night, pulled things out
of my file cabinet at random and
threw them out and then left a note
saying 'We'n: sorry, some unknown
amount of your material is gone and
we don't know what's missing.' This
is comple1ely unacceptable."
BromJey, who said he uses his

email as a filing system, explained
that he works "tethered to my email."
He uses it to communicate with colleagues and students, and to organiu
national conferenc.es, a task that n:oquires communicating the same
message to many people at the same
time ... The worst part of it is I simply don't know what rve lost." he said.
Other faculty members reponed
11 was frustrating not to have email
available, ospccially if students were
trying to contact them.
Mary flanagan, assistant professor
of media stutly, noted that the crash
wiU force people to think of how ex·
tcnuating circumstances lik&lt; th=
wiU affect how they worlr. and teach.
"W.'U have to think of aU the 'what
ifs,'" she said. "So if the ........,. go&lt;s
down, wiU students be able to par·
ticipate in an online learning environment and what are the altema·
tiv&lt;s? We'D have to design for that be·
cause failures wiU happen."

�february 11. 1!!19/'llll :m.lo.1fl Reporier

Panel to refine censure proposal
FSEC crea~ subcommittee composed offormer senate chairs
8y SUI WV£TCHU
Reporter Editor

T

HE Faculty S&lt;nat&lt; Executive Committee has
formed a panel com ·
posed of former chairs
of the senate who currently sit on
the FSEC to refine a proposal censuri ng the administration for its
actions in folding the former Department of Statistics into the Department of Social and Preventive
Medicine.

The subcommilt ee, crea ted at
the FSEC's Feb. 3 meeting, would
have a range of options in dealing
with the proposal , from sendjng it
back to the senate to killing it.

Th e proposal had been returned
to tne FSEC for further work by
the full Faculty Senate at its Jan.
26 meeting. Some senators speaking at that mee ting objected to
censuring the abstract "adminis tr ati on," as opposed to specific
persons o r o ffices.
The censure resolution, which had
been offered by John Boot, professor
of management science and systems,
asks the senate to censure "the ad mlnistration.. for not foUowing UB

and SUNY procedures regarding the
abolition of degree-gran ting pro ·
grams and for its "brazen disregard"
of faculty input via established fa c-

ulty governance councils. It also seeks
the ce nsure for the .. actual steps
taken n - the dismantling of statistic..:;
as a department and its incorporation as a biostatistical unit within
social and preventive medicine, ef-

fective Sept. I, 1998.

Bootuked to review with FSEC
members •what I consider very
false accusations made b y Profes-

sor (Nicola..) Goodman against
our chair."
At the January senate meeting,
Goodman, vice provost for undergraduate education, had insisted
that the senate was in fact in formed of the administration's
actions regarding the statistics department because senate C hair
Peter Nickerson had served as a
member of the committee that
was created to recommend a structural organizati on for statistics,
aside from depanme~tal status.

Boot told FSEC members that
Nickerson had served on the committee only at the insistmce oflrwin
Guttman, chair of the former department, and in the capacil:)' of a
medical-school faculty member
who served on a medical -school

pand that was considering the issue.
"There is no document that shows
that his (Nickerwn's) """"'ever was
mentioned in the context of chair of
the Faculty S&lt;nate," he said.
In any event, there was nothing to
discuss with the senate "because there
was no proposal made; it was in debate," Boot said, noting that paperwork on many topics under discussion on campus may be circulated to
the chair of the Faculty S.nate but
.. are labeled very carefully 'not for
distribution'" to the rest of the senate o r any other group on campus.
" Th e fact that o ur (c h air )
knows it does n ot mea n that it ts
tpso facto shared .

" In th1 s particular case, th ere
was n o reason to assume that 11
would be shared and it 's certait1'1 y
not lud icrous o n thr pa rt of Pro
fesso r Nickerson not t o h ave
s hared it with us.
" He knows a lot , he d oesn't have
to disc uss it a ll w ith us and he
ca n 't. . . because it's in debate.
" For Professor Goodman to stand
here (at the lan.26 Senate meeting)
and say it 's ludicrous . .. for Pro fessor Nickerson not to discuss it is re
ally a misrepresentation of the sequence of events."

Boot also challenged the sequence
of events regarding the dismantling
of statistics that Goodman had out lined at the senate meeting, imply-

ing that documents had been altered
and individuals had been added t o
document -distribution lists after the
faCL
.. In this day and age of word processing, it's perfectly possib ly
to add things later," Boot no ted.
" I think it 's aU an indicat1on of
fraud ," he cha rged .
Th e panel of fo rm er se nat e
chairs formed at th e meeting tn ·
eludes Nickerron; Denn is Malo ne,
SUNY Distingu ished Service Pro·
fesso r in the Department of Elec·
trical Engi n eering; Claude Welch .
SUNY D istinguished Service Pro
fesso r in the Department o f Po ht i·
cal Scienc~; William Baumer,lpro fessor o f philosophy. and Boot.
Malone suggested th at the panel.
in addition to deciding what to do
with the censure resolutio n. o ffer
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Arkeilpane named director of athletics
By LOIS BAKER
News Services Editor

R

BERT Arkeilpane was in-

troduced to the Western
New York community as
the new VB director of
athletics during a press conference
on Monday in AJumni Arena hosted
by President William R Greiner.
Arkeilpane was appointed to the
top position in the D ivi sion of
Athletics after a national search.
He had served as interim director
for the past !()months, succeeding
Nelson E. Townsend, who accepted
the position of associate vice presi dent for student affairs and special
assistant to the president last year.
"You can't possibly understand
how excited I am that my jpumey has

led me here today;' Arkeilpane told
an enthwiastic crowd of alumni, staff
and community supporters.

That journey began on the Little
League baseball and midget football
fields of Amh=t, continued at Sweet
Home High School and then Syracuse
University, where Arkeilpane earned
J bachelor'sdcgrcc in sp«ch commu·
nianion and .....as a four-year letterman
o n the van;ity football team. He also
holds a nlilster's degree in sports administration from O hio University.
Before com in g to UB in 1995 as
assistant athletic director for devel opment and director of the Blue
and White Club, he was assistant
-.. athletic director for development at
Miami University of Ohio· and at
California State University at Ful lerton. He also held development
positions with the University of

Cincinnati Foundation and the UB
Foundation during the 1980s.

As director of athletics, Arkeilpane
will have overall responsibility for all
intercoUegiate athletic, recreational
and intramural athletic programs.

Working with the lmercoUegiate Ath letics Board, he will develop and
evaluate programs
and policies, de-

velop strategic plans
for establishing the
UB athletics program in the MidAmerican Conference, and recruit, '"-"~--_j
s upervise ,
a nd Al:kEI...PANE
evaluate coaches and other staff.
fn announcing Arkcilpane's appointment, Greiner said he was very
pleased by the outcome of th e na ·
tionwide search. "We had a very effective search, which produced ex ceDent candidates from around the
country," he noted . "Bob Arkeilpanc
has a national reputation for excellence, is extremely knowlcdgcahlc
and has an excellent reco rd of
achievement here at UB a nd in h1s
prior work. He is very well -regarded
by his peers around the co untrv.
"Bob's candidacy was strongly sup·

ported by the leadership of the Mid
American Conferrnce (MAC). and he
has overwhelming local support, both
at UB and in the We;tcm New York
community;' Greiner said "He's the
right person for the position as we

complete the job of developing our
Division 1-A athletics program."
Arkeilpane, in turn, said that he
has never encountered a lead~r

who understands and vaJucs the rule::
intercoUegiate athletics plays in the
ed uca tional m ission of an institu
tion and the delicate balance he
tween the two as has Greiner, and
credit ed him with shepherding UR
to its Division 1-A status. He al_.. o
praised Townse nd 's efforts m at
complishing " Mission 1- A."
At this juncture, UB reminds hm1

of Syracuse in the late 1970s when the
university had a great academic repu ·
tation but was struggling to regain ~~
athletic prominence. Arkeilpanc !talli.
Noting that 45 percent of VB athlete&gt;
achieved a grade-point average of 3.0
or better during the Fall1998 semes·
tcr, he pledged to aim for an equalh
high performance in the athletic arena.
'' From game pro moti o ns and
ticket sales, to the hospitalit v we.- ex
tend to those au ending o ur cv~: n ts.
Wf." will be recognized as first cia~.....
he said."While we readily admit that
we haven't yet figured out all the for·
mulas, I can guarantee you we won 't
stop trying, or listening to the wn
structive feedba ck we ret.~e ivt: frum
our tonstitu ent... "
HC' cmpha..&lt;iiZcd th.u merd' f.t'l
tmg to D1vi310n 1-A 1~n · t the goJI .
" lmtc-Jd , wt· will h o ld o u rselves &lt;11..
w u111able and compete like cham
p10n ~ in the classroom, Ihe commu mty. dunng recruiting battles and on
the fields of competition," Arkcilpanc
sa id " I ask you not to judge us by
our words., not to judge us by the
outcome of a single contest, not even
to judge us by the ou tcom e of a
single season. But do jUdge us by o ur
attitudes and actions."

13

Y2K@UB Ill
Will additional funding be avaiklble for fixing Year
2000 problems?
No. Each d epartm ent, un1l or node 1s expected to halam:e tht" need
fur Y2K reso urces wuh o th er pnontles

How do you fix the Y2K problem?
You fix the problem by mod1fymg program" m dcv~ecs to work prop
erl y. replacmg them w1th complmnt o ne' nr figunng out a wav to
wor k arou n d any potenual damage that w uld be tau~d bv non
co mplian ce. The solutiOn you chomt" ~· •II bt· hased on vanous tal
to r!!.. 1ncludmg how c ritica l the svstem IS to ~..on 11num g operatJO fb
t.ns t of the so luti On, availat-ulll\ ol vendor upg rade,, tlmt· 1mpa..t
on resources and cnnt m gencv plan ..
The Year 2000 rt:med1at1on pnH.t.''i~ t.uns 1 ~t~ o l thc~c !&gt; h:'P"
Step 1: Inven tor Y
\tt·p 4 Vahda t1onrlestmg
Step 2: Assessmenl t AnaiY!&gt; I ~
" ltp S lm plemen tdtlon
Step 3: Convers1on ( Rt:nov-J tiOII I ~ t cp 6. Monuonng
Inform ati o n on each of thc3t: 'i lcp., Lan ht· found on LIB\ Year 100fl
Web site , undcr "t-=ix -lt (,u1del1nt:~ " Jt &lt;http:/ / wlngs.buffalo.edu /
ye•r2000 &gt;, alo ng w1th d tunehnr and so m e gu . delmt"~ for ulm
plcting the remedJalion prn1..e\~

If you lwvr Y2K 'l tH'Stwm thut \' Uit would J,J..,· tmHVt'rt•d
umn. em 01l them to &lt;goldbaum @buffalo.cdu •.

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BrieBy
Philip Coppens named
Woodburn Chair of Chemistry
Philip Coppens, SUNY D•stmgUJsht·d Prut e~s~•r tn tht· Dcparlmt'lll
of C hem1stry. has het·n named th c fi rst Henrv M Woodhurn ( ..h.ur
of C hemi str y
I ~,.,"
Wood burn . who was dt:an olthc l orJJu.llc \~,.hnollrom I
'i&lt;'rved as professor of chcm 1st rv from 192J 7 2
A UB fa cult y membt· r Sln (t' ll:l6~ . &lt; uppt'n!&gt; hJ!&gt; JliPlln·rt·J 'tuJ1n
of the use of X-rav-diffratt lon tc:~..hnu..jUt'" to 'tluJ, tht· nature of
bondi ng he tween at o m., Ill mnlel ulc~ anJ (f\'Siah h' &lt;iitudv m g the
d 1stnbut101l of electron' 111 ,1 lrvs tal Ill :-. tcxthO\lJ.. on the s: uht t:ll
was published m 1997
The Coppem resea rch group,., dc:·velopmg method~ for time re
!lOlwd diffraction . whll'h will J! IVt' mlormat1on on ~ hort hvc:d spc
llt'3 of unpo rt a nce 111 eledro n tran sfer. photot:hcm~eal reaC"! Jons. &lt;...I
talyS I!'i a nd b io logiCal prrn:esscs. ~ync hro tro n so urces and h1gh -powt'r
ultravio let lasers at t\rg.onne and Brookhaven Nau onal l..ahorahl
nes will he used
( :o ppens 1~ pnn(!pal HWl"'&gt;tlgat o r lor thl' "LlNY ht'amhnc at tht
Na tiO na l Srn chrotron l1ght Sou rCl', lo(a tcd at Brook.hJven Natton.JI
La horat o rv on Long bla nd The SUNY beam hn e ts the rt:.ult ol .t
dost· cn ll aho ra tum be tween rc~t·arc h l'r\ at UB. "llNY ~IOfJY ArnnJ..
a nd thl" College o f CeramiCs at Alfred .
A re..:1p1tnt of the Royal Swed 1sh At..adc:nw ol SCie nt..e., · prc ~tlg tou '
( .regon Aminoff Pn7e, Coppen s IS a form er president of the l n t t~,
natiOnal Un10 n of C rystallograp hy. The au thor ol morc !han 2l'W
tt·l' hni ca l pa pers a nd a r!Jd es, h(· has se rved a~ prc:s1d cnt and \ l ~t·
prts1dent of the Amt:rtl31l ( .rV!&gt;ta llogra pht i.. A~~onatum . •md w,J,
t he rC'c ipu.' nt of t he a:.:.oc~&lt;lllon \ Huerger A ~· ar d

'1 ",

Nominations due March 1
for Phi Beta Kappa candidates
NomlnaUons are due by March 1 fo r elect Jon to tht· ()m l(rnn ~h .1p
ter of Ph.! Beta Kappa, the Iliiii Oil.ll-hono rarY M&gt;(Jtt\ for &lt;iituJcnt' Ill
liberal art s d~ree progr&lt;lm~ . (:and1datcs shou ld h.JVt' a ~rdtit'· Jl\llnt ,J\
erage of 3.75 or h1gher w1th .It least s:;, hour' w mplt•tt.·d. m J50 1H
h1gher \\'lth at least 100 hour'&gt; wm plt·tcd. hn ~tudent.!o \\'lt h tra n ~kr
n cdtb . the UB ;.wcrJ~c. J.!o well ,\!&gt; the (l\'l'f,\11 ,1\'erage. lllU&lt;iil mt·t~l tht•.,r
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P Capen Pn7.t" fo r outstandmg worl.. tn anr gc:nrc .mJ tht· I hhJt1!.1rdt
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detailed description of such work sho uld lx- !&gt;t'lll \Vlth a nommatmg lt·n c1
from a faculty member by April I to Bono 10 the Dt'partmcnt ol l-n
glish. 306 Clemens Hall. North Campus. Matcriab submmed wtll he rt'
turned to the student directly if a self-addressed envelope!.'!&lt; provtJeJ
New student members will be inducted on May 14

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with an icc auger, an
ice spud. a meter stick
and a co upl e of
screwdrivers that
hang from a string around his neck_
Kenton Stewart, professor of biological sciences, is UB's ice man; in
fact, h&lt; may have thelarg&lt;St scientific inventory of lake-i~ dates in
Nonh America, covering more than
250 lakes in New York State alone
, and several hundred in other states.
Stewart teaches limnology, the
sciencr of bodies of fresh water.
One of his research projects in volves st udying the freeze and
thaw dates of lake ice as an indi cator of global climate change.
That work has led him to d&lt;vilop
some skills in determining whether
or not a lake's ice cover is safe to
walk on; at UB, he has performed
this sometimes risky servi&lt;% almost
every winter for the past 20 years.
On a r&lt;:eent expedition to test the
ice on Lake LaSalle, be strode
quickly out onto the middle of the
lake. His guests stepped corefully
behind him as swiftly as they dared.
"'I'm not worried about the ice
on this part of the lake." he said,
noting that just a few days before,
he had measured I 0 inches of
cover o n the lake.
Still, he decided to demonstrate
just a few feet from shore how,
when he's Jess sure of the conditions, he makes certain he's not
putting himself in danger.
He held the ice spud, a long rnd
with a sharp tip, in both bands and
slammed it down into the icc.
'"This is the one-two-three test,"
he said.
If the spud's tip goes completely
through the ice on th&lt; first slam, he
aplained. i~! time to get off the ice
because i~s ddinitdy not safe. If it
takes two slams in the same spot to
· b=k through the ice, Stewart said
ynu have "a little margin of safety, but
not much." If ynu slam it hard three
times in the same spot and ynu can't

Stewart cautioned, since ice

thickness varies in'dilfermt locations,
it must be rechedzd frequently.
Thirty paces ou~ Stewart decided
to take his first measurement.. He
brushed the snow away from the
lake's surface, then plunked down
the ice auger and began drilling a
hole into the frozen Ooor. He turned
the handle. going deeper and deeper,
then pulled it free. Just inches from
his arid his guests' em, a small spring
of water gurgled to the surface.
Stewart stuck his meterstick
down into the water. 29.5 centimeters of ice, or about 12 inches.
"This is twice as thick as the maximum amount of ice we had all last

year," said Stewart, adding that last
year the lake was thick enough to
walk on for only one week and there
wen: 54 days of i&lt;% rover, the fewest
number sin&lt;% 1975.
He pointed out that last year
also was a strong El Nillo year, a
phenomenon that reOects differences in sea-surface pressure between the eastern and west= Pacific Ocean. When those differences are especially pronounced,
that spells an unusually mild winter for paru of North America.
11tis winter, on the other hand, is
La Nina, the winter followin~ E1
Nillo that usu;illy is characterized by
colder weather with mor&lt;: precipitation, which Buffalonians came to
know all too wdJ ·earlier this year.
"El Nino events vary in their impact and do not affect all paru of
the globe equally," he said. "The
biggest unknown is what the effect
is regionally."
To examine how different .-.gions
are impacted by E1 Nino, Stewart
monitors more than 250 lakes
throughout New York State and
hUDdreds of othen in other states.
"l do these long-term studies to
see whether lake-ice dates can
serve as proxy indicators for climate change," he said.
Strictly a grass-roots effort, the
project began around 1970 when

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Stewart was loolringata fc:w of the Finger baka. From there it escalated.
Stew.art obtains data from a vast network he developed of ordinary citizens
who live near 1.akes be monitors. To
find observers, he uses any method

works,

for

that
isliihg
Ceri!rrals from
local sporting-goods shops, post offices or from a local game warden.
Through phone calls or postcards.
the observen let him know when their
lakes freeze over in winter and break
up in the spring.
According to Stewart, over the years,
some of the lakes ha"" beg.ID to show
one sign of global climate change: an
earlier break-up ofioe in the spring. He
praented so""' of his research n:suhs
last summer ot a meeting of the International Limnology Society in Dublin.
Asked wby he organiud the network
of obo&lt;rven, he said that the proj&lt;ct provides him with a lot of climate informa-

tion that be couldn't get any
other way. He also enjoys making his own !aU-ice measurements, working in the beauty of
nature, which is also sometimes
a challenge.
For example, when conditions on Lake LaSalle ·a ren•t
gnnd, he makes sure to take

along a life jack.et and a tobog-

gan, which be can pull up to the
edge of the ice_ Tha~s also wby
he always takes scnw drivers
with him, so he can "claw out"
if he falls in. Luckily, he hasn't
had an accident sin&lt;% ljl, was a
graduate studenL
•1t"s. strenuous work and
can be a little nerve-wnclring
at times," he conceded. "But
it's the most direct way to get
this information. That's part
of the lure of science."

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THE EDITOR
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wording to be included

in th~
Standing Orden of the Faculty Senate that '"sets o ut the process by
which these things (departmental
=rganizations) are brought to th&lt;

attention of the senate."

Don Schack, professor of mathematics, agr&lt;:ed. The subcommittee
should not serve as "wordsmiths."
he said, but rather should develop

a .. more concrete plan about when
and how the Faculty Senate should
get involved in issues such as these."
The senate, he said, should have
"an agreement with the administration as to the approach to be taken,
so that both the administrotion and
the faculty !life confidence in the
way such
are handled.•
Boris Albini, professor of micro-

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biology and chair of the senate's Governance Committee, pointed out that
the senate.' l charter states that the body
should be "informed and consulted" on
all proposals repding the formation,
n:naosins, n:organization or dissolution of academic units.
"I think i~s not really necessary to
have new prescriptions before these old
p.-.scriptions are followed,• Albini said

Nickerson praised Senior
Vice Provost Ken Levy for his
efforts in informing the sen ·
ate about such matters. But,
he noted, the issue is not

whether the senate should be
consulted, but "' when (at
what point in the process )
sho uld the senate get in-

volved."

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5

The measure of an Olympian IDechsoa~awuvs Iii
Janet&amp;
throurJ, ,..A..,...,.rl.., ·
of cha
'a!'5 says grace
IS'·"'"""'~..}' ts true test a
mpion
., JOietf LAVELU

~Contributor

HOUGH she had won
four gold medaiJ and a
silver at the 1988 Seoul
and 1992 Barcelona
Olympi cs, swim mer Janet Evans
says she did not really understand
what being an Olympian meant
until tht 1996 gamc:s in Atlanta,
whert sht pl.ae&lt;d sixth.
Evans, the keynote speaker at
the I Oth annual UJI Girls and
Women in Spor ts Breakfast on
Feb. 4, told those attending the
b1eakfast that the Atlanta Olympics wiU always b&lt; her favorite b&lt;·
cause it was there that she truly
became a champion. A champion,
shr said, "is having discipline in
the traditional way. but also to b&lt;l.ieve in oneself, to have class and
grace through adversity."
Evans had been chosen by thr
1996 U.S. Olympic Team to carry
thr Olympic flam• to Mohammed
Ali, who lit the torch before 60,000
spectators and I billion television
viewers at the games' opening ceremony. Sht said that at that moment, as Ali lit the torch and she
looked out over tht thousands or
athletes, she understood that although some of them would place
last in their events. "it didn't mili
them losers, did it? That mad&lt; them
champions because: they were there
trying their hardest , doing their
best, repres&lt;nting their families and
their countries and their friends,
who loved them. And that was it"
Evans began swimming at the age
of 18 months at the local YMCA. "I
never remember not swimming,"
sht said, noting that she had rompeted in local swim meets because:
her brothen oompeted bdon: her.
But it was when she and her parents attended tht 1980 Olympics in
Los Angeles that shr d.cided to
rompete for a place on the Olympic

A

team. Fulfilling this goal meant yean
or starting the day with swim prac·
tice at 4:15a.m. until it was time for
school, and then swimming another
three hours after school.
Competing in Seoul in 1988 at
tht age of 17, sht said she discov·
eled that even though the East German tean\ had dominated womrn's

. , . , . . . . . _ , . . . . _ _ 1 _ _ Girls_
... Spwts - - ... swimming, "it was not lhe best,
fastest or most talented that pre·
vailed. but the most motivated."
It would be motivation-or the
lack or it-that would dog her for
the rest of her career in swimming,
she said, noting that she quit the
sport severaJ times, only to return
to try again .

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JAHflEVANS

Evans-wh o had been consid e red lhe c hief co nt ende r for a
medal for the U.S . swim team in
Seoul-won thr« gold medals in
those games, breaking her own
world record in the 400m freestyle
and ~tting a new O lympi c record
in the 800 m freestylt" . In
Barcelona. she won a gold medal
in the BOOm freestyle and a silver
in the 400m freestyle .
She said that before th e Seoul
games, she had met seve n -time
gold · medal win ner Mark Spi tz,
who had asked her what it meant
to be an O lympian.
She said that she had told him that
it meant "you get free clothes. You

·· 1ltple co,....
get free trips to Hawaii. You get to
go to Disneyland. You get to cu t in
line and I get to put 'I'm an O lym·
pian· on every singlt job application
and rollege resume I .,..- fill ouL"
But, she said, Spitz had prom ised her that ont day ht would ask
her that question again . And when
she sa w him while boarding a
plane after the Atlanta games, she
said shr finally understood what
bring an O lympian meant.
Evans retired from swimming
after thr 1996 Olympics and now
travels around the coun(fy giving
m otivational speeches. She also
serves as a volunteer coach for the
University of Southern California
women's swimming team.
The UB Girls and Women m
Sports Breakfast was held to honor
athletes of all ages on tht 13th an
nual NationaJ Gi rls and Women 10
Sports Day.
In addition to Evans, oth e r
speakers at the breakfast-which
featured the theme ..All Girls Al lowed" -mduded Lisa Hedges , a
local amateur boxer who spoke on
having the cou rage to stand aJone .
Tracey Brinon, a mcmbtr of the
var sit y soccer team , was honored
as o utstanding senior athlete. UB
a thl eti c tra in er Sue Rocque r&lt;' ceived the Recognition Award as a
member of the VB co mmun it y
who has helped to forward
women's athletics.

1

NetPast: Internet History
How did the Internet origln..e7 ln what ways has ll tvolved from
a U.S. defense - baste:~ d osed system mto an enormo us. ever-expand
mg global entity? How has ats structure bee-n governed and by whom'
Some: informati o n on th ~ genesas and growth of the Net has ber-n
made: accessible: by the Intern et Soc &amp;et y v1a 1ts page of Int erne! ht~
to ry links &lt;http:/ / www.lsoc:.org / lntemet-hlstory / &gt;.
Several of the pioneers tn conccaVJng and desagrung the Internet. m
duding Barry M. Letner, Vmton (; l.erf and DaVId D. Oar!.... have u &gt;lh
t1vdy authored A Bncf HISIOf)' of !.he lntt'rnet &lt;http:/ / www.IMK .org/
lnternet-hlstory/ brief.html .., Although the dlSCmsJon leans hea:v1h
on techmca1 mformatJOn, tha~ c:o.s.av outlmes ~ me of the {!mu ndh reakml!
conceptual ideas put fonh m the late I ~ and 197Cb
Fo r a mo re conc1se p1 ct ure of th e Inte rnet's past. Hobbes Jnterm·t
TtmelinC' &lt; http:/ / www.lsoc.org / guest / z.•kon/lnternet / Hb tory/ttn.html &gt; prese nts a upsula ted chronology o ( ~y even h. Irom
1957 to 1998. Pro mtn ent at th ts sttr arC' enhgh temn g graphl&gt; and
charts plotting tht" staggcnn g growth of Int ern et hosts, netwmL,
and do mams fTom 1969 to the present.
The stte also lanks to NctHtstorv &lt;http:/ / www.geodtles.com /
SUkonV..Iey/ 2260/ &gt;. a very readable vtew of tht" lntern ~t dunng tht·
pre· World Wide Web era, when BITN ET served as lh&lt;" retgrung net
work. Browsing through thts S it e'~ archwes of early nel'work pubbca
tions and the personaJ essap by BITNI:I gurus can pruvtde a snapshot
of the years of te.xt ·only Internet, whiCh lS dtfficuJt to unagm e today
Tim Berners-Lee, one of the creators of the World Wide Web, ha.!t
contributed his history of the Web {tn quesllon · and .answer form ) 1n
The World Wide Web : Past , Present and Future &lt; http ://
www.wJ.Of9/People/ aer-n.Lee/ FAQ.html &gt;. Stmila~ly, USENF'I
HISTORY &lt;http://www.YnL.net/ usenet/ hlstCM')'/ &gt; dtscuSS&lt;S the
tremendous expansion of the hterarchtcally structured newsgrou~
Finally, an entertaining and eyt:-catdung approach to In!&lt;met lustorv
LS GregoQ' R Gromov's History of lnt&lt;met and WWW: Tht Roads and
Crossroads of Internet History &lt;http://www.lntemetvLOIIey.com/
mn..a.html&gt;. This site is wonh VlSiting, as much for tl5 unorthodox ap
proach using dazzling visuals and hypertext styl&lt; as LIS oonu:nL
For assistance in connecting to the World W1d e Web. lO ntact th e
C IT H&lt;lp Dc:sk at 64 5·3542
~bor•h

Husted Koshlnsky •nd Rick Mctt.e, Umvers1ty Llbranes

BrieBy
Commencement Committee
seeks student speaker
The Unlvenlty Commencement Committee Is sedung a stud ent
representative to address graduates at the I 53rd Umvers1ty Co m
mencement May 1.6 10 AJumm Arena. The co mpetitiOn for a stu
dent speaker is open to aJI graduatmg sem ors m th e College o f Art!.
and SCiences, mcluding speoal and 10divaduahz.ed mat'ors.
Nicolas D. Goodman. v1ce provost for undergraduate educatJon, wtll
cha1r a selection commmee compnsed of faculty, staff and studC'nt representatives. Seniors who Wish to be rons1dert:d must submtt a wntte-n
versiOn of lheir speech to Goodman. Each of three finaJtsts will present
htslher address before the comminee. The winnmg speech will be pre
sented by the student at lhe Umversity Commencement.
Speeches should be no longer than three minutes. Sd&lt;ttion will be based on
relevancy. appropriateness of content and delivery. Submit entnes by
Ma~ch 25 to the Student Speakt:r Selection t.ommitte&lt;, m care of Goodman
at 255 Capen Hall, North Campus. For mor&lt; informaticn.call64 5· 299 1

�februaryll,l!!I!I/Vul :uo 20
Ithaca College cinema/photography chair to lecture on " The Face of Madagascar"

Joss

Impressions of a 'troubled paradise' ta
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
N~Servtc.6Edctor

M
Afr~&lt;..a 's

A()At.A SLAR
IS
Jan tee I ev y's Ball

H 'at , a remote and

exotH. tsland off
southeastern coa.o; t wtth a

land~l-ape

of extraordinar y beauty

Jnd a po pulatiOn kno wn for tts
w.trrnth a nd o pcnne.s!l
'' I was cnthraUed," says the photc~r.tpht'r and wntcr of her tir5t VlSII
m I ~ 2 to what she refer.!&gt; to as a
"truuhll'd paradtsc'' She smce has
ITJ Vdcd CX1Cil SIVeiy In that ISland
n.t lltm. photographtng her ampres\lt

m., ,,( 1t.s land. culture and people.
I(_'''' wtU present a slide lectur('

,,j hn ~tunnmgphotographtc senes.
· I ht· l--ace of Madagasar," at 2 p.m
h .·h 2 \ 1n the Art J&gt;epartmcnt Gal

lt·n . B4 " l :.Cnt er for the Arts on lhe
Nor1h ( .ampu.!&gt;. rlu: talk wi ll bt· free
ol \ hJ.r~e and upc:n tu the pubhc .
I t ' V\' &lt;. ha1rs tht" Department &lt;'f
t am·ma and Photography 10 the;
Km II Park \ chool of Photogra ph' .ttlthdt.a Cullcgt• and has been
d ' ''Hang lecturer or anstru ctor Jt
lht· R01.:hcster lnst1tuteoiTechnol
\ 1~\ , tht' llnr vcr,ll v t~ Mt cht gan
\ ~ hnol o! Art ,llld tht' Unavcrstt\
o l Madag.t!lt. a r il l Antanananvo

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stories of its tribal paSL
.. Fo r the MaJagasy, prove rbs are
J form of poetry and literature,"
Levy writes. "Th rough the use of
thas sty le of metaphor, they ad d ress adeas about aU aspects oflife.
"10 choose the appropriate proverb for a particular situation is an
tndrcation of great wisdom," she ex plains . .. The ability to const ruct a
speech using proverbs is a skill that
1s much admired ~d respected.
" So 1mpor1ant is thi s skill ... she
u mllnue s, .. that when a young
mJn wishes to ask for a woman 's
ha nd in ma rr iage. he will prepare
a proverb -lade n appea l to the

woman's famil y.
" If he demon stratts wisdom
through an illustrious co mmand
of the poetic language and rich
tradition of the Malagasy proverb,
he is more likdy to win the hand
of the woman ...
He r award . winning work hall
taken her to Cuba (for a "misadven ·
ture") and to many regions of the
Una ted States. From these expen
ences, she haS produced phot o·
graphic series, documentary video

wa\ discovered rhu rsday nt o rntn~ .
Martem !laid. By t.•a rl y T hur!&lt;.dav
evemng. (: IT had replaced the fa uhv
hardware and put UB's cen tral emrul
!~ )' Stem hack mto operat ion after the
m tcgnty of th e file system wa ~
Lh(.-cked and vcnfied. But there con
tmue to he unexplamed activit ies
!rom that systt:m crash . Martem
sa1d. "The system should have giVen
a stgnaJ to operators and UN IX s~ ­
tem admuustratur~ that there was ;a

Jav, and mw mmg email was bemg
yucu(..J, some fi les created or receiVed

problem and provule a clear diagnoslhat l.'i one of the womsome asJX'ctli of tlus whole ''l"sode," he saJd
Opt"ra tton s \eemcd normal o n

a !Cmporary email systen1 up and run·
nmg. and on restoring the las! files.
On Monday morning. CIT de

that must be resurrected. and in part
bet.-.ause of the constraints of time.
"A backup (of the central email
system ) takes more than 12 hours to
occu r. and it's done in bits and pieces
so 1t doesn't all conglomerate at the
sametime," Martenssaid... When we
do a resto re--and thJ.s is the first
lime we've had to do a complete file
restore-w&lt;' have to examin e and
1dentify electronically each file. It's
very time· consurn ing because the
clock o n the wall con tinues to tick.
" Routine opera ti ons arc on a
24 -hour cycle that must be com ·
pleted at least once during th at
11me period . Otherwtse. we fall
beh tn d, and that 's the position
wr're in now," Martens said.

lin

~·t.dag.t \ \

photogr a ph !~

t'Xh1h11eJ Ill 191J 7 Ill
Huft a loor. ( l- PA ( odllt·r v. •1u om
pan1t'd tw Mala~aw prnv&lt;' r b ~ .
\•.: ha'-h . 111 th,lt l. nuntrv 's oraltra
d1t1un . weallt.' together t.olortul
\'t' rt'

production.&lt; and phy10graphid1ext.
She has exhibited widely in solo and
group exhibitions and is a highJy
regarded commercial photographer.

Some of these projects reflect
her concern for T hird World
health -care issues and she has de voted time and R:rvict" to hands ·
on primary health -care projects 111
the developing world, notably in
Madagascar and in Mexico for
Project Concern , where she taught
labora t o r y analysis to prtmary
heaJ th -care promoters working tn
Gua tema1an refugee camps.
As a photographer, she ha s
worked as a instructor and program
consuJtant for the American CuJturt
Center in Antananarivo. Madagas·
ca r; the Kellogg Foundation. and
()peration C rossroads Africa.

email
Continued from

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lic.

l·nd.n·. ·· .~nd (onttnued to be sul.'h
un11l prohahly noun on Saturday.
Wt· were actually quite sa ti sfic.-d
tll.lt th&lt;.· prohlt:m was t r;acca ble to
.1 hardware failure," Martens sa id.
~ mn· opera tions seemed stable,
1m ~t u rday &lt; decided to proceed
\~l t h a pn•vrously planned hardware
up~radc . The system was backed up.
1he n powered t.lown. Everyt hin g
,lppt.~arcJ normal, Martens said, and
CIT procccd&lt;.·d With the upgrade ,
whKh 1nvolved msert ing a power
.1rray J.nd a sohd· statc d 1sk array.
Because then.· already we rt" con ·
ccrn s about the capacity of the
.._cntraJiJed system . whiCh sto red
mort.· than 8 n11llwn files . the
.. mgle file syst&lt;.•m was dJv tded mt o
smaJie r volumes hold in g approxl mal&lt;ly 700.000 10 800.000 files.
Based on al!Stgn; Friday and Samrday. everything appeared normal 10

:1T

CIT smlf. But when lh&lt; S)'ICm was re·
stlrted, it lumcd OUI!hat a0 lh&lt; 6Jcs on
!he system wo-. destroy&lt;d, Manms
said. While a backup exists of 6Jcs !hal
were created before noon on Satur·

i&gt;etween noon and midnight on Sat·
urday may be u~lc.headded.
''We don't know at this point what

al.'tuall y happening. Needless to
say, th1s IS of great concern to us,"
Martens said Monday afternoon.
err. Ill consultation With Venta.-..,
h,u. heen working to find out what
1S

caused theS)"SICmtocrash. Efforts early
tllis ~haw been lix:uscd on getting

c1ded to split the university's central
email activi ties into two parts
The first, which wc;-nt into effect
Tuesday, aJJows users to read and re·
spond to mail , but does no t allow
them to store th e mail into folders.
nor to access previously stored ma terials. At thr same time. CIT is mak
mg a copy of aU incoming mail and
saving it. ThlS way...at least people
can read their mail and respond to
11, but you can't store it," Martens 5ald
CIT also IS working to rebuild
users' sto red files. whiCh il&gt; ex p&lt;.·ctcd to take some time By th e
t1mc the restoration IS complete,
Marten s sa1d , C IT staff hopefullv
will have a definitive answer from
the software vendor on wh a t
( a used the system failure .

All mail !hat users cannot file will
be redclivt:rcd nexl week. "Unfonu
natcly, poople will be seein;; a repeat of
mail, but ~ feel this is an effective
way to provlde mail service. ActuaJ
SIOrag&lt; and sorting will hav&lt; to wall
until next week,.. Martens said

Then: was aboolutcly nowayiO fore·

see this crisis, Martrns emphasized.
US is "one of the very few sites in the
world using !his software and pushmg this many pieces of mail and
supporting this many files," he said.
The university nreds to better
educa te the UB co mmunit y about
the adva ntages and disadvantages
of (.'entra l mail serv1ce versm dis·
t nbuted scrvu,: es. Marte~ s said.
"V..'e need to educate ourseivt"S
J.hout the pros and cons of our longtt&gt;rm strategy. and we need to acccl eratt' our development efforts toward beco min g a more 'b ull e t·
rroof emai1 system ," he said But,
he conceded, a fail -proof ce ntral
email system may be as likely to find
as Utopia. "You can't co mplrtcly
protect you""lf, but you can !akt
steps toward becoming more 'buJ Ietproof," Martens said

The d&lt;iay in «Storing saved files

The problem is salability, he

is in part a result of thr quantities

said ... The prople who work in the

l.Omputing indust ry run 11110 th1s
fro m lime to lime, that you have a
hardware/softwa re configuration
that 's working fine as long as you
don't exceed a certain point.. .it's a
constraint in th e systrm, a bug ,
that you have to identify and fu."
That's difficult to do with a maiJ
system that is constan tl y being
challenged by demands for greater
and faster service. Martens said.
And even o nce the so urce oft he
problem is known and has been
co rrected, the stab ili ty of thr sys
tern will not be certain right away
"We will know it 's stable after two
to four days with no 'hiccups.' Mar
tens said. "'We have to subject the
system to the real World, the pecu
liarities of how traffi c comes in."At
any one time, 1.200 to 1.400 people
art' working on the system. That
kind of load cannot be simulated."

Manens said he hopes !hat clividing
the file server will help 10 eliminat&lt; fu.
rure problems. In addition. UB mar
need to CS!ablish a la!j;er ~ be
IW&lt;'Cfl operation ieYels and potenoal

11&lt;00. insrallinghighcr-~semnand
disks !hat ""uld double the capaat)'.
~ and perforrnanc&lt; of UB's com
puting environment in order to create
a safe and comfonable ~of use.
"We suspect that th is happened
(Saturday ), either during the shut
down or during the restart after
the hardware upgrade. that the-se
files got corrupted. Everything was
working up to the point wr shut
the system down." Ma rtens said.
And he said he is absolutely con·
fident that thr source of the crash
will be found and, m o rr impor·

lanlly. fixed.

�february 11. l!!l!I/Vul. 30.•o.ZO Repa.-ter

Hearing studies
CCJOttlnuedfn&gt;m-1

grant, and look forward to its contmued success as a worldwide
leader in its fie ld ."

~aSKBt~all

Hearing Loss

MEN ' S

Provost David J.Trigg!&lt; noted that
.. program project grants provide
funding loa group of investigators
at an institution with the opportunity to r=arch several related directions sim ul taneously. The process encourages multidisciplinary
efforts,oft&lt;n a very productive pathwayin cutting-edge areas of sciena:.
"Hearing researt:h;TriggJeadded,
"is such a process demanding intercLsciplinary research and is of in-

Eastern Michigan 54 , UB S I
Kent State 7l , UB S I
The men 's buketba.ll team dropped
Mid-Amerian Conference games to
E:utem Mk:hipn. s-4· SI.on Feb 3.
and 1&lt;2nt Sate, 73-S I , on Feb 6
both In Alumnt Arena..
Alexei Vasihev wu dle onty Bull
to reach double figures ap1nst
EMU wrdl 10 pomu, wh1le Ry.;tn
Peterson recorded seven pornu .
five rebounds and fiW: ass1su rn [he

pme
The Bulls controlled much of
the first tu.lf and pbyed outsa.ndrng
defense. holding the Eagles to JUst 29
percent ( 18-for-62) shootlng frnm
the field, but lost the ba.tde of dle
boards, 46-H. EMU pulled down 23
offensive reboundl.. compared to

creasing significance. given the multiple impact on human hearing loss
ranging from age, env iron mentaJ
noi~ 3?d ototoxic agents."
T he Cen ter for Hea r ing and
Ocafness wa s es t ab l is h ed i n
1987 by Do na ld He n derson,
pro fes so r of comm u nicative
dtso rders a nd sciences and oto -

~

action as he got
the o nly fall of the day at
Ilea~ against Eastern
Michigan on Feb. land had
two wins on Saturday, one
by pin in 24 seconds.

Alpda Cl'o•k hel ped the

women!s indoor track .quad
place tim at the Class of ' 32
Invitational as she placed
first in both the triple jump
(11.12 meti!IS) and the pole
vault (2.90 meti!IS).

UB's &lt;&gt;gt&gt;c
UB;ieadr«""""'~"'-K.en&lt;

Soato Goldm Aa5hes was Maliso lbom.
who had a areer-~ I3 pcllllG.
~ II 11 dle first half l.ouc$ Carnpbe4l had ;, orner-hlgtl

brain to Inner ear can mutt In
hearing loss nearing 90 pen::enL

la ryngol ogy, and Sa lvi , both of
whom c ame to UB t h at yea r
from t he Un iversi t y of Texas in
Dallas. They were joined in t he
m1d -'9 0s by researchers Robert
F. Bu r kard, associa te professo r
of co mmuni ca t ive disorders and
~ne n ces and oto laryngology.
a nd Sandra L. M c Fadd e n . n.·
!lca rc h aSSIStant professor of
~.._o mmunr ca tr ve dt sorden and
' lt'IH.t'!l and psyc hol ogy.
The team in recent years ha' pro
~o..ed . 1 Oody o f groundbrcakmg ha
.., , researc h into tht&gt; ca u!l es dnd
rn
nisms of acqUlrcd hearing \( I!!...,.
Me 1b('rs have active colla bo ra
uon s With tht" Univers it y of Rn("h
f'&lt;; ter, Albert Ein s te in Coll ege o!
MediCine. SUNY Hea lt h Sot'n .. l''
Lc ntt'r 111 Brooklyn, South ern II
hno1s Umvers l1 y. tht.· Roben "Ltll
Re~ ea n.: h Labs at the Na tional In
stlluh.' for Occupat1onaJ Safet)' and
Health , and the U.S. Navy. in 1994 .
the Ce nt er for Hea ring and Dea l
ness was designa ted a C:entn ol
J·. xcc ll cnce by U B.
In recen t yea rs, the t.:ent('r \ rc !&gt;earch has focused on four overlapping themes tha t form the basis for
the current p rogram project grant.
The proj ec ts ta rge t m o lec ular
a nd cell ul a r mecha ni s m s of hearIng loss, effects of ototox.i c agents
a nd noise on coch lear function,
functional alterations of th e ce n
t ra l audi tory b rain regions after
partia l o r temporary hearing los~
.~nd the ro le of t h e ears' 1nner
hair ce lls in the bram 's pru(e!&gt;S
•ng o f au d itory stimuh .
"To unde rstand wh y a pa t ient
experiences d iffi cu lty in pro n.·s~
mg co mplex sou nd s, we need fir:-.t
to understand how t he aud iton•
system processes acoustic infor
ma t inn a lo n g the entire auditory
pathway," sa id Salvi.
" Damage that originates at tht·
pl·r iph er y, or in ner ear, can cas
cadc t h rough the system, disturb m g act ivity t hro ugh o ut th e entire
a uditory pa thway, even s p ill ing
over to ot h er sensory. moto r, cog
ni t ivc and emotion cen ters . Thno.
fun c t io n al reo rga ni za ti on. or
p lasti city. is poo rl y und ers tood
because of a lack of a n in tegr a tive research app roac h to ac quired hearing los5. O u r project
provides '!'Ych an approach ."
Each of t h e four areas of study
funded b y th e g rant addresses a
major p rob lem, w h ile relat1ng

~~::had~tl
:tree
wins during last week's

SIX as.stm

for the Buh

WOMEN"S

and interacting w ith the othe rs.
As in their past st u d ies, t h e researche rs will use chi n chiHas as
an anima l model beca use their
heanng rang e •s s im il a r t o a
huma n 's.
The pro Jec ts are:

UB 87 , Miam i (OH ) 8 1

The Role of the Ean ' Inner
H•lr Cells In Hearing and
Hearing Disorders

Headed by Sa lvi, 11 w1ll fo&lt;.u~ on
the fun\.·ti on and behav1 or of the
ca ro;' 1nner hatr ce ll.!&gt; at the lt&gt;vl·l of
:» Ingle aud1t oq• nerv(' fiber!&gt; .

~wimmin~

Re5ponses of the Central Au ditory System to Peripheral
Damage
Th 1 ~

projel·t, headed lw Hur~.uJ ,
wdlt q· todl·ter!lllll t' h(n'' tlw 1.,_('1l
tral aud ll orv ,.,..., tcm rc~pond'
wh en :»Onll' ur .111 ol 11 ~ auJtton
ncrv\.' mput !:» cll h&lt;·r pcrm.llll..'"rHh
or temporari lv climino.~tt·d
The Role of Antioxidants In
Nolse· lnduced Hearing Loss

In th1 s proj elt . H endl~r\on wdl
h is exploratHlll uf thl' rl'
lat 1o nship between concc ntrat10 m
11f prot ective antioxJdanlt'll7\" llH~,
and tht.· degree of ntmt• m dru~
1nduced hearing loss. l"h r .wn 111
the !itud v will he findm~ W, l \'' to
prote~.._· t th e mncr car lrnm d;Jm
age .
~o ntinu e

'To understand why

a patient experiences
difficulty In processing
complex

....m.- need

flnt to understand how

the auditory system

processes acoustic
lnt........tton along the

-

-..y pathway.'"

RICHARD

~LVI

Efferent Influences on Susceptibility to Cochlear D•mage

Th1!&gt; project, headed by Mt:Fadden ,
also will explorr ways to proh.Yt thl'
car trom "noase- and d rug- mduced
damagr . lt wi ll seek to understand
how specialized nt.'rvt· fiher~ from
th e brain innuenn; thr dcgrct~ ol
cochlea r d amage frnm 110 1 ~c .md
ototOXJC drug.!&gt;.

UB 7l , Oh io 71

The women'1 basketball team had ;, perlect week ~tnst Mld-Amenon
Conference opponenu as It extended tu home-&lt;ourt wrnnmg 'itre.»: to I 2
gvnes wtth a duilltng 87-8 I overtime vrctory over Mramr on Feb l, and a defeat
of host Otuo, 7). 71 , on Feb b
The Bulls rode a oreer prne from sophomore Tiffany Bell. who poured .n a
career-high 37 pomu and pulled down I 8 rebounds ~lnSt dle Mramr Red
H&gt;wlu
Krm Coon 01dded l S po1nts for the Bulh and Man McClure had an aU
around game wtdl 12 po1nu, stx rebounds and s1x ustsu
McClure led Coach Cheryl Do ver ·~ ~quad to a narrow vrcwry over the
Ohio Bobcats WJth 21 JX&gt;InU and s1:- rebounds Other Bulls sconng rn double
figures were Bell ( 16 pu , 7 rebounds). Megan McCray 111 pu . 9 rebounds) and
Cachenne jacob (I 0 pu S .ustsU)

MEN' S
N o t re D ame 124, UB 99
Euty evidence shows th•t

tre•tlng sen50ry cells with
certain drugs c:an prevent c:e ll
d•mage and preserve he•rlng .

In .ad J1t1 on Ill thc11 h..l!&gt;ll ~~ 1
t·ntllil nlt'rlt.the fuur prott'd ' HI
!lw program ha ve amplt ... J i hllh
lor prcvcntmg .md trt·atln~ ht·.1r
tng lnso; 111 humam . !\a lv1 'rud the
tir,t lwn proJeCts wcrr mt Jtlva tnl
]!, . 1 grOwlllg awa r c nt''&gt;~ th.tt tht•
l'.tr:»' lflnt•r han ~..elli&lt;h~ lll;J\ un
dnht• manv of the perlt'ptu .d
dllf1l ult1c ~ cxpl'rll'lhl"J h'
pt'Opk with S('ll!&gt;M IIh"Uf..IJ h(',lr
•ng lo.!o:» J.nd hy ~.._on\.crn ovn tht·
bH. k of chm cal method~ fur ,1,
'l'Ss mg loss of th t' l"ar.,· 111na h o.~n
u• lh .
The thtrd an d luurth proJl'l.._h
were motivated bv th e scnM' that
!&gt; USCeptibilit y to hcarmg los:. ln•m
o totoxiC drugs a nd no l ~l' mav van
tremendously a m o ng md•v•du,,J, .
that identify ing factor\ t!ldt wn
trihutc tn suscep tibilit y llld\ ht·
crucial to prt&gt;vl·ntmg or trl·atln~
.tcqui red hea nng l o~:» and th.11 ;J
poss ib ility exish that pharma u1
logiC mt erventi o n may redule tht·
ht~a nng loss produu•d hy exp&lt;h urt·
to lt015e o r o totOXIC drugs.
Additio nal U B rc~t' a r c her ~ 111
vo lvcd 1n the prOJt'CI an· Da h an
I &gt;mg. a neuroanat om tst Jnd rt'
sea rc h s upport s pe Ci a li s t , and
X1ang Yang Zhen g. an au d1t orv
phys10 log•st anJ rt·~carch ass•~
tant professo r, hoth 111 tht• !lt•
pa r tment of Lo mmulll l3trve
D1 so rd r r :. and S\. l t'nu·~ . Th t&gt;
~rant abo prov1do fln,Hhldl
!&gt; upp() rt and r t.·~earc h tr .unmg lor
graduate ..1nd undergro.~duatl' :-.tu
dents .

Cl eve la nd Stat e 138, UB 97

The men 's swtmmrng team moved to ~. J on the season after Josrng tts last
home me~t to vtstong N otre Dame I H -99 Of1 Fnd::ay and fa.llrng to host
Cleveland Sene, I 38-97 on Saturd;,y
ln t:he te&lt;~.m"s lone home lou th1~ se&lt;~.son ., unror Enc Sttmr.on led the Bulls
ag;unst the Frgtmng lnsh wrth wmr. m the 200 rndtvtdual medley 1 I S7 7 3) and
the 200 backstroke 1 f S2 68) He als.o w.u a member of the vrctonou' 1()()..
medley relay squad (3 28 30) .along wtth Carl Carlson. Josh Pl.Jn and john Nrller.
Juntor Dan Htckey had rwo wrn ~ for Coach Budd Termrn ·~ team ( I00 lreestyle-46 98, 200 freestyle- I 10 97)
N1lles had twO wm~ agarn~t CSU w1th first-place frmshes •n the SO (21 )0)
.1nd I00 {16 59) freescytes
WOMEN ' S

UB ISS , Cl eve la nd State 81
The womens sw1mmmg team defeated host Cleveland Sotc 15~-81 on
5.aturday
Inger Rooneem led Co&lt;~.ch Dors1 Raynolds \quad wrth frr&lt;&gt;t-place vrnone1
m the SO fret!style (2 -4 16) and the I00 freestyle (52 6 t) She &lt;~.lso w;u a. member
of the wmnmg 'IOO·medley relay team )1·03 121 along wtth Krmberty Theetge
Came Qurnlan and l.Jeselte Tnnrd&lt;~.d
Mtchelle Bncknell captured top honorr. m the 200 1ndtv1du01l ""'edle~
!2 1716) and the 100 backstroke (I 02 S I 1

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UB lS , East e rn Mich igan University 3
UB 27 , Seto n H a ll 12
UB 22, Buck nell 18
The wresdrng team dommued E.astern Mrchrpn Untversrty rn a Feb 2 meet
m Alumnr Arena . and then wem on to defeat both Seton Halt 27 -I 2 and
Bucknell. 22-1 8 . on Sa tu rday The Bull~ now have wo n seven str31ght
matches
UB got off to ;, gre&lt;~.t stan ag&lt;~.mst EMU a1 Gary Cooper wrenled the
first match of the day at 165 pounds . ukrng a techmcal fall John
Eschenfelder got the only fall of the day at heavywerght, u he pmned EMU s
Pat Herr ima n at the I S7 mark, The Bulls " Btl! J&lt;~.coutot wres.tled wrth an
•n1ured 01nk,le . but fought through the p;~m and got a late ukedown for a 7 ~
wrn at 1-4 1 pounds
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seconds Bnan Schul ~so h.ad two wms over the weekend. one by techmcal b.ll

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first at dle Cl:us of "32 lnvruuonal ho ned by Colgate Unrverstt)' on
Saturday
for the men's team, Kamau Halrm capwred both the long tb -4 1 meter-.. I and
tnple jumps ( 11 16 meters). whtle R.uhrdt Greene set a new Khool re&lt;:ord rn
the we1ght throw wfttr a I S 91 -meter toss.
Ruth Conlon also set a new record for the wetght throw ( 16 55 meten)
whrle Meltsu Ryan broke the school ~ord rn the 55-meter htgh hurdles (8 2-4 )
Atyc~ Croak placed first rn both the tnple 1ump ( ll 12 met en) and the pole
vault (2 90 meters)

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february 4.l!RI/ti30. Nn 19

Serenade
at Slee
Sinfonietta perform during
a concert last week in Slee
Hall. This professional chamber
orchestra is made up of UB
faculty and students, members
of the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra and other
professional musicians
from Western New York.

Budget 'gaps' to have $6 million impact on.UB
Pataki proposal fails to provide funds for contractual salary increases, inflation costs
HE executive budget
proposa l released by
Gov. George PataJci last

week· fails to provide
money for SUNY contractual salary increases and inflation costs, a
move that would have a $6 million
impact on UB, administrators say.
The budget, which Senior Vice
President Robert ). Wagner de scribed as "not surprising," also
contains a broad variety of"adjust·
ments" in the Tuition Assistance
Program (TAP) that would cut aid
to eligible New York State students
attending colleges and universities
in the state by $1 14 million. The
cut would affect approximately
5,000 students at UB to the tune of
more than $2.5 million, Wagner estimated.
The TAP program provides fi nancial aid to not only SUNY and
CUNY students, but also to students attending priva te in stitutions in New York State.
The governor has proposed a to-

tal operating budget for SUNY of
$ 1,589.3 million, an increase of
only $1.6 million over the 1998-99

appropriation ofSli587.7 milli on.
The proposal would maintain
tuition at its current level.
The SUNY Board of Trustees
had requested an operating bud get of $ 1,631.7 million, a figure
that Wagner said included inoney
to cover negotiated salary in -

creases (S32.2 million ) and infla ·
tionary costs ($ 11.8 million ).
The amo unt of state aJlocation
co ming from university income
so urces--mostl y tuition-would
remain at the 1998-99 figure of
$768.1 million in the Pataki plan .
The budget reduces by $56 mil lion-from $280 million to $224

million-the funding in the second
year of the five -year capital budget
plan.
(See relotecl story, Poge 3)
Wagner said that despite the cut ,
the capital plan was "still reason able," although th e goal last year
had been to develop a five -yea r
plan "with consistency."The Pataki
plan .. begins to alter that," whi ch
he caJJed a "ca use for concern."
T he governor 's proposal allo ca tes $501.1 million for TAP, a fig ure that reflects a number of"ad justments" that are designed

mainly, according to th e proposal.
"to encou rage students to progress
toward timely co mpleti o n of a n
undergraduate degree ."
Among the adjustments th ar
Wagner said would have the most
impact on UB students are:

• Establishingan"expectedstudent
participation" (ESP) equal to 25 percen t of tuition while providing a
TAP award of75 percent of tuition.
Students would be expected to meet

the cost of the ESP through federal
grants, campu s- based aid, work
study o r student loans. Students
now receive a TAP award of 90 percent of tuition and must fund the
remaining 10 pc:rcent through the
other revenue sources.
• Redefining full -Lime study as 15
credits vs. the current 12 credits for
receipt of TAP. Students enrolling
in and earning IS credit hours per
semester would receive full TAP
awards. Students enrolling in IS
credits but earning Jess than 15
credits would receive 80 percen t of
a fuU -time award.
• Conforming famiJy -mcome eli gibility used for determining TAP
awards fro m the cu rrenl state net
taxable income to th e more widely

used federal adjusted gross income.
Over the next ~raJ months. UB
will need to look at its ongoing costs
and determine how to manage them
for J 999-2000, based on the fact rht·
budget doesn't increase fundmg.
Wagner said.
He pointed out tha't the budget
process is just beginning with the
release of the governor 's plan.
In the past, the legislature " ha ~
been supportive of moves to restart'
programs for which we have ongoing obligations,~ of student access.,

including TAP suppon," he said.
So what 's the next step?
last week's release of the execut1ve

budget is just the beginning of what
most likely will become a "massive
battle" for restoration of funding,
according to )and. Prnk.sa, associate
•vice president for university services
responsible for US's state-relations
programs and initiatives
SUNY was not alone in taking a
hit in this year's executive budget.
Penksa noted at the )an. 28 Pro·
fessional Staff Senate meeting .
Hosp itals also were hard hit, which
will affect both medical students
and patients. The proposed bud Continued -

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Alcohol abuse study looks at effects on kids
By MAllY BnH SPINA
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Services Editor

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SEARCHERS in the
School of Social Work
have received a four -

year, $1.4 million fed eral grant to study maternal influ ences and behaviors on children
when the mothers abuse alcohol.

The research , funded by the Na tionallnstitute on Akoholism and
Alcohol Abuse, will examine the
factors tied to their mother's abuse
of aJcohol and drugs that put s
these children at risk of becoming
alcohol abusers.

Most research on children of al coholics has focused on the effects
of fathers ' substance abuse.
Brenda Miller, professor of social

with both practice and policy.

"The study is particularly excitmg
because it includes both mothers and

their children. and
is among the first

work and director of the School of
Social Work's Center for Research on
Urban Social Work Practice, is principal investigator on the study. Nancy
Smyth, associate professor and associate dean in the School of Social
Work, is co-principa1 investigator.

their youngsters
nowandinthefu ture... Miller said.

The study is among the first to
be conducted under the auspices
of the center, which was created by
Dean Lawrence Shulman to integrate the school's research findings

maternal behaviors may be espe cially important in protecti ng chiJdren from the ris~ of exposure to
fami ly violence.

to focus on how
the
mother ~ '

prQblems affect

She added that

Researchers will mteTVlew ;so
mothers and one of their children
lx.'tWeen the ages of I 0 and 16. In
terv1ews wiU take place m the re sea rch center's Harriman Famil v
Center, located in Harriman Hall on

the South Campus.
Mothers with alco hol problt·m.\
to be interviewed will be selelte-d
by local alco ho!J sm treatment
age ncies. Other study participants
-who may have alcohol problem ~
and/or be victims of domestic vm
lence -will be identified by com
munity orgamzations and tw otht:r
agencies .

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Toby Shapiro, Parent Program coordinator in the Office of Student Activities, helps parents and students who have questions relating to building and maintaining a successful experience at UB.

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tions co ncern academics. I hear
from a number of parents because
a student is having a problem in a
particular class, the student
doesn't know what to do about it
and the parent is uncertain as to
the best advice to offer. Unfortunately, in many instances, the student didn 't tell his/her parents
about the problem until he/she
was in a crisis situation. In most
cases, it also turns out that the student hasn't utilized the many academic services that are available
right on campus. The university
has a broad network of studentsupport services that arc designed
to help students succeed.
Wlult's the most nM:moraltle
q-lon/~ you•..., received from • pwent7

about her classes than engaging in
productive studying. Her sdf-confidmcc was very low, she was convinced she would never su=&lt;d at
UB and she thought the best solution was to withdraw from school
She also was complctdy ·und&lt;cided
about a major, which further fueled
her frustration. I suggested a number of university rcooura:s to her, indueling her professors, her academic
advisor, the Learning Center (where
she reai&gt;ed free tutoring), Career
Planning and Placanent. and "Food
for Thought" workshops offmd br
theCounsding Center on issues sud!
as time and stnss management. and
study skiDs. I also set up r&lt;gtllarn=tings with her. As her first S&lt;mestel'
unfolded, we gradually watched her
study slalls and her grades imi""""At the end of her scrond year, she
made the Dcan'sl.ist. We also focused
on her career options and where she
could obtain the .information she
needed to help her choose a major.
To make a long story short. with help

My most memorable phone call was
the week before Family Weekend in
1994. The lilther of a 6rst-year stu- and~~shebecamcana­
dent called to tell me that he was cellent student She graduated last
corning to Family Weekend, but that May with a major in emri.se science;
he didn't think he'd be staying be- she is currently wodcing in her field
cause be thought he'd be talcing his and is a very happy, sdf-oonfident
I
daughter home instead. Tlie .lilthcr young woman.
told me that his daughter was doing """ the types of _.uons
IIOk dNon9ed IInce you
poorly in all of her classes, had failed
two exams and was convinced that st.rted wortdng 1ft the Office
of
Student ActMtles7
UB was too diJ!icult f&lt;X her. He asked
me if I would call and speak with her. I don't think I've seen any signifiTalking with students is one of the cant changes in the types of queshighlights of my job; it's something tions I've received since I began my
that I thoroughly enjoy and that I do current position in September
frequently, but I always ask the par· 1991. As I said earlier, most of the
ent in advance how the student will questions ~lve around academic
react to my phone call In most cases, issues. When students leave the
I prefer that the parent alert the stu· teaching environment of high
dent to the fact that I'll be calling. II a school, it often takes awhile for
student resents his/her parent's inter- them to adapt to the learning mifc;rence and, therefore, my involve- lieu of college, to become aware of
men~ my ability to be effective is setheir own learning styles, to adapt
verely hampered. In this case, how- to different professors' teaching
ever, the lilther told me that he knew styles and to make the appropriate
his daughter would be very grateful adjustments. Many students share
if I called her.;The Iii!her was comet; their insecurities and uneasiness
his daughter was delighted that I with their parents, while they tell
called and we set up what would be their friends about the positivi asthe 6rst of many meetings during the pec!S of collegiate life. Mom and
student's yean at UB. In talking with dad don't always hear about the
the student. she seemed to be dcvot· challenging class discussion, the
ing enough time to studying, but the student group that is planning an
study methodologies that had been exciting program or the new friend
successful for her in high school
If you could g i f t - piece of
didn't appear to be working in col- edvlca to . . . , . . t s - their
lege. She also seemed to be spending .._hter or 10ft lltMtl M .llll,
more time worrying and panicking wh.twoulclltbe7

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I act ually have two pieces of advice for parents that cover two
very different topics: Always keep
the lines of communication open
between you and your son or
daughter. Let your stud.ent know
that it's okay to share his/her successes and his/her disappointments with you and that you will
be supportive and understanding,
regardless of the situation. The
Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal rcgu·
lation written in 1974 and
amended in 1975, stipulates that
only students have access to tbrir
university records.In accordance
with FERPA, parents are not notified of students' grades. An open
relationshit&gt;between parents and
students is, therefore, very important. It's so sad to see students
who are in a aisis situation whose
parents had no idea that there was
a problem because, for whatever
reason , the student never told
them. My other piece of advice
concerns credit cards. I have received several phone calls from
parents concerning a student who
obtained a credit card without the
parent 's knowledge. It's -very
frightening to see how easy it is
for full-time students, the vast
majority of whom have little or
no income, to obtain credit in
their own names. My advice for
parents is to discuss the issue of a
student having a credit card before the student staru school and
periodically thereafter.

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Wh.t

I consider my position to be
one of advocacy for parents
and students. I truly .enjoy
hdping parents and students,
allaying their c:x&gt;narDS, answering their questions and doing
whatever t can to ensure that
students will have a successful
experience at the university.

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One question yna did not aslr. is
what support sOrvi= the &lt;&gt;flia
of Student Activities offers to the
parents of UB undergraduates.
Weviewthe relationsbipwithstudents, parents and the university
as a portnenhip. As portnert, we
s&lt;ek 10 create a pooiliYe alliance
that provides students with the
oplimal support 5JIS!ml to help
them adapt to and SU&lt;aed at the
university. This partnenbip begins with the Family Orientation
Program, which paralldsthe Student Orientation Program for
both freshmen and transf.r students. Our partnership continues
each year in October with Family
Weekend and culminates with
graduation. 'IWicea year-in Sep-

tember and~~

I think one of the biggest hurdles
that first-year students face is developing the time-management
skills that they need to meet the disparate demands of college life.
While each student needs to find
the proper balance between curricular and extracurricular endeavors, it is important for students to
become involved in activities outside the dassroom. In order to do
this and to also maintain good
grades, students need to de.elop ef.
fective time-management slcills.
One of the most important items
that every student needs is an academic planner to r=rd commitments, assignments, exams, etc. and
to develop a productive study
schedule.

a 'parent ~.The~
which is sent to.!he parents of all
undergraduates. To assist parents
in helping their students find solutionstoprnblemstheymayencounter, we also open~ a Parent
Advisory Guideline. The guide- .
line, which is aa:esoible either by
e-mail at &lt;ubplrcnt@acsu.
bldJalo.edu&gt; or by telephone at
645-6125, offen parents information, options and re:fcrrals..
The purpose of the Parent Advisory Guideline is not to directly solve a student's problem,
but rather 10 provide the parent
and student with the name, telephone number and location of
a prof&lt;S$ional in the appropriate univenity department who
can offer the best guidance for
a particular situation. We encourage students and parents to
remain in dose contact with one
another so that the parent is
comfortable that the student is
seeking an dfeaive resolution to
the problem.

funding restored, she said.
Once base funding and TAP arc
secured, she and others will be
working to ensure funding for
projects more specific to UB.
"We're going to have to be
agg.ressive...and have. a strong advocacy program; she said.
Those advocacy efforts will involve both the SUNY system and
individual campuses.
The SUNY system will call campuses together to lobby jointly the
Slate legislature. In addition, UB
will talk to each legislator from the

area, as well as legislative leaders,
in an effort to get funding ;..,~red.
..We will )eave no stone
untumed." Penksa said.
UB's lobbying efforu also will
need to expand beynod the lnlditiotlal bigher~ucation boundaries.
OCWe need to reach out to the
business and medical communities for advocacy, too," she said.
Anddoo' expect to see a final budget passed before tl, April I deadline, despite legislation that withholds
legislators' pa)'dled&lt;s when the budget is late, Penksa added

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cBudget
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get also decreases funding for K·
12 education.
"And all this occurred, despit&lt; a
$2 billion surplus." she said.
5o, with a surplus on one hand
and a budget that recomm ends
"pretty big reductions" throughout
the state, Penksa said she expects this
year's budget negotiations to be "a
lengthy, contentious budget dance.•
Penksa, who joined UB in December, spent 14 years working
with the New York State Assembly,
most recently as secretary to the
Ways and Means Committee. She

was chief advisor and lead nego-

tiator for assembly lu.dersh.ip on
all fiscal and economic matters, as
well as responsible for final preparation of the state budget.
It now is up to the legislature to
act on the 'budget, she said. The
governor also has 30 days to
amend the executive budget Af.
tcr that, the budget goes to the
legislature's fiscal committees.
"Our strategy is going to be, firS!,
get together with other univenities
and talk about maintaining the
base." as well as working to get TAP

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Student Development Center
A new name for office devoted to multiculturalism, diversity
By SUE WIIITCHU
Reporter Editor

T

HE Office of Student
Multicultural Affai rs
has changed its nam.,_
and broadened its scope
-in an effort to serve a larger segment of th e student population.
But Nelson Townsend, associate
vi"ce president for student affairs
who is heading th e new o ffice,
st resses that although the office is
now known as the Student Development Center, it will continue to
pro m o te diversity o n campus.

"'ne ri the rnojcl" i!oues (ri the new
cmta")isdM:rsityandmulticulturalis"
Townsend SO)'. "The shift w.&gt;&lt; not made
to de-emphasize any particular program, but to strengthen all programs
(under the auspices of the center).
Multiculturalism implies that all~
are~ and should beinduded."
The Student Development Center
incorporates the programs that made
up Multicultural~
Student Support Services and the
Ronald E. McNair Post-Ba=laureatc Achievement Prngram--6S wdl
as the Student Leadenhip DcYelopment Center, formerly part of the
Offi ce of Student Life. Breaking
multicultural affairs out as a distinctive fourth unit of the new center
.. places additional importance on
multicultural affairs,"' consistent
with President Viilliam R Greiner's

efforts in establishing task forces on
women and gender, and racial and
ethnic di=sity, Townsend says.
Student Support Services is a com·
prehen sive, aca demic suppo rt
program that ...
si.n.s lo w-incom e

leadership conference IS des1gned
to encourage freshmen a nd
soph o m o res who are not yet m
valved in campus actiVIt If'S and/or
campus leadership pos1t1on s to get
involved and eve ntua ll y become:
'" leaders,"both on and off campus

and first -genera·

to develop a stronger scrv1ce compo~
nent within the center and ts work
ing to organize a community tutoria1 program through the Student

tion students, par·
ticularly those enrolled in the Edu·
cational Opportu·
nity Program, who are in need of
support services to succ.essfully pur·

-

sue their college education. The

McNair program is an extensive, aca·
dernic-year and summer res&lt;arch in·
ternship program designed to de·
velop students' a.ruUytical and re·
search skills, and assist ~ prepare
them to enroU in graduate school.
Wrth Studmt Support Serviczs and
the McNair program designed to serve
the .-!sriundm-eplaentod minorities, the Studentl..r:odmltip DeYelopment Centa" is key to broadening the
reach of the office, Townsend notes.
Leadenhip qualities and good com·
municationskillsare"essential" to all
students, no matter wi1;u their bod&lt;·
ground, he says, adding that "all of
our programs are g&lt;ared tow.ud deV&lt;Iopment of the totaUtudmt."
The new center wilJ spo nsor its

Townsend says he also would lik.'

Leadership Development Center.
Townsend, who served as d irector
of athletics for UB for I I years until
suffering a heart attack in April, notes
that his new positio n as head of the
Student Development Cente r has

brought his career "full circle."
..\\/hen this o pportu nity came ... it
became a chance for me to do what I
chose as my first love to do," he says,
pointing out that although he miSSes
athletics, he began his career as a
teacher and counselor and enjoys di·
rect interactio n with students.

first event, the Emerging Leaders

He emphasizes the importance of
making the \&gt;Uri&lt; of the former office
of multicultural affairs "accessible to
the mainstream" of UB students. "We
can't beaD"" potentially can be if""'"'
isolated, if we're dealing only with a
small segment of students," he say&gt;"We needto b&lt;alme more visible, be·
come more iJ1voM,d with the broader
needsmthestudent popylation. Then

Forum, on Feb. 20. The day-long

everybody's fortune rises."

PSS _u pdated on capital budget
By

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News

SeMc~

VIDAl.

Editor

W

HILE news c on -

erning the operating

ide of Gov. George
ataki's 1999-2000

exec utive budget is a source of
consternation for UB, the capital

budget remains o bright spot, Se·
nior Vi c e President Robert ].

Wagner told the Professional Staff
Senate at its Jan. 28 meeting.
( See rel• ted ltM)I, P"9e 1)
Wagner noted that the capilal bud·
get is drawn up through a "different
process," one that was tremendously
improved in 1998 with the imple·
mentalion of a IM:-year budget that

says they're pulling into the Un i·
versity at Buffalo, rather than on e

that says, 'don't park on this road.'"
Another capilal project about to
begin, Wagner said, is the expansion
ofUB Stadiwn, which is necessary to
comply with the requirements of
NCAA Division 1-A play and the MidAmerican Conf= That apan·
sion, which he called "modest...from
the persp&lt;etive ofconstruction," is ex·
pected to be completed in time for the
first borne football game this fall
The university also is trying to
line up design wo rk fo r the New
Student Center, which will serve as
ho me to offices that include Ad m issions and Student Finance and

aJiows the university to plan and

Records, and could be co mpleted

make choices, unhampered by not
knowing what resources will be avail·
able from year to year.

in about two-and-a-half years, .. if
we're lucky," Wagner said.

UB's appropriation in that bud get, Wagner reminded senato rs, is
$100 million, which wiU be used
fo r new constructio n, infrastructure work and rehabilitation of the
un iversity's physi cal plant.

Among the projects that UB will
begin this year is co nstruction of
a $7 million mathematics building on the North Campus, which
is targeted for occupancy by the

Fall of 2000, Wagner said.
The university also will embark
o n a major signage projtct that will
make it easier for both the campus
community and the Western New
York community ·to identify buildings and navigate the campuses.
Calling it ..a fairly modest investment" o f between $2.5 millio n and

S3 million, the project will include
installatio n of major signage at
campus entrances, Wagner no ted ,
so that .. the first sign peopl e see

In addition, funds from the capi·
ral budget will be used for infra·
structure support. "A great deal of
resource will be used to protect the
existing campus," Wagner no ted.

On the South Ca mpus, he said.
capital funds are being earmarked
fo r add itional laboratory space in
Ca ry. Fa rber and Sherman hall s.

That project is expected to begin on
the next fiscal year and continu e
over the next three years, depend ing on the needs that are identified.
Harriman Ha ll will see so m e
.. modest" improve m ents. Wagner

added.
A "significa nt " inves tment will
be m ade in the So uth Ca mpus'
Mc Kay Po we r P lan t . whi c h is
"m any years beyond its projected
useful life" and which will receive
a major upgrade a nd repl acem ent
o f infrastructure, Wagner said.
.. We could have added an o ther
$100 million (i n renovatio ns and

upgrades) easily, b ut we had to
prio rit ize." he said of the projects.
Asked whether Acheson Hall was

on the list of South Campus capi ta.!
projects. Wagner no ted th at th e

building has been on and off the list
of projects because it is expected to
cost about $25 million to renovate.
.. It 's a n importa nt prio rt ty and
needs to be do ne, but at th e mo
ment, it's moving to ward no t (be ing o n th e li st ) beca u se of too
ma ny o th er pri o riti es," he sa1d.
In o th e r bu sin f!'ll!l s. senator)
voiced concerns about t he cond1
li On of ca m pus pa rki ng lo ts and
the u niversi ty's choice to remam
open d u ring Ja nu ary's inclem ent
weathe r.
.. We've all had trym g times d ur·
mg the past month ," no ted Wagner.
When staff encounter specific problem s as a result of snow and icc in
pa rkin g lo ts, .. 1 ho pe people are
confident a nd fa m ilia r eno ugh to
report problems to the Universit y

Facilities help desk." he said.
But d on' t exp ect U B to close
when the weath er is bad , just be ca use the surro unding schools do.
Wagner said. "Yo u do the best you
can ," he said. " I go t calls at 4:30 m
th e mo rn ing ... a nd you just make

a judgment call."
Mos t sc h oo ls close b ecause
smaU children are waitin g o utside
fo r the school bus, he co ntinued.
But during th e Ja nu a ry sto rm s,
classes were not in session at UB.
He noted that wea ther co nd iti o ns ma y m a ke it d iffic ult for
som e sta ff to get to the un iversity.
.. If you can' t m a ke it in, yo u
can't make it in," Wagner said. " But
we'ie not go ing to cl ose just he
ca use the o ther schools close."

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the Yenr 2000 problem'
Information can~ found at the U n•vers Jt~· a.t Buffalo YlK mlorm.J
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Year 2000 Wch SJte provades r e:-.o urce~ lo help umverslf y unah under
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BrieBy
Live teleconference set
on HIV/AIDS resources Ei1
The Health Scien ces Llbr•ry and the Western New York l.1hran
Resou rces Council \\till host a hve telec.onference on HJV / Ail&gt;~ m
fo rmat io n reso urces sponsored by the &lt;.ente rs for Disease Co ntrol
and th t.• NationaJ Lahrary of Medtcme from I l p.m . Feb. II m Room
B 15 Abbott Hall on the South Ca mpu s
The teleco nfe rence, which is open lo the puhhc, IS a1med pnma
riJy at public -health professaonah, who a re responsible for prov1d mg HJV/ AIDS serv1ces and 1nformat10n m thc1 r commumt1es
Ad mission ts free hut registratum 1s req uared due to space hmn a
tions .
The hroadcast will prov1de an ovcrvu.•w of electron I ( resoun.e~.
d 1scuss cri teria for eval ua ti-ng and selectmg the best resou rces, dem onstrate on line sea rching and p resent Web -based tutorials that will
serve as a suppleme nt to the broadcast.
Facult y presen ting the broadcast will be Gale A. Du tcher. spcc1al
assistan t to the associa te di rector, specia1ized inform ation system.s.
Na tio naJ Li brary of Medicine, Beth esda, Md. ; RoseS . Foster, group
manager, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak RJdge ,
Tenn., and Maryan ne P. Blake, ou treach coordi nato r, Pacific North west Regio n, National Network of Librar ies of Medicme, Seattle.
Two ho urs of con t in uing-education credit will be offered.
Additi o naJ sponso rs include the Public Health Trammg Network .
Public Health Practice Program Office, National Network oflibran~
of Med icine, Association of State and Te rrito rial Healt h OffiCials and
tht' Na ti on al Assoc iatio n of Ci t y and County Healttr Offic•als.
Int erested pe rso ns may register by call ing Amy Lyo ns at 819 -3402
or by ema iling her at &lt; alyons@msmailbu.ffaJo.edu &gt;. More mfor
ma u on on th e broadcast is avai lahle at &lt; http:/ / www.cdc.gov /
p h tn / 130019.h tm &gt;.

Acclaimed British flutist
to headline February concerts
The KdaJmed Brftbh flutist William Bennett. pnnc1pal flutiSt of
the English Chamber Orchestra, will make his first Buffalo appearanct·
in aconcen at 8 p. m. Feb. 18 in Sk"t'Concen Hall. Pianist Gifford Benson
will join Bennett for the performance, whiCh y.'i.JJ mdude
Reynaldo Hahn's \iana 11o ns on a Theme of Moan and Ben·
jamin Godard's Sune de Trms Morceaux , Op lib. Ticket!&gt;
fo r the concen areS 1S. lknnen also Will present a flute rna.-.
ter class in Slee at .\ p.m. Feb. 19; admiss1on IS S I0.
Other February h1ghhght s on the Department or
Music's co ncert schedule include a program, "Romantll. and Beyo nd .''
by pia n ist Stephen Manes, UB professor of mu sH. . dl Rpm h:h I ~
in Slee tha t will feature piano lt!t.'ratun• from the" rom,tn tl t" t' r.t .ulll
the 20th cent ury. TIC kets ares :;
The Cassatt Quanet will contlllUt'tb run ol ~U~o.l..(~,fuJ~..,l n .. crb J~ thl·
Slee Q uartet-in -Residence With rwo pcrforman~t~. one at 8 p.m. tn
m orrow as part of the Slee/ Beethoven ~tnng Quartet l.vdc- ,( .oncert [\ ·.
and a St.--&lt;:ond at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 as pari of t.he Slt."C Visumg ArtiS! \&lt;'no.
Concert V. Tickets fo r b()th concert) art· I.!, $9 and $5 The t.a~ll will
give a master class at 3 p.m. Feb. :!.3 tn Slee. There 1~ no aJm1~....aon char~t.'
Eastman Orgamsts' Oay feh 19 wdl hnng thrt't.' young soloalttl&gt;
Ji -yoen Cho i, Jaso n Leister and NICole Kellc.·r- tn ~ l ee Hall. Tht' th rc.·c.·
have perfo rmed in numerous l l. 5t. tltlt'!!t and plated m J numl-oc.·r tl l
o rgan competi tions. Ttckets Jre S" for tht· Mp.m (Olltt'rt
lbe Amherst Saxophone Quartt't will presenl a program .11 ; p.m
Feb. 27 in Slee that includes one ot the most Slgmficant ple"(t.":&gt; t'Vt'T \Oo' rtl
ten fo r saxophone qua n e-t, Qu(,rtett for Sa:cophone!&gt;. lw Alexandt:r
Glasu now. T ickets are $ 10 and SS. The qua net also will appc.-.Jr at no&lt; In
Feb. 22 in t he Center for the Art~ Atnum There 13 no .JdmiS.Shln
charge.

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febllla!l4.1!1!19Nul 3!1. lo 19

BRIEFLY
Exhibits to note
Black History Month
TWo exhibits alelntlng 8lodt
Histooy Monthwilbedisplo)o&lt;d

on the North Campus dur1ng
Fobruoly.
Dr. Mortln lJJther lOng. Jr.'•
I 96 7 Wit to Bufholo, doc:umented tlvougll photogrJph&gt;.
,.,., dipping&gt; and • copy d hb
pt&lt;&gt;&lt;ntollon on the fu1lft d Jn.
legrollon wil be on cllploy in
the UIArdWo&gt;, 420~ Hal.
The1 964Nobol~..oo

spolce ot lGeinhara M.oic Hal ....
dor the __.tip d UB~ G&lt;1&lt;1&gt;

ateStudont Am&gt;dotlon,originllly
wa&gt; scheduledto!pOOic in Norton

Union on the South~
The oxhlbit, ,... and opoo to
the public, b on dlsploy from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdiys from
mid-f&lt;brual)' through eoliy
March.
Origir\al lett= ,;good photo-

ttWd.....,-

9"1'h&gt; and - ~ ...

pall d the
Hi&gt;tory Month~­

entitled 'They, Too, Had A
Dream." ~by-­

d the c.nt.r lor the Ms ""'·
Throughout Fobruoly, vi&gt;J.
""' to the &gt;tCond floor d
L.odwood Memorial Linl)' con
view Items from such oobble
African Americans as comedian
Jackie "Moms" Mobley, singe&lt;/
acttoss Ethel W.t!n, actress and
perk&gt;nnor PHI1llliley, ~ Roy

\MIIcins, executivo- d the
NatlonoiA&gt;sociollon lor the Advancement d Colored Poople.

Buff~o Chips to

per:fonn in Valentine's
Extravaganza
The Bufholo Chip&gt;. UB'&gt;1m a ,

· =-~~=·
annuaiVIIentfne~DoyA

C-'&gt;~IDbe
.~in.tllo~ .ln

the Center lor the Arts.
Sevonteon Y&lt;Jice strong. The
Chips ri. ~"""" d jw.·
dents mojo&lt;ing in albjects ranglngfromoerospace~

to . . - . . . tD music. Founded
In 1995, The Chips . . under
the dinlclion d Dam!llllelch

andEric-.ry.
T h e - O'ipl- ,.,.,;ng
their mort on the national Kl!nt.
estolliOhlng theonseMs., one d
the 12 best CXJioge • cappolla
in the notion. with • !«·
and-place finish in the &gt;tCond
round d the National Competi-

llon d ColegiatO" Co!&gt;Pok
v.1th two suaesful CD rolea5e,
·-· and~ .. /UJt Hopptn«/1' they ...... to

-·third,·- . . .

Songs. . thb spmg.
na.ts lor the event are n .
ovoltoble at the CFA Box office
and all Tlcketmaster loca~ .

UB to host first Miss
University Pageant
-

in w..tomN&lt;w'tort&lt;bo-

- t h e ages of 17 and 24 wil

nr....onelllOn!"''f'CJ''Urlitto
win scholanllips and c:ompete In

the Miss New Yoflc Stlot.. Pageon~ which I&gt; on olllclol ptONmlna&lt;y competitlon lor Miss

- . . with the CJHiion of the
new Miss lJniwnlty Pogeant.
The_.. to be hosted by
UB, wil be held at 7::10 p.m. Apt

17 in the ~ d the Student

u.- on the Nooth ~

,_;,g for potential partidponts witt be held ot
4::10 p.m. Feb. 19, in Room 3:10
of the Student Union.
\'He the"" lkMr&gt;ity Pag..... ... be held. UB. pricipolion
Wit not be lr'rlbc! to UB stucler&lt;s.
An Informational

Afll*:ations ... - - in the Officed Siudo!ntNilln in Room 1SO
d the Siudont Uoion or by coructing t.onie Tumer-Proulx at 84S.

I So-4.

Conference to address
growth of sweatshops
in American industry
By PATRICIA DONOVAN

"-'StMco&gt;Edlto&lt;

T

HI

ung01n~

h.t11lt·

a~a1n't humo:~n 11~h "

ahuse:o. o:~nd lahor cxplm
ta ll on o:1 1 h omt· and
.:~hroc~J ha~ provoked 1- l'B t'llll
li t'!&gt; . tn .. lud•ng t he I o:~w ~t..hl1n l
l 1nt1 rd U niV~r s ll\ Proft·sstom . thl'
~ald v t .e nte r. th e undergradua t ~
\t udt"nl A~!1oouat 1 on and severdl
~r.tduatt· \tud t•nt d.'l'iOC tatt Oil!&gt;. ttl
.._,, sp&lt;m'm a LO nler~nLt" to explore
the mea nu1g ul wor~ and addr("S.)
tht&gt; growth of th e "nt&gt;w Amenca n
\wl'atshop "
Th e first annua l Ant1 Sweat
'ho p Co nference, sponsored by
the Labor and Employment Law
Assoc aation of the Student Bar
A:o.soua t1 o n. will take pl ace fr o m
Y JO a . m to 7 p.m on Sa turda v
1n th e Jane Kee ler Room ,
1-tllmore AcademiC Co re: , Ill tht."
l· lilco ll Co mple x on the North
( amp u.'l
Working more houn
lhga n11.e rs potnt o ut that
s 1n~.-e the 1980s . Americans "
wo rktng hours have increased
stead il y wit hout any in c rease 1n
actual be nefits or pay. T hey say
the y will de monstrate to confer ence partic ipants how cur rent
global econom 1c tren ds fos ter
the crearion o( sweatshops, and
how declining working condt
tions, even in higher· paying jobs,
have lead to led to o ur loss of
con trol over t he· t ime and qua lity of all of o u r li ves.
T h e event was p rec ipi ta ted by
incr~ased in ten sity and visibility
of labor abuse, partic ula rly tha t
of imm igran ts wo r kin g in the
U.S. and of

lahor('r s 111 dt"vel u pmg ~.- uunlnes
v.•hn are wo rkmg for lJ." co rpo
rat iOn), o rgantz.er !i ~ay
~pt'ake r s will 1nt..lude Nds
OIHn, dean of the UB Law
..,chool. Law School Professors
I rotnJ.. Munger a nd James
Atlt·~o n . and Belly Yu , coo rdma ·
tur ot the New York C 1t y-based
Naoo nal Mobilization Against
~weatshop s ( NMASS ). Panel dis l U)S ions will feature U B stu dents, garmen t workers a nd rep ·
rt!loe nt a t• ves of local. sta te and
na t tonal human -nght s o rganiza tio ns
Film to depict struggles

A bnef film, "American Tien"
by N MASS Theatre Troop, which
dep1cts th e real -life struggles of
garment workers in C hinatown,
WJII be shown in the Katharine
Cornell Theatre (ac ross from the
Jane Keeler Room ) during the
conference.
To regi ster, see the conference
program . Further informat ion
about the conference is available
by emailing &lt; ant iswea tshop s_
conference@yahoo.com &gt;.
Joane Wong is chair of the 1
Asian American Law Studen t Assoc iation, and one of th e p r in ci pal move rs behind t he confe r·
c=nce. She poin ts out that human
nghts and comm unity o rgan iza.
lion s have been successfuJ in sev eral campaigns on behalf of low·
wage sweatshop workers, whom
she sayi live de hum an ized lives,
particula rl y those wo rkin g unde r
treacherous condi tio n s in develo ping co u n t ries.
"' We overl ook the fact, how eve r, that there a.re m an y tho u ·
sands of low-wage sweauhops in
the United States," she says, "and
t ha t sweats h op co nd itio ns are
now develo ping in job areas o ut side of t he low- pay sector."
As a rcwult , she says. as dis tu rbing as it m ay so un d . you
or someone you know al ready may be worki ng in
a sweatshop.
Historically, the
term "'sweats hop"
stem s fro m low -

unsafe. miserable and dehumanizing
c:nvironment like those that prevailod
in the U.S. ganncnt industry a1 the
tum of the century.
This industry in the U.S. an d
ove rseas again ha.s been indicted
by la b or un ions and h uman ·
r ig ht s ac t ivists for the condi tions in which many thou sa nds of wo rkers labor. The
American garment industry
h as bee n linked to .specific
sweatsh ops here, and that
ofte n bru t ally exploit
cheap foreign labo r
and child labor

Wong points out that it 1!1
through the exploitation of th=
workers that the industry is abl e
to provide low-cost clothing to
ready-to-wear houses, which . 10
turn, sell them at a very high profit
to American consumers.
She said that conferenc( o rga
nizers wan t to explore solutiom
offered through the djverse expt"
riences of the conference attend
ees and to create a chapter of
NMASS. a group founded by Slu
dents and young professionals in
1996 to fight for better worktng
co nditiOns to r all worken

J•n. 9 r•lty In New YOftl Ctty by the Union
of - . c i a, lndustrialoncl Tutlle
Wootoen (UNITE) pnoteru olleged swut·
Jhop condtt.loru •t New a.&amp;.nce FactorleJ
•round the world .
I ""Phololl)"'~ A.dOAn0 1

�february 4.1!!1!1!¥ul.30. h 19 Repca-..r
Professor's mission Is fostering musical expression In youth

Omlie Keil: he's the
News Sefvkes Edftc:)NI As.sisQnt

M=:~

merengue, samba,
bomba,
plena,
polka-you name it. All UB
ethnomusicologist Olarles K&lt;il asks
is that you "give dance a chana."
While many people today overlook the vitality of music and dance
1n daily life, Keil has made it his life.
For 30 years. ths professor of
American studies has coordinated

so ng-dance -drumming classes at
the university to teach students
how to exp~ marC' of themselves

sdves through human rites," says
Keil. In keeping with this theme,
his studies have tended to focus on

music in Polish-America, Afro America, Cuba and Greece that
stilJ suppons people's rites.
An expert in applied sociomusi·
cology and ethnomusicology, Keil
has written five books and taught1 7
CO UI'SC$ at UB on exploring music's
effects on hutnanity and society. He
is working now on a documentary
of Romani (gipsy) n\wiciaits in
Northern Greece titled "The lnstru·
ments," to be publishJI next ytar.
A foundirig member"OfBulfalo's
famo us Afro:La!iq ,flal_lc~ band
"O uter Circle Orchestta," Keil con·
ti~ues to practice what he preaches
with the " 12/8 !lath -Band ~ and
.. Biocentrics.• another Afro· Latin
dance band. And although he
plans to perform "until death do
us part." it is oo secret tllat his true
passion is fostering musical expression in young people.
Keil 's method , which he calls
" paideia con salsa," men to the
Greek concept of restoring con sciously formed and pursued cul·
tural ideals using Afro-Latin mu sic-dance as the focal point.
He aplains that Afro-latin mu·
sic-dance is the central tradition
within all the Afr()-European syntheses that ha"" dominated 20th-=·
tury music and dance. It has strong
aflinities with styles that children al·
ready are familiar with-rock, jazz.
reggae. disco, salsa, soul and funk.
Since 1974, more than 1,000 UB
students ha"" jumped at tht chance
to spend thrte hours a week drum·
ming for academic credit in Keil's
famous "Afro..Latin Musical Praxis"

co urse . The popularity of the
course has proved Keil's suspicion
that a growing majority of American young people are deprived of
cultural expression.
.. Every semester I have to turn
away highly motivated students who
love music, listen to it constantly, but
can't nwte:r the most basic coordinations after practicing hours and
boun for a week,• says Keil. The
problem, he believes, is that society
needs to empower children at a
young age to "drum, sing. dana: and
dramatize superlatively well," especially in today's global era. So he
decided to ~o ~mething about iL

"My,.......,..._._

lsln

I ~ ...... ....--,
young people. toupnu
-ot~dvough

-rttes."
I

CHARliE

Elec::trouicHighwap Eil
Rave reviews for review sites

ByMAIIA-S

through "musicking... a co ncept
that refers to how performing and
composing, as well as listening and
dancing to musi4 allows people to
make meaning for themselves.
" My primary interest is in helping people, particularly yo un g
people, to express more of them -

Is

K~ll

In 1990, he founded Musicians
United for Superior Education
(MUSE) , Inc., a unique not -for
profit organization of artists and
educators dedicated to increasin g
children's access to culturally di verse performing-arts instruction.
It~ main p.rogram , " MUSE In
The Schools," is dedicated to em·
powering children with the vital
energies o( the music and dance
of many cultures. More than I 0
Buffalo schools have participated
in the program since its inceptio n.
..As far as we know, it is trul y
unique," says Keil, .. No other non profit organization is doing yoar·
round, hands-on, feet -&lt;&gt;n. traditional
arts education instructed by African,
African-American,l.atino and Native
American artists, teaching music and
dana at the same time, encouraging

mentoring with the goal of building
a self-sustaining tradition in each el
ernenwy school
"If we achieve our gnal by show
ing school systems how to build self
sustaining music-dance traditiom
with multicultural local talents on
limited budgets, we will make a big
differena in children's lives everywhere," says Keil, who serves as presi ·
dent of the MUSE board ofdirectors.
MUSE is supported by publi c
and private grants, as well as by in dividual donors, induding such fa ·
mous musician s as B.B. King,
Mickey Hart , Wynton Marsalis.
Carlos Santana and Ani DiFranco.
Keil says that in recent yeats.
budgetary exigencies ha""tended
t o eliminate musit:, arts and
sports from the schools at the very
time when they are most needed.
"In many Bufl3lo inner-&lt;ity schools,
there is no playground anywhere in
sigh~

no activity, no gym. no art. no
music bdaw the fourth grade to ease
the repression or oll&lt;r a direction," he
says. "We prornol&lt; activity, participa·
lion and joy by sending a team of a
drummer and a danctt into a sdlool
to start a self-sustaining tradition in
wbidl dozens of fourth and fifth grader.; bemme~dananan:ldrum·

rom who can mentor pr&lt;--K through

third graders. teaching them their
rhythms and dance moves."
The life-lessons from such an ex
perience are endless and can't be
taught from books, aa:ording to Keil
"Activity and participation in a
music-dan ce traditi on prepares
children for a life well-lived at many
deep and mostly unconscious lev
els-how to be in time. in tune, in
graceful syn chro n y with ot h er
people, how to be an energetic pres ·
ence and a shin ing individual m
tight relationships with many oth ·
ers simultaneo usly," he says. "We
have to rei nvent the traditions before they're com p letely gone ."

Hn•e you ever wished th•t vou had SCC'n a rev1ew before go an~ to
the m ov1c!i or sp~ ndmg vour hard - ~arned mont&gt;y on a hardcover
hook o r mu su.. CJ&gt;1 You're 10 lu~..k' There are a number of good rt.•
v1ew Sill'' on the Internet that let vou M"arth and read revieW'&gt; nt
popular and nut ·su popular tltll'.!t
For rnovlt&gt;!o. whether vou gCl to the movu: thc:ater or rent one to
watch at ho me. l.lnl"mal:'hme • http:/ / www.clnemachlne.com /
~ ~a movJe -n.·vJew \Carch engme that prov1dc-~ hstmgs of mov1e rt
vJews for film!&gt; of all genre~ &lt;.1nemachme gather!&gt; hundreds of movrt
rev rew~ o l nt"""'' rdea!-te!o, cla.ssH.. film~. popular hits and mdependcnr
features 111 o ne conve n1ent hstrng Th e rnformJtion 1.!1 ~..urrcnt, srnu·
11 sea rches the Weh everv dav for new mov1e n.· vtew' from leadmg
newspapers and onhnt· film ~ •tc , , tndudrng The ( 'htlago \un 'I,,,.,
C rneman1a . Mr Showh 11 Mm 1&lt;' (,uJde. Thr .'\Jrw YorA Tum· ~
Ree!Vu~ ws, USA Totlay. Varwr\ and The Wash "'Kton P(W
Scarchrng C rnema ch 1ne ~~ ea'\ You ~an "ea rth for a film trtlt' til
select one from the New Relea..M'!i menu In addrt ron , there 1~ a wt"t"k.h
recommendat1om hst lor :.coops on the be-st new films You t:an
search for review!i by entenng a film 's fulltllle rn the sea rch box and
11 wiJJ return a hst of rev rew!o for that film If vou are un surt" of a wk
or the spelling. yo u can enter nne m two word~ cn ntamed 10 the
title and It will re-turn a list of tllle!l tha t do!oely mat ch yo ur sea"h
For book rev1ews, Tire New YorA Tmtes on the Web: Books &lt; http:/
/ www.nytlmes .com/ boolu/ ~ I) a good sil e to find full- text re
views, news and a uthor tntervrews . Reg1strat10n IS requ1red. but It''
free o f charge. It includes the co mplete New York Trmes BooA Rt'
vrew, daily book -relat ed news and rev1ews, and a sea rchable archrw
frorn 1980 to the present of mort" than 50,000 New York Trmes bool..
reviews, bestseller lrsts and more. In additiOn , every week. The e"'
York Times on the Web brings you a new selection of first chapters
from books reviewed in Th e New York Trmes Book Revtrw or th.a t
appear on The New York Times bestseiJe r hsts.
Th~re are two sites recommended for musrc r~v r ews : Rrvre-ws &amp;
Pr~view O nline and Music Boulevard. Brllboard's Rev1ews &amp; Pre·

views On line &lt;http:/ /www.blllboanl-onllne.com/ , _ _ ./ &gt; has
a searchable archive of more than 30.000 en ·
lries from 1970 to the present. You can
search by artist, title, genre, producer or
keyword . Many reviews com e with aud1o
samples that can be heard with the L1q
uid Audjo pJayer. which can M down
loaded for free. Music Boulevard
&lt;http:// www.muslcblvd.com / &gt;,
an o nline. retail music store, is an
other useful site for music reviews.
Not only does it have more than
200,000 titles on CD, cassette tape
a nd vinyl that you can purchase,
it also provides music news, reviers and
artists in formation . You can search for a panicu ·
lar a rt ist, album o r song and your results will List r~views , song
samples, track listings and more .

For a.msranct rn connecting to the World Wide Web, contact the CIT
Help D&lt;&gt;k ar 645 -3542.
- Sue Neumeister and Lort wtdzlnskl. Untverslty Librones

BrieBy
Gift to law school by family
remembers 1926 graduate
A f•mlly gift to the Law School has become a living tribut e I n
the- m ~mo r y of Harry A. Ra chlm , a I 926 gradua te of the school
Buffa lo a tt o rn ey Lauren D. Rachhn of Kavinoky and Coo k, and
fami ly member!&gt; have given S25 ,000 to th e law sc hool to be used
for th e Harry A. Rachlin Pnzc in Propeny and Real Estat e Law
Lau ren Rach lin said it wa s a Joint decis1on among the s1b
lings and grandc h ildren .. because th ey k new th e law sc hool wa !l
very importa nt to my father and they wanted to let h u namt'
and the law sch ool connect1on co ntinue ." He added that hr 5 fa ther had .. a great interest in th e welfare of law student!~ and vuung
lawyers. particularly in th e area of p roperty law."
Ra chlin , wh o received an undergradua te degree from thl' l 1H
Schoo l of Management, said he hopes " th1 s k1nd of grft can serv&lt;'
as a catalyst for o ther alumnr to gi\·e ba ck to th e unrvcrstt\ ··
The first two Harry A. Ra chlrn pnzes wt"re awa rd ed to ~tt'\t·n
Sturman of Buffalo and Sarah Rudell of Wrllramsvrllc . whorl'
ceived thcrr awards durrng th e Alumni ( n nvocat 1on fl1r thr: ).I \II
Sc hool.
Srurman , a 1997 g raduate of the Law ~~..honl. rt~u· tv t"d tht
awa rd on behalf of his effort .. 1n helpmg 10 organ 11c th e t-d"'11l
f-. Jaeckle G overnment Law { l'nter, wh1 c h deah With propt'rt'
law and local land u1.1e . Ruddl 1s a thrrd year stud ent ""'' ho rt·
ceived the award for her "' tudr r' rn prnpl·rt v !Jw

�6 Repoa lea

february 4.1009/Yol.311. lo.19
UB often courses, Web Information on " hot" political Issues

Joss

Ointon and the impeachment process
By MAltA McGINHIS
News

Servk:.~

T

Editor

IRED of the media coverage of the impeachment
trial? Looking for fresh insight o n the situatio n?

UB i:, offering some academ1 c
outlets and viewpoints via the cla.uroom. television and the Web--to
Jccommoda tc those seeking mfo rrnation on th1s momentous occa -

SIOn 111 our count ry's history.

Barry Smtth, professor of philosophy. has created a dass on the philosophicaJ aspects of !he Ointon issues;
Jim Twombly. assistant professor of
politicaJ science, is teaching a tdeco urse on .. T he American Presidency," and Lockwood library is featuring a resource o n the UB librar-

ies' Web site tit1ed .. Impeachment: A
Select Guide to information."
Smith says his new Am erican

Plura lism co urse, .. Clinton : A
Philosophi cal Exploration,n deals

with general topics, including lymg, adulter y, ho nor, authority,
role model s, sexual harass ment
and po wer, rather than narrow,
day- to-day political issues.
Since American Pluralism is a
ge neral -education requirement,
Smith's co urse has enrolled about
200 students with a wide range of
majors and interests. "Student reaction has been tremendous,n says
Smith. "Contrary to what people
sa id in anticipation-that people
were bored stiff by the Clinton
maners--1 find a very high degree
of class interest and involvement"
Smith says he tries to teach "argument by example" in his· class.

.. I try to show stu dents h ow they
can deal with im portant issues of
race, class, gender
and sex in a rational way, by invo lvi ng th em in
discussions and
debates in which
opposing sides of
an issue are given
eq ual time. The
C linton matters
were, it see med to
me, an interesting
focus point for a
wide range of issues of this sort ."

Political Science. However given
According to Smith, college stu- the current presidential situation,
dents today are "confirmed in their Millard Fillmore College (MFC)
somewhat anarchistic., relativistic., has added it to its list of telecounes.
happy-go-lucky prejudices by Pr&lt;si- The three-credit course is open to
dent Clinton's seemingly magical the Western New York community
powers to escape punishment from for the cost of regular UB tuition
his enemies."
and fees, based on student status.
However, he also believes stu It also is available in televised
dents are " beginning to be class sessions via local cable-access
troubled by a small whisper, com- television at no Charge but without
ing from deep within themselves, academic credit.
"The course is intended as a
whic h tells them that cutting
moral corners may be wrong after community service from UB to
all...and that objective morality help everyone understand the recent headlines in greater depth,"
wiU win out in the end."
Smith also has posted an inter- said James Anderson, director of
esting collection of debalable read- instructional technology at MFC.
Twombly says th&lt; course is not
ings to be used in his class online
within the "Clinton Philosophy "' history class bul rather "a look
at
the AmeriCan presidencY as an
Deposit " located at &lt;http://
wlngs.bufblo.- / phllosophy/ institution as shaped by the individuals who occupy the office."
facult)'/smlth/dlnton&gt;.
The class sessions will air at 7
Twombly's course, "The Ameri can Presidency," traditionally is of- p.m. on Tuesdays and II p.m. on
fered through the Department of Sundays, repeating at 5:30p.m. and

7 p.m. the following Saturdoys.
For those who would ratM read
about the impeachment matters,
Lockwood has compiled a wdl-&lt;&gt;rganized Web guide intmdcd to "place
the situation in contt:xt" at &lt;http:/
/ ubllb.buffalo .edu/ llb r.,les/
u n I U /1 ml / gowdocsu b J/
hn-'&gt;ment.html&gt;. librarians
haYecamuiiy sel&lt;aed information in
an attempt to ;woid partisan sources.
The guide is broken into sections including "' Report of the In dependent Counsel," "The White
House Rebuttal and Supplementary Documentation," .. Relevant
Sectio ns o f the Co nstitution,"
"Non -Partisan Background Information about impeachment ,"
.. President C linton's Situation"
and "The lmpeacbment Trial"
Highlights indude a section on
the "' Impeachment of Andrew
)ohnsoo." which links to a w that
has rq&gt;roduoed more than 200 excerpts from Harper's ~ print..!
betwe&lt;n 1865-69,a link to a site prepam! by the National Archives on
"Watergate and the Constitution," as
well as links to legal briefs presenting the president's position, proceedings of the trial in print and
audio-visual formats by C-SPAN
and CNN, and the Senate's rules for
conducting the trial.
The impeachment gu ide is
found on the .. Fatured Resourc~"
· page of the UB libraries Web sitt,
which highlights new or important resources or services at UB.
Visit tbe -page at &lt; http://
ubllb.buffalo.edu/llltradu/
featuNd / &gt;.

The decline of the traditional family

UB sociology professor begins study on why some choose cohabitation over marriage

lly PATIUCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

acwmmodate new kinds ofrelational
units and intimate liaisons. •
HE obvious decline of
Magdol expects her study, now in
th~ ~radi t ionaJ family is
Cherlin, a leading family demogra- the pilot stage, to clarify the ways atra1smg co ncern among pher, notes that the divorc&lt; rate in the titudes toward marriage and family
so me sociologists and 1980s was twice what it was in the are OYO!vingand where they are beadpolicymakers. The increasing rates 1950s, and has dc:dincd only moder- ing. lt will involve in-depth interof divorce and cohabitation, two atelysincrthen. To put this in another views with approximately 50 couples
of the trends that mark this de- p=pective." says Magdol, "In 1880. of different ages and stations in life
cline, illustrate Americans' para- two of every 1,000 couples divorced who are living together outside of
doxical attitude toward marriage each year. Today, 20 of every I000 marriage, rome for decades.
and family, a UB sociologist says. couplesdivorceeachytar-&lt;!10-fold
"AJrady, we've seen a marked
Lynn Magdol, assistant profes- increase over I00 )'Cil'-"
difference between the reasons
sor of sociology, rece ntly began a • The U.S. birth rate is down.
young adults live together and why
qualitative study of cohabitors to • More Americans elect to have those in their 40s, 50s and 60s live
find out how and why they choose children outside of marriage than together,.. she said.
this arrangement instead of mar- any time in our hi story.
Magdol said her research team
riage. She also conducted a quan - • Cohabitation is on the rise in aU wants to know why couples adopt
titative survey of UB students sectors. The 1970 Census estimated this non -traditional lifestyle on a
about the ir changing atti t ud~s to- that 500,000 households consisted temporary or permanent basis. Do
ward these new arrangements.
of heterosexual unmarried couples. couples fonnally share this _decision,
"Marriage and family are idealized Today, more t h an 3.7 million she asks. and what benefits do they
in this country," Magdol said, "and, households fit thai description.
think they derive? How does their
officially at least, we hold them to be • Sixty percent of divorced people behavior and expectation correlate
sacred On the face of it, our behav- who remarry start out by living with those of married couples?
ior seems to suppon that position. together. Conversely, a substantial
The study will produce ati insidNearly-aU of us express a desire for n umber of divorud persons who ers' penpective, she says. as opposed
an exclusive, intimate association; at
to much of social-science research,
cohabit remarry.
least 90 percent of us say we want to
The result of these changes, said in which an outsider impostS intermarry, most of us do and the major- Magdol, is that Americans spend pmationsonbehavior-thatofthe
ity of us want to have children.
less time married over the course researcher, according to Magdol.
..As traditionally constituted, of their liv&lt;s than they used tn MarAmericans havt .come to accept
however, marriage and family ap- riage is less crntral to our we COWS&lt; broader and more varied definitions
parently aren't satisfying the social and less crntral to our decision to bear of "family" and "tnat:riage" than they
and intimacy n ee d s of many children. "It isn't that we'"' jusl toss- haYe in the past. B&lt;causeofthis,more
people." she said.
ing the traditional forms out the win- and more of us will be involv&lt;d in
She cites the evidence:
dow," she says. "Most couples who live such non-traditional arrangements
• Although most Americans do together &lt;Yentually marry. Wt are, in years to come. Magdol says. bemarry at some point, they are delay- however, SIMching and molding the cause it will carry less stigma
ing marriage until they are older.
instilutiom of marriage and 6uniJy to
This has imporlant public -

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

• Once married, demographers
projccl that married couples haYea 50
perrenl chana: of divorcing. Andr&lt;w

policy implications. she notes, and '
the study is likely to suggest new
avenues of quantitative research to

help adapt policy to reality.
She agre&lt;s that thett are some who
fear that the increased rates of oohabitation herald the decline of the larger
social institutioo we eaU 'liunily. "The
truth is,"MafPll says.."oolmlatico has
alw.!ys existed, but it has bem more or
less invisible until recently. II usuaUy
iiMliYed thot;e on the """" end rL the
~and socialsade,and was stigmatized by the middle classes. The reasoo that it has drawn so much atlflltion
ofla1e and carries less shame, slie says, is
thai thot;e same middle classes hav.
come to praaice it quite openly.
No one need wonythat marriage is
dead, however.~ points out that
there are many pbysical. onotional. social and ecooomic benefits ofli:red to
those who are married E= if we experimoedivon:e, we tend to tmla!T)'.
"A broader definition of'fiunily' is
growing amoog Americans, one that
embraces unmarriedoouples,intmacial and inlfmlltur;ll families. adopted
families. 'CO!istructed' or non-kinship
families of wu-elated p=ons.gay and
lesbian fiunilies, and so on."
Although some may want to relurn to the narrowly defined "family values" that they fear bave been
left behind. that is unlikdy to happen, Magdol says. "Some are constructing new, perhaps mo"' efficienl and~ ways 10 haYe traditional needs met: she says. "and we'd
lik&lt; to explore their perimd=

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Obituary

SportsRecap -

Bill Kinser, 67, associate professor of art;
headed Communication Design Program
Bill Kinter, • popul•r teach•r

who headed the Communication
Design Program in the Depan mcnt of Art, died suddenly over
the weekend in his h ome in
Boalsburg, Pa. He was 67.
KinSt"r, an associate professor of

art, was a popular teacher who~
Inventiveness and promulgation
of n ew methods, forms and tech nologies in graphic d~ign took his
students to the frontiers of the
communication field.
.. Bill was always full of energy

and enthusiasm-a really crazy
guy," said Tony Rozak, professor of
art and Kinser 's close frie-nd.
.. He was an exceUent designerreally an exceptio nally creative art -

ISt-who was always fulJ of great
ideas." Rozak said. "His talent is
wel l-known in the 6eld. He was
already a legend when I was in
graduate school."
Rozak's comments were echoed
by department Chair Adele
Henderson. "We'U really miss Bill;
she said... He was such a smart guy
and he always had something to
co~trib ute that made us stop and

consider a new perspective."
Kinser was assistant professor o(
art at Pennsylvania State Univer·
sity before he
joined the UB art
faculty in 1988 .
He taught under·
graduate and
graduate courses
in
computer
graphics. com ·
munication de sign, aperimental media, typog·
raphy and electronic publications
design . Before Penn State, he was
on the faculty of the University o(
Illinois and the Atlanta School of
Art, where he chaired the G raphic
Design Department.
During his professional career,
Kinser developed a personal com pu ter program for graphk design
ca.Ued RUNE, an interactive expert
program for the non -designer.
He served as a design consult ·
ant for a number of coUeges, uni ·
versities, museums and corpora·
tions both here and abroad, and
was vice president of Forever Toys,
a Pennsylvania company headed

......

by his wife , Charlene , thai pro ·
duces handmade: plav
things for national dis tribution .
His articles have ap
peared in such maga ·
zines and journals as

lication ), the Ge rman
publication Novum
Gebrnudls-grapluc and in
design publications in Japan. His books include
"The Elements of West .
em Typographic Style."
"Design for Desktop
Publishing" and , wtth
Neil Klienman , "Tht
Dream that was No More
a Dream: A Search for
Aesthetic Reality in Ger
many, 1890-1945."
Rozak described
Kinser's loss as .. terrible for the stu ·
dents, for UB and (or me person·
ally. I can't believe he's gone. I just
h01ve a hard time 'knowang' H. I'm
going to miss him very. very much .
We all will."

censure: correct English and custom
express no confidence in bodies, be
they football teams. courts or what ever. Professor Malone, in the very
same meeting where he calls censur·
ing the administration "an absolutely
silly thing to do," apr= himself
in favor of a motion of noconfidencr
in the Board of Trustees.
To be sure, not all admmistrator ~
are equally involved in the statisttcs
disaster, jwt as not all players on a
losing team are equally culpable m
defeaL Yet, the team is blamed, '"
screaming headlines, as a collectJVe.
The administration , while 1m
ploring us to talk suDstance and on
the merits (rather than process and
personalities), is itself quick to con·
jure up specious linguistic inanities

to avoid talkmg turkf.")' (as well
as quick to levy accusations
against Professor Nickerson ,
which are wildly off base.)
Recently, boxer Tyson was a~,.
cused of being a .. rapist reduS&lt;.' "
This angered him because, he
said, he was not a recluse. Here
we have a motion that the ad ·
ministration be ce n sur("d ,
which angers them because,
they say, there is no adnumstr.l
tion to be censured. The censure
itself, by their comments. would
be "an honor.n
Meanwhile . I do wanl Ill
commend the admm1strat10n
on forming a supercomp utmg
ce nter-well done!
-fohn C. G. Boot

Choir, Management Science and Systems

~--1

Exhibits

noor,

8 p.m.; Sund.y, noon to S p.m.

_._,._£-.

"Thoy Too, Hod A O...m. • b tho thorn&lt;
tNrd in In Anr"WJal series of
autographk; exhibits In honor of Black

of the

The men' ba!.ketball team dropped a pa.~r of pmes
on d'le road lut week to r-enwn wtn~s 1n d'le Mtd·
American Conference
Buffa~ dropped a 74..o46 deoSJOn at Northern
llhnots on )an 28 u 1t was outSCored 5 1-22 '" the
second twf aftu lead.ng 24-23 ;u tutfame L~m
Umpbell ~ the Bulls wrth rune potnts as the tum
~d no double-figure scorers. Nne johnson led d'l~
Bulls Wld'l mne rebounds. while WiH Campbell ~d
seven points and four ~
The Bulls then moYed on to Kalamuoo Mteh
~ they dropped an 82-65 deci:SO"' to a hot
shooting Westem MK:htpn squad The Broncos \hot
s.-4 percent 1n the second twf to hold off the Bulb
who outscored WMU. 43..-42. in the penod
Sophomore Nikolai Alexeev led the Bulls Wid'! I 7
points. while lou1s Umpbel had I 1 Uld johnson a
career--hizh 10 po~nts. The Bulls were outl"eboundecl
4()..28 in ~r lid'! straight lou
WOMEN' S

Mushall 76 , UB 59
UB 63 , W estern Michigan 58
UB 71 , Boll State 63
The Bufls' women's tum spilt games on the road
this week. los1n1 ~ Mld-Arneric&amp;n Conference pme
to Marshall, 76-59, on Jan. 25,defea.tingWestem Michtpn,6l · S8,on )an 28. -.nd
mama.Wtlng a perfect home-&lt;ourt record (9-0) in a win OYer MAC opponent
Ball State, 71-6). 1n AkJmni An!N on Satu~
In the game against MarstWI. serVer po~nt guard Catherine Jxob and
sophomore center rrfbny Bell turned 1n impr"essrve performances With I 5
points apiece, despfte the lou. Bell led wrth etght rebounds, while J~cob pn.ched
in five boanjs.&amp;..e: asSJsu Uld four nea.Js
Mar1 McClure paced the Bulls to vtetory OYef'" WMU wrth 20 po~nts. s1x
rebounds, SIX autsu ;and t'WO steals Bell contributed 16 points and pulled down
IO...t&gt;ounds.
On Sarun:by, Kim Coon led Coach Cheryi Ooner"s team wrth 18 po~nu
while Bell (llpts.. S nebounds).jacob (17 pts) and sophomore guard Son.a
Ortega (10 pts.) e.Jch scored 1n double figures for the Bulls

~wimmin~
Miami ( OH ) Ill , UB 102
The men's li'Mmrrung team

f~ in first defe.Jt

ofd\e season in a 13l·I021on

ap~nst

MAC opponent Mwnt (OH) in a meet hosted by Bowhng Green on
Sawn!oy
Dan H1ckey led Coach BuddTenrun's squad with .....;ns 1n che 100 (46.85)
and'200 freestytes )I :4 I .61 ). He wu mo • memboo- of the vktorious ..00
freestyle squad. along wnt. )oM NUI&lt;s, Bn.n il&lt;.u..lotte &gt;nd jose Monoon.
Other first..place finishen •nduded Eric Stimson 1n !he 200 backnr-o«e
( I 51 18} and Juon Md•.achtan in the S00 freestyfe (4:4282)

WOMEN ' S

Cornell 158.5 , UB 140.5
The WCH"r''err·s swurwnulg t.evn nanowty lost to host Cornell, I S8.5 to 140.5, on
Sawrday, desprte the perfonnance of Inger Rooneem, W'ho led Coach DorSI
!Uynolds' squad wtth first-place vkt.ones 1n the SO~ (24.39). the 100
freesty4e (51.04) and the 200 indMd~l medley (2.1 0.09). Rooneem was also a
member of the Winning 21XHnedley rei")' teUll ( I 49 5 I) with K1mberly Theeq:e
JennHer Quinlan ~nd Ueselle Tnnidad.
Tnnldad also placed first 1n the 100 butterfly (58.84) and the 200 butterfly
(2.-()9.75). while Andrea SkJUman ca.prured both the one- and three--meter d""1ng

Wre~tlin~
UB 21, Kent State 17
UB 28, Miami (OH) 6

UB ) 6 , Syracu se I
UB 20, Eutem Illinois 19

The wresding tNm '41111'00 ~ pa.r of d~l meets Sarurday afternoon, mcludmg IU
fir-n-ever Mtd-American Conference VICtOry,~ win OVf!l" Kent Sate
UB tn.lled the ~~ State Golden Rashes. I 5-0, after the first four we~ghl
classes and was down, 18--4, with four matches l"'t!fTWning in the~ But Jacob
Schaus ~lted the team with-. win by fa.ll OYer Ben Dobies at the 2.:15 rN;rlc..
The biz momenwm swin&amp; for the Bulb came 1n lhe 184-pound we.Jht dus
Sen6or Haa Rkd fought a tough rN;tch Uld ~led with ~ wm by fall. Josh
Sates Uld John Eschflf'lfe4der then closed out d'le last t""' rN;tehes wn:t.
dedslon victories u the Bulls p~led 22- 17
In the second match of the afternoon. d'le Bulls defeated vtsrtmg Syracuu
Untvef'"Sit)' ]6-1 Rko recorded his second YIC'tOf")' by fa.ll of d'le &lt;by, pmmng
Shzwn Thomas at the 5:H mark.
On Sundzy, UB ~ its second MAC Win wtth a 28-6 VICtOr)' at Mwn1
(OH). The Bulls then defeated Eastem llhnots, 20--19, "' ~ non-conference rNtch
For the weekMd, Schaus and )akA! Partiow both ""•"ent 4-0, wh1\e
Eschenielder and R1ccl bod'! Wf!nt 1·1

Events calendar

Adtton&lt;t f«uuty bhlbltlon

Northern Illinois 74 , UB 46

Western HichiJan 81, UB 6S

MEN' S

To The £dltor:

The Adjunct Faculty Exhibition in the UB
Art c:.aKefy, seconcf
fe.~tures recent
"""" by adjunct momben of ...
o.panmont of Art. Tho •t.&gt;w w;n
continue to ~ - 26. HoUrs for the UB
Art GIJ~ a... ~ .-Sit., 10:30 a .m . to

~a~Ket~all
MEN' S

Print, Idea . Graphu ,
Horizons (a USIA pub -

r~llective 'lbeMail.It is amusing to observe how an
administ ration, which never
tires of blaming Albany, sud denly finds fault when their
own administration is taken to
task as a collective: .. This flies
in the face of any notion of fairness or due process .. they aver
with a straight face.
On previous occasions. some
quite recent. where 1 did name
names, I was accused of ad
hominem attacks-and even
when llefw&gt;ut names and chal lenged specific offices, the ad ministration complained publicly about my (lack of) civility.
It is both rorrect En~h and
established custom to censure or

Repodea J7

M.tl Dean Vee•: U C.loomln.tor
Martr;OeaniJeca's.nstalatioo. EJ
GklorniNtor, rs described ti "a gNl

tiq"" blob huttling through - · and

~=the~~~acrybc
mural, which CoYefl a~walh ol n
~

Gatloty, W3&gt; ;,p;..d bycartooo.
pop art and expres.siorist WOib. It oMfl bt
on display in tho Ughtwol Gallo&lt;y ., u..
Center for the Arts through june
Houn for the Ugh~l Gal~ an!' YVed
~L.

10:30 a .m to 8 p .m., Sunday\.

noon to .S p.m

lnooor lracK
MEN

WOMEN

UB 96 , Canisiu s 8 I

UB Ill, C anisius 48

The UB Indoor tn.ck team hosted the UB lnvraoonal on Fncb.y. With the men
defaang Ca.nisius, 96-81 , while the ¥II'Onlen \IYOf\. II }-48
Kmuu HaJim capcured both the 5S-meter- high hurdles (8 II) and d'l~ cnpl~
fUmp ( 14.)4 meter~), while A!yc.a Croak won the pole or.r.ult. (2 90 meten.) and
tn~jump (10.97 meten)

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Faculty Senate delays action
on administmtion reriSillr.

January 28.1!91/ Vol30.No.18

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By CHRIIDNE VIDAL
N~ Services Editor

ALLING it " urgent and
importa nt ," Pres id ent
WiUiam R. Greiner has
anno unced the fo rma
tio n o f the Task Fo rce o n Rac1al
and Ethnic Diversity at UB.
"'T h e fo rm a t ion of o u r t as k
fo rce is a direct result o f o ur need
to address the key iss ues of d iver sity in o ur un iversity com mun ity,"
G rein er sa id in a mem o ra nd u m
da ted Jan . 21 . "A me n ca's h1 sto rv
regarding racia l-, f'l hnl ( · and gcn
der· based into lerance diCtates that
its inst itutio ns regul arl y revtew the
co ndit io ns a nd att it udes tn our
c urre nt e nviro nm ent to be ~ u rt·
that we co ntinue to move fo rwa rd
fro m o ur past m these regards.
"At UB, we have been careful ovl·r
the yea rs to ;tddn·ss t hc:st~ t!'SU CS bv

poltcy and legtsla tive m anda tl'
However, m recent year's, Wt' have
not condu cted an in -depth mternal review o f the causes. ext ent and
res ults o f racia l and e thn ic d i5
cri m ina tion and their im pact on
the um \lt' rsity comm u nity."
The tas k force will be asked tu
assess th e ca m p us cl imate regard
mg raetal a nd ethnic dive rsi ty. as
semb l t~ a nd a na lyze d ata on earn
pu!l prog ress and ad vtse C remer
on what !lteps need to be: taken to
tm p rove t he umve r s u v·~ pt· rfo r
mance tn th ts a rea .
"We can't solve all of ou r MX. Ietv '!l
proh l e rn~ tn thts regard, hut we ccr
tam ly ca n try to do our fa1r share
and more, and to he Jeader!lmthu.
a rea," Cremer sa td. "Th r neat ton
of th1s task force IS a step towa rd
devdop mg stra tcgll~ .md a~."'t t On!l to
aMiu re tha t we take- and re mam m

~w.. h a leadersh ip role Th•~ •~ ur
gent and Important wo rk, J.nJ m
order that the task fo rce mJ.y gcl lt\
work underway soo n, l a~k that we
'-·ons rirui C" 1h e memhnshtp ·h
promptl y as possihle "
Accord mg to i t .~ 1..harge. thetas'-.
fun. t· wil l he made up of five fa ..
uhv m(·mber3 . three profess1onal
staff mt·mhe rs, two cla~s.tied-stJ.ff
membe rs, three !ltudt·nt and two
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pdrth.ular. the offi;_c) 111 HumJ.n
H.e .. ourtn, Adm i'\'IOn,, .1nJ ltj
Ult)'. D•vc r &lt;;.~t) and Alllrmatl\t"
Adaon Adnltnls tratum
Nomination~ to th e t..t ~ k lnr .. t·
Jrc bemg sought from tht· pruvu't.
scrllur vKt' pre&lt;i ldrnt. 'IH' pre' I

dt'nts; deans; l·ac uhv St'nate h
t· ~.u t lvl' Comm Jt tt·c; Profess ional
~taffSena t e hccutlvt·Lommmce.
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ter chapters; LIB Local 602.
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Counnl 82, Local DIVISIOn JS8.
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Mary Gresham named VP for public service
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Edito r

M

ARY Harl ey Gresham
has bee n nam ed vice
prcs1dc- nt for pubh l
serviCe and urban affatrs, President Willi am R. t~ remn
has ann o unced.
Gresham has 3erved as mtrm n
vice presiden t sut u · Augu .. t 1~ 7~
fo ll owt ng t hl' .tppl'llllll1l'llt PI
formrr ln tcnm \ ' •n· Pre.,1dcnt
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r&lt;·tent ton p r o~r:llt h io r !lllhknb
from und crrc- prrse nt t•d gmup!l

She will work ' ''l th Provost J)avtd
Tn gg lc on rrstruct unn g M 1llard
Fillmo re College and estahl ishmg .1
downtown cen ter for worktn g protl·ss to nals 111 orde-r to further rdint•
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I&lt;u o o s
Phil Rehard, conce.rt manage.r for Slee Concert Hall,
coordinates music department concert programming, including
visiting artist concerts, faculty recitals, lectures and student concerts
and recitals-a total of ISO events each year.
How far In ltdvanc:e do you
hawe to begin pt.nnlng each
concert seaton 1

BRIEFLY
Faculty members
tospHklnGf'Mt
Decl~s Program

nveo ue foaMy.....-.. and
• graduate SIUden! ... be
speoken lor the 1999 Qat Decisions Program preontod by
the Buffalo COuncil on W&gt;tlcl N faiB (BCWA) • .
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topics on preontod fmm 5:
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Tho ue speoken
topiaOit
• Feb. 10: jessie Poon.IWistltnt
prolesor, Deportment of Geography, ·~ : Tho Shadow of
theMirllcle.•
• Feb. 17: jerome Slater, prolos""• Deportment of Politial Science, "Weepons of Mus Destruction: lle-&lt;metging Threat?"
• Feb. 24: Tomolhy llloul&lt;olt.
graduate student. Deportment
of Political ScJence. •eentra~ Asia
~ Coolcor: Tho Caspian
Basin and Iron.•
• March 17: Claude E. Welch,

)r., SUNY Distinguished SeMce
Prolesso&lt;, Deportment of Political Sciena!, "U.S. Role In the
UN: A Otanglng Dynamic.•

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How many concerts does UB
present e.ch year?
We have several series, including
the annual Slee/Beethoven String
Quartet Cycle of six concerts, the
Slee/Visiting Artist Series of five
conce rts, the Slee Sinfoniena Senes of thret concerts and an Or gan Rec ata1 Series of five or six
co ncerts . The Department of Mu sic sponsors between eight and I 0
fa culty recitals and a large num ber of st udent recital:,.

What kind of performance b
the biggest d raw?

grom 1wil be

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It depends very heavily on th e
reputation of th e artists we wish
to engage. While we usually plan a
year to a year and a half in advance,
there a re some artists we are conSidering who need to be engaged
two or mo re years in advance. At
the mo m ent, we are- finalizing o ur
co ncerl se-aso n for 1999 - 2000.
However, there a re cu rrentl y one
o r two arti sts we are interested in
.vho are 1n very high demand,and
need to be contraded now for the
2000- 200 I season.

Pmno a nd v1olin recital s tend to
draw the best, especially if the per fo rmers are wcU -known .

What 's the most challenging
a.spect of pulling together
each season 's schedule?
One of the most challenging issues
fa cing any concert presenter today
IS how to creat ively "stretch " the
budget in order to prese nt the
highest qua lit y, which in most
cases translates to the m o re expen S IVC, artbt s. I have truly enjoyed

facing this chalJenge. II was very
rewarding, for example, to be part
o f bringing world -famous violinist
Gil Sh aham to UB

this past October. People raved
over that concert for severaJ weeks
afterward.
What mu1k perfonnance at
uti h..,• ,._ ..,foJ'ed most7

This is a difficult question because

there are many concerts that I have
enjoyed immensely for a variety of

reasons. Last year, for example, the
music department auditioned six

st ring quartets for US's st ring
quartet residency. Each quartet
under consideratiQn performed
one concert in the Beetboven
Q uartet Cycle as part of the audi -

tion procedure. All of tho~ concerts were very exciting. The
Cassatt Quartet, chosen from that
auditio n procedure, has performed a number of truly o ut standing concerts in Slee HaJI during its first semester as the Slee
Quartet-in-Residence. The Slee
Sinfonietta, UB's professional
c hamber orchestra formed in
1997, has performed a number of
very exciting and interesting con certs in the last coupl e of years.
Another major highlight , in my
opinion, was last year's captivat ing recital by Emmanuel Pahud,
principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic . ) have never heard such
mesmerizing flute playing!

What are the best concert
bets this year7
T here are many. The Cassatt has a
number of concerts coming up
that shouldn't be missed. TheSlee
Si nfo n ictta wi ll present another
co ncen as part of the M- 1 C..on ·

temporary Music Festival in April.
Also, as part of that festival, the
Ensemble Intercontemporain, the
world-renowned contemporary
chamber orchestra from Paris, will
be in Slee Hall performing one of
only four conceru in the entire
U.S. thU year. The Kionos Quartet will perform a concert in the
Center for the Arts in March.

-.ot got , _ lnt-ed In
thetu... 7
When given the opportunity to
sign up for music lessons in elementary school, my dad wanted
to encourage me to follow in his
foots teps. He pulled out several
of hi s high -scho o l yearbooks,
which included a number of pictu res of him playing the tuba in
his h igh-sc h ool band. That 's
when I d ecided I wanted to play
the tuba .

UB has IOIIM unusual perform....:e grwa,-... perauslon enHtnble trombone
choir, to name two. Tell me

- t h e m.
These two ensembles are exactly
what their names imply-an en·
semble of a variety of percussion
instruments and a i choir" of t 6·
20 trombones. Ont can imagine
the unique sounds and rhythmic
intensity that could be created by
a number of different percussion
instruments performing together.
The sound created by a largt num ber of tro mbonists, on the other
hand, is one of the m ost gorgeous,
rich brass so unds I have ever
heard . They each have concerts
co ming up thi s semester, and I
would strongly en couragt thost
who have never heard th em to
make tht effort to antnd.

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One of my all-time favorite
musicians, and one I wish 1
could have heard in penon, was
the legeodary Horowitz. ! have
a number of his recordings. all
of which I adore. A contemporary artist I would love to book
in Slee Hall is Cecilia Bartoli. I
think she is an absolutely captivating performer.

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people

The one thing th at many
people don't know about me,
which I wish they did, is my
deep, personal faith in God and
my Savior, Jesus Christ .
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I wish you had asked how
people can find out mo"' about
the won derful concerts presented by the UB Department
of Music. There are a variety of
answers. People can call 6452921 and ask to be added to our
maihng list and/or our listscrv.
!hey can e mail me at
&lt; rebard @acsu.buffalo.edu&gt;
with questions. Our office is
open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, if people wish
to stop by with questions. Our
events are covered regularly in
the Reporter, Tht Spectrum, Tht
Buffalo News and Artl'Oice. Also,
WBFO and WNED - FM announce our events faithfuUy.
Our web address is &lt;www.
slee.buffalo.edu&gt;.

Faculty urged to get involved in student clubs
Increased support for organizations nealthy' for campus life, Dennis Black tells FSEC
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter

Editor

S

TUDENT academic clubs
could be the venue for get ting m o re facu lty members
involved in st udent life and
fi ll a vo id that h;ls existed o n cam pus since the 1960s and '70s, a senior faculty member told o ther
members of th e Faculty Se nate
Executive Comm ittee at the
group's Ja n. 20 meeting.
During a discussion of facu lt y
involvement in stu dent clubs a nd
organizations, Dennis Black, vice
president for stud ent affai rs, re co unt ed the history of studen t
dubs wi thi n the SUNY system .
Black noted that du ri ng the tur
moil o n campuses that existed durmg the late ·60s and c:arl)' '70s. sys
1&lt;.· m admin 1strat1on adv 1!&gt;ed th&lt;.'
t.:a mpu!&gt;CS to take a "hand!&gt; -o iT o~p
proach" with rcg&lt;trd to student
dubs amlurgamzatiOil!'&gt; The ca m
pu~~ wc.·rc told to collt&gt;ct stud ent
actlvtty fcc~ . th en tu rn th em over
tt11hc !'&gt;t udents, who were to d c:CJde
how to spend the monl'y without

any in stitutio na.l involvement.
That decision, Black said, in effect stopped many forms of faculty
involvement and advising for stu·
dent clubs and organizations.
.. What that did was create a di vide, a void, that has been in exist ence since then and leaves us today
in a situation that is not healthy; it's
not healthy for campus life and it's
not healthy fo r the life of the clubs
and o rgan izations ," he said. " It
dearly doesn't prov ide the opportunity to be as helpful as it can in
providing opport unities for out -ofthe-classroom. faculty -student m
volvement."
Desp ite th e hands-off mandate.'
from SUNY, "t here is the realiza tum here and in o ther pla ces that
we ca n mneast' the expenence for
stud(.·nb and mcn.•ase the cxpt•rt
c:nce for th t.• Lampus w1th greater
mvolvem&lt;.'nl (ol faculty 111 student
duh~ a nd orgamzat1on.o; l," he sa1d.
p01ntmg out that there already a rc.•
:.onll' "~ u cccss sto ne!&gt; .. of facuhv
membt.•rs work.mg with stud ent
orga n1 za ttons.

This involvement is not to threaten
student authority or redirect their
funding decisions or membenhip requirements. Black added.
.. It 's simply to say that we have
so me thin gs to
offer in terms of
o ur experiences,
in terms of support, enthusiasm,
stability; it would
be helpful to find
opportunities for
app ropriate in teraCtiOn
In re-sponse to a question from
C laude Wel c h . SUNY DIStin gUis hed Serv1ce Professor in the
Department of PolitiCal Science.
Black e-stimated that of the more
tha n Sl mill1on m student activ It Y te&lt;.'S expended b)' th e stud ent s
tHl ca mpm eaLh year, a relativel y
:. mall part - less than $50.000-is
:.pt·nt to fund academic clubs.
Welch suggested that many faculty
mcmbeno would be Lnterested in becommg invotved U1 student dubs that
haw "a dear academjc focus."

He lamented the fact that the
typical b ud get of many student
academic clubs runs from $500 to
S1,000 for the entire academic }rear.
"I think there would be more
and serious faculty interest and
involvement if, in turn, the stu dents were willing say that 'gee, we
havt a p riority with academiC
clubs' in a way that does not seem
to exist '3-t this time," Welch said.
Black said that as an insti tution ,
UB aJso hasn't dont its part, mak ing decisions to support some stu ·
dent o rganizations and not others.
.. Whether or not those invest ments have paid off is highly questionable," he said . For example,
should the university be providing
the same level of support to aca demic clubs o r honor societies that
it is to G reek life? he wondered .
Black said his office would be
meeting with the Faculty Senate Student life Committee to discuss student dub funding priorities, as well
as ways to increase faculty involvement in student dubs and organizations.

�January ZB.l!l!tl/Vol.Jll.lo.18

Fa~ty senators delay action

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on adininistration censure
By SUE WU£TCHUI

Roportor Edito&lt;
ER con tent ious de bate- including im pa.uioned pleas 6y sevral faculty members
and a charge that the chair of the
Faculty Senate was partly to blame
for misinformation on the issue-the senate Tuesday returned to its
Executive Commjttee for furth er

refinement a proposal to censure
the administration for its actions
in folding the former Department
of Statistics into the Department
of Social and Preventive Medicine.
The body also postponed indefinitely action on an accompanying
resolution in support of former statistics chair Irwin Guttman that la bels .. any and all aspersions" cast
upon Gunman's tenure as chair as
"an o utrageo us assault on tht
truth." Faculty members were hesitant to ad on the resolution with out hard evidence that aspersions
were in fact cast upon Guttman.
The censure resolution, offered
for a second reading by John Boot.
professor of management science
andrsystems, asks the senate lo cen ·

sur. "the administration" for not
fo lowing UB and SUNY proce d res regarding the abolition of
d ru -granting programs, for its
"br n disregard" of faculty input
via es blished fa culty governance
counci and for the ..actual steps
taken (dismantling of the statistics
department), which will come to
haunt us in the education of our
students, in the advancement of the

science of statistics, in competitiveness of our grant proposals across

the spectrum of health sciences and
core campus areas.. and in our ability to meet the needs of New York
State and wider constituencies for
trained statisticians."

Nicolas Goodman, vice provost
for undergraduate education and an
admitted participant in the
administration's actions regarding

the statistics department, opened the
debate by dissecting Boot's resolution
paragmph by paragraph. He criticized Boot's timeline of the events.
noting that the decision to ,tempo·
rarily suspend admissions to the

OK given

department's programs was made in
a lett..- from then--Pro&gt;rost 1bomas
E. Headrick dated )an. 27, 1998, and
not in 1995 as Boot oontends.
He also pointed out that the doc toral program in statistics has not
been deactivated, as Boot insists, an
action that would require the approval of system administration.

Goodman directed his strongest
comments toward the senate itse:lf,
noting that Chair Peter Nickerson
received a copy of the Jan. 27 letter,
as well copies of ..all documents of
consequence in the dossier...
In fact, he said, Nickerson was a
member of the committ~ that was
created to recommend a structure
for statistics, aside from depart ·
mental status, and which discussed
"a great many issues at great length.
uTo say to me ... we failed to in ·
form or consult the senate is
frankly ludicrous," he said ... 1sub·
mit to yo u that part of what we're
dealing with here is an internal
dispute in the senate ."
Nickerson participated in all of
the committee's decisions regard·
ing the statistics department, ubut
Peter didn't choose to share that
information with you," Goodman
told senators. " No doubt that was
a grievous fault , but it 's not a fault
o n the basis of which you ought to
be censuring the administration."
Re spo nding to Goodma n 's
comments, Nickerson said that he
viewed his strvice on the commit tee as that o f a faculty member, not
as the sena te cha ir, a1though he
acknowledged that his role on th e
committee was not dearly defined
in the letter of appointment.
Many of the is sues discussed
were no t .. something for the sen ate to become involved with ," he
said, adding that he also did not
seek senate advice due to th e com
plexity of the issue .
"There is some blame on m y
part," he admitted. "but I'm not sure
what I would have d one differently."
Some senators speaking against
the resolution objected to censuring the abstract uadministralion," as

opposed to specific persons. Several
spec ifically referred to a mem o
from Provos t David Triggle to

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Nickerson m which Triggle stated
that it is .. totally inappropriate for
'the administration' to ~ coll ec tively censured and that h e hoped
Boot would offer a new resolution
.. that names specific individuals
that he deems worthy of censure."
Triggle aJso offered to discuss
his role in the events, "'absent a

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cloak of group identity."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distin guished Service Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engi neering, called a collective cens ure

"an absolutely silly thing to do."
mathematics, disagreed, describing
the administration as"a well-defined
entity; lik&lt; "the faculty." While indi-

spo~ibilities of specific offices may

appropriate to cite the administra·
tion," he said, calling Triggle's memo
"specious" and "not of use as a serious basis for any action that we take."
President William R. Greiner
said he was offended by talk that
the university was censuring ideas,
and that any request by Triggle
could be co nsidered as "specious."
Greiner tojd senators that if they
did no t want to name specific in·
dividuals to be censured they could
name specific officers or offices. A
collective censure .. rues in the face
of any notion of fairness and due
pr&lt;&gt;&lt;:es.s." he said, suggestjng that the
theme of the senate debate sho uld
be about "the sen ate's co ncern for
process and coUegiality."
For the senate to oonsider "fobbing
aside" a direct request from one of

its coUeagu..- Triggle-to address
the body on the issue .. ) think would
be a shameful thing to do and not in
the hest interest of the body and certainly not in its best traditions."

He volunteen:d to head the list of
those to be censured if senators insist
nn the censure resolution, and told
senators they oould add the names of

Triggk and Headrick as wdl "You"d
belter address that. and be willing to
hear from David {Triggle ) or else.
frankly,thisbodywilldl&lt;honor itself."

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MFC offering a telecourse m
on "The American Presidency"
Mlll•rd Fillmore College ( MFC) and Adelph1a lnternattonal Cah lc
will attempt to help Western Nt'w Yorke rs understand the prestden
tial impeachment proceedings 1n Washmgton byoffenng a telecourse
on "The American Presidency" to VIewers only days after the mate
nalas discussed tn the classroom.
The three -credit course, which began Tuesday. ts taught tw hm
Twombly, ass asta nt professor of politica l scaence.
The telecourse IS open to the Western New York co mmumt y for
th e cost of regu lar UB tuition, plu s fees baSi'd upon student statm
h also is available to members of the public who can vtew the tele
vtsed class sesston s vaa local cable-access tclevisao n at no charge but
without receiving academiC cred1t
"This is intended as a commumty sc rv1 ce from UB to help every
o n e understand the recent headlmes m greater depth ," said \ames
Ande rson, director of mstructional technology a t MFC. ~ It also IS a
grea t opp~rtun1ty fo r regular and non · trad1t1ona l s tudent s to take a
UB telecourst' tn thc1r home."
Twomb ly. a popular poht1C.J.I com mentator. sa1d the timely cours(·
is not a historv class. but ratht·r "a look at the America n pres1dency
a.s an anstitutlo n as shaped by the indiv1duals who occupy the of
flee." He added that ht' IS gomg to alter h1s syllabus for the cou rSC' bv
beginning with the top11. of Impeachment.
MFC offers several o the-r telecourses on local cable televaston . but
thi s is the first tllllt.' a telecourse has been offered dire ctly from a UH
classroom With a tape-d deldv of o nl y a few days.
Those regbtcnng for crcd11 are reqUired to haw Internet access .
For more informatiOn . go to th e dass Web page at &lt; http:/ I
wlngs.buffolo.edu/ soc-sd/ pol-scl/ courws/ psc306/ lndeJ&lt;.html &gt;.
The class sess ions will be tape-d Jl tJ B on Tuesday and Thursd;w
mornings and air at 7 p.m . on Tut•sdavs and II p.m . on Sundav!&gt; ,
repea ting at 5:30 p.m . and 7 p.m. the followmg ~aturda\'.
To register for credtt , call MH . at 829 -2202 and reg1st"er for pl..,(
·' 06 Sect 1on "'T " uf "Thc Amcncan Pres1dency.''

to vote on trustees issue

Call for nominations for
Chancellor's Awards for ·
Excellence in Professional Service

The requirement will apply to all freshmen entering SUNY institutions in Fall 2000 . Trustees left
the responsibility for establishing the spedtic course
requirements and content of the curriculum to the
faculty of each institution.
JudithAdams-~pe. OO:ctor ollodcwood Uixary and
a SUNY senato&lt;, pointed out that the trustees' adoption of the cuniculum violated their own policies, wh1ch
place faculty in charge of curriculum iSSLe.
William Baumer, professor of philosophy, added
that although the SUNY Faculty Senate has been
working on the general-education issue for more
than three years, system administration and tru st ·
ees "ignored .. the body's report.
Malone warned that a greater danger to cam puses than the general·education curnculum wa~
the plan by central administration to institute a
system-w1de student achievement test that will determine .. if we taught (the curriculum) the way
they want 1t taught.,. And the results of those tests
could well come back to haunt the campuses v1a
the performance-funding component of the new
resource allocat1on methodology (RAM), he said .
Although the sena te lacked a quorum to prov1de
an official 1nstruction to SUNY seoatOI'l, Maklne said
he felt it was the "sense ol the house.. that SUNY senators should end~ a resolution to censure the board
of trustees.

The Professional Staff Senate (PSS) ha,:, annoum:ed a ca ll for nom1
na 11ons for the 1998 -99 C han~.rllor \ Award!! for t--..xcc llcnu· 111 Pro
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nnt dtgiblc tor com!d(·ratiOn .
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rt'l.t." IVt' a nomina tion package. c.J II Anna Kedz ln'iikl dl M S 200~
Nomtnallons mu st ht• submltlt•d to the P~~ Offitt". :;;4 ' I .1pcn
Hall . no later th.1n c; p.m . on Feb. 4

The university's represent•tlves to the SUNY Faculty Senate received the go~ahead 'at Tuesday's UB
Faculty Senate meeting to vote in favor of any reso-lution expressing no confidence in the SUNY Board
of Trustees that may come up at next week's SUNY
Faculty Senate meeting in Cortland.
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and a SUNY senator, told the handful of senators re·
maining at the end of Tuesday's meeting that he ex·
pects a resolution to be introduced at the Cortland
meeting to censure the trustees for their adoption of
a general ..education curriculum for the system's four
university centers and 13 four·year colleges without
consultation with the campuses.
.. I need to know ho_w to vote on this issue. should
it come up, .. Malone said.
The UB FSEC on Dec. 16 passed a milder vers1on
of a likely SUNY Senate resolution , one that expressed
.. regret" with the trustees' action .
Th e new general -education curriculum as approved by th e trustee s requires ca ndidates lor
bachelor's degrees to complete at least 30 credit
hours of ~ursework in mathematics, natural science,
socia l science, American history, westem civiliza tion,
other world civilizations, humanities and the arts,
foreign languages, basic communication and reason.
ing, and information management.

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Artist/writer Joe Sacco brings his award-winning work to UB
BRIEFLY
Pan-Am families'
.
lawyer to speak.
exhlblt photographs
Allan Gerson, - - for
low and organludon for the
Council on For&lt;lgn Relations in
New Yort&lt;, will vblt U8 on
Wednesday to pment aid&lt; and
attend the opening rocepdon of
his photogrophy being
held In the School of Alchitecwre and l'lannOlg.
A 1966 .,._of the Ull
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""'month.

Into the 'comix' netherworld
By PAT111ClA DONOVAN
News Servkes Editor

a

CE upon a tom&lt; ,
tran sgressive cu i·
tural discourse took
place principally in
union halls, on cam ·
puses o r among tiny bands of art ·
ists, musicians an d theater folks.
Fo r the past 60 years , however, it
also has stalked the pages of comic
books- not .. Richie Rich" o r
"Archi e," b ut the alternative a nd
underground ..comix" written and
d rawn by ca rtooning anarchists.
The VB Art Gallery will offer a
peek into the '90s version of th is
global netherworld with an exhibitio n of work by in s urgent
co mic-book artist and writer Joe
Sacco, who se award - winning
documentary wo rk has garnered
praise fa r outside his field .
The show will open tomorrow
wit h a public reception for the art ·
1s1 from 7-9 p.m . in the University
Gallery in the Center for the Arts.
I! will run through March 7. Sacco
wiiJ lecture on his work at noon
tomorrow in the Center for the Arts
Screening Room. The talk is free of
charge and o~n to the public.

'Cream of the crop' cartoonist
Sacco is co nsidered one of the
absolute cream of the crop of al ternative and underground cartoonists . Thi s tough - minded
breed co nstitutes the political and
artistic progeny of)ulcs Feiffer and
Robert Crumb, the radical godfather of some of the most notori ous .. toons" published during the
Silver Age of comic book art .
Joined at the brain, dastardly
writers and cartoonists gleefully
wing their brickbats from the cultural margins. That 's where artists
live. That's how you know they're
art.ists. We duck, but sometimes
they hit us right in the head with
an appalling visual assault, then in
the brain with an agenda destined
to horrify young RepubUcans.
Like their predecessors, they use
new styles of visual art and borrow old narrative fo rms--myth ,
legend, parable, and even Saturday
morning cartoons-to makr their
point. Some stories are fantastical ,
some hilariously manic, some very
gross. And some, like Sacco's, are
deeply rooted in fact and about as
.. comic .. as having your foot blown
of( by a landm ine.
Comix to shock
The usua l targets: hypoc ri sy,
sex_ism, racism, power madness,
o ur political alli es, people who
hat e fat peopl e, all ma nner of violence, viciousness, destruct ion a nd
deceit- the com ix shock, knock
and mock. They also take ai m at
terrorism , fooh. corpora te greed.
impenalist governments and life
on the lower rungs of the c.1p1tal
1st o rdc:.·r
There adm llll' dl y I!&gt; plent y ollh e
U!&gt;Ual sinew and women -flesh m
these publkations, and some au
thors write thing~ that"d kill your
dog with one sniff. All mall. how ·
ever, there'.!&gt; a lot of" Zippy th e 1'10
head" (before he wen t legit ) 10
them there ra cks.
Genealog1 ca lly speaking. Sacco
co mes from th e Art Spiegelman

(" Maus,"" Maus II") branch ofthe
comic -book fami ly, in that he
practices "'cartoon journ alism." ,
His stories, logged in pen and ink,
have chronicled the struggl e for
an independent Palestine, war- .
mongering and the daily misery
and horror of the Bosnian conflict and The Hague war trials.
Satire and personalization
are loa ded on top of piles of
dead bodies and ruined cities.
Sacco makes readers see what
he sees-that good and evil
are not adusive categories;
that we He to o urselves about our
own c rimes; that humans of all comics and cartoo•nutg..:&gt;acro
races, creeds and nations murder received the comics ind u stry~s
o ne another every day, then slave prestigious Harvey Award and an
to develop more and more effi - American Book Award in 1996.
cien t ways of doing it.
The sardonic voice of Sacco's Story of society In breakdown
On&lt; of his latest books is "War
comics (some, by the way, are collected and sold in bound versions) Junkie," a collection of stories that
would make ma instream news chronicles a society in total breakpublications wince and run . The down. These are accompanied by
comic-book genre, on the other Saa:o's dear-eyed and What someone
hand, always has had a wicked edge called "disturbingly bonest pmonal
the political right loves to hate. This narration of his own depression.·
nus is an apt topi&lt;: for romics, since
is just its latest presentation.
Having traveled to Sarajevo to clinical depression is thought by
document the Bosnian war, Sacco many to manifest the stress and horwrote and illustrated five self-con- ror of oontemporary life.
tained "Stories from Bosnia" that
"'War Junkie" was compiled
make chop suey of that nation's pur- from short and harrowing stories
veyors of violence men who weep that hall appeared in the periodi when their own are ~sla u ghtered , cals Yahoo tmd Drawn and Quarthen race to hop into their own terly. ln meticulow line drawings
sniper outfits. Critic Ouis Hedges, and commentary, Sacco offers
writing in The New York Times, de- what one critic called ..a whip scribed Sacco's Bosnian drawings as smart dialogue/travelogue on the
"stark, realistic visions of the gray, Persian Gulf War, the civ ilian
depressing world of a land mangled bombings of Europe and Japan in
by artillery shells and deformed by World War 11, Libya and Malta."
poverty."
His story "When Good Bombs
Sacco conveys the banality of Happen to Bad People" is a history
this particular evil by showing the of air warfare that targets civilian
sam&lt; guys ("The Man Who Plants populations. The pictorial narraLandmines,""Th&lt; Great Fighter" ) tive is punched up with devastatin ch..,.y outfits sweating through ing r&lt;al-lif&lt; quotes from military
mating rituals at the local dance and poUticalleadcrs as it thrusts the
haU. Time after time, in nation af- savagery of this stn~ to the foreter nation , he links deluded con- front. It even has a bibUogr.~phy
cepts of "manhood" with appall - and footnotes.
ing acts of violence and cruelty.
This show will featu re work
Last year, Sacco's Bosnian storia from Sacco's early Yahoo series
were nominated for two J 998 ( 1988-92), several chapt&lt;n of Pallgnau Awards--named after car- estine and several chapters from
toonist George Herriman's brick- Soba, a 40-pag&lt; book that opens
wielding mouse. The award is con- his "Stories &amp;om Bosnia.. series.
fer red by Small PubUshers Expo
for outstanding achievement in

To place )oO 5oca&gt; in context. k is
uwiiA 1D -some of the popul.-

art......,. ...

titles in COfric-booi&lt;
richly drown a n d - . ond ...
pensMiy printed; othen ... speedy
demons that - l o r a low Issues

and &lt;isapp&lt;ar - VdMI.Intiretigious.salDiogical.cut.e,tobloidt&gt;o--,ou name it. It's published
by an ltP&lt;pendent pres that has •
f&lt;latively small, b u t enee. Cornia Control in Buffillo Is
~ Oty Boolcs on Main Stroet,
where )'OU tin tJke I comic~
thrill ride and listen "' the r.gulan
-..ewhethe&lt;S.tmanlsc.oole&lt;
thin The
'tooners In "Chlsing Arrrf'?lt's o
mve
out then!.
• "Mininun Woge Book 1" exposes
the
of proto5lod«n
who langUsh in low .. so.m..xl.
You won't lice 'em but )'OU'I recogl'llize 'em on the bus.
• "Fat Gmt." comic series by cortoonlst Nony Lamm, • young rodic:al component of the "fat..a:eptanc:e rn&lt;&gt;v&lt;ment. • graphially Cltllogues and battles "tot prejudice.• •
• •candor,• one In a series of trueIWe boles published by 0011&lt; Hone
Press, feotut&lt;S the enormously irritoting HaMy Pebr, • neorty deranged hospitol file der1c who lives
out the iruect~ilce OJ&lt;istence of
many low-flll!IO bureoucntlc
hlirbolls. Through his Job, Hltvq
"witnesses" torl1n,. murder, suicide, arson, child abuse and aH
of daily Arnerian moyhem, which he generously and

Spawn.-""'

new-

,...,_!Nos

grophlcally shat&lt;s with his • "Sake )Od&lt; Comicks" is 1 top-sellIng loponese series mort&lt;ed by K·
t1on accented with glirnp5es of
dirt&lt;. dlsturbJng and a&gt;nfused ...
pects of Japonese life.
• for 1&lt;01-!Ke tales, ched&lt; out the
worit of Dennis Elchom ("RNI
Stuff,• "R..I SnM. • "RHI
Schrnud&lt;"),. seii-Oescrlledstud-wimp-jodl~end&lt;r­
bouncer-lftfighter-substonce
abuser-rock 'n' roller-sinner and
Sllnt whose sordid -.go .... published by Cutting Edge Comix.

--a

• "lnc1SrioJ GotNt"

"'"*' ...

CX&gt;n-

Rod Selng themt.
a ...... i n - psledlon and
bMJty "*the dly ond t h e .. -ln!D I'Lge prisons. Hey,
Joey, is data_, on~ nod&lt;1
• 'The -.go of Hotheod
hbMI" from Oeis Press f8tures •n
eponymous homJcJdaJ terrorist (which Is. by the way, the
p&lt;OVIiling cultJ.nl definition of "lesbian") who olfeB cathanls for~­
etyl&gt;ody, including menl
• Ontheighterand--sld&lt;.
Sllw Labor Press puts out • Action
Gir1"- I series of M. gOI-paoitM!
- . , . most!yfenole oomic-book
writing stors. l i e ¥ Rlrrich,k4~

lrt. look "" ""' apocalyptic
"8&lt;-. Moo, •• book o f of roodom&lt;lay glaclatcrs
who ldl for money n a
of tog.

Sacco's "Soba" plants ~-- by dooy, commits fuhlon crime by nlght.

�JanuafiZB.l!I!PJI'Ioi.:Uo.lB Rapa..._

Innovation in health care

New business center to mave research into marketable products
ay lUBIIOOLDaAUM

marketing manager and with the

News Services Editor

UB Office of Technology Transfer.

I

through the efforts ofAssemblyman
Robin Schimminger, the HCBC also
has been able to hire an experienced

MAGINE Buffalo, Rochester and so uthern Ontario as
an internationally recog·
nized corridor for innova-

tion in health ca re, with UB as a

critical component.
That's the vision that led 10 the formation of the new Health Care Business Center (HCBC), a joint vmture
ofUB and the Health Care Industries
Association that will allow the region's
heallh-&lt;ar&lt; indust&lt;y 10 capitalize on
marketable products and pi'&lt;X%SS&lt;S
that develop from research at UB,
Roowdl Park Can= Institute, Kaleida
Health and the Catho~c Hospitals.
According to the Health Care Industries Association, a nonprofit
organization designed to support
and promote the regionaJ health care industry, this corridor repre-

sents the fourth-largest meilical deve lopment market in North
America, with more than I00 research institutions, 265 medical
manufacturers and 95 hospitals.

Strategically located in Cary Hall
in the School of Meilicine and Biomeilical Sciences on the South Campus, the HCBC serves as a focal
point for fostering n~ opportunities between locaJ companies and
UB r&lt;S&lt;archers--whether they are
in the schools of meilicine, dental
medicine, pharmacy, engineering.
management or arts and sciences.
"Locating the Health Care Business Center at the hub of medical
research at UB is key," said Luke
Rich, vice president/regional di rector for the Empire Stare Devel opment Corp.
More than half of the inventions

registered with th e UB Office of
Technology Transfer have been in
the area of health care.
But, explained Rich , getting to
the next step-where an invention
is refined, adapted and mar keted-is hardly a utomatic.

"Traditionally, the diffi cult y
with academic research is in mov ing it from the paper or project

stage to the product stage," he said.
That's a complicated process, he
said, and that's where the Health
Care Business Center can really help.
The HCBC will work closely with
the UB Business Alliance's new

With state funding, obtained

technology-transfer liaison.
.. Hiring someone who under·
stands the methods of transferring

the research and knowledge gained
by the r&lt;S&lt;arch community at UB
and Roswell to companies that can
tum them into products, grow new

jobs and expand is one of the most
important functions of the Health
Care Business Centc," said Rich.
Together with Mary Ellen
Ra.stunan, executive director of the
Health Care Industries Associa -

'The

cllfflcultJ with

--.nk resun:h lsln
moving It from the ,;._

or profert sbge to the
product stage...
LUKE RICH

tion, Rebecca Weimer, the HCBC

technology-transfer liaison, will be
working to maximjze networking
between and among UB health care researchers and industry.
Weimer, who worked for I0 years
at MDS Matrx. most recent1y as di -

rector of the international department-says that the kq to a flour ishing health -care sector in Western
New York is networking.
"The whole foundation of th e
health -care indust ry is netwo rk -

ing," she said. "People like to do
business with people they know ."
To that end, the HCBC is putting out the welcome mat to both
local and regional health -ca re
companies and to UB researchers.
..The mort we learn about how
professors work and develop research, the bette we will be at hook-

ing them up with business people."
she added "This is a hotbed of opportunities fo r coUaboration; we've

got to make sure that starts happen ing with the goal of keeping business in Western Nl'W York."

For the first time, the HCBC will
provide UB rf!Searchers with a di rect connection to industry.

.. Fmdtng a company w1lhng w
take a discovery. test and refin&lt;" 11 .
m anufacture 1t, get 11 approved bv
the FDA and market 11, ~~ 'JO per
cent of the battle," sa1d Bruct" A
Holm. a~ociatc dean for resean.. h
and graduate st udi es in the mcd1
cal school. "This liaison servrce l!i
not reaUy within the repertotrl'S of
most scientists, isn't readily atthe1r
fingertips and has not ever been
available at this mstitut1on ."
The most pressing goal of the
HCBC is to sta rt to turn around
the venture-caprtaJ chmate m Buf
falo, Weimer said.

To that end, the HCBC, m coop·
eration with Rand Capital Inc., will
sponsor the .. First Western New York

Venture!E&lt;j uity Forum" March 3-4
in the Hyan Regency. Efforts are
under way to bring in vent ure capi talists from outside Western New
York to hear presentations on the
strength of the local health -ca re
mar~ to convince them to invest
in local companies and stan-ups.
.. We are puning together a pro gram that wiU bring a focu s to th1s
area as a health -ca re m ecca,"
Weimer said.
In addition to presentati o ns by
officials from major investment
fi rms, a technology showcase will
demonstrate the great variety of

5

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Search engines for news junkies
has to be the first to
know about the most recent Washmgton sca.ndal, o r the hottest happen
mgs on Wall Street. or perhap&gt; the latest Middle East cnsiS? If so. then the
An you a news Junkie-&lt;he lwld of person who

ne-ws- spt."Cific search engJnes on thc-lntemet are th~c to feed your hab1t.
One of the more sophisticated search engmes for · news as Newsbol
...-http:/ / www.newsbot.com "&gt;. Newsbot scam over 150
Web sites and uses its own search algorithm to
buiJd subJect se~ ofbrowsable headlines. The
site permits book-an search techn1ques and
allows you to sort search results by date or rel evancy. If you are (poking for the most up-to-theminute news. try News.hub at &lt;http:/ / www.newsttub.com &gt;. whtch
has updates every I 5 mmutes. If mternauonal news lS important to you.
then News Index at &lt;http:/ / www. newsindu.com &gt; and TotalNews al
&lt;http://www. totalnews.com &gt; 'ihould find a place on vour browser ·~

bookmark IISL
The Web Site With the most extenSIVe&gt; arch1ve~ I) Newslibrarv at
&lt;http:/ / www.newsllbrary.com :&gt;. NewsiJbrary dtffers from other
news search engmes 10 that 11 IS fee -based Uypacal charge for an ar ·
t1cle is SI.95), and prov1des access to a d 1g1tal arch1ve of news artacle.s
for maJor U.S. newspapers . .....uh arch1val coverage
for some papers gomg back to the m1d to late 1980s.
O ther news-only search engmes worth explonng
a r(' NewsTracker at &lt;http:/ / nt .exdte.com &gt;,
NewsTrawler at &lt; http://www.newstrawter.
com &gt;, Northern L1ght 's Current News at &lt;http:/
/ www.northernllght.com/ news.html&gt; and P.d

perboy at &lt;http:/ / www.paperboy.net &gt;.
You'll find these news engmes and much more on the redes1gned
BISON (Li branes' Web ) ~search Engine" page at &lt;http://ubllb .
buffalo . edu / II bra rle s I se arch I

searchlnt.html &gt;.
'f~M~t!~
ForasSJstarJCe 1n connecrmg ro th(• World · J

Wrde Web,

corHacr

the CIT Hf'ip Desk

at

-Gemma DeVInney and Don Hartman,

UntvenJty LJbrones

medical product!l being developed
locally and at UB. some of which
are available fo r licensing.
In .-.oognition of the fact that most
start-ups form with an emphasis on
engineering expertise, as opposed to
busirn:ss skills, the HCBC is.creating a

Business D&lt;vdopment Program that
will provide new companies with assistancr in marlccting. 6nancial planning. human resotJJtES and regulatory
issues.
With the cooperation of all the
major health -care institutions, as

well as UB, HCBC also has devel oped an economic-development
proposal a nd submi tted it to the
governor's office.
.. There's a really exciting feeling
about this." Weimer said. " Everybody has signed off on it, including

UB, Roswell Park, Kaleida Health
and the Ca tholi c Hospita ls.
Everybody's o n the same page."
For more information, rontact the
cmter at829-3888 or fax at829-3885.

BrieDy
Researchers to conduct study
on health risks of police work
Researchen In the Sc.hool of Medicine and Baomed1cal Sciences
have received a one-year grant from the Nataonallnstitutt of Occu pational Safety and Health to conduct a pilot study on health and
psychological stress among Buffalo police offilers.
Tht goal of the project is to determine problem areas of health
and stress, and provide a starting point for developing servaces to
help po lice officers. Results of the project may be used as a model
for police agencies throughout the U.S .
Previous research has sho wn that police wo rk is a high-stress, high risk occupation and that the health of officers is affected adversely
by such co nditions. Psychological stress experienced by officers may
have an impact on personal hea!th . family life and work performance.
John Violanti, clinical assistant professor of social and preventivt
medicint and a 23 -year police veteran, i.s tht lead researcher on the
project. Violanu has conducted several research projects investigat mg potential health risks of law enforcement. John Vena. professor
of social and preventive medione and a speoahst an occupational
health risks, will be co-1 nvestagato r.
The study will be conducted th rough the Department of Socaal
and Preventive Medacme's Center for Preventive Medu.: mc . located
on the South t.ampu~ .

University community urged
to report paycheck problems
The new state payrollsyllem, P.w"R . tmpknwnt~.-•,.J tn I k\. cmlw r
ha~ ~Omt• wrinklt~.,thatlht~ {)fliLt' (ll llum.tn Rn,, urlt., 't•n Ill·'· ...,1 ,1\ t
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January 18 19!!1/Vol JO.Nn 18
International students take lessons In culture, language to WNY classrooms

BRIEFLY
Brown 8aQ VIdeo
Series to De presented
Thr.. videos In the spring 1999

Brown Bog -

Series will bo
pr.....,l&lt;d in Februoly, Mon:h
and April by the Pl'oleslonal
Stiff SenAte ond Its Prole&gt;ionol
Doveiopmont CDmrnittft. The
video

~llltlons

... co-spon-

K&gt;f&lt;d by t h e - L-.hip
~Center, Ollluol
Student Life.
All tine videos will bo
5hown from noon to 1 p.m. in
106 Jocobs.
A one-hour video on •Humor, lllil&lt; ond Chlngo• will bo
shown feb. 16. The video will

help audience merilbers fum
how to dul with chlnge •nd
stress by ~ting a '"humor
perspectlv&lt;.• It is designed to

help J)'rticipanu overc.rne
fear of embarras.stT"'ent. ~cess
joy In odv&lt;nity ond &lt;&gt;v&lt;reome

"termlnol prolesslonolism" by
taking the self lightly and th•
;ob seriously.
A 39-minute video on "Effective To........t, • georod to a..
ating more effecttYe wott telm$,
will bo ~l&lt;d Mon:h 17. The
00.0 wll expllin ~for

&lt;rolling • lHm constitution,
collaborating to crutiY&lt;Iy solw
problems ond conducting ....., ..-.g., Porticlplnts ...
encouroged to llllond with their
team~Tl0~1l~&gt;ers.

The third - I n the series.
"Be Pn!plrod to Spool&lt;.. wll bo
offered on April n . ~will
sup-by-step pooces ot

ooiline a

composing ond doWering quo!~ ~lions ond speeches.
To oll&lt;nd the video pn!SOI&gt;-

ta!Joru. Qll 645-2003.

Emeritus Center to hear
Henly Louis Taylor, Jr.
Herwy Louis Toylor, Jr, assodoto
prolossor In the Deportment of
Amerlcon Studies ond dirociOr of
the Center for Utbon Studies,
will bo the~ wh&lt;n the
Ernerit1ls Center moots ot 2 p.m.
on Feb. 9 In Goodyoeor Hill,
SOOth Lounge.
T h e - will bo proceded
by an Ernerit1ls Cmter boord
meotlng all p.m.

Dental-school dlnlcs
enrolling new patients
The School ot Dental Medlcino
is enrolfing potlonts In need ot
all ospects of dentol are. Clinics

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a.m. to noon and l ...f p.m.
~through

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Global Ambassadors open world view to kids
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
New~ Sf'fVIC"ro~

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dn oul lt'd ~h p1ogr.111 1

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h1~h hhool
'tudc:nl\ !rom
throughout Wc:stern Nt· .... York
llu: program , caJied ~c ,Jotlal Am
h,t,~tJ,,r, ," wa.\ developed hv tht·
W ll m ~nllaborahon wtlh thc:l)ffiu·
, ,t lntc:rn.Jtum.U l-duwlmn It offer,
llltt'rt...,.tnl K I~ '!&gt;tudc:m:t ..1nd then
t~..·.tlht·r, ·• hn.thand tntroductJnn to
tn tnn.Jtton.tl .._-u lture. a.nd lanb"Uagt&gt;
'tudtt"' w-.th the: il'l.\IStanceof l 1R stu
,lt.·nb fro111 nMm' natiOO!I
•\t tht• H"Jllt"l ut d tea...hcr. mtc:r

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from f'9defs commentJng on i~

flnt

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mosl part, ha!! prt&gt;vl&lt;lu.\h nut lll&gt;t.'n
n:qum.x l of Amt'ncans
WYoung Amew..am nt1'1.1 to rt~dl
li t' that ' human nature ' ts not svn
om• m ow; w1th ' the Amc:nc.an char
J...tcr .'" Ashw1 ll satd .. Our global
amhas!ladors have been verv sut

u·ssful

help1ng to prompt tht!l
awart"ne~ . even m young children
tn

\ ''' t1 1f' .tl'&gt;~ • hdp 'it udcnts to !lalnple
tht· 'l't.'.ll.t:r' language and answer
thl'tr I.Jtll"&gt;llllll!l, !IUch as what \ tht·
nw:mtll~lll tht·lmuh the: rt&gt;Jdot that
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~endits both th e voungs tt·r!l

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dt·n t'i th e 1r first expenencr of an
A.mc n~. an !&gt;dlOol a nd pre!lent.~ dn
oppor tumtv tor th em t o o ffr r tn
lormat10n Jhnut th e n l.tnguagt'
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t',tt-d audtelltt'
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't udt·nl!l wtll h..tvt: to tk vclor .111 llll
dt·r.wnJmg' ,, hh' ht'Vlllld tht• l lnllt'\l

tnr ~ o ffer Am e n ca n sdwol ktds .J
flnthand v1ew n f tht· world h e
,·ond th t: l ' ~ hH manv o f tht&gt;

... t.Ut-.... I hi!&gt; t\ '&gt;~ll llt'thm ~ that . h 11 thl.'

'\hPol .. htldrt·n

tht" Yl'll h,,,

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das!l

Houghton 's small student popu
lat10n hm1ts the num~ r of mter
nat1onaJ studenL'i attendmg St.hool
there
• At Tonawanda H1gh Sch ool. In
dnnestan and V 1etnam~ student'
made pr~ ntatt o n s to an mt ema
uonaJ busmes!l dass

m.ukcd 1heu f1rst meetm g wnh a
per!&gt;On lrom an ot h (' r to untrv "
( .lnbal Ambassadon have made

• A French student srudy mg phar

num&lt;'rous prese ntat iOns 10 Jrea
~c h ooh, each of wh iC h reflected
the age and comprehen sio n levd

~.uhu r t' prog ram at Kenm ort \

macv at UB partiCipated fo r etght

weeks

10

a fu ll -fledged language/

I md~rgh Elementary School
.. VJ'hen the Lmdbergh program
fin 1s h ed," sa 1d Ashwt11, '" the chal

of the aud1cn ce Among them
• Ros1 Garoa -La.... telan, a Mextca n
student . spokt" to 80 fifth -graden

d ren had n ot onlv learned quat a
hn about han ... e. but wanted 1t1

at St C regorv the G reat sch ool.
when· sh l' dtSlU!I.Sed tultural events

study French Now the KC'nm ort'
M tddle School has new recru1t!l f,,,

t~ nd llft-style tn Mex1coCity; sh ared

tts French language program
~ The mternatto naJ st udents have
told mt that tht&gt;v found the Amen

many c ultural a rti fa c ts. like map'
t.Otn!l, ~~eh gJOu!lu.uns a nd postcard.\
wtth the stud ent,~;, and encouraged
them to attend coUege
• ( .o ura n ga Sa h a. a studen t !rom
lndta . !iopokt· to fres hm en o;;odal
,~..~cnLt' siUdenl!l

a t Wtlltamsvtllt'
"ou th llt gh &lt;)t hoo l .tbout poht1
~a I and econ om tc tSSU('!I m lndJ.I .
Ha ngladesh and Pak1stan
• Lu1 s La hre ra, a student f rom
&lt;.olo mbt a, VISited ~~ V mc ent
l&gt;t:Paul ~- h ool m Elma
• Thrt'e Iapan ('~ '\IUdt·nts madt•

... an studen ~ vt:rv tnthusta.suc . at
tt'nt tve, we ll -hehaved and cun ous.'

ht· ~ td .. They seem genumclv m
tt'rested m other cou ntn ~ and cui
lu res and ask many questtom ~
t-or mfo rmatto n, call the World
Languages lnsurute, pan of the l&gt;epartment of Modt:rn Languago and
Lllt&gt;ratures. at 645-2292, or VISit the
&lt;;(obaJ Ambassador homC'page at

&lt; http : / / wlngs . buft.lo .edu /
globalambauadors ~

Clinic offers treatment for anxiety disorders
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the AnXJetv l &gt;tsorders C hnK ts pw
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7

O bituary

A-

Edith E. Sproul, 92, professor emeritus of pathology

..me. Is ....... planned for Edith E.
Sproul, a renowned pathologist who served as a
pathology professor at-the UB medical school and
as associate chief cancer research pathologist at
Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Sproul, whose work
with George Papanicolou of the Cornell University
Medical School in New York City led to d&lt;Vdopment of the pap smear, died )an. 19 in Roswell Park
after a brief illness.
She received her medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia Uni versity in New York.
Before coming to Buffalo, Sproul was a professor of pathology at the Columbia Medical College
and later was chief executive officer of the Department of Pathology of the American University in
Beirut.

While in New York she was the first to describr
the relationship between gene raJ thrombophJe.
bitis and pancreatic cancer and the first pathologist to describe the histological characteristics of

MElt'S
St. Bonaventure 61, UB Sl
Central Hlchl1an 7' · Ull 70

early prostatic cancer. Along with Charles
Gutman of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, she
discovered the association bdween pros-

apinst Mid-American Conference opponents: BaJ Sate, 64-S8,onjan. 21,and
Contra~ MlcNpn.79-70,on S.wn!ay.

tatic cancer and the prostate specific enzyme acid phosphatase.

=~~oric~~~~sf::;:,;:'!::

•!li"'IIJ!.."'IJ!

She was a founding member of the pathology committee for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and a member of
theAmeri.can Association for the Advancement of Science.
She is survived by her husband, Arnold
Mittleman, professor emeritus of su rgery at

=·~.:~~~ts
shoodng 9-ol-11 from the field and 2-2 from
three-point n.nge.. Win Campbre'l added Is
points and 12 rebounds off the bench.

led~ ~w~=of~~~,....

Godwin. Godwin scored 12 points in fWoe
minutes offirst~acdon to pull Bufbkl w
withtn JS. J2 at 1ntennbsion. He finished the
nl&amp;ht with a ~r-N&amp;h 26 poina. Louts
Campbell added 12 points and dght r't'bounds
for Bul'r:llo. whUe Nate johnson had Sf!V'efl
.-.bound&gt; off the bench.

Task Force
root in the spring of 1997,
when the Faculty Senate's Affirmative: Action Committee recom mended its formation to address
issues pertaining to race separately from those pertaining ex·
dusively to women.
The recommendation was en ·
dorsed by the full Faculty Senate
in November 1997, and the rec·
ommendations were forwarded to
the president.
At that time, the Faculty ~nat~
recommended that among Jts du ties, the task force consider salary
inequities; recruitment and retcn ·
tion of minority students, faculty
and staff, and indusion of minorities in po~cy and decision -making,
and recommend solutions a.s they
may seem appropriate.

Focus of the Task Force
The Task Force o n Racial and
Ethnic Diversity at UB will
assess the campus climate regarding racial and ethnic di versity, assemble and analyze
data on campus progress in
th is regard, and advise the
president on steps to improve
our performance in this area.
In particular, the task force
will advise on:

(4) Methods of identifying, en couraging, developing and retain ·
ing leaders from underrepresented
groups;

(1) Improving the ca mpu s
climate for racial and ethn ic
minorities, with full consideration of the special needs of
diverse and underrepresented
groups;

(7) Means to assure that faculty,
staff, and student governance bod·
ies reflect the racial and ethnic di·
versity of our society, and

(2) Possib le d~leterious effects of past university policies and practices regarding
racial and ethni c diversity in
our campus community and
steps to remediate any such
effects;
(J) New or- revised university

policies and practices regard·
ing appointment, advance ment, co mpensation and re·
tention of faculty and staff,
which may be necessary 10
...prder to assure that UB's fac ·
ulty and staff reflect the ra ·
cial and ethnic diversity of
our society;

(S) Recruitment and retention of

a student body reflecting the racial
and ethnic diversity of our society;
(6) Methods for developing a cam pus environment that is free of ra cial and ethnic intolerance;

(&amp;) Developing processes of re ·

spo nsibility and accountability at
all levels, and from all members of
the US community, regarding our
progress in achieving a campus
whose popu lation reflects and celeb rates the racial and ethnic diver·
sity of o ur society.
The task force will deliver an tn ·
terim report to the president on or
about Dec. I , and co nclude its
work at such time as determined
by the president after consultation
with the task force and other ap ·
propriate co nstituencies.
The task force shall bl' com
prised of five fa culty members.
three professional-staff members.
two classified-staff memht:rs. three

students ( undergraduate,
graduate and professional ),
and two community mem ·
hers. The president shall appoint two co -chairs from
amo ng this group.
The task force will include
as ex officio members se ·
lected members of univers1ty
staff, particularly from Hu ·
man Resources, Admissions,
and Equity, Diversity and
Affirmative Action Admini~ ­
tration.
The president shall ap ·
point th e members of the
task force from a pool of
nominees proposed by the
provost ; senior vice pres1 ·
dent; vice presidents; deans;
Faculty Senate Exe cu tiv e
Co mmitt ee; Professional
Staff Senate Executive C.ommltlee; Health Sciences and
Buffalo Center C hapter s.
United Umver si ty Profe!&gt; ·
sions; UB I neal 602 , Ctv li
St• rvKc..' 1--.mployee!&gt; A~so.:1a ·
t1on: &lt;.. :Ouncil8 2. Lo..:all )tV I
sion 358, Publi( Employee:"~
Federation; Studt"nt A ...sot::Ja ·
tum; &lt;.;raduate Studtnt A!\50·
C1at1o n; Gradua te Student
Emplo)'cc..·.., Unwn; LI B
Counol. and Alumn1 A......u
oatmn.

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po;ms.tr..assistsandlourst.eals.
The &amp;Is only tnlled by ctv... poina"
halftime. 33-lO,durinc the pme opinst Boll

Roswell Park and UB.

and the state - to actively develop
and advance the most diverse, equitable, progressive and productive
climate for higher education."
Noting that the population of
New York State is one of the most
raciaJiy and ethnically diverse in
the nation, Greiner said that '" historically, New York has had a large
and very significant commu nity of
African Americans, but they are
being joined by rapidly increasing
numbers of Hispanic Americans.
Asian Americans and other emerging ethnic groups.
"The future of New York State
will depe nd on this highly diverse
populace, aJI of whom deserve and
must have equal educational and
economic opponunities."
Creation of the task force took

In the lou to t:he BonNes~ 2.457 fans In

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mate for racial and ethnic minori·
ties, taking into consideration the
special needs of diverse and
underrepresented groups, and
making sure that faculty, staff and
student governance bodies reflect
the racial and ethnic diversity of
society.
The charge call s for th e task
force to deliver an interim repo rt
1o the president by Dec. I .
The Task Force on Racial and
Ethnic Diversity at UB, Greiner
said in his memorandum, "will
enable us to better serve our large
\ 1 and richly diverse university com ·
1munity. Its creation signals UB's
absolu te commitment to uphold ·
ing our responsibility - for our
own UB family as well as our many
consti tuencies across the regi on

Ball State 64, Ull 5I

WOMEN 'S

UB 59, Central Michigan 56

Northern Illinois 77, UB 68

The Butl's WOO'M!:n's ~~ team nwncuned fa perfect home-&lt;ourt record
(g..()) a.s it defeated MAC opponent Centnl MChipn.S9-S6.tnAiumnf~ on
Jan. 21 . UB lost on the road in a double overtime thriner- to Northern IU1001s.
n ~.on Saturday.
In me vk:tory qajnst Centnl Michigan, seniOr point guard Cathenne J;acob ·
became the ninth pbyer in UB ~'s basketball history to score I ,000 pomu
in her career at the 19:00 marl&lt; in me second half.
Three pl~n scored in double figures.lnduding two with double doubles
Jacob~ the team with 16 points and pol~ down a career~ 10 rebounds.
while sophomorf: center irffany Betlrec:.orded I 3 poinu and I0 rebounch.
SeniOr forward Sanuntha Cerny was ~so in ~ fi&amp;ures: for the BuRs wnh 12
po;na. Sophomo"' gum! Sonia On&lt;ga paced the 8ufblo defense with sex ne.l&gt;
In Sawn:by·s MAC action qajnst NIU, 10m Coon paced Coach Cheryl
Do:uer·s team through two oYe~ with 22 points. whi5e Mvl McClure
added 16 poinu. Bell scored 11.

~wimmin~
MEN' S

UB ll6, St.Bonaventure 101

UB 161,8owlingGreen75

The UB men '5 5Wtmmtng team mama.med ~u perfect record and moved to
1·0 m the MAC (S-O ovenll) last week after defeating Western New York
nvaJ St. Bonaventure, I 36· I 0 I. on Jan. 2 I and -Mnnlng lu first conference
meet of the season agatnst Bowltng Green, 161 -75 . both m Alumm
Naatorium
In the meet agatnn the Bonntes. the Bulls ......ere led by Ertc Stimson (200
tndivtdual medley· I :S7 45: 200 backstroke· I Sl.33: &lt;400 medley reby1:27 71 ). Dan Htckey (200 freestyle- I :o4l.4l. 100 freestylf'-'46 .7: 200 freestyle
relay·) I 1 16) and john Nilles (SO freestyle -21 19: 400 medley and freestyle
relays). who had three first-place fin1shes ~ece
02Yf! Sofer captured both the one-and thrM--meter dMnc compe:ooons
wtth scores of 226.65 pomu and 247.57 potnts . ~ Other fimi)bce
finishes orne from Juon McUchlan tn the SOO frft.sty5e (4--45 07) and Krvtn
Kelly on the 1000 t-tyl&lt; (9-.52.65)
In the meet aga•nst Sowhng Green. the Bulls were led a.pJO by Somson wttt1
umes of I:S7.8ltn the 200 tndMdual med~. I :SS.90 in tfie 200 ~~ and
3:28.66·.n the &lt;400 medley reb:y for three fim.ptace finiShes. and Mclachlan.
who had WinS tn the SOOfrHs.ty\11!: (-4-49 21) and the 1000 ~ (9--4197)
WOMEN ' S

UB 152, Bowling G reen 148
The UB 'NOf'Of!n's SWtmmtng team tmproved to 2-2 1n the Mtd-Amencan
Conference and 6-l cwen.n as n; narrowty defeated Bowitng Green. I 51. 1-48. tn
ItS last mf!f!t of the season tn Alumru An!m Natatorium.
Inger Rooneem led Coach Doru ~d's squad With first-place VKt.Ones
In me so~ (2-4 4S) , the 100 freestyie (53.08) and the 200 tndMdua.l
medley {lciO.• I).
Jen Broderick (.500 freenyte 5· 1-4 98, 1000freestyle-IO:S996) Uld lftoselle
Tnnicbd (100 butterlty-S8.37. 200 butterfly-2.1 I 76) had two fim-pb.c~ fintShe
opec•.

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N ew Yor1c State Collegiate C hampionships
lhe UB wrestling team finished third out of 21 team~ 1n the New Yorlt SCtte
CoUegiate Championships hekf at Binghamton
Jacob Schaus was the Bulls· lone champion. fimshtng m fin:t plue m t he
17-4-pound division . Schaus finished With a -4-0 record tn the toum;~men t
and used a 2-0 dec1slon over Dan Pe:rry of Oneonta to take the
champ1onsh1p. Schaus also recorded falls m hts first three wm s of the
toumamenl.
8run Sch;uJ toOk second pbce tn the I 2S-pound dMSton He fin1shed Wl th
three Wins- two by falls Uld one by techntc.al fal~fore losmg to A.Jron
Taylor of Com~! in the champlonsh1p
John Eschenfelder took third place wtth an mcredtble perlorm;~n ce 1n
the heavywetght dtviston. EschenfeJder lost hts second match and had to
come through the consolaoon bncket. He fimshed w1th ,. S- I re&lt;ord
wtnmng all five matches by fall Three of those five were falls tn the first
minute
The Bulls fimshed thtrd WTttl ,. sco~ of Ill Cornell won the champtonshtp
wtth 188 potnu and Hofstn fint~ se&lt;ond wtth Io4 7 5 Columbc:J fintshed
behind UB in fourth pbce WTttl 99 S pomts

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Q&amp;A-Peter Killian explains the role .
that marketing plays in UB's future.

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Libraries' diversity recruitment
strategy m national spotlight

January 21.l!m/~_ 30. No.17

Snow,
Wall to
Wall
Undaunted by mountains of
snow, students moved back
on campus last weekend,
ready to begin the spring
semester. Framed by wall s
of snow are, from lett.
Moneissa Green, Alinka
Wadolowski and Roxanne
Evanitsky.

Supercomputing facility established at UB
New research center 'puts UB on the map' for high-performance computing Ell
11f WD1 GOlDBAUM

appronmately S1.2 million m com

News Sefvkes Editor

T

HE university has estab·
l ish~d a world -cJass
computatio nal research
facility, dramatically

transforming the university from a
campus without a supercomputer

into one of the top - I0 academ1c
supercomputing sites in the U.S.
Creation of the Center for ComputationaJ Research, whic h will
provide faculty members. studen ts
and indu strial and educa ti onal

panners with the best

t echnologic~

available for creati ng and advanc -

ing knowledge, was announced Fn
day at a press conference by Presi dent William R. Grein er.
The center. featuring more than
$7 million in computer eqUipment,
has been made possible by a gtfi of

puter equipment from IBM and a
substantial co mputer-equipment
grant from Silicon Graphics. Inc.
The center also is being supported
by S I million in funding from
SUNY. a S300,000 grant from the
National Science Foundation (NSF I
and a gift of 5300,000 in computer
equipment from Sun Microsystems
The university is making an 101
I tal investment of approx tm ateh
S 1.5 million to create and suppon
th&lt;" centf"r.
Thettnter's 58· processor IBM R..\t
60tX) SP computer, a next·generauon
version of the- Deep Blue computc.~r
that beat chess grandmaster Carn
KasparOY m May 1997, IS one of onlv
a handfuJ of such madunes man .t~o.a ­
dcmiC laboratory in the U.S.
The.· ccnteraho fcatur~ aM -pro

cessor S11i con G rapht cs~» Ort gmlOOO Scrverrw that ts one of the
most advanced models of tt.s kind
in the State o ( New York and among
the most advanced 1n North Ameri can umvers1ttes. The 'cNUMA ()n gm system with more than 6JX)()
proCe!tSOr.'&gt; )t't the record as the
World '!&gt; rash..--st Compu ter on Nm
7. 1998, runnmg mort' than 1.6 tnl lton ~o.alculattum 1-.cr stxond of SU!t·
tamed pt&gt;rformJn~o.e on UNPACK
Th!!t carnc.-d ~1hum l. raphKs tht'
top spot on the lop ~) ( umputer
l1~t. the et..~utvalent nl the lndta
napoh.s SOO race 111 tht' u)mputt·r
tndu.strv
Ta ken together, tht· ~upen.Pm
puter!l 111 the l·enter wdl he ahlc to
I..Mf\1 out more than 60 bilhon operat ions per SC'(Ond. They wdl g•vc
the cen ter th&lt;' Gtpah tlll \' of pt•rform

mg a calculation m one day that
m1ght take two years to complete on
a h1gh-end personal computer
"Thi~ cenrer puts UB on rhe map
10 terms of htgh -per(ormanu'
wmpuu ng,.. S3ld Russ Miller, pro
fessor of co mputer sctence and en
gme-enngand th .. center's dnector.
"II takes Ul&gt; from hemg a mator
teJ&gt;earch UOI\'CtSIIV (Omple teh
lackmg 10 h1gh -performance com
putmg to being one of the leadm!:!
academH. mst ituttons.,m the u)Un
trv Ill terms of supercumpu11n~
power The fac dntcs ava il able 111
the ~o.l'nter wtll allow our fa c. uJr,
,,nd rt·'Oearch affi hat eJ&gt; to pur\Ut'
\tgntlu.anth- more advan,cd
lOmput.HtonJIIv hascd Sllt'llle
and all ow our mdustnal partnt'r'
to step up the-tr R&amp;D effort" "

Bemarclino retools med school offices, staff
tif ~uth

ERSONS who thought
they had mastered the in tricaoes and idiosyncra s ie s of the medi cal
school 's Ca ry- Farber-S her m an
complex will need to draw a new
mentaJ map this semester.
Michael Bernardino's a rn vaJ .tl&gt;
vice president for health affatr\ ,
with responsibilit y for ove r secm~
th e university's health -sc lt'nc..e:sc hools and reva mpin g the med 1
cal school's clinicaJ practice plan.
set1n motion a se ri es of offin and
departmental relocations.
A new ahhrevm tion also has bec:n
added to the camplL-. Iex•con - BEH
- wh1ch rcler!t to the Btomed.Jcal
Education Butldmg.. known since 1b
constructton '" IIJ82 a.J&gt; the CfS ad dition. Tht· R1o lllC't.ltc..al Educauon
Building 1s not tn ht.· confused w1th
the BiomediCal Rt~an.: h Building,

Campu s'!~ newest strul
ture. whiCh was complct(."&lt;i m II.J96
The foll owmg IS a sum mar\' ol
stgmfica nt ~hangcs . All move!\ Jtt'
expected to ht' co mpleted hv thr
end of the thtrd week m lanu.uv

Vice Presid ent's Wing
The first floor of the )&gt;\llllh wm~
of the Biomedical Edu(J. tH lll Bu1ld
mg. formerly housmg \lean Jo hn
Wngh t and the med1caJ school )ur
port staff. ts bemg transformed mhl
the \'ICC pr'--stdcnt 's wmg. Th1s sune
ult \tTi~o.t'.!&gt; \\'tJI hol.l.l&gt;e Bemardtno and
lm "t'l' rct.Hv . .1long w1 th the staff ol
the ncwlv ftmned LlHAssooa tt.~. tht'
mt•JtlJ.J "t'r\ ,. . r organtzat1on that
wtll provtdt• ~o.t•ntrahu."&lt;i accou nung.
managt'mcnt ,md legall&gt;Crnu.~ for
the dtmal pra . . tl~o.t· plan
The a:-.ststanl \-I~T prn td t'nt anJ
gene ral cou nsel. th t' . ts.st .. tdrH VI ce
pres 1den1 for re~omtrlt' m,\llagt:
ment (fo r ht·alth ..~ffdtr' ). tht· ~ h1 e l

opcrat•n g offilt'T lor tht· prad1u·
plan and th e rned ~eal C&lt;\mphand.·
officer tor the prMIIl"t' plan Jl ..o
wdl he ln~ated here
Dean's Wing
Wngh1 .md h tl&gt; .!&gt; tall wil l mow
mto the fir )&gt;! floo r o l thr RFR'
north wmg ahovc tilt' ,unum. 111
.m Jrt'alurmerlv OHu pu:d tn ~tu
dent stud\' larrcb Jnd the mt•dt
~o.al aJmi J&gt;.!&gt;IUn' offilc I he .. tuJ\
area ll&gt; nov.• loldtt'd tHl tht• th1rd
floor ttl !·arher Hall, whtle medt ~al adm tS!!IOtb moYed Jov.•nstatr'
10 the.· ~round noor. tntn thl'
for mer student lolkt't .Hl'.t. !'ltu
dcm loLkt'n Wt'rt' delt·ntrJit7t·J
thro ugh o ut tht· hliiiJ1n~
Bruce t lol m, dl&gt;Mll.: latt· dt'dn lor
research and graduate studto. and ht.!&gt;
!itaff will move mto offiet.~ Jl"ro~ tht·
hall from Wnght 's l&gt;Utte, 111 rt'lli)V"J tt'\.1
1&gt;pacc used fom1erlv a.!&gt; a staft luunf!t'
and SmaJI t.nnfc rt:'OU' rtlOfll rht•

Lrpp:.hull l .onterenu• Room LX~o. u
p1cs tht• remauung sp:.u.e m thL, wu1g_
Mt·d•~o.al !lc.hool dt"vdupmen t
.mJ Jlumn• affatr" offi\C) . fm
merh lo\,att-d on tht• BI-R' l!r"l
tlou r 1 n wh.ll 1~ nov. 1 ht \ 1 ~ ,.
prt."!lldl'Jl(!l SUitt', WJ\1 be \t\l,HCJ t \ 11
the lin.t Ooor of l ..Jn 11.111
Relocation of Communicative
Disorders and Sciences
rht• Dep.trtn1t'lll nl t ommunr\ . 1
ttvc l&gt;1~lrder' and 'xtt·n . . t-... t ll\
mnwJ trnm Par\.. H.t..llto the "-t luth
(..J.IlljlU!&gt; Ill late lk'\:Cillhc.·!,.tltht\U)!h
11 rt•mJJO.!&gt; .th~n t'ti J~o.adt'lllk.t..lh w1th
tht' ~ ollegt•ol :\rt.\ .lll\1""-l{'nu-... I ht
mnw unllt"'i tht· dep.Jrtmt·nt ' \ .tn
Pll' ~o.OitlJ"'(\fll'nl"llll \llll' ~.lllljlU" lb

c•ntt·r lor Heanng and I k . ttnt''" .1
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. . t·ntrdte&gt;. on ha..~11.. rt~drlh ulto tht
nt·uroh•ologt..:.tl and t'll\ tnmmt·nuJ
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.... ' -· ~al chemistry. has botn oppointedlt&gt; a
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editoriol boltd aiTI&gt;«nttmm
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putation and Modtl;rg. TCA
publbhes al asptCts al _.n:h
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modeiW&gt;g. Goo also """"'on
the ed;tort.lboold altho }oumol
ofMof&lt;tulorGrophla &amp;Modd-

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Grophics and Modeling Sodety
and the American Ch&lt;miClll
Society's DMsion a1 Computers
in 01emlstty.
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Conferences and Spodol belts,
has botn elected chair a1 the

boardalditectonalthe
AmheBt Chamber al Commerce. f1&lt;9on wiH begin his
term Jon. 28, when he Is sworn

in at a chamber h.Jncheon at
da.ssics V Restaurant in
Amherst.
- - . _ .... odjunct
prclessor in the Department of

American Studies, has an exh lbl~ •st&lt;&gt;&lt;e Front Churches, •
documentary photos taken
from 1958-60, on display In

the Erie County Historical Soci-

ety through March 27. Theseries capturing the fervor of
congr~

small African-American

gations on BuffaJo's East Side
was the fint majol effort for

Rogovin, a natk1nally recog..
nlzed d'oc'umeiltary"phofogro-

pher.

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Groy Professor al Poetry and
lette(S i nd the author of ~
tha.n 22 bOOks and critiGII es-says, Is appearing In a series a1
'
adverti$ing spqts for tho "Yellow Pages* that ... being
shown on nat:lotul tek!Yisiont
· inclUding during rnany a~ ·the
top

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L&lt;wi_tz .(*S.tu(!lay Jo!lght live••
*City Slickm") plays the •autho&lt;" al the
Pages"
book and Bernstein plays Its
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critic" in the caption.

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UB scientist explores hormone, cancer.link

REPORTER
The Rtporter

Peter klllh1n, djrector of marketing, began working at UB on June I .
He previously was senior vi ce prcsidentldirector of communications for Marine
Midland. responsible for all business and corporate marketing efforts.
co ntinuously changing environ - that will assist individual un its an joint effort With snoeral groups
achieving their recruitment and on campus, including the ofAll too often people define mar · ment and a very savvy customer
financial goals. Implementation of fices of AdrnU.ions and Publiketing as the process of adverti s- with a variety of needs., in order for
these plans is scheduled to begin cations and University Faciliing and sell ing a product or ser· us to compete and excel in this en ·
during the spring semeste r.
ties. This lobby area was a key
vice. But that is only a small part vironment and continue: as one of
impression spot for many of
of it. In the broad sense, market - the nation's top universities., it's an Wh•t's the biggest ch•llenge
absolute
necessity
that
we
establish
·
our
C-ustomers, including proto Ull's m.orltirtlng efforts?
ing is the cumu lative total of all
activities that are necessary to rnp a long-term plan to effectively meet A larg&lt; challenge we will all face spective studenu, parents, cura group focused on its customers' the needs of our customers as we continue on this integrated · rent students, staff and visitors.
needs and adapting its products throughout their lifetime. An inte- marketing path is to reach a bal- The objective of this project
and services to meet t.hose needs grated marketing approach is a ance between the distinct needs of was to create a warm, welcoming envir~:mment focusing on
now and in the futu re. Basically, major component of such a plan.
the individual units and the over·
our divenity through the US&lt;e of
the marketing mix consists of th e Do you n..rttet higher educ.all branding effort of the univer4 Ps: product, price, place and protlon In t h e - Wrty you do-- sity. A strong marketing program a variety of large photographic
motion , all of which must con- -product. such .. is a combination of image/brand - panels. In addition, we wanted
tmually be reviewed and adjusted puteor~senlc:e7
ing and individual-unit programs. to create a signature wall that
based on the co ntinual feedback of While marketing higher education These efforts have to work hand would proudJy display our inthe customer. To suc&lt;&gt;essfuUy un: presents some very unique chal · in hand . Individual program s terlocking UB and supporting
dcrstand your customers. ongoing Jenges. the overall process that one should in one way or another con- typography. In the near future,
research is an integral part of any must undertake is essentially th e tribute to the overall branding of we hope to expand this prosuccessful marketing program.
same as with other produ c;ts and the university and our central gram to various other key loserv ices. We are all in the cus - branding effort must help units cations thr.oughout campus.
Do
tomer-satisfaction business and in achieve their indjvidual goals.
Tell me something
n..rttetlng
prognom, or b this • MW tnnd7
yourself th•t molt people
order to be successful, we must Wh•t's the most m•rlc.etable
don 't know but should?
Whi le most colleges and univer · insure that our programs have the •spect of Ull7
s 111es co ndu c t so me aspect of proper focus and address the vari - Recently, a first -year graduate stu - I have an open -door policy and
market mg . II ts definitely a new ous com ponents of the marketing dent described the university as a love to brainstorm ideas with
mi.x . No matler what produd or
trend to app roach marketing in
sleepi ng giant. I think that was a people. In fact, I truly believe
an mtegratcd manner. In th e past. service you offer, you still need to very accurate description . The there are very few new ideas
think
about customer perceptions,
(ollcgcs and univer s ities have
university has a multitude of posi - that are generated, just old
looked at marketmg from their competition , target markets, prod - tive att ributes that are not asser- id~as given n~ life ver). O.euct
attribute:i,
dist
ribution
chan
paspec tlve and offered a produ ct
1
tively commu ni cated to past. ativ~ peo~l~.
for sale . The customer co uld nels. price , value , promotional present a nd future cus tome rs.
Wh•t question do you wl"'
( boose to buy or not. Today, more tools, location , etc.--all focusing Among these is the diversity of our
f INcllllked.. -....,. would
and more universitt es are looking on meeting a customer's need.
programs. faculty, staff and stu- you h.ve answet'ltcllt 7
to the cust o mer for the product ~
What Is the focus of US's mar- dents. This diversity creates a
How can we help with the marand se rv ices that will be so ld . keting pl•n 7
learning environment, which
keting effort? First, by reme:m -'
Duncg the past several years, UB
meets
th~
needs
of
a
wide
range
The 1999 strategic marketing plan
bering that everything is driven
has been m -the forefront in help ·
of customers and allows these custng to ch ange how we approach wi ll focus o.n the evolution of ou r tomers to excel in both individual off of then~ of ot.rr customvisual identity and the develop ·
ers. O ur job is to find sensible
marketing.
and nationally renowned pro ment of an agg re ss ive image /
sol utions that advance the unigrams. In addition, this environ Why Is m•rketlng Important
hranding program. These plans
versity and provide solutions for
to US's future?
ment is available at one of the best
evo lved from a variety of research
our customers. Second, we need
values anywhere in the nation .
The answer to that quest ion an he projects in vo lving the di rect feed ·
to continually be aware of th~
summed up in one: short phrase: back of many different customers I undershnd you were revisual identity of the university
"c ustomer va lue ." Today we .1re and target audiences. In addition sponsible for the new look for and help to promote this image
Capen
Lobby.
Tell
me
•bou!
tt.
faced with increased competition , to the overall image program ,
in everything we do. Remember
.1 more 1nformed target market. a there will be many ot her projects Actually, the lobby effort was a that marketing is you!

Home pregnancy-test developer studies homwne detected in testsfor involvement in tumors
By ELLEN &amp;OLDBAUM
News Services Editor

T

HE UB scient 1st whost·
basic resea rch in the
1970s led to the dcvd ·
opme nt of the take hom e pregnancy test IS exploring
a possih le link hetwecn the hormone that test detects and so me
cancers.
"There ts a lot of evidence tn the
lit erature that point s to the fact
that human chorionic gonadotro pin ( hCt.;) is involved in the de
velopmcnt of some malignant tu
rnors." sa1d l)m Bah! , professor of
b~nlogJCal socnce~.

Accordmg to Bahl. current dt
agnost iCtests detect up to 70 or 80
pl.'rCt'nt o l tumor~ . If hCG 15 Ill ·
vo lvt·d m tumor development . ht'
addt•d, expandtng cancer ·screcn
1n~ effo rt ~ to tt·st for tl o r II!&gt; suh unit s rmght tn crcase the y1eld 111
terms of tumors dt'tt'ltcd hr 2- \
jll'TCCIH.

The ho rmon t· 's norm.tl tun c ·
uon, sa 1d Hahl. 1!&gt; the one with

which sc ientists--a nd any woman
who has had a baby-are most fa miliar. During the first trimester
of pregnancy, it stimulates the p~ ­
duction of hor mo nes necessary
for implantation o f the fertilized
egg and the maintenance of pregnancy.

nuue growth function is suspect
The hormone aJso promotes tis
sue growth and 11 is that fun cti on
that co uld have a link with ca ncer.
Hahl explains. The largest amoun ts
of human chorionic gonadot rop1n
Jrt: produced hv utt.'nnc tumo rs;
lung and tes lt lu lar tumor!\ abo
produ ce 11.
The ea rl r · prt'g.nancv tc.·s t ~ used
today Jre des1gned to d.t:tect hCG
tn urme . They are based on results
of Bahl's rc~e-arch some 20 year!&gt;
Jgo. wh1ch later was li ce nsed from
U B by C.ortt'r-Wallace, ln c.
Bahl 's new preliminary st ud1e!&gt;
.1ft: cxamim ng the ro le of hCG a.s
a growt h factor in tumors.
Specificall y, he •~ lookJng at the

in tr ace ll ular signali ng mecha nisms tha t are responsible for
hCG's cellular growth -promotion
and differentiation properties.
" We want to answer the cause and -effect question,n sa id Bahl.
··we don't know if it is hCG that
ca uses the tumors or the other way
arou nd ."
Bah! said it already is known
that hCG induces genes responsible for producing proteins th at
regulate growth.
" Excessive growth would indicate that these genes are being con·
tmuaJiy activated," he said.
Sub-unit&gt; In hCG isolated in 1970
In 1970. Bah I isolated the sub units in hCG,_only one of which is
specific to the hormone . That
work and subsequent research he
performed at UB resuJted in the
development of the widely used
p regnancy test , which can deted
pregnancies in urine as early as
o ne mont h after conception .
Baht 's patent for the antigen

used in the ea rly -pregnancy test
wa s awarded to the Research
Foundation of the State University
of New York in 1981.
A UB faculty member since
1966, Bah! continuously has received research granrs since then
from the National Institutes of
Health and the World Health Organization.
A winner o f the pres tigi o u s
Sc hodlkopf Award of the Amen ca n Chemical Society, he is listed
111 "Who's Who in Ameri ca."
" Who's Who in Fro ntiers of Sct c ncc and Technology" and
"Who's Who in American Edu
cation
Bahl was h o nored with th e
Medical and Life Science Award ol
the National Co uncil of Asian In dian O rg anizations in North
America and was a Dernham Fel low of the American Cancer Soci ety.
He served as chai r of the De·
partment of Biological Sciences
from 1976-83.

�January 11.1!1!19/Vul. 30. lo.17

Changing the face oflibrarianship
Success afUB diversity recruitment strategy wins national attention
By PAmOA DOHOVAH
News Servk~ Editor

I

N 1992, the University Ubrar·
ies initiated an o riginaJ and

aggressive racialJethnic diversity recrui tm ent strategy that
has proven so successful that it has
attracted applicants from all over
the country. And those who have
become part of the program not
only have infused fresh new blood
mto tht&gt; libraries themselves, b ut
are helping to cha nge the face of

th em to consider the field."

of the program.

Wells and Johnson-Cooper note
as weU that mino rity students who

As one part•c •pant1s co mpletin~
a maS"ter's degree at U B, two oth
ers--min on ty graduates of SJL&lt;; or
any other librar y sch ool m tht·
U.S.-a re getllng a leg up. proft&gt;S
s1onally spea kjng , 111 a two -year
professional residency as reference/
mstruction librarians with the rank
of vis it ing assistant Librarian .
During their residencie-s, these

do complete degrees in library
studies frequently face th e usual
extant discri mination whe n ap plying fo r thei r first jobs and so
find it harder to acqui re the pro fessionaJ experience and publish ing opport unities that will he lp
them m o ve up the ladder.
'"This program helps overcome the

employment barriers for these pro-

libraria nship in the United States.

graduate students, getting hands-on

The program was developed in

"utlno, NJOtlve American

res ponse to a 1991 Am eri ca n Li -

tnary Association repo rt citing the
vast underrep resent atio n o f mi ·
norities in the library field.
Margaret Wells. director of the UB
undergraduate Library, points out
that only 13 percent of librarians in
the U.S. are from minority groups

and -

them,' so they "-e very
few role models to
encour~

that are even moreunderrepresenwd

~

c\eased instructional programs, bet

tel" o ne-o n -one service to student s,
cxteUent ro le models fo r mino riry
st udents, un usuaJ exhibitions and
performance programs, fresh pro fessional perspectives and mcreased
staff creativity and flexibility.
Librarian Glendora johnson-Coo-

per, manager of the UBprogram,S3ys
the problem of underrepresematio n
stems in part from the fact that young
people from minority communities
often don't rtal.ize the excellent career opportunities available in the h ·

brary field, most with good benefits
and salaries and many offering great
opportunities for research and proft..'SSional development .
" La tino. Native Amer1 can a nJ
hlack st udents rare!)' see librari a ns
who a re ' like them ,' so they have
very few role models to ~nco u rage

students rarely

see Ubrarlans who .,.. 'like

them to

consider the field ."

in academic libraries.
The aim of the UB program ~ ~
to an c rease the pool of Nat1ve
Am e rica n , La tin o and African American librarians by aggres sively recruiting minority students
mto a three-year program of (jbrary
education, internship and residency
des igned to enhance their profcsSio naJ statu.-; and employability.
The program, which now serves
ll.!l a model for o ther academ ic m
t1tutions. also h as produced many
nexpected be nefits fo r UB-in -

young librarians spend a great deal
of time in direct con tad with under

GLENDORA JOHNSOP«:OOPER

fess•onals." Wells says. " It kicks ex cuses for underrepresentatio n to the
rurb. At the same time. it has allowed
us to offer much better service and
education in library research meth ods to our undergraduates, and particularly to our minori ty students."
Wells emphasizes that the pro gram could n ot have been devel oped without the help and coopcra
tJOn o f UB's School o f Informatio n

and ubrary Studies (SILS), the Offia.· o f the Vice President for Public
Service and Urban Affajrs. the UB
Libraries and the O ffi ce o f the Vice
President for Student Affairs.
Sh e desc ribes th e int ern sh1 p /
res idency program that has so far
tra1ned n in e librarian s as one that
accommo dates three participants
at a time in a st ru ctured three -year
program of academic tra.ining and
wo rk experience
At any given time, one of the three
is a Schomburg Fellow, a minonn·
graduate student enrolled in the U K
School of Info rmation and Librar:-·
Srudiesand working toward a tnastt..T's
degree in information and library
studies.. Upon completion. that stu
dent begins a two-year library res•dt..-ncy that makes up the second pa rt

teaching experience as weU as p rac tical experience in collection devel -

opment and special project_&lt;.
During their residency years they
receive full support from the univer·
sity for professional traveL Wells says
the program also provides st rong
, mentoring from fellow librarians,
the university and the profession.
" Residents work with the newest
techno logy and contribute to our
DigitaJ Libraries In itia ti ve,'' say~

Johnson -Cooper, "and they're sup·
poned by UB as they develop theJI
research agenda. We also help them
to prepare a schola rly a rticl e for
publication in a peer- reviewed jour·
nal and get them involved in locaL
regio nal and national professtonal
o rgan.tZatlOns
~ S3ys theopportunityto praale&lt;
and enhance professional skills andestabli&lt;h a research rerord early in thCJI
careers makes thcrn fTl()fe compenuve

when seeking ernploymenL "When
they're finishcd," )ohnson-Cooper adds,
~ they have an impressrve record o1
professional acoomplishment, wtuch
~why many of them already 1\avt, positions in academic libranes..~

iohnson-C.ooper says the program
offers many advantages to UB as well
" It makes our ~'brari&lt;s a friendlier place
for minority srudents., who comprise
more and mo re of our undergradu
ates.'' she says. Th e acadcrruc lihrary
am be very intimJdaUng to st udents
who have never encountered such an
ctl\1ronm ent. who don't k.now how
to d o bas i( research and don't know
who 10 ask. l:or som e minont y !'tu
dt•nt~. a librari an they can 1dent1ty
WJth and talk to will makeaJ I the d1f
ft:r~na· in th(· world 1n whC'ther the'
feel at home- h ert~. It may t•vcn hdp
to keep these kids enrolled ."

The interns: a record of accomplishment
Recent gr.duate Musa Abdul
HokJm ~ typical of the young li ·
brarians being tr.Uned in the LI-

toriographical and discograplucal taxonomy of Mande studies, which rc-

brary Internship/Residency l'fo-

to the Mand inga

gram. Watching htm at work in the

people and to their
homeland in Mali.
He taught 25 li -

fm to a large Afri=language family,

UGlduring his internship {liM' Onlookers a dear picture of his special
ronnectio n to students.

They readily tumt'&lt;l to him for
assistance. He warn-.ed to them immediately, asking one student about
tu.s d.'lSSeS. cajoling another to ex pcriment o n BISON with tech

niqucs that he demonstrated, SlJ!t·
gcsting to one oonfu.&lt;ed young man
new ways to find library maiL-riaL
He told some about exhibits. autho rs and topical material.
H ak im already h as es tab
Lished an e nviable reco rd of pm fessional accomplishment. He has
pr&amp;--nted papers to professional

organizations and puhlished a Ius-

brary instruction
classes and work-

shops. and assL&lt;ted
the Dqxliimcnt of
African Arnenclfl
Studies with the development of ada -

taha...,. He pn-'&lt;t!lltcd t"&lt;}exhi&gt;uion;, oo
Flmina Slave GNles in Ghana, W'S AI
llGl. and ''Africm inftU&lt;JlCfSon the Mu
.sK.oftheAmcricas." Upon complenon
~1 1

the UB residency. Hak:itn was h1rt'\J
,1 \ibranan at Buffalo State Colk-gt.'
Hi-.acrumplishn-.ents are rnany,hut
he .... oo an unusual case. Program
unpant M1guel Juarez finish ed hL\
ma&lt;;lt.'f·~ and has ~ a book on

d.'&gt;

rw

the desert murals of FJ 1".150 and a
journal artJdc about IJ"lOelSing Latino
porticipatioo in museum and public
history srudit_-.. He amted a case-law
pathfinder for the Umvers1tv of

WJSroOSin'sCofrin l.ihr.II)' and wn~e
a biography of artJSt Mage&gt; llrut&gt;1
Gandara for the antholof.~· "llnil
nary\1\bmen, ExtraordinarY l.J\,_,..
Fir&gt;t-)'!lli re;identA!ys.«.· ll.lor
dan has been tcaclun~ undL'rgr..du
atcs and developing research gu•b
Iili th&lt; UGL Wcb~tc.Shedt.,.,Jor&lt;'&lt;l
la.\1 sumrner'!i Pa~ r1 l mcntauon
'x~ 11..·m.;; \Veh srte. l"Oorduwntxll f( ;1
p.-u11~.-1pauon m .-.css•orb for i_:;(X)
lrt.-shmcn and n""'-'l!ot'd the I.Jbrary
'\lulb Wnrkhook lor the Fall 1998
~11x~cr Shl' l'lt"glm a llt"'\V ,uh t.tus
Jlll.l/lth,l'&lt;;tU,j!iOC:OI.."'e ll~ Ul."inK ·
tn111 u"&lt;.mhnahJr/soaa.l "-nrk lib rar
t.Ul 111 the U.·hm.m Si..x1al ~•enccs
Lthr.tn ,11 l .ulumh1a Umverslt\'.

Y2K@UB
Can my computer or any of my
software "catch" the Y2K bug'
No rhe Year 200U p r o hl~m IS nnt a \'lrU\ and '0 ~..annu l ht' Iran\
lllltlt'd tht' wav~ \"lru~e' ~..a n Ho wrve t. vo ur P( ~..ould " carch~ bad
data from another P( . LAN st:rve r. or ma1nframt· 1f the program
that produu•d tht· d a ta ust•d J 1wo digit date format
Al\o, yo u r h.trdwar e LO uld he u&gt;r rup1 ed tl HlU download
nonLompltant soh ware !rom the Weh and then pas~ that data to
vou r systt·m This .. lret.•wan·'" J' well a~ 1llegal -.oftwa rt' 1-.ohwart·
that ha~ not het.'n ltLt.'n'&gt;t.'dJ - InJ\ he non Ln mplt.tnl .1I..n

f)o I have to test everything'
You p robablv won 't have tht.• rt'~l urn-s tCllt"'!ol t'Vt.'rvthmg rh.tt' wh\
an assessmt· nt ol vour cqutpment aod 1b funl11on i~ ~~ Important II
vour assessment 1dent1fies an\' LrltKal w-.tem~ ( Jn o tht•r wonh, sv'
terns that are c nt~&lt;:al to the wnr~ Vtlu r 11ffi ~.:t· paforms i,then vou mu't
test those sv-;tt'ms. And don 't for~t't support sv-.tcm~ vou depend on
to function at work . such ;c. al.trm ~y.;; tt·m:. on t~ntranLC doors .tnd
departmental phone svsten1:1 th.u mav bt.· date -dept.·nden t
If you haw Y21\ qru•strons tlwt I"P U would J,j_,. mrswt"TI'ri m tin ~ to/
unm , ema1l them to c goldbaum @buffaJo.edu •

BrieBy
Elizabeth Grosz to present
Distinguished Faculty Lecture
The e&amp;ploratlon of possible connect ion s ht'tWl't.'n I )arwm\ tht·o
ncs of biologica l evo lu tion anJ ft·mmt sm w1ll h&lt;' the !opt~.. ol the
ftrs t UB Ins titu te for Research and l:.du GH1o n on Wumt.·n anJ ( rt.•n
der Distm guis hcd f;ac ulty Sprmg IY99 Lecturt· 'Wrtt.''
Ehzabt"th Grosz, proft•ssor of ~..ompa r at\Vt' ht aature Jnd nc:wh·
dppom ted Juhan Park Cha1r 1n Human1t1n . Will d•~~.-uss '' Darwm
and Ft"mmJsm: Prelm11nary lnwstt~atiOn ., mt o a Pos~ 1 ble Alhan~e'
at 2. p.m . Feb l 0 m the &lt;.en ter fnr tht.• Art s Saeenmg Room
A recept 1on w11l follow 1n tht.'t.t'ntt"r for the Arts Atnum l• l hun11r
l ,rosz. wh o 10 10 ed the UB faculty th1s semes ter. The lecture .tnd n.·
~.ep tiOn Will he fret.· and ope n to th &lt;" publi c.
A s..:holar m fcmlll!SI theorv. poh t KS dnd l:untpt'an phtlomphv,
l ;ros7 has pubhs hed more than 80 Journal article\ and book chap
tcrs. and has edtted mne antholog1c!'&gt;
()ngmal ly from Au~rral1a. shl' !aught (Tt tr cal theory. phdo~oph\' anJ
women 's stud ies from 1992 9S at Monash Umversity m Melbourn e,
where shr was dtrectur of the lmt1tutc for Cultural and C rrtJc.al Theory.
She also h.ts taught at the lln1vr rs•t y of Sydnn, tht· Un1vers1ty of
R1chmund .l ;&lt;·orge Was hm~wn l ln•vcrsll\' and The Johns Hopk1r1 ~
lJ niVt'rSI{ \'
Her hoo~ m dude " ~exual )uhversllllh. Thr.:c ht·n ~.h 1-emull~b.'
"' lacqut~s Lacan . A Femm1st lntroductlon ,""Volatde BuJ1es ~ Tu,,•arJ
d t :orpnrt·.tll·l'mrm~m " .md ")pall' , Tmlt' .tnd Pcrvers ton h~av~ on
tht· Pnllli(' of Bodlt'' ..
~ht· ht)IJ., ha~..hdt1r\.mJ J()o,:ltlr..tldegrt.'t.~ Jn,rn tht·L imwf'ilt\ tll 'wtlnt'\

Gibson authors New York
legal-research gu ide
Ellen M . Gibs on, ..~~~ou.tlt' Jt·.tn tor lq!..tl miPrm.l
11011 't.'n t1..t'' tn lht· I .1w \~h11nl .1nd Jirt'I..!Ur of the
l h.HI&lt;•, H 't'.lr:o. I,\\' l1hr.t n, h.1' puhiJ~hed tht• fH"s t
~nmprdlt'll\tVt.' lt·~.1 l rt·,earth !!u1dc on Nl'w York
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t•rful l'\'t'll\\ 11\.tkln~ ur tht• 1.ll\' 'k)!.tJ.1nJ ~U\'t"rlllllt"O[aJ l':'W•It'nu• .
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OOIGNG fo r the best way
to di sseminat~ informa tion about your campus
event? Look no further
than the o nline U Btvents calen dar.
Launched in July, the interactive
and searchable calendar takes ad·
vantage of the latest technology to
make it easily accessible to mem bus of the un iversity community
and allow them to publicize their
events more widely. The database
also is the fo undation from which
th e Reporter calendar is compiled!
A unique feature of the calendar
is that information from its dat.aba.se
can I&gt;&lt; sorted based on topic. kqword or email account of the indi·
vidual submitting the info"!'"tion
and display&lt;d as a customized calendar o n another Web site. The
School of Nuning has crttted such
a calendar by pulling the entries submin ed by registered usus who are
faculty, staff and students in the
sc hool. This capability a ll ows
submitters to manage digital assets
by avoiding redundancy in calrndar
creation and aUows events to be
publicized !&gt;&lt;yond the scope of a
departmental or school Web page.
Creation of the interactive and
searchable o nline events calendar
was an initiative of the university's
Web Team that involved work by
professional staff and student as ·
SIStants in the university's Office
of News Ser vrces, EJectronic Mc-dia Uni t in the Office of Publi ca tions and the Office of Comput -

mg and Information Technology.
The calendar"s amplementation
has involved an even larger col laboratio n , s1 nce its success and
effectiveness involves input of in formation from representatives of
schools, departments , centers ,
programs, offices and student organizations located on both cam puses and at affiliated teaching
hospitals. More than 170 individu ·
als on campw already are contributing items about events held on
a.mpus or under UB sponsorship.
UBevents can be viewed anytime, anywhere by anyone wh o
can access UB Web sites via the
lnternet. ll provides instant information that can I&gt;&lt; identified by
day, week and month.
The online calendar also is in·
stantly search able. information
can I&gt;&lt; searched based on factors
that include keyword, date, range
of dates and location. It also is
searchable by the type of event:
academic, alumni, athletics, con feren ces, exhibits, films, lectures,
intram u rals , meetings, performances, readings, seminars, stu dent events and workshops.
The online calendar is available
through a number of Web sites,
including a link on each secondary page of the UB homepage,
&lt;http:/ / www.buff•.- &gt;. the
homepage for UB Wings &lt;"ttp:/
/ wlngs.bufflllo.- &gt; and the Of·
fice o f News Services Web si te
&lt; http:// www.buffalo .edu /
news &gt;.
Users enter information for the
calendar on a Web-based submis-

saon form , which is available at
&lt;http:/ / wlngs.buff.....edu/ ul·
..-/login&gt; and may be used by
anyone with a UB UNIX email ac·
count. Instructions on how to submit information to the calendar are
availa bl e at &lt;http: / / wings.
buffalo . edu / calendar / lnst
ruct.htmb .
Thc&gt;K wishing to submit information to the calendar first must
fill out a registration form that
includes a protected user name
and password for their university
email account, and indicate the
categories of events for which they
are requesting submission dearance. Registration is instanL
To use the fonn. submitters each
time m ust enter their user name
and the associated password ,
which prevents anyone outside UB
from submitting information and
anyone from submitting information under the guise of someone
else. It also holds the subminer
accountable for the information
he or she in p uts. since it can be
traCed back to the submitter.
Once information is submitted,
it will I&gt;&lt; reviewed for style, as well
as appropriateness and content. by
one of several ..calendar administrators." Only after it has been reviewed does the information go
"live." Enl.ries are reviewed twice
a day, five days a week.
Ce rtain in.formatioo, such as
type of event, the title of the lee·
ture or event, date, time and loca tion, is mandatory, and events will
no t be enten~d into the database if
th ose details are missing.
A numberoffeatur&lt;S are designed

make the calendar easy to we:.
Submitters who fail to input all
the information needed for their
event to be posted will receive an

error message prompting them
that some of the necessary information has been excluded.
Further information input in the
site's "optional information" cat egory allows submitters to link to
their Web sites and provide more
detailed information and graphics
about the event. This allows usus to

rnari&lt;tt evma ll"l&lt;n fuDy by pmvid·
ing additional information that's 001
induded in the Reporter al&lt;odar.
For aample, more detailed information about "Out, Loud and
Proud," the upcoming March con·
ference of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi·
sexual Alliance (LG BA), including
a photo of the conftrence's kqnote speaka. Dan Renzi of MlVs
"The Real World Miami," can be
accessed at ~ /wlngs.alo .eclu/ u / lgbai/ conference.
htnol&gt;.
1be submission form contairu a
basic spell-ch«k function. as wdl as
options that allow usus to edit,oopy,
preview and remove information
they have submitted. The site also
allows users to create a template for
frequently occurring events.
Once an _,has hem ~
by the calendar administtators and
rDCMd to the liYe calmdar, users still
can make changes to the entry, aJ.
though only the person who submit.
ted the infurmation and the calendar
editor havethatcapobility. ~
about making those dlangoes is &lt;Milable on the online calendar Web site.

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Conduct . . .

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nually
menton

the Student Conduct

Rules,~--

Madison L lloy&lt;:e, dlroctor
ol the Oftlce of Judjdalltlfoin
and IJt1ivonlty ombudsman, Is
osldng for input from the Unive'·
sily community regarding suggested changes to this dowment. The next generation of
"rules" wil becomo l!llec:tiYe for
the 1!1!19-2000 acodomic - The -.ling of~ pl&lt;lpC)I&lt;!II
chlnges cwlbe- "'Boyce ..
Room -405, Clpen Hal, .,.

60160S, ~NY,

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Reg&amp;-. Boycewil...-d a
prhed copy upon ..........

Bloch fO spei1k
to Mlmnl of SUNY
l.JrWenity Centers
U8 alumnus Ericl1 8lod1, • member ol the Councl on Competit!YenessO.-.gmn. D.C.
and - - o f the National Sdena Foundation. will
addn!ss the illumni ol the SUNY
llnM!rsity c.nters It Bullalo, Albany, ll01ghlmiDn ..... Stony
Brool&lt; at 8 a.m. Feb. 9 01 the Albany Club Room of EtropR State
Plaza's Main Concou!Se.
Bloch's tallr, alogislotive
brea.kfast briefing. wtll be on the
topic "The of Roseon:h:

Economic o...lopmen~ Job
O.atlon and the Role of the
University."

UB forges landmark exchange agreement with Cuba
Program with University ofHavana is first for U.S. university since Castro took. over
By PATRICOA DONOVAN
News

ServKes Ed1tor

HEformaJacadem lc ex change program tha t
UB has forged with th e
Umversny of Havana in
C uba is the first such agreement
be tween that u nive rsity and an
American umw: rsity under the
Castro regi me.
The landma rk exchange agree ·
ment sig ned last su mmer by Kerry
Gran t, d ean of the Coll ege of Arts
and Sciences, and Yolanda Wood ,
dean o f the Universit y of Havana
Faculty of Arts and Letters, was the
first of its kind between UH and
an Ameri can university since 1959,
the year Havana fell to the revolu tionary forces of Fidel Castro.
The agreement co mm its UB
and UH to th e joint devel opmen t
of a Ca ribbea n Studies Program
with an integrative and mterdis ciplinaq· nature for the purposes
of conducti ng research and teach ·
mg. It already ha.!o la unched st·v eraJ imtiatives:
• A joint workmg group has heen
established to develop th e Ca nh
hean Stud 1es Program and \\' Ill
meet at UB an Apn l.
• A mastcr'.!o ·dcgrt"e program m
Ca ribbean studies 1s expected w
be on plae&lt; at UB by I he Fall 199'1
se mester. Tht" two umverslt lt:'.!o also
will develop a master ·~ degree an
tht.· art!. and lt.·ttcrs of the Ca ri h ·

T

bean that will be joi ntly designed
and managed.
• fernando Remarez de Esternoz.
first deput y m101Ste r of t he Cuban
Rep ublic and head of th e C uban
lntere!lt Section tn Was hm gton.
D.C. . wlll VISi t UB March 4-6 to
di.!oCUS.!o the new mitiat l vt~s and
thetr possi ble expansion.
• UB expects to ~s t ablish a re -

sea rch cen ter in Caribbean StudIeS at UH as soo n as possib le.
G aven th e cu rrent sta te of eco no mic affairs in C uba, the cen ter
will be o utfitted by UB with PCs.
a fax machine and other office and
conferencing equipment.
• The two universi ties also have
agreed to develop a research pro
gram with jointly sponsored ac ·

tivities and publications focusing
on Caribbean studies.
• US 's very successful summer
abroad program, conducted in
Cuba in 1997 and 1998, will be
expanded. In 1998, the summer
program en ro ll ed 33 students
from U B, Columbia Universi t y,
New York University, Princeton
Universi ty and Binghamton Unt versity.
Eight courses offered in Havana
&lt;turing the summer were taught by
three UB faculty and rwo UH fac ·
ulty. Students chose from among
five study options and earned up
to si.x credit hou rs from UB. In
addition , the program featured IS
visiting lectures and opportunities
for student contact with an exten sive nerwork of art ists and intel lectuals throughout Cuba.
T he 1999 program is expected
to enroU 35 students who will remain in C uba throughout July and
will earn gradua te and under graduate academi c c redits. Three
professors at UH will be teachmg
10 this year 's program with two
members of the UB faculry: Jose
Buscaglia, assastant p rofessor of
modern languages a nd literatures
and director of the C uban and
Ca ribbean programs at UB. and
Henry Lou as Taylor, Jr .. assoctate
professor of Amencan studies and
dtrector of the UB Center for Ur han Studies.

�January 11. 1!1!!1/Vol.:11.18.17 Repaa-ta.

5

Advocate f0r fluoridation ra ta
Easley's ~b site_ serves as national resource for information
.,LOU&amp;AilU
News s.Mc:es Editof

W

A most wekome addftJon to the

HEN the American

Dental Association
needed an cq&gt;ert to

comment on the
bottled water boom and its potential ill effects on children's teeth, it

ealled on UB's Michael Easley.
Easley is a public health dentist,

an associate professor in the Department of Oral Health Services

and lnformatics, a specialist in the
fluoridation of drinking water and
the ADI&lt;s designated spokesman

o n the issue.
He is also directo r of the Webbased National Center for Auoridation Policy and Research, which
was made available to the public
two months ago. The $ite contains
approximately 1,000 links to
l•temet sites that provide access to

everything you ever wanted to
know about fluoridation, as welJ as
information that you'd probably
rather avoid-hundreds of
antifluoridation sites leveling
charges at fluoridation proponents
ranging from mass medicating to
conspiring with communists

Some of thcsr sites refer to
ley by name and not in friendly
terms. In addition to advocating
the public-health benefits of flu o·
ridation, ~ is a high - profik de -

nker of the specious claims of

gro ps who oppose it.
..
the antifluoridation folks,"
Eas ily said , ''I' m Pub lic Enemy
Number 1."
From a public·health perspec·
tive, fluoridation is clearly a success
story, and Easley is happy to tell it.
"Fluoridation prevents up to 70
percent of cav ities in communities
where it is ava ilable," he stated. "It

makes no sense to have people experienct a disease when there is a
very easy and economical way to
prevent it."
The National Center for Auo·
ridation Policy and Research

&lt;http://-.- · -·- /
ncfpr&gt; serves as the only com pre·
hensive central repository for in·
formation on all aspects of fluori ·
dation. Easley said he created it as
a resource for scientists, educators,
public officials, organizations, the
media and the public to provide
access to timely and scien tifi cally
based information on the issue.
The Web site is particularly useful to communities preparing to
fluoridat e their water. It contains
case studies from already flu ori dated commu nit ies, transcripts of
lawsuits filed against them and sci entific st udies on fluoride 's safe ty.
With his background and cxperi ·
ence in public health. Easley often
is ca lled in to help such cummu

nities get started.
He helped the State of Califor·
nia write its 1995 bill mandating
statewide fluoridation.
He also worked with the State
of Delaware , which recently
passed a fluoridation mandate, to
develop public· health messages
aplaining the benefits of fluori dation and to combat false or mis leading information disseminated
by antifluoridation groups.
These groups are adept at tailoring th~ir message to the sensi ·
bill ties of each comm unity, Easler
sa id. "Sometimes it's the anti · biggovernment argument. Some ·
tim~s they will concentrate on th e
concept of forced medication .
Then there are th e contrived arguments that claim fluonde is re
sponsiblc for every disease known
to man; that it is a chem ical pol
lutant, a toxic byprodu ct or a car cinogen. There is no scientific ba
SIS for any of these da1ml&gt;."

Now you can search these collectionS onhne through the Central
Library's new Web -based catalog , BEACON, and (when you type 10
you r public library barcode number ) a variety of lnfoTrac databases
from home, office or other libranes
From th e main menu , you can diCk o n "About the L1braries" and
connect to general1nformataon. such as borrowing polic1es. library
hours and descriptions of the Cent raJ Library's various departments
"Reference Desk" features an Internet tutorial. plus link..s to nu merous search engines. A link to California State University's .. L1
brarians' Index to the Internet .. allows you to select categoriud hsts
of Web sites from a wide range of topics. You also can dtck on an
extensive list of business-related subJeCt directories via the Central
Library's Online Business Center or a myriad of locaJ and regionaJ
Web resources via the Buffalo Free· Net.
.. Kids' Corner" and .. Teen Page" a re aamed at youthful con cC"rns.
with age-appropriate reading lists and online homework help. Here
K-12 students can find advice on using the Internet to do school
work, as well as links to basic referC"nce tools, such as dictionanes.
encyclopedias and atlases. There's also a useful link to college in for
mation aimed at high schoolers.
A list10g of all Buffalo &amp; Ene County Pubhc libranes allows you
to dick on their indiv idual Web pages for location. hours, dm~· c
tions and information on programs. Th~ neighborhood coJie, tions are a tremendous asset to our community and now you can
enJOY them virtuaJJ y. as well as 10 person.
Another way to access the BEACON catalog as v1a BISON (the U B
' Libranes' Web · based mformall o n sys tem ) by clicking on .. Online
Resources " then "O th er Library Catalogs .. and "Western New York/
Southern Ontario Catalogs ." Or go directly to &lt; http ://
ubllb.buff•Jo.edu/ Ubr•ries/ e -resoun::e5/ wnyltbs.html &gt; for a I1st
of links to regaonallibrary catalogs. including BuffaJo Sta te College,
Canisius College, N1agara Umversity, Rochester Institute of Tech nology, St. Bonaventure Umverslt\', SUC-Brockport . SUC · Frcdo nia
and Umversity of Roc heste r.
For 3l&gt;Sistan ce 1n u mnt:cung to th e World Wtdc Web. conta ct thl'
C rt Help Desk at M &gt; 3&gt;4 Z
- Will Hepfer and Nancy Schiller, UmvenJty

L!bra ne~

Bernardino
Continued from- t

in Parker Hall on the South Cam·
pus since 1987.
CDS faculty offices now a re lo·
cated on the first fl oo r of Ca ry
HaJJ , in space formerly occupied
by the Department of Biophysics,
which m erged with t~e Depart ·
m ent of Physio logy in 1997. That
co mbined department is head quartered in Sherman Hall.
The Speech, Language and Hear·
ing Clinic now occupies the ground
floor of the BEB, which formerl y
housed the University Physicians •
Office. The Center for Hearing and
DeafneSs will remain in Parker Hall.
Standardized Patient Center
In 1998, UB medical school was
designated a regional center for test ·
ing medical students in basic clini·
cal skills, medical-history taking and
patient interaction, using standardized patients. To accommoda te this
new function . the school renovated
space on the second floor of Cary
HaJJ into a Standardized Patient
Center, which contains examination
rooms equipped with video cameras
to record student performann· and
obse rvation rooms for faculty
monitors:'Standardi zed patients a re persons trained to simulate actual pa·
tients for use in medicaJ education.

Nevv faculty, staff for medical complex
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honcllng coopcnleflelltll.&lt;.- Issues. • She also ha'serv&gt;ed as a
health·care attorney with
Hancodt &amp;: Estabmolc In Syracuse
and a lltlgatlon assod.ote with
jaedcle, Fleischmann &amp;: MUgel in
Buffalo. Her .UB duties Include
handling legal issues 1nvoMng the
clinical prK11ce plan and admin·
istering contracts with the teachIng hospitals.
•T-c..-, formerly assistant vke president for fiscal af.
fairs In the lJB medical school. has
joined the staff of the vKe pres;.

dent f o r - IIMWs as assistant vice
p&lt;esident .... _ . r\lanagen)ent

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-J.--.
chief operot·
ing alllcer
of tho clniCII proctlce
plan,

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sity Grocll*e School of Business and
Publlt Adloolooisllltiotc Most recently,
he was ..,... vke president for fiOMla! and odminlstnotion at Trlco
Producls DMtlan
and prior

f..:-0:::,~In...-.
J:"~t.,:oi

1t11n10ge111ett positions with
Frontier Corporation, Computer
Coruoles, Inc., and SchlelJel Cooporotion. .. a/Rochester.
• _ , _ 0 . _ , compliance
auditor, holds a degree In medical
records administration from
Daemon College and Is In the
master's-deg&lt;ft program in health
services administration at D'Youville
College. Beloft coming to UB, she
was a full·time Instructor in the
Health Information Technology Program at Trocai,. College.

•-

w. -...,. lormer1y • ..,.
S9rdl physicist in the UB Department
of Nu&lt;:J.ar Medicine, now dirocU the
Health Professions Information Technology Partnership. His group manages eduaotlonal sa/twa,. develop-

ment for the health-sciences schools
and provides intOnnation-technOiogy
support.
•nm - i s an instructional designer and software deYeloper for the
rr partnership. He came to UB from

the University of Iowa, where he developed .....-.1 types of instructional
programs, including software to
stUdy head 'and ned&lt; anatomy, and
slmulltioru of human temperature
regulation. He is developing a program that can be customized for
teaching histology.

a ...._ SdlrMoller is a

computer
artist and multin)edla designer for
the IT partnership. He is a 1996
graduate of UB's fine aru program.
• ~ ttn.-, who isle·
gal osslstont to Kathy tamb, formerly
was with the firm of Cooper &amp;: Coo.
per In Hamburg.

Dean's office
~ assistant dean
for mlnori1¥ affairs, fills the vacancy
creoled byMaggie'Might'sretRment.
She wil help reoUt and ret3in minority medical and graduate students and
soan funds to support these efforts.
Hamilton was assistant director of admissions at University atAibany before
coming UB, and prior to that held
the same position at SUNY at Delhi.
She also spent. .... years .. £dJcational
OpportLility Fund acMsor at Stodcton
State College in Pomcino, N.J., arid has
taught Afro.American histOI)I and cui·
!lftaxnes at both Stodclon State College and Saginaw valley State University in Michigan. Hamilton graduated
from SUNY at Clneon1a and holds a
master's degree from Atlanta University and a doctorate from the UfWer.

• c..alyn

to

sity at Albany.

• ·s-dn -,·formerly as-

sistant dean for resource management for the School of Health Related Professions and the School

~~~i~r:O =~et?ut~~
sistant deanfor resot.m! management. A UB economics gl3duate,
Drabed&lt; has been at UB for nine
years. She also tw serYed as as·
slstant to the provost for budget
and personnel administration.
•~• Marti• has been appointed director of taborat&lt;&gt;&lt;y
Animal Research Facilities. An
Australian, Marlin formerly was
director of the animal-a,. program and a senior lecturer at the
!)nlversity of South Wales, the
most semor position In Australia
in laboratory animal medidne .
He has extensive experience
with a range of species and has
practiced as a veterinarian in sev·
eral countries, including England
and Iran. He h~ds a doctorate
in veterinary pathology from the
University of Sydney and an
MBA, begun at the University of
Sydney and completed at New
York University. He is a research
professor in the UB Department
of Pathology, worlting in the ar·
eas of serolOgical diagnosis, neurologiclll effecu of baderial en·
dotoxin and orthopedic repair

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�6 Reparlez

Januil!l11.19!19/Vol.30. No.17
UB grad shares his secrets In an online " bistro"

BRIEFLY
Toles to spellk
on economics
Pulitm prile-wimingcartoonist and UB M.mnus Toni
Toles will !pUk on "£conomics
Made Simpler than £conomlsts
Make 1\. •• • ot 12:30 p.m. on
feb. 1 In the Screening Room ol
the Cent« lor the Ms.
Toles' tolk, wNch will be .....
and open to the publi(, Is part
olthe irwfted ~- ol
the new m&amp;&gt;ler's program In
applied OCOI10f1'1ia.

- N&lt;ws,anoonist
Buffolo
T o l lor
e -""
a
degroe
from U8
1n
1973. ·
HisWoft
oppoors
In more
than ~In the U.S.
and Canoda, as woll as TM Ntw
Republic and U.S. NtwS onil
World Rfpott.
For ~Information on the
tall&lt;. all Shelly Cohen It 64S2121,e:xt. 19.

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chillec1ln and "-*'!!-of.

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24.

A worbhop oo "Non-Sillier
for Printmokers" wtr be oll.r.d
from 2~ p.m. oo Aptfl2 one!
. Apri1 9.
Eoch worbhop series Is S60

lor students and ePIC .,.,.,....
and Sl 00 lor the public. All sessions win be heki in the Center
lor the Arts.
"ComrTullty Printshop" and
"CollboroliYo l'ltnllng" pro!lfWI'S wll b e - 00 . . Jnci.
Yiduol bolls, boglrw*1g Mondoy
through Apl23.
For ·~ Information or to
r.gisler, all Jell Shewn It 64S6878, ext. 1369.

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

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Cheap ways to spice up menu--andlifem
By MAliA McGINNIS
News Services Editorial A5s•stant

E

MINENTLY Palatable
Pancakes, anyone?

CoUege students looking

to find quick., simplt! and

cheap ways to spice up their limited
menl15 can visit an online "bistro"
created by a recent UB graduate who
shares his coUege culinary expertise
o n his personal Web site.
"Bill and AJ 's Bachelor Bistro''loca ted at &lt; http :/ / www.cs .

buff• lo .e du / - •hunt / r e cipe.
h t m &gt;- is a co llection of tips for
co ll ege stu de nts and others on
food . dnnks, parties and enter taming co nst ructed by Alan Hunt.
a gradu ate of the Department of
Computer Soence.
The Bistro--named for Hunt
and his former roommate-claims
to be " the place w go for stylish
bachelor living" and "the hip, new
hang~out for young folks who want
to brush up on their recipes, get th e
latest tips on social excellence, save
the world or just kill a few moments
basking in the enlightening views
of its proprietors.''
Hunt , who received a master 's
degret" from UB last yea r, also re-ceived his bachelor's degret" from
UB. He- says he created the- "neverfaiJ delicious rectpes" section of his
We-b sit.e as an undergraduate because, at that time, he and his room mate were having so much fun
cooking that he wanted to I'TlaU the
recipes available to friends.
"That , a nd I found the sectiOn
an easy target for some collegiat e
humor and I can never resist an

easy gag," he adds.
Recipes are divided mto several
ca tego ries: Little Snack}· Things.
Breakfast R&lt;cipes. Lunches, Dinner,
and Drinks. and indudeooncoctioru

such as the Breakfast Sandwich of
Clwnpions, Omelet of Death, Fried
Potatoes with Stuff and the featured
"The Tomato and Olick&lt;n Stuff I
Always Mm for Women lhat rm
Trying to lrnpr=." Hunt says he has
mad&lt; this dish countless times over
the yean with "almost univ&lt;rsal sue·
cess in respect to the title.
"Some things I picked up just
because I was lazy some night and
I had to cook with what was in the
ftidge," Hunt admits.
He says he never intended to have
much of an audience but that he has
received several e.mai] responses
from students asking for recipes for
a certain occasion and poople look·
ing fpr party-theme ideas.
"Bill and Al's Patented Party
Tips"' includes info rmation on
theme, dinner and movie parties.
Hunt warns that if having parties
seems to be a relatively simple affair to you, .. it is a sure sign you
are doing it wrong."
Suggestions for theme parties
range from the Mexican fiesta, a
Middle Eastern get -toge ther, a
French soiree and a redneck hoedown. He even goes the at:ra mile

make f o r - that I'm trying to 11t1press
1rWiy don1hoYoo nome lor this dish. 011, I suppose 1could nome k
"Poulet mefMige de Tomoto. • or something equoly ~tious, or, S&lt;ff.
servlngfy, "Chicbn Alon. • flul since ~ b lhe one dish that h&amp;s ......,. como
oot bodly lor me. I do tend to '"""" ~ when I hoYo compony. Thus, the
name thlt )'OU soe lbow.

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I Iorge onlpn
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and includes hyperlinks to sites about
wine and music for prospective hosts.
The site on party tips-partially un der construction-is located at

&lt;http:// www.cse.buff•lo.edu/
- """"'1.,.-tytlp.htm&gt;.
Hunt, who now works as a com puter scientist at Calspan, encourages everyone to learn to cook.
.. Life is better if yo u eat well .. . Not
to mention that culinary ability is
se cond on ly t o giving good
backrubs in the attractive skills
ca tegory for the modern male."
But those who are health con sc io us. be forewarned . The disclaimer for the rec ipes read s:

"WARNING: The things that you
read here are not for the calorically
timid or for the cholesterol em powered. If you get squeamish

around grease or use "light" cream
cheese, you might as well just 'http'
to some health-food page because
you will probably have a coronary."

Noh actors to perform, teach ancient theater art
By MAliA MCGINNIS
News Services Editorial Ass•nant

T

WO renowned actors of
Japane se Noh th eater
wiU perfo rm . teach and
demonstrate the elements o f this 600-year -o ld theat rical form during a week- long resi denC)' at UB Feb. 17-23.
The series of eve nts, sponso red
by th e Asian Studies Program, De partment of Theatre and Dance,
Cenur for the Arts and the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. wiJI fea ture Ha tta Tatsuya of Tokyo and

Fukano Shinji ro of Kyoto, bolh of
the Kanze School of Noh.
Tatsuya, an ad or of the Umewaka

branch of the Kanz.e School, per·
formed his fir st leadi ng ro le in
"Yoshino Tennin" in 1989. He has
performed in distinguished festivals
in Japan , as well as in Ca nada, Eu rope, Russia, Hong Kong and the
United States. Tat.Suya fonnally was
recogni1.ed by the Kanzc School as
an independent actor in 1994 .
Shinjiro made his Noh debut in
I 958 and since has appeared in such
Noh classics as "Okina ," "Dojoji ..
and .. Kin uta." A student of the Urata
family of the Kanz.e School, Shinjiro
was named to the prestigious Soci-

ety of the Art of Noh in 1995.
Noh, which t ran slates to "talent "
o r "s kill ," is a form of mu sica l

dance· drama that originated in
the 14th century. It is Japan's o ld est ex isting professio nal theater
and one of the o ldest liv ing theat rical traditions in the world .
The Noh form differs from drama
familiar in the West as the stage is

The schedule:

• Feb . 17-19: Series of master
dasses for select UB students; for
more information, call 64S-6898.
• Feb. 19: Asia at Noon Brown
Bag sen~. discussion with actors
Tatsuya and Shinjiro on ·rhe

mostly undecorated and the plays are
perfo rmed by a leading character

f~~~.~~n~~.s~:b ~~~~~~r~

(shire), who is usually masked, and a
supporting actor (wakz).

and open to the public.

The form features monologues
and solo dances, and female roles
are portrayed by male actors wearing masks. The actors share the stage
with drummers and flu tists and a
chorus of slx to eight chanters.

• feb. 20: Publ ic performance
woricshop, 10 a.m. to noon, Center for the Arts Drama Theatre; to
register, call645-6933.
• f&lt;b . 21 : Symposium, "Tho Pot;.

~0 =~ ~~ng.~ ~::
mation, call 645-2066.

The language is poetic and cos·
tumes are oolorful and heavy. Mm-ement isddiberateand theperfunnana:
seems Iii« a solemn observana: as the
symbolism of the drama is rooted in
Zen Buddhism. Noh actors tell cJas.
sic stories through their subtle appearance, gesrure and inflection.
Highlights during the week will
mdude a series of master classes k-d
by the actors to teach select students
in the Department of Theat re and
Dane&lt; and the Asian Studies Program
the movements. sounds and narraIM:s ofNoh. The actors also will lead
a public performance workshop.
fo r high -school teachers and stu dents on Feb. 20. The wo rkshop is

free and open to the public. but reg·

• Feb . 23 : Noh performa nce
"Hagoromo" and demonstration of
Noh robing. 8 p.m., Center for the
Arts Drama Thea~; for ticket in-

lormation,caltMS-ARTS. Tocllalye
riCketMaster at 852istration is limited.
In conjunction with the actors'

visit, the Department of Comparative literature will host a symposium
to eqJiore the gem~ of Noh in its local and global setting. Papers will be
presented addressinglbku~wa Noh,
Showa, the history of"high" drama
and Noh in the literary lives of Ezra
Pound and W.B. Yeats.
On Feb. 23. UB will feature a tra·
ditional Noh performan ce and

demonstration of Noh robing byac·

torli Tatsuya and Shinjiro. assisted by
UB theatr&lt;·and -dance students. The
play, "Hagoromo," or "The Feather
Robe," is based on a dassiciapanese
legen&lt;i Tickets for "Hagoromo" are
SS for students and S I0 for the public and ar&lt; available at the Unter for
the Arts Box Office from noon to 6
p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. and
at all licket.Master locations.
All events associated with the
Japanese actors' visit wilJ be held
o n the North Campus.

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Supercomputing

The center wilJ accelerate significantly the research of scientists
and enginttrs conducting research
in fields ranging from pharmaceuti cal drug design and molecular
biology to volcanology, atmo -

spheric science and automotive
and aerospace design.
It also will offer new research
opportunities fo r undergraduate
and graduate students, as well as
spo nsor scm mars and workshops,
and a summer program for highschool students.
Establishment of the Center for

Computational Research "will catapult UBinto the ranks of the nation's
top academic supercomputing si tes."
Grein er said.
"O ur fa cult y have long wanted
a high -perfo rm a nce compu ta tto naJ cen ter of thi s ca liber. It will
allow them to condu ct more-ad -

nat&lt; most of the research funding today." said Smarr. "But the Internet
revolution is changing all that and

ease epidemics, target drug

there's a whole new order devdop-

discovery, transponation and

ing in cyberspace. Universities lik&lt;
UB that understand how to position
themselves into this emerging grid

automotive safety," sa 1d

could tum over the existing o rder."

The decision to develop tl\e UB
Center for Co mputational Re search was made followin g a uni versity-wide study of high -performance computing need s undertaken a year ago at the req uest of

then-Provost Thomas E. Headrick_
Establishment of the center is on~
in a series of recent university initiatives to provide faculty with tools
to enhance their research, aUowing

for more. high-profile scientific ad vances, ultimately increasing UB's
ability to anract and retain high -

quality faculty and students.

va nced compu tationally based scientific research , offer new research
- a l t h o c:.ntor
opportunities to our st udent s a nd
forCompo-.olenabl e our industri al partners to
tho
m crease their o wn n:Sl'arch -a nd devclopm~nt efforts.
..... a l t h o -·· top
" Without a d o ubt , th e ce nter
w1ll en h ance US's sta ture a~ one
aaodomk~
of Am~rica's premi er research unJ ·
sites."
Vt'rsi ties," G re iner added . " We are
t·xt re m e ly grateful t o Si la ·on
PRESIDENT GRE.INER
l,ra phics, M . th e Na ti Onal So
A s upe ri or, high -pcr(orman ce
e n cc Fo nd atio n a n d ~ un
~..omp ut ing infra.o;t ru cturc also Will
M1crosys ems for th e•r support."
A mult 'di sci plinar y field th a t enhan ce UB's opportunitu.•s to at
tract ex ter nal funding .
unites com ter technology with
"The availabilit y of this fac ilit y
m a n y kind s f di sc iplinar y re and its supercomputing power will
~ea rc h , compu tiona! scien ce aJ
cerL"li
nly make UB a princirxrl plarer
ready is b~ing cf.ll cd the third SCI 10 th e. incre~s i ng l y ~o mpe_tltJ Vt'
l'llCe. com p lementi n g :th.eoPCllcal
. are~a- of sponsored research--both
a nd labo ratory sc1ence.
public and private-thai demand!\
Ad va nces in computa tio n al Sll
au;css tO powerful computl n)! redl
t•nce are driving th e next wave ul
nology,'' noted Provos t Dav1d I.
brea kthrough s in s uc h cuttin g
edge field s as stru ctural biology. Trigglc. "We anticipate an mcre3SC'1.1
computatio nal ch emistry, m ateri - level of support . both for the md1
a l!&gt; sc ien ce, hig h -e nergy ph ys1cs vidual p rincipal inve~ll~dh.H .mJ
an d global climate change, as well also in th e program -g ranr area
where groups of scientrsb M:ek col
as making fea sibl e sophis ti ca ted
stati st ical analyses in the social scl - laborat ive fundin g," Tn ggle added.
"Additio n all y, the cen ter sh ould
t·nccs and the crea ti o n a nd storage of enormo us graphics fil es b y be a magnet for coo peralive ven tu res betwee n UR a nd Wt·s~t.·rn
digital media artists .
" What UB has don e 1~ exactl y New York institutions, both ala
demi
c and i ndu s tr1 Jl. Th t·
what a r~a rc h universit y prcparmg itself to en ter the 2 1st centu ry superco mputin g facility wil l ~t~rve
needs to be doing," said La rry Smarr. as o n e of t he key r~search foCJ thai
a member of the White House Ad - U B is now d evelo ping. and will
visory Commincc for High Perfor·' have a sig nifica nt impacl on tht·
nature and scope of our degree
mance Computing and Commun1
ca ti o ns, Informa ti o n Techn o logy and certificate program,."
Miller said that RoswcU Park t .an
and the Next Generatio n Internet
and director of the Nalional Center ler Institute, the Haupt man - Wood ward
Medical Research lmt 1tut e.
fo r Supercompu ting Applicatiom.
(NCSA) at the University o f Illinois Occ ident al C hem1 cal. East m an

._

at Urbana-Champaign. The NCSA
and the San Diego ~uperromputing
Center are the NSF-funded centers
desrgned to provide academic researchers with aca5.'i to the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
"Tht• new UB center greatly em
powe rs loca l resean:h ers in that
they have smaUer vers1ons of these
large machines close to th em,"
) marr sa id , "giving Buffal o a scam
:t&gt;ss connec tiOn to th l" &lt;." mer~lll ~
national grid that tics togeth er n: sea rch universit ies with th e nation
ally funded, h igh-end co mput.en•."
Sm arr no ted that ur\l versillcs a rt'
ar J cr itil.41 stage similar to th e o1w
they were at after Wodd War II when
major universi ties were positioning
themselves to lake a leadership role
111 the nation's resea rch enterpnse.
"Those are the ones that still domi -

_..,..~Into

Kodak, llrauir, Calspan and other
major resea rch institutiOns In the
regio n alread y havr vo1c&lt;.-d mt eresl
in usmg the ce nt er·~ faci lities. "In
many scientific fields today. sophisticated \'isuali7.ation is require&lt;1 hy
sc ien tists in o rder tu dft·ctJvely
evalua te the huge quanti II ~ of datJ
prod uced hy the rypcs of h•gh· pl.'r
lnnnance computers thai we nm..
have at o ur disposal,'' ht• lH.Ud .
Offinals wi th IBM and ~ilium
l;raph 1cs ~a id th e1r tOitlflJllln
wert• pleased to he abk lu plav .w
tmpo rt ant rolt• 111 lht' t'\t.lhh :!oh
ment of lhl· cen ter
"T h e ln (n·d •bly 'uut'''lul
... ~..NUMA a rchll ecture ul tht• t-4
processor Silico n &lt;.;raph •cs$) l )r1g1n
10()()1'1&gt;l ~erver 1:-; ch;uged \\l ith lltlt
nn ly proll'l"tlng th e nauon\ nu ... k.u
:!ohKkpilt', hut l'X(Cb Ill prniKll\'t'

ar~.

such as modeling of

global climate, wildfire. dis-

Chodi McReynolds, director

'The U B men's ~~~ tWTt dropped CWO
games la.n we6 against Mid-A.mencan
Conference opponents on the road u it lost
to Mantu.ll, 82-62.on Jan 14 and Oh10. 90-!)0
on Sawrday
E~ thougt"l ~ Bulls led the Marshall

of education marketing at
Silicon G raph ics. "All these
applications require the 'big

compute' and ' big gra phics
capabilities that SGI offers the

Thundenng Herd. l7-36. at ~me . they were
unable to get thetr first MAC wtn for Couh
T1m Cohane Sophomore Nikolai~ ano
freshman Alexei Vu.il.e¥ spearheaded Bufblo s
offense wrth I J pointS apteee 'Nhile Louts
Urnpbell added 12 po~~~u and 10 rebound\
In ~wn:by's bu a.plnst Ohio. the Bulls
~re led aptn by VudteV. who lud I 0 po~nu
rwo rebounds, one us1st ~nd one neal ofl the

university in thi s partner -

ship."
Loo lli£lno, vier presodent for
Solutions and Strategy, IBM
RS/61XXJ.noted, " IBM isexotcd
to suppo rt innovative and
ambitious educationaJ pro-

grams, like US's, through the
IBM Shared Uni versity Resl'arch
Grant program and power of the RS/
600JSP.
.. l n today's economH. clm1a tc.
ski lls in high -performance co m puting aren 't a luxury, but a ncc ~ssity. UB students and facult)'
now have access 10 the latest IBM
technology to so lve real -world.
'deep computrng ' problems, such
as drug design. computational
~.. hemistry and automotive manu
facturing simulat1ons."
Miller emphasized that the centl.'r
I) comm1ttcd to mvolving undergraduateand graduate studenl!t an Jl\
res~arc h . Under the d irection of
~ruce Pitman. professor of math ·
t•matlu, the ce nter ls dt"velopin~
master's and doctoral -certificate pro
grams Ill computauonal science, :1!&gt;
well as Wldenmg the scope of com putallonaJ· !oCICncc t.-d u ca t•on Jt the
undergraduate level.
In add it1 on to oflt&gt;nng J pro
gram of ~tmmar~ and workshop:!o .
h e -.a id th e center l:!o plann 1n g ,\
su mmer program fur Wes tern
New York h1gh -schoo l stude nt &lt;;;,
ht~gm n ing this summer.
He noted. "\Vhile ~ 12 'ludenh
Jre- becommg profic1en1 ar usmg
~.:omputl'rs to record data. analrzc
mformauon and present findm~ 1t
b unportant to educat.c these student-'&gt;
on how to use soplusucatcd madunt:'S
and tools to generate n('W knowicdi--'&lt;'
throughmoddmgand SJmulal!on.l-or
l.'xample, if o ne can accuratdy modd
a car and its sunm mding crMrurtfi'K.,lt.
crash tests can be Simulated u ndl·r ,1
w1de van ety of conditum!'&gt;...
l\ Iiller said then· \~-' w1de~prl'Jd
'uppo rt for th e cent er w1th1n tht·
unrversit y. The inrli al mvest1ga11un
was hcadt•d by Sean Sulltvan. Vlu '
provost for academ ic rnformat1on
and planning, who has ~.:o nunu~..·d
to support the pro1ec1 and conrd1
nate numerous a.&gt;ipec-ts dunn~ '"
development
He also cited the ~ uppnrt of the
L('nter 's fa cilities by t he S~.: I CIKl' .llld
~. ngm l'C nn g Nod(' ServKC":!o ( S ~. N~ ),
under th e d!rt'll lun ot { url..v
Br un ski ll. "Tht· ~trtmg rdatJtlll~hij'
h(·twt•c ll l ' ( H anJ Sl· N~ h.1,
pnlvt~n Ill ht· J ~..ntiLal lmJ... Ill de
plovmg till' ma chlll t':!o Jnd • ~ t').
pt•...tt•d to LU lltlllU t', even alh'r tht
~t·n tt•r hm:~ ... upport 'iitaff dunn~
tht'l1U l11nl! month:!o ... rvltlkr .Jlhkd
I k pr.H:!ot'J \ 'uldt'lll.lr A lnnu ....
'l'I110r J!'&gt;:-o...J.tlc \"lle prt·,,Jt·n t hH
Ulll\'t'r'llv 't'T\'Iu':!o ..w d H11hnt I
\\'at-!ncr . 't'IIHir \" l~t· prt''idl'llt , hn
ht'lllg lll\lrllllh'lll.l) Hl \l'~ Urlll!!
lunJ111g lrom ~l ' N'I
l·urthrr mtormJIIIHl ,JihiUI thl·
Ll' lltl"l 1!1 Jvailabk at 11.\ \\t•b "tl',
http:/ / www.ccr.buffaW.edu

bend&gt;
WOMEN ' S

Kent State 86, UB 77

UB

a•.Bowling G reen 5 I

The Bulls pbyed rwo MAC opponents last Wftk u they lost

to

host Kent Sate

86-n. on Jan . IJ and beat Bowting Green.&amp;4-51 .1nAlummArem oo Sawrday

The UB 'NOt'l'\en nearty ended the Kent State G&lt;Mden Flashes' JO-pme
home-wm st.reak. bot despite eight playen s.conng 1n double figures. 1ncludmg
sophomore center rlfl2ny Bell's 19 pomu ~nd SI!'Yefl rebounds. Cheryl Dozier '\
squad f~l short of a victory

On Satuf"day, the Bulls shot 54.5 percent from the field . h1mng Jb-of-66 ~lld
were led by semor forward KJm Coon. who netted 2J poinu Bell g~ .,
career-high 19 rebounds and scored I) potnu
SeniOr Cathenne J;acob contributed 12 po~nu and a tea.m· hlgh e1gi'H ;~utsU
'Nhtle sophomore forward 'BITior Andersson recorded;~ areer-tugh I 0 po~nu
Son1a Ortega had a solid performance. WJdl seven pomu. nme rebound~ so•
ste.1.15 and four ilSSISU

~wimmin~
WOMEN' S

SL Bonaventu re 187 , UB 113
The UB women 's swimmmg team moved to 5- J on the season ah.er losmg w
Westem N~ Yorlt nv;al SL Bonaventure. 187 II ) , In the Alumni Aren;~

Nu:atonum
The Bull\ were led by tumor Inger Rooneem. who took first-ptace fin1shes 1n
the SO-meter freestyle (1~ 37) ;and the 100-mdl'ltdual medley (1.10.66\ She Will&gt;
also 01 member of the WJnntng 200-medley relay squad (J· / 0.89). along WJth
fr-eshman Mkhefle 8ncknell.1umor- K1m Theet&amp;e and seniOr l1eselle Tnn1chd
Mrst-pbtce fin1shes also ame from freshman Carne Qu1nlan In the I00meter butterfly (59.25) and semor Andrea Sktllm.Jn tn the one-meter dMng
compeuuon wtth lJS 95 pomu

Wmstlin~
Ohio U niversity 10, UB 12
Ed inboro University 20 , UB I 2
The UB wrestlmg te.1.m opened ru home seHOn Sawn:b:y With twO loue1.
1ndudmg a loss tn ItS first-ever Mtd-A.rnenar.n C~e match
In the rnorTWl&amp; meet. the &amp;As tel to Ohio l.Jrvver'Sity. 20-12 J:arob Schaus was a S-0
wnner b-l.A!.on 17~ pc:x.nd!. Jam E!.chenfelder-ovne.,.,.,.. -m ilfl ~ wtn ..-.the
~ ~usrt! a Clkedown ..-. o-enme b- me ""'Wl. &amp;WI Schaal wu the
ot:herl£......,..-.erat 125pcllll(k
In the aftemoon match. the Bulls fell to Ed1nboro Umverstty currendy ranked m
the top JO rutJonally. losmg 20-12. Bru.n Schul got h15. se&lt;:ond wm of dle &lt;Ry Wlth
an 8-'1 deciSion at 125 pounds Bill J:acourot w.JS a I 0-7 for UB at I ~ I pounds The
Bulls also got twO de&lt;tsiOils from Matt RIC CI, ~ 7 2 Winner Jl I&amp;4 pounds and
from ,lash Statel&gt;, ;~) - 1 Winner at 197 pounds

BrieBy
O utstanding musicians to appear at UB
The Department of Music will f'rt'"-l'nt prn~rJill"- t-n Jlltcrn.Jtl~ •n
allv ~H.. dJIIllCd mU..,Il"IJn, , d' wdJ.t, h\ 1Wht.wd1n~ 1~•"-·11 palorm
c r~. du
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rc"- nal Jl !WOn todav Ill H.urd Ht'\"ll,tlll,lll \\'dl ~1\'t'r 401' 1wnd.....
havl.' hc."'i"n wntten t'!lopt'\J.LII\' lor hm1 lw 'uth LlU1'\Il!.N..'r' ,,,
Monon l·ddman, lunann fkn nJnd Hn.m hTncvhnu~ I ht·
T8COSTIUH) rt'(! I,JI w11l mdudc mu:o.J"- h\ A.Jroll L.l!l.'ilh . l.u11t' l •. trdn~·~
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111~ tht· "- h1111 111 ll 11h I TJIIII\ I uthcr.Jn l " hur~ h. un,tt·f tht d•rt'l Ill til
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tibL"ollnl\,1\';u~thlt• IIK"\L'IliOr.\arx.tstulk'lll\.AIIIm~t'-U' tn•n1ll'k· ltil-..J.i, l ~ 11 1
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",u,\.ut

�a

llepalrtea January 11.1!lM'ol.30. lo 17

Thursday

~ree.

21

m o r e =.=9eFor
Ros5&lt;land at 829-3325

--

Spomored by f.,.;ly

UBC,.........TU&lt;hlng

Contor-......,

Or.. Dl.ognostlc Sdenc:es

Introduction to UB ~ngs .
Capon 127, Undorgroduate
LJbmy. 2-3 p.m. free (Open

~:~~~~jJ~~~f

~:,~s~ faculty,

Murray J. Ettilf:, Ph.D., SUNY

=.-.......tics

medicine and clinical director
of medici~ at ECMC, and

~~~ ofe;:~~~~n
355 Squire. S.9 a.m . Free.
Physics Colloquium
Magnetism of Alloys and
Compounds: The Laser-

Mossbeuer Method . Prof.
Monica Sorescu, Phys;cs Dept.,
Ouque:sne Univ. Room 205
Nawral Science$ Com~x .
3:45 p.m. Free.

Athletics
Men's Swimming vs. St.
Bonaventure. Alumni Arena .
North Campus. 4 p.m. UB
students free with 10 .

~:~~en':! ~t ~r:8.
8

~'P?.:::::. ~=-~r· Prof.

Oiefendo&lt;f. 4 p.m. free .

Wednesday

27

· Athletics
Men's Basketball vs. Ball
State. Alumni Arena. North

~;~~i~~-~~~~'il, ~~Lectuno by l.ongonboch
Sex and the Ploln Style In
Cont~~

Friday

22

:~~~sXn.

11 a.m. Free. For more
information, caU 645-3810.

R-PIIItoSqffGenotlc Effods from Mon to
Moose. Muk:Nnd Patet, Ph.D.,

~a1~~~. Cary

R68~ Studies Center; Elm

~~-~:,:'~:%.
more information, call Charles

Saturday

Wenner at 845-3261 .

23

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~~~~FN)for

Athletks

WCM:nen's Swimming vs.

~~~-,~~~~~ena .

free(

faculty Ond

~te~~-~~.
. for rnoro

Information, ca US

T~hing

C~rie&gt;

Center, 645-3528.

students free with 10.

Athletks
· Men's Swimming vs. BowUng
GrMn. Alumni Arena . 1 p.m.
UB students free with 10.
Athletks
· Men's Basketball vs. Central
. Mkhigan. Alumni Arena .
. North Campus. 7:30p.m . S10,
S8, S7, UB students free with
10 .

Monday

Tho.,__...-._
lbtlng&gt; f o r - bldng

'*f"- _ . . .. for
off-ampus- ..._..
UB _.,...., potndpol

..-.-..l..lsdn!Js .... no ...... llYn noon on
-

Thondoy .,...-.g

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only O«eptH """""""tho
electronic ...-..Jon form
for-....-UB~

ot E-.t&gt; ot &lt;httJ"/

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Poetry llucllng
Wodnesdoys lit 4 Plus. Joanna
Scott. James l.ongenbach. GA
Screening Room. 4 p.m. Free. For
more information, Cal 645-3810.

Thursday

28

~~
Woricshop:s run one night 1
weel&lt;fO&lt;sb&lt;weelatrom 7-1 0
p.m. fees
S30 for UB
s:tudenU and S"SO for aN others;
earty sign-up is advised.

a"'

Children's das.ses are hekf on
Saturdays from 10 a.m . to
noon and 1-3 p.m.

for ""'"' infoonatioo, a 5Chedule
and a map, cal! 6'15-24341rom
1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.

Exhibits

~

Rqorfer.

on the second floof of Capon
Hall during library hours
through January. SEllibrarians
have compi~ an

2~c~~~t~Jr!';fs~~'Jlat

lists additlonal books and
Internet resources on the
topic.

Dental Management of the
Cardiac Patient. Thornal R.
Berardi, D.D.S., Oinical Ass.lstant

~~M~~~"=''fss

Squire Hall. 8-9 a.m. Free.

Dept. of Phyllology ond
Biophysics
Vestlbul.lr Reflexes: keeping
Your Head Stra~nd Your
~t.s!r~. Baker,
Northwestern Umv. Medical
School. 108 Sherman. South
Campus. 4 p.m. Free. For more
information, call Or. Joan Baizer
al 829-3096.

~~~:reaching Center at

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UB Cybrarles Teochlng

Arts=~

Sdonces

l«ture

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Director of the Westem New

~~~~ti~~lertor the
ArU. 7:3cJ p.m. free. Sponsored

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Mulberry (emoll).. Capen T27,
Undergraduate Ubrary. 3:30.
4:30p.m . free (Open only to

~! ~~~lo'~~~.~~w·

Cybraries Teaching Center at
6'15-3S28.

Adjunct Foculty E.ahlbltiMo
The ~ing reception for the

~~uu~~ac~~ ~h!= in
floor, will be h:ffrom 7-9

r~;;~~~~!;t~~ will
adjunct members of the
Department of Art. Hours for
the UB Art Gallery are Wed .Sal, 10:30 a.m . to 8 p.m .;
Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

nfbute to ltudlensteln
AsattbrtetoEi~

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the Department ol Olemic:al

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by College of ArU and Scienc.,

Sc~~'T~n110:~

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rrx:reation and intmmutPI progrum.s.

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.PAGE6

s New course enhanas
the learning experience.

January 14.J!HI/ti3D.Ih 16

Fillmore's
199th
birthday
Provost David J. Triggle, left.

gives memorial address Jan. 7
at ceremony in Forest ~
Cemetery honoring 199th
birthday of Millard Fillmore,
UB's first chancellor and 13th
president of the U.S. At right
is Col. James W. Kwiatkowski,
New Yori&lt; Air National Guard,
who placed wreath from
President Ointon.

UB, Roswell Park to join for research institute
Patakiproposal aims to create biotechnology initiative, spur economic development in area
By SW WUETOIU

high-tech enterprises found al011g

RosweU Park proposal for the insti·

Reporter Editor

Route 128 in suburban Boston or
near Research Triangle Park in

lute. wouJd be the ..creation of a truly
unique resource benefiting existing
biotechnology companies. support·

U

B and Roswell Park
Canctt Institute would
....,.;..,ss million under
a plan by Gov. George
PallllO to a&lt;atea &lt;X&gt;Op&lt;rative research
instit'Ute to advance work in mioo·
bioengineering and pharmaceutical
biotechnology already under way at
the two institutions.
Provost David Triggle says the

initiative will serve as a catalyst to
spur economic development and
job creation in the region .

Supporters envision the ini tia·
tive as building on the strengths of
UB and RosweU Park in the phar·
maceutic.aJ sciences in order to .. lay
significant groundwo rk for a
stronger biotechnology enterprise
in Western New York"'..akin to the

North Carolina.
The plan, announced by Pataki in
his "State of the State Address" on
Jan. 6, would be the first, formal ,
joint, technology-&lt;levelopment program between UB and RoswcU.
It caUs for funding two separate
high-technology facilities-&lt;&gt;ne at
UB devoted to micro-bioengineering and one focusing on pharmaceutical biotechnology at Roswell
Park. The labs would be created in
existing space in both institutionson the UB South Campus and in the
new Medical Research Complex at
RoswcU Park-and would feature
research-and-development space, as
well as bwiness-incubation spa~.
The result, according to the UBI

ing a number of research projects
with commercial potential current1y

under way at UB and RosweU Park.
and potentially serving as a magnet
for economic dcvdopment initiatives
in Western New York."
ln announcing the initiative, which
is subject to legislative approval during the state budget process, Pataki
stressed that it "draws on the area's
strengths: An aceUrnt univttsity, a
world-class research hospital and the
substantial presence of bio-tech in·
dustries and ccpertise from Toronto
through Buffillo, Rochester and Syra·
ruse. Our hope is this incubator plan
will help grow new industries for
Western New York and new hope

and new jobs for the future as wdl."
Triggle, who was instrumentaJ in
drafting the initiative, said it is designed .. to capitalize on the existing

criticaJ romponmts of thCSC' (micro-

bioengineering and pharmaceutical
biotechnology) enterprises currently in place in Buffalo and to use
this catalytica.Hy as a spur to economic development...
Triggle added that development
of the initiative jointly by UB and
Roswell Park .. is a critical signal
initiating a new era of cooprlation
between these two major sources
of research and imellectual cap1·
tal growth in Buffalo."

The UB/RosweU Park proposal
notes that the pharmaceutical saences have been ..deemed a crit1 ·
cal component in America's future
competitiv~ness."

FSEC notes displeasure at trustees' action
By SUE WUETOIU
Reporter Ed itor

T

HE Faculty Senate Ex-

ecutive Committee bas
gone on record voicing

its displeasure with the
SUNY Trustees' adoption of a gen-

eral·education curriculum for the
system's four university centers
and 13 four-year colleges without
consultation with the campuses.

The FSEC, at its last meeting of
~e

fall semester on Dec. 16, unani ·
mously approved a resolution ex-

pressing appreciation for the SUNY
Trustees' extensive consultations in

the development of standards for
the undergraduate academic program. On the other hand, the reso-

lution also expressed regret that the
standards adopted by the trustees
were not made available for com·
ment by faculty in advance.
The SUNY Trustees on Dec. IS
adopted a general.education cur-

riculum that requires candidates
for bachelor's degrees to complete
at least 30 credit hours of
coursework in mathematics, natu ral science, social science, Ameri can history, western civilization,
other world civilizations. humani ties and the arts, foreign languages,
basic communication and reaso ning,and information management.
The requirement will apply to
all freshmen entering SUNY insti tutions in Fall 2000. Trustees left
the responsibility for establishing
the specific course requhements
and content of the curriculum to
the facu lty of each institution .
President Will iam R. Greiner

told FSEC members that although
djscussion on the topic of generaJ
education had been going on
within SUNY for about two years

and had involved the SUNY Faculty Senate, as weU as some indi -

vidual UB faculty members, he had

expected that the final proposal on
general-education requirements
from SUNY Provost Peter Satins
would be submi tted to the indi vidual campuses for comment before going to the trustees for action.
But th e final proposal came
"very quickly," and was sub mined
by Satins directly to the trustees for
action, Greiner reported.
He called that action .. not an in significant event for state university.
.. I can't recall the SUNY Trust ees at any time in the past adopt ·
ing a specifi c c urr ic ulum pro -

posal," he said.
" My sense is that the expectati on. especia lly on a curricular
matter, is that it would have been
referred to the campuses and campus officers would have referred it
to the faculty, who would have
responded ... that was not the way
it was done," G reiner said.
.. My main concern," he added.

"is you folks were not afforded an
opportuni ty" to respond .
Neither Greiner nor N1colas
Goodman, vice provost for under·
graduate education, found fauh
with the substance of the curncu -

lum per st.
" It 's an en tirely unremarkable.
conservative, perfectly acceptable
outline of a general -education
curriculum ,'' Greiner said. ca lling
th e general-education requm.· ments of UB's CoiJege of Arb and
Sc1ences .. somewhat more expan sive"but ..consistent at every turn"
with those approved by the trust ees.
The problem , he sa 1d , 1~ that
.. something of this substance wa~
adopted by the trustees Without
the active engagement o f tht&gt; cam
puses.
Goodman agreed with Grcmc.•r
that the curricul um m th e Co llege
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Ed Mkhael, director of athletics for intramurals
and recreation, coached the UB wrestling team
from 1970-91. He is a member of the UBAthletic
Hall of Fame.

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those who have resolved to get in
shape for 1999. Through our physical fitness testing center, individuals can choose from a variety of assess ments a.nd programs that in -

elude comprehensive, pcnonal-fitness testing and individual exercise
prescription; submaximal physicalfitness testing on a bicycle ergometer or treadmill; consultation and
fitness-program setup, and body
composition and girth measurements. ln addition, we offer pro-

grams that specifically target faculty
and staff. For spring. there will be a
maintenancx class for those already
exercising that meets on Mondays.
Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 a.m.
and a master's swimming program
that meets at 6 a.m. on Tuesdays and

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our annual tJB FIT health screen-

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participation in wdlness/fitness activitieo, such as training with~
cardio activities, like walking. josging.

swimming. aerobia das&amp;es, and activities liU yoga Making time for
recreational activities seems to be
more difficult as our lives bemme
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activity is working out in our genera! 'fitness center in Alumni Arena.
The second most-popular is jogginglwalking on our 1/6 mile, carpcted.indoortrack Thereisatiefor
thirdamongpick-upbasl&lt;.etboll,racquetball and lap swimming. In
terms of intramural sports, basketball is the single most-popular activity. Last year saw 1,159 participants in baslcetbaU. with vollqball
a close second with 1,037 players.

team or have a pmon to play apinst.

!!~quire a penon to be a member of a

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rxM pnlO'ide, in addition to lodrzr

raltll.tooods&lt;Mzaod&lt;quipment
loon, u,., sale of athletic equipmen~nutritionaldrinb,and fixxl
and penonal hygiene products. In
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aerobics/fitness das&amp;es, about 85 perprogr•ms eiKh semester?
cent of U,., participants are women.
About600 faculty and staff. I wish \\\&gt;men are also well-repr=nted in
we had more. However, I know a the numbers of people using our
substantial number work out at walkingi"JOI!gingtracl&lt;.as well as swimvarious local health clubs.
ming laps ip our two pools. Women
are heavily impved in indoor soa:er,
How h•we the types of recre•tlon/lntr•mural progrants
Boor hockey, baslcetbaiJ and outdoor
th•t •re offered ch•nged ower soccer. In filet, 25 percent of the inthe ye•n7
door-soccer players are .iomen.
Over the past 20 years, we have seen
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NCAA Division Ill Wrestling
Olampioosbipaminlystand&lt;out
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into UB's Albletic HaD ofFame in
1997 is a special ocasion for me.
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Sexually abused children at risk for stress disorder·
McLeer study shows need for screening, treatment for those diagnosed with PTSD
By LOIS IIAKUI
News Services Editor

C

H1LDREN wh o have
been sexually abu sed
are.at high risk of devel-

opmg pos t traumatic

stress disorder (PTSD) and should
be screened routinely for the dis-

R EPORTER

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the Recreation &amp; Intramural Services Spring structured-recreation
brochure that details these pro grams, as well as many others.
I want all of our faculty and staff
to know that they can participate in

What's new for 19997

Spinning, the new indoor biking
experience, is here. It's a group cycling class. with a trainer, that will
make your adrenaline rockd. We
will offer 16 spinning classes during the semester, in Alumni Arena.
Classes start Jan. 19.

order, even when th ey show no
outward signs of psycho logica l
trauma, a UB child and adolescent
psychiatrist has shown.
Susan V. McLeer, pro fesso r and
chair o f the Department of Psychiatry, found that more than one-

third or•• group of 80 sexuall y
abused children who weren't referred for psychiatric evaluation
by the investigating agency were
suffering with the disorder.

Results of the study appear in
the December issue of the Journal
of the American Academy of Child

and Adolescent Psycl1iatry.
"These kids suffer in silence,"

Mcl.eer said. "They don't get referred for treatment after experi encing sexual abuse because they
aren't viewed as having a need .
Their behavior isn't out of control
and they aren't suicidal

"This study shows, however, that
they are at very high risk for PTSD.
We believe there should be a system
for sc reening aU sexually abused

children for PTSD and that those
diagnosed should rea:ive treatment
specifically targeted to the disorder."

PTSD is a specific form of anxiety that comes on after a stressful
o r frightening event. Some of the

abuse or psychiatric problems.

children in the Mcl.eer study diagnosed with PTSD also had sepa-

Theirs is one of the first studies
to investigate the effects of sexual

ratio n anxiety and major depression. In addition, a majority of the
full group was experiencing vari -

abuse on children who weren' t

perant reported rWxperiencing the
trauma,44 Pl'fO'Ilthad three or more
episodes of avoiding ·non-threatening situations they associated with tbe
abuse and 57 percent suffered
hyperarousal of U... nervous system,

preselected based on the need for
clinical services, Mcl.eer saici The
sexually abused childt'en were refer red to the researchers by the
Philadelphia Department ofHealth,
based on three criteria: the abuse
was substantiated
by authorities, it
. had ended within
the past 30-60
days and the per-

hypcrvigilana and trouble sleeping.
These results wer&lt; markedly different from those fowtd .in either of
the two romparison groups, Mcl.eer
noted. In the psychiatric referral
group. 2.6 per= I reported re-experiencing trauma, 9.1 peroenl: reported
avoidance behavior and 13 perant
bad symptoms of hyperarousaL In
the school group. I pera:nt reported

ous symptoms of PTSD, although
the symptoms didn't meet the cri -

teria of the full -fledged disorder.
PTSD is especially harmful for children, Mcl.eer said, because it may
cause them to miss growth-promoting expcriene&lt;S that are crucial for
transition into healthy adulthood.
Avoidance, one of the three major
categories of PTSD symptoms, is
particularly p~lematic, she noted.
"Oilldren with PTSD may shrink
from people and things that aren't
dangerous and are often critical for
their social and oognitive development These youngsters experience a
triple whammy: the initial sexual
abuse, the direct e!rects of the PTSD
symptoms themselves and then the
avoidance behavior that may result
in iost. aperic:nc.cs important for success throughout life."
To arrive at their results. Mcl.eer,
along with coUeagues at the Medi cal College of Pennsylvania, compared psychological profiles of 80
sexually abused children between
the ages of 6 and 16 with 77 nonabused children being seen in psyc hiatric ou tpat ient clinics for

other symptoms, and 73 school

children with no history of sexual

-

petrator was at
least five years

older than the
child.
AUdlildreninU...studycomplet.ed
several standardized tests to identifY
PTSD symptoms. Results showed
that 29 of U... sexually abused children w= diagnosed with the disorder and within this subgn)up sevmol
also exhibited separation anxiety
and/or major depression.
Only one child in the psychiatric group was diagnosed with

PTSD, while none of the school
children met the full criteria, al though some showed subthresh old symptoms of the disorder.
A b.reakout of individual PTSD
symptoms showed that in the full
group of sexually abused dtildren, 65

including

easy

startli..ng,

re-aperiencingearliertrauma, while

8 pera:nt reported avoidance behavi6r and thesameperantage reported
hyperarousal symptoms.
While setually abused children
are at very high risk of developing
PTSD, standard psychiatric ap proaches used with children, primarily talk therapy and play
therapy, are .not effective with

PTSD, McLeer said.
"These childrm need to be identi6ed early and they need very special wgeted treatmen~sucb as cogniti..: behavior therapy," she stated
"Very few studies have been undertaken on the effectiveness of
oognitive treatment with childml,
but the results with adults are very
positive. We need to do these treatmentstudieswilhcbilclrmwithPTSil"

�January 14.19!!1fiol Jll.ltl 16

New York City admissions office
to aid student recruitment effort
By SUE WUETCHU
Reporter Editor

U

has opent.•d an ad
missions offict- m New

o rk C11 y to a1d the

umvers1ty's student rec;rultment effor1 Ill the metro
New York area. The office, located
dl 125 Park Ave . Suuth 1n Manhat -

t.m

auo~s

from G rand Cen tral

&lt;;ta l JOn, wiiJ provtdc an overal l pres
enu· for the universlly m the area,
!lervmg UB's dJumm and development &lt;:fforts, .ls well as admissions.
The office will scm: as the ooor&lt;h -

natmg \leflUt: for UB's outreach actM
11cs to pratpectJvc undergraduate stu
dtnts, thC1! parents and counselors at

h1gh schtk.lis.,oonunun.Jty agencies and
«:&gt;lieges in the metro New York region.
It 1!1 the latest in a !'cries of 101
tJat Jvcs hy the univtTIIillf to m crease

the nwnbe:r of undergraduate ap

plications it receives. Other effort'
m the proactive strategy indude
telecounscling and the use of software packages that bencr track ron
tact.s with students and refine thoM"
contacts to students who are most
likdy to attend the university.
The new office will make it ea5u~'
for prospective students and theu
parents to vtsit with a UB represen
tative at a Silt' near their home.
It will help cem en t tht' relat 1on
s hips be tween New York metro·
area counselors and the U.B adm1s
SIOnS staff through increased Op
port unities to participate in profes
\ io naJ orga n izatio ns and enhanced
partic ipation in recruitment eve nt~
sponsored by area schools and or·
ganiza tions, sa)'5 Regina Toomev.
dtrector of admissions.

Havmg a prescnt..t: m Nc;-w York
Ctty will provtde an opJXlrtumtv tn
offer "more personaJtzed atkmmn·
dtrectly to pmspct.1Jve studen~ ..tlld
the1rfamthcs., Toomeysar-_-Jllevt...JI I
stop m the office, taJk to an admt..,
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up Lterature ahout the umversnY and
"get to know us a little bu betta ·
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studenb and their famil..te... the l·n,
versiry at Buffalo IS very a.:ct"SSiblc tn
plane, tram, bus and auto," TonmC\
pomts o ut "'WE.· hope to be able- to pn 1
Vldeenough serviC&lt; through ourloul
(New York) offia to encourage st\J
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A jmnp start for UB inventions

Comptroller problem to delay
today's student paychecks

Investment fund to help technology entrepreneurs get started

Although • problem In the: ( )ffite uf tht· ..,I .tic \ •lfnrlrtlller h,,,
delayed 1ndus1on of funds for tht· I )el 10 I:; pavn)IJ pcrrnt.l1n tod.J' '
\tuden t -assJstant paych eck~ and d1ret: t dt.•pos ll ~. ''udenl' &lt;;ttl! wdl
he able to rece1ve somt' of thetr monC\' thl\ wee!..
Student s afft&gt;cted b} the dda\ .trt&gt; eli~lhlt·to rct..CI\'t· Jn o.~J vanu· ul
70 p&lt;"rcent of thl· gross mcome due. and nl&lt;l\ &lt;~pph fur rhe ddvantt·
from I 0 a.m . 10 4 p.m . tud.ay, lonl\lrro,~ . 1 ue3Ja y or Wt•dnt·sda\ m
the basement ut Croh1o Hall on the North (..ampul&gt;
The amount dut' Will be mdudl·d \\'lth the Jan . 28 pavchecl-.
Appltt:ant s mus t preM.·nt prop&lt;'r photo !dl'nllficauo n and com
plete a··ne mand Note" and a " Power of AIIOflll'V.. form , whrch I11U 3t
be notanz.ed . A check \\1111 be lltltUCd for th t' amount of the advan&lt;..t .
whiCh Will he dedul.lt•d from lht• l..t/1 2~ ranht~t..k Tht• hal.wce WJIJ
be 13-!&gt;ued 10 a separate t..hetl..
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By SUl WUlTCHlll
Reporter Editor

IVERS ITY al Buf
alo e ntrepreneur s
may be able to brin g
,
th eir inventions o ut of
garage and eventuall y to the
sembl y line via a new investment
d designed to provide seed
n ey l o fledgling high -1ec h
~..o mpani es in Western New York.
T'Ple university has joined a part nership o f local and state institu ·
tio ns th at ho pes that by providin g
financial assistance to help tech nology en trepreneurs establish
new companies. it aJso will stimu·
late the creation of high -tech jobs
in Western New York.
The creation of the Western New
York Busin ess Ikvelopment Fund
was announced at a press ronferena
o n Jan . 6 in the VB Foundation ln cubalor. ln addition 10 U B, the pan·
ner.; in the $750,000 fund are the New
York Slate Science and Technology
Foundation, part of the Empire Statr
Development Corporation ; the Erie
Co unt y Industrial Developmen t

U
~

Agency; the Amhmo Industrial 0.vclopmenl Agency; I he City of Buffalo, and the Western N&lt;W YOrk Tech
nology Oevclopmenl Ccnlcr (11XJ.
which will administer the fund.
The fund will fi.lJ what some have
described as a void in regional eco·
nomic -d~elopment efforts, provid
mg seed and growth capital to assist
companies at the ea rly stage of de·
vdopme:n t, well befo~ traditio nal
funding sou rces m ay become in
volved. Entrepreneurs may receive
up 10 SIOO,OOO fro m lhr fund-

$25,000 in the tim phase of inveslmen~ wilh thatamounl robe matthcd
bytheentttpreneur,and$75,000inthe
serond phase. with that amount to lx
matched from any source.
Presiden1 William R. Greiner nooed

that the portner&gt;hip role is a unique one
for a university. But he pointed out
that Western New York had a "great

run" 20 or 30 yean; ago when C.aJspan
and Moog brought to the area many
top · notc h scie ntists who spun off
their own companies.
.. We need to accelerate that . tu
make it easie r to pu sh the b ri ght

1deas into new

busm ~ses," he

!&lt;&gt;aid
Mark Karwan. dean of the School
of Engintering and Applied Scimc(."'
and chief executive officer of the UR
Busines.llii Alliance, sa1d that UB\
membership in the investment part
ncr s hip fits in well w1th th e
universit y's enhanced econo m1 (
development service m 1ssion .
It was a " no-brainer" to join the
partnership, Karwan .sa1d. not in~
that it is hoped tha t some of th e
companies that th e fund invests m
will be those founded by m embcn
of the university co mmun ity, and
that so me of the companies will
locate in the UBF incubator.
U R has invested SIOO,OOO in the.~
fu nd and will provide experuse m
assessing applications fo r eqult"
funding, as well as idenlifylng prom
tsing business proposaJs from umvcr
siry faculty, soaff and soudcrns, he sard
UmversJty faculty, staff and stu
dents also may prov1dc cxpt'rl l'l.
to help cum pan ics rcce1vmg fund '
to further their tdealt. he 3a1d.
For more mlormatlon on tht·
fund. caU the TDC at 636- ~h2h

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-Are those not' strategies bad for business?

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with implementing the latest man·
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bankrupt," says Pegds.

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"Often managers become en -

these strategies can cause man y
com panies to falter, not improve.
warns a new book authored by a
UB management professor.
In "Handbook of Strategies and
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Literary series to feature Poetics Program fllCUity, students, distinguished guests

Wedriesdays
at 4 Plus to open Jan. 27m
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EDNESDAYS at 4 PLUS," the biannual literary series sponsored by the Poetics Program in the Department of English , this spring will feature several faculty members of

the Poetics Program and successful students nnd recent
graduates with established literary careers.
The series will open Jan. 27 with a visit &amp;om award-winning fiction writer
and MacArtbu.r fellow Joanna Scott aod poet aod critic James Longenbach,
bolh professors in the University at Rochester English Department.
Other series highlighu will include a poetry readingfhypertext performance on March 31 by _Loss Pequello Glazier, direct?r of the UB
Electronic Poetry Center, and Jim Rosenberg, a prominent hypertextuaV
web poet and theorist from Pituburgh.
On April9-l0, extensive collaborative events featuring distinguished
guests in the literary and art world will accompany two weekend events:
a special tribute to SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Raymond
Federman, acclaimed writer of experimental fiction who has retired
after 30 yean at UB, and the opening of " In Company: Robert Greeley's

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Gizzi. who recently rccci...t bio doctorate &amp;om UB. il the author oi"Anlficial
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Sponoorcd by Just Buffiolo Utcrary Ceni&lt;r.

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cirdes; author Nancy Shaw, former editor of Writing; New York City poet
Kevin Davies, aod rmawned Frmch poet Michel Deguy, editor of Pos 6- Si&lt;.
The entire Wednesdays at 4 Plus Spring 1999 schedule can be accessed electronically at &lt;http://wlngl. _ _, __,pMda/CiilAU evenu are free and open to the public.
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weaknesses of each strategy within
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Enhancing the learning experience

BrieBy

Schapiro's course focuses on critical thinking, self-assessment

Olympic medalist to speak on
Girls and Women in Sports Day

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News $eMus Editorial Asslrunt

C

AN college studtnts be

taught how to learn!
Susan

Schapiro,

founder and director
of UB's Methods of Inquiry (MOl)
program, is proving that they can,
and the more than 500 students
each year who tOke her courK are
findjng out for themselves.

Tht popular MOl course, although primarily made up of tr.shmen and sophomoru, has taught
doctoral candidates, as well as law
students and postbaccala ureate
mtdical-school candidates, how to

enhance thtir learning experience
by thinking critically and--&lt;ot tht
same time-'-raising thtir grades.
Schapiro, clinical associatt professor in the Gradual&lt; School of Education,soys the ooune helps students
becomt actively involved in thtir
own learning pro=ses by developing an appropriate mind-Kt for
learning. practicing aitical thinking,
rtrognizing and using effective learning strategies and engaging in an ongoing self-assessment
"Wt are not teaching study-skills,"
says Schapiro. "Weare teachingleamingstrategies thatltad to student-effectiveness. Students need to know
that learning is making meaning.
Since all learning takes place in the
ead of the Ieamer, learners must

re&lt;ponsibility for their studies.
eycannotdcpcndonwhetherthey
rulve a good or bad teacher."
Students in the cou rse, as well
as Schapiro, agree that it is by no

-means an "easy A."·
The CDUtX deman&lt;js.an extei1SM
_an:IO!Ultofmrl&lt;thatrequir&lt;sstudents
tO focus -on~ aspects of
knowledge through analysis (learning
to use note-taking proc:Mures to d&gt;eck
Wlderstanding on a daily bosis), synthesis (learning to prepare sununary
questions, Oow charts, information
maps and other graphic rq&gt;menllltions to hdp clarify and solvt problems) and evaluation (l&lt;aming to un derstand cvaluatiV&lt; materials by analyzing past exams and prq&gt;aringmod&lt;
exams to use as study aids).
MOl allows students to learn,

practice and dtvelop thest skills in
careful self·regulation and con tinuous self-assessment with the

help of an individually assigned
personal peer monitor who works
with each student on a o ne-on o ne basis, explains Schapiro.

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•It enhances the educationaJ astic, persistent, well-paced and
aperience ofUB students by pro- happy to learn , are more successviding an environment in which
ful academically than studencs
they are taught and encouraged to who participate in mechanical "actake personal responsibiliry for tive"learning strategies.
what they learn; she adds.
Active, or classic. learning strat "Students coming out of high egies practiced by students, such as
school often are learning for extrin- knowing and actively engaging
sic rewarc~s,• explains Schapiro, who themselves in the material, knowtlught philosopby at The Buffalo ing how to get into the instructor's
Seminary and Nichols High Sch&amp;ol , mind and obtaining feedback on
for 5eYmll ~ before ooming to what they have learned, are helpful
UB. "Even once they are in oolkge, but do not stand alone in the dethey often only want to learn what termination of academic success.
is going to be on a test. teaming is
""1bis new finding comes as quite
much more complex than thty a surprise, since it was traditionally
think_ Most students don't ha.e an
thought that academic success was
understanding of how data turns based on a oombination of a high IQ
into concepts. They are not inter- and doing the right thing&lt;, such as
ested in long-term strategies-"
taking the right notes, knowing what
Several colleges and universities the instructor wants and so on ... says
across the country have adapted Schapiro.Sht dtcidtd to test the
aspects of the UB MOl program theory hmelf on students in MOl
into their curric.ulums. .. However, and round that whilt actM: strategies
says Schapiro, "no othtr campuses, are important. the dynamics ofleamto our knowledge, bave as intense ing are the real drivers of academic
and academic a program as we do."
SUcces$. She found in recent studies
The MOl program, which was that MOl seems to be successful in
developed by Schapiro with a positively affecting the dynamics of
$235,000 grant from the U.S. De- learning in its students. She is interpartment of Education , is an ested in whether or not these dy elaboration of a program devel - namic strategies can be lllught and if
oped in ·\983 by Marcia Heiman theyarepru:t.ofthe~~p.
and Joshua Slomiankn known as
After teaching high ·school for
the "Learning 16 Learn" program. many years, Schapiro says the chal"Many were surprised that I re- lenge of teaching critical thinking
ceived tht grant," recalls Schapiro. gave a "new life" to her car~r. es "While completing my doctoral
degree here at VB, I came across
an article on the 'Learning to Learn'
program which turned out to be
quite interesting. I was encouraged

to write a grant, so I did.lt just happened to be perfect timing because
it was at th e beginning of a devel oping interest in critica1 thinking."
She notes that former Vice Provost John Thorpe was a great supporter of her efforts and was instru -

mental in helping to bring the program into the mainstream at UB.
Most recently, Schapiro ha s
tested the theory that "dynamic"
students, or those students wh o
are risk-takers, curious, enthusi -

pec.iaJly since there was not yet a lot
of material on the subject at that
time. Study in the areas of cogni -

tive psychology and philosophy
also played a big part in Schapiro's
conceptualization of MOl .
Since she began the MOl pro gram, Schapiro has been most re warded by the many students who
have enjoyed the course and taken
something away from it .. I get love
leiters from students expressing
their appreciation, sometimes two
or three years after they have taken
the course, saying they didn't real
ize at the time how valuable it wa~ ...
Schapiro laughs... What more can a
teacher ask for?''

Olyrnplc gold med•l swimmer J•net E.••ns will be the keynote
speaker for the lOth annuaJ UB Girls and Women 1n Sports Break fast, to be held at 8 a.m. on Feb. 4 10 tht Tnple- Gym 1n AJumm

Arena on the North Ca mpus
The breakfast, whJCh IS bemg held o n the 13th annuaJ
Nat1onal Guls and Women m Sports Day, is destgned to
recogmzc the achievements of girls and women in sport!l
and to encourage aU Buffalo women and g1rls to partiCI
pate in sports and fitn~ activities.
MorC' than 200 UB athletes are expected to altend the breakfast
In addition to Evan s, speakers will include amateur hoxer L1sa

Hedges and UB athletic trainer Sue Rocque.
Awards will bt' presented to an ou tstanding UB scm o r female ath
Jete and a member of the UB commumt y who has helpc:d advana
women's athletics at the universit y.
Other activities being held m conJunction w1th the event will tn
dude a community outreach program m which U B athletes will v1s1t
Buffalo schools and talk to students about National Girls and Women
in Sports Day, a ..create a picture .. contest for local grammar schools
and a week of spirit activities for UB athletes .
For further information. contact Wendy Black at b4 5· 7941

H. Wayne Gerhart elected chair
of CEL Alumni Association
H. W•yne ~•rt, president of Moldt~ch , Inc .• has been elected
cha ir of the Center for Entrepreneurial Ln:dersh1p (CEL ) Alumn1
Associa·tion in the School of Management.
The other officers are vice chair Kathryn A. O'Donnell.
president of Botanicus, and treasurer Robert B. Lenhan .
Jr. , president of The Environm ent Serv1ces Group.
The CEL Alumni Association fosters continued entre ~
preneurial growth for graduates of the CEL's core pro gram. which provides assistance and guidance to talented
Western New York entrepreneurs who wish to grow, enhance or re
focus their businesses. The association's membership includes own ·
ers and managers from more than 120 area businesses.

First annual "JOBSapalooza"
held for local students, grads
UB helped to gtve more than 400 locaJ college students and recent
graduates the chance to explore job opportunities at the first annual
.. JOBSapalooza" held on Jan. 6 m the Buffalo Convention Center.
The free job fa1r was a s ue~ and will continue as an annual event ,
according to Oan Ryan , director of the Office of Ca reer Plannif1t
and Placement.
"The point of th1s effort is to help Western New Yo r~ retam tl.!l
best and brightest students and graduates ," satd Ryan , wh o no ted
that although some o f the.· participants came from UB. a sagn1fi ca nt
number were Western Nc.~ w York nat1vcs who attend out -of-town
co lleges and univcrsitlt'!l
Ryan added that employers--who reprcsentc.-d .til an.'a.) of mdustrywere especially impressed with the determination of the job seekers who
braved a severe snowstorm to attend tht· fair. More th~ 80 TCgJOnal em
ploycrs. including Manne Midland Bank, Dunlop Tire Corp., BeU Atlan tiC, Delaware North Companies., Int., (A:Jmputer Task Group and Hunt
Real Estate Corp.. part1npated to recrUit for available positions.
The JOb fair also was sponsored b)' the Buffalo Niagara Partnersh1p.
the Empm• State lkvdopment ( orp. and New York State Elt•ctnc and
Ca-..

Anonymous donor gives $2.5 million for engineering scholarships
One of the IMgest ~ ever made to UB will be an investment in the School of those within. as well as o utsid e the university. care deeply about UB 's students and 1ts
Engineering and Applied Sciences student body. The $2.5 million bequest commitment will future . This IS an ove rwhelming vote of confidence from a member of the UR famil y ..
fund schola.rships to recruit outstanding undergraduate and graduate engineering stu +
Mark H . Karwan , dean of th(.• engineering school . agre&lt;.&gt;d that th &lt;.&gt; bequt"st ~e nd ~ a
dents.
resounding messag&lt;.&gt; about the strength of the communi t\•'s cnmrmtment to the wdl
Proceeds from the bequest, made by an ano nymous facult·y member through an being of the university.
estate plan, also will support a potential professorship.
" This bc:qucl!lt from J UB fa culty mt"mber 1 ~ m strumcnt al m JL·mumtratmg to nur
The donor targeted scholarships .. because this area needs more help finan cially to alumni , fnend!&gt; and ~..orpora te partner~ ho w much w&lt;.&gt; ca re Jbou t o ur mslltut1 on . Wt· 3rt'
enable engineering students to attend and receive an exct"ptional education at UB . extrt·mdy fortunat e to have such a demomolration o l leadt:r"h•p and d(.·d~~:atum :· 'a1J
State support is insufficient. I want to see this bequest grow in tht• years to come to Karwan .
benefit many financially needy students in the future ."
H.t• addt·d thai fundmg sc h o lar s hip ~ I!. vttJilll effort)!. t't' tht· ,,hnol ;:mJ Ulll\t"r,ll\ h1
President William R. Greiner praised the donor for hi s dediCatiOn to futurt' L' H a..:11vcly recruit o ut st and 1n gstudent~ .
students in financial need ... UB's School of Engineering and Appl1ed Scwnces 1s among
" Top s~.. hool :. art' based on the hcst studenb , fa..: ult~ . ~tatT .mJ lauilt lt', ," ,,JuJ 1\.M\,.tll
th e top 10 percent of the nation 's schools of engineering. And we \vant to stay 1n that " Because th1 s bequest IS funding ~c h o larship~ . it will a~:. l ~t o ur 111111JIIV(.'S hi attro~~ 1 .u1d
e.J.Eiusive group,.. said Greiner... This support guarantees that man y bright and tal ~ retam the he!&gt;t and bnghtest students a nd help studenb atTord a qu .dtt\ edu~.. ~H lon In
ented students will not only be assured of the opportunit)' to study here, but they can doing so. the g1ft wil11mpact the overall quality of the cng1ncenng ".:hool··
\\'ht•n fulfilled . the endowed )(h o larship fund will be n ea tt•d wuh .1 ht·qut''l up\lll th&lt;'
do so knowing UB believes strongly in what the r have to offer to engu1ct'nng."
The bequest, noted Greiner, also "sends another strong and very positive message that dL~a th nf the donor. The first schnlarsh1ps will be available at thJt tllllt'

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"We're grotoful for this very
generous gift from Atrix I.IIJ&lt;n.
tor1es ond Block DNg eo.: said
Robert Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor ond c.Nir ol
the Qeportment ol Onollllology,
who is din!ctlng t h e pn&gt;g&lt;om.....,;ng the role ol
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Domed observatory houses university's new computer-controlled rejlecting telescope
By EUfH (;OI.DIIAUM
News Servk.~ Editor

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TARRY -eyed UB Sludenos
used to have to trek out to
a small, unheated hut in a
field behind the Ellicott
Co mplex to usc th e universi t y'~
telescope. No mo re .
Starting this semester, students
taking the yearlong cou rse .. Intro duction to Astronomy" (Phys ics
I 2 1/ 122 l to satisfy their general t&gt;ducation science requirement
can check out the constellations
somply by going up to the roof of
Fronczak Hall, the same building
where their lab sessions arc held.
There stands a domed observa·
tory that rot ates 360 degrees and
has a sliding shutter on the roof
that peels back to reveal the bril ·
liance of the night sky.
UThis telescope puts us in a far
better teaching situation than we
were ," said Bernard Weinstein,
professor of physics who teaches
Physics 1211122. "Fo r the first
time, I ca n assign a semeste rlong
project to stu dent s where they
learn to align the telesco~ . ~the
right eyepieces and take pictures
with it."
Equipped with a digital camera,
the new, 10-inch reflecting tele·
scope allows students to take pic·
lures of the sky and then down load them to a laptop computer so
that they can study and refine the

1mages later to obtam tft e best
view.
Weinst ean said the fact tha t the
tel~ope is controlled by a computer makes it much easier to loca te speci fic object.s in the sky. "Afte r an initial alig nment on the
North Star. you punch in the coordinates {right ascension and
declination ) of a faint object, like
a galaxy, nebula or star cluster, and
the telescope turns to that loca tion," he said.
That~ he added, is an ..enormous
improvement" over the older telesco~. which sometimes required
several hours' work before a faint
object in the sky could be observed.
"Also, because of the new telescope, one of the objectives with this
cou"" is realizable: That is, to give
student.s enough knowledge and
experience with telescopes so that
they can pursue astronomy as a fascinating hobby after they leave UB."
Weinstein noted that the addjtion of the new telescope makes
US's introductory co u rse-its
only offering in astronomy--competitive at the introductory level
with other universities that offer
full-fledged astronomy programs.
University facilities staff constructed a wooden deck fo r the
observatory dome, with a steel
platform to support the telescope.
Funding fo r the telescope and it.s
observatory was provided by the

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of Arts and Sciences already con ·
forms to the trustees' approved
cu rriculum, noting that his office
intends to bring undergraduates
in schools and colleges other than
Arts and Sciences .. on board" with
the general -education require ·
mcnts of the new college.
Goodman did note, howeve r,
that tht language requirement in
the trustees' plan could prove to
be a .. sticking point .. for students
in professional schools such as
engineering and architecture, but
that likely could be worked out
with Sal ins' office.
"I don't see this (general -ed uca tion curriculu m ) as a crisis in substan ce, alt hough it is absolutely
outrageous that this was adopted
without letting anybody (the campuses) know a h ead o f time ,"
Goodman added.
W illiam Ba umer, proftsso r of
philosophy, suggested the FSEC "go
on record" acknowledging the extensive consultation process that
went on in the development of the
standards for the undergraduate
academic program, but also expressing it.s"regret they (trustees) put this
set of criteria before themse.lves for
action without giving the faculty of
the ~niversity the opportun ity to
comment. If all we do is sc ream
'you screwed up the process,' we
are going to make ourselves look
like fools" because central admin ·
istration afforded the SUNY Faculty Se.nate and other groups many
opportunities to participate in the
discussion, Baumer said.
..1 think the one place where we
can fault the process is ... this rather
precipitous action" by the trustees.
Powhatan Wooldridge, associate

professor of nursing, urged scna·
tors to separate their views regarding the process from their views
regarding the substance. " I do
think it is possible to condemn the
process without necessarily condemning the outcome,.. he said.
The resolut ion introduced by
Baumer ..complements"the beginning of the process, which
Wooldridge described as collegial
and consultative, and ..condemns"
the final resolution of that process,
.. which is simply an unwarranted.
unkindly, inappropriate, counter·
productive and noncoUcgiill way to
end what had a good beginning."
Greiner asked senators to study
the substance of the trustees' gen eral·education curriculum so UB
can give a "'very careful, very mea·
sured response to aU of this. All right,
so they didn't ask us in advance; but
we ought to treat it as if it's stiU on
the table and respond to it"
Peter Nickerson , senate chair
and professor of pathology, said he
would consider wheth-er to refer
the issue to the senate's "overloaded ..
Eduaotional Programs and Policy
Committee, or to create an ad hoc
committee to address the issue.
In other business, the FSEC approved a resolution congratulating
Thomas E. Headrick, who stepped
down as provost effective Jan. I, .. for
his substantial contributions to the
university's academic p~ in his
term as provost." The resolution
notes in particular Headrick's"effcctive advocacy" on behalf of the for·
mation of the College of Arts and
Sciences., his efforts to recruit new
deans, his work on the mission planning statement and, "most significantly, his academic plan."

1

Office of the Dean of the Faculty
of Natu ral Sciences and Mathematics before it merged in to the
new College of Arts and Sciences.
Additional support for equipment
and openotion came from the Department of Physics.

The telescope is open Mondays
and Tuesdays from 8-11 p.m .,
weather permitting, primarily for
class use and will be avaiW&gt;Ie on a
limited barn to the community
after March 15. For more information, call Weinstein at 645-2017.

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Shulman book to be used in China Sporlsl!ecaptf

. , MAllY KQINews SeMces Editor

TI

updated fourth edition
"The Skills of Helping

dividuals, Families,

Groups and Communi-

tics," a textbook autho red by
Lawrence Shulman , dean of the
School o f Social Work, has been
chosen to educate the first generation of social workers in China at
Beijing's College of Social WorkPublished in Fall 1998 by F.E.
Peacodr. Publishers, Inc., and soon
to be translated for use in China,
the textbook haS been revamped
a nd expanded to reflect today's
chang ing m odel of th eory and
practict of social work.
Selected portions of the book will
be used by the Chinese students as
their tint text as they embark on

their social-work education.

Traditionally, social workers have
been taught to focus on their inter·
action with clients, whom they perceived as "victims" ofbirth, circumstan&lt;z or society, Shulman says.
This model virtually ignored positive factors, such as a need for different types of supervision, availability
and use of community resources, as
well as clients' motivation, strengths
and coping skills, he notes.
But the emergence within the
past few years of managed health
care, mandated welfare reform
and other societal changes have
demanded a readj ustment in the
way social work is practiced and
is being taught, he points out.
Drawing on Shulman's rich experience and research as a social-work
educator. the edition advances
theory and practice models that acknowledge and incorporate recog-

nition of, and building upon, dients ·
strengths and learned coping skills.
Shulman's tat was selected for USt'

at the Ollnese uni
versity by Net
work
Norway
Council and fac
ulty members at
Norway's Oslo

College tn con ·
junction with Col·
lege of Social Work
faculty members and the Chin&lt;&gt;&lt;
Ministry of Civil Administration.
The textbook has been a staple in
the classroom and in the fidd for
more than 100,000 social-work students in the U.S. and Canada since it
first was published two decades ago.
The third edition, published in
1992, was translated for use by so·
cial-work students in Bulgaria rwo

years ago.

Obituaries
-loh•vka_IMW,_..

ment of Music and 3. noted com·
poser. Sapp. 76, died)an. 4 in Cincinnati,wherehehadservedasdean
of the University of Cincinnati College Conse r va tor y ·of Mu sic
(CC M) , professor of music and
comr&gt;ositio n , and associate d ean
fo r special projects. He retired
fromCCMin1993andwasemeri tus professor of music at the time
of his death.
A talented composer of 139 mu s~cal works. Sapp'~ compositions
have !&gt;&lt;eo ~rmed by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the
New York Philharmonic, the Cincinn~ti Chamber Orches"tra, th e
French Radio Orchestra and many
others. " He was quite prolific in the
80s. He was actually quite satisfied
he was able to hear so much of his
music performed in rrcent years,"
said his son, Anthony Sapp.
Sapp served in the U.S. Army
from 1943- 1945 as acryptoanalyst,
serving in England , France, Bel·

gium and Germany. He earned
bachelor's and master's degrees
from Harvard Univenity, where he
also taught early in his career.
He came to Buffalo in 1961 as

boardoftheBuffaloFineAruAcademyfrom 1961 -75,adirectorofthe
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
from 1961 -75 and a director and
vice president of the Studio Arena

Slee Visiting Pro-

Theatre during 1962-74. He also

fcssorofComposition, joining the
UB faculty that
year. He servedasa
professor fro m
1961 -75 a_nd as
chai rm a n of the

was a trustee and vice president of
the Buffalo Ballet Company from
1969-75, executive director of the
American CounciJ for the Arts in
Education (ACAE) frpm 1972-74
anddirectoroftheNewYorkFoun dation for the Arts from 1972-79.

Department

.lAPP

of

Music from 1961 -68. He wasco-directoroftheCeotcrfortheCreative
and Performing Am from 1964-68,
headed the Division of Languages,
Literature and the Arts from .-96567andwas directorofCulturai M fairs from 1966-71.
He served as ch airm an o f the
Council of College Masters from
1968-70 and was master of Coll ege
B from 1968-74.
While in Buffalo, he was involved
inmanycivicandrulturalactivities.
Sapp gave the dedication address at
opening ceremonies for both Baird
and Slee halls. He was a trustee and
musicadvisor to thechairmanofthe

Before going to Ci ncinnati in
1978, he served as provost of the
Division of Communication and
the Arts at Florida State University and executive director of the
American Council of the Arts.
Sapp was the fo rmer president
of the board of trustees of the Cin ci nnati Chamber Orchest ra and
served on several boards, including
that of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra.
Memorials may be made to the
Ci ncinnati Chamber Orchestra,
1406 Elm St., Cincin nati , Oh1o,
45210, orto the American Classical
Music HallofFamc,4 W. Fourth SL.
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202.

Jael Sabina Sobel, 63, professor of anatomy and histology
Services were held Dec. 7 for
Jacl Sabina Sobel, 63, professor
of a natomy and histology in th e
School of Medicine a nd Biomedical Sciences. Sobel, one of
the first scientists to successfully
fuse a cancer and non -cancer
cell, died Dec. 5 'bf breast ca nce r.
A native of Israel, she came to
the U.S. in 1944 a nd graduated
from Co rne.ll University in 1957.

She rece ived a master's degree
from Columbia Universi ty and a
doctorate in zoology from the
University of Wisconsin at Madi son in J964.
She completed a postdoctoral
feUowship at the Sloan Kettering
Me.moria11nstitute for Cancer Re·
search in New Yo rk, where she
fusedacan cerandnon -cancer cdl.
In 1970, sh e ret urned to Israel

Colleen E. Weingartner, 34,
lead programmer/analyst
A Mass of Ch..UU..- wu
held Dec. 12 in St Albert th~ Great
CatholicOnm:h, NorthTonawanda,
forO&gt;UoenE. Weingartner,34,a lead
programmer/analyst for the Office of
Student Accounts who died Dec. 6
aftersulferinganapparentaneurysm.
She was pronounced dead at Mount
St Mary's Hospital in Lewiston.
Weingartner received a bachelor
o f science degree from Buffalo
State College. She joi ned UB in
1990, working first for Administrative Computing Services and

lat er for St u dent Accounts .
Weingartner, who was in charge of
the teller system for Student Accou nts, developed th e dired-de posit system for stu dent s. Sh e
served on the department 's Y2K
planning co mmittet and was a
member of the UB Golf League.
Weingartner 1aught religiou s
education at St. Albert the Great
Catholic Church , where she served
o n the bereavement committee
a nd other comm un ity-service
groups.

ATHLETES · . .
OF THE
'
WEEI&lt;
'

MEN ' S

Bowtin1 Green 62. UB 59
Miami (OH) 76, UB 48

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The UB men's baskel:batl team
dropped two pmes last-

agann M;d-Amerian Conlerenc:e
opponena In Alumni Arena_ The Bulb
lost to Bowt;nc G._,, 62·59. on Jan
6 ond to Mi&gt;mi (OH). 71&gt;-48. on Jan
8
l.oub Ca.r¢ell ond .NO&lt;ob!

-

led tho Bulb """"
Bowmc G._,
wnn t8 poona
lopiece. The 18 points ~t~Wre a careerhigh for AlexMv,a sophomore. who
ai10 had nine rebounds,fust mrssmg
a··~" for the second
stnlgllt game.The Bulls lost desp&lt;te

""""' 5-ol·9 shoa from 11&gt;.-.eMid-American Conference
polnt range in the second tuff.
In Fridzy's bss ~ Miami
opponent Al&lt;ron, 68-60.
belon!. ·~ 3.014
Bulls_.. led again byAI&lt;xooo. who
had 14 poina Mid f'M reboo..nds.. WiH Umpbetl added I 0 poent:s. wtWe seneor
Nate joMson had I0 rebounds Mid four polnu off the bend\.

"""tho

WOMEN' S

Allen D. Sapp, Jr., 76, professor, chair, Department of Music
9 in Corbett Auditorium on the
Uru-.ityofCincinnati campus for
Allen Dwight Sapp.)r., former profcssor and chair of the UB Depart-

~oSKBthall

to perform research and teach at
Tel Aviv University. She returned
to the U.S. in 1977, working at
the Un iversi ty of Ca lifornia for
two yea rs. She ca m e to UB in
1979 as an assistant professo r,
performing research in embryo!·
ogy. Sobel's teaching dut1es In cluded medical and dental stu dents, wh o voted he r outs tan ding teacher in 1983.

Rita B. Gibbons,
83, assistant
placement director

UB 68, Akron 60
After ~vYing IU rmtch u W~ Mtehtpn on jan. 6 postponed bec:auu of
indement weather, the women's b:a.sJcetball team ~ted ~MAC
opponentAkron,68-60.on Sawrday
SophOI'I'IOI"'e Tiffany Sea led Coach Cheryl Oozier's tum wtth a double·
double (22 po;na ond 10 .-.bounds) . ~ Marl McOu.. pitt~&gt;«! In II
potnts and nine rebounds. Senior point guard Catherine Jacob added ntne pomu
and seven assists to the: w;nntng cause.
The Bulls outse~ the Zips. -41 -28, tn the second hal( while shoot~ng 57 7
percent ( 15-of-26) from the field

Wrestlin~
Pittsburgh-Johnstown 26, UB 9
The wresding team opened its dual-meet seuon &gt;Nith a 26-9 loss to Pittsburghjohnstown. ranked flm in the nation in NCAA OMslon U.The Mountatn Cau
defeated the Bulls. 26-9.
U8 winners lndoded senior apams Jacob Schaus vtd Matt Rlcd. Sc:Nus
was a 3-1 winner at the 17-f-.pound weight cbss md Rkci wu a 7-"1 wtnner at
I &amp;4 pounds. juotor john Escbectfdder was the Bulb:' third winner, taking a 6-2
decision in the heavyweight dMsion.

UB partidpati
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held Dec: . 14 in St. Amelia 's
Church , Town of Tonawa nda, for
Ri ta B. G ibbons, 83, a retired assistant director of placement for
VB. G ibbons died Dec. 13 in St.
Francis Home, WilJiamsville, after
a brief illness. She joined UB in
1960 and retired in 1985.

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. (ase.ksedl.eaml":9· Alan R.

, Saltzman, M.D., diniCol prol. ol

. medicine and clinical director
ol medldne at ECMC, and
Murray ).
Ph.D., SUNY

Ettlrf.!:

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. 355 Squire. 8-9 a.m. Free.

' Clutlwe Croft c.tM
fMiy Spoing-........
The Creative Croft COf1ter, 120
Fillmore in the Ellicott
. Complex. will offer Early Spring
• 'No&lt;tcshops, beQinning the

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A·new exhibit, SEL Rocks!,
showcases a VJriety of rocks

and minerals, as wellll a
selection of books in the
Science and Engine«ing
Ubnuy collection devoted to
minera~. In part a tribute

::n~!~~~?oc~:e
SEL Rotksl will be on disploy

on the second floor of Capen
Hall during library hours

-

through )anuary.. SEL librarians .

have compt&amp;ed an

· for more lnformolion. a ochedule
• . and I mop, aii64S-201 from
· 1-S p.m.lnd 7-10 p.m.

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lists additional books and

Internet resources on the
topic.

UB expands its international education programs
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News Servkes Editor

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its student/faculty interna -

tional education
effort to include fonnal aca-

demic exchange programs
wilh China's Hangzhou
University,
Maharaja
Sayajirao University in
India's Vadordara Gujarct
State, South Africa's Univer·
sity of the Western Cape and

the University of Havana in
Cuba.

Stephen Dunnett, vice
provost for international
ed~cation, said the universities involved in the new exchange agreements are
among the finest in their re·
spcctive nations.
The new programs reflect
a st rong effort by Kerr y
Grant, d~ of the College
of Arts and Sciences, to fur-

ther ibternationaliu UB.
Grant said be is doing this
by
expanding
the

university's exchange offer·
ings and by strengthening
and diversifying its under-

graduate and graduate
populations of interna·
tional students.

UB-Hangzhou University
(China)
UB last year signed a com-

mas. TWo UBstudentswere
enrolled in the program in
the FaU 1998 S&lt;!mester.

prehensive exchange agree·
ment wi~ Hangzhou University, the largest· comprehensive university in China,

UII-Mihlnja Sllylljlrao
UniYenlty ot Baroda (India)
The summer of 1998 also
marked the establishment
of U!l's first comprehensive

that wiU help strengthen

UB's Chinese and Asian

exchange prog·ram with a

studies programs and better

university in India, the architecturally beautiful Maharaja Sayajirao University
of Baroda, India (MSU ) .
The exchange originally was
suggested by MSU alumnus
Muchand Patel, professor
and chair of the UB Depart·
ment of Biochemistry.
MSU is one of the major

~rve

the growing number

ofUB students interested in
Asia or in professional op-

portunities in that region.
The first UB faculty mem ber to participate in the exchange was Barbara Bunlc&lt;:r,
professor of psychology, who
deliveml a series of lectures
at Hangzhou last spring.
Hangzbou offers a broad

variety of undergraduate-,
gnduate- and professionaldegrteprograms.lt was one of
the first universities in China

authorized to confer master's
and doctoral degr&lt;es.
The university is an active
participant in more than 50

international programs. ln
the last decade, more than
1, 100 Haogzhou faculty have

been sent abroad for advanced training, as weU as to

give lectures, conduct research and attend confer-

compfehensive universities
in India, enrolling 35,000

students in bachelor's,
master's and doctoral programs across 13 faculties.
Unlike most Indian univ~­

sities, MSU incorporates
extensive research .activities
on its teaching campus.
The university attracts stu·
dents from all over India and
from overseas, particularly to
its highly regarded programs
in the fine arts, performing
arts, education, home science.
management. technology and
engineering. MSU will send a

member of its performaJ&gt;« faculty to UB this spring as a visiting artist and UB expects to enroD students at MSU in the fall
UB-Unlwnlty of tavana
Ag.--nent (Cuba) •
The landmark exchange
agreement signed last summer by Grant and Yolanda
Wood, dean.of the Univ=ity
of Havana Faculty of Arts and
!..etten, was the lim of its kind
between UH and an American
university since 1959, the year
Havana fell to the revolutionary forces of Fidel Castro.
The agreement oommits UB
and UH to the joint development of a Caribbean Studies
Program with an integrative
and interdisciplinary nature
for the purposes of amducting r=arcb and teaching. it already has launched S&lt;!Vtral ini-

tiatives.
UB-UnMnlty of the
Western cape (South Afrka)

UB has a formal memorandum of agreement with
UWC dating back to 1995
and is in the process of de-

veloping the programs
stipulated under the agreement. These include join·t research, staff and student ex-

changes, exchange of research and of teaching,
learning and informa-

tional materials and
other ventures.
Although a steady stream
of academic and ~
trativevisitors&amp;om UB ODd
UWC have visited one
anothen' campuses since
1995, limited dormitory
and home spaceh- fumgn
students at
thus far
has pre.mted the enrollment ofUB students.
The University of the
Western Cape (UWC) was
founded in 1960 specifically to cater to the colored population of South

uwc

Africa's Cape Province,

who_, then barred from
attending ")mite" institutions. UWC's first stall' was
primarily whit&lt; and supported apartheid. but by
the late 1970s began to..,.
ject the ideological grounds
upon which the univenity
was founded.
It then began to~ as
a center of intdlectual and
political resistanoe to aput.
heid and leading faculty

meniben have~ invited
to take positions in the
Mandela government.

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                    <text>PAGE S

A midpoint look aJ what's
going on with the Oass of 2fXXJ.

PAGE 6

And the winner is...

Archives papers to aid in restoration
efJartsfar Wright-designed Graydiff.

December 10.111/tiJO.Ikl. 15

Bert at
the CFA
If you like Bert, you'll be
happy to know there are
dozens of h1m (and Em~e, too)
1n Sally M cKay's mixed med1a
works, a popular display
1n the "Version City" exh1b1t
1n the Center for the Arts
The Ses.ame Street buddie'
will continue to entertain
VISitO~ to the UB Art Galle,-.,
through july 1

Ruckenstein awarded National Medal ofScience

Highest scientific honor recognizes distinguished career, extraordinary breadth of work

By El.UH GOLDBAUM
N~ Serv•ce~ Editor

RESIDENT Cl mlon an
nounccd Tu ~sd ay that l:.li
Ruckcnstean. SUNY

n,.,

11 nguished Profes . . or 1n
th e Department of Chemtlal l:.n
gmecrmg. ha..\ heen awarded tht.·
Na 11 o nal Medal of ~Cicnce, tht
h1g h est ho nor awa rded 111 the l : '
for :o.t.:tenufi &lt;. achl t.'vc menl.
RuckcnslcJ n, a UB f..1cuh y Tlll'Tll

her sm~.e I ~n and ,, mt·mh~..·r o l
1he prcst1gmus National Academv
of Engi necnng, is the fir ~ ! LlB pro
fessor to receive the covrted award
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&lt;.' n! ~ will rece1 ve th elf mcdab rn
January du nng a ~.e re m o n y at thr
Whit e I louse
C linlon Cllt:d the rcnptenl!i for
"th eir lifetime of pass1on,persever
ance and perststencc to bring abou1
new knowledge that extends lh t"
limits of lh r1r ficlds and drives our
nation forward int o &lt;1 ncw ccnlury."
Cons1dered th&lt;.&gt; U.~. equivah.'nt
to th r Nobel Pri n·. 1he award ts

hl'!itnwed on mdiv1duab who have
made: ou tstandmg LOillnbullon ..
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Senate votes to consider censure proposal
By SUE WUETCHlR
News Services As50ciale

T

D1re-ctor

H E Facult y Se nate o n
Tuesday agreed without
debate to consider a pro
posal to censure the ad
mmistratlon regarding its actions Lll
folding lhe Department ofStatLStJ.c.s
into the Departme nt of SociaJ and
Prevent1ve Medicine ( SPM ).
The m o lton. offered fo r a first
reading hy John Boot. p roft"ssor
and chai r of the l kpartme nt ol
Management Snence and Systems.
asks the senate lo u·nsure 1he ad
ministration for not followmg UH
and SUNY procedures regardmg
the abo li(ion of dcgrec -grantmg
programs, for its "brazen dtsregard "
of faculty input via established fac

uhy gove rn ance .:-nu nu\ ,, and lor
thc:.· "acluaJ Slt&gt;ps 1aken l dtsmanlllng
of thr statistiC!i department ). wh1ch
will come to haunt u!i 1n the t'liu
of our students, m tht• ad
vancr men l of 1he sc!cni..'t"!o ol !old
lislics, 10 competitiveness ol our
g rant proposa ls ac ross the sprl
I rum of health sc1ences and corr
campu s areas. and m our ahlilly hi
met&gt;! th e m·eds o f New York Stall'
a nd w1dt'r .:-onstltuenclc .. for
1ra1ned stat tst1oan s."
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heels of a plea by lrwm t;unman, chatr
of the former Depanmen1 of Stam·
tJCS.. askmg senators 10 ~a motion
of censure "to try to send a s1gnal that
the admuustration cannot fail to un
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athletes are per ·
forming in the class·
room, as wdJ as on the
court or on the field .
In fact, the director of the office
that provides academic support
for athletes says that between 30
and 45 percent of UB's athletes can
be co nsiderM .. scholar athletes ."
The most recent example is tht"
football players who soagg&lt;d five of
the 20 spots on the 1998 GTFJCol·
lege Spons Information Dirmorsof
America (CoSIDA) Academic AIJ.
District I football team. Led by senior defensive end Dan Poulsen,
who has earn«! a 3.84 GPA in physi·
cal therapy and a spot on the GTFJ
CoSIDA all-academic team for the
second straight year, the "academic
aJI ·stars" include junior· offensive
tackle Mike Garofalo, with a 3.41
GPA in management; junior offensive guard David Pruce, 3.80 in po·

litical science; sophomo re linebacker Brandon Nishnick, 3.36 in
history, and rcdshirt freshman run nmg back David Schmidli, who is
cons1dcred a sophomore academi cally and intends to major in physi cal therapy. 3.S4.
District I includes all Division
I A and 1-AA schools within the
states of Co nnecticut, Maine, Mas sachusett s. New Hampshire, Ne"W
York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
and includes schools from the Big
Cast and the Ivy League.
Moreover, these football players.
dTt' not the only athJetes at UB to
earn academic honors. Paul Vecchio.
sports information director. notes
that other stellar scholars include:
• Catherine Jacob. senior guard on
the women's basketball team, who

has been selected two consecutive
yean to tho GTEJCoSIDA Aademic

All-District r women's basketball
team and is considered a " lock~ for a
spot again this !='·

Jac.ob also was

named the "scholar athlete" of the
prestigious Rutgers Invitational
Toumamcnthddtwoweekendsago.
• Members of the men's swim·
ming team, which placed first
twice in the past five yean-bas«!
on team GPA-&lt;Jn the College
Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) All- Aademic
Team. The team also placed 12th
this year o n the list of NCAA all·
academic swimming teams.
• Members of the women's swim·
ming team, which has placed in the
Top 10 twice on the CSCAA team
• The wresting team, which has
plac&lt;d in the Top 20 among all Di·
vision I wrestling teams, based on
teamGPA
"As a group, athletes generally
do well " academicaUy, confirms
Stephen N. Wallace, director of the
Office of Athlete Academic Services. Wallace notes that between
30·45 percent of the 500 varsity
student athJetes at UB on averagc
arc co nsidered "sc holar ath letes"-earn ing a GPA of 3.0 or
higher in graded courses during
any particula r semester.
That percentage is "considerably
higher than the percentage of the
general student body," ad&amp; Dennis
Malone, SUNY Distinguish«! Service Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and NCAA
facuJty athJetics representative.
Coaches of Division I teams e~ ­
pect a certain level of performance
from their athletes, Wallace says.
noting that leads to significant
demands on thc athletes' time for

practice, competition and travel.
" To deal with that and the academic demands (of UB) is a real
feat." he says.
AI. faculty athletic representa·
tive, Malone describes his job as
"trying to represent the interests
of the athletic program to the fac ulty and the interests of the fac ulty and the academic program to
the Division of Athletics: He
points out that the NCAA'j motto
stat~ that student athletes an stu·
dents first and athletes second
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. . . . . . ....,of
8thletes, the ""'-s-ty

... a...- ........ be.
proud of the ........
perfor1nMKe of Its

athletes."
DlNNI') M ALON (

.. Maybe I percent of st udent
athletes even get a look by a professional spo rts tum ," he says.
"That's something our students
perhaps understand; they take the
(NCAA) mono quite seriously."
The Office of Athlete Academi c
Services has put into place an aca demic suppo rt program that is
designed to " maintain the aca demic integrity of the (a thletics )
program," Wallace says.
Each team is assigned an aca·
demic advisor and team members
can avail themselves of tutoring
and mentoring programs. As
freshmen, they participa te in a
co urse similar to UB 101-but
geared toward athletes-to help
them learn about the university.
The office staff includes a leam mg specialist-a doctoral student

&amp;om the Department of Counseling and Educatiooal Psycbology-

who worb with othletos aperi&lt;nc·
inglearn.ing problrmsranging from
learning disabilities to ah inability
to get organized to poor study skills.
The office also is in contact with
athletes' instructon at least three
times a semest&lt;r, which gives staff
a good indication bow students are
doing and allows them to help correct problems before the students
get into real academic trouble.
Wallace says that the real key to
athletes' outstanding perfor·
mances • is the sense of commu·
nity and connection and support
among themselves.
" II ma..kes a difference to kids
when a professor knows their
name and asks them how their
mom aod dad are doing," he says.
Malone dispels the widely held
notion that athletes generally are
concentrat&lt;d among easy majorrthe "rocks for jocks" syndrome,
pointing out that the distribution
of majors among athletes at UB is
in no way different than the distri·
bution of majors among the gen eral student population.
"There rea.Uy is not an Casy rna·
jor at UB." adds Wallace, noting
that a surprising number of athJetcs
major in engineering, considered a
"fairly inflexible" course of study.
Malone notes that people mali,&lt;
generalizations when it oomes to athlet.s-"the big. dumb guy is one."
But these people "sirnply haven't
looked at what the faru show," he

says.
" In terms of the general aca demic quality of athletes, the uni ·
versity can be, and should be ,
proud of the academic perfor mance of its athletes."

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Mira McGinnis

UB stroke researchers develop new technique
Method to measure blood rate-of-flow will be used to treat brain malformations
By LOIS BAKER
Nt&gt;WS Servtces Ed1tor

new tt•chmqul' for de termmmg the rate of
blood now, developed
by researcher s at th e
UB Toshiba Stroke Research Cen ter, will enable neurosurgeons using digital radiographic imaging
to ch aracte ri ze and treat cere b rovascular abnorma liti es called
arter iovenous malformation s
(AVM s) more effect ively.
The new method, called dual
contrast injectiOn. which has not
been used elsewhere for this co n dition . was described Nov. 30 at
the Radiologi ca l Society of
Ame rica annual meeting in C hi ca go by lead researcher William
Granger. a UB physiology and b1o
physics doctoral candidate.
Ncurosurgeons w1th tht·
Toshiba ce nter have used the procedure on 21 pataenh, w1th no
comp lications.
An AVM is a tangle of fragile
vessels in the brain or spmal co rd
that forms betwe e n an artery.
which carries oxygen~rich blood
to the brain, and a vein , wh1ch
drain s oxygen -depleted blood
back to the lun gs for replenish
ment. It creates a short -circuit be tween the two ci rculation systems.

A

shunting blood directly from the
artery into the vein, effectively by·
passi ng the brain.
An AVM can leak o r rupture if
tt isn't treated. The condition is
thought to be co ngenital, and is
diagnosed most frequently in
young adults, Granger said.
One way of treating AVMs, and
the method of choi ce o f
neurosurgcons at the Toshiba cen ter, is to seal off the entrances to
the blood vessels nourishing the
AVM . ca ll ed feeding pedicules,
with a glue -like substa nce. With
the feeding pedicules sealed off,
circu lati on resumes its norma l
path, full oxygenation of th e brain
IS restored and the threat of bleed mg or stroke is eliminated.
For thi s technique to work
maximall y, neurosurgeons must
be able to gauge the exact ra te of
blood flow th rough the AVM so
the y ca n de termine the transit
time of the glue from the injection
po tnt to th e site to be blocked .
They then ca n formulate the glu ang agent so it hardens at the
proper point as It is carried along
by the b lood flow. This ensures
that blood flow is blocked to the
AVM without occludi ng the main
artery or vein.
Current techn 1ques for deter -

mining rat e of blood now use two
app roaches, both involving inject ing a contrast medium into the
AVM through a tiny catheter
threaded through the large artery
in the groin until it reaches the
damaged area. The contrast me·
dium is tracked via digital X-ray
imaging.
One approach involves injecting
a solub le contrast medium , which
is effective in showing the internal contou.rs of the vessel and its
twists and turns, enabling
neurosurgeons to determine dis tance through the AVM . But be ca use the con trast medium dis solves and diffuses into the blood
stream, it does not produce a dear.
leading edge necessary to track
how fast the flow is moving.
An alternate approach uses a
non · soluble contras t medium :
small droplets of a poppyseed oiJ based agent containing radioactive
iodine. These droplets provide the
necessary leading edge to provide
precise information on speed of
the flow. But beca use the contrast
medium doesn't dissolve and fill
the vessel , tracking the oil droplets alonc provides no information
on the path, or distance, the drop
has traveled, which is necessary for
determining the rate of flow.

G ran ger's idea was to adminis ter both contrast media simulta neously. Dual contrast injection
allo'!s
neurosurgeons
or
neuroradiologists to gauge both
distance and tim!! with one interven tion. He said the technique
never has been used elsewhere for
determining the rate of blood flow
inAVMs.
"The two methods together aJ Iow more exact means of deter mining ratc of flow," Granger said.
"We can determine the exact timc
for the glu e to rea c h the
ar terioven u s junction. Our
method is more accurate in deter mining flow ve:locity than either
single soluble or non · soluble in
jections alone."
Additional members of the re
search group were Afshin A. Divaru.
doctoral candidate in mechanical
aod aerospace engineering; Stephen
Rudin. professor of radiology aod
physics; Ajay K. Walthloo, associate
professor of neurosurgery; Baruch
B. Lieber. associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
aod Daniel R. Bednarelc, associate
professor of radiology and physics.
allofUB.
The research was fund«! by a
grant from Toshiba American
M&lt;dical Systems.

�Oetember 1l1!1!18Nol.:ll, 1h 15 Repoa ._

SEFA success wins plaudits for UB
Chair's Cup goes to SILS; other units honored for contributions

_...,.of

thi ""'-'lty community have demonstnted their
deep commitment to the people of
Western N~ York by once again ..
helping UB to exaed its SEFA goal
To date, UB faculty, staff, students and volunteers have contrib~
uted $677,698, 103.7 percent of
the 1998 goal of $653,600.
In all , 14 of the university's 21
SEFA units met or exaeded their
goals: the Offi"" of the Provost,
School of Architecture and Planning, Grad uate School of Education, School of Information and Library Studies, Law Schoo~ School
ofManagemcnt,OfficeofthePresident, School of Social Work, UB
Foundation. Student Affairs, Uni versity Services, the offices of the
Vice Presidents for Research, Ad vancement and Development, and
Public Service and Urban Affairs.
"'Any time you're asked to foUow
up on something that has such a history of success, there's a feeling of
trepidation-will UB be able to do
it again? " noted Dennis Black, viet
president for student affairs and
chair of th is year's SEFA campaign.
..As the 1998campaigncomes to
an end, the SEFA administrative
team is overwhelmed by the positive response of the universitycom muniry, and left with rwo thoughts:
a senst of how important what we
do on campus is to the community,

and the sense that no matter how
committed and successfuJ we are in
1998, we need to be even more
committed and successful in 1999."
A number of units were hon +
ored this moroing for their co n tributions to the 1998. campaign.
The C hair 's C u p. which recog+
nizes the unit that exceeds its goal
and demonstrates the greatest in crease in con tributi ons, was
awarded to the School of lnform a+
tion and library Studies.
In addition, certificates of
achieveme nt were presented to
units and individua!s who made

PROGRESS REPORT
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10,000

12,156

121.5

110,700

100,943

91.1

32,800

27,164

82.8

15,900

15,923

100.1

39,300

38,681

98.4

9,800

9,173

93.6

1,800

2,013

111.8

15,100

15,715

1&lt;&gt;4.0

24,700

29,353

118.8

139,900

12~.533

89.0

7,900

6,545

82 .8

9,500
6,500

8,523

89.7

6,536

t00 .5

~. soo

6,3&gt;4

H1.2

School oll'hormocy
Office of the President

School of Soclol -

S

C IENT ISTS at UB have

sh{&gt;wn that marijuana -li ke
compounds called anandamides, found in the
testis , uterus and oviduct, ma y
play a role in regulating fun ctions
of human sperm and influen ce
their ability to fertilize eggs.

The srudy, to be presented Tuesday
in San Francisco at the meeting of the

American Sociery of Cell Biology.
shows that human sperm contain n-ccptors for amnabinoids-&lt;:hcmiml
compounds such as TI-IC:. the actl\'l'
substance in marijuana smoke.
Further, the study shows for tht•
first time that cannabinoids can af·
feet three key fertilization processes:
• Inhibition ofacrosome reaction, the

normal release of the sperm enzyme.
that enable sperm to penetrnte the egg.
• Regulation of very active sperm
swimming
paH e rn s.
ca ll cd
hyperactivation.
• Prevention of s perm bindmg to
the egg cover, or zona.

The ~ could have significant
irnpOOiicmk.-diagna;lo;oflllknilityand
unda-standir4! ln!ic human biology and
rOOocular rontrol, said Habert Schud.

/{I just bought a new PC and new software, do I
have to wony about Year 200()?
add ress

hardwar~

and software separately.

Hardwart":
If you have a manufacturer wJrranty certtfymg that the PC~ Y2K
comphant, you should be okay. HoweVl'r. 1f thts PC 1~ cntlcal to your
JOh or pro1ect, 11 1s sttll recommended that 11 he tested for compliance
Rc:g.~rdles~ of when yo u purchased your PC. 1f you didn 't purchase
one thdl IS 1..ert1fied ~o.ompltant. you'll havt.• to check v.••th the manufac
turcr. Most vendors have onl1nc sues hstmg whiCh oft hear systems arc
Year 2000 compliant. UB'.!&gt; Weh l&gt;t le &lt; http:/ / wlngs.buffalo.edu/
year2000/ vendor.html "&gt; ha!l hn~ In many of them
Sof.ware:
For vanou.!&gt; r cJ.~m!l, upgradmg your ~oft ware w1tl not neces.sanlv
shteld you from the Year 2000 problem. l:.ven 1f you have the most
recen t vers ton. th1s does not mean 11 IS Year 2000 compliant. Some
vendors will not have compliant versiOns ready unlll somettme m 1999
Also, 1mporung from an older verston can cause problems. For
example, you r o ld sp readsheet ma y miSinterpret a two-dtgll date
a nd save the incorrect information. When you 1mport tt to your
upgraded sp reads heet , the softwa re will read the- date however the
old softwart&gt; interpreted it; the new software will have- no reason to
suspect that the date might be tnaccurate .
Another problem exists with programs and custom11 cd t"ode wnt
ten in +housc. Your softwa re may be com pli ant, hut 11 may still be
possible to have 1n -ho use or c..us tom code usmg two· d•g•t dates and
hard-coded 19_ for a yea r valut' Th1s can s ull produtl' maccuratl'
results , even if you arl' usmg cum phan1 upcra11ng W\lt'm" and !&gt;Oh
ware packages.

UB Foundation

2.700

2.9 t0

107.7

If you have Y2K questtons that you would ltke answered m thts

Student Affairs

30,600

3-4,431

112.5

column, email them to &lt;goldbaum @buffalo.edu &gt;

University Services

134,000

140,768

105 .0

&amp;neritus Center

22,809

Vice President for Research

3.300

3.350

101.5

Adv~em~t a!'d ~opment 8,400

11,778

140.2

Public Service and Urban Affairs 21,200

24,259

114 .4

s.~t

Or!janiution&lt;

Totals

Jj55J,aD

important con tr ibutions to put ting this year's campaign ''over the

top.""They include:
• G reatest percentage o f rcspon ·
dents-U B Foundation ( 100 per·
ce nt ), Office of the Vice President

for Research (95.2 percent), Office
of the President (93.7 percent }
• First unit to reach goal: Sch ool
of Management
• Greatest increase m respo n ~es.
contributions and g •vcrs: School

3,165

-r

$677,6911

103.7

of Social Work
• Administrative Team SupporL
Univers it y Services, School of l:.n
gineering and Applied Science~
Special campus recognition a.bu
was presented to )ames Nadbrzuch for

his leadership role in the campaign.
and to Kevin Seitz and lim Murphv
for their Day of Caring effo~
R. Nils Olsen, Jr., profes~or ul
law. will serve a~ chai r of the 1999
~E~A campaign.

Marijuana may affect fertility, study shows
By LOIS BAKER
News Services Editor

Y2K@UB Ill
L~t 's

SEFA CAMPAIGN

3

pro("""' of alliJtomy and a:ll biology in
the School of Medicine and Biomo:lirnl
Sciena:s and ro-author of the srudy.
"We've known for 30 years that
very heavy mariJuana smokmg h&lt;b
a drastic effect on sperm production
within the testis. which can lead to
higher rates of infertility," Schue!
said. "Our new findings suggest that
anandamides and TH C in mari ·
juana smoke may also affl"Ct sperm
functions required for fertilizati on
in the female reproductive tract .
"The additional lood of ca nnab
inoids in the systems of people who
abuse marijuana Ooods the natural
cannabinoid receptors and appears to
ha~ adverse consequences for repn 1
duction in both males and female..."
Pioneering work by X hud dnJ
colleagul'S previous1y had shown that
:.perm from the sea urchin have art'\ ogrution site, or n.--ceptor. for cannah
moids. They also provided C'VIdcnl'r
that cannabm01ds and anandam1do
can prevent St."a· urchin sperm from
fertilizing eggs b)' prevcntmg th e
spenn acrosome reaction when tht·y
arrive at the egg surface. Washmg
away the cannabinoids rcv&lt;.·rsed the
inhibitory effects.
lbe current research on human fer

Lill1. .ation was earned out m will bora
tion with lam J. Burkman.dJI'C'Ctur(ll
the Andrology Section (the study ol
male fertility/infertility ) in tht• L'fi

medi&lt;:al school. and Alex Makriv.lnn~&gt;,
profe;sorof mecticinal chen11Strv at tlw
University of Connecticut

These researchers have found th.11
human sperm con tain functiOnal
canna h inoid receptors. allowmg
TH C from marijuana . as well ali
natural amnabinoids {anandamJdC'S l,
to bind to spenn. In 30 trial!~ usmg
mod1fied fertilitr laboratory prncc
durt·:,, Schue!. Burkm an and ~.nl
leagut&gt;s ml·ubatt.·d prc · M:rt'cned hu
mdn !&gt;Jll' rm 10 .t st unulatiO(! nlt'
dium co ntaining difft•rt'nt CO ih.. t·n
trJtjom of ·n-iC or AM .'\SO, J :.-vn
tht.·th. ClJUIV.Jil'nl of the n.llural
J.nandam1de. Re!&gt;ult s showtJ thJt
a fur !11:\ hour!&gt;, sperm cxpost·d Ill
TIH o r At-. I -JS6hada67pen:ell1
rt'JudJ on Ill prt•mature acro~nnll'
rcae1 1ons. lomparcd to co ntroh .
Mottltty stud 1es s h owed th at
h1gher lt'vds of AM -356 inhibned
hyperal'tivated sw1mming. while
lower conce ntration s actually
stimulated hypc:ractivation . In the
zona experiments. AM -356 inhib
1ted sperm binding by 75 percent.

BrieOy
Equipment donation helps UB
advance Internet technologies
The university is partnerlng with academic mstllUtlom aero.,.,
the co untry to take the lead 1n dcvclopmg the next gem· rat1 on ul
/niL'Til l'l tt•chno /ogv. a ll3110ila/ proteCt re(('IVIO~ Wldt&gt;SprC'ad SUp
port from Indu stry partner~ and the fL"deral governnll'lll.
·1o ~upport us ·~ effort!:!. Bav Netwo rks . a Norte! Nt·tworks lmt" of
husmcss anJ leader m the wo rldw1d e networkmi! market. has d o
natt&gt;d Int ernet nt·tworl.. t'qUJpmcnt valucJ al nearly 5~000 to the
un1ver1i!IV. The cqu1pment enahlel! th e unl\·er~ll' tu part1c1pate mIn
ternct 2, ll natiOnal COfl!i.OriiUnl wuri..Ul~ h ' pt'rft•tt J nt''-' generatiOn
of lnkrnet applicauons. l'B 1:- &lt;~mo ng mort·lh.m \00 Tl''-t'arch un1ver
.,,tiCS part1c1patm g Ill tht• pru)l'(t
,
" Hy ~.,rt"oltmg and sustammg J lcaJmg l'Jgt' nl'twnrl.. hH tht· llJ
tu)flal n: ~ea rc h co mmunitv, lntl'rnet 2 1l!o enahlmg tht• lnternt·t .._om
murutv tu devdop the ncces1ian· tnob for ''-ll'nll li .. rc.,l'dh.h .md
h•ght·r t:du~..J tlun 1n the 2 1l!ol l t'ntun .''l&gt;ald R1ll Hawc , \.ha:llt'lh m, J
ngy offircr at Hay Network!~ . " Thl !l lllnovatlon will pruvldt· nt'h' tech
nolngJCl!o nt•rded for the ongo1ng growth of the lnll:r nt·l ..
Lf.,mg ~· uttm g. - cdgt· networ k ~.ap..th dltt t'l&gt;. UB wdl he .1 hk ttl1..om
munll'iltt· \vtth othc..•r member lOSt II Ullom (;ltlh..tl tea .. hln~ . k..trn
mg and rl'!lt'dTlh '-''Ill he b rought to tht· n c\:t lt·vd throuf_h mult111\t'
&lt;lia app !Jc.tt1om. 'u'h a:. muh1 la:. 1m~ . \ 1dt'o anJ \'t11u· lllt&lt;·gr.ltlllll ,
and onhnc..· ... ullahorJIIW rt'1il'arlh .
krr v Bulklat·w. nl'twnrk c: n~lnt•e r 111 tht• l 1B lllti~.c n il ompu11ng
.md lnlmmJtum lclhnolo~ y. t'Xplamc..·d thJt tht· nt'\\ lt'(hnologlt''
wdl ",t llm' la:.tl'r. ht·ttt: r (Ofllm.um catlo n between l ' H Jnd u tht•n
~..o nnl'l' tc:d to lntt'Tnt·t~ . It ~. an drJmat11.Jih t•nhJnu· J rt•.,car .. her,
.t bdlt }' to tollatwralt' .md ~.und u \ lt·.,~entlal rt' !lea r ~..h ~.umpont• nt.. II
l"i tht• :,eu md ~t·ncratum nl tht· lntl'Tnt't .. l ' R\ l'tJlllpnwnr lnr lht·
lntcrrwt 2 proiCl l ~~ l'Xpt"llt'J Ill ht' lnl!or.tllrJ llt'\:t .,pnn~

Alumnus supports study on
South Campus neighborhood
A closer look at hnusmg .mJ t'l..tHltlll\1~ ~~'lll.':o. Ill tht· llt'lf.hhnrhtli•J
'urround mg thl' ~uth (..ampm '' tht· lmu .. ol .t llt' " l'K 'tuJ\ . p.u
11.t1l\' funded by a S2:..1XX) gth trnm J. I Yt~ ;' .tlumnu,, Rni:X"rtl, .\ ltlrrt''''
Pt~kskill . m the hope' t.ll unuiVt·n ng ..tht·rnJI\Vt'' h1r rt'' u .dum~ tht
ne ighborhood. Morn!&gt; undcrsr.anili the.' unpat1thar J unl\'t'"lt\ tiT "'''llt~t
has on Its rommunnv and n..--cognu.o the tmph~..uaon!'- tht· fj, t' \'t.",u o;tuJ,
..:an haw o n the long+terrn \'ltality of the Mam ~lrt.'l'l Jn~.t.
!'he st udy, headed b,, Barry l.cntnek, profr:-.:.or ul goograrh' ,mJ J.,
!'&gt;0("13te director of the Cente r for Reg1onal I kvdupml'nt .md Pol h.'
w11l exam me the development ol \'aldntlanJ. propert v 'aim'!'&gt;. la nd u't
and employment m the ~uth Ca mpus ne1ghhorhond Tht· mtorm.l
tJOn will be ul!oe'd by tht" Universm Com munuv lntttatlvt', J \.ollahora
Uon between the Town of Amherst. City o( Buffalo.. Town of IOnawamL
.tnd UB. m its efforts to stahiiJZC." anJ revttalJz.e tht• ne1~h borhooJ

�Detetber 1U!Iti1UJ.IJ.15

Junior is winner ofrecipe contest

U

The UrWonity ........ - oc.
c e p d n g - for this
)'Oil's

a..--.- for

zma Siddiqui , a
junior in the School
of Management, is
this year's Report~

recipe contest win ner. Siddiqui, who is studying mar-

Elcalenc.e In~·

~moybeofotty

keting and plans to co ntinue on for
her MBA, works part time as a student assis ta nt in the G raduate
Sc hool. Sidd iqut. who is from
Islamabad. Pakistan, lives on campus and does her own cooki ng. She
learned to cook from her mother

rank and must haw c:c&gt;mpleUd
It leal tine~ y9fS in
a full-limo appointment., a
prof--otUI
prior"' nomlnllian.ln - lion, nominees rnJJt possess
the M.LS. degree. Only the usodate vice prt5ident for Unlvonity Ubrories b ineiglbl. fO&lt;
oominatJs&gt;ns fO&lt; this IWOtd.

and grandmother and says she

adapted the winning recipe from
something the &amp;mily oooks at borne
.. to make it simpler and easier."
Her recipe uses vegetables and
although she is not a vegetarian ,
Siddiqui says, " I hardly eat any red
meat-! tend to eat wh ite meatand it 's hea lth ier to eat more vege tables." She entered the recipe
contat on .. the spur of the moment" and her reci~ attracted the
attention of th e judges, members

~

Penons on sabbotbl ~ dur·

lng the fall or spring..,_
prior to the year of nominotion
moynotbenornlnated, nor
moy pcevious recipients of the
award be ronominltod. Posthu. mous nominee wil not be
considered.
Compleled nominations, infn&gt;m the
cluding a

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cur-

ten _of.,..,......,of

llbnrtonship,. and to fhlo
- . of support. rnJJt be ,..
al¥edt,.noononjon. 13.

Nomlneesforthe-.-

;

Alonzo hrtley. a st udent in mechanical engineering, sent in this
recipe for butter tarts made with
so ur -c ream pastry. He noted :

"These butter tarts
always had rave reviews!!! It was•handed
to me by a next-door

neighbor who grew up
in Val D'Or, Quebec.
She used to look for me
when I was walking home
from sc hool wh en she freshly

-haw along rOCIOid of ..,.
Yice. but performance rnJJt be

baked them . I loved these tarts.
Unfortunately she passed away a

extraordlnoly.

few years ago, but her daughter left

Complele oomlnadon packages moy be ....... to Elen
McCnlh In the .._. Ubnry. ""'

me her recipe. She said that her
mother always enjoyed having m e

more inlomlldon

·

the~ the...:::!.

over after school for tarts and milk.
and she wanted to leave something

or_.x,n ofanomlnollon
pac:koge! ...... McGralh ..

behind for me to always remem -

..............

SOUR CREAM PASTRY
Yield: t'WO 9n pie crusts o r 2 dozen
medium tarts
1 cup butter
1'/1 cups flour
'/ cup sour cream
1
Ble nd butte r and fl o ur until
th e consiste n cy of coa r se
oatmeal. Add so ur c ream and
blend until pa stry begi ns to ding
toge th er. Dividt&gt; dough in two
ba lls. Wrap in plastic wrap and
refrige rate at leas t 4 hours or
overnight. Let dough stand for
about 5 minutes to remove the
Ch ill and ease ro lling; roll o ut on
a lightl y fl o ured boa rd or o n a
pastry cloth .

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Japanese" short course
to be offered
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(Deportment of , _ , ...,..
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f&lt;r I short Courte boglmlng jon.
27 and conllooing through
Mardi 3 for thcKe who moy be
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guage. who hawlhought about
enrollng In.__·cotne • U8 1 those who~~
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about Japan.

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tont and 1 graduate student in ·
the Oeportment al Unguistla,
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Use above pastry
1 cup white sugar
1 cup seedless raisins
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
'1, cup butter
4 tablespoons cream
or half and half
1
/J cup broken walnuts

Beat eggs. Combine with remain ing ingr&lt;djmts acq&gt;t nuts, and boil
at medium beat for 3 minura. Add
nuts. Fill unbaked tart shells and
bak&lt; for 15 minutes at 375 degr&lt;es.

Wendy Bluk, head coach of

women's c rew, subm itted thi s

recipe for Anise-Raisin Soda Bread.
Black noted, "I made this recipe up
because I was sick of eating bagels
at races. I wanted a bread that was
good for you, but didn't take a lot
of time to make, like most yeast
breads. I also didn't bave a loaf pan
at the time, so I needed something
that could be made o n a cookie
sheet. It travels well and tastes good
warm or oold."
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1'/1 cups white flour

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1 tablespoon baking soda

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2 tablespoons dnnamon 1
2 tablespoons anise seeds
'1. cup sugar
1 cup raisins
4 tablespoons butter, melted
egg
1'/1 cups milk
'11 cup maple syrup
Extra flour for kneading
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Co mbine fl ours, bran , soda.
powder, sa lt , ci nnam on, anise,
sugar and raisins in a large bowl.
Mix to combine.
In a n o th er bowl, combi ne
melted butter, maple syrup. egg
and milk. Sti r togeth er. Sti r wet
ingredients into dry ingredien ts
until well - mixed . Turn dough
o nto a fl oured surface and knead
for three minutes until dough is
J elastic and easy to handle.
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form each half int o a
round loaf. Make sure the
loaf is more round than " tall ."
Place on a cookie sheet. With a

sharp knife, slash the top of each
loaf about three times.
Cook for approximately 40 min·
utes or until loaf is golden brown
and sounds hollow when tapped.
Cool on wire rack. Sto"' wrapped

in plastic. Tastes great spread with
cream cheese and a little honey.

of the News Sttvices staff, for its
combi natio n of spices and •because it's so differenL..
For her prize, Siddiqui reaived
" The World's Finest Food"
(Stewart Tabori and Chang), a colorful coffee-table cookbook with
180 classic recipes, scenic photos
and maps from around the world,

edited by Margaret Olds wi.th reci·
pes by Ann Greber, text by
Elisabeth IGng and photog;..phs
by Phil Wymant.

From Dr. bj Ach.ry-. professor of
oomputer science and engineering,
comes this recipe for Veggie Crepes.
"This has been a family favorite of
oun." he says. "During the summer
months, we add fresh vegetables.
sometim&lt;S sauteed in olive oil and a
dove ofgarlic. in Winter,we add fresh,
grated ginger lO the vegetabi&lt;S."
VEGGIE CREPES
1 cup Cream of Wheat
cup flour
2

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2 cups water
1 small, finely chopped onion
1 small bunch of chopped broccoli
1 small, finely chopped sweet pepper
'/4 teaspoon baking soda
Salt to taste

Fresh ground poppet'
Cooking spray
Ch..se of perwnal liking
(can be omitted)

Add all ofthe above ingredients except dlccse. Add more water, if necessary,to make a watery ronsistency.
Heat a griddle. Using a big serving spoon or ladle, sooop the mix·
ture and drop in a circular motion
on the griddle. Move the pan so that
a thin lay.r is created. Use medium
heat. Use coolcing spray only on the
outer edges and WYer and oook until
the edges are brown, about 2 minutes.
Add a slice of cheese on one half,
ONLY if you like the tastO.and fold.
Serve hot with sauce of you.r choia.
If made ahead, layer with wax
paper so that the crepes do not stick.
Here's an easy, hefty, one-pot dish
from MM-g.nta v_., associate
professor and dlairofthe Department
of Modem Languages and Uteratures.
PORK AND CHICKPEAS
S pounds pork, cut in chunks
2-12 oz. cans of garbanzos

(chickpeas)
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 onion (diced)
1 tomato (diced)
2d garic (chopped ()( prased) '
1 hot serrano peppe&lt; (~ deslned)

Fry last four ingredients in large
skillet or pol. Add chunks of pork
and garbanzos with liquid. Cook
for approximately two hours (or
until pork is tender). Serve with
fresh Italian or French bread.

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His work de\'doping theories regarding the interaction of forces

between colloidal particles in col·
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velop new materials with interest ing thermal and rheological properties. In 1992. he was awarded a
patent for some of these materials,

new protein-separation methods
and new technologies to prepare
membranes for separation pro cesses that have biomedical and
pharmaceutical applications.
His investigations of colloids
and emulsions led to the modern
theory of microemulsions.
Ru c kenstein ha s developed
separation processes that have
high selectivity for aromatics, very
useful industrial solvents.
He previously was a professor at

which IBM has licensed and is us-

Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest,

ing in its mainframe computers.

the University of Delaware and
Clarkson University.

In addition, he has developed

He has held visiting professorships at the Catholic Univ=ity in
Uuvm, Belgium; Tedmion in Haifa,
lsrad; Bayreuth Univ=ity in West
Germany, and Carnegie-Mellon
University.
Ruckenstein has been bonored
by the American lnstitutt of
Chemical Engineers with its most
prestigious awards: the Alpha Chi
SigmaAwanl in t9n fo&lt;=tiie:ncr
in chemical engine&lt;ring research
and the Walker Award fo&lt; exrdlence in oontributioos to cbemicaJ.
engine&lt;ring litera~ in 1·988.
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society's Langmuir L&lt;cture Award
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American Chemical Society's E.V.
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student services when J graduate...
J'vealways loved to dance and we
have such a spectacular program
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been busy and hrctic, particularly
since she is registered for more than
20 credit hours. "I'm trying to take
advantage of all that VB has to
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( ( S TRESSFUL!"is howmostof
the Class of zOOo describe
the first half of their junior
year at UB. Other one -word

mer, says her most recent activity is
the Bullfighters, an~ UB dub dedi-

descriptions include "fast:' "boring" "crazy " and '' hectic..
Most ~f the busy st~den t s, al though challenged by more difficult

cated to getting people involved on
campus, especially. she says, to hype
up the new Division 1-A Bulls.
Some of the students an the Clas~

courses with heavier work.1oad)
compared to their first two years, arc
pleased finally to be settJed in their
majors and on their career paths.
)enniferAbbatadecidedtochangc
her major to communication after
pursuing first computer science, and
then business. "Now 1 am trying to
pick up the pieces so that I don't end
up at school for too long." Minoring in both human resources and
marketing is a way, Abbata says, to
do everything she wants.
She says that this year she finally
has an understanding of how US
works. .. Ndw I find myself answering questions and giving advice to
younger students."
Magg.ie Zak switched her major
last semester from architecture to
communication... Switching majors
was a little difficult, b.vt I am now
satisfied with the work I am doing
and the path that I am on. I am
much happier and more motivated."
Zak says she hasn't exactly m astered managing time, money and
stress, but she has stopped wast ing money on unnecessary things.
'"And I still swear that time speeds
up when I need it to slow down...
Her involvement o n campus as a
resident advisor, a UB STAR tour
guidr in admissions and member of
a national oo-ed fraternity has enhancedherUBexperience."lteUmy
tour groups aU the time that one of
the most important things besides
academics is to get involved"
Another resident adv isor, Kaya
Ge rberi c h , says h er maj or h as
changed just about every month
so far. "Now I'm a psychology
major and dance minor. I picked

of2000 have moved off-ca mpus to
the University Heights area and a a·
enjoying the freed o m and pnvacy.
"The dorms are good fo r the first
year or two to meet pt.'Ople and to
get involved, but living off campus.
I feel, is much better. I don't f&lt;."CI a...
confined and I feel healthier," sars
Susan Deacon, an archjtecture rna
jor...This semester has kept me mo re
busy than ever before," she add~.
Speech and hearing major Elan a
Steinhaus says she likes living offcampus because she enjoys living
in a house with friends and be cause it is not as crowded a~ the
residence halls.
Steinhaus is a UB STAR, mem ·
ber of Phi Sigma Sigma a nd a
writer for the campus newspaper
Ari. ..1 am learning that I am ca pable of doing anything that I put
my heart and mind into and that I
can survive: living on my own.
" I go out less because my classes
have gotten much harder and I have
to spend more time in the library,"
says Steinhaus . .. 1 enjoy my classes
more. even though they are hard ,
because they are concentrat«&lt; on
things that I want to do in the fu ture. Reality has definitely set in as
I get closer to the working world...
A business management major,
Jennifer Cotignola agrees that being
ajuniorhasmadeherrealizeitistimc
to prepare for th~ cal world ..There
is definitely more (school ) work in volved and I feel more mature."
Sean Webb says he l.ikes living off
campus b eca use there are fewer
people around, making it is easier to
study. Hehaschangedhismajorafew
tim~ but finally has decided on his-

tory, with a minor in education.

However, the death of a close
friend from home this semester has
made it difficult for Webb to keep
up with all of his school work.
" Juni or year has most differed
from my first two years in the

amount of work and the hardsh ips
I have gone through," says Webb.
Unlike the majority of the stu dents, Erin Cala finds she actuallr is
more at ease this year."I've found that
I don't get as stressed out itS I used
to," a1though the English and env 1•
~nmental-stu~es majora~mit'i that
IS not nec~ly a good thmg. As far
as managmg ume, stress and money.
Calasaysshedocsn't think that is JXtS·
sible "~er only 20 years."
Christo~her Fedo~admlts th~
has been has most dlffiruh semt."Stl'r
so far. "~ of my c.lasscs are harde.~
and requ1re .mo re ume o ut of class.
The me'(ha -study maJor ha.' de
c1ded to concentrate in d.Jg 1tal art
and minor m marketing. FedorctaJ...,
who has been involved in l"Vcrythmg
at UB from WRUB radio and UBl\'
to the Anti-Rape Task Force. spent
six weeks this semester pledging P1
Sigma EpsiJon, the nationaJ busin~
fra ternity. Fortunately. he says hl' fig
ured o ut how to manage t1m c,
money and stress last year.
Overthesummer, JasonToto. whn
)Crve5 o n the Residence Halls Association Executive Board, was a UB
delegate to the Nonh Atlantic Affih ate of Colleges and Univrrsity Residents Halls National Conferena.
Toto, who anticipates being ac cepted into the nuclear medi cal
technology program next semester,
says junior year has h«n hectic. " 1
have less time to myself, more things
that need to be accomplished, more
responsibilities and a lot more
stress." However, he adds that what
he has m ost enjoyed about junior
year is having a steady girlfriend
Yvelisse Oniz. a nursing major
from Rochester, says if she cou ld
change one thing about he.r UB ex perience so far, she would have
studied harder her first two years.
But co llege ha s taught Ortiz
some imponant life lessons . .. I feel
I am more open to things and 1
have more insight on things that 1
did not used to think about o r
know about. I feel like 1 have
learned a lot of things here that 1
would not havelearned if I did not
experience college for myself."

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Murray A. Morphy, 51, professor,
vice chair of Psychiatry department
Funeral Hr'Yke.s were held Dec. 4 m Calvary EpiSCopal Church ,
W'tUiamsville. for Murray A. Morphy, 51, professor and vice chair of the
Department of Psychiatry and senior medical officer for the Veterans Administration Western New York Heahhcare System. Morphy died Nov.
.30 in his home in Snyder.
Mo rphy received his hachelor's dega..:e from Ho bart College 1n
1968 and his medicaJ d ,_jree from UB in 1972.
He served as chief of psychiatry at Veterans Hosp1taJ and later was
promoted to chief of psychiatry services for the VA Healthcare Sys tem of Western New York. as well as senior medical officer for th e
agency's entire healthcare system of Western New York..
lnvolv«&lt; in the training of hundreds of young physiCianS stud)'lng
to become psychiatrists, he is cre&lt;hted by h1s peers with the ability to
combine scholarship with excellence in dimcal care and admmastra
tion . Wid~ly published in prestigious m«&lt;1cal !Oumals, he prese-nted
papers at psychiatric conferences worldwide.
Morphy was a senior examiner for the Amencan Board of Psy
chiatry and Neurology, and was elected pres1dent or the Na11onal
Association of VA Psychiatrists.
A feUow of the American Psychi.atnc Assoctauo n and the Amencan
College of Psychiatrists, he served as president, secretary and treasurer of
the Western New York Psycluatric Society.

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HOO I. psychologist. professor and prominent re earcher LeAdelle Phelps
has devoted her ca reer to
the challenge of identifying prevention, intervention and assessment
strategies for health-related disor·
ders in children and adolescents.
And, she says. if she ruled the world
for a day, she would mal« sure that
prevention efforts began with eduClting new parents how to adequately
and effectively function as the major
inOuena: in their child's life.
Phelps, who has written more
than 60 book chapters and journal
entries on assessment issues and
health-related disorders in children
and adolescents. says she is strongly
committed to investing in community prevention programs.
.. If we want to make a difference,
we need to begin working with
threc· year-olds ," says Phelps, professo r and director of US's School
Psychology Program in the De·
partment of Counseling and Educational Psychology. .. Long-term
problems ofte n develop as a result
o ( inadequ ate parenting and a
fauh y environment, rather than
from bio logical differences."
Her interest in p~tion surfaced
t•a rl y in her ca reer while she was
working in a dinkal setting with a
3S-year-old paronoid schiwphrenic.
"There was so little that cou ld
bt• done to help the patient ," she
reca lls . .. It became so abu ndantly
clear to me that if we want to
make a differen ce, we have to start
doing something at the ch ild o r
ado lescent stage of development."
Ea rli er this year, Phelps edited a

S

gui debook published by the
American Psychologieal Association entitled"Health-Rdated Disorders in Children and Adoles cen ts" to he.lp educa te teachers,
school psychologist$. clinieal child
psychologists and medical professionals about 96 different medical
conditions affecting children.
Phelps' most rC'CC:nt research interests have involved adolescent
eating disorden and their prevention, the effects of prenatal cocaine
use on early child development,
and ass~ing the cultural bias of
intelligence te:su.
She has done extensive research
and programming on the pervasiY&lt;
social problem of eating disorde.rs,
which, she notes, have increased
dramatically in the past 20 yean as
a direct result of our sociocultural
influences, particularly the mtd.ia.
" Look at Marilyn Monroe," she
points oul. .. Ou r sense of what is
beautiful has changed. Today, if
yo u look at women in ads, as weU
as female actresses and performers, it becomes evident. Many of
th ese women would meet the cri teria for anorexia...
The most common misconcep·
tion about eating disorders like
anorexia nervosa-and bulimia, she
notes, is that they are rare or in·
dicate a dysfunctional individual.
"The truth· is that this is a fairly
common phenomeno n, but it also
is a ' hiddm disorder; meaning those
who are affected tend to hide their
symptoms," says Phelps. "Fifteen to
30 percent of women participate in
behaviors that can be characterized
as eating disorders at sub-clinical,
rather than diagnostic. levels."
Based on her research, she has

found that the most effective way
to deal with the problem is direct
prevention programming for both
female and male young adolescents that identifi es risk factors
while reducing elements that may
put adolesa:nts in jeopardy.
She links sociocultural pressures
to the acceptance of a thin, yet unrealistic ideal which, if internalized,
can lead to body dissatisfaction and
the motivation to take part in
weight-control or· eating-disordered behavior. ..As ea rly as 12
years of age, yo ung women with
self-doubt and low self-esteem are
psychologically vulnerable to body
dissatisfaction, which can lead to
eating disorders," Phelps notes.
A prevention package she .and a
research team developed has been
very sUccessful in reducing the risk
fo r adolescent females and young
women to develop an eating disor·
derby building physical self-esteem
and personal competence while reducing body dissatisfaction.
She also fou'od that it is essential
that prevwtion incorporates males
but the sessions need to be done in
separate gender groups. The presence of males during the sessions

decreased the amount and depth of
group discussion and self-disclosure
among the female participants.
The program, which also was
adapted for coUege students in sororities, is outlined in a book chapter titled "The Efficacy of an Eating Disorder School-based Prevention Program: Building Physical Self- Es teem and Personal
Competcna:," which will appear in
an upcoming han dbook on the
prevention of eating disorders.
Acxording to Phelps. it is important to focw on prevention in the
school-setting, since schools today
are becoming more of a socializing
agent. She adds that society cannot
depend on parents to tili the ap·
propriate amount of responsibility
in children•s development.
"The attitude has always been that
school s ars just for educa t ion.
However... many behavioral, emotional and psycbologieal problems
can affect academic performance."
Many communities are: moving
toward the idea of a fuU-service
school, Phelps points out. "Schools
are b«oming a place where stu dents receive much of their health
care, including mental-health care."

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Archives papers to aid in Graycliff restoration
UB's holdings expected to help in effort to obtain funding to replicate house, gardens
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

ARWIN D . Martin 's

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paper~

and memorabilia, preserved in the
UB Archives, are helping preserva tionists in the.ir efforts
t o re to re Graycliff, the summ er
home fran k Uoyd Wright designed
fnr Ma rt in, his longtime friend and
patron, and Mart in's wife, Isabelle.
The arch ives' extensive holdings
related to the planning. building.
dCcor and use of Graycliff in its
heyday-incl uding letters, blue ·
prints, photographs and interviews
with family members-also arc
expected to enhance req uests by the
Graycliff Co nservancy for funding
fro m state and federal fund ing
agencies, private founda tions, and
corpora te and individual donors.
Bu ilt in 1929 on a 60-fool-high
gra)' shale cliff in Derby. overlookIng Lake Eric 's eas tern s hore,
Graycliff is cons idered to be one
of Wright 's most overlooked mas·
terworks. The residence was an
;ury. open, sunlit dwell ing
wrapped in elements of its natu ·
rat landscape. It originally was sur·
rounded by 8 acres of trees, hid ·
den gardens and grassy meadows.
Graycliff was abandoned by the
family in 1941 . however. and th e

Piarist Fathers occu pied the house
for decades but co uld not afford
upkeep and repair. The propert y
is now held by the Graycliff Co nservancy, which is moving to re·
store the residence and ga rdens.
But str uctur a l changes in the
o riginal property and the sale of
all its fu rniture would, under most
circums tances, make restorati o n
to its o riginal state very difficu lt .
ln Oc tober, the UB Archives
helped to move the Graycliff restoration process along through a sym·
posi um titled "Frank Uoyd Wrighl
in Western New York... Speakers ex·
amined lesser-known aspects of SCV·
cral of Wright 's buildings in Buffalo
and Rochester, including Graydiff.
In connection with the event, the
archives also has mounted an ex.hi·
hit ion ofGrayclifT plans and photos
from its collection. The exhibition
will be open through January in tht•
Pot·tr y/ Rare Books Roo m . 420
Ca pen Hall, dunng rt•gular bus1
ness ho urs.
Rodney Obien, a~ 1 s t ant to Un ive rsi ty Archivist C hri stop her
Densmore. was largely responsible
fo r the exhibition. While preparing
for it, he turned up some hereto fore u n iden t ified plans in the
Co rnell University Library that are
certain to inform the preservatio n

and restoration efforts. The discovery of these plans. coupled with the
archival photos, Obicn said, will
make it possible for the Graycliff
Conservancy to replicate the fine
ga rdens while the house is restored.
Graycliff should be understood
in the context of the popular archi·
lecture of the day and Wright's own
canon, preservationists say. US's
ex tensive collectio n of letters be·
tween Wright and Darwin D. Martin illuminate the coll abo rative
manner by which the two men and
Mrs. Martin debated, disagreed and
determined th e final plans for
Gra}'Cliff as an infinitdy more comfortable home than the family's residence on Jcwctt Parkway in Buffalo,
according to famil y consensus.
Craycliff's Ooor plan and room
o rientati on, which the letters indicate were suggested by Da rw in
Martin, recall those of the then·
popular English ma nor hou se.
Wright employed aspects of this
basic plan, but added innovations
like native construction materials,
and opened the entire structure to
lake breacs that cooled the interior
and made vast expanses of lake and
sky visible from many rooms.
Cantilevered balconies, so loved
by both Wright and Martin, are seen
in photos to open over the gardens

and onto the lake above a cliffside
esplanade that helps meld the resi dence with its natural environment.
Interviews with the Martins'
grandso n, Darwin Fost-er, and his
sister, the Rev. Margaret Foster,
who spent their childhood summers at Graycliff, are held in the
UB collection and provide a rare
and intimate ldok at the relationship between a home and the fam ·
ily that appreciated and enjoyed its
most engaging features.
Darwin Foster called Graydiff"a
beautiful place. A wonderful place.
We all just loved it there.... We had
one whale of a good time in those
days."
Margaret Foster recalled that
when the windows were open on
both sides of the house. "the wind
would blow right through - clear,
dean and marvelous - it blew so
hard that the poplars would double
over, but it was a warm wind. The
windows set up an environment, so
that wherever you turned. you could
S&lt;e and smeU the blue of the lak•."
So despite 60 years of benign
neglect, the archives offer ample
evide nce of Graycliff's o rig inal
warmth and welcome so resonant
with Martin's documented urge to
gather his family in an architec rural embrace.

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Senate

December IQ 1!91/VIiJO.kl5 Rep ode~

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prognuns, both UB rules and SUNY
rules," ... added.
Boot praised the work of
Guttman, notingthatbewuastellar scholar and bad been a "competent and constructive chairman"

of the department.
He also introduced a resolution
for a first reading, accq&gt;ted by the
senate, stating that "any and all as~rsioos cast on Or. Guttman's
r:enure as department chair from
I993-98 are an outrageous assault
o n the truth."
Both of Boot's resolutions will he
considered for a second readingand final senate action-at the
body's n&lt;Xt meeting in fanuary.
Earlier in the meeting, Claude
Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service
Professor in the Department of f'o.
titical Science and chair of the senat&lt;'s
Academic Planning Committee, had
submitted to the senate a report on
the statistics situation compiled by
his committee which deplored the
lack of faculty consultation in the de·
cision-making process.
C ommittee member s arc
"deeply concerned about the two-

way nature of dialogue about the
future,"Welch reported. While faculty have the responsibility to eogage in meaningful discussions. in
which the possibility of suspend ing or even eliminating programs
"is not ruled offthetable," administrators, too. must engage in that

process, he said.
'"They must recognize that they
may not he persuasive to all, that
'talk takes time,' and that the best
health of the university not only
involves malting difficult decisions,
but also requires extensive atten tion to effective governance,"Wek.h
said. "The dKisions on statistics in·
volved far less of the serious, in formed, open dialogue they should
have received, at S&lt;'Veral points."
William George, professor of
mechanical and a.erospace engineering. described the statistics situation
as"a colossal history of mismanagement over a period of 25 years.
"I don't know what we can do
about that except to insist that the
administration in the future fol ·
lo w our bylaws,"' he said.
The charter of the Faculty Sen -

ate states th at "The Sena te shall
review, pnor to ad option, all pro ·
posals regar.d ing th e formation ,
reorganization or d isso lut ion of
academic units."
He introduced a m o ti on. ap proved by the senate, to accept the
Academic Planning Co mmittee's
repon and to instruct ~nate Chai r
Peter Nickerson, professor of pa ·
thology, to communicate to the
administration the senate's "extr~me displeasure.. that th e proper
procedures regarding fa culty con sultation as outlined in the Faculty
Senate charter were not followed.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick.

speaking to the full senate for th e
last lime as provost, declin ed to
comment on Guttman's remarks,
but noted that the universi ty community .. was well aware of these
plans ( to merge statistics with
SPM) for over two years time .n
If the issue was no t .. properly dis -

cussed or brought befor&lt; the Sen ·
ate,l will take responsibili1y for thai
as appropriate,.. Headrick said.
He also told senators that he be·
lieves that m ore of the decisio n-

making authonty-both for finan -

acs, and devdoping curricula. re-

cial and academic matters--should
~s hifted from the Provost 's Office
to the schools, and wathtn the
schools to thedepartments, .. where
th e reaJ faculty mvolvement m de ·
cision-mak..ing ought to occur."
He 5ald he has bttn working to

search initiatives and outreach ac ·
OVJUe:s to suppon an envuonmcn

redefine the role of the Provosl's Of·
fia as one in which the offict ident1
6es projects that an of acadmuc 1m
porta.oce to the university but that are
not being pursued. and to act as an
advocate for those proJects.
Co nv e rsely. the off1cc aho
sho uld id~ntify those pro1ects that
a re no longe r useful and suggest
ways for th e unJversuv to drop out
of them .
In other act10n at luesday's
meeting , the scnat{':
• Approved a resolution askmg
President Will1am R. Greiner to sign
the la.Jlo ircs Declaration and to ask
the appropriate university groups to
undenake or continue the act1ons
listed in it. Th{' I 0 act ions outlined
in the declaration include such iterru
as establishing inst itutiona l reC)'
ding and energy-conservation poll ·

tally surutinable future.
• Referred to the Bylaws Commll
t~

a proposal by GW rge to m~n
mto the Faculty Senate charter a
statement o utlining th e sena t~ 's
responsibili ties for gradua te and
professio nal education. The state ment would be a direct paraJlel to
the statement in the chan~ r out ·
hnmg the body's respOns1b1ht•es
fo r undergraduate educatiOn.
In introducing the proposal.
&lt;....eo rge noted th at while most of
the members of th{' facultv ar{'
{'ngaged primarily in graduate and
p rofessiOnal education, most of
th{' ~na te 's busmess con~rns un ·
dergraduate ~ducatJon . W1th the
format1on of the College of Arts
and Scu:nces to better address un
dergraduate educatiOn, the sena te
now can "turn Jts attention to be ·
1ng a senate for the whole unJ vt&gt;r
Slfv," George said.
The proposal ask.s that the 8\
laws Committee report had.. to tht&gt;
ltena te m March.

TheMuiiMEi1
J
We cannot afford to be complacent: all departments need to focus on Year 2000 problem
To the unlvenity community:
As you know, the Year 2000 Prob-

lem (Y2K) presents a major challenge to our university. UB's environmt"n t is so dependent on
computers.. and the computers
are so interconnected, that o ne

small Y2K "gli1eh" could well
impact numerous systems. We
cannot afford to be complacent.
Eac h department and/or

node-including research labs,

support those processes. This re·
sponsibility inevitably means that
your unit will have to defer some
current and planned activities for
I 999 and focus those resources on
solving this problem. UB does not
have special o r central reso urces
available for it; that is unfonunatc,
but true. Fixing the problem nex1
year should be less expensive than
suffering the consequences and po·

tentialliabilities after fan. I , 2000.
ln June, we sent you a set ofY2K

a nters, academic departmen ts,
business offices and all other
fu nctioning units-is respon·

compliance steps and a timeline for

sible for Y2K compliance of its
own processes and thedecentral·
iz.ed systems and equipment that

have completed an initial invento ry
and assessm ent of your computer

unplementation. You should already

eqUipment and electronic devices.
The assess ment process mcludcs
prioritizing your Processes and supporting systems based o n how cri t1 ·
caJ they are. A system or proccs.' ts
critica1 if its loss could:
I. seriously impede a umt 's abll 11 y to ope rate;
2. 1mpa ir opera li o ns th at are required by law, such as leg1slatavcly
mandated business functions, or
o ther lega l o bligati o ns; o r
3. Jeopardize the healt h , safet y
o r financial well -being of patient!..
students, employees and o th er~ .
Docum ent yo ur priorit1za tto n.
We wiJI be asking for this tnforma ·

u o n as we develop act1un plam fm
ha ndling th e im pad ofY 2K.
As part of our awareness campatgn,
we havC' dcvt"'oped a YZK Question
&amp; Answer sht.-et, wh1ch LS bemg dis·

tributed and posted. Please lake the
11me to read 11. The more a'N'ilrenes...
wt&gt; generate, the feweT surpnses we
will experience come lan. I. 2000.
In the pas! months, numl'rou s
actio ns havr been taken to support
Y2K efforb. Tht&gt; Year 2000 Steenng
Committl'e was reorgam1..ed. wnh
Voldcmar lnnu s.C I( l,a~ cha1r. \'an
ous subgroups have ht."'Cn forml-d to
" 'o rk o n spt'Cific IS:,Ut'!l . such a::.
awareness, gUJdehnN&gt; and tnob. and

stw.knt support. A Year 2000
Awareness Day was held , wlth
another full -day {'vent planne-d
for sp nng '99
If vou have questinn.s or con ·
cerns abou1 prepanng vour unit
for Y2 K compliance. please con tac t Ca rol Lazaru )., Year 2000
Support, lntcmal Audn, by phone
a t 645 - 2644 or by emad at
&lt;lazarus@acsu.buffalo.edu &gt;, or
v1sitthe YlK Web site at &lt;http:/
/ wings . buhfalo . edu I
year2000&gt;.
- Thomas E. Headrick, Provost
Robert J. Wagner,
Semor Vice Preudent

UB community can impede Iranian government's goal to close the open university in Iran
To the unlvenlty community:

'file university community is being asked to assist in blocking the
Iranian govmunent}s goal to dose
the Baha'i university in Iran. The
Baha'i Institute of Higher Learning was started in 1987 after

Baha'is had been refused admission to rolleges and universities in
Iran since 1980. It is the only es-

tabtishment of higher education
forBaha'isin !ran. Theyhaveheen
denied admission to aU other universities in Iran solely because they
are Baha'is. This action by the Iranian government is a campaign to
crush academically and economically the Baha'i community, which

preme Leader Ali K.hamene1 signed
the document. The policy has resulted in over 200 executions of

Baha'is for their religious betiefs, the
most recent being in July of this year.
The elintioation of higher education
is part of this plan. Exclusion of
Baha'is from universities is in dear

violation of Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
( 1948) and Article 13 of the Interna-

Cultural Council in 1991 , that was
uncovered by a special represen-

tional Covenant on Economic. Social and Cultural Rights ( 1966).
The Baha'i Institute of Higher
Ed u ca tion operated mainl y by
correspondence and grew to enroU
more than 900 students and !50
facult y o perating in private
homes. The University of Indiana
recognized it formally first. Stu·
dents cam{' t o the USA and
Canada for graduate studies. Their
course work had be co r1_1~ ~o re
up- to-date than other universitieS

tative from the United Nations
who was investigating human
rights abuses. The Iranian Su·

in Iran. Suddenly belween Sept 29
and Oct. 3, 1998, 36 faculty and
staff were a rre sted . O ver 500

is the largest minority religion in
Iran. This policy was confirmed

by a secret document called the
.. Baha'i Question," wrinen by the
Iranian Supreme Revolutionary

ho m es were ratJed , dnd rL·cords,
computers and other equ 1pment
were confiscated . This system at1
attack to close a private institution
of higher learning is another co ntravention of Article 13 of thL· In
ternational Coven a nt o n Eco nomic, Social and CulturaJ Right s.
ln th{' words of o ne student "AI·

though they were soon released. dur·
ing their imprisonment they were
commanded to stop the activiues of
this university rompletely for Iran
government beli{'ves that Baha'1s
should no t educat{' more than h1gh

school. We (new students) had only
a f&lt;'W clalsesdunng a month, but they
were aJl dosed and now we havt to
study o ur subjects in home and do
o ur homework assignments accord -

ing to the schedule handed to us a1
the beginning of the semesler. The
conditio n is much worse for higher·
level students, who had to ane.nd

more daises and study more difficult
subjects. Thus, as you may guess. a
state of mental bewilderment has

come to enstenct' to Baha'Jstudenb
and no one knows fo r sure what'sgo
mg to happen m•xt ...."
T he o p{' n unJ ve rs•t y has been
raided before and equ1pment con ·
fiscated. T hl' recent cvent.s are th t'
first attempt to shut it down . How
can the UB com munu y affe •.: t a
c hange ~ AcademiC freedom llt not
lU St a local. but a global, concern.
The Baha'is at UR ask you, as pan
of the academ1c communit y of a
prommcnt univerSit y, to wnte to
the United Na ti o ns Ed ucat tonal.
SCientific and Cultural Organt7.a ·
uon to com mumcatt· the demal ul
the right to learn . Send vou r letter::.
to :
Dr. Fredenco l\.la vor
Director Ge n{'ra l, l lNES&lt; ()
7 place de Fon teno)'
75352 Pam 07 Sl'
Fra n1..e
And to write to cxp r~ disapproval
o f the I ra m an government'.s a 1
tempt to sh ut down the Baha'I um
versity. send lett ers to:

Dr. Mostafa Mom
M mtster of Culture and
IIJgher Education
'-.hah1d Behesht1 Avenut."
lillt1 Square. Com~r of Shah1d
SahonchJ

&lt;;hahod Adaee Buildmg
Teheran
fhl· iltlamJt Rcpubhc ot Iran
Pleas e \'J)II our \Veb Sit{' at
&lt;http:/ / www.us. bah•l.org /
openuniY / &gt; for more detatle-d
documcn ta uon. ~..opit") of ed •
tor1Jis. nn thl' \Ub){'CI 111 Htt&gt;
N,..,, ~C1 r.l.. Tmft') .tnd Wa shmg
Wfl Post and lhe rt":,pon:,es !rom
the l' .!) ~tate Dep.utmtnt Jnd
tht· Wh1tc House \\'l' hopt" that
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                    <text>PAGE 2

Q&amp;A-Harvey Breverman talks
about art creating i~ teaching it.

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Reading Your

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lurti(I«&lt;!W dt/Jerrllces l'!t' bndged'

December 3.1!91m.3D. No.14

Barrio
Fiesta
Student dancers perform
Nov. 21 in the Student Umon
Theatre during Barrio Fiesta,
an evening of festivitie s
presented by FASA, th e
Filipino-American Student
Association . Dances offered
expressions of a Philippine
culture influenced by Islam,
Spain, aboriginal mountain
tribes and rural lowlanders.

Library space a concern, FSEC hears
Senate members ask committee to Look at need to preserve 'unique' space
lly SUE WU£TCHUI

mtttt·e I SSue a stat rm{·n t say mg

New1 Servicel Auociate Otre&lt;IOI

that library spact' ts ~sa uosa n ct "
l-l o wt'ver, one FSEC memhcr

Faculty Sena te Exec utive
mmi"eewhoaJsoare I•
brary facuhy m e mber ~
urged their co lleague:!~ at the
group's Nov. 18 meeting to ask the
senate 's Information and LibrarY
Servtces Comminee to address tht~
urgent need for more sp ace in tht·
Universit y Librar ies.
The librarians were exprcssmg
concerns abou t what they view a!!
increasing efforts by other units on
campus to claim space that trad1
tionally has been reserved for h
brary services.
Dorothy Wood son, a ltb ra n an

in Lockwood Library. 1old FSH
members th at "peo pl(· with tapt•
measures are always walk1ng
around looking a t o ur spotCl'
.. To ha ve an

a dm111i ~ t rat 1 Ve

group come into a liBrar r a nd de cide it need s thi s space or th a t
space for some functio n tha t cou ld
be handled in another ve nu e and
then to suggest we put 1t&lt;.·nu 1n
storage in an o ther ve nu e, I find

really appalling;· Woodso n sa id,
She suggested that the Info rma tion ~nd Libra r y Serv1l:es Co rn -

questioned whether sp ace can b e
rcservrd solel y fo r o n e us£' and not
ano ther
Dun ~ cha ck, professor of m;llh
ema t1 cs. told Woodson that thl'
u n• vrrsttv recently took :!~Omt·
dassroo ms "off Ime:· p resumahlv
lor "so m e noble purpose.
"Space gets grabbed o ff all the
li m~ ior all so rt s of purp oses.
co unter to all sort s of Interest~."
Sch ack sa 1d. "I don't know 1f we
would really want to . .t~ a hcuh)
Se nate, suppo rt a reso luttun that
1dt•nt1fies ont·typt.· uf &lt;ipdl"e ,1, "•h
rosanct ,'' over o ther typC"s of )p,h..l'
But Woodson pointt·d o ut th.-11
hhr..try space 1 ~ "u niquc" 1n that 11
must meet cer t a ul d11n a lt' ,lfld
lo.1d -hcaring conditions.
Barbara von VJahld e . ..t:.Mkt.Jit'
viCe preMdcnt for umvt•rslt)' llbrar
•cs, emph asizrd that hbruv :,pa ... l'
has been tight for some ume .
A plan to co nvt."rt Bethune Hall
at Mam Street a nd Hertel Avl'nut·

mt o library sto rage space ha~ "dl.lo
appeared .. du e to a ch ange 111 th e
way SUNY construct 11m funJ, ..trr
allocated .

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!&gt; lo nal ~tanda r ds governmg ho"'
much space •~ alloca tt&gt;d for var1
nu.!l functiOn!&gt;, co\lectmns .tnc.J al
I I VIt l t'S with ll b raneo;
"We probably have ex;.eed(·d .til
o l those a.!&gt; wdl." !&gt;he ~ • d

Karen Spen cer, a.!&gt;.souau hbr.tr
mn In thl· Ia~ hhran·, noted th.ll
li b r ary latultv memhers wert" not

cons ulted 111 prdmunarv d!SlU'
swm Jhuutlol.ttmg the new 1-.tiu
..:atU&gt;nalll.·ch no logv &lt;:t~nter 1n thl
base m en t nf lockwood l•hr.H y
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1n tht' :-,ucnn· .1nd Engnlet·nn ~
l 1bran• 111 l .lpt·n Hall
'\ht ,1ho ~11d th.n 'ht• .llh.·nded .1
meet mg .11 whllh \tlldt•m.Jr lnnu ....
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L'B\ d11d
mfurtnJtum ofli~..~r . .....uJ th ..u llw
hhr.Hie' wnuld h,l\'t' to g1H' u~·
'tllllt' ~n' lll':!l Ill onkr to t..tl...t· •H I
"te..:hno lngh.. almnm·atum" "
Notmg th .u the llh ranl'~ wen· the
lir:!lt umt tm ldmpus t&lt;' ''cmhr,llt'
and lntegrJh' tt'l"hno l o~, :· '-lpetht'l
pomted out . hm..' t'Vt'r , th.tt mll ..til
't'lliOr .1.\!'&gt;(ltlalt' \'lu' pre'llknt

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''R~w-sean:h -q ualtty mft1rmatu&gt;n •~
not suddenly fTee or less cxpcnstw
lx.'Cfuse o( nt'W technofogr." she saJd.
.tddmg that lihrant~ wtll con tmut•lt)
aL4U1rc, store .md arch1ve 111forma
liOn, as wdJ ,15 hdp rx--opJe u.se lt .
"( o~vtng up h hrar\' space to wm
tht' tethnulog' rau.· t\ .. hon
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'-!he urgt'J St'nator' tll '' help ... rc
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logmg I lt"pa nnwnt m ( entral lt'l h
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Jacobs appointed chair ofUB Council
By SUE WUETCHER
News Services Associate 01rector

J

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man and chief execulJVC offia·r
of Delaware North Cnmp.1
nies.. has been appomted chat r
of the Universit y at Buff.tltl

Co uncil by Gov. George E. Pa1ak1
Jacobs. who w'ds appo mted to tht·
council in l997.succeeds l.awrt·nu •
P. Ca.s~llani , who resigned from the
council in September when he a. .
cepted a position as president and
chief executive officer oj Ahold
Suppo rt Services, South Amenca.

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Graduate asslsblnt
wanted to wrtte ·

for the ,..,_

Harvey Breverman, professor of art, heads. the Printmaking
Program and is co-director of ePIC, the Experimental Print Imaging
Center. A frequent international exhibitor, he has been at UB since 1961.

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G rowing up poor in the multi-ethnic Hill District of Pittsburgh. a
world both mysterious and magi·
cal, I filled scraps of paper with
invented dreams and imaginings
in pencil and crayons. Even then
it was an obsession! Special art
classes were out of the question. I
did not visit an art museum until
my sophomore yea r at Carnegie
Tech (Ca megie-MeUon U.) Slowly
a nd imperceptibly, t h e world
opened up.
Did you think, when you
st•rted out. th•t you could
m•ke • living u .,. •rtlst1

Making art makes living worth ~
while, so I never gave it much
thought-still don't. But, after 75
solo shows and hundreds of group
venues here and abroad, involvement with dealers, coll ecto rs and
institu tional curators, I've found
ways to navigate wi thin the constrain ts of a d ifficult, seemin gly
glamorous. occasionally unsavory,
often un predictable and magn ifi .
cent professi on . Parenthe tically,
from the privi leged position of
teach ing, one ca n maintain a lo fty,
ethical stance vis-3 -vis the ma rket place.
Wh•t Is your f•vortte medium

to work In, •nd why?

REPORTER

Draw ing , unqu es ti o na bl y. 1n
formed by painting and pnnt ·
making strategies. To coax a van -

et y of marks deftl y and swiftly
from humble materials and coalesce these into an imagt: and idea
is inderd extraordinary. The possibilities are limitless-the sketcb
or notation, a plan or diagram, an
elaborately finished statement.

What's the greatest chwoge In
the ort field since you started

teaching?

·

In the last four decades, the visual
arts have found an academically
respectable place within the uni versity context, both for facu lty
and the serious art major, and appear to be on a par with other
fields of scholarship. In the art
world, there is a genuinely greater
tolerance for a much wider spectrum of artistic expression.
What kind of ort do s t - t s
today show the most Interest
ln7

If a dedicated and caring teacber
lights a spark and instills in students a sense of wonderment and
an insatiable curiosity for serious,
investigative inquiry, helps nurrure and requisite skills to mediate and begin to find one's "'own
voice, .. then figure drawing to
co mputer-art imaging become rewarding experiences.
How many people from

ua

h•ve been the subject.l of

your wort 7

About three doz.en. Among th ese
have been Creeley, FiedJer, RaynerBanham , Federman, Barth ,
Coetzee. Chisolm. Bunn, Bernal,

Kenned y, Dennis, Hamm o nd,
Elkin, Guitart, Jacobs, Sussman,
Berlyn , Somit, Fradin, Serres,
Pcrado11o, George Levine, et. al
After flipping a coin to see who
would go first, Bruce Jacbon and
Diane .C hristian became subjecu
in a five-hour drawing marathon;
leaving us aU emausted.lt's a formidable cbaUeoge to fix "significant moment,• a gesture, a stance,
a personality with a series of accumulated glances from model to
paper. Three weeks ago, at a UB
press conference with Elie Wiesel
preceding a reception and public
lecture, I was seated with sketching materials about two f..,t from
the Nobel laureate. During the isminute Q&amp;A, I drew like mad,
while a television camera behirid
me recorded the event. With a series of moves by a discip lin ed
han d , a co njunction of fea tures
came together and , I h ope, revealed the penetrating mystery of
this human face.

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Who- you not yet*- or
palntad- y o u - - to7

Chance and circumstance dictate
who I will draw and paint, instead
ofbr premeditated plan or design.
How does ll..tfalo com......,

with other similar-sized dtles
In ternu of venues for •nd
comn'lltment to •rt7

O rganization mavens here can offer a definitive, statistical an swer.
I'd say with alternative-space opportunities, we're ~ay ahead of
co mparab le cities.

Who Is your fovol'fte ortlst,
-wily?
Velizquez, Rembrandt, Goya,
Giacometti, Sutherland, Bacon,
Balthus and Freud have infused
a certain timeless and enduring
content into their images.
Among artists of my genera ~
tion I know-R.B. Kitaj and
Irving Petlin have a potency
that breathes excitement larger
than modest provincialism.
What's-lng~

don't luoow .-you and
should?
It's the artwork. not the personality.

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ou
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the 1963 Corcoran Gallery of
Art Biennial under the patronage of President and Mrs .
Kennedy; my 8- 1/2-foot vertical painting hu ng between Edward Hopper an d Rico
Lebrun . For a young artis~ entering the profession, being
part of an ongoing artistic
co ntinuum was deep and
long-lasting.
Your m os t m emo rab le
year- I 997 wa s daunting ,
wi th eight solo exhibits and
20 group shows. including in ternational venues in Spai_n,
Poland, It aly, Bulgaria and Ja pan .

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Project offers help and hope for the homeless
School ofSocial Work joins Salvation~ in collaborative effort to aid at-risk families
By MARY BETH SPINA
News

Services Editor

IND IN G permanent . affo rd able ho usi ng doesn 't
always solve the problem
of ho melessness fo r some
fami lies, particularl y those headed
by parents at ri sk for substance
ab use. memal -health prob lems or
hot h.
But th ert&gt;'s hope and help o n the
horizon for these"a t risk" fami liel:l
.thro ugh a co ll abo rative effo rt betwee n th e UB Sch oo l of Soc ial
Work and the Salvati on Army.
The social-work compo nent i1:o
a key pa rt o f a three-yea r, $302,63 I
transitional hou si ng program
grant to the Salvation Army from
the federal Department o f Hou sm g and Urban Development
i HUD) .
The UB team, headed by )anet
PaJya, assistan t dean fo r field edu ca l ion and off-ca mpu s programs
in the Schoo l of Social Work, will
adapt the: successful Strength ening
Families Program (S FP ) model to
th e project.
Alt ho ugh th e model, developed
by resea rchers at the Washington ·
based Center fo r Substance Abuse
Prevention. has been used elsewhert&gt; around the co un tr y on
other projects, UB resea rche-rs wi ll

F

be the first to adapt it for use with
ho meless and tran sitiona l ~ h ous ­
ing families.
Described as o ne of the "' mosl
powerful famil y-change program s
in the co untr y," SFP focuses on
recognizing, understanding and
changing behavior patterns that
co ntribute to dysfunction of the
family.
.. Unless dysfunctional behavior
patterns within the family a rc
changed through a comprehen ·
sive, stru ct ured program, the cycle
of homelessness is ap t to con
tinuc," says Palya.
Palya n o te s that h o mele ss
fa mi lies in which s ub st a n ce
abuse and menta l-heahh prohl em~ are not major iss ues, also
may. given time and stress, be
lOmf' " at risk."
The SFP will include 14 separate
sessions for parents. their children
and the en tire fa m ily.
Parents \•,:ill learn how to 1111
prove their pa ren ting. communi
ca ti on and nurturing skills; chil ·
d ren will focus on improving be-havior$, and the fa mily members
together will di scuss and demon·
slrate what th e-y 've learned in their
mdividual sessions.
A total of 45 fam ilies wi ll participate in and complete the UB -

run program, which
Pa lya says ca n be
tailored to fam ilies
fro m
different
backgrounds, cul tures and environ ments.
Palya h o pes the
first fami ly will be
read y to enter the
t r ans it io nal -hou sing program th is
month.
Erie
Co unt y BOCES ll ,
C onsumer C redit
Co unseling and
Co rn e ll Coo pcr a ~
tive Extension will
provide
s kiJls
training in such arras as education /
voca tion le-a rning.
rr rso nal finance ,
mo ney m anage ment and nutri tion .

O nce families "graduate" from
the program, the y will be fol lowed for six months by Salvation
Arm y staff, who will moni tor
their tran si ti on and , wh en necessary, offer ass istance and counsel ing.
Although UB researche r s
won't be formally involved with
the families after the y leave the

p rog ram , an evaluation co mpo ·
nent will help them track SFP's
success rate and how it might be
chang ed or improved, Palya
adds.
N&lt;\ncy Smyth, associate dean
(or academic affairs in the School
o f Social Work and associate resea rc h sc ientist at the R~search
Institute on Addictions , will
se r.ve as a co nsult a nt on the
project.

�December l9Miil k M llepcwtes

Noon
Music

3

I Y2K@UBta
Could an ordinary device like a garage-door
opener be impacted by the Y2K problem?
The general rule is. if a p1ece of eqUipment pnnts o r dasplay., date'
h35 acrrv1ty based on dates or needs mamtenance based on elap~d
t1me. 11 ... hould be eva.Juated for Year 2000 compliance If you art
(.Om.crncd ahout an important p1ece of equtpment m your opera
t1on and don 't k.now rf 11 ha!. .r date Iunction . be sure to LontaLl the:
vendor a:, soon a~ po!osible
llowever, even dev1L&lt;:!i that dun 1 need to he date aware- like ga
rage door openers! - m3\' have J date -Jwarc embedded log1c chtp
Un le:,!&gt; •t ':, (t' rtam that the date aware funct1on of the ch1p operate'
mdependen tly, there IS the pm~1hdttV that the entrre ch1p--AI.I nf
Its funcllon:,-may fall when the d.rte -aware tunct10n fa1ls fha!&gt; 1"
how a garage door ·upencr mav lw affeued bv Y2K

The An'lllEnt
Saxophone Quartet's newest member. Susan Fancher,
joins, from left: Russ
Carere, Harry
Fad&lt;elman and

Stephen Rosenchal
for a noon concert
on Nov. 24 in the

Slee Hall lobby.

What are embedded logic chips?

Camera views tinv brain vessels
New imaging technology developet/at Toshiba Research Center
By LOIS IIAIWt
New1 Servk:~ Editor

neurosu.rgeons, engineers, physi-

R

SEARCHERS at us·s
Toshiba S1roke R&lt;sean:h
Center have d&lt;Velop&lt;d
a protolypc camera !hat
can lum blurred X-ray imago: of
brain stcnts made of thin wire into
ima~ dear enough to detect thr
condition of wire as fine as a hair.
The development marks the first
of this technology, ca lled a
high -resolution region-of-interest

USt'

microangiographic digital detector.
for viewing sten ts ·placed inside
blood vessels in the brain. The
stcnts can prevent stroke by shor-

cists. biophysicisu and radiologists.
Scientists at the Toshiba Stroke
Research Center are in the forefront
of research into intravascular treat·
ments for stroke and other circulation-related disorden of the brain.

Intravascular interventions ~ the
body's circulation system as a tunnel to the brain. Neurosurgeons or
neuroradiologim thread micro-thin
instruments through the laJge artery
in the groin until they reach the
damaged area. This approach avoids
the need to open the skull.

mg up weak spots in arteries or

blocking off aneurysms.
The UB protolypc provides im·
ages that are significantly dearer
than can be produced by any cur·
rent system, and may allow the viewing of even the tiniest blood vessels
in the circulation system, Stephen

Rudin. professor of radiology and
physics, reported in Chicago yester·
day. He introduced the proiOiypc
and its image-enhancing capabilities
at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society ofNorth America.
Rudin heads a resea rch group
composed primarily of physicists
within the Toshiba Stroke Research
Cen ter, an interd isciplin ary re sea rch

effort

involving

US

STEPHEN RUOIN

Having dear X·ray images of thr
vessels and instruments is critical
to reaching the repair si te without
damaging vessels aJong the way.
.. Even with the most advanced
imaging equipment avai lable at
present , we weren 't seei ng features
we knew existed," Rudin said ... We
expect this detecto r prototype to
help us locate the stent optimaUy
in th e vessel, visualize its integ ri ty

m place and repositaon It tf nt&gt;ces sary. If you can't see exact.ly what
conditi on the stent ism when u 's
deployed, it's not possible to

change the deployment
.. The detector technology 1s
s1milar to that bemg introdu c~
now in mammography," he said.
.. In mammography, the stte being
vtcwed is static. We are developing the techno logy so 11 can be
used in rapid -seq uence imagtng at
that very high resolution .''
Rudin said this en hanced tmag
mg capability should allow vu·w '"g of vessels as small as the 50·
200- m1cron ones at the vt&gt;ry end
of the circulat ton system of the
bram, called perforators. wh1ch
cannot be set&gt;n at aJI with conven tional imaging equipment.
.. Without this new capabilu y, we
would have difficul ty treating ~n
eurysms that were near tht&gt;se vessels becaust&gt; we cannot see well
e nough to av01d damagmg th e
very small healthy perforators "
The resea rch was funded by tht·
U.S. Army and the Toshiba Stroke
Research Center. Additional mem bers of the research team are AJav
Wakhloo and Dame! Bednarek. both
assooate professors 10 Lhe Schoolnf
Medicine and Biomedical ~ench.
and C'.hang· Ying J. Yang and WLIIaam
I·.. Granger, doctoral GlJldJdato.

Sheridan leads science team to Nicaragua
By l.LUH GOLDBAUM
News selvices Editor

T

HE deaths of 1.650

people and the utter destruction of two villages
last month in Nicaragua
wert caused not by mudslides, as

originally thought ~ but by a Oood
su rge traveling at speeds of up to 50
miles per hour that was triggered b)'
the outbreak of an avalanche dam,
according to the leader of an international scientific exped ition that
1raveled to the volcano last week..
"Tht• avalanche aJone probably
would not have killed anyone," said
Michael E Sheridan , professor and
cha1r of Lhe Department of Geology
.11 UB and leader of the team, .. but
Hurncane Mitch dumped about 2
fcrt of ram o n 0L1.. 30, more than
has ever been reco rded u1 th lS area."
He saJd Lhat the avalanche, caused
by so me very distmcttVt.' geologtl
features on the Cas1ta volcano, toge ther wi th the torrenti al ram s,
made fo r a lethal combmation.
Last month, Sheridan presen ted
research at the Geological Society
of Amer ica's annual meet ing that

described how computers are bemg
used to in terpret satellit e data to
predict the likely sources, sizes and
palhsofvolcani debrisflowssolhat
populations at risk can be infom1ed
and evacuated. "What happened at
Casita volcano IS the perfect test case
fo r my hypothc:sts, namely that sat ellite data can be used m conjunclion with field work to prov1de a
kind of 'geologrc X-ray· to rdentt fv
soft spots o n the surface of voka·
noes,particularlythosethatare,rul
nerable to collapse," he s.md.
Sheridan ~ id the wcaJ....neM• on
Casita o riginated deep ms1de Lhr vol
cano wilh a geothennaiLm.·ulatton
system that cau...~ ~..ertam J.uJ loll
lu110ns to arculate Lhrough Lhe rock.'
mside Lhe vulcano. '"llus cau..'&gt;t.~ thl'
rock toOCbaU1&lt;.-d tn what t.Scsscnttalh
an aad bath," he said. "so thl' mml'l
aJs Ill the rock. chan~ to da~ wtth
hernabte, o r rust,coatrng the fraL1U1'(~
Over thousands of yean,. these aoJ.,
CJ.use the rod to become.· hntlk J.JlJ
fracture over and over ag:un:·
Large earthquake fau lts also nrt
through the volcano, he said, mak mg thi s zo ne eve n weaker and

more dangerous. The 10rrenual ram
luhncated th1s bntlle matenal on
top of the volcano and a stde o l the
moun tam broke off. trawlmg lor
ahout ~ mtles un
tJ!II !&gt;10p~-d .Jtlht·
base of ,1 ''et·p
slopt' on tht· vol
lano. hi(Kktnl! J
vallt"\'. "ThntJt~ ol
the voll.llltl tu\1
SttEatOAN
l.llllt'
lra,hm(!
J1w1n . m.1k1n~ .1
htg, soggy p1k· at the hottnrn nl the
va llev," ShenJan '-&lt;!u.l I ht~ \\' ,lll'T
\On trnut&gt;d to J.Llllmui.He then· un
ultt hrokc through one !&gt; tde ut tht·
,-J.Jie\ . unl~hmg J kmd nlt•arthh
tiJ,, J w.tve that deluged the village'
Shendan ~ud Lhr storv olthe dt~,
,Lo;;tat lon 1~ wnltt"n tn the barT('n lanJ
'l•l!'t' '"bcre 1 ht· rwo vil lage:-. on\t'
. . tt'M.xi and 111 the rememhran~.-~ ol J
It"'" t'vt"Wltnes.o;e.; who still L';!nnol he
h.-ve what they ~ved through
A repon ISSUed by the M:lentlfil
tt:am recommt&gt;nds that the area.

&lt;cttled only in th( past St&gt;Veral decades
to develop sugar-cane f.aml.S, not be
m:Jevdoped for human habi tat ton.

Embedded chrp:, or control p rocesso rs are like tmy (.Umpu ters em
bedded mstde of a larger deviCe They can he found tn wnstwatches.
on work.statrons 1n a1rcraft ea rn ers. 111 manufactunng equrpment.
tn sensors and other momtonng deviCes . 1n chem•cal plants. m mm
mg. SCientific, lab and mediCal equtpment , on sh1ps o~nd planes, tn
radar and other traffic systems. and so on
There are probably dozem m the typiCal modern home or ol
fice- in appliances, :,ecunt\' alarms. heatmg!AC systems and con
sumer electromcs. There mav he hundreds of thousand:, m a o,;angle
manufactunng facili ty

For more 111{omumor~ . to &lt;wtngs.buffalo.edu/ year20 &gt; If yo11 havr
Y2K questro11s that you woultlllke answrre'll m rJm column, t&gt;mml rhrm ((l
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BrieBy
New payroll system to take effect
The Offke of Human Resource Services, ~tate Pavroll ha,., announct.'d
that beganning thts month , paycheck..' and/or dm-c1 -dt'l'l0:,11 stub!&gt; w11l
be prepared under a new system desrgned to make p.~yroll mfom1at1on
easter to read, a:, wdl as more pnvate
Under the state's new PaySR payroll system, checks and d1rect de
pos11 stuhs w11l provtde more detatlt&gt;d mformat1on o n emplovee
earnmgs. such as regular pay, overtime pay and location pay. a!o well
as taxes. mclud1ng federal mu&gt;mt· tax. Soc1al Set~uncv, Mcdrcare dnJ
sta te and local rn come ta.Xe).
In addnton. the new system wall ehmmate codes lor deduliiOO!I
such as retirement. umon dues and SEFA con tnbut1ons, ~A'hrch wtll
be li sted 1ndtv1dual\y accord1n~ to thctr current deduct1on amounts
and yc.-a r-tu -da te totals
Some employees may noii Lt' &lt;1 -.ltg ht dtffert•n(.e 1n take homt' pon
rl'sultmg from the sys tem . whtch ro und s earnmg~ tu the neart'"'
penny and utiltzes annuahzed. rather than biweek.h·.tax tahle!l A ~ J
resu lt , paycht•cks and drrect -depostt !&gt;tubs may -.howt~n tn\rea~e 111
decreaS&lt;' of a few cent s per pav penod
The new c ht~k_, wtll be folded and sealed on three &lt;&gt;tde!o t-mpln\
et"!&gt; a re encouraged to follow tht· npenmg dm~·ct1om to prevent am
damage to the chf'ck or stub
The first l:hecb tssued as part of the lll'W system wtll bt· Jl:,tnh
uted today to emplon·e!&gt; on the "tudent · a:,srstant payroll All otht·r
..;tate emp lovees wdl he pa1d v1a tht new S)'Stem on Wt"dne!oda\'
State employers reC('tvt"d an rntmductory matlmg last wed.. An
other. more detatl('d, matl1ng wtll bc.""dt~tnhutt"d 111 a frw d,l\'' hi!
mort· tnlormatton call Susan Krt\':,tofiJ.k .rt MS 2600

Student Life's "Festival of
Traditions" to begin Monday
The UB Office of Student life J..no'"' thl· hohda\ 'ca,on \\Puldn 1
he ~..omplete wnhnut "Ho'' tht· ( orHH.h '-lh1k ( hn,tm.L' ·
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Communication professor in forefront
of infonnation-systems revolution

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at the Sloe -.g

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Boulel...... """"' he&lt; dellutll
the Melnlpolllan Open ..
~a/ the Nigh~ In MozMt's
"The Mogle Au1r' on Dec. 14.
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- since 1992, hos perfonnedlt c.meg;. Hoi. the
Vi&lt;nnl Open and the
Sllzbufg Festival. Lost susan
she performed Hlndol's - · wltll t h e - -monic om-. under Zubln
MehtA. ~ with Aloin II
UllwWbe-E.MIItln.pl•no, and Shawn Kronberg,

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by the -.:y
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to hear program of
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T

HE nex-t area of u plosive growth in in formation technol ·
ogy will be in the
field of embedded
information systems that mo re or
less read your mind.
That is the prediction of Joseph
D. Woelfel, professor of communication, who nearly 20 years ago
developed C ATpac {CATegory
PACkage ), a unique embedded
sys tem of inform3tion retrieval
and analysis now used by researchers worldwide.
Embedded information systems
are able to read and recognize in dividual neural patterns and from
them predict lxhavior. The nature
of these systems offers a glimpse
into the complexi ty of the new
elect ronic age, according to
Woelfel. They point to the speed
with which vast technological
changes inform our lives in ways
of which most of us are hardl y
aware.
Whether we know what they arc
or not , within three or fou r years,
Woelfel says, these embedded sys tem s wl\1 provok.~ enormous
changes. Hc:- notes the possibility
of:
• Cars that will talk to us and ac cept verbal commands, predict
our destinations and get us from
one plaet to another by telling Us
where to turn and warning of detou rs and accidents a head. They'll
remember that you often fo rget to
turn on your headl ights, for in stance; read the level of outdoor
light, and query you.
• Household appliances that not
only will recognize and remember
the way we like our coffee brewed
or o ur b read toasted and prov ide
both automatically, but will teU us
when they need new parts.
• Commercial applications that
will recognize the way we usuaJly
shop. anticipate our needs, suggest
items that might interest us, advise
us of pertinent sales or ask us befo re we leave the store if we fo rgot
to buy shampoo.
• An array of satellite networks
feeding data into compu ter net works that not only will individu ally and collectively see and track
us, but know what we are likely to
do or where we arc likely to go next
"All of th is raises new and diffi cult ethical, legal and philosoph1
cal questions that must be exam ·
med carefuUy and wuh co nsider
able knowledge of the rapidly
changing field of commumauons
Lcchnology," Wodfd notes.
"This is a very diffi cult job be·
ca use such change~ will not onh·
he cndem1c, hut will prov1de Ill ·
fo rmation 10 strange rs about
many different areas of our lives,"
he says. "On top of that, mu ch of
the programming is 'hidden.' The
average person may become aware
of new applications, but won 't
know wherl" they came from, who
1mposed them and why or how

else they may be applied ."
The embedded systems of which
Woelfel speaks ar• intelligent systerru that are inside other systems
and are not themse.Jves new. They
see what information is requested
and, based on that information,
make additional suggestions to the
user. fo r example, the World Wide
Web is an iotdligent system and a
search engine is an intelligent sys·
tern embedded in the Web.
How systems worit

There are two ways these systems work, according to Woelfel.
The first, and weaker m ethod, he
says, is "oollaborativ&lt; filtering." This
is the one with which computer
users are most familiar. It coUects
information passively by recording
what you select on your computer,
or actively by "asking" you what
you want or where you want to go
next. It then measures and compares the coUected data and fmds
other customers who searched the
sit~ like those you've searched or
bought what you are buying. Then
they suggest to you the choices
made by these other users.
"This method is popuJar co mmercially," Woelfel says, "but it will
only come up with the most obvious choices-the same authors '
names, Web sites or broad in terest areas, for instance."
The seco nd, newer and much
better method by which embedded systems can work allows them
to recog nize how we th ink a nd
make predictions based on ou r
neural patterns.
"\Ve now know enough abo ut
human cognitive functions to
simu la te them in a computer,"
Woelfel says. "Using a method of
sim ulating ne ural pa tterns, the
comp uter can learn an individual's
behavior pattern-what kinds of
mformation he seeks, wha t she
buys, what channels t h e user
watches-and can predict wi th
co nsiderable accuracy what that
user will do next.
" It isn't anyth ing nearly so com·
plex as the human brain," he adds.
.. These are rather simple art ificial
neural nerworks, b ut they work
very, very well By recognizing part
of the pattern, they correctly pre dict the whole."
More accurate martc.et research
In addi tion to helping us by or·
ganizing, prodding and remind mg. so me of the most popular
co mmercial applications, like the
nne developed by Woelfel , make
new and highly accurate forms of
market research possible.
Although the communications
revolution frequently is co mpared
1n Importance to th e Neolithic
Revolution, the lndustriaJ Revolu tion and the vast chang~ that fol lowed migra tion from rural to urban areas. Woelfel goes further.
.. , think this revolution is bigger and even more Important than
the ot hers," he says. " It is chang ing our lives in unpreceden ted

CATpac: Quar1titative
of QuaUtative Data

An~is

ways, and most important, with
unprecedented speed. We aU know
that we barely have time tb become familiar with one new tech nology when a new, im p roved,
faster, better, more complex system arrives on the scene with its
benefits and problems. And this is
happening in aU fields at once, of
course, provoking more and more
change on every level."
\Aihile admitti ng the amazing
number of opportu n ities being
c reated daily in the jacked-in
world of information technology,
Woelfel , like most experts in the
field, emphasizes that a change this
massive provokes social, political
and cultural questions that we
barely have begun to address.
"You know, if you carry a ceU
phone," he says, "your service provider knows where you are within
30 inches. Lawyers now subpoena
cell -phone records to track the
exact location of individuaJs at a
particular time on a particular
date.
"The poli ce want access to

these data files, too,.. he adds.
•eommercial concerns want ac ·
cess-it's intrusive, yes, but then
again , if you're buried in a snow
storm, your location could be
pinpointed immediatdy within a
few feet."'
In addition to the application of
value systems to technological innovation, some of the greatest IT
headaches we'IJ face as we plow
through the '90s and into the next
millen n ium, says Woelfel , are the
staggering problems presented by
the need to retrieve data from old
hardware and from discontinued
software programs., so that it asn 't
lost.
..We also have to rewn te exJSt
ang programs to ac~ommodate
new operating systems and soft ·
ware. That is definitdy a challenge
I spend a good deal of ume up ·
dating the CATpac programs used
by thousands of analysts and re searchers. It 's tedious and bon ng
work, but it requires techno logi ·
cal skill. So that 's another problem
to solve."

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Elech"O&amp;"IicHighw:afS
Web sites focus on time; help
Women need to be more direct, men must 'listen more actively' you check past, future dates

~ offered for 'genderlect'

By MAltA MC~IS
Nf:\¥5 SeMc.es Editorial Assirtint

A

prese ntation

that a distinct diffe.rencc exists in

on

.. Genderlect: Women's
and Men's Language"
by Jeannette Ludwig,

associate professor of modern languages and literatures, kept a recent .. UB at Sunrise" audience
laughing with humorous ex amples of how men and women
interact, interesting research find-

the situations in which men and
women talk.
.. Men talk in formal situations
where there is a concrete, instrumental task to be accomplished.
Women tend to talk more in informal, unstructured, non-taskorient~ situations," she explained.
"There are societal expectations
about when or where women
should talk. Women are assumed
to talk about small things, which
is often perceived as too much t.alk

ings and suggestions on how men
and women can co mmunicatt
more effectively.
or gossip."
"We have to keep in mind that
no one in the world interacts with"Men -In tonn.l
o ut a kind of veil, or film of culture, which acts as a lens through
which we view the world," said
concrete. ..tasll to be
Ludwig ... Over the past 30 years,
we have come to know that words
do not reflect reality, but rather act
t o - ,_..,.., lnfornwol,
as struct ures thrqugh which we
view the world ."
More importantly, she noted ,
.. we create meaning in our interaction, whether we like it or not "
and it is crucial for peoplt to un IEANNETTE WDW1G
derstand that speakers do not con She also said that women often
trol the entirt meaning of an in - arethoughttobelessint.erestingand
teraction ... How something is re- less inteUectuaJ speakers and writ c:eived, constructed, understood is ers... For example. how many solo
every bit as important as what the fcma.lt news anchors do we see on
speaker intended."
television .. ..The environment 1n
In reference to the longtime best which women work is corrosive bese ll er, u Men are from Mars, cause they are not taken seriously.n
Wamen-ace from Yenu.s,• Lud.wig _ • .aile ci~ anothec study done in
pointed out that, in fact, we are all the I 970s of naturally occurring
"'earthLings," but that some Lin - conversations in public places that
guists and communication expens found that 96 percent of the in ·
do believe that men and women terruptions in the interactions
can be seen as two separate cui - wert by males. She referred to the
tures.
act of interruption by males as a
Despite the common myth, she ..dominance device."
stressed that men actually talk
Another related p1ect of rt' ·
mort than women .
search, she added, studitd the-m ·
.. Myfavoritepitceof research is teractions of three couples and
a study where they took co llege found the males to be successful
st udents into a room and asked in raising new topics in 28 of 29
them to describe some pictures anempts. Women wtre success ful
while being recorded. One of the in 17 of 47 anempts.
" Women cry to interrupt. hut
guys began by sayi ng 'WeU , there
is a man in a st udy and thert are what do we wind up taking about?
some books. Let's see there are one, Whatever 'the guy' want s to talk
two, three, four, five, six .. .' and about," she joked.
counttd each book o ut loud ." One
Ludwig noted that studies done
o~ the o th er male subjects, sh e
since 1922 show that men in same said, kept talking until the tape ran sex groups talk about busmess.
ouL
sports, other men and technology,
However. she told the audienct while women talk about men ,

--therels•

dothmg and relat10nsh1p$. "Whal
IS mterestmg,"' she added. "1s that
when women talk about the~ top
ICS on th e JOb, 1t "s VJt'wed a\ gos
Sip.

Another difference, she added,
that women work harder to keep
conversatio ns going by back -chan
neling, a term used to descnbe m
dications people give to show that
they really are paying attentiOn .
such as "urn hmm ," "oh" and .. re
ally~ " Men do not engage 10 backchannelmg nearly as much as
women, according to Ludw1g.
She also addressed the d1ffer ·
ence between men and women 's
co nstruction of "personal space."
Ludwig noted that whil e men m
America claim much more personal space than women do .
Americans claim much more per·
sonal space than other cultu re!&gt;.
To demonstrate how men tend
to take up more personal space,
Ludwig placed her hands behmd
her head . "What does th1s tell
you?" she asked . "This sa}'S, 'I'm 1n
charge. There's nothing you can
tell me that I don't already know.""'
she Joked. "Have you see n women
engage in this very often? .. After
t.h e laughter died down , she added .
" I rest my case. n
Her tips for women: lk more d1
rcct. Speak up. Be ready wath evi dence and arguments. Look for wap
to make cont rolled contributions.
t:or men, she advised: '"L1s tcn
more actively. Acknowledge co n tents thoughtfully. You gam a great
deal of mileage by hstenmg and
responding before you make a de ·
cision ." She cited a relevant hne
from a Bob Dylan song: .. Th&lt;" man
hears what he wants to hear and
disregards the rest."'
Ludw1g added that men a!&gt;k
fewer questions than women be
cause they feel that they may gtvt"
up som e- of the1r pOWl' r and au
thon ty.
"Weill have to tell vou th 1!&gt;: Men
do ask for directiOns. Mv hushand
says to me all the time, 'We don't
know where we are; let 's a.sk for
d1rect1ons . Here. roll down your
w1ndow ... .""
She told the men ....1rv g1\"lng up
a little power and you will gam a
grea t deal of powt"r
IS

H

Grant to fund study of endometriosis, toxicants
E!*l-lolovlst CiemiMM ..,.. has

received a
one-year, Sl 00,000 grantto conduct a pilot study
on the potential relationship between endometriosis, a major cause of infertility in Women, and exposure to certain environmental toxicants.
Endometriosis is a condition in which fragments
of the uterine lining, the endometrium, grow
outside of the uterus. It affects up 10 percent of
women of reproductive age; between 30 and 40
percent of those women are infertile.
Buck, associate professor of social and preven ~
tive medicine, said there is increasing speculation, based on animal studies, that environmental contaminants called halogenated organie&gt;whlch include dioxin, PCBs and pesticides-may
play a role in the development of the condition.
"'Dioxin exposure has been associated with endometriosis In laboratory animals and in Rhesus
monkeys, • she noted. "Only a few pilot studies

have been conducted in women, which is the reason for this study.•
The researchers also will determine whether cer·
taln proteins in endometrial tissue may act as
biomarkers of exposure to dioxin .
The study will allow investigators to assess the
severity of endometriosis through actual exposure,
based on blood and fat samples, as well as through
concentration of biomarkers in the tissue .
Study participants will be recruited from women
between the ages of 18-35 in Western New York
newty diagnosed with endometriosis, whose disease state, biomarkers and exposure levels to the
toxicants will be compared with information from
control groups of women without the condition.
"The data from the study will help us determine whether environmental exposure at low
doses adversely affects reproductive function in
humans," Buck said.
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5

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A.s the year l1 rapidly approaching It~ end. and a!&gt; a nt"w de1.ad~ .
centurv and m1llenmum art" appeanng on th e hon1.on. the top11.~ nf
c.alendan and time seem relevant The Web prov1de:. u' w1th anum
her of llmely mformatton rt"!&gt;nurc..e~
VVlulc.- &lt;.o nducttng h1ston cal rc..,carch.tt mav hec..Oml· nt.'tes!kln t11
1..u nvert date!&gt; fr om o lder c..J icnd ar svstem!l to th l' prt"!&gt;t'nl d ~n
t .rego nan system. o r VICe ver!kl At th e "Lalendar ConverSiOn!&gt;·· pagt'
&lt;http:/ / geneatogy.org:SO/ - .Jcottlee/ c•lconvert.cgl &gt; . vou tJn
enter any date- and ret neve all t'4u1valent dates 10 tht&gt; Juhan , k .... J!ih
and 1-rcnch Republican caJendar-,
If you are planmng a futurt~ e~,oent Jnd need to learn all the pamtu
Iars for that date, vou can VISit the !&gt;lit.' .. ( .a.lendarHomc.com"' &lt;http:/ I
calendarhome.com/ tyc/ &gt; \eb.l. for example, the 2()()(}.. under thr:
.. ChooSt' different centun•" cho1u" and enter you r propo!&gt;ed month and
year, let's say November 00. You .,. ,JJ rctnevt' a November 2000 calcn
dar. w1th wme hoLday dates noted to the s1de. lf vou dick on .. Novem
bc.--r 2000" at the top of the page. ynu wtll retnevc a laq;er L3..1endar thai
you may pnn! out and u..-.e for makmg notattom Rack on the first pa~e
you retnevcd . tf you click on the nght or left arro~ ad,aant to No
ve mbcr 2000. vou w1ll retneve Gl.lendan for preVJOU!i and success1vt'
month.\. Also. 1f vou chck on "l.alculator," vou can enter anv two datb
and learn exactl y how many day!&gt; there an· between them
There also a re some Web sues that penam to duck lime !"he l" \
Naval Observatory Master Clock Silt" &lt;' http:/ / tycho.usno .n.vy.mll/
what . html ;;; offers a number of preose ume cho1ces. mclud1n g
"USNO Ttmt" Ln Standa rds Tlml" Zune~.""T.onvcrtmg fmm U m ve~l
T tmc" or even how to .. Compute Loc.al Apparent S1dereal T1 mt' "'The
"Oa te and T1me (~ateway" &lt;http:/ / www.bsdl.com / d.tte/ &gt; allow~
you to check both the date and t1me for numerous mtrmauonal sue-s
Finally, to explore tht: hJStorv and nature oft1me. the Nallonallnstt
tute of Standard.l and Technology offers "A Walk through Ttme. the
EvolutiOn ofTime Measurement" &lt;http:/ / physlu.nlst.gov/ Genlnl/
nme/tlme.html&gt;. an illustrated chrorude of docks and calendar"i 0\¥1
the centuries. Or, you m1ght be mterested m reading jOC' Hanm1k \ ~
say. -on the Nature of Time" &lt;http://home.e•rthllnk.net/ -orte&lt;h/
tlme.html &gt;, whiCh ancorporates philosophy and theoretical phVSK.!&gt;

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Alan

J. Gross, 71, dental school faculty member

Servkes wen held MoncS.y In
Delaware Park Mem onal
C hapel . Buffalo. for Alan ).
Gross, a faculty m ember in the
School of Dental Mcdicinf' and
a practiCing dentiSt for more
than 44 yea rs. Gross, 71. died
Nov. 28 after a year's illn ~.
He was h o n o red recently
with the U B Dental Alumni
Association 's Humanitarian
Award and last week at a cer emony, which he attended, with
the creation of the Dr. AJan ).
Gross Student Resource Center
in Squire HaiL
Gross graduated from the
UB dental school in 1952, afler
serving in the U.S. Coast Guard
during World War II'. In the
1960s he was a clinical instruc tor of operative dentistry at th e
dental sc h ool. He earned a
master 's degree in oraJ sciences

m 1983 and . bt"caust' of his in terest 1n general dtntistry, clinical
research and dental tducation,

enrolled in the doctoral program
1n education psychology at UB, rectivi ng his doctorate in 1996.
A popular teacher in the dental
school, he twice was honored as
!he Alpha Omega dental
fraternity's Educator of the Year.
He received the William M.
Feagans Award for outstanding
teaching and the Educator of the
Year designation in the 1990
School of DentaJ Medicine yearbook.
Gross was director of faculty
developmenl for the denial school
and taught an orientation course
for new faculty members and a
course on teaching skills for the
dental faculty.
The author or co-author of 52
professional publications on den -

tistry and dental education, he
served as president ofth&lt; UB Den tal Alumni Association, the local .
chapter of the Alpha Omega lnttrnationaJ Dental
Fraternity and
the UB chapter of
the International
Association of
Denial Research.
A fellow of the
Academy of General Dentistry and
the International CoUcge of Dentists, he was a member of the
American Dental Association and
the New York Stat&lt;, Erie County
and Eighth District Denial societjes, the American As.soci.ation of
Dental Schools and the American
Educational Research Association.
A cross-country runner, Gross
competed in the Boston Marathon
five times and was one of the

founders and directors of the
Slcylon lnt&lt;mational Marathon.
A bicycle racer, h&lt; competed 1M
times in the Empie&lt; StattGames,
winning a bronz&lt;orsilv.r medal
in his age group for each race. On
,.,.,.,...) occasions, Gross rode his
bicycle more than I SO miles.to
Watkins Glen. He abo raced can
at Watkins Glen, 5mled on the
ski patrol and was a ski instructor at Glenwood Aau.
A musician, Gross was in ·
valved in community theater

and served on the board of
Young Audjences and on the
board of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo.

He is survived by his wife.
Nancy; a daughter, Susan
Cooperman of Denver; a son,
Charles lester; his mother,

Minnie S. Gross.. and a brother,
Gordon R., both of Amherst.

Donald L. Ehrenreich, 70, clinical professor of neurology
Servkes were held In Temple
Beth Zion on Nov. 20 for Donald
L Ehrenreich, 70, a clinical pro·
fessor of neurology in the School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a neurologist with the
Buffalo Medical Group. Ehren reich , who suffered from cardiac
and ot her m edica l problems,
died Nov. 18 in Buffalo General
Hospital 's Hospice Unit.
Hi s compassion. sensitivity

and humanity touched not only

rology in !he medical school in 1961 .

his patients, but their families as
weU. When he became iiJ and an nounced his retirement, patients
Stnt many cards and leners thank ing him for his sense of caring and
offering wishes for his recovery.
Ehrenreich earned a bachelor's
degree from UBin 1949anda medical degree from the UB medica)
school in 1953. He became an in·
structor in the Department ofNeu-

Sina 1983, he had 5mled as a clinical professor in thai department.
He was acting had of the neu rology departmental Buffalo Gen eral Hospital for six years in the
1980s, served as president of the
hospital's medical staff in 1986
and was a member of the board of
trustees for six years. ln 1978 he
joined the Buffalo Medical Group
and later served as chairman of its

board of directors.
In 1964, Ehrenreich was among
the lint group of U.S. neurologisls
invited to &lt;lUna to teach neurology to Otinesc physicians.
Survivors include his wife,
Rivona H.; a son, Mark D. of
Kenmore; a daughter, Beth E.
Lichtenberg of Chicago; a
brolher,Arthur,ofPhoeoix;asister, Margery Rabow of Sarasota,
Fla.. and eight grandchildren.

Richard H. Webber, 74, professor emeritus of anatomy
A M•n of Chrtstl•n SUrt•l

was hdd Nov. 27 in St.
Step hen's Church, Grand Is land, for Richard H. Webber, 74,
professor emeritus of anatomy
in the VB medical sc hool.
Webber died Nov. 23 in Millard
Fillmore- Suburban Hospital.
Webber was anending Cornell Univcrsiry in 1943 when he
joined the Navy. Following h1 s
di sc harge . he comp le-t ed hi s
bache lor's degree a t St.
Be nedi ct's Co ll ege. Atch ison.
Kan . He ea rned his master 's

degree in zoology from the University of Notre Dame in 1949 and
a doctorate in anatomy from St.
Louis University in 1954. He was
an a..~ istant professor of anatomy
at the C reighton University Medi ·
ca l School from 1954-59, where he
was principaJ investigator for sev eral research grants from the U.S.
Public Health Service, and was an
associate professor at Temple Uni versity before coming to UB in
1961.
The author of numerous scien tific papers, Webber received

grants from the National lnstitules
of Health to study involuntary
nerve pathways to blood vessels in
the leg. Webber's major research
inurests involved studits of the
autonomic nervous system. In
later years, he studied neuropeptide changes in gingiv~ re.lated to
aging and periodontal disease. He
reti red from US in 1990.
He was a member of Phi Rho, a
professional and neurological society; the American Association of
Anatomists; the Cajal Club, an
anatomy o rganization; Sigma Xi,

and the Americ:an Association
of Denial Schools. He was a fel low of the Human ,Biology
Council.
Survivors include his wife,
Donna Marie; six daughlers,
Michaeline Reining and Donna
Goss, both of Grand Island,
Margaret
Hooper
of
Ogdensburg, Palricia Majtyka
of North Tonawanda, Annr
Smitlr of Pullman, Wash., and
Kimberly Marshall of Buffalo;
a son, Thomas, of Rochester.
and eight grandchildren.

�December 3.19!18/Vnl.311."'.14

SEFA offers many choices of agencies to support EiJ
the Editor:
Earlier"!ast month , Joseph
Murray from Geography took
a very "broad brush"andused
•ttopaintall the"""kofSEFAI
. I
:.
.
United Way in the Ileporkr. 1
I
I•
think that was both inappropriate and unfortunate.
SEFA is a single combined giving p rograms periodically to ensure
campaign for all employees of New they meet required standards and
York Stlte. It makes it possible for provide services to meet priority
US and other state organizations needs. This year, employee and stuand agencies to support a wide va- dent suppon through UB's SEFA
riety of services, induding critical campaign may go to 194 different
work on behalf of the elderly, chil- United Way agencies, 131 independren and disabled, on behalf of in- dent and non-affiliated agencies, 32
ternatiOnal and environmental oon- international service agencies, 31
cems, and to address issues related independent Cllaritics nf America,
16 EarthS~ agencies and 18 En 10 substance abuse, f.lmily suppon
vironmentaJ Federation of New
and youth development. '
An employee SEPA Steering York agencies. For more informaComminee works to serve the wid - lion on SEFA and the work of the
450 supported agencies. log on to
&lt;&gt;1 possible number of people in our
community. They evaluate local, &lt;wtngs.bufflllo.edu/ Mf•&gt;.
state, national and in ternational · Given the extensive array o f
To

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•

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agencies. services and perspec t ives represented by

these nearly 45 groups, I suspect that some UB individu als may find they do not sup
port one or more of the agcn
des, for any number of personal and legitimate reasons.
That is why, as Mr. Murray noted ,
every invitltio n to give indudes an
invitation to designate aU or a portion of a gift to specific agencies or
federations.
Mr. Murray, hold the individual
organizations accountlble for their
practices. That is appropriate. But as
.. Partners in Caring" attempting to
assist in "Building Stronger Com·
munities," common decen cy di ctales that the campus continu e to
provide \lfl opportunity to support ,
through individual decisions, the
workofsomanydeservingagencio,
working o n behalf of so man y
unmet needs, here and everywhere.

-Dennb R. Black, 1998 UB

SEFA/Unrr~

Way Cho1r

The joys of crossing boundaries, opening doors

fa lo. New

rk, which I knew little

.1ho ut whcrll went to ljve and teach
dll' re 30 yea~ ago, I shall think of
myself, in part , as a person who
hdonged. for a while, o n the ca mpus in the Free State. l say"i n part ..
and .. for a while" because we all
have many sid es which we can ex
press in different places at different times. To belong wholly to o ne
place for all of o ne's life may have a
ce rtain sa tisfaction , but it has a
limitation as well. For myself, I have
found it exciting to move beyond
the fa miliar boundaries of city, state
and country whi le return ing hom e
through the study of American lit erature; and, co nversely, I like tn
rc:ad abo ut o ther culture s and
lO Untri es when I'm at home.

Reading. as you doubtJess have
discovered, is an mexpcnsivc way to
travel And travel , as well as being a
pleasure in itself. is also a means and
mode of self-discovery-an Amen ca n invention that takes It s place
alongside the Franklin Stow:though I don't want to suggest that
what is ..outsidr"usand what ts "in sidr" are unrelated. So, k·t me donate a few books to you r lihrary that
get at M&gt;mc of the contexts in whu.:h
I have lived and which may prove: to
be useful to yo u as artifacts and
icons: .. Lincoln: Selected Speech~.~
and Writings," an .. O utlm c of
American Literature:· a sturdy "Thc
Norton Anthology of English l.&amp;t
crature," th e "Triple AAA Europt'
Travel Book " ( 1996 ) and "T I1&lt;·
World Alman a\" and Book of l·acb ..
( 1977).
As you ca n see, my lllll·~ mn\l'
ou t from Lu11.:o ln's 19th t..t' lltllr }
Ameri ca to th e world in our ttlllt'
They art- , in th is sen se. m n st~ ll'nt

wtth my themt- for 10day: lrL)!-1,
ing boundanes and expand m g
my self. Opcnmg doors . And I
want to say in th1 s lo nnectton
th at I am particularly grateful to
yo u because I ha vl' li ved 111 ,1
women 's hostel all year at t-rn
Statt• Un&amp;vcrs it\' ( Wdwttl~ ht a I
wtthnut gc tt mg 1n meet o ne ' tu
dent. I have o ften 1ho ughtth.11. .1,
a mattt·r nf fact. th1 :-. !'lol tuatt on wet'
a metaphor for muLh of wh .tt
needs to lha ngc 111 the world W e
need tn mct"t ou r neighhor:-. fat..t·
to fat..'e ; we need to sec that pcoph·
v.•hn lt&gt;ad cu lturall y dtfferrnt It' t''
.trt' prohahl)· not that dtffert·nt
from us: we need 111 'i.Ct' th a t tht·
d.11111~ u i you th and dgc . stud t'nt
.1nd teat..'her, child and parent , arl'
!WI lund amentall\' •~alated !rom
l',t~o.h o th er. In anr ... a.ltl' . l hopt·
'lt ll ll' (l! VOU \Vti[ Wfllt' Ill me \II
th.t l ""t' t. Jil \.lii11 111Ut' I n ll J' t'll

duur!'lo.
-Howard Wolf , p • c• fc··~·" ott /n-.:lt-'1

M .... Dean Veu: £1

Gloomi~Y~lor

~=~~r:~":~dnd

momenu ~ore ~ impact~ The cKryiK
mural, which c~ an four walb of tht&gt;
Ughtwe" Gallery; was 1nspired by
cartCJOf\ pop an and expressiorust wor1u

~~c:!'~~~~~~ lurw
V..nlon City
Ven10n City, a cawal survey ol Toronto

~~~~~ra0~~~~~~::
Secood Floo&lt; Galierie&gt;, CFA. ih&lt;OU!Jh
Dec. 20. Artists represented Include

g~=-~~~~~E~~"'n.

GA!CJ Heftord, Karrn Hendenon, ~Of
~-

Luh Ja&lt;ob. Swan K.. ley. AAda

KlJbG. Stacey

Lancast~.

E.uan

~=: ~!'!~~~ Tunno
Hourl lor the US Art Gallery and thto
~twtll Galltry a~ I 0:30 a.m .-8 f.'m

p m ~,Z~~rough Saturda)", t · S

........,.

Jobs-

Anlshlnt Pro fessor-Department ol

K.iw.tkm a&gt;meaed"" ......
~ tx&gt;ud-odown ....... w......
finished the pme with seven
'"'"!'&lt;ions b" I 4o4 yuds &gt;nd a...

TDs.lt was the I I d1 I ~yard pme
i
49~1Nin.
of his career. an aJ-.Une: school
-lllrauN led the women's
...a&gt;ni.Soishxy~ 19-d-3&lt;
bolioolll. .
4-liOCIJ&lt;d and
.,..... ""270 yuds.Josh Ro!h loO "
wos nomod to the Rutge&lt;&gt; AJIrushrc- 88 yuds on 18 amos
T.....-.nont. Team. She~
Drew Hadcb.d Nd four
12 P'*'l&gt; tnd ..... retxu-ds per
rKeptiom for 2 yards and oed hts
game on the - t n d ~
O¥m recOC"d for rKepooru: m a
13 .5 points per game in the
seuon With 67 Antonio Perry led
Rutgen Too.mament.
the defense wkh I I tackles. while
josh Trexter added Nne taddes and
:11 pus breakup. Enc Pipkins had etght acldes and returned UJ tntercepoon S6
prds for his firn C21'M:r wuchdown

....,to.

s

Volle~~all
C e n tral Michigan l, UB 2

Eutent Michigan 3, UB 0

The '101~1 sqouad ended ~a season unable to get :11 ww-. .., the Hid-Atnenc.2n
Conference.losmg matches"' Centnl HicNgan (8- 15. 14-16. 15-2. 15-7. 15.1 l i
ond E:ostom HicNgan (5- 15. IG-15.8-15) NO&lt;. 20-21 lnA!unnAn:na. CNssey
Swb'er led the Bulls with I 3 kil~ two service :t~ees :and I 7 dip :ti(UlSt Centnl
Hid&gt;1pn. Some&lt; Desdwnbault had two kllk ond I 5 "'' apins1 E:ostem Hochopn

~asket~all
UB 74, Robert Morris 41
UB 75 , Soutt.west Louisi~a 5 4
UB 73 , Niagara 61

Rutger-s 70, UB 4 7
UB 70 , Rhode IslAnd 61

On Nov. 21. the Butb defeated Roben Morm. 74-41 H epn HcCny ~ t:he team
with 18 potna Vld SarNnttu Cerny ~d 10 potna.rlfbny Sell pulled dowYI s~
rebounds In t:he Win
lnlthe Ruqen T~ US lost to the host Scarlet i&lt;nl&amp;ht1. 70--17. '" the
openirc f"'Uld Bdlled UB wrth t2 poena Mld ~ ~Han McOu~ tud
11 po40t:5 and s« rebo..n&lt;h. UB then defeated Southwest Louisiana. 7S-S-1. Four
Butts' ~~" ~. a.o by M&lt;Ciun:- 16 po;nu.Ca..,.,.,.

jacob _ , IJ. Bdl_,llondKrn Coon_,IO
The team ~eated host Rhode Island, 70-61 , on New 18 Vld vtSidng NC:t~.g:t~ n..
7J-61 , on NoY 21 Coon led With 16 potna :tiOd three boards. Bell M\d HcCiu~
prt.Ched Ill 15 :tiQd 12 poma &lt;~.nd Cemy had seven ~ M\d ntlle polflO.
In the non-confen!nce wr1 apn51 the Purple E:acfes. four~ 5COI"e::ln c:to..be
~...._ BellloO ihe woy _ , 16 porn&gt; ond "" bauds. C...., &gt;nd jawb poon:d " I&lt;
pon:s apM!Ct • ...,... ~ ~ I J pomlo ;and CClllCrb..rted M ~
MEN ' S

UB 4 9 ,

Canisi us 48

US 64 , Contell 63

Duq uesn e 7 5 , UB 5 6
US beat bitck .. com~ ck by Cam~IU ~ to hold on for :11 19-"'8 wm m the Bulls
Nov H home opener UB wu led by Lou•s Umpbell wuh :11 areer-hrgh 18
potnts and N•kob• Ale."&lt;ee'o. who came o ff the bench tO sea~ 11 pomu ilOd gn.b
:11 pme· and areer-h•gh erght rebound1 Alexe1 Vuille"t also had e1ght rrix&gt;unds
u UB out-rebounded 1U opponent for the first ame th•s seuon
The tcvn spin games on the road. defe..ung host Com~! . 6-4· 63 . on N O&gt;&lt; 18
and losmg to Duquesne . 75-56. on Nov 21
Aglmst ComeU--U B '~ first wm of the sea.son--the Bun ~ .....-ere led by Konn
GodWin. who ~cored I) p01nu o R dle bench lou•~ Campbell added .. ureer
be~t I6 pomu and s1x steals w,u Campbell pulled down e•ght boards and
blocked three shou. wh1lc Ryan Peterson added s•x .ustsU
Ag;unn Duquesne. UB wa.l. led by Mahso L1borm WTd"t II po1nu ;and \ever'
rebound~ Vas•lte:Y also scored .. Grtreer-h•gtt I0 pomu
·

~wimmm~

Events Calendar
Continued hom- 8
Mark Dean Veal'' N'\SUIIahon, El
GloominatOI', I' described al '"a grt:olt

The Bulls dosed out the 1998 sason "--ow. 21.1os1nc 4-4-36 to l--lofw-..
Theronw.krlnshod- 86
,..,OS on 17 anies.Oad ~ &gt;nd

WOMEN' S

Dear F.culty, Staff, Students, and Friends of Christian Brothen College
(Bioe.,.fonteln, SOuth AtJtc.) :

n I left America at the end
of I uary. I 997 , I had little know!·
edg o f th e l·ree State , le ss of
J ~ l ocn ontcin, and none of Chns-

root~all
H ohtn 44, UB 16

ME.N ' S

~~:~~::~n:,~:r~~:ssor-

Oepartment of MusK, Post1ng •F-808 7
A.lslsU!nt Profeuor, Sodok)gy of
Edvution -Depanment of E.ducat 1onal
Leadership and Polley, Post1ng n ~8088
AsslsUnt Professor, Uteracy/ Read ing
Spedallst-Oepartment of Learnmg and
lnstru&lt;:tkm, Posting lf -8089
Auod ilte/ Full Profenor,
Rehablltutlon Coun seling Depa rtment of Counseling and

~:~~~~c~~~~~~r~~~:~~~~~~~~
IF-8090. Professor and Ch air ·
Department of Computer Soence t~nd
E.ngineenng, Postmg Mf -809 1
Resean::h lm:tn.Ktor-Department ol
8101ogJCal Science~ . Post•ng •r -8091

Research
Secretary I (part timt)-CAM8t Po\Ung
•R-98079

ProfessionAl
Assb:t.nt Director, NY Met ro otfKe of
Admiukwls ( Sl--4}-0ffK:e of AdmtHtOIH
Post1ng IIP-8089 Senior UNIX
Engkleef (SL-5}-Computmg and
lnlormatJon Techno6ogy, Post•ng IP
8109. Auistlln t Dean fOf" Resource
Man.gement ( SL- S)~Oean·~ Otfk~
School of Health Reldted Profen.am,
School of Nurling. Post1ng IP -8129 AIX
Systems AdmlnlstratOf" (Sl--4)-Cemer
for ComputatMlnal Research, Post1ng ltP

8130 IRIX System' Administrator ( Sl
4)-Center fOt Computdtlonal Re~drl:h
Po~tn19 IP-8131 ~b Specialist (Sl
3)-lnstitute lor local Governance
Reg1onal Growth, Posting IP-81 3 3
Instructional Support Te&lt;hn kian (Sl
3)~0ean'~ Offke, Art' and Sc.ence-~.

dnd

~~n'~! tiL~ru'~!~~;~~fV1lr\

1

Po~t •ng

NP-8136. Associate Olre&lt;tor tor
Special Evenu (Sl-4)-Speoal ~ven a
Po~ttng MP--8137. Man ager of Fire and
lift Safety {S l - 3) ~UnNen.•t y Faolitll!'~.
Post1ng •P-8138. Music Tet:hnology
Director (Sl·l)-Oepartment ol MusK
Po~t1ng ltP-8140. Director, Natural
Scie nces Services {Sl-4)Undergraduate Academ•c Progrdm\ dlld

~=:~~~:;?~!~~!

( SL -S) ( two
polition,)-Center for Compulallofldl
Re-SE-arch. Pc»t1ng •P-8\44 814 \

Non-CompetltMo/ lAbor
Clustfled Civil Service
Bu ilding Sffvke Akk- (NS 3. pdrt
time, t emporary) (three politiom
avollllable)-Unrwn.•ty
l tne- •
~detetmlrled

f.dnlil f"\

US Ill , O Uiitnd 10 8
The men ·~ SW1mmrng tea.m rem:t~1ned undefeated by dowmng v•~•ung O;~kbnd
Un1ven•ty 123-IOS. on No-. 21 The Bulls wen- led by }ohn N11le~ who took
fin t ·pb.ce fin•she~ ,,., tt"te SO-meter f~tyle (21 2S) and the 100-meter freestyle
(16 83) He wu also :t1 member of the wmmng -+00-meu!r freesryko relay squad
(l I 0 M ). along Wtth Bnan BerUtekmt. Jose MonciOn and Dexter T.u um
Fln:t·pt:tlce fin1she' ;also came from Dan H.ckey 1n the 200-meter ln-estytc
(I 1] S) and Jason Mcl.a.chlan '" the 200 1nd1vtdu3! medley (I S8 ] II
Dave Soler captured both d1vtng evenu by pbcmg first '" the o ne ,utd
three-meter d•ve~ wtth 236 6) and 250 80 potnu re~peco-wely
WOMEN ' S

The UB womens SW1ffim1ng team eamed •u fin:1 MAC vtctOT)' No~ ]I
defuung host Akron. 198-9) K1m Theeqe ( 100 brusutroke I Q8 92. 200
brusutroke. 2 .J.4 69).1nger Rooneem ( 100 bolclutroke I{Xl2t 100 freestyte
S3 M ) .llld l..Jeselle Tnntdad ( I00 butterfly. I{XI 22 200 butterfly. 2 1] I II had r-...o
fin:t-pbce finiSh~ euh Theeqe. R~. Tnmdad .and M ICh~le Bncknell :lisa
were memben of the ~onous 200-me-tet"" mediey-reby ~d I I 52 5]1

Wrestlin~
Teo

To abram more mlormatl0f1 on ,001 hh'11
a~. concoct Penonn~ 5en--Kf'~ to•
respon~ ~ysrem by collmg 64.S J84 J orJC1
following the VOICe prompl 1nst nx110m lo
otxom 1nformall0fl on R~rrh fOb) ,
con /oct SpooSOIPd Programs Pf'n.onrvl
4 16 Croh1

The wrest:hng t.e:t~m opened With Its fir-st WUITWT"Iflr'lt oi me season. fin1sh1ng
second 1n the Bkxxnsbu:-g lrMDtOOf\al The Bulb throe capa1ru ..&amp;un Schul
(1 25-pound cb.u). j:tlcob Scmus ( 174-pcx.nd cbs.l) and M&lt;tn Rxc1 ( 184-pouncl
dass~l took fir-st pbce. Other top finlshen for UB 1ockJded _lohn ~cheolclder
•n second place '" t:he h~ght dMslon and thtrd-pbce fimshes by Bill J:tlcoutot
:t1t 11t pounds and Josh Sates :tit 197 pound~

�B) Repoder December 3.1!91/Vol.30. Ill. 14

-setoN.~
Polldng Hotrod: All
Altemlt!Ye Model of Policing

DlscrdJon . Jeannine Bell. Univ.

of MichigAn. 50 2 Part&lt;. North
C1mpus. 9:30a.m. Free.

.. -AitCJub-.g
l£Al Nftcb You! Center for the

~3o~~~ ~,:;. ~~- for

rT'IOI'einformation, call)eft
Shefven at 645-6878, ext 1369

Roswell P..-k Staff Semln.r
To be announced. ANan
Salmain, Ph.D., Cancer Cell

Center, Univ. of eaufomia at
~- Hilteboe Audttorium,
Elm and Urtton Sts. 12:30

p.m. Free. For more

tnfOf"fmtion, calf Charles
Wf:nner at S4S- 3261 .

Alumni lecture. Kenneth
Paigen, Ph.D., Director, jacluon
Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME.
Hilleboe Auditorium, Elm and
Car1ton Su.. 12:30 p.m . Free

\

Do We Need Truth Searers7
Prof. M ur Rojszcz.ak., P~and .
684 Ba)o/. &lt;t p.m. for morr

~~f~~2~.c:;~!1J'7 ~agnrr

Tblnllnt- Rim
fatt.ol: - -

~~=:.r

Clnem~~ . Screening Room,
Center for the Arts. 2 p.m.

~=~~=~~"

1/oJomen and Gender. For more
1nfonnation, call Penka
Skachkovo at 829-3-451.

~~Exhibit
'Nhat Is the Length of a
Potato7-An Introduction to
Geometric Measure. Prof
Strphen H. Schanuel, UB. 10 3
Oiefffldorf. &lt;4 p .m Free

Drinkthewat«. l.isso Isabel.
845, Center fcJr the Am. 6 p.m.
free. for"""" informatioo. call
M Dept. at 64&gt;6878, ext. 1 350.

UB groups
~ponson .

~

prtncl,-1

Urtlngs a.re due

no later than noon on
the Thursday prec:edlng
publk.t.MK\. Listings are

o nly a&lt;eepted through the
ele&lt;t ro n lc: submlnion fo rm

'•nun..

kappa Induction
Ceremony
Rosemarie C. Hogan, RN, MSN,
FAAN, Center for Tomorrow,
North Campus. p .m . Open
to members. Sponsored by
Gamma Kappa Chapter-STII
For more information, call Scott
Erdley at 829-3218

7

Concert
UB Ch o ir/ Harold Rosenbaum,
conductor. Dept of Music,
Slee. 8 p.m . S3. For more
1nf~atton, call 645-2921
Dance
Studloweri&lt;s. Dept ol Theatre
and Dance, Center for the Are. 8
p.m . All tickets are S3. For more
information, cai164S-ARTS

www.buH•Io .edu /
c alendar/ login&gt;. Bec::a u se
of

~pace

limita tions, not a ll

even h In the e lectronic:
calendar w ill be lnc:luded
In the

RepMf~-

Concert
Amherst Saxophone Quartet

m\~. ~~~~~,!~~tion.

Friday

4
SupplementAl Training
Announcement
An 0vetv1ew of Treat ment
Modalities and Concerns fCK
Cannabis,. Cocaine, Heroin

~~!:Taa~of
CASAC, Business and
Commerce Burkfing. Daemen
College. 8:45 o.m .--4:30 p .m
155 . (Lunch not included).
Sponsor&lt;d by Institute lor
Addictions Studtes and

="2;-~nr~~. call
64 5-6 140.

6
OIUKe

Studiowerl&lt;s. Dept ol Theatre
and Dance, Center for thr Arts. 2
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effort's effeCLiveness are not yet
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be paying off.

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bolstered its under·
graduate recruit ment efforts, the
university has turned its attention
to keeping those studenu it
worked so hard to enroU, this fall
initiating new strategies and ex·
panding existing ones designed to
increase retention of freshmen and
transfer students in particular.
The key to these new strategies
has been an emphasis on more
personal contact with students,
combined with new .. technolog1 ·
cal tools., that flag those who arc
in trouble academically or are at
risk of doing poorly, as well those
that ..empower" students to takt
cha rge of their academic career.
says Janina Kaars, director of aca
demic advisement.
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Citing anecdotal evidence, such
as co mmeniS from US 101 in ·
structors and the reactions of stu ·
dents who receive proa ctive telephone calls from advisors, Kaars
adds: .. I'm optimistic we will see
improvement (in retention ) with
the extra effons."
Among thost' ..extra efforts" re cently implemented by the Office
of t he Vice Provost for Under
graduate Education is the institu ·
tion of mid -semester progress re ports for all first -semester under
graduates.
Faculty members who teach
courses that include any first -se mester freshmen and transfer stu
dents were asked to report
whether the students were pe r
forming satisfactorily. Those who
were not were contacted-both by

lett er and personal telephone
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communication between students
and instructors, reducing the fail
ure ralt- and improving the stu
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faculty members complied with
the request to submit tht- progress
repons, the ones that did gener
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con und rums in its wake-how to
preserve historic records--turn s
out to be enormous and ironic.

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network of archivists when he says
that because of the explosion in m·
formation technologies. the latr 20th
century will be one of the worst
documented periods in history.
The problem, he says, is that the
preservation of information pro
duced and stored in digitaJ form ts
far more difficult, time-consuming
and expensive than it is to save
documents on paper and micro
fiche. Continuing improvements in

electronic media of all kinds have
provoked legal, organizational and
financiaJ nightmares for archivists,
librarians, museums and other in formation administrators.
"New technologies allow us to
produce, alter and dispose of
records and documents with un usual efficiency and facility ,"
Densmore acknowledges.
There is much expenst' and
many complications involved tn
their preservation. And , he and his
colleagu es have serious concerns
about the stability. longevity and
hiStoricaJ significance of computergenerated and electromcally filed
document!&gt;.
They warn that however Jacked In you are o r however many killer
software applications come down
the pike, if you want to insure that
your work product and pi"()C(:SS will

be available to future schola rs, it\
a good idea to save it m hard copy.
It 's impossible,of course. for pa per copies to capture the nature of
many co mplex, ephemeral, color ful, often ·animated and scored
electronic documents with theu
hypertext rcferenQS and links to a
daunting phalanx of Web si tes
around the world . Thts mdicates
the enormous difficulty of
archwing such records for histori cal, legal and other purposes.
Still, a prodigious effon has been
launched by archiv1sts to avoid fu .
ture problems.
ln defining the problem, expert~
say that as we increasingly digiuze
resorch, literature,journals, finan cial and tax records, legaJ docu ments, family photos and even
those email love letters, we should
be aware of two facts in particular.

"O ne," Densmore says. " 1s that
dtg1tal mformat10n IS extremeh
fragile. Little IS known about the
stabihry even of old t echnolog1e~
like magnetic tape , wtuch lasts onlv
about 10 years. Much less is known
about th e generations of disk ~
(floppy or hard ) and COs that have
evolved so far." It IS known, how
ever, that magnetiC 1mpuJses dett
norate and that va n ous coaungll
and physical materials used in lhest·
products degenerate at different
rates under different cond1tiom.
..Second," he adds. .. little ts known
about how to retncve mformatJon
from the hundreds of different lund.\
of obsolete hardw-dre and softwan·
that produced and n~· store mil
lions of significant documents. Th"
were no doubt stored thts way WJth
the assumption that thrv would be
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man rights and the politicaJ role of armed forces. An internationally recognized expert on military topics and terrorism, he has been a faculty member
at UB since 1964 .

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Terro rism is bot.h a tactic and a
strat£gy used by proponents of political chang~ . As a tactic, it means
the usc of violence by a small group
in order to gain attention and sympathy for their cause. As a strategy,
it based on (to me) the romantic
idea that widespread, popular sup-

pori and/or immediate, radical
change can be brought about by the

acts of a few. It is thus generally not
a coherent ideology of either right
or left, but a means of insurrection,
which persons of very different
political convictions can utilize.
Is terrorbm bec:ondng lncreas-.
lngly prevalent notlonolly ond
lntemotlonally7

It is being reported more widely;
in general, however, it is becommg less co mmon. Take some ob viow examples: the steps toward
peace in Northern Ireland have
• ~alated those who prefer bombs
to po litical bombast and negotia tiOn s; inter -ethnic killings and
government -direcred violence
have dropped considerably in
South Afri ca; even in the Middle
East. incidents flare up more in
accordance with the rhythm of
political negotiations. rather than
much of the time.
On the other hand , the Ameri can populace has become far more
aware of the possibilities of terroris m on our l10me soil. The bombings of the World Trade Cen ter
and of the federaJ office building
in Oklahoma City- two auac.ks
carried out for diametrically opposed political reaso ns-made
many Americans shudder with, to
me, unreasonable fear. There is
more danger to life from a drunk
driver, or even a wet shower-stall
noor, than from a terrorist here at
home. In 1972,4 2 Americans died
in terrori st attacks. II in 1984.

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First, and to me by far the most
imponant, government -sponsored
orgovernment-mcouraged terrorism against citizens has dropped
considerably. I mentioned South
Africa earlier; much of Central
America .is far less dangerous now.
Second, aircraft hijackings have
practically disappcaud, as security
arrangements have been significantly improved. Hostages con tinue to be taken, but the purpose
often is ransom rather than political impact. Yes, car bombs continue
to be used. ...

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car bombs are. fact of life In
cities ... . . - - ........
of
t.......tsm acalatesln the U.S. 7
...but not in the United States. Yes,
watch out in Tel Aviv or Karachi for
vehicles carrying bombs, but the
threat here comes far more from the
inebriate than from the terrorist. We
in the U.S. have the great advantoges
of a multi-level, reasonably responsive goV«nment and of an economy
that continues to create jobs (albeit
many of them at ridiculously low
wages). In this country, "terror" ~
more the result of random violence
eased by the availability of unregistered handguns and a drug culture
than by car bombers.
Are Amerkans naive about
the possibility of teiTO&lt;Ism In
our own country?

computer programs, electr icit y
supplies or public health. But are
terrorists more a tb.reat in the
United States than the Y2K issue?
Than a cascade of power failures
from an overloaded generating
plant? From a sudden genetic mutation creating a kiUer like the
post-World War I Ou (which killed
more than the ~war to end all
wars• did)? But we need to recall
that a strength of democracy for
citizens. namely its openness, is
also a factor aid.ing terrorists.
Democratic societies sddom take
effective preventive action against
potential threats; our pcnonalliberties are more impo~t.

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Is It
the U.S. to pollee . . . . - ...t__._..,7

No. The American role comes best
in using its immense technological
(a.k.a. spying or intelligence) resources in tracing wireless oommunications, bank transfcn and weapons shipments by would-be terrorist groups. We should not expect
U.S. strike forces to turn up in odd
parts of the globe because of terrorist threats to other governments,
unless they arc very closely tied to
our own. But we can sha.re infonnation, provide training and, in gen eral, seck to build international consensus against the use of terrorism.
Judging by Nonhem lrdand, South
Africa, C&lt;ntral America and, argu ably; the Middle East, the results
have been reasonably satisfactory.

Yes, we are. We do not like to ad -

How has the Internet ch.nged
the culture of terrorism 1

mit that other Amer-icans are capable of major terrorist violence.
Consider the early reports from
Oklahoma City, finge ring ..a person of Middle Eastern characteristics," and the local embarrassment when the perpetrator turned
out to be a decorated veteran.
Modern urban society is highly
susceptib le to terrorism targeting

Information can be disseminated
far more rapidly-for would ~be
terrorists, as well as for their opponents. Witness, for example,
how rapidJy news about the assassination of Dr. Barnett Slepian was
sp read, as well as the publicity
given to his home address on some
anti -abonion Web sites. lnstruc -

ti on on making even nuclear
weapons can be found on the
Internet. So, too, can cockeyed
theories of political changr that
could inspire some to terrorism .
What new twists on terror- l n g In
the nut century7

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More experimentation with
(but bopcfuUy not utilization
ofl) biological weapons by terrorists. Sabotoge of vital com munications centers might be
cxpccted, although the multiplication of means of wireless
communications has redu~d
the importance of ground centers somewhat.
Have you ever been • vic-

tim of tern&gt;tizatlon 7

No. but my eldest daught&lt;r, a 1985
graduate of UB. was hijack&lt;d on
a flight in Southeast Asia. It turns
out the "e:.plosive" tbe Bunncsc
students'"""' carrying was nothing rnoR: than plaster stotues with
attached wins!

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I wish you had ask&lt;d whytbe media arc: so fascinated by terrorism
I would have responded tha~ yes,
it ma1c.es for good copy or visuals,
but thce&gt;planatiomfO&lt; terrorism

nxxive tittle attention. Further, I
hoped for a question about government~oouragcd terrorism:
&amp;r, fAr more dtaths have resulb&gt;:l
in this century from deli&gt;er-ak adS
of ~~"""'ida! n:gimes than from all
terrorist actions from below. Fi-

nally, I would bavemjoycd a~
tionastowh&lt;lherlrmlrivn"pays"
in tmns of tongible nesults---&lt;lnd
I would haYe said, "'n moot cases,
no." Its effectiveness is drastically
~a lesson lcamed in
some cases only &lt;MT decades.

Honor volume's theme Is naturalness of nature

Festschrift pays tribute to UB philosophy professor

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How has terrorism changed In
the fNisl 10 , .... 7

By PATliiCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

AH Kyung Cho,SUNY
Distinguished Teaching
Professor in the De ·
partment of Philo so ph y, ha s been honored with a
fcstschrift on th e occas ion of the
16th ann iversary of the founding
of the Korean Society for Phcnom ·
enology.
Cho is an internationall y recog ·
nized au th or and expert in the
philosophical fields of pheno m
e n o logy. exi ste ntialism and
hermt"neuti cs. He has identified
himself with the eastern philoso phy of nat ure typified by Lao -tsu.
helping to mak(' possible a meet ing of East a nd West at a very deep
level. He also has immersed him self in half a century o f German
phenomeno logy. fo r which he has
become well -kn own amo ng Ge rman phil osophers.
Cho has been affiliated with U R

for 30 years, fi rst as a visiting
Fulbright Professor in 1967-68 ,
then as a member of the UB phi losophy faculty since 1970. He is
also as..~ociated with US's Korean
Studies Program.
lbe society publi shed
the
fest.schrift-a vol ume of writings by
different authors
presented as a tnbute to a scholarund e r the t iti C'
010
.. Phenomenology
of Nature." It indudesartidesbyfivtGerman phil osophers, four Ja panese scholars. three Americans and
one Austrian.
Fo ur of the Germa n scholarsO tt o POggele r, Ern st Wolfgang
l1 rth , Kla us Held a nd Bernard
Wald enfels-have served as president of the German Phenomenological SociC'ty, a position now held
b y the Au s trian con tributor,

Helmuth Vetter. Anot her of the
contributors, Seung-Chong Lee of
Seoul's Yonsei University, received
his doctorate in philosophy from
UB.
The unifying theme of the vol ume is the naturalness of nature ,
which is one of Cho~ lifelong research topics and one in which he
criticall y confronted Edmund
Husserl 's "constitu tive phenom enology," which tended to reduce
nature to a correlate of human
conscio usness. Although Ma rtin
Heidegger largely overcame this
methodologically constrained view
of Husser!, his mentor. Cho, dem onstrated that Heidegger, too, was
not entirely free from the anthropocentric vision of the universe.
A native of Korea . Cho is a
graduate of Seoul National Uni versity and received his doctorat('
from the University of Heidelberg.
He is the author of" Philosophy of
Existence" and co·author of"Ontol-

ogy," but is best known in German
scholarly circles for his book
"Bcwusstscin und Natunein,"which
has hem translated into Japanese and
Korean. He also bas edited.....-.! anthologies and has written more than
60 articles published in German ,
Japanese, Korean and English.
Cho serves on the editorial boards
of the international phenomeno logical journals Husscrl Srudies and

Phiinomenologie- Text f'
und
KoTJte:xte, and as general editor of
Orbis Plwerromenologit=, the prestigious international publicatio ns
series wrinen by the world's leading
phenomenological scholars.
He has been a visiting professo r
at Yale University; the Unjversity
of Texas at Austin; Ruhr University in Bochurn, Germany; Japan's
Osaka University, where he lec tured as a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
and at Soon Sit University in
Seoul.

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Holocaust (preventable; Wiesel says
Nobel Laureate appears in Distinguished Speaker Series
By EUlH GOUieAUM
News s..vices EditDf

HEapplausethatgreeted
Nobel Peace Priu Laureate FJie Wiesel when he
stepped up to the po·
dium in the Mainstage theater to
deliver the second lecture in this
year's Distinguished Speaker Series
on Nov. 10 lasted longer than usual.
More than the polite response
of an audience interested in a renowncd au thor and speaker, it felt
and soundec..llike an expression of
appreciation, a celebration even ,
of the simple fact of Wiesel's survivaJ of the Nazi death camps.
After living through the horrors
of the Holocaust, he has dedicated
hi s life to the relief of hu man suffering around the world .
The audience learned that WteSel
still has the oourage to believe in the
powet of good over evil. HOW&lt;V&lt;I', he
ispersonallytroubiedbythelegacythe
20th century will leave behind. "It is a
century that has gone from assassination to assassination:· he said, beginning with the murder of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hun gary that sparked the first world war,
which was followed by so many oth~. the Kennedys, Martin
ther King. Anwar Sada~ M&lt;nachim
and ltzhak Rabin, to name a few.
hey were, all of them, good

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people," Wiesel noted.
What do thest assassinations of
good people teach our children'
he asked. "' Hitler was not assassi nated~ Mussolini was not assass• nated," he added ... Does it mean
that evil has power? Are we con demned to lx victims of power?'"
Several times he referred to thr
Holocaust as"entirely preventable."
To make his point, he traced some
of the events that preceded it, beginning with Krist.allnacht in November 1938, ..the night of the braken glass" when 750 synagogues
and thousands of shops run by Jews
in Germany were destroyed.
" How come the doors didn 't
open then~ " he wondered. '" How
come people didn't say, 'You are
my neighbor, come in?' Where
were the 'good' people?"
Even more mystifying, he said,
was the response from the rest of the
world. "The story of Kristallnacht
was reported on the front page of
The New York Tim&lt;S , and probably
The Buffa}q News, too." he said.
But nothing was done.
Only rnooth&lt;; lar&lt;r. he oontinued, the
St. lruis.ashipwithrnoo:than !,(XX) Jewish men, """""' and childrm---wtne
visasb-Gbl"""'suddenlyann~

wastumedawayfrom the U5.andsent
bod&lt; to Germany. " How was this poosibleintheU5,inthisglt3leS!democ-

racy, a IDUlliJy that is t:a.&lt;d on the &lt;lea
tldai~I-talunescrnM.,.,..

he...t.rl"Wa&lt;thcn:ndxxlym the WlllU'
House who &lt;XJUid say; 'Oby, ""can af
bd 10 take these people m?"'
Wi~sel described the Mumch
agreement as one in wh1ch Bruam
and France essentially sacrificed
Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler.
With each step forward, he said.
Hitler was testi ng the world's reac tion, and when there was none. he
proceeded with the "Final Solution."
Wiesel cited other aamples of
human tragedies. such as those suffered in the former Soviet Union and
in South Africa under apartheid.
Ooser to home, he mentioned the
recent murder of Amherst doctor
Barnett Slepian, who had been targeted by anti-abortion activists, calling it an outrage and adding that the
community was to be praised for its
support for Slepian's family and its
peacdul response, such as the 24 hour prayer vigil held last week.
"Be wary of beginnin!;'-" he cau tioned. for that is wher-e evil starts. " If
)QU don't stop evil, evil grows and then
it is too lat&lt;." WICSd said he still agrees
with the French existentialist, Albert
Ounus. who said that ultimately there
is more in the human being to celebrate than there is to &lt;k'O)'.
" In spite of all that has happened. I
force myself to be hopeful:' he added.

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2000 problem?
l"he Y2K problem can affect both hard ware and soft ware of maul
frame and perso nal computers. as well as HVA(. svstem.s.. elevator ~.
VCR.o.-v1rtuaJiy any lund of equtpmt.·nt that usc!" embedded logu.
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ldboratory equtpment . Also. 1tcm.s. prepnnted wuh a 19 _ . ~uch a'
checks and busmcss form~ . nt'ed to be updated . Man y system s With
embe:dded chtps probahlv wont he.· a problem . hUI cnti Lal system '
need to be tested

What's going to happen- a-t L'R and beyond--on
fan. I, 2000'
It's h a rd to gtvc a pn:ust· dll~we- r 1t1 th1s qucstum becaU\C . ohv iOU!&gt;h .
we lack any pnor cxpcnenu: Mo.!&gt;t prohlems prohablv will not ht·
cn t1ul; for examp le, we most hkdy w11l havt' power, water and phont'
sen•1ce, although there '-Ould bl' local or reg10nal outage~ .
The centralJy supportt:d system~ at UR probahlv Will be oka\ There
arc more concerns wuh the d1 ~ tnhuted system~ h&lt;·cau~c wt' know
there will not be enough lim e or reMJUrLt.·~ to dlltiCJ]&gt;ate all th e:· Year
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mongage calc ula ll on and so fo rth-&lt;ou iJ y1eld mcorrelt result,
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reatment for ADHD discussed m
By LotS LUEit
News Services Edit01

HI LOREN with atten tiondcficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD} need
to receive behavior
rnodification therapy along with
medication if treatment for the disorder is to be long-lasting. Wtlliam
E. Pelham, Jr., told the National ln stilutesofHeaJth (NlH ) Consensus
IXvelopment Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD in a
prcsentationatNIHheadquancrsin
Bethesda, Md., on Monday.
Pelham helped t o plan th e
three-day conference and was one
ofJO researchers invited to present
theirlatest findings befqre a panel
of scientists and Jay people. Based
on information presented at the
conference, the panel will prepare
a draft consensus statement with
treatment reco mmendations fo r
physicia ns and consumers. The
draft wi ll be availab le on the Weh •
at &lt;http:/ / consen.sus.nlh.gov &gt;.
The purpose of the conference
was to review the current state of
knowledge on diagnosis and treat·
men! of ADHD and identify dirt'C liOns for future research. ADHD ~ ~
the most common mental · heahh
disorder of childhood , affecting 3
S percent o f the population.
A UB professo r of psychology,
Pelham is one of the leading Tt' sea rche rs in ADHD in the U.S. He
d1rects US's ADHD program and
conducts a highly successful he havlor· modification su mmer pro
gram at the university for chi ldren
with ADli_l). At the NIH confer
encc. he prov1ded an overvu~ w ol
current psychosocial ( non - dru~ )
mterventiom for the disorderapp roa ches that ha ve found a
place in ADHD treatment becau se

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medica tion hasn 't proven

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I he answer for aU children.

"Although it is very helpful for
many children, currcnl medi ca tion provides no long· terrn ben
efit,.. Pelham said ... lfyou stop tak ing it, you lose the benefi1:" He also
noted that o nly a small minoril y
of child ren who meel I he criteria
for ADHD actual ly receive medi
cation for it, and that a survey of
prescriptions in one New York
county revea led that the vast rna
jority o f ADHD children for
whom medication was presc ribed
rece ived o nly o ne to two months'
worth of presc riptions.
"The implica tion is that many
pare nts did nol like tht' effects of
the medication and did not have
the prescriptions refi ll ed," h e
added . "T h e~c data suggest that
despite evidence that medica tion
IS effect ive in the s ho rt term m
controlled studies, it is not being
used appropria tel )' in real life .
which limits its effectiveness Ill the
long term ."
Shortcomings such as these jwaify
examining the usefulness of psycho socialtrcatrnents.hcsaid,addingthat
he believes neither treatment alonr
IS the an swer. "A combmatum ul
tre-atments is best," he said
At the co nsen sus devclopml·nt
~..onfnence, Pelham presented a rc
v1ew of b() studies on psychosocial
Interventions. ffft"ctivenes~ of .t
treatmt:nt w.J !&gt; ml·asured usmg
various cnt ena. depending on the
study des ign , .tnd mclud ed 1m
provc ment in areas !&gt;U(h il!&gt; fa mil y
functioning. clas..'&gt;roo m heh ~tv 1or .
aca demic product I\ 1tv .111d
.~chievcment, scores on .. ogn!llw
tests and peer relation s hip ~ . I·v.tlu
.It Ions wen.• made by parents, 1..h 1l
d ren. teachers. peers and/or d1111

Clans, depending on th C" st ud y.
Pelham presented the following
observa tions:
• Behavioral inter ve nti on 1n
das.sroom se ttings is a well -estab lish ed trea tment, found to beef.
fective in 23 studies and is w1del y
used in schoo l senings.
• Training parent!. to do bchav
ioral interventiom wa~ found to
be equally cffC\:tive.
• Clinical behavior therdpy of the
type likely to be implemented by
th erap1 sts in ~.:om mun11 y mental
heahh , primary -care and private practice se ttmg~ res ult s 10 dmi
cally tmportant1mprove ments on
multiple measures 10 home dnd
school. although lmprovt:mcnts
art: not as la rgC" as thme llh tain ed
in medication studie!&gt;.

• Psychosociallnterventtorl!iare most
effective when they arc mtenstw,
htghl y stru..:tured, dosclv molll
torcd and mdudc mamtcn.uKe pro
grams once gain s hav~..· ht•t.•n
achteved. fh1 s rt.'qUiro nu,or ..:om
mitments of parents and teacher..
• Many psychosoct.tl trcatrn\·nt!'i
used 111 mental - health !'l'ttmg !&gt;,
such as tnd1vidual lherapy .tnd plav
therapy, h;w~..~ n ot been sho"'n to h~..·
dfc..:ttve with ADf II&gt; childrt'n
1-\-!ham adnowlcrlgt'&lt;i that t=llln!&lt;
wnh nlt.'lhcat10n IS b,., CXJ'll'Tl.'iM.:' than
mter\SI\'e" hchavk:lral mtcrvl,lllOib. but
that mmhuunf. the 1~ may be.~ nlOSZ
dfi."Ctive. Bchavloral nlt.__uficatxm can ht.·
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he said ''\\lc spc:.'f'Ki CllOOT'Kkl'&gt; .UT'K M.lnb
of mom·y on child mental h~..-alth

therapie&lt;that &lt;k&gt;n't """'-"headOO.l"Jt',
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It's a matter of a.Uocating rurrrnt n'
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and Applied Sc1ence~

39, 300

38,670

98 3

9,800

9,173

93.6
111 8

School of Health Related

Professions
School of lnlormat•on
and Library Stud1e~

1,800

2,013

uw

15,100

14,883

98.5

School of Management

24,700

29 ,509

119 4

82.2

School ol

School of Medidne

and Biomedical Sciences

139,900

115,074

Sc hool of Nursmg

7, 900

6, 285

79

School of Pharmacy

9,500

8,493

89.4

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OffiCe of the Pres1dent

6,500

6,536

100 5

School of Social Worl&lt;

4,500

6 , 35~

141.2

UB foundation

2,700

2.910

107 7

Student Affair1

30,600

33, 593

109. 7

Un1vers1ty

tl4 ,000

t40,055

104 5

Servtee ~

Emeritus Center
Vice Pres1dent lor

20,054
Re~ earch

3, 300

J,J50

tOt 5

Advancement and Oevelopmen,t 8,4100

11,753

139.9

24,207

11 4 1

Pubhc Service and Urban

Affa•r~

Student Organizatiom
Totel.s

wings.buffalo.edu / sefa

2 1,200

165

5658,915

100.8

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Art exhibition, roundtable discussion planned

BRIEFLY
Graduate assistant
wanted to write
for the Reporter
Appliations 1ft open for • 20hour-o pooitlon Wl1lng for
tho R&lt;poft6, boginrjng In JonuIIY· The pooitlon b open to
g&lt;oduote students only, and ol·
len • Wltlon 5Cholonhlp for tho

spring-·
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perionce is .,..r.m.d.
App4iconts .... U&lt;g&lt;d to send
~and
imfne.
diol&lt;ly to Christino llldll, ~
port..-Edito&lt;, at U8 News s.r.
vices, 136 Crotts Hoi; lklllolo,
N.Y. 14260.

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Women's Club to sell
holiday poinsettias
The ..,...... poinsdlio and
wouth '*olthoue-...n·s
Club b now In progross. The
salo proceeds bonefit the Groce
CopenAademiclwnldfund.
Plonls In r1!Q,- ond pink
... ..-lnpotslntheing sil!os: ~1/2 indles (J1.50), ...
1/2 indles (J 3.50), 6 indles
(J5.50), f&gt;-1/2 indles (l8.50~
Hanging-ft-ln
1().1nch sizle (JI.5) and 8 indles
with side holes (J 1~
The dub also sells lrosh bol-

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P. c.ln.frcmosslslonl
to the pteldonl for communlcalio&lt;)s ID doputy ID the pmldon~ Office o l t h e Oebonlh A. - . . . . . .. !rem
grant proposolwrtter, Office
ol a...lopment. ID senior
stall writer, Office ol the
Pmldent.
Constonce C. Holomon,
!rem assistant ID the pml-

dont foropentlon$, to.""'' to the pmident for unlll&lt;nity rolotlon$, Office ol the
Pmldent.
L Guy, 1rcm records
ond lnlormotion resource
manager, fo opentJons monoger, Office ol the Pmldent.
Thomas P. Rolobote, IWI&gt;,.n\prolossor ol donee, to dl·
rector ol the UB donee pro9"'"' and mistant choir for
donee, ~t ol Theatno ond oance.

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Events at UB to celebrate creation
of Nunavut, new Inuit territory
.,. MAJIA McG-S
N~ Services Editoriil Aslistant

TER inhabiting th e
lands of Ca nada 's
Northwest Territo·
ries for thousands
of years, the histori·
cally nomad ic Inuit people will
take charge of their own destiny
o n April I. 1999, when the
co untry 's map is officially re ·
drawn, granting them their own
place in the Canadian federation .
To celebrate this historically sig·
nificant event and explore its aten·
siV&lt; social, cultural and political im·
plications, UB is hosting a special
four-day exhibition of an by the
Inuit community, beginning tomor·
row and concluding on Monday
with a day-long series of roundtable
discussions on the Inuit's culture
and new Nunavut govemmenL

A

It is being organiz&lt;d by the Buffalo Council on World Affain, the
Canadian Consulate Gen&lt;ral and
the Canada-U.S. I.cgal Studies Ccn·
tre in the UB Law School Other
sponsors are First Air of Canada. the
Western New York International
Trade Council and the UB Cana·
dian-American Studies Committee.
The new territory has been rwned
"Nunavu~· which translates to "our
land" in Inulcitut, the language of tbe
Inuit people who will mal&lt;e up 85
perttnt of the population.
After more than 20 years of the
Inuits arguing for their own lands,
the Canadian Parliament enacted
the Nunavut Land Claims Agr«·
ment Act and the Nunavut Act in
)u~e 1993, which ratified the Inuit
land claim and authorized the creation of the new territory in the
eastern Arctic.

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HOW&lt;Yer, the creation ofNunavut
has not been an easy task. Division
has meant splitting up gavemmmt
bureaucracy, dividing assets and li·
abilities, tnining new civil woric=

prints from 40 different commu·
nities.
V'wton to the gallery also will
haV&lt; the opportunity to see Inuit
artist Alex Alikasbuak at work,
since he will be poaenting dem·
onstrations of his stone·carving
process as part of the exhibit.
Alikashuak's work is said tore·
fleet a vision in which simplified
s hape , abstracted form and
strong composition reveaJ
themes that are based on his cul·
tural heritage.
Originally a means of survival,
carving is an age-old tradition of
the Canadian Inuit. Their carvings
reflect the spirit of the physical life
and natural cnvironmint of their
northern ancestral land.

and the monumental achicYcnent
of devising new constitutions and
new forms govmunent.
According to Laura Mangan,
associate director of the Canada·
U.S. Legal Studies Centre, the
four· day event wiU explore the
overlapping politial and cultural
identities of the Inuit people.
"To the Inuit people, creation of
the territory is not simply a politi·
cal and territorial change. Inuit an
and Inuit politics are not completely separate. The logic of hav·
ing the an exhibit is that it also
affirms the integrity of Inuit cul·
ture and offers the opportunity to
reflect on howelemeotsofthecul·
ture may affect the new govern·
ment," explained Mangan.
She added that the Canada· U.S.
Legal Studies Centre is especially
interested in this issue, considering the extensive legal impliatioru
of creating a state within a state
and the impact it will have on re·
gional development.
The roundtable discussions will
cover, "'Art, Identity and Sover·
eignty" in relation to the Canadian
North aod"Nunavut Environmen·
tal Policy," followed by a keynote
address in which members of the
Nunavut Implementation Com·
mission will explore the opportunities and challeoges of "Creating
a New First Nations Polity~
The an exhibition and sale, " Vi sions of the North," will be held in
the UB Art Department Gallery
and will feature more than 75 Inuit
art works, including soapstone
carvings. deoorative wall hangings,
aboriginal clothing and stone-cut

"Wheo I pick up a stone and start
working it, I never know what it will
be." said Ali.kashuak. "As I can&gt;e, a
form takes shape. Each stone possesses certain unique characteristics and has a purpose. I am con·
tinuing a long tradition and com·
pl&lt;ting the cycle of nature."
Arnak Art , a Buffalo-based
gallery specializing in North
American Indian and Inuit art
located at 223 Great Arrow St.,
is coordinating the procurement
for "'Visions of the North .. and
will bave remaining artwork
from the exhibition available for
sale at the gallery through the end
of December.

problems or lack of social skills.
Kaars says the system is "'powerful
in beginning to open conversa·
tions" between students and advi sors.
• C reation of a campus-wide
advisement council in which ad visors from the individual depan ·
ments, the Student Services centers in each dean's office, the Un iversity Honors Program, athletics
and the Academic Advisi ng Cen
ter meet regularly to exchange in formation. uwe're now building a
real seamless web of advisement,"
she says.
• Major technologica1 advances,
such as BIRD, OARS and SOAR.
that enable students to access easily their transcripts and schedul es,
as well as universit y and major re -

quirements, financial · aid information and co urse registration.
Kaars notes that 9,000 different
student s used SOAR (S tudent
Online Access to Records ) on the
first day of clas.ses. When students
.. empower .. themselves to take
charge of their academic careers,
.. you see their comfort level grow·
1ng and that makes for a happier
student," one who wants to stay at
UB, sh• says.
Also on the technological front,
UB lnfoSource allows advisors to
query the UB mainframe for specific dala on students. For ex·
ample, using UB lnfoSource, staff
members from the Academic Ad·
vising Center can ask for th e
names of all undergraduates with
60 or more credits who have not

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ol the North" wil be rr.e and open
to the pOOle and wil be held In the
Center for the Ms on the North
Umpus.
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S-9 p.m. In the lJB Art~
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lortheMs. The-wilbeondisplay from 10 &amp;.m. . . 5 p.m. SIILidoy.
, _ , ID 4 p.m. Stnloy. ard 1-8:30
p.m. Mondlly.

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1·3 p.m. In the

M~GIIoly.
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discussions ...-be held In the Screening
Room on the flost lloor ol the Center for the Ms.

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wll clscuss the o.nique ~ d
art stytes and expressive media
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Amlgollik ond Merritt wl addross the many opport1Jnities and
challenges """ ie aheod In aelting
the,_ IUvvut lefritO&lt;y.
Robert Beogor; dre&lt;:IDrolthe lJB
L.awSdlool's~.S.L&lt;gooiSb.d­

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Oeportment Galle!y.

Retention efforts
Contlnuedfn&gt;m-1

rangement, based on the concept
of a .. learning community," stu·
dents enrolled in a particular sec·
tion of VB 101 also are registered
in three other common classes.
With students seeing each other in
class daily, the premise is that the
small group will bond; establish
study groups and exchange ideas.
Kaars says.
Among other initiatives high lighted by Kaars are:
• Implementation of the Noel ·
Levitz Retention Management
System. About 4,000 entering stu dents filled out a questionnaire
during o ri enta tion that helps
identify for students and their ad·
visors factors that might put them
at risk for academic difficulty, such
as poo r study habits, finan cial

dec.lared a major. Or they can
identify the students who have not
preregistered for the nat semes·
ter.
" It allows depanments to idenlify problems and flag siUdents
before the problems become too
enormous." Kaars says.
She points out that while staff
from Noei - Levitz- the enroll ·
ment · management consulting
firm UB has engaged to hdp with
recruitment efforts-say there are
no "silver bullets" to solve the retention problem. they also have
praised UB's dforts to address the
issue. In fact, staff from the Aca·
demic Advising Unter have been
asked to discuss UB's retention ini·
tiatives at a natio nal co nference,
she adds.

�NOYellbei 19.1!1Noi.JII. ~. 13

~

Preservation
c-.....
__ ,
· readily and permanently available
for use, which turns out not to bt
the ca.sc. It is safe to assume that
today's documents will be equally
difficult to retrieve using tomorrow's hardw.lfl' and software."
Citing a 1996 report on online
electronic documents and distrib-

uted databases produced by the
SUNY Office of Archives and
Records Management, Densmore
nQles that electronic information
systems are not inherently de signed to serve as record-keeping

systems in the archival

sen~

of

that term.

.. No one knows how stable electronic files are or how long they'll
last," he says. " Right now, the average book published on acid-free
paper by university presses and
stored in a library is expected to
remain useable for 500 years .
That's the archival standard for
paper documents, photographs
and microfilm. So material stored
today in those formats will be
available to our progeny in the

year 2498.
Disks' survival an unknown

.. Contrast this with the stuff of
floppies, which, with gnat care,
might last until 2028 ' d, without
care, only 10 years, r until 2008.
Optical disks migh survive in tad
until 2058," h~ sa ... No o ne really knows for sure.
As Jeff Rothenberg ted in Scientific American four ears ago.

today's COs may last fo 30 years
and tomorrow's DVDs l.the next
generation of COs) may last for 50.
Even if such materials are stable

for hundreds of years, however,
they won't be readable unless the
hardware and the operating system that produced them are available.
Given the variety of hardware
and software programs that have
been heralded and then discarded
ove r the years, Rothenberg is describing a colossal rdrieval head ache.
Densmore agrees.
"Already, information produced
by now-defunct software on re tired hardware can't be read by
today's computers," he says. "And
it is very difficult to find an old
computer that can read it for severa l reasons. Not o nly may th e
document be readable only by a
specific generation of old computer, but by vintage software that
may not be available any more.
"Of coU rse, today's computers
and programs will eventually be
defunct themselves soon enough,
ra ising questions about the Viabil ity of documents being produced
as I speak. On top of that, although
most disks have their interface system on the disk itself, computer
operating systems also degenerate,
so alt hough th ey may look like
they work, they may be useless."
Densmore acknowledges th a t
technologi cal changes in reco rds
production have been an iss ue
among archivists long before th e
dawn of th e new electronic media.
..Arch ivists like to have the au thenti c o riginal document in their
collection for evidentiary reasons,"
Densmo re po ints out.
.....
He explains that a fil e kept by a
particular office or official is the
"official file" and, archivally speaking. ideally contains the o riginal

documents produced by that of·
fice or individual. If you lose control of that original, official mate-

rial- if, because of copying, the
copy (not the original) is in the fil&lt;
or if copiei went to everyone. then

everybody's got the file or parts of
the file and no one may have the
original documents.

"Years ago, mimeographing and
photocopying, for instance, raised
problems because they produced
multiple copies of records, which
later were found in the hands of
many people. Now it 's possible
that all the copies are identical to
the original; Densmore says... It's
also the case that the original or

its 'copy' could be altered-perhaps officially-&lt;llld copied again,
making it very difficult to identify

advertising, I suppose, but historians trying to Uep a record need
to know how accurate these things
are."
Finally, in rev iewing the scope

of the changes that confront archi vists in this regard , he says that the
biggest problem may not be tech nology, planning or the availabil -

ity of trained personnd, but the
cost of these undertakings.
"' It is an expensive: and e no rmously complex task to maintain

old hardware and sofrware so library users in 2030 can read what
a professor typed into his Mac
Classic six years ago or into several incarnations of Dell PCs from
1994." he admits.

"It is also expensive to regularly
migrate vast bodies of software to

and authenticate the origi nal
document."

new generations of technology and
impossible to maintain the depth
of reference of hypertext original.

Which Is the original document?

"So we' ll have to carefully assess
these costs and compare them to
the costs of traditional method ·
ologies as we set about to digitize
the entire contents of a library, for
instance, or accept archival mate rials in digital form , which will
require expensive upkeep."

Today, he says, printers produce
virt ually identical copies, with
none of the degeneration manj -

fested by mimeos and Xerox copies. So it is also almost impossible
to identify the: original document
at all. They all have the same cha racteristics.
..Also, because docum ents arc
frequently mailed electronically,"
he said, .. the archivist may not
know who rec.C"ived copies and was
therefore: in on a decision. The
o rigina1 item also may have been
edi ted electronically, making it

very difficult to document the process by which the: decisions were
made to change a cu rriculum ,
build a science building, promote
a professor."
New issues that confront archi vists are perplexing and difficult
to resolve. One of them is the
question of whether libraries
should maintain a coUection of
equipment and operating systems
that can read old electronic mate·
rials. This would be a formidable

task.
Densmore cites another new
problem to be aware of as well. To-

day, photographs taken on digital
cameras are stored on zip drives
or some other media. They take up
a great deal of storage space and
so th ~ data often is discarded to
make room for storage of a new
digital photo, so the primary
document is gone even as it 's used.
He warns that published versions
of such photos are not as nearly as
reproducible as traditional nega tives and even if saved, the disks
may not be readable in the no t -so·
distant future.
Even more difficult to deaJ with
is the electronic manipulation of
photographs tha t are then used to
"document" an activity or person
in a more attractive fonn.
Changes result in inacruracy
.. The result may be more ap pealing visually," Densmore ad mits , "'b ut if you go a round
straightening or whitening teeth .
mov ing trees around , changing
hair color or adding characte rs to
a scenario, altering bodies to con form to current standards of al ·
tr ac tiveness, then you a rc n o
longer documenting fa ct, but producing an aesthetic. but inacc u
rate, document that may not re
nect realit y at all. That 's finl· for

A Laptop in
Every Open Port
· MWoglng ,......- with you
has never been easier! A joint vatture
b&lt;1ween the Univenity l.!braries and Computing and Information Technology (CIT) has resulted in OpenPort-&lt;iirect access to the Internet for
your portable computing devices. Dcstgned for the laptop user, OpenPort
is available to alliliated UB rommunity member&gt; with a UB IT name.
OpenPort connections have been installed in varied environ men u
in five different libraries on campus. Lockwood. Law, Science and
Engineering and Undergraduate libraries all have OpenPort jacks
in open areas. The Health Sciences, Law, and Science and Engin eer·
ing libraries have both individual and group rooms wired w11h
Ope:nPort connections . Visit the OpenPort Web si te &lt; http:/ I
wlng•.bufflllo.edu/computlng/openport/ &gt; or the individual h ·
braries for any restrictio ns or use policies.
The technology is not yer .. plug-n -play," so be sure to read .. Cam
pus Access"' documentation available in each of the above: men
tioned. ljbraries and outside 2 16 Co mput ing Ce nter before yo u use
o ne of the OpenPort areas. Support for O penPorl IS provtded by

CIT through the Help D&lt;sk at 645 -3542, and through

two

newsgroups, wnyab.openport.announce (moderated anno un ce
ment info from C IT ) and sunyab.openpurt.dbcuu ( publu.
newsgro up ). The FAQ also is ava ilable on the Ope n Po rt Web Slit' .
For assistance m using OpenPort connect ions, contacr the CrT Help
Oesk at 645 -3542.
-Sue Neumeister •nd Lort Wldzlnskl, Umventt y Ltbrafle'&gt;

Preserving electronic documents
If your records are in digital format, you need
to have the wherewithal to preserve and
maintain them. Solutions recommended by
a variety of state, federal and professionalassociation records-management administrators that can be applied to both institutional
and personal electronic documents include:

K_lt......._

• Files in a standard format are more likely
to be readable in the distant future. When
you store formatted word-processing files, accompany them with simple-text venions that
will better stand the test of time. Image files
stored as simple bitmaps without compression are much more likely to survive.
• Store data with the particular lll!fSion of the
software that created it.
• Keep two copies of digital data carefully in
two separate places. Fire, flood, mildew and
assorted insects can destroy digital materials, as well as paper.
• Keep saved software and hardware in a
cool, dry place.
·
• Use high-quality media. Avoid brands you
never heard of or that are particularly cheap.
• Inspect and refresh data even on optical
media {see data migration strategy, below)
• Develop an archival plan before you upgrade hardware or software. The latest version of either may not work well with the
material created in earlier versions.
• Keep your archives where you can get at
them, not in a place that may be hard to
remember and find years from now.
"--long.-gital_....,_
__

last.__

to-It--

• Paper storage is bulky, but advantageous in
that documents on paper can be read ·easily,
lasts a very long time and degrades gracefully.
Longevity is significantly increased if the paper is acid-free and stored carefully at lower
temperatures and humidities.
• The. life expectancy of data-storage media
depends on several factors: the quality with
which the media was manufactured, the number of times it's been used over its lifetime,
the care with which it is handled, storage temperature and humidity, the cleanliness of the
storage environment and the quality of the
recorder used to write the media.

• Tll!sting by lmation / 3M and Kodak, for instance, indicates that their CD-ROM m edia
will last intact for 100 years. Optical disk media can last for several decades. Magnetic
tape will last for about 1 0 years and digital
magnetic tape 30 years. If you want to be
certain yotir documents will be here 500 years
hence without concerns about hardware and
software, preserve them in both paper and
digital form .
• life expectancy is enhanced if media is
stored in a clean, dry storage case and not
left sitting around on desktops; not flexed or
twisted {diskettes). Do not touch the media
exposed in 5 1/4" diskette windows; do not
write on diskettes with a hard-tipped pen or
pend!; keep from exposure to magnetic fields
and, if the diskette is used frequently, it should
backed up with another copy in case the
original disk wears out.
Develop • mlgr•tlon str•tegy to move
- - • from one genet'lltlon of technology
to another

• Ensure the preservation of imaged records
on existing media by paying careful attention to environmental storage. You don't
want to migrate damaged records.
• Maintain the functionality of existing hard ware and software through upgrades of
equipment and source code.
• Make plans to migrate optical imaging systems, im,a ges, indexes, data files and related
information through successive generations
of technology. Remember that these will include hardware and programs not yet a
twinkle in the eye of the granddaughter of
tod&lt;ifs.corhputer-engineering student.
These suggestions were culled from
sources that include the National Technology Alliance Web site and "Guidelines for
Ensuring the Long-Term Accessibility and Usability of Records Stored as .Digital Images, •
which is publication No. 22 in the Government Records Technical Information Series.
To obtain copies of the publication, call the
Government Records Services office of the
State Archives and Records Administration
at 518-474-6926 and ask for publication No.

22.

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frame: comput.cn. that will bt no othft
savic.ca an.ilabk durins the curtailment ,
suchucomultins.computn repairot net ·
work~ices.

As was tht cue last year, tht Comput ·
mg Ctnter r«&lt;mmmdl that all critical
data files br bacbd up brforr powerin1
your computtr ~uipmcnt o n D«.
1998.
If then arr any 5p«ial concrms rdat ing to th~ rff«ts on computina during
curt.ailmmt, please conlaCt Hinricb Mar·
tens at MS-3S80 or Dmnis Hcnnanan at
64S...3S04 .

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Special Mote: Spo•i ored ProSpoiUO«d Pfo&amp;.ra.ml Adminlltration will
be doJ.td during tht: curtailmcnL Howrver, anyont needing auiJtana from a
manbc o( tht: Sponsored PfOI.I'ml Administntion staff to bandk urpt busi na.a ahoukt leave a teltpbone mt:SASt at
64S...2980 a .L 104. A rnt:mbcr of tht: staff
will rrtum thtc.aU and makt~u
to provick nt:aled assistance.

HUMAN aESOURCl SERVICES
(Has)

E•ploJe• Optlon1: Alternate

Stat&lt; poyd&gt;&lt;cb and du.a dcpooir
statcrnc:tta wiD be diltribu&amp;.ed on Dcc.
23. 1998. lf it is necaaty to withhokl
any IUIIt: t:m~'s Dec. 2J ~
uni'+'t'nity dt:partmcntJ mw:t notify
HRS-Stat&lt;Porn&gt;ll•64&gt;2600br'lbw&gt;d.y. Dec. 17, 1991. To acop a dirtct. dt-

pooit.plcu&lt;no&lt;ilyHRS-SUrcPayrollby
Thunday, o.c. 10. 1998.
1bt last state studcnt-auistant pay·

No-

day bt:fore curtailment it Thursday,

Doc. 17, 1998.
tribu~

..

dio-

will be

~Sit·

Mooll
Campus Mail Strvius Cmttr will bt
open cocb b&lt;Wnas day (O.C. 2&lt;-0.C. 31)
to son inc.om.ina federal mail. indudinglct·
"' mail. ~«Mili&lt;ddpriority mail

Employta who wU.h to work oo any or aU
of tht fivt. regular workdlys. but who au
not t:mplorai in areas that will be open u
a rauJt o( an armption. or who cannot
make altematt: llTI.Op:rnmU. wiD be
commodatcd It tht altcnu.tt: work
which is

ond po=l pooL The Campus Moil Scrnas
Cmttr will bt dosed on OK. 25 and Jan. I.

rtaloQRS.

• In tht rv..-n t t•f snowfall, only road
wa~ n~rd for tmtrgtncy acc..-.ss
•nd a few ~orlect..-d parlc.mg lots w11J
he plow..-d
• PuhlK ~fcty and Umvt"JSIIY 1-aciltuo
suff will pn.wldr nro::s&amp;.U"Y campus and
bu1khng Sil.fcty and sa:unty
• l lnltss an eumpt10n h;u been
~ram..-d . ;uun 10 dosed bu1ldmp
wdl bt u•vrrely reslriCied T hr
~HHlp~ re.sponsiblc- for ca
u.s ~ ­
' unty. JM"rsonal s.afety and urld mg
upcral10n nerd to know i umver
'*'¥ spacr u bemg u.sed Unan
liltuncrd U.)(" of spacr ern 'haz •rd to allmvolveJ ·

bemptions
In accordance w11h the lnterkSSIOJl
l .urta1hnen1 Pro5ram Pohcy and EJ.
c-mp11011 Pmccduro.. tht followmg um
vrrstt y facih lles/acuvltlt"S have been
gra mt"d automauc eurnptioru during
1h1s year '' lnterSI."SSIOn Cu rt.ailmenl .

Campus Child Care
Both tht North and South Campus locauoru.
will be doKd duri"£ tht curtailment.

a.nldng MM:hlna
AIII.Nnk.mg machine!lm campw buildings
w1ll br turned off. All funds stored in tht
machinn will be: rrmo~ brfort tht cur ·
lailmc:nt.

Libraries
lllr Health Sc1cncn Library (HSl), the
Undcrgradu.ate Library (UGL) and tht SCI ·
cnce and Engineering Ubrary (SEL) will be
open during part of lhc curuilmtTIL HSL
will lx: opm from 8 Lm. until 6 p.m. on
,D«..24;from

1'1 f~Sf

Non.

lkf/unU

for a b111/dmg

a:nnpuon bryond t~f' prograrmlfarilrl~n
luted abm'l' mlUI M rturwd by Nov JO,
/99S, m a proctclurt' prrvJowly outlmrd

Residence Halls
J"hr followm~ rn1den..:e halh wall be
open 10 mtcrn alaonal studrnts dunn~
I he ( Urtaihncnl
• RtchmonJ

• chntun

• c lrmtnt
• Macdonald

Public Safe t y
l'ubhc ~afc-ly will oprralr full sh 1fu
1hruughout lht' cu rtai lmrnl p&lt;:riod
:0. 1..-p~ w1ll br lalc.tn to guard agam.st
theft and prov1dc JK'rsGnal protection
1m thr hnuttd numbtr of ..-mploy«:s
•nd s1 uden1son campus. Caf164S · 2222
tu rc:J&gt;Orl a ny suspicious activity

Telephona

bution of mail to individuals (i.~. mail can
be pkkrd up for ~ts only).
Houn of opc-atioo will bt 8 a.m. U) 4 p.m.

A&lt;COWitlng -

..

n.. ('.ollqc Work Study (CWS) payroll p&lt;·
riod, Ore. 10, 1998-0ec. 23, 1998 has bttn
divided inro rwo Wftldy poy p&lt;riods (Doc.
I~Dcc. 16 and Dec. 17·0cc. 23) to cnsurt
timely chtd: discribution to CWS Jtudmu
d uringcurtailmenL For tbeprriod Dcc. I~

Payd&gt;&lt;d&lt;o ro. .... will
OK. 23. For thr pertod
new appointmmt forms
10 be...,...... by""'
_....,, S..Mc... bv o.c. 18 and o.c. 23.

Pl.anninA,
and Mwic) an

a.m. and 4 p.m.
articles will be
pick- up al
Lockwood Library or futd at no chargr.
Books will be charged for pick -up a1
Lockwood bct'tltttf18 a.m. and 4 p.m. Two·
hour,lill mt-day rrspon.sc will be provided
for calls madC' btfort' 2 p.m .

Computing
Thr Computing Unt~r will dose iu un "tral facilitie!l and all puhhc si te!! during th~
curtailmtnt. During thi~ ~riod, on~ opt rator will ~ on duty at the Computing
C:tn trr ~twttn 8:30 a.m. and •:30 p.m.
Wttkdly5, rxctpt Christmas Day (Ott. 2S),
Ike. 26, D«.. 27 and NtwYear's Day {Jan.
I ). Jan. 2 and Jan. ), to monitor the com puters and networks, do backups and
handle a limited numOO o f requ~ for
tape mounts. No output will ~ printcd, •
distributed or dc:IMK'd from th~ Comput mg Ctntn, dr any of iu rcmot~ faciliti~.
From 4:.30 p.m. to 8:30a.m. Wttltdays.
and all day on Wttkrn&lt;h. the systems will
bc lcft in opcrator-unattcnded modc ,
mnning that no tapc mount requests will

~ possible. Also. during unatttntkd tiJM.
A rt"duccd schcdulr of tdrphone op«ator SotJVICC:S will tx- provic:kd. Opna should Other the systems or lldWOrb lx:wrs will be on duty I)«. 23, 24, 28, 29, ...,_rome inopcratift for some reason, restora·
\0, Jl and Jan. 4, from 8 a.m. to 4:30
tion will notocruruntil thenew:tschedukd
Jl.m . At all other t1m~s. calls to the
opcntor-attcnded shift. (Pieut Itt comun•verslty's main numbcr will be
plctrComputingCc:nttt lnterxssion Curhandled by the telephone amwering
tailmmt schedule. )
5CI"Yicr.
Ouuidt of providing accns to main -

foranadpay, and~

at an aJtcmaDr: 'W'Odr: silt'
sent to Sandi Thuntoo. Tun~
Altcndana: Coordinator, HRS-RF
P&lt;nonnd,416Qofu Hall, Nonh Campus.inwritinJby Dec. 1. 1998 (ter Em·
pi&lt;&gt;Jft OptioN).

FINAHCIAl. SUVICU

Ore. 16, new appointment forms and
timtsh«ts ~to be m:zM:d by Acmunting
Hall, by Doc. II and O.C.

• Alllahor.uory ammal facilitio
• The r&gt;ors.htimer G rttnhoust
• AJlrmtrgency ch m cal!trcatmrnt fa

!'he follo wmg buildmgs will rtnlain
av;ul3blt' during tht' curt;ulmenl
• Bonner Hall
• C.amJ)US Matl C.tnler
• Cary/ hrbcr /Sh..-rm an h.alb
• Cookc:/1-icKhstetter halls
• Foster I taU
• Fronczak Hall
• furnas Hall
• larvas Hall
• Ketter Hall
• Natural Soc-nco and Mad\01\aUa I
• Bimnt'd1cal Research Buildmg
• Squlft' II all

Althoush ....... will ""' be any mail d&lt;l;...;..duringth&lt;cunailmcn,CampuoMan
Scrnaswilllooditocleli'"')'INCbforfus1.
day-bock cleli'"')' of all ocxumulaled mail.
Expect Monday, Jan. 4, 1999, to be a benier
rhan ...W day. AU =ulared pua~.­
willlx: &lt;lc&amp;m'ed on Jan. 4, 1999.
[)q&gt;artmcnu: lhat wish to rtetiYe thdr
mail durin&amp;~ cu.rtailmmt Jboukl cootact
tht Campu~ Mail Snvica Ccnttr no later
than D«. 18 at 645-274) to make the necessary arnngmt~u to pick up thrir rm.il
al the Mail Center. There will be no distri·

Ruewdl Foundation Grants and

The followlsog ..,. dotes fw

...-..&amp;o. of . _ . . , . . op..---~r-:
off durin&amp;

can utiltu accumulated nation, pttiODAl or compensatory 1t:avt: accruals. or can cboost to takt:
tht days off without pay. Employees who
plan to make use of the latter option
should write a letter to tht:ir aupcrvisor,
who will prcpart: a lost timt ldtt:r and forward it to flizabclh Dundon, HR.S-Sutt:
Penonnd. I04 Crofts Hall, North Campw..
by Dtc. 14, 1998, indicating lht sp«ific
dates they wish to take without pay. Sid:
leave accrual&amp; may not be ~ For tholt: tmpiO)ft:S who do not ba~
fift days of vacation and/or compensatory
accrua4. but wbo wish to bt off whh ~)'
during this pniod, the un.ivcnity willadvanct up to frve days of vacation accruals.
Smte rmploytts who c.hoost: to work on
a ny or all of the fi~ workda)'l that bll
within the curtailmtnt, and who are not
cmplo)'t'tS of a dtpart~nt that has been
granted an nrmption, or who aR unablt'
to maU altematto arrangr:menu, must sub·
mit a " 1998- 1999lntc:nession Curtailment
~uest to Work at Ah.t:matt Work Site"
form no later than Ore . 7, 1998, to
Adrienne Collier, Emplo)ft Rd.ations ~ ­
sociatc, HR.S-Statt: Pusonnt:l, lOot Crofts
Hall, North Campus. This form requira
tht signaturdapproval of the emp~'s
supnvisor. 'Thtse fomu art located on the
Human Resou rct Services' Wrb site

&lt;http://www.-. _,olo,edu/
hn/er&gt; undtr"Fornu.."oryou may contact Ms. Collier at 645-2646, at. 11 7,
tmail: a.collicr@ avpt.buf&amp;lo.ed.u. tO obtain a form.

~
12J05198..1:V11191

I!ol&lt;..lall: flll2ilt
121001511
12/0W98

f-... .,.

12/ I ~IJOI/99

lV1111911
OIJ0lJ99

The
dotes fw
IUbMIIIIon of ho•rfy tiMe

.--.r.wthe._...
poyroll:
~ llill2ll&lt; flll2ilt
12/05191-12/ 18198 12121/98 IVll/98
IV I9198-0 ifOJ/99 01106199 01 / IS/99

PayroU checks nonnaiJy distributed on
Jan. 1, 1999, will bt: mailed to the
tmpioytt's mailin&amp; addrt:SS cu.rrmtJy
on fik. A ~yroU inJt:rt on this subjt:d..
will be distributed on Nov. 20,1998.
Special Note: UIIF PoydMdu
UBF payc hecks and direcl -deposit
mtemmts will br d istributed on Dt:c..
23, 1998. Ouringcuruilrnt:nt, UBFwill
ha~ staff availabit each working day
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Plca.st call
Josephine Zmoskyat 645·.3011, if you
have any qutttions regarding UBF pay·
roll issues.

PIIOCUUMEHT SIEJIYICU
·
FowMiotlonl"rocurementSerricu
~i.sit ions for mattriab and supplits
needed during tht curtail.mt:nt must
bt rtct:ivcd by 0«. II, 1998. Vendors
with pmding orders will bt contacted
to requrst ddivny Prior to 0«.. 18.
1993, or after Jan. 4, 1999.

�IDYelllberlUI/Yol.ll.tl.lJ Reparies

17

Obituaries
Walter MacNeil Macintyre, 67, computing center director
Funenl......kes were held Now. S in Boulder, Colo.,
for Walter MacNeil Macintyre, 67, who had served
as diredor of computing services at UB. Macintyre
died Nov. 2 in Boulder Community Hospital.
Macintyre received his bachelor's degree and his
doctorate in che mistry from the University of
Giasgow i"'Sco~and, then ~n h is career as a fac-

computer instruction in Buffalo public schools.
He returned to Boulder in 1980 to direct the National
Ccnttr for Atmospheric Rtsearch (NCAR) Scientific
Computing Division. While there. he took a leave of absence to atu:nd the New College Theological Seminary
inF.dinburgh,Scotland,completingrequirementstoenl&lt;r the ministry of the Presbyterian Olurch of Scotland.

ulty member at Brown University and the University
ofColorado,wherehesp«ializ.ed in crystallography.
Before coming to UB, be developed the computing center at the University of Colorado in BouJder
and became chairman of the cen ter. He also directed

He returned to work at NCAR until 1987. when
he began serving as a minister on th e 1slands of
Sanday and North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands

the computing cent.er at the National Institute of
Medical Research in London, England. In 1976, he
became director of UB computing services. While at
UB, he also p~rticipated in a committee that began
the campus network and was involved in setting up

pastor of churches in Holyoke. Mass./and Wood
River, Neb. He retired iq 1995.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth , a physic1an
who had served as a clinical facult y member m the
US medical school.

off the northern tip of Scotland . Macint yre also
served as a minister in Northern Colorado and was

MatthewGrnppone,_30, installation services manager for CIT
A memorial service was held yesterday in the
Newman Center Chapel, 490 Frontier Road , for Mal
thew R. Grappone, 30, manager of installation services for communicatio ns systems engineering in th e
Department o f Computin g and lnformationTechnology (CIT ). Grappone died Nov. 15.
A 199~ graduate of the School of l:.ngmcermg and
Appli ed Sciences,G rappone went to work. for CIT that
sa me yea r. He handled numerous projects providing
commu nications se rvices to the univers ity. He was a
member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.
~urv1vors include his mother and stepfather, Frances

Events Calendar
Contlnuod
Philosophyfrom_.,
Colloquiuma
Do We Need Tnrth Bearers? Prol A.rtur
Roiilcnk. Po'and. S.ldy 684. -4 P-"! For
rrtOf'e infOfTNtion, all

ludy wagner a1

~a~Ket~all

sisters: Kim, Pam and Wendy Carter, and an aunt,
Mana Zabk.o.
FuneraJ serv ices will be held at 8:30a.m. tomor row 111 the Goddard -Crandaii -S hepardson Funeral
Hom e, 3111 fames St., Syra cuse, and at 9 a.m '"
Transfiguration Church, 740 Teall Ave ., Syracuse.
Burial will be 111 Assumpt1on Ceme tery.
MemoriaJ contributions may be made to Transfigu
rat ion Ch urch, 740 Teall Ave .. Syracuse, NY 13206.

IJersion Oty, a CD.YII Sl..lro'e)' cJ Toronto an.
gu5-o.nted by )oM Ma:ue', 6 on dGplay
lhe UB Art~ Fnt and Second

Galeries. CF.\ through Dec.. 20

F

. •
Eric.~ Greg Htffon:1. kMen
Hend!non. Nestor Kruger, lJJis ~.

=~~-

~-~~~:!t~~~ ~~~~~ef.

co- "-PPalnductlon
c_,

Center for Tomorrow, North Cafl'IPO'o. 7
p.m. Open to Metnben. Sporuon!d by
Gamm1 Kappa ChapteJ-STil. For I'1"IOil'
infonNtion, call Scott Erdley at 8291218.

D....:o
Studiowertu. ~ - of l'llut.re and
Dance, Ctnttr for the Arts. 8 p .m . All
tickets are· n . For more information, call
6-IS-Aim.

of--

Exhibits
The c;.rdeu
-er.,ctlff

Max Sttec:her, Rocco Tunno

Houn for the UB Art Gallery and the

Lightwell Gallery are 10:30 a.m.-8 p .m ..
through Saturdays, Noon- S
p.m ., Sundays.

Wed~

""""""""C. Hogan. AN. MSN. FMN.

Jobs

N"""

WDM£H "S

~
Version City

McMaclr.oo.

\llliQI bod1 pna ~ the
Wrliam Morpn Cbsslc on New. I I iit
t..odq&gt;on. HiJV1 Schoolapnst
( 16-IS. 1~. IS--4) andCanUM (17- 15.
I S-9. 17-1 S).and then dropped bod&gt; MKIAmerican Conference matches d\1$
-...tlosincn0hlo(4-IS. Il- 15. 1517)andatl'lanhai(S-15. ll-15.15-17).
Serior ouaide ,.,.,.. a~&gt;u&gt;.. s.:u~&gt;~o.- 1
led Butblo ap;nst NQp;o wid&gt; I lcllls
and 10 dies and agUm c.n;.., 18
lcills and D dizs.Aj&gt;rille s-ti-1&amp; added
six RtVice aces apinst NQ,pn M\d 12
kills and 14 digs "'""' Conisius.
Freshman ooWde hta:.er- Ken Sh~i
had 13 kins and I0 digs a.galnn Mii~lt Vld four kills and nrne
Stubler had six kills and eight digs in the mat.e.h

The U8 Buls

1am Grappone: a specia l friend, Anna Stave of

Cecere and Roy Carter of Syracuse; his father, Will

Mmlftar

Group at UB. For more information, call
Dr. Bruce Nic.holson, host. at 645-3323

UBJ,NiapnO
UB J, Canisius 0
Ohlol, UBO
Mon/WI J, UB 0

Ont.-onta: a SISter, Rachele Jawan ofVi rginia; thn.-c Mcp-

6&lt;45-24«, ext. 707.

New Functions for G.p )unctioni Dr
Dlvkt Paut, HaMIIrd Medical School;

Volle~~all

dtgl

iiprnst Oh•o

UB 86, Canlslus 75
UB Head Coach Cheryl OoZJer s:a.n.ed her Buns· coachrn' car-Mr wnh

.~~n

mpressiw: 86-75 victory over the Untsius Gokien Griffins in AJumru Aretu
The BuHs showed some ~-opentng jrnen.. shooting just .296 (8-of·27)
from the field in the fim tWf. indudinz JUst I -of-8 from three-potnt range F~
throw shooting kept UB.,.. the pme dunng that fim haH. hiwng on I 5-of- 19
(.78'1) from the charity nnpe.
The Buls used a 12-1 roo to pul out to a 19i)Ciint lead. -46-27. fi'Y'e f1"'lnUteS IOto
the second ~. The team's brgest lead c:arne at the II :+4 mark. wt.en r-"bn McClure
hit a ~to put LIB ahead 56-.3S. Canasaus coJd get no doser d'QI'I
firut I I
point: fTWiin
rat d dle pme as the Buls ..on their season opener; 86-75
There were a total of 63 fouts. ll a.pinu UB and 3 I apinn Canislus The
Bulls toOk advanta.ge. hitting '29-of....o4/ (.707) from the t.ne as a team. The Bulls
shot much benet- a.s a team In the s:econd half. hrttmg .528 from the field md
finW&gt;ing wid&gt; a .429 (27-of-Ol) to.- the game
McOure led UB with '21 poina.enduding 11-of-t 3 shooting from the ff"'!f! ·
thi"''\\III' line. Three other Bulk hit doutHe figures in s:c.orinz. K.lm Coon added 17
potnu. Utherine jacob SCOf'ed I 5 and Wn Cerny added I I potnts otf the bench
The Butts conr.roled the glass as well. OUt -~ CaniSIUS -45-31
Courtney joseph led the wq with a P"*' and canee.--hlgh I -4 rebounds.
induding seven on the offensrve end.

me

me

MEN' '
N lapn 85, UB 63

The UB I'TM!n's ~I r.ewn ~t hard and nayed even wnh the Purple Eap:s
first half. but fetl behind early rn the second co'lose its season opener. 85-6J
The SuUs never uai~ N~ Unrvenrty by ~ tNn five poina rn d'le
fim half. which saw five lead changes and four ties before the twO teMru went
into the locker room. tied 3-4-M. at halftime .
In the second hatf. Ntapra came out strong. using a 2J. 2 run to open the
luff to cake a 21 -point ~ S7-36. and a.ke control of the game. The Purple
Eagles ~ by as many a.s 2S poina. 7 I --46, With sill minutes ~irung en route to
the 85-63 win owr the Bulls..
UB wu led by freshman Bogdan turebtn. who dupped rn 1'2 pomu off the
bench. d\e onty double--figure scorw for the SuUs. Sophomore Will Campbell ted
the team on me boanH with seYen rebounds and a.dded eight poinu.
Sophomore Ma.liso Ubomi also ma.tched hts career high with eizht po~nu
in the

~wimmin~
WDM£H' S

East.em MichigB\ 176, UB Ill
House

BaH State 186, UB 114

The U8 ...,..,; .............. ,_, ..., ecpj &lt;&gt;--&lt; b; MAC opponona East.rn Mod-og&gt;n
(1 76.121) and Bal Satr (186-tt-4) rna do..tlle-dlAI meet rnYpsbno..l""'kh.on SmJrd:ry
The BuUs' lone fint -place finrsh ca..me from tunior- Ktm Theeqe. who finrshed
the I00-meter brea.satrokc in I :08.08

Five players earn academic honors

D1strict Six, in Cape Town, South Alnca.
was declared a White area in 1966 and
the g&lt;wemment spent mfltions to
rekxate 55,000 Africans and Indians to
remote areas of the City, making the
d1stnct a famous example of the
19nor.1nce of apartheid. The Vthibit
1nc~ copies of original drawingi
Gallery houn art 9 a.m . to 5 p.m ..
Monday through Frtday. For tnOf'e
rnformallOfl. call 829-MBS, ext. 120

The UB footNII te•m domln•ted th e (~TE./CoSIDA Acadetnh_ All
District I Football team wi th five ofthr 20 spots o n tht· tcJm Thr squ .1d
was selected by Distnct I memhers of tlw Co llt•gt' ~ port~ lnl orm.llu\11
Directo rs of Amenca (CoS IDA L
Senior defensive end Oan Poulse-n madt·lht· l h!'.t nt111t.''J.Ill tm tht· "-"tond
straigh t season. Other UB pla)'l'TS honon-d mdudr IUillor ofTens1vt· ta(kk
Mike Garofalo. JUJllor offenstvr guard I lav1d l~ cc . ..ophomon.· lmcbadcr
Brandon Nishnick and red.shu1 freshman nmnmg b..1d.. I)avid SchmiJh.
Poulsen, a physKal therapy m aJor. h&lt;b J J .84 gradt.' p(lmt Jvcrage, tht·
h1gh cst of any LIB malt.' athlrte . He lead ~ th(· Bull~ Ill ,.~\.k' lnr tht• ~t'~
o nd st raight sea.!&gt;nll and has 44 tat:k.Je!l and a tr:am -lugh 12 ~tnp" 1111
lo~!&gt;C:l't on the sca ~on . I h- rank.!&gt; ~t·ve nth all -t1mc 111 \. arcr:r !'&gt;.K l.. ~
L;.trofalo and Prlil (' :1 rc part of an offens1vc Ime that h,1., .. et nt·w ,t. h1111l
n.'lord!i tor rushing v.m.h 12.2SS) and fir st down~ lw ru ... hmg ( I ~0 I th1 '
season . (~arofal o. J management rna,or. ".t th n•t' - \'t~,n .. t.trter w1th .1
.'. 41 &lt;.;PA . Pru cc . .t pohtKdl sucm.t• matur . h.b a \NO l ,P:\
~..: hm1dh ha~ hl't'n .J 111.110r umtnbutm to tht· uftcn"'' ,,, .1 rt·J,hlf r
lrL·shman . ~chm1Jh . &lt;1 phy sl..:al -thc:.'r.tpY lllJior \Y'IIh .1 i54 t ,1'1\. , h.t, ~ ~ ­
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�I The

Best and Worst of Tim.es: I
Affirmative Responses to the
Age of Diminished Expectations
BY KERRY S. GRANT

DEAN,
CoLLEGE OF ARTS AND SciENCEs

Address given at the Fourth Annual
University at Buffalo Convocation
October 1, 1998
T is the series of dramatic changes in higher education in the last dozen or so years that
I refer to in the first phrase of my title. It is derived from the famous opening of"A Tale
of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, whose other work on my theme, "Great Expectations;' is not as cheery as its title might
suggest. Prospects are not always what they
seem. This has certainly been the case for
educators of my generation who now work in
a social and political context entirely different
than that we ~ntered at the outset of our careers, as I will outline in a moment.

I

The allusioq in the second part of my
title, the ''Age of Diminished Expectations;'
is drawn from a popular book about American economics written by Paul Krugman in
1990. He coined the phrase to summarize
his key message that "Many Americans feel
that they live worse than their parents; even
more fear that their children will be worse
off than themselves." The age of diminished
expectations has presented its challenges to
higher education in multifarious ways.

Kerry s . Grant

�In the years between roughly the end of World War
II and into the 1980s, higher education was one of the
privileged sectors of funding at most levels of government.
Good public policy for education was universally understoo d to be ample funding (commensurate with the
economy of the moment) with nearly complete autonomy
and little regard to accountability. Accountability was unnecessary. You could easily judge the benefits of education
in the lives of young people as they marched, even raced,
past the social and economic status of their parents. Education transformed the lives of the privileged who had access to it. Its efficacy was unquestionable, its expense
tho roughly justifiable and more than amply recaptured
with impressive dividends in the lifetime of the student.
A college education today is no longer the magic
lantern reliably granting the wish for an enchanted life. It
has lost its cache as a guarantee of a good job, sometimes,
any job. With this loss has come the loss of our spell over
the public. Once the public's vision cleared and they examined higher education more closely, they did not always
like what they saw. They grew critical, even captio~:~s.
Even the elite schools were not spared the indignant
demands that they account for costs and, particularly, escalation in costs. Since government subsidies underwrite
a large portion of education, public and private, through
student aid, research support and myriad other ways, the
public and private institutions shared vulnerability to
critical inquiry. In relatively short order, what began as a
reasonable call for accountability in education became
transformed in the bureaucracy into expectations and
models of assessment predicated on the definition of productivity familiar to economists: the rate of output per
unit of input, used especially in assessing the effective use
of labor, materials and so forth . Seemingly overnight, val ues and practices with origins in the very founding of the
university fell by the wayside, replaced at a still-escalating
rate by models of management and assessment drawn
from the manufacturing and service industries.
We have been and remain in a period of severe stress
that is calculated to move us away from habits that even we
must admit are not good for us. We need to control the
cost of higher education, we need to manage our personnel
and facilities better, we need to consider the relationship of
the activities of the individual to the purpose and mission
of the institution and we need to consider many other aspects of our values and practices. But the demand for reasonable change does not require that we abandon essential
values and we should remain true to them.
NKNOWING and unaware, outside
forces would have the academy become an industry, and student
throughput, not learning. become
our most important product. The
trend exacerbates an already pronounced American proclivity to be
concerned with credentials rather than education. There is
no hyperbole an'tl no uncertainty in my declaring that a
larger segment of the American public and the national leadership than ever before is content to view the student mind
merely as a vessel to be filled, whereas educators are driven to
light the fire of individual intellect and imagination.
The research university, arguably the highest and
the most expensive form of education in the world, has as
its unique justification ~e mission of providing graduates
who possess knowledge as a foundation, but who manifest
imagination, creativity and prescience in their chosen ca reers. It does not matter whether we are considering stu dents of the arts and sciences, or the professions, undergraduates or graduates.
Teaching facts and skills to those who are fully capable oflearning them on their own offers little gratifica tion. The acquisition of these should be merely a prelude or an accompaniment to an education that has the
capacity to transform the student from intellectual
bondservant to intellectual freeman.

Skeptics fall silent. I do not claim that we succeed in
transforming every student or even most But, we must
never lose sight of our responsibility to provide opportunity
for every student to discover in themselves the uniqueness of
mind, the intellectual passion and the personal vision that is
the true, time-honored, exalted purpose of the research university. Education with those who are themselves on a continuous voyage of discovery on the faculty of the research
university allows our students the opportunity to questio n
their own capacity to innovate, interpret and create.
We need credentialled individuals. But credential
development, per se, does not require the elaborate in.frastructure and the high cost of the research university. Our
purpose is distinct, our outcomes predictable only in that
our history and personal experience assures us of the possibility of transformative education .
It is perpetuating this possibility of transformatio n
for all worthy students that is the special mission of the
public research university. We have Peter de Vries to credit
for putting the matter succinctly. He writes:

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of
course they grruluate the best-it's all they'll take, leaving to
others the problem of educating the country. They will give you
an education the way the banks will give you money-provided
you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need ir.
The disaffection with higher education over the past
decade included dimensions other than productivity. Once
the social contract that had spared higher education weakened, critics seemed to surface in every conceivable corner
of the country. A flurry of publications simultaneously reported and escalated the public's dissatisfaction. Withering
attacks were made op the curriculum, on the alleged indulgences of the working conditions of faculty, on the spirit
and practice of political correctness, on political liberalism
and advocacy in instruction among other complaints. Faculty were first incredulous and then dismissive of these crit ics, but the criticism took hold in the popular press and
among politicians, governing boards and the public.
One of the central skirmishes in the conflict was
over the very heart of the curriculum. Long sacred subjects such as American History and Western Civilization as
traditionally taught were declared by academics to be lim ited, exclusionary, no longer applicable or adequate in
transmitting societal values. Moderates are still looking
for the workable mix of the great books of literature and
history and the wonderfully complimentary material reflecting a broader, more inclusive worldview that contem porary scholarship has made available.

In the midst of these epochal changes, a hitherto unknown wave of consumerism broke over higher education.
The American penchant for wanting the best quality and best
buys on products and services, was extended to higher education. The U.S. News and World Report, Money Magazine,
later the Kiplinger Report joined the ranks of providers of college guides. However, whereas the familiar popular guides by
Princeton Review, the Yale Review, Fisk and others had been
largely anecdotal and opinion driven, the new guides sought
to establish criteria allowirig direct comparisons. In place of
anecdote and opinion is an impressive statistical report The
methodolOgy and presentations suggest that the quality of a
college or university can be measured and reported with the
same precision as a consumer product.
The American competitive spirit quickly led to rankings
becoming an important influence for a variety of purposes.
Once content to know that they had received an excellent and
wholly satisfying education from their alma mater, alumni and
donors joined with trustees and politicians in demanding to
know why the retention rate at Whyme Univt!I'Sity was 3 percent lower than that of the University ofWhyu. Rivalries once
denoted by the annual Fall football contest now included dueling graduation rates, quality rankings, cost comparisons, class
sizes and average SAT scores among a host of other indicators.
The rankings,·if controversial, have nonetheless grown influential with politicians, regents, trustees, administrators, foundations, donors and evm prospective ernplof~=.

�These have been difficult times for higher education . Before I finish today, I want to be sure that the uni versity community and particularly the members of the
College .of Arts and Sciences know that we are indeed well
underway on our journey. And even if the old axiom is
true that you can tell when you're on the right road because it is all uphill, we have come a great distance.
E have paused for a long moment
of introspection, self-examination
and self-aiticism at VB during the
Provost-led assessment and planning effort. Now, as an institution
we have set our direction, we have
assayed our strength, checked our
provisions and it is time to start climbing again.
About now, a wise speaker would abandon the
mountain and head for safer ground, but I can't resist pushing on a little further because the image seems so apt As is
a party of climbers tackling a difficult ascent on an unexplored peak, we within the university are simultaneously
dependent on our individual strength and wits and on the
collective strength, intelligence, skill and cooperation of the
other members of our excursion. Each of us must climb for
ourselves and yet each of us must climb for the group at the
same time. We are an assemblage of individuals with intellectual skills and attainments, with varying capacities and
strengths, operating simultaneously as self-contained individuals and as essential members of the collective, a team
that must be whole and fully functional if it is to progress as
rapidly, efficiently, and as far as it aspires.
The analogy extends still further in my mind as I think
about how to express the utter necessity that every member
of our university be an active participant, a source of support
and energy for the effort we are all making. Imagine trying to
move a climbing team forward in which various members argued: "I don't want to climb anymore, I've come this far and I
am entitled to continue on without further exertion."
Or how about: "yes. all well and good, someone must
climb, but why all of us? Surely others can go ahead and cut
the footholds, place the hardware and ropes and then I'll start."
Then there are the impatient climbers: "yup. I know
we haven't plotted a course yet, but up is up and we're moving out. When you guys get through diddling around with
the maps, give us a shout. If we like the direction you're
taking, we'll take a vote and decide whether to join you or
not. By the way, we'll be taking our share of the provisions."
Of course, I've left out some of the likely cast of
characters in my analogy of the ascent team and the uni versity. There would be the guy who never got on the
mountain at all because he couldn't find a parking place at
the base. There'd be the guy who stayed home watching
the weather channel just positive that, clear forecast or
not, you shouldn't be on the mountain when the weather
might turn. And, of course, there would be the guy who
would look at you incredulously and declare, "climb,
climb, my good man, can you not see that I merely await
the arrival of the rest of you. I am already at the top."
If the institution has set the direction of its ascent
to greater reputation, what is it? The Provost has outlined
principles of priority setting, general goals given largely in
statements of outcomes, and some forecasts for the uni versity. He has declined to chart the individual plans for
each of our enterprises. Not that we let him off the hook
for that. Our campus reaction suggested more that he had
genetically re-engineered the university in his singular vi sion than given us directions about as specific as "Go West
Young Man." Let's be honest, we rather like a lack of direc tion. We don't like having no direction, but that's different
than a willingness to receive directions.
I think the Provost has been amazingly bold and
clever. And yes, I would think so even if he hadn't ap pointed me. His cleverness, at least that which most im pressed me, is that he managed to force us away from all
of our assumptions and security with the status quo with-

out erecting a vision so specific as to give us something to
overturn. We were in essence left shadow boxing with no
possibility of a knock-out punch.
His specificity of assessment, his willingness to call it
one way or the other, right or wrong, on target or off, as
others saw it, and to stand firm under the return fire has
permitted this campus to move where other institutions
have remained immobilized. Other campuses have gone
through the travails of our journey, suffered similar stresses
and, in the end, made little, if any substantive progress. Al ready we have reached way stations on our journey, includ ing a College of Arts and Sciences dedicated, in part, to im mediate and notable improvements in undergraduate life.
and a number of interdisciplinary research centers that are
in one form or another of advancement.
For us, collectively, a difficult part of the journey is
ahead With courage and ambition, we, we the faculty and staff
have the opportunity to create anew the University at Buffalo.
I want to urge upon all of us--administration, faculty and student alike--a new commitment to community
and morale. I know, I know, we are in Buffalo, New York.
How chipper can yo u feel in a city that for a time relished
the slogan "City of No Illusions" (except that one, we
might point out). The place where the bridges are more
troubled than the waters. Buffalo jokes aside, we have
much to be positive about. Positive morale, after aU. is
both an outcome and a commitment. Recently, my sense
that we go overboard in self-deprecation was validated by
the consulting firm hired to evaluate UB's public- relations
and marketing efforts. It was startling for me to discover
that, in general, VB faculty, administrators and staff are
more negative in their assessment of o ur efforts to serve
our students th~n are the students themselves. Our ten dency, particularly after the rugged years past , is to focus
on o ur limitations rather than the possibilities.
I have had the experiences of a lifetime representing
VB to Poland, Ch ina and, most recently, to Cuba. On
these trips I encountered working conditions that would
dispirit beyond hope most American academics. University buildings in sad disrepair, once-great research libraries
unable to afford the range of periodicals found in the av erage public library branch in America, entire colleges and
schools served by one or two badly outdated computers
and research facilities unworthy of the nam e.
NO yet, the essence of the university, the life of the mind, the transmittal of knowledge and the value
of inquiry is practiced unchecked
and with a sense of commitment
and determination that is genuinely inspiring---even humbling.
Many of our colleagues overseas were educated in America.
They understand the relative deprivation in which they
work. Yet, they offer the world books and articles of great
importance, they educate and inspire, and in their emerging
countries, they take leadership in the formation of the fu ture of their economies and their political systems.
We all have the good fortune of working with
them in our exchange programs. They are, or should be ,
a constant reminder, that however much we relish and
wish for the latest in technology, the best in campus
amenities, the resources to travel extensively or any other
of the rest of our desires, we are not bound to the inevi tability of failure or to second -rate intellectual status beca use we lack the best , the latest, or the most. We have a
good measure of all three. We don't have as much as
some other institutions, but we ask too little of ourselves
if we are complacent about our shortcomings in the be lief that the only solutions that matter will come from
o utside in the form of the effort of others or of more resources. We have limits, but they are not so limiting as
we occasionally allow them to be.
I am not urging a climate of denial. And if I were
here to cheerlead, I would be wearing a varsity sweater, not

�academic robes. But it is too easy to rest in the relative
comfort of cynicism and the escape of the surrender o f
commitment. In accepting responsibility for our morale
we regain direction over it.
Progress on the goals before us must ultimately be
driven by changes in the faculty culture. And that is how I
will move ahead, by requesting from the faculty, by creating
policies and by encouraging and rewarding, changes in
what we do, who does it and how we reward it. Much of
what we will undertake will immediately gratify the focused, hard-working faculty. Over time, all of us will experience the pleasure of working in an increasingly open and
healthy environment that more fully recognizes the efforts
of the willing and effective faculty member. This same culture will insulate us a good measure from changes forced
upon us by those who do not understand our enterprise.
We can preempt external intervention by comporting ourselves within our traditions of self governance to meet any
reasonable standard of accountability and productivity.
EEDED for this is a heightened
sense of faculty accountability: accountability to each other. So I
turn to the faculty and ask that you
ask of each other that each member
carry a fair share of the load. Our
loads needn't be identical. The
needs of the institution are many and every effort contributes to the success of every other. There are a hundred
ways for each one of us to make a full contribution. It is a
simple matter, really. Everyone contributes, everyone
gains, everyone is equally obligated.
We should accept the President's challenge regard mg the focusing of our activities and our mission. Higher
education has had a sharp focus for years: we are focused
o n the disciplines. These have been, and will remain, the
chief delineators of much of what we do and how we do it.
I wouldn't advocate changing this. I would advocate the
inclusion of other influences to a stronger degree than we
have, in most cases, admitted in the past.
There is a context for the University at Buffalo. We
clearly know this. There are strong signs of regional iden tity apparent to even a casual observer. This institution is.
and aspires to be even more, a national and international
research university. But our focus on the distant horizon
must not distract us from what is immediately in need of
o ur attention . The future of public education is signifi cantly grounded in the faith of the public that the universities that it supports represent powerful resources for
changing the future . This requires our being visibly and
effectively engaged with their concerns. There are man y
ways to express our importance, but we are called upon to
focus some of our effort on the problems of those upon
whom we depend for support. And let m e say it again ,
this is in the context of seeking broader recognition within
the disciplines that account for our larger reputation . This
is not an either/or choice as many choose to cast it.
You can anticipate that I will strongly encourage a
climate that actually does those things that justify the ex ceptional status we enjoy in society. We defend academic
freedom as an essential right, yet how often do we exercise
it in a manner that meets our ideals. In principle, the uni versity is a place set aside in which ideas can be exchanged
and viewpoints advocated without fear of retaliation. But
how many campuses have you been on in the last decade
that had anything like intellectual ferment going on. In
much the same spirit that we decided a generatio n ago
that the peaceful university was the hallmark o f a well -run
institution , we have adopted over time a campus climate
in which anything could be said, but where pretty much
o nly the right thing can be said . O ur limits a re no t the rc
suit of an a utho ritarian presence, they a re th e res ult of a

social contrad that has forgotten a provision for sustaining the highest degree o f resped and collegiality while
passionately and honorably disagreeing on issues. Our
heritage o f inquiry, challenge and intellectual tolerance is
in need of renewal. if not outright reclamation.
As yo u, I strive to make the wo rld around me con form to my understanding of how the world ought to be.
The idea of the university in its most general sense holds a
place in my values not too far from religion. I have time
left to tell you only a few of the defining ideals that guide
my understanding of the university, but it will be a start.

• The university is an institution that does not merely
facilitate learning: at its best, and for willing and capable students, it provides a transformative education. In this sense, I
am not speaking of economic transformation, but personal
growth and change.
• It is a place of intellectual and social tolerance, where
a changing society can critique its past, define and model its
near future, and boldly propose and explore directions for its
social, artistic, intellectual, technical and scientific destiny.

• It is a place for taking risks, where failure is supported as part of the process of learning and where success is
defined so as to value the achievements of all of its members equally on the basis of widely differing values and expectations.
• Because a university teaches young people and because we as faculty enjoy positions which. if not the most lucrative in our society, are so privileged in every other way. a
university constitutes a trust. Therefore. its members have
ethical responsibilities that greatly exceed those of the ordinary
workplace.
• The university is a humane meritocracy that seeks to
elicit the highest achievement from its teachers and its learners,
without loosing sight of the human conclition. But, it remains
a meritocracy amidst enormous pressures to be otherwise.
• And, finally, and in a much less noble tone: it is a
place where the inmates do run the asylum and properly
so. If it is not a linle crazy, a bit out of step, a tat curious,
even quizzical, then it is probably failing through conformity, dullness and indifference. With all of the attributes I
have ascribed to the institution, if our society was not just
a bit uneasy about how all of those freedoms were being
exercised, we could hardly warrant the exceptional conditio ns that we expect for the carrying o ut o f our work.
You will ascertain from all that I have said, that I
think the university is an extraordinary place and I am
very fortunat e to be part o f it. I share in my mother's
wo nderment that m y life has taken me into this enterprise
and that it has embraced, even trusted, me. She, as I, marvel that a distracted and marginal high -school student, an
ill-directed junior-college student and an extraordinarily
naive university transfer student could be transformed.
Transformed by encountering professors who .cared
eno ugh to be critical and demanding in ways that somehow challenged rather than rejeded; by discovering that
with the latitude and option to fail came the freedom to
succeed, and by being led to the discovery of my own d o rmant desire to know, to know more. to know even more.
With three nearly grown daughters of my own, I now
share in that perspective that sees our offSpring as children regardless of their age. So I have finally learned to take pleasure
in my mother's declaration--&lt;:m occasions such as my being
here--when, with evident motherly pride, she declares " I just
do n't know where yo u came from 1" lt reminds me of what I
owe to my education. And come to think of it. I'm surprised to
be here too. I thank the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the President and Provost for the opportunity and
for the privilege of working with you to create the institutio n
that we all can embrace in o ur ideals and in our hearts.

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Q&amp;A- Philip Miles Tesearches.
/Treathes (and eats) mushrooms.

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November 1l 1!91/'MJO. !IL lZ

Young

Chemists
at Work

Chris Kim, left. a graduate
student in chemistry, leads
a National ChemistJy W!ek
derro tStraOO! ' Nov. 5 at the
Campus North 5chool in
Buffalo. Attired in~ and
latex gloves. stu:lents leim to
make ice cream using liquid
nitrogen aklng IMth the U9.Jal
cream, sugar and vanila. From
left jamanion Keenan, Aaron
jackson and Dwight Reed.

Sheridan in Nicaragua to studymudflow
UB volcanic expert aims to find out what trirgered disaster that killed thousands
By nuN GOlDBAUM
News Services Editor

A

UB scientist who is an
expert in volcanic

mudflows left for Nica-

ragua on Saturday to
eva1uate the possible causes of the
devastating mudflow that occurred
with the catastrophic collapse of
Casi ta volcano and killed thou -

sands of people in severaJ villages.
Michael F. Sheridan, professor
and chair of the Department of
Geology who ho lds 1he largeSI
grant in the U.S. to study volcanic
mud sl ides , says scientis ts have

much to learn from the tragedies
in Nicaragua and Honduras so
that other populations do not su ffer the same terrible fate.
"The mudflow in Nicaragua is
the worst volcanic disaster of this
decade," said Sheridan.
On Oct. 29, he presented research
at the Geological Society of America

annual meeting in T9ronto that descril&gt;W how computers are being
used to interpret satellite data to predict the likely sources. sizes and
paths of volcanic mudflows so that
populations at risk can be informed
and safely evacuated .
Using a mathematical model, the
research also projected the potential devastation that would occur in
a key industrial town near Colima
volcano in Mexico if extremely fast ·
moving volcanic mudflows art" un leashed when the volcano reach~
the climactic stage of its eruption
cycle, which is expected during the
next decade. The largest mudflow
the researchers calculated from
Colima would involve a wall of
water and debris 200 feet high.
"We have an ideal research pro gram to incorporate data from
Casita volcano with our findings
on Mexican volcanoes so that we
can understand better what cause5

these huge mudflows," he said.
In Sheridan's estimation, mud flows are the volcanic phenomena
posing the greatest danger to popu lations. In 1985. a
volcanic mudslide
1n Colombia killed
16.000 people.
·· My goal in go·
1ng to Cas ita volca no IS to find out

~~~s ~a:;~~r~~r:i~
3

DIYIDAH

collapse of the volcano," hc said.
Initial reports from Nicaragua
have indicated that it was I-I urn cane Mitch that caused the terri hi!:
mudOows on Ca!li ta volcano, hut
Sheridan noted that other possible
con tributing fa cto r~ . mcluding the
decompression of a geothermal
system on Casita. cannot be ruled
out.
"And last week, Ce rro Negro, an
adjacent volcano, has also begun

to erupt," he said . .. We need to ex plore the connection with this ad
Jacent erupting volcano."
Sheridan plans to do fieldwork
on Casita, checking to see tf th e
matenal that carne out of Cas1ta
was hot, which would mean that a
geothermal system was mvolv!'d.
"This is a unique opportunity to
study a major collapse of a volcano
before the evtdence IS removed or
changed by geologic agents," satd
Sheridan.
After gatherihg the field data .
Sheridan plans to use rcmotdv
sensed data to test his assumption
that satellite info rm ation can pro
v1de a kind of "gcolog1c X-rav" to
tdcnllfy soft spots at the surface ol
d volcano, particularly those a rea~
that are 5usccptiblc to a cata
strophtc collapse.
Funding for Shendan\ cxped1
lion comes from the Noutonal Sci ence Foundation.

Back to the drawing board for ethics axle
By SUE WUETCHlR
News Servicel Associate Director

proposed code of eth ·
ics governing consen sual relations between
faculty and students
was sent back 10 the drawing board
by the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee at its Nov. 4 meeting,
an action that resulted in cancellation of the Faculty Senate meet ing scheduled for Nov. I 0.
During a lengthy debate , execu tive committee members haggled
over language in th e proposed
code, questioned the la ck of a
committee report accompanying
the code a nd revisited the issue of
social relation s between faculty
members and students.
john Boot, prokssor and chair of
the Department of Management

A

Science and Systems and chair of
the senate's Academic Freedom and
Responsibility Commi ttee, pre sented to FSEC members a revised
version of a code that his committee had drawn up that incorporated
comments from an Oct. 28 FSEC
discussion of two previous versions
of the code. During that discussion,
seve ral senators had noted that
those versions would prohibit social relations between students and
faculty, and specifically asked the
comm ittee to rework the language
to allow such relations.
The version presented to the
FSEC on Nov. 4 states that .. rela ·
tions with st udents in one's class
or under one's supervision are pri·
marily teaching or mentoring re lations. So:cial interactions which
preserve symmetry among stu-

dents or serve a clear educational
purpose are also encouraged .
However. social activities which
treat students differently and serve
no clear educational objectives areunprofessional and unacceptable.
This includes ente ring into sexual
relati ons with a student in one 's
class or under one's supervision."
Noting that the revised code had
been presenled lo the FSEC with ·
out an accompanying committee
repon, Lou Swartz., associate professor of law. questioned whether the
Academic Freedom and Responsi bility Committee had actually met
and endorsed the document.
'Tm concerned that an effort to
have something for the Senate to
talk about in a few days (Nov. 10)
is driving a very important process
forward."

President Wilham R. G re1n er
also lamented the absence of d
co mmlttt'l' report.
"Yo u need a dear report th.H
sets a record as to how the com
rn1ttce came to th1s re~uh ," he sa1d
Cremer also wondered how the
~SEC's work has evolved from .. thl'
diff1cult. but very important. task
of trymg to rev1cw the tssue ol
snual relatwm between (acult ~·
and student~ to th1 s mu(.h
broader attempt at some h ow
regulating social mteracttons:·
He asked senators to &lt;.o ns1der
how their co lleagues would rcce1ve
the proposal.
"It seems to be an awful b1g leap
from nothing on point to thi s
broad, general statement that 1s
going to tell me how to conduct
~-,... ·

�21

Reparier Movember 11.1!1!11/Vu130. ~ 11

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s.,oloa Abo..~1n 1ngu1111q at ue, has'-&gt;
hurWmity'J 1998-99
jUdiCh T. Melamed MomorW I&amp;
lowlhip. Tho
is ID'
amually by lhe Englill1

Philip G. Miles. 1' •n expell 111 1hr 1-m&gt; lngv of plants and fungi ,
and serves as pres1dent of the World ~ooe t y of Mushroo m Biology
and Mushroom Product&gt; A facult y memher stnce 1956, he is a 1998
reci pient o f the C hancello r's Award for Excellence 1n Teaching.

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thert' wa' ~rt·at tme r ~t m fu n g~ c~.~

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pound.li that enhance the paue nt'll
host deft'n se mechant s m , wht ch
mav off~t som e of lhe detnmen
tal sade effects brough t about hy
antt -c.a ncer chemotherapy.

u( huxhcmu..al gr:nct
ll'l tvh first siUd t('' tnvo lved re
'll'3 rLh on the genellt t.o ntrol and
phyo;tolog v of &gt;exual m echantsm s.
111 ha.!Hd1omyce t ~. a class of fung1
mdud mg mushrooms 1n whKh the
~enet t c con trol of sex ualttv ts rela
ttvdy complex. For years. my stu
dt~ nt s and I ea rned on mvest 1ga
t tom tnvo lvmg a common wood
rt.l tt tn g bastd t o m yce t ~ ca lled
~c'luzop hyllum commUne, wh ich ts
,lfl excellent cxpe n men tal organ ·
"Ill AJtho ugh Sch1zophyllum 1s n o t
.tn r:d 1ble mu s hroo m , about 20
vc:an ago I began to apply som e of
th e thmgs that we had learned
dhout the genetlc~r~ and develop
men t of t;chtzoph yllum to ~me of
tht.· t"JJhlt.· h..!.sJd J o rn yL(' It"~ Many o f
tht.·-.c.· mu ~hruo m s had proved to ht·
1n.dlut ran t m frUittng 1n cuhun:or
dfl"d

m mu!&gt;hroom h ouM&gt;~. and the1r ge
llt' I H.~ h ... d not ht&gt;t&gt;n firrn lv estah
h~ht&gt;d At thL' ttmt'. I J!so heca m e a
... ulleagucnl Prof \ I l.hangoftht·
c · hmt'~ t!mvt:rs •rv of Hong Kong .
wtth w h t.llll I hdVt' lO IJdhorat ed lnr
many vear ~r~ a.nd who ., a world 3 U
thnntv 1111h1 ~ field . a.,-. wdl as work
Ill~

wllh otht·r ~ut·ntt.l&gt;t!&gt; 10 .o\.~ td
of edtble lllU.\ hfOO nl!o

111

3 1Ud t t'~

REPORTER

-

What got you lnteres.ted In
Jtudylng edible fungi , es.pe
dalty mushrooms?

Do you e•t m•ny muJhroomJ
younetf1
Y~ .

I enJOY mam mu:.hroorn:... t."'J"lt'
t:1aily the lre.h .shutakc. wnoJ's ca1.
portahell a, and ot hcf' th..tt nc,.,... an:
rl'adtlv availahle m our ln&lt;..al markr-b
Wh•t h the benefit to adding
muJhroomJ to one 'J dtet7
~'-1u s hrllo m ~

art' rd&lt;~t t vd\ h tgh Ill
prntctn '''good 4 ualtt v. u1nta mm ~
.11 1 thl" t''~t·n t t.tl dllllntl dl td .s .1nd
heu 1~ r1~h I ll h ·,lnt' ,an d lt'uune
\oJ h t ~..h ,l rt' t.· Hht.•r Itt\\ tlr ladung Ill
llltl\1 'taple ~Neal loolh i\ lu !l&lt;h
ruom' .Ht'" low lfl tot.tll.tl and havt•
,t lu~h f' t'ht'll l.l~t' o t pnlnlll.)d!U
r.ucd t,un dliJ~ !'ht.'\ h.tvt' rd.!
IJ\t' h lar~t· anwunh til tar h~..1hv
lir .Ht'' · .1nJ nu"'t -.pt•llt'" po-.M.·~-.
nutrllltln,tlh v.tluahlt· .unu unt!o ol

How can you tell • ct.ngerous
mushroom from • good one In
the forest &lt;KIn yow- to.ckyorcl7

t.verv . . ou~ or textbook on mycol ogy (the sc t ~ n ce that deals with
fu ng•l carne5 a statement such as
th1s. Th~re are no S1mple tests to tell
a po1sonous from a non -p01.sonous
mushroom. An accurate 1denufica
uon as to spec1es

1s

essenttaJ and

then o ne must know the h1story of
that speaes a.'i the ed..ibilny. You may
o nlv rnakt one mtstakt'! If 11 hasn't
lx't·n grown on a mushroom farm
~o l d tn the market . 11 sho uld h&lt;·
dV01deJ cxt.ept hv those capable ul
malun~ 100 pert.ent accurate 1den
uti ..at •on.-. You rna\' mt.ss w mt' verv
ta3t~ mushrooms m thts W3)', but at
k'3..'tt vou'IJ hve to cn1oyothcr thtn ~

.anJ

Wh•t b your f•vorfte muJh ·
room~lble or nonedlble•nd why7
f"ll hedge on rht· dnSwt·r to thlll 111
thr followmg wav I Mv fa vontt'
t"d.thle mu.~hmom 1S tht"" pme m ush

n10m l'fruholoma matsurab• l for
rt·a~mol tiS lahulous flavo r. whKh
t'n hdnlt"!rl manv dashes It IS o ftt:n
uM.'"d 111 su k1yak.J 111 Iapan . It IS ven
e:xpens1ve an d not readilv avatlahle
10 the Unttr:d States. I have two fa
vo nte non ·edib le mushroonu_\cht zop hvllum co mm tau· tor
val ue as an expenmental or~an1 s m ,
a nd (,cmodt•nna lundum fot th l'
produds tt produu:s that are he-m~
demonst ra tl'd t o ha ve tmportanl
med1 cm al vaJu('~

1"

How h•J the growing lntereJt

room!o have lx&gt;en eaten and &lt;"nJOyt-d
h11 a long penud of ume. while we
Arne r1 c:ans had o nl y th e button
mushroom or champtgnon (Agan
~ w buporu.s) available in th~ market

nw that mushroom saentists havt"
learned how to produa mushrooms

sut h as sh ut.ake , the oyster mush·
room 1Pkuroru.s osrrearus J and oth·
er.s co mme rCially tn mu s h room
h ouses.~ h.Jw a greater cholcc.. T1"u5

greater interest has cncourag.d many
to study mushroom b10logy.
How could mushroom devel-

opment solve glob•l hunger
problems7
It can't solve the probl~m . but 1t can
t.:.ontributt' to the soluuon./\5 pre·
v1ously ment1oned , mushroom s
are a good sou rce of protem, wh1ch
"deficient m the d!et of a lugh per
ce ntag~ of the world 's populatJon
Fu nhermore, they can be grown on
waste mat~na l s from agricultu re,
fore-stry. mdustry and h o u se hold ~ .
ll&lt;l the subst ratoare tne.x:pens1ve.ln
addttton , not much land o r spat.tc
1.\ r~ u ued for mushroo m farms
Workshops have b~ en presented
wo rldWide on mushroom cultrva
tton tn developmg countrtes. Today
manv dcvelopmg co untrt t"~ are
pruducmg m us hroo m s tn large
.~mount~. ( )ne of the most grattfy
mg ex.penence3 111 my professional
~ a reer wa.\ to vtstt a number ol
plau~s m Chm a to leL,ure and par
t tC! pate tn work.~ h o p&lt;!i o n mu sh
rvom ~o. ultl va tJ u n
Are mushroomJ hard to grow 7

l rrowmg mushroomli IS an art. 3!o
well as a scu.• nc.e. much 111 the sam e
way that wme rna.k.mg JS . HoWtver,
the bas1c prmctples are weU known
and ea.•;y to understand. If one want!o
In stan a 3maJI mushroom farm , 11
'" hest to gam some p ractical ape
nr:nce hy spendmg nme wtth a ~Ul ·
"-t.~ful grower. There are also shon
w urses gJven at p laces such as Pt'nn
\tate o n mushroom l·u luvat1on

tn gourmet mushrooms, Juch
u shllt•lr.e •nd pordnl, •f·
fected your rese•rch 7

Wh•t m•lr.eJ MHYte muJh rooms h•lluc.lnogenlc7

l11e gru"'·mg 1ntcrcst m gnu mu·t ur

to prodUt.e hallucmogcmc co m ·

mushrooms LS the dJrt'Cl result
nl rl'"st.:a.rch (not mme ). In Asta and
m hmJpt'. many speclt~ of mu.)h ·

po und, . The best kn own of these
genera as Pslfocybt, and 81 spcc1e:;
of P.srlocybr have been reporte-d 10

exotK

o\

few gem·ra o f fungt are known

be hallucmogenu.. !'here are~
compounds of whJCh
psilocybin is best known, and
these compounds haw hallua ·
n ogemc properties similar to
thoS&lt; of d -lysergic acid diethy lamide (LS [) ) When o n ~ bean
the way that they act on the ct:n ·
tral nervous system. 11 ts dear
that no sensible pe:rson would
to nsJd~r recreati o nal u se of
pstlocybm Thetr consumpuon
can be dang&lt;roU&gt;, although the
drug IS less potent than LSD
S('v~ raJ

Wh•t 's something that
people don ' t know -.rt
mushrooms but should?
Theu

ro le

a~

tra.~hburn~n . H~re

natur~ · ll

I am

s~

mg of fung1 m gen~ral Fung1
and hactena are esscntialm de
c:o mposmg orga m c matter 111
nature and thus play an c:ssen tJaJ role in the cycling of carbon
Wh•t question do,_ wish
I hlld uked, •ncl how would
you h•ve answered lt7

What IS a mu.sh room?TradJnon
ally. the mU&gt;hroom has been de
fined as a fleshy, aerial umbrella
shaped, fruiting body of the cias.
BasJdJomyc.etes. Common usag~
had mduded some mem~rs of
the da.ss Asromyutes. such as the
truffle, as mushrooms. T h est'
dfld others should be induded m
the definioon of mushroom. so
we defino:J a mushroom m the
foUo wing way. A mushroom as a
macrofungus wtth a c:hstmct.Jvt
fruJung body that IS large enough
to be see:n by th~ naked e~ and
to be p1cked up by hand. It can
be ~Jtha above or ~ow ground.
mdud e both fleshy and non
fleshy lextured macrofung. and
also mdudes edible, non -edible.
p01sonous and medicinaJ spe
CICS. The disapline that IS con
c.erned with the scientific study
of mushrooms is Mushroom 81
ology. The World Soc1&lt;t y of
r-J.ushroom Biology and Mush
rtX&gt;m Products has had rwo tn tcmauonaJ conferences, the first
m Ho ng Kong m 1993, the sec·
ond at Penn State in 1996, and
the th~rd will be held '" Sydn&lt;r.
Australia, 111 October, 1999.

�'98 football ticket sales at 79,(XX)
Community support helps university surpass NCAA minimum

By CHIIInw. VIDAL
Reporter E.ditof

T

HE Division of Athlet -

ics--and the university
co mmunity- has suc-

cessfuUy completed the
latest step in US's effort to reclassify its football program to the Divisio n 1-A leve l.

According to -Bob Arkeilpane,
1nterim director of athletics, the

university sold an average of
19,940 tickets to each of its four
home games, or more than 79,000,

thi s faU, comfortably surpassing
th e 17,000- paid- ticket minimum
required by the: National Colle giate Athletic Association .

" We 're really pleased , because
the opport unit y for us to go into
th e Mid - Ameri can Co nference
and compete at the Division 1-A
level in foo tball is somethin g a lot

of peop le

1

ha~

NCAA regulations require that
gam&lt;s be played in a stadium that
seats a minimum of 30,000. Construction of a 14.500-seat expansion
of UB stadium is scheduled to begin
in April and is expeaed 1o be completed in August in time for UB's first
home fOotball game on Sepl II .
Additionally, th &lt; 17,000 per·
game attendance figure still re mains a factor. By virtue of its new
conference affilialion, UB retains
its Division 1-A status when a ma Jority of the schools in the MAC
meet the minjmum requirement.

"Tbe opportJ.nty for ... to...
compete I l l - DMslon 1-A
l e v e l l n -.. b
sometl*lg • lot of people
---t.lngt-.-d
for • long time."

been working to-

wa rd for a long time," he said.
Arkeilpan e acknowledged that
the past year has been a difficult one
for athletics, between the stiff atten dance targets the division was required to meet and the loss of
former Athletic Director Nelson
·10wnsend, who experienced a heart
•mack in March and in August res1gned as director to assume the
d ties of associate vice president for
dent affairs and special assistant
UB President William R. G reiner.
Rut with the apparent success of
's ticket - sa les effort s -those
fig'ures first mu st l)e verified by an
NCAA audit-the universi t y has
"turned a co;ner," Arkeilpa~e said.
It 's not the final corner, he noted.

808 ARKEilPANE

The MAC also mandates thatJI .!l
members field teams in six par·
ticu lar spo rts. Includ ed amo n g
this list are baseball and softball ,
which the Division of Athletics
an nounced last week will be re1n .
sta ted into the program.
But for now, Arkcilpane sa1d he
1s pleased that UB has m et th1 s
fall's goals for reclassifica tion to
Division 1-A.
It could not ha ve h appened
without the universit y communit y
and its su pport. h~ added.
"We hope people enjoyed the en ·
v1ronment that was created and hope
they wtlJ continue to be suppon:ivc
3..\ we move into the Mid-American

Conference," Arkcilpane saod.
.. This isn ' t ' mission : accom
plished,"' he added ... The miSSIOn
has just begun."
Many people worked hard th1~
year to provide game-goers with
new and unique experiences. such
as Kidzone, distribution of V1ctor
E. Bull bean -bag buddies and the
HaUoween .. Spook -tacular." Bu lls'
fans should expect to enjoy simi lar attractions next year, he sa1d
Tailgate parties arc another tra dition that Arkeilpanc hopes to see
co ntinue in the 1999 season.
"People were tailgating evt:ry where," he said ... To arrive two to
three hours before a game and see
group after group afte r grou p was
a great feeling."
Arkcilpane had h1gh pra1se for
~he Office of Campus Parlcing and
Transportation Services and the
Department of Public Safety, which
he said did a great job untangling
traffic s narls as the season went on.
"Who ever though t there 'd be a
parlcing problem thi s early 10 tht'
growth process? " he noted
He a lso gave kudos to D1n1ng
ServiCes, which catered a meal for
students at one game. and to the
Facu lt y St ud ent Assouat10n .
which handled stad1um l011Ct:.!l sions for the fir stt1me thi s season
But perhaps most exciting was thlatmosphere that the games crea ted .
.. What a great environ m ent for
kids . It 's really a family event."
Arkeilpane said. "I t 's the same
positive athletic expt:nence you get
at a professional foo tball game. hut
at a very different price ."

UB construction ''live" via Webcam Ei3

Y2K@UB
What is the Year 2000 problem'
To s.ave ••luable stor~ spM:e o n early compu ter systems, 11 ~
been standard practice in the computer mdustry to use two dig.u.s rather
than four 10 designate the caJendar year Unfortunately, thts means that
the year 2000 will be translated bv some computer systems as ..00 .. or
.. 1900" or even "1980," causmg errors when performmg calculations,
sorung, com panng, and indcxmg. &lt;.omputer applicalloru may p rocess
transa1.11ons mcorrectl y,systems mav (ra.~h and data may be corrupted.

The year 2000 is a leap yea r. Will that affect
my computer?
n m.y. Noncompham w mputcr'o----and t&gt;vt:n !&gt;Omc lompl1ant o nermay not treat the year 2000 il.'l a lt:ap year Ttus ~ ~ partly becall.S(' otht"r
century dates. such as 1800 and I900, art• no t leap yean, so some programs assume 2{)(X) also IS not a leap year. Th1s could giVe nse to rwo
problems: The date Feb. 2'1. 20CX), wtllhe treated as March I. 2000; and aU
subsequent dates will be out ol step hv om· day. If J vendor statt.":S thm
their software IS wmpilant , you mu~1 mqUirc as to whethl~T o r not tht:u
defimt1on mcludo (:Orred rccogn 111un uf the lt-ap year. Alo;o, any tesliOJ.!
for Y2.K should mdude tesung fur propt:r rt-cogmt1on of the le-.1p vtar
I( you have Y2K quesrwru that YO I4 would l1kt· amwt'rt•d m rh o t ol
11m71, email them to • goldbaum@buffalo.edu

BrieBy
Wmter parking rules start Sunday
Campus P • rklng •nd Tr •nsportatlo n Services rcmuld ~ the: unc
vers1ty COffimUOit f that Winter rarkmg rUJl'S hegtn \unda\
Through April 15. no o vern1ght p.ukm~ 1s Jllowl·J lrnm m1dmgh1
to 6:30 a.m. , except m des1gnatl'd .!!pill t".!l or lob l·at ultv. staff and
st udent s an· as ked not tu park 10 fin· l,mc:-. or to tnplt' p.~rk I makmg
thret· lanc::,. ou t of two ), whKh m.l\ re~u lt m vchKie.!! bem)! towed

Overnight parkmg n restricted to the followmg loB

* South Campu s tdestgnated an·a.s onlv 1-Abbo11

''uJt~nt

lot •

Townsend. Parker. D1cft:ndorf: !'!herman. MJChad:
Mam - Batley.
=i= North C• mpus tenure lo t t·xu·pt d!t nuted l--&lt;~o v
crnors E, (;ovcmor.!l B: &lt;:OOkc A. Hochstetter B (de51g nated area ). Jacobs B (deslg.nall..-d .rn..'3 ), Baud B~ Alumm,
Furnas · (des1gnated area ). larvt.!l B (destgnatcd area ).
Ketter !des1gnatt-d .UL'a l. !'lpauldmg, R1chmond. l-argo.
• Fa c u.lt y-~tafflot ~ udenc pt-rmll ) n••t •·ai•J- .t m 11 1 \ p m .
J'\!tmdav-hJJd,

In add.Juon , mdcment WUlter " 't&lt;t t:hcr· mav cauM? bu.s-sc:n'la:' ddayc;.
l..ampus Parkmg and Transportatulll ~:n' ICl~ ask~ that .!lt udent.s aUm..
ext ra time to get to d~sc.·~ .lS poor Wl'3ther and road o.mdmom nn wm
try days may create .;orne Blue B1rd tran!&gt;!purtat•on ddan

By MARA McCOINNIS

News Services Editorial Assistant

C

SEFA CAMPAIGN
PROGRESS REPORT

ONSTRUCTION

of
US's first campus housing in 25 years is becoming a world -wide event,
thanks to a new live Webcam that
captures-and displays online up+to~the-second progress on the
North Campus housing site from a
window of nearby Cooke Hall.
Anyone. anywhere with Internet
access ca n monitor the progress o f
construction of the toWnhouse-style
undergraduate apartments, scheduled for Fall 1999 occupancy, by visiting the UB Webcam Web site at
&lt;http: / ; ..... buff.lo.edu &gt; .
The viewing experience h as
been made possible by the Universi ty Residence HaHs. UB W~b
Team, Computing and lnfo r ma ·
tion Technology and the construc tio n management team ove rseeing
the project, taking place on I 0. 9
acres bounded by Audubon Park way and Hadley and Rensch roads.
The Webcam uses a unique soft ware package that allows one visitor
at a time to control the camera and
to "look" in eight different directions,
pan 180 degrees. tilt approximatdy
70 degrees and zoom-aU from the
comfort of their own computer.
"The reason we chose this parti cular software to run the cam was
because it gives viewers the chance
to co~tro l the camera and is al most true-to-life with a new frame
every .6 seconds," said Will iam B.
Wieners )r. , UB Web Team design
archi tect.

ol
SUA Unct

Office of the Provost
School of Architecture
and Planncng
College of Arts and Sciences

Webum shows construCtion progress•t 12:49 p.m. Wednesday.
Remote control, Inset, lets vlslton look In eight different dl~lon s,
use zoom feature •t the clkk of their computer mouse.
Visitors are allowed two minutes
to navigate the Webcam using their
mouse and then the viewer who is
next in lin e is prompted to take
o ver. Others visiting the site at the
same time watch as the "contro Uer"
navigates the Webcam.
Those who want to control the
view may have to wa it in line to
fu ll y experience the Webcam ':.
high tech features. The sit e. al
cordi ng to Wieners, was h it mon·
than 1.000 times alone in ItS f1rst
week and there have been as manv
.1s 50 people on the si te at once.
" It 1s a neat , fun thing intended
to huild ex:citemen t for peopk
con nected 10 the universit y," sa1d
Wieners. "Wit h the amount ot
changes and advancements gomg
on at UB. one of th e problems 1s
that everyone doesn't always know
what is going on. This gives people

the opportunity to actually he part
of what is going on.''
He added that each day a still shot
is taken at a specific time and savrd
dcctronicaHy. which will allow the
UB Web Team to put together a tune
lapse movie of the housmg un1t \
construction once it 1s completeJ.
"Hopefu ll y it will generatt' cx
u tcment am ong studen ts on -(am
pu.!! SinCe the)' could be the first 0(
~upants ... sa1d Donald Erb. resJden
tlallaclhtlt."\ manager for the UniverSit y Rt.'SH.ie!Kt' Hall~ . " People oft campus will \'1:.11 anJ reah1..c US 's
commi tm ent to Pn ~...unpu s hou.s
mg by watchmg thl· dlm.trlKtlon
of the new Ufilb ··
Erb added that whl'n tht' protl.'\.1
~:. ( Omplete, the Wcbcam tan b&lt;.· sc:t
up m different campus loc.&amp;tll)n:&gt; tn
h1ghhght aspects of UB dt·vdtlp
ment . mduding fu ture constrw..1Jon

C.oJI

Contrabutwn\

C.oa l

S25,000

S29, 727

118.9

s

tO .OOO

12 I )2

121

110,700

98,701

89. 1

School of Dental Med iCine

32,800

26 .~9 ;

81 9

Graduate School of Education

15,900

15.853

99. 7

School of Engmeenng
and Apphed Sc cence~

39 JOO

38 I S2

97 0

School ol Health Related
Professions

9,800

9, 173

93 .6

School of InformatiOn
and library Studce~

t.BOO

2.0 1 J

111 8

School of Law

1S,100

14,8S7

98.3

School of Management

24.700

29 ,294

118

80.0

s

Schoc:&gt;l of Medicine
and Biomedical Sdences

139,900

111,937

Schoof of Nurs1ng

7.900

6.067

76 7

School of Pharmacy

9,500

8,393

88. 3

Office ol the Pres•denl

6.500

6,S36

tOO 5

School of Social Worit

4,500

6, 354

141.2

UB foundat1on

2,7 00

1.9 10

107 7

Stud&lt;!nt Affair1

30,600

33,Sl5

109 .S

134,000

137 . 351

102 5

UnNers•ty

Serv • ce-~

Emeritus Center

18,904

Vice Prestdent for Research
3. 300
Advancement and Development 8,400
Public Service and Urban Affa1rs 21 .200

3. ll8

101 1

11,631

t38.4

23.603

1113

Student Organizations
Tot•ls

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16S
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J647, S44

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Golden Key holds

11th annual induction

The U8 Chtpt&lt;r d tho Golden
Key Naliontl Honor Society coodjJctrd IU 11 lh lni'IIJIII indue·
tlon ceremony on Oct. 19 in
S~ Hall on the Not1h Campus.
This yett, lSO junioB and seniors with gndos lhtt ~
them in the top 1 percent"'
their doss were hono!&lt;d, along
wllh 1M! new honorory mombers and two,jiWards to espedally cfostingui5hod students.
The 1998 honorory members are Cloude E. Yilek:h, )r,
SUNY Dist.lngulshed Service Professor In tho Oeptttmont d Potillcll Sdenco; Ulr1d\ Boor, tant professor d physics; Gerord
R"""'r.ld, professor d onJhro.
pology; Undo Chottin, lndusbial
~lecturer, and Mar·
garet Welts, dii'Kior d the lJn.

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dorgroduate Ubrary.
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lng In English. and Mtrgaret·
Chojnadd, a senior with • Sf*
clal major in broodcast and print
journalism, were hono!&lt;d tor
high~ and extrt-&lt;Ur·
ricultrachiellements.
,_.Gold, associate detn d
the College"' Arb and Science5,
has been the c:hoptf&lt;sin« tho
chlptor was
founded In 1988. DolTon Ko, .
maJor In physics and English. Is

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patients respond to that prospect
makes a major difference in their
dtnicaJ o utcoma. The most detn mentaJ thing a patient can do is In terrupt therapy once it has begun.
To maximize the chances that
patients will do well with such
~.o mplex . medication regimen s,

School of Pharmacy.
..Adherence 1s cruCial to tht" suc -

cess of antt· HIV drugs." satd Esch.
who operates the clime.

--got

"We- know- the lint
lit drug thonopy

b the o n e - - - makes

or brulu lt. If thonopy Is

drugs---..

lntenupted...the - - - -

- a s the lint ones."
LORJ ESCH

the School of Pharmacy has devel ·
oped the world's first HJV Medi cat iOn Adherence Clinic.
The clinic was described dunng
a presentation Sunday hy Lon
Esch, assistant professor of phar
macy ·practJce, at tht- meeting of
the American College of Climcal
Pharmacists m C incinnati.
Based in the ImmunodefiCiency
~crvices Clinic in the Erie County
Medical Center in Buffalo, th e
H IV Medication Adherence Clinic
i~ designed to provide patients
wah intensive educa tion and supporl about their medications,
len before they take their first pill.
Staff members have counseled
more than 200 HIV patients since

or-

properly so that they have the best
chance of working properly."
At first , said Esch, patients were
skeptical, but after their first con sultations, most became very en thusiastic.
Follow-up 15 intens1ve, generally
occ urring afte r the first day of
medication, then once every one
or two weeks for severa,l months.
Esch said the purpose of the
clmic is to take a comprehensive
approach to ensunng that patients
st1ck to the1r medicatton regimen .
'lbat could involve something as

sunple as a pill organizer, medication
beeper or other reminder aid, or the
development with the patient of a
reasonable st rategy fo r fitting the
medications into his or her lifestyte.
.. The difference between com ·
phance and adherence is the difference between ' Do as I say' and
'Do as we agreed,"' she explained .
Each patient has different bar
ners that need to be addressed .
"One of the biggest ones is that

II was founded by Esch and col leagues in the School of
Pharmacy's Department of Pharmacy Practice, under the supervi SIOn of Gene Morse, professor and
department cha ir.
"We now know that the first shot
we get at drug therapy with patients
1s the one that either makes or

patients who are working find it dif.
ficult to tili compla regimens of
pills." she said. "Other patients don't
have stable home lives; either they""'

breaks it ," Esch said. "If therapy is

homeless or arc in and out of short -

mterrupted for any reason, the sec ond-line drugs will never work as
well as the first ones. The purp&lt;)6e
of our clinic is to try to spend time
with the patient before he or she
even stans their medication , to get
them to understand the importance of taking their medications

term rentals. We work with each pa·

tie:nt to find a way to work the medi -

cations into Jheir.sch«iulQ.".
The adhcrmce cliniC

makes = ·

ommendations to physicians on

what drugs might be pr=ribed for
a particular patienL It also hdps pa·
tients manage side effects of drugs.

or drug int&lt;ractions with food, aJco.
hoi or other drugs. JOm&lt;tim&lt;s re&lt;·
ommending that a~ be changed.
.. We may assist a physician in selecting specific drugs for a patient
at the outset," said Esch. ·~ may
know, for example. that one drug
works a ~ttl&lt; betkr than another
ont" but that its side effects are extremely difficult to deal .with."
After the regimen has been se lected, Esch will discuss it with
patients in lay terms.
"This is what pharmacists have
been trained to do," she said.
A key clinic emphasis is provtd mg pati~nts with information
about how the drugs wiiJ make

them feel before th.ey sGirt therapy.
"We prepare them for therapy
by telling them , ' Look, you are
probably going to feel worse than
you do now when you start taking
the medicine, but this is a transtent
thing; it will pass."'
This is critica.J information because the most dangerous thing a
patient can do is interrupt therapy
once it has begun.
" Before they stan therapy, theu
v1rus is very stupid, sO the minute
we give them medication, we are
usually guaranteed to knock it
down," said Esch, "'but it also give5
- th.e-virus an opportunity to begm
fightin g back, or mutating. So
when we start therapy, we want to
makto sure patients are ready for 11 .
that they u.nderstand it and are
committed to sticking with it."

�NoveRiber lt 19!11/Vol.:11. 111.12 Rep o.-tea

Headrick's academic plan m
will continue, Greiner tells PSS
By OIIIISllNE VIDAl.
Repo~

pick it up and go," he said.

Editor

A

Htad rick

forming search committee

the Unl versll y
"~me peopit" havt· talked about
so m e k..md of yearly re~.ognttlon." '
satd H . William Cole!'. PS~ 1.hau
In add1t10n. th e trad1110n of pre
)t: ntmg to fatuhy and ) taff a p1n
markmg each de~..o:t.de ol )erv1u
should he rethought. rem.trl...nl
sena tors .
lud1th Mtller, dm:-l..lor ol pu r
cha,&gt;,1ng. suggested th.11 memllt.-rs 11f
the umversny c.ommunllv llt:' gtven
optmm., such as ''a golf umbrella or

The president said he expects the
search committee to be composed

a lntle more useful" m ht·u of J pm

Greiner

THOUGH

Thomas
IS

stepping

d own Jan. I as p rovost,

there will be no .. loss

of momentum .. in that offiu.
President William R. Grriner told
members of the Professional Staff
Se nate at its Nov. 5 meeting.
While Grei ner noted he expects

also told senators that a

formal scardt for a provost will be
oonducted and that he will chair the
search committee. He added that a
request fo r proposal has gone out to
identify an uecutive-search finn to

help select appropriate candidate&gt;.
'Tm not comfortable w1th the
way we've run provost searches 10
th e pas t," Greiner sa1d .

the Office of the Provost to evolve

mto .. a very different office" in the
future, he sa1d the appointment of
Oav1d Trigg le, vice provost for
graduate ed uca tion and dea n of
the graduate school, in a dual role
as provost and dean ofthe graduate school wall assure that the
wo rk Hcadnck has done to re -

,o,truc t ure and reo rgan•ze UB's
academic programs will cont1n uc .
Accent on graduate education
UB's undergraduate prog ram,.,
are 10 good shape, and the office
of the provost now needs to turn
Its attention to graduate and

postbaccalaureate education and
to research, G remer said.
.. David can do that . He can JUSt

someth1ngfurtheJrd es~somethmg

of about IS people, who will include
representatives of the Professional
Staff Sena te. Faculty Senate, under ~
graduate Student Associat1on ,
Graduate Student Association , se·
lected vice: presidents and deans. a
member of the UB Council and
some faculty and key staff peopiC'.
.. We're goi ng to try to run as
ught , effective a search as we can."
Greiner said.
In othe r bus1ness, the PS~ d1s
cussed what individual unit ~ and
the umvcrsity can do to show the1r
apprectation for ret1 recs. and to a1. knowledge the1r contributlom to

Id eas for recognition requested
Coles asked that nwmbcr) of tht~
profe~1onal3taff contact h1m w1th

1deas rcgardmg appropnate wan
to recogn11C stalf whu n:tJrt· Of
who arc ~..debratmg anmvcrs.tnt·'
of sc r v11.t' to the univers1ty.
He also noted that the PSS Web Slh'
has brt-n modified and that the sen
ate 1.!1 "tm ng to get more mforma
111111 (JUt to profes.s1onalstaff on what
we' rc dnmg, &lt;b wdl as on how thev
Lan get mvolved m the organization "
The PSS \\'eb SJte ~ ~ avadahle .11
&lt;'" http:/ / www.pss.buff•lo .edu ·

Sheffer in Beirut on local government mission
John B. Sheffer, II, d1rector of thi.' Institute for locaJ
Governance and Regtonal G rowth at UB, has jmned a
th ree-person delegation charged with a.'iSCSSing the
strudurc a nd needs of locaJ government in Lebanon.
The United States Agency for lnternauonal Oevel·
opment (USAID ) has sent the team to recommend a
strategic plan for local govcrnment5 m Lebanon as that
nation--emergi ng from a devastating 16-year civil
war-works to reinvigorate its democratic institullons.
"The strength of local governments m this post ·
war era will be a criucal fad or in the rcbuildmg of
Lebanon," Sheffer said ... Succt:SSful mumctpal ele..
tionswcre held this year for the first time smce 196 .~.··
Organi7..ed hy the Center for l..t-glslat JVC Dt•vdop-

l

men! at the UnJVersJI"V at Albanv, tht' two -wC\·1... nm
s1on to Lebanon c; a part of a 'mulu vc."ar dTort hr the
center to p ursuedemocrati&lt; devclopml'nt Jl11Vltl~ 111
that natum . The team , mdudm~
Abdo I. BaakJ.uu.dlre\:torof tht•ccn
ter.and James P. Ketterer, th t•u:ntcr')
proJect manager for tht&gt; program.
will work. with loca1t•ffiLmlsand tht'
Minl!t1rYtlfMun1Ctpaland Rural AI
fatn. 111 l.c-h.mnn. Tht· team w1ll r~·
tum tn tht• Umted Statt":!t the week
t&gt;nJ hclort' Thank.sgl\'mg .md draft
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UB's mini-vet school is a winner
By LOIS BAKER

Nem;

Servic~

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Editor

H F 240 pet owm·n .md
an1 m al Ioven fi lltng.
Bu tler Auditortum 111
th e Sc hool of Medtctne
a nd Biomed ical Sciences watcht.xi
mtently as Kevi n Ku hn, D.V.M.with the a1d of Bud the Bouv1er
des F\a nd res--demo nst rated how
to ta ke a dog's p u lse, clea r 11 ~
th rOa t of o b stru c t ion s and g1vc
ca rdiopulmo n ary resu sci tation .
Followi n g the prese ntation on
pet fi rst·a id, the aud ien ce heard a
lectu re on hypothyroidi sm , d iabetes and o th er e ndocrine d isorde r!.
commo n in dogs a nd cats.
T h e ra p t a tt e n dees were e n ro ll ed in t he fir st .. m ini - vet
sch ool" for lay people in t he U.S.
It is an o ffs h oot of UB's popu lar
m ini -m ed ical sch ool. wh ich just
co m p le ted its sixth sesston
Lectu res m the series, whiCh
ope n ed on Oct. 29 and run s
th roug h Dec. 3, arc be tng prt' ·
se11ted by veteri nary specia lists tn
gast roen terology, ophtha lmology.
oncology, parasitology. denllstrv
and der mato logy. They arc bemg
h eld fro m 7-9 p.m . u11 Thu rsday),
wi th the exceptitln ofTh anksg 1v ·

1ng, 111 Butlt·r AuditorJumm I·JThn
Hall on the ~outh Lampu'
The cost ott he full sent·, ~~f Jll'
port iOn of ll , mdutlu1~ a sm~lc: lel
tu re--1s $30. or SlS ior ).t:nJOr 1..111
z.cns. l n fo rmat 1011 Jbou t tht~ mm1
vet school may he nhtametl lw ~.all

mg8l9-l 168.
One of the part1 Ct pat1ng vett'rt
nanans is James Brown. D.V.M ..
a LIB alumnus who practice" at
tht: Blue Cross Animal C li nt .. 1n
Eggertsville. UB's mmt -medii.Ji
school, whiCh offers five -week. ses
sions destgned for lav people ffl .
cu smg on chronic d1scases and or
ga n systenh a nd taugh t by !tOilll'
of UB's finest fa.:u lt y mcmhen .
was a frequent top1c of \.onvcrsa
tion among pe t ownt~r&lt;i patrnmt
ing the c lim e.
Intrigued, Brown conta~..·ted Harn
Sult7~ di rector of the program . &lt;~nd
floa ted the 1dea of puttmg togetht·r
a similar scnes oflecturC"3 on the s.:1
ence of veterinary mcdJi..,llt' \\'1th
Sult1 ·~a pproval. Brown rt.x runl'd I 0
vete rinarians to presc:nttht·lrl..'turt·:.
"This is not two hours of lip:. on
ho"• to ra1sea pct."said Sult1 "Tht'!-t'
arc rea ll y K1en11fic lc~.,urt')l. I ,tm
Impressed that vetennarv mcdl l..lllt"
mvolves so many speoaha.'!&gt;"

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Rodv ') Informati On :-.upt·rhlgh
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CJ n't Keep Anvthmg llu"' fl~ on
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See Clcarlv No"·" o n l'\'l' (bt•ases,
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Rita J. Boucher, 64,
former nursing-school professor and administrator
A Mass of Christian Burt.l was

held in Our Lady Queen of Mar-

solory.~
...... - alentwrillng.-;-

tyrs
Catholic
Church,
Woonsocket, R.I., on Nov. 4 for
Rita J. Boucher, former nursingschool instructor and adminis-

a-.-. .........

trator at UB, who died Oct. 31
in her home in North Smithfield.
R.I. She was 64.

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natJonll raclology unit
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Bouch~r. an assoc1at~ professor of adult h~ahh nursmg at

Peter Heller, 78, a professor of
Ger man and comparative lit eratu re who had served as chair
of the old Department of German and Slavic Languages and
as acting chair of th~ D~part ­
m~nt of Modern Languages and
Lit~ratures. died Nov. 7 in his
Williamsville home after a long
illness. HeUer, a scholar, writ~r
and poet, retired in 199 L

Heller directed several National
Endowment for the Humanities
summer semina£5 for coUege and

....-

seM!asthelutinstilullonfor
the Februory 1999'~"'
t h e - althe Auododon
"'lnlernllionll rdatlon Ad(AIEA),the notion's
premier orgoniDIIon ~
within~ programs,- ond policy.

scripts for the Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation.
She receiv~d her bachelor's de gree in nursing from Salve Regina
Co llege, N~wport, R. I., and a
master's degree in medicaUsurgi cal nursing and a doctorate in
educational administration and
supervision from Boston Univer-

sil'y.

In 1977, she left UB to become assistant &amp;an of the Uni·
versityofRhodelsland CoUege
of Nursing, then went to

Emmanuel College of Boston.
where she established a bocalaureate nursing program. Following her retiremmt in 1985,
she served as an education and
administratin consultant.

secondary school teachers at UB and
served as vice president of the Society for Contemporary American Lit·
erature in Ger·
man. H~ was a

of his childhood analysis with Anna
Freud His books on German litcature and philosophy indude Di•l«ria •ruJ Nihilism, £5say&lt; on Lasing.
Nietzsche, Mamt and Ko.jkil and

founding member

Studies on N~rzsche.

of the interdisci -

Throughout his life, he wrote and
published poetry and fiction in Ger·
man and English. A Festschrift in h&gt;S
honor, Crisis and Culture in Post-Enltghtmment Germany, appeared in
1993.

plinary Graduate
Group in Modern
German Studies.

During his career.
he =rived several
NEH and Guggenheim grants.
He recently published an account

HeU~r earned a licentiate of mu sic and a bachelor of arts degree

from McGill University and

master's and doctoral degrees in
German and oomparative titcature from Columbia U~ity.
He had taught at the Univ&lt;rsity
ofMassachwcttsfor 14 years before coming to UB in 1968.
He is survived by a son,

Stephen; four daughters. Anne
of Cambridge, Mass.; Joan

Humphreys of Ashville, N.C.;
Vivian of Red Hook and Eve; a

brother, Marc, of Coopemown;
and six grandchildren.

LUis Mosovich, 72,
former associate professor of pediatrics

l9gues ond the cammunlly.

lJlo..-Mntlrhll.t-&gt;- to .

funded by the U.S. Department of

Health. Eduation and Welfare. She
was a consultant on nursing manu-

Peter Heller, 78,
retired professor of German and comparative literature and chair

,..,.,._,flit..-~

U8tohostMA
n-clng ~ FellnMry

UB from 1970-77, aJso serv~d as
acung chan ofth~ D~partment of
Graduate Nurs~ Education . She
was actively involved in ~stablish ­
mg the university's rehabilitation
nursing program.
The author of "Pnmary Care:
Readings and Guidclines.n pub
lished in 1976,shewasa project di rector for a primary-care program

Funenll services were held
Tuesday in Delaware Pa~k Memorial Chapel for Luis
Mosovich, 72. r~tired pediatric
direc to r of the int ensive care
unit at C hildren 's Hospital and

an associate professor of pediacrics
at UB. Mosovich died unexpect ·
edly Nov. 7 in hiS home in ButfaJo.
Mosovich, a native of Argen tina who received his under graduate and medical degrees

from the University of Cordova,
Argentina , joined the staff of

of the intensive-care unit. He

Children's Hospital in 1956. He

Survivors include his wife .
Gloria; a son, Jonathan; a
daughter, Lida; and a brother,
James, of Buenos Aires.

specialized in the treatment of
chi ldren with diabetes and cystic
fibrosis before becoming director

retired in 1!191- .

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Ethics code
f.:.ontlnued from page 1

my relations wHh my students
This is a problem, th 1s a maJor
problem for y-ou il!l ta cult)','' he
~aid, suggesting the senate need!&gt;
a more "exact mg .. repnrt before
acting on the issue.
Noting that his committee had ,
in fact, met, Boot said it envis1ons
an environment at UB "whe re stu~
dents feel welcome and professors
are inteiJectual and social animals.
The fact that you see only the out put of the committee (the pro·
posed code) doesn't mean there
wasn't substantial discussion" on
the issue, he said.
Powhatan Wooldridge, assoc1 ·
ate professor of nursing, noted
that of the two ve rsions that had
be~n presented to the FSEC the
previous week, senators seemed to
be unanimous 1n preferring the
version that included th e wordmg
"sexual relations," as opposed to
the version that was less specific.
Boot replied that h1s commi ttee
had induded soc1al mteractions in
the code "because that ·s what the
committee felt was appropriate ."
But, Wooldridge insisted, the
new version of the code can be
1nt~rpret~d as preventing faculty
members from accepting social
mvitat ions. such as att~nding a
graduation party at a studen t's

house o r JOinmg a student for a
..-up of coffee at Starbu cks, because
tho!&gt;c activ ities would constitute
"asymmetncal" relationsh1ps, fa vo nng one st udent over another.

out "a kind ofbemgn, generaJ statement of pnnciple" actually would
affect faculty behavior, and won dered how diverse interp[etations
of a code would be handled and

Don Schack. professor of math-

how the policy would be enforced.

L·matics, told senators that over the
yL·ars, most of the complaints he has
fielded from students are of the sort,
'""So and so's kid is in his class; how
am I gotng to g~t an even break'?
" It may well be that . .. the issue of
~x ual relations with someone in
you r class is a much more serious
issue. However. the other type (of
relationship ) is a much more fre qu~nt issue," said Schack, adding
that he once received a complaint
from a student that a class m~mber

played tennis regularly with the in structor and that relauonship af.
fected hi~ access to the teacher and
the fairness of the grading.
"There are a lot of things which
worry the students; there are a lot of
soaal activities which are, quite ob\'JOusly, to be mispcrceived by one's
classmates. I don't think that, in fuct.

1f you're really going to deal with the
LSSue of how our interactioru with
ou r students affect the entire class's
perception of their access to th~ professor.! don't think W&lt; should be ignoring those issues, either."
Swartz questioned how putting

" This Isn't • kind o f -

w~-..---.........
~~

(faculty,_,_..), It's •

code of conduct."
IOHNBOOT

Boot told senators his comm it
tee was proposing "a code of con·
duct; it is not a penal code," and that
UB is "behind the times" because
it does not have such a statement.
ul don't see this enforced in any

legal sense at all."
The code is a document that can
be used by chain to point out to f.Jc ·
uhy members what the acceptable
standard of conduct is, Boot added.
.. This isn't a kind of situation
where we have the sexual campus
police pursuing (faculty mem ·
hers}. It 's a code of conduct."

William Baumer, professor of philosophy. pointed out that the FSEC

the pm'ious week had rejected a suggestion to combine the issue of con-

sensual relations with the sexual ha rassment code that's being drafted
Instead, senators decided to
present to the full senat~ a general
principle gov~rning consensual relations that, upon presumed adoption by the ~nat~. then would be
covered by the enforc~ment procedures of the ~mal harassment

policy. Bau m&lt;r recalled.
.. 1 suggest that, having commit

4

ted ourselves to that cou.rse and havmg, in dfect. invited John and th~
committee to proceed along that
lme, we ought not, at this point. to
tum the canoe around and dump
us all in the water," he said.
Baumer's motion to present the

proposed code to the full senate was
defeated He then made a motion to
return th~ code to the Academ1c

Freedom and Responsibility Com
minee with two instructions: That
supporting comments cxplairung

the principles outlined in the docu ·
ment be appended to the code, and
that the committee reconsider some
of the phrasing used in the code. m
light of the FSEC discussion.
That motion wasappl"OYI:d by the
FSEC, which then voted to cancel
th~

FacuJty Senate meeting on Nov.

10 becauS&lt; of a tight agenda.

�November11.19981Vot.31J.Ikl11 Repcwter

Du!Mai!JII
SEFA should address issue of discrimination
To the unlwenlty community:
As a memb&lt;r of the univ&lt;nity oommunity, I have b&lt;en
atremdy distr&lt;SS&lt;d to observe ontt again this year, UB's
mstitutional suppon of the annual SEFA campaign
(through weekly exhonations to achieve 100 percent
compliana:, etc.). Although I do realiu that SEFA provides the opportunity to donors to give to many worthy causes of their own choosing, I can't under&gt;tand
why the Boy Scouts of America is allowed to remain a
memb&lt;r organization of United Way. The Boy Scouts
of America openly discriminates against gay citizens,
refusing to aUow openly gay individuals to become
scouts or scout leaders, citing its status as a ..private organization" that can legally exclude gays for"moral rea sons." (I don't rome by this information anecdotally,
I've repeatedly attempted to volunteer with the Boy
Scout organization---Uley don't even answer my letters.)
OK, so mayb&lt; now ynu're thinking. "weU,gee, though
I think of myself as a lib&lt;ral, tolerant per&gt;on, it does
make me a bit queasy to think about havinghomosauals around my child_" Or. one might say, "no one has to

gi\'(' to the Boy Scouts through SEFA. 1r'~ an mdJv1dual
choice to whom one gives." Here's the quest1on I put to
you: does SEFA have any member orgam7..atJOru thai
deny memb&lt;r&gt;hip to African Americans, H15paruc.&gt;, the
disabled. or any other minority group or md1v1duaJ
based on a condition of birth? Wouldn't a good many
of you ~ o utraged if this were the case?
I think that SEFA/United Way needs to b&lt; held ac
countable for the discriminatory practices of 1ts mem
ber organizations and I would ask that until th1s JSSUt.'
is resolved that UB reconsider its commitment of stall'
resources, material and time in support of SEFA. It
may not be illegal for the Boy Sc.out.s to discriminate,
but it's the opposite of what I would call moraJ. As a

gay man, I would say on b&lt;half of gays that we ar&lt;
just Like any other group of people: we try to live moral
lives; we don't recruit; we don't molest children-and
common decency dictates that we be treated with the
same dignity and respect as anyone else.

-foseph Murr•y. Deportment of Geography

Vigilance of Getzville Fire Company is appreciated
Letter to the Editor.
members ofthe response team, they go on the as This is a brief, but sincere, note of appreciation to
the Getzvil le Fire Department, which on Oct. 27 an·
sumption that a real and present danger exists from
swe red an ala rm i.n th e Cooke/ Hochstetter build the alarm signal (fa uil'y or not ). I know we all bl'
come somewhat complacent m our day -to -day rou mg complex. While the actual problem lay in a faulty
smo ke alarm , the response can only be termed as
tines on campus. but it is very comforting to know
that th ere is a safety apparatus in plact', ready and
amazin g. In addition to a campus response from
Public Safety and Occ upational and Envi ronm en willing to answer when the need arises . On behalf
of our faculty, staff and students within the l ..ooke/
tal Safety, the Getzville Fire Compa ny sent three fire
Hochstetler com pin. thank you , Getzville F1re lk
trucks and a full hook -and -ladd er crew. Why was
th iS done, when in fact there was no real danger of partment, and to the other Lam pus safety offi~· •ab
fire {o nl y a fauhy alarm)? As exp lained to me by
for their vigilanlt'.
--Mkhael S. Hudeckl. research professor and executtve offtc(r
- Ron•ld Berezney, professor ond chalf Deportment of Btologtcof Soen&lt;es

Events Calendar
contJnuod from - a
Venlon City

Exhibits

Venion City, a casual survey of lQf'Onto

The COonions o f - Martin llouH

~~~ra~~~~~)~~~sr:

-The UniYmJty
GriiJCIIffArchiYes ~ts ill sp«aal
archival Wlibition on the gardens of the

Darwin 0 . Martin House illnd the Graycliff

:s~~~~~~~

Lloyd Wight-O.IWin o . Maron
Manu&gt;aipt Collection, ..cent glu from

~~!:'!~~and

landscape plans from Comell UnN&lt;nity.
~exhibition otfen

unique ~ht into

;::=.':h~-=.,.~~ the
oral historiel. \Yright once : : {"Study
nann, OYe natln, stay dose to nature It
will rr.oer fJH you." 1hCs conc.ept was
appuent. to Darwin 0 . Martin and he
f&gt;mily, who convr6sioned Wright to
design the Martin House (bUll 1901-04)
and Gr,aycliff, their summrt' ~e
(0011 1'926-27).

The exhibitk&gt;n, running unul 1anuary. ~~
on view on the Spec~! Col'ectw)m
Reading Room, 420 CApen Hall, North
Campus. For rTlOf'e Information, call
645-2916.

Second Floo&lt; Gallerieo, CFA. through
0K. 20. ArtisU ~ted Include

~~~~;::.·:~~n.

Greg Hefford, Ka~n Hcndenon, Nestor

==:

~s~~n~~ley. Anda

~~~;:;,Tunno

Houo for the UB Art CaiM!ry .md the

~=~~~~~1~t3~~~.!~~-~
p m ., Sundays

Jobs
F.culty

As.slstMrt./As.sod.M:e ProfH!Of
Depattment of ~t Soenc.~ and
Systems, ~ OF-8068. Asslmnt
Professor-Medicine, Pulmonary/Cnocal
C... DMsion, RPCI, Pmting •F-8069
Asstst.lt/ADodate Professor.

~";~El,'f~.,

FuM Proles&gt;o&lt;-Oepartment ol Electric.ol

tr'..,~~~~72~-

Tho u.tJonlsm of Db-. Sh
The School of Atchftecture and ptanmng

0epart:ment d Computer 5dence and
~ Postng lf-.8073 Auociate/

visiti, profei501" of architecture, thrnrh

807&lt;4 An1stant/Auodate Professor
(four posltlons avallat:*e)-Oepart.ment ol
Computer Sdence and Englf'leef1ng.
Posting IF-8075 . Auistant/As.sodate
Professo&lt; {CFT}Oepartment ol
Pediatrio,. Posbng "F-8076. Assl.st4nt
Profenor-Oepartment o1 Ped.alnO,
Postng "f-.8077 . AnlstanVAuodate

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01strict Si,., located m Cape Town,
South Afnca, was declared a Wh1te area
1n 1966 and the government spent
millions to rekKate 55,000 Africans and
Indians to remote areas of the ciry,

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1ncludes copies of original draW'I~s
from an urban st~ on District S1).

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1nlormat~ 829~1485, ext

120

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Proles&gt;o&lt; {CFT}Oepartment ol
POOiatria, Posbng IF-8078 Anodate1
Ful Professor (GFT)-Oepartmt"flt o1
Pediatria, Pcnting lllf-8079 Aisodate
Full Professor (GFT)-Oepartment ot
~iatria, Posting jjf...8080 A.uin.tntJ
A.1sociate Profeuor..(}ep.trtmt"flt ol
Pediatnu, Posting ff-8081 ClinKal
Assl.stant/Assodate/Full Profeuor
Department ol Ps)&lt;hology. Powng ••
8082. Assistant Profeuor-Dep.vtrnt&gt;nt or
Orgamzation and Human Resourc~
Postlf'l9 lf~1 Assistant ProfeuorDepartrnent of Accounty and l..lw, Posung
•F-8084 Senior As.sistant UbntrianHealth Soence1l.JI:wary, Post1ng •f-808 ~

Research
Prosp&lt;Kt Records Coordinator

=~~~=~Ria~~~ ,'"(tb

98087 Clerkal Specialist !-Grants and

Contraru, Posung lfR-98089 Purcha ~
Anodate--Research FoundatiOn
Purchasing. Post1ng 'R-98098 Oeril II
Procurement Servic.es. Post1ng •R98099. Caertc ll~an::h f.oundatJOn
Purch.ulng, Posting I'R-981 00
Ulboratory Manager-COS. Post1ng •R
98101 . Secretary 11-Soc:aal and
Preventive Medidne Women's Health
IM&amp;atrve, Posung ifR-98102 . Research
ProfKt Coonilnator-Sooal and
Preventi'V'e MediCine Women'i Health
IM&amp;atrve, Posting itR-98101 Dental

::,:!~~n!RC:::ff~menl ol Oral BIOlogy.
Profession&amp;!
AulsWrt. Director, NY Metro Otfkr of
AdmiWom {SL...}Office ol"""""""'

=::~(=-jobs"":=..,

Center fOI' Urban Studies, Postng 'P-81 00,
8101 lnstroctional Support Tedvlklan

~~0~.~~~=~·

Internal Audl\,

Posting IP-8116.

~~:t.'=~'

Student Ftnanc.es and Rec:on:i!., Posing •P
8111. Assistant House Manager (Sl-1)College elM&gt; and Soences. Posting rP
8124. Assistant AtNetk: Director,
Complonce {SL-&lt;)-Aihletics. Posting •P
8126. ~. lntematlonal Student
and Sdlo&amp;ar Services (Sl-4)-0ffk:e d
lntemaoonal Educabon, Postng IP-811 7
-Manoge&lt;{SL-1~uom

7

Spoa·~ ­
Volle~Dall
Northern Illinois l, UB 0

Ball State 1, UB 0

The 'N'QfT1en's volleybaM team km. to Hld-Amenan Conference opponenu &amp;II
SQ.te (11 - IS, 10-IS. 7- 1S) Uld Northern lll1n0ts ( IS- 17 9- IS. 10-IS) bsc - k 11'1
Abnn1Arena..
.
In Fncby's match against BaN Sate. freshman Ken Shieh led Coach Sob
MU'N'ell's squad wtth ntne ldlls, one ser'Vlce i~~Ce and ettM dip
Ap1nn MAC powerhouse Northern IIIUlOtS. ~ and Apritle S.....eeong had
13 kllk ~e Shtds i~~dded IS dtgs Ctwsey So..rb4er contributed wtth II kills
and 20 dor

~occer
WOMEN' S

Northern Illinois 2, UB 0
The women's soccec te.Jm
completed ra season With ill 2 -0
loss to the number-t'W'O Red,
Northern
che quartet"ftml
of the Mtd-Arnenc:an Conf~renc~
Tournament.
The seventh-seed Bulls
ma.naged onty one shot on p 1n
the contest. and rernamed scoreles)
until the second half Sophomore
goalkeeper jamte Adams stopped I I
shots tn the loss

l"100n·'"

MEN' S

UB I, Northern Illinois 0
Akron 1, UB 2
The men's soccec te&lt;rom competed
an exctung week of MAC
chi~~mptOnstup games. upsetong
Northern lllinocs, 1-0. m illn
overtime thriller on Nov b . and
finally endmg the1r season With ill ) .
2 loss to Akron on Nov 8 m tnP'e
overnme
In UB's quarterfinal wm, fUOIOr
Alt-A.mena c:andi&lt;bte Steve
Butcher booted the pme-winmng
goal ofi an USist from 8run
McCalliOn UB goalkeepe,. j1m
Schoenberg ha.d SIX aY6 to
preserve the V\CU&gt;ry for the sixth-seeded sqt.ad.
McCalltOn and Butcher scor'ed boch goals for COilch john AstadiUo ~ tNm 1n
Sundq's semifirW loss to number-one seed Akron. Butcher') goal came dunng
the first of chree ~rome penods
m

~a~Ketoall
WOMEN ' S

Syr-acuse A ction 7 4, UB 63
The women's bu~JI tum dropped ru lone exhebftlon game d the season to
the Y1srttng Syracuse Aroon. 7-4-6)
'
Setuor pomt guard Cathenne Ji~~cob led first-year co.Jch Chery+ Dozter's
squilld wtth I 7 poents and four as.s1sts Sophomore guard Sonia Ort~ i~~nd
sophomo~ centet"" Tifbny Bell ha.d s~ rebounds apece. wt-.He Bell added I 0
points Sen101" forward Sanunttu. Cerny wn five--of-~x from the chanty stnpe
and i~~dded I I po1nts 1n the loss

MEN ' S

Premi er All-Stars 77, UB 76
The men's basketball team lost 1ts fii"St exhlbttl()fl pme to the Prem1er All-San
77 ~ 7b . on Nov~ mA.IummA~

Sophomo~ N 1koli111 AJexeev md Koran Goodwm led the Bull's offenseve
uack With 17 and 16 pomts.
SeniOr Nate johnson grabbed 13 ~nds and contnbuted e1ght pomts
wh1le wphomo~ Ryan Peterson added seven a.sststs md five pomu

~wimmin~
WOMEN ' S

Posing jjP-8128. Assistant Dean tor

UB 116, Howanl 22

=K~~t ~~-Oean\

Tke UB women 's sw1mmmg te;~m milllnt..lmed IU perfect reco rd by
defeaung Howard 116 -22. and C illnt S IU ~ 12 ] t I m t he Alumn• Arenill
N ;u:atonum
The Sulh ....-ere led by lle.se/le Tnn1did. who rook first -place fin1 ske~ 1n me
200-metec tnd1v1dual medley (2 18 t 7) 200~mete r buaerlty and t 00-meter
buaerfly (59 01) She i~~lso wu a member o f the wmmng 200-meter rei~ ·
medley squad ( I·S t 52). along With Knsten Z1mmerman K1mberley Tkeet:ge J.nd

....."""""· Sd&gt;ool ol ~ Posting ••
8129 AIXSystems~ or(Sl-4)

=t~~=~h.
Admlnl.str.ltot (Sl-4)-Center lOt
Computational Research. PostJog IIP-8 1 31
Coordinator oflnstructk:lnal Technology
{Sl...)-W.Ikway Technology Mode. Posting
•P-8112. Web SpedMis1 (Sl-1}-tnstltutt&gt;

UB I 23 , Canisius I I

lnget" Rooneem

~~~=.r;:~~.~

Theet:ge J.I)O had Ylctones 1n thE' 100-meter bre.uu troke t I 08 101 and 200
meter breut.Stn'&gt;ke (2 ) I 60)
And~ Sk1llnun dommued the d1Y1ng evenu placmg fi rst 1n botl"o me one
illnd three-meter drve' With 2._. S i~~ nd 2H ~~ po&lt;nu

~~~;:!~~t~~lt\

MEN ' S

Ok'Kt.DI" ( MP- 3)-~r's Office. PostJnQ
•P-81 34 Instructional Suppott
Technician (Sl -3)-0ean\ Office. Arb dnC1
~e.

Post1ng •P 8136

Non-Competttlve/ labor

Claulfled Clvtl Servke
8uiding s.e.Mc.e Aide (NS-3, p.vt time,
temponwy) {U... .,.,._,available)
Un~ Fac~itll!'1, LIIW • to bt&gt;
determrned
Fo'trPPrbmXJot'l()'l,c.t7.iRttl'cna..:.l.d~-J
~ b~~t'ml2~ 5 J84 J cniobt:J,.
,,..,. ..Xf' pn:1fff1f mtn,d0'1\ lu lrllormorOJ Dr'
5pon~orl'11 Proqram1
~41 6 C/'oll \

R,. lffirt h ,ob1 conroc r

UB 21 2, Howard 63
The men 's

SW~mmmg t~m

won 1U f1n.t nu tch of the

~euon .1pun~l

1-io·····:u d

2t2-6l
John N1lles and Chn H1ckey led Coi~~Ch Budd Tennm \ SQUJd Wi th three first
place fimshes ap~ece Nllle) won the SO-meter freestyle and the l 00-mete r
fre~style . while Hickey claimed top-honon rn the I00-meter backstroke
( I +4.28) illnd 500-metec freestyle (&lt;4 Sl 10)
Both i~~b O were membe"" of the v1 ct on~a 400-meter treesryle rei&lt;~)
(1171&lt;4)

�81 Repo.otes

November 1~ 1!198/Vol. 311.11.11

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Goodmon .. 838-5869.

~ofOrol

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TheRelotlomhlplletwe&lt;n
Oral ond Syst&lt;mk 01-.e.
H-..]. Genco, D.D.S.. Ph.D.,

Dpa: Clos!lcs !.hoe.~-

-

~~~- 7p.m.

DistinguiW!d Prof.,..,.
and Chair, Dept of Oral

SUNY

8""o.9Y. School of Oent&gt;l

Medkme. 355 Squire. 8-9 a.m .

~

Ull Student Art Club
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Center lor theM$ lnl&lt;motionol

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Student Art Club and
Printmaking. For more

Thursday

Information, can Jeff Sherven at
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more information, call Ubrary
Help Center at 645-3528.

Pegrum LKtllft Series
Atmospheric Paleockwlotloo
and Continental PateodkNitr.

. r.i"~a~~J:~"t
~~.
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· UniV. of Michlg&gt;n. 216 Nawral
Sciences Complex. HO p.m.
· Free. S~ by D&lt;pt. of
Geology and D&lt;pt. of Physia.

~~­

M.lthematkJ Colloquklm
Patten Formation In Metal
Alloy!. Prof. Thomas wanner,
Univ. of Marytand/Baltimore
County. 103 Diefondorf. South
Campus. 4 p.m. Free.

MlaOJOft- fo&lt; ll&lt;glnnen.
Capen127.~

Ubrary. 11 a.m.-Noon. Free

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information, call library Help

Seminar

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Center at 645-3526 .

A Cilppello Concert

. In the Nerwus System-A

~e.'!'H~i. Y:'ioS:~IoS'~

~~~"!"~ng

more information, call Jason

~~~~114
Hochst~er Hall. North

Majewski at 829-4575 .

Monday

in.formation, call Or. Ronald
8erezney (Host) at 645-2363 .

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Microsoft Power Point for
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rTlCIR! information. call the
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Education. For ~ information,
call Or. Mary Finnidc. at 829·3291
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A Culture of Dependence?
The RelaUonshlp 8et'ween

Pubtk AssiJtance and Publk
Opinion . Saundra K. Schneider,
Univ. of South Carolina. 280
Parte 9:30a.m . Free.

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eva1ts In the electronic

c...aenct.r will be Included

Corrvrunity
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BarTy~L. 01ean~. m. Froe.

~~~~
Ros.seland at 829-3325.

PriY&lt;Ite Confesions.. Screening
Room, Center for the Atts. 7
p.m. S3 for SbJdents and seniof"

.

ro; Education and Resean:h on

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information, cal Penka
Skachkova at 829-3•151 .

--a.~

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-

Unklown atf. Poor and

~~~~.Tum
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caiiRfWG at 829-3451 .

Melarnorphosl&gt;-e

~SchoOl d Edation. 330
Student UrlioQ. 3-5 p.m. F..._
~ b)'111e Institute for

==~~

hgrum

M.lthematkJ-Spedal
l.e&lt;tun
Patt«n Formation In Non-

~~~~tion.

Knots and 3-Mantfokls and
the Non-Perlodklt)' of Cydk
Brarte:hed Coven of SJ ~
Knou. Prof. OIMer Collin, Umv.

can 645-ARTS.

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Prof. lou Kondk. Duke Univ.
103 Diefondorf. South

Wednesday

Pennsytvania State Univ. 216
Natur11l Sciences Complex. North

G.eometry (Topology

R epresentation Varieties for

Diefendorf. 4 p.m. Free.

Concert/ l«ufty Redtal
joanne Castelonl ond Mldlad

~=~~more
information, c:MI64S-2921 .

Dance

CMn and Dancers. The

Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow.

Campus. 4 p.m. Free.

Tuesday

17

KeyBank Dance ~es. Center

for the Arts. 8 p.m. S18, S1S,
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information, can 645--ARTS.

Saturday

14
t.AembeD; S75 for all oth«s. For

rT'IOf'e

infOfTTlation, caH Ilene
at 64S-21 07

F~nn

Lecturo-

~~Engelder.

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PhJIIa~
Bose-Einstein Conctens.tion of
Exdtons In Two Dimensions.
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228 Notur11l Sciences Complex.
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Philosophy Col........

Union210. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

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presiden~ at 683-6890.

Adaptation In the Pwinergic
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(}&amp;A-Madison Boyce explains the
work of the university ombudsman.

PAGE 2

Sinoking Advice

PAGE •

FSEC continues debate on ethics
code; statemtmtto be reworked.

November 5.1!111/ ti 30.1*1. 11

Costume
Parade
Dressed for Hallov.ieen,
the Pep Band marches
into UB Stadium Saturday
to entertain the crowd at
the football game against
Western Illinois. About
12,000 fans, including many
costumed students taking
part in the Spooktacular
Contest, were in the stands
for the Bulls' final home

Headrick to step down as provost Jan. 1
Triggle will assume dual role as provost and dean of the Graduate School

W

Bi' SUE WUETCHEII
News Services Associate Director

ith the new CoUege
of Arts and Sciences
formed and ope:rat ingandtheacadcmic
planning process well under way,

Provost Thomas E. Headrick will step
down as UB's chief academic officer
effective Jan. I , President William R.
Greiner announced Tuesday.
Headrick will return to h1 s

former role as senaor counselo r 10
the president, a position he held
prior to being named provost.
David j . Triggle, vice provost for
gradua te education and dea n of th t~
Graduate School, wiU assume the
dual role of provost and dean of the
Graduate School.

Headrick assumed the roll' of provost on May 3, 1995, aftl'r tht· _,uJ
den death of then-Provost Aaron

Bloch. Universi ty -wide academic
planning was his platform for academic lead=hip. His academic planning document-which engag&lt;d the

campus like nothing dse in recent
memory when it was released on Feb.
14, 1997--outlined to the university
commun ity the changes, both admmiStrntlve and philosophical, that
Head ri ck believed the university
must undergo if it is to become a premier, public- research institution.
"Tom has done an absolutely remarkable job," said Grei ner, notmg
that Headrick held a number nf
.. troubleshooting jobs" at UBOVl'T the.~
}'Cars. the biggest of which W.b step
pang 111 JS provost after Bloch's death.
"i:veryonc who worked with h1m
1). goi ng to miss him. He's a real team
player and a real universny citizen."
Among Headrick's accomplish
menb a!!&gt; provosl. Greiner ci ted the.·

crea tion p f the CoUege of Arts and
Sciences, the creation of the Depart ment of Computer SCience and En gineering, and the pending merger
of the School ol
Info rm atiOn and
·Libr ary Stud1e'&gt;
and th e OepM t·
ment of ( .nmmu
lllC3110n.
Headr11..k al~o
Mo rchestrated the
re~trul..lunng ol
leadership of UH's health "CLCih.. l.'s,"
mduding the h armg of M achad
Bernardmo a .. \'LCt' prcsadent lor
health affa 1r,, ,,., wd l a!&gt; hcgmmng
to bu ild,, nc.'" rt""IUTu.' ,\tltKalwn
wstem lor the ;u. Jd c.&gt;tn l\ unit~ and
1mp lcmc.·nt1ng long. term hud ge1
tng. plan!!. h\' ,1dded
(.remer ....11J f k.1dnd wdl ,1!1''"'
ln~~k tn th e furtherdt·, ,gn o lthl·

hudgct and rt·source -a /l ocati o n
system and m the subm1ssion of a
m assto n report as requested by
SUNY central administration, 1n
o rdc.-r cu "ma1ntam con 11nuuy on
!hose proi("CI!!&gt; ...
·1r •gg lc and Headr11.k h ave
worked closely togethe r for more
than th ree years and both agree
that con tmu1t v as essentiaL
As provost and dean, Tn gg.le also
\'1.'111 contmuc to work on academu.
"'t rateg_.~ c plan nmg. along wtth the
deans and olhcr cons tltuencl~. and
\"'Ill ovc: rsee the day· ttl -day wnrL ul
the Provo!&gt;!'!&gt; Offiu:l .rea ncr noted Tngglr: wall dr:
vole parti\Uiar Jtknlum 1u thr: 1:.
\Un of grJduah.· t·dul.ll tOn .wd
rc.'M'.JH.h. Jnd wil l work wath l&gt;ak
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"'-'•'r'-h. "ttl tullv ant&lt;.·gralt'_lhr: l )f
C::onlhlt,~~ on~

6

UB Business Alliance: offering one-stop help m
BY ELLEN GOLDBAUM
News

Servaces

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Editor

US I NESSE~

on IVrst rrn
New York and ht.'}'Ond
have: a new and 1mprovc.-d
way to access the Umversityat Buffalo in the UB Busi ness AI
liance, an organization designed to
enha nce the universit y's partner·
ships with industry.
The UB Busin ess Allia nce. tht•
launch of which was announced at
a press conference today. will pro vide a central focu!&gt; fo r the economic·developmcnt and industnaloutreach activities of the univers1ty.
Whelher companies are seek.ing
assistance with resea rch and devel
opment, staff training, testing a
new product, licensing a UB m
venlion or att racting student m
terns, they now wilJ find it with
just o ne call to the UB Business
Alliance. The UB Business Alliance
combines four critical services the

umver'&gt; ll\' prov1de, In mdu .. tn
• The Center tOr lndu!!&gt;tnal f-Ile."\.
tlvenl.'" ( TCIF ). affihJtcd w1th th\·
XhocJI ol l-.ngmc.'t.'nng ..1nJ Apph(.'l.i
~Xlt'lll ~. whiCh otfa!l trauung pro
gra nu, r\.-scarch -..tnd-dt•v(.• lopmL'Ilt
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assess m ent~. and tran.slatl&lt;lll ~rv11.. L~
• ()fti(t• o f Technolog,· I ran!&gt;kl
ServKe~. wh1ch !&lt;tptc l a h zc.·~ 111 tdc.·n
tlfymg, patentmg and lac.:cmmg to
the pn va te secto r mvenu •.m .. df
vcloped at UR
• UR Fo undation ln cuhator. op
erated m cooperatiOn ''' llh the.·
Western New York Te..:hnology I k
velopmcnl Center, wh1ch suppo rt!&gt;
the establishment of nr:w t&lt;.-chnol
ogy-intensivc bu:,inl"SSCS. Many are
run by UB fa culty, s tudenb or
alumni; commercialize UB inven
t1ons, or provide applied· learmng
opportunities for UB studen ts.
• Health Care Business Ce nter, a
partnership with the Health Ca re

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c:r..tl ol thl' umvers1tv 's mdu stnal
as:,1stann· program!&gt;. the UB Busi ness Alliance will allow the univer
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hoard. !1-.'Ud that lu~.u....mg L'B'!I c.·c.o
nomic·devdopment and 1ndustnal
outreach a('ttVllll':!l ""1.1! modemur:
and sunphfy mdmtrv ·~ abdtt\ to
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expenise. The UR Bu~•nessAII I aJKt'
will enhance and facihtatc lhl' acce;
sibility of the universu y's resourcn
to mdustry in New York State."
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Madison L. Boyce is the university's ombuds~an.
His office is located in 405 Capen Hall, :North Campus;
telephone 645·6154; email &lt;heybud@acsu.buffalo.edu&gt;.
Wh•t cloeJ the unlvenlty om·
budsm•n do 7

a t - . . , . Polytechnic: lnstJ..

Hears and investigates complaints
objectively. These usually origi ·
nate from students and may in volve anything in their university

tule.

experience. As appropriate, we

pubic--

tlonll Mlnsb/Exceptionol """'
dllnes: Minds ond Mlc:hi['OS"
held Oct. 8

- ·· ·EnnancMcs,ossoclato
-of-Student Lifo ond Buf.
1a1o c.nt.r chap!... """'to&lt; o1
United UniYersity ProfesSions
(UUI'), has boon otorud to the
UUP oxecutivo boltd.
Eimlnolllo has 5&lt;IWd UUf' in
Ylrious apocities It chapter lnd
and b p.olf of
UUP griovance
committee. He also has boon
appointed to the nogotlatlom
committee lor the upcoming

-fowls
the-

UUP conflict tolks. .

(including the assistant ombudsman and graduate -student advoca te) may adopt a position of ad vocacy for/with the student. Our
ultimate goal: bring the issue to
resolution .

Why did you choose t o work
In this • re•7
I spent more than two decades in
Residential Life administration . In
re trospect. I guess I received my
training for this position through
"baptism under fire." My long ten ure a t the university-when
coupled with my desire to work
directly with students and makr a
differencf' in their lives-made the
n· -c reation a nd building of thi s
office a wonderful opportuniry.
Also, I both studi ed and emulated
the work of colleagues and m en to rs in the process o( getting to the
position of ombudsman.

Wh•t kind o f tr•lnlng Is nec: -

e.snry to become •n ombudsm•n7
A " training plan" for this position
almost defies description. Famil iarity with the workplace--its nu ances and constitu ents-is terri bly important. Dedication to the

principles of objectivity, ind~n ­
dence, accessibility, confidentiality
and justice are commonly cited as
cornerstones upon which a suc cossfuladvo6cy program is built.

Wh•t would you do, for Instance, If • student came to
y- with a •-plaltlt about
the &lt;las_, practkes of a
professor, teaching assistant

What kinds of problems a re
brought to your office, end by
wtlom7

Classroom P.r.tctice complaints ar•
especially difficult for a student to
make. We assure them confiden ~
tiality at the boginning of their as·
sociation with this office, but ad vise that a point may come beyond
which we cannot be of help if con·
tinued maintonance of conlid&lt;nce
is required. We listen to the stu dent, attempt to pinpoint what the
student wants and then pursue-creatively, if necessary-an out come that is mutually satisfactory.
We strive to facilitate win ~win out ~
comes.

Ou r door and ears ar~ open to any
perso n who brings or refers an is sue to us. Although there are no
restrictions as to what investigations we may initiate, we will make
an appointment for a student with
a more appropriate problemsolver when we deem that to be
more expeditious in reaching a
solution. An objective for us is to
serve as a one~stop-shop as often
as possible. We are willing to discuss any issue a studenr wishes to
share and we address the issue of
confidentialit y early~on. Recent
issues: faculty/student co nflicts,
sy llabu s issues, graduation re quirements, academic dishonesty,
student account disputes, harassment , etc.

Wh•t's the most common
problem th• t your office
h•ndles7
More often than not, communicati on difficulties become apparent
as a problem is dissected. Student/
professor issues usually (Op our
semesterly analysis, with depart ment, program and grading issues
followmg closely.

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Why Is It Important that a
uniYenlty
•n ombucbmUI?

h•••

·

The need for an ombudsman service probably increases propo rtionately to the size: of the student
population. For anyone not in this
.. business," it would be difficult to
conceive of the number of things
that can (and do) go wrong in a
student's ~fe.l have noticed mem bership growth in tho University
and College Om buds Association
( UCOA) as the valuo of this stu·
dent service is being recognized
and made available at more colleges and universities. The fore sight o f UB's dean of st udents en-

abled us to incorporate this is·
sue-solving service for students
into the Divisio11 of Stud&lt;nt
Affairs nearly nine years ago.
Countless solutions to sometimes difficult issues havo been
dovised during these years.
" - mOfty COMplaints does

your office lnftrtlgate
uch,..-7
This office doesn't log every
contac t made with us . Frequently, a single, thoughtful
co nversation results in the
identification of a strategy for
solving the problem. I estimate
more than 100 cases per year
require more long-term work.

What _.tlon do,._ wish
lhedubd, -bow
would you hllft .... lt7
How do students com~ to know
about the services of the
Ombudsman's Office! Peoplo
often rome to this office after
having been through a number
of other places within the uni ·
versity. Over tho years. we have
tried to creato a positM: rappor1
with th&lt; student' body, faculty
and aruninistration. Therefor•.
word-of-mouth often leads
people to our door. We 1trive to
remain neutral in the process of
bringing issues to closur&lt; and I
am happy to stand upon the
record we havo compiled.

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90 seconds per patient could save many lives

Doctors: tell your patients to quit smoking

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AMILY physicians wouJd
add only about II minutes
to their workday if they
co un se led all of their
smoking patients to quit at every
visit, a study published in The }ourtlal of Family Practice has shown.
Those II minutes couJd make a
major difference in the publi c
health, said Ca rlos R. )aen, lead
investigator o n the study and associate professor of family medi cine io the School of Medi cine and
Biomedical Sciences.
He suggested that physicians
should stop thinking of smoking
as a bad habit and start thinking
of it as a chronic disease.
"We know that advice from fam ily physician s about the dangers of

"We know that lldYke from family
physldans -

the dangers of smoking

can be very effective."
CARlOS R. JAiN

smoke, according to a 1990 repon of
the Surgeon General. A 1996 study

showed that most family physicians

are confident they can help patients
change their smoking behavior.
Yet, researchers on the current
st ud y found that while physicians
advised patients to stop smoking
du r ing more than half of
"welln ess" visits, they did so with
only one-fourth o f smo kers see n
for a chronic illness, and only onesmoking can bt very effective," said third of smoke rs suffering from
]aen, a member of the federal panel chron ic illnesses related to smok that developed the 1996 clinical ing.
The study was designed to find
practice guidelines on smoking cessation. "One of the reasons physi - out how often, and under what circumstances. family physicians pro cians give for not doing it is time .
.. We've shown it takes an average vide non -smoking advice, and how
of 90 seconds per patient. Even if a lo ng they spend doing iL It involved
physician sees 30 patients a day, and . 138 family physicians in northeast a quarter of them are smokers (the em Ohio and 2,655 of their patients.
Nurse researche rs sat in on connationaJ average).that amounts to
only about II extra minutes a day." secutive office visits on two sepa rate days and recorded in seconds
Smoking - ~ tion advice is the
most important preventive service and minutes the amount of time
physicians can offer patients who the physicians devoted to each sub-

ject or activitv. They also noted the
reason for each patient's visit, i.e.,
for a chronic, or long-term condi tion ; an acute, or sudden illness, or
a regular "wellness" check-up.
Patients completed question naires after the vis it that included
thei r smoking history. Assessment
of the data from questionnaires
and office visits showed that:
• Only 25 percent of smoking pa·
tients received advice on quitting.
• Fifty-five percent of"wellness·
visit" patients received non-smoking advice.
• Among smokers with ch ronic
co nditions, th ose with smokingrelated illnesses were more likely
to receive advice on quittiog than
tho se whose illnesses were n ot
smoking-related.
• Only 32 perttnt of smokers with
chronic conditions rdated to smoking r«eived advice on quitting.
Jaen said there are many r.asonstime is one-why physicians don't
talk to patients about smoking.

"Most people are sick when they
go to the doctor, and physicians
have along list of things they have
to attend to. There arc many competing demands on the physician's
time. Or, the physician may know
the patient is uncomfortable talk·
ing about smoking and is waiting
for a good time to bring it up.•
Physicians also may fed tboir ef·
forts are a waste o~ time, knowing
smokers won't quit the habit unless they are ready, )aen noted.
.. There is the notion that the
physician is a failure if he can't
convince the patient to quit right
on the spot. We don't hold ourselves to that same standard when
we are dealing with high bl ood
pressure or diabetes."
The clinical practice guiddines
on smoking cessation now caU for
including smoking history and ad ·
vice on quitting as part of taking
vital signs, along with blood pres·
sure, heart rate, etc. Jatn said this
approach seems to be increasing
the number of patiealS receiving
advice on smoking.
.. Nevertheless. we ought to
strive for 100 percent," he stated..
Also participating in the study
Benjamin F. Crabtree, Univtt·
sity of Nebraska Medical Center,
and Stq&gt;hen J. Zyzanski, Meredith
A. Goodwin and Kurt C Stange,
Case Western Reserve University.

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�NovelllberU9!11Nol3Ut 11 Reparias

Preventing substance abuse in children
$12 million grant tv fond three-year study by School ofSocial Work
··y MAllY IIEnt SPINA
News Sefvk.es Editor

Sl.2 million three year federal grant to
evaluate the effective·
ness of family -skills
training to p.revent su bstance
a bust' and other problems in chil-

A

to participate in the study.

from a welfare setting," Kost said.

"'A major goal of our research is
t o detrrmine what prevention
models and services are the most
effective in strengthenin g factors

SFP is composed of 14 skills-training ~ions of approximately two
hours each. Both parents and chiJ -

within the family unit so the children will be less likely to abuse al -

dre.n attend separate classes durin g the firs t h ou r. During the sec-

School of Social Work.
The grant is being funded by the
Centtr for Substance Abuse Prrvention within the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administrati on of the U.S. Departme nt of
Health and Human Services.
Buffalo will be one of 18 sites in
the U.S. where researcheB will exam-

the project, which is being oonduaed
under the auspices of the c:cnter.
Skills training sessions for fiunilics
will be conducted Wlder 5Ubcontract
by the Erie County Council rorthe Pre--

ond h o u~. they work together. The
program also will incorporate social activities, including meals.
She noted that the first group of
families will be stodied beginning in
thespring,addingthat"at leastahalfdozen graduate and post-graduate
students in the School of Social Work
will assist with the project,"
Kost explained that the 1997 New
York State Welfare Rcfonn Law re-

vention of Alcohol and Su bstance

quires that applicants to the Tem -

Abuse, BuffuloGeneral Health Syskms
and l..ak.: Shon: Behavioral Health.
Kost said th e project is an ex-

ine and evaluate the effects of fum

ampl e of innovative projects and
programs that the Sch ool of Social
Work is undertaking as part of its
mission to work with commu nity
groups and agencies to identify,
exp lore and develop creative strat egies fo r problems facing today 's
families and children, particularly
m urban setti ngs.
"The loca l componen t is the:
first time the Strength enmg Famt !Je~ Program (S FP ) has been evalu ated with a populatiOn drawn

porary Assistan&lt;r to Needy Families
(TANF) Program or the Safety Net
Assistance (SNA) Program must be
screened for alcohol and 9rug abuse
as a condition of eligibility. If found
positive, they must be assessed and.

in

dren in welfare families where par-

coh ol and other drugs now and
the future ," Kost explained.

ents are involved in the abuse of
alco hol or o ther drugs has been
awarded to resea rchers tn the

Work Practia, is co-lnvestigator on

ily-skills training on enhancing protective fadors and minimizing risk

factors for substance-abuse prob·
lems. They also will look at how the
training affects children's risk factors

forbchavioral.cmotional,social.cogmt ive and physical problems.
Kat hl een A. Kost. UB resea rch

assistan t professo r and pnnctpal
mvcstiga to r. said that nearl y 500

Ene Count y welfare families with
,t ch1ld ages 9- 11 will

t:

rec ruit ed

B~enda

Miller, director of US 's
Urban Social

~t£r fo~ R&lt;search on

T

he pictures that accom pany a UB paper 1n th1s
week 's issue o f Sneu cc
show what looks like an
exq uisi tely uniform fi eld of wheat ,
or a close-up of a neatly tnmmed
" buzz cut."
In fa n. the perfectly even row~
of tall , sktnny. ca rbo n nano tubes
re prese nt a maj or adva n ce that
brings resea rcher!&gt; mu ch closer to
deve loping the flat panel disp la ys
that o nt" day will make it possibl e
to hang yo ur TV or co mput l'r
mom to r on the wall like a picture.
Hat panel products currentl y on
the m a rket , s uch a!&gt; laptop co m
putcn, arc based on technologies
that can n ot produce the excelle nt
view ing angles a nd high resolution
that carbo n nan o tubes will make
possib le. Th.e technical adva nces
made by the UB team arc precisely
those that will hel p make flat panel
d1splays made .,~fith carbon
nanotubl."S affordable.
" We have made three maJor
achievements." said Z h ifa.n g Ren ,
UB research associate professo r of
physics a nd chemi stry. a nd first
author... O ur nano tubes arc beau tifully a ligned, they grow at rela tively low temperatures and they
are grown on glass."
G lass is the preferred matcnal for
moni tors. costing o nly a few do ll ar~
as co mpared to seve ral hundred
dollars for silicon-based materials.
which would make the cost of flat
panel display products prohibitive.
Carbon nanotubes are actii':llly
tiny, elo ngated, tubular versions of

c.,. the soccer ball-shaped molecule
also known as the "buckyball."

What makes them so tantali zing
1s their incredible strength . at least
100- 1,000 times stronger than the
strongest steel available. Ren ex p lained , along with th c1r very~ hi gh
stabili t y and excellent electron emission capab iliti es.
The co mbinati on makes them
1deal for usc in fl :H panel displays.
" In a conven ti ona l television , a
h1gh -voltage electron gun IS con stantly in m o t ion, hombarding
each pixel on the screl.·n, dod that 's
what gives yo u your piCture ," Ken
expla ined . " But 111 o rde r to have:
e nough room for the gun to scan
the whole length and breadth of
the screen , you need abo ut a foot."
That~ tclevistons and computer
moni tors thc..'ir unwieldy bu lk.. Flat
panel displays. on the other hand, need
less than a millimeter of space bew.'t"CCl
the c:u-bon nanotub&lt;s, which act as th&lt;.·
cll"Ctron emitters. and the phosphor

screen. ''With these .tisplays. becaosc
each pixel is an dectron source, there is
no need for scanning and therefore nn

need for that distancr between the clectron source and the scrt'Cfl," Ren said.
Hut technical problems have pre ·
vented fl at panel displays from ad vancing to the development stage.
"We know from earli er work on
carbon nano tuhes that elect rons
come ou t o nly from the tip of each
tube, not from the sides," said Ren .
"Therefore, it is necessary to have
a ll the nan o tubes positioned e~
actly pl'rpendicular to th e sub
strate on which thq· are grown . lf
th&lt;" alignment is not good, th en
)'OU cannot obtain good cle~tron ·
emission properties."
Previously publis hed work on
carbon nanotubes has shown poor
alignment, with nanotubcs. in some

BrieBy
Ludwig to discuss "genderlect"
in "Ul3 at Sunrise" program
The dffference between women 's and men's use of language will be
the focus of a "UB at SunriS&lt;" breakfast program to be held from 7:309 a.m. Nov. 19 m the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
Jeanette M. Ludwtg, assooate professor of modern lan gu ages and hteratun:Joo, will d1sc uss "Genderlect: Women 's
and Men's Language ."
Ludwig's wmy, pcrcepllvt' analysts of how men and
women use language differen tl y will suggest there art ways
I..LDIIIIIK
to commun1cate more effectively a ross the gender gap.
A UB faculty member since I'J 77,l~d wig is d1 rector of graduate
studies for the French Program and d!fector of the Language and
Linguistics Program offered jointly by the Oepartment of Modern
Languages and llleratures and the Depa rtm ent of Lmgutstics. Sht&gt;
is the recipien t of a SUNY C hancellor's Award for E.xcellence m
Teaching. A graduate of Drake University, Ludwig earned master'5o
and doctoral degrees from the University of M1ch1gan .
The cost of th e .. UB at Sunrise" lecture , wh1ch mcludes a full break
fast, is $10 for UB Alumm Association members and Sl2 for the
general public. The deadline for reservation s IS No\. 16 For more
informat ion, or to make reservations. ca ii 829·260M .
"US at Sunrise" is suppo rt ed hy UB's Office of Umvers1ty Devel
opment. Office of News Serv1ccs, Office of Pubhcauons and ( &gt;ffict•
of the Vice President for Pub he ServiCe and Urban Affa1rs

if ncedt-d , part icipate in treatment.

AIJ applicants to the two programs
111 Enc County who are assessed
posttlvf'l y for alcoho l or drug
problems and a re mandated tore ceive tre;:ttment and have a child
between 9 and II w ith whom they
reside and play a parental role will
be asked to participate tn the
prolt'CI

ur 1V like a picture?
e&amp;~llrch may make it happen
BY ELLEN GOLDBAUM
News Servtees Editor

3

\..a.ses. resembling jumbled stranili ol
spaghetti. Past work also involwd
growing carhon nanotubes on ma
tc:nals ot her than glass. wh1\..h wa ~
necessary because of the htgh tern
peratures required for th t' synthc
s1s of the nanotubes .
To use glass as the suhstrate. syn
thCSL"i temperatures have to he hc:Jm,
650 degret.'S Centigrade. the pou11 &lt;It
whtch glass begms to deform.
"Our work shmvs that large arrav:-,
of wdl -a.lignc:d Lt.trhon nanotuhe!&lt;&gt;
\..dn he grown on Jnvthtng, l&gt;O long
,lS the ~ uhstrate ~.an take tempera
tun."S of 650
C:\.'plamed Rcn
Hc bt:hevcs that the rc.:a:.on th ..nanotubes productd bv tht· L' H n·
o;c:a rchers grew at such umlpJr.l
uvelr low temperaturo I!! th ..·u.,..· ol
am mon ia, instead of mtrugen , Jut
mg the syn thesis. "For th e fir~t ttnll',
we found ammonia at:t1ng.b J ca t,l
lyst," he said. I thmk that th1s hdp!!
th e disassooat10n uf a{.ctylcnc .
which is n ec~y dunng the !!Yit
thests of the carbon nanotulx-...."
Ca rbon nanotube~ ha\'e m.tm
ot her app hcat 1ons. from compu
nen ts in energy-stor.1ge dcv1u'" 1&lt;1
super· st rong cable!!.
Thr UB rcsearchl'r!! ,tho .m· Ill
vestiga ting the possli&gt;lht,· of Ul&gt;lll)!.
nanotubes in scannmg lunndmg
microscopes hlenham.t• rc!&lt;&gt;olutJ\10
The paper's co-author!&gt; art• Vl~lt
mg s..:h olar Zhongping Huang; lu1 II
Wang, F.imletn Professor ofX1ent.:l'.
and Jianwc1 Xu, dot:toral candtd.u ..·
111 th ..· Dep.-utmcnt o( ( :ht:llll3trv.•til
111 the UR Materials Synth~13 l...1h.. ,
ratory. and Peter J. Kush. dlrl'\.·tor o l
the US Instrumentati on l c:nll'r
Other CO· authors are M1chad ~tc..pl
dnd Paula ProvenCIO at ~a.nd1.1 N,1
tto nal l.ahoratory.

c:·

Nominations being accepted
for Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Teaching
The Offke of the Vke Provost for Undergraduate l:.duwllon 1:. accept
mg nommations for the Chancellor 's Award tOr 1--~cellt:nct· Ill Teach mg.
The awards are mtended to recogm/A' o;upt'nor tcach mg at tht.· und(:r
graduate, graduate o r profess10naJ level. All fu ll -time Instructo rs. rc
gardless of acadenm rank. are e!J~•bl ..• 1f thev have completed at le;b.t
th ree vears of full -tune teachmg at l ' B pnur to thr Fall 1998 semcstt·r
Completed nomm~ t10n s, mdudmg .t \ummary Presen tation Stale
ment , up -to-da te vtta and ll'tter ~ of support , mu st he rece1ved 111 the
Office oft he Y1re Provost for Under~radu.l t t• Fdu (a tJ on. 2S5 &lt;:apcn
Hall , tw the clo~t· o( hU!! ID €""" un I k~.. . II

Film festival will pay homage
to Spanish director Berlanga
Thb weekend, the Department of Modem languages and Lit eratures will presl' llt J film fe ~ t 1va i -C i dn dr C m c---o n the work
of the great "ipnn13h film d1rec tor lu1 !! lra n. 1a Berlanga. The festival
wdl ft:a tur ..· ~~..r ..·l.'nmg:. . tdlb and d l !&lt;&gt;lUs~•ons th.tt w1ll ex plore
Berlanga\ mflut"lll\' nn film 1n \pa•n 1\11 filnb w11l hem ~p&lt;tnl\h
onlv
The t..·..,tl\.11 . tc1 t.t~t· pl.ht' 111 th\· ~ . . rt't'lltng Room :n th t• l l'llt\·r h1r
the Arh on tht• :\:orth ( ..1m pu .... wdl hl' lrl'l' uf ~..hargt· .mJ open to
the puhh~.. ( .0 - \j'H.m ...or" .trc th t· l tlllq!t' ol Arb .1nd ..,lll"ll~o.l'' · ..,1gm.1
tkha P1 .md tht• \p.i1tl !&gt; h Mnll..,tn· (If hm·1~n :\ll..tlr'
It up ..·nl&lt;&gt; ~.uurJav With tw11 ,1\\'.lfd \\'tnntng hl.11..~ .t nd \.. hnc liJm,
1h.11 drt· ums1dcrt'J tn ht.· t\.. o ot lht· tim·,t t'Vl'r produ~o.t•J 111 ~ p .un
" RIC'fll "t'rlldtl, Att Mu nhlilll\\'d..,tllllt', ~ l r ll.ldr'ih..l\1 " \"1;~ ,. 111 tw
'h''"''n .11 ~ p . m .. Jnd " F/• •adu.~of! " ht· I· \l'lUtloncr "t li.)fl"\ 1 'howmg Jl
l'l p m •\ roundtablt• t..h~.., uSSHln 10 l· ng!J~;h wdlfoiJm, the tlr'l film
Un \unda\ , two llllnr film " wdl he p re..,cn ted " ltl 14ll/Uiilll'
1 I ~x.::. 1.... huwtnl!, .11 2 p.m .. and .. ,,,,.,, opr111 till' w11uf' ( I &lt;J77 \, tn ht·
,huwn .tt 7 p.m Afkr thl' firq , . . rl'Cillll~. film 'lholar Jaunw Mart i
l )\tvdiJ \II Alkgh ..·m ( \lllq~..· wdl prt'loc?n t a let"hlrt~ Ill \pantl&gt;h on
tht• IUl fH'l! ra phv n l n.ltH.l!l.tl rlllJ.II,, . , rl'l'rl''l'llkd m " /•1 t'lltl'uiJa "

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Geography professor to speak
Nov. 19 on Asian economic crisis
The origins of the economic: \..fll&gt;l'" l.lllfll! A"ta Jnd tmphldthlll:. fm
the.· l ln11td ~tate:, .tJoo a rc:su h of tht· tr i:Ol' ' wdl ht.·cxp lort·d 1n J tdll.. ()\
le!&gt;!!lt" P.ll. Ponn, l ' U aJoo!&gt;l!&lt;&gt;lan l pruk!&lt;l&gt;tlr ul g..·ngrJphv. at ; 'O pIll till
Nm I Y m the R.Jch R..·n.u!&lt;sant'c t ~.~ntt·r. l. ln ..· \Vt'l&gt;l l·r rn \t. , l{ufldhl
llcr t ,tl~ . tlllt•d " ~patiall.ont.t~Jun Jnd tht· .'\!'1 1an 1- ~..\IO O fllll llu."
wtll b\· prt' 'l' lltt•d hv tht• Buftaltl { oun1..1l on \\"orld AIL.ll f\,ln~., .1nd
lh(' i\_,,,lfl \tuc.hl'!&gt; Progr.1rn ,11 l iB
llcr t.tll.. t:, thc.· th1rd tnlht· .,;uun ... 1l \ thrc.·t&gt; -part I h!'ltmgUJ~heJ ~pc.-.tJ.. t•r
"t'flt'"· " Budd nt g \. A:)tll lllUillllt'l&gt; 10 ll.lult1 Ethnl( ~oetlt'!! .'' wh1 lh h
lfltl'mkJ hll'X,IIlllnl' prohll'rn:.f.J~o.lllg tit vt'r~ ..· l'lhlllt 'o~tt'llt'!!
i'llUII .tl!!o ...,.tJJJl•JJ .I dJ ~C U lo.!&gt;Hln On the: A.!tiJil C:I..Onilmll 1..fl\l'' .II
noun on Ntl\ 20 m .:!50 StuJ ..·nt Um on on tlu· North Ca mJ'll' d'
J'.lft ot the.· l 1 R A!&lt;tan ~tudtes Program'!'&gt; "Asta Jt Noon" fdll \t'rtn
Puun . who rl'(C"tlt ly IOIIled th(' liB fa cu lty, ha~ wntten exu•n,l \'l'h
o n rq!,lllllalt z.ttl o n and trade pattern) m Southeast A:!ol.l dnJ Europt·.
the: 1mpal1 uf h)rl.'tgn mve~tment on th1an et"onom ll !'i and Th 1rJ
\Vorld e..:un(Hnll (kvdopment .

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UB Clinics
Take Aim at
the Flu Bug
Student Health Center clinics have been
~aswat:ttlhetkl t..g thisfal.~

shots on both campuses. Here, Meirnanat
Grant. R.N. adminisb!rs a flu shot on Saturday
to Amy Ma~chilok 20, a chemistry major,
in the Student Health Center In Michael Hall
on the South Campus. Another clinic will
bo held from 9 a.m. to Noon on Nov. 14 in
Michoel Hall. The shots are ovailable at a cost
a( $3 to rne&lt;rbers ollhe ll'liYenity OOITWTUlity.
who can come to the Immunization C linic
in Michael Hall each Moodily from 9-11 :30 a.m

Reconfigured statement may be presented to full Senate Nov. 10

Ethics code debate continues at FSEC
BY SUE WUfTCHEII
News Services Assoc:iat~ Director

proposed code of ethics
gov&lt;ming consensual r&lt;·
lations between faculty
members and students
re-emerged at the Oct. 28 meeting of
the Faculty Smat&lt; Executive Com·
mittec. with thO&gt;&lt; in attendance dif·
fering on the seriousness of the problem, as well as whether to link the issue with sexual harassment.
fohn Boot, professor and chair of

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the Depart ment of Management
Science and Systems and chair of
the senatr's Academic Freedom and
Responsibility Committee, to ld

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from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. on No¥. 12 and
13 neM 1he second-lloor ....
110nce. For this cash.only ~.
hordcoYets will bo S2; paperbodes, S1 .

Annual holiday print
sale to be held Nov. 20
Tho Oepartrnent of Art ond Its
Prlntmoldng Pl'ogram ... hold
1he annual 1-.y Print Sole
Benefit from 11 a.m. to &amp;'p.m.
on No¥; 20 In lhe lllrUn of lhe
Center for 1he Arts.

Proueds wll benefit UB's
Printmaldng Pl'ogram ond ef'IC
(~Print tmaglng

Center). Artist prints by m.dents, alumni ond ePIC'S community ~ portlciponts
wll boon dbploy lor purthose.
Cosh or chedls wll boat·
cepted. Half of 1he ~ pro- .
ceeds ... b o - t o " - '
1he Prlntmllldng l'logrom ond
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FSEC members his committee continues to grapple with the issue, and
sought input from the FSEC.
A version of the proposed code
had been rejected by the Faculty
Senate at its Feb. 4 meeting. with
some senators questioning whether

there really was a need for such a
code, while other criticiz.ed the specific language of the proposal.

That version stated that a faculty
member should not have an amorous or sexual relation, consensual
' or otherwise, with a student who is
enrolled in his/her course, or whose

performa nce is supervised or
evaluated by that faculty member.
Boot said he personally felt that it
would be prudent for VB to havo a
statemmt "that states in no unce:rta.in
terms thal it is unwise for faculty to
associate with students in their class
or students they supervise in any
other than a teaching or mentoring
capacity." In the "real world," any
company that does not have such a
sllltement is severely di.sadvanlllged
if a lawsuit is filed, he said.
Boot questioned how widespread
the problem of stucknt·faculty ro·
mantic relationships is. telling senators he had poUed female students
of Western European descent who
sought out his help during his regu lar ofli« hours and asked them if
they had ever experienced a situation in any of their classes that they
would consider improper.
He said he did not question stu dents of"'Eastern.. descent because
"I know from experience that East ern students have a different approach to these things and I'm not

l·1was~ surprtsed--

by- response

from my collellgues ... (who ~-to dlscuu -Issue

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publldy) ....Even . . -

~. they- hit utremely

~to rdrlbutlon -

otiMr ldnds of professlooYI

dlsdpllne...

sure whether I could come across
in such a way they would properly
understand~ 1 w.u saying.
"To a person, iheysaXl, 'No, they've
never noticed anything like it.' To say
it's widespread is incorrect.'"
But, he acknowledged, consensual relationships afe "not a non event on campus." There is a "substantial element of mischief along
these lines." he added.
Loyce Stewart, associate director
of the Office of Diversity, Equity
and Affirmative Action Administration, and several senior female
faculty members-all of whom
had been invited to the meeting at
the behest of Boot and senate Chair
Peter Nickerson-disputed the
contention that while the problem
does exist, it is not widespread.
Stewart noted that consensual
relationships are a problem, "not
just at UB, but at all universities."
She pointed out that the issue not
only affects the faculty m&lt;mh&lt;r and
student involved in the relationship, but also affects other students
who may feel that they are being
denied opport unities because attention or benefits that are due
them art going instead to the student who is involvtd in the relationship with the faculty member-a situation Stewart caUed
"third-party saual harassment."
~ Acara,professorof phar·
macology and toxicology and chair
of a subcommittee of the Women's
Task Force that is preparing a poticy
on sexual harassment, told FSEC
members she had conducted a poU
of six female students. All of the stu·
dents told her consensual relation·
ships do occur on campus. and that
they mal« the students "very uncom·
fortable." Acara n:ported.
Notlng the differences betw«n
the results of her poll and Boot's,
she said sh e tho ught the .. re sponses are different, depending

on who's asking• the question.
judith Duchan, professor and
chair of the Departrmnt of Com·
municative Disorders and Sci ences, called consensual relationships "nunpa.nt in the (academic)
profession," adding that the exist·
ence of one ucan make a whole
department dysfunctional."
She said she favors having a
policy on the issue that depart ·
ment chairs could point to and say
.. it 's not sanctioned."
Bernice Noble, professor of microbiology and chair of the
Women's Task Force, said that
through her work with the task
force, she has talked to female stu dents who recounted cases of consensual relationships among their
peers and faculty members. The
students were "extremely unwiU ing" to discuss the issue because the
lack of a un iversity policy makes
them feel "extremely vulnerable."
Moreover, she noted that when
she brought up the issue during a
meeting of women full professors,
.. there was a very heated discus·
sion; everyone had a horror story."
But when Noble suggested the
group sponsor an open forum on
th·e topic. " I was disappointed, sur·
prised and ed ucated by t he response from my colleagues.· Most
of them, she said, were unwilling
to discuss the issue publicly. •Even
as full professors. they still felt ex·
tremely vulnerable to retribution
and other kinds of professional
discipline. We'U never get a good
picture of how serious the problem is ana how people are affected
by it because of the fears of those
likely to have a problem." she said.
Boot presented to FSEC mem·
bers for their consideration p. new
version of the ethics code that had
been pr=ted to the senate in fei&gt;.
ruary. The new version states that
any relation other than a teaching

or mentoring relation with a student in one's class or under one's
supervision is unprofessional conduct. The stlltemeo~ be says, "says
what we should be doing, rather
than what we should not be doing."
However, ~ =riY&lt; com·
mittec members preferred the "old
version," ooting that the new version
would exclude "social relationships"
between faculty and stucknts, such
as meeting for a 01p of coffee or an
~dinnerorate.nllisJillltch.

William Baumer, professor of
philosophy, said that a policy that
excludes such social relationships
would .. put constraints on the
teaching relationship that is just
180-degrecs. opposed to what we
want to sec in terms of the facultystudent rel.itionship."
Don Schack, professor of math·
ematics, took the issue a step fur.
ther, suggesting that faculty m&lt;m·
hers be required to report such
social relationships to their supervisors so that the faculty member's
authority over the student could
be transferred, if necessary.
Baumer recommended that the
smate consider the issue of oonsmsual relationships at the same time
as it considers the proposed poticy
on sexual harassment, wjllch Acara
said was in draft form and soon
would be presented to the adminis·
tration.
Consensual relations "all too eas·
iJy fall into harassment when the r&lt;·
lationship goes bad," Baumer added
Acara noted that the draft policy
on sexuaJ harassment only ad dresses consensual relations in the
context of "third-party sexual ha·
rassment... She suggested the issues
be considered separately at this
time, with the consensual-rela tions issue being includtd later in
the sexual harassment policy.
The FSEC rejected a formal
motion by Baumer that the senate
combine the two issues.
Boot said he would take the in·
put from the FSEC back to his com·
mittee and bring a reconfigured
stlltcment back to the body for con·
sider.Uion at its Nov. 4 meeting. and
possible inclusion on the agenda
for the full senate meeting on Nov.
10.

�Monmber I. 1!81Nol Jfi.lti 11 Reporiea

UB gives generously to SEFA
Involvement with wmmunity, wmmitment keys to cam[Xlign sua:ess
~anng umvers1ty community has contributed
mor(' than half a m il·
li on doll ars to date to
support those 111 need througho ut
the Western New York community.
And wh~ e the 1'998 SEFA/United
Way ca mprugn has passed 1t.s condustOn da te, it '!a not too la tt' to
make a cont ribu tiOn to the dn vc.
U B has a trad it io n of g•vtng, and
g•vm g generously. M of Nov 2. UB

A

had reached 88.6 percent of 1U 1998
goal o f $653,6&lt;X), w1th a num be r o f
u mt !'l- th(· '-lchool of A rch•t eciUre

a nd Plann mg, tht· "tchool of ln fo r
matwn a nd l1h rary Studies, the
'xhool of Malldgemt"nt. th e Schoo l
of "'o'"1.t l Work , l ' H t-u unda t1 o n ,
\tudcnt Afhur !&gt;, the Offi~..e of tht'
\ ' 1u· Pres1de nt fur Re:,ean.. h. and
l' ru vcn. ,t y Adva n ~.-c m t' nt J nd De
vdop mc:nt
'XLeed ulg thetr goab .
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of Arch1t en ure a nd Pl a nn1n g and
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lliHI \It" o l th e un •v~rM tv," Br ya nt
ctd d!J tha t the s~.. h ool a lso wo rks to
Hh td l t h a t se nse o f (omnlltmc nt
Ill li S SI UdC O b ,

l' IILU Uragm g th e m to take part m
proJeCts that hencfi t o then..
l·nr exa m ple. each su mmer DICk
YcnL:cr, d 1rt'Ctor of the school\ shnp
tao llues. hea ds st ud(·nt c re ws w h o
h utid two h o m e~. fro m the g ro un d

up. fo r Hab ll a t for Huma n1t y
"When you sta rt tha t ca rl )' un ,
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88,570

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14,627

71 0

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39. 300

31,618

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9,073

92.5

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1,013

111 8

SchooldtAw

15,100

10,5-41

69.8

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14,700

19,0 4 3

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139,900

102,796

73 .~

7.900

5,011

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9,500

7,0-45

7~ . 1

Office o f the Preildent

6,500

6,436

99

SdiOol ol SocliiWollt

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S,OS6

112.3

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UB Foundation

1,700

1.718

tOt

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30,600

32,380

105.8

I 34,000

110. ll0

89 7

University

S erv iCe~

17,SS4

Vice Pres1dent tor

R e~ea rch
3, 300
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Public Se rvtee a nd Urban

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11 .100

3, ll8

101 I

11,016

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BRIEFLY

Headrick
c-tlnuodfn&gt;m-1
fi~ of the Vice President for Re search into the Provost's Office."
Sin« the university has not had

a search for a provost sincr Bloch's
appointment in 1992, Greiner said
he will head a broadly based search
committ~ for a provosL Ideally, the
search process will be completed by
the end of 1999 at the latest, with
the named provost in position in

Spring or Summer 2000, he said.
Headrick has held a wide vari ety of academic and administra tive positions during his more
than two decades at UB. He joined
the faculty in 1976 as dean of the
Law School. holding that position
until 1985 when he returned to the
faculty as a full professor.
Outside of th e law school ,
Headrick served as intc.rim dean
of the Faculty of Arts and Letters
m 1990 and chair of the General

AsS&lt;mbly of the Undergraduate
Coll&lt;ge from 1987-89.
He. returntd to administration
in the Law School as associate dean
for acad&lt;mic affairs from 1992-94,
with prime responsibility for the
school's curriculum revision. He
was acting law dean for the fall
1994 semester while then -Dean
Barry Boyer was on sabbatical.
He was named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, the
highest rank in the State University of New York system, by the
SUNY Board of Trustees in 1993.
Trigg!&lt; also holds the rank of
SUNY Distinguished Professor.
He joined the UB faculty in 1%2
as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology. He served as chair of the
depanment from 1971-85, when
he was nolmtd dean of the School

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dustry res ulted from a bench marking study of similar services
at 24 major research universities
undertaken in 1996 by T he Cen ter for lndustriaJ Effecti veness, the
Office of the Provost and the Offi ce of the Scmor Vice President
for University Services.
The common thread among the
most successful services was that
all of their industrial -assistan ce
programs were under one roof,
said Rebecca Landy. chief operat ·
ing officer of tht&gt; UB Busines.or, AI
liance.
The new o rgaruzatton wiU be a
"one-stop shop" for businesses con·
tac tin g UB, sa id Mark Karwan ,
chief executive officer of the UB
Business Alliance and dean of the
School of Engineering and Applit-d
Sciences.
"Before, a company might de cide to call our department of industrial engi neering in search of,
fpr examp le, expertise in industrial
hygiene," he explained. "The de partment would respond that in dustrial hygiene is not part of m dustrial engineering, but that pos ·
sibly experts in it might be found
an the medical schoo l or nursing
~chool. The caller wou ld ge t this
hounce from one department to
another a~ each of us tried to refer
the company to the proper source.
"Now,a company wiU place one
call and get the answer."
That will be the case. regardless
of bow specific or technical the
request , Karwan added.
For example, if a pharmaceutical
company needs structural informa tion on a molecule that can only 1x
provided by nuclear magnetic resonance spec troscopy. th e alliance,
through its new database, quickly
will identify where in the university
the instrume~t is located, as well as
the appropriate contact person.
If a company is looking for
someone who can translate Ietten;
or contracts int o an o ther lan guage. the UB Business Alliance
wi!J identify an appropriate expert.
As has always been the case with
UB 's business -assistance pro grams, the U B Business Alliance
will continue to identify the best
people and facililies to solve a
problem, whether they are at UB .
another educational institution or

even a non -profit or government
agency.
The UB Business Alliance 's
most up-to-date, detailed information on UB programs, research
and cent ers is available on its Web
si te &lt;http:/ / www.ub•lllanc:e.
buffalo.edu &gt; and in its recently
printed "Directory for Business &amp;
Indu stry."
A key function of the UB Business Alliance will continue to be
assistance to manufacturing firms,
which make up 70 percent of the
firms to which UB provides ~rvices.
For example, SPIR, the Strat&lt;gic
Partnership for Indust ri al R~surgence, a cooperative effort
that leverages
SUNY 's engineering
prog rams at UB and
o ther SUNY units,
provides research facilities and resources
turing firms.
Since its inception in 1994, this
program alone
has contrib uted to there-

in Western New York, as well as to
total sales increases of more than
$20 miluon.
It aJso has provided valuable.
o n·the -job experience to more
than 700 UB students.
TClE has been credited with
creating or saving more than 5,000
jobs in mor~ than 500 Western
N~w York firms of all sizes since
its inception in 1988.
Those efforts have seen increas ongsuccess, with funding forTClE
jumping to more than $3 million
from just $250,000 in the past five
years.
Whereas just a few years ago, 90
percent of TC IE's funding came
from state grants, the center now
receives about two-thirds of its rev enue as fees for service from companies that it assists, Landy said.
For more information and a
free copy of the directory, con·
tact Jacqueline Badura, industry
co ntact coordinator at , 716-636 3651.

of Pharmacy. He held that posi·
tiOn until he wa.s named dean of
the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education and
research in 1995.
Triggle's internationally recognized research focuses on how
drugs interact with calcium channels, cellular mechanisms that
regulate the entry of calcium when
stimulated. He has conducted pioneering research into the action of
calcium -channel antagonists in
the cardiovascular system and
studies calcium channels and aging.
He bas served on numerous internal and external committc.es
relating to pharmacy and healthsciences curricula and the future
of graduate programs in general.
A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science since 1975, Triggle is a
member of numerous professional
societies. He serves on many editorial boards and is editor of Pluumauutical N&lt;Ws and co-editor of

Drug Dt:vewpmmt Resarch.
He .is the author or co-author of
10 books, 140 book chapters and
reviews and 250 scientific papers.
Among his numerous honors,
be has ree&lt;ived the Otto Krayer
Award in Pharmacology from the
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeu tics and the Volwiler Research
Achievement Award from th e
American Association of Coll&lt;ges
of Pharmacy.
A native of London, England.
Triggle received a doctorate in
chemistry from the University of
Hull and a bachelor's degree from
the University of Southampton.

�7

UB to reinstate baseball, softball
William]. Breene named head coach of baseball program

T

HE Division of Athlet ics announced Thesday
that UB will reinstate its
intercoUegiate baseball
and softball programs, and has
named WilHam J. Breene, associ ·
a te athletic director, as head coach
of the baseball program.
The Mid -American Conference
requires that institutions participating in th e conference must field
teams in six sports, which, in addi ti o n to baseball and softball ,
include football , volleyball and
men's and women's basketbalL
Base ball and softball, which
have operated at the cl ub level at
UB si nce the 1980s, are expected
10 play a non -conference Division
1 sched ule in the spring of 2000
and are expected to become offi-

cia! members of the MAC in the
2000-2001 academic year.

In announcing Breene's ap po intment as baseball coach, Bob
Arkeilpane, interim director of

athletics, point~ to his outstanding baseball background and commitment to UB.
.. Bill has remained extremely
active in baseball and has great
Lies to this area,"' said Arkeilpa ne.
.. His knowledge of the game ,
combined with his excellent ad ministrative experience, made
h im a narural selectio n for the
job. His tenure here at US h as
been marked by his com mitm ent
to helping this university ach ieve
its Division I goals."'
Brecne was a four-yea r schola rship baseball and basketball

player at Southern M•~s•ss1ppi
and also spcOl three years there
as an assistant baseball coach.
Upon graduation from co llege,
he signed a free -agent co ntract
with the St. Louis Cardinals. He
also has coached Junior A baseball in London, O ntari o, and
has remained active in coach ·
ing on the local and regional
levels.
The Bulls hope to have a new
softball coach in 1999. The soft·
ball team will play its games at
the diamond adjacent to the new
US stadi um, which will undergo
renovations next year. The baseball team most likely will p lay its
games in th e Amherst Pepsi
Arena while reviewing plans for
an o n-cam pus compl ex.

Obituary

ington , D.C.
Highly regarded as a teacher m the UB med1
cal school, Riwchun was the author of num erous papers on eye disorders and eye su rgery.
A diplomate of the American Board of &lt;i&gt;ph ~
thalmology and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of
Ophthalm ology and Otolaryngo logy, he was a
member of th e Erie County Medical Society and
the Buffalo Academy of Medicine. He served as
president of the Buffalo Ophthalmology Soo ·
ety, th e Maimonides Medical Society and the
fo rmer Buffalo Eye and Ea r HospitaL
He was a volunteer for the Uni ted Way and
the Universi ty at Bu ffa lo Co ntributing i-=und.
Active in the Sight Conservation Society, he was
a member of th e advisory board of the Buffalo
Eye Bank. In 1979, he and his wife. Ann. we-re
JOintl y na med Outstandin g Ci tizens of the Year
by The Buffalo Nt'WS for their work with the blind.

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UB ! ,A kron l

Senior ouutde h1ner Owsey Swbler led UB ~ To'edo With 12 k1Us
and I I d1gs
Against Akron. 1umor sener Somer Deschambault had 48 a.ssisa and 20

d•&amp;&gt;Fre.shman ouatde h1tter Krn Studs and mtddle hn;r.er Heather Barfuss
turned In 1mpn!ssrve performances N1 the match. Sh~s recorded I 2 kills :and 19
dtgs :and Barfuss had 14 kills and 16 digs

~occer
WOMEN' S

UB l , Stony Brook I
The women's soccer team fin1shed the regular susan wtth a l-1 ,vtetary at
Stony Brook. The Buhs now will take thetr 10-S-2 record on the road to play at
Northern Illinois tn the first round of the Mtd-Amenan Conference
Tournament.
After ~ scoreless first hatf. the Bulls nruc.k first wtth :a goal b)' Jennifer
Keefe Paula Ustram sco~d her tam·hlgh 12th goal of the season at l:he
6J :JS mark for :a 2-1 lead Heather Collins then added an msur-ance goal for
the 3- 1 VIClOf"Y

UB 1, W e stern Mich igan 0
The men "s soccer team ended the regular s~on b)o defeatmg Westem
M1ch1pn. 2-0. 1n the last home game of the susan
All the sconng took pbce in the second lu.Jf and all came off the foot o( UB
AII-Amencan candidate JunkM" Steve Butcher The fim Butcher p i came from
:an nslst from nm Songer. But.c:her b.ter toOk a pa.ss from John Shannon and
chipped It In from the left Side for I:M gamewsnner The ShutOUt marked the
sixth th1s season for goahe jtm Schoenberg

Th&lt;Bpy, Posting OR-98096
SeaoUryi-Oepattmmt d CMi. SlruCIU&lt;al

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Prof es.aon.l
Senior Resea«h AsK&gt;Ciate (SL-3) (two

iobs .v~)-Center for Urban StudieS.
lay

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Posting tP-8100, 8101 . Director of
Internal Audh. (MPlB)-Intemal Aud1t,
Posting IP-8116. As.slstant to Chainnan
(Sl -3)-Drpartment d Pllys;otogy and

Venlon City

=-s~~u:t~!ia~sant
Posting IP-8119. Mkrocomputer Hejp

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UB 0, Toledo l

The Bulls dropped both Mtd-Amencan Conference matches dus week. losmg u
TcMedo (7-IS, 13~ IS. 13·1S) on Oct. 28 mel to Akron ( 15-9. IS- 12. 9 -IS. IS-S) 1n
Alumni Arena on Oct. 3 I

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Version CJty, a casual wrvey of Toronto

Greg Hetford, Karen

Volle~oall

Research Center, Posong JtR-98094
Oc~

Mart Dean Veca's installation, EJ
Gloominator, is described &amp;S "a great
liquid b.OO hurtling thr:t spKe and

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wtth two long sconng dnves to san
the second half Enk Rogers
completed an l l ·pl~. 6S -}'lllrd dnve
wsth an 11-}'lllrd burst to makr 1t 17-0
and AII·Amerian aitback Aaron
Stecker (11 8 y:ards on 21 camesl
sco~d on a Dne--}'llln:l lup wtt:h l ]]
left 1n l:he d11rd quaner to grve WIU ~
commanding 2-4...0 lead
The Bulls' only .core ol &lt;he gom&lt;
came on a three.yan:l run by Davtd
Schtm1k wtth 9:35 )eft Wl the pme The
UB rush~n&amp;: offense, whtch ranked t -4th
m 1-AA footbajl ~~the pme. wu
hmJted to 11 4 y:ards on 32 ca~ tn
the game .The BuHs also were hun b)'
d'lree turnoven. anduding twO tn d'le
firsth&lt;llf
Western IHtno1s se1z.ed control
earty when Donnie Caldwell n!tumed ~
punt 62 rards the first ume the leathernecks touched the ball WIU led. I 0-0
at the half after a 36-y:an:l joe Lopez field goal
Bufblo split end Drew Haddad beame the s.choo''s all·time leader m
recepdons wtth ffve catches for SO y:ards to lead the Bulls" offense. Fultbadr. josh
Roth had
yards rushing on ll carrJeS. A pa~r of freshmen ked the UB
defense. as linebacker- Brandon Jordan lu.d I 0 uddes (slx solos). W'hde C r:ug
Rohlfs had nWie stops.

MEN' S

Contlnuod
8
~houn are 9 a.m . to 5 p.m .. .

in the Ughtwell Gallery, Center for
Arts, through June, 1999.

The Leathemedu were hmited to

85 rards of total offense In the first
half. but took control of the ptM

n

Meyer H. Riwchun, 95, former
professor and chair of ophthalmology
SerYkes were held Oct. 28 in Temple Beth Zion
fo r Meyer H. Riwchun , an internationally known
ophthalmologist and eye su rgeon who had served
as a clinical professor of su rgery and chair of oph thalmology at the UB m edical school. Riwchun,
95, died Oct. 25 in th e Mit chell Ca mpu s of Hospice Buffalo after a brief illn ess.
A graduate of George Washington University,
Riwchun earned his medical degree from the UB
medical school in 1927.
Riwcbun , who maimain ed a private practice
in Buffalo !To m 1929 to 1985, headed the depart ments of ophthalmo logy at both Buffalo Gen era! and Children's hospitals in th e 1960s. He was
attending ophthalmologist at the former Deaconess Hospital and ophthalmo logist-in·chief at
the form er Rosa Coplon Ho me.
He was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medi cal Corps during World War II , servi ng as chief
of eye service at Walter Reed HospitaJ in Wash -

UB 6, W estern Illinois 41
The m;~w.sum """""
l..eadlemeda exploded lo&lt; 3 I secondhalf potnU to defeat UB, 4 1-6,'" UB
Sa&lt;fium b&lt;fore 18.648 fans.

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Desk M"""9"'/ s.dwp LAN
Administrator (SL· l)-Student finances
and Records, Posting JtP-812 J. Auistan!
House Managr&lt;(SL-1)--Collegeol An&gt;
and Sc~b. Posting IP-8124. AJslstant
Athletic Director, Compl~nce (Sl-4)·
Ath~tics, Posting •P-8126. Director,
International Student and Scholar
Servkt's (Sl~}Office d lntemaOOnal
Educabon, Post1ng iiP-8127 Production
Manager ( Sl-3)-PublicatJOtU, Posting
•P-8128.

~ross ~ount~
The men·s and women ·~ cross country team~ [nveled to Bowl1ng Green Scue
UniYersrty t o take pan m d'le 19'98 Mid-Amencan Conference CtwnpK&gt;nsh1ps
on Oct. l O
The women's squad fimshed II th (298 pomu) out of a field of 13 tum ~
Sophomore Eileen Rose. who placed 46th out of I0 I runnen.. wu Coach D•ck
Barry's top-fimsher at 19·3 I
The men 's team placed II th out of 12 teams w1th 307 pomu Juntor Patnclo.
Nolan, the Bulls top runner. crossed the fimsh hne 4 I st out of 92 rynnen.
(26c15)

~wimmin~

Houl'l for the UB Art Gallery and the
Light-Nell Gal~~ 10:30 a .m .-8 p.m .,
wednesdays through Saturdays; NOOJl.S
p.m ., Sund.tys.

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S""-Second·
YurStudenb

UniV'Cnity Faolit.es, l.ant' II to tHo
determined.

The women ·s S'Wimmmg team opened 1ts home ~euon Oct. 2q defe.aung
Ni:a.pra Lhwersrry. 207-90. in the AkJnv·u Arena natatonum
Tne Bulls W'ef"e led by Inger Rooneem, who took three first -place fintshes tn

co.-.••

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UB 107, N iaga.r.a 90

l:he 100-mete.- butterfly (S8.9S). IOO.mecer freescyte (Sl 07) and the SG-meter
freestyle (2-4.21 ). Other first-place finishers for the Bulb were ROJQflfll!' Kub&lt;l
(2()()..meter f~tyle) . Julte ~enn ( 100-meter ~ckstroke ). K1m Theege ( 100·
meter bi-Hststrclu!:) and Andrea Skillman 1n dNmg

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Urnpus. 1-3 p.m. Regblration
and s 10 depo&gt;it ....-. For
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the Iorber Condition. Prof
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lnstltuU! d T«:hnology, 1OJ
Dld..-1. South Compos.
3:15 p.m. Flft.

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~~BY1131ol.ogic

infcnnation, all Jam Corann at
881-1640, 645-2444, .... 757.
C4ology Lecture
Beyond Thermal Anomaly
Detectk)O. Dr. MkNet
Ramsey, Oepl of Geology,
Arizona State Univ., Tempe.
· 218 Natural Sdences Complex.
4 p.m. Flft. SponSO&lt;ed by
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Oassics tetJches perspectMs on the.
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cult activity. anthropologist notes.

October 29. l!HI/ ti30. il.lO

A StressFree Fest
Getting de-stressed at Fall
Funfest on Saturday in AUrni
Arena is Junior Karen Wailand.
Russ Mosher, a physical
therapy student. is the
masseur. In addition to
massage and reflexology,
Funfest's 'natural high' elleflts
included soccer, volleyball,
rock climbing, a bungee run
and gladiator jousting.

Scholarships bringing best and brightest to-UB
Merit-based awards aimed at increasing the quality of undergraduate program
lly SUE WIIETOIIII
News 5Bvices Assodite Director

cruiting the best and bright&lt;St students to the un iversity. Similar cf.

ity cou"" enroUment, sptcial-seminars and the opponunity to live in

given to 143 freshmen.
And for the first time this semesaward~

ORE than 500 freshmen who entered UB
this fiilJ have receivM

forts also are under way at other

honors housing units.

ter, UB has

SUNY institutions.
A total o£526 first-semesttt &amp;esh-

The bulk of freshmen enrolled
in the Honors Program this fa1J-

.. Merit -based Scholarships" of
$2,500 a year for four years. Th~

sch_olarships
of
$2,500 or more-totaling more
than $1.3 million thi s yearthrough several programs designed specifically to attract the
best students to the university.
One of these programs, a $2,500a-year, merit-based sch olarship
that was added to the mix just this
semester, has been credited by a
senior UB administrator with reversing the decline in the profile of
the entering class and making UB
competitive with private institutions for the best students.
The scholarships are part of a
concerted effort at UB to compete
with privafe institutions in re-

menreceivedpartialscholarshipsof
at least $2,500, a sum of$1 ,333,000
for the 1998-99 academic year. In
addition.22freshrnenwereawarded
full scholarships as Distinguished
Honors Scholars and one student
received the full Robert I. and
Eleanor Z. Millonzi Honon Scholarship for the Performing Arts.
Over the past few years, UB has
increased both the numbers of stu ·
dents accepted into the University
Honors Program and the amount
of money awarded to those stu dents. Besides yearly scholarships,
members of the Honors Program
receive special programming, such
as access to faculty mentors. prior-

157 students-were given awards
of $2,500 a year for four years. In
addition, 12 st udents are receiving
$4,000 a year for four years, and
seven st udents are receivi ng performing-and-creative-arts scholarshipsofS2,500ayearforfouryears.
UB also has esiablished "Challenge Schotar.hips" that provide students with $2,500 for the first year.
At the end of that year, they will be
invited to join the Honors Program-and retain the $2,500 scholarship for the next three )'l'ars--1f
they have a grade-point ave rage of
3.5, said Josephine Capuana, admin istrative director for the Ho nors
Program. Those scholarship~ wen:

awards. which are· offered to students who rank just below thelevd
to qualify for the Honors-Program

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207 students

orOlallengeScholanhips,arebased
on cumulative high-school average
through the junior year, rank in the
graduating class and SAT or ACT
scores, said David Cook, assistant director of admi.ssifms. Cook noted
that the Admissions Office offered
these scholarships to 838 applicants.
with 207 enrolling, a yield of about
27 percent.
Nicolas Goodman, v1ce provost
for undergraduat e education ,
credits the merit·based scholar·
ships ,.,.ith "'significantly" mcrea~ ­
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University takes lead in community development
By SUE WUETCHER

News

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Servic~

Associate Director

T'S considered to be one of
the most ambitious community-development initiatives
ever undertaken in Western
New York.
The strategy is for UB to take the
lead in tackli ng the myriad o f
community problems- housing ,
business development and education among them-affecting the
neighborhoods surro undin g the
university's South Campus.
And after four years of planning.
and barely more than a year after
the formaJ announcement of its
creation and game plan, the Uni versity Commu nit y Initiative is
well under way in irs efforts to sta bilize, rebuild and revitalize the
neighborhoods.
Spearheaded by UB, UCI os a
collaboration bctw~n the university, the Ci ty of Buffalo a nd the

Town of Amherst, and perhaps the
most visible example of US's public·service mission, of the univcr-

of the co mponen ts of US's tnpar
tile mission. But Gres ham .1sscrt ~
that public service is really appli ed
sch o lars h1p. an exte ns ion or
"stretching" of the tradi tional V IC'W
of research and teach ing.
Publi~ se nu.:l'
takes all that vast
knowledge that we
have co llec tivel y
vice president for
here at the umverpublic service and
sity and takes it out urban affairs .... We
side the classroom.
spent four years
takes it outside the
r•t.,..l-1 \"'-G .l. ST
conceptualizing,
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universi ty, and uses
doing studies, asthe community as a
se sing, analyzing, debating, and lab, if you will," she says.
now we've finally come to a point
Moreover, she says, the activit y
where~ agree on a strategy. based
that goes on in the applied setting
on all of that research. and now should co me back and inform
we ' re in the implementation what goes on in the classroomphase."
the service-learning model that
The notion of .. public service" occurs when students are sent out
usually com~s third, behind re - into the field, something UB has
search and teaching, in any listing been doing for years.

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.. Publa~ H' r VICC rl'a Jiy IS a
.:omplementar y act !VIl )' that an so
many ways can enhance and t'A pand th e research an d teaching
cx peraen ce.
And Pr e~1 d en1 Willi am R
Gremer n o te:~ that the great Mid wester~ un1ve rS 1t1 ~1he type of
ubt ltUtl on that h e foc use-s o n
when d escribing htS VISIOn for the
future o f U B-" h ave demon
strated that you can be b01h superb academica ll y. 10 term .-. nl
you r teachi ng and your re-search,
but also bt outstanding m term s
of the way vou prov1de public ser
VICC.
Work bemg do ne by faculrv and
staff in nearly all areas of the um ·
versity already demonstrates .. UB's
strong commitment to developing
knowledge for the benefit of
people in our community and the
State of New York." adds Greiner.
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John J. Peradotto, Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor
of Classics and a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor,
is an internationally recognized Homeric scholar.

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What piqued your Interest In
t he ancient cultures?

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One day in college. a fellow student
who had gone to a Jesuit high
school recited the first I0 lines of
Homer's "Odyssey," which he'd
been assigned ro memorize in his
Greek class. That did it! I was
snared for life. That was a language
I wanted to learn. I took as much
of it as I could, for a philosophy

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to choose a graduate-school concentration, cloissics appealed to me
because it was an area study, the
first and maybe the only successful
one. lt offered me an alternative to
narrow specialization, allowing me
to move freely through a range of
subject areas in the ~ separate.
but related, cultures of Greece and
Rome: linguistics, literature, history, the visual arts, philosophy, ar·

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field can one move, as I did last
week, from a graduate class where
we did a close reading of 150 lines
of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, to an
undergrad uate honors class in
Greek intellectual history where
we discussed the philosopher
Parmenides and Zeno's paradoxes?

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back:in the '50s, there was a general
disinclination in the profession to
teach students other than those in·
terested in language study. Since then,
economic necessity has stimulated
the profession to realize the educa·
tiona! merit in teaching a variety of
general, non-language courses, such
as classical mythology, literature in
translation, ancient history, to men-

lion but a few. Another, and perhaps
more significant,change is the open·
ing up of the profession to interdis·
ciplinary perspectives in scholarship.
something in which, hy the way, the
-UB classics department played a lead·

ership role in the founding of the
joumaiAmhwa bock in the lau! '60s.
We published, for &lt;xample, the first
oollection ofstudies on women in the
ancient world. Following that _..
special issues on sud! topics as popu.·
!arion policy in Plato and Aristotle,
classical Literature and contemporary
rnodtsofanalysis,semiotiaand classical studies, rethinking the classical
canon, Roman ~and &lt;Xll'p(lC.al
discourse, and the challenge of the
conli&lt;M:rsial book"lllackAthena," to
mention only a few.

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That is a question for a lifetime of
answers! But to concentrate on the
one &lt;xample you cite, it is not acddental that' ..., use the term "odyssq" to signify an arduous intdlec-

tual or spiritual quest. Where
Homer's "Iliad" brilliantly explores
the heroic urge for comp&lt;titive acellence, its beauty and its potmtial
for tragic loss, the "Odyssey" seeks
to define quieter social and cooperarive virtues, such as wisdom, justice,
courage, temperance, endurance.
Besides.being a darn good stol')fo it
lays the groundwork for a history of
cultural rellectinn on the self and its

relation to others, a history that we
have yot to cease from.
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To a classicist-&lt;Jctually to any hu·
manist-"relevance" is a nasty word,
unless you redefine it to include the
development ofskiDs and values that
havelong-tenn, not always tangible.
outcomes. One big lesson classical
study teaches is alternative perspectiV&lt;S on the world When you read
Sophocles' powerful representation
of the obscurity of fate and then go
on to read the historian Thucydides.
with his sense of rationality at risk to
chance, you comeawaywith twodramatically different ~ions of the

world. Butbothoftliem,and Homer,
and the Pmocralic pbilos&lt;lpbon.and
Euripidescombin&lt;d give us a picture
ofthe world that is~atodds
with thost who have believed that
somehow in this 'life or the non;
morally ifnotmaterially, there is saJ.
vation, 0&lt; if not that, at least that there
is something at theworld'sboart that
responds to our hopes and desires
and rnak£s sense of them. This is no
vision for Pollyanna. but it is one
today's students owe it to thanselves
to consider, ewn if they ncYer adopt
it.

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We have lost considerable stm&gt;gth
in areas sucli as Byzantine studies,
tenual aiticiam and paleograpby,
mainly·because of retirements. In
place of that we have chosen to develop archaeology into a major program that now attracts consi4ttable
numbers of graduate students. We
need now to recoup the stmlgth in
language and literature that the outside world identifies us hy, largely
because of the joumal, Amhusa.

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a..·s - l o b . - t o
ancient aolturas7

It is an oxymoron (see, you're

speaking Gred!) only if you've
bought into the stereotype (more
Greek!) of the classicist as someone
who cherishes cultural lag as a
point of pride. It's simply not the
case. Classical studies has been in
the forefront of technological applications to scholarship and peda·
gogy. We were, I believe. the first
among literary and historical dis·
ciplines to exploit the potmtial of
CD-ROM technology in producing
the "Thesaurus Linguae Graecae."
a CD· ROM containing all of Greek
literature from tht beginni ng

througll th...ixth&lt;mtury G.E..
together with dcdicoled fwd·
wan: to perfonn lishtning-fast
sean:bes.Anolber CIOllllple is the
Perseus Pr.oject, an evolving
digital library of resouras for
studying the ancient world on
CO-ROM and on the Web, ineluding ancient t&lt;:xU and translations, philological tools, mapo,
~ illustrated art cata·
logs and secondary essays on
topics like vase painting. One
can, for example, bring up the
Gred text .of Sophocles'
"Antigone." together with an
English translation, did&lt; on any
word for a complete morphological analysis and links to a
fuD-sakGreek-EnglishleDcon,
as well as images and detailed
data of rdevant archaeological
sites and art objects.

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(...,. . _ _ _ , Uilas)7

Depends on which of the Greeks
you read. To me, as I've said. one
of the moot attracth&lt;e featura of
classical cuJtUn, is its bold refusal
!0 leave anything out. For every·
one on 'qne side of an issUe, y&lt;iu
can find someone else on the
other. this is thO case with their
take on technology. For ~e
eighth&lt;mtury B.C.E. conservative BOeotian · fi[JD.er-poet

Hesiocl, Prometheus, the firebringer and god of r.dmology. is
a vlllainous tricbter, upsetting or
circumventing what a farmer
would have called the "nonnal."
traditional rdation between la9or
and its fruits. By contrast, for the
fifth-ctntury Athenian dramatist
Aescbylus, citiun of a thriving.
democratic industrial poWer,

Prometheus islqelyrepresented
as a creative culture hero-&lt;&gt;ne
who needs to learn """"tact, to
be sure, and ~ for estaJ&gt;.
lished order;but still a hero.

Plant-based fat may help fight pros~te cancer
By LOIS IIAIWt
News Services Editor

UTRITION researchers
at UB have provided the
first evidence that ami·
nor plant -based f~t
called 8-sitosterol appears to play a
role in inlubiting the growth of hu·
man prostate-cancer cells
They found.that the phytosterol 8sitosterol, a fat abundant in vegetar·
ian diets, enhan= an intracellular
signaling system that tells cells not to
divide. The study showed a 28 per·
cent inlubition ofprostate-can= cell
growth after being exposed to 8-sitosterol for five days in vitro.
Atif Awad, head of UB's Nutri·

N

tion Program, presented the re·

suits on Sunday at the Sixth Inter·
national Conference of Anti-Can cer Research in Kallithea, Greece.
"This phytosterol replaces some

of the cell membrane's cholesterol,
which changes tht membran e
lipid composition in such a way

that signal transduction (second·
ary messenger activity) is stimu-

lated, and that activation inhibits
cell growth." Awad explained .
" If cell proliferation can be
stopped before it becomes uncon trolled, cancer can be contained .
When we treated prostate-cancer

cells with phytosterols, cell prolif·
eration was inhibited. We have
found the same effect in vitro with
breast and colon -cancer cells ...

This activity may help to explain
why vegetable fats. such as olive oil,
in the diet reduce the risk of devel·
oping certain cancers, Awad 'said.
The work of Awad and colleagues
is grounded in epidemiologic stud·
its showing that prostate cancer is
less common in Asian countries
where diets are primarily vegetarian, and that rates increase when
these people migrate to western
societies where rates are higher and
diets art primarily animal-based.

Working with sterols, a group of

minor lipids. Awad andcollcaguesset
out to examine theactionofthemain
plant steroi--J!..siti&gt;sterol-&lt;md the
main animal steroi-&lt;holesterol-on prostate-cancer cell growth.
· In previous work, they identified
activation of a cell-signaling path·
way called the sphirlgomyelin cycle
as one of the inhibitors of cell
groWth. The UB researchers felt that
increased levels of 8-sitosterol may
amplify the signaling capability of
two enzymes that act as second roes·
sengers in the sphingomyelin cycle.
thus in=asing its inhibi)Ory action.
To test their theory, the re searchers supplemented human
prostate-caAcer cell tissue in vitro
with either cholesterol or 8 -sito-

sterol and monitored cell growth.
They also measured activity of the
secondary messenger enzymes.
Results showed there were 28
percent fewer cancer cells after five
days of 8 -sitosterol treatment,
co mpared to tissue cultures

supplemented with cholesterol.
This inhibition ofcell pro1ikralion
was accompanied hy a 50 percent
increase in the activity of one enzyme. The second enzyme showed a
31 percent increase in activity after
one day of treatment; an increase of
II pen:ent mnained after five days.
"If we know how phytosterols
work, we can advise people bow
to modify their diets to reduce
their risk of prostate cancer, or we
could eventually design drugs to
target this syStem," be said
Phytosterols are used widely in
Europe to treat enlarged prostate (benign prostati&lt; hyperplasia), Awad
said. and are known to lower the risk
ofcardi&lt;msculardiseasehyinterfering with choltsterol ~ Jl.,
sitosterol is abundant in unrefined
vegetableoils,sudtasvirgin olive oil
Also contributing to the resc;a.rch
_,Y&lt;qmeiGan,a~studeqt
in nutrition. and CarolS. Fink. clinical
assistant prokssor of nubition.

�OctDber 29.1!!1/VolJO,11.10 Repariar

3

New
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mueller
to present Silverman Reading

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UB's ~Dance Co~ ... .-bolotOll&gt;
had Ia national~ In
the Dnma Theatre, C".enair
fer the IVa. The IJI1IIelllng
colndded with Zodiaque's
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U.S. Pos~ Service.

h

Preparing faculty for Access '99
Educational Technology Center expected to be ready by spring
By SUE WVETCHU

tivity tools, such as Microsoft Office.
In briefing senators on the sta Educational Technology tus of Access '99, Tufarie.Uo noted
Center to help faculty that the ..equity" issue is one that
members prepare for the Educational Technology Advinext fall's student-ac- sory Committee, which he heads,
cess-to-compu g initiative--now has been very concerned about
known offici ly as Access '99and is "addressing forcefull y."
should be in lace by the spring seHe mentioned the U8 ROCS promester, the
gram (UB Recycles Old OJmputt:rs)
the initiative t
that refur~:artd upgra&lt;ks older
computers from throughout.US. as
Ex&lt;cutivt OJ
Joseph Tufarie lo, senior vice well aS fromoutside donors lila: Rich
provost for educati na) technology, Prod_ucts 0Jrp.•. that wiJ\ be made
said the center, to located on the available to students who can demsecond floor of Capen Hall in the onstrate 6nancial hardship.
He also said a Standards COmmitScience and Engineering Library,
will oversee the faculty-develop- tee, headed by Stuart Shapiro, chair
ment component ~f Access '99. It of the Department ofOJmputer Sciwill offer faculty members short ence and Engin=ing, is investigatcomputing courses and access to ing hardware and software packages
equipment they might need, such to determine the types of equipment
as scanners and CO-ROMs, and that will be recommended to stuprovide graduate students who will dents. Once those standards are set,
assist faculty in their offices on such they will be used to negotiate with
projects as designing Web pages.
manufacturers the best possible
The cen ter, which will be prias for students who choose to buy
headed by David Wtllbern, asso- their own syst&lt;mS, he added
ciate dean for educational techno!·
Student training is another im·
ogy in Jhe OJIIege of Arts and Sci- portant component of the access
ences, also will manage what initiative, Tufariello said
Thfariello called the "course team
The Educational Technology Adapproach" -focusing on the visory Olmmittee will help to coclasses in Fall 1999 that will have ordinate the variow training prolarge freshman enrollmenu, such grams that already exist on campus,
as "World Civilization• and intro· including those offered by Olmputductory courses in chemistry, psy- ing and Information Technology,
the libraries and UBMicro. That inchology and computer science.
"The idea really is to focus on formation will be posted on a Web
site
for easy access to all, he said
thos~ courses and to make s ure
In additiOn, tht university will
that the faculty in those courses
arc prepart'd for the access initia- initiate the STAR (Student Techtiv&lt;as it begins in Fall '99," he said. nical Assistants in Residence) proIn addition, the center will fa - gram where trained students will
cilitate some travel for faculty to staff help desks in th e dorms.
co nferen ces a nd univ ersities
Voldemar lnnus, senior associwhere the access initiative already ate vice president for university
services and UB's chief informais under way, he said.
Access '99-the major focus of tion officer, told senators that the
UB's information technology strat- IT Steering Olmmittej!, which he
egy for Fall 1999-will require that heads, is ..observing and advising"
all incoming freshmen have access . the Educational Technology Advi1'0 a comput~r. The initiative will
sory Committee o n the stud ent·
permit faculty' to require studenu access initiative and ways to en·
to use computer resources.. and wiU han ce faculty development.
allow units to incorporate comHe described the variow ways the
puter resources comprehensively steering oommittee is helping to support Aaxss '99 "from an -infrastrucinto their programs. ...._
Tufariellosaid that students will be ture point ofvi&lt;w," including increasasked to "beoome acquainted with, ing the siu of the modem pool to
and somewhat proficient" in the ust' 1,000 from 450 to ease dial-in access
of email, Web searches and produc- to the UB server from off campus
News SeMces Associate Director

A

and upgrading the public labs, including the new labs in the Undergraduate and Lockwood bbraries.
Claude Welch, SUNY Di stin guis hed Service Professor in the
Department of Political Science
who was serving as the .. voice" of
Fac ult y Se nau C hair Pe ter
Nickerson, who attended the meet·
ing but was silenced by a case of
laryngitis, told FSEC members that
the se nate 's Compu te r Services
Olmmittee would be asked to pursue two charges during the coming
year. They are w continue to ad·
vise the senilte on the progress of
Access '99, and to track the ways in
which facul ty development is being .. enhanced so as to take advan·
tage of the new (IT) ca pacities and
use them effectively in our educational programs," Welch said.
Robert Straubinger, associate professor of pharmaceutics and chair of
the Computer Services Committee,
raised a number of concerns voiced
by members of his com mittee, as
weU as other faculty members.
They ranged from co nce rn s
about the overall IT planning process and faculty access to com put ·
ing to the nodes and student com·
pute.r literacy and ace~ to hard ware and software, he said.
In other business, the FSEC was
updated on the efforts of th e
senate's Public Service Committ ee
by Chair Michael Frisch, professor
of history and American studies.
Frisch told senators his committee was working with the Founder.;
OJmmineeoftheCollcgeof Arts and
Sciences, since the creation of the
coUege provides an opportunity to
advance the idea of public service in
disciplines where it has been "less
weU-understood" than in other disciplines, lila: the professional schools.
The college will be establishing
its own criteria for pro motion and
tenure, offering the committee a
chance to champion the inclusion
of public service in the dossier for
promotion and tenure, Frisch said.
Both Frisch and Mary Gresham,
interim vice president for public
service and urban affairs. stressed
that public service must become
part of the universit y's .. rewa rd
system" if it is to expect fac ult y to
parl icipate in publi c -se r vice
projects.

!

Llsel Mueller, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and transla·
tor, wiJI present tht 22nd annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry
at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6 m 250 Ba1rd Hall o n the North Campus.
The event. whi ch is part of th e Poetics Program 's
"Wednesdays at Four Plus" l11 erary sen es, will be fTec of
charge and open to the public.
The reading will be presented m memory o f Osca r
Silverman, the daslinguishcd UB scholar and teacher wh o
chaired the Department of English and directed the um
versity libraries. Silverma n also helped to develop iJ R's remark.dble
collection of 20t h -centur y poetr)'·
MueiJer won the Pu litzer Pr ize fo r poetry 1n 1997 for her latest
collection, ..Alive Togeth er: New and elected Poems." Critic Joh n
Taylor described Mueller 's poetry as responding to "h1stoncaltrag
edy, to o ur own ' heartless age,' to familial grief, to child· rai si ng. to
love for her husband and. increasi ngly, to death ... 11 1s mfused w1th
intimacy, authenticity and clarity.'"
Mueller, who ned from Nazi Ge rm any With her family at the age
of I 5, also is a 1ranslator from the German and has trans lated a verst"
play, a contemporary novd and three volumes o f prose and poet r)'
by writer Mari e Luise Kaschni tz.

Other books by Mueller incl ude "The Need to Hold Still," whtch
was chosen for the National Book Awa rd ; "The Pnvate Life," wh1ch
was a La mo nt Poetry Selection, and "Wavi ng fro m Shore ... whi ch
received the Ca rl Sandburg Award.
Her work has appeare~ in major literary journal~ . as well a~ 111
The Atlan tic and Tl1e New Yorker.

Nominations sought by Nov. 12
for chair of Faculty Senate
The E.lectkt1u Committee of the Faculty Senate is seekmg nomi nations for the chair o f the senate for the term begin ning July I.
1999 and ending June 30, 200 I.

The duties bf the smate chair include S&lt;tting the agenda for the Faculty
Senate Executive Olmmittee, which meets weekly, and proposing to that
body the agendas for the full senate. All full-time members of the voting
faculty are eligible to submit nominations to run for office, and to vote.
Send nomi natio ns, induding the nominee's name and phone num·
ber or email address, to the senate office, 543 Capen Hall. Nomina·
tions must be received by Nov. 12. The Elections Committ« will contact nominees in order to determine whether they are willing to run
for office. Nomin ees will be reqUired to ftlrnish a campaign statement.
For more information, caJJ the senate office at 645-2003.

S EF.Ii CA MPAIGN
PROGRESS REPOR'I
I
~II

!

,

Olllce d the l'nM&gt;st
School of Architecture

L. , d

S25,000

l,

, I&gt;

l

(

d

S9,480

37.9

10,000

t 1,868

118.6

110,700

80,929

73.1

School of Dental Medicine

32,800

19,450

59 .2

Graduate School of Education

15,900

15,188

95.5

39,300

34,021

86.5

9,800

8,963

91.4

100.2

and Planning

College of Arts and Sciences

School of Engineering

and Appl ied Sciences
School of Health Related
Professions
School of Information

and Ubrary Studies

1,800

1,805

School of law

15,100

9,185

62.1

School of Management

24 ,700

28,301

114.5

School ol Medldne
and 114omedlcal Sciences
School of Nursing

139,900
7,900

89,8n
4,292

64.2
54.3

School of Phann•cy

9,500

'6,8-40

72.0

Office of the President

6,500

4,601

70. 7

School of Social WOO.

4,500

4,026

89.4

UB Foundation

2,700

2,676

99.1

Student Affairs

30,600

8-4.4

University Services

t 34,000

25,856
t 06,523

79 4

Emeritus Center

14,784

Vi'ce President for Research
3,300
Advancement and Development 8,400

8,222

97.8

Publ ic Service and Urban Affairs 21 ,200

16,082

75.8

Student Organizations
Totals

0

130
~

S503,969

77.1

�4jllepoa-...r October 29.191/Vi.:ll,la.IO

Community development
~--1
"Th= efforu show our neigh bors and peer institutions how
UB's capital-our knowledge and

our know-how-is an important
asset for our region."
Public service has become even
more critical, Gresham points out,
because society typically looks to
universities during times of transition, such as the coming of the
next millennium.

Traditionally,

universiti~

have

been "repositories of all the best

knowledge of our time. When
there are change points in society,
you can always see people coming
back to the university to ask us to
help generate the kind of knowledge and the people with the kind
of knowledge that's needed to help
out in society," she says.
"When there's change, when
there's pressure in society, people
look to the university; that's part
of the reason for the attention
we're getting now and the pressure
we're getting now to be more service-oriented.
"We're not just educators; wereally impact the world around us
in very significant ways," Gresham
notes.
Adds Greiner. "We take seriously
the fact that we are of a larger society and we serve a larger society."
Gresham calls UCI, headed by
Project Director Danis Ge.hl, an
"exemplary example of appiied
scholarship."
UB re5p0flds to residents

Residents of University Heights,
seeing transition in their neigh·
· borhood and an erosion of its
·identity as a middle-class community, asked US-the largest neighbor in the Heights--for help stabilizing the neighborhood.
Thus, UCI was born. University
researchers did what they do best:
They analyud the problem and
developed a strategy. That strategy
encompasses a comprehensive
neighborhood stabilization plan
that Gresham says includes "not
only investing and partnering with
ed ucational institutions, but also
working with small businesses and
working on UB's own image on
the South Camp us." It also includes working with the housing
stock and with residents, neigh borhood block clubs, the Buffalo
Municipal Housing Authority and
Common Councilmember Kevin
Heifer.
The strategy focuses primarily on
housing. she says. because that's"the
single biggest factor that influences
the perception of a neighborhood."
UCI commissioned a marketing
study that determined that a housing acqu.isition, rehabilitation and
resale program designed to improve the housing stock in the
neighborhood is feasible. Gehl ,
Helfer and representatives of the
UB Foundation, Inc. are working
with local banks and the Fannie
Mae Corp. to fprther analyze the
marketing study and a business
plan. Gresham noted that a pilot
project involving all or part of
three streets in University Heights
will be conduct~. with UB investing $250,000 in the program.
US's investment in the community also focuses on the South
Campus with a commitment to
spend $100 million over 10 years

to develop the campus into a premier health-sciences education
and research cmter, improve the
physical appearance of the campus
and upgrade recreational facilities
and quality of life for students on
campus.
Individual projects include creation of the Comprehensive
Health Sciences Education Center
that will provide on-campus ambulatory health care and patient
access to health professionals"'from
diverse specialties ifi a singl.e setting; development of an on-campus research park, possibly in
Acheson Hall, to attract high-technology industry to collaborate
with health-sciences faculty and
expand job opportunities for
Western New Yorkers, and enhancement and improvement of
the physical appearance of the
campus with such projects as new
signage across campus and the installation .and repair of sidewalks
and new landscaping along the

camp~s perimeter.

Several projects under W"Y
-In addition to the housing
project, UCJ is moving forward on
several other fronts:
• It soon will open the Regional
Commu nity Policing Resource
Center, an unprecedented, crossjurisdictional collaboration
among police agencies fr~m Buffalo, Amherst, Cheektowaga,
Tonawanda, the Niagara Frontier
Transportation Authority, Buffalo
Municipal Housing Authority and
UB. Located in Room I 00 ofAllen
Hall oo the South Campps, the·
cent~ will create a venue where
police officer&gt; will work in .partnersbip with residents, businesses,
governrtJ.ent and social-service
agencies to prevent crime and address community problems that
impact on public safety.
• It is working with the UPTOyvN Coalition, Inc., a group of
area business owners, property
owners and residents of upper
Main Street to implement an "image- upgrade program involving
streetscape, landscape and building enhancements." The master
plan for the project was devised by
UB graduate students in planning
and de~ign, working with Hiro
Hata, associate professor in the
School of Architecture and Planning.
• It has forged an alliance of organizations, agencies and university departments to address nu merous educalionaJ challenges}
including mastery of new academic standards, career education
and job training, welfare reform
and self-sufficiency, and capacity
building in public schools. Activities include after-school enrichm~nt programs held on the South
Campus for approximately 500
Buffalo school students; summer
residential programs in math, science, technology and general academic courses; the America Reads
literacy program, and partnerships between UB and public
schools in the Buffalo and
Amherst Central districts.
Gresham notes that one of the
newest of these partnerships in volves a coUaboration just under
way this semester between the
Center for Urban Studies and the

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schools of Nursing and Social
Work, and Wmdmnere Boulevard
School in Amherst and Schools 53
and 74 in the City ofBuffalo. The
study will examine everyday life
and culture in the schools, the
school district and the immediate
community that surrounds and
feeds into each school in order to
help the schools assess imponant
issues-such as increased diversity
of the student population and universal pre-kindergarten-that
they will have to address going
into the 21st century.
Such projects under the UCI
umbrella constitute "applied scholarship at its best; Gresham says
"What we do best is think, research and analyze, and come up
with a concept and then take it out
and test it.• .
.
Another key example of applied
scholarship is the institute for Local Governance and .Regional
Growth. Headed by former New
York State Sen. John Sheffer Jl, the
institute assists area governments
and other service providers in promoting regional opportunities
throughout Western New York.

chological Services Center in the
College of Arts and Sciences and
jhe Office of Rural Health in the
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, to research initiatives
such as the Calspan-UB Raearch
Center and the Cen~ for Assistive
Technology.
The university's public-service
activities also include efforts to aid
economic de-velopment in Western New York.
The primee:xample of this is the
=mt merger of UB's economicdevelopment activities into .a new
organization-the UB Business
Alliance-to make it easier for
companies to partner. with the
univmity.
The UB Business Allian~ incorporates four critical services UB
provides to indUfUY: The Geqtt;r
for Industrial Effectiveness, the
Office of Technology Transfer Services, the UB Foundation Incubator and Health Care Bupness Center, a new partnership with the
Health· Care lndustrks Association that links researchers, manufacturers and local health-care
providers with UB resoun:es.
The reorganization of the
univerSity's econo·m ic-development and industrial-outreach activities-is ):hi result of UB efforts
to make economic development
and industrial outreach a priority
of the university.

Wori&lt;shops, rese.rd&gt; sponsored
It sponsors conferences and
workshops, and conducts ......,.ch
projects on various aspects of re· gionalism. The institute recently
began a new project to define and
measu~ regional performance in
the Buffalo-Niagara area by devel- , "One-stop shopping"
oping a series of regional indicaThe UB Business Alliance has
tors to track changes over time, been describe'd as a one-stophighlight patterns within the re- shopping approach to "econpmic
gioo and support comparisons development, whereby potential
with other areas. For each indica- industrial partners can make ooe
tOr, the project not only will mea- telephone call to the university
sure performance, it also wiU pro- and receive the assistance they
pose goals for progress and de- need ..Such assistance can be in the
velop strategies for reaching those areas of research and development, staff training, testing a new
goals.
Gresham notes that the second product or licensing a UB invencompendium of public-service tion.
Whether the activity is in the
activities recendy published by her
office includes contributions from educational, health or economic·
more than 200 individual faculty development realm, both town
members. ~d I wouldn't even and gown benefit from UB's pubpresume to•say that's all that's go- lic-service efforts.
"The university gets tremen ing on; on campus.• she says.
'T he range ofUB's investment in dous benefit from the kind of pubthe community runs the gamut, lic-service activity the faculty and
from the Educational Opportu- staff engage in," Gresham says.
nity Center, Millardl'illmore Col- "People outside the university relege and other continuing-educa- alize that we're not this iY9ry tower
tion initiatives offered by many of that they've accused us of being.
theprofessionalschools.tohealth- They realize we are invested in the
services initiatives such as tht Psy- community."

�Octnber 29.!11Vo1.lli.10 Rap

Economics journal honors Gort
11J PATIICIA - A N
News SeMces Editor

T

HE Society for Economic

Dynarnia has dcdiated
the second issue ofiu new
journal, Review of Economic Dynamics, to Michael Gort,
UB professor of economics.
All of the articles in the issue
relate to Gort's principal themes
and ideas, notably the nature of
technological change and its impact on other variables.
A member of th.e UB faculty
since 1963, Gort is a specialist in the
field of industrial organization. His
res&lt;arch and publications focus on
the economics of innovation, the
measurement of technical change
and the economics of regulation.
"The far-reaching influence of
Michael Gort's work is only now
becoming apparent," writes Boyan
Jovanovic of the Department of
Economics at New York University
in his introductory essay.
Referring to the fact that Gort
served from 1954-57 on the re search staff of the National Bureau
of Economic Research after obtaining his doctorate from Columbia University, Jovano.vic notes
that his work " has consistently
been in the l&gt;H:t bureau tradition,"
which focuses on bringing '"relevant, sound evidence to bear on
interesting economic questions .'
.. To work in this tradition;" he

adds. "one must useecohomictheory
to select appropriate data and procedures, and having done so, understand the quality of the data and the
limits to whjch oondusions cap be
pushedl'ro=ding in this way, Gort
has measured economic magnitudes
not previously measured ... and he
has estimated parameters not previously estimated...•
Jovanovic adds: "The unifying

theme of Gort's work.. . is iechnological chango-its nature and its
impact on other variables.
"For example, in his study of di versification Gort enmined technologicallinlcages betwttn a firm's base
industry and those into which it di versified His work on mergers dealt
with the impact of economic shocks
(including technical change) on
dispersion in valuations and, hence,
merger frequen-

cies. Gort's study
of the diffusion of
innovations and
of firm survival

rates established a syst~tic product life-cycle and some of its attributes. Finally, his work on productivity examined the role ofleaming by doing, of capital at)d organization learning. and the impact of
vintage of capital on productivity."
Gort's oontributions to the field
of dynamic economics are of major

significance. say his ooUeagues, citing in particular his important papers on firm and industry dynam ics, and on productivity and mergers. aU of which have added greatly
to the understanding of how a market works from birth to maturity.
Jovanovic points out that with

co-author B.H. Babk, Gort wrote
the definitive study of learning at
the industrial plant level. He also
was among the first economists. to
conduct an empirical examination

of the legitimacy of aggregating
capital service, an issue that has
occupied North American and Eu ropean econoinic theorist s for
more than 40 years.
Gort's research on the diffusion
of innovat ions and of firm survival rata was important because

it tstablished a systematic product

life -cycle and some of its at tributes, Jovanoyic says.
On a personal level, he notes:
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with his intellectual cu riosity and
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monographs and more than three
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creased activity among rniiJennialist
groups and a degr.. of hysteria as
members of such cults prepare for

rebirth of a better one has formed
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throughout history and through·
out th e world ," notes Phillips

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more than 25 years studying religio n, cults and cultrnaJ change.

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2000. He notes rhe recent and sud-

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of the "Concerned Christians"
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the Year 2000 wiU "mark the return
of Jesus, the appearance of the
Antichrist or a battle of Armaged don and have been seeing signs
forewarning them of such events
for the past IS years.
"SO me interpret recent floods,
ea rthquakes and even e/ Nino as
modern interpreta t ion s of the
signs in the Book of Reve lation
and warnings of the ~oming end."

He adds that candidatos for the
Antichrist, wh ich historically have

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future. Many of tht:

claims surrounding the scare.

may or may not correlate with the
millennium change.
"These movements do coincide
with periods of real or im~gioed
social and economic stress, however," says Stevens. He cites the ex -

great religions of

He adds that the recmt surfioc.
ing of violent cults that have tried
to hasten the millennium through

ures such as Elvis Presley or Princess Diana.

"Cults aro absolutely l1llMnal and
integral to society," says Stevens.

"These groups are real, immodiak

tho world began
with groups that
could be labeled as
cults as the word is , . _
used today."

amplos of the many 19th century
religious movements in New York
State and the peaceful "G host

have reinforced society's as.soda -

tion of cults with sinister and ovil.

Dance" movement pra.c ticed by
the Native American tribes in the
late J800s to save themse.Jves from

the oppression of whites.
Stevens also notes that as the year
1000 A.D. approached, considerable unrest occurred in Europe and
when millennialist expectations
were not met, many publicly criti-

cized the church. Monumental historicaJ events such as the Christian
Crusades and the several inquisitions foUowed in an attempt to prepare for Jesus' return by eliminat-

ing herotics and infidels.
He explains that due to a change
in the word 's popular .beaning
over the past few decades, cuJts
have a reputation for doom and
negativity and are generally mis-

understood by society today.
Stovens emphasizos that cults. in"
eluding rniiJonnialist organizations.

destructive means, such as the Or-

der of tho Solar Tempi• in Switur·
land, Aum Shinrilcyo in Japan and
Heaven's Gate in the United States,

There are several traits that are
co mmon among destcuctive
cults, including a si ngle male
dominating leader who controls

tho members physically, sexually
and emotionally, says Stevens.
PHIUIPS ffiVENS, jR.

He explains that in the 1930s,"cults"
referred to religious groups with radically dilferont beliefs and methods of
practico compared to mainstream religious beliefs of that time.
"Bytheeodoftbo 1970s, tho word
'cult' had developed a sinister and
even Satanic a&gt;nnotation due to the
rise of groups which wero often led
by a single powerful, megalomaniac
who used questionable recruitment
tactics which wero believed to in·
cludo 'brainwashing,'" says Stevens.
He cites such groups as the In• ·
ter national Society for Krishna

"Tho friondly mombers and an
often charismatic loader also may
satisfy basic fundamental social
needs for some people," says

Slovens, adding that such· groups
also attract poop!• by offoring
some degreo Qf interest and excite·
ment to thoS&lt; who may simply be
bored with their current lifestylo.
He explains that destructive
millennialist groups are able tore- .
cruit ine.mbers i&gt;eguse in geniral

they appeal to oppressed and vic·
timiz.ed peopk with low oelf-est..m by taking advantago of their
vulnerability with a promise of
paradise or a better uistence.

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Contlnuedfrom-1

ing the mean SAT sco re for the

Class of 2002 to 1145 from thr
mean score of 1134 for freshmen
who entered UB in the Fall of 1997.
"The effect will be felt in our
classrooms and seen in our reten tion numbers." Goodman said.

the mean SAT score faJi ing from

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and fallen throughout histOfY and

so ught by miUennialists in th e
next 14 months.
Many Christians anticipate salvation or damnation in 1,000-year
cycles, but, according to Stevens,
thousands of cults characterized as
millennialist g·roups have risen

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past, present and

Consciousness, Sun Myung Moon'•
Unification Olurch and Jim )ones'
Pooplo's Tempi• as procurson to
the fean of Satanic cults tllat 5pl'&lt;ad
through tho eotiro world from the
19805 through tht: mid-1990s.
Stevens ooles that the fear of
imaginary Satanic cults finally
died down because there was absolutely no evidence to validate the

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tive. noting secular cults such as
thoso organized around popular fig·

a $50,000 infurmatiooaccess project grant from the National Institutes of Health and other
federal funding agencies..It will ~ used to bdp mo.., than 700 public:
bealthprofessiooalsinrural'upstato communitiosbookuptotheinl&lt;met
and acquiru = to a broad range of bealtb information DOW availablo onlin• through the National Library ofMedicine.(NLM) and its
affiliated modkal libraries. The project will 5eiVe the 17 counties of
Westom and Central New York. their co_un"ty bealtb departments and
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Information 'J!Jxess," funded by tho NLM and iu National Notwork
of Ubraries of Medicine, of which the Health Sciences Ubrary is a
member. Other .funding agencies ""' the Centers for Disease Coouol and Prevention, tho Health Resources and Services Administration, and tho Association of Stat• andTorritorial Health Officials.
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head of reference and education services for the Health Sciences U - •
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11oe IIMIIII-..

He noted that the profile of the
en tering freshman class had been
declining for several years, with

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are not always violent and dostruc-

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Muhammad, Saladin, Adolf Hitler
and Saddam HusS&lt;in, also may be

o ur facul ty on the one hand, and
the aptitudes and needs of o ur un dergrad ua te students on the other."
While the Honors Program at tracts top students, it is too small
to have a significant effect on the

overall profile of the student body,
Goodman said.
Moreover, the effect of recent tuition increases has hem that the tu·
ition at UB is now not much lower
than the discounted tuition at private
universities, "making it Vtty difficult
to compete for the best studonts.

schools." he pointed out.
The.refore, it was "crucial to the
continued q uality of OUI undergraduate program that we offer a
significant n um~er of attractive,
merit -based scholarships." he said.

"There aro few more important
things we can invest in than the

has produced "a mismatch between

"We've seen some students we

quality of tho student body. I'm
thrilled"" havo hem able to do that,
and that President Greiner has hem
willing to make this invostmenl
"These scholarships milk it possible again fo r us to attract the best
students in order to be the kind of

our curriculum and the i nte~ts of

really ought to get , go to other

institution we want to be~· he said.

1151 in 1995, to I 143 in 1996. to
1134 last year.
This downward trend, he said,

And once UB .. creates the perception" that it is attracting excellent students, '"we will attract rD.ore

excellont students." he said, adding that this upward spiral in the
quality of the studont body will
improve the quality of all the
university's academic programs.
"S tudents learn from each

other." Goodman pointed out. "A
good student m akes education

better for all. If we improvo tho
(overall) quality of Sl':'dents, all
will g&lt;t a bettor education. (With
the new scholarship program)
we're doing that."

�October 19,19!11Yoi.311.111.10 Rep ana.

Newman reappointed chair
,of UB Foundation board

U B 24 , Uberty 27

Rogln•lciB. · II, president ofNOCO firm of Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods and
Energy Corp., has been reappointed chair of the Goodyear, secretary, and Carol V. Kocicla, se ·
board of trwtees of the University at Buffalo nior vice president, Regional Commercial Bank,
Foundation, Inc.
Marine Midland Bank, treasurer.
Prior to becoming chair in 1996, Newman,
Th e foundation also elected several new
who has been affiliated with th e board since trustees for three-year terms. They are Sal H.
1989, was vice chair of the foundation and had Alfiero, founde r, chairman and CEO of Mark
~rved as chair of the investment comIV Industries, Inc.; Dianne Bennett,
mittee.
president of Hodgson Russ; Luiz F.
The founda tion promotes the activiKahl , president of Vector Group, LLC.
ties and programs of the University at
and chairman of the Niagara frontier
Buffalo by providing support and adTransportatio n Authority; Ross B.
vice regarding fund-raising and manknzie, former chairman and CEO of
aging gifts and grants on behalf of the
Goldome; Northrup R. Knox , Jr. ,
university, providing a wide range of
founder and principal in Noonmark
financiaJ services for various units of Nl'WIIAN
Capital; Delbert W. Mullens, president
the u niversity, developing and managing real and CEO of Wesley Int ernati o nal, In c., a nd
property on behalf of the university and pro- Walsh.
vi ding a b road baK of private-sector support
Re -elected to three-year terms as tru stees
fo r the unive rsi ty through the fo undation's were R'andaH I. Bendcrson, vice pres ident ,
trustees and directors.
Benderson Development Co., In c.; Ellen E.
The board of trustees, which participates in Grant Bishop, comm issioner, Erie County De th e university's development program, is re- partment of Mental He alth; Frank L.
sponsible for raising community awareness of Ciminelli, president, CimineUi Develop ment
the need for private support for UB, soliciting Co., Inc., and GeraldS. Lippes, part ner in th&lt;
gifts on behalf of it and managing assets re- law firm of Li ppes, Silverstein, Mathias &amp;
ceived by the foundation . The board also pro- Wexler.
vides advice and counsel to the president of the
William H . Pearce, president, Pearce and
university on matters involving the UB co m - Pearce Co., Inc., has been named trustee emerimunity and its constituencies.
tus of the foundation .
O ther officers appointed by the foundation
Re-elected to three -year terms as directors
are Jo hn N. Walsh, III, chairman and chief ex- werr Sheldon M. Berlow, chairman, Berlow Real
ecutive officer, Walsh Duffield Companies, Inc., Estate, Inc.; Lawrence D. Jacobs, UB professor
vice chair; Richard E. Heath , partner in the law of neurology, and Leonard Rochwarger.

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commissioned Wright to design the
Martin House (bu;~ 1903-04) and
Gr3)'Ciiff, thtir sull'Ullb residence (buih

Faoculty
Aulmnt/AsJodote Prole...,.. (tiw-ee

1926-27).

The exhibition, running until January,
1999, is on -.iew on the Special
Collections Reading Room, ·UO Capen
Hall, North Campus. For more
information. caU 645-2916.
The~ al District SIJt
The School of Architecture and Planning
is hosting an exhibit, wnte UrbaniYn of
District Six," curated by Kiran l.alloo,
visiting professor of architecture,
through 'NO&gt;o'. 30 in the lal"'''eS ~
Gal~, HS Ha~ Hall on the South
Camptn.

Oistricl SO.. located ;n Cope Town. South
Africa. was dedared a \'Vhite area in 1966

and the goyemment spent milliom to
mocate 55,000 Africans and Indians to
remote arNS ot the city, making the
district a famous examp6e of the

;gn&lt;nnc:e d apant&gt;e;d. The exhi&gt;l
includes cope. d ong;nat drawWlg&gt; from
an urban study on District Six coodocted
by the Urt&gt;an Housing Un~ d\he Cape
Technikon pro;ect team.

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Prolaso&lt;-Oopanment d Geography,
Posting ff.-806.4 . Asslstant/Asso d ate
Prolesso&lt; (three positions avollabi&lt;)Department of Oral BKNogy, Posting ff.
8065, 8066, 8067. AuJstant/ Associate
Professor-Department of Management
Sdenc:e and System1. Posting IF-8068.
AssistAnt Professor-Medicine,

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Profetsor·Oepartrnent of Bectric:al
Enginf!'ering, Posting IF-8070.
Assistant/Associate / Full Professor·
Deplrt.ment of Electrical Engineenng,
Posting lfF-8071.

Researdl
Research Support Spedallst-Center tor
Research and Education in Spec1al
ErMronrnenli (CRESE), PoslJng MR·
98081 . RegkMlal ()evek)pme:nt
Secretary-~t, Posting II'A·
98082. Prospect Records CoordinatOf'~~t. Posting tR-98086.
Research TKhnkian 11-Pharmacofogy
and Toxicology, Posting tR-98091 .
Secretary 11-Nuclear Medicine, Post1ng
NR-98092 . lnsti'\Kt.Of'-Toxkofogy

Audit, Posting IP-8116. Assistant to
Chairman ( SL-3)-0epart.ment of
Physiology and Biophysics, Posting •P
8117. Assistant Director (SL-3)-AJumnr
Relatioru, Posting IP-81 19.
Mkrocomputer Help Desk Manager/
Backup LAN Admlnlstr.ttor (SL-1)Student Finances and Records, Post1ng
IIP-8123. Assisumt House Manager
(Sl· 1).Colleg&lt;! d Aru and Sdences.
Posting IIIP-8124. LAN and User

SuP!""' Spedofist (Sl-2}-Tec:hnology
SeMC~, Posting IP-8125. Assistant
Athletk Director, Compliance (Sl-4)Athletio, PoSting ltP-8126. ~rector,
lntematk&gt;nal St udent and Scholar
Services (S l~) -Off'tce of InternatiOnal
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became US's ;all-orne leader 1n career punt·
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OYer the 2.000-~rd mark. receiving I 0
atches for 166 ~rcls

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UB I, W estem Michigan l
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1n the Head of the Schuykin regat:ta.
The~ 8&amp;ftt coodnued to nWa! up tim&lt; on li&amp;l&gt;~ pow&lt;rl&gt;ouse
Vlllancwa. COfT'Iin&amp;: in second pbce with ;a time of 16: 18.T'he 'MXTlen 's heavy 4--plus
I'UWI!d to v-. lfkh..pbce finish with ;a time ol 18-.3 I. In chdr fim. rxe, the novice
r.am post0c1 , wona e11on. pbdog 25m ;n , fidd 11w OOuded ....,. from
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vktorious oat Younptown State. defeaong the Pengu1ns.. 161-70. on Sawrday
Sophomon! nandoot Inger Rooneem paced d1e Bulls with foor tim-place
fimshes in the meet.

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WOMEN 'S

UB 0 , Ken t State I
The women's soccer team lost ;a hoard-fought pme Sunc:b.y oaftemoon. blhng. 1..0
to Kent St2te In OYrrtime.
Kent got d&gt;e gomewimeo' " d&gt;e frn""'"'""' penod on a goal by K.ty Hoggord.
...-d by N&gt;C1o Dc&gt;.ney." 0.. 95o39 """'-justINe-.., mo d&gt;e extn .....an
The Bolls played most of the much a nun down u Tracey Brnton drew ;a
red card m the 24th minute. Despite pbymt-one down, US domnu.red the tim
~If. ouuhooting Kent. 8-0. but could not capitalae.
The second half saw Kent ~r down the Bulls. The Golden Rashes ouuhot
UB, 7-l.•n the second half The only d\ot '"overtime proved to be ~I dut was
needed by Kent.

MEN' S
U B I , Marsholl J
UB l, N orth ern Ill inois 4
It was a back-oand-forth batrle. With Northem llhno1s prevallrng. 4.). over UB m
men's soccer oacuon fncby mght. W1th the los.s.. the Bulls drop to fourth ~;ace '"
the MAC sandmgs
Tied art 2-2 oat the half. me Husloes took a qutdt lead In the Slnd mUli.Jle.
but the Bulls came b;ack u Bnan Mc:Uihon netted the equalu:er-. h1s second goal
of the evening. on an assnt from Frank Butcher- 1n the 74th mmure A!. orne
wound down. both teams were nackmg to ;r101d overnme An NIU shot wu
knocked ;away by UB gooalie Jim Schoenberg. but M1ke Genole put the rebound
back m for the Huskies for the +3 wm
UB took me e.oarly lead in the first tulf Steve Burcher usrsted McUihon on
;a goal in the seventh m1nut.e on a break3way Butcher tht!n s.co~ h1s te.oaml1!2dlng 14th goal of the year in the 28th minute for :a quiCk. 2 .0. Bulls· lead NIU
fought b;ack wn:h two b.te goals to oe the pme oat 2-2 :at the ~If
1ne Bulls ;also lost. 3- 1. on Sunday m Hunongt.on.WV..., to M;arsh;all The
Thundenng Herd stabbed the BuHs euty, Konn&amp; all thr-ee of ItS gc».b m the first
hatf. Sophomore John SNnnon sco~ UB\ onty go;al oat 76-()() tn the ~econd h.Jtf
off an us1st from Bnan McC.a!kon

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October n1!91/ti30,1*!.9

UB Past,
Present,
Future
With an assist from Harvey
Breverman 's "Cabal Ill,"
prospective students meet
UB faculty past and present
in the atrium of the Center
for the Arts during Saturday's
"Discover UB" open house.

Mid-semester progress reports to be issued
Early intervention can reduce failure rate, improve student retention, studies show E3
By SUE WUETCHEII

News Services Associate Director

OR the first time in recol lection, this fa1J all UB first -

F

semester undergraduates..

both freshmen and trans-

fer studen ts. will receive progress
repor ts on their perfor man ce at
mid-semester with the goal of reducing the failure rate and improv ing the st udent - retention rate.
The reports providing instructor
feedback are being issued as there sult of a new policy implementt;d
by N icolas Goodman, vice provost
for undergraduate education. at the

urging of the Faculty Senate.
Goodman noted that the initiative
is more in line with pmctico at small
coUeges and universities, as opposed
to those of research universities.
UB is taking the step. he added ,
because studies conducted at other
institutions th at issu e such reports
have shown that early intervention
by advisors in cases where a stu dent is identified as performing
poorly can reduce the rate of fai lure and improve the rate of s tu ~

dent reten tion.
To facilitate faculty submiss ion
of information, Goodman said U B
i!. among the first-if not the
first - institution of high er educa tion tO coll ect the data via a Web
site, &lt;http:/ / wlngs.buff•lo.edu/

web/ m&amp;d.semester&gt;.
Faculty members who teach
courses that include any first -~ m cs­
ter undergraduates--both freshmen
and transfer studen ts -have unt1l
Monday to submit the infonnatlon.
The fa~..."1.1.1ty member must mdicatt'
whether the student IS makmg satisfactory or unsatisfactory progrt.'SS in
the course, Goodman said. Ahhough
the grading symbols "S" and .. U" are
used, a mid -semester progres!. report
should not be considered to bt• a
gradt• for any particular fract1on of
the course, he stressed.
The policy is the dm:-ct res uh o l
a resoluti on approved by tht.• Fa culty Senat e last spring designed to
identify students who are a t risk
of failing so that advisors can m tervene to make sure that the stu·
dents are aware of the1r situatiOn

and can take appropnate act1on.
The Monday deadlin e for film g
the progress reports allows tmlc for
students to withdraw, if the y wish.
from a course Jn whKh they m;n
be performmg unsausfactonl y
Good man lauded the work of
Thoma3 Schroeder, J.3SOCiatt' pro
ic:~or of learn1ng anJ mstrut'twn
a nd formt"r ~..h;ur o l tht:" Facuhy
~ena lt' t ,r;Jdm g l 'nmnllltt·e, who
:!o hcpht•rdt•d thr propns.tlthroup.h
the co mmlltn• and to 1h tina! ,tp
proval tw the l-.Kuh' ~ett.IIC
SchroeJer "'dt'3t."n'c' J. grt•;it dcJ.I
of crcdll for getung thl " thtng g11
1ng." Coodman scud .
Under the new lfB polln·. l ;h
uhy nu·mhn' will re~o.t" I Vt' J h:.t of
namc:s of '\tudenb 111 tht' IT cour't':-.
for whom a mtd -semestt•r progress
rt·port ts requtred . \'1a the Wt"h
.. tt e-fac ulty members o nlv need
to usc their UN IX ust·rnamt' .mJ
password to log tn- m .str ut"l n rs
ca n file a progress report either hv
filling in an on lint: buhble sheet or
hv uploading an appropnate fik
Once all of the report~ an· rt·

ct'lvcd. s taff m th(" Academu; Ad
vtscmcnt Center will co mpll e th l'
data and se nd d letter and cma1l
tn those studt•nts they havt• deter
llllnt·d to he most at rl:!ok ,
&lt;~oodman satd. Ce nter s taff tht·n
wtll attempt to make per so nal
t'O ntact With each student, e1thcr
111 pt:rson or through a telephone
(a ll. ht· sa1d. Th;~t (OntJ.(t (uuld h~..·
made w uh the &lt;~S:.I!&gt;Ian . . t" ol thl·
Student ~erv1ces Cenlers 111 tht·
md 1viduaJ sch ouh and other pro '
lt'SSIOnal adv1:-.ement n·nters. su ... h
.1:. those .serv mg stud en t -athlete:-.
.md &lt;.iludeniS Ill tht~ Edu~..· atmnal
l)p ,~ nrtu nll\' Pr,1gr.tm and the
l "nlvt·r-.11\' ll onor~ Progr.lm!', ht•

JJdeJ
l he mnnllonng ol .. tut.!t·nt'
pro~rt':O..l&gt; IS ,\0 CSSt' lll13} tn{?.rt'"d lt' nl

111 acadcnlh: ~w:u;~ .tnd a rc,pon
sib tilt y that mmt ht• sh.tred hv hoth
tnstrut'tor:,
anJ
~tudent:. .
( .ood man stressed. Tht· nt'\o,' mid se mester progre!&gt;S report:. wtll pro
v1dc a m ea ns for enh.tn~o.lll~;t th e
tommunh.:alll)ll betwt•&lt;.•n tnstrut
tor:-. ,md !'tudenb. ht· noted .

Improving infrastructure to enhance student life
By CHIIImNE VIDAL

Reporter Editor

mere quarter of a cen turyago. UB's 1.200-acre
Nonh Campus was un ·
developed land. Eight
million square feet and $1 billion

A

later, an academic community thrivt.~
on a site that once was wetland&lt;.;.
The university's root s go even
deepe r on th e South Ca mpu s,
which has been home to UB since
the university pu rchased the 150·
acre Buffalo Plains site in 1909.
Once the un iversity's only campus,
it increasingly ha s taken on a
health -ca re/ professional focus as
the North Campus has developed
a nd the focus of undergraduate

plant and educational reso un.. r'
that const1tutc UB's mfrastrut""1ua·
&lt;..;ov. Pataki announced recentlv
that over the next
ruties to more than
23,000 students and,
five ycdr!&gt;, the state
m doin g so, have bewill make a cap1tal
come a major ceomvestment of$105
nomic engine for
mill1on in the
the region, pumping
North and ~outh
an estimated S I A I
campuses.
FOURTH ARTICLE IN
hi lhon a vear mto
UB abo ha:-.
A SERIES
the Wes t e rn New
made a com mit ·
York eco nomy.
rn ent to 111\'est
And UB's 1mportanct' to the fu ..
$100 million over 10 years m the
ture of the region , as welt as the South Camp us. This investment
state, is likely to become even more wi ll focus on developing a prem1er
pivotal as the universit)' and the
health-science education and re Stat!' of New York continue to make search center, improving the
physical appearance of the ca m
major investments in the physical
p rograms has s hifted to Amherst.
Together, UB's two campuses each
yt-ar provide educational opportu -

..:========INVESTING
IN UB•s
FUTUIJE

ru:-. anJ upgr admg rt·~..n·J.tlon.li
anJ otht·r lanhtlt' ~ lor 'tudt·nr..
Among the pnw.''l.:ts th.u arc un
dcr wav or ar~ m tht" planmng &lt;;,tJgt"-.
• Tht~ fir~t nt"\\ hous1ng prowlt
t"Onstruncd dt L"B m mnn: than .:.'0
years, wh Kh will prm 1dc apprux1
mately 620 undergraduate stu
dent:!o with on · ~o.ampus . .tpart
ment -s t v lt hou :, tng ( urrt•nth
undt.·r constructum nn .1 10.\1 d~ f('
:!olle hounded bv Audubon ParJ...
way and Hadlt:y .t.nd Rem(h ro.1ds.
the S 18 mdh o n ..:::omp kx 1~ ex
pected to be readv for O(cupa nn
next full.
• A $ 7 mdl1 on mathematl(s
building , tfl be located near the
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BRIEFLY
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Jennifer Roth, general manager ofWBFO-FM 88.7, has been
a member of the UB staff since 1990. Prior to joining UB,
she was co-producer of the National Public Radio program, "The Thistle &amp; Shamrock." ·

W)iloodlhe

lJnMnlty of -.g. &amp;lgloMl

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ally( It 2-p.m. IOmOnOW In
Room 22{) allhe- Sdence
Complex on 1he North campus.
Wylce wlllook It C1JI.

Why have you chosen • career
In publk r ...lo ln•to... of

commercial rNio7

lure have ~ted and
used Roman Images in 20ChGontuly popular Wtu~ , _
nolably In cinemltlc Images of

Growing up, I was glued to commercial radio, just as my own kid
is toda y. I especially loved listening to the Vikings' games and-in

and 1he
rodeal" .da5&gt;lcal body.

the wee hours, when everyone else
was sleeping-to clear channel

the

Roman-

FacuttY

members,
'alumnus to be honored

station s from discant places. In
1972, when I got my first radio job,
at KUOM at the University of
Mmncso ta, I had never before

heard a public radio station. But
there it was, ..All Things Considered," and the bridge was irrevo cab ly crossed. For me, the possi bilities (fo r using imagination and
creativity, for engaging the mind
and the soul, for reaching some·
one in a meaningful way) aU lie in
public radio. Plus. 1 ca nnot bear
commercials.

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I think the most challenging thing
about any job is U&lt;ping it fresh.
If you're a manager, then you also
have to instill that drive in others.
Then there's the challenge of be·
ing responsible for something that
never sleq&gt;s and never stops. In the
olden days, when many stations
signed offal midnight, I would
heave a huge sigh of temporary re ·
lief along with the .. swoosh" of the
transmitter being switched off for
six ho urs. Now, even when I'm on
vacation, I'm wondering who's on
board at BFO, how things are going, and I can call in from any·
where. any tim e, and actually hear

what's on the air.

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Fund-rlllslng obvlouoly b •n
lm_._t pMt of tho lifo of
_ , . . , . . ....loltetlon.

Voluntoman: here at Allen Hall right
now, answering pboocs in "Pledge
Central." bringing in food to sustain
the troops and giving 1.111 moralsupporL Macy Favor, host o("Jazz Fawrites," just arrived to produarus
show for Sunday's broadcast. And
tomonow w.'re &lt;:&lt;pCCting the rest of
the weddy program wlunteers to
add their unique ~ to the BFO
schedule-Dick Judelsohn , Ted
Howes, Joanne Schlegel, Barbara
Herri&lt;X, Jdfl'ieayinski and Family,
Randy Keller, Rob Campbdl. Others,
like reporter Jcn Gold and our UB
student interns. will be around
later. Volunteers help m.U the station what it is.

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You just happened to catch us in
the thron of our Fall drive, which
gives me an opportunity to ask the
UB community to supportWBFO
with a membership pledge if they
haven't done so yet. "Now is the
time, dear professor, administrator, staffer and student~ to come
through for your NPR station. You
can help us meet our goal of
$145,000-our highest goal ever.
Call 829-~nd thanlcs!"

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Two on-air drives • year-Fail and
Spring-is what it takes to reach
WBFO's membc.-.hip goals. These
contributions make up a third of
our operating budget, with the rest
of the fuel ooming from UB, our
annual gran~&gt; from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and
business underwriting.
Tared of fund-raising? I wouldn't
be honest if I saiditdidn'ttaltcatoll.
But it's a golden opportunity to get

l'ecdback from the folks wbo usc our
servicc.Wehav.5,000mcmbcnand
a weekly audience of nearly 100,000.
Our audience oomes to life via the
phones and I can't begin to tell you
what impact that has on the staff of
WBFO (not to mention the impact
of the financial rontnbutions on our
ability to provide the current level
of service. )
Wh•t role do volunteen pl•y

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We usc a number of criteria. Here
are scva-al of them: quality, quality,
quality. Our Program Director
David lleodcrs puts new and proposed shows through aauciating
tests, asking questions like "How
would it fit into the schedule aod
what would it rq&gt;laa?" "b something like this already available to
Buffalo listeo&lt;i's?'"'Would our audience be interested in it?"And osedcs out opinions o( ~
Advisory Board, for aampi~­
Core signing on a new show. Any suggestions from you, RLporterreaders?

Do,_,._..,,&lt;"- to
waFO's lngln
the fwblroe7

We're always trying to mili
WBFO an ever-better radio stationi we're keen to learn what
listeners like and don'tlike; and
we're always open to change.
Right now, with listenership
and membership SUPJX¥'1 in creasing. our plans are~ con·
tinue strengthening the primary formats-NPR news and
jazz.

WhY Is waFO's history
. -... ... Jazz, .............
to, Ntf, c:laulcl.l or I4MIM
other style of 7
Buffalo's own history is rooted
in jazz, so it makes sense that
WBFO would dedicate itsdfto
exploring and furthering thiJ
important form of music. especially given that the .classical
music radio niche is already
filled here by WNED and several stations coming in from
Toronto. Btrt Gambini, our
music director, does a terrific
job making jazz sing o.n WBFO.

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What .,.. the rtetlon '• mort

Ask me what I think iJ WBFO's
greatest strength and I'JJ answtt
it's our staff members. who k&lt;q&gt;
the station running wondrously

According to Arbitron, our toprated shows are Saturday blues,
.. Car Talk," •Morning Edition"
and-in terms of market share-"Sunday Polka Party.•

well, day in, day ouL I am grateful to them for what they bring
to the workplace and I eojoy
learning from them, watching
them gro..;, and working together to m.U good radio.

_.__1

Rodriguez to lecture on cultural diversity
Award-winningjournalist to address issues ofHispanic identity in America
By PATIIKIA DONOVAN

N.ews Servtces Editor

T

HE meaning of the
term .. Hispanic" and
who cons titute s the
rapidly growing pop ulatiOn of Americans of Spanish
and Spa nish -Indian descent are
amo ng Hte questions to be ad ·
d ressed ncxl month at US by Ri chard Rodriguez. one of the
country's mosl controversial and
highl y rt:garded journalists.
His lecture "Has anyhody here
seen a Hispanic?" wiJI address the
cultural diversity among the many
Latino and Hi spanic groups in
America and how issues oflanguage
and cultural identity shared by these
group are redefining America's social and political landscape.
The talk. which will take place at
7:30p.m. on Nov. 5 in the Center for
the Arts on the Nonh Campus; is
sponsored by the Office of the Dean
of the College of Aru and Sciences.
It is open to the public. Tickets
are available for $15, S I 0 and S5
(for students and UB faculty/staff
only) at the Ce nter for the Arts
Box Office from noon to 6 p.m.
Tuesdays-Fridays, or by calling the

box office at 645-ARTS.
Rodriguez is an Emmy- and
Peabody Award -w inning writer
distinguished by his critically acclaim~ autobiographies, newspaper and magazine commentaries,
and radio and television essays. He
is known as weU for his ability to
alter audience perspective on the
issues that concern him.
Rodriguez cites
the prediction by
th e U.S. Census
Bureau that by
the year 2050, one
in three Ame r icans will claim to
be Hispanic.
He says it is im· .OO.COUU
ponant for Ameri cans to understand wbo and what the
terms .. Hispanic," .. Latino" and
"Chicano" mean. Because so many
people an: confused by this question,
he said, many assume thatAmericans
of Spanish and Spanish-Indian doscent constitute a racial group. whidl
thcydonol
Rodriguez has raised controversy
with his political commentary and
provocative positions on such issues
as affirmatM action aod bilingual
education, which he opposes.

He also has produced provoca·
tive essays on crime; his teachers.
the Sisters of Mercy; the religious
revolution of Protestantism
sweeping Latin America; language
and meaning; cultural identity;
history; cities, cultural oonOict and
change, and many other subjects.
He continues to watch closely
the changing roles of Mexico and
the United Stales and how issues
played out on their shared eco·
nomic, political and cultural platform shapes us all.
Rodriguez. who describes him·
self as "a gay, Catholic , Mexican,
Indian educated by Irish nuns who
now lives in the ChinrR city of San
Francisco," was born and raised in
Ca liforn ia and graduated from
Stanford University.
He later studied religion at Columbia University and was a fel ·
low at London's Warburg lnsti~ute .
His doctoral work in Renaissance
literature was undertaken at the
University o f California, Berkeley.
His award-winning 1982 autobiography, "Hunger of Memory; doscribes the impact of his schooling,
inclu'ding many years of Catholic
education, on his life and on his
opposition to bilingual education

and affirmatM action. His scoond
book, "Days of Obligation; is subtided "An Argument with My Mexican Father" aod was one of three finalists for the I993 Pulitzer Priu in ·
non-fiction. His thind poole, "The
Color Brown; iJ fonhooming.
In addition to his work with
PBS, Pacific News Service and the
Los Angeks Times, Rodriguez is a
co ntributin g editor to Harpu's
Magazine and U.S. News and
World Reporr. His articles also have
a·ppeared in The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal , The

American Schola r, Time, Mothtr
Jones and The New Republic. lie
has produced two documentaries
for the BBC and was the subject
of a profile on Bill Moyers'"World
of Ideas• television series.
His awards include an 1992
Emmy for Short Historical Essay for
his piece, "Pari Harbor Anniversary;• the Frankel Medal from the
National Endowment for the Humanities; the International Journalism Award from ihe World Affairs
Council of California; a National

Endawmcnt for the Hunianities Fellowship; a ~'~!~bright Fdlowship,and
a 1997 Gcorse Pabody Award for
television axnmentary.

�Oclober 21. B'¥111.30. k 9 llepaa'tes

Midnight
Mani.a

BrieBy
I Business Week cites UB's
MBA program as «best value"

The noise level created
by thousands d celebrating

swdents almost blew off
the roof of Alumni Arena

on Friday, during Midnight
Mania.The annual event, with
its music, dancing and contests, also g;r.&lt;e students their
first introduction to the

1998-99 basketball teamS.

A look into med schoofs·future
Bernardino presents "reality d!eck" on changesfor schoo~ hospitals

• y LOIS loAIWI
News Services Editor

. ICHAEL L. B&lt;rnar·
dino, UB's vice presi d&lt;nt for health affairs,
_
presented a realit y
check on th&lt; changes in stor&lt; for the
UB School of Medicin&lt; and Bio·
medical Sciences and its teaching
hospitals in th&lt; y&lt;ars ah&lt;ad at the
Oct. 13 " UB at Sunrise" program.
The inevitable pain that will ac company the chang&lt;S, h&lt; assured
th&lt; 170 peopl&lt; at th&lt; program in
the Shera ton Inn, will be worth the

M

v~~~~~:&lt; can get through the
ext two to three years. th&lt; people
f this community will look back at
e changes and will b&lt; very, very
roud," Bernardino said.
" If we can accomplish even half
our goals, we will have signifi cantly improved th&lt; quality of car&lt;
in this comm unity."
Bernardino, whose topic was
" How an Academic Health Center
Copes in a C haotic Environment ,"
took office as vice president for
health affajrs on April I. H&lt; cam&lt;
to UB from Atlanta, where he was
director of managed care with the
Emory University System of
Health Care, Inc .. and professor of
radio logy at Emory University
School of Medicin&lt;.
Bcmardino said he has set out to
achieve th ree goa ls for the UB
medical school: son o ut the gradu·
ate-medical-ed ucation puzzle with
affiliated hospitals to increase ben efits to the public and improve resi dency programs; increase devclopment and research revenue, and

ot

diatrics and cancer; the remaining
stabilize clinical revenue.
UB and its teaching hospitals, h&lt; two are still open for discussion.
Noting that stabilizing dinical rev·
added, ar&lt; in th&lt; process of sign·
ing affiliation agreements, the . en~ has been his major focus, &amp;r·
nardino said that govmunent inter·
h&lt;art of which
vention will b&lt; an ever-larger forcr
deal with resias incnasing numbers of patients""'
dency trainingc:xJm'ed by Medicare and Medicaid.
graduate medical
Greater govmunent involvemen~ he
educa t ion-and
added, will bring closer scrutiny, in
ownership of the
th&lt; form of audits of the medical
reimbursements
school's practice plan.
from insurance
The practice plan is the mecha providers that .......,_
nism by which universit y-affili fund th&lt; training.
As the provider of residents to ated physicians, under contract
hospitals and source of a major with the university, agree to return
revenue stream, UB must play a a certain portion of their clinical
larger rol&lt; with the hospitals than practice revenues to the university
in the past, Bernardino contended. to support essential, but non-rev.. We need to be general partners enue - producing aspects of the
in the future, not a limited part- medical school, such as basic-sci ence education. In the past, each
ner," he said.
Bernardino said that some area clinical department maintained its
hospitals will dose because WeSt · own practice plan.
" In this environment, we can't
ern New Yo rk has far too many
b&lt;ds for the population, and that operate a practice plan in a decen the closings will have a sizable eco - tralized manner with decentral ·
nomic effect. The imperative dur- ize:d a uthority," Bernardino sta ted .
Underscoring the need to intro·
ing these changes will be to main duce so und business manage ·
tain quality of care, he stressed.
ment,
he added: .. We need a cor·
"UB should serve as a co n science," he said.ln terms of qual - porate mentality rather tha.n a cotity of care, he added. "UB physi · tage-industry mentality. We must
cians s hould st rive to achieve emphasize the group needs rathe-r
maximal o utcomes in the 60 -75 than individual needs."
Bernardino said that in th&lt; current
percent of patients, rather than the
chaotic health"""' &lt;nVironment, the
50 percent national norm ."
ln an effort to increase revenue medical school needs to constantly
from research and deve lopment question conventional wisdom and
so urces, Bernardino said the UB determ.ine its own path to a new level
medical school in the fu tur&lt; will fo· of stability and excellence.
" I have no q uestion about our
cus its clinical and basic research on
four national centers of aceUence. survivi ng," he said . " 1 have no
Two obvious areas, he said, are pe- question abou t our thriving."

Getting a handle on the Year 2000 m

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By ELUH COOI.DIIAUM
News Servic~ Editor

EAR 2000. Y2K. Dooms·

day bug.
Cal l it what you will ,
it 's comi n g and UB
needs to be as ready as possible for
this most unpredictable event.
For th at reason, the US Year
2000 St&lt;ering Committee is hold ·
ing a UB Year 2000 Awareness Day
on Nov. 5 in 120 C leme ns Hall on
the North Campus.
Open to :he university commu ·
nity, the day-long even t will feature Year 2000 status reports from
represen tatives of Computing and
Information Technology, Facilities, Libraries, the Research Foun dation, tbe Provost's Office. Stu dent Support and other universit y
units~

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Th&lt; pr&lt;Sentations will descr ib&lt;
what the universi ty has done to
date to address issues related to the
Y2K problem, what still needs to b&lt;
done and, most importantly. what
the university expects individual
offices to d o.
Techniques on how to take an
office Year 2000 inven tory and
then make systems compliant also
will be covered. UB's Y2K W&lt;b site
and oth er reljable Year 2000 Web
si tes also will be covered.
"T he program is designed to
answer the question, ' Ho w wiU the
Year 2000 problem affect me and
my work?"' explained Carolann
Lazarus, information services au ditor and chai r of the program.
Topics to be covered are :
• 8:30 a.m., "What is UB's Plan for
Year 2000?"Voldemar Innus. chair of

the Year 2000 Steering Committee
U :SOa.m. to noon, .. Who's Work ·
ing on What? And Will it Affect
Me? Issues and Status of the Uni versity Y2K Project"
• uo p.m ., "What's Everybody
Else Doing? Technjques and Tools
of Inventory and Assessment ..
• 2:30 p.m. , "What's Availabl e
O nline?"
• 3-4 p. m ., " Who, How, Where.
What and When ?" A panel discus 3ion in which UB's Year 2000 ex perts will answer questions.
Individua ls may a ttend all or
part of the day. Reservations are
not necessa ry. For further information , contact Lazarus at 6452644 or lazarus@acsu.buffalo.edu
In the meantime, check out the
UB Year 2000 W&lt;b sit&lt; at &lt;http:/ I
wlft9s.bufflllo.edu/ year-&gt;.

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Bu.slnn.s WHk m.g•.dne hal cited the full -lime Master of Bus1
ness Administration program in the School of Management a~ one
of the best values an the country, accordmg to at.s popular " Best Bus1
ness Schools" assuc, whach h11 newsstands last week.
Published biennially, Busrr1ess Week 's " Best Bus1nes~ Schoob" tlo
sue ranks the top-25 bus1ness schools m the U.S.
Although not ranked m tht' top 25, the UB management school
was one of I 4 bus mess schools named by the m agazine for g1vmg
students the "best return on anvestment " in terms of expected salary
earnings compared to the to tal -dollar mvestment requ1red to com
plete the two-year MBA program .
According to th e magazine , UB MBA graduates can expect a 75
percent increase m the salary they earned prior to enroUment in the
full-time program at UB and a 22 percent annual return on the
$75,900 they invested to co mplete the program , wh1ch m cl uded two
years' tuit ion and two yea rs of lost ea rmngs .

Dealing with school tragedy
is subject of conference
A conference to Mldren methods by which school administ rators,
counselors and teach&lt;rs can best address school tragedy will b&lt; held
from 8 a.m . to 3:45p.m. today in the University Inn, 2401 North For·
est Road. The conference has been orgamzed by Thoma.s
Frantz., associate professor and chair of the Department of
Counseling and Educational Psychology. The UB Center for
Continuing Professional Educauon is among the co-sponsors.
.. What appears to be the explosio n o f vto lence among
FLUITl
school-aged children receives a lot o f natio nal press atten tion ," Frantz said, " but it is actually far less likely to occur than deadly
car accidents and other commonly experienced traumas. Suicide. for
instance, one of the most co mmo n disasrers to st rike youngsters. ere
ales as much fear as anything we can think of. even for many counse
lors and psychologists."
Frantz notes that sui cide- ranks thtrd as a ca u ~ of death among
young Americans aged 15-24. Beca use suicide is not well understood
but is, in at least some circumstances, preventable, the act and its af·
termath will be one of the principal concerns of the conference.
Prese-nters, induding therapists.. polke officers and sociaJ 'NOrk.ers,
will discuss the nature of shock and grief in children and adolescrnts,
and how to handle legal issues pertaining to crisis intervention and sui cid&lt; prevention. They will discuss the "hidden gri&lt;r of school staff cop·
ing with stress in the aftermath of tragedy, ways to identify and hdp
students who may need therapeutic intervention, as well as school-based
crisis management programs and other resources available to schools.

SEFA CAMPAIGN
PROGRESS REPORT
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Office ol t h e School of Architecture
and Planning

S2S,OOO

S9,4-42

37.7

10,000

10.462

104 .6

College of Arts and Sciences

110,700

73,171

66.0

School of Dental Medicine

32.800

18.486

56.3

Graduate School of Education

15,900

H , 188

89.2

School of Engineenng
and Applied Sciences

39.300

28.773

73.2

School of Health Related
Professions

9,800

8,963

91.4

School of Information
and Library Studies

1.800

1.295

71 9

School of law

15,100

8,679

57.4

.School of Management

24.700

28.041

113.5

School of Medicine
and Blomedial sC)en&lt;es

139,900
7.900

80,146
4,292

57.2

School of Nursing

School oll'hartNcy

9,500

6,8&lt;10

72.0

Office of the President

6,500

4.586

70 5

School of Social Wo&lt;l&lt;

4,SOO

4,026

89.4

54 3

UB Foundation

2.700

2.556

94 6

Student Alfalrs
University Services

30,600

17,968

58.7

134.000

90.651

67 6

Emeritus Center
Vice President for Research

3.300
Advancement and Development 8,400
Publ ic Service and Urban Affairs 21.200
Student Organiz.ltions

12,789
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S,389

64.1

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Natural Sciences Complex and the

Comput ing Center on the west
end of th e North Ca mpus academicspine. lt will house the only
arts and sciences department still
located on the South Campus.
• A student -services building just
north of Capen Hall o n the North
Campus that will improve student
access to critical services, such as
admissions. finan cial aid, and career planning and placcmenL
• Renovatio n of Goodyear and
Clement halls on the South Cam·
pus inlo a part m~nt - style student
ho using. as w~U as the construction
of add itio nal bowing on the North
Campus, possibly sponsored by the
UB Alumni Associatiorf.' •
A major factor guid ing investments in UB's infrastructure is the
effo rt to make it "a student-centered institution,.. says Dennis R.
Black, vice president for student
affairs, echoing hi s division 's
motlo, .. Students First.•
"When we talk about planning;
says Black, "we build into the de·
cision -ma.king process what stu dents need, what students want
and how best to listen to thos ~
vo ices and meet those needs.·
For instance, student-services
offices "all need to be in a core
area." he says, referring to the need
for a new student-services building, .. so the answer to a problem
isn't, &lt;You're on the wrong campw'
o r ' You're on the wrong side of
campus.' At most, the answer is
'You have to go across the street."'
While UB 's investment in its
physical plant includes significant
construction projects, some of the
changes that are occurringar~ mort
subcle, but also vitally important.
Like maintenance of existing
buildings.
"UB struggles like all universities
with taking capital resources and
managing them in a way that bal·
antes prognm needs, such as new
space, with the =I infrastrucn=building&lt;. roofs, air-a&gt;nditioning sys·
terns, dectrical systems," says Senior
Vice President Robert ). Wagner.
Infrastructure support vital
Putting off necessary rnainle nance, he says, can be very costl y.
'fhi.s summer alone, the universit y
spent more than $4 million on both
campuses to reconstruct sidewalks,
roadways and parking lots; repair
roofing, and rebuild entryways.
"The university has so many program needs thlit often people would
like to tradl off infrastructure sup·
port, which in the longrun turns out
to be a strategy that costs more ifld
doesn't provide the buildings and
services people want," Wagner notes.
.. We've spent enormous energy
putting in buildings. It's time to be
saying 'We need to do a better job
maintaining them."'
Investments in UB's buildings
andgmunds,headds,mimportant
to student, faculty and staff morale.
They also are an important part
o f student re cruitment , s ince
buildings and grounds arc seen as
a reflection ofUB'squality, hesays.
"What the capital plant looks
like, how il is maintained, is im·
portant," he says, noting that for
the first time, UB's budget this year
includes funds to improve appearance and aesthetics.
Those improvements incl ude a

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over tlie nat 18 months will dra·
1112tically change the way those
unfamiliar with UB's layout n1vi·
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gate the campuses.
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ingidentification,akqpartofthe
program will be locator maps that
will divide the campuses into colorcoded sections. This will add to the
quality of campus life, Block says.
"They will say, 'You areliete. and
wherever ebe you want to be, you
can get there from here,'" he ..y5.
The univenity's ~ibilities are
"at a transformative point," according to Black, and much of the
sllift can be attributed to students'
changing needs.
For example, the type of bousing that students want has changed
&amp;om traditional, dormitory-style
livingarrangementstoaprrtettnce
for apartment-style bowing.
Aickinger O.urt, UB's new apart·
ment· style bowing complex for400
graduate students on C hestnut
Ridge Road adjacent to the North
Campus, is fully rented and has a
waiting list. Construction of a similar,on-campwcomplcxfor620 un ~
dergrad uate students was begun
over the summer and is expected to
be ready for occupancy next fall.
Additional on-campus apartment.
style housing is planned for the
North Campus, with roru;truction
beginning possibly as early as 1999.
Long· rangeplansalsoincludereno·
vating some South Campus dormi·
toriesintoapartment-stylehousing.
Student dining preferences also
have changed, Black points out.
Goodyear Hall 's new "Main
Street Market" has replaced the familia r cafeteria tines with stations
where food is prepared to order
when studen ts make their selec~
tions. The marche-stylc dining approach is being co nsidered for th e
No rth Campus as well.
Another investment to improve
student life is the upgrade of UB's
athleti cs program and the move
thi s year to the Mid -American
Conference. ln conjunction with
the move ofUB's football program
to Division I-A next fall , UB Stadium is being expanded by 14,500
scats in a project slated to start
next spring and to be completed
before the home ki ckoff of the
1999 season.
Adding seats to the stadium is
about more than expansion ofUB's

athletic, po:ograms;

it's also about
campw lnditions, says Blodt.

"We're attempting to u&gt;e athlet·
ia to jump-start student life and
to invite the conmiunitytopartici·
pate. We know how athletics con·
tributes at other irutitutiono. We
don't havethathistoryorlndition
here,• be says. "What athletia.can
bring to campus life and student
spirit was demonstrated at this
fall's first footb1ll game. That
needs to becortte the norm ."
Upgnde In aatdemk "!U
AnGthcr upgra&lt;\e that will occur
nat fall- this one in theacadcmi&lt;:
arena - will be the requirement
thatallfreshmanenteriligUBhave
ac~ess to a computer. The new
computer-access requirement is
part ofUB's ongoing efforts to up·
grade equipment and infrastructure to support teaching. research
and administrative needs, as well as
to become a technological leader in
lligher education. UB administra·
ton say that universities that have
instituted similar measures have
experienced increases in admission
applications and acceptances, as
well as improved student retention.
UB is "trying to address students
needs in new and creative ways,•
Black notes. "We want to make the
university anractive to 'students
and to retain them so they get
&amp;om us what they came for."
The computer-access require·
ment will change instructional dy·
namics, as classroom ltaming is
enhanced by technology. It pia=
a responsibility on faculty mem·
beTs to usc technology in their in·
struction, and on the University to
invest in new hardware and software, provide training and upgrade
existing equipment and facilities.
This summer aJon~ m·ore than
400 new co mputers equipped with
the Windows NT operating system
and num erous text and graphics
software packages were irutalled in
refurbilhed public labs. di.sk space
for students was ina-cased 10-fold,
the number of modems was nearly
do ubled , open ports for laptops
wt:re instaUedatvarious siteandthe
most robust password security sys·
tern available anywhere had been
installed on the university network.
More than ISO of the state-ofthe-art oomputer workstations are
located in four new public computing sites in the first floo r of the

Un~uate Library, the third
floor of the Science and Engineer·
ing Library and the second and
third Boon of Lockwood Library.
The second-Boor Lockwood &lt;ite is
an atended-houn location, while
the first-floor south area in the
UGLisopeu 24-hounaday,Mon·
days through Thundays .
There is no question that the
technology upgrade requires a
major investment of fuods, ,some
of whi&lt;h will come from the five·
year, $105 million capital plan.
Prtsident William R. Greiner lauds
the state for its tiYe-~irMstment,
but says UB, as a "big economic
powu in Western New Yodt," ne&lt;ds
more than $105 million when it
O:)[nes to investments in infrastruct:ure to make its vision a reality.
With shrinking state resources,
it's vital the university target new
funding sour'ccs, Greiner adds. As
a result, UB's development efforts
have become increasingly impor·
t2nt to iu future fucal health.
Bridges wtth alumni
Coinciding with iu expanded
development effort, the universjty
is in the process of infrastructure
improvements in the form of ..rebuilding bridges with its alumni,:
a resource that the university essentially stopped tapping for support in 1962 when the then pri·
vate University of Buffalo became
part of the State UniversitY of New
York, says Ronald H. St~in, vi ~
president for advancement and
devdopmenL The results to date,
he notes, arc encouraging.
"You need to understand that
individuaJs are giving back to the
unjversity because the university
or one of its programs has given
them something," he says .
UB has 155,000 alumni who are
leaders in their fields or in other ways
very successful because of the edu·
cation they reaived at UB, Stein says.
And they're grateful to the insti·
tution. Many were the first in their
families to go to college. Others
worked their way through college.
" The y'r e indebted to th e
universit y... for m aking th eir
dreams possible. That's very exciting," be says. And the contributions
that those alumni make to UB are
the funds that, among supporting
other investments, "allow the uni venity to compete for and retain
the very best students."
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Archivist's work on front burner
For Densmore, it's b~ a year ofprofessional production, recognition
a, PATRICIA DOHOVAH
News SeM&lt;es Editor

N American historian, author and respected
specialist in ~vera)
aspecUofNewYork
State hi&gt;tory, Christopher Densmore recently was
named director &lt;&gt;f the University
Archives. After nearly 25 year&amp; in
the vaults, hi&gt; colleagues call his a
promotion richly deserved, but it
is just one of the high points of a
year marked with professional rec- ognition and productivity.
In August, after several invited
wks throughout the state on the
Quaker origins of the 1848
Women's Rights c;.onference in
Seneca Falls, Densmore was a special guest at a reception for the
descendants of the original conveners d uring the I 50th annivrrsary celebration of the conference
and its .. Declaration of Sentiments."
Earlier in the year, in connection
with the same anniversary, he and
hi&gt; staff praented a symposium on
There are tales of the Buffalo
the recent history of women's rights
groups in Buffalo and a historical abolitionists. anecdotes about the
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exlub tion rulled from their ooUec- region's Underground Railroad
operations, the state's Utica-toRochester "burnt -over district"
Yo 's women's organizations.
is Saturday, the archives will with its plethora of 19th-century
. open e "Frank Uoyd Wright in radical religious communities
Buffalo conference· and a related fro m Millerites to Oneidans. He
of material from its knows about the ideological restlessness that oompeUed thousands
Martin Collection.
In December, Syracuse Univer- to travel hundreds of miles regu sity Press will publish Densmore's larly to the (still) quiet country
biography of the great Seneca dip- town of North cOUins to hear dylomat and orator, Red Jaekel, that namic speakers like Frederick
examines the va1idity of various Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and
stories of his binh, act'ivities, spiri- Sojourner Truth opine on the social politics of the day. A Quaker
tual beliefs and death.
Among them arc questions himself, he is deeply informed
about whether or not Red Jacket about the role played by the Sociwas an unreconstructed pagan, ety of Friends in pressing for radi and where his post-mortem cor- cal social refonn on many fronts .
poreal travels took him. A folk figure and legend in his own time, it
has been claimed that Red jacket
"With the adoption of
was both a Christian convert and
computer technology •• •
a refusnik to the end. His body suf·
fered several burials, exh umations,
c:ommunkatJon de¥k:e,
a possible snatching, retrievals and
_
.. theory8nd
reburials before its final interment
in Forest Lawn ~metery. '
prKtlce ·~ undergoing
"Although not particularly ananodkal revision ...
tivist, he thought Indian peoples
would and should adopt those as CHRISTOPHER DENSMORE
peers of European culture that
were useful to them," Densmore
said, "Red Jacket worked diligentl y
In terms of the UB collections,
to preserve a place for native cul- D;nsmore's appointment is good
ture within American society. It's news for those who troll the sacred
ironic that in death , he and his bins and stacks looking for the hiswo rds beca me ornaments in a tonal sites of the three Norton Halls.
that wax head of Richard Nixon or
white man's cemetery."
A grad uate of Oberlin College the mysterious payroll book. And J"'S,
who holds a master's degree in it is agreed that Densmore can be
American history from the Univer- entrusted with Darwin D. Martin's
sity ofWLSCOnsin, Densmore joined paper-dip collection, which is curled
the University Archives in 1974. He up as safe and sound as Manin's
was named associate librarian/ar- many jouma.Ls. clippings, notes to
chivist in 1980 and acting director workmen and six decades of daily
tem~ture reports.
oftbe archives in 1995.
The Martin-Frank Uoyd Wright
As indicated by his professional
correspondence
constit utes one of
activities, Densmore has a particufavorite collections.
Densmore's
lar interest in the social, religious
"They were both intelligent, arand political movements centered
in late 18th allQ 19th-century New ticulate men," he said. "They both
York State. Because some of them wrote well, and were in teresting
were fairly squirrelly, he makes an people." Other favorites include
interesting companion on a stroll the collection of the late UB phi ·
losophy professor Marvin Fa rber,
from Capen to Clemens Hall.

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century;" the speeches of the late
UB Chancellor Samuel Capen,
whom Densmoreca.lls "a remarkable person for his advocacy of
intellectual freedom and academic
innovation,"· the Western New
York Women's Collection, and the
papers of the late Milton Plesur,
UB professor of history, who, like
DeOsmore, loved the irony and
ensuing humor that attends the
activities of so many of our public
Pooh-Bahs. The wax head of
Nixon was Plesur's.
"Milton would have loved this
Ointon-l.ewinskything." Densmore
said. Plesur was an expert in, among
other subjects, the love lives and
sexual peccadilloes of American
presidents. "He would have had an
absolute heyday."
A 1990 recipient of the SUNY
Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Lib rariari.ship, Densmore is
acutely awa re of the enormity of
the iss ues facing archivists in the
era of information technology.
"With the adoption of computer
technology as a co mmunication
device," he said, .. archival th eory
and practice are undergoing radical revision. Materials once saved
because they had been identified as
the ..original" doc ument, for instance, are no longer easily labeled
as such, since the "original" is electron ic and all prints are identical.
"Authenti ca tion of documents
for legal purposes also is problematic and the proliferation of Web
pages that change from day to day
and week to week makes it more
difficult to track the development
of ideas ove r time through electron ic documents," he said.
"Archival standards call for paper documents to last at least 500
yea rs, but we don 't know what
happens over time to documents
saved in a machine or on a computer disk or on a data tape. How
long will these last? Two years?
Two hundred? AU of these issues
are being disc ussed and solutions
proposed. It is a very int eresti ng
time to be an archivist."

5

Elecbvnid!ighways ED
Promoting Academic Honesty:
Anti-Plagiarism on the Web
""'you seof'Chlng for repositories of downloadable ®
papers to which your name may be affixed foraeademic
credit? Did you realize how simple it is to copy and Pia
m
paste information from the Web into your research
papers without proper citation? Have you realized that
possible consequences from such actiVity may mdude academic failure
and expulsion from th1s or any other university? Many a ca demi c~ haVl'
faulted the Internet for a tendency toward increased campus plagiarism becaust of the rt:ady availability of information and the east" of
downloading and duplicating such material. Fortunately. there are nu ·
merous si tes on the Web dedicated to combating plagiansm m aJI 1t ~
forms.
The university 's Student Condu ct Rult'S &lt;h tt p :/ / www.u b Jwdklary.buffa lo.edu/ art5• .html&gt;, under the headmg ..Academic
Dishonesty" clearly mention plagiarism as a form of academtc dt_..
honesty. Plagiarism is defined as taking the writing or the ideas of
another as one's own without prope-r crodiL Two excellent essays that
discuss basic aspects of plagiari&gt;m are "Plagiary and the Art of Skillful
Citation" by John Rodgers &lt;h ttp :/ /conclor.bcm.tmc.edu/ Mkrolmmuno/ c:ourses/ lgr/ homertc.html&gt; and .. Plagiarism" by BraJ
Fiero &lt;http:/ / west.cscwc.plma.edu/ - bflero/ plognm.ht m &gt;.
Unconscious plagiarism results from careless notetaking, overusing quoted passages, or keeping catchy phrases or ideas in one's mind
and replicating them without recalling that they are actuaUy someone
else's. It is beneficial to examine your own writing to ensure that it 1s
truly original in thought and word. Glatt Plagiarism Services has de vised a simple test to detect whether you may inadvenentJy have plagiarired. This test &lt;http:// www......-....com/ self.cldecLhtm&gt;
is based on memory retention of text and is fr~ of charge.
Instructors who suspect plagiarism in their classes may use the Internet
as a detection agent So~ search engines. such as Alta VlS!a &lt;http:/1
www.altawllta.dlgltal .com &gt;
and
Hotbot
&lt;http:/ I
- - . c - .&gt;.mayassist inseardlingundlaracteristicphrasesthat
may appear in a tat to determine whether the phrases may have been
duplicated from elsewhere. OptionaUy, an instructor might employ an
ou~ service, such as Plagiarism.org &lt;http:/ / www.ploglortsm.org&gt;,
which checks submitted manuscripts against other documents on the
Net to detect blatant instances of plagiarized text_
Unfonunately, there is no single way to prevent your own material
on the Web from being plagiarized by others, but there are some tools
to assist you in protecting the rights to your work. One possible solu ·
tion is to use Hyperstam ps &lt;http:/ / www.hypentamps.com/ &gt;.
These are downloadable labels you can affix to Web documents specifying the limits of rights alJowed to others. They may range from free
use to fuU international copyright. The Hyperstamps may be freely
used. Chargeable services include serialized registration of documents
or detection of possible plagiarism and/or copyright infringement.
The best prevention of plagiarism ;. 'education. Learn tips for your
own writing such as in Sharon Williams'"Avoiding Plagiarism" &lt;http:/1
www . h a m II ton . e d u I ac a dem l c I Re s o u rc: e I W C I
AvolcllngPiagi.t.html&gt;. The University Libraries offers links to sites
on proper citation of electronic resources &lt;http:/ / ubUb.buffalo.edu/
libraries/help/ &gt;, under the heading "Guid&lt;s to Using the Internet ~ And
for instructors. it may help to know locations of commerciaJ paper milb
and to incorporate anti-plagiarism strategies into your cl~ planning.
Both are offered by Bruce Leland at h1s "Plagiarism and the Web" sitt·
&lt;http:/ / http.ecn.bgu.eclu/ users/ mlblll/ wlu/ plaglorlsm.htm &gt;.
For assistance in cotwectrng co til l' World \Vidt&gt; Web. cotit aCt tlu.' (.Tl
Help Desk at 645 -3542.

-Oebor• h Husted Koshlnsky and Rick McRae ,

Umvers:~ty

L1brane5

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crime- prevention and
safety-awareness program.
The Dcpanmcnt of Public
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pus facUlties.
tion. Presentations= madt
The cam- in the residenci halls, at cmpushas a Ptrsonal ploytt and student orienta·
Saftty Commit- · tion programs. campus actec, which con- tivity fairs, and for campus
ducu facilities au- bargaining units on r&lt;questdits fromasafetyp&lt;r· Tomaktammgtmcpts for a

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ance with the re quirement s of the dons or other
fedtral law, and in an oc:cu"""' on . _ policies concemhtg the
efforttopromotethe ~·s .......-eoiiiCh
personal safety of the aca - reports.
demic communiry, the fol The Department of Publowing information ha s lie Safety is the university's
been prepared for campus law-enforcement agency. It
review. The information is has an offi~ on the North
updattd on an annual basis Campus (Bissell Hall) and a
and is available to all cu"ent sub -station on the South
students and employees, Campus (Clement Hall) to
and to prospective students facilitate the reporting, preand employees on requesc.
vention and investigation of
This report focuses on criminal activities and to
university programs, prop- provide for prompt response
erties and facilities owned to other emergencies.
or controlled by the univerMembers of the academic
sity. UB has campuses lo- community and visitors to
cated within the City of Buf- the campus are encouraged
falo and Town of Amhersl, to report crimes to the
and .;,ch municipaliry has department's dispatcher by
I w-enforcement agencies telephone (645 - 2222).
a d maintains crime statis- C rimes and emergencies
tiqs. For informa t ion on can also be reported by ussafety and crime in the lo- ing one of the campus' 28
ca l communities, conlact strategically located "blue
the Dtpartment of Public . light" telephones that imSafety. (Consult the "Living mediately connect the caller
Off-Campus" brochure pro- with Public Safety's dispatch
duced by Commuter Str- office. This office is operated
vices-Office of Student 24 hours a day, seven days a
Life and the Personal Safery week and dispatches patrols
Committee ).
to emergency calls and to
The univer sity is con · investigatereportsofcrimicerned about crime in the nal activity. A5 appropriate,
community and works with th~ department in teracts
local law enforcement agen - with local crisis -service
cies in the investigation of
agencies, law-enforcement
crimes and the promotion
o f safety-awareness pro- units, emergency healt hgrams aimed at redu cing the care agencies and prosecunumber of incidents.
tors.
The following •re the cur...... . . . _ pollct.s ...... rent campus polldes concerning ..w1ty- access
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These statistics reveal the nature.and frequency o( reporte\1
crime on the Univenity at BuffalO campuses. In ~
with the revised Campus Security Act. the more inclusive
category o( sexual offenses• has now replaced that o( rape.
In the category o( burglary, forced entries . , rare: the rnajority o( thefts are from unlod&lt;ed student rooms. One o( the
most challenging taslcs we have b to educate students to
lock their rooms at all times.
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group presentation, call

art idtntifitd and cor- ·
rected when reported. Campus communiry members .
withsecurirycoocemsshould ·
contact tht Department of
Public Safety diroctly.
Moot campus facilities are
open to the public under a- ·
isting campus policies. Residential areas are limited to
residtntsandguesu.AUresi- ·
dential rooms = provided ·
with locks, an d exterior .
doon are controlled through ,
a card rtader system.
·

PublicSafetydirectly.lnformatinn about Public Safety
is also available on tbe computeriud campus-wid&lt; information system "Wmgs,"
under "Universiry Services"
or "Student Lift." .
The Campus Personal
Safety Task Force prepares
an armual report on campus
securiryfor review. The task
force also conducu open farums, distributes printed information, and ammges for
appropriate campus safetyTIM , _ . , . . . .....- · related signage. Tbt director
. _ , . . . . _ _ . . . . . , · oftheDepartmentofPublicSafetyservesascbairper...
••L &lt;orce.
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In addition, safety and se_ . . . ......-......- curiryprogramsforstudents
tJoo state leal pollee are offered by Residence Lift
: - "' (II) " : and Student Life offices.
Residential students discuss
•II crt- to t1oo
safety issues at nlandatory
1
poll&lt;&amp;- tho - - " ' • · floor meetings and art propollee -"&gt;·
vided with securiry-related
Public Safety personnel printed materials. Student
have the full state authonty Life conducts orientation
to enforce and investigate all
programming on campus,
laws and regulations. The which indudt securiry infordepartment is in daily con- mation in printed studtnt
tact with the Ciry of Buffalo guidebooks, distnbution of
and Town of Amherst police a personal-safety brochure, a
departments, the Erie sexual-assault prevention
Counry Sheriff's Office and brochure and related presenthe New York State Police.
tations on these topics. The
The department maintains presentations are conducted
24-hour-a-day radio and by Student Life, Public Safety
teletype contact with area and the Uruversiry Counsellaw-enforcement agencies.
ing Center.
Jurisdiction of campus

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law enforcement

~rsonnel

as peace offietrs is limited to
the campus and highways
that are adjacent to or trave]
through the campus. Personntl may engage in "hot"

pursuit into the surround-

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sh•r• retpotulltlllty for
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Public Safety personnel

conduct crime-prevention

and aw=ness programs for
the campus encouraging
mernben of the communiry
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their own safety. They
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screen saftty videos; distrib·
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ute printed materials; dis .--hr.
cuss safery topics with stu~
2
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dent, faculty, and staff
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groups; publish safery alerts.
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2
-Weapons possession
and participate in campus• Tlw carrgory ofwual olfen~~&gt; indldes lotdbl&lt; acts (ropo. lotdbl&lt;
wide safety events.
sodomy. s~xuol obust and stMual misconduct) and non-fordbft ·
The campus has an active
acts (SIUruto&lt;y,..,.. ina&gt;~ artaln a&gt;~~&gt; of wcual ~-

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The campus complies
with state and federal"laws
· regarding the possession,
sale and consumption of alcohol and illegal drugs. AU
students are provided with
: an annual Drug Free
· Schools and Community
· Act compliance statement,
· which dttails ~pus policies, treatment ansi counseling programs, and education efforts. Faculry and
Staff members receive this
statement and the campus
Drug Free WorkpJ:oce Policy.
For additional copies of
these policies, contact Stu. dent Affairs (542 Capen
Hall) or Personnel Services
· (108 Crofts HaU).

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vices wiU provide a Crisis
. Services Sexual Assault Advocate, .and f~e officers
= available to assist at all
times. Victims also have the
right to change their academic _and livin_g si~tions
and wiU be a5S!Sted m doing so if they choose. In the
~t of a sexual ~ult, II
IS IMportant that ev1dence
be preserved. Information
concerning \!&gt; uniy~tfs

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sexUal .dsault"protocol and
.._...to _ _ . . . . -. · prevention are availablt in a
Tbeuniversiryconducua number of universiry bro:
number of training and in- dlures, which r&lt;CQve widt

forma~on programs to fa- . ~~~~~b~tl~~~o: r~"::'r':t~~
miliarize faculry, staff and : sexual assault information
students with the proced ures to follow should a line (6-4 5 -3411 ) for inforse:m.al assault occur. These mation on action to take in
the event of a sexual assault,
programs are conducted by options in reporting andrethe Public Sdery, Universiry sources available to a victim.
Health Services, Studtnt
.,
•TIM . - - . h W 's UII\Li&lt;e, and by stuu.out groups pos policy o• tl-.ly ,._
including the Anti - Rape · ports
Task Force and the Sexual- · ....., .. - ( _ . . . .
ity Education Center. Resi - to _
_ , _ _ .._
d ent stud ents a tten d man - ••forc••••t
that...,~ • pol-TIM , _ . , . II W 's &lt;em- datory floor meetings on tlal threat to other st.this topic and it also is cov- or ...,._._ Sooch
pus policy ............. . ered in the university's ori- ,.....tl . . be,..........to
throoo!lh ..... - - entation sessions.
9_.. In lty Ul stto&lt;lent s . Students are. informed
that in the event of a sesual
-&lt;Wiy pertldplotloog
... .......... .,~
assault, the universiry wiU
The Department of Pubpus ............... fotdud..
impose maximum disci- lic Safety publishes a weekly
plinary sanctions. It advises lis!ing of crime on campus
the victim of his or her that details the date, time,
Local community law-en- rights to notify law-enforce- location· and offense of all
forcement agencies are en- ment authorities and the campus criminal incidents.
couraged to monitor and re- universitYs willingness to The listing is circulated to
spond to criminal activities assist in such a notification. campus offices and is sumtngaged in by off-campus If victims wish to press marized weekly in the stustudents and student orga- charges, the univeniry wiU dent newspaper, The Specnizations. The campus par- arrest and .charge the ac - trum.
ticipates in a neighborhood cused offender on campus.
In addition , Public Safety
Disciplinary action could
advisory board to monitor
uses the student newspaper,
indudt dismissal from the
student activity in the area
Tht Spectrum, telephone
university. The accuser and
surrounding the South
calls, posten and local methe accused wiU have their
Campus. Law-enforcement
dia to communicate more
legal rights maintained, inpersonnel and community
urgent securiry information
cluding the same right to
leaders are invited to meet
have othen present during and can provide bulletins to
annually with student orgadisciplinary bearings, and departments and units on
nization leadtrsbip, particu- both wiU be infonned of the crime activity as warranted.
larly the.campus fraternities outrome of any internal and
Proportd by:
and sororities.
external proceedings. The Olfict of tht V"ICt Pmidtnt to&lt;
Students are advised if victim is notified of avail - Studtnt A/foin ond tht Dtport·
thty are apprehended for a able counseling, mental mtnt of Public Soltty In compli·
violation of a law of the health and other services, onct with tht ftdtrol Sfudmt
community, state or nation, both on camp us and in tht Right-to-Know Ofld CDmpu1 Stit is the un,versitfs position community. Public Safety curity Act (Titlt I~
not to request or agree to · and Universiry Health Ser- ntU ond CDmpu1 S«urity).
special consideration for the
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student becauseofbisO.. her
student slatus. Students
who violate a local ordinance or any law risk the legal penalties prescribed by
civil authorities.

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I

Letter from

~ President

• •

•

SporlsRe cap~Ot~all

•

Parameters on pofuical C3ll1~10111ng,
r -o--.. . . . . ""':·
ToW c-muoolty _ . , _ .,
Election Day-Nov. 3-ls fast approaclting.lu we
mark the dO«: of the 1998 election qde. and in
thelighl of the university's ongoing work within a
political environment. it is appropri.ite to remind

UB 47, Canisiu• 0
The Bulb had a school-record 486 yards on the &amp;round and posuod """' fim
shutout sinc.e 1991 . dominatin&amp; crosstoW'n rtvaJ Canrsius Conep. 47...0.befor-e a
crowd d 20,079 on Satu.-d&gt;y "'&amp;ht In UB Sudium.
The Bulls (4-J) also had a school-record 628 yards d roa~--...ln &lt;he pmo.
The last""""" !hat &lt;he Bulls had posted was a 49-0 win""'" Duquesne on No&gt;.
2. 1991.MA&gt;ack)osh Roch lod &lt;he pount U8 ....... pmo wtd1 a """'-Nato Ill
yards on 17 ames m scon!d his ninttl toue:hcicMn oi the seascn
Sophomore tailback Theron Walke.- added a career-hlat&gt; 96 yards on I J
ames.whUe freshman D2't'kt Schmicli had 12 carries for 74 yv-ds as U8
. . . . . an lnlpressNe 7.5 yar&lt;ls pe' ca"7.
The Bulls put &lt;he pmo _., .....- &lt;he end .d the lint hall as .....,.. split end
wllo had scoo-.d eatieo- on a JO.yant-.e, Qliod his second rushrc
&lt;oochdown d &lt;he game on a 52-yanl
...,olfat.kepu&gt;twtdliu't:Oloogo.
jun;ot- fbnke.- Drew Haddad
had a pair of touchdown receptions.
a 40-yvder from Chad SaJisbury in
the &gt;e&lt;ond q=w- and a 17 -yam

if such circumstances give either the reality or appear·
ance of ooercion. UB personnel should not solicit such
contributions. nor attempt tn compel any other political action or vote, from those individuals over
whom they have supervisory authority.
No university telephones, faus, supplies, letterhead, postage or other state resources of any kind
~be: used for political purposes.
These and other restrictions are primarily contained in section 74 of the Public Officers Law, Section I 07 of the Civil Service Law and Section 17- 158
of the Election Law. Copies of these New York State
laws are available for pickup at the circulation desk
of Lockwood Library and the Law Library (205
O'Brian Hall) on the North Campus, and at the circulation desk of the Health Sciences Library on the
South Campus. It is important to understand that,
pursuant to state laW, political activities on state time
or property may subject employees to criminal prosecution and thel~ss of employment.
We at UB should be: willing and eager to take an
active part. in the political processes of our community, state and oountry. lt is critically important, however, that such activity be pursued as individuals and
within proper parameters as established by the laws
of the State of New York.
Thank you for your careful attention to these issues
and absolute compliance with applicable restrictions.
-R.
P'esident

ourselvesof~importantparameterspertain­

ing to political fund-raising and other campaign
activities by or among university personnel Such
parameters are found in state law, and it is essen·
tial that,VB employees stay within them.
1l&gt;is Jetter is not intended as a com~ review of existing law on the topic ofpolitical activities
by state employees. but is intended to respond to several practical inquiries raised in the current.election
campaign. Your attention to, and oompliance with,
the following points are of great impor!ance:
There must be a dear separation between political campaign activities and the performance
of duties as emplo~es of the State University of
New York. Political activities, including fund-raising, may not be: conducted on state property or
state time. No political fund-raising tickets may
be sold, purchased or transferred on campus, inside or outside of buildings. Similarly, no money
or checks may be paid or collected on campus
for such purposes.
Moreover, university employees are prohibited
from soliciting political contributions in off-bow.
and off-campus from other university employees,

7

1&lt;&gt;1-_

ATHLETE OF
THE WEEK

strike in the third quarter.
The Bulls defense ncked up a
seuon-hl&amp;fl (ou, quanerl&gt;acl&lt; sacla
In the pme. Fr-eshman linebac:lo"
Chris Shelly had tigllt toddes (five
solos), wlllleiLW&gt;iol" josh Tl'exle' llad
ef&amp;trt a.ddes and his first
intercepdon of me seuon. UB also
got lnurcepdons from~
jeff t.awr.nce and Eric Pipl&lt;ins.

The Golden GriffinS di'O'Ie to a
fimandpl atthet\1111'0 bte In the
founh quarut", but~ thwarted
wtth two quasurl&gt;acl&lt; sacla and an
lntercepdon by Plpldns on 411&gt;-andgoaht the 17.

Volm~~all

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UB I, Marshall]
uao, Ohio 3
The women's ~ team was unable to pt a t1id-Americ::an Coderence wtn
at home ll'ols -losrc

IX&gt;-

Ohio~ (12-15, 11-15,+15) and
Manhaii( U)-15, 12-15, 15-7,9-15). mstvnanoua;dohlaorKa!SI-.Iolshadfj,.

1

I Soccer

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U8 0, C e ntnJ H ichi1an l

C......... to H ~.m~~n Ofsease. Dr.
Roberto 8ruzzone, Pasteur Institute;

Neurovirology and Nervous System

Regeneration Unil 114 Hochstetter. 4

~.t::~~oo!t.~~i~~ Or.
..........,........ Alhlslng
Early Assur1lnce Program fo r S&lt;hoot. 330 Student Union. 5:30-7 p.m.
F.... Sponsored by AaderNc
A&lt;Msemont Center-l'reprolessionol

~Elaine~~;:;r~;rmtion·
Donee-.
~Donce~25. Dept "'Thoatro and Danco, Center fOI'

_ _ _ , EIQoonw.at or

popllltand ~ """"'- k wil be
on di5ploy In &lt;he Ughtwoll C.lley, Centeofof&lt;heArn, lfvough June. 1999.

c..g Helfotd, ..,.., Hendenon, NestO&lt;

The Creative Craft Center ~i nning Nov.
2 offers !all W&lt;&gt;tbhops in basic and
intennediate pottery, basic b'ack and
'Nhite photography, ba5ic and advanced
color pholognplly, creative
photography, amera use and operation,
darluoom techniques, bask drawing,

textHe design (Shiborltechnkjues).
knitting .00 crocheting. 9uUting,

::n!~er:g~~~~ng.

JX)ttery for children and mixed media for
children.

AI worlGhops run one night a 'Neek for sbl
weeks from 7-10p.m. Fees are S30forU8
st-and sso 101' .. othets. Early Wgnup ts advised. Chilcnn's dasses ru1 on
Saturday from 10a.m.-Noonand 1-3 p.m.

MKI-American Con'"'-:e outing. junio&lt; fullbacl&lt; Enc M-.ola scon.d &lt;he lone p i
for UB. Bufb)o ~ outShot 26--12 In the game.

Ughtwoll Gd&lt;oy, Will insplr&lt;d by cartoon.

Noti

cai645-Ntl5.

UB I, Akron 5
The Bulls men's soccer team dropped •u match against hostAkron. S--l .ln Friday's

~r""'~galler);~acryfic
fTliJRit. .....tlk:h «Mn ~walls of the

Cr.tt Center F• WcM11Jhops

P\blc SI 0, SllJdents S5. For""""

Michipn 2

MEN ' S

MMtt DMn Yea's instM&amp;Ition, EJ
Gtoominltor, is descrbed "as •a great
liquid blob lulling llvoogh space and

-City
Ver$ion City, • casual survey of Toronto
art, gue:R&lt;ur1ted by John M.tSSer, is on
displly In the UB M C.llety's Fku .00
Second Roo.- Gollori&lt;s, CFA, through
Dec. 20. Artist&gt; repmentod lnci&lt;Jde

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The UB Bulls women's 50Ccer team 'ost w host Central Hlchipn. l~. on Friday.
and defeated houWestem Mkhipl. 3-2. in an OYertime dlriMer on Sunday.
~man goalkeepe' Jaime Adams made eight steps In Friday's loss. In
Sunchy's MAC match apinstWestem Michigan, sophomore forward Paula
Ustrani scored the winninc goal in OYe:rUne on a penalty kick. Sophomores
Heather Collins and A.rrt'{Woods scored the Bolt's oc:her t'NO pis.

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ldls,tllree se&lt;Vice aas and II dip In the loss .pr.t OhiO.SI-.Iols and Heolher
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Conl..-.nce Championships In NewYori&lt; City on Friday.The Bulls placed 5dl (167
polna) out ol26 squads. Sophomore 61een R= was UB~ tOpfVdsher (18th.
19: 19). Senkw- l..a.ura Folckemer followed ~ behind juntOr l'1arie ~ u
they finished 27th and 26th. ~. The men's squ:;ad accumubted 291 point1
for an I Ich-pb.ce finish at the Cenu--al CollegiateS u Western Michipn l..lniYerstty
on Friday. Sophomore Tony David placed 28dllor the Bull's top finish

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Art 11-.nsltlon•
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Penonnel Services l.s Offering t h e th ird semiannual Pn.• Retlrcmenl
Sem in ar for e mpl oy~ interested in drvdoptn~ a strategy for .1 fin.111
dally sucn'S.Sful retirement. Th is darlong !W.·rmnar, lor pc:opk hl.·twct·n
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vices, The Copeland Companies and the Sooal Sccunty Admuw.
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to Co nfe ren ces and Special Events in 202 C rofts Hall. If you hJw
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01t1Jil Dozier tD/Jcs about the emtmg

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Bigchangesromingindining
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October15.1!!11/ti30.1io.8

Fun and

Games
Fun was at the top of the
list for the UB community

last weekend during Family
and Homecoming \Neekend.
Along with sports even\5,
tours and lectures, camival
games kept the campus
bustling with activity. The
water gun gallery, shown
here, proved very popular.

Proposal puts MFC in Arts and Sciences
College should focus on continuing ed, distance learning, Headrick tells FSEC
move wouJd no:mean ..doing away
The college, he said, has had a dif- MFC's instruction l1es, wouJd leave

By SUE WUETCltOI
News Services Associate Director

M

LARD Fillmor&lt;
oll&lt;ge would ~ ­

me part of the
Uege of Arts and

Sciences and focus its attention
o n continuing education and dis tance leanling under a proposal
under consideration by the Office
of the Provost.
Under this plan, responsibility
for offering engineering and man agement courses cur rentl y
handled by MFC would move to

the schools of Engineering and
Management, Provost Thomas E.
Headrick told members of th e
Faculty Smale Executive Commit -

tee at their Oct. 7 meeting.
Both Headrick and Pres1dent
William R. Greiner stressed that Lhe

with Millard Fillmore Colltge."
M FC traditionaUy has opcrat&lt;d
the evening and summer sessions of
UB. offering cou=, certificate pro·
grams and degrer programs for
working adults and other nontradi ·
tiona! students. Many"day" students
who have pan-time jobs also take
MFC courses because the times th1.·
courses are offered are m o re conve·
nient for their sch&lt;dules.
But Headrick not&lt;d that mroll·
mcnt in MFC has be&lt;n falling at a
" pr~pitous rate," with the coUegr
losing 8 percent of its headcount h&lt;·
tween the fall 1997 and '98 s&lt;nl&lt;,&gt;·
ters. MFC .. seems to have surren dcreda good chunkoftheadult-&lt;du cation market " toother local institu UO!l&gt;, he said, adding that that might
account for the decline in enrollment.

ficult time positioning itself and
determining what its role should b&lt;.
Ea rlier in the meeting Headrick
had told FSEC members that a&gt;
part of the acadrmic planning
process under way in the tndlvidual units, so me deans have
asked that the summer session be
integrated into the units ' overall
academic offen ngs. turning UB
mto a "'12- mo nth campus."
Part of becommg a 12-month
campus might mdude having the
university operate as an .. aU-day. all evening campus." with the units offeringdasses from 8a.m. to !Op.m ..
"when students want them , and not
segregating o ut one section of the
day from the o ther," Headnck sa.Jd.
Movmg MFC into the College of
i\rts and Soences, where the bulk Oi

to the engineai.ng and management
schools responsibility for mounting
programs ..o n an aD-day basis."
This, in turn. would free up
MFC to .. develop better ou treach
to peopl r who want part-time
education, leading to degre~ par·
ticularly in the arts and se~en es,"
as well as expa nding d1stanu
learning opportunities.
UB "still needs an entity that look.'
after . .. the nbntraditional st udent :·
C remer stressed... We have to dehver
a program in a way that IS very user
friendly ... that 's where we 're gemng
beaten at the switch."
Robert Baier, professor ol ora!
d1agnost1C sciences, told C remer
and Headnck he thought it would
bt&gt;a m1stake to pa1r MFC. with the

UB's research mission adds value to education
By CHRISTINE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

I

T wasn't long ago that geo-

graphic information science
wa s barely a twinkle in a
researcher's eye.
Today, GIS is a rapidly expanding.
$2 billion industry in the U.S.and UB
has -blish&lt;d itself nationaUy as a
leader in the field, the backbone of
which is software that sorts and u=
data pertaining to space and kx:ation.
UB is one of three universities
that are sites for the NationaJ SCIence Foundation-funded National
Cen·ter for Geographic lnform a
tion and Analysis. Last month . the
NSF award«&lt; to the university a
$2.2 million grant to support a new
multidi sciplinary, doctoral -level
concentration in GIS. And m o re
than 50 UB faculty members in a
number of departments are con ducting research that relates to G IS
in areas ranging from analyzing

neighborhood crime pattc:&gt;rns. to
developing subu rban deer- man ·
agcment solutions, to examinmg
problems in caring for the elderly.
While a major focus of research

pability to address the state's htgh
priority prohlems and issUt'!o . •h.
cordmg to Vu:e Pres tdent for Jh~
sea rch Dale M. Landi.
Among the dcfin1ng tan or-. drt·

a t UB, GIS is only """""'""'""'""'""'""'""'""';,. l !H'!o location and
one of some 85-90
theneedsofW«l.
disciplines in which
e rn New York,
700-800
faculty
res ident s.
members art" project
Buffalo's locatmn
directors for exterm the Great L.ak~
nally fund&lt;d research
basin, for example.
THIRD ARTICLE IN
that 10 fiscal yea r
prtd.isposes the um
A SERIES
1998 totaled nearl y
versit y to th t- re Sl21 .6 million .
sea rch hcing ..::on
l-aced with seemi ng ly endl es!l ducted and coordinated by the(; rcat
chOK('S-a nd yet finite resources Lakes Program, dcvo1&lt;d to the devel of 1ts o wn- how does UB focus ih opment , evaluation and svnthcsts of
efforts when 11 co mes to inve-st mg scientific and technical knowledge on
tn re-search ?
the Great Lakes ecosystem m sup(Xln
The research m1ss ton of New of public education and policv for York State's largest public unave-r·
mation.
However, by far t.h e most cntlcal
sity is guided by concerns for the
well-being of the state's citizens. as fac tor determining the university's
well as the unive rsity's unique ca - research focus IS its faculty mem

INVESTING
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FUTURE

ht.'rs and thctr areas of expc:rt1se,
l.and1 adds. In add1t1on to bem~
educators. faculty memhcr' at a
lllJtor rt.'search UOI\'ers1tv Jre ex
pectcd to be cutting-edgt' rt.~drch
ers w11h the abdttv to secure tund
mg to !oUpport thear work, to .1ttr.Jtt
top graduate and doctom! st udent:..
.1nJ to help elevate the unavcrsll"\ \
nat1onal profile. 'Whtle fa~.ultv .11 d
four -vear ~.ollege tea~oh !olUdenb
about advances m knowledge . "'u
dents at ma10r research tnst1tut10m
like UB are taught hv f.JcUJt\· \\lho
are makmg those advance~
Hinng new faculrv memt"'lt·~. &lt;tnJ
later determmmg whether thev art·
granted tenure, are ..::nt1cal dei..Uton~
that shape a research unwerstty .. lt '!o
an rnormous investment." says
Landt, and, in turn , places maJor
respon51bilities on tht&gt; mstituuon.
.. We need ro prov1de them wuh
an enviro nment where th e\· can

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more than one ~g bat.

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family. I have three o lder b roth- · The biggest difference in running
ers and one older sister who all the UB program is that now I am
were swimmers in high schooL the bead coach and the buck stops
But with .U those older brothers, here. At MSU, I was an assistant,
they made me one tough cookie. and there is a big difference beThey helped develop my game as tween being an assistant and a
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academically. So when I looked at
the job, it had the total package for
me. It had a tradition of exceiJence
in the class room and the womt-n's
basketball program also had a tre·
men do us tradition of success.

The biJ!gest advantage is that now I
can implement all the things I
learned as an assistant for nine years.
N. an assistant coach, I bad the opportunity to work under four different head coaches and I took certain
things from each of those aperiencA!S
that I will implement as a head roach..
All of those coaches helped prepare
me for this opportunity.

Your predecessor was male.
Does being a female coach of
the women 's team have Its adwantage~ and, H so, what are
they7

What's been your g~test
chollenge •lnce Joining the Ull
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women definitdy has its advantages.

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cruiting, becaust' I got the job right

before the most important time
for recruiting. We also moved into
a new confermce, so that meant
educating .U of the recruits and
the u nivenity community about
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ness, which will lead us into the
first p ractice. This is an oppor·
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new coaching staff, also to get
them excited about this year's
squads--both men and women.
By entering the Mid-American
Conference, people will see an
exciting new brand of basketball
p layed at a higher level than seen
before.

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coaches in thiJ country who
took over o winninJ propm.
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looking at thiJ as a rebuilding
process, but a relo~g time.
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Burhans conducting pilot project in her basic computer course

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co lle ge s tudent!~
wh o own co mputers
perfo rm any differ entl y in school th an
those wh o don't ?
To find o ut . Debra Burhans, a
co mputer sc ience lecturer at UB.
has divided the bas ic computer
co urse she teaches into sections of
.. owners" and unon -ow ners."
Th e secti ons were organized in
part to gain information in prepa rati o n for a universit y- wide re quirement that students have access to computers uarting in Fall
1999.
Acco rd ing to Burhans, the st udent s in th e course. for the most
part. arc not science o r engineering maj o rs and so are an excellent
general po pulation to study. About
70 perce nt of sc11: nce and engineering majors at UB own com puters, while th e number is about
50 perce nt for non -majors.
.. Th(' purpose of th is pil o t
project is to find ou t what ski lls
students need to make ownmg a
computer in ~o llcge'worthwh i le,' "
she said.
Burhans expectS to write a report
on her findin gs and ultimately develop educational software to be used
in teaching basic computer courses.
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nai res at the end of each lab
project, a m('thod that wiU aUow
her to keep tabs o n how students'
use of co mputer s is changing
throughout the semester.
One liunus test for finding out
how technologysavvy both owners
and no n -owners
have become,
Bu rhans said, is
whether they start
using the com puter for purposes
that have nothing
to do with the class, such as for
projects in other classes and for personal information -gathering.
Where S[Udents d o their com p uting also is an important co n sideratio n.
"We 'll be asking student owners
tf they do a substantial am ount of
co mputing in on · ca mpu s labs.
even if they have a computer at
home," saKI Burhans.
She expects that thi s will be the
case because labs have become

centers for socializing.
" UB is p utting a lot of effQrt into
its public sites and that 's critical,"
she said.
At the same time, she said, with
commuters making up the majority of students on campus. in creased use of computers probably
will help to bring students closer
and provide more communit y,
even ou tside of class.
Burhans cautioned that some
preconceptions about computer
o wnership are not necessa ril y
tru e.
" J want to know if students who
o wn computers are any m o re
computer-literate to begin with,"
she said . .. I know from my pr('vio us classes that just owning one
does not a priori make you a bet ter student.
..At the same, using a computer
to educate isn't a priori bett er
than using bla ckboard s and
chalk. We need to see where th e
computer really can make a diffe rence in education and com -

munication among stud~nts and
faculty.•
Burhans also will be asking both
sets of students to look at th~i r
initial ape:riences at th~ course
out~t and compar~ that with how
co mputer-literate th ey feel by
co urse's end.
The pilot project a.J so will be
used to get information on how
well the university's network is
servi ng its students.
"A kry question wiU be, ' How
lo ng does it take you to dial-in to
the netWork from home?' .. she said.
Jn addition , she n o ted, th t"
project will shed som (' light on
which kinds of learning are en
hanced thro ugh in ttracti on wi th
co mputers and which are not.
The project received seed
money to re - ~quip an under graduate computer science lab
from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. the
Office of the Provost and the Qf.
fice of the Vice Provost for Educational Technology.

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Center for Assistive Technology
receives $4.5 million grant
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HE Center for A&amp;sistive
Tedmology at UB bas reaiveda~y=.S45mil­

lion grant &amp;om the U.S.

Depanmentofllducation's National
lnstituteonDUabilityand R&lt;habilitation R&lt;sean:h to establish a Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Center (RERC) fo r technology
transfer.

The new center is the only one
o f its kind in the U.S. Housed in
the Department of O ccupational
Therapy in the School of Health
Related Professions, it replaces and
builds on UB's RERC fo r Technol-

ogy Eval uation and Transfer, establi sh ed five years ago with a
grant fro m the same agency. That
fu nding expired in August 1998.
T h e Resea rch Tri a ngl e In st itute in No rth Carolin a is a pa rt ner w ith UB in th ~ new RE RC,
alo ng with t h ~ W~s t er n N~wYo r k
ln d~ p e n de n t Livi n g Center a nd
AZTech. I nc. , t h e loca l non -

profit company found ed under
the previous grant t o license device prototypes to m a nufactur-

ers.

Jnaeph Lane, director of the new
RERC and associate director of the
Center for A.uistive Technology,
defines uchnology transfer as "the
process by which ideas becom e
prototypes, which are then transformed into products for the marketplace.
• we will look a t th e u.nm et
n e ed s of end- users and the
assistive-technology industry, and
search the scientific and technology infrastructure to find the tech nology to meet those needs," Lane
said.
The center will approach this
challenge from two ptrspectives:
• Identifying unmet needs of con sum ers and companies for imp ro vements in existing assistive
d evices and finding n ew uchnologies that can malce them better and
m o re marketable
• Researchi n g th e latest tech no -

logica l innovation s and identi fying way s those 1nnovat10n s
cou ld be used to d~velop new
ass ist ive devices or update exist ing ones.
Cen ter staff will concentrate on
one specific aspect of assistive
technology each year. T he fir st
year will be devoted to finding new
technologies fo r imp roving m obil ity d evices, with a particuJar em phasis o n wheelchairs. Lane said
staff mc:mlxrs will investigate possible new mater ials , co nt ro ll ers
a nd power cells.
O ther areas to be investigated in
su bsequent years of the grant are
au gmenta t ive comm unica t ions.
vision and hearing devices, prostheses and orth ot ics, and telecom municatio n and info rmat ion systems.
In each of these areas, the new
RERC for technology trans fer will
work wi th RERCs arou nd the U.S.
t hat cond uct research in each specia lt y area, including UB's RERC:
on Aging.

Senate supports SUNY unit
in opposing achievement~
By SUE WUETCHUI
News Services Associate Director

T

HE UB Facu lty Se nate

Tuesda y un a n i m o usly
suppo rted SUNY's Uni versity Facul ty Senate in
o ppos ing a SUNY-wid e stu dent
achievem ent t est
T he UB senate joi ned 28 o th er
facult y governance o rgan izatio ns
fro m across the system in endo rsing a reso luti o n advan ced by the
SUNY senate urging SUNY Provost Peter Salins to susp end h is
plan to assess student lea rn ing using a system -w id e test aft er t he
fir st two yea rs of u nd ergradu ate
study.
Th e reso luti o n a lso reco m mends creating a Student Achievem e nt ,Co mmitt ee co m posed of
fac ult y a nd o th er relevant con st itu encies to develop a plan for a
cam pus-based, student assessment
program fo r SUNY.
Johnstone calls plan 'mischievous'
Senators were w.rged to su pport
the SUN Y se nate reso lu ti o n by
former SUNY C hancellor D. Bruce
Joh nsto ne, University Professor in
t he Depa rt m ent of Ed ucat io na l
Leade rsh ip and Po licy.
Johnstone called Sal ins' plan a
.. ve r y, veq• m isc h ievo u s, nt
wicked. d irectio n the new SUNY
trustees and the ir p rovost arc takmg us.
Jud ith Ad am s- Volpe, din:ctor of
Lockwood Library and a SUNY
se nat or, br iefed m em be rs of the
Facult y Se nate on the Satin s pro posal, which was the to pi c of m uch
discuss io n at last week's meetin g
of th e Un ive rsity Faculty Senate.
She said that th e SUNY senate
believes test ing and assess me nt of
stud ents sho uJd rem ai n based 111
the in d ividual ca mpuses.

"Th ey are very concerned about
the effi cacy of a test that wou ld try
t.o m easure general education over
a ll th e t ypes of ca mp uses that
co m prise SUNY, includin g two year cam puses and technicaJ co lleges," Ada ms-Vo lpe said.
Th e gro u p, she said , would like
to see m o re analys is abo ut the pote nt ia l effi cacy of th e test , and
mo re d isc u ssion abo ut what it
wo uld try to measure and how th~:
test result s m ight be used.
Adams-Volpe noted t hat Sa lm s
to ld SUNY senators at last week 's
meeti ng t hat he want s to usc the
tes t to p rod uce da ta to measure
st udent improvement.
Consequences a concern
She sai d man y SUNY senator~
q uestioned what wo uld happen 1f
students d id no t show sign ificant
im provement when the)' were re tested afte r t wo yea rs of st u dy.
'' T h e n wha t mi g h t t h e conse q uences of tha t be fo r the cam pus?" she asked. "Would there be
b udgetary consequences, fo r in sta nce, if some ca m puses show
mo re im prove m ent than ot hers?'"
Ada ms- Volpe added that SUNY
C ha ncellor Jo hn Ryan . who also
attended last weck "s meetm g, In fo rmed SUNY sena to rs that he wa~
"not invo lved at all in the pnKe s~
or po li cy m aki ng on t his 1ssuc."
In ot her business. UB senator~.
afte r m uc h debate- . fina ll y ap
proved a pJan to all ow students In
repea t co urses in wh ich they havt·
rece ived gra des they deem to ht·
lt·s ~- t han -sat isfactory.
Se nators a m ended the o n g1n al
resolut ion f ro m th e G r ad 1n ~
Committee t hat wo uld have rt•st.ricte-d such a practice to course~
in which studt·nts have rece ived u
grade of C-+ or lower.

The f('Solution a s approved
st rikes the C + lim it, effectively al
lowing st udents to retake an)'
cou rses, no matter what the grade

earned.
However, the grade earned tht·
second t i m t' w il l be t he o n t.&gt;
cou nt ed in ca lculating the C.PA.
even if it proves to be lowe r than

the first grade received.
The senate o n Tuesda)' al so J~:-.
cussed a reso lu ti on ask1ng that
Prcsidt~nt Wi ll iam R. (',rcinr:r sign
the Ta ll o ires DeclaratiOn and 111 s truct app ropriate un 1verSII)'
groups to u ndertake or continue
the actions listed in 11 . The 10 at tams outl ined in the dedarat1nn
1nclude such items as t·stabhshmg
insti tutional recycling and energv
conservation po lictes. and devcl
o ping curncu la. research mit 1a t1ves a nd o ut reach actiVItiC!&gt; to
support an cnvironmcntall v sus
tainable future .
Welch introduces resolution
In mtroducmg the rt"!&gt;olutJon on
the Tall oircs Declaralton , C laud e:
Welch , SUNY Distinguished SerVICe Professor 111 the Department
o f Po lit1caJ Science. said the docu men t arose from a 1990 meetmg
of a gro u p of umvcr~1ty presidents
who we re concerned that they and
thc1r peer!&gt; should be takmg a lcaJ
ersh1p rnle on env1rnnmt•ntal ''
sues.
While st•naiUr!&gt; .t~rt"t'J With the
pnn..:-1plc:!&gt; detadt·t.l m the dcdara
t1011 - and no ted that UB alreadv
I!&gt; Jomg nhtn y of thnse th ings!&gt; lll11 e vo 1ccd co nce rn that there
mav be.:· many s 1m ilar "good
t dU ses"' awaiting senatt· endo rse rnt·nt.
The resolut ion will come up for
.1 vote at the senate's nc:&lt;"t met•tln g
on Nov. 10.

3

BrieOy
Acclaimed neuroscientist
Henri Korn to lecture at UB
-.n Koonls • Fnnch neurobiologist ofinternauonal reputation known
for his inteUectual passion, deep knowledge of Amer1can culture and hts
ae&lt;X&gt;rtlpli:shn,ents in OOth n~uroscience and the humanitit:s. For m any
yea rs a visiting research professor at UB, Korn is director
of the Laboratory of \.e llular and Molecu lar Neurobiol ogy at the Pasteur Institute m Paris. He will return to VB on
Tuesday to present the 1998 Samuel P. Capen Lecture tn the
Humani t ies, the maJOr humanities lectureship at UB.
•OM
His talk. "Society a nd the Scientjfic ImaginatiOn .'" Wlil
take place at 4 p.m . m the Scree mng Room m the Cent er for the
Arts. It will be free and open to the public.
Although h1s pnnCipal research IS m syna pt iC transmiSSIOn and
the functional o rgamzatlon of tht&gt; cent ral nervous system , Korn also
1s a lo ngtime seno us student of phrlosop hy and lite rature wh o m
recent years has become mcrl'asmgly conce rn ed w1th the mterplav
between scientific and humanist iC mq01ry.
In his lecture, Korn will reflect hiS broader concerns 111 addressmg a
number of provocative LSSues: How sCientific unagmauon .. works." the
role of metaphor m SCientific mqu1ry and m ta.Uungabout SCien tific work.
the role of probability and chaos theory m brain SCience and how nouons
of predictability and free will held by scienust.s and human•uo &gt;Cholan
are changing and how the1r mqULn ~ mfom1 one another.
The Capen lectu re 1s spo nso red by the ~a mu e l P Capen ( :h,m m
the Humanities. held bv Bru1..e Jackson . ~UNY D1stmgu1shed P r&lt; 1
fcsso r in the Departm.cnt of l:nglish . and co - ~ponso r ed bv tht·
Melod1a Iones Chair in Frer11..h . held by Ray mond Fe-derman. "L' N)
Distinguished Professor 111 tht· Ocpartm~:nt of English.
Jackson desc ribes Korn a.!&gt;··,, true mtcllectual. a man w1th d rc
lentless passion for mqLm y mto J.nd d1SI..USSIO!l of 1d ea~ ._ H1 s knm...,l
edge of Ame-rican c ulture IS pr ofo und .~ Jackson said, .. not JUS! bt~
ca use he is a paSSIOnate reader {If be ~..-a u se of the many yean he l1Vt'J
m the Um ted Stat ~ while doing rc!&gt;ea rch at UB and the AI her! J-:m .;;tt·n
Medica l Center. Jt "s also because he has traveled w1delv Jnd ha' an
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was why he was invltt•d to g1ve the lecture.
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Joxe. In 1992, he was awarded th&lt; Richard Lounsbery Priu by the National
Academy of Sclencc and the Acaderrue des Sciences. He was elected to thc.:Ac.ademia Europaea t 198q). the French Academ)' of Sciences ( !9901
and the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humamlle-5 t 19(} ~1

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p&lt;ofesso&lt; of ch&lt;miclll eng;.-.
lng at Yale who seMOd os chair
of the chtmlcal engineering department there for 30 )'OMS.
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of chemical engineering. induding tramport phenomena. cotolysis, ..me. phonomena.-.

emubions. and blocompotible
surfoces and - - He hos been honored by
the A.merian Institute of
Chemlal E.nglneen with the
Alph• Chi Slgmo Award In
1977 and the Wll ll~m H.
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American Chemical Society
presented him with the
Kendall Award In 1986 and the

E.V. Murphree Award In 1996
and in 1994, the Langmuir

Distinguished lecture Award

f om the Society's Division of
ollold .and Surfoce ChemistJy.
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Academ:r of Engineering. he
receivecl:the Sentor Humboldt
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!n 1985.

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Triggle notes: "We need to pool
succeed ." he adds. "They need to
perceive that they' re at a place o ur visions and resources, coUabo~
where they have a good chance at rate and share. Going it alone is
success. Thatmeansprovidingfucili- not the way to do it." Collaboraties and equipment for research, and tion, he adds, includes work across
administrative services that they need departments within the university,
as weU as with coUeagues at affilito sustain their research programs~
O n the other hand, "resouras ated hospitals and institutions,
are limited, and we can't afford to such as Roswell Park Cancer In give everyone everything they stitute, and other universities.
It also can mean sharing expenwant." notes David ). Triggle, dean
of the Graduate School and asso- sive equipment that one institution
ciate vice: provost for graduate edu- alone cannot afford to purchase.
cation . In some fields, such as the
physical sciences, he adds, setting Benefits of woridng togeu• we need to have good instituup a researcher in a proper lab can
cost the university in the neighbor- tional mechanisms that allow researchers from various disciplines
hood of a half million doUars.
Because of such costs, UB needs to work together," says Landi. The
to define the educational and re- payoffs for such efforts can be very
search areas it wants to pursue. la rge. For example, UB's n ew
a nd "encourage departments to multidisciplinary, doctoral-level
fo cus their hiring on those areas," concentration in G lS, which a tlracted $2.2 m illion in NSF fun dsays Triggle.
ing, is a coUabor ation among
In recent years, the university
seven academic d epartmen ts.
ha s provided researchers with
Res&lt;arch in the health sciences,
"seed funds" to help launch new
in particular, will require a "syn·
resea rch endeavors by awarding
ergy among departments" that has
small , one-time grants on a comnot existed before, says Bernarpetitive basis to faculty team s
dino. ""We've got to move people
through the Multidisciplinary Pitoward thinking and working tolot Project Program. The program ward a common goal."
encourages resea rchers to work
But working toward a shared
across traditional di sc iplinar y goal is nol always easy, Triggle adboundaries to demonstrate pre - mits. " It's not going to be that easy
liminary results that they then can to be in agreement." he-adds. " Evpresent in proposals to external eryone says, 'My area is much more
funding sources, a process that le- important than anyone else's."'
verages their university grantsTriggle 5ays that's why Provost •dglbllt...,. ......... ......., .,.t- l o o - T - Strollo
which t ypi ca lly rang e from Thomas E. Headrick's academic - C - o r.
S 18,000 to $20 ,000-lo obtain planning doc ument, ou tlining not bottomless, major research uni- addressed .... All of a sudden , bemo re substantial external funding. changes-both administrative versities are placing more emphasis cause of the tremendous advances
and philosophical-that UB must on development efforts to identify in information science over the
Seed fu nding pays off
undergo if it is to become a pre - potential funding from private and last 15 years. we're faeed with revoThe program has been extraordi- mier publi c- resea rch un iv~ rsity,
public foundations and agencies, as lutions in the way we conduct renarily successful For every doUar the also must serve as the strategic
search in the arts and humanities."
well as the corporate world.
university invested in 1994--the plan that wiU allow UB to focus its
What should VB do to encourage
A prime example is the partnerfinl year of the program-research- research resources.
ship that has evolved between the and maintain ~in research?
ers received S 14 in external funding.
"O ur research policy needs to be university and Toshiba America
· Go back to the basics, sa ys
One of the first seed projects, funded run out of the provost's office," he
Medical Systems, Inc. UB's reputa- Landi.
for $ 19,100, earlier this year won a says. "That's the place where deci The university must be disci tion as a center for pioneering reS 1.3 million grant from the National sions have to come from, with lots
search in the treaunent and preven- plined in recruiting and promoting
Institutes ofHcalth (NIH}.
of advice" from the decan allevel.
tion of stroke was boiSiered two faculty"because it's the faculty who
"Seed funding gives researchers
External collaboratio n-with years ago when Toshiba established cond uct that research who are the
the cap ital to enable them to ex - business and industry, as weU as
the university's Toshiba Stroke Re- engine of UB's research enterprise.
plo re new ideas and prepare pro- with other universities and affili"If you do that less well than you
search Center with a $3.6 million gift
posals that are competitive at the ated hospitals and institutions-of advanced image-guidance equip- could, then research here will be
natio nal level ," says Landi.
also is in tegral to the success of ment. Just last month, it increased less than it could be."
And co mpetition at that level UB's research initiatives.
Investment in resc:arch, Landi
its commitment to UB with a three·
can be ext remely stiff, particularly
Industry, keenly aware thai il no year, $500,000 graot to further the stresses. must be "rontinual." includfor fu nding fo r basic researc h . longer can remain competitive by center's work on the dynamics of ing the investment in the faculty.
Wh ile the NIH, for example, has relying solely on in -house research blood flow and improving the abil "You have to expect some faculty
more research funding available and development, is turning for as- ity to view structures in the brain to leave because they'U be highly
than it ever has in the past, greater sistance to research universities like while decreasing X-ray exposure.
sought by other institutions. You
numbers of researchers are com - UB. Praxair, one of the world's largcan'! retain all faculty members, no
est
suppliers
of
industrial
gases.
and
peting for those fund s.
Research strengths a re broad
matter how good your retentiOn ef" If we don't get in there, we'll lose Enidine, which manufactures and
Landi stresses that UB's research forts are." When outstanding re o ut ," says Michael E. Bernardino, markets industrial shock absorbers, strengths are not limited to the searchers leave, he adds, UB must
vice presidenl for health affairs. UB's seismic dampers and vibration iso· health an9 physical sciences. He be commined to replacing them
medical school alone. he notes. must lators, have agreements with th e cites work being done by faculty with "excellent, mid-level facul ty~
And as important to the univerincrease its external research fund - university that allow them to take members in info rmation sciences,
ing by S25 million over the next five advantage of UB's advanced -tech - biomedjcaJ sciences, pharmaceu - sity as external funding is, a sense
o
f
balance is equall y necessary
years just to maintain its state fund - nologies and scientific expertise.
tical sciences, advanced materials
The importance of coUabora- and environmental sciences as ar· where research is co ncerned.
ing under the state's new resource
~e live in an age where it 's un allocation methodology.
tion with other universities is un - eas of"special strength ."
Such mandates, as well as the derscored by the internationall y
"We have great strengths in the realistic to try to maintain a major
extremely competitive funding recog nized success of th e behavioral sciences, as well," Landi research university without large
environni ent at the national level, Multidi sc iplinary Ce nter for says. Psychology and sociology, for sources of external support, includincreasingly make collaboratio n a Ea rthquake Engineering Research example, ""are important areas of ing research support," Landi says.
"However,""' can't allow ourselv&lt;:s
given when it comes to research .
(MCEER), which is a co nso rtium research for the university where
"Internal collaboration is more of leading academic institutions. there are fewe r opportunities for 10 be driven solely by the search for
important than it's ever been," says In its 12-year hiSiory, MC EER suc- gaining external support, but they external dollars and ""'can't measure
Landi. "Societal problems and is - cessfull y has leveraged S56 mi llion are n o less important than the suca:ss by the doUar siu of external
sues-iss ues paramount to the in NS F funds to anract additional ot her areas and require a different support because: there are many arpeople of the Stale of New York, as support totaling more than S 120 approach if they are to flo urish in eas where external support is achievable without large dollar.; and they're
well as nationally and globallymillion, including more than $26 the university environment."
Law, urban development, higher equally importanL We need people
don't come neatly packaged within million in matching funds from
a discipline. It's important to find New Yo rk State, for research , edu - education, the arts, Landi contin - to maintain balance and perspective
ues, " have different requiremen ts in .a research university when they
a way for talented people to work cation and outreach programs.
together on these problems."
Because government coffers are a nd issues that need to be look for exaUena:."

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Taking steps to curb binge drinking

.,Students produce video on drinking dwices aspart ofinitiative
NMs SeMces EditDrial Assisoot

jTHOct.l9
marking the beginning of National Collegiate
Alcohol Awarenell Week, a powerful momentum
~by last fall's trqic death of
Scott Krueger is moving the UB
community to take stepS to prevent
·
such a tragedy at UB.
"AAcohol is the number one problem on campuses today and the
number one drug of choice among
college students," says Laurie
Krupski, UB's drug and alcohol
counselor. "Many students fail to
realiu that alcohol is lethal and has
the potential to cause death. They
don't associate'! can die' with going
out and drinking."
One year ago Krueger,an Orchard
Park resident attending the Massachusetts Institute ofTedtnology,died
of acute alcohol intaxication at a fra.
lmlityparty. Despite Krueger's death
and that of other students under
similar circumstances in recent ytars.
bingedrinkingcontinues"unabated"
on campuses nationwide, according
to a study released last month by the
Harvard School of Public Health.
Noting that 42.7 percent ofcoUege
students are binge drinkers, the study
found increased intensity of drink·
ing among those who drink, more
drinking to get drunk. more frequent
drunkenness and more aloohol-re-

lated problems, such as drinking and
driving. sine&lt; a 1993 study.
inandfontoincreasealooholawareness in the UB community, several
students and fuculty and staff membm h:M prodUC&lt;d a 22-minute video,
"Making Oloices: College Drinking."
that presents the consequences of the
ranseof dloi&lt;rs oollesestudents make
whm it comes to drinking.
Steve Turkovich and Danielle

Thri&lt;ovich.
Anglim adds that the video doesn't
I"'C&lt;ZZAriiytdlstudents"don't drink,"
but ernpba.sius that the choie&lt; to
drink.oc not to drink. is in their power.
The studenu esplain that the ef.
fectivenessof the video.lies in its balance between real-life testimonies of
studenu and the dramati2ed reality
ofUB's drinking sane.
"The video allows students to
send other studenu their persoDalized message about responsible

drinking." explains Krupski, also interim director of UB's Living Well
Center. "We wanted UB students
working on the video because they
know what goes on here at UB.
There are a lot of videos out there.

but this one is specificaUy for and
about UB students."
While Krupski and the students
agree that it is unrealistic to try to
eliminat&lt; binge drinking. they emphasize the imponance of students

deadly situation. The video shows
how to recognize the signs of alcohol poisoning and demonstrates the
steps to take in such a situation.

Krupski says the video, which is
gaining national interest. has been
weU-received by groups of faculty,
staff, studenl5 and parents of local
high-school students. They have been
impressed by the dfons of the Living
WeU Center, Student Health Center,
PublicSafety,CounsdingCenter,Resi·
dence Life. Inter-Greek Council and
local busir&gt;e«es,induding Molly's Pub

on Maip Street.
In observance of Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, UB wiU hold
"FaU Fun Fest '98" at 7 p.m.Oct. 23 in
Numni Arena. Tables wiU be set up
next wed&lt;. in the Student Unioo lobby.
~ student "power a&lt;Mx:at&lt;s" will
~e alcohol awareness. Krupski
will visit donns to give presentations
on the dangers of binge drinking.

Mandatory workshops with a screening of the video and a panel discus~o n by students and staff rommitted to
addressingaloohol CXJOCmlSOO C3!11J'U'.
wiD be held during the wed&lt;. for fraternity and sorority members

Proposal
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arts and sciences. It should, in ·
stead. be "allowed to pursue con tinuing education ... mo re vigo rously," he said.
It has been his experi ence, he
said, that the schools of l\1anagement and Engineering have been so
busy attending to their existing

move the .. extension" miss ion o f
MFC to a unit- such as the U B
Business Alliance-that is better
able to handle entrepreneurial
programs and does not offer a tra ·
ditional degree program

Millard Fillmore College "offers
the traditional University at Buf-

needs and charges that MFC has

falo degree for a whole lot of

become a "fall-back operation" for
entrepreneurial effons tO aid local
economic development. He cited as
an example a proposal to create a
program in food engineering.
"' We're shooting ourselves in the
foot by e liminatin g Millard
FiUmore Co llege from this (entre preneurial effort )," he said.
G reiner replied that the university must offer certificate programs
and entrepreneurial programsthat's one of the reasons for creat ing the UB Business Alliance-but
"the problem with what we have
now is that you expect Millard

units ... Given the enrollment in th e
arts and sciences, .. we can't just
give up that aspect o f Mill a rd
Fillmore," Greiner said .
.. We've got to separate the two
missions (of MFC); we think thi s
might facilitate that."

Fillmore to do all of this but you
can't " because the college is ..so tied
.....in with producing traditionaJ degrees and supporting traditional
programs in the arts and sciences.
"We can 't have it both ways."
It would be better, he said. to

Don Schack, professor of math ·
ematics, noted that " it seems son
of unnatural" to require individual
sc hool s to operate their own
evening classes but to ex~d MFC
to do so for the arts and sc iences.
Schack also questioned why the
unit with responsibility for distanc('
learning would reside in the College of Arts and Sciences, when . he
said, the arts -and -sc ien ces d1sc1
plines have been at the back o f the
pack in terms of interest in distan ce
learning on campus.
" It seems important for the um versity to have a segment that can

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helped lWll'k on the video and continue 10 promott alcohol awareness
and responsible drinking in the UB
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knowing how to savt their own life

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look to the no ntraditional st ud ent,
that ca n look to the no ntraditional
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tiona! modalities.,.. he saJd. " It doesn't
strike me as a natural thing to put
that inside the arts and sclences."
Headrick agreed that the art s
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Third International Film Festival,
"About Women;, to open Tuesd,ay
''Living Out Loud," a co medy sta rring Ho Uy Hunter an d Dann)

DeVit o, will open th e Th ird Inte rn ation al Film Fes·tival "'Abo ut
Women" at UB o n Tuesday. O rganazed by the Institute for Resea rch
and Edu ca t1o n on Wo men and Gender ( IR EWG), the festival sho w
cases the best of recent intern atio nal film s on wo men's a nd gender
1ssues by bo th female and male filmma ke rs.
All the fi lms will be show n a t 7 p.m. 1n th e Sc ree nmg Roo m 10 the
Ce nt er for th e Arb o n the Nort h Ca mpus. Tickets a rt: S3 for stu
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gra ms. M(N ult y C ha1r ( Dcnml&gt; Tedloc kl. Jones Cha1r ( Raymond
Federm an ), UB a nd the Amcn ca n AAsocaat1on of Umvcrs1tvWoml'n .
Buffa lo chapt er.
For more tnfo r ma t w r~ , caJI Prrr J...a 'J...achko~'a at 8.?9-3451
The schedule Is:
Tuewiay, .. l.ivmg Out Loud" L·~A . 1998 . An adult comedy d1re..:teJ
by R1 cha rd LaG ravenese. 11 &lt;; t ar~ Holly Hunt er a nd Dan ny Ot"\'llo
Oct. 27, "Conceaving Ada," USA, 1997. Dmxted by Lynn llershman
Leeson. tht.• fil m teUs the storv of poet Lord Byron's briUJanl daughte r.
cons1dt:red by many to have uwent ed th e fi rst comp uter program .
through a time-traveling, 20th-centu ry woman co mputer program mt·r
Now. 3, " Esmeralda Comes bv Ntght." MeXJco, 1997 D1 rectt&gt;J bv
Jaa m t: Humbe rto Herm os illo. the fi lm depKb the li fe of a nur.,t· hap
pily marri ed to five hu sba n d~
Now. 10, .. Bent Familia." Tums1a. Jljq7, d arected by Nou n fkmud lhre-c.·
friends meet to find mutuaJ suppon : a housewtfe m an unhapp" ma r
riage; a divorcee with two children who is exposed to pubhc d1sappn wal.
and a refugee from Algeria av..ra ittng a VIsa to hve m Europe.
Nov. 17, "P riv ate Co nfess io n s" Sweden. 1997. d1rec teJ tw '''
Ullmann . ln gmar Bergman's scr ipt fo ll ows the story of J woman
who dc:cides to leave her hu sband for an affa1r Wtt h a youngt.•r man
Dec. 1, '' Rad ia nce" Aust ralia, 1998.dm·cted by Rachel Perlm!&gt;. T hc;fi rst feature film d1rected tw an abo n gmal wo man .. met' Trace'
Moffa tt , it 's a stoq• about three SISte rs, each fa th ered bv a d1fferent
ma n, who reumte at their moth er's dea th.
Dec. 4, ~ y m pos aum . "'Wo men and Gender an 1 n t t~rna t lo n al C1nem.~:
2 p. m .. Screenm g Room. Ce nt er fo r the Arb .~ n:ceptton w.J I fn llov.

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HEREaremajorchanges
in th~ works for the Faculty Student Association,
Inc., starting with a com·
pl&lt;te OV&lt;rhaul of the dining services
provided to UB through th&lt; 1101-forprofit corporation.
And Mitch Groen , the newly
hired executive director of FSAwhich provides a variety of services to the university- has found
his first major task in addressing
the results of a consu ltant's report
focusing on FSA's dining servi~s.
The evaluation, conducted earlier this year by a research group
affilia ted with Marriott Interna-

tor for coUeges for 10 years prior to
his recmt appointment Most recently, he was with the Roc:hesterbas&lt;d Fine Host Corp. Before that,
he was employed by !le'm2i universities in th&lt; food-service am~ and his
experimce tol21s 20-plus years.
Mucb of what is included in the
Marriott report "has real validity,"
Green said, especially criticisms of
"how we present our services to

tbe campus, tbe quality of our services. the timeliness of our services

and orgaoizational structure."
The report included analysis of
data, consumer-need and satisfaction reviews; benchmarking against
peer institutions, operations and facilities audits and analysis of man -

tional, inc.. identified severaJ prob-

agement structures.

in the Student Union. Those two
proj&lt;cts an basically oompleted."
The $250,000 physical overhaul
of the Goodyear dining area on
UB's South Campus has made the

lems to be addressed by FSA. They

Consultants conducted si~ visits and m&lt;l with key campus constituencies in an effort to provide

from its previous state. "Goodyear
used to be your typical; straight-

UB with recommendations on success fuctoTSt rustomer satisfaction,

line cafeteria ,• Gree n said. But
now, in addition to new furniture,

and cost and budg&lt;ling models for
FSA and campus consideration.
According to Oiff Wtlson, associate via: president for student affairs, Green has what it takes to put
a plan into action. "He has wonderfuJ experiences in private entuprises

the facility was transformed over

mdude low customer satisfaction
with the existing food service and
problems in FSA management.
FSA, which operates on campus
under a contract with SUNY, is ad ministered by a board of directors
drawn from campus facuJ ry, staff
and students. In addition to dinmg services, FSA also provides rec reational services. dry cleaning and
laundry services, administers the

UBCard ID-card program and has
a number of other functions.

Green , who was hired in August
and has his home~ in the Statler
&lt;:Ornmissary, is focusing on addressmg the problems in FSA's dining,
catering, vending and retail sales.

"We ~to look at changing the
organization of people responsible

(for food service),"Green said. With
regard to patrons., and especially students in the dormitories, Green said
there can't be a mindset of simply
"we're happy to have them."
Rather, "We're in a competitive
environment and we have to re ·
spond to that ," he said. The job now,
he says, is to "make sure we're operating on good busines.~ practices and
not on historical practices."
(;reen worked as a food com rae-

facility almost unrecognizable

the summer into a marche-type

dining hall.
Students sec their food pre-

pared "up front," and several different stations offer a variety of
foods like 'pastas, sa uteed veg -

Wtlson said the report focused on
what service; FSA should be offering and what customers =lly want.

etables, tortillas and pizza.
"We've tried to break up that area
and incorporate the kitcben into the
serving area so food is prepared
dose to its point-of-service and students can see the fOOd being pre·
pared." Groen said. "There's noth -

.. They were very good at pointing out what we do well and what

ing hidden, and there's much more
vari&lt;ty than we've ever had."

that run food-service operations
around the co untry. He brings a
whole variant of experience to the
campus that we desperately need..

we do poorly," Green said. "They

Student feedback regarding the

didn't give us any real implementation plans."
It 's up to him to help tum the
"blueprint'" into reality.
So what 's been done to put the
plan into action ?
"We renovated the Goodyea r
di ning hall," G reen said , "wi th a
diffe rent style of service. which is
running q uite n icely. We also put
an ... ice cream and pretzel concept

changes at Goodyea r has been
.. very positive." Green said.
For breakfast and dinner, dormitory SlUdents on the regular
meal plan get an all-you -can-eat
ticket to the different stations ,
which also indude an ice-cream
station, a deli -bar and a .. Char ' n
Grill " station for sandwiches, submar in es and hamburgers.
Lo oking to the future , Green

says the same concepu are being
~ed for the Governor's Resi -

dence Halls, and plans are under
way for a major overhaul of facili ties on the North Campus.
The Marriott report indiated it
might be more efficient to OO"'!'tidate the three major feeding areas
in the Ellicott Complex: the Red
Jacket and Ricbmond dining areas
and the Student Club. There also
is the possibility of building an
addition to the Ellicott Complex
to accommodate the change.

"We're trying to bring together all
the groups that this would alf= I
need to talk with residence life, stu dent activities and the housing folks
to sec what we're going to do. We
need to get people from the physical plant involved and see how vi able it is to renovate that space."
One of the major reasons to make
changes, Green said, is the fact that
"ou.r customer base has changed"
over 20 years. In the past, "there
was a mind s~t that the students
wouJd live on campus, eat thr«
meals a day here and that they
wouldn't be very mobile."
But now, ..we have a very mobile
customer in our student population. Students have cars. There's

Pizza Hut, there's (all types ofbusinesS&lt;S ) that can deliver food."
.. We 're in a very competitive
environment and we have to respond to that competition.··

Work-related disorders are real, report says m
By ELUN .GO~AUM
New&lt; Se&lt;V~ces Edotor

..Our repon says that you cannot

found that people who are ex -

dismiss musculoskeletal disorders as

posed to high levels of physical

In addition, he said, individuals

National Academy o f
Sciences/ National Research Council steering
comminee, co -chaired
by a UB professor, has concluded
that there is good evide nce that
musculoskeletal disorders are , in
fac t, caused by the physical forces
people put on their bodies, including those encountered at work.
T he committee's repon , .. Work Related Musculoskeletal Disordcrs: A Rt&gt;view of the Evidence,"
w3s delivered to Capitol Hill recen tly and is available at &lt;http:/1
www.n•p.edu / re•dlngroom &gt;
(search for musculoskeletal ).
.. The question posed to our
steering comm ittee was. ' Do we
have a scientific basis for saying
th at these disorders are, indeed.
caused by wh at you do to your
body?'" said Colin Drury, professor of industrial engineering at UB
and co-chai r of th e com mit tee.

being all in the mind,.. he said.
The steering committee wa s
convened in August at the request
of the National Lnstitutes of Health
to exam ine the cu rrent research
base on work- related d isorders,
such as repetitive stress injuri es to
the back and upper limbs.
The purpose of its charge was to
review and comment on the quality
of the science in the field that can
then be used in the (X&gt;licy debate.
Some expe rts and legislators
have stated that musculoskeletal
disorders are not related to siressors experienced at work, with
some going so far as to say that
such diso rders are no t legi timate
physical complaints.
The committee found a strong
bio logical connection between
suc h disorders and a high level of
exposu re to physical stressors in
the workplace.
"When we looked at the data, we

forces at work are more likely to
experience these disorders," said
Drury... Also. if your job is one that
has one of the hallmarks of stress,
such as low social support and
high demand, you also are mote
likely to experi ence them."
The report states that specific
interven ti ons are effective in re ducing the rate of such disorders
for individuals, but cautions that
such interventions must be indj vidually tailored.
Whi le work exposure is a key
factor in such disorders, Drur y
added that the committee found
that it is not the only one.
Otherfactorsindudehowone's
job is organized and how much
latitude an individual has in determining what task he or she will do
next.
" It is not just the biomechanics
that can ca ust these disorders,"
said Dru ry, "but that, plus the

may simply have more or less tal erance to tissue damage based on
fac tors such as age and the presence of diseases like arthritis.
"When we looked at the relative
magnitudeofthephysicaleffect.s.as
well as organizational and indi vidual differences, we found that
none of them alone will predict who
is susceptible to such disorders and
who is not," he said. The committee
foundthatthebiologicaloorrclation
is strongest when forces are the
greatest, and weakest with low-level
stress. such as repeti~ stress injuriesexpcriencedby computer-users.
"With disorders su ch as carpal
tunnel syndrome, the evidence ts
there, but there isn't the same degree of agreement," he said.
The report cited estimated costs
associatcdwithabse.ncesandcompe.nsatio n claims re:lated to these
disorders·ranging from $ 13-20 bilLion annually.

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ond n;101e people cl ~lind Hisclororrt lniD "'"""'-'life. olong with • host of
.................. polillal ond economic expectations.
E-. a INJ their need for cultunlf Identity,
~ ond Latinos living hfle have modified
Amlrlca'1 cl its own national ider)tily ond have
hod-lind wll a&gt;nlinue to .__., enormous lmPICt on our llwed cullln. "Our purpose here, • ~
C'nda. "lllo llln&gt;e cl the fundlmenQI Issues
IK8I by HiTplnla ond lalh&gt;J "*Y· Their presence
IIIII impld o n - JOCiely c:onnot be Ignored
ond their vo1ues,- ond righU must be talcen Into
- - b y t h o - papullllon It large." .
He pointed out INt. contnry to the opinions of
mony, l...ltlnc&gt;-HIIp tull1ft Is for from homoge. _ made up a · it Is cl clff..-.nt origins, races,
llnguoges, ~ polillal olllliotions, wstoms,
llldollllllludet, phy5lcal oppeorances, cllsses, eco- l i n d wtes. Partldponu will
diJcusl how the concerns cl thb diverse population

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ore p.yed out.aoss Hngulstlc lind cultural lines, In
gender ond fwnily roles, ond In cultinJ structures.
The t.pe.~kers and commenutors will lndude
~. Rodalfo 0. de Ia Gatu cl the Univenity o:
T-llAuslln, john ladd cl.._, University, Ofelia
Schutte cl the Univenlty of Florida at Gainesville,
Pablo de Greif! of UB, Wolter Mlgnolo of Ouke Univenlty, Suzonne Oboler of ..._, University and Iris
Young of the University of Pittsburgh.
· P.ukla Donovan

UB )5, Mor1an State 17
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158 yards~ ;ond quoneri&gt;ocl&lt; Cad
5olsluy ( IJ.d. I&lt; lor 270 yards~
The two combined for three
passes that resutted in t.ouchdawns.

fndudioa a Sl-yard bomb :a.t 4:35 in
the first quarter; Watkins " three TO
receptions wu a career-high for the
senior tri-aptaln.
Rumirc- Demel&lt; Gordon.
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Sdmicll earned his fnt careet" TO on a 13-ymj n.11 boe r. the dird. Sc:tvrd Fnshed
wltt1 35 yards rustq.- Ubck Josh Roch added 63 yards on 10 ames.
)o.nio&lt; linebadce&lt; Josh Trexler led the defense lor COld&gt; Cnog Ort&gt;us'
squad wtth 1-4 addes. Cornerback Carlos Spmcer and linebac:Jt.en AntoniO
Perry and Chris Shetly tud nine nops each, vwt.lle defenshoe lineman Sob
Dzvonkk added eight tadde:s and a quarte~ck sack.

Volle~uall
UB 0, Northern lllinoi5 3

Obituary
Gustave P. Milkey, 81,
associate clinical professor of surgery
A memortaltervke was held Oct. 9, in Kenmore
Un ited Methodist Church for Gusta ve P. Milkey, a
retired surgeon who had served as an associate clinical professor of su rgery at VB. Mil key. 81, died Oct.
6 in Kenmore Mercy Holpital after a long illness.
A 1939 graduate of Syracuse Univ&lt;rsity, Milkey received his doctor of medicine degree in 1943 from the
CoUege of Medicine at Syracuse, then interned at Buf·
Iillo Gen=l Hoopital. He served as a captain in the Army
Medical Corps from 1944-46, when he returned to

Buffa.Jo, where he served as resident surgeon at Millard
Fillmor&lt; Hospital and E.J. Meyer Memorial Hoopital. He
opened his surgical practice in 1950 and retired m 1987.
A member of numerous medical o rgani7.ation::., he
was certified by the Ameri can Board of Surger y and
was a fellow of the American College of Su rgeons.
Survivors indude his wife, Janet; a daughter, Susan Elaine
Cronin of Syracuse; a son, Edward G.ofDes Moines, low.i.;
two sisters. Elaine Gregory of W'ddwood, Ha.. and Ruth
Austin of Montague. Mass.. and four grandchildren.

Philosophy Colloquium

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Brian a..tchaldt. Haup&lt;man-Woodwanl

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ZodWtque Dance

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Introduction to the GNU Ern«S Ecfltor
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call645-35-40.

UB 0, Eastern Michigan 0

scoreless, double-overtime grudge match
In the game a.ga•nst MAC competrtor Toledo. sophomore ~ Paula
Ustn m scored on the fim shot of the pme to sui the vK:tory for Coach .fun
Tassy's squ&lt;~d. Freshman goalkeeper~~~ Acbms r-Korded her fourth shutout
of the 1998 ~tgn in the win
Acbms made I-4 stops '" the scoreless match &lt;J.Pinn MAC force bstem
M•chlgan on Oct. II

UB 2, Hioun i (Ohio ) I

The men's soccer team dropped its Oct. 9 home match apinst ~wdcy. 4-2.
and tTiumphed ewer visiting Miami (Ohio). 2-1. in OYertlme.
•
Aptnst K.enwcky. sophomore forward Sreve Butcher, the MACs top scorer

(I) goals. four us•su). and freshman forward Pnin McC&amp;llion netted goals for
the Bulb '" thetr fin:t MAC loss of the 1998 ampa~gn.
On Oct. I0. Butcher netted the overtlr'ne pme-w~nmng goal to SKure d'M!
MAC VIctory for Coach }ohn Astudillo F~hman Luke &amp;.kun scored the goal
dut evened up the game tn the fin:t-half

Noon and 1-3 p.m.
Creative Craft Cen~ Is located at 120

2!;. ~~~=aii64 S2'1 3-4, ~ 1-Sp.m.and 7-l Op.m

LfOSS LOUnt~

Mari: Dean Yea's installation, El
Gloominator, is described as "a great
liquid tHob hurtling th~~e and

The men"s and women ·s cros.s country team; paroc~ted tn the Albany
lnvra.tiON.l on Oct. IO.The women placed second (9) pomn) out of 19 squads
Senior Jen Folckemer was Coach Otck &amp;rry·s top finiSher ( llth. t9·l2). Juntor
Marie Macander followed closely behind sophomore Eileen Rose as dley
finished 16th and I Sth. ~pecuvely
The m~·s squad accumulated 205 po~nu for a stxth-pbce fintsh out of a
field of 22 teams Freshman John Fnm pbced )Oth for the Butt's top finiSh

acryfk: mural, whtch coven all lour walb
of the Ughtwell Gallery, was inspired by
cartoon, pop art and :;/!ressiom!.t

BrieBy

Exhibits
Mar1c Dean Veca; EJ Gloomlnator

~twT~~~mg:.O: ~

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through june, 1999

Dept. of Theatre
and Da ~. Center
fortht!ArtsDr.una Theatre. 8
p . m . ~PubiK

ItO, Student&gt; 15
For m&lt;n intonnatK&gt;o, call 64S-ARTS

II. 2....o4 p.m. RegiJtr1tion and

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UB I, Toledo 0

The UB Bulls women's soccer team bb.nked VISiting T~ 1-0. on Oct. Bto
smp a three-match \osin&amp; str"Uk and tied mltinz. Wt.em Mich~ tn &lt;1

UB 2, Kentucky •

Thomas Hobbes: Telling the Story o f
the Sdence of Politio. Prof Anal
Biletzki. Israel. P~rlt 280. 4 p m fa r
mo~ information, c.a11 judy Wag~.
6-45-2444, ext . 707

The Urb.nlsm of Dlstrkt Sl.w:--Capoe
Town, South Alrla. Ia""" O,..tt
Gal~. 335 Hayes. 9 a.m .-5 p.m. free .

~occer
WOMEN' S

MEN ' S

Events calendar

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Thursday

UB 0, Ball State 3

The 'NOfllen's YOIIeyball team was unab'e to get a Mld-Amenc:an Conference
wtn vwtlile on the road Uus .....eekend, los•ng in nn.ight seu to bcxh Northern
IIUnois {7-1 S. 8-1.5, S-1 S) and &amp;ll State (2- 1S. 7- 1S. S-1 5)
freshman ouWde hitter K.eri Shiels had I I kills a.p1nst Northern W1no1S and
12 ~mst &amp; II State and etght digs rn each match

Notices
Hour1 lor the UB An Gallery and the

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p.m .. Sundays.

Art Troftsltlons
Transitioru, an 6am1nat10n of the art
proc.en, wiD be on view Ill the An.

Art

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UB hosts guest media artists
for Asian film and video series
The Department of Media Study, tn w llahor..1110n \'' lth 1he A,1Jn
St udies Program, Lhi.s fall wiU present a film ..1nd ' 'Ideo 'C.'nc...,. ""l.tx•k..•n~
Asian," fea!Uring acdam1ed fu.mn -Arru."rKan and l..an.ldi.Ul mt--diJ .trt
t::.ts. The sencs will mclude ::.creenmp t•f award ·"'-1nntng and exr"-·n
mental films and v1dcos. wh1(h wiiJ be pr(.~ntt-d t-l\ the.· ~uc.~l ,lr\hh
The works explore 1ssues ol As.an 1dcnllly. fcmak -.uhlt'\.."11\'ll\ . ga\ 't:\ U
aJity, cnvironmental/socJal actiVISm and ltngt.'nng hurd en.:. lll h1,tnn
They arr" armada-A Valley Rises" h' Ah Kanmt, to he.- ~m"ff 1o..:l.t\
"'Sniff.'"Sianted Vts1on,'' and "M)1.h t~)ul C:reanon'' ~ ~hng. Yut'fl '\ \\.1
on Oct.29 and "Strawberry Fu~ds"hv Rea "lat•n on r-:\1\ lt.i
l"he scret.•mngs. frt."C and open 10 tht" puhh~..-. \.,'llJI"k"g.lfl .11 - p.rn. 111 tht
Screerung Room tn the Ccr11er for the Art.\. !x'flo courdm.attll L' tndcpt•n
dent video maker Richard Fung. UB \1SIUOg professor of nx·l.h.a ~1\h.h bung,\
own award -wtnrung '"'urk has bt.-en shCMn at nwll(."TmL~ rilm and Vldt't •
fesuvals and an centers.. For more mfonnaoon. c.1ll N ;-t'1'Kl:!. ext 14~4

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Octoberl~l!HI/Yol. :ll. lo. H

his film . Screening Room,
Center lor tho Arts. 7-8:30
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UB's Convocation

PA(;E 3

Overturning assumptions about
rognitiw functions ifmen, '"""""

October 8.1!91/ ti 30. No.7

Lunch
with
Ludwig
More than 100 people
enjoyed the music of ludwig
van Beethoven as the Cassatt

SUing Quartet performed
Monday in a lunchtime
concert in the atJium of the
Center for the Arts. From left
Muneko Otani, )ennffer
Leshnower, Michiko Oshima

and Kelley Mikkelson.

Wright named dean of medical school
Performance as interim dean, focused leadership cited by Headrick, Bernardino
lly LOIS IIAIWI
N~ Services Editor

OHN R. Wright, interim dean
of the School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences since
fan . I, 1997 and chair of its
Department of Pathology for 23
years, has been named dean of the
school, effective Oct. I.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick, m
announcing the appointment,
praised Wright's performan ce as

interim dean, citing his ..extraor·
d.inary job in the most cha11eng
ing of times for medical schools
and health care in general.
" His wide knowledge, perceptive
understanding, openness and resoluteness have made it possible for
the university and the m edical
school to move forward toward
fundamental changes during a difficult period ," Headrick sa1d. Ht'

added: "I look forward to his con- after 2 I years m the combined
tinued help and guidance through ' post. He continued to serve as in the thicket of concerns affecting terim dean following the appoint health care and medical schools."
ment this past A.pril 1 of BernarMichael E. Bernardino, vice dino as vice president for health
pr~ident for health affairs, praised
affairs.
Wright as well .
Headrick sa1d the dt:CISJOn to
.. John Wright demonstrated his
forego a forma l
devotion to the medical school by
search for the posi tion .. wa~ pre servi ng as interim dean during a
very turbulent time," Bernardino
nuscd on the m
scud." His wisdom. thoughtfulness,
escapable need
and honest and focused leadership
for co ntinuit y of
en hanced my transitiOn 10 the
leadership at th1~
university. and I look forward to
cntica l
tJilH'
working wuh h1m as we stnve to
while hn~pttalll
fulfill the miss1on of the mediCal art' under rcMgamzatton, health
school and universi ty."
~.a r c IS under fi nanc ial pressun:!.
Wright was nam ed Ulfs 1ntcnm and SUNY I!« m transit ton to a nc\'
v1cc president for clinical affair~ finannal system:·
and dean of the mt'dJCal schoo l cf
Wnght rect• Jved hill mcdKal dt·
fcctive Jan . I. 1997, followmg thl· ~rt't' from the U ntvenJtV ol
resignalion of John P. Nau~hton
1\1.1nttoha tn Wtnrupt·g tn 1~54

He interned and was a resident m
tnternal medi cine at Winmpeg
General Hospital and in pathol -

ogy at Baltimore City Hospitals.
completing his res iden cy in pa thology at The Buffalo General
Hospital ( BGH ). He also was a
National In stitutes of Health Fel low 111 endocrmology at BGH and
recetvcd a two -year Buswell hi
lowshtp from UB tn 190 ~ h7 .
whtch he spent teachmg and con
ductmg research .
1-f t~ returned to UR 1n 19 7 4~n
cha1r Jb Department of Patholog\
dfter se rving se ven yean on tht·
pathology falulty of The John'
Hnpkms MediCal School. He rt·
matned ( h,m of ht ll dcp.Irtmcnt
until hcmg namt•d mlt'nm dt'.tn .
Hl' also wa~ ht'ad l'l pJtholog \ .11
Bl;Jt durmg t~o' c n .• ar'
Contlnue&lt;d-p..-411

UB moving forward on academic plan
BY SU£ WU£TCHU

News Services Associate Director

T'S BEEN nearly 20 mo nth s
since Provost Thomas E.
Headrick presented his aca demic planning documl'nt
to the UB co mmunity.
The release of the document.
which outlines the cha nges-both
admin istrative and philosophi cal-t hat Headrick says thc unt
versity must undergo if it ts to be co~e a premier public -research
institution, stirred up the campu:o.
like nothing clst' in rt' ant
memory.
But the dust appears to havt•
settled, and the university is m ov·
ing forward , with the acadt"nll
planning document serving as a
blueprint of the "investments" UB
must make in the: educationaJ portion of the en terprist'.
The university is making steady

I

progress 1n implementtng th e 111
tllt ratton . The mes-'&gt;..lgt~ nl the.• 'tatt'
dividuaJ goals detailed in the plan. nu-nt~lutlmtng UR'~ vt.smn for Jt.;
according to Headn ck.
lutur
will he that"llR Ill a l.Om In fact, he says. in five yt:ar.; LIB prehenstvc . puhltl., n·search . fl.1~
wiiJ measure up to those goal:-..
.;h lp UlllVt'rslty; a Strong_ UOIVt'rll lt\
And when it does, '' I thmk \Vl.'lJ
that IScompetitive wtth C\t hl'T g()(KI
get a recognition
put'llic univer~Jttt&gt;!&gt;
wlthtn New York
and Ill wol·fullv
State that wt' are a
undt·rfundcd:'
kt')' part of the eco Prt's1dent Wtll nomic rebirth of
tJm R. &lt;:n:•ncr'~
our region 111 Nt"w
VtSIOil fur l ' R
York and (in } sm
place.!&gt; tht· umver
tammg the gcneral
HCONO ARTIClE IN
sity on a par wtth
A
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A
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c.·~onom t ( developthe great Mtdwest ·
ment nf the state ."
t'rll unJversJIIC\ ,
he sayll "That 's cntJCall y impor- such as the Umverstt)' of Mtchigan
tant for New York , as wdl as for or tht' Univcrstt y of llhnol ll at Ur
defimng the role of the university:' bana · Champaign-u niver stl leS.
The rolc of tht university. (;reincr notes, that prov1de cut ·
Headrick rtXcntly told the Faculty tmg -&lt;'dge resea rch and public !&gt;c:r
Senate, is being detailed in the mis
VICC, in addition to superb aca sion review statement that is bemg demics.
prepared for SUNY central ad min
Headnck's vis1on i~ a m 1te nar -

INVESTING
IN ua·s
FUTURE

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H. Wllllllll'l Coles is chair of the Professional Staff
Senate and associate director of the Educational
Opportunity Program at UB.
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members. What is intended to be areas are well under way. We also

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I've been at the university for quite
a while, entering as a freshman in
1965. As a graduate assistant to
Bud Kuntz in the early 1970s, I had
the good fortune to work for him
and Helen Wyant as they and others established the Professional
Staff Senate. Interestingly, we were
called NTPs, or non-teaching pro·
fessionaJs, at the time.
Recently while working with
PSS past chair Michael Stokes, I
became impressed again with the
importance of PSS at UB and the
opportunities it offered all profes-.
sional staff to have an active role
in what happens at the university.
With the encouragement of
Michael and Henry j . Durand, di rector of the Center for Academic
Devdopment Se rv ices/Educational Opportunity Program, I
decid~ that it was my tum to contribute to PSS and UB.
What •re your priorttle1 for
PSS7

Increased information flow to
professional staff, better communication among staff and more
visibility for the Professional Staff
Senate (PSS). Within any organization or, for that matter, within
any family, there arc usually probJerns with communica tion among

expressed is frequently not the

would like to work on less formal

message received Even under op·
timal circumstances and with the

and structured arrangements

best

inteotio~

information in-

where professional staff are able to
work and train in offices other

tended to be delivered is frequently
not done so accurately, completely

than their own for specific

or in a timely manner. The results
can range from confusion and re-

Senate and Faculty Senate arc

sentmeflt to alienation and anger.
To increase the flow of informa·
lion to professional staff and promote communication among staff,
PSS has expanded its Web site and
is in the process of establishing a
listserv of its 1,600-plu.s members.
The Web site will contain: the
names and addresses of all officers
and senatoro; the dotes, times and
locations of meetings (general
membership. senators', areas and
committees); minutes from past
meetings. and the charges, members and minutes of all committees.
The listserv will allow all interested

members to receive and to respond
to messages from fellow staff, sena·
tors and offi.ars.

1am very inte rest~ in continuing PSS efforts to establish and
promote professional development opportunities for staff. Thit
has been very successful in University Services, thanks to the efforts
of Senior Vice President Robert ).
Wagner. Plans to extend it to the
vice presidential and the provostiaJ

projects. The Professional Staff
working closely to establish train·
ing prognuns for administrators
and mentors.
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about the proportionolly few
numbers of professional staff relative to faculty and to total num bers of employees and students.
UB ranks very dote to the bottom
in -profesaionaJ staffing relailire to
other pu'blic Mil institutions.
This has potentjally seriou.s impli·
cations for workload, opportuni·
ties for professional development
and stress.

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is one of only a few such organizations in the nation. It provides
an exaUent opportunity for pro-

fessional staff to play an active role
in the policy decisions at UB. PSS

is a forum for =hange of information .and ideas.
Professional-staff input and
imolvement is vital to tbe community. A5 staff,..., ba.e to take
tbe time and .,.U an effort to
·express our opinions and concerns. What professional staff
think and say are importanL We
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caring and appreciative atmosphere at UB.
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to welcome: new staffand to provide them with supportM con-

tacts or mentors. Also. more
should be done to~
staff when they leave tbe university. It would be nice, when pos·
sible, to pobliciu, as appropriate, the names of those planning
to leave so that the university
community can express its appreciation and say good-bye. UB
is such a big part ofour lives, staff
arrivals and departures are noteworthy events and the interval

in-between, short or long,
should be as productive and rewarding as possible.

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UB institute launches State of the Region project
Task farces will define and mmsure regional performance in the Buffalo-NUlgara area EiJ
a,
planning, publi c safety and reTask force leaders are:
Over the next few weeks, wkSUE WUETCJWt

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Servkes Associate Director

A

new project to define
and measure regional
performan ce in th e

Buffalo-Niagara area is

under way in the UB Institute for
Local Governance and Regional
Growth.
The Stau of the Region project
wiU develop a series of regional
indicators to track changes over
time, highlight patterns within the
region and support comparisons
with other areas. For each indicator, the project wiJI not only mea sure performance, it also wiU propose goals for progress and develop
strategi es for reaching those goals.
The institute wilJ compile and
distribute State of the Region reports as a practical working ref·
ercnce that can be updated as new
data become available. It also will
issue an annual "re:gionaJ progress
rePort .. in each subject area. As
consensus develops around goals
and action steps, the institute will
promote efforts and partnerships
to achieve specific regional goals.
Project plans call for formation
of State of the Region task forces
to define and meas ure performance indicators for II areas of
regional significance: economy,
education, environment, equity,
government, health , human services, information/ technology,

gional assets.

.. The State of the Region project
responds to the overwhelming
net'd for regional accountability,..
noted John B. Sheffer, II, director
of the Institute for Local Governance and Regional G rowth . "This
project will help us determine
where we stand, where we want to
be and how we can close any gaps."

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Each 12 - to 15- member task
force, representing substan ti ve
expertise and a range of perspectives, will consult widely to de velop measures, evaluate progress
and propose goals and action
steps.
Community leaders who are
knowledgeable in th e respective
task - farce fields have been recruited to head the gro ups. "It's a
dream team ," said Sheffer... Eleven
of the region's most respected and
engaged people are leading the
task forces and, to a person, they're
co mmitted and enthusiastic."

• Economy: Marsha Henderson,
president, Western New York District· Key Bank
• Education: Muriel A. Moore.
president, Buffalo State College
• Environment: Errol E. Meidinger, director of the US Environment and Society Institute and
professor of law
8 Equity: Lana D. Benatovich, executive director, National Conference for Community and Justice,
Western New York Region
8 Government: Mary Lou Rath,
New York State senator
8 Health: Donald W. Rowe, pub:
lie health director, Genesee
County Department of Health
• Human Services: Robert M .
Bennen, president, United Way of
Buffalo and Erie County
8 Information/Technology: David
M. Straitiff, president, InfoTech
Niagara and president and CEO.
Syrinex Communications Corp.
• Planning: Gail Johnstone, executive director, Comm unit y
Fou ndation for Greater Buffalo,
and former director of planning.
City of Buffalo
8 Public Safety: the Hon. Michael
A. Battle, Erie County family court
judge
8 Regional Assets: Richard T.
Reinhard, chief operating officer,
Niagara Falls Redevelopment
Corp.

force leaders will work with the in·
stitute to select task-force members
from the eight-countyWestern New
York region and Southern Ontario.
The State of the Region project
will be direct~ at the institute by
Barry B. Boyer, professor of law,
and Kathryn A. Foster, usistant
professor of planning and director of research for the institute.
"Tbe focus is on measures that
matter to Western New York=, like
theperc:mtlgeo~NewYork·

en without health insurance, the per·

centage of area high-school and col·
lege graduates taltingjobs in tbearea
or the number of acres of productive agricultlU111 land converted to
nonagricultural use,• said Foster.
Boyer added that wk forces will
be asked to select .. no more than
eight to 10 indicators" per subject
area. "The challenge is to find rep·
resentative , reliable, results -ori ented yardsticks that the region
can use to measure and make
progress," he said.
Sheffer noted that the State of the
Region project will "begin in ear·

nest:"" in October, as task-force leaders convene their groups. Initial re·
suits are expected in Spring 1999.
More detailed information
and updates about the projeCt
~I be available on the institute
Web site at &lt;http:/ /r~~lon•l ·

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�October 8.19!11Nol. 30. lk1. 7

Men's brains, women's brains

Study overturns century-old assumptipns about cognitive JUnctions
By PATIUCJA DOHOVAN
News: Services Editor

In reviewing the few neuro imaging studies that have focused
on sex differen ces in cog nitive
function, she noticed that, despite

T

HE fi rst study to use
Positron Emissio n Tomography (PET} to compare the cognitive functions of men and women has fouild
definitive evidence that although in
many respects male and female .
brains operate in much the same
way, they function differently when
performing complex linguistic tasks.
Thjs con tradicts the assumption
widely held by neuroscientists for

conflicting results, the studies suggestM that functional differences
based on sex were more likdy
when the linguistic demands of
the task are greater.

Although the UB study set out
to examine that premise, Jaeger
said researchers were amazed at
the clear and consistent panerns
of differentiation that emerged.
PET scans were used to track

more th an a ce ntury that the
brains of women and men are or-

ganized functionally the same way
for language.
The study by UB researchers
strongly implies the existence of
other sex-differentiated cognitive
functions. It predicts a major new
direction in pure and applied research ·in neurology, developmental psychology, pediatrics, linguistics, aphasiology (the study of the
language disorders caused by brain
trauma) and other neurosciences.
The study, p.:Wiished in the August
issue of NturoReport, was headed by
Jeri Jaeger, associate prof&lt;SSOr of linguistics, and
Lockwood, professor of neurol
and nudear medicine, and adj ct professor of comrders and sciences.
1 e mb ers of th e
university's Cent for Cognitive
Scien ce, and Lock od is director
o f PET Operations in the Center
for Positron Emiss10n Tomogra phy, a joint project o f UB and th e
Veterans Administration of West ern New York Healthca re System.
The principal findings a re :
• In m en, the brain is o rganized
bi la terall y only for si mple i a n ~
guage fun cti o ns such as simp le
rea din g tasks. When th e task is
co mplex, that is, associa ted more
with grammatical or lexica l tasks
th at require in -depth linguist ic
processi ng, males show more ro ~
bust left lateralization of the cerebral cortex.
• In wo men , th e brain is organized bilateraiJy for both simple
and complex language fun ctions.
That is, regardless of the complex ity o f the task, females solve it by

engaging the left and right hemi spheres of the ce rebral cortex. The
higher ac tivation in females' occipi tal and/or cerebellar regions
suggests sex differences in basic
readi~g strat egies.
• Despite sex-differentiated vari~
a nces in neuraJ-act iviry patterns,

blood flow in the cerebral cortex of
nine male and eight female subjects
as they performed two simple and
three complex language tasks, Blood
flow in the corW&lt; indicates the ebb
and flow of brain activity. Th is

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there were no meaningful differences
in outcomes between male and fe-

male subjects as measured by speed
of performance and error rates.
The brain lateraliza tio n patterns
un covered in the UB stud y may
cor relate with sex- based differ ences in informati on process ing.
supe rior female perfo rm ance on
language tasks and superior per formance by men on visual-spa tia l tasks, accordin g to Jaeger.
She said th ey also suggest th("
need to develop gender-based re·
habilitation str ategies to tr eat
a phasia and ot her d iso rd ers related to traumatic brain injury.
Until now, the fundamental and
controversiaJ question of whether
the brains of men and women are

organized functionally the same way
for language has remained unan swered, despite more than a cenrury
of research in cognitive science.

Contradictory outcomes reported
by previous studies are due to the fact
that...,n when test subjects included
both men and women , researchers
usually did ,;ot analyze their results

by sex, Jaeger said.

methodofogy locates the specific
areas of the cortex activa!ed during
the performance of discrete tasks.
The researchers found that dur·
ing simple language tasks, aU sub-

jects demonstrated bilateral activity in the cerebral cortex (i.e., ac-

tivity in both the left and right cortical hemisph eres). Thi s indicates
that when solving simple tasks requiring awareness and judgment,
the brai ns of men and wo men op erate in a similar way.
During complex tasks, howt"Ver,

men exhibited strong left -lateralization, while women co ntinued to
de mo nstra te bilateral activation.
This finding runs counter to prevail ~
ing assumptions in the field that language is left- lateralized for t"Veryone.
The lo ng- held assumption that
language function is located in the
left cortical hemisphere is based
largely on brain studies of men ,
Jaeger said. Upon it rests a vast
body of research that models and
p red icts bram development, bt·
havio r and th erapeu tic processes.
" Unfortunately," she sa1d, "we've
had th e mistaken impres.s1on that
what we've learned from male subjects can be applied to women as well.
" In fact," she said. "virtually all of
o ur ideas about the brain from the

olec ular We lln ess"
will be di scussed by
phys io logy expe rt
Frank W. Booth in the lOth annual
J. Warren Perry Lecture at 4 p.m.
to mo rrow in the Screening Roo m
in the Center for the Arts on the
North ~mpus . Booth will review
the integration o f health -care re sea rch spanning the fields of molecular biology and epidemiology.
A reception will follow the lecture,
which is sponsored by th'?School of
Health Related Profc:ssions.
Booth, an editorial board advi sor on molecular biology for Exer-

ci.se and Sport Sciences Reviews. is a
Robert Gree r Pro fesso r of Biomedical Sciences in the Depart ment o f Integrative Biology a nd
Pharmacology in thi G radu a te
School of Biomedical Sciences at
the University of Texas at Ho uston .
He also serves o n the editorial
boa rd of the Journal of Applied
Physiology and is an editorial board
member and advisor for other pro fessional journals on physiology.
The Perry lect ure began in 1988
with a gift from J. Warren Perry.
founding dean of the School of
Health Related Professions from

Law school opens securities clinic
Recogn izing the Im portance of serving the localmvl'stmg com
munit y, mcludmg investors of modest means, the schooh of Law
and Management have opened a ~ecuntles C l1m c to prov1dr both
legal aSSIStance and mvest ment education to local mw:stur!'&gt;.
The d1nK, one of on ly thret· m the nat1on. IS a membe r o l the
Pilot Arbitration Securities CliniC Program spo nsored by th e L 1 . ~
Securities and Exchange ( ~omm•ss•on . Itt ~ the only clt ntc tn theSE&lt; '
pilot program that ha~ an Investment Education ServiCe destgn ed
to provide an unbiased education about th e vanety of mvestmenb
availabl e and how to evaluate whether these mve s t~1ent s met' l an
investo r's goals and objective~ .
The Investment Educatton SerV T(e will conduct regular pubh~..
semina rs on effective mvestmg tOpiCs and 1ss ue a newsletter address
ing effective investing and analyz in g new investment opportun1tu.·~
"The Securiti es Clini c will benefit both th e localmves tmg com
munity and st udents," sa id Cheryl Ntehols. ass1stan1 professo r ol
law a nd co-director of the cltmc with Joseph Ogden. assoctale prl'
fessor a nd chai r of the Department of Finance and Managenal F.t.o
nomi cs. "Investors will receive quality legal asststance and unb1
ased inves tment information , while stud ents wtll acqu•rc know!
edge and ski ll s in secu r i t ie~. a so ph•stJCated and co mplex area of
law and business."
Nichols said the clinic also IS tnt ended to compleme nt the recentl y
established Center for the Study of Business Transact to ns, also a JOint
effort between the law and management schools.
It also will offer a Dispute Resolut ion Service to prov 1d(" legal rep
resentation to in vestors who can not afford legal assistance m rt•
solving disputes with investment professionals wh o do not feel com
fortab le representing themselves in an arbi tration or mediation pro ceeding, and whose claims are too smaJI-$25,000 or Jess-to b("
pu rsued cost-effectively by the private secu rities bar.
The Dispute Resolution Se rvice will aid investors in resolving d isputes with investment professio nals thro ugh arbitration , medtatton
and the preparation of letters of com plaint to the approp riate in
dustry self- regulatory o rganizations and/o r government agenctes.
Fo r more i11fo rmation on the Secun ti es Clinte , contact Nicho ls at

645-3 193.

Eberlein memorial set for Oct. 16
A m e morial service honoring t h e m emo ry of Patricia Eberlem .
professor emeritus 111 th e Oepartment of Computer Soence, will he
held Oct. 16 at .l p.m: tn 250 Baird Hall .

Eberlein, who dted Aug. II. tamed UB's new Department of Co m puter Sctences 10 1967, se rved as department cha1r from 1981 -84.
and reti red 10 1986. Sh(" was the first and only woman to head the
department.

SEFA CAMPAIGN
PROGRESS REPORT
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School of Architecture
and Planning

10,000

8, 11 8

81 1

fields of neurology, psychology and

College of Arts and Sciences

110, 700

52,167

47.1

linguistics are modeled after st ud
ies of male brains., as are aU the ideas
on cognitive function in our text books. They will have to be re-evaluated, new cognitive models designed
and new therapeutic approaches to
women developed and tested."
The study co-authors are Robert
Van Valin , Brian W. Murphy, and

School of Dental Medicine

32,800

14,632

44 .6

Graduate School of Education

15,900

11 ,066

69.5

39.300

18.226

46.3

9,800

8,058

82.2

DavidS. Wack, all of UB, and David
Kammerer, of the University of Iowa.

lOth annual Perry Lecture to feature physiology expert
(( M

BrieBy

1966 until hi s reti rement 1n 1977
Perry's extensive wo rk m the field
of allied hea lth earned h1m recog nit io n in " Wh o's Who in the
World,""Who's \V'ho in the US."
and "Wh o's 'Nho 1n MediCmr and

Heah h Care:·
Poster presentations o l research
by health related professiOns fa.._ ulry members are planned pnor w
the lecture from 2-4 p.m . Ill the
lobby outside th e Sc reen mg R&lt;lom
in the Center for the Arts.
The lecture is free and open to
the public. No reservations art• rc ·
quired.

School of Eng ineering
and Applied Sciences
School of Health Related

Professions

School of Information
and library Stud • e~

! ,BOO

1.2 11

67.2

S&lt;hool of Law

15,100

7,241

47.9

School of Managem ent

24.700

26.040

105 .4

School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences
School of Nursmg

139,900

42,818

30.6

7,900

3,585

45.3

9,500

3,663

38.5

School of Pharmacy
Office of the Pres•denl

6,500

63

School of Social Won&lt;
UB foundation

4,500

2, 105

46.7

Student Affairs
University ServiCes

30,600

6,255

20.4

134,000

30.215

22.5

Emeritus Center
Vice President for Research

8,626

3.300
Advancement and Development 8,400
Public Service and Urban Affairs 21,200
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ERRY S. G r ant
called on administration ,
faculty
members and st udents to " make a
new commitment to community
and morale" during his keynote
speech at UB's fourth annual University Convocation on Oct. I .
G rant, who assumed the
deanship of the CoUege of Arts and
Sciences when it was formed in
luly, told a crowd of several hun -

dred of the "utter necessity that
every member of our university~
an active participant• in bring ..a
sou rce of suppon and energy."
During his speech in the
Mainstage theater in the Center
for the Ans, Grant focused on ac·
countability and UB's faculty.
"Progress," he said, "must ulti·
mately be driven by changes in the
facu lty culture. A need for this is a
heightened sense of accountability.
"Faculty, please listen ca refully.
It 's accou nt~bility to each other.
Not to the administration. Not to
SUNY Albany. So ]turn to the faculty and ask that each of you ask
the other that each member carry
a fair share of the load.
.. ft is a very simple matter,..
Grant added. "Everyone co nlributes, everyone gains, everyone is
equally obligated."
During the talk. Grant outlined
his own story, describing himself as
a "marginal high-school student, an
ill-directed junior·colfege studen t
and an atraordinarily naive uru~r­
sity transfer student"
However, he said, he was "transformed " by ..encoun tering professors who cared enough to be criti ·
cal and demanding in ways that
somehow challenged, rather than
rejected."
Referring to a recent report
from a consulting firm hired to
~aluate UB and its public relations, Grant noted: "Remarkably.
it reported t.hat the faculty and the
staff view more negativel y our service and our outco mes wi th our
stude nt s than did the students
who received our se rvices."
Grant compared the effort required of fa culty members to that
of a mountain -climbing team.
.. If I were here to cheerlead, I'd
be wearing a varsity sweater," he
added . "It is time to start climbing again.
" Imagine trying to move a
climbing team forward in which
various members arg ue, ' I don't
want to climb any more. I've come
this far, and I'm entitled to continue on wi thout further exertion.'
"Each of us mu st climb for ourselves, and yet each of us mu st
climb for the group at the same
time," he said.
''Because the university teaches
young people, and because we as
farulty enjoy positions-which. if
not the most lucrative in our soci -

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· - tookpwt ... - - ety, are so privileged in every other Nickerson, professor of pathology
way~ university constitutes trust.
and chair of the Faculty Senate.
"Therefore, its members have
Among those honored during
ethical rdponsibilities that greatly the convocation was Senior Vice
exceed those of the ordinary work- President Robert ). Wagner, who
place," Grant said.
was presented the United Way
Nowadays, higher education Leadership Award for Outstanding
"has lost iu cachet as a guaranttt Public Service.
of a job-a good job or perhaps
Also recognized were Wolfgang
any job; the dean said.
WOlck of the Department of LinHe warned of higher education guistics, namod 1998 Distinguished
becoming ..an industry" and also Service Professor, and J. Ronald
of a tendency to focus on ..creden- Gentile, a faculty member in the

tials rather than education."
Instead, the public-research university shouJd offer a "transfonna ti~ education" that leads to "intellectual growth and change." G rant
said. "We need to control the cost of
higher education. We need to manage our personnel and facilities bet·
ter. We need to reconsider many aspects of our values and praaices.
.. We are, indeed, well under way
on our journey at the University
at Buffalo," Gran t said. "And even
if the old axiom is true that 'You
ca n tell when you're on the right
road because it's all uphill,' we have
come a great distance."
Co mmenting on Grant 's message, President William R.. Greiner
noted, "We do need more, and our
way of getting that is not going to
be to hold out a tin cup. It 's going
to be work harde r and smarter."
The convocation was preceded
by a procession of faculty, staff and
administrators dad in ca ps and
academic gowns, from Founders
Plaza to the Mainstage. Accompanied by students carryi ng banners
representing ca mpu s organiza tions, the procession was led by a
bagpiper and mace-bearer Peter A.

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In addition, six faculty mem bers, two librarians and four professionolstalf members were honored as 1998 recipients of the
SUNY Chancellor's Awards for
Excellence.
Recognized as recipients of the
Chancellor's Award for Excellence

chMr of the FIKlllty Senote.

in Teaching were Rodney L.
Doran, professor of learning and
instruction; Michael G. Fuda. professor of physics; Philip G. Miles,
professor of biological sciences;
Richard T. Sarkin, associate professor of clinical pediatric. and
director of pediatric medical student education; M. Beth Tauke,
associate professor of architecture~. and Nancy P. Zimmerman,
assistant professor of library and
information studi~.
William Hepfer, associate li brarian in Lockwood Memorial
Library, and Ellen T. McGrath,
associate librarian in the Charles
B. Sears Law Library, 'were honored as recipients of the
Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Librarianship.
John M. Grela, diredor of the
Department of Public Safety;
Eileen L. Hassett, assistant to the
dean of engineering; Sean P.
Sullivan, vice provost for aca demic information and planning,
and Nelson E. Townsend, associ ate vice president for student affair s, special assistant t o th e
president and former director of
athletics, were recognized as recipien t s of the Ch a ncell o r's
Award for Excellence in Professional Service.

cer Institute Alliance Foundation.
NationaUy, Wright is immediate
past -president of the Association
of Pathology Chairs and a former
member of the National Caucus of

Basic Biomedical Science Cha irs
and of the admini strative board of
the Council of Academic Societies of the American Association of
Medical Colleges.

Department of Counseling and
Educational Psychology, named

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disbanded in 1997, serving as presi -

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Training system dft eloped at UB

Sci~ce puts·

Fall Foliage on the
World Wide Web DJ

swnnmers
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PHYSIOLOGIST ANDaswimmach
from UB ha"" devdoped a training
system that results in perfortnanc% imp!lMOliCrlls l&gt;w&gt; to three ~gJ&lt;31er
than those achieved by Division I mm'o swim
teams using traditional training mc:thods.
The system allows the coach to develop an
individualized, computerized program for
each athlete that measures his speed at vari·
ous stroke frequencies, charts his performance
and sets new perfo(manc.e targets. rather th.aJi
applying a standardized program to all.
This approach has been applied equally well
to other sports: Both the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres have used parts of the VB program
successfully.
A four-year VB swimming study, presented
dmd
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cent over four years, compared to a 1-3 percent im- tors energy consumption at variou s speeds.
Once the baseline stroke-velocity data are known, new
prove,ment by o ther teams in the conference.
"1 · is is one of the few models available of science and curves are planed, representing each swimmer's immediate
goal. The athletes are trained to match the higher
t
ology appued to sport researdJ and performance
in very specific way," said David Pendergast, professor curve (caUed ..shifting" the velocity-stroke curve in
of
iology and biophysics.
swimming jargon ) by increasing the distance the body
.. I the only program where performance in train - covers with each stroke, thw swimming faster.
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The light-pacing system comes into play at this june·
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alized tfainiilg and direct feedback to swimmers."

The program is grounded in scientific data obtained
through a "swim meter," developed by Pendergast and
Albert Craig, Jr., of Rochester. Training is enhanced by
using a computer-programmed, underwater, ught -pacing system . The pacing system was developed by
Pendergas~ men's swim coach Budd Termin and equip·
ment designers John Zaharki n and Michael Zaharkin.
all of VB. A patent on the system is pending.

Using the .. swim meter .. in a special ring -shaped
poo l in the Center for Research and Education in
Special Enviro nments, where Pendergast is associate
director, he and Termin clock each swimmer's speed
at increasing strokes per minute, and measure oxy gen consumption and lactate produdion. ( La ctate
acc umulates in muscle and blood during intense ex ercise and impairs performance. )
The data are plugged into formulas and transferred
to graphs, forming a baseline stroke-velocity curve,

are hitting their target training speed. The pacing system solves this problem .
A strip of computer -programmed lights is placed
at each meter along the training lan es on th e poo l
floo r. As each swimmer ent ers th e lane, the computer
adjusts lhe lights to flash consecutively along the lane
at the swimm er's targeted speed . If th e sw imm er
passes over the light as it flash es, he is o n the m a rk .
O nce the swimmer m atches th e new perfo rma nce
curve, another is set.
'"This method provides individu alized tra mm g for
each ath lete," Term in sa id. "That 's un ique. Th e m am ·
stream approach is kind of'one-si7.C- fit s-all." Rut th e
m echanics of each person are differen t."
Pendergast and Term in have been developing anJ
testing the system fo r eight years. UB m en usin g the
system have impro ved the ir stro ke freque ncy-velot ity rati o by as much as 30 perce nt ove r a coll ege ca
reer, Pendergast said.

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October Is arguably the loveliest month in Weste rn New Yo rk.
tha nks to an abu nda nce of rad tan t falJ fo li age. Duri ng this month ,
and o n mto Novem ber, the ent ire No rth east is ablaze wJth s pe~-.
tacular colo rs. Seve ral Int ernet sttcs can help yo u m a.umtZC' your
enjoym ent of th e seaso n With useful m fo m1a tion abo ut peak foliage
viewin g tim es, scenic travel ro utes, faU facts and fall festivals .
Autumn Co lors 10 Ne w Yo r k S tate &lt; http: / I
www.oleanny.com / Follage.htm&gt; prov ides at a glance the
dates fo r peak fa ll foliage in differen·t parts of lhe state. while
RoundTh eBend's Fall Foliage in Upstate New York &lt;http:/I
www.roundthebfttd.com/ nysfoU.html&gt; gives a region -byregi o n descriptio n of when and wh ere to view th e autum nal d isplay in o ur area. Autumn in the Adiro ndacks &lt;http:/
/ www.adlrondacks.com/ fallreport.html &gt; lists scen ic
autumn drives thro ugh th is vast pa rk land, as wel l as ca m p grounds that are o pen during the fall season a nd local fa iJ festival s-everything fro m apple fests to craft fa u s.
Fo r those of you wh o m igh t want to go out · of-sta te to expen enn·
fall in all its glory, Fall Colo r in th e Eastern United States &lt; http:/ I
www. ncnaturaJ.com/ Paric:way/ Faii-Colon.html&gt; lmk.s to reg10nal
fall informatio n fo r Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, West V1rgm la,
No rth Ca rolina and Michiga n. It also links to the FalJ Color hnder
&lt;http:/ / ncnatural.com / wfldflwr/ fall /ldgulcle.html &gt;, a n onl1nc
primer fo r autumn tree identifi cati o n. Ano ther excel lent reg1o nal Weh
sit e is the "Fall Fo liage" sedion of the M imng Co. Gurdr roN,,.,, l:n
glan d for Visi tors &lt; http: / / gonewengland .mlnlngco .com /
msubfoU .htm &gt; .
For so m e backgro un d mfo rmatt o n on t he soetH..t' t'wh1 nd th 1 ~
na tural ph e no m e no n , The C he m istr y of FaJl Co lo rs &lt; http:/ I
sdfun.chem.wfsc.edu/ chemweek / f•llcolr/ faJicolr.html &gt; pro vid es a succinct expl a nation of why leaves change th eir colo r. And
fo r sto ring up a ljttl e fa ll color fo r lhe lo ng wint er m o nths ahead .
Collecting and Preserving Leaves &lt; http:/ / www.cgs.clemson.edu/
~~es . htm•COLUCT &gt; p rovide~ step-b y-step instructio ns for pres!.·
mg leaves.
For assistance 111 con necr m~ co tht• Wo rld Wide Web, contact rl. e C IT
Help Desk at 645-3542.
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Schiller and Will Hepfer, Umvf'mty f.J branes

BrieBy
Weis to talk on lives of poor and
working class young adults
Lob Web, professor of education, Departme nt of l:.ducat lon.tl
Leade rshi p and Po licy. wil l disl." uss her new hook. "T he Unknown
C it y: The Li ves o f Poor a nd Work1 ng C lass Yo ung Ad ult s," at 4 p.m

today in 2 18 Bald y Hall .
T he book is based o n 154 m -dt.•pt h mtervtt•ws w1th poor and worl..

mg ·d ass white, l.a tin oll...a tma and Afrtca n · Amen ca n youn g men and
women. and focuse~ o n th e fr:.K iurt'd nature o f U.S. so~.· ie t y as tl en
tt.•rs the 21 :. I centur v

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will he fret· and open ttl the puhl tt.

Walker completes program at
State Police Academy
Edgar Walker, UB public safety officer, has completed d I )- wt"el..
prog ram a t the New York St.ttt· Po li ce Academ y.
Th t.• program focused on aJ m1 n tstrat io n of juSII LC, ha~11. Ia\.\', t..:llll
pus pt) hce p ro ced ure~ . firl'Mm~. defe nsive t actt c~. l." n mmalmvc,tl
gat io ns a nd huma n rcla tloth 111 a ca mpus set ting.
T he gra dua tion l't'rt.•mnm nn Aug. 27 wa~ the first tm StJ.tt' l !m
vc r ~ it y Ia""' cnfnrccmcnt nfli~.cr' ~mer the enat.:~mc nt ol le~1:..latum
cha ng1 ng th eir sta tm from pC.ht' nflila:.. to po ht.t· nffic~.· r ...md t'X
pa nd tn g their JU riSdi Ctltm to pur.,Ut" (flllllllJ I Inn·.,tJgatUlll:.. oft l•llll
pu~ a nd assis t o th er Iol-II ptlhlt' rnr c t.·~ .

PSS to offer workshops on
improving quality
The Professional Staff Senate w il l pre:.ent work:oohop ..

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Do nald Bake r. (llren or of tht" John 11. H rorn1 Centl'f lor Quaht'
and Appl ied S t at t ~ tl oo, Rol."hes ta lnst ll utt.· ofTe(h nnlobT)'· ....,,11 1g1w tht·
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T he M'CO nd workshop wtl l bl' g.1vc:n b)' Cecelia ( Cd.:e) ( ;nrJon . .Jd
va nct· services man age r, Xerox Ru smess ~ crv1ces.
Cost of ind iv1d ua l workshop:. ~~ $ 14; $24 for hot h. I.UiKh 1~ 111
d ud c:d . T he fc:e is non - refunda hle, bu t so m eone may attend tn your
pla(c. 10 reg ister. se nd a check made o ut to UBF/ Profess Jonal ~taft
Senate to: Profess io nal St aff ~l· n a t l· Office, 543 Ca pt'n Ha ll , No n h
Ca mp u!~. Bu ffa lo, N .Y. 14 260. for mo rt.·mforma ll on, ..:-all MS - 200~

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just "the beginning"
Headri ck acknowledges that
having strong programs in the arts
and sc ience~ is crucial to any rna ~
1o r university.
And although UB created the
Co llege of Arts and Sciences this
fall to do just that , forming the
college .. is the beginning; h's not
the end," he points out.
" We ca n't have a major univer~
stty unless we have strength in the
art s and sciences."
Once the administ rative reorganizatio n of the former faculties of
Arts and Letters, Social Sciences
and Natural Sciences and Math ematics is complete, there will have
to bt "some serious planning for
the arts and sciences as a whole"
that will emphasize some programs
more than others. he says.
"We'vegot to reviewwhere~are
and then make some more explicit
determinations about how each of
these areas is going to develop and
where we're going to invest, in terms
of maintaining and building real
strength and excellence in areas
where we want to maintain credible,
solid programs. but not necessarily
ones that are going to be outstanding on the national scene."
A stro ng program in th e art s
and sciences will aid UB's goal of
making the master's degree the
.. larget " degree. a standard that,
Headrick explains, will be expected as the nation moves into
the 21st century with a work force
that will require broader and
higher levels of competence.
In making the master's degree
the target degree for students entering the university as freshmen or
transfers, UB is .. trying to stake out
a place in higher education and in
SUNY; it would give us a very distinctive cast," Headrick says.
A combined BS/MS program in
medicinal chemistry already has
been approved by the state Depanment of Education, while proposals
for combined programs in math ematics, applied economics and
civil, structural and environmental
engineering are pending in Albany.
This strategy also would alter the
un iversity's enroUment mix to in dude a greater percentage of gradu - ate students, which would help in
stemming the recent decline in
graduate enrollment, he says.
Graduate education-particu larly on the docto ral level-received much attention in
Headrick's plann ing document.
And wh ile the documen t rec omme nded that one-quarter of
US 's graduate programs be in the
tOp q uaitile of the National Re search Council rankings, Headrick
says he now thinks at least onethird of the progr.tms should be
in that quartile, with a few .. well
up in the top quartile."
Mosl o ther major universities
rank about one- third of their programs in that range, with seve ral
in the top 10 or top 20. he adds.
But investing in so me doctoral
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Headrick points to faculty
members as playing a key role in
determining which programs to
drop and which ones to emphasize, since they should know where
student in terests, as well as demands in the job markrt, lie.
These types of factors have contributed to recent program consolidations, including the merging of
the Department of Computer Science and the computer engineering component of the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences
into the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, and the
soon-to-be merged Department of
Communication and the School of
Library Studies into a School of
Information Studies.
There are broad areas where UB
as an instit ution "clearly has a leg
up on the rest of the SUNY system ,.. Headrick says, such as the
health sciences, including the bi ological and chemical sciences, and
engineering.
"Those are the areas in terms of
academic research development, in
terms of translation of that into
meaningful contributions to the
economy and society, where people
are looking to universities to bemajor engines of innovation and contributions to the economy," he says.
UB's size fosters Interdisciplinary
actlvtty
Headrick notes that one of the
strengths of a mid-sized university
lilo: UB is the opportunities faculty
members have to work with colleagues from other disciplines, "devdoping new ideas. new knowledge
and innovations of one kind or an other that won't necessarily come
out of working within the tradi tional boundaries of the disciplines.•
Moreover, the diversity of UB's
arts and sciences programs and the
variety of professional schools
represented at the university also
encourage interdisciplinary activ ity, he says.
While that type of work already
is happening at UB, he stresses,
"we can do more."
Among interdisciplinary pro ~
grams recently established are tht'
Environment and Society Institute
and the Institute for Research and
Education on Women and Gender.

Initiii.'P,~ for both groups
came directly &amp;om the faculty.

In addition. the UB site of the
National Center for Geognphic Information and Analysis. a National
Science Foundation-funded center
devoted to the study of the booming field of geographic information
science (GIS), incorporates the
work of faculty members and
graduate students in a broad range
of departments. The university's
e"1phasis on research that crosses
disciplinary boundaries has helped
put it at the forefront of the fidd.
The National Science Foundation
just this month awarded UB a $2.2
million grant for a unique project
in GIS_ A ·new multidisciplinary
doctoral- level concentration in
GIS-believed to be the first in the
nation-has been established at
UB and starting next fall, approxi mately 18 fe Uowships of S I 5,000
per year will be available to doctoral
students in se-ven departments.
Headrick says that the committee that was formed to develop procedures and policies for the creation of interdisciplinary centers
and institutes has presented its ini tial report. That report currently is
making its way through various
campus constituency groups.
Opponunities to build interdisciplinary interactions with col ~
leagues and maintain important faculty in&amp;astructun. such as laboratory space, equipment and staff suppon, are kqs to investing in faculty,
both in retaining valued faculty
members, as wdl as bringing in topnotch faculty members with fresh
ideas and approaches, he maintains.
Investing In the quality of life
UB also is investing in its stu dent body. both academically and
socially.
On the recruitment front, the
Office of Admissions is making
more direct -mail contacts with
high -school students, as weU as
conducting telemarketing using a
computer program called Forecast
Plus to identify and personally call
prospective students who are considered more lilo:ly to enroU at UB.
It soon will open an offi~ on
Park Avenue in Manhattan to in crease the university's outreach to
prospective students in the New
York metro area.
The unive rsity also has insti-

tuted a merit -based scholarship
program to raise the profile of the
entering freshman class.
·
'I'M dfon appears to be paying
off. At the un&lt;krgraduate leY&lt;I, UB
this fall =-led itslllrgdS for both
freshmen-with a beadcount of
2,932, 132 shove the target-&lt;l!ld
transfer student5-1,683, 83 above
target- l~s the second year in a row
that numbers in both categories are
up. Moreover, the mean combined
SAT score for members of the
Class of 2002 increased II points.
to 1145, an improv&lt;ment that ad ministrators say faculty members
should sec in the classroom.
To improve retention once students enroll, UB has begun some
block registratio~small

groups of studmts in theprne sections of required oourses,-so they
•
get to know one ano'\er.
The university also lias expanded
greatly the number of S&lt;ftionsfrom 10 to ~f the "UB 101 "
orientation coune it offers each fall
to help more freshmen learn their
way around the university.
As the univetsity's chief academic
offiar, Headrick notes that his natura) focus is on the academic needs
of the students. But it 's also ex·
tremely imponanr to address their
other "support" needs, he adds.
"Truly one of the strengths of
having a College of Arts and Sciences is that we' re going to get
so me focus on how to, in total,
serve the needs of undergraduate
students, both their educational
needs as well as the other support ,.
needs of undergraduates in this
kind of environment (a large,
comprehensive university).
.. Without the students, there is
no reason to have a university."
The university is moving to add ress other ..quality of life" issues
in various ways, including the con ~
struction of housing-both
graduate housing with the
Flickinger Court complex on
Chestnut Ridge Road adjacent to
the Nonb Campus, as well as the
current projtct under way to build
undergraduate housing on ~ site
bounded by the Audubon Parkway
and Hadley and Rensch roadsand the upgrade of the athletics
program to Division I-A, to be
completed next fall with the move
of the football progrnm into the
Mid-American Conference.
Headrick notes that for UB to
move forward toward its goals, all
members of the university community will have to bt involved.
• we've all got to contribute to
improving, not only the quality of
this univtrsity as we know it . .. but
we've all got to participate in shaping the image of this university
that 6ts with our aspirations and
our reality, so that we are att-rac·
tive to students, so that when we
make commitments about what
wr'~ providing, we honor tho~
commitments to our students and
to our graduates," he says. "'These
are criticaUy important.•

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Lookingatangerinanewway ~ ~
qwyiRustingsiUdies why some individuals are more anger-prone
ll)r- ~

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RING her graduate

studies at the Univer-

sity of Michigan,
Cheryl L Rusting became fascinated with a particular
type of person: "somebody who
doesn't have strong emotions."'
•rve always wanted to know why
some people are more emotional
than other people,• said Rusting,
now a reSc.rch psychologist at UB.
Rusting found her niche in trying
to find out why people peraive the
world in diffmnt ways. "Why doesn't

everybody just ha&gt;oe th&lt; same reaction to a situation?" she said.
One focus of her current re search is on anger, which she describes as .. part of my interest
more generally in personality and
emotions."
The assistant professor began
her career at UB in the FaU 1997
semester, almost immtdiately after fini~Jling her graduate work.
few ~les on anger

With a focus on social and personality psychology, Rusting says she
"can't think of a particular tifQe"
when she was struck with an interest in emotions, or more specificaUy,
anger. Instead, there was a "gradual
realization" that there was relatively
little being done in the field.
Some people just seem to be "anger-prone," Rusting said. They perceive the world as provocative and
hostile. Also, they aren't as likely to
seek escape: from the emotion of
anger as they are from other"'nega-

tive emotions." such as sad ness,
guilt, nervousness and depression.
Traits of the emotion of anger
also sparked the interest of Rust ing because they seem so very different from those of other nega tive emotions. Anger is different
for two main reasons, Rusting said.
First, it 's ..outward directed." \o\l'hile
negative emotions such as nervousness, guilt and embarrass ment a re focused on the self, an ger seeks its target out in the world;
for example, in another person .
" When you're angry,.. Rusting
said, .. you're focused on something
else ...

Second, "Other
negative e:mot.ions
make you feel bad,
like depression,
where you want to
get ' out (of it). I
think it feels bad to
be angry, but some·
times people want
to stay angry; she
said. "I don't think
people have a desire
to get out of aq angry
like they .
do with other negative emotioru, RuJting said. •

TheBullsdu&amp;~oJt.tO

hole S.wrcby ond th&lt;n nearly
dimbed out cA ;c before biWlg to
Cornell )4-J ' · " Schoelkopl Reid.
The nllled behind the ....
~
"""'"" bocks Demdt GonJon
and josh Roch, u well as :a
speaawbr perfomw&gt;ce by junio&lt;

-Drew Hodclod.

GonJon rushed for • a,_--hicf&gt;

I 21 yards on f7 carries wit:tu
touchdown and Rc::JCh had a C:ll"eer·
hi(~&gt; 89 y.vds on IS came. w;d&gt; 1
score. f-bdd:ad.~.had

ni'ood."

stitute of Mental
Health, Rusting iJ

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Regulating ang er
.. How can you change that? "
Rusting asked. Enter a separate but
related part of her study, uprovtding effective means for regu lating
ange r and the judgments associ ated with it."
Two main strategies have come
to light, Rusting said. First, the dis ·
traction method focuses o n dis ·
tracting a person, by various
means. from angry thought s. It 's

believed, however, that this
method is not as effective as one
thi t introduces a •positive focu s..
into the scenario, Rusting sa id.
In the latter method, test subjects are persuaded to .. see things
in a different light ," Rusting said.
.. When you're in a good mood, it's
much easier1 to remember good
things," Rusting said. The opposlle
also is true.
Keep s research separate
Does Rusting herself get angry?
How does she deal w1th anger
personally? She would on ly say
that she tnes not to let her research influence her persona l life
beca use she's not yet solved thl'
problem of the best way to deal
with anger.
Before rece1vmg her doctorau.·
m perso nalit)· psychology from
the Univcrs1ty of Mtch1gan . Rust mg earned a bachelor's degree m
psychology from the Umversltv of
Ca lifo rn ia at Berkeley.
She is teaching several psychol ogy courses. including Introdu ction to Personality. Psychology of
Emot10n. Top ics in Emotion Re sea rch. Modern Person ality Rc
search and a sta tistics cou rse

Hour1 for the UB Art Gallery and tht

An TranSJhons.

Deon-.: B GloooNnotor
Mar\: Dean Yeca's installation. £1
Cloominator, is described as -a great
Hquid blob hut1J;ng through spac• and

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Second Floor Galleries, CFA, through
Dec. 20. Artists repres~nted uxluM

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Glavin. Greg Hefford, ~ren Hendenon,
Nestor Krug~. Luis Jacob, Susan K~ealey,
Anda Kubis, Stac~Laou.ster, Euan

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The Bul.lelboh;nd.31-l 0 on "' 8-yonl poss from Hood to Joe
Splendorio w;d&gt;l:.l7le4t .. the
mmol&gt;od&lt;.
Go.don C1Jt the leod to 31 ·17 when he scored from lour y.vds out with 12o56 left_
Roth. me.nw!llle, copped • 13-pby. 87 ·)'1.-d dri¥o with olour-yord bum for
hi&gt; . ; g h t h - ~the.....,.,"' cut the eom.u te.d to 31-24 w;d&gt;3 :36
~ Ha~ then electrified the crowd with his schocM-record return before the
BuNs ran out of time.
The Bulls rolled up ......... yards of meal offense on che day, wMe the Bta; Red
""d 439.The UB delerue wu p&gt;&lt;e&lt;i by fre&gt;hmon linebod&lt;er 8t&gt;ndon jonbn.
who ha.d a c:arMr-high I 3 naps. Senior AntontO Perry :added I I tx:ldes and a
forced fumble

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Volle~~all
UB 0, Bowtinc G reen l
UB I. Akron l
The women's -..olleyball teml dropped two matches on the road dlts week. one
1g11nst Bowling G.-.en (IS· 7. I S-11. I S·l I) ond the othe.-o&lt; Akron ( 16- 14. IS-I 0.
ll·I S. IS- II)
In ~tun:by's match With Akron. hshnan outstde ~ ~ Shiels. Ol!d US's
~for most lndMdual dig~ In ;a much With JO.The team bro6cr the school
~ for most dcp ., a matdl wfttl 122. The squad aka tied the Bdblo record for
most lcils 1n a match (70) and brola! the Bolts nurk for most digs 1"1 a match (Ill)
F~ middle hitter Heather Barfuss had I I kills in the loss ap~nst
Bowling GrMn on Oct. 2.

~occer
WOM EN 'S

UB 0, Northern Illi n ois 2
The women's soccer team was bbnked, 2..0. by host Nor-them llilnofS 1n a M1d
American Conference match on Oct. I Freshman goalkeeper ja1me Adanu
made I I stops 1n the loss

The men's and women's cros.s country teMns ~rtK:lplted 1n the No~ Dame
lrMtationa.l on Oct. 2. T_he women placed I 5th (385 poinu) out o( lJ squads.
Freshman Usa Luce wu Coach Dick B.tn-y's top flnishet- (67th. 18:21).
Sophomo~ Ei~ Rose foUO'Yrl'ed dosety and came in 69th wtth a orne of 18.28
The men's squad accumulated 197 points for a ninth-pl:acl!! finlsh out o( a
field of 16 teams. junior Patnek Nolan and sophomo~ Tony Chvld finished fifth
(21:34) and n1nt:h (21·48). ~- oot of an •m~s•ve ~ck o( 126 rui'VIf:n

p m . Sundays

Art Tr.nsltlons
an examu'\al1011 of tht an
proceu, will be on vtew 1n tht- Art

Exhibi

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Com~l took advantage of both Salisbury's mlscues to score a ~r o(
touchdowns.TniUn&amp; 7-3 In the second quarter. Nate Asdler stepped w-. front of

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Ugh"'"" c..y,

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a Salisbury pass and returned it 61 yvds to the UB 26.
T"'Hns 17-l . the Bulb bo&lt;.wlce&lt;i bock on 1 I l-yord TD strike from Sal&gt;&lt;burt
to ~d wtdl I:Jlleft.Howeoter. the Bi&amp; Red came back to repin a t'M&gt;
toudldown o&lt;Mn- before holf-dme on • 65-yord dri¥o ., 1M ploy&gt;.

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Interceptions.

high and low in anger-proneness--interpret sitDations and
events.
One of the initial
questions is, • whr is person X
more anger-prone than person Y?"
AIJ'of the results aren't in, but so
fur it's pretty clear that "people who
are prone to anger are more likdy to
interpm th&lt; situations they encounter in life as more anger-provoking.
or more hostile." Rusting said.
"What is it that's making them
more angry! We think it's because
they're really focusing on the perceived hostility of, (for example).
another person," she said.
Some current research involves
"giving a person a scenario that
could be interpreted in either way,
benign or hostile ." Not surpris ingly, people high in anger-prone ness tend to view the situation as
hostile or provocative.

Creative Craft Center is located at 120

Koudelka, host, at 64S-J...489.

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and a touchdown. His schoo'-rec:ord
J9pmes.Botiaa.....-m.Buls
94-yard poot retum widli:03 to
to .. - - dl-2 for the
pby puled UB to withon 34-J I
A.fter a failed omtde lodr:
attempt. the 8otk held Comet! to
-2 y.vds on th,... plays to 10' the boll bock wnh JO seconds ............ Aite.- 1
21-yard pass to Haddad. the Bulls'lut-dnd1 effort ended u. the pas
quarterback Chad Salisbury wu intercepted on a "'1-bil Mary" attempt. Saltsbury
finished thepne 21-of-"12 for 224 yards With one touchdown and three

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BrieBy
Schussmeisters Ski Club to begin another season
Schussme1sten Slo Club. beg1nmng 1ts 38th ~e a.wn . ~~ not 1ust tor US \ tu
d ents. UB faculty, staff and alumm and th~r ram1he1 are 10v1ted to fOIO the
d ub, whiCh offers slo•ng 10 tunes a ~
The club often daytime skiing on altemat~ng Mooday-1 and fhuf"Ktdy\ dl
Kissing Bridg~ and Hofiday Valley, Tuesday and Saturday ntghu at Ktl$1ng
Bridqe, Wednesday and Fnday mghts at Holiday Valley. &gt;.Jturday .md Sunda\
days at Tamar.tek. altemat•ng Monday and Thursday mghu at K1u1ng Bndgt'
and Holiday Valley
Out-of town-tnps and part1~ also are planned
Membership prices are· Faculty, naff and alumm S14 S (after Oct lO
S 155). Fam1ty memben S 155 (after Oct 30, S165 ) llh tK.keu are 1nctuoed 1n
the membeml•p fee Bus transportatiOn IS prOVIded trom both c ampu~ ror
Tuesday. Wednesday. Fnday and Saturday mght skung Rental ~ and leuom
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ProspectJYe members can ugn up 10 360 Student Umon. Monday\ trom Q
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Men's loa•
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p.m. frft .

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WhO WIH Pmfallln
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Unfv. of Queensland, Australia.
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Burkman at 64.S-3474 .
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U~ng the lldl101 Publk
Computing Lab. 1· 3 p.m .
Registration and S 10 deposit

~~'t~lr;:o~ information,

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only o&lt;eepted through the
elertronk submission form

for the on-line UB Calendar

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Economla Lecture
The Euro and the Dollar.

Fomlly- -omlng

lntemationallnc. 201 Natural

~;;~·Jn~~~o~~~t:m.

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Scieoc.. and Mathematics. 3:30-

V'E~~~~l

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Aru and SCiences. For l1lCit'e
infofmation, call Rent Hauser at
645-6000. ext. 11«.
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lecture Endowment For more
information, call Barbara Raft,
6&lt;45-6800, ext 2020.

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Using. the Wot1d Wiele Web
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Wotnen's Soc:c•
UB vs. Toledo. RAC fidd. 4

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Q&amp;A- Gmrge Lopos ~
challenges. changi;,g role for MFC.

PAGE 2

VB to offer new doctomJ program in
geographic information science.

October I. I!HI/ \tt 30. No.6

World

Stage

A record-breaking CIOYid
of more than 5,000 gave
standing ovations to Gen.
Colin Powell Sept 24 in
Alumni Arena during his talk

opening US's Distinguished
Speakffi Series. The former
chainnan of the joint Chiefs
of Staff gave an inside view
of major events on the wor1d
stage. (5efstory onpage5.)

·UB to be proactive in planning for future
Greiner sees great Midwestern universities as modelfor building an outstanding institution
cated along New York
State's westem ~ mos t
edge, it's still hundreds
of miles east of this country's heartland. Yet iiisthettinAmerica's Midwest-not on the East Coast, not in
New England-that President Wdliam R. Greiner focuses when he describes his vision for the furure of
the University at Buffalo.
When he looks into the first decade of the next cenrury and envisions the potential of SUNY's largest and most comprehensive campus. he does so comparing UB with
the ~t public universities of the
Midwest, such as the University of
Michigan or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These

are universities, he nores, that pro·
vide c:: utt ing-edge research and
public service. in addition to offering superb il~i&lt;;J.
As New York's only Midwestern style ~niversity, he notes, UB has
enormous potential to benefit the

people of Western New York and
the rest of the state.

Reaching that goal
will require strategic
investments in se veral areas; many of

which have been ini-

1

sive public universiues like UB."
He points out that the mission review statement being prepared by
Provost Thomas E. Headrickwhich Greiner prefers ro call a .. missionagenda"-willoutlinetoSUNY
ccntral'administration US's vision

for its future.
Headrick

re ·

cently told the FacultySenate thatthr
message to be sent

JNVESTJNG
UB S
JN
•
to Albany is that
FUTURE "UB is a comp re -

tiated in recent years
and others that are yet to come.
Greiner sees an acceleratio n of
opportunities when people ..grasp

hensive, public, research, flagship university; a strong
university that is competitive with
other good public universities and

what an instirution of that type

is woefully underfunded. We have

can do for the state. We have to
assert in New York the advantage
of having one or two comprehen -

established an exceptional record of
strengths and accomplishments,
given o ur lack of adeq uate sup·

port."
Greiner is even more succinct :
.. 'A'e're going to challenge the system to get on board with w ."
The- emphasis, he adds, will be
o n the state either allocating more
money to UB or .. removing barn ers in o ur operation."
He notes: "We're being aggres sive about the proposition that the
fu ture of the state turns on it ~
high er-ed ucation infrastructure:·
With the proper investments in
its future, Greiner stresses, UB ca•n
rise to the level of the great Mid ·
western universities.
RAM sets the stage for expansion
SUNY's new Resou rce Alloca tion Methodology (RAM ) is thr
li nchpin in UB's plans. The meth c~-,....,..

Fall enrollment picture is mixed
lly~PACOl

News Services Director

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NROllMENT for this semester is down 188 full time-equivalents (ITEs),
or 130 students, from the
targets budgeted for Fall 1998, but

administrators are stress ing that
the university is not experiencing
an enrollment problem.

repon , based on a "snapshot .. taken
on Sept. 18, shows that at the un ~

dergraduate level, UB this full has
exceeded its targets for both freshmen-with a headcount of 2,932,
132 above the target-and transfer students--1,683, 83 above tar~
get. It's the second year in a row that
numbers in both categories are up.

ter en rollments are not over-tar-

While the number of continuing!
returning undergraduates is 52 belowthetargetof 11,100, the shortfull
is significantly smaller than a yea r
ago, when it was 260 below target.

get by 188 ITEs.
"The university's fall enroll-

Nicolas D. Goodman , vice provost for undergraduate education,

ments overall are healthy," said
Senior Vice President Robert 1.

noted that there not only are 117
more freshmen oompared to last full,
but that the mean combined SAT
score for members of the Class of
2002 increased II points, to 1145.

Still, the campus may be faced
with reducing expenditures by as
much as $500,000 if spring-semes-

Wagner. "At the graduate level ,
some programs have not met their
target s and there are se lec te d

graduate programs that have to be
looked at and addressed. But it's
not like other years when there was
a 'structural problem.'"
In fact , the official enrollment

.. We have increased the size and

the quality of the class," Good man
added.
Sean P. Sullivan, vice provost for
academic information and planning,

said the largest shortfull this semester has occurred with continuing/re·
rurning students at the graduatelprofessionallevel, where the enrollment
of 5,544 is 256 heads below the target. N.ew enrollments at the level were
37 off from the target of 2,200.
The shortfall at the grad uate
level, be stressed , sho uld not be
viewed as an ac ross- th e-boa rd
problem, but one occurring in
"pockets" and focusing on a hand -

ful of programs.
A report prepared by Sullivan's office noted that at the graduate level,
three schools fell below their target
by more than 10 percent: School of
Nursing enrollment is 22J percent

management, health related pro·
fessio ns, and law-is over target.
David ). Triggle. vice provost fo r
graduate education and dean of the
Graduate School, said several fac ·
tors account for the shortfalls at the
gradua te and professional level.
Triggle, who this week attended
a national meeting of graduates..:hool deans. noted that part of
what is occ urr ing at US at rh e
grad uate level is a nationaJ trend .
..Graduate enrollments at many
institutions, but not aU, seem to have

plateaued off this year and appear to
be declining overall," he added.
The economy and favorable job

is off by 15.9 perccnt and enrollment
in the School of Pharmacy is 13.7
percent under target.

market are having a negative im pact, wi th some college graduates
who have obtained employment
not pursuing grad uate studi es and
some graduate students cutting
their studies short in favor of a job.

Enrollment in six units-arts
and sciences, information and li ~
brar y studies; den tal medicine;

~-,...

below target, enrollment in the
School of Architecrure and Planning

An unfavorable job market for
particular

ca r~ rs

..

also can have a

�George Lopos is dean of Millard Fillmore College,
which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. He joined UB
in 1995 from the Uniyersity of Iowa, where he was associate
dean of the Division of Continuing Education.
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Seventy-five yeats ago, the University of Buffalo recognized that
working adults and some "youths"
were unable to attend the univer·
sity during its traditional day session. The university created the
evening session, later renamed
Millard Fillmore CoUege, where
the non-traditional students could
study the business sciences and the
arts. Millard Fillmore CoUege was
created as an extension of the university and its mission was s-ervice
to the public through education.

I don't tliink so, either on or off
campus. On
MFC is still
seen by some as the traditional
"night school" that educated adult
students by cloning undergraduate
day prograDU and making them
convenient only by their evening
hours. This is a limited vi~ of
MFC. which is a "different side of
UB." In stead, MFC's programs
need to be redesigned to aaommodate the working adult's lifestyle
and learning sryles-we're talking
about more than just convenience,

"-hutheroleofMfC
cunged over the put 75
ye•n?

but serious reconsideration of

Fo r three-quarters of a century,
MFC has embodied the protean
spirit of the university. Changing
with the times. MFC has expanded
and contracted its mission accordingly. With the "evening coUege" as
its core, MFC has provided comprehensive oont:inuing education as a
division of the university With degr-. credit courses, non-credit programs. conferences and even served
as an administrative home for
WBFO. Gls returning from WW!I,
Korea, and Vietnam found access to
UB through MFC. Workers retraining for new jobs during Bulhlo's
economic downturn found MR: as
their educational home at UB. Today, MFC still serves the working
adult, but also the traditional day
student. Besides serving the public,
MFC has served the univer&gt;ity'senrollment management by acting as
a release valve for overcrowding in
the past and more recently supplementing day-course needs. [n some
ways. MFC's mission is not as dearcut aS it has been in the past.

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androgogy versus f'edstiogy, to use
a distinction developed by
Malcolm Knowles. As- for Western
New York, we&gt; have found an al&gt;sence of awareness, and some confusion among the public. We are
developing mark&lt;ting and advertising that focuses upon MPC's UB
connection--stressing it as a part
of UB, not apart from it. The gen&lt;ral public may not understand the
collegiate structure of a university-MFC is the only named college at UB. And the name itself may

cause some confusion too--we
have a local hospital by the s;une
name. It may be time to rename

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I su the MFC of the future as
worlrlng closely with UB's academic Coueges to offer a variety of
undergraduate and post-beccalaureate educational programs
through tnditional classrnom and
new distance-learning technology.
Mf.C will emphasize continuing
studjes and the extension of university programs, but designed for
special audiences. Continuing
education and university exten·
sion are institutional responsibilities shared by MF&lt;; and the
university's academic coUeges.

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MFC to more accurately describe
its mission and scope.

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thefutuN7

how will th•t
future?

ct..i.ge In the

If we exclude day students taking
MFC courses, the "true .. division

3 student is over 31, married,
working, with a family, and split
about evenly between maJe and
female, most of whom live and
work in Erie or Niagara counties.

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ex-

I expect it will, maybe not as
tensively~ some predict, but it will
be significant for those inStitutions
that commit to this tedinology seriously. The term "distance learning" is unfortunate because it focuses upon the wrong issue. It's not
distance but .,access• that is the es·
sential issue here. Whether through
lnt&lt;rnet (asynchronous) courses,

cable-television tdecoWRS or
real-time (synchrooow) interactive classes, the dWJenee is to
malr.e UB's courses aa:eaible to
studenu wherever they live.

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Among the degree programs,
management and enginc&gt;&lt;ring
are most populai. But there is
increasing interest in MFC's
certificate programs and noncredit sbort courses.

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The challenge for MFC is to
refocus itself upon serving
non-traditional audiences
with courses and programs
designed to meet their nc&gt;eds.
. We nc&gt;ed to decrease the dependence of traditional day
students upon MFC for their
courses. This is going to be an
even greater chaiJeoiewith the
impl&lt;rnentatibn of -new budgeting proposals curimtly under consideration.

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Possibly-wbat contribution .
can I malce to UB and its mission! During the time I spent in
Iowa," I came to appreciate the
contribution a great public university can malce to the public
good through its continuingeducation, outreach and extension programs. I hopethatMFC
can provide leadership at UB
and work with the academic
coUeges_to better ~trvethe public through continuing education and extension programs.

NSF grant to support new doctoral program
One-ofa-kind concentration in geographic information science to begin nextfall
By EllfH GOI.DIIAUM
News Sbvtces Editor

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campus,

I cxpc&gt;ct this student profile will
continue, possibly become older,
but with an increasing number of
students from other counties in
West&lt;rn New York .nd beyond.
Whereas today's MFC studmts are
talring undergraduate depea, I
expect that !heR will be increasing intereot in post-b.calaureate
certificates and degrc&gt;es. Student
demands will increase the nc&gt;ed to
provide short courses; modulardesigned, content-focused programs offered on weeunds, starting and stopping at times outside
the traditional S&lt;rnester system.

w multidisciplinary,
doctoral-level concentration in geographic
information science-.
believed to be the fir&gt;t in the nation-has been established at UB
with the suppo rt of a five-year,
$2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Starting next faU, approximatdy
18 fellowships of $15,000 per year
will be available to doctoral students in seven departments.
The funding, which also will support student research and the administrativr costs of the program,
wasawarded to UB's National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis (NCG IA ), one of
thrc&gt;e sites of an NSF-funded center that conducts research in geographic information science.
Out of 630 pre-proposals, the
grant to UB was one of only 16
awaoled under the NSFs Integrative
Graduate Education and Research
Thlineeship (IGERT) program.
Geographic information science

(GIS) is booming, according to the
University Consortium for GIS:
it's a $2 billion-a-year industry in
the U.S. and is expanding at an
annual rate of 20 percent.
Applications of geographic information science are addressing
important social pro~lems ranging from the handling of medical
emergencies, to fighting crime, to
monitoring agricultural crops.
Currently, almost every student
with GIS skills. even at the undergraduate level, gets a job in the
field; more pc&gt;nple with advanced
training are needed for positions
in both education and industry.
"This is a growing research area
that has a lot of important problems and there is an increasing
demand for researchers," said
David Mark, professor of geography at UB and director of the Buf·
falo site of the NCGIA.
In particular, Mark said, there
is an increasing demand for fac ulty in other disciplines who are
familiar with GIS.
While geography departments
are generally t.he home base for

GIS studies, Mark explained, the
field reaches into engineering, social science, philosophy, computing and beyond.
Doctoral students in the new
concentration at UB will take a
core of required and declive GIS
courses while they earn degrc&gt;es
from one of the seven participating departments: anthropology,
computer science, environmental
engineering. industrial engineering, philosophy and political science, as well as gc&gt;ngraphy.
"In terms of the breadth of our
offerings and the number of faculty involved in geographic information science, UB is easily
among the top 10 universities in
the U.S.," said Mark, who added
that the university's emphasis on
research thi\t crosses disciplinary
boundaries has hdped put it at the
forefront of GIS.
More than 50 faculty member&gt;
at UB in a broad range of depart ments are conducting research
that in some way relates to the science of geogfaphic information
science, a field that, by its nature,

m

is multidisciplinary, he said.
At UB, research&lt;rS are using GIS
to analyze patterns of crime in specific neighborhoods, develop suburban deer· management sot£...
tions and examine problems in
caring for the dderly when family
members live far away.
GIS researchert across the nation are particularly interested in
funding for a major new project
proposalrdubbed "the digital
earth" that was suggested in a recent speech written for Vice PresidentGore.
A kind of human genome project
for the planet, "the digital earth" is
envisioned as a powerful technological tool with the potential to
map scientific, environmental, historical, political, cultural and other
informi.tion tied to geographic louiions around the globe.
More information on the grant
is available at &lt;•ttp:/ /www.
-.buffalo.-/lgls&gt;. Wormation on GIS research is available at &lt; hti;p:/1-w.geog.
buffalo.-/ncg!V_and &lt;http:/
/--.ucgls.org&gt;.

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some students from pursuing rnajorlithat require them tohaveaGPA
of 2.5 in certain cowses in order to
bedigibletoenterthatdepartmenL
Calling the resolution "very valuable,"Mdvyn&lt;l&gt;urchill,pmfesoorof
chemistry, oot&lt;d that a student who

HE Faculty Senate Ex ecutive Committee at its
Sept. 23 meeting sent to
the full Faculty Senate
for a second reading a resolution
that would allow students to re- experiences academic difficulties is
likdy to "have trouble fomoer" unpeat courses in which they have
received a grade of C+ or lower. -t.ssheorsheisabletorepeat&lt;X&gt;WSeS.
Critics of the propo&lt;al have conCalling it .a resolution abo ut
"preparing students for the classes tended that aUowing students torecy need to take."' senators overall peat courses is unproductive, but
DonSchack,professorofmathematoiced support for the measure,
tempered by concerns that aUow- ics. noted that is only the case from
theviewpointof "producingdegrees
ing students to retake COUflies oould
rather than producing education."
allow them to inflate their GPAs.
Currently, u_ndergraduate stu de s may repeat courses in which
the
ive a grade of D+ or lower.
The . rst and second grades for the
~to getcourse are averaged in the student 's
knowledge they need In
grade-point average, an d credit
hours are counted only once.
Under the proposed policy, the
THOMAS SCHROEDER
grade oounted toward the student's
GPA would be the one earned the
Schack also voiced concern that
second tinle the course was taken,
by using the second grade in calcuregardless of whether that is the
lating a student's average, "calling it
higher score. Credits earned count
a GPA is misleading." He recom only once, and students may repeat
mended that these grades be noted
a given course only once, although
with an asterisk on the transcript.
there is no limit on the number of
Critics of the proposal also have
courses that may be repeated.
voiced concerns that the grade- reStudents "should be encouraged
placement policy would allow stuto get the knowledge they need in
dents to artificially boost their G PAs.
order to proceed" with their stud"This replacement is not free,"
ies, noted Thomas Schroeder, assaid William Baumer, professor of
sociate professor of learning and
philosophy and a member of the
instruction and chair of the Fac grading committee. " It is expen ulty Senate Grading crimmittee.
sive in time and tuition. On top of
The current policy may prevent
that , the impact on the GPA fo r

o ne course is not that significant ."
Raising the grade in one course
from a C to an A will boost a
student's G PA by only 6/IOOths of
a point, h e said.
"There are too m any speed
bumps that will discourage students from (repeating large num hers of classes in order to raise
their GPAs). We ought not burn a
lot of tim e and effon worrying
about th is," Baumer said .
Judith Adams-Volpe, directo r of
Lockwood Library, told senators
that she has .. significant problems
with the proposal " because it
"takes the burden" away from staff

and faculty members for providing good·teachingand support services. "'We arc, with this proposal,
ig noring our responsibility for
that kind of o utcome."
She added that the grade- replacement proposal should continue to
pertain only to grades of D and F.

.. The problem of where we set
the bar-Cor D-is an important
issue," said Schroeder.
Grades of C. he said, are not ad equate for continued study in some
departments. Mathematics. for example, requires an average of higher
than 2.0-above a C average--in
certai n courses for entry into the
major, aJthough according to un iversity policy, no depa rtment can
require a GPA above 2.5 fo r entry
into a major, he noted. For tjlat rea son, the cutoff for retaking courses
was set at grades ofC+ or lower.
The proposa.J will receive its sec.: ond reading at the Faculty Senate's
Oct. 13 meeting.

FSEC votes to monitor attendance
Thefaallty-Ex-~ iscrack­

ing down on senatofli who &amp;.ilto attend meetin&amp;'The FSEC voted at its Sept. 23 meeting to more
closely monitor attendance of the senate and the
FSEC, beginning at the end of the second full
Faculty Senate meeting of the semester, to be held
Oct.13.
" Last year, a number of times we didn't have a
q uorum and couldn't act (on resolutions),"' noted
Peter Nickerson, professor of pathology and ~n ­
ate chair. "The question is, how should- we deaJ
with the issue?"
Under the cliarter of the Faculty Senate and
the FSEC, " If an elected senator and his/her al ternate are absent from two consecutive meetings of the senate, or from three meetings during the academic year, without explanation o f
such absence satisfactory to the chair of the
senne ... or if an elected senator and his/her al ternate are absent from four meetings during the

academic year even with ex planation, the
senator's membership in the senate shall cease
(terminating thereby the service of th e a lt e rnate)."
The same respo nsibiliti es apply to sena tors
elected to the FSEC.
When requested to look at the iss ue of meet
ing quorums, the Senate's Bylaws Co mmittee was
asked to draft a proposal th at wo uld redu ce th e
size of a quo rum of the senate and the FSEC from
a majority of the voting members to 40 percent.
But the committee felt that the first step in ad dressing the problem should be strict enforce ment ofthe provisions of the charter, said Judith
Hopkins, technical services resea rch analysis officer in the University Libraries and chai r of th e
bylaws committee.
Hopkins asked that not ices be sent immedi ·
ately to absent senators to Stt what effect it would
have on attendance.
- CHRimNE VIDAL. Reporter Editor

The unlvenlty h•s received $350,000 from the National Sci~nce
Foundation as its share of a Sl.75 million grant to a consonium of
New York State research universities that will aJlow the group to hook
into the VBNs, the very· high -speed bac.kbone network service that
ti es togethe r the supercomputing sites in the country.
The grant would aid the consortium-known as NYSERNet-m
its NYSERNet 2000 Project. a partnership with the state to build a
high- performance network infrastructure that paraUels th~ Ne-w York
State Thruway and will provide connectivity to the VBNs from Nc'""
York Cit y to Buffalo, says Hinnch Martens, associate vice president
for comput ing and information tec hnology. Trave lers along the
Thruway no doubt have noticed the huge spoo ls of multi colo red
cables that were used to build the network, Martem says.
The VBNs is .. the way to conn ect the sta tes together mtn one net
work,n says Jerry Bucklacw, UB network engmeer and the umverstty'!!
engineering representative to NYSERNet.
Martens expects the connectiOn to be ready b)' May.
NY ERNet, which , in addition to UB. mcludes all pubhc and pn vate resea rch universit ies in New York State, was created a.s a not
for - profit o rganization 10 1985 to advance the usc of cuttmg-cdgc
networking techno logy to support resea rch and education.
A subgroup of NYSERNet co nsistin g of UB, Columb1a Umver
sit y, the Univers it y of Rochester, New York University and the Roch
ester Institute of Technology actually received the grant.
In addition, UB has joined lntern~t 2-t he .. next generation.. of thl·
Internet--a move adminjstrators and faculty members say will improvl'
and incr~ the scope of the university's research activities and keep
UB a .. player at the table.. wi th the top universitiC$ 1.n the coun try.
In ternet 2 is the new netwo rk being developed by a consortium of
134 universities to suppon research activities and other data· and
voice·co mmunicatio n needs that cannot be handled by the commer·
ciaJ Internet, says Martens.
The VBNs, which links the supercomputin g silo at such u mver siti es as Co rnell , Piusburgh and Illinois, has been called the '" fabn l ..
that weaves the Internet 2 universities togcthrr.

·Greater Niagara Frontier
Dental Meeting set for Oct. 8-9
Adv•nces In dental lmpa.nts, materials, techniques and producb
wiU be among the topics presented at the 2 1st annuaJ Greater Niagara
Frontier DentaJ Meeting, to be held Oct. 8-910 the BuffaJo Convention
Cen ter. The event is sponsored by the UB Denta1 Alumni Associa tion .
The program will begin each day at 8:30a.m. and continue until
4:30p.m. Members of the dental alumni association who have pa1d
their dues are invited to attend a pre-meeting forum from 7-9 p.m .
on Oct. 7 wi th dental school Dean Louis ). Goldberg, other mem bers of the schoo l administration and fac ulry members.

SEFA CAMPAIGN
PROGRESS REPORT
l

\t I \

Lilli(

Olllce of the Pl'cM&gt;st

School of Architecture
and Planning
College pt Arts and Sciences

&lt;... .. II

25,000

lo~II(II\IUI

lo&gt;ll\

4,201

L" II

16.8

10,000

3,29.1

32.9

110,700

28, 136

25.4

School of Dental Medicine

32,800

7,026

21. 4

Graduate School ol Education

15,900

4,38-4

27.5

School of Engineering
and Applied Science~

39, 300

4,247

t0 .8

School of Health Related
Professions

9,800

4,695

47.9
62.5

School of Information
and library Studies

t ,800

1, 126

S&lt;:hool ollaw

15,100

5,215

34.5

School of Manag ement

24,700

22,387

90.6

S&lt;:hool of Medicine
and lllomedical Sciences

10.8

139,900

15, 191

School of Nursing

7,900

185

2.3

School or Phannacy

9,500

3,022

31.8

Office of the President

6,500

63

.09

School ol Social Won

4,500

1,560

3&lt;4.6

UB Foundation

2,700

0

Student Affairs

30,600

1,53&lt;4

5 .0

University Seryjces

134,000

7,330

5.4

0

0

VJCe President tO&lt; Resurdl

3,300
Advancement and Dewlopment 8, •oo

0

�41Reparier October 1. B'Vol:ll.ll. 6

Future
Coft-...t from -

Movi"? In
- - . . . from IT1InlgOr
ol i!clution ond ammunlly cut'"""" WNED-111, a-..117, to
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a.riaAum eenc.r.

Eric · CDOCh,
Eisenberg.
heod
Tilden Highfrom
School,
Broold)'n. to ossbtlnl CDOCh,
men's bislcetbil.

KeMn-_ I r&lt;eent UB
groduate,

to_.~

co-

O&lt;dinator.
Scott lllcMIIIn, I .-It U8

91""'- to strength ond mncltionlng COICh.

.-·s - -

Kevin Edoott, irom Ohio llnMr-

sity, to issistant COICh. women's
~-

Moving Up
FronkV*"II, from assistant
CDOCh to ISSOdote heod COICh,
men'sboslc&lt;lball.
·
RonoldTcwgabld. from assistont
CDOCh to director ol blsf&lt;etboll
operollons, men's blslcelbol.
Dun Cooper, from admlnlstntive assistant to ISSistant COICh.
men's b&amp;sk.etball.

Moving On

s-.,

Helen L
dlrectorollr&gt;tematlonol S.-'irlnd Sdlolar
Services, to director ol lntema!lonll Programs ond Student Servkes, Sin jose State UnMnily.

-nt
profes!Of, _DOportment ol Geology, to ll&lt;plrtmenl ol Earth Sciences, ~illtmOUih College
Colt E . -· from

RetJrements:
Rkhord E. llolclwln, ossodate
d lroctor, eonr-ncei 1nd Spedol E&lt;lonts.

----.. .,. . ;s;ng

janhot; eustodiii SeMc:es.
o..td L lonlln, lnstructionol
support techniclon, Doplrtmerit
at Geology.
Donldtjl M. ......... supeMsing

lonlto&lt;. CUStodill - -

SII!phen L llrown, professor, Deportmontoll'dualtionll Leodershlpond l'lllcy.
jolln L Buclzynsld. delner, Cus-

todiiiSeMc:es.

Moryc-.-,- - -

lint, Computing o n d - .
lion Technology.
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Cady, secm.y I,Uni-

.onity "'-*"&gt;' Progroms.

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admiSslonsi&lt;Msor, AdmissionsM. Dau, professor,

-

qeportment o1 Statistics.
A. DIGiulo, data entJy

machine_..,, Adminlstra-

tives.Mce&lt;.
t..Mence D. Drolce, assistonl
dean, Milord Fllmon! College.
Corole A. Rlplolr, Secreboy ~
Depl&lt;tmtnt ol Otalllyngology.
Ann M. fonb.., Secreboy I,

Animll f -

sor,
Donlld
Monlgement
· - Sciences
,__
one!
Systems.
Chortes M. c...tc1c. ossodate
professor, ~ ot o..l
Health ond lrlormodcs.

chlr.w.- -.
Honoy~-pm­

fessor, ~at Physla.
Glen E.~ professor,

John

don,

ltondol. -

physl-

c..... lor Student--

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-·School at~

1

odology for allocating state La.x
support to campuses allows for the
retention of aU tuition and fees by
the individual campuses.
The new methodology, Greiner
maintains, will allow UB to expand
in both enrollment and programs.
.. lt'scrudaUyimportant that we
build out; part of the goal should
be to get bigger,.. he says.
In addition to increasing enrollment, the vision, he says, is to be
"first and foremost better in the
quality of the program we offer;
better in the quality of students we
attract; move slowly to expand our
graduate component .. . and begin
to attract more students from outside of New York State." including
international students.
To be seen as a truly distinguished university, UB must play
up its distinctiveness, those programs that "give us the edge, that
set us apart," Greiner says.
For example, he notes, the
Graduate School of Education is
focusing its programs on urban
ed ucation , while the Graduate
School of Social Work program is
combining research and practice,
with an emphasis on addictions
and how they impact on family life.
"We shouldn't try to do everything anywhere across our aca demic enterprise," he says, noting
that choices will have to be made
and programs consolidated.
"If we do that rigorously over
the next I0 years, we really can
transform this institution."
To make that happm, he says. i(s
mandatory that 'the wllvttsity target
new funding sources, including its
140,000-150,000 living alumni, many
of whom have done well professionally and financially. "We hope that we
can begin to change the vocabulary
about philanthropy for public institutioos in New York." he says.
Partnerships are vital
UB also must form partnerships
· for public-service work, since the
state allocates little or no funding
for that purpose, he says.
.. Other great state universities do
huge amounts of public service
based on a leveraged approach in
which they have some state investmc:nt." he says. "We need to petSuade
the state to invest and then we've got
to leverage iL"The year-old Institute
for Local Governance and Regional
Growth, he notes. already is a prime
example of a small investment by
the university that can return "many
fold that original investment."
The university also must fo rm
closer connections. with private
business, such as its fi rst univer-

to depend on the state providing
total funding? The state funding it
does receive must be wed wisely
and Owbly.

Public Is "better"
Although be is a product of private higher education, Greiner insists
that public education is "better."
"We take seriously the fatt that
we are of a larger society and we
serve a larger society," he says.
The great Midwestern wllvttsities
"have demonstrated that )'OU can be
both superb academically, in terms
of )'OUr teaching and )'OUrresearch,
but also be outstanding in terms of
the way )'OU provide publi' service."
Although the people of New
York State built UB with their tax

dollars, "that doesn't mean they
have to (continue to) payforiL We
ought to say, 'Thank you for )'Our
investment. .. now, please; let us
take advantage and leverage that
for you. Let us figure out how we
can develop additional support for
the institution.'"
us. he stresses, increasingly is taking the initiative one! being proactive.
"What )'OU can't do is have a 'victim
mentality' and not do anything; )'OU
have just got to keep plugging."
For example, all undergraduate
applications to ~UNY campuses
must pass through Albany before
they go to the individual cam puses, Greiner notes, because New
York State high-school oounselors
prefer that procedure.
But, he says, there's "absolutely no
reason"to pass transfer-student and
out-of-state applications through
Albany, since the oounselors are not
involved with these students. As a
resul~ UB will begin to accept online
applications directly from these students via the World Wide Weh.
He suggests that in approaching
the state Division of the Budget
and SUNY's ·central administration, UB should be saying "Look.
this is the way real universities are
run ; let us run like that: Why not
let SUNY have a university that is
the equal of a Universityoflllinois
or Michigan" and that doesn't have

Alhletla l1lise prollle of - Altbougb some hllve criti&lt;:i2&lt;d UB
for spending precious r&lt;SOW&lt;IOS on
atbletic:s instead of in tho daosroom,
Gr.iner nous tim one
in which
tho major Midwestern public unMrsiticshllvedistinguisbod thermdvesin
tMr Slate, .. wdl .. in 'tho oatioml
arma. is through tMr atbletic:s progrmas. Wtth its mum to DiviDoo IA atbletic:s this fall, UB is Slopping up
as a member of tho Mid-American
Conl&lt;reoce. traditionally viewed as a
Midwestern, Ohio-booed~
" If we want to be seen in the
same light as the other great universities in the United States, ,..,
have to do what they do," be says.
Even the elite private institutions.
such as Harvard and Yale, have
athletics programs. he notes.
Division 1-A programs are important to building school spirit
and alumni pride. They also can
help bring a focus to campus life.
Again. Greiner draws on the
MidwesL
Anyone attending a football
game at the University of lllinois
at Urbana-Champaign, he notes,
will get a sense "of bow that (ath.
letits} ties you to a community
and how it makes the kids in the
community feel better about it."
Michigan has not been harmed
by having quality athletics, be says,
and Northwestern, which has no
problem recruiting top-notch students, increased its applications by
20 percent the year after the foot ball team played in the Rose Bowl.
But perhaps more impo.w;tly.
he says, student athletes "bring
more involvement and investment
in the community than maybe the
average student;
As be looks to the univenity in
the first decade of the 21st century,
Greiner acknowledges that if UB is
to achieve its goal of becoming a
great Midwestern-type institution,
it will require buy-in by everyone
in the campus community. lovesting in the future of UB is not the
. job of the univmity administration
alone. It rdies on the efforts of faculty and staff member. as well.
"We're all part of a oommunity
that has a
important job to do,"
Greiner stresses. "E-r single personwho'samembe:rofthecommunity ooritnbutes to that job." from
the grounds crew to the professional
staff to distinguished professors.
"We have to try to build a sense
of community and com munity
pride at all levels."

does not negate the fact that overall UB's professional schools could
"do a better job in recruiting"
graduate students and that "we
have to make some of our pro·
grams more attractive.
.. We have to think about what
the ma rUt wants," he added, "not
what the faculty wanL"
In some programs, he noted, stipends for graduate students faU
shan of thQse offered at other universities... That hurts us in the end,"
he said."We have to catch up there."

Overall, he added, "there are a
whole host of things we can do"
to boost graduate enrollment.
Sullivan noted that the shortfall
of 188 FTEs this semester wiU require that spring-semester enrollment be that number over target
if enrollment for the 1998-99 academic year is to be in line with the
university's budget and revenue
projections in its financial plan.
Wagner noted: "Our efforts will
be focused on making the tuition
revenue shortfall as small as pas-

sible. We frankly hope it won't e.x ceed $500,000."
SUNY this year instituted a new
Resource Allocation Methodology
to allocate state tu: suppor1 that allows for the retention of all tuition
and tees by the individual campuses.
Wagner said that for campuses with
a revenue shortfaJJ due to enroUments below-target, the practice will
be the same as in previous yars:
campuses need to !educe expenditures by an amount equal to the
shortfaJJ to balance their budgets.

-r

--....,._llolp.,_,_
In t h e . _ , c_,nlty to help build- -.llJ of-,__
sity-wide partnership with Xerox.
In 1997, the two signed a five-year
memorandum of understanding
outlining ways in lfhich they will
provide benefits 10 each other in
areas induding research, information technology. and education
and training. As UB examines
ways to provide fu ture support
and resources, it increasingly will
be looking to such partnerships.
Another model is the new UB
Business AJJiance, in which the
university has merged its economic-development activities into
a single organization, creating a
"one-stop-shopping approach" for
companies seeking to partner with
the university and raising the profile of the university's economicdevelopment efforts.

-r

Fall enrollments
Continued from pogel

negative effect, Triggle added. He
noted that he sees the shortfall in
nursing students at the graduate
level as related to the fact that
managed care in general and this
year's merger of three of the Buffalo area's largest hospitals, wi th a
possi ble red u ction in total
workforce, in particular causing
some to rethink pursing a master's
degree in nursing.
Triggle said the ability to iden t ify facto rs impacting negatively
o n graduate enrollment at UB

�October l. mJ/Voi.Jil.le.&amp; Repa..-.

5

~~~:!3!!!!'!!!1! m
Twenty Years Later: A Look
Back at Love Canal

The Race

That Wasn't

Diehard rumers br;r;ed a heavy ~r Sun&lt;lay to run
the Uncia Yalem race course, even though the annual event
was c:aled ~because d rp~ It wifl ncx be rescheduled.

Insider's view of world events
Powell regales record crowd with accounts of military career, politics
By .ON CHUIICHIU
Reporter Staff

L. Powell captivated
an estimated 5,000
people in Alumni
• Arena Sept. 24 with
firsthand aceoilif!l of major world
events, his views on current political happenings.aod his more recent
pursuits in helping America's youth.
Between standing ovations and

rounds of applausc,-Powell, former
presidentiaJ advisor and former
chairman of the )oint Chiefs of
Staff, kept the record-breaking
crowd silenced, especially during
discussions of his military roles in
matters of national security.
The first guest in UB's 1998-99

Distinguished Speakers Series,
Powell, who is perhaps best known
for his commanding role in Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and his status as a

possible presidential candidate,
covered a vast array of topics.
Introduced by President William
R. Greiner as "the embodiment of
the American Dream," Powell said
he's sticking to his guns about not
entering the presidential race.

Citing his previous claims of
commitment to his family and the
fact that he's "still fundamentally a
soldier" and not a politician, Powell
said ..therc's a requirement for public life that 's so invasive ... that we
couldn't do it as a family."

He noted the intensive medi a
coverage that followed him and his
fa mily during th e height of hi s
fame. " I found reporters looking
in my garbage can. I found them
folJowin g- my famil y members,"
Powell said.
Of special interest, he cited one
investigative reporte r from a British tab loid who traced Powell 's
family roots and made 14th century connections to the Royal
Family in England. A headline to
the effect, "Powell is Royalty: Re ·
lated to Diana and the Queen"
soon screamed acro'ss the globe.
" I thought , 'This is cool. Why
should I run for president ? J'm in
line to be king!'"
But Powell took a serio us ton e
when talking about the possibil ·
ity of presidential candidacy.
'Tm finding a new way to serve
now," he said, referring to his new
position as ch air of Ameri ca's
Promise-The Alliance for Yo uth ,
a nationaJ campaign launched to

help young people get the support
they need.
"Eve ry c hild a t ri sk must be
made a child of promise," Powell
said. His message and challenge:
«Get involved" with programs Like
boys ' and girls '
clubs that c reate
.. sa fe pla ces" for
yo uths to go during after-scho'?l
hours and supply
yo uths with go&lt;l&lt;i
adult rol e models

who also spent two tours in Vietnam.
In 1986, Powell, as a lieutenant
general of infantry, was given com-

mand of 75,000 soldiers and the
same o rders. "Go to Germany" and
" In a time of war do not let the Ru.!&gt; sian Army come through, do you
understand?" PoweU was asked.
" J understand. I've been doing
that for 28 years," he quipped. But
soon a ft erward came something
Powell thought he would never sec.
" He was unlike any Russian
leader we had ever seen befo re,"
Powell sa id. " H is nam e was
Mikhail Go rbachev."
In preparation for
"Big Sisters."
President
Ronald
child at risk
~e either get
Reagan 's first visit to
hack to the .task of l must be made • child Moscow in the spring
building (up ) our
of 1988 , I:'owe ll and
of pn&gt;mlse ... lt's time
children, or let's
then-Secretary of State
to
stop
building
jails
just keep building
George Schultz trav jails," Powell said,
eled to Moscow and
- g e t back to
drawing a round
met with Go rbachev
buHdlng children."
of applause. "And
and an assemblage of
in Ameri ca, it's
Soviet military person t ime to s to p
COLIN POWEll
nel.lt was th en that the
building jails and get back to build· shock hit Powell.
ing children."
'Tm end in g the Cold Wa r. It 's
On current politics, and with ap- ove r," Gorbachev said to Schultz.
parent reference to President Bill
Gorbachev then turned to PoweU ,
Clinton's admission of inappropri · who remembers the event vividly.
ate relations with former White "thro ugh the eyes of a soldier."
House int ern Monica Lewinsky,
" He slowly turns back to me. and
Powell said, "As we've seen in our na- when he's absolutel y sure that h ts
tiona1life recently, it's very impor- eyes are locked on mine and m ine
ta nt for a nation, for a society. to are locked o n his, he leans forward
have a sense of shame."
ever so slightly and says 'Generale,
Powell spoke at length about his Genera1e, I'm very, very sorry. You
"35 years. three months, 22 days, and will have to find a new enemy."'
eight hours" as a professional soldier,
" I immediately tho ught to myand he divided his life into three self, 'I don't want to,'" PoweU said.
stages: his service in the Armed 'T ve got a lot invested in this par·
Forces that ended with his retire- ticular relationship. You know, ( al ·
ment in 1993, two years spent writ - re a d y mad e ge neral on tho.
ing his best-selling autobiography, deal.. .th e strategic assumpt ions of
"My American Jo urney," which was a lifetime ... aU I have trained to d o
published in 1995, and his current fo r 28 years... depends on this rela ·
pursuits with the Alliance for Youth . tionship."
Powell spoke of ma_n y iss ues
T he next year. the Berlin Wall
dealing with fore ign policy, but the fe ll. and the n in 199 1 the Sov1et
crowd soaked in every wo rd as he Union ended. "It simply qu it."
spoke of his ro le in the general na Powell said. "They had been living
t io nal strategy that dominated the a li e for 70 yea rs."
first 28 years of his military caree r:
Powe ll noted the co ntmu1n g
T he .. containment " of com mu
p roblems of today. but also ci ted
nism and the " Evil Empire."
an mte resti ng phenomen on. " In
As a serond lieutenant in the Army case you haven ' t noticed , Mr .
in 1958, Powell was given a miss1on: Gorbachev has appeared in Pizza
Command 40 soldiers in Germanr Hut comme rciallt.
to guard for possible Soviet invasion
" I said to m yself, ' look what I
across the " Iron Curtain."
have Lived to see. The 'Evil Em pire'
"Over the next 28 years. everything se llin g pizza. Is democracy and
I did was related to that same contest capitalism great ? Or is democracy
(fighting communism)," said PoweU, and cap itaJism great?' ..

!"Every

Love C•n•l w•.sn 't the flnt o r the worst toxic waste si te in U . ~
history. b ut it managed to attract worldwide attention by th e t1me
health officials ordered the evac uauon on Aug. 2, 1978, of th e nearby
neighborhood 's residents. What 's happened sin Ce then ts the su bject of an exhibit currently on dtsplay in the US Science and Eng1
neering Library (SELl, with a part1cular focus o n the role mfo rma
tion has played in th e unfolding- and continuing-saga.
An accompanying SEL Web site, "Love Canal @ 20" &lt; http:/ I
ubllb .buff•lo. edu / llbr•rle5 / unlt5 / 5el / exhlblts / lovec•n•l .
html &gt;, p rovides maps. transcripts, press releases and anides from
online journalS to add a unique historical perspecti~e . There's al so a
bibliography of related matenals available at SEL and an extensive
list of Intern et links, including the University Archives Web site about
its " Love Canal Co ll ection" &lt; http:/ / ubllb.buffalo.edu/ llbrarles/
project.s/ lovec•n•l! &gt;. That coll ection co ntains the reco rds of the
Ecum enical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier, which is bemg se
lectively digitized . Testimon y of L015. G ibbs taken on March 21 .
1979, is o ne of th e- do( ument.s currently ava ilable onhnt&gt;.
Another forum for explormg the 1mpact of the mc1den1 1s an upcoming confercnc&lt;" entitled "The 20th Anmven.arv of Love Canal: Les
sons Learned,"' to be held at UB Oc1. 8·9. Co-sponsored by the UB
Environment and Soc1ety InstitUte. the UB La...,, School. and the Ruj
f"lo Envtronmentaii.Aw Journal, the event has a Web sue with additi o nal mformation at &lt; http:/ / www.buffalo.edu / glp/ new5 /
agend a .html&gt;. To regJster,contact Errol Me1dinger \'Ia
email (ee me1d @1acsu . buffalo.edu 1or phone 645 - ::! I 'i9
l-or lliStsttmce 111 (Or111ect m g to th r \·Vo rld Wtdr H4·b.
conran tht• t./1 Hdp Desk at 645-3542.

--N•ncy Schiller •nd Will Hepfer,
Umvers1ty

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BrieDy
Noted Indian musicians
to perform at UB on Oct. 4
An evening of cl•nlcallndlan music featuring noted perform e r :!~
Ustad ( maste r ) Rais Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan, Samar Saha and Jvot1
Goho will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday m Slee Concert Hall o n th e N~rth
Campus.
The event IS co -sponsored by the Department o f Mu s1c a nd
TRJVENI, a local organizat ion that, for mo re than a decade , h ..b
brought the best of In dian music, dan ce, film and other arts to
Buffalo.
Well -known in Indi a and other parts of the world for 11s skil l
a nd talent, th e qua rtet will VISit UB as part of a North Amenca n
tour. Us tad Rai s Khan , a c hild prod1gy and direct descendent of
court musicians traced ba ck to the 15th ce ntury, plays th e sit ar
a nd IS recognized fo r his musi c 1n many Indian film s. Vocalist
Ustad Rash id Khan ( n o re lation ) has won many award s and pt:r
formed to packed concert hall s 1n ln d 1a. the United Kingdom .
Fra nce, It aly and the U.S. Samar Saha, on tabla, and )yoti Go ho.
on harmonium, a re facu lt; m e mbers of the renown ed Sangt.·et
( musi c) Rest&gt;a rc h Academy 10 C alcutta .
Advance gene raJ ticket price admission is $1 5; $8 for student!&gt; and
se nior citizens. At the door, ticket s are$ I 7 for general admission and
$10 for students and sen ior citizen s. T1 cket.s are available through Sl~e
Co ncert Hall hox office at 645 · 29~ I

.

Minority Student Graduate School
Awareness Conference is Oct 10
Student5 from •II dbclpllnes are 10\' lt ed to att e nd the sc,ond
annual Mino rit y Student (;raduate School Awareness Co nference.
to be held from 8:30a.m . to 4 p.m . Oct. 10 1n th e Un1vers1t y Inn
and C onference Ce nter, 240 I North 1-orest Road . Ge t zville The
statew ide eve nt aJm lt to prov1 de m1n o r11 v 3t udenb w1th mf or
mat1 o n about th e apport un1tu~ s assonated wnh an e ndm g gradu
ate sc hool.
Presenters will 1ndudr prok s~ um als m va n O U :!~ fidd3 . graduatt·
students, facu lt )· members and graduate adm 1ss1on repre se ntatiV e:!~
The conference is free: comp limentary break.fa!&gt;l and lunch will
be se rved . It IS sponsored by the Nat 1o nal Soence f-oundatiOn gran I
that funds the SUNY Alliance for Mmontv PartiCipation Cumor
tium (SUNY AMP ) and the New Yo rk State EducatiOn Oepartmem
gran t th at funds th e CollegJatt' ~c 1cn ce and Technologv Ent rv Pro
gram &lt;CSTEP ).
Attendance IS limll ed to I SO part iCipa nts.
UB student:. can reg1ster until Tuesday by laJhng Shanna C rum1~
at 645· 22 .\4 .

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News Services Editorial .t.ssistant

performancebycomedian Elayne Boosler. a
football game between
the UB Bulls and Mor·
gan tate University and a carni -

A

val and bonfire on the shore of
Lake LaSalle will highlightth&lt; UB
Family and Homecoming Week·
end. to be held Oct. 9- 11.
Other weekend events will in·
elude a performance by
the Cassatt String Quar-

tet, men's and women's
socce r games and a se-

rie s of educational
presentations for
studen ts and their
families.
Th e football
game a t 1:30 p.m. on
Oct. I 0 will be prec~d&lt;d by an
alumni pre-game party, featuring
lunch and entertainment, at II
a. m. at the UB Stadium south-gate
t'nt rance. Tickets for the party,
sponsored by th&lt; UB Alumni As·
sociation, will be SIO (advance
purchase ) and $15 (al the door)
for aduiLs; $8 for UB studenlS; and
$5 for children under 12.

Other pre-game activities will
include a student pizza -tasting
co ntest , with pizza provided by

local vendors.
Half-tim e events at the game
will include the crowning 9f th e

Homecoming king and queen
by Pres ident William R.
G reiner. a US dubs parade
a nd a performan ce by th e
re nowned Mo rgan State
Marching Band.
The co medy show featuring
Boosler and special guest An thony Clark will begin at B p.m.
on Oct. I 0 in Alumni Arena on the
North Ca mpu s. The doors will
open at 7 p.m. All sea ting will be
general admissio n.
Boosler, known for her feisty
mann er and thoughtful political
material, is one of today's most
popular touring comedians and
has performed at the White House
for President C linton and Co n gress, and in London at the 75 th
anniversary of the Royal Co m ·
mand Performance.

She has written and starred in
seven comed y specials for cable
televisio n and has appeared on
"Comic Reli&lt;f," "The Tonight
Show," "Late Night with David
Letterman." .. Larry King Live,"
"Th&lt; Today Show," "Good Mom·
ingAmerica" and the "Arscnio Hall
Show." She also h .. appeared on
several popular sitcoms.
Special gueSL Clark. of the tele·
vision series .. Soul Man" and "'Boston Common," is known for his
honest, blue·e&lt;&gt;llar brand of
humor. He also ha s ap peared on .. The Rosie
O ' Donnell Show," "Ellen"
and " The lale Show with
David Letterman."
Tickets, which are s 15 in ad·
vance and $16 at the door, arc
availabl&lt; through all Ticketmaster
locations (852-5000), in Room
221 of the Student Union on lhe
North Campus (645·2353) and al
the Center for the AtlS Box Ollie&lt;
(645-ARTS).
A portion of the proceeds will .
benefit UB's SEFA campaign.
All weekend evenlS will be on
the North Campus.
Events scltecluled
for Oct. 9 Include:
• Men's soccer game, UB Bulls vs.
University of Kentucky W~dcaLs,
4 p.m., soccer field behind the S\3·
dium scoreboard. Fr~e and open
lo the public.
• Millard Fillmore Col·
lege Alumni Reunion
Party, 4 -6 p.m., Center
for Tomorrow. Tickets
are S5 per person .
Call 829· 2608 for
ticket s and information.
• Homecoming carnival
and bonfire, 6 p.m. to midnight,
western shore of Lake LaSalle ad jacent to UB Bookstore. Spon sored by the undergraduate Student Association. Free and open to
the public. There will be rides, car·
nival games and live entertainment.
• .. Friday Night at the Movies,"
Student Un ion Theatre. Scheduled screenings arc "The Wed ding Singer " at 6 p.m., " The
Truman Show" at 9 p.m . and

" Blue Velvet" at 11:30 p.m. Tick·
ets are $2.50 for registered UB
students and S4 for others. Sponsored by the University Union
Activities Board.
• Bedhoven String Quartet ~e,
p&lt;rformed by the Cassatt String
Quartet, 8 p.m., Sloe Concert Hall.
Tickets, Sl2 at the door.

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fwOct. l O • ·Educational present.i.tians, I 0
a.m. to 1 p.m., Student Union.
Topics will includ&lt; "Anci&lt;nt Cui·
tures Meet the New Millennium:
UB and the Oassics,""Wby Jill Got
Hired and Jack Didn't" and " Us·
ing the World Wide Web in litera·
turtClasses.."
• Multidisciplinary Center for
Earthquake Research lectures at
10:30 a.m., 11 a .m. and 11 :30
a.m., Red Jacket Quad in Ellicott
Complex. Pre-registration rt quired.
.
• Open House Archaeological
Survey, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 262
Fillmore in th~ Ellirott Complex.
Demonstrations and display of
artifacts from Weslem New York.
• Alumni pr&lt;-game party, lunch
and entertainment, 11 a.m., UB
stadium south-gate entrance.
Tickets, $10 (advance) or SIS (al
the door) adults; S8 UB students;
$5 children under 12.
• Pre-Game pizza. Tasting Contest, noon to J: IS p.m., UB Stadium north end-zone. Free and
op&lt;n to the public.
• UB Bulls vs. Morgan State Bears,
I :30 p.m. , UB Stadium. TickeLs
available at the Stadium Box Office (645·6666).
Evenu set for Oct. 11 Include:
• Farewell brunch for students
and families, 10 a.m. to 12:30
p.m ., Pistachio's in the Student
Union. Pre - reg'is tr ation re quired .
• Women's soccer, UB BuUs vs.
EaSLern Michigan Eagles. 11 a.m.,
soccer field behind the stadium
scoreboard. Free and open to the
public.
• Men's soccer, US BuUs vs. University of Kentucky WildcalS, 1
p.m., soccer field behind the sta·
dium scoreboard. Free and open
to the public.

The series of specialbeing planned for 5.1'.UUT.
wee!&lt;, coordina~ by tho
Student Associatiooi as a Jftlude tn Family and tiorne• coming Weelcend, inckJde:

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SUccess

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Students will paint "what
suc.cas means tn thorn"
on the windows of the
~Union .

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Four to be inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame
m

the Divisi~?D levd, that the univer·
sity had dissolved al the Division 1

The UB Alumni Anoc:l•tlon will

induct four new members into the
university's Athletic Hall of Fame
at a dinner to be held at 6 p.m. on
Oct. 16 in Alumn i Arena on the
North Ca mpus.
The Alu mni Association established the ALhletic Hall of Fame in
1965 to acknowledge the importance of intercollegiate and club
athletics. It honors o ut standing
athletes, teams, coaches and other
individuals who have represented
and served UB's athletic program
in a professional o r participatory
capacity in an exemplary manner.
This ye•r's Inductees •re::
• Angela Blaser Baggeu. who
earned a bachelor's degree in man agement from VB in 1992, was an
exceptional freesty le and backstroke swimmer. She is a 14- time
All -American in NCAA Division
11 (6 individual. 8 relay) .
Baggett was twice voted O ut ·

-

standing Female Athlete and twice
voted Most Valuable Women 's
Swimmer. She held nine different
swimming records, and until last
season was the UB record-holder
in the 50- and 100-meter back stroke and the 200·. 400· and 800·
meter freestyle relay.
• Kelley A. Brennan, who received
a bachelor's degree in the social
sciences interdisciplinary program
in 1990, and had an outSLanding
volleyball career as an outside hitter. Brennan was the MVP at the
1989 ECAC C hampionships after
leading her team to victory. She

also was the team MVP in 1988
and 1989, and was honored as the
1989 UB Female Athlet&lt; of the
Year. At the time ofber graduation.
she held 6ve UB voU&lt;yball records,
including three of the most signi6·
cant: Most Kills, Kill Average and
Most Kills in a season.
• Bill Dando, UB's 19th head foot·
ball coach, wbOS&lt; oommitment Lo
the program aod the great athletes
and studenlS that be produoed ar&lt;
credited with aeating the base for
th&lt; university's rise to Division 1-A.
Wben hired as head ooach in 1977.
Dando had tn rebuild a program. at

level in 1970. Among the highlighLs
of Dando's 13 seasons with the Bulls
are the 1983 Learn. which posted a
reoord of 8-2 aod whose of!ense reoorded numbeos that still stand as UB
records, aod the 1986 toam, which
posted a reoord of9·2. 6nishing 6fth
in the East aod 20th in the NCAA

Division mpoll

• lyndaJ. Glinski. track-.and· 6eld
and cross-country Slar who gradu·
ated from UB in 1988 with a
bachelor's degree in exercise science. A four-time All American in
indoor and outdoor track (800
meters). Glinski was team captain
and is the current school recordholder in the 800 meters and the
400-meter hurdles.
Foe more information on the Hall
of Fame, or to ma.kt a reservation
for the dinn&lt;r, e&lt;&gt;otact the Oflicoo of
Alumni Relations at 829·2608.

�Trzcinka testifies before Congress
Mutual-fund fees under scrutiny by subcommittee on finance
tual-fund perfurrnance and whether
.,_,...,. providedadequat&lt; information about prices when oonsi&lt;lering investments in me bond rnarkrt
"When mutual fundsareoompared
acrossbroaddassesofirMstments, me
mutual-fund industry is spectacu larly sua:essful." Trzciftka told suboommruttee .-neni&gt;ers. "Ifrompetition
is defined within the mutual-fund
industry by romparing funds against
each other, me story is very diffi:rmt"

NVESTORS have a
han! time detennininghawmuch they are
paying in mutual-fund
fees and ha.. an even """"
difficult time determining
what services they are getting
for their fees, a UBeamomist
testified this w.:ek before a
oongressioruu subcommittee
investigating fees and pri&lt;!'
oompetition in the mutualfund and bond markds.
"Some fees are hidden and
many fees are charged in a
complicated
fashion;
Charles Trzcinka, associate
professor of finance and

I

Trz.cinka•s testimony noted a
number of concerns about mu tual-fund fees and competition:

• Total expenses paid by investors
have not fallen over the past de -

cade and probably have risen.

managerial economics. said
m his prepared testimony
delivered on Tuesday before
meHo~Suboommru~on

Finana and Hazardous Materials, which oversees the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC).
"AA best, me total lee can be estimated
from me~ofnx5 funds. but
if an investor decides to estimak fees. it
is very diflicuh to OOtllJ'3l" portfolios
of risky securities. There are limitations in applying all measures of risk
and there is a lack of uniformity in
their application. Finally, the law
interfi
with the market for financial 00
tants,"Trzcinka said.

oome """"oomplicated. Hidden fees
appear to ha.. grown. It is dear-.that
the current ~ of fees has little
relationship with me quality of the
fund when 'quality' is defined as a better return for the risk taken. Wrth this
definition ofquality, nx5eoonomists
view tliCoompetition in this market
as imperfect and believe that the rompetition is not improving." he said.
Also testifying at the hearing were
SEC C hairman Arthur Levitt;

Michael Lipper, president of Lipper
Analytical Service, and industry representatives. The hearing examined
whether investors arc getting their
monefs worth for fees paid on mu tual funds. me impoct of fees on mu-

• There is no relationship be tween level of expense ratios and
risk-adjusted performance except
that large, expensive ratios substantiaUy reduce performance.
• There'is no evidence that man aged mutual funds have per -

formed better than funds that simply try to match an index or a
combination of indices.
• There is little evidence of persistence of good performan ce;
there is stronger evidence of persistence of poor performance.
• Information available to inves tors on mutual - fund portfolio
management is poor.

Trzcinka,a nationallyknown expert
on mutual-fund fees and performance.
is author of the Forbes magazi ne
Stock Mark&lt;t Course and an associate editor of the /ouma/ of Corpomw
Finnnce and the Financial Review.

When does a change in duties become a change in job?
The newly configured College of Arts and Sciences word s " reass ign ," ''expand" and .. nl'w " all po1nt to a
has top administrators exclusively appointed from different job.
the cadre of dccanal staff which used to reside in th e
And if it "is" a new JOb, why no post1ng ~ J)ean CrJnt
pre-merger dean's offices. None of these positions clamors th ere is no o ld boy/g irl network tn play. But
were posted or affirmatively searched.
what else is a "strategy" which fill s positions l'xdu
Dean Grant argues that no new positjons are in - sively with co ll eague~ who ( to a m an/ woman ) art• al ·
valved-it is just that dutiesare .. reassigned " and "ex- read y (some so rt of) dean?
pandedn: Thesecolleaguesare shouJderinga new load.
The new College needs ou r sup port . \\1e Dt'ed to
If dishwashers are asked to vacuum room s instead. improve our undergrad uate edu ca tion. I work hard(•r
it could arguably be construed as a reassignment of on that . in the front lines, than many. That 1.:. wh r I
duties. But what if dishwashers are asked to mow am so co ncerned about th is dcvelopmt•nt. wh1t.:h tr1 e~
the lawn? As with dishwashers. so with deans: when to graft a new plant on old roots. '10 he su re , thn art·
does a change in duties beco~e a change in job? The sturdy roots, hard to eradica te.
- John Boot, Chair, Department of Management Sdence and Systems, School of Management

Obituary

for Eleanor H. Verduin Millonzi., a
civicleadcrwhosescrvice totheunive,. ity was reoogniz&lt;d in 1995 with

the Chanallor Charles P. Norton
Medal, the university's highest tribute.Mrs.Millonzi,86,dicdSept.25
in her home after a short illness.
Earlier this year, Mrs. 'Millonzi
donated $250,000 to endow the
Robert I. and Eleanor V. Millonzi
Distinguished Honors Scholarship,
wh ich enab les VB to recruit and
(.-ducatc the best artists/scholars-in training. Her'l'a te husband , Robert
Millonzi, who graduated from the
UB School of Law in 1935, chaired

the UB Coun cil from 1978- 1981.

Honored in 1987 by the UB
Alumni Association with an award
for

service, Mrs. Millonzi
served as vice chair-

woman of the Center
for the Arts Advisory
Committee at UB and
was a member of the
-...OND
board of direc tors of
the YWC A, the Elmwood-Franklin

School, the Episcopal Community
Services, the Buffalo Philharmonic
Women's Comminee, serving as
its president, and the Buffalo Philharmoni c Orchestra Board.
She also served in a variety of vol -

unteer leadership roles with me Arts
Council of Buffalo and Erie County.
the Bulfalo Council on World Alfair.o.

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and also
mode!M _ _tie.,the_
life. Senior wkSe receiver Kali Waddns
c;auptto12-yonltouehdownwii&lt;r
as the !luis de!Hted Duquesne.
from .....,._ Chad Salisbury wid&gt; I o4S
2-0. The .shutouts 'oYf!f"e Jamie's
left in the opening stanZa. Watkins
second and third G the season.
mtshed the pme with sew;n catches
1..- 114 yonls,s.tubury "" 27.
ol-40 ro.- 375 yards.
The Bulls tied the came at
when freshfTWl Demck Gordon ~cored
from 12 yards with 12:27 left in the first half and Drew Haddad aught thl!'
two-point conversion from Salisbury. Haddad tied h i~ career-high WJth I I
receptions for I 73 yards. The Minutemen took the lod for good after Josh
Rot!&gt; fumbled ot the UM"' 29-yonltlne.
In the second ha!f,Todd &amp;nkhead extend~ the UMas.s lod t.o "1 -20 one
ploy oft.er Gordon lumblod mlde the UB I0-yard line. UB opin .-..ponded
when Roth scored his seventh toOCttdown of the season from one yard out.
capping a 13-?aY. 80-yard drive. Tailback David Schmidli had 35 yards rustung
and rece:Mng on that drive to cut the lead to 41-27.
l.JMou put d&gt;e pme ""'( wl&gt;on Jonmy Remson suwed In h-or&lt; olo s.t.b.xy

u
scor-.

I"

out-

pass .-.d rewmed • "' the a.Ablo dne-yonlllne early in ... fcunl&gt; - - " " " "
Quinlan scared
yank
plo)s b...-"' put ... up 48-27
Roth led the UB ground pme with 64 yards on 12 c:arries. Tight end Gabe
Kogier had a career-high thrN: cau:hes for 39 yards
Defensively. freshman Chrts ~ty led the wq with mne tackles. 1ndudmg
three for losses.Another freshman linebackef". Brandon Jordan. added ergtu
ta.ddes and a sack. Cornerback Tory Smith added eight tackles. a blodcrd field
goal and a pus breakup for the Bulb..

from"""

Volle~uall
'

UB 0, Miami (Ohio) l
UB dropped ru MAC cun.::amr.u~er 1n three games to Vlsiong MQ.ml (Otuo)
».wrcby. IS- \ I , IS-11. IS-l .Somer Desc:tu.mt».u\t had 18 asslsu and autstde
hitter Ken Shiels had I I digs.

UB 2, Duquesne 0
UB 0, Miami (Ohio) 0

UB I, Bowling Green 2

The Bulk holt.od Duq.oesne&gt; ~-"'"-- =n&gt;es. weak~.
'*-""« the """""- 2-0. Heatheo- Colins scared 54 seconch Into the I""" .-.d Pa&lt;k
l..Jstnni notChed her !"'llr1d'l r.:J me )'f!2l" tater ., me half on a pass from her sister; ).jie.
Buffalo went on the road for a MAC weekend, and lost a 2-1 heart:breaker
n Bowling Green Saturday Caryn Davis scored on a header wfth just 2:57
re:ma1mng. but the hosu countered With just I:33 remaining on a 2-on-1 .
A day later at M1am1 1n Oxford. sophomo~ goalkeeper Jamae Adams rmde
I 0 save~ ;u the Bulls and Red Hawks batded to ;a double-overome scoreless tie
MEN ' S

UB 1. St. Francis 0
The Bulls played onty one match dunng the weelo.. hosung and defeaung SL
Franm (Pa.). 2-0. on Tuesday Sophomc:&gt;n!: midfidder ,lohn ~booted home he.
fim d the~ ho &amp;k" """""__,.,., belore lulfome ID ~d&gt;e g.vnewrning gaol. Shamon then """ ell""""' Doug Gelleo- on ' b&lt;eolaw&gt;y -n ' perlect
pass at midflefd and the: defenseman beat me goalkeeper n the second lulf for his fim
career goal at ua Senior goahe and co-capetln jim Schoenber~ recorded hts
fourth shutout of the 1998 campa1gn

WOMEN "S

UB 8, Canisius I

theAmherstSaxophoneQuartct ,the

Greater Buffalo Opera, the City of
Buffalo Commission o n Human Relations, the International Institute,

me American Red Cro&amp;s.ArtParkand
ilie Studio Arena Theatre.

WOMEN ' S

lennis

Eleanor H. Verduin Millonzi, 86, civic leader,
Norton medal recipient
A memort•l service w•s: held

br""""

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~occer

TheMai-

Tuesday in Trinity Episropa! Chun:h

Marcoii!W,.,b-•""""'~230

yonls .-.d lJ8 hod

or

Mrs. Millonzi was a graduate
Eastern Mi c higan University's
Co llege of Education.
H e r daught er, Mary f::.l("anor
"Molly"Raiser,ofWa&lt;hington, D.C.,
served for four yea rs 1n the Clinton
Administration a.!! tht· stall'
department'SChief prOIOCOJ. Wl lh
the rank of am bassador. ln addition
to Mrs. Raiser. she is survived by an -

or

other daughter, Elizabeth I. "Bet&lt;y··
Levinson of Concord , Mass., and
fo ur grandchildren.

The Bolls defeated Cantslus.. ~I , n ;a rnakL't.4l match hekl Sept. 2"Annette Dillon and
Nio::* SarJent ead'l vr.on her Ulgle:s mau::h. then teamed br a fim -do..bk!:5 tTUnph
Oilon wu me oriy ~over the ......eekend., losses at ~and Pitt.
MEN' S

UB 9 , Coa.nis;us 0
The Butts blanked
marches

Cam~1us.

9-0. and dommated all s1x smgles and three double1

Lross Lount~
The women ·~ cross country team defeated I 2 other schools and bowed to
only host Westem Onano m the Mustang~· lnvttaoonal Saturday UB ~cored 66
poinu. 20 more than Western and )9 more than Syracuse Umversrty. the th•rd
place fin1sher Junior Mane Macander was Coach 01ck Barry's top fin1~he1
Tummates Usey Spencer and Eileen Rose were II th and 12th. re:specuvety
with US's Jennifer folckemer coming m 15th. and l1sa Luce placmg 17th
The men 's ~quad ~cored 1-% po1nu to fimsh ~1xth m the I) -team field at
Westem Onario. Pat Nolan wu the Bulls' top fimsher Hrs ume of l2 SS 1n the
I OK event wu good for fourth place and was 40 second~ behmd the wmner
The Unrversrty o fWindsor won the meet wrth 46 pomu

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Toxic Books

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UB ROCS makes old computm
new again to help needy students.

September24.1!HI/ ti 30.1*1.5

Big MAC
Welcome
UB women 's soccer team slaps
hands with its goalie, Mary
~n,bB~F~sgame

with Marshall University, the
fi~

in the Mid-American
Conference for any UB team.
UB defeated Marshall 3-1 .

UB's academic state 'good, getting better'
Headrick oudines agenda, changing role ofprovost's office for Faculty Senate
11J SUE WUETCHU
News Servk.es Alsodate Director

T

HE academic state of the
university is "good and
getting better~· Provost
Thomas E. Headrick

told members of the Faculty Senate Thesday.
Headrick briefed senators on his
agenda for the current academic
year, as well as what he sees as the
changing role of the provost's office.
He said that the appointment of
Michael Bernardino as vice president
for health affairs and Kerry Grant as
dean -of arts and sciences will move
issues that had been handled in the
provost's office .. more closely to
when: the faculty and the action occurs within the institution."'
Moreover, with the new SUNY

budget allocation system-RAM-

said, to~ keep revenues generated by the individual schools at
the school level, rather than funneling them into the central UB coffer. This will provide incentives for
the schools to expand enrollments,

S12 million and S24 million to pay

generate new revenues and add

such a fund and develop mechanisms for maintaining it, he said
Headrick noted that his "key"

programs, he said.
·
He said his office will IX' "invest ·
ing and supporting innovative
programs that the school s and
deans normally won ' t o r don ' t
support " for a variety of reasons,
including because they are outside
of a school's purview or involve
several schools.
Headrick cited as examples the
College of Arts and Sciences, thr

proposed merger of the School of
Lib rary Studies and Department
of Co mmunicatio n and the Environment and Society Institute.

retaining on tht campuses revenues

He proposed the creation of a spe-

generated there. it "makes sense," he

ciaJ " innovations fund" of between

for such programs. While he ac-

knowledged that the deans are not
happy at the prospect of giving up
rC"VCflues to such a fund, US must
work to devdop a strategy to create

agenda item for the coming year is
the submission of a mission review
sta tement as requested by SUNY
central administration. The basic
message of the statement, which

likely will be submitted in Oaober.
will be that .. US is a comp rehen ·
stve, public, research, flagship uni versity; a st rong university that is
compet itiv&lt;' with o ther good pub·
ltc universities a nd is woefully
underfunded . We have established
an exceptional record of strengths
and accomp lishments. gtven o ur
la ck of adequa te suppo rt , he said."

Headrick also said that he 1s
wo rking with a group of provosts,
graduate deans and research offic ers fTom the four university cen
ters, Cornell , the free -stand ing
health sciences centers and th e
CoiJege of Environmental Sciences
and Forestry to develop and pro·
mote a SUNY research initiative.
The five -year plan, which is to be
submitted to SUNY trustees tht s
fall, addresses special needs, such
as increased graduate stipends.
greater support fur matchtng
funds for external grants and
matching fund s for research
startups and equ1pment.
In other business at Tuesdav's
meeting. Ute Senate approved a reso·
lution advanced by its AffirmaUvl'
Action Comrninee recommendmg
lhat UB create a mentoring and retcndon mitiative for JUnior facult\•
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Y2K problem: you can run, but you can't hidem
By nuN GOI.DIIAUM
News Services Editor

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OU, th ere!

that you ca n take time to address
the issues," he noted .

Carolann Lazarus, VB informa-

You think the Year
2000 issue is somebody
else's problem, right?
You don't need to know about
it because yo u're not the .. computer person" in your department .
And you don't anticipate a problem becau~ you've purchased new

tion systems auditor, added: "People
think this is a problem that 's over a
year away, but to do any of this, you
need resources and time. lf everyone in a department finds out they

software and hardware, right?
Sorry! UB faculty and staff who

Plus, she added, there have been
rumors that some software vendors

need to buy new, compliant software
or hardware all at the same time, it

will kill their budget."

haven't done a thing about the Year

will be jacking up prices as the Year

2000 can no longer bury their heads
in cybersand.
That was the message that was delivered last week to the Faculty Sen-

2000 draws closer and stock may

ate Executive Co mmittee by
Voldemar lnn us. senior vice president for ~ty services and chair

of the Year 2000 steering committee.
.. The Year 2000 date is not go·
ing to change. This is an issue everybody needs to look at now so

be limited.
Earlier th1 s month , a YlK steer·
tngcommince and affiliated work ·
ing groups were o rganized to find
o ut just how much (or how little )
university departments are doing
to confront the Y2K issue.
The steeri n g committee will
manage and monitor the Year 2000
plan efforts. be responsible for en -

suring that assessments and
remedia tion are co mpleted and
make reco mm endati ons to US 's
senior leadership.
A working group composed of
hands-on coordinators represent ing all university departments wiJI
provid e guidance and support to
impl emen t the Year 2000 plan and
bring to the steering committee's
attention issues that come up.

Subgroups dealing with awarenes&gt;,
a conference day, student support.
inventory and assessment tools. and
risk assessment arc being named.
A .. SWAT" team that will be
avai lable to handle unforeseen
emergencies also is being created.
"We're still at the point where we
don't know how badly we could be
hit," said Lazarus.
Units across the university were
notified in June of a timeline for
Y2K compliance.
For a copy of the timeline and

othe r tmpo rtant mfo rm atton on
th e Year 2000 problem. check out
the UB Y2K Web site at &lt;http:/I
www . win g s . buff•lo . ed u I
ye•r2000 &gt;. The site is upd ated
uftc n and includes nc \v fix -11
gu td elines, as well as tmportant
lmks to mformatton about com
phancc for sp~cific products
According to lnnu s, th e proh
lem can be d1v1ded mto four rna
JO r ca tcgones:
I · lnstitutt o nwtde ap ph ca tt on~
that are considered critical to UB's
mission. such as budgetmg. per·
sonnel, reco rds and registratt on
2· Applications d~veloped and
maintamed in the individual a~.-a
demic /a dmini strattve a rea!!. on
campus.
3- Vendor - provtded softwan:

and hardware (off-the-shelf packages such as word processors and

spreadsheets ).

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N.mette Colem•n is president of the undergraduate
Student Association. A junior from Westbury, she's majoring
in communication and political science, with concentration in global studies.

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predecessors, who were doing positive things, and the students who
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entire administration and our goals
and objectives for the year. There
weu a lot of positive and negative
wheels that had been set in motion.
The things that an posi!M, we want
to ""J"llld on, and the things that an
not so positive, we want to work on
changing. We want to tnnsoend the
box we've been placed in--and
sometimes put ollJ"Sdves in-and
work toward strength and legitimacy in the next year.

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but not as often as rd &amp; There an
some administrators that fw:bad an
ongoing &lt;X&gt;~ with and oth... who an notaseasyto readl.l have
gotten positive r.sponsesfrom sonle,
but sometimes nono positive from
others. But thooc not-so-positive reactions mah w p.-epareour presentations better. It doesn't deter us.
though, the not -so-posi!M, because
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a number a niches. I was a member
ofthe"""""ttam,theMinorityAademic Achie&gt;mlent Program, the
Student Association vida&gt; axnmittee and the women's oen~. My interaaionswiihthoocfourgroupoon
a regular basis made the university
10 mud&gt; smaller.

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There are so many different issues.
Many issues are specific to students
we have on campus. We have a diverse population with diverse
needs. In fact , the other day we
brought together a group of freshmen to find out what their needs
are and what are the issues directly
affecting them. They saw adjustment to college and commuter issues as the major problems, and we
have formed a freshman committee to address those concerns.
What 11 the biggest mbconceptlon"students have about UB7
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anMd, I pulled up to the uni..,..sity and thought it was Buffialo, it
was 10 big.I!Yorywhere lwmt.l mel
friendly people-upperclassmen,
professon.l wu uneasywben I lint
got here becaux it wasn't borne,
but a lot of people wmt out of their
way tomah sure that I made it I
wu aiming to go home the first
week. I a.rrived with the intmtion
of transferring after two years.
Within a year, that turned around
becaux of the support I received.
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A major cooc:em of mine was the
2000 bug. which I raised to P=ident Greiner the other day. The uni·
versity is surging forward-d&gt;ere's
a technological revolution going
on-and it's good to seethe urn..,...
sity at the front of the wave. Students
have access to technology that wasn't
available a year ago. With any
growth there has to be responsibility. The university is moving forward technologically, and as long as
they're doing so responsibly, it can
be a great benefit to students.
What do,_ like best about
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Organized, somewhat. I'm a
struggling organiud penon .
Wllh the &lt;X&gt;ostaDI meetinpand
clasres and the influx oflb&gt;d&lt;nts
I talk to on a daily basis, it JIOIS 1o
be a lit!le much. My orpniur
and Pat Kujawa, SA odministn- ·
tive dir&lt;ctor, are my belt friends
wben it oomes to orpnization.
Struggling is a good word.
For fuol LotJ of things. I'm
a nature buff. II""" being outside, hiking. biking. sports. Also
a big jazz, reggae and daWcal
mwical faa. l'm,like, a ooffeesbop, Wei -back, shooting-pool
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was suppored to be biwr· Yes,~ That rm human. Sometimes 1
were suppored 1o be residential Yes, think it surpris&lt;s people wben
we wen: suppored 1o be downtown. they see me out on Friday or SatNo, the Metro did not reach the urday night I'm 20 years old.
North Campus. No, there are no Studeol govmunent is one of
buses to the mall. What ..., an is a many passions that I have. I'm
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and see all this chanjje happen. and
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It seems as if we surge forward with
plans and missions without asking
the students. Granted, we have
15,000 undergraduate students
who need to be informed and who
need knowledge, not necessarily of
every decision, but of the decisionmaking on our campus. We have
not done the population justice.
AI SA president you oeem to
be everywhere. Art you an or·
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do for '"'fun7 ..

Does SA have an official
agenda? I'm officially announcing the agenda of the undergraduate Student Association,
our mission, goals and objectives. on OcL 7 at noon in the
Student Union Social Hall at

a joint reception for the Student Association, its staff, the
Student Wide Judiciarl' the
Student Association Senate
and any and aU faculty, students and administrators who
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$500,000 Toshiba grant to fund stroke research

Fluoroscopy, blood-flow analysis studies to aid in prevention, treatment ofstrokes
By LOIS BAJtlll

Nt!WS SeMces Editor

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HE Toshiba Stroke Re·
search Center at UB has
received a three -year,
$500,000 grant to further its work in improving prevention and treatment of strokes.
The grant from Toshiba Ameri·
can Medical Systems, wruch estab. lished the cen ter at UB with a $3.6
million gift, will fund res~arch on
the dynamics of blood now and
improving the ability to view
structures in the brain while decreasing X-ray exposure.
One of the most advanced
neuroimaging facilities in th e
world, the center house s a
multidisciplinary research team of
experts from neurosurgery, me chanical and aerospace engineering, radiation, physics, computer

science, surface scie nce, cli nical
engineering and neurolog y.
Grants from The Margaret L.
Wendt Foundation and the John
R. Oishei Foundati o n . both of
Buffalo,
also
helped get the
center started.
The new grant
will
support
work in progress in two areas: region -of-interest {ROI} fluoroscopy and blood. now analysis.
Researchers on the fluoroscopy
proj ec t are developing a high resolution image processing unit
to provide the clearest possible
view of pin-pointed sites, or .. regio ns of interest,.. in the brain,
whiJe at the same time decreasing
the patient's X-ray exposure dur-

ing diagnosis and treatment.
The newest treatments for
stroke involve threading tiny in·
strunlents through the veins in the
body until they reach affected areas in the brain, where they are
used to seal aneurysms, dissolve
blood clots, or place an implanL
Imaging methods that provide
clear views of tiny blood vessels
and miniature implants deep
within the brain arc cri tical to
their success.
US researchers in the center's
Hemodynamics Division are
studying blood - flow patterns
and their effects on atheroscle rosis, aneurysms and blood-vessel malformations, all major
causes of stroke. Colleagues in
the Prostheses Design Division
will use this information to design better implantable prosthe-

ses that are used to correct aberrant blood flow.
This work has enabled L Nelson
Hopkins, professor and chair of
neurosurgery, professor of radiology and the center-s director, to
successfully implant in two patients an c.xpe:rimental stent designed by UB resean:hers specifi·
cally for usc in patching brain an eurysms. The Food and Drug Ad ministration approved the use of
the stent for experime.nt'al purposes in July.
Successful new imaging capabilities, implant design, and surgical techniqu.. developed at the
Tosruba Stroke Research Center
will lead to better treatment and
prevention of stroke in humans,
the third-leading cause of death in
the U.S. and the number- one
cause of adult disability.

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Mentoring: why UB needs it

Minority farulty leave for long list ofreasons, Malave teDs FSEC

lly SUE WUETCHU
News Services Associate DirKlor

A

n Hispanic woman ,
Lilliam Malave canalttst to the .. frustration"'

of being a minority

fa culty member al UB.
"Today, after 19 years, I happen

to be the only nonwhite person
(faculty member) in the Graduate
School of Education, besides the

dean," Malave, associate professor
of learning and instruction, told
her colleagues on the Faculty Sen-

ate Executive Committee during
lhe group's Sept. 16 meeting.
During discussion of a propooal
lhat recommends the creation of a
menloring program for junior facuhymembel:s,she noted lha1 she has
~ member.; of minority groups
JUred for fuculty positions, only 10
leave for a variety of reasons. Among
them are loneliness, lack of onllegial
role models and heavy committee
and advising respo!ISibilities.
Ust Is long. story sad

.. The list (of reasons) is very
long and I think it 's a very sad
story," said Malave, who described
herself as o e of the few minority
faculty m hers who .. made it"
(received enure) at UB.

The en ironment at UB also is
hostile for omen faculty members, She ad
" lfyou(wom n)wanllogettenul"e, you don't n
a husband, you
need a wife," sheljoktd. " There is a
lack of understanding from our
weD-esteemed, well-respected male
colleagues about the tradition of
women faculty," in addition to that
of minority faculty, she said.
The men to ring proposal from the
senate's Affirmative Action Committ~ rteommends that all junior

faculty members-not only women
and minorities- have the opporlunityto request and be assigned an
advocate/advisor or a oommittee as
soon as he or she is appointed lo the
unM:rsity, or at any point within the
tim few years of service.
The program is designed to in crease the retention of junior fac ulty members , in particular
women and minorities.
But "there's no problem with
retention if you haven't hired anyone,• Gerard Rosenfeld, professor
of anthropology and co-chair of
the Affirmative Action Committee, pointed out.
Others express concerns
Rosenfeld mated lha1 he had been
al UB for25 years"and 111 say, quit&lt;:
frankly, lhat bad I lmowh lhe mix
would be as il was all those 25 yean,
I never would have oome here."
In those 25 years, be said, the
anthropology department, "with
one exception," has hired no minoritieo. l;ie.o.o_led lhat il is particularly disappointing in a department whose members fancy
themselves 10 be "globet rotters"
whose work brings them to locales
across the globe.
The concerns expressed by
Rosenfeld and Malave were echoed by Loyce Stewart , associate
director of the Office of Diversity,
Equity and Affirmative Action
Administration. Ahhough UB
does not formally conduct exit in terviews when employees leave the
university, Stewart told senators
that she has heard the same com plaints from faculty members as
those expressed by Malave: lack of
direction and motivation , heavy
committee work and burdensome
advising responsibilities. She cited

the case of one faculty member
who had advisi ng duties for all
minority student's in the depa rt ment- morethan l~..o nlybecause the faculty member ha p pened to be a minority."
William Fischer, vice provost for
faadty development, stressed thai
menloring "begins at the point of
hiring. Departments musl understand lhat they are not hiring for
den&gt;ographics..IIO bringlhework

of a particular faculty member into
the department in a way thai is in~&lt;:­
graled, appreciated and supported"
Don Schack, professor of math ematics, suggested that the senate
get more information about
mentoring programs that are al ready in place in some schools,
such as those' in the schools of law
and engineering; .. before we put
something in place .. .lel's study
what's actually worked."
Fisher advised against spending
a lot of lime studying other
mentoring programs.
Good will, energy needed
.. What's clear to me (from the
engineering and law programs) is
that each discipline and locale will
produce its own particular system
that's appropriate for the pressures
and requirements ·of those envi fonmentst Fisher said. " I would
recommend not spendi ng too
much time investigating and producing evidence on this. The main
issue is to get the responsibility
down to the deans and chairs.
" I don't think this ( mentoring
proposal ) needs 10 be elaborate," he
continued. "When you finally come
down to it, mentoring is going to
rely on the good will and volunteer
energies of the faculty. That's what 's
going to make it successful"

MBA program to return to China
By J(ltiN DEU.A COHTltADA
Reporter Contributor

HE School of Managemen t is re turning to
China 10 offer an MBA
program for top Chinese executives.
China's Ministry of Education
recently approved the program, to
begin in January at Renmin University in Beijing. Graduates of the
program will be awarded a degree
frdm UB.
The UB program will be the only
U.S. program in China lobe affiliated with a nationally ranked Chinese sChool of business, according
to John Thomas, associate dean of
international programs.
From 1984-91, UB operated lhe
first and only U.S. MBA program
in China, which graduated 216
student s . many of whom have
since risen to prominent positions
in Chinese and American - based
businesses in China.
That program, affiliated with
China's Dalian University of Tech nology, ended after funding from
the U.S. Department o f Co m m erce expired.
The management school 's deci sion to laun ch another program in
China reflects its belief that the
count ry in the next few years will

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overcome its economic troubles to
continue as a major player in th e
global marketplace, said Thomas.
"In the next century, China will
have a critical neel:l for executives
familiar with Western -style man agement practices," Thomas said.
" By providing the Chinese with a
top -notch management educa tion, we not only wl!J help China
advance its business goaJs, we will
be improving U.S. access to the
Chinese ~arketplace."

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~edualtiool.­
not only- help CNna ad-

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Improving u.s.-

to the O*&gt;ese ..-etp~Ke. "
JOHN THOMAS

The two -year program , de signed fo r executives with a t least
fi ve years of work experience. will
be taught in Engli sh by UB fa c ·
ulty members who will travel to
China to teach courses in two-week
modules. Renmin facu lty experi enced in Western business practices
also will teach in the program.

T he School of Management also
operates an Executive MBA program in Singapore, established in
1994, which has en ro lled more
than 80 executives and will gradu
ate its first class in March.
..The UB management degree
ca rries co n siderab le weig ht in
Asia," says Thomas.
Startup of the Execu tive MBA
program in Beijing is aided by a
S200,000 grant from global gas
manufacturer, Praxair. which Op·
erates six joint ventures a nd two
wholly owned co mpanies in As1a .
Lewis Mandell . dean of the
School of Managemen t. says that
the ne w program will hel p the
school build importa nt new relation ships in Chin a. He plans to
link the Beijing program with tht'
school 's do mestic MBA program,
which would create opportun iti es
for student s to stud y in Ch ina. a!&gt;
well as pursut' career opportuni ties with C hi nest' busi nesses and
with U.S. businesses tha t have en
tered o r see k tn enter th t• Chmt·se
marketplace.
"We also hope to use o ur ex per ti se a nd access in China to a id lo
ca l, regional a nd natio nal co mpa ·
nies that want to lea rn more about
d oing business in that co untr y,''
Mandell added .

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Lawre~ce Castellani r~signs
as chair of UB Council
Lawrence C••tell•nl. ch•lr of the UB Council, has resigned h1s
posi tion. effective Sept. I.
In an August letter to Thomas Egan, chair of the SUNY Board of
Trustees., Castellani said that he had accepted a position as president
and chief executive officer of Ahold Support Services, South America.
and will be headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina_
.. , am not comfortable maintaining such an important
leadership role at UB knowing that I will not be readily
accessible o r available to state. universit y and volun teer
leaders." Castellani wrote.
CAJTBJ.ANI
Castella ni. former president a nd ch1ef executive officer
of Tops Markets, In c.• a subsidi a ry of the D ut ch firm Royal Ahold
NV, was appointed to th e UB Council by Gov. Geo rge E. Patak.i m
January 1996_ He was named chair by Pataki in January 1997.
Castellani noted that during his term on the council, the group de ·
veloped a closer and more effective relationship with the SUNY Board
of Trustees, and worked closely with President William ll Greiner and
his staff to advance the university's mission and successfully execute a
plan for two state-of-the-art student housing complexes.
.. The council 's important leaders hip role is vital to the success of
the University at Buffalo a nd to ensuring that UB remain s a topflight, nationally respected resea rch university," he said. " I am con fident that the council's highly skilled and co mmitted mem bersh 1p
will continue to strengthen th e university."
Castellani has been affiliated with the Boa rd of Trustees of the
UB Foundation, Inc., sln ce 1986 and served as chair from 1993 -96.
He was named Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year by the UB
School of Management in 1995 .

PS&amp;UA seeks proposals
for Facu1ty Development
Public Service Initiative Ill
I

The Offke of the VIce Pre1ld ent for Publk Service and Urban
Affairs is seeki ng proposals fo r its Faculty Development Publi c Service Initiative.
The purpose of the initiative 1s to provid e UB faculty with opportunities to engage in scho larly resea rch a nd/o r new service project~
that a re designed to consider and en ha nce the ro le of public service
in the unive rsity.
Preference will be given to innovative proposals for new projects that
integrate scholarship with the university's public-service mission and/
or promote faculty application of scholarship directed to public needs
through development of related activities, such ¥service learning, teach·
ing or direct involvement with the university's various communities.
A limited number of projects will receive funding of up to $10,000,
and must be completed by Dec. 15. 1999. Deadline for submiss ion
o f proposals is 5 p.m. Nov. 2. Awards will be announced on Dec. I 5.
Applications for the initiative, including its objectives and guidl• lines fo r developing award proposals, a re available in dea ns' offices.
department chair offices. the Office of the Vice President for Public
Serv ice and Ur ban Affa ir s a n d o n the PS&amp;UA Web s itl·,
&lt;wlngs.buff•lo.edu / psu•/fdpsb .
For more informtUIO"· call 645 -2097

UB parking lots to be reserved
for Colin Powell lecture
A number of UB p•rklng lots, mcluding lots loca ted on the south
side of the academic spine, will be reserved starting at 3 p.m . today
for patro ns who will be att ending th1s evening's Distinguished Speak
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Joi nt Chiefs of Staff d uring the Persian Gu lf War.
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N this el Nino year, library
workers and users may be
endangered by books made
toxic by infectious or irritat ·
ing residue left by floods.
fires and age, say UB librarians.
Such residue, sometimes invisible
to the eye, is produced by 8ood water
oontaminated byS&lt;Waj!eor industrial
waste. or by the interaction of books
or other library materials
with intense heat, smoke
and the water or chemjcaJs
U5ed to put out a fire.
Kathleen Ddaney, an assistant librarian in the An:hives,
is n=rching lilxvy disaster
preparedness, but what she has
to say applies to personal libraries and rollections as wdL
Delaney says that besid~
flood water and fire. other
threats to a library include
mildew, mold, fungi and
insects, all of which can destroy entire coUections.
Corinne Jorgenson, assistant professor of library studies, cites the danger from insecticides sprayed on coUecrionssent to the U.S. forsafekreping during World Warn
and book coUections traded
by European nations for tracto rs during the era of the
Marshall Plan and later.
These materials often are
very toxic to humans. which
wasn't realized at the rime,
she says. And they remain so,
capable of making users sick many,
many years after handling them.
Book residue of aoy age can be allergenic as wdL R&lt;cmtly, while catlloging the Archives' t..ov. Canal collection, Delaney developed an allergic ram on her arms due to _a chemical reaction produoed by 20 years of
interaction between printer's ink and
newspaper; l(s not the sort of thing
that usually would be considered
dangerous, but goes to show that librarians protect the stacks at risk. if
not to life. at least to limb.
Fungi can spread throughout an
entiremllection, often before anyone
knows they're there. Donna Serafin,
preservation offi~ for the nine UB

Student

L~adenhlp

Libraries, say&gt; that it doesn't take a
8ood or leak to bring on mold bloom
"Fungi can develop after materials
are dampened by smaU ceiling leaks
or by a sprinkler symm that goes off
by mistake." she says. "Evon damp or
humid weather can cause a mold
bloom, particularly if air-conditioning units break down as they sometimes do during a long siege of very
hot weather~ we've seen this year
in many regions of the country."

cal research on the haUucinogenic
effects of old books. Delaney agrees.
however, that a casual stroll
through &lt;Veil very moldy stacks is
unlikely to send you Oying.
ubrary disaster also can be proW&gt;ked bybook-chompinginsectsand
vermin, which wuallyareattract&lt;d by
food,a&lt;XJJI'CiinstoDdaney.Tha(swby
smart libraries allow no eating in tbe
5laCb.
Cockroaches, disease-vectou

Delaney -.s, "Sane organic tm:-·
those produoed by the ergot
fungus, can evtn produce haUucinarions in librarians aod researchers
handling contaminated books."
R.J. Hay, one of England's leading myoologists, agrees. In an article
published in the British medical
journal The Lancet last year, Hay
wrote that, even at the levels found
in contaminated Hbraries, ergot
spores can, indeed, mal« you daffy.
"Many great literary figures," he
wrote, "may have been 'insp~ed' by
inhaling spores from moldy books."
No one knows how much library
time it would tal« to become high
because there has been no empiri-

that thrive in dark, moist an:as, are
the most troublesome of the five
most common library pests aod
are very hard to eliminate. she says.
.. They transmit disease, consume
all sorts of paper and bipding materials, especially those containing
pastes and glues, and can surviv~
by eating crumbs and other dead
insects., including one: another:
she says, adding that insects often
foUow widespread fire or flooding.
"Librarians work very hard to
save their coUections before and after a disaster strikes," Delaney says.
"but these thinp often affect hundreds of small bbraries at the same
time-most with neither the staff,

ins,~

apertiK nor equipment todetmify
their damaged docummts.•
Fortunately, written disaster-pr&lt;paredne$5 plans can offer added
protection, often ensuring that
threatened oollectioos are ovacuated
in time to prevent serious dam.oge.
" For instance, wet boob and
documeots need to be packed out
to freeurs within 48 hours to kill
bacteria and prevent mold, mildew and insect infestation,•
Delaney says. "When an
entire community is un der water or fire-dam aged, however, there is
often neither the time
nor freezers avaibble for
library emergency use.•
She says that for that
reason, contact lists an a
good part of disaster preparedness, since bbrarians
&amp;om other towns or regions usually are available
to assist the book evacuation and dean-up effort,
and commercial operators can provide refrigerated trucks and commercial fiee:un for temporary
use.
Do the UB libraries
have a disaster plan in
place! "Oh yes! " says
Delan~eck out the
UB Libraries' Central
Technical Services (crs l
link on the bbraries Web
site. .. It's very compreheruive. It's tl)e work of
many bbrarians here aod
covers a multitude of
contingencies. It's all very lijgh
tech, of course," she adds, "but we
also have it on paper in case the
electricity goes OUL•
"First, - evacuate tbe p«lpie. o{
wwse," she says. "Naa,pch lilxvy
willsaveitsirrepla&lt;zable~

the )ames lo!&lt;z, Darwin Martin, History of Medicine and RJiisb colloctions, the archit.ctural slide mllocrion,
original musical srores and other
documents. Theoe all are prioritiud
and cited by specific location.
.. When it's over, we'll all meet at
the flaiJ&gt;Oie and after I 0 minutes,
look for hundreds of librarians at
Starbucks."

Development Center

Faculty, staff urged to use leadership resources
By MAliA McGINNIS
News Sefvices Editorial Assistant

approac hes its oneear anniversary, the
t udent Leadership
evelopment Center
is encouraging faculty and staff. in
addi tion to students, to utilize its
offerings as a professional-devel opment resource.
Located in 230 Student Union,
the center specializes in address·
ing leadership concerns and in fostering individual and group lead ership development for the entire
UB community. The center offers
training and guidance on such
topics as listening skills, conflict
management, creativity, diversity.
conducting meetings, publi c
speaking and teamwork.
"Students are still our main focus and will always come first,"

noted Frank Ciccia, director of
student leadership development.
.. But if professors and other university professionals are able to
take on an enhanced leadership
role, it will en;tble them to better
meet the needs of students."
According to Ed Brodka, assistant director of student leadership
development. several departments
and offices on campus are moving
from a hierarchical structure to
more of a team -oriented structure:.
"We can point them in the right
direclion ," said Brodka. "We don 't
teach 'how to be a bener boss' but
rather how to form coalitions and
partnerships with people lo in crease the effectiveness of a group.
If faculty and staff are working
better in a team structure, then
they will be more effective in how
they deal with students."

Brodl&lt;a and Ciccia noted that
they have an extensive list of resources, including books, videos.
audiotapes and CD-ROMs.
They emph¥ized that with the
increasing emphasis on intensive
teamwork in the classroom, as weU
as within individ ual departments,
it is extremely important that everyone in the UB community is
able to take on a leadership role in
different settings.
According to Brodka, the resources on conducting mutings
are the most pop ular wi th UB
employtes and students. "No one
really talks about how to meet.
People love it because we have
guides on everything from how to
formuJate an agenda to tips on
running a productive meeting."
All of the services and resources
provided by the center are fr« to

the UB community. "We are not
trying to sell a book, an idea or a
concept, but rather trying to meet
the needs and concerns of students, farultyandstaffhereat UB,"
noted Ciccia. "We're encouraging
the staff to use the materials in the
center and to take advantage of the
trained student consultan ts we
have on staff...
Some leadership development
workshops being offered this fall
include: .. Running an Effective
Meeting" (Sept. 28 ), "Tune Management Strategies for Succc55"'
(Oct. 14 ), "Successful Teams"
(Oct.27) and "Skills to Diffuse aod
Resolve Conflict" (Nov. 3 ).
For more information, contact
the Office of Student Life at 6456125 or e-mail the Student Leadership Development Center at
&lt; felldubeacsu.bllff•lo.edu &gt;.

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and organs last weekend,
waU1g for:,_ owners in
a sale conducted by
Baldwin, which provides
pianos for the CFA

School violence: beyond fistfights
Ewing advocates :zero-tolerance policy in "UB at Sunrise" talk
By RON CHUIICHIU
Reporter Staff

V

IOLENCE in America's

schools

isn't

just

"pushing, shoving and
Cistfights" anymore,
Charles Patrick Ewing, professor
of law and adjunct professor of
psychology, told a record-br6il5lig
crowd at .. UB at Sunrise."
Serious school violence has. become a "national epidemic" in the
past 10 years, he said during tbe
Sept. 16 talk, which was titled,

\

.. Preventing and Responding to
Violence in Our Schools.·
Ewing made his point by citing
several recent high -profile school
shooting ·cases, including one in
March in which two studenr.s:'agrii
13 and II , are charged witb staging a false fire alarm and ambush-

ing students exiting a schooJ in
Jonesboro, Ark., killing four students and a teacher and wound ing I 0 otber students.
Among...,..,..)otbeoCilUDples,he
also cited a ca5e in May in Oregon
where a 15-yar-old boy allegedly
sprayed his high-school cafeteria
witb automatic gunfire, killing two
students and injuring 22 otben.
"These incidents all occurred in
rural or suburban areas," Ewing
said ... The message sums clear:
This can happen anywhere.•
But Ewing pointed o.ut tbat tbe
location of violence in a school .. in
many cases is Httle more than a coincidence. I say tbat because school
viol~nce is r:t;a!Jy part of a much
larger problem of juvenile violence,
and schools are where juveniles
spend most of tbeir waking hours.

.. Today, our nation is faced with
an epidemic of juvenile violence,"
Ewing said. .. The rate of violent
crime committed by juveniles in
tbe United States has quadrupled
over tbe last quarter of this century.
.. On a percentage basis,.. Ewing
said, tbe lilcelihood that a child will
be killed in a school today is "minuscule." One federal study estimates that an American child now
has less than a one-in-a-miJiion
chance of dying a violent death in
school, he added.
"The much greater problem today is ... the non-lethal violence- in
our schools," Ewing said, like assault , robbery and rape . Citing
another study, he said, "O ne out
of every 200 children will be the
victim of a serious or potentiall y
serious vioiC'n t crimC' at school
during any given school year .
That 's a large number."
He also said he expects "the youtb
violence problem will get mu ch
worse before it begins to get bener.
.. Some schools have developed
zero-tolerance policies for all acts of
violence, however serious, and I ad ·
vocate that as well: Zero tolerance
for violence in our schools. Period."'
A5 causes of juvenile and school
violence, Ewing cited an increast
in child abuse and neglect, vio ·
lence in the enter·
tainment media ,
mental illness in
child ren and in ·
creased substa nce
abuse among high
school students.
Of the man y
warning signs of a
potentially d an ·
gerous student ,
s pe cia l concern
should be given to
st uden ts
who
make verbal th reats to kill or harm
others, Ewing said .
.. That seems to be the biggest rcri
flag. For example, in all of the recent school shootings. the juvenile
perpetrators have warned others 111
advance of their deadJy o utbursts."
Ca n vioiC'n ce in schools be d1
minished ?
'Tve tx.•en advocatmg...a pubh(
health modd for pr~ventlon of
school violence," Ewing sa1d. A5 part
of his model, he mentioned mak. ·
ing violence pr('Vention part of the
curriculum, having administrator..
assess the risk of violence m the1r
schools. and taking a closer look at
st udents who fit the risk c.a tegones.

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seniors, the disabled. vegetanans. and gay and lesbian travelers, as well
as links for those interested in_storm chasing, ecotours, kayaking, etc
Several sites prov1de online counterparts to print travel guide~.
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phone numbers and addresses, along with park maps and mform a
tion about fees, reservations and d 1scount p rograms.
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airlines, check the Mining Company's Web Guide to A1r Travel, wh1 ch
maintains a list of airline Web sites.
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BrieBy
Conference to examine legacy
of Love Canal
It has been 20 years since famihes we re C'Vacuated from Love Ca nal in Niagara Falls. How far has the environmental movement come
smcc then . and how has the evacuation affected policy?
National and regional experts from academia, industry. govern ·
ment and citizens' groups will d1scuss the legacy of Love Canal at
"The Twentieth Anniversary of Love Ca nal: Lessons Learned" on
Oct. 8-9 on the North Campus.
Vice President Gore has bem invited to address the oonfercnc.eon Oct. 9.
Issues to be discussed include how Love Canal has shaped en\'lron mental mO\'emcnts and how it has affected industriaJ poli cy. public
policy and law. Panelists also will examine Love Ca nal's h1story. UB's
response to the cns1.~ and research mt o science and heal th nsks.
The conference 1s sponsored tw the UB EnvlfCmment and SoC!el\'
Institute , the UB School of Law, the La \'~-' School Mitchell Lel-t urc
Fu nd and the Buffalo Envrrottrrrer~ t al Law /oumal.
Registration. including lun ch o n fridav, IS $20. t-or m nH· mfor
mat ion, contact Errol Meidinger at M 5-:! I ;q

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simplify data access, reporting
The Administrative Computing Services section m Computm g
and Information Technology has se lected a new, Web -based svstem
fo r general data access and repo rting at the umvers1ty.
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access and reporting at UB. It will be used for such anformauon 35 da~
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the common administrative problems. In add ilJon, the system a..:com
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( ( STURDAY morning cartoons were my catechism,•
says artist Mark Dean
Veca. .
That influence becomes obvious
when you view Veca's latest twostory-tall apocalyptic mural covering all four walls-and then
some-of UB's LightweU Gallery
in the Center for the Arts.
Described as "a great liquid blob
hurtling through space and suspended against the gallery wall
moments btfore impact,"' the as-

tonishing acrylic mural covers
about 3,000 square feet of the gallery. The New York City artist says
it is the largest and most cballenging insJallation of his career.

Veca, who spent 300 hours over
a five-week period maneuvering
his' way around every inch of the
gallery in a boom lift that &lt;:xtended
him 35 feet into the air, is known
for his impressive floor-to-ceiling
installations characterized by popsurrealist, cartoon-like images.

UB's .. El Gloominator"' is no exception.
Viewers see asteroidal figure

Upon entering the room, onlookers are confronted with an asteroidal figure frozen in space a few
feet above the gallery floor. A series of red, orange and yellow hues
shadow each other in rainbow order to provide a horizon -like backdrop for the dripping, liquefied
object. The walls that surround the
site of impact are paint~ with vast
"gmnos." Veca calls them---&lt;leep,
cave-like areas adding a "gloomy;
mysterious spirit to the piece captured by its name.
·
UB Art Gallery Director AI Har·
ris discovered Veca this past spring
at a Hall~s show and commissio ned him to take on the
lightwell Gallery. The artist, after
observing the verticality of the
gallery space, decided to create a
piece that wouJd emphasize gravity as a vertical force.
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crash into the gallery floor
achieves the desired effect and
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with the elements of depth and
repetition.
Expressionist, pop-art Influences

In addition to his inspiration
from cartoons. Veca notes that be
has been influenced by the work
of abstract expressionist Philip
Guston and Los Angeles pop-an .
ist Edward Ruscha.
Other works by Veca include a
repetitive rendition of the cartoon character Popeye's disem bodied forearm and fist , on dis play earlier this year in The
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tion of contemporary Toronto
art tided ._Version City,• curated
by jobo Massier of Toronto.
•version City" features video,
large-scale sculpture, pbotosra;
phy, paintings and prin ts that
demonstrate bow the artists represented in the exhibit often unconsciously reflect the problematic condition of Canadian identity in their work.
Both exlubits will open tomorrow night with a naptioo to be
held from 7-9 p.m. in ibe gallery.
Veca's mural will remain in the
lightwell Gallery until june 30,
1999. "Venion City" will be on display until Dec. 20.

But there are many other types
of systems in the university.
Inn us noted that it is individual
researchers in the university who
are of highest concern.
"They're doing research with
ve ry specialized equipment and
software and nobOdy except those
individuals is in a position to do
an assessment," he said
In addition, servers and local
area networks in individual departments are extremely difficult
to assess in terms of compliance.
The Y2K working gmup will be
working to identify an integrated
method of conversion. There may
be, for example, an advantage to
sharing compliance software
among departments that use the
same programs.
Systems managers warn that

even though .some vendors may
claim that their products are compliant, that may not always be true.
meetings of the Y2K ~
gional gmup. ofwhich she is a member, I..az.arus said participants dis·
cussed the fact that while Miaosoft
Excel and A= are described as
compliant, cutain sp&lt;cific functipns
of each packaf;e are not.
These are the kinds of idiosyncrasies that will surfuce,she noted, only
when people begin to undertake the
cornx:tive actions on their systems.
a step that the working group
strongly r=mmends units should
be activdy imolved in almody.
Lazarus summed up why the
Year 2000 problem is so mystifying.
"We won't really know enctly
how we are going to be affected,
until jan. I, 2000," she said.

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KravetsfWebby and PS 122 galleries.
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stitute of Panons School ofDesign
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a variety of equipment that may or
may not be IT-related,such as a chip
in an elevator that tracks maintenance based on the (late, medical or
laboratory equipment, even VCRs.
.. The first area we have ad dressed, by and large" said lnnus,
noting that the campus' transition
seven' years ago to an IBM system
made these systems compliant.
The other three areas remain a
co ncern, he said.
.. Things literally may not work
o n Jan. I, 2000," said Inn us.
And while it is perhaps difficult
to imagine, syslems as basic and
pervasive as telephones could be
among those that are affected, he
said. In some cases, it may just be
that the display on the telephone
will simply read the wrong date. On

the other hand, where the date is
tied to the electronics of the phone,
the whole system could f.UI, he said.
"When we do have failures in
January 2000, our customers are
no t really going to care whether or
not it 's because it's part o f a central or decentralized system," he
said... They will simply see it as an
institutional failure."
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inventories and assessments of the
types of systems that could be impacted, including how compliance
can be achieved and how much time
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sys tems that are s upported by
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mmputing and information technology, making computers available to student&gt; wbo cannot afford theDi is part of the student

T 's UB'o high-tech twiJt on
the autornotive "chop obop.'"
a home for orphaned and dys- access initiative.
functional computers when:
But with new machines running
they are made whole again and put at least $1 ,000 each, the univenity
back to work somewhere at UB.
ia simply unable to provide needy
UB ROCS (University at Bufstude-nts with new ones.
falo Recycles Old Computers), a
*Instead. we will be relying on
program coordinated by Mike
ge-nerous gifu like this one from
Rott and Frank Bartscheck of
Computing and Information
Technology and staffed mostly by
student., has to date been responsible for rehabilitating 369 compu!erJ, printea and related equip.....,..... _ _..lllllloe
ment. Most of the old machines
came from offices on campus that
were upgrading equipmenL
This semester, the program has
expanded its efforts ro accept donated computer components from
off-campus and Rich Products
Rlch ProductS, as well as on our
Corp.• the family-owned, Buffalo- ?_wn ability to.reqcle-and refurbased frozen food company, has
biah machines," he said.
stepped up as the first participant,
In addition to UB ROCS, the
donating more than IOOusedcomrepair facility at
headed by
putea ttnhe- university.
Ron Cichocki will participate in
rehabilitating old computer comRich Product's donation is a response to· the announcement last
pc;nents for stude-nts io ~made
spring of UB's new student ac:ceSs - -~Yanable through UBMicro, the
initiative. whid! requil&lt;s that, start- · lln-campus conspu~ store.
ing om fall. all incoming freshmen
Rich said he hopes his company
have aa:ess to a computer.
has begun a new trend in Weste-rn
UB President William R.
New York.
Greiner said "the deptll. of Rich •
"We hope that othl'f companies
Product's commitment to the
in the Buffalo aiea will consider
growth and development of our· donating their
students is outstandin!.
used cmnoatei·~
"This innovative alliance besyste-ms as they
tween UB and Rich Products will
continue their
have a lasting and important impact tech no Iogical
on our students," he added "UB i.s
advancements
very grateful to Rich Products for in their own orthe leadership role it has taken with
ganizations," he
this project and for its continued said. "Technolsupport of the uni\omity~
"'President Greiner has created
a vision for all students at UB to
have access to a computer for their
course work, beginning in 1999,"
said Robert E. Rich , Sr., chairman
of Rich Products Corp. "As Rich's
moves forward in expanding its
own technology, we felt that by
donating our used but full y
upgradeable equipment, we could
make our computers available for
those students in need."'
According t·o Hinrich R. Martens, associate vice president for

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drives, as well as mooito11 that have
been recycled through the UB ROCS
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The four- and five -year-old
machines easily will sati•fy the
needs ofUB students wbo will require basic spreadsheet and word processing capabilities, as well as
Internet acce-ss and e-mail.
UB officials are developing criteria to determine which students will
be eligible ro ~ a refurbished
computer; all such students will
need to demonstrate a "dear and
convincing need," said Martens.
It is hoped that by the end of
the semester, the refurbi shed
computers from Rich Products
will be made available ro needy
students through a pilot program.
Staff and students at UB ROCS
and CIT Repair are well into the
process of upgrading and testing
the computers, giving the students
an "u!Kiose-and-persooal" opportunity to learn about electronics.
"These stude-nt workers get to
learn about working on computers with none of the downsides,
because thefre not working on
new machines; said Rott.
The jobs are in high -demand ,
with a waiting list of applicants.
And, Rott noted, there's another
payoff: •Every computer we recycle is one less in the landfills."

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WOMEN' S

UB 3, M arshall I
UB 0, Ohio U. t
The SuUs women's soccer ceam was victorious In ia: first Mtd-Amenan
Conlenence contost u ~ downed visiOn&amp; Ma&lt;&gt;hall. 3-1. on 5opt. 18. but lncun-ed
ia: first km of the season w undefeated MAC powerhouse, Ohio UniYersity.
1-0. on 5opt. 20.
Senior co-apuln Tr&gt;cey Britton netted ~pis to ..cure !he
win lor Coach Jean Tusy$ "l"'d opnst Manhalt.
Sophomore Heather eo.ins became the first UB athlete to be honored by
the MAC when she was named che
week on Sept. 15

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women's soccer pbrer-of-the-

MEN 'S

UB 2, Adelphl 0

UB 4, C anisius l
UB 0, Siena. 2

During ;a week of pmes on the road, the: Bulls men's soccer team rTlO'o'ed to 7-2
on the season as it defeated UntWs.+-l.on Sept. 16,shut out Adelphi. 2-0. on
Sop. 19. and finally lost to Siena. 2-0.on Sept. 20.
Aplnst Untstus, junior forward SteVe Butcher domina.ted the Gokien
Griffins and led hb squad to .nctory with u.,.. pis. ndudmg !he game-wWme&lt;.
and one assist. 8ut.c::her me netted an unassisted pl in the shutout a.pinst
Adelphi. Sophomore forwanj rm 5ongeo- had • goal and an .,.;n In !he c.rus.u.
pme and abo lounjl me bade ollhe net m&lt;he Adelphi outing.
Senior goalte and co-apain Jim Schoenbuf1 recorded his third shutout In
&lt;he 19'18 ampaT&gt; &gt;p~nnAdelphl.

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WOMEN 'S
UB 35, Cornell 4 7, C o lpte 61, Syracuse 88

Faculty invited to take part in Family Weekend activities

The women's aoss CCUltJ"Y team receiYed top honon. at the UB Tnangubr Meet.
""""'&amp; 35 polna.(Comeii47.Colpte 62.Synruse 88). Coach Dldc Bony$...,;,.
was poced by junior )enniler Foldo!mer. who pbced &lt;tUrd with a ...., ol 1852110
).nlor Marie Maander lolowed closely and ln.hed "'""" at 19:02.70

MEN'S

To •II memben of the unlvenlty community:

UB 30, Cornell SO, Syracuse 60 , Colgate 86

The university's' annual Family Weekend will be Oct. 9- 11 . This exciting weekend provides an opportunity
for parents and family members to share part of the US ..experience .. with their son, daughter or family
member. The festivities will include Division I athletics, lectures by faculty and administrators, Sunday
brunch and an evening of comedy with Elayne Boosler and Anthony Clark on Saturday.
You are more than welcome to take part in any of th ese activities. Tickets for the comedy show are S 15
advance purch~ and $16 day oft he show. They can be pu rchased at the Center for the Arts Box Office, the
Student Union Ticket Office and through Ticketmaster.
As you schedule exams. we ask that you be sensitive to those undergrad uat es who will be spend ing tim e
with their families throughout Family Weekend.
If you have any questions or conce rns., please contact the Office of St udent Life at 645-6 125.

The men' "l"'d abo won ;a meet with 30 pooncs.lollowod by Cornell (50).
Synruse (60) and Colpte (86).The Bulls cWmedlh&lt; top two finisher spoo "'
the race as sophomore Tony David (26:04.90) edged out tealTVT\ate 1un101"
Patrick Nolan (26:07 .50) for the victory in the men's 8.000 meter run

- Shelby H• rrl• ""d Toby Sh•plro, Office of Student Life

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The men's tennb squad defeated host Niapn. 7-0, on Sept. 17 8udi SuRnto.
Onk:e Murdono. &amp;n McGrath and Justin 8ido:l ~ch horod '&lt;'tCtOneS 1n bcxh thetr
singles and doubles matthes.

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                    <text>Student
Spirit
How do you spell school
spirit? These two display
their UB letters life-sized and
skinside at a pre-game
celebration before the Bulls'
home opener Saturday.
Fortunately, it was a warm
day-and the Bulls won
handily, 40-1 7, over Lock
Haven.

An IT 'revolution' sweeps through UB
Ambitious technology initiative gives competitive edge to university, students
By E1.LEN COOlDBAUM
News Services Editor

U

NTIL a couple of

week.s ago, the informa-

tion t~chnology rev_olu ion sweeping through
UB was a relatively quiet one.
More than 400 sparkling new
co mputers equipped with the
Windows NT opera ting syste m

and numerous text and graphics
software packages had been in stalled in refurbished public labs.
disk space for students had been
increased I 0 -fo ld, the number o f
modems had nearly doubled , open
ports fo r laptops were in place and
the most robust password securit y
sys tem avail able a nywhere h ad
been install ed on the universit y
network.
In most of the publi lab s,
though , screen s were blank and

mo uses were stationary.
AJithat changed wh en stud ent.!&gt;
returned to campus.
Just ask Emily Krey, a senior in
electrical engineering and supervisor of the new Bell Hall Com puting Lab. no w open 24 ho urs
nearl y eve ry day.
" During peak hours. thi s place
can be insane! " she said. Dunng
so me a fternoons, she added , there
have bee n m o re student s wh o
want to usc the machin es th an
there a re comput ers.
.. These are so conveni ent," sa u.i
C.athenne Jacob, a se ni o r in me
chanicaJ and aerospace engineer•
ing, noti ng that p revious ly, engl neeringstude.nts had to usc- a room
that sometimes housed classes. so
it was impossible to predid when
machines would be availahle.
It 's a fa r c ry from last semester.

when Bell 10 1 was full o f anCient
terminals that onl y offered e - ma il
and simple word processing.
The 350 brand-new, 266 mega·
hertz computers sitting in the pubfic
sues .on campus and th e 70 SUN
work statio ns in BeU Hall an: JUSt o ne
piece of an ext remely broad rr strat egy fashioned by UB and supported
h y a co mbinatio n of m stitutlo nal
fu nds and student tt'Ch no logy fee-..
"U B has co mm itt ed itse lf to us
m g IT to 1t s co mpetit ive- advan tage ," ~a 1 d H1nn ch R. Martens, as '&gt;O(Ia te vacc p res1dcnt fo r co mput
mg a nd mformat1o n techn o logy.
O nt&gt; aspeCI o f whal m akes IT al
U H specia l. he sa id , b the lead ershi p fr o m the se na o r admm astra
t ive level th at is re nec ted Ill tht•
h1gh le vel of s t a ndardn~ a 11 0n
am o ng IT serv1ces, a be nefi t th at
1mpacts studt·nt s da rectl y.

At so m e o th e r ca mpu se!l , fo r
exa mpl e, student s d~ahng 111 fro m
off-campus face limitati o ns 111 rc
so urces to whi ch th ey have access.
" Beca use o f o ur adh e re nce- to
)tanda rds, UB students arc t:on nected to us m thC' sa m e way, w1 th
access to id entica l resources, m cl udm g e- m a il a nd the Internet.
whethe r th ey a rc sitti ng 111 t ht'
dorms. us mg a pu bhc sJte on ~o.am
p us, o r d 1aling- m from off- ~..am
pus," Mart ens sa1d .
'
··we never had eno ugh resou n.e!1
tu support a nyth1n g hut a fu lh·- m teg ra ted ce ntra li zed computa ng
enviro nm ent." he sa id. " Th is put s
us where we want to bC', am o ng the
hest umversltit'.!l 111 th e nat10 n."
T h &lt;.· maj o r foc us o f UB'.!&gt; IT
!olrategy fo r Fall 1999 is th e student
access llllttatl~t' requiTing all 111

c-tlnued- ,..,. •

Greiner's report past highlights, future initiatives
By SUE WUET&lt;HER

News Servkes Aisociate Director

RESIDENT William R.
Greiner reported on t he
highlights of the past academic year a nd looked
ah ead to the upco ming year and
beyo nd in his annual address to
the votin g faculty on Sept. 9 .
Among th e major initiati ve!'&gt;
forecas t for the 1998-99 academi c
year, Greiner noted the review and
posSible reorganization of the prac
Lice plan in the Schoo l of Mcdicm e
and Biomedical Sciences, the incur·
porat ion of the Research lnstitutt~
on Addi ctions as a fr("(' · Sta ndm g
UB cen ter. the creati o n o f a task
fo rce addressmg issu e.!&gt; .J ffec tln g
underrepresent ed group!&lt;&gt; a nd a
shift in focus o f th e O ffi ce of tht•
Provost to ward graduatt•t'li ut .tllun
and sponsorcJ program s.
Before beginning his talk. ( ;rcmc:r
advised fa cull y member~ that nea-

P

ther hlS report on the past year no r
his observatio ns of the future wo uld
be complete "becau se th ere is so
much happening on campus ... that
there is no way to really effectivel y
encapsulate" everything.
He then po inted out the numcr
o us fa cult)' members who ha w t'l
th er retired , died o r left the untver
sit y for o ther posi tio ns. "We o we
much to those peo pl e," ht· sa aJ .
adding tha t vacanC!e!l sw: h as th esl'
w1ll leave UB wat h "extraord marv
turnover"-700 to 1.000 appomt
m ent .!l that might need to he m ade
ove r an e1ght ·o r-nme-year pcn od.
'"\\'hen \ 'O U look at the hst (of
pt&gt;tlplc who are no longer Jt UB I. rou
u nden.tanJ what a loss 11 I!&gt; for tht·
unavt•rsJt)' to havt' people who have
giVen so much to us over such a long
tame leave us:· he s.-tid, l:.tllmg 11 .1
"necessar)' as1x'Ct of a life t-yclc ot an
lllSlltUl!Oil like a WlJVt'TSll )'•
"To tho M' who lt&gt;aw. tho:-.r wh11

have helped to b udd the mstJtu tl o n to whcrt• tl as no w, we havt· an
o bLgat1o n to leave th1s placC' het
ter than W l' fo und 11."
Cr c 1n e r i.. h a ll e nged t a~.u l t\'
membe rs to "take full respo nsihtl
tt y for d ellv e r •n g o n tha :uhligatton ... a nd at the .!la me tllnt'
take advant agt· o l the o pportunm
lor renewal of th e unt vcrslt Ywh u:h
II pn:sent s to u~
Us1ng ove rht.•ad sli des to 111m.
t rate ht ~ pmnt.!l. ( ;rem t• r d eta il ed
h1 ghll g ht s o f th t· past aca d eml t
year. Amo ng them were:
• Ma1o r acad e ma ~. appom t mt"nt.!l
at the vKe pres1de ntta l and dccanal
level s. lo mm g UB \' 't' rl' Mu:hael
Be rna rd m o a!l v~ee prt•s adent lor
hl'a hh a ffat r!l, Lt'W IS Mand ell a !&gt;
dea n of the ~ h no l uf Man.1gem ent,
Jacqu el)'n Mitchell as dean of th e
l ;raJuate School o f 1·d ut JI IO I1 J nti
l ..:~ wrt· n ct· Shulm.m .J!&gt; J ea n o l the
( ,r,Jdu ,uc ~ dtonl of ~Q(I ,J] Work

Pro mo ted to leadn~ h• p po!&lt;&gt; atao n'
from wnh m t he- liR ran l !l " ·c-rt'
Demm Black J.~ V!Lt' prc.!&gt;ldt•n l for
st udent affa1r,, Barhara R1Wt1J J_,
dean of studen t.!&gt;, Kt~ r r\ l .r Jill ,, ,
dean of t he &lt; :o ll ~o.-geo l Ar t ~ and"'-'
c: n ~.t'!'&gt;, .mJ R. N il ~ t )\~en,,, dc.tn '' '
th e ~chon l o l I .1\,
Th t~se l l'adt~ r s h lp .lppotntmt·nt '
t.k mo nst ratt· that LlH I!'&gt; "'tJp.1hk ,,,
a tt r .K II n~ exce ll t•nt pt·opk Irom
nu tsadt· J nJ aJvarhtn~ t"\ l dk n t
pc-opk from wll hm ." ht· ,.ud
• lm plernt'n tat ton ol .1 nt·'-' Kt
so urce AJio~o.a u o n ~kthoJo l o~' b'
SUNY l;re !IH.'r lJIInl thl· llt' \'
meth oJ lo r allo ... .Jtln~ 'tJ !t' ' ·"
su pptl rt to tht' t..lmptl,l' ' ,1 'l·n
promas. mg Jl'Vt'lllpn\t'IH " ·\n lllll).:
th C' bt·nefits. ht· ))ault' th.11 undl'l
th e llt''-' mt• t ho d olo~\ . tht• ~. .H n
p U Sl,:!&gt; rt: t&lt;I IO th..- rt'Vt'nUC: tht'\ gt·n
erJtc . m ~. lu d a ng. tllll lOn .md kl''
• lmpl cnwn tat aon u l ,, li\l' ,l.•H

�BRIEFLY

Rebecca Bernstein is associate director
of publications and director of electronic media ·
at UB. A 1981 UB graduate, she became a member
of the professional staff that same year.

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I'm charged with developing UB's
online Interne-t presence. BecauS('
of the high volume of traffic we
get on UB's Web site (http://
- w.buffalo .... u )-about 5.6
million hits a month. with more
than two-thirds coming from outside ofUB-thc university funded
a Web team to show leadership in
developing .. best.. sites that promote UB to the outside world and
to create wonderful tools that
could be used by the entire UB online community to improve academic and administrative sites.
I'm the leader of that team.
Where does electronic medle
fit Into liB's needs and go.ls7

How people "shop" for higher education has changed over the past 10
years. Their needs and expectations, tfie demographic composi-

tion have shifted radically. Pan of
wha t has changed is influenced by
economics, competition, shrinking

financial-aid and scholarship pools
and higher customer-service expectations. The part that relates to
my job is the expectations of pro spective students, alumni, friends
and our own UB community that
the university will have a rich, in tuitive online presence.
Whet ere some of the projects
you 're wortdng on now7

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There arc so many I could fill this
entire paper. Some of the more interesting projects the Web team has
worked on are the online interactive
calendar &lt;http://www. buffalo.
edu/ . - -&gt;; the new site giving
directions to UB &lt;http://www.
buif e lo . edu / direction s &gt;;

Quick.Search, a fast "finding" service

&lt;http://www.buff•lo .edu /
-.Jotml&gt;;the News Services site
&lt;http :// www.buffalo .edu /
OMWS&gt; that bosu the latest infurmation promoting UB's accomplishments (my favorite thing about this
site is the new suhscription servia),
and the site that won a top national
award, UBcxplorcr &lt;http://
~. buffalo .... u/uplorer&gt;.
Coming up in the near future is an
admissions site that will gM a personalized portfolioofinfurmation to
proopecti&gt;-&lt; undergraduate students,
and a fully sean:habl&lt; campus map
that organizes infurmation both by
. buildings and the departments that
arc located in them.
How ' - Is your staff1

We have five COn! full-time lDCillbcrt
and a group of the most wonderful

ist before. The Web t.eam loves to

Web! US's Web is liU an cco-

cballcnging one.

systml; it's asllr&lt;&gt;ng as its weak-

olts-

What onoojor
}'OU rvn lnto7

have

That there are not enough n!SOuras
~toustodoallthethings t.ha1
- need to do to make eUB truly a
rustomerservice-orimtedsite,dlodr.
full of the n!SOUJ'a$ that everyone
needs. It filrcrs us to tum down opportunities that- would really..,....
to toke on. The good news is that~­
cryotherunivenity that- compctt
with is in a similar situation.
What' s }'OUr f.norlte- site
andwby7

Cybcrtimcs. the online only so:ction
of The New York 1i,.. &lt;http:/ /

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students on the plan et without

~.-:&gt; Forbreak­

whom we could not even begin to
talte on wbat we do, as well as partners all over campus who help us
shape and maintain the sites we create and support our infrastructun.

ing news,
ridingCNN,butto find
out how the world of technology is
being used and wbat into'esting issues are bei ng raised, 1 log into
Cybertimcs. The other thing is thai
it provides links to pta= that toke
me on wonderful non-linear adventures. If I can shamelessly plug. my
other faVorite sites are nuvs 007
shrine, &lt;http:/ /www.-.._./
Jboncl/ &gt;, because I am &lt;http:/ I
www: b== d PLCOift/&gt;,and UB
art gallery &lt;http://www.art
~.-.....~. all done by
Web-team studerits.

First and foremost among these

partner.; is Computing and Information Tcchnology(CIT).
Whet's the most exciting pert

of your Job7
I thrive on every project being a dif-

ferent set of challenges. I'm a person
who ahvays needs a
duolJcngc. I
love coming up with ideas and solving problems, the more unsolvable
the better. I also love technology. I've
been computing now since 1976and
am proud to be part of yet another
digital revolution.

new

Whet 's the most cheUenglng

part of your Job 1
Creat ing approaches to electronic
communications that did not ex -

What is your vision for UB's

create and the act of creation is a

rm

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··something people don't
}'OU- should?

I have an amazing 6-year-old

daughter, Dakota, who knows
more about computers than I do.
What question do you wish I
had asked, and how would
you hn"e enswered lt7

est link. All of tbe parts inteTr&lt;late and strengthen each
other. Content maintenance
should be distributed to the
people best able to maintain
accurate and timely infonnatio.n. For example, financial aid
should have the best, mosttimely, and accurate information on financial aid, ad.mis -

sions should have tbc .best information on how to apply.
Sites should link to that information 111thcr than taking precious resources creating it and
maintaining it themselves. We
should be moving to a more

dynamic. database-driven presentat ion whe re customized
contcnl is available fo r our &lt;visitors. UB's Web site should

provide a customer-friendly, intuitive environment where

people do not have to searcb for
the content they desire. For example, what if you went to a
mall and walked into a store to

buy a shirt, only to find that you
had to go to one store to find
the buttons and another to buy
the sleeves, and there were
things about the shirt that you
knew you needed but you could
not even begin to be able to
imagine what it was. Your expectation would be to walk into
a store and select a shirt indud·
ing everything you need off of
the rack. Similarly, we need lo
have a.site that builds information relationships between our
e. -visitors and all of the information that they are seeking,
and delivers the information to
them.

UB makes critical investment in electronic securitym
By Ell£N GOLDilAUM
News Services Editor

T

HE univ&lt;nity just spent
S I million to make its
campus computer network as secure as is technically possible. It was a big expense,
paid in part by student technology
f~d one that only a few other
universities have made. But, admin istrators note, it 's a step that all uni versities wiU have to take eventually.
"We are providing the best security
that current technology can provide,"
said Hinoicb Martens. associate vice
president for computing and information technology. He noted that the exponential growth in computer use by
stUdents for roursework. registration,
payments and access to grades and
other personal information has made
incre:osing electronic security critical
for universities. At the same time. the
multiple platforms. applications and
vendors in a university environment
make the process of implementing a
security policy extremely complex,
particularly sine&lt; different security applications cannot "taak" to one another.
lbe approacb UB has cbosen os
called "distributed computing environment," or OCE. Widely used in the

financial and high-tech sectors, it provides the best-known approadt to date
to facilitate aa:css to infonnation for a

laJgc community. DCE functions lilo!
a series of gates to various parts of the
nm.&lt;&gt;rk. To open a particular gate. a
user must go thmugh two identification procrsses; authentication and authorization Thefirstallowsthesystem
to verify the user's identity, based on

his or her password. The scoond allows the system to dctcrminctowhich
resources a user is privileged to have
acrcss. Both P"""""" are instantaneous as soon as a 1.l5er logs on.
Services at UBthat o:elyonDCEfor
authentication include SOAR. dial-up
Internet = . e-mail, public worlc.stations and Usenct news and UNIX.
"In most univenitics, students, fac-

Cybci'SfhlCC has rule\ of conduct

-on-.

UB
that problems with electronic mail and other
online seoviccs ""' r&lt;&gt;t limited to those re5VIting lrom deliberate attempts
to misappropriate inlonnaticon. As more and more people become proficient online (450,000 mail messages are sent loom and received by UB peoday!), the chances tO&lt; inappropriate use multiply.
Sometimes, it's a matter of not ~ng the ..rules" of conduct in
cyberspace. To disseminate irtonnation on •responsible use• ond to ooprimand individuals ~ use electronic """'"""" inappropriately, UB has assigned. ful~ computerdisciplinaty officer. "Mroy _ d o n , halle
anyone ..-.tooting the n.Jie, • said~ A&gt;derod, ~job k ~to '"'I"Jr1d to
c:omplair&lt;s. •0ur fiost approach is to educate people about. how to be responsible in their use of the Internet. •
Issues that t)'picaly come'-"..., the gamut loom off-topic oontJilutions to
specific~ to~ ot •mail boorbs" (v.twre somecnedelibe&lt;ately dekJges a maibox with incxlmng messages). Sometimes, Axlerod explained, people truly don't undeostand whars acceptable and whal's r&lt;&gt;t
on the Net "We toy to get them to realize that """"' you go out to the
Web, the .mole worid watches, • he said.
When a complaint about an individual is substantiated, the oeaction loom
UB is swift. "We immediately deactivate their accoun~ • said Axlerod. -E.G.

ulty and staff are burdened With remcmbcring,andk«pingsccurc.many
different usemarnesand passwords to
""""their dectronic otS&lt;JUltZS,. said
Daniel D. Anasjid, l,INIX system admil)istrator at UB. "Whiie other institutions struggl&lt; 10 integrate dispo.rate
securityanddirccuxyservices, UBcan
corx:mtrateon providing new and expanded services by building on a solid
security infrastructt="
DCE protects an individual's in formation through a complicated
encryption process. "We'vt: gone

to g=t lengths to ensure that private materials for our students are
just that private; said Rick Lesniak.
director of academic services.
Whenever students, facult y or

staff forget their password, th ey
must obtain a new one, which re quires an in -person visit to th e
computing center on campus. The
DCE environment is only as secure
as an individual's password. All

members of the UB community are
reminded to keep tbeir passwords
private and' to cbangc them periodically. To do so, log onto UNIX
and usc tbc "passwd• command or
visit the CIT homcpage at &lt;http:/
/ www.dt.buffalo.edu&gt;.

�Technology in the classroom: unusual? No, it's the norm
lly SUE WUETOIU
NI!W$ Services Assod.Jtt Director

K

OUGH universal ac·
ess to computing will
ot be implement&lt;d ofcially until next fall ,
use of techn ology in th e classroom
"is prospering at UB.
Faculty members are using tech nology in a vari&lt;ty of ways, ranging
from creation of Web sites on which
instructors post course materials. to
listseris to facilitate class c:liscussion,
to accessing the Web during class,
to US&lt; of software packages designed
by faculty members to complement
specific courses.
In fact, usc o f even the simplest

telhnology-posting co urse ma terials on thew~ become so
commonplace that .several faculty

members co ntact ed by th e Reporter doubted that what they are
doing can be called "innovative."
" I assume these practices are
common around the ca mpu s,"
no tes a member of the Depart -

use of technology, and that "five
years from now, U B will bt" a very

different place."
Although statistics on the number of faculty members using some
kind of technology in the classroom

teaching skills have not improved
just because he is incorporating
computers into his lesson plans,

thinking about how to use technol ogy in instruction has, indeed, im·

proved his teaching.

art not available, a ..sizable campo·

"Thinking about how computers

nent of the faculty already has begun to move in this direction," says
)o5&lt;ph Tufariello, senior vice pro-

and technology might be u..d in

vost for educational technology,
adding" that there are cenain disci·

plines, such as chemistry, where U5&lt;
of technology is "fairly extensive."
Tufariello calls un iversal com ·
puting access and the use of tech ·
no logy in the classroo m "the wave
of the future," with many univer·
siti es beginnin g to mo ve in this
direction. Alth o ugh UB is not the
first university to require univer·
sal access, it is .. running with the

front of the pack," he says.
Among those UB faculty members who have been in the .. front of
the pa c k" on ca mpu s is Jac k

ment o f Sociology.

Meacham, professor of psychology.
Meacham, wh o has published

Mary Flanagan, assistant professor of media study and a member
of the working group developing
guidelines for faculty u5&lt; of technology in the classroom, says that usc
of technology in class in 'truction
has become ..an accepted orm."
.. , see a lot of work ing done
th at is promising; facu are get·
ting int o technolo Y, says
Flanagan. wh o uSes tec H o logy
exten sively in her own class
She points out that while s e is
a relatively new member of th~ US
fac ult y-she came to UB in Fall
1997-s he se nses that .. a lot has
changed" already at UB during the
past five years in terms of facult y

a rticles o n the use of technology
in the cl assroom , has been usi ng
listserv discussions in his1arge lee·
lure classes sin ce 1994 . He and
Lara Bushallow· Wilbur, former
assista nt ) ibrarian in the Under·
graduate Library who now works
at th e Johnson Center Library at
Geo rge Mason University, devel ·
oped a Web si te fo r st udents that
provides links to co urse- relevant
Internet sites, as well as links to
reso urces on how to co ndu ct sue·
cessfu l research on the Internet.
He also plans to use the elec·
Ironic rese rve that has been init i·
ated in the Undergraduate Library.
Meacham notes that whiJe h is

teaching has made me think more
carefull y about what the learning
goa ls are for the students in m y
classes," he says. "I'm making more

deliberate choices now about what

to teach with technology and what
to teach without technology."
Although he was an earl y convert to the use of technology in the
classroom, he cautions that technology ca nnot be adapted in to
every classroom situation.

"Teaching with technology will
be the right thing for some
courses. for some topics, fqr some
faculty, and for some students, but
it will be entirely wro ng in other
cases ," he says. " Indeed , in most
cases, a small c1ass in which fac ·
ulty and students can listen to each
other with respect and have a sus·
ta ined, in ·depth discussion of the
course material is likely to lead to
far better teaching and lea rning
than anything that is do ne with
co mputers and technology.
"'1 believe that we have a lot of
work to do a t UB in the n ext
couple of years as we learn what
a re app ro p ria te and pro ductive
uses o f technology in teaching and
what are not ," he says.
O ne fa cult y member who has
been able to adapt successfull y the
use of technology into her teach ·
an g-i n fact , one arts and sciences
faculty member has called her the
"nerve ce nter" for such activi ty-

is Flanagan, who teaches v1sual art.

With the assistan« of Otristopher
Egen, a doctoral candidate m com·
puter science, she has created a Web
site and software to facilita te the eJec ·
tronic submission and class cntiqu mg of student multimedia projects.
The software ..creates the setting of
a seminar on the Web," says Flanagan.
h gives students direct access to
course material on the Web and
allows them to submit material to
the si te without going to a server
o r worrying about different file
transfer protocols. she says.
.. They can concentrat e on the
content , not get bogged down with
technical issues," she adds.
Mort'()Yel',sincrstudentsmust JXlSl

their ""rk on the Web site-il more
public plare than just circulating the
work in the classroom-they may
spend more time on it, she notes..
Critiquing work via the Web also
may benefit students who are more
quiet and prefer time to compose
their comments, rather than speak·
ing off·the·cuff in class, she says.
An informal, unscientific poll by
the Reporter has unearthed many
ot her faculty members who use
techn ology extensively in courses
they teach. The number is too nu merous to detail in one story. But
among the most noteworthy are:
• Scoh Grant, assistant profes·
sor of lea rnin g and in stru ction ,
who has developed an "Observa ·
tion Simulati o n" using CD and
Internet tec hn ologies to help stu ·
dents lea rn h o w to obse r ve a
school setting and to take raw and
expanded field notes. T he si mula·
tion allows st udents to post notes
they 've taken after viewing a series
of videotaped segments on a en

to a class page on the Grad uat e
School of Educa tton ~rver . Stu
dents then can pnnt each others·
notes . critique them and hr1ng
them to class for discussion .
• Joseph Conte, associa te profe;
sor of English. whose course " Mul·
t1medm Li terature" Integrates the
teachmg ofl iterature with multi me
d1a, on · lme and digitaJ reM&gt;urcn .
Students read fiction , poetry and
cn ucal essays m both pnnt and dec
tronK formats; partiCipate m class
room multimedi a exerctses usmg

IBM -, CD-ROM - and Ethernet equipped teaching stations; pa rt 1c1
pate in an online d iscussion List, and
develop a Web site devoted to an
author or literary-electronac top1 as

pan of a final research proJect.
• Robert Allendoerfer, assoctatt'
professor of chemistry, who has de
veloped an elect roniC cu rnculum
for hi s introdu cto ry chemis t ry
course. Thee-text, which was avad -

able on the Web in the Fall of 1997.
is now available on CD- ROM. Hts
VtzQu.izsoftwareprogram tests stu ·
dent5 taking the general introduc·
tory course. Srudents have been us ing the "electronic homework" com·
ponent ofVizQuiz for rwo yea rs.
• Barb.llra A•lla-Shah, 3SSIStant
professor of modern languages and
literatures. who. along with other UB
Spanish instructors. uses a software

program called ATA)O in all elemen·
tary and Inte rmediat e language
courses. The online program, acces·
sibl e through the UB mainframe,
provides a basic English· Spanish/
Spanish -English dictionary. avo ·
cabulary section and verb con} uga·
uon. h also allows the mstructor to
print a "log" that shows \\'Ork done

by students using ATA)O.

A rich lode of attractive and informative Web sites at UB
"Virtual UB" offers high-quality information, visual interest on subjects from the new to the old
By PATIIKIA DONOVAN

News Servk:6 Editor

W

HERE information·
ectlnology is con·
emed, there is some-

• lnstltvte f&lt;W Research and
Education on Women- Gender (-c;), www.WGmellancl
~. buffalo.-/

IREWG is new entity at UB but al ·

number of facu lty members and

ready up and ru nning online. This
site beautifully represents the idea
of an inte~active community of
scholars. Colorful , welco ming ,

staff IT-literate, "virtual UB"boasts

warm, good-looking, the site de-

many exceptionaJ ly informa tive ,
clea rly·designed and attractive Web
sites. The following is a sample of
what's available,on UB's Web sites.

scribes the concerns and research
of women faculty members. Th e
Web site also is gateway to a well researched and well -o rganized se·
lection of the best in.ternational
Internet sites on women and tech ·
nology, education, research, femi ·
nism, social change, wo men's stud ·
ies., health , support networks, services and many, many others.

hing you should
know about UB. Not only are a large

• c;raduate School of Education, www.gJO.buffalo.edu/
For color, clarity and speed, this is one
of the best sites at UB. Simple, confett i-colored navigating icons keep

viewers fOCUS&lt;d while directing them
to specific locations. Program enve·
lopes are logically organized and the
entire site is easy to negotiate. This is
a very user· friendJy site.

O n top of eve r ythin g el se, tt s
handsome visual d esign suggests
th e cl inical depth of the center and
the dignity with whi ch it regards
its patients, man y of wh o m are
very young. Parent· fr iendly.

gall ery o f poems, tape!! of tnh:r
vtews UB 's grou ndbreak.10g NPR
program LJNEbrcak, lin ks to th&lt;.·
Poetics Program 's jou rnal RIFri .
This site p1cks up where the su

• The UB Electronk Poetry

fa.lo,"prod uced by the Poet ry/ Rare
Books Coll ectton leaves off. ubllb.
buffalo.edu / llbrarle 1/ unlts /
pi / SOyears / lndex . html will
show you a few sc reen shot!'t.

Center (EPC), wlngs.buffalo
.edu/ epc/
In addition to terrifi c graphics and
photos. this site is filled with well o rganized informati on on the programs and people who put UB's
English department o n th e inter·
national map. It has lin ks to many
info sources on contempora ry po·
e ts a nd poetry plus specta l sec ·
tions: UB's unique Program an Po·
etics, the EPC so und room. EPl

• CEDAR: The Center of Excellence for Document
An•lysls •nd Recognition,
www.ceclar. buffalo.edu/
lntro.html

• School of Arc:hltecture and
The page has clear, good-lookPlanning, www.arch.buff•lo
ing Web.design, uses visual cues
.edu/
An attractive site, well"{)rganiz.ed to organize large bodies of in {note the site index ), with consid - formation for reading and
erable depth of information. Some browsing and includes bib·
liographies, dissertation ab·
faculty data are missing, unfo rtu ·
nately, including pho tos and de · stracts. industrial affiliations.
faculty
and staff, and re·
scriptions of research and teach a.,..
ing in terests. Where faculty and search projects.
project sites are linked, however, • Center for Hearing
they are often quite arresting and anciDufnus,
include portfolios that add to the wlngs.buffalo.adu/faculty/
resean:h/ chd/ abovt)
si te's fin e visual content.

for Research
and Education
on Women and Gender

pe rb CD-ROM , " Poetry In Buf

• Tap Into a well -Illustrated,
nicely condensed description
of UB 's famous Poetry / Rare
Books Collection,
ubllb .buffelo.edu / llbra rl e.s /
units/ pi/
It is the most co mplete collect~nn
of lOth ·Cl'ntu r\' poetrv m 1-nghsh

and 1-. ngla!roh translation tn the
world and tndudes first eduions.
holographic manuscnpts. nm c
hooks, printers proofs. pa intm gs.
letters . drawing !~ a nd personal
memorabilia of such lumm ant.~ as
James Joyce (one o( the bec;;t col
1l~ct 1 ons 111 the wo rld ). l:.zra Pound,
Wil ham Ca rl os William s, Robert
G ravt"s, Wyndham Lew1s, Robt'rl
Duncan, Joel Oppenhctmer and
others. B1g coll ectu.m of ht erarv
'zmes, as well as decades of lffial
ltterarv publicattons. The "iiiC ot
fer) a good run 1hrou~h nl the.·
hol'-hng!'t .
• UB A.n:hl•es, ubllb.buffa lo .
edu / llbrarles/ unlts/ arc:h lves /
T ht' UB a rchtvlsts ca n ta ke }'OU nn
quite a nd e through the ht,ton
of Ufl. wr,trrn Nl'\'1.' Vorl.. .IIlli
mam of the: l!'t:ouc..·, th.tt h.tvc..
dfft•dt•d both t ) V('f th e.• ld,l
I SO \'ear' l&lt;'arn .JhtHJI th e..·
QuJker. Mormon , ft'lllllll\1
and !~pt ntuali s t movemcnl-ofthe 19th centurv, tht· l.onr
Range-r and Love Canal. Spe
(13lttes anclud e: LIB h1!ro
tory and pub la cattoll !l.

Frank Lloyd Wnght and
Da rw in
Martin .
women 's organizattom
in WNY, popular c ui
ture. and a host
facu lt v
collectio ns.

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actMty groups begins It 11 a.m.
by a noon lndloon. '
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a computer.
This initiative will permit faculty
to require students to usc computer
resources. It also permits the Col-

The university also is launching
STARS. Student TecluUcal Assistants
in Raidrncc, when: trained students
will staff help desks in the dorms.
The premis&lt; underlying the stu -

lege of Arts and Science; and the

dent access requ irement is that

other schools to incorporate computer reso urces co mprehensivel y
into their programs.
The other major pieces of the
stra tegy are:
• technology support available
continuo usly for students, faculty
and staff at the university and departmental levels
• public computing sites

fac ult y should be able

coming freshmen to have access to

• support for classroom technology
• online availability of student
services, such as registratio n and

bill-paying
• on -campus, high -performance

computing capability for sophisticated research, including UB's
membership in Internet 2
• access to library reso urces
o nline
..Almost nobody is doing this as
co mpletely and exaensively as we
are," said Joseph Tufariello. senior
vice provost fo r education tech nology.
The key at UB is the integration
of all of the pieces.
"O ther institutions are letting a
th ousand flowers bloom indepen dently," sa id Voldemar Innus, sen ior associate vice president for
university servicQ. " We are planning and impl e menting our IT
investments as part of a compre·
hcnsive initiative."
Cooperation between admmJstration, faculty and staff- not aJ ways a given on many cam puses-

has been key.
Makin g co mputer access a n ex pectation of all stud e nt s was
dee med a priority by both admin ·
istration and faculty. The Faculty
Se nate passed a resolution praisi ng
the admin istratio n for attempting
to increase student access to com puters and urged implementation
he moved up o ne yea r, which has
occurred.
While ownin g a compu ter out right wi ll not be req uired. it will
be strongly recommended.

On ly a handful of public institutio ns have made si m ilar decisions. O neo nta State College will
impleme nt a student access requirement , but UB is th e o nl )'
SUNY university center to do so.
All a bout communication
A8ministrators note that undertaking an IT strategy is a more difficult task for universities than for
coUeges because of the wide varia tion in programs and requirements.
Yet , in making student access
the basis for its IT strategy, UB
took its cue from small liberal -arts
colleges.
"The who le .point of this is focused on improving communica tion between students and faculty
and among students themselves,"
said Rick Lesniak, director o f aca demic services for UB.
The public sites, he added, are a
key part of facilitating that communication.
"We have 24-hour a day'just -in time' help for students at all our

IQ

expect

that all st udents have access to
computers for course-work, assignments and communication.
"We' re trying to provide a better
experience to students in this uni -

versity," said TufarieUo."Wewant w
make learning more enjoyable
through computer use and to facilitate communication between
and among studrnts and faculty."
By requiring computer ..:=s, UB
graduates will know how to use fundamenllll computer tools, such as email, the lnlm&gt;et, word processing
and~ programs. They also
will be able to communiate with
professors, par ticipate in study
groups online and learn how computers are used in their disciplines.
Computers already are causing a
quantum change in one of the oldest and most widely takm coUege
courses around: freshman comp.
A new Composition and Com p uters Classroom has opened ln

Clemens Hall, with 24 new PCs,
audiovideo and projection equipment , a visualizer and scanner.
Networking among the computers allows students to share and
critiqu e their classmates' compositi o ns, as well as communicate
electronically with instructors.
A

new skiD to be taught in the

course is ..cybernetic literacy," ex-

plained David Willbem, professor
of English and associat&lt; dean in the
College of Arts and Sciences.
" Lit e racy in the 21st century
must also be understood as intelligent access to knowledge in the cybernetic universe and technically as
basic familia rity with co mputer
app li catio ns in word -processing
and Web-brow-sing,.. he sajd_
O utside of class, the new IT in frastructure will allow students to
cOnd uct busi ness with UB, such as
reg istering, paying bills and accessing grades o nlin e.
While the requirement requires
students to have access to comput ers-a nd access through public
labs will not be considered suffi cient- it stops short of m andating that they own a co mputer.
"This in itself is not as big a step
as some peop le think ," sai d
Tufariello.
A report issued this week by th e
Office of Academic Information

and Planning found that69 percent
of this year's incoming class at US
already own a computer. up from
61 percent last fall. Jt stated that al most all freshman-9 7 percentexpect to be asked to use educationaJ technology in their courses.
Ho w will the requirement
be enforced? It won ' t be .
.. We're not going to have the IT
poli ce," lnnu s stated flatly. " We
don't have th e tat.book police ei ther. We tell students, ' Here arc the
textbooks you need in order to be
effective in this course.' Some stu -

dents opt not to buy textbooks and
a few may choose to do the same
with computers. But students will

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thot leUm beThe
reaMd
on disk or

public sites." he said. That kind of

- . a l l y II

clearly be at a disadvantage if they

sernce is available at smaJI colleges,
but rarely seen at large universities.

do not own a co mputer."
To encourage and support fa c-

'*":"'*'··· .......... , ...

~,d ry

participation, an edu·

cational technology lab is
being organized with
support from the Office of the Provost ,

the Office of the Srnior Vice President for University Service; and the
Office of Educational Technology.
Its initial focus will be on large-

that is so enraordinarily important to the student in terms of

section , lower-divisio n courses.

Departmrnl of Computer Science
and Engineering. said the market
for used computers is thriving.
"Students looking for lowercost alternatives should be able to
find them," said Burhans.
She noted the "sunyab.forsale"

Tufaridlo said the lab will offer
softwareandCD -ROMs,scanners,
instructions for faculty on aspects
of educational technology, and

possibly assistance to faculty on
developing Web pages.
The lab is expected to be operational by the end of this semester.
Paying for It

During the next few months, infonnation on the type of computer
students should purchase will be
released by the Eduatiooal Technology Advisory Committee,
headed byTufariello, in conjunction
with the IT Steering Committee,
headed by lnnus.
UnliU campuses that req~ stu dents to buy a particular type of
computer, UB will~tq~ certain capabilities, not a specific platform.
Generally, it will be a comp uter
that provides access to e-mail, the
Internet and productivity tools,
such as Microsoft Office.
Purc~ased new, that type o f

computer probably will cost about
S 1,000, according to In nus.
"Spread over fou r years, at SZSO
per year, that's a very small part of
th e total educationaJ cost," he said,

"and 1can't think of a single thing

value-added education."
Debra Burhans., a lecturer in the

news group is a prime source to

obtain exceJJent, used machin~ .
Assistance programs are being
dneloped for students facing fi nancial hardship who can demon strate"clear and convincing need."
Through the UB ROCS program
(UB Recycles Old Computers), students who can demonstrate financial hardship may be provided with
one, possibly for a nominal fee. The
program refurbishes and upgrades
older computers from throughout
UB, as wdl as from donors.
UB also is aggressively pursuing
leasing and loan arrangements

with vendors that will be offered
through UB Micro.
However studrnts gain access to
technology, they ultimately will be
the first to know just how big an effect it bas had
lf use is any barometer, then stu dent aa:css may already be a sucass:
fust visit any of the public sites on
campus, and don't be surprised if
thm:'s not a blank screen to be found

�September 17. 1!11/Vul.311.1h 4 llepolrtea

5

Ellison: making the future happen
Everything's online in this pioneering professor's courses
By ROH

~CHal.

Reporter Stoff

HN Ellison saw the future
coming, and he's making it
appen.
The associate professor in the
School of Information and Library Studies is a pioneer in US's
distance learning prog~am, and
there's no question that he's k«ping
the paee with modem technology.
Ellison currmtly is teaching all of
his courses over the Internet. And
he's not just teaching. From registration, to class discussion, to final
exams., to course evaluations: it's all
online. And students from as far
away as Germany, Italy and Poland
have caught onto Fllison's niche.
Ellison runs his ooones starting at
a single Internet page located on the
UB system. It looks like a regular
home page. but "Everything goes out
of that. From that, students ean go
to the Web chat, to the Web bulletin
board, they ean acass the courses.
Everything is online: I00 percrnt."
There are li nks for registrat ion,

f

links t o o nlin e reso urces and

co untless other options.
UB fir&gt;t began the distance learn ·
ing prpgram when the university

devel ped its first special classroom
e early 1990s. Using state-of-

technology, lectu res could
livered to stud ents from UB

rt

. at t
sepa rate loca ti ons. both
about I miles from campus.
St ude s could be seen by the
professor,\ the studen ts could sec
their classma tes in th e classroom
wi th the professor.
But the current technology wave

began when Ellison, who earned his

All24 students had elected to use the
Internet method. It was the lint distance learning oourse at UB that did
not require students and teachers to
be in the same place at a specific time.
Thus, the first asynchronous Internet
course was launched at UB." Ellison
said.
When Ellison join~d the Distancx Learning Committee in 1995,
"They raised all types of questions,
but nobody was doing anything. So
I felt like I had to do something so
I could answer the questions...
"You ean't find the answen sitting
in your office, scratching your head,"
Ellison said ... You can't just answer
questions in a vacuum without trying it yourself. So I tried it.

Additionally, eve n th o ugh
Ellison is physically farther from
the students because he teaches
the classes from h is home, he 's
noted that they .. feel closer to m e
than to professors in classrooms.

"I am readily available. They put
a message up and they get a response. They don't have wait for
office hours... he said.
'"The Internet is the answer,"

-,.... 923 messages.
WMt the heel&lt; do,.... do

Ellison says. "The Internet ean reach
anybody, anywhere, at any time."
His method is far from easy. "I've
had tremendous problems." For ex ample, "You wake up in the morn -

wlttltlwt7"

ing and you have 923 messages.

"You - e up In the ..-nkog

IOHNEUJSON

"At--that time, the department
hadn't even issued m e a computer.
I did everything from my ho me."
Nearly three years later, Ellison is
teac hin g his library-sciences
courses, and even a VB I0 I class,
over the Internet. Some of his approximately 75 students who want
to srudy the management , market ing and public-relations aspects of
library science, come from California, Illinois and Alaska. Th ose st udents pay regular, out-of-state tu ition. " I've on ly had o ne student
who never finished a course--out
of several hundred ," he noted .

doctorate at Ohio State University

Rea:ndy, Ellison has been transfer·

and has been a faculty member at
UB sin ce 1971, was asked to chair a

ring videotape--related to a library
mercha ndising class--o nt o CD ROMS "so the students can actually
follow along" by watching the video
dips on their home computers.
After his init ial 1995 in vestigation, Ell ison found that one of the
problems with the specia ll y
eq uipped di stance learning
class roo m s built by the
unive rsit y is that they
require synchro nization . The student s,
the professor and
t ec hnological
supp ort staff
have to be at

Distance Learning Co mmittee in
the Fall 1995 sem ester. One of the
purposes was to explore the meth ods and problems assoc iated with
distance learning.
A few months later, on the first day
of class in the Spring I996 semester,
Ellison offered students in his Academic and Research Libraries d~
the optjon of taking the course over
the Internet via a listserv--a type of
exclusive cyberspace discuss ion
group--or coming to campu,.
He was ready and willing to teach
the class o n campus, but "the semnd
day of the course when I entered the
classroom, I was alone," EIJison said.

specific places at specific times.
The "asy nc hronous" Intern et
method , despite its co ntinuin g
challenges. is. in Ellison's opinion,
the answer for distance learning.
.. If the students are wo rking dur ing the week.. . they're still involved
in the class."

What the heck do you do with that?"
Also, "You have to type the lee·
tures,'' complete with analogies and
examples.. he said. "That takes a tre mendow amount of time, initiall y.

And I'm still really in the initial stage.
I'ou have to really delineate what
it is that you want. The preparatio n
has lObe detailed and complete.
"And testing and co urse evalu ations-these are new things that
have never been don e." One of th e
solutions to "assure that the student is no t using ot her reso urses"
during testing, Ellison sa id , is to
"set a very rigid time -fram e."
"If they d o n't have (the answer~ )
•n on time, they sta rt losing points.
That prevents them from looking
things up or checking thei r no tes or
talkin g with
other prop
le," he: said.

Placemaking: Urban
Redevelopment on the Web
Waterfronts, M•ln Street m•lls, revitalized neighborhood ~. \ ' 1
bran t urban g reenspace.
View an array of successful c11 y proJects through text and •mpres
sive grap hics with the click of a m o use!
The new Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Exccllencf' Web s11e lei
ebrates fun ctioning urban -development project'&gt; throughout North
America that integrate economi c, envu o nmental and social perspel
tives-the process of "placemaking." Since 1987, there have been ap
proximately 700 entries composed of !.ext and graphicaJ matena1s that
have been submitted for consideratio n for the Rudy Bruner Award .
A partnership among the School o f Architecture and Plannm g, the
Bruner Foundation and the University Ubrartes is engaged in a pro1ed
to d igitize the Bruner Award entries and to create a publicly accessible
Web site. Text fo r entries includes a profile, abstract, " perspectiV(.·~"
and often articles. Graphi cs integrated in Web-site ent ri es mcl ud e ar
chitectural plans and drawings, pho tographs, brochures and maps.
You now may view the growing Web site, whkh is funded by the New
York State Library through the Western New York Librar1es Resou rc~
Council, at http://ubllb.buff•lo.edu/ llbt-•rles/ projects/ bnlner
The Bruner Award Web si te , with 1995 and 1997 entn es in dtg•
t1 zed fo rmat , already includes projects such as Ca mpus C ircle. a
neighborh ood revitalizati o n initiative m Milwaukee nea r Marquetlt'
Uni ve rsi ty ( http: I / ubllb.buffalo . edu / llbrarles / projecU /
bruner/ 199S/ campus_clrcle/ cclndex.html ); Harlem Meer, a rec
rea tion landscape with in Cen tral Park ( http:/ / ubllb.buft.lo .edu /
llbr•ries/ pro\ects/ bruner / 1995 / hartem_meer / hmlndex.html ),
Casa lorna , ho us1ng for iow -m..:ome, 51ngle - head-of-ho usehold
fam ih es 111 · Los Angel es ( http:/ / ubllb .buffalo.edu / llbrarfes /
projects / bruner/ 1995a/ casa _lom• / malndex . html ); C r a n t.~\
Roost Altamonte,central bus mess district revitalization in Altamontt'
Spnngs. Fla. (http://ubllb.buffolo.edu/ llbnuies/ P"'fe&lt;ts/ bn.oner/
1995a/ cranes roost/malndex.html ), and much more. The 1997 wm
nmg entry, Time5 Square Support1vt' l-lousmg. will be o nline soon.
In addition I U the Web ~l i t', thl·
L•hrane!'&gt; C.ltalog {http://
ubllb .buffalo.edu / llbrartes / e -resoun:es / blson / ) prov1de!l lull
ca ta log m g, cx tcns1ve su h1ell ant·!l)l and ll'ngthy ahs lral'h ol Brunt.·r
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Obituary
Louis Bakay, 81, retired professor, chair of neurosurgery
A memorial service was held
Tuesday in th e chapel at Forest
Lawn for Louis Bakay, a brain surgeon, professor emeri tus in the US
m edical school and retired chair
of th e Departm en t of Ne urosurge ry. Bakay died un expec tedly

Sept. 10 in his Buffalo home.
A native of Hungary, Bakay re ·
ceived his medical training a t the
University of Budapest. He ca m e
to the Un ite&lt;.t_ States in 1948 as a
Harvard Resea rch Fellow a t the
Massach usetts General Hospital,
where he remained until 1961. He
was appointed that year as profes sor and chai r of neurosurgery in

the UB medica l school, where he
served for 23 years.
Bakay focused his resea rc h o n the bloodbrain barrier and aspects
of cerebral ede m a. He
was the author of several
books on those topics, as well as
chapters in 14 surgical han dbooks
and more than 100 scientific pa pers. Seve ra l of hi s books were
translated and published in Span ish, Russian a nd Japanese. After h1s
retirement in I 984, Bakay wrote a
memoir, "Gallery of Ghosts," fol ·
lowed by "Gastronomic Exotica."
He ~ccived th e Distin guis hed

Alumm Award tn I989 from th t'
Massachusetts c;enerai H(1sp1taL .m
honor given to o nly five graduates o l
the hospital's neurosurg~cal program
who had made significant contribu
tions to neurosurgery. Bakay wa:.
cited for hi s p10n ecnn g work on
bram inJuncs. In 1997, the LoUIS
Baka}' NeurosCience Laboratory W"..L'&gt;
dedicated at Buffalo ~e neraJ t iospt tal, and a fell owship m neu rosurgen
was established in his name.
~urvivors In clude ht s vn fe.
Na ncy; a daughter, Stcph am e ol
Boston ; a so n, N ic hola s of I Of&gt;
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INCE the first day of

classes. US students this

semester have been taking

advantage of the more
than 150 state-of- the -art com puter workstation s in four new
public computing sites in the Un dergraduate (UGL), Science and
Engineering (SEL), and Lockwood
libraries on the North Campus.
The sites, which are designed for
individual and group study, are located in remodeled areas on the
thini-Hoor atrium and second-floor
north area in l..ockwood, the south
end of the third Hoor in the SELand
the first-floorsouth area of the UGL
The second floor Lockwood site is
an extended hours location open
until 2 a.m. during the week while
the first-floor south area in the UGL
is open 24 hours. a day, Monday
through Thursday. All sites are open
during the library's regular hours.
In October, about60 open ports
for laptops also witl be available at
the sites .
.. I'm very excited about the new
areas that have opened this faJJ and
the opportunity we have had to
collaborate with Comp uting and
lnformation Technology, University Facilities and University Services to provide access to comput ing resources and library information via these sites." said Barbara
von Wahlde, associate vice president for University Libraries.
"Students are thrilled by the new
sites," said judith Adams-Volpe, director of Lockwood ubrary. "The
powerful computers with the new
furniture, carpeting, lighting and
painting create vibrant, attractive
and engaging atmospheres."
Adams- Volpe added thattheli ·
braries have bec;ome even more
central to stud ents and facuhy
•members for access to informa -

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tion in all formats. "These new
computing sites reinvigorate the
libraries as partners in the
curriculum .... The sites are places
where students work and study together, develop projects and share
ilills and discoveries using a r&lt;·
source that integrates technology
and information."
Aax&gt;rding to Kan:n Senglaup,dira:tor of acx:= services for the libraries,
thesittsareusedextensivdy,cspecially
in the late and &lt;Mmight hours. "1be
onlytirnethereisaluJI(inthe24-hour
site) is between 4 and 5 a.m.," notod
Senglaup. Onthefirstdayofdasses,
shesaid.alloomputminthenewsitts
wereinuseby9".30a.m
Margaret Wetls, director of the
UGL. explained that the mended
hours recognize the busy schedules
and diverse study styles of students
who often have jobs and other obligations that may l=p them from
using computer and library re sources during normal hours.

The libraries also have implemen ted a convenient new electrooic resource by posting course
reserve materials on the World
Wide Web, enabling students to
print them out from computer
workstations on and ofT campus.
In addition to instructional and
technical support available at each
public-«&gt;mputinghbrary site, a new
ttntralized Library Help Cmter located in the UGL provides professional one-on-one, on-sit.&lt; assistanceforusm. The center also runs
about 20 woikshops each week on
such topics as e-mail, surfing the
World Wide Web, creating home·
pages, word processing and using
BuffaloWormationSysumONiine
(BISON), the Web-based system of
the University ubraries' holdings.
The workshops are free and open
to all UB students, faculty and staff.
Wells, who oomees the functions tt
theLibraryHdpC&lt;nlfr,saidthecmlfr enhana:s UGCs role as a toadJing

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in

these new high-tech environme:nts by
providing srudents with paaooa!izm
i.nsttuc:ticn. 11v: I.hary Hdp Ca::tur
aa:xxnmodat.s a broad rarli!IC tt students, &amp;om thooewithlillleornoezpe~ to experienad uom, she said,
pointing out that making &lt;XllllpU1a"S
availablewithinthelibrariesc&amp;sstu-

dents easier aa::eso 10 assistancE using
BISON and other resources. "BISON
offers students aca:ss 10 an unprecodentod sdectioo of research, induding fuD-tm articles from magazines.
n&lt;WSJ&gt;"'ler5 and journals." she said
Foravirtuallookatthenewlibrary
computing sites, go to &lt;http'//
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Ml/'-/.-.puten.html&gt;. For
information on worlcshops. visit the
new Library Help c..nt.r Web site located at &lt;http:// ubUb.buff•lo .
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axttest is under way10 name the sites.
To enter, go to &lt;http://wlngs.

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Contlnuod

from-

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SUNY capital program in which
UB will receive SIOS million. The
new program allows for greater
planning and flexibility on the
campus lex_el, he said.
• Creation of a new College of
Arts and Sciences
• Re-establishment of a vice
presidency for health affairs
• Program consolidation and
collaboration, including the new
Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, the incorpora tion of the Department of Statistics as a biostatistical unit within
the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and the probable
merger of the School of Library
and Information Studies and the
Department of Co mmunication .
• The ongoing academic plan
ning process that was staned by
Provost Thomas E. Headr ick and
is being advanced by the deans and
the faculty. " I think there is rea son for enormous optimism ahout
this institution, given the kinds of
planning efforts and choices th at
are being made at the level of the
deans , the facultie s a nd th &lt;"
schools," he said.
• Enormous strides bei ng made
on the information -technology
front , particularly the decision to
call for universal computing access

for faculty and students by Fall
1999.
• Improved quality of campus
life, including the opening of the
Flidtinger Court graduate-student

housing, the construction of a day
care center on the North Caritpus
and the hiring of a professional
hoteUfood service manager to run
FSA.
Greiner then addressed major
initiatives and key issues for the
1998-99 academic yea r. Among
them were:
• Numerou s construction
projects, including a new math
building, student -services building and under graduate student
housing on the North Ca mpus
and the Co mprehensive Health
Sciences Education Center, reha bilitation of Acheso n Hall and
renovation of the dormitory towers mto apartment-style housing,
all on the South Campus
• Efforts to get the SUNY trustees to support .. financially and in
other ways-" what has been US's
.. historic mission" as SUNY's comprehensive. flagship university
known for its excellence in all programs. from undergraduate
through graduate. "In order to do
that, we're going to have to make
choices .... What we're going to

pitch is that we're the only thing
the State of New York has that
looks like one of the great Mid -

western universities."
• Review of clinical programs
and practice plans by Bernardino.
The practice plans "are extraordinarily important to faculty and the
future of the departments in the
medical school," Greiner Said.
With the nu·merous hospital
mergers in Western New York, "it's
imperative that our faculty be organized as a group. They function
together. They present a powerful,
effective and efficient force in
terms of health-care delivery and
patient care, which then provides
a basis for building our future
health -care education and clinical
research. Right now, we are not
realizing the potential that is there
with our clinical faculty."
• The changing role and mission of the Office of the Provost.
The provost's office has been a
.. surrogate• dean of arts and sciences and vice president for health
sciences. Greiner noted. With the
creation of the Cotlege of Arts and
Sciences and appointments of
Grant and Bernardino, the
provost's office now can focus
heavily on graduate education, especially at the doctoral level; qual-

ity control; analysis of the quality
of programs, and sponsored pro -

grams administration, including
strategic planning and research
support for young faculty, he said.
• Affirmative action/diversity
issues. A task force to address issues affecting und~represented
groups will be put in place within
several weeks, Greiner said, adding that he has asked Nelson
Townsend, former director of ath letics. to •take a major leackrship
role" in the task force in his n~
position as spe-cial assistant to the
president and associate vice president for student affairs.
• Refocusing campus programs
and units "to bener serve the community of which we are a part," including Western New York and all
of New York State. Among these
are the UB Business Alliance, the
Center for the Arts and the University Community Initiative. UB
also is negotiating to add the Research Institute for Addictions. a
state agency affiliated with UB. to
the university as a free-standing
center, and is further developing
partnerships with Roswell Park
Cancer Institute, the HauptmanWoodward Medieal Research In·
stitute, Health Can Industries As·
sociates and Calspan.

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Arts and Sciences deans deserve plaudits, not brickbats
TotheEilttor,
The current ooncem of gadfly aitic

Professor John Boot Ienbana:d bureaucratic experience, 10 September
1998] is that the creation of the College of Arts and Sciences result«! in
unwarranted administrative ap~
pointments (not"pooitionscryingto
be 6lled"), and unworthy appointments ("persons crying for position"). Hisoommentsspecificallyand
pubticly denigrate the worth and
reputation of faculty colleagues who
have rettntly rome to the fore to assist UB in one of its most challenging undertakings. The associate
deans are engaged in the making of
a new College of Arts and Sciences
that is to benefit all undergraduate
students and all university programs.
They have accept«! the challenge to
change fundamentally the undergraduate environment and to preserve and enhance the graduate and
research mission. ln more than one
instance, my colleagues reluctantly
agreed to rontinue to serve in one cl
the associate-&lt;lean positions because of
my appeal to their~ and my
importuning lOr their support lOr the
new college and the high expo::tations
we have for iL Perhaps Dr. Boot disagrees with the~ofthenewcofiege.
but his lllrJll:!ing of the associate deans
is ill- and thoughtlessly oonsidered
It is difficult toreconcileoomplaints
that the appointments of the current
associate deans represent the manifestation of favoritism to the old boy
(and girl?) netWOrk of deans long
engaged in their work and the at tainment of administrative appoint ments by those devoid of"demonstrated or credentialed oompetence."

They have aU served as associate deans
in the administrations of the three
fonner faculties and with instances of

d.istinguishedservice.lbeirappointmentstothecoUegedocanalstllffwere
the r&lt;SUlt of neither d.mult nor selfporpetuatiug netvourlting.
Theamalgamationofthreeadministrativesupportunitsintoonethreatenedtheoonfidenceofthefacultythat
they, as individuals and as dq&gt;artments, would be adequately represent&lt;d in the formal and in the in!Ormal=tionofadministrativefunctions in the oollqije. h was our strategy
that Dculty\\OOid be a!* to find in the
offia!s &lt;1 the college those CXJIIeagues in
whom they aiR:ady had ooo1idence In
mid-July we f3ad the c:hallalt!e d dooing out the old academic }031" with its
legacydthreeclispualeadminislra!io,
practicesaatll55threefilcultiesaoostarting up the new }031" with a unified oollege administratioo..ln the midst of
""""''ingdlarl@&lt;Sanddostabilizationwe
adopted the sttn&lt;r that we in the Oflice
of the Dean \\OOid serve both the old
faculty stnxlure and the new CoiJese
while the tran&lt;ition was undertakm. I
am prOOJundly indebted to the associatedeanswhoassistedusinunderstandingthepastaodpreparingforthefuture
oftheooiJegeandso.tooshouldbeevery member of the CoiJese of Arts and
Sciences. Glosidernble mrlit mUSI also
beemndedtotheprores,ionalanddassifiedstaffwhoperfunned.andoontinue
toperfonn.withdecJ.icatntandpulenc:r
during change and una:rtainty.
In the complaint that "In no case
was the position advertised or sub-

~oot~all
U8 40 , Loek Haven 17
A balanced o«enstve aaack and

were rcassiSnments in the form of

duties drawn from existing respon sibilities expanded to serve the en·
tire oollege. There will be staff ex ·
pansion in the future to serve the
large agenda presented to the College·of Arts and Sciences on behalf
of the entire university. Few, if any
of these new positions will be filled
at the level of associate dean.
The staff of associauo deans will
change over time. The associauo dean
for undergraduate studies agreed to
continue for only one semester. The
associate dean !Or graduate studies and
resean:h has yet to agree to a specific
term of service and the dean for educational technology is also on a timited appointmenL 1n the meantime.
UB and the faculty in the ans aod sciences are served wonderfully by oolleagues who willingly shoulder a new
load on behalfof the common good.
They deserve plaudits, not brickbats
and not unwarranted criticism of
their character and competence.
Ultimately, it is the faculty wh o
must regulate faculty co ndu ct.
Perhaps we are not yet mature
enough in our self-governance to
regulate sta ndards of collegial con duct, but we should at least be able
to uphold our worthy colleagues.
An apology is due them. Whether
it is forthcoming or not , they need
ou r suppo rt and deserve o ur a p preciation. Therefore, I hope that

faculty and staff co lleagues will, in
light of the unwarranted dish on ori ng of members of our academic

jcct to an affirmative action search,"
with its unwritten but insidious im plicat ion of racism and sexism, community, exp ress directly to the
reputations are agai n bt.-smirchcd associate dean s o f the College of
without warrant. No new positions Arts and Sciences appreciation for
were created in the CoUege of Arts the exceptional effo rts they have
and Sciences. No individual was ap·
made during an exceptionally dt· poin ted to a new post. Rather, there manding tim e.
~erry S. Grant, dean, College of Ans ond Soences

four touchdowns by jlrior futlback
)osh Roth lf.'d dM! Buns to a &lt;40--1 7
win OYer Lock ~ UniYenity

before a record crowd ol20,760
S.an-doy nilftt In UB St&gt;dium.
The kmi ~ a nine--pme
!osin&amp; ....... datlng bad&lt; "' last year
foo- en. S..tm. Buflalo pounded out 274 y&gt;rds on en. groond. with Roth ptnong ,
~-high n yv-ds and sentor Dwid HtnSOn added a areer«s:t 91 yards on
t7 ames. Senor Amonlo Pe&lt;ry led en. Buls with 8(l&gt;t IXIdes. wl-oile .....,.. Dan
hod ... t&gt;dcle&lt; ond 1.5 soda.

Volle~~all
UB l, St. Bonaventur-e 0
UBl , Cornell 0
UB 0, Northeastern l
UB l , l...&amp;fayette Colleae 0
The UB women's voUeyball team def'uted SL 8onavent1J~ Sept. 9 .IS--6. I S-8
15-IO.Vld 'Nent 2-1 this past weekend in Ithaca at the CCH'TleiiBig Red
lnviu.tional.
On Fnday.""' Buls 'f'l• t-1. mng"' ~In •lhree-pme-"
M.tch 2
;.-oon.J ond d&lt;loar.d hoot Comdlin M.tch s
day. l-t The
BUis km to ~ I S-6. IS--9, IS-6. 1n dle vaor-y CNer Cornel. the BuRs

ol""'

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d&lt;loar.d!heBigRod.tS-tt . tS- ti.IS-tl. OnS.runby.!heBulb-...tw.,..n.
~ln•lhree-pme-tS-I . tS-O.IS-9

Averaging 16 asslsu and five digs per match, juntor Somer Desdu.mbautt
was named to the Big Red tnvitatJDNI All-Tournament Team

~occer
WOMEH ·s

UB l, Ca.nisius 2
U8 4, Uberty 0

UB l ,

Funn~

I

The Bulls maintained their perfect record on Sept.. 9 ;u they defeated vtsmng
Canisius. 3-2.and cbJmed lhe 1998 Umbro Classk KICkoff" tide by dc:loNmng hos1
Furman. J- 1. on Friday and Uberty. ~. on Saturday. Heacher Colins wu rwned
the tournament MVP,......, bod-. sisten Paula ~nd Julie l..istnni and mdielder"Tan
Donahue made the AirTournament Team.
MEH·s

U84, St.Joseph's( Pa.) I

U81,WVU4

The Bulls men's soccer team took pan In West Virginia University's
Mountain~,. Clauk this paSl --Neekend, upending SL Joseph's (Pa.). 4-1 . on
Sawn:by. and k&gt;sing to host WVU +-I . on Sunday.
junk&gt;&lt; fo&lt;w.nl S.... Butcher K&lt;&gt;«d two «&lt;:ond-luH ph ond hshnwo
mtdfiekk!r john Stwv-lon carne off che. bench to lead Coad'l AsOJdiUo 's team to
vktof'y on Saturday. UB goalkeeper- Jim Schoenbert had six SZ¥es for the wV\ners
Botcher tallied the Bulls" lone goal in Su~'s match ~n.st. undefeated
tournament champion WVU. Buffalo finished in second place out of the four
teams m the tOUrnament..

lenni~

Clarifying points on religion, influence on political change

WOMEN 'S

Dear Editor,
I very much appreciate the wonderfu l article on my retirement in the
Reporter of Sept. 10. T here were,
h owever, two possibly embarrassing

The 'NOmefl's termis team wa.s tn acoon at home this past weekend Vld won
qainst ~ So.te:. 7-2.on Sawrdzy and lost to BuckJ,eii, B-I ,on Sunday

impressions left by the piece that I
would tike to clarify.
First, although the article did not
explicitly state that I am religiously
o rtflodox, it m ay have left that im·
pression. J consider m yself to be re+
ligiously Jewish but have not been
religiowly o rthodox since my youth.
The second statement that con·
cems me is that I had a "profo und
innuence" on ... the 1989 pol itical

revolution in East Germany. ln fact,
my role was much more modest.
Beginning in the 1960s, I established dose con tacts with many h istorians in East and West Germany

dates from the UB history depart ·

The 1dea that I strongly mflucnced
the politicaJ changes that occurrffi
in the late 1980s may have lx:-en suggested by comment s p rev10us ly
published by other!! o r hy the fact
that in teaching and worki ng wtth
East German students and s.cholar.!l
over the years. I have promoted hts
tonographteal alternatives to their
cou ntry's Stalinist orthodoxy.
I do not want to overstate my role
in this regard , hnwl'ver.
Thank you for the opponunity to

men I and young scholars from tht'
Academy of Sciences in East Berlin.

clarify these pomts and agam, for the
arode itsdf. which was overwhdmmg.

and succeeded after the early 1980s
in arranging meetings between the
German historians and their coun terpans in the United Sta tes. Some
of these meetings took place in Buffa lo. I aJ so arra nged an exchange
program involving doc to raJ candi -

-Georg G. lggen, Distmguished Professor Emeritus_ Department of H1story

UB 7, Cleveland State 2

UB I, Bucknell 8

MEH ·s

UB 7, Niagara 0

UBl , Ha.rist -4

The men's tenms team spht lhetr first two matches of the seuon. defe.1.t1ng
NQpn.. 7..1J.on Friday and losing to Manst.&lt;4--J. on Saturday

~ro~~ ~ount~
UB 15, Niagara 50
JuniOr M;;uie Maander p.lCed the UB ~mers to a I 5-SO VIctory over VISiting
Niagan University by setong a. new school recon:l of I 8:50. I 1n the S.QOO..meter
run. The US course record prev~ousty was held by !Yren Ully who fimshed the
1997 US lnvlaoona.l in 19:08. Senior 5-Mn Burroughs (21:04) edged out
te.amnute junior Patnck Nob.n (271&gt;5 .2) for top honors 1n the men·s 8.000-meter race .
The Bulls clatmed the top five fin1sher spou .n the women 's race .and the
top seven tn the men 's race

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Q&amp;A-MJltt Stoll taiJcs about efforts
to 11uild student support for athletics.

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Storytelling Mural

PA(;( •

Historiaru to pay tri11ute to
an uncommon man.

September 10.1!91/'MJD.Ih 3

Music,
Fireworks
Old-school rappers, the
Sugarhill Gang, perform
for an enthusiastic crowd
at Fall Fest 1998 on Sat urday at Baird Point. The
weather cooperated perfectly
with plans for the event.
A fireworks display following the show celebrated the
20th ann~ry of Fall/Spring
Fest.

'Leap foward' formed school in primary care
Gmnts putFamily Medicine in pivotal role of administration, researdz at new centers

lly LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

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HE Depart ment of
Family Medicine in the
School of Medicine and

four-institution consortium of
which it is a part, is one of ~hree
centers out of 65 applicants na tionally selected to receive
$900,000 over four years to con-

::SiOi'-liCaJsden'Us has duct reSearch on the way primary-

~ a leap ferwud on ihe state
anp national primary-care scene
through its leadership on two new
granlJ totaling nearly S4 million.
The univ&lt;rsity, through the de partment, recently was named the
lead institution on a thr~-year, $3
million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund start up of an Area
Health Education unter program,
or AHEC, in New York State. The
grant covers the first phase of a 12 year program with a potential for
$22 million in federal funding.

And earlier this week, the de partment learned ttfat the Center
for the Value of Family Practice, a

care medical services are delivered
and assessed.
On the AHEC initiative, th• UB
Department of Family Medidne
will team with the SUNY Health
Science Center at Syracuse and
other New York professional
schools to help alleviate the shortage of health professionals in the
state's underserved communities,
both rural and urban , by establishing clinical teaching and practice
sites in those areas. Each AHEC
site will be managed by a locally
appointed director and advisory
board, and will be linked to a
SUNY medical school.
Through these sites, res1dents1n

medicine and dental medicine ,
and students in medicine, pharmacy, nur.;ing, allied health, den tistry and social work will get fir.;t hand experience living with and
caring for patients in these
underserved areas. The centers
a!so will provide continuing-edu cation courses for hea1th profes sionals already serving the com munities, and assess the health care needs of each region.
..We urbanize most of ouT medJ caJ students during their training,"
said Thomas C. Rosenthal, profes·
so r and chair of the department ,
who will ove rsee th e initiative.
"The high -profile urban medical
setting is what young physicians
are comfortable with. so that IS
where they tend to practice .
.. They cluster in prosperous ar
eas of cities and suburbs also for
personal reasons. Most want to

raise families where they wiU have
the greatest opportunities, so it IS
difficult to retain providers in
underserved rural communities in
particular. It requires a person
who understands and vaJues ru ral America. The only way they
will see themselves in those com munities," he continued, .. is to ~
in those communities."
The New York program is part
of a nationwide effort launched in
1972, based on the 1970 Carnegi•
Commission 's .. Report oq Higher
Education a nd the Nation 's
Health ." AHEC programs now
operate in 41 st2tes. An earlier effort to establish such a program
m New York failed due to lack of
mstitutional support.
During the program's first thret~
years. VB will set up the state+w1dt
adm1mstrativt o ffice in Its Depart

UB receives $18. 3 million in private gifts
By PAUlA WITitURI.
Reporter Contributor

T

HE university received
S18.3 million in private

gifts during fiscaJ year
1997 - 98 , the highest
level of private giving achieved
during cale nda r year 1997 by any
public university or college in theState University of New York sys tem.
The total includes 5800,000 for
undergraduate scholarships and a
$2 million bequest to fund scho larships in the School of Nursing.
.. We're very grateful to the many
donors whose generosity made it
possible for us to establish a new
standard of giving at UB this year,"
said President William R Greiner.
" Private giving is essential for
UB to maintain its p~ent level of
exceiJence in research and teach ing. and to reach our goals fo r the
future ,"' Greiner added. "Through

these gifts, the University at Buffalo continues to contribute to the
economic and inteUectual vitality
of Western New York...
The increase ind icates growmg
awaren ess by alumni and friend5of UB of the need for more pri vate funding. As state- funding for
higher education decline s
throughout the United States and
in New York 's state universit y sys tem, public insti tutions have relied
increasi ngly on private funds to
provide the necessary investment
to develop programs, att ract top
scho lars. offer scholarships, staff
and equip laboratori es and other
research facilities . and establish
endowments to meet future needs.
" New York State now provides
less than 30 percent of our operating funds." said Ronald H . Stein.
vice president for universi ty ad vancement and dev elo pment.
" More and more, we ar~ depen -

dent upon the g~nerosity of pn vate individuals. foundations and
corpora tion s like th ose who made
this year the best ever for giving
to the univ~rsit y. We'd lih to
thank everyone who helped us
ach1eve this new level of philan thropy."
This year 's total surpasses the
total of S 17.2 million raised 1n fis
caJ year 1996-97. Stein noted that
US's main focus is to ra1se g1fts fo r
faculty and studen t support.
"It is o nly through endowed
chairs and professorships that we
can co mpete nationally to attract
and retain the very hest faculty,"
said Stein. "Similarly, endowed fel
lowships and scholarships enable
us to attract to UB, New York State
st udents who want the finest pub
lie higher education our state can
offer."
As private fundin g has beco me
mcreasingly important, the pres1 -

dent , pr ovost , and deans have
worked closely with departments
and programs throughout the uni versity to help them reach out to
potential donors. Th1s change m
philanthropiCculture through out
tht" mstJtutJOn ha s resulted 1n
many gifts directed to schoo ls. de
partments or programs wtthm the
umversny. Often g1hs fund a sre
c1al need wuhm schools or depan
ments.
Amo ng suc h gifl!'&gt; wa~ a S. ~ nu l
lion bequest from the late Nova(,
P~tsan to the School of Nursmg
This ~ues t , the largest g1ft ever
rece1ved b)' the school and one ol
the largest g1fts from an md1v!dua!
m the I 5 1-year h1story of the un1
versity, provtdes additional fund!'
for the Nova G . Petsan and
Gustave Pet.san Scholarship. whJch
was ~tabljshed by a previOus g1ft
from Mrs. Petsan .

�September ll B'Yit Jl.ll. 3

Matt Stoll is a 1998 UB grad who has been hired
by Student Affairs and Athletics to market the university's
athletic programs to students.
What are r - doing to get

• -ts to go to t he gamel1
I probably could write a book. but
after examining past strategies, I
have decided to UK the basics-publicity. As a student. I don't re·
call seeing much publicity about
th&lt; gam&lt;s. which
trying to solve
with banners in th&lt; union, f1yen on
the spine, ads in "I'M SpectTum, a
greater presence at orientation, setting up a table in the union, having
presence at ched-in, etc. "Th&lt;n: are
many channels of publicity that I
have been utilizing that haven't
been used in the past. What about
the cool stufll At the lint game, I
am offering "Fall Feast '98," a
Southwestern-style BBQ for students, co-sponsored by UB Dining
Services. Studenu can have their
Saturday evening meal at the stadium. I already have distnbuted
I ,500 tickets and I am very excited
about this evenL There also will be
a bunch of activities for students to
get involved in, including a dunk
tank, basebaU throw, golf chip,
hockey shot. a shot at the Guinness
book of recnrds and much more.

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Let's tallc about the BuUfighters, a
brand ncw,student-run orga.nization that compl.eteJy revolves
around the support of UB athletics. This group pays a one-time

an nual feeof$15 and they receive
special privileges, including a hat,
a pin, their own section at the
games, a tent party. newsleners,
and opportunities to meet with

coaches and players. This is an
awesome incentive for the stu·
denu to take advantage of and it
is also my favorite by far!
Why

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If av~agr student attendance was
plotted on a line graph, ynu would
see what looks like a mUer coaster.
There are many reasons for this, including the opecting of a new stadium, the success of the team,
weather, lew:! ofawareness,&lt;tc. CM:rall, my feeling is that students are
5lartiog to reaJiz.e the deep tradition
that exists bere.lt would be fOolish if
they did not want to be a partofthat

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I think there are a few reasons. The
first iJ, they do not know about
them, when they an, where they
are or who we play. Second, they In my five years at UB, I think I
do not know it iJ fru- AIIUB ath- only missed a handful of athletic
letic games are free for students. evenll. l am kind of an aaptioo,
Third, studenu see !h• game as though, because I interned with
just a game and not as an event. the opentions team for two years
For the past 4-5 yean, every home during th&amp;t time period. But when
football game has offered some I 6niJhed interning with athletics.
kind of pre-game or post-game I SUf\'&lt;1 involved by attending, volactivity. These events or activities . unteering or worlting the games.
~pwt
are geared to both the sports en- _ _ _ ......___
thu.siasu and to the non-sporu
fan, allowing any group of friends
to come out and have a good time
Yes. I wu an athlete here at UB. I
around footbalL Fourth, tnnsporwas a proud member of the RoUtation~ One of the most common
ing Rhinos, UB's men's volleybaJI
suggestions that bas been brought
dub. In my fo ur years with the
to me since I have been in this position is to run shuttles to the team, I was the treasurer, president
1
games from Ellicott, the South and a dedicated member.
Campus and Govemon. It already b - . ••. , - -.. Jty ...
happens! There iJ a shuttle system -.nlty c
that goes to Alumni Arena.
....... . . ""-tIn
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OwrOne of the main responsibilities of
.... ltudaoot
my position iJ to link athletics and

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the rest of the campus. Student
AJfain and the Raidmce Halls
already haft: stepped ul?&gt; but in
order to have a ruc:caoful athletics program, the university
community must support it.
From there, the fever spreads
into the BuJ&amp;Io cnmmunityaod
so on. AD it taka iJ a blue tie or
blue and white dress the day before a home game; reminding
students, co-wolhn, and peers
about when the games are, or
dropping by a game or two with
the family. Ifanyone in the university community wanu to get
more involved, give me a call
and I'll try to accommodate
your ideas.
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dow't - .a.o.tr- sheoslcl1
If people want to start a con-.ation with me, they can ask
the names of my &amp;op, what the
temperature iJ like in Alaska in
July and wby do I always have a
football schedule in my pocket?

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"What iJ Midnight Madness,
anyway?" And I would have
answered, it will t.ake place on
Oct. 16 in the awetome
Alumni Arena. A3 far as what
exactly it iJ, you will have to
come and see for yourself....

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Goodman urges computer skills requirement

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HE vice provost for un dergraduate education
Sept. 2 urged the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee's Educational Pro grams and Policy Committee to
consider implementing a com puter-skills requirement for un dergraduates, as well as possibly
expanding the curriculum of the
former Undergraduate College to
affm more students.
"We are going to go to universa.J
student computer access in the fall
of '99," noted Nicolas Goodman.
"We have two skills requirements
aU undergraduate students at UB
are required to master: English
composition and mathematical
skills. It is important to think about
computer literacy in that context."
New requirement possible

There a.t"e a number of ways the
requirement could be approached,
Goodman told the FSEC. Students
could face a new, third requirement
or those skills could be roUed into
the university's English- and mathskills requirements. Whatever approach is adopted, he continued, it
is "'very important and very urgent
because: when students come (to
UB) in the faU of 1999, we'll want
them to have the skills to taU advantage of technology."
Goodman also asked th• EPPC
to consider"'extending the Undergraduate CoUege curriculum to

put-,_..,-

the entire student body. I've discussedthiswithkrryGrant(dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences) and be agrees."
It is the formation of the College of Arts and Sciences. in addilion to changes in budgetary restrictions, that would make such
a change possible, Goodman said.
There already are a wealth of
ways fo r studenu to acquire computer skills, noted Joseph
Tufariello, senior vice provost for
educational technology.
STAR could meet student needs
Tufari.Uo said he is considering
putting a new program into place
called Student Technology Assistants
in Residence-or STAR-to help
meet students' &lt;l&gt;lllplll&lt;r-skills .-Is.
A computer-skills requirement
might be integrated into the already
existing library-skills requirement,
noted judith Adams- Volpe.
The library-skills requirement
already brings students up to
speed on technologies such as email and using the lntem&lt;L
"You might have in place already
much of what you need," she said.
Faculty members' computer skills
will need to be assessed as much as
those of students, noted Dennis
Malone, Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
An evaluation of the level or students' technological skills would be
useful to faculty, noted jack
Meacham, professor of psychology.

"I would find it helpful as an
instructor to be able to say on a
syUabus, for example, you need to
be up to level five to take this
course," he said.
Tufariello noted that the faculty-development issue "is an important one. I'm very interested
and very concerned about that."
He added that he intends to put
together an information-technology lab with a small staff and
graduate assistants who would be
available to help faculty members
·with hardware and software problerhs, putting up Web pages and
other oomputer·i-elated issues.
The issues discussed by the
FSEC went beyond that of universal computer access, as Malone
queried bow the proposed expansion of the Undergraduate College
curriculum would mesh with the
SUNY provost's interest in a
SUNY-wide general-education

exam.
Commented Goodman: "The
SUNY provost would like an assessment instrument, an objective
test created by a company, the
Educationar Testing Service
(ETS) .... This instrumen t, once
developed, would be administered
to aU juniors in the SUNY system
to evaluate theii mastery of the
concepts and skills that constitute
general education.
"I frankly am unhappy with
this. The fundamental responsi)&gt;ility.Pf the faculty is the curriculum an.d to have the curriculum

dictated ...by the (SUNY) admin istration goes agaiast everything
I believe in bow a university
shOuld function."
What iJ particularly troubliog,
be continued, iJ the effect a SUNYwide, general~ucation enm potenti.ally could have on institutiona! bucjgeu.

cooiJd

Tests
Influence budget
"A smaU, but significant part of
the budget could depend on the
results of th&lt; test. If we didn't teach
some portion, it could have negative budgetary consequences,·
Goodman~d.

"I don't think there's much support for this on the campuses.
There iJ some political support.•
he continued. "If this materializ.es
and we are faced with this. say, next
spring... we'll bav~ to figure out
whether this iJ something we need
to be concerned about. One can
imagine a text that examines basic skills....If this involves cultural
apd historical content, this could
be problematic for us and we'd
have to respood to that and think
about whether we want to modify
our curriculum.
"But I do n't want to strike th•
flag before the fint shot iJ fired,"
Goodman said. The Undergraduate Co Uege curriculum,
"by and large, bas been successful" and to abandon it before the
univet:~ity sees wliat might be
required by SUNY would b.e
"foolish,~ be .aid.

�September lQ 1!91/Vui.Jil,lhJ Rep aa"ter

~~ !~d;_~~~~~~~n T~~~~~d ~=~~e~~~o~~j.?c~

buikfing the communities around us. This spirit of
outreach and active citizenship has made UB the national ~for United W;ry giving through the annual State Emp&amp;oyees Federated Appeal campafgn.
At UB, our daily wort&lt; lffe demands that we attend to coltectlve endeavors. Performing our j~
effectively within the university means networic.-

BrieQy
I

to the area ·~ best rewurces
If you have helped to build commun1ty '" the
past through contributiOns to SEFA agenoes, you
can be assured that your public commitment ·~
widely appreciated; we hope that SEFA, and ou
partnership with UB, can onc:e again count on your
generosity. tf you haven't yet joined this proud UB
tradition, we urge you to look through the SEFA
brochure and to sele&lt;:t one or several agenoes that

ing with colleagues in other ftdds and sharing our
expertise with them. We create a vital teaming environment and .sustain our competitive edge by
exchanging knowledge across distipHnary bound-

have special meaning for you . Some of these agen cies may have already helped people in your hfe

aries. Yet our capacity for outreach has atways extended weU beyond UB. The same spirit of sharing that makes us a successfut academic community commits us to improving the city and the region that surround the university.
Each year, we demonstrate our care for communities outside UB by forming partnerships with
health and human service agencies in the area .
These agencies depend on both volunteer and ftnancial contributions from UB partners. And with
our support. they provide crucial help to friends,

Othen have probably been active 1n redreu1ng
social p~ems that are do~ to your heart. Thest&gt;
special agencies may even inspire you to volunleer time, in addition to making a financ1al contn bution.
We are enormously grateful to all those who help
to make the SEFA campaign so successful each year
UB eXists among neighbors that it cares for, and
SEFA is a crucial part of this identity. Thank you,
UB, for the pride that you take in strengthemng
our surrounding communities.
-WIIII•m R. Crelner

SEFA appeal: it's offto a strong start
By LOIS 11A1W1
N~ Services Editor
B kicked off its
S650,000 1998 State
Employees Feder ated Appeal (SEFA )
c ampa ign_~e dnesday to the
so und of shovels digging earth.
Ca pitali zi ng o n tbi s year 's
theme, " Building Stronger Communities," campaign chair Dennis
Black, vice president for student
affairs, led sy mbolic ground b reaking festivities on the North
and South campuses for SEFA vol unteers, aided by Victor E. Bull,
US's mascot.
Black was upbeat, predicting
volunteers would do a superb job
in meeting the ambitious goal ,
while acknowledging that the job
is always challenging.
"' We're a diverse community, al ways in Oux," he said. "Our personnel is constantly changing. We
can't rely on people to remember
th e need. We have to put out a
strong message every year."
Black reinforced this approach
by holding leadership training sessions this year for campus volun tee rs that featured speakers select e d from the multitude of
Un ited Way agencies that benefit
from SEFA contributions.
.. We carne away from these m eetings with the realization that these

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are wonderful people trying to ful fiU the needs of the community
withveryfewresources," hesaid '" It

left us with a sense of what it is we
have here, and how little others
have to address very serious issues
and to care for persons in need.n
To increase the chances for success again this year, Black recruited
the chairs of past campaigns to
support Preside nt William R.
Greiner in his ca mpaign to e n courage individual leadership gifts
from within the universi ty co m munity.
UB consistently ranks at or ncar
the top in United Way charitable
giving among American universi ·
ties with m ore than 5,000 employees. SEFA benefits a multitude of
agencies and programs in addition

to th ose funded thr ough th e
United Way ca mpaign . UB ex ceeded last year's $635,000 goal by
3.6 percent, raising $654,479.
Unil5 that helped piescrve the UB
community's record of generosity
by m eeting or exceeding their 1997
goals wer&lt; honored at the kickoff.
Those ent iti es were: Office ol
the Provost; School of Arch1tec ture and Planning; Graduate
Schoo l of Education; Sc hoo l of
Health Related Professions; School
of Management; Faculty of Natural Sc iences and Mathematics;
School of Nursing; Office of the
President; School of Social Work;
University at Buffalo Foundation:
Division o f Student Affairs; Uni versity Xrvices and Publi c Service
a nd Urban Affairs.

Youths lack financial sawy, Mandell says
n.. fiMiodaolfutwe isn't so bright for America's

It&gt; buy a house years later, those unpaid bills come

high-school Oass of '98, or for the miHions of
American teens who win follow In their f!&gt;otsteps.
Debt. bad credit. poor mlrement planning a~
even.bankruptcy lie ahead for many of America's
youth, according to a new boolc authored by lewis
Mandell, &lt;leon of the School al Management
•aur Vulnerable Yo"uth: The Financial Uteracyof American 12th Graders• (Jumpltort Coalition
for Personal Financial Uteracy, 1998), provides an
eye-&lt;&gt;pening 1oo1t at the current state of personalfinance literacy among American teen-agers. It
contains facts and de!Mis from Mandell's 1997
benchmark survey al more than 1,500 12th grad·
ers, as well as the actual questionnaire used to
determine students' flnanclalllteracy. .
&lt;&gt;ver311, stud&lt;!nts an.-red c~ just 57.3
percental the 31 questions In the survey. And only
10.2 percent scored a •c• or better.
"The resuiU show that 1 startling percentage of
students leave high school without a bask understanding al personal finance, • Mandell ~- •1n a
society where one!s well-being is strongly tied to
the success alone's financial decisions, that's a bit
llk. .endlng lambs out to the slaughter.•
•FOr instance,., ~ continues, •rm~ny .students go off to college not rNIIzing that they can
do permanent damage to their credit rating by
not paying their phone bills. Then when they wont

bad&lt; to haunt them, making It difficult to get a

mortgage.•
What can be done?
Mandell ~ It is not enough to simply provide
students with hands-on experience in credit-c.ard
use, purchasing stock balancing a checkbook.
According to the boo!&lt;, students who don't use
credit cards had higher test scores (5 7.9) than students who have their own card&gt; (53.3) or use their
, pa&lt;ents' cards ,(57.7). Afso, those who own securities (either stocks or mutual funds) had lower test
scores (56.6) than those that doti't'owit them (57}.
"This surprising finding Indicates that experience
alone is not a good teacher, • Mandell says. •,unles.s
irs accompanied by conceptual or theoretical understanding, experience adds little to a young adulrs
abllil)l to maneuver within today's complex world
of financial services. We need to provide them with
a fundamental understanding of personal finance
and impress upon them that poor financial dedsionrnaldng can have devastating consequences. •
Mandell advocates creation of new personal-finance courses and improvement al existing courses
In primary and secondary schools nationwide. He
has worited with Jumpltart to develop educator
guidelines (contained in the boolc) for implementation al personal-finance curricula designed for the
nation's 50 million stude!&gt;ts In grades K-12.
-a, JOHN DllLA CONniADA. RtpOI'!er Contributor

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UB to become computerbased, standardized-testing site
The lntegr•tlon of te&lt;:hnology •t the umvers1tv soon Will a.Unonstandard !u-d test takers to be tf'sted electromcally on the US c.am
pus without fillmg m circle:, or waltmg weekS for s...:ore~
fhe Offi~_e of Can.•er Planntng and Placement . located an ."!S~
Cdpcn Hall on the North Campus, 1'1 one of SO Sites out of mort·
than 200 appiKantY&gt; seletted hv the l:.ducauonal Testtng Servh.t""
t fTS ) to offer computer -ha.scd tt'stmg begmnang Monday
At the newly desagnated (nmputcr -testmg site, test -taker:, will u~
wmpu ter work ~lations des1gnated solelv for admmtstenng the tesh
Upon tomr)lrt 1on of the tt"sts. they wdl rece1ve scores 1mmed1atch
"\Ve are excite-d about the chance to better Soe'rve our students b'
g1vmg them an oppnrtumrv to tdke d test at the1r own convc:menc:e and
to get ln5tant scnnng mformat1on," s-ud J&gt;amell . Ryan , d~rec..1or of ta
recr plannmg and placement
The UB si lt' was chosen based un location. number of prospt'l.
I!Vl' test -takers, ab!llly to .cnsurr ... tahi ht v, reliabliuy and secuntv. a'
well as the abilt ty to meet demand through adequate hour' of or
erat1on and suffi cient work ~;tatiOn )
The career planntng offiu~· w11l offer dec-tronu.. vcrs10m of tht•
Graduate Record l-.xam ICRF ), &lt;,raduatt' Management Aptnude Te)t
IGMAT), Test of Enghsh as a l-ore1gn Language (TOFFI ) and Pro
fessionaJ Assessments for Begmnmg Teachers ( PRAXIS l.
According tn Ryan. the offilt: expects to ddm1mster near!~ 2.000
tests durmg tht&gt; 199R-99 acadt&gt;mu.. year "Jests wtll he offered from K
a.m .- 5 p.m. Mondays. Tue-sdav' and l·ndays; 8 a.m .-7 r-m . Wedne.,
days and Thursday); t'ven· ~aturdav m October. November. Decem
her a nd Januan• (eXlcpt when tht: un~versny 1S dnsed ), and two !&gt;at
urdays per month durmg each of the remammg month~ . Test tal..
ers will be able to schedule tests at the1r convemence.
For m o re 1nformat1on, contatt the Offi~-.e of C:areer Planmn~ and
Placement at 645 -6859

Renowned child development
expert James P. Comer to speak
,.mes P. Comer, intematlOnaUy known expert on heah.hy child devel
op ment and professor of child psychia try at YaJe University. wiU lecture
at 4 p.m. Sept 17 in the Center for Tomo"ow on the North Campus.
Comer 's lecture, ..Stop the Turnover: Kids Need Co nrinw ty. ~ wtll hot·
pan of the Charlotte C. Acer ColloquJum o n Urban Education of tht'
Graduate School of Educatmn. Charlotte C. Ac.er, a UB alumna. ha...
endowed a fund to facilita te lectures.. discussions and analy
ses that address complexities of urban education. The le1..
ture wiU be free and open to the public.
Co m er also will address a dinner of the Graduate
Schoo l of Education Alumni Association to be held at 6:4 c;
p.m. on Sept. 17 111 the UnJVersi t"J Inn . 2401 North l- o re ~ I
Road, Amh erst .
Maurice Falk Professor of Ch ild Psychmtry and D1rector of the
School Development Program at the Yale Umvcrs1ty Child Study Ct:n
ter. Comer also IS the associa te dean of the Yale School of Med.acme.
He has devoted his ca reer to promotmg a focus on child develop
ment a~ a way of tmprovmg schools. He 1~ the author of "\Va 1t111 ~
for a Mirade: Vlhv Schools Can't ~olve Our Prohlemo; and How \.\c
Lan," whiCh asse rt s that schools are nut the prohkm. hut rather J
reflect io n of prohlems tn sonet''-

Competition opens for
ti3
1999-2000 Fulbright Grants
The United St•tes tnfonn•tlon Agency . tht· I William Fulhnght
Fore1gn Scholarship Board and Institute ol lntl"rn,monal l:.duca
tlon have announll'd the 199~ 1000 wmpt'tltmn lor Fulbnght
Grants for graduJtc !ttudv 0 1 n.· .. t·.m:h Jhroad m atJdemll tidd!&lt;o and
for profeSSIOnal trJtntng 10 th e; dl'd(IVl' ,.Jnd rerl&lt;•r111111g Jrt'i lht·
Jpplicat1on dt:adhne I!&gt; ~t·pt. 2~
Applicanb must be L'.S. atucn:- JnJ ht •ld J. h.t~..hdur .. degn..'t' or 11,
t'ljU ivalent. Crrauw and r&gt;t:rf&lt;,rnung artiSts .m· nut r~u1 red to ho~w .1
bachelor's degree. hut must haw four vea.r' ,,, relcvanttra.JI\Jng l)r .. tuJ\
C.andidates m me&lt;hane must have dn M.ll or l'\.}Uivaknt (e.g.. IUl.;-._,
0.0., etc.). All apphcants are requtre.J to have pmfic1enn 111 the W.n~rua~t·
of the host cou ntry. Fulbnght full grants prov1de ruunJ tnp mtern.1
riona1 travel, maintenance for tht.• durauon of the grant, a rO(.'arch .Uill"
ance and tuiuo n waivers, 1f apphcablc. Fulhnght tr.twl gran~ pron~k
round-trip travel to the country where.· the student wi.ll pursue stud\ t•l
research. They include supplemt•ntal health and acc1dmt m~urant..L•
For program and apphcat1on Information , ~ec tht· hro~hurt'
"Fulbright and related grants fur graduate study and reSt"arch ..1hr&lt;1ad
1999-2000," or liE's Web s1te &lt;http:/ / w .w .w.lle .org / fulbright
UB studen ts should co ntact Mark As hwd l. Fulbnght program ad
visor, in 224 C lemens Hall for brochures. apphcat1on form!&gt; anJ
more information. Con tact Ash will also at 645 -2292 or by t&gt; -mad at
ashwill@acsu.buffa.Jo.edu. UB's Fu lbright Wl"b sHe address I!&gt; http:/
/ wlngs.buffalo.edu/ fulbrlght

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well-loved and enormously respected faculty member offers
colleagues. academic
peers. students and former students
the opportunity to reflect upon a
professional life well-lived and to
applaud its accomplishments.
In the case of SUNY Distinguished Professor Georg G. Iggers,
such reflection inspires nothing
short of awe. Iggers left full-time
academic life this year after three
outstanding decades as a member
of the Department of History.
He is well-known to mlleagues as a
modest man and an WlCDUUilOO!ydecent one. They also know him as an
inftuential int&lt;mational scholar in the
field &lt;X German intellemoal history.
Few, however, realize that in his
roles as intellectual and "pragmatic
social idealist." Georg Iggers had a
profound inBuence on two of the
most important poliiicai on&lt;oYerDmts
of the 20th cennu:y: the Amerian
civil-rights l110'mll&lt;llt and the 1989
political revolution in East Germany.
David Gerber, professor ofhistory
and a longtime friend and oolleague,

gathering of historians at UB. They
will participate in a colloquium,
"Crossing Boundaries: German and
Amerian Experiences with the Ex·
dusion and Inclusion &lt;X Minorities,"
from Sept 17-19inRoom350ofthe
Student Union on the North Campus.
Typically, lggers has requested
that the presentations of douns of
international scholars who will be
in attendance not be in praise of
his work. Instead. he hasaslcal them
to address the issues and &lt;X&gt;DCI!2'Iis to
which be has deYoted his life and his
c:aRJer,issues that reflect what Gerber
calls Iggers' "intense moral pa.ssioo
toward intdloctual wodt that clarifies the unities of human ezislmce."
The oolloquium will open at 6:30
p.m. Sept 17 with~ by President William R. Gmna; Stephen c.
Dunnett, vice proYOSt for intern&amp;·
tiooal edualion; Kerry Grant, dean
of the CoiJese &lt;X Aru and SdeDces;
Gerber, and Helmut Boehme and
Heiko Koeemer, both of the TechnicallJoMrsity of l)armstadt in Germany; which has a kqlimeoocperatiYe o:dationshipwith Jgen and UB.
The keynote address by Konrad
jarauoch &lt;X the lJoMnity &lt;X North
Carolina iii &lt;l&gt;apd HiD and ZaJirum
fuer Zeithisto~ Forschung in

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whose fervor in pursuit of racial justice helped end slavery in the Unit&lt;d
States, also a fact of which few are
aware outside of bislorical circles.
Gerber has written that IiJce them,
Iggers always has pursued social jus-tice with "oommitment .. tu!S\m'Ving. .. his vision at once practial and
political (and) respectful of principle,_ ideology and dogma. ethical and idealistic..
Iggers' acoomplishments as a historian. ethicist and soda! activist will
oontinue to color intellectual, cultural and political IMs far into the
.21st century. To mark the unoommon contributions of an uncom mon man, the history department
next week will host an international

On Sept 18 and 19, a series of
presentati~ns will be held from 9-.30
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Iggers' coUeas.ues from UB.
Darmstadt and other German universities, and ' by historians from
lli1Mrsities throughout the oountry.
A banquet in IF honor wo1l be
held at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 in The litde
White House. Williamsville. Reservations are requind and ...U.. is lim·
ited. For inixmation on reserv.11ions
caD Song-ho Ha at 645-2181, e:l1. 562.
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and list &lt;X participants can be found
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Assis~nt

Soul Solidarity Day, a
day-long spiritual exchange to be held
Wednuday, UB will
tak&lt;theleadasoneofthe fir&gt;! public universities to initiate a campuswide dialogue on religious issues
and their relationship to academia.
Soul Solidarity Day will mark the
beginning of a two-year initiative
headed by the Rev. David Moore, a
Presbyterian minister with the
Campus Church ConneXtion, to
, help the UB oommunity recognize
th&lt; religious diversity of its population by providing an opportunity
for inter-religious dialogue and activity. It will be a oollaboration of the
Campus Ministries Association, Office of the Vice-President for Stu·
dent Affairs, Campus Church
ConneXtion, Newman Cc:!i,ter, Student Health Center and Living Well
Center, all at UB, and the Presbytery
of Western New York.
Moore eooourages students, faculty, staff and members of the

community to participate in this
special event and is asking faculty
members to try to incorporate it
into their course curriculums.
·us must be a place wh= religious issues are acknowledged." said
Moore. "We Want people to move
from an attitude of indifference toward religious issues to at least toleranne, if not affirmation. Indiffermce
is the greatest fonn of hostility~
It is not just religious issues but
cultural traditions that need to be
addressed. explained Moore. "Everyone needs to realize that many people
in this world still identify _with spiritual tradition and ritual as part of
their culture. Public uruv.r.ities may
overlook the degree to which students' IMs often are shaped by religious Iilith and spirituality~
Donna Rice. associate vice president for student affairs, heads the
universitywide Committee for the
Promotion of Toleranu and Diversity that is involved in the planning and support for Soul Solidarity Day.
"'ur campus is fortunate to ha~

tial in areu of his political cona:ms,
perhaps because they arc deeply
imbedded in the energy, intellect
and OOUJ'all&lt; that infutm his scholarly work. An intdlectual, intema·
tiooal scholar, historian, teacher,
podfist and inBuential ciYil-riB!tts
activist, rggers also is notably ~
"outsider" and has repc:mdlymarried his oudmcla's penpectiYO to
his e:amiDatioodtbe Wwer world.'
He is a Germon in America, an
Amrrian in Geruwoy,aalhunlooomopolilan in a poaodliol oetting. a
rebel in the &amp;mily. He also is a Jew or
perbaps,many-GennanJew.......
lar jew, orthodox jew. He came to
oonsiderhis }udalsm.be says,"'ess in
ethnic terms than as a rultural heritage which (exists) not apart from
modem wltun! but as a put of it"
He says he "came to reoogniu the
poaible role of the rultural'OU!Sider
as a lxi&lt;IFl&gt;etweenedusiYegroups."
He'md his wm, Wilma, emeritus
!K"'-rofbisiDryotCmioiusedlqje,
are liilong IJumoo..r91ts llctiYills. h
)'lllq faalky mmt&gt;m ot a Southern
all-bladt ~ !hey Jll¥d • significant role in the Amoricm ~
rD&lt;Mm&lt;l1l. In the 19501, they spearheadodthepreadem~chal­
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sistance to racism-that matbd a miJe.
postinthecivil-rights"""""""'&lt;Xthe

1950s md '60s. An internationalist,
but not an ideologue, Jgen was an
early skOptic of American and Soviet claims about the ofi8ins of and
stakes im'oi...J in the Cold War.
Gerber points out that he worked
with monnous dediation and pa·
lienee in the I 970s and '80s to open
up the former German Democnotic
Republic to Western historical
scholarship. Jbrough his writings.
lectures, teachiDg and the promotion of German-American university adlange programs. lggm enoot1l0j!ed East Germany's yo&lt;ong historians in the nealization of historiographic.al alternatives ·to their
oountry's Stalinist orthodoxy.
'"Th&lt;ttcan benodotilt;"Gerber has
written,"that this intellemoal opening
in the west that Georg helped to
~wasatactorin the lll89demoaatic~intheG.D.R."Gerber

calls Georg and Wilma Jgen"the last

&lt;X a breed--Central European academicsooocedina~l914li&gt;&lt;nland

oecuiar CXlSIDOpOiilaoi that has just
about run its oowoeculturallyand intdleclually.Aimoot:anydusootheD&lt;:uhy oould leave or mire and be ~
placed by """""""' more or Ieos just
mc., us," Gerber said, "But not Georg
and his unique early 20th-a:ntury
refup intdloctual oohort. Whm the
last &lt;X these people mire, no one will
ever be able to rq&gt;lacr them."

academia

so many people &lt;X dilfermt religious
boclcgrounds because it cmote:saoaturallearning environment for cultural
and religious &lt;IMisity;" said Rice. "It
is important for students to explore
the spiritual aspccl &lt;X their lives, especially how it o:dates to academic
progress." She added that Soul Solidarity Day is in accordance with the
broad definilian &lt;X dMrsity ~
by the~ ,.j,jch ~
racial. ethnic, .mgious. aokural and in-

· that all religious &amp;iths were. being
deprived of a generation of bright
young leaders since they were not
developing strong religious identity
as adults. He said Soul Solidarity
Day will provide an opportunity to
begin the exploration of such issues
as interfaith marriages, the separation between church and state, the
role of women in religion, science
and rdigion, sauai practices, rituals of diffem&gt;t Iilith traditions and
their meanings, ·religious issues surroundinggaysand lesbians, religious
oonfticts on an international scale
and how to ~ tll1Mrsal peace
Soul Solidarity Day will r.ature a
performance by Bu110lo's Theatre for
tdlectual dili:rm&lt;zs.
The initiaiM &lt;Y&lt;ll»ed out &lt;X a 1995 Ow&gt;ge.agroupocprofi:ssMlnalacta'S,
proposal. 'TheAreopagus~" by writersanddirectorswho perform inMoore and members ofl&gt;resbyteryof · novative intr:ractive plays, improvisaWestern New York. which addies5ed tionsand~d&lt;alingwithcur­
ooncems that many faculty members rent life issues. The day wo1l &lt;XlDdude
in higher education had adopted a with a multiculnoral dance session &lt;X
oecuiar world view that did not take The Dances &lt;X l1ni¥mal Ptace. All
into oonsideratioo the minority &lt;X ......Is ..;.,Qated with Soul Solidarity
scholars who practiced religious Iilith Day are free and open to the public.
For more information, caD Moore at
traditions.
Moore and his oolleagues felt 639-mn.

�FSEC asks caution on awards proposal
11Ja.51WRVIDAL

to stress the role the university

too,wassurprisedthattheproposal

Reporter Editor

community plays in the selection

suggested the tventuaJ elimination

process, and market the award as
part of the overall university recognition program. Over time the
university award will gain its own
identity and stature and become
theawardofchoiceforUBfaculty.
The SUNY Chancellor's Awards
Program can then be phased out
at UB," the proposal states.
But Don Schack, professor of
mathematia, called the proposal
"'j uvcnile ... almost like thumbing
our noses• at SUNY.
" It's the dropping part I don't
get." be said.
·Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguisbed Service Professor in the
Department of Political Science,
urged caution in consideration of
the proposal.
"I•m also concerned at the potential perception of thumbing
our noses.• he said.
SUNY Chancellor's Awards have
a prestige outside the university
comm unity that should not be
overlooked, said Juctith AdamsVolpe, director of Lockwood Libr~.
~would like to speak up for the
continued recognition of SUNY
awards,.. she said. •mnational professional life, the SUNY award is
going to have more of an unpact.
I wou ld hate to see som e of our
people ehmmated from SUNY
award consideration "
Provost Tom Headnck S3Jd he,

of SUNY Chancellor's Awards.
.. I was as surprised as anyon e
that the chancello r's award program would be phased out. I think
that probably comes out of the
general posture of people on the
fifth floor of Capen of having their
fill of the people •n Albany:·
Headrick said.
If adopted, he predicted, .. there
will be problems with the hierarchicaJ status" of the awards.
According to the proposal, "The
status of this series of award s
should be prestigious, a no tch below the President's Medal. Award·
ing it at the Convocation , along
with the President's Medal, will
help promote that level of status,
although it will have to be devel oped over time. Formal recogni·
tipn by the president, sufficiently
publicized, presentation of a me·
dallion for ceremonial wear and
some form of permanent recogni tion in university publications or
a gallery area wouJd provide val ued reward for the recipients."
H. William Coles. associate di rector of the Equcational Opportunity Program and chair of the
Professional Staff Senate, noted a
discussion of the proposal by the
PSS execuuve commmee"echoed"
the FSEC's sent1ments
... It 's certamlywonderfu l to have
more awards, but shouldn't chmi nate the SUNY awards," he S3Jd.

E Faculty Senat; ExcculiveCommittee at its
Sept: 2 meeting urged
caution over pursuit of
a new campus recognition program of awards proposed by the
university administration that
eventually would phaseout SUNY
Chancellor's Awards at UB.
1be proposed prQgfaD1, the University at BuffaJo Recognition Pro-

gram, would include annual awards
in eight categories: teaChing; professional serVice; Hbrarianship;
scholarship, research, inventive or
creativeactivity;publicservice;servicebyastudent, andvolunteerservice. Awards would be presented at
the University Convocation.
Part of the purpose of the recognjtion prngraffi, according to the
draft proposal that was circulated
to members of the Faculty Senate
and Professional Staff Senate executivecommittees for their review
and corhmen ts, is to .. serve as a
morale builder for all employees."
According to the proposal, lbe
original intent of exploring a uni versity recognition program was
to replace tht SUNY award with
direct recognition from our campus community. .
r example, .. The Umvers1ty at
ato Award for Teachmg would
presented annually to the
UNY ChanceUor's Award rec1p1 ·
Steps should then be taken

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T~fe~disci"plinary
.Ul·lJ J.
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., a.tS11NE VIDAL
Reporter Editor
NTERDISCIPUNARY structures are good for UB and
should be oonsidered vital to
thefutureoftheuniversity,acoordiog to a report presented 10 the
FawltySenateE2cutiveCommittee
SepL 2 by members of the Committee on interdisciplinary Studies.
Therommittee,chairedbylain
Hay, Grant T. Fisher professor and
chairoftheDepartmentofMicrobiology, was formed in Nov. 1997
by Provost Thomas Headrick to
examinethestatusofinterdisciplinary studies at UB and make recommendations on future policy.
In its examination, Hay saici the
committee found that while there
are benefits to interdisciplinary
study, there are a number a prob!ems that need to be addressed. ind uding "dear barrim"to the development of interdisciplinary activil)l
at UB. An inventory of programs is
needed, as is standardization of the
current "hodge-podge" of names.
There also are teaching issues that
need to be resolved, he said

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InterdisCiplinary structures
should exist because of their academic value, and not because they
are perceived to be ..cash cows,"
noted H. Lorraine Oak, associate
dean in the School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences and a
member of the Committee on ln terdisciplinary Studies.
In adwtion, promotion and ten·
ureissuesstillshouldbeaddressed
at the departmental level , a! th o ugh individuals wh o spend
considerable time in interdisciplinary departments should receive
credit for that work, said Hay.
But FSEC members voiced concems that in terdisciplinary programs don't necess'-rily work in
the bestinterestsofindividualdepartments.
Faculty members who are in volved in interdisciplinary structures "sometimes take away from
the department and don't contribute to the intellectual life of the
d epartme nt." said Don Schack,
professor of mathematics.
"It's not a win-win situation," he
said. "I know of several cases of

proposals for interdis ciplinary
centers because there's money in
them thar hills."
Interdisciplinary programs, he
continued, are "something people
worry about because people believe that the only thing less likely
than a dean teaching again is a
multidisciplinary stru ctu re being
o ut of money again ."
Hay disagreed. A number of
multidisciplinary programs have
been fo lded over the years, "al t h o u gh probably not all that
should have been." he said.
Fu nding of in terdisc iplin a r y
programs also is a source of con~
tention, because the university has
"no clue what these funds actually
are being used for." said Cedric
Smith , professor of pharmacology
and toxicology.
Tracking down how funds are
being used is a problem, agreed Oak.
'"The oommittee had a very difficult time even getting that much information. Weagrecoomplete!ywith
what you'n: saying." she said ''I've had
a number of people interested in
where the individual costs go."

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Elec:bsoa~awaJriS Ill
The Cyberdoc lS In

"While rapelllng 1got rope burns on my finger·~~~-~~.

tips. How can I treat them?" "Can you give me information related to treatment of auto 1mmune progester- ,-.,._ __,
one dermatitis?" "What ts the source of the noi.st when
you crack your knuckJ es? Is it the bone/cartilage or is it
something else~ .. These three examples from the MedJcaJ
Mall's Ask -a - Doc page ( http J / www.r•ln .org /
- medmall/ adt/ uldandon.html ) illustrate a growmg trend on heaJth
information Web sites--asking medical advice from qualified profes
sionals online. Us1ng e -mail and d1scuss1on lists. these Web page\
are designed to prov1dc personal answe rs fro m a qualified profc~
sional. Some sites maintain d1scuss1on ~1sts or retam arch1ves of que!&gt;
tion s. O ther sites will post all quest 1on~ asked. while some will posl
selected questions and providr perso naJ replies.
Asamplingofask-a-docsitesisav.ulablefromtheBu.ff.Uofrer:-NetMecL·

ca!Center(http:/ ;-.bulfalo.- / ..-...v........,_.htmiJ-).
H= you will find sites sponsored by leading medical institutions Iii« the
MayoOinicandl!ethlsradHospital.orindividualhoalthprofessionalswho
are online 10 hdp.lt's not only doctor&gt; -there's Ask the Pharmacist and Ask
the Dietician.l'ractically """'Y medical specialty is represented somewher&lt;
on the Web highlighting a question-and-answer service.
Famous doctors also will let you test their medicaJ knowledge
For all types of consumer health mformat1on you can ask Dr. Koop.
the former surgeon generaJ, on the Koop's Com muni ty Site (http:/
/ www.drkoop.com/spl••h.up ). You need 10 register to ask a que&gt; ·
tion of the good doc. however. Complemen ta ry medicint- guru. Dr.
Andrew Weil, can be reached via his popular site, Ask Dr. Weil ( http:/
/ www.d rwell.com/ ). Dr. WeiJ's si te features renowned sex thera ~
pist Dr. Ruth Westhei mer answering e-mail questions. You ca n ask
Dr. Joyce Broth ers a question, too, on Good Housekeeping's Sit e
(http:/ / homurtuom/ m•ll/ ghm•IIJ.htm ).
When seeking information from the Web. especially health mforma ·
tion, consider the reliability o f the source. Just as you wouJd critically
evaluate written materials. apply that same careful eye to where the online
information is originating. Most hea1th-related Web sites carry a d 1s.
claimer that their information is not a substitute for a visit to your health
professional; this is especially true for ask-a-doc sites. Use the in forma ·
tion you gather wisely and in conjunction with your regular health care,
and you can become a more infonned medical consumer.
for assistance in connecting to the World Wide Web, concoct the ASC/T
Help Desk ar 645 -35 42 .

- Sue Neumeister and Lort WJdzlnskl, Umvers1ty Ltbrones

BrieDy
CAPEM conference attracts
pioneers in a hot, new science
The world's biggest nam es in a field devoted to the world 's small ·
est things are coming to UB for a Symposium on Nanoscale Science
and Techno logy, to be held Oct. 23-24. Speakers will include Nobel
Laureate ).C. Polanyl and nine national academy members (includ ·
ing Polanyi ), as well as other leaders in the field .
NanomateriaJs measure one billionth of a meter, many thousands
of times smaJier than a human hair, and yet they an~ changing rad1 ·
cally how scientists and engineers design new materi3Js for electron ·
ics and opto-electronics, drug-delivery, information storage and mo re.
Nanopartides already are being used in some sunscreens because
their tiny size allows them to block just the harmful ultraviolet rays.
Sponsored by the Ce nter for Advanced Pltotonic and ElectroniL
Materials (CAP EM ), the conference will focus on chemistry, phys·
ics and engineering aspects of nanost ructures, nanostructure de
vices, fabrication, and measurements and physics o n the nanoscale.
Presentation topics will range from molecular self-assembly ap·
proaches. the world 's smallest devices. metallic nanopanidcs, nanopores
and new devices for data storage. Representatives from government
agencies also will discuss new grant opportunities in the area.
For information and reservations. call MaryAnn LaMilia at 645-64 75.

Reebok to outfit UB athletic
teams for the next three years

Private gifts
"Student aid is getting harder to of $80(),000 from the anonymous
obtain. This is a great time for the _donor who established the fund.
school to receive so·much support The gift brought the donor's total
fo r st ud ent schola rships," said giving to $4 million, and has helped
Mecca Cranley, dean of the School inspire additional commitments
of Nur&gt;ing. "These scholarships totaling $400,000 from others.
The fund provides fuU scholargive the school a competitive edge
in recruiting the best and bright- ships to academically gifted underest studcpts."
graduate students. The latest cash
Another important scholarship gift will result in a total of 75 Disfund, the UB Distinguished Hon - tinguished Honors Scholars being
ors Scholars program, received ad - recruited and enrolled in alJ four
wtionalsupport this year with a gift undergraduate years.

1

While the se generous gifts
played a large role in achieving thi s
year's new level of giving, this up ·
ward trend also was th e result of
many other private donors wh o
provided gifts at aU levels and to
all parts of the university. Private
gifts have helped fund a wide range
of programs in recent years, many
of which provide outreach to the
locaJ community, and virtually all
of which have a positive economic
effect on Western New York.

The Division of Athietks has signed its fi rst major athle t~e · a r
pa rel agreement with Reebok, Inc. that makes the co mpan y the offi
cial outfi tter for UB's sports teams through 200 I .
'" This excl usive agreement is a win -win situation for both par
ti es," said BobArkeilpane, interim director of athletiCs... For Reebok ,
it is an opportunity to maximize their exposure in Western New
York and partner with a rapidly growing athletic program. For us .
the resuJting savings, coupled with the monetary aspe&lt;t of the agree
ment, enables us to chan nel more dollars into our scho larship bud
get as we enter this new era in our athletic history."
The agreement will help to offset rising costs of umforms, sneakers and practice gear. As part of the agreement , Reebok will receive
signage in UB Stadium and Alumni Arena for th e next three years.

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Student Union mural is
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Report~

CHUIICHJU
Staff

TUDENTSstartingoffthe

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school year last week may
have no ticed a sparkling
new, two-dimensional ad clition to the St udent Union.
A mura l depicting student life
at UB now span s a wall of ap~
proximately 8 by 70 feet in a cor -

ridor near the Office of Stu dent
Life. I SO Stud e nt U nion.

Work o n the enormous paint mg began in February, and it was

completed within the past week.
said Geo rge Awad, a graphic artist

for the Office of Student Life and
a communication desig n major.
Awad and Jennifer Rozwood, a
fourth -year student studying art
illustration, are responsible for the
work that, according to Awad, is ..a
visual sto ry" of student life at UB,
beginning with student or)entation
and ending with graduation.
One of the main purpo ~ of the
mural, in addition to ..brightening

up the hallwn." was to portray the
universit y not as a .. big, bulky, bu rea ucrati c machine,"but insteaO as
a place for .. lighth earted " experi·
cnces, A wad said.
'" I ho pe we've captured that,"
Awad said. " h looks chaotic on the
wall," he admitted, but to a certain
extent, student life "is chaotic," he
said ... It 's just a maner of juggling.
That's what student life is--making sure nothing drops."
AI thebeginning.orlefi-handside
of the mural, students at the orientation stage of the mural have ..a look

of worry," Awad said, while at fur end,
or right-hand side, students in their
black graduation r:obes show signs of
"jubilation... they're all done."
There are four main, fictional student s who appea r repea tedly
throughout the mural, Awad said
Named Jerry, Robbie, Zhinping. and
Maria, thecharactcncan be seen near
the FJlicon Complex. in a downtown
setting. in the library, and standing
in line to purchase textbooks, said
Awad, adding that Rozwood did all
of the drawing but that the mural
project was "a ioint effort."
There aJso are dozens of other
faces in the painting. Most are fictio nal, but likenesses of Barbara
Ricotta, dean of students and
former director of Student Life,
along with Ed Brodka and Toby
Shapiro from the Office of Student
Life, can be identified in the
masses.
The mural runs aJong the corridor that connects the "old" part of
the Student Union with the .. new..
part. And for Awad, the mural constitutes "leaving my mark at US.
"I like the fact that it will be up
there for a while," he said.
T he Student Union Advisory
Committee is looking for other art ists with hopes of producing simi lar murals throughout the building.
said Andrea Costantino, director of
the Student Union, who also is a
member of the advisory committee.
"All they have to do is give a proposal ," Costantino said, adding
that the committee expects to hear
from various student groups and

of student life

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The proposals are submitted to
the advisory committee, which is
composed of representatives from
student governm ent, the profes-

sional staff and faculty, and build ing occupants.
If a proposal is accepted, the art ists are compensated by the uni·
versity, Constantino said.

Research sheds light on control of genetic prOCess
By ElilN GOLDIIAUM
News Servk:es Editor

a perfect illustration of
ow str ucture determin es
unction. researchers at UB
have demon strated how an
exquisitely organized architecture
in the cell nucleus controls precisely
when and where genetic processes
are activated, apparently inf1uenc·
ing gene expression and regulation.
The work is reported in th e cur·
rent issue of Science.
Like a conductor waving a ba·
ton , the UB team reports, the in tricate nuclear strudure so mehow
orc hestra tes certain region s or
"zones"' in the nucleus to engage
in, o r refrai n from, transcription
or replication at designated times.
T he resea rch provides the best
proof to date of how highly organized nuclear structures are, and
how dramatically that organization
affects the copying and writing of

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genetic information in an organism.
The results are particularly provocative, the researchers said, with
wo rk on the human genome so
close to completion_
..There are so many great genetic
probes available now that we will be
able to test our findings on specific
genes," said Ronald Berezney, principal investigator and professOr and
chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. "We will look at, say, a
gene that codes for hemoglobin, and
try to find out when and where it
r(:plicates and transcribes."
According to Beremey, such experiments could lead to an understanding of how different genes-part icularly those implicated in
disease-are related based on the
proxim ity of their transcription
and replicatio n sites.
VB biologists working with re·
searchers in the univers.ity's Department of Computer Science and En -

gineering used fluorescence laserscanning confocal microscopy and
three-dimensional image analysis.
Usinggr.m fluor=nl tags to"'?resent replication sites :.Od red tags
to indicate transcription sites, they
have developed what they term "a
dynamic mosaic model" ofhow such
sites are distributed in the nucleus.
The clustering of green sites
wirh green, red sites with red and
only very rare cases of yeUow, indica ting ove rl ap, demonstrates
unequivocally that transcription
and replication of DNA not only
occur in two distinct areas within
the cell nucleus, but that these sites
occur as distinct dusters.
The results suggest th at th e,
whole genom~ is divided into sub·
regions in the nuclear architecture
and that different regions are activated in a progression.
.. Huge amounts of genetic material are being turned on and off

in a grand choreography both in
space and Lime," said ~rezne y,
"'which opens up the idea that then:
may be a precise timing for when
certain genes are express«!. That
timing could tum ou to be really
important for the normal functioning of the cell," he said, adding that
when, for some reason, the timing
is not exactly right, it could be dangerous for the organism.
First au thor on the paper is
Xiangyun Wei, a doctoral candidate
in the Department of Biological ScienceS_ In addition to Berezney, the
co-authors are Alan Siegel, a mianscopy specialist in the department;
Jagath Samarabandu, formerly a
post-doctoral associate, and Professor Raj Acharya and graduate student Rakendu S. Devdher, both of
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
The work was funded by the
National Institutes of Health.

New York State is required to be·
gin funding the AHEC program in
its 6th year, and eventually to assume fulJ financial responsibility.
Dia.ne G. Schwartz, director of
special projects for the UB medi cal schoo l. wiU be dep uty director
of th e statewide program office.
The $900,000 grant is part of a
ma;or initiative being undertaken by
the American Academy of Family
Physicians to promote science--based
research on the importance of an integrated, whole-health approach to
the practice of fan\ily medicine.
In addition to UB, the Center

for the Value of Family Practice is
co mposed of Case Western Re serve University in Cleveland, Uni·
versity of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and Lehigh Val ley
Hospital in Allentown, Pa.
Carlos R. Jaen, associate profes·
sor of family medicine and director of US's Center for Urban Re·
search in Primary Care, is the UB
co· director of The Center for the
Value of Family Practice.
"This is exciting fo r us," Jaen said.
"This initiative will give us a chance
to help make family practice better
for all physicians and patients."

He and his fellow co-director&gt; will
dt'Velop a detailed map of the core
strudures and processes of family
practice. addressing five priorities;
• Managing chron ic diseases
within the context of each patient's
needs and priorities
• Increasing the ability of family
practice to serve as an o utlet for
applying new technologies
• Integrating mental-health care
into comprehensive medicaJ care
• Developing practice-tailored systems to deliver preventive servicr
• Increasing the community fo cus of family practice.

Med school
ContlnUedfrom,_l

ment of Family Medicine. and
help establish regional offices at
the SUNY Health Science Center
at Syracuse and Albany Medical
College/State University at Albany
School of Public Health.
Du rin g s ubsequent fund ing
cydes, ce nter staff will help estab lish AHEC regionaJ cen ters at the:
Sta te Uni versi ty at Stony Broo k
and SUNY Health Science Center
at Brooklyn. Each regionaJ center
will be responsible for setting up
rwocomrnunity-basedAHECsites
in underserved areas by the end of
the 12-year federal funding cycle.

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7

Statistics: from a vibrant enterprise on an upward slope to a dwindled, demoralized group
To the Editor:
When the statistics department
was transferred to the medical
school, its mardUng onlersw&lt;re
to pay special attention to biostatistics and statistical consult·
ing in bcalth sciences.
My 1993 appointment letter
from Dean Naughton promised two additional faculty to
help bring this about. Sadly,
these promised additional re-

sources never came to pass.
Fortunately, faculty turnover
enabled me to hire two biostatisticians and one statistician
with a pronounced interest in
biostatistics, while our overall
size remained much the same.
We also launched a statistical laboratory that has been
actively consulted by many
hospitals and departments.
All this and much more is discussed in my annual reports.
These reports arc very specific
and detailed, and cover teaching. =&lt;arch productmly, ODD·
suiting services, seminar series,
faculty and staff, as well as lists
of accomplishments and shortcomings. To the best of my
knowledge. these reports were

filed unread: at least I never received
any response to them.
From this documentation it is
evident that by 1996 the future
looked bright. Even as our department was flowering, the School of
Medicine was wilting. Many medical faculty no longer generated
grants, the lifeblood of medical
schools. Unlike core faculty, pro fessors in medicine can never earn
their ucp with teaching: they become deadweight. The resulting
resource crunch was the reason the

commitments made to statistics
were never honOred .
An exception to the general
malaise is the Department of So-

cial and Preventive Medicine,
SPM. They are physically next
door to us, and usc statistical expertise with a vengeance: the study
Qf epidemics and large-scale lon gitudinal studits involve much
data analysis. They have statistical
expertise on their own staff, just
as many departments have faculty
well-versed in the use of (as op·
posed to the production and design of) statistical techniques.
What transpired when is still not
dear to me, but when both SPM

"in -house" statistical gurus tndi ca ted they wou ld leave in 1996,
their chair, Dr. Trevisan, touched
base with Dean Na ughton, who
consulted with Provost Headrick,
and overnight this triumvirate de+
cided to 1ubsume the statistics de-

partment wholesale into SPM.
Word of this development filtered
through to meslowlyvia SPM stu dents and secretarial staff. When
it dawned on me that the rumors
were premised on fact I protested
fiercely, but the decision had been
made.
The two years that lapsed between
1996 and 1998 were not used to
study the relevant information or
invite faculty governance input, but
rather to let the department lapse
from a vibrant enterp~ on a steep
upward slope to a dwindled, demoralized, intcroally somewhat divided
gmup. lts faculty is now, with death,
departure and retirement all taking
their toU, down to three.
The administration believes that
it will be possible to have a statistics unit in SPM that will do what
all regular departments do, and
then some. Whence this optimism? The chair of SPM is on

reco rd that he IS not Interested m
developing statistics. If the earher
notion that the medical school
would be a nurturing home for the
statistics depa rtment, rather than
a cannibalistic tribe, proved to be
so false so quickly, what hope IS
there in th is new struct ure?
Of all the miseries encountered,
I can unde rstand th e failure to
make good on written co mmit ·
ments best. I bemoan this m my
annual reports, but never went to
the barricades, mindful of the gen ·
era! difficulties faced by health SCI ·
ences.
What I find more diffic ult t o
understand is the personal mean ·
ness. I came in good faith, and accomplished much in a short time.
Yet , I am co nsidered a pariah. My
annual reports are unread, m y
contributions unackn ow ledged ,
my name is not menti o ned . my
professional reputation is ignored.
For the record, I can stand t.he
pressure; I can live with the insults;
I know it reflect5 on my detractors
and not on me. Yet, it is grating.
especially since this vindictiveness
is so gratuitous. For Provost
Headrick indica tes that the real

problem is institutional pnon11es
vying for scarce resourc&amp;. We a.re
not such a priority. Rather, empt y
seats in astadium,law school, gen +
der studies, exotic languages, a
Center for the Arts that i.s a huge
white elephant, a development offlee that advertises for .. many, lu crative.. positions--a list dC'Void of
mtellectual pursuits and/or market -driven resource allocations.
What f don't understand at all
1s the gleefu l attitude of the ad mmistrators perpetrating all thLS.
the Grei ners, the Headri cks. the
Naughtons, the Wrights, the Levys,
the Trigglcs, the Goodmans. They
appear to positively enjoy this di version , quoting Alice in Wonder land and ot her inanit1es, calling
ou r demise- "biting the bullet " over
and over again , and ac t1ng
throughout even ~fore decrs1ons
have been made. In another con text , G reenspan spoke of 1rratJO·
nal a:uberance. In another con ·
text, Goldhagen spoke of willing
executioners. As for G uttman. I
am so dumbfounded words fail
me

_.rwtn (;uttJnan, Profes5.or

The enhanced undergraduate experience-an enhanced bureaucratic expenence
To t h e Edito r:
Through the formation of the
College of Arts and Sciences was
premised on the need "'to enhance the und6-graduate experience," it was mentioned as a
positive externality that it would
streamline the bureaucracy.
I took this with sccpsis, but
harbored some hope that the legion of staff which surrounds
deans would rejoin the faculty.

Courtesy of the Reporter, we now
have the scorecard.
One uiideanecfaean has become
senior vice provost for educational
technology. His assistant has hecome associate vice provost for
educational technology.
The other supernumerary dean
is now Sf'njor advisor for planning
and operations of the college. His
right -hand man is seni or associ-

ate dean of the college.
The (o ld ) dean of the Under - msult to injury, in many cases there
Othcrstaffoftheolddecanalbu - graduate College is recycled to a is not the slightest indication thai
reaucracies have also safely landed: deanship wilh another name, and the appointed dean has any dem
as associate dean for sponsored three of hi s staff have redefi ned onst rated or credentialed compe
programs of the college; as associ~ functions. Never fear, he promises tence in the relevant area In no case
ate dean for graduate studies and that several add itionaJ functions was the position advertised or subresearch of the college; as associate will he created (including a recruit · ject to an affirmative action search.
dean for educational technology of mcnt-and -retention specialist).
It is dear that part of the "en ·
the college; and as associate dean
These are not examples of ~s • - hanced undergradu a te experi for undergraduate studies of the l1ons crying to be filled, but of per
ence" will be an ue nha nced bu college.
sons crying for a position. To add rea ucratic experience,"
-tohn C. c;. Boot, Cha~rman, Department of Management Soence ond Systems, School of Management

netghbortlood. Exhibit places an
historic.ll perspective on the role
information plays In the ongoing ~ of
the loYe Canal and recounts what has

1e1t tt-. Exhibit will bo on view in tho

Computer Art nudenu in ~
~rtment of Art expk&gt;re penonal
vWon and expresion through digital
~. digital time-ba~ media,
inter.Ktive d~ital documents, virtual
objects and VIrtual spaces. Worics will be

Sd&lt;n« and Engineering Ubr&gt;ry (SEl),
second floor, Capen HaiL during ~ular
SEl hours through Sept. 30.

and ttvee-dimensional ani1'1"11tion,

Events calendar
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Exhibit hx.,.. on Love C.nal. pemaps
tho country's most infaroous hazardous

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shown as d!9iUJ printouts. along with
on-SCiftn diSplays ol two-dimtnsional

algorithmic process art and interactlve
projects. Exhibit will be on view In the

Ar1 Departrm:nt Gallery, Center fOl the

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�CONTENTS

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Ddinitions
page.2

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Prolcribed Conduct

pagr2

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Student Orpnizations
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· l)Mmity Staodarda
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lllllcs of the Boanl
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Supplomaltal Rules
"" the M8inttDance of .
PubliC Ordtt for the
State Univenity
ofNew York at Buffalo
page'S

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Administrative Regulations

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Alcoholic Beverages,
Alroholk llevetage
Control Law
page7
Artlde8:

Drug Free Schools and
Communities kt

page7
Article !I

Parking and Traffic
Regulations
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Article 10:

Office of Student Finances
and Rrcords
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Artlde11 :
Approval

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Compliance Statement

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PRfAMBLE
Ur~ r vm:rry disaplintJry proc~ lllh appropnau. tlC·
t10r1

when student conduct diru:lly and significtmtly

rnttr{tra with the Univrrsity's pritrUiryrductJtion~~l
respomrbillly of insurir~g all members of its commu·
mty the opportunrty to attain thnr tducation11l ob~ctrva'" consonanu

TheK

r~ulatiotu

with IM instirution's rru~ndDtt.

gowrning shldent

~hovior

have

been formultated to ~reasonable and rttdisric for all
rrudcnu.

Whtn a stu.dtnt luu b«n apprthmdtd for tht
law of tht community, tht sttltt, or natron, rt u the UniY'trrity's position not to rtquat or
agrt.t to spuial considut~t ion fort~ sllUhnt &amp;ea. usc
of hu or htr stwhnt status. It Utould be understood
vroU. rw n oftJ

that tht University is not a law enforument o~cy.
At tfu: samt rime. the University dots not conai~ of
r~lf as 11 "'sanct&amp;ulry• for law lmakus. 1M Uni'l'tr·
ury hlu alwaY'~" and should continue to be eot~ ·
cunLd tlult wh.mna studtnU art involwd in lLp1
probkrm they M tukqWJttly tulviW and rqnscnkd
by qulllifiul counstl.
A unrvrrsity, esp«rally a SIDtt Univrrsity subJUt to constitutioruJI rtquirements, mwt gwJrllrrl«
students rlv rights whit:#! tit~ socinyt~nd irs laws protect. An Americ.£Jn university gullrllntus its studntts
the~ ngltrs on Q Cllmpus.
Stwhnu who violtJtt Q loc.al ordin.£Jnu, or any
low, nsk tht lqal ~nalnes prescribed by civil authonnes. However, viokuion of law for wltidltlv student pays the ~n.£Jity will not ntcetJQrily itn'Ol~ a
v1olanon of llauiem lt StQndtJrds or rules of the Univn-rity. The UnivusityCllnnotbtltddrespomibl.tfor
off·cllmpus actmflt'J of its individwJI stu.tkntl but
rnD intarn.s an inttrtst in all beluzvior, wltaltn- on or
off-Cllmpw, wltrch may advcnely affect the Un iwrn ty. In ClUeS involvrng violtJtions of the law which
occur off Cllmpw, t~ivtrsity '""Y M conanud
with the mcUknu wh ich, by their naturt a.dvffsely
affect the Unrversity's tdUC.£~tional miuion.
In any Untvvsity diJciplinory procedure ant of
tht h1ght::$t pnorillt::$ oft#w Uniwrrity iJ to StJftgWJrd
tht' studt nr 's nght to due proem. Due Procns iJ not
lln evasrw legal concept but rQther simply requ1rts
the rudtmentary dements of lair pllly• in an tulm•nrstrative proceeding. To this tnd, all Univtnrty
dJS(Ip/rnory procedum wiU at l.ttUt 11ffurd tht de fendant Q dear stlltt:mtnt oftltechtJrgesand the na ·
rurr of th~ evidence upon whidr tht cMrga llre bGsai
Suondly, the defendant shall be givtn a fair htllr'".1:· ht allowed to confront and aos.s-a.amine wunNsa. und present hu or her own position, evidence
and apiJJ nallort. lAstly, no disciplirwry action wr/J
bt tQken unless the chll~ are substantiated by thl'
evrdr.nct. The courts havt indiCtJted thllt if these
mrnimal elemtnb of'"fair pltJy'" art fulfilkd. the dt {tndont will hllvt ~en afforded due proem undtr
thrlDw.
In summary, the Umwrsity txp&lt;Cfs and asks for
rts members no grtQter or no kss freulom or liberty
t han exis ts for o ther persons in socie ty. Tht
Un rw rsity's position, therefore, iJ nor to request or
agree ro sp«ial considnation bealu~ofthe snclertr's
status. The Univunty w1ll not interfere wllh IJJwen fo ru ment tJnd otht'T agencies. As part of its eduCtJtronaf mandQte, it wdl bt c:onurntd about student
rehabilllorion and con mbutron to Cllmpus and so(l ·
ety now ond mto thl' fu turt .

ARnCLE 1: DEFINmONS
1 . The term "Univusiry'" means State University
of New York at Bufhlo.
2 . The term "student" indud~ all persons taking
cour'ses at the University, both full time and part time, pursuing undergraduate, graduate, or pro fes.siona..lstudies.
JA. The term "academ ic good standing" means:
The University at Buffalo considers an undergraduate who ha.s completed a semester or mort at thr
Un iversity t o~ in academic good standing only if.
( 1) the studeut's cumu1ative grade point avcrage (fo r work attempted both at thi$ umversity and at any other postsecondary in stitu tion the student may have attended) IS
2.0 o r above. and:
( 2) th e student's cumulative grade point average for wo rk attempted at UB is 2.0 o r
above.
Students who are no t in good standing are o n probation subj«1 to eventual dismissal
JB. The term "Satisfactory and Timely Progress
.
lOward a Deg.r~ means:
The Universit y at Buffalo classifies undergraduate studenu as"Sophomores" after they have
compleu·d 30 credit hours, as "Ju niors" aft er they
completrd 60 credit ho urs, and as "Seniors" after
they have completed at least 90 credit hours. until
th ey graduate.
If st udent regist~rs for a cou rst and does not
drop it during the regular drop and add period
early each semester, it cannot be considtrf'd as havmg been completed until the studcnt ultimately receivt=s a pas.sing grade in the course. Thus, a courSt
fo r which a student received a grade of•R"' or .. I ..
(with course requirements not yet fulfilled), or a
failing grade of" F" or "U" must be considem! u
not having been completed.
T hr UniVl"rsity at Buffa..lo considrn an under -

graduate stucknt who ha.s complrt.ed a scmtstrr or
more at UB to be makins satisfactory and timely
prog.reu toward a degree only if. in addition to
meeting tht conditions for good standins above:
( 1) The st udt.ot's grade point avtTI~ fqr the
tn01t reant scmater is 2.0 or above. and
(2 ) at least 75% of all credit hours for which
the student was registered in aU semesters
at UB have h«n complrt.ed..
A junior or senior is making: satisfactory and timdy
progress toward a degree only if, in addition to
meeting conditions (I) and (2) above. tM student
is acupted and enrolled in a department or prog:ram offerins a ma;or.
Students who arc found not to be makins satisfactory and timely pros= toward a c1eJrtt in
two or more consecutive serncsten are on academic
probation and subject to eventual d.iunis&amp;al.
.4 . The term •£acu.lty member• means any pason
oonductins c..lusroom activities at UB.
5 . The term ·univttsityofficial• indudesany person employed by the Univenity performing assigned administrative or proft5Sional responsibilities.
6. The term •member of the Univcrlity community'" indudes any penon wbo is altudent. faculty
member, University official or any other person
omploy.d by the Uni...Uty.
7 . The cmn"Uniwnitypr=ises" indudesollland,
buildings, 6acililie$, ond other prop&lt;rty in the possea.ion of or owned. used. or controUed by the University or affiliates.
The term •orpniution• means
number of
pasons wbo have complied with the formal requirements for University recognition.
9 . Theterm ·judiciaJ body-mea.nsany~nsau ­
thoriz.ed by the Director of Judicial Affain to determine whether a student has violated the Stu dent Code and to recommend imposition of sane·
tioru.
10. The ttrm •Appellate Board· means any person or per10ns authoriud by the Director of Judi·
d a..l Affairs to consider an appeal &amp;om a judicial
body's determination that a student hu violated
the Student Code or from the sanctions imposed
by tht Student -Wide Judiciary.
11 . The Via President for Student Affairs and the
Dean of Students are the penonsdes:ignated by the
University Presiden t to be responsible for the ad mi nistration of the Student Code.
12. The term •policy'" is defined u the written
regulations of the Univusity u found in, but not
limited to. the Conduct Standards. Residm~ Lift
Handbook, and Graduate/Undergraduate Cata loss1 J . The term "'academic integrity proceedins•
means the process defined in both the Undergraduate and Graduate Cataloss for dealing with such
matters (sec also Article 5: #3).
14. The term "cheating• indudes, but is not lim Ited to: (I) use of any unauthoiiz.ed a.ssistana in
taking quiu..es.. tests, or examinations; (2) depm dena upon the aid of SO UIU$ beyond those au thoriz.ed by the instructor in writing papers, prepa ring reports, solving problems, or carrying out
other assignments; or (3) the acquilition, without
permission, of t~ts or o ther academic material
belonging to a member of the University faculty
or staff.
15. The term "plagiarism• includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation ,
of the published or unpublished work of another
person without full and dear acknowledgment. It
also includes the unacknowledged use of materials p repared by another penon or agency engaged
in the se.Uing of term papers or-other academic materials.
16. The term "recognized student government"
means Student Association (SA), Graduate Studtnt
Association (GSA), Millard Fillmore College Stu·
dent As.sociation (MFCSA ), Polity Student Coun·
cil, Dental School Student As.sociation (DSA).Student Bar Association (SBA ). Graduate Management Association (G MA) and other student governments that may be o fficially recognized by the
University dunng any year,
17. The term "dismissa.J" meam that a student is
permanently removed, for academic reasons. from
aiJ privileges offered by associatio n with the Univenity. Application for readmission may ~ pos ·
sible.
11. The term "swpension" means removing from
a student, for d1sciplinary reasons. some or all
privileges offered by association with the University fo r a specified period of time.
19. Tht= term "expuls1on" means permanently removing from a stude nt all privileges offertd by association with the University.
20. The term "dea.r and prr~nt danser" means
immediate serious v1olence i$ apecte:d or past con ·
duct furnished ~ason to be.lirvc such conduct is
contemplated; also, potentia.! of immediate future
~prtition of prohibited conduct, i.e., sale/possession of drugs. deviant saual behavior, et c.
21 . The term •temporary suspension• means un der ce:rtain circumstances a student may ~ d«med
to be a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the
University Community and may be suspend~ immediately pendin-g a timely hearing on the charges.

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n. Thr term "hearings· means incidmu of Rule
Violation• will usually cause a student to be: •summoned '" to answer before a University sat)Ctioned
Judicial Body o r Judicial Office.r. Sanction«~ bod.
ies include Committee: for the Maint.t:nanc.t of Public Order, Studmt-Wade Judkiary. Raidcnc:e Life,
Co mmunity Standard• Panel , any authorized
Grttk letter Panel, Arbitration/Mediadon Panels.
and authoriud bodies within University academic
divisions.

AII'TlCLE 2 : JUDICIAL AUTHOIUTY
jUOJSDICTlON OF ..... U NMP.SITY
1. U.U....ity jurisdiction ond diJCipline ahaJJ per·
tain to conduct whic:h occun oo University premises or off-ca.mpw_and which advene:ty atJ:ecu
the Univenity Community, iodudins any of its
members. ond/0&lt; the pursuit of iu objectives.
~ Univcnityrepation~and~ahallde ·

tnmine the compoation of judiciol bodies and Appellote Boonls ond detonnine which judiciol body,
Judiciol Advisor and Appellote Boord ahall b&lt; au ·
thoriud to bear each cue.
• The Dirmor of Judidol Al&amp;in ahaJJ .,..,...,
the dndopm&lt;nt of polideo for the odminiatration of the judicial prosram and procc·
dural Nlet for the cond uct of hearings,
• Dedsionsmodebyajudiciol bodyond/or Ju ·
dicial Advisor Jhall be final, pending the nor·

mol oppeol procao.
• A judicial body may be deaig:nated u arbiter
of dilputcs within the student community in
cases wbic:b do not inYolve a violation of the
Student Codt. AU parties must agrtt to arbitration, and to be bound by the de:cision with
no right of appeol.
J . The Vice Prov01U for UndUJraduatc and
Graduate Education ahaJJ odu&gt;inister the judiciol
procedwuond policies for all cues of trudent vialotion of llniv&lt;nily ocadmUc intqrily st.ondords.
4 . The !Rpart:rnent of Public Safety offia:n are
appointed~ officen under the Education Law
and the Criminal Prooedure Law. They haW: the
authority to mab: arrests, and are empowered to
enforce these regulation' and all applicable lawa
on campus and on any propertie:s owned, rmted.
• r leued by the Uni...Uty. The D&lt;portment of
Public Safety offictn have slmila.r authority to that
of policc:men. Among their added powen are the
power to exe:cute warn.ntJ, the power to~ ideo·
tify and interrogate ipdividuals. and the power to
i.uue appcannct tic:ktu.

Victim's ·Rights
When appearing or testifying before. • campus judicial body, the following principles apply:
• The right of a victim tO have a pcnoo or persons of her or his choice accompany her or
him throughout the cfudplinary h,e aring.
• The right to mnain prestnt during tbe t:n ·

w. prnc&lt;eding.
• The right, as established in state crim.i.naJ
codes. not to havt his or her irreleVant past
sexual history d.iscUNed.during the hearing.
• The risht to make a •victim impaa Jtatemnlt'" and to sugest an appropriate penalty
if the accused is found in violation of the

code.
• The risht to be: informed immediately of the
o ut come of the hearing.

Sanctions
1 . Sanction I shall be at the di.scrrt.ion of the judicial body and ahaJJ b&lt; limited only by the rulessov·
eming the- Univc:nity diJciplinuy bodies. (For a
list of specific sanctions which may be invoked,
consult the pt"()ctdure.s for each specific Uni'W:nity
Disciplinary Body. Copies of the proce:durcs of the
Harins Committee for the Maintcna.nce of PubLic Order and the Student· Wide: Judiciary are: available in the Offia of the Director of Judicial Affairs, Room 405 Capen H.all, North Campus.)
2 . Tht jUdicial bodies have the power to institutt
and/or rttOmmend• the foUowing range of sanctions:
A. Warning.
B. Restitutio n.
C. Counseling
D . los.s of privileges..
{1 ) Removal from University housing facilities.
(2) Los.s of such privi.lqcs u may be: consistent
with the offense oommiued and the reha bilitation of the student.
E. DUciplinaryprobation with or without the loss
of designated privileges foro ddinite period of time.
The violatton of the terms of disciplinary probation
or the infractton of any University rule during the
period of dUciplinary probation ""Y b&lt; grounds for
suspension or c:xpulsion from the \Jn.husity.
F. Suspension from the University for a definitr or indefinite period of time,
c;. Expulsion from the: University.
H . Community Service.
I. Such o ther sanctions as may~ approved by
the University's judicial bod.ie:s.
' Subj«t ro fim11 trnewa{rhe President, 411 aaron tMt is
mandatory if suspnrsion or apwlsion is recommmded.

AlmCU 3: PROSCIIIRD CONDUC"r;
AroucAiu LAws, Ruw NIIO REGu!AllONS
All ruin of the Boord ofTiusua df SUNY. and .U
the laws of the City of Buffalo, the Town of
Amhcnt. the Stat&lt; of New York. and the United
SUJa of America apply oa the campw and or&lt; coo·
•idered pon of the Student RWel and R&lt;p!lotiom.
The State of New York bws include, but are not
limited to, the New Yc&gt;&lt;k State P&lt;nol Law. the New
Yorlt Stat&lt; Vehicle and Troflic Law, the New Yorlt
Stole Education Law, and the Alcoholi&lt;: Bevttose

Control Law.
Ali of the Niet and

tq~ulotioDI in thae chopten sb.aU be co!Uidtted u JUpplcmcntins and
implcmcntin&amp; the apprupriou Nlet of the Boord
of Ttu~te&lt;s and city, 1101&lt;. ond f&lt;4enl loWI. ond
ahaJJ apply to oll 1tud&lt;nt1.
In addition. lina RUdeatl will b&lt; praumed
to b.W: done so. JtudmtJ sboWd familiarize them·
..t.u with the followins lJniwnity Rqulotions:
Academic and D&lt;portmental. Unhoenity Library,
Univcnity Moto&lt; Vehlde. ~ IWio, Univer·
1ity Heolth and Safety. Scudalt Uoioo, Comput·
ing a: Information Tech.oolosr coadi.tions of we
statement, and other rqulations cstabliahed by
Univenity uniu in punu.it of their misaiona..
All non-IICAidcrnic: r&lt;JU1otiom obould b&lt; IUb·
mined onnuolly to lh$ V'oa Praideut inr Scudalt
AfJain for review for a&gt;n..sistmcy and aublequent
approval. CoDIPicuo"' pootina ond/or ctissanino·
lion to ~tudents olfected by the repationl is the
raponoibilityof the individual i1ouiJ18 dcporunenL
Anyoffmles orisina out of onrol the lowomm·
tioned above sb.all be c:onside:rcd proper mane:rs
for adjudication before the appropriate uniW:nity
disciplinary body.

General Conduct Rules and Rf&amp;\llatlons
Anyltudmt found to have comn:Utted the following misconduct is subject to disciplinary sanctions:
1. DISHONESTY-Acu of disboneoty, induding
but not limited to the foUowing:
IL Cleating. plaparism. or other form.J of aca demic dishoneoty.
8 . Furnishing false information to any University official, faculty member or offia.
C. Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any Un iversity docume:nt, I"C(()rd, or instrument ofidentification.
D . Tampering with the dection of any University l«ognl2&lt;d modent orpnization.
~ DISRUPTION-Disruplion or oilltruction of
teaching. research , administntion, diKip1inary
proceedings. other Univtnity activities, including
iu public:-se:rvke functions on or off campus. or
other authorized non-Uniwe:rsity activities. whrn
the act ocxurs on University premises. The Uni venity reserves the right to determine wbcre cases
of disruption of public order mould b&lt; referred.
3 . PHYSICAL VJOLENC&amp;-Phyoical violence or
abuse (indudingac.quointon&amp; rape). vabol obW&lt;,
threat&amp;. intimidation, barass.rncnt, c:ocrcion andJor
other condua which threatens or endangers the
health or afrty of any penon.
4 . TRESPASS/UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY-A peraon knowingly mten or mnains unbwfully in a
building. office, residmc:r hall room or any other
properties of the univcnity at any time without
pe:nnission or au~rization.
S. THEFT-A penoo is JUilty of theft when be or
she, knowing property not to be:: his or her own.
takes such property for his or her own we, pleasure., or possession; and. theft of lt'rVice.:s.
6 . RUSHING/PLEDGING ACTIVITIES-Any
such activities Iakins place. in the R.es:idena: Halls
must be approved a minimum of three days be-rOre the date of the activity.
7. HAZING-Hazing. &lt;k.fined as an act which cndangcn the mental Or physical health or sa.kty of a
srudt:nt, or which destroys or removes public or private property, for the purpote of initiation, admission into. affiliation with, or as a oood.ition for con tinued membership in, a group or organization.
a. KEYS/ACCESS CARDS-Unauthoriud po55&lt;5·
sion, duplication or use of krys to any Unhusity
premises or unauthoriud entry to or use of Uni versity premises.
9. DOORS· TAMPERJNG-Disablement of a
locking mechanism or blocking open a door in tended to be dosed and locked..
10. RULES-Violation of published University
policies, rules.. or regulatioru..
11 . LAws-Violation of federal , state or loc.a.l bw
on UniVttSity prtmises or at Univcnity sponso~
or supervised activities shall be a violation of Univc:nity Conduct Rules and Rq:ulations. A finding
of a violation under this rule does not requitt proof
of conviction in a non-campus legal procttding.
12. SUBSTANCES-Use:, pos.scssion or distnbu tion of n.arcotic or other controlled substa.nct:s and/
o r related paraphernalia except as expressly per·
m ined bylaw.
1 ) , ALCOHOL-Use, pouoession o r distribution
of alcoholic btve.nges aa:pt u cxpre:ssly permitted by the law and Uniw:rsity regulations. or pub-lic intoDcation. Permission to ~ alcohol must
be obtained by applk:ation to t.he Alcohol Re-view

Boord, -lOS Copen HoD.

�14. IMPAIRED DRIVJNG-Op&lt;ratlng a motor
vehicle while undt.r the inll~,~~t:occ of drup or alcohol (S.. Section 9ofth&lt; CampLU Pukingand1nf·
6c Rqu.btions) including but not limited to:
A. ope{atins a motor vdaick while hil/her ability [0 do JO is impaired by the improptr or
illtga.J UK of drup or the consumption of al-

cohol; or

a. operating a motor vd1ide wh.ik i.n an intoxicated condition
1 S . SMOKING-Prohibited in aiJ Univenity
owned and ope:ratcd buildings. doorway areas.
loading docb. st.ad.iullll and outdoor t'\'mU., and
in all vehidca owned and operated by the University. (S.. R&lt;aidence Hall RJUiation• abo.)
16. WEAPONS-Illepl or unauthorized post&lt;S·
sion of 6nanns, exploolva, olh&lt;r wcapo111, or dan·
gc:row thernicallon Univenitypremitcs. (Sec section 536.5 Supplmlmtal R.u.Ja for the Maintc:nancc
of Public Order.)
17. DEMONSTRATION5-Particip1tion in a
campLU dcmonrtratioo which ditrupts the oonnal
opcntions of the University and infrinses on tbt
rights of other memben of the Uniw:nity community; leading or lncitina othen to disrupt schedules and/or normal activities within any campw
building or~ intentional obstructioo which unreuonabty intufnu with freedom of movement.
1 a. TRAFFIC-Obmuction of lh&lt; fret flow of pedestrian or vdUcu1ar traffic on Univrnity pmnises
or at Uni'f'ttS.ity sponsored or mperviscd functions.
19. BICYCUNG, SKATEBOARDING, ROLLER·
BLADING-Prohibited operation includes:
A. operation in any IJniw,niry buildin&amp; or facility
B. operation in a redias or unsaf~ mannrr
c. -.afbiqdts within any 1Jniw,nity buildins
or facility (Itt Raidtna Hall __.,alto)
ZO. DISORDERLY CONDUCT-Conduct which is
disorderly, kwd. or indt.ct:nt; breach of pcacr; or aiding. abming. or procuring another penon to breach
the pcaoe on UniYmity pranises or at fuoctions sponsored by, or participartd in by.lh&lt; Uni&gt;&lt;niry.
21 . COMPUTER ABUSE-Thdt or other abuse
of computer time, including but not limited to:
A. Unauthorized entry into a file, to ust, ~•d.
or change the contents. or for any other pur-

po,..
B. Unauthori.ud tnrufcr of a fiJc..
C. Unauthoriud u~e of anocher individuaJ 's
identification and password.
D . U~ of computing f.acilities to interfere with
the work of another stude:n~. faculty member or Univasity Official
L Use of computing facilities and E-mail to smd

obscene or abu.sive messages.
F. Ust of computins facilities to interfere with

in volume by Reservations .lUff andJor designee
muJC be complied with upon notificaoon .

28. A1TEMPT-A person is guilty of an auempt
to violate the Student Rules and Rtgulations. or 1o
commit a crime, when he: or she, w1th mteot to
viollte or commit same, enpses in conduct Wh1ch
tends to effect the: vioiltion of auch Jtudent rule or
rc:gulation or the: commi.Nion of such crime.

l!J. COMPUCTIY-A penon it guilty of mmpljary
when ht or oht aids, htlpoorotha-wiot ..U.Uano&lt;hcr
in Yiolatin&amp;any rule opplicoblt"' lh&lt; UniYmity.
JO. ASSAULT-A penon is suilty of usault when
he or she: intentionally slaps. kicks. shoves or oth erwise strikes another paaon.
Jl . HARASSMENI'-A penon is guilryoftw..u.
mcnt when be: or sM intentionally:
A. thrc:atms or intimidltes a person aeatins a
rational fear within that penon; or
I . engages in a courx or conduct or repeatedly
commits acts directed at another penon
which would~ annoy a rational persoo;or
C. c-reates a condition which endangers or
threatens the hc:alth, safety or welfare: of an-

other penon
D. physically rntnins or detains any other person, or rnnoves any person from any place
where: be: or she: is authoriud to mnain
J2. Sf.l.F.DEFENSE SPRAY-Considered physi ·
cal uuult when circum.'1&amp;Dctl do not justify the
usc: of Rich a drvict. Other forms of m.isux indude: diapensing for the purpose: of disruption of
University operations or events.
JJ. STAUCING-R.c:peated rocrc:iw- actJ or offaues
which tal= linsJy may bt non·tJu..lming, but col·

ltaivdy instill a karol pbysicoJ injury or hann. Such
a palltm may imoiY&lt;, but is not limit..J to, lh&lt; fol·
lowing: phone caJis, physical and/or ..ro.J confron·
tatiolll, bmolcingand tnttring (an.aportmtnts, locJ&lt;.
en. de.), vandalizing, the- purpost of which is to attmtpt to manipulate or control another penon.
J.4. ARSON-A penon is liable if, by any act, he:
or she: commits anon by causing a fire or explosion on any University building or property.
JS. CONVERSION-A person is guilty of con version whc:n he or she, after having lawfully obtained possession of thr properly of another.
wrongfully transftrS, detains, substantially changes.
damages, destroys,_or mi.susc:s the property without the: permission of the owner.
16. MISREPRESENTATION-A person is guihy
of misrep~ntation when h~ or she intentionally
pervttts the truth for personal gain or favor.
J7. POssESSION-Poatsaing property known by
possessor to be stolm for his or her own we, bmefit
or p~ or to impede: tht l't'Q)\I'c:rf by the- owner.

nonnal operation of the University comput-

Jll. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY-A penon

ing system. AU provisions of Article 156 of
the N.Y.S. Penal Law (Offenses Involving
Computers) apply at the UniYC"nity at Buf-

is guilty of destruction of property when h~ or she

falo.
22. INJURY TO UBRARY PROPERTY-A pa·
son is guilty of injury to library pro~rty when he
or she intentiooaUy injures, defaces. or destroys any
property belonging to, or dtposited in, the University Librarie&amp;.

2J. DETENTION OF LIBRARY PROPERTY-A
person is guilty of detaining library property when
he or she willfully detains Univusity Libraries
property for mo~ than thirty days following writ ten notice from the library.
24. UNIVERSITY GROUNDS-Use of University
space and grounds by an organization or person
without reservation of the space or proper authoriza ~ ion .

25. JUDICIAL SYSTEM-Abuse of the judicial
System, including but not limited to:
A. Failure to obey the summons of a judicial
body or University official.
a. Fa.lsification. distortion, or misrepresentation
of information before a judicial body.
C. Disruption or interfe~nce with the orderly
conduct of'\ judicia] proceeding.
D . Institution of a judicial procttding knowingly without cause:.
f. Attempting to disa&gt;unse an indMdual's proper
participation in, or ust of, the- judicial system.
F. Attempting to in8umce the impartiality of a
member of a judicial body prior to. and/or during the course of. the judicial proceeding.
G. Harassment (vubal or physical) and/or intimidation of a member of a judicial body prior to.
during. and/or after a judicial proc.ttding.
H . Failure tO comply with thr sanction(s) imposed under thr Student Code.
I. Influencing or attempting to influence anothrr
prrson to commit an abuse of the judicial system .
26. ANIMALS-Animals arc not prrmittcd many
university building at any time. except labor.r.tory
animals or animals trainrd to assist the disablrd
( refer to Residence Hall rules and regulations for
pet information ).
27 . AMPUFICATION-Use of amplificauon/audiovisual ~uipment in any of the reservation fa cilities must receivt advance approval from the R~ ·
ervations Office and, if gr.r.nted, must not interf~rc with any public, office, library, classroom, or
other University function . Rtquests for reduction

intentionally:
A. destroys, defacc:s, materially alters or othrrw~ damages property not his or her own;

"'

a. creates a condition which endangers or
threatens property not his or hc:r own,
39. FALSE REPORTING-A person is guilty of
falsc:ly reporting an incident when he or she conveys information known to be falst- or baseless to
any University official.
40. FIRE-Fire: alanns and fire fighting equipment, including but not limited to fire extinguish ·
~rs. fire hoses, heat and smokt detectors, and sprin·
klc:r systems, an for the prott"Ction of building occupanlS. Any tampering with or misu~ of this
~uipmc:nt is prohibited and may be punishable
in the University court and in the appropriate Civil
andJor Criminal Courts. Any time a fire alarm is
activated, all people arc required to follow the
evacuation procedures for thrir particular building. Occupants must comply with thr requesu of
Housing sufl', Public Safety personnd, or emergency personnel Any violations will be rtferred to
the appropriatr university and/or civil judiciary.
41 . REASONABLE REQUEST OF A UNIVER·
SITY OFFICIAL--A person is guilty of failure to
comply when he or she, knowing or having reason
to know that the: requesting person is a University
official, fails to comply with a reasonable request .
For the purpose of this scction, a University offi cial shall include:, but not ~ limited to, an indi vidual innructing a class. a librarian or des1gnee
in a library, a Public Safety Officer, and any Rest dent Advisor, Rc:sidcnc~ Hall Director o r st udent
employtt, and membe-rs of the University staff carrying out th~ir duties and responsibiliues.
42. GAM BUNG-No student shall gamblr for
money or other valuables on Umversity proprrty
or in any University facility.

4 J . MISUSE OF UN IVERSITY SUPPLIES OR
DOCUMENTS-A prrson ts guilty of mtsusr of
University supplio and documt'nts wh~n he or she
forges, alters, uses without authority. receives with
ou t authority, or possesses without authority an}'
University supplies or docu ments. (University suppiles and documents indude, but arc not limited
to. the following : s upphes. cqu1pmrnt . keys.
re&lt;ords, files, documrnts. all forms of computer
data, and other matt'f'ials.)

44. FALSIFYING UNIVERSITY APPLICATION
C REDENTLALS-Students found to have d~liber ·
ately falsified application info rmation arc subject

to 1mmedaatc: d1smusal from the UnJV~naty.

45. FALSIFYING GRADE CHANGES-In addruon
to any sanctJOnS which may be imJX*d by an ac:a·
dtmic dtan.olh&lt;r pmaJtits maybe asrattd as a mull
of a Studtnl· W'ldt )udiciuy hearing&lt;&gt;&lt; pial "8'="&lt;"L
46. ALTERING A STUDENTS REGISTRATION

mgnus of an mdiv1duaJ to parllctpalt' m wch actiVIty notwnhstandins. Arty rc:gLStut'd studmt or
ganizauon that commiu baring llsub)«&lt;to d~Je1 ·
phnary action.
J . RELATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TO STU·

DENT ORGANIZATIONS

O R STIJDENT DATA-Any student who. for purposes of fraud or misrepramtation, fahific:s. forges,
dt'faces. alters. or mutilates in any manner any official Univc:rsity docummt or representation the-reof.

R.egistntton of stuc:knt orpmzattOn~ shall not bf:
u agrummt, suppon, or approval by
the Uruve.rs1ty, but only u ruognition of the nghts
of the orgamzation to nisi at the UnlVt"rslty, subteet to the conditions enumaated herem.

AllTlCLf 4 : STVDIENT ORGANIZATIONS

4. RIGHTS OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
A. Registered student organizations may u.sc: the
name: of the Univenity in their official titks

1. RECOGNITION AND REGISTRATION OF
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Studc::nu interested in c:stabli.shing an organuattOn
on campus should initially inquire about reoog•u tion through an appropriate student government.
Appliation forms and lhc: criteria for recognition
vc available at student sovemmcnt offices. Student orpnizations not affiliated with an appropriate student govnnmmt may r~uest rqistntion
through the Office: of Student Life. Registration will
be: granted to organizations affiliated with the uni YCnityand agreeing to abide: by campw rules., rqu latioru, 1tandards, and policies. For gencr.r..l infor·
mation about student orp.niutions and the r« ·
ognitionln-gistntion process, contact the Offiu of
Student life, 150 Student Union. For information
on the recognition process for social fraternal or·
ganiutions, contact the University Liaison for
Gr«ks, 150 Student Union. R«.ognition and registration polk~ and procedures will be devdoped
and implemented by tht Office of Student Life.
2 . CONDmONS FOR REGISTRATION OF ALL

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
A. When functioning on campus. aJJ rqistered
student organizations will be hdd responsible by the
Univtnity for abiding by federal , state, and local
laws, u well as all Univulity regulations. The Um vcrsity will not become involved in the off·campw
conduct of registered student organizations ~~
when such condua is determined to havt a substan·
tiaUy adverse effect on the University or upon ind1·
vidlW mcmbc:n of the University communuy.
8 . No organization with restrictive mc:rnbm.h1p
di.scriminating on the basis of race, religion .
~• (cu.rpt u exempted by Fedc:ral ~ulalions).
physical handicap. agr, or aec:d dWI obtain or maintain University rqistration. H~ver, special consideration will be given to the meriu of groups
founded for the purposes of rc:ligiow practiet.
C. Onlycwnnlly ~ srudcnu shall bt th·
gibk for activt mc:mbersh.ip Slatus in student orgaruzations. Students may not be on Aadt:mic Probation:
• to be a candidate for c:lt'Cted officr
• to serve in an appointed office
• to serve throughout one's dected or appointed
term
Recog.niudlregis:tered student organiza.uons and
governments may establish additional require ments for offict or membership.
D. The purpose or purposes of a student organization mwt not conflict with th~ educational
functions or esublished policies of the Univ~rsny.
It is incumbent upon any person presenting ob·
JcctiOnsto the: application for registntion or con ·
tinuancc of an organization to dc:monstntc how
and in what manner the rc:gistr.r.tion or continu ance of that organization would conflict with tht
educational funaions or established policies of the
University.
E. Student orgamzat10ns wtll not be granted
r«&lt;gnition or registration status if the r«ogmtlon/rrgistration unit determines that its proposed
purposes or funaions duplicate those of an csist mg student organization. Student orgamzation.s
will not be permitted to retain recognition/regis·
tration status if they do not fulfill their stated pur·
poses and/or functions or violatr campus rule~
regulations, standards, and policies.
F. Registered student orsanizatlons may not
engage in hazing activities. Hazing is defined as any
action or situation that red.lcs.sly or intenttonally
endangers the menial or physical health or safety
of a student or thai wiUfully dc:suo~ or removes
public or private property for the purpose of am llation or admission into or affiliation with, or as
a condition for continued membership m, any rtg·
1stered student organization. Hazing includes, bu1
IS not limited to, any brutality of a ph~1cal nature.
such as wh1pping, beating, branding, forced cabsthemes.. rxposure to tht t'lcm~nts. forced consum p
11on of any food, ljquor. drug, or o ther substancr,
ur any o ther forced physical activny that could ad v~rsrly affra the physical health and safety of the
andividual. and shall indude any activiry that would
subJt'Ct the individual to extreme: mental strru.
such as sleep deprivation . forced exduston from
SOCial con tact, forced conduct that could result m
rxtremt embarrassment , or any othrr forced ac
uvny that could advrrsely affect tht mental health
o r dignity of the individual, o r any willful destruc
t1on or removal of public or private property. An)'
act1v1ty as described in thu: ddimtion upon whtch
the iniltataon or admiss1on 10to or affiliation wnh
or con tinued membership in a reg1stercd studrnt
organization is directly or 10darectly condttiOned
shall be presumed to be "forctd " activit)'. the will -

pawes

co nst~

to indK:ate kx::ation, DOC mdorxmmt (sc:e Artick 6, Section Vlll) .
orpni~tions may UK
Univt'11ity facilities wbjc:ct to tM duly c:mblished written rules ~ming such use.
C. Rc:gistcred student orpniutioru may pell tion for the UK of mandatory student activ·
ny fees aubject to Univenity rqulations, student o rganization rc:gull.tions and student
government manuals.

8 . Registered atudent

AR'T1CU 5 : INVERSrTY STANDAM»S
1 . FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
A. ACADEMIC FREEDOM- The Univtniry
supports the: principlr of acadc:mw; freedom as a
concept intrinsic to the ach1c:vc:me-nt of its institu·
tional goals. Thu pnnc1ple implies a truSI in the:
integrity and responsibility of the member'S of the
academic co mmunity. Samuel P. Capen. former
Chanctllor of the Umvc:rs1ty of Buffalo. who is ~­
monbt'red for thr tndiuon of acadcmK freedom
hr impleme:nted dunng h1s leadership of the Un1 ·
verSII)',saJd 10 19)5:
~Acceptancr by an anstltUtlon of the pranciplc:..
o f academiC fr«dom 1mphc:s that teachers 10 that
mstitut1on arr fr« to rnvest1gate any sub,teet, on
mattC'r how much it may be hed£ed about by taboos; that they art' fr« to make known the results
of their mvcsttgation and their reflection by word
of mouth or in writing, before thetr clas..ses ore~­
where; that they arr fru as citizens to takt part in
any public controversy outside: the institution; that
no repressive musures.. direct or indirt'Ct, will bt'
applied to them no matter how unpopular they
may b«omc through opposing powerfulmtcrats
or jostling established prejudicn., and no matter
how mistaken they may appear to be in the ryes of
membc:n and friends of the institution; that their
contmuance in offiCt' will be 10 all instances governtd by the prnailing rul~ of tenure and that
their academic advancr:me:nt will be dependent on
their scientific competence and will br m no way
affected by the popularil)' or unpopularil)' of theu
opinions or ullcrances; that students in the instJtution are frtt. insofar as the r~uircments of the
StVeral curricula permit, to mquirc mto any subJect that interests them, to orpniu discusston
groups or study clubs for tht!!'consaderation of any
subj«t, and to invite tO address thc:m any speakc:r
they may choose; that ct'nsorship of student publications shall be based on pre&lt;1scly rhe same:
grounds and shall atend no further than that ex ercised by the: Unittd States PostaJ Authonlles..~
8 . NONDISCRIMINATION-The Umversur
at Buffalo is committed to fostermg a positive en
vuon ment for IC'aming, and to ensuring the: safC'I)',
nghts, and d1gnity of every member of the Una ·
versity cor;nmunity. To that end the Umvcrsuy en courages each and every member of the academiC
comm unity to assume indiv1dlW responsibility for
rt'spc:cting the rights and dignity of othC'rs and for
helping to promote tht' fr« and open exchange: of
adeas 10 an atmosphere of mutual respe-ct.
· Ce:rtam types of discrimination are prohibued
by law. For aample, discriminanon on the ~is of
race IS expressly prohibited by both fedcnl and state:
constitutions and by a wide ran~ of frdera.l and state
statutes. Otht'f state and federal laws prohibit par·
ticular fomu of di.scrirrunauon based on such file .
tors as sa, religion. naoonaJ ongm, age. chsabiluy,
manta\ status, or veteran status Furthermore',
Govtmor's Euocut.w Order No. 28.1 prohibats dtscnminattOn on the bows of so:u.al Ont'ntatton an em
pkJyment and proviSion of SCTVtCCS by state agmoo.
Students should be awarT that anyone who VK&gt;lato
laW5 prohibatrng specific fo~ of duc:nnunanon may
lead to crimmal prost'Cutaon or c1vil pcnaltlt'S.
The: State: Umversll)' Trustt&gt;O havr adopted •
pohC)' (Trust«'s Rrsoluuon 83 · 1161 whiCh dtrrcb
th.tr Judgments about and actaom toward studenb
and cmployeC'.) w1thm the SUNY system be b~d
un then quahficataon.s. ab 1ht1es and pt"rformancc
The: Trust«'s pohcy goc:~ on to sat· that dttltude~
practiCtS... nd prefcrenc~ of md1V1duab. that Ul.'
tSS('ntlally prrsonalm nature, su .. h ;u pn\'alr n
press1on or sexual onentat10n, "re unrelated tn pe-r
formancc and prov1de no basas for Judgment
F1nally, lll!li thr pol1cyof the UnavtrSJt\ a1 Bul
talo to proh1btt mvadtous couegonc.a.l dtscrmunJ
uon based o n such charactensuu~ a~ ra .. r . ~c:-•
se.xual orarntauon, age. nataonal ongm . rd.~gton ,
vc:trran or manta! status or dtsabtht)' m all mat
ters affectmg employment or cducauonal oppor
tUDitlt'S Wlthm the Un1vers1 ty ll.SCif It IS thC' firm
b&lt;:hrf of thr Council. tht faculty. and thr admtnb

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c-.l•et

tratlon that Judgments about persons within the
Univcnity should be based on their individual
meriu, accompiUhmmlJ., aptitudes, and bdtavior,
and that invidious categorical discrimination is
wholly inappropriatt to the UniVCT'lity's mi.uion
and values. Students who violate this policy shall
be subject to unctions within the Univen.ity, up
to and including cxpuUion. Any violation of tht
ruin whtdl is motivattd by bias may be prosecuted
and/or sanctioned as a more serious offense.

CompWnll reprdinsany violations of nondis-

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cnmination laws or policies should be made to the
Divt:ntty, Equity and Affinnative Action Administration Office, Suite 108, The Commons, 645-2266.
C . PETITIONS.JNOIVIDU~EYCTfltudcnt
ha.s thc nght to petition or diueminatc informa tion on c.ampus. In the residence haJls, those in ·
tcndins to ctrculatc petitions must identify thcmsdvcs to the appropriate Building Director beforr
~ny mdjv1dual or sroup pel IliOn is circulated .
( Note: The mtent of thu rule lito resp«t the pri ·
vacy of the rtSidenli, ~nd IS not mtended to deny
thr md1v1dual's right to pet1t10n .)
2. STATEMENT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE
The Uruvers1ty ~~ Ruffalo w1ll no1 tolerate sexual
.auauh or abusc
Sexual Msauh : any ;~ctual or auempted nonmnsensual.sc:xual actiVIty mcluding, but not hm llc-d tu, forCible anal or oraJ sex, attempted intercoursc , snual1ouchmg, by a pt'tson(s) known or
unknown 10 the VICIIm.
Rape Thr pt'rprtrauon of an aCI of suual in tcrooum w1th a person agamst their will and con scnt, whether thr1r will is overcome by force or fear
rc-sultmg from lh t' thrrat of force. or by druS$ ad mtnllilcred wnhout co n.sem , or wht'n thr pt'tSOn is
unconsc1ous or o thuw1sc- phys1cally unable to
lOmmumcatc- wtlhngnt'ss.
Rt'port1ng Opt1on s. lnc1denb of saual assauh
may be repot1rd to Department of Public Safety.
mumc1pal pohcc, rrs1dence hall officiali, or Stu drnt Heahh Unter by a viCtim or proxy. Immediate repor1mg 1~ recommrnckd. A disciplinary com·
plamt may also bt filed with the Student -\Vide Ju ·
d•c•ary for action against the assailant if they arc a
studenl . Th1.) may be- done m conJunction wnh or
Instead of crimmal prosecution.
Another source of assistance, adviet, or inter·
vcnuon as the staff in the Diversity, Equity and AI·
f1rmative Action Administration Office. Suite 108.
lfhc Commons, 645-2266. You may speak co nfi GcntWiy to thr Affirmative Action Offict'r or the
Associate Oir«tor.

J. ACADEMI C DISHONESTY
The development of intelligenet and nrengthcn •ng of moral responsibility are two of thr most im·
porunt ainu of education. Funda~ntal to the ac ·
complishment of these purposes is the duty of the
student to ~rfonn all of his or her required work
without illega1 hr.lp.
The University hu a rnponsibility to promotr
academic honesty and integrity and to develop pro-crdurrs to deaJ effectively with instanc~ of aca demic dishon~ty. Studenu are responsible for the
honest completion and representation of theu
work, for the appropriate citation of sources, and
for resp«t for othen' academic endeavors. By plac mg tht'ir namr on academic work. students ~nify
thr originali ty of all work not otherwise identified
hy appropriate acknowledgments.
(Adapted from UniversityofWLSCOnsin, "Student
Disciplinary Guiddincs." and UnMrsity of~lawarc ,
M
Ac.ademic Comment Honesty and Dishonesty.")
A . Thr following actions co nstitute major
forms, but not exclu.tively all forms, of academic
dishon~ty among students: (a) submission : submitting acadrmically required material that has
been previously submitted in whole or in substantial part in another cou r!iot', without prior and ex pressed consent of the instructor, (b) plagiarism:
copying or rrceiving material from a souret or
sources and submitting this matrrial u one'i own
without acknowledging the panid!llar debts to the
source (quotations, paraphrases, basic ideas). or
otherwise reprtstnti ng the work of another as one's
own; (c) cheating: ret:civing information, or solic nmg information, from another student or other
unauthoriud source, or giving information to an ·
other studrnt, with the intent to d«eive whilecom plrting an exami natiOn or individual assignment;
(d) falsification of academic materials: fitbricating
labo rat ory matrrials, notrs, reports. or any forms
of computer data; forgmg an instrudor's name or
miuaJs; resubmilling an examination or assign mrnt for reevaluation which has been altered with out the Instructor's au thorization; or submitting a
report, paprr. materials, computer data, or exam•nallon (or any considerable part thereof) prepared
by any person other than the studrnt responsible
for the assignment; (c) procurement , distribution
or acceptanct' of examinations, laboratory results.
or confidential academic materials without prior
and expressed consent of the instructor.
AA allrged cases of academic dishonesty are ad JUdicated in accordance with the Disciplinary Procedures for Academic Infractions. which are administered by thr Vice Provosts for Undergradu ate and Graduate Education . The policy is printed
in the Undergraduate Catalog and 1he Graduate

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School Policies and Proccduru or copies of th!!
procedure aft availabk from the Office of the Vice
Praideru for Student Affain., Room 542 Capen
Hall, North CampUL
• • Ualowf1ll Sole o( Dl_,.tloaa, , . _ omd
Tenahpen
No penon ahall, for financial consideration, or thr
promi.Je of financial consideration, preparr, offer
to pnpare, cause to be prepared, JCU or offer for
saJe to any puson any wriu~n material which the
seller know1. is informed or h:u reason to believe
1s intended for aubmiaion as a dissert-ation, thesis,
term paper, essay, report or other written assign ment by a student in a university, college, academy, school or other educational institution to such
iru:titution or to a cour1e, acminar or degr«" pro·
gram held by such institution.
No perJOn shall tell or offer for sale to a.ny person enrolled in the State Univt:nity of New York at
Buffalo any computer U$ignmcnt, or any assistance
in the prepantion , research, or writing of .a computer usign~nt intended for submission in ful fillment of any academic ~uirtment.

4 . SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Sexual harassment of emp&amp;oyecs and students, as defined below, is contnry to Univenity policy and is a
violation of federal and state laws and regulations.
Unwc.lcome ~aw.J advances, requests for sexual
favors, and other verbal or physical condua of a
sexuaJ naturt constitute so:ua1 harassment when:
( I I submission to such condUct is made either o:plicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an
individual 's cmployrnmt or academic advancement;
(2) submission to, or rejection of, such conduct by
an individual is used as the basis for employment
or academic d«isions affecting such individual; (3}
such conduct has the purposc or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's \llfOrk or academic performance. or crtating an intimidating.
hostile, or offensive environment.
No Univrnity emplo~ of either SC:I shall im pose a requirement of so:-uaJ cooperation as a con dition of employment or academic adv:ancrment,
or in any way contributr to or support unwelcome
physical or verbal saual behavior.
Any man bet of the University community who
requires additional information, wishes to make a
complaint, or to r«cive a copy of the Univenity
procedures to be followed for complaints ariiing
from matten related to the policies outlined above
should contact the Affirmative Action Office, Room
517 Capen Hall .
5. DRUGS AND NARCOTICS
Po!i$CS$ion without prescription of any narcouc,
barbiturate, dangerous drug, or of most so-caJled
"pc:p piUs• and "tranquiliz.cn" i5 contrary to fed eral and/or state law. Any studtnt found to be in
iUrga.l pos.seuion of drugs must be reponed to the
appropriate civil authoriti~ and may also~ sub·
ject to disciplinary action by the Uni~nity.

6 . SMOKING AND FOOD STUFF
Smoking is prohibited in all Univtnity facilities a;.
ctpt as posted. The pos.seasion ofbncrages and food
stuff is prohibited in all areas .so designated by the
conspicuolU posting of appropriate signs. Thes.c areas include, but are not limited to aJI classrooms.
lecture halls, laboratories., hallways, thr Katharine
Cornell Theater and all University Libraries. All trash
and garbage should be- disposed of properly.

7. SOLI CITATION
A. Solicitation in the buildings. including resi dence halls. or on thr grounds is strictly prohibited. No occupant i5 to uS&lt;C his or her room,
or pt'rmit his or her room to be used, for any
commercia.! purpose what~er. Any and all
door- to-door solicitation is regarded as an un necessary invasion on the privacy of thr resi dents or occupants, and is therefore prohibited. This rcstriction applits to both commer·
cial and non-commercial solicitation and to
distribution of written materials as well as
personal contact.
8 . "No authorization will be- given to private"
commercial enterprises to operate on State
University campuses or in facilitits furnished
by the Universit y, or in any Residenc~ HaJJ.
othrr than to provide for food , legal beverages.
campus bookstore, vending, linen supply.
lau ndry. dry clraning, banking, barber and
beautician services and cu ltural events. Thas
resolution sha ll not be deemed to apply to
Auxiliary Service Corporation activities approved by thC' Untversity " (Boa rd ofTrust~s
Resolution )

8 . POSTING POLICIES
Designated buiiC"tin boards m Norton , C:ape-n ,
Talbert and Student Umon arC' rcstncted to cam
pu~ activities and/or Untversity a1 Buffalo related
function!. . Any not -for -profit organazataon outs•d('
the University mus1 have approval before posung
Commercial (for profit ) promouonal ma1erials arc
not allowed and will be rtmovcd and discarded.
• CamplU groups may post one poster or no
tice pt'r event J&gt;t'r bulletin board area. Thr
six bulletin board areas are: Norton Cafrtrria, Ticket Office, Capen Lower Lobby, Capen
elevators (ground, first and second)
• Posters or fl~n may not exceed II inch~ x
17 inches.

• UK rnu.kins UJH' only.
• Posten or H}"t'n are restricted to bulletin
boards. (No painted surfaces, &amp;lass. pffiars,
counten or walls.)
• ~n or posters in another language mwt
haW- an Engli.sh translation.
• Flyen or notica must carry the namt or logo
of the Univtnity or Univa'aity-rdatcd spon soring orsaniution (government, depart ~·. office, agency, etc.)
• Groups m~y not mnow: or eovtt current notices or posters of other campw groups out
of courtesy and respect for othcn.
• Bulletin boart::b will be checked and cleared
of inappropriate material throughout the

week. Boards will be atripped of aU po&lt;ted
materialt: late Friday night.
• Saln., renta!J., employment and ae:rvices announcements will be ratricted to designakd
CUSSIFIED mCSMge boards loca!ed left of
!he C.pcn Lobby Sales Counler, C.pcn el·
evaton,. and Nonon Cafeteria. Announcements mlf nOt acted 5• I 8•. fomu available at Capen lnfotl'Mtion.
Request Cor special corWdcration for exceptional aituations and/or unique material can
be directed to the. Division ofStu&lt;knt Af'fain
Officr of Student Life, ISO Student Union
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.

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9 . RULES Of THE BOARD Of TRUSTEES

(Part 535)

Stott Uni..usity of Ntw York

Section SJS.l

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The following rules an: !dopled in c:ompliantt wilh
S«tion 6450 of the Education Law and sba1l be filed
with the Commissioner of Education and the Board
ofRqentsonorbefore}uly20, 1969,urequired by
that section. Said rule~ shall be: subject to ammdment or revision and-.ny amendments or revisions
lh=of shall be filed wilh !he Commissioner of Education and Board of Rcgmts within 10 days after
adoption. Nothing be:rcin is intended, nor 5halJ it
be construed, to limit or re:rtrict the: freedom of
speech or peaceful assembly. Frtt inquiry and &amp;..
aprt:S$ion aft indispensable to the obj«tivt:s of a
higher cduc:atio~ inatitution. Similarly, apcricnu
has demonstrat·cd that the traditional autonomy of
t~ educationa1 institution (and the accompanying
institutional responsibility for the m~intena.nu of
order) is beSI oui!ed 10 achieve U.... obj&lt;aives. These
ruJea shall not be construed to prrvm.t or limit communication bctwttn and among faculty, students
and admin.i.stration, or to rtlieve the institution of
its special responsibility for sel.f·rqulation in the
preservation of public order. lOOr purpose ls not
to prevent or restrain con~ and dissent but
to prnttlt abuse of the rights o( others and to maintain that publicordcrappropriatetoaa&gt;lltgeoruniversity camplU without which there can M no intelle.ctw.l freedom and they shall be- interprt1ed and
applied to that end.

5)5.2 Application of rules. These rules
shall apply IO aU Sla!N&gt;p&lt;raled institutions ol !he
State UnMrsity cx.ccpt as provided in Pa.rt 550 asapplicable to the State Univtnity Maritime College.
These rules may be supplemented by additional rules
for the maintenance. of public order heretofort or
hereafter adopkd for any individual institution, approved and adopted by the State University trustees
and filed with the Commissioner of Education and
Board of Rt:gmts, but only to the atent that such
additional rules are not inconsistent hen-with . The
rules hereby adopted shall govern the amdua of students, faculty and other staff, licmsea., invitees, and
aU other persons. whether or 00( their prescna:: is
authorized. upon the camptu of any institution to
which such rules are applicable and also upon or with
rc:sp«t to any other pmnisc:s or property, undc:r the
control of such institution, u.scd in its teachins. rtsearch, adminiscrativc., KTVice, rultw-al, recreational.
athletic and Otht!l" programs and activities; provided.
howev&lt;r, IN! chUJ!&lt;S apiru1 any studen1 for viola·
tion of these rules upon 1M pmnises of any such institution other than the one at which he is in anendancc sh:Lll be heard and determined at the institution in which hC" is enrolled as a student.

5JS.J Prohibited conduct. No person,
rithrr singly or in concert with others. shall :
(a) willfully cause physical injury to any other
penon. nor threaten to do so for the purpose of
compelling or inducing such other person to refrain
from any act which he has a lawful right to do or to
do any ae1 which he has a lawful right not to do:
(b) physically rntrain or detain any other per·
son, nor remove such person from any place whcrt'
he 1s authonzed 10 remam;
(c) willfully damage or dtstroy prQpcrtyofthC'
mstitution or under its juriidiaion. nor remove"
o r Ust' such propt'rty without authorization;
(d) without prrmi.ssion. cxpressa:l or implied,
enter into any private offiet of an administrative
o fficer. member of the faculty or staff member;
(e) enter upon and remain in any building or
facility for any purpose other than its authoriud
uses or in such manner as to obstruct its autho·
riud uiC by othen;
(f) without author ization, remain in any

buildin&amp; or &amp;cility alta it is normally doled;
(g) r&lt;fuJeiD
any buildiDa oc facility IfItt being required 10 do 10 by 1D authorized Jdminiarat:ivt offic.cr.
(h) obotrua .... rr.. ...,.......,, of penono!Dd
..bides in any piau 10
rula apply;
(I) cloliber!uly ditrup&lt; or pmoml lhc peoaful
andordalyc:oodua ofda-.leauresand meo:tint!s
0&lt; ddiberaldy inl&lt;rfL:r&lt; with lhc &amp;.edam olmy pu·.
100 10 his views, indudina invilcd ..,..un;
0) knowingly have in hia poacuion upon any
premises 10 which U.... rulaapply, anyri&amp;e.ohot·
gun, pistol, ~. or other 6tcann or we-apon
without the wrilml authorization of the chid' admininratiw: offiar; whether or not a licen.ac: to
poaaa !he """" has ...., it!ued 10 ouch penon:
(II) willfully ind1e Olben 10 c:ommil any of !he
acu Mmh prohibited with specific intent to procu.n than to do 50; or
(I) taU anyaaion, crntt:,or puticipatt in the
creation of, any situation which m::kkss1y or intentionally endangers mental or pbyUc:al health or
which involves !he for=! consumption of liquor
or drugs for the purpotc of initiation into or affiliation with any orpnization.

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5JS.4 - o f l p e e c h - -bly;
(a) Nostudtnt, &amp;cultyorotherstatfmembe:r
or authoriz.cd visitor stWJ M aubject to any limitation or penalty $Oldy for the cspression of his vitws
nor for havingasacmbled with othas for such purpo!iot'. Peacrful pickctins and othtt orderly demonstrations in pubHc art::u of ground a.nd building will not be interfered with. Thost involved in
pickmng and demonstrations may not. h~r.
engage in specific conduct in violation of tht provisions of the prece.ding section.
(b) ln order to afford muimum protection
to the participanu and to the institutional community, each Stat~-opcrated institution of the Statt
University shall promptly adopt and promulgate, ·
and thereafter continUe in effect u revised from
time to time, procedures appropriate to such institution for the giving of rcuonable advance notier to such institutiOn of any planned assembly,
pickrting or de.monstration upon the grounds of
such institution~ its proposed locaJt a.nd intended
purpose; provided, h~. that the giving of such
notice shall not be made a condition precedent to
any such a.uembly, picketing or demonstrations
and provided, further, that this provision shall not
supe:nede nor pruludc: the procedurt-s in effect at
such institution for obtaining permission to use
the facilities thereof.
SJS.S Peaaltles. A penon who shall violate any of the provisloos of these rules (or of the
rules of any individual institution supplementing
or implementing these rulea) shall:
(a) If he is a licensee or invitee, have: his au thorization to remain upon the campw or other
property withdrawn and shall be directed to lcavr
the premises. In the event of his failure or ~
to do so he shall be subject to ejection.
(b) If he is a trapasserorvisitorwithoutspccific license or invitation, be subject to ej«tion.
(c) If he is • studm~ be subject to expulsion
or such lnscr disciplinary action as the facts of the
case m~y warrant, induding su.spension, probation,
loss of privilqcs, l'q)rimand or warning.
(d) If he is a farulty member having a tum or
continuing appointment. be guilty of ml.sconduct
and be subject to dismissal or termination of his
employment or iuch Jesse{ disciplinary action as
the faas may W"U"TaOt including suspension without pay or censure.
(e) If he is a staff member in the classified seTvice of the civil suvicc, dc:scribcd in section 75 of the
Civil S&lt;rna: Low, J&gt;e guilty ol misconduct, and be
subjea 10 !he pen!lties pracribed in said section.
(f) lfhe is a Slalf '""'"""'olher !han one described
in subdivisions (d) and (e) ollhis se&lt;rion, be subject
to di:smi.ual, suspension without ~y or ttruurt.

5J5.6 - r e.
(a) The chief odministri!M offiar or his desig·
nee .shall in.fonn any licensee or invitee who shall violate any provisions of these rules (or of the rulrs of
any individual institution supplementing or implementing these rules) that his liccn.sc or invitation as
withdrawn and shaJl dirttt him to lea~ the campus
or other propttty of the institution. In the evmt of
his failure or rcftua.l to do so wch offiett shall c:aUSl'
his ejection from such camplU or property.
(b) In the case of any other violator, who IS
neither a student nor faculty or othrr staff mcm ·
bet. thr chief administrative: officer or h1s des•gnee shaJI inform him that he IS not authorized to
remain on the camplU or oth!!r propt'rty of theInstitution and direct h1m to leave i Uch prcmtsO.
In the event of his failure or refusal to do ~such
o fficer shall causc his ej«tion from such campus
or property. Nothing in thiS subdiva.uon shaJI ~
construed to authoritt the prese.nce of any such
person at any rime pnor to such violation nor to
affect his Hability to prosecution for trespass or loi tering as prescribed in the Penal Law.
(c) In thr cat~! of a student, charges for violation of any of these rults (or of the rules of any
individual institution supplementi ng or implementing theK rules) shall be pre~nted and shall

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be heard and dttcrmined 10 the manner hc:rcinaf·
tc.r providtd in section 535.9 of this Part.
(d) ln the cue: of a foalhy m&lt;mbcr """""'continui"l or term appointment. charp:of milcnnduct
in mlation of thae rules (or of the rules of any individual inaitution aupplemmting 'or lmplcmmting
thae rules) ohall be made, hcanl and dctmnincd in
acamlana with thcoc rules) ohall bc mad&lt;, hcanl and
d«mnined in acamlana with till&lt; D of Put 338 of
th• policies of the Boon! of'!hlsua.
(e) In the case of any ataff mcmbtr who holds
a position in the c..l.aaif.ed civils.ervia, dncribed
m &amp;«tion 75 of the Civil Service Law, charses of
misconduct in violation of these rulet (or of the
ruLes of any individual institution supplementing
or implementing these rules) shall be made. heard
and determined as prescribed in th.t JtCtion.
(f) Any other C.culty or sWf mcmb..- who shall
vtOlatc any provision of thc:K rules (or of tM rules
of any individuaJ institution supplementing or
tmplemcnting these: rules) &amp;hall bt di.sm.isstd, suspended or censured by the appointing authority
prt:Kribed in the policies of the Board ofTrustttS.
535 .7 Enforc:emet~t progr.....
(•) The chid administnativt officer shall be
responsible for the enforcement of these rules (or
of the rules of any individual m.stitution supple·
menting or Implementing the$C rules) and shall
dwgnate the olher administrative officers who a.n~:
authonz.cd to takt acuon m accordance with such
rules when requm:d or appropriate to carry them
1nto effect .
(b) It is not mtended by any provision herem
to curtail the right of students, faculty or staff to
be heard upon any matter affecting them tn their
relatiOns with the InStitution In the ca~ of any
apparent violatiOn of these rules (or of the rules of
any 1ndiv1dual in.st1tut1on supplementing or implrmenting th~ rules ) by such ~r50ns. which, in thr
Judgment of the ch1ef admml!itrative offic:Uor his
de11ignrr, does not pose any 1mmediatr threat of
lntury tO per50n or pro~rty, such officer may makr
rrasonable effort to lea rn the ca use of the conduct
In question and to persuade those engaged therein
to desist and to re.sort to perm1s.sible methods fo r
tlu resolution of any 1ssues whach may be prt'·
.sented. In domg so such officer shall warn such
persons of the conscquencrs of persistence m the
ohib11ed conduct, includmgtheit ejections from
an prem1so of the institu tion where thelt con ·
tmu presence and conduct is in violat1on oflhesc
rules (or of the rules of any individual institution
suppkmenting or implement·ing th~ rules) .
(c) In any case where VIOlation of the# rules
(or of the rules of any individual institution supplementing or Implementing these rules) docs not
ua.se after such warning and in other cases of will ·
ful VlOiatJOn of such rules, the chief administrallvt' officer or his designee shall cause the ejection
of the viola tor from any premi5C5 which he oau ·
p1es in such violation and shall in it ial~ disciplin ary action as haein bc:fore provided .
(d) The chief administn.tivc offittr or his des·
•gn~ may apply to the public authorities for any
ard which he dttms necessary in causing th~ ejec ·
non of any violator of these rules (or of the rules of
any individual institution supplementing or impl~­
menting these= rules) and he may request the State
University counsel to apply to any court of appro-priate jurisdiction for an injunction to re1train the
viola tion or threatened violation of such rules.
5)5.8 Communkatlon. In mauers of the
sort to which these rules are addressed. full and
prompt communication among aU components of
the inslitutional community, f.acuhy. students and
administration, is highly ddinble. To lhe atcnt lhat
trme and circumstanc.cs permit , such communica·
uon should pr«cde the exercise of lhe aulhoriry,
discretion a nd responsibil ities granted and impo~
m these:: rules, To lhese ends each State-operated in stitution of lhe State Univenity shall employ such
procedures and means, formal and informal, as wfll
promot~ such communication.
..

515.9 Notke, heartng and detennl·
natkHt of charges agalnlt students.
(a) The term chief administrative officer. as
used in these rules. shall be deemC"d to mean and
1ndude any person authorized to exercasc the pow·
ers of that office during a vaca ncy t herein or dur·
mg th~ abliCnce or disability of the incumbent and
for purposes of this .section shall al.so 10dude any
des1gnet appomted by said officer.
(b) Whenrver a complaint is madr to thedu~ f
adnunistrative officer of any State·opc:rated mstr ·
tuuon of the Univtrsity of a violation by a student
or students of the rules prescribed in this Part (or
of any rules •dopted by an individual1ns111utmn
s upplementmg or implementmg such rules) o r
whenrver he has knowledge that such a v10latron
may have occurred, he shall cause an invt'strgation
to br made and th&lt;' statementS of the complamts.
ri any, and of othrr persons havmg knowledg&lt;' ol
the facu reduced to writing. If he is ~t1sfied from
such mvdtigatron and statements that there r~o rtasonabl~ ground to belit've that there has been such
a VIolatiOn, he shall prepare or cause to be preparffi
charges against the student or studen ts alleged In
havC' comm iucd such violatton which shall stat&lt;'
t h ~ provision prescribing t ht' offrnse and shall

RaJ~•. ua~........t,r - • - - • a....a..--.... R•IJUI-•... '%

specify the uJtimau facu alleged to constitute such
offente.

(c) Such charges shaU be in writmg and shall
be served on the Jtudtnt nr students named thaein
by delivering the same to him or the:m personally,
if possible, or, if not, by mailing • copy of such
charges by rqist:cttd mail to such student or stu·
dents •t his or their usual place or places of a~
while •Uending coUege and also to h.U or therr
home address or addresses. if differtnL
(d) The notict: of ch.a.rJes so se:rved shaU fi:~ a
date for hearing thereon not less than I 0 or mo re
than 15 days from the date of SCTViet which shall
be the:: date of mailing where' necessary to effect
service by mail. Failure to appear in response to
the charges on the date fiud for hearing.. unles5
there has been a continuance for good cause shown,
shall be deemed to be an admission of the facts
stated in such charges and shall warrant such ac·
tion as may then be appropriate thaeon. Before
taking such action the hearing committee, herein ·
aher referred to, .shalJ give notitt to any student.
who has failt'd to appear. in the manner preKribcd
in subdivision (c), of its proposed findings and
rrcommendation.s to be submitted to th&lt;' chief ad·
ministratiV&lt;' officer and shaJI so submit such find ings and recommendations 10 days thc::reaher un·
less the student has mc::anwhiJe shown good cause
for his failure to appear, in which case a date for
hearing shall be ftxed.
(e) Upon demand at any timo bcfort' or at the
hearing, the stude.nt charged or his rcpr~ntative ,
duly designated, shall bc furnished a copy of the
litatemt'nts taken by the chie.f administrative officer
in relation to such charges and wilh tht' names of
any other witnesses who will bc produced at thC'
hearmg in suppon of the charges; provided , ho'-1'
ever, that this shall not preclude the testimony of
witnesses who were unknown at thr um~ of such
demand .
(f) The chief administrative officer may, upon
the service of charges, SUSJM=nd tht' student named
therein , from aU or part of the institution's pre mises or facilities, pending the hearing and deter·
mination thereof, whenever, in his judgment, the
continued prC$Cnce of such student would const1·
tute a clear danger to himsc:lf or to lhe saft'ty of
per.sons or proJM=rtY on the premiSd of the rnstr
tution or would poSt' an imme(hate threat of drsruptive interference with tht' normal conduct of
the rnsutution's activities and function s; prov1ded,
however,that tht chief administrative officer shall
grant an imm~diate baring on request of any stu dt:nt so suspended with respect to lhe ba5is for such
SUSJM=nSion.
(g) There s hall be constllu l ~d at each
Statt'·oper.ated institution a hearmg committee to
hear charges against students of v1olat1on of the
rules for maintenance of public order prescribed
by or referrC"d to in this Part . Such committee' shall
consist of thr~ members of tht: admimstrative staff
and thret' members of thr faculty, des1gnatC"d by
th~ ch•ef adminutrauve officer, and thrt't' st ud~nt s
who shall be designated by the members namC"d
by the chief admlnlStratlvtofficcr. Each such m~m ·
ber .shall serve until his succeswr or replacemem
has been designated. No mt-mber of tht' commn t~ shall serve in any case where he IS a Witness or
ts or has bttn d1rrctly 10vnlved rn the evt:nts upon
which the charg~ are based . In order to prov1de
for cases whert' thert' rna)' be such a d1squalifica·
Iton and for cases of absencc- or drsabihty. tht' ch11."f
admmistrative officer shall destgnate an altematr
member of the administratrve staff and an alter·
nat~ member of the faculty, and hr~ pnnCipal d~~o ­
lgneo: shall designatt' an alternate student me m ber, to serve m such cases. Any five memb~rs of
the committee may conduct hearmgs and makt'
findings and recommendations as here1nafter pro
vided. At any institut ion whert' the chref adnums·
trativeofficerdt't~rmmesthatthe numb~rofhtar ·

ings which will be requi red to be held IS, o r may
be:. so great that th~y cannot otherwise be d•sposcd
of with reuonable speed. h~ may drtermme that
the hearrng committee shall cons•st of SIX members of tht' administrauve staff and six member!&gt;
of tht' faculty to br des1gnated by h1m and of sax
st udents who shall be des1gnated by thr membcrlt
M&gt; des1gnated by him. In such even t 1hr chrd ad
mmistrauve officer shall des 1gnatt' o nt' of ~uch
memb~rs as cha1rman who may d1v1dt' the mc.-m
bership of the commrttee 1nto three diVISion:. cath
to cons1st of two members of tht admrn 1Stra11vr
staff. two faculty membt:rs and twu studenb and
may assrgn cha rges among such drv1S1ons for heat
1ng. Any four members of each :ouch dJYIMon Old\
conduct heanngs and make rt·~ommrndaliun' ;~,..
hrrt'mafter prov1dt'd.
(h) The ht•anng ~ommr ttcc ,hall nnt he.• hound
br th&lt;' tec hmcal rulrs of c.-v 1denct hut mav hc.·a r '"
re..:~1vt" any testmlOnyor ev•dencr whiCh IS rdt·~·.t nl
and materralto th~ JSSuC's pr~scntt·d b) tht• ~o.ha~t''
and wh1ch Will contribute to a full and fan ~unsrd
rratron thereof and d~termmallon th&lt;'rt'on A stu
dent aga1nst whom thr charges art madr may ap
pear by and wrth rrprescntauve~o of hts cho1Ct Ht
may confront and ex.am1ne wttnesses agamst h1m
and may produce witnes.ses and documentary ev1
dence in hts own behalf. There may be prt'scn l at

the hcann g: the student charged and hili repreKn
tatives and wttncues; other w1tncs.scs; rq&gt;rrsc:nta
uves of the institUtional admmiSUataon ; and, un
less the student shall r('(jut1t a dosed heanng, such
other members of the mstiiUtiOnal communrt y or
other per.sons. or both. as may be adm1ttC"d by the
hearing commm~ A transcript of th&lt;' proc~d
mgs shall ~made .
(I) Within 20 days after the close of a heanng,
the hearing committee shaJI s:ubmn a report of 11:.
findings of fact and recommendations for d1spo
Sltion of the charges to tht' ch1tf admm1strat1vr
officer, together with a transcnpt of the proceed
ings. and shall at the same time transmi t a copy of
1ts report to the student concerned or h15 reprC'
sentative. Withm 10 days thereafter the ch1ef ad
ministrauve officer shall ma.ke h1s detC'rmmauon
thereon. Final authority to dism1ss the charges or
to determine thr guilt of those agarn.st whom tht'V
are mad~ and to CXJM=I. suspend, or otherw1sc d 1s
cipline them shall bt' vested 10 tht' ch ief •dm rmj,
trative officer. If he shall reject the find10gs of the
hearing com mittee rn wholt or 10 part hr shall
mili new findings which must be based o n substantial cv1dencc in th~ record and shall mcludr
thonm tht' not1ce of his final detenmnat100 whach
shall be .served upon the student or ~tudents w1th
respect to whom it is madt'.

535.10 Rules for Organlz.atlons.

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proh1bn recklt"U or rntenuona.l endangerment to
health or forcrd consumfruon of hquor or drup
for thr purpose of initiation into or affiliation With
any organru.uon shall be d~mcd to be pan of the
by-laws of all orpmutJon~ whach opcr•t~ upon
the campus of any State-operated m.smuuon used
for educational purposc:s_ The natute hrnhtr rr
qu1rn that each such orgamzauon shall revrew
these by-laws annually With md1v1dual~ affih.atC"d
wrth tht' organruuon
(e) DIStribution C.Op1e~ of the provu10n ~o of
th1.s Part whu:h prohtb1 1 reck.Jcs~ ur mtentJOnal en
da ngerment to health or forced coruumpuon of
liquor or dru~ for tht' purpose of rmtrauon 1010
or affihat100 w1th any organrzatron .shall be g•vco
to all studtnb enrulled m each State-upc ral~d m
SlliUtlOn
l!.mrndtd l!.pnl I 970. }anuan I '170. 5tp lt'm b•.,
191Ui, Orroluor 1981

1 0. SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR THE MAIN ·
TENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER FOR THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
"536.1 DlSRUPTlON
A person as gu11ty of d1srupt•un when he ur 'ht h1
aCtiOn, by threat , or oth~rwrx( • ) JOterft·rr ... Wllh UOIVehll\ dlllltlln Uf
( b ) obstruct ... unrvrrltll) a~o.~avnat~
Umvt'r!oll) aCIIYII Je ... mdudt , but .ur nnl lam
11c.-d to teachmg. re\Carch, admtm ... tr.allon . puhll,
JoC'f'V!Ct• functrun , ur otht't authunl.t'd ,adJYIII "'
program on un1versny prem1~~

(•) Organi7..ations. Organiutions wha.::h op
erate upon the campus of any State-operated m
stilutlon or upon the property of anr
Sta te ·o perat~d institution used for educatronal
purposes shall be prohibited from authonzmg the
536 .2 UNAUTHORIZW ENTIIY
conduct described m subdiv1sron I 1) of 5e(llun
No person ~hall break mtn m •lkgalh enter dill
535.3 of th1s Part
um,·ersll~· bu 1ldmg ur room, our 'hall an1 p••t"''n
(b) Procedurt'. The ch 1ef adm1n•strauve of
~:nt~r or rcma1n m a01 pnl-d\t" ruum ur offiu· ol
fic~r a t t'ach Srate·operatcd msutuuon shall ht re
.my s;t udt:nt . lat.uh y 0\C'mbcr. ddnum ... tratJvr uthu·t
s:ponsible for the rnforcement of this ~L t1on . and ,
orotht'r per!i&gt;(JO un un1ven.1 t1 propnt\ w1thoutthr
as US&lt;'d he rem, the ttrm ch1cf admm 1strat1vt ul
t'Xprc~ permi...SIOn ul tht' pt"r\tm~ J.uthnrr1cd to
fic~r sha ll rndudr any dt'Signce appomtC'd hv ~.ud
uSt' or hve 10 th.u room, our ~h.rll dO\ unauthn
officer.
rtlcd per\on enter l)f rtm.un 1n dO~ unrvrr\11 1
( 1) Whenever the chtef adnunlstratiYt' offill·r
bu1ld1ngor fac1l1t) at J t•m•· when thJt faclltt~ 0111
has determrnt'd on thr bas1s of a complarnt or p~r
mall\· IS dosed or ilfttr thr fauhn has been du,ed
sana/ knowledge that there 1.) reasonable ground
because of spec•al or unu:oual t lrlumstanco l 'n1
to behevt' that thert' haj, b«n a vrulat•on of th!!i
ver... •ty facrlrtte.\ 1ndudc, but arc not hmrted tu, thr
sect ron by any organn.a tron. the ch1t'f admm1stra
followrng. bUJ idmgs. parkmg lotlt. athlrt•c field}
t1ve officer shall prepare or cause to lx' prepatt'd
and all1.ampus area:.
written charges against t.ht' o rgamzatron wh1ch
536.3 THEFT AND DESTRUCTION OF
shall state the provisiOn proscrib1ng thr conduct
PROPERTY
and sha.ll speci fy the ultrmate facts alleged to con
(a) No pcrM.In :.halltakt', steal, burn. d &lt;'strov
slltute such violatron .
or otherw1sc damagr anr property not hu 01 her
(2) Such WTJtten charges shall be :.crvrd up(ln
own. nn the UOJ\'et)IIY ca mpu j, nr un ani' umvrr
the prrnopal officer of the organtzatron by reg1."
stt y properh
tered or certified mail, return rrce1pt r&lt;'qutstcd, to
( b ) Nu per!i-(10. rn an) manner what.sot·ve r.
the organiut10n's cu rrt:nt address and shall be a.
~hall dcfacr Willh of any structure of the un1ver
companied by a nottc~ that the organ •7..at •on m~~
"'tv. ~• ther on tht' mMde or th~outs1de of s.ard stru'
respond in wnung to the charges w1thm ten I 10 )
ture Th .... 1n cludes the USt' of paml .... poster.... and
days of receipt of sa1d noucc The n o u ~..e of the
o~dventst'mcnb dffixed rn any arta\ other than tho)('
charge so served shallmdude a statement that tht•
dcMgnated for ... u..:h purpose:)
failure to subm 11 a responSt' w1thm ten f 10 ) day~
••(c) Nu pet&lt;;(IO shall knuwrngh· harbor 111
shall bt dermed to be an admiSSIOn of the fact...
posse.-...... stolt'n pmperty whtlr on or rt'Sldmg dt thr ,
stated 1n such charge... and shall warrant tht' nnpu
umvt'rltliY ldmpwt
smon of tht' penalty descnbc.-d 1n subdrvrs1on Ill , A rovrJ b• Vnrvt'TSfl) ( oum 11 \t'{'tt'mbt'f ~~-~
ofthas .sect Jon . Thr respon:.&lt; shall be ~uhm1 1ted ltl
of Tru)rt'n A.ul(usr /. l~lto
the ch 1ef adm rmsttat rvt officer and shall lOOStl .. AppruYt"d b) rhr C.oumri1Jf rh r ~hur l'lln·t'nUt 01 :-...-...
lute tht' form al denral or affirmauon of tht' ult1
YorA. at Ruflalo 001 ,\fa) 18. 1 ~8 1 mrd approlYil b 1 rho·
matt" facts alleged m the chargr Tht' chrel admm
HoMd ofTrusru.....~pt~mb~r !i. /'IS/
1 stra t•~e offictr mav allow an &lt;'lten.m m uf tht' te-n
SJ6.4 PHYstCAl. ABUSE AND HARASSNIENT
( 10 ) day responS&lt;' per11ld
A pt'r&gt;On 1 ~ gu •ln ul physiCa l ..1bu~· and hara\~
(J) Upon wnnen reque'it. tw Jn authtlflll·d
mt"nt whc.·n
rcprrscntauvrofthcorganmlllnn , the chtt'tadmln
( • ) hc 01 ,he mtt·ntrunJII) .1~\.Jult). 'inlc-~
1
rstratrvr officer shall provrde thr r~pre~ntau ·e tH
threaten\, 01 lllllmJdate... any ptr..un. t&gt; l
gamzauon an opportuntl\' for a hcanng A ht'ar
( b ) he or sht' t'ngag~ 10 .Jtuun.c ul •onJud
ang panel designated bv th&lt;' \:hlcf admlniStratlvt·
11 \el .10\ pt-noduftrme.or rept-onrJI\ LOmmib ..... ,.,
whtch alarm 01 ~nous.ly an nov anntht'r person anJ
officer shall hear nr rece1w any tesumony or cv1
denc&lt;' wh1ch 1~ rt'lt-vant and matt'rrallo the t)S\It''
which w-rvt" no leglttmatt• purpu!l&gt;t": 01

a!:!a

;~ea~::~~nbJ' ;a~: ~~~:~~;r:~.:::~:;~~ :'r~~t~~~~~r

mmauon thereon . The organr7.atron's rcprt'~·nta
11ve may confront and t'xamiOt w1toesse' at:am~t
rt and may produc&lt;' WIIOtSSc~ and do..:unwntan
cv•dence on 1t s ~half ThC' heanng pand :.hall :.ub
mn wnnrn findrng~ o l fa~t and rC'co mmendatHlll~
lor d1s posrllon of thC' chargo: to tht' ch 1ef admuu'
tratJYe oflicer wnh1n twent\' l.WI Jav~ aftrr lhr
doS&lt;' of the he:mng
( 4) Fmal authofll\' hl da~ml'} tht• l hdr!te' '''
10 make d fin.1l dcternunatrnn ~h;11\ hr \'i.",tcd 111
the.- ch1ef admml,tratrvc- uffitef Nutlet• ufth&lt;' dr, 1
...un shall be 10 wnung. ~hall 1n~ludc lht• rcd"Jm
~upportmg SU\ h de~- ~~1("11\ , and ,hall bt· \C'rvrd t&gt;n
1hr prmnpal uffllt·r oft he o rgamt.atrun h1 ma111n
tht• mdnner d&lt;'~\ nbcJ Ln paragraph 1.:! I olrhr' 'uh
diVIltlun w11hrn a rco~'(lnahlc tun-.- Jftcr 'ulh dtn
,11111 J) made
( c ) l'cnalun Am urgam 1..1.11nn wht~h duthn
fill'\ thr prnhihllt•d CO ndu ~o. l d\·I'H.-flhl'J Ill ~uhdr\ I
,1un ! l l uf'\elllnll &lt;;'&lt;; . lnfthl) Part shall hc,uh
Wt I luthc reso.•~·il•lO tll pcrmrlt... lon lu opt•ratr upt.m
lhe ~.unpu:o IH upon tht• proper!\ uf the
'tale -opt'ratrd mslllutmn used for educatronal
purpo~ The ~nah) pruv1ded 111 thl.) ... ubdi\'l'iiOn
... hall b~ m addn1on tu any prnahy whiCh mar bc•mpo~ pur!luant to the Penal La.., and any otht·r
prov1s•on of law, ur to any penalty to wh1ch an 1n
d1 v1dual may be ~ubJl'Ct pursuanl to th1s Pan
(d) Hy· laws. Scc11on64SOI I) oftht' Educat100
Law reqUires that the prov•s•on.s of thrlt Part wh1~..h

whr~o.h

( c ) he ur she creak\ a cundauon
un
endanger s nr thrt"dlt'n' thC' hC'ahh
or well · bemg of other pt'rSOm tor ul ntht·r
propt'rt)· no un1vers11 y propert )
nt·~n)ardy

~fctv.

536.5 DANGEROUS WEAPONS ANO EX
PLOSIVES
( a ) Itil a \IUiatlnn uf Nr~ ' "rl\ta lc ld~ JnJ
ur ll nrvcnoll\ RcguldiiOn)o tur a pt·rMm IU rt'"~·~~ .r.
nflc, sht•lt:un. fin·arm), .:~mrnunUttm . lirnra,l•·"
\lf t'XpJoJol\'e} In Ill upon tht bu1Jdm~l \ II jo:II&gt;UIIJ,
111 the- u/11Yt•r"l1 ""1thuu1 appropnal t' ""rlllt'O JU
thunL.JIIun lrum lh&lt;' dpjH&lt;lptlill&lt;' UOI•t·r~ll\ ''"'
dal Thi&gt; 1n~ludc-~ ronun ~o.andlt·~ ur ~11ndo~r ,urn
hultllhlt•&lt;, tH CX~Iitl)l\l''
( b ) N&lt;t rt''"m t'lth•·r ~mgh ,,, 1n "'lld'rl "&gt;tlh
othe-r), ~h•IJI,.'"'"" dnJ tJrn no"'"' J'fl•un.h "'
10 am· bu1ldrn~ u lth.- U OJ\'&lt;'r~H\ .tn .uqtun. 1•1 •llhn
IOllrument ur ..,,•,tpon 1n "'ht ~h tht· l'rupdhnt:
h·r~r I' oil!. l.nrlr. dtrl., :otl lt'tttl. 'wlht(''. udt:··l. hlud
gt•on , duh, sllng,h.u , tH utht•r thurg Jd,Jpto~l•k It&gt;
the purpo't' old wc-dptln , mduJm~ h.JI•m' ... n,·,
llf )lnlllar ,lfti,Jr,, c.-x.lu.tmg onh urthupcJ1~ JLJ,
dthll'trt t"t.JUipmc.-nt . .and prlllt·~t t&gt;l ~t•n,lru.ll•m
mall"rr.ll.'o and tuuJ, un pfl\()1 ul d prupc.-r ~Pt' • th,
U.'&gt;C li T purpo)(' UO tho: J.1~ 10 'lUe~tiUn
( c ) o per!&gt;~.lll huN tor purpt'l..e-. ••I entnrung
)!!(Uri!)", whC'1he!lllllcu 01 or m aJdmun 10 Depart
men: of Pubhl Safrty offiler... may havt' m hi) 111 ht"r
pus.lit'S:o•on m m upon tht' buildmp and 8round.. ul
the UntYCrsm .t.n~· firtann ur other deadlv we-Jpun

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StadeDI CoDduolllal-. QDive...tty St....S ....... - •

w1thout Sptelfic wnttm authonzauon from the UmVttSityoffKWttn~tog;jwJUChauthoriz:ation..

SJ6.6I'ICX£TINC; AND~(a) In rc:gard to on -campus student actions
and demonttra11ons that tend to c:ndangu tift.
pubhc or pnvate pro~rty or to VlOiatc: local, State
Of Fedc:raJ laws, each student wi.U taU the consequence: of hu or her own actions :u an iodividu.a.l
bt:forc: the law, as well as being rdcr~ to the appropriate university disciplinary body. The cost of
any damage to public or private pro~ny must bt'
borne by those lcgaUy responsible.
(b) All members of a Univttsity community
must share the responsibility for maintaining a climate in which divcrx views can be expressed ftttly
and without harusme:nL
(c) The State Unr~rsity of New York at Buffalo has traditiOnally supported the right of its stu-

dc:nu, faculty and staff to peaceful protcJt. AIW111ys
implicitly is the understanding that demonstrators
will not intedere with or violate the righu of oth ers. II U the obligation of all to assUt in maintainmg order and to usure courteow r«rprion of any
ca mpus .speaktr or viaitor.
(d) The followins p«tams to the conduct of
those memMrs of the uni~rsity community who
ful compelled to txpreu their dissent through
packeting and other fonru of demonstration:
( 1) Pidt.rting and demonstrating must be or·
drrly at aU times and &amp;hould in no w.ay jt-opardiu
public order or safety or interfere with the
university's programs.
(2) Picketi ng or de:monstratmg must not in ·
trrferr with rntra.nce:s to buildings or the normaJ
flow of pedestrian or ~hicular traffic.
(J) Thost invol~ in picketing or demo n mating may not interfere by mingling with orgamz.e:d met=tings or other assemblies for the ptlf'JJO$C'
nf haruunent , since this invades the rights of othen to assemble and tht rights of sp~rs to frtr
expression.
(4) Picketing or demonstrating may not obstruct or p ysically interfere with the inttgrity of
the class
m , the privacy of the m.Kie:nce halls,
or the (u ctionins of the physica.l plant.

536.7 orTEJIINC AND TliESI'ASS*C ON
UNIVEilv!I\Y
. CIIOUNDS Oil IN UNIVUISITY

s

(•) Any rson not a student, employee:, guest
of a student o an emplo)'tt, or the parent or lesal
guardian of as dent in attendance at the university, who loiter. in or about any univcoity buildIDS or any par! o( u ni~rsitygrou n ds without writ len permission from the president, custodiaJ or
other person in chuge thereof, or in violation of
post~::d ru lts or regu lations governing the ust
thereof, shall be guilty of t respass. R.tgulations on
each campus shall include the manner by which
campus visitations by non-students shall be devel oped in acc.ordanct with the Penal Law.
(It) Und tr New York Penal La\llf, Section
240.35, subdivision 5, a penon is guilty of loiterIng when he or she loiten or remains in or about a
school. college or university building or grounds.
not having any ruson or relationship invotving
custody of or responsibility for a p upil or student
o r any specific, lesitimatt reason for being there,
and not having written permission from any perso n autho riud to grant thr same.
(c) Under New York Penall.aw, section 140.05,
a person is guilty of t respassing \llfhen he or sht
knowi ngly enters or renWns unlawfully in or upon
premises. Trespass is a "violation" punishable by a
fine, or imprisonment of up to 15 days.
(d) Under New York Penal Law Stet-ion 140. 10
a person is guilty of criminal trnpa.s.s in the third
de:grtt when he or she knowingly enters or remains
unlawfuUy in a building or upon real property which
u fenttd or othe:rwisc: enclosed in a manner designed
to adude intruden. This is a Oa.s.s 8 Misdemeanor.

SJ6.8 SANCT10NS
T he judicia l bodies established to consider
cases involving student violations of the provisionJ

stated in this section art thr studaH-\IIfide judiciary
and the committtt ·for the maintenance of public
ord~r. These ju dicial bodies have the power to in ·
stitute• the followi ng range of sanctions:
(•) warn ing;
(It) no tat ion o n record ;
(c:) restitution;
(d) loss of privi l rg~::s:
(1) denial of use of an automobile on cam pus for a designated time;
(2) removal from dormitory or other untversity housing;
(J) loss of such privileges u may be consistent with the offense committtd and the
rehabilitation of the student.
(e) disciplinary probation with or without loss
of designated privileges for a definitt period of
t1mr. The- violation of the terms of disciplinary
probation or the infraction of any unive.rsity rul~::
during tht' period of disciplinary probation may
be grounds for susJftonsion or expulsion from the
university;
(f) suspension from the Uni~nity for a defi nite or indefinite period of time;
(g) apu!Jion from the university;
•s ubJ«I ro finol rt'View of the president, on octrorr th1u is
mondotory if s~n or expulsion is rr:rommtr~dtd.

( h ) such other sanctions as may M approved
by the University'• tribunals.
1 . A studen t will M subject to involuntary admintst~ tive withdnwal from the University, or from
Unive:nity housing. if it il detttmined, by dear and
convincing evidcnct, that the Jtude:nt iJ sufttting
from a prycholosical, emotional, or medical condition or disorder, and u a result:
(•) engages, or threatcm to engage, in bcha:v.
ior which posa a danger of c.ausing physical harm
to self or others. or
(It) enpgea. or threatens to e:npge, in behavior which would cawe significant property dam·
age, or directly and substantially impede the la\llfful activitin of others.
2 . Thac standard. do not preclude rcmovaJ from
the: University, or Uniwnity housing. in accordance
with provisions of the residenc.c hall oc.cupancy
agrttmmt, or other Unift:rsity rules or rqulatiom.
J . A student accust"d of •iolati.a.&amp; Univcnitydi.sciplinary rqulations may be: diverted from the disciplinary process and withdrawn in accordance
with thCK standards, if the studc:nt, u a re:sul:t of
mental disorder.
(8) lacks the capacity to respond to pending

&lt;Wciplinary chuge., or
(It) did not know the nature or wrongfulness
of the conduct at the time of the offmse.
4 . The Vier Pre.sidmt for Student Al&amp;in or designee rnay also con~ne 1 Behavior Evaluation Com·
mitt«, to consist of as many of the following as
a~ appropriate and availabk W Krve: member of
Counseling Center professionaJ staff, member of
Student Health Center profeuional ruff, member
of Residence Life profnsionaJ staff (if student is
dormi tory resident ), a member of Academic Advisement profes.sional staff, member of P ublic
Safety professional staff, and any other
individual(s) whom the Vice President beUevcscan
provide significant input regarding the student.
The Beh&lt;lvior Evaluation Committtt will meet
to review the student's situation and recommend
that:
(a) no action M taken.
(b) adviKmmt of student about services available, on campus or within the community, to resolve psychological, emotional, or medical difficul·
ties.
(c) advisement of student on voluntary withdrawal from the Univenity and/or residence halls.
(d) invol untary administrative wit hdrawal
process be initiated.
·
S . The Vice President for Student Affairs or design« rnay refer 1 student for evaluation by • University psychiatrist, psychologi.Jt, or other appropriate health carr professional if the Vice President
or design« reasonably believes t hat the student
may be suffering from a psychological, emotional,
or medical condition or di.sordc:r, and the studt:nt's
behavior poses a danger of causing pbysica.l harm
to the student or others, causing property damag~::, or impeding the lawful activities of others.
6 . Students refer~ for evaluation in accordance
with this Pan shaU be so informed in writing, either by personal delive.ry or by certified mail, and
shall be given a copy of these nandards and procedures. The evaluation must be: initiated within five
business days from the date of the referral letter,
unle:s.s an extension is granted by the Viet President or design~ in writing.
7 . Any ptnding disciplinary action may be withheld until the evaluation is completed, at th~:: dis·
crttion o f the Vice President for Student Affain.
a. A student who fails to complete the evaluation
in accordance with these standards and procedures
may bt withdn.wn on an intc:rim basis, or referred
for d\.Kiptinary action , or both.
9 . An intttim administrati~ withdnwal may be
implemented immediately if a student fails to com·
plete an evaluation, as provided by these standards
and procedures. Also, an interim withdrawal may
be implemented immediately if the Vice President
for Student Affairs or design« determines that •
student may be suffering from a mental, psychological, emotional, or medical condition or disorder, and as a result, the student's bc:havior poses an
imminent danger of:
(8) causing serious physical harm to the student o r others, or,
(b) causin g significant property damage, or di ·
reedy and substantially impeding the lawful actiVIties of others.
10. A studen t subject to an interim withdrawal
shall be: given written notice of the withdrawal either by personaJ ddivery or by certified mail , and
shall be given a copy of these standards and procedures. The stud~::nt shall then be gi~n an opportunity to appear personally before the Vice P~SI ·
dent for Student Affairs or a dt'Signet=, upon re·
quest, immediatdy afttr the interim Withdrawal.
an order to rc-virw the following issues only:
(a) the reliability of the information concernmg the student's behavior;
(b) whether o r not the s tudent 's b~::havior
poses a danger of causing immlntnt ,.sen ous physical harm to the student or o thers, causing significant property damage, or directly and substantially
impeding the lawful activities of o then;
(c:) Whether or not tht studen t has completed

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an evaluation, 1n accordance w1th the:K standards
and pf"()U(furCI.
1 1. A a~udent wbJ«t to inte:ram withdrawal may
bea.uisted in the appearance before the Vice Prcsadent for Student Affain by 1 family me:mba-, ali censed psydlok&gt;gist or jn)I'Chiatria~ , 1 health care
profeuion.al, or a member of the campus community. The Jtudent may be accompanied by lqa.l
counad, although the rok of counacl will be tim·
ited to providing lcpl advice to the a~udc:nL
12. An informal hearing will be hdd within fiv•

busi..,. days alln "" nudmt bu b«n ovalual&lt;d
by the oppropriatc mental health an prof&lt;ssional.
The 11udc:nt will remain withd.nlwn on an interim

bub pcndins completion of the informal hearins.
but will be allowed to enter u pon

me campus to

att&lt;nd the bcarins.or fo&lt; other n&lt;aaary pwpo&lt;a.
IS aulhoriud in writina by Vi« Prcsidc:n1 for Student Affairs or dai&amp;nc&lt;·
1 J . Studcnu oubjca to an involuntarywitbdnwal
shall be ll&lt;lCOrdcd an informal bcarin&amp; before the
Vk:e President for Student

B. When 1 studmt is charJcd by frdcnl. state or
local authorities with a violation of law, the: Uni·
~nity wiU DOC. reque::st or agret to JPUia1 comideratioo for that indMdual bca.usc ofhil or her
statuJ u • studenL If lht aJ.lcscd oft'cntc: il abo the:
subject of a procccdins b&lt;foft a judicial body un·
dcr the Student Code,.how&lt;wr. the Univ&lt;nity may
advise olf-ampw authorities ol the Clciotma: ol
the Student Code: and o{ how such mattcn will be
handled intcmally within the Uoiva'sity commu·
nity. The Univ&lt;rsity will ooopcralC fully with law
&lt;nforamcntandothcr .,...O..in thecuforamcnt
of criminal law on campu. and in the conditions
impoocd by c:riminal couru for the rdlal&gt;ilitation
of student violaton. Individualttuclcnu, faculty
and llaff members, actin&amp; in their pcnonal capoci·
tics, mnain &amp;... to irucroct with p&gt;V&lt;IJl!DCDtal rcpresenlatifts u they deem '-wropn.te.
II . family Educational Rlg)lu and Privacy Act
(FERPA)

A. The State Univ&lt;rsity of New York at Buffalo

Alfain.. or 1 cbi&amp;n«- complies fully with the Family Educational Rici&gt;U

The followin&amp; suJddina will be opplicablc
(•) Studcnu will be informed ol thetimc,dau,

and loc:atioD of 1M informal hcarina. in writiDJ,.
either by pcnonal ddivuyor certified mail, at least

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bUiinaodays in"""'""'·
(b) The entire cue file, indutlins an ovalua·
lion propoml punuant to tbac st.andardland procedures, aod tiM name:~ of prospective hearing par·
ticipanu, will be available for inlpcction by thutu·
dent in the Via Preadent for Student Affain' o(.
fia during normal bUJinCA houn . The file, which
should be available 1 1 least two b01iness days be·
fo~ tht informal hearing. need no1 include the personal aod confidential nolel of any inst.ilutionaJ
officiaJ or participant in the evaluation proce:u. .
(&lt;) The mformal bearing shall be co .......
tional and non-adversarial. Formal rules of tvide:ncc will not apply. The Vacc President for Student Affairs or designer thaU curcisc active control over the procccdinp to avoid needless con·
sumption of t ime and to achieve the: orderly
completion of the hearin&amp;- Any person who dis·
rupts the hearinJ may be acluded.

(d) The student may choooc to be assisted by
a family member and a Ucen.scd psycholozist or
psychiatrist. a h ealth care profSional, or by a
member of the campUI community. The student
may be aa:omparucd by lcpl counsel, although the
role of. counsd will be limited to providing legal
advice lo the JtudenL
(e) Those auisting the student, ac.cpt for legal counsel, will be giYrn reasonable time 10 ask
relcvanl questions of any individual appQring at
the- informal hearing. u well as to prese:nl relevant

evidence..
(f) The mformal bearing may be conducted
in the absc:ncc of • student
fails to appear af-

...rna

ter prope::r notice..

(g) The health an profcuM&gt;nal who propoml
the evaluation punu.a.nt to tht~t: lti.Ddards and procedures may be ap«ted to appear at the informa.J
hearing. and to respond to rdevant questions. upon
request of any party, except for legal counsel.
(h) The Vic:e President for Student Affairs or
designee may permit university offi.cia.I.J, to appear
at the informal hearing and to prcsc:nt evidence in
support of any withdnwalruorrunendation, if the
Vice Pruident or dt~i gn « drte:rmi ne~ t hat such
participation is essential to the rnolution of the

""'-(1) The ioformaJ hearing shall M tape recorded
by the Vice Prcside.nt for Student Affairs or designee. The tapc(s) shall be lc.tpt with the pertinent
case file for as long as the case file is maintained by
the institution.
(J) A written decision shall be rendcml by the
Vice President for Student Af&amp;in ordesiplee within
~business days after the completion of the informal hearing. The wrincn d~n. which will be
.Wicd certified or pcnonally ddi...-cd to the stu ·
dent, should contain a statement of reuons for my
determination leading to involuntary withdrawal
The student should also M advised u to when a
petition for reinstate.men t would be considered,
along with any conditions for reinstatement.
(lr.) Thtdecision of the Vice President for Student Affiairs or design« shall be final and conclusive and not subject to •ppe:al.
14. Reasonable deviations from these procedures
will not invalidate a dtcision or proceeding unless
significant prejudice to a student may result.

ARTICLE 6 : ADMINISTRATIVE
REGULAnONS
I. VIOLATION O F LAW AND UNIVERSITY DISCIPLI NE
A. Um~rs•ty disciplinary procttdings may bt m stitutrd against a student charged with violation
of a law which is also a violation of this Student
Code, for rumple, if both violations result from
the same factual situation , without regard to the
pendency of civil litigation in court or criminal
arrest and prosecution. Proctcdings under this Student Code may be carried out prior to. simultaneously with. or fo llowins civil or criminal proceedings off-campus.

and Privacy Act oll974 in iu tmn...,tolsrudcnt
educational roconls. This Act wu intcudcd to protect the privacy of educational ruorda, to atablish the-ri&amp;bt ots&lt;udcnu 10 inspca and rm.w their
educational ruorda, and to provide ~r
the: correction or dddion of inaccurate or millcadin&amp; data through informal and fo,;w hcoriDp.
This institution·• policy sut&lt;ment for the Family Educational Rig)lu and Privacy Act of 1974 aplains in detail the proccdum to be foUowcd by
the: institution for compliance with the provi.Aoru
of the Act. A copy of the policy is noilablc m .the
Office of the V'KC President for Student Affairs,
Room !142 Capen Hall, North Campw. R&lt;conls
which ""' maintained by the Univ&lt;rsity and the
office mwhich they ... bowed is .. follows:
ADMISSIONS-&lt;&gt;fficc of Admisaions
CUMUWlVEACADEMIC-IIealrds&amp;~

HE.AI.J1l-Cent&lt;r for Student Health
FINANCIAL-Student Aa:ounu
PLACEMENT--Caner PlanninsJPiaumcnt
DISCIPUNAII.Y-Dean of Stuclcnu
a. FUPA
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA) affonls studcnu ~ righu with ..spcct to their education ru:ordl.. They arc:
1. The right to inspca and ~&lt;View the s&lt;udcnfs
education ro&lt;:ords within 45 days ofthe day the Uni·
vusity rtt.eivea a request for acc:eu. Studc:nu should
sub mit to the rcgiltrar, dean, bad of the ec:.dcmic
ckputnlmt, or other appropriltc official. written
requcsu that identify the r=rd(s) they wish to in·
spect. The univmityofficial wiD maU amulii"""'U
for a.cass and notify the: student of the time and
pba: when: the m:ords may be inspcctcd. If the
m:orcls ""' not maintained by the Univ&lt;nity offi.
cialto whom the request - oubmittcd, that offi.
cial shallodvbcthesrudcnt of the corTC&lt;t official to
whom the req.- should be addruscd.
2. Tht right to fU~ Ut'St tM: amendment of the
student's education recorda that the student believes are inaccurate o r misleadinsStudenu may ask the Univcnity to amend 1
ruord that lhq bclicvc U inaccurate or mislc:ad·
ing. They should write the University official responsibk: for the ruord, dearly identify the part

of the record they want changed, and specify why
i_t is ioaccu,.te or misleading.
If the Univonitydccidcs not to amend the r=rd
as rcqucstcd by the student, the Univonity will notify

the student of the decision and odvbc the Shldcnt of

his or her right to a h&lt;arint! rcprtling the request for
amc:ndmmt Additional infonnatioo rcprtling the

hearing procedures wiD be provided 10 the student
when notified ol the right to a~
) . The right to consent to di.fdosures of per·
sonally identifiable information contained in the
student'' education records. cn:ept to the atent
that FERPA autborius diJclo.su.rc without conacnt.
One exception which pcrm.iu d.isdosu.re without consc:nt is d.i.sclosure to sc.hool officials with
ltgitimate education.al interests.. A school official
is a penon employed by the Univcnity in an administrative, supervisory, academic or racarch, or
support staff position (including law enforcement
unit penonnd a.nd health staff); a person or company with whom the Univenity has contracted
(such IS an attorney, auditor, or collection agent);
a person serving on the Board ofTtuste:cs;ora student serving on an official committee, such as disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting an other school official in performing his or her w.k.s.
A school offidal has 1 k1Ptimatt: cducat:ional interest if the: official needs to ~Ill eduarioo rcmn::l
in order tn fuiJiii his or her professional responsibility.
Upon request, the Univtrsity clisclc»cs education records without conse::nt to officials of another
school in which • student seeks or intends to enroll
4 . The right to file 1 complaint with the U.S.
Department of Education concerning allesed fail.
ures by State Uni~rsity to comply with the: rrquirt·
me::nts of FERPA. The name and addrns of the
Offict: that administm FERPA a~:

Funlly l'olky Compll8nc:e office
u.s. o.p.rtment of lduc:•tloft
600 llld.,andena Aftllue. SW
Wuhlngton, DC 2020:1-4605

�_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .._deal C.aduct

C. Directory Information
Upon rcquut, the Univcrsny will release the
following directory informalion: the studtnt 's

narM, currc:nt addr~ telephone number, major
field of study, dates of atundtncc, degreu, and
aw..,ds. The Univtrsity wiU release the abovt in·
formation only if the student i ndic.atn on h is or
her Lattst student data form , under the appropri ate item, that he or she wishes to be listed in the
Sludent directory. The itudc:nt mar II any time rtscind his or her permission for the release- of d.J .
r«tory informatio n by notifying. in writing, the
O ffice of Records and Rcgi.stntion.
Ill. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION U\W

Th.c UniVfility complies fully with the

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State "Frttdom of Information Law,. (Aniclc V1 ,
Public Offic:cn Law, u ammded effective January
I, 1978), which wu enacted to uwrc public accountability of state agencies while protecting ind i vidual~ against unwarranted invasion• of personal privacy. Records arc made available through
lhc campus Records Al:.ass Officer. Peuoru scckmg acttS$ to records maintained by the Univrnity
arc advU.rd to contact:
Records Access Officer
DenniJ R. Black
Office of the Vice Prcstdent for St udent Affairs
s-42 Capen Hall
645· 2982.
To appeal a campus dental of access, peROns may
contact:
Mr. Martin R.t:td
UniVttSit y Re.Latio ns
State University of New York
Stau Univenity Piau
Albany. NY 12246
IV. CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Each student is required to keep thC' Office of
Records and Registration informed of till or her
official permanent mailing addrn.s as weU as their
Buffalo area address. Failu.re to adhere to thi.s requirement is a violation triable beJo rethe Student Wtde Judiciary. In addition, when charges a re
b rought against any student, the judiciaries shaU
US(' the address listed in the Office of RecordJ and
Regtstration for Krvice of process. Service of process for disciplinary purposes shaiJ bt deemed complete when notice is mailed to a student at lhe ad rs6 furnished to the Office of Ra:ords and ReglSI tion.
V. DENTIFICATION CARD
The tucknt identification card ( the SUNY Card)
will be issued to a studen t at the time of his or her
first semC'Sler of enro llment . Th1.s IS a ~rmanent
4-yeou- ID card that wiU serve the student as long
a.s be or she is a registered student at the Univer
sn y.
The ID ca rd sc""es as; official identification as
a State Un iversity of New York at Buffalo student
and entitles the owner to a wide-range of services
ancl uding library privilcge5, admissio n to ho me
athletic t~nts, Vld campus cultural cvtnts. participation in student-sponsored activit·ies.. voting
in student electio ns. access to studen t buildings for
which the student is authoriz.td access, and can also
be usN as your dining service and declining bal ance card, a campus cash card, an MCI Calling
Card, a Citibank Debit Ca rd, and as a vending
machine dd&gt;it card.
ID cards are no n- transferabl e. Cards that are
used illepUy will be confiscated and turned over
to the SUNY Ca rd Office on campus. Since thr
car-ds also carry a variet:yof finan cial services.. theft
of a card or misux of a card can lead to charg« in
the Scudent-Wide Judicia'\)' and in civil court. Stu dents ac:cu.sed. of lending c&amp;rd.s and using another's
card will be brought before the Student -Wide Ju diciary and charged with violations of appropriate sections of the Student Rules Vld Rt-gulations.
As the official identification of student status. the
10 card should be carried at all times. Upon ff:quest by a University official, students a~ requi~d
to present their University 10 card . ln.the case of
loss of the card, a stud~t should obtain a new card
by contacting the SUNY Card office located in
Room 230 of t he Studen t Un io n o n the North
Campus. and in Room 10 1 of Harriman Hall On
the South Campus. A S 10.00 charge is madt for
replacement of tht card.
VI . STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE
COUNCIL
Election rules and regulations, pursuant to State
Education law, shall be provided to the Vice Presi dent for Student Affairs no later than February I
of each year. These ru les and regulations must be
mutually agreed upon by the various student gov·
emments and will serve a.s the guide for electing
tht succe-eding years rtpresentativt.
VII . ABSENCE DUE TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
1 . No person shall be expelled from or refuStd
admission to an institution ofhighereducation for
the reason that he or she is unablr, due to religious
beliefs, to attend classes or participate in any ex aminatio n, study, or work requirements on a par ticular da'"y or days.
2 . Any student in an institution of higher edu catao n who is unablt to attend dassoo on a par ticular day or days due to religious bdiefs shall be
excused from any aamination. study, or work ~ ­
quirements.

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Unlvertdty •tand...._ and A cb.unt.trativ e R egulatio n. %

). It shall bt the ruponsib1ln y of thC' faculty
and admimstntive officiah of each anstltUt iOn of
higher education to rna.kt available to each student
an equiva.Jent opportunity to makt: up any examination, study, or work requirements which he o r
she may havt&gt; m.iucd because of absence on any
particular day or days due to religious be.lids. The
institution shall mak.e available to the student an
equivalent opportunity to register for c1uses and
to compleu the work required without charging
the student a fu of any kind.
4 . If classes, examinations. study, or work requirements are held on Friday afitr 4:00 p.m., or
anytime on Satu rday, similar or- make up classes.
aaminatioru. study, or work requirements shall
be made available on other days whent'Vtt it is pos·
sible and practicable to do so. No special fees shall
bechargtd to the student for these rna.ke up classes,
c:xaminations, study, or work requirements.
S. 1n effectuating the provisiom of this sec tion, it shaU be thedutyofthc facult y and admin istrati~ officials of each institution of higher education to c:u:rcise the fullest measure of good faith.
Students &amp;ball DOl e:lpttiena:anyadvnseor pr-eju dicial dfecta due to the utiliz.ation of the provj sioru of this se.ct.ion .
6 . If any faculty or administrative official fails
to comply in good faith with the provisions of this
section, the aggrieved student is entitJed to main tain an action or procecd.ing in the Supreme Court
of Erie County for the enforument of his or her
rights under New York State Education law, Sec·
tion 224-a.

VW. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Health related aspectS of the environment and mat ters of personal and genenJ safet:y are the func tion of the Office of Enviro n~nt al HeaJth and
Saf&lt;ty.
1. Assistance is offered and concern is exercised in thr areas of. radiation safety, laboratory
b1ohaz.ards. occupational health and safety, academic programs. extracurricular activitiu, hous·
mg, ~drills, food service s.anitallo n, fire prot«tton , eye u fety, instet control, accident investigation, emergency practices training programs, public assemblies and stucUnt ~mb l ics.
2 . Environmental Health an d Safet y ruin .
Rules and Regulations are not rcposN m a single
document, but consist of: policies and p roc~ ures
pro mulgated by the Environmental Heahh and
Safety Committ« ; rules adopted by the Statr Um venity at Buffalo; laws of Federal, State, and Governmental sub-diYisions; and sta ndards published
by professional and trchmcal SOCieties wh1ch represent a consen sus of nat io nw ide:-. and often
world -wide, opinion.
No penons shall inttnuonally ~fust to ob~rvc
health and safety proccd urts o r regulauo ns established fo r the protectio n of perso ns o r propert y.
J . Information . Advice and assista nce on matters of r nvironmental health and safety is available
to all students from the Office of Environmental
Health and Sa fety, 302 Michael Hall.

IX . USE OF UN IVERSITY NAMES &amp; SYMBOLS
Rtcogniud st udent organizatio ns may use U ni~ r ­
sity names and symbols in connection with the1r
programs and activi tieS bu t the use must be Ln
"good taste: Use of names and sym bols o n merchandise or products 1s prohibited, ncept by arrangement with lhe coordinator ofOffict ofTrademarks and Licensing.

X. BUILDING HOURS
All universiry academi&lt;i o r research buildmgs .shall
be dtuned closed at II :30 p.m . unless otherwise
posted. Faculty and staff who ~main in these fa cilities after closing hours must show proper iden tification to Public Safety officers o r area supervi sors when requested. St udents who rema.in in th~
fa cilities after closing hours must have written au thorization from the appropriate uniVttSity official and must provide it upon the request of a Public Safety officer or an arta supervisor.
All admini.strative buildings shal l be d«med
dosed at lhe end of normal business hours of the
admin istrative offices located in thoK facilit ies. All
ot htr buildings, except residence halls, shall be
deemed closed at II :30 p.m. unless othe rwue
posted, or one-haJf hour after the completio n of
an authorized uni~rsity tvent, the closing of ali brary. or th e dosing of a food service operatio n m
that building. Persons who remam m lh esr facih ties after the closing hours must have authom..a
tion and must be able to demonstrate such authorization to a Public Safety o ffi cer or an area super
visor when requested.
Anyo ne remaming in any umvers1t y fa.: 1hh
afttr the dosmg hour without proper authom.a
tion will be escorted out of the buildmg and ma\
be subj«t to arrest.
AIJ residence halls are locked and on I}' authu
rized University personnel , res1dents and t ht·u
guests a~ permitted to enter.

XI. RESERVATI ON OF UN IVER SIH ' PACI·
AND GROUNDS
Thr seven recogmzed stude nt o rgamz.auuns. thC'
academ1c department.s. affiliated organ1zataom and
the administ rat ive umts of the State Umverslly ol
New Yo rk at Buffa lo may reserve gro unds or no n depart mtntal space' for ext racurricular actiVIties

Academi C clasS&lt;'~ shall bC' ..cheJulcd fi rst an
Umverslly no ndepartmental ~pace, and 1ntercol
lcpte and mtramural athlettc ('Vent.sshall havC' pn
o nty u5oC' or athletiC spaa- and playtng fields (lther
nonacadem1c related actLVIhell w11l lx ~heduled
o n lhe bas1s-of space avaalab1l11y.
Reservation form s arc available from thC' h
cilit1n Coordmator. Advance not ace of at last tC'n
( 10) worlungdays as requ1red an wntang for all rC'~
ervations. Furt her mformauon can be obtamed
from the Faciht1rs Coordmator, Offia of Lon fer
ences and Spc:c1al Evenu. Space under JUrtsdtctiOn
of Ra1dence HaUs IS reserved th rough thC' Res1
dence Ufe Office.
Residence Hall space lS r~ dJt«t..y lhrough
the Office of Residence Life. O nly rerogntztd rts1
&lt;knee hall groups an digible to reserve such spa.a

AR11CU 7: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES,
ALCOHOUC BEVERAGE CONTROL
LAW
All provisions of the Ntw York State Aicohohc Bev.
erage Control law and all rula of the State Liquor
Authority apply to the Stau University of New York
at Buffalo. Spc:cial attention should bt paid to thC'
following regulations:
1. "Any penon who misrepresents the age of a
person under the age of twenty-one yean for lh C'
purpose of inducing the u.le of any alcohoHc bev enge, u defined in the alcoholic btven.ge contro l
law, to s:uch pc:non,ls guilty of an offcn$C' and upon
conviction thueof .shall bt punished by a fine of
not more than $200, or by imprisonment for not
more than five days or by both such finr and 1m
prisonment: (Alcoholic Beveragt Control law,
Section 65- a)
2 . "Any person under lhe age of twent y-onr
yt-ars who presents or offers to any licen5oC'e under
the alcoholic beverage control law, or to the agent
or empLoytt of such a Item sec, any wntten ev1dence
o f age which is false, fraudulent or not actually has
or her own , for the purpose: of purchasmg or at tempting to purchase any alcoholic beverage, may
be arrested or summoned and be eummed by a
magistrate having ju n sdicuon on a charge' of 11/C'
gaUy purchasing or attempting to illcga.Uy purchas.r
any ~coholic beverag~- If a dt'lermmauon IS made
sustammg such charge the cou n or mag1stratC' shall
releue such person on probation for a pc:nod of
not exceeding o ne year, and may m :~ddu t on am
pose a fi ne not e:xcttdmg onr hundred dollars." ( A.!
ruholic Beverage Control ~w. Sect1on 65 · b J
J . " Except as heremafter prov1ded. no person
under the age of twenty-o ne yean shall possess any
alcohohc beverage. as defined m th1s chapter. wnh
the mttnt to consume such be~rage . A penon
under the age of twenty-o ne years may possess any
alcoho lic bevtragc- wuh 1nt c-nt to consume tf th&lt;
alcoho lic beve-rage IS gn•en :
A . to a person who Ill a student m a curnl u
lum hcenkd or reg1.stert'd b)' the Statr- Educau on
Departmen t and the siUdent 1s requ~red to taste or
ambibe alcoholi c beverage~ m courses wh1ch arC'
part of th e requared cumcu lum, prov1ded such al
coholic btveragell are used only for amtruct1onal
purposes during class co nducted pursuanl to such
curnculum; or
B. to the prrson under twenty -one years of
agt' by tha t person's parent or guard1an ~ ( Akoholtc
Beverage' Co ntrol Law. S«u on 65-c. s ubd1 v1sum~
I and 2)
4 . "Whenever a peacC' officer as defined tn sub
d1vis1on th1rty-thr« of section 1.20 of thr crtml nal procedu~ law or police offic:rr as defined m
subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the cnml nal proudure law shall observe- a person under thc
age of twenty-one years of age open ly m possession of an akohohc beverage' as defined m thas
chapter wnh the in tent to consume such bevcrage
m vaolataon of lhis srcu on. said offi«r rna)' SCIU
the beverage, and shall delive-r it to lht' custody ot
h1s o r her dcpanment . ( Alcohohc lk\'t'ragC' Con
n o\ ~ w. Sect ion 65· c. subdiVISIOn 5J
S . "No person hcensed to seiJ alcohohc bevl'r
agts shall 5uffer o r permn any gambling on t he lt cenK"d premiSd.. o r suffer or permit such prt'miY".
to become disordrrly. ThC' use of the ltcenK"d pre
m1ses. or any part thereof, for tht' sale of lo ll t'r)'
t tckc-ts, playmg ofb mgu or games of chance , or a:.
a Simulcast fae~ht y or s1mulcast theater pursuanl
to the racmg. para -mutual wagenng and b reetlmg
I.Jw, when duJy aut honzed and lawfully conductC'd
tht'rt'on. shaiJ no t constitUte' gambhng w1thm th c
meam ng of th is s ubd1V1S1on." (Aicoho hc BeveraJ.te
{ ;,on troll.aw, Sect ton 106. subdl\'ISIOn 6 1

ARTICLE 8 : DRUG FREE SCHOOLS &amp;;
COMMUNmES ACT
In conjunction w11h th e L&gt;rug Free .xhooh and
Communtties Act Amendme nts of 1989, the Um
versit y II Buffalo and the St udent Health System
art' com milled to dear and cune1se policies on sub~
stance abuse and a strong program of counseling.
treatment , rehabihtat ao n, and reentry. Studenh
should be aware of thc followmg infonnauon:
Student rules and ~ula u uns prohibit the un lawful pos.sa5.10n. wr:. or d1stribut1on of ilhcn dru~
and alcohol on campu~ pro~ rtl ~ nr as pari ol Lb

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a\.t1v111e:. All provlSIOm '!fS.t:~te AlcoholK &amp;vtrag.e
Control law and all ruies of thC' State Ltquor Au
thonty apply o n campus. No person un&lt;kr the age
uf twent y-onr can ~ any alcoholic ~v('ra~t
w1lh the mtenl to consu me' . S.tatc and Fedenl drug
and narcotiC law~ arr also enforced on campult
Alcoholic brvrrages may be served on campu ~
bv groups and orgamuuom pruv1ded the br\Ot'r
agn are not wid and that t.uch se""1ce 1s autho
m.ed by the campw Alcohol Revt('w Board For
mformauon. contact Student Affaars (64 5 29821
Aicohol and other .substanet abuse counsehng,
rehabti.Jtat 1011. and reenl ry programs are offered 1n
the cummun1ty. Fr«.confident1al mform.auon and
assessmen ts are ava1labiC' at the St udent Health
Center m M1chael Hall by calhng the Student
Health Access LlnC' (829 27H9) for an appomtiT\C'nt
Refe.-rals will"bt made to communat y treatmem
p rogram~ af mdicated. The Student Counseling
Center offers .a number of programs and act1v1t1es
des1gned to as.s1SI students In add1t1on , chapten
of Alcohoha Anonymous and Aduh Chaldren of
Alcohoha mer1 regularly o n campus Employe~
are served by Vl Employee' AssastanCC' Program
{829 -2155 or 645-3166 )
The Unl vtr51ty W1l11mpose app ropnate d1sc1
phnary sanctions on studc-nb and employee~ Stu
dent conduct vtolauons are cons1dered by th e Stu
den t- WidC' lud1c1ary or the Committee fo r lhC'
Mamtenance of Pubhc Order. Sanct iOns may rangt'
from warmngs to expul~1on for V1ola11un of um
vers 1ty sta ndards.
Local. state, and federal laws for the unlawful
poSKS.!i tOn or d1str1bu11o n o( 1lhc11 drugs and al
coho ! arc enforud on campus. These mdude thr
State' Penal Code provasrons on thC' possess1on and
sa.IC'of controlled substanas and federal controlled
subslanct possessiOn and traffick1ng san c tmn~
Vaulat1nns of statt law~ can res ult 111 fine~ and
up to hle m pnson Federal ltilnct1ons arr Mm1lar
Tht USC' and ovrrdose or 1lhC11 dru&amp;\ and alco
hoi can lead 10 phys1al and psychologJcal dc:pen
dnlce, behaviOral chang~ phys1l.al and psychologi
cal damagt, and pos..'lible death f:.vt'n low do!;CS mav
s1gmficantly 1mpau )udgmt'nl and coordmataon
A complete copy of the Drug Fr« School~ and
Commumun Act statement~ availablt' for st udent
revltW DareH anqu~r~es to The L1vmg Well Cenlt'r .
223 StudC'nt limon ; 6&lt;1 5-2837

ARTICLE 9 : PARKING AND TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
1. Veh aclr Reg1strauon All facuh~ . staA and
studC'n b arc reqUired 10 reg1ster motor ve h1 de~
annually wath the Parkang Office' on the North
Ca mpu ~ All fa culty. staff and !itudents sh.lll Or
boun d by tht' posted and publ1shed tram, regula
I l O ll~

2 . A o..upy o f the completc ~ tal C' Umvc:r~1h o l
cw York at Buffalo Vrh1ciC' Regula110m may llt'
obta tned from the Department of Pubhc ~afc-t~ .
Btssell Hall , North Campus or Offio..C' ol t..ampu~ '
P;a rkmg and Transportat ion ~I"V I lc:~. L&gt;1efendorl
An n C'x , So uth Campult m Ell1cott Lo mpln
SpauJdmg Quad., Nor th Campu~
) . Perm ll.s. All faculty. staff and studenb wall
bto 1s.sued a Veh 1de Rcgastratao n Pcrmn upon thC'
completaon of veh1de reglStrat1on and the- payment
of the requued feets) . The VehiCle- Reg1s trat1on
Pcrm1t must be affued fro m the rearv1ew m1rror
It w1ll be the- responsibilrty oft he motonstto kter
the ptrmtt VISible. Othe-r permiL§ are to be affixe-d
or d1splayed m accordance w1th tile pnmed 1n
structions tssued wath the permtt
4 .1-1and1capped Parking Pcrm1u IIX'rmanent )
Thr Un1versi ty recogniz.esonly state ur muniCipal
1ty tssued handicapped parlong pernuu as valid for
USC' m dtsagnated handacapped parlung areas on
campus. Students Wtth permant'nt handacappmJ.t
cond1t1ons should S«ure mumctpal pr-rm1t:. frum
the1r home area Pohce Departmtnt or from tht•
New York State Department of Motor Veh!dCll
S . Hand1capped Parkmg PermiU (Tempor.m·l
~tudents who need spe-Cial parkmg co ns1dt•r.l t1on
due to a tempora ry handKappmg condatton mu ..1
apply for !ip«1al perm1S.S1on from thl' Uffi~l- n t
Das.abiln y L1vmg!Lcammg Srrnct's. 25 Upcn II all ,
North Ca mpus. A med tcal certtfi ....JHun ol Ja'-lhtl
11y mu.st aCLompan)' tht· appllldt lun
6 . Parkmg Poho• Automob1lr p.1rkmg nn thl'
~:~ mpus 1~ cons1dC'rC'd tube a pll\llc-gt• gr.mtrd h..
the Umversatv The- Admtm'l!rauon •~ a111.an· th.u
t here ma) be- a ~hurtagC' ul ~onven1c:nt park an~
spacC's dunng peak prnnd ~ and • ~ au rm run ~ to •
keep up wnh the hl':t\1' demand~ ul thc ~tudt·ol
and fOlcu lty populatiOn ob effi ~·lc-nth· i15lin.ln~c.. .and
land perm at . ln ordt'r to makC' parktng.a' ro..juat.ahll
.as pouible, an effort Ill m.ade to kt't'p parkm~ rq.:u
lataons rea\O nablt' and s1nc1h cn lor~ t·J I .~ ~h •tu
den t IS expC'ctrd to wor~ ou t a \~hedul r r•t .arr I\ .1 l
at the t:ampu~ whtch w11l allll\11. hun ur hc:r llnu· '"
fmd a legal parkmg pia._(' IF-noran ~c: uf tht• rr~tu l.l
taons Ill not cons1dc-red an excuse lor o1 \Lnlalllln
7 . Parkmg IS proh1b1ted at all 11 m.:~ un th r
roadway~ (C' x~ept a~ po~tc:d l. ~• dewalkJt , la~~~.n,
ground~. lanes. and th rough~~~.•a''' o l par~Lng art· .a•
The Umver~ll~ rna\· hi!VC' tll e~a lh parked ..-c:ha.t,.,
towe-d awav .11 thC' o1w ner.. &lt;xpcn'&gt;&lt;"

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- - a .t_ C:ea.• a ct ltal-. V alverdtw . .. . . ; . . _ - · • • •' • '

8 . Park.mg Fines and Penah.ia:. A university
parkang summons i.J Wued for any non -movins
v•olat1on that occurs o n the campuses of the State

Umvcnny of New York at Buffalo. Payment of thC'
fine associated with such violation is rctumablr to
the Offict of Studen t A£c.ounts within the time~ ­

nod

s~cified

on the summons.

A plea agatnst a university puktng summons
must be- returned in the manner described on the
summons in order to r~ucst a hearing before- a
hcanng officer. An appeal of the hearing officer's
deCISIOn is made" to a three mcm~r rtviCW panel.

9 . Lu•bllity. The University accepts no liability
for los..s o r damage to a motor vchidc or ii.S contents. Thu; andudts any damagt cau~d by moving
or towing.

ARTICU 10: OFFICE OF STUDENT FINANCES AND RECORDS
A . RESIDENCY
Studcnu who pay tuitaon as non -restdmu of
New York may apply to ~ .ncogniud as residenu..
An appl1cation form and a statement of the circum·
stances which perm•t a student to be recogniz.ed as
.. rc:s•dent arc available in the Student h:counu Of·
fiu· at 232 Capen Hall and Hayes Anna. B.
In tht event of a studtnl who has received fi.
nanCial a1d based on non - residtnl status. and is
then grantrd Nrw York Slate residency, and the fi .
nanual ;ud rccctved as a non - resident is greater
than the pt'tnllssiblr amount for a resident student,
:.a •d student is obligated to return the differenct.
B. PAYMENT OF TUITION AND FEES REGU -

U.TIONS
The Umvc:mty has a st udent invo1ctng system
wh1ch prov1drs specific and complete mformation
abo ut all charges, payments. and authori.z.cd de·
lcrmcms. h also displays the vanous student sta ·
tu~ 111format1on u~d to dctcrmmc the bill. High ·
hgtus of the system arc outlined below :
1. St udents will receive up to four statements
uf accou nt each semester. The first statement will
bC' mailed to your permanent addreu approxi·
mately one month before the start of the semester.
TUitiOn, fees and other University charges a~d
1111 the first account statement will be due upon
rc:u:1p1 arVJ arc co nsidw:d late if not paid by the
penalt y date appcanng on your statc.mc.nt (students
who &lt;lllempted to rcgisur full time. bu t did not
rcccwc all thctr COUT$t5 arc a:tillliabiC' for the baJa.ntc due on the account statement ). The remain ·
•ng \tattmc:nu will be sent at approximatdy
ooc · month mtervals during the scm6tcr.
2 . Each account statement will list the amount
dut' thr Umversny. Any unpaid charges from tht'
prev1ous sta tement will be brought forward, and
add1t1onal cha rgC'S. payments. and ctcdiu will ~
shown . The statement will aJso include in the cal·
cu latlon of the amount due any authorized deferments. These indude TAP/SUSTA and tuitWn
wa1ver:.. Students must provide th~ Office of Student Accounts with proof of the receipt of such an
award prior to the penalty date in order to deduct
the award from their amount due .
). Returning students that do not successfully
regtster and, therefore, do not recci~ the first bill
of any semester will be charged a$.)().()() late pay·
ment fee plus a $}0.00 late processing f« for a to tal of $60.00 in late fees. These fees arc non - negotiable and must be paid.

4 . SJO.OO late processing fee wiU be charged to
any new or transfer stu&lt;knt attempting to register
for the first time on or aher the tint day of dasscs.
This fee will apply to all studcnu including those
who receive late admission to the Univenity.
S. Failure to pay the amount due. by the penalty
date will ruuJt in the automatM: usessmmt of a late
payment fttofS30.00cach timcthcacmuntLSbilled.
This fee is nonnegotiable and must be paid
6 . Students should apply early for any finan cial aid that they expect to use to pay thc;r Univer·
sitybill.
1 . University bills arc ~tnt to the permanent
addrw that is on file with the Office of Rrcords
and Registration. It is the student'' responsibility
to keep the addreu correct.
Failure to rcceivt a bill will not be accepted as
a reason to waive the late payment fee .
All payments should bt: made by check or
monty order payable to the State UnivalityofNew
York at Buffalo. Personal checks are accepted sub;rct to deposiL MasterCard. Vlsa and DiscovnC.ard
p~nu arc acaptcd Studmu mu.st mmplctt the
top portion of the bill if paying by MasterCard,

v;.a or DiseoverCard. Paymmu forwarded by mail
shouJd be sent in the return e~~ provided. The
top portion of the account mtc.mcnt should be
included with your payment to insure timely and
proper credit to the student'• account. Students
s hould include their ~non number on their
checks. Studcnrs ar~ urged to pay by mail in order
to avoid lines in the Office of Student Accounts.
Postmark dated~ not constitute rccc:ipt of Jn!Y·
mcnL

C. NEW YORK STATE TUITION ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM AND STATE UNJVERSITI SCHOL·
ARSHIP TUITION ASSISTANCE (SUSTA)
The slatcmcnt of account sent to students wiiJ
include all New York State TAP/SUSTA amounts
that are known to the Office of Stude.nt Accounts
at the time of billing. These amounts wiU be in·
du&lt;kd in the cakulation of the amount due. St·u ·
denu rcc.tiving New York State TAP/SUSTA awards
that do not appear on their 1tatemcnt of account
mu.st provide the Office of Student Accounu with
a copy of their award certificate. When this is done,
the student may deduct the amount of tht award
from the amount due the University. The combi·
nation of all New York State awards may not ex·
c~ the amount of tuition charscd. cxctpt in some
cases for special scholarships. ~ipientsof special
New York State scholarships who arc not eligible
for TAP monies mUit still compkte a TAP appli cation to b:c eligible for the spedal scbola.rshjps.

D. TUITION AND FEES COVERED BY WAIVERS,
GRANTS. OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
There are a variety of tuition wai~r5 granted
by the University. These include. c.mploytt tuhion
waive~. Graduate Student tuition scholarships., and
coopcr.uavc teacher tuition. waivers. Any tuition
waiver received in the Office of Student Accounts
by the billing date will be rcAectcd on the state·
mtnt of account and will be included in the calculation of the amount due. One type of tuition
scholanhip, the gn.duate student tuition scholar·
ship, cannot~ fully processed until proof that the
student has filed for a Tuition Assistance Progn.m
Award (TAP) is provided to the Office of Student
Accounu. Proof of filing consists of a TAP Award
Certificate or apparancc on a TAP roster. This rc ·
quiremcnt does not apply to the other categories

b--......,.__ ___________

of tu•tJon waivers. If a 5tudtnt ll rcuiving 1 tuauon waiver and •t doe5 not appear on the ltatc·
mcnt of account, tht student must provide the.
Offict of Student Accounu with proof of rc.criv~
mg the tuition waiver before the tuition waiver can
M deducted from the amount due:. 'IUition waiv·
en do not c:t.1VtT fees and they, therefore. must be
paid by the due da~ in order to avoid a late ftc .
Studc.nts spon10rcd by Grants and Govun·
mental Apcies must provide doc.wne:nted proof
to the Office of Student Accounts befOre deduct·
ing sponsored amounu from their amoun.t due.
Where. there arc two or mort means of relitv·
ms a graduate student of his or her tuition~
the University will alWifl tum to the ruition waivu
budgd last. For aample, a gradua~ Uliltant ap-pointed to • tUeaTCh usdtantship ia alto aupported
by his or hc:r sponaor. The Univusity will bill the.
sponsor cvc:n though this research assistantship
pcnition provides a tuition waiver.

E. STUDENT FEES
The Colltge f« is a state assesscd mandatory
fee. The Studtnt Activity Fee is a nudent aucucd
mandatory fee. Student Health huurance is man·
datory for all full · timc studon1, graduate ltUdenu
carrying nine: houn or more, and all forrign stu·
dents. It can be waived by providing proof of ad·
equate exist ins coverage: to the Student Health Insurance Office prior to the deadline. date. Transportation, Health Se:rvlce, Athletic, and Tcchnol·
ogy fees art usessed for all studtnu, but may be
waived in certain circumstancn (e.J. a health profHSions affiliation that requires a student to reside
outsidt' of Buf&amp;Jo for a scmcster). Students should
contact the offices rcspon1iblt for fee assess~t
to uce.rtain eligibility and application proceduru
fora waiver.

F. TUITION AND CREDIT REFUNDS

Tuition

1st week
l!nd wcck

O'Mo

3rd WC'C':k
4th week

50'Mo
70'11&gt;

Sth week

IOO'M&gt;

30'!Io

) . Entering actiw: military scrvicL. You must
submit a ropy of your military arden.

4. A documented procellina &lt;mil" mode iD my
Unn..mty offico. L&lt;ttcr Oft UnMnity omioo&lt;ry
is requind.
A atudent who is eotide:d to a refund hu oot
ynr from the elate of th&lt; ~~to r&lt;quat
the rd'und, or it is forfeited.
Note: All fees and expense~ are subject to
change without notice at the cfuattioft of the UniYc.nity.

CO . UNPAID UNJVERSnY ACCOUNTS
A student witb an unpaid and cwuduc uni·
vcuiry account wiD not be permitted JO rqistn
for the foUowing 5emelter. Nor will a student be
entitled to receive a ltale:mmt or transcript of
h.is or her credits until hil or her tuition, feu
1nd all other chargea autboriud by the Stalt'
Univtnity, induding but not limited to char&amp;cs
for damagin&amp; Residcnct Hall property, haw been
paid. The University d~ not act as a coUection
agency for commercial outside groups or indi·
viduab.

H. PENALTIES
No student is digibk to receiw- • dq;ru, ccr·
ti5catt of accompli.shment or bononb&amp;e diunisuJ
until all charges due to the University or to any of
its related divisions arc paid in full and all University property has been murned in acaptablecon ·
dition.
The University reserve~ thc riJht to change or
add to its fees at any time. Official inforrncion am~
ceming tuition and fees and their .-ymentl should
be obtained from the Offict of Student Finances

and R=rds (829-2181).

When a st·udent reg.imn it is specifically understood that he or she will Jn!Y in full for aU ch.a.rsts
assumed at rqistration. Failure or inability to at·
tend class docs no1 change the payment due: or
c.ntitle tbe nudent to a re:fund. Students who officially resisn. change from full time to pan-time or

w-k

employer on company stationery, statins tbc be·
ginning date of employmmt plw the date of

chansc in th&lt; work ocb&lt;duk.

O'Mo

IOO'M&gt;
IOO'M&gt;
IOO'M&gt;
IOO'M&gt;

on a parHime buis reduce their schr8uJc will be
charged on tht following bas:i.s:
Several exceptions to the prorated refund
schedule do exisL Student5 who officially resign
from courses and provide the documented proof
listed ~l ow will reuivc a fuJI adjllltmt:nt of thtir
tuition charses for the COWStS involved.
1 . Medical reasons that occur during the. first
half of the 5.cmcstcr which prohibit thc student
from completing the se.mcster. Documented proof
must be submitted from a phy5ician, on the
physician's stationery stating the beginning date of
illness and that the student is unable to attend class..
2. A chanse in thestudmt's workschtduleduring the lint half of the IW)(':Stt:r that makes it im·
possible for the student to attend c.1asses. The job
must be one that the student held wbcn he or she
registered. A letter must be submitta:i from the

If a studcnt is dismissed from the Univnsity
or any of iu related divisions for cauaa: other than

aadcmic ddicimcy, all tm (Wd 0&lt; to be paUl ohall
immediately become due and payable..

AIITICU 11: APPROVAL
Tbcse Ruin and Regulations have. been approved
by the Council of the State Univcr1ity of New
Yofk at Buffalo in May, 1998 and can be made
available. on caSKnc tapes for the visually im ·
paired in the Office of Services to the Handi ·
capped, 25 Samuel P. Capen Hall, North Cam ·
pu1. These Rules and Rqulations shall remain
in effect fantil supc:nedtlt ~y Jesit:Jatfon ot
amended by the. Council
the State University
of New York at Buffalo.
Qut:Stions, comments and suggestions related
to Student Conduct Rules, University Standards
and Administrative Regulations shouJd be directed
to the Officc of Judicial Affairs/Ombudsman, 405
Capen Hall.

or

Notke - PHOTOGRAPHS pf UniV&lt;mty
nents and ~ben of the campw community are regularly taken and sub5e·

quently

display«~

depicting the vitality or

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changes in undergrPduale education.

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Renowned authors to appear
in litemry series at UB.

September 3. 1!91/ Ym.30. No.2

University at Buffalo

Family
Picnic

A party INith a cast a thousandsand what a success! There
was fun , food, music and
camaraderie as new students,
their families, faculty and staff
gathered Friday for a familystyle picnic in the Student
Union Courtyard. The event
was part of September
Welcome.

FSEC discusses-the future of Statistics
Proposal incorporating department into Social and Preventive Medicine spurs hot debate
IIJ CHtiSTlNI VIDAL
Reporter Editor

E faculty Senate Ex·
~c utive Co mmitt ee's
1998 -99 academ ic year
got off to a v igoro us
start Aug. 26 with an impassioned
discussion of the future of the Oc
partment of Statis tics.
A proposal !hal look effCCI Tu&lt;~ ·
day, according to a memorandum

issued Aug. 4 by ProvoSl Thomas E.
Headrick, incorpomtcs the depart ·
ment as a biostatistics un it into the

Depanment ofSociaJ and Prevrntiw
Medicine in the School of Medicine.•
and BiomedicaJ Sciences.
Discussion of the pro p o~al wa~
te nse from th e beg innin g. when
FSEC cha ir Pe ter Nickerson , call ing th e move an issue that has hecn
with th e uni vcrs ity" fo r qui te some

time," no ted that he had serv~d on
a committee that was asked to m ake
a recommendation abo ut the fu·
rure of the depanment as a mem -

ber of the medi cal-school facu il y.
not as chair of the Faculty Senate.
"That's news to me," responded
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost for
undergraduate education. Good man and David 1. Triggle. vtce pro
vost for graduate education and n·
search and dean of the Craduatt~
School. both served on the commit
tee and represented the pr ovn~t\
office ill the t:StC mct•ttng.
"T he statistu::. ISsue • ~ orll~ o!
co ns id e rahlc co nfusaon ." nntc:d
Trigg le at tht" begmning of the: d1'
cussio n. " I' ve hecn mvo lwJ With
11 for IS yea rs ol my life_..
The co mmittee on s t at a ~tlt'
"analyzed the situation and t.tlllt'

up with a report that offered three
choices," Triggle co ntinued .
Issued May ll , th e report of
fered th ree solut ions: do nothmg,
recreate the department o r mcor porate sta ti stiCS intu Soc1al and
Preventive Mcd1cine.
Calling the first cho11..t' " una~.
ceptahle," Triggle told tltl' FSf( : th.Jt
the department was hcmg mcnrpo
ra ted mto tht' mt'dKal s...- ho~.,J 1n
pari he1.au~ 11 • ~ not l.ar~~.· enough
tu 'upport gr.Jdu.llt' · lnd 'tudcnt,,
,lfld Ill p.Jrt ht•I..;IU'l' gt\'t'll tht• " 11.11.
Jtmm•shmg rt·,o urn·, ol tht· m'''
lUI Hill \l' r~U!I wh1.·re Wt' lln'd Itt~~~
h..katlv ... to haw a first d.1:.' I kp.trt
lllt.'llt of "latiStll..l&gt;."
" If we arc gtHng tn aLhlt'W ll.ltl! lil.ll
pronunt.·n~.. e ," ( ;Ottdman add~.·J , ·· Wl'
h.wt'" h ~ ~..ontcn trall" rntmrLt.~ .... \\'t·
h.lvt' to ht· wdltngt\llet "lnlt' prtllt"\.1.'&gt;

go c:vcn tf program~ Mt' mtni1SJC3..l.ly
worthy. I don't sec any alternative to
'iUch a stratll,')'. lf we're going to move
•n that dirmion , wt"'re gomg to have
tn make the dc..'CI~ton:. we 're makmg
thtl&gt; afternoon \\'e ....tn 't oppo:.c
every dec1:.1on tu dumnate l pru grams ) or we will l"x"Comt~ •ncrt".L'&gt;
mgJ\' mt"Jmc.-rt' "
"t&gt;.h !tot.'ll!&gt;l' t~Wt'Mt' nuk•n~ •• ~nt•\
nu~ mhtakt.•." ...ud lohn lk,.ot . prolt"
'or .mJ Lhau nl ~l.m.l~t~ment Xlt'nu
.md "w'tt·m~. ~,· ho prc~·ntt-d .1 P·''
'u lfl.lll' ,1nd kn~th' di'lllUT"'-'" ''Pr,.1,
till! tht· propu'-.11 .tnd dct.ulm~ tht·
dcp.lrlnll'nt\ mor:: rt"\..l'lll h1,1nn
I k ,,mltht· ltlllllllilll'l" lornwd
tu lotlk .11 tht• org.anll.llloll nt tlh'
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tht• pruvo'&gt;t ." .111d ~..• •llt l'" lltkd th.ll
''' lllt.'"l'llng' h.1d no llllllllh.·,,
Con l.lntoe&lt;don p.goe 6

Giant sees 'can-do culture for new college
By SUE WU£TCHE.R

NewsServicesAuoc.iateDirector

H

E's worked long hours.
Even pltiled a few all-

nighters.
But Kerry S. Grant
says it 's been worth the time and
effort because the merger of th e
former faculties of Social Sciences.
Arts and Letters, and Natural Sci·
ences and Mathematics into th e
new College of Arts and Sciences
is the perfect opportun ity for UB
to create what he ca lls a .. cult ure
of expectations.''
It 's a culture "where that apathy.
that la c k of a mb i ti on and
expectations ... is replac~d by a
sense of 'ca n · do' a nd we' U surely
accomplish (o ur goa ls)," sa 1d
Grant, who assumed the dean ship
when the new college was formed
on July I.
.. Have expecta tio ns. Step aside
from your disco uragement with
life in an institutio n that's had an

on · a nd · off history." added Grant,
ex panding o n hi s th emt&gt; fur the
new college. "Commit yoursdr to
th e moment a nd cha nge the place
into wh at yo u wa nt it to be.
" I do belirve it's possi hl e.'' he
continued , "beca use so much ol
what troubles us, what limits m ,
is based in a fru stration w1th t'X ·
pecta tio ns. so m e of wh1 ch are no
lo nger reali sti c to ho ld a nd somt'
of whi ch we m ay hold on to IU.SI
because they give us some under
standing ofho"' to stay (Onnel'ted
with a n institu tion that h,.., .11
t tmt'S been di sa ppoint mg.
~ It 's lime to move on to a real
se nse of ambit1on and fmmt·d
growth ," he stresst'"d.
Grant said the collegt&gt;'s ftrst:.l('P
in creating that culture of expect a
uo ns has been in the draftingofhy
laws. The committt&gt;e devcloptng
th~ set of proced ures by which the
coll~ge will operate--a subcom
mittec of the Founder's Comm11 -

tt~e. plu~ a ft.'w other nU'mher~has
Jg rr&lt;'d to (~ ra nt \ rt·que'it that 11
"'t'er away from .t"htany nt '«hall
nots'" and dt·vc:lt•p ,J)ot~t or pos•t avt'
expC'Ct.J IIOm -" the .. h.lll,''_ that
wt ll ''c reate: the plalt' we would likt"
to work- sta tcmt.·nt:. that npt·n the
d oo rs and crca tt' cx pc.•ctatlnn ~ ror
th e fu \ti llmen t of uur ht.·~t ho pt· ior
the outcnmt' ol the ~..o ll cgt• ."
Tht·lw l a\~, ( ;r.m t 5.a.Jd. 'ihou ld In
'"u:.on"wha twrexrx'"dotcach~)thcr

" Rvl.tw" that 1ndudc.· what 11 ''
wt• tlWe ca~..h Clthcr and tht· .. tan
d oud' th.ll we wnuld use tu JSloe"~
wht· th cr Wt' wert·. m fan . met~ttn):
tho'l' cxpettat1ono;, \If eJch otht'"r
pub the polK\' tl&gt;,Ut'" much d\hCr
h) the ~ovrrn.Jnu~ tso;;uc ." hl· ,a,J.
nottng that facultv ~overnan~..c 1:.
the long -sta ndtng tradlt aon ol
h1ghcr educat 1on. contrarv to tht•
recent trend tn ha gher educa tion
towa rd th e co rpo ra te m odel in
wh 1ch the ad m inist rat!l)ll makes
;.t.ll the dec istons a nd facu lty ofte n

fecl '"' unempowcrcd.'"'
Thegoalor thet:ollege . .Jke' de
ment of Provost Thorn.J\ lllt"adru.:k's repon un acadern1c pl.m
mng, '-'to tmprovc th e dehwrv nf
undergraduate;.· cducatum at L1A
Crant. fo rmer dean olthe t-a~..ull\
ot Art.~ and t.t.11C111. s~ud Ulf:. rt' -t·m
phas 1 ~ on undergraduateeducmun
~~ tn keeptng with the fed mg nataon
,JIIv--c:mbod ied Ill the" Bowr ( ·c,m
mt~ston Rrport ''-'"' that re,.car~..h
umverMtll.'"' have.· to do J lwut.·r 10h
{II -.ervmg undergraduatt~,"
The formation of tht.' co llc.'gl'
wall tmprovt• the undcrgraduatt·
expenl'n(e Ill ~ewral wavs. he sa1d .
Among uthcr thtng~. 11 w11l re
movr: ":. trudur.Jlunpedamt·nts"namd)' three separa te facultac:s In
cused on art:. · and ·scaenu·s dtsll
pli nes-that prevented under
g radua tes from exploring mtere:,t~
across the arts and sctences, and
provid e a "se nse of ...:o mmumtv "
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education and professor of mathematics: He joined the university
faculty in 1969, and has been vice provost since~ 994, after serving
in an interim capacity for a year.
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~In u•ols F-.ote - catlolo .._. , _ - - • •
pnwost for u~e
soluutlon7

This summer's creation of a College
of Arts and Sciences, which brings
so many thing&gt; to fruition that! and
othen have worked on for years.
Perhaps )'OU mnember the Council ofArts and Scienas Deans. which
consisted for most of its time of
Kerry Grant, Ross MacKinnon, Joe
Tufarlelio and me, with. the help of
Peter Gold. We impl..,..,ted John
Thorpe's Undergraduate College
general~education curriculum in
the Arts and Sciences. We opened
admission to the majors in the Arts
and Sciences, so that there were no
longer hundreds and hundreds of
upper-division students in good
academic Slanding but unable to get
into any major program. We took
- important steps toward the implementation of departmental advise·
ment, usually provided by faculty.
Grant created a student services center in Arts and Utters that began to
provide students in that fuculty with
an academic home. Later, Mark
Krista! took similar steps in Social
Sciences. But aU of this effort re·
mained fragmentary and, I suspect,
vulnerable in the absence of an ad·
ministrative unit that could provide
central leadership and support. We
now have a framework that can
serve general education, advisement, and recruitment aS a unified
effort, that can provide a defuult academic home for )own--division students not yet committed to a par·
ticular major, and that can help
those students make a smooth tran·
sition into upper-division work in
their major and ~rhaps on into
master's or even doctoral studies.

sort of interaction in which they, as
students, were not merely passive.
We need great lectum-s,aod we need
state-of-the-art student services, but
what makes a I1IINmity attraaive
to its students is caring teachers.
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That's easy. We have more distinguished schoian and scientists. We
have more to teach. We can bring
students up to the current state of
• knowledgr and sbowthem bow they
can contribute to advancing human
knowledge. We create the knowiqe that will go into the tatbooks
that others will teach from in a few
years. Why settle for heanay, when
rou can talk to the soUl'&lt;%?

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the arts- sdenca7

Well, first let I1JC say that 1think rour
emphasis on the arts and sciences is
a ~!tie exaggerated. Yes, the Arts and
Sciences provide the core of undergraduate education, especially in the
first two years. But almost halfofour
undergraduates end up pursuing
professional aoil pre-professional
programs. Much of the appeal ofUB
to prospKtive students is in our
wonderful programs in engineering,
management, architecture, and the
health scimas.l.e!'s not forget those
programs.
Having said that, though, let me
concede that there is a tension lxtween graduate education and research, on the one hand, and unWh•t Is the most lmport•nt
dergraduate education on the other
thing U8 un do to m•k• the
university •n •ttrKtlve pJ.ce
hand. A5 President Greiner has
for undergradu•tes?
emphasized many times, we cannot
Even though I am a strong advocate think of ourselves as having to
of increasing the use of technology make a choice between those mis·
in our instructional programs. and sions. We have to do both of them
even though I think it is essential wdl and we have to make them
that our student services be respon- contribute to eadl other's effectivesive to student needs, I still think that ness. There is a good deal of talk
successful and satisfying under- nationally just now about involvgraduate education comes down to ing undergraduates in research. We
affective relationships between stu- do a lot of that, and I think we do it
dents and fuculty. I think learning, quite effectively. Related to those
genuine cognitive change, is pain- efforts, in my view, are our extenful. I think we aU resist it. In order s ive internship programs, which
for it to happen, the teacher has to enable students actually to experi·
be able to involve the student's emo- ence the application of"what they
tions. If you will forgive the jargon, have learned in the classroom. But
I think there has to be a transference I do agree with your imaginary inin the Freudian sense onto the terlocutor that we have11 way to go
teacher. I think that UB will succeed in making our university welcomin ~dergraduate education to the ing to undergraduate students.
extent that our faculty increase their
involvement with, and their com- How do you upect th•t the
new computer .c:ce.ss pl•n wfll
mitment to, their studeots. If the
•ffect undergradu•tes?
students feel that their instructors
care about them, then they will think My hope is that it will fucilitate stu·
that UB is a good university. h is dent access to the infrastructu.re of
striking to me that when alumni of education. Looking a couple of years
any university mnember their un . down the road, I expect that stu·
dergraduate education, they think dents will access the full range ofstu·
above aU of the faculty who influ- dent services through the Web. They
enced them. And those are usually will access an enormous varjety of
fuculty with whom they had some information through the Web, in·

eluding much information that
simply would not have been available to them in the past. They will
\12computen to write papers. to do
routine computations, to keep class
not&lt;s, even to 001&gt;duct their social
!Ms. But aD of that, I think, concerns
tools. lo the final analysis, as l sug·
gested above. education will always
come duwn to personal relationships between teachers and students.

out factual content Actually,
doing mathematics can be ao
intense aesthetic experience
and a satisfying modt of teif.
expression. It i.s an art form, li1&lt;e music. AI d&gt;e same time,
as I have often argued in print,
it is a natural science, like physics. It is not merely verbaL It
gives profound insight into the
world in which we live. To convey to students the aesthetic
Howlau• d F duaiC-.
and intellectual richness of
mathematics is challenging .
· Most of w rarely su&lt;Xeed fully.
Surprisingly ~!tie. There i.s more
use of technology. Universities But only when "" do are we
teaching mathematics well•
make less of an attempt to control
the motallives of their students. We
.are np longer in loco parr:nJU. But
the essence has not changed at alL - 7
I was an undergraduate at Jiar. l am fur frotJl being a mainvard CoiJese in the late l950s.At the stream mathematician~ I am
time, my father was teaching Ger· trained in mathematical logic,
man at Ohio State. He and I often which is an interdisciplinafield
discussed thesiml:arities and differ. about one-third mathematics,
ences between what 1 experienced about one-third computer sci·
at Harvard and what his students ex- ence and about one-third phiperienced at Ohio State. Sol think I losophy. My professional scholhave a good sense of what under- arly interats have always been
graduate education was like at that more philosophical than mathtime in the larger universities, ematical. 1 am c::iose proCession1
whether private or public. And I ally to what often i.scaUed cogni·
think it was pretty much the same tive science. AI; I am 5lll'e some
then as it is now. There were the of my colleagues in the Departsame struggles about general edu· ment of Mathematics would be
cation. The same disagreements quick to point out, some of my
about remediation. The-same ten· most successful scholarly puhiision betwem teaching and research. cationsareq~ofmathThe same sense that the students to- ematical content
day are just not as good as the ones
..., used to have. The same sense of
frustration that students come to
college wanting to be prq&gt;ared for a
job, whenas..., want to offer them I wish )'OU had asked something
an education. The same disagree- about my values, about what I
ments about whether the traditional thinlc the goals of undergradu·
lecture format is pedagogically ef. ate education should be.
Earlier l mentioned myfuther,
fective. Even the same quarrels
about Division l athletics. Nothing to whom l was dose. His futher,
my grandfuther, worked aD his
essential has changed.
~fe in a steel mill. My futher, as
You st.arhd out .._ ua as •
he saw it, escaped from that nar- o f t h e - t.adty.
row prison into !he wide intelb the lolggsst cllfhrence
lectual and cultural world of the
~ ....... a faculty memuniversity,
My futher saw it as his
ber- .., aolmlnbtrator7
roletoheiproungpeopldoilow
My experience is that research in in his footstep~ to lead them
mathematics is a lonely business. It
from a life whose most exciting
involves longhoun af so~tary study
cultural experience is a football
and thought I think I would have
game to one in which. they
been a more successful research
would have access to ~terature
mathematician if l had been less
dependent for my emotional weii- and art and science. I am deeply
beingon social contact. Administra· committed to that conception of
pub~c b.igher education. I often
tion, on the other hand. is an intensely social aetivity. Administra- say that a university like UB, in·
tors make a ~ving by going to meet· sofar as~ are discussing its unings. In that way, they resemble dergraduate programs, is above
teachen. But, by and large, teachers aU an instrument of upward SO·
are in control of what happens in ciai mobility. UB makes it postheir classrooms. At least that is true sible for )'Oung people to have
of the old-fasb.ioned pedagogical economic and social opportunistyle that l have always practiced. ties not available to their parents.
Administrators are never in oontrol I believe that But what I think
of anything. When l used to teach, I is eva1 more important is that
would work out in August what ""' make roung people aw.= of
material! would·present in Novem- the enonnous richness of hu·
ber. Today I am not even sure what man culture and open to than
the opportunity to participate in
l will be discussing tomorrow.
that riChness. We offer our stuWhat's the most common
dents the greatest gift that any
mbpercsptlon the
~tution could offer them-study of mathematics?
the human past and the human
That mathematics is dry and with- future.

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3

North Campus child care center to open BrieBy
.,WIN~

News S&lt;rvicts Edilof

EXT Tliesday, when
the new North Campus Site of the University at Buffalo Child
Care Center officially opens for
bwineas, nearly 50 children and
their families will be walling
through iu doors.
Tha~s just about capacity for the
new, prefabricaied, 3,700-oquarefoot building located. at 100 St.
Rita's Lane near Baird Point.
The opening comes four yean after a blue-_ribboo panel concluded
that child-care services were very
much in demand on the North
Campus. and jUst two yean after the
Praiden~sTask Force on Women at
UB desCribed a center on the North
Campus as "a very pressing need"
"Thirty-thousand peopl&lt;-studyor
work on the North Campus," said
TamarM&lt;yer,directorofUB'sSouth
Campus child care center. who is
overseeing the new site. "'You cannot study or work comfortably unless you feel that your children are
in good hands," she said.
The new facility still has several
open slots, and is accepting names

N

for waiting lists. Faculty, staff and

students are welcome to visit the
North Cam us center anytime this
week from :30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Meyer, ho has a doctorate in
earlychil

out that the new site will be operated with a philosophy focused on
dmlopmentally appropriate activiti&lt;o, as is the South Campus site.
Last year, the Child Care Coalition
of the N'.agara Frooti&lt;:r selected the
South Campus center as the best in
W..tern New York.
Accotding to Meyer, the UB administration has been "absolutdy
phenomenal," in moving the project
along so quicldy. She said that
llernia Noble, professor of microbiology and chair of the women's
task force, was rupoosible for putting the i$aue "on the front burner.•
Meyer added that Uniwnity Faciliti&lt;s was atremely responsive to concerns about early child care and educatiooal.-ls. In particular, she said,
"big kudos. go to Dennis Black, via
presidont&lt;i'studootaftaits,andNaocy
Mi&lt;bal&lt;o, associate via president Wr
univmity development and chair of
a Child Care Center board of dim:torsadboc committee on the new site.
According to MichaiJco, the child
care center will bring an important
new facet to life on the North Campus. "llnivmity life revolves around
community, for otudents, faculty and
stll!;' she saii!;"but it's diflicult to have
a sense ofcommunity when your children can't be near you. Now, families
can put to rest their concern that their
dilldren have to be somewhere else.
"We wantrd our students on the

North Campus to be able to get ofT

the shunk bus if they don't have a
car, and have access to quality day
care." Michalko said.
Thition is on a sliding seal&lt; ac·
cording to incornei low-inco~ stu-

dent families are digtble for subsidies from a SUNY block grant.
ProgTam coordinator for both
sites is Nancy Wallace, who has her
doctorate in early childhood education and special education. 1Wdve
new staff members have been hired.
The new building is a temporary
structure; the univmitybas begun exploring funding poosibilili&lt;s filr a permanentsite, whidtis""J'&lt;'"&lt;'IOhous&lt;
ISOc:hildml and becmnpletedwlthin
fiveyears.Piansaretmdefwayto rmovate the South Campus center within
the n&lt;:XI five to 10 years.
The center has two infant rooms,
for children from ages 6 weeks to 18
months; two toddler rooms, serving
children ages 18 months to 3 years.
and one-presChool room for children 3-5 yean of age. A playground
will be in place later this semester.
Li!:msed by the state Department
of Children and Family Services, the
North Campus center was developed
jointly by the UB Child Care Center
and the university. Its operating costs
are funded by tuition and grants, primarily from SUNY Central Administration and New York State Labor/
Management; the university covers
rent, utilities and maintenance.
For applications, call 829-2226.

UB, mmunity: we're going to the games
By C-IDNE Vf)Al
Reporter EditOf'

M

Stoll also
wedOrien-

ISSION 1-A, the Division of Athletics'
drive to seU 17,000

tickets to each home
game this season, is on target and
Bob Arkeilpane, interim director of

athletics, says h~ is opti mistic UB
wiU meet that goal. It's an impor-

tant one. According to NCAA regu lations, the university must meet the

to promote
th e Bull fighters, a
new st u dent o rgani-

Tickets for all four Bulls home games

are still available. Season tickets are
$40 and $30 for reserve seats, and
120 for general admission . Individual game tickets also are available. Students attend games at
no cost because they pay a student athletic fee . For ticket in-

za tion de vo ted
to

formation, call 645-6666.
be...-INg buddy

supponi;1g the Bulls. The Bullfighters,
Stoll said, pay a one-time membmhip
fee in achangc for special privileges.
compete at the Division 1-A level.
such as a section reserved for them at
Athletic; has r&lt;eeived support from games, a hat. pin and a newsletter. The
tltrriughout the UB community in its group plans to camp out at the bronze
quest to 6JJ the stadium, Arkeilpane bufTaJo at Alumni Arena the night besaid. Alumni groups. including the fore UB's home opener. he said
Alumni Association and school-based
The Western New York commualu mni chapters, have organized ' nity also has stepped up to show its
groups to come and show their sup- support, Arkeilpane said. Four area
portfortheBullsathomegames. Stu- companies have signed up as corpodent Affitin has been "tmnendously rate sponsors at each of UB's four
supportive:' be said "Derutis Bladtand fall 1998 home games_
Adelphi• C•ble will show its
~ Rirotta have the troops rallied."
Athletics and Student Affitin have support for UB as sponsor of the
been working all summer to ensure a Sept. 12 game against Lock Haven.
strong base of student suppon at the Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
The home opener will include the
games. Their efforu began with Orientation, where students got their fir.;! "Empire Spons Stars Fan Fest," orimpr=ion ofUB's athktic programs. ganized by the Empire Sporu Netpresented by Man Stoll. otudent-rela- work and featuring sporu greats, inrions roordinator in the Division of cluding Gil Perrault, Derrick Smith,
Athletics and Office of Student life.
Charlie Ferguson, )efT Nixon and
..We offered a lot more of an ath - Tom Day, who will sign autographs.
letics presence at Orientation thi s The BufTalo )ills will give a pregame
y&lt;ar," said Stoll. At check-in, Stoll and
show and sign autographs.
UB's mascot, Victor E. Bull, greeted
Adelphia aha will otTer Kidzonc.
students. distributed schedules and an- end-rone entertainment that will insw=d qu&lt;stions about the program dude gift bag.. tare painting. a 22- foot ·
Theyahowereoo hand during theori· high inflatable slide and a visit by the
entation program. introducing play- Rocco and Hey Arnold characters
from Nickelodeon. Skyy Dog and
ers and coaches and reminding studenu of how impo~nt the fans arc Rockin' Ray will perform at half-time.
to UB's athletic efforts. And student and there11 be fireworks after the game.

State at I :30 p.m.

reaction was cn thusiasl ic, according to StoU... They were to tally into

othC'r AAU univC'rsities," sa 1d
Arkcilpane "We need everyone. to take
ourplacewithother AAU w1M.nities."

requirement in o rder to join the

Mid-A merican Conference and

this," he said. "h was awesome."

Morgoon StAnley o-n Witter
will sponsor the Oct I 0 Homecoming game as Bulls take on Morgan

Clover MM\agement IS the corporate sponsor for the Oct. 17 game
against cross-town rivaJ Canisius.

Victor E. Bull bean-bag buddies will
be given away at the game to the first
1,000 fans who bring two box tops
from a General Mills product.
And the Amhent Ch•mber of
Commerce will sponsor a football
"Spook- tacular" on Oct. 31 when

the Bulls kickoff atl:JO p.m.against
Western Illinois. Watch for the "ter -

ror tent," gift bags. children's identification kits and "horrific half-time"
"The home season promises to be
fun, entertaining and the place to be"
Arkeilpane said A lot of people shar&lt;
his enthusiasm-premium, chair-

bock seating sold out so quicldy that
four new sections had to be added
While support has been strong.

Arkeilpane has a message for UB and
Western New York: ..Come to the

games. This isn't just about football.
This isn't just about the university. It's
about the community." Athletics lS "a
door to the unlven.ity," he said. a rom
mon denominator that links prospet. tive students.. corporations and West
ern New York to UB. Suppon of UB
athletics benefits the area, a.-. well, because people who rome to tht• gamo
bring economic lx!nefit to the regiOn.
"We're going to be competing '""ith

Author Suzanne Gordon
to present Bullough Lecture
Su.unne Gordon, )ounta~llst. author and health -cart commenta tor on public radio, will present the S«ond annual Bonnie Bullough

Lecture, sponsored by School of Nursing, at 4:30 p.m. Sept_ 25 m
the Ce ntC'r for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
Hertopic will be- .. The C hallenges facing Nursing Our
ing An Era of Market - Driven Health Ca re." The IC'cture
will be: free, but reservations are required.
The Dr. Bonme Bullough Lecture was established 10
1996

through a SIOO,OOO gift from Vern L. Bullough to

honor the memo ry of his wifC' and colleague, Bonnie. former dean
of the UB nursing school, who died in 1996.
Gordon is the author of five books and more than 250 artacles
about health care, nursing and women's issues. Her latest book, "Ltft
Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines," wa~ published by Linle
Brown in 1997. Her earlier books were " Black Mesa: The Angel of

Death," "Lonely in America," "Off Balance: The Real World of Bal ·
let " and " Priso ners of Men's Dreams."
She is oo-editor of"Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practace.
Ethics and Politics," and .. The Abandonment of the Pattent: Tht
Impact of Profit-Driven Health Ca re on the Public." Shr also ts a
commentator on public radio's " Marketplace," and an adjunct pro fessor in the McGill University School of Nursing.
Co-founder of Nurses Network for a National Health Program.
Gordon is a co-author of the "Massach usetts Call to Action " of thr
Ad Hoc Co mmittee to Defend Health Care, published in the Jour
nal of the American Medical Association in December J99i For
information or to make a reserva tiOn . ca ll8 l9 - 253~

Computer resources to be focus
of new Library Help Center
EiJ
The Undergraduate Library has announced th e creatiOn of the
Library Help Center ( LHC ). a new service desagned to teach stu dents how to use UB's computer resou rces.
Staffed by librarians, tht LH C wiJJ offtr fn"e work."ihops, drop-Ill
sc rv1ces, individual appointments and e- maU and telephone help on
how to use BISON, e·mail. Microsoft Off1ce and the World Wide Web.
Workshops are scheduled to beg1n Sept. 8 and will be held in 12 7
Capen HaJJ, loca ted 10 the Undergraduate Library (UG L ) on tht'
North Ca mpus. Registration for wo rkshops is not required. Work
shop schedules will be posted on the UGL bulletin board, on the

LHC web page at http:/ / ublfb.buff•lo.odu/ lfbr•rtes/ unlts/ ugl/
help and in tht Rt'porrrr and "!Ju• Speer rum.
Orop- m serviCt:~ will be avallahlt• dunng offiu:· hours posttd out
126 Capen Hallm tht U&lt; tl ..
Scudents mterested m settmg tndJvldual appom tments or 10 oh
taming e- mail help o r telephone help can ca ll 645 -3528 or stnd t'
mail to askugiO,usu.buffalo.edu
~ Ide

"UB Today" cable show kicks off
a new season on Sunday
Cable viewers can learn about new even t ~ a nd program~ at LfR
un "U B Today... wh1ch k1(k.\ off II!' new ~cason ~undav on Addph1d

and TCI.
The livel y and mformauvr hJlf- hour !&gt;how, rchruadcast through
out thf' month. a irS at 6:30p.m. ~undays o n AdclphtJ Channel!&gt; 18.
30. and I 0, and at 6:30p.m. Fndavs on TCI 's Channel 21.
The hosts of tht show are \Vilh am ). Evitts and Judith Schwendlt·r,
executive dtrector and an ass istant dlre...·tor. respectiVely, 10 the LfR
Office of Alumni Rclat1ons, wh1ch produces the program 10 coop eration with Adelphia Cable.
Among the topi cs and intervll'Wf'C.!l sc h~dulcd for ~ ...·ptcmber Ml'
• Regional Co mmunit y Po hcmg Cen ter. UB Pubhl Safetv !llrl'l
tor John GreiJ and Buffalo Po lt cc Ot'parlml·nt Capt. lame ..
Gm mmares1
• Offerings for non traditmnal students hv LIB'.!&gt; M11lard hllmort·
College. Dean George 1. lopo.!&gt;
• Ca reer services for UB s tudt~nts and alumm. l&gt;an1d I. Rvan . d1
rtctor of the LIB Office of Carct'r Planning and Placcmcm
• Sc1ence educatton and the UB Honors Program. &lt;:lydc ~ Hcrrl·u.l .
SUN Y Distingui~hcd Teachmg Professor mthe D~pa rtm cnt of H1o
\o~H. al Sc1cnn·-. and dCademiL d1rector of Utrs 1-l nnor.!l Program

Hang tag violators
to be ticketed
Parking enforcement In all parking lots for
hang tag violauom will begin Tuesday. the Cam
pus Parkmg Office has announced. Persons not
~.hsplaymg a current fac ulty, staff o r student
hang tag m the parkmg lots w1ll he 11cketed.

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B's Pete Niland re·
members hi s trip
to
No rmand y,
France, in 1974.
At his father's request, Niland laid flowers at the
burial crosses of his uncles, Sgt.
Robert Niland and Lt. Preston
Niland, who were killed in action
during the WWII Allied invasion
of Europe in June 1944 .

The real· life image bears some
resemblance to the final scene in
the rece nt bl oc kbu ster movie,
"Savin g Private Ryan ," in which
Private James Ryan (Man Damon)
re turn s lO the No rmandy grave

site of Captain John Miller (Tom
Hanks) years after Miller helped
return Rya n to his family after
Ryan's three bro thers were killed
in action .
When Niland saw the scene dur·
ing the Hollywood premiere of the

film on Jul y 21. he co uldn't help
hut think of his own famil y.
But he was n't surprised, because
the mov ie is partially based on hi s
own family 's story.
And he was well -prepared fo r
viewing the movie aft e r meeting
with Directo r Steven Spi elberg,
participating in an HBO special on

the making of the film, and nying
Hollywood twice with a num·
ber o f famil y me mb e rs. Th e
Niland family saga is featured this
week in People magazine.
Altho ugh he uses the first nam e
" Pete ," th e well -known assistant
direc tor of residence halls-re·
ce ntl y recognized for 20 years of
servi ce to US- actually wa s
named after hi s uncle Preston.
Pete Niland's father, Air Force
Tech. Sgt . Edward F. Niland, died
in 1983. But unlike the movie line,
Edward Niland survived the war.
He was shot down over Burma in
southeast Asia and was held by tht"
Japanese as a prisoner of war for
11 - l /2 months- six months in
solitary confinement.
"Saving Private Ryan ," which
premiered in Buffalo July 24, has
been described as one of the most
graphic and realistic portrayals of
WWII and the D· Day invasion
ever produced.
Directed by Spielberg, the film
centers on a parat rooper, Private
)ames Ryan (Damon ), whose three
older brothers are killed during
the initial days of the Allied invasion.
Private Jam es Ryan is th e
movie's equivalent of Pete Niland 's
uncl e , Sgt. Frederi ck (Frit z)
Ni land, who was accidentally
dropped ove r enemy lines in
France along with other members
of the IOlstAir.borne.
Und er the War Department ·s
sole -s urvivor policy- impl emented after the highly publicized
deaths of the five Sullivan brothers who were killed while serving
on the same war ship--Fri tz was
located by a chaplain and sent
home to his parents, Augusta and
Michael Ni land, in th e C ity of
Tonawanda.
"They had trouble finding him ,"
Pete Niland said of the Rev. Francis
Sampson's search, but th e "rescue"
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was quite different from the one
depicted in the movie.
In the movie, Capt. John Miller
(Hanks) leads a squad to retri..., Private Ryan from behind enemy lines
and bring him home to his mother.
who has been devastated by news of
the deaths of her three other sons.

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stopped produdlon and
bilked to us for an hour."
PETI NILAND

Although the "real" motherNiland's grandmother, Augustaalso likely was devastated by the
news , he described her as a .. tough
old German lady." who refused
mqst of the media attention surrounding her family's real -life
drama. She died in 1966.
The survival of Pete Niland 's
father is another striking differences between the movie and re·
ality. Although Edward Niland was
very close to being "missing and
presumed dead " after nearly a year
in captivity, he was eventual1y liberated from the Burma prison
camp by British troops and spent
his postwar career working in a
Tonawanda-area post office.
While growing up, Pete Niland,
who was born in 1948, remembers
hearing the stories of his father's
ordeal, about the deaths of his two
uncles. and about the return of his
uncle Fritz, who eventually became an oral surgeon and worked
in Niagara Falls after the war.
But "as a family, you can only
talk about it so much ," Niland said
of the story, which was also included in the 1992 book " Band of
Brothers," written by historian
Steven Ambrose. The movie 's
writers were partially inspired by

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the Ambrose book, Niland has
said. He described Ambrose's por·
trayal of his family's ordeal as "sort
of correct."
The following is the account of
the four brothers: Sgt. Robert
Niland~ 25, a paratroQper and
squad leader with !he 82nd Airborne, was killed ·in action on DDay-)une 6, 1944; Lt. Preston
Niland, 29, a memb&lt;or of the 22nd
infantry, was killed in action the
following day; Air Force Tech. Sgt .
Edward Niland (Pete Niland's fa·
ther and age 31 at the time ) was
captured by the Japanese and
eventually lib&lt;orated; and Sgt. Fritz
Niland, a member of the JOist Air·
borne who fought in Normandy,
eventually made his way back to
his unit in Carentan and was eventually mel by the chaplain, in ·
formed of the death of his broth·
ers, and was return~ to the U.S.
Before the war, Preston Niland
attended UB, and the other three
brothen attended Canisius College.
But history aside, Pete Niland
described his experiences this
summer as "fascinating ...
"They flew us to Hollywood
twice." he said. The first time was
in June to participate in the HBO
special, which has since aired sev·
era! times. It was then that he 6nt
met Spielb&lt;org.
"We were in Jack Benny's old
studio-Studio One," Niland said.
The cameras were rolling for film ing of the HBO special when
"Spielb&lt;org walked in, stopped pro·
duction and talked .to us for an
hour."
" He was fascinating,.. Nil~nd
said, .. and he was fascinated with
everything we had to say."
" His father did exactly the same
thing as my dad , in Burma,"
Niland said of the world-famous
director. Spielb&lt;org also related a
story in wh ich he was walking
backward while filming the scene
at" the Normandy cemetery when
he tripped over.a cross, looked up,
and realized that it bore the name

"John Miller," the same name as
the Tom Hanks hero-character in
the movie.
"There were so many things,"
Niland said, recalling this past
summer from his office in th e
Ellicott Comp.lex.
The second trip to Hollywood,
in which his family was invited for
the Hollywood premiere on July
21, "was just incredible." he said.
" It was like a who's who of Holly·
wood."
Niland shook hands with Tom
Hanks, Sylvester Stallone, and
came into contact with coundess
other stars like Samud L Jackson,
Sally Fields, Adam Goldb&lt;org, and
producer arid actor Edward Burns.
Spielberg mentioned the Niland
family in a speech to tl:ie elite
movie-goers just before the film
publicly rolled for the first time.
" It was a mob scene." he §aid of
the premiere at Mann's Theater in
Westwood, Calif., which Niland
attended with his wife, Jan, and
other family memb&lt;ors.
Due to the gtaphic nature of the
film; arrangements were made for
his daughter Briana, 10, to stay in
the hotel room.
"We got back from the movi e
and she had ordered room service," Niland said, adding that
Briana didn't seem to mind miss ing the 6lm until she learned that
"Scary Spice." of the pop group the
"Spice Girls," had been in atten ·
dance at the movie and at the reception.
Meanwhile, Niland continues to
b&lt;o bombarded with media inquiries. In addition to the HBO spe·
cia!, the People magazine story and
intense local media attention, he
has appeared twice on MSNBC,
and has been mentioned in British tabloids and news media
around the glob&lt;o. In late August,
Niland was interviewed by a radio
reporter from Sydney, Australia,
Producers at the Fox national
TV netWork have also expressed
interest in the Niland story.

�Grant
Contlnuocl from _ . , 1

for first · and second -year st udents
who arc no t in specialized programs like engineering o r hcalrh
related profession s.
Grant noted that in addition to
serving studen t.s pursuing study in
the arls and sciences, the coUege

will "take respo nsibility" for all
students not fo rmall y in a specialized program.

"Those are our students," he
said. "We will have no o rphans at
the university."
A new Studen t Se rvices Center
is now operating in 275 Park Hall
to provide a "o ne-stop center" for
arts-and-sciences students seeking

information and forms.
The center will provide peer
advisors to guide students through
the curr.i culum and fa culty men to rs to offer insight into the vari ous fields of study, Grant said.
He stussed that a major part of the
oollege's "agenda" will be to highlight
US's distinction as being the SUNY
institution with the greatest number
and variety of professional schools.
"The unique advantage to a stu·
dent coming to UB is to be in th.e
environmcn l where you can look at
thost professions and e~n participate in some classwork in those professions while you are going through
the arts and sciences.'' he said. "You
don't have to go somewhere el.st to
see what a law school looks like, if
you are considering law."
He noted that while UB has some
Links between th e arts and sciences
and the professional schools, such
as the early-admission program to
the School of Medi cine and Biomedical Sciences, there needs to be
more such programs "that join our
students directly to o ur own gradu ·
ate and professional schools." This
cou ld include such initiatives as
early admission to UB graduate or
professional programs for outstanding UB seniors who might be carrying a tight course load during their
last undergraduate se m ester and
oould begin graduate coursework at
that time ..and graduate (with an
advanced degree) that much more
rapidly," he said.
"We want to make the academic
links between the arts and sciences
and the graduate ed ucati o n pro·
vided by the prqfessional schools
to be suffi ciently st rong so there is
a genuine benefi1 to th e student to
have selected UB with t he expec tation that they were go ing to go
o n into professio nal school."
Those links, he added, sho uld be
deve lo ped as " no t the except ional ,
but the regular occu rrence across
the arts and sciences."
Grant also emphasized that arts·
and ·sciences staff will be tracking
student perfo rm an ce in o rder to
intervene earl y wi th those students
who get into academic difficulty
o r those who m ake the wrong
choice of maj or "and lose hearc."
In addi ti o n , Gran t add ressed
two iss ues of particu lar concern to
fa culty m embers:
• Tenure and Pro m 01ion. G rant
stressed that in o rder not to disad vantage faculty members who are
well into the tenure process. the college initial ly wiJI operate the thrt'C
t t1-1 ure - a nd ~ promotion co mmit ·
tees assoc ia ted with th e three
form er fa culties. It also wiJI form a
fo urth committee that will serve as
the central panel fo r the college and

handle the process for alJ new and
recent hires. The three pa rall el
co mmittees eventually will be

plines wathm lhe wile-ge l and fa
cilitate the hea.Jth of thost".cullures.··

phased o ut in favor of th• fourth
committee.

spective of a musician o r a saenust

• Culture dash. Grant , a musician
by training, noted th at th ere has
been a " lot of anxiety" among sci entists about having in cha rge a
dean who n ot only is no t a scien tist, but who is responsible for 31
depa rtments, rather than the six

that reported to th e dean of natu ral sciences and mathematics.

The job of the dean of the college, be said, is "to recogniu those
cultures (of the numerous disci -

The dean is not to brmg th&lt; pet
to th e job, he added, but should
"bring the per&gt;p&lt;etives of a facilitator,a problem-solver and an enabler."
The dean need not be a Renat~ ­
sa nce man , one who can spout
poetry while wo rking out complex

physics problems, he said.
"What's necessary for the dean,"
Grant added, "istoresp&lt;et the expertise of the faculty, the needs of the
institutipn, the obligations we have
to our students and to blend those in
the most effective oombination."

Flickinger Court dedicated
President Greiner was the speaker Aug. 26 for the dedi&lt;:aoon of Burt P
Rid&lt;inger Jr. Court. UB's new groduace apartment-style housong.The
complex on Chestnut Ridge Road, adjacent to the North Campus. os
home to o400 graduate srudents. It was named on memory of the Buffalo
businessman and philanthropist. father of the 19'13 World Un.....,rsoty
Games and longtime member of the Umversoty at Buffalo Foundaoon.
Inc. Board of Directors. Shown above wrth Gretner
Burt. Flickinger's widow.

IS

Mary Aicktnger.

New choral director invites area
singers to join UB choruses
H•rold Rosenb.Mam, the award -wmnmg nl·w dl rl'l. tor ol thl· l 1H ~.. ho

ruses. invites si nge rs from Lhroughoulthe l;realer 1\uffaln lOilllllUillt\ h l
tram and perform wuh the two ('horc1.l en.se mhlt~ hl' \.&lt;1.' 111 dm·l.l at lhl· un1
versu y. Rosenbaum IS a choral mastt:r par cxu:llt:n"-e whose.· dstomshmg
professtonal reputation dt:nves from 1:, year., a.\ a ~ond u (tor of world'
dass cho1rs and choruses here and ahroad. I fe I ) wl·U known m Nl-w Yml..
C11y, where he d ir&amp;."ts seven cho1n.. thrt"t:' nl whtch he founded
Hts work at UB will Involve the Ulllvt."rstry chmr and chorw..I'WU pt-rfonmn~
groups with different repertmres and vocal "-'qW r&lt;TlR'tlL'i.lhe UHCho= I""
forms lazJl&lt;-=le ,.,rks like Braluns' i«quocn' Mendelssohn's Fliph and Haydn\
l JCallon. lts sv.L· as 110( limiu..- d lhedlOruS will meet ~for n:hc:arsab. lhun.
days from 7- 9:.~ p.m. Ill 250 Baird Hall on rlk • Nonh CampLL\. ·there arc no
audiuons. lbose mterested ..:an sign up at Sept I0 or 17 n.··hcarsab.
The UB (lloir ~ a smaller group of "\()~ 50 members that requu·e, .1 htghc-r
kvel of musiC stght -re-ddmg skill'i and a greatcr ume ..:omnutmL-nt.lt will nx•t"l
for.rchearsal three rnno a wt.'ek. fmm 4-t. p.m. Monda)~ Wednesdays and f-n
days. To sdleduJe auditions for the cho1r. cali64S--600. ext. 1141.
Rosenbaum's chom have several ( Jh to the1r cn-d.Jt. 1ndudmg the popu
Jar ·1nr Orpheus o n the ( :RI Iabd . HI .H MU511. Produruons soon wtll rek·.L"l·
J scno of t-dited works under the utk IIJrold Rost"nbaum ( :horal ~·no.

Elecb'ODid!ighw:up.
Looking back, looking ahead 1!1
WhM'sln • ....,.7 Not mud\, when )UUa&gt;nsodcr that the"WebofSa="
ondc= thou.&lt;ands of journal artodcs on art, da.&lt;SOcs. musoc. philooophy, iJO&lt;tn

and rd.igion among rountlcss other non ~SOI:ntific areas.. "That 's not to say that
th~ scit.'nCCS are neg.loctcd, as S...lOO major JOUill&lt;'lls acrQS\ I b4 SOCTtufit.. ch....a
phnes also arc: indexed by tlus goganoc databas&lt; that ~ the pmnocr dataha...·
offenng by the Unovcrsity Librane; th~ aodcrmc )'.':!r. The "Web of Sacncc"
offers the ability tomu and matdl scarchmg of the followmg ~ baJ...
tt• 1992: the "Ans and Humaruucs Utation lnda," the ..SoL'fKl. (JtaiJtm
lndex" and the "Sooal Saem:o Citauon lnd="lhe "Wch of
goe.
ht~&gt;nd pmVlding thcstandani mfomuoonsuch asauthc:•r.artx:ll·utk,,c•ur
nal titJe. vol ume numM, etc. Th.L., i.\ ht:•ca~· tht.· f..Tllnes mcludc an abstra~..1
(usually) and. bdlt"\'C it or not. the full hihltograph)' of nf~.·rerh.:o (J.lw-.J~ I
·That rcfen..'flCt hstmg of a ted sou~ b where the fun ht:gm..,,IX\:ali.St" of tht·

"'ence"

mnovJtM.•way ISI.Iht- rompany that pm:tua:s the"w.i&gt;ofSacrkr." mampu
latcs cadl hibliography using oomputcr technology! Sure. ~uu em do the stan
dard author or top11. search. also known a.-. an .. ._.a~ ~ But lSI Llkc-. Uw
amde btbltographJcs and tntrodure; a l'l"YY!uuon.arY oona-pt: f\IU. thl· rt·

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searcher, are libemted from a purswt of knowledge that !""" ln:kw.ml' 111
time via the standard tracking down th&lt;.· litcratun· J fd.~· s..:holar ha... t(tt.ll
noted from an earlier publicatJon. Rather. )UU Clll look forward and trnd&lt; the
,'I&lt;Jiution of n:sem:handscholarlythinkinghydnonga"( :itcd Rekren&lt;.r~.m:h"
thai &lt;.~you to find out when a btxJk.. pak.'TII or art:Jdc:.· ha.-. hu.--n L11l.'l1 1n the
vcars foUowmg its pubhcation. You've &lt;.-·nten.xl a rlt'W ""'M"id of -w..·ardun~ th.u

.illows )«..tO. m lSI's \\\lrds, " dtsL'lM..T how a knc:J..vn tdca or 1nnoval1on h.:L,
hcen oonfirm&lt;.-,:1, applied. impr&lt;M!d. extended or cum.~1L.J."
And t"Vtn mo re fun--how about a littlc "ego surfin~' .. ....._,. ho.... ll1JII\
t1mes your hooks and artides havt• been a ted smu• 19':12 You ("an do"' '
from the pnvacy of a compull-r stallon. \-\'ho willl'Vt'r knc'w'

The Web o{Scu:t1ce u availablr "" llmvrrsrry tllm.mes Cmnpuu·t •llHitlf!'
or }or thoSe., wl10 access the Jmn-m•tthrough rh,~ UB Ttt'rworl tm rh,,r home
or offict• t·omputrrs. The uri rs: http:/ / webofsdence.com. 1-c~r LUd m
mrmt.' ftmg to tire UR r1etworl cor1tuct tile Compurmg G'tltf"f Hdp Ik~l
m 645-3542. for more mformatJOtJ em rh,· \Veb of Srwr~u. comat1 l&gt;c m
Harrman unldont)acsu.buf•lo.edu, LocKwood

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�Renowned authors to appear in literary series
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News seMc.es Edltoriol Assistant

" WEDNESDAYS at 4 PLUS," the bi-annual literary series
sponsored by the Poetics Program in the Department of
English, will feature a number of renowned authors, poets
and playwrights in its Fall 1998 program.
l'br series will open on Saturday with a oollaborali&gt;epoctry-and-jazz per·
formancc featuring musicians S~ Swallow, David Tom and Quis Massey,

booted by Robert Crcdcy, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the English dcporln'lentand Samuel P. Copen QWr of Poetry and the Humanities.
The series also will include an extensive, fiv.c..port French Poetry Festival
featuring~ from Rm6c Riese Hubert and French authon Judd Hubert,
Mkhad Dcguy, Ouistian Prigen~ Pic= Ouc!kt and Marcdin Plejonct.

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Other highlights will include rcadiilgs from contemporary American authors Eileen Myles, Robert K&lt;:Uy, Fred 0 ' Aguiar and Lisel Mueller,
winner of the Pulitur Prize for

"Wednesdays at 4 Plus" also is sporuon:d by the james H, McNulty QWr
(Dennis Tcdlock), the Samuel P. Copen &lt;lJair of Poetry and the Humanitirs
(Cndey) and the David Gray&lt;llairofPottryand l.dtm (Oiades Bemslcin),
aU in the Dcpartmcilt of English; the Mdodia E. jones OWr in French
(Raymond Fedmnan) in tho Dcportn"1ent ofMo&amp;m J..anguaees and Litmtures, and Poetry and Rare Boob CoUectioo Cwalor Robert Bertboli
All events will be free and open to the publi.c .
The fall program is dedicated to the memory of Albert S. Cook, who
served as chair of tbe English department from 1963-U. Cook hired 25
literary luminari............,.ong tbcm Crcdey-who helped bring the Enslish dcpartmcot into national promincocc. He died on July 7.
l'br series is procluced with the mcipcration of the Ccmer for tho Arts, tho'

Dcportn"1ent of Media Study and 'Jalking LcaYcs boolcJtAn, h is made po&amp;sible, in part, by l'oeil &amp; Writcn, Inc., through • major gnat from tho Lila
w.Daoc-Radcr's Dieost Fund and a grant from tbe Lilmdure Program oftbe
!be Arts. CaD 64&gt;3810 b more ioiJrmaioo.

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s.tunllly: Musial pe"formllnce, St..,., Swallow, Dallld Tom and Chris , Ga.. 14: 1Nnl Jones Chair French Poetry Festival (d), llilinguol ~
Massey, 8 p .m., Hallwalls, 2495 Main St., Buffalo. Featured wiU be bAss · and ~ Michael Deguy, one of France's most celebrated poets and
great Steve Swallow, •Avan1 Guitar's King Snake• David Tom and : pm!esseur des uniwnites at the University of Paris VIII, 4 p.m., ~ter
Buffalo's own "different drummer" Chris Massey In a first-time trio per- . for the Arts Screening Room.
formance to be hosted by Robert Crcclcy.
. oa.. 15: Lecture, "Hannah Weiner. Clolrvoyance And Trauma, • Marfa
Sept. 16: Poetry and prose reading, Fred O'Aguiar, 4 p.m., Cen·
Damon, a~J~h!&gt;r of "The Dartt End of the Stlffi: Margins in
ter for the Arts Screening Room. A poe~ novelist and playwrigh~
Amerialn VAnguard Poetry.• She teaches literature at the UniD'Aguiar teaches a! the University of Miami, where he directs
wrs1ty of Minnesota. 12:30 p.m., 438 Clemens Hall.
the master of fine arts program.
Ga.. 21: Poetry 119ding. Author Robert Grenier, who edited
Sept. 17: lecture, "Jim jones in Paradise: Caribbean Utcrature
the 1976 •Selected Poems• by Robert Creelcy, 4 p.m., CenSince 1978, • Fred O'Aguiar, 3:30p.m., 120 Clemens Hall.
ter for the Arts Screening Room.
Sept. Ia: Poetry readings, Robert Kelly, Gerrit lansing, 11 o.m.;
Ga.. 22: Talk, •Realizlng Things, • Robert Grenier, 12:30 p.m.,
talks, 2 p.m ., 420 Capen. Kelly, a poe~ short-story writer, essay438 Clemens Hall.
ist, novelist and editor, has published more than SO books. He
Oct. a: Third Jones Chair French Poetry Festival (II), Bill,..
teaches at Bard College. lansing, whose lifework in poetry was
gOal reading, Christian Prigent. founder of radical French
mog&amp;Zine TXT. leading practitinn&lt;!r of experimental poetry,
recently collected in a volume, ' Heavenly Tree/Sol uble F~· D ' has worked as editor of the poetry magazine SET.
and Pltm! Ouellet. poet. novelist. critic and author, who
S•pt. 22: McNulty Chair lecture, • comparative Poetry/Poetics: · · teaches at the University of Quebec at Montreal, 4 p.m., Center for the
MK:rosystemic Soundings versus The World, • Paul Friedrich, 3:30p.m . _: Arts Screening Room.
s•o Clemens Hall. Frederich, who teaches at the University of Chicago, . Ga.. &amp;. Talks by Prigent and Ouellet, 10 a.m., 438 Clemens Hall.
is the author of many articles and books of anthropology, criticlsln, · - · 4: Poetry reading, Myung Mi Kim, poet. recipient of two Gertrude
·
· Stein Awotds·and ossodate professor of creotive writing at San Franlinguistics and poetry.
Sept. 23: Talk/perfonnance, "Ru55lan Poetry: Readings{Translations/ : cisco Slate University, 4 p .m., Center for the Arts Screening Room.
Critiques, • Paul Friedrich, 4 p .m., Center fO&lt; the Arts Screening Room. . - · 6: Silverman PoetJy 119ding. llsel Mueller, winner of 1997 Pulitzer
Sept- ZA: lecture, • syntax in the Whispering Gallery; Geoff Won!, · Prize.for poetry, 8 p.m., 250 !laird Hall.
author, edi!or, poet and head of the English Department at the Uniwr- : - · "Talks, ,"Keeping Score, • Eileen Myles. poet, short-story writer,
sity of Dundee, Scotland, 12:30 p .m., 438 Clenlens Hall.
. playwright and reviewer who writes from the viewpoint of woman, poet
Sept. 25: Poetry reading, Geoff Ward, 8 p.m., Comenhop Gallery, 82 . and lesbian; and •~~~y l:ltopia. • Camille Roy, autho&lt; of prose and fiction,
lafayette St., Buffalo.
· 4 p.m. 438 Clemens Hall.
Oct. 6: lecture, "Talking From the Body in Nakata StOrytelling Perfor- : - · 11: Third jones Chair French Pbetry Festival (IIQ lecture, • Readmance,,. Brenda Farnell, modem dancer, linguistic anthrop&lt;Mog1st. She . ing Performative Metaphors," Judd Hubert. author, professor Mleritus,
teaches at the University of Illinois-Urbana. 3:30 p.m., 540 Clemens · University of California, Irvine, noon, 930 Oernens Hall.
Hall.
· - · 11: Third jones Choir French Poetry Festival (IV), Bilingual poetry
Oct. 7: Ta lk/performance, "Speech and Other Gestural Movement&gt;: : reading and talk, Man:elln Pleynet, magazine editO&lt;, literary critic, art
Toward a Dynamically Embodied Poetics, • Brenda Farnell, 4 p.m., Center . historian and novelist, 4 p.m., Center for the Arts Screening Room.
for the Arts Screening Room .
· - · 12: Third )ones Chair French Poetry Festival (V), lecture, • Retnf&gt;vOct. !J: Poetry reading, joseph lease, author, poetry editor of The Bos- · able Boundaries: Illustration and Bookarts, • Rcn&amp; Hubert , professor
to n RMew. He teaches poetry writing and composition at Tufts Uni- : emerita of French and comparative literature, UniVersity of California,
versity. 8 p.m., Comershop Gallery, 82lafayette St., Buffalo.
. Irvine, 12:30 p .m., 438 Clemens Hall.

FSEC
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formal vote o n 1he fate of statis tics and that its final report " was
signed only by Dean Triggle."
Boot also staunchly supported the

efforts of Irwin Gunman, professor
and chair of statistics, calling him a

"competent and constructive chairman," and a ..stellar mind, a stellar
man and a stellar pcrfonner."

.. He d~rves all our respect and

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"It is sad that th ~ facuJty is r~ ·
ally not considered worthwhil ~ to
be informed about changes in the
structur~ of our school," said Boris
Albini, professor of microbiology.
He noted that changes in d~ ­
partmental structure in the medi .cal school have 10 be reviewed by
a committee of th e school's Fac·
ulty Council.
"We'll reactivate this commi tt e~
and ask them to reco nsider this development ," Albini said. H ~ added
that th e Faculty Co uncil was not
involved in th ~ decis ion to move
Statistics into Social and Preven tive Medicine, and first was in fo rmed of what was going on "earlier this month ."
The statistics situation "has been
h a ndl ed badl y," sa id Powhalan

Wooldridge, associale professor of
nursing.
" 1 find it rather strange that this
report bya panelofexpertssecssta·
tistics and biostatistics as identical,"
Wooldridge notccl "To me, as a S&lt;&gt;cial statistician, I don't see them as
the same al all .. .J doo't know how
biostatiticians arc supposed to meet
the oceds of a whole univmity.
" It seems tbat there is a notion
that a statistician is a statistician
is a statistician, and that's naive."
The proposed in&lt;:orporation will
mal«: il difficult for the university to
rccrui1 prestigious mculty, be added
" It is m y experience that highlevel people want to be idcot ified
with something that is something
in its own right," and not part of
another un il, Wooldridge said.
"\Vh a t stati sti cian of repute
wo uld want to come to a unit that
is part of another uni t?"
A " build -up of bad decisions
and practices has b ro ught the department to the verge of extinc·
tion," said Herbert Schue! , profes·
so r of anatomical sciences.
"I don'l want to altiP, blame to
anybody, but if we want to be a nationally ranked institution... we need

astrongprograminstatistics....Wc'rc
cutting our owo throats. A betterS&lt;&gt;Jution has 10 come.•
The problem, sai d Vic tor
Doyno, professor of English, is one
of strong personalities.
"'The issue underneath this is
'eagles' arc bard to maintain when
they're on the &amp;culty. They're demanding, sometimes obslrcpcrous.
This school docs not do a good job
of retaining 'eagles.''" Doyno said.
Goodman called Boot's com·
ments about the Oepartrncot of
Statistics "profoundly misleading."
"This is not a propooaiiO a.ate a
superb program (in statistics). This
is a proposal to get out of that business bccaust we feel we don't want
to invest the resources,.. he said.
Instead, the "modest goal" of the
proposed move is"'to meet the statistical needs of. Social and Preven·
tive Medicine."
Boot qu estioned whether there
wcreanyguarantccsthatcmptystatistics faculty positions would be
filled by statistit'ians. Trigglc responded that "the lines will be filled
by statisticians. I've spoken to
Maurizio (Trcvisan, chair of social
and preventive medicine) about it."

The chair of statistics predicted
the demise of his department.
" Dr. Goodman is exactly right .
This is not a decision about per·
petuating statistics. Statistics will
be ~cad; said Guttman, who also
attended the meeting.
But the death of the department
will have ramifications far beyond
statistics, he suggested.
"Who will come here? I "'lUkl not
have come here. I would not have
looked al the advertise:ment twice,"
said Guttman, who joined UB in 1993.
Instead, UB will be left with a
statistics program "wo rthy of a
community college."
Calling the university .. prison·
ers of our own history," Triggle
said UB bas "to ma.U decisions in
a whole host of areas.... We need 10
strengthen some areas and to take
some chances.
"I will coritinuc,aslongasl am dean
of the Graduate School, 10 recommend that those decisions be made."
The proposal to incorporate the
Depanment of Statistics into the
Department of Social and Pr~ven ­
tjv~ Medicine was referred to the
FSEC's academic planning com·
mittee for discussion.

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Wagner outlines budget for FSEC
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ALliNG it "a decent
budget, not a good bud-

get; Senior Vice Presi-

dent Robert J, Wagner
outlined the 1998-99 budget for
the Faculty Senate Eucutive Committe&lt; at its Aug. 26 meeting.
Th e Sta te University of New
York received a S66 million in cr~ in funding over the previous year's base budget, for a total
of nearly $1.6 billion for the entire system.
"A good budget would have
some money besides for salary in creases. but at least we don't have
to eat the salary increases," Wagner
said.
In all, UB will receive $230. 1 million in funding for the 1998-99 fiscal
year. Of that amount, $152.4 million
is state tax support, with the remainder coming from income, provided
largely by studertt tuition at all levels.
"' If we don't make our income
target, we have less than $230.1 million to work with. If we exceed our
target, we have more than $230.1
million to work with." Wa er said.
" It appears we will have ad equate undergrad uate. and gradu ate student populations to gener-

ate that $77.7 million• targeted in
the budget.
·As part of this year's budget,

Wognersaid the univasity liquidated
$1.8 million of quasi-endowmen~

wbido was used to fund SI million
in undergraduate merit scbolanhips.
The scholarships are being used
"to increase the number of highquality applicants," who accept
admission to UB. Wagner said. and
were initiated as a result of the recommendations of the Noel- Levitz
marketing survey conducted last
spring. Similar scholarship funding is expected to be offered again
in each of the next three yean.
"A number ofstudents," he added.
decided to attend UB this fall as a
result of these new scholarships.
The remaining $800,000 that
was liquidated will be used to fund
the uoivenity's Campaign for US,
Wagner said.
The university also will work to
maintain the overall campus savings factor, currently at $5. 1 million, wbich then is allocated on a
modified all-funds basis. A number of projects are targeted to benefit from those allocations, indud ing UB's information-technology
efforts, which is funded by the
capital budget as well as by student

fees, Wagner said.
While athlctia rea1ves some of
its funding from the state budget,
Wagnn' noted that US's intercollegiate athletic program is fund ed
by three sources: stud ent fers; revenue from NCAA gifts and grants,
concessions and do natio ns, a nd
state tax support.
.. None of these initiatives 1s sup-

ported just by state tax support,"
Wagner said.
Wagner also briefed senato rs on
the Resource Allocation Method
in an attempt to dispel what he
said are mispttceptio ns about the
funding formula.
"If we look at US's budget and
took the old model, we'd have got ten within $200,000 of the $230.1

million," Wagner said.
Enrollment drives 60-70 percent
ofthe resources for RAM , he said.
Campuses that did not face significant enrollment changes also did
not see major changes in funding.
Saying he wants to take out all
the"folldore" about RAM , Wagner
added that a simulation of the ef·
fects of changing enrollmeniS
would be conducted in October.
.. We' ll bring it in and run the
numbers and su what question s
you have,.. he said.

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TheMail.JII
Basement space in Lockwood is
vital to University Libraries storage
Dear Reporter:
We, the undersign ed members of th e University Libraries faculty ,
wish to express o ur suppo rt for the new Educatio nal Ttchnology
Lab. We are anx1o us to partici pate in the lab's goal of assisting fac ·
ulty in mtegrating computer and web technology into their courses.
Libraries pioneered thC' co ncept of collaboratio n between librar Ians and teachers wi th the advent o( media resource centers in the
late 1960s. Today's explosion of com puter techno logy and 1nfor
matio n-literacy needs of ou r students again places us together tn a
common m1 ssion as tht' un ivC"rs ity moves to requ iring all ~tudents
to havt' computers by Fall 1999.
However, as stewards of the university's research library co l le~o.
tions and servtces, we (eel strongly that th1s lab should not br located in the basement of Lockwood Library. A severe storage cnsas
that impinges on the quality of the coll ection and physical aura of
the universi ty's ma in research facility 1S fo remost in o ur m mds.
Half of the space in quesuo n curre ntly ho uses 50,000 volume.!.
that are regularly retrieved on a .. sto rage access .. basis. Other tern
porary locati ons exist in Lockwood d ue to lack of shelf space ren dering these parts o( th e coUecti on ina ccessible. The recen t suggesti on to move the 50,000 Lockwood vol umes to a 30-year -old temporary buildin g o n the South Campus is not viable be ca u ~ of m adequate air-qualit y contro l. a la ck o f security and changes m traf
fie-control patterns o n the South Ca mpus that would hinder dd Jvery and retri eval Such a m ove wo uld marginaliu these im portam
resurch collecti ons and there 1s no voiced plan fo r a perma nent
ho me fo r these materials.
Weedin g efforts have focused thus far on duplicate titl e-s. Further
reduci ng Lockwood space wo uld fo rce d ifficul t choices m future
weeding. Combining this with a 32 percent redu ctio n iri spend ing
o n monographs libraries- wide over th e last fi ve years plac~ there search quality o f the coUectio n at n sk.. Erecting additional staclu 10
open use r space would reduce the meager seating space and bf: aes
theticall y offensive. Bo th of th ese are important co nsiderati ons 1n
student recruitment and retention.
The Universit y Libraries Five Year Plan: 1998-2003 addresses the
serious space problems throughout th e system, the need to mam tain the libraries as a "focus of intellectual and social cultures" and
the important challenge of balancing electronic and paper resources.
Taki ng Lockwood space for the Educational Technology Lab will
seriously 1m pede our abiliry to carry on the traditional missio ns of
the university's main research library.
We urge yo u to withdraw this space from consideration.
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Terr•nce McConn.ck, Ellen McGr•th, M•ry Miller, M•rd•
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Electronic Poetry Center resource
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Obituary
prof~ssor

Michael Meenaghan, 62,
emeritus, leading dental researcher

Mldwoel A. . .h ..., professo r emeritus in the School of Denta l Medicine and a dental researcher whose work over two decades significa ntly contributed to
the use and safety of implants in
the human body, died Aug. 31 in
his home in Amherst following a
lengthy illness. He was 62.
While many o f MeenaShan's
studies focus~d on the design of
dental implants and the biocompatibility of various materials with
oral tissur, he also was involved in
evaJuating techniques for ..supercleaning'" implants for use in the
human body and the long-term effects of umbilical -cord vein grafts.
A graduate of American Interna tio n al College in Springfield,
Mass., Meenaghan earned his den ~

tal degree and a doctoral degree in
A fo rmer cha ir of th e- dent al
anatomical sciences frQm UB.
school's cultural exchange co mHe joined the VB dental faculty mittee and a member of the um in 1971 in the former Department versity-wide Provost's Coun cil o n
of O ral Pathology, and reInternat ional Studies and
tired last year as professor
Program s. Meenagh a n
in the Department of Oral
promoted exchange proDiagnostic Sciences.
grams with mo re than I 0
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foreign dental schoo ls.
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he served as director of the
dental school's Electron
the U.S. Arm y Reserves.
338th General Hos pital,
Microscope Laboratories IIIIEDIAQtAN
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Meenaghan is surv ived by h1s
tology and Interdisciplinary Sci ences. From 197 1-89, he served as wife, Barbara; fo ur sons, John and
director of US's Surface Science Michael ofWilliam sville; Kevin o (
Center and from 1991 until his re- Ft . Mil l, S.C .. a nd Jose ph o t
tirement was as an active member Lockpo rt ; a sister, Kathl e ~n of
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children.

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fo r "Crccley to host collabor3t lve performa nce. Sept . S" 10 vour Aug.

27 th ISS ue of the Reporter. That error ll&gt; th at vou fad to mc.•nt 1on an
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du ced here at UB. th e Elect ro me Poetry Cen ter. In fact , the FP(
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Creeley o n the Web; the Repo rrcr Itself has ca ted the.· }- P( on nu
merous previ om occasions, mo re than o nce tn relation to a ( n:ck\'
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num erous 1tems bra nd about Creclev, md ud mg cnth.alauthoru.J
tlve texts by and abo ut Creel ey not ava il able elsewhere ( n·dc.·\ I' .1
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a se n o us erro r not to cite th as resource and I lan't heir eve.· that . when
It comes to a UB professor who IS a poet , \ 'OU do not even hothc.•r Ill
consult th e El ectroni c Poe try Ce nte r

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                    <text>PAGE 2

Q&amp;A-Quistions? UB Information's
head operator has heard 'em aD.

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Focus on Research

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Summer wrap-u{r--Q page to
update summer's happenings.

Auoust 27. 1!1/ ti. 30 In 1

Investing
in UB
At a news conference held
Monday in the Center for the
Arts, President Greiner
describes building projects
for UB that will be made
possible by Sl05 million in
capital funding. The state
investment in UB's future was
announced by Gov. George
Pataki in a live telecast

Pataki announces capital commitment
$105 million in statefimdingwill be used to construct, renovate five buildings
REVENTED by inclement weather in Albany

P
·

from-per110nally Cleli...-:

ing his message, Gov.

George Pataki announud Monday via a live broadcast that UB
will receive $105 million in state
capital funding over the nat five

years.
The funding will be used to construct or renovate five buildings
on UB's North and South cam puses. The projects will enhance
student services, promote academic excellence, integrate healthscience education, provide economic opportunity and extend

access to information technology.
The announcement was aired in
the ani urn ofthe Ccnta for the Arts.
where more than 100 state Jesjslatorl; ~ ti-wtees; uB 1Auncil
members, and UB administrators,
faculty and staff,._ gathered.
The funding is part of $2 billion
in capital investments to upgrade
facilities across New York State.
Calling the State University of
New York system '"one of the fin est in America," Pataki said the in vestment in UB and SUNY also is
an investment in the future of New
York State. and .. something our
students need so we can have the
finest-prepared workforce."
He noted that a number of leg-

islative ch,ges have been made to
benefit students, including an in·
crease in funding to the Tuition
Assistance Program and a measure
that allows students to purchase
textbooks without paying sales tax.
The relationship between the
state and SUNY, Pataki added, is a
"partnership" that he is "confident
is one that has worked well .. and
will continue in the futu~ to .. make
SUNY and the state stronger as we
head toward the 21st century."
President Wi1liam R. Greiner
praised the $105 million state investment in US, adding: .. This is a
great day for UB, and we think it's
a great day for New York State."
Greiner noted that SUNY and

New York State must .. maintain
the quality of the more than $1
billion in capital that the North
and South campuses represent."
In times of budgetary crisis, he
added, too many campuses try to
find savings through "deferred
maintenance" that winds up costing
far mo.-. in the long run.
"This is a gpod time to do"""" investment so we-..m't find ourseiYes in
the pickle that a whole lot cf instirutions find the:rmeMs in.• Grriner said
.. This is about investment. The
future of New York depends on
wise use of public funds."
UB projects that will benefit
from the funding include:
~-~·

UB budget for 1998-99 is $230.1 million
. , SW WUlTCHlll
News ~es As5ociate Director

U

Bhasreceiveda 199899 budget allocation
from SUNY of$230. 1
million under the
new Resource Allocation Methodologr(RAM), an increase of $8.6
million over the 1997-98 base
budget of $221.5 million.
The$230.1 million indudes$77.7
million in revenue and $152.4 million in state tax support, a figure that
is adequate to cover cont.raded saJ.
ary adjustments, noted Senior Vice
President Robert ). Wagner.
Wagner stressed that under
RAM, UB now Will retain the tu ition, fee and other revenue the
university generates, which under
the previous budget · allocation
system had been pooled int o
SUNY's income offset account.
He disputed claims by United
University Professions that under
RAM-a new methodology devel oped by system administration to
distribute state tax support to the
campuses-US will lose $3.1 mil -

lion this budget year.
According to the union, UB was
slatedtore&lt;:&lt;ive$232.2millioninthe
E=:utivc Budget released by Gov.
Pataki in January, but under RAM,
that figure would decline to $229
million, a loss of about $3.1 million.
Wagner said that the Executive
Budget figure used by the unionwhat he called a "recommended
appropriation" - "doesn't really
teU the story" since SUNY receives
a lump -sum allocation from the
state. "Those numbers don't provide an adequate basis for a yearto· year comparison," he said.
A look at previous years' bud get figures shows that while in th e
end UB received more than the
Executive Budget recommend ation in both 1994-95 and 1996· 97,
the university received Jess tn
1993·94, Wagner said.
The Executive Budget figure cited
by UUP "is a reference point," he
noted ... But if you look at it histori ·
cally, it is not a number that allows
you to make year-to-~ compari·
sons." Some years UB receives more

than the executive recommenda·
tion, and some years it receives less.,
he said. adding that a more valid
comparison is one based on the
base-level budget figures.
"We did not take a $3 million
reduction ," he stressed.
With the first budget money
distributed under the new RAM ,
Wagner said that US "fared as we
had expected , but not as we hope
to in the future.''
He noted that UB has so me
unique programs and services.
such as the law school and its hbrary· support system , as well as
so me aspects of its research and
pubhc·service m1ssions, that cur·
rently"are not accounted for in the
model."
UB is worlung with system ad ·
mtnistration to identify th ose
kinds of areas "that need to be in eluded as part of RAM ,"' he said.
Wagner said that the I998-99 financial plan maintains the SS. I
million in savings university-wide
that was part of the 1997 ·98 plan.
H~ said these savings are necessary

to balance the budget .. because
university revenues continue tore·
main flat."
The money will be used to fund
initiatives in areas that have been
deemed "institutional investments."
Among them are the College of
Arts and Sciences, the Office of the
Vice President for Heahh Affairs.
the Center for the Study of Urban
SociaJ Work Practice. the Depart ment of Civil Engineering and the
Multidi scip linar y C en ter for
Earthquake Engineering Research.
the new Department of Phys•ology and Biophysics and the Cen
ter for Structural Biology.
Investments aJso will co ntmul'
to be made in info rmation tech nology, specificall y developmg
student access to computers; set
ting up laboratory and other rt'
search support for new facult\
members; a merit· based under ·
graduate scholarship program de ·
signed to upgrade the profile of
the entering freshman class. and
the intercollegiate athletics pro
gram, Wagner added.

�Sally Pasternak is University Information's head operator.
She is retiring this week after an,swering the phones at UB for more
than two decades.

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through the switchboard, however
about 8,000 calls are a normal
week and 14 ~000 calls around the
beginning of classes.

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Wh•t 's the most frequently
asked ·question you •nd your
The questions we answer are varied-&lt;!&lt;!ch one is a challenge. Right
now calJers might ask ..When do
classes begin?" or .. Who is your
president?" or "When is spring
break?" Others might ask for the

Admissions Office, student dormi tor-y-numbers or the Center for Arts
ticket office. A very popular request
is the dental clinic number.

What 's the most memorable
call you ever recelved'7
In the 24 years I 'v~ been answering caJis to UB. we've had many
memorable ones. One I remember-a calJ came in ~arly in the
morning from China. The caller
kept speaking Chinese. We could

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People are usually kind and patient, but-then as now-they
forget to keep a pencil dose when
taking a number or information.
It is so much more important now,
with not only a seven-digit number but an extension to go with it.
Sometimes it totals 14 digits.
Have the kinds of questions
also changed over the yean7
Everyone wants information they
can't obtain elsewhere. Timing is
a factor, Since we are opt.n 8 a.m.8 p.m., whereby offices close at 5
p.m. You inight refer to us as probl~m solvers. Last year, a mother
called from New York City to tell

us her frantic daughter called her
from a pay phone "on campus"
stating sbe could not find her
classroom or building. When we
helped her with the information,
she called her daugh~ back at the
pay phone and told her where her
class and building was located.

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People are so appreciative. One
time a caller said we were .. incredibly competent" and another said
we were .. impressive." Both present
and retired operators were very
cooperative and liked representing
UB. It is very gratifying. I never
"didn't waor" to go to work.
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lot when you 'rw not wMting7
When school starts in September
or January, (tell my friends "don't
call me, I'll call you!" It is so busy,
sometimes I answer my home
phone with a salutation of"Good
morning-University at Buffalo."

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so fast we are a..s.bd ..are you
real or are you a recording?"
1•m not in favor of an automated operator-! call it
"'touch 7tone torture."

I'm just a couple courses sbon
of earning my bachelor's degree. 1 may be back to tau
some courses. Also I collect
telephone paraphernaliasomeday I hope to pick up an
old fashioned "cord" switchboard.

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Q: Who was the niost memorable person who called the
switchboard regularly?
It was Milton Plesur. He called
u_s regularly. We knew his
voice. When he reached a busy
signal on a given number, he
would call us back fo;our "secr~t number.~ He al~ays re- _
ferred to us as "Operatbr Dar- -·
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By the way-the Reporter
number is 645-2626.

Dental problems may cortt;rilJute to heart~
UB studies suggest that periodontai baCteria.may play role in hardening ofarteries
By LOIS BAIWI
News Servk~ Editor

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not communicate, but he was very
penistent. The switchboard was
located in Goodyear Hall--&lt;1 dormitory. We had a very nice Chinese man living in the room next
to our office. We ran over to get
him to take the call. He came over
in his pajamas and slippers, but
first asked if the caller was speaking Mandarin. After ·a laugh or
two, he proceeded to take the
emergency message and return to
his dormitory room.

EW st udi es by re sea rchers in the
Sc h ool of Dental
Medicine have identified several possible pathways gum
disease may contribute to the development of heart disease.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a link between the two con·
ditions: The question remaining is
how the relationship develops.
The new UB findings show that:
• Componen ts of periodontal
bacteria are present along bloodvessel walls in and around vascu lar plaques and may contribute to
formatio n of the blockages.
• The body's imm un e and in flammatory responses to proteins
produced by these bacteria may be
a factor in cardiovascular disease.
• Persons with periodontal discase have increased blood levels of
oxygen free radical, mo lecules
known to damage blood-vesse l
wails and set the stage for arterial
plaque for'mation.
Results of the studies were presented recently at the International
Associa tion of Dental Research
m eeting held in Nic~. France.
Medical and dental researchers
suspected early on that periodontal bacteria played a role in the
. development of heart disease by
contributing to arterial p laque fo rmation or hardening of the arteries, via several possible pathways.
In on~ study to investigate the

role of these bacteria in the forma tion of a rterial plaque, o r
atheroma, U 8 researchers in oral
biology collected at herom a
sampl~s from patients who had
undergone endarterectomy, a procedure that removes blockages
from the carotid artery. The researchers extracted bacterial DNA
from the samples, amplified it and
identified the specific microorgan·
isms present.
Forty percent of the 50 samples
contained bacteria of periodontal
origin, results showed. ln addition,
organisms associated with pneumonia and gastric ulcers, two other
infections thought to be associated
with hardening of the arteries and
heart disease, also were found.
Robe rt Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of the
Department of Oral Biology, said
the findings suggest periodontal
bacteria con tribut~ to formation
of plaques that block arteries, and
may be one way periodontal discase and heart disease are linked.
Immune response studied
Violet Haraszthy, a post -doc·
toral associate in the Department
of Oral Biology, was lead researcher on the study.
Two othe r st udi es examined
how the body's immune and in flammatory response to periodontal infection may contribUte to the
development of vessel blockages.
"The body's immune response to
periodontal bacteria may result in

the production of antibodies, proteins that 'tag' material for removal
from the body," said Ingrid Glurich,
lead researcher on the studies and
a post-doctoral associate in the
Department of Oral Biology.
"In addition to tagging bacteria,
however, these antibodies may also
tag cells that actually are part of the
vessel wall. This leads to tissue destruction and an effort by the body
to replace the lost cells and Wall off'
toxic material, resulting in a thickening of the blood-vessel walls."
Antlbodles may "tag" cells

Glurich and colleagues found
that more than half of their peri·
odontal patients had antibodies to
heat shock protein, a molecu le
shared by periodontal bacteria and
human heart tissue. None of the
healthy subjects had detectable
antibody to this protein.The researchers are investigating the pos·
sibility that periodontal infections
result in antibodies to heat shock
protein and that these antibocHes
"tag" cells in the heart arteries,
contributing to plaque formation
and heart disease.
The body also produces sub·
stances in responst to.ba,ctc.riaJ infections known as acute phase proteins, Glurich said. "Acute phase
proteins are known to play a role
in lipid and cholesterol transport
and metabolism, which have long
been thought to be a major fuctor
in the development of arterial
blockages. Some of these proteins

.,;, be found deposited along the
carotid blood ~ where they
appear to increase inflammation
and tissue destruction:·
The research group collected
blood samples and assessed the
levels of thes&lt;o proteins in four sets
of subjects: those with periodontal disease and no cardiovascular
disease; those with cardiovascular
disease and no periOdontal disease; those with both diseases, and
those with neither.
Results showed a three-fold in·
crease ofC-rqctive protein, a type
of acute phase protein, in patients
with either periodontal or heart
disease, and an eight-fold increase
when both diseases were present,
Glurich said. Levels of two other
acute phase proteins also wc.re el evated in patients with both dis eases.
F""' r.dlcals may be fMtor
A fourth study cond ucted by
researchers &amp;om the departments
of Periodontology and Medicine
showed that the concentration of
oxygen free radicals in the blood
of persons with moderate-to-severe periodontal disease was fourtimes greater than in persons with
slight or no disease. Free radicals
are known to damage vessel walls
and promote formation of plaque
and blockages.
Sultan Al-Mubarak, clinical as·
sistant professor in the Department of Periodontology, was lead
researcher on the study.

�Auausl17. IDIVollkl llepadas

3

BrieBy.

Day of

Townsend named associate VP,
special assistant to president

Caring

Nelson E.. Townsend. who has been on medical leave since expen encing a heart attack m April, wall assume new dulles When he re
turns to work later thts month .
Townsend, who jomcd UB 111 1987 as d1rector of the
Division of Athletics. wall assume the dulles of assoctate
vice president for student affa1rs and special assastant to
UB Pres1dent Wilham R. Greiner.
Bob Arkeilpane. who ha!l ~rved as 1ntenm athletiC' dt
t"OWMSUC) rector smce Apnl. w11l '-ontmue m that position
UB will commem:e a natwnal&lt;~e.uch durmg the 1998-99 a'-adcm1l
year to uJcnt1fv d ncw athlt•IH.!l Jare(tnr

Rob Wr'rj#.left, and Dennis
Gilhooley dismande a dinbing
ldt b- kids at the Child Care
Center on the South~
as pan cl their wori&lt;
tt the sixlh am.tal Dar
cl Caring onAIJi 19.
Faculty, staff and so»
ems took pan in the
event. Right: Pete
Balisteri cleans tables
and chairs. All three
'IOiunteers are from

Creeley to host collaborative
performance Sept. 5
EI1

Administrative

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UB launches doctoral program
to trairi rehabilitation specialists
By LOIS IIAJIU
New5 Services Editor

M

ore people are liv ·
ing with ph ysica l
di sa bilities than at

any time in history,
thanks to medical advances of the
lOth century. But the numbe r of
rehabilitatio n specialists qualified
to expa nd the scieoce and develop

new treatment options to serve
thi s growing population hasn't
kept pace.

The School of Health Related
Professions is launching a si ngu lar interdisciplinary docto ral pro gram in reh abilitation scie nce this

fall to help fill this void. liS aim is
to inc rease the cadre of specialists
qualified to conduct research and
teach the science of rehabilitation

at the graduate level.
"The market is very thin for

Ph.D.·trained facuhy in rehabilita·
tion fields," said Barry Eckert, dean
of lhe School of Health Related Pro·
fessions ... UB has e:xceUent facilities
for preptlring rehabilitation facully
and researchers to fill this need."
UB's program departs from the
norm by providing a science-based
curriculum that cuts across tradi tional health -ca re boundaries. It

brings together specialists from
three of UB 's he·alth sciences
schools-Medicine and Biomedi cal Sciences, Nursing and Health

Related Professions.
Facull)' from lhe departmeniS of
Occu pational The rapy; Physical
Therapy, Exercise aod Nutrition Sci·
ences; Communicative Disorders
and Sciences; Rehabilitation Mecli·
cine, aod Speech Pathology, as .wcll
as from se=al nursingsubspecialties,
form the program's academic core.
William P. Mann, professor and
chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy who will direct
the program, said th e critical

shortage of doctorally trained pro·
fessionals in rehabilitation fields
has been fueled by advances in
health care thai have enabled per·
sons to survive circums tancessuch as extreme prematurity, trau -

matic injury and chronic disease

Rehabilitation was developed.

and conditions--that would have

The UDSmr's tools for mea"iur·

been fatal a decade ago. Theoe persons often survive with disabilities.
"N. the same time, we ha.,.. apeci·
enced changes in
socielal anirudes toward persons with
disabilities lhar emphasize accommodation and integra-

ing disability-the Functionallnde·
pendence Measure, or FIM, along
with lhe WeeFIM fo r children-are

tion ... he said. "We

have IO find ways IO
do !hat"

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Pediatric rehabilitation wi ll be
one focus of the new program. The

School of Health Related Profes ·
s io ns h as received a $500.000.
four-year g rant from the U.S. Department of Education to suppo rt
doctoral st udents in thas area.
O ther areas of funded rehabili ta tion research open to doctoral
candidat es indudc assessing the
a m o unt a nd t ype of a person's

functional disabilil)'; studyi ng pal ·
t e rn s of disability and th e1r
progress; resto ration and m ai nte ·
nance of skill and functi o n; pn: ·
vent ion of dysfuncti o n, and adap tation of perso ns with impa ir-

ments 10 disabilil)', loss of function
and societal limitation s.

"The market Is very thin
for Ph.D.-tralned faculty
In rehabilitation fields .
UB has excellent facilities

for preparing rehablllt·
atlon faculty resewchen
to flU this need."
BARitY ECKERT

VB has one of the largest spon ·
sored-research programs on disabil·
il)' in lhe U.S. Irs facilities include
two federally funded Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Centen-&lt;&gt;ne

standards used
throughout the
world to assess
functionaJ ability
a nd measure re covery of persom.
undergoing rehabilitation. UDSmr
ECI&lt;UT
serves as a data rc
posi tory for more than 1,300 reha bili tation programs across the g1ohe
and aiM&gt; fu nctions as an education.
credentiali ngand consuJ tation ct:n tcr for its members.
Research on speech and hcanng
disabilities 1s ea rned out through
UB's Department of Communica
tive Disorders and Sctences and 1L\
Center for Heanng and Deafncs.,.
Specialty research areas include child
language development. language
production, speech production and
perception, and causes of hearing
Joss and nt"\\' treatment possibilities.
The doc to ral program will ac ·
ce pt the equivalent of eaght full time students per year, with the
first year's enro llment already full.
Nadine Fisher, assistant cli ni ca l
professor of rehabilitatio n medi ·
ci ne, physiology. a nd medi cine.
will coordinate the program with
the assistance of an interdisctpli nary steering co mmittee.
Steering comminee members an·
Frank Cerny, associate professor aod
chair of lhe Department of Physocal
Therapy. Exercise and Nutrition Sa·
ences; Dale Fish, as.sodate dean of

academic affairs. School of Health
Related Professions, and director of
!he physical therapy graduate program; Carl Granger, professor and
onlenm chair of the Department of
Rehabilitati on Medicine; Brenda

Robert Creeley, S•muel P. C•pen Chair 10 Poetry and the Hu
manities, is one of the most mnucn11al and mnovatt\'t' Amencan
last half-century. He also IS one of the best known , prm
cipaUy for h1s many books of poctrv and cssays, and ht~
strong connecuons wuh some of th e greatest wntcr~ o f
our day-Charles Olsen, Robe rt Duncan. Allen (;msberg
and Ed Dorn among many others.
Less well known arc the coUaborallons that marrv hl!l
modernlSt verse to the v1suaJ an of hm Dme. for anstance .
and to the music of excepuonal contemporary composer.; and perform
ers. C reeley's coope rative mu sacal ventu res have mvo lved bnlhant
amprovisational jazz arti sts-p aamst Steve Kuhn , saxo phonist Steve
Lacy, bass guitarist Steve Swallow. as well as younger av.ant garde
a rtists like Mercury Rev. Several havt' been recorded on C D and hav&lt;"
received c ritica l applause.
On Sept. 5 at 8 p.m., the lncrar y senes. "Wednesdays at 4 Plu~ :·
will open its 1998 -99 season 111 Hallwalls Co ntemporary Arts Cen
ter with just such a collaborative performance.
Crcelcy wlll host a program tn whach he will perfonn his poetrY
with the music of a first-time tr10 composed of bass great Steve Swal
low; avant gun.a r's "King Snake," David Torn , and Buffalo's own "d1f·
ferent drummer," Ch ris Massey, who has been performing in Europt.'
For additionaJ mfomurion on CreeJey, check the lnternl"f at http:/I
www.levtty.com/ corduroy /~.html or type "ruben creeJey'' tnll l
J search engine for links to more than 400 sites. For mformatmn on ~tcve

'wallow, go to http://www2.peom.net/ rmlner/ _home_notes.html
or http:/ /wwwl. pcom . net / rmlner / ste~e_ lntervl~ws

Chec:k out the ea: panded computing faohtu:~ now avatlahlt· at

three UB lihran'-'!1. Ovt&gt;r ISO new workstallons were IO!ltd.llt•d O\l'r
tht' summer at Lockwood , the ~ocnce and Eng1neenng. and Undl·r
gradua te lihranes. The workstation~ will prov&amp;dt: acces~ to tht• l fnt
versi tv Lihranes ' \Veh -based n·sources, the Internet. cle~.:trollll lllJtl.
and a vant'ly of productivit y softwa re rncludmg Mu.rosoft Offiu· .
WordPerfect, SPSS. Map le and ~:lou lab.
The Undergraduate Library ( LIC I ) ~ at e.lucdtt•d on tht' first floor
nf Capen Hall, will he opt'n 24 hours Monda\' through ThurM!.J\
and o ther exteoded hours Friday through Sundar to an:ommodate
students needing to use co mputers and st udy a reas late at mght.
Room :!26 UGL will be the base of the new Unive rMt y L1branes Help
Center, which will offer individual and group mstructaon 111 using
the new workstations. See the Help Center Web sate at http:/ I
ubllb .buff•lo.edu / llbrarles/unlts / ugl/ help/ for detail!~ .
Lockwood Library's site in the second -floor north readmg room
{near thc Newspapers and Microforms Area I also w11l he open ex
tended hours. Another location m the thtrd -floor Jtnum area vnll
be open during Lockwood's regular hours.
T he Science and Engineering Lib rary Site 1s at the south end of
the third floo r, an area trad itiona ll y used as a group study area b'
students. It will rem ain a group stud y area. and computers havt· bt·en
arranged so swdents can uS(' them for collaborative actl\'llles
All three sites have been attractively refurbashed wtth nt•w furna
ture and carpeting , and 60 open data ports (fo r connecung laptop~ I
will be added during the faU semester. They are part of an mlllativc
between the University Libraries, C IT, University FaciJiu es and Unt
versity Services. The project aims to m crease students' access to 111
fo rmation technology and to integrate it into the1r re-gular &lt;~tud\
and research routines.
Additional informat1on and a complt"te hst of accessible softwa re

on aging and one on technology
evaluation and transfer~ we:U as
the Center for Functional Assess -

Haughey, associate professor of nUI&gt;·
ong and social and preventive mecli·
cine and head of graduate nurseedu·
cation, aod Rc:&gt;s&lt;mary Lubinski, as·

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ment Research, where lhe Uniform
Data System (UDSmr) for Meclical

sociate professor of ro mmuni ca~
d isorders and sciences.

-Will· Hepfer •nd N•ncy Schiller, Umvemty Ubrane1

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Grant to head College of
Arts and Sciences
Nr:wrofJegtrtaffimuunivmity'scommitment tiJ undergradua~ tdualtion
Kerry S. Grant bas been named dean
of the new College of Arts and Sciences at UB, a move that reaffirms
the university's commitment to undergraduate education. The new
college replaces the faculties of Arts
and Letters, NatW111 Sciences and
Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

Biogeo endows $1.5 million neurology chair
Biogeo, a leading international biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., bas establishtd the Irvin and Rosemary
Smith Chair in Neurology in
the School of Medicine
and Biomedical
Sc iences .
Law rence D.
Jacobs, professor
of neurology and
internationa ll y

recognized authority on multiple sclerosis, is the first holder
of the chair.

Ricotta is associate

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named associate vice president and dean of students in
the Office of the Vice President for
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Shechner to head English
department
Mark Shechner, a member of the
UB facu lty for 28 years, has been
named chair of the Department of
english by K&lt;rry Gran!, dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences.

Zastempowski is assistant
dean in School of
Architecture and Planning
Theodora I . Zastempowski has
been named assistant dean for stu ·
dent affairs in the School of Architecture and Planni ng.

Revitalizing South Campus
neighborhoods
Plnn for housing rehab, resaleprogmm
is 'feasible,' ua marketing study finds
A plan to revitalize the neighbor·
hoods around the South Campus
by improving the area's housing
stock through a housing acquisition, rehabilitation and resaJe program is feasible and would have a
positive impact thai would be "un paralleled in the region," a marl&lt;el ing study commissioned by the
University Comm unity Initiative
(UCJ) has determined.

Faculty, staff, librarians
receive Chancellor's
Awards for Excellence
Six faculty members. two librarians
and four professional staff mem·
bers have received 1998 Slale University of New York Chancellor's
Awards for Excellence from SUNY
Chancellor John W. Ryan.

Changes in student fees to
take effect in the fall
One student fee will increase and
a new one will be instituted this

fall to ~ugment student life and
student Web-based services, Dennis Black, vice presidenl for student affairs, bas announced.

Zimmerman to head New
York library unit
Nancy P. Zimmerman, assistant
professor in the School of lnformalion and ~Studies and coordinator of its School library Media Program. bas been elected president of the New Yod&lt; Library Association, which is affiliated with the
American Library Association as its
New York Slate chapter.

South Campus rehab
is 'on schedule'
A major project to rehabililate
sidewalks, roadways and
some parking lots on the
South Camp us is on
schedule, with moSI of
the work either completed or set to be completed by the time
classes start in late
AuguSI.
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Dental
Esthetics
Center to
open

Research a:ntcn to receive

$24 million
CUBRC, MCEER proj«tt to focvs
on transportation injuria, seismic
performance
1Wo research centers affiliated with
UB each Will ...me $12 million Ov.r
ibenexuix)081Sundertheideralll-ampor1lllion F.quilyAct irthe 2Lst &lt;!IIIUr)l
signed on June9 by President Clinton.
UB names deans of law,

management
The uniYenity has named new deans
1o head the School of law and the
School~l.dfoc!MAilg.

1. R Nils Olsen, Jr. a proCessor of law
and viced&lt;anlixacadanicaffilirs,has
been named dean' of the School of
law. J..ewis ManddJ, dean ofthe Colkge of Business Administralioo and
professor of finance at Marquett&lt;
UnM!sity, bas been named dean of
the School ofManajjern&lt;DL

Gentile, Wolck named
Distinguished Professors
Two faculty members a\ UB have
joined the ranks ofdistinguished professors appointed bythe SUNY Board
oflh1stties. ). Ronald Gentile, professor in the Deportment of Counseling
aa.Hjd~~l ~~ap­

pointedaSUNYDistinguisb&lt;dTeachingl'roli!soarinbonorofbis_oqtstmd ~

ing leaching at the gradua~ undergraduate and professional levels.
WolfgangW&amp;:k, professor in the DeThe first facility
partmenl of Linguistics and an intt:rdevoted to training ·
nationaDy known linguistics scholar,
dentists in the high-demand
wasappoinu.l a SUNY Distinguished
field of esthetic dentistry from the
Servitt Profes!;or in r=gnition ofhis
first year of dental school through
atr.IOnlinary semc.
1o
posl-graduate training and beyond
the university community, as well as
will begin operation in the School
10 the region, state and nation.
of Dental Medicine this fall.

conlributions

Company Web sites:
lneffective.com
They may be flashy and gimmicky,
bul most company Web siles would
flunk a tesl of simple "Marketing
10 I" theory, a new Sludy by H.R.
Rao, associate professor of management science and systems in the
School of Management, suggests.

Register your address
in e-mail directory
To provide a comprehensive, "one·
stop shop.. for those seeking information on how to contact faculty,
staff or studen ts at UB, Computing and Information Technology
is asking all members of the university community to register their
e-mail address in the UB elec·
tronic " E.. -directory.

Parents--get back
in control!
The chi ld -centered parenting
movemenl, popular for the past two
decades, has (l)w:n ru. to a national
epidemic of families in which children
are "running" the show, according to
K&lt;nneth N. Condrell, clinical assistanl professor in the Department of
Psychiatry and co-a uthor of
"Wunpy PareniS from Toddler to
Teen: How NOT to Raise a Bral"

Obituaries:
AlbertS. Cook, 72: 'redrew map of
literary studies' al UB.
Russell A. Buffomante, 84, den tist, associate professor of prosthetics.
David H. Nichols, 72, fonner gynecology-obstetrics profeSsor.

Noted s_cientist gives MFC
anruversary lectur
In honorofits75th annillersary, which will be cdebratzrl
~!he 1998-99acadtmic
year. Millard Fillmore Callqj:.in~withlbe
Crea~

Education lOOn-

dation and with support
from lbe Baiid Foundation. JlR9'1lted a public
lecture by Howard
Gardner, a MacArthur
Foundation Fellow, an
aw.ud-winning samlist andmeoflhe most pr&lt;MlC3IiYe
theorists in social ps)&lt;hology and education today.

$530,000 gift to pharmacy
school to tUnd scholarships
Determined to open the door to an
ou!Sillnding professional education
lo even more students, Violet Newton has shown her philanthropic
generosity again with a new gift of
$530,000 to the School ofPharmacy.

Xerox CEO speaks on
Industry-University Day

More than 350 people ~ the
atrium in the Center for the Arts
June 2 to hear Xerox Corp. OWrman and Chief Executive Officer
Paul A. Allaire speak on the necessity of partnenhip among business,
govomment and academia in maintaining a healthy U.S. economy.

Director named for
Polish Academic Center
Tomasz Goban-Klas, an international authority on the sociology of

OlliiiiiiUIIiat in Foland, bas been
appoinu.l director of the UB Polish Aademic lnformatioo Center.

Shedding new light
on melting process.
To anyone who's-nor left a chO!X)Iate bar on the ·dashboard of a car
on a bot sUIDlXlet's day, the melting process is fairly straightfurward:
Heat hits solid, solid turns to rnu.ob.
But research at UB is the first to
show that when a solid melts, it
undergoes not just one intermediate phase~ had been predicted previously-hut two.

Stress test heart risk in
lowered blood pressure?
Results of an exercise streu test
may help identify recovering
heart-attack patients who could be
as increased risk of heart failure
and premature death, but the predictor in this case turns out to be
lowered blood pressure, a factor
usually considered an asset.

Young adults: ·
a picture of poverty
A groundbreaking ethnography of

poverty-stricken young Americans
bas been published by n:searchers at
UB and the Gty University of New
York. It offers compelling evidence
tlmt despite a fiow of upbeat economic reports that imply that we all
are doing better than ...,-, millions
in this group arecloingverpoorly.

Six-year doctor of
pharmacy program
approved
Th&lt;School ofl'harmacy'ssix-~.cn­
try-level doctor of pharmacy
(PharmlJ.) program bas been approved by the NewYod&lt;St:ate D&lt;portmentofEducation. Theneffprogram.
which now is in pla£e. follows a eli=.
tive from the
Amer.ican Association of Colleges
of Pharmacy approving a six-year

PhamUJ.,or doctorateofphannacy,asthe
tield'sonlyprofes&lt;ional

des=
Students critique
faculty science
workshop
A!; part of a National Science Foundation-supported workshop UB sponsored on
"Case Studies in Science," 40studeniS
reccM:d$100each, paid by !he NSF,
to participate in a simulated dass and
then provide a detailed critique of iL
Th&lt; workshop provided professors at
other colleges and Wliversities with
an education in writing case studies
to use in undergraduate science
classes for non-majors.

GSE forms network
to aid schools
The Collaborative Research Network (CRN) bas been established by
the Graduate School of Education
to assist local schools, leachers and
administrators who want to reform
their curriculums and teaching
methods or solve special problems.

Obituaries:
Seymour Aalrod, 70, emtritus professor of psychiatry and ps)Uiology.
W. Howud Mann, 87, law school

prof.ssor emtritus.

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Employing 'evolution'
to develop new drug leads
Just as

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are MOly as - " ' as the books on
their shelves, chemical libraries synthesized by phannaceutical scien·
tists are only as useful as the new compounds they generate. A drugclisaM:ry method being developed by VB researchers may be able to
tum those chemical libraries, arrays of compounds synth.siz&lt;d in the lab, into molecular "habitats" where only the most
desirable drug candidates survive. Based on the application
of Darwinian principles of evolution to a chemical system,

the method is designed to endow compounds in chemical ti·
braries with the ability to evolve into the best potential drug
candidate for a particular molecular target.
Called dynamic combinatorial chemistry, the new method could
mean major cost savings for pharmaceutical companies because It
has the potential to identify numerous promising drug leads in days,
as compared to months or years using current techniques.
It was desaibed in a presentation by Alexey V. Eliseev, assistant pro·

fessor of medicinal chemistry, at the 39th annual UB Medicinal Chern·
istrySymposium. "ln (traditional ) combinatorial chemistry, the goal
is to produce many possible combinations and then screen the compounds individually," said Eliseev. " In our method we combine the steps."
The UB method works by using molecular reoognition-the ability
of molecules to bind to a target-to simultaneously form and screen
mixtures of many chemicals for the best ones.

Sperm abnomalities linked
to low pregnancy rate
-o.en In the School af and Biomedical Sa·
enceshavefoundalinkbetwetntwospermabnormalities-prematw&lt; chromosomal do::ond&lt;ruation and pmnatw&lt; acrosome reaction-end lowpreg·
nancy rates. The abnomalities, whidl are overlooked in a standard semen
analysis, had n""" been linked to low pregnancy rates, said Lani J. Burkman.
assistant professor of gyneoology and obstetrics, and urology, and head of
the Andrology Section in the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics.
By analyzing hundreds of semen samples and comparing them with

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Diet plays role In good dental health, researchers say

Milk, orange juice: good for gums
By LOIS IIAKU
New$ Services Editor

IL K drinkers and
orange-juice lovers
may be doing their
gums a favor.
Two st udi es by researchers in
the School of Dental Medicine
show that people with low levels
of Vitamin C in their diets, and
those who had too little calcium
as young adults, a..ppear to have
nearly twice the risk of develop·
ing periodontal disease later in life
than people with higher dietary
levels of either nutrient.
The two studies add a new element to public-health efforts to
promote dental health, said Sara
Grossi, se ni or research scien tist
and -director of the VB Periodon tal Research Center, where the

M

women consumed less than the
minimum recommended daily in take of 800 mi ll igrams, the
amount in four glasses of mjlk,
while the average for men was
slightly more than 800 mg.
Comparison of calcium intake

with periodontal disease, defined
by the amount of gum detachment
from underlying bone, showed that
" It Is no longer enough to

tell children and -

to

brush their teeth, floss and

see their dentist. Diet plays
a luger role than we

anticipated."
SARA G ROSSI

study was conducted.

.. It is no longer enough to teU
children and adults to brush their
teeth , floss and see their dentist,"
Grossi noted. "Diet plays a larger
role than we anticipated."
Results of the studies were pre-

the mineral in their diets were half
again as likdy to develop periodontal disease as those who met or ex e&lt;eded the recommended dietary

sented June 26 i.[\ Nice, France at the

allowance for calcium.

annual meetingpfthe International
Association for Dental Research.
Both studies used data from National Health and Nutrition ExaminationSurveys (NHANFS) 1and In,
carried out in 1971 -75 and 1988-94
resP&lt;'ct;vely. N[iANES 1 involved
2,392 persons; 12,412 people were
surveyed for NHANFS Ul.
Analysis of dietary calcium for
both survey periods showed that

When only participants between
the ages of 20 and 39 years were analyzed, low calcium intake doubled
the risk of periodontal disease.

in the total study population, men
and women who had low levels of

uThi s is a new piece of evi dence," Grossi sa id. "'We n eve r
knew people so young were at risk
of gum disease and of losing bone
around their teeth. It points o ut
how important it is for children
and teens to get enough calcium

during those form a tive years to
reach their peak bone mass in the
jaw and everywhere else.
"It really is true that calcium
builds strong bones and teeth ," she
noted. " If t.he underlying bo ne 1s
not strong to start with . it will not
be able to counter noxio us agent s,
such as bacteria and substan ces in
cigarette s moke, whi c h a tt ac k
bone, teeth and gum s."
A sim ilar risk of penodontal dtsease was found among persons with
low dietary intakes of Vitamin C.
That study showed that those with
the lowest intake were at the high est risk. and the association was particularly strong among smokers.
G rossi said Vitamin C's role in
maintaining and repairing healthy
connective tissue, along with its
antioxidant properties, was likely
responsible for the relationship.
..Vitamin C in the diet increases the
ability of tissue to repair itself and

fight invading bacteria and other
toxins. We found a very stro ng as sociation for all age groups. but the
results were most pronounced in
smokers. They experience more of
an insult to the gum tissues, so they
need higher levels of vitamin C to
help counteract smoke's toxins."
Other res earchers involved in
the stu dies were Mieko Nishida ,

Robert G. Dunford, Alex Ho and
Robert Genco, all of the Depart -

ment of Oral Biology, and
Maurizio Trevisan, of the l)epart ment of Social and Preventive
Medicine.

subsequent pregnancies in the couples studied, Burkman and coll eagu ~
determined that samples showing more than 14 percent premature chro-mosomal decondensation or m ore than 7 perc~nt premature acrosome
reactions had only a slim chance of leading to a pregnancy. Burkman
presented study results in San Diego, Calif., at a meeting of the Ameri +
can Urology Association.
The acrosome is an enzyme-filled cap covenng half the sperm head .
Just before fertil izati o n. enzymes fro m .the acroSoin e. acti vat ed at
the proper tim e, so ften th e egg's coverin g, all owing the sperm head
to fertili ze the egg. If the e n ~ ym es a re rel eased too soon , a process
called premature acrosome reactio n, th e spe rm is rendered useles!&gt;.
Premature chromosomal decondensation refers to the untimely uh raveling o f the sperm's genetic cargo. If th.is begins before the sperm has
penetrated the egg, the sperm head swells and fertilizati on becomes
1m possible. " In our study, when pregnancy occurred, we kn ew that the
partner's sperm were capabl e of fertilizing th e egg," Burkman sa1d.
"When pregnancy d id not occur, the possibility existed that the sperm
failed at one or more points in the fertilization process."

Researchers analyzed semen samples from 250 patients. Eadl sperm slide
was scored for percentage of sperm showing the premature acrosome rea' uon or evidence of chromosomal decondensation. Thi::se scores were correlated with pregnancy results. R£sults shOW&lt;:d a very low incidence of chro
mosomaJ decondensation or acrosome reaction in the natural pregnano
group; in the no-pregnancy group. rates for both errors were significantlv

higher.

Warning sign indicates need
to test for fetal risk condition
Pl&gt;ysldans tradltlonolly ....., looked for the presence of at least three
clinical signs ofdlorioamnionitis before ordering a test for the condition. an
inftammation of the fetal membranes that is a risk factor for fetal death.
Researcher.; at VB are recommending that the presence of only one is reason
to conduct a diagnostic test. Research results were reponed bv
Lawrence J. Gugino. associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics and lead author, at the 46th annual clinical meetmg of
the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Chorioamnionitis is associated with premature rupture of the
fetal membrane and prematw&lt;ddivery. Gugino and oolleague:.
reviewed records of 804 perinatal deaths that occurred m
Children"s Hospital of Buffulo ~ 1988 and 1996. Chorioamnionins
was found to be present in 243, or about on&lt;-third of these case;.
Traditionally, three clinical indicators, including maternal f&lt;Ver. el ·
evated white cd1 coun t, uterine tenderness., foul-sme:Uingdischarge and
increased fetal heartbeat, were considered necessary to justify screening
for chorioamnionitis. By comparing patient records during the preg·
nancy with results of the laboratory analysis of placental tissue after the
fetal or infant death, Gugino and colleagues found that if only one of
these symptoms is present, chorioamnionitis should be suspected and
patients should be tested.

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law expands jurisdiction
ofpublic-safety officers
By SU£ WUfTCHU
News Setvkts Associate Director

U

B public-safety office"
will have th(! same sta·
tus as municipal poUce
office" when they venture off campus, thanks to a bill recently signed into law by Gov.
George Pataki Effectiv. Jan. I, th&lt;
new law expands the jurisdiction of
504 SUNY officefli on 27 campu5&lt;5who pres&lt;ntly are limited to campus
properties and adjoining roadwaysand changes their status from "'peace
officers" to "police officers."
John Grela, dirtaor of public safety,
said the ncwlaw"prtMdes indernnilicttion for olliccrs when th&lt;y operate off
campus." As "peace offie&lt;rs," SUNY
pubUc-safety officefll have many of
the same duties as police officers,
such as making warranti&lt;SS arrests
and issuing traffic tickets, wh&lt;n operating within their jurisdiction. But
they revert to the statw of a private
citizen when they leave campus, he

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• Student s. ...lces Building. To
be located on a site on the north
side of the academic spine between Capen Hall and the
Hamilton loop on the North
Campus, th&lt; building will consoli·
date units providing student services-including financial aid, ad missions and career planning and
placement-that currently are
spread across two campuses.
•sbldentAaess ComputeriAbs.
"This initiative wiU support renovation of the Undergraduate Library on
the North Campus to accommodate
50 perliOnal comput&lt;n and plug-in
ports for laptops. The library is one
of several sites being d...Joped across
the campus to assist the-university in
implementing a new policy~ne of
the first at a public research institution in the Northeast-requiring stu dents to have access to a personal
computer by the FalJ 1999 semester.
The poUcy is pan the university's on·
going efforts to upgrade equipmtnt
and infrastructure to support teach ing, research and administrative
needs and become a technological
leador in higher education.
• ComprehensiYe He•lth Science Education Center (CHSEC).
This initiative will apand campus-

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criminal~ off"""""'
andaoistlocal policrb=Ofli=s
alsoar&lt; given tho power of to "pat
di&gt;wn"suspectsduringinterrogation stops wb&lt;n then: is.....,., to
beli&lt;V&lt; they may be carrying
woaponsand thopowerto&lt;=ute

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transport p&lt;r.lOOS to mmtal-h&lt;alth

fucilities.
Tho n&lt;W law'\viii mak&lt;our job
&lt;asi&lt;r; puticularlyin punuinginV&lt;Stigations that lad off campus.
G;.,la said. H&lt; added that geographically, public safety's ar&lt;a of
jurisdictiot) will r&lt;main tho North
and South campuses. "We won't
b&lt;parmlling Univmity H&lt;ighuor
Amh&lt;r-st," h&lt; said.

Trust
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Jamie Dinero gees an assist in ~ a
''riloon-wal&lt;'' from Robison Shih, lefr,
and Hcq-Olil 01iu. r1ttt, cbir« an
~ 10 help fW!!N M8A
SUJder-.s ~team spiit and trust
held Monday at Baird Point.

onenc..ooo

capital funding

Moving On

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added. With tho n&lt;W status, pul&gt;lic -safety offie&lt;rs will ha"" th&lt;
sam&lt; status as other municipal
police offic.&lt;fli wb&lt;n they !&lt;ave

based, h&lt;alth-car&lt; education and
research through the creation of
CHSEC. Farber Hall on th&lt; South
Campus wiU be ronovated to provide a multidisdelinary dinicaJ
teaching environment for the
schools of M&lt;dicin&lt; and Biomedi ·
cal Sciences, Dental Medicine,
Pharmacy, Nursing and H&lt;alth R&lt;lated Professions. Patients will receive care from these diverse specialties in a single setting.
• Acheson H•ll . The former
home of the Department of
Ch&lt;mistry on the South Campus
will be renovated to house the
School of Pharmacy and a re search park designed to attract
high -technology industry, including a pharmaceutical biotechnol ogy center, to collaborate with
health-sciences faculty and expand job opportunities for West ern New York residents.
• Mathematics Building. The
new building, to be located n&lt;ar the
Natural Sciences Complex and the
Computing Center on the west end
of th e North Campus academic
spine, will house the Department
of Math&lt;matics, th&lt; last of th&lt; ans
and sciences units located on the
South Campus. The design of the

$7 million building is compl&lt;te,
with construction bids set to be
opened in mid-Septemh&lt;r.
Presid&lt;nt W~Jiam R. -Gr&lt;in&lt;r
ca~ed the announcement "an a traordinary investm&lt;nt"'that will'
hdp UB provid&lt; New York Stat&lt;
with "knowledg&lt; and knowledg&lt;abl&lt; poop!&lt;."
"The future of this state will de pend on ·"its 'people pOwer,"'
Greiner said. "But in order to edu cate the state's futu re workforce,n
h&lt; added, "wo n&lt;ed to mak&lt; invest·
ments in physical capital ...
The new Stud&lt;nt S.rviccs Build·
ing, Greiner said, will serve as .. a
one-stop shopping plato" that will
"make life bener for students."
The new cente r also will open
up space currently occupied by
offices such as financial aid and
admissions that will be converted
into high -tech class room space.
Ref&lt;rring to th&lt; Comprehmsive
Health Science Education Center,
Grdner said it wiU provide new,
hands-on learning experiences for
students in the health sciences by providing a p1aa wh&lt;r&lt; patients will visit
and b&lt; treated byt&lt;ams of ~cians,
dentists, nurs&lt;s and th&lt;rapists.
Also praising the state invest -

ment in UB capital projects were
two state legislators and a mem·
ber of th• SUNY Board of Trustt-es who were among those present
for the an'nouncement.
"All of SUNY moves forward
with this major investment," said
Stat&lt; Senator Mary Lou Rath. who
noted the investment will ben~fit
not only the university. but busi·
ness, by matching education with
worlcforcc needs.
UB, SUNY and New York Stat&lt;
all "look forward to a bright and
shiny future,.. she saidStat&lt; S.nator Dale Volku noted
th&lt; funding will hdp UB to con·
tinue to be a player in what he
caUed .. the world competition ...
" UB is alivo, w&lt;ll, and through
the money the governor is delivering today wiJI be even better in
the futuro," h&lt; added.
SUNY Trustee Pam&lt;la Jacobs
called the announcement of the
capital projects "th&lt; opening of an
exceUent new chapt~r in the University at Buffalo success story...
Calling UB "on&lt; of th&lt; finost
insti tutions of learning in the
tJnit&lt;d Stalf'S, " sh&lt; added: "Th&lt;
reputation of UB is something
we're very proud of."

nogrophor, Dlpoflmont olllologlal Sdenca

UB is the big loser with the "new and improved" RAM system
De•rColle..,es:
RAM does not bring in mon: money to UB. In fact, UB is the big las&lt;r
with the RAM system. You may ha"" received a copy of Bob Wagner's

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SUNY
budget isRAM,
adequat&lt;
in 1998·99
for"th&lt;
negotiated
lett&lt;r regarding
as I to
did.rover
In it,spending
h&lt; carefully
stat&lt;s that
overall
salary increas&lt;s and budgeted inflation." This is correct, but doesn't ad·
dress the issue of whether UB received enough to cover those expenses.
US roe&lt;ived $221.5 million for 1997-98. Then the Executiv&lt; Bud·
get aUocation for 1998·99 was $232.2 million, an increase of almost
$10.7 million, or 4.8 percent. Then SUNY used RAM to recalculate
our allotment, and with the .. new and improved" RAM system we
were awarded a lower amount . Now the figures dif(er.
SUNY figures. according to UUP, show UB receiving only $229 million. Bob Wagn&lt;r's lett&lt;r says UB r&lt;Ceived $230.1 million. Eith&lt;r way,
SUNY chopped a big chunk off of th&lt; allocation planned in tho Governor's
Budget. Wagner's lett&lt;r doesn't mention th&lt; Executive Budget.
Pan of US's allocation is .. revenue.. and the other pan is state tax

supporL Wagn&lt;r says$77.7 million is"rev&lt;nu&lt;"from stud&lt;nt tuition and
foes and other incom&lt;. If thor&lt; is a "shortfall" w&lt; take: a hit, but if w&lt;
Obviously,
of th&lt;
UB administration's
hobby horses for many
bring
in moreon&lt;
r&lt;V&lt;nu&lt;,
it stays
on campus.
y&lt;ars has been independ&lt;nce from SUNY. This will be a t&lt;St, it se&lt;ms,
of whether this campus, or other SUNY campuses, can survive as comp&lt;ting coUeg&lt;s. living off tuition and fees. football ti~t sales, alumni
donations. etc.. I expect we'U hear a lot of pep talks on recruitment and
retention for surviv:al, in the nat couple semesters.
The administration apparently lika the new rules. Some of us feel
quite differently. It's one thing to gamble with one's own money and
futuro, but th&lt; futuro of SUNY doesn't belong to any of us as individuals. SUNY should r&lt;main publicly funded, accessibl&lt;_to all students,
low-priced and geographically dispersed so that anyon&lt; can find at least
th&lt; basics n&lt;arby. Now that th• gap between wealthy and poor New
Yorkers is growing, it's no time to make SUNY less accessible to all.
-fun Dickson, Am&gt;ciatt Ubrorion, Lockwood Ubrory

�August 27.1!1/Yi.l.ll.l

Rep c ....

7

Obituaries
Northrup R Knox, 69,
banker, sportsman, community leader
Nordwup L - a . national chairman of
UB's Pathways to Greatness endowment
campaign, which raised $56.3 million for
the university from 1987-92, died July 23
in his East Aurora home after a lengthy illness. He was 69.
His death fullawed by ""' rem and ""'
months the death ofhis brother, Seymour H.
Knox. m, who ditd May 22. 1996 at age 70.
Past chairman of the Buffalo Sabres and
Marine Midland Bank, and a prominent
civic leader, Northrup Knox was dosely associated with UB. A director of the UB
Foundation, be continued a long family
oonntction with the university. His father,
the late Seymour H. Knox Jr., was chairman of UB's governing Council from
1920-69 and his paternal grandmother,
Grace Knox, established UB's first endowment fund.
He was cha.irman and director of the
Seymour H. Knox Foundation and vice
president and director of the Buffalo Fine
Art s Academ y, governing body of the

Richard W. Offenhamer, 85,
legendary UB football coach

Albright-Knox Art Gallery that bears the
family name.
Knox reaivN the UB President's Medal
in 1994. Heand5eymourlll reaivedhon -

A prtw-•te service w•s held for Richard
W. O ffenhamer, 85, legendary UB football
coach , and a member o f the G reater Buffalo Sports Hall o f Fame, who led the Bulls
to pro min ence in the 1950s a nd J960s.
O ffe nh a m e r died Au g. 7 in Mill a rd
Fillmore Suburba n Hosp ital, Amherst.
Offenhamer, who had been a star quarterback, as well as a light-heavyweight boxer and
catcher on the basd&gt;all team at Colgate.Umversi ty, was head freshman coach at
Colgate when he came to UB in 1955.
Two years later, the Bulls won the Lam bert Cu p, making UB the top- rnted small
school in the EasL O ffenhamer became
NationaJ CoUegiate Athletic Associatio n
(NCAA) coach of the week- and toast of the
town--during that season after the Bulls
upset highly regarded Columbia Umversu y.
During 1 I coach ing seasons. his record
was 58 wins. 37 losses and S ties. In 1958, he
was named O utstanding Citi zen of th e Year
by th e BuffaJo Evening Nrws. He resigned
from UB in 1966.

orary doctorate of humane letters from
SUNY in 1996 during UB's sesquicenten nial convocation. Seymour's was bestowed
posthumously.
The Knox brothers, who brought major
league hockey to Buffalo, were inducted
into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of
Fame in 1992 and into the Buffalo Sabres
Hall of Fame in 1996: Northrup Knox was
a principal owner of the Buffalo Sabres
from the purchase of the NFL franchise in
1970 until earlier this year. An accomplished sportsman, he was a past chairman
and governor of the U.S. Polo Association
and a former captain of the U.S. polo team

in international play, as well as a champion
court tenbis player.
Survivors include his wife, Lucetta; a
daughter, Linda Knox McLean, and a son,
Northrup R.Jr.

Patricia']. Eberlein, 75,
computer science professor and former chair
~ Aug. 15 in
the Unitarian Universalist Church, Buffalo,
for Patricia James Eberlein, 75, professor

A ......,orial serYke was

emeritus and the first and only woman to
head the Depanmentof Computer Science
at UB. Eberlein died Aug. II in her home in
Buffalo after a long banle with long cancer.
One of the first faculty members and the

only woman hired when the Computer
Science Department was formed in 1967,

A-·

of ChrtJtlan lllurtal was held at Chnst
the King Chapel of Canisius College on Jul)'
31 for William M. Bukowski, an mtermst and
cardiologist who was a longtime clinical assistant professor of medicine at UB. Bukowski
died July 28 after a long battle with amyo• trophic lateral sclerosis. or Lou Gehrig's disease, in Sisters of Charity Hospital, where he
had been a staff member for 44 rearsBukowski, who graduated from Canisius
College in 1943, received his med ical de gree fro m th e UB Schoo l of Medicine tn
194 7. H e was a captain in th e U.S. Army
Medical Corps, serving as commanding offi cer of the 57 th Field Hosp ital in To ul.
Fra nce. He specialized in internal medicine
and cardio logy. establishing a pri vate prac-

league as .. the most fascinating perso n I've

ever met,.. Eberlein had a stint as a pilot
flying planes from manufacturing plants
to military bases during World War II. Af.
ter a brief career as a fashion model in New

York City, she married and ranched in
South Dakota.

William C. Niesen, 78,
clinical assistant professor of urology
Prtv•te funer•lsenlces will be held fo r
William C. Niesen , whO served as a clini cal assistant professor of urology at the UB
medical school. Niesen died Aug. 23 in St.
Mary's Hospital, West Palm Beach. Fla .. after a long illness. He was 78.
Niesen. a graduate of the U B medical
school. served as a major in the Army during World War II. He was chief of urology
at Buffalo Veterans Hospital before entering private practice in Niagara Falls. He was
chief of the medical staff and chief of urol-

William M. Bukowski, 76,
clinical assistant professor of medicine

A 1944 graduate of the University of Chi cago, Eberlein did not limit herself to the
academic world. Described by a UB col-

Eberlein served as chair of the depart Divorced and the single mother of
ment from 198 J -84 and was acting
two children, she resumed her educachair from 1971 -72.
tion and earned a master's degree and a
While sbe was chair, Eberlein signifidoctorate at Michigan State University.
cantly increased the amount of sophisIn 1956, she joined the lnstitu~ of Ad ticated computer equipment in the de- ........
vanced Study in Princeton. The next
partment, propelling it-and the univer- year, Eberlein went to the UniversityofRochsity-into the technological forefront.
ester, where: she bttame associate director of
Before coming to UB, she was a math - its computing center. She joined UB's new
ematician at the Institute for Advanced Computer Science Department in 1967.
Study in Princeton, where she worked on
A member of numerous professional
the"ElectronicComputer Project"that led societies, she was active in the Associa te the development of one of the first com - t ion for C omputing Machinery, th e
puters ever constructed. The computer American Mathematical Societ y, the
created under this project was designed by American Association for the Advance John von Neumann , father of modern ment of Science and the Association for
computing, andnowisintheSmithsonian Women in Mathematics. Eberlein often
Institution.
spoke on panels about the need to attra ct
Her research specialty was numerical more women to study mathematics and
an'a.Jysis, particuJarly numerical linear al - co mputer scien ce.
gebra and combinatorial algorithms. In
She is survived by four daughters, Sarah
1984, she received a Visiting Professorship Wells of Oak Park, 111, Mary Wells ofRoch for Women Award from the National Sci - es ter, Kristen of Durham , N .C ., and
ence Foundation. In 1988, she was a visit - Kathryn Klaber of Cleveland Height s,
ing senior scientist at the Argonne Na - Ohio; three sons, Patrick of Chapel Hill,
tionall.abora1ory. She was one of the origi· N.C., Michael of Amherst, Ohio, and Rob ·
nal members of the Gatlinburg group. crt of Glendale, Md.; a brother, William S.
which now numbers more than 400 re - )ames of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; 13 grand searchers.
children and one great -grandchild.

ogy at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Cen ter and Mt. St. Mary's Hospital. Lewisto n.
A member of the Royal College o f Sur geo ns o f th e United Kingd om . Niesen also
maintained a practiCe in Niagara Falls, O nt.
He was a past president of the Buffalo Urology Society and th e Health Association o f
Niagara Co unt y. He moved to Fl o nda
about I 0 years ago.
Survivo rs include hts wife, lean ; a da ugh te r. Nancy Eddy of Palm Beach Ga rdens,
Fla.: and a granddaughter.

Offen hamer had coached football as well
as baseball a nd taught English at knmore
High School from 1936-46. After leavmg
UB, he returned to the Kenmo re school system as an English teache r and guida nce
counselo r at Kenmore East High School.
Sho rtl y afterward, he was offered a job as
director of player ~ rson nel for the Ne"''
Yo rk Jets. He dedined the o ffer.
In 1979, the Clarence-Arilherst Cham
bers of Commerce honored htm wJth
th e fi rst a nnu a l Dick O ffe nh amer
Awa rd, wh ich r~cog nizes a commu
n it y membe r who has m ade sign ifi cant contributio ns to t he um versll y
He was nam~ an ho no ra ry member
o f the UB Sports Hall o f Fa me in 1984 , and
was elec ted to the G reater Buffal o Spor 1.~
Hall of Fa me in 1996.
He IS su rvived by two daugh ters. Leah
Gerolam i of Las Vegas and Lynne Paohm of
Kenmore; a so n, WiJiia m, of Atlant a: a SISt('r.
Ruth Pollock. of Naples. Fla.; th ree ~rand
child ren and two great -grandchildren

I

uce fo ll owmg ht s mil itary serviCe.
An anendmg physician in medicint- and ek'\.
trocard iography at Sisters Hospual . he wa.\
president of the medical .staff there in the earh
1970s. He also served on the hospital 's board
of trustees from the mid - 1970s to 1981. In
April, he was honored as Man of the Year by
the Sisters Hospital Past Presidents O ub.
Bukowski was a diplomate of t he Amen ·
ca n Board of Internal Medicine.
Survivors incl ude hJS wi(e, M argue- r ite.~;
fi ve d aughters, Joan , Barba ra A., Kate. Beth
M . o( Wash ingto n, D.C. a nd Ma rth a B
Th omson of Devon, Pa.; two so ns, Will ia m
M .. )r. of Mo ntreal and Peter J.; two broth ·
ers, T ho m as of Alexan d na , Va . a nd Or.
Stanl ey. and e1ght grand children .

Charlotte Poole, 78,
retired executive secretary
A memort•l senke Is being pl•nned in
October fo r C harlon e C. Poo le, 78. who
served the university in a number of roles,
including many years as an executive secreta r y in th e exec ut ive viCe p res1dent and
pres ident 's office in the 1 9 60~ and 1970s.
Poole died Au g. J0 in her home in Amherst.
Poole performed secretarial duties for Peter
Regan, beginning in 1966 while he was VICe
president for health affairs. She contmut."&lt;:t m
hi.s office during the time that h(' was execu ·
tive vice president and while he was acting
president of the universit)• in 1969-70.
She worked for a time for Warren Bennt.!&gt;,
who was vice president for academic dcvel
opment and acting executive vice president .
then was executive secretary for Albert Somit,
who was executive vice president from 197080. In 1981 , she was secretary to Senior Vice
President Robert Wagner, when he was viCe
president fo r academic services. a new un it

set up by President Robert Ketter. She also
worked in th(' offi ce of Robert Rossberg, who
was vtce president for academ ic aff.ur!t from
1980-84. Poole retired m 1985.
She was active in the Ementm Center for
many years as an officer and a volunteer m
the REV-UP program. One of her pm)Cd.S was
monitoring the Furnas Memorial Room.
A skilled gra mm anan , she was pain.:. tak ing in the proofrea di ng work that she d 1J
·on an occas tonal basis fo r th e Pubhcat10ns
Departm ent foll owmg her retirement.
Deepl)' m terested m th e arts, espeoally
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Study shows a pioture ofpoverty
for )&lt;JUng adults in Amerial.

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High over UB Stadium,
pole vaulter sails above the
bar in NCAA Track and Field
Outdoor Championships.
The national championships,
held June 3-6, brought
hundreds of top collegiate
athletes and thousands of
spectators to events at UB.

Research centers to receive $24 million
CUBRC, MCEER projects tofocus on transportation injuries, seismic performance

BylLUH GOI.DBAUM
News Services Editor

O research centers affiliated with UB each will

performance of the nation's surface

receive $ J2 million over
e next six years under

The funding to MCEER will ex ·
tend work begun by it in 1992 un der two Federal Highway Admin-

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will receive $12 million to apply its
expertise to improving the seismi c

the federal Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st century, signed on
June 9 by President Clinton.
The Calspan-University at Buffalo R&lt;search Center (CU BRC) will
receive $12 million to establish a
Center for Transponation Injury
Research to develop and evaluate
systems and technologies to improve management of the transportation and emergency-response systems to reduce injuries and deaths

from vehicle- related crashes.
The Multidisciplinary Center for
Earthquak&lt; Engineering Research
(MCEER), headquanered at UB,

transportation system.

istration contracts that has focused
on retrofitting federal -a id high ways, bridges and tunnels. That
work has generated guidelines that

MCEER will apply to other surface
transportation facilities.
.. With this legislat ion, Congress
recognizes the signifi cant success

MCEER has

had

in

using

multidisciplinary teams of expens
to study and develop new meth ods of seismic protection for ou r
nation's roads and bridges," said
President William R. Greiner.
"Congressman Jack Quinn de-

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serves a great deal of credit fo r invesc ing an enormous amount of time
and effort to secure this funding," said
Greiner... Congressmen Sherwood
Boehlert, John LaFalce and Bill Paxon
also provided imponant suppor1 for
our efrons. as &lt;lid Senato~ Daniel

been identified as having either
moderate or significant earthquake
risk, he added, there an- no narionaJ
guidelines or requ.irements for the
seismic design of lransJX&gt;rtation sys-

Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato. We
thank them as well."

tems, other than those developed for
highway bridges.

Acco rdin g to George C. Lee.
MCEER director, the nation's trans·
ponation system is the world's larg·
est, supporting more than 4.3 tril -

" During the past six years, our
concentrated effort to look at blot ter ways to retrofit highways, roads
and bridges and other comJV&gt;nents ha s been generating very
useful guidelines," Lee said. " Now
we will be able :o apply these efforts to other surface tran sportation facilities in the U.S.
"Our goal is to develop national
seismic-design methodologies and
guidelines for these systems and to

lion miles of passenger travel and 3.6
trillion ton -miles of goods move ment annually. It includes highways..
transit systems., railroads. airports.
waterways and ports. and pipelines.
" Bu t except for some of the
highway bridges, very lirtle o( thi s
vast network has been designed
and constructed with earthquakes

in mind," Lee said.

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UB names deans of law, management
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News Sefvices Associate Director

H E universit y ha s
n amed new deans to

head the School of Law
and the School of Management , effective Aug. I.

R. Nils Olsen, Jr., a professor of
law who cu rrently serves as vice
dean for academic affairs, has been
named dean of the University at

Buffalo School of Law. Lewis
Ma,ndeU, currently serving as dean

of the College of Business Admin istration and professor of finance
at Marquette University, has been
named dean of the University at
Buffalo School of Management.
The appointments were made by
Provost Thomas E. Headrick.
The deans will have overall re-

sponsibility for the development of
academic programs. faculty recrujt ment and advancement, and for

maintaining standards of teaching,

scholarship and creative activity.
They also will have chief respon sibility for planning and budget -

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ing, equipment and space alloca·
tion s. and personnel, and will
oversee development act ivities.
O lse n will s ucceed Barry B.
Boyer, who ha s se rved as the
school 's chief academic and ad ministrative officer since 1992 .
Boyer wiiJ remain a member of the
law faculty, resuming full -time
teaching responsibilities and overseeing the law school's continuing
technological development.

overseen the implementation of the
school's new curriculum, designed

"The law school will benefit from
Nils' exceptional credentials, aca demic achievements and administrative aperience," said Headrick.
.. The positive, unanimous recom mendation from his coUeagues and
external constituencies is an affirmation of his ability to serve the
school as dean.
"Nils brings hi s insightful and

U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago.
As vice dean since 1994, Olsen has

to help bridge the gap that has existed historically between law school

understanding leadership to a
school that is one of US's major
assets," Head rick cont inued. "He
will fill the law school 's most s1g·
nificant needs in the coming years
for continu ity in such criticaJ en deavors as the new curriculum,
student recruitment, faculty devel op ment and a capital campaign."
Olsen JOined the UB law faculty
as an associate professor in 1978
after serving as a lecturer of law
and clinical feiJow at the Univer-

si t y of Chi cago School of Law.
Prior to that, he was judicial law
clerk to Chi ef Judgt Thomas E.

and practice. He also has been responsible for long-range planning,
evaluation and self·study. enroll ment targeting and faculty recrUit
ment, promotion and tmure.
In addiuon to h1s duties as V l(t'
dean , Olsen has served as d1rector
o( clinical education for the Ia"
school, maintammg admm1stra
tive responsibility for the 1n-hou.se
clini ca l progra m '-omprised ol
nine clinical instructors who pro vide closely supervised. legal experience in diverse areas of pracuce
to about 100 students each year.
He also has continued his re search in the areas offcderaJ post ·

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professors appointed by the State University of New Vorl&lt; Board of
Trustees .
f. Ronald Gentile, professor in the Department of Counseling
and Educational Psychology, was appointed a SUNY Distinguished
Teaching Professor in honor of h~ outstanding teaching at the
graduate, undergraduate and professional levels.
Wolfgang Wold&lt;, professor in the Department of Unguistia
and an internationally renowned linguistics scholar~ was a~
pointed a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in recognition
of con~stently extraordinary service contributions to the university community, as well as to the region, state and nation. CllfTU
The rank of distinguished professor, the highest faculty rank
in the SUNY system, is an order above full professorship.
Gentile, an expert in educational psychology, joined the UB
faculty in 1969 and served as director of the Educational Psychology Program in the Graduate School of Education from
1991 -94. He has done extensive research in the field and has
published numerous books, articles and papers on the psychology of learning and instruction, mastery learning and grading.
and behavioral, emotional and cognitive learning.
A second edition of his widely used textbook, "Educa~onal -.ar
Psychology, • was published recently.
Gentile served as project director for an UNESCO-sponsored program in Nigeria and has coordinated other intmlational education
efforts at the graduate level. He also helped ""tablish an innovative
program to help faculty members in the medical school improve
their teaching. He was awarded a Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching from the State University of New Yorlc in 1991 , an Award
for Distinguished Teaching from the UB undergraduate Student As·
sociation in 1977 and an Award for Professorial Excellence from his
school's Graduate Student Association In 1971 .
Gentile, who holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from
Pennsylvania State University. is a member of the American Psychologi·
cal Society. the American Educational Research Association and the Ameri·

can Federation of Musicians.
Wtilck, an Internationally renowned linguistics scholar who joined
the UB faculty in 1970, served as chair of the linguistics depart·
ment from 1977-87 and from 1989-91.
An expert in sodotinguistlcs, a discipline that combines the
study of the psychology of language and the study of language as a socialization proa!SS, he also specializes in the lin·
guistic. social, psychological and educational aspects of bilingualism.
WOld&lt; has published numerous books, articles and essays
on '9d&lt;&gt;iinguistics, phonetics, syntax, language classification
and the study of Andean languages. In his early """arch on
the Quechua language, the lncan language of Peru, he developed a methodology based on cultural practices and attitudes,
as well as on phonology and grammar. His worl&lt; on the rela·
tions between the Quechua language and Spanish, the nation's
major language, became the basis for Peru's policy on language and led to the designation of Quechua as an official
language of Peru.
For thesl! and other contributions, the Universidad
Nadonal Mayor de San Marcos in Uma awarded him an
honorary doctorate.
Past president of the New York State Council on Unguistics,
WOld&lt; has played an Integral role in promoting US's international programs and hasileen a consultant for the Buffalo Board of Education,
the New York Oty Board of Education and the Seneca Indian Bilingual
Education Program. Co-chair of the Sociolinguistics and Bilingualism
~of the Association lnternationalede Unguistique~
he also is the recipient of the Medal of Honor from Mazaryk University
in the Czech Republic. ·
A native of Koenigsberg, Germany, Wtilck attended the Un~ty
of london, received his bachelor's degree from the ChristianAibrechts-Universitiit In Kiel, Germany, and his doctorate from the
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Noted scientist to give :rvfFC anniversary lecture
By PAllUCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

OWARD Gardner is a
MacArthur Fo und a- ·
tion feUow, an award winning scientist and
one of the most provocative theorists in the fields of social psychol ogy and education today.
He also has something in common with Millard Fillmore Col leg&lt; (MFC)-a dedication to the

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proc~ss that often is delightful,
frightening, astonishing and can
take unexpected directions.
Millard Fillmore CoUege, in cooperation with the C reative Educa tion Foundation and with support
from the Baird Foundation, will
present a free public lecture by
Gardner in honor of its 75th anni versary, which will be celebrated
during the 1998-99 academic year.

His talk. "Leadership in To&lt;lay's
World," will examine the fin din&amp;&gt; of
his long-term empirical study of the

vaJues that guide
"cutting-edge" professional work in
our era of rapid
change. It will take
place at 2 p.m. on
Sunday in theCen·
ter for the Arts on ~
the North Campus.
A psychologist, neurologist and
educator, Gardner is on the facul ·
ties of Harvard University and the
Boston Univer.;ity School of Medicine. He also has a long-term involvement with Harvard's .. Project
Zero," a research group in human
cognition that bas a special focus on
the arts.
Gardner's 1983 book, "Frames of
Mind; introduced his theory of
multiple intelligence. His hypoth·

eses have since been validated by 25

after UB's first chanceUor, has along

years of classroom research and
have had a major impact on teaching practices across the country.
He is tho author of IS books and
hunclrtds of artidcs on sud. issu&lt;s as
effective leaJnins, and the qualities of
mind common to great leader's. He
is the proponent of an approach to
education that holds that students of
all ages in any field learn best when
individual strengths are recognized.
Gardner's is ao approach shared by
George Lopos, dean of Millard
Fillmo"' College. who said that the
collqje has long served thooe who=·
ognize that learning does not end at
the high school o r college door.
Lopos cited the hun&lt;keds of V&lt;l&lt;r·
ans, older adults and others who
have enriched MFCdassroomswith
experienres and perSpective; not fa.
miliar to many students.
Millard Fillmor&lt;: College, named

tradition of service to lifelong edu·
cation. The college bas its roots in
the university's evening division,
founded in 1923 to provide for the

educ=atronal needs of men and
women seekingfurtherstudyin aca·
demic or piofes"sian·al fields, but
who could not attend day cl=es.
This~MFC'sprincipalser­

vice orientation, altholJih it cxmtinues to expand its mission in response to the needs of its Sl\ldents
and the community. ThecoBege bas
helped thousands of students of all
"ages achieve their educational goals.
whether an academic degJ&lt;e, pro·
fessional enhancement or personal
enrichment This y.ar, according to
MFCAssistaot Dean larry Gingrich,
the college hopes to locate ~y of
its alumni and bring them back to
campus to be a part of its 75th anniversary celebration.

$530,000 gift to pharmacy school to fund scholarships
By PAUlA WITHEUU.
Report~ Contributor

D

ETERMINED to open
the door to an out standing professional

ed ucatio n to even
more students, Violet Ne:wton has
shown her philanthropic generosity again with a new gift of $530,000
to the UB School of Pharmacy.
The gift will augment The Cecil
f. and Violet W. Newton Scholar·
ship Fund that was started in 1994,
and in the past year provided
scholarships for 30 pharmacy stu ·
dents. The Newtons created the
scholarship in gratitude for th e
education and training the late
Cecil Newton, who died in 1996,
r«eived at VB that led to his suecessful professionaJ career.
" My husband truly enjoyed at ·
tending school at UB and living in

Buffalo," said Violet Newton. "And
he loved his work in pharmacy. It

always came first for him. He
wanted to help people and was
very sincere about it-helping
people is what appealed most to
him about being a pharmacist .n
Newton shares her husband's
aspiration to help others and is
carrying this through by adding to
the Newton Fund.
"I strongly believe in doing this,"
she said. "Supponing scholarships
for young, aspiring pharmacists.
especiaUy those in the school's new
doctoral program, is my way of
aiding students as they go through
their studies. My husband would
be very happy I'm mak.ing this
gift ."
A 1928 graduate of the pharmacy
school, Cecil Newton was with the
Walgre(:n Co. as a pharmacist and

store manager from 1933-78, exc&lt;pt from 1941·45 wh&lt;n he served
in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific and Korean theaters. He r&lt;·
tired from the army with the rank
of lieutenant colonel.
The Newtons resided in Upstate

our scholarship n's'"'""" not only
creates outstaoding educational opportunities for pbannacy students,
it sends a powerful message that the
school bas a well-established rq&gt;u·
tation in the phannacy field that is
strongly worth supporting."

New York and Connecticut

The Newton Fund is an en -

throughout Cecil 's career, until his
retirement in 1973. They moved to
Fon Myers, Fla., in 1979, where the
Newtons resided for 13 years, and
then settled in Bradenton, Fla.,
where Violet Newton still resides.
Wayne K. Anderson, dean of the
pharmacy school, praised Violet

dowed scholarship. The principal
is invested for growth by the Uni·
versity at Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
and a portion of the p~ are
dispersed as scholarships. Careful

Newton 's continuing generosity.
" By providing such a generous
gift to the pharmacy school; he
added, " Mrs. Newton is exempli·
fying her husband 's high ideals
and belief in the profession.
"Thisinvaluableaugmmtationof

stewardship, combined with the
latest gift, has brought the fund 's
total to Sl.l million.
As the fund continues to grow
over time, more scholarships will
be awarded. Initially, only 10 scholarships were awarded. In academic
year 1997-98, 30 pharmacy stu dents received scholarships ranging from SSOO to $1,000.

�June 18, mi/VIl2UJ.34

Xerox CEO speaks on partnership
values for Industry-University Day
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Reporter Contributor

M

ORE than 350
people packed the
atrium in the Center
for the Aru june 2 to
hear Xerox Corp. Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer Paul A.
Allaire speak about the necessity of
partnership among business, government and aq,demia in main taining a healthy U.S. economy.
The second annual IndustryUniversity Day luncheon, sponsored by the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, drew approximately 220 business representatives from around the globe, in
addition to UB faculty and admin istrators and about 90 engineering
students who have been granted
summer internships with major
companies through the university's
Engineering Career Institute.

.. This is the largest gathering

we've ever had here in the at rium ,"
President William R. Grdner
noted, with the excePtion of a few
major events associated with the

Mainstage theater.
In the keyno te speech, titled
..Ameri ca n Competitiveness: A
Matur of Partnership.'' Allaire

gave an optimistic o utlook on the
U.S. eco no m y.
"J believe it's in good shape and
gai ning momentum ," Allaire said,
but he pointed ou t two maj or
problems which he says consti t ute
"storm clouds on the horizon."
The first , he said, is very littl e
progress in !he U.S. educotional system, especially in primary and sec·
ondary education, and the second
is a drop in totaJ government spend·
ing for research and development.
"The only way we can attack these
issues is by establishing vital partnerships among business. government
and acodemia," said Allaire, who also
is a member of the Council on Com·
petitiveness. a private, nonprofit or·
ganization of chief executives from
business and academ ia.
The goal of the Council is to focu;
on improving American companies
and helping them compete effectively
in the~ world economy, he said "It's
critical that we work together-business, academia and go\'cmment-to
solve our education issues.
" hi t he modern world, wealth is
created by !he product of high hu man intelligence. It's the product of
brainpower, entrepreneurialism, of

P_. A. Alloln, ltorox Corp. cholnnon- ao, blllu n lndustryllnlwwslty Dey....,_ hold june 21n the Center for the Alb.
creativity, of innovation."
Businesses are interested in the
educational system , Allaire sa id ,
because"in today's economy,edu·
cation is absolutely critical to a
productive life.

"People who have bener educations have bencr jobs. People with
bener jobs are less likely to tum to
drugs or crime. People with a bener
education are less likely to be unem ·
ployed or on welfare for a long time."
With rega:rd to research and development , Allaire said we have to
"develop a new paradigm ... to avoid
any perceived or real drop in our
collective commitment to R&amp;D.
. "At a time when othe r nati ons
are increasing (R&amp;D commit ·
mcnt ), we're decreasing, and so we
really have to look at ways of pre·
venting this. and particularly of
creative ways to utilize the research
and development capabilities that
we have in a much more effect ive
manner," he said.
"And particularly, (we have ) to
assure that we do not do damage to
our research universities. where a lot
of the fundamental research ideasthat a re then commercialized by our
co rpo rations--do, in fact, co me
abo ut. This is because R&amp;D really is
the driver of our economy.
" lnnovation, which is what o ur
new eco n omy is based up on,
co mes from the int ellectual capi·
tal that goes into research and de ·
velop ment,.. Allaire said.
Focusing on UB, Allaire pointed
out that the school of Engineering
and App)jed Sciences has had a
long·standing partnership with in·

dustry. (Last year, UB and Xerox

signed a memorandum of understand ing to collaborate in areas
such as research, information tech ·

nology, education and training.)
.. ll 's clearly a win -win for every·
body who participates in it," Allaire
said. " It's a win for the students who
have participated in internships at
more than 80 different companies.
The fac ulty aJso win by their par·
ticipation in industry -s ponso red
research at more than 60 compa nies, and 1 rhink the major wm is
for the companies that will tell you
they've gained eno rm ously from
this association with both fa cult y
and with the students."
"Par tnership makes 11 go,"
G reiner said. The president no ted
the recentJ y formed UB Business

Alliance. chaired by Mark H.
Karwan. dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Scien ces.
which was created to help facih tate partnerships.

··we hope, through the UB !IuS!
nc.:ss Alliance. to exlend the van o us partnerships we have 1n the
region. We think working togeth er
m upsta te New York we c.::an have
the kind of resurgenc.::e th a t will
bl ow away concerns (that l the up
state economy • ~ dt·ad."
"Vital Partners''was the thcntt.' of
the luncheon. On hand to Jcc.::ept
th e first annual Vi tal Partner
Award, wh ich was established to

thank a company that has displayed
a co mprehensive relation s hip
with, and exemplar y generOSII}'
to, the school of engineering, wa s
Praxair In c.'s Bill Therrie n, viCL'
president of engineering and sup
ply system s.

New home for UB rowing teams
By CHRJmN£ VIDAL
Reporter Editor

cess both to Tonawanda Creek and
the Erie Canal.

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The 30-by-70-foot metal sectional building will be built on property owned by the New York State
Thruway Authority. The land will
continue to be open to the public.

HE rowing teams at UB
will have a new home

this fall, thanks to con-

struction of a boathouse
to be built in North Amherst.
The tempo ra ry facility, whi ch
will b e u sed by th e men 's a nd
women's row ing teams, will be lo·
catcd four miles from the North
C ampus on Tonawanda C reek

Road, east of Campbell Boulevard
and the North Amherst Fire Com·

pany.
It wi ll provide UB's women 's
and men's rowing teams with ac ·

Construction of the boathouse
will begin this summ er, with

completion expected by Sept. I. A
permanent location for the boat ·
house will be chosen at a later time.
Intercollegiate rowing is one of
the fastest -growing sports of the
decade . UB's men 's a nd women 's
rowing teams we re started in I 990

as club spor!S. In !he fall of 1997,

the women's rowing team was up ·
graded to varsi t y sta tus.
But practi ce space 1s dear. cspe·
cially m the o rtheast , where 1cv
winters ca n complicate th e prac tice season. The West Side Rowmg
Club had served as UB 's practi ce
base. but space there is limited.
The North Amherst site emerged
as an 1deallocation for the rowing
teams' practices, not only because
of 1ts proximity to the uni ve rs•t y,
but beca use the Erie Ca nal a nd
Tonawanda C ree k arc 1ce· frce 10
the late fall and ea rl y sprin g, and
because the ca nal and creek offe r
excellent rowing condi tions.

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UB's central e-mail system
to be upgraded in July Ei1
Attention e · mall u.sen : Compu ting and lnformatioo Technology
has announced that the university's central e· mail system will be
unavailable one weekend in Jul y.
The e· mail a nd Unix systems will be unavailable from 6 p.m . July
10 to 8 a. m. July 13 to allow CIT to upgrade the central system. All
mco ming mail will be stored and delivered wh en service is restored
and outgoing mail from Unu chents will be del ivered normally.
During the change m mfra.structure. an au to matic transfer will
occur fo r each user The incommg e· mail spool will be moved from
the cu rrent system to the new e· mail server. E.ach home darccton•
will be scan ned for d•rectoru:s named "mail" and any fo lders found
in these direc to n es will be moved to the new server... Procmall .. for
warding rul es, ··.qmail " files th at t.n ntain forwarding ru les and "vJ
cation .. forwarding mformallon will be t ransferred to the ne-w svs
tern . Users will rece1ve an f'· mall message contaming a log of what
transpired regardmg folde r move.&gt;~ and forwa rdmg transfers .
The upgrade will allow CIT to hudd an e -ma1lmfrastructu re tu
support the increasmg demands , as well a.s provtde the flexiblill\
and scalability tha t will be requ1 rL•d to keep up w1th future mforma tion-tec hn ology developme nt .
Acco rding to C IT, the ne"'-· e· ma.Jmfrastrudun:: will support mam·
features o f L\N · based ma1l syste ms. mcludmg file attachmenb, ad
dress books and access to the onhne c.::ampus dlret10r)'. Mobile use rs
will be abit• to access e· mali from a vanct v of platforms and locat1ons
Central e -ma 1l users may see changes 10 their serviCe. Oldt•r L.
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O anyone who's ever
left a chocolate bar on
the dashboard of a car

on a hot summer's

day, the melting pro·
cess is fairly straightforward: Heat
hits solid, solid turns to m ush.
Believe it or not, scientists who
study the p roass havm't been able
to shed much more light on it.
But now a paper publish ed in
Science by UB physicists, in col·
labo rat io n with resea rch ers at
other instit utions, has revealed
some surpr isin g details.
The findings show that when a
solid melts, it undergoes not just one
intermediate phase change--&lt;15 had
been predicted previously-but two.
The research is the first to show
ample evid en ce of an unusual liquid phase that has some local char·
acteristics of a solid, but which is
still technically a liq uid.

Melting p&lt;ocesss lm't sudden
This novel liquid phase is preceded by the hexatic phase, the
existence of which now confirms
earlier theoretical p red ictio ns.
The new fi ndings sho uld help
subsequent efforts to u nd erstand
the melting proass in real systems.
"Th is work p rovides eVidence
that melting does not have to be a
catastrophic event," explained John
Ho, co-aut h or, SONY Distinguished Service Professor in the
Department of Physics and associ·
ate dean of the Faculty of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics. "Things
don't melt all of a sudden. The process starts at the surface and then
propagates through the material."
The researchers' ability to do the

experiment with thin liquid-crystal films suspended in air was a key
factor in their ability to isolate
what was happening at the surface.
"Melting can be a ~ry hard process to keep track of in real systems," said H.o.
For that reason, scimtisu have
been trying to capture the Chang.,.
that a substance, such as liquid
cryslals, goes through when it
melts in two-dimerllio.W systems,
a somewhat &amp;impler procas:
ln this research, the scientists
used two-dimensional films suspended in air because use of a substrate can affect the experimenL
"It's technically difficult to make
measuronents on such thin films,"
said Ho.

Serious technical problems
To d ete r m in e what ki n ds of
transitions were occurring, the scientists had to overcome som e serious technical problems, utilizing
two of the world 's only scientific
instrum ents designed to meas ure
structural and thermal p roperties
of films suspended in air.
To u nderstand the phase tran sitions as the temperature rose, the
liB scientists studied the m olecu·
lar structu re of the filnts using a
special electron-diffraction microscope at Roswell l'io.rk Cancer In·
stitute that was adapted to sustain
the liqu id-crystal films.
"A solid is a very regular system,"
explained Ho. "Its molecules sit in
fixed positi~ns with regular ·distances between them, with orien ·
tational ord er in certain directio ns." By contrast, he said, a liq·
uid has neither positional nor ori ·
entational (d irectional) order.
The two phases fo und by the sci-

enlists lie betw&lt;en solid and liquid.
The first phase, which was p redicted by theorists, is the hexatic
phase.
In this phase, there is no positional order, but the molecu.Jar arrangem ent is not completely ran dom, either, and there is some orientational (directional) order.
Another phase found

"O ur two-dimensional, liquidcrystal film provides the first unequMx:al proof of the hexatic phase
because its properties were r&lt;Vealed
in the absence of a substrate," Ho
said.

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phase and the liq.;id p hase,' w~
havt found another one, which has
a slightly mor~ order~ molec;uai
environm enl than a liquid."
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yet been named, the imm ediate
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is more regular and , therefore,
closer to a solid
"The molecular arrangement is
more regular locally, bUl it does not
continue or propagate throughout
the material and, therdore, it is still
a liquid," said Ho.
In the experiments, the material
repeatedly demonstrated distinct
ch anges in its temperatu re and
density as a result of the applica·
tion of heat: stronglysuggesting a
distinct phase change.
"This still doesn't constitute in controvertible proof of~ phase,"
said Ho, "bu t the data a.re extremely convincing.•
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Chia-Fu Chou of Princeton lJni·
versjty, Anjun J.Jin ofApplied MaterialS, ~.W.' Hui of RosWdl Park
Cancerlnstitute and C.C. Huangof
the Uni~ty of Minnesota.
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RESULTS OF AN EXERCISE STRESS TEST
may help identify r=vering beart-attack·patients who could be at increased risk of heart
failure and premature death, but the predictor in this case turns out to be lowered blood
pressure, a factor usually ·roosiderod an asset.
A UB study has shown that heart-attack
patients whose systolic blood pressure &lt;tid
not rise above 140 min Hg while they were
exercising had a significantly increased risk
of dying as early as three years after the
baseline test, compared to patients whose
peak exercise systolic. blood pressure went
higher.
R.,.ults were, presented in Orlando, Fla,.
)uile 6 at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.
"As exercise increases, heart rat.&lt; and sys·
tolic blOod pressure should increase," said
Joan Dorn, assistant professor of soci.a1 and
preventi~ mediCine and lead author on the
study. " If you do more work without getting a me ih blood pressure, something is
wrong.•
A systolic p,ressure of 140 rom Hs is only
slightly higher than the resting high-normal
blOod preSsure f'or men.
"Tht.J1l&lt;!l with lower peak systolic blood
pressui. did not exhi)&gt;it any major problems
dW:U, the 1t1a5 test, and they were capable

o f doing a significant amount of work." ronfirm ihe status of 90 percent of the men,
Dom said "Based on those results, they nearlyhalfofwhom1&gt;addied. They compared
would not have been considered at in- peak blood P"'"""" with deaths, beginning
creased risk of premature death. Yet over at three )'&lt;3I'S post-test.
time, more of them rued, predominantly
"More of the men who rouldn't get their
from beart ailments.•
peak blood pres~ure above 140 wed than
Careful blood: pressure measurements those who:d&gt;uld. and the dfect was 5till strontt
doring routine stress tests ofheart-attack. at the 18-yearfollow-up," Domsaid. "Surprispatients could be a simple, inexpensive, ingly, they weren't able to overcome. .this risk
non-invasive way of identifying those at at all by ·exercise .•-,
risk of early death so that further t&lt;$ts
born said the researchers have not yet pincould be done and lives saved, Dorn said.
pointed the mechanism or .mechanisms that
The 651 men in the study were partici- prevented blood pressure from rising in re. pants in the National ~ and-Heart spo115e to exercise in these patients, but owDisease Project (NEHDP), a clinical trial peatbeywereveryclooetoleft-ventriddailassessing the dfect of eUrclse on men re- ure at the time, a ronditioo the heart romcovering from myocardial ~ction, pensated for temporarily by beating faster,
conducted at several centers in the U.S. nWipng the true problem.
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tor on tbe trial
up a red flag." she said. "Penoas at risk then
All patients were between the ases qf 30 could be t~a~ted for the ~problem."
and 64 at the study's inception. Tho;!f&lt;Xl'l!AdditiCHJiil ~ on the study war
p.leted a multistage treodmi!l eRrci.e test Naughton, Enrique Scbioterman and
as pan of-the original projeCt. with blood- Maurizio 1~-evisu~, all ofUB, on behalf of the
pressure meaiUremtnts taken at rest and NEHDP. The
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followed until their death 0&lt; until Dec. 31, Hald!,
Natioolllnllihlloe for o-iop:
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New York State Education Dept.
approves six-year doctor
of phannacy program
The Sc:hool of Pharmacy's six-year, entry-level doctor of phar-

macy (Pharm.D.) program has been approved by the New York State
Department of Education. The new program, which is now in place,

"African Dance" by Olilchn's

Dance and Drun ~
Troupe from the AfricanAmerican Cultur-.1 Center,
was part of sacred music
c:oncert pen;- 12 in the

follows a directive from the American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy approving the six-year Pharm.D., or doctorate of pharmacy, as the field's only professional degree.
The American Council on PharmactuticaJ Education, the accred -

iting body for schools of pharmacy, says that the last bacbdor's de-

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Juneteenth Festival and

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Young adults: a picture of poverty
ljl PA1111CJA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

tertainment programs.

a

groundbreaking ethnography of povertystr~ young Americans has been pub ·
li
by eseardlers at UB and the
Ci ty University of New York..
It offers compelling evidene&lt;: that
despite a continuous flow of sunny,
upbeat economic reports that imply that we are all doing better than
ever, millions in this group are doing very poorly indeed.
Sociologist Lois Weis, a professor in the UB Graduate School of
Education, and social psychologist
Michelle Fine, a professor at the
CUNY Graduate Center, are the
authors of the study, published as
"The Unknown City: The Lives of
Poor and Working Class Young
Adults" (Beacon Press, 1998).
The book reports the results of
a major study, funded by the Spencer Foundation, that assessed the
effects of deindustrialization and
two decades of welfare reform on
the young urban poor.
Scholars of public policy, including historian Michael Kau of
Pennsylvania State Unive rsity, repeatedly point out that this is the
very group that should comprise
America's high-technology, skilled
' labor pool. Instead, Weis and Fine
paint a picture of unskilled, desperate and poverty-stricken young
Americans living on this country's
social and econom ic margins.
The study is based on three years
of in-d~pth intervi~ws with 154
poor and ·working-class m~n and
wom~n whos~ voic~s r~pr~s~nt

millions of others in th~ sam~ pre-

dicament, the researchers say. Subjects were aged 23-35 and living in
Buffalo and Jersey City, N.J. Both
cities suffered the loss of industry
over the past few decades and con tinue to endure high levels of un -

employment and poverty.
The sample was separated into

white, Latino and black subsarnples
and into male and

femal~

subsec-

tions. Several chapters addn:ss issues
specific to each gender/racial gmup,
regardless of city. Interviews covered
subjects ranging from desire to work
and employment experience to family life, value sys't=s. child care, domestic abuse, dealings with ·w.lfan:
wori&lt;en and polkc, and a discussion
of the portrait of thiS group presented by media, from news to en-

During the interviews, subjects
spoke directly to
the changes in their
homes and lives

during the past two
decades of changes
in

~conom ic

tions drawn by the study concur
with the 1990 census, which docu -

mented the fact that the Reagan
boom years benefited only the top
fifth percentile of the population
while the bottom two-fifths lost
ground, some of them a great deal

of ground. Subjects' description of

and

public policy. They

fe w employment opportunities

described an inc r~ase in poverty, WDS
despair, hung~r.
domestic violence, sickness, ruined
communiti~ ali~tkm , and ~co ­
nomic and sociai marginalization.
"Thest" are the Americans whom
conservatives would tell to 'go out
and get a job.'" said Weis. "What we

available to them are reflected by

found, however, is that these young
adults not only want to work. but
many of them do work long and
hard hours in a struggle to overco me poverty and better their Hves.
"' We may prefer to see these

people as irresponsible social and

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educational dropouts who make up
a relatively unimportanl segment of
the society and the economy." Weis
added, ..but we are wrong. They are,

by and large, not irresponsible, but
desperate. Their numbers are legion.
And they are sinking fast."
"Every day," the authors write,
"these people suffer losses that arc
unimaginable to most of us-the
loss of community, family, self-esteem and economic stability. Still,
they struggle to overcome the odds
and find a place in American life.
That struggle is their strength. II
is America's strength as welL"

"The Unknown City" has been
praised as a"powetful, passionate and
subtle book" by researchers in social policy, sociology and history who
have cited it for documenting "the
courage and strength of resistance
that exists within poor and workingclass urban communities."
Weis said that "many of the stories
our subjects told are dist=singly familiar. Not only have the lives ofthose
in this population' segment not improved over the past 20 years, but
they've become markedly worse."
The authors say that the observa-

U.S. Department of Labor statistics

that show markedly higher unem ployment rates among black and Hispanic gmups than among whites
During their research, Weis and

Fine discovered something they had
not expect.ed-&lt;triking differene&lt;:s
of opinion about issues thai fell
along race and gender £ines, rather
than along lines of economic class
or location. The sou rce of violence
of concern to white male subjects.
for instance {violence from men of
color), was quite different from the
source of violence feared by black
and Hispanic men (violent treat-

ment by police). Both, in tum , differed from the type and source of
violence feared by women (domestic violence, which is reported as
pervasive and severe) .
"This segment of our popula tion," the authors note, .. remains
badly understood and silent in our
national conversation, blamed by
the public for their unfortunat e
circum stances and punished further by those with the power and
a uthority to effect change."
Weis said she and Fine hope their

research will alert the public and
the press to the errors in popular
belief about this segment of th r

population. They also hope that
their work will help direct public
policy in a way that eventually will
offer economic hope to the unem -

ployed and working poor.
Weis is the author of scho larly
articles on economic class and race,
and several books. including "Work·

ing Class Without Work: High
School Students in a De-Industrializing Economy." She recently co-ed-

ited "Off WIUte: Readings on Race,
Power and Society" with Fine, LC.
Power and LA.M. Wong. Weis alld
Fine also have WTitten a book that
examines the articuJation of class.
race, gender and power in society.
Fine is the author of "Becoming Gentlemen" (with Lani
Guinier and Jane Bahn ) and
"Framing Dropouts ," among

many other scholarly works.

1

gree in pharmacy class it wiU accredit is the Class of 2004.
Any third -year student in the school 's baccalaureate program can
track into the doctoral program; the first two years of the baccalau reate and doctoral programs are identical.
The switch from th e baccalaureate to the doctoral degree is
driving one of th e most dramatic shifts in emphasis the profes sio n has seen, acco rd ing lO Wayne K. Anderson , dean of the
school, because it will produce graduates who will spend far more
time on patient -ca re management than they will on dispensing
drugs.
Students in US's doctoral program must select. and be accepted
into, one of four " tracks " that will allow them to specialize in a
pa rticular area: ambula tory, which is community pharmacy pra ctice; clinical, which is primarily hospital practice; industrial.
which involves working with clinical trials in th~ pharmaceutical
indust r y, and research. whiCh mvolves drug discovery and anal ysis. quality control and research tn both industrial and academ1 c
settings.
At UB, the Ph•rm.D. progr•m fe.•tures:
• An increased clinical emphasis, including 40 weeks of full -lime,
clinical clerkships. up from 18 weeks in the bachelor's program .
• New courses, such as ambulatory and in -patient d1sease-staH.'
management and dinicaJ pathways courses, in which student\ learn
algorith ms, o r decision points; how to manage drug therapy for dafferent diseases, and pharmacoeconomic.s, wh ich involves determin
ing the economic impact of drug therapies on patients.
• A modular, rather than a departmental, approach , in wh1 ch o ne
subject, cardiology, for example , is team ~ taught by faculty fro m sev
era! disciplines.
Students who complete th e doctoral program will have had mo rl'
than 1.600 hou rs of clinical clerkship. more than satisfymg the eli gibility requirement for taking the New York State board exam .
St udents interested in applymg to the doctoral program should
contact Cindy Konovitz in the school 's Office of Admissions at 64 52825 or by e-mail a1 &lt;konovitz@acsu.buffalo.edu &gt;.

UB to offer new surn.iner
language program for
elementary-school children

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Multilingual proficiency promises to become more and more
important to all of us as we enter the new century. Such profi cien cv.
experts tell us, begins with the exp loration of new languages a1 a
·
young age.
This summer, UB will offer new. two-week introductory courses
m five languages for chi ldren in first through sixth grades. The Lan guage Exploration Program will give elementary-school children an
opportunity to devel9p a familiarity with Mandarin Chinese, Hindi,
Japanese, Spa nish o r Irish Gaelic.
The co urses will be taught through US's Wo rl d Languages Insti tute. They will run Monday through Friday. ju ly 6- 17. on the North
Campus.
Hindi, Japanese, Mandann Chtnese and Spanish will be !aught
from 9 - 11 a.m . Irish Gaelic will be offered fTom 2-4 p.m.
The cost of each course is S 150 per child. The program capacit y is
limited. For more information, cal l the UB World Languages Insti tute at 645 - 2292, or send e-mail to &lt; ub-wli@acsy.buffa.lo.edu &gt;.
The World Lan guages Institute offers a broad range of long- an d
sho rt -term programs tn more than 10 critical languages from Ara
hie to Haitian Creole.
Visit the institute 's Web site a1 &lt; http: / / wlngs.buffalo.edu/ ac:ademlc/ department/ AandL/ world-languages/ &gt;.

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By El.UIU;OI.DaAUM
News Sefvices EditOI'

F

CED with the prospect
f taking a notoriou sly
npopular college course,
studenu have been known

to protest: "'You'd have to pay me
to take it !"
During the first week of June, 40
st udents at UB struck just such a
dea l. Their professors hope that
they found it in tell ect ually-as

well as finan cially-rewarding.
As part of a National Science
Fou ndation-supported workshop
UB sponsored on "Case Studies in
Science," each st udent received
SIOO--paidbytheNSF-topartici·
pate in a simulated class and then
to provide a detailed critique of it.

"Scientific Inquiry" course' for
nonscience majors.
Their data show that when they

useth&lt;approacb.studentanendance
rates jump to 95 penznt, compared
to an average of 50-75 percent in
some lecturepformat courses, and
students gen=lly t.am and retain
more than in traditional counes.
AccordingtoHerreid,usingcase
studies-standard practice in
business, law and med.iqne-has

enormous potential because it
humanizesscieoce,involvingstu·
dents in the most exciting aspects
of what he calls "frontier science.•

facts surrounding
the issue and then
are given the nee·
essaryinfonnation
withwhichtoso!v.i
problems sur-

rounding a case.
Students must
demonstrate their
understanding of

the science involved in the case

"Textbooks give us something
that is cut and dried, that looks
crisptsharp and intelligent," he said
"But I want to give students a sense
of the chaos that really goes on in
science, to demonstrate not how
scientists say they go about doing
science, but how they really do it."
The approach involves the use
of cases, iniportant and often controversial historical and con tern porary ·stories that concern scien tific ideas and issues, as well as
basic principles about scientific
phenomena.
Examples developed at UB inelude " Bad Blood: A Case Study of

through a number of possible
methods. They may, for example,
be asked to participate ln a laboratory exercise or write a paper that
argues a particular view.
In one course taught by Herreid,
students staged a mock trial about
the spotted-owl debate. "Witnesses"
from the logging indwtryand from
conservation groups presented their
opinions;studentsrespondedtothe
issues raised and wrote papers.
Herreid said that the method is
particularly engaging for students
not majoring in science.
"Students who want to major in
science have this tolerance for the
bad teaching that goes on in many
college science classes.," said Herreid.
' They like the science so much that
they know the material will get ~t ter. But people who are not inherently scientific do not have that toterance."
He ,sajd that the case-study approach irnpr~ves. the ie~r~i~S-~ -

gra t ing their strengths," said
G r einer. who is chair of the
CU BRC Board of Directors. "As a
result, we expect there to be important improvements in highway
safety that will decrease the num ber of fatalities.
"This partnership exemplifies
what is possible for our region when
we work together," Greiner added.
"By leveraging UB's strength in the
area of clinical research with those
of Calspan, a world leader in aeronautics, defense and transportation
research and development. we have
brought a total ofS48 million in re·
search funding into Western New
York during the past J5 year.;."
Joseph Allen, Veridian board
chair and a member of the CUBRC
Board of Directors, noted that
Veridian's Calspan Operations has
been a world leader in transporta·
tion safety for more than SO years.
"The establishme nt of this new
center, the result of Representative
Jack Quinn's leadership in the
Hou se, is a n extension of
Veridian's co rporate values and
culture as we work toward making our nation's highways safer for
everyone," he ,sajd.
Quinn, a member of the House
Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee, requested and helped
secure the funding fo r the new
program in the transportation bill.
"The CUBRC center will have a
significant impact on improving the
safety and efficiency of our nighways," he said. "The joint res&lt;arch

project will help save tives in West·
em New York and around the country by using the most up-to-date and
innovative technology available."
The new funding complements
research efforts under way by the
UB Department of Emergency
Medicine and Calspan invo lving
real-wo rld testing of advanced
lechnologies to provide automated
notification of crashes and improve
links to the 91 J system.
"The center will apply systems·
engineering methodologies to ad vanc e the state-of-the-art for
crash -notification and respon se
systems," said Edward Starosie1ec,
vice president of Calspan's Transportation Group.
"We need to consider aU possible linkages, data requirements
and necessary infrastructure to
improve how emergency-response
systems work. We want to identify
technologies and systems that can
work together across the entire
spectrum from crash avoidance to
crash notification.and emergency
response, and identify areas where
we can develop or test specific
technology solutions."
According to Calspan and UB
researchers, automated crash-notification and response systems are
a critical element in improving the
highway and transportation
"safety net."
Through the use of Global Positioning Systems (G PS}, cellular
co mmunications networks and
advanced vehicle electronics, the

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how Klenttsts say they go

The workshop, which admitted
on ly 30 faculty members. was de·
s igned to provide professors at
other coUeges and universities with
an intensive education in writing
case studies to use in undergradu ate science classes for nonmajors.
Facultyparticipatingintheworkshop represented such institutions
as Syracuse University, Pennsylvania
State University, Indiana University
and Purdue University.
"I'm o ut to revo lutionize th e
teaching of science," said Clyde F.
He rreid , SUNY Distinguished
Teaching Professo r in the Depart ·
ment of Biolog icaJ Sciences and
workshop director.
For the past eight years, Herreid,
who has pioneered the case-study
approach for science teaching, and
other UB science faculty members
have used it in the undergraduate

the Tuskegee Syphilis Project,"
"Life on Marr-A Dilemma Case
Study in Planetary Geology" and
" Human Cloning: Dialogues as
Case Studies."
In each one, students learn the

-doing science, but
how they really dolt. "
ClYD£ F. HERREID

perience for nonmajors by getting
them more involved.
"The studenu care about these
case studies," be said "They learn
the material as they need to learn
it•
A few yean ago, be used th&lt; issue
of DNA testing in the 0.). Simpson
trial as a way to teadl genetia.
~ I want to reach kids whm: they
live," said Herreid "If I want to talk
about DNA, what better way is
there than to talk about the
Simpson trial?"
Herreid has teamed up with
Nancy Schiller, associate h'brarian
in UB's Science and Engineering
Librar y and co-director of the
workshop, who bas developed the
Case Studies in Science World
Wide Web site.
The address is &lt;http:/ I
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projects/ uses/case.htllll&gt;.
So tiu, the site contains nine de·
tailed cases, including suggestions for
how to teadl them by th&lt; UB fBculty
membm who developed them.
Each faculty member who at·
tended the workshop was expected
to contribute one case to the site
within six months; in return, they
will receive $250 under the NSF
grant.
The site also includes numerous
tinks to Web sites that are good
sornces for developing more case
studies, such a5 those including
classic papers in various ·sciences,
as well as sites for scientific publications and centers for the study
of political and ethical issues rt·
lated to science.

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determine th e most cost-effective
techniques fo r retrofi tting existi ng
ones
The new Cen ter for Transportati o n Injury Resea rch being established by CU BRC will develop
and eva lu ate systems and lech nologies to improve management
of the transpo rtation and emergency- response systems to reduce
injuries and loss of life resultin g
fro m vehicle-related crashes.
"C UBRC's Center for Transpor tation Injury Research addresses a
cr itical national need-reducing
the level of injuries and fatalities
on the nation's highways," sa id
Thomas McMahon. CU BRC ex ecutive director.
McMahon said the center will
bring together experts in emergency m edicine and transporta ti on-safety research to addres s
crash and injury prevention, as
well as to look at how to mitigate
the personal and economic costs
of crashes that do occur.
An !mportant focus of the cen ter will be the development of
technology to improve th e deli very of emergency-medical services
to victims of rural crashes. Nearly
60 percent of all traffic fatalities
occur in rural areas. where delays
in crash notification and the de livery of emergency and definitive
medical care are likely to occur.
"The Center for Transportation
Injury Resea rch wiU maximize the
existing cooperative rel ationship
between UB and CaJs pan by int e·

researchers hope to exploit and
improve on current capabilities, a!
well as identify aJ)d test new sys·
terns that will provide emergencyservice personnel with new tools
for delivering better and faster care
to crash victims.
Dietrich Jehle, associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Emergen~ Medicine and
an investigator on the CU BRC
project, said the emergency-medicine aspects will include evaluating and testing new too1s to corre1ate crash severity and injury severity.
" This represent s a critical
knowledge gapjor those of us in·
volved in the practice of emergency medicine, and represents an
area for potentially significant savings in lives and reductions in in jury severity," said Jehle, director
of the Emergency Medicine Departmen t at th e Erie Coun t y
Medical Center.
He noted that the UB Department of Emergency Medicine and
the emergency department at
ECMC. which has some of the best
survival rates for trauma centers
in New York State, are particularly
well-versed in gathering and ana·
lyzing this type of information.
Anthony J. BiUittier, assistant
professor of emergency medicine.
and Alan Blatt, principal engineer
with Calspan, will provide techn icalleadersbip on medical and en·
gineering iss ues relative to the
project.

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Seymour Axelrod, 70,
emeritus professor of psychiatry
and psychology
A rnemort.l service was held on June 14 in the_Center for lnquJT)
for Seymou r Axelrod, 70, a psycholog1st who was profcs.sor erncntus m

Grand Piano
Times Four

Six pianists performing on four grand
pianos presented Kevin Volans' "Kneeling
Dance" June 6 in Slee Concert Hall for
June in Buffalo's Concert 9. Erik Ona was
conductor for the piece, which featured
Helena Bugallo, Claudia Hoca, Stephen Manes.
SallyTodd, Heidi Upton andAmyWilliams.

GSE forms network to aid schools

Education researchers will help personnel identify, solve problems

By PAT111CIA DONOVAN

News Services E'C1ttOr

T

HE Collaborative Re·
search Network (CRN)
has been established by
the Graduate School of
Ed ucation (GSE) to assist local
schools, teachers and administrators
who want to substantively reform
their curriculums and teaching
methods or solve problems uniq ue
to their schools or classrooms.
UB education researchers will
work with school personnel to
identify and resolve specific prob-

lems related to their individual
si t uations. In turn, the schools will
provide researchers with firsthand
knowledge of admin ist rative and
teaching practices in the field and
illuminate for them some of the
obstacles and incentives to educa-

tional reform.
Access to faculty expertise
Teachers, administrators and UB
facul ty members can propose ideas
fo r 1998-99 projects to CRN by
calling 645-2696. 1mmediate assist an~ is available to help applicants
clarify ideas and connect with fac ,ulty members having expcnise in
a particular area of concern.
CRN will provide a simple ap-

plication fo r a small grant to be
used for equipment, materials and
labor for collectin g and analyzing
data, but participating schools are
expected ttl provide matching re·
sources. The extent of involvement
ofUB faculty members in support
of the collaborative research will
be negotiated separately fo r each
project.

The network will be co-directed
by Robert Stevenson, professor
and chair of the GSE's Department
of Educational Leadership and
Policy, and Suzanne Miller, associate professor in the school's Depanment of Learning and Instruc tion.
Stevenson said the network is a
mutual-assistance program that
can help bring teaching practice
up-to-date and research practice

down -to-eanh.
Answers for variety of questions
The kinds of questions a local
school might answer through collaborative research with UB faculty
members are many and varied, he
added. Researchers might help
schools determine how weU different kinderganen and preschool programs prtpare children to learn to
read in the first grade, for instance.
They could help a school find
out how well reading and writing
are integrated in to its primary·
grade curriculum. They may offer
assistance to a teacher in deter·
mining how the uses of primary
sources like original documents,
photos and artifacts might promote a more authentic teaching
and learning of history.
Other possible joint research
projects suggested by Stevenson
might concern:
• The extent to which girls receive
the same curriculum experiences
and opportunities in math and
science as boys do in a particular
school
• Howspecial·ed ucation resource
teachers suppo rt teaching and

learning in mainstreamed classrooms
• How reader - response ap ·
proaches to the teaching of litera ·
ture serve to develop students'
cri tical and creative thinking.
CRN replaces and extends the

UB school 's 3-year-old Profess ional Development Network,
which increased cross-disciplinary
collaboration among the GSE 's
several departments and the specialized research programs within
them .
Stevenson said Lhc ne"w network
also will promote the study of the
relationship between educational
research and the administrative
policies and teaching practices of
individual schools. This relation ship is of concern to many in the
educational field, since it can in fluence the validity of research
findings, as weU as Lheir applica tion in the field .

Wort will help reform efforts
"CRN will provide UB faculty
researc hers a much greater degree
of familiarity wi t h the specific
problems our sc hoo ls struggle
with on a day - to-day basis,''
Stevenson said. It will provide
them with an opportunity to con duct research with front -line edu cators whose perspectives and in sights are different from their own.
.. Their work," he said, "will ac -

tually help education reform effort s initiated by individual
schools or teachers. In that way, it
will help improve classroom prac tices right here in Western New

York."

the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology. Axelrod, a faculty mern
ber for 34 years who retired m 1996, died May 21 aher a long illness
Funeral serviCes were held on May 22 in Delaware Pa rk Memonal
Chapel.
Axelrod came to UB m 1964 from Duke UniVersity, where he had been
an assistant professor 10 the Department of Psychology. He taught re
search tools and methods for psycluatry residents and lectured on such
topics as resarch opportuniues.leaming theory and behavior mod.tfication, as weU as supervising theses of graduate and doctoral students.
Known as a patient teacher and a skillful sciena writer, Axelrod web an
avid reader, especially of dictionaries. For the past nine years, he was ac1M in Mendele,an international Y"oddish-interest online discussion group.
Born m New York City, Axelrod graduated cum laude in 195 I from
Washington Square College. New York University. He rece1ved hl.!o
doctorate in psychology in 1958 from New York Univers1ty's G radu
ate School of Arts and Science, where he was a University Scholar.
He served in the Army Air Force from 194;-46.
At UB, Axelrod was active in the Faculty Senate, serving the orga nization as secretary from I 986· 88, dunng which time he also cha1red
th~ Elections Commi ttee. He had been a member of a number of
committees m the Department of Psychiatry, chainng the Com mil .
tee on Appointments, Promot1ons. Tenure and Pnvileges. He was
president oft he Faculty Council 1n the School of Medicine and Bw m~dical Sciences from 1994 -95 and was co·chair of its task force on
faculty develop men! . Axelrod also had ~~n a member of the ln stl
tutional Revaew Board in the School of Health Related Professaon~
The au thor or co-a uthor of more than 50 sc ientific papers, Axelmd
was the recipient of numerous grants from the National Institut e
for Mental Health, the Na tional Institutes of Health and tht" Na tionallnstitute for Neurological Diseases and Blindness for re.!oearch
10 such areas as tactile and aud ito ry functions in blind children and
neurological s tudi ~s of perceptual functions.
He i~ survived by his wife. Jamce; a son, Ethan Jacob of Buffalo,
and three daughters, Bryn Loizeaux of Westchester, L1eza Z10nt~ of
Buffalo and Shoshanna Friedman of Provence, France.

W. Howard Mann, 87,
law school professor emeritus
A memorf•lservke w•.s held In Mlnoul•, Mont_, for W. Howard

Mann, who served as a professor of constitutional Ia...,. m the UB law
school from 1967 -8; and was a former law clerk an th~ U.S . Supreme
Co urt. Mann , 87, died June 4 in his home in Missoula. He retired
from UB 13 years ago. moving to Montana in.l993.
Mann. who earned national recognition as an outstandmg con stitutional law scholar, was known for his encouragement of excel lence and for has high standards in the field of law.
R Nils Olsen, Jr.. who will become dean of the UB School of Law on
Aug. I , noted in The Buffalo News that Mann "was a respected memlx-r of

the UB law faculty. He dedicated tus profess•onal tife from his Supreme
Court clerkship... to his many years at UB to the intellectual stud)' of law.
His many colleagues will miss him and send rondolmccs to his family."
A graduate of Monmouth (-Ill .) College. Mann did graduate work
a t the Univers1ty of Iowa. Ht received a juris doct o rate magna cum
laude from the University of Iowa College of Law.
Mann served in the U.S. Navy from \94 I -43. retmng as a lieuten ant comma nder.
He was law clerk for'JustJCe Harold H . Burton of the Supreme Court
an 1945·46. Before coming to US m 1967, he taught constitUtional
law at Indiana University School of Law. He was a visitmg Fulbnght
Research Professor to the Supreme Co urt of India an 1965-66.
Mann was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Amencan
Academy of Soences.
Survivors tndude his wife of b I years, Mary Elltn: two daughters .
Karen Allen of Missoula and Susan of Kamloops. B.C.; a son. Enc,

of Woodland Hills, Calif.; a hrother, J. Kcllh of Stanford. Cahf.. and
five grandchildren .

Deans named
Contlnuedfrom-1

conviction remedies and environ ·

mental policy.
A 1974 graduate of the Colum·
bia Universi t y School of Law,
O lsen received a bachelor 's degree
with honors from t he University
of Wisco nsin. He is a member of
Lhe Lewiston-Poner school board,
and has served as a member of t he
boards of directors of New York
Sta te Environmen tal Advocates,
t he Youngstown Free Library and

Great Lakes United .
As

dean of the School of Man-

agement, Mandell wdl succeed
Frederick W. Win ter, who left UB

last July to head the Joseph M. Katz
Graduate School of Business and
the College of Business Administra tion at the University of Pittsburgh.
Headrick no ted that Mandell
"brings to UB extensive experience
as an academic administrator.
teacher and schola r, and has dem -

onstrated success in working w1th
facu lt y and business leaders to
expand the resource base of a
management school .
"Dr. Mandell is committed to
leading the School of Management
to greater distinction and broader
recognition," Headrick said.

While at Marquette, Mandell

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tablished an executive MBA pro-

gram, a fully funded Family Business
Center and a National Institute for

( :hurch Management. He also

Manddl ha., authoTl"\..1 Ih O.:ll.,k.\ and

funded and built a high-techno!

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Prior to his work at Marquene,
he served as associate dean and
professor of finance and pol1t1 ·
cal sc1ence m the School of Busi ness Administration at the Una
vcT.!oity of Connecticut.
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banktng, cpm mercia l lending.
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the us An Gallory. Center tor the
Arts, through SepL 13. Galley
houn. a~Wed.·Sat, 10:30a.m.8 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m.

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The Croativo cmt Center, 120
F~lmore. Ellicott Complex. will
offer Summer WOricshops.
beginning the _.. olluly 1 3.

Wotfuhops aro scheduled In
basic and lntermediato pottery,
ceramic sculpb.Jre fort~.
basic blade~
photography, basic and
advanced colo&lt; photography,
camera use and operatiOn,
aerial photography, nature
photogrophy, night
photography, basic drawing fD&lt;
teens, knitting and crocheting,

woavlng. quilting. toxtilo
design (Shibori techniques},
Brazilian embroidery, and

creative kids art woricshop.
Children's classes run on
SabJ!days from 10 a.m.-noon
and 1·3 p.m. Thoro alsoaro
weeldy summer sessions ol
childron's dassos (S60}
beginning july 6, 1uly 20 and
Aug. 3 from 9,30 a.m. to noon

(ages 6-1 0}.

'Norks.hops run one night a
woel&lt;forsixwoelufrom 7-1 0
p.m. Fees are S30 for UB
studerlls ilnd sso for all othm;
early sign-up b advised.
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1-S p.m and 7-10 p.m.

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tho Thursday

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Show You Cm,•e!
United Way's Sixth Annual Day of Caring
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1998
Join with UB faculty, staff, students and thousands of other Western New
Yorkers on Aug. 19 in volunteering a half-day of your time for the United
Way's Day of Caring. Teams will be matched with local human-service
cies to perform a variety of volunteer tasks, ranging .from painting, cleaning and landscaping, to working with senior citizens and young· adults.
(Professional and support staff must arrange -with supervisors for approved
leave from job responsibilities.)
UB has a limited number of volunteer slots for this year's Day of Caring,
so sign up nowl Plelpe Nblnt fomo at right as soon as possible to the
attention of: Tint -....,, .uo Crvfts Hall, North c....,... (Jihone 6452.660, Ext. 262; Fax 645-6795). Teams that wish to .work together should
submit all their forms in one pad&lt;et, with one form per team member. ~
will contact all volunteers ·with additional information by early August
o.y of Caring SdMdule: 1/2 day commitment is all that's needed. 7:308:30a.m.: Registration, continental breakfast and send-off cally at the Marine Midland Arena. 8:30a.m.: "Send-off (buses depart for agencies). 9 a.m.·
1:25 p.m.: Work at agency. 1:30 p.m.: Buses return participants to Marine
Midland Arena.

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RLr:ruiting students, /998:
PAGE S
relerounseling makes a diJforena.

A Passion for Painting

PAGE 7

Program purs play back into rhe
lives of kids wah disabilities

May 21.1!91/VIi29.Nn.33

Swept
away
Newlyweds with much to
celebrate: U.S. Marine
Lieutenant Erich DelaVega,
UB '95, carries his wife,
Veronica Rodriguez, UB law,
'98, from the law school
graduation in the Center
for the Arts on Saturday.

Senate endorses progress report proposal
Resolution on grade replacement sent back for revision by grading committee
..,. SUE WU£TCHEII

News Servkes Associate Director

T

HE Faculty Senate has
endorsed a proposal re·
quiring faculty members
•
to issue mid-stmester
progr~ reporu for freshmen and
first-semester transfer students.
However, a controversial pro posal that would have made it

easier for students to retake
courses in which they have earned
grades of C+ or less was sent hack
to the body's Grading Co mmittee
for rtvision , with action expected
by the senate in the fall.
The resolution on mid-semester
progress reports that was approved

unanimously by the senate at its last
meeting of the academic year on
May 13 was a revised vers ion of a
proposal that had been presented

to senators on May 6. The revised
version takes into account com ment.s made by senators about the
.. danger .. of using letter grades on
a report o utlinin g s tudents '
progress as of mid-semester, noted
Grading Comminee Chair Thomas
Schroeder, associate professor of
learning and instruction.
Unlike th e o rigin a l version ,
which allowed faculty members to
report students' progress using let ·
ter grades o r via a pass/fail designation, the revised resolution spe·
cifically defines the progress report
as .. a statement from the in stru Ltor indicating whether, on the ba
sis of attenda nce and work com
pleted, submitted and eval uated to
date, the student is making 'sa tt ~
factory progress' or 'unsatisfactory
progress' in the course."'

The change was made, Schroedt:r
sa1d, because 11 better fulfills the
goal of the resolution. which is to
obtain a report of s,tudent s'
progress. "Wha t we really o ught to
know is, is the stuQent tn questiOn
progressing satisfactorily o r not ? So
on that basis, that is what we asked
the instructor to provide ."
The purpose of the proposal. he
noted, is to identify those student\
who are at risk of failing, so that ad voors can intervene to make su re the
students are aware of the situauon
and can take appropriate a(tJon .
He stressed that the progrcs:report should no t be conside red to
be a final grade for any fraction of
the cou rse. "Th 1s IS not an ·s·grade
o r a ·u· grade: it'.~ a progress re
po rt. And 1t 's not the grade for half
of the semester," he !&gt;ald.

Don .){'hack, professor of math
ematlcs, caJ led the new resolutiOn
"a fine revision ," but suggested that
the \ast poi nt of the resolution tw
''amplifiL-cf" Wllhln the Uil/VCTSit\'
The final secti on of the resolu
11on states that '"aU instructo rs are
encouraged to give all th ei r stu dents performa nce feedback on a
regu lar basis, and early e nough m
the semester so that students who
are not perform mg will have It me
to take remed tal act1on ."
'' I hope tha t more cffon would
he made to make sure tht: facultv
are aware of the need to prov1de
some mformat1on to th~.· studcnb
on how they 're domg m a course
10 llmc for the student s to take re
medial aCt lOll ,.. S~ h ack !&gt;3id \"'hdl•
he noted that tht· d1rrctor of un

Black namc:d vice president for student affairs
By SUE WUETCHUI

News Services Associate Director
ENNIS R. Black has
been named viceprcsi dentfo r studentaffairs,
President William R.
Greiner has announced.
Blackhasserved as intcrimvice
president since Aug. I, following
th e resignation of Ro bert L.
Palmer. )r. He previously served as
associate vice president for student
affairs and dean. of students.
Black is responsible for provid ing leadership and formulating
and implementing policies en compassing aU facets of st ud ent
affairs. He oversees Auxiliar y Services and Student Services, which
includes Residence Halls. Student
Life, Student Health Services, Ju +
dicial Affairs, Leadership Center,
University Co un se ling. Publi c
Safe:ty, Multicultural Affai rs,Park ing and Transporta t ion, Confer -

D

ences and Special Events, Faculty
Stud ent Association, Disabiht\'
Se rvices, Student Judiciar y, Stu dent Un ion and Career Plann•ng
and Placement .
"Throughout his career at UB.
Dennis has been a leading advo ca te of stud en t dev e lopment
through his extensive efforts wi th
a numbe r of individuals. organi zations and governance gro ups on
campus." said G reiner. " He ts ded1
ca ted to the m1ssion of our OtvL
sion of Student Affatrs and ha !&gt;
earned the respect and admira tion
of UB st udents. facult)' member!&gt;
and administrators alike.
" His leadershtp m hu; mtenm ca pacity has already gone a long way
toward ensuring and improving UB'!&gt;
qualityofcampuslif~."heco ntinu ed.

"Underhisdirectio n,StudentAffairs
is poi.std to mili funher strides towa.rdfulfillingallthepotentials ofour
campus community."

(jre Ln c r added that BlaLk ha!&gt;
"been an impunan t leader"' ml'H\
efforts to develop 1ts first on -Lam
pu~ hou;,;•n~ 1n
ncarlv 2S year:-construc t Lon o l
apa rtm ent -!&gt;! vi~·
ho usmg for un
dergraduatt·s on
th e North Cam
ILA.Ot
pus is expe tt'd to
beg1n 1n Augu st
w1 th OL.cupanq slated (or the fall
1999 sem ester- a nd in facil itatmg
development of a child -care centt•r
on the North Campus, which as set
to open for the Fall \998 semt'Stcr
Senio r V !Ct' Prestdent Robe rt ).
Wagner. cha1r of tht• searc h com
mt tt ee that rev1cwed candidate)
for the posJttOn, noted that the
com mitt ee forwarded th e name!&gt;
of fina lists for the post li on to
C reiner after co ndu cting ana
ttonal sea rch for t he position .

Blad ha!&gt; held d vant'l\ l ll .. tu
d('nt -servLCC!&gt; po!&gt;IIHlll !&gt; "llll..c 11111l
111~ UB 1n 1~ 7 8 il!l cxccut i\'t' dirt·..
tor of ~uh Board l.lnL .. .1 l 1 H ''u
dent .. ~.-· rv• .. ~.-· l nrpur .J IJ• rn 11 ~.. ervt'd ..~, dt•an of studenb tm m
1988 -9 7. and wa!&gt; n.1mcd a!t-.oU.JI~
vtcc prc,ldt:nt tor stuJ~· nt .tfta1r.,
Ln 1991 after 'ervmg ,J., a;;~ou.Jt~·
v1ce provost for .. tudt·nt 'L'r\''"-'--''
~Ln(e 1987

t le aiM t · ~ .Jn ctdlun .. t .1.:.~ 1\tan t
profes!tor Ill the l;raduatr \~hool
o f Educat1on.
Editor of Perspet ll\'f. 1"ht· &lt; ""'
pw Lc.ogal Montllh· newsletter w1t h
a natiOnal Ci rcu latio n o f mort· th.m
1.700 college!&gt; and unlvcr~ll• t' '
Black also spca~ . wnte!&gt; and l Oll
suits on student servJC('· rel.ltl·d t:sues and legal concern" at confer
ence:s and instttut 1ons natton"'•tde
He rece1ved a bachelor '!. degrc~·
m political !lcience and h1 ston .
and a Ia"'' degrt"e . both from L' B

�2 Repadesr May21.1!91/Vol.29.11e.33

BRIEFLY

~"C!.':eua:
Ruth D . l l y o n l . - - o1
tho School ol Al&lt;hlloctun! ond
secrec.y ol tho
IJnbd Wily o i Yortts--.:tol
Di&lt;ec1Dn, ...wd as
dlalr tho'Vniled
Wily ol New Vert
s-'s 12th onnuol
c.onlorenco for \001.
unt..,. ond pmfesslonlis hold
.....,. 1S.191n Aa&gt;ony. The
theme for tho contemn was
to tho 21st Century.·.
O&lt;yont. '""'""'"ling t h o boold. also reanl!y attondod tho
United Wily ol """"""" annual
conlemu In Atlanta.
A member ol tho proles.
sional stiJif since 1960, lkyant
has been active In • number' ol

·p-

uniY&lt;nity orgonizotions, including tho Professional Stoll Senate,
soMng IS chair in 1988-89. She
has ...wd oo a number ol..,;..
vmlty-wido comrrittefos. incJucj.
ing tho Task Force oo Women.

Geology awards
are announced
DepartmentaiiWI&lt;ds for tho
Dep111mentol~ ­

announced 5&lt;Jnday. tho
depaltrnl!nt's ~ ar..-.y. The~JalleMemo­

sophR.
_
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to
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.....

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-~
- ~.a --.c~ogroe
Iron! Ull in 1949 ond his
- s i n 1950, k Is gNon to .
!l(a6iadng student who excels
in tho SIIJ!IY ol mann. "' ......

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Telecounseling: way of future in student recruitment
By SUE WUETOIEII
N~!W$ Services lwociite DirectOf

GINA Toomey calls it

R

"revolutionary... Mary
Weatherston calls it a
"culture change."
Whatever the term, the Offi~ of
Admissions is changing the way it
recruits students to UB, taking a
more proactive approach that is

being aided, in large part, by a new
"tdecounseling" strategy and two

software package&lt; purclwed from
an enrollmenl-management consulting firm.
The hard data is not in yet; the
strategies only have been in place
for about six months, with efforts

targeted mainly toward the freohman class entering in Fall 1999.
But anecdotal Mdence suggests
that the increased yield seen so far
for freshmen entmng UB tn Fall
1998 can be attributed, in part, to
the new efforts, specifically
telecourueling. says Toomey, assistant vice provost for undergraduate
education and ~or ofadmissions.
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost
for undergraduate education who
oversees the Office of Admissions,
agreed that the new strategies are
partl y responsible for the in -

creased freshman yield.
"I think we have made significa nt progress in moving our admissions effort into the modern
age," he said .... We now have a research -based , databased admissions effo rt that is making use of

contemporary technology and is
comparable to that of our peer
institutions ...
In an interview with the Reporter last week., Toomey and
Weatherston, assistant director of
admissions and marketing commu·
nications manager, outlined the new
strategies being implem&lt;nted by the
admissions office, some of which
came from work with the consulting firm of Noel-Levitt.
The moot visible new strategy is
"telecounseling," which Toomey
described as "those annoying telephone calls you get during dinner~
Tdecounoeling. which beg;min earnest in January, is aimed II "buiiding
relationships with prospective stu·
dents OV&lt;I' tho telephone,. said Andy
Morris, director of the teleoounseling
a:nter, which opened a nowoffioelast
week on the second lloor of Fillmore
Quad in the Elli&lt;OOCompieLit"'tdpo
to put a hwnan faa:, or wice, on the
institution,. Motris said, noting that
the 30-rnemlx!r tdecounseling staff
repr&lt;S&lt;nts a wide variety of student
leadmatUB.
- Telephone contacts are made
after a prospective student's initial
request for information, to thank
him or her for applying, for sending in the deposit and to foUow up
on the prospect's attendance at
special UB events, he said.
..It allows cUrrent studentS to 1
allay fears, correct any misconcep·
tions or mispcTcq&gt;tions oflttending a major university; he said ... It

allows for a bonding· typo interac·
tion to occur when prospective
students get an opportunity to talk
with someone in the same major,

or from the same region of the

Admissions u attempting to
commun.i ate different messages
to different marlteta, Weatbcmon
added, explaining that different
promotional pieces would be

state, or in a special program ...

mailed to metro New York stu-

Noting that high-school stu·
dents are deluged by information
from college$ and univmities, oftm
"a well-timed phone call" will mean
a great deal, T&lt;!Omey said. "UB is
·tagged as a big, impmonal place,"
sh• said, adding that students frequently think it's"a big deal"that UB
pmonaDy bas caiJed them.
The key to the long-term succeos of telecounsding will be to
integrate it '!fith the Enrollment

dents vs. upstate students.
"We're trying to cwtomize the
message to the audience," she said.
To further refine its efforts, ad-

Management Action Sys·te'm

(EMAS),'a datab- sofrware sys·
purchased from Noel-Levitt.
Toomey and.Weatherston said.
EMAS allows the admissions
tern

office to ..direct integrated communication to the customer," said

Toomey. ItrecordsallUBcontacts
to prospective students. as well as
queries cor;ning in to UB from students, in a databaJe. This enable&lt;
admissions staff to •design a cus-

tomized communication plan" for
potential students, sh• added.
Laurie Bragg, system administrator for EMAS, said the software
enables the admissions staff to

"break up the main population (of
prospective students) inn&gt; sub-

populations so we can target them
with specific types of communication."

.m issions has begun using the

Forecast Plus software package,
which develops a model of the
typo of student UB historically has
attncted, based on dmlographic
information. It applieo thatmodd
to new contacts and identi6es

those contacts who, acmrding to
the· modd, Would be more likely
to attend UB. Weathenton said it
allows UB to concentrate its efforts
on those students most likely to at·
tend the university.
Toomey confided that sbe initially
was sktptical of wh&lt;ther the Forecast Plus model would work. But
that sktpticism vanisbod after the
level of interest ofstudents who.....,
conlllcted by tdepbone was compared with the studen(s model score
developed by Forecast Plus.
Weatherston noted that UB's
philosophy in the past has been
"We're a great place; why doesn't
everybody know it?
• We
can"t assume people k.Oow," she
said. •we have to reach out. .. The
only W2Y to do this is to have this

kind' of software support to krep
track of everything you do.•

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pansion and sale of season tickets
was hailed by Ptesident William R.

ONSTRUCTION of a

Greiner and1erry Ippoliti, a former
assistant UB football coach in the
1960s who now is commissioner of
the Mid-American Conference."
"The MAC is.going to be a good
place for UB and we'rt going to be
terrific for the MAC,"Grtiner noted
With UB coming on board, he
added. the MAC a&lt;Xjuires not only

14,500-seat expansion of

UBStadium is scheduled
to begin next April and

be completed four months later for
the university's first home foo tball
game at the Division 1-A level in the
Mid -American Conference .
Plans for the expansion, un veiled on May 13 at a press confe rence in the stadium, call for the
sea ts to be added in the stadium's
endzones, with 9,600 seats being
added in one curved section in the
south cndzone ncar Millersport
Highway and 4,900 being added in
two sectio ns-separated by the
sco reboard-in the north endzone.
The design "will give the sta ·
dium a feeling of enclosure .. and
maximize sight lines for fans in the
new seats, said Joseph Casseta, architect and chief designer on the
project for Foit-AJbert Associates
Architects and a captai n of th e
1988 UB Bulls football team.
The expansion in the south
endzone will increase fan co m fort-as well as players' control of

a school with a strong academic
character, but acces.s to the nation's

fourth-largest t;levisi6n markrt.
.. It is appropria te fQr our
region's university to take its plac.e
among our national peers in athletics as we do in r....,-ch, teach·
ing ami public service; Greiner

said. "Completing the move from
Division HI to Division I-A in only
tight years is a measure oLour
commitment to national standing
1•
in all of our endeavors...

Ippoliti praised the progress on
the stadium expansion and ticket
sales as .. indicative" of UB's commitment to the MAC.

the football-by bclping to block

as well as the sale of 17,000 seats
per game for the BuUs' 1998 home

southwesterly winds.
It also will increase US's public
visibility by providing the North
Campus with its first building fa cade on a campus perimeter where
the universi ty's name and logo will
be displayed prominently.
The $2.5 million project, an nounced in January, is part of UB's
capital program and has been submitted to the State University of
New York Co nstruction Fund.
Construction of the new scats,

games, are the remaining two requirements for UB's move to the
Division 1-A level for football in
the MAC for the 1999 season.
Bob Arkeilpane, associate ath letic director, reported at the press
co nferen ce that 12,000 season
tickets have been sold to date and
it 's anticipated that the remaining
5,000 will be sold prior to the
Bulls' home opener on Sept. 12
against Lock Haven University.
"Thr response we have gotten

has been tremendous, particularly
from our alumni and many Western New York corporations who
have made clear to us their desire

to help bring major coUege football to the area," Arkeilpane added.
"We would like to stress, how·
ever, that we still have a long way
to go and we hope that suppon
from our campus and the greater
community will continue to grow
as we get dose.r to realizing a goal

that has been over a decade in th•
making."
The progress on the stadium ex-

UB, he added, "will bring a lot
to theleagu&lt;." which traditionally
has been viewed as an Ohio conference ... We n~ to expend our
perimeters" and UB, he said, will
provide the MAC "'with a major

media market and a national ideo·
tity that we've never had before."
Craig Cirbus, head fnotbaiJ coach,

noted that the move to the MAC
could not have occurred without
.. th~ commitment from

the

presiden(s officr, to the conference,
to everybody associated with athlet·
ics on the campus, righl through to
lh&lt;studont body and the entire University at Buffalo community.•

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Mentoring proposal gets support
. , SUE WU£TCHU
.
News Services Assoclote Director

A

proposal that UB establish a mentoring
program for junior faculty members received
support at it.s first reading from
members of the Faculty Senate at
the group's last meeting of the academic year on 'May 13.
The proposal, presented by
Brenda Moore, associate professor
o f sociology and chair of the
senate's Allinnative Action Committee, is designed to address the
disproportionately low reappointment rates of women facuJty membert as reported by the Task Force
on Women and the disproportionately low retention rates of raciaJ
minorities that Moo re said h as
been identified by her commiuee.
It recommends that all junior faculty members be assigned an individual advocate or advisor, or an
advisory committee, as soon as he
or she is appointed to the faculty.
The advisory committee would
function as a mentoring body, and
include other faculty m embers
with similar sc holarly interests.
Members of the panel wo uld be
selected bf the junior faculty
member. e department chair
and ate red facult y memb er
within th departmen t.
Se nate Chair Peter Nickerson
had .slate
first reading o f th e
resolution o May 13 and a seco nd reading, nd possible adopti o n set for the rst meeting in the
fall se mester so that a program
could be in place to benefit faculty
members who will begin work ~ t
UB in the fall.
But Provost Th o ma s E.
Headrick, while supporting th e
proposal, suggested it might be better to give new faculty members
time to get acclimated to the uni -

~ity

and Jearn about their oolleagues, particularly their senior

ooU~es,before~l&gt;ey~me~-

volved tn ammtortngrdationship.
Headrick. who told senators he
hadd.iscussed the issue earlier in the
daywithmembenofhisjunior-facultyadvilory board, noted that over
time; junior facultymernben oould
realiz.ethatasen.i6rooUeaguewhom
they initially thought would have
been a good mentor, in fact, would
havebeenapoormentor. Moreover,
someone from outside the junior
facultymember'sdepartment might
offer more support than a colleague
within the department., he added.
"This is a fairly complicated
process we've got to think through
in order to do it right and do it in
a way that 's reaUy supportive of
our junior faculty, which is what
our aim should be."
Headrick no ted that although
good mentoring programs exist
within some parts of the university, they are not co nsistent across
the universit y.
Members of the junior-faculty
advisory boa d have indicated that
''we need to address this as a uni versity problem" on a unit ·by-unit
basis, he said.
Moore noted that in recommend·
ingthementoringprogum,theAf·
firmative Action Committee is tryingtoestabWb a means for new faculty members to have con tad with
as many of their colleagues as passible to help them adjust to life at
UBor facilitate their research efforts.
"At first ...w:sccthisasa wayofwelcoming new faculty members and
P""""'tingthcmfromf.illingthrough
the cracks; we feel there should be
somethinginplace" fornewfurulty
members when they first stan ""rking at the univmity, she said
Juniorfucultymemberscertainly
co uld change their mentors at a

later date if they wish, she added.
Dorothy Woodson , a librarian in

~Library. pointedoutthat

many JUDIOr faculty members who
do not stay at UB choose to leave
for other than academic r~ns.
"I've noticed that many people are
not happy because they don't feel as
though they are being accepted by
the university co mmunit y as a
whole~" Woodson said. She urged
that facultymemben from all parts
oftheuniversitybeindudedaspart
of mentoring committees, not just
ooUeagues from the junior faculty
member's department.
"'I think it's important to make
some of these faculty feel physically more comfortable and so·
ciallymorecomfortable;" she said,
noting that UB has lost faculty
members to more prestigious in stitutions, and "it can't just be beca use the y're not being brought
along in terms of their research."
Michael Frisch, professor of history and American studies and a
member of the Affirmative Action
Commi ttee. said that he also has
been upsrt when talented facult y
members .. feel they are not wanted ,
welcomed or fitting in .. and take
jobs at other universities, faculty
"who should have been encouraged
and reinfo rced and mentored in a
way that would make them excited
about staying at UB.
.. Part of the larger fit within the
univers it y goes beyond simply
mentoring in the sense of socialization into that reward structure of a
given department ," he said, noting
that the traditional reward structures
arechangingduetotheincrcasingly
multidisciplinary nature of research.
"Jthinkthereisalotthereintcrms
of how we as an institution develop
our capacity to nurture and reinforce
a wider range of collea gues and
colleagueship," Frisch said.

UB has 'dean power' electric policy
By EUDI COlDIIAUM
N~ Sef'vices Editor

HILE"rost"stillheods
the shopping list,"environmentally dean"
has been added as ;r.
factor to be oonsidered when the university shops for electricity, now that
New York Slllte's electric indwtry is
being deregulated.
US's new policy requires that all
electric purchases be compatible
with campus energy-conservation
efforts and thus sustain or enhance
UB's nationally reCognized campus 'e nergy-conservation program-not undermine it.
The policy has been approved by
President William R. Greiner and
Sen ior Vice President Robert J.
Wagner, and is being implemented
by University Facilities, with support from the Office of Purchasing
and other university offices.
"With choice comes responsibility," said Energy Officer Walter
Simpson . " Through our new
poHcy, we also will consider bu y·
ing power from environmentaUy
clean so urces, evcq though thi s
energy may cost more."
He noted that the State University of New York system, of which
UB is the largest campus, also has
agreed to include in its electricity

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purchasing requests for proposals
a sectio n on "environmenta ll y
friendly power."
Those power sources could in·
dude solar and wind power, fuel
cells. natural gas-fired cogeneration
a nd landfill gas-fired generation.
Simpson said that while electricity from solar and wind power
and fuel cells is not readily available in New York State at this time,
it is important for a major energy
consum·e:r like US to specify that
it is a potential customer.
.. By making this statement ,
we're trying to help create a mar·
ket for environmentally dean
power in New York State," said
Simpson, noting that such markets
already exist in Califo rnia and
some other states.
According to Simpson, competition in the tlectric marketplace
wiU permit ratepayers to select
their power provider and likely
wiU aJiow some users, particularly
large ones like the university, to
buy energy more cheaply.
At the same time , he warned ,
deregu lation is likely to encourage
"use- more, pay-less" policies th at
reward energy wa ste.
.. In th e absence of stro nger,
clean-air standards, the pursuit of
cheap power may lead to inc reased

coal burning at the dirtiest power
plants, wi th res ult ant increases in
climate-changing, carbon-diox ide
emissions and other pollutanh,
such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur
dioxide, which ca use acid rain ," he
said.
According to US's policy, elect n c
rates should be structured to provide finan cial incentives for energy
conservation and efficiency.
Disincentives, such as declinin g
block or marginal rate structures.
should be avoided, while flat rates.
which maintain incentives, shou ld
be pursued.
In addition, UB may att empt to
negot ia te electricity purcha se
agreements that include energyefficiency services, such as lighting
retrofits and other energy-conser
vat ion measures.
At an annual cost of Sl S m1lhon
and annuaJ consu mptio n of nea rl y
2·10 million kilowatt hours. clel
tri city con sumpti on represe nt !&gt;
o ne of US's most signtfi(a nt cam
pus energy costs.
The campus energy po lK)' wa.!l
developed by UB's Environ mental
Task Force. a group o f facu h y and
staff members and studenl s wh o
are co mmitted 10 mimmi zing th e
university 's negative am pad on tht'
environment .

3

BrieDy
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verox CEO t 0 speak June 2
for Industry-University Day

A!

Peul A. AJI•Ire, chairman and ch 1cf executive officer of Xerox Corp ..
will delive r the keyn ote address at th e second a nnuaJ Indu st ry· Un1
versity Day luncheon, to be held at noon on Jun e l in the Center for
the Arts on the No rth Ca mpus.
Industry- University Day issponsored by the UB School of ~ngt neering and Applied Scien ces.
In a talk enri tled "Amencan Competi ti veness: A Matter uf Pan
nership," Allaire will argue tha t a healthy Amepca depends on a
thriving partnership between bus1ness, academ 1a.labor and go\
ernment.
Allaire became CEO of Xerox m 1990 a nd cha~rman 1n 1991. after
servi ng as senior vice president, ch1e f staff officer and prcs1den1 .
A member of th e National Academy of Engmeering, the Bus1nes.!1
Coun cil and th e Business Ro undta bl e, Alla~re also " a member of
the boards of the Co uncil o n Competitiveness, the Co un cil o n l--or
eign Relations, the New York C it y Ballet and Ca talyst.
Co-spo nso red by the Buffalo Niagara Partn ership and the Bus1
ness Council of New York State , lndu stry -Umvers1ty Day 1.!1 hdd to
recognize cooperative effo rts between the UB engmeer1ng M:hool
and its industrial partners.
More than 150 rep resen tati ve~ from major firm!\, 1ncl ud1ng IB M.
AT&amp;T, Veridian, Praxair, Sun M1crosyste ms and Nmgara -Mohawk.
as well as Xerox Co rp .. will attend the lun cheon, th e theme of wh1lh
is .. Vital Partners."
Also attending the Jun e l luncheon wil l be approx1ma telv 100
engineering students en rolled 10 UB's Engmeenng &lt;:a reer Inst itute: ,
which prov1dcs Intensive tramm g and preparation for the work
world, as well as summ er internships wath 1ndustr y.
Planning for Industry- University Day was coo rdin ated hv Ken
neth Manning, an alumnus of th e UB engmeenng and law o;chool.!.o.
now a partner in Phillips, Lytl e, Hitchcock, Blain e &amp; Hu bl'r. L.L.P
Those who would like to attend tht: luncheon should con tau RoO
ert Barnes al 645-2768.

UB's summer air-conditioning
policy is in effect
Durtng the nonnal summer wortclng day, all
air·conditioned offices (8 a.m.-5 p.m.). class rooms.l ibran es an d labs (8 a.m. -10 p.m.) will be
cooled to 76 degrees f. Rehea t system s wall be bypassed in the air· co nd1ta oning process whenever possib le. Dur ing the evenmg and on weekends and holi days. the temperat ure will be allowed to nse, except 111
those rooms with classes scheduled o n Sa turday. CaJJ the UniverSi ty
Facilities Custo mer Se rvice Off1ce at 71 {or from off campus at 645 2025) to report any a1r -condiuo mng dcfictenetes.
All systems were expected to he full y ope rationa l by May I ' ~re
cial-purposc spaces and faciliues w1ll be mo mt o red to determme tf
modifications to the policy art' warran ted.
Members of the campus co mmumt y who sec.· oppo rtunlllt'.!l for
energy sav mgs or wi sh to suggest an c:nergy· ..:onse rvaunn prog ram
ca n ca ll Walter Si mpson , UB's Ctlt'rgy -co nM.'rvatlon officer, at 64S
3528. Q ues tmn s regarding thl.!. poh..:y o r the umversity's effort_,, m
the energy-co nservation area shou ld hl' d1rected to 645·.'04_\ .
Superviso rs are enco uraged to accommodate reasonable rc:qut· st~
fro m employees for wearing nl&lt;lre lasual clothmg because ot 10
creased tempera! urt'S

Technical upgrade more than
doubles WBFO's broadcast power
A technical upgrade to WBFO 88.7 t-=M , UB's National Pubhl RJ.
dio station, now bei ng completed, will st rength en serv1ces to c-u r
ren t listeners and extend se rv1 ce to a new population of approx1
matel y 100.000 people in Erie. Niagara and Ge ne~ee wuntlc:!\, ,,,
well as to Sou thern O nt ario.
A m·w tran smitter and an tenna to be tns taJ ied w1th 1n tht· m·x t lcw
weeks will enable the statiOn to mo re than do uble 1ts hroa&lt;ka~t
power, from 20,000 watt s to 50.000 watts ERP. The o ld tran!\mltt er
w1ll serve as a back up. resu lung 111 another Improvement ove r tht·
cx 1stmg sy,tcm. wh1ch h a~ a 34 yea r-old, I.OOO~wa tt transm lttt.•r J.!\
backup.
Th is prn1ect 1.!1 p:1rt of d multa phase plan to 1m prove the quaht'
of V\·' BFO'!\ stgnal and ex pand 1ts coverage area. In the past five
year!\, th e stat ton has ronstru r ted two repeater ~ tat ion s Ill thl·
Sout hern T1cr ( \-"OI.N 91..3 FM 111 Olean and W UBI88 I h\11n
Ja m estown l and replaced li S directional antt•nnd \'-' lth J.
nondtrect 1onal dnte nn a. rt'&lt;itormg serviCe to the mo .. t P''pultiU'
area of Buffalo.
Funds for the proJect were prm•1dcd by the {:amt·rnn Ra1rd h1un
dation. the non !&gt;aVIS Endowml'll l l- und Jnd h\ lOillflhutiUil' from
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. . . . .~!il HE 1998 )uneleenth
Festival, Buffillo's 23rd
annual celebration of

African -American

history and culture ,
will open this year with an exhibi·

tion and concert at UB.
"Wade in the Water," the nation ally acclaimed Smithsonian travd·
ing exhibition that explores the profound effect that African-American
sacred music traditions have had,
not only on black Americans. but on
cultu res worldwide, will open on
June 13. The exhibition will be on
display through July 26 in the University Gallery in the Center for the
Arts on the North Campus.
It will be sponsored by the Buf·
falo and Erie County Historical Socieoy, the Office: of the Via President
fur Public Servicr and Urban Affain.
the Dean of Arts and Leiters.
Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m.
seven days a week. Free campus
parking is available after 3 p.m .
weekdays and all day on weekends.
During the Juneteenth Festival,
which will take plaa june 13·14 in
Martin Luther King Park. free bus
trips sponsored by the OffiaofPub-

l.ic Service and Urban Affairs will
shuttle passengers between the park
and the UB exhibition.
In oonn«tion with the exhibition,
the Office of the Vice President for
Public Service and Urban Affairs

will sponsor a conct:n of AfricanAmerican saCred music, also titled
"Wade in the Water." at 7:30 p.m.
june 12 in Slee Concert Hall on the
North Campus. The concert will be
free and open to the pub~c.
A private reception in the University Gallery in honor of the opening
of the exhibition will precede the

roncen. Guests ofhonor will include
.community and university leaders,
lunete&lt;nth organizers and vendors,
and membersofWCSlern New York's

religious and music communities. It

the Buffillo and Erie County Historical Society, and Marcus 0.
8{0wn, president of the Juneteenth
Festival Board of Directors.
Information on the 1998
Juneteenth Festival, the exhibition
and concert-along with links to
the Smithsonian Institution , the
national Juneteenth home page
and other Web sires ~rtai ning to
African -American history and
cultu re-can be found at &lt;http:/
/ wlngs.buffolo.edu/wode&gt;.

The events schedule Is:
friday, June 12 • 7:30p.m . • Slee
Concert Hall • North Campus

"Wade in the Water•
A concert of Afriam-American

Sacred Manic
The concert program wiU be
constructed around the principal
themes of the exhibition, which
indude the spiritual, Pentecostal,
gospd and quartet traditions of
African-American sacred music. It
will feature a program of African American dance and perfor·

which the legacy of music played
and sung during slavery and the
worship practias ofbladt-American churches contributed to African -American heritage and became a worldwide cultural fora.
The exlubition was curated by
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Distint~uished Professor of History at
American University and a preeminent historian of African American culture. Reagan is curator emeritus at the National Mu seum of American History. .
The exhibition is one element of
a broader project d~veloped by
Reagon to increase public understanding of African-American sacred music. Other mmponents include a 26-part Peabody Awardwinningradio seri&lt;s of the same title
that aired on National Public Radio-affiliated stations in I~. a series of boQks on African-American sacred music traditions and
several compact discs and. tapes.

mances by the choirs, ensembles
and soloists of Buffa lo's First
Shiloh Baptist Church and other
churches.
The performance will open with
a welcome by President Greiner.
The program will be introduced
and narrated by James Harris, superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools and himself a musician.
Duri ng the program, Ma ry

Gresham, UB interim vice president for public service and urban
affairs, will present a commemorative plaque to the Juneteenth
committee on behalf of UB.
Saturday, June 13-Sunday, july
26 • University Gallery, Center
for the Arts, North Campus
"Wadl' in tht Water. African Amnlcan

Socred Music Tnulitions"
A Naticnal T"""'ling Exhibiticn of rh&lt;
Smithsonian lnstJrution

This highly praised, multimedia
ex hibition, developed by the

will be sponsored by the Buffalo and
Erie County Historical Society, Office of the Vice President for Pub~ c
Service and Urban Affairs and the
Dean of Arts and l..ctters.

Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service and the National
Museum of American History, is on

Honorary co-chairs of the exhi-

such sacred traditions as spirituals, hymns, Pentecostal shout singing, brass-band worship services and gospel music. It looks at

bition, concert and reception are
President William R. Greiner; Wtlliam Siener, executive director of

how these musical forms were
used to commemorate historical
events and help slaves survive and
resist the trauma of enslavement .
It also examin'es the dev.lopment
of the spiritual concert traditions.
the African-American quartet tradition and the pioneering efforts of
African-American composes and
performers who brought this repertoire to college campuses and
working-class neighborhoods, recording studios, and national and
international concert halls.
A multimedia display incorpor.uecl into th~ exhibition evokes the
atmosphere of churches, concert
halls and other gothering plaas in
which African-Americans have traditionally sung and worshipped
Illustrated with text, ardlival
video and audio presentations,
vin tage photographs, early record
albums and sheet music, and
large-scale cutouts and maps. the
exhibition illustrates the ways in

a four-year, 16-city tour of the U.S.
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Painting takes over physician's life

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Business Week magazine
surveys MBA students for
its 'Best Business Schools' issue

Public-health specialist prefers his art to. career in science
8y LOIS IIAIWl
Newss.MtesEditor

ENNIS Bertramphysician, UB publichealth specialist and acoomplished scientistis ready to gm it aJ) up for arL
The clinical ass.istant professor
of JOcial and preventive medicine
three years ago rekindled a love of
painting he bad abandoned decade$ earlier. When one of his new

works was accepted icito an inter
national juried show this Febru6

ary, there was no turning back.
" If I could, I would do nolhihg

but paint,"" said Bertram, sittinz in
the living room of his turn-of-thecentury North Buffalo home,
where his canvases cover the walls
and cluster in the co rners. • aut I
can't afford to."
Thu s, as with ph ys icians turned - painters - or-poets
throughout history, science subsidizes the art. Bertram spends
mornings at the School of Medic ine an d Biomedical Sciences,
helping direct the sc hoOlS new
Master of Public Health Program
and its preventive-medi ci ne residency. ln the afternoons and eve nings. he takes classes, paints and
applies to art shows.
" My wife tells me I'm ca tching
up. keeping up and going ahead all
at the same time."
Bertram's divergen ce from art
ear ly on is a telling example of
envi ronment subverting genetics.
"Art is something I wa nted to do
when I was a kid ," he said. " I was
the one wh o did th e illustrations
for the school newspape r a nd
paint ed the stage sets in high
school. I even won an art contest.
" But there was no art education
in my grade school or high school.
There were no role models and I
had no enco uragement. I wa s
raised to believe in self-sacrifice,
to live life for the betterment of
others. To go into art would have
seemed selfish.
"But there was lots of encouragemen t to go int o scie nce," he
said. " Lots of role models, and sci ·
encc offered lots of opportunity.
And I was,good at it."
Consequently, Bertram majored

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8u:slnas WHl mag•zlne Is surveying full -time MBA stuOents m
the School of Management as part of its biennial effon to deter mine the .. best business schools" in the United States.
According to the magouinc's editors. the School of Management was
one of 61 bwi ness schools, among 324 accredited schools nauonw1de.
whose MBA students were selected to participate in the survey.
Members of the full-time MBA Oassof 1998 recently reooved the con ~
fidentiaJ student-satisfactiOn survey. which asks them to ans'n'ff questions regarding the qualiry and value of the MBA program, quality of the
teaching, strength ofthe program's lob-placement services and quatiry of
its interaction with the business community, among other questions.
The su rvey is used by 8usi11ess Week, 111 combinatiOn with a sur vey of more than 300 corporate recruiters that commonly hire MBA.t&gt;,
to determine the .. top 50" business schools in the- co untry. Busmess
Week promOtfi its speciai .. Best Busmess Schools"1ssue. to be published Oct. 18, as a consume:r-satasfact1on guide for prospect ive MBA
students and corporate recruiters.
It is the first time that the national busmess magazane has tar geted UB students for surveying.

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in zoology, not art, at lndiafia University and earned a medical degree from Washington University.
He investigated art schools after
graduating from medical school,
but didn't have the courage then
to make a major career change, he
said. Instead, Bertram went to the
Johns Hopkin s Universi t y and
earned a master's degree in public
health and a doctorate in science.
For nin e years, he was an assistant professor of social and preventive medicine at UB, conduct ·
ing health-services research and
publishing papers in scientifi c
journals. In january 1995, he left
UB to manage the technical -informati on program locally fo r TheHM O Gro up, where he assessed
the scientific merit a nd effectiveness of medical techniques.
Bertram's wife, Peggy Brooks Bertram, assistant to the vice
president in the UB Office of Pub lic Service and Urban Affairs, in·
advertently po inted him back to
art.
.. It W&lt;l S around C hri stmas in
1995, and my wife wanted to do
something different in the foyer
for the holidays, so she dragged
out the drawings I did in medi cal
school. I didn't realize they were
still around. I looked at them and
thought, ' Hey! I ..yasn't so bad! Let
me rethink this."'
When Bertram left The H M 0
G roup in 1996 to work as a co n-

sultant , the less- rigid schedule
provided time to paint. He en·
rolled in art classes at Buffalo State
College, began to draw and paint
again, and this time around , there
was plenty of encouragement. He
submjttcd works to an amateur a.rt
show at the Erie County Fair and
won ribbo ns, recogn iti on that
spu rred him on.
When his painting ..At Ease," a
meticulously rendered oil on
masonite depicting gardening
tools resting against each other in
a corner of his C rescent ~ven ut:
garage, was one of 116 pieces, out
of I ,500 sub mi ssions. accepted
into the New Jersey Center for the
Visua l Arts' I lth International
Juried Show, he was thrilled.
The show was juried by Nan·
Rosenthal, co nsultant in 20th-cen tury art to the Metropolitan Mu ·
scum of Ar4 and ran from Fe-b. IS
through March 29.
Bertram was especially pleased
that his very traditional piece. influ enced by Wmslow Homer and An drew Wyeth, was selected, despite
fitting into neither of the two movements Rosenthal said characterized
most of the selections: collage and
assemblage, and surrealism.
Wi th hi s ta lent affirmed.
Bertram presses on fearlessly ... , no
longer have doubts, as I did when
I was younger. that I am able to do
it," Bertram said ... Now all I need
is tim e."

UB to host computational EiJ
complexity conference in June

I

The 1998 Conference on Computational Complexity sponsored hy
the Institute of Electrical and EJectronics Engineers (IEEE ) will be
held Jun e 15- 18 in th e Center fo r Tomorrow on the- North Camp u.\.
Computational complexi ty-the study of effic1e111 computabon us·
ing limited r~urccs such as time- and sp-.tce--is the field that is devel oping the foundations of modern cryptography and Internet secunf)
According to Kenneth Regan. associate professor in the Department
of Computer Science and locaJ arrangemen ts chair, modem computer
securi ty is based on the- premise that there are computational problem~
that require more than a reasonable amount of time and space to solve.
'"Such computational intractability-the very subject of compu tational comp lexity-p rovides the foundation for all confidential
information transactions on the Internet today, which is based on
problems where you don't want anyone (other than the intendeJ
recipient ) to solve them 111 a reaso nable amount of t1me," said Regan .
who organized the conference wuh Alan Selman and fin · Yi Cai. pro
fe)so rs of computer science.
The meeting is sponsored by the IEEE Co mputer Society Tcchna cal Committee for Mathemati cal Foundations of Comp uting, m
cooperation with th e Association of Computing Machinery's Spc·
cia! Interest G roup .o n Algorithms and Computation Theory and
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Sctence. Addt ·
tiona! support comes from the Department of CompJtcr Sc1en~o.e
and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UB.
In addition to papers bemg presented by Cat and Regan , the con
fercnce has attracted research ers from institutions such as the- Un1
versity ofUlm. the University of Frankfurt. Montreal University. the
Mathematical Institute of the Hunga rian Academy of Science. Mas·
cow State Unive rsi ty. Harvard University, Weizmann Institute. Mas
sach usetts Institute of Technology. Ca rnegie Mell o n Umversuv.
AT&amp;T Labs and Los Alamos Laboratories.
Additi o nal in formation IS available a! &lt; http:/ / www .cs .
buff•lo.edu/ - reg•n/ ccc98 &gt;.

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~..four hours 1 cloy, seven cloys a - . 365 cloys a
year, Unhoenky FIICIIIIes' Customer Service dep8rtment
trotJble.shoots the prabloms ol UB's physicll pllnt.
"The olllce reqMI I 5,000 to 20,000 wMt l.'llqi8IS eoch
year." Aid Mchlel Oapre.lnterim ouodatevlcapresl(lent
for~ IIM&lt;es.
The Cllb t1w ~-cover a "**e .angeaf . - ,

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Is ltii!Winlm 7:30 o.m.-5 p.m. weelod.lys; iller-hOurs Clffs
are~ to the Cl1iled Wllot ......._proYidlng the unlven1ty w1111 ftiUII&lt;I-Ihe.do -vency 5eMce.
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WI! get lhe Cills obout lldt at t!lectrbf powor, custodial calls
to~ lght bob and shlmpoo rugs. •
The service tNt University FacUlties proMc1es are the

5

-lnd bolts ol keeping an_institution such as UB running .
The cammltment to a job well done doesn't end once the
led: stops or power has been restored . A follo.y-up system of
~-senria surveys provides the office with a steady
st{am olleedback on the work thars been completed.

"bch person who ma1&lt;e&lt; a customer-service request ~&lt;Ms
a follow-up survey" asking whether the customer was kept
Informed obout the progress of the job and whettler the serllice was performed in a timely manner, said Dupre.
The leedbadt ~elved indicates a high level of satisfaction
with the work""nd the people who do it.
A.cconling to ~ent customer-satlsfaction SUM!)'S. 95 percent
to 98 perunt of respondents indicated an acceptable response
time and nearty'100 percent said the UnMrslty Facilities employees they WOI1ted with were pleasant. Customers also gave
Uniwnity Facilities high marlcs for communicating wi1!l them.
"Wtgetalotofreal nice compliments back, • Kankiewiczsaid.
Not all of the calls they receive are within
their purview, but the three customersenria representatlves who answer
the telephones do their best to
help, she added.
"Sometimes people dial 71 to
ask about things "like, 'why
were the flags at hall mast to-

day?' They don't know who else to call, so they call us,"
Kanklewicz said.
Acertainamountofintuition helps field the unusual calls,
but irs more Important, she said, to "listen carefully.
"We'll help ff we can. H we don't know the answer,
we'll find out. Sometimes we get calls that we don't have
anything to do with, but we can refer the callers to the
appropriat~ office.·
"Service really permeates what we do, • said Dupre.
"That's why we're here.•
Customer service has been University Facilities' mission
for a number of years, according to Dupre.
"We made customer service a focus starting in the early
1990s, following the cultur.e that was emerging at the
time.• The front office. he added, was renamed to reflect
that empha~s and performance appraisals for University
facilities employees were rewritten to Include the impor·
tance of customer service.
"It's an expectation of oil emplayees, not just
those who answer the phones, • Dupre emphasized.
Attentiontoservice "ishowwehandletheworl&lt;
all through University Facilities," he said.
•our philosophy is we're here for the students,
fllculry and staff.•
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America Reads: a year of success for pupils, tutors

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a, MAliA Mcc;-•s
News Services Editorial Assistant

T's a good thing that I hav&lt;
kids or I might be nervous,"
whispered Mary Gresham,
interim vice president for
pub~c "'rvie&lt; and urban affair&gt;, as
hundreds of students at Winder·
mere Boulevard El&lt;mentary School
in Eggertsville filed into the gym·
nasi urn one recent morning.
Within minutes, wide-eyed kin-

d erga rten - through- third-grad~rs

gathered around Gresham, listening
intently as she read a story about a
bear and a mouse who ~ve together.
At story's end, she presented Karen
Karmazin, principal of the schoo~
with a special "Author's Clla.ir"' that
had b~en painted to reflect the
story's fictional characters.
Wmdennere was one of six area d ementary schools involved in UB's
component of the Arnerial R&lt;ads lit·
eracyprogramwhen:studentsr=ntly
enjoyed a break from normal cbss ac·
tivities to~ 10 a Slory read by a UB
fuculty or staff volunlf&lt;r. The volunteers were visiting to present each
school with a unique chair that had
been hand-painted by VB students in
the program and by community volunteers.
'"Theoedearativedlairshopefullywill
serveasamotivarion ilrchildreo 10 read,"
said )acqudine Braswell-Wxxlbc:d&lt;,coordinato.- of UB's program. who read a
story and Pfe""'ltd a chair 10 children
al 1\JplarAcadernyinlluft3Jo. 'Abochd&lt;
said the""""·loog"chairPfe""'tdions"
culminated a highly sua:essfui fir&amp; )"3f
tOr the program. in MUd&gt; UB "'rkstudy students tutoc dernentuy-school
students in reading as pan of a nationwide lit=cy initiative.
President Ointon issued the America
Reads challenge in 199710 help ensure

that evtry child Gjl1
read ..dl and inde-pendently by the
end of tbe third
grade. It encourages
entire communi~Iibrar­

ies, migiom institutions, universities.

oollqje students and
senior c:itiuns-to
"""' with teachers
and parents 10 help
teach children to
read,

In the fir&amp; year of
UB'sAm&lt;riaRcads

bood and were very well-received; the
UB students who participaltd wen:
very dedic:altd and hiM! a natural gift
for working withchildrm,"she added.

nowadays need and want practical
""rk cxpcrience to supplement their
studies, America Reads gives thoS&lt;O
who are especially interested in teach·
inga ""nderful opportunity10 goou~
do something useful, gain a little work
experience and get paid fur it," said
Gresham, who""""""' the program.
UB students inttrested in America
Reads participate in a I2·hour Iildacytrairung oour"' conduct&lt;td by two
reading specialists from the BuJI3lo
Pub&amp; Schools before !hey begin ""rk
as tutors. )®e DraJ&lt;.. reading ooordinator at Windermere. belitves th~
training was key IO the program's SUC·
&lt;=.She said the program had an
standing first year and the children
looked
to the UB students'
arrival "They immediately formed a

out·

rorw.;ro

Atasha Johnson, a nursing major
who tutored the same three girls at
Wtndermere all =nester, said the
best par1 of participating in America
Reads was working with the girls
and seeing them motivated to read
when she arrived for their session.
Jan Lane, who ree&lt;ntly graduated
with a major in accounting and who
also tutored at Wmdmnere, said the
program was challenging, but rewarding, aod allowed him to get
hack in touch with his j&lt;&gt;Uth.
Christine Szymczal&lt;, an English
major whotutoted al Poplar Acad&lt;my,
said, "When I get 10 know the area in
which a child needs particular help,
I am able to target in and \YOrk on
making a oon«pt dearer fur them.
The best par1 comes when I realize
what I taught them has sunk in."
Paula Sagon, who tutored at Broadway Village Community School in

Buii3Io, decided 10 major in d&lt;mc:ntuy alucalioo as a......_ cl participating in Am&lt;ria Read&lt;. lbe literacytraining CXlUJ&gt;e twght me 10 look at

r&lt;adiog through a child's eyes," said
Sagon. lbe program opened my eyes
education and 10 th&lt;
needs of dilldren in our society.'

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lo addition to Gresham and
Woodbeck, other UB l3cultyand staff
members who visited schools for
"Author's awr· presentations were
!Aitia Thomas, coonlinator of the
Minority Academic Achievement
Program'in Cora Maloney College,
who visited th&lt; Early Olildhood Bilingual Center, p.s. 36; John Staley,
acting associate vice president for
public service and wboo affair&gt;, who
visited th&lt;.BroadwayVtllage school,
P.S. 57; Lisa Francesoome, administrative assistant in th&lt; otlice for Uni •
v=ity Prq&gt;aratory Programs. who
read a story at Harbor Heights EJ.
&lt;mentary, P.S. 4, and Doona Rice, associate vice-president fur student af.
fuirs, who visited P.S. 40.

Study spurs formation of multidisciplinary
health-care center for women with disabilities
By lOIS IIAJt:ER

News Services Editor

NE of th e fir st assess-

O

ment s of the hea lth
status of women with
disabi~ties, oonduded
by UB faculty members , has
spurred formation of a one-of-akind multidisciplinary health-care
center for women with disabilities,
where physicians provide neurologic, gynecologic and preventive
care under one roof.
T he hea lth -needs assessment
was conducted by the UB-affiliated Women's Health Collaborative Research Group, which aimed
to develop a wellness model of
women-centered ca re that meets
th ~ requirements of women with
chronic disabling conditio ns.
Result·s showed that more than
20 percent of these women experi ence reproductive and post-menopausal heal th problems that often
are not treated adequately wi thi n a
traditional system desig ned fo r
people who are fully functi onal.
More than 300 women with
multiple sclerosis (MS ), stroke o r
other neurolo gic d isorde rs comp leted th e surve y. Half o f th e
wo men, who had a median age of
4S, were moderately to severely dis·
abled. Analysis showed that more
than 20 percent reported a history

of gynecologic problems, such as
uterine fibroids , endometriosis,
ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual
periods and deterioration of MS
during menstruation.
Forty percent were sexually inactive and 70 perc~nt of the postmenopausal women were not tak ~
ing hormone replacement therapy.
Respondents r~ported experiencing insensitivity to their special
health-care needs; lack of accessible
medical equipment, such as examination tables and mammography
machines, and difficulty getting.to
the seve ral facilities required for
different problems.
. Carol Brownschcidle, UB clinical
research scientist and director of the
Center for Women with Disabilities,
preS&lt;Onted results of the survey and
discu=d the e&lt;nter at the American
College of Obstetricians and Gyne·
cologists' annual clinical meeting on
May 12 in New Orleans. Dennis M.
Weppner, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics, is ro-author.
"The health concerns of many
women with disabilities oft~n are
not met through the traditional
health-care delivery system," said
Brownscheidle. "People don't think
of tht-se women in the co ntext of
wellness: They think of them onl y
in terms of their disease.
"If they have limited movement,

they can't use the stirrups on a conv~ntional pelvic-exam tabl~ . Perhaps they can't stand upright for
mammography screening. If they
are spastic, they can't do breast exams. Getting to dif!erent specialty
offices is difficult."
Brow nscheidle
said that in many,
cases involving
...Omen who hiM!
MS, post-stroke
impairmen~ post·

pOOO pai-alysis, &lt;%-

--....u rebralpalsy,spioaloord injury, spina
bifida or IDOVI!!Il&lt;l]l disorders such as
Parkinson's disease, th&lt; neurologist is
the gotelc&lt;eper fur health &lt;are.
"We've built on that, and furmed
a kind of one-stop, health shopping
center. When women come in for
stroke treatment o r follow-up visits for multiple sclerosis, they can
go to the next room for a pelvic
exam and pap test, another room
for a mammogram, and then have
theirblood pressure checked..
The Center for Women with Disabilities, which opened in September, uses cquipmeol adapted to the
capabilities of women with disabili·
ties. Nurse practitioners present
programs on issues such as nutrition and osteoporosis. Monthly"focus luncheons" bring in specialists

to answer questions on health topics in an informal setting.
Whik improving health mnains
lh&lt; PrimarY agenda-Brownsch
says the goal is tD survey I ,(XX) 'IWlJDen
eventually--the «nter has branched
outtoaddressbroader,quality-of-life
issuc:s.ll otfm programs on oommunity·serviceopportunities, network·
ing. social services and careers. The
Outdoor Advmture program offm
wilderness wheelchair hikes, and the
Women Helping Women
links women with disabilities with
volunlf&lt;r opportunities in assistedliving settings and nursing homes.
The center is part of the West ern New York Neuroscience Center, located in The Buffalo General
Hospital, where the .surv~y was
conducted. II has attracted the at·
tention of several heaJth-car.c organizations, including the New
York State Health Departmmt and
the Mayn Clinic, which will S&lt;Ond
representatives to Buffalo to visit
the clinic lat~r this month.
Brownscheidle was invited to discuss the cen t ~r at the Women 's
Health Issues in Multipl&lt; Sclerosis
conference in Houston in March,
and will moderate another conference on Amelia Island this June on
the same issue, based on the survey
findings an? the center's work.

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'Let's Play!'

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Program puts fun back into the lives ofbabies with disabilities

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. , E1UN (;OI.DL\UM
News Services Editor

N

URSERY rhymes. rattles, teething rings and
games liU "Pedcaboo" all help babies bond
with parmts, teaching them how to interact
. with their familyand the r..t of the world
But for babies born with serioUs devdopme!!tal disabililies--4nd their. parmts---d!&lt; emphasis tends to be
clinical, rnark.d by frequent visits with doctors, socialservictworktrs and-physical and occUpational therapists.
For such babies, play often gets short shrift, according
to Susan Mistrct~ dirtctor ofthe Let's Play! project, part
of UB's Center for AssistM Technology, and eduational specialist in the Oepartmmt of Occupational
Therapy. She and her colleagues at Let's Play! are
putting this essential ingredient back into the lives
of babies with disabilitie5-QJ1d their familiesalmost from the time they are born.
In operation just three years, the project has
been so succtSSfuJ that New York State's Department of Health last month asked the UB staff
to replicate Let's Play! in Coming. UB staff also
wiU be working with the United Cerebral Palsy
Assoc.iation to introduce similar programs at

clear during its recruiting of potential faculty members that thetr acadcmoc
efforts are for their own amusement and arc irrelevant to the admmtStrn

tion. Anything ebe "&lt;luld be misleading A policy of 1.cro reward for dfnn
supports low productivity &amp;om tenured faruhy (young facul ty will still loow
to show productivity to obtain tenure), difficulty in recruiting the best n&lt;w
faculty, a drop in grant inoo~and loss of itsoontnbution to the unJ vcr~ lt\··-.
budget. We should not be surprised if thest patterns are vtsihlc
-frederick Sachs, professor, Phys1ology and 81ophys,col SCienC'f'S
Is

on,

the toy ploys loud musk.
child 's respo nses. O ne mother o f a baby who was
blind was very co nscientious about talking to the

y funded project offers to families free

baby, but was disheartened by the fact that wh en-

assistive tech ologies, such as toys modified to make
them easier t &gt; use, as wdl as seating or positioning
equipment t 1 allows babies with developmental
disabilities to be er interact with their environments.
At the same imc , th e project emphasizes
"familyhood ," the tural integration of the baby into
his or her family a home environmcnL

ever she did, th e baby would turn her face away from
her. She learned from US staff that the baby was
turn ing her ear toward h er mother 's voice to listen.
A piece of assistive technology can make a dramatic
difference. The mother of one B·month·old with a
severe neurological disability told project staff that the
baby cried for hours each day and simply co uld not
be comforted no matter what was tried. He was 1.n
discomfort; the family was at the breaking pomt.
At Let's Play!, the baby was positioned in a commer-

ties. The fede

The message Is: have fun with baby
"Too often, the focu s for infants with disabilities ts
therapy, therapy. therapy," said Amy Goetz, an occu pational therapist with Let 's Play! .. The emphasis get s
away from play, but that's how ch ildren learn."
Mistrett noted , .. The medical issues are cri licaJ and
they have to be dealt with , but too often, we find. we're
missing the kid piece. Yes, the disability is a curve ball,
but yo ur child wtmts to play. Our message to parent s
is. 'They' re kids! Have fun with your baby!...
That requires more of an effort than it would with
a chi ld who doesn't have a disability, Mistrett ex ·
plained, and thai's where Let's Play! helps.
"When babies are small, parents naturally play with
or talk to th em to communicate and begin the bonding
process,.. she said. "But some children with disabilities
may not be responsive. It 's difficult for parents to con tinue if the bah&gt;• never reacts or frequent ly cries. We're

saying'keep talking and playing' because 'even ifthe baby
can't respond much yet, it's critical to his or her devel opment and to the parents' relationship with the baby."
Sometimes parents need help interpreting their

Twins ,..,. together: H•ted child ls In an aulstlve

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Editor.
I woUld like to present some data about what values UB apprectate5 m
its faculty. The bonom line is that performance is irrelevant; o nly ad
ministrat ion counts. Judging faculty performance may be difficult, but
the tenure process deals with it on a contin uing basts. For scient1fic
research, however, grant income ts a reasonable measure, smce tt i~ suhjcct to continuing peer review. I have correlated faculty salaries and grant
income in the five departments of basiC sc1ence in the School of Mec:t.
cine and BiomedicaJ Sciences. There 1s no correlauon.
The data should be viewed in the bght that the overhead expense frum
grants (approximately 50 percent of grant IJlCOme) goes directly onto the
unMrsity budgrt. Faculty who get granlS also teach and do (w1paid l ad ministration, os do those who don't get granLs. 111&lt; u~ty apparcntlv
does n01 fed that getting granlS and the resulting research ~ useful work.
Does UB reward any kind of effort? They do: administrauon. In m\
sample, the average salary for chairs was approXJmately $ 128,000. whtl(.·

the average salary for other faculty was approximately $78,000. Hlgh&lt;r-

Can do: ln • modified JoUt
w1t11 • raised troy, boby UHS • ' swltch-to·molle his toyworto . When the switch

than 100 addhional families through sateUite sites in
nearby Niagara,
ming. Genesee and Orleans coun·

Zero reward for academic effort

level administrators get much more. Anecdotal reports from othc:r
schools suggest this policy of ignoring faculty effort l5 not common
GM:n UB's policy of no reward for effort. the univer&gt;ity should nl:lk

several sites acros.s the state. Organizations
in Kentucky and Virginia have contacted Lhe

project to find out how to paltern their own
projects after the one at UB.
Let'sPiay!hasbecnasuectSSwithmorethan
50 families in Erie County alone and more

7

cially available nip- nap scat that also provides soothmg
vibrations. Within nunut~ the fretful baby had been
caJmed sufficiently by the vibrations to takt.· nouce of
his environment. The mother took home the nip· nap
seat and an overhead gym that the staff adapted so that
hanging toys were lowered to a level where the baby could
reach them. When staiTvisited thefumily's home a f'"""'""-'
later, the mother scarcely could contain her eX(.;temcnt.
"She ran to th e d oor to meet us and said 'Walt 'ttl
yo u see what he can do! '" recalled Mistrt·tt . " II w.lll
like she had just fallen 111 love with her haby."
let's Play! has toy lending library
Let 's Play! providt-s assist ive tet:hnologies to bahlt.~ un
mediately, without the threerto·six month delay that gov
crnmcnt programs usually entail to obtain equipment.
" From birth to age 2, children experience the mollt
rapid period of growth of their live~ ... sa •d M1strctt.
.. If families have to wait a few months to get a tm•,
the baby may outgrow it by the time it i:, recctvt.•d."
Let's Play! has a play center and "lending library" .11
UB, with more than 650 toys and pieces of equ•pmcnt
selected to fit the needs of children with disabiltttC:!o.
Families select items during play scss•ons, which gcn
crally take place eveq• four to six wc:cks in the child\
home, ensuring that play occurs in the environment m
which th e chiJd is most comfortable.
Two staff members attend ea..:h home ~t.· :. ­
sio n, excha nging toys and dcvi('cS that arc no
longer used for new ones. Parents also have tht•
option of periodically returning to the Cl:.'nler to look
for new and more challenging t0\'!1 &lt;b t.hc:1r ch•ldrl'll
reach new milestono..
In itially funded under d $20,000 seeJ gr.mt
from UB and headed by Mtstn: tt and Shell\' Lanl-.
formerly UB associate professor of Ot"\-Upatlonal
therapy, let 's Play! IS supponed b\' a $700,000 gran•
from the U.S. Department of l:ducatton
US's Ce nter fo r Assisttve Trlhnuln!!' ~~ .1
multidisciplinary ce nt er prov1dmg rcst&gt;ar('h, Jevd
op ment. edu ca tion and sc rv1 t.':e 111 a:,~•sttvt' tl'{ hnol ogy for people with disabihttrs. AJditiOndlmforma
tion on th e pra,ec t and toys for childrl'n wuh dt ll
abilitiC!I IS ava ilable at tht• let 's Play! Web S. II C' :1t
http:/ / cosmos.ot.buffalo.edu / letsplay /

Many involved in changes to office of
Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action
Ed it or:
The April9. 1998. Rtponer con tamed a letter from stx colleague rt-gard
ing the Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action Adnunistra tion. Having chairt.-d the university's Equal Opportunny/ Affirmative At .
1

tion (E0/AA) Comminee from 1995 through 1997 and having been on
strumental in initiatingsevcraJ oft he changes now reflected in this office.
I would like to outline the act1ons taken by th is broad·based umvers1tv
committet&gt; that, I bcheve, respond to the quest 1om and comments.
The rolt.•and responsihiJir1es o( thl· Offi..:t• of D•vcrs•n•, Equity and AI
firmauvc ACtiOn Admimstratio n began to be disc u:!losed when the
univers•t r's EO/AA Comnuttet' lormrd a sulxommitt(.'(' to revaew the
univerSity'~ rt"4u1red affirmat!Vt'-J\-"liOn responsibilities. Tlm k&gt;d to a di)trihutlon t•f rc:&gt;punsibilltiCS among the th('n EO/AA ()ffiu·, -.c:n11&gt;r man
agcment. deans. t-halrll and md1v!duc~l fac uh' and starT. l'ht• sub·
mmnuttn-'!o rt"Commcndations were &lt;11 .....-ussed anJ endorsed lw the un1
vcn.ny cc Hnmllh.'t', n"CCmm('nded to the prestdent, d1stnhutt.J hy the pres•
dt·nt for comnll.'11l, rt'VISt."Ci. fina.h7J.."ti and Wldciy distributed 111 J mernoran
dum dated Jan. 21. Ji.]qi. That ~okx'lllllt.,lt noted that th.: thc:n f.()/AA ()ffi~..~.·
~kl havt: n:sponsihihty !Or ~L~ing wtlh policyst&lt;llL'1Tk.,l!o and affirmaU\Il~
actJon pTO(U"&lt;tln.~ pn:panng and ~hnuttmg mandatorv rt1'1tln..~ addn..·~smg
finchng.' 111 rqx_1ru and com piau us; des1grung.md •mrk,1mt1ng .m.1udn .md
11.1J&lt;lltlng li)'StCm; set"\'tllga.\ 1 ~1i&lt;;(llllX1\\'t'l.'11 ,Jgt.'TKI"' .1nd thl' Ull l\'t.'r\lt\'; ,1..,
~1:-.tm~ 111 kt"t·pmg the umwrs11 y (Omm unllv tnlnrrnl·d on dl'vdopmcnt"
111 f:.(l/AA Rt.~ pon:,ibtl!lll'~ lt1r ~mor man.1gemcm .md dt".lm. (h.ur:.. d1
rt"t-tors .md md1V1duals also wl're ldl'ntllit."d. Th1:, wa.ll .1 prou....-, thai t oo~
more than J vcar and finall y rt~uht.-d Ill thl' d1 ~tnhut1tH1 ol J umwr . . n\·
pohC\. Ji., me, that ddinl'li the rok· .111d rc . . pc.m&lt;ilhllttlt.-:- til the H l l:\-\
tlllilt' ~uhM."qUt.'ntlv, the mt(.'flm dtrlXtor . . tatt.'\.l hl·r 1ntc:n11nn In n·t•n·
A dr;lft po~ 111011 dl"S..:nptum lor d1rn ·ttlf v-.',1.!&gt; pn~p.lrl-J thJI rdlt.'l.ll'd
thl' dut•t.~ ot tht· tlffil·l· d.!&gt; noted 111 tht· Prl~ IJl·m \ l.:~n ~I, J'-N j , dtk. u
mcnt . \t'\'l'fdl ( ,L;; ~ For(l' on \\',unt.·n rt.'ltlrllllll'nd.lllun:. .•m J mlorm.t
t1on galhcrcd h~ IWtl ... onumllt'l' mc:mhcr. . on nthl'r '\Al ' p uhh ~. lllll
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Jullt.~ of the d1rc:~o..·ttH Tim. dr..1lt .1J...u w.1:. . . h.1n·d wuh .tnd rt'VICWC't.l h~
tht· UlliVt'r'&gt; II Y·:. tllfA.-\ Co mnuttt.•t·. l"ht.· hrnJdh· rqtrt-~l·ntl·d ~c.u"h
uHnn utt t:(.' for thl· Jm·...-tor 1s u..mg tht· tina( Jppro\'Cd d~ rtplton
I·Jlough, I thtnk. on p~ 1-rum where lllll, the Jullt.':'o .md n.unl' 111 tht'
olli~o..c, thl' roil' II would play at VB, ,md lh~o· dutte-. of tht·Ju\_'\.1tn t'\'\ livl"\j t1Vl'1
.m t.!X:tt.'nt.kd pcnod 1 )( ume and mdudl'd m~uw r~outK1p..ml"
The relo\..lltun rdlett3 (hangm~ "P•Kl' lll'l't_h ul the: Ulll\t.·r . . ll\ .md ,,
rl'\.Ctglllllon that the offi(l' ..:ouiJ vl-r. dft'\11velv ~o...lrn tllll 11.\ Juttt....., 111 .Ul\
numlx·r ol k-...:atllli'L'&gt;.I h.:Jd thought th.1trt \•1nulJ hl' t-...... tloo....Ut.J .Ut.ln.,: \\1th
Pt'T!'I(Jilnd ~·n1...-t.~ rn Crnfts Hall, hut I rt'\.el\'l-d !11.'\'t.'r.d k·nt.·r......uggl!&lt;tln!!
th.u .J loc.•unn uttthl· spme ""'uld hettl'r .;('rW our :.tudt:'Tl1 3 JJlJ t.~~o..ult\ llw
t J.llllfllOil.'&gt; pnw1do \U..:h d k)C.Uton, )lnu· 11 b \'t.'r\' proxunall' ..111d .lul....,
,.hit· hl .:.~ 1 \..;tutknts, and. hke ~p~;m~rt-J Program., Adm•n•:.tr.tllllll, \\ h~~o..h
.ti!K it:, \~;x.Jtcrl 111 tht~ (:0mmom,...-an mct.·t thl~ nct~d., ot f.ltlllt\ .111d . . 1.111
1\ h hottum hm· L" that affinnat1w .l~o..l!On l'l unpon.uu. vt'n unpon.mt.
dnd that our fl•i.'l~ should he.· on huw lolmprnvt.· our tantlt\ . . . t.tll.md . . IU
dent dl\'t'fSit\ to hencfit our stl1denl!o and to ht-ttcr lll'n't.· th~.· rwnb nl our
,:t,ur. l 0 mc, affi:mlatwe al110il, divt:P-~Ity anJ ('-J UIIV all.m.· ....... u~.· . . ,m\1 &lt;If'
ptlrtunltlc:.that we nl"t"d IP he addrt.~mg now and 111 tht· \t'.lr' .1ht·.1J
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3:30-9:20 p.m.

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through ~29 OUUide the

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the Center for Tomom&gt;w.

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;:=~were0~~by

A mix of topics ~ planned,
inducting: UB lnfoSource,
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Gra(,'ic Arts"givlsloo of the

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blwd spectrum of technical,

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about the rightful relationship
between Arriericaf1 art and
society. They will be on exhibit
In the UB Art Gallery, Centor fO&lt;
the Arts, through Sept. 13.
Gallery hour&gt; are Wed.·Sal,
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m .; Sunday,
noon to 5 p.m.

IP-8052. Ac:.odemk: AdviSOf'
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jobs listtd abovt, contact
Ptrum~l SeMces' fox
response system by calling
645-1841 ond followit)g tho
II'Oict prompt imttuctionJ. To
obt&lt;WI inlotmotion on 11e&lt;otttJ
jobs. confDCt 5pomoted
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posaJ so that they would
have •an understanding of
what problem we're trying
to solve.•
A student who earned all
.. Fs" in his first semester at
U B would have to earn
strajght ..As" in all courses
taken _d uring the next semester to be in good standing at
the end of his first year.
" Personally, I think that's
a little bit much to expect."
Schroeder said "Under the
current system, the student's
low grades in any one se·
mester continue to u~ with

that student, dragging the
student's GPA downward
for along period of time. We
think, as many other universities have decided, that replacing grades in repeated
courses makes more sense
than averaging the grades in
repeated cour~ .·
That opinion is based, he
said, on the idea that ·~·rc
more interested in the outcome of a student taking a
course, rather than in every
course the student has ever
taken all being averaged in
together."

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which artists, a burgeoning

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Preicient and Controller, ~
scheduled for june 8 and 9 in

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dergraduate stu dies in the
math department reminds
faculty members to update
students on their progress,
" 1 gather in ·talking to my
co lleagues that in a lot of
departments that isn't done.
.. 1 hope th ose in the
Provost 's Office will take
that se riously within the
university to keep us o n our
toes about that."
The resolution on grade
replacement was sent back
to the Grading Committee
for significant revision after
receiving little support from

senators at the May 6 meet ing. Criticisms of the pro·
posaJ included that it perpetuates the attitude that
so me students have that
they can "fu " poor grades if
they know how to work the
system , represe nts a "con tinuing downturn in aca·
demic integrity," a nd ig nores the meaning of
.. grade-po int average."
The proposal would allow
students to repeat courses in
which they have earned
grades of C+ or Jess. Stu dents could repeat a given

course on ly once, and the
grade that would be
counted toward the GPA
would be the one earned the
second time , even if it is
lower than the one earned
the first time.
Schroeder acknowledged
that he and other commit·
tee members also initially
had problems with the issue
of grade replacement, but,
after studying the idea ,
changed their views.
He gave senators an ex·
amp le of a student who
could be affected by the pro-

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UB's annual Commencement Extra
with 8 pages afawards and honors

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Class of 2000

T&gt;W faculty members receive

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Guggenheim fellowships

May 14.1!DI/'Mll,ll.32

Ready ·.
for tlie~_:
Big DaY
Picking up caps and
gowns-it's one of the final
tasks for seniors before
commencement Eric
Salmonson and Karen
Chang picked up their
graduation attire at the UB
Bookstore on Tuesday.

Texas developer to build undergrad housingFirm noted for being "on time" and "under budget" to begin project in August
~SUE
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WUETCHEII
Servtces Associate ();rector

NSTRUCfiON of the
first· on-campus housmg at UB in nearly 25
ears is expected to begin in August. with occupancy
slated for the Fall 1999 semester.
A developer with a track record
of building on-campus apartment
projects "on time" aod "under budget" bas been tapped to build un . dergraduate apartment-style student housing on the North Campus.
American Campus Communities
(ACC) ofAustin, Texas, was selected
to develop the project by a review
committee composed of represcn·ratives from Student Affairs, Resi dence Halls, University Facilities and
the UB Foundation after a Request
for Proposals was circulated to lo-

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cal, ~onal and national develor.-1
ers in early January.
The firm was chostn for a variety of reasoru. according to Dennis Black. interim via president for
student affairs. Among them, he
said, were a design and site plan
favored by student leaders and
committees. project costs that were
approxi"mately 15 percent below
other proposals and a history of
building 45 college projects. including 20 on-campus apartment
projects that were completed "on

ti me" and "under budget."

tor, ADF Construction Corp., and

.. Both stud tn t housing needs
and university needs have changed

local architect, Lauer-Manguso &amp;
Associates, are based in Amherst.
Moreover, ACC President Thomas

greatly in the past 25 years." Black
said. '" This project wiiJ address

Trubiana has committed to sub-

those changes directly by providing~tudents with highly desirable

contracting up to 95 percent of the

living accommodations, and by
providing the university with ad ditional o pportun ities for en hanced campus lift."
He stressed that although ACC
is not a Western New York cOmpany, the project's general contrac-

New York contractors, Black added.

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endorsed a resolution

urging the UB adminis-

tration to move quickly

with the planning and implemen:
tation of increased student access
to computing.

The resolution, approved by the
senate at its May 6 meeting after
the body lost its quorum at its

April 8 meeting, also urges the
ai:lministration to assist student s
who seek to purchase or have
other access to computers, and not
to neglect .. th e central role that

faculty development and faculty
access to computing mu st play in
implementation of increased stu dent ac~ss to computing."
The senate defeated an amend ment to the resolution offe.red by

David Benenson, professor of electrical and computer engineering,

calling for the administration to
provide each faculty member with
a current-model personal com puter, along with appropriate software and accessories, and to upgrade aU hardware and software
"on a timely basis."

Don Schack, professor of mathematics, called Benenson's amend ment "prema ture," since the purpose of the resolution si mply was
to endorse efforts "to go forward
with certain plans now, to figure
out what they will cost and put o ut
proposals. All of a sudden we want
to finish this by prescribing one
major cost?" he asked. "Seems to
me that's just inappropriately
early."
Jim Holstun, associate professor
of English, noted that acq uiring
access to co mputing will be a
"massive expense" for many stu-

dents. "To build in an escape clause
for faculty adds insult to injury,"

Holstun said.
The Student Access Subcom mittee of UB's Information Tech nology Co mmittee has recom mended that UB implement un iversal access to computing re so urces-w hich would require
st ud ents to have access to, and
preferably own, a personal co mputer-by the Fall 1999 semester.

Joseph Tufariello, chair of the
Student Access Subcommittee and
dean of the Facult y of Na tural Sciences and Mathematics, has told
senators that there are numerou s
benefits to providing thi s access,
including the ability to personalize and customize instruction , do
away with most of the poorly

equipped public comp ut er labs,
improve employment prospects
for students and allow UB to mar-

ket its&lt;lf as a high-tech institution.
Universities that have adopted
universal access have see n ~n -

creases in admission applications
and acceptances, as well as im proved rete nti on, Tufariello has
said.
The subcommi ttee had set a tar-

get date of Fall2000 for full implementation of th e strategy, but

pushed it up to Fall 1999 al 1hc
urging of the Faculty Se nat e Ex ecu tive Committee.
Senate Chair Peter ickerson.
professo r o f patholog}'. poi nted
out that th e resolution approwd
by the senate " reOe cts a
process ... this is th e beginning of
the process; there is a lot more th at
needs to be done ."
Among th e 1tems that mu st ht•
addressed is th e reso urce assue.
Nickerson said. He added th at
Provost Thomas E. Headrick has
promised to provide the senate
with more accurate information in
the fall on the cost of implementing universal computing acc6s.

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EDITOR'S NOJ&lt;, Tho Is the lalest in a
series of OCca5ional artie~ about the
Class of 2000, a project the Reporter
began in the Fall of 1996 by asking 25
freshmen to fill out a survey about
themselves, why they chose UB, their
hopes for t.heir education and the fu..
ture. Students who are pan of the
project. selected by !he OffiCe of Stu·
dent life, represent a broad cros,s..section of the class.
Recently, we asked these same students, who are wrapping up their
sophomore year, for an update. We'll
stay in touch with them throughout
their academic careers at UB.
By MAliA McGI-5
News Services Editorial Assistant

A

ey approach their junior year, members of
the Class of 2000 look
forward to earlier reg-

istration days for classes, better
choices for dorm rooms, not taking general edu cation requirements, smaller classes and-yes,
already--graduation.
According to these soon-to-be
upperclassmen , their greatest challenge has been managing time and
money.
Erin Cala, who ·is majoring in
English and environmental studies.

said time management has been lhe
most difficult thing to learn but
says she finally has found a balance
between studying and partying.
She also has become involvffi in
campus activities. " I have been
working on an internship with environmentcil studies which involves
. improving existing policies on recycling and energy conservation on
campus,.. she explained.
Cala, who has been living off
campus since last year, misses the
convenience of being a few min -

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and did not really hdp me with
difficult class decisions," ~he said.
Steinhaus, an active member of
Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, looks forward to moving off campus nat
year and having a car, but also feels
financial pressures. ~AU I wish is that
I would have started saving more

money for college way before I
started attendin'g. I never feel like I
have a dollar in my poc:ket." she said.
More campus activities
Kaya Gerberich, a rosident advisor who will be a UB orientation
aide this summer, is trying to decide
on a major, but remains a dance
minor. "I came in as a biology ma-

jor." Gerberich is very invoNcd in organizations on campus, especially in
the rosidence halls. "I am oontinuing to expand my involvement in
other campus organizations and

activities, especially for next year."
She admitted she wished she
knew what she wanted to do for the
rest of her life but adds that her experience has been a positive one.
"I've grown so much. I'm testing my
limits and finding my strengths and
utes away from everybody, but says
weaknesses in all aspects of my life.
her experience in Governors was
I've found things I love to do and
not an enjoyable one.
hate to do, and found the balance
between what I can do all al once!
Money management difficult
It's been great and I wouldn't change
Managing money has been lhe
a thing." said Gerberich.
·
most difficult aspect of ooUege life for
Margaret Zak of Brooklyn
architecture major Susan Deamn of
changed her major froll) architecAuburn. "I have spent a lot more
ture to communication. "I wasn't
money here than I ever had in the
getting any satisfaction from doing
past." Deaoon, who said her workload
the work and it wasn't worth it for
has become significantly heavier
me to go through the program." she
since last year, would force her.elf to said. "After working with Career
study harder if she could change one
Planning and Placement, I realized
thing about coUege so far. "I can be that I am much more interested in
lazy and procrastinate at times," she public relations than architecture."
admined. "Projects lake up a lot of This summer, she hopes to land an
time and I definitely do not go out as internship at a public-relations firm.
much as I did freshman year."
Zak said she was fully adjusted her
Some of the members of the first day here. "Being away from
Class of 2000 have changed ma- home and learning about life at UB
jors, while the undecided are real - was not an issue for me. Perhaps the
izing they have to declare one. The hardest lhing to get used lo was the
undergraduate academic advising cold weather lasting so long."
office received unfavorable reJennifer Cotignola agreed. "I am
views fro m most of the students.
adjusted. I love it here. The cold

A prospective speech and hearing major, Elan a Steinhaus is Jess
than impressed with the advising
office. "On two accounts, they
added mistakes on my transcript

spect olhers in ways she never
to before. •t am more mature now.
I don't need mommy doing things
for me. I learned about my fears,
likes and dislik£5 about myself. I
also learned how to get along with
people." she acknowledged.
Afte~ talting some required

courses for computer-science majors, Jennifer Ahbata of Webster
decided that she preferred business
a'nd changed her major. Nat year,
she will oontinue to enjoy the benefits of on-campus living. "There
are too many good things, like
ethernet, to move off,.. she said
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JENNIFER COTtGNOlA

Ahbata has been preparing herself since high school for the real
world. "I have already been at:L-in. tern at Xerox and am currently an
intern at Bausch &amp; Lomb," she said.
Jason Toto, who will take summer classes at UB, has decided to
major in nuclear medical technology, but said the academic advising has been "horrible." He said
advisors ignored his prior credits
and made him retake classes he
didn't need. "It .is almost as though
UB is setting up their students to be
here for five or mon: years just to
keep the tuition money ooming in;
he said. "I have been to four different •advisors~ and none of them
kncwwhattotellmeorbowtoguick
me through this huge university.•
However, college life has shown
him how to succeed away from

home. "The hardest .thing has been
learning how to cook fo r myself
and finding where to eat on campus to avoid the poor food they
serve to us," noted Toto.

else have been lhe hardest things
to gel used to." Living with three
other girls has taught Cotignola

Advising was helpful
Sean Webb, on the olher hand,
has found the academic advising
~ffice very helpful. "I only have
changed my major once-from

how to control her moods and re-

business management to eronom-

weather and living with someone

ics--&lt;&gt;nly because I rouldn't Ii3ck
the math." Joining Sigma Alpha Epsilon has helped him fully adjust to
oollege life. "I went out to rush and
met some really nice guys. I would
love for more people to be involved
in Greek life,• said Webb. '"To be
honest, I party a lot and I slack off a
bit in school." he admitted. "But that
is what oollege is all about-!iving
on your own. I have found the ~
me and I am enjoying it."
Taking classes at UB are Neene
Owate's plans for this summer-&lt;1.1though being away from home in
Brooldyn has been the hardest adjustment for her in' oollege. "I still
ha~not adjusted," said Owate, who
now spends most of her time studying and will continue living on the
South Campus next year.
Tanya Stanger, a marketing ma jor from Merrick, will do an internship this summer in New York
City at a publication company,
hopefully in the marketing department. A1; for help from the advising office, she said some advisors
were hdpful, othecs were useless.
Hardest adjuslments
AJ; she plans to l1lOVe off campus
next year, Stanger said if she oould
change one thing about her oollege
experience so far it'would be to~
moved off campus after freshman
year. "Living in a dorm and being.
so far from family have been the
hardest adjustments," she said
Media-study major Chris
Fedorczak said managing time has
been one of the hasde.t adjustments, especial)y as his workload
in~ "I havespentalotoftime
in editing rooms and oomputer labs
...rliog on pmjecuand asSignments
in the past year; said Fedorczak, who
interned last swnmer at a radio station in New York City.1bisswnmer,
·he plans on working at a television
station or film production oompony.
His view on the college
"It gives an individual a chaoce to go
out into ihe world and becnm&lt; independent It lets you be "'Jll"'l'lto
different experiences and people.
And these experimces will last for....._ ~hasn't chango!dme, but
it has helped me become the person
that! am.•
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Cai, Fonoroff are ~enheim fellows Briefly
1

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N4tWS Services Edttori&amp;l Assistant
B facult'y members
Jin-Yi Cai, professor
of computer science,
and Nina Y. Fonoroff,
visiting assistant professor of media study, hove been selected 10 receive 1998 fellowship awards from
the John Simon Guggenheim Memoria! Foundation.
CaiandFonoroffaretwoofl68
artists,scholarsandscientistschosen from_ more than 3,000 appli&lt;ants to receive the prestigious
award. Fellows are appointed on
the basis of unusually dislinguished achievement in the past
and exceptional promise for future
accomplishment.
Cai, whose primary research interest is in computational complexitf theory, will use the fellowshi p award to continue his re search endeavors. He is the only
recipient in the U.S. and Canada
awarded the fellowship in the field
of comp1:1ter science.
CaijoinedtheUBfacultyin 1993
after teaching at Yale and Princeton

U

us,wiuusetheawardtoproduce
a short e:xpenmental film that exploresthewaysthatprimitiveand
contemporary technologies create
and perpetual&lt; romantic desire
based on idealization and fantasy.
Fonoroff says that .. Radiant
CAl
Eyes"-tbefilm's workingti~e-&lt;realeS a cognitive dissonance that raises
universities. He Wa.s the recipient of qu..Uons in the mind of the viewer
a Presidential Young lnveotigator about the int&lt;rsection between techAward in 1990 and an Alfred P. nology,narrativeandgmder.
SloanFcUowshipinComputerSciFonoroff was a 1993 fellow of
ence in 1994. He also received the the New York Foundation for the
Hao Wang Prize in 1997 from the Arts and has received awards from
International Computing and the Je.rome Foundation, the Louis
Combinatorics Conference.
B. Mayer Foundation and the
A member of the Scientific Brooklyn Arts and Cultural AssoBoard for the. Electronic Collo- dation.
quium on Computational ComA participant in numerous solo
plexity,Cai also is associate editor and group exhibitions and film
of the Journal of Complaity and festivals on national and inte.m a an editor of the International jour- tiona) levels, she has taught at
nal of Foundations of Comp~ter Syracuse University, the MassaScience and The Chicago journal of chusetts College of Art , the UniTheoretical Computer Science. He versityofWisconsin at Milwaukee,
has written and published more Hampshire College, Adelphi Uni than 50 research papers.
versity and the University of CaliFonoroff, who teaches 16mm fornia at San Diego before comfilmmaking and film analysis at iog to UB in Fall 1997.

Faculty Sellate critical of proposal
to allow students to repeat courses
By SU£ WUITCHU
News Services Associate Director

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proposal that would
make it easier for students to repeat cnurses in
which they have earned
grades of C+ or less was strongly
criticized by members of the Faculty
Senate at the group's May 6 meeting.
However, senators supported another proposal that would require
faculty members to issue mid-semester progress reports for freshmen and
first -semester transfer students.
Tbe purpose of the grade-replacement proposal, said Grading Com·
ntittee Chair Thomas Schroeder,
associate professor of learning and
instruction, is to help students attain mastery in the courses they take.
Other benefits would include enhanced self-confidence, increased
opportunities for job and graduateschool placement and improved retention, 5chro&lt;Per said
The proposal would allow students to repeat courses in which
they have earned grades of C+ or
less. Students could repeal a given
course only on.:e, although there
would be no limit on the number
of different courses that tould be
repeate~When a course is re·peated, th grade that would be
counted to
the GPA would be
the one earned the second time,
even if that grade is lower than the
one earned the first time.
Laura Winsky Mattei, assistant
professor of political science, told
senators that while she appreciated
the intent of the proposal, she was
troubled by it. "Back when I went
to school, you got some good
grades- and you got some bad
grades and that's the way it went."
She said she's encountered .. increasing lobbying pressure" from
~ndergradua tes who feel"that with
the right argument, I will just
change their grade because they
just want me to change their grade."
The motion seems to ..encourage

A

that kind of attitude" that students
who can find the right strategy can
" fix these things," Mattei said.
Several senators questioned the
committee's stance that a grade of
"C .. does not repr~nt mastery of
a course.
SChroeder replied that while a
"C' grade maybe adequate for students to continue in the university
and a "C+" grade is adequate to
continue in a program, there are
some instances in which .. Cs" are
not considered to be mastery in
prerequisite courses.
Moreovt!r, for students considering graduate school, "Cs" often are
seen as"red flags." a reason to reject
an applicant without looking further into his or her record, he added.
"If that's the way people are interpreting grades of 'C,' then we
need to offer our students opportunities to better their performance," Scbroeder said.
Don Schack, professor of mathematics, called the proposal"silly"
and "farcical."
.. These terms have meanings.
The grade-point average is an average of grade points receives!; it
is not an average of the things you
think will do the best job for you
when you apply to graduate school
ora job," Schack said, stressing that
the GPA should be the average of
all courses ~aken at the uhiversity.
David Benenson, professor of
electrical and computer engineering. told senator.; the resolution represents no more than a "continuing
downturn in academic integrity."
UB is fast app.roaching being an
..open-admissions .university" that
admits students who are not quali fied, he said. "The 'gentlemanly C'
from the past is now a 'gentlemanly
8,' or fast approaching that, and in
the not too distant future, will approach essentially a 'gen~emanly A.'
And this resolution is simply a
small step in that direction."
The proposal on mid-semester

progress reports received a much
more favorable response from S&lt;fla~'Ors. But senators differed on just
how to report progress.
Benenson noted that in using the
pass/fail method, a designation of
..passing'" encompasses a wide range
ofgrades, from A through D. In tight
of the senate's earlier discussion
about whether a grade of"C" represents mastery of a course, .. thi ~
(pass/fail ) could be a somewhat misleading result if a sufficient number
of faculty member.; do address the
situation like that," he said.
Monica Spaulding, professor of
medicine, suggested faculty mem bers use the quartile designation
if they do not want to be specific
abou t a lencr grade.
Schroeder responded th at
quartile designations could represent different grades, depending on
the course. For example, in some
courses students in the b~ttom
quartile would receive a grade of "F,"
while in others those in the bottom
quartile would pass the course.
"Simply reporting a quartile may
not provide the absolute standard
that we're looking for," he said.
Schack endorsed Spaulding's recommendation. \o\lhile it is true. he
said, that the bottom quartile could
mean a different grade in different
courses, ...the one thing which is un equivocal about it is that it means
that you're in the bottom fourth.
And if you want to know whether a
student is doing poorly in several
courses, well, the bottom fourth is
doing poorly, whether or not the
teacher ultimately gives a 'D' or an
'F,'" he said.
Schroeder emphasized that the
committee wanted to present the
proposal in such a way so th at fac ulty members would have a vari ety of ways in which they could
report mid-semester progress.
The senate will vote on both
resolutions at its finaL meeting of
the semester on May 13.

Reception Ma:y 12 honors
87 UB faculty staff members
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President and Mrs. William Greiner hosted a reception on May

12 in the President's Residence honoring 87 members of the UB
faculty and staff who have co mpleted 30 and 40 years of service to
the universit y.

40 years of service:
Sheldon Berlyn,Art: and Alan Bruce, BIOlogical Sciences.
30 years of service: . .
Robert Balcerak, Resto rative Dentistry; James Becker, Print and Maii
Services; John Bell. Acco unting and Payroll Services; Kathleen
Bcrchou, Payroll Services; Frina Boldt, Music: Carol Bradley, Music
Library; James Brady. Philosophy; Ruth Brya nt . Architecture and
Planning; Winston Chang, Economics; Ching Chou , Mathematics;
Barbara Christy, Personnel Services; James Conway, Educational
Leadership and Policy; Walter Conway, Pharmaceutics; James Coover,
Music; Jacqualyn Cramer, Engineering and Applied Sciences; Robcrt Cryan, Jr. , Sponsored Programs Services; Maurren Davidson, Oral
Diagnostic Services; Michael Oay. Computing and Information Tech·
nology; Fra nces Depew, Financial Aid; Beth Erasmus Fleming. Physi ology and Biophysics; Ioyce Farrell, Law; Karen Finger, Computing
and Information Technology.
Also: Shonnie Finnegan, Archives; William Fischer, English; Stefan
Fleischer, English; Thomas Frantz., Counseli ng and Educational Psychology; Richard Friedman, Political Science; Michael Fuda, Physics;.Kathleen Garbutt, Print and Mail Services; Robert Genco, Oral
Biology; William Greiner, President; Paul Guinn, History; Estelle
Hearn, Internal Audit; James Holmes, Economics; Elaine Hull, Psychology; Ri chard Hull, Philosophy; Thomas Hurley, Cora P. Malof!ey
College; Bruce jackson, English; Anna Kedzierski, Faculty Senate;
Peter Klumpp, Budget ; F. Gloria Koontz, Co mputer Science;
Katherine Kubala, Architecture and Planning; James Lawler, Philosophy; Yung Lee, Physics; Cing Shi Liu, Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering; Richard Macakanja, Computing and Information Tech·
nology; Floyd Maltbie, Operational Support Services; Erika Metzger,
Modern Languages and Literatures; William Miller, Oral Diagnostic Sciences; Sharon Murakowski, Management; John Naylor, History; Robert Newman , English; Anna Nikander, Law; Alben
Olszowka, Physiology and Biophysics; Jacqueline Ort, Communicative Disorders and Sciences; Robert O 'Shea, Social and Preventive
Medicine; Ann Piech. Mathematics; Mary Anne Przybysz. Records
and Registration; Michael Ram, Physics; Nagcsh Revankar, Economics; Bonita Ryan. Public Service and Urban Affairs; Thomas Sansone,
Print and Mail Services; Willi Schultze, Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
Also: Fred See, English; Erwin Segal, Psychology; Thomas Shuell,
Co unseling and Educational Psychology; Monica Slowik, Admissions; Carol e Snyder, Gynecology and Obstetrics; Alan SpieGel, English; Ronald Stein, University Advancement and Development;
Nancy Stowell, 1-lealth Sciences Library; Vijay Swamy, Biochemical
Pharmacology: Myron Thompson, Ill , The Graduate School; Rosalie
Vallone, Payroll Services; Richard Vesley, Mathematics; Robert
Wagner, Universi ty Services; Ca rolyn Wall. Oct.:upationaJ and Environmental Safety Services; Bonnie Weiss, Classics; Roy Wilko, Restorative Dentistry; Jerrold Winter, Pharmacology and Therapeu ·
tics; Darold Wobschall, Electric.al and CQ mputer Engineering;
Howard Wolf, English; Howard Wolfsohn , Restorative Dentistry;
Shuen Yuan, Mathematics: Donna Zagrabski. Food Service; Stanley
Zion ts, Management Science and Systems.

Lectures, exhibits planned
for Science Exploration Day
Lively demonstrations, lectures and exhibits ranging from a visit

to a turn-of-the-century apothecary/pharmacy to improved tech niques for forecasting the weather will be among the more than 30
workshops and mini -lectures to be presented as part of th e I Sth
annual Science Exploration Day, to be held Tuesday at UB.
An estimated 1,100 high -school students from Erie and Niagara
counties are expected to "turn on to science" at Science Exploration
Day, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the North Campus.
A highlight will be a program presented by L. Dennis Christopher.
NASA aerospace education specialist at th(' Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Md. A consultant to the Public Broadcasting System program .. NOVA ," Christopher will lectu re at 9:15a.m., 10:15
a.m. and 12:45 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall (\\'oldman Theatre).
Science Exploration Day is sponsored by the iagara Frontter
Science Supervisors Association and th e western section of the Science Teachers Association of New York State. AdditiOnal sponsors
arc the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Office of
Admissions, the Graduate School of Education, Educational Technology Services and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
all at UB; the New York Sea Grant/ Great Lakes Program; Wilson
Greatbatch Ltd., and West Valley Nuclear Services C.oJWestinghousc.

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and security features. The
complex will include recr.,_

arional areas, green space. jected, based on a 10-month
adequate parking, a stop for lease. The fee wiU include
the Blue Bird shuttle and a . utilities, cabl...relevision and
community building. Apart- computer hookups and a
ments will be fully furnished. campus telephone line.
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and Sweet Home roads, is expected to be ready for occupancy by the FaU semester.
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construCtion of additional
housing on the North Cam-

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the All,IIIIIli Association, and
tnnversion of South Campus
dormitories Goodyear and
Clement balls into apart-

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being oornplmcl now, Blaclc
said, with oonstruction possibly beginning in 2000.

�University at Buffalo

((Perhaps the most
valuable result of all
education is the ability
to make yourself do
the thing you have to do,
when it ought to be done,
whether you like
it or not''
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UB to hold 152nd Commencement
17;
Stovroff, McLemon to .be honored · ·
5,000 students will be candidates to receive degrees in ceremonies to be held May 15-17 imd
By MAllY RTH SPINA
.News Services Editor

C

OMMUNITY
leader Ruth Kahn
Stovroff will receive
th e
C han ce llor
Charles P. Norton
Medal, UB's highest tribute,at the
university's 152nd co mm e ncement ceremony, to be held at I0
a.m. Sunday in Alumni Arena o n
the North Campus.
James W. Mclernon, a leader in
the automotive industry for nearly
50 years, will recrive
honorary
SUNY Doctorate of Humane letters at the commencement ceremony for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to be
held at I p.m. Saturday in Alumni
Arena.
About 5,000 students will be can. didates to reaive
degrees during 13
ceremonies to be
held May 15- 17.
The School of
and

an

tlOIM,pre!;,peot and chief &lt;X&lt;CUtiV&lt;
officer of
Pari&lt; Cancer Institute, will speak.
President Wtlliam R. Greiner and
graduating senior Silvia Muller will

speak. and Greiner and Provost Thomas E. Headrick will oonfer degrees
on graduating senior&gt; from the fiu:ultiesof Arts and Letters. Natural Sciences and Mathematics. and Social
Sciences at the general oommencement ceremony Sunday.
The recipients of three Dean's

Awanls will be Shane E. Eisen, social
sciences; Elowyn Yager, natural sci-

ences and mathematics, and Heather

'

G.Shillinglaw,ans
and letter&gt;.
Anna Furgiuelc
will receive th e
senior leader1hjp
award .
Student vocalist
wifl be Kristen A.
Viszneki.
Stovroff, who will receive the
Chancellor Nonon Medal, has long
been recognized fo r .. her concern
for all people, regardless of race,
color, creed oT reli~n" that has
helped set the cour&gt;e ""r dozens of
health and human-services organizations in the community. Among
these are Hospice Buffalo, Inc.; the
Food Bank of Western New York;
the American Red Cross; the Blind
Association of Western New York,
and the National Co nference of
Christians and Jews.
Mc;,.Lernon, who wiiJ receive an
honorary degree a t the engineer·
ing school's commencement , is a
I 950 UB graduate and a member
of the engineering school's Dean's
Advisory CoUQ~;il.
During his 27 years with Gen eral Motors, McLernon moved
from the assembly line to the front
officeo where he directed the operation of a 32· plant network em·

Creduate School

kenneth ). Ollenbllcher, vice
deon lnd pralesiDr In lho

School ol Ailed~ Sdences

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at lho lJr-.y ol T - l\4ediCill-.chat~

Creduate School of Social

9 a.m./~enter for the Arts

t.1ich-' E. &amp;em.rdino, vice
president lor '-lth .,...

S d&gt;oolofNunlng

9 a.m./Siee Concert Hall

Pmldent Gn!inor

Dean lawrence Shulman
Mattie l. Rhodes, dinlal
professor In lho
UB School ot Nursing .

assoc~e

School of Informa tion
a ncl-kllonry Studies

10 a .m ./ Student Union Theatre

President Greiner

Glendora Johnson-Cooper, associate librarMn .00 deYelopment coonlinatDr for-tho undergradWite collection

School of Engineering
-and Applied Sdences

1 p.m ./ Alumni Arena

President Greiner

Dean Mart&lt; H. KMwan

School of Law

1 p.m ./Center for the Arts

Provost Headrick

The Hon. RicNrd Wesley ot
the New Yori&lt; ~ Court ot
Appe.ls

School of Pha rmacy

1 p.m ./ Slee Concert Hall

Vice President Bernardino

School of Architecture

3 p.m ./lawn outside Hayes Hall

Senior Vice Provost lei/)'

Kenneth Frampcon, w....,
Professor Ill ArchlleCiure at
Columbia I.JnMnlty

~- School

S p.m ./ Center for the Arts

Provost Headrick

DNfl )Kquefyn.Mitchefl

School of Management

S p.m ./Alumni Arena

President Greiner

Interim 0... John Thomu,
faculty members, students
and a)umni

llnlnnlty Commencement

10 a.m./Alumni Arena

President Greiner and Provost
Headrick

President Greiner and g~u­
ating senior Silvia Muller

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of Education

Undergraduates
Faculty of Arts and letters
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Faculty of Social Sciences, including Interdisciplinary Degrees
Special and Individualized Majors
Associate Degrees
School of Dental Medicine

2 p.m./Center for the Arts

h.
School of - kine and
lllomedkal Sc:lencu and
R - P- Craduate DIvision

ploying some II 0,000 people.
Called a "seasoned engineer and

production wizard," he oversaw the
implementation of a Volkswagen
plant in western Pennsylvania, the
~ first major foreign operation to
build cars in the U.S.
Four years 4go, he and a group
of inves tors formed Ameri ca n
Axle &amp; Manufacturing, which supplies major parts to auto manufac ..
turers around the world.
Other commencement ce.remo·
nies sched uled at UB, speakers and
those who will confer degrees are:
• Creduate Sc:-1. 2 p.m., to morrow, Cen ter for the Arts.
Speaker will be C.). Tan, senior
manager, applicacion s systems
technology, research division ,
IBM/Thomas ). Watson Research

2 p.m./Center for the Arts

Harold Slavin, director of the
National Institute of Dental
Research

· Vice President Bernardino

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President Greiner

David C. Hohn, president and

chief executive officer,
R~l

Ce nter, . Yorktown Heights .
Headrick will confer degrees.
• -.o Related Professions, 9
a.ni.,Saturday,Aiumni Arena. Kenneth ). Ottenbacher. vice dean and
professor in the School of Allied
Health Sciences at the University of
Texas Medieal Branch at Galveston,
will speak. Senior Vice Provn&lt;t Kenneth ). Levy will confer degrees.
• Creduate School of Social
Work, 9 a.m. , Saturday, Center for
the Ans. Dean Lawrence Shulman ·
will speak. Michael E. Bernardino,
vice president for health -affair&gt;,
will confer degrees.
• School of Nunlnl. 9 a.m., Saturday, Slee Concert Hall. Mattie L
Rhodes. clinieal associate professor
in the UB School of Nuning, will
speak. Greiner will co~fer degrMS.

.School

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S.tunlaf.

Student Union Theme_ Glendora
)ohnson-Cooper,associR hbrarian
and development coordinator for
the uoderwaduate collection. will
speak. Grein&lt;r will oonfer degrees.

• School of~ .o\ilplled SeMMes, I p.m., Saturday, Alumni Arena. Dean Mark HKarwan will speak_ &lt;Greiner will
confer degrees.
• School of Law, I p.m., Saturday, Center for the Arts. The Hon.
Richard Wesley of the New York
State Court ofAppeals, will opeak_
Headrick will oonkr degrees.
• School fllf ..........,, I p.m .,
Saturday, Slee Concert Hall. Bernardino will confer degrees.
• School of ArchltectMre ...i

.

Pari&lt; Cancer Institute

,......... 3 p.m., Saturday, lawn
outside Hayes Hall, South Campus. Kennrtb. Frampton , Ware
Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, will speak. Levy ,
will confer degrees.

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5 p.m., Saturday, Center for the
Arts. Dean jacquelyn Ml1cbdJ will

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...-Jc- Headrick wiD oonfer degr=

• School of
5
p.m., Saturday, Alumni Arena. Interim Dean John Thomas, faculty
member.. students and alumni will
..-Jc- Greiner will oookr degr=
• School o f - . . .......... 2
p.m., Sunday, Center for the Arts.
Harold Slavin, director oftbe National Institute of Dentall!&lt;seart:h,
will speak_ Bernardino wiU oonfer
degrees.

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Seniors to receive awards for.
leadership, academic excellence

F

o- the pMt......, , - . , I havo had tho pleasure: of conforring do-

OURgraduatingseniors
will be honored and two
others will have promi-

Dean"s Academic Achievement

demic Achievement Award. A

Award. A studont who bas excdled
intwovorydifferentareasofstudy,
Shillinglaw will roceivo a
bachelor's of fin&lt; arts dogree for
her work in the Department of
Theatre and Dance. An cxtraordi·
narily creative dancer and choreographu, her works have been
performed by the Lexington
. Dane&lt; Collective and at HaUwaUs
Contemporary Arts Center. Also a
leading undergraduate scholar in
the Department of English, she
h won the r&lt;spect of her follow
udents and her teachers for her
reativity, originality, dedication
d conc&lt;rn for hor community.
Elowyn M .
a geology

transfer student who cam&lt; to UB
from the University of Rochester
in the spring of 1996, she is a
member of the departmental
Honors Program in political scionce. Her interdisciplinary honors
th .. is and hor work .. a research
assistant for UB's National Center
for Geographic Information and
AJ1a4&lt;si.1 demonstrate her strong
commitment to wing knowledge
for public service. Inducted into
the Goldon Key honor society, she
has been awarded a Presidential
Fellowship to pursue a doctoral
degree in the Departrn&lt;nt of Geography.
Aana,__,amanagemont

rna r, will"receive the Faculty of

major with a concentration in

Natu al Scionces and Mathemat-

ics D

grees on thowands of University at Bulf.Uo graduates. Yet each year is
to m&lt; as this on&lt; is to you and tho family and fri&lt;nds who
havo loved, nurtured and supported you through th&lt;S&lt; important years.
The riluals, signs and formality of commencement em-

nent roles as student

speaker a nd vocalist when tJB
holds its 152od _annual commenc:ement ceremony Sunday in
AlumniArena.
~
The awards will honor the students for thoir outstanding . either Stanford University or the
achievernonts in acadomic aal- University of California at Berulence and leadership.
Joy.
Heet11er CO. Shillinglaw, a
L ·a political scidance/English major, will roceive &lt;DC&lt; major, will roceivo tho Faculty
tho Faculty of Arts and Letters of Social Scionces Dean's Aca-

v.,.,,

maruting, will roc&lt;ive tho 1998

's Academic Achievement

Senior Leadership Award pre-

Awar . A member of tho University Honors Program and tho Phi
Eta Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa and
Gold&lt;n Kq honor socioti&lt;s, sho is
listed in "Who's Who Among Stu-

the Graco Capen Momorial Award

sen ted by tho Division of Studont
Affairs. Sho is a momber of tho Pi
Sigma Epsilo.n profossional salos
and marketirig fratomity, and recontly was namod Residonco Halls
Advisor of the Year. As a member
of the UB Stars, she has boon an
outstand.i ng amoassador for the
university community. As an in·
tom for tho Office of Admissions

for academic achievement, she

and an orientation aiC:Ie, she has

plans to pursu~aduat&lt; study at

worked closely with both poten·

dents in American Universities
and Collogos." R&lt;cipient of tho D.
Duttwoil&lt;r Award of tho UB Go·

ology Summer FieJd Course and

PI: esid.ezd'sMa·s s age
To the Members ofthe University
at Buffalo Class of 1998:

-

phasize how much your accomplishments have been a

tiaJ and incoming froshmen, holping to ensuro rewarding UB eaperimces for hundr&lt;ds of hor follow
students.
Student speak&lt;r at this year's
commencement ceremony will bt:
Silvia Muller, an international .
studios major. A r&lt;cipiont of the
). Scott Fleming Morit Award for
student involvement, s he ha s
beon a violinist with the UBuffalo
Symphony, a m&lt;mbor of tho
women's crew team and a participant in tho 1997 National Con·
for&lt;nc&lt; on Studont S.rvices. Sho
servod on tho Student Scnat&lt; and
the lntornational Affairs Council
of tho Student Association, and as
an officer in the KOrean St.udent
Association. Her involvement
with "Midnight Madnoss," the
annual celebration of the opening of tho basketball soason,
holped build ·prido in UB for tho
campus community.
Vocalist for tho Class of 1998
will be Kristen A. Viszneki, a K- 12
music-oducation and psychology
major who has been a student
· toachor a t North Park Middle
School and Lockport High School
during the spring 1998 somostor.
A member and past prosident of
the University Choir, she has per·
formed with the UB Opera Work·
shop and recontly played tho part
of Hansol in "Hansol and Gretol."
Viszneki also is a soloist for Central Presbyterian Church in Buffalo.

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A Message to all New Graduates
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As a new graduate, you re- credit union, free admission to the
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You also may want to support the
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shared ondoavor. You have participated in and activoly-ongaged this special community of scholar$-lho Univorsity
ai Buffalo. You aro a vital part of tho community of more than 30,000
undergraduate, gradual&lt; and profossional studonts, faculty and staff
which UB encompasses. You are also a part of tho ovon groator tradi·
tion of the modem university and its unturies of history.
Your &lt;n&lt;rgy, onthusiasm and intollectual labor havo added greatly
to tho vibranco of this community. Your scholarly ongagomont with
us has given renewed meaning to our work as teachers, scholars and
public servants.
And it is tho special nature, character and roputation of tho University
at Buffalo which gives meaning and valuoto tho dogrees you ha"" earned.
In Western Now York this commoncomont season, ovor 10,000 dogrees
will be conferred. But only Y.,urs como from our r&lt;gion's on&lt; researchintensivo university, from Now York's pr&lt;rni&lt;r stat&lt; university center.
You chose to come to UB for a university education. You chose
UB because you had the venturesomeness, the motivation, the ambition, the drive-to-succeed.that places you a cut above. You chose
UB because your mind and will domand the divorsity of people, tho
diversity of intellectual endeavor, the size, scope and richness that
only a t:rue university can offer.
At this univorsity, you bavo not only been taught theories, principles
and insights in your major field of study. You havo also boon cultivated
and encouraged to dovelop special skills and perspectiv~ng tools
at tho cutting edgo of thought and tochnology that will let you continuo
learning and contributing to others throughout your life. lbat is just
on&lt; of tho special values of your Univorsity at Buffalo dogreo.
This university's diversity in range and scope, in restarch, teach ~ng and service, is the UB all of you take with you as you move into
the next most important part of your lives. It is difficult to capture a
true picture of all VB is, does and accomplishes. Just as it is hard to
communicate to your friends and families all yo u have learned,
achieved and become during your time with us.
Recently, I responded to a letter from someone who thought the
unlandscapcd "natural regeneration areas"' on the northwest side of
this campus don't put UB's best face forward. I had to grant that
person that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But tho more I
thought about it, tho more I roalized what a remarkable motaphor
the natural regeneration areas are for the complex of activity, labor,
interdependence and vitality that ' make a university like VB so vibrant and such an important part of the world around us.
Not only do these grasslands and meadows show ou r commitment
to our environment, but they have already become home to a diverse
array of animal life. The meadows arc home to a beautiful variery of
wildflowers-it seems like a different flora is in bloom each week
throughout the summer. And occasionally over these natural areas,
you can see a pair of red-tailed hawks soaring in the warm updrafts.
It 's a simple idea that makes these areas a rich environment for so
many different kinds of life. At a universit y like US, not everybody sees
the same beauty-the myriad details and works and people of our com·
plex community. It is easy, however, to sec those who soar. Each of you
who graduates this weekend-you have soared, and you will soar.
Each of you has a story--a story of challenges overcome, of hardships endured, of defeats and triumphs. changes and enduring choicos.
A story of personal foibles and character strengths; disappointing in·
fatuations and loves won; embarrassments you can look back and laugh
at, and mom&lt;nts of which you will be proud for the rest of your life.
All of your stories have now become a part of VB--a pan of more
than ISO years of such stories. You have helped to fulfill the story of
UB's founders: pioneers who were committed to investing all the resource$ necessary to provido an institution of higher learning that would
meet the needs of our region and state for outstanding doctors, lawyers,
engineers, teachers, counselors, anists, scieniists-lcadcrs.
Your UB education puts you a cut above. The symbol of that edu cation-your VB degree-will stand you in good stead as you face
the challenges of the next yoars of your life. We aro happy to know
that the employment market you face is the brightest it has boon for
the last docade and a half. In fact, for many of you, your UB dogree
has already guaranteed passage into a promising career opportunity.
Having family and friends with us this weekend adds meaning to
the ritual. As families, friends, and communities have instilled in us
the values that make us who we are, so their standing as witness to
your accomplishments give an added and important value to your
UB degree. HencCforward, it is up to you to continue to build mean ·
ing and value into that degree, and into your alma mater.
Wherover you might go, you tako UB with you; I hope you will
communicate the value and values of this great universiry. Gathered
togothor this wookencl---&lt;md individually as you mako your way into
the world-you represent the remarkable diversity, richness. and
excellence of the Vniversiry at Buffalo. Congratulations!
- WIIII•m R. Crelner, President

�4-Mayl( 199~-----------~----

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A SALUTE TO
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT

G

RADUATION: It's the time. to recognize st uden ts' hard-won
academic efforts, to salute their many achievemen ts. This issue of the Reporter pays tribute to the many outstanding con tribu tions made by UB students in areas of academics, research , community service and artistic performance. Among the awards
prese nted this spring are those listed on these pages. The list, by no
means complete, is based on materials submitted by .various university
departments.

Architecture and
Planning
o.p..rtm.tt of Architecture
Dean._ Award (awudM to stude nt wfd'l
hiJhest GI'A ..-tumlna for ftnal ,._.,.)
BPS: Scott Adanu (l.86J)
M.Arch .: Debor•h 8rtnnan () .'#]11 ). l.aun
Chcns (l.'ll8 )

Academic Achlewement Awanb
(awarded to stvdent with the
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Senior: Eblnc Chow (l.lll}
Junior: Scou E. Adanu (l.M60)
Sophmorc (tie}: John McCumiJty (l.lbl), John
Sistinsll.IJ)
Freshman: C.thuinc Fcrruis (J.821)

Deslan Excellence Award (....rded to
student wtu. oumandlna studio wortc)
Fruhnun (tid: David Willi rd. Nathan Wunock
Sophmort": Stcpluinie AP8u
Junior: Charta DIVil
Senior: Mk hlld S. 1\a

Tu Van Ns. Aspa Pa.pauluin

Henry Adams Gold He
Ronu V. A&amp;nwal

Henry Adum: Certificate
Andrew Xiamheng Liu

fL lludanlnlder Fuller Award
~n~Ho-11

Pella/WESTNY khotanhlp
Fint Pl.cr. Ajt.nta Plwar, Anti Kirtibr
S«ond Piau: }ohn Wflfobid
Third Plao:: Michael Guerra
American lnnttvt. of Archltect:ll
American Arc.hftrectur-al Foundation
Scholarship
Q Uan'l'e

ue ltecydlnr~Dooftr&gt; ~
First Pia~ Shannon Glcuon
Service and L.eadenhlp Award
Senior: Ayelet ~lOW
" Who's Who' ' Cerdflcates
Erika K. Abbondanlicri, Scott E. Ada mi, lan
C.t bagan. aainc Chow, Clarln Davii, AycJet
Gczc:tw, Karl H. Koch, Amity Kurtdu. Darrdl L.
Ma~r. Rocco _
P. Men•guale, Kcm&gt;n V. Millc:r,
lonathan Murn1y, Adc:sh M. SinsJ!. Korydon H.
Smilh, MichaelS. Thnkey

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
Dean'I Award (awarded co student wtth
h~G .................. IorAnot,....)
Environmental Dulan, Urban
PlannlnJ, Applied Public Af'l'aJrs
HAEO: Mark R. Holdren (3.802)
MUP: Tim1.11hy P. Buckley (4.0)
AltAS: Suu n Wun&amp;(J.69)

BAED Academic Excellence Award
Senior: Jon»4htTI M. KaravolW (1.7 59), John M.

"-ster of Urban Planninc (MUP)
Acadt:mk E&amp;c:dknu Award: Kerry A. GouJd
(.).117)

&amp;est TheshiProJect Award
Rich•rd J. Pcrrin, ll

s.nkoAward
Richard J. PeTrin, II
AICP ftlannln1 Exce llenc:•Awarcf
KrithD. Macrtin
Muter- of ScM;nc• Nl AppHed Public
Affairs Studiu: AMSAwardt
Aaodemk Eut:llmc:c Award: D•nid P. Buya
tl.S64)

BestThesb/Project
O.iK M. lbymond
Lori L Bums. Da'f'id I. Rudder

Settlor Aw- a.tplents:

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WNYACSAward

Amo..kan
C .......... Award
The followlna J"&amp;duatina seniors In
die Department of Art wMI recet¥.
Arts anc1 L.ec.un outstanct1n1
SonlorA..Jmnifn Apri)Wtbb,Matk.Alkn Gibb&amp;, Katbtrinc
A. Woy, Katherine F. Gilbe:rt.

Art History

.,.,. Soon

s-lorHordcAward
Rtbecc.a M11thews. Mkhdlc GornWcwicz

Acodomk- ... Chomlotry
Pau.l Sr;ymamki, R.ebecca Mutbcwt.. Mkhdk
Gomikkwia. _Ryan Soun. Kam Woa.. Todor
Todorcw, 1iffaay Matbt'wa. Henry MacVink,
....... Sand&gt;n .

ACS Junior AAalyticoJ Award .

BmKian Mort
Outstandln1 Senktr Award
WiUiam Bu~ (3.910)

Chemical
Ellgiaeering
AICh.E Out:atandtna Senior Award
Ike 1.. ())c:ana
AIChE Outstandln1 Junior Award
Brian P. A}'fwvd. Robert t. Koch
Donald F. Othmer AIChE Outltand·
in1 junior Award
Todd M. Alonzo
AJiied·SJanal Scholarship
BrianW.RDbats(Sc:nioc'),CnisA.RDMia:: (Scnior)
Ocdd&lt;ontal Chemical (O&gt;&lt;yChem)
Scholanhlp
Fumu Gakodi (Sen~r). Pamda L Ve:nc::hagc {Senior), C.ndace C. lkmarti (Junior), Dorb f.
Glylr:ys(JunlorJ
I Hf·H Senior Scho&amp;arAward
Mkhad DuBoiJ. Matthew Kahn

NomlnatiMI to Phi Latnbcla Upsilon
Mod!W&lt;altt, .... Wont

''Who.. Who" Awards
Timothy Bocbel, Jeitnifn Brandon, Steve:n
omto.OorioG.,.,..Efuobfth lnplb,Kim K&lt;i1.
TW.ti,fulieUsuani,Amy-Malldillok,ltft:odaD
Mort, Matthew NateJ, Amit Puikh. Alcandcr
Pillc:r.~Shom..AibenSiu.Aore·Maric:~

mu. Thdof Todorov,BcbaTJV1,kimVo.Antbciny
w-. ModiWetzb, Aaron W.Uiams. Kant woos
!'hta-~

Carnk Abajia.n, Kamaljot D h ingr~, Michelle
Mon, 1lD Rn.Ya. Plu.l

Gomikit'wia. Brmdan
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- - ' l b o n w A. ...... a.IEopEn.. neerina Distinction

Chemistry

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Om. F.kctric:al

Hlptit Distinction
lkb«a E. M1tthe'wl

P•ul L Szymanski

HIJh Distinction
Michdlc: L. Gornilc.kwicz
Kobcrlo Sanch~1
Ryan E..Soun
Kim Wah Wong

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Rodnry Scou Goodp:r, lodU5trial ~

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Edwlrd Hardc:r, Ill, Mc:chanlcal Ensincaias;

MKhlnic::al £n&amp;ineerin&amp;: John E. Hardn, Ill,
Mc:c:hanla! En~ lan N. HW, a«trical
Ensincaina; T'unothy A. Hindle:. M«hankll

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Wulff. EJ~ctriul Enain«rins; lama Ronald
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.Giowny, Civil En&amp;inc'uinc: Michad P. Gumina.

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Havinaachkvcdm ava-agcofat le:ull.S.in all
mSinc:Uinl councs taken throu&amp;h the Fall 1997
acmuter. the follow ins ttniou han been
awarded EngiO«rins l};Jtincrion. &lt;&gt;then wbo
achi.e:w: this kvd through lbdr final stmcsler
will•u'-qumdy M 10 honotc:d.
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Smith is~
Student
Employee of
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W'illiam M . McKion,~~

Nathan A. Mcrkd , Electrical Enain«rins;
Michael R: Millc:r, Mechanical Enaln«rinJ:
HaruewPuk. Ekctrial £nainettinli Brian W.
Roberti, Chemical Ensincerias; Criaa A.
........_ &lt;l&gt;&lt;mkol ~ Rlul Ru&gt;ti. lndllltrla! £ociarcrlnli RDl.nd Sumiio.Jndu.strial
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R&lt;nthlSrininan,fl&lt;ctri&lt;at-MUta

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Huna Sum. ElKt:rial Eoaiu«rinao Sudd.ha s.
TaJukclat, Cbem1aJ En~ Wanru r.o.,
Ekctria&gt;l ..
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ncuins; Darren V'~~A.·CiYll £ncinc-c:rins: Brian
T. Velie, El«trica.l £npnc:ttiQS; Robbert H.
Vcsttr,Jr., Ch-il~IOJolmP. Wil.k.in.on.,
Chemic::al Enaia«ring;. Cr•LA E. Zoltowslci.

worbd wbik punulaa his doctoral dcpu 11
UB. Moriban cbiped. labric:ate:d aod tal~
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aepuatioa plants; dt'Ydoptd aod tc:tUd a.n d6cknt proatll fO prochaa JUab·purityAlme:from
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and built a1.200 corulyn.rcon:unt1'cialplaot to
produa u.ltra hiP-purity ailicon for the Rml·
cortduaoc indiUtry, WQft that bu raultftlln a
number of U.S. patent&amp;.
He: is founder of Moribara Crntift Ens!·
oeaia&amp;lrutilule, lDC.., 1 comJ*I%1 involwd in
the aation o( • multi-billiondollarthcmf.puk
in Kobe, Iapan. H~ abo hu been preiidt:nt of
hi-l«h t»oaosY and raJ atilt firms.
Moritwa b. chair and c:btd' ~offioe:r

of~LaboRIDrie&amp;.Jnc.. • Calil'ot'rGabio­

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that ptoduca ~ucatioftal mat:leriaJI b romp
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aDd pn:ddc:nt oC COC. hac., alJo ol OftFc. an

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with •
cowx.~and~facilitiesa.oda

planned JOO..unil livine Q)nlmWlity.
In addpion to his doctonle, be holds an
uaodatt'•de:pe:from Henry FordCommw:Uty
c:olkft, abecbdor'sdepu.&amp;omtbe:lhliwnitr
of MkhipA. Darbora..and a muu:r'a dcJrft'
from the Unfl'ft'Sity olMk:hipn.

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S E A S - Scholonltlpo

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8riiD Aytwwd. Jacob Oitt. Martins l rmWI

)ohDCbol
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Schoianooipa
Geoffrey Catalano. Claudine: Phaire:, Nnlan
Rabioowitz. D. Pa.ul 1i.ylor, Ul

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Dean,.Award

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lMOnlliAwvdfor~Acbiewmeru.

IIUchllrd E. Ootllnaw, HIP Proww

thr tchool'a hl&amp;hett hoooc- awarded to • pmon
wbo bas mack lUI CUirptionl1 contributioo 10
the pncticc or ~thi•,urup..:n 10
HII'OIIbi Mornw., wbo reccMd 1 Ph.D. in mechanica! main«rin&amp; in 1971 fiom UB.
A Joq•time emplorec o( Union Carbide:
Corp., Unck DivWon, now Pruair, wbe:re: he

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Tamccb WlUiaml. Heatbn Wrl&amp;hL

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PaW Taylor, Ill
SEAS SeNor $cholan
Micb.ld Do Bola. NaUhnor

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Marabll Prude, Norma R.oArio. J:Drri VintOn,
EuJUC Wine, Otllk Woods,
Syfvia Wriabt, Ari\U Ziaja.

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Maria C.tal&amp;mo. Suan Momot, UUiln Mo.
rale1, Michelle Moraan. Dan iel Naplu.
Madelyae Qu i noneu, Robin Rceae, Kim
Robinson, Juanita. Smith, Marsk SO.o. Karm

Paulette Haya.z.ctw.d Montana. Robin Rttse,
Amand• Richudson, Renita Snead, Soni•

Coleman. Hcrmcdy Dunn, Stacy Goldthrnue,

Mc0ain.Ewttt.Mc0in~Dn.Adric:nneM«n6th.

St1cey Ba.r bcr,
h Bishop., Ertc. BlandinB•
Undl Bui"Mtt, Q vdll C.rpenttr, ~onlque
dildo. $bwon CwiklWki,
Nicole Gilt, Mari
S.ndn Hall, Muy
Hollowly. Larry Hoakim. Sarah Jobntoft.
Pamell Uwl$, C.rmen Lud1no. T1mmy
Mukow..ti, Cyttae McCarttt, Jo.nn Miller,
Dam MuUm, Sendn Ptrn, RcMc Rhodes
Dinorab SDatoa,. Amy Sato, U... Tardi, Gall
Thom•on·G•Ant, Lechla W1llacc, Terua
WbittnoK, Dawn 'Nojd«howwki.

e,.,....cy HectfaJTechnldan

Nlld. Solo. Trraa Staodart.
...kTollw

Uacb Maddoz. M~ric Majcbrowia., UUi.la
Morale.., '-tbcriDC Quarles. Frccin'kk Rftd,
Dc:bonb Ro~dita Romu , Tern..
Smith, April T..t.-

Seood Wadood.

Co&amp;aun. Cull

loth ltadmta~ tllotaward lor

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SwWon.

O.iquita Acoif, Ru.by Aadmon. M.ic.bdk Bmy.
William Brice, Andy &lt;Adnto, LarDU.r Cole,
CbriJtiM 0~ Tina Fruney, ShlrlC'f
Hicb, -Bnerly Hill. Toyca Jordu, D ina
KapilrYkh.r-in Uuier, Pltricil Ltwia.Ed-.rd

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CJHWinc Bodldn, ~yn Boolttr, O.n. Bowftll,
OuUOan Brown. MoplyColon. C...nd.
Mart. Cruz. c.thy~ a,.n,.,. £.mmaN.
Marquila £mmoM, Pauktk End, Anlb AoI'(:DU, PaulO. Frnicr, Vcronia~ Fruin, U...
Garz.a,Tef'TJ'Hkb.
f&amp;mda Hookc:r, YvonM ).cobt. Parnell Jor·
dan., Jean Lorau, Rodtri.or M'anbews, Barbin
Me:Uenon, lAwrt.na: Miller, Mt.lifw Moya,
Kathka:a Pun, Elcasba Smith, Diue liytM,

Maribel Torrn, Marilyn Toms. Ann Willis,
lillian \\")''l,t, M.rkoc Youn&amp;o Jora Zdrojewski.
"-dkal Billln1
LfnnC.puti,ea..ndn Danid.fl,ti.ma o.niotiJ,
Dmh&lt;Hill, o..ko&lt;lohnooo&gt;.-Moloolm.
Sheila M1nn. Shirley Nicholl. T1lisha Smith,

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Buurom, Sbenlll C.lboua , limmlt Cl1y,
Mari.alu Co&amp;oo, Sharon Cwildimkl, M~rcdla

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Child CaN Tralnln1
Rounn Carpcntu, Jant.lle C&amp;rtotr, Anth•

............

Rutb le Hobca, Carla Mackie, Michelle
~~

...,.,_ .............

Car inthia Atwood, Anndrca Barr, Ch rl1t1
&amp;town. TCJTatOt Jkown, Lui&amp;i CoUana.
Conti. Sandra Eulcy. Clu'iatint Elliot. Alkil
J•dtaon, T1mikl Jad::son , Lourdu Lopn.
RacbeUe Malone, Donn• Mook. Elrl Scou,
l.otoK Smith. James Spcncu. Dalhlnn

r.,..

w.uur.

Tom.myWdch, Terry Williams.
Chlropracdc Oflk:e Aubtant
Claribd Batista, Kimbmy Blackman, Latlnya
8nckrtt, Natasha Gilb. Contanu Jacbon, Ni.Mh
Llr&amp;Cnlte, Collenl Me~. Rot.k Reid M•t·
thnt RUry, Sldcle Schwdrln, M1rtha V.nce.

Alan Andrnon, Anndi.u Brr ni• ky, Cheryl
Cochnnr , Maria Foh yni11t, Cyo th i•
Glannan1on to, Ansel HuN. Timothy Harris.
Btnltl Herrin&amp;- Ei~n Jacbon, M.nha l•mo.
Jeanne Mc&lt;l&amp;in. O n ildd Mmdo, Paul Morn... Jr., Cda.tc Pouncxy, Tyrone Robtruon. Rok
RDbiruon. W&lt;ndy Rodriqua. Min&lt; Ropbld.
S.idah Samuei.SWUI Smitb,Adritnnc Thomp·
101\, Barbara Tourjit, knoiamar Wubin&amp;ton.

Dental Offtc:eAJ.sistant
Shcrryt Ca&amp;darella, Yolaocb 0\.lm blw, Brcnd.l
Cott1itb. Maryon Hanil, Ta.mata Hutcbcnon.
NorUc 1..1~. nn~ M.lrcbttri , Amy Minor,
O.yn.a Ovttton-Buma. Coll«n ~Andrea
Price, Ht.llthtt Rcddins. Sw.n ~ulher, Joan
Rodripn.Srrrn.~ Schakt. Tr.11q Scbuta, Tm~•y
Sh1ffer, Juli• Sm ith, Mand y Swe.11, Camillr
Thomp10n, Rotc Valk, M.1ry W•IIU'r.

En,tlsh-&amp;J..a-hcond

Lanauaae

Frcwdny Abrahl, Abdull.1tif AI·DoAry, Rud

Corrine Andtnon, Anuro BKz. o.rm S.kcr,
Charl ita Barnn. Cornell lknson, Kimberly
Blackman, Juon Branch, Althea Brown. P.llul

Almutalry,S.ndraCub.llo.AnaiWICna.linctte
Ellnda, C.rmclo Garcia. Jeuica Garoa, Svcdana
Gcbdrv• , D.mui Lapres. Chinh Lt. Miriam
1.&amp;-on, Ad.1 M1ldo n•do. Phun11 NJo, Nyd11
Quinone.. Jcuic.1 Rodriauc:r:, M•yn Rodrlsua.
Carlol R06I.do, E.t1htt Sam pons. Muibd Torm..
M1yn Torru. Xiao- Yms Z:h.ans.

........ Cooptt.Aolrlmn&lt;Eariy...... _

Occupational o..,... Preparation

Academic Vocational ..,..,.,.don

-K&lt;rinc.-.IWm""'""·-CoOndy- Tn&lt;y ........ Slwoo CombUn.

Carmdo Garcia, Robin Gauthier, Marqucn.1
Gr~ham. Shirley Grtcn , ROD Guunan. Ewdyn
Harvey, TherCM Henninp. Lrnrue Jordon.
Darrow Lc:Coun1c, Eatkyl.opfuni. Roi.iu l..opa,
MadrB nc Luna, Marlene Lundbua. William
Man htw... lowph Morcio, Carioi Onlln, Thuy
Phan, Alicia Portn.
Wynertc Rcddm, Sbaau al Hftd, EdN Rrvna.

UndaRobimon. Vcronica~GioriaSco«.
DnnetriufStqmry, Doi)IIIStr'vmJon. Ttdu.hawn
Thdd, ~nnlfcr Torres, Tannia Torrn, U'Andre
1\uncr,l')tTft Tyson. l&gt;dJfl \\'Mk.tr, Mdiu Wtut·
mtr, Tt.I'CM \Yhitmorr, Thrruo. W'UIU.u.

GED
Z.baib a h Ahmrd, Mrliua Alm o, Ward&lt;~h
Almusd::i, Ucl o re~ Andruon. V.1nrw Aua),
Oore.ne Arroyo, Qand11id 8or~u . Ch avon
Btown, Roumlld•q Carirr. 0\ules W. C.rm.lln,
Brlln C l~mont, Simon C room, Shl"o' nt ru
Currin. Saye~da Oanl~la. Wurtn Dan•~h.
0.1nyellr Delaney, Mario Dixon, Mrnmfrr
Dudziak. 8arbar.11 Emmon~, Sh.1!.1n11 Fur;in

1fnAemin&amp;UntorNGadtdm.Saquctt1Gf.liV,
1'Uhdc:a R. Gray, M.IJ')'G~.Sabrinia Gunnelk.
Antbonytv.r..dl. 1\lisb.IH.asl.lm.l..llonpll.anm,
)olc:Hc:mandez.~ Hkb.MdmitA.~

Jcnnifu Jagoop. Samanth. John, Nati!JC' lona.
Pltridl A. Jona. Rosie Jona., .Urun Johnwn.
Amber Kirkland. Emot J. Kubiak.
Grrald L L.cwi5. Anr;din Luna, Suune
Mazurski. Evette McClinton, Nicol~ M cCoy,
Robin Mclotyre. Oanid Mir&lt;~ndah , Michul
Mohammed , Khdsti~ Morain, Oonliy
Napierala, Richard Nod,Cr)"'tal N. ParkcT.Iullt
hna, Barbin Polk, Ousa PontikM, Almil
Powrll, Jam1l Rttvn, F1bi&lt;~n Rivr11 , Griud
IUwra, Melvin R.Mn.
Patricia RodriBUtz• Jumin Sanchez, l.J.IIi•n
Sanche~ Bn:nda G . Sellen, Mich1d Smuh ,
Karttm R. Thomu, Marilyn Torrn. Tanm.a Z.
Torres, Sttphon L Trurhra r t , Edwin Tyn ,
Annctt.t Walkrr, Carol w.~. Mdisll U. Whhmcr,
1'bcraa A. Wilkins. Angc.ll Williams. Oc:luhil
Wit.on, Cyntha. W'wakwW. Anthony Woodl.
Wendy Zukowski

Patricia A!.lbbi,Qkar S.titta, Lawrmu Broolu.
tk'Ytrty A. Caldwell, John R. Cokmln, Monaqut
L Coleman, Oulrnr Collq, l•nrt E. D•vu,,
Fd~chla R. Oawkin5, Nahom Ghnm&lt;~l:uon .
Sttphm H.lynet. Mdind.l Hollint. Anna Mar••
Hurley, Juquelyn )ICbon.l.o~u L J..on&amp;bo.llt .
Manin Mahon. Cowllntt Matuol1, Mich1rl I
Maur«, Tinal L M cMut~
Anthony MilkY, Wand.l!. Morpn , Dmuld
1\&gt;rtrr. Ebony T. ()lurltl. l•m..l Jl«vn.. Bcrrnh
K. Southworth (SulhVoJ n I. Jamn L S~ncn. Ptttr A. Syta, M~ryann Tavrr, Am.1nud Trclr.
Trdro$ K. Tek.ll&amp;f\i, Ani!d' Wigsint, Anthon\
Wood~, Kc.nnrth T Young. Richard Zmuda

Nurses Assistant
Michele Alc11r,l.orc:ltrr Andrrxm, Angd B&lt;~iu-r,
Mari1nM Bathrnon, \'al.anr B • ~th •m . Rhond&lt;~
Bochrm;kt. T1m1u Colrman . Eum Conyrr.
Oanicl!t Cook, Adnme F..arly, l&gt;orothy F.lnmni'\,
Marcdl.l Gracia, RIBift.l llunngton, SNtw~&lt;~
Htl ntN, Tanya Mabon, ll t1d1 Marrero. Samlo~
Matht). Cuandn Mullen, Bndgrttr &lt;&gt;Worn
Kcptt• O'St~:"rn . Se.lcn&lt;~ Pt-us.aU, Charlene
Raindr., ManA Rodngucl.l..cqulm ~ FJw
brthSkl',TarutaScoct.Oolrtt~ Tulsandn
Shunulo&amp;. Shtrur Srruth. L.lwrmcc Syko, ~..Lulu
Thomu. Drbr.l \\'&lt;llkcr, Tm1 Whnnidt:. Momqur
Wdlw.rru. Mmdl WiUour;hby. W'dham Yddrr

Ecluc:alional
Opportunity
Program .
High Ac•demlc Achievement
' Sprin&amp;ltfl
Rithud N Baddoo. l'anek.l lkniw lkclr.man,
Woubahrt D. lkltele. Mart"UJ G. Ben nrfirld.
Slrphany Ann Scsi. Carlos Blockrr. Cnar A
Kot.tllo, M•ttbcw Rorru.n Bou ig.lien, Chrwophn Bo~Uqurt. Roman Bril~Mn, Und.:l Eliubtth
Brow n, U1m1h Burnry. St1rshm~ C.ndoff,
Ch.lrkt l..t't C.ntcro, lr .• HenfJ C.r1&lt;~Fft.1. T)'Tdl
Carver. T.abatha U:-rCutro.Aiu:rChvi,Cynth u

Countdown
to Graduation
. Just a few more days, now--Mary OriscoU changes the numben on the
banner hanging In the Student Union to reAect the number of days until
graduation. Driscoll, a senior majoring in history. plans to go on to
grad'"'te school.The banner was provided by the Office of Student Ufe.

Chan, U.ans Wai Gin.
Np 5int Ow\, Tinnie- Ch.ln. kmny ClMu,
Uns Pui Manda a,n.n~o Pd K.uan Olitw. Tna
Otinfcuanp. April Chtu. Sum1n Goucihury.
David Olow. Wook O.un~~o !..a Marit Colmun.
Darid EliJh.a Collu\5, Mon•a Con\aa, I~
Moniquc' Cook.l..tontd DanilcMcb, RDdkrtl O.u·
phln. lwl £1\nqut O.rila. haalllta Marw ~
Elijah l.omu.o DeYis. Orion lynnub Dec..
Otriltophn Ddvalk. Dftna Ann Dtmuco.
Tara Rtnft' Dbon,Chtryl Mart.~ Docbon.M1nh
H1n Duons. T1nib Ruhrtda Edwuds. Ed-rd
Enr•rn•cion, Joyrr lynn f•llur rol, ~1lir
Fordjou.r, Charles Luis Forty, Judr Fn.ntots. &amp;r·
IHn Ann Frida, Mt.llK Sue.ann Funr;-Chuns.
Nrlti.1 Ch•~rm•inc G&lt;~ddis. Su1.1n1 Mrrcedr•
Guc11 , Y1nrua K. Gcddtt, Yo nn u Y~eob
Gh ~rm ll:uon, Yorlrne M1bd Goff. Antonto
AnFkJ Gonnkr., Oaud11 Uzrth Gonuln..
Edward Felui: Gonukt. Juon t:Jou&amp;l.aa Guffey.
Ioyer Obcnrwu Gyamfi, Eks h1 Hrndrrson,
Jaime Nk:olt Hinchman, Hoi Y« Ito, O.rid IUJ·
lin Hod!t, ~n l•mes Hoffman, Nikki AhM
Hollowly, Milo RonA Hua ng. Urn in&lt; HIW\go Ed-rd lp. bn WryWdoK. TanAminlh l•bb.~r.
Adam K. J•nltow•ld, Erik.. Jun -Fn n cou.
Chnmiu A Jo hn, 'l)'ronc- Edw1rd John~n.
Tr;ud!Lyontr k&gt;hruon. Nnbf'dt Jotcpb.
Dmitry K.arullt, 8n.1n Ga rrett K.1 ud,
Tht'lldorr K.ltrlu, Hyun tot• Ktt. Sheryl Ansc:J.a
Krrr. Amy Rlt Kr1m~r . luh.a C.ra Knmrr.
Olun11 Mu1 Lim, O.llntd Lam, Audrry Jinsm1n
Lam , Gar M inB bu. WmA Fun1 Lau,
Bot umr oalh Kto Lrbun. )&lt;~net Lre, N1cholr
Ehubtth ~. l.ouU Wr1 WttJ Leun~o Pins
Yin1 Lcuns,. R1ymond Lrw. U.1nUo Mdvrrnr
Ltwu. l.ll.lmr U.
Shu-forn Ll. Krutm l-lu1 Ll.mg,l.hl l&gt;il Llar\g.
)loll J•c-U.1n1o Willlilm l.J.u,Os.car llopt1. K..arcn
Louie'. Junrllr Ahc1• Madur•1. K.l1 l•nJ MA•.
Ftm.~ndo ~bbonrn. N.lllaltr tkmntr Manudl&lt;~ .
Anlhony Marun Marra, S.m MUAq UCN, lr.,Ah
Oil Wmdy M a uhew~ Strrling May. Manr Su·
.an Ma y. C.rolettr 0 . MudoWllo. Angel• Mr•,
YuJit Mtl, M1gudm.a Mrrc~dn.
Chari Mrrn"'Tllllhn, ~dta Molynnw..
Rashtnn Rcnr Narv:tcl. C.ndy l'.lt.l. N•,..._rro. M)
K1r1 Nguyrn. D.1vtd Richud Nktens. William
Fn nrnt"o Ntrvu, 0Jcu N•c-ves, Oluyrm•
Addtunle Obw..1yr, Haodn On, Milnl1~ Om1.
OugndyOrtu~ Tan tlyaanthuOKat, Emmanurl
Pi1Cbrco. lotoqlh Seun11 hilt, t.Yllnr;dc"' Pl.n!J.'I1~.
l).._mcl Timothy l':trkcr. ~n T01fan Parm.
M~ehtd Ann · M&lt;~nc Ptan, Nomw Pma.
Antomr l~rmatnc Pn"n. Uun Pt-rvatl. Andy
MJcardo Plulhp, Shan nun Mane- Ptulh~ M.mh&amp;n
M 1\lr.ai. IAmn ~t~r Powm)kt.Oaru Lynnrttr
Putcher, ChnJIIan Provrn1.o, Chunm1n1 Qu,
Florrncr C1thrnnr Qu11h , D.av1d ~hcharl
Qumn. Oaudmr Nid1df.rn Redwood. Sulilnn.ll
Re-ne, lu1ntr lohn Walter R1ch. Sh.:tunA Ru
Rm~hub. PnmuiYO Rudnp:u~J . Ill. Kath) Ann
Huth, Francn Gt'tlrJtllt .5..lli1d, P.aula Andrn
Sagon, Robc:rto Sanchn
Gu.clb Sanustf'ban. And Armmonp: Shu.
Nt'd tra Tymoma Smdan, Tnayw D Smuh. ltn
mfrr )u1nn Smu h. Ytola JlatriCII Smuh,
K11.rr.yn1 Sobu.uk, Rndrlau Eilu Sular,
KinJphct Sophapho nr, Em.nud L St P1errr.
Antoni• Stamos,. Moniqur S till~ l'• Uang Su.
Elir.1bcth Sut, ' 'ut'D Bo T&lt;~m. Hrrbtrl T«hmcr.
YowfTr~c. K1brom Teltntc, Andrr IXilmoUf
Thomu, Tyron.r Thomu
Yuhua Sh10 TliO, IJ•ncttr Suwnnc 1'1nh.&amp;n.
Haroon Tokh1. hmtl Ahmad Toktu , Phuonf!
Quoc Tr~n, P•ttr Pu1 Wa1 T~ns. Ad 11m KtRom
TKS'l. Sonlt Tungkultl, Nwu Anun.tm Udo.
Cecilia \'mtur~,lbo Thai Vu, Hat her H~en Th1
Yu, Mtchdr L« W.achuwtn. ~rtc' EJua bc1.h Wai te, Sw;~.n Marpnur \\'.andcll, Subonl!
Wa.nr;. Bnn.~rd lylr Whtdcr, C.rohnc Wong.
lunc Ye AI \\'u, Wan HU.I Wu. H•n1 Cbun Y.au,
Elrubrlh Yoo, Tamrtl Youmant, Lomr1
Sleph.anic:Yu, Zhao 7.IUI!l8- DAnny hel.J.l.han~~.o
Ycvzrtuy Zhitn1ukly. Judy Zhu

Fall ltf7
AdaffanuAd.ai.MtchdlcAd,o.t~manf!.ldtc

RodF Akundtr, tKlJb Llvtft~JtOfK' Allcn,Ayu.h
Ahrntd Aloman. ln1rid Suuttr Aponte, Car~
Andru ArrYlllo, K.a. thy Sur S.ilcy, Mat81flll
B.ar.abuh, Munu• Hun , Mar v1n Estuudu
Ratlft, Suh• ~yah• lkck. Tamiko Gmellr lkll.
tkaugcnor 8clo nr. Strph•ny Ann 8c•t. Enc..
Evonne BIAndtnB, Cuar A. Botello, Roman

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Brilinln, C.mill.l Nicob Broomf~ hll Ann
Bwc.h, Yuc Xin C.L
Sak.J.n~ Monique Camp. Mon~c. Jean C.rkt'.
Rk.batd Charla C..:tncr, Cytubi&amp; O.n, Ums
Wai aw,, hulinc Q.an, Tinnie OuA. Kmnr
Cbau, Chmtinc Chau, Candy JUn Vi Om, Iian
Chana Own. David Xin Mlna Chom, Vi Si Che:n.
X.una d.m&amp;o Julk Hon Cht:ns. Kin U. Cht~~""
G.r Luna Olin, April Chiu.sUrun&lt;lM)udhury.
O.vWChow.
Lind.l Chu, Rafael Corcbado. Rodk:nt lhuphm , )ulniu Marie Dl'f'U. Ktnpnl Ka.rum
Duker , Devon Lynntrlct On, Hilly A.
lklcwantw, Chrryt Mana Dodson, Cynthia
Gail Donoho. Fmkrkk J, I. Dncwkd.l, F..ddk
E. Oudl~. l)'ndk St.rw~l Ounun, Minh Han
Duana. Ruben Dunn, Monlqut l!:niob Emdin ,
lun Mina Ena. Sharon Lynn FiUJ"ald, Jude
Fnnc.OO. GniCn Gabnd, Qiaolin1 Cao.
Ult-C.O,U.. MaritC..O.. v.ne.. K.Gcddes.
Yonna~'tacobGbumatzion.Shdw NicokGodcnc,

Zarindh Goma., Natash. Kiona Grttn, ~
""""""' Gyunfi. """-" ......... H.vrio. ...,...,
He, PaW l:ktwlmon, Kai 5hlnB Ho. Hoi Yft Ho,

"""'"'""Ho«mon.OUqun.,._ ,...,....

Mary flaiM Hoti._OtWIISar Huf, )mnir Ur l1ns
lp. f.dwud lp. 1M Lany lacloft.
•
Shakdl&amp; ~ IKboo.Adam It S.nkowlki.
IWndta T )one&amp;. Ouiltina Moniqut Jot-. Sony
O.rid loKph. Judhl! Ann JoKy. Dmilry Karuik.
Brlan Gannt Kaaad. Theodore 1Ca1t:lu, Marth&amp;
hbim 'Kharout.. Yona O...n Kim, Pfin I Kim,
Hyu.n Soo klm. Hul Qin Mandy ICou, Amy~
Knrna. Marin. Krivonoa. Marpm Kurtyko.
Ellen Lam, Danid lam, Wina Furta Lau.
Ka1y Lau, Gar Mina Uu, Trinh Thye1 LL,
Ch.u Thi· Kim I.e, Won-Sum LH, Kenny L«.
Shd. Kwoo L«, Sanldln LH. Jant1l.ft, Mlchad
!.ft. Nkhok Elizabeth l.anrK, Pin1 'tina Lcuna.
Turi Su:mina Lcuna. Kwok Fa! Lcuna. Shu-Fen
Li, Kriakn Hui Uans. )ulk Uu, William Uu,
Piulina l.ouk, My Trinh.Luu, t&gt;.m:n Ly.
Michdl Maiola.Mich.cl Paul Manudla, Nicolt
L Manywethu, Nancy B. Marb, Mirna Li1
Martinu, Jeffrey Martinet, Sam Alimane

___

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Maooquoi,f•·· """"OWoophtt..._..,_AH·

CUI Wmdy ·MattbnG. !bilk Vldoria Mcaain.

........ H. Mdluffi&lt;....... Md.Com.rin&lt;-

O.nd Lntit Moore. )o&amp;hua 8ndlty Monilon.
Anfda Mui, Sunan JC.r·Ann Murdock. Dahon
C Murray,
hola Nnvro.
KcwicCUI Y: nne Ncllon, Yin Wah Ha. My
Kic1 N
Qnyt Ann Nicbobon, Jamn T
Norman, lanrewaju Obitelln , Vcraline
C bimacny Offoha, Haoch) On, Jjcoma
O aycbuchi, Jcnrdfn A. Ckud:a, Rua.un Tafari
An
dhrU.tiena Pllul, Micbiel Ann·
Mant Peart,
Danldk Pcl10nc, Norma
Vena, Ronieka
chelle Penn, Shawn Andre
Prtcnon, llihLI N'
Prtcnon,Shannon Marit
PhUlipi, Alison M
Poole.
R4»h.ln M. Po , Duia Lynnt'lle Pntcb1t1._
!adman lnemi.ah
, Chriadan Pro'Tru:o.
Chunmiq Qu,Jm.nifn ll.i.aNI Ramlra.H•wb.
Marimnc RIDdali,Akbandt Ruumovakiy, Jm·
nifer Marie IW:nnc:r,Mic:bclk Ria.rt,Lcs.la Fiona
Richards, Tamicka Y. ltobtnon. Joacph Edward
Robttu. Mdlnda Vnonia Rodsrn. Ka1hy Ann
Ro1h, Pollul.a Andml Sa,:&gt;n. VkiOr Sanuncte, Jr.,

..,,i.J.

Sandn SUltana, Yohannc. G. ScrMn, Ariel

Fifty-two UB students are recipients
~.
of the 1998 Grace Capen Memorial Award in
recognition ofhigh academic achievement

"""""""Sbo.

So.- Solu.-

t&amp;w Yuc Shi. O.rid Frcdric:k Smith. Jmdk
Marie SnaG, RobM Dmldris Sa.awdtu. Om·
nU .......

~pboM:,

Albn1o

£liM

s.m~

Sou, MonJquc

si.,.. t.o..,.k.-..,Sido&lt;y....,._,

Bins Xln Su. 'l)rorw Thomu. F\oft-MarW: Tho- . Haro0111 Tokll.i. hay PW Wal T&amp;aoa.Adillm
KiRomTwpi.Sont~i.N.WAJ:oal\lm

Udo. CabrM:II. Vuapdl, Cccilio Vmtura.
AnN VwJorchik. Venc:llltr Aunarft Vines., Chi
Kim Vu, Mkhde Loft Wacbowia. Rotcmaric

EJiubdh W.Ju. Donald ~rd WIIIKw:,jr.,Su·
.an Mar11unlte Wanddl , Tommy Tremaine
Wdch. JYn Otu Wm. Juln~e An\oinme White..
Shoma ri Carnr White, Candice William•,
Laquie11 Junine Williama, Talin Monac
Win6dd.Catoliftc:Woo.,Aultin~RpnJohn

Wrobd, Wan ttua Wu,Xianc Md Wu.OrKtr St!i
0tin1 Van, Han, Gun Yau, Shih Wd Y'ms, Wai
Mifta Y'.. Elizabcdl Yoo, Tuncil Yowna,._ MdZbm Yu.Lomd SCcpbatrit Yu.Ga.mt1 r ..1 Y\&amp;an.
Zhun ~ Yuna. rdlh Martin Zdrofrwsld, Hai
...... Zhmo.
Zl&gt;u.

v..,.'"" Zhu."""

Folonoary ' " "

G....._

S.ndta LAdame,Caoudlinc Bimwnu. UDda
Brown, Mic:hck Ai-lJDa Qan, Yi Bi11 Chcuna.
Midud G. Co&amp;cman, Man 'Wei C...0. }l.kot&amp; D.
Hill, Oanid Hom. Sbrryk S. Lau, Quoc Toa Lc,
Kwan - t.i Wns. AWn Alain ManiDO. Nali.IW
Manudla,Prtn-A.Madwws.AiidaW. MattliCwt.
ShcunaCbun Pana. Oaudin« Rcdwoed. Roba1
Brian Rowley, Anay M. Sblb, E.a1ar:r.yna
Sobauk, Adiam E.iOom Twpi, berdinJin,
K.imbaty Va.o, ka.m M. Yan, Danrry 1. U Zha.na-

M., I n1 Graduates
Daniel S. Abbou, S.mnna AJuJ, Michelle
A1yt:mans. Jacob L. Allm, lnarkl S. Aponte,
Cark. A. Arrnlo, Spmcn L Alb, Samue-l W.
Baddoo. Tinbba Ba.rnn, Suba A)'Uha JJ«k.

Patrick S. Bu.k, Tancb D. JJec:kman. 1Uniko G.
&amp;II, Berhane Y. lktbe, Martin 0 . Blandon,
Mickad Edward JJiwn.CtalrA. Bot~ Marcil
8. 81"0Wft, Brandon C. Burdm, TaraT. Cat1u.
Cynthia Chan, Dmd Man Wal OICunc. Kio
H. owt.~Chm.W&amp;mOdu.

April

au..""""" Out.lbymood C. Coop«.

....;d~ • ....,~..--.a.a.,~
M. Dodton, )aMen M . El -Amin, Yuliya G .
Fiahman, Trlcia - Kay Flt:r.aerald, Sharon L
Filqc:nld. Hict.:.uft Fitzpatrick. Lcocurd M.
FloMn., l.atie: Fordjour.
Charica L For1y, Jude FranaKa., S.rbara A.
Frida, llqlc Gabrid- Lcandrc:, Fumu Gakodi,
Shdn N. Godette, Yodme Mabd Goff. Raqud
S. Gordon, Paul Hendcr~n . Jaime N.
Hincbman, Mlao Jlon&amp; Huana. 'Janr- L Huk,
Edward lp, Emily Japlhar, TYrone E. Johru;on,
Trudl L. John10n. Sony DIVid IOKph. Shnyt
A. Ktrr, Holly Kipa, Tricla lynn Klimaak. Marina KriVOOOI. riCk ThnJ Lau.
Botumroath Kro lebuta1Vina lce.lulic Npr
Chun Lee, Raymond Lew, Shu-Fm U, t iona Zhi
Un, O.C.r llopn. Bmny Kit Bun Lui, Ozuna
Q . luons, Fernando Mailo neu , Nicole L.
~hnywc-ther, Racheal S. M.app. AnaeLI Mci.
CAari M. Mt:niwuther, Joshua MorrUon, An·
sc:la Mui, NUda N:akt. Robert lam.Jir Newkirk,
}adt Ns,. Shucn Min! Na. H.,. T. N~n.

Diversity Ambassadors
and Advocates named
T'he UniYenlt)' CCNIImltl• for the Promotion of Tolerance and I&gt;Mn.ity has
named 14 11udcnu u Divcnlty Ambr.w.don and.Nhoocato. cu.lminatina• ampUJ· widc
'
The proj«t wu iniliatcd in Fall 1997 with an invitJtion 10 intcrntcd 1tudcn u to compkle applinr.tlons. includinA an HNy, in which divtnity was ckfincd from 1he pcnp«eiw
o f each applicant. Cmtral lo the project wu the d.r¥eM&gt;pment of a divcnity po~lc:r, fu ·
1urina the facn of the winncn and 1hdr rnpeclivc ddinltioru of dMnlty taken from
· the-ir etA)'$. Winnen received a"celc:bnation o f divcnity l·thir1,• a certificate of appreciation and a diwnil y poatu for thrir efforu..
llonorcd u Oi¥\'nhy AmbuNdon were: TWanta M. Cnls,. Pollny A. Farver, Kervin P.
La}ok, Sin Yrt Um,Silvla Mulkr, Betty Volt )ire, o~~OO Lana M. Zink. Honorcd u Divcnlty
Advocales were Alliyio~~ 8. Ali, Ywllc: A. Frith, Suza nno~~ M. MAhayuddin, CristiM 0 .
Mo nteJibano. Uura Smith, ~In 11. w.msa.od Racqucl L WhiLe.
~oench for atude:nt advoatn fo r diversi ty.

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poinl .wner after a minimum of 45 boun of couocwork at UB.

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Main Brownc, AMC Tbcrna luma, Jaaic:a r..dlii)'D Ca1'UOo. IGhn MJ1ID Otoi. Sw.n ct.ou6wy, Corem ltmcc: Ctic:acri.
Maad John DcGnw., Vmw!ia hbcaa £Uea, ~nikr M. !Ia. Eric LaUe hWriftl. Anclrcw C'.fteot7 fiordla, l:atbkm AM FWt. Ilia
Gimdfarb. Jopctoc t.yaD Gmu, DMd Donald Gi¥One. Drbcwah Wkhde Gftmbcra. Yi Guo.
Marie Harder.
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w.rd Prior, l'lmothJ Jama lafad. MIJcolm ~. m, Mill a..ut Shin.
JeMie~ bth Spidbawrl. Jkbcca tlolltDaft St. . ~~ Tambar, 1WY Roec f7kr, Knill H. W~~~~o liM Waaa. MdiaM An.not Wriruidt.
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....... Oboo,Stq&gt;lw&gt;X O..CyntiUa Dooolto,
Allilon Edwards.l.cooard ~
Thaina C.rda. Yonna Ghinnatzioo. Joya
Gyamfi. hiu Ha.ndojouwmo. Mary Hoyt, Wri
S. Huaftlo Oniltina Jones. Martha KJwouba,.
Amy ~mcr. Kwok - Fai Lcun&amp;.MeiJ'a Li. Jimmy
Lo. Mkhdk Lord,lkto Luc.u. Mlchda Maiola.,
Nicole Maoywetbn, Sam Muuquoi, AnAeLI
Mui, Nilda Nakt., Cindy R. Navarro.
Oluyem i Olawaiye, Tara O~ear, Nicole
PdJont, Norma ~. AnloiM I. ~tH. Ou-b-

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Wai Tuna, Gtcilio Vetitvra, Wa.a Hua W\1,
Yevpniy Zhit.niukiy.

GharfaraAbduS-Alim. Yibin OlCuna,Atrry Qln,
Travia ~ard, Will BarnH, Skphany Best,
Corloo l!fo&lt;W, lhmab llumy, Monka Cul&lt;t-,
Chan. o....w auo. Uoda o."' lCaiJ'Itti

cSa.a ill A.akall Coleplud o.t.eailin:.
Halhc.r M.. Ca rrolL PkpiuJ TMrqy;

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Tbt Mlftoritr AaclanicAchinanmt Propam.
lltudmt toppOt1-terric:a pros:ram . . crwa;

Drnd J, BlaiMk, Bcmard E. Hu.bbud

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Elizabeth A. Bdl'iJII

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Let's See If It Fits.·..
Eric Koh has a grin I0 miles wide as he tries on his mortarboard Tuesdlr in
the UB Bookstore. Koh will get his devee from the School ol ~
Managemen~s commencement ceremo.,Y will aloe place at s.p.m. on
Sawrday In Alumni Arena.

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Colin Da;ooa{Spedal Shadits)willen~ertbt
School ol~t't M'BA J""'Fam.

An=r.!u~~:;: .
applied cconomia at UB.

..... s. (btd....W £ocin«riq)
wt'U bot~ with Coml:ai loc... Musufac.

iwina Tcdinolcv a Eo~ om.-._ •
ulndu:.tri.t~
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Friedlander is winner
of Naish Award
........ln , , . . . _ . . .,a doctoralatudcnl in Ensfuh wbo teKha EnaJ.i.5h c:ompoailion ln Millard Fillrnon CollcJe (MFC), il the winner of the 1991 Carl Nf.4h Award,
prc:xntcd by the Millard Fillmore CoUez,e Studml Alaodolltion.
· The- award b nanwd for Nabh. • hi&amp;JI·Khool math teacher for wbom 1ncblnt wu •
true Joy, and wbo anwd ua MFC irutruc.tor until he wu 71 . lt rc:coanizes acclkncc ln
tcachinA and dedic:alion to Millard FiUmort atucknu, indud.int; a c:ommltmmt lo the
atudcnt body in provldlnaa conducive environment for kamina and acccufbilily 1o ttu,
lknu who ne-ed aulltanu beyond dau.room inttruction.

Four Honored with 1998
Nancy Welch Award
lAelt I.S• ...., hui"Kriwd firA ·placchonon:bthc 19th annual NancyWdch Award,

pn ln booor of the former ruklmtW coordiutor of bcbd Canon ColJcse.

The- award~ Ill mroUed undrrp'aduak residential 61udmt who lw made 1
aubtwu'-1 contribution to the UDI¥enity throu&amp;.h lhc ckvdopmml and tupporl ol an
imapn.tm and ouuundina midtncc hall prosrun or projm cturins the 1997-91aa·
demic J'"f· Redpit:Q&amp;t~ a cuh awllrd and a pl.tquc ootina thrir Upifkant contri·
bution to the uniftnity.
a..i)qwu honoftd lor berhlahly aucaafuJ Bufi'Uo Publk SchooWTopa ~pi ~
pm;ect. Sccoad-plKe bonon wmt 10 Ouittinc M. Dft:xd for her ~lp m orpna·
if~~ the Main $tJftt March for MultipLe $dcroda. 1lcd for tbl.rd place: wc:rc: Hut P. Uu.
few hia inncwatift Triad Otympk:l.and Ouiltophu S. Connolly, for orp.nWOJ the popu·
iar Pre-Protcsaional Sp«W Jntemt Housin&amp; Project.

plortd with CYS u • pharmilcilt.
Emdn
will be
ftn ·
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City.

llauwSmhh (PftaooopltJ.MriaoStuctia} will•ttmd ~ ... achool in

lh&lt;fitll.
8ruu WiBiamJ (Ecooom.Ja) w\D pctnue
IDU&amp;a of utbiD pla.onina dtpc II Ul.

I

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Doli. ......... _.....,..,

( Praroted m tbr tiaU·timc WM~erp-.du.ae ..., •

..... ..,.._,...lh&lt;b;pa.-·poin• ..•

a-tooH.--·cnptll al dilibk ~.ltudmtl)
Michld S. Marb

A Special
Meal just
for Seniors

CPraatted 10 the ICUdmc who. in the )udpDmt

o( lbe hctdty, madlt dw ptese coatributioa
10 ~ f1Qa6Cit diJciPine)

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(Prumted 10 lbt MBA ltMent who. ia the.Judl-

mtntold.tfaaalty,humMrlhc..-..caa·
o
tribudoa
_ .to,tAw
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Sddof . ._
. •nd ~
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One of Senior Celebrzlon"s most
J&gt;OPIAar -Senior Bn.ndl.
brou&amp;f1t students to the Student
Union lobby Mq I for CO!Wei"U·

(f'reelnc.d-..o lbe utdrrJrad"*- ot MIA • ·
tknJ who, la the judammt o( the Faculty Ad·
riJOry Commin~ on latcrnabipt, tau pc.t·
formed ln .. ouUt&amp;Ddiaa tunMt'bt ewry 4i·
menaion ofbi.tor hill" lntc:mlhlp. The .want h
praeftted 10 I ltUdcnt ln nch o( lM th in•

lion and•~

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moal...-1 up by laa.Jity. staff"""
~Here.C.rol G~ner.

ttrMhipueu.)

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wife of the p.-esidenr. ct.m wi&lt;h •
- o f senion. from loft: josh K.nson.
PoU s.....lcitas""" Brian Velie.

YWiaAiohina

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incWOikiDawd.ia.cuctp.

Dooy M . Wbho&lt;y

Th&lt;followiftoond"'""'"'"""wiii-

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.Arta atJd Leuen Studcru Awarda:• Hc1thcr
Andmon, Juon Cobtn, Geotst DtiiCOtl, An~

&amp;rl&gt;onC.O........
~

Sdence &amp; S,.cerrw:

"'- OIM£naham.

Gm&lt;C.Gma&gt;

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Robctt J, Wttbnrist.tt, Jr.
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( PrftMtcd lO dw ttucknt ~ m the-opinjoa

oflht:~Manapx:nc~

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abo tmdeml ouutudina cztracurricular
vice 10 tbr ~and the unhocnity):

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Kafoo Kob

(Pramtcd to the MBA ttudcftt(a)
in the
opinioooftheGnduMe
· ntAModation, f'aculf}' and~~ AJ
I AMod.tion, ..,_ dmtoNtratcd tc::boWc' a:c:dkncc.

=..::~ac::?::!u

tonoltbt&amp;culty.adtbc:~tAI

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currkular ~ 10 the tcbooland dx unhoft'.
•ity):
JUcbu Santanam

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"-T c.dna IUfotPto Scholanhlp

Award:

Oanidlc Ciucnlcro
Sara Marte c:k.an~NI "-moria~

Marp.rfl Plm~t.e
Sc::hoWwhlpAward:
Jmnlfer Foky, Juoo Hcnchkowltt

~T..c:hinaA.asfstant:

KriltmHomkk

~S;N ..... andiClml&gt;&lt;riyD.
l'h.D . - A w o r d
(Pmmuct., the Ph.O. &amp;Ndmt wbo, i.n the:

Awanb b.tw bem pmmtN to lbe fottowUJa
lltudtntsiatbrPfocnminMcdicallkhnolosr,
Department o(QWcaJ I.Jabontoryso-:._

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Who""Who""--ln
..._c:.,._•uDzie&amp;dew*i., Jmnifer
Mkhad

Guerricro.Kiithlem~ ICt'J"' Zms-

Music
lltl Kappa L..mbda, Nadonat Honor
Sodotr In Huolc

c.oopn, Sl.lk·Krruf\1 Cboi. tue Soot.
Han, Jonathan Kochavl, Luh P«r. Jill

Adriona llyM n..lor """""'"' Sonlor

8atbl.n

(Prneq_ud to tbetmior rnarkdinaul.ldent who
bat dtmoaatrlttt .adnnic eu:dlmoe. ltder·

Sh.....Wry. bq..1

~ins profes~toaalism and pcnonal

Foky, Danidlc

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RllrlliDg

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_..,D. Do- CommunlcodonAward
,_award il crwlowtd bt'Shlricr 0. Ot:Vor, I dis-

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Gn~duate:

S,.. L IWfdJoo
ua-,AooodadonHichuiS.
~totbrlmiar~llullenawbo.

U.lh&lt;opWooollh&lt;_.._.o( ..........

doa.. him contribwd in a tuperior w.y 10 the
' l.nsthu~ of~ Accowttant5 md tM
llaXIUndoa proktdon.lhe u.odation it~tlr. fd .
kwtatudtfttaand to the Stbool olMinlftmmt):
Curtil H . Bmutd11 aDd Tina M. Cuni.s

"""""' ond lrimd o(""' Sd&gt;ool o(
Nurab:t&amp;. wbo rt:a:httd both hn bdldor'• and
.,...,...&amp;pcsln ........ fmm UB.Itilpramr.cd
co a~J*iuatinl t.calaurtatt and pwdu.~t: &amp;CU·
dmtwboh-wdcmoNttaerd IIUJ'C'rior*ill in mm·
muniQ.tine with vwll'cw tbdr patimu and dim lJ.
Lynn Mnie Smith
UndcrJ.r.duate Sharon Eikeo Zimmnrn.n

s. .._.., Smoll , . _

Scudeftt~tAward

(Pramted to the M.BA IC\Idmt compillnc the
lliahM Sf11dr--point ~)(thru-way tk):
Votkn Hddtmann, Scott D. Panon, Timottr,
S. Obmo
Woll Ser..t J~ Unde,..,..cluat.

The S. Mouddy Smat1 Award WU endowed b)· I
dUtiapWxd nutsinl alumna. So9hk StM.ll. to
honor her Ia«" huatMnd. S. Mouchty Small. pmfCIIOf emnitus ~ pty'Chl.atry In tht- Sehoul of
Mcclidnc and Biomedical Scknco. The 1w.t.rd
~ 1 sn~duad"fl

b.«aburatt stud~t

Student~tA.ward

who hal dtmotutn~ttd auperior knowkdsr and

(Pn::ttnted tOtbtM.illard FillrnottCoilcF~tudmt
wbo c:ompikd tht bJPest pdc-polntaYm~C")l

lkill In ps~l.tric mental-health nuNins and
wbo exhlbitt an undmwwiina of 1nd scmilivity to tbt ipKia) ntcds of dicnts and lhdr funl .
lies. u wdlu the! abWty 10 rapond to theK n«dd.
lJnckrvadUitc: Rita A. Mack

SuJd M. Garcia

Media Study

Slima""'-Tau,

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~of

"-'II&amp; Scudy hu

CMuwuhola Ajewcle and Marcd Blum Will ttMw thor ~ry C.paao 'Memorial Award •

(SlOO-l"'ohdi--moonl
and eu:rplkwW work in media produce ion.
Davkt WilllaiN IU'Id Aanieru.a Ciottd.: wlll
rurift the •Pkrrc McAioon Manorial Award•
($400 uch) for lht!ir talau ud acadt'mlc
acbinmwal in media pnaducdoa.

Zonoii... Gompoh ... -..lh&lt; • ..., ....
ond Wh"'S&lt;holmiUp"(S450)

""ha """'""'·

Gamma~Choj&gt;&lt;erAword

Thit IWU'd b rnJde by the Qunma KaPJM ChapIn- of Sipna Thrta Tlu, the n.tio.W ourdns
honor .xkty. to t'nC:OUf'tiF and rcaJSObc 5upt'riof scholanbjp, l~p and a;chitvrmcnt in
nunlns; The .ward ~ius a ptlduatina blc·
calauratr and sraduatt ltudrnt who poutS$
thac chafKieriltjo and who Itt' mnnbcn olthf

The Ruth Gale EJdu AW11rd lOt Ea.cdknu in
Nul'li.nl Rfttatch wu ntablisbcd by Ruth c.k
Elder, Ktinl dean of the School of Nunlna
( 1971 tu I!MO)and DUJ"'.i"'duc.Wf. THraward
recopiza aradua~e ~tudcnu who ha..r demon·
•trated oum.andina knowt«lp and •bihtr in
raa.rch and wbo bold 'Pfdal promitf for Lc.d·
m.hip in nW'IinJ mutda.
l&gt;octoBt: )1M E. Pou
Mut.tr'a:AnMMarpmGalt.o
RuchT.
A......
for lxc.-..c. In Nurwlfta
This awud It naft'Kd In hono r of Ruth T.
MeG~. former dc:uJ of the~ of Nunina (1966-73), The- awml fftXJ!Dbn 1 blccalauteltr atudmt who bat &lt;kmorutrated o ut JU.ndlfll knowkdp: of nutslns throry and t'X·
cdknu in aui"Jins pnroc:e.
UndftJraduale Jankt S. Filber

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C......-kyAcdoldeo
Tbb ur~rd l.1 n•cned for Anne Walku

Philosophy
1Wo...,.~JI¥tft towU&amp;mdin&amp;Phibuphy

m.jcn who aft: pdulllt.,. liftUOn.. This 7t'-' the
rccipilenu.. who fCCIM'Cd mtnved mcdm. ~
L Smith and lorJc L Torra-l.u~Ndcn.

r~

Physics

r«ip~nu.

M . Brady

T he Nova G. Pletsan Sc.holanhlp Fund
Thi) fund wu ntablisht'd by Nov.. G. PrtN.n for
the purpose: of proridin11 Khol•~hl~ lbOl h
undC'fJ11duatr and vadntr) to ~ udcnlll 10 the
Schoof ofNunins.- 1\ot.an,a 1922 UB IVIduatt',
holch thr profnlion of
in tht- hi3hnt
~ rd. Oemon~tratiuo of hish-sradc- K holuship tn Khob.rly oour~e~ 1nd of financial n«d,
without mlrictian to mm M womm, a~ prt·
rtquWtts foe- tiK award of thb Khol.rWup.
Gn~duat~ ~let Antkrs. Jmnlfcr L Ditta, 8n1n
Jacbon, Muy Ann Medon

nuninz

Millard Flhmore Sdtolanhip
This ~Cbolan~Up WU aubliibed by W Millard
FiUmo~ Holpital 0.. o( 195J to be awardtd tu •
~ nurw wbo gnd\Ated from the M1Hud
Fillmorr Holpital ~ ol Nunin8 and u; pur•
JuinA l'u.rthcr study at the School o( Nunmg.
Unck:r8J1Kiuat~ Karen W, Mannin1

Th• A. ".,......c: L.arsen "emorial
Schol&amp;nhlp FUftd

Go1o l!ldorAword
for E:x:c.-...c. In """'"• R.Mearch

Scbool of Nurdn&amp;- A. Marprtt Lar~tn ~f"Y'rd
on thr f.culty ia the School of Nunms from

The l.anen Fund h named (o r th t' flut
docto nlly prepared f.cultr member 1n tbe

Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary
Degree .._,ograms

The followma Son.11J )o.itncn lntcrdi~phn.ln
~t udt'nb h•vc rC'Ctlvtd dt"J'~rlmt"nlll honoo.;
Andr~n• Aunu, !luunnc: Auulino. C..rul
&amp;ttl, D1nydk BU.tr. Fatth B.nbc-. Mana Rlt1l.
P.ubatit' Rodh n&lt;lrine. R.lchd Bohlm.an, Marp·
rd Solin. Kimbtrltt Kurch1k, M1chatl Rot lied h.
Mar\.1 8ro~vcrman . Ehnbcth 8ndun . Po~ tuCI"
Bn nktrhufr. Kl'll y Brut . P01md• Brown . lnr
M.11 ric C.lrr itr, Sarah C httdkowiki. Vnnmu
Oark, Milton Cullm~.
KdlyCompnu.Saral.rt"amtt. Rc:n« l)cputn.
Chn-yl Ou.c1p.o. Otd.wy l.hstchno. Ba Um Tu
Do. ~llchdll' Domcn. G•rr Oum11t. Ridurd
Elliott. l.bn F.Uun. l.Jndil Fe-rry. Robt-n Finch.
Sh...ron Fiu,cnid. Nodk Fm. Michelle Gtbm.
Reb«o G ughl'ml. Chmtmt Guiy.lb, l.1n1nr
Hlmmn. SUSJn Hulutr. Cm Unth.
R.rbccca Heimerl. Kate lloban.Ami l lopptl.
VKtor lnwang. Mtc::hde Jjtlo. Amy Janty. Ui1nr
I&amp;Ukkwia.. Klnp KobWiu, lu.~ Mant Ko8Ut.
Nicolt Kout ru, Pamda Krol, Ela1ne Law, Won
l•i lee, Chr:ryl Lindstrom, Ch rutophu
Los,ivdke, K.ristJ Loomi), Omstinc:: L.oo.. Sh.11wn
May, Gcorsc Mcc.torthy. Ile-ne Mann .

Yager wins FNSM Outstanding.Senior Award
- , . . M. Y -, oomlo&lt;mojorinolof'Oioli&lt;al""""'and mlnorin&amp;U.phyobl""""""".
huWOII the annuM r.cu!tyo(Natun,l Sdenctsmd Matbctrlil-tics 0Nn'sOutltabdin&amp;5trUor-Awwd.
A mmtba- o( Phi Beta Kapp.. the UB Monon Pfosnm, Phi Eta SiJ.tN Fmhman HorKN"
Sodetyand Goldm KerNatioul Honor Socit't)", V.., nuiftd the Dorothea Dutt-aJa- Scbolanhip Award for • N-Jnmer fidel coww iD post~phy, the Gncz Capen Memorill Awa.rd for
ac:adcmk ~~and k l.bkd in
Wbo AJnGne: Studmu in American Uoiwnitia
and Collqa."' Sbt plus lO punuc- • docton.te mhydrotpeoloar.
Ala ~mior raeuch U&amp;litJOt 10 Par:~ Calkin. pro(cuor of acoiOif• Yascr made" analytical
and inncwatiw- ckdAoru on trH-·rinc crou-datina wort 1.0d applied i1 to the dlli"' of put
ftuctu.adons o( Alub.D aJacW .S.ta for her bonon thcsU and for publication In~ Sod«ty ofAtffl'l'b Ahrrcu wirlt Prcrr-1111.

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• lllu.IMth A.. tt.nidc. a b~kal Kkncn m.11Por who plan~ tu JlUr~ut" po101-g.1duatc
ttudia in m Yirorl.IDftltal tcicncc or immunolog
• PIIUI L Szylftanlkl, 1 chcnustry ma,or who plouu to punur hi~ doctvutt •n cxpcrimcnlll

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• ctwwies A.. Tabor, Jr., 1 tniltbtmalia maJOf who plaru to punu.- a doctoratt in appl•nl
mlthanatia

• Ad-.. M . f•ss. 1 computer Kiener ma,ar who plaN wurlt tow.rd a docturatc in computer

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W...fJO. NatalttWa.&amp;.Ouhib~linpxt ,~

Whitrmn. Jkuce Wi.lli.rm. v-- Jiun Wu. sn. ron
Zimmtrman, Alan Zlmmnnun.

mwk.

6t\ldult who hu ptOYidtd notable IHVk:lr and •
kadmblp to the: Sc:hool ofNunl.o1, the unlw:r·
Dean.. A....,. -for Owtstandin&amp;
sit)" 1ndJor the COII\ft'Wnity.
G-Sonlon
UndrrpadUJtc: Pacrida Carok Newman
Mut B. KriiW. inwrim ~l.ll o( 1M F.culty of
NewYortc State NunesAaociadon
SoriaJ Scimca. hu coafemd Dean"• AWilnk to
District I Award
.
the oul.lta.ndinaanaduatina .mint from nch of
l1ie New York St.V Nunt'll Aaodation Di~rict the IOcial aaenca deputmcnts.
I Mtmbenb.ip Awud il pram ted to OM JfldU·
The awardca ~n recoplud at the an1tin1 ~enior from ucb of tb~ area nuuina
nual meet ina of the f.acuhy of Social Scicnca
tcbools. 1bc graduatina smior m~.at demon·
held M1y 4 , and e•ch rt lpkn t received a cer•tt•~t profeulonalism in nuflina in hn-lhU in·
tificate and a sift in rccoanitlon of hu or bn
tencdont with clients andcollcaBuct.•nd mull
achit'Vuntnt.
lnttnd to practla nunin1 in District I.
Wirtnnure: Davkl F. Eisenmann II, Anth roUndctSfadUite; Pmny C.taldi
polosr; Sw;an E. Albilrrln, CommunicatiOn;
Sarah L Kruu, Commun icauw: OiloOfdcn 1nd
Scholanhlps
Satncea: Suchandn Malllk. Eronomia; Enc X
The Coletta A. kJu1 Fund Award
Schaon, Gto!nphy: EJa.int' OonncUy. History;
The Coktu A. Klus Fund wu e:stablis.h~ by
Danid J. R01.1. Unsuuua: l~ennc- Smith. Phifaculty md alumni to bonne- Cole-tta A. Xlus.
~Shanrf_ Edm , Politk::ai.Scimtt:S.toru
fonncr chair of tbr Depenmcnt of PJydtiatrk
Sato, ~Hahn Te~U~ TIVano, Socu:MM~tll Health NuDiQs and profcuor nnnitus
og;Arid A. Sbftl; Social Scimces lntnduciph ·
tn the School of Nunins. Tht award, now m nUy ~ Propams.
dowcd byCok1ta Klus.prooridcs mon~ary • up­
pon for ~ ucational, dirdc;al or rcte1rch actividCii In pt,cfliltrk mental -health nunin1 by 1~
w-l«::ed Nccalawe.tc and/or sn.duJic I!Udnlt
Gr~du1tr: )Oin

SiMa Mulkr, Jodi Ntldr.~. Lynn Nowak.
K.trtn Nowak, Wilh.11m C)allvtc-, D1wn (klb.
Tncy P~•body, J~e l y n Perl5tcin, Joaeph
Pon11t0Wik.I,Ano M Pnn.tup, Kevin PuUis. Mary
Qutnn,C.n Rtdx, Emilykopn.StnmSalbe-,
Moo k1 Sthu, Sbirlt)" Scbmuckc:r, Lynn
Sdlnddn, Mark Sdlultt. Arid Sba.
Yona Sikonm&lt;~n. Mdisu Smuh, Ashley Suh.
v.. ntlll Szym•n ~tlt. Hllin TIVInO. Cynthi l
Tbeiboh. Jmnifn Tbomu. Monifa Thompaoo.
Elaine Tbmhcr. MalYI Tbrat, Kathryn TnM·
tcr, Sau.n Van•mbef&amp;. Judy Waaon. Ma rt in

Cynthil Rudin t«dY'ed the Ouutandma Senior
Award from the Dcpa.nment of Php.u. AJ .
tboup Rudin lw completed the r~quuanmt.s
for 1 bachdor's dtJITt' in m~thnnatkal physia
thbxrneun,W will aw~d n ur bn Audtct ocn
year ln orcin to compktc 1 t.rndor'• decree in

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Un~UJtc: Michdk Lfnn Wattia

1940-71 and wu iNtnunrntal in bqirulinJ the
mas&amp;«• prop-am in nuruna•• UB.Scbola.nhtp,
Ktivitiu and nt'ed att' c:onsidn-cd in tbt- sdcct1on of studcou tu rccdvt- the achollnhip.
Graduate: babd K. Komonuc:ki,labd M . Kouk

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dc8m in music and punuc gradUitt work In applied pb)"Jics and math

• - E. M&lt;N•Ir Schol•n
Progr•m
I HI lkctttlton Dear-s
lnpidApontr. Sotsc Atufe. tan C.tbapn, April
Giu, Jude Fnncot.. Michdyn Goodin. David
Har JHr. Tc-cna Hu•na. Jumt'n ICo nJ . Dot11
limma. Robnt La8ril. ninh I.e. Wanda Unata,
Siu Pina Liu, Nor""' Pml. Shuap Prnnu,
· P1ula S.son. Tt~M Smith, Tnjuant Tnud,
Tyrone- Thomu, O.i Vu, Joan Willianu. M.,Yun.

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MiJUCI Bd~ (M.S.). John Bmiln (I. D. I, Min
Cha n (J.D.). 1'11nck D unn {M.A.). Shl'hll
Huuun {M.S.W.I. Monique Kath (Ed.M.). Im ·
nifrr Kirkwood ( M. S.W.) . Ku'JI l(obtalh
(M. A.), Shu• Wolh Lim (Tndwr em.), Mtlapol
Prna (M.S.). Riqudml' Rodriguc1 (Ed.M.J.
lodesullh Sumpttr (M.B.A.). Lourdn \'mtun
I). U.&amp; M.S.W.J.

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Al- Mbud, IKnb Allen, C...rkl• Amap, Tint A
lbrfout. M1rv1n lbtrrs.C..arla:n !kbKk, The'TCU
M . Ut&lt;ktr. Tanc-ka Be-ckman. Alsha Bry,
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C..rruco, Mar,;-u, Clark . Chu:jUIDia Coll in~ .
R•ym&lt;md Coppcr. Lmn1d IJamloVJch.
Rill) lk l.u1 ~ntw.,Nicok lkrmda, Chnyl
Uod!loOn. l'c-1.11 Elhcn. Mur A Et•mnt', Yubya
c._; Fuhm.an. N1ckurr futpalriCk, Lulie
F&lt;Jrd_10ur. M•n Wri ViYII Gao. Ynrlmc M. Coff.
D.ln)(l I. Gunn-ro. H.a1 Ita, Muvm C. Henr y.
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l'&gt;ou )lmtu(l, C..n\ilk Joseph. Shcryt A Krrr ,
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Ytc~ Tu ng Lau, MdiHI Lawrence .
Hotumroath Lc-bun. Vint Lee, Hoaa Zh1 Lin.
CbrU.topbn l..ot!;tudke. Osa.r lopu, FC'rrundo
Mabonc-11, JuiiC"' Martin, Chari MnnWt'llhcr.
T~nya Milton. lhmien Modcstr, Nildl Ndn.
Andre- Nrita. Lc-n~a tokbon, Robert Nc-wlmk.
Uly Na. Jennifer Pl~~t. Shn~t~l CPans. Row.u.n
Parr~ Wilham Puno:ud.
Natuh. ll.lnd.lll, Alek.Andt Ruu moV~ldy.
Tami ko G. Ruhcrt1, Kimberly T. Smith .
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So. Moniqut' Suys. Angd• Taylor, Buu Tran.
DtYtna 1\icl..rr, lnmaint Turna1c-, Katrina
Unckrwood. Rodolto A Valc-ntuda. Ceciho
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Q&amp;A-An insider's view ofthe
stmtegy ofplanning commencement.

PAGE5

June in Buffalo

PAGE6

The theming ofAmerica:
it's a pervasive social trend.

MAY 7. 1!91/tiall31

Spring
Fest
Rain didn't dampen the
spirits of students at the
annual Spring Fest Saturday.
They just moved the musicand the merry-makingindoors. Alumni Arena rocked
to the Mighty Mighty
Bo5stones on their world
tour, to George Clinton and
the P-Funk All-Stars and the
latin jazz of Tito Puente.

I

Smnmerrehabplannedfor both campuses·
$4 million project to improve sidewalks, roads, signage; buses to be rerouted
ay5U£ WU£TCHU
News Servk~ Associate Director

A

major project to rehabilitate sidtwalks, road~ayS3nd si8iiage on

both UB campuseS this

summer is expected to begin
within ·the n&lt;XI two weeks with the
replacement of sidewallu along
the Main Street side of the South
Campus.
Although the project will mean
major inconvenience for faculty,

staff and students, once the dust
settles, members of the university

community should find both campuses to be more co mfortabl e
places to live and work, according
to Universi ty Fac ilities staff.

posted on the University Facilitie~

that both campuses arc more com-

Web site at http:/ / wings .
buffalo.edu/ servk•s/fK /
The P~e:! · ~th a price tag of
more than $4 million, will indude
repairing and replacing sidewalks,
repaving parking lots, milling (re-

for table to live and work on."

moving the surface) and repaving
various roadways. repairing roof-

ing, upgTading fire alarms and repairing building entryways. as well
as rerouting Blue Bird buses on th e
South Campus.
.. There's no way to do th is
many projects without some inconvenience," said Richard F.
Noll, manager of planning and

progra mm ing for University Fa -

Updates o n constru ction sched ules, including dates for parking

c ilit ies.
" We're aski ng that people look
at t he final product at the end of

lo t and road closures, will be

th e summer. We th ink they' ll find

ttl

rector for planning and design for
University Faciliti es, outlined the

taugh t in the Fall se mester by
Hiro Hat a, associate professor of
archi tecture.
• Repair and rep\acemcnt of
about 25-35 percent of the side-

individual projects to be com-

walks on the South Campus. This

pleted this summer on the South
Campus:
Replacement of the concrete
sidewalk along Main Street from
the south end of campus near St.
Joseph's Un iversity C hurch. to
Allen Drive. A new stamped-concrete walk resembling red bricks,
si milar to the walk a long Bailey
Avenue and on th e west side of
Main Street in front of local b usinesses, will be installed. T he three
major pedestrian en tr ies to campus wi ll be la ndsca ped. a sca led down version of a s ugge st ion
from siUdent s in a studio co urse

project, which is estimated to cost
around S 1.1 million , will focus on
the perimeters of camp u s .. to

Noll and Kevin Thompson. di-

a

hopefully improve our image and
project the sense that we are sensi tive to co mmunity concerns;
we're making good on our promise to spruce up the ca mpts."

Thompson said. Noll added, "We
a rc demonst rating that UB is not
abandoning the South Campus,"
as some critics have complain ed.
• Repaving of the Pa rker parking
lot, which accom modates 450-500
cars, and extending the lot to proc-tlnued -

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Millonzi gift to bring top art, music scholars to UB
By JED NfTZIIEIIG

Reporter Contributor

LEANOR V. Millonzi, a

E

longtime orga ni ze r an d
supporter of th e art s in
Buffalo, has crea ted a n
exciting opportunity fo r UB to recruit and educate th e best artists/
scholars-in -training.

MiUonzi has donated $250,000 10
endow the Robert l. and Eleanor V.
MiUonzi Distinguished H o no rs
Scholarship. Her late husband, Rob-

ert Millonzi, graduated from the UB
School of Law in 1935. He chaired
the UB Council &amp;om 1978- 1981.
The scholarship will enable UB to
recruit an outstanding student in an
or music. The scholarship wiU be
awarded to an incoming freshman
onet every four years. and will cover

all of the student's expenses (tuition,
fees , books, perso na l expenses,
transponation ) throughout his or

her four years at UB, thus allowing

totaJ focus on creative studies.
T he first recipient of the schol a rship is Eri c Anspach of North
Tonawanda, wh o will enter UB in
the fall. A flutist, he is a seni or at

North Tonawanda High School.
" E1eanor Millonzi is a special part
of the UB family," said President William R. Greiner. "A leading patron of
lhe arts in VVestem New York, she has
helped to secure the region's cuJtu ral
heritage for generations to come.
"The UB com mun ity is very for tuna te and very grateful for thi~
scholarship endowment,.. Greiner
added ... Eleanor 's commitment to
the ans and to UB will mean a great
deal to many future students, as it
does to the university. and to me."
ln o rder to award the first schol-

arship for Fall 1998, MillonZI has
made an additional gift of $1 2,000
for immed ia te use. This will give
the endowment time to grow and
generate the inco me necessa ry to

fund fu ture schola rships.
"The arts in BuffaJo and education
have both been an important part of

my life," said Millonzi."I am pleased
that this gift will provide continuing
support for the arts at the university."
Millonzi has been active in th e
Buffalt~ - arca arts comm uni! )' for
man y yea rs. She has served in a
variety of volunteer leadership
roles \\•ith the Arts Council of Buffa lo and Erie Count y, the Buffalo
Philharmoni c Orchestra, Amherst
Saxophone Quartet and many
oth er non -profit orga nizations.
In recognition of her efforts, the
UB Alumni Associa ti on in 1987
prese nted her an award fo r public
service as a patron of the arts. In
1995, she was awarded the Chan ce llo r C harles P. Norton Medal,
t he university's highest tribut e.
Robert Millonzi was awarded the

medal in 1983.
Scho la rship rec ipi en ts will be

chosen b)' a panel of distinguished
members of the \~t ern 'ew York
arts community from both instde
and outside the university. To
quaJify, a st udt•nt first must meet
the Honors Program 's admission
standards for creative arts students:
a combined Sc holastic Aptitude
Test (SAT ) score of at least 1130 and
a high·school grade-pomt average
of at least 90. The panel then will
review the stud en t's portfolio of
work or an audition performance.
.. The timing of the gaft 1s won derful,"' said David Felder, chai r ol
the Department of Mus1c. "Vie are
improving our mu.SIC · perfor mance focus and we want to
attract studen ts who arc scho lars.
as well as performers."
Felder explained that most mu sic schools and conservatories have
p rograms designed to train per formers to fill the ranks of orches-

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BRIEFLY
Asian studies
conference to f~us
on world order

Richard Baldwin, associate djrector in the Office
of Conferences and Special Events, has been a member
of the UB staff since I 968, when he joined the university
as director of sports information. He has been responsible
for commencement for two decades.

The Asian Studies Progmn will
host on intemationol confer.
enco, "East Asian Perspectives

on World Order In the 2001
Century" begiMing

at 9:30

a.m. Friday and continuing at
8 :30a.m. Saturday In 280 Pari&lt;
Han on the North Campui.
The coni"'"""' wl! Include
panels o f - from Canada,
the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and the U.S. who
will focus on the ways A5lons In
the arts. llteratu"' and public IKe
h""" pet&lt;dved world patterns
and adjusted to them. Topics to
be discussed will Include
Aslanism, world view, post.Padflc
war world order, institutions of
world order and globaliz&gt;tlon.
For more infonnation, call
6-IS-3-474.

Entries sought
for Web site contest

EiJ

The Office of the Vk:e Provost
for Faculty Development will
.sponsor a contest for UB
grJduate students who design
and Implement Web--based

courses in undergrJduate instruction.
The contest will rea&gt;gnir:e Jo.
"""""""' uses of infomlatlon tfd&gt;.
nology used in toacting lOlder.
~and~CO&lt;.WS&lt;S.

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- w i l l be bosed on W!b sites
to be used in the Fal of 1998:
Prizes will be awarded In •
number ol ca'tegories; first-prize
wir)oers;w;JI recoiw!.SSOO. Sites
will be judged by a committee
ot TAs, faculty, technlca~.support
staff, undergraduat• studof)ts
and • librarian .ppo;nted by the
Olflce ol the PnMlSl.
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What 's your responsibility for
coordln•tlng commencement? Do you d••l only with
unlvenlty commencement?

What 's the most challenging
aspect of organldng commencement at such a large
school like UB7

The weekend sched ule is the first
concern . After that format is offi-

With the CFA now a major site for
mid-size ceremonies, the task of
sc heduling is much relieved.
Alumni Arena, Slee and the Center for the Arts are the main venues. Now, by 4 p.m. Sunday, the
camp us shifts into its summer
mode. This year, the School of
Medicine and BiomedicaJ Sciences
actually concludes the event o n
May 22.

cial, additional detail starts. I'm
involved in all phases of the process until each school coordinator
takes over-then, mostly I concentrate on the undergraduate arts
and sciences ce remony known as
Un iversity Commenceq1ent.
Does a day go by thot yCKt
don 't think about commencement?
I ponder co mm encement even

when the Red Sox are pounding
the Yankees or when UB is destroying Youngstown State.
All told, how many students
will graduate from UB next
week7 How many people will
participate In May commencement ceremonies at UB7 How
many of the ceremonies will
you attend7

The three diploma dates of Sept. I ,
Feb. I and June I usually total approximately 5,000-plus degrees. ln
1997, 3,544 graduates participated
in 14 ceremonies on campus. I usually att end some each day.

Do you have responsibilities
other than commencement?

All major special events emanate
nut of our office. Commencement
is king, but there are many university-wide dates that we program
during the academic year.
When do you begin your
prep•ratlons7

As soon as the fall se meste r ap proaches, the process starts. The
details fiJJ in over the academic
yea r. I attemp t to add a new
wrinkle each spring to the arts and
sciences unive rsi ty event. The academic calendars designate. the annual weekend in advance.

What do you hope parents
and students remember most
about commencement?

·s -lngmost
comment
_"
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P"flledon't
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The UB spirit of the morning,
student co ntributions within the

Everyserviceareaof theunivrrsity contributes to the com-

ceremony, the comfort of

meocement weekend. It's all of

Alumni Arena, the president 's · UB at irs best!
remarks and sense of accom - What do you remember
pHshment and pride expressed most viYidly from your own
by th e audience for the gradu- college graduation?

ates.
Tell us about your wont UB

commencement ''dluster"
and - y o u handled lt.

The criss-crossing of the doctoral
alpha orde r procession to the
wrong side in the hall leading to
the Alumni Arena floor. Then
there were the Dean's Awards in
my trunk in the Bissell lot just be·
fore the start of the program. How
did I handle it? Fast in each in sta nce.
Wh•t's your favorite UB commencement memory7

Not one--many! The music, wind
ensemble and sym phony, Sarah
(McKoin )
and
Magnus
(Martensson) and the studen t vocalists are exceUent. Short speeches.

The Coun t Basic Band played
on the St. Lawrence University
campus the night before, my
parents meeting other parents
again, the ATO house. Elliot V.
Bell, the CEO of McGraw-Hill
was the speaker. And, knowing
my draft board was being
alerted in the next day's mail
(only two years ROTC).
WMt do you do to rolart once
-ls-7

Proceed straight home and
sta rt digging and organizing
peat moss.

---ed.--

- _ _ . d o you wish

would y o u - - I t ?

"'How many commencements
ha~e you been involved with at
UB?"Thefirstonewasdowntown
in Memorial Auditorium in 1978.

Senate puts mentoring proposal on fast track
Programftvm Affirmative Action Committee to benefit newfaculty may be rmdyby Fall
By SU£ WUETCHER

News Services Associate Director
HE Fac ult y Senate is
fast-tracking a proposal
for a men tori ng pro gram for junior faculty
members so that such a program
can be in place to benefit faculty
members wh o wi ll begin work at
the UB in the fall.
At the urging of several members
at th e Facu lt y Senate ~Exec utive
Committee meeting on April 29,
the proposal from the senate's Affirmative Action Committee will
get its fi rst reading at the senate's
May 13 meetin g, with a second
reading, and possible adoption, set
for the fi rst meeting in the fall.
However, President William R.
Greiner, while supporting the pro·
posal, ca ut ioned at th e meeti ng
that the proposaJ must be "worked
through very carefull y," with some
"buy-in .. from th e deans and senior facult y members.
"To try to rush this throug h the
Facult y Senate to have in place
next fall ... co uld doom it from th e
outset because it seems as if it is
bi:ing rammed through at the 11th
hour," Grei ner added.
The mentoring proposal from
th e Affirmative Acti on Committee
reco mmends that aUjunior faculty
members be assigned an indi vidual advocate or adv isor, or an
advisory committee. as soo n as he
or she is appo inted to the facult y.
The advisory committee would
functio n as a mentoring body, and
could include other faculty members with similar scholarl y inter-

T

ests. Members of the panel would
be selected by the junior facu lty
member, th e depa rtment chair
and a tenured fac ult y member
within the department.
Brenda Moore, chair of the Affir·
rnative Action Committee and associate professor of sociology, told
FSEC members that mentoring may
help address the disproportionately
low reappointment rates of women
faculty members reported by the
Task Force on Women and the disproportionately low retention rates
of racial minorities that has been
identified by her committee.
Moore noted that there seems to
be a particular problem with new faculty members not wtderstJnding the
tenure process-what is expected of
them and when ... There has been a
great deal of fingerpoint ing to
mentoring as a problem," she said.
Ma rgaret Acara, professor of
pharmacology and toxicology and
a member of the committee, called
the retention issue "very serious, almost a crisis right now." Three semesters '3go. there were 17 African
Americaru in tenure-track positions
at UB, she said, "Todaythcreareeight"
"This is serious enough to form a
committee for those remaining on
our faculty; we have to support them.
A lot of the problems have to do with
a lack of support in the climate within
their professional homes."
Senate Chair Peter Ni ckerson,
professor of pathology, told sena·
tors he wan ted the full senate to
consider the proposal iQ the faU ,
since there were only two Senate
meetings left in this academic year

and agendas were full. However, he
put the measure on the fast trackwith a fi rst reading at the senate's
May 13 meeting and a second reading, and possible adoption, set for
the first meeting in the fall-after
several FSEC members urged
quick action so that the program
could benefit faculty members who
will begin work at UB in the fall.
Claude We lch, SUNY Distin guished Service Professor in the
Department of Political Science,
noted the program would be "a sign
of goodwill for our new colleagues
and will help them with a difficult
transition." Welch urged members
to "expedite" the matter.
Greiner supported th e idea,
noting that a men to ring program
for new appointees .. is a long-estaplished tradition" in the School
of Law. However, he cauti oned
against acting too quickly, suggesting that trying to iri1plement the
proposal for the fall "will si nk
it. .. I hate like the blazes to see a
very good idea go down ."
Nickerson put the item on the
agenda for a first reading at the May
13 meeting, with further refinement
of the proposal to be done over the
summer. Action on the matter then
would be taken after a second read ing at the seoate's first meeting in
the fall.
1n other actjon on items from
the Affirmative Action Committee,
the FSEC referred back to the committee a recommendation that the
Equal Opportunity/Affi rmative
Action Office be moved back to
Capen Hall from its new home in

The Commons, and that the office
retain its name .. until all appropri ate agencies have been cons~jited
and a consensus is reached about
what the new name should be."
Moore said her panel is making
the recommendation in light of a
letter published in the Reporter,
signed by six faculty and professional staff members, responding to
an article pubtished in the Reporter,
and questioning the office's move
and name change.
According to the article, which
quotedSin&lt;tte Denson,actingdin:ctor, the office was moved to give it "a
tittle more visibility and accessibility
to students, as well as faculty and
staff."' The new name.·it added, rt'fleru the offic&lt;'s "fucus on divetsity
and equity issues, as well as affinna·
tive-action issues."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the
Department of Electrical and
Co mputer Engineering, won dered if the location of the office
"is really that significant. I believe
the real impetus for affirmative
action belongs in the departments
and the schools, and not in some
office in Capen," he said. The office. he added, does not initiate affirmative action efforts.
Responding to a third r=mmendation from the AffirmaO.. A&lt;tion
Committee, the FSEC asktxl the Bud·
get Priorities Committee to evaluate,
within the 1998·99acadcmicy=,the
effectiveness of the schools and fucul.
ties in responding to Greiner's &amp;rec0.. that dis&lt;mionary funds be used
to oorrect salary disparities.

�May 7.1998No12UJ.31 Repories

Stovroft Mcl.emon to be honored
at commencement ceremonies
By MARY llfTM SPINA
News Services Editor

Texas Medical Branch at Galvt"Ston.
wiJJ speak. Senior Vic~ Provo-;t Ken

C

neth 1. Levy will confer degrees.
• Graduate School of Social Work,

OMMUN ITY leader
Ruth Ka hn Stov roff
will receive th e Chan·
ce ll o r C harl es P.
No rton Medal, UB's high est tribute, at the universi ty's 152nd commencement ceremony, to be held
at 10 a.m . on May 17 in Alumni
Arena on the No rth Campus.

-

h uman-services organizations in the
community. Among these are Hos·

James W. Mcl.ernon,a leader in the

pice Buffalo, Inc.; the Food Bank of

automotive industry for nearly 50
years. will recciveanhonorary SUNY
Doctorate of Humane Letters at the

Western N~w York; the American
Red Cross; the Blind Association of

com mencemen t ceremony for the
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, to be held at I p.m . on May
16 in AJumni Arena.
About 5,000 students will be ca n -

didates to receive drgrecs during 13
ceremonies to be held May 15- 17.

The School

Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will hold its como(

mencem ent ceremo ny at 2 p.m. o n
May 22 in the Center for the Art.s.
David C. Ha hn , president a nd chief

executi ve o ffi cer of Roswell Park
C...a ncer Institute, will speak.

President William R. G reiner
a nd graduating senio r Si lvia
Muller will speak, and G reiner and
!Provost Thomas E. Headri ck will
confer degrees o n graduating seniors from th~ faculties o f Arts and
Letters, Na tural Scie n ces and
athematics, and Social Sciences
at he general co mmencem ent cerem ny on May 17.
lC recip ients of three Dea n 's
Awa rds wiJ1 be Shane E. Eisen , social sci en~es; Elowyn Yager, natu ral sc iences a nd mathematics, and
Heather G. Shillinglaw, arts and
leu ers.
Anna Furgiu ele will receive the
senior leadership award.
Studen t vocalist will be Kriste n
A. Viszneki.
Stov roff, who will rece ive the

Western New York, and the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.
Mcl.ernon , who will receive an
honorary degree a t the engineering school's commen cement , is a
1950 UB graduate and a member
of t he engin ee ring schoo l's Dea n's
Advi sory Co un cil.
Du ring hi s 27 years with Gen e ral Mot o rs , M c lernon moved
from th e assembly line to the front
office. where he directed the operatio n of a 32-plant netwo rk em -

ploying some ll 0,000 people.

Michad E. Bernardino, vice president
for health affairs, will confer degree&gt;.
• School of Nursing, 9 a. m., May

16, Slee Co ncert Hall. Mattie L.
Rhodes. clinical associate professor
in the UB School of Nursing, will
speak. G reiner will confer degrees.
• School of.lnformation and Li brary Studies, 10 a.m., May 16. Student Union Theatre. Glendora
Johnson -Coopcr, associate librarian
and development coordinato r for
th ~ undergraduate collection, will
speak. Greiner will confer degre~ .

• School of Enginee ring and Ap·
plied Sciences, I p.m., May 16,
Alumni A re n a. Dea n Mark H .
Karwa n will spea k. G reiner will
confer degrees.

• School of low, l p.m .. May 16.
Center for the Art s. The Hon . RI ch a rd Wesley of th e New York
State Co urt of Appeals, will speak.
Head rick will confer degrees.
• Sc h ool of Pharmacy. I p.m ..
May 16, Slec Con ce rt Hall. Bernardino will confer degrees.
• Sc hool of Architecture and
Planning, 3 p.m ., May 16, lawn

Called a .. seasoned engineer and
production wizard," he oversaw the
implementation of a Volkswagen
plant in western Pennsylvania, the
fir st maj or fo reign opera tio n to
build cars in the U.S.
Four yea rs ago, he and a group
of investors formed American
Axle&amp; Manufacturing. which sup·
plies major parts to auto manufacturers a round the world.
Other commencement cerem o ·
ni es scheduled at UB. speakers and
those who wiJI confer degrees arc:

pu s. Kenneth Fra mpt o n , Ware
Professor of Architecture a t Co·
lumbia University, will speak. Levy
will confer degrees.
• G raduate School of Education ,
5 p.rn ., May 16, Center fo r the Arts.

• Graduate School, 2 p.m., May

Dean Jacquelyn Mitchell will speak.

15, Center for th e Arts. Speake r
wiU be C. J. Tan, se nior manager,
applications systems tech nol ogy,
research division , IBMffhomas ).
Wat so n
Research
C enter ,

Yorktown Heights. Headri ck will
confer degrees.

Chancellor Norton Medal, has loog

• Health Rela ted Profession&gt;, 9

been recognized for .. her concern for

a.m., May 16, Alumn i Arena. Ken neth J. Ottenbacher, vice dean and
professor in the School of Allied
Health Sciences at the Unive rsiry of

aU people, regardless of race, color,
creed or religion" that has hdped set
the course for dozens of health and

9 a. m .• May 16, Center for the Arts.
Dean Lawrence Shulman will speak.

outside Haye• Hall, South Ca m-

Headrick will confer degrees.

• School of Managemen t, 5 p.m ..
May 16, Alumni Arena. lnte n m
Dean Jo hn Thomas, facult-y mem bers, s tude nt s a n d alumm will
speak. G rein er will confer degrees.
• Sch ool of Dental Medi cine, 2
p.m. , Ma)' 17, Cente r for the Arb.
Haro ld Slavin, director of the Na tio naJ Institute of Den tal Research .
will spea k. Bernardino will co nfer
degrees.

3

BrieBy
Reporter to publish May 14
"Commencement Extra" issue
The Rll!pOf"terwlll publbh tts annuai ..Commenccmelll Extra" edit ton,
con taining nc.·ws of student graduation honors and awar&lt;b. on May 14.
The final is....ue of the Spnng semester will be puhhshed May 21.
Monthl y su,nmer t s~ucs wtll he puhlished June I R and July 13
Weekly puhhcat10n wi ll res ume:.· on Aug. 27.

Two South Campus bus stops
to be relocated in August
The Office of Campus Parking and Transportation Services ha~
anno un ced th at effcct tve Aug. 15, th e two South c:a mpus Blu e Btrd
bus stops will be relocated . Thl· \top at Batll·y Avenue and j\illchad
Road wi ll be rel ocated outstdc G(JtxlyeJ.r I fall. The D1dendorf An
nex stop will he relocated to Mam Cm.:ll·, hc:.•twt'l' n ( rmhv and I O\
ter halls a nd across from thl~ Metro Rat! stawm
"The change I!! des1gnl--d to hetter .llWmmoJate thl· lll"l'tb uf:,outh
Ca mpu s residents, students rl'sldmg 111 thl· Umvl•r,lt\' Hetght l&gt; d1~
trict a nd those members of the L'B tommurlll\ \vho co mmut e ''1.1
Metro Rai l," sa id Ca rmd a Thomp'&gt;on . dlrl·dor of ~..ampu)&lt;o parkmg
and tra nspo rtation .!terv tces. "'It abo 'il'C b to enhance thl' personal
safety of these usc-n. a nd ad dr l·~s(')&lt;o )l'Verallo n g-ra n gc:, pl.1nn1ng tlh
JCCt ive.s for the So uth Campus."'
In addition to relocatlllg the hm ~top~ . .1 lll'W ~ hdtt•r will he lu
ca tcd at the Main Ci rcle site. so me mtnor roadwav modtticatlun'
will occ ur and new stgns will hl· dc\·dopl•d. NotKl"'&gt; announung tht'
new loca tions will be posted Ill l'.irh Augu!&lt;&gt;t ,1( th(· old ' top...

Asthma conference to focus
on WNY's respiratory health
New asthma drugs, new genetic dtscovenes and the mfluence of
home and exte rn al e nviro nments o n the disease w1ll be a m o n g th e
topics addressed at the 4th a nnu al Asthma and Environmental Exposure Co nference. to be held fmm 8 a.m . to 3 p.m. on Sa turday'"
the Hyatt Regen cy Buffalo
The conferen ce w ill be sponsored h y the School of Medici ne and
Biomedical Sc ien ces and the Ce nt er for Asthma and Environmental
Expos ure, part o f the Lung Biology Rcscarch Prog ram at Buffalo
General Hospital. The registratton fee for the con feren ce, which is
o pen-to the public , will be $50 for .studen ts and $75 for aU o thers.
Topi cs to be covered a rc the sco pe of the ast hma epidemi c, drug
therapy. patient assessment, the incidence of ast)lma in Erie a nd
Niaga ra counties, asthma management and education , communit y·
based asthma educatio n programs and HMO asthma programs.

Speakm will include Jameson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa. UB associate professor of medicine, directo r of the C'.cnter for Asth ma and EnvironmentaJ
Exposure and conference chair, as well as specialists from the UB medicaP

school. the u mg Biology Research Program, SUNY Brooklyn Health Sa·
ence C..enter, University of Rochester, Children's Hospital of Buffalo. New
Yo rk State Ht-alth Dcpanment, Erie County Health Dep&lt;~nment , Syra~..·use Health Science Centt.•r, US School of Phannacy, U B Center for Urhan Rt"Se::lrch and several community-health o rgan11..at.ions.

Bernardino presents vision for health sciences to Council
By CHIIISTINE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

I

N his fir st formal presenta tion before a unive rsiry~ov ­

erning bod y, Michael Ber-

nardin o , vice president for
health affairs, o utlined a reas he
feels the uni ver.!t it y health · cart'
co mmunlt y wi ll need t o fO, u ~
upo n over th t· next seve ral yt&gt;ars
in order to thrive.
Bernardino present ed hi:, visio n
fo r the hl·alth sciences at UB April
28 at the Ull Co un ci l '~ final mee tJng o f the academic yt:ar.
Over the nex t five yea r~. he sa1d.
UB':, hcalth -scienLC.li communit y
must focus on three pnmary ar ·
ea~- Ouilding infrastru(turc, de velopi ng affiliate agreemen ts with
area hos pit als and revamp1ng th l"
prac t ice plan - in o rder to po~ l ·
liOn itsel f for the.· future.~.
In tams of finan ces. th e .)chool
of McCficinc and Bi o m&lt;:d 1ca l Sn
c n ce:-. ""i!i in better s h a p e th an
people a ppreciat e. A lot of :-ochoo b
arc fa cin g greater problems," h e

sa id. instead , U B s ho uld be focu sing on quality of educatio n , be ca use, as Bernardino sa id , .. we're
in the business of producing good
physician s."
Although ma ny medical schools
operate a universi ty teaching hospital, "the fact th ere's not a hospi tal h e re (a t UB ) is n ot a
drawback ... (but ) otTe rs significa nt
challenges," Bern a rdin o sa id .
" Hos pita ls arc n o t cash cow.li."
In fa ct , th e practice of h l'a lth
c.~re will he moving int o th e com
munit y more and more 111 th t· fu
tur e. Bernardino p redi c t ed .
W ithin fin- rea r ~. he add l"tt, ht·
l"Xpelh 60 70 pen.cnt of hea lth
o..ilrt" to t.Ki.Ur Ill the CO illmUillt )'.
us·~ :.)'~tC I11 o! WOr J..111g With
Mea hosp it al!\ u l ~ ,til a'&gt;~c t '" that wiiJ
a ll ow un to fo(\1)&lt;. un program)
,1nd sc:t gua h. ba,l·d on whcrl· th oM'
p rogram.!&gt; sh o uld hl" 111 t ht· next
live yt•a rs. he to ld thl· ttllllh 1!.
"T h~..·r c'.li a lo t ul t1p pnrtunJt ~
here," Berna rdin o ~a 1d . "'Tht' kt·y i.\
to get all pa rt~ togl·tlwr "' wl··rl·

no t fightin g forces .... We should ht
syn ergists
In respo nse to a qu es ti o n rr
garding hi s feelings abo ut .1rea
hospital mergers fro m )crem)'
Jacobs, chair pro tem fo r the meet ing, Bernardino said, "We' re work
ing o ur way through that now."

"There 's a lot of oppor·
tunlty here. The key Is to
get all parts together so
we 're not fighting
forces .... We should be
synergists."
MICHAH

8ERNAROINO

I k .1ddnl 1h.11 \\'l·:-.tt'Tn , l" \\
Yud.. •, "t JWrt' o\ ahl·Jd~..·d th an
1110~1 ~o tlllllllUil lll l''•'" .111J that tht.•
hosp11.1l ~\''il\'fll)&lt;o \\'Ill h,1vc: to '" dl'·
vclop a ~r'tl'lll whl·rt· thl'Y fed they
gl'l added v,dut· tmm u~. hut I
thin k tiMt\ do.thk

" We have a role to pia) 1n th1.s.
Everyone is going to h ave to give
up a little bit h ere,"" hf" added.
In o thl·r bu)mess, the co un cil
~ndor!&lt;&gt;cd thesclc:ction oft he 1998
C h.1n ce llor orton M~?da l hon ·
orce. T lw awa rd will be presented
to Ruth Kahn Stuvroff at UB ',
I :i2nJ Co mmcnc(·ment (l"remom.
to he: hdJ t&gt;. ta y 17. Si ll l:l' 1925, thl·
llll'du l. Ulfs h1 ghc.st trihuh:, h.t~
lwen ,nv.1rtll"J 6to llllll"' to men ,md
tour llmt")&lt;o In women, noted john
\\'.1\,h ..1 lorll\l"l lOU Ill II llll"lllhl·r
.1 nd I'J9- ~.h.llf ol thl' l"urton
,\ktl.JI 't"il"LIIt&gt;ll lllllll'lllltl"l", \\"hP
ptnl"lllnl thl· I'J'JX nonuna 11 11n to
thl"~ollllll~ d. Thl· d1u1u" u l ~tovrofl.
,1 lu~hh rl"'Pl'Linllt·.ldl·r long fl'l
ugnltl·d lor ht•r u) lh.ern lor thl·
Ulf111l1Untl\ . \:-&gt; .1 '"l .int.I~IH. ~c:Jl"l.
I \till." 1.0111\llt'llll"ll (C.lllllld llll'lll
hl·r Rot-:cr Bl.:~l:kwdl.
In ht, report h\ tht· ....,,unu l. l"B
Pre,ICknt \\'d lt .un R. I ;rl'llll'r ,,lid
th,u over thl· lll'Xtlnur w.tr,, therl"
w ill ht: .1 "'dr.Hll.illi. tr.lll~lorm.l
t1on " of !\tUdl~ll l lwu ~lllg .1 1 th1·

un tvcrsity, tnclud tng co n~tru ct1on
of apa rtm en t-style. graduate-stu ·
dent h o us.ing that l.li expected to bl'
read)' for occupa ncy 10 the fall ;
apa rtm en t -style. undc:rgrad ua tt" student housing thJt '"' expcctt•d
W break grou nd th is .liUitllllCT a nd
hl' ready for occupancy 10 thl· fall
(\( I ~~9. nc:w hou~1ng, spon!l&gt;ort·d
h} the Alumm Ao;;.sociallon and thl·
llllwer:o.Jon ol )()llll" ~outh ( :.1m
pu' rt'~ldl·rH.t' h.tll' 1ntn .1p.1rt
lllt'lll ' ' " ll· hnu .. lng. rhl· tr.m,lor
m.IIJon o l . . tudcnt huu,lnt-: .J!,u
"Ill m ... lut.k pl.1n' 1t1r tht· l '111\t"l
'it\ I k1~h" .trl',l lll".H thl· "nuth
t .unpu~. lorl"llll'r .tJJl·d
lk Jl~· .IJ'Pfl'l'd thl· LliUill.ll (II
plan-. to prondl· l 1B ~tudcnh wuh
\1111\'l"r-....J llllllpll!t'r ,\LLl~' '-41 th.it •·l'\
l"r\" ~t UJl"lll Will he.· .L'&gt;.'lirl"li. h\ ont.•
mean.!! or .ltlllthl·r. th.llthl'\ \,til h.J\t·
,\(..;~, to ~..·omputmg on ...:.unpu,:·
Nnt1ng that thcrl· h'Jil hc.·" ' humr~
.1long thl' ro.lt.l'. tow.1 rd tht ... gnal.
(;rl'lller .tdded th.tt '"no ont: 'hould
gradua tc frnm th1' ~.1mpu:-. wtth
out ht•mg \"l,rV (ompu tl'r lttc:r.llt' ··

�4 llepolrteso May 7.19!11Vul.2UJ.31
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BRIEFLY
Ul to host PlwmKy
lAw Review program,
The SdM&gt;ol ot PllormOcy will

Lowin ..

pment. Phonnocy
progrom for phormodsls

ptOCtice settings I!Om 7 a.m. to
4:15 p.m. on Moy 18, ond I!Om
11.m. until noon (Wt May 19 in
the Center for T&lt;&gt;n10&lt;1'0W on the
North Compus. T h e - wNchwllcowr_.. ......

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prof...... the Deportmont ot
Plwmacy · Continuing·
educotlon aodlt b..-.
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Regbttotion fees are S149
for May 18 and S7S for Moy 19.
For'"""' information, aU 64S·
2828, ext. 247.

Emeritus Center
to hear Paganelli,
honor -wlt.inteers
V. p~ octing dlair
SUNY Distinguishod 5&lt;Mce

in the Deponmont d
ond lliophyola.&gt; ... be .
the.,...... at the Moy 12 meet·
ing ot the Em&lt;ritus Center at 2
p.m. Gocclyeilr tW, South
Lounge. He wlllpeak on . _ , .
lureS in Physiology at UB: Reid
Studies with H&lt;rmom Rohn.•
AI the """'tlng. '"""' than
90 REV.UP volunteen Wul be

in

recognlzod for their '"""' than

3,000 hcx.n ot 5efYice to UB.
R._tlltMs ot'"""' than 30
university divisions and depart·
ments who"- receMd the
benefits ot the REV.IJP progrom
this post year will be
Poganelli and Ellen McNaiN!O,

""""'t.

assistant vice president for human resources, will assist m the
recognition ot the volunteen.
Robert E. Hun~ Emeritus
Center preslden~ will be In
charge ot the session, at which
the 1998-99 board ot ~recton
nominees will be introduced.

Craft Center Sets Early
Summer Workshops
The Creotive Croft Center, 120
Fillmore, Ellicott Complex. will
offer Early Summer WO!tshops,
beginning the ot June 1.

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hard bl*lng. poaeoy f o r a n d - f o r -.

IM&gt;Itahcps..., one night a
wtd&lt;forsii&lt;-I!Om 7-10p.m.

AdYorad anmlcs. hard b&lt;Mingandooriol~are

held flllm 1-4 p.m. Olldrsl~
dosRs are held on Slb.lday
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madon ai 64S.24341!0m 1·S
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National chair just one more role for Carol Greiner
'J1MN'1 - ,_.... ~. bu~

-

- - - ....

"' Carol Greiner willotteot, the
role ot the spouse of a college &lt;&gt;&lt; u.wenity
president Is mon lhon a ful~time task.
" I call it a job because It's 24 hour&gt; a doy,•
says Mrs. Greiner, who ha&lt; served in the role
sinCA! President Wltllom R. Greiner was named
acting president in 1991.
"This Is a very positlw role, • she says. "I ,...
ally enjoy It I reolly like woning with people.•
Mrs. Greiner hos carried tholenthusi&lt;Um f&lt;&gt;&lt;
her role to a national lewl os 1998 cNir of The
Council of Presidents' ond Chancellon' Spouses

of the Notional Assoclotion of State Universities
and l..ond-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
The council-one of 10 in NASULGC !hot
represents major oreas of university life ond ser·
~s. as its name indicates, CO&lt;nposed of the
spouses of CEOs at the 194 (at last count)
NASULGC member institutions. Its' purpose is
threefold: to focllitate CO&lt;nmunlcotion among
the spouses of NASULGC urWenity CEOs, pn;
mote public-affair&gt; programs and projects, and
i"''"ide a source of advice ond counsel to ao
spouses on issues of common concern.
Most CEO spouses ore not interviewed when
their mates seek positions with colleges or unl·
versities, yet they are expected to be an "inle·
gral part of the presidency, • Mrs. Greiner
noted. The council provides an opportunity fO&lt;
spouses to get together and "talk about what
we're doing in our roles," she added.
"Everyone does the job differently; there is
no .(ight or wrong way," she said. "You have
to do the job ...so it fils your penonality. Oth·
erwise it's just an uncomfortable position. So
we talk about !hot We let the newcomers know
that it's OK to do it your own way. The issue is

for you to be-c&lt;&gt;&lt;nfO&lt;tllble. •
The experienced members of the group will
share with the newcomers information about
what they do, how they do it and how !hey
handle all sorts of situations.

:·: 'We '"'ri&gt;yssive 1/lem advice-which none
of w tak~ke 'be sure you set a few hour&gt; of
your day aside for yowtelf, •• said Mrs. Greiner,
who odmitted'sl'\e &lt;3rel)l ta~es her J&gt;Wil advice.
.. , kwe to say it, because it's important. I just
Can't
(d do it...
.

seem

The highlight of the councirs annual meet·
ing-held in conjunction with the NASULGC
annual meeting-is the joan E. Clodius Forum, a
combined session for spouses and the presidents
or chancellors. The fO&lt;Um usually features a panel
of three or four couples discussing on issue of

interest to both potties, she said.
Topics ot post qodius forums "-Included
" Pmltive Value of lntercollegiote Athletics, •
"Finding Friends and Funds
for our College and Unlv'er·
sities." "Personal Security for
~Couples.. "Tok·
ing Con! of Yourself-Newr
on Sunday" ond "Good Me.
clio Rolations..
'We've had really great
response to this, • Mrs.
Greinersoid.
-.The ..-;ng also features
roundtable discussions speclficolly for the
spouses on such topics as handling the spou·
sal role ond on outside job, ond creotlw en·temlnlng with tight budgets.
Another ~ spouse's role In maintaining historic inventory ond gifts given to
the unlvenity-f.s 1 special one for Mrs.
Greiner, who wos • pmente&lt; at a roundlllble
on the subjoct two years ago.
She reloted !hot when she ond her husband moved into the UB President's House
on l.obrun Rood, she decided !hot she wonted
to showcase urWenity Items, rather thon her
own penonal items. "I thought wo should
try to make this a unlversity house, • she said.
She said !hot when mernberl of the unl·
verslty community found out she was look·
ing f&lt;&gt;&lt; items for the house, she started get·
ting calls about Items stored across the cam·
pu~ncluding silver, crystal and oriental
rugs-that were given to UB "by people who
have a connection In some. way with thls
university.
'We get wonderful reactions" when items
are displayed, she said, relating that an im·
pO&lt;tant friend of the university once recog·
nized an oriental rug In the house's dining
room that a relative had gWen to the univer·
sity. "If there are people who think enough
of this unive(slty to give us something, and
(t's at all pouJbie; I'm gd;ng to show it and
I'm going to ~It and care for it. •
• With her help, the university ha&lt; instituted
a system to inventory and appraise items in
the house-previous~ only items in use wore
inventoried--and noted that many of the
spouses at the roundtat&gt;Je sessioo were sur·
prised that she persotlally, along with univer·
sity person~l. took on the task of tracking,
reqwenng ~nd ~menti"!l urpv.rsity art· •
wor1&lt; and furnishings.

., havetheset.emslnmyhome, JO It's mydlay
to be ..... the!y the lrilenity,. she
said. "I lee! tNt. rm the
ot a 1rutt.•
Mrs. Greiner said she first became -

"""'*

In portlclpating In NASULGC spouses gtoUpS
when her~, who It the lime-UI proVOSI. -.dod mMings of the NASULGC foa.
demic Alloln Col.ndl. ~- noloomil group
f o r - ........ ond they·- c:onnemd..
She receilled perrnbllon from NASULGC ., or·
ganlze OCIMtles lor the spouses of lhoooltle'ldlng Academic Alflin ..-lngs. ond ullhiUiy
formed a council f o r - spouses.

--Greiner-.ding..-.

nomedoaingpresidentond begin
at the~
cl of Presidents, s h e - to the~
ing spouses' council. She on a plonr*'g
comrnltteoe ond then .. semtary of the Councl
o f -· ond Chancellors' Spouses In 1996,
ond .. chair~ In 1997. As 19911 chair, she
w l l - the meedng ot the spouses' council
to be held In Nowmber, o n d - a meedng
at the council's boord- thisto plan the Nowmber meedng .
Participating in the NASULGC counal hos
provided •great networldng" .opportunities.
Mr&gt;. Greiner said. "I don't have the hours to
tell yi&gt;u how importont this organization hos
boon to me ond to NASUI.GC spouses.•
In oddition to the NASULGC council, Mrs..
Greiner also is a member of the Executive Com·
mitt.. of the Partner's Progrllm of the M&gt;erican Assodatlon of Unlversitles (MU).

in -..o

She pointed out !hot whne the MU group
taddes many ot the same types of topics as the
NASUlGC spouses group, it is a smaller
group-since there are only 62 MU institu·
tions, as opposed to 194 NASULGC institu·
tio,.__.nd includes m&lt;&gt;&lt;e outside speaker1 at
lis twice-yearly m..tings.
Mrs. Greiner abo is irwofved in many organt..
ations In Western New YO!i&lt;.lndudlng semng
on the boords of the Amherst Youth foundo.
tion, the Bethel Head Start Progrom ond the
Ul&gt;guage Deveoprnent Plogrom. She also Is a
member of the Women's Committee of the Buf.
falo PhMhannonlc Orchestra, Women at Studio
" ' - Theatr'e ond Women for Downtown, ond
Is an honorary boord member ot Upstage NY.
In oddition, she serves as honorary chair of
the UB Women's Oub and the Friends of the
UB ·center f&lt;&gt;&lt; the Arts:
•
•

Senate to discuss progress reports for freshmen
By SUE WUETCHER
News Services Associate Director

proposal requiring fa culty members to issue
mid -semester progress
reports for freshmen
and first · semester transfer students

A

will be discussed by the Faculty
Senate at its meeting on May 6.
The senate also will discuss a
proposallhat would make it t-asier
for students to repeat courses they
have not mastered.

Both proposals were presented to
the Facuhy Senate Executive Committee at itsApril29 meeting by the
senate's Grading Committee.
Committee Chair Thomas
Schroeder, associate professor of
learning and instruction, stressed to
FSEC members that his committee
is asking faculty members only to
submit reports on students' progress.
not actual mid·semester grades.
Doing so would enhance com munic.a tion between instructors
and students, and thereby ... facili tate students monitoring their
own progress and taking respon ·
sibility," Schroeder said.
He noted that one of the most
"economically compelling reasons"
for the proposal is that it would
provide oppor tunities for advi ·
sors-either those in the central
advising office or in the depart ·
ments-with a " mechanism for
checking up on the progress of new

students and intervening ea rl y if

there are any signs of difficulty."
Schroeder acknowledged that
providing the progress reports will
mean more paperwork for faculty
members.
On the other hand, he added,
" My feeling is that we certainly
owe it to all our students to let
them know how they're doing."
Jack Meacham, professor of psy·
chology, noted that many faculty
members in his department who
teach large courses of 400·450 students say that they poSI grades af·
ter each exam, and therefore aJJ
studen ts receive progress reports.
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost
for undergraduate education, dis puted the idea that posting of
grades is adequate notification.
.. We have a serious problem in
that many of our students don't in·
tegrate well into the community. I
really think that with beginning stu·
dents who are doing poorly, some·
one needs to take them aside and say,
'You have a problem,'" he said, not ing that the present system doesn't
provide any means for intervention.
Melvyn Churchill, professor of
chemistry, pointed out that the university operates a similar intervention progran1 for student athleta,
and "it is not unreasonable to do this
once a semester" for other stud~ts.
H. WiUiam Coles, Ill, associate
director of the Educational Op·

portunity Program and chair of the
Professional Staff Senate, told sena·
tors EOP has used progress reports
for many years and they've .. been
helpful for us in our interactions
with students. The early intervention is crucial." Coles added.

"My feeing .. - certainly owe It to • ow
students to let them know

' - they're doing."
ntOMAS SCHROEDER

The resolution on grade re placement origina ll y was pro ·

posed by Todd Hennessey, associ ·
ate professor ofbiologieai'Sciences.
and referred to the Grading Com·
mittee by the FSEC on Feb. II.
It s purpose, Schroeder said,
would be to encourage students to
repeat courses that they feel they
have not mastered.
Under the proposal, students
could repeat courses in which they
have received grades of C+ or less.
Students could .repeat a given
course only once, although there
would be no limit on the number
of dilferrot courses that could be
repeated. When a co urse is re ·
peated, the credits earned would
count only once for purposes of
satisfying degree requirements and
calculating the student's grade·

point average. When a course is repeated, the grade that would be
counted toward the GPA would be
the one earned the second time,
even if that grade is lower than the
one earned the first time.
Dennis Malone: SUNY Distin·
guished Service Professor in the
Department of Electrical and
Comp uter Engineering, ques ·
tioned a provision in the policy
that would allow students who fail
courses at UB to retake them at
other institutions- • even though
we know the co urse that is being
taken somewhere d~ is perhaps
not equivalent ..- and transfer a
higher grade to UB.
Schroeder acknowledged that aJ.
though the student would only re·
C&lt;ivean"S" forthecou=,ratherthan
the actual letter grade since it would
be listed as a transfer course on the
transcript, an "S" still would affect
ealculation of the student's GPA.
Goodman admitted there are
..serious problems .. with articula·
tion, since UB administrators and
faculty feel courses, although they
have the same content, are taught
at a higher level at UB than at some
other institutions.
"But in order for us to be able
to attract and appropriately provide instruction for transfer
studcnts .. . we have to give credit
to courses that are taught at other
instjtutions.,.. he said.

�JUNE IN BUFFAID festival
to be one of the largest in history
Eveni dedicated to new-music composers scheduledfor june 1-7CJ
•Y PATIIICIA DONOVAH

News SeMc.es Editor

conductors

:ARM evenings,
superb music,
world-class performances, the
world's finest
-conductors-

sou nds like JUNE IN BUFFALO
'98.
The celebrated festival and con-

ference ded icated to emergin g
composers of new music will be
held Juno 1-7 at UB.
It wiJI be an event at which au-

diences will come face to face with
some of the most daring, articu lato, orrant and doath-dofying
young artists of our time--&lt;om posers who challenge our very
sense of sound and heighten our
aural awareness with novel instrumentations, musical tools and un usual, but arresting, explications
o f the principles of composition.
Always engaging, rolaxed and
sophisticated, the festival concerts
will be in every way unique, as weU
as free and open to the public.
This year, 30 young composers of

new music have been invited to participato. They wero selected by audition from a wid• field of appli cants and will comprise one of the
largest JUNE IN BUFFAID classes
in the festival's 12-year history.
"We have a reaUy fine group this
year,.. said festival director David
Felder, himself ono of tho outstanding composers of his generation

andchairoftho UB Dopartmmt of
Music. "They'ro from Japan, Australia, Now Zoaland, England,
South Africa, Canada, Thailand, tho
U.S. and, of cour..,, California."
Participants will me et th eir
~rs and eminent professionals in
their field, boar now work and participate in seminars, master classes
and lectures.
Each has submitted a new com position for discussion and crjticism by an outstanding faculty of
composers, conductors and musicians. Tho work then will bo deoply
rohoarsed and pr=ted in concert by world -class performers
throughout tho festival woek.
All ovents will bo hold in Baird
and Sloo halls and iP tho Ceo tor for
tho Arts on tho North Campus.
This yoar, tho festival composition faculty will includo seminal
post - war' violinist-composer
Mario Davidovsky; tho suporb and
long-celebrated American composor Donald Erb; six-tim• NEA
fellow David Felder, aJso BirgeCary Professor of Music at UB and
o ne of the country's most widely
celebrated and commissioned
co mposers of new music.
T ho faculty also will includo
wild - man Vinko G lobokar,
France's uliconventiomil proponent of the .. establ.ished·.. avant ·
garde and advocate of musi c's
critical role in the life of society,
and Kevin Volans, the distinctive
So uth African composer and Ji.

brettist. Volans' work incorporates
traditionaJ African elements, as
well as the influences of pain ters
Matisse and Pollock. the latr UB
composer Morton Feldman
(foundor of the JUNE IN BUFFALO festivaJ) and lnd ian math c.mat:ician Srinvasa R.a~anujan.
Faculty biographleS can be
foundonthoJUNEJNBUFFALO Web site at &lt;http:/I
www.musk.buffalo. edu/
composition/lib / &gt;. Whon
comple~ed, the festival program WJJI be posted there as
well.
,
.
JUNE IN BUFFALO 98 will
featuro performances by tho New
YorkNcwMusicEnsemble;Amherst
Saxophono Quartet; Bugallo/W~I iams Piano Duo; JUNE IN BUFFALO Cllambor O rchestra, conducted by Magnus Martensson
and Erik Oiia, and the JUNE IN
BUFFALO String Quartet.
Tho JUN E IN BUFFALO Stri ng
Quartet is made up of four of the
country's most respected interpreters of contemporary mu sic:
violinists Curti s Macombrr and
Calvin Wiersma, violist Lois Martin and cellist Christopher Finckel.
This will br their second appearancr at the festival .
Tho JUNE IN BUFFALO
Chambor Orchestrh again will
be made up of"hot-shot, nowmusicplayers from around the
country," all of whom arc distin guished solo performers in their
own .right, said Felder.

'Humanities One': it's a toe curler
By PATIUCIA DONOVAN
News ServkM Editor

M

MM - mm -"exr eme emo ti o ns! "
Dario Fo? What about
guy who's spont his
lifr writing music thr public doesn't
understand? Where did the Romans bury thei r cows? Why doesn't
.. Sioux" usually = .. you?"
Find o ut when the Good Ship
" Humanities One" sails in September. Get on board and pick up a
co\lple of zeitgeists! Sea ts are still
available.
.. Humanities One" is a course developed last year by SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackso n,
Samud P. Capen Professor of American Culture. It was a popular hit the
first time arot!nd and is scheduled
again fo~e fall semester.
"Jt 's important to emphasize to
our studen fs-J-he importance of the
humanities in our lives," said Jackson. "This is a field involving th e
study of many and varied sets of
ideas used by hum an beings to
understand the world we live in.
.. This year, we've broadened the
course topics to embrace. more and
varied discussions of how the hu manities inform all other fields of
study," he said. "The faculty is again
composed of a dozen of UB's finost
teachers, along with one visiting professor, Henri Korn, the research directorofParis' Pasteur Institute. This
year, we've added more women faculty members and apanded tho discussion to include Latin-American
and Native-American perspectives."

Top UB humanities scholars from
s.veral schools and facultios will offer focused, topical explorations by
employing different forms of literature, visual and performing arts,
film, philosophy, classics, architec ture. music and social sciences.
Some will focus on a text or idea,
Ja ckson said . Ot hers will o ffer
broad visions of their fields. Jackson promised that whatever their
major field of study, studen ts will
come away with a deep under -

standing of the rich connections
among many areas of inquiry.
"They will realize, some for th e
first time, the many human contexts in which the humanities and
sciences-and we our~elvello--op ­
erate," Jackson said.
.. Humanities One" {English 299,
Registration #206939) will be held
from 3:30-5: 10 p.m. Tuesdays and
3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursdays in th e
Screening Room. 112 Center for
th e Art s on the North Ca mpus.

1998 faculty and works or topics to be
dlkussed In "Humanities One"
• Diane Christia·n, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the
Department of English, "The Bible"
• John Peradotto, SUNY Disti ngu ished Teaching Professor 10 the De
partment of Classics and Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor of Clas
sics, HCJassics: The Study of Greek and Roman Cu lture ..
• Bruno Freschi, dean and professor in the School of Architecture
and Planning, .. UN IVER'CITY: The Archi tecture of learning in a
New lime ..
• Richard Fly, associate professor of English, "Shakespeare in Holly wood: Popularizing the Plays on Film and Video"
• Robert Daly, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Depart
ment of English, "The 'Applicable Technology' of Literary learning ..
• Carrie lirado-Bramen, assistant professor of English, "Nationalism.
Feminism and literature in the Formation of Latina/a Identity"
• John Mohawk, assistan t professor of American stud•es and adjunct
assistant professor of law, 'VVorldviews"
• Maria Elena Gutierrez, assistant professor of modern languages
and literatures, "The Theater of Dario Fo &amp; Franca Rame: laughter,
Politics and Popular Culture ..
• David Felder, chair of the Department of Music and Birge-Cary
Chair of Music, .. A Composer of Unpopular Music"
• Barbara Howe, New Yorlc State Supreme Court justice and adjunct
associate professor of sociology. "Justice ..
• Bruce Jackson, "The First Western Was an Eastern ..
• Henri Kom, HSociety and the Scientific Imagination"
• Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor of philosophy, "Enjoyi ng Extreme
Emotions: Fear and the Experience of Sublimity...

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international newspapers and wire servicrs are providing up-to-date
news over the Internet. With a simple dick of your mouse you can
access newspapers that might be very expensive or djfficult to obtain othrrwise. Coverage varies widely. howevrr, with some news
sources offering full -trxt of the printed versions, while others givr
o nly headlines and an online subscripti on form. Several rven provide a built-in search engine so you can search the current and/or
archived storios by keyword (s).
Like all \Veb sites, newspaper and wire-service sites are prolir~ Jiferati.ng at a phenomenal rate. To check 1f
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your favorite paper is online, usc the
~ following motasites, which list
newspapers and news services avall able via the Web:
Kidon Media Link (http://www.dds.nl/
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maintains a list of more than 100 dectronic newspapers and nc:ws
sourco:s selected by UB librarians. This list is available through BJSO
at (http://u.bllb.buff•lo.edu/ llbrorles/ e-resources/ oonews/ ), and
provides access to scveraJ international papers including The Guard.an,
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BrieBy
Wellness Fair to be held May 11 Eil
Penonnel Servkes will conduct a \Vel! ness Fa1r from 8:30a.m. to 4
p.m. on Monday in tht' Center for Tomorrow on th l" North Campus.
Presentations \Viii be given every half hour. beginning at 9 a.m .. on
topics such as stn.-ss management , exerCI.se counseling, nutrition, health
ca re and ways to weUness, and Health Care Plan's "Buddy Check 2,"
which covers important steps in early breast -cancer det~ction .
Participants w1ll include AIDS Community Servacc:~. AI -Anon
Family G roups. Alcoholic~ Anonymou~. Ah:heimer 's Assoc1at1on,
American Diabetes Associati on. American Hean AsSOCiation. Amen ca n Lung AssociatiOn. CSEA Bendits Trust Fund. Davts V JSIOil,
Employee Assistance Program, GHI Dental. Hosp1u.' Associauon.
Living \Veil Cent er, Narcotics Anonymous, National Muh1ple Sclt"rosis Association. Roswell Park, Sickll· Cell Disease A~socia ttnn. UB
Recreation and Intramural Services and UUP Benefit Trust Fund.
as well as health -i nsurance representatives from Com mumt\· Blue.
Heahh Care Plan and lnd ependt.·nt Health.
The fair also wiJJ offer "Wellnell!s on \.Vheell&lt;&gt;," d program that ot
fers blood-pressure, cholesterol and glucose s.:recnmg. J :, \\'e ll J.:,
heal th -risk assessment. body-fat assessment and mass.1ge therapy.
Personnel representatives fro m Research FoundatiOn, UBF and
New York State will be on hand.
Release time will be granted to anend the event. For more mfor·
mation, visit Perso nnel Services' Web si te at http ://www.
•vpc.buffalo.edu/ personnl/ or ca ll64 5-l646, ext. 108 or 114 .

�May7.1!11/Vul. 29.11.31

Theming ofAmerica: Is what you see what you~
~ngUp
KeoM Thompson, from Wlterim
dlrecto&lt; to diuctor of Facilities
Planning and Design.
Mkhoel C. Conmontinou, pro.
lessor of ciYil, structlJrol and enWonmentol eng;,_;,g. to director of the Structural Engi·
neering and Eorthqualce Simula-

tion Laboratory (SE£SL).
Lawrence D. Mkhoel, from
business manoger to assist.Jnt

OOn for resource m~nagement
in the Scl&gt;ool of Management.

ond--

Arthur M . MlchMft,. ..-ate

prof~ of sodol
medicine, to director of &lt;duational affoif\at- Pari&lt; c....
cerlnstitute and dean of UB~
Roswoll Pad&lt; Gtilduate ON!sion.
U.z Hayden, from assist.Jnt to
the chair in the Department of

l't1atmacology ond Toxlcology,
to assistant to the director of the
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomed'al Sciences
and administrative auistant In
the Offke of R&lt;search and
Graduato Studies.
Morlonne K. SulliYon, from
part ·tin'le director to executive
dlrecto&lt; of the Center for Entropreneuriallndonhip In the
Scl&gt;ool of ManogemenL

c. lliciiOid l.ohnnon, from *

nlo&lt; lkensing ossodlte to ICiing

campus director in the Offko of
Technology Transfer s.Mces.
Delcft Lynch. from assistont to
..-ate professor, Department
of English.
Kate DeFo&lt;est. from iWOCilte

direct_,_1
or

diuctor of the

to

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for spodol
gilts In tl&gt;l, Ofllao of the \/Ice
President for UniYenlty M-

vonaonent and De1e1opmen1.

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Ofllce ol MultiaJibniAI!oir&gt;. to

By BRENT CUNNINGHAM
Reporter Staff

ca use the space called Dis neyland
fu nctio ns as a sign for the wider
worid of Disney-its cartoons and
movies, its "family" orientation, its
~ n st' of a '"magical" escape.
Using Ari stot le's division be·
tween objects that have use-value,
such as food. and objects that have
exchange-value, such as currency.
Gottdi cner suggested we o ught to
add"sign-value" as a third category.
" Experiences now have value," he
said,"because they are signs. Agajn,
there a re these flu id boundaries: it's

Gondiener, simplythodiffom=in
price betwoon a standard productfood in a diner, tbe prict of an
amusement park ride or a func tional car---&lt;Uld an object purchased
for sign-val ue-food at the Hard
Rock Cafo, a ride at Disneyland or a
car bought for the sake of status.
Applying thoso concopu to a
discussion of the upcoming•twin ning" of the Poa ce Bridge,
Gondiener suggested that current
debate about !he project seems to
bo about the bridgo's visual ap-

did not explicitly connect this idea
to tho Peau Bridge.
A good oxamplo of this disappointmont, ho said, " would be
with a CD. My children taU ono
home and it's not anything Jik&lt; tho
M1V video they saw, or this world
that was promiStd to them, which
they expected to be transported to
as a consequence of making that
con su mer purchase. But we' re
tricked in a lot of ways as weiJ.•
Even so. for·Goudiener there is
nothing inherently deceptive or
disappointing about "theming" a
business or about exploiting sign valuo. Showing slides of tho Landmark Bar in tho Buffalo airport,
which takes Frank Uoyd Wright's
Buffalo house s as its theme.
Gottdiener poin ted out that its
sign-value, unlike that of the Hard
Rock Cafe, at least retains a denota tive relation to its location, if not
to iu food. The same is true of Iridium, a music-orienttd rtStaurant
across the street from New York
City's Lincoln Center, he noted.
But at the other end of Gottdienor'sspoctrum stands Las Vegas.
"This is the operation of signvalue at its most spectacula.r,'" he
said, showing slides of an casino
built to look JiU an pirate's island,
a casino the siu and shape of an
Egyptian pyramid and a casino that
at first appe3rs to be seven or eight
separate skyscrapers presstd togethor, forming an enormous rop~ca of the New York City skyline.
Here, said Gottdientr, the sign
seems to have no dtnotative connection -whatsoever to the product
or the location.
"'This is a &lt;a.~ina," bo emphasized
as h..showed a slido of tho gold and
marblo sculptures in Caesar's Palaeo. "Think: ' bingo hall:"

Buses wi ll exit campus at th e
rapid -trans it station.
This new configuration will "get
traffic oul of the middle of campus" and alleviate problems buses
have in making a left wrn fro m
Michael Road onto Bailey Avenue
os they head back to North Cam pus, Noll pointed out.
Thompson said that variou s
ca mpu s co nstituencies have re ·
viewed the n ew rout e and
.. everybody's on board." He notes
that the new route wiJI serve stu dents better beca use it will pick
them up and drop them o ff near
th e South Campus dorms, rather
than along Bailey Aven ue. Mo reover, the new sto p at Foster Hall,
ncar the Main Circl e, will be nefit
co mmuters wh o take rapid tran sit to Buffalo or Metro buses to
Am herst. he said. calling it a " natu ral hlending of functions."
In addition to the UB projects,
Tho mpso n sai d that th e NFTA

plans a major renovation project
invo lving its .. park and ride" lot
along Main Street.
University Facilities also wiiJ do
some sidewalk and roadway work
on the North Campus, although
the project is not nearly as. extensive as the work to be done on the
South Camp us.
Thai work will include repairing
and replacing damaged sidowalks,
including adding c11rb cuts, around
Coventry Circle, Putnam Way, the
Governors Residence Halls and the
El~ oott Complex; milling and repaving the Rensch Rood entry 10
campus from Sweet Home Road to
the Audubon Parkway, and repairing St. Rita's Lane and paving a
gravel pa rking lot that serves Baird
Point. The lot will provide parking
for the North Campus site of the
UB Child Care Center, which will
be built thi s summer.
Unive rsity Facilities also h as
started the so-ca ll ed ..Capen Ga r-

den" construction, the landscaping of three plots of turf on the
north sido of Capon HaJJ with
flowers, trees and an eleva ted wall.
Noll noted that the university is
in the final stages of accepting the
design for new signage on both
ca mpuses. Tho long-term project,
which probablywiU not begin un til the end of the summer or the
beginning of fall , wiiJ improve
signago at tho gatoways to the campuses, improve the "'way-finding"
system and improvothe buildingidentificatio n system.
Thompson noted that whil e
there is no doubt the construction
projects will inco nvenience fac ulty, staff, student s and visitors to
both campuses, Univtrsity Facilities will try to minimize that in co nvenience as best it can.
.. We feel th ese improvements
will result in lo ng- term benefits to
th e university co mmunit y," h e
said .

ph331zcd that with a tight job mar·
ke t for music ians, students who
have a stro ng academic ba ckground not o n! )• will be wcll coundcd , productive performance
professionals, bu t they also will
have other career options th ey can

pursue if necessary.
Paul McKenno , chair of the Deparunenl of Art, predicted the gift
wiU enhance UB's abWty tocompet.e
nationaUy for the best students.
"We compe te fo r students with
so me of the best programs . There

have been a number of st udents
that we would have liked to have
here and that would have come
here, but we could not compete
with the financial ·support packages other institutions were offering ," McKenna said.

OST every " Hard Rock
Ca fe" has heavy brass
d oors, gold re co rd s
han ging on the wa lls
and a n automobile c ra s h ing
through the roof. But what prod ·
uct are they selling?
.. What we're talkin g about , ladies
an d ge ntl emen, is diner food ,"
noted Mark Goudiener. professor
and chair of the Department of So·
ciology. Speaking April 28 ol the
UB at Sunrise breakfast
series in the Center for
lbmorrow, Gottdiener
used th e Hord Rock
Cafe as an example of
what he ca ll s the
"Theming of America":
the recent social trend
toward e mphasiz ing
and exploiling connotations-the wider associations that are triggered by a "theme" like
rock
mu s ic-over
more direct references,
o r ..denotations," which
would relate to what
someone actually sells
or does.
In the case of th e
Hard Rock Cafe, rock
music becomes a connotative .. sig n " for In the Cent• for Tomonow.
diner food. According to possiblo for something to be valued pearanct, and henct its sign-value.
Gottdiener, whil.e anything that as a sign bui also have uSt-value, · ·rhe issue for me," h~ said; •is
stands for something else can be and it's certainly possible for somo- what about use-value? And what
co n sidered a sign . what marks thing to be valued as a sign but 10 about exchange-value? The focus
co ntemporary society is the in - also have exchange-value. In fact~ has been on the spectacular nature
creasing value placed on the sign tht economy exploits that ex- of the bridge itself as a theme, as a
itself, rather than on what it stands cha nge-value of signs. Neverthe· signature statement."
for. Thus, adul15 and kids alike go less, there's an independent dimen Earlier, Gottdiener had drawn
to Disneyland less because it of- sio n that we can speak about."
anention to the disappointment
fers amusement park rides and
The most obvious marker of this that often accompanies a purchast
am usement park food, but be- independent dimens ion is, for made solely for sign-value, but he

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liome of the In stitut e for Local
Governance and RegionaJ Growth.
• Repaving of the Goodyear parking lot
• Milling and resurfacing Hayes
Road from the Main Ci rcle to the
Ce ntral Heati ng Plant a nd Se rvice
Building at Rotary Road
• Milling and repaving th e
Michael Road and Allen Road en·
tri es to campus
• Constructio n of a 12-slot drop·
off lane alo ng Clement Road in
front of the UB Child Care Center
• Rerouting of Blue Bird buses.
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at Michael Road, proceed to a stop
on Diefendorf Loop and exit ca m
p us at Mi c ha el Road. Th e new
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en1or
runch

The food was more than ample-and served to seoiors with gusto by faculty, staff and
administrators. It was Senior Brunch, part of Senior Celebration, held last Friday in the Student
Union l.Dbby. Top. the busy scene as diners enjoyed the pancakes and sausage. Above,Tracey
Britton and Jim Schoenberg, both of whom played on UB soccer teams, share a lively
conversation with President Greiner.

Gregory Peck: storytelling's in the genes
By BRENT CUNNINGHAM
Reporter Staff

REGORY Peck brought a
touch of Irish storytelling
to the UB Center for the
Arts last Thur.day.
Winner of an Academy Award
for his role as Atticus Finch in the
1962 "To Kill a Mockingbird," Peck
has been a Hollywood icon since
1943, when he starred as an Irish
p riest in "The Keys to the Kingdop&gt;." Recalling both his life in
movies a nd h is fa mil y background, Peck found a com mon
theme in the "story:" bo th the sto-

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ries he has told on sc reen as an
actor and the sto rytelling habits of
his Irish -American father.
Many in the audience were surprised to learn that Peck's roots
pass th';o\Jgh Western New Yorkhi s fa ther'wf.s born in Rochester,
and attended Niagara University,
even tually following Peck's grand·
mother to California. But , said
Peck, his father also spent time in
Ireland as a boy.
" He used to tell me th at in Ireland, the o nl y form of e nt ertain ment was storytelling," he recalled.
"They wou ld sit a ro und a fire, tell
. sto ries, sing songs and once in
awhile ride in a pony-cart to the
town of Dingle for a dance ."
While Peck, sitting o n stage in an
armchair with a lamp and table at
his side, did his best to recreate
some of that rustic simplicity, those
who came to see a Hollywood event

hosted by a HoUywood star were
not disappointed. The evening in cluded film dips from a medley of
Peck's films, including " Roman
Holiday," "The Snows of
Kilimanjaro ...... The Guns of
Navarone," .. O ld Gringo" and an
out-take from " MacArthur." Peck
also shared behind-the-scenes stories about celebrated actresses like
Audrey Hepburn and Ava Gardner.
recalled joking with Ga ry Cooper
and John Wayne, and described hi s
ea rl y days working in New Yo rk
theater. "To Kill a Mockingbird," he
rcveaJcd, is sti ll his favo rite film
from his own body of work, while
"'Moby Dick" was the most physi cally demanding.
" I nearly got killed in the Irish
Sea, riding th at ru bber whale," he
said. "' I was lost a t sea. We were
probably eight m iles out from the
coast of Wales, and th e wa te r was
freezi ng."
Generally know n for playing
upright "leading men ,.. Peck also
reme mbered th e stir he caused
when he agreed to play the revil ed
Nazi experimenter Or. Mengele.
"I wan ted to let the prod ucers
know that I'm now ready for th e
'character' role." joked the 82 -year·
old Peck.
During th e la st hal f of 1h e
even ing, Peck answered questions
from audience members, many of
whom expressed nostalgia for
what they sa w as a better. more
heroi c era in movies.

"The film studios are owned by
huge conglomerates," Peck re ·
sponded . "Th ey publish maga ·
zincs a nd newspapers, they own
baseball team s
and amusement
parks, television
shows, records.
You know , it's
commerce. They
have stock hold ·
crs. They have to
PECK
show a good bot tom line at the end of the year. !&gt;O
obviously it militates against o rigi nali ty. creat ivi ty, surprise, off-beat
subjects. \\'hat they would reall y
love to do is make a repeatable
product. like an automobile or ~~
refrigera tor."
"B ut ," he ca utioned, ''I thmk the
answe r is that yo u have to go shop·
ping. And if you do, 1f you shop
ca refull y, yo u' ll find a duzcn or IS
good pictures every yN r."
Peck had a beuer opinion of
con temporary thl·ater, and he rec ommended it to asp tring ac tors
and actresses. " I think the best ad vice is still to go o n the stage," he
~ald. "Church theater, co mmunity
theater, regional theater: just get
out thcrt" and learn by doing. You
know, 1f you get out there a nd the
audience is restless and co ughing,
or even if they get up and walk
out. you know you' re not do ing
yo ur job, you're not telling the
sto ry, you're not holding their in terest."

7

Lawrence W. ·Chisolm, 69;
founded Department
of American Studies
L•wrence W•shlngton Chisolm, 69, humamties scholar and pro
fcssor of American studies at UB smce 1968, died at.home Apnll9
He had been seri ously ill since last fall.
A respected tea cher and scholar for 40 years, Chisol m was
director of graduate studies and director of intercultural
stud1es in the Department of American Studies, a depart ·
mcnt he helped found and was instrumental in nunuring
to iu level of national prominence.
A 1950 graduate of Princeton University, Olisolm received
a doctorate from Yale in I957 after serving for three yean. in the U.S. Navy.
He taught history at Yale for several years before being named a Yale Fellow in East Asian Studies, a posiuon he held from 1964-67. During that
time, he lived in Taipet. continuing his work in Chinese language and
cuJture.
Chisolm, who was recruited from Yale to head American stud1es at
UB, combined the study of America n history and culture w1th a fresh
perspective gleaned from his knowledge of Asian languages. history and
culture. He specialized in the analysis of culturaJ change in the U.S. and
Asia, and participated in the seventh U.S.-lapan Conference on Cui ·
tural and Educational Interchange (CUU:ON) in lokyo in 1974.
During the lat~: 1970s, Chisolm served as a specialist on Asian af
fairs with the U.S. Department o f State, visiting Japan, Taiwan,
Singapore and Thailand under the a~gis of that department . He also
served as a state department consultant in Mexico 1n 1977.
Active in the Buffalo community. Chisolm served as chairman of the
board of directors of the Buffalo Theater Workshop from I 969-71 and
in recent years. on the board of d1rectors of Musicians United for Supc·
rior Education (MUSE, Inc.) and the Nonh Buffalo Food Coopcrauve.
His friend and colleague, Charles Keil said. "La rry guided man y
st udents over the yea rs wi th hi s love of the natural world, his deep
respect for cultural diverstty and h1s passion for social justiCe. He
had said of his studcnt5 that ' the quali t)' of their thinking and the
content of their work gives me hope for the future of the world."'
" Hl' wa~ deeply dedicated to hts students and waS consistently a
voice of conscience and progressivism at UB," said Kerry S. Grant,
dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters. "'We will miss his great intel ·
\ect and the voice that u rged us aU to consider the larger condition
of mankind 10 the smaller decisions we make daily."
A funeral service was held in the Chapel at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
l41 I Delaware Ave. A mcmonal service wiU be held in September.
Contributions in Chisolm's memory may be made to "The Daybreak
Project." c/o John Mohawk, I 010 Clemens Hall. North Campus.

Bri~Dy

Chen awarded MDA's first
S. Mouchly Small fellowship
Ning Chen. a research assistant at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston. has been awarded the firstS. Mouchly Small
Muscular Dystrophy AsS&lt;Xiation (MDA ) Research Fdlowsh1p at UB.
funded by the nat1onal MDA, the fellowship honor.;; Small, former
chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UB and multi-term pres1
dent of th e organi7.ation . lntcrroti ona ll y known for h1s research in
psychiatry, he supported MDA m tt s formatiVl' !&gt;tagcs, co ntinuing
until hi~ death in 1996.
The compcti ti vt.•, $32,000 annual award. gtvcn for each of six years,
will suppo rt a fellow whose research relate!\ to any of tht.· 40 disor ·
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pathobiology progr.m1 at MUSC. willlx-gin his UD fellO\,~h•p on July I.
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'WebPiction' developed at UB is first to combine text, image-processing technology
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News Services Edito&lt;

Yet, strange as it sounds, that's

about what In!&lt;met surf= do when
they use oommen:ial search engines
to track down pictures of people.
That"s because these search en-

gines conduct picture searches the
same way they conduct document
searches: by matching keywords.
The drawback is that. then: is no
guarantee that the fuces of people
specifi&lt;d in the search will appear in
the retrieved images or even that the
images Will include any fuces at all.
But UB computer scientists are
developing a prototype of a World
Wide Web picture search engine,
called WebPiction , that has a
unique face-detection component

and is designed to produce many
more "hits" than searches produced by eristing commercial im age-search engines.
That's because it is the first one
that finds pidures by combining
text and image processing.
Developed at the Center of Excelleoce for Document Analysis
andRemgnition(CEDAR),adem·
onst.ratioo version of WebPiction
soon will be available to Web surf·
ers and search-engine designers.
"We are a research group and our
main objective is developing new
technologies,"' said Rohini Srihari,
associate professor of computer science. 14 The big scarch·engine com·
panies don't have the researchers to
develop sophisticated processing
and we obviously don't have theresources to index the whole Web.
.. With this prototype, we are saying to sea rch -engine compani es,

'These are the technologies that we
have developed for picture searching; if you like them, incorporate
them into yo ur search engines,"'
Srihari aplained. Compa nies or
organizations interested in licensing
the WebPiction technologies should
make inquiries through UB's Office
of Technology Transfer.
The tec hnique s used by
WebPiction can be incorporated
into lntranets-internal netwo rks
used by individual organiza·
tions--or into commercial search
engines that index the entire Web.
Developed from a resea rc h
project called "Show and Tell" that
initi ally was funded by the Ad ·
vanced Research Projects Agency
with additional support from
Eastman Kodak, the demonstra·
tion version of WebPictio n will
function with a subset of Web
documents, thousand s of them

culled from a news service that
posts hundreds of photographs
each day.
WebPiction is among the first
search engines to allow users to
search for people in pictures with
specific visual contexts. such as Bill
Clinton at Niaga ra Falls, queries
that today often produce the &amp;us·
trating and familiar conclusion:
" No documents found."
. "This research will have a tre·
mendous impact on multimedia
information retrieval-where you
are trying to retrieve information
from te.xt , images, video and au·
dio," said Srihari.
It has the potential to organize
pictures in aU kinds of databases,
from vast photo archives kept by
wire services and intelligenceagen ·
cies to photographs ¥ld vid eos in
personal family albums.
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FSEC discusses improving student quality
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News Services As.soctate Dtrector
E quality of students
attending UB has de ·
clined, and the faculty is
to blam~ because it has
not paid much attention to admis·
sions standards, a member of the
Farulty Senate Committee on Ad·
missions and Retention has

charged.
But the administrator overseeing
enrollment-management issues re·
spondedthatwhilethequalityofthe
student body has declined some·
what, an overhaul of admissions
standards to create minimum ai teriawillnotaddressthetrueprob·
lem, which is fewer good or outstanding students applying to UB.
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost
for undergraduate education, said
that it is "entirelyappropriate" fo r
the faculty to determine admissions standard s, but ca utioned

against establishing "some kind of
floor,.. such as a minimum SAT
score of II SO or four years of high·
school science courses.
.. No large university in the fluetuatii:tgenvironment such as we find
ourselves in can afford to do that ,"
Goodman told members o f the Fac·
ulty Senate Executive Committee at
the group's April22 meeting.
Enrollment figures, he added.
have to be determined, in part, b)'
"budgetary considerations-that 's
just the real world."
Goodman was responding to
Charla Fourtner, professor of bio·
logical sciences, who said that en·
ro llment policy at UB is based to
a certain exten t on makin g sure
the university gets enough stu·
dents "to keep this place running.
" I'm no t blaming the adminis·
tration for that; I'm really blaming the faculty," Fourtner sa id .
"The faculty has to take a position

on what kind of student s do we
want to bring in here. What type
of product do we want to put out?"
Nothing in UB 's.... adm iss ions
sta ndards-admission to UB is
based on an applicant's high-school
grades, rank in class and SAT and
ACT scores-i ndi ca tes that th e
university seeks to admit students
from the top IO or 25 or 75 percent
of their high-school class. he noted.
But UB does admit students who
rank in the top 40-60 percent of
their class, he pointed out.
"You don't know that as faculty:
maybe you don't want to kn ow
that. Maybe it 's more convenient
for us to say' Let's open the d oor
and let people come in until we fill
the enrollment targets.'
'Tm uncomfortable in the class·
room with that," he sa id ... Maybe
we as facult y at this university are
OK with that."
Fourtnersaid he had hoped Noel·

Lcvitz,theenrollment· management
consulting finn UB has hired to provide advice, software and technical
help to aid the university in its recru itm ent efforts, would address
admissions standards. But so far, he
said. the topic has heen 1gnored
"A5 a faculty, 1 don 't thmk we
have paid a wh ole hell of a lot of
attention to what's going on. Evcn
if we did , wi th the way we do thing!!&gt;
(recruit student s), I don't thinltt
would make any difference."
Fourtner reca ll ed that wh en UB
last discussed admiss1on s stan dards in the 1970s...everybody had
different ideas. so we ended up
with a statement that 1s rcallr a
statement th at cou ld bt' from any
four-year, undergraduate schoo l;
we're no different.
.. We've got to decide wh etht•r
this place as an institut io n wanb
to be different and whether we
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and will be editor-in-chief for the 1998-99 academic year.
A sophomore, he is a member of UB's Distinguished Honors
Scholars p rogram, and a native of the state of Washington.

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1M Spectrum is the fourth estate of
UB's political microcosm. Of all UB
publications,ows is the most widely
read This leaves us with strong re""""of influence over campus poli·
tics. Though journalism is objec!M
in nature, all media retain the inherent power to draw attention to certain issues, while leaving others uncovered In this manner, 1M Spertrum and all other news media can
actively shape the political agendas
of their audiences. Ultimately, how·
ever, we strive to abide by ethical
standards of journalism-in report·
ing, we must avoid partisan allegiancc and aim to give adequate CJJV-

erage to all perspectives and all im·
portanl issues, regardless of our per·
sonal biases.
Whet did you leem as edltoriel
editor?
Readers, at least at VB, consume news

media defensively.When an editorial
lambastes Pataki's SUNY policieoas our editorials frequentlyd&lt;&gt;-&lt;lltd
calls for undergraduates to mobilize
to oust the governor from his seat,
student response, both in ac.tion and
writing, is weak. Yet when our opinions criticize, even indirectly, the
work of university staff or student.s,
reactions are strong, numerous and
often angry. I doubt these editorials
are any more inaccurate or objec·
tively questionable than our positive
pieces, but readers more readily disagree with or acknowledge flaws in
our more cynical pieces.
Why do you want to be edl·
tor-In-chief?

I aim to attend law school and even·
tually aspire 10 ascend to the bench

of the United States Supreme
Court-end )'., found that jour·
nalism DOl only givos me an e=J.
lentpenp&lt;ctiv. on the nation's govemment.al machinery, but also allows me 10 polish writing skills aitical to sua:as in law aod other proCessions. I ran to be editor-in-chief
in hopes of fine-tuning my writing
technique and further immersing
myself in UB's play of power.
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,._ _ . u editor-In-chief?

Editors-in-chief frequently spend
between 50 and 60 hours a week
in the office.
-do•-lofstuclents
produce • 12---th-tlmes•-1

We are blessed with a dedicated
staff that recognizes not only the
importance of professionalism, but
also of community, friendship and
relaxation. We compensate for each
others' weaknesses and coUectively
encourage ourselves. Occasionally,
we don't escape the confines of our
office until the wee hours of the
morning, but-by some miraclewe consistently publish three issues
a week and maintain our sanity.
Whet do you w•nt -Spectnmt to do nut year that It
does not do now7
I have visions for a Spectrum maga·
zinc, similar to the insert The. N&lt;w
York Times places in its Sunday editions. The magazine would be oriented thematically and would feature
longer articles, written in essay style,
like those: in N~k or Time.

In en edltortel on April 20, Spectrum crttklzed Dll)l
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That it is a strong, value-priced
school with a proud tradition and
acel.lent learning facilities. UB is
geared pririwily toWatd New York
students looking for an affordable,
second-tier education. It i.s not a
carnival and should not market it·
self as such.
- y did you decide to c to 1111?

I'mconvincedthatiftheschool'soutof-state tuition rates Wtte more reasonable and its national advertising
policy were more ri110rous. it could
easily compete for scholars from
about the entire country. Ultimately,
I opted 10 attend UB because of a
generous four-year full scholarship
offered to me by the univenity's Dis·
tinguished Honors Program.
Whet's It like being of
the few ooit-of-st.te undergreduete students •t UB?

I ~ always been perfectly happy
with the academic atmosphere of the
university, but it was not until this
year that !learned to cope with, and
'""'" appl-.ciate, Buffulo for what it
is. Seattle's intrigue lies in its busiling
commerce and thriving arts. Buffulo's
strengths reside in the city's people. I
cannot deny that ows is an ugly city,
but I see a certain beauty 10 the way
communities band together 10 stave
off the adversities posed by Buffalo's
grave economic circumstances and
brutal climate.
Whet's something people
don 't know ebout you •nd
should know7

For all the attention I receive for my

work at 1M Sp«tn.m. I dediate
great deal ofmytimeto the theater. I have participated in three
of the Theatre and Dance
department's shows-"The
Grapes of Wrath," "Dummies'
Ball" and "Agamemnon"-end
am looking forward 10 doing a
10-minutepiecetitled'"WhatShe
Found There"with some friends
before I consign myself full time
10 the newspaper.
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members accuse 1M Spectrum of
being too &lt;Mrtly liberal in its editorial positions. Our page-four
opinions are constructed from a
balance of the voices of all the indiv;dual members of our editorial board Weencourageconservative thinkers to regularly submit responses or even work to
land an editorship at our paperour views only seem slanted because few members of the
school's conservativt' constitu-

ency have aspired to our ranks.
Wluot question do you wish
I heel ulted, ..,dhow
-lei r- heft! enswered7

Q: How will you prepare for
your tenure as editor-in-chief?

A: Starting May 14th, I'll be
spending my summer awayfn!m
home, toiling in the sweltering
bowels of the nation's capitoL I'll
be interning with The Buffaw
NtwS as an assistant correspon·
dent, gathering quotes, filing papers and leaving the important
work to certified reporters. I eagerly await the experience.

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Research at UB points to leaks in blood-brain barrier, not oxygen deprivation

By LOIS BAIWI

News Services Editor

HE latest high-tech gear
can't protect climbers on
Mount Everest from one
of the hazards feared
most by those who spend time at extreme heights---oxygen deprivation,
or h);,oxia, resulting in the poten·
tially lethal brnin swelling known as
high-altitude cerebral «!_ema.
Research conducted at VB suggests that high·altitude cerebral
edema is caused by a disruption in
the blood-brain barrier, the specialized layer of cells in cerebral blood
vessels that, under normal condi·
tions, allow only certain substances
to pass into the brain's circulation.
john A. Krasney, professor of
physiology and a specialist in hypoxia, presented the findings April
28 at the 66th annual meeting of
the American Association of Neu·
rological Surgeons in Philadelphia.
Krasney and colleagues in UB's
Hermann Rahn Laboratory of
Environmental Physiology have
developed an animal model using
sheep for studying hypoxia and
cerebral edema in an effort to learn

more about how and why these
conditions develop and their effect
on cognitive function.
"Brain swelling, and also pul·
monary edema I fluid in the
lungs!. is one of the major problems at high altitude and we don't
really know the cause of either,"
Krasney said. " It is not lack of oxy·
gcn per sc. At high altitude, the
brain has· an adequate supply of
oxygen because blood flow in ·
creases to compensate for th e
lower concent ration of oxygen in
the air. Yet people still get sick."
In its mildest form , swelling of
the brain brings on the headache
and nausea characteristic of acute
mountain sickness. In its most severe form, unrelieved by retreat to
lower elevations, brain swelling
advances to high-altitude cerebral
edema, which causes disorienta·
tion, impaired mental functi on
and death.
Information gained from the
study of high· altitude cerebral
edema and hypoxia is relevant to
man y people other than those
wealthy enough to afford an Everest
trek, Krasney noted. "Thirteen mil-

lion people go to Colorado every
year to ski and 65 percent develop
at least a headache," he said .
"Twenty-five percent develop acute
mountain sickness, and 1·2 percent
develop high -altitude cerebral
edema."

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Krasney's resean:h using sheep
has shown that the symptoms of
high-altitude cerebral edema arc
not caused by an inadequa.te supply of oxygen or glucose to the
brain. Rather, it ap~rs that an accumulation of malfunctions creates enough cerebral blood pressure to force apart cells of the
blood-brain barrier and allow Huids to accumulate in and around
brain tissues.

The researchers theorize that acute
hypoxia may allow a decline in cyclic
adenosine monophosphate (cAMP},
a chemical messenger involved in
regulating capillaryPennca!&gt;ility. Th&lt;
deciease in cAMP may allow the tt·
rebral capillaries to leak.
In addition, Krasney said, it is
possible that, in the presence of
hypoxia, another chemical messenger, cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), acts with nitric oxide, a vasodilator, to pro·
mote and sustain permeability of
the blood-brain barrier. The combined influence of actions cou1d
allow fluid to accumulate in the
intracellular spaces, he said.
Yet another mechanism that may
be at work involves elevated levels of
leukocytes that may rung to the lining ofcerebral blood vessels and cause
leaks in the blood-brain barrier.
Krasney and colleagues are at·
tempting to clarify further the impor·
lllnce of these mechanisms in the development &lt;Xaartemountainsiclcness
and high-altitude cerebral edema.
Their .research is supported by
the National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute.

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FSEC briefed on classroom issues

BrieBy

ay SUE WUETCHUI
News SeMces ~ate Dirktor

rooms on campus and the budget
to bring classrooms up to the stan-

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dards.

Honors Program to sponsor
concert by Michael Chilungu

try could be scheduled at the same
time. Also, classes that a re required
LOCK scheduling of for a p rogram of study, like the
cl-asses and d evt:lop ing sciences or management, could be
standards of quality are scheduled together.
The committee also is looking
am ong the top ics being
tackJ ed by two university· wide into sched ulin g more classes at
committees devoted to classroom times and on d ays, such as Friday
aftern oons, that are not heavily
issues.
The chairs of the commjuees, used, and examining how some
Howard Foster, associate dean in departmental space is used.
.. It 's OK to have some space
the School of Management, and
Peter Gold , associate dean of the within d epartments, b ut it's not
Undergrad uate College, briefed OK to have it sitting empty," Fosme m bers of the FSEC at the ter said.
The panel also is pondering tech group's meeting on April22 about
nology issues. "How mucb technoltheir panels' ongoing work.
Foster, chair of the University ogy do we need to put into classCo mmittee on Classroom Utiliza- rooms? Are 26 enough to acoommotion, told senators that block date the people who need it?" he
sc h ed ulin.g, in w h ich ce r tain asked, referring to the conversion
classes routi nely are scheduled in last summer of26 rooms into high a "ftxed, coherent way," would pre- technology classrooms equipped .
vent schedulers from having "' to wi th Internet con nection , video
reinvent the wheel every semester." projector, VCR, telephone, sound
It wo ul d provide better utiliza - ,&lt;YSiem and external laptop ports.
Gold, chair of the University
tion of rooms and some predictabi lity fo r departments and stu - Commillee on Classroom Quality,
dents, he added.
told FSEC members tha t hi s
For example, two sect ion s of co mmittee's charge is to develop
standards
of quality for all classlarge classes like organ ic chemis-

"We're not supposed to be deal ing with complaints, but they drive
the committee," he noted.
For example, complaints about
insufficient chalkboards in classrooms used to teach mathematics
has prompted work, to be done
this summer, to install more lin ear feet of chalkboards in these
classrooms. In addition, carpeting,
some of which is 20 years old, is
being repl;lced in classrooms, with
all of Knox Hall to be done during the summer.
Both Foster and Gold pointed
out that major work needs to be
done in classrooms on the South
Camp u s, induding rooms in
Farber, Cary and the Diefendorf
lect u re halls that have been iden tified as some of the worst on either campus.
Some of these rooms are in such
poor shape t hat major renovation
work is needed, Gold said, adding
t hat his committee ha s been
charged with developing a rationaJe for the work.

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AYA Angelou h as
survived.
"Young men and
women," she told an
appreciative audience in the UB
Center fo r the Arts last Thursday.
"you need to know that someone
was there before you, someone was
lost before you, ign o red before
you ... and yet, mi raculously, someo ne has su rvived: survived with
som e passion, some compassion ,
some hu mor and some st yle."
A best-selling poet an d wri te r
widel y kno wn fo r rea d in g h e r
poem "On the Pulse of Mo rn ing"
d u ri ng Pres ide nt Cli nton's 1993
ina ugura ti o n , A n ge lou sp oke
mostly about poetry, teach ing an d
her ea rly life in her talk for US 's
D ist inguished Speak ers Series.
Poetry, Angelou contended, not
only makes young people aware of
their membership in tht' history of
h uman fee lings, bu t also can help
break through common and deadeni ng ass u mptions about race,
gender, beauty and sensual it y.
" It 's written to keep peopl e
alive," she said, a comment that
took on added significance as she
described the tr ials of her youth.
When she was 7. years old,
Ange lou reca lled, he r m other's
boyfriend raped her. She felt she
was obliged, "because of my brothers," to name the rapist,and he was
put in jail for one day and released.
Soon after. he Was fo u nd dead ,
apparently kicked to death .
" I decided my voice had ki lled a
man," said Angelou, "so 1 stopped
speaking. I stopped speaking for
six years. I thought if 1 spoke, my
vo ice..might just go o ut and kill
peop le randomly."
For ma nyyea rs,shesaid,she was
considered .. mental"bytheci tizens
ofStamps,Ark.ansas.Though atthe
time she o nl y commu nicated by

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uwhen you and the Lord get ready,
Sister, you gonna be a teacher."
"I used to sit back and think, 'This
poor,ignoJant'M)man,"'saidAngclou.
"Today, it is my blessing to teach in
French and Spru1ish and English. II is
my blessing to be on the board at
Harvard I.Jbrary. II is my blessing_"
During her mu te years, Angelou
fell in love with poetry. She began
speakingagainwhen awomantold
her that she wo uJd not "really love
poetry" until she had spoke n it.
"You have to hear it," said Angelou.
"That's what brought me back.

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know .. the

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conditions, all the pain and
privileges of being .......... 1
encourage you to go there.''
MAYA ANGELOU

" It will see yo u t hrough ," she
told her aud ience. " There arc po·
ets in the library who know all the
co nditions, all the pain and privi leges of bei ng hu man . I encourage
you to go there ."
Evenwhiletellingpainfu1stories,
Angelou displayed a lively sense of
humor. " Don't trust people who
don't laugh," she advised . " I don't."
After she began speaking again,
sa id Angelou ,she wanted to recite a
soliloquy from Shakespearc's"Merchant of Venice" at her church.
"My grandmothcrsaid,'Sister. now
who is thi s very Will iam Shakes·
peare?"' Angdou recaUed. "She was
going to fo rce me to tell her that
Shakespeare wdS white. 1 had to teU
her. It was going to get out anyway.
" I tried to figure out a war to get
arou nd Mama," Angelou con tin ued. " I said, 'Yes ma 'a m , h e is
wh ite. But he's dead."'

now reads all poetry as written
speci fic a ll y (or
her. This view,
she held, is a nee·
essary prerequi si te to a full appredation of po·
et ry.
AHGU.OU
Consistent with
her belief that poetry has this universaJ application,
Angelou prefaced her poem " Pht'nomenal Women" by commenting
that, in her view, men arc just as phenomenal as women. "But you men
have to writt" your own poem," she
joked.
.. 1 wrote it for fat women," she
said, "for those who don'tlike their
size but will do little about it ex cept caU a fr iend, usually me, in the
middle of the night and say, 'G irl,
there's a skinny wo man still trying
to get out .' And then I wrote it for
fa t women who love their bodies,
who know they arc th e epito me of
se nsuality, and when the y walk
down the street no one. malt" or fl· ·
male, can keep their eyes off them .
And I wrote it for skinn}' women,
those who deserve our sy mpathy."
The tone of Angelou 's clos1ng
remark.o; was strikin gly simi lar to
the tone of her poems. "Let w. Ml
live," she said , " that we will not n· ·
gret yea rs of useless virtue and in ·
ertia and timidit y and ign o rance ,
so that in dyi ng each of us can say,
'All my co nsc io us life and energ1es
have been dedi (a ted to the most
noble ca use in the world , the lih e rati o n of the hum a n mind and
spir it, begin n ing with m y ow n.'"
Angelou sa ng o r recited poems
by Geo rgia Douglas John so n ,
Anne Spencer, Paul lawren ce
Dunbar and langsto n Hughes.
In addition to writing, Aitgelou
hasworkcdasadirector, producer,
actress and songwriter.

The Unlvenlty Honon Progr•m will sponsor a concert at 5 p.m.
o n Su nday in Baird Recital Hall for pianist Michael Chilungu , a se- ·
nior in the Honors Program and a performance major in the Department of Music. The concert, which will include works
by Haydn , Rachmaninoff, Dell, Taylor-Coleridge and
Liszt, will be free and open to the public.
Chilungu, a student of Frina Arschanska Boldt, associate
professor of music, was ~ccepted in 1996 into the School of
Medicine and Biomedical Science's Early Assurance Program.
He has contributed to a number of university events, such as the Mar·
tin Luther King gala in 1995 and the African American Festival, and has
appeared in numerous concerts as a soloist and with chamber groups.
FoUowing his admission inw medicaJ school, he has pursued a special major, integrating courses from English literature, Judaic Studies
and piano performance. His two final projects include Sunday's con cert and a thesis written under the tutelage of Leslie Fiedler, SUNY
Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Samuell. Clemens Professor
of English. Chilungu is currentl y researching a repertoire of Afncan
American co mposers, which will be released on a CD.

Pathfinders Awards honor three
for efforts to improve student life
Two memben of the Student Aff•lrs staff and a studen t have been
honored for their efforts to enhance the quality of student life.
They are the recipients of the Pathfinders Awards, a new initiative
of the Division of St udent Affairs to iden ti fy and recognize faculty.
staff and student employees of the division who have developed new
programs that help UB work better. faster or cheaper for swdcnts.
Garry Soehn er, associate director for personnel, and Preston Niland,
assista nt director for residential life, wen:.· honored for developing the
"Steps to Fi tness" program. which offers st udents living in the Ellicott
Complex an on -si te fitness program that emphasizes proper nutri .
tion and consistent participation in exercise.
Denisse Ca rmo na, a junior majoring in women's studies, early
childhood ed uca tion and Spanish, was hono red for her efforts to
establish a recycling program in two South Campus residence halls.
La rge bins were set up on the gro und floor of Goodyear Hall and on
th e first floo r of Clement HaJJ 10 make ir mo re convenien t for resi ·
dents, resulting in a 95 percent increase in recycl ing.

Final issue of semester is May 21
The R~portn will publish IU final issue of the Spring semes ter on
May 2 1. Monthly Summer issues will be published on June 18 and
Jul y 23. Weekly publication will resume o n Aug. 27.

Graduation, Student Honors
for the Reporter's annual
Commencement Extra
The R~portnwlll publish Its annuai"Commencement Extra" edi ·
tion on May 14. If you have not don e so al ready, pl ease send lists
o f st udents receiving graduatio n or other honors, identifying bon ~
ors co ncise ly. Info rmati on must be received no later than tomor·
row.
Because of production requirements, th e Reporter onl y will accept information electron ically. No fax submissio ns will be accepted.
Info rmation may be su bm itted o n disk., specifying the program in
which it is written and including a printout of all information con ·
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All submissions must includ e a contact name, department , cam pus address and daytimf telephone number. Oisks may be delivered
10 136 Crof~s Hall, No rth Ca mpu s. ~or more informa tion , call Chns·
tine V1Ja l, Rt'portt•r fdi tor, at 645 -2620.

Scales-Trent gives endowed
lecture at Tulane University
Judy Scales-Trent. professor of law, prcsc nt l'd the ~k(;)tth: hc y Lt.'~o.
ture last mo nth at Tulane law School. New Orleans. Her topt( WJ :,
" The Federal Courts a nd th e Great American Ractdl Oivade.''
The McGlinchey Lecture is o ne of six endowed lectures being gtvcn
a t Tulane th is yea r, with speakers ind udin g Erwm Chcmcrinsky, Le gio n Lex Professor of Law a nd Political Science at the Universit y of
So uth ern Califo rnia Law School; c rim in al and c iv1l tnal lawyer
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., and \V. Michael Rei:,man , Hohfield Profe:,sor of Jurisprud ence a t Yale law School.
Scales-Trent, who was a civ il rig hts lawyer m Washington for \0
years. is tht' auth or o f the widely celeb rated book, " Notes of a Whitl'
Black Woma n: Race, Color, Commun ity." Her exte nsive public lee ·
tures focus on the int ersect ion of race and gender in American law,
as well as on law a nd lite rature. and cultural pluralism.

�4 llepories

ADriiJO.19!11/Voi.Z9.1130

BRIEFLY

llr'lul, Flnnegln

~l:C~
A presenuilion by Kozlmien

B&lt;aun, ~of- ond

donee. wtllllghlight the celebration on SUndoy of Pofish..
Amerian

o.y ond the 200ih

onl)lw!Bary of' the bllth of Adorn
Mickiewicz. Poland's fmmost
rom.~tic poet by the Polish Arts
Club of 8uflolo.
The p&lt;Ogrml, which will bo
co-spons&lt;&gt;&lt;od by the lntema.tionol Artistic ond Culhuol Ex·
chango Progwn of the Cente'
for the Arts, will bo held 1t 2
p.m. 1{1 the Screening Room of
the Cente' for the Arts. It b free
and open to the public.
Broun, a notJyo of Poland,
had • disllngulshtd academic
and tt"teatric.ll areer there befO&lt;"e coming to U81n 1987 to
head the Kting progrom. H!!

will present "Micf&lt;kw!cz's
Fon!f11ther(s Eve, A Hlstorlcil
Icon of Polish Pllriotism, • ,.._
counting and enlirging upon
the patriotic """" dromi porttiying the suffering ofPolind
during the time of its' patlltloo. .
D&lt;amitlc ~adlngs ofu.nstoted
passogos of the draml also wll
t&gt;o given by Gmld r..._,,
asslstont Professor ol Theatre
and Dance ond a noted local K·
to&lt;.

LastThursday was a very special day for girls at UB. They had fun
and they learned so much-the hundreds d daughters who took
part in the extensive program presented by the Task Force on
Women and ~ized by a committee d volunteers. Among the
many options they were oft'ered on the two campuses were visits
to the computing center, residence halls, Alumni Arena, the
Center for the Arts, the brain museum and the dental school.
AboYe, a class in jazz dancing in the Center for the ArTs and left. an
introduction fD radio atWBFO-FM 88.7, US's National·Public
Radio affiliate. Hanna Upkind steps up to the mike to read a public
service announcement, assisted by Peggy Scalzo.

The 10M . Kano&lt; WA Golf

a.s.jc wi bo held june 25 •t
8ryndiff R
and Confemlce
Co!\-ot&lt;r,

20A In

rey Road ond RL
. Honoring"the

ITM!ITIOI}' of the

john c.

Karm,whowas
president and

vito.·
ol stu-

dent fiNna!s at U8 befo&lt;e his
deeth In 1997, the golf classic
w111 bo presenb!d by the Ofllce
of the \ l i c e - for Under·
gradum fduatlon ani! the Of.
flceofthe-\llcel'residentand~

Cootofthe-tb
S6S, which wlllndudo 18 holes
of golf wflh &lt;""- • butlot
withbewroge~the

toumamont ond hot dog ond
~ 01) the ninth halo.
Prizes for the Hole In Ono ton·
testlndudo SlO,OOO ash. a set
of irons ond. ~ gof
~ .. - .. -prize'.

Chedcs for the toumo)l, payoble
to SUNY at~.- due by
June 1.
Fo&lt; mort lnfotmatlon, toll
Sharon Myon at 829-2924 0&lt;
Debbie Morris at 829-2361.

Call for University

Commencement 19!18
Unde!graduate candidates In
the faculties of Arts and let·
ten, Natural Sdences and
Mathematics, Social Sciences
and Special and Individualized

Majors a~ urged to ~ister
now to participate In University

Commencement on May

law Alumni to honor six with awards May 14
By MARY BEnt SPINA
News Services Editor

IVE graduates of the UB
School of Law will receive
Distinguished
Alumni
Aw.trds for d1eir valuable contributions to the legal profession and
community at the 36th annual UB
Law AJumni Association meeting and
dinner, 10 be held at 6 p.m. on May 14
in the Hyatt Regency Bulfalo.
State Sen. Mary Lou Rath, who
represents New York's 60th senatorial district, will receive the Aaron N.
Block Memor ial Award "for out standing service to the community
' by a non -alumnus." A graduate of
Buffalo State College, she was elected
to the Erie County Legislature in
1978and thestate5enatein 1994.She
serves as chair of the Senate's Commiu ee on Loctl Government and
chair of tbc Administrative Rcgula ~i o n s Rt.'View Commission.
' In addi tion, a special award will
be given to Barry Boyer, who is

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stepping down after six years of
service as dean.
Awa rds will be presented to:
• The Hon. Poul L. Frledmon,
'68, U.S. district judge for the Distri ct of Co lumbia, who will be
honored "for hi s conscientious
and diligent performance in the
judiciary." Nominated to the
bench by President C lint on in
1994 , he ordered the Rose Law
Firm of Little Rock-where
Hillar y C linton wa s a par t ner
while President Clinton was Arkansas governor- to give the in spector general of the Resolution
Trust Corp. a list of its clients dat ing to 1985. As an attorney, Fried man was one of five deputies to
Lawrence E. Walsh, special prosecutor in the Iran-cont ra affair.
• Peter J. Fiorella, Jr., '6J, senior
partner with Fiorella, Palm er &amp;
Zak.ia, who will receive an award
"for his leadership by example as a
private practitioner." A specialist in

matrimonial law, he is vice chair of
the Western New York Matrimonial

Trial Lawyers, past president of the
UB Law Alumni Association and
co-chair of the Erie County Democratic Party judicial Screening
Com mittee. He also received a
bachelor's degr« from VB.
• George M. Hezel, 'H , UB clinical associate professor of law and
director of the law school's Afford able Housing Clinic, who will be
honored .. for his commitment to
public serv ice." Hezcl co-teaches
co uFscs in affordable hou sing
transaction s and comm unity development law and has received
public service awards from Niagara
University and Housing Opportu nities Made Equal (HOME ). A
graduate of Fordham University, he
is a judge in the Town of Aurora.
• Paul C. - . . - . '61, a partner
with the firm of)aeckle, Fleischmann
&amp; Mugel LLP, who Will receive an
award "for his many contnbutions to

the betterment of our community."

A specialist in business and corporate law, he has been an active member of the New York Stale Bar
Association's Business Law Section
for 29 years. is a member of the state
bar association's House of Delegates
and serves on two New York Office
of Court Administration task forces .
He is a past president of the VB Law
Alumni Association.
•

Mlchoel A. Amko, ' S8, a co-

founder and chair of the board of
Valu Improvement Home Centers,
[nc., will receive an award "for his
exemplary achievement in business~ He is chair of the board, presi·
dent and chief executive officer of
Orchard Park Distribut'lrs; chair of
the board of directors of Arena Dis·
tributors Inc., and vice chair of the
board of directors ofJMA Distributors Inc. and Dick Urban Distributors lnc. He also is a fonner sheriff
of Erie County and a leading au thority on organized crime.

17.

The c~mOny will lllke
place in Alumni ~~ at 10
a.m. Forms are availabte on
the North Campus in the Uni-

versity Commencement Office
at Sl7 Capen Hall and ot the
Information Desk In the Stu·
dent Union. The fin1l deadline

for rrglstering has been ex,.

tended. Gnly studenu ~is­
tered ""' eligible to partlcJ.
pate. Questions an be directed to the Commencement
Office at 645-~14 .

Candidates scheduled to
graduate with-~
uniU should Consult with the
appropriate cornrnenament coordinoto&lt; •bout specific roglslnttion pro(:edures.

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NatioNol Center lor Earthquake'
Engineering Re&gt;earch (NCEER),
headquartered at UB, Will become the Multidlscipinary Centor for Earthquake Engineering

Re&gt;earch, a national center of
excellence in advanced technology applications.
Thechlnge,_appRM!dearlier lhls month by .Prelldent WJI.
lilm R. Greiner onc:l the Nllional
Sdena! Foundation (NSF). whk:h
is~cente&lt;'sloundlngsponsor.

The change In name also wiU

vice. which will now be called the

by blhor ongoging rnorUoc!urers,

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Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research Infor.
mation Service.

praclltionorsand ~cllidols
w li!Oist in~ ...-dl and ~
lion proc:I510S,• he ldcleci "'ur hope

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"TNsnewnarne,"saidGeorgeC.
Lee, Samuel P. Upon Profi!ssor d
EngineeringanddlreciDrdthecenter, •emphasizl!s what-~ is the
key to our 5IJCaSS-1)ISt. pment
onc:l IUture-the Inte9ration d di-m&gt;e disciplines ID solve engineer·
ing onc:l sodelll problems caused by
earthquakes. In the months and
yean ahod, the center seeks to Jn..

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�April311,19!11/Vul19. 1kl. 30 Reparier

Shades of Fred and Ginger: UB dancers
are whirling aroup.d to swing music
By AfHT CUNNINGHAM
Reporter Staff

OR some, a hot craze from
Ihe first half of Ihe ceniU ry
is back. For others, it never
,
reall y left.
If rece nt movies like .. St rictly
Ballroom," "Shall We Dance" and
"Swin gers" are any indication,

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ballroom a nd swi ng dancing have
been-making a c ultural co meback
in America. And there are sig ns
that Buffalo has kept pace with the
nati onal trend.

"Just a few yea rs ago, there used
to be a lack of places to go swing
dancing.n said Cori Grimm, a Ph.D.
student in the Department of Lin guistics, "but that isn' t true any more. Ba rs like th e King Snake
Lou nge (in downt o wn Buffalo)
have swing dancing once a week."

AJready passionate about dance
when they moved here four years
ago, Grimm and her husband, John
O urant , an engineer at Calspan, are

the founders of the UB Ballroom
Dance Clu b. " We sta rted th e club
for purely sel fi sh rea so ns,'' said
Gr imm . " We just wanted more
people to dance with ."
"When we ca me to B fa lo," she
pointed ou t, .. m ost of he people
dancing wert• mu c o lder. We
wan ted to get more y&lt; ung people
mvolved , and a cl ub s •med like a
good way to do th at."
For th e pa st fou r yea s, th e
wuple has taught a hallro01 1 clas~
from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursdays ·n the
Student Uni o n Soc ial 1-Jall. In respo nse to th e grow in g popu lari t y

of swing, th ey added a b-7:30 p.m.
Monday class co ncen trat ing ~pc ­
cifica ll y on th ose dances. Both of
these classes arc free, open to th e
public a nd req uire no expe ri ence.
O n a ny given T hursday o r Mo n day, it is easy to sec why G rimm's
cla sses have a ttrac ted anywhere
from 15- 40 dan cers. An arra)' of
UB students, faculty and staff ex tend their a rm s, straight en th eir
backs and begin whirling a ro und

John Ounlnt •nd Cotl Ctrtmm, founden of the U&amp; a.lroom Dance
Oub, t•ke • tum •round the floor In the Student Union Socllll Hall.
the room in an atmosphere that is
more relaxed than e legant. The
dress is casual and the instructors
forgiving: it seem s a perfect place
fo r beginners to make their first
mi ss t~ps o r for adva nced dancers
to try ou t new moves.
Man y siUd c nts do view her
classes as practice fo r dubs like the
King Snake, sa id Grimm . But, she
noted, .. you can learn steps here
bette r than you can in the clubs. A
lo t of people in the cl ubs arc do
ing th ese fancy moves with the1r
arms, but they don 't always get th&lt;'
foo two rk down."
··T he cl u bs art· a lot of fun ,
though," ad ded Am y Pcnasack, an
a~sistant instructor. " You can get
d ressed up a nd make more of an
even t out of it."
For those int erested in dancmg
in a more fo rm al !tell ing than a
dub, G rimm reco mm e nd ed the
monthly dan ce put on by the
United States Amateu r Ballroom
Da nce Associa ti o n, when.· O urant
is in charge of mu sic select io n.
"There's a much younger crowd
at those events than when '"Cfirst
ca m e," sai d Grimm . " Part of ou r

gene ra ll y co nsidered a s ubca t-

egory of" ballroom," but d:ince terminology is so varied and tan fluctua t(' so widel y from region tore-

gion that codifying it always has
been difficult. In tb e 1930s and
1940s, fo r exa mple, ballroom
da nce studios were slow to accept
swi ng dances like the Jitterbug and
the Lindy Hop. As a result , some
peop le usc the term " ballroom" to
refer o nl y to the dances the stu dios were teaching at th e time:
o lder Eu ropean dances like waltzes

or polkas, slightly older American

that baJiroo m isn't just something
your grandmother does."
Swing, G rim m cxp la 1n cd. IS

dances like the fox -t rot or Latin
dances like the Argent ine Ta ngo,
the: Brazil ian Sa mba, the Puerto
Rican Merengue o r th e C uban
Mamb o.
By the 1950s, the dan ce studios
were teaching sw ing da JKes li ke
the litterbug and the Lindy Hop.
East Coast swing, dl'rivcd 111 part
from tho)&lt;,c twn dance!i, has been
one of the mo!it popular styles 111
the rt:cent swi ng revival. Gnmm
said she also teaches West Coast
swi ng, the Hustle. the two -step.
and a muhitude of other dances.
For more informati on o n th e UH
Hallroom Dance C lub and its "'
tivitics, contal1 Grimm at 689-4658
o r by e - mai l at grlmmtlacsu .
buffalo.edu

retrieving a graphic, .such as a chart,
that doesn't have a si ngle face in it.
" Because o ther search eng ines
don't do any image analys is, the)'
ca n produ ce a graph capti o ned
' Bill C linton 's approval rating' for
a seat;c h fo r pictu res of the presi dent .'' Srih ari said .
""O Urs employs a fa ce- detectio n
sys tem . so that ensures that th ere
is a fa ce in th e pict ure a nd that it
is, ind eed, a picture."
Web Piction uses text ua l infor mati o n in a fil e to first narrow
d o wn the li st of candid ate image~ .
say, all of th e fil es that show th at
Bi ll O int on is actuall y in the im ·
age, alread y an improvenH:nt ovt·r
co nvention al sea rch eng in es.
It th en uses image - proccs~ ing
techni4ues to search through
those candidate image~. producing
th e o nes t ha t best match the pa ram eters of th e query.
" People want to sea rch for pit." tures based o n visual att ri butt.-&gt;s; for
example, indoor!t or o utdoors. hy a

bui lding o r a natural landscape:·
said Sri ha ri. "C urre ntl y. wi th out
someo ne man ually annotatmg each
image, this is impossible. Our objective is to design systems that will
automa tically sort imagt'S based on
th ese criteria, as tho ugh the com puter is fillin g o ut a form that prn
vidcs mo re information about what
is in each image. We hope that if. onl'
day, someone is sea rching for a pic ture of Bill Cli nton's cat. Soc.ks, m
the Rose Garden. o ur systt.•m will hr
able to find it."
Members of the UH tl·.tm th.u
developed \ VcbPtdlon .Hl'
Zhongk• 7.hang, CEDAR resl·ar~..h
~oe nttst ; hanyong Hu. Y.w Pu J.lld
Gutzhen Yang, mastl'r'~ t..mdtda te'
111 the Department ofEil·ctnl\tl J.nd
&lt;:o mpu tcr Engineering; Shu\\'l.,
Chen, Joe Koont 7 .md Xiaoyun Wu .
m&lt;tstcr's co:mdidates in the Dt.~pan
mcnt of Co mputer Snencc, J.nd
Aibing Rao. a master 's candidatt:.·•n
the dcpartmcnt!t ofCompu tt•r Sci
cncc and Mathematics.

goal has been to show young people

Finding pictures
Continued from page 1

T h e resea rcher s a rc working
wi th Kodak to further refine the
technology fo r usc in indexing and
annotati ng images taken o n ho me
videocamcra~ and still ca meras.
WebPictio n works by exploiting
the acco mpanying caption or text
to figure out what 's in a picture.
It d oes so using natur a l- lan guage und e rsta nding . th e sa m e
co ll oquial language th at humans
use in conversat ion.
.. In thi!t resea rch, we exploi t the
fact that images do no t appear o n
the Web in isolatio n, but rather with
accompanyi ng text," said Srihari.
For example. she said. with o ther
search engines, a q uery for pictures
of Pope Jo hn Paul might turn up
an image wi th the fo llowing cap tion: "President C lint o n prepari ng
for Pope Joh n Paul's visit."
But bcc:mse it understands t4.a t
th e capti on is saying that the Popt•
dot'S no t appear in th e pi cture,
WebPictio n wo uld reject the image.
It also elim inates the possi bility of

5

STRESSED?!!! t:J
Are you overworked? lJo yo u havt&gt; proJects and reports due to-

morrow and you haven't begun to work on them? It's that time of
y~r again when the semester J!t almost over and final exams are
around the corner. For those graduatmg, it may be a time of JOb
hunting and uncertamty. St ressed? Stress comes in aJI shape:. and
sizes. There is joh stres~. strt:Mt of bereavement, divorce, socJa iJwla tion , moving. retirement . aU£·ndmg sc hool . ch ild rearing, t.•tc. h \
ha rd to get through a day without hearm g nr reading somethm g
about stress. Fortunately, there a re !teveral si tes that discu~s hO\v to
manage stress and be more productive.
The BJObehavJOral Inst itut e of Bo!tton
(http:/ / www.bblnst.org/ home2.!1tml )
offers an online .. Stress Workshop" to find
out what you can do about the stn:s..s 111 your
life. You can start by read1ng !tOmt.·thmg
"About Stress" to find out what strbS ts and
how it works. or you can complete thc"~trcs~
Audit" to find out how stressed you realh
are. You'll sec how your stress levels compare
with the national norm, what your stress ~~
aiJ about and where it 's coming from. The
instit·ute also offers "Self- Regulation Tech niques" to help you counteract the effects of stress on you r mind and
body. You can even talk with o thers who arc havi ng problems with st r~.~&gt;
and get advice from the institute's faculty in th e "Stress Forum."
The "Stress Relief Strategies" section on the Holisti c Healing Weh
Page (http://www.hollstlcmed.com/ streufree.html ) discusse!t
so m e of the commo n signs and symptoms of excess stress. stH'!t!t
relief techniques, incl uding strategies to avoid, regular practices and
si tuat ions to promote st ress relief, and daily stress reduction tip~ . It
also features steps you can takt· to reduce the stress of specific sllua
tions, such as financial difficulties. task and tim e constrai n I.\, and .. ,
hate my Job" syndrome.
Tht• Ca lm Centre (http:/ / www.calmcentre.com / ). a!t 11\ namt.·
suggests, is dedicated to calmne.~&gt;!oo . h 1.1&gt; ,1 collaboratio n of writer~.
artists, musicians, natu ral therar1 sb and p'\ycho lugJsb who ded ica te their effo rts to developing nt·w way' of !-tpre&lt;.td Jn g ca lm. Tht.~
Centre addresses tech1ni4ues for instant (a im, long -tt•rm ca lm . u'
ing ca lm to heal , meditation and how to dl';t l with CriS IS. It even
all ows you to share your sense of ca\m hy .~&gt;endmg a ··calm Moment "
to someo ne yo u know.
Loretta L.JHo~..- ht.·, who 1' .ut
mternationa ll y rccogni1 ed
speaker tn tht: area of Mres!t
management (The Joy of
Strcs:.). bring.s you The Hu
mor Potentml (http://www.
stressed .com / ). Although
the m ajority of the l&gt;IIC l!t mt.'&lt;l
to pro m o te her boob. aud1o
and videotapes and speak1ng
engage ments, the " Info and
Fun" section offers adv~ee on
practi Ci ng good humor, laughtcr .mo ·· Ht)W to Feel Really Awful."
For mo re Infor m ation on l&gt; trl· ~,. cher k out the !&gt;tress Management
.tnd Em o ti ona l Wcllne ~s [ tnks ( http:// lmt . net /- randolfl /
Stressllnks.htm l) . Tht• link~ ~trt.• organttl·d J(mrdmt: to ,ubcategon rs and various tntcrvcntinn ca tt:gories. ~uc h as cognttive rc~tru~.. ­
turing ( humo r, health and happme s~. sdf-el&gt;lt."t.· m ). relaxation tech
nu.tm·~ (biuft.•(-dhack, breathing, hypnoS J)I, massa~c.m(·ditatlon. yoga)
,t nd SttuJ.ttonal ultcrventt ons ( ttmc - m anagt.'llH.'Ill ~tratcg1es .
.ll&gt;!tl'rtJvcnt.·s~ tralntng ). Lank.-" t}J1 stres.~&gt; 111 tht.· workpla~..e. !ttres.s and
~..n .lq~e 'tuden ts. emotional self-help ltnks. profess1on.tl organu.t ·.
ttun' .111d phys1ulogy .tnd dt!il':tl&gt;l' abo art.' mdudcd .
l-or

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Pharmacy Alumni Association
to host reunion conference
The School of Pharmacy Alumni i\l&gt;M)(IdiJon will ufkr .1 thrt.'l'
p.trl ~onll' rc.~nll' on l·riday anJ Saturday .IS part of 1ts 1998 ~pnnv,
Ht.•unlon Weekend Program.Thl' !tt.''"lon on fmia\, "Thl' Pharmau,t \
Role 111 Wt'lg.ht I n~s l\1anagt•mcnt." \'ltlll run frorn6 :)0-8 p.m . 111 th~.·
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hn.:JI...Ia)lt .tt K:-15 .un. 111 121 Cookt.· Hall, North t:.ampu.s. The fiN ,~,..,
~ll lll . "Aht.•nng the C!Jmc.ll Course ol Hcart Failure: Advanct.'S 111 lr~.·.1t
mcntl )pl10ib," WJII be.' hdd frum 9:30-10:30 a.m. "An Update on lhl· l\ 1.111
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Cassatt ensemble to be Quartet-in-Residence

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The UB Department of Music has named the Cassatt String
Ensemble as the Slee Quartet-in-Residence for the 1998-99 season, the first quartet-in-residence at UB in more than 15 years.
Music department Chair David Felder introduced the ensemble to the public at a press conference held Monday in
Slee Concert Hall at which he
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Felder announced that, in connection with its residency,
the Cas~tt will perform 12 concerts at UB this year. Three
will be of mixed repertoire. Six more will comprise the entire
1998-99 UB Slee Beethoven Cycle. The group will perform
three or four concerts as principal chairs with the Slee
Sinfonetta, UB's professional chamber orchestra. It will finish
the season with a final concert featuring the wori&lt; of new
composers a\ the 1999 June In Buffalo Festival and Conference for emerging composers.
In addition to its concert series, the ensemble will teach master
~ in violin, viola, cello and ensemble performance, as weH
as youth concerts in Slee Hall. It also will participate in the music
department's community and campus outreach programs.
As a means of self-introduction during the press conference,
the ensemble-Kelley Mikkelsen, cello; Michiko Oshima, viola;
Muneko Otani, violin, and Jennifer Leshnower, violin---performed the last movement of the Ravel String Quartet.
Individually, the members of the quartet have impressive
international credentials and trained at some of the finest
music schools and conservatories here and abroad. All are
on the faculties of noted music schools and have performed
for years with distinguished orchestras and ensembles
throughout the country.
Collectively, they have earned critical raves throughout
North America, Europe and the Far East. The group also has
won top prizes at the Fischoff, Coleman and Banff competitions and received the 1995 Chamber Music America/ASCAP
First Prize Award for Adventurous Programming.
Members of the quartet hold current residencies at Syracuse and East Carolina universities, New Yori&lt; City's Bang On
A Can Festival, the Seal Bay Festival in Maine and the
Swannanoa Chamber Festival in North Carolina. They have
served as resident artists at the Caramoor Center and the
Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and have presented master
classes and concerts at Yale and Princeton universities and at
Oberlin, Wellesley and Bennington colleges.
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The quartet records for the New World, Point (Phillips Classics), Albany, Tzadik and CRIIabels.
-By PAT1UCIA DONOVAN,

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EditOf

Sheridan honored
1

want to get that top 10 percent.
" If we do, we as a faculty have

got to play a role."
Fourtner called his comments .. a
bit somber, but it's reality; it 's the
way we function .
.. I'm concerned about thi s
place," he said. " If you take a look
at your classes, you've go t to be
co ncern ed, too."
Goodman said that while UB's
admissions approach in th..e past
was largely passive, Noel -Levitz
has given the university "the tools
and the attitudes that were required to take a more active approach to recruiting freshmen ," he
sa id.
He o utlined several strategies
that have been put into place that
invo lve "continuo us, individualized communicatio n with th e prospective student:"
• Tclecounscling. wh ich he jokingly described as those .. annoying tel epho ne ca lls at the dinn er
hour "
• A mo re co mplex plan o f direc t
mailings
• A_co mput eri ze d meth o d of
tracki ng inquiries fro m prospec ti ve stu dents
• A modern system o f .. gradin g
the pros pect pool" that identifies
the facto rs that make it likely a stu dent will enro ll, so mo re effort is
go ing into working with those stu dents wh o are mo re likely to co me
to UB.
Although the number of appli cations is still lower than at this
time lasl year, the number of deposits is higher, he said, adding

that UB has seen a significant improvement in yield.
Next year, Admissions hopes to
begin using these lechniques in
August, he said, 10 significantly
increase the number of applicatio ns.
By increasing the number of
applicat ions and increasing the
yield , Admissions can raise the
cutoffs fo r the students that are
offered admission to UB, thereby
giving the university"a higher profile and a better group o f stu denls."
Goodman noted that th e facult y percei ves th at 1he o verall
quality of the student body has
dimini shed largely because the
.. range.. of studenls UB is attract ing has narrowed- fewer o f the
very good prospects are co ming
to UB.
"The real problem is not that the
ave rage stud ent is sign ifi ca ntl y
weakcr ... but that th ere are fewer
good students, fewer excellent stu dents, so th at teaching them is less
exci ting," he said.
Th e ca u c of th e prob lem, to
so me ex tent , is t he perce pt io n
am o ng pa rents and prospec tive
students th at the quality of the stu dent body at UB is not good, he
said. So th e best students do not
apply.
Goodman hopes that problem
can be addressed in part by using
the techniqu es from Noei -Levitz
to communicate with not only
those students who already have
applied, but with prospective students with a more attractive pro-

file.
A year or two down the road. the
pere&lt;ption that the quality of the
student body is increasing .. should
by itself increase not only the qual ity, but th&lt; number of applicants,"
he said.
And once there is a larger pool
of better applicants, .. we can rai~
the standards and we can begin to
be in an upward spiral in the quality of th e undergraduate student ,"
he said.
Goodman noted th at facult y
members can have more of an effect in recruiting transfer students,
who are more soph isticated, usually apply to a specific program
and want to talk to faculty.
Denn is Malone, SUNY Distin guished Service Professor in the
Depa rtm ent o f Elec tri cal a nd
Co mPuter Engin ee ring, agreed
th at facult y arc mo re helpful in
rec ruiting tran sfer stu dents and
are interested in taking pari.
" Fac ult y, by and large, are willing to help, either in the retent ion
mode o r the recruiting mode, providing you tell them what lo do,"
Malo ne said ... T hey' re not sayin g
' I do n't care that enroUment is not
up,' the y're saying, 'OK, what do
you want me to do.'"
He said he has visited so me
fo ur-yea r coUeges to speak to prospect ive transfer studenl s, .. and
there it is very clear to me that
students do no t want to talk to
some ass ociate neutron; they
want to talk to a facul ty member
in the discipline they're interestl'd

for research
on volcano
Michael F. Sheridan, proi&lt;SSO&lt;
and chair ol tho D&lt;partment ol
Geology, has be&lt;n honor&lt;d lor
hb outstllnding sclontific wor1&lt;
on tho actMty ai the \lolcan
Colima, historically the most
active vokano in Mexk:.o.
H&lt; rec&lt;ived the award rec&lt;ntly at tho 6th lnt&lt;mational
Reunion of Volcan Colima
sponsor&lt;d by the UniYersity of
Colima and tho stllte ol Colima.
E&gt;ch ,_;ng, hold biennially,
draw5 300.500 volcanologbts
from around the 'NOrid.
The most dang&lt;rous volcano in Mexico, C~ima has
&lt;rupted violently ......,.1times
1
during the past -450 yean.
About 4,000 ye&gt;rs ago, it pro-

due~ a cataclysmk avalAnche
much larger than that of
Mount St. Helens.
Sheridan has made a a reer
out of mapp;ng tho predicted
direction of flows from volcanic

eruptions before they occur,
based on extensive fie4dwork
of the historic

and~

patterns of a partk.ular YOkano.
Most recontly, he has devel·

three-dimensional computer simulations that predict
how far and how fast those

oped

dang&lt;rous flow&gt; wiH travel,

helping public salety officiab to
determine ahead of time which

areas to evacuate.
Chair and professor ol g&lt;ology at U8 since 1990, Sheridan rs
the author ol feu- booiG and
'"""' than 11 0 articles In rof&lt;r&lt;ed
journals. He has be&lt;n irMlNed in
JUneroUS ......m projocts
fulded by the u.s. Geological
S&lt;Jrvey. National Aeronautics and
Spac&lt; - l i o n , and the

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Ekeh working for peaceful solution
to constitutional crisis in N . ·
11J I'A'IWICIA ~AN
News Services fdkor

UB had li1roe of i&lt;s 10p competiton
panlclpote In !he """" 1\obys April
23-25 In Philadelphia. junior Rum
Ccnlon ""f'CUAd lint piau In !he
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OR more than a decade, the constitutional
cri.oi.o in Nigeria has provoked outrage from
Nigeriaru at home and abroad, govemmenu
and international humao-rigbu and environmental organizations.
The United States, which opposes the suspension or
civil rigb,u in that country, has been cnticiud as well, for
refusing to initiate ecooomic restrictions towanl Nigeria
in the &amp;ce ofiu documented human-rigbu abuses. Opponenu charge that the U.S. refuses to act becawe to do
so would cooftict with the interests orpowerful U.S.-based
multinational corporations operating in N".geria.
A now report edited by UB sociologi.ot Peter Ekeh, a
native of Nigeria. and issued by an international group
of Nigerian scholars, offers what its authorS say is a
feasible response to the Nigerian crisis, one that the
U.S. could support and that would not pose any immediate threat to the existing Nigerian military regime.
The report, ""Wil.berforce Conference on N.igerian
Federalism," calls for Nigeria's return to its founding
federalist principles. It also argues for a policy-making role for expatriate Nigerian scholars who have left
Nigerian universities as a result of the ongoing political and economic crisis in their nation and have settled
to new academic lives in North America and Europe.

The report relates the proceedings of a May 1997
conference on the Nigerian crisis organized by Central State University, Wilberforce, O hio, and the VB
Department of African American Studies, of which
Ekeh is professor and chair. Participants included Ni gerian schola rs a nd representatives of the Nigerian
dipl malic mission to the U.S.
cause the U.S. is constantly reassessing its policy
rd Nigeria, the report may have important policy.ng influence within U.S. government agencies and

am

gAfricangovernments. lt wasfundedbya$45,000

· gran t om the United States Institute of Peace and al -

ready

been circulated widely among policy-mak-

ing bodi here and abroad.
The
berforce report argues that the ongoing Nigerian crisis of governance is a result of the erosion
of Nigerian federalism under 28 years of military rule.
It promotes a return to the st rong federalist union of
Nigerian states that made the nation one of the most
productive and liberated in Mrica following its in dependence from Britain in 1960.

"The federal syste m worked well," Ekeh said, "because Nigeria is a huge cou ntry whose many regions
have very different political, envi ronmental, econo mic and educational needs. These needs have always been best understood and administered to by
regional or state governments."
Following independence, he pointed o ut , Nigeria
was operated by a civilian government until civil war
a nd military rule led to the suspension of co nstitutional rule in 1967. "The problems in Nigeria did not
immediately follow from military governm ent, however," Ekeh said. "At one time--as recently as I 0 years
ago--Nigeria was still the African nation that offered
the greatest freedom of e~pression to its citizens.
T here were strong regional school systems and effective sys tems of regiona l governance th at had
evolved from traditional chi efdoms," he said.
" It has been over the last 10 years in particular," he
added, .. that regional government has eroded as th e
national military government centralized its power.
Now th e states have virtually no auth ; rity and large
ce ntral bureaucrad~ have developed th at are ineffective in adininister i'Qg to the many different needs
of Nigeria's many and :Va ried geog raphic and tribal
districts. Things are simply falling apart."
In addition to the disintegration of its inst ituti ons,
which has alar med many Nigerians, the nation has
fa ced increased international critici sm sin ce 1995
when the Nigerian military executed civilia ns protesting the activities of Shell Oil in their coun try.
In 1990, the Ogoni people, who inhabit Nigcria"s
Rivers region, initiated a peaceful res istance aga in st
what they claimed was the devastation of their land
and water resources by Shell Oil Nigeria , a corpora tion that generates 70 percent of Nigerian state incom~.
On Nov. I 0, 1995, pro -federa list polit ician and au thor Ken Saro- Wiwa, th e leader of this movement,
a nd eight o.J.her Ogoni minorit y-r ights advocates
were banged by the Nigerian milltary following a trial
th at opponents say lacked any independence or im partiality and involved the bribery of witnesses by

Shell Oil and the Nigerian government. The Ogoni

-~hi&amp;Jljt.mp(S"~I/2 ").

freshman Katie 5cou also
partldpor.d In !he reby&gt;. linishi"'
36th out of • field of 54 panklpana.

_.,red

Sabbatical devoted
to African issues
In addition to presenting the Wilberforce Report to various policy-making groups, Peter
Ekeh spent his Fall1997 sabbatical leave
conducting ·research on issues related .to the
revival of constitutional rule in his native

country and making scholarly presentations
in Washington, D.C., Sweden and Africa.
In October, he was the lead presenter at a
conference on schools of history in African historiographies sponsored by the Centre for African Studies of the University of Cape Town,
South Africa. H~ presentation will be featured
in a book on European imperialism and
Nigeria's lbadan (Univer.ity) school of hiSIO!y
expected to be published in the corning year.
Ekeh's travels also tool&lt; him to Sweden in
December on academic vi~ts. to the University
of Uppsala and other educational institutions
in Uppsala and Stockholm. During the trip, he
presented a paper to the Swedish Collegium of
Ativanced Study in the Social Sciences on the
subject of kinship and the state in the political
sociology of Africa. He also addressed the
Uppsala Theory Orde and Development Semi·
nar on the relevance of the slave trade for
modem African studies.

During the Sweden trip, Ekeh met with
present and past directors of Uppsala's Dag
Hammarskjold Foundation, the head of the
African Division of the Swedish International

The No. I seeded Oral Robera Golden ~
the champion•hip
match of the MKI-Continent Confuence Women's Tennis Tournament on
Sab.Jnby, 4-0, ewer d1e Westerwinds ofWestem lllmois.
The championships were hosted by UB. which leaves che league after four
yean to become a member of the Mid-American Conference In 1998.
Oral Roberts defeated Chic:ago State, UMKC and Western Illinois to cbim
the title. The Westerwinds defeated UB and Youngstown State to ruch the
fma!s.Youngnown State beat UMKC to claim third pbce.

~oot~all
Blue, 52, W hite ll
Junior wide receiver Drew H&lt;1.ddad aught five touchdown passes tD le&lt;~.d the
Blue (offense) to a 52-3 I win CNer the White (defense) nUB Stadium in the
mnua1 Blue-White Scrimmage.
Haddad had touchdown receptions of 8. -49.-40. "'2 and 62 yards. aJI from
senior quarterback Chad Salisbury, reprising the familiar combination from last
season. Last fall, Haddad broke the slng'e-seuon receiving record at UB.
catching 67 passes for 1.058 yards, while Salisbury threw for 2.889 yards and 16
touchdowns.
Salisbury finished the game wtth I -4-of-21 passes for 3 I 7 yards and five TO
strikes to Haddad with no interuptions. Sophomore wideout Enrico Pierre
added four catches for 96 yards and senior John Opfer had five catches for 89
yards and a touchdown.
~omore quarterback Silty Fe{dm&lt;l.ier was I0-of-1 S passing for 85 yards
and a touchdown.
On the ground. freshman £n.id Schmidli led the Bulls with 70 yards on I0
cal'"f'iu. while sophomore Marvin Bre~ton h&lt;l.d 62 yuds on 19 carries..
Defensively, the Bulls Wl!re paced by senior linebacker Antonio Perry Wtdl
/-4 acldes, including six solo stops.
Sophomore free safety Eric Pipkins added I0 tackles for the Bulls, while
sophomore SndT&lt;1.nton hid seven ackles and 2-lfl sacks.The Bulls hid five
sacks on the day.
The Blue-White scrimmage concluded the spring pn.ctice session for the
Bulls. UB will open the I998 season-their tan u &lt;1. Division 1-AA program
before heading to the Mid-American Conference (MAC)--on Sept. ) u the
University of Maine .

-Andnew Punzal. A.mstanr Sports InformatiOn Director

Development Agency and with several African graduate students at the University of

Uppsala.
region is now a closed military zone where SaroWiwa's supporte rs are routinely jailed and to rtured .
Ekeh said the government also has targeted other
dissen ting groups, including th e Yo ruba peoples of
southwest Nigeria, a powerful ethn ic group that haSthe abi lity to generate much international support.
He noted that the U.S. does not support the sus·
pension of civil rights in Nigeria, but because of its
refusal to impose econom ic sanctions, it, along with
the Nigerian military, is now the subj ect of interna ·
tiona! protest. American states and municipalities
with large Nigerian populations have threa tened to
legislate their own trade restrictions with Nigeria.
Recognizing the many interests vested in a peace ful soluti on to the Nigerian crisis. participants at th&lt;'
Wilberforce Conference..· maintain that the prim ary
issue at hand is the in it iation of a dialogue among
interested nations and among Nigerians themselves.
The need for leadersh ip by Nigerian expa tr iate
scholars has become critical, Ekch said, "because ol
th e shrinking room for freedoms of expression ,
thought and action in side of Nigeria and beca use.· sev
eral institutions of civil SO( icty have been seve rely
damaged by 30 years of military rul e in our country."
Ekeh . who ho lds hi s graduate degrees from
Stanford Univers ity and the Uni ve rsi ty of Cal ifornia, Berkeley, is a former lecturer at the Universit}'
of Nigeria and sub-dean of the Universit y of lbadan
(N igeria), where he headed th e Department of Po·
liti cal Science from 1978-82.
The \Vilberforce report , publi shed in 1997 hy the
Association of Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue, has
been disseminated widely and serialized in two Ni gerian newspapers, as part of the ongoing debate on
the fu ture of that cou ntry.

BrieBy
Researcher's work with children
lives on in new support fund
It was the 'ocus o f tht• late Jack Webe r's professional life that ev er)' child isolated from the world b)' a speech or commu nication
prob lem shou ld get tht&gt; best pos~ ible treatment to break down th ost•
barrier~.

To continu e hi s work, thc la ck Weher t;rad ua(c Awa rd in Co m·
municative Disorders a nd Sc1ences has he~n establis hed at UB wuh
a $10,000 gift from h i~ wife. Susa n Weber. It will providt• annual
support for a graduate -student resca rch projet·t 111 chi ld l.tnguagt'
d1~order~ .

"Thl!&gt; fund. and th e work th.Jt will comt• out of 11 . wilt prumnll"
I;Kk 's wish th at childrl'll get thl· best pos:-.iblt· :-.en·ice!&gt; for th e-1r
tweds, and that they have .t chann· to ht' part of a normal, every
dav IIIC," sa id Jud1th l&gt;uchan, a friend of Wcher who 1!1 profe!&gt;so r
.md chair in the UB Departmt·n t oft:ommunh.:atlvc I&gt;1:-nrder' ,1nJ
Scit·nce:..
Weber wa:. .tmong the.: first group of doctoral '\tudt' llb !u gra du ate from th e dcpanment in 1967.
\.Vhile at U B. Weher broke new ground 111 diagnosing .tnd treat
ing children's speech disorders and co ndu ( ted one of the carlil'!l!
studies o f children's problems with pronunciation, showing that :.u~.h
problems are linguistica lly based. That stud)· shifted views of child
language disorders from a medial pe rspective 10 a psycholingul\!tl
one.
After graduation , Weber taught at hh.t..:a College and North
eas tern Universi t y. He spent the bulk of ht!l ca ree r worktng .11
resea rch labs and treatment ce nt ers in th e Un ited Sta te!'&gt; and
Ca nada .
At the time of his death in 1997, he was w()rkmg 10 Toronto.

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. Regulotlon of Photoroceptor
- s l o n. Dr. Wolace
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Turbidity Cun-enu, Volanoos,
Earthquakes and the Worid.

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Campus. 8 p.m . U . Sponsored
by Dept. of Music. FOr m0&lt;e
information, caii64S-2921 or
&lt;http://www.sloe.bullolo.edu&gt;.

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the 1997-98 Baird Concerto

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School of Social Wotlt.

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engage lhe univenity
communtty in a diak&gt;gue
about contemporary art
and Issues, is on display in
lhe Center !of lhe Arts and
at various sites throughout
lhe NO&lt;th Campus lhroogh

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Heath Bartel, Master of Fine
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a.m ..:~ p.m.; Wed.-fri., 10
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p.m.

Harvard Univ. Butler

Auditorium, Farber. South
Campus. S p.m.

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call Barbara Umiker after 7 p.m.

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Day

Saturday's Preview Day
brought more than 1,500
accepted students and their
families to the campus for
lectures, receptions, tours
and informational sessions.
Checking out UB maps in
Capen lobby are Betty
Gousse, left, and Jessica
Davis of New York City.

Year 2000: preventing computer 'doomsday'
IT specialists helping UB community become aware of potential problems III
By ElUH IOCK.DeAUM
News Services Editor

I

convinced that this is a prioricy, the
· pressure to work on Year 2000 will
NFORMATION-technology continue to come from the ground

sp&lt;cialists are dividing-p&lt;Ople

up and that's typical," said Carolann

in their organizations into
two categories: those who
haye "'gotten religion" on the Year

Lazarus, UB information systems
auditor. "At UB, there's more aware·
ness at lower levels than at higher

2000 issue (usually mid-le vel

ones, but that's rapidly changing."

managers} and those who haven't

At the urging of an informal

(usually upper-level managers).
The Year 2000 problem concerns
how electronic systell15-&lt;lJ1ything
with an embedded computer chipwill deal with the new millennium.

task force formed last year, UB's IT

Many systems store the year us·
ing only two digits, in which case

the "00" in 2000 may be in&lt;erpreted
as 1900, potentially wreaking havoc
with important electronics systems

governing everything from air-traffic control to medical equipment.
"U ntil management becomes

Coordinating Committee, under
the direction of Voldemar Inn us,
formed the Year 2000 subgroup to
design a university-wide plan to

address the problem.
wt week. the subgroup put up a
Web si te at http:/ / w ings.
buffalo.edu/ year2000 to alert
campus users to potential problems
and their solutions. It describes how

UB's effort to address the problem
will proceed, provides .. fix -it guide-

linesn and criteria for purchasing
new equipment, and offers links to
other Year 2000 sites inside and out·
side higher cdua~tion .
The information on the site is de·
~ igned to function as a "tool-kit" for
campus computer users to help them
assess how they might be impacted
by the Year 2000 and what they need
to do to minimize that irnpaa.
One ai rl ine allegedly has stated
it will not nyduring the 1999-2000

New Yea r's period because of fears
it has about the air-traffic-control
system 's abilit y to comply with
Year 2000.
Other se rious problems co uld
manifest themselves in eve rything
from fire -control systems to mo -

bile phones to traffic lights.
Au tomatic teller machines and
credi t-card sca nning systems also

have been identified as major areas of concern.
For these reasons, industries like
financial services, whose systems
are clearly vulnerable, have had
Year 2000 teams in place for years.
However, many other sectors, including higher education, have
been slower to face the issue.
That's because it 's unclear how
they will be affected and becaust'
organizations that have been upgrading their software arw:l mai n ·
frame computers often do not expect to be significa ntly affected.
Lazarus and Sue Huston , direc tor of administrative computi ng
se rvices, who together formed the
task force that sta rt ed looking at
th e problem , admit it is difficult
to tell just where along the spet: contlnued

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UB professor leads effort to fimd GIS research III
BY ElUH IOOI.IIeAUM

News Set'Vices Editor

A

UB professor is leading
the effort to increase federal funding of univernty
research in the field of

geographic information systems

(GIS), applications of which are ad dressing important social problems
ranging from the handling of medical emergencies. to fi~ting crime,
to monitoring agricultural crops.

David Mark, professor of geography, said GIS-the use of technology to study, manage, analyze

and apply geographic data-is a S2
billion industry in the U.S., which
leads the world in the field .
The industry that develops GIS
software, he adds, is growing at the
rate of 20 percent per year.

this area is severely underfunded
To lnc:reasc awareness of the im -

portance of geographic infonnation
science and to rna.ke a case for more

research funding, Mark and represen tati\o'CS of 10 other universities met

yesterday with members of Congress
in Washington, D.C., at a breakfast
hosted by Sens. Susan Collins of
Maine and Peter Domenici of New
Mexico. Founecn members of Congress and 46 congressional staffers
were expected to attend.

Alsoauending was Dale M. l.andi,
UB vice president for r=arch.
.. Geog raphic information sci -

ence is a multidisciplinary field that
involves the use of digital systems
to present and interpret geographic
information," said Mark, who di·
rccts the Nationa) Center fo r Geo-

Geographic Information Science

graphic Information and Analysis
at UB, one of three sites of an NSF-

(UCGIS), ofwhich Mark is president,
maintains that university research in

funded center that conducts rc·
search in geographic information

Yet, the University Consortium for

science. The others are at the Un iversity of Maine and the University
of California at Santa Barbara.
Mark noted that G IS is proving
to be such a useful te&lt;hnology that
in some cases it has"disappearcd ''
from public viewbccause it is ern -

Lh:u would exped~tc treatment of
victims during natural disasters. It
is being used to examine spatial
asP!_c ts of e nvironmenta l health
problems, suc h as those being
studied In the Long Island Breast

bedded in oth er systems.

ers keep trac k of the ir crops when
they use G IS softwa re in co mput ers installed on their tr:Ktors .
Projects by academic researcher'
that involve G IS aJso spa n a broad
range of local and national issut-s.

For example. he sa id , individu als who log on to VISA's Web si te
do n't know the y are using GIS
when they use the si te's Automati c
Teller Machine locator to find
their nearest ATM.
C ustomers who have received
home deliveries from Sears, Roe buck &amp; Co. probably aren't aware
that th e retail gian t uses GIS to
route its delivery trucks, a move
that the company says has saved it

millions of dollars.
GIS also is making possible spatial analyses of important social
problems, such as mapping of
emergency-management serv ices

Cancer Study. And it helps farm -

At UB. a leader in the field , thev
include the analysis of patterns of
crimes in specific neighborh ood~ .

the study of the geography of deer vehicle collisions to develop deer
management solutions, the exami nation of problems in ca ring for
the elderly when family membe rs
live far away and the development
of routes for hazardous-material
transport that take weather factors
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St. Rita's 1..-.e dosed
cblng Oozfe5t Slli.-day

bthleen Ullls is medical director of emergency
medicine at Children's Hospital and director of

SL !Ubi's lM1e on the

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be dooed 1D .. but
emergencywhidos
from 8 a.m. 10 S
p.m. on SltiJldly to
occommodlte the
111nuol Ooziest iournlmtnt. Members ol
the unMnity community and the generlf public ore ISked
to

use en attem~te

route.

c,:A to present
Winnie the Pooh
The Center for the Arts will
pment1 Rochester Children's
Theotre production olthe
childron's classic, Winnie the
Pooh, rr.·ll a.m. and 2 p.m. on
Saturdoy In the Moinstlge theater, Center for the Ms. on the

-&lt;Mnpus.
Children ond their IJmilles
con join Christopher Robin's

best friend, WinnJe the Pooh,
bear of Very UtUe lroin, for
on oduutlonol experience
unlltoe ony · A.A. Milne's
c(osslc ond witty world of

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in friendship, loyolty ond
good snodlng. Whether
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the 5th annual Childhood Violence Symposium held earlier this week.
What Is sha ken·INby 1yn ·

drome7

Shaken-baby syndrome is the
medical term used to describe the
violent shaking and resulting injuries sustained from shaking. Often,
there are no obvious outward signs
of injury to a baby or young child's
body, but there is injury inside, particularly in the head or behind the
eyes. Vigorous shaking causes the
brain to be repeatedly hit around
wi th in the skull. These sudden
motions can cause some pans of
the brain to pull away, tearing brain
cells and blood vessels in the process. When a child is shaken in an·,
ger and frustration , tht: force is
multiplied five to 10 times more
than it would be if the child had
simply tripped and fallen. ·
How P""'alent Is this problem?

There are approxi mately five to
eight known cases of shaken-baby
syndrome each year in Western
New York. There are probably
more that are not detected.

the

What a"'
shOf't- a nd longterm effects?

Short-term effects include extreme irritability, vomiting,lethargy/poo r muscle to ne , inability

to follow movements, seizures/
co nvu lsio ns a nd com a. L~ng ·

term effects incl ude partial or to -

tal blindness, developmental delays, seizures, cerebr.U palsy, pa·
ral ysis, hearing loss and speech
and learning difficulties.
o-s It affect only babies?
Is there an age when chlld"'n
are no 1_.- affected?

Violent shaking is especially dangerous to infants and young children because their neck muscles
are undevtloped and their brain
tissue is exceptionally·fragile.
Their small size further adds to the
risk of injury. Vigorous shaking
repeatedly pitches the brain in different directions. Children under
age 2 are most at rislL
Is shalt-baby syndrome a

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drome OCCill&gt; because a parent or
camakc- is frustl'llted or angry with'
a child. Other times, children be·
rome via:ims when a parent or caretaker, not realizing bow seriously
this behavior can harm, throws a
small child into the air vigorously,
plays too roughly or hits an infant
too bard on the back. Anyone who
takes care ofa baby or small childparents, older siblings, baby-sitters,
child-care professionals and othershould be reminded to never shake
babies or small cbildrm.

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Despite the fact that there is a common belief that this is a rtlarively
"new'" disorder, its ancestry can be
traced back more than 400 years,
from the first description of the

The key to prevmtion is education.
Anyone who cares for an infant or
young child should be taught the
dangers ofsbalcingan infanL It is important to teach fiunilies that babies
cry for many reasons and that it can
be very frustrating when you cannot
get the baby to stop. Individuals caring for a baby should be taught alternative ways of dealing with their anger and frustration. They should ask
for help. Call a friend or relative to

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tained ·by Henri II of France in
1559, to John Caff&lt;y's.lt is dear that
much of our present understanding of the shaken-baby syndrome
relies on information gathered
from generations of shaken infants.

take over. If these measures are 001
poosible, geptly plaa the baby in
the crib on his or her side and take
a short break. The baby is saff:r in
its cnb then in the arms of an angry, frustrated penon.

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There are not a lot of resources
locally or nationally. Most of the
medical community's involvement OCCill&gt; once a child has been
shaken. It is only recently that the
medical community has ~nized the importance of prevenlion. We will hear from reprtsen·
tatives from the medical community, the legislature, from the
schools and community groups,
iriduding !'arents Anonymous,
about current efforts. One of the
goals of the symposium was to
work together as a community to
increase resources available to
prevent shaken-baby syndrome.

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ture continues to presume that height is a
measure of personal
satis faction in life, a new study by

a team of psychologists and en do·
crino logists at UB refu tes the idea
that taller is necessarily better.

The study, which compared the
quality of life of adults who were
treated for growth-hormone d efic ienc y as children with th e ir

healthy same-sex siblings who ex·

there is a direct relationship between how tall you are as an adult
and how satisfied you are with
yo ur dail y life experiences."
Sandberg said. "Changes in height
brought about by growth hormone do not automatically translate into changes in quality of life.
"If adult quality of life is wh at
we're conce.r ned with. then we
should probably be looking at fac·
tors in addition to height. Maybe
we shou ld take into ac.count experi ences related to having a
chronic medical problem in general, and how this might affecl

allowing them to reach or approximate their natural height and avoid
the physical disability and psycho·
logical distress presumed to accompany marked shortness.
ltsavailabilityalsobasincreased
pressure on physicians to provide
growth hormone to short children
who are not deficient in the hormone, and has engendered a debate on the proper use of growth
hormone and the relationship be·
tween stature and quality of life.
Saudberg's study involved 140
former patients--117 males and
23 females-and 53 siblings, all
over the age of 18. The mean age
of the treatment group at the time
of the study was 26. Information
on several quality-of-life measures
was collected by telephone interviews. The treatment and follow-

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perienced normal growth, appears
in th e current issue of the ]oumal

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of Clinical Endocrinology and Me·
tabolism.
The researchers, led by pediatric
psychologist David Sandberg. a specialist in the psychological aspects

Sandberg stressed that the lind·
ings do not suggest that growth·

of growth -hormone defi ciency,

for patients' quality of life as adults.

up study were co nducted at

fo und that as adults, children who
were treated were as well-adjusted
as their physically healthy brothers
and sisters. They also were doing
much better as adults than previous

To prove that, hormone-defi cient children who received u·rat •

Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

ment would have to be compared
with a similar group of children

Large

studies using non-sibling control
groups or norms from question-

that Sandberg said would be unrealistic, as we:U as unethical. More-

naires had indicated.

over, he pointed out that without
grow th -h o rm o ne trea tment ,
people who are honnone· deficient

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Resu lts showed , unexpectedly,
that there was little or no relationship between the former patients'

adult height or how much they grew
over the course of therapy and their

reports of psychological and social
functioning. An important difference that did emerge was in marital
rates: Siblings were twice as likely to
be marriM as former patients.
"This study questions whether

adult adaptation."
Benefits quality of life

hormone treatment has no benefit

who were not treated, a situation

would be so short as adults their
ability to perform regular activities
of daily living would I&gt;&lt; impaired.
The study brings into question the
value of using the expensive treatment, which can cost $30,000 a year,
in children not dearly growth-hot·

population ~led
Both the data-gaihering metl]od
and the relatively large and complete study population give the lindinS' special ctedence, Sandberg said.
"Most studies use stlf-adroinis·
tered questionnaires. which are
mailed to patients, giving you limited control over the process. Also, by
using same-sex siblin~ we aa:ount

as much as pOssible for participants'
genetk and social background."
The results showed no significant
difference between the former patients and their same-sex siblinS' in

mone-deficicnt, he noted.

educational attainment, gainful

Synthetic growth hormone has
enabled physicians to treat children

employment, the likelihood they
we"' living independently, and sOcial support or adjustment, which

with growth-hormone deficiency,

involved aspects such as one's network of friends and social acriviries.
There were slight differences
between the groups on a m""iure
of general health. Former patients
reported more health problems,
and those missing other barmones, in addition to growth·bor·
mone, experienced more health
and social difficulties, a predictable outcome in light of the fuct
that some patients still have health
problems, SaAdbe'li noted.
Sandberg said he has no explanation for the differences in marital rates. The finding has been reported in previous studies. he
noted, and height does not appear
to be a factor.
Health as adults also Important
"We are aware clinically th at
some bfV'~ patients can experience diffi~lties in their intimate
relationships. Growth-hormone
deficiency on its own does not appear to be responsible for this re·

suit. Other aspects of their medical status as adults may be important, particularly if they are defi·
dent in other hormon es. We

should also consider the possibil·
ity that their experiences as children and adolescents related to

their growth-hormone deficiency
and its treatment may be a factor."
Al&lt;o participating in the .rudy were
Margaret H. MacGillivray, Richard
R. Oopper, Caroline Fung. Linda
LeRoux and Dana E. Alliger, all of
UB and Children's Hospital. The
study was supported in part by grants
from the Genentech Foundation for
Growth and Development, Inc.

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King lecture: 'hip hop' history lesson

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New PSS chair to put
communication high on agenda

ancient Mali, Ghana and Songhay.
" In general." said Parker,"hip hop
USICIAN JCRS.ONE, is the transformation ofsubjects and
spealtirig last Friday in objecu to fit your mentality. But
the Center for the there's always the opposing force
Arts, outlined his ver- that says, ' No, I don't care bow you
sion of what he called "hip-hop think. If you want to survive in this
culture," including its roots, its re· society, you have to think the way
cent history and its guiding phi- we think,' which is the mainstream,
losophy. He argued that"hip hop." popular culture's way of thinking.•
The rise of the British Empire, in
whlch is sometimes taken to mean
"rap music," ought to indude graf- Parktr's view, represents the first sysfiti art , a da.nce· style called tematic repreooion of the expressive
"breakin,'" and the language, fash - "furcrs of hip hop." Aaxxding to this
view,"aad&lt;s" only began to appear in
ion and cult ure of the "'street."'
Also known as Kris Parker, KRS- British rolonialism, and hena: British
ONE delivered his remarks as the cornmercial.ism,sornetime in the 19th
keynote speech of the 22nd annual century. These crad&lt;s, said Parl&lt;c-, inMartin Luther King. Jr., Com- dude v.brld War I, the oollapse of the
memoration. In Parker's view, hip bonking S}'tem duling the GrQI ~
hop stepped into the cultural void ~ v.brld Warn and the dropthat was created in the 1970s when ping of the atomic bomb, the K.or.an
the world finally lost trust in "Brit- War, the Vtetnam War and the rise of
ish commercialism." Unlike the art NewYorkas thecmterof wodd pD~«r.
For Parker, the roots of the new
and music of commercialism, he
contended, "the basic psychology consciousness can be located in
of hip hop is to express yourself the ethnic heterogeneity of 1970s
first, and then explain. If you try to New York City.lnt=ctions between
explain what you're doing before African-American New Yorkers and
new immigrants from China, the
you do it, you'll never do it.'"
Parker's speech was preceded by Caribbean, Europe and Latin
"Apollo Night," a talent show put America led to the development of
on by the UB Black Student Union ..a whole new economic system. It
that featured dancers, deejays and started with our food, our dothes,
appers. Rapping, Parker later and our artistic expression. When
commented, is actually the com- Brilish commercialism broke
merciaJ term for .. M.C.ing," just as down," added Parker, "the first place
"break dancing" is the commercial it broke down was in New York. This
term for"breakin."Thcse "street lan- is why hip hop began in New York."
ge" definitions, Parker holds, are
As a youth in the Bronx during
no just cosmetic alterations, but the 1970s, Parker recalled watching
a
component in what he calls Bruce Lee movies, eating Chinese
.. hi hopconsciousness."
and Italian food, "bombing" trains
Acco rding to Parker, hip-hop with graffiti and listening to DJ Kool
consciousness did not begin when Here play records by James Brown
the term first appeared in the early or Sly and the Family Stone. The
1970s. Rather, Parker sees a kin - .. master of ceremonies.,.. who at first
dred spirit between graffiti art and would only encourage the crowd as
the prehistoric cave paintings of they danced, began to talk more
No rth Africa, between breakin' freely, sometimes making rhymes.
and 16th-century Angolan martial EventuaUy, the "M.C." would be·
arts, and between rap artists and come today's rap musicians.
the "griots" and "djelees" who
From Parl&lt;c-'s perspective. hip- hop
combined speech with music in culture exploded in New York between

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1975 and 1979. Breakin; "bombing"
trains or buses, and !Png to listen to

deejajsandMCsbecamea fundamental port of New York strt&lt;tlife. Then, in
1979, an African-American woman
named Sylvia Robinson fixmdodSugar
Hill Records in Englewood, N.J.,and
put out "Rappers Delight," the first
rap album.
"To show you how fast this record
was put together." said Parker, "the
group didn't even have a name. She
got three guys together and said,
'Look, say these rhymes.' They called
themselves the Sugar Hill Gang and
'Rapper's Delight' went on toseU like
5 million reci&gt;rds."
Later, Parker himself would release strong-selling rap albums like
"CrackAttac:k,""CriminaiMinded"
and "Edutainmenl" Rap. he pointed
out, is now the No. I selling music
in the world and the fastest growing
music industry in the world
· Although Robinson did not retain control of the rap phenom·
enon, Parker conduded, hip hop
as a consciousness is winning. "We
have won against the slave master,"'
he said .. but our parents can't see
it yet. That whole era of slave and
slave master is disappearing before
your very eyes. We don't need to
feel sorry for those that choose to
li ve in the slave era, because th e
consciousness among th e youth is
moving toward unity, higher intelligenc:&lt;: and.higher knowledge."

Increasing communlution •nd organizing fOCus groups are two
goals of H. William Coles, Ill, recently elected chair of the Professional Staff Senate.
Coles, associate director of the Educational Opportunity Program,
took office on April 15, assuming the second year of the two-year
term held by Michael Stokes.
Stokes, director of the Office of Student Multicultural Affairs, left
UB last month to take a position as assistant dean of arts and sciences at the University of Delaware ..
Coles defeated Tommie L Babbs, an academic advisor in the Di vision of Undergraduate Academic Services, and Keith C. Herms,
senior programmer/analyst in Administrative Services in University Facilities, in a special election held earlier this month.
Herms, vice chair of the PSS, had been acting as interim chair in
Stokes' absence.
Another election wiU be held in Spring 1999 to elect a new chai r,
vice chair and secretary of the PSS.
Coles noted that professional staff is "an integral part of UB and
their considerable talents and efforts must be considered, encouraged
and coordinated if UB is to achieve the prominence that we all desire.
.. Every effort must be made to inform professional staff about
changes in university policy, organization and objectives,n he said.
.. Their input is essential in the formative stages of such dl'Velopments."
To that end, Cole said he will establish a listserv for all area senators
and offict.rs, and a listserv for each area, its senators and PSS officers
to incr~ the flow of infonnation and communication among the
professional staff, the area senators and PSS officers.
He also said he wiJI conduct focus groups this summer with representatives from each area to review results of the survey circulated by
the senate's Quality of Work Life Comminee, discuss the function of
senate committees and possible committee changes and determine
concerns, perceptions and expectations of professional staff.

, Graduation, Student Honors for
Reporter Commencement Extra

Parker, who has been criticized

for doi_ng advertisements for
Coca-Cola, implied that part of
that " higher knowledge" might
include thinking of corporate life

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as onl y another culture. Although

in the past he had picketed Nike.
Parker said he later realized how
many African-American execu tives were " ruling" in the Nike and

Coca-Cola organizations.
"The point here is self-expression, self-creation in the face of oppression," he said. "Don't be afraid
of other cultures. Embrace them;
find out what they're about."

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Change comes, but slowly, Women and Gender panel says
BY PATIIICIA DONOVAN
News SeMces Editor

institutions suffused with white,
middle-class values defended by a
OME good news and bad cadre of male academicians," said
news concerning the im- LiUiam Malave, associate professor
pact of women ~s subjects of learning and instruction.
and teachers in various
In addition to the panel discusfields of st udy were offered by a sion, the event celebrating the Institute
for Research and Education
panel of women facul ty members
during the keynote event of the on Women and Gender included
First Annual Celebration of plenty of good cheer," food and a
Womeo and Gender Scholarship• poster session featuring 35 cu rrent
held in Harriman Hall last Friday. research projects by UB women in
The good news from panelists fields ranging from nursing and
is that women are visible in greater sociology to ed ucational psycholnumbers in· many areas of study ogy and classics.
One of these offered a peek at a
and have helped redefine legitimate areas and methods of re- multimedia adventure game devel oped by Mary Flanagan, assistant
search.
The bad news is that change has professor of media study, featuring
come slowly, haltingly and with a "Josie True," a pre-adolescent, who
leads hei pal, Wade, and her on-line
good deal of resistance.
In addition, the panelists noted, cohort in an intrigue across time
that which is defined as "mascu- and space as they rescue Jos~e's in·linc," whether it is the st udy of en- ventor-teacher, Ms. Trombone.
Carrie Tirado-Bramcn, assistant
gineering or administrative jobs in
female-dominated fields, continues professor of English, began th e
to be associated with higher sala- panel discussion with an historiries, more research funding and cal overview of her field. She noted
that although women are broadly
barriers tO' female participation.
"We are defined by the very in - defined as culture-ca rriers linked
stitutions we are co mmitted to to literature and the arts, the field
change--traditional, mainstream of literary studies tradi ti onally has

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"masculinized" itself by authorizing the participation of women as
subjects of male literary discussion
or as teachers of works authored
by men, while deriding their role
as legitimate literary critics or uni versity literary scholars.
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Institutions suffused with

ment of women, people of color and
ethnic minority groups has revitalized the study of literature by challenging its assumptions. expanding
its canon and provoking the exploration and reinterpretation of the
literary and cultural landscape.
Susan V. McLeer. professor and
chair of the Department of Psychiatry, discussed the changing face
of th e medical field now that
women arc entering medica l
sc hool in very large numbers.
Mcl...eer, one of only four women
in the U.S. to head university departments of psychiatry, said th at
in 1997, women constituted 42 percent of the total enrollment in U.S.
medical schools, considerably
more than the 5 percent they made
up when she entered the field.
Mcleer pointed out, however,
that women usually arc involved in
primary-care specialties and still
are discouraged from entering
higher-paying. high-status, maledominated su rgical specialties.
She noted that although 26 percent of the members of American
medical-school faculties are
women, only 10 percent of those
women are full professors.

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':.Male literary scholars have tra ditionally defined themselves as
'against women,' lest they and the
discipline itself be 'effeminized,'
which wou ld stigmatize them as
less than rigorous," Tirado-Bramcn
noted She added that traditionally,
it was men, not women, who decided who could teach high -school
English (women) and who could be
literary experts (men).
" It has only been during the last
25 years," she said,.. that the involve-

Marjorie White, professor of
nursing, recountcd .. tht.&gt; advantages
and disadvantages for women in a
field in which the)' constitute 88
percent of the profession. She said
that nurses have not developed the
awareness and sensitivity regarding
gender issues of women in other
fields and have been socialized into
traditional gender-role identities of
..girls,.. particularly in terms of subservience to the patriarch.
She also pointed out that the
men who enter nursing tend to be.·
in administrative positions, but
command higher salaries regard
less of their jobs.
Laura Winsky Mattei, assistant
professor of political science, intm
duced herself as a member of a
..mostl y male depa rtment" in a
"mostly male profession." She sa•d
that at 42 percent of undergr.~duatc
enrollments, mrn continue to con·
stitute the larger segment of the student population in the field. She said
that while there is not a .. huge salary
discrepancy on lower lc.'Vels" only 12
percent of research projects by
women political scientists are funded.
compared to 27 percent of those submitted by men.

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learned from him lessons that they
will keep for the rest of their lives.
He knows because he hears from
them in e-mail messages. several a
day, that come in responding to his
unique Web site, Mathematicians

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after finding that another Internet

ally knew of mo re than 40African
or African-American m athemati-

cians, but when they simply added
his name to the list, he decided to
start his own site.
Since it first went on-line last
May, it has had more than 16,000
visits. many of them from school
ch ildren-and their teacherswho write Williams thanking him
for the site.
" I often hear from kids for whom

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school or in the neighborhoodis hard," he said. " I thought that if
th ey coUld see that many other
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it could be useful."
Wtlliams knows what it is to be the
only black; besides being the only Af.
rican-American professor in his department, he was the only black
studying math in graduate schoo4 in
fact, there were only five AfricanAmericans in the whole university.
.. There was no such thing as a
community of African-Americans

there," he said, "it was a shock to
my system."
While Wtlliams earned his doctorate in 1969, ma ny African Americans continue to have similar
experiences, almost 30 years ~er.
He recently heard from a gradu-

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pointed by President George
when she saw my Web site," said 1 Washington to a three-person
Williams. " I often hear from black
team to survey the future District
graduate students who are su rof Columbia, working closely

prised that the tradition of blacks
in mathematics is so rich."
The site's pages include a mod-

ern rustory of blacks in mathematics, including a time line of significant dates, a listing Of black re-

with Pierre L'Enfant.
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national organizations, such as the
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As the site's popularity has .
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educational and mathematics

communities, Williams has begun
rec~ving

messages from people

who know of mathematicians who
they .hope will be added.
The sole criterion is that the person hold a doctorate in mathematics.
"I even bear from families of dead
mathematicians,• said Williams.

"They are so excited to hear that
someone regards their relative as
having done something important."

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physics ot the Unlomllr a/Minnesota who has -his corwr
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Athletics volunteer 'stretches' to help division •
"II' UB had a tiddlywinks team, Rick Friend would be the~
cheering them on."
.
That description of on• of the university's most ardent fans makes
It understandable why Richard L Friend, 70, ofWIIIiamsviHe pushed
his ability to give to the limit and made a $250,000 commitment to
.the Division of Athletics.The commitment esabllshes an ~
scholarship fund In honor of Friend~ parents. DiCk and DoriS Friend.
"This Is a g.= Wi1f tD honor my mom and dad." said Friend. "It feels
really good tD be able to do this lor them and ..w-.1ty athletics."
What makes this commlunent even more special is how UB
W2S able to t:lllor It to Friend's personal needs. Under the plan,
Friend will make ash contrlbutlono to the scholanhlp fund throughout his lifetime.Then, uslng an irreo.ocable ........,ent known as a
"commlunent to make a bequest," the remaining balance will be
paid from his estate as a bequest.
Friend attributes his ability to fulfill his wishes to honor his parents and help athletics to UB's ability tD structure such a plan.
"BecaUse I don't have the resources tD give the fuR amount at once.
this opdon alows me tD make a saable conlribulion tD IMilp athletics
at UB right rtaN." said Frierld. "When this plan was presented tx&gt; me,
everythio1g dk:ked. I recommend planned &amp;tvJrc tD an)'One who wants
tD make this ldnd of contribution tD the unlwnlty."
A supervisory compliance oflker with the National Labor Relations Board oflke in Bufralo, Friend has been an avid supporter of
UB and the athletic department since graduatJn&amp;. He attends many
inten:olleciate athletic events, lncludinc football and baslcetball,
women's YOIIeyball matches, swlrnminC meets and wnisdil1c motthes.
A frequent tra¥eler to UB's ~ football and basketball pmes.
Friend also Is a fan of professional an&lt;! amateur hoclcei. and attends the NCAA Anal Four hoekey tournament each year.
Of US's llpll"lde to Division I competition, Friend says; "I think
they're doif1C a creat job. and I support wilolehearteclly the upgrade tD Division I. I also appreciate the stroll&amp; support lor academics the procram olren Its athletes."
Accordlnc tx&gt; Friend, his commitment will encouraae ottrers tx&gt;

support the athletic deportment while proYidlnc funds tD help U&amp;
recnrit the talented athletes ~ tD compete It this elite 1M.
"In order to~ tD the next lew!, the deportment needs money
lor scholarships,• Friond sold."In not enouah to Sly )'DU ....,..n the
program.You have tD p. them the money tD do the job."
The $250,000 commlunent Is In addition to funds Friend already
has contributed. He recently purchased I00 season tic:ba lor next
year's i.JB Bulls loocbaJI pmes. part of the un'-slty's 0f11111n1 ef.
fort to meet NCAA attendance requirements. The tldceu will be
distributed tD charitable orpniations, which will use them tD allow people who could not otherwise afrord tD attend an opportunity to - the team play.
In addition to his _generous financial support. fritond .;, Is an
active athletics YOiunteer.As a member of the Blue &amp; Whla! Oub, ·
he helps solidt funds from ocher alumni. "It's not easy ..... people
to ask lor money," said Friend, "but It has~- be done, and It's certainly rewardlfl&amp;. We raised more than ~000 In the last campalgn--11 ewer our pi of $175,000."
Friend also wiN sene as a YOiunaoer at the NCAA Track and
Aeld Qwnplonshlps tx&gt; be held.:at UB on june 3-6. "My dad and I
•~ taldn&amp; a week to YOiunteer lor this ewm. and I'm really Jooldn&amp;
forward tD It," Friend said."We11 be seetnc the Carl Lewises of the
future In competition here. It will be .a fun time to t:llce oil from
work and enjoy tbe meet."
A member of the UB Alumni Association Board of Oirecton;
Friend will serw as ¥Ice president and chair of the Athletics Committee lor 1998-99."It was an honor to be accepcecl as a member
of the board and as chair of this committee." said Friend
Alone with Ii1s support lor UB athletics, Friend has contTibuted
tx&gt; the School of Mao.....,..,c (he .-...1 his MBA In 1910),WBFO
88.7FH,and the Center lor the Arts, where he Is a YOiumHr usher.
"I realize how much UB has done lor me. It , - me a quollty
education and the extra thinp that I" with it," said Friend. "It.'s
time lor me top.~ beck."
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Improving human performance
'Office ergonomics'.adjusts the job to the individual worker
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repetitive
strain injuries ( RSI )
while increasing com·

fort at work is easy, effective and often inexpensive for
workers or employers with the

proper eq uipment, a UB ergonornics expert says. ·
Colin Drury, professor of indus·

trial engineering. defines office ergonomics as adj usting the job to
the person to improve human performa nce and well-being.
He stresses that both the design
and arrangement of the office

sition for extended periods.
"The human body is a wonder·
fuJ general-purpose instrument,
but when you perform the same
operation repeatedJy you run into
problems; he adds, noting that
preventing injuries could be as
easy as occasionally alternating
from typing t.o writing.
"Most corrections of ergonomic
p roblems are inexpensive if not
free,"' says Drury, whose own offict
i~ a perfect example with its inapensive, innovative accommoda-

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Editorial Cartoons on the Web
If a picture Is worth a thousand words, then an editoriaJ cartoon
may be worth an entire book. A good politicaJ cartoon fuses art and
idea, and provides enjoyment to those who love to see villains and
fools lampooned.
Considering how powerful editorial cartoo ns can be, it should
come as no surprise that severaJ Internet si tes are devoted to them.
Yahoo! EditoriaJ Cartoons (http:/ / www.yahoo.com/ Entert•ln·
ment/Comlcs_•nd_Anlm•tlon/ Edft ort•I_C•rtoons/ ) is a great
place to stan when looking for sites on political cartooning. A lin!..
to Buffalo's Pulitzer-Prizewinning Tom Toles can be found on th e
Yahoo! site. Toles by Tom Toles (http://www.uexpren.com / ups/
opinion/ cartoon/ ttl) provides brief biographical data on the UB
alumnus, his most recent cartoon, and a cartoon archive that date~
back to March, 1997. Yahoo! also will lead you to AI Gore's Cartoon
Gallery (http://www.whltehouse.gov/ WH/ EOP / OVP / html/
C•rtoon.html ), the Association of American Cartoonists Online
(http://www.detnews.com/ AM.C/ AAEC.html), as well as to sev ·
era! American and foreign cartoon sites.
Daryl Cagle, a syndicated cartoonisl and first vice president of
the National Cartoonists Society, has created a very nice site at http:/
/ www.c•gle.com. This site is dedicated entirely to editorial car·
toons. The site also has lesson plans to help elementary and second ary teachers use- political cartoons as a teaching tool. Cagle also pro·
vides Internet links and e-mail addresses to some of th e best edito·
ria/ cartoonists in the world.
Even though it isn' t really considered an editorial cartoon, devo·
tees of political satire will want to check out Doonesbury at {http:/
/ www.doonesbury.com ).
For information on connecting to the \.Vorld Wide Web via UB com·
puter accounts, co ntact the C IT Help Desk at 645-3542.

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when making ergonomic adjust m ents in the workplace.
.. Co mputers have drastically
changed the way we work. People
are doing the same job for longer
durations, which is really a problem ," explains Drury, who ha s
been teaching ergonomics at UB
since 1972.
Drury says the four heights to
be co nsidered for ergonomic
wor pace design are fect,seat,el·
bo s and sightline. He suggests
th if o ne of these cannot be ad·
ju ed, the other three shou ld be
pos' 'oned arou nd it.
"
kers have to remember to
adjust e equipment to accom·
modate e body, rather than bend
the bod to fit the machine, as·
su min g th e equipment ca n be
properly adjusted," says Drury.
He notes that most RSis, such
as carpal tunnel syndrome, are re·
ferred to in the medical field as
repeated low-grade insult since
they are the result of workers do·
ing the same task in th e sam e po·

implement "instant ergonomics ..
by rotating tasks with fellow work·
ers throughout the day and by tak·
ing periodic breaks.
"'Managers need to realize it will
be helping, not hurting, produc·
tivity to get employees up and
moving every now and then ," he
notes.
Experts have offered some tips
to prevent injury for those who
spend most of their time at a com puter workstatio~:
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• Position the monitor so
propped up on a desk provides a that it is directly in front, rather
sloping surface to sav~ him neck than to the side.
strain from reading for extended • Determine the optimal seat
periods.
height by positioning the leg with
Drury explains that even pens, thigh horizontal, lower leg vertical
like chairs and keyboards, can be and feet on the floor so that the hip.
ergo nomic. He advises workers knee and ankle form 90 degree
who do a significant amoun t of angles. Use a footrest if necessary.
handwriting to switch from a ball- • Make sure the chai r has a re·
point to an ink or rollerball pen movable arm rest ; firm lower-back
to alleviate the pressure exerted support ; slightly tilted backrest;
from the hand, which causes an· st urdy, five-prong base; easy swivel
ot her exa mple of repeated low· movement, and height and ten grade insult-writer's cramp.
sian adjustments.
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The annual UB Women 's Club Spring Flower Sale, which ben ·
efits the Grace Capen Academic Award Fund, is now m progress.
Flowers availab le through the saJe include geraniums in 4- l /2· inch
pots at $1.80 each or $20 a dozen in scarlet red, pink and white:
impatiens at $1.50 per pack of 6 plants in red, pink, white and mixed;
ivy geraniums in IO·inch hanging pots at $10 each in red, pink and
purple; and impatiens in IO· inch hanging pors at SJO each in red .
pink. white or mixed.
Orders must be received by Saturday, with checks made payable
to th e UB Women 's Club. Orders and checks can be sen t to Joan
Ryan , 243 Frankhouser Rd .. Williamsville, N.Y. 14221.
Orders may be picked up from noon to 5 p.m. on May 14 in tht•
Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. Other arrangements
for picking up orders must be made in advance'by calling Ryan at
626-9332 or Georgine Dunca n at 689-2791.

By MAllY BEnt SPINA
News Services Editor

UMMER in Buffalo! Sum·
m er at UB!
That's the message for
UB students, non -trad i·
tional students and those enro lled
in college who plan to be h ome
in Western New York during
those upcoming lazy, hazy days.
Millard Fillm ore College, the
continuing-education and summer-sessions division at US. offers one o f the nation's largest
universi ty summer programs.
This year, it ~iU offer a smorgas. bord of some 600 courses for students who wa nt to accelerat e
ea rning their degrees, upgrade
their skills or embark on mindexpanding learning adventures.
Now is the time to register for
courses that will be offered dur·
in g thr~ sum me.r sessio ns.
Sessio n I runs fro m May 26
through July 3; Session II from June
29'through Aug. 7 and Session Ill
from July 6 through Aug. 14.
In addition to day and even ing
co urses on camp us, se lected
cou rses wi ll be offered on local
cable televisiOYI or via the Internet.
Catalogs are available in Millard
Fillmore College's Office of Student
Services, 142 Parker Hall on the
South Campus and in the Office of

Women's Club has flower sale

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Albert R. Mugel to be honored

by Buffalo Law RevieW.

Records and Registration, 232
Capen Hall on the North Campus.
Catalogs also can be requested by
phone, 829·2202; Fax, 829-2451,
o r e-mail at &lt;ubsummer•ms
mall.buffalo.edu &gt;.
Additional information can be
obtai ned from th e UB Summer
Sessions Web si te at &lt;http://

www. mfc.buffalo.edu &gt; or by
calling Millard Fi ll more College at
829·2202.
Students wishing to live on ca mpus should rese rve residence-hall
space at least one month in ad vance by faxing the student hou sing application form in the cata·
log to 645-3890.

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Albert R. Muget, well-known •ttomey, tax -laW expen and UB
law professor since 1948, will be honored at the ninth annual Buf·
falo lAw Re,•iew dinner, to be held tomorrow in The Buffalo C lub.
A founding member and senior partner of the Buffalo law firm of
Jaeckle, Fleischmann &amp; Mugel, LLP, Mugel has influenced generations
of future anomeys and left his indelible stamp on the law school.
Mugel graduated cum laude from the UB law school in 1941 and
joined the firm of Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell, Bass &amp; Letchworth.
He served as a tank officer in Europe during World War II and
with the First Cavalry Division during the Korean Conflict.
In 1954, Mugel joined·the firm thai now bears his name. continu
ing hi s teaching commitment to UB on a part · time basis.
He has received numerous awards, induding the Edwin F. Jaeck.le
Award, the law school's most prestigious award; the Samuel P. Capen
Award from the UB Alumni Association, and a dislinguishcd alumnu ~
award from the U B law school. He has served as a treasurer and director
of the Erie County Bar Association, is a former member of the E.xecu tive Committee of the Section on Taxation of the New York Stale Bar
Association and chaired the EC BA's Committee on Taxation.

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NTOLOGY, the modern
philosophical study of

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the characteristics of

all reality, has had a
great innucncr on many aspects of
20th century thought. In recent
years, the tools of ontology have
strongly affected the design of

medical databases, for instance,
and the co nstruction of geograph ic information systems.
These tools have not. however,
been applied to the field oflaw, an
area in which they would be of sig·
nifica nt use. As a resuh , new legislation often is not informed by
sound analysis of the umeaning" of
new legal entities, such as clones
and computer software. This has
led to many legal and social problems related to the rapid introduction of new technologies and other
forms of social change.
Ways in which sound ontological
analysis can help to alleviate some
of these problems in the law, and for
social institutions in general, will be
explored when major figures in phi·
losophy and law participate in the
international Marvin Farber Conference in Applied Ontology.
Symposium part of conference
Sponsored by the Department of
Philosophy and the UB Marvin
Farber Memorial Fund, it will be
held tomorrow and Saturday in the
Center for Tomorrow on the North
Campus and the C&lt;nter for Inquiry,
1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst.
Participants will include philosophers from the U.S. and ~era) nations in Europe and Latin America.
The conference will include a
symposium on the book "The Construction of Social Reality" by distinguished philosopher John Searle
of the University of California, Berkeley. with responses by the autho r.
Program details can be obtained

by contacting the conference Web
site at http://wingo._..., __ ,
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the Departmeot of Philosophy at
645-2444, ext. 707.
The oonfermce will be co-chaired
by Barry Smith, professor ofphilosophy, aod attorney David Koepsell of
Cobenaod Lombardo PC.ofBuJJalo,
a visiting rosearch fellow at UB.
KoepseU explained that the importance oflegal entities in our ev·
eryday lives cannot be overlooked.

ogy has not been .appUed success·
fully in the legal domain has led to
contradictioru and eronomic inefficiencies in the development of law.
"A sophisticated study of legal en·
tities,developed through the practice
of appUed ontology." he said. "can
help avoid at least some of the pitfulls that naturally arise when·~·
ontology guides lawmaking.
"Naive ontology is simply the categorization of objects withoul benefit of the tools of formal ontology-without due consideration fur
the future implications of technological innovations,• Koepsell said.

He added, "When guided by

sound analysis. legislation can at least
to some degree alleviate tbeprobloms
associaJed with the npid forms of
social change aod the legal aod c:a&gt;nomic problems that can follow:"
Besides Searle, who is one of the

" Rights, property, obligations,
crimes, contracts, patents, debts,
insurance policies, parcels of real
estate, nation-states and similar
objects define the scope of ac·
cepted behavior in all societies
ruled by laws," he said.
Barry Smith noted, for i~stance,
that legal systems are composed of
legal entities, or "beings"-laws,
contracts, obligations and rightswhose application yields new categories of entities, such as corporation s, trademarks, marriages
and parcels of real estate.
"The ca tegorization of these
entities by different legal systems
has not, by-and-large, been conducted in ways that exploit the
tools of modem ontology; he said.
"Consequently, contradictions
and inconsistencies often arise in
the law when, for instance, one type
of entity is forced into two mutu·
ally exclusive categories." An example ~f this, he said, is that com puter software is considered to be
both patentable and copyrightable.
The discipline of ontology in volves the description of the structure of the different types of entities by which the different regions
of reality are constituted. Ontology also describes the relations
among these entities.
KoepseU said the fuct that ontol-

Koepsell said its principles apply
to legal entities, such as amtractsaod
rights to other objects that are the
subjects of lawmaking. such as COROMs, biotopes, broadcast frequencies, nuclear weapons or genetically
engineered mice, for instance.

nation's most distinguished and
influential philosophen, featured
presenters will include Raimo
Tuomda and Lars Lundsten, both
of the University of Helsinki;
lngvar Johansson of Umea Uni·
versity; Anthonie Meijers of the
University of Tilberg; Nenad
Miscevic of Maribor University;
Miriam Thalos of Buffalo; Trevor
Bench-Capon and Pepijo Visser,
both from the University of
Liverpool; Leonardo Zaibert of
the University of Caracas; Clark
Hare of UCLA. and Dieter M Qnch
of the University of Berlin.
The late Marvin Farber was one
of the greatest American proponents of phenomenology, a philosophical school in which ontology
plays an important role.
The son of a prominent Buffalo
family, Farber attended UB in the
early 1920s and received a doctorate from Harvard University. He
s tudied in Germany under
Edmund Hu=rl, the great 20th
cen tury German philosopher
whose thinking was controversial,
but wielded a powerful influence
on the fields of sociology and psy·
chology, as well as upon phenomenology and existentialism.
Farber returned to UB in 1927,
where he taught until his retimnent
in 1974asprofessoremeritus.During that time, he wrote a number of
influential texts and founded and
edited the prestigious international
journal Philbsophiad and Phmomenologicol Research. An extensive
coUection of his publications, correspondence aod principal papers is
held in the UB Archives.

At US, some units have taken
the lead in conducting internal
inventories, testing systems and
upgrading where necessary.
The Office of Financial Aid has
overhauled its mainframe computer system to ensure that it is
already Year 2000- compliant ,
while the UB libraries also have
allocated resources to address the
problem.
But there is no good picJure of
compliance across the university.
"We don't have a campus-wide
assessment of our Year-2000 status," said Huston. ..We only have
pieces. Until you do a comprehensive inventory and assessment, it's
hard to know how ready UB is."
To that end, the Year 2000
project group soon will be re questing that c;ampus units com plete inventories that outline how
compliant their systems are and
what their priorities are in making systems compliant if 1hey are
not.
"I t will ta ke money, people and
time to del ermine whether or not
you have a problem," cautioned
Lazarus.
Some systems managers on

campw believe their units will not
be affected, noting that many systems are easy to tesL ln many c:ases,
for example, spreadsheet systems
can be tested easily by inserting a
date that designates the year as
"00" and seeing if the program
interprets it as 1900 or 2000. (PC
systems should be backed up entirely before they are tested.)
While some people think it is
only a hardware problem, Laza..;s
said the issue could affect both
hardware and ·software.
• rn fact , your software may be
fine, but if your PC has a problem,
it may be passing that problem to
your software, or your hardware
may be okay but your software
may not be compliant," she said.
Huston noted that even software that the vendor has designated as Year 2000-compliant
must be verified.
"Maybe the programming language and operating system can
handle the Year 2000, but it doesn't
n=ssarily mean that the application
that was written is processing dates
rorrectly; she said ~It is possible to
write bad applications with Year
2000-oompliant software. ~lder ap-

pUcations are especially at risk."
CIT, for example, had installed
compliant application development software only 10 discover
that the operating system had to
be upgraded to a new level as weU.
.. Unit·s need to plan sufficient
time for this." said Huston. ult 's
Murphy's law."
Until the Year 2000 project
group~ its guidelines, Huston
advises tli"1those worried that
they may have a problem should
contact their lOcal IT staff.
They also can visit their IT ven dors'Web sites, many of Which have
Year 2000-compUance infonnation
available. links to more than 20 of
these are available through the UB
Year 2000 Web site.
The whole process will be timeconsuming, cautioned Huston.
There also. may be financial con·
siderations, such as possible li censing costs.
" People tend to think ' What 's
the big deal about this?'" she said,
adding that once a glitch is identi·
lied, there could be an outcry from
campus computer users... It's all in
the eyes of the person wh6se prob·
lem it is.·

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A formal ontology of law, he
pointed out, will account for every object with which the law is

concerned. Everything from bagels
to battleships at some point comes
to be the subject of legislation.
Applied legal ontology is concerned with the examination and
fonnulatioo of definitions,catego·
ries and systems of categorization
designed to be of service in the
articulation, codification, revision
and appUcation of laws.
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Huston.
"We haven't been getting a lot
of questions about it or req uests
for assistance," she said ... The indication is th at there isn't a Joe of
activi ty on it around US."
The reason is common to many
institutions a nd co rporation s,
where the average employee believes that the Year 2000 issue is
some th ing that only IT people
need to worry abouL
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else is taking care of it ," sai d
Lazarus. uThe question is, who?"
According to Huston, beyond
the obvious impact on computer
systems, anything with an embedded computer chip is vulnerable.
That means it could potentially
impact elevators; heating. cooling
and lighting systems that run on
timers; security systems; medicaJ
and scientific equipment; automatic teller machines; fax ma chines, and card scanners, such as
those used with SUNY cards.
"This is not an IT issue," summed
up Lazarus ... It's a business issue."

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program. a growing number of U.S.
subsidiariesinSingaporehavebcgun
to send their managers through the
two-and-halfyearprogramasaway
to familiariu them with U.S. management practices.
"Many U.S. multinationals based
in Singapore and throughout Asia
want their Asian-born eX&lt;CUtives to
be trained in Wcst=l-stylemanagemen! practices, particularly in lead er.;hip, strategic. planning and operations management," says Thomas. "But these firms also value the
understanding these managers havt
of the unique cultural issues that
shape business throughout Asia.
"Instead of spending th e
$500,000 required to settle an expatriate manager in Singapore or
other parts of Asia, U.S. companies
are investing in the professional
development of their Asian man agers through U.S. management
programs like ours," Thomas says.
AccordingtoThomas,the EMBA
program in Singapore meets the
needs of U.S. companies by providing a Western-style curriculum
taught by UB management professor.;,butonethatusesasestudiesof
Asianbusincssestoanalyzeproblems.
solutions and strategies oommon to

H IRTY-one executives
from a va_riety of
Singapore-based companies and organizations
enrolled in the ScbDol of
Mana
enfs Executiv. MBA program · Singapore, one of just two
U.S.
programs on the island.
Sixteen of the new enrollees are
top-level managers from 13 U.S.
firms based in Singapore, including
General Motor.;, Lucent Technologies, 3M, Hertz, SUN Microsystems,
J.P. Morgan, Delcine &amp; Touche and
Hewlett Packard. Other participants
are employees of British and Japanese subsidiaries in Singapore or are
from leading Singaporean firms and

organizations.
The executives are the third class
to begin the program since it was
established in I 996--in partnmhlp
with the Singapore Institute of Management-as the first U.S.-accredited MBA program in Singapore.
A total of 57 executives enrolled
in the program's first two classes;
the first group of students ascheduled to graduate in the fall and will
be awarded MBA degrees from UB.
According to John M. Thomas,
interim dean of the management

the Asian business environment
"There is a growing acceptance
throughout Asia of the U.S. business-school approach to teaching
and the U.S. MBA -program
model," says Thomas. "The usc of
classroom teams and cast studies
is a relatively new concept for MBA
programming in Singapore, which
in the past had been dominated by
British independent-stud y, dislance-learning programs."
By contrast, says Thomas, UB's
Singapore program is taught solely
by its professors, who fly to

Singapore to teach intensive, twoweek"modules"in 16different subject areas, including a team project.
This design allows for face-to-face
interaction among professors and
students and for minima] interruption of the students' careers. Tuition
for the program, which is taught in
English, is about $21,000.
"The program has been very sueecssfui,"Thomassays. "We've established a reputation as the top ex ecutive MBA program in Singapore
in terms of demand and interest."
Plans now are being developed
for the management school to
launch a similar EMBA program
in Beijing, in partn ers hip with
Renmin University.

School of Management names
Dean's Council members
Sixteen business lucien from Western Yort. and from around
the country have been appointed to the Dean's Advisory Council in the
School of Management. The new members, many of whom are gradu ates of the management school, will serve three-year tenns. They
join II other business leaders who already sit on the council.
According to John M. Thomas, interim dean of the management
schoo l, the new members were selected for their expertise in busi·
ness management and for their commitment to the school. They
will provide advice to faculty and administration regarding curriculu\n, strategic planning and marketing.
The new members include: Robert W. Black, vice president of
marketing, Steelecase Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich.; L Malcolm Burnett,
president and CEO, Marine Midland Bank, Buffalo; Frank H . Clem enl, vice president for investments, Paine Webber, Seattle; Glenn A.
Fosdick, P-resident and CEO, Hurley Medical Center, F~nt, Mich.;
MarySue French, plant controller, Hunt -Wesson Corp., Perrysburgh,
Ohio; Marianne W. Gaige, president and COO, Cathedral Corporation, Chatham , N.Y.; William G. Gisel, Jr., president of the food group,
Rich Products, Buffalo; Mark E. Hamister, chairman and CEO, National Health Ca re Affiliates, Buffalo; Arvin L. Jones, plant manager,
GM Powertrain Division, Tonawanda Engine Plant, Buffalo.
Also, Howard D. Koenig, senior vice president , ADP, Roseland ,
N.J.; Raymond A. Lenhardt, partner, Andersen Consulting, Wash ington, D.C.; Margaret G. McG lynn , senior vice president for health
and utilization management, Merck-Medco Managed Care,
Montvale. N.l.; RichardT. Stephens, president, Delaware North Companies, Buffalo; Charles C Swanekamp, partner, Jaeckle, Fleischmann
&amp; Mugel. Buffalo; Philip J. Szabla, general counsel, G C Companies,
Chestnut Hill, Mass.; a nd Kenneth I. Tuchman, vice chairm an,
Wasserstein, Perella &amp; Co., New York City.

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in to consideration in real-time.
Through these and similar
projects, GIS is beginning to have
a major impact on society.
But the gains will be hard to sustain without the level of research
s upport req u i red to lay the
groundwork for technological improvements and new applications,
Mark added.
GIS researche.rs across the nation
are particularly interested in fund ing for a major new project proposal
dubbed "the digital earth" that was
suggested in a recent speech writ ten for Vice-ikesident Gore.
A kind of human genome
project for the planet, the "digital
earth" is envisioned as a powerful
tethnological tool with the poten-

Helen L Stevens, director of international students and scholar
services at UB, has received a grant of approximately $9,000 from
NAFSA: Association of International Educators to coordinate and
host a three-day Korea workshop in Buffalo for international educators nati onwide. NAFSA, with funding from the U.S. Information
Agency, is sponsoring the program to promote interest at UB and in
the local community about contemporary Korea and to highlight
the flourishing Korean Studies Program at UB. Additional resources
for the program will come from the Fulbright Korean -American
Eduoatio nal Co mmission (KAEC) in SeOul, South Korea.
Scheduled for October, the workshop. " Korea In Transition: A Workshop for International Educators," will target those involved in interna tional education, indudjng foreign student and study-abroad advi sors, teachers of English as a second language and admissions officers.
At US, the number of Korean stud en ts has increased from 204 in
1988 to 350 this year, making it th e un iversi ty's largest international
population for the current academic year. Approximately 36,000
Korean students attend U.S. colleges and universities nationwide.
Last spring, Stevens was one of six people nationwide awarded a
grant to spend three weeks abroad as a guest of an Overseas Educational Ad,·ising Center, which she spe nt at the KAEC in Seoul.

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tial to map scientific environmental, historical, political, cultural and
oth er in formation tied to geo graphic locations aroun d the globe.
It would integrate information
from many sources and display it
geographically, with changes being
registered in real.rime.
..A visualization of the earth's
surface with such breadth and
depth could be an incredibly valu able tool in medical and scien tific
research , regional planning, commerce, law, emergency planning
and many other fields," said Mark.
" It also would be a great resource
for students at every level."
Other key goals for G IS resea rch
concern the developme nt of:
• Accurate, up-to· datc in forma ·

tion that is accessible by public
and private-sector entities on global phenomena like international
trade and resource depletion
• An interdisciplinary com mon
ground for GIS researchers with
expertise in psychology. computer
science, cognitive sc ie nce, envi ro nmental science and other dis ciplines
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data should be made avai lable ,
and to whom, with regard to in tellectual-propert y rights, infor·
mation privacy and li abili t)'
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data from many different sources.
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to computers will take a n1a·
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new IBM -compatible personal computers, as well as 60
plug-in ports for laptops, become
available in the fall semester at
four renovated sites in the Undergradual&lt; (UGL) and Lockwood
libraries on the North Campus.
One new site in each of the li braries wilJ be open 24 hours a
day. 7 days a week to provide st u dents wi t h around-the -clock
computer access and basic tech nical support.
T he major renovation project,

which will begin immedialely fo l·
lowing commencement, is being
initiated by the University Libraries in collaboration with Com put·
ing and lnformation Technology
(CIT). II will be funded by1he SIU ·

den! lechnology fee.
Rick Lesniak, director of aca -

By CHRISTJI4E VIDAL
Reporter Editor

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How big are !he donn
rooms?Wha1 does !he
campus look like?
These are just a couple of !he ques·
tions !hal high -ochool seniors conlempla!&lt; while making a final dea·

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•stude.n t access to computers in
which a total of 405 new state-of·
the art personal computers, which
are 10 times faster than the
university's present computtrs,
will become available at public
sites. The dfort also will involve
upgrading II existing computing
labs on both campuses. including
in residence halls.
Lesniak emphasized that the
new computers will mark the de·
but at UB of public access to com ·
puters equipped with Windows
NT (New Technology), one of !he
industry's most professionaJ and
powerful consumer-operating systems. Users will bave access to email, the Internet, resources on
CD ROM, 100-megabil zip disks
for storage, networked printing
capabilities and document-prepa ration software, such as word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

Steve Roberts. associate director
of university libraries, said the
project will foster the use of information technology in the dail)'
lives of students.
.. The library sites will provide
students with a more comfonable,
diversified environment in dose
proximity to books and other li -

he sa id , " is an integration of conventional reso urce tools available
in the libraries with new informatio n-technology-age materiaL.. It
is more conducive to learning for
students because all of these ma terials will be co-located ...
According to ~sniak . the new

brary resources, rather than the

the possibility of a universal com puter -access requirement that
may be implemented as soon as
Fall 1999, by serving as a " fall ·
back" for students who need to
compute on campus or who can not afford their own computer.
Karen Senglaup, director of
general libraries access services.
said, " the PC has become an integral component of the entire
learning experience--what better
place than lib.raries to have access
to such a resource ."
According to Senglaup. the
south side of the UGL's first floor
will~~ dramatically transformed

elbow -to-e lbow setting of com -

puter labs," he said. "The project
also will free up space in existing
labs for classroom work and in struction."
It will include new furniture,
carpeting, lighting and paint for
the designated areas in the two li braries, both of which , according
to Roberls, have not been renovated or refurbished since they
were built more than 20 years ago.
" It will make UB more attractive and help in recruiting efforts
because computers will be more
vis ible on campus," he added.
Lesniak agreed. "The project,"

sites also will help prepare UB for

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Getting to know UB on Preview Day

sion about what univusiry to attend.
Freshmen and transfer st udents
accepted by UB for enroiJment in

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demic services in C IT, said the ad ~
diti.o n of the new library sites is
part of a major project to increase

to get answers to these and a host
of other questions Saturday when
UB opens its doo rs for Preview

Day 1998.
Coordin aled by !he Office of
Admissions, the annual, univer-

sity-wide even!, 10 be held from 9

a.m. to 3 p.m., will in troduce ac ce pted students and their famjJies
to th e wealth of academic pro·
grams, variety of student services
and numerou s state -o f-the -art
learning resources available at UB.
This year's introduction to life
at UB will feature academic presentations, exhibits, demonstra tions, campus tours, financial-a id
information, residence hall tours
and the President's Reception . It
also will showcase the university's
computer and information -tech nology resources. (Sa relnted srory

on "UB Explor&lt;T." page 6.)
Preview Day is more than an

up-dose-and-personal look al the
university.
.. For those who have made the

decision to attend U B. it's a wonderfu l opportunity to come and see the
campus," said Frances Bernstein ,
assistant director of admissions.
But for those accepted students
who may be on the fence about
their plans for next year, it's an im portant part of getting them to
commit to attending UB. And first
impress ions count.

"I'.., had a lol of people approach
meat open houses and say.Tve never
been 10 Buffufo. I had no idea VB is
so impressive. And !he people haY&lt;
been so helpful,'" Bernstein said.
About 1,500 student are ex p«ted to attend, along with mem -

bers of !heir families. In all, abou1
3,000 people will visil !he campus
Saturday.

The success of the program is m
large part thanks to the hundreds
of UB faculty and staff membt•rs
from through o ut the umversttv
co mmunity who work for mont hs
to plan Preview Day.
" It 's heartwarmmg that the un1
versi ty pulls together for such a
large event," said lkrn stem . "The
people who con tribute go tht: ex tra mile to make it a spec1al day."
Accepted students who attend
Preview Day will receive a UB 1shin, along wilh !he bragging rights
that will go along with it when they
get back home, Bernstein said.

They'U also have !he opportu ·
nity to tour the residence halls, as
well as a number of academic dt -

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adjunct professor of psychology and a forensic psychologist,
in 1990 published the book "Kids Who Kill." He often is called
as an expert witness based on his study and expertise in the
field of intra familial homicide.

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People Initially wen shO&lt;ked
that the tragk shooting In
Jonesboro, Artc: . •pparently
wa1 planned and carried out
by boys 11 and 13 . Should
they be7
It's no longer shocking to hear of
children killing, but the particu ·
Iars of this case are esp«iaJJy trou ~
bling. Not only were the boys
younger than most juvenile killers,
but unli.ke most juvenile homi cides, their crimes appear to have
been premeditated, if not coldblooded. Finally, and most significant to me, is the number of victims. Unti l the recent spa te of
school shootings in the South, juvenile mass murder was a phenomenon virtually unheard of in
the coun try.

At whot age should a child be
able to diKem the difference
between "child's play" and
murder?
Cog nitively, children are capable
of understanding this distinction
at a very early age, in most cases
by the age of 7 or so. But cognitive understanding is not the
whole sJory. Even many teyn-agers
do not fully appreciate the finality
of death o r the true co nsequences
of homicidal actions.
At what ~e Is a child mature
and ruponslble enough to
use a firearm 7
In m ost states, a person cannot
obtain a driver 's license until 16,
vote until 18 or drink legally until
21. Certainly the maturity and
judgment ne cessa ry to safely

handle a firearm is greater that
that needed for any of these other
age- regulated activities. Put most
simply: the possession and use of
firearms ought to be reserved for
adults.

The two boys Involved ..y
they didn't mean to hurt any·
one. How do kids get Into
these situations?
I have heard the same thing from
many of the juvenile killers I have
examined. Often what starts out as
a fantasy--or at most a plan to
threaten or scare someone--turns
into a murder because kids get carried away with the power they experience when they point a gun at
another person. Also. in many cases
where there are two or more perpetrators, kids egg each other on,
pushing fantasy toward reality, until someone ends up dead. Finally,
some juvenile killings are ..accidental " in the sense that the perpetrator really did not intend to hurt
anyone, but mishandled a firearm .
Who's to blame for the
Jonesboro tragedy?
There is more than enough blame
to go around. Certai nly lax gun
con trol laws that make it easy for
children to obtain firearms p layed
a major role. But so did the entertainment media, which glorifies
an d glamorizes violence and
rarely, if ever, shows kids its aWful
consequences. ln the end, l would
also suspect that the family and
o ther social institutions (includ·
ing schools, churches and commu-

nity} co uld be indicted for not
teaching these youngsters th e
sanctit y of human life.
How do you think these two

boys should be punished?

Like it or not, under our· system of
justice, unless tried as adults, juvenile offenders---even the worstare to be rehabilitated and not pun ished.! believe that remains a good
philosophy. Without knowing
more about theoe boys, I can't say
how Likely they are to be rehabili tated by the time they turn 18, but
I think. it is worth trying. One thing
I can say for •ure is that if they were
sent to prison, there would be virtually no chance of rehabilitation.
It's worth pointing out that in New
York. as well as many other states.
children as young as 13 may be
tried as adults for murder and, if
co nvi cted, sentenced to lengthy
prison tenns. ln New York, for example, the maximum term a 13year-old murderer can reaive is 9
yurs to life in prison.
Do you think thele children
can eYer grow up to le.cl
"normal" adult lives?

" Normal?" I doubt it, but what ever adjustment they do make will
depend Largely upon how they arc
treated by the system. Unfortu nately, all too often, the juvenilejusti cr sys tem does more harm
than good. We seem to be m uch
better at making criminals of aU
ages worse instead of better.
How can we prevent Mftsele.u

tragedies like Jonesbon&gt;7

There are no simple answers to
preventing juvenile murder. There
are several things that would help.
but they are much easier said than
done First, stop dilld abuse. In my
view, child a~ is the number
one general cause of juvmile violence and homicide. Second, 1ceep
guns out of the hands of childrm
and adolescents. Third, limit
children's access to media portnyals of violence or at least tm!per
that exposure by making sure that
violence in tbe media is portray«!
for what it really is: an aberration
that destroys both its victims and
its perpetrators_ Finally, teach our
children and the children of oth en the ultimate value of human

life.
How did,_ bee- Interested In the subject of ltlds
whoklll7

Before attending Law school, I
trained and practiced as a child
and family psychologist and
worked primarily with violent,
abusive and seriously dysfunctional children and parents.
When I became a forensic psychologist, many of my fim cases
dealt with women and children
who killed their abusers. Soon it
became clear to me that most
youthful killers, not just those
who killed family member, had
been victims of abuse. That
sparked my interest in juvenile
homicide, generally, and ·led to
wh~t has b«:ome 15 years of research, writing and practice re·
Ia ted to "kids who kill."

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Public service: it brings out a university's best
But convincing administrators, seniorfaculty it's valuable is a challenge, Checkoway Sc:o/S
By EllEN GOLDBAUM

News Services Editor

VIDENCE is beginning to
sh ow that faculty mem bers involved in publi cservice projects tend to be
mo re productive resea rchers and
better teachers than their peers
who are not , a professo r of socia l
work at the University of Michi gan told an April 7 symposium on
public service.
Barry C heckoway noted , how ever, that convi ncing senior faculty
members and administrators of
that-and rewa rding such service
at research universi ties--will be a
challenge, even for institutions th at
are comm itted to public service.
" Publi service contributes t o
the vitality of th e university and
brings out the best in a university,"
said Checkoway, who also is execu tive director of the Center for Liv ing Thro ugh Co mmunity ServiCe.
The symposium, sponsored b)'
the Office of the Vice President for
Public Service and Urban Affairs,
celebrated UB's Faculty Development Public Service Jnitiauve. At the
same time, it generated debate about
how research universities shou ld
value and reward such work.

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Accordi ng to C heckoway, who
st udi es the place of public service
m th e research university, national
organizations in higher education
and major universities see UB as
an example of an institution that
has made a clear commitment to
public se rvice.
" In the circles in which I move,
UB is perceived as one of the lead ers in the field," he said.
He cited the establishment of
the Office of the Vice President for
Public Service and Urban Affairs
as a demonstration of that com·
mitment and noted that Presi dent
Wi ll iam R. Grei ner is one of the
few top university adminis trators
nataonail)' who publicly and con sistently has made public service
a priority.
"UB has a track record of out standmg efforts," Checkoway said,
pointang to the uni versity's re ce ntly publi5hed second co mpen dium of public-service projects.
He noted that it is not clear how
successfully research universities
encourage faculty to engage in
public service.
.. Un iversi tie s need strategies
for public service," he said.
''So me universities have strate-

gies for filling football stadiums.
while ot he rs have foreign-policy
s trategies ( for research and
teaching par tn erships in other
co untries).
.. But what about having a domestic policy? So many of us ttre
far more interes.ted in working in
Bangkok or Bombay, rather than
in the Ci ty of Buffalo."
Checkoway said it often seems
that the prestige of a university's
research grows in direct propor·
tion to its distance from the campus.
" But research universi ties are
strategicall y situated to be able to
respond. They are civ ic institutions, which were established with
a civic mission," he said.
The answer, said Checkoway, is
to begin to redefine service as
scholarship.
To do that , a distinction must be
made between scholarship that
involves the discovery of knowl edge and that which involves the
application of knowledge through
public service.
.. Service is schola rship when it
draws on one's professional expertise for the welfare of society," he
said.

As such, public-service work
can serve as a kind of"rcaJity test "
fo-r faculty members who, he said,
have been criticized in recent years
for not doing work that is relevant
to society.
" Maybe for this year's performance review. faculty should be
requirrd ro describe the impact
they think they had on the community," he suggested. " It will be
an immcdiate-co nsciousness· raismg.
To accurately reward service,
universities must undertake nothing less than developing a new
conception of research , he said.
While this remains a formidable
task on an institutional basis. a
group of UB faculty members dis cussed six projects that demon strate that public-service efforts
already are underway.
Each has completed a project
made possible by the Faculty Development Public Service Initia tive, which provides grants of up
to $10,000 each for interdisciplinary projects that integrate" scholarship with public service and en hance faculty awareness of ho.w
public service enriches teaching
and scholarship.

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Vote on computer access delayed
lly C-SllNE VIDAl.

Roport01 Edi!D'

GTHY discussion-and
the consequent loss of a
quorum-will delay until
[
May the Faculty Senate's
action on a resolution on universal
access to computing resources.
The resolution, which would
endorK a requirement that all students haye access to, and preferably to own, a personal computer
by the Fall 1999 semester, was introduced to the senate at jts March
4 meeting.

Issues that raised the most concerns at a seco nd reading of the
resolution at the Faculty Senate's
April 8 meeting included costs
both to students and the university, faculty support of the measure and whether sufficient tech nical support would be provided.
"The committee has spent considerable time contemplating this

(p roposal ) and worrying about
this," Joseph Tufariello, chair of the
Student Access Subcomminee of
US's Information Technology
Com minee, told senators.
While the comminee has wrestled
with concerns over the impact that
universal access to computing resources will have on faculty mem bers, the "single most important issue" the university faces in implementing such a measure is the cost
to students, and " it has worried us

row computers from the univer-

hold of a computer to level the

sity; a financial-aid package that
would allow students, if they qual-

playing field .. ," he st(CSSed. "There
always will be students who can't

ity, to use those funds to purchase
a computer, and a work-study program so students could work off
the cost of their computer.

afford one and we're going to help."
FacuJty training is another area
the university will focus on, he
noted. Programs will be put in

"I don't think we should take

place to help faculty, and Tufariello
said he will propose that faculty

too seriously fhe idea that we're
requiring acctss, not ownership,"

commented Samuel Schack, professor of mathematics ... If computers become part of courses,
students will have to own them, no

matter the financial ability."
While proponents of the measure
hav.emphasizedthepublic-rdations
benefits and positive impact on retention, Schack said,"No one has yet
said we have a specific academic demand for introducing this." Col leagues at other schools whom he has
queried, he continued, have indis:ated
that valuable classroom instruction

time is spent teaching students how
to use their computers.
"We're gmng to h e l p -

9 f t - of •

computer to

level the plllylng-- There

- . , . wll b e - who
an't olfonl one _ _....,

Although UB's public computer
labs will be upgraded by the Fall
1998 semester, Tufariello said that
use of the labs would not be the
best solution to access. Ownership,
he said, would be the best alterna tive, but "there will be no 'computer police' on campus" to com·
pel students to have computers.
"We're going to recommetJtl that

people try to get hold of a computer," 1\Jfariello emphasized.
T he univenity, he said, is work ing on programs to he lp students
acquire a computer. Among the
plans being considered are a program that would allow students to
arrange a long-term, low-rate fi nancial loan to enable them to
purchase a computer; Programs
that would aUow students to bor-

Hardware is only part of faculty
members' concerns, noted Sim'o n

Singer, associate professor of sociology._Access to software and problems
with compatibility also are an issue.
Tufariello responded that a subcommittee has been set up to ad dress potential software problems.
.. Up until now, we've been ask-

ing if we should do this at all. Now
we're asking how," he said. It is, he
continued, an "ext remely complicated thing to do. It's a major, ma jor undertaking, but it's somethin g
that I think we have to do."
William George, professor of
mechanical and aerospace engi neering, commented that faculty
members have a professional obligation to keep themselves cur~
rent , not only academically. but

technologically.

faculty and funding for upgrading

"As a profession, we're fa irly well
paid. There is a cost of profession ali sm ," and keeping o n e's com ~
puter eq uipm Cnt and software
cu rrent is part of that cost. 1
A number of students also attended the meeting to voice their
concerns about the proposed com putei~access requirement, as well as
their disappointment at not having
been part of the process to date.
''I'm preuy upset that this has
advanced so far and there has been
no solicitation from students," said

(their equipment and software).n

Ariel Shea.

Judith Adams. director of
Lockwood Library, called language

Students so far have received no
information regarding universaJ access to computers, she said, but "stu dents are the ones affected. We have
to purchase the computers and we
have to work with the computers."
Are co mputers really going to
improve the student s' co ll ege ex perien ce. she asked .... What about
the aliena ti on stud e nt s a lready
feel ? No one's taJkjng about that."
The move toward universa l ac ·
cess to co mputin g reso urces " has
moved faster than we th o ught
originally and we haven 't brought
students in the way we 'd have liked
to," acknowledged Tufariel\o. "Stu dent involvement is ab so lutel y
critical. I think th is is the right
thin g to do. but if I can 't convin ..-c
(th e students) . we're.· in tro uble ."

gmng to help."
)OSfPH TUFARIEUO

from the beginning,"Tufariellosaid.
"No student wilJ be required to
purchase" a computer, he emphasized.
lf}Stead, the univ~rs it y is asking
that stu'den is have access to a com puter, whether they purchase their
own, ;hare equipment with a
roommate or classmate, or usc the
un iversity's public labs.

teaching freshman courses be provided with a computer.

U B also will need to provide
computer access and support to
faculty, said }ames Lawler, associ -

ate professor of philosophy. "In the
fall of 1998 (faculty) arc going to
have to have access .... The resolu tion says nothing about support for

that would require students to
have access to computers, but not
require ownership, " troubling."
She noted that although computer
labs a re being expanded , eve n
measure s requiring st udent s to
own computers will increase use
of public-access computers, and
not requiring student s to own
computers could " flood " the labs.

Tufariello responded that while
an in creased demand at public sites
is anticipated, " if the experience at
other universities is sound, most stu-

dents will buy a computer. If they
don't bring one with them, they will
take advantage of other programs"
that will provide computer access.
"We're going to help students get

SPIR grant to aid design project
By MARA McGINNIS
News Services Editorial Assistant

A

$ 10,350 grant from
th e Strategic Partnership fo r Industrial Re -

surgen ce (SI'IR) pro-

gram based in the Schoo l of Engi ·
neering a nd Applied Sciences has
been awarded to the G raphi c Co ntrols Corporation for a design
project for it s new manu fac turing
.-.... facility.
Graphic Controls, whiCh manu facturesa nd markets a variety of dis-

posable medical products and indu&gt;trinl recording supplies, is current!}'

located on Van Rensselaer Street in
Buffalo. In November, the corpora tion announced its plan to stay in the
Buffalo a rea after being ht•avilv
sought after by other communi liD.
t; raphic Controls will renovatt.'
the 75.000-squarc-foo t fanner IB f\.1
office building on La Riviere.· Driw
along the waterfront for its corpora te headqua rter!!&gt;. t\ new 240,000square- foot fa ci ltty to hou se the
manufacturing opt.·ratHlll will be
bu ilt on E.xchangt.• ~Meet between
Louisiana and Ala ham a streelS.
The relocation ond transi tion to
.1 single-story configuration. as well

as a proposed cellu lar dl.-s lgn for tht.·
plant layout , will allow for more
efficient manu facturing. UB fo~~:ulty
members, students a nd tcchmca ll y
tmincd per!&lt;!&gt; nnnel in UB'scngincer
mg !'i&gt;\.·hool conducted a facili t y - dt.~ ­
, , ~ n (om putcr simulatio n study 10
va ild.l tt.' .md imp row th e tnitiallarmn hl t.' 't.tb hsh tht.· most l'fficient
.ur.ln~l'lllc.'lll lor the Exchange
St re(·t tau ht \'.
We!ltl~ rn Nl'\\ York retained
mo n: than I .000 manufa,turing
JObs and c n~a t ed more than ROO
new o ne..·:, dunng tht• I 990 -9 7 fi:~ ­
c.:al year as a res ult ol S PJ R '~ eft orb.

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will continue through May EiJ
The 1998 Facutty •nd St•ff Appe•l is under way, with a goal of
rai sing funds to support research, educa tion a nd communityservice m issio ns throughout the university.
Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Oral Biology and volunteer chair of the appeal, said that in addi tion to raising needed funds, the appeal, which runs through May,
sends an importan t message to donors from outside the university.
" Every da y th at we come to wo rk , our faculty and staff show their
support for th e universi ty and belief in us missio ns of education,
resea rch and publi c se rvice," added Ge nco. chair of th e Departme nt

of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine.
.. The Facu lt y and Staff Appeal is a cha nce for the UB community
to give that extra vo te of co nfid ence to this uni versi ty, and to show
what a difference it makes in their lives a nd in this cit y."
The appeal allows fa cult y a nd staff members to d o nate-eit her
with a si ngle gift o r through payroll dedu ction-to a ge nera l fund
to benefit the universit y as a whole or to any department. division
or unit on ca mpu s.
Money rai sed by the appea l 111 past yea r~ has, for example, gont:
toward undergraduate student sc holarships, ope ra ting suppo rt for
the Division of Athletics and Umve rsit y Lib ra ri es, and o th er universit y sen ices.
"We can send a strong stgn a lt o th e um ve rMt y's ot her donors 1f we
have strong participation among faculty and staff," said Genco. "Sig
nifi ca nt participatio n is an especiall y powerful messagt• to alumm
who have been thinking abo ut givin g somet hin g back to the.· school
but haven 't acted yet."
For additional informa t1011 on tht" appea l or to receive a pledgt&gt;
ca rd or payroll-ded uction form. conta ct UB's Annual Appeal offict~
at 829-2630, ext. 228. To find ou t more about th e un ive rsi ty's divel opme nt effo rts, vis it th e Office of Universll \ Development Web si tt.'
at http:/ / www.buffalo.edu/ glvlng

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Prominent anthropologists_to join
conference on Mayan culture
Prominent anthropologists Dia ne Z. Chase and Arlen F. ( :ha...l' have
been added to the list of expl·rt:-. who will spc..·ak at "Maran Cult ure at
the Millennium: Retrospect a nd Prospect," a major int ..·rnallonal con fl·ren..:e on Mayan culture to h&lt;· hdd .tt Ll B o n April 15 ond ~0 .
Th(· hu sba nd ~ and-wife team ha:-. t'ondu..:ted archl·ulogt~..al rc~ear ..~ h
Jt Ca ra co l. Belize. sinl'e 19HS. T heir research ha~ rct'e1ved more than
$ 1 millio n in funding .md th(' C hases. both profe!'.!IOf' of a nth rnpol
otty .11 the Uniwrsit }' of Ce ntral Flo rida. haV(' heen featu red Ill !ICV ·
cr.tl proie'--b for National (ieographu: and PB~. mdudmg th~· PH~
prog rJm . "!-!~o.·ar l" hin g for th e Maya.''
Arl.,;n ( :h .....l~ will spcakat 9: 30 J.lll . LHl April ~:-, In 170 rillnlllrl' Q uaJ
Dianl' C h .t~e will 'Pl'.tl.. in 170 Fillmore l..)uad Jt Y:JO .t.m. on April ]6.
David Pcnderg.t~t. vit'l' p rl•sid c: nt of l.'o ll t•t' tloth .tnd re!ll'ar..:h .11
the Royal On ta rio r-. lmt·um Jlld ticld dtr._·~..· tor of thl· mu .. eum \ ,tr
chacological ex pl•d tti on to .1 numher of ~Iavan rum~ in Mcx1'-u .tnJ
Belize, will prl'Sent the.· co nfl· r~o.· n ..: ..··!l keynotl~ .tddrt.'!l!l Jt 4 p.m . o n
Apri l 25 in 170 Fillmore QuaJ. The d.tv anJ tinw of Pl~ndl' H!.~:&gt;t \
Jddress prt'\' \Ou~lv wac rl'po rt t:d mcorr~·..:tl\' tn the Rt'p1Jrtt'r ~

�·Simons to conduct final concert Sunday

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40 former UB singers to perform in program as tribute to director ofchoir and c1wrus

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Pucho OIM!ndo COnvnunMy
Cent&lt;r, 261 Swan SL In downtown Bulfllo. MviiU.,. S10 for itudenb one! S15,
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dinner
aJiturol
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Elicott Compleo:. will begin ot
5:30p.m. MviiU- ~
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University Choir,
HEN Harriet Simons

lint came to UB, the
music department
was squeezed into

Allen Hall on the South Campus, the
university had just hired Morton
Feldman and the Qcvdand Quartet, and Richard Nixon was about to
be rc-dcctcd.
Now, 25 years later, she is putting down the university batqn. A
professor of music and the direc-

a-us, s~ ...t Friends

A celebration of Harrlet Simons'
25th s e - as director of chorvses
a p.m. Sunday
Slee COIKert Hall
North Campus

tor of the University Choir and
Chorus, Simons will conduct her
laso concert for UB this wcckcnd.
A5 a tribute to the many lives
Simons has influenced, 40 former
UB singers will perform alongside
the regular choir, chorus and symphony during Sunday evening's
program, a recreation of the first
concert Simons gave as a UB faculty member.
Praise for Simons, who enjoys a

national reputation among her
peers for innovations i.n the teach ing of conducting. has been equally
forthcoming from the students·
who have sung for her, "traveled
with her and learned from her.
"It's because of her that I'm in
the fidel of music ed.ocation,• said

Maureen Allen, a music teacher at
· Williamsville East High School.
"She's just a fantastic teacher, and

-a

an outstanding musician.'"

Nl&lt;P

rocmbcr. tl&gt;e-dlPir in

1~11\oirellr~~p
to~ ScOdand an&lt;!Walcs.

• "She tabght us the nafioaal an them of Wales," Allen recalled,
"arid ~&lt;&lt;anfjt for them iR Wales,
ana thtn ~we sang 'America the
Bcautifui.: Ev.lrybody was in tears.
That's something I'll never forget."

Simons described her two trips
to Europe as among the highlights
of her career.
" England was a highlight ,"
·simons agreed, ..both the trip to
England and the trip to Italy Iin
19951 . To sing in such glorious surroundings just can't be matched. We
sang to a packed, standing-room-

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dental school He is a dentist somewhere in New Ieney. But while be
was here, be took me aver to the
anatomy lab and showed me a cadaver. He felt I should sec a larynx.
"I don't think about the 'corccr
singer' as oftm as I think about the
educated UB student who also participates in a cultural outl&lt;t," Simons ·
aplaincd. "Of course, we have a lot
of music majors here, and I am a
music teacher, but we aiso have a lot
of people who have nothing 10 do
with music. outside of singing in the
choir. And they become the students
I really know the vrry best."
Her own life has followed a more
dedicated route. A young bass darinetis4 Simons switched to a voice
major as an undergraduate, then
went on to" take a master~s degr«
in choral oonducting and a doctorate in opera conducting from Indiana University. After teaching at
Fredonia St&gt;tc College and Oberlin
College Conservatory, she acccptcd
a position at UB in 1972.

.. The department here was
small," said Simons, "but they were
doing some exciting things. When
I think about those first interviews. I remember meeting this
and that faculty member, but I
(or;man.o; ~f:¥o~s ·~'!i&lt;'JI" have spectfic memories of meet ·
wanted
was among the most memorable. ing Wious $tud.;.t._
"We did it on tbc annive.,ary of to know what we were going to do
Mozart's death," said Simons. "It and when we were going to do it."
Locaj radio host Elaine Knecht
was d9nc complctdy;,; wnte:xt, as
aMass."
was one of ~o"'"?.fly studenlf•
· Over the years, some of Simons' attenditig soine of thclirst claSs&lt;s
stud&lt;J!ts
gonc_pn .to .be&lt;x?~ Sia,lons taught at UB.

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only a~ in SL Fr'an9s f)f Assisi
Basilica. We sang in Venice during a

Mass at SL Mark'slBOsllica."
But SimQns' most enduring
legacy, soy some of her formcr.studcnts,can befo~~\l'.bomc.
"Si't'ons b,rougllt the highest
standards to the~~·notcd
Father }aaibt.tidwon,;.!;.,·received
a .~o~l!' ip. musicology iJ! 1.986.
"And she has imparted these standards.to thousand$.. ..1 think that the
whole West~ New York region is
grateful."
Ledwon is pastor of St. Joseph
University Church adjacent to the
So~th Campus, where many UB

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professional musicians; Laura

Ajkin,_f'!r ~Pie.. ~ ma_&lt;lc

the construction of Slec Hall and

her Metropolitan Oper-a debut in
New York City. Other students, like
l.cdwon and Allen,~ in&gt;Qivcd
in music as part' of their profession.
But, according to Simons. her rdationships with students, faculty and
staff who "just enjoy singing" have
been equally sustaining.
Often, these arc the students

the Center for the Arts. Both

Simons remembers most vividly.

Ledwon and Simons said that, of

"Thereisamancomingbadtforthis
concert,"' she said, •who I haven't
scensincchcgraduatedfrom the UB

musical events were held before

all the musical events that took
place io that church, the 1991 per-

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for helping the student do more."
~twill~ll11l!"'8thc40alumiti
duiing this wcek.md's
Aa::ording ~ Simons, her retirement from UB only means it is "time
to do something dsc." She and her
husband, UB professor of geology

oooa:n.

Parlc£rCalkin, plan 10 IDOYC permanently to Boulder, Colorado. Bu~ after an entire life involved in music.
few doubt that her "somethingdsc"
will include instruments and song.

Greiner updates Professional Staff Senate on projects
ay LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

C

AP ITAL

improve-

ments planned for
UB's two campuses
and the fall-out from

the New Paltz imbroglio over

workshops with sexually explicit
content dominattd'President Wtl liam R. Greiner's remarks to the

Profession~! Staff Senate at its

April 8 meeting fn Squire Hall.
The agenda also included a brief

discussion of the election -in progress for the chair vacancy created by Michael Stokes' departure.
The candidates for chair arc Keith

Herms, in terim chair; Tomm y
Babbs, and William Coles.

Campus that will really pull our two
campuseS together," he Slated.
These proj~cts. he said, include:
• A new mathematics building on
the North Campus that is in the
1998-99 budget and should be

completed within two years once
construction begins.
• Renovation of Farber Hall on
the South Campus to create the
Clinical Health Sciences Education Center, or CHESEC. a project
that will go out for bid next year
• Rmloval of all temporary buildings on the South Campus =cpt the
daycarc center, landscaping of those
sites and installation of new sidewalks
and more attractiv.li:ncing.
• Expansion of seating for UB

Lack of a quorum meant offi cial business could not be con -

Stadium to meet Division-IA stan-

d ucted, and prompted frustrated

• lmproYcd campus signage.

comments from senators.
Greiner reported that several

Other projects further down the
pipeline, but dcfinitdy in the pipe-

capital projects long in the planning
arc nearing fruition. "Our five-year
plan will transform this campus and

mili amendments on the North

dards, to begin this summer.

line, he said, are a new student ~ser ­
vices building on the North Campus, apartment-style undergraduate student housing off of Hadley

Road, and "an urban high-rise" on
l..cc Road with shops on tl)c first
Ooor and h'!using above.
Discussions also
are under way,
Greiner said, on
improving the
Main Street entrance to the
South Campus by
creating a public
plaza and walkways leading into the campus, and
on a possible oonfcrcncc center and
new housing at Main and Bailey.
"We arc going 10 mili this campus look like a pcrm3Dcnt campus," he said. "It doesn't look like
one now. We want it to be inviting, attractive and accessible."
On the SUNY New Paltz controversy, Greiner said he oonsidcrcd
the situation a First Amendment issue, not one of ac:ade:mic freedom,
and would like to have scm it presented as such from the beginning.
He said SUNY ~presidents
were concerned about Chancdlor

-

John Ryan's aiticism of New Paltz
president Roger Bowen, and his implication that Bowen was responsible for the confcrmcc's contenL
"None of us arc going to approve
all oonferences," Greiner said. "No
one wan!:' to pre-approve contcnL
Nevmhcl~ I think the presidents
feel this willbavc a chilling effect
on the way conferences are sponsored on SUNY campuses."

Greiner also reviewed progress
toward filling several top admin istrative vacancies:
• Vice President for Health Af-

fairs- Michael E. Bernardino,
fonner director of managed care
with the Emory University System
of Health Care, Inc., in Atlanta and
professor of radiology in th e
Emory University School of Medicine, began work April I
• Dean of Arts and Sciencesshould be named by the end of the

semeste-r
• Vice President for Student Affairs-'&lt;hould be determined by
early May

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Hyperreal could enrich
customer's experience,
Sternberg says

Preparing and Submitting
Manuscripts Using the Web
to Guide You

Culture lessons
in themed
environments
ay PA-r.c!A DONOVAN
News Services Editor

proliferation of "pretend" environments,
from cowboy-themed
fast -food joints and
movie-star nightclubs to small towns
done up in the garb of 19th-century
Bavarian villages, are attempting to
attract oonsumers through the use of
the atrefully constructed artifice.
Some complain that the rush to

A

replicate other realities is just one

more cheesy attempt to excite
jaded consumers.
Maybe so, says Ernest Stanberg.

associate professor of planning in
the Scbool ofArchitectu~and Planning, but hyperreal consumer environments can do more for our collective intellect than sell us Italian
sausage and a moment on the Po.
Writing in a recent issue of the
interdisciplinary journal Inquiry,
Sternberg says that the themed en -

vironments often decried by intellectuals have the potential to
awaken our understanding of jwt
how we makt sen~ ~four worlQ.
Symbols could be explained

memory, imagination and need
provoke our behavior.
Such possibilities could be
developed in a
number
of ways.
he writes.
De-

-ore writing or submitting • ,_..,.. ertkle, you will want to
try to identify the most appropriate journal for its publication. Onu
you've done that, you'U also nttd to know who to send your mario script to and in what format. One strategy for accomplishing these

tasks is to usc the World Wide Web.
Most journal publishers have Web pages nowadays. These Web
pages provide useful information to prospective authors. Thi_s typically includes not only a detailed description of the aims and scope
of a journ·aJ, but also its review policies and prOCedures, as well as its
editorial staff. In addition, most journal Web pages also provide de -

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signers could tho _ _ ,.,._,_..,.....__... ~":"',. ....
elect to reveal to the oonsumer the Baudrillard and J;&gt;aniel J.Boorstin.
interaction bctwccn themsdvcsand Stehtbcrs.ttplores their stalwart
the environment as they dance the insistence that we mwt defend the
night away-the calculated everyday distinction between re thematizat.ion, the relationship of

ality and illusion in order to battle

foodtogluttony,andaboveall,how
a commercial establishment perfonns the expressive work of demonstrating to us just what moves us,
what calms us, what turns us on.

the increasing dominance of irn age and artifice in our lives.
Stcmbcrgpointsout,howcver,that
the claim that technology-driven
capitalism has engrossed us in artificiality need not cause us "to pine for
the reality that has forgone. Nor do
we need to lament what some sec is
the oollapse of the distinCtions between reality and.imagc.lt is not the
case. according to him, that when we
t&lt;ardown this reliable barrier"wc fall
"ihto the W&lt;irlds'of illusio·n: simulation and simulacra."

Awareness for consumers

Consumers would be invited to
bcoomc aware of what~ them to
that place; what images were used to
&lt;Mlke a mponsc in. them, and bow,
and what music, decor, color, smells.
oostumes, service lichavior ·and activities were e:rnploy&lt;d in order to en-gag'elhem ih·a Sb3tid '&amp;ntisy.
Hyperreal environments have

If we want them to; he adds, long"dfaWn'ttie scholarly' attention
these eitviiilnmmts couJd'demon- of cpistemologists-philoSO"phers
strate which cultural signs and who study meaning and knowl symbols push our emotional but- ·edgt. Some have exp~ more
tons and how entrep reneurs u~ than a little concern that these
thiS information to sell products. commercial enterprises deliberThe producers oould, for instance, ately confuse illusion with reality,
demonstrate within the environ -

~ent" itself how

they s~ccessfully

identified those items f.uciliar to us
(cowboy hats, chcdcd tablecloths,
bunkhouse-style walls. the smell of
cha=dmeat.forinstancr) andthen
attached meaning to them (nostalgia, the Old West, 1950s "B" movies,
cozy folks, adventurous oommunity,
voraciow frontier appetites) to draw
us to a site of shared meaning where
we can spend a lot of money.
A themed environment that

would l&lt;t us d&lt;tect its manipulative
devices, says Sternberg. would add
depth and meaning not only to the
(oommerrial) aperience, but to our
understand ing of how cult u re,

causing the public to lose its sense
of Wtiat hits ·autHentic value.
Sternberg says that as a result,
themed environments from

Disneyland to exotic-but-safe adventure vacations. "'tend to epitomize contemporary tendencies that

intellectuals commonly deplore."
He writes that while such places

may be exceedingly low-brow to
some. it is possible for them to
"awaken the viewer's critical facul.

tie. by prompting a self-awareness
c:l the very dcnotational and expressiv&lt; strategies" used by the producer
to imbue the product with meaning.
Drawing on the writings of such
n otable se mioticians as Jean

·I'

•

Sternberg agrees witli Nelson
Gobdman's 'theory of referentiality, which identifies even deliberately illUsory ~mmercial productions as '"autheDtic• if the thing
symbolized and the way it iss~ ­
bolizcd is detectable and d&lt;tected.
Such a production would aWaken
the viewer's critical fciculties .
Sternberg says there is no 'reason
why producers of hyperreat tnvi ronments couldn't deliberately
provoke such scrutiny in order to
enrich the customer's experience.

So someday Planet Hollywood
may become highly epistemological. It may urge its customers to
recognize its suggestion that the
quarter -pound Brad Pittburger
with a little Uma Thurman on the
side allows us to Literally make
youth, beauty, blandness, vigor
and fame one with our own furry

flesh and cholesterol-laden blood.
We are fantasy-cannibals .

c....-rrom-1

clock computer access and basic
technical support. as well as the abil-

ity to checl&lt; out rescrn: marerials.
In lockwood library, a second 24hour computing site will be constructed on the scrond ftoor acro5S
from the circulation desk in the miaoform and newspaper section. Th&lt;
sit&lt;, whid&gt; willallow!Orindividualand
group work. also will include about so

computers and/or open ports.
A third oomputing siti' ·in the Science and Engin«ring library (SEL).
locatedonthesouthsideofUGJ.:sthird
ftoor, will replace the =a's existing
UNIX terminals. The site. to be struc~ specifically for collaborative
studying and group projects. will be
aa:essiblc during normal library hours
and will oonsist of approximately 40
oomputers and/or open ports.
CIT's existing computer lab in the
SEL cannot accommodate the in -

creased student demand for com·
puling reSources, Roberts noted.
The fourth site, accessible during
tibraryhours, will be on Lockwood's
third ftoor, ~approximately 20
fully equipped individual computer

tailed instructions for prepanng and submitting manuscripts, nght
down ro the publisher 's preferred style for formatting bibliographiC
references.
One way to find the \Veb pages of JOurnals is to search the UB
Libraries listing of Electronic Journals and Serials at http:/ I
ubllb.buff•lo.edu/llbr•rtes/e- resources/ eJoum•ls. This list,
whi ch currently provides descriptive information and links to more

than 1,200 jou rnal Web pages, can be browsed alphabetically by title
or sea rched by keyword or subject. A work-in-progress, new titles
are continually being added to the list. Since the journal you may
want to submit your manuscript to may not yet be listed here. an other strategy is to make use of a Web search engine, such as Aha Vista
(http:/ / www.altaYist.o.dlgltal.com). With AltaVista, you can type
in a journal's name inside quotation m arks, e.g., .. Marketing Educa tion Review," and locate that journal's Web page, if it has one. O r, if
you know who publishes th e journal, you can access the publisher's
Web site usi ng one of the many publishers'lists on the World Wide
Web, such as Faxon's Publ.ishers on the Internet A-Z at http:/1

www.fuon.com/ html/lt_pl_am.html. For a subject-oriented ap·

proach, you can use Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com to find journals under any of a number of subject categories.

For assistance in·connectirtg to the World Wule Web,. corttact the CIT
Hdp D&lt;5lc at 645-3542

-·i.cy SChiller oiod Will He,;i...: ·.;;,~~lty Ubrarfes

Awakening critical faculties

Computer sites
from its individual-carrel setting to a
more spacious, aesthetically pleasing cnviroruncnt with approxirnatcly
SO oomputers and/or open ports intmpersed throughout the study area.
The south oomputing a= and the
UGL circulation desk will remain
OP"n after normOI library hours to
provide students with around-the-

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workstations and I0 open ports will
replace the wooden carrels that tine
windows facing the atrium.

Margaret Wells,directorofthe UGL.
is initiating de\dopment of training
programs fOr the sites. Plans include
helpttnters in each library, where professionals will be available during

working hours to provide one-on-one
consulllltion and hands-on ""'istana!
for students with oomputing problems. "We will try to provide a variety
of servi=. such as on-line help and
paper handouts--&lt;ina:wc realizeeadl
student learns differently." said Wells.
"Our goal is to also offi!r a series of
weddy~!Orstudentstolcam

about the WoQd WK!e Web, BISON,
Netscape and Microsoft Office ...

DrieD
ASCE to hold annual concrete- ·
canoe; steel-bridge contests
They'll be.pPttl"!!J their "shoulders" to the metal and their "oars"
in the water during the American Society of Civil Engineers' regional
conc~ete·canoe and steel-bridge competitions to be held on Friday
and Saturday at UB.
'
More than 200 engin~ring students from 14 colleges and universities in New York and Canada, including UB, will demonst rate their
brains and brawn at the events on UB's North Campus.
The competitions on land and in the water will begin at 8 a.m .
Saturday, with the canoes being tested in Lake LaSalle and the bridges
being built on the Alumni Tennis Courts. Awards will ~ presented
at a banquet at 7 that evening in the U nter for Tomorrow.
Student teams in the bridge competition will assemble their designed, fabricated, scaled-down versions of bridges to .. repla ce .. an
antiquated, heavily traveled hypothelicaJ one crossing a river valley
in a mountainous area.
The bridge competi tion is sponsored by the American Institute
of Steel Construction, co-sponsored by the American Iron and Steel
Institute, the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation and the Na tional Steel Bridge Alliance.

Guiseppe Andres to deliver
Witebsky Memorial Lecture
Extending •nd enh•nclng hum•n life through organ transplants
wiU be the topic of the 28th Annual Ernest Witebsky Memorial Lec-

ture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Sponsored by the Deparrmcnt of Microbiology and the Ernest Witebsky
Center for Immunology. it will be free and open to the pubtic.
Guiseppe A. Andres, who was a member of tfte UB medical fac ulty from J970 until his retirement in 1990, will deliver the lecture
in Farber Hall 's Butler Auditorium on the South Campus.
A professor emeritus and former researcher at UB, Andres as an
immunopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, visiting pro fessor of pathology at Harvard University Medical School and clini -

cal professor of pathology at Columbia University"s Collrge of Physicians and Surgeons.
Andres' lecture wiU focus on the importance of and progress on
allografts-human organ transplants between individuals other than
identical twins-and xenografts--cross-species transplants from
animals to humans.

�Regional collaboration growing,··reports say

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UB projects reveal strong interest in cost-effective efforts among governments
Westem New Yo,.. goYemmentl and other public-service entities have an "impressive and encouraging' record of
cost -effective collaboration and
a growing interest in more such
efforts as an app roach to building a stronger region.
Those are the conclusions of
two reports released last week by
the Institute for LocaJ Governance and Regional Growth at
UB. One of the reports details
outcomes of a municipal-school
district collaboration p roject
conducted over the past year in
northern Erie and Genesee
counties. The other summarizes
ongoing collaborations among
governments in nine Western
New York counties.
"These reports are valuable
not only because they offer
models that area governmen ts
ca n use and replicate ,"' sa id
john B. Sheffer, ll, director of
the institute, "but also because
they give encouragement that
if we now go about the task of
regional cooperation in an even
more deliberate and aggressive
manner, it can really add up to
something substantial in terms
of the costs, efficiency and
competiliveness of the region
in the 21st century."

Send!~
to
the
Tho Rtporttrwo:lcomosi&lt;Um

from - . comrnenlin9 on its
stories and oontenl letters
should be limited to 800 WOlds
and may be edited"" style and
length. Letters must IoeWe the
writer's name. address and a daytime relephone number"" vorilication. Because of space rlrTlia~ the

Rtpo&lt;ttrOIIVlOt pubish
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considefed ""publication in that
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ducted in the 60th State Senate District with funds provided by Sen.
Mary l.ou·Rath, chair of the Senate
Committee on Local GovernmenL

hoped for when this project was
launched," said Rath. "Tbe Municipal-School District Collaborations
Program has been so successful that
we have initiated a statewide pilot

under this program, a total of eight
partnermips between municipalities and school dis~ricts rece.ived
support for collaborative efforts.

based on the same model"
The second report released by the
institute contains the results of a survey conducted last fall in Erie,
Niagara. Ode3ns, Gentsee, l.ivinglton.
Wyoming, Allegany, Cattaraugus,

Spurred by these incentive

and Chautauqua counties. More

grants, the five projects funded in

than I00 municipalities responded,
reporting some 264 intermunicipal

ln two rounds of incentive grants

the first round of the p rogram
have achieved significant successes
in terms of improved efficiencies
and cost savings. For exam ple, an

effort jointly conducted by ByronBergen Central School District
and the Village of Bergen in
Genesee County anticipates that ,
by purchasing its electric power
from the village, the district can
realize annual savings of $175,000.
In another project, the KenmoreTown of Tonawanda Union Free

School District and the Towri of
Tonawanda jointly developed a

natural-gas fueling facility, saving
S300,000 in construction costs for
a separate station and vastly im-

proving fueling efficiencies for both
the town and the district.

Both projects were injtiated with
program grants of $20,000 or less.
"These are the kinds o( results we.

either steady or growing interest ih collaboration with other
municipalities and service provid~rs . as compared to five
years ago."
Collaborations reporu:d in the
survey included joint efforts on
public-works projects, public
safety and other key services. In
addition to succa.s stories. the

report includes detailed lists of
specific collaborations and
partners listed by each municipality that responded.
Sheffer believes tbat the two
reports clearly indicate both a

arrangements that, in some cases,

extend back to the 1800s.
"That 's just the total for about

basis for, and a continuing in-

terest in, shared services.
"We at the institute believe
these reports clarify a key point

37 percent of the municipalities

surveyed," Sheffer said,"which tells
us that even this active picture of
coUaboration is just a fraction of
what's going on out there."'

Not only iS regionalism not a
new and radical idea, it's something that's been going on here

Kathryn A. Foster, UB professor
of planning who conducted the
survey, noted, "Wha~s so striking

for over a century in some
cases, and local governments
are eager to do more of it.
.. The important task now is

is not o nly the impressive number
of intermunicipal arrangements,
but also their b r~dth . You name
the service, some municipality in
Western New York is providing it
coUaboratively. Even services that
many believe wiU never regional ize, like police and planning, are
represented in some of the reported collabor.itions.And 97 per-

to both understand and accelerate the effort. For the BuffaloNiagara region to be competitive, we must pick up the pace
of regional initiatives."'
Copies of both reports are ·
available !Tom the Institute for
Local Governance and Re gional Growth a! 829-3777.

cent of the resP:Qndents .r.eport~

Web-based program m
&lt;@&gt;
'personalizeS' campus visit · Wl&amp;qlla.

Preview -Day
Con~'"""-' ·

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By ARTHUR PAGE

News SeMces Director

o many choices. So little time.

S

That's the predica ment fac ing the more than I ,SOOaccepted students and their
family members who will attend
Preview Day 1998 on Saturday.
They wiUhave six shon hours to
visi t the North and So uth ca m puses; tour facilities; learn about
crucial areas. such as fmancial aid,
academic advisement and information tec h nology; meet facu lt y
members and students at the de·
par tmentaJ level, and part icipate in
speciaJ events. And that's not any-

where near half of the activities they
will be offered by a university thai
prides itself on th e numbe r o f
choices it provides students.

ston, UB W ings webmaster, and
Kevin Eye, freshman computer engineering major who is a student
assista nt in the Electronic Media
Unit in the Office of Publications.

"This gives us an opportunity to
provide good customer service on
the Web by not making our visitors
look in a million places for informa·
tion, but to bring the information
the y want to them ," exp lai ned

Rebecca Bernstein, leader of the UB
Web Team and director of the Electronic Media Unit. "We're the first
university in the U.S. to offer such a

Web-based program based on information relationships. The key to UB
Explorer;· she adds, "is its ability to
sa tisfy info rmation - rela tio nship

needs by facilitating 'marriages' be-

get major assistance in making their
selections fro m a one-of-a-kind ,

tween the info r mation and the
needs of thee-visitor."
The result: A campus visit that
wi ll be mo re personalized and en-

Web-based program called UB Ex-

joyable and, hopefully, incrj!Ose the

plorer that 's making its debut at
Preview Day 1998 as the preferred
alternative to the traditional o nesize- fi ts-all scheduJe still used on
campuses across the country.
As the directions on th e UB Ex plorer Web site ex:plai n to accepted
studen ts. "We can't put you in two
places at once, but UB Explorc.•r
will personalize a schedu le to get
you to the events you want to see."
The electronic breakthrough in
event scheduling was developed by
the UB Web Team in partnership
with the Office of Admission s.
Building th e si te were Ross Win -

likeli hood that an accepted stu dent will enroll in the fall .
Accepted student s were provided with the URL for the site in
mater ial promoting Preview Day
and told th at UB Explorer was
ava ilable fo r their usc at any time.

Accepted students this year will

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

The Municipal-School District
CoUaborations Program was con-

UB Explorer asks them to check
hoxcs based on more than I50 areas
of interest (from "accounting" to
"women's st udies"), as we ll as
whether they want to learn more
about topics including academics,

campus life, the residence halls, finan cial aid, t«:hnology on campus, etc.
O nce they have completed and

submitted the. fonn, they get a
preliminary schedule based on
their interests and which they can

partments, indifding the brology, ·
chemistry an~ physics facilities;
the Pharmacy Museum; the Cen-

use to funher refine their visit. It

ter for the Arts , and Alumni
Arena.
Walking to u rs of the North

asks them to check the box next
toeacheventtheywant to attend,
while highlighting in red those
thai conflict with others. Once
the boxes are checked, students

Campus will leave from t t 2
Nor ton Hall every IS minutes.
Bus and walking tours of the
North and South campuses also
are scheduled; participants will
need to obtain passes in advanu
to part icipate.

dkk on "continue" to produce a

final itinerary and a campus map
o n which buildings in which
events they selected will be held
are numbered according to their
schedule. Both the schedule and

lnfonnallon offered at many mes

customized map are printt ble.
Bu t what if students change
their mind before Preview Day?
What if during their visit they
hear good reviews about an
event that's not on their sched-"....

ulcl No problem. By repeating
the p,roc&lt;SS. they can change their
schedule, producing a new itineraryand map at any time before
Saturday. During Preview Day,
they can refine their schedule using kiosks with computers and
printers that will be accessible to
the visitors around campus.
When student s arrive on
ca mpus for Preview Day, they
will find their virtual travel
guide also will serve as a virtual
post office from which they will
be ab le to e-mail a friend a Preview Day Postcard featuring a
message and a campus scene.
To see how UB Explorer
works, go to http :/ I
www.buff•lo.~u/e.xplorer

In formation about US 's academic programs wilJ be offered at
vario~s sites on the North Cam-

pus throughout the day. Repre-

'1

sentatives from Financial Aid ,
Student Accounts, Academic Ad visement, Ca reer Planning and
Placement, and Dining Services
also will be available to answer
question s.
And j u st in case heads a re
s wimmi ng from information
ove rload, entertainm ent will be
o ffered to provide a respite. A
number of exhibits and films will
bt' on display at various campus
sites, and several performances
are planned, including the Buf-

falo Chips. US's men's a cappella
e nsemble; Studiowerks and
Zodiaque Dance Company, theater and dance troupes presented
by th e Departme nt of T heat re
a nd Dance; the UB Saxopho ne
Quartet , and Dillar, an avant garde stu dent rock and jazz trio.

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Scholarship to benefit pharmacy students
A new scholanhip fo r students in the School of Pharmacy, has been established through a S 150,000 gift
from june Larwood to honor the memory of her late
husband, Lorren, a 1939 graduate of the school, who
died in 1996.
The Lorren Larwood Memorial Scholarship, set up
th ro ugh a charitable gift annuity, will provide a full
scholarship to fourth-year pharmacy students. Re cip ien ts will be selected based on academic achievement, demonst rated leadership in the pharmacy
school and service to the UB and Western New York
communities.
June Larwood, who also attended UB and received
a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology
in 1940, said the gift provid es a way to "contribute a
sizable amount to the school, as well as provide financial help to students who really need it. After see-

ing my husband work 30 to 40 hours a week while
studying at UB,I hope this scholarship will help make

it easier for future students to concen trate more on
their studies and not be concerned with payi ng fo r
their education."
Wayne K. Anderson, dean of the pharmacy school,
said the scholarships will help th e school to expand
and open up opportunities for pharmacy students.
Lorren was owner of Larwood Pharmacy in East
Aurora until1967, when he retired and sold the store.
Two years later, he and his family moved to Florida.
He was active in various community organizations,
including serving as past president of the Kiwanis
Club of East Aurora and the East Aurora Chamber
of Commerce. He was a member of the Ellicott Drug
Co. Board of Directors, and UB Pharmacy Alumni
Association.
-By PAULA wrntEJlEU., Reporter Contriburor

Events calendar
Continued--.

Wednesday

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information, an Charles Wenner at 845·
3261.

Phonn.D . -

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2t 6 ~tural Sdonces. No&lt;th c.mpu..
H0-5:3() p.m . ~ by o.pt. of
Phannacy
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Exhibits

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I t T - s-lllddng: Yak..

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residents of two former coal-mining
towns in Virginia. tt features
photographs by v.llbur H•yden. former
associate dean of sodal 'NOf1t at UB, now
director of the l'lll$ttr of social 'WOftt

~~thehisCa=~~~~

former gr.td~te student, Oera
Williams. The exhfbit will be on dnplay
through May~oublde the Mainstage
thea~ in the Center for the Arts.

~~-;,E•M5:.Publk Photograf»&gt;u,

-

First·year MFA candidates will exhibit
exciting new work in painting,

printmaking, sculpture, photography

and mixed media in the UB Art Gallery,
second floor, Center for the ArU,

~~~ro·:~~~~r~un ..

noon to S p.m. for more informnion,
un 645.6878, veL 1l49.
Soda! Photognphy Exh1blt

·Photography: ~!&lt;ginners Blessed••
an-ofp/1olograph5byU8

undergraduate """"""- is on display

tlvoogh May 8 Or1 the tnt floor of the

=.~the~Lrory

ExiDt may be '""-d Mon.-Thurs., 8
a.m.-11 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-9 p.m .; SaL, 9
a .m .-9 p.m.; Sun., noon-11 p.m.
Pftertwley

Pnltoa

'"The Peter Halley ProfK\." a ~ries of

temporJry pubtic art protKts designed
to engage the UB community in a
diak&gt;gue about contempcnl)' art and
iuoes, is on display in the Center for the
Arts and at various sites on tht North
C.mws throug~ July. For more
infonnatK&gt;n, aU 64S-6912.
~-AMMrt

AsJO&lt;Mta bhlbk

An exhibit by thr architecture,

Walkef Evo~ powerful images of the
rural poor will be on display in tht UB

engineeri09 and surveying firm will be
on display •n the James Dyett Gallery,

~~~~intl:...-~r~h~rough

~h~~
_;,;1~, ~th Campu1,

Campus.

"Walkef Evons: Public Photographs,
1935-37," If!: his most fatl"'IUS WOfb.

lbals bhlbft

Thursday

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Opus: Clusks-

~~~.r~s

Gallefy hours are Wed.-Sat, 10:30 a.m.

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..All Abundance of Riches.: Resources on
\o\bmen in l.odcY.tood l..ibr.wy," an exhibit
of
experiences of

materials dorumonling

-......,.at 4 Plus Lecture

""""""
past and is on di5play
through April 3() in l.od&lt;wood library In

~~~~~~rtc~~~r;-2~~-

:;"~ima=~..

p.m.
' Pegrum Lecture Series
LM: Thin Sections: A New Approo&lt;h to

~'cru'r!J=-~6
Natural Sciences. North Umpus. 3:30-

4:3()

p.m. 5pomored by Dept. of

~~~.'::'.:!:~;!'"

645-6800, ext 6t00.

PhMmacoutlcs Seminar
Phormocodynamlcs of Poc:llwel:

:;-:;;.':!:::;:: ~'""b::!~r%
stOOent.

Fetterly, graduate
Pharmaceutics. 508 Cooke. North
Cam pus. 3:30-S p.m . Sponsored by
Pharmaceulio Dept.

-

Biological Sdenc:es Semln•r

S tructure and Function In the
tnttllition of Tr• nscriptkMl by T7 RNA
P~.ue . Dr. Craig T. 'Martin, Univ.
of Mo.uachusetu, Dept. of Chemist~.

~~~-~~-~~~XS~~~~s

Sciences. For ll"'If'e information, call Dr.
Gerry Koudelka, host, at 64S· l489.

Physics Colloquium
Stid&lt;y Avolonches. Prof. Michael Bmz.
o.pt. of Phy&gt;ia, Univ. of Michigan. 20S
NaturiJI Sdences. No&lt;th Compus. 3:45-S

p.m.
Musk Lecture

~~~~

4 p.m.~ by o.pt. of Music. for
""""rlomlatioo, colt 64S-2921 .

the unimited materials available on the
Internet. l.inry hours in t.Aon.-Thun., 8

a.m. to 10:.-45 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-9 p.m.;
Sat, 9 a.m-5 p.m. and Sun .. 1-5 p.m.
~~~: paintings by
~Buffalo

Arts Studto, 2495 Main St.,
Buffalo, ~u an exhibit.
"Crremoniallanch," ~i ntings by
Leandro Solo, IKturer In Theatre and

~~~--~~~a~=~sa~~!..
Fri., 11 a.m .-5 p.m .

Rose Mendu.-Unlon Square
Union Square, by Rose Mendez. With

Michael Tunkey and Elaine Chow, will be
on exhibit from April 22 to May 18 m
t~ James Dyett Gallery, H4 Haye~ Hall,

South Campw.
MfA Th«sb Exhibition
~ Gr.~nd

Invention, an exhibition of
woriG by Jo&gt;eph Paul Berget, an MFA

=~~~~~~a~~~~
Niagara Univenity through April 26. The
exhibition features a machine ~ by

the artist which wm r.ght and extingu1sh
a large group of candles within a few
minutes.
bhlbft of ei'K Artists
The Carnegie Culrural Center. 240
Goundry SL, North Tonawanda, 11
t:xhibiting the wortc of artisu in the ePIC
Program at UB through April 25. The
show presents woril: of UB printmaking
graduates and advanced printmaking

~==t~~,~.~~ p.m.;
SaL, 1-4 p.m .

8

Heath Bartel, Master of Fine ArU The)r ~
Exhibit. Art ~rtment Gallery, Center

~~~ ~rs~ +~~~9a~~~/ ;.m.

Wed .-Fri ., 10 a.m .-8 p.m.; Sat .• 11

a.m.-6p.m.

Notic~ ....
New Yorit Sut.e Employees'

Retirement System
Pre-ltedrement Seminar
0

~~r=n~ s~~:eis~·~mrnar

on reti~nt planning for ernployee:5
enroUed in the Employees' Retirement
System, from all ben, within frve yea~ of
retirement efigibility.
~

De.• r Editor.
I read the article by Arthur Page about the achievements of the eight
men who will get Alumni Awards. I recogni.u theii- accomplishments.
Now, in the spirit of moderate statement, I ask that SUNY at Buffalo faculty members send to the Alumni Association the no..mes of
some outsta nd ing women alumnae. In my 31 years of teaching he.re,
I have had approx.imately equa1 numbers of women students who
have certainly had the intelligence, originality, individua1ity, achieve·
ment and dete_rmination to merit an Alumni Award.
With good wishes for the Alumni Association's f~ture.
- VIc Doyno, English Depanment

BrieBy
Investor education conference
to be held Saturday

G,.....e Show-flnt.Year

McKain,

s~ by Dept. of Music. For """"
informotion, call 645-292t "' &lt;Mt¥://

lint-..-l.ectureE..._,

The

Blind. Sarah L

Faculty asked to send names of
outstanding women for awards

seminar is a one-day event being

offered on Friday, June S, at the Center

lor Tomorrow on the North Campus

'The Prudent Investor," an investor education conference, will be
held Sa turday in the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N.
Forest Road, Amherst. Sponsored by the Securities Cli nic, the con·
ference is a collaborative program of the UB schools of Law and
Management, and the Ge ra1d and Sandra Lippes Endowment for
Entrepreneurial Law and Strategy. It will begin at 8 a.m. and con ·
tinue through 5 p.m.
Topics to be discussed include investing for retirement and edu·
ca tion, factors to consider before im·esting, how taxes affect invest ment strategies, the Roth IRA, how capital marke~s operate and arc
regulated , and how to resolve securities brokerage acco unt disputes
through arbitration and mediation.
Securities fraud, including fraud on the Internet, will be addressed
at the noon luncheon by keynote speaker Edwin H. Nordlinger,
deputy regional director for the Northeast Regional Office of the
U.S. Securities and "Exchange Commission in New York Ci ty.
Guest speakers will be Valerie Bailey Johnston, senior attorney.
National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Regulation Inc ..
New York City, and David R. Robbins of Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin,
Gildin &amp; Robbins LLP. Johnston will discuss .. Dispute Resolu tion
Through Arbitration and Mediation." Robbins·· topic will bt' .. Evalu ating Your Securilies Arbitration and Mediation Case."
Speakers from UB will be Joseph P. Ogden, chair of the Depart ment of Finance and Manageria1 Economics in the School of Man·
agement, who will discuss .. The Basic Factors to Consider Before
Investing," and Cheryl C. Nichols, clinical instructor of law, on .. The
Regulatory Framework of the Securities Market."
A panel discussion of genera1 investment opportunities moderated by Ogden will include Suzanne M. Novelli, financia1 consu ltant
with Mo ldenhauer and Associates; Patrick J. Carmody, Private Cli·
ent G roup, Merrill Lynch, and David E. Mickey, investment executive with M&amp;T Securities, Inc. Donald G. McGrath of Falk &amp; Siemer
LLP will moderate a panel on investing for reti rement and edu ca·
tion. Pan elists will include Ann Burstein Co hen , UB adjunct a ss a ~ ­
tant professor of accounting and law; Stephen Horan of St.
Bonaventure University; Novelli; Carmody, a nd Mickey.
Ogden and Nichols a re co-di rectors of UB 's Securities Clime,
which will become fully operational in the faJI.lt will be one of three
pilot securities a rbitrati on clinics sponsored by the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commiss ion.

Student alumni board receives
three District II awards

Time accruals should not be charged

The UB Student Alumn i Bo•rd (USAB ), th e student affiliate of

Registration has begun-to make a
resetVation, contact Persoilnel Serw:.e1
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the UB Alumni Association, recently was re-cognized for It s program,
leadership and enthusiasm at the Spring 1998 Distract II Student
Alumni Association/StudentlFoundation {SAA/SF ) c:o nference held
at Albright Co ll ege in Reading. Pa.
USAB was recognized as the Most Sparited O rgamz.auon m District II.
its annual 001Jest event received the award for Most Outstanding Program in District II and Anna Furgiuele,a scmor and USAB prcs1dent. wa..,
honored as the Most Outstanding Student Member of I &gt;1st net II .
A busi ness major concentrating in marke tin g. Furgwdl· • ~ an
admissions intern, a resident advisor, an o n entatlo n aad e and a selected participant in the- STARS (Student Admb~aon~ a nd Recruit
ment Specialists ) program. She also tutors mternat• onal student!&gt; m
the UB English Language Institute.
Furgiuele, a nominee for the National Paper Chp Commumcauon!o
Resident Advisor of the Year Award, rl'("ently wa3 acccptl-d anto UB's C. ol
lege S1udent Services Development Grad uate Program for Fall 1998.
Oozfest, now in its 14th year, is the largest, co ntanu o u~ volleyb.:tll
in ~ the · mud tournament on a coll ege or universi ty campus.
Furgiuele served as chair of Oozfest '97, which mcluded 96 tea m ~
made up of more than 1,000 US students, as '"ell a~ representat1ve3
from area busi nesses and organizations.

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Pitches
Singin'and dancm ' for an
appreciative crowd in Slee on
April 1 are The Royal Pitches,
UB's all-women a cappella
group. The Royal Pitches, with
14 current members, was
founded in 1996.

Research center to focus on urban problems
School ofSocial Work unit to initiate, test interventions for today's socio-economic ills
By MARY II£TH SPINA
News Services Editor

T

HE School of Soe~a l

Work ha s announced

plans to open a research
center devoted to seek-Ulg solutions to problems faced by
today's urban society.

Set to open in the fall , the Center for Research o n Urban Social

Work Practice is the "brainchild "
and longtime dream of the school's
new dean , Lawrence Shulman. It
was pres('nted by Shulman as part

of his vision sratement when he

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interviewed for the position with
Provost Th'omas E. Hbdrick.
Shulman said a center focusing on
research related to urban soc ial·
wo rk issues .. is unique among
schools of social work. The emphasis on partnership with agencies and
interdisciplinary collaborations re-

ncct s the school's way of movang
forward on the general direction of
the m ission of this university."
The provost's office. he added ,
will fund the center 's infras tru'"·ture for three years.
"Today's urban centers and surrounding communities are faced
with numerous socio-economiC ills
10 the midst of slashed or eliminated
government funding and dwindling
resources," Shulman noted.
Viewing these conditions as chal lenge s nther than o bs tacles,
Shulman said he's upbeat about the
center's goals and its ability to Iden tify factors that increase the resil ience of at-risk individuals, famil1~
organizations and com m unities.
"Complex social problems havl·
no simple answers, cannot be ad dressed by a si ngle profess1on o r
discipline and demand the expcr·

tiM.' of IndiVidua ls who pool ideal&lt;&gt;.
cx pen1se and resources to crea tl'
..o lutions," he added .
"With th e1r educa t1on.
gro und Jnd expcncnce," he l&lt;&gt;31d.
the ~c h oo l'~ facu lt y memben ~a r c
10 a good positiOn to 1denllf\'
problems and lll!tlate and test nev.·
Intervention s
\o\fhile the ce nter will he located
an Baldy Hall on the North Ca m pus and associated wnh the School
of Soe~al Work, 11 ~ proJects also
...,,..IJ be co ndu cted on the South
Ca mpus. as well as at commum tybased sates. C urrent proJect s tn
volvtng facu lt y members and rt&gt; sca rc her s wi ll come under the
ce nter's umbrella. Sh ulman noted .
Research assistants and doctoral
st udents also will be mvolw:d .
Shu lman sa 1d a number of tht&gt;
p roJects have been funded a nd an.·

h"'"

m progre~. He Cited a5 an exampll·
a proJect work1ng With homell'l&lt;&gt;!l
people 10 a Salvat 1on Army shd
ter tn prepare them and their chi!
Jrcn for transition 10 permanl"nl
hou~mg . Ot her resea rch wtll fcxm
on 1ssuelt tncluding the ram1fica
t1ons of cnme, pOverty. teen preg nancy and unemployment.
Shulman announced th at the
center will be directed by Brenda
A. Miller, an internat1onaJJ)' known
~.:ho lar .tnd researcher m the flrl·a
of family \'Jolence and addict10nl&lt;&gt;
who has served as deput~,. d!rectur,
and then acting director. of the Re
...earch Institute on Addicttons.
" Rrenda Mi!Jer IS an out'itandmg
resea rcher and administrator: it 1s
a real feather in our cap that wt~
have been able lO get her," he added.
Shulman Said Miller will bl·

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Welcome mat is out for senior auditors
By PAT11KIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

ou

Y

may have been in

class with o ne of them:

that 78-year-old veteran
who actually flew th e
missio ns desc ribed in an assigned
reading from a joseph Heller novel;
the Oklahoma native who en riched
her graduate history seminars with
viv id recollectio ns of Dust - Bowl
life. abandoned childr en a nd
mountain witchcraft; the retired
police lieutenant tn the gray eiderdown jacket who seems to know
more abou t the Punic Wars than
the instructor. l-le says he was there.
They're UB "senior auditors''mcn and women over 60 whose lives
are enthusiastic testimomal.s to the
joys of lifelong learning. The1r con ·
tributions to university clas..o;es are
legion. Faculty members say tht·y
add depth and richness to da~ discussio ns and inform conversations

in the disciplines in ways that con
tribute mightily to you nger students'
learning experience. In fact, many
professors can't get enough of them .
Although not ce ntr alized o r
highly marketed, the semor auditor
program is o ne of the most commu
nity-friend ly and popu lar at UB. It
offers those eligible frt."&lt;' and open
access to virtually any course offered
at the university on thl· undcrgradu
ate and graduate levels and m th&lt;·
professional schools.
" I think people should know thJt
not eve ry universit\' has ~uch a
wonderful program," scud auditor
Yvonne Smith of Buffalo, a rl'tlred
fami ly therapiSt who has been part
of the program for three years. "Tht&gt;
bu 1ldings are ugly- well , w nu•.
they ar('--but inside there an: won ·
derful. warm, gifted, very fn endlr
people. No one should be afraid of
being left out or alone if th ey audit
classes. You'll fit right in."

Smith said sht&gt; loves educalional
elder hostels and durmg a session
at the Un1ver sit)' of Flor1da,
Ca mesvilk those she &lt;ipnkt· w11h
were amazed when to ld .tbout
u s ·~ auditing program.
"We're so lucky m Buffalo," sht·
l&lt;.a ld . " I don 't th1nk most people
realize what po~i bilittes there are
tor them at LIB . lt 'l&lt;&gt; a fantast it rt'
'ource for th1s ~..ommumtv."
L1B's semor auditors attend cJas..so
nn .1 space-available basis, aJthough
there is nearly always space available
T he only exception to that rule i~
that Juditors,like enrolled studen!S..
are rcqu1red to have completed rcqutred clas:, prerequ•sit e:s. The pro
gram ha.s no o ther academ1l re
t.JUircments and the lx'St part L'i that
there are no c.xammattons to take or
papers to wnte.
Rita Lipsit z, rece ntly rctm·d as
si~tant to the cha1r of the Depart ·
men ! o f Fnglish. ha ~ enco uragt•d

and advised semor learner&lt;; on an
f). officro bas1s for several de~.-Jde.!o
and co nt1nu el&lt;&gt; to do l&lt;&gt;O J~ a un1
vcrsa tv volunteer.
.. Rita ·~ heen marvelou.l- owr tht•
V&lt;'ats," sa1d Hilda Kor~n . Jn I~
wa r auditor Jnd wtfc of the IJtt·
Robert Koren, former cha1r t ll th t'
U B CounCil. "All of us HI the pn1
grJJTI tru st her and .. he\ ht.•t.•n nl
cnormom hdp to all ol u..,"
Llpl&lt;&gt;lll sa td she doubt~ thJt tht&gt;
dUd lt Orl&lt;&gt; "realize how mu1..h la1. ulh
memhers lovt· to have them m tht'lr
das.s. Every Sl'nH?Ster th&lt;:v .:all and
.L~k me to :-end them mo re audnon.."
She noted that mort' th.tn \00
.tnnua lh .lllend a rts and letlt'r'
dJUrltCl&lt;&gt; alone. Nllll' Jud1ton~ lllh.t'
'ihowed up ~n masse lor a mythnl
ogy cla.&gt;..!i taught bv D1ane C hn.!o
J.tan , SUNY Distinguished Teach
mg Profc~sor 111 the Department
ol English . C hnst1an latl' r told
Coou'"-d.,.pegoe•

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BRIEFLY
Emily Tall is associate professor of Russian
in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
and director of the undergraduate Russian program at UB,
which is the only institution of higher education in Western
New York that offers more than one year of Russian instruction.

Women's Institute

plans Celetntlon of
Women Iii Scholarship
April I 7 will miit tho lnslltub!
for Reseorch end fducallon on
women end Gencler's lint onnuol c-.uon o1womon end
Scholonhlp,to loire pila! from
noon to 4 p.m. in Hanlmln 'Hall
on tho South Campus.
. Higl1ligl1b wlllndudo.
panel d _dblingubhed loaAty,
paoter- oi scholartywith a focus on_,.., ,-d/ot
gender end..,"""'- in tho

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final concert c:K season
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How did you become Interested In Russl•n studles7

I got interested in Russian accidentally. I was in my third year at Cornell , I was making out my program, I was a French major and a
friend who had taken Russian sug·
gested I take iL J was the best student, I had great teachers {one of
whom sang and played the guitar),
it was an exciting time to be studying Russian (soon after Sputnik)
and I got hooked.
Ar:e you seeing growing Inter·
est In t.he study of ltussa.n
l•nguage and culture?

Unfortunately noL The U.S. has lost
interest in Russia. It's not a threat any
more, and all you see in the papers
are reports of violence and ecological catastrophes. Paradoxically, it's
now easier to study, travel and work
in Russia than ever before, and there
are lots of opportunities fOr young
Americans who go there.

Why Is Rus""'n considered sudt
a difficult language to team 1
One reason is the alphabet, but
that 's really illusory. Actually, one
third of the letters are like English
and another third are like Greek.
By the first month of class, every·
one ha s learned tht&gt; alphabet.
Other difficulties are the gram ·
mar-there are six sets of case
endings to learn-a nd the vocabu lary, which is less familiar than
Spanish, French or even German.
But we make up for that by going
more slowly, so that three years of
Russian, say, are like two of French.
But people do learn it, and, espe cially with the opport unities for
travel ava ilable nowadays, there
a re plenty of young American s
who speak the language very well.

Christlnollld.l

loon Oonzlg

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llel&gt;ewofomhom
Kevin 8osirukl

t.obllal&lt;e&lt;

·-Donovan
Ellen Goldboum
Mo&lt;ytle!hSf&gt;""

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McGinnis

Brent CunnlngNm

the Solovki prison camps held at
the Cinematographers' Union, and

I also attended the first meeting of

There are the old standbys, like
teaching or librarianship, but there

the Memorial Society (devoted to
victims of repression). where J

also are opportunities in educa -

heard Andrei Sakharov speak. Who
ever knew that the whole Soviet
Union would collapse only three
years later! A!. for the second part
of the question, I guess I would say
that I liked the people. They always
treated me very well, and I was a].
ways finding out new things.

tional

exchanges, journalism, gov·

ernment, law enforcement, intelli-

gence and the private sector. I am
constantly Seeing notices on the
Internet for people to manage various kinds of projects in Russia, from
health, to education, to agriculture,
to accounting. There are 40,000 na-

tive speal&lt;as of English in Moscow
alone, for aample, and they have to
be: earning a living there somehow.
C::ompanies here that do business
with Russia also use speal&lt;en of Russian. Lots of information is available
on the Internet. One job site is maintained by the Ameriean Association
of Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages:
http:/ I
dover.slaYk.pltt.edu/-.,.tseel/
Jobs/Job-lndex.html
How m•y times h•ve you been
to Russ&amp;., •nd what do you en·

Joy most about the &lt;OIIntry7
I've been to Russia about nine
times, starting with a 1962 visit
during a time of relative liberalization and relaxation of tensions with
the WesL Then I made three trips
during the "time of stagnation ... in

t977 , t978and t979. Mymostexciting trip was during Fall 1988.

This was the hjgh point of glasnost.
Television and radio were growing
more daring every day. Trotsky was
mentioned aloud for the first time,
Lenin was criticized, the memoirs
of the wife of Nicholas Bukharin. a
murdered "devian t"' Communist
leader, were coming out, and so on.
I was lucky enough to atteod the
premier of a documentary fi lm on

How has lluula changed since
the flnt time , - Ylslted lt7

It's changed enormously. When I
visited in the '60s and '70s, people
wouldn't come to my hotel room
(u nl ess they were very bold or
didn't care if the KGB knew about
it), you had to call people from pay
phones bc:cause the hotel phones
were tapped and Soviet citizens
needed official permission to travel
abroad. During my last two visits.
in 1992 and 1994, Russia was a free
country. There was no fear anymore and people were bc:ginning to
ad independently, without government sanction. And then, of course,
fbere was th'e introduction of capi talism, wjth billboards advertising
Western goods instead of banners
exhorting the population to go
"forward to communism."

tonomy very highly. But Russians
may be: changing.
What do,- c - the
rnost rlp~t tltlng go-

Ing

on In llussla rlght·now7

Pet haps it'o the transition from
communism to a free society.
Will it succeed or will Russia go
back to some form of authoritarianism? It's also exciting to
see people acting on their own,
making their own future, without government direction.

know--.. ..

What's something people
don' t
sian studies

should?

prog...,.-

The main thing is that we cxistl
We have three years of Russian·
language instruction, which go
toward the minor and can also be:
combined with other courses for
a special major in Russian studies. We also have a study abroad
program in Tver, an old Russian
city not far from Moscow, where
several doun students have gone
in the past five years. Some stu·
dents have liked it so much
they've gone back for more, and
we've even had one marriage.
Some have gone with two or
more years of Russian, but we've

had some who wmt with no Russian at all or only one semester.

What do you consider the most Whet que•tlon do you wish
lmportjont difference between
I had uked; ilnd how would
Russian culture- American? _JOU have ensweftdlt7

That's one of those questions that
Russians and Americans can talk
about for hours, if not years. I suppose one great differcnet is between ·

collectivism and individualism. Russians have always been more oriented toward the group, while
Americans value individual au-

I guess if you had asked "why
study Russian?" I would have
answered: because it'5 the lan-

guage of the largest country in
the world, it's the language of a
great literature and great

people, and, most of all, bc:cause
it's fun and exciting.

Continuous learning vital to higher education

Speaker 5aj5leadership is crucial ifuniversities are to survive 'gusts ofcompetitiveness' Ill
By CHRimNE VIDAL
Reporter

Editor

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Wh•t JOrt of career options
are avallabte to • student pur·
wing Russian studtes7

ONDillONS arc chang·
in g in just abou t every

indu stry, including
higher education, and if
institutions arc to survive, they must
become " learning organizations."
This is the message that fohn C.
Redding, executive director of the
Institute for Strat egic Learning.
brought to Katharine Cornell Theatre o n April 2 as part of a p ro ·
gram o rganized by the Un ivers it y
Services Human Reso urce Devel opment Advisory Committee.
All Organi1.ations "need to deal with
the fundamentaJ question, 'h what
wc'n.• doing nO\.., going to be sul.'cessful
once the L111&lt;lsG1pe changes?"'" Redding
sa.id. " It \.Ya.Sn't that long ago that we
ran our org.'lllizatlutlS, managed our
organil.auons and stnJL1 un.xt our •.:a reen; as iftht' future \Ya\ going to he the
WJY it is today.. .and C\.b1011lt."'r.l \\\.Tl' b'O·
ing to want pretty much the same kmd
" he noted All that ha!&gt;

survivaJ of alJ kinds of organiza ·
tions, including higher education.
he said ... If higher educa ti on
doesn't recognize (that) , it will
become one of the dinosaurs of
the next ce ntury."
Technology is a key force that
has impacted the changes that are
occurring. And globa lization is
"throwing things up for grabs and
affecting how we compete,"

Reddi ng said.
The downsi zing trend of the
past decade also has played a role.
he added, and organizations .. need
to have people on the front lines
making dccis10ns that once were
resL·rved for managers ."
All of the\&lt;' force;.. he satd, are com·
mg together UlHl an "inherently un ·
&lt;it.tbl&lt;.&gt; cm'lronmcnt" of constant, ret
unpred11..1able. d1angc. And to copt:.·
with wh:11 R&lt;.-ddingcaJis"dtscontmu tlll!-. (hangc,'' organiz.attons and indi vtduab must focus on learn mg.
"What you k.J1ow now tsn't gomg
to get you employed in 10 yea(::.,'' he
said. Individuals and organizations
must cxpt•nd thet r efforts and en -

ergy thinking about the capabilities
that are going to be necessary to-

tinuous learning by providing resources such as roaches and learn -

morrow. uThe ability to learn faster
than your competitors may be the
only sustainable competitive advan-

ing guid~ training in "learning to
learn." and assigning projeru as vehicles for learning.
Leadership is crucial to becom-

tage."he said.
Redding outlined 12 building
blocks that are important to beco ming a successful continuous
learning organization: strategy and
vision; executive practices; managerial practices; climate; organizatjon and job structure; information
flow; individual and team practices;
work processes; performance goals
and feedback; training and education; individual and team develop ·
mcnt, and rewards and recognjtion.
Redding made a number of recommendations to help the universlly in us efforts to become a con ·
tinuou s learning organization.
He said it needs to learn from it s
dtvcrse experience and make respons ibility for learning part of
eve ryo ne's job. Advanced technol ogy and computer systems, he said.
Jrt· a vehicle for that lea rning. The
untversit)' v.·ill need to support con -

ing a continuous learning organi·
zation, Redding saidInformation and materials from
the April 2 presentation are avail ab le on the Web at http:/ I
wlngs.buffalo.edu/ HRD/ htm l/
events.html
A real -life example of how a cor·
poration can be a continuous learn ing organization was detailed in the
second ponion of the program by
Michael Waters, vice president of
human resource planning and de-

velopment at Xerox. Speaking from
Xerox'sexperiencesoverthepa31l5
years, Waters said it's important that
senior management sign on to the
'oncept of bring a learning organi·

zation. "Walk the walk,"he said. "Se·
nior teams must visually display
what it is to be a learning organization. This system is about leadership.

and learning is about leadership.'"

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FSEC hears Coleman, SA president
By SUE WUfTCHUI

News Servke:s Anodate Director

,

T

HE new president of the
undergraduate Student
Associatioo told memben
of the Faculty Senatr Executive Committee last week that she
plans to make communication a key
focus of her administration.
Naniette Coleman, addressing
senators at their April I meeting
along with new SA Vice President
Ron Kubiak, said that in past years
there had been a problem with information circulating between SA,
the student body, faculty members
and the UB administration.

.. Commonly, we walk forward on
hearsay or opinion, inst~d of just
going to each other and discussing
(issues)," she said "So we'd lik&lt; to
increase the possibility of coming
to the table.. to discuss issues "so
that we have a common und erstanding and can move forward.n
Coleman outlined several initiatives she said she would like to put
into place to improve communicat ion , including setting up per-

manent e-mail accounts for SA

''Evey..., of thew.,.,

- ·d

•etowwtl on comonunludon ...

It's Just • of us tJIIdng the done to com.ct -m _

_..

NANIE'TTI COUMAN

to work on communication," she
stressed.
Senate Chair Peter Nickerson,
professor of pathology, urged
Coleman and Kubiak to have a
reprtstntative attend FSEC meet ·
ings because "the issues we talk
about directly affed students."
Colemansuggestrd that the FSEC
and SA have a joint meeting to discuss "issues of the university." She
also said she has spok&lt;n with Den·
nis Black. interim vice president for
student affuirs,about pairing up stucommunication we don't necessar- dent affuirs staff with memben of
ily have right now," she said, noting . SA "and having regular conversathat two-thirds of the student body tions about issues going on on reside off campus. Once students campus ... So that when we all come
leave campus, they are "unreach- to the table, it's just not with our
able" unless they take a copy of the knowledge about what we read in
Spectrum, the Reporter or the Gen- the Sp«trum or the Rq&gt;orter.
eration with them, she added
" It's jus( all of us taking the time
"Every step of the way, we'd like to contact each other."

officers and setting aside a "regu lar hour of inleraction" every
weekday when there are no classes
scheduled "so when we have an
event that students and faculty
should attend," such as committee
meetings or rallies, "everybody
will have time to attend it."
Establishing a free period during
the day would allow more faculty
memben to become involved in student dubs and mo~ students to sit
on committees. she said. "It will offer us the opportunity to have that

Spotlight on career options for
Take Our Daughters to Work Day E3
Faculty and staff from throughout the university comm unity will join forces later this month
to show girls ages 9-14 the many career options
that could be available to them as adults.
UB will hold its third annual Take Our Daughters

to Work Dilj' on Ap~l 23. Part of a natiOfl'!l celebration organized by the Ms. Found.ation, the event
will be presented by the UB Task Force on Women.
Research shows that until about age 11 , girls
have a strong and distinct sense of self-confidence
that drops significantly in adolescence. Unfortunately, this lowered sense of self-worth occurs
just as girls need to begin thinking about-and
planning for-their futures.
Take Our Daughters to Work Day Was begun
to increase girls' self-esteem and to show them
careers that are available to them .

"When I was growing up, I didn't have the exposure to this kind of program,'' said Deborah
Silverman, a grant proposal writer in the Office of
University Development and a member of the Take
Our Daughters to Work organizing committee.
"When we thought aboUt careers, we thought
about being teachers or nurses. To have my daughter be able to do this is really exciting. This program will give her lots of options to think about. "
UB has organized Hone of the larger programs
that area employers are doing, " according to
Silverman. As many as 350 girls are expected to
participate in UB's program, which will emphasize a variety of career options, especially those
involving math and science, two fields in which

Site visits to offices on UB's North and South
campuses will be held ·from 10:45-11 :45 a.m.

and 1:30-2:30 p.m. Afterward, parents and adult
sponsors are encouraged to take their daughters to their offices for the remainder of the day.

The program has been put together by an allvolunteer planning committee chaired by
Bernice Noble, professor of microbiology and cochair of the Task Force on Women, and Deborah
Scott, director of donor relations and stewardship in the Office of University Development.
Information about a wealth of career opportunities awaits girls who participate.
"We have a really interesting lineup of places
girts are going to be able to see," Silverman said.
Through visits to departments on both cam puses, girls will be able to explore the Web for
information about earthquakes and volcanoes
around the world or explore the Slee Concert
Hall and its world-renowned Fisk Pipe Organ .
Others will have a chance to join a hands-on
tour of an environmental engineering lab and
to interact with scientists who study the Great
lakes. Or to learn the art of silk screening. Or
participate in an hands -o n demonstration of
technology for persons with disabi lities.
The deadline for reg istrati on is Tuesday. To
obtain a reg istration form , contact Cathy

Cleesattel at 645-2646, ext. 127; fax 645-2724.

girls still lag academically ~hind boys.
"We' re trying to help girls catch up to where the
boys already are, • she noted.

Program and registration information also •s
available on the Take Our Daughters to Work
Web site, http:/ / wlngs.buffalo.edu/ studentllfe/vp-affaln/ eve-nts/todtw
The registration fee is S4 for each girl and each
adult sponsor.

Girts attending UB's program will indude about

-By CHRISTINE VIDAL, Reponer Eduor

90 from Buffalo who are at-

tending through Preventionfocus, a not-for-profit substance-abuse and teen -pregnancy agency in Buffalo.
"These are girls who don 't
necessarily have parents who
work at UB. We' re trying to

give them the opportunity to
think about -ca reers in a way
they perhaps wouldn't otherwise," Si lverman said.

At UB, Take Our Daughters to
Work Day will begin with registration at 8:30a.m. jacqueline
Mitchell, dean of the Graduate
!i&lt;hool of Education, will present
the keynote address at 9:15a.m.
Kathy Kouk ond doughtor, Kotle,
on a 1996 Center for the Arts tour.

3

BrieDy
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PSS seeks nominations for
Outstanding Service Awards
The Professional Staff Senate •s calli ng for no m inat ions for 1ts
Outstanding Service Awards.
T he awa rds a rc given each yea r to members of US's professional
staff who are maki ng outstanding community-serv ice con tributions.
Winners rece ivt a cash award, a certificate of recognition and will
be ho no red at a universit y-wid e luncheon to be held May 20.
To be eligible, no minees must be current fuU-time professional staff members of UB, the Research Foundation, the U B Foundation
or the Faculty-Student Association: and must have com pleted at least
two years of continuous full-time profess io nal -staff servi ce by janu ary 1998. Previous winners a re mel ig ible for five yea rs after receiV ing the Outstanding Service Award.
In additi on to professional excellence, nom1nees must demonstrate
a commitmen t to service that must be noteworthy and disunct from
that encompassed in thei r job description. Nomin"tors must pre pare a dossier in support of the candidacy. Nominations. wnh com·
pleted dossiers, must be received b)' 4:30p.m. April 20.
For more information about criteria for nomination and doss1er
preparation, call Chris SauCiunac, cha1r. PSS award committee, at 64S3S44. Nomination may be submitted to Sauciunac, do Anna Kedzierslo,
Professional Staff Senate office, 543 Capen. North Campus.

Spring Clinical Day to focus
on aging, prevention of disability
"The Aging Amerfcan" will be the theme of the 61 st Annual Spnng

Clinical Day schedu led for April 25 and sponsorrd h)' thr UB Medi cal Alumni Associ ation .
The program. open to the publu:.. will take place from
7:30a.m. to noon in the Buffalo Marriott, 1340 Millerspo rt
Highwa y. Amherst. T here as a registratio n f« for non ·
alumni a nd non -due!o - paying alumni of the medical

schooL
Edwa rd D. Wagner. a 1965 graduate of the UB School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sc iences and director of the W.A.
Mac~olllnstitute fo r Health Ca re Innovation in Sea ttle, Wash., will
present the Stockton Kimba ll Lec ture at the noon alumni luncheon .
H is topic will be "New Way!&gt; to Care for O lder People: Building Sys ·
terns Based on Ev idence."
Wagner is professor of hea lth sCiences at the University of Wash ington School of Public Health and Community Medicin e. He is senior advisor to the National In stitutes of Health on maoaged -ca[e
initiatives and serves on the editoria l boards of Henltl1 Serv1ces Research. /ounwl o[Ciuucal Epidemwlogy and HMO Pract1ce.
For registration and mforma ti on, ca ll829-2778.

Rapper KRS-ONE to speak
at UB's King Commemoration
Musician KR.S-ONE (a/ k/ a Krts Parker), wh ose intelligent . uncom ·
promising views on life in urhan America have led to hun bemg
d ubbed th e"con!lcie nce of rap" and " II !&gt; leading advocate '' bv Rollmg
) rorlr, will dc:.·ilvcr the keynoH.' spc:.·~.~ch o n April 17 at lJB's 22nd an
nual Martm Luth~.·r Km g. Jr. Comml."mOrollion. T he event wi ll ht' held at 7:30 p.m. m the Mam~ta1-w theater m the
Ci.'ntt&gt;r for th e: Art!&gt; on the North t:.unpus.
II wdl be produc~.·d by U B '~ Office of Lunfen.·n~o.c:-. anJ !:'lpeoal
Fvcnts and C&lt;H.ponsorcd hy the Bl ack ~tudt nt Un1on. the Cc:ntt·r
fur t he Art:-. a nd the Und ergrad uat e ~tucfc nt Associat ion, a ll :11 l ' B.
a nd Buffa lo State- Co llege's African Amen ca n Student Orgamz.H •nn
Alth&lt;)ugh th e program will he free:. admission tickets will herr
quired . Both free and VIP reserved sca lin g at $5 a rc avai labl e at th~.·
ce rltc:.·r's t1 ckc:.·t office from noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdars through Fn
days. T 1ckets also will be ava dab lr at the door. Proceed!&gt; will bcnclit
UB academic scho larships.
A run away at 13, Parker lived in the subway a nd public shelter),
edu ca ting himself at the public libra q ·.
Shelter counselor Scott Sterling (a/k/a Ill Scou I..1Rm.kl n.''-og
m zed his talent and toget her thev formed Bnog1e Down Produ~.
tio ns (BDP ). The partnership led tu a self-finJ. rKed s m gl ~.-. "( rad
Attack," followed hv the legendarv album. "Cn mmal M•ndt•d"
After Ste rling was murd ered m th\.· Sou th Bronx. BDP rdc:a . . ctl
"Bv All t\·lea ns Necessary," a land mad, 111 establi o;hing. rap a., ,1 tool
for enlightenm ent .
Two yc:1r) later. Parke r lor mt.•d ~t1.1p the \ ' w l t."n~o.c: ~ l m· ~.·m~.·nt Jt,
.tll -st.lr r.tp !&gt;I ngle:. ··~dflko;t ru ~.- tiun :· rJ.I.,t'd mtm.· 1h.1n S.\(){) .0011 i11r
th~.· N.Hum,tl Urh.an l.ea~Ut.' programs t.trg~.·t•ng hl.t~.l.. on hl..1~. ~ '1c1
k nee and cdu~...ttum program!&gt; lor f_hc: tl n \IHith .
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campus.

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who-

her - I n poilU JCl.
once at Ul, II pralouot and
fanner chair of the poltlal science at the UnMnlty of the
Philippines, and ~of
the lndepondont- for
Slrate!* and o...lopment
Studits..sho Is.

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Mlltory - In the -field
She ot
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9:30a.m.
In.
502
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_Part
Ctf.
Hon at a colloquium~
by the'Department ofPolitlcol
Science. She will lecture on
. , . Politlcollmpact of Rapid
Economic Development in
Southeost Asia" for Asia It
Noon, • bfown.bag gathering
to be held in 250 Student
Unloo from noon to 1 p.m.
· T h e - .... ~
by the DepartrMK of Poltlal
Sden&lt;e and the Allan Studies
Program at Ul. For more lrlor'
, aii64S-3&lt;17~.

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students ttere
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"Geologists,. tougltt by
\\lnthrop D . ~ pralesso&lt; of
geology, So.te ~at Albany, will , _ with him when
he visits UB this month.
.
'Meonswtll~thedass

from the School of Englr-'"9
and Appled Sdoncel' EngiNet
t.dlitles in ... Hall cblng his
April21 -23 -.isit, sending his lectin bad&lt; to Albany for thedents lhete.
MHns Is an expert In structural geology, spec:lllizing in ....
SOIId1 on 11-;elhirHectlons, 1
new approach to undentondlng
Igneous textures in geological
StrucllnS. He will also pment I
seminar at U8 on April23 obout
his recent experiments with ...
thin-sections. lnl&lt;n!sted f«uuty
and students may all Robert
jacobi at 645-6800, ext. 2461,
for Information on time and k&gt;- •
cation.

Federman to speU
at Emeritus Center
meeting Tuesday

Roymond Federman, SUNY Dis...--intheDe~of Englllh and

.,. . -his.

-JonesCharlnFtench,

... NOd from his ncMIIs and
and c...
•• the EmoriM Center's ,__
1ng to be held at 2 p.m. Tu.day
in 102 ~Hall. South
Lounge.

c..-..-... ...

Robert E. Hunt. Emertlus
be In
charge of t h e - Next-~ ..-lng. to
be held on May 12. wil Jature
Q&gt;artes V• .._..... acting
choir and SUNY~
- - I n the Department of~ and-

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-IS

ph)lsics,
This , _,
lng willnc:Uie the-. of
the 1991-98.11oord of clrecton

and pn!SOI1tOIIon of the -

IOQigl1ldon of II£V.UP
votunteen.

Senior auditors
~--1

them she really enjoyed their sense
of humor because they'd undernood her references to the cultural
icons of her own past.
Many seniors ask for courses of

general interest-counseling, history, health, law, Shakespeare, folklore, anth ropology, American lit erature, Greek or Latin literature
in translation, art, art history. They
also lint' up for courses that are
topic-centered and in terdisciplinary as opposed to esoteric and
narrowly focused, although there
are exceptions.
Thanks to Lipsitz and its abundance of distinguished faculty
members, the English Department
has been very popular with auditors
over the years. Many of the faculty
members have
had a lot of repeat busin ess.
"Art history
is popular, too"
Lipsitz said,
"and the social
sciences, class i cs- Jack
Peradotto is
popular. In the
law school, Professor Lucinda
Finley has asked
me to direct
even more people her way."
Finley not ed that "if the
law - sc hoo l
faculty real ized the hard
work. depth
of experience
and enthusi-

taught by Robert Daly, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in
the Department of English. This
semester, she cajoled five of her cohort to sign up for Daly's modern
American literature class.
"I made them take it," she said.
" I told them they had to experience a class with this man. The
professors mUSI be embarrassed at
times to have us around. We're always thanking them and telling
them how wonderful they are.
They probably hate that."
Despite ke and snow...
Any problems? Parking reared its
head. Walking long distances is
sometimes difficult for some seniors, and can be treacherous in the

- -·--

asm
th ese ----bJ-Dolly,SUNY~
people bring T...Nng-lntho~ofEngllsh.
to class, there'd be many more re- winter. Nevertheless, many strap on
quests by law professors. Auditors the cram pons year after year and
really fire up the younger students, crawl up the iey hill from the Baldy
not to mention the fact that they Lot just to wade into Baudelaire for
have so many different ways of ap- an hour or discuss Brahms.
·preaching issues and addressing
Others repon that parking is no
legal problems. I really like them ." problem at all-"You park your
car, take the shuttle and after that ,
New perspectives
yo u just use the elevators and enThe auditors, said Pcradotto, closed bridges," said Smith .
Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor "What 's the big deal? The whole
of Classics, "bring adifferent ki nd campu s is enclosed."
" listen-snow, rain, it doesn't
of relevance and perspective to the
material studied and they have a lot matter," Koren said. "God didn't
of sympatl\)' for the younger stu- mean for me to play cards. I go into
dents. They sometimes act as a spur withdrawal when school is out. I've
to the younger kids. encouraging been blessed with marvelous expethem to raise issues and question riences an d a broadened world
3S§Umptions they might not oth - view through this program. Many
of my professors have become my
erwise bring up."
Ko ren noted: "Fi rst you just see friends. It's been a wonderful gift
and I'm enormously grateful."
all these young people and feel a
Two other champions of theselittle o ut -of- place, like maybe you
nio r students are George Lop6s,
don't belong h ere. But then yo u
dean of Millard Fillmore College,
m eet people in class and at lunch and Larry Gingrich, MFC associor getting coffee and you get to ate dean for summer sessions.
know them and share informa ·
tion. Pretty soon, you have many Fewer spaces in summer
friend s and ·you have a learning
Gingrich said that seniors shouJd
community of your very own.
know that there are fewer spaces
"I used to sort of run with differ- available during summer sessions
ent people every year," Koren said. and that, because summer c;;ourses
" but now I take a lot of classes with are condensed, auditors should be
a solid group of about 10 fellow au - prepared for them to move quickly.
He said that Lipsitz "is an exaelditors. We got to know one another
from different classes. Some of us lent person to talk to before select ·
have degrees, but not everyone, and ing a summer course or one dur·
ing the rt'gular semesters because
some of us are UB graduates.
Koren's first auditing experience sht''s very, very familiar with the
was nearly two d ecades ago in an p rograms here and with the in early Ame rican literature course structors and tht' curricula. She's

Tailor-made programs
MFC looks at retirement learning
designed for specific community needs
MillArd Fill,...... Col'-9e is investigating a different kind of program for senior learners that would complement the auditors
program and, according to MFC Dean George l.opos, extend
US's central academic culture into the community.
L&lt;&gt;Pos sees a great future for both credit and non-credit leam·
ing in retiremen~ .wfrom programs like our existing senior auditing program to the kind of tailor-made programs offered by the
Chautauqua lnstitutl!--&lt;ourses that focus on a particular topical
area and are offered in a non-traditional time frame.
"'for instance, with auditing," he said, "senior students study
in regular classrooms with the regular students during regular
academ ic sessions.
"But we coukt also offer other academic programs designed
and constructed to meet the specific interest needs of different
groups of people in the community," he said. "'The nature
of these courses will be determined bY a study of the Interests of seniors in this area. Wf!
want to know if the profile of
Western New York'~ large retired population is consistent
with the kinds of services and
programs we can offer here to
meet their contiouing fntellec·
tual needs. Then we'll design
appropriate programs based
on those interests ..,
lopos added: "These may
not be traditional academ ic
courses, but they won't be
craft prograf'11S either, because
that isn't our mission or area
of expertise at MFC." (Noncredit, continuing education is
offered in great variety at the
UB Crafts Center and is open
to the public.)
"'We would be interested in
serving the many people who
are retired from area schools,
industries, bus inesses who
never really d id much·with Shakespeare, for instance, but want
to do it now, • Lopos said. "Othe" migh! like !l'ilor-made programs in sculpture or painting, art his~ory or something in political science, math, biology, economics-you name it."'
At MFC, he said, such a program would not focus on grades
or academic outcome, but on the presentation of information in
a unique way and d iscussion. A week-long, daily seminar could
be offered that might focus on health issues and emotional wellbeing for insta nce, or American fiction writers of the late 20th
century or the anthropology of magic, but it n~n't be a creditbearing course.
"' I'm an example of one kind of student we think we can serve,.,
Lopos said. "I'm 55. I have my AARP card . I could be retired
myself already. Do I want to take more courses in higher;ed ad ministration? Well, actually I want to learn Italian so I can read
Dante's 'Vit~ Nuova' in the orig inal. I've read and studied much
of Dante in translation, but I wish I could ' read ' the Italian on the
other page. It sounds just beautiful!,.

-8y PATRICIA DONOVAN, N..., Setvi&lt;:es Editor

also interested and most willing to
offer guidance and suggestions to
new senior auditors." Lopos added
that MFC also has full-time advi sors available to help potential auditors choose cou rses.
Asked about the volume of such
students UB can handle, Lopos
said, "We can handle many more
very easily. And we want to."
Lipsitz said that many auditors go
on to complete their degrees, a possibility enhanced by the interdisciplinary academic prognuns now
available. These allow students to
design their own programs to reflect
complex, multi-disciplinary topics
like environmental history, digital
art for health education or the an thropology of ancient cultu=.
An nette "Angel" LaVallee, a
Williamsville !t'Sident who earned a
nursing degree in Vermont in 1953,
began taking English courses here in
1978. She received her bachelor of

English cum laude last
May. She's been auditing ever since.
La Vallee also formed a UB "sorority .. while matriculating that
incl udes Hilda Koren and other
auditors-Pi Mu Zeta-PMZwhich she said stands fo r .. PostMenopausal Zest,.. something
these women have by the barreL
"Anything is possible when it
comes to continued learning,"
Lopos said . .. We live longer,
healthier, more active lives today
that we ever have. People well into
the.i r 80s are often very acti ve
physically and mentally. as we
know from our auditors."
Registration information about
UB's senior auditing program can
be obtained from Lipsitz at 85260 15 or 645-2575 ext. 1022. Terry
Sikorski or Sally Stroupe at 8292202 can provide information about
senior auditing of oourses offe.rtd
through Millard Fillmore College.
arts degree in

�a..w School Symposium

Rights, environment abuses to be studied

T

HE ways in which hu -

man -rights abuses and
abuse of the environ ·
ment overlap will be ex-

plored during a two-day symposium to be held at the law school
on April 17 and 18.
Workshops and speakers, in cluding scholars and _activists in

the fields of international law, hu man rights and environmental
protection, are scheduled for the

program in O'Brian Hall on the
North Campus.
The program, "Human Rights,
Environment and Community,"

whichwillbeginat IOa.m.onboth
days, will be sponsored by UB's
Baldy Center for Law and Social
Policy. Participants will assemble

in the faculty lounge on the fifth
floor of O'Brian Hall.
Co-sponsors will be the Cana dian-American Studies Committee,
Conferences in the Disciplines, Hu-

man Rights Center, MitcheU Lecture
Fund and the Environment and Sociery Institute, all at UB.

A highlight of the event wiU be the
free showing and Western New York
preJ]liere of the movie," Power: The

Ia es Bay Cree vs. Hydro-Quebec,"
at p.m. on Aprill7 in Buffalo State
liege's Campus West Auditorium,
I. 00 Elmwood Ave.

gal Studies Centre. h will be cosponsored by Neto Hatinakwe
Onkwehowe,alocalNative-American cultural organization; the offiaoof Assemblyman Sam Hoyt; the
Buffalo State CoUege Native American Student Services, and UB's Department of Art History.
Hoyt, son of the late Assemblyman William Hoyt, a champion of
environmental justict who was
involved in the movie's live drama,
will introduao the ftlm, which focuses on the politics on both sides
of the border and in Quebec, the
1990 Earth Day Cree journey to
New York City by dogsled and
Inuit kayak, and the story of the
hard-won victories by the Cree. An
update will be presented by members of the UB law faculty and
Yvonne Dion , a member of the
Cree Nation who lives in Buffalo.
Panels held on both days will
discuss " Linking Human Rights,
Environment and Community,"
"Recen t lnstitutional Developments"' and "Comparing Agendas:
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Justice." A fourth will cover

coune for addressing these conlliru
• Assessing the impacts of Agenda
21.

Panelists and guest speakers will
indude Martin Scheinin of finland,
a legal scholar and member of the
UN Human Rights Comminee; S.
James Anaya of the University of
Iowa School of Law, a human-rights
anomey; Lakshman Guruswamy of
the University of Tulsa School of
Law; Sevine Ercmann of the legal
ofliaos of the Council of Europe;
Peter Ekeh, UB professor ofAfricanAmerican studies; Michael Haney,
directoroftheAmericanlndianArbitration Institute, and Peter W.
Hutchins of Hutchins, Soroka &amp;
Dione&lt; in Quebec.
Also, Errol Meidinger, UB professor of law and director of the
Environment and Society Institute;
Claude E. Welch, Jr., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the UB
Department of Political Science;
Jolene Rickard, UB visiting assis·
tant professor of art histor y;
Charles Zerner, director of th e
Rainforest Alliance; R. Nils Olsen,

reports from five working groups.

Jr., vice dean for academic affairs
and professor in the UB Law

Topics of the working groups
will be:
• Evaluating the draft principles

School; Neil Popovic, director of
the UN Program for Eanhjusti«
and Peggy Shepard ofWest Harlem
Environmental Action.
Moderators will include Makau
Mutua, UB associate professor of
law and co-director of the Human

· · e movie follows the dramatic

on human rights and environment
• Drafting a conduct code to con·
troland monitor the operations of
transnational corporations

&gt;tory f efforts by th e Grand Chief

• Clarifying/evaluating institutional

Rights Center; Robert Den tan, UB

of th C ree s, Matthew 42on
Come, o halt the James Bay/Grca1
\o\fhale ydroelectric Project.
The showing of the mov ie wi ll be
spo nso red by the Canada-U.S. Le-

strategies adopted by governments.
oorporations and citizen groups in
conflicts that raise human -rights and
environmental concerns
• Selecting the appropriate dis -

professor of Arnfrican studies and
anthropolog):; Wendy irvine. UB
lecturer in law; S. Jam es Anaya and
Errol Meidinger. For more in for mation, ca ll64 5-3989.

Vitamins won't offset effects of
smoking on pregnancy, study says
By LOIS !lAKER
News Services Editor

P

REGNANT women who
continue to smoke, thinking their prenatal vitamins

will offset the known ad -

verse effects of smoking on the de ·
veloping fetus, arc deluding them selves, a new study by UB researchersshows.
Live-birth data and personal in formation from more than 9,000
s moking and non -s moking
women who took part in the 1988
Na t ional Mater nal and Infant

Health Survey showed that the risk
of adverse outcomes were higher
among smokers than non -s mokers, as expected, and that the ri sks
for smokers were similar whether
or not they took vitamins.
The stu dy appears in the current

issue of Annals of Epidemiology.
"This paper is very important for

the public health, because it shows
that women whosmokeandtakevi-

tamins do not really minimize the
risk of pre-term birth, low-birth
weight babies and babies who were
smaller than average for their gcsta·
tiona! age, all conditions that are as·
soc iated with s moking ," said
Germaine M. Buck. associate pro ·
fessor of social and preventive mcdi·
cine and co-author of the study with
doctoral student Tiejian Wu.
"As far as we can tell, this is the
first paper to show this. The message is, ' Do not smoke during
pregnancy, because vitamins won't

help to negate smoking's effects.'"
Multivitamins are a common
"Part of prenatal care in the U.S.

The 1980 National Natality Survey
f9und that 95 percent of married
mothers in the survey used supplemen ts du rin g pregnancy. Studies
also have shown that women who
smoke during pregnancy are more
likely to take vitamins-and to
take more vitamins-than women
who don't, possibly in an effort to
offset the reported adverse effects of smoking.
To determine if multivitamins are effective in reducing the
risk of these adverse effects, Buck

and Wu analyzed data from 9,402
women regarding pre-term births.
9,395 women for risk of very-low or
moderately-low weight babies, and
9.363 women for the risk of small -

for-gestational-age infants. plus selfreported information on smoki ng
and prenatal vitamin intake.

Results showed no significant decrease in risk of pre-term births, low·
ered binh weights or children who
were small for their gestational age
among women who smoked during
pregnancy and al')() took vitamins.
"These findings show that tak ·
ing vitamins does n't subst itute for
giving up smoking during prcg
nancy,'' Buck stat ed.
The analysis revealed certain pat ·
terns of smoking and vitamin in·
take among pregnant women:
• Among 9,402 women , nearly
o ne -qua rter said they continued
to smo ke after learning they werepregnant.
• 75 percent reported taking vita
mins regularly during their preg·
nancies.
• Women who used vitamins regu larly during pregnancy tended to be
older, married, bencr educated. and
ha ve larger family in co m es than
women who did not.
• Women who smoked 1-9 ctga
rettes a day had a 70 perct'nt m
crease in risk of bearing very -low
b1rth weight babies 1han women
who did not smoke.
• The risk of small -for -gestauonal age babies m smokers wa~ more
than twice that of non -smokers.
P..wlinC' Mendola, formerly with
the UB Department of Social and
Preventive Medicine and now with
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, also contributed to lhe stud)'·

The Next Net Frontier:
Accessible Web Design

Ei3

More and more o f u s •re becoming involved in the creation of
Web sites. Whether in administrative, consulting or direct roles, not
only do we want to ensure the accuracy and currency of the infor·
mation they include, but we also want to employ the most cuuing edge appli cations for their design .
However, it is eq ually impo rtant to keep in mind the issue of Web
accessibility. For example, have we chosen colors that would pre ven t those with color blindness fr.om reading our site? Do our sites
include text alternatives for image -map. graphic or audio compo nents for those who may have difficulty 'interpreting those arenas?
It diminishes our efforts if we create a site with superlative content.
design and presentation that proves to ~ hopelessly unreadable or
uninterpretable for individuals with disabilities.
This important area of Web destgn is one that recently has received
some informed attention on the Web.
To read a brief, well· wrinen overview
anide, you may wish to consuJt Arthur
R. Murphy's " Design Considerations:
Readers with Visual Impairments"
(http://www.lcc.gote&lt;h.edu / g ol lery/ d.zJne/ .cce u / ), which appears
in Dzine, an Online Gu ide to Good
Web Design (http://www.lcc.gote&lt;h.edu/ gollery/dzlne /) .
After familiarizing yourself with some essential concerns in accessible
Web design, you may wish to consult a ft"W comprehensrve directories of
links to sites th&lt;it address a wide variety of Web accessibility issues.
The University of Washington's DO -IT site is devoted to "'Dis
abilities, Opportunities, Int ernetworkmg, and Techno logy." h ha ~
compiled an excellent directoq•...Accessible Web Page Destgn'"
( http :/ / w e ber. u . w •s h l ngton .edu / - do lt/ Res ou rc e s / w e b deslgn .html ). This frequently updated direcwry provides links on
broad information accessibility topics such as universal design , adap
tive technology and intuitive systems. II also features links for inore
specific access lOpics, such as color bhndne~s. Java and Adobe acces ·
sil&gt;ility and Web video captioning. Further, it includes a link to the
Web Watch · ! D iscussion Li st. whi ch dtscusscs the relation of peopll'
with disabilities and the Web. Finally, this page includes a link to
DO· IT 's own " HTMI. Gutdeltn cs," prov-iding practical recommen
datiom a long with clear, wdl -rC'aso ned cxplanat1om.
Anotht::r highly useful directory of accessibility links may be found
at WebABLE (http:/ / www.yarl.org / w eb a ble/ ). issued by the Yun
Rubinsky Insight Foundation. This site emphasizes technological
solutions to informa tion accessibility problems on the Web. It provides !tnks to sites pertaining to aural cascadi ng style sheet:.;
capttoning and audto descriptio n on the Web; Emacspeak (a speech
output interface ); and vOICE (auditory display for vision substttu
tion ). You also may click on the Weh Access Symbol at the bottom
of the page to find out how to denott: your own sue's adherence to
Web accessibility standards.
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Meeting scheduled with chair
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The Office of the Provost •nd the Faculty Senate wtll sponsor a
genera l meeting for faculty members mt erested 10 meeting with the
chair of the President 's Review Board ( PRB ).

The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on April 21 tn Room 330 of the
Student Uni on on the North Ca mpus. David Nyberg. professor of
L~uca ti onal o rganization, administration and poli cy and chair of
the PRB. and Ken Levy, senior vicC' provost. will dtscuss lht~ promo lion process and answer questions .
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution five years ago requcstmg
an a nnu al meeting \vith the chai r of the PRB be held to dtsc us~ th t"
cri teria and procedures used by the PRB 1n reco mmcndmg promo
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have excellent writing skills; newspaper expcnencC' •~ preferred.
Applicants should mail resumes and writing samples to Reporter
editor Ch ristine Vidal, 136 Crofts Hall, North Ca mpu s. Applications
will be accepted until th e position is filled . For more mformat1on.

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HE former chai r and
CEO of Fay's Inc., the
president of NOCO En·
ergy Corp.• a physician
known internationally for his pio·
neering work in developing dermatology as a medical specialty and a
man considered the most powerful individual in talent management in the entertainment industry are among eight individuals to
be honored at the UB Alumni

Association's annual awards dinner.
The dinner will be held at 6 p.m.
on May I in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. Tickets
for the dinner are $50 J&gt;('T person.
For further information and reservations. caii829-2608 by Aprill 7.
UB President Willia.m R. Greiner

and Jean C. Powers, chair of the
awards committee, will present
awards to the eight honorees.
Henry A. P•nasd, Jr. (B.A., '48,
B.S., '52) will receive the Samuel
P. Capen Award fo r notable and
meritorious contributions to the
university and its family. Chairman of Cyg nus Management
Group, LLC, Panasci is one of the
most dynamic and accomplished
graduates of the UB School of
Pharmacy. He forme rly was chair
and CEO of Fay's In c., a diversi fied specialty retail chain h(! cofounded with his father in 1958.
Under his leaders hip. Fay's diversified beyond its core drug-store
business by launching The Paper
Cutter and Wheels Discount Auto
Supply. At the time of its merger
with a large national retailer in 1996,
Fay's had grown to more than $1
billion in annual rtvenues and more
than 270 retail store locations.
The Walter P. Cooke Award recognizing non-a lumni who have
made notable and meritoriou s
contributions to UB and its fam -

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influencing growth and improvement for the university, will
be presented to Regln•ld B.
New.n.n 11, president of NOCO
Energy Corp. of Buffalo, a family·
owned petroleum products supplier and terminal operator that
supplies home heating oil, industrial fuels,lubrican~. aviation fu.
els and asphalt throughout West em New York. A major supponer
of the university, Newman is chair
and a member .since 1989 of the
board of trustees of the University
at Buffalo Foundation, Inc. The
UB School of Management in
1997 named Newman its "Niagara
Frontier Executive of the Year."
nmothy J. Klein (B.S., '84), cofounder, president and CEO of
ATID Technology, Inc., will receive
the George W. Thorn Award, prese nted to a UB graduate under age
40 in recognition of outstanding
national or international contributions in their career fie.ld or academic area. Klein, who received a
degree in electrical engineeri~g. has
distinguished himself as an engi·
neer and in the design and produc tion of"small computer system in terfuce" devices that are integrated
into computers by other companies

to enhance performance.
RonMd A. Poling (B.S., '76) will
receive the Clifford C. Fumas Me·
morial Award, presented to a
graduate of the School of Engineering a.nd Applied ScienceS or
the Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics. A professor of
physics at the University of Minnesota, Poling is widely recognized
for his contributions to the field
of elementary particle physics and
is an expert on the "bottomquark," o ne of the fundamental
building blocks of matter.
Distinguished Alumni Awards,
given in recognition of aaptional

can:er acoomplishments, community
or univenity service, or ....arch and
scholarly activity, will be presented to:
• Dennis J. Block (B.A., '64),
managing partner of the prestigiou s internationaJ law firm of
Weil, Gouhal and Manges LLP
and a leader in the area of corporate law. A·widely respected spe·
cialist in the complex field of corporate mergers and takeovers, h'e
is the co-author of a monthly column in th e New York Law Journal.
serves on the editorial boards of
several legal publications and has
co-authored two books.

.lugene M . F - (M.D.,'43 ),
known world-wide as an authority on treatment of diseases of the
sltin, especially psoriasis, and for
his pioneering work in developing
dermatology as a medical specialty. Farber is president of the
Psoriasis Research Institute in Palo
Alto, Calif.. which he co-founded,
and Center Professor and Chairman Emeritus in the Department
of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine. He has
practiced clinicaJJy for more than
40 years and bas taken care of
more than I 0,000 patients with
psoriasis.
• Seymour Gltln (B.A., '56),
Dorot Director and professor of
arch.ar:ology with the W.F. Albright
Institute of Archaeological Resea rch in Jerusalem. the oldest
American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies in the
Middle East. His contributions to
the field of archeology are legion.
• Br.od A. Grey ( B.A., '79), chairman and CEO of Brillstein-Grey
Entertainment (BGE), a leading
management, television and motion -picture production company.
He has changed the face of talent
management in the entertainment
industry and is considered the
most powerful man in the talent
business.
His client roster includes more
than 150 television and movie performers, including Brad Pitt,
Nicolas Cage, Sylvester Stallone,
Ch&lt;!'and Courteney Cox. BGE has
10 shows on the air, including
"NewsRadio,""lust Shoot Me" and
"Politically Incorrect with Bill
Maher.•
Grey has been nominated for six
Emmy Awards. has won several
Cable Ace Awards and received the
e&gt;eorge Foster Peabody Award as
executive producer of"The Larry
Sanders Show."

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Turn off TV? Too extreme, UB professor says
By MARA McGINNIS
News Services Editorial Assistant

HILE lV-Free Am ·
erica (TVFA) ha s
designaledApril22·
28 Nalional TV·
TurnoffWecl&lt;. a UBassociateprofes·
sorof communiauion says eliminating TV from American life is an "extreme measure" and not warranted.
" Just like with anything else- the key is moderation," says Mary
Cassata. "We have to recognize
that television is an institution in
o ur environment, as important as
o ther institutions such as school
or church."
Cassa ta , w hose expertise in dudes the effects of mass media.
has done in-depth research on n 1

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and children, the history of television and the fundamental process of communication that relat es
to televi sion. She maintains that
te levision is educational and fos ·
ters creativi ty in children.
According to TVFA, which expects more than 5 million people in
40,000 schools, families, libraries,
ch urchcsandcommunitygroupsto
panicipate in National TV-Turnoff
Week,manyeducatorssaytelevision
represents their greatest challenge.
Cassata disagrees ...The ills in our
society need to be addressed-like
unemployment and the disintegration of the family,'' she asscns. ..Values are disintegrating and 1V is not
the cause of iL There arc more im portant things to clean u~more

important social problems-than
television," she adds.
Cassata says, "Television is un fairly the scapegoat
for many things
because it 's easy to
point at and easy to
turn off." Her advice: "Don't turn it
off. Instead, try to
be
in tell i gent
about its use."
CASSATA
She believes teachers should try
to use TV as a teaching tool and
integrate it into the classroom.
Paren ts, she adds, are responsible
for taking a proactive role when it
comes to finding good programs
for their children and then instilling that sense in their children.

vdoping their 0\otn pro)C'Ct!-."
He said Miller also plans to te-ach
.m imerdisciplinary seminar on research ethics and will he involved in
helping the social -work faculty establish interdisciplinarv cont.1cb
wuh re-.t..-archcrsacross thL'tllll\'crsny.
Miller\ n·&lt;&gt;cMch hns tc''""··d (U\
l lll' arcc r &lt;\ l ed WO!llt:'n oiOtl lht.'IT
drug prohlt•m,, as wd l .1, tht• rel.1 -

1ionship between alco hol prob lems and crime, including drink ing and driving. During the past
I 0 years, her research has been on
understanding the relationship
between family viole nce/violent
Vll' tinH zation and the develop·
ment of women's probll·ms with
.1lwhol a nd oth er drug!&lt;~ . It also h a~
l'Xpanded lo focus on the l'ffC&gt;ch

Cassata points out that it is im portant for children to develop a
"visual literacy.. in order to be able
to interpret the meSsages of the
mass media like those underlying
in advertising . .. Child ren need to
be aware of what is outthere." says
Cassata ... We,are supposed to help
depict the real world to ch ildren."
ContrarytolVFA's~onthat

television viewing is passive. Cassata
says viewers are actively thinking
and reacting as they watch. While
agreeing that the average of four
hoursadaythatAmericanchildren
watchTVisexcessive,shenotesthat
the actual long-term influence of
TV viewingisimpossibletomea.sure
si n~ we are all distinct individuals
who watch for different reasons.

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bri nging with her a grant or more
than $1 ;nillion for a project on
mothers ' alcoho l problems and
children ·~ Vlclimlz.ation. Noting that
Miller has obtamed mort' than 7
million tn ret.&lt;a rch funt..hng ovt.'r tht•
P•'"' 10 ' 'l'Jrs, Sh ulman ~~d 11\ l'\ ·
fll'\:"tl'J she.' will " pmvldl' lllt.'nltmn~

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of these problems on the children
of the women whom she ha s stud ·
ied. with the goal of developing
intervention strategies.
Miller has a bachelor's degree in
social welfare (rom the Univ~:rsity
of Illinois, Urba na . She holds a
mastCr'~ degree a nd doctorale,
both in criminal justi t\ from the
~ talc Unive rsi ly at Albany.

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Complaifling can be g~t may save energy!
Dear Editor:
ThousandJ of people saw it. Many may have
thought it odd. Some may have grumbled and
!dade a cynical remark. A few yawned. Bu~ as near
as I can teO, only one per10n called to complain.
Wlut am I referring tol The North Campus
Stadium lights! On March 30 and 31 they were
on, burning bright, on a bright sunny day, as weD
as overnight. Each lamp, a thousand watts!
Obviously, outdoor stadium lights should not
be on during daylight houn when sunlight ma.ka
artificial electric lighting quite unnecessary. Nor
should our stadium lights be illuminating nothing at 3 a.m.
On March 30 and 31, the stadium's lights were
on because of a computer malfunction. And they
stayed on because of assumptions people made
and because the problem wasn't called in. Athlet ·
ics apparently thought Facilities (maintenance:)
was working on the lights. Facilities apparently
thought Athletics was using or testing them. And
theliteraUy thousands of othe"' who saw this brilliant (reaDy, not-so- brilliant) spectacle didn't call
in and complain.
Why no caD-in complaints? I wonder if people
simply assumed either that the lights wert on for
a legitimate purpose (it was possible, but un likely) or that the university is just a crazy place
where grossly wasteful behav ior is the no rm
(which hopefuUy is at least an exaggeration). But
in this case, assumptions likr these were wrong.
If yo u see what appears to be wasteful behavior, please make no assumptions! And please
ca re enough to call in and complain. In the case

of the stadium lights, one could
have called Facilities customer

service (by caUing 71 from any
campus phone or 645-2028 from
off campus) and said, "Hey, I thought
you guys have an energy conservation
program. Hasn't anybody noticed that
all the: stadium lights are on in th e
middle of the day (and night )! Please
get someone over there: pronto and

tum them off!"
My thanks to the o ne person who
called me.
Believe it or not , the universit y
does have an energy conservation

program and occasionaUy we do get
serious about it. Yes, Facilities needs
to do more and be more vigilant. But really it takes

aU of us working together to make it happen. When
you see anything which looks like energy waste, don't
be shy about complaining and alerting us. CaDs to
71 can result in work orders to flX malfunctio ning
equipment. correct overheating or ove:rcooling. etc.
If the energy waste appears to be: substantial, tell that
to the operator so that she o r he can ·flag the work
o rder as urgent and get someone out there right away
to correct the problem.

Complaining can be good. If yo u com plain about
the right things and do it in the right way, I suspect
complaining might even be good for the soul. I can
be reached at 829-2515 and would welcome yo ur
complaints {and suggestions) about campus energy
use and envi ro nmental impact.

- Walter Simpson, UB ~ Offlcer, Unrvemty Facilities

Is affirmative action being downgraded?
Dear Editor:
The Reporttr announced a renaming of the Office of Equal Opportun ity/AffirmatiVe Action to be the
Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action Administration. What's in a name, o r a renam e?
Are we mistaken o r is affirmative action being downgraded to mere .. administration?" Why "diver·
sity?.. ls it a sop to the right -wing agenda? Why dump "equal oppo rtunity," which· has not been achieved ,
for a vaguer "equity?" Is any new cha.rge to the office being issued?
The new office is to be i.n the Co mmons. Is this to make it mo re independent of Capen Hall (a genu inelyindependent office would be worthwhile )? Or is thi s to further marginalize it s influence by getting
it as far from Capen as practical?
Why is the office space small er?
ln other words, the brief story leaves more questions open than answers.

-TonnaUee M. Bat~helor, Adminions Office, E.O.C.
P•trtda Donovan, University News ServiCes
Jim Holstun, Department of English

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John M. Staley, Cora P. Moloney College
EmUy Tall, Deportment of Modem Languages and !Jteroture
Paul Zare:mbka, Department of EconomiCS

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Reelrement System Pre-Retirement

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The New YOfk State Employees'
Retirtmef'lt System b offering a ~inar
on retirtmef'lt planning for em~
enrolled in the Employffl' Retirement
System. from all t~. within fNe years of
retirement eligibility.
The seminar b a one-day event being
offered on Friday, lune S, at the Center
1 for Tomorrow on the North Campus.

nme accruah should not be charged

Registration has begun-to make a
reservation, contact Personnel Servk:es
at64S-2646, ext. 101 Of 102. Seating 1s
lim ited a nd will be reserved on a first cOIT'Ie, fint-served basis. PartJcipanu are
asked to have the resetVation
coordinator inform the retirement
system otany ~I accommodatWJm

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can be d irected to E. Suzy Shallowhom,
645-2646, ext. 11 &lt;4 .
Unlvenfty Commencement
Candidates for undergraduate degree~

'" the fa culties of ArU and Letters,
Natural Sciences and MathematiO,
Social Sciences {including
Interdisciplinary) and Spec~al and
Individualized Ma}on are eltgtble to
participate ill'the 1 S2nd Unrvers•ty
Commencement on Sunday, May 17. at
10 a.m. tn Alu~i Arffia. They may leavt'
their commeoce:ment 1nf0tmabon
brochure registration forms at the
Student Union Information Desk or tn the
Commencement Office at S37 Capen
Hall. Commencement information
brochures, including the form, are also
availat»e al both of these sites. Tht filing
deadline rs Friday, April 1 7

Obi~es
Harley E. Flack, 55,
UB Distin.guishOOAlunmus,
president ofWright State University
...._.. Mt'Vkes _.., held April J for Harley E. Flack. 55, president of
Wright Slate University, Dayton, Ohio, and recipit:nt ofUB's DistingWshcd
Alumni Award in 1995. Flack died of cancer March 29 at his home.
Flack, who received his doctorate from the UB Gradu·

ate School of Education in 1971 and served as assistant dean
of the UB School of Health Related Professions in the early
1970s, became the fourth president ofWright Staie in 1994.
From 1989-1994, Flack was provost and executive vice presiRAat
dent at Rowan University in New )efsey. Previous to that, he
was vice: president fo r academic affain and dean of the faculty at the
SUNY CoUege at Old Westbury and served as the founding dean and
professor of the CoUege of AUied Health Sciences at Howard University.
Under his leadership, Wright Sta te created the University Center
for International Education. In 1994, working with education. gov·
e roment and business leaders, he signtd an agreement with the
University of Dayton and the Air Force Institute of Technology to
create the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute for advanced en gi neering education and re~a rch .

Aack had served on the National Advisory Committee fo r the ACJ·
demic Leadership Academy of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. A past president of the National Society of Allied
Health and founding editor of its journal, Flack published numerous
articles and several books. He co-authored African-American Perspec ·
lives on Biomedical Ethics and Case SlUdies in AUied Health Ethics.
In addition to his scholarly activities, he W.:.S a musidan and com poser, publishing the Goree Suite, eight pieces for voice and African
in struments, as well as more than 25 works for piano and voke.
Among his many honors were Who's Who Among Black Amen ·
can s; the O rder of the Shield. The O hio State University; 1994 Di~ ­
tinguished Al umnus Award, Kent State Un iversity Alumni and the
Paul lawrence Dunbar Humanitarian Award.
In addition to his doctorate from UB, Flack held a bachelor's de gree from The Ohio State Unive rsit y and a master's dt'grt&gt;e from
Kent State University.
He is survived by his wife, Mignon; four sons.. Harley Flack, II, C hrl~ ­
topher Flack, Oliver Palmer and Michael Palmer, and o ne grandson .
Co ntributio ns in his mem ory may be made to the Harley E. Flack
Scholarship Fund at \\'right State Universi ty.

Robert J. Ehrenreich, 74,
pediatrician, allergist and

clinical assistant professor
Funeral services were: held Tuesday in Temple Beth Zion for Rob ert J. Ehren reich, 74 , a pediatrician a9d al lergist and a clinical assis ta nt professor in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Ehrenreich, who fought a long battle agai nst Par kinson's disease and
was forced by illness to retire three years ago, died April 3 in a Philadelphia nu rsing home after suffering a stroke.
Eh renreich graduated from the UB medical school tn 1947 at age 23 .
In lhe 1950s. he served as a captain in th(.• U.S. Anny in charge of pediatrics at Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Ft. Devens in Massachusetts.
In hi s 43· ytar practice of medicine. during which he served as a
clinical assis tan t professor in th e UB medical school, he was on the
staffs of C hildren's, Millard Fillmore. Sisters. Kenmore Mercy and
DeGraff Memo rial hospitals. Ehren retch. known as uDr. Bob," con·
tmued the practice of ho use caJis long after many physicians had
aba nd oned it and often called hi s patients when he went out for the
night. An eavly advocate of parent · effcctivenes.~ training, he taught
parenting sessions in his office.
After traveling to tournaments with hts tenms· playing daughter. Amy,
Ehrenreich became a cha.Jr umptre with the United States Tcnni~ Asso·
ciation and officiated at matches in many locations. including Madison
Square Garden and Forest Hills. Du nog those years. he had several en counte r~ wtth the former tenni~ "bad boy." John McEnroe.
He IS su rvtved by h1s wife. Minam; hts daughter. Am y Haller of
Penn Valley. Pa.; two sons. Richard A. of Potoma c Md .. and Oav1d
B. of Wynnewood, Pa.: a bro th er. Harold M.; a ststcr. Annette lrwtn
of Pembroke Pine~ . Fla., and four grandchildren.

Graduation, Student Honors for
Reporter Commencement Extra
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on May 14. 1fyou have not done so already, pleast .send us lists of studenb
receiving graduation or other honors, ident·ifying honon conci~l y. Information mu5t be reccivtd no Later than May I.
B«ause of production u-quirement5. the &amp;porter only will accept mformation dcctronically. No fusubmissions wiU beaccrpud. lnformat10n ma&gt;
~ submiutd on disk, specifying the program in which it is wnuen ;r;nd
including a printout of all information contained on the disk, or by e· m:ul:

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UB's Trombone Choir, conducted by Richard Myen, will perform In • concert Aprtl16 at 8 p .m . In Slee
Hall. The event Is sponwred by the Department of Music .

Submissions must indude:aoontact name,dcpartment,cunpmaddmsand
daytiln( tc:lephone. Oi5ks may be ddi'o'tftd to 136 Crofts Hall. Nonh Campu.~.
For moll!: infom1ation, call Oui.stine VKlal. Rcportn tditor, at645-2:6.26

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PriJon Building and Current

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Wri!Jh~ N.Y. =...Court
justa, Retired, and panel

by

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U8 Law
Proleuor Charles Carr:

Commissioner Gil KeritUowsiU,
Buffalo Pollee Departmen~
June Uceoc:e, Amerian Studies
at U8; )ames Ostrowski, Buffalo

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Association, Prison Action
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Culture, Buffak&gt; Chapter
NAACP. Urban league of
Buffalo, and others. For more
information, call Charles
Culhane at 645-2546, ext
12:14 or at 894-2013 .

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(}&amp;A-James Fletcher explains IWtk
ofspecialists on pain-treatment team.

PAGES

Pets &amp; Relationships

PAGE 6

Professor reads important dues
to health in dental X-rays.

Florida
North
UB was like a resort on
Sunday-with temperatures
in the 70s, students headed
outdoors for study and
sports. Freshman l.eisha Smith
found a sunny spot at Baird
Point on the North Campus
to kick back and catch
some rays.

Paid parking proposal to be re-examined
Faculty, professional-staffmembers voice opposition to plan developed by task force
By SUE WU£TCHEII
News Services Associate OJ rector

A

proposal to relocate
most of th~ North

Campus' paid/visi lor
.
parking spaces from
the Fronczak lot to the Slee lots
and require visitors to campus to
pay for parking at night and on
weekends wilJ be re-examined in
light of almost unanimous oppo sition to it voiced by faculty and
professional -staff members.
Clifford Wilson , associate vice

president for student affairs who
oversees campus parking, said on
Monday that the proposal will be

returned to its originator-the
Special Event Task Force--which
will "have to rethink the plan with
the feedback (generated by various
campus constituencies) in mind.

II would re t urn the Ce ntt~ r for
II ha sn't been greeted wub open
arms
Tomorrow lot In a free ove rflow lot
The proposal, which th e task with shuttle serv i{.e.
force had hClped to implement for
Under the plan , the numhcr of
the Fall 1998 semester, was de - pa id/visi to r parkmg spaces in th e
signed to "m axim ize parking ac - 1-ronczak lot on the west end of
commodations at the east end of · campus would be reduced from
the North Campus toward better 6 18 to I 65 . The rt·m a tntng
serving all members of tht&gt; univer · s paces-ap proxtmately 450si t y co mmunit y and creati n g a would be used as open parkmg for
welcoming env tro nmcnt for visi- fac ult y. staff a nd st udents.
tors," according to Ca rmela
Wilson pomtcd out tho:tt transfer
Thompson , director of campu~ nng some paid parking slots from
parking a nd tra nspo rt ation ser - Fronczak to the Slee lots will not
vices and co-chair of the task force . take any spots off-line. "We would
The plan would conven the Slee st mply shift them from one end of
A and Slee B parking lots o n the east campus to the other,'' he sa1d.
end of the academic spine to paid
In addition, the lot adjacent to UB
lots to accommodate both visitors Stadium that is used for parking durto campus and Ull faculty, staff and ing football games would become a
students who use the universit"}"s permanent ove rfl ow and visitor
preferred parking program.
parking lot. with 2~ 300 spaces.

\'tsttor~ allt.~ ndmg spcc.1.JJ t:vent~
o n ca mpu s after 3 p.m . and on
weekends would be assessed a $1
parking fee under the plan. Tht: fee
would reduce the cost to depart
ments for reservmg parktng, ere
;lie a guaran teed revenue soun:e 10
o ffset staffing and support t·he
cons truction of new lou and
mamtenance of existing loiS, and
achieve greater consistency m fee
~c hedules and related poli cies, ac
cordtng 10 the task -forct.· reco m ·
mendatiom.
'
Wilson said that bo1h Thomas
Burrows, d irector of the Center for
the Arts, and Nelson Townsend.
dm.·c to r of athleucs, support the
$2 parking fee .
With the plan, UB IS trymg "to
accommodate peop le on the east
c-~-pef016

Gift boosts Honors Scholars to 75 for Fall
By JED NITZBERc;
Reporter Contributor

T

AKING a monumental
step that will change the
lives of even more UB
students, the anonymous
donor who started US's Distin guished Honors Scholars program
has reached the $4 million mark
wi th another donation of $800,000
to fully fund the educatio n of aca ·
demically gifted students.
The latest cash gift will allow th e
program to recruit approximatel y
20 students for the Fall 1998 fresh ·
man class, which means that Wtth
the Fall 1998 semester. there will
be a total of 75 Distinguished
Honors Scholars in all four undergraduate years.
The donor expressed the wish
that tltis gift ,and the previous S3.2
million , should not only fund the
program, but should inspire oth ers to give to the Honors Program.

"More students deserve this opportunity," said the donor. " I hope
that o thers who share this belief in
the value of a first -rate education will
step forward and join me in support ing gifted students who might oth ~
e~ be unable to afford college."
That wish is coming true. In the
past two months. approximately
$400,000 in commitmems to be ·
gi n end owing th e p rogr am has
been received.
"This continued support for th e
Distinguished Honors Scholars is
a stro ng con firm atiOn that we are
meetmg th e donor's wi shes re ga rding the quality of studenls we
illvite into th t program," said
C lyde Herreid , academic director
of the UB Honors Program.
"This continued generou s sup port o f US's Honors Program is a
great tribute to the excellent un dergraduate scholars the program
has produced," said President Wil -

liam R. Greiner.
Individuals m the latesl group of
Distinguished Honors Scholars, who
enrolled at UB last fall, have a mean
high -school average of lj9 perct&gt;nt
and a mean SAT (Scholastic Apti tude Test ) score of 1518 out of 1600.
While th e majority of Dis t in guished Honors studenl s are from
New York State. there also are stu dents from Connecticut , Kansa.!' ,
Minnesota, North Carolina. Penn ·
sy lvania and Washington .
The donor 's first gift of S l.h
million in 1995 created the Distm guished Ho nors Scholars program
as part of the university's Honors
Progr.am. The donor's intenl with
the gift was to make the dream of
a college education achievable for
o utstanding students facing finan cial pressures. The donated funds
are used to cove r all of their ex penses-tuition, f«s . books, personal expenses and tran sporta ·

110n- and allow them to focu:.
enllrely on the-ir st ud1es. Another
goalts to make UB a umversttv of
firs! cho tec fur the most academ•
ca ll y gifted students .
"We thank lht&gt; donor not onlv for
making all ofthJ~ posstblc, but also
for I he postuve c.:ffc.;ts the program
h.ts had on tht.· student s and fa\.
ultv.'' ~1d Herretd. SL1 NY Dtstln ·
gu1shed Teadung Profes.-.or m the
Departmenl of StologJCal Sc t enc~
" In much the same wav thJI' thl)
exceeding ly generous g1ft IS serv
mg as an example to o lh er donClrs.
the quality of student~ we are a hi(·
to attra ct also ha~ a 'halo effet: t ' A'
word spreads abo ut the extraord1
nary scholarships the c.JonClr hd'
made available and the lremen ·
dous educational expenen ce wt'
offer, we are seeing a greater num ber of top students applymg to and
attending UB."
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BRIEFLY

Wort sought for
IREWC pc&gt;sUr sesslbn

J""'es Fletcher is assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology and medical director of the Comprehensive
Pain Treatment Service. Located in the University Physicians
Office (UPO ) on the South Campus, it is the only multidisciplinary pain
clin ic between Cleveland and Rochester.

--In

FICUity and g&lt;adull2 stuc1enU
... ~ tD shan!

poster form IS port of the lnsll-

tule for~ and Edualion

on Women and Gender's tnt
II10UII Celebrltion of Women
and Schollnhip to be held Ap&lt;il
17.
Posten wtl1 be e&gt;cpeCted tD
pment cumnt~

.....n:h "' scholanhlp--on top.
lcs related to women and gender. "'-'lotion may repment
a completed study, in
prognoss 0&lt; pmposals ("' Mure
studies.
Poster format shoold include
project
hypothesis, n«essa&lt;y bod&lt;gmund In,

title,-"'

fotmallon, methodology and ,.._
suits "' condusions. Tho information is to be mounted on 1
four-by-six.f- boord and the
title shoold be visible across a
large room. R....lt:her and department nomes shoold be in
YNMletters.
Members of the uni-msity
c&lt;&gt;mrrlY111li Interested in partlclpating are tD call the
IREWG at829-3&lt;4S1 to rogister.

Brown Bag video on
"Be Prepared to Speak"
to be f)re5ented.
"Be Prepared tD
SpeD.• geared to dewloping
quality opeeches and pmen....
lions, will be offered Aprii 1S by

A video,

~..=r~.,p
Commlttile.
Tho video and • d Ocussion
wiU be held In 1061acobs from
noon to 1 p.IJl. as part of the
SeSpring '98·8rown Bag ria. llwillbe &lt;.&lt;&gt;-~ by

the Studentl..e.lder:s!UP llewlopment Center, Oflice of Student ~ Toottmdthe pmentation, aoll 645-2003.

Why do most people come to
the Comprehensive P•ln
Senrke 1

T~•tment

People are referred to the Comprehensive Pain Treatment Service for
management of pain in a specialist
environment. They are referrM by

their primary-care physician, surgeon, internist, chiroprador or, occas ionally, directly by themselves.

The clinic offers a specialist environment, bringing together staff with a
special interest in pain to treat pallents from a wide variety of symptom backgrounds. This is possible
because all the staff at the pain clinic
specialize specifically in pain man-

agement, and have access to backup
staff outside the clinic who have also
demonstrated a successful approach
to pain management. Often patients
have seen a number of other doctors to have thei r symptoms. signs
and abnormal results of investigations treated, with either no or limited success.
Who are the professionals on
your p•ln-tre•tment te•m 7

At presen t the clinic has on a single
si te one physician. one nurse prac titi oner and two pain psychologists. The clinic also makes exten sive use of physical therapy as pari
of an interdisciplinary approach to
pain management.
What •re the most common
c•usa of chronic p.11ln th•t
you see7

Low back pain is the most common
'

R EPORTER
Tho Reponer b • ampus
communitypubllshocl by the DMsion of

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-UniwnltySeMces, .

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Stole Uniwnlty of,_ Yorl&lt;
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ioated • t 136 Crofts Holl,
AmheBt. (716) 645-2626.

cause of referral,this being the single
largest cause of lost work days due
to disability. Many patients also have

myofa scial pain- pai n in the
musdes of the back or shoulders.
The djnic also specializes in two
other types of pain problem: patients with limb pain who have a
condition often referred to as .. renex sympathetic dystrophy," and

actively misuK or abu~ alcohol,
drugs or tobacco have a very poor
chance of improvement.

patients with headaches, who will
often benefit from techniques
taught by the pain psychologists, in
addition to medical management.

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Chronic pain affects patients in a
spectrum of ways. This varies from
minor physical dysfunction to
gross disruption of personal and
family life. Depression is a common
accompaniment to chronic pain
and probably reflects the continuous assault the brain endures as a
result of feeling pain. Anxiety due
to loss of work, family or money
· also affects the chronic-pain patient
and needs addressing as part of an
interdisciplinary approach.
Do you focus on managing

pain, or eliminating 1t7

We focus both on managing pain
and eliminating it. Initially we Jook
for methods of reducing pain .
These may involve medication, injection, pain-psychology interven tions and physical methods. Often
these will bring a patient's pain to
a level where they can resume a
more normal life and enab!Cs them
to cope with any remaining pain
themselves. Remember that the
patient wiJI usually have been extensively investigated for a specific
djagnosis and that any appropriate
ueatment, often surgical, will have
already ~n aone.
b most pain manageable7 1f

not. what are·the exceptions?

Most chronic pain syndromes can
be managed, although many cannot be completely cured. Patients
who are referred early to the clinic
have the best chance of returning
to a more normal life. Patients who
have been in chronic pain for many
years are the least able to benefit
from treatment. Also patients who

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The majority of patienu attending the pain clinic undergo a behavioral as~ment by one of the
pain psychologists. If appropriate,
the patient then will begin a behavioral approach to pai.u man agement, which may focus pn
helping the patient understand
their pain and the significance it
should have in their life, changing
behavior patterns that reinforce
pain, relaxation methods to reduce
pain and biofeedback to enable the
patient to control their pain. The
patient is treated simuJtaneously
by the medical side of the clinic,
which, in addition to medications,
may choose to perform injections
into painful areas or around
nerves supplying, bu t away from,
the painful area. Prescriptions for
physical therapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
may be given. In addition, if an
attempt to return the patient to the
workforce- is appropriate, an assessment of functional capacity
may be necessary prior to recom mending vocational retraining
in to a job more suited to thepatient's capabilities. For patients
with intractable pain problems, we
sometimes recommend more
interventional treatments. such as
spinal-cord stimUlation or spinal
morphine infusion.
Wh•t do you consider the
most lrnporhnt change In the
treatment of pain In the past
deacle7

The most important advance over
the last decade has been the acceptance of chronic pain as a separate
disease, allowing the patient to be

believed and not dismissed as
"crazy.• This bas allowed a more

objective look at chronic-pain
syndromis and has thus facili -

tated research into mal;l)' areas,
both at the basic- scim~ level
aDd in clinical pqctice. The understanding (albeit still poor)
of the mecbanisrru of chronic
pain have allowed the beginnings of a logical and scientifically based treatmmt strategy.
The next 10 years should be
even more exciting!
What's 5CMIM'thlng most

-"don't
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chronk ,-In •nd should7

People need to know that
chronic pain is a disease in its
own right and that it can usu ally be managed adequately.
They should know that early
presentation for appropriate
treatment is important. Pain
becomes defined as chronic after it has been present for three
to six months. This exceeds the
time for normal healing to occur and therefore it is unlikely
that any physical change is go ing IQ occur as a resWt of the
heali~g process. The patien1 at
this stage probably has the di agnosis of "chronic pain" and
needs appropriate treatme-nt
for this diagnosis. The longer
chronic pain is left untreated,
the worse the outcome.
Wh•t 'I"Htion do JOU wish
I h..t ••ked, •nd how
would you h•ve an.swered
lt7

The UPO is dosing soon, but
the clinic will continue. weprobably will move to the city's
hospitals. We may also enter a
clinic in Amherst later in the
year. At present. contact 8292600 for an appointment.

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APC report on Headrick plan presented to-FSEC
By SUE WUETCHEJI
News Services Assoclat~ Director

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HE status of an inquiry
b)• the Faculty Senate's
Aca demi c Planning
Committee (APC) into
Provost Thomas E. Headrick's
plan to establish a new Depart ment of Co mputer Science and
Engineering was pre-sented to the
Faculty Senate Execu tive Commit·
tee at its March 25 meeting.
Headrick has proposed creating
the new department, effective this
sur:nmer, to bring together facult y
members working in the areas of
computer science and co mput er
engineering. Degree program s in
electrical engineering would remain in an independent Depart ment of Elect rical Engineer ing
hou sed in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
AP C C hair C laude Welch ,
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Po liti cal Science, told committee mem bers hls panel had met ea rl ier that

week with James Whalen, chair of
the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering; Stuart
Shapiro, chair of the Depanment
of Computer Science, and Alan
Cadenhead , associate dean for th e
Facuhy of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics, and talked by telephone with Mark Karwan, dean of
the engineering school.
The APC is co ncerned '" with the
way in which changes of this magnitude are discussed and implemented," particularly with respect
to the faculties of the affected programs, he said. He noted that there
was a "fair amount" of discussion
on the subject ea rlier thi s aca demic yea r when He-adri ck asked
unit s and deans " to engage in
planning and discussio n" on how
the universit y co uld integrate its
resources in computer science and
co mput e r e ngin eer ing. and a
.. great deal" sin ce he issued his
plan in early March.
Alth ough Welch said the committee has reached no conclusions

as of yet, he expressed concern that
a detailed memo outlining the plan

was circulated to senior administrators. members o f the Founder's
Committee, Whalen and Shapiro,
and members of their departments.,
but not to the Faculty Senate.
"As a general principle, it 's
highly unfortunate- that the senate
did not receive (the memo) right
from the start, given our respon sibilities (to review proposals re garding the formation, reorgani zation or dissolution of academic
units, as o utlined in the senate's
charter)," he said.
Headrick's plan was viewed with
ca utious optimism by so me FSEC
members.
Ramalingam Sridhar, associate
professor of electrical and oomputer
engineering, called Headrick's plan
"a very bold step.
"If it is implemented right , it
will turn out to be a fantastic deal
over the years," he said.
Dennis Malone. SUNY Distin guished Service Professor in the

Department of Electrical and
Comp!Jter Engineering, said the
new department would be good for
t.he engineering school. the computer science department and the
university in terms of undergradu·
ate enroUment and reputation .
.. But whether it is a positive, a
negative or a flaming disaster for
electrical engineering remains to
be se&lt;n," he said, adding that much
will depend on how programs and
fac ulty members shift from one
department to another.
He labeled as .. most troub le some" a statement in the plan that
would move three positions in
electrical engineering into the new
department once those faculty
members retire in th e near future.
" It appears to give electrical engineering no choice about what happens in the future," he noted.
Welch said' his committee will
meet again on April 2~this tim ewith Headrick in attendanceand will report more fully to the
senate aft·e r that.

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N a speech both humorous
and heartfelt. the new dean
. of the Graduate School of
Social Work last week outlined the "paradigm shift" he sees
taking place in social work and the
helping professions.
Speaking on March 24 as part of
the Uil at Sunrise program, Lawrence
Shulman argued that the "medical
model" for the helping professions is
in the process of a necessary transiByiiUHT

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tion to a more"interaaive model"ln

Shulman's view, the medical parndigm
encourages the separation of the personal and the professional, whereas
the new paradigm encourages social
wurk&lt;rs, psychologists and doctoo; to
brlng their genuine einotions to the
job, to reveal to their clients what they
think the clieot is reaUy saying and to
view honest mistakes as preferable to
strict professionalism.
While he was quick to point out
that the new model does not mean
workers are supposed to share everything with &lt;Very client, Shulman
said it does mean personal emotions
and intuitions can be expressed
"professionally and appropriately."
By contrast, said Shulman, when
the medical paradigm of"study, di agnosis and treatment .. is dominant,
it leads to the belief that social work
IS"something we do to people instead
of something we do with people."
Under the medical paradigm, he
no ted, socia l workers are advised
to shift personal question s back
o nto the client. Phrases such as
'' We're here to talk about you" and
' !his is what I hear you saying,"
can m ask the social worker's own
discomfort,·indifference or fear.
A better strategy, said Shulm an,
begins with hon esty. "We've tri ed
eve rything else,'' he sa id . "Maybe
we sho uld give honesty a sho t."

Providing illustrations fromhisown
cxperien&lt;r and those of his studeots,
Shulman outlined the various ways
honesty ctn "help the real work to begin." In some stories, honesty meant
something as simple as answering the

clienfspco;onalquestionsdirectlyand
sincerely; in other.;, it meant something
as controversial as expressing emotion--even momentary anger-in
front ofarnenL"Not everyone agrees
with me," said Shulman, "but I have
not found ways to train social workers to learn how to trust their instincts

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other than by teaching therri to take
risks. to learn by their mistakes, to do
things differently, and then to make
better mistal=. And I think that's
what we do most of our lives."
Shulman also encouraged the
many social worke rs in the audi ence to make guesses as to what
their clients are .. reaJly saying," and
to exp ress those guesses to the cli ents. This .. preliminary empathy,"

he said, allows the helping professionaJ to stay one step ahead of the
client , noting tha t even wrong
guesses are often seen as evidence
of the social worker's humanit y.

"We've trled everything else.

honesty • shot."
lAWRENCE SHULMAN

" I was taught never to do this,"
said Shulman. " I was told it would
be pu tting words into the client 's
mouth . But my resea rch and my
experience have to ld m e that we
make m ore m istakes of omissionwhen we fai l to take a guess-than
we make mistakes of commission."
According to Shulman, another
component in the new paradigm IS
the recognition that clients are partially responsible for the results of
social work. "The people Wl' work
with have a part to play," he said, "and
sometimes th ey can't hear us, no
matter how honest or genuine we are.
That 's a ve ry crucial co ncept. be -

ca use we often take responsibility
for the outcome of our work when

we should only take responsibi lity
for our part of the work."

The inadequacies of the medical
paradigm became evident to him,

said Shulman, when he tried to lead
a ber~vement group for widows. " I
began by saying, 'The purpose of tlus
group is to work through your grief
And one of the members said, 'You
don' t work through your grief,
Sonny. You learn to live with your
grief.' And my education staned."'
Contending that. for many socml
worke rs, this ... ed ucatio n., ~ncludc!&gt;
learning how to get around the pressure to conform to the old paradigm, Shulman argued that the new
paradigm ha.c; been a covert part of
social wo rk for years. As an example.
he described a woman who was sent
to a socia l wo rker just after she
learned her child had leukem1a.
"The social worker said to her.

'What did the doctor say?' And the
woman said. ' He just told me my baby
is going to die.' That young social
worker reached out, took her hru1d.
and sat and cried with her. In my Vll'W,
the worker was making a gift. saymg.
in her own way. 'I'm going to try to he
with you at probably the worst mt)
mcnt of your life. Words will come
k·ucr. Right now you do n't need " 'Ords.'
Her supervisor. walking by th&lt;.· open
door. trained in rhe S..'lme parad1gn1 I
was trained 111. pulled her out and
n it icized her. I as ked thl· soc ia l
worker whal she learned from her rx pcricncc," said Shulman. "She said she
learned to keep her door closed."'

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A new site on the Wof'ld Wiele Web
that provides immediate access to In formation about trends m antibiotiC resistance has anracted
major interest, recording more than 80,000 hit.s--40 percent Of them
from o ut side the U.S. --dur ing 1ts first month on line.
Resistance Webf'l&gt;4 mdude-s a comprehensive database that allows
ph ys1cians and medical re~ear c her~ to co nstruct customized quenes on susceptibility pdttern s of different bacteria to specific anti
hiotiCS, both rcg10nally and nat10nally. They can choose graphmg
opt ions, and download g raphs for USl' 10 professiUndl presemauons.
Use rs. who must register &lt;h memht·r!i, &lt;~l so may \.h(.lO!&gt;C to rel::e1 ve
sue updates by l' - mail.
The Web si te draw~ on 10 year ~ o r drug - reSI Stance tnKklng, drug ·
utilization data and demog raphl l mformat1on lomp1lcd by its de
vclope rs at the C:lim~..al PharmaLokmetll3 l.abnratorv o f Millard
Fi ll m ort· Health System and the UH ~chool of PharmacY.
"Analyzmg bacterial· re&lt;.;J stan l l' trends w1th ant1b1ot1C utilizatiOn
may be th e key to a better understandmg of how we J.S researcher ~
and clinicians can modify ou r ant ibi otK -prcscribmg habits to slow
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Jerome J. Sc hentag. proft'~sor of pharmaceutiCS and d1rector of the
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bacterial resistance wnh othc:r clmlCJans and researchers. the Slit"
will assist in the process of res istance awareness and en~..ourage fo ·
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contamed 111 the site IS subJt"d to a k~al agreemt•nt between the
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Lecture to examine link between
women, shopping, space
VIsiting ~ohops , buying, purchasi ng. brows1ng. (Oillpanng, look
ing for bargam!&gt;, finding sa les., mspccting goods. Ever wonder wh\
the~(.· ac tiviti es a re pra ctica ll y 3CCond nature to most women and
m ay even red uce stress and lift sp JTits~
The ongins and associations of women and shopping spau:-~ .
which can be traced back to Victonan 11mes, will be exp lored 10 .1
lecture a t 5:30p.m. on Wednesday 111 Harnman Hall on the South
( :am pu ~ .

Mona nommh o( flonda Atl.lOill Umv(·rslty will discuss "A hml
nine Ci ty: Women , Shoppm g and Space 111 19th Cent urf Nt.&gt;w Yor"-. ··
The lecturt', spo nso red by th e UB School of Arch it ecture and Plan
nmg, will be free a nd open to tht· public.
Domosh will focm on the &lt;..lt.·w lopmen t of ~ew York C1ty 's !9th
centu ry cons umer distnct , referred toil!&gt; the "LadJes' Mdc," and Jh
rdatiomhip to V~e tona n nol!ons of femmiJlity and mas(ulinJI\ .
whereby women were tau g ht to valm· the home, famliv and reilg1on
v.,hde men wcr&lt;.· a(t lve m work. puhl!c life and politics.
Shc bt.-camc intcrested 111 the 3ub jec1 ythen her research on the shap·
lllg of large Amen can l'lllt'S 111 tht• 19th century led her to questiOn wh}
the first retail areas looked different compa red to other distncts. Sht'
wiJI argue that since women were ~1gnt-d th1s VICtorian St'l u( \-alues,
th,,: shoppmg space.!i were constnh:trd tn (ontorm to these (jUalitiC ~.

FSEC hears proposal for 'Faculty Fellows in Administration'
By SUE WUETCHER
News Services Associate Director

A

proposal to establish a
form a l program to al low se lected faculty
m embers to participate
direct ly in senior administrative
act ivities-a nd ob ta in va luab le
ad mini str ative exper i cnt.:e-wa~
presented to the Fac ult y Sena te
Execu ti ve Co mmittee at its March
25 meeting .

The proposal for a "raculty rd ·
lows in Administratio n" program.
submitted by Faculty Senate C hair
Peter Nickerson, professor of pa thology, is simi lar to a p rog ram
being promoted by the Professional
Staff Sena te for its m embe rs.
Under the program, faculty mem ·

bcrs would be assigned to a senior
administrative officer and given a
project rclated to the ar&lt;.-a of cxper
tise and needs of the administrawr.
FacuJty members would bring "special expertise" to the proicct, result
ing in a "more finel y nmed policy (Jr
study than othmvise "uuld have l&gt;een
the case,'' according tu the proposal.
The IC!Iowsh 1p would tl&lt;' a part ·
11me endeavor. a ll o w1ng fa c ultr
members to conti nue teaching with
,t reduced load and With rest·an.:h .
Nickerson re ca ll&lt;.&gt;d that wht·n
Provost Aaron Bloch di ed in 1995,
" there was the co mment tha t wf.'
really didn 't have a large number
of people waiting m the wings whn
had a lot of experience at tht•
higher level of administration."

In ad dition to prt~panng f;h ultv haw ~ervcd "fifth ·tloor " 1nternshq'~
membe rs to assume admllllstra ·
from tim e tn time. therl~ h.t!&gt; nrVt'r
IIVl' roles \•lhen needed . the fellow · hecn a formal program. Hr pomtcd
shi p would bnng "Jht~ fa l ult v out that Scn1or Vice Prcs1dent RoO
virwpmn t dlrt·ctly to th e se111or ert I. \\'agncr ha~ had a "lm ib r pro
adm illlstra tion ." NKkcr~on ~•11d .
gram tn hts office for !&gt;l'vnal war'
"Th&lt;' more: l.l tu lt\· who have ltlr profcssional ·statf m&lt;'mht·r,.
Keith Hcr1113, mt erirn cha1rolthl·
umtan w1th tht· admJnis lr J. t iVt'
Sld t', thr hett er ofl Wt' ar(.· bt•causc.·
Professional StafT Senate, ~ud th,u
the facultv und ersta nd dt·arly tht•
I knni.s Rlack. mtenm \· ~re prcstdcnl
lnS tiiUI! ona\ llli SS IOil .. th t' fall
for student affai r!&gt;, also 13 impk
that we haVl' 1~surs that aft'ert thl' menting an internship for prote~
t' llll fl' mslltutlnn." he sa 1d. "The o;1onal!&gt;. Moreover, th(• Prnft'SMonal
.lhli1t v to retain contact between Staff 11rvdopment Ta~k Fon.. t· , a
thl· two group!&gt;- the .tdmmtstra
· gmup composed of facuJry and pro
tio n ,\nJ faculty - ! think is so m e- fessio nal -staff members and cha1rt-d
thing we can 1mprove. That is what
by John Thoma..:;., in terim dean of the
W(.' really are proposmg here ...
School of Management, i!&gt; dt-velop
Nickerson not ed that although
mga program that would allow pm·
some individual faculty m embers fcssional staff members to pursue in

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Technology debated in symposium
By PATBJCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

OINT and counter·
poi nt-it was math ·
ematician and educa·
tiona! technology entrepreneur William G!'!III&lt;S,

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whose computer-assisted presentation cdebroted the "revolution" in in-

formation t~nology, taking on a
panel ofhumanities faculty to debate
UB's wildly fluctuating information
technology environment

rative efforts with the instructor

moderating the collective effort to
move the class along," Graves said,
.. and encourage solitary discovery
by the learner."

Meacham argued for learning
processes that move students beyond the isolation of the computer.
He said the current environment
promotes passive forms of information gathering in the face of a

large body of empirical evidence

The event was the second UB

that indicates actively constructed
knowledge is retained longer.

Spring Symposium on Technology
and Learning sponsored by the

"We tend to ti)ink that the only

Office of the Vice Provost for Fac uhy Development. II took place
March 28 in 120 Clemens Hall.

thing we'll lose with the increasing involvement of technology is
the lecture format," Meacham said.

"I think other things will be lost;'

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The faculty panel was comprised
of John Meacham, professor of psychology; Lynda Schneekloth, profes-

he said. " Depth of understanding
and retention are two of them."

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humanities librarian, Lockwood Li -

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brary, and Rick Lesniak, director of
academic services for the Center for
Information Technology The discussion was moderated by Joseph
Tufariello, dean of the Faculty of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
and chair of the Student Acr.ess Sub·

better sense of the "'eth nography
of student l.ife before fo rcing and
extending compu terization.

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Technology, student culture
"This technology may all be interesting to discuss and it may be
convenient for some faculty but it is
just not part of student culture on

comminee of UB's Infor mat ion

this campus," he said, suggesting that

Technology Com mince.
The panel issued a strong request
to the administration to put a tighter
rein on the university's galloping IT
steed, which is hauling tail full-speed
toward wholesale computerization.
Global decisions that now are being
made, they said. will have a serious impact on the camp us cuhu re and
should not be imposed without more
51\ldy and mud! greater faculty input

experiments be conducted to compare learning outcomes in identicaJ
c:lasses using computer materials likr
those Graves presented, traditional
methods to learn which courses in
which disciplines an most com pat -

choieogoljlll). ~
Agnes
ground when Jhe . . dlnce

He called for UB to develop a

Trend s, Issues described

Graves gave an overview of the
trends and issues changing the
nat ure of the ed ucational environ ment , trends that he sa id should
in form the university's planning,

budge ting and faculty development programs as they relate to
informat iOn technology.
Graves presented new and in ·
t rigu in g software applicatio ns" learningware" -developed and

used by fac ulty with whom he's
worked. These ap p roaches , he
said, incorporate the idea of learn·
ing-as-expedition with instructoras-guide. T hey use software and
Internet links to organiu cou rses
using a variety of IT tools marketed as "'courK packs."
"'They promote o n-line collabo-

ible with on-line learning.
.. Test or q u er y the stu dents
again one year later," he said. " Let's
see what th ey retain, what they
understand about what the y
learned with differe nt approaches
before we apply this very e:xpen ·

sive technology globally."
Booth agreed wi th Meacham,
asking, "What models do we have
for evaluating how well computer
and information technology works
and in which fidds of investiga tion?"
Noting the proliferation of de ·
mands to apply information tech nologies quickly throughout the
educational system, she said , .. It 's
important to remember that the
return on this extremely expensive
investment is still very uncertain
in terms of productivity and pedagogical enhancement .
.. fi rst information technology
was touted as a cost -saving mea-

sure," Booth contended. "Well, we
know that turned out to be untrue!"

She added that she and many oth·
about the possibl&lt;
development of a two-tiered system
of higher education---one for those
who au't afford romputer kdmologyand itsoontinuous updating. and
one for those who can.
"People think that because nobody owns the Internet, it's somem have

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build our communities."

Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, she
suggested that instead offorao-feeding the campus community vast

amounts of technology, " UB could
take an ever more extreme position-we could market ourselves as
the one American university where

learning exclusively involves inter-

how classless. It's not," she said.

action among hwnan beings."

"Cyberspace is expensive space and
access is not available to everybody.

And Schneekloth agreed with
Meacham anq Booth, noting that
computer t&lt;clmology, with all of its
color and lights, speed and connections, conceals the world of capital.
"'There is a hidden curricuJum

"'Jllere are many p roprietary is-

sues we need to add ress also,"
Booth said. " How will faculty
main tain control over the technol ogy they produce? How will we
keep the curricul um under the
control of fa':ulty and studen ts?

"I think we should not start producingcomputer-basedcow=just
because they use the available tech nology. Technology is expensive to

in any n~ technology," she said.
"'and we need to explore these hid den curricul ums before we dive

into the technology head-first."
Lesniak joked that he felt a bit
overwhelmed, "like Jay uno at a
meeting of the National Security
Council." Neveriheless;he, too, said

pro d uce an d expens ive to b uy.
Within this ongoing commodifica- that the environment of information of higher education," she said, tion technology does not provide
dar direction, and it should not
"we also need to think about who
be assumed that it does.
owns these new products."
Schneeldoth offered a somewhat "Field of Drums"
different perspective, a carefully
Information t&lt;clmologists tend to
prepared and provocative talk on
conStrue the t&lt;clmology realm ac"The Imagined Space of Elect ronic
cording to a kind of "Field of
Media," a media that, she said, "is a
Dreams" model, he said. "We're alcontinuation of America's fascinaways waiting for the plaj«n to come.
tion with the frontier."
We're never quite sure if they will
She discussed the concept of the The IT realm is expanding rapidly_
frontier not as an actual "thing," but We confront a multiplicity of
as a product of the American imagi- d!oices but we don't know what will
nation. Computer technologies are work in a giver&gt;scenario or who will
wildly popular, she said, because want it and for how long. lbings are
t hey sustain the great American moving so fast that our cost ~ti­
myth of the frontier-the hope of mates are based on models that no
complete happiness and success to longer exist. Technological 'infrabe fo und ..o ut there." Comp uter structure' is not lasting very long at
technology promises the good life alL In fact, everything we decide to
just as any American front ier has, do is outmoded by the time we deonly t h is time it's s u pposedly cide to do it,.. he said. "'We need
found in chat rooms an d in other much more collaboration with the
forms of virt ual reality, she added . teaching faculty before we decide
Schneek.Joth warned that as we what road to follow here. Othersign on to enter cyberspace, .. we wise," he said, "we'll make very exshould note the places we are leav - pensive and uninformed decisions."
ing behind-our bodies, for inWilliam Fischer, vice provost for
stance. Information technologies faculty development , said he
let us imagint- we can extend our hopes to further this dialogue in
brai ns into the world, b ut it's just a p ublic way because t he university is trying to adjust itself to a
that-ou r imagination.
.. We also leave our communirevolutionary environment. trying
ties," she said, ..and this weakens to reinvent and reform itRlf.
Tufariello, speaking as chair of the
our ability to mobilize into collective action. Likt Jack {Meacham) , St udent Access Subcom m itt ee,
I find that these technologies tend added, "We've been to the faculties;
to isolate hum an b eings wh en we're really trying and want to talk
what we need is embodjed human to those involved in these issues;
beings wlw will participate in and everyone's comments are~"'

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Pet-owning couples closer, study says
ayLOIS IIAIWI
News Servkes Editor

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OUPLES who own
cats or dogs have
closer relationships,
are more satisfied in
marriage and re spond better to stress than couples
who do not, a new UB study has
shown.
Measure s of heart rate and
blood pressure taken dUring a
situation known to be a source of
conflict between spouses showed

that systolic blood-pressure read ings of couples with pets were
lower at baseline, rose less in response to stress and returned to
baseline quicker than in couples
without pets.
Pet -owning couples also had
more frequent contacts with each
other and with others, and those
most attached to their pets had the
most interactions with their

spouses, according to the findings.
Results of the research were prese nted March 12 in Clearwater
Beach, Fla., at the an nual meeting of th e
American Psychosomatic Society.

cifically why this is so. Pet-owners
may b&lt; the kind of people who inherently seek out more sociaJ contact. On the other hand, there may
be something in the relationship
b&lt;tween people and pets that en hances social interaction. It's also
possible that for some people, contacts with a pet provide the same
healthful psychological and physiological benefits as human contact ."

Allen studied 100 couples, 50
who owned either cats o r dogs,
and 50 with no pets in the household.
Participants completed standard questionnaires that measured relationship closeness, marital adjustment , interpersonal sup-

port and pet attachment. They
also kept a two-week diary record ing the number and diversity of
social conta,ts.
10 evaluate responses to stress,
Allen hooked up spouses to heart
and blood-pressure monitors and

introduced a topi c identified

More social sup port
" any studies have
sho n that sociaJ suppo is protective of car. diov " ular health ," said
Karen lien , US re J.carch sc ntist and a uthor of t~e stud y. "We
know that people who
have many social inter actions are healthi e r
than people who don't.

In this study. people
who owned pets had
significantly more interactions with other
people than co uples

who didn't.
"We don"t know spe-

through the questionnaires as a
source of tension or disagree ment .
She then monitored heart rate and
blood pressure during the ensuing
discussion, to measure the couples'
physiological responses to stress.
Blood-pressure response differs
She found that among pet -own ing couples, average systolic blood
pressure at baseline was liS mm/
hg , rose to a maximum of 125
mm/hg during stress and returned
to normal quickly when the experiment ended. Among non -pet owners, systolic blood pressure av-

eraged 135 mm/hg at baseline, rose
to 160 and remained high for 510 minutes. Normal systolic blood
pressure ranges from II 0 - 130

mmlhg, depending on age.
.. There was a significant difference in blood- pressure response to
stress a'nd recovery time among
theR two groups," Allen said. " In
so me couples without pets, blood
pressure remained high 10 min utes after the conflict ended."
There were no significant differences in
response between men
and women, o r dog and cat-owners.
Allen's previo us research has shown that
th e presen ce o( a pel
during a stressful situ ation has a beneficial
effect o n bl ood pres sure , and that (or
women living alone
who have littl e contact
with the outside world .
a pet provides the same
beneficial effects on
ca rdiovascular health
as social interactions.
Allen 's research is

funded in part by the

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Waltham Re sea rc h
Ce nter for Pet Nutn tion located outside of
Londo n, England.

University Services presents
1997 Service Excellence Awards
The Division of University Services presented its
1997 Service Excellence Artardson March 25, rec·
ogntzing University Service employees who have
undertaken initiatives that advance the division 's
mission to provide htgh-quality service in an effective, efficient and environmentally responsible
manner that wm enable the university to meet its
teaching, research and public-service missions.
Two categories of projects were recognized :
large-scale and limited-scale. TeamS were nomi nated for completing projects or activities that
improve the quality of service of one or more
units by improving efficiency or productivity; saving time or money; reducing bureaucracy; meeting specific custome r needs, and im proving staff
morale, cooperation and understanding .
Special consideration was given to projects
that resulted from a benchmarking process, used
cross-functional teams, demonstrated a creative
use of technology, improved the culture or cli mate of a unit as a whole or made a sig nificant
impact on the university's customers.
The Classroom Technology Project tied for first
place among larg.,.scale projects. Staff from Computing and Information Technology's Academic

Services and Operational Support Services collaborated with University Facilities and the provost's office to provide 26 classrooms with permanently
installed E.Omputer and video-projection equipment. The Digital Ubraries Initiative also received
first-place honon for large-scale projects. The plan
was ihitiated by the Univer&lt;ity Ubrarie5 in response

to the demand for access to digital and electromc
scholarly and general-information resources.
The Procurement Card program received secondplace honors among large-scale projects. The card
provides a simple and more cost-effective method of
purchasing low-cost items because card holders are
able to make purchases of S500 or less--74 percent

of all purchases made by the university-&lt;lirectly lrom
the supplier without excessive delays and paperwork.
The ADAMS Conll&lt;!rsion Project tied for first place
among limited-5GIIe projects. It was initiated by WBFO
and the Office of University Development. which collaborated to custom;., a section of the ADAMS dono&lt;
database to enable WBFO to focus on and analyze information pertaining to its subgroup of unM!rsity friends
and alumni. Also receiving first-place honors for lim ited-scale projects was the CIT System Notifteation
and Information Project. initiated to provide a Webbased application to facilitate formulation and post ing of notices on performance or outage problems
on CIT-provided electronic or computing services

The Health Sciences Ubrary lournal Database tied
for second place. Dell&lt;!loped to collect ongoing usage
infonnation for the rurrent journal collection at the
Health Sciences Ubrary, the project allows the library
to collect and analyze usage data on subscribed journals to allow it to best allocate acquisition funding .
The Professional School Transcripts project also received second-place honors. The system retrieves tran-

script information directly from UB lnfo5ource and
allows a department to produce a visually appealing
transcript. printed on secure paper, within minutes.

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mg of a social documentary photographer."
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HE way Laurie Carter
talks about dental X·

rays is strikingly similar
to the way English professors talk abou t books.
.. If someone hasn't been trained
in how to read a radiograph ," s h ~
sa id. "the y tend to let their eyes
hounce around the film, looking
fo r some big lesion to jump out and
wave a red flag at them. You m iss a
lot of small lesions and sublle findmgs th at, although they're small,
are very signifi ca nt. Th ere's a lot
more on dental films than just caviti es and gum disease."
As a dentist and assoc iate professo r of oral di agnostic sciences in
the School of Dental Medicine, one
of Ca rter 's primary duties is to
tea ch dental students both the basics and the subtleties of reading
dental radiographs. Cav ities and
gum disease are only the beginning:
students learn how to read bone architecture, soft -tissue shadows and
air spaces; how to recognize signs
of tumor. bone disease and other
systemic diseases, and how to structure th ~ process o f reading radiographs so they do not miss less obvious dues.
O utside of her teaching. Carter 's
resea rch projec t is perhaps th e
mos t compelling example of the
range of information that ca n be
extracted from a r a diograph - it ~
hidden themes and meanings.
In the corners of a fairly .standard
dental X-ray called a panoramic
racliograph. it is possible to see the
carotid arteries, the large vessels on
both sid es of the neck that suppl y
blood to the brain. In 1981 , an oral
surgeon named Art Friedlander
suggested that calcium deposits vis~
ible on these radiographs might
indicate atherosclerosis--a leading
ca use of stroke--and th ereby indi ca te th e degree of the dental
patient 's susceptibility to stroke.
According to Carter, Friedlander's
research was not completely per·
sua sive to pathology resea rchers

because it was performed on mili·
tary veterans and not on a gcneraJ
population. A study Caner released
last Jul y backed up and mended
Friedlander's findings using a
broad population. II represented a
major contribution from UB to the
national diagnostic-imaging field
for maxillofacial radiology.
..Until recent yea rs, nobody was
aware that you co uld see this on
dental fiJms,.. said Ca rter.
Vv'hile additional research is still
under way, Carter's study may turn
o ut to have widespread effects.
Stroke is the third leading cause of
death in the U.S.; at the same time,
only 2 percen t of stroke victims experience detectable warning
sig ns. If doctors cou ld identify
high-risk candidates for stroke using something as relatively common as a pano ramic radiograph,
thousands of lives might be extended or saved. Panoramic radiographs usually are taken during a
patient 's 6rst visit to a new dentist.

"If docton could Identify
high-risk~ for

stroke using something as...

common as • panonmk

LAURIE CARTER

Thanks to Carter 's research, the
question is no longer wh ether susce ptibility to stroke is indicated by
panoramic radiographs. but to
what degree. "We don't know the
specificiry.and sensitivity yet," said
Ca rter. "Some patients have had
som e pretty extensive calcifica ti ons on the den tal film , and th en
the arteries are only 35 percent or
40 percent blocked. Other patients
have had much smaller calcifications, and som e of them are the
o nes who are over 90 percent
blocked."

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Her current research, Carter explained. is an attempt to determine
whether there is enough consistency between the dental film and
the amount of blockage to recom ·
mend ultrasound for patients with
seemingly large calcifications.
Options for people at risk for
st roke would include changes in
diet, an aspirin -a -day regime ,
medications or a surgical proce·
d~;~re called an endarterectomy.
Carter noted that , as a dental resea rcher, khe recommend s th at
people discuss aJI medical deci sions with a physician before taking action. She also stressed that
she would not recommend getting
a panoramic r ad~ograph just to
check for susceptibili ty to stroke.
"While radiation exposure from
dental films has decreased enormously over the last decade," she
noted, "y&lt;,Ju still want to use selec·
tion criteria when you obtain radiographs. There bas to be an indication that there is disease before you
goand pop off another set of films."
By the same token , said Carter,
it is not too early for peo ple wh o·
have already had panoramic radiographs to as k their denti sts to

check for calcification of thecarotid artery. While some dentists,
she pointed out, will already be
aware of her study, o thers will
not.
Fo r her part, Carter continues
to make new dentists aware of recent techniques and discoveries in
radiology.
" !love what I d o," she said. " I
think I ' m one of th e luckiest
people aro und . 1 love being able
to open a world of diagnosti c
knowledge to a student wh o
looks at a radiograph and doesn't
see anything. who says, 'There
are all these funny shadows here
a nd I don't kn ow what they
mean .' I teach them how to read
it so they can go off on their own,
and it opens up a lifetim~ of
lea rning.
"That's what 's great about science," she added. "You 're always
discovering new things that , in
many cases, were always there to
be seen, but nobody ever had the
idea before, or else nobody taught
you how to look...
Perhaps it is not surprising that
English professors often say the
sa me thing abo ut literature.

not be able to find a parking spot
in the middle of the day if th e
number of paid slot s in the
Fronczak lot is reduced
• The appeara nce of UB being less
than user-friendl y to the communit y if it charges for parki ng for
special eventS

ably are going to be )itudents."
• The inconvenience of having to
park in overflow lots while carry ·
ing cellos, keyboards and bassoons
to Baird and Slee halls
Staff m ember s " unde rs tand
the attempt s to try to be mo re
use r- friendly for v isitors. but
they a lso felt th at, 'Yes, le t's sup ·
port visitors. but ou r first con cern sho uld be th e people who
us e this campus every day,"'
Pearles sa id.
Wilson noted at the meet in g
that Pearles' comments "match all
the ca rds and letters we're getting.
Thank you for verbalizing it .'' he
added.
He said that any alternatives to
th e parking recomme nd ation s
suggested by th e Special Event
Task Force again will be circulated
among members of the university
community.
He added that UB must negoti ate any changes in parking with
the campus bargaining units.

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Paid parking
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end of ca mpu s and dea l with the
specia l-event problem at night ,"
\.Vil son sa id. "O ur goal here is not
to make life an y worse fo r any ~
body,!l ut to tr y to deal with a real
need , wi thout taking any spots offlin e."
The task fotce's recommendations,
which have been cirrulating among
various campus constituencies for
several month~ have generated solid
opposition across campus.
"We 've had universa l ' We hate
the idea for lots of reaso ns,"' Wil son 10ld the ProfCss io nal Staff Sen·
ate Exec utive Co mmitt ee at it s
Marc h 26 meeting.
Madiso n Boyce, director of stu ·
dent judi cial affairs and universit y
o mbud s m an, to ld co mmitt N·
members th at there were "som e
rather stro ng opinions" on th e
subject o n the PSS listserv. "To
some people. it looks as though it 's
(charging visi to rs fo r parking at
nights and on weekends ) another
slap at the public."

Boyce said he has hea rd that the
Center for the Arts is having diffi cu lty atl rac ting patrons for arts
events. " I guess I find it surprising
that adding a 'Come see us, but pay
fo r your parking' is see n by th ose
folks (at the Ce nter for the Art s)
as th e answer."
Peter Nickerson. chair of the faculty Senate, has said that members
of the Faculty Senate, discussing the
topic on the senate's listse rv. also
are opposed to the pro posal. ci ting
10 parti cula r th e move to shift paid
parking slots from thc- Fro nczak lot
to th e Slee lots.
Susa n Pearles. intern~hip coord inat o r of th e Social Soences In
terdisc iplinary Degree Program~.
told committee m t:m b c r~ ~ h e had
talked with a number of profes ·
sio nal staff. "and I don't know anybody who supports this ...
Pearles cited a number of reasons
staff oppose the recom mendations:
• Staff who use their ca rs several
times during the day fear they may

"Our goal here Is not to
nu~ke

life any wone for

~. but

to uy to deal

with ....... need, without

taking ""'Y spots off-line ,"
C UF~ORD

WilSON

• The fear th at fewer open parking spots in the Slee lo ts- "whi ch
are full by quarter to nine every
morning"- will force many staff
"to park at the other end of the
wo·rld . I'm g uessing that th e
people who are going to end up at
the other end of the world prob·

�Up close and personal with trash
A group of UB rtuclents plans to get up dose and
per&gt;onal with US's trash and they're hoping that
classmates, faculty and administraton will join them.
On April 16, six environmentally minded US students and their recruits will sort through a whole
clay's worth of trash collected from all classroom,
administrative and dorm buildings on US's North and
South campuses (with the exception of buildings that
generate hazardous waste.)
·
The trash will consist of anything that has been
disposed of in a garbage receptacle.
Open to all members of the US community, the
"Dumpster Dive" will be held from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m., between the Student Union and Bell Hall on
the North Campus.
Protective coveralls, goggles, gloves and mask&gt;
(as well as pastries and coffee for breakfast and pizza
for lunch) will be provided to participants, who will
be supervised and informed of potential risks.

The purpose is to raise awareness about how
much garbage people generate and how much
of it is recyclable by sorting recyclable material
from the .. real " trash .
The students got the idea for the Dumpster Dive
(no one will be literally diving!} after conducting
a trash analysis of three buildings on campus as
part of an environmental Internship with University Facilities.
"We were just amazed," said sophomore Rand i
Mail. .. Seeing all this garbage that could have been
recycled, it makes you feel responsible."
As part of the project, the students also surveyed their peers about recycling.
"People don't know what they can recycle ... said
Mail. .. Some of the students we surveyed in the
residence halls didn 't know that regular paper
could be recycled; they thought only newsprint
could be recycled ."
The New York State Solid Waste Management
Act of 1988 stipulates that state institutions should

recycle half of their waste .
According to the students' calculations, UB offices recycle between 30 and 40 percent of the1r
waste, while the figure may l)e lower in the dorms .
In their analysis of one clay's trash generated on
one day in Capen Hall, the students discovered 1n
the trash 330 pounds of paper and cardboard and
90 pounds of bottles and cans-ill! of which are recyclable. They also found 50 pounds of paper and

recycling bins and recyclable materials in the tra.sh,
due, in part. to a lack of information and lack of

BrieBy

access to recyding tacilities, the students concluded.
Out of 390 pounds of garbage in one residence
hall, 130 pounds was recyclable.
"There just aren't enough recycling bins in the
dorms, and in some cases they aren't even on
every floor," said senior Jodi Freilich. "The students told us that if the bins were more accessi ble, they'd recycle-more ."
They hope the "D umpster Dive'' will encourage the university to provide more recycling b1m
in residence halls and all over campus.
"US welcomes the efforts of these students and
IS committed to increasing recycling to 50 percent as stated in the un iversity's recycling policy,"
said Walter Simpson, US energy officer and the
students' internship advisor.
Robert Horvath, Robert Nash, Meg han fay and
Erin Cala also are organizing the Dumpster 01ve
For more information, contact Randi Mail at
rcm•ll•ac:s,u .buff•lo.edu or call Rachel Martin

at 829-3535.
-Ellen Goldb•um, News 5ervtct's Edttor

1

sociated with • small oollcge. while
making available the full resources of
a major research university. Sinre its
creation, the program has grown
from 21 students to more than 450
srudcnts.Approximately675student&lt;
ha1110 graduated as honors scholars.
"Graduates of the program bring
great pride to UB," sa id Greiner.
"Their success in graduate and professional study, as well as their career success, shows just how importa nt this investment in academ ll

a local umversit y.
The boy, Alex Stessin, worked
hard to adjust to his new hfe. He
worked especially hard at school
and excelled. By the time he was

re:1dy to graduate from high school
3nd was applying to colleges. he had
IS schools across the country vying
for him, each offering some type of
scholarship package. Alex narrowed
his choice to two: Williams College

and the University at BuffaJo.
" My initial visit to UB and the
Honors Program moved LIB nght

It 's the classic story of Amen can oppo rtunity. Eight years ago.

to the top of m y list." sa id Stcssin.
Bu t there were finan cial worru.·s
lurking, no matter which !!Chou!
he chose. Sll'SSm knew that hu fdm
ily would go into dcht to par for h1!1
l:ducation, and that he would haw:
to work pan-time. Then came word
that he had received a Distinguished

a boy 3Jld his family left !&gt;&lt;hind th&lt;

Honors Scholarship at UB.

cxce ll ence is. We arc; immensely

grateful for the donations that ha\T
made th is program possible."

chaos and deprivations of Moscow
for a new life in America. The)'
settled in Albany. where the father
joined the mathematics facult)' at

"'We were shocked. surpnscd .

h•ppy-all of the 3bovc,'" s3 od the
UB sophomore. '' It was not only
wclcomt&gt; becau!IC it was an tncred -

1blc relief of a maJOr tinant:"a.JI hur
den, but also because 11 came from
a sc hoo l with a good reputation
that I wanted to attend ."
Now· a double major m b10iob'Y and
English. Stessin lov.s the work he "'
doing at UB. He is espeaally enthus1
astic about biology. H(-rretd, tu.s men tor,tS guiding Stessm toward h1!1 ull1
mate goal of attending UH's medu:al
school. Stt:ssi n is work1n~ 1n thl·
~hool of Medicme and B1omed1
cal Sc1cnce; m Lhc Dcpanmcnt ol
Biophr-;ics as part of a rt.~.uch tl'am
mvestigating relina &lt;..db. The lvor~
ultimately could mflul'llll" the c:.1 rh·
dctt..xtion of glaucuma.
"The 1mpact of tht~ g1ft , .mJ I
know th1s IS a d1lhe . hut 11 ha~
changed nw Life. That\ completclv
Lrue," said Alex. "" l"h eexpenen..:~ l'vt•
had at UB and theoppurtun1110 l"w
been given are because of thedo1tor ·.,
generosity. I'm gi.'ttmg t•verythmg I
expected from college and more It\
exceeded m}' cx:pectallmb "

Events calendar
Continued from page 8
Social Photography Exhibit
"'Socaal Photography: Beginnen

B~St!d . M

~=~~~%~~n~~

through May 8 on the first floor of the

~~~n!W~:~.,~~~~

=

Campu$. The·~ by Mi&lt;:~ Erwin.
Mary Ellen Frandina, Tammy McGovern,

::00~~~ ~~~:,a~

~~~~~nAsoc=~~~y~Y

be vM!wed Mon.·lhun., 8 a.m -11 p.m .
Fn ., 8 a.m.·9 p.m., Sat., 9 a.m -9 p m.,

Sun., rwon-11 p.m.

Peter Halfey

Profect

'"T h~ Peter Halley Project," a ume$ of
temporary public art proJe&lt;h desi$1ned
to engag~ the university commun1ty m
a dialogue about contemporary an

Signer, who .1lso taught mght o.:our!&gt;t'' 10 the Buffalo ....-hool~ . pm
vtded refresher courses for secreta ftC!! and admlni!!ICrcd test" lnr lht
Professional Secretan('S Aswuauun

Awards honor Saul Elkin,
WBFO for support of the arts
S•ul Elkin, Distinguished Service Prolt"!&gt;'iOr and lormer ~..h.ur ol
the Department of Theatre and I )anu.•, h.a~ lwen -;dected .t!l tht' li.J9X
mdividual artt!lt honoree at the 11th Annual Arts Awards ~.dchr.J
110n of th e Arb Co un ci l o f Buffalo and l-.r1e ( :ounty ..tnd the BuftaJ. ,
Ntagara Pa rtn e rship. Elkin Wa.\ honored at a lun~.hcon hc:ld M.ard1
I B in the Hya tt Regency Buffalo. fht• ( .ounctl al\o sdl·ctcd WHH l
K8.7FM, UB's National Publu: Rad 1o \tallon, fnr an ,l\1\'ard ali o ut
'ilanding medta supporter of the arh fhl~ ..tward~ rt"1.0gn1Lt' thm\
who create and support the arts tn Wt"!ltcrn New Yor~
Elk10 , an actor, d1rector, lt'd1.her and produ .. cr of thl'atl'r fur lllml
than 30 Vt"ar~ . 1!1 the founder of ~hakespc.1rc 1n Delawart' Park dnd
ha~ hecn thl· cnmpany "s artistiC d1rt"1.tPr lor 2 '\ Vt.'.H" &lt; urrcnth . ll~ 111
IS tt:achtn~t theater h111tOry a nd admg at l 1H
lf onor., wt"rt• g1vcn In WHHJ 88.7 FM for 11\ !It rung lOntnlulluln ..
to till" 1-.ne Lou nt y a rb scene, Jill ~..uhural pmgramnung and 1b d
forts to cnhanu· apprcc1al10n o l thc an·,

Dental Alumni Association
names new officers for 1998

H~nors Scholars

students with the highest level of
scbobrshipand personal attention as-

A funer•l M•u w•s held Monday m St. Joseph Cathedral. 50
..rankhn St., for Helen K. Signer, 97, who wa.s a lecturer m lieCre
tanal serv1Ce!~, tt:achtng for many years m an as.sonate 's-dcgree pro
gram tn Mtllard fillmore College !·u gncr d1ed March 26 1n Stster li
Hospi tal after a short illn ess.
She att ended Bm.1nn Umvcrs1tv .wd the forme r Chown Bu.stneS!I

School.

\

UB's Honors Program was created
in 198 1to provide 3cademic:ally gifted

Helen K. Signer, 97, lecturer
in Millard Fillmore College

foam cups.
Out of 700 pounds of trash, only 230 pounds was
garbage that could not be recyded or somehow elim~
nated through a waste reduction strategy, such as encouraging people to drink from reusable mugs.
In the dorms, the students discovered haU-full

(

Continued~~

Obituaries

and 1ssue~. ·~on d•~play 1n the Ce-nter
tor the Art~ and at vanou~ s1te~
throughout the North Campu~
through July 1998 For more
mformat•on on the artist and h11 won..
call the US Art Galt~ry at 645 -6911
Folt -Aibert Associates Exhibit
An ekhlblt by the arch•tecturl",
eng•neenng and surveYing hrm will bt&gt;
on d•splay m the James Dyelt Gallery
l l4 Haye~ Hall, South Campu1,
through Apnl 18

Thesis bhlblt
"Memory and the Commonplace."
Shauna Fnschkorn, Master ol f•ne Art~
Thes•$ Exhibit. Art Department Gallery,
Center for the Arh through Apnl I 0
Gallery hours are Tue\., 10 am -S
p.m, Wed .-Fn . 10 a m -8 p m . Sal ,
11 a.m .-6 pm

Unlvenity

Commencenu~n t

Candidates lor undergraduate deqr~~
•n the lacultlf'~ ol Artl and lener.
Natural Sc-ene~ .tnd MathematiC ~
*.at Sc.enct"$ (tnctuchng
lnterd•sophnary) and Speoc.al and
tndMdualved Ma,ors are eltglbk&gt; to
pan.opate 1n tilt&gt; l.Slnd Un~ty
Commencement on Sunday. May I 7. 10
d m 1n Alumn1 Arena They may leavt&gt;
the.r commencement •nformat10n
brochure regl5t.rat)()n form~ a! tht&gt;
Student Un)()n InformatiOn Desk or •n tht&gt;
Commencement OffiCe at S 37 Capen
Hall Commeocement mformatJOn
brochure1. Including the form, also dre
available at both of these iltes The fihng
deadline ·~ Apnl 1 7

The School of Dental Medicin e Alumni ,-\o;.,nu.lllon has dnreJ
offi..::cr!i for thl· 1998 term .
Paul R. DtHenedetto, a I Y7q graduJtt• of tht.· dt:ntal ..chool. Willi
~..ho~en pr ~stdent. A former pre~1dent .1nd lUrrent mcmher ol the
l·onz1 Dl·ntal ~tud \' Club. OiBl"nt:dt:tln aho 13 a co -cha1r fur tht.. an
nual Greater N1agara Frnnt1cr I )ental M~etmg .
A gradua tl· nl 1agara Un 1vcrlill\, DIBenedetto~~ member ott he
Amenlan lkntal AS!!OI."ra t1 on, Penta! ~ociety of tht: State ol Nc\1\
York. the bghth Dl!ltncl Jlclllal ~&lt;,nety a rtd the Enc County Ol·ntal t
\ul ll'l\' Ht· mamtatns a prtvatt· pr.JLitn 10 C ht"ekt owaga.
f\·t1 Lhacll &gt;. l:hlerli, who graduated from the dental school1n I 98S.
wtll serw a~ prcstdcnt -elect . A dlnt~..allnlitructor of ..l..StnratiVl' den
11strr ,tt L1B. he practiceli tn Hn!&gt;hm .
R1L'hard I. I \'nch, a 19fU dcnt.11 - ~chool gr.1du.Jtl' and lorrnt'r prt'''
dent of th l' dental alumn1 aS!IOllatum. \"\' a~ l'il'Ctcd trL".hUrl'L I ''nLh
rl"L"L"IVl'd ht)o hJchdnr 'li degr ..·e 111 hwlogv .1nd P-")'Chulogv I rom L"B
Ill I Y79. ~1nu· I 9~ 7. ht· ha!!l'h.llrt.·J thl· .. du~..atton Conllnltll·t· olthl'
l 'H Alumni AS!I(ILI..tiiOil. He IS a ml·mba oft he t\!0\t.l~ l atuln nf l;l.. n
l'r.JI Dt'nlllitrv, l:nc &lt;.ount\ Dt.. nt.ll !'louct,· and tht• Anll'rtl.Jil J)l•n
t.ll th 'iOll~l ll nn . A p.1rtnt'r 111 the \Vc!ltt·rn Nl'\1\' Yur~ lknt.Jl t.nn1p.
Pt.. . I \·n..:h pral-Tiu'!lln Will1an1'wlll('

Roundtable grants t6 help
Department of Art faculty
implement new technologies
four faculty members olthl· llepartmc:nl ul Art have hl·cn gr.mtt'J
lunding from the l&gt;t:-an of Arts and l.t.·ttt:r., lor mJivtdu.ilprotnb hl
thl· UB "lt:achmg and Lcarntng ll'l'hnolog' Roundtahlt· l -omm ii H'r
• Departllll'llt Cha 1r Paul MlKc:.·nn.J, .Js~o~IJil' prolt''"t'r u! .Jrl , rl·
lt'IVc.:d $2,.!00 to d tg1111e images and lor U\l" 1n .1 lo .. .JI .1nd tckm.ttl .,
~&lt;,ur .. e 111 thl· hl !~h)f\' o l graph1L dt."!l l~n lk ,,],,, w1 ll u"t" thl' Ill• lilt'\
to .Jttend a nat1onal mult1mt.•d1a ~ontcrl'lhl'
• l&gt;av1d ~dltrm . .l~M 'll a tc proft·~nr ul .~rt. rl'"-'-'IH't! $ "1,000 to 'll~'
purt .1 Tcll·ma ii L Curatonal Prol'e!l!l to d1g111/C !!IUJl·nt p.untln~ ' ,\ ,
tht'\ ....miX' put on lhe Internet, J~.~ vdop .l dl[!lt.ll .Jrt h.1nk .Jn\i lllllt.lt l"
and promote .1n cxh1bit10n o l LIB :.tudcnt \VOf~ .-11 l .Jrllt"~ll" r..tdlun
L1n1Vcntt\' .10d tht' ~t."w Yor~ C1tl ~'hoollor till'\ 1.,ual -\rt.,
• Tvrorw (u!nrg lou, professor of art , reu·1vl·d $4 .000 11 1 pur .. h.l"t
d1gtta l ~.amera11 for a cou r!le 111 d1gltal1ma)!tn}!
• Addc llcnderson . aS!IOCia tc professor ol .Jrl. H'U"I\l"ll sr... oou {II
c:.kvrlop a pnnt -tech nology &lt;."oursc tnlt latiV&lt;' .1nd ILl 'uppllrt 111 .. 1.1"
pnnt produL·tton a nd a Web )It{' lor tht· l'lJUf!it' l"hl· L~•ur'l' will ~\'
offered through the t·xpcnml.. ntJ! Pnnt lma gtng l cntl'r t t•Plt '· Ill'
nated h)' the: department '_., Pnn trnak1ng Progr.m1

�8 Rep arias: ADril ~ 9fJYol29. la.21i

Hlstooy c-t.......
7th Annuol Plosur Hlsl&lt;wy
Confonnce. HS Stuclont
Union. North Compus. 9 a.m.-S

Thursday

2

p.m: ~ciZ.;.,~

--e
· C..........,
· The Logic of Luder-Fol"'-r
lnteractlons In the U.S.
· House. \Wtiam Hixon, Univ. of
Rochester. 42S Pan. North

Campus. 1 1 a.m . Sponsored by

Politic.al Sdence Dept for more
infotmation, call Ann Mclellan
at 64S·lli1 , ext S21 .
~ot4Pius

IActure

L.onger View&gt;. Samuel

R.

Detany. 438 Clemens. North

Campus. 12:30 p.m .

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~~~/;:&amp;. ~~~H~~Ia

~
.. -liom.
For ,.,... inlonnotion, call jonPaul O)oOn. 64S-2181 , oxl SS9.
Art

CalroiZ

Helwan Univ.,
for the Arts,

11-37
tmoiOng

f':i~~...=-:..;

ePIC memben; sso, public.

Spomored by ~tol Print
~ C...ter US'S Dept. ol
Art.
"""" inlonnotion, and

registration call Jeff at 64S-6878,
OJ&lt;l 1369.

Aslo .. -

~~~~s

~~~~~~~~b

Kazuo Masuyomo, Ph.D.
&gt;tudent In education, 2SO
S~t Union. North Campus.
Noon- 1 p.m. Sponsored by
Asian Studies Progrom. For

Studies Prognom at 645-}474.

fl"K)f"e information. all Thomas
W. Burttman at 645-3.474.

Seminar

R-P..t.StAffSemlnor

Assessment of Organk Cation

~~:"lly~~•m

Nakanishi, Kyoto Univ. 90

Alumni Am&gt;a. NortiJ Campus.
2-3:30 p.m. Sponsored by Asian

· more infOil'T\ition, call Asian

~~k~~"fl!~~~~f CeU
Perfusion Techniques. Kelly
Mahar, graduate student,.
Phatmaceutio. S08 Cocl:e. Nonh
Campus. 3:30-5 p.m . Spomored
by Pharmaceutics DepL

-

lllologlcol Sciences Seminar

~.-~~G'=~Hs~~
~:;'en~il~hatt fur

Siotechnologlsche Forxhung,
Genetik von Eukaryonten;
Braunsdl~rmany. 114
~hstetter.

Cam~s .

. 3.45-5 p.m . Sponsored

~~~Ca~~

::a'ide

ll&lt;rezney, host, at 6-45 -2363 .

l'tlysks Colloqukam
Neutrino Physks at fermllab:
Present and Future. Prof. Janet
Conrad, Columbia Univ. 205
Nawral Sciences. North
Campus. 3:45-5 p.m .

Buffalo logk Colloquium
Shades of Meaning. Jean-Pien&lt;
. Koenig. US. 280 Pari&lt;. North
Campus. 4-5:30
Sporuored
· by Buffalo Logic
For
~ information, call
Corrocan at 881 -1640 Of 645·
2444, OJ&lt;l 757.

tm.
=:·

· Concert/ Lecture

Rw•on. stan~~-

M. .: Wash~ton
.. School
d Medicine, l Louis, MO.
HiiJeboe Auditorium, Research
Studies Con tor. 12:3().1:30
p.m. Sponsored by RPCI. For
more lnfonnation, call Charles
\Yenner at 845-3261 .

Aw-e-.....,.

~~tf~~=-by

Tho Reporter puYshos
Ustlngs for -

tolling

p&amp;.ce on~ or for

off-c.npus- .,._..
UB groups ore potndpol

sporuon. Ustlngs . . -

no a.ter llYn,_. on
the Thundoy ~
. . . - - . Ustlngs . . . . ..

&lt;opted only through - ·

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submission farm
at http:/ / www.bvffalo.
edu/ reporter/ cgl/lnput

Nudear Medidne and
Communicative Disorders and
Sciences. For more information .
call 645-2921 .
Pill)'

Agamemnon. OepL of Theatre
and Dance. Center for the Arts,
Black Box Theatre. North
Campljs. 8 p.m. All tid&lt;eu 13. FO&lt;
I'T'ICire informaOOn, caii645-ARTS.

3
Art Lxhlbltlon
Ahmed Soliman: Wortcs In

~~~~~.~ta"·

Center for the Arts At.num, under
the Mainstage bakony. North
Campus. 8 a.m. Spomored by

~~~~~~Art. For

more infoonation, call fc!ft
SheM!n at 64S-6878, m 1369.

Gracll-. School o f -

==~on ·

charactf!r education. Pistachio's in
the StudOflt Union. North
~8a.m.l10,=
~ 18, GrirlJale
ol

tion Alumni Association
members; S6, students. DpOf1 tD
the public; for resevatiom, cal

~:~~t

Fund, a SO&lt;MU ol fundng for GSE

~..~-=by
call Flotonce Frodin at 64S-2492.

kdY1, N'llJ..CoLnnt ...........
148 Di&lt;f&lt;Rbf. South Compus. 4

g;_~~~=
ol the late Prof. john R. ~

C-.putor- Cancert
The Interaction Condnues:
Sax and Cbmputer. Stephen
Do~. OPOphone. C...ter for

~P.u.ms(Mod
Abbott. South

Amatc.t- COoes
tho-

to

the Arts, Drama
- North
Campus.
8 p.m. -Mwlc by

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inf~tion.

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Neurologic.ll~ UniY. ol
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KY. 108
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Pharmoc&lt;utki. S08 Coolie.

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Student As5ociati6n. For rTlOI"e
tean Grela at
infoonation,
645-6140, 0&lt; e-mail

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g.-..mau.butfalo.edu

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the Arts, Black Box Theatre.

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information, caii645-ARTS .
lnternadon.l Folk Dance
Beginner Folk Dances. 103
Clemens. North Campus. 8 :3011 p.m . Sponsored by GSA.

~;;Off:,; ~':t:VH:e

Saturday

President for Pu~K Service and
Urban Affairs; Facu~ Senate
Committee on PublK Service.
For more Information, call Or.
~~ B!"OOU-Sertram at 645-

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~r:;~byDept
l'ofltlcal Science

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~=~~30
Kimball. South Campus. 9
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l'tlysks Seminar
EJectronk Molea.l~ In a
Harmonk Quantum Dot. Woo
Soon Choe. 20S Natural
Sciences Complex. North
Campus. 3:45 p.m.

~~~~~~~tina.

~ l.ectuft Sertes, P.t 8
The SUitlcs ond Dynamks of
Twtnnlng in Marteruite. Prof.
Robert V. Kohn, NYU-Courant
Institute. 148 Diefendorf. South

Cultural Exchange Program of
UB Center for the Arts. Center

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Mary Finnkk at 829-3291 .

Donee

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and 17 for groups of 10 or
more. for more information,
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5

Agamemnon. Dept. of Theatre
and Dance, Center for the ArU,
Black Box Theatre. North
Campus. 8 p.m. All tic:kru 13. FO&lt;
mote information. caJI 64&gt;ARTS.

-...fast/Discunlon
Breoklost with 1homos ~

Studies Dept. For mote
illfomlotion, ai!Ceith 5. Henry
at 64S-2082, oxt. 1 132.

64&gt;2828 oxt.

f~-~ ~Amerian

Dobonh GriiiiS, PhormD.

condidlte. 2 1 6 5dence. ~4:30.
S:30 p.m.
Dept.

G-StudontExa!llence

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The Aesthetics of His
Mot..W. NoYrist/Wiiter in
Resid&lt;nce Austin ~ Univ.
ol Guelph. 108 Baldy. North

In Teodllng Awonls C..-.mony.
David J. Triggle. Ph.D., vice

Musk and the Brain . Alan H.

Lockwood, M.D.. Daniel S.
lockwood, .celio. Baird. North

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Black Sox Theatro. North
Campus. 2 p.m. .. tickets 13. FO&lt;
,.,... inlonnotion. cai64S-Aim.

to the memory of the late Prof.
john R. Myhill.

A Mott&lt;et Challenge: Beyond
the Democnotlc Pooce. Mary
(aprioli, Univ. of ConnectlcuL
502 Pan. North Campus. 1:30
p.m. Sponsored by Political
Science Depl

-lecture
Carl Schachter, Queens

c:!r.;
aty Un~
Now O&lt;t,emeritus.
's
Impromptu In Fl

Mojor. Op. 36:

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Nutrition Seminar

1:;m. Sponsored by Depld
u.sic. For l1lOI't infonnation,
call 6-45-2921 .

EXercise, met and
Upoprotelns-New
Perspectives. John J. Leddy
M.D., UB. 31 Farber. South

Myt.- ledure Series, P.t ..
Nonlinear Homogenization
and Shope Memory

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World Clv Goa to the
Movies
Film: Das Boot (The Boat).
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Campus. 5:30p.m. Free.

to the memo&lt;y ol the late Prof.
John R
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Student life.

148 Dlefendorl. South

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BISON as • Jump Start for
Term Papers. Gemma
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Ubrary. For more infomlation,
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2817.

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The Role of Caldum and

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Los Angeles.
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Screening
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Campu5. 4
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1 14 Hochstetler. North
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Biotogk:.ll Sc.ences. for ITlCK'r
information, call Dr. Randd
Shortridge, host. at 64S-31 22 .
Physics Colloquknn
Directions In X-Ray Imaging.
Dr. John Rowlands. Univ. Of
Toronto. 205 Natural Sciences.
North Campus. 3:45-5 p.m.

Concert
Sounding: A Concert of

~~,;~c~:"'~euor

and grad &gt;tudents. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m . Sponsored by
OepL of Music. For more
information, caii64S-2921 .

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                    <text>PAGE 2

Q&amp;A-/effSherven talks about UB's
exciting printmaking program.

PAGE

•past food research

PAGE

s Father/son collaboration for
"Music and the Brain"

March 26.1!9l/Vrl29. No.25

Wild
Life on

Stage

Rebecca Shant2, left,

and Morgan Smider, Amhem
Christian Academy students,
get a close-up look at one
of the creatures inhabiting
the Center for the Arts for
'Where the Wild Things
Are" ballet performances
held on Tuesday.

Computer science meets engineering
CSE department, information/communication technology institute to be established
By IUl WUflCHER
News Services Associate [);rKtor

P

..
\he Oft\co al OMnlty, Equity
and Affirmatt.o Action Admlnis-

tr1tlofl.kblocotedlnSUite108al
the Commons on the North
Campus. ~· f ,, ( .

The,_ loallon waslnltiltod to gl¥e the olllce •• little

mon!~and~

aca&gt;rdlng"'-

to stud&lt;nts, as wol asloqllly

and-..

Denson. ~ dnctor. The

new name, Nlddecj. reftecb
theofflce~"focuion~

andequit)ilwes,aswolasalfir•
mliiYNctioniuues.•
The telephone ind fax numbers- the same: phone
645-2266;,.. 645-3952.

Public serylce to be
topic of symposium
An Internationally- expert
"" sodal chongo at-,the commu- ... dbalss "The ReUnlve!sity lnd
Pubic s.r.tce• at a
pi.o\&gt;k~to

ROVOST Thomas E.
Headrick wilJ establish a

o~partmcnt of Computer
Sci~nce and Engineering
(CSE ) this summer to integrate

UB 's resources in computer science
and computer engineering.
At the same time, Headrick will
create an Institute for Infor ma tion, Communication and Co m putation ..dedicated to shaping th e
fu ture developmr-nt of these fie lds
at UB and more wide ly."
The idea for an initiatrvt--and ul timately an aatdemic unit--bringing
together farulty in informatjon and
communiattion technology was fea tured prominently in Headrick's aca demic planning document
" I am convin ced UB will be a
stronger university by proceeding in

By El.LEN GOLDBAUM

~olsodal
wo.ttlllld.ro.. p~o~&gt;­

VB program that pro
vides fa c ult y with
"seed " money to pur sue good research ideas
has yielded S 14 in external fund ing for every S I that the univer sity invested in 1994 during th e
program's first year.
The financial return is o nl y part
of the story: Benefits wi ll accrue lo ng
in to the future, ultimately im prov ing lives, thanks to th e_ program 'o;
investments in research o n new
technol ogies, assisti ve devices and
fundamental mechanism s behind
common medical conditio ns., as we~
as other impo rtant adva nces.
"This is a winner fo r VB fro m an
econo mic point of view, and a spec tac ular deal for facult y," said Alan
Lockwood, professor of neurolo gy.
Lockwood 's 1994 seed project

~tllr&lt;o!Qh9&gt;mnUllty

at.II!O IJnMnlty ol Mldllgan. wl spook at 2 p.m. in the
~Room In the Cent!&lt; lor
the Arts on the North Compus.
His loc:tJ.n wtll be tree 1111&lt;1 open
to the pubic.
The symposium will be sponSOA!d by the Of!lco ol the VIce
Pmldent lor PUblic SerVaand
UrbanAI!Ks. Formon!~
~ all645-:zq97.

probably d&lt;S&lt;rv&lt; modification• after review by a wider audience.
According to Headrick's plan, the
new CSE department will have a
dual affiliation, maintaining ties to

both th&lt; School of Engineering and
Applied Sci&lt;nces and th&lt; n&lt;W Coll&lt;g&lt; of Arts and Sci&lt;nces. Th&lt; d&lt;an
of arts and sciences will oversee gen eral education and the undergraduate- and master's-degrtt programs
in co mputer science, while the dean
of the engineering school will bt' responsible for the undergraduate and
master's p rograms in computer engineering. The doctoral program in

CS E will he th&lt; joint responsibility
of the two deans and the dean of the

Graduate School.
Th e deg ree programs in electri cal engineering will remain in an

indepe ndent Oepanment of Elect rical Engineering residing within
the engineering school.
The structure of
the new CS E de panment mimics

th at of the CSf
program at Cornell University-

whi ch had th e
fifth -rat&lt;d CSE
pro gram in t he
latest Nati o nal Research Council
ratings-and is similar to the pro·
gram at the University of Califo rnia
at Berkele-y, which ranked third in

the NRC poU, H&lt;adrick said.
" It (the structural model ) allows
fo r flexibility in facult y o rienta ti o n. thus allaying co ncern s of fa c ult y wh o feel stronger acad emic
connectio ns with one o r the o th er
sc hoo ls and t radition s, a nd se e

themselves c ut o ff by fo rcin g a
choice between them ," he said. " In

fact , this flexibility could b&lt; em phasized by joint appointments, so
that engineering membe rs mi ght
retain appo intments in EJectricaJ
Engineering and new fa c ult y
might have jo int appo intments in
several other departments in Arts
and Scien ces and/or Engin eering."
This structure "also deals with
realit y," Headrick o bserved , si nce
in the field there is no ..d ic ~t o ­
mo us divisio n between engineering (or applied science) o n the o ne
hand a nd basic sc ie nce o n th e
o ther. These aspects of the d isci pline live al o ng a co ntinuum ."
In fact, h&lt; noted , the CSE depan ·
ment at Cornell describes computer
science as an "enabling science"o ne in which the science has become

'Seed' money spurs major research growth

be hold April7.
llany Chodcowly,

rlng 1111&lt;1- ol the Center lor

this direction,.. Headrick said, not ,
ing that som&lt; d&lt;tails of his plan "will

N~

Services Editor

A

proposal fund&lt;d for $19,100 r&lt;sulted in a $46,000 grant from the

Ameri ca n Tinni t us Assoc ia t io n,
which. in turn , resulted in a Sl. 3
milli o n Nati o n a l In stitut es o f
Health grant earlie r this year.
''Th e program has spurred th e
kind o f rese a rc h a c tivit y that
o ught to be taking place in a resea rch univer!i ity," he said . " It 's
good fo r the people of New Yo rk
State a nd the Unit ed Stat es be ·
ca use they' ll be deriving benefits
from the research we're d o ing."
By distri buting small, o ne -time
grants o n a competitive basis to facuh y tea m s, th e Multidisciplinary
Pilo t Project Program ( MPPP ) en courages rcS("a rchcrs to wo rk across
traditio nal drsc iplinary boundar ies
to de mo nst rate preliminary resuh s
that th ey then can present in pro posals to external funders.
Among the progr•m 's many
success stories are:
•
A S 1. 3 million grant to
Lockwood and Rich ard Salvi , pro fessor of comm unicative disorders

a nd sc iences, from th e Na tio na l
Institutes of Health to co ndu ct a
ma Jo r in vest igat io n of tinni t us
a nd he a ring lo ss u si n g PET
( Pos itron Emiss io n Tom ography)
sca nning . Loc kwood and Sal vi
have located th&lt;" prec ise area in the
bra in respo nsible for tinnitus. o r
ringing in t"te ea rs, a co nditt o n
that affects millio ns of Ame ricans.
(} ngmal UB 1'1ves rm e r~ c : $ 19, 100.
• A S 1 million gra nt to David B.
Be nder . assoc iat e profe ss o r o f

ph ys io logy. and Th oma s Lock .
clini cal assis ta nt pro fes so r of pediatr ics at UB and C hildren's Hospit a l of Buffalo, fro m the Na tio nal
Institut e fo r Neuro logical Diso rd e rs and Stro ke and a $60,000
gra nt fr o m the McDo nnell - Pew
Pro gram in Co gnit ive Nc ur o ·
sc ien ce t o develop an animal
mo del of attention deficit d iso r-

d&lt;r. Th&lt; mod&lt;! will h&lt;lp Bender
and Lock develop an understand ing o f what is occ u rring in the

brai ns of a ffected chil d ren 1n o r
der to fin d new ways to treat the
disorder. O n grrral UB m vesrment:
S/9,600.

• A $728,000 gran\ to Shell y Lane.
fo rmerly ass ista nt professo r o f C&gt;cc up a ti o n a l ther a p )', a nd Susan
Mistrett , ed uca tion coordi na tor m
the Center fo r Assis tive Tec hn ol ogy. fro m th e U.S. Departm e nt (lf
Edu ca ti o n to fun d an mn o vatl\'e
program to id enti fy ass1st ivr tt"lh
no logy materi als to su ppo rt thc
play of infan ts and todd lers wu h
physica l and develo pm ent a l d iSabil ities. New Yo rk State IS usmg
thc program as a m odel across thc
sta te and o ther states a re develop
ing pro gra ms based on 11. O ngt
nal UB im•es tm~ nr: $20.000
O rville T. Beach ley, Jr., associate
vi ce presi dent fo r resea rch a nd
pro fess o r o f c hemi str y a t UB .
th inks the excellent track reco rd

�Jeff Sherven, an instructional support
associate/print technician for the Department
of Art, has worked at UB for three years.
He supervises the activities of experimental Print Imaging
Center and the printmaking labs, researches new print processes
and gives technical assistance as needed.

Printmalcing involves the deft manipulation or variollS printing processes, guided by a dover wit and

astute art-making slcilli, to communicate ideas through visual
works of art, creating I meaningful aperiena for the viewer and
artist Then again, it a&gt;Uid simply
be the act or pressing some body
part into a pad of concrete or leaving lip prints on • pane or glass or
handkerchief. From ancient stmcil
hand prints to digital prints, we'vt
engaged in the art or printmalting
to share with others what i.s important to us, letting them know that
we're here and to remind ourselves
of our reasons for our exi.ste:nce.

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The Printmaking Program was
created in 1963 by Harvey
Breverman, who has fostered it
through many changes. For the
last decade, he and Adele
Henderson have been worlring together to develop and promote the
program, instruct courses and,
until recently, operate and maintain facilities while keeping active
professional lives. Presently the
program is focused around the lithography and intaglio studios,
with a screen printing area under
development. We have a digital arts lab, letter-press lab and a
photo-processing lab. In our wellequipped and maintained facili ties, we undertake all major and
experimental print processes.
Is Interest In the art of
prlntm•klng growlng7
Interest in printmaking always
grows when students and the pub-

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lie become familiar with what the
world or prints encompasses. and
are made aware of the expressive
range or prints. Recent impravtments in the program's cunirulum,
updating or our photo capabilities,
adding newer digital technology
like the ALPS printer has hdped
lrindle interest Sometimes, excitement from seeing the prints or a
visiting artist. like our recent one
with Evan Summer, rultivates interest One of the best promotional
tools we havt i.s word or mouth.
Evtry semester, students from the
School of An:hitecture and Planning take printmaking because
they havt seen the prints others
haVe ll5ed in their ~tations.
The creation or the aperimental
Print Imaging Center has lllimulated interest and was grtttec1 with
approval and participation by local artists. Thi.s new activity in the
printmalcing facilities enriches the
educational and rultunl environment for everyone involw:d
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For those or us involved in the act
of printmaldng. it's not so much
about prints or malring reproductions as it is about finding a way to
mal« art. It i.s understandable that
people might think or printmalcing
mainly in terms or images and tat
printed on paper. But since.the medium is an inherentpartofthemessage, there is always an interest to
print on other substrates, such as
wood, metal, glass, fabric. rubber
balloons and evtn on walls. I find
that I employ the print process that
best suits what I'd like to say in my

prints or the collages I generate from
them. I havt a partiality to intaglio
becall5t or my degrtt or aperiena
with the technique and lavt or the
physical quality or the embossed ink
it prnduca But for sbe&lt;r ease or use,
v.rsatilityto print
anything
and mobility, I do enjoy screen
printing. One does what it takes to
get the job done. A case in point i.s
the student Farrah Ali. To raliu an
idea, she tua • hybrid or paper lithography uaing an inked photo
copy to transfer her imagery to
wooc1 panels.
results her efforts will be on display in the
Albright-Knox "In Western New

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ePIC was created with the desire
to promote the growth or
printmalring iii Western New York
and to make research of newer
hand-made print technologies
more accessible. Through ePIC,
we havt imtituted the non-credit
programs or the Community
Printshop, Workshops and Collaborative Printing, which give
~pie in the community the opportunity to participate in the activities of the Printmaking program and iu facilities. In turn. it
gives Printmaking a non-state base
of support so it may continue iu
ongoing devdopment.

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That ePIC offers the only complete
printmaking facilities, outside of
Toronto and Qeveland, that are accessible to arti.sts and all int&lt;rested
members of the Western New York
community. If people would like to

find out more about ePIC's programs and opportunities and be
on our mailing list, they can call
6-45-6878 at. 1369 or e-mail
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Q: What i.s new with the Printmalring Program and ePIC !
Well, in the nevtr-ending task
or getting the word out, here's
what's happening. As you know,
we are offering a series of workshops and the work or the Egyptian artist Ahmed Soliman, who
i.s teaching "Vegetable Fiber Paper Making" on April 3, i.s on
display in the Center ror the Arts
atrium under the Mainstage
balcony. The workshop "An
Artist's Book" will happen on
April 17. Space i.s still available
fur both workshops. There will
be an opening on April 4 of
ePIC artists, graduate and advanced printmalring students
from UB at the Carnegit Art
Center, giving ePIC and
Printmaking some mUchneeded exposure. Currently
we've been working on a collaborative project with artist
Dinh l..e through CEPA:S "Relocating Asia Project" ePIC has
become a site for the WNY Artist Residency Exchange Program And to answer the request
of students and ePIC members,
we are developing water-based,
screen-printing facilities in
printmaking and hope to be ortmng workshops this surnrneror
nat raJJ. We11 k«p you posted

Time constraints affect shopping decisions
UB geographer's study shows gender difference in distance customers will travel
By Ell£N COLDBAUM
News Services Editor

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OMEN won't travel
as far as men will to
do their shopping
because they have
less time available for the task, a
study by a UB geographer has
round.
.. It's well -known that in choosing a destination for shopping,
travel time is the number-one factor," said Jean-Claude Thill, associate professor of geography and
author of the study.
But, Thill said, what had never
been studied is whether shoppers
base these decisions on free choice
or time const raints.
"My conclusion is that there is
differentiation between choice and
constraint, and it is most present
when you compare genders," said
Thill, who will present results of
his research Sat urday at the annual
meeting of the Association of

"Women have work and household Ktlwltles to perfonn
....t • limited __,nt of time. n..t lmlts the geogoephlal

reMh wltt*lwhkh they- shop. Me\ on the ott- '-'d.
hone moft cllsaetlon.y time, so when they decide to shop,

they tend to travel longer dlshnces.•
JEAN-CLAUD£ THIU

American Geographers.
The study examined the shopping
decisions or700 men and women living in urban and suburban locations
in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
The results showed that on average , women will travel six miles
to shop, while men will travel an
average of 6.5 miles to shop, a
small, but statistically significant
differenc~. Thill said.
Women, he noted, tend to have
less time available to shop beca use
their "activity space"-the terri -

tory an individual uses for daily
activities-is more crowded.
"'Women ha~ work and hou~­
hold activities to perform and a
limited amount of time,• he said.
"Tha t limits the geographical
reach within which they will shop.
'" Men, on the other hand, have
more discretionary time," he said,
"so when they decide to shopand they do shop less frequently
than women-they tend to travel
longer distances."
The findings have implication s

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3

DrieD

Cari
Fest
Members of the joi Dance
Troupe perform March 20
during the rulwral sOO.v for
CariFest '98, held In the
Drama Theatre, Center for
the Arts. Theme for this
year's event presented by
the Caribbean Student
Association, was Tropical
Reflections,~ dance.

theater; pageants and food
celebrating the rich
heriDge of the Caribbean.

Campus wellness policy advocated
Senate committee urges UB to take statewide leadership role
By SU£ WutTCHU

around shared activity, rather than

New5 Sefvkes Associate DtrettOf

shared spectatorship, among stu-

HaU and "did not have much to of·
fer the faculty and staff of this un i-

de nts, staff and faculty."

versity." It continued when the pro-

U

B sho uld fu lfi ll its
commitment to the
health and weU-being
of members of the uni-

~rsiry community

She offered several sugg~tions
that might become part of a weUness
po~ cy. including expanded acress to

by instituting a
campus wellness policy, the Faculty

reacationaJ faCilities. indwion of

~nate Committee on Athletics and

ployee benefits packages, installation
of ~rcisc equipment in campus
buildings. development of indoor
and outdoor walking circuits and
expansion of nutritional offerings at
campus dining fa~ties.
She said one of the concerns that
arose in the committee was that it
was not widely publicized that faculty and staff, with proper identification, may use most recreational
facilities from 7·8 a.m. and noon

Recreation has recommended.
The weUne55 po~cy should aim
for a .. short-term campus impact,'"
bu t also go beyond th at by havi ng
UB lead the way in establishing
standards for a statewide wdlness
policy, committee chair Mau reen
Jameson told members of the Faculty Senate Executivr Committee

at the group's March 18 meeting.
The committee also proposed
creating a WeiJness Council that
would fu nction more broadly than
the WeUness Council that serves the
student-focused Living WeU Center.

wdlness offe rings as pan of em -

to I p.m. weekdays without charge .

Jameson also expressed concern
that facuh y and staff who buy a
recreation pass are no t given a dis-

In presenting the com mittee's re-

count. "' There's no particu lar em -

po rt for 1997-98 to the FSEC,
Jameson, associate professo r of
modem languages and literatures.
said that the growing emphasis in
the health-care field on pm&lt;entive
medicine has prompted many large
organizations to focus on strength·
ening and maintainingthe health of
their personnel, rather than providing"an ever-wideningarray of cures
from which to choose.•
She citW past efforts on campus
to promote wellness, incl uding the
Faculty-Staff Fitness Ini tiative organized by retired Personnel Services employee Rosalyo Willcinson,
and the Faculty-Staff Fitness Cen -

phasis on gettiog faculty and staff
to join," she said, noti ng that the
Buffalo Athletic Clu b ~irculates
flyers in Alumni Arena offering a
discount to UB faculty and staff.
Whether or not the BAC actu ally does give a discount, .. Rhetori cally, it com~ across at least as an
effort to encourage the faculty to
join the BAC. I think perhaps here
there is a little mo re we could do."
Even though the fee fo r a recreation pass is cheaper than membership in the BAC, " It would be,
I think, symbolically a very good
gesture for the university to think
abo ut making some sort of dis coun t avai lable to facu lt y and
staff," she said, adding that alumni
receive a di scount and faculty and
staff .. fall under the category of the
general public."

ter in Alumni Arena, funded jointly

by the Provost's Office and thr«
campus unions.
Enactment of a campus wellness

policy has several potential benefi ts, Jameson said, including im provement in individual health ,
improvement in the co llec t ive

health of the institution - "whose
members may be expected to perfo rm better with less intcrferenct
from illness and stress" - and a
greater"sense of communi ty built

Ed Michael , assistant athletic di -

rec lo r for recreati on a nd
intramurals. told committee mem bers that the tradition to allow fuc-

ulr)' and staff free use of the recreation facilities for two hours a day
was made years ago when the recnation program was located in C lark

gram moved to expanded fa~ties
in Alumni Arena in the 1980s because .. we did not want to takt anything away from people that ~rc
used to getting it from us," he said.
This "freebie.. is not publicized.
he said, "because ... l thought it
would be inappropriate to do so.
I though t that thjs would just serve
to polarize the facu lty and staff of
this university from the students.
When it comes lo paying for service, as a group we (facu lty and
staff) are probably in a be tter po sition to pay than o ur students ...
Mic hael added he is open to
change on the issue .. if change is
possible." But with a Oat budget.
he was unsure how the un it cou ld
give faculty and staff "a brea k" and
still meet its budget. The unit gen erates between $25,000-$30,000 a
year from recreation -permit fees
paid by faculty and staff, he added.
He also no ted that up until two
years ago, members of the general
public who wanted to purchase a
recreation perm it had to join the
Alumni Association to do so. But
fa culty a nd staff were spared that
cost, a savings of about S50, he
said.
He reminded senators th at Recreation and Intramural Services
does operate a faculty-staff wellness
program that includes such things
as the maintenance program offered at 7 a.m., special weight training programs, special aerobics
programs, master's swim dub and
health screenings through UB Fit.
..We take the mandate seriously
and we'rr trying to provide pro gra mming," Michael said.
Hr sa id he agreed that a university should have a policy statement
regarding welln6S for faculty and
staff. But greater access through
red uced fee s will o n ly co m r
th rough the unions and the administration, .. and the precedent has
been set for both of them," he said.

Regionalism to be topic
of Talk of the University
The ne xt T•lk o f the University will focus on regionalism when

the •hov• airs at 3 p.m. Wednesday on WBFO 88.7FM .
Host Beverly Sanford. associate director for community relations
in UB's Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth , will
be joined by guests John B. Sheffe r, II , director of the institute, and
Kathryn A. Foster, assistant professor of planning in the School of
Architecture and Planning.
Listeners a re invited to add their perspective on regio nali sm by

calling 829-6000 during the show.

UB to present talk on options,
alternatives in education
The Grad1111te SchooJ of lducatlon wiU present the first lect ure of
the Herbert and Anita Foster Lecture Series, entitled "'Can We Ac·
celerate. the Education of all Students~ : Treating At-Risk St uden ts as
Gifted or Talented," at 4 p.m. on Tuesday in the Center
for Tomorrow on the North Campus. The theme of the
lecture series is '"Options and Alternatives in Education."
The inaugural lecture wiU be given by Henry M. Levin,
professo r of higher education and affiliated professor of
uwe
economi cs at Stanford University. The talk will be free
and open to the publ ic.
Levin is a specialist in the econom ics of education and conceived
a program designed to accelerate the learning of disadvantaged chil dren to bring them into the educational mainstream before they
finish elementary school. His research focuses on the Mucation of
disadvantaged children, economics o f education, edu cational fi nance, cost-effective approaches to evaluation and economics of
worker participation.
In 1991 , The New York Times named Win one of nine national
educational figures "' leading the way" with his wo rk in the field .
This is the first of three annua l lectures funded by the Fosters.
Herbert Foster is UB professor emeritus in the G raduate School of
Education.

March for MS is Sunday
Faculty. st •ff •nd students are invited to participate in the Main
Street March for Multiple Sclerosis on Sunday.
After registering fo r the walk , beginning at II a.m . at Go ' u nors
complex on the No rth Campus, participants will ~in their trek at
noon from Governors and continue to the South Campus. The walk
will end at Harriman Hall on the South Campus. A receptio n for
participants will be held at 2 p.m . in Harriman.
Sponsored by the· University Residence Halls, the event is lim ited
to members of the UB community who will be unavaiJabl e to partici pate in the count y-wide MS Walk o n May 3.
Western New York has one of the highest rates of MS. a ncuro ·
logic d isorder with no known cure that primarily strikes ad ults be tween the ages of 20-50.
The first 100 participants to register the day of the event will recdve T-shirts, and ot her prizes will be awarded for those wi th the
most do nation s.
Rollerblades and skates will be prohibited, but stroll ers are per·
mined in the event, which will use si d~walks for most o f the rou te.
A valid SUNY card is required of all pa rt ici pan ts . Call Sheri Recoon
at 829-37 15 or Chri sti ne Drexel at 829- 4358 for more in formation .

Teleconference to focus
on Internet copyright issues E3
"Am I• Crook? " a free teleconference o n lnternN copyright issues,

will be held from 2-5 p.m. on April 2 in 120 Clemens Hall on the
North Campus. The live program, sponsored locally by Millard
Fillmore Coll ege (MFC) and University Li bra ries, will air natio nall y
at so me 500 universities and colleges. The teleconference will focus
on the rules governing fair use and cyberspace law, acc urat e information given by qualified authorities and how to crea te on lin e and
electronic teaching material without anxiety about copyright iss ues.
Featured in the national segment wiU be recognized copy right
experts Georgia Harper, a member of the National Association of
Co ll~e and University Attorneys and manager of the intellectual
propeny section in the general counsel's office for the Universi ty of
Texas System; Steven J. McDonald, associate counsd at The O hi o
State University, and Jani s Bruwelheide, auth or of .. The Copyright
Primer" and professo r at Montana State Universi ty-Bozeman.
Following the telecon fer ence, a panel of UB expe rts. including a
lawye r, a lib rarian and a n administra to r, will discuss the issue. beginning at 4 p.m . The panel wiU be moderated by M FC Dean Georgt

l- Lopos.
For more info rm at io n, visit the "Am I Crook" Web Site o n UB
Wings at &lt;http:/ / wlngs .buff•lo.edu / temp/crook &gt;. To reserve
a space for th e teleconference, call Janice at 829 -3 131 or e-mai ll\t FC
at &lt;mfce msm•U .buff• lo .edu &gt;.

�Finding fault with
fust-food computers

C

US'IUMERSoffast -food
restaurants don't expect

to be served gourmet
meals.
They do expect quick service.
National fast -food chains have
developed different ways to try to
meet that expectation by designing
methods to help workers decide
how much food to cook and when.
However, a computer system
used by one national chain to do
that is ineffective, a UB researcher
has found.
A study led by Ann Bisantz, assi..tant professor of indwtrial eng]n=i.ng, showed that the fault ~es
with the fact that the system's designersdidnotfullyappreciatewhat
workers deal with on a daily basis, a
confljct between workers and systems that exists in many industries.
The study is the
first to apply hu-

That's because profit margins ar&lt;
so small and tolerance for error is
low, since customers will walk out
if they have to wait too long.

.. You want to cook the right
amount of food at the right time.
You don't want people waiting and
you don't want to throw food out,"
she said. "It's not an easy problem.•
According to Bisantz, wnrlo:rs are
supposed to check the computer
and do what it tells them, based on
predicted sales, actual sales and the

amount of cooked inventory on
hand
"But the technology doesn't
mesh with the actual conditions in
the restaurant," she said.
Bisantz noted that many human-factors engin .. rs study relationships between workers and
technology in the airline industry
or in power plants, where a mismatch can be catastrophic.

installed in managers' offices on
the assumption-whjch was in correct-that that's where managers spend most of their time.
industry, where it's razorHowever, "to keep costs down,
thin profit margins-not the manager acts as direct labor so
human ~ves-that are at stake.
he or she is rardy in the office," said
"Managers in these stores deal Bisantz. In addition, she noted,
with business risk on a dally ba- most fast-food restaurants are
sis," she said. "Those costs are not staffed by teen-agers who may reabstract. They f..! a lot of wessure quire constant supervision.
to maintain saJes versw costs and
"It was really interesting to
to do well on those decisions cv· see how the managers did usc
eryday."
the computer," said BisantL
According to Bisantz, factors
Periodically, they would
such as unexpected events that count the amount of cooked
make high-risk systems complex · food they had on hand. They
also occur in systems with lower would compare it to the numrisks, like fast -food restaurants.
ber the computer system said
·For example, all of a sudden, they should have on hand and then
an entire Little League team will correct that number.
walk in and completely drain your
"This was a disconnect," she said.
store of food,"' she said.
"People above you are saying you
The computer system Bisantz must use this technology and you
studied could not respond to these can't use it for that, so you adapt."'
unexpected events.
In reality, the decision about what
Also, computer monitors were to cook and when was made by the

~that

man factors, or ergonomics principles,
which describe how to
appropriately design

jobs and systems to match
workers' capabilities, to study deci..ion-making in fast-food environments.
Most human-factors research on
helping workers make better decisionshasbecndoneinhigh·risksec·
tors,suchasthemilitaryandtheair·
~e and u~ty industries.
Bisantz and feUow researchers
observed and videotaped the operations of several restaurants in
a national fast · food chain for six
months. (As part of the study, the
researchers agreed not to disclose
the name of the chain.)
She explained that a fast-food
restaurant's decision about what
to cook and when , is complex.

Her research has proven
many of the same issues
are present in the fast-food

sales people monitoring the !low of
customers coming into the store.
"Tbe (oompol&lt;riud) aid didn't fit
with their system because it was
based on the assumption _that the
food preparen made those decisions," she said
What Bisantt saw happening in
the restaurants clearly demon strated an axiom that originated
with John CarroU, a weU-known
human-factors theorist, that
systems are developed on
the basis of often-un ·
spoken theories heJd
by the sy&gt;tem's de signers about how those
systems are going to be used.
"In order to design a successful
system, you need to get the theories
right," she said. "One way to do that
is through field studies ~ these."
Bisantt began the n!Search as a
doctoral candidate at ~rorgia In stitute of Technology. She conducted it with Sally Cohen, Michael
GraveUe and Karen Wilson, all of
NCR Corp. in Duluth, Ga.

Office mayhem, cultural commentary in film
lly PATIIICIA DONOVAN
N~ S ~~

Editor

Y

UMMY, the perverse office creep is electro ·
cuted . Go ll y, the tor tured compa ny schizoid
is to blame. G.., she takes the guy's
corpse home to live with her and
her slightly demented elderly
mom. Hey-the cats arc sniffin' at
the cellar door!
"Office Killer," the 1997 film by
visual artist Cindy Sherman, is a
weird little horror movie cast with
actresses who are themselves cult
figures, and reflects the mayhem
that ensues when the workplace
treats its employees~ cattle feed.
. Since Sherman is nothing if not a
commentator on the cultural
scene, she has her pathetic hero inc reap revenge v.ia the very tech·
nological skills that have cost her
her job.
The Department of Medi a
Study and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center will present a
screening of"Office Killern at 7:30
p.m. on April 3 in the Screening
Room (Room 112 ) of the Center
for the Arts on the No rth Campus.
The event will be $5.50, open to

the public, pretty bloody and full
of physical decay.
The movie stars Carol Kane as
homely, socially awkward Dorun,
a withdrawn, overworked editor
whose life is destroyed when the
company is brutaJiy downsized.
She is tormented pub~cly by the
likes of yuppie Kim , played by
MoUy Ringwald, and Norah, a corporate hatchet played by Jeanne
Tripplehorn . They, in turn , are
abused by their cruel conniving
supervisor, a manic, chain-smok·
ing witch pbycd ;\ Ia Ivana Trump

by celebrated Polish actress Barbara Sukowa.
One night, Doreen accidentally
kills a s~y co- worker and uses her
new computer skills to cover her
trail. Empowered by her success, she
begins tO usc her on-line abilities to
facili tate one murder aft~ another.
She hauls the corpses to her
house and produces a life -size,
museum·like exhibition of the ..of·
flee." Naturally, without regular
coff« breaks, the workers begin to
decompose right at their desks.
Doreen is so empowered by tak ·

ing chirge of the situation that she
metamorphoses from a mou sy
submissive into something quite
different from her old self.
, Sherman is a Buffalo State Colleg• art graduate and master photographerwhoco-founded Hallwalls
with classmate Robert Longo. Both
went off to New York City, where
they became world-renowned as
two of the most radical and influ ential artists of their generation.
Sherman established herself as
an artistic visionary with ber critically acclaimed series, .. Untitled
Film Stills," recently purchased by
the Museum of Modern Art for a
record sum-20 years after the fact.
Her art is well-known for being
confrontational and ironic. She
once donned prosthetic breasts,
false noses and daborate costumes
for a series of .. History Portraits"a commentary on high-art ponraiture by the old masters. Th ese
nightmarish portraits and her deep
appreciation of patently gross material are exhibited prominently in
"Office Killer" to illustrate and
mock the effects of new technol ogies that replace humans wit h
computers.

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Linking Medicine and Music

Neurologist father/cellist son team up
for program,'Music and the Brain'
By LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

M

OSTpeople, when

they listen to mu·
sic, don't analyze
its tone, pitch or

intensity, or ponder how notes arranged in certain ways can make

them feel joyous, nostalgic, sorrowful or elated.
Most of us simply ~ .. /&lt;t the sound5
of music creep in our ears... ,n as
Shak&lt;speare wrote in '"The Merchant
of Venice," and enjoy the resuiL
But for one evening, Alan
Lockwood, a UB neurologist, and
his 25-year-old son, Daniel, a cellist, wouJd have us examine more
closely what actually happens when
those sounds creep in our ears.
They have organized a program
called " Music and t he Brain ,"
which will be presented at 8 p.m.
on April 2 in Baird Recital Hall.
There will be no admission charge.
A specialist in brair. imaging
using a technique called positron
emission tomography (PE"f).Aian
Lockwood is conducting some of
the newest studies of the links between the human auditory system
and the brain. His research has
shown heretofore unknown con*
nections between the sites in the
brain that reg:ster sound and those
that control emotion.
Using these n ewest research
findings. he will explore the brain's
response to silence, and then dis*
cuss how and whe re the brain reg isters the pitch and intensit y of
sounds, including those of m usic,
ill ustrating his points with brain
scans that reveal neural activity.
Daniel Lockwood, playing his
1889 Vincenzo Postiglione ceUo, will

demonstrate pitch and intensity,
which will segue into an illustrated
discussion of the brain's response to
these differing sounds and the links
between sounds and emotion.
The program wiD conclude with
Daniel's performance of two
movements of Johann Sebastian
Bach's .. Suite No.2 in D Minor...
The father-and-son team repre*
sents an unusual intenwining of
medicine and music. The senior
Lockwood studied voice while a
pre*med student at Cornell University-" I managed to sing all the
way through medical school and
my residency"- and helped found
the Council for Visual and Performing Arts at the University of
Texas Medica! Center.
Through musician friends affili *
ated with the council, he learned
that performers with instrument relaled problems were going to
Cleveland and elsewhere for treat ment. "I thought that in this huge
medical center, we should be able
to t reat these people,.. he sajd_
Lockwood educated himself in
a.rts medicine, went on to found
the Performing Arts Medicine As sociation, and published a defini *
tive paper in The New England
Journal of Medicine in 1989 o n
arts-related injuries. He continues
that work at UB as director of the
UB Performing Artists Clinic.
Looking for a way to combine his
work on the auditory system and
his interest in how the human brain
enables music to become more
than a series of pitches at different
intervals, he enlisted his son's help.
A graduate of the Eastman
School of Mu sic a nd the New En gland Co nservatory, Daniel

Lockwood came to the realization
at some point in his training that
for him, the arts had meaning only
in a larger context. He is now back
in school at UB, preparing to apply to medical school.
"I always thought that if! weren't
a musician, I"d be a doctor,.. he said.
.. Medicine will allow me to work
with people and for people, to do
something positive in life."
Daniel will discuss pitch ~nd in·
tensity of notes, and invite the au *
dience to notice how a composer
creates a work of differing parts,
each having a distinct character, but
with enough similarity to develop
in the listener a memory of what
they have heard and an expectation
of what wi11 happen next.
.. The unconscious tension between these two realities creates
the pleasure we derive from mu sic," he noted.
Daniel has performed widely at
music festivals, with the Slee
Sinfonietta and the Fredonia
Chamber Players, and continues
to play private engagements.
Lockwood, a professo r of neu rology, nuclear medicine and
com municative disorders and sc i·
ences, also is operations director
for the UB· VA Medical Center for
Positron Emission Tomography.
His research that forms the basis
for this program was supported by
UB, the Center for Hearing and
Deafness, the Ameri can Tinnitus
Association, the James H .
Cu mmings Foundation and th e
National Institut es of Health.
The program is presented by the
departments of Music, Neurology,
Nuclear Medicine and Communi ca tive Disorde rs and Sciences.

Conference to focus on suburban conflict
between deer and humans
The controvenlal lsJ&amp;Ms that have emerged over deer

in the suburbs--and how to resolve them-will be el(·
amined at a regional conference to be held on Saturday in the School of law.
Open to the public, ..The lncreas1ng Conflict1 Be·
tween Deer and Human Populatiom in Suburban Areas .. is targeted to concerned citizens and policymaken.
Sponsored by the Buffalo Environmental Low Joumol,
which is published by the UB School of law, and cosponsored by Sub-Board I, the Buffalo Environmental
law Society and Students of l aw for Animal Righu, the
conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Room
10-4 In O'Brian Hall on the North Campus.
The purpose of the confl!:rl!:nce is to educatl!: ml!:ffi·
bers of the public and policymaken on suburban deer

management and the statl!:'s role in 11, and to diKuss
how local groups can achieve a consensu!. on the 1ssue.
Guest speakers will include John Had idian, dire&lt;:tor
of urban wildlife of the Humane Society of the United
States; Gary Parson!., ch1ef olthe bureau of wildhle, dnd
Jim Smder, semor wildlife b1ologist, both of the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation,
William Porter of the SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Fore~try, and Bruce Kohrn of the Amhers t
Deer Task Force.
A panel discusston will focus on how several towns
are dealing with the issue.
The registration f·ee is 11 S, which Includes breakfast
and lunch. Pre-registration is required . To register, con tact Ka thy Bennett or Marc Romanowski at 64S -7342 .

Alt hough curren t UB faculty, students and staff have Web access
through US computer accounts, many of you, for a variety of rea sons, elect to use other Internet service providers (ISPs) such as
America Online and Adelphia's Power Link. In the past. this has been
problematic for those of you wishing to gain access to the many
University Libraries BISON databases (h ttp://ubllb .buffalo.edu/
llbra rlts/•resources/ ) made available throutZh the FirstSearch,
INFOTRAC Search Bank and Ovid search
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(the world 's largest bibliographic database}, Books in Print, Expanded
Academic Index (many ·full *text sc holarly journal article s).
Compendex, Curren t Contents, Medli11e and many, many more da tabases from "fo reign" ISPs.
All you need to do is enter your barcode numbeT from the lower
left-hand co rner of your SUNYCa rd that starts with 29072 when
prompt ed for either a .. username," .. barcode," o r ... I D." {Type in the
14 digit number without spaces.) You are not required to enter a
password-just connect and start searching!
Accessing your US UNIX e·mail account while on the road outside local calling distance also has become more convenient with
the Computing Center's Remote Access facility that automatica11y
determines your remote (non - US) Internet location. You can register your remote networked off-campus site by either
relnetting to remote.buffalo.edu or going to the
UBUN!X Remote Access website (http:!/
remote.buffaJo.edu) . These new inter(aces are far more user-friendly than
running the UNIX offsitc program. The
length of time for registering your re mote site address is one week, but you can
add additional time as needed.
.For furrher assistance in using mhanctd BISON database access contact &lt; libweb~t~csu..bujfDio.edu &gt;. TI10se interested in easier UB UNIX e*
mail connectivity sl1ould e·mail &lt;consult@ocsu.buffDio.edu&gt; for addJ ·
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DrieD
Women and Gender Institute
opens competition for developing interdisciplinary courses
The Institute fo r Re'search and Education on Women and Gen der (IREWG) announces a competition for developing interdisci plinary courses. Up to three grants of up to $3,000 will be awarded
for innovative interdisciplinary course proposals. Funds will be avail +
able for faculty to develop the courses during the summer of 1998.
Target date for offering these courses is Spring. 1999.
To be considered for funding, the courses must focus o n issues of
importance to women and/o r scholarship about women, be interdisciplinary and show potential for further expansion for teaching
or research . Awards will be based on the extent to which the course
o utlines . Funds may be used on ly for iesearch assistants , course
materials and films .
The application process consists of two parts: an initial one-page
concept due April 6 and a detailed proposal due May 4. Interested
faculty can request detailed infor.mation about the competition by
ca lling 829- 3451.

Women's Club elects officers,
plans workshops, dinner, travel
The UB Women's Club held its annual election meeting March 17
at the Center for Tomo rrow, when the following slate of officers was
elected: President, Julie Cohan; vice president , Katrina Smith; trea su rer, Lona Allendoerfer; recording secretary, Eugenia Smith ; corre sponding secretary, Carm ella Hanley. Elected members at large were
Jean Jain, Irma Katz and Rosemary Mayne. Speaker at the meeting
was Muriel A. Moore, president of Buffalo State College.
Future activities include: March 30, an Evening of Beaut y from
6-8 p.m . at the Figurehead Cl ub Hair Salon, 551 Farber Lakes Dr ..
Williamsville, with demon stration s and an International Fiesta
Wrap Supper. Cost is $10 per person ; Apri l S, Money and You group.
works hop on how to 1n vcst 10 sttKks dm:&lt;.tly, 7 p.m . 1n 1hc Audubon
Library Ill Amherst, co nducted hy No r rn a Kubm and Jane t t=ednr ,
April 19, an nual Chin ese Banquet, 6:30 p.m . at tht: l;o ld cn Dud.
Restaurant, Maple Road , Williamsvill t:, cost IS S30 wllh pr oceed!~
to benefit G race Capen Academi C Award Fund; April 21 , Intern a tional Co mmittee's final meeting of the yea r; April 30. trip to Toronto to visi t the Bata Shoe Museum and Art Gallery of Toronto,
cost of admission, a box supper and the hus trip will be SS S. reser
vations are being taken.

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International conference set on Mayan culture m

Filculty
lly PATIUCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

has contr ibuted to the splintering
of scholarly discourse on Mayan
c ulture because that disc uss io n
now covers such a broad range of
culturaJ , artistic, religious, political, enviro nmental and economic
issues, not to mention many historical poriods and goographios.
Th• Buffalo confer.ntt will at tempt to addro;ss this problem by
bringing tog•ther major scholars
from s•voral disciplinos to focus
on some of the most intriguing
hiJtorical, theoretical, and ~no­
graphic gaps in th• existing scholarship on both historical and oonDetails related to conference t•mporary Mayan culturo.
registration , program and related
.Conference organizers are Denevents, scholarly context and par- nis T..Uock. Jamos McNulty Proticipants can b. obtainod from th• fessor of English at UB, and Barconfor•nc• W•b sit• at http:/ I
bara T..Uock. UB professor of anwlngs.buff•lo.edu/ A•ndL/ thropology. Both aro widely re·
engllsh/conferences/1998/ sp«tod scholars of Mayan lif• and
mayan/ or by calling Donna culture and co-cditors-in-chi•f of
S.rwinski at 645-3422.
the American Anthropologist, a
Th• confor•nco will address is- journal of the Amorican Anthrosuos of cultural, historical, linguis- pological Association.
tic and archaoological importanC. ·
The conference will be sponthat hav• a baring on political is- sorod by th• Conv•rsations in th•
sues related to contemporary Disciplin•s Program fundod by
Mayan lif• in C.ntral Am•rica.
th• State Univ•rsity of New York,
Although many assume that ibe II)• UB Faculty of Am and LetMayan culture is extinct, it is, in t•rs, th• Faculty of Social Sci·
fact, a complex contemporary in- mces, th• McNulty Professorship,
digenous American culture num- and the university's Poetry and
baing 6 million poopl• who speak ~e Books CoUoction.
29 Mayan languagos. They liv• in
It will presmt th•world pnmicr.
a vast, 325,000-square-kilometcr of "Man of Rabinal: A Mayan
region covering parts of Mexico, Drama of Human Sacrifice: a
Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. QuichE Mayan play producod in
The area is coterminous with all English for the first time from a
th• archaoological remains of th• translation diroctly from th• Maya
pre-Columbian Mayan civiliza- QuichE by D•nnis T•dloclr.. Di-·
rectod by Cuban porfonnance arttion that ovolvod for 3,000
before the arrival of Europeans. ist and pool Leandro Soto, it will
That civilization has continued to b• puformod at 8 p.m. April 25 in
grow and change since European th• Katharin• Com.U Th..tr. in
th• Ellicott Complox.
contact.
Th• play, bannod for idolatry
In the last two decades, the
Mayan peoples have initiated a many times between 1593 and
movement of political and cul- 1770, offers a point from which to
tural restoration whose concerns observe the differences between
reflect the region's great variations the religious and ethical concerns
in environment; the depth of its of th• •arty Mayans and thoso of
historical occupation; the ideo- the Catholic Church and th• govlogical, aosthetic and ethical prin - ernments over which it long held
ciples of different Mayan cultural sway, that rulod Mayan life.
David Pendergast, vice presi groups; the economic and poHticaJ repression of the indigenous dent of collections and research
peoples, and many other issues. at th• Royal Ontario Mus•um,
Th• 1993 Zapatista rebellion in will present the conference's keyMexico, for example, was a move- note addr.ss at I :30 p.m. April26
ment that arose among the Mayan in Room 170 in Fillmor. Quad.
p•opl• of th• south•rn Mexican Field director ofthe museum's archaeological expedition to a
state of Chiapas.
The variation of these concerns number of Mayan ruins in

majo r internatio nal
conference on Mayan
culture, .. Mayan Cul ture at the Millen nium: Retrospect and Prospect,"
wiU b• hdd at UB April25 and 26.
All conference sessions will take
placo in th• Fillmor. Quad, Ellicott
Compla,on the univ•rsity's North
Campus, with the exception of a
dinnor, to b. hdd April 25 in th•
University lnn ·and Conference
C.ntor, 2401 North Forest Road,
Amh•rst.

A

roar•

Mexico a nd Belize, Pendergast is
a fellow o f the Royal Soci•ty o f
Ca nada . He is the author of 214
publicatio ns, 196 of which deal
with the ancient Maya and have
b••n publi&gt;h•d in North
America, Mexico. Belize and Eu ~
rope.

Mayan Conference speakers
• Gary Gossen, Distinguished Teaching Prof....,.., SUNY Albany,
and one of the "'!Qrid's foremost Mayan scholar1. The author of
"Chamulas In the World of the Sun: lime and, $~ In a Maya
Oral Tradition, • he co-edited "Symbols and Meaning Beyond
th' Closed Community" and "Ethnographic Encounters in
Southern Mesoamerica. •
• Donnls Tedlock, an anthropologist, ethnopootidst and translator who ~as -:mt:ten several important ethnographic studies
embracing "tl)e religion, sociolinguistics, hermeneutics and
mythopoetlcs of Indigenous peoples. He also is distinguished
for his transcriptions and translations of oral performancos by
lndlgonous peoples.
Among his books are "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the
Dawn of life" (198S), for which he won the PEN Translation
Prize for Poetry; ."Finding the Cooter. Na!Tlltive Poetry of the
Zuni Indian, • nominated for the National 8ook Award In translation, ano "Bn!ath on the Mirror: Voices and Visions of the
· Uvlng Maya~. • a colt.ctlon of his translations and Interpolations of stories""ind· myths from Mayan Indian groups.
With Jerome Rothenberg, Tedlock founded and co-edited
~ the fir1t rnagozine of the wOOd's tribal poetics. He Is co-editor-ln&lt;hlef of AmeriaJn Anlhropologist. the journal
of the American Arithropologial Assodatlon.
• ~rbara Ted~ whose n!Search and writing focus on psychological anthropology, symbolic and cognitive anthropology, anthropology df art"and aesthetics, ethnomedicine, the American
Southwest and Mesoamerica. Co-edltor-ln-&lt;hlef of Ammcon An·
thropologist, she Is the author of books and articles on the Mayan
and Zuni cultures and on the anthropological and psychological
interpretations of dn!aming.
• Anthropologist June Nash, Distinguished Professor at City
University of New Yori&lt; and a n!nowned authorit:)' on gender
and political oconomy In Latin America. She is the author of "In
the Eyos of the Ancestor1: Belief and Behavior in a Maya Community" and for 30 &gt;"'a" has conducted n!Search among Mayans
in Chiapas, Mexico. Her familiarity with the political and economic transformations In Chlapas shapes hor acute under1tanding of the Zapatlsta uprising .
Also presenting will be Virginia Miller, prof....,.. of art history
at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an expert in \11• prehistoric art and iconography of Yucatan Mexico; Victor Montejo,
assistant professor of Native American studies at the Univer1ity
of California at Davis, and author of "Testimony: The Death of
a Guatemalan Village, • and Cassandra Bill, research fellow at
the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane Univer1ity, who
specialtios indude ceramic analysis and the Mayan codices found
in Belize.
Also, Gooffrey Braswell, UB assistant professor of anthropology, who has conducted lithic and settlement pattern studies
In highland Guatemala and El Salvadof; Enrique Sam Colop, a
Qulch~ Mayan linguist and ethnopoeticist who has written extensively on the history of pootic expression in ancient Mayan
texts and Its r.latlonship to contemporary Mayan pootry in the
context of cultural revitalization, and linguist Louanna Furbee,
professor and chair of anthroP.,Iogy at the Univer1ity of Missouri at Columbia, who has documented a new religious movement among the Mayans of Chiapas.

Computer science
c-fTom-1
so porvasive that it is n:levant to CV!:ry
subject studied atthouniYmity--&lt;u&gt;d
vignrou&lt;ly pursues both its th&lt;oretical and applied dimensions.
H..driclr. said th• now dopart ·
men! will add 14 faculty memb.rs
and !hr.. staff momb.rs during the
nat five years to hand!• a proj.aod

eloctroncllly •

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50 percent increase in the annual
average FTE enrollment of stu dents currently studying computer
science and computer mgineering.
Th• additional faculty mombm will
b. •mployod to devdop a faculty
group and expand acadrntic offer.
ings in software systems and software
engineering, and supplement current faculty strengths in computer
engineering and computer science,

he addod. These ar.as of expmiso
indudo intclligmt systems and multimedia , computational science.
oomputor thoory and algorithms,
telecommunication and signal procossing, v.ry larg•-scale integrated
circuits and oomputer networks.
The plan for an lnstitut• for In fo rmation, Communication and
Computation will advancr the common interests of the n~ CSE department, as weU as a merger of the
School of Information and l.tbrary
Studios (Sil.S) and th• Dq&gt;artm•nt
of Communication, which is now in
the planning stages, and r.latod programs such as digltal arts, geographic information systems and
cognitive scirna , H ..driclr. said

Momb.rship in tho institute, to b.
known as DCC or I'C', will b. open
to aU lilcuhy and staff members with
t ..ching, ......dJ 01' service r.sponsibiliti&lt;s in these broad fidds, b. said
"'ne aim of tho institute is to fostor DOW id&lt;as coming out of DOW COD·
nections across diverso fields that share
interests in1 1C 1, ... he said •1n our rurrmt environmmt we should apect
involvement of 50rJlOOilO from CV!:ry
school on campus."
Tho institute will organizo seminars
and symposia, managecomputcr-ori·
mtedintmlisciplinarydegrteanda:rtificat&lt;: programs that oporat&lt;:ootsidc
ofdq&gt;artmental programs; encourage
and support inte!disciplinary r=arch
and initial• grant proposals to sup-

port this resean:h, and report to the
UB community on fut:uro developmoots and noods in these broad 6dds.
Tho institut&lt;: also would """" as a
·~ wnbrella structure" for a
number oforganiz&lt;d r=arch centm
dovntod to particular subtopics in
these 6dds. Headriclr. added
A soarch will b. conductod to
identify a director for the institute,
someone with academic credentials
in computer engineering or computer science, and teaching and resoarch int•=ts that blend into the
broad.r fidds of information, communication and computation, he
said Th• di=tor will roport to the
provost, who will initially support
the institute's budget.

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Seed money
~--1
MPPP research projects have had
overall in attracting ouuide fund£
io p.a rtly attributable to the

program'• unique review process.
Unlike many other internal

"seed• programs at univenities,
the program seeks reviews from
uperu at other institutioDJ.
"Because we hiiYe tbeoe propoaab reviewed by researchers aU over
the world, the faculty get valuable
feedback about the quality of their
proposals," he continued.
In an era of shrinking federal dollars for research, internal funding
will becomelllOfe and"""" important, particularly because funden
expect to see some of the research
already done, Beachky explained.
"Faculty don't have exira rnooey
on grants 10 try 10 get preliminary
data for their next propooals," be said,
"so the university needs 10 reinvest."
Now in its fifth year, the program has met with great enthusiasm from faculty, attracting about
50 proposals each year, about IS
of which are funded.
""We had a great idea and no data."
soid Lockwoa&lt;J; d&lt;=ibing the predicament of most faculty members
who apply for seed money.

The seed program gave
Lockwood and Salvi an opportunity
10 getotaned

and to leverage the UB
funding for additional suppon.
"We used the seed money from

Similarly, writing a proposal for

seed funding gave occupationaltherapy faculty members Susan
Mi.strett and Shdly Lane a chana:
to develop and rdine their ideas
for their "Let's Play" project.
"Through the preliminary
work, we were able to find out
what the~..... in our model

were; said Mistrett. •tt made us
very sure-footed when it came
time to apply for federal funding."
Now in iu third year, the U.S.
Department of Education-funded
modd, the focus of which is to facilitate play for infants with physical disabilities, is being replicat"!l
at two other oite5 in New York State.

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For David Bender, the seed
money came at a critical time.
He and Thomas Lock wanted to
study the origins of attention defi cit disorder in the brain by 'devel ·
oping a primate model for the

UB to get enough data that al-

condition.
Their atlempts to get external

lowed us to make a proposal to the
A.mctica.n Tinnitus Association,"
,.id Lockwood.
In 1996,theassociation·awarded
S~6 , 000 to the UB researchers,
who combined the data they developed with that money with the
data they developed with the seed
funding. The result was the $1.3
million grant from the NIH.
"It was the seed money that really got the whole thing off the
ground," Lockwood said.

funding followed a typical couJK.
In their first attempt 10 get external funding, !hey scored well, but
not high enough to get suppon,
and were in the process of revising
their proposal. With money run ning out, !hey wer&lt; in danger of
losing an important lab technician.
"The multidisciplinary pilot
project funds helped us over a hump
when we had no money," he said.
"Faculty have to be able to apply
three, even four times before they get

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get some work done."
Wrtb some preliminary data under their belts, they were eventuaUy able to obtain more than S!
million in external funding from
gOVttlliDent and private soure&lt;:s.
Wrthout the seed funding. Bender
said, be probably would have oootinued to apply to outside agencies.
""But you never know; at some
point, you just might quit," he said.
For that reason, explained Dale
M. Landi, vice president for research at UB, seed programs that
reward innovation are critical to

all institutions involved in re search and development.
He added that among managers
in industry, the rule of thumb is
to invest I 0 pera:nt of the R&amp;D
budget each year in new projects .
"At UB, we need to continue to
provide seed funding for our in-

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funded," said Bender, "but by that
time, it onuld be three yean, so your
enthusiasm and self-confidenu begin to go down. When we got the
MPPP awanl, .....,........, perlr.cd up because now we knew we oould reaDy

vestigators that allows ideas to
nourish and that leads to new
project starts," said Landi. "If you

keep spending just on existing
R&amp;D projects, you'll fall behind.•
Landi noted that invrstmcnts iri
new projects 6 ftcn take years to
bring in a payoff.
.. In the research business, what
you do or don't d o this yea r, h as

an impact three to five years from

now," he said.
He noted, for example, that in
response to a solicitation issued by
UB, Lockwood and Salvi applied
for seed funding in 1993 and got
their NIH grant this year.

"'The NIH grant is a fivr-ycar
award: said Landi, ..so the university will be getting that return
through 2003 for an initiative it
took back in 1993 ."

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lockwood, M.D.; DanielS. Lockwood.
&amp;.ilrd. North Umpw. 8 p.m.

c~kl .

~. ~.=;..':.r:::-.nd

CommunKatlve Oisorden and ~es
for I'T'IOre infonnation, can 645-2921 .

Studentllnlon. North C.mpus.

=~or:.=:' ~~~~~!fbr

llnhonltJ c -....Unde&lt;groduotes In the Facultieo ol: Am
and letters, ~tural Sciences and
Mothemotlcs. Sodol Sclenceo (Including
lnrercfDCiplimry) and Special and
Individualized Majon.
The above andidat~ a~ ehgitMe to

Pl•y
Agamemnon. Depc. d ,.,...,. ond
oancr. c..- 1or""' Aru. Blod Box
The.&gt;tre. North Campuo. B p.m. ol tick«o
S3. For more infonnatior\, cal64s-ARTS.

...-.---.- :"'

~

Toastrrwten meets on the second And
fourth T~ of cKh month in 31 7

after 7 p.m.. at 691 -3590.

Musk and the lrllln. ~n H.

dbits

~~~~~r~~'4~~~;~exhibit

"Russia Day" events
will celebrate Russian culture
TIM llusllan Club will host and participate in ~ Russ~ Day," a series of fun events to a:lebrate Russian culture, on Wednesday. All
evenu will be free and open to the public.
" Russ~ Day" will kick off with the first session of " Learn the Russian Alptiabet in Half an Hour" at 10 a.m . in 378 Student Union on
the North Campus. Sessions will continue every half-hour until 2 p.m .
Tatiana Bekhmetyeva of the University of Rochester will give a
lecture titJed .. Religion in the New Russia: The Case of Catholicism"
at 2:30p.m . in 210 Student Union. She is formerly of the Center for
the Apostle Paul at Moscow State University.
A Russian buJfet will be served al 3:30p.m. in 210~1 Union, 101lowed by Russian fuiJc music byaaordionis! Mkhul ~ at 4 p.m.
The priz&lt;winningfilm " PrUonerofthe Mountain," about the war in
Chechnya. will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Screening Room of the Center
for the Arts on the North Campus, followed by a discussion led by
Vladimir Ageyev, lecturer in the Graduate School of Education. The
film is in Russian with English subtitles.
Sponsors include Sub-Board I, Russian Oub, Department of Modern Languages and Uteratures, Student Association and Office oflnter·
national Education. For more information, c:.n Emily Tall, associate
professor of Russian, at 645-2191 , ext. 1199.

Richard Ament, 79, clinical
professor of anesthesiology
TIMsk bhlblt

)uergen Bode, "Geoelbchaft lur
Biotechnologlsche Fonchung. Gene&lt;lk
von Eukaryooten; llrotJruchwelg.

~ - . , . . . of the Beijing Institute Cor Civil
Engineering and Ascbitecture will gM a special ~ " Heaven, Earth
and Man: Tbe Mountain Ascbitecture of &lt;lUna," on Wednesday at 5:30
p.m. in 148 Diefendorf HaD on the South CarnpU1.
The lecture will be free -and open to the public.
Sbun-xun, who taught at UB in the mid- 1980s as an a.change
scholar, will aplore how mountain architectlm rdlects the early Taoist
approach to nature, the Confucianist thought of heaven and earth,
the ancient chi.theory, Buddhist retreat and scholars' retreat from the
practical world, pictographic cbaracteristia of peiaptioo and the
origins of feng shui---4 traditional Corm of Chinese architecture.
He also will discuss how the mountainous country of China bas,
throughout history, created a field of mountain worship, religious
temples, feog shui, lan&lt;hcape painting and poetry, rock carvings,
mountain dwellings, tourist sites and reson palaces.
Shun-run lived and practiced through World War II, the Japanese occupation, the Chinese civil war, the Communist overthrow
of the Nationalist Chinese government, the Great Leap Forward, the
Cultural Revolution and the present development of a market-ori ented but socialist-guided economy.
He also has taught architectural design theory at the University of
Xian and the University at Tientsin, both in China. The lecture will
be co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture and the Asian
Studies program. For more information, call 829-3483, ext. 106.

Obituaries

,Events calendar

--

UB hosts lecture on mountain
architecture of China

participate in the 1 Slnd Uniom'sity
Commencement on Sunday, May 1 7,
I 0 a.m. in Alumni Arena and rNy ~ave
their commencement informaUon
brochure registr;1tion forms at the
Student Unk&gt;n Information Desk 01 in
the Corrvnencement Office at Sl7
Capen Hall. COITifTlenCement
information brochures, mdudtng the
form. are abo ~~la~ at both ot these
sites. The filing deadline is Friday, April

t7

A m - 1 - · w i l l be held April 19 at 2 p.m. in Temple Beth
Zion for Richard Ament, an internationally prominent anesthesi·
ologist who was a clinical professor of anesthesiology and vice chairman for educational affairs for the anesthesiology resi ·
dent program at UB. Ament, 79, died March 19 while visiting relatives in Evanston, Ill.
Ament, who earned his bachelor's and medical degrees
from UB, was a captain in the medical corps of the U.S.
Army Air Force from 1943-46.
During his long career as an anesthesiologist at Buffalo General
Hospital and Children's Hospital, Ament introduced new anesthe·
sia techniques and developed the anesthesia residen t program at
Buffalo General Hospital.
The author of numerous pubHcations, Ament was an expen in
the development of academic anesthesiology in the United States,
becoming involved in recent years with the Wood Library Museum
of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in Chicago.
In 1986, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the most
prestigi o us award o f the American Society of An esth esiologists,
which he had served as president in 1977. Amen t also was honored
with the dean's award for outstanding service from the UB nH.-dac.J I
school in 1986, and in 1996, he received the Ou tstand 1ng Alum null
Award from the UB Alumni Association.
A member of many medical o rganizations, Ament was pres1den1
of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists in 1967, a governo r of
the American College of Anesthesiologists from 1975· 77 and trea surer of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists from
1984· 1992. He served as a certification examiner for rhe American
Board of Anesthesiology for 25 years.

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Thursday

~'r!p=~cal

26

~~:~rW~t MSOponlng reception
The Graduate Show: flnt Yew Student&gt;. UB Art Gallery,
second floor, CFA North
CIIT1pU'. S-7 p.m .

Technology- l..,.mlng
. Academic f'&amp;Mnlng: rr IS

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....

Pmlden~ CO!llGIS Reoeuch
. Institute. 120 Clemem. North
· Campus. 2:30p.m. Sporuored
· by the Vice Provost for Foculty

.

lntetnotanks
Resurchlng litera~
Onlne. Austin Booth, 223
l.odtwood Library. North
CIIT1pU'. 7~: 30 p.m .

. o.v.topment.

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For """" lilfO&lt;mltlon, call
Gemma O.VInney, 6-45-2817 .

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,..,

. WOmen's Tun ond the
. Poltks of Grief. Goil Holst. Wlrllllt, Com&lt;ll Unlv. Cent&lt;r
. for the Arts, Scnenlng Room

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~t=..""ci.':r-,:'~

• (CFA 112). North Clmpus. 3-5
. p.m. Ffft lind open to the

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: ~~~ltli-45-

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. Friday

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VCII's: SUbmotlno

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. 5d&lt;nces COmplex. North
. Campus. 3:3G-4:30 p.m.

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. Information.
Rlch&lt;f Cost&gt;
. 116-45-6800, ext. 6100.
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Phlrmlceutics. 508 Cool&lt;e.

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M&lt;dldne. 114 Hochstetter.
North C1"""'~.m .
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~~ Formore

Room. North
Clmpus. 4 p.m .

· Tuesday

: 5lrllns of L CDI with
. . , _ _ rtiNAOpen&gt;ns;

: Squlr&lt;s,
~~~
Tufts Unlv., SchoOl of

dTM4

~~CFASaoenlng

Concert
Wlnclenneft Trio. Slee HaM
Lobby. North Campus. Noon.
Free. Sporuored by Dept. of
Music. For more Information,
coU 6-45-2921.

31

Saturday

28

. lnfO&lt;mltlon, call Or. PIIUI
. Gollnldc, host. at 6-45-2887.

: - · logic Colloquium

:. ~~=Clu&lt;hond~

: ~-~
. 5 :30p.m.~ by lluflalo
. l.oQic Coloqui&lt;on. For ""'"'
. lnfOrma.tlon, call John Corcoran
. at881-1640or6-45-2444, ext.
. 757.

: Crad~Mte 5cMol of
. Eduutlonl.ectun

~~~~~~

Polltks of School-Based
lnteg,...ted Services. catherine

llstlngs for events hkJng
' piKe on campus, or for

off-umpus events where
UB groups ""' ptlnclpol

sponson. Lbdngs ..-e due
no later U... noon on
the~

pro&lt;edlng

publladlon. Ustlngs ""' accepted only through our

olectnric submhslon form
at http:/ / www.buff•lo.

edu/ - ' e r/ cgl/ lnput

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P&gt;ychology and direclof,
BUffalo ReSearch Institute on

Gi"'
i"1'tS::~:,t=.~:~'
4-5:30 p .m. Open the
to

~l!i ~'il!.,by,6J~::.~·te

Association. For more
information, call Fk&gt;renc.e
Fradln at 6-45-2492.

,..,
Agamemnon. DepL of Theatre
•rid Dance, Cent&lt;r for the Arts,
Bilek Box Theatre. North
~ 8 p.m. AI tid&lt;els S3. For
mon! lnfofmllion, cai6-45-ARTS.

Wednesday, April

I

Sunday

Thursday

Based on Commulltor
Expansions. Prof. Mikhail

29

,..,

2

Campus. 4 p .m.

Agamemnon . Depl of Theatre

I.longer VIews. Samuel R.
Deliiny. 438 Clomem. North
Campus. 12:30 p.m.

Mathenwotla Colloquium
Noncommubltfve Geometry

~Oi":~~Univ.

Musk l.ecture Series
UgeU's Restorltlon of Interval

~...lts~:~rd.

Wash=.

Unlv. of
4p.m. Free.

--...ys.t4Pius

~~:.~Arts,
~ ·2

u.

p.m. .. tid&lt;els
For
""'"'Information, cai6-45-Afrn.

Lecture

!:':'~~~
~,.:~

211 Baird.

Statlstks o.p.rtment
Colloquium
New Dftctloru for Dl=tlonal
5totlstlcs:Modolsl""'*"ng
30 Rotations. Prof. Louis-Paul
Rivest, Univenitel..aval. 252-A
farner. South CaiT1pU'. 4 p.m.
Documentary Screening

Rernbetllcl: the Blues of

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er-e betwo&lt;n the won. GaW
Holst-Wirllllt, Cornel Unlv. wil
Introduce h&lt;r film. Center for
the Arts, 5aoenlng Room (CFA

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Sporuored by a...tcs Dept.,

2-3:30 ~.m. 5ponso&lt;ed ~

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more Information. call .....,..

Studies Prognm atli-45-3474 .

Monday

30
c-tlnuM!I ...... -

2M.Hd EKC lnte&lt;pm.otlon
(Mod 1). 8-15 Abbott. South
C11T1pU' -.n--4 p.m. S75; S140

A ssessment of Drgank Cation

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PhinniCoutics- 508 Cooke.
North Campus, 3:30-S p.m .
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Q&amp;A-Dianc Ga/e discusses the
Counseling Cmtet's many services.

PAG£4

1be way we were

PAGE 3

UB 10I -innavative course may
be key to student retention.

·Fit for
a queen
Setting up the throne on
March 1 4 for "The Snow
Queen," a magical storybook dance production by
Pick of the Crop Dance
Company, is Carol Beckley.
The show, in Mainstage
theater, Center for the Arts,
opened Tuesday and continues
until Sunday.

Cnmmittee urges computers for all by fall '99
UB advised to push up by one year target datefor universal access to computing resources
By SUE WUETCHEJI

the strategy, which will require stu-,

News Setvias Associ.lte Director

dents to own their own computers.
will not work without the commit -

N light of concerns apress&lt;d
by flu:ulty memb&lt;n that U B
is moving too slowly to provide ~access to computing resources, the subcommittee
studying the issue will recommend
that the university push up by a
year-to Fall1999---the laiJI&lt;t dalr
to implement such a strarqj&lt;.
Joseph Tufariello, cbait afthe
Student Access Subco
of
US's Information T
log y
Committee, told the Faculty Senate on March 4 that it is doing so
because of concerns voiced by the
Faculty Senate Executive Commit-

I

tee at a meeting one mo nth earlier.

At the same tiroe, Tufariello, dean
of the Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics, told senators that

ment of flu:ulty memb&lt;n.
"The key is faculty involvement
in this program," he said . .. If this
is going to work., you all have to
be committed to this."
While faculty mcm~rs wiU not
be" required to use a computer in
their classrooms, .. some good
number of people have to usc it
or this is not wonhwhilc doing,"
he said, noting that the integration
of computers into freshman
courses is particularly important.
"This is really in your hands. You
have to be convinced that this is
going to work in order for us to
proceed in this direction ," he said.
"The success depends on you as
much as anybody."

Tufariello outlined for senato rs
a strategy that would prov1de "all
students and faculty convenient
and affordable acce.~s to a personal

computer connected to the cam·
pus network at any time and fTom
almOst any place lhey are working

or studying."
He said there were numerous

benefits to providing this access,
including the ability to personal IU'

and customiu instruction . .do

away with most of the poorly
equipped public comp uter labs,

improve employment prospects
for students and allow UB to market itself as a high -tech institution.
The goal , he sa1d, is that every
faculty member who wishes
should be able to require every
student in has o r her class to per·
form cntain computer - based

tasks, mdudmg usm g e-mail . Web
browse rs and document -prepar a ·
uon software, such as word -pro cessing and spreadsheet programs
Umversities that have adopted
unrversaJ access have- seen ln cre~s in admission applications
and acceptances , as wei/ as im ·
proved retention, he said.
.. I( we are to see results SLmilar
to that, we had bcner move quic.kly
rn that direction because th e
mmute everybody does this is, tht:
minute that th is no lo nger wd/
work," he sajd.
The strategy would requtre stu ·
dents to own their own comput ers, but UB will be sensitive to the
affordability issue, he said, noting
that so me universities, such as
Ca liforni a State Univer srt y at

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·

Olild care center to open on North Campus

T

HE UB Child Care Center, lnc., which has operated a day-care center for
the children of faculty,

staff and students on the South

Campus since 1985, will open a facility on the North Campus for the
fall semester, subject to state licensing approval, center and university
officials have announced.

The 3,700-square-foot, pre-fab ricated building, to be located on
St. Rita's Way near Baird Point. will
serve up to 60 children.
The UB center will continue to
operate its South Campw facility.

which serves 110 children.
The South Campus center is Jj .

censed by the state Depanment of
Children and Family Services and
is one of only a handful of childcare centers in Eric County that is
accredited by the National Acad-

emy of Early Childhood Programs.
The North Campus center is bemg deY&lt;Ioped jointly by the UB QUid
Care Center and the univenity, both
of which will contribute to the
center's stan-up costs. The center's

operating costs will be funded by tu ·
ition and grants, primarily (rom

SUNY CentraJ Administration and
New York State Labor!Management.
The university will cover the cost o(
utilities and maintenance.
.. The development o( the North
Campus Child Care Center will sagnificantly expand existmg day-care
servtces for members of the UB
com mumty.'' .sa1d President Will ·
mm R. Greiner... UB continues to
be a regtonal leader in providing
on-site child· care services to mem bers of our campus community."
Howard Lasker, professor o(
biological sciences and president
of the center's board of directors,
noted that ..a tremendous number

of individuals" at the center and
tn the UB co mmumt y worked
hard over many years toward the
goal of opening a ch1/d-care cen ·
ter on the North Ca mpus.
'" It 's wonderful that those efforts
a re beginning to bear frutt," he
said. "We're extraordinarily proud
o( the care the cent er staff provides
our children and we're reaJiy ex
oted we 're going to extend the
oppo rtunit y for child ca re at UB
t o more famihes."
Denms Bla c k, 1nter1m V I ce
presadent of student atfa.Jrs and the
umw: rslty's hatson with th e child \.:a re center. echoed Gremer"s and
Lasker"s comments.
.. Day care got off lOa great start
o n the South Camp us more than
a decade ago. and since that time
the university has been asking
when a similar service will be
available on the North Campus,"
Black said ... Today, we've been able

to answer that question: thas fall."

The need for expanded child-care
facilities-and specifically a sate on
the North Campus-has been an
ISSUe on campus for manv years.
In 1994 , a blue ribbo n pand
studying the ass ue co ncl uded there
was a press mg need (or chdd -care
facil itaes on the No rth Ca mpu s
Moreove r, a surv(·y o( I a~. ull\ ,
staff and graduate ass tstan ts tw tht·
chald -ca re ce nter 's board n f dm·~,.
tors m Fall 1996 undt'r\cored thl·
need, findm g that one -quarter ol
respo ndent s-J 76 fam1ltes--ex
pressed an amm ed tat e nee-d for
child ca re, a nd 40 percent more
stated the" would have used tht'
se rviCe tf 11 had been a\'adablt'
when they ne('()ed rt.
The President 's Task Force on
Women at US recommended an
August 1996 that .. adequate chil dcare facilities shou ld be provided
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located in 120 Richmond Quad in the Ellicott Complex.
A licensed psychologist, her professional interests include couples
therapy, crisis intervention and sexual-assault survivors.

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what o t her serwlces •re •v•ll•ble7

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co nsu ltation . informational and
training ~rvices . For example, we
offe r .. Food for Thought " every
Wednesday from noon to I p.m.
in 250 Student Union ... Food for
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on topics suggested by students,
such as test anxic;ty, stress manage·
ment , culturaJ diversity, effective
(O mmun1Cat1on . lim e manage ment. e-tc.

What are the Ngns tMt lOmeone rn•J need to consult with
• countelor •t the center7

When students feel depressed or
upset for more than a brief pe·
riod of time; when they show
dramatic changes in behavior,
for example, a student who usu ally gets good grades suddenly
does poorly; when students are
disruptive in class o r at work;
when they are unable to commu nicate clearly; when they talk
about thoughts/urges to hurt
themselves or others, it is probably a good idea to encourage
them to seck help. Or you might
wan t to co nsuh with one of th e
co unselors to clarify your conce rn s about a student.
Wh•t •re the mort frequent
problems th•t students bring
to the Counseling Center7

Most students come in with somC'
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conce ntrating on studying or
frC'ezc on exams. Or they might
talk about having trouble making,
or keeping, friends or romantic
partners. Others are concerned
abo ut how they get aJong with
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sec only students. However, we offer consultation sc:rvices to faculty,
staff, parents and students on issues
that affect their worklrebtion.ships
with students. Faculty and staff
may call us with questions about
students or for referral information
for community resources.
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crisis, where we are located, etc.
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their thoughts and feelings
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Fertility treatments: reducing risk of multiple births
Discovery by UB specialist offers promise for limiting number of eggs that mature
By LOIS IIAlWI
News Services Editor

P

REUM!NARY research by
a US fC'rtiJ it y specialist
shows for the first time
that a honnone whose role
in fertility was thought to be Jim .
ited to triggering ovulation also can
support growth of a developing egg
foUidC' during fertility treaonent.
Result s of th e research WC're presented March 13 in Atlan ta at the
an nual meeting of the Society for
Gynecological Investigation.
The finding s suggest that
• luten izing hormonC' (LH ), a hormone present in the second half
of the menst rual cyciC', may per·
form the critical task of sustainmg the growth of egg follicles un til ovulation. sa id Michael W .
Su ll ivan, assistant prof~r of gy·
neco logy 7md obstetrics and lead
researchC'r on the study.
They have important implicallons for women undergoing fertil Ity treatments. Sullivan said, because
specialists formerly thought the only
way to keep a developing egg growing was to administer follicle stimu·
lating hormone. or FSH, which also
ca uses multiple eggs to mature.
By man ipulating Uland FSH ,
Sullivan said it co uld he possible
to sustain the growth and dcvcl
op mcnt of one or two follicb, 10
women undC'rgoing fcrllhty trt'at
mcnt while prrvcnt~ng muh1plc
ovu latiOns and thus dc(H'astng the
nsk of mult1ple btrths.
"Nobod)' has looked dt th1~ ht· forc. because.· •! wasn't pmsihle un
til the development of the fi.'(Onl

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MICHAfl W. SULUVAN

binant form of the two hormones.
which happened very rC'cently,"
Sullivan ..Ud. "The)inding is very
preliminary, but it is promising."
The results arc based on a pro spective trial involving 24 women
that Sullivan led while a fellow at
the UnivC' rsity of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine.
Successful infertility treatment
depends on thC' ability to manipu ·
latC' precisely the essential hor ·
mones involved, which requires
their clear identification. Infertil ity specialist s strive fo r a si ngle
birth, considering anything more
than twins a complication because
of the poten tially serious, even
life-threatC'ning, medical problems
that often accompa ny multiple
birth s.
One of th e stumbling blocks to
thi~ end has been identifying a way
tO limll the number of eggs th ai
mature dunng fe rtiht y trcatmc:nt
wh1lc keepmg at least one egg d e
vdopmg.
llur1n g J normal mt'n!&gt; trual
l'nk FSH sllmulates egg follid('s
to dcvdop. At a ce rt ain p01111 Ill
the cvdc. estrogen signal s thl· p• ·

tuitary to stop producing FSH, a
signal that at least one egg follicle
is well and being nurtured. The
drop in FSH stops more follicles
from dC'veloping, all immature
follicles die, but the " recruited "
follicle lives.
" Nobody knew why the follicle
continuC'd to thrive in the face of
decreased FSH." Sullivan ..Ud. "We
thought that FSH was required all
the way aJong, even at low levels.
So standard procedure during fer~
tility treatment has been to con~
tin ue FSH, which keeps fo lljcles
growing, but aJso may stimulate
too many to develop. That's thC' up
side and down side of FSH.
"WC' 've now shown that FSH is
not essential during the entire first
half of the cycle. We'vC' discovC'red
that LH can make up for the defi l iCncy of FSH as th e follicle
growl..
Su!Jivan and co lleagues stopped
production of fertility hormones
artificially in the st udy group. and
then stimulated follicle develop·
ment in all thC' women with rel·ombinant human FSH. When a
14 -mm. fo llicle was 1dcntified by

ultrasound (a n arbitrary siu
thought to guarantee sufficient
maturity) , the women were randomized tO one of four groups:
continued FSH treatment; FSH
replaced with saline; FSH replaced
with high dose of recombinant
LH, and FSH replaced with low
dose of recombinant LH.
After two days of treatment, researcher.; measured blood levels of
estrogen, the sign that a follicle is
healthy and developing normally.
Estrogen levels dropped in the Sa·
line group. indicating the maturing follicle had ceased to thrive in
the absence of FSH or LH. In all
three remaining group~. estrogen
levels contin ued to rise and pregnancies resulted in all threC'
groups.
"This suggests that if you admin ·
ister FSH until one follicle matures.
then limit FSH and substitute LH.
you can support the growth of the
maturing follicle, but won't recruit
any more follicles." Sullivan said.
"We are now trying to determine
how far back in the cycle you can
push this process and still capture
a maturing follicle."
AJso participating in the study
were Ann Stewart-Akers, Joel S.
Krasnow, Sarah L. Berga and An th ony ). Zeleznik of the depart ments of Obstetrics, Gynecology
and Reprodudive Sciences at the
University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine.
The research was supported by
grants from the National institutes
of Health and TAP Pharmaceull·
cals.

�llartlt 19.19!11/Vol.la lkl. 14 Reporlel:

UB 101: vital links for freshmen
.,.~VIDAL

Report« Editor

· U

B this fall will expand
an effort that some
consider to be perhaps
the single most im portanl and effective key to improving student retention when it
increases by four-fold the num bers of sections of UB 101 , The
Universjty Experience.
The number of sections of the
cou~which

teaches freshmen
about life at the university, study

skills, time management and the
resources that are available at
US-will increase from 10 to SO.

The numbers of sl udent s involved will go from approximatdy
ISO to approximately 750.
The increase in sections will go
hand -in - hand with an effort to
.. block register.. students enroiJed
in UB 101 so that the same students also will share three typical

freshman classes, depending on
their intended course of study.
Expanding the number of sectionsofUB 101 is ..oneofthcmost
important things we ca n do for

our new st udents," said Barbara
Ricotta, interim dean of students.
The one-credit course, she explained, is concerned with more
than elfertive study hab ' ts, note t1k ·
ing and how to pre e for exams.

dents to better manage the often bumpy transition into college to
volunteer to teach the course.

ground, I wonted to be realJy pre-

According to Peter Gold, associ ate dean of the Undergraduate College, there has been a good response

time management. Som~ of the
class preparatjon i.s about logistics. We would meet and go to the
Living Well Center or Career

to date, but additional volunteers
are needed.

Ricotta noted that she has taught
thre&lt; sections of UB 101, and it is
"a wonderful experience. It really
puts you in touch with issues and
concerns our new students have .

Every individual coming to class has
unique concerns, but you can S« a
lot of simi larities, how over whelmed they can be, how little
things can become very big in their
world because they don't know how

things can be accomplished."
..Anyone who thlnks they can

help build a good UB community
that involves students is a good can·
didate for this," said Gold.
" It's a pleasure to teach and easy
to do."
Course sections will be limited to

I5 studmts and will meet once a week
at a time and location convenient to

the volunteer t&lt;acher. Classroom support will be available, including fac·
ulty-development seminars, a syllabus, a tat and a student assistanL
"We're looking [or people to teach

forge a connection

courses that aim to give students a
smaH -community feeling in th e
classroom," said Hpther Holmes,
director of new siudent program -

themto~asu

ming in the Office of Student Life.

Its other goal is to hel

into coU~e and"in

hood that they wiU contin eat UB
lhr(&gt;lll!h.JI3f!Uation. , _ 1 • .
'15'~-101 "h&lt;lps Students make an
important connection with a fac ·
ulty or staff member, which seems
to be whal our students tell us th ey
are missing," said Ricotta.
An integral part ofthat connec·
lion will be those who will teach
the course. A letter recentJy was
sent to faculty and staff members,
and teaching assistants, inviting
those interested in helping stu·

Holmes, who taught two sections

ofUB IOllast year, called the expcriep&lt;!' "V):ry rewaj'didg."
.
T he time commitment required
of those teaching the course is rea sonable, she noted. ,
.. , found I spent probably two
hours a week preparing for dass .
Not comi ng from a teaching back·

pared. A lot of the da!S involves

teaching skills development, like

Planning as a dass," Holmes said.
Those campus .. field trips" are
an important part of the course,

said Gold.
"We want students to have
broad experience at UB. going to
concerts. games and lectures as
part of the course," he said.
.. Studenu need to be comfort -

able participating at UB."
UB I0 I classes also are being set
up to help new students become
more oomfortable with each other.
·When I look at where our
freshmen spend their first aca demic year, I have the sense that
we really don't have a. 'freshman
year' for those students," said

Gold. "Most classes have upperclass students in them, so most
first-year students don't have a
' freshman experience,' and this
will help them tremendously. It

will help them find other fresh men and interact with them ."

Students registered for UB 101
will be "block registered" in small
groups and enroUed in three typical freshman classes, depending
on their intended course of study.
"We're using those IS st udents
as a base and putting them together in three courses , the
coarses th ey o rdin arily would

take," said Gold.
" It 's taken the com bin ed ef.
forts of the registrar, the sched ·
uler and others, all pitching in to
make this work. It 's a genuine .
large-scale effort that couldn't be
done by any one office "

For more lnfonnation on volunteerin1 to teach a Metion of

UB I 0 I, contact flreter Gokl. at 6-4S-l47t or ptoldQacsu.buflalo.edu,
llarbara ftk:otu at 645-lfll or bricottaOmsmaiLbuffalo.eclu , o r
Heather Hoi,.,._ at U$-6115, Ext. II f or hholmes(tacsu.buffalo.edu

Paid parking for events proposed
By SUI WUETCHUI
News Services Associate Director

V

ISITORS attending UB

events at night or on
weekends wou ld have
to pay to park on cam ·
pus under a proposal being mad e
by the Special Event Task Force.
~ The "Proposed C hanges to the
Universi t y's Paid Visitor Parking
Program," ~hic h is circu la tin g
among va ri ous campus constituencies, also would convert the Slee
A and Slee B parking lo ts on. the
cast end of the academic spine to
paid lo ts-accommodating both
visitors to campus and UB faculty.
staff and st udents who USl' the
university 's preferred parking program-and return the Center for
Tomorrow lot to a free overflow lot
with shuttle service.
Under the plan, the number of
paid/ visitor pa rkin g spaces in the
Froncza k lot wo uld be reduced
from 618 to 165. The remaining
spots-approximately 450would be used as open parking for
fa culty, staff and students.
In addition, the lot adjacent..t.o
UB Stadium th at is used for park ing during foo1ball games would
become a permanent overflow and
visi tor parking lot.

The recommendations from the
task force, which the group hopes
wiU go into effect for the Fall 1998
se mester, are designed to "maxi mize parking accommodations at
the east tnd of the North Campus
toward better serving all member !~
of the university community and
creating a welcoming envi ro nment
for visitors." said Carmela Thomp·
so n, director of cam pus parking
and transportation services, and
co-chair of the task fo rce.
Assessing a S2 parking fee for all
special-event patron s would re duce the cost to departments for
reserving parking, crea te a guar
an teed revenue sou rce to offset
staffing and support th e construe ·
tion of new lots and maintenance
of existing lots, and ach ieve greater
co nsistency in fee schedules and
related policies, according to thl'
task force recommendations.
Thompson said the recommen
dation was endorsed by rcprcscn
tatives from the Center for the Arb
and the Division of Athletics. who
say assessing a parking fcc .. is th e
fair and equitable thing to do, and
that most visitors to ca mpu s will
not be put off by it."
The task force report sta tes that
establishing visitor parking in the

Slee lots at the east end of campus
would better serve the needs of
l"Ven t sponsors and vLSitors attend ing campus events. many of wluch
are held in Slee, the Center for the
Arts and Alumni Arena. all at the
east end of campus. The lots wouJd
be staffed, and access and cgres.-.
controUed by a single entry and
several one-way exit gates.
Relocating some of the preferred
pa rking spaces from the Fronaak
lots to the Slee lots also would bet ter serve members of the univer
sity community on the east end of
campus, the report says.
Some paid parking will contmuc
to be maintained in the 1:ro na..ak
lot to accommodate visitor-ba.s&lt;."d
offices such as Adm issions, \ocatL-d
in Capen HaJJ on the west end of
campus. for which .. an east-end \t1t
would not be appropnatc."
The task force IS Clrculatmg tht•
proposal and seek ing consu lt a
tJOn from vanous campus con
stituen cies, including the bar
gaining units, th e Facult y Sl·natl·,
the Profess ional Staff Scnati.' and
student government. Comment~
can be sent to Thompson vta cam
pu.&lt; mail. I06 Spaulding Quadrnngle;
f.u.64S.733 l,orc-mail.(........&amp;ote
li&lt;JU.buffalo. edu ).

3

BrieD
March symposium on technology
and lea.rnillg will feature ed tech
entrepreneur William Graves
TM Ul Spftng Sympost.. on Technology and Learning will con tinue on March 26 as mathematician and entrepreneur William Graves
takes the floor at 2:30p.m. in 120 Clemens Hall for a talk titled ..Aca demic Planning: IT as a Strategic Asset in Higher Education."
Graves will demonstrate new online communication tools and
learning resources that are affordable, easy to use, scaleable and edu cationally effective, many of them bast'd on the new .. any time, an y
place.. educational model satirized last month by Langdon Winner
The demonstration will be framed by a panel discussion of th e trends
and issues that are changing the nature of the educational environ ment, trends that Graves has said should inform the university 's plfln ning, budgeting and faculty -development programs as they relat e
to information technology.
In addition to Graves. the panel will include H . Austm Booth ,
humanities librarian in Lockwood Library; Richard H . Lesniak, d1
rector of academic services in the Center for Informatio n Technol ogy; John A. Meacham, professor of psychology, and Lynda 1-f
SchneekJoth, professor of architecture.
The discussion will be moderated by Joseph J. Tufanello, dean of
the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Questions from
the audience will be entertained .
Graves is a thoughtfuJ observer of the information -technology
scene who has made more than 350 invited presentations and pub lished scores of articles on this subject. A member of the University
of North Carolina faculty for more than 30 years, he founded the
UNC Institute for Academic Technology.
Graves is on leave from UNC to serve as pres1dent of COL LEG IS
Research Institute, a group whose stated mission is to "develop and
disseminate advances in the educational use of affordable technol ogies, whether deployed to enable new anytime/anyplace modes of
instruction or to enhance the traditional classroom."

Lecture to explore link between
math and sense of touch
What can INithematlcs tell us about the ,;eouSe of touch?
Q uite a lot, accordi ng to Jonathan Bell. professor and chatr of the
Department of Mathematics who conducts research on using math ematics to model the sense of touch .
Bell will lecture on the subject at 7:30 p.m . on Monday in Room
225 of the Natural Sciences complex on the North Campus.
.. In humans, touch is probably the first sense to develop and often
the last to extinguish, yet we take having the sense of touch for
g ranted ," Bell said.
" Infants born without 11 die immediately, and infants who do not
recei ve enough tactile St1mulat10n often do not de-velop properly:·
In his talk, Bell will discuss how the tactile system and mecha noreceptors work. Mechanoreceptors are biological entities that con vert mechamcal stimuli (like pressure ) to electrical signals.
He will highlight the in terdisc iplinary nature of research about
sensory systems and discuss why both theoretical modeling and fun damental experiments must be done to fully understand how mccha
no reception works .
Free and open to the pubhc , the lecture 1~ !~ponsnr«&lt; by thl· Su
en(t.'S Alumni A.wx:1atum of the Faculty of Natural Sc1ences and Math·
cma tKS . l-or more informal 100. wntacl ( :md} Nydahl at 645 -2 531

New social work dean to be
featured at "UB at Sunrise"
Whether the " helping professions" should con tmuc to be hased
on a " medica l model " will he disCU!&gt;Sed by Lawrence Shulman m J
"UB at Sunr1sc" program from 7:30-9 a.m . un Tuesday m thi.' &lt; c: ntt"t
for Tomorrow on the No rth ( .ampus .
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IFTED,handsome,

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erudite and-at
least for a tim~a
prima facie anistic
anarchist, photographer Walker Evans was born of
co nsiderable privilege and devel oped into a mainstream , if controversial , artist best known for
documenting the lives of Depressio n-era American s.
Although Evans also produced a
body of photographs of American
folk archi tecture, his best-known
subjects were the ruraJ poor of the
1930s. His realistic style repres&lt;n ted their digruty and the des·
of the rurol ,_...of the 19JOs
peration of their conditions. The - b e ... ...,..,. ... the.,.apparent artlessness of his repre- co.lerJ In the
the sentations was a produ ct of the
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photographer's perspective, but it ....... u 1'ho .,._In t h e - .
lent a powerful documentary fla - '"W.tker Ev•ns: Public Photogrophs, 1935-57, • .,.. his moot
vor to Evans' portrait of pre-World
War II America. It continues to
raise important questions about
The panel also will include pho·
the documentary style and the re- tographer and anthropologist J.
lationship of the photographer to David Sapir of the University of
his subject.
West Virginia, editor of Vis ual
Evans' early work will be the sub- Anthropology Review and operator
ject of a free public exhibition to- of " Fixing Shadows," a lively Web
morrow through April 24 in the site devoted to photography. He
UB Art Gallery in the Center for ha s produced many linguistic,
th e Arts on the North Ca mpus. folkloric and ethnographic publiGa llery hours are Wednesdays cations and from 1978-83, edited
through Satur- the University of Pennsylvania
days from I 0:30 Press series .. Symbol and Culture."
a.m. to 8 p.m. and
Joining Sapir, Becke r and
Sundays from C hristenberry will be Jerry
noon -S p.m.
Thompson, a student , working asThe exhibit , sociate and close friend of Walker
"Walker Evans: Evans, wh o wrote the memoir
Public Phot o · "The Last Years of Walker Evans"
EVANS
graphs, 1935-37," ( 1997), and Bruce lackson, SUNY
will feature his best-known mate· Distinguished Professor in the DeriaJ , produced during Evans· stint partment of English and Samuel
with th e photographic project P. Capen Professor of American
sponsored by the New Deal's Re- Culture at UB, where he directs the
set tlement Administration (RA ), Center for Studies in America n
later called the Farm Security Ad· Culture.
ministration.
The photos in the exhibition are
UB also will present "Walker not only Evans' most famous, but
Evans: Co unterspy," a free public are among the most vivid and
symposium on photographi c powerful images of America ever
work and the documentary imagi- created. Many of them were in nation from 1-5 p.m. on March 28 cluded in the 1937 book, "Let Us
in the Screening Room ( Rm . 112 ) Now Praise Famous Men," a col of the Ce nter for the Arts.
laboration with writer James Agee.
Participating in the symposium The book became an American
will be sociologist Howard Becker culturaJ icon in the 1960s, speakof the University of Washington. ing as it did to the rebirth of con autho r of "Outsiders" ( 1962), "Art cern for the poor and disenfran ·
Worlds" ( 1982) and " Exploring chi sed of ruraJ America.
Soc iery Philoso phi ca ll y," and
Evans was born in St. Louis and
award-wi nning visual artist Will - studied at Phillips Exeter Acad iam Christenberry. fellow photog· emy. Williams Co llege and th e
raph er and a friend of Walker Sorbonne. His first photographs
Evans. A native of Hale Co unty, were published in 1930 in "The
Ala., where Evans took hi s first Brid ge," a landmark book of po·
photos for"Lct Us Now Praise Fa - etry by Hart Crane. In 1933, he
mous Men," Christenberry later presented th e first solo photoco Uaborated with Evans to pro- graphic exhibit mounted by the
duce photos published in Thomas Museum of Modern Art (MOMA )
W. Southall's "OfTimes and Place: and by 1935 he had crystallized his
Walker Evans and William own particular method for docu Christenberry" ( 1990).
menting American life, one whose

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mainstream acceptability is docu - · Evans• portraits, affecting as
mented by several later MOMA they were, did not sail well in the t
solo exhibitions.
winds of prevailing government
Ais work for the RA demon - propaganda. He had his own
stra ted Eva ns ' conviction that agenda. which was to describe a
photography could be both a re- time, a place and a people ground
search method and an art form. II down by poverty and crippled by
also raised questions about the Jack of hope. Nor did the photos
relationship between the subjec- reflect the future orientation retivity and objectivity of the pho· quired of them by the New Deal
tographer himself. Evans created Stuck hard and faSt in grim conimages that seem to reflect no sub- ditions, his subjects stare out at us
jectivity at all-photos that seem from the relentless present. forever
to lack. the presence of an author. bearing witness to the fear, sadness
In fact, the camera is no more than and desp~ration of a povertya tool. Regardless of how much it strick.en generation of rural and
seems to document the hard - small-town Americans.
Despite what his supporters
edged facts of an historical mo ment, a photograph necessarily in - considered to be the outstanding
co rporates the inten tion of the integrity of his work, Evans' insistence on his own ~rspective de·
photographer.
To produce the pictures that now noted a bad o rganizational fit.
identify his canon, Evans traveled Having failed to provoke the
over much of the northeastern and frinon preferred by the adminissoutheastern United States. photo- tration , he was dismissed from the
graphing the houses of steelwork· RA project in 1937. The reasons
ers in Pennsylvania and Alabama, for his dism issal still are the subfarms in Mississippi, hou ses in ject of academic discussion.
During World War 11 , Evans
Louisiana , worn faces in Arkansas
and West Virginia, Hood victims in chronicled workers and industry
for several large national maga·
Tennessee and Kl:ntucky.
The political agenda of the New zines and later produced a remarkDeal, however, ~as to project a able series of photographs taken
better future, one ofho~ .ln lceep- in the New York City subways.
He became a staff pbotographer
ing with this, the RA photographers, who included Dorothea for the financial magazine Fortune
Lange and others. were expected in I945, where he continued for 20
to document the lives of those who years as associate editor. Followhad raised themselves up out of ing his retirement, Evans taught
miserable conditions by their own graphic design at Yale Univer.ity
until his death ill.l975.
bootstraps.

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Promoting pre-engineering education
UB participates in national program geared to high-school students
lly MAliA McCOINNIS
News Services Editorial Assistant

T

HE Informatio n Tech·
nology Association of
America repons a stag·
gering 346,000 unfilled
engineering positions exist na -

hands-on learning experiences, according to Richard Blais, national
director of Project Lead the Way.
The UB engineering school will
serve as the link between the re-

tionwide.

gional partnership team and the
national oversight committee
based in Oifton Park, near Albany.

At the same time, The Journal of
College Science Teaching reports
that 200,000 college freshmen

Roben Barnes, associate dean for
external affairs for the engineering
school, is the project's regional co-

drop out of engineering and science programs annua ll y in the
U.S., a n indication that high
school studenu may be unin rormed about the st ud y of engineeling and unprepared for the
rigor and discipline it entails.
The School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences is helping to combat this lack of awareness by parti ci pating in Project Lead the Way.
a regional partnership among
Western New York secondary
schools, colleges, universities and
industry to promote high -school
level, pre-engineering education.
"It is o ur obligation as the ma jor (!ngineering school in the r(! gion to work with the local high
schools and motivate the next generation of engineers," said Mark
Karwan, dean of the engineering
school. "'This project is important
because we have to expose stu dents at the high -school level to
enginee ring scie nce in ord er for
t.hem to have an accurate idea and
understanding of what it is."
'Jbeprogram addressenhe need
for highly skilled technology workers in the U.S. by providing partial
funding and a framework to ad dress important issues in technol ogy training in secondary schools.
The mission of Projea Lead the
Way is to excite students about careers in eng ineer in g, while
strengthening the link between tradi tional academic programs and

ordinator for Western New York,
while John Bunting, a retired
teacher in the Lancaster Central
School District, serves as assistant
regional coordinator.
The Clarence and Lancaster
school districts, the initial participants in the Western New York
Region. will offer the accredited
classes beginning in the fall.
34 school districts Involved

The Western New York team is
among six regional partnership
teams in New York State and one
team in New Hampshire-comprising 34 school districts-&lt;hat are participating in the program. While effons so far have been concentrated
in the Nonheast, several school dis-

tricts in other states have inquired
about participation.

Blais, a former chair of the Technology Department at Shenen-

dehowa O:ntral School near Albany,
founded Project Lead the Wirfin 1996.
.. Colleges in the area were having problems attracting engineering students, so we implemented
Project Lead the Way to increase
the flow of students from high
school to college in this field," he
said, adding that the project is the
only national program of its kind
designed to promote engineering
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Project coord inato rs have devel oped a five-cour~ sequence that
satisfies the New York State Re gents req uiremen ts for a technol ogy- track diploma. The cou rses
are .. In troduction to Engineering
Design," .. Digital Electronics,''
.. Principles of Engineering,""Dc-

sign and Rapid Prototyping" and
"Engineering and Design."

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published by the National Library of Medicine and contaming more
than 9 million references to art1cles published from 1966 to the
presen t, in 3,800 biomedical and health -related JOurnals, ts avail able in a variety of ways.
In any of the University L1branes, MEDLJNE can be accessed

through BISON's Online Resources page (http://ubllb.buffalo.
edu/ llbrArles/ e-resources/ ). Under .. Indexes
and Abstracts: Subject-Oriented Indexes"
choose MEDLINE to find an mformational
page about the database. In th e Health Sciences
and Science and Engineering libraries, you can

also find MEDLINE on the local HUBNET
Students learn basic technology
Computer hardware. such as
robotics equipment , and software,
including Co mputer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided
Manufacturing (CAM) programs,
will expose the stu dents to basi c
technology used in the field.
Erie Community College is the
designated regional training si te
for Project Lead the Way. Under
the direction of ECC faculty, the
lead industrial arts teacher of each
participating high schoo l will re ·
ce ive the training necessa ry to
teach the approved curricu la.
The project is one of several ini tiatives by the VB engineering school
to promote engineering education in
area high schools by familiarizing
young students with principles of
math, science and engineering.
In 1982. th e engineering school
co-founded the Buffalo-Area En gineering Awa reness for Mino~i ­
ties (BEAM ) program dedicated to
increasing mino rit y representa tion in engineering. A consortium
of Western New York companies,
school d istricts and institutions of
higher education, BEAM reach es
more than 400 students per year
through its diverse programs.
The UB engineering school also
has been involved with several an nual competitions for seco nda ry
students in Western New York that
take place on th e No rth Ca mpu s.

Baird Point resumption put on hold
Since BPVAC's suspension last fall, medical
emergencies on the North Campus have been
mittee has concluded that UB's suspended stu- handled under a mutual-aid agreement bedent-run B~ird Point Volunteer Ambulance tween the Department of Public Safety, Getzville
Corps. (BPVAC) at this time should not resume Fire Company and Rural/ Metro Ambulance,
handling medical emergenand, according to Bla ck,
cies t;&gt;n the North Campus.
emergency medical service
"After careful consi d eron the North Ca mpus "has
"Getzville Fl"' Company
ation, it is clear that BPVAC
been consisten t with the rehas not been successful in its
sponse time and level of care
volunteers ...wlll continue
efforts to return to service,"
available elsewhere in the
to service the campus for
said Dennis Black, interim
Town of Amhe"t. " The same
vice president for student alarrangement was in effect in
the duration of the year."
ta i". " It still faces signifi cant
the past during summers,
regu latory, operational and
break&gt; and times during the
DENNIS BLACK
financial difficulties that must
academic year when BPVAC
be addressed before it could
was not available.
again provide North Campus response. We
Black noted that "the unive"ity community
will conti nue to work with the student org a- should acknowledge the dedicated and continunization on their future in th e months ahead."
ous service provided to UB through the yea" by
The decision not to reinstate BPVAC ser- Getzville Fire Company volunteers. Their invice, determined by a co mmi ttee made up creased support and presence this year has been
of university representatives, was based on a greatly appreciated and they will continue to
review process that included open mee tings service the campus for the duration of the year."
involving members of the UB community and
Black added that Public Safety, Residence
student members of the ambulance service . Halls, the Divis ion of Athletics and Health SerDuring the discussions, medical emerge ncy vices "continue to work together to ensure
and transportation needs and options were
that emergency medical coverage for the
~.explored and stud ents presented progress re- campus community remains at the highest
ports and future plans.
level of care available at all times."
Following • thorough review of operations and
reorganization efforts, a university review com-

-MARA McGINNIS, News ServiCes Editonol Asmtont

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- Sue Neumeister and Lort Wldzlnskl, UniVerSity Ltbroflel

DrieD
GSEAA lectures to explore
contemporary education issues
The Graduate School of Education Alumni A.r.sne~at1on t l.~l-. AA )
wi ll present two lectu res on contemporarY ISS Ue!&gt; m education
On March 26, Cathenne Emihcwich, associate professor ol coun
sel ing and educational psycholog)' and dtrectur ol the But ·
tala Research lnst 1tutl· on Education for Teachmg. w1ll
discus!~ "' Rcwnciling Contested DI!&gt;COur~t~:~o : The.• Cu ltural
Politics of School-Based Integrated ~·n:"f\' ICC!&lt;t ...11 4 p.m. m
21 X Baldy Hall , North Campu!&gt;. Shl· wtll examult' aspecb
of cu ltural politics that art!&lt;tl' when the deCISHln 1:- made UOI.ONA
to locate health se rviCes in school~ . Tht' talk will he free.·
The GSEAA Jb.o will host a breakfast at R J.m. &lt;ln Apnl J 111
P1stJCh1o·s on tht' seco nd tloor at the: Studen t l 'n10n on the Nonh
t :ampm. Th oma!~ l.u:kona. a devdopmt' ntal psychologt!ll and phlln
:-.m of education at CortJand State: Co llege , wtll he the guest spc:-..tl...t·l
Lickona conducts resea rch on the growth o l chi ldren ·s mor.tl rt'a
so n in g. His award-wmning book, .. Educaung lor Character:· ha_o, hl'l'tl
praised as the definillvt' work m the fidd .
The cost of the breakfast isS 10 for the general publit, S81ur t;.) l:AA
members and $6 for student.\. For reservations. caii64S -2 492

�l!B, bar owners focus on alcohol responsibility
11J sUI WUETOIUI
News

Services Associite Director

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WO groups that may appear to be strange bedfdlows-UB's Alcohol Review Board (ARB ) and
the Main Street Tavern Owners~ sociation- are working together to
maintain a safer community and
ensure that UB students who pa troni.ze off-campus bars and restaurants engage in legal and responsible consumption of alcohol
This oollaboration with local bar
owners is onJy one way the ARB
worlcs to provide a safe, healthy and
responsible environment for the
campus and the oommunity. The
board. a campus-wide committee
composed of faculty, staff and students that establishes and reviews
policies concerning the possession,
consurnptiob and sale of alooholic
beverages at UB, also is involved
with numerous campus organizations in a variety of projects. Among
them are the production of a video
on binge drinlr.ing, dew:lopment of
intervention and prevention programs, and the compilation and dissemination of research on drug and
aloohol consumption by students.

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.. We're looking at off-campus
establishments and on-campus
events to ~ that people arc being
responsible with what they are doing," said Sandra Fazekas, events
coordinator for the Center for the
Arts and a member of the ARB.
"Our task is to educate students
that they,don'~ neesJ 19 ~et &lt;jwnk
to be accepted by their peers."

Fazekas noted that the tavern
owners association is incorporat-

ing the Anheuser-Busch · orink
Responsibly" campaign into its

advertisements, and cooperating
in the im plementation of a "State-

ment of Understanding by Stude~t Organiz.ations Renting

Space" off-campus. Theclocummt
will assist ban and campus groups
in promotingresponsibleadvertising practiceo-&lt;:liminating the
"drink 'til you drop" ads, for example-and a safer environment
for student social events held offcampus, she said.
ARB also has created an Alcohol Responsible Rating Form to

evaluate events and establishments where alcohol is served, she

denu to recogniu the sigDS when
someonehasovm:loledooalcohol
aod to call for hdp, Krupski said
Calls for hdp in these situations
"will be taken into account," she
strased. "1beir lint priority a to
get the (bingeing) student hdp."
She said she hopes the video will
be finished in time to be used during orientation sessions for the &amp;11
semester.
"Mispercelved norms• a concern

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Student Heoltb Center bu initiatzd
the Student E.doatiooal Propam
for Aloobol aod Drup (SEPAD)~
Krupski, working with tr,.ljmeot provi&lt;;l&lt;n in the oommullitjl,
oonducts "highly interactiw" di&lt;.CUAion aessions on such topics as
binge drinking. alcohol.iJm, helping friends who are drinlr.ing, peruptions and marijuana use.
Studenu with serious drug and
alrohol problems are referred to
treatment agencies outside UB.
Krupski noted.thai SEPAD just
one program thai oomes under the

a

that is more geared toward college
students," she said.
The video under development
will feature UB studenu ages 1721 tallting about their own expesiences with bfuge drinking, she said.
The majority of deaths from
binge drinking come from "wellmeaning people who felt it was
best to let them (bingeing studenu) sleep it off," she said.
Moreover, students •tear that if
they call for help (for a friend) and
they are underage drinkers, they
will be busted," she added.
The video will encourage stu -

The ARB also concerned with
what Krupski and Sarah Bihr, director of the Student Health Center, called "misperc:eived norms,"
whereby students make behavioral
decisions based upon the perception that "everyone else is doingiL"
"Studmu don't recognize that
a majority of students on-campus
don't want alcohol and drugs at
their parties," Krupski said, pointing to statistics from the I 996-97
Statewide Core Survey that measured alcohol and other drug use
at tWO•alid four-year institutions
in New York State.
The ARB is planning, through
educational initiatives, to cin:ulate
statistics thal,sbowthe actual noons,
she said, adc,ling that the board also
may conduct its own oore survey at
UB "to get closer to borne."
These kinds of statistics should
show students that "alcohol and
d.:Up...; not eVerything and they
are not what everybody's doing,"
Krupski said. "If more students
hear this, then maybe they won't
try to liy ull !f&gt; the, eq&gt;c;etatjon•
that getting dnwlt part of the •
student experience.
However, for studenu who do
violate the university's drug and alcohol policies, as .wdl as for others
who are loolc!-ng for education on ,
aloobol-aod-drug-rdated issues, the

professor of mechanicaJ and aerospace engineering, said technical
support is critical for the stra t~
to work. Many of her coJJeagues
around the country have places on
their campuses where they can get
advice about incorporating com pu ter technology into th eir
courses.
.. , don't see that here. It 's a ma jor downfall , and it has to be in this
proposal someplace ," she said.
Pr ovos t Thomas Headrick
agree d that technical support,
along with connectivity-.. we
ca n't have people not being able
to connect" from off ca mpus at
peak usage tim es-are key issues
to be addressed.
"This university has not been
very good at that (providing tech nical support ), up to this point,"
he acknowledged. But if increasM
reso urces are needed to provide
the kind of technical support that
faculty members and student s
need, .. that means we're going to
have to take resources out of existing places and reallocate tliem
to this. if it's a priority, then every
school is going to have to contribute in so me way," he said.
Headrick
under sco red
Tufariello's com m~nts about the
impO rt ance of faculty involv~ ­
ment , noting that if students are
told that UB is an institution that

places a priority on the use of puting and technology. "W)lat
computers in education, and they we're talking about is bow wt!. ~ :
take five courses the first semester f.u=ulty interact with our students. '
of their freshman year and not one We're tallting about how we teach,
course requi res any work on a what it means to be a teacher .. ,._." ,
computer, .. we're not going te be
Pointing out that teaching~ an
issue that "falls squarely within_tbe
living up to our reputation.
"We've got to have the faculty on province of the Faculty Senate ... I
board, particularly in the fresh- really believe that we as a Faculty
man year of courses, usi ng the Senate must take a position on this
compu'ter and having their stu- and we must examine this issue
dents use it, across .the campus," very closely and speak out
··~~z
Headrick emphasized. " It can't be st rongly," he said.
just in the sciences and engineerMeacham introduced a dr~
ing. It's got to be acrQ~ the cam - resolution for the senate's conJ~
pus.
~ration that urges the UB admirijack Meacham, professor of psy- istration to consider the ..central
chology. told senators that for four role" that the faculty must play ir). .
or five years he has been using implementing student access to
computers in a variety of ways in computing, to provide guidance
teaching classes as large as 250 stu- and assistance to all students who
dents. '"I'm convinced this is the seek to purchase a computer and
way to go,• he said. "I think I'm a to assign a '"high priority" to movbetter teacher and my teaching is ing forward with student access to
more efficient."
computing.
He noted that the use of tech The resolution will come befort
nology in his classes by students is the senate for a vote at its next
"o nly voluntary" to earn extra meeting on April 8.
credit ...1 can't make this a requireIn other business. the s~nate
ment for all the students in tht approvtd for a second time a resoclass because I can't trust that all lution establishing procedures for
the students in the dass have equal review of major reorganizations of
access to computing," he said ... But academic units. The resolution
I expect to be able to do that some- had been approved at the body's
time soon.•
Feb. 4 meeting, but the vote was
He said the issu~ before the sen - disallowed because the senate had
ate was not so much about com- . lost its quorum .

said, adding that a pilot program
testing use ofthe form will be introduced for the fall semester.
The board ia working with Public Safety, Student Life, the Counseling Center, Student Health Center and the Inter-Greek Oflia to
develop a video to educate studenu

about the seriousness of binge
drinking, said Laurie Krupski, an
intervmtion specialist with the Student Health Center.
Video to tMget college students
Krupski noted that although UB

already has acquired ·a video
thro_ugh RID (Remove Intoxicated
Drivers), its target audience is parents ... It's good, but we need one

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auspk:es oi the Wdlnesa--Based Prevmtion aod lntervmtion Program,
which advocates alternativa to the
use of drugs and ala&gt;bol, and&gt;¥1tempu to foster "an enviroomhtt
in which penonal growth, healthy
choices and positive rommuoity
values are encouraged."

Other - . prognms
In add ition to SEPAD, other
programs indude POWER (Peers
Offering Wdlness, Education aod
Resouras) advocates, studeou affiliated with the Living Well Center at UB who promote wdloess
to their peers_by conducting workshops and other outreach p.ro-grams. Natural High Evenu are
on -campus recreational eveDts
tbat • promote alternatives to
harmful behaviors." The Wdlness
Council
group of faculty, &lt;WI
and students that contributes to
major wellness programs and
events on-campus.
UB's Wd4Jess-llased Prevention
and 'Intervention Program j:las
been induded in the George Ma- ·
son University sourcebook,
"Promising Practices: Campus Al cohol Strategies," a compilation of
drug-and-alcohol strategies from
universities nationwide.

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options to aid students in purchasing their units.
Tufariello noJed that the subcommittee had originally set a target date of Fall I 999 for full implementation of the st rategy, but had
pushed it back to Fall 2000.
But members of the Faculty
Sena te Executive Commi tt ee
urged him to push th.e do:tte fof·
ward to 1999, and the subcommit ·
tee is now ta rgeting that dat e, he
said.
In the meantime, several
projects will be unde rtaken this
fall, including a major upgrade of
th e public computer labo ratories,
increasing the modem pool so users who are tryi ng to get into the
UB system from off campus " will
be able to do so more readily .. and
pilot computer-access projects in
th e School of Health Related Professions and the Department of
Computer Scienu.
William George , professor of
mechanical and aerospace engi ·
neering, to ld Tufariello his only
regret was "that we didn't do this
I 0 years ago when our competi tion was doing it. I think we've
suffered for that." He noted that
Clarkson University implemented
a simi lar strategy in the mid·
1980s.
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March 26 on Greek Blues

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economic culturaJ colonialism by

more technologically adept na-

ORE tban 400
scholanofintemational and com·
parative education
from 30 nations are meeting in
Buffalo tbis week for the 1998
World Education Conference
sponsored by the Comparative
and International Education Society. The conference, • &amp;ringing
Culture Back In: Education in
Context," began yesterday and will
continue through Sunday in the
Hyatt Resency Buffalo.
Hosted by the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in
Ed.ti~U~tion in the Graduate School
of Education, it will feature preS&lt;Oiftions by noted scholan and
scores of workshops and panels by
comparative education researchers.
William Cummings, a professor
of ~omparative education and director of the center who is one of
the most highly regarded scholar&gt;
in his field, said conference speakers, workshops and debates will
explore ways in which culture and
education interact to define and
change the nature of a country's

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domestic

and

tions.'"

In addition to the featured presentations, the conferenu will offer more than SO research presentations on topics ranging from

changes in girls' educatiqn in ru ral China to social cartosraphy
and cyberspau. Educational deuntraliution in Argentina, Brazil
and Mexico will be considered,
along with discussions of education and national identity, gender
and empowerment, and ~slamic

educational leaders.
Workshops will consider therelationship between education, social change and gender differences,
long a concern of researchers in
comparative education; issues and

tion; international and civic edu cation.and teaching; teacher edu cation, and curriculum develop ·
ment.·
A panel discussion of another
controversial topic in many cuJtun~s. "'Religious and Secular Prin ciples in the Modernization of
Education," will be presented at
noon on Saturday. The panelists
will be noted scholar of com para·

tive retigion Professor Abe Yoshya,
Shinto Kokugakuin University.

Tokyo; Ibrahim Ahmad Rajunid,
director of the ln stit ut Ami
Nneuden Baktt and one of
Malaysia's most important educa·
tors, and Sister Denise Roche ,

president of D'Youville College.
Buffalo.

uniYersftJ' Is conducting an outside eval uation of i ~ dining, ca tering, vending and retail sales offered to the campus commumty bv
the Faculty SIUdenl Association, Inc. (FSA). The evaluation, to be con ducted by Marriott Consulting, will analyze" data, consumer need and
satisfaction revJews, bendunarkrng agamst peer institutions, opcration5
and faciliti ~ audits and management structures.
The consultants will condua site visits, including.me&lt;ting. with key
campus &lt;DnStirucncics, surn:y ~and focus.group !Mows. The proc= ts
expected to provide UB with recommendations on aitical sua:ess fuctor&gt;.
customer satisfuction, industry Slandards, systems for improved serVIC&lt; de-

livc-y and COSI and budgeting modds for FSA and campus oonsiderauon.
Member&gt; of the unMrsity community with specific thoughts on campus
dining. catering. V&lt;nding and ....U S&lt;JVices to be ronsidered during the review should direct them by March 31 to james Nadbnuch, DivtSion of
Studenl Affair.. 408 Capen Hall, North Campus; phone 645-3048.

multiracial integration among international education systems," he
said, "and examine approaches to
colonialism, pos tcolonia lism,

Sciences networking ev.e.nt.
to be held Saturday
Iii

postmodemism and human rights
taken by educators in various na tions.
•Another area of research to be
discussed," he said, "is general educational development in countries
that now faco:e worldwide eco nomic competition, and at the
same time confront increasing

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'The Sdences Alumni Auo cbrillo n will hold its second annual Net ·

working in the Sciences event Saturday in the Student Union Social
Hall. )'be event, designed to bring students together with scienu and
math alumni, will include a lecture, panel discussion and informal
roundtable discussions, allied by alumni. Staff from the Offices of Ca·
reer Planning and Placement wiU counsel stud~ts on rtsume writing,
job hunting and sraduate school. The Office of Alumni Relations will
provide tips to help students network with alumni. James Gerland, a
staff member and UB alumnus, will give a presentation at II a.m. on
"Using the lnoemet as Part of Your Job Search."
For more information, contact Cindy NydahJ at 645·2531 or at
cnydahl@acs u.buffalo.edu or view the SAA homepage ( h ttp://
wtngs.buffolo.edu/fnsm/ Alumni ).

Events calendar

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Exhibits

Graduating seok&gt;rs in the Art
Department exhibit thetr exctt1ng new

~~r~~.i~~~~~-~ntmaklng,

computer art and communication
dWgn. Exhlbit in the UB Art Callery ruru
to March 20. Gallery houn are 'Ned •
Sat., 10:30 a .m .•B p.m .; Sun .• NoonS p.m .

W

North Campus wi1h the lecture "Women's Tean and
The Politics of Grief" by Gail Holst-Warhaft. professor
of classics at Comdl University and the author of a book
on that subject. "Dangerous Voices" (London 1996). Th&lt;
lecture will be foUowed by a musical performance.
At 5 p.m.. Holst-Warhaft will presenl a sc:rt&lt;ning of"~ the
Blues of Greece," her film documentary about the music that turned the
world on to traditional Greek fOrms of music and dana. Th&lt; movie,dim:ted
by Philippe de Montigny and narrated by Anthony Quinn, features
Sotiria Bellou, th~ lat~ Rmtbetika singer. the Rembrtilci Koumpama. a
popular traditional perforrnancr group; Mikis Th&lt;odorakis, whose mUSIC
is featured in "Zorba the Greek," and Greek singer Mariz.a Koch.

Th;e

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sics will present a program on March 26 about the-fascinating relationship between "Rembetika"---&lt;~ Greek blues form--&lt;md the ancient lam·
entations of women. The program will begin at 3 p.m. in the Screening
Room (Room 112 ) in the Center for the Arts on the

Outside evaluation of FSA
food services to be conducted

practiu in multicultural educa-

stnaggles in many realms.
.. T-h~ will discuss, for instance,
the degree of multiethnic and

IA&lt;bon
Rocondllng Contested Dlscounes'
The Cullurall'oltlcs at ~sed

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rrhe Peter Halley Project. " a series of
lompora'J' publk an projecls ~ned

to engage the university community in a
dialogue lbout conte-nporary art and
ts.soes, is on disp4ay in the Center for the

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ofteftd on lune 5 in the Center lOt
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o n campus to meet existing demand ," findmg that Nun proved child care
was an extremely urgent priorit y for women of all UB co nstituen cies."
The task force's report identified a North Campus day -care center as "a
very pressing need."
The day-care issue "1s especiall)' 1mportant because day care 1s an
a menity that affects aU members of the comm umt y. men as well as
women," added Bernice Noble, professor of mi crob1ology and co-cha1r
of the task force.
The new center wiU feature two infant rooms, servmg chtldren from
ages 6 weeks to 18 months; rwo toddJer rooms, servmg children ages 18
months to 3 years. and one pre -school room for children 3-5 years of age.
Tamar Meyer. director of th e South Campus u•ntcr who also will
oversee the North Campus Site, noted that about half of the slots at the
new center will be fiJJed by families who choose to transfer thc1r lh1l
dren from the South Ca mpu s center. The rcst of the slob. and Jva1lable
slots at the South Cam pus site , w11l he filled bv tarmhe~ whn arl' on a
waiting list. About I 00 fami lies art&gt; on the waJtm~ h~t
Tuition costs at the centl·r are based on a ~hdmg lt"1.' 'l.tk .md 'IHTlt·
financiaJ aid is available for studenb, M..-wr ~·J
Once the North Campus site i~ up and runnm~ , u·ntl'r nlfiuJI ' 1... 111
consider the poss ibtht )' of cxpandm~ &lt;;t' n llt'!l tn Lndudt• a11t·r , ... h\H\1
care and drop -an care, she ~.d .
The modular facilit)' will serve North Lunpu' lhiltl lJrt' nt·nh lo r
the next St"vcral yean•. Blad.. and Ll~~er ~td. whtl..- l o n~ tt•rm pld n' .H t'
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Friday the 13th. .. professors talk
about the origin of superstitions.

Marth 5.1!m/ti29. No.Z3

China
Night
Swirling scarves surround
Teena Huang, performing
a traditional Ribbon Dance
as the Chinese Student

event celebrated 4696,
the Year of the Tiger.

Energy conservation saves millions at UB
Report credits university's creative strategies with highest savings among campuses
By ELUN GOLDBAUM
News Services Editor

T

HE un iversity saves $9

million per year as a rcsuh
of its creati~ strategies for
energy conservation, ac
cording to a repon released tcxlay by
the National Wildlife Federation.
Of the 23 case studies at IS m stitutlons of higher educatton out
lined m the report , "Green Invest
ment , G reen Re turn : How Pra ct1
ca l Co nservation Projects Save
MiJiions on America's Campuses,"
US's energy -savmg prOJeCts dcm
onstrate the h1ghest annual re v
enues and savings.
The report•focuses on how con
servation projects at coUeges and
universities are proving that decis10ns
that are good for the environment
also can be good for the bon om line.
"Environmental co ncern is not
an afterthought at UB," sa1d Rob ert J. Wagner, semor vice prestdent.
"We are genuinely co mmitted to
environmental stewa rdship, lead ·
ership and excellence, and that
co mmitmenr has produced ex ·
tra~ordinary cost savings ."

The most criucal component of
UB's strategy is a $1 7 million en ·
ergy - management project laun ·
chcd 10 1994 through a partnersh tp
with CES/ Way International , a
Houston -based energy servlet com pany, and the locaJ electric utility,
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Wagner pointed out that 10 sharp
contrast to less expenstve,quick -fix
proJects. this package of ene rgy savmg measures, which has affected
vtrtuaUy every one of the 45 butld mgs on US's North Campus. took
a comprehenstve approach.
It has resulted 10 esttmatl."d an nua l savmgs ol $ 3 million . or
about a IS percent reductton 10
the $19 million UB pr eviOusly
!!pen t each year on ene rgy, a nd
about as much ene rgy savmgs as
th e university had achteved ovt·r
the prev10us I 0 yea rs th rough 1m
port ant , but piecemeal, efforts .
"Given that state resources W111
remain ught, this proJect gave us an
o pportuniry to reallocate on -cam
pus money that would otherw1.se be
required to pay our utility bills,"
Wagner satd ... It 'sa to tal wm -wm ."

T h e payba c k pertod for the
prOJeCt was only ) .76 years.
Fmane~al savtngs aren ' t th~~
pro)ett 's only benefit. It red u..:e!l
an nual UB energy - related eml!l
s1o ns of carbon d•oude by mo re
than 64 millio n pounds, su lfur d1
ox1de by 140,000 pounds and n• trou s oxtde by 11 4.000 pound!! .
Other money-saving envlronme n·
t•l lnltl•tlve s •t UB Include :

• A new ca mpu s energy po ltt \' 1n
the emerg•n g deregulated market
for electn c powl'f that calls fo rm ·
no vattve purchas mg ontral'b that
huy power lrom env•ronmcn tallv
clean so ur ces. Inc o rporat e~ en
ergy-con!lerva tt on !&gt;c rvtd'!&gt; .tnd
avo ad ~ rate str ut·tures that mtght
t Ompromi!!C L1R\ enl'fgv -u&gt;n scr
vat1on cffor1.s.
• A "green co m puling" awarc-nt·~!l
cO\mpaign a1med at reductng bv
nearly half the $400,000 th e u nl ve rsllv spends each year to power
co mputer s. manv o f w h1 ch are
turned on - but no t m use- for
most of the day.
• The establishment oi tempera
tu re sett •n g!l lor un1vers1h' hudd

tngs (68 degree !! Fahrenhe11 m
Winter and 76 degrees tn su mmer ).
US 's experience h as shown that a
!l mgle degree of healing o r cool
1ng durmg o ne year can am oun1
to sav mgs of S 100,000 o r more.
Wagner added tha t UB's expe
nence savmg money through en ·
v1 ron m ental reforms ha s gener
ated tnteres t m thC' Western New
York co mmunity.
After undergraduate studems tn
.1n e n v•ronmental -studtes class
LonJucted an a ud11 of 1he ways
that the un•verstty 's two campuses
affect the envtro nmen t , the Buffalo Co mmon ( .o unnl requested
that o;; tudent s co ndu ct a s1milar
st udy of Buffalo C ily Hal l.
That audtt. completed last year,
•Jcnllfied $10,000 tn potenual cost
sa vmgs thro~.Jgh more &lt;!;ggressive
reqchng and S 12.000 m savmgs
throu~h th e pu rchase of recycled
paper
Th1!! semester, LIB students have
teamed ur Wtth Stud entS at
Buffalo's llutchmson Central Tech n•c.a1 H1gh School to co nduct an
ennronmental audil at the school

Family Medicine funds its own foundation
By LOIS BAKU:

News Services Editor

T

AK ING it s cue from the
adage , " If you want a JOb
done right , do it yourself," faculty members m
the Oepartment of Family Medi ·
cine , using deductions from the1r
own paychecks , have started a
foundation to support work thev
think is important, but for whiCh
fu nding is not available .
"There is no 'National Institut e
of Primary Ca re,'" sa1d Th omas C.
Rosenthal, professor and cha1r of
the depan ment. "Gett ing fundmg
fo r basic p rim ary-ca re h ealth -ser-

VICes resea rch or for small start -up
pro,ects to help new faculty estah
ltsh a rt"co rd IS ext remely hard
"We tned to thmk of a wav to
accomplish the things cons is tent
w1th o ur m1 ssio n . like co mmu
niry-o utreach pro,ects, as well as
famdy -medKme resea rch . Rut we
co uldn 't spend stat e o r hospital
dollars, and we couldn 't tax our
selves, so we deCided to start a
foundatiOn to whtch we co uld
contribute. With budget cuts from
the state. we'll have to take more"
responsibility for ou r own future ."
The Family MediCine Founda uon was established last June , with

the hdp o f the UB FoundatiOn . a!&gt;
a wav fnr the departmC"nt tn help
lt,cJI 'vVord o;;oon Ci rc ulated
ihr o u ~h 1he familv - m ed !Cine
tn mmunltV , and bv vear 's end .
there was SlO.OOO m the bank. The
loundat1nn rece tvt"S more than
SSOO a m o nth m pavroll deduc tiOns from fac ult v member!', and
15 hopmg to generate support from
commun1ty -based family phys•
uans and corporations.
Ravmond Bissonene. assoCiate
professor of family medi cine a nd
dtrector o f the new foundat ion.
named several projects the foun datiOn IS co nsidering for fundmg.

The hs1 mdudes a professo rship
in pn marv · care educa tiOn or re
st"arch , a mediCal -ed u ca tiOn spe
\. lahst to help develop curnculum ,
outf1111ng exam rooms tn
undcrserved commumttes. finan
oal support for cross · cuhural res1
den cy tra1ntng , grants to send
medtcal students to work wtth ru
raJ a nd urban underserved popu
lauons and money to pay Stipends
to phys1cians to supervtse mediCal
stud ent s and restdents who want
to work at Vivt, the Buffalo center
for refugees, a nd o th er co mmu
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How did you get Into a field
of study like Intergroup cooperation and conflict?

A professor of mine m graduate
school on ce sa1d that we all re )earch our hang -ups. While has
remark was tongue -In -cheek, I
thmk there 1s some truth to 1t. I
came of age 10 the '60s. It was a
t1me of connict between all kinds

of groups: hawks and doves, integratJ OOISIS and segregationists.
fem1n 1sts and chauvin ists. you
name: 11 . I thtnk my Interest m re latJons between groups comes out
of thts envtronment.
How are "Intergroup cooper•·
tlon " and " conflict " defined?

We alltdenttfy wtth vanous soc1al
groups Some of these are demo graphK an nature ( Latmo , female,
generation X). some are career or
functiona lly onented (accountant,
mustCtan. pastor) . lntergroup con fliCt occurs when the tnterests of
one or mo re groups are blocked by
the tntt&gt;rests of another. Inter ·
group cooperatton, then , IS when
people feel that t he tnt e rests o f
the1r group an• not precluded by
another. Defined tn tht!t way. we
can see that conflKl does not nec rssarily mvolve threat!» or overt
hostility- It can range from mt
nor disagreements to outright e(
forts to dt:stroy the other part)'
What 's the se&lt;ret to getting
groups to worlt together?

Well, thas requ~res flexibility, cre at iVIt)' and the willingness to
change. The first step is to rid one
self of et hnocentnsm- tht' atti tude that the goals, values and be
hefs of one 's own group art.• supe rior to all others. This creates th e

possibihty that there may bt" more
than one valid way to view the
world . The neXl step IS to recog nize differences betwun groupsparticularly in terms of goals, val ues and beliefs-understand why
these differences exist and respect
different points of view. Finally,
gro ups learn to accept and even
Incorporate other values and be liefs into their own world view to
create an environment where the
interests of aiJ parties can be ac commodated.
Is conflict In the worltplace on
the Increase?

I don't know that con Diet as a gen eral phenomenon is on the in crease. There has always been con flict over scarce resources, for ex·
ample. However, I do know that
the workplace is becoming m creasing ly diverse, and diverse
people by their very nature have
more differences than a homoge neous group. This certainly creates
more opportunity for conflict.

What 's the maJor cause of
conflict In the worltplace today7
When I thank of confliCt 10 today 's
workplace, I think of two things:
tncreasing diversity and increasing
emphasis on team -based organi zatiOnal structures where people
have to mteract closely with oth ers who may be very different from
themselves.
What are some of the techniques you 've learned for defusing conflict?
We know that mtergroup confhct

mcreases when individuals focus
on group bounda ries. This focus
engenders social comparisons that

a!tk .. are you hke me o r not !Jke
me?" So most of the techmques w~:
look at involve decreastng the sa lience or relevance of group
boundaries. We do this by focus ing on superordinate goals that
require the cooperation of both
groups to accomplish, creating a
superordinate group that encom passes all subo rdinate groups as
equal and full members, or ratsing awareness of group memberships that cut across various group
boundaries and tie people to gether.
What Is the con.1equence to
an organization that falls to
address conflkt wtthln the
workplace?
When an organization fails to
manage conflict, it runs the risk of
escalation. When confljct escalates,
it involves increasing levels of distrust and hostility, decreased com munication, greater polarization
between groups on an increasing
number of issues, growth in the
use of coercive tactics, ext remism
in demands and the spread of con flict by enlisting other parues to
take sides.
Is conflict In the wortr.place al -

ways bad?
Beheve 11 or not, the answer ts "no:·
Moderate levels of confl1ct lead to
1m proved quality of decisaons and
stimuJation of creativi ty and innovation. C onflict can encourage
employee motivation , tnterest and
curiosity, as well as foster an envi ronment of self improvement and
organizational adaptation . The
key is to manage the conflict so
that the o rgan ization receives the
benefit of increased performance,

not the dysfunctional
that accompany uncontrolled
confl1ct.
What are some of the slgnJ
that conflict Is cauilng
trouble whhln an organtu.Uon1
In orgamzatlonal behav1or wt
always look at decreased employee satisfaction, decreased
organizational commitment,
increased absenteeism, higher
turn over and lower produaivity.
Why Is there such • big emphasis on teaching professionals to worlt cooper•tlve1y7
Orgamzauons have changed.
The current trend toward "horizontal" organizations, when~
work is orgamu:d around coreprocesses, rather than tradiuonal functions (e.g., account1
ing, marketing, R&amp;D, manufacturing), means that people have
to move out of dleir comfortable "silos" where everyone
thinks just lib· them and into
cross-functional teams. This requues skills in working cooperatively Wlth people who set
t.he world in very different W3f1lncreasing demographic diver·
stty tn the Amencan workf&lt;&gt;rcc,· -11•
as another reason. as Is the
ternationalization of the marketplace.
What's something people
don 't know about you and
should?

I am a total Wlffip when It comes
to dealing with conflict in my
own life and tend to avo1d it at
all costs!

Executive MBA program: training top managers
By JOHN DEllA CONTliADA
Reporter Contributor

A

S CH IEF finanoal of·

ficer of a growing
Blasdell-based environ ment a 1- cons u It in g
firm, Thomas Elsi nghorst felt the
ne ed to "expa nd hi s co rp orate
toolbox" tn o rder to help his com pany expand itS market niche .
So in 1996. he. along with 38 other
Wes,em New Yo rk executives with
similar goals, enrolled in the Execu uve MBA ( EMBA) program in the
School of Management-an mten sive, 22 -month program designed
for executives with the potential to
assume top managerial positions
within their organizanons.
Today, fJsinghorst is dose to com pleting his MBA degree , and h1s
employer, Niagara Fronuer Consuh
ing Services, has developed new
nrategies for marketing 1t.s services
to the residential -home- market, Ul
addition to Its traditional mdustnal
and muniopal ci.Jentele . ..As CFO. I
have expertise in a certain set of skills,
but I needed a larger set of skills to I&gt;&lt;
of greater value to my company,"
Elsinghorst says. ""The E=:utivt" MBA
program helped me beoome far more

analytical and understand 1ssues
outside of my comfort zone."
like Elsinghorst, more executives
today are feeling the need to upgrade or develop new skiUs so that
they can have a greater impact on
the success of their organizations
and move up the corporate ladder.
And with the economy in good
health, more companies are will ing to foot the bill for e.xecutive
training programs because they
now feel compelled to restock with
top talent after years of
downsizing . It 's more cost -effi .
cient to groom existing cxec:uttves
than to hire new talent.
In a recent 8UStness ~ magazuu·
survey of corporate- human -re50urce
executJves. 42 percent satd they wert"
sending more people to busmessschool executave programs than five
years ago. Sixty-two percent ctted a
new emphasis on management de
velopment as a marn reason..
In Western New York, thiS tren d
has resulted m more Lhan 100 ex ecutives enrollan g tn the UB pro gram smce 11 was established 10
1994. Praxatr, Alhed Signal. Amen can Brass, RJCh Produds. Mannt'
M1dland. F1sher -Price and M&amp;T

Bank are JUSt some of the area firms
that have enrolled their best managers in the program at a tuition
cost of S30,000 per student, which
mdudes books, tutoring and meals.
But it's not Jml executives from bigname companies that have partio -

For marketmg manager
Jean Bush, the corrunitment
employer. Fisher-Price, to
gram w&lt;U evident right
start. Fishe:r-Pria even

pated; execs from smaller organizations like Rosina Food Products,
Tzrno Bros.• Mills Wdding Supply.

Fiberite, Bennen ElectricaJ Contractors and th e United Way of Buffalo
&amp; Erie County have enroUed.

"Tht&gt; average student has 13 years
of management expenena and earns
an annual salary of between SSO.OOO
and S I SO.OOO.'" says Courtney Walsh.
EMBA execuove dtrea.or.
The cumculwn ~ deggned to go
I"')Und theory and into strategic busi·
ness applicauons and complex man agement lSSues that confront execu -

uves and employers. Faculty with the
h1ghest level of real-world manage-

ment expernse teach therourses.. "Our
students expect to I&gt;&lt; challenged and
they exp«t to add substanual value
to the:rr employers as a result of thor
cou=work,"" says EMBA Faculty Di·
rector Frank Knystofiak. an assoa ·
ate professor of organazatlon and
human resources .

ecutives with the tools to
only the issues that confront
today, but also those that will
front them I 0 years from now."

�March 5. 1998/VoiZ9.1il.13 Reporter

13

UUP members to get increase Aprill BrieBy
EMBER5ofUmted
University Profes·
sion s wil l receive a

percent 1n c rease took effect ,
stres.w:i fllen M c Namara. assiStant
via president for human resources.

3.5 percent acrossthe-board salary increase in thear

Although some SUNY campuses
will award discretionary increases in
the paycheck of March I8, Ull will
award the increase in May to allow

M

April I paychecks, Seni o r Vace
President Robert 1. Wagner an nounced this week.

The in crease will be retroactive
to Dec. 25, 1997 for calendar-year
m~ployccs, retroacuvc to Jan. 17,
1998 fo r academic 10- m o nth cm -

ploye~s paid over 2 1 pay periods,
and retroactive to Ma rch 5, 1998

for academic 10- mo nth employtc:S pa ad over 26 pay pcnod s.
UU P members who are selected
to

rccezvc discretio na ry salary

In -

creases in the fir st pool of m o n ey
available under the recentJy senled
contract agreem e n t wJth the state
will see that money 10 the pav

check of Ma y 13.
The discretio na ry payment

w,IJ

bt rct roacttve to July I, 1997 for c., ]
mdar-year employt.-es. retruact JVf to
Aug. 21. 1997 for acadc m1 c 10·
month t:mployt'es pa.~d over 2.1 pay
pe:nods. and retrnadJve to Sept. I,
1997 ror acadcmu.. 10-mont h ern
ployee, pa1d over 2b pay pe n oJ~
' Th o~t: receiving d• scret1 onarv
mcrt&gt;as.e~. wh iCh a re addl·d tu th t•
base salary, w1JI have tbt' l C:, per
ctnt • mrl·a~e rt"lalcul trd on th e
ntw hast' salary, wuh e!roact!VItv
appil('d, Sl..l tha i " nu le w11l lose
mom:\' .. h&lt;·ca use .the d1 et 1onano
monev was p;u d nut .1fte the 'c:,

the uruversity tlme to address the
issue of salary equity for women
and/or nuno rities in response to lSsues r.aised by the President 's Task
Fora on Women, McNamara said.
Equ1ty always has been one en ·
tenon for th e awarding of d1scre ·
ll o na r y tncreases, 1n addition to
ment , but th1s yea r salary equity
will be looked at more closely. she
explam ed. M e nt wlll remam a cn ·
ten o n fo r th e awa rd , s he noted ,
and all em ployees 1n a_UU P-rep
resent ed title and on the payro ll as
of June 30. 1997 w11l be e Lgtbl e for
d1sc re t1onar y sala ry tncreases.
Data on mean and medtan sala m.-s for ranks. L1tJes and salary grades
for members of tht facuJry and professio nal staff have been developed
to prov1de a gUidclme for equ1t y. The
data are scheduled to he available m
the depart m ents aft er March 9
McNamara pomted out that thl·
dl:-.c rt·lu1 narv mo ncy- total1ng I
perct'"nl of tht' Ju ne JU. 1997 pav
mll-1s the first ol three pools ol
dtscrc:tJunary money prov1ded lnr 111
the contrad . wh1ch runs from lu1 v
2. 1995 through lu lv I, IIJ91J l--or
pl.tnnmg purpost-s. the thret: ~·p.1
roue po(ll!iiof dJscrrttonarv mnntv-

a tota1 of about S4 million across the

university- will allow those respon sible for making discretionary-salary increaR recommendations to
consider changes in an mdividuaJ 's
salary ovtr the three discretionary

pools, McNamara saui
She added that based upon rec ·
o mmendati o ns developed by th e
Discretionary Work Gro up to adciRss salary equity. admirustrators
are to judge the appropriate salary
needed for each woman or mmor
tty in their units to achieve equuy
with coUeagu es of similar rank, and
develop a plan usmg the total3 per-

cent discreuonarypool. The emphaSIS m the evaJuation, she noted, is to
be o n performance and accomplish me.m, no t a formuJaic adjustment.
For example, an administrator
may choose to give a UUP m ember
o ne award m each o f the t,hree d.Jscrettonary m creases, or to make th e
d1scret10nary salary adjustment Ln
only one or two o f the three discretiOnary payments between now and
July I, 1999, McNamara sa1d .
She also no ted that. unlike m
past yt·a rs, there will be no mini mum or max1mum amount s for
md1v1d ua l discre tiO nary awa rds
LJUP members can self-nommate
tur !.he awards. and letters de54..Jibmg
!.he process will be mailed to mdrv1dual
members next Wt'Ck. she addc..-d. Self
nonunan&lt;v·s arc due tosupt&gt;rVJSOn- h~
March 27, Wlth awards bemg dL~ rih
utcd m the pavcheck of Mav I \

Sponsored Programs office
proposed for South Campus m
.,. SUE WUETCHER
~ Service~

Anooa te 01 re&lt;tor

PENIN G a full -lim&lt;

O

satellite office fo r Spon sored Programs on the
South Ca m pus cou ld
bdp address the recent decline in re!&lt;aTCh funding at UB,a Faculty Senair co mmittee has recommended.
O ther suggestions p rese nted to
tht Fac uJty Senate Ex~-utivc Com mtttec o n Feb. 25 by the senate's
Comm lttet:" o n Research and Cre ative Activity included establishing
a mento n ng program for jun ior
f.acuhy and encouraging the p resi dent . provost and deans to "clearly
and more frequently e nunc ia te "
tht value of the uniVe rsi t y's re arch a nd scholarly m iss1o n .
The reco m m enda t ions w e r e
prrparcd by the co mmlllce in re sponse to a c harge from the FSEC
last fa ll to 1den11fy factors unde r lymg the downturn 1n resea rc h
rrvrn uc at U B and to reco mme nd
actions to reverse th e t rend .
The charge came tn the wake ol
areport to th e FSEC on Oct . 22
Dale M . Landa, vice p res1dent
for resea rch, that resea rch p ropos
genera ted at U B had declined
6 percent b e twee n 1991 a nd
996, and that dunng tha t tim e.
8 fa c ulty m e mbe rs had le ft the
univers it y, taktng With them $8.7
· ho n in resea rc h fund 1ng .....
Rober1 Baie r. professor of o ral dJ
agnostic saences and cha1r of tht·
mmmee on Research and C re
ltivr Activity, told sena tors that sta
· tics supph ed by Landi 's o ffi ce

have md!Ca ted that .. most of the
quantitauvedown tum an cash How"
from sponsored acttVlty 15m the aca
demic portion of the life sc1e nces.
The commmee fell that estabLsh tng a "pe rmanent presence" ror
Sponsored Programs on the South
Campus mtght facilhate proposal
writing and o ther activtty. Baier satd_
Some members of the commit
tee also felt a mentonng program
sho uJd be established fo r JUnior fac
ulry wit4in depanmcnts and acros.\
traditional academ1c umts so tha1
those facu lty members "who know
how to shake the money tree "' can
help JuniOr facul ty members to 1den

ufy grant money and Jearn th&lt; paruculars of proposal writmg. he saJd.
Landi describc:-d .. ways in wh1ch
Sponsored Programs l5 attemptmg to

assist faculty members, including pro
vtding infonnauon on funding opportunities and budgeting on its Web sue
(http,//wlngs.buffolo.edu/ spa l
and offering trainingSCSSloru fo r small
umts or group5 of furulty members.
He also no ted tha t ma.Jl)' federaJ
agcnL1es are aUowmg for electronll
s ubm• s.~ • on of resea rch proposals
The Nauonallnst1tutes of Health 1:-.
"'shakmg the kmb out'" o l lb dCt.
lrOnll appht.at1on submlSSIOil pro
ces.o. a.ndwuld Slar1 tak.ingei&lt;"C1ronl\
~ ubm15SIOn5 hy the fall. he sa1d
"'Ou r plan 1:t to be 111 gear w1 th
thdt herr"o;o that fac ult v member '
~.an usc th e sys tem . he sa1d
Herhen ~c hu el. profes:tO I ol
ana lom11..JI :tl.. lCill..r~ . applaudl·d
the re(on un c nda u o n to c:-stab lis h
a Spo nsored Prog rams offi\· t~ on

the Sou th Lampu:t. callmg the ab
sence of an office on the So uth
Campus, as well as the " reluctance '"
of the t\lorth Ca mpus office to stay
o pe n after 5 p.m .. "a maJOr 1rntant
w hen yo u' re str ugglm g to gel .1
gran! ap pll ca u on o ut o n ttme"
Land1 re mtn dcd senators thdt
~pon so r ed Programs d1d have a
pan-lime sa 1el li te ofti (e o n th e
~o uth Ca mp u.s a few years. ago, but
1t "didn 't get much pl ay"
However, cstabhshmg a permd
nent South &lt;...ampus office " 1s worth
looking mto," he acknowledged
Jack Meacham , professor of psv
chology. suggested a scc nano m
wtuch a faculty m ember has an 1dea
for a resea rch p rOJect that would
only need SSO,OOO m fundmg . but
wouJd not seem credible to a fund
mg agency because the am o un1 wa.'&gt;
so small. "So what 's needed IS some
kmd of packagmg and b ro kcnng."
he:- sa1d. "\&lt;\'hat we need IS S(Ulll'thmg
hke the dating S('("tlon m 71u· But
falo NPWs a hot sheet Wlth hlod.
ads" hnkmg facultv memlx·r, ""-'lth
po1e n11al r~ch partnt:rs nr l'qUlp
mcnt. Three or four o;ma.ll prop._1,
als nught make a VlT\' lfl'd1ble $1
nuU1o n o r S2 rmll11•n 111 $\ md\Jtm
pro1eC1." he !o3ld
l.and1 sa1d h1~ ~ )lliu• I' Y..'llbng h i
•.unmge fo r memor' to .t!o~tst nwo
ugator!l. The oflke h.l5 seed mone'
lor sma ll pro)e...t:t , a lth ou~h 11 1'
mmpetJtrve. ht· S31d, as well a,, a dL,
l..n'tlonan' rool t(tfundsmall pro1n1.,
rhal come up outs1dt- the almpt"llltvt'
lvde. hut stlUmcnt fund m ~

No Reporter Next Week

The Reporter wUJ not publish next week due to Sp n ng Break. The
next 1ssue will be publish ed March 19

"Donnie Brasco" to speak
at UB on March 27
Joseph D. Pistone, the FB I agent who mfiltratcd th e Bonanno cnme
family in N~York C ity as Jewel thlef .. Donme Brasco." will speak al 8
p.m . on March 27 tn th e Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
T he lecture will be presen ted by the Umverstty Un1on Acttvlttes Board
m conJu nction wiJ_h th e C nmmaJ Law Soctety in the School of Law.
Posing as "Donnte Brasco," Ptsto ne ca rri ed out th e m ost auda ·
CIOUS st ing operation eve r, working undercover fo r SLX yea rs to mfil
trate the flam boya nt and deadly co mmumry of orgamzed c n me sol
d1ers ... con nected guys,"' captams a nd .. godfathers."
P1stone's testimony led to more than 200 federal md Ktment5
and more than 100 conviCt io ns o f mob figures. So tho rough wa:,
Pistone's cover that th e New York C it y Pohce Department actually
listed him as a m e mbe r of the Bonanno cr ime fami ly
In h1slecture, Pistone will reveal the jeaJously guarded world he
penetrated, bnngmg to life the world of the "' w1Segu )'5 " then code
of ho n o r, lavish spending and dt rty dealmgs--and drawmg a chtlhng
p1ct ure of what the Mafia IS, does and meam m Amenca today
P1stone ts the author of the bcst · sdiJng autob iography. "Do nn•c:B r asco~ My Unde rcove r L1fe m the Mafia ." H1 s story W.l!i made mrn a
ma1o r m o t1on picture starrmg Johnn) Depp.
The cost of llcket s lo r the lecture, whu..h Jr(· no Yo. on '.tk areS\
and )5 for student!! and $Sand $10 for tht' general pubhl '-lludc:-nl
ll(ket ~ are avai lable at the(. en tt'l for tht&gt; Art:t hox ofli1..l' .md .Jt the
StuJe nt Umon t!Ckt-t offi~.,c T,d,et~ fnr tht• g:l·ncr.tl publi l art'" .1vad
dblc .11 th e Center (or th t' A.rh bo:\ olhu: . thl· '-l tudcnt l 1nH1n ud.. rt
offiu:· a nd &lt;ill T1cketma&lt;;ter lol..dtltHh

Ho norary Degree Committee
seeks no minatio ns
The untvenlty-wide Honorary Degree Committee ~~ 50\Kittng n(lllll
nauons of exemplary personsmthe f1elds of pubhc affrur:t, the soences.
human ities and the art~. scholarship and l'ducallnn, hui&gt;mess and ph1
lan thropy, and soctal SCCVI'-f.~ to be cono;.1dered for dn honorarv degree
from the ~tate Umvers1tv ol New York. The honora rv doc1orate 1-" the
tughest ho nor the Sta te Un1vers•ty t:a n llt'stow for mentonous .1nd out
~ l a ndm g serv1ce to humamtv at la rge
Ehgibi lu y for nommat1on t:t rt·stn ctcd to p(.'rsons of ~ latt' , natwna!
or 1nte rnatumal statu re Nnmmec:t who have made extrao rdmary
(On tnbutiOn s toUR also will be co n stdered 1f they have made s1g
mficant co n1nhut10m hl area~ bcvond LIB a nd 1he Western New
York reg10n
Nonuna110 n forms may be oh1a m ed frum Un Jver:tli YA.dvant:cment
a nd Developm en t, 50.l Ca pen Hall. or by calltng 64~ - 2925. Nomtna
110ns must be submmed to the ll o noran• Degn:e Commtnee, SOl
Capen Hall , Buffalo, NY 14260 on or before the March 20 deadline

Nomination fonns also are available at the following
campus locations:
Faculty a nd Prolci&gt;S hmal .) ta tf ~(·nate o ffi ce~. 54.\ L.1pcn Hall
llt.•allh Sctcnct.-,. \.Jbrary, adrm n1strauve area, ~uth &lt;.:.ampm
Lockwood L1brar). mformatton kiosk nt'ar thC' or~..ulatlon desk
Office of :-,tudent L1fe , I C:,O Student l ' n 1nn
O ffice of the Provos t. :;6~ ( :apen Hall
Past 'iULCe!&gt;sful nommatJnn pa~..k et:. a\" 1 ma\ ht· rt'vlc:-wcd a t tht·
.1hnve locat ion'

Annual volleyball -in-the- mud
tournament set for April 25
Like to play In the mud ?
fhcn turn vom ld l osvnud~\ ullo pnn·i&gt; and o r g&lt;~mtrd tun In
part11..1pa t1 ng 10 l iH\ 14th .l!lnual t1mlt'~t.to he hdd April 2') on tht·
1'\orth (. ampu'
l"ht• tourndment. ht·!a·ved to t-w dw lar~t"S I . \Ontlnuou' vollt'\
b.tJI · lll tht• muJ \lllltl"'l PO ,l\.111\q{t" •ll UOIVer:tlt\ lampu~. Will hl'
~Ill ,J\ J0 .l Ill ,1nJ \111lll11Ul" Urtll!:; p 111
le.un:-. mu't ht' rqtl!'&gt;tt'fed h\"; p m on Apn! i m ordt'l to p.lrtl\.1(1,11l"
H.qt•, lr.JIJ•m lnrm' .Ht' .JV&lt;~Ii.thk 1n tl.trrun.tn ll.tll .m tht· ~o ut h
I .lllljlU' ,1nJ ,\1 \aflllU\ \lli..&lt;IIIPn' tl ll lhl· ~orth (..tmpuS, 1ncJud1ng
thl· 111IPrm.111 un hl)tlth, , the "ttuJt•nt A"Ol l.ltJOil offi(t: 1n 1SO ~111
.._f,·nt l ' n10n ,wt! thl' l )ftiu· t11 ~ludl'lll !tie , I ')I) 'IUdc nl Unum
I ht· rc:-g1:t lra11 nn h'c 1~ SilO pet team lallA~~ 2608 lo r nH,rt·
llllt1rma 11 o n Rq{ ISir,II IOil lorm., ~...m bt· laxffi 1&lt;18.:!9 NOI
l"ht• t"vt'lll. wh1ch lx-gan \Yith onh a'"""' 'tuJem team..o;., h.b gro\&lt;.1lln.1
tnum.1mc:-n t of % team!'. l~t:-h w 11h a maxtmum nl e1ght playt·r:-..
•\! th ough mC'Io;l u l lht· tl~ am, , rnanv :tport an g monikt'"rs su(h .I!'&gt;
"',\1uddrr ~" and "M udpu pp1l's:· are ~..omposed of UR stude nts , nth
t'l' rt&gt;prt~sen t uea husmt:i&gt;:tt'~ .tnd o rgam7a t1ons The m,lfllr spon:-.nr
,)f l )n7ft'~t l:t the l"mvcr~ll\' 'ludent Alumni Hoard

�Need to mourn often ' unacknowledged by society'

Death of a pet can be a lonely l~Frantzsays
IIJ MAltA McC:OINNIS
New!. Servic.~ Editonal

P

~stanl

Interdiscipli nary Degree
Programs in

ET -owners confronted
with the death of a pet
arc forced by society to

Social Sciences,

su ppress their suffer-

stres.sesthtim -

mg. according to a UB

portant differen tiati o n between
the

bereavement expert.
Thomas Frantz, professor and
cha1r of the Department of Coun sdmg and Educational Psychology.
says the anguash caused by pet loss

as largely una c~ pted by a public
that is uncomfortable with grief.
"Pet bereavement falls under the
c.ategory of'dJScnfranchised grief,'
or gnd that as unacknowledged by
soc iety:· explams Frantz . .. Most
people won't offer support o r aUow
you adequate t1me to heal like they
would 1f you lost a child or spouse."
Owners who expe t sy mpathy
from ot hers qUJckJy learn after a
pet \ death that they are on the1r
own when 11 comes to findmg ways
to cope w1th the loss, says Frantz.
who has spent more than 30 years
researchmg and co unseling m the
areas o f mourmng . death, dying
and co p111g w•th death . !&gt;upport
groups for pet bereavement-although not always available-are
most helpful m the gnevmg pro
cess, he adds .
" In a gro u p sell mg . pel ow ner ~
have permiSSIOn to talk abou1 the1r
gr1ef and don't havt" t o worn•
about be1ng laughed at o r 1g
nored ," he says.
Frant7 adv1ses tho~e mournmg
the death of a pt' t to co nfide HI
someone who IS an an1mal lover,
tdeally a close fnend or famth
member who values p~ts and can
empa th1u w1th the loss.
Judith A. Skretny, Vlct president
of the Life TranSitiOns Center, lnL.,
a grief~ counseling agency in Buffa.Jo,
recently presented a workshop Ln
Tucson, Ariz., that exp lored the
bond between animals and humans
that makes the death of a "compan IOn animal" a traumal.Jc event.
Sk.retny, who teaches courses on
death and dying as a lecturer in the

the Faculty of

depth of grief

with ..companIon-animal"

loss
versus
.. pet"
loss.
So m e
pet owners conSider Lheir relationship with
a pet one of
co mpanion ship and un co nditional
Jove, while others view pets as
animals only
and do not
share this deep

Grieving owner can honor • pet kt cyber Cemd:et'J' • t www.a.vMnlnd .com/ pet.html

psychological bond. According to
Skretny, companion animals are
considered to be members of the
family that interact with the entire
family, are given human attributes

"Most people won 't offer

support or allow you
adequate time to heal like

they would tf you lost •
child or spouH. "
THOMAS FAANTZ

bv owners and share a bed wtth
the1r owner 70 percent of the time.
" It ts not only the loss through
death, but the secondary losses of
companionship, comfort. security
and love that ca use th e pain of
gnef." she adds.
For chi ldren especially, the
death of a pet can bt' devastating
and may scare youngsters mto
thinking that because their pet

went away, their loved ones also
may go away.
Statistics show th at 28 percent
of adults report that their first ex ·
perience with death involved t.he
loss of a pet, when they were , on
average, 8 years old.
Frantz and Skretny agree that in
the cas&lt; of a child who has lost a
pet, it is a mistake for parents t9lie
and tell tht child that the pet ran
away, or to replace the pel too soon.
" It is an opportuni ty for a chi ld
to grow; parents shou ldn 't try to
'quick make it better,' but rather
let the child develop co pi'ng
mechanism s ... advises Frantz .
"Pain is a part of life . The most
loving thing a parent can do 1s
view and treat the child 's pain as a
learning experience."
Oneof themostdifficuhdeastoru
a pet-owneroften faces is whether to
put the animal "to sleep," especially
when children~ mvolved.
.. It is important for c hildren
over the age of 5 to be part of th ~:
decision -makingprocess,"Skretny

recommends ... The entire family
should be involved."
She stresses that parents should
not try to hide the issue from dilldren, but rather aplain it to them 1
lfl a way appropriate to their age.
Skretny encourages owners
create a memorial to the animal to ·
acknowledge the imponant role rllt
pet played in the owner's life .
Grievingpet~ownersalsocanUSt

the Internet to publish pet tributa
on the World Wide Web, bury a pet
tn one of the cyber "pet" cemeter- '
1es o r find o ut where the closest ptt
cemetery IS located. Frantz adds
that some mourning pet-ownersin
Florida go to expensive lengths to
have deceased pets freeze-dried
MemoriaJ or burial services and
other rituals are normal, beaJthy
ways to say good -bye to the pd.
smce th ose faced with the loss
must take an active coping
says Franu. .. Grieving is an ·
vidual process and each per50a
must do what they feel is nea:s·
sary to ease the pain."

H~th-care text authored by UB faculty a big hit
By LOIS BAKER
News Service~ Ed1tor

T

RYINC to co mprehend
th~: co mplex ities of the
U.S. health -ca re system
c an make you r eyes
glaze over
But if the number of co lleges
and universitieS using a new book.
" Health Ca re USA: Understanding
it s Orga ni za ti o n and Delivery,'"
written by two UB faculty mem bers is any indication, a growmg
number of people are finding the
system much easier to understand.
Co-a uth ors Harry Sult z. profes
so r of social and preventive medJ one, and Kristina M . Young, ad
JUnct assistant clinical professor of
soctal and preventive medi cine.
were frustrated by thC' lack of a
good textbook to use in theu m
trodu ctory courses on health ser ""'\:ices and health management So
they wrote thetr own.
" Health Ca re USA" IS thC' first
co mprehensive textbook on the
subject written by auth ors wh o
also are teac hers . Former text ·

books describing the U.S. health care system were com pilations of
chapters co ntributed by different
experts 1n each field , none of
whom had taught an introductory
co urse, Sultz said.
The textbook has gone through
three pnntings in a year and JS
being used in 120 courses at 77
colleges and universities around
the nation . Mi chael Brown, seni o r
vJCt" president and publisher at
Aspen Publishers, Inc.. said its suc cess ca ught him unawares.
Notifying Sultz early m Febru ary that orcula twn had reached
7.000. he wrote:
.... .This 1s really spectacular
Aspen has certai nly been pleas
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10 January 1999 .. ....
Writing from a lay perspect1vt:,
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"The Tyranny of Technology,"" In fluen ces of Busi ness and Labor.~
.. Forces that Shaped the Hospital
lndustry,""The Aging of America"
and .. How Heahh Ca re Advances."
Chapters prestnt an overview of
health care from a public - heaJth
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present and future of hosp1tals:
ambulatory care; medical educa tion; health ~ care personnel; finanet
and managed care; long ~ term care;
mental - health services; publi c
health and the role of government;
the role of medtcal research, and
tht: future of health care.
Michael A. lbrah1m , professor
of eptdem10logy and dean of th~:
Un1vers 11 y of North Ca rolin a
School of Public Health. states in
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for those changes. The authors
have crafted an exceptionally read able text by balanci ng and inte -

gratmg the diverse subject mane
and presenting it 10 appropriate
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on this topic."
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dent of the Center for P.c&gt;f'"'&lt;inn.J •

llte cost of the current edition
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�5

Science Through the Ages D3
The hlstO&lt;y of Klence hu ev..ythlng: the drama and suspense of
stunning breakthroughs and equally stunning failures; portraits of
b rilliant and often eccentric people with profound insights into the
nature and origins of the universe, space, time, human behavior. It
reveals the values and m ind-sets of particular historical periods, and
gives us glimpses of the extraordinary in
the ordinary and every-day.
Not surprisingly there as a Web site
that ch ronicles all of this--the WWW
Virtual Library for the History of Sci ·
ence, Technology &amp; Medicine ( HSTM ).
at http:/ / www.asap.unlmelb.edu.•u/ hstm / hstm_spe.htm Es ·
tablished in 1994 as part of the WWW Virtual Library project, it has
operated since 1995 under the aeg1s of the Australian Sctence Archives P roject at the University of Mdbourne. Its scope IS Interna tional, although its emphasis is o n English - language resources. These
incl ude classic papers that define scientific milestones, h1stoncal
timelines, treatises, expenments, exhibits, manuscripts, tmage col
lections. bibliographies, biograp h ies and dJscuss1on hsts.
HSTM is o rganized by scie nttfi c fields, rang1ng from alchem y
and early sc iC'nce to biology. chem1str y, computers, geology, math ,
medicme, physics and sc ientific mstrumentatton , among o thers.
You can sea rch the stte by keyword or b rowse by ch ck.i n g on an
alphabeti cally a rranged li st of lmks. Each lmk takes yo u to a bnef
synops1s of the resource I o r. tn the cas(' of a dascusston ltst , 1n
st r uction s o n how to JOin the dia logu e) and ano th er hnk to t3ke
you on your way.
The lm ks allo w you to browse an onlme ex.h1b1t of rarr books and
maps from the collect ions oft he Lmda Hall Library o n "The 1-aceol
the Moo n: From Galileo to Apo llo" o r explore Mende!Web, an edu ca t ional resource on class1ca l genetics for teac hers and st udents
O ther links are to the Einstein Papers ProJeCt at Boston Untverslt\"
and the onhne essay "We Have Conquered Pam: A CelebratiOn ~f
Ether IR46 1996," puhhshed on the Web bv Harvard Mt"du. .al Sch ool
A rank.mg system. recently added . prov1des additiOnalmformatiOn .
~1vmg you an mdJ ca 11 0 n of what to ex pect from each su e 10 terms
of !IS depth . &lt;:on ten! and des1gn

Celebrating women's history
Archives plans exhibit, symposium on fight for women's rights
by PARICIA DONOVAN
News Servic~ Editor

T

HE UB Arch1ves th iS

month 1s celebrating
Women 's
Histor y
Month. as well as the-

1SOth anmversary of
the Seneca Falls Women's Rights
Convention and its Dedaration of
the Rights ofWomen, With an exlubll
opening on March 18 and a sympo
smm scheduled for March 27
Both will exp lo re tht role~ of
local women 's o rga m za tJ o ns 1n
promoting and supporting radtcal
chan es m th e personal. socJaJ and
poli caJ statu s of women .
" · ce Seneca Falls: Document ·
mg e Expenena ofWomen on thr

· Niag

Frontier," an exhibition o(

original

1aten aJs on the expen -

enccsof
ern New York women's
organizati&lt;tns fro m the tum o f the
~n tury,

will open March 18 m the

Archives' Poetry and Rare Books
Room, 420 Capen Hall on the North
Campus. It will continue indefinitely.

The symposi um , .. Understand ·
mg Women 's History: lnterpreting
Primary So urces and Exp lo ring
New Methods for the Study of
Women's History,n will explore new
methods of interpret ing primary
so urces. such as diaries, letters and
civic reco r ds , in th e s tudy of
wom en's history. It wiJJ take place

from 3-5 p.m. March 27 in the AIch1ves, 420 Capen Hall. A public
recept1on will follow from 5-7 p.m.
The symposium will be free and
open to the public. Attendance will
be limited. To make reservat ions,
caU 64 5-2916.
The symJX)SJUm will constst of two
pancl discussions o n such topics as
usmg organizational records to study
women's literature, an oral history of
fore1gn women academics at UB, the
po lit1 cs of co llecti n g women 's
records. and internet resources for
women's htstory. G uests will include
rl~ prese nt atives from Buffalo-area
women's groups that havt donated
thor reoords to the UB Ardlives.

&lt;:hnstophcr Dcnsmore.actingdi=IOr of the arch1ves, and Kathleen
I &gt;elaney, a graduate student m the
'x:hool of Information and Ubrary
StudJes. will curat.e the exhibit, which
wiU mdude materials from the arch.Jves' Women's History Collection.
'Ih e cxh ibu also will feature docu ments and artifaas that speak to the
role of women at UBoverthepast 152
years, mdudmg the admiss1on of
women to medical and law schools.
the "oo-ed mvasion" of the 1920s. the
devdopmentofUB's Women's Stud Ies Program, conditions for women at
UD and the discuss10n of implemen tation of recommendations of the
Pres1dent 's Task Fora on Women.

Convention aimed to alter
restrictive laws, customs of 1848
IN 1848 AMERICA. an U(,lmarried woman by law or custom did
not vote, speak in public, hold office, attend college or earn a
living other than as a seamstress, mill vo./Orlter, teacher or domestic.
Married Vo/Ofllen hved under the same restrictions, but in additK&gt;n,
could not make contracts, sue in court. d ivorce an abusive husband or gain custody of their chik1ren. Nor could a married woman
inherit 0&lt; own property. Eve&lt;ything she had, including the clothes
on her back. was the legal property of her husband .
Individual women had long exPressed a longing for the1 r
freed o m and equali ty under the law, but it was not until july
1848 that a handful of reformers, most of them abolitiomst5
and Qu akers from Western New York, ca lled a convention 1n
the Finger Lakes town of Seneca Falls to discuss the sooal,
civil and relig ious conditions and rights of women .
These reformm were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the \f\life of a
Methodist m in ister, and Quaker abolitionists jane Hunt., Mary
M'Ciintock. Lucretia Mott and Martha Wright. They hammered
out a formal list of grievances based on the Declaration
of Independence that denounced inequities in property rights, maniage and family, education, employment religion and suffrage
On July 19, the declaration was 1ntroduced to
an audience of 300 with the words, 'We hold these
truths to be setf~t: that all men and 'NOmen
are created equal. .. " and the pu~ic battle for
equal rights for Amencan women began
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Through scrapbooks, photo grap h s, d1anes , organizational
minutes, publica tions, news clips
and memo rabilia, the ex.hib11 wtll
Illustrate the soaa.l, educatJOnaJ and
political functions of local women's
organizations. including Zonta I mer~
natmnaJ,founded in Buffalo m 1919,
the National Orgaruzaoon for Women;
tht League of Women Voters; Bus1
ness and ProfessiOnal Women o(
Western New York; I'm 1-\bmen. and
Campfire. The exlub11 will demon ·
strate how the groups and mdivtdu
als associated with them worked to
promote equaJ rights m law, to al..
qu1re suffragt- for women and to de velop opportUnities for educat10nal.
business and political accompltsh men t for women , despite deep!}'
rooted opposltton
II wasn't until many years after
the Seneca Falls Convent 1on that
women' s - nght s advocates S U l
cceded 10 attammg passage of the
Mar n ed Women 's Propertv An .
worker pro tec ti on law) and tht·
19th amendm ent to the U.S w n
stitution , wh 1ch prov1ded the vo te
for women .
They fought to secure m1lllary sta
rus for nurses tn the anned forces..
changes 111 family -planntng pro
grams and abonton pobcv, Titlt&gt; IX
of the Education Act, for mclus1on
of women as a protected da.s.s m the
C1vil Rights Act of I 963, the Equal
Pay Act of 1964 and, smce 1923. for
an Equal Rights Amendmelll 10 thr
Constitution
Seneca ~ails t.onvcntHm 1nau
gurated the pub!J( demand bv wumen
for dun~ 111 ro.trJctJve gender - ha..~
laW;iand praChces 1n the Lln!ted.)tatc
Densmore srud the convention ·s rt!'&gt;O
luooru.. many of wh1ch haYl' been cs

l-or mformm1on about, Oflru•nm.'! ,,, tht' World \Vulr Web. lO fll al·t thr
&lt;rr Hl'lp f&gt;e,k at 64 _'i . J'i4.?

-Na n cy Schiller and Will Hepfer, Umvers11y (Jbranes

BrieDy
Printmaking program to offer
spring workshop series
The experimental Print Imaging Center ! ePIC ) of th e
Pnntmakmg Program m the Department of Art w11l host a spnng
senes of three day -lo n g worksh ops 111 Room R37 of the Center for
the Arts o n th e North Campu~
The workshops, wh1ch w1ll run lrom 9:30a.m . until 3:30 p.m .•
are approp n a le for begmners. a~
well as mo re expenenced artJS t ~.
and will he taught hy art iSts who
~pe-c 1 ahJe 1n the spe(lfied med1a
• "The Monotype and Movable
Collagraph ." Thts wo rkshop on
March 20 w 1ll he taught hy UB
pnnt techn tCtan ldf Sherve n , who
will Love r the bas1cs of makmg
pnnb. Shervrn 's wo rk ha ~ heen ex
hih1ted m th e Alhr1ght · Knox Art
&lt; ~ alieno . Hallwalls Co ntemporary
Art Ce nter and 1he rne Art Mu ~ l·um . H r has hn·n teachm g van ou s pnn1mak1ng ... our' c ~ for the
pa!&gt;t 10 Vl'ilrli&gt;
• .. Vegetable Fiber Paper-Mak ·
lng ." Fgvpt1an arlt!-&gt;1 Ahmed
\olunan will host tht!l workshop on
Apnll T h1 !-&gt; anCient methoJ of pa
pvru!l paper · makmg will he revtsed
through thl' use of evervday ga rden vegetahll'!l and updatc:d lw co rn
hmmg con temporarv Western paper makm{t technique~ So h man ,
who se rves on the facultv of Helwan Umver'&gt;tiY m Luro. 1-.gvpt.l.'! a
do~..· toral t and!datl" a1 Buftalo Slat l" College

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tabtished mlaw """" the pas! ISO""'"'
were referred to m 1848 by the \e71eca
GJ1mty CounL'T

as "of the kmd called

radx:ai."The paper warned thai "some
will regard them With respc&lt;1-&lt;&gt;th .
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• '' An Artist 's Boo k ." Le.~rn hnw to m co rporal t' acauvt" wor~
1n a un1qut' art iSts ' -book forma l m a workshop 10 he ("o ndu~..ted
o n Apnl 17 by book art 1st Ca rol Schwartzott She w11l explore the
vanous phys1caJ properties oft he a rtiS( s' book. , tndud1ng format
ltng and s1mple btndmg. Schwart zo tt 's work ha~ been fea tured 111
th(' co llec tion s of the Smuhsoman ln st ttute , 1he National Gallen·
of Art. the V1ctona and Albe n Museum Ill l ondo n and 111 rn va le
to llectJons worldw1de

�Friday the 13th...
and a full moon, too
Spooked by superstitions? Professors
explain where those beliefs comefrom
By MAltA McGINNIS
News Servic.~ Editorial Ass1stant

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F you're spooked by superstitions, you'll probably want to
stay home next weekend.
Not only does March have

the S&lt;Cond Friday the 13th of 1998.
but next Friday will featurt" a full
moon and a lunar eclipse. If that 's

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your spine, consider that two days
late r will ~ the Ides of March!
.. Most of the beliefs and pract.Jces
we refer to as superstitions repre sent magical or spirituaJ beliefs that
were, or in many cases a're, ver y real
for the people who hold them," says
Ph 1ilips Stevens, Jr., associate pro-

fessor of anthropology.
The ill -lu ck assoCiated w1th the
number 13. hr e:xpla1ns, o nganatcd
tn LO ntempo rary mtnds from the
fat e of Jesu s as th e 13th gues1
among h1s l l apostles tn the B1b
hea l account of the Last Supper
The next day, the l ruufix10n of
ksus, was a Fnday.
Friday also IS tradll!onall y wn
s1dered judgment day for the dead.
It was, for many years, des1gnated
the day fo r ca pltai Punish.ment
and 1nformally refern·d to .11o
" hangman's dav."
~ Iev e n s, who studu:s rehglllll ,
1.1..dt s and cultura l change. notes
that "s uperst1t1ons arase wh~n
people assume connectaons
among things that happen tn the
past. present and future . They be lieve that if sOmething resembles
or has been tn contact w1th a n other thing , that the two have a
ca usal relationshJp.
.. The taboo again st 13 remams
the most pervas1ve and powerful
taboo an Western civilization,"
adds Stevens. "It IS umversal prac
ti ce that in high soc1ety no one
seats 13 at a table and buildings
almost never have a 13th noor."
When the 13th day of the month
as a Friday, he adds, It makes fo r
an extremely un luck y da y for
.. many. many people."
C ultural histonans attnbute the
origins of the ill -fated Fraday the

13th to anc1ent C hrist1an-pagan
hostilities and conflicting calen·
dars used through most of the
early Christian era in Europe.
They believe the church's patriarchal reverence and cont~mpl for
pagan symbolism may hav~ b~~n
precursors for th~ unlucky asso·
Clation with Friday, th~ number 13
and the full moon for s~veral rea sons. Among them:
• Friday Is the doy of the God·
dess Freya and because Christian
monks co nsidered ev~rything associated with female divinity un lucky, Fr iday the 13th was especially unlucky since it combined
Freya's sacred day with her sac red
number. Her number, 13 , was
drawn from the 13 months of the
pagan, lunar goddess-given men strual calendar. When pagan vota nes of Freya continued to celebrate her rite s on Fr iday. the
Church des1gnated her day as th e
day of"devil wo rship."
• The Moon-goddess Luna, an other female deity, is responsible
for the association of odd occurrences with the full llj'OOn . Ea rl y
Chnst ians believed wo rshippers of
Luna were crazy, hence the term
"lunatic," a person moon -touched
o r moon -s tru ck. Thus , toda y
people believe lunacy lS affected by
the moon . proven by psych1c disturbances wh~n the moon is full.
Despite the unlucky assooa ·
t1ons of Friday the 13th and mystenous effects of the full moon, the
lunar eclipse to take pla ce neX1
Fnday signifies what astrolog1sts
refer to as a culmination phase ,
which could mean a time of new
opportunity and resolution .
The " Ides of March .. refers to
March 15, which also was the day
Ju liu s Caesar was mu rdered in 44
B.C. One of Shakespeare's best known lines IS that of the Sooth·
sayer, who tells Caesa r to " Beware
the ides of March ."
Donald McGuire. U B adJunct
ass1stant professor of classics, notes
that "when people hear 'beware the
Ides of March ,' it typically strikes a

familiar and unsettling chord."
dar, the first full moo n of the year.
According to McGuire, the ancient
Cae sa r wa s assassmated and
so lar Julian calendar was based stabbed to death by senatoria-l
around three fixed points in a month cons.pirQtors led by his best
- the Kalends, the Nones and the friend , Marcus BrutuS. The lesson
Ides. " "I1u~ Ides, wh1ch divides the learned is that people should be-·
month m half and as supposed to ware of being "s tabbed in the :
comcide with the full moon, falls on bad(" by frle a d:s.. nd acquaintall'the 15th day in March. May. July and
ces , especially o n the Ide s of
October and on the 13th day of all · Ma.-ch.
o ther months," he explains.
According to Stevens, supersti-

M cG u1re no te s that before
Caesar's assassination, March 15
held significance as a day of fe rtil ity rit uals m accordance with the
festival of Anna Perenna, another
Roman goddess. since it fell on the
Ides and, according to their caler~ -

tious thinking IS universal , as ii
niagical thinking , and e~olvti•
from fundamental pnnciples of
human thinking t~ serve several
purposes.
"Some superstitions can be:
useful to us as practical warnings
o r prohibition s of an earli~r
time," says Stevens. He explains
that superstitions also can be s ~n
as agents of "social co ntrol," en·
forcing socio-cultural norms and
st&lt;!,ndards o f behavior and moral tty.
.. They also can g1ve indlVidu·
als a sense of personal control.
hence comfort, an the impersonal
confus1on of life,'' adds Stevens.

settle and pract1ce m areas of need.
C ross -culturaJ expenences help
prepare them for thas role."
Edward Rayhill, a retired Grand
Island family physician and 1954
graduate of the U B medtcal
sc hoo l. head s the fo undation 's
eight -member advisory board.
co mposed o f U B volunteer physl caan s. The board will help the de partment ancrease fo undati on
contributions and dende wh1 ch
proJects to fund .
" Hopefully, the foundation will
provide seed money to enable the
faculty and the department to do
thmgs in the commumty and the
school that will in terest students
m family practice," Rayhill sa1d .
" I feel family practice IS the
' royal road ' in medicine--! got to

do everythmg tn my career. !'vC'
assisted m dozens of surgenes and
delivered hundred s of bab1 es. I
thmk many of my colleagues fed
the same .
"We aren't gomg after bag sums
of mo ney." Rayhill stated "We' re
gomg for partici pat ion. collegtallt y. We hope we can co ntmue to
ddray the expense-s of educatmg
students and make the VB Depan ment of Family Med!Cme o ne of
the finest m the co untry "
Contnbull o ns to the founda tiOn . wh1 ch are tax deductiblt ,
may he sent to: UB Fo undallonl
Family Medi Cin e, an care of
Kathleen Duttge, executive officer, UB Department of Family
Med1 cme , 462 G nder St .. Buffalo.
N.Y. 142 15.

''The taboo against 1 J

remains the most pervasive

and -erful taboo In
Western dvlllutlon."
PHILliPS Sll:VE NS. IR

Family medicine
Continued from page 1

"One of our pnmary m1 ss aom
is to teach residen ts and med ical
st udents the principles of family ce nt ered medicine," Bissonett e
sa ad. "The demand for pnmary
care physicians ts growmg m tha s
managed- care env1 ronmc:nt , ye1
support for fanuly mediCtne cdu
cat1on IS shnnkmg . The fo unda
t10n gives us a formal mc..:hanum
to supplement our rcsourccs and
help fulfill our mass1on."
Recr01llng med1 cal student.\ who
are mterested m pnmary·uu-e field!&gt;
IS a maJor goal of the UB med1 utl
school, and offenng a cro~ -c uhura l
track, as well a!&gt; expenenCI!' m com
mun iry dinics and underserved ar eas, helps m both aruacung new stu
dents and attractmg the right type
of studem, Bissonette said.

"St udents Interested 111 a cross
culturaJ expenen ce a re also more
likc:ly to be interested tn a prt ·
mary-care career. I think n 's a con nectaon worth nurturing . Expo
sure lO other cultures also prOVides
1nval uabl e 111 S1ghts and kn o wl edge ..
Medacal st udent s and fanHiy medaGne residents m the past have
wo rked mEl Salvador, Kenya . Tan Lil llla and Swaziland . "T hese expe nc nces take students o ut of the
h1gh -tech model ofWestern medl nne and force them to rely on the1r
fund of knowledge, h1story-taklng
dnd chmcal skills," Bissonette said.
" It helps them see technology m
at s proper role. If we arc gomg to
he true to our miss ion. we need to
enco urage fam ily physioans to

�March 5.1998flol. 29. lklJ Repo.-te.

brin~ concerts, recitals to UB
known artists to perform on campus

M•rch 19: Emmanuel
Pahud, flute, and Eric LeSage,
piano, in th~ VISiting Artist Seri es-Concert Vat 8 p.m. in Slee
Concen Hall. Pahud, 26, join ed

ries, "Ligeti's Restoration of lntervaJ and Jts Significance for
His Later Works," jonathan !krnard, UnivmityofWashington,
4 p.m. in Baird Hall, Room 211 .

No admission charge.
27: Chamber music
at noon in Slee Hall lobby by the
Windermere Trio: Ge ralyn
GiCJVa1111&lt;1ti,oboe;
Tickets for these
Wendy Rose, bassoon;
Phyllis

the Berlin Philharmonic at age
23 as principal flute. He has

won wide acclaim as a solo art 1st a nd h as given recital s
thro ugho ut the

Far East. Tickets
are $10, $8, $ 5
and $4 .
M•rch

21 :

events may be

Rappepon, pianO-

obtained at the

No admission
The Bo rrome o
String Q uartet, Slee Hall Box office, charg:;.orch 27:
featuring Nicho U niver si ty
the UB Center for
las Kitchen , vio C hoir, Harri et
lin;
Ruggero
the Arts box office
Simons, conduc All ifranchini,
tor, and UB Perand
TicketMaster
violin; Hsin -Yun
cussion
En Huang, viola; and
semble,
Anthony
locations_
Yees un
Kim ,
Mir-anda , co n ceUo, appearing at 8 p.m. m Slee ductor; 8 p.m. in Slee Concert
Concert Hall in th e Sleet
Hall Tickets are $3.
Beethoven String Q uanet Cycle,
March 28: Fac uJty recital.
Concert Vl . Formed in 1989 by Anth ony Miranda , percus fo ur young musicians from the sion. 8 p.m. in Slee Co ncert
C urtis Institut e of Music, the Hall. Miranda is an interna q uartet has won recognitio n as tiona ll y known perfo rm er
one of th e exce pti o nal en - whose career in dudes compo sembles of its generation. Tick- sition , li ve performances,
ets areS I 0, $8, $5 and $4.
rou rs and studi o record ings.
March 21 (2:30 p.m. ) ond
Tickets are $8 , $6, S5 and $2 .
March 22 (7 p .m.): Moza rt :
March 29: Organ Recital SeThe Magic Flute, UB Ope ra ries. Concert V, David Fuller,
Workshop and UBuffal o Sym - UB professor emeritus, 5 p.m .
ph o ny , with Magn us Mar
m Slee Concen Hall. Fuller has
tensson , conductor. presented prese nted o rgan and harpsi in t he Ce nter for th e Art s cho rd recnili throughout tht&gt;
United States, Canada and Eu rope. Tickets are $8, $6, SS and
$2.

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Obituaries
Isabel E. Reed, 81, nursing professor
Isabel E. Reed, who taught fo r
many years in the UB School
of Nursin g, died Feb. 23 in
Glou cester. Mass .. after a bnd
illnes s . She had m oved t o
Rockport , Mass .. a fter her re
ti rement in 1980.
A 1938 graduate of th e New ton -Wellesley Hosp ital School
of Nursing in Massachu se n s,
where she worked as a staff
nurse, she se rved in the Arm)'

Nur se Co rp s, spending seve ra l
yea rs in lnd1a and Iran befo re be ing disc harged in 1947 with th e
ra nk of c aptain . She ea rn ed a
bachel or 's degree in supervisio n,
medi ca l/surgical nursi n g and a
master's degree in nursi ng serv1ces
a dmini strati o n fr o m Tea c h e rs
Co llege. Co lumb ia Umversity.
She held nursin g positions at the
University of Rochester before ac
cepting a post in 1965 as a consuh -

ant for the UB School of Nursmg at
the Na tio nal Umvers1ry of Asunaon
m Paraguay. She aJded m the estab lishment of a nursing school there
under a projea co-sponsored by t JB
and tht&gt; U.S . Aid for lnternat..10nal
I )evelopment program. In 1968. she
returned to UB as an assoaate professor 10 the Sc hool of Nurs1ng.
teaching medicallsurgJcal nursmg
and nursing-serviceadmmlstrat lon
until her n.•t1rement

Team
Spirit

Th e City Royals volleyball ream.
from left. Cynthia Freeman, Clarice
Tibbs, Bartar.! Mugge and Jessica
Tworek. get into the spirit of Fun
Fest on Friday befor-e their
volleyball mateh in Alumni Arena 's
ma1n gym.

MEN ' S

UB 8l ,W estem Illinois 74
UB 1l ,VaJparaiso 84
UB got 22 points from sen1or
~un Young. ;md sen1or Mike
Martinho had 18 as the fifth-seeded
Bulls ;advanced to dle semifinals of
the 1998 Mld-Cononent
C onference Tournament with an 81 7-4 upset win over fourth-see-ded
Western Illinois on Sunct.y.
Sen1ors Scoa McMillin and Moan
Clemens scored 1-'4 and II points,
respectivety, for the Bull$, who ;advanced to bee long-time nemesis V..lpat&amp;Jso m
the semifinals on Moncby
Despite oalt four UB sen10r1 sconng m double figures. rt w&lt;LSn't enough. The
V..l~n~ so C rusaders eliminated the Bulls from the 1998 Mid-Coo Tournament
With 01 convinCing 84-7] '11ctory. Young led UB WTth 23 po1nts~ while Martinho
had 19 McMillin and Clemens scored 12 ;and I I pomts. respecovely. for UB

WOMEN ' S

UB 61 , O ral Roberts 52
UB 75,VaJparaiso 76
The UB women saw three player1 score m double figures

ilS they defeated OnJ
Robero in the qu;~rterlina.ls cJ the 1998 Mid-Cootment Conference Tournament
Feb. 28 m Moline, Ill. Senior Ounssot Gan:iner scored 16 poults.. I 0 ~ds ;and
three steak. while sen10r U Toya C rumpoon had IS points and rebounds to lead
UB. Freshman rlffany Bell oadded I 0 points mel etght rebounds for the Bulb.. who
;advanced to face v..Jpan~so on Moncby m the tournament semifinals
A see-saw b;au::le for most o f the~· the Bulls took 01 7S-H lead wtth 26
seconds rem;umng on 01 Sanwldu Cerny three-pointer from the comll!:f"
Although Cemy rebounded 01 Crusaders · ITilS.Sed shot on the ensumg
possession with t'NO seconds to pby. 01 jump ball was called WTth possess1011
t.r.-...oring Voalp~nuso. Followmg 01 omeout by 'hlpan.~so. the C rusaders scored 01
basket for the Wlnnmg pomo. Goardner oand 1untor Cathenne Joacob led the Bulls
With 23 po1no. e;ach

Life of Alan E. Cober to be celebrated
A celebr-ation of the life of
AJan E. Cober, one of Amen ca's
fo rem ost illu str a t o rs wh o
served as a VISitin g professor
and Distinguished Visitm g Art
1st at UB s1nce \986, .....111 he hd d
tomorrow a t ~ p .m . 1n th e
Scree nmg Roo m o f th e Ceru er
for the Art~ o n th e North Cam pus. A receptiOn will fo ll ow Ill

the atnum bakony lou nge
Cober di ed )an . 17 a ft e r suffer mg a hea r! att ack wh il e vnca non
111g 10 Ho nda . He was 62
His work was pubhshed 111 rna
10r magaz mes an d co mmi S!o. IOned
h y many Fortun e 500 co mpames,
a m o n g hi s cl •ent .!&gt; were Tunl',
NewsweeA. Sports lllustratni, Tht•
Nn v York Tmws, NB( and t }\:"\ . Ht•

know n for hi !&gt; boo k O t
drawmgs. "The- r orgotten Souety,"
dep1ct1n g th e l!vt·~ of peop le .11
Will o wbruol... the Nt·w YMk St.1t C'
mst 1tutton
l he Dqxt.rtment ol :\rt has estahUshed an Alan 1·. (&lt;&gt;Ocr Mcrnonal fund
cndowmg an annual scholarsh..ip m
dbO W3 !&gt;

drawmg.tobe ~I IJ,· the 13cultvt&lt;&gt;
a Sludent wtth t:xu:ptJonaJ ahility

MEN ' S
The Bulls scrdped the1 r WJ.)' to ;another top-fivoe fimsh oat the 1998 ECAC
Sw1mmmg oand 01'11ng Championships ttus past weekend The Bulls tu.ve fin1 shed
1n the top-five teams m five out of the seven seuons they tuve been 01 0N1SK&gt;n I
1nsutuoon The Bulls ;added four mor-e lifetime best-perfomunces w bnng the1r
seoason toal to 98 best dl"ne$ for 17 SWtmmers during the 1997-98 season
The Bulls ~ led the by individual perb'mance:!i of sophomon! llin HICkey.
who finished second Kl the 200 fre.estyte in I :39.3 I HICkEy ~ finished thu-d 11 the
100 freestyle l l 45.76. The Bulls' 800 free:styk! finiShed fim l l a orne d 6:'47 78. 0f
t:he IS UB swmmen and one diYer that competed. I 3 ~ored n the meet.

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PaUenu llnh Nguyen.

Pbllosophy Colloquium

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VIsiting Artist - - -

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Emmanuel Pahud, flute , and
E.ric leSage. P'ano Slee 8 p m

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Exhibits

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by Physo Dept

rtumMy WMI Potenza
Fellowship Competition

Phlk)wphy ColkNfulum
logic and Convention Ac.hllle
Varz1, Columbia Umv. 180 Park.

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the Rumsey and Potenza
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~lief)', Center for the Arts. on

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p.m ., Wed .fn ., 10 a m .
8 p .m .• Sal, 11 a.m -6 p m

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mformallon, call John Corcoran
at 881 1640 645 -1444. E.xt

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The Senior Show

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6-9 1
p.m S35 per class, 19 5 lor all
three das~~ (March 5. 11, and
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Nurs•ng For mort 1nformat1on
call Dr MaN fmn1ck . GNSH, dl
819 -3191

Friday
The Reporter publishes
lbtlng s fOf' evenh ta"lng
place on campus, Of' for
off cam pus events wt~
UB group'

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no Latet" than noon on
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lecture on Utlna/ Utlno
Studies
Is There a Caribbean
Aesthetic 1 Professor Anton1o
Ben•te.z Rota. Amherst College
The Screening Room m the
Center fo1 the Arts North
C ampu~ 1 30· 3. 30 p_m
Spomored by latJna/latlno
Studies program m Modem

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lab 1 21 Cooke North
C ampu ~ 1 lO p m
Ptdk)sophy CoUoqulum
Does kant's Moral Theory
Include an "Ethto of Care "7
Heriinde Pa~.Je~""· Studef, Vtenn.a
280 Par\. North Campus 4 p m

Wortuhop
Workshop II 1 on Promotion
and Tenure / Pennanent
"Pppintment. 330 Student
Umon North Campus. 9 a m
Noon Sponsored by United

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Senate For more 1nlormauon
call Chm Black at 645-101 3

ASCIT Wonuhop
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Senate and Profes.sK&gt;nal Staff
Senate For more JnlormatJon
c.al1 Chns BliKk at 64~ - 20\ l
Amef"k•n Plur•llsm Gooes
to the Movies
Film: Time of Harvey Mil k
Prot Stefan Fletscher, 104
Knox North Campu~ 7 p m
~ree Sponsored by The
Undergritdualf' Colle-ge

McClure CFA Screen1ng Room
North Campus 4 p m

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ASCrT Workshop
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Thursday

D•nc:e Productk)n
The Snow Queen Storybook
dance produCtion w1ll be
pre!K"nted by Pld: of the Crop
Dance and Center lor the Art.!.
MamstAge theater, Center lor
tht-Aru 1030am
lnternt!:l Clink
Governm ent Resources on
the Web E.d Herman. jant'
We1ntrop 1 10 lockwood
l1bra~ North Campu~ 7-8 l O

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Gemma DeV1nney, 64~ · 181

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IS
VlsltJng Artist PresentaUon
Evan Summer: A Presentation
of His PrinU Evan Summer
Kutztown State Unrvers1ty Two
presentations by the artJst F1o:t
program, 9 am -11 ·30 a.m at
838 CFA. North Campus
Se&lt;ond program of the i.lmt&gt;
matenal, 11 45 p.m -l 30 p m
dl 837 Cf.A. North Campus
Spomored by De-partiTlent ot
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Sherven at 64 ~ - 6878 , U::t
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Ma1nnage theater. Center for
theAru 1030am
Philosophy CoUoqulum
Wlttgensteln and Silen ce
Prot Rudolf luthe, KotMeru
684 Baldy North Campus 3
pm
Wednadalys •t 4 Plus

Poetry Reading . MIChael

19

Graduat•ng senK&gt;~ m the An
Department e.~ehibtt theH
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computer art and
commumca6on des1gn E.xh1bn
1n the US Art Gallery runs to
March 10 Gallery houn. are
Wed.-Sat, 10:30 a m -8 p.m.,
Sun ., Noon-5 p m
PELLA Awards

Dance Production
The Snow Q~n Storybook
dance productK&gt;n will ~
pre~nted by PICk of the Crop
Dance and Center tor the Art.!.
Ma1nstage theater, Center lo1
theAru 10l0am
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Student works on exhibit
through March 6 Ja~ Dyen
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..enes of temporary public art
pro,ecu de9gned to~
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Winner's Automatic Professor
Machine stirs technology debate.

february 26.1!91/ ~. 29. No. 22

Ro~
Ro~

Row

Their boats were rowing
machines, but women's crew
members (along with men's
crew) worked their hearts out
in a day-long benefit for the
American Heart Association.
The event was held Feb. 19 in
the Student Union. From left:
Katy Frank, Nicole Kasben,
Gina Verrastro, Katie Rizzone,
Kristin Lougen .

Renewal projects to enhance campus
Refurbishing UB areas indoors and out could aid recruitment, retention efforts
By SUE WUETCHER
N~ Servk.es Assooate D1rector

U

NIVERSITY Facilities
plannmg a renova llon of the ground
IS

noors

of Ca pen ,

Ta lben and Norton halls th1s sum -

mer that UB officials hopt&gt; will a1d
the university 's recruitment and
retention effons.

The work will mvolve the replace ment ol o range ceiling tiles. pamt mg the areas, installation of carpet mg and the purchase of new fur
nishings. "to get away from that old
SUNY institutional approach," satd
Michael Dupre, mtenm associate
vice pres1dent for un•vers1ty facili ties. The project , whi ch IS expected
to cost about $85.000, will include
landscapmg three plots of turf on
the north side of Capen w1th tree5.

flowers and an devated wall.
Untversity Facilities alsO' has set
as1de another S l 00,000 to 1nstali
ca rpeting in cen trally sc hedultd
classrooms across campus. The
Classroom Qual ity Commmee 1s
r('Vit"Wlng the proposal, Dupre said.
The renovation projects are pan
of what Dupre says will be an "annual investment"m a capital ren&lt;.Wa.l
program that IS being funded with
budget savmgs from th e past few
vears. Fund1ng for th i!i vear '&lt;;
pro)&lt;'&lt;.'ts totals $247.000. w1th the
Capen Talben · Norton prote\.1
bemg the b1ggest so far.
UniVersity Facihties already ha!'&gt;
completed some mmor proJeru. thiS
year, Dupre pointed out, mduding
th e replacement of fl oor tiles m
Lockwood libr.~ry and Parker Hall .
mstaJiat1on of hghtmg fixtures 10

Parker and pam·
ung of the inte·
nor bndge con
necting O'Bnan
and Nonon halls.
Dupre sa 1d
renova ti on
proJeCts were
identified when
he and VJCe Pro
vost
Sca n
Sulhvan toured
the facilities dur
mg Open Ho use.
Thc1r diSCUSSIOn. he .said, centered
around what Umversity Facilities
t:ould do Wlth "some dollar flex.ibil ·
11"y" to address aest.hel.lcs and a.ssast
111 recruitment and retention tssues.
Pett"r Nickerson. professo r of
pathology and chatr oft he Facuhr
Se nate. l'alled 1he o ngotng t.apllal

renewa l program "an important
Initiative.
" It 's good for the m o rale of everv
body here. II 's also good for anybody
conung on campus." Nickerson saJd.
"Clearly, recruitment, 111 add.iuon to
retentiOn, IS absolute!)' essennaJ for
us to sunnve

Jain's work offers first evidence of anomalons
By ELLEN GOLDBAUM

News

Service~

Editor

OURTEEN years ago .
conflic ting report s o f un usual subatomu.. particles
ca lled anomalons gener ·
a ted a controversy among particle
physicists so divis1ve th at 11 pra cti cally sq uelched all nwcstigat1on
anto th e subject.
Despi te adamant assen1uns to the
contrJry from some of the world's
most renowned phy~1cists. a lone
researcher at UB contended that the
anomalous hehavior was possible
only under very specifi c condit1om.
But in the mld · i9ROs , a high energy accelerator powerful
enough to generate those condi tions and prov1de unden1ablc SCI ·
entific proof did n ot e.x1st.
In the feveushly co mpetitive
world of high · energy physacs. thf"
UB physicist was forced to delay
for more than a decade the experi ments that h e hoped would prove

F

expenmenta lly what he had long
be li eved to be true .
Now Piyare lam , professor ol
rhySJCS. IS having the Jast Word .
His resu lts. whiCh will he puh ltshed March I tn the Bnush /our-

llal of Nudem and Partrcle Physrrs,
prov1de the first tndisputahle cv1
dence that anomalons-wh1ch con
trad!Ct conventio nal laws of ph~ ­
IL.ft---dO extSt, but o nl\' for a bLII!onth
of a second under very spectfic con
dit1ons dunng nuclear mteract!Oib
With th1s paper, Jam anunpatt'!'l
revitalizing mqUJry mto a phenom t·non that m any phvSICISts aban
dont·d, openmg a world of poss1
hi.liucs for other expenmentalist&lt;; m
!'lt.'a rch of nt"w forms of matter.
The rt"sults suggest that new and
exotiC stat es nf matter, such as the
H pa rticle, predicted by the quan ·
tum chromodynamic theory 20
years ago but never found , may fi .
nally be detedable .
"We have proven the existence of

thcst· very abnormal nuclear l.ntl"r ·
aa1ons called anomalons." sa1d Jam .
" It 1s pos.c;tble that they could he 1m
phcated mall the rnysten es we have
nol ''et solved, such as the quark
gluon plasma, hlack holes and dt'
tectton of new, exotK part1des.··
OetectJon of the H particle '"'cmld
he an cxtraordmary findmg, 'itn(e
the q uantum chromodynam 1c
throry prediCt$ that it IS (o m posed
not of two or three quarks. as IS all
maner that IS currentl y knov.•n , hut
ra ther of SIXquarks.
In recent pubhcatJons,three daf
ferent expenmen tal groups have
reported no success 111 the1r search
for the H particle.
lain's success m detectmg the
anomalon h olds out prom1se that
the H particle-a nd other exotiC
states of matter predicte-d by th1 s
theory, but never found-also
may be detectable .
T he research resolve s funda
mental questions about anomal -

ons ra1 sed '" the 1980s by groups
from th e Umvers1t y o l Ca.hfornaa
dt Berkele\' and elsewhere. some of
whom cla1med to have detected
th&lt;.· parlldt'~ under a varie tv of
~..ond lt lon~ and othc:rs who
~..la1med nt•ttn have deteued them
at d!l .
""Fmallv, I hJ\'c \' 111di~..atlon.' '
\aid lam . " In 1984. mv co ll eagues
thought th1s wa!'l a dead ISSUe With
th1s paper. I am saymg that there
IS a pulse and tht.&gt; heart IS bea tin g;
they were JUSt usmg the \.Oo'ron~
stethoscope to look for 11 ..
I h.s results are all the more llOtt"
wonhy smce he has done 11 wtth the
assastance of onlv one postd01..1oraJ
researcher at a 111ne when particle
phystcists routmcly work m groups
of 40 or SO or more .
Anomalo ns are the highly reac tive , extremely short -lived par tides that sometimes are crea ted
in the violent collisions between
c-u.-..~-....-·

�Catherine jacob,
point guard and co-captain of the women's basketball team,
is a junior studying mechanical engineering.

oc--

Wh8t's a typical d ay's
ule like during balketball oeaoon7

Obviously, during the basketball
season, we lead a very hectic life.

During a normal day, I go to
classes in the morning, get to practice at least a half-hour early, practice for about three hours, get
cleaned up, go home (if I don't
have night class ), eat dinner and
study. On game days, we have
classes, a one-hour practice in the
afternoon, and have to arrive at the
game an hour and a half before

a student-athlete. The sport that
you are in is such a huge part of
your life. It ~rns as if, ever since I
was a kid, that much of what I do
in life is geared toward basketball.
So a student -athlete has to not
only find a good school academi cally, but one with which they
think they will be happy as an athlete. It's very important to be on a
team that you think you'll get
along with, and that you lik.c what
you see in the coaches. I think that
UB offers these things, as well as
top-notch facilities and a great
academic and athletic faculty.

What got you Interested In
playing balketball-and
stuclyiii!J-At UB 7

What's the most rewarding
thing playing women 's
balketball at UB7

Ever since I was a little kid, I had
dreamed of playing Division I basketball in college. During the recruiting process, I narrowed down
the schools I was interested in very
quickly. When I came to UB for an

Some of the most rewarding
things about playing women's basketball at UB are the experiences
I've been lucky enough to have,
that may not have been possible
otherwise. I've traveled around the
country, made lifelong friends,
tested myself to the limit, learned
to balance basketball and mechanical e~gineering. I also have
gained the self-confidence that
will be key in achie ving goals that
1
I want to pursue after school, have
realized the impact that we as student-athletes have on kids and
have really enjoyed the opportu nity and privilege to make a difference in their lives.

officiaJ visit (you meet the coaches
and team and stay on campus for
two days) , ! really had a good feeling about the-ochooi.J-luo&lt;'wtiJ at l
would be playing on, and hope fully making -a -diffeflpce 9nJ a
team that
u·p:and:.com1ng,
and) wanted to.~~ an_integral part
of reaching the goalS that we'veset
out to achieve. Also very important to me was the nationally

wa:s

ranked engineering program. I
believe that I've made a good
.~oic~.
WIN!t would you say to other

women student-athletes considering attending UB7
I think that there is a lot to con sider when choosing which school
to an end, especially when you are

What's the most frustrating
thl!'!l·abQut playln!J women's
basketball a t UB7
One of the most frustrating things
is trying to catch up with schoolwork aftt:r road trips and never
seeming to have enough time to
do so before the next trip. lt gets

very difficuh and stressful, but it
helps you to become very good at
time management.
Women'• athletics, In gener.l,
h•Ye rece ived less respect and
support than men 's.. Do you
see tha t changlng7
I really do believe that women athletes are getting significantly more
respect than in the past. I really

respect the women who played
sports when it wasn't the thing for
women to do. They have affected
the lives of every woman athlete
out there today. and given us all
opportunities that we never would
have known if not for their heart
and dedication to let women have
a chance.

Would you ever consider pursuing a prof essional athletk
caNer, for example, with t he
WNBA7
I wou1CI love to have the chance to
play for the WNBA. It would be a
great honor, and I think that it
would be a wonderful experience.
I love the game of basketball, and
to be able to continue after college,
when only a few years ago if you
wanted to keep playing it would
have to be .overs~. is Someih.ing
that I have dreamed of doing. After playing since the third grade on
a team, and putting all the time
and effort into it, it would be won derful to cOntinue. ·BUt,· eVen ff I
do not get the opportunity,! never
will regret playing beeause ii ha5
helped mold me as the person I am
today. I thank God for the opportunities I've had.

What 's something people
don't know about you. •nd
should?

I thinlr. they should know how
much I appreciate all of
support that people give us.
really makes me feel good when
people mili an effort to attend
the gam ... and when they' see
you around campw they congratulate you or wish you good
luck.

What q uestion do you wish
lhad aslted, - woulcl you haw answered
lt7

I really enjoy reading inspirational quotes, literature, etc. So
fd probably want you to ask me
what my favorite, or most inspiring quote is. Well, I think
that it changes every day, dopending on what mood I'm in
or what seems to inspire me
that day. So here's what today'•
would be:

"Don't put offliving unci/ tomorrow.
Don't be afraidio drtam
some time away.

Don't look too far ah&lt;ad,
don't look back with regret;

just look with hop&lt;
to the horizon of today.

Don't.be ataid to reach
for your goa ,
no matter how d istant it
might sum.
And tkn't be surpru&lt;d if
you~ed.

The truly sp&lt;cial p&lt;opk
in this world,

the ones who reach their
dretimSi
·
art the o n ~ who do the
things
they really wanr to do.

Don't be one of the

'"'b';"~·~t of the few. "
-Colin McCa rty

Social Security blamed for breakdown of
By JOHN DEllA CONTIIADA
Reporter Contributor

C

OMMERCIALISM,
Hollywood movie s.
working parents, a decline in church-goingjust some of the usual suspects
blamed for the breakdown of the
American family.
Add Social Security to that list '
"Yes,• aca:&gt;rding to a new study on
some neglected economic and social effects of our current Social Security system, to be published in the
May issue of American Economic

Review.
Isaac Ehrlich . Melvin H . Baker
Professor of American Enterprise
~tn the School of Management and
chair of the Department of Economics, says that our present Social Security system is partly to
blame for a breakdown in the so cial and economic structure of the
family, which , in turn, has ad ·
versely affected the famil y's impact
on economic growth.
Ehrlich and stud y co -a uth o r
Jian-Go u Zhong, a senior analyst
at PNC National Bank, have ana lyzed the economic effects of Social Security in the United States

and 48 other countries since 1960.
They found that, depending on a
country's wealth, social security
had negatively impacted at least
o ne of three choices involving the
family: fertility, invesunent in children or savings.
In the United States, as in most
other countries, according to the
study, the current "pay-as-you-go"
system of Social Security has negatively impacted the decision to marry
or fonn families. Moreover, it has created a disincentive for parents to invest time and effurt in their children.
"The family is a unique enterprise because it provides a bond
between overlapping generations,..
Ehrlich says. "Traditionally, it has
served as a form of old-age insurance. where parents bear, take care
of an d invest in children because
they have an emotional and finan cial stake in their success. Successful children are bener able to take
care of parents in old age.
.. Social Security has replaced
that bond with a competing system that says to parents, ' It's the
gove rnment , not your children,
that is going to take care of you in
old age.' That message has reduced

America's incentive to form fami lies or invest in children's futures."
As evidence of this reluctance to
form and nurture families, Ehrlich
and Zhong po int to a decline in
U.S. marriage rates and an in,crease
in divorcr rates in the four decades
si nce 1960, when Social Stcurity
taxes and benefits were raised significantly. They also show that in
develop~ countries, such as the
U.S., there has been a decrease in
savings since 1960, which the researchers link to a reluctance to save
for old age, influenced by the prom ise of a Social Security pension.
Ehrlich further specula!.. that the
Social Security system has contributed to other sociological phenomena in the U.S., including the creation of a less-motivated workfora
and a cultural devaluing of education ... Some of the problems of our
educational system, such as the low
test scores of students, can, to some
extent, be linked to the effects of our

Social Security system," says Ehrlich.
..Our current system creates a disinc,entive for pareflts to be involved
in the education of their children,
because the old-age benefits r=ived
by parents are independent of the

achievements of their
Co nsequently,
American dilldren, and
of other developed '-"'-""""'"'!Ill
inadequately prepared
in the marketplace. This
tributed to a slowdown
tivity growth in the U.S.
developed countries since
a trend that increases
hood of bankruptcy for
Sodal Security system
lower productivity means
put into the Social
According to Ehrlich,

Administration proposals
get surpluses to strengthen
Security system provide only a

porary, Band-Aid solution. He
tends that the U5. must
government-supervised,
system in which worken
to an individual pension
"The only way to
lem is to replace our
tern with a system in
efits reaived are a d.icect
what is contributed,"
"This would increase the ·
to work and invest in
across all generations, whichWOIJ•
increase productivity growth." ·

�february Z6.1!91/Vol Z9. No.'J1 Reporter

Cream
Facial
Cream the professor (with pie)
was o ne of the entertaining
highlights of Engineers' Weel&lt; evem:s
held last week in the Student
Unio n. Here, Chris Mance IIi wipes
the cream from the valiant 'IO!unteer.
Ash ish Gupta, assistant professor
of chemical engineeri ng.

~futdiet~~~~~~~o~mEditor

m re:cl'!nt years have
several nutritional
may play a role , ac Harvey Arbesman, a
• i&lt;mlat&lt;IIO J~ist and clin ical &lt;lSSIS -

cuss the role of nutritional factors mendation for persons at r isk
in treating patients at risk..
might be to increase their mtake
The majority of oonmc.lanoma ·of foods rich in Vitamin C to con ·
skin cancers arc basal cell carcino- sum&lt; 500 milligrams per day. They
mas, which rarely spread, but can also may benefit from increasing
ca use significant local damage that t.heir intake of foods con tainin g
req uires surgery, Arbesman said. beta ca rotene, such as ca rrots,
The remaining nonmclano mas are sweet potatoes and broccoli."
sq uamo us cell cancers, which pose
Vitamin E has been shown to
a slightly increased risk o f spread- reduce the development of ultra ·
ing but are usually casiJy treated , violet light · indu ced tumors 1n
he noted.
a-nimals, he reported, but becaust
"Oinical trials have demonstrated Vitamin E can interact with other
that a low-fat diet can reduce the
medications, Ar~sman cautioned
development of new precancers
against taking supplements with ·
called actinic keratoses, as weU as
out consulting a physician.
basal cdl and squamous cdl carciSeleniu m , a mineral that acts as
nomas," he said .. One recommen an antioxidant, also may play a
dation for patients at risk of devel role in reduci ng the risk of skin
oping th~ growths is to consume
cancer. Selemum is available liba diet containing no more than 20
e r a ll y m food so ur ces suc h as
percent of caJories from fat."
brown rice, whole grains a nd Bra·
Risk factors for developing new
zi l nu ts. One si ngle Brazil nut pro·
nonmelanoma skin ca ncers in ·
v1des 120 micrograms of the min elude a histo ry of precancerous
eral, exceeding th e I 00 microgram
lesions, fair skin , red o r blond hair,
recommended dail y dose , h eearly severe sunburns and a hi s·
noted .
tory of intense sun exposure.
Ar~s m an ca utiOned agamst
An tioxidan t vitamins with the taking selenium supplements be·
ability to neutralize damaging free - ca use of potential adverse side ef·
radi cal molecules produced as a fects, which include blackened or
byproduct of normal metabolism fragile fingernails, irritability, nau and by ultraviolet ~ght have been sea and vomiting.
shown to be potentiilfly impo rtant
"These nutrients that have been
in protecting again st skin cancers. shown to have an 1mpact on
.. So me an imal a nd epidem1 0
non melanoma sk.Jn can ce rs a real ·
logic studi es have shown that a ready part of most diets , and they
higher intake of Vitamm C can benefit other o rgan s as well ," he
re du ce th e development of sa1d. "Everyone can benefit from
nonme lanoma sk 1n lancer ," catmg more fr UitS and vegetables ..

3

BrieBy
Colloquium to look at gender,
race discrimination in the courts
One o f t he few studies of ract and gender d1scnmmat1on m the
federal court s wtll b~ the topac of a co lloqu1um to bt' held from 3-5
p.m. tomorrow m 545 O'Bnan HaJI on the North Campus.
The three -year study of whether, and to what extent, gender, race
or eth mc1ty affects the process of IJtigauon m the federal courts o f
the Seco nd C ~rc ull also will be the top1c of a luncheon panel discus
s10 n to be held earh er to mo rrow m the Hyatt Regen cy Buffalo.
Both events, sponsored by the Baldy Center fo r Law &amp; Social Po hey
10 the UB School of Law, will feature presentations by Carroll Se.ron,
acung dean of ;he School of Public Admmistrauon m Baruch Col lege of the City Unavers1ty of New York; Beryl Jones, a professor at
Brooklyn Law School. and 01ane Z1mm erman , a professor at New
Yo rk University Law School. Jones and Z1mmerman conducted re
search fo r the study for the Second Circuit task forcr conce rned wtth
1ssues of gender, rac1aJ and ethmc fa~rness ; Seron presented an addt ·
t1o nal report to the task force based on surveys of 1udges, lawyers.
law cle rks and courtroom deput1es.
The colloquium, which will be free of charge and open to the- pub
li e, will be moderated by Frank Munger, US professor of law and
adJu nct professo r of soc1ology.

Sociologist explores limit
of merit in higher education
What detennlnes the academic merit of educators Ill untversJ ·
ties and colleges today? Is the modern rule still .. pubhsh o r pensh ?..
In a new edition of a previously published book, a UB soctologJst
p01nts out that re~arch and pubhcauon may
not necessarily be the prime constderauons
of academic qualification. '"Scaltng the Ivory
Tower"(Transaction, 1998 ) by Lionel 5. L&lt;wis •
professor of higher education and former
chair and director of graduate st ud ies tn theDepartment of Sociology, explores the ltm11
of merit in academ ic careers.
Lewis, an expe rt on the socio log y of
higher educat ion , as well as soc1al stratifica·
tion,
in a new introduction that the most apparent changes
tn higher educa tion since the book 's first publication in 1975 arc
(hat campuses are less meritocratic and are losing their reputati on
as a place where quaJ1ty academiC work ts recognized and rewarded .
In the book, he considers h1gh1y charged subjects such as aca ·
dem1c freedom , su..is m , merit and tenure in the university setting.
He also scrutinizes academic -freedom cases from the archives of theAmerican Associauon of Umvers1ty Professors and explores; such
topiCs as how spo uses and .. significant others" factor into promo+
tJOns: a ryp1caJ day tn the hfe, both academic and personaJ, of a pro ·,
fessor ; how the celeb rity syndrome has spread to campuses; discnm1 ·
nat ton agatnst mtnorities. and burea ucra cy as a contributing fact o r
to malaise on campus
l.eWJ.s d1scusses how umverstty co mmun11Jes are co nvmced that aca dem iC life can be unproved onl y when faculty demograph1cs reflect
those 1n the larger soaety and how the need to cons1der age, gender.
eth ruc1tv and race m personne-l dec1S1ons affectsconstderat.ions of merit.

Mini-Medical School classes to resume in March
series scheduled: reconstructive surgery. alternative medicine among topics offirst program

will began at 7 p.m .
Auditorium of Farber
the So uth Campu s. Ad ·
registration is required. Fees
from S 15 to $25 per st ries.

Lect ure subjects a nd lecturers
for th e new se rie s, destgnated
"Cou rse SA," will be:
• March 10: Cancer- The latest
adva nces in diagnosis and treat ·
ment and what really works in re ·
ducing ca nce r ri sks: Thomas P.
O'Connor, clinical associate pro·
fesso r of radiatio n oncology and
a member of th e Buffa lo Medical
Gro up, and Je rome- W . Yates, pro·
fesso r of medi ci ne and associate
di rector for dinicaJ affairs. Roswell
Park Cance r In stitut e.
•Man::h 17: Women 's Diseases/
Condltion&gt;-A discussion of med! cal conditions that affect women
from ado lescence to menopau se,
Including osteopo ros 1s: Ph y lh ~
Leppert, professor and chaJr of the
Department of Gynecolo gy and
O bstetri cs a t UB a nd Children 's
H ospi tal , a nd Jea n Wa ctawski Wende, assistant professor of gyne·
cology and obstetn cs.. and SOCial and

prevenuve med.Jcme , and head of

the Division of Women's HeaJth at
Children's Hospital
• M•rch 24: Gertatrio-The !at·
est advances in geriatric med1ctne.
along with updates on Alzheimer 's
dJsease and demenua: Evan Calkins.
emerit us professor of med1cme and
special.tst 111 rheumat ology and gt.&gt;
natncs wtth Medi ca l Partners o l
Western New York L. L.P., and John
A. Edwards, professor of me&lt;hcm t'
and acting head of the Dt\'ISIOn ot
Genatncs/Gerontology
• March ) 1 : Alternat ive Med icine-What to expect from non
t rad111onal tre-atmenL~ : RonaJd P
Sa n tastero, Sedona Hohst1 c Med1
cal Center. and Sanford Levy, De-·
partment of Med 1C10t' at Ststers
Hospttal .
• April 7: Plartk and ReconrtnK·
ttve Surgery-How reconstruct.JV('
surgeons push the limits of human
tissues and the healing capabi(jnes of

the human body: Robert 1. Perry,
professor of oral and maxillofaoal
surgery. and Jerald R. Sultz. a plasuc
and reconstructtve surgeon.
Lecture top1cs and lecturers f01
the repeat senes. ca ll ed "Coursr
2B," will be:
• April 21 : Digestive DisordersAna tomy and funCllons of the d1
gest1 v&lt;' syste m and commo n gas trom tesunal d1sorder s: Frank
MendeL assoaa te- professor and act ·
mg cha1r of the Department of Ana
to mJcal Sctences. and Peter Lance.
dSSOCtate professor of med1cme.
• April 28: Respiratory Dlsor ·
d en-The- anatomy and physio logy of the- respiratory tree- and d1s·
cuss1o n of pulmo nary d1sorders :
C lae-s Lundgren , professor o f
phys1o logy, and Alan Salt zman .
chnical professor of medicine.
• May S: All~y and Other lm·
mun e Disorders-Basic pn n
ciples of immunology and d 1sor

ders such as lupus and rheumatOid
arthn t1s: Roger Cunnmgham . as·
soc1ate professor of microbiology
and 1mmunology. an d director of
the Ernest Witebsky Center for Lm muno logy. and Stanley Schwartz.
professor of rnedicme and director
of the DtviS IOn o f Allergy. Imm u nology and Rheumatology at UB
a nd The- Buffalo General Hosp1tal.
• May 12: Endocrine Disorders
In Children-Gro wth problems.
abnormal thyroid fun ct1on, child ·
hood -onse-t diabetes and alte-red
t1mmg of pubertal development·
Margaret MacGtll 1vrav. professor
o f pedtatncs.
• Ma y 19: Endoc ri ne Disorders
In Adu lb-Adult dtsorders of the
p1 tu ttar y. th yro 1d and adrenal
glands: Paresh Da ndona, profes
sor of med1cine a nd dt rector of
the D1abetes· Endocnne Center ot
Western New York and M1llard
F11lm o re Health Sys te ms.

�The languagegeography
connection
By 1111EHT CUNNINGHAM
Reporter Staff

H EN is a "hill " a
" m ou nt ain .. ?
When does a road
"c ross" a park ?
When is a "po nd"
in English not a "pond" in French?
They may sound like riddles, but
for David Mark these questions
point to a potentially fertile area for
geograph.ic studies. A professor in
the Department of Geography and
director of the National Center for
Geog raphi c Information and
Analysis, Mark has spent the last 10
years investigating how language
and meaning relate to our understanding of geographi c features
and spatial relations.
Often thought of as the study of
rivers, capitals, resources and population, "descriptive• geography of
this sort, Mark said, i.s only one approach among many. He noted tha~
due in pan to the rise of computers
in the 1960s, geographic conceptions of space and information have
_changed and ~ded, crossing
into computer science. social theory
. ~d the cognitive sciences. At the
same tim~ these fields....,; brought
their own concerns to geography.
" It doesn't make sense," said
Mark, "to study the physical envi ronment or societies without considering the geographic perspective. For example, almost all social
and environmental processes are
·attemiated by 'distan~the fur.
ther apart things are, the less effect they can have on each other...
But geography and language!
Geography and philosophy!
"Not many geographers.· Mark
admitted, "are using the grammar,
vocabulary and usage of language
as a tool for teasing apart the factor&gt; that influence people's spatial
behavior and spatial reasoning. But
I have trouble coming up with experiments that don't use language."
According to Mark, comparative
linguistics can reveal a great deal
about how people think about space
and geograp hic categories. In
French, for example, the word for
"pond" i.s "etang." "It's defined exactly the way 'pond' i.s defined in
English." said Mark, "and most etang
• are ponds, but there are things that
are etang in French that would not
be ponds in English. 'Etang' seems
to focus more on the water quality."
While his findinp mnain tenuous,
Mark said early experiments point to
the posstbility that geographic cat·
egories are not .. natural· but ..con·
structed" out of the relative position
ofthe people who name them. But this
raises another question: do people
speaking diffi!rent languages pe=iv&lt;
the feature dillerently or do they only
define it dilli:rmdyl The simple !!"'&gt;'
graph&gt;::quo1i&lt;n-'\o.batio;apondl"spreads rapidly into philosophy. social thtory and the &lt;DgllitM scicn=
"To what extent i.s the geographic
reality socially constructed! asked
Mark. "Towhatextentisitoognitively
oonstructed. and to what extent i.s it
objectively, physically 'out Ill=?"
N. the same: time that Mark is find.
ing evidencr that the "what" of grog-

W

raphy may be relative, other experiments with the
"wh="ofl'l""Sfaphy seem to be
yielding somewhat
ditiamt.reults.Eady
researd&gt; into spatial
rda:tioos~tnirr

diate that &lt;llllcq&gt;IS
of relative position
may be less subject
to rultural and linguistic variation,
more universal,
than geographic
c:atCgories Iii&lt;£ "pond" or "sea."
Using simple dnwings of an area
(a "park") and a line( a "road") Mark
and Max}. Egenhofer from the University of Maine tried to pinpoint
when subjects might describe the
road as "crossing" the park, when
they might describe the road as going "into• the park, and so on.
Working with native speakers of
English, French, Spanish, German,
Chinese and Hindi, Mark said he
was .. surprised at bow similar the
concepts seem to be across the lan·
guages, which then raises the question-of where these concepts came
from. I would presume somehow
from experience with the world.
The similarities are so strong that
it seems it must be-l thinksomehow prelinguistic,. or some·
how related to perception.
"The evidence right now," he
added, .. is that there are six spatial
relations between lines and re·
gions~ entirely inside. entirely o ut·
side, entering, crossing, tangent
but not touching at an end and
tangent touching at an end.
"But there\ a lot of work that
needs to be done," he cautioned.
If research discov= whether spatial relations do or do not have
connections to a prelinguistic universality, what sort of applications
would it have! "I got into some of
this from wondering about software:
design,• Mark- said. "Can you just
take geographic technologies that
have been developed in an Englishspeaking cultun. translate the oommand names and have it make sense
to people in other rultures!
"It seems like cultural imperialism to just assume t hat , of
course, everyone can use the same
tools," Mark noted. " I thought we
should assume that the spatial relations might be different. I was
kind of expecting that I would fin&lt;!
differences, but .. .it's starting to
suggest that maybe we can just
change the commands, at least for
the languages we've looked at."
While these kinds of issues did exist in the "analog"world, when grographersand cartographers used o=lays and other methods to represent
spatial relations, Mark said they have
beonme more central to geography
since the ~ of oompuu:r graphics
in the 1960s. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which generally
refers to all "digital" systems for presenting and interpreting geographic
lnformation, now is considered a
distinct, if amorphous, field. While
it continues to have strong links to

- . _ . . . . . . . ...... ;. the~of""""andundor­
IUD&lt;ting. And oometimcs i(s just a spo&lt; wb= lW&lt;&gt;-&lt;&gt;&lt; th=--j&gt;laa:s ,__
Since 1991, David Mark hu embarked upon a unique endeavor:: to visit
each of the 59 places in the United States where three or more states come
together. He calls his infonnal projm. TriState, USA. and he is chronidi.n&amp;
each site he visits on hi1 home page on thr Web (h tt p ://www.

goog.buffolo.-1--

/ trlrtate).

The project'Jitart was • spontaneotU." Mark Af1. · 1 was driving up the Dda...,. Valley (with a friend) and"" rcaliud"" w= dose to wt.... New )cncy,
New Yorlc and P&lt;nnsyiYania meet, and "" d&lt;cidcd to go find it; be sajd.
Easier said than done. Mark tried to locate the three-state intenectioo
fint from Pennsytvani.a, then crossed into New York and headed towud
New J~. After more driving uound and some b.cktrac:king. be pinpointed
the location to within a doz.c:n yards or so.
I •To the west of the road, a dirt tnldc. ran toward the bank of the (Deb·
ware) river at about the right orientation, with a paralld chain·link fcna to
the north,• he notes in his Web site reminiscence of the trc:k. •since we rQ·
soncd that the state line must also be a property boundary, and 1incc there were no signs
prohibiting entry, ~ walUd down the din road
to ~e ~r. Looking out into the river, we could
·~« a pOint of land atCnding doWnstream, and
at its southern end then appeared to be some
sor1 of monument or ma.rkc:r! ~
Bad in the car and bock to NewYorlc. the scordt
continued down a road. over a small brids~:: ,
through a =&gt;etcry. l!=tually tile road led to the
monument he had 1ttn &amp;om across the river.
• It did indeed oommm~orate the Tri·State
point.... (We aamincd) and photographed the
mario.-,- had til= !ina from the bmdunarlc
indicating the til= ..... boundaries, with the"""
letter state codes in the appropriate zones.
"'Th&lt; scordt had tUm more than an botu, but it
had been fun. and the idea ofvisitin&amp;...,.. ofthcoe.
and pcr!laps all. oocrncd IW: it would be an cxriting
long· tenn project: Mark Ayt in his Web site.
Sine&lt; that trip, he bas visiud t I other tri_...,.
locations. Most of them have bcca identified by
a marker of one type or another. He has been
surprised at their variety. ·It'• been interesting to see bow cliffc:rcndy people
have commemorated the places,• he said. Photographs of a number of tJi..
state markers are included on his Web lite. His favorite. so Carl
• rn so far as the place. the o ne I liked wu where New Ma:ico. Ok.Laboma
and Colorado come together-it's a sunic.. isolated .,-ca; Mutt said. •Mr
favorite marker is the Colorado·Kansas·Oklahoma orie.• which is featured
on the title page of his Web site .

geography, its concerns cut across
the disciplines, pulling heavily from
psychology and oomputer science.
CUrrently, Mark is helping lead a
team of seographers studying the history of GIS. ~want to look a! haw,
where, when and why the actual sonware systems weredeYoloped;ltesaid.
'"Wealsowantto~hawmuch

of GIS i.s a legacy of cartography. The
thought experiment is: what \WUid
happen if some cuhure invented GIS
but had never made graphic maps!
Would GIS be different! Is GIS
mostly still automated mapping1"
The history of GIS, Mark noted. i.s
rontentious,eYen today. Some people.
for example. argue that GIS was "inwnted; others that itwas"disaM:nrl"
"One of the GIS innovato~&gt; thinks
that he just discoverod i~" said Mark,
"that it was already there in the nature of mathematics and the world."

these questions valuable
geography in general,
background and tnS111Dcts are bdt&lt;l
suited to the scientific
to broad theorizing.
speculating and in
' ,trospecltion,'
said, "but before I'm
claim something. I'm
ing to want to do an ~,..,.;;~nt ~

�februiiiY ZB. 1!!1fi11.2l k21 Rep

a..._

, Poet challenges cultural assumptions about the disabled

:'Transcendence over pain, disability
i :t=.A= :VAN

T

HE day Kenny Fries was
born with twisted, undersized legs and three
toes on eadt fool. his fiomily did not respond with equanimity.
His grandmother ran through the
hospital corridors screaming, "A
freak! A freak! My daughter gave
birth to a freak!" His father fainted
Things went downhill for Fries
for many years before he came into
his own.
Today, Fries is an award-winning
poet, essayist and playwright who
stuns audiences with his lyrical,
tantalizing narrations of life on the
physical and emotional margins of
American society. He has become
an increasingly visible presence in
the national disability and literary
communities, employing his talent
to challenge culrural assumptions
about the disabled.
. Fries will be in Buffillo March 2629. He will present rwo readings
from his work, one at UB and the
second at HaiJwalls Contemporary
Arts Center. He also will present a
writing workshop at UB. The events
are free and open to the public.
Fries, whose deformities could
~ot be corrected, is gay, which presented its own set of problems as he
grew up. As a child, he was abused
by both his father and brother, and
emerged into adulthood swaddled
in ambiguities of self and memory.
These he lias aplored in his brutally frank- 'memoir, "Body, Remember," moving back and forth in
time to asseos his recollections with
insight, anS&lt;r, frustration and humor.

As a writer, he looks to the tormented body that he has learned to
. love as the plaa where memory be. gins. "The body doesn't lie," he
writes, using the surgical scars on his
lOg. as a kind of roadmap that charts
' not only a lifetime of exceptional
'Ji!.ys;cal and emotional pain, but his
, ·irans=dence of both.
r His other works include "Healing

• Rudlng, March 26 ,
2 p.m. , Student Union Th~ ­
atn~ (Room 26 ), NoTth Cam pus. It will be followed by a
reception, to which the audJ enct: U invited.

• Workshop, March l7,
ll :30 a .m . to 2:30 p.m .,
North Campm, site to bt' de-

termined. Pre -regi strati on
for the writing wo rksho p,
which will begin with a light

luncheon , is required . Call
829-3141 to regi ster. Regis. tration is limited.

• Ruding , March 29 ..
2 p.m., Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 2495 Main
St., rear entrance:.

Notebooks," an early and muchpraised sequence of 19 elegant,
graceful poems about a IOVC" with
AIDS. It was collected in "Anesthesia: Poems" {1996, Avocado Press).
He edited the 1997 anthology
"Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out"
{Plume), which has earned national
recognition for what library /ollrnal calls a "splendid volume of nonfiction, poetry, action and theater by
37 writers who live with disabiliti.;_"
The anthology is used by Jim
Swan, professor of English, in his
graduate course, '"Literature and
Psychology," in which participants
aplore bodies and their narratives
from cultural, cognitive, biologi ·
cal and medical viewpoints.
·
Susan Mann-Dolce, a clinical instructor in occupational therapy at
UB, was instrumental in bringing

Fries to Buffalo, and is a student in
Swan's course. ·r~ been an oc.cu·
pational therapist for 18 years and
I've worhd with people with all
kinds of disabling conditions," said
Mann-Dolce, who has along-standing IOV&lt; of literature. "I've helped
develop writing workshops for the

deaf and for people with aggressive
multiple disabilities," she said, "but
when I read Kenny's memoir,.l was
astonished at the collision of my
rwoworlds.
"Kenny Fries' writings and those
of other disabled artists help us to
berter understand the disabled individual," she said. "They allow us to
aperimce,aploreandaravatevery
deeply their sense of the world. And
through their hqnesty and cour.oge,
we can know them in new ways and
begin to know ourselves as well."
Fries' visit to Buffillo is sponsored
by the UB departments of English
andOa:upational Therapy; HallwaJis
Contemporary Arts Genter; New
Buffiolo Graphics; Just Buffiolo Literary Center, the UB Commitu&lt; for
the Promotion ofTolerance and Diversity; the UB Office of Disabilities;
United Ccr&lt;bral Palsy Association;
the New York State Occupational
Therapy Association, N'"'8""" Frontier District, and the Western New
York Independent Living Center.
This event is co-sponsored by
Poets &amp; Writers, Inc., with funds
from the New York State Council on
the Arts.

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who was the composer? Who wrote the theme song to .. The Addams
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The Web sites fo r the major U.S. mus1c -licenslng agen cies {ASCAP,

BMI. SESAC ) feature extensive searchable databases of song titles,
so ngwriters and publishing companies. Anyone interested in using

a published song for any purpose (e.g., broadcast, film soundtrack,
inclusio n on Web sit e ) must obtam pri o r permission from song
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the Digital Tradition (http; //www.mudc:•t.org/folkseudt.html )
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lyrics, sources and , in many instances, downloadable sound files of

both copyrighted and public-domain songs. You may search by full
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The UTI( Song Index {http;//toltec:Jib.utk.edu/-muslc/ musk-songllst-home.html ), from the University ofTenness«at Knoxville, is a database of about 50,000 songs that are published in more
than 1,400 song anthologies. These cover art songs; arias from op eras and oratorios; show music; popular, rock and jazz songs, and

folk songs of many countrie's and cultut.S:This inaeris VaiW!bte for
identifying composers and tat authors, locating the provenance o f
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New book by UB legal scholar attacks fear of feminism
ly PAT1IICIA DONOVAN
News Servkes Editor

legal scholar in the
School of Law has
strongly criticized alle-gations' that pro-feminist press bias produces a sense of
victimization in women whose lot
has improved dramatically in the
past 30 years.
In fact, Martha A. McCluskey,

A

associate professor of law, main-

tains that despite protests to the
contrary, the mainstream media

have not gone far enough to shed
light on the laws, beliefs, practices
and behaviors that support the ongoing oppression of women in
American society and abroad.

"Media, Feminism and the U.w"
{Oxford Univ=ity Press, 1997), a
new book McOuskq edited with
Martha T. Fineman, professor of law
at Columbia Uninrsity, explores
several popular redefinitions of

feminism. Written by 23 scholars
&amp;om law and other disciplines, it
aplores how lawyers, courts and

legislatures, together with the media, have produced myriad changes
in women's lives for good or ill.
Individual essays address portrayals of feminism in the media;
feminism, law and popular culture,
and how gender is "essentialiud"
or reduced to a fixed characteristic
separate from such factors as race,

class, age and sexuality.
As its title suggests, the book looks
at how feminist legal scholars hiM:
rewritten and reinterpreted laws to
increase protection against domestic
violence, sexual harassment and economic inequality. Beyond tha~ however, the authors demonstrate that

the success and failure of these legal
struggles often have depended as

much upon talk shows and soap operas as upon courts and legislatures
In an article titled "Fear of Feminism," McCluskey responds to critics in the popular press who warn
that media stories of women's suffering perpetuate outdated stereotypes of women as weak and vul nerable Such criticsalleg&lt; that women

hiM: mad&lt; tremendous legal and so-

cial gains and that feminist "malebashing"hasmade men thet;eal victims of gender crime and abuse
., ~that there"""' been
significant advances for women in
manyam15,"shesays"ltisabrurd,how.,.,...,tnsuggr:st.assomeJ,..,.,thatti:minisls ignore these gains .. atoimist that
"""""''ssocial,ewnornic, medical and
legal probl&lt;ms """'been solved.
"'To suggest that feminists ar~:
'producing' woman-victims by continuing to talk about date rape. fi nancial deprivation, domestic violence, sexual harassment and other
forms of male abuse of women ignores reality," she says . · 1n fact ,"
McCluskey adds, · despite some
progress. despite 25 years of massiv&lt;
efforts by feminists to redress the vict:imiution of v.umcn, ~ amtinuc to
face persistent gender-based inequality in law and fact.
.. Furthermore," she says, .. those
women who continue to protest
unfair treatment are often criticized
by men and women alikt who are

uncomfortable with anyone who
insists on equal treatmen,t.."
She calls for men and women
.. to reject the double standard that
views women wbo complain
about abuse of male power as
whiners, manipulativ~: liars or as
weak and dependent." She con trasts the negative treatment of
women 's complaints with the
media's sympathy for men who

complain about abuse by feminists
The media often uphold these men
as defenders of such individual right&gt;
as free speech and due process.
.. The message often played out

in media of all kinds is that women
must choose between power and
protection," McCluskey says ... We
can be strong, we are told, o nly if
we remain silent and keep our
problems private. Men , on th e
other hand, especially economically

privileged white heterosexual men,
can have it both ways-their demands for public protection arc
taUn as a sign of their powt:r and
responsibility."

McOuskey uses date-rape policies as an aample.. Critics claim, she
points out, that strict date-rapepolicies"infantilize"women by~g
that they cannot resist offensive

male advances on their own. "If this
is so," she say:; , "then the U.S .
military's strict anti -gay policies

infantilize soldiers in assuming they
couldn't resist the mere mention of
a comrade's same-sex desires."
McOuskq calls for the rejection
of stereotypes - "not just those of
tough men and weak women, but
of tough , a~nonomous individuals
and weak, irresponsible victims.
..As men and women, we- have a re-

sponsibility toward the develop ment of our society, toward o ur
own intellectual ho nesty and that
of o ur children to recognize th~:
power and responsibility involved
in claims of victimhood . .it is imperative that wt also recogni:u the
fact that public protection and in terdependence are necessary if wt
are to foster sdf-rdiant strength

and true equality."

�february 21i:1!81/VIll.2S.Io.71

New level in 'smart 'materials
Carbon composite is semiconductor, Chung discovers
By EU..lH GOI.DIIAUM
N~ Servkes Editor

A

UB enginet:r has made

the first observation of
semiconducting behavior in a carbon compos-

ite material, a finding that could
revolutioniu the fields of" smart"
structures and electronics.
The discovery lays the foundation
for structural electronics, a new te&lt;h nologywith the atraorclinary poten-

tial to endow structural materials
with electronic capabilities without
computer chips or electrical leads.
The new technology could make

possible aircraft components that
are themselves huge energy-storage devices, solar cars whose body

panels are capable of storing tremendous amounts of energy from
sunlight and , ev'entually, even
computers without chips.
.. This is a whole new level of
'sma rtness' in materials," said
Deborah Chung, professor of me-

chanical and aerospa~ engineering and principal investigator. ~we
can use the structural material it self as the electronics."
T he research will b&lt; presented
Wednesday at th~ lntcrnationaJ
Symposium on Smart Structures
and Materials.
Chung, wh o also is Niagara
Mohawk C hair of Materials Research, co-authored the paper with
Shoukai Wang. a doctoral candidate
in the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering.

would ~ eas1er and less c.xpens1v~
to fabricate than traditional silicon ~
based electronics. Because it would
spread electronic capabilities over
a much larger surface area, heat dis~
sipation-now one of th~ biggest
technological challenges facing
electronic packaging-would no
longer be a problem.
Known for their durability and

light weight , carbon composites
primarily are used to ma.nufactur~
ai rcraft parts, and increasingly are
being used in automotive compo nents, bridges. machin ery and
sporting equipment.

Currently. optical or electronic
sensors for detecting strain and
deformation are embedded in carbon composites used to make aircraft parts, a pr&lt;=ss that itself can
weak&lt;n significantly the structural

component.
"ln addition. these devices can
only b&lt; embedded in certain locations, not throughout the whole
component,.. said Chung.
"With this material, the whole
pi= i.s 'smart' and no clectrical in-

terconnection is needed... she said.
A structural electronic material
also would have exceptional en ·
ergy-storage potential, she added ,
allowing an aircraft component to
act likt a huge solar cell.

It also would p1ake solar cars
more feasible !&gt;&lt;cause energy could
b&lt; stored throughout body panels

bedded in a polymer matrix, the

constructed of carbon composites.
The discovery i.s unusual !&gt;&lt;cause
it unites advances in two disciplines
that typically don't "talk" to each

new semiconducting material

other, Chung explained.

Made from carbon fibers

em ~

"ln the semiconductor world. silicon dominates so
co mpletely that
people tend not to

think about other
kinds of materials.

esp ecially stru c tural materials." she
said "On the other
hand, structural en-

gineers
would
never think of their
materials as semicond uctors."
Chung, who i.s a

materials engineer.
made the discovery

while aamining the
electrical behavior
of carbon composites as a way to improve damage detection. She was focusing on how
changes in temperature in composite structures could b&lt; sensed using
the structural material itself.

She found that the electrical
propenies of the composite ma terial changed with temperature.
"That variation in temperature
is a signature o f a semiconductor,"
s h~ said.
·But what's even more unusual
about this particular material is
that it is semiconducting in one
direction and metallic in another...
she said... Usually, a semiconductor, like silicon, is semiconducting
in all directions."
The research shows that the carbon-fib&lt;r composite, consisting of

layers of carbon fibers, is semiconducting perpendicular to the plane

of the junction where the fibers intersect and metallic along its horizontal plane.
The advantage of having both in
one material, Olung explained. is
that the metal charactcrutics provid&lt;
a system ofbuih-indectrical conl3aS
and leads for the oomposik to whid!
a meter can he connected dim:tly.
In addition, sho said, by using

the fibers as a conductor and putting an insulator in between the
fiber layers. a large capacitor is
formed . so that energy can tx
stored throughout an aircraft or
automotive component made of
the composite.
Chung plans to focus on opto-

electronic and electronic devices
made from the composite.
A patent has b&lt;en filed on the

invention.

Jain
Continued from page 1

incoming, heavy projectile particles
and target nudei in accelerator ex periments. The particles ar. considered abnormal or "anomalous" he-

knew that with a heavy-ion beam
with energy higher than 2 billion
e1ect.ron volts per nudeon and mass

ause they are far more reactive and

could prove what I knew, but! was
helpless: There was no high-energy,
heavy-ion b&lt;am available in 1984."

decay far more quickly than such
fragments are expected to, according
to the theory of strong interactions.
In the 1980s. several group s
claimed that they had observed in·
tensely reactive, anomalous particles

during accelerator experiments.
While some noted that they could

not find evidence for anomaJon s
when the fragments of certain tnaSS&lt;S

of the incoming beam were accelerated to a certain nuclear energy, oth-

ers reported that they could.
ln 1984, at an international con·
ference. Jain took issue with his col ~

higher than 20 nucleon masses, I

Jain 's recent experiments were
co nducted at Brookhaven National
Laboratory ( BNL ) with a gold
beam. The b&lt;am accelerates gold

nuclei to 10 billion e:lectron volts
per nucleon , producing a total of
about 2 trillion electron volts of
energy per interaction collision.
"The theory of strong interactions tells you so many interactions should take place," said Jain.
" In o ur expe riments, we found 51
percent more interactions than

leagues at Berkeley. They questioned

that theory predicts." According to

the existence of anomalons based on
the fact that they could not find evi-

Jain. the extremely rapid decay ( ap-

denceofthemwhenlighterfragmenu.
rather than the heavier fragmenL'&lt; of

of the anomalons, which cannot bt

heavy-ion beams. were used
Jain published his initial results
from experiments with iron and
argon beams in two, independent

reason behind the increased num ber of observed interactions.

papen; published in 1982 and 1984
in Physical Rn-iew Lerrers. Those

papers showed that a small per ~
ce ntage of fragment s generated
after nuclear co llisions, whi ch
wer~ heavier than those us~ by
the Berkeley experiments. did not
behave according to conventio nal
theories of strong interactions.

proximately I billionth of a second )
missed by his special d&lt;tector. i.s the

The new particles ar. produced

during the initial impact, when the
lncoming· beam nuclei collide with
the targ&lt;t nuclec For that flash of

an mstant, the anomalons hitch a
ride on th e nuclear fragments ,
travel briefly with them for a few
hundred microns and then decay.
According to Jain, that short distance (one millimeter equals 1,000

phcolCJ!I"..&gt;hk film
detector i.s not used, he explained.
"Theseewnts -ud hoM been missed
ifthe tll'g&lt;l had a thidcness grw.er than
this travel distana," said Jain. In filet.
he said, that was the problem with provious experiments at other institutions.
which used doctronic detectors whose
targets ar. ....raJ centimeters thick,
cxxnpared to a few rnicn:m thid. "The
lifetimes ofsudl particles an! too short
to he seen by electronic detection."
said Jain ... The reaction dies in the
target. and so it cannot he observed."

Jain describes his detection method
as "apoorman'stechnique." It stands
in marlced contrast to the multi- million-dollar dectronic detectors that

arc the technique-of-choice among

"At the time, I said I disagreed

miaons), signifies the particle's brief
lifetime and is critical. Because of

many of the ~e - particle- physics
research groups working today.
Jain has developed his own spe-

with my colleagues and that only
time would tell,.. recalJed Jain. "-1

their rapid decay, the interactions

cial, photosensitive detectors made

can he easily missed if the proper

from o rdinary photographic film

mounted on glass. The photo·
graphic emulsion has the highest-

possible spact resolution, i.e., the
extremely small angles at which the

particles are produced in these
high-energy nuclear collisions.
Wrtb this method the emulsion act&gt;
as tll'g&lt;l and detector. The deucton,
small enough to hold in one hand. register r&lt;SUits that allow the scientists,
using a customized microocope.to see
the interactions between individual
partides. It is a painstaking approach
in which Jain personally e:xarnines the

1

"tracks" made by nuclear collisions
in the photosensitiv&lt; detectors.
The fact that a particle with such a
short lif&lt;time can he detected is especially tantalizing ba:ause it provides
scientists with the 6J&gt;t r&lt;al evidena
that other aotic. heavy particles with 1
similarly shon lifetimes. sudl as the
H particle. at last may he det&lt;cted.

j

J

�Wrnner's talk sparks debate
on teaching/technology issues
., PATRICIA DONOVAN
Mews Services Editor

T was a complex and-particularly at the md--provoca!Mdiscussion of&amp;r too many
issues in too short a time.
Nevertheless, when political theorist Langdon Wanner preJmted his performana pie&lt;%, " Introducing the Automatic Professor
Machine," in the Student Union
Theatre last week, he did more than
atirize the application of information technology and marketing
lingo to education_ He provoked discwsion of the relationship between
power and technology, the way

things are shaking out at UB and on
campuses throughout the country,
and how technology is changing the
amcept of education itself.
The program was the first in a
series of spring symposia on infor·
mation tech nology at UB, spon ·

10red by the Offia of the Yice ProYOSt for Faculty Development.
The prtsentation was introduced
by Provost Thomas E. Headrick,
' who said he hoped the series would
provoke the faculty to pursue"pedagogjcal goals that promote au then ·
tic teaching and authentic learning.''
' He added that the university community must understand and direct
•how new technologies affect our
civic culture," but emphasized that
DO university "can afford to ignore

e benefits of technology without
· g rendered obsolett:."

l Weighing in on one s id e was
Wmner, a professor at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and long-time
critic of runaway technology and
its con sequ ences, who presented
himself to th e VB a udjence as "a

aitic who has now gone over to the
.'other side" to form Ed uSHAM
;eorp.,acompanythat marlc&lt;:tsedu. "onal products and offer.;"90 Day
~ted Warranty on Knowledge,
""""mized First Name Basis son·
ware, lectures and seminars by only
lhe top- I0 minds in every field."
The purpose of this not -so-farremoved - from -realit y co mpany,

slid Winner, is to drain the bloat
£rt,m the S600 billion education industry, level its expensive infras tr up ur e,
rau its antiquated guild
approach to pedagogy and
get rid of its high -cos t,
low-p rodu ction perso n nel, includin g librarians
and professors with high
wages and cushy lifestyles.
He slipped easily into
the perso na o f Glib Marktting Manager, whose reductionist approach to

stores, hotel lobbies and other sites
all over America...
Flaible, user-friendly, just -in -time

pus through e-mail, newsgro ups.

listse:rves, online assignments and
the increased availability of refer -

pacing. low-cost (=tainly cheaper
than most colleges),APM, he said. is

ence materials, reserved readings
and other course materials.

the face- of education tomorrow.
Wmner's talk produe&lt;od anxiety in
at least some members of the audi ence, annoyance in others.

Scon agreed that commodification already is part of higher education and that it is unfair to tar IT in
education with the same brush used
to lament the deregulation ofbanks.

His faW&lt; point of view was offset
by upbeat and insistent responses
by Voldemar lnnus, senior associate vice president for ~itysa­

Scott disagreed with lnnus ,
however, that technology is politi cally neutral. "Any technology can
be used to our benefit-in this case

vices; Deborah Walters, associate
professor of computer science, and

Logan Scott, a member of the Baldy
Walkway technical-support staff
with more than 20 years of experience in pedagogical applications of
information technology.
On Wmner's side of the issue
was Henry Steck, SUNY Distin- ·
g u ished Professo r at SUNYCortland and UUP statewide vice
president for professionals.
Innu s began the response by

maintaining that information technology, or IT, while oversold. "is just
a tool, an enahler.. .a neutral technology." He acknowledged that IT
funding at UB had "been a lighming
rod for all kinds of views ... and all
kinds of issues we should be talking
about, like quality."
Walters took issue with
Winner's satire, claiming that fear
of technology is like .. Socrates' re po rted fear of the wrinen word .
.. Commercial izatio n of ed uca-

that of the university-but you get
the government you deserve," he

said. a reference to what some have

The women's buketbaJI team scored a pair of exdting road victories to
impt'O'I'e to 16-9 overall and I0-5 in me Mkt-Condnem: Conference.
The women opened their ~ trip wTth a 64-62 win at We:st:em INinois, u
senk&gt;f" Cha.rissa GarCler ~ six poina in me final I:...... to lift the Sols to
!he win. Ganlneo- finished wnh a game-high 2-1 polna and """" neals. Samantha
Cerny added 12 polna lo&lt; !he Bulls.
The women won their t:hird-o:Jnsea. prne: on Feb. 21 k\ a d'lrilli1c 80-79
at UMKC.The
lora&gt;dlhe lint,_,.,. wiM!n ~
Ca!l1enne jacob hit. ""-1&gt;&lt;*&lt; shot- 23 ~ loft jacob- !he game
13 pOOa, In !he firu CMrine. Ganlner had br ol ..... ~ 2B po;na
bebre UMKC railed to tied dle prne at 7 1-71 and bra a second OYenirne.
Senio&lt;' L.aToya CnJmpton pr&lt;Mded !he winnln&amp; po;na;, !he sec&lt;&gt;n&lt;1 .,...,.,. .
wittl a pair of jumpen as UMKC missed a finaJ shot with five seconds to go.
Crumpwn lw.hedlhe game wnh 20 po;na and a a,_-Ngh 17 .-.bounds

"Minerva flies at twilight farther
over the edge into a new era than

we'd like to think," he said. "... I'm
just a Tory socialist, slow to change,

suspicio us of change, suspicious of
raw individualism in the market place. I value ritual, ceremony, the
whole set of rituals we perform every day in a university-the getting
of coffee, the whining and

whinging offaculty to one another.
"Regardless of what others have
said here," Steck maintained,"We are
a guild-we are in control of our
tools. our product, our entry into

our profession, the validation of the
knowledge we pass on to othen."
Moderator Hank Bromley, asso-

than co mmercialization through

feri n gs, students will not attend

school here. She made a strong pitch
for computer literacy among facu lty,
proposing that IT use can improve

Howdy-Doody language
("Wow, Buffalo Bob!") of

_____

sd&gt;ooh--.""""

!he
In a 78-68 km at UMKC.YOtJ'l&amp;.
who me had nine rebounds. hit 11-d-16 shoo from che 6ekl en I'1JUtr to l pme~ 30 po;na &lt;hal loft l*n wtd1 I ,IWO po;na;,"' a&lt;-. ManJmo oddod IS
pOOa,-......,.. Soott- had-~""'"' &gt;nd- ...oo..-ds b-lhe--

Steck noted that satire takes over
where rational discourse fails, and
"were it not for my fears, l would
have found it a lot more amusing .

not the result of technology." She
argued with Wmner's supposition
that education is a right , and that
university research already is com mercialized thro ugh patents and
other forms of profit privatization.
Walters maintained that the com-

textbooks, and that if the university
does not enhance technolngical of-

jumpeo- 12 oeconds (D go.
Mlko Manmoleod !he B.JIIs
with 20 poinU. Senlon Rasaun
Young and Maa Clemens mo
were tn double figures.
On Sawnby.Y"'-'11 beam.

WOMEH' S
UB 64, Western Illinois 62
UB 80, UMKC 79

ts

mercialization of teaching through
Web-based software is no differt:m

che Univen:ky of MissouriK.an~ City on Feb. 21
The Bulls lost to Wenem
U/inois, 68-67. when the
leathemecks hit a IQ-100(

called an absence of faculty-staffstudent input in the IT plaruting
stages at UB.

tion began long ago," she said, "and

dleap, eas ily obtai ned and
absorb ed i nt e ll ec tual
products is cloaked in th e

infomercia ls and upbeat ,
you -can -do -it seminars.
His purpose in coming
to UB. Winn er cla im ed,
was to introdu ce EduSHAM 's new mechanism
for ddive:ring ed ucation
~online: the Automatic Professor Machine or
'APM, ..soon to be- fo und in
gas station s, conveni ence

collegiality and community on cam -

~as~etoall
MEH' S
UB 67 ,W estem Illinois 68
UB 61, UMKC 78
The men·s basket:ball tam feU to
I J-12 on the season with a pak
of losses on the road against
Western lllinc:Ms on Feb. 19 and

-win

a...

Wmstlin~
UB l-4, Duquesne 6
The wrestling team defeated Ouque:soe Univenky, l-4-6, on Feb. 21 in Alumni
~a. Honored before the meet bepn. the Butls' du-ee ft2rting senlon each
scored a win to lead UB. Senior 1•42i)OUOder Jeromy McVlge ~ his arftrbest 29th win. senk&gt;f" I SO-pounder John StuarYWl won his 92.nd career bout
and senior 167-pounder Matt Ricd capwred hb areer-hlgh 20th vka&gt;ry wtch .a
w;n-by fall. Junio&lt;- 118-pounde' 8riall Schul and &amp;.shn= In -pounde.- Josh
States also pinned their oppooena

ciate professor of educational or ganization , administration and

~wimmin~ an~ mvin~

policy, noted that there is much dis -

WOMEN ' S

cussion of technology on the UB
campus, but remarkably little at tention to the anxiety, excitement
and fear over where it 's going and
who's making the decisions.
Stuart Shapiro, chair of the De-partment of Co mputer Science,
called IT "a marvelous machin e
that sho uld not be shoved down
people's throats."
The d!scuss1on that en sued arose from ISS ues
raised dunng the ques tion -and -answer penod.
T hese included "corpo rate process" and "group think;" the idea that UB
must provide"what busi ·
ness wants;" control and
decision -making withm
the university; dimen sions of social activity lost
when one dimen s iOn ,
such as speed or co nvl" nience , IS e nhanced; the
Yo rk Univer s it y st rik e
over technology 1ss ues,
and the need for coUa.:uve
and representative duection of tech nological mnovauons at LIB.
The next sc hedule d
sympos1um w1ll be on
March 26 a t a 11me and
piau to be announ ced

The women's swimming and diving team captured ItS fourth consecuove MidContinent Conference dwnpkMuhip and 12 Bulls· swfmmen earned ~!­
conference honon this past ...veekend in lndWlapolis.
U B finished wtd1 920 polnts.ahe.d oiWesum llllno6 (6-19 polna),
Valpaniso (632 polna). Centnl Conneaicut (+49 polna) and YoungstOWn Sate
(JS2 poina). Head coach Oon.i Raynok1s wu I"WTled M~on coach-of-theyear for the third-straight season. Sophomore Inger Rooneem wu named the
swimmer-of-che-year, freshman Carol Cottingham was named the newc:OI'T'Iel'"·
of-the-year and junkM" Kim May was rwned the diver~f-dle-year.
Cottingham set a conference record in the I00 bre:utstroke. while Rooneem
SWMn a Mid-Coflrecord S0.89 in the I00 freestyie. ln addition, Rooneem qlallfted
for national considen.tion In the I 00 backstr-oke and the SO and I 00 freest)1e for
the NCAA Championsh~~ fint for the UB women's swWTvning prognm.

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Ungdon _ _ .._ _ _

- . ....... -lolhe-Ur-.lhe

l h e - . - - . g - .... physlul ..........

The guest speaker will be
William G raves, founder
of the University of North
Carolina 's Institute for
Academic Technology.

MEH "S

After leading che fint rwo days of competition. the men finished second at che
Mid-Continent Conference dwnptanships thiS past weekend. Western Illinois
edged
868.5 co
to W'ln Its th•rd-stnJght Mid-Con tide. while Central
Connecticot (742.5) andValp~.raiso {348.5) rounded out the field. The Bulls Nd
12 swirnmen and d1ven named All-Mid-Con s~ections, indudlng five to the fim
tam. Buns· sophomore diver Dave Safer was named the conference's dJveM&gt;fthe-yev- after winning the one-meter diVing competition, W'hile Jason Mclachlan
capttJred the 200 IM md Jose Mon&lt;uiOt"l won the SO fr-eest)1e

us.

esa.s.

lenni~
MEN "S

UB ), Un iversity o f Rochester 4
The men's tennu team faced the Unwentty of Rochester on Feb. 20 1n
Rochester. Sen10r Onin Pridgen and sophomo~ Rtchard Poveromo each won
mdividua.J rmtches for the Bulls. UB ~so captured doubles rmtches

ln~oor Irae~ an~ ~iel~
The men's and women's track-M'Id-fiekj teamS finiShed socth and bunh.
respectiV'ely at the Mid-Continent Conferelce Indoor T1'711ck Uld ~
Champtonstups on Feb. 21-22. For the men, freshrrun IUmau Halim finiShed
second In the triP'e jump ('45- 11.25). while jmlor tevnmate VICtDI'" ArUlibakl w:u.
111;.-.1 (-IS-9.2S), Senio&lt;- Fan.. Gakod; was fou"";, !he~ &lt;Rsh (49.90).
while IWhkfi G.-.. also finished fou"";, !he 3S-pound -'zht !11row (49--4.25)
On !he women&gt; OO..junio&lt;' Shelly Hamilton apwred !he women&gt; hizh1umP
"a school- and ..--A&lt;Onl 5-9.7S, ~ qualify;,z herb- !he NCAA
lndoo&lt;- Qamplonsl,;ps. Olheo- top linlshen b- !he women W&gt;cluded ~ Rut!&gt;
Conlon. second In !he ~ ..eght !11row (S3"'.25). and sophomo&lt;-e Ryan. who fin~ third kl the 55-meter- hunles ., a 5Chool-rKon::l 8.34 seconds.

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Are we having fun? An
enthusiastic crowd sent the
answer right back to The
Buffalo Chips at their annual
Valentine's Day Concert
Saturday in the Center for
the Arts. UB's all-male a
cappella group entertained
with slapstick, song and
video.

Vice president for health affairs named
Michael Bernardino ofEmory University to ovm:ee UB'sfive hmlth-sciences schools

8y AIR1IUR PACOE
News Servkes Oirect.of

ICHAEL E. Bernardino·bu been named
vice pre~iident for
health affairs at UB.
President William R. Greiner an nounced today. lkmardino, who
holds an M.D. and an MBA degree.

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has served since 1995 as director
of managed care with the Emory
University System of Health Care.
Inc. , in Atlanta and is a professOr
of radiology in the Emory University School of Medicine.
He will become the chief officer
overseeing the clinical and col laborative activities of UB's five
health -sciences schools-medi cine and biom«iica.l sciences, den ·
tal medicine, health related profes·
sions, nursing and pharmacy~n
April 1. He also will oversee the

university's relations with its affilj .

ated teaching hospitals and
Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In
addition, be will urv~ as leader for
the health-science deans in plan ning and executing joint and cooperative programs of teaching
and research , and be a key member o f the president's cabinet.
John R. Wright will continue as
inte rim dean of the VB medical
school , a position he assumed in

lanuary 1997 following the resignation of John P. Naughton.
Greiner described Bern.rdino's
appointment as ..an historic win

forUB."
He added: " His leadership exp&lt;·
riencc and his vision for the place
of medical education in the rapidly

changing health-care field will help
bring focus and strength to the
health scie nces. Western New York

is very fonunate to have so meone
of his caliber ~come a part of our
comm unity ; his joining us be -

speaks the strength and potential
not only of health sciences at VB.
but also the exce ll ence of th e
region 's health care community."
Provost Th o mas E. Headrick,

who headed the
sea rch commll tee that recom mended Bernardioo, said he
.. blends an understanding and
co mmitment to academic medi cine with health-care business ex perience. He will be a finn leader
with a dear senst of direction for
the healt h sciences. His leadership
and decision -making styles emphasize listening a nd learning

from his facuJty members. and the
health and medical community.
and bringing people together for
sha red goals and common ben
efits."
Headrick noted that a m on~

Bernardino's charges will be develop
mg a 6VC'-ytar academic and finan
aaJ plan for the medical school and
more generally guiding the planmng
for the health sciences at UB.
As director of m a naged care
with the Emory University System
of Health Care . Inc!, Bernardino
ove rsees sa les, markeung , con tra c ting , medical management
and communuy relau o ns for a
health -ca re system with net rev
cnues of more than S I billion. One
of the projects that he has overseen
1s the co nso lidation of multtple
syste_m laboratories tot o a smgle

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Crime drop credited to community policing
By SUE WU£TCH£R
News Servk~ Associate Director

FI CIALS a rc crediting
community policing for
an overall drop in crime
on the North and Sou th
campuses in I997.
Campus crime statisti cs for the
year, released last week by Denn is
Black, interim vice president for
student affairs, show that the tn
cidence of campus crim e dropped
from 1996 levels in aU major cat
ego ries but larceny, which increased in both the grand and petit
ca tegori es. and arson , which rf'
mained th e same at one case.
Some categories, including bur glary, assault and criminal mischief.
showed a decline over two yea rs.
In fact , thr chances of being a
victim of crime at UB is signifi .
cantly less- I in 49-than in the
surro unding jurisdictions of the

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City of Buffalo- I in I!l-and the

Town of Amherst - I tn 34. ac
co rding to rati os based on the
1996 FBI Un iform Crim e Repo rt
and compiled by Public Safety
"We have a verv safe ca mpu ~ .
and the communit y helps make 11
sa fe ," says John &lt;.;rela. d1r~ctor of
publtc safety.
Black a~ree s .
" I'm please-d to see the (down
ward) trend m the numht.: r~. hut
the im portant part IS not how ~·('
look on paper. but how pt."Ople fet"l .''
Black says. " I hope evcrytxldy hcb J
~n~ of M"C Urtty, that UB IS a piau·
where they ca n co ncentrate on
~ t udymg. l ca rning and workmg ."
UB also fares well when compared
to 11s peers m the AAU, and wnh tht·
SUNY centers at Albany and Stony

Brook. Grela says. with UB ranking
.. weU below the average" in the eight
major categories of crime for 1996.
Moreover, customer satisfaction

with Public Safety is high. according

to a 19% survey of those who filed
w mplamt s with the departmt:nt.
with mon- than 62 percent rating offian as"cxccllent" and nearly 30 per
~..em ratmg them as "good." No onc
ra ted officers as .. poor"
&lt;.~rela attributes t h (' ovt· rall drop
111 cn m l' a t UB 10 (O mmumt\'
pohctng efforts, no tm g that Puh
lie Safet y bt•gan tmplemcnttng tht·
~..u n~..ept 1n 1989. and "we-'rt&gt; finallv
reapmg thO.l!C benefit .s nl\W" Itt'
po mts nut that wh de tht• uln \'en
11unal W&amp;.ltdom sav.lt 11 take~ " .1
whole generat ion" of .1 po l1cc de
partment- usuallv \4 If! warsfor the communllv -polu:tng l.llll
~t· pt to become wtddv a(l.."ep teti
and effcct&amp;ve. "we're ahead of th.at
l.Urve m what we're domg "
Gre la pra1 scs th e untvcr~ll)
com mumty for cmbracmg com ·
muniry policmg, a concept that he
describes as taking a .. problem solvmg approach" to cnme

"The 1dea 1s to get the offiCer on
the street who IS responsible for an
area tu take ownership of the area
Jnd become 1t.s own poltce depart
ment .'' ht' ~.1 1d . Officer~ a rt&gt; en
.:ou ragcd to USt' an .. analvt tCal pru
~t-~.!1 .. to tdt"ntlfv problt·ms and
undt~ r s t a nd what ~ ~ caustng them .
,1, wdl as the undcrlvmg l.tlndl
1100.0. lllfltnhutmg to tht" prnh
lem~. and then dt:\dtlp &lt;1 ~ldt·
ra nge uf ahern attve s tratc~lt'' 1t1
address those- prnhlt•m.), 111 ,,JJt
tton to the tools of arrest anJ rrt\'
ec utton , he add~
Puhi11.. · Safetv offil.&lt;'r' wt1rl.. tn
the restden~..e hall.) rtnd ~· ith mJt
vtdual un1vers1tv department' .1n~i
UOitS tu form rutncn.htp' JnJ
,olv( rrohlem~ . ht&gt; S31d.
The co ncep t ts ~·o rkmg
" Pcopl( are reporttng cnmc m
a more timely fashion; they're get
tmg the community-poliang mes
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associate professor of
pharmacy prac;tice and
neurology, is research
director of the Sleep
Disorder Center of Western
New York and director
of the Neuropharmacology Division of the Dent Neurological institute at Millard Fillmore Hospitals.
What attracted you to the
study of sleep dlsorden7
I do not study sleep disorders. per
se. More specifically, I study the
capacities for various drugs to affect sleep. This includes the obvio us, such as whether a ..sleeping
pill .. produces reaJ sleep or another

form of unconsciousness and
whether the physiology of normal
sleep is pre~rved or affected by
the drug, and the impact that this
ca n have on the patient's ability to
cognitively function the next day.
~ss

obvious aspects include the
potential for medications taken
during the daytime to produce
sleepiness and/or mental impairment. This includes agents rangmg from recreational drugs , to
prescription medications taken for
systemic illness, an d also includes
over-the -counter medications.

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Every-'• compWnlngsleep deprhr-. _,. Is It 10
fM"" to get a . night's sleep7
The events of the day can produce
any number of compromises of a
good night 's sleep. The most important to identify are frank sleep
disorders , such as obstr'u ctivc
sleep apnea, Nocturnal Myoclonus and Restless Legs Syndrome,
to name just a few. Secondly, it is
important to identify other medical/psychiat ric condition s that
can secondarily interfere with
sleep. This identification requires
a careful examination by a neu ro logist with training in sleep
medicine.
Additionally, in respo nse to
so me of life's stresses, we can take
on behaviors that can exacerbate
poor sleep. Some examples are:

• Excessive caffeine, especially if
consumed after 3 p.m.
• Nighttime aJcohol consumption. Ethanol hastens a decreased
level of consciousness, but pro duces an abnormal sleep, a shortened sleep and sleep that is disrupted by multiple nightt ime
arousals and awakenings.
• irregular bedtime and sleeptime
habits. Sleeping into the afternoon
on weekmds can tnake getting to
sleep on Sunday night very diflicult,
renewing the sleep debt.
The tenets of good "sleep hygiene" include: Establish r~ar
bedtime and waketime, eliminate
daytime naps. get regular aerobic
exercise, have a light bedtime
snack and avoid ethanol and tobacco in the evening hours.
Aft OTC liMping aldJ u ef.
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No. Most over-the-counter agents
are older antihistamines that tend
to make people drowsy. Feeling
drowsy in the daytime is very dif.
ferent from producing nighttime
sleep in patients with insomnia.
There is little data for OTC agents
in patients with insomnia. Those
data that do exiSt show that overthe-counter agents produce an effect that is only slightly greater
than placebo and only for the firS!
night or two.

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The effect they prod.uce is a very
small and transj_ent decrease in
time to get to sleep, with no rea1
change in the total sleeptime.
These drugs are, however, not
without side effecu. Many can
produce a next-morning hangover. Especially in the elderly,
they c= produce orthostatic hypertension and urinary reten tion .

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'Grade replacement' proposal presented to FSEC
I

Policy lWU!d allow students tv repeat course, with second gmde used tv calaJate GPA
By SUE WUETCHER
News Service$ Associate Director

proposal designed to
help students improve
their level of knowledge,
overall GPA and prospects for employment or graduate
school by making it easier for them
to repeat courses was presenttd to
the Faculty Senate Executive Com ·
min·ce at its Feb. II meeting.
The p roposaJ also would im prove departmental and universitywide recruitment, placement and
retention, said Todd Hennessey,
associate professor and director of
undergraduate studies in the Department of Biological Sciences
and author of the proposal.
Hennessey told senators that the
current undergraduate grad ing
policy aUows students who receive
a grade of .. D+ ", "D" or "F" in a
cou rse to retake that cou rse once.
Both grades are reported on the
transcript , but hours earned to ·
ward graduation are recorded only
• once. Tbe two grades are averaged
in calculating the GPA.
He suggested that the universi ty
instead adopt a policy of" grade re placement," whereby if a co urse is
repeated , th e seco nd grade re places th e first grade in determin ·
ing the GPA.
Under Henness ey 's proposal,
both grades would appear on the
tran scrip't , and the student wo uld
receive c redit for only o ne course .
The main problem with the current policy is that it "discourages stu·
dents from repeating course mate rial which they have not mastered.
especially when the grade obtained
is 'C·' o r higher," Hennessey said. He
noted that repeating key courses is
necessary for students to attain the
level of competency required to be
retained in their major and in the

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university, to graduate with a competitive GPA and to secure desired
employment or graduate-school
placement upon graduation.
Chance to help students
"It all comes around," he said.
" It (the proposal) speaks to recruitment , it speaks to placement,
it speaks to retention. But the main
thing it speaks to is the students'
feeling that we're here for them,
we're going to let them have another chance at this. If they're a
hard -working student , they can
p ull themselves out of a littl e
slump. And students slump all the
time," he added.
"' To me, a 'C-' is not mastery,"
he said. "We expect mastery in prerequisite courses . .. we expect mastery when they (student s} co me
out of this university."
For some students. "repeating a
course is what 's necessary for mastering a su bject."
The proposal is not one that so
much allows students to "'dean up
their G PAs," but rather allows
th em to raise"their level of know!·

edge up to the level that we expect
them to be at when they graduate,
so they can be placed in th~ proper
job, or in graduate school or what ever they want to do."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the
Department of Flectrical and Computer Engineering, said be generally
supported the idea of grade replacement, but expressed concern that
Hennessey's proposal does not limit
the number of times a student can
retalo: a oourse. He also wondered
how it would affect a student's
timely "progress toward a deg«&lt;."
Hennessey said that he favored
students retaking a course only
once because if then~ were no lim·
its, they "may just lcind of loUygag
through a course and say, ' I can
just take this over and over."'
Would policy foster delays?
Maureen Jameson, asso ciat e
professor of modern languages
and literatures, said she worried
about possible delays in students
repeating courses, citing a hypothetical case in
a student

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"polishes up his record" by retak ing in the senior year a freshman level course 4&gt; ~l!ich be bad P!'r·
formed poorly, despite doing weU
in subsequent cowses.
"I don't want anybody who's at
the 400-level in French coming
back to take (French) 101 just as
rtsumt polishing. That's all I'm
trying to avoid." she said.
Hennessey said tbat the lllliwnity '
policy regarding "timeey progress
tow.ud a deg«&lt;" should take care of
delays in repeating oowses.
A benefit for the affluent

Simon Singer, associate professor
of sociology, noted that as director
of undergraduate studies in his department, he liked tlie idea of giving students "a second and third
chance.• But, he wondered if the
policy"might further inequality in
our educational pr~ in that the
more affiuen't students ;,.,uld afford
the time and have the money to repeat courses, more so than those
who are less fortunate in terms of
time and money and resources."
judith Tamburlin, research assistant professor of clinical laboratory
science, said she was concerned how
suc h a policy would apply to
courses with limited enrollment.
She cited as an example an under·
graduate anatomy course she
teaches in which roughly half of the
class earns a "C" or below. That kind
of grade can be "the kiss of death"
for many students, prev&lt;:nting them
from being admitted into their in·
tended major&gt;, she said.
"If75 people decide to re-enroU,
and I already have a waiting list
beyond ISO .. . that (proposal) is a
real concern with limited enroUrnents." Tamburlin said.
The FSEC referred the proposal
to the Faculty Senate Committee
ori Grading.

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Student computer ownership eyed
. , SUE WUETOIEII
NewsSerAcesAssocial&lt;Di-

U

B is developing a
strategy to provide
studenu universal access to computing re-

sourceo that will require them to
own their own computerS.
The proposal met with the approval of the .Paculty Senate Executive Committee at iu Feb. ll

meeting, where members urged
that such a plan be Wplcmented

as soon as possible, even before the
current Fall 2000 target date.
Universities that have adopted
such strategies have seen increases
in admissions applications and
acceptances, as weU as improved
retention. Joseph TufarieUo, dean
of the Faculty o f Natural Sciences
and Mathematics, told the FSEC
at its Feb. l I session.
While Tufariello. chair of the Student Access Subcommittee of UB's
Information Technology Committee, described a likely implementa tion date for the plan of Fall 2000,
senators urged him and other IT
o ffi cials to make every effort to
move that up to Fall 1999.
Tufariello outlined to FSEC
members why it is important to
provide .. convenient and affo rd able" camp tingaccess to studen ts:
• It wiD p rsonalize and custom ize instru tion.
• It will d away with most of the
poor}y equi ed, public comp ut~ r
laboratories, though th e r~ will
have to be speci ·zed labs, such as
thos~ that d~al \with g~ographic
information syst~ms.
• Stud~nts who ar~ computer savvy are mo re employable.
• Eq uity. Seventy to 75 percen t of
stu dents in natural sciences and
mathematics al ready own their
own computer, and about half of
all students entering UB are comput~r owners.
• Marketing. Implementation of
such a policy would allow UB to
market itself as "a high -tech insti tution."
TufarieUo described two mod els that UB's IT subcommittee is
studying: the "Sonoma model " at

California State University at enrollment because they are being
Sonoma and the "Wake Forest "pictured as the high -tech cammodel" at Wake Forest University. puses in their particular area. If we
Both models, be pointed out, delay, I think we're going to lose
require student ownership of that edge. There's real urgency on
laptop com p uters, rather than our pan. not to rush into somedesktop models. The main differ- thing and do it badly, but to do it
ence between them, he said, is that as quickly as we can and still have
Sonoma's model is a m u I t i - a good program."
vendor plan, while
Jack Meacham, professor
Wake Forest uses
of psychology, praised
IBM as the sole
the inhiative. calling
it "a bsolutel y esvendor.
He emphasized.
sential for our
university."
that both institu- ~:;iiiii!!i~7'
tion s report in He said he was
creased appli cations
di sa pp oi nt ed
that the time and improved retention,
and Wake Forest claims
table may slip.
the strategy has aided in
and
asked
faculty recru itment and
what the uni versity cou ld
increased alumni giving.
" None of the schools (across the do to put the. proposal "on the fast
co untry ) that have done thi s track."
Tu fariello noted there were
(adopted universa l access ) has
see n a n e nro llment de t line ," many deterrents t.o implementing
Tufariello emphasized.
the proposal quickly, includin g
He noted that Son om a has a training some faculty to use com number of options available to a id puters. enormous infrastructu re
students in purchasing their com - challenges such as making deab
puters, including a loan program, with Internet providers and in bundling the cost of the computer stalling computer hookups, and
into financial-aid packages and a getting facuhy to introduce com program to allow st ud ents to puter usc into their cu rricula.
"' wo rk off" the cos t of the ma "All of this takes time," he said.
" I don't want to go later than 2000.
chin e.
Michael Cowe n , professor of but I'd rather give ourselves .that
mathematics and foimer chair of amount of time to do it right."
Maureen ja meson , associate
the Faculty Senate Computer Services Co mmitt e~. told se nators professor of modern langu ages
that "the benefits to this program and literatures, also expr~ con cern about a delay in the timetable,
accrue to early adopters.
... O nce everybody is doi ng this, noting that "'if we wait until the
we're going to lose out," Cowen year 2000, it 's not going to look
said, noting the lead timt to imple- very flashy anymore.
"Why don't we do the easy thing
ment such a p rogram is at least
and take the fa culty who know al one year.
Tufariello sa id that whil e the read y (about co mputers) and reoriginal target date for th e pro - dep loy them ... and move ahead
gram was Fall 1999, " it 's far too this fall with at leas t the begin complicated to do it that quickly." nings of something?" she asked .
Tufariello noted two such pil ot
A more realistic target is Fall 2000.
programs are planned to begin in
he added.
He agreed with Cowen that " if Fall 1998 in the School of Health
we don't do it qukkly, we are go - Related Professions and the De ing to lose all of the advantage," partment of Co mputer Science.
noting that campuses with these But " full -fledged " implementation
programs are seei ng the resu lts in is targeted fo r Fall 2000, he sa id.

3

BrieD
1997 SEFA Chair's Cup
goes to Office of the Provost
T1M Office of the Provoot is the recipient of the 1997 SEFA Chair's
Cup, which recognizes the area of the univ=itythat me&lt;ts its oontribution
goal and increases its participation in the campaign by the highest rrwgin.
Members of the office pledged 113 percent above their $21,484
goal and the percentage of people who chose to make contributions
rose by 10 percent.
.. 1 am pleased that the sta ff of the provost's offic~ has demonstrated to the campus communi ty how generous it really is, and I
thank my colleagues in the office for the demonstration of support
for the community," said Provost Thomas E. Headrick.
Other units that exceeded their goals included the School of Social
Work, which pledged 146 percen t of its goal; VB Foundation. 135
percent; School of Architecture and Planning, 12 7 percent; School of
Management, 119 percent; School of Health Related Professions. 11 6
percent; Public Service and Urban Affairs, 112 percent; the Faculty of
Na tural Sciences and Mathematics, 104 percent ; Student Affairs, 104
percent; University Services, 104 percent; the G raduate School ofEdu
cat ion, 102 percent, and the Office of the President, 102 percent .
UB also is again th e top leade rship giver in th e region, accordmg
to figures compiled by the United Way of Buffalo and Erie Cou nly.
which shows that th e number of Leadersh 1p gifu of $1,000 o r mon·
and Pa cesetter gifts of SS00-$999 remained consistent. while the
number of Booster gifts of $ 150-$499 rose sig nifi ca ntly.
Leadership gifts accounted for S 167.539 of UB's to tal SE FA ~.on
tribution, while Pacesener gifts amo unt ed to $173.084 and Booster
gifts totaled $188.244 .
C hair of the 1998 SEFA ca mpaign is Oenms Black. JOienm Vllt'
president for student affairs.

Asian economic crisis to be
focus of telephone conference
A nationa l telephone conference sponsored by the National A!!t
sociation of International Educators ( NAIE ) will provide a ven ut'
for Stephen Dunnett, Vice provost for international education at B.
to addresS campus strategies to cope wi th problems related to the
current Asian economic crisis.
Dunnett will joln seve ral panelists and moderators in a discus sio n of the crisis, the direction it seems to be taking. the problem!&gt;
faced by different campuses and successful solut io ns that colleges
an d universities may em pl oy to head off further problems.
The conferen ce will take place 2-3: 15 p.m. on Feb. 27.
For registration information, call the NAFSA registration bureau,
1-800-787 -7477 or 1-2 12-691-8719. For questions about program
co ntent , call Francine Blume, NAFSA Ed ucation and Training De pa rtme nt , 202 -46 2-34 19 or e-mail Blume at frandneO nafsa .org

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Plans for new on-campus housing unveiled at Council session
By CHittmNE VIDAl.

Reporter Editor
N - campus apa rtment style housing could be
available to UB undergraduate st udent s as
soo n as Fall 1999 ·under a plan
unveil .e d last week by Dennis
Black, interim vice president fo r
student affairs.
Black discussed plans for th e
housing, the first new on-campus
housing co n stru c ted at UB in
nearly 25 years, at the Feb. I 0
meeting of the UB Council.
A total of 150 units a re being
planned for an 11 .5-acre parcel of
land on the North Ca mpus, located south of Rensch Road and
west of Hadley Road.
The university is in th e process
of circulating a request for proposals for the project, Blad said. Plans
are fo r construction to begin this
summer, with occupancy slated
for August 1999, he added .

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Like the graduate -s tud ent,
apartment-style housing being
constructed at Sweet Hom e and
Chest nut Ridge roads, the new
North Campus housing will be
owned by the UB Foundation,
which will enter into a land-lease
arrangement with the university.
T he new undergraduate hous ing is the second part of a threephase plan to improve and expand
st udent housing opportunities o n
and near US's campuses.
The third phase, Black ex plained. will involve new housing
spo nso red by the UB Al umn i As sociation , as well as rehabi litation
of dormitories on the So uth Ca m pus.
Discussions abo ut th e alumm
association-sponsored h ousi ng
project arc expected to beg in next
month.
Th~ construction of apartment style hou sing for undergraduates
on the North Campus, Black said,

will have "a dramatic effect, not
only on residence life , but on the:'
quality of life" fo r UB students.
The apartments, most of them
with four bedrooms, will be in
three-story buildings and a re ex
pected to ho use 600 stud en ts.
Some units will be designed fo r
students with disabilities.
Each unit will have a livingldm
ing room , kitchen, bedrooms and
two ba ths. Basic furnis hings a nd
appliances, including washers and
dryers, wilJ be provided.
Shuttle-bus service wi ll be avail able, and units will be co nne(ted
to UB's computer, cable -tdcvJsJon
and telephone systems.
Rental rates for the undergradu ate units have not been se t, Black
to ld council student representative
Kim Co nidi . who vmced concern
that the h ousi n g be pr1 ced
affordably.
Noting that rental rates for
apartments in the graduate -stu -

dent ho using co mpl ex on Sweet
Ho me Road are expected to be in
the low - $700 -a - month range ,
Conidi said that rents m nearby
a partment complexes, also o n
Sweet Home Road , are $550 a
month .
" My co ncern is stud em s might

not be able to afford " renl l&gt; 10 th.ll
range, she sa1d .
Black said rema l rat e.s for the
gradua te -student apart ment!&lt; arc
being set in the low -$700 range
because "'that's what's gotng to he
necessa ry to pay off th e bo nd!&gt;"
that are funding. the project.

�S.llow speaks In UB at Sunrise series

Antibiotics vs.
infectious bacteria:
a battlefield report
By IIIIIHT

C~HAM

Reporter Staff

F there is the possibility of in fection, drown it in antibiotics.
This, according to Charles
Ballow, is the kind of "common sense" that may ultimately

I

make antibiotics useless against
certain typeS of infectious bacteria, a devdopment that he said
would be "apocalyptic.•
Speaking Feb. 10 in the Center

Antibiotics, said Ballow, have
become "an industry potentially

consuming itself" because every
time we we antibiotics, we create
the potential conditions for sus-

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and genetic mutation. Lih all

our food chain...and set us up for
infection by resistant organisms."

evolving creatures, they can develop resistant traits and pass

Ballow suggested that it might be
possible to decrease these numbers.

those traits throughout the spe-

Sunrise series, Ballow described

cies. Moreover: bacteria are ca·

though he pointed out that it

the history and current status of
the .. war against infectious bacteria." A clinical associate professor

pable of fusing with other species
of bacteria and sharing the resis-

would probably require "more than
an act of Congress,. to convince the
cattle, swine, poultry or agriculture
industries to change their practic.s.
Ballow's other recommendations

infectives research at Millard
Fillmore Hospitals, Ballow charted
the triumph of penicillin and its
offshoots in the 1940s, the growing awareness in the 1970s and
1980s that antibiotic technology
might have limits and the explo-

sive growth of antibiotic-resistant
infKtious bacteria in the 1990s.
BaUow supported his conten tions with a series of statistics. Staphylococcw, a highly virulent and
potentially fatal bacterium, became
resistant in 1975 to all antibiotics
except Vancomycin , and there is
growing concern, said Ballow, that

it soon may develop this last r~is ·
Likewise, in 1990, the com·
moo infectious bacterium calle!d
pneumococci was 96 percent sus·
ceptible to antibiotics. Today, it is
only 60 percent susceptible.
tan~.

tant trait, a process known as
.. plasmid resistance.'"
..This is a conspiracy,.. Ballow,
only half-jokingly, pointed out.
He argued that the first step in
winning battles against infectious
disease is to control and~ the
use of anubiotics, whicb should be
used prudently, specilically and for
o shorter duration, he said. He recommended developing clinicalpractice guidelines for the prescription of antibiotics and reviewing the
use of antimiaobials in anintals.
In 1985, according to Ballow,
cattle, swine and poultry industries
in the United States used 18 mil-

included a critique of the current
disease-surv&lt;illance sysum in the
U.S. He pointed out that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whicb would be the logical place to .-.form current antibi -

lion pounds of antibiotics and to.
day, he said, the figure is probably

dudes such considerations as
whether antibiotic therapy is necessary, whether oral therapy can replace IV therapy, whether a narmwspectrum drug can be used over a
broad-spectrum drug and whether
a different an1:J.biotic would have a

mucb higher. In 1992 •. there were
40,000 to 50,000 pounds of antibiotics sprayed on U.S. fruit trees.
"It's quite clear," said Ballow, "that

these organisms then show up in

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for Tomorrow as part of the UB at

of pharmacy and director of anti-

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ceptible bacteria to mutate into
resistive bacteria.
Bacteria, Ballow explained, are
subject to spontaneow mutation

otic practices.. do not have the au·
thorityto require information from
health centers or industry.
" How does this system work?"
asked Ballow. "The answer is. 'not
very well.'"
Ballow's definition of the "prudent" selection of an antibiotic in-

Iowa- potential foe resist.aoce.
Is there hope that medical technology can save the day without
all these new regulations and practices? Researcben ue constantly
looking for new antimicrobials,

said Ballow, and new ones are
slated to be approved for use, but

these amount to only a relative
handful

• If we use them too much, we're
going to lose them; be noted.
"They should not be first -line
therapy."
Ballow did find a glimmer of

hope in his own experiences at
Millard Fillmore. Recently, when
there was an outbreak of resistant
bacteria, the hospital was able to
revene the process by talcing the
offending antibiotic out of the en-

vironment. Thibacteria again be·
came susceptible.
Although the majority of bacte-

rial infections remain treatable,
Ballow remains sk.pti~ about the
future. "Human nature being what
it is," he said, "I don't see us acting
proactively. But public-health
awareness can go a long way."

PSS hears Headrick, discusses campus issues
By B.UN GOlHAUM

of serving the community and en-

News Servkes Editor

hancing recruitment, the appearanct
of the campus was a serious issue.
In terms ofattracting additional sup-

P

ROVOST Thomas E.
Headrick's remarks about

new construction projects

at the Feb. 12 meeting of
the Professional Staff Senate

pan for maintenance, "We're going
to have to work a lot harder on outside giving." he said, adding that VB
raises about one-fourth toone-third
ofthe funds from private sour-c.s that
its peer institutions do.
Headrick mentioned that plans

prompted a spirited discussion
about the need for improving
maintenance of existing facilities.
Discretionary pay~. the status of the search for a dean of arts wereunde:rwayfor ..beautification"
and scienc~ and responses to the of both campuses, to be funded by
decline in research funding also · the matching program in the
governor's capital budget, whereby
were discussed.
Noting that allocations for new

construction are a positive devel·
opment, Barbara Mierzwa of the
Office of Continuing Medical
Education asked if Gov. Pataki's
five-year capital b udget for SUNY

includes funds for maintaining
new and existing facilities.
"This is not simply about beauty
and conifon for employees," she said,
.. it is about service to our students
and our many guests. There is a di rect

connection between our ability

to attract students and faculty, and
being a hospitable envimnment."

Headrick said that there was no
expectation of additional state tax
support for maintenance, but

the state would matcb one-for-one

private donations for construction
and rehabilitation projects.

Other comments about the
physical appearance of the campus
concerned titter found inside and
outside buildings. including ciga-

rette butts, the poor condition of
some classrooms and debris from
student newspapers, particularly
advertising inserts, that are strewn
around the first floors of many
buildings.

Headri ck noted that he wa s
aware that steps to rectify these
problems have been discwsed, in·
eluding a campus program simi·
Jar to the "Adopt -A- Highway"

pointed out that faculty and staff

campaign where a dub or organi ·

salary increases were fully funded
in this year's operating budget,

zation would take responsibility

for a specific area or building, and

efforts to cbarge the Spectrum for
~he said, in the context i clean · up costs in buildings where

whicb is not typical.

the newspaper's inserts are strewn.
Michael Stokes, cbair of the PSS,
noted that VB bas one of the leanest staff/faculty ratios in SUNY,
and asked Headrick if there were
plans to look at, and deal with ,
expected retirements in areas af.
fecting maintenance.

Headrick promised to convey
the group's concerns to Senior
Vice President Roben J. Wagner.
On another topic, Jane DiSalvo
of the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs in the Social Sciences asked
about the university's guidelines for
granting discretionary pay raises.
"President Greiner bas said that
as a result of the analysis provided
bytheWomen'sTaskForoe,lfcwants
to see the gender-equity gap closed,"

said Headrick. "That is priority
NwnberOne, and he is working on
pmcedures to do that." He added
that an analysis and repon on the

issue are due soon from the com·
mitt~ that was set up to look at it.
Th&lt; contract agreement reacbed in
the fall between United University
Professions. the unipn representing
SUNY faculty and professional staff,
and the state indudes I percent discretionary salary in&lt;nases to be paid
in December 1997,1998 and 1999.
Headrick said that he understood that discretionary raises that
were due to be paid in December
1997 would appear in paychecks
in mid-May, and that they would

be backdated. He said that an announcement with more details
should be made soon.
Anastasia Johnson of the Department of Anthropology asked
about the status of_the searcb for
a dean of aru and sciences.

Headridcresponded that thesearcb
CJliiiDlittee bas ftliXJDlDlellde seo.oeral
strong internal and emma! candidates for initial review and interviews. He said that the new dean
should be named by around )Une 30,
when the new arts and scieoces college is expected to go into dli:ct.
Responding to concerns from
senator&gt; about strategies for closing
the research-funding gap, Headrick
said that the president was reorganizing the duties of the vice president for research, Dale M. Landi, to
allow him to focus mo~ on sup·
porting faculty members in secur·
ing external suppon and providing
~support for manage-ment onoe grants are received. "R&lt;searcb funding (at VB) bas been essentially flat or actually declining for
the last three to four year&gt;. while
other SUNY units like Stony Brook
have leaped ahead," said Headrick.
He noted that in addition to the
development of stronger relation ships with industry, as embodied
in the VB Alliance, plans are being made regarding what aca·
demic units should be doing to increase research suppon ..

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Osteoporosis, oral health linked
Analysis ofnational database shows strong relationship
8JlOISIWIBI
News Senllc:os Editor

W

OMEN with osteo-

porosis are at high

risk of developing
gum disease and losing their teeth, the first large-scale
assessment of the relationship between bone meritbolism and oral
health has shown.
Researchers at UB, led by Jean
Wactawski-Wende, assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics,

compared bone-mineral density
and two measures of oral health in

2,599 postmenopausal women
who participated in the National
Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey lll (NHANES), conducted
between 1988 and 1994.
Their analysis showed a strong

bridged the gap between these two
diseases,• she sai&lt;l " If the relation ship remains strong in further
studies, i~s possible something as
simple as a routine dental X-ray
could be used to screen for bone
loss. Dentists could employ interventions available for preventing
and treating osteoporosis to combat oral bone and tooth loss."
Osteoporosis aod periodontal disease are serious public-health con -

cerns. Osteoporoois atr.cts more than
20 million people in the U.S., most
of wbom are """"""' aod result3 in
ncarly2 million liactw&lt;S per ye:u: Total coots ofthis disease, including lost

"It's possible .-.ethkog ..

and direct relationship between
bone loss, gum-attachment loss
(an indicator of periodontitis, or

simple . . . routine dental

gum disease) and tooth loss.
Results of the analysis were presented in Philadelphia Monday at
a symposium devoted to integra-

ICfte'l

tive biomedicine at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Scince. The symposium was chaired

~

Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinished Professor and chair of the
epartment of Oral Biology.
"Women whose bo ne-mineral
nsity was two standard devians from the norm, representing
the loss of roughly 200 milligrams

of bone, increased their risk of
having periodontal disease by 86
percent,n Wactawski -Wende re ported ... 1 think we can say also
that people diagnosed with periodontal disease may be at higher
risk of underlying osteoporosis.
" It is still early in the study of this
relationship, but it looks like we've

X-I'II)' could be used to

for bone lou."

JEAN WACTAWSKI-WENDf.

activity and indirect facto"' is esti mat&lt;d to reach $18 billion in the U.S.
Some form of periodontal disease
affects 75 percent of tht U.S. population, with 30 percent of older
adults experiencing severe disease.
The NHANES analysis was based
on measure:mmts of bone-mineral
density of the hip. using dual-energy
X-ray absorptiometry (DXA); attachment loss, defined as the depth
of the pocket between tooth and
gum, and number of missing teeth .
Results showed an 86 percent increase in attachment loss and a 32
percent increase in tooth loss for
every 2/ I 0-of-a-gram decrease in
bone-mineral density. These results
support those of a 1995 pilot study
of 70 postme nopausal women
Wactawski-Wende conducted.

Wactawski- Wende said it is
thought that the loss of mineral
content makes bone more susaptible to peri odontal ba cteria ,
which then in creases gum detachment and the
risk of tooth lo55.
Strong associations with both
attachment loss
and tooth IO.S also were found with
smoking, lower educational level,
increasingageaod increasing bodymass indeL Finding&gt; also indicated
African-American women were
more than two times more likdy to
have attachment loss than white
women, and Mexican -American
"women were five times less likely to
have tooth loss than white women.
Wactawski-Wende is co-principal investigator on a four·year
study, funded by the U.S. Army's
medical unit, to more dearly define the relationship between oral
health and osteoporosis.
The study involves 1,300 women
enroUed in the Women's Health lni tiative Vanguard Center at UB. Oral
health will be assessed using anach ·
men! loss, tooth loss, alveolar-crestal
bone height (bone to which the
teeth are attached ) and jawbone
density. DXA measurements will be
taken of tht hip, spine, forearm and
whole body, as well as the mandible.
"The results of this study will be
available in the year 2000." she said.
..At that point, we should have a
much dearer understanding of the
relationship between these diseases."
Additional researchers on th e

NHANESanalysis,aU from UB, were
Genco, Sara G. Grossi, Ernest Haus·
mann, Maurizio Trevisan, Mieko Ni·

shida, Robert Dunford and Alex Ho.

Libraries staff marks a
WorldCAT milestone
By P'A11IICIA DONOVAN
News Servk:es Editor

FTER )'ears of trying and several near
misses, the US Libraries' Central Services Staff succeeded in establishing a
milestone on WorldCAT, the Online
Computer Library Center (OCLC) database by entering iu 37 millionth online record.
Officials at OCLC, a non.-p rofit computer library service and research organization that links
more than 24,000 libraries in 63 countries, last
summer reported a lot of activity on its database
as libraries worldwide vied to add a milestone 37th
million record to WorldCAT in what is ~entially
an electronic game of chance.
It was UB instructional suppo rt technician
Marzenna Ostrowska who succeeded in marking
that milestone, and it happened when she wasn't
even trying.
Ostrowska earlier had com peted unsuccessfully
to make the 36th million entry and decided not
to pursue the next benchmark. Having decided
not to play that game, she prepared 10 records one
day in June, transferred them to the UB Libraries'
online catalog and left her desk.
When she returned , she learned that the old saw
abl!ut reaching the goal by letting go of it was, at
least in this case, right on the money. Withoul try ing, she had made the WorldCAT record -setters'

A

team.

Was it the librarian's description of
a rare chapbook illuminated byChe
Guevera's sister
that made her
day? One of
Sophocles' lost
playscripts?
Not exactly. The winning record
described a juicy piece of pulp fiction, the 1974
London edition of "The Gu ilty Are Afraid " by
James Hadley Chase.
"The Guilty Are Afraid " is part of the Lockwood
Memorial Library's George Kelley Paperback and
Pulp Fiction Collection, which contains more than
25,000 volumes of detective and mystery stories,
adventure stories, fantasy and science fia.ion. Kelley,
who holds several degrees from the university, made
UB arguably the world 's leading repository of SCI ·
ence-fiction, adventure and pulp-fiction books and
magazines when he donated the collection in 1994.
Chase is making a splash in other realms b&lt;.'·
sides WorldCAT. Two of his novels recen tl y have
been adapted to film ... Rough Magic," a passable
1997 movie starring Bridget Fonda, began lil e as
C ha~·s " Miss Shumway Waves a Wand." The film
"The Set Up," starring Bill y Zane, cold fish of
.. Titanic," is based on the Chase novel, "My Laugh
Comes Last," which might have been a particu larly apt title to mark Ostrowska's lucky day.

CJBytes for Bookworms
looking for • ~ ..-11 Despite dire warn-

ings that the Internet heralds the death of
books and reading, the Net contains a plethora of
sites dedicated to boo~k reviews, lists ofbook
awards, online bookstores and reading-group discussion guides:
The- Yort&lt; llmeslloolu ( http://www.~ com/boolu/
home/ ) has quickly become an indispensable resource for readers on
the Net. This site not only gives you tht complete Sunday book review
section, but also daily book reviews, first chapte"' specialized bibliographies, audio clips. book-industry news and links to online discussion
groups. The site is searchable by author or title,aod maintains an archive
of more than 50,000 reviews back to 1980. While first -time users of the
site do have to create a log-in name and password, the site is &amp;ee. Other
online newspaper book reviews include: The Los Angeles n..-lloolu
(http://www.IMJ..-.cam,_/EHT/IIO()I(S/ ) and The WashIngton l'ost llook- (http://www.wuhlngtonpost-com/ IIY~/m-- .html ) .

Amazon.com (http://www.....u.on .com ), which bills itself as
'" earth's biggest bookstore," is also a great resource for thoSC" who are
.. just looking." You can search its list of mo re than 2.5 million titles or
browse 22 subject areas. Amazon frequently provides a plot synopsis,
excerpts from print reviews and editors' essays, as weU as readers' com·
ments. Other features of the site include Amazon 's free "eyes" service,
which informs you (via e-mail) whenever a new book appean by an
author or on a topic you have K lected. Amazon's .. reviewed in the
media" category indicates titles that ha~ been revi~ed in such sources
as The New Yorker or National Public Radio, and is very useful for
locating that title that you heard about on "Fresh Ali," but can't quite
remember. Other large online bookseiJers include . .rnes •nd Noble
(http:/ / www. b•rnes•ndnoble.com ) and Bl•ckwells Online
llookshop (http://www.biKkwell.co.uk-lbookshops ).
llookwlre (http://www.bookwlre.com ), th&lt; metasite for the
book industry, provides links to full -text reviews from Publrshers
Weekly, Boston Book Review, Hungry Mind Review and Quarter/)•
Black Review of Books. It also includes more than 7,000 links to pub lishers, booksellers, libraries, book -awatd lists, announcements of
upcoming authors' tours and links to online reading groups. Pub·
lishers also are joining the reading-group phenomenon by offering
reading-group guides for selected titles-some of the largest of these
include Simon &amp; Schuster's Slmonuys (http://www.slmonu.ys
.com/ reMing/ } and Random Ho use's Books.Random (http:/1
W'MfW.randomhouse .com/ llbr•ry/ lltGG ).
For more review sites, check Yahoo's listing of book reviews at (http:/
/ www.y•hoo.com/ Arts/ llum..,ltlu/ Uteroture/Revlews/ )
For assistance in conn ecti ng to the World \\fide Web. contact the
C IT Help Desk at 645 -3542 .
-Austin Booth· and Nina Cascio, Umvers1ty LJbrones

BrieD
Women's Club plans activities
for March and April
The UB Women 's Club has a full slate of activities planned for the
months of March and April , including the followiflg events:
Money and You group--March 4 al 7 p.m. in the Clearfield Li·
brary. Linda Corder. associate dean and director of development in
the UB medical school, wiU discuss charitable trusts/planned giving.
Book group--March 9 at I p.m. in the Williamsville Branch Li brary on Main Street. Nimi Bahl and Meena Rustgi will lead a dis cussion on ..A Way in the World" by V.S. Naipaul.
International Comminee--March 17, a mo nthly social is planned
in Room 210. Student Union, North Campus. Coffee. tea and snacks
will be served. The meeting is open to all who would like to meet
and converse with international st udents. The theme is celebrating
th e holidays and exploring a variety of customs and traditions.
Evening Go urmet-March 19, a gathering fo r a St. Joseph's Table
will be held. Call CarmeiJa Hanley for more information.
Bowling group--every Monday at 10 a. m. in Sheridan Lane.!&gt;.
An Evening of Beauty will be presented from 6-8 p.m . on March
30 in the Figurehead Club Hair Salon, 5512 Farber Lakes Dnve.
Williamsville. Volunteers will participate in demonstrations. An In
ternational Fiesta Wrap Supper will be served, ala cost of SIO pt' r
person. Meena Rustgi and Norma Rubm are co-cha1rs.
The annual Chinese Banquet will be held April 19 al 6:30p.m. til
I he Golden Duck Restaurant, Maple Road, Wilhamsville. A 1 2 - cour~t'
Chinese banquet will be served al SJO per person. Banquet proceed ~
will benefit the Grace Capen AcademiC Award Fund. lnd1v1du als and
couples are invited to attend. Arrangements art&gt; by Doroth y Soon g
and Anne Brody.
Reservations are being taken for a day tnp to Toronto on Apnl 30.
when the club will visit the Bat a Shoe Museum and the Art Gallery
of Toronto. Admission to the Bata museum and the art gallery. a
box supper and deluxe bus transpo rtatio n are includ~ in th e $55·
per-perso n cost.

�Studies offer hope for restoring lost hearing·11
Findings may lead to preyention, treatment ofage-related hearing problems
lly LOIS IIAIWI
News SeMces Editor

TUDIES with important

S

implications for r~toring
lost hea ring in humans
and lessening or prevent·
ing age-relat~ hearing loss were
presented this week in St. P&lt;ters-

burg, Fla., the work of researchers
from UB's Center for Hearing and
Deafness. Poster presentations on

results of the studies were given
Feb.l6and 17at the annual meeting of the Association for Research
in Otolaryngology.
Age-rtlated hearing loss may be
lessened or prevented in the future
by regulating an enzyme that neu tralizes free-oxygen radicals, de-

structivr molecules that can destroy sensory hair ceUs of the inner ear. suggests preliminary research conducted at UB.
Using mice lacking one or both
components of the genes responsibk
for production of the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutas&lt;, or SOD,
the UB research= showed that agerelated hearing loos was greater and
progressed faster in mia deficient in
the enzyme than in mia with a normal g&lt;n&lt;tic makeup and SOD production that served as a amtrol group.

.. Before this present study, we
thought that hearing Joss was a
normal process of aging," said Ri -

chard Salvi, co-director of the
Center for Hearing and Deafness
and leader of the research group.
"Then we found people with no
loss, and we figured it was related
to a low-noise environment. Now
we believe that at least some age ·
related hearing loss is due to a ge netic deficiency in antioxidant en zymes, such as SOD. If we are able
to regulate the enzyme and modu-

late the number of free radicals
present, there is hope for a therapy

for age-related hearing loss."

The researchers used mice in
which one or both componenu of
the gene responsible for production of SOD had been eliminated,

along with mke with a normal
amount of SOD.
In one study, the researcben measurod auditory sensory-all loss in
mice that were young (2 months),
middle-aged (7 months) and aged
( 17 months). None were subjected
to any interventions, such as noise
exposure, that could cause cell damage, yet researchers found dramatic
differences among the groups.

.. The control-group mice had
some sensory-all loss just from being old, but far less than the mice
lacking SOD," said Robert Burlchard,
a principal rtsearcher on the study.
"This suggests that SOD may play a
role in cell loss, a condition that leads
to hearing loss. People who have
deficiencies in SOD or other antioxidant enzymes may be at groater
risk for losing their hearing."
In a companion study, researcher. led by Sandra McFadden measured actual hearing loss, as well as
sensory-cdlloss. in mice that were
13 months old, an age roughly
equivalent to 50-60 human years. As
in the previous study, none of the
mice had been
to interventions that could affect hearing.
Mice lacking one component of
the SOD gene had greater hearing

if they are not neuttalized by antioxidant enzymes,• McFadden
said. "We think that SOD ddiciendes may increase cochlear vulnerability to environmental insulu,
such as noise or drugs. as well as
to injury from normal frtt-radical activity during aging.
..An increase in antioxidant enzymes that neut. free radicals,
such as SOD, may protect the cochlea from these insult&lt; and prevent or lessen hearing loss.•
For more information on the
two studies, see http://www.
buff•lo . edu / news / L•test/
De-k.S.!.t.html
" Before this - - ' - study,

we"'-"'- hurtng
loss was a natural process
of aging."
RICHARD SAlVI

tabolism can cause extensive damage to living tissues, including the
sensory hair cells in the inner car,

Mcfadden is the author of another study presented at the meeting. that showed that the brain
center responsible for hearing re tains the ability to reorganize itself and respond normally during
periods of reduced activity resulting from damage to the auditory
nerve endings in the inner ear.
The researchers in this study also
found that the damaged nerve endings that transmit impulses from
hair cells tothelnincan retDYerfrom
injury, but at a significantly slow&lt;r
rate than the brain. These futdings
have important implications for rtstoring lost hGring in humans.
" It is not news that the brain can
reorganize iuelf after damage to the
perip beral .sensory organ," said
McFadden. "What is new here," she
said, "is our finding that the brain
can reorganize itself again after the

fessor in The Winship Cancer
Center. Before joining Emory, he
was affiliated with the University
o f Texas System CanCer Cen ter
and M.D. Anderson H ospital and
Tumor lnstitute in Houston and
Evcren (Wash.) General Hospital.
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Bernardino earned his medical degree
in 1973 from Ohio State Univer-

sity and did his residency in diagnostic radiology at George Was!'lington University Hospital in
Washington, D.C. In 1996, he received an MBA degree from
Robe r lo C. Goizueta Business
School at Emory University.
Certified by the American Board
of Radiology, he is a past president
of the Society of Computer Body
Tomography and has been active in

f"'i"""d

loss than the control-group mice,
particularly at the higher frequen-

cies, results showed. · The mice
lacking both genes were very likely
to be deaf at 13 months.
"We know that the free radicals
produced throughout the body as

by-products of normal cell me-

paipberaliCDSOry orpn ~
from~ and ICDSOry inpu1 is
ratortd. Thii ""'1 be important
with regard to restoring b&lt;arina in
humans, through the use of bearing aids or CX&gt;ChJeu ip!planu, for

aample, because it demonstrates
that the brain mnains plastic a&amp;r
a period of sensory dq&gt;rivotion."
The finding of central-auditorysystem pluticity also may aplain
why many hearing-aid users go
through an adjustment period before they perceive an improvemeat. McFaddeo said.
Researchen induced reversible
damage to the auditory-nervo endings in the cochlea, the primary sensory organ of the inner ear, in eight
chinchillas, and monitoted auditory-signal transmission between
the damaged nerve and the location
in the brain that r=ivos its signah.
Measuremmu of actiVity at the
brain site and at the auditory-nerve
fibers wert taken at days I, 5, 10 and
30 following the induced injury.
" Remarkably, we fouod that the
brain re&lt;:oVerS sooner than the ear
its&lt;IJ;" McFad~ said. "Speci6cally,
responses recorded from the inferior
coUiculus recovered to normal in
fiV&lt; days. long before the respOnses
recorded from the auditory ner;e,
which took up to 30 days.
"These results teD us that auditory-nerve fibers carrying impulses
from the ear to the brain can regrow,
which is essential to the reoovery of
hearing. and that the central audilOly syste&gt; i.a""the brain reorganius itself to main lain iu function
while the nerve fibers are dam-

aged.ltthen~itsdfagain

as nervo function is rostored." ·
For more information on the
study, see l"'P:// www.Mffalo.
edu/ news/L•test / McF•dden
Hurlng..html

Vice president
Con_r.-._1
labora tory system. Prior to be coming director, he was associate
clinic director of managed care
with the Emory Clinic, Inc.
Bernardino has been afftliated
with the Emory University School
of Medicine since 1982. He has
served as director of magneti c
resonance imaging and director of
abdominal radiology at Emory
University HospitaJ and as a pro -

Crime drop
Con_from_l
sage"' to "call if they see suspicious
persons." Grela says.
This is evidenced by an increase
in the number of complaints received by Public Safety over the
past five years, Greta says, noting
that complaints have increased
from 10,732 in 1992 to 14,216 in
1997. Arrests also are up. he said.
from 85 in 1994 to 152 last year.
The decline in burglaries on both
campu=-from 220 in 1995 to 186
in 1996 to !58 in 1997-&lt;an be at tributed to severaJ factors, he says.
In addition to community policing,students are no longer circumventing the automatic door- locking system in the residence halls.

And most of the habitual criminals
responsible for burglaries on campus-one proficient thief wandering aro und campus ClU1 be respon s ible for 20- 30 burglaries, he
notes--are now in jail.
Grela could not explain the increase in larcenies, but noted that
that type of crime often ..spikes." He
did say, though, that as a new year
begins. "people tend to get lazy and
complacenL" For example, many no
longer use the lockers near the racquetball courts in Alwnni Arena, or
leave bookbags. frequently containing wallets-theft of a credit card is
defined as a grand larceny, he points
out-unanended in the libraries.

medical organizations, including
the Society of Magnetic Resonance
in Medicine and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists.
Bernardino. who has completed
25 research grants, has edited two
books, authored or co-authored
three dozen book chapters and
more than 180 scientific articles.
and given more than 250 scientific
presentations or lectures.

�UB's research functions reorganized
SIDENT William R.
reiner has announced a
eorganization of UB's
sponsored program, organized research and related activity
that movos business and other functions out of the Office of the Vice
President for Research, Dale M.
Landi, to allow Landi and his mff
to concentrate on service to princi·
pal investigators and strategic planning for sponsored .-.search.
All of these changes will aUow
Landi's offiu to focus on "critically
important activities,• Greiner said.
The "first and for&lt;rnost" of these
activities will be supporting UB f.ac.
ulty m~mbers in preparing and
submitting grant and contract applications. and securing grants and
contracts to suppon their research.
"That is 'job one' for the vi~
president for research," said
Greiner. ·we want seJVi~ for prin cipal investigators to be prompt,
supportive and effective, even bet -

R

ter than it has been in the past."

During the active life span of individual grants and contracts,
Landi will be the ombudsman for
principal investigators and will
work with Provost Thomas E.
Headrick, Senior Vice President
Robert ). Wagner, the deans and
other university offices to facilitate
the work of principal investigators.
Landi will continue to oversee
UB's compliance with federal and
stat&lt; regulations regarding the pro-

tcctiou ofhuman research subjects.
responsible conduct in research, investigator disclosure and oth&lt;r ethical issues associated with research.
Landi also will be UB's strategic
analysis and planning officer regarding sponsored r~arch .
"This is a function which is cru cial to our future and which has
been subordinated to the polyglot
of responsibilities heretofore imposed on the vice p.-.sident for research," Greiner said. "We intend
that the shift in responsibilities ...
will allow service to principal investigators and strategic planning for
sponsored research to become the
primary foci of the research office."
Greiner praised Landi for "the
mann&lt;r in which he has managed
an extraordinarily complex array
of responsibilities."
The business-services aspects of
sponsored programs administration, such as purchasing and payroll, have been moved to the Office of the Senior Vice President.
These functions are being integrated with their counterpans on
the state side, with a goal of crcating a single business-operations
unit for UB serving all state and
Research Foundation accounts,
and ultimately, aU auxiliary services, including the Faculty Stu dent Association and the US
Foundation.
Units that previously reported

university co ntroller.
Management of tndirect COAt recovery revenues paid to UB
through the Research Foundation

also has been assigned to Wagner's
office. The move IS "part of our
long-term plan to ope rate on the

hasis of an all-funds budget. which
will coordinau all US income and
expenditures. regardless of th e
source of funds," Greiner said.

Wagner will tal« .-.sponsibility for
these business functions as Research
Foundation operations manager.
The Office ofTechnology Transfer S&lt;rvices has been assigned to the
new University Business Alliance.
along with the Center for Industrial
Effectiveness (TCIE), the Greater
Regional Industrial Technology
program (GRIT) and the Strategic
Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPJR) program.
Landi 's office will take over re spo nsibility for the Laborator y
Animal Facility from the vice
president for health affairs . As signing the facility--an all-university research fadlity serving pri -

marily the health-sciences schools
and departments in the social sci ences-to Landi 's office "puts it in
a neutral forum" and frees the vice
president for health affairs " to fo cus fully o n other complex and
challengi n g issues regarding
teaching, biomedical research and
clinical practice," Greiner said.

to Elizabeth Kopra, assistant vice
president for sponsored program

gin until a new director of the fa -

services, now rcpon to Kevin Seitz,

cility is hired this summer, he added.

Transfer of thq facility wiU not be-

WOMlH'S

UB 65. Youngstown State 66
The women lost chdr fifth Mid-Con
game
5eUOf'l. and second to
Y~ Sate. on Feb. 14 in
Alumni Anona.
The Penpts controtled the
fim lult.ladin&amp; by as many as I 8
po1ms. &gt;n&lt;t dominatin&amp; fim-IWI
shoodn&amp; 43.3 percent from
the
to the Bulb'
24.1 percent.
The Bulls rmde a dow, but
COf'1Vindrl&amp;. run in the second haH,
e¥entualty tying
score at 65 on 2

a me

scoma.

field."""""'""

me

1oyup by

tres~mw&gt; rofbny

Bell &gt;n&lt;t •

pass from freshman Mari McOu~
Younptown Sate h.ad

pou..slon when. "" &gt;econd&gt;
left In regubdon.juntor forward Samantha Cemy convnitted 2 bul. sendtna: YSU
tD the line ;and gMng
Penguins the 66--65 VICtOf"y.

me

lBnnis
WOMEN' S
The women competed 1n the University of P'it:tsbuf"&amp;h lrMD.tiorW held Feb. I315. Senior Anedea. Oilk&gt;n rmde it to the semi-finals of che consoWion ~cket
in the AightA sin&amp;Jes.where she lost to Duquesne's K.nso Kondn.d\.6-1 . 6-1
Ott...- hlghli&amp;fla Included jun..- April JGser. who made It "' the seml-m.h ol
the consobdon bnck.et in the AiJht 0 lingtes before losin&amp; to Akron's Grace
deGula, white freshnun Andrea Hughes apcured the consobdon bncket.
defeating L OMs &gt;nd T Porn o1 Pitt.

InDoor lra~K anD ~iBID
UB had seven top ftnlshers and

tWO school records we~ brobn at the Cornell
lnvttational held Feb. l ... Men's team highlights included perlomwlces by seniOr
Fumu Gakodi, who was first in the 400m and second in the 200m: sophomore
Spencer Sea. third in the -400m. and senior Neil Mul"n)', M!COnd in the pole
vault.
Highlights of the women·s tum we~ performances by 1umor Shelly
Hamilton, first in the high jump. and junKX Ruth Conton. first In the 20-pound
wefght throw.
Sophomore Moltt Streng broke ~ US school record in the ~tathkw\,
finishing seventh of 26 and scoring ) ,0S4 points.
US also brob a school record. pbdng second in the men's ..x800 With a

time ol 7o59.69.

Find better way to use resources
Editor,
During the last decade, UB has upgraded its ath~tics programs. In the mid-'80s, I counseted against
that, stating (verbatim) •one of my misgivings is
that, once begun, this program will start to lead a
life of its own, and that even when it turns out that
the hoped-for support is lacking, we will inexorably move toward completion ...
I then floated a motion, commenting "'What I
want to preserve with this motion is the explicit
recognition that. although the future is uncertain,
it Is no longer uncertain when the future slowly
but surely becomes the past, and one ought not to
be blackmailed by long·run contracts, or by sunk
costs, or by explicit promises to alumni, or by sheer
laziness, to blithely charge ahead, even when it
becomes ev;dent that the baby, if not stillborn, will
require life-support systems of heroic dimensions ...
Developments since have shown that the costs
are indeed steep, and that the support, as measured by attendan ce at games and contributions
from benefactors, has been meager.
The costs include not o nly financial costs, but
also a loss of freedom in making one's own deci·
sions: we are subject to rules and regulations of
the NCAA. a watchdog organization that forces our
hands in any number of ways we would prefer not
to go had it been left up to us. But as it is, we
either p lay ball with them, or not at all.
In pre\1ous instances where we danced to their
~ohn

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Rich Stadium and UB, which would allow society to
spend resources in a more productive fashion. Surely?
Not by NCAA rules. For what plausible purpose? We
have a nice stadium of ample capacity and elegant
design, and are forced to spend millions to produce
an architectural monstrosity serving no purpose at al1
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Q&amp;A-Psychology pn!Sandra Munuy
dis£usses romantic rrlatiomhips.

PAGES

Literature of Love·

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Special-interest housing; it may
imprrJVe retention of students.

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Political

Parody
The foibles of Bill Clinton,
here depicted in EMs garb
for a number entitled "The
Fondler," sung to the tune
of "The Wanderer," were
fair game for the Capitol
Steps troupe during a
performance Friday evening
in the Center for the Arts.

Greiner, Goodman discuss enrollment
University taking new initiatives for recruitmet:zt, retention, Faculty Senate told
. WUETOtlll

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targets fwo . years in a row,

scri bing a situation in which he

To improve retention, the: uni -

News SeNkes A&gt;soci&gt;te Di"""&gt;&lt;

recently found a senior UB faculty

versity will be doing some block

member to be totally unaware of

lenge. given r«:ent de-

Goodman said the university has
set •more modest targets• for Fall
J998 that art do.. to the enroll-

clines in numbers of
applications and continuing students; was the focus of
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost for
undergraduate education, and
President Wtlliam R. Greiner at the
Faallty Senate meeting on Feb. 4.
Goodman told senators that for
the second year in a row, UB failed
to meet its enrollment targets last
fall. •The problem is more a retention problem than it is a recruitment problem," he noted, pointing out that although UB enrolled
more freshmen than targeted , it
"did not come close to the continuing un.dergraduate target ,"
falling short by 260 students.
Since UB missed its enrollment

mmt figures for this year.
Goodman p~U&lt;ntedsenatorswith
preliminary headcount figu= for
the spring semester that showed the
decline is oontinuing from the fall.
Applications for the Fall 1998
semester continue the downward
trend, h e noted, with freshman
applicationsasofFeb. l downS .S
pc:rcentfro.mlastyearand7.5percent from two years ago. Total un dergraduate applications were
down by 7.1 percent from last year
and 11.5 percent from Fall 1996
Goodman urged faculty mem bers to convey that message to
their colleagues. "We need everybody to know that (there is an enrollment problem ),.. he said, de-

registration of incoming freshme~nrolling a small group of
students in the same sections of
requi red cou rses-"so they see
each other and get to know each
other" and hopefully stay at UB
bqond the first semester or year.
Goodman said. When possible, this
block registration will be combined
with a section of.. UB 101,.. a course
offered to new students to help
themtogettoknowthel:Jnive.rsity.
.. UB lOt," which has been avail able to students for years on a
small scale, now will be offer~ on
a much larger scale, he said.
UB also is using the Retention
Management System , a question naire that identifies .. npn -cogni tive" factors, such as family prob

U

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any enrollment problem. Enrollment must become a • rugh priority for faculty and staff," he added.
He pointed to several new initiatives by the Admissions Office,
which, he said, must take a • more
proactive, more aggressive and
more modern" app roach to recruiting applicants.
T he office . which has been
working with th e enrollmentmanagement consulting firm of
Noel- Levitz, is making more di rect-mail con tacts with prospective st uden ts. It also is conducting
telemarketing using a comp uter
program called Forecast Plus to
identify and personally call prospective students who are considered more likelYto enroll at US.

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Grant to fund rehab education programs

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HE Graduate School of
Education has been
awarded a five -year,
$2.5 rnillioh grant by the
U.S. Department of Education
(DOE) to provide free continuingeducation programs to employees of
more than 180 community-based
programs providing rehabilitation
services.
The Community Rehabilitation
Program-Rehabilitation Regional
Continuing Education Progra_m
(CRP-RRCEP) will serve DOE's
Region 11: New York, New Jersey,
and the territories of Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
It will offer free education and
training for employees of public
and private community agencies
whose mission is to provide rehabilitation, occupational training,
employ ment coaching and job·

placement services to target populations. In Western New York ,
these include Allentown Indus triesi People, Inc., and other non state-operated organizations.
CRP-RRCEP will be operated
through the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, where it joins the Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program for Region IL The latter, also
funded at UB by DOE, has provided continuing-education programs for employees of stat e·
funded agencies since 1974 and
has earned a reputation for innovation and quality programming.
Both programs are co-directed by
David Burganowski and Dwight
Kauppi , associate professor of
counseling and educational psychology and di=torofthe graduate program in rehabilitation counseling.
Day-to-day operations will be
supervised by Project Coordinator

Ronald House, a former CorneU
Univenity faculty member who di=ted Cornell's Human Servia. Administration Program in the New
York State cOUege of Human Ecology. House, who has extensive experience in curriculum design and
training, said programming this
year will include more than 50 continuing-education courses at agency
sites and through Internet distancelearning programs. Although some
programs will be co-sponsored by
the agencies, there generally will be
no cost to eligible organizations.
Traineeships for lodging and.meals
will be available on a limited basis.
Available courses include vocationa! assessment, case management , personality disorders, job
coaching, crisis intervention and
prevention, team building, communication, strategic planning, applied
mental health, management of in dependent living, job development

and marketing and fundraising
Special-interest forums for community-agency employees will be
available, as will seven certificate
programs in human -reso urces
management, management deve:l opment and technical assistance.
Distance--learning programs in management and professional subjects
also will be available to organizations.
State-runagmciesalrcadyservedby
the UB program under the DOE's
Regional Rdlabilitation Continuing
Education Program are the~ York
StateVocationalandEducationa!Services for Individuals with Disability,
~Jersey Depanment ofl.abor/Division of Vocational Rdlabilitation
Services, U.S. Vu-gin Islands Disabilities and Rehabilitation Services,~
York Commission for the Blind and
VISUally Impaired, ~Jersey Commission fnrthe Blind and VISUally 1mpaired, and l'umJ Rico Deportment of
theFamilyNocatiooalRthabilitation.

�there for everyone. The r;.wty of
the ·situation , though, is that
people are ccinstantly clanging'
throughout their lives ("" they
confront new situations and challenges, like new jobs and having
children). So maintaining relationships is a process of mutual
influence and change whert
couples change one another into
their "true loves."

s.nclra Murray,

assistant professor
of psychology, has been
a faculty member since
1996. Her major areas
of concentration include
close relationships, psychology of the self and motivated cognition.

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When people begin romantic re·
lationships, they focus primarily
on the virtues thty see in their
partners. This is easy to do early
on because couples tend to focus
on shared interests and conflicts
aren' t that likely to come up. So
the pull of their partners' virtues
draws people into their relationships and strengthens the sense
that they've found the "right" person .
As time passes, though, we be·
gin to discover our partner's faults
and we begin to have conflicts.
These types of aperiences generate doubt. We then need to find
some way of minimizing our
doubts.
So in terms of the mental pro·
cesses people go through, this type
of romantk trap (i.e., that we only
discover our partner's more serious faults wheri we've alteady
committed ourselves to the relationship) translates into 'Ptople
needihg to minimize the imporrance of their partners' faults and
. blowing up or embellishing t)&gt;e
importance Of their virtues.
· Through these types of transfor·
mations, we find a sense of secu·
rity in the perception that wt're in
the right relationship with the
right person.

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swer becaust researchers frame
questions in terms of factors that
predict relationship satisfaction
and longevity, rather than in terms
of "mistakes" people make. Rela·
tionships can dissolve without
people necessarily making identifiable "mistakes."
But, many researchers would ar·
gue that the development of relationships depends critically on the
dtvelopi:nent of trust between
partllers. And the development of
trust depends on partnen recip·
rocating one another's expressions
of affection and commitment.
So in the beginning stages, are·
lationship can experience difficulty if one person comes on "too
strong,. and makes expressions of
C&lt;!mmitrne)lt tpat th~ partJ)e( is
not willing to reciprocate. In tum,
a relationship can also _run into
difficulty if one partner "drags" his
or her feet and doesn't reciprocate
the other's expressions of affection
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nlationships; people need to fed
as though their feelings are n:cip·
rocated So insecurities about bow
your (prospective) partner feels
about you can stop people from
initiating ·relationships. Another
way of putting this is that fear of
rejection can often stop people
from initiating relationships.

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Most researchers believe that the
nc&lt;d to form and.maintain relationships is a fundamental human motivation. Sn I would argue that everyone is capable of forming dose
relationships, but certain types of
personality variables and past experiences may make som~ people
more reluctant to take the risk of
trying to initia~ relationships (be.
cause of fear of being rejected, etc.).
H- ~ _ . . le8f11 to deYelop better relatJOnlhlpSf

I woul4 need to write a book to
answer this q~estion co~pl~ely
because !here has 5inlply been tpns
of research that bas looked at the
question of what make:s some relationships .mofe sa~fr.ing 1h.an
others.
It seems that relationships.fup~­
tion best and stay the most satisfying when partners are charirable
and tolerant in how they see one
another. This is critically impor·

tant because conflicts ue always
.going to come up and ~le in..
evitably rranscr- u, thrii relationships. Giving your partner the
benefit of the doutit in these sitU..
·ations is a good n:commendatiQn
for keeping your relationship
more satisfying. · •:

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slglot7

Not exactly. I belieoe that people

can be attracted to someone at first
sight, but love is a mut.h more
complicated emotion that requires
commitment, and commitment
only comes through time and
shared experienca.

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No, I don't really think so. Re·
searchers have really only been
studying love from a scientific
standpoint for about 30 yean. So
given the compleii.ty of the phenomenon, I think we're a long way
from talcing the magic out of 1=.
And ew:n if reseuchen I1Jld&lt;rstood ·
I00 percent of the variance in why
people fall in love and what makes
relationships slay satisfying over
time, this still wouldn't take the
magi&lt;: out of the experience for the
people who are in the relationship.

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Wlwot's _ . . . , . , . . . . . _.t
J'm rWuiing a Vtty active research
lab and we're studying romantic
relationsflips. This term we are
in~olved in a very exclting project
where we are looking at the daily
experiences and feelings of college
studentS in roniantk relationships. We're- in the prOciss oF re·
c.ruiting particip"!'ts right uow,
and if aPr. ~fyol,lf !~are interested in Parrlcip.ti.Og. theY
reach us by e-m ail at dally·
st....,..acsu.louffalo ...... or by
phon~ at 645:3650, ext. 3o8.

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Ethics code: senators debate its purpose, need
~~==ate DirKtor

outside the ~tructional m~tat...
Consent will not be onllSldered a
( ( I F it ain't broke, don't fix it" defense ifa on":'plaint~ brought,~
was a common senumentex- code slates, With th_e mdividual m
pressed by members of the the relationship ,:"'th the greater
Faculty Senate during discus- power haVJDg to hear the burden
of accountabili ,
sion at the group's Feb. 4 meeting
ty.
.
.
of a proposed code of ethics gov·
Boot• professor and chair of the
erning relationships between stu- DepartmentofManagernentSc:ie:ncc
dents and faculty members.
an d Systerns, told senators tha t al .
In discussing the code, drafted by thoughtherehavebeennoproblerns
the Committee on Academic Free- in this regard, he believes that it
dom and Responsibility and pre- would be "better to have a sratcment
sented by committee chair John for our coUeagues that certain be·
Boot,senatonsaid that having writ· havior is so unprofessional as to be,
ten rules regarding facuhymernbers' in filet, unaa:q&gt;l3ble, and to have that
conduct, without a "pressin~ need," Slaternentdearlyblackonwhite."
UBnowis"intheworstofallpos·
would "invite lots of problems."
The code states that "all amorous siblesituations"becausetheissuehas
or sexual relationships between fac· been raised, he said, adding that if the
ulty ana students are unacceptable Faculty Sena~ does not aa:q&gt;t a axle
when the faculty member has pro· of onnduct, colleagues will not think
fessional responsibility fo r the stu - the issue is important because the
dent, even when both parties have senate did not take action.
Don Schack, professor of math·
consented, or appear to have conematics, said that he was "somesented. to the relationship.
whatsuspiciousofthingswbichare
"Specifically, a faculty member
should not have an amorous or sexual going to solve problems that don't
relatiornhip. consensual or otherwise, exist." According to the proposed
with a student who is enrolled in his or code, Schack noted, if his wife were
her onurse, or whose paformance is to register for a course that only he
supervised or evaluated by that faculty !aught, "we must gel divorced or I
member. Nor should a faculty mem- have to get fired because nothing
ber be involved in any docisions that in here protects us from the case
may mvard or penalize a student with where it's a prior existing relationwhom he or she has or has had an ship and there are·not a lot of alt&lt;r·
amorous or sexual relationship. even na!Ms to the parties being a teacher

and ~ude~L ~ ~that is a hell of
a senous liability.
"'nce you have a rule like this,
you also have a legal weapon. The
university will have to have a bier·
- - -L
f - --~
to d--• "th
&lt;lKny 0 . pr~..K.CUur~
. ~ .Wl .
(complaints) . .. lthink!IIIIVItesa
lot of problems • he said.
•
.
Lou Swartz, assoaate professor
fI
"d b th gh Boot'
o aw,w e ou t
sexplanatiOn !or w hy the code_IS '
?eeded was speoous. ln my opm·

IOn~wesh?uld le:'vethingsas~ey
are, ~e wd, notmg th~~e was ~o
pressmg need for expbat rules:
Provost Thomas E. Headnck
agreed with Schack that once a
rule is in eff~. a procedure for
enforcement will have to foUow.
"Whether you pass this rule or
not, I suspect we're going to have
it (a procedure for enforcement)
because I think if everybody un·
derstands implicitly we believe
thjs is the code by which we opcrate, and when people violate that
code, whether it~s written down or
whetherif'spartofourunwritten
understanding of our responsibilities, we have to have something
to deal with it," Headrick said.
MitcheU Harwitz, associate pro·
fessor of economics, told senators
they can vote for the proposal because its subjunctive languageuse of the words "should " and

.. if"'--does not make it a •hard
rule. All it says is 'we ought to act
in a certain way.' Since we all agree
we ought to act in certain ways.
and this is all couched in the sub·
·
·
· it
JUncbve
and not the 1mperatave,

seemstomewecanvo~forthis."

Jack "~
-cham,
r.
f
pro.essoro psy·
chology supported the proposal
•
•
calling it "exactly the right thing
to do.• The proposed code "alerts
our colleagues. that the situation in
thel990sisdifferentfromthe'60s,
'70s and '80s," he said. The proposed policy is "not a law or set of
regulations," be added. "This is a
sratementofprinciplc,wbatwebe-lieve in, what we would like the
world to be," he said. "It's not something to use to police eadt other.•
The proposal will be discussed at
the senate's next meeting March 4.
In other business:
• The senate approved a resolution
supporting a SUNY review
onmmittee'sreportontheNewPaltz
sex oonferena: that dcfrnded actions
ofNewPaltzl'residentRogerBowen
in allowing the conference to be
held, despi~ its conttoversial topic.
• A vote endorsing a resolution eorablishing procedures for review of
major m)rganizatiops of academic
units was disallowed because the
senate had lost its quorum. An·
other vote will be held on March 4.

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Software 'maps' the fight on crime

.,B.UII __
News- Editor

F

ORdeada;polioeci.p.nmmts~ reli&lt;d on poper

pin maps as a way to visu-

alize where crimes occur.

The mapt~R~ 10hdptbe
police ljlOt pollt!l1lS in crime, but they
crude metbod. and """"=as
on the maps bave 50 many pins in

=.

th&lt;m that it becomes impossible to
acwraldytradtpollt!l1lSofincidmls.
Now, a tam of studmts and re-

"The drawback of paper p in

maps il that they are limik&lt;l to
crime," aid Pamela Beat, principal i.matiptor with the Center for
Management D~opment-in the
Scbool of Management, which has
acted as facilitator on the project.
"Our software system will allow you to overlay other data on
maps as weu: she
.
explained, "such

searchenbave~ a solution:
a oomputerized pin map forthe Buffalo PoU&lt;Z Department that oould
eventually repla&lt;Z paper pin mapo,
putting a far more oophisticat&lt;d
crime analysis tool right into
the hands of beat offi=s.
The system, called
BCAM, ( B11ffalo ComputerAssisted Mapping) was developed
by studeots and researchers in the
Department of Geography and the
National Center for Geographic
Information and Analysis, headquartered at UB, which has one of
the nation's largest faculties with
expertise in geographic information systems (GIS).
A prototype of BCAM has been
de livered to the Bu ffalo Police

and census data that will help the
potice determine some of the facto" behind the crimes. With this
tool, they can begin to identify
why aimes tend to occur in certain locations.•
The system exploits the connection in what is termed the ..crime
triangle" -the victim, offender
and location, according to Hugh
Calkins, associate professor of geography and co-principal investi ,Department.
gator on the project.
According to the department
"The program allows you to
officials, BCAM will allow officers
clearly
how these facto ... interto strategically target their crimeact," he said.
fighting efforts.
For
aample,
he explained, ge..Any time you· can autonlate,
ography students and researchers
ead of manually just putting a
arc cond u cting a related, pilot
p' on a map. you gain a.ccUracy,"
sai LL Duane Rizzo, public irifor- project specifically on prostitution
in BuffaJo's historic Allentown
ma ·on officer for the Buffalo Police
Departmeoi. ·Wit&amp; this ~tern; W. neighborhood. In that project,
can zoom in on an~ right down they are trying to identify what
to a particular blOck. It will nelp us . kinds of· lOcations are attracting
track crime patterns, better allocate increased .proStitution 3.nd wliy.
.. So far, we've found that prosmanpower and give us the supervisory tools .to ideotify wh.~ &lt;;rim&lt; titution tends to occur near vacant
may be occurring or recurring."
· houses, 24-hour stores, lit parking
He added that the computerized lots and shelters," explained Shane
maps are an excellent tool for Eisen, a senior in the Department
demonstrating how the depart- of Geography and a stude nt rement is responding to concerns searcher.
While in some cases those conabout crime in the community.
The researchers added th at not ncctions are random, often they
only do the computerized pin a.re not , Calldns explained, and, he
maps show where incidents occur, added, o nce incidents start to octhey also can display other, perti- cur in an area, they tend to contin ue and sometimes increase.
nent information.

see

The researchers developed
BCAM by customizing for the Buffalo PoUce Dq&gt;arunent a oommercially available, crime-mapping
software package. called ArcView.
"The hurdle to having police de-

partrneots use this technology is that
this is a generic software package
and there is a very steep learning
curve," said Calkins. "We went to the
police department and asked them
what they wanted out of it and we
came back here and customized it
so that they oould easily get out of it
the information they wanL"
Calkins pointed out that the Buffalo Police Department receives
more than 300,000 calls over the 911
dispatch system per year; BCAM
takes the raw data that oome in on
those calls, which are categorized
acoordingtodate, time, location and
type of offense, aod maps them.
The prototype software developed
at VB is extremely user~friend1y;
users simply click on items they want
to see represented on the maps.
Foraample,acaptainroightwant
toseehowmanycallsaboutcarthefts
came in from a particular district on
the .Previous ~ight, between the:
hours of midnight and 8 a.m.
By selecting those parameters
from on -screen menus, the captain is able to view instantly a
color-coded map that clearly dis plays the location of those inci dents for that particular night.
"Our program links the 911 system and the mapping system,.. said
Calkins ... The result is a program
that processes the 911 data overnight so captains and other police
personnel can quickly see what 's
hap~ned in a particuJar area."

Greiner reorganizes office staff
By SUE WUETCHEII
News SefVic'es Associate Director

RESIDENT William R.

P

Greiner has announced
changes in hi s off~ce
staff.
Alan Carrel, vice dean for administ ration in the School of
Law, has assumed th e role of
deputy to the president.
Ca rrel succeeds Molly Mc Keown, who has beeo named the
new SUNY associate vi&lt;Z chancellor for governmental relations.
The pr'esident also announced
in a memorandum the appoint ment of Eileen Cain , director of
public relations at Canisius College, as assistant to the president,
effective March 2.
•Alan 's extensive experience
ancNrnowledge of UB and our
Western New York community
are great assets to the univer-

sity," G rei n er said in namin g
Carrel.
He said Carrel will serve as
deputy to the president for the
spring semester, during which
time the process of selecting a
permanent appointee will go
forward .
A 1967 graduate of the UB law
school, Ca rrel joined the law
school staff in 1978 as associate
dean for external affairs. He previously had been a partner in the
law firm of Rosen, Yasinow, Roberts, Rich and Ca rrel.
Cain, director of public relations at Ca nisi us since 1992, will
serve as director of communications for the office. She also will
work with the Western New York
legislative delegation.
Cain succeeds Beverly Sanford,
who left the president's office in
September to become associate

director of UB's Institute for
Local Governance a nd Re gional Growth.
A graduate of Buffalo State
College with a degree in public
comm unication, Cain will receive a master's degree in organizational co mmuni cation
from Canisius this sprin g.
Greiner annou nced that the
sea rch for a new director of
state relations has been put "on
hold" pending a review of assignmen t of responsibilities
within the office . Upon
completion of that review pro cess, he added, " we will eit her
reopen the search for a sta te relations person. or do more with
what we have and handle governmental relations through
reassignment of duties and pri orities within the president 's
office."

Rap ac tar

Phi Beta Kappa nominations
open; applications due March 1
1 Is tiM for application for election to Phi Beta
Kappa, the national honorary society for undergraduate students in
liberal-arts degree programs.
Chief sources for nominations are departmental nominations. selfnominations and a computer printout from ~rds and RJ:gistration
indicating students who meet the credit hour and·GPA thresholds.
Nominations, accompanied by the rdevant student transcripts,
should be sent by March I to:
Jeannette Ludwig, acting president, Phi Beta Kappa; Ann: Mili
Sidorski, Undergraduate CoUege, 220 Talbert Hall.
Students must be enrolled in liberal-arts degree programs, B.A.
or B.S. (normally not B.F.A. ) in arts and letters, natural sciences,
social sciences or special and individualized majors. Typically, seniors are nominated, but a small number of juniors also are elected
annually.
Criteria include:
• Grade-point average of3.75 or higher (with 85 hours completed )
• Grade-point average of 3.50 or higher (with I 00 hours completed )
• WeU-rounded hberal-arts program of study (minimum: UB's gen eral-education requirements have been completed)
• Transfer students must have completed at least 32 hours at UB;
the overall GPA (i.e., UB work, together with work done elsewhere )
must comply with the standards listed above.
In addition to selecting new members, the Omicron Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa makes two monetary awards to distinguished stu dents. The Samuel Capen Prize is given for outstanding work in any
genre; the .Hildegard Shinners Prize is given for the best student essay. Faculty arc urged to send a potential qualifying piece of work or
its detailed description , aJong with a nominating letter, to jeannette
Ludwig, Modern Languages and Literatures, 910 Clemens, North
Campus, before April I. A self-addressed envelope must be provided
for materials to be returned.

Robert D. Yaro to lead
' second session on regionalism
Robert D. Yaro, executive director of the Regional Plan Association,
America's oldest and most distinguished independent metropolitan
research and advocacy group, wiU offer perspectives on land use and
planning at the second session of"Regionalism: From Agenda to Ac·
tion ,'~ a series ofdiscussions on regional collaboration coordinated by
the Institute for Local Governance and~onal Growth at UB.
The session will be held from 5-8;30 p.m . .oo fel;&gt;. 74).1) tpe, B_uf:
· ·
·
falo Hilton.
The focus of the session-improved approaches to land use and
plan ning, with emphasis on Erie and Niagara counties--emerged
from the series' first session, in which participants had identified
land use and planning as a top priority for the region.
Following a diaJogue with Yaro on these issues, participants at the
session wiJJ generate action steps in land use a nd planning for the
Western New York region.
The 1998 Clarkson Visiting Chai r in the UB School of Architec ture and Planning, Yaro aJso is a design critic in the Harvard Uni versity Graduate School of Design and an adjunct professor of
urban planning at Columbia University.
For more information about the co nference, call the institute at
829-3777. The deadline for reservations is tomorrOw.

Collaborative learning is topic
of SEAS-sponsored workshop
Faculty from the School of Englneertng and Appli ed Sciences
(SEAS) and from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathemati cs
who teach engineering students are invited to attend a workshop on
..C reating a Collabo rative Learning Environment" from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday in the University Inn and
Co nference Center.
The workshop, sponsored by SEAS, is being co nducted as part of
th e Visiting Scholars Program sponsored by the American Societ y
for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the National Science Foundation.
The UB workshops are being team-taught by Kathenne 1. Sanders, associate scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, and John M . Mitchell and Patrick V. Farrell, both professors
of mechanica l engineering at the University of Wisconsin -Madison.
In the workshops, the visiting scholars will meet with faculty and
develop new techniques for the classroom that participants will be
encouraged to apply this semester, as their .. homework" assignment .
At a return viSit to VB, scheduled for April 27, the visiting scholars
wiU continue their discussions with faculty to evalu ate the success
of the homework assignments.
Regi stration is required for th e fTee workshop and space 1s lim ited. For more information. please contact Eileen Hassett at 645·
2771 ext. II 02 or hauettOac:su.buffalo .edu

�41&amp;.pa..._
~rney

from Kenya

Professor braves peril
in human-rights-quest
.,_ ~

Reporter Sblll

G

U NS, illegal border

crossings, detention
centers and last-minute

escapes from life-

threatening situations: Ma.kau
Mutua's journey from Kenya to
Buflialo has all the dements of a
Hollywood tbriller. But for Mutua,

an associate professor in the
School of Law and co-director of
its Human Rights Center, the attempt to build something out of
his journey, to apply its lessons, is
just as compelling as the journey

itself.
MutuacametoBuflialoin 1996,
but the ehain of events that led
him here was set in motion 15
years ago, while be
still a law

wa5

student at the Uoivenity of
Nairobi. Opposed to the singleparty state tbat controlled Kenya,

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of ... wlt'-t l«11l''ng •

ltlli.dard of llwtoig.• .

he led a 1981 demonstration in
favor oflegalizing opposition parties. According to Mutua, he and
the other student leaders both expeeled and enoouraged a i&gt;eaceful
protesL
During·the demonstration, police fired bullets over the heads of
the crowd. Mutua, like many of his
fellow protesters, bad never heard
the sound of a gun. Some demon strators dispersed, while others
broke into small groups, throwing
rocks and overturning police ve. hides throughout the city. By

evening, the government brought
out the army to restore order.
As symbolic leaders of the day's

'"events, Mutua and a friend decided they had to go " under ground," hiding from the police
and the army for several days.
"II was difficult for us to get in-

formation underground, so at one
point we

decided to come out,"

said Mutua. "'We put on threepiece suits and false mustaches
and went to a pub that was open
24 hours a day. We had one drink,
and listened to what people were
talking about After we got our secO'n d drink, I felt something pressing against my temple. I turned
around , and there was a man
standing next to me with a gun
wrapped in newspaper. He told me
to get up and follow him. I had
never seen a gun up close."
The man, who worked for the
police, put Mutua in the trunk of
a car, taking him to an underground ceU in a detention center.
For several days, government authorities questioned him about his
role in the protest.
"The general push; said Mu tua,
"was that we were pawns of the
Soviets. Quite frankl y, I did not
even know where the Soviet embassy was, and I told him you don't

need to prompt people to protest
against unfair government poliey."
Kenyan Jaw required suspects
to be produced in open court
within 24 hours, but Mutua was
beld for several days. In an attempt to force his releue, he went
on a hunger strike, refusing to eat
for one week. Presumably to keep
him from dying in their 'custody,
the police put Mutua back in the
trunk of a car and dropped him
in front of his sister'• house. He
was so weak his sister bad to carry
him inside, where he ate and
showered.
"Shortly thereafter, we got word
tbat they had only released me so
I could eat," said Mutua. "That was
when I decided to head for the
border with Tanzania. I should say
tbat, after I left the house, a few
hours later, they came. I beat them
by about two hours."
Taking only the clothes be was
wearing, Mutua crossed n.ear
Kilimanjaro, beginning a second
life-in Tanzania. With the help of
former law profe""rs in Kenya
and the UN high commissioner
for refugees, he was able to enroll
in the Univenity of Dar-es-Salaam
. iir Tanzania. .
· several years later,• Mutua
. added, ."the. Kenyan.g~&gt;vernment
was going to swap political refu.
gees with the Tanzanian government. Once again, I missed being
captured by tbis much. That's
when I decided to come to the
States."
Mutua attended Harvard Uni. v011ity, reeeiving his doctorate in ·
juridical science in 1987. After
working for a year for White &amp;
Case, a prestigious New York law
firm, Mutua returned to Harvard,
working as associate director ofits
Human Rights Program from
1991-96.1n 1996, he joined the UB
Jaw faculty.
"When l interviewed at Buflialo,"
said Mutua, "I knew that this was
exactly the place I wanted to be. l
was struck by the civility of the
faculty, but also the deep concern
for society and for the place of the
law in social ehange.
·
"As a place to live, Buffalo is not
an intense and aggressive place," he
added. "And, as strange as tbis may
sound, it really reminds me of Africa. Despite what you read about
Africa and its problems, the people
are intensely hospitable, and I find
people in Buflialo laid back and
welcoming in that same way."
But u much u he might appre·
ciate the specifics of Buffalo,
·Mutua's ideas and ambitions are
international in scope.
• The essence of my own program," he said, "is to make Buffalo
a destination for people interested
in international law and human
rights. For that to happen, we've
got to have a first-rate program,
we've got to have a student body
that's in tune with the program
and we've got to create opportunities for our students to become
part of the practice of interna tional law.•
As national economies become
international, Mutua contends,
concern for human rights has to

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Makau Mutua, Judy Scales-'frent
rerognized byblack Jaw students
Sdoeol of Law faaoltr - - - Mabu Mutua and Judy
Scales-Trebt have received awards from the repon.l National
Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) for their commitment
to educating students of color.
'!'he awards were preRDted Feb. 7 during a dinner
highlighting the 30th annual regional COIM:Dtion of
the orpnization, hosted by the UB chapte&lt; and attended by some 350 law students &amp;om tbe Northeast.
NBI.SA, through its 210 college and university
chapters, advances education, development and growth ofAfri.
can-American law students.
· Muti!Oo associate professor of ·law, received the Th~
Marshall Award recognizing his continued commitment to the
education and training ofbw students of color at UB, as wdlas
his expenenee ln' iDtUD&amp;tional Jaw.' · • •
· ·
Scales-Trent, professor of Jaw, received the Barbara Jordan
Award for FaCulty En:ellence recognizing her commitment to
educating law students of color and her teaching methOds and
impact on the education of UB law students.
Sciales-Trent authored "Notes of a White Black WonW.• and
is continuing research comparing racial-purity laws in the U:S.,
· Nni 'G'ennany and South Africa.
She earned a law degree &amp;om Northwestern University and
has served as an attorney for the Appellate Division, Equal Employment Oppoctunity Commission (EEOC) and special assistant to general counsel and cominlssioner of thillJl9C.

cross those same borders.
" I do not think tbat you can, in
fact , secure respect for human
rights and the rule of Jaw without securing a standard of living.
People do not fight for freedom
in the abstract. Democracy is not
just about voting; it's about eating."
But, be noted, tbis is not to say
tbat human rights are only an=nomic issue. For Mutua, the international perspective meal}s not
only understanding the common
ground of our diverse economies,
but understanding the common
ground of our diverse cultural influences.
• The human - rights project
seeks to alleviate the tensions of
difference: Mutua said. "It seeks
to create a space under the state. a
big tent, where all of us can live.
And, since I left Kenya, l guess
that's been my project, too.
•we can talk about difference,"'
he added, "and be comfortable
with difference, as long as we don't
have to ronfront iL When your son
or daughter comes home and says
they are marrying someone different, that's when we find out what
you're really made o("
Contrary to popular assump·
tions, Mutua believes practicing
tolerance toward others actually
brings one closer to ·one's own

background and culture. Though
he is married and has children in
Buffalo, and though he has done
human-rights work in Brazil, I•·
pan and around the world, Mutua
said be remains closely involved in
Kenyan affairs.
In the walce of"the wave of democratization• that followed the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in
the late 1980s and early 1990s,
Mutua had a ehance to visit his
home country. "I r=ernber the
press being Very vibrant," be said,
"and political partieS we~ sprouting everywhere. This is what we
had fought for !Oyearsearlier, and
so it was a great pleasure for me
just to see that happening."
In the seven years since Mutua
went hadc, Kenya has had two elections, both won by the ruling
party. "I would not caU Kenya a
democratic state," be said. :'But I
would say important steps are beingtakn."
While Mutua hopes to see greater
changes in Kenya, he said his experiences there have taught him to be
thankful for small things.
60
1 am very grateful that T"ve
done the things I've done in my
life," be said. "In those years when
I was in Kenya and just before I left
Tanzania, I think my life could
have been ended. So I take every
day as a blessing.•

�Art sh•pes our •ttltudes •bwlt love, professor gys

Want to know more about love?
Look to great authors
.,. I'A~ DONOVAN
News Services Editor

I

F your love life stinks, it
mlght be time for despente
~READING!

Andrew &amp;witt,associak
professor in the Depart-

ment of Comparative Literature,

insisu that, yes, the bewitched,
bothered and besotted can look to
great literary works for sOothing assistance and tnsh ideas.
"No one finds it strange that
medical apertscan help withserual
problems, but who are the 'aperu'
when it comes to emotions?"' he
asks, "Writmand artists. of course!"
Hewitt has &lt;IJ&gt;Iored some of the
ways in which writm each us how
to lave. Jane Austen, the Marquis de
Sade,Shampeare. Hardy. Lawrence
and Genet are just a few of the uolikdy bedfellows who klch us how
to gambol with elegance and ingenuity through the forest of woo.
"Writm each us not only how to
&lt;IJ&gt;res5 ernotioDs,"be says, "hut also
imagine newfurms of relationships.
Tha(s rbr erotic literature is often
· g to the powers that be."
't,t says many !u.ve. forgot - .
teo at making love has, through out · tory, been considered an art
.form · itself. "When we talk of
'making ove;• he says, "we often
forget tha love truly is something
that &lt;loe indeed have to be
'made'
ed, tha~ is, from the
chaos of emotions and urged into
something meaningful. Such
'malcing' is also the writer's craft."
He points out that from the Greek
and Roman eras through the 1700s,
pecple seemed to have accept&lt;d that
lh&lt; "making" of kM is a ritual with
rules and procedures-e social art
fonn that some master better than
other&gt;. Hewitt reminds us that it is no
aa:ident that the libertines ofthe 18th
century Wire aU great writers, as well

as great kMrs. "'f coune, in a supposedly more liberakd age. we're
trained to think of lave as something
spontaneous and irrational, but that
idea is just a convention l.iU any
other;" Hewitt says, "We 1ft s1i11 surrouoded today by any number of
iDllumces that subtly tdl us who to
lave and which emotions to express..

- . g the 11ft of love
The ancient art of l&lt;m&gt;-the an
amatoriD--has taken refuge in cootemporary sa manual$, according
to Hewitt. and he &lt;IJ&gt;ress&lt;s hope
we will be able to revive the tradition of an amatoria in order to
uodentaod bow it is that art not
only reflects, but actually shapes.
the way we make love.
"We often complain of the demise
of gallantry in our society;" &amp;witt
notes. •well, gallantry involves
learning and practicing certain
codes ofbehavior until they become
second nature. Literature is the ap-

prenticeship we serve in embracing
these codes. We can learn a great deal
&amp;om those who focus on the &lt;lj&gt;&lt;rieoce offeelingand oonveyiog love,
affectioQ,yassio~ ";ad endearment"
Although we knd to think of our
own romantic encounters as the
111051 personal ofour lifeaperiences.

Hewitt says that"just one look at the
bookshelfwill prove that what is personal to us is big business to some.ooe else. Boqks on the subject of
love have been so. influential that
even within the ~t novels them.sejves. we find ~u.ihocs ljke Austen
writing tongue-in-check about the
way literature kacbes us how to love.
"How many young IOY&lt;n romanticize themselves and their predicaments as latter-day Romeos and

Juliets1" he asks. "And for those who
never.....! a word ofSbakespOare.his
sentiments, at least, are carried ovet

in 6lms l.iU "West Side Story" or
even in the recentM1V-paced production of" Romeo and Juliet." Did
Shakespeare tap into a fundamental human experience or is it we
wbOQpintoS~peareromake

our everyday emotions a little more
dramatic than they really are!"
There always have been skq&gt;tics,
be says, who have claimed that love
does not exist =:ept as a behavioral
trait that is clearly defined by the
culture. A 17th-century French philosopher argued that most people
would nevertiill in kM if they hadn't
heard the word Aaxxding to literary evidence, wbat we caU "lave" has
been, at best, a mixed blessing. he
points but, and. at wor&gt;t, a 6ction
wt!~produced tomaloeoeoseofwbat
would otherwise pass as a serious
emoliooal,and """'physical,sidcness!
Whakver we call "love;" it's been
causing trouble, along with glee, for
years. Our cultural ankcedents, the
ancient Greeks, provide early evidence ofhow a culture can sanction
the "handling" of &lt;r9tic obsessions.
far &amp;om being rational in the passion department, Greek lovers

burned dead dogs and lizards on
Athens' rooftops while grinding out
grueso~~Je "binding spells~ that they
hoped would bring their inknded
Ioven to heel fOrthwith and forever.
Hewitt says that the lierature of
romantic love and its hot-blooded
sister,serual passion, have long been
accused of producing the best and
the worn in aU of us. As a mult, literary experts on love Often have

been at the cent&lt;r of public scandal.
Goethe produced an uproar in 18thcentury Europe when he was held
responsible for a rash of copycat
suicides after his best -selling novel
culminated in the suicide of its

romantic hem, the "young Werther."

Black History Month:
an Online Celebration G
In 1976, a month-' - celebration was inaugurated to bear witness to the progress. richness and diversity of African-American
achievement. There are numerous resources on the Internet com memorating these accomplishments. most notabl y. The
EneydopMCIIa arttannlca Ciulde to alack History (http:/ I
biKiohlstory.eb.com/). This site is a rich resource with a comprehensive timeline of historical events and prontinent people from
1516 to the present. Since iu critically acclaimed premiere in February 1997, it has been revised and redesigned, with added features,
including new and updated articles and improved navigation.
The Trmeline section traces the yearly historical events and contributions of African Americans in politics, business., literature, mwic.

religion, entertainment, sports and education. Examining five centuries of Black heritage through five distinct time periods, Eras in Black
History taUs you &amp;om the slave revolts of early America through the
successes of the civil-rights movements. Each era is divided by topid
profession, with biographies and photographs of notable people and
descriptions and documents of historic events. Additionally, you can
browse through the expanded Articles A to Z page, which is divided
into two alphabetical sections (" Biographies" and "Events &amp; Institutions") and contains links to more than 600 informative articles.
The flley~la -annka Ciulcle to - k HIJtCH)' is illustrakd with· hundreds of photogiapbs and other image$, as well as
historical film clips in the Quicklime format. See Billie Holiday performing "Foollns Mysolf" &amp;om 1957 or hear 9r. Martin Luther King,
Jr. d~liver his " I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington
in L963. Audio recordings in the .au and .wav formats are filled with
voices of African-American people in all areas of American life. The
Study Guide for Students, which is organized around six classroom
activities, will introduce yo u to the people behind these voices and
the events ~at have .affected their lives. The guide indudes teacher

recommendations. technical tips and scholastic bibliographies. The
stlldents' activities are interactive, inviting them to locate, evaluate
and compare sources of information on the lntern eL The Related
Internet Links and Bibliography sections provide additionaJ soura
material and areas for co ntinued study.
Another source for African-American history and culture is The

African-American Mosaic (http:/ /lcweb.loc.gov/uhlbiU/
afrlcan/lntn&gt;.html ). This Library of Congress resource offers, in
exhibition format, an illustrated sample of the library's holdings in

scure,' both tales of obsession and

four areas: colonization, abolition, migration and the Works Progress
Administration. In 1998, the library plans to mount a major ahibi tion and cuJtural program examining the impact of African -Ameri can history and tradition.
The Amistad Rese•Kh Center is the largest independent African American archives, library and museum in the United States dedi cated to preserving African -American ethnic history and culture. The
center has emerged as the first institution created to docuinent the

erotically charged passion." Hewitt

civil rights movement and this site {http:/ / www.an:.tulane.edu/)

says. Jane Austen's cynical wit
raised a few eyebrows in her day,
as well as our own.

features an extensive range of resea rch materials, providing details

Scandals plagued Hardy
"' Hardy gave up writing novel s

altogether after scandals attending
the publication of 'Tess of the
D'Urhervilles' and 'Jude the Ob-

"'Lady Chatterley's Lover,'
Lawrence's tale of class under sexuaJ

pressure, predated by 40 yean the
serual frankness that radicalized the
way we talk about love and sexuality." he says. "Radicalized i~ it hap-

in Gopher format to the Manuscripts Collection (over I0 million docu ments ), African-American Art {400 paintings,drawin!j' and sculptures).
Aji-iam Art ( I00 pieces), Media {oral history interviews, as well as video
and audio programs for researchecs' use), Historical Exhibits (25 travel.
ing exhibits) and a Library Collecrion (over 25,000 volumes).
For assistance in amnecting to the World Wide Web, contaa the ASCJT
Help Desk ot 645-3542.
-Sue Neumeister •nd Lori Wldz.ln.skl. Univenity Ubranes

pens. in ' ways I think Lawrence

wouldn't have liked at aU!"
Works by the Marquis de Sade,

BrieD

the lover-sexual-abuser-de baucher from wh o m .. sadism ..
takes its name. are still banned by

Aetna U.S. Healthcare legal chief

the French courts and still read by

to speak at management school

aficionados around the world.
Roman love rears its head in ~­

o.Md F. Simon. chief legal officer for Al:tna U.S. Healthcare. the nation's
leading health-benefits organization, will address students &amp;om the joint

lections &amp;om Ovid's sensual masterpiece, "Ars Amatoria" ("The Art of
Love"), a book Hewitt says "could
probably teach Dr. Ruth a thing or
two." lts publication certainly helped
get Ovid exiled by Caesar Augustus
and set the stage for the development of the courtly love tradition
that ca me to full bloom in th e

Middle Ages.

JD!MBA program in the School of Management and School of Law.
Simon, a 1974 honors graduate of the management school and a
19n honors graduate-of the University of Pennsylvania Law School,
will discuss career issues and opportunities for students with bwiness

and law backgrounds. His presentation, to be held at 5 p.m. Feb. 24 in
Room 312 in Jacobs Management Center on the North Campus. will
be part of the management school's aJumni speaker series. Simon is
author of the Computer Law Handbook. published by the American
Law Institute-American Bar Association.

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HSL develops Web site on health and disease 0

.T HE

. , MDICIA -

AN

-~Health Sciences Library bas developed the
'1\Utem NewYodt Haith

Resources Web site to

serve as a single SOUI'Ce for cunmt
and historic information on health
and disease in Wemrn New York.
It is the first such community
health resource information site in

the country, and is expected to
serve as a model for similar
projects in communities through out the Uniied States.

The site can be reached at
h tt p :/ /wl ng ~. buff•lo . e d u/
wny/"--th/wnyh.ht m l

The project was conceived by
Sharon Gray, head of reference and
education services in the Health Sciences L!brary; Robert O'Shea, emeritus associate professor in the D&lt;partment of Social and Prevent:M Medicine, and john Loonsk,formerdim:tor of the Oflicr of Medical Computing in the School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences.

UB health-science librarians
identified, coUected and computerized pertinent health information, and Heallh Science Library
staff maintain the site. All material
available through the Web site can
be accessed by the general public.
"II will be.of particular use." Gray
said, "to medical practitioners, administrators, researchers, pol.icymah:rsandstudents."Sheaddedthat
the Health Sciences Library a&gt;ntinues to collect data and update the site.
.. , estimate that we have about 90

percent

o(

the known available

citiations.online already," Gray. said,
"and within a very shon time, we
will have, in this one place, a com-

prehensive compendium of ail

___...,.., __

available studies related to the
health care of the local population,
including research produced privately, unpublished studies, agency
reports and other materials."
O'Shea agreed that the new site
Will be an enormous boon to researchers, in particular, because it
includes a broad range of reports,
documents and databases previously scattered among many agcn-

cies, libraries and individuals.
"In addition to that, there: are
doctors ben: who stiU conduct research out of their offices-Buffalo may be unusual in that regard--a:nd they have a considerable amount of information to
contribute to this database.
~ We're also now in a better po~
sition to cetrieve and use clost'
material that can serve as a
baseline for further studies,•
O'Shea said. "For example, the
Buffalo Health Study done here
30 years ago was literally forgotten until our department· chair
turned up a reference to it in
some old office files.
"This kind of study is very important to epidemiologists, who
are interested in long-range trends
and comparative analyses," he
noted. "These 'particular data are
essential to any longitudinal study
of changing rates of heart disease
in this region.

few people would know about
them. Some of the little-known research
are in monognpb
form, and then: is dissertation and
thesis research available as wdl
"This material has been generally difficult to get ahold of,"
O'Shea said. "That is, if you knew
that it existed in the first place.•

.q,.,rts

The Web site lndudes the~:

• The Western NeWYork Health

Database. more than 900 n:fm:Da:s
to reports, theses,artides,

statistical oompilationo
and other materials related to the
health of theo&lt;&gt;Dto- '
lation of the eight counties
of Western New York: Allegany,
Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Erie,
Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and
Wyoming.
• Erie County Monthly Epidemiology Reports and the Wyoming
County Department of Health
1996 Annual Report

•
The Web lite .._

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"After huntiDg and bunting,'the
health study turned up in
someone's garage in California,"
O'Shea reported. "This little anecdote indica.tes how very easy it is
to-Jose this stuff and onCe it's gone.
it can'ibe replicated. No compari~ispossibl&lt;

O'Shea said that for users, the
Web site offers ,a ~y of reviewing
data that is much inore economical in terms of time and money
than Previous methods. He
pdinted out that some material
available will surprise users.
"The Web site will offer access to
' fugitive' reports and studies that
originOuy had small circulation,
were unpublished or had only an
in -house circulation," he said. "Very

Full-~ reports of the Haith Sys-

tems Agency of Western New York
• Descriptions of archival collections in Western New York that
contain current and historical information about the health oflocal populations.
Some examples of citations included in the database are: "The
Lower West Side Health Needs Survey Report" produced by iheuli
Center for
Research in Primary Care; 1994;"Patterns of Mortality and Cancer lncidena: Among
theS&lt;necaNationoflndians, 195584," the 1988 doctoral dlssertation
of M.C. Mahoney; "Survey of Al cohol; Toba·c co ·and Drug· Use
Among Ninth Grade Students,
1996, Erie Coun~ pr"!lua:d by
the Department of Cancer Control
and Epidemiology, RosweU Park
Cancer Institute, 1997; Bujfa}Q Phy-

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sician and Biomedical Scientist,
1969-present, the magazine of the
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and "Proud Vision: The History of the Buffalo
General Hospital" by Evelyo Hawes
(New York, CroweU,l%4).
The library is constantly developing new sources of medical in-

formation, ~ to be available soon-Among thote under development are:
• A directory database of healthcan: institutions, agencies and organizations in the eight Western
New York counties. Hypertext
linb will connect the database to
those: institutions and agencies
that have Web sites.
• FuU texts of unpublished medical-history~ related to
the health of the local
population
• Information on data
-related to the bealtb
of the Western New
York population. Full
data - will be linked to
the Web site when possible.
•This raw data, including researchers' archival data, can serve
as a baseline for comparisons,"
Grai said, emphasizi.Qg that the
project is not limited to the UB
medical school or hbraries.
"Should other medical-school
and health-sciences bbrari&lt;s (such
as those at local research hospitals)
undertake similar projects, we
would want them linked to the UB
Web site to produce an unparalleled local network of health-related information that would
greatly facilitate research and
healtl)-can: offerings nationwide."
The Web site project wis funded
by grants from the UB Departmerit ·of Social and Preventive
Medicine, the UB Primary Care
Resource Center and the Regional
Bibliographic Database Program
of the Western New York Library
1\clo\J(Cd Coln:iciL .
Assisting in the project at UB
were Karen Buchinger,. Celeste
Neyerlin and Mary E. Petty.
Other participants include James
Gerland, associate director of the
UB Department of Computing and
Information Technology; Wentsing
Liu, director of the A.H. Aaron U,
brary in Buffalo General Hospital;
Marty Mutka, director of the Library Consortium of Health Institutions in Buffalo, and Suzanne
Wolson of the Buffalo and Erie
&lt;;:ounty Public Library.

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Political Theorist langdon Winner to present
"Introducing the Automatic Professor Machine"' e
For se\:ot:r•l ye• n , the academic community at UB, as elsewhere,
has debated why, how and by whom computer technologies are selected and applied across campus. When it comes to these questions,
the influence of end-users-faculty, some professiOnal staff and students-&lt;&gt;ften pales beside the power and authority of systems operators and the administration that oversees them.
Political theorist Langdon Winner, professor of political science
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of several studies in
contemporary social thought, challenges the assumptions that .tech nology is necessarily "good," more is "~tter" and that the curriculum must be computerized as quicldy as possible.
Stressing that computers are no more than a new tool in service
to political ends, he points to ways in which out-of-control technol ogy dashes with assumptions about the learning experience, ownership of inteUectual properties, choice of teaching methodologies
and tenure as a defense of intellectual freedom.
Winner wilJ explore thes! issues in a performance titled .. Intro ducing the Automatic Professor Machine," a parody of technology
in education, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday in the Student Union Theatre.
The event is free and open to the public.
The performance will be foUowed by a panel discussion moderated
by Hank Bromley, assistant professor, Department of Educational Lead- •

=hip and Policy, Graduate School of Education, and associate dim:tor of the GSE Center for Educational Resources and Technology.
Panelisl! will be Vold&lt;:mar Innus,senior associatnicepresidentfnr uni-

vmitysc:rviczs;Deborah\'hlters,associateproftssor,DqiorunentofComputerScience;LoganScott,instructionalsupportspecialist.WalkwayTecb-

nology Node, and Henry Steck, SUNY Distinguished Service Prot.ssor,
D&lt;partmentofPolitic;aiS6ence,CortlandStateCollegeandsmtewidevia:
president for academics for United Univmity Prokssions (UUP).
Wmner is the author of"Autonomous Techoology" and "The Whale
and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology."
He is the editor of"Democracy in a Technological Age," past president of the Society for Philosophy and Techoology and a former contributing editor at RDUing Stone.
He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-Santa Cruz, The New School for Social Research and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His
homepage, along with that of Langston Jl Winter, Winner's longlost evil twin, can be reached at www.rpl.edu/ -win nerI
The symposium will inaugurate a spring series on issues of technology and education sponsored by the vice provost for faculty develop!Dent in collaboration with the Center for Educational Re·
sources and Technologies.

�Special-interest housing
may help retain students
., a.!~ VIDAL
RepoM Editor

.

NIVERSITY Residence Halls is offering a housing
option that group&lt;
rtudents with common interests
on the same dormitory floor.
While meeting the needs of
students. it also brings some of
them back to campus housing,
may improve retention of some
at risk ofleaving school and involves faculty and staff more in
dormitory life.
The Special-Interest Housing
program is "an excellent way for
students who Share a common
interest to Live together," said

U

Elizabeth Lidano, assistant director and advisor to the program.
Begun in Fall 1996byagroup
of NatiVe-Ameri~n students,
the program this year bas seven
special-inter""! groups on floors
· in lillicon Complex and Governors Residence Halls on the
North Campus and Macdonald
Hall on the South Campus. In
dd ition to Native-American,
e interests include architecture, engineering, gay/lesbian!
bisexual, Latino, pre-profes. onal and lechni~al-related

fie
L ing on a special-interest
flqor ~allq_ws ll!QI" pers.on.al cievelo ment; said Christopher
Connolly, a junior and a member
of the pno-professional group. "By
pu~ all~ tqg~er. you goin
a deeper perspective."
..You don't Live on a floor, you
live with family." Connolly said.
"We have 6oor accountability." said Lynette Printup. a junior who lives on the Native Amer ican floor in Red Jacket
Quadrangle.
Students who live on the floor
also have a strong support net work. a factor that is especially

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important for groups who traditionally have a high attrition rate.
"HiJtorically, retention of Native-American students is very
low: aid Danie.Ue Terrance. a
graduate who last year lived on
the Native-American floor and
now is interning with Lidano
and living on the Latino Boor.
Native-American culture, she
added, iJ " important both in
school and in life. Some students lose the sense of community and support they're used
to."

''We hope the ............

portant to the Special-Interest

Housing program. which rtquir"" eadJ group to have a faculty or staff advisor.
Peter Nick.uson, prof..sor of
pathology and chair ofthe Fac·
ulty &amp;nate, iJ advisor to the preprofwional group. He speaks
highly of the studen ts in the
group, and of the program that
brought them together.
The program allows students
"'to conn«t better with the uni-

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versity and with themselves,•
Nit:Urson said.
Equally importan t, the program giv"" faculty and admin -

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istraton an opPo~unity to interact with students in a more

It mil)' help students to

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natural setting.
Students in the program host
ttgU1ar dinners and invite mem bers of the university ·commu nity to dine with them, providing a means for faculty and ad -

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ministrators to get student in-

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to 11ft In the -.~onger.

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put on an informal basis. Students also have provided input
to the Faculty &amp;nate and Fac·
ulty Senate Executive Commit·
tee, Nit:Urson said.
" I~s unusual to see that level of
interest in connecting to the university and doing service," he said.

UB 2 9, Seton H all 7
UB 10, Bucknell 15
The wresdirc tBam ._East CoastWrosdrcAssodallon (ECW") foes
Setoo Hal and lludcnojJ on fth7 1n!.k.mniAtw-a.The &amp;ts .W..ted tho
Setoo Hal Pinttes,l9-7,and tho lludcnojJ Bison.W.I5. Da.AJie wlmon fo.UBinduded ;n&gt;r Brian Schaal (11 8).SCJ&gt;homono )aoob Ponlow ( I:H).
r...tman Jos11 X.... ( 177) and ......,. )om Sc=man (ISO).

Students who live on-special-

lennis

Printup and Terrance lived in interest floors are enthusiastic
apartments off-campus before about the program, according to
moving onto spedal -i nter~ st Lidano.
"Most groups have expressed an
floors . Moving back to campus
took a lot of adjusting, they interest to return or to expand." she
said. And new groups have exagree, qut was worthwhile.
"For me and a lot of us. I'm aJ. pressed an interest in joining the
ways representing Native program.
University Residence Halls is
i&gt;&lt;!!Ples," sa\d ~tup. But on her .
accepting applications from
floor, she added, she can reJa.x.
· vo u don't have to explain. groups who wi$h to_hecome part
You can he yo'urself and know of the Special-interest Ho using
program. Applications are availyou'~ QO! gomg \O ~ misun·
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TOO'lOil'l1&gt;'ls rugged young
engineetS show olf 'Eewok
City,' their project in the

Future Gty Competition held
jan. 24 in the Student Union.
From left Adam Searieman,

Brent Chamberlain and Sean
Clemens made it to Buffalo
from McKenney Middle
School in Canton, N.Y., north
of Watertown, despite
a devastating ice storm
and a driving ban .

No cuts likely for UB in proposed budget
Tuition
would stay at current level for
.,.
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News SeMces Assodote Ditoctor

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UB lilr.dy will-DOt
any
ruts in its opd'itintl&gt;udjjet
for the upcoming fisal year
uodertheexec:utiYebudgetpropooed
by Gov. George Pataki last week.
The proposal would maintain
tuition at its = t level and in·
eludes an $8 milllon increase for
the Tuition Assistance Program.
The govm&gt;or has proposed a total operating budget for SUNY of
$1,5845 million, an ~of $74
million over the 1997-98 appropria·
tion of$1,510.5 million. The spend·

ing increase rove" salary adjust.
ments and a portion of inflationary
rosts, but tails $11.4 million short of

upcomingfiscal. year; TAP would get increase

the SUNY trustees' budget request.
State support for operations for
thestate-operatedandstatutoryool·
leges would rise by $87 million, or
12 peroen~
years
· The amount of state allocation
coming from university income
sources-mostly tuition-would
decline by $13.4 million to $768.1
million, 48.5 percent of the budget
compared to 51.7 percent of the
budget in the current fisal year.
That reduction is due to a declining aggregate in system·wide
enrollment in the past several
years, explained Senior Vice President Robert ). Wagner.
President William R. Greiner
called the plan "a very benign bud·
get.

"Ills a standstill budget from our
point of view," Greiner said Bur ..at
least it gives us some breathing space
to absorb the reductions that have
ocrurred Over the last i'!f years. The coming year will prove to
be "very chailenging, in terms of
how we balance our needs fOr ad·
ditional investments and a whole
variety of things," be said.
"The good news (with the=·
tive budget} is that we will not be
fore«! to deal with more reductions;
the bad news is that we're still absorbing the effms of earlier reductions."
The news about the operating
budget comes on the heels of the
announcement of a five-year, $2
billion capital budget proposal for
SUNY that would fund construe·

tion of a new mathematics building on the North Campus.
"To see in the executive budget
support for the university on the
operating ana capital' si'ile to the
exte.nt we've seen is a very positiv~
step,· said Wagner.
Greiner also praised Pataki's
capital budget, noting that if the
governor continues along that line
in terms of capital investment, and
if the campuses are given more
operating flexibility, UB "will
probably do very, very well."
The Pataki operating budget
provides $615 million for TAP, an
increase of $8. 1 million over this
year's figure, which SUNY officials
say fully funds all students who are
~-,..s

Geology develops a rigorous new curriculum

T

HE Department of Ge·
ology bas ~eveloped a
new, more ngorous undergraduate curriculum,
&lt;!&lt;Signed to appeal more to students through an increased ernpba·
sis on environmental applications
and better integration of the eli·
verse topics studenu must study in
order to practice in the field today.
Freshman geology majo" who
demonstrated &lt;xceptional performance in their high sdlool earth sciena: classes will be able to advance
directly to seoond·year oourses.
The department also has intro·
duced changes that for select stu·
dents make research begun ·in
their senior year applicable to a
master's-degree thesis.
The only piece of the old cu r·
riculum that remains is the require·
ment that majo" spend a month
at UB's Geology Field Camp con·
dueling field work in Colorado.
New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah.
While some components of the

new curriculum have been intro·
duced to rurrent majors, the pro·
gram will be implemented in its
entirety in September.
The new curriculum requires
students to become more profi·
cient in quantitative skills. It also
requires less rote memorization by
students and more of an integrated' unde=ding of geologi·
cal principles and concepts.
"This was a huge effort involv·
ing every faculty member and it
resultedinourthrowingoutalmost
~ery single course and starting
over from scratch," said john Foun·
tain, professor of geology and chair
of the curriculum committee.
"lthasresultednotonlyinincreasing the amount of material oovered
in each oou..e and eliminating du·
plication throughout the curriculum,
but also in making the pmgram mor&lt;
appealing to undergraduates by
strengthening !he environmental a·
amples used to illustr.lte processes
and principles." he said
1be increased emphasis on mvironmcntalissuesrefiectswhatishap-

pening in the profession, explained
Michael Sheridan, professor and
chairoftheDepartmentofGeology.
"Thescimceof geology is beoom·
ing more oriented toward societal
issues and problems, such as global
warming and how to use resources.,
and risk assessment and mitigation
ofhazardsslich as volcanoes, earthquakes and floods," he said "We are
teaching students to look at the
earth as a network of systems that
are interrelated, and that interact in
ways that affect our lives."
The new curriculum replaces traditional,semester-long cou..es that
focused on a single subject, such as
mineralogy or paleontology, with
year·longcou..esthatintegratesev·
era! topics and cover them in greater
detail. Each oou..e is designed to
build on the foundation provided by
the previous cou..e.
Subjects previously covered in
elective courses, such as geochem·
istry, geophysics and hydrology,
will be covered in these expanded,
required courses.
"The traditional curriculum

was information·hased." Sheridan
explained. "In our new curricu·
lum, wedecidqltolookataprob!ern· or inquiry·hased curriculum.
lnsteadoftreatingalltheinformation as important, such as memo·
rizing the names and characteristics of all rocks, we will expect stu·
dents to understand the processes
that lead to rock formation and
then to be able to apply that un·
derstanding to solving problems."
The new program is expected to
better prepare students for work
on the master's degree.
Undergraduates participating in
the University Honors Program
who major in geology will benefit
if they decide to enroll in the
Master's of Arts degree program
since their required senior research
can become the groundwork for
their master's·degree thesis.
lhis is where students at UB
have a clear advantage," Sheridan
added "Many of our undergradu·
ates can become directly involved
in research of national or internationaJ imponance."'

�work with you to clbtiin what you
want, when you want iL U is also
important to give u much information u possible for the item(a)
that you want to purchase. Sometinres we get a requisition that
gives a model number but nothing else, sometimes a description
"computer" but no model number. Also, if you have obtained
price quotes from different vendors. send them OV&lt;t with the requisition. It could save time.

Faculty and
Judith Miller has
been director of purchasing since she
joined the university in
1988. In 1995, she received the Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in
Professional Service.
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In one year, State Purchasing processes approximately 30,000 requisitions, and buys $55 million in
goods and services. Our goal is to
do this in a timely, efficient and

cost-dfective manner, to follow the
many state rules and regulations
and to give th~ best cust.omer service possible while doing so. We
deal with every department connected with the university and
make all attempts to obtain whai
our customers want, while being
good stewards of taxpayers' money.

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What
conllder the most
challengl"'l . , _ t ol your jolt?
The challenges that we face are the
part that mak~ our job interesting
, and sometim~ exciting. Meeting
the deadlines of our customers
while complying with the rules
(you want it when! ), end-of-budget - year craziness-customer
needs it right away, but has no
· · tnbn(y,' or cUstb"m er ha; ihis
amount of money to spend in this
fiscal year and needs to spend it
fast! Our greatest challenge this
year is the merging of the State and
Resean;h Purchasing 'IOd Payables
departments. The ..one-business-

office concept" is being applied to
better meet our customer needs.
This is a major change in the service relationships. but one that we
think in the long run will be better.
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The university system now has
more independence in processing
orders than ever before. It used to
be that all orders over $20,000 had
to go to A!Dany, the Office of the
State ComptroUer, for approval.
Now it is $50,000. The use of system contracts-i.e., Staples System
contract for office supplieschanges and improves the way we
serve the campus. Also, the use of
the American Express procurement
card will revolutionize the way we
purchase supplies under $500 (74
perc;entof all requisitions rea:ived).

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thing ........ at the - - . H y
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have.~

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The best thing to remember wlien
departments Have rtquircmcnts is
to plan for large requests well
enousJ1 in advance to allow for the
processing that ·must meet.. the.
state requirements. We want to

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We p urchase a great variety of "everything including the lritcheo
sink" items. But some of moat unwual items purchased are: brains
and body parts, the built-in-place
Fisk organ, and the movement of
very-old ice cores.

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influence of lecboology will bring a
new procuremmt software l)'ltem
thai wiD allow our CUOIDm&lt;D to aend

their requisitiqos to ua directly CMt
their computaa. EYmtually, I fOresee more ordering from lbe Internet.
We will be setting up more primary
sourca of supply (one Y&lt;llCior aupplying a speciJic commodity). Also,
the use of American Express Procumnent will haY\! a lrmlendous
influence on the procureinent of
ordm under SSOO. Tbe merging of
tbe State and Reaearcb Purchasing
and Payables departments will lead
to the amsolidatioo offorms (one
requisition form to be used for all
fundingsourca),ooeprocurement
card and other streamlined pro-

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cesses that are wstomer-serviceoriented. It is an exciting time to be in
the Purchasing Department!

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The most common purchasing
request is probably for office supplies-pens, paper, etc. The most
common ve:rba.J. request is •How
fast can I get it?

What's
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expensive
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The most expensive item wu for
$2.5 million for the purcbue of two
spectrometers that were built in
England. We have contracts that
aceed that amount, but that wu
the~ exp&lt;llSM:sipgle purdla,&lt;e.

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A questions that you didn't ask is
"What direction will Purchasing be
going iii die future!" Glad you uked!
The way the university purchues
will be different in ihe future. The

Wbat would I be doing if I wuo't
here! I was a teacher before I
changed careers over 20 years ago.
My nat career might be to go back
to teaching. I also have a desire to

have my own business, so I am
looking into that as a part-time
hobby! I also love buying houses
that need fixing up. doing so and
then selling them. Many opportunities. so little time!

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Wbat don't people know about me
and should? Difficult questionprobably .that with the r=nt organizational change. I will be guiding
the State and Reaearcb Purt:hasing
and Payables departments, along
with the Property Control Department, into tbe oat phase of organizational change and structure.

Student Leadership Development Center opens
By IIIWCT CUNNINGHAM
Reporte&lt; Suff

Student Leadership
Development Center
designed to help stu dents, faculty and staff,
has opened in Room 230 of the Student Union. The new cen ter will
help individuals plan programs,
run meetings.. orchestrate publicity and recruit members for groups.
according to Ed Brodka of the Office of Student Life.
While the word "leader" usually
implies a "follower,.. Brodka said
the new center will attempt to view
leadership a little differently.
• .. We're hoping to get every stu ·
dent t-9 see how they can be a
leader," said Brodka, "not just the
president, vice president or secretary of a student group. At some
point in their lives, everybody will
be involved with some ki nd of

A

public leadership, whether it 's these )"ere the model for the Stuserving on a committee, volun· dent Leadership Development
teering for a community service Center. Institutions and busiproject, playing sports or organiz·
nesses pay a lot of money to have
ing a group evenL"
people advise them."
A staff member himself, Brodka
The center, which may be used
emphasized that the center is run by free of charge by VB faculty, staff
professionals and paraprofessionals and students, is supported by the
who are required to have training Office of Student Life through the
or background in organizatio)lal Division of Student Affairs.
techniques. He added that be hopes
·"I don't think there's a better instudents will feel free "to drop by vestment we can make than help·
and bounce ideas off of us."
ing students become better leadBooks, CD- ROMs, and audio· ers," said Brodka. "If we look at
and videotlpes on a variety of orga- campuslikhereatUB,manyofthe
nizational topics are available at the quality programs are developed
center, which also will offer a work- and administered by students."
shop series, organizational consultThe investment will pay off for
ing, conferC.nces, seminars and a the individual student as well as
Leadership Peer Educator Program. the campus, Brodka claimed.
"O ut in the world," said Brodka, "Certaiiily," he said, "( learning
.. and especially in the business leadership slrills] will add to the
world, there are organiutjonal . quality of their experience at VB,
consultants, and to some extent bu t it will also help them tremen-

dously when they graduate. In any
organization, students will end up
workingwithgroupsand trying to
get along in groups. They will atways be asked to lead."
If"trying to get along in groups"
seems like a curious way to define
"leadership," Brodka characterized
it as part of a broader attempt by
Student Ufeto rethink traditional
ideas about leadership.
~e want to make sure we provide something for all levels of students," be said. "The phrase ' leadership developme"t' speaks to
somepeople,butsometimesltbink
it scares other people away. Lead·
ership is not so much telling people
whattodo;it'sworkingwithpeople
toinspirethemtoreachacommon
goal. It's about empowerment."
TheStudmtl..eadershipDevelopment Center is open from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Deadline extended for Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
in Professional Service nominations
The deadline for completed dosslen for nominations for the
Chancellor's Awards for ExceUence in Professional Service has been
extended to 4:30p.m. Feb. 13.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service was
created to recognize extraordinary professional achievement and to
encourage the pursuit of ucellence.
Nominations for the award must be drawn from individuals presently serving in full-time professional-service capacities, with more
than 50 pcrcc.nt of the assignment in non -teaching services. Nominees must have completed at least three years of continuous full -

time professional (not classified) servite in the position for which
they arc nominated.
A nominator may be any member of the university community,
and is responsible for prepanng a nomination package, which must
include current vitae on the nominee's professional career, an updated position description, a maximum of five letters of support
(with at least one tach from a supervisor, a colleague, and a constituent) and the nominator's summary letter of support.
For more information and nomination packets, contact Anna
Kedzierski, Professional Staff Senate Office, 64.5-2003.

�Janui11Yl9.1~. 19.1o18

Ryan issues sta~ent on New Paltz

AST evening I had the
opportunity to speak to
the Board of Trustees of
the great progress we
have made at the State University
over the past year. 1998--our 50th
Anniversary year-promises to be
a very good one as well, and we are
already off to an exceUent start.
Over the past couple of months,
our focus and en rgies have been
diverted by issu surrounding the
conference enti ed .. Revolting Behavior• held at eState University
College at New tz. This has been
unfortunate. It is
e, in my view,
to bring this matter a close.
I am grateful for
many calls
and letters I have ha from individuals throughout the university
on this matter. I appreciate; too, the
efforts made by the hoard and our
senior officers and the committee
chaired by Dallas Beal under the
auspices of th e Office of Legal
Counsel, which has provided valuable information and guidance.

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Expressloll free, unthreatened
Expression is free and un threatened within the State University. I regret the unfounded
charges that there have been
threats to academic freedom and
.. First Amendment" rights in general. The Board of Trustees policy

on freedom of speech and advocacy bas been observed and bas
been r.Validated as appropriate
protection for academic freedom
throughout the State University.
At the same time, I hope it bas
become clear to all that activities on
our campuses, especially those un der university aegis or sponsorship,
must meet standards of intellectual
content, significance and relevance
to tht academic mission of the university. As wt move to raise aca demic standards aaoss the entire
State University system, it is impor·
tant that academic quality and
rigor be present in all our offerings.
whether in the classroom or at a
university-sponsored conference.
The recent conference at New
Paltz included components that
were needlessly offensive to many
people, including people of faith .
The New Paltz conference, in my
judgment, failed in important aspects to meet t.he expectations of
the State University for intellectual
substance and quality.
High standards expected
I expect high standards of academic substan ce in conferences,
whatever the subjects involved. We
must see that discussion and exploration are intellectually signi6cant
and framed according to the norms
of cjvil discourse. On our. campuses, it is the ultimate responsibility of the president to insure that
programs and conferences meet !he
universitYs and the community's
standards o( quality, relevance and
civilitf. I hold the president at New
Paltz, as I do each of our campus
presidents, responsible for this.
Campus leaders must evaluate
and make decisions-&lt;lifficult ones
at times-regarding the quality and
propriety of proposed conference
activities. There is no place on a
university campus for displays that
are devoid of inteUectual, sociaJ or
academic merit. Moreover, there is
no justification for sensationalism
or other crudity, which has no intellectual value and whose outcome
is reduced respect for the univer-

sity, the academy and the very freedom of expression.
As chancellor, it is my responsi bility to support our campus presidents and I shall do so. It is also my
duty to evaluate their actions, and
to let them know when I feel they
have not met my and the
university's apectations. I beljeve
that President Roger Bowen made
errors in judgment in regard to th~
New Paltz conference, which unfor·
tunately have caused harm and
embarrassment to the New Paltz
campus and the State University.
While the complexities of sexuality from many pers~ctives are
dearly appropriate matters for academic study and discourse, the
New Paltz conference promulgated
a .. how to do it" manual on lesbianism and sadomasochism-not at
aU appropriate for~ university.
The planners of the conference
should have known better and
planned better. President Boweri
should have insisted on substan ce
and rejected the si mply prurient
and se nsational
It is my view that our campus
presidents should be judged on their
overall record of academic and administrative leadership and not on
a particular event Our presidential
review processes give us a mechanism for a balmoed rtview of each
president's accomplishments, judgment ahd rllahaketne.nt skills.
University can go forward
Over time, we shaU have suffi cient opportunjtyto judge the leadership quality demonstrated at
New PaJtz and our other campuses.
The result of this judgment will be
reported by me to the Board of
Trustees, along with any recommendations that proceed from it.
In concluding, I believe that our
university can now go forward
stronger, more able to accommo·
date controversial matters in a civil
manner, and even more open to
unfenered discussion of all ideas.
We have much to accomplish
and it is time to bring this matter
to a co nclu sion a nd move o n.
Thank you.

Asian students on board for spring
the experience in her office as a
"mixed bag," with many students
Director
OUGH the numbers coming into the office to inquire
aren't in yet, it appears about payment options and late fees,
that the Asian currency while other.; h~ve already paid their
crisis is not forcing bills for the spring semester.
"All the students are registered
large numbers of international
. for the semester; it's now a matter
students to. leave UB.
"The situation seems to be under of riding the surf," she said.
Walker added that students' fi.
control," Nicolas Goodman, vice
provost for undergraduate educa- nancial difficulties may come
tion, said on Monday. "The stories more into play during registration
we are hearing are that students, in for summer sessions and the Fall
fact, are registering" for the spring J998 semester.
UB administrators had feared
semester and "a fair number have
gone to Student Accounts" to make that large numbers of Asian st uarrangements for delayed payment dents might have difficulty paying
their bills, and therefore have to
of tuition and fees.
Although UB at the moment has drop out of school, due to crash" no good, quantitative infor- ing stock and currency markets in
mation ... we have no sense at this the region. Students from several
point, anecdotally, that large num - East Asian countries, including
bers (of students) are l~g the Japan , Thailand, Korea , Hong
university, contrary to what we had Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan, have seen their
been afraid of," Goodman said.
Shirley Walker, director of the Of- co untry's currencies devalue subfice of Student Acoounts, described stantially in the past few months.
By SUE WUETCHER
News Services As.sociate

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Students who can document that
their financial difficulties are a di*
rect result of the currency devalu ation in their countries are being
encouraged to contact the Office of
Student Accounts to work ou t a
delayed-payment plan or other arrangement until an a:ltemate source
of funding can be found.
Walker emphasized that al though the semester already has
begun, international students with
financial difficulties still ca n come
to Student Accounts for assistance.
Good man said UB cannot afford to waive payment. since the
730 students from thos e eight
countries most seriously affected
by the crisis owe almost $2 million
in tuition and fees. But, he added,
the university will be flexible on
du e dates for bills. and will not
charge late fees.
Goodman noted that the stu dents "seem to be pleased with the
response of the institutio n" in
handling the situation.

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BrieD
Softbank co-chairs to be honored
as Distinguished Alunmi VISitors
Jordan A. Levy •nd IIOfUIId M. Schreiber, UB alumni and co-chairs
of SOFfBANK Services Group, will be honored as the first Arts and
Sciences Di.stinguished Alumni Visitors at a breakfast to be held at
7:30a.m. Feb. 5 in the Ce nter for Tomorrow
on the North Campus.
The cost for the breakfast. sponsored by
the UB Alumni Association, will be $12 for
Alumni Association members and SI S for all
ot hers. Reservations can be made by calling
Jud~ Schwendler ln the Office of Alumni Relations at 829-2608.
At the breakfast, Levy and Sch reiber each will be presented with
an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alum ni Visitor Award, whi ch
recognizes outstanding alumni achievement and is given at there·
quest of the deans of the facu lties of Arts and Letters, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences.
Following the breakfast, they will meet with students from 9:30 11 a.m. in 280 Park Hall on the North Campus.
Levy and Schreiber are co-founders and fonner co-CEOs of UCA
&amp; L. a company formed from the 1995 merger of Upgrade Corpora·
tion of America and Alexander &amp; Lord, Inc. It now is known as
SOFfBANK Services Group.
As co-chair of SOFTBANK . Levy guides and ove rsee s th e
compan(s national and international sales, client services and operations. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from
UB in 1977.
In addition to his position as co-chair of SOFTBANK, Schreiber
serves as chair of SOFTBANK Net Solutions, a company formed in
1996 to provide inteUectual -property-rights management services
in the Internet marketplace. He also is a partner in Delaware AV
Distributors, a local leader in distribution and sales of multimedia
products, and Copies Inc., one of the largest photocopier distribu tors and service providers. He received a bachelor's degree from UB
in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1975.

Wasserman Conference is Feb. 8
Avner Cohen, senior Jennings Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace

in Washington, D.C., will deliver the keynote address at the 12th
annual Wasserman Confcrencc.to be h~ld Feb. 8 on the North Cam pus. Cohen will discuss .. Israel: 50 Years After Its Birth-Normalcy
or Anomaly?" at 2: 15p.m. in the Student Union Theatre.
Blair Hofherr, editor of the student newspaper AR/, will give a student
response, followed by a discussion of"Zionism and Israel: A Musical Relationship" by Deborah Katchko Zimmerman, caritoi- at Temple BethEl.
The event is sponsored by Hillel of Buffalo. Theme of the program,
which kicks off Jewish Awdrcness Month, will be "Zionism 1897-97/
Israel 1948-98." Workshops that will be held from 3 ~4: 10 p.m. include:
• "Zionism: Has It Run Its Co urse?" by the Hon. Daniel Kutner.
counsel for academic affairs- U.S.A. in the Israel Consulate General
in New York City
• .. What Is In Israel's Future: Can the Arab-Israeli Co nfli ct Ever Be
Resolved?" b)' Avncr Cohen
• "American Youth and Israeli Youth : Do We Do the Same Thing?
Do We Have the Same Valut.·s?" led by a student panel
At the 4:15-5:30 p.m. sessio n, speakers and topics will be:
• "Messianism, Zionism and Israel: Are They Compatible?" by Rabbi
Hesche! Greenberg, director of the h."wish Discovery Center
• " Israel and the U.S.A.: Arc We Still Friends?" by Jerome Slater.
professor of political science
• "Mutual Responsibility: Diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews-Arc We
One People?" with James Lodge. executive director oft he JewisR Federation of Greater Buffalo, and a student panel.
Registration, which will begin at I :30 p.m. in the Student Union Lobby,
is $2, students; $6, members of the community. Reservations for dinncr, at 5:35p.m. in Pistachio's in the Student Union. is 53, students; $6,
community members. For more information and dinner reservations,
which must be made by Feb. 3, call Hillel Foundation, 835-3832. or th e
Campus Center for Jewish Life. 639-836 1.

Sending data electronically
to the Reporter calendar
Beginning with next week's issue of the Reporter, the electronic sub mission form will be the only wa)' to submit information to the events
calendar. The electronic submission form, which is loca ted on the
Reporter Web site, is used to collect data for the weekly calendar
that appears in the newspaper's print and electronic versions.
The form, as well as directions for using it , can be accessed at
http:/ / www.buffalo.edu/reporter/cgl/lnput
Those submitting informati on for the calendar have the option
of doing entries on a week -to-week basis. or submitt ing information for multiple weeks all at once. The deadline for receiving calen dar information rema.ins noon on the Thursday prior to the issue in
which the information is intended to appear.

�Professors research history, v•rletles of hum•n script

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writing Day- UB professors
who are leaders in their respective fields think about putting
pen to paper all year long.
Tamara Plaltins Thornton, associate professor or history and

author of .. Handwriting in
America: A Cultural History"
(Yale University Press, 1996), the
first and only cultural history or
handwriting in America, has studied how attitudes toward handwriting also help explain the evo-

lution of American beliefs and
social forms.
Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and director or the Center Exallence
rorDocumentAnalysisandRecognition (CEDAR), an int=ational
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its infinite varieties.
"On the one hand, with handwriting. you have people who are
trying to get you to conform to
an external model and to be obedient to rules,., said Thornton.
"On the other hand, you. have
people who resist that, who say
' I'm upique, I'm not conforming
to any model.'"

According to Thornton, the idea
of handwriting as a mirror on the
self goes back to the 19th century,
and handwriting analysts have
kept that idea alive.
"A handwriting expert and analyst
will tdl you that you can write wi1h
your ldt hand, ifyou'.., right handed,
or even write with your foot, and
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will still be there," she said.
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know whether or not that is true, but
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have been looking for results !hot~
inl'ort:e that notion or individuality.
"They don't want to be told. 'Gee,
you'"' really an ordinary penon and
don't haveanyparticulartalaiii,N she
remarked. "The analysts tdl you that
you will find out about these wonderful qualities that you have inside."
These days, said Thornton, handwriting analysis reflects society's emphasis on grooming the sel£
"One school oranalysis says if you
change your handwriting. you can
change your penonality;"5lie noted
"It's called graphotberapeutics. So.
ror example, maybe you .lack
assertiveness, and a graphologist will
be able to tdl you that because they'll_
see that your "b's" are too low or
they'll come up with some graphic
sign. Then once you've been clued
in, you consciously modify your
handwriting and the result is supposed to be that you modify your
penonality in the same way:'
While the cultural historyofhandwriting may be full of ..Cerences to
how an individual's penmanship differsfromotherpeople's,thewnrkbeing cooducted in the Center or Excellence for Document Analysis and
Recognition aims to find what is
similar among people's handwriting.
"At CEDAR, we are trying to see
what is oommon about handwriting," said Srihari. "What I try to do
is find out, irrespective or who wrote
it, can we read it? Can we make sense
or what the writer intended!"

To develop the symm. Srihari
and his colleagues have bad to find
a way to get machines to deal with
the many varieties of human hand·
writing, one of the most difficult
in arti.6cial intelligence.

now are companies that will develop personal "handwriting
fonts" for the computer so that
electrook docnments have a more
penonallook.
"You send in samples or your
handwriting and they aeate a per-

sonalit.ed fun~· she explained. "One

of the companies doing this says,
'We don't just take your individual
!etten and string them together. We
· can contenualiu them 10 we can
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make the 't' in the middle or the
"We cheat a lot!" exdaimed Srihari sentenct look the way you do."We cheat in thesemethatwetryand
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it and we figure that's boW people
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penonaf ~ to you, evm if the
handwriting is illegible." Speaking ofillqpble handwriting.
many p&lt;Ol&gt;le just assume that there
is more and more of it these days and
that it inevitably will continue, thanks
to the proliferation of computers.

"There is a huge amount of literature saying that handwriting has
gone downhill." Thornton said.
"I'm kind or skeptical because if
you look at the ' 50s, which we remember now as the golden age or

that the UB researchers aamine
which or these types or fonts an!
mo.., easily JUd by CEDAR's automated system so that they_can
recommend them to their mailers.
"It's )'Put personal.fon~· commented Srihari. "People get tired
or things that are all printed with
a word processor.. We likt to see
something a link bit more stylized. Many of these handwriting
fonts are quite popular."
So, at least according to these
two observers. scrawl is anything
but dead.

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natural way to communicate is

penmanship, there was a huge

with handwriting because it requires very basic technology, just a
stick in sand, or pen on paper," said
Srihaii. "It doesn't require any specialized keyboards or technology."

amount of Lite.rature saying that
penmanship was going downhill
because or the typewriter and the
Dictaphone and the telephone."
In fact, in an interesting twist,
Thornton pointed out that there

agreed Thornton.
"People are not going to carry
laptops around to do their shopping lists," she said. "It's not going
to happen."

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EBRUARY brings a series
of exciting music perfor·
mances to the campus,
including concerts from
the Organ Recital Series, the
Slee/Beethovcn String Quartet
Cycle and the Slee Visiting Art ist Series.
A concert on Sunday, fca'turing
Ro.land E. Martin , organ, with
Kevin Michki, violin , and Bryan
Eckenrode, cello, leads off the Department of Music spring semester concert schedule. Part of the
Organ Recital Series, the program
will be presented at 5 p.m. in Slce
Concert Hall .
Martin, a member of the UB
music faculty, has played recitals
in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Germany and England. Tickets are $8,
$6, $5 and $2.

Other events:
Feb. 21 : the Brentano String
Feb. S: Friedemann"Sallis from Quartet gives Concert V in the Steel
U n iversit~ de Montcon, New
Beethoven
at 8 p.m. in Slee
Concert Hall. The
·Brunswick ,
quartet, singled
Canada, will lecout for its techniture in 211 Baird
cal brilliance and
Hall at 4 p.m. on.
stylistic elegance,
"Umberto Eco's
has been chosen
Opera aperta and
by the Chamber
· Fragmentary
Music Society of
Form in the Late
Lincoln Center to
Work of Luig i
Nono." The lecture is free and participate !n the inaugural season
or Chamber Music Society Two, a
open to the public.
Feb. IJ: the Magellan String program designed ror outstanding
Quartet appears in Concert IV or emerging artists. Tickets are $10,
the Slee/Beethoven Cycle at 8 p.m. $8, $5 and $4.
Feb. 22: W'tlliam Porter will give
in Slee Concert Hall. The quartet
has appeared in Lincoln Center, Concert IV in ihe Organ Recital Series
at 5 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall.
the Aspen Music Festival and the
Caramoor Music Festival. Tickets Porter is widely known as a leader
among organists working toward a
are S I0, $8, $5 and $4.
the

r=veryoran historical approach to
musical performance. incorpor-ating
early technical practice and improvisation. The ooncert
is co-sponsored by
the Buffido chapter,
American Guild or
Organists. T'Jckets
are S8. S6. $5 and
$2.

Feb. 27: Julian ~
Banse, soprano,
appears in Coocert IV or the Slee VISiting Artist Series at 8 p.m. in Slee
Concert Hall. Banse is a gifted singer
who is on her first American recital
tour. Tickets are $10,$8, $5 and $4.
Tickets for these events may be
obtained from the Slee Hall box office. the Center for the Arts box office and at TicketMaster locations.
For more information, call645-2921.

�National Institute of Justice

Grant to geographic center team
funds research in Crime analysis
.,. EU.IH CCII.WAUM
News services Editor

their patrol cars. For example, officers on their way to investigate a

A

crime in a particular

hood could use the system to caU

as where stolen goods are pawned.
Tracking such common crimes
and their effects could, he said, allow Police to take preventive mea ~

Geographic lnformatioo

up ·demographic information

su[es to thwart future criminal

and Analysis and the departments of anthropology and political science has been awarded a
$192,000 National Institute of)wtia
grant to participate in a consortium
that will design and &lt;Yaiuateoomputerized crime analysis tools for U.S. law

about that neighborhood and pattuns of incidents in iL

activity.
"We're not simply characterizing
areas based on social demographics; Zubrow cautioned. •The assumption people traditionaUy ma.k&lt;
about high-crime areas is that liU
incidents occur with like," he said.
"Sometimes they don'L Frequently,
the patterns are surprising."

teamofr=archersfrom
the National Centu for

enfon:enentagencies.
The team, led by Ezra Zubrow,
professor of anthropology, will
design the algorithms for the software, as well as assess its utility.
Also involved in the project are
Hugh Calkin, professor of geography; Peter Rogerson, professor of
geography, and Stephen Halpern,
p rofessor of political science.

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ElllA ZUII!OW

"This p roject aliows us to take

and where to deploy oflice s.
The software package
mal«
these tools available in a s dard -

the best ideas in geographic mapping and in database structures and
analysis, and some innovative ideas
about probability theory and put
them together, to serve the goals of
community policing." said Zubrow.
He noted that while a community, for example, may want 1JlOrc
police officers on the street, the best
way to do so it may not be clear.
The new tools would assist by
making it possil&gt;l~ for police to.geographicaUy track where the most

om

such .as burglaries, happen, as well

Profect to develop softw""'
The goal of the project is to develop and test software based on
geographic information systems
that will provide police depa rtments with the tools they need to

optimize rewurces, such

when

common criminal occurrences,

Fihnsto
By MAltA M&lt;CO-ts

Buffllo pollee to test prototype
Once the UB team designs the algorithms, a prototype will be tested by
the Buffalo Police Department
The software wiU be integrated
into an existing package, called
Arc View, now in use by some police d epartments. ArcView is. produced by Environmental Systems

Research Institute, Inc. of
Redlands, Calif., the consortium
leader, whose president, Eleazer
Hunt, is a U8 alumnus.
The UB team is working in cooperation with the Salinas Police

Department, the San Bernadino
County Sheriff's Department and
th~ Los Ang~les Police Department Crime Analysis Unit.

- . 24--"Doctor Zhlv"!!""
( 1965). Winner of six Academy
Awards, this grand vision of Russian
history from the tum of the century was directed by David Lean
and stan Boris Pasternak.
April 7-" Das !loot" (The
Boat) (1 982).A brilliant picture about the claustropho-

This film features an unhappy. yet
fascinating.mixofCatholicmissionaries and nati\.e American tribes.
17-"P•ths of Glory"
(195 1). Starring Kirk Douglas and
directed by Stanley Kubrick, this
film captures the historical significance of World War I.

won a coveted "Palmes d'Or," at the
Cannes Film Festival
April 21-"Dr. Strangelove"
( 1963). Directed b y Stanley
Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers
in multiple roles, this film is a hi larious and frightening meditation
on nuclear arsenals.

repairi ng the damage ca used by
years of budget cuts.
"We need restoration of ope rat ·
ing funds," Gates said. " I'm hopeful the legislature will add to I his.
I hope they don't see the increase·
{over this yea r's budget) as a sub·
top award for the merit -based stitute foi- (add itional ) operating
scholarship to $1,500 peryear from funds."
Wagner noted that although th e
S 1,000, and double--from 3,000 to
6,000-the numberof$500 awards executive budget does not address
available to students demonstrat - all the needs of SUNY, "the star!ing place is so different from where
ing high scholastic achievement.
Terry Gates, associate professor" we've started from in the past."
of music and chair of the Faculty
In the past, .. a great deal of leg·
Senate Budget Priorities Commit· islative attention has gone toward
tee, criticized the Pataki proposal, restoring proposed reductions," he
saying it "doesn't come Close" to said. Since th e governor's budget

rolls forward the current year's
spending plan, additions by the
Legislature should be "dollars for
improvement and investment ,
not doUars to make up a deficit ,"
he said.
Wagner said that " high o n th e
list" of SUNY legislative initiatives
will be to obtain additional support for the com munity colleges,
since none ....ras included in the
executive budget. Pataki proposes
to continu e the current level of
$1,900 per funded co mmunit ycollege student for base operating
aid, while SUNY had requested a
level of S2,050 per funded student.

T

HIS spring, the Undergrad uate CoUege, Uni versity Union Activities
Board and Office of Student Life will present for the first

time a sequence of historical films
to complement the two-semester
undergraduate general-education
sequence "World Civilization."'
. "Understanding the varied civi-

lizations of our world gains immensely when tht silver screen
complements what we read about
them," said Claud e E. Welch, Jr.,
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Politi-

cal Science an organizers of the series. He added that the films intend

to expand awareness by illustrating
how societies have coped with major issues in the past 500 years.

bic life on board a German
U-boat during World War

n.

Budget
Continued from

pooge 1

currendyeligible. lt also includes $7
million for the Scholarships for
Academic Excellence program to
expand scholarship opportunities
for New York residents attending
public or private institutions in the
state. The plan would increase the

t . - used to write documents for the
World Wide Web, iS not difficult to learn. You can master the basics
and begin creating Web pages by signing up for one of the workshops being offered at UB this semester (see below for details), or
you can teach yourself by following the easy instructions in the Un dergraduate Library's lnkmet guides, Creating Documents for the
Web (http:/ / ubllb.bufflllo.edu/ llbr•rles/ unlts/ ugl/ lntgulcle•/
cr. . te.ht.,l ) and Enhancing Your Homepage (http://
_.buff___, _ _/ unlts/ ugl/ lntguldes/ -

e.html (.

The UGL guides are aimed at st udents who want to make
homepages, but faculty and staff who are interested in learning the
fundamentals of tagging and linking will find them useful too. Onee
you've become familiar with the basic concepts, you'll be able to
compose your own HTML or look at source code from other docu·
m ents and adapt lt for your needs.
In addition to step-by-step instructions for creating an HTML
document , the UGL guides link to other resources that you can click
on or print out for further study. These include NCSA'sA Beginner's
Guide to HTML (http:// www. - .uluc.eclu/ CietMnl/ lntemet/
/ HTMLPrlmerAII.html) and Yahoo's meta-list of HTML
guides (http:// search.yMoo.com/ bln/ search7p.html+gvlcles).
There's a lso a link to Images on UBWings (http:/ 1
ubllb.bufflllo.edu/ l m -/ ), so you can incorporate some fanci ful graphics into your Web page design liU the spinning envelope
or one of the animated "'under construction" signs.
For dates and times of HTML
workshops offered by the Undergraduate Library, see http:/ I
ubllb. buff•lo.edu / llbr•rles /
unlts/ ugl/ cl•ss/ lnt.html. Computing and Information Technology ~SiiiiiiiiF..,.~
workshops are listed at http://
wlng s. buff•lo. edu / computlng /
woftshops/ schedule.html.

For help wirh coon&lt;eting ro the World Wide
Web, contacr the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542.
- Will Hepf!" •ncl N•ncy .Schiller, Univenity Ubrorie5

mplement 'World Civ'
All screenings. which will be in troduced with a brief cultural and
historical contextualization from a
UB faculty member, are free and
open to UB 'faculty, staff and students. They will take place Tuesdays
at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Union
Theatre on the North Campus.
hb. 17-"Ago*re: TheWrath
of God " ( 1972) . Directed by
Werner Herzog, this film about a
futile search for th e mythic El
Dorado stars Klaus Kinsley and his
daughter, Nastasia.
Feb. 24--" lleck _
.. ( 1991 ).

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A rare event for Ja mes Joyce fans as well as for those

who've never been able to figure him out-a nd it 's
followed by a pub party!
·
The Faculty of Arts and Letters and the English
Department join the Finnegan's Wake Group of
Buffalo to celebrate Joyce's birthday with a rare screen·
ing of the cri lica lly acclaimed f~m by Carol Ellen Bute,
"Passages from Finnegan's Wake," on Monday at 7:30p.m.
in the Cen ter for the Arts Screening Room .
The film , typical of Bute's poetic studi es in light, rhythm
and imagination, was a 1965 Cannes pri ze-winner. It is seldom seen
today, however, because onl y three prints are known to exist. That
makes this screening a very rare event.
Admission is free and a recepti on will follow at the Shannon Pub,
5050 Main St., Amherst.
" Finnegan's Wake" was consid ered by Joyce to be his masterpiece,
but it is a famously difficult read, wrinen as it is in a bricolage of
languages, dialect s and word games that mu st be "heard" to be appreciated.
The book is framed to simulate a Dublin pub owner's dream of
recounting the history of western civilization. Lyrical, joyous, complex, it is full of a staggerin g variety of literary, histori cal, scientific
and popular discourses and it is riotously funny as welL
Filmmaker Bute ( 1906-83 ) was a pioneer of abstract expe rim en tal filmmaking. and made so me of the important early kineti c ani mation films. Many rece nt developments in compu ter technology
that permit the electronic ''painting" of images for use in film and
video arc ou tgrowths of Bute's theories. She theorized the possibility of"st•eing sound"by uniting music and film in abstract form s
and coined th e word .. abstronics" to refer to the wedding of th e
abstract and electronic forms .

Sending Letters to the Reporter
Th e Reporter w el comes letters from re •ders commenung on
1ts stories and content. Letters should be li mited to 800 ...,•ords
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En~eering students prepare Peace Bri~ designs
Master's program students develop innovative, cost-competitive plmis for future span
By UUN COOI.DaAUM
News SeMces Editor

controveny over plans
for a new bridge to link
the U.S. and Canada has
provided students in a
new master's -degree: program in engine&lt;ring with a chanac to contrib-

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ute to the discussion of the international project. while le;uning skills
n&lt;tded to manage alarg&lt; project not
typically taught in a classroom.

Organiz&lt;d like mini-compani&lt;S,
groups of students,..,.. chaJg&lt;d with
devdoping inoova!M bridg&lt;d&lt;signs
that were rc:alistic, cost-mmp&lt;li!M
and feasible from engineering. political and financial perspectives.
Detailed solutions

"We wanl&lt;d our students to rontribute to the discussion,"' said
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master's program. "We saw that the
level of informatio.n in the community about the ~ion waS rather
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and well-thought-out solutions and
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the ~ng Peace Bridge, which
was built in 1927 and spans the
Niagara River, connecting Buffalo
with Ft. Erie, Ontario. An independent group has argued vociferously for a signature span (lo- .
cally known as "Superspan"), a
single, dramatic str6cture that .
would replace the Peace Bridge.
Powerful supporters have lined
uponbothsidesofthecontroveny.
" The st udents have tried to
provide an array of choices .and.
to do comparative designs," said
Mander. ." It would be presumptuous of them as designers to say
which bridge is better because
you never know if some contractor has innovative construction
expertise that makes one design

"l(saoommonmyththataesthetics cost more," said Mander. "The
reason is that good designers are
oftenmo,.,oognizantofefficiencies
that can be built into a design that
can mo"' than offset the potential
costs of impr&lt;M:d aesthetics." ·
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firms know that once completed,
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The students' proposals, presented at a recent symposium at
UB, have been well -received by
community leaders anp are generating more public discussion.
Noting that most of the students
consider Buffalo their hometown,
John Mander said, "These students
have a vested interest.
• They are true citizen designers.
These proposaJs come from the
heart," added Mander, associate
professor of civil, structural and
environmental engineering and
project coOrdinator.
At its root, the controversy over
the new bridge reveals stark contrasu in what the international
crossi ng means to locaJ residents
and politicians.
The authority that operates the
bridge has proposed construction
of a parallel span that nearly du plicates-but would not replace-

more cost-competitive. Ideally,
several designs should be submitted and the marketplace should
decide.•
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Eaeb student "fum" was required
to come up with an alternative to
th e bridge authority's twin-span
concept and an alternative Jo the
current Superspan proposal.
The students developed proposals that included appropriate data
on materials, prestressing load-balancing techniques, designing for
strength, and serviceability, or the
.. user-friendliness" of a structure
(e.g. how much vibration a driver
feels when driving across it).
Also required in eaeb proposal

were recommendations on oonstruclion techniqu&lt;S. a serious oonsideralion since most of the work will be
doneoutofthe Niagara River, which
has some of the swiftest-flowing currents on the oontine:nt

They noted that maintenance
costs for this ~ of concrete run
about 10- 15 percent of that required by steel because it does not
require painting.
Altcmafiv&lt;s proposed by the students for the signature span include
a prestn:ssed concrete through an:h
that would be the longest concrete
an:h in North America.
Another dramatic design, called
a curved, cable-stayed bridge, fea tures two towers that connect to
upper and lower bridge decks by
diagonal tendons.
All of the cost estimates for the
students' twin-span designs are
near the $50 million pricetag of
the current one proposed by the
Buffalo Fort Erie Public Bridge
Authority; cost estimates for the
signature designs are in the vicinity of the $80 million proposed by
Superspan advocates.

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Construction times also are
compantble for eaeb design.
The project was designed to
teaebstudentshowtomanageand
integrate different kinds of engineering "expertise on a project;
structural, geoucbnical, oonstructioo and environmental
Prepa;.tion by the studen~ was
intense. To complete their proposaJs, they worked almost aroundthe-clock during the university's
winter shutdown.
The experience h.u reinforced
their personal feelings about how
the Peace Bridge sbould be expanded.
During a recent presentation,
Miebael Craig, one of the students
in the UB progratll whose cablestayed design is one of the class's
most dramatic, quoted renowned
engineer and ~uthor. Henry
Pietrowski, who has said that a
bridget ells the world what a community thinks about it5elf.
Supporters of a signature span
have argued that sueb a structure
wduld symbolize to Buffalo and
the world-at-large that the city has
advanced beyond its rust-belt
mentality.
Donald Lazzaro, on the other
hand, is a part-time student who
works for an engineering consulting firm that is iqvolved in the
bridge authority's plan. ·
" I understand their current design, it makes sense and it works,..
he said.
..But it can do more than work.•
countered Craig, noting that a
drive along the Sunshine Skyway
in Tampa Bay, Florida, shows what
a beautiful bridge can do for a
community.
Project will continue to live
Unlike other academic projects
that would be filed and foigO!ten at
the end of the semester, this one will
continue to liv&lt; and change shape
as the planning proass &lt;VOMs.
Whatever form the bridge fi .
nally takes. the experience has engendered a sense among the stu·
dents that they actually may havr
an influence on a major, international.structure in their own backyard.

�~tion to honor UB inventors

Greiner to recognize faculty, staffwith awards at ceremony Feb. 9
.,.IIM!IANews- fdiDrial Assisbnt

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NVENTORS wbo are membm of the faculty and lllalf
wiD be bonoral during arecq&gt;tion to be bdd at 4 p.m.

on Feb. 9 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
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U.S. patent£ iuued to TheResearch Foundation of State Univenity of New York in 1997 will

the first oegment of a blood vessel
by aposing a second segment of
the blood vessel to ultruound.
Reinold 0 .8. Gans is co-inventor.
• ~
former research assistant in electrical and oom·
putu engineering; - . . . JriAor. associate__._... of electri
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im&lt;ntorsciaproaosthatoonsidmthe
problem ci ~from a dustering point of view, and a novel
weight-based clustering method
(WCibrtsh) thai is implem&lt;nted in a

receive awards from President Wtlliam ll Greiner recognizing their
achievernenu as inventon of pateoted devices, materials or drugs.
"lt is gratifying and exciting to D&lt;Wlll-oetwork iJnoF ~
see the dforu of UB researchers • ........ ~ professor of
rewarded in this way," said Rich- chemistry, and y.,.._. v..,..,
ard Lohrman, acting director of inventors of a process for bondthe Office ofTechnology Transfer. ing organosilaoes. isotbiocyanateSome of the inventors are being containing fluorescent comhonored for patents involving im- pounds and varibus proteins that
provements and modifications on cajl refunctionaliu permanently
inventionsforwhichtheypreviously substituted o:r:yfluorinated surreceived patents. Tbe inventors are: faces. These surfaces are useful in
• .__ M. Hal, professor ofbio- the fabrication of biological senchemical pharmacology, inventor son, devices for separation of ceU
of a process that provides for the tines and 6ltration applications for
isolation of genomic fragments selective binding of antigens.
from DrosophiiJJ mtiJJnogaster en- • - - . professor of
coding tipE protein, which is re- oralbiology;' Darold
quired for expression of function associate professor of dectrical aod
voltage-dependent cation chan- computer engineering; L•nce
nei&amp;. GuopingFengisco-invmi:or. Ortmaft, asSociat&lt; professor and
Hall also is being recognized for associat~ chair of restorative deninventing a pnxzss wbere DNA's en- tistry; ~ M. ~. risearcb
codingvOit:l!!l'-activatedcationchan- associate, and Oawld s. OdrobloNI. .
nels have been doned.and character- doctoral candidate, inventors of an
izeci TbecDNA'shavebeenexpressed apparatususedinserialradiograpby
in reoombinant hoot cdls, which pro- that provides replicable projection
vide active recombinant prot~)!)-, geol)'letryberweenaneno;rgysource.
sepbP.Arena,GuopuigFeng.K&lt;o!iu, an' in'traorai!Mg'et area and an imLH.T. \\mDerl'loeg. p,jyi w.ingand age receptor. WobschaU also is be)dfreyW. Warmke are co-mventors.
ing honored as inventor of a pia• .TIInothy Murphy, professor of naropticsenso.r for measuring the

trocbemical appiKatioos, as w.U as
in structural composites.
• - lt. ~ clinical assis·
taut instructor of neurosurgery. inveotor of a system. method and apparatus used in surgical applications
to selectively illuminate and sight
reach ........:~c subsurface members
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of a patient's anatomy to guide an
incision. -M.llfeso, professor of ortbopaedics, is co-inventor.
• " " " ' - Fung. professor and
chair ofpharmaceutics, and John A.
· formerly research assistant
professor of pharmaceutics, inventors of pharmaceutical composilions in topical or parenteral form
containing inorganic nitrites that
are dfective in treating male impoteoce and erectile dysfunction.
• SeMJ!n IUm, former research
assistantindectricalaodcomputer
engineering, and llamallngam
· associateprofe:ssorofelectrical and computer engineering,
inventors of the design and operalion of local dock control circuits
that supply a local clock signal to a
controlled block of a digital cireuit.
in response to an enable signal represeotative of= enable condition.

C.-_ • fonnerUIIPresldent Stewn B.

medicine and microbiology, who
was granted patent protection for
compositions and the sequence of
the "E" protein, an outer membrane protein of Moraxella
cattharalis. Tbe uses of this protein include vaccines and diagnos·
tics. Reva Bus han is co-inventor.
• Ablr Mu111c1c, associate professor

Sample, now president of the University of Southern California; the
dean
of the UB School of Nursing. and
. . _ A. IIUmt, former associate
prOfessor ofnursillg. inventors of a
perineometer that measures pressurecreatedbyvaginalcontractions.
•
Monvw, associate professor of chemistry, inventor of a
technology that provides the·lirst
examples of metal complexes
showing catalytic behavior in RNA

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opticaJ absorbance spectrum of a

tran·sesterification under physiologicaJ relevant conditions.

wide variety of substances in situ.

• Joseph lt. Gong, associate pro-

• Cor•n Enhomlng, professor of

fessor of oral and diagnostic sci-

gynecology-obstetrics, inventor of a
system for managing data collected
during a pregnancy that aUows the
physician to mru better use of the
data in diagnosing and treating pot tiaU
th I0 'cal
diti
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ences. and Chester A. Glomski,
professor of anatomical sciences,
inventors of a method for detecting
a mammal's prior exposure to ra-

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diation or ra&amp;omimetric chemicals.
• 11eman1 A. Weinstein, professor of phyoics, inventor of a dia-

of architecture, inventor of an omamental designed drinking fountain.
Michael Osadciw of Rochester,
Michael F. LaMonica of Brentwood
andMatthewCGuthri&lt;ofPenfieldare
00-inventcrs.MuUickalsowillbehonored as inventor of a drinking foun tain that is moveable within a range
of positions to provide optimal access and comfort. William Cl&gt;eung
andJason C Billigarta&gt;-inYentors.
• Jonath&amp;n.J. Hull, former pro-

the ~'::~or or"an a~~.:'a~~s an~
methodforperformingbroncho-alveolar lavage that uses relatively low
pressures to avoid damage that can
occur when higher pressure is used
•Bradley P. f&lt;lhnnan. professor
of pediatrics and anesthesiology;
Marl&lt; s. ~. research associate
in pediatrics, and Lynn J. Heman,
assistant professor of pediatrics and
anesthesiology, inventors of a
method and apparatus that uses

fessor of computer science and

helicopter propeUers as pumping

tainingaquantitativedetermination

inventor of a word recognizer that
has a probabilistic relaxation process that improves the performance of an image-text-recognition technique by propagating the ·
influence of word collocation sta- ·
tistics. Tao Hong is co-invento r.
• Rocco C. Venuto, professor of
medicine, invento·r of nnethod to
inhibit blood-clot formation in

mechanisms to improve circulation
of liquid solutions between gas-e.xchangemechanisms andsubjects receiving the solutions.
• Deborah D.L. Chung, Niagara
Mohawk Professor of Materials
Science and professor of mec.han ical and aerospace engineering.
The invention relates to a particulate carbon complex useful in elec-

of mean left -atrial transn1ura1 pressure or a quantitative determination
of a left-atrial pressure valve.
• Rarnallngam Sridhar, associate
professor of electrical 011dcomputer
engineering, inventor of a family of
CFET logic circuits useful in Wilve
pipelining. and a method to design
the circuits. Xuguang Zhang is coinventor.

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mond-anvil cell assembly of relalively smaU diameter that may be
used in commonlyavailableayostats
withaceUassemblycapable ofapplyingpressureof more than IOOkbar.
Ruiji Chen, former research assistant in physics, is co-inventor.
• Donald Hkkey, research assistant professor of physiology and
clinical assistant profess(&gt;r of neurosurgery, inventor of a non -invasive apparatus and method for ob-

Bas~et~all
MEN' S

UB 67, UMKC 81
UB 74, Western Illinois 59
The tJrWenl&lt;y dM~
City (UMKq Kanptoos shot a
bllst.erinc 60.4 percent and had live
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they delated the Bulls.81~7.on

Jan- 21

In Alumni Arena.
Senior swtnpnan IWaun y"'""

led UB with 22 polnu.senlo&lt;' guard
Miloo Martinho added 17 points and
fre:shman center NikDbJ ~
had 10 points and six blodc.ed shots
In dle loss.
On Jan- 24. ManinllO drilled
sewn three-pointers en route to a
pme-hlajl26 points u UB snapped
• chree-pmeJosinc- by
delatinJ:Westem 1 -. 74-59,".
M~ Conference batde ;n
Alumni Arena.

led • three-point
bamaebylhe8uilsuUBhk IJ-of.
22 Jonr-&lt;llstance shois and led from
wtre-to-Wire.Aiexeev had a areer14 polna and live rebounds
while juniof' lo&lt;ward Rober&lt; Huns
had a career.IIJgh 12 rebounds.

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snapped when he w.u held to live
poina ;n [ust 13 minutes d action
due to foul trOUble.

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WOMEN'S

UB 83, UMKC 68
UB 79, Western IH inols 64
The 8ufls zrabbed two conference victories this past week ewer UMKC and
,1/'(ostem ln..,., to mow to 12~ O¥Onll and t&gt;-21n the Mki-Cancinent

Conference.
On Jan- 21 . me Bul~ shot so pen:ent from ""' field and so percent from
d\'""1"'int bnd IX&gt; put the Bulb up 42-34 ....- UMKC at halldme. ln the
second half. the Bulls continued their hot shootin&amp; .....X wid\ 55.2 percent
from the fleld and 66.7 pen:ent from behind the arc.
juniof' Mepn Mc:Cr.oy f'O"r.d In a season-high 20, while senlo&lt;' Chanssa
Gardner added 16 points and six usists olflhe bendl.u,ti&gt;e Bulls lcnodoed off
""' Kanproos. 83-08.

On Jan- 24. the Bulb shot 57.7 pen:ent from field-goal range, as the Bulls
lcnodoed olfWestern lllnols. 79-64.
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Froshman fo&lt;war&lt;l Tofbny Bell pitdled In 16 points. while senlon Latoya
Crumpton and Charissa Gardner added I 0 poina apiece.

Wrestlin~
Freshman wresderVmce DeAugustine upset the 2Ckh-nnked and top-seeded
wresder by a +2 SCOf"e to win the ISS-pound dwnpionshlp at the New York
SQte Intercollegiate Ownpionshlps at lttw:::a Collefe.
OeAugustine, now 22-9 on the year, also \lYOn the tide at the Wilkes Open
and tinbhed second at the Slippery Rock Open.As a tum. UB finished d\ir&lt;l
with 145.5 points behind fim-place Hofstra (I 53) and Cornell ( 148).
All I0 d US's WreJ11ers placed. junk&gt;r II Jl.pounder Brian Schul. freshman
126-pounder Chad Uros and senior I SO-pounder john Stuan'\an all finished
second.
Other UB wrestlers who placed include. dUrd; jeremy McVige ( 142 pounds).
john Eschenfelder ( 190 f'O"nds) and Mike Garoblo {heavywelgt&gt;t): fourth:Josh
Scaw (t77 pounds):......,!h:Matt Rkd (1 67 pounds).

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UB 196, Conlsius 78

The Bulls knocked off cross-oown rival Canis Ius, 196-78. on Jan. 24 in UB
Naotorium. Sophomore Inger Rooneem and freshman Ca.rol ~ set
new school records in the meet. Rooneem swam a 1:07.79 in the "NQtnen$ 200
IM and Cottingtwn swam a l:21 .53in the women's 200 SreuL

In~ om lmc~ an~ riel~
The men's and women's Indoor Track and Add team finished second and third.
respecdvely, on Jan. 2-4 at the Class o("'J2"" lnvta.tioNI :u Colgate University.
The women tinbhed dUr&lt;l with 142 points behlnd'lennont (164) and Albany
(1+4.SO),while !hem.., came In second with 158.50 points behind Albany ( 196).

-Andrew Punzal, Assistant Sports lnformooon Om?ctor

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campus for the spring
semester, freshman joanna
Bristol, left, shows the ropes
to Rebecca Gerhart, a
transfer student from the
University of.Houston.
Rebecca's parents, Phil and
Sue Gerhart, are on hand to
help her move into a South
Campus dorm. They're all
from Nell'lark, N.Y.

Math building construction to go foiWard
Pataki's 1998-99 capital budget includes $7 million for North Campus project

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ONSTRUCTION of a

new

mathematics

amount of money, to be included
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in the 1999-2000 state fiscal plan,
for the Comprehensive Health Sci-

ence Education Center on the

building on the North
Campus should finally
beeome a =lity with the inclusiop of $7 million in funding for
the project in Gov. George E.
Patalci's 1998-99 capital budget.
The 50th Anniversary State
University Five·Year Capital Investment Program, which was formally announced by the governor
on Tuesday, abo includesSI.l mil-

South Campus.

lion for design work fo,- renovating the coal-fired heating plant on
the South Campus and $3.6"mil-

executive."

lion to renovate and equip campus buildings with high-technology laboratory sites to be funded
in the first year, 1998-99.
The 1998-99 plan abo includes
$7.3 million to be shared among 13
campuses, including UB, to fund
~lacement of PCB transformers.
In addition, as part of the fiveyear program, Patak.i proposes
that UB receive an undetermined

The governor's five-y~&lt;lr, $3 billion investment program -is .. big
news for State University and City

University,• commented Senior
Vice President Robert J. Wagner at
a divisional Service F.sceUence A5sembly Thesday morning, shortly
after some details of the governor's
plan were made public.
"This is a positive move by the
The multi-year, capital-budget
funding will aUow UB and other
SUNY and CUNY schools to
implement long· term planning
and speedier completion of capital projects, Wagner said.
The plan includes $200 mil lion
system-wide for technology
projects to encourage innovative
methods of instruction and learning. Wagner noted that initiatives
in technology have been a financ:..a...t- p..- :z

Greiner lauds capital plan
P'rulclent Wllllllm

a. Greiner

Tuesday expressed enthusiasm
fO&lt; the governor's proposed fiveyear cApital plan.
"The governor's proposals regarding the capital budget areal&gt;solutely outstanding news for US.
Coupled with preHminary infor·
mation on the ope&lt;ating budget,
It would appear that our state
budget will be stabilized th~ year
-and we hope that will also be
true for the longer term.
"The governor's capital budget
includes a very significant invest·
ment in State Untverslty over the
next five years. Capital Invest·
ment in UB and State University
as a whole is extraordinarily im·
portant. This initiative comes
more than two decades after the
buildup of the system state-wide
and is greatly needed. Rehabili·
tating aging physical plant, as
well as making possible new
buildings, such as the math !Juiidlng on UB 's North Camp'us, is

very important to guaranteeing
the quality of educational experience for all our students.
"US's two highest capital priorities are very high in the bud·
getary queue. The moth building
has been UB's number-one prior·
ity for some time. From the point
of view of UB as a wh&lt;He, it's one
of the next-to-last st~ in making both campu25 whole. Bring·
lng the mathematics department
io the North Campus will have
g"'at benefit fO&lt; students- most
particularly for undergraduates,
who previously had to commute
between campuses. Moreover,
this move will also trigger a series
of steps that will make it possible
for w to make majc,r improve--·ments on the South Campus. As
best we can detMT~ine, funding
tor the c~ Health Science Education Center on the
South Campus is in the queue for
next year. This is~ good
news for both campuses...

UB aids students hit by Asian currency crisis

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from the eight counlri&lt;s most seriouslya!fectedbythecrisisowealmost
$2 million in tuition and fees. He

Biswodcingtoassistintemational students
who are having difficulty paying their UB
billsduetothecurrencycrisisinMia.
_ Nioolas Goodman, vice provost
forundergraduateeducationwhois
overseeing several student services
that m:endy relocated to the Office
of the Provost, including Students
Accounts and Financial Aid, said
thatstudentswboarehavingtrouble

documentthattheir6nandaldifficulties are a direct result of the currency
devaluation in theirCOWltrics maybe
able to work out a delayed-payment
planorotherarrangementuntilanalternate source of funding can be
found UB will not charge these students later..., he added
"We are being flexible from the
point of view of the due dates of

Students from several East A5ian
countoies, including Japan, Thailand, Korea , Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Tai·
wan,haveseentheircountry'scurrencies devalue substa ntiaUy in the
past few months due to crashing
stock and currency markets in the
region.
For example, the Indonesian currency has only one-quarter of the
val u e it had six month s ago,
Goodman said The 40 students at
UB whose funds for living ex-

paying bills for tuition and fees for
the spring semester should conlllct
the Office of Student Accounts.
Goodman said UB cannot affi&gt;rd
to waM: paymen~ the 730 students

bills." he said.
Two-thirds of the 730 students
at UB who might be affected are
graduate students. and the rest are
undergraduates.

penses, as well as tuition and fees.
come from Indonesia have s••n
"the cost of attendance (at UB )
multiply by four in six months and
by two in two weeks," he added.

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While Goodman said it was too
early to say for sure if students
were dropping out ofUB because
of the financia1 crisis-bills were
due on Jan. 13, barely a week
ag&lt;&gt;-he speculated that some certainly will drop o ut.
UB, in trying to help these students, is ·responding to the indi vidual needs o f individual stu·
dents based on documentation of
their individual circumstances in
a flexible and humane way; he
stressed
He encouraged faculty and staff
who know students in this situation to urge them to contact the
Office of Student Accounts.

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While our primary mission is
language instruction, the WU also
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of our programs; promotes global
awareness and intercultural sensili:vity on campus and in the co~­
munity, and serves th"e international communication needs of the
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collaboration witb our colleagues in
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program; 2) English Language Jnsti.
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guages and Literatures, along with
Chinese, Japanese and Korean,
French, German, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Aside from language instruction
and public service, ihe institute
plays an important role as the
·department's experimental unit.
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of programs that were upgraded

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According to a Modem Language
Association survey of (oreign lan·
guage enrollments from 1990-95,
there have been si2able increases
in Spanisb (10 percent) and even
larger increases in Arabic and Chi·
nese enrollments ( 40 percent),
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man ( -28 percent) and Russian
(·45 percent) experienced a sig·
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is: bow does the institute~ the
lllliwrsity community and address
the foreign-language needs of
other. faculties and s.chools! Aside
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who are interested in sbaringtbeir in· ~,..m. tbeOirrieulum. It
tercultural experience and know!· -enables ltUdmts In .... their fuo:eign
edge with domentary or !OCOndary language skills in non-language •
students. Local tracbersand their stu- COWleS. Students who baYe inrmnedents baYe the opportunity to learn diate roadios pro6QeDtyin a fuo:eign
about a foreign culture(s), while the languaee , _ once a -tc in small
GlobaiAmbassadon get a glimpse of gmups wilh a ltlldy-group leader to ·
K-12education in the United States, discuss radinss rdoled to the course
as well as
new people.
in which they are enrolled
Since the departure oflapoanese and
Korean from theWLI, only Arable
and Swahili are taUght in a·converl·
tional classroom fomiat The other
languages are taug!ll using a supervised ~-instruction&amp;~ approach ·
tbat teach.S practical language
skills througb intenaive proctice
witli liudio 'tapea :reinforced by
sqWJ-group tutorials with nativespeaking lUton, many of whom are
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cialstruggle for the university, but
with the increased funding pro·
vided by the governor's capital
plan, "we might be able to make
some real progress on that fronL•
UB's share, which could be as
much as $3.6 million, is "a big allocation in support of technology
that we've not had in the past,'"
Wagner said.
The plan also includes a campus·
matching program that would provide incentive fundirig for UB and
other SUNY campuses to raise non·
state funds for campus-enhance·
ment projects. According to the
goVl!mor's plan, the state will pledge
$20 million as its share of a S40 mil·
tion program. Guidelines for those
projects will be established bySUNY
system administration, the
governor's office and the legislature.
Although details of the campus·
matching program were not im·
mediately known Wagner said the
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state was expected to match, dol·
lar-for-dollar, funds raised from
private sources.
Quality-of-life projects also will

benefit from the governor's plan.
The governor's program will pump
$50 million into SUNY for campus·

improvement projects such as day·
car&lt; centers aod other projects that

will improve the overall appearance

of campuses or enhance their r&lt;sponsiveness to student needs.
"This enormous support li&gt;r adin technology and building
rehabilitation will provide our cam·
puseswith the necessary tools to help
us continu&lt; to attract high-quality
faculty and students, and offer them
the best possible atmosphere and
environment within which New
Yorkers can learn and grow,• said
SUNY Chancellor John W. Ryan.
The proposal, he added, "will do
more to ensure a better bigher education for our children than any
othersingle proposal I can imagine."
Thomas F. Egan, chair of the
SUNY Board offiustees. abo praised
the plan, noting that "by making
available modem classrooms, resi·
dence halls and laboratories with
state-of-the-art technology, the State
Univenity will be able to provide in·

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with a college education of thought·
ful content and superb quality" and

"boost our momentum as we move
into the top ranks of American
higher education.•

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FSEC endorses creed on diversity

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have endoraed the
idea of a creed or lltatement on
campus diversity, but warned that
such a creed must awid squelchins freedom of apreaaion.
R.epraentatimo of the Committee for the Promotion ofTolerance
and Divasity, which is worlcing to
develop the creed, solicited input
from the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee at its Jan. 14 meeting.
Jackie Bascom, a student in the
Graduate School of Education,
and Donna Rice, associate vice
preaident for student affain, told
rommittee memben it was important they get romments from faculty, staff and students "so people
feel this is somethin&amp; they can buy
into, not just something to hang
on a wall"
. "I think this is really an important document to have," Bascom
said. "It's not just the Praident's
Office saying, 'This is how you
should act on campus.' It's students,
faculty, staff, administrators...say-

rommunity where we value diversity, where we won't tolerate racial
acts or intolerance. •.. lt would be
preaumptuous for us to uy, 'Here's
a creed, now just sign off on iL'"
Basa&gt;ml1041d tlllllh='-'been
pmblems recently with rocial graffiti
on campus and acts o{bomophobia
in the dorms. "There is intolerance
in every amununity, but we would
liU to rome~as UB and say,
'We're not pug to tolerate this.*
She circulated to seD.~ tors ropies
of a model of a creed developed by
the diversity rommittee using examples from other campuses, calling it "a starting point; and asked
faculty members for categories
they feel should be addreaaed.
Rice asked PSEC members if they
would be willing to lllb into Ibm
classrooms a aeries of questions to
dicit discussion on the development
of a campus diversity creed.
Powhatan Wooldridge, associate professor of nursing, agreed
with "the spirit" of the creed, but
said he feared a stated policy on
diversity "will interfere with seri·
ous debate on issues."
Boris Albini, professor of micro-

biology, said he supported a diversity Jtalmi&lt;:DI that discusoed the issue "in general terms, rather than
in lilts of what is not allowed."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, added that freedom
of speech "is an important part of
the.academy," and joked that
membero "have a right to be stu·
pid if they wish to be."
Sherri Wallace, assistant professor of planning, wondered bow the
diversity rommittee, once a creed
was developed. would evaluate its
success. •If you don't have a way to
measure whether or not we are being diverse, then I'm wondering
what is the use of it?" she asked.
Bascom said the success of a
creedrould be measured in the attitudes of students, noting that stu·
dent attitudes changed at the University of Rhode Wand, where she
had received her undergraduate
degree, aft~r a general diversity
creed was implemented. "Things
did change. It wasn't overnight, but
the campus climate has definitely
changed there; she said

"UB at Sunrise" to focus
on drug resistance in VQ•~
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A question that medical experts have been asking, with reporu of growing incidence of drug resistance among bacteria, it will be the focus of a
at Sunrise" program to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. Feb.
10 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Cam-

·us

pus.
Charles Ballow, clinical associate professor of phar·
macy who is director of anti-infectimo research at Millard
Hospitals, will speak.
·
Ballow recently told an international medical meeting that based
on a study ronducted by researchers at UB, Millard Fillmore and
the University of Iowa College of Medicine, the problem of growing
drug resistance in bacteria can be compared with •a rocket ship.•
He predicted that by the year 2000, half of the infections caused
by the bacterium responsible for 7 million cases of otitis media in

children and 500,000 cases of pneumonia in children and adults each
year in the U.S. will have some resistance to penicillin.

"UB at Sunrise" is a series of breakfast programs jointly produced
by the Alumni Association, Office of Conferences and Special Events,
News Services and Office of Public.ations, all at UB. It also is suppaned by the Offiao of University Development and Office of Public Service and Urban Affairs.
The priao of the program, which includes a fuU breakfast, is SIO
for members of the UB Alumni Association and S 12 for all others.
For more information. contact the alumni association at 829-2608.
Ticket orders must be received by Feb. 9.

Child prodigy and family to appear

Proposed ethics code is criticized
FSEC members call it too restrictive, unfair to faculty

klckJ off a new year and the

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ulty Senate Execulive Committee have
· ci'ititized ·a· pro·
posed rode of ethics goventing relationships between students and
faculty, saying it is too restrictive
and unfairly places the burden of
acrouniabilityon faculty members.
Committee members, at a
sparsely attended first meeting of
the~mesteron Jan.l4, received a
proposed "Code of Academic Ethics• governing relations with students drafted by the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.
The code states that "all amorous
or sexual relationships between faculty and students are unacceptable
when the faculty member has professio nal respo"'iibility for the stu·
dent, even when both parties have
consented, or appear to have consented, to the relationship.
"Specifically, a faculty member
should not have an amorous or
sexual relationship, ronsensual or
otherwise, with a student ttbo is
enrolled in his or her course, or
whose performance is supervised or
evaluated by that faculty member.
Nor should a faculty member be
involved in any decisions that may
reward or penalize a student with
whom he or she has had an amorous or sexual relationship, even
outside the instructional context."'
Consent will not be considered
a defense if a complaint is brought,
the code states, with the individual
in the relationship with the greater
power having to "bear the burden
of accountability."
Faculty Senate C hai r Peter
Ni,!:kerson, professor of pathology,
tOld senators he believes the senate needs to take some position on
th e issue, "since we have nothing

at ~e P~!lt tim~. Othe~ un~ver­

Malone recommended that if

sihes have had significant prob-

such a code is deemed necessary,

lems and, therefore, have ad-

it include provisions for how alle-

dressed the· problem after the

gations would. be investigated.

horse was out of the barn. We

"Alleging that S&lt;)me kind of an

probably need, as a faculty, to say

amorous relationship took place
covers a whole multitude of possibilities, and 1 would like to know

something; the question is. what?"
De1mis Malone, SUNY Distin·

guished Service Professor in the

who is going to decide and based

Department of Electrical and

on what," he said.
Nickerson said be would forward senators' comments to John
Boot, professor and chair of the
Department of Management Science and Systems and chair of the
Committee o n Academic Freedom

Computer l!ngineering, disputed
the need for such a statement.
"I'm surprised that an explicit
statement like that is necessary,"
Malone said "I don't object to it, but
I find it hard to believe that there's
anybody (on campus) who doesn't
know" that this kind of activity "is

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spring semester with a concert

on Wednesday featuring the
Slee Sinfonietta conducted by
M~gnus 'Martens5on, with "the
Weilers tein Trio as special
guests. Proceeds from the con-

cert, to be held ai 8 p:m. in Slee
Concert Hall on the North Ca mpus, will benefit the music
department's performance and academic programs.
The Weilerstein Trio includes 15-year-old cellist Alisa Weilerstein,
who began playing the cello at age 4- 1/2 and gave her first public
concen six months later. In 1995, at age 13, she had her debut with
the Cleveland Orchestra.
Donald Weilerstein, founding member and former first violin;t of

the acclaimed Cleveland String Quartet, was on the faculty of UB while
the quartet was in residence here during the early 1970s. His wife,
pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, was a student of Stephen Manes at
UB. Both are now on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Tickets are SIS, general; S12. faculty/staff/alumni; 56, students. They

not welcome" at the university.
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professor of modern languages

Senate at its Feb. 4 meeting.

and li teratures, noted she had

In other business, the FSEC re·

tute such a policy when it was first

ferred a proposed resolution on the
New Paltz situation to the Committee on Academic Freedom and Re-

~trouble" with a proposal to insti·

raised last year, and she still had
problems with it.

sponsibility and asked the commit-

•The opportunities for conflict
of interest are so numerous that it
just seems to me unnecessarily

tee to draft"a statement comment-

prudish to single out sexual relationships when there are all kinds
of things that might compromise
the objectivity" of a faculty

pointed by Chancellor John Ryan.

member!~ behavior, such as the
desire to be promoted, she said.

Simon Singer, associate professor
of sociology, s~ggested that there is
"some need for due process" to be
built into any kind of statement. He
read the last sentence of the statement
requiripg the individual in the relationship with the greater power to
bear the burden of accountability.
..A student can accuse, but how
much that accusation is grounded
in physical reality, is rejected on
the part of the stud ent ,• Singer

said. "All of those are details that
need to be worked ou t before
making statements on the burden
of accoun tability."

ing on the fact-finding report pre·
pared by a review committee apIf the committee is unable to

romplete its work-dlair John Boot
was out of the country at the time
of the charg.,_the PSEC will draft
the statement, which. is to be presented to the full Senate on Feb. 4.
The report, which is expected to

be discussed by the SUNY Board
of Trustees in executive session at
its meeting on Jan. 27, supports
the decision of New Paltz Presi·
dent Roger Bowen to allow a con ·
troversial conference on sexuality
to proceed as planned.
On another matter, Nickerson
reported that President William R.
Greiner had responded to the Faculty Senate's resolutions on affirmative action by establishing a task
force to address issues affecting
underrepresented groups at UB.

New detection method for land
mines is subject of talk
There are approximately 110 million land mines buried in 68

countries around the world, many of )'lhich are plastic and, therefore, not detectable by current technologies.
But an accurate and inexpensive detection method ·effective for
land mines in either plastic or metal casings may be on the horizon
as the result of research conducted by Surajit Sen, assistant profes·
sor of physics, and his coUeagues at US.
Their research will be the subject of a talk to be given by Sen at
7:30p.m. on Wednesday in Room 225 of the Natural Sciences Building on th e North Camp us. Sponsored by the Sciences Alumni Association of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the talk
will be free and open to the public.
The resea rch, which will be published in a scientific journal next
month, indicates that weak shock waves sent into granular beds, like
soil, will cause acoustic signals containing critical information to be
reflected off buried objects. such as land mines.
For more in formation, contact Cindy Nydahl at 645·2531 .

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EARCHERSat UB
and the U.S. Department of Veter2N M&amp;ill Medical Center in
Bul&amp;Jo, using positron
emission tomography (PET), have
pinpointed for the first time the specific brain regions responsible for
tinnitus, a a&gt;nstant and debilitating
ringing in the ears experienced by
millions of Americans.
The findings are a major breakthrough in the study of these
"phantom sounds,• for which there
is no known causeoreffectivetreatmenL Results of the study appear
in the January issue of N&lt;urology.
Based on the results of the study,
the lead researchers have received a
$15 million grant from U., National
Institutes of Health to oonduct a
major investigation of tinnitus and
hearing loss using PET scanning_
• People with severe tinnitus,
which is about!O percent of elderly
Americans. often suffer depression,
anxiety, sleep disruption and other
symptoms that have a major impact
on theirqualityoflife,"saidAian H.
Lockwood, lead author of the study.
"Without objective information on
how and where the oondition originates, developing effective treatments bas been djfljcult, By identifying the sites in the brain that mediate tinnitus, we have taken.a crilical
down the mad toward a ciltt
for this disabling oondition.•
Lockwood, a neurologist, directs
the Center for Po$itron Emission
Tomogtaphy at ·the Buffalo VA

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Medical Center, a joint venture
with UB, where the research was
oonducted. He bolds appointments
as a professor of neurology, nuclear
medicine and a&gt;mmunicative disorders and sciences at UB.
Lockwood and Richard Salvi,oodirectnr.of the Center for Hearing
and Dea!i&gt;ess. studied tinnitus patients who have the unusual ability
to oontrol the loudness of the ringing by clenching their jaws. They
were able to track ftuctuations in
cerebral blood Bow through PET
scans taken while these patients
manipulated their symptoms, creating a map of the brain site re5poDSJble for tinnitus activity.
In oddition, they reported sigl)ificant findings .....,.before oboaved:
• An ahnonnal link ~ in tinnitus patients between the auditory system and tj&gt;e limbic systero, the brain
wiring responsible f9r ernotiqns. a
finding that may eapCain why tinnitus can be ernotioDally crij&gt;pling. .

• Altered response to auditory
stimuli in tinnitus patients, many
of whom have bearing loss, results
in changes in the auditory circuitry in the brain. The extent of
change may dictate the exact nature and severity of the resulting
tinnitus.
• PET scanning can be used as an
objective tool to measure tinnitus
and to determine the effectiveness
of new treatments.
The study involved four tinnitus patients and six persons with
normal hearing and no tinnitus,
who served as a&gt;ntrols. All participants took standard bearing tests
bef&lt;i(e !'ET ~The tjnnitus
patients bad mild-to-revere highfrequency bearirlg I~
·
The researchers were able to pinpoint the orisin of tinnitus activity
to sites in the temporal lobe opposite the affected !'"! by com~
PET scans of tinnitus patients while

tbeymanipulaled th&lt;ir ~witb
th&lt;ir SCUll Ill .... and wilb oaao of
nonnaJ oontrok • they pabmed
thesamejow....,..,.,.,.
"Identifying sites in the brain that
mediate tinnitus is. aitical6nt *P
in the difficult tuk of ddlnins the
£acton that emote these phantom
sensations and clevdopins rational
treatmento for this chronic and disabling oondition," Loclcwood saicl
The researchers also found, unexpectedly, that the bippocampos,
part of the brain responsible for
emotions, was activated in tinnitus
patients. but not in nonnal oontrols,
indicating one possible pathway for
the adverse psychological elliocu often aperienced with the oondition.
In addition, they observed that
emrDaloounds activated a more extensive network or nerves in tinnitus patients with h&lt;aring loss (nearly
all tinnitus patients have impaired
bearing) than in nonnal subjects.
Lockwood said this finding indicaled that the anditorysystcn in tinnituspatients reorganizes as a result
ofthe reduction in auditory stimuli
"Changes in the brain occur following many forms of neural injury or changes in the sensory input to the brain," Lockwood saicl
"These changes 'may be responsible for symptoms such as pban. tom limb pain, a syndrome in
which amputees fed aauciating
pain that seems to originate in the
missing limb. We believe that tinnitus may be the auditory oounterpart to phantom limb pain.
"We still !lave'' lOt i&gt;fWork tD do."

fustitute to focus ·on environmental research

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The purpose of the institute is to
conduct selected, interdisciplinary,
public-serviceprojects that address
important environmental issues in
Western New York; boost support
for graduate students in departtn'.nts engaged in environmental
research, and strengthen oommunications among faculty and students involved in environmental
research at UB and at other institutions and organizations.
A national panel of evaluators last
faJI reviewed and strongly supported
the proposal to establish the instirute,
which was developed by a steering
oommittee of f2 UB faculty membets. It was approved in December
by Provost Thomas E. Headrick.
"The Institute will provide a cohesive base for faculty drawn from
at least five schools or faculties to
collaborate on resea rch and
graduate education in the environmental field, and to advance
UB's extensive but uncoordinated
efforts in this field for greater regional impact and national promiocoee," Headrick said .
•As provost, 1 recognize the im portance of supporting the interdisciplinary initiative of facuJty
through a start·up period, even

though ibe resources available for
this support are extremely scarce.·
The instil ute will report to
David Triggle, vice provost for
graduate education and dean of
the Graduate School
Approximately 100 UB -faculty
mernben have been identified as
having expertise in some area of
the environmenL
At the same time, according to
the steering oommittee, UB's geographic location near the Grea!
Lakes and the industrial areas that
have developed along their shores
puts it in a unique position to
make significant oontributions to
environmental research.
"UB clearly bas the potential to
be one of the top universities in New
York State with respect to the environment," said Errol Meidinger,
professor of law and chair of the
steering oommittee, who bas been
named the iOstitute's first director.
"Not enough interdisciplinary.
environmental research gets done
at UB because of the traditional
boundaries that exist between departments and because of the difficulties involved in producing
major proposals," he said.
Between UB's programs in fundamental sciencr and social sciences
and its professional schools in law,
medicine,engineering.andarcbitecture and planning, UB's overall
strengths are unmatched in the
SUNY system, he added.
A critical focus for the institute
will be the development of the Environmental Management Alterna-

lives~ (EMAP), wbiC!&gt; will

provide a means of ·integrating
knowledge from numerous disciplines and from variousilakdtolden-both inside and outside the
university-end brirlg it to bear on
specific problems in the region.
EMAP will look at local and regional environmental problems
from alternative penpectives, and
use UB's independent research
and analytic experfue to define
potential solutions and their likely
technical and social impacts.
In its lim year, the institute will
select two issues to addras by providing modest funding and b)'
convening working groups with
both academic and policymalcing
components.
The steering oommittee hopes to
begin considering proposals from
faculty beginning in Februarj.
In additio)l to EMAP projects.
the institute also will focus on:
• Increasing UB's ability to attract
outstanding graduate students pursuing environmental study by providing fellowship grants to "top
off" support being offered by the
recruiting department
• Serving as a user-friendly, "onestop" source of information and
referrtis bn environmental issues
for requests' that come from inside
and outside the university. and as
a clearinghouse about environ·
mental resources on campus
• Providing limited support for
the development of major interdisciplinary research proposals
from UB faculty

Planning for the institute began
more than two yean ago. under
the guidance of Ra)ph Rumer,
emeritus professor of civil, structuraland environmental~ing. and former director of the
New York State Center for Hazardous Waste ManagemeuL
Other members of the institute's
steering oommittee are Joseph V.
Dd'into,profeoaorofcivil, structural
and oavirnomaual engin&lt;eringand
directnroftheGreat l.alrt:s Program;
Lees. Dryden. directnrofinterdisciplinary degree programs in the socialocienas; John Fountain, prc&gt;2ssorofsooiogy;)ooephA. Gorddlo,Jc,
proC.ssor ~chemistry and director
oftheMalaioiS~ lnslrumtnt
Facility; Howard R. Laslo!r, proC.ssor
of biologicalocienas; David Mark,
proC.ssor of li""8J'Jpby and director
of the National Center for Geographic Information and~ H.
Lofn!ine Oak, associate dean for interdisciplinary affairs, School of
Medicine and Biomedical Scieooes;
James R. Oloan. proC.ssorofpharmaoology and IDI&lt;icology and associate
director of the Taxioology R5ealcb
Center; G. William Page. professor
andcbairofthe DepartmentofPianning in the School of Architecture
and Planning. and A Soott ~.
professor of civil, structural and environmentalengineeringandexecutive director of the New York State
Center for Hazardous Waste Managem&lt;nL
The institute plans. to have its
Web site up by mid-February at
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study of 15,037 teenagers conducted by a
research associate in
the Department of
Pamily Medicine poinu to an
alarming trend among blad:uenage boys that helpa aplain their
poor •Cl!demic performance. It
aiJo poinu to .,Ossible solutions.
The study by Joson Oobome,publisbcd in the Deamber issue of the
JOill'1llJl of EdUl»tiorud Psyr:luJiogy,
adds to a small, but growing body
of research that links diaasaociation
with academia to f.Uiure in ochool.
In his analysis of data collected
through the National Education
Logistical Survey;Osbome, who is
completing his doctorate in educational psychology at UB, found
that unlike other u:ens, the selfesteem of black adoleacent boys

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becomes less and less linked to
academic accomplishment as they
move tbrou~ their high-school
y the time they reach 12th
de, he said, there is no statistirelationship between their academic accomplishment and their
sel£-est&lt;:em.
Instead of feeling good-or
bad-because of their academic
perfOI'QliD&lt;e, he..foJuld. that the
sel£-esteem of black' h:en-age boys
iJ linked increasingly to popularity and athletic success as they go
thrQugh high school
"Unfortunately," he said&gt; "the
educational proctices that are.aupposed to solve this problemdumbing down the curriculum,
remediating these students all the
waytbroughhigh~likdy

to make the situation worse.•
On the positive side, Osborne
said specific changes on many lev·
els, including that of !be individual
teacher, can bring about significant improvement in the performance of students who have "dis·
a&gt;nnected" emotionally from aca-

demic success or failure.
His IIUdy,he odd&lt;d.sugests that
a pouible solution to the problem
of di_.,;.tion is to present disODpFI students with a stroog aca·
demic challenge, along with the
help .-led to accomplish the goal
"Theae studenu really blossom
when they're apecwJ to do well
and challenged to sucued," he
said. •one study demonstrated
that by using this approach, kids
who had all but given up academicaUy were working on par with
their classmates within a year.•
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Osborne's study iJ grounded in
a solid base of educational reseUch that has found identification with academia to be a necessary condition for learning. It supports previous research and clarifies the relationship between
disidenti6cation, school performance and self-esteem.
A 1973 study co-authored by Jeremy Finn, UB professor of educational psychology, fuund that failure
to identify positively with academic
~twas a major predictor
ofaboent&lt;r:ism, truancy, dropout and
delinquency among all students.
Osborne cwnined the link between grades, achievement-test
scores and sel£-esteem scores among
black, white and Latino teen-agers
from kross the United States. He
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"Latino girls, however, showed
an increased relationship between
hiSb grades and sel£-esteem," he
said. "Unfortunately, the relationship among the two variables took
a &lt;lramatic dive among black boys
and did not recover.
"TheoreticaUy, at least, studenu
whose sel£-esteem iJ linked positively with aCademic performance
should do well; Osborne said,
"because for them, good performance iJ rewarding and poor per·
formance iJ punishing.
•tr a studenCs identification
with academics is diminished,'" he
said, "he will feel neither personally rewarded by good school performance nor punuhed by poor
performance. This is what's happening with black teen-age boys."

Osborne's study supports earlier
research by psychologist Claude
Steele of Stanford University that
defined this "disidentification" as the
loss of a previous relationship betwem an individual's academic sel£esteem and his overall sel£-esteem.
He argued that disidentification
is caused by an educational system
that in the high-school years reduces whatever positive emotional
association a student had devel·
oped toward academic performance during his elementaryschool years.
St&lt;:ele's theory was that while all
students experience anxiety over
possible academic failure, members of disadvantaged groups experience more difficulty because
they have to overcome sterrotypi.cal ideas about how weU they can
and will do academically.
Osborne agrees.
"Black adolescent boys suffer
even more than black girls or boys
of any other group," Osborne said,
"because the stereotypical beliefs
about the.m are very, very negative.
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PsychologiSt conducts clinical trials of two drugs for ADHD
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them taking medacatiOn.·
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Children accepted into the methylphenidate trial will receive a

There currently is no effective,
Jong·acting medication for treating
ADHD. Ritalin must be taken three
times a day to achieve the necessary
effect, a regimen that is particularly
difficult for school-age children.
"Kids have a terrible problem
taking pills at school," Pelham said.
"There are few school nurses any·

be between the ages of 6 and 12.
For the methylphenidate trial,
children must be receiving Ritalin
currently and responding weU to it.
The trial will be conducted at UB
on five consecutive Saturdays. Par·
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assigned randomly to r"e'aave etthe:r
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Ginkgo biloba: positive effects on learning, longevity
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INKGO biloba, a compound
prescribed
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appean to improve learning and
memory in rats and prolongJ their
life, a study at UB has shown.
The unexpected positive effect
on longevity has surfaced in research to determine gin1qpJ biloba's
effect on age-related cognitivedeficits, using rats as an animal model
"At a certain point in our analysis, we realized that the rats who
were receiving ginkgo biloba were
living substantially longer than
those who were not receiving the
extract," said )erro!Cl C. Winter,
professor of pharmacology and
to.ricology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and
author of the study.
"That finding leads w to speculate that in addition to ginkgo
biloba's purported beneficial effects
on brain function, which our study

supports, the extract may also have
a positive effect on loagevity."
Results of the study appear in
the current issue of Physiology and

Beluovior.
Ginkgo biloba is available in the
U.S. as a dietary supplement, but is
not approved by the FDA as a
medical treatment II is prescribed
widely by physicians in Germany
and France in the form of EGb
761-complexmixtureofchemicals obtained from ginkgo ltavesto treat age-related deterioration in
brain function. Several human trials there have shown positive results, but little research has been
done to replicate these 6ndingJ in
animals, Wmter said
Winter's earlier research with
rats showed that a set of tasks performed in an apparatw called the
radial mau could reliably detect

deficiencies in learning and
memory related to~ge.ln the cur-

rent study, Winter used 20month-old rats, which were assigned a diet that included either

ginkgo biloba extract or no tx·
tract. Over several weeks, the animals performed tub in the radial
mau that required them w master new challenges and retain
learned information over time.
Results showed that rats receiving ginkgo biloba extract learned

quicker and made fewer erron
than control animah, and unexpectedly, lived an average of 6ve
months longer.
Wmter found a signilicant poSi.

tive relationship between the
amount of active ingredient and
degree of learning. The standard
dose during most of the study was
50 mglkg. However, one subgroup of animals was assigned to
receive EGb 761 in doses of 100
mglkg followed by 200 mglkg. interspersed with periods when they
performed tasb while receiving
DO extract.
Results showed that at the highest
dose, errors declined by 50 peroeot
"Despite the urgent need to discover drugs able to prevent, delay,

ameliorate or cure age-related
memory impairment and the de~tive domentias, prnp-eoo baa
been slow," Wmter alated in the
article. 'IWo major reuona fl?r the
lack of progresa. be noted, are a
lack of agreement on appropriate
animal models and their applicability to hwnaD. when memory
and cognition are concerned, and
the absence of a drug proven to
work in humans that could serye
as a standard in"animal tests.
"1lw: present demonatntion of
positive effects of EGb 761 in animals, a subatance for whidl abundant evidence exists of at last •

modally beneficial clinial dliectin
humans. is encouraging on both
points,"Wmter aaid. "The chollent!e
now is to identify, from this mix of
perhaps 200 chemical•, which
chemical or chemicah are producing theae pharmacologic effects."
Thia study was 1upported in
part by Dr. Willmar Schwabe
Gmbh l!c Co. of Karhruhe, Germany, manufacturer of EGb 76.J.

Learning skills of school nurse in real-life setting_
Students provide a vital service to youngsters in Buffalo's early childhood centers

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URSING students at
UB ~re1'ea~ning what
it's like to be a school
nurse. while ~t lhe
same time providing needed services to one of Buffalo's early
childhood centers.
As part of a program. begun
three years ago at Early Childhood
Center School No. 82, under. gradual;,. are pinpointi.ngsiud.;.t
needs and developing programs
on topics such as proper toothbrushirig, the difference between
good and bad "'germs• and the
dangers of cigarette smoking.
.. The clasSroom becomes the
students' responsibility, whkh allows them to practice some of the
roles commonly associated with
the school nurse," said Jacqueline
Thompson, associate professor of
nursing, who oversees the program. A member of-the ECC 82
health committee, she began the
program at the committee's request and out of concerns in the
nursing field about children's
health and well-being in public
and private schools.
Students play Important role
Carrying on the tradition last
semester as part of the "Nursing
in the Community" course were
Sheila Czeladzinski, Lorraine
Holden, Heather )acbon, Sheryl
Cowan and Scott Kurzdorfer.
ECC 82 does not have the funding to provide a certified school
nurse for its more than 650 students.
Erie County provides a publichealth nurse to the school two days
a week. VB students have helped 6U
the gap during a four-week period
each semester.
" Everyone can understand that
you need a nurse every day in an
elementary school," said Principal
Kathleen Franklin. "Teachers can't
tell kids , ' You can't get sick on
Mondays because we don't have a
nurse here,'" she added. "The UB
students are an important re-

source for us because it gives the
children more much-needed time
spent with a health professional"
Fr3n'klin, as Well as Valerie Turner, the school's pubtic-he\uth
·nurse, said ihe nursing stucfetits"'
have discovered previously undiagnosed problems amo~g the
school pupils.
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"1\vo Of my chil~
bav' .
ing difficulty reading .. .if the studentS biulil't Checlied thtit Yiiio'n,'
I wouliln't have known why," said
teacher Marna Burstein.
The· nursing students evaluate
each' child in the classroom to
which they are assigned and use
therapeutic play to address emotional, physical or psychological
concerns expressed by the children.

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One-on.one assessment
Turner believes the one-on-one
assessment provided by the nursing students is extremely valuable,
since she is uhable to .see each student in the two days she is at the
school each week.
"The VB students are able to
bring to my attention health problems which would never be recogniud or admirted by the parents.
They also provide needed health
information to students and faculty.'" The information, in turn,
increases community 'knowledge
of health issues.
Czdadzi nski said it was important for her class o( 4-year-olds to
learn about health issues because
they are jwt learning how to take
care of themselves. "Health greatly
impacts their learning and development," she noted.
Thompson said nursing students are assigned to address concerns about activities of daily living, particularly issues of self-control. apPropriate socialization and
dealjng with emotions.
Teacher Marilyn Covey said she
was thrilled to have nursing student Cowan talk to her class about
"feelings."
"These kids often do not have
the language to express many of

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know how to express them appropriately. Having someone in the
health 6eld come in is wonderful,
since many kids here don't get to
talk about a lot of these issues at
home; said Covey.
Burstein noted that many of her
children do not have private physicians.. • This program is a won derful addition to the school Children can't Jearn if they're not
healthy." she added.
New career Insights

From the nursing students' perspecti""' the program offered new
insight into another nursing opportunity. "I like working with the
kids..j(s nice to be in a dilkrmt nursing setting," said Heather )acbon.
Jackson Was impressed at the
opportunity for evaluation in the
classroom program, compared to
traditional clinical work. Since
they were required to prepare
teaching plans, as well as conduct
pre- and post-assessments with
their classes, the; nursing stude'nts

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were better able to evaluate and see
the results of their efforts.
"This program also allowed us to
do k.Jth promotion, which is especially important this time of year.
Part of health promotion is educating kids bqr&gt;re they get sick and
teaching them bow to prevent infec.
lion." explained Jackson, who demonstrated "germs" to her class using
petri dishes to grow various cultures.
Kurzdorfer, who plans to enter
the geriatric 6eld. is wing his classroom expe:rieoce to focus on the
similarity between nursing tech niques used with children and
those applied when working with
Alzheimer's patients.
The program is one of several
activities Thompson has coordinated involvillg the nursing school
and ECC 82. She helped the school
obtain a grant from Fisher-Price to
fund a toy-lending library, the only
one in the Buffillo Public Schools.
She recently arranged an informational program for teachers in the
school on drugJ wed tn treat attention de6cit-byperactivitydisorder.

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Nicolette DeCslpbJ, alumni of
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Creative Writing Program.
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HarTyette Mullm: "Black Olant Expanding. the Rq&gt;enoire of Black
Poetry:" Her r=nt book bas established l&gt;er as one of lhe most innovative voices in contemporary poetry.
She teadles cr.atiYe writing at lhe Uni=sity of Ca1ili&gt;mia at Los Angeles.
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sion on Mina lDy by Carolyn Buric.e,
art writer, essayist and translator of
feminist (!hilooopher l..&gt;.la lrigaray.
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ancient Mayan kingdom in Guate·
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Obituaries
Alan Cober, 62, nationally known illustrator, visiting professor, Distinguished VIsiting Artist
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD Jan. 20 in New York
City for Alan E. Cober, one of An!erica's foremost illustrators, who served as visiting professor and Distinguished
Visiting Artist in the Department of Art from 1986-96.
Cober died Jan. 17 after suffering a heart attack while va·
cationing in Florida. He was 62.
His work was published in major magazines and commissioned by many Fortune 500 companies. Among his
clients were Time, Newsweek, Sports nlmtrated. The New
York Times, NBC and CBS. In 1982, he was commissioned
by the Smithsonian Institution to create a mural in celebration of George Washington's 250th birthday.
Cober's tenure at UB had a great influence on the students who came through the program, the current crop
ofleading illustrators working around the country today
and on the arts and design community in Buffalo, noted
Kathleen HoweU, associate professor of art, founder of
the illustration program at UB and Cober's colleague.

"'His students are among his greatest legacies. He
brought the level of teaching illustration to a new high,
and his students really responded ," noted Howell.
Cober "was first a man of ideas, who
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people, thinking available; Howell said.
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State Institution for the mentally handicapped; prisons,
and the aged have been compiled in his book of drawings,
"The Forgotten Society."
Cober attended the University of Vermont and th~
School of Visual Arts in New York City.
A memorial service will be held in Buffalo in late February. The Department of Art plans to establish a scholar·
ship in Cober"s memory. Call645·6878,ext. 1357, for more
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January 15.1!!11 ti29.1k1.16

Home,
Sweet
Home

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Workmen brave cold
temperatures as they install
siding on new graduate
housing being built at
Sweet Home and Chestnut
Ridge roads. The new
apartments are expected to
be ready for occupancy .by
the fall.

StaditUll to add 13,(XX) new seats by 1999
Games with Syn:uuse, Vttginia, newfootball marketing in plans for entry into MAC

football opponents and markdins
efforts all ""' part of the Division
HBDivisionofAihletics ofAlhletics' move to' the MAC and
Wednesday announced National Collqjate Alhletic /usoplanJ to expand UB Sta· ciation Division T-A play.
.
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dium by 13,000 seats
and to initiate an agxasive new ~-;t'':
football markdins plan, both in
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preparationfotfootball's 1999en·
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try into the Mid-American Con· .....t.I'!'"''.'
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ference (MAC).
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In addition, it was annc;mnced
that the university bas signed con·
tracts with two football power- . "Intercollegiate competition at
houses-Syracuse University, this level will renew UB's proud
which consistently is among the leadership role in our community's
nation's top-20 football teams, and tradition of athletic acellence, and
the University ofVuginia, a strong bring a new realm of sports exciteAtlantic Coast Conference con- ment to the region; said President
tender-that will initiate rivalries William R. Greiner.
between the universities beginning
In an interview with the Reporter,
in 1999 and 2000.
Athletics Director Nelson
The upgrades in UB's stadium, ToWnsend said it is to UB's advan-

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tage to move from the Mid-Continent Conference to the MAC. one
of the oldest and most prestigious
athletic conferences in the nation.
By competiDJ at the Division IA level, Townsend said, UB will be
"able to play basically any school
in the country. From there, the sky
is the limit.•

. UB will begin to test those limits
in the 1999 seasoiL The university
will play the University of V'u-girua
in O&gt;arlottesville in 1999 and 2002;
the Cavaliers will play in UB Stadium in 200 l. UB will travel to the
Carrier Dome to play the
Orangr:men in 2000, 2005 and 2007,
with Syracuse playing at UB in 2004.
Townsend also announced that
UB Stadium will be expanded by
13,000 seats for the 1999 season.
The stadium currently seats 17,200.
Seats will be added in both the

stadium's end zones at an esti·

mated total cost of $1.5-2 million,
Townsend said. The NCAA requires that schools with Division
I-A teams bave stadium seatinJ capacities of 30,000 or more. At this
point, no other renovations of the
s tadium will be required, he

added.
Seating capacity is not the only
requir&lt;ment of a school moving
up to Division I·A competition,

according -to Bob Arlceilpane, as·
sociate athletic director for devel·
opment.
In order to complete the requirements for competition at the Divi·
sion I·A level, UB must sell more
than 17,000 seats for each football
game it plays at home in 1998.
Although that may sound l.ilu: a
lot of seats to fill, both Townsend

UB-Business Alliance is &lt;one-stop shopping'
11J SUE wurT'Oilll
News SeMces Associate Director

U

B bas merged its economic-development
activities into a new
organization-the

University-BusinessAllian&lt;e--&lt;reating a "one-stop-shopping approach" for companies seeking to
partner with the university and
raising the profile of the university's
economic-&lt;levelopment efforts.
The UB Alliance includes The
Center for Industrial Effectiveness
(TCIE) and the OfficeofTechnolOJY 'fransfer Services, as well as the
Strategic Partnership for Industrial Raurgence (SP!R) and UB
Greater Regional Industrial TechnolOJY (GRIT) programs.
The reorganization of the
un iversity's economic· develop·

ment and industrial-outreach activities is the result of UB efforts to
malce economic development the

cornerstone of its public-service

pertise in world-clas!o manufac·

mission, said Mark I&lt;arwan, dean
of the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences and chief =cutive officer of the UB Alliance.
In forming the alliance, UB is

turing and management prac·

behalf of our industrial partners."
The alliance will create a '" natu·
ral, first place of entry" for companies seeking to work with the
university and ... expedite access
into and out of the university" for
"making ecOnomic development potential industrial partners, as
and industrial outreacb one of the well as members of the university
priorities of the university," agreed community who want to work
Rebecca Landy, chief operating with these partners, said Landy.
officer of the alliance and execuI&lt;arwan descnbed the alliance as
tive director ofTCIE.
a "one-stop-shopping kind of apAccording to the organization's proach" to economic develop·
mission statement, the objective of ment, whereby potential industrial
the alliance is "to improve the busi- partners can make one telephone
ness practices and modernize the call to the university and receive
products. processes and facilities of the assistance they need.
our (UB's) business partners, help
This approacb prevents customthem utiliu technology and com· ers from being "bounced aiound
meitialiu university-developed in- from department to department or
ventions. The University-Business school to school" looking for infor·
Alliance will be in the forefront of mation and assistance, Landy added.
utilizing I&lt;SOurces, brokt:ring services
The alliance also will provide
and developing partnerships within industry access to university-deUB and across the community, on veloped inventions, ideas and es-

tices, as well as proactively broker university intellectual property with an emphasis on companies that have a significant
New York State presence.
The alliance will "aggressively
pursue partners in government
and industry to help economic
development at the state and federallevels," Karwan noted.
-we are oontinuing to grow our
relationship with governmental
and industrial partners throughout Western New York and New
York State, and are becoming a
significant participant in Western
New York ~erships for economic developmen~" be said
The programs and organiza·
tions being merged into the alli·
ance already have proven track
records in economic development.
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NthelirstStateUniversityof
New York cross-univenity
program of its kind, the UB
• School of Medicine and
Biomedical Scienca and the Uni..:rsltyat Albany School of Public
Health ba..: signed an agreement
to offer a master's degree publie health from the University at
Albany through courses taught at
UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
The master's program will he offeredforthelinttimeat UBthisfall
"This joint program will benefit
both of our institutions," said
. David C. Carpenter, dean of the
Univenity at Albany's School of
Public Health. "UB gets access to
our nationally accredited MPH
program with a minimal financial
in~tmenL The Univenitr at AI-

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public-health education and a:- d\sease, and is an excellent
panditutudentbue."
1 complement to our existing
Co\UI&lt;Iwillhetaughtbyfilculty graduate p.r oaram
epidaniolthe UB I&gt;epartmeot of Social oar and a.mmunity health," laid
and Pre..:n!M! Medidne, who will Maurizio 1i-evisan, proC..Or and
hold a.djunct {acuity appoint- chair of the ~L
ments otthe Uni..:rlity atAIIMiny.
"ltiuloo aconcreteCIWDpleof
Public-bealtb degrees will be bow two SUNY inltitntiono can
granted through the UnMnityat worktogethertoproridee:ll:dlent
Albany. Long-ranae plans call for educational opporiWiitia."
counes to be taught by faculty
Interest the program is keen,
from both SUNY ochoola via tete. nm.an ui4, and he apec11 de-conferencing. and for new a&gt;unes mand to he strong. Initially, only
to he devdoped that capitalize on persona already bolcliJII an M.D.
theeq&gt;ertiseandreoourcesofboth or D.D.S. degree will he IIC!mitted
faculties.
to tbe MPH program. Other
UB already offers most of the health professionala may he adrelevant a&gt;urses through the De- mitted as the program matures.
partment of Social and Pre..:n!M!
While medical ochool and apeMedicine's master's of science pro- cialty ruidencies train physicians
gram in epidemiology.
to treat cliseaseo of individual pa"This new program gi..,. us a:- tients, public-health trainiJJaconpanded ability to train our faculty centrates on improving and pro-

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MFC to present three
telecourses in spring semester
in
Jan. 20 through May 4 on educa-

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URN on tbe cable
television, settle into

acomfortable chair

and earn college
credit at your convenience!
Getting your sbow on the
road to bigber education can
be as simple as watching your
favorite proaram wben you enroll telecourses to be offered

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during the spring semester
through Millard Fillmore College, UB's continuing-education and summer-sessions di-

Two courses, • Nutrition
Pathways" and "General Psycholoay," will offer three credit

hours. The third, •American
Cinema," will offer four credit
bours. The couroeo will air from

tional-acceu channela via TCU
Buffalo, Adelphia Cable ud
· Lockport Community Televilioo.
Students eruolled in tel&lt;couroeo
orr required to attend oil on-campus orientation oession to he beld
before Jan. 20.
Oasuize is limited. 1b "'!P*r. or
formoreinfunnatiori,caD 829-2202.
Tbecounes:
• "American Cinema" (DSM 108,
History of Film U) will provide

students inside information
through interviews with more
than ISOHollywoodstudloeu:cuti-. directon and c:inematographen. Abo featured will ·he more
than 300 clips from great American movies, co..:ring the classical
Hollywood style, the studio 1)'1·
tern, the "star l)'llem," film noir,

the Western, romantic comedy

and film the television ._
The coune- produad br. the
NewYorkCentaforVIIUIIHiltory,
KCI!T/Loo AnFes and the Briliob
Brnadc:uting Corp. lOr the Corporation for Public ilroo&lt;kaating and
the Pubtic"&amp;ro.clcattina Syotem.
Brian. Hendenon, profaoor of
media study, will provide additionalotudy material and instructional ouppon.
• "Nutrition Pathwayo" (NTR

with perticular anpbuio on the

prnentionof~

Arthur Mic!Welc, clirector of
graduate ltlldiea lilr UB'o pwluate propam at Roowell Pork and
one of the inltialon of the joint
propam, aid the MPH c1ep&lt;e;.
an attndift option for dinial
ataff.&amp;MnlpbyaiauaochoD&lt;zto
see bodlthe public-'-lth impKt
and &amp;ocahideoflihealtb propamming. Micbolelt wiD help a&gt;On!inat£ the project.
Cupentft noted tbaJ an era
of manaaecJ are, tiahJer bocftee
and mluad aa:aa to health oervices for many~ educating
health-care pn&gt;Yidon in publiphealth illllellw ne..:r hem man:
importiiiiL
"The old acl.ae, 'An ounce of
preventioD il worth a pound of
cure,' llill ~·be aid.

in

health, Jipldo ODd ...... dlodl .
offat.nutrilioo fiom ~
to l8ina. variouo health problems and rdatioo to nutrition

and consumer concerns. The
inotructor ·will be Peter
Horvath, ouociate professor of
nutrition.

• "GeDenn ~ (PSY
10 1). o....loped by the California-baed Coutal Community
CoiJete, this coune will feature

ios, Human Nutrition). Produced

a~ourwyofoen­

by the DaUa:s County, Teas, Com-

satioa, peraption, lamina and
pbyoioloaical poycholoar. u
well u IOcial, peraonality, abnormal, industrial and applied
psydloloay.
Tbe instructor wiU be
Micbad HeDJlina, who teaches
pi}'Chology the Deputment
of Soc:W Scien&lt;:a .t Erie Com-

munity College Diotrict, tbio
a&gt;urse foDows a year in the life of
three people to demonotrate bow
their nutrition choices affect their
health and Liva.
It oo..:rs such topia u the basics of nutrition, eDeiJY regulation
and weight a&gt;ntrol, the d&amp;cll of
carbohydrate and fiber intake on · munity CoiJeae-South.

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Boyer to step down as law school dean BrieD
.,a.mNE_
Andy Rooney, ((60 Minutes"
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ARRY B. Jioyer, doon and
professor of law iii the UB
Law School, bas announced his intention to
stq&gt; down as doon at the end of)'uly.
Boyer, who bas served as dean
since 1992, bas been a member of
the UB faculty since 1973. He wu
a5oociate doon fOr academic alfain
in the law-school arid director of the
Baldy Ceoter for Law and Social
Policy priqr to being oamod dean.
A long-time environmental .activist and author on developing
cleanup plans for loc:al waterways,
Boyer will remain a member of the
law &amp;cu.lty.A professor of environmental law, be previously has
taught courses on natural re·
sources, the Great Lakes, law and
epidemiology, and law and nature.
In a letter acknowledging the
dean's intattions, Provost Thomas
E. Headrick prai.oed Boyer for his
efforts as dean.
•y.;u have guided the school
tbroUjlh a major change in its program and its finances, laid the

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grouadwork for a major devtlopment campaign and greatly
atrmttbened the acbool's tiel with
ita alumni and supporters,•
Headrick said.
•tn addition,

you have positioned the school
internally to enhance its competitive stature
and reputation
externally. You
will leave the deanship with a
record of great accomplishment
under ,our leadenbip.•
As dean, Boyer was involved in
the formation and implementation of a new curriculum designed
to a&gt;unter the widapread a&gt;Deem
th!ot law IGboola are not adequately
preparins their graduate~ to practice law. 'The new UB.Iaw curriculum, which was put into place in
1994, blends practical and analytical skills to produce graduate~ who
are better able to research, understand and translate infomiation
into legal work products, such as
divorce settlements, loan agree-

ments and briefs.
Aaxlnlingto Hcadrid&lt;, theunM:rsity now needs to """"" quickly to
organize the process of identifying
Boya'o suca:soor, who likdy will be
oamod from within the law school
"My strong inclination is to look
within the faculty for the next
dean," the provost said.
"The acbooJ is in an excdlent position, intemally and externally; it
bas a well-&lt;ldined mission and bas
set pis which the &amp;cu.lty and staff
support and are working toward
witba&gt;ntiouingsucass. 'I'be!eisno
great need for a c:ata1yst for change
that is often the justification for tapping an external candidate."
Boyer received a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a
law degree from the University of
Michigan School of Law. He is the
recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Environmental Law Section Award
from the New York State Bar Association, which is given to individuals who make noteworthy
contributions to the environment
of New York State.

Students devise Main Street plan
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NewsServlasEdit«

RADUATE students in
planning and design in
the School ofArchitectUre and Planning have
·
a master plan for the reign and development of upper
Main StreeL The project was facilitated in part by UB's University
Community Initiative.
The plan, "R£shaping Upper
Main Su.et," wu presented Dec.
18 at a public meeting sponsored
by the UPTOWN Coalition, Inc.,
a group of area buaiDeoa owners,
property owners and residents of
upper Main Su.et, which commisainned the project. 'The meeting was held in the Gloria J. Parks
Community Ceoter, 3ID Main SL
'The neighborhood is bounded
on the south by LaSalle Avenue
and on the north by Kenmore Avenue. Included in the plan are proposals to be implemented within
six to eight months, as well as
long-range proposal! to be developed ~r the next 20 years.
The project was the work of II
students enroUed in a semesterlong graduate studio in planning
and design, ta'ught by Hiro Hata,
associste professor in the School
of Arcbilecture and Planning. •
'The students produced proposals for stn:etscape, landscape and
building enbancm&gt;ents for the section of Main Street between the
LaSalle rapid-rail station and
Kenmore Avenue. Three working
groups were formed; each developed an extensive maoter plan for
one section of Main Street. The
working-group plans a&gt;mprised
the overall master plan for the area.
Team I was made up of Dan
McMann, Adam Scbwock and Dan
l«efe. Team U members wo:re Ouis
Drobat, juan Perez, Karen Li and
Ouistina Dli. Team Ill was made up
of~ Falcone, Angelo Perna,
Antonio Frasca and Aly !Umdy.
They offered proposals for improvements to the Kenmore Avenue/Maio Street intersection,

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which introduces the district to
driver and pedestrian traffic on the
north.
The South Campus was linked
with the rest of the district via pedestrian-friendlyentranc:es to ampus. One entrance ina&gt;rporalel a
small, visually inviting public-park
area that mimics a .man arnphithe:ale{ with cjrcular seating built into
a rise in $e ground. On-ampus
housing development and a small
conf=nce hotel facing Bailey Avenue were suggested by the students, as well as restoration ofbrick
a&gt;mmercial faCades to reflect the
prevailing architecture of the area.
'The students proposed the development of parkland at the
south end of the district that
would use the vacant land abutting the abandoned railroad grade
between Shoshone Park and the
LaSalle rapid-transit station. This
parkway would serve to connect
Shoshone Park on Hertel Avenue
with the University District and its
commercial strip via walkways.
Another propooal involved walkways to a&gt;nnect the pocket parks
that dot the residential neighborhoods between Main Street and
Kenmore Avenues, thereby linlcing
streets and neighbors in new ways.
The planners proposed a moderate alteration to the South Campus bus loop a,.nd the area directly
across Main Street from the loop.
In the strip across from the loop.
they recommended the neighborhood work to attract such services
as newaotands, restaurants, a bakery, deli and dry cleaners. They
also proposed a few high-quality
specialty stores to draw pedestrian
traffic into the revitalized commercial strip-"give people a place
to meet, to hang out, someplace to
go... ,• as one student put it.
The students proposed options
for parking. unifying lilcacle design.
linking isolated stnds,ligbtingand
signage that would tie the area together a&gt;nceptually.
In developing the project. studentsworkeddoselywitbCommon

Councilmember Kevin J. Helfer,
who repraents the University District and who sponsored the fund.
ing'for the! project. Helfa also attatded several of the studio's planning sessions, along With members
oftheUPTOWNboardofdirectors.
They discussed the progress of the
propooal and made suggestions as
it developed.
"This new commitment by the
university to the impro'I(Oitlent of
the South Campus is justified by
the strong and viable residential
community that surrounds it,"
said Helfer. "From the Joc:al and
regional standpoint, this is a starting point and a catalyst."
He!Mpointedouttbat in the past.
a&gt;mmunity-development projects
ba..notalwaysbeen...U-integrated
into the neighborhood and so did
not provoke the growth promised
Marilyn Cappellino, a member
of the UPTOWN board, said the
group will take the lead in Jocating the funds and partnering with
private sources to ensure implementation of the plan. This will
begin once the final proposal is
accepted by the community.
"So few a&gt;mmunity/business redevelopment plans arc actually
used," Cappellino said "People are
side of hearing about plans that
never come to fruition. We decided
that we'd approach this differently-with the promise that if the
coalition was able to offer ;;,put during the planning stages, we would
support the final recommendation
before the a&gt;mmunity and work to
make sure it $ees the light of day."
Hata noted the project is a good
example of town-gown symbiosis.
"We have a&gt;me together here in an
active, cooperative way,• he said.
Funds fur the project were made
availabletbrougbablockgrailtfrom
the City of Buffitlo Department of
Community DevelopmenL
Also involved were the Niagara
Frontier 'II'ansit Authority, the New
York State Department of Transportation and the UB Department
of Facilities ManagemenL

essayist, to speak at UB Jan. 29
a-ne,, CBS correspondent, "60 Minutes" essayist. author
and columnist, will speak at UB on Jan. 29. Rooney's presentation,
part of the II th Annual Distinguished Speakers Series, will be at 8
p.m. in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts
on the North Campus.
Rooney's candid, tongue-in-ched: television essays.
which he began in 1964, became a regular feature on "60
Minutes" in 1978. The segment, "A Few Minute~ With
__,.
Andy Rooney,• is a three-time Emmy-Award winner.
Rooney also is a six-time winner of the Writers Guild Award for
Best Script of the Year, and has won the award more times than any
other television writeL
He's written, produced and narrated many specials and broadcast
series. His oolum.n appears twice a week in some 200 newspapers,
including The Buffalo News. Rooney is author of more than 10
books,' including "The Story of the Stars and Stripes" and more recently, "My War.•
His lecture will be co-sponsored by the UB School of Management Alumni Association and the Amherst Chamber of Commerce.
This season's final series lecture, presented by poet, author, actress, producer and director Maya Angelou, will be on April 23.
For ticket information, call645-ARTS. Individual lecture tickets
also will be available at TicketMaster locations. Group disa&gt;unts for
10 or more are available.
The Distinguished Speakers Series is presented by UB and the Don
Davis Auto World l.ecturesbip Fund. Series contributing sponsors
are the UB Alumni Association, Ceoter for the Arts, Maltin' Copies,
University Union Activities Board and Buffalo/Niagara Marriott.
Affiliate series sponsor is the University Bookstore.
lurlily

Entrepreneur program names
chair, board of directors
_ . E. lt.nlster, cbainnan and CEO of National Health Care Af.
filiates, bas been named chair of the board of directors for the Ceoter
for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) in the School of Management.
Harnister also is chairman and CEO of Buffalo Sports Enterprises,
which owns and operates the Buffalo Warriors minorleague football team and recently was awarded an Arena
League Football franchise. .
Appointed to the CEI:s board of directors were Sal H.
Alfiero, chairman and CEO, Mark IV Industries; John D.
Cannon, president and CEO, The Cannon Corporation;
Frank L. Ciminelli, CEO, Ciminelli Development; Thomas C.
Culligan, president, Culligan Auto Place; Scott E. Friedman, part·
ner, Lippes. Silverstein, MathiaS &amp; Wexler; H. Wayne Gerhart, president, Moldtecb; Stephen Hunt, president, Hunt Commercial Real&lt;
Estate; Richard McCormick. retired partner, Lwnsden &amp; McCormick.
CPA; Herb Mennen, president, HM Consulting SerVices; Richard E.
Page, president, Woodstream Nurseries.
Also, Douglas N. Smith, president, Forwarding Services; Paul L.
Snyder, chairman and CEO, Snyder Corporation; Keith M.
Stolzenburg, partner, Price Waterhouse; Marianne Sullivan, executive director, CEL; Nora Sullivan, executive vice president, Rand
Capital; John M. Thomas, interim dean, UB School of Management;
Charles Tirone, &amp;cu.lty director, CEL; Paul Willax,}&gt;resident, Small
Business Ownership, and Joseph E. Wolfson, president, Integrated
Delivery Technologies.

University Facilities units
merge into new department
Three Unlvenlty Facilities units-the departments of Environmental Health and Safety, Radiation Protection Services and
Buffalo Materials Research Center-have merged into a new department of Occupational and Environmental Safery Services.
The units were me,rged to eliminate administrative overlap, according to Michael Dupre, interim associate vice president for university facilities.
Louis Henry is interim director of the new department and David
Vasbinder is assistant director responsible for industrial hygiene,
biosafety, safery training and reactor programs. Other personnel
appointments include Gene Monacell, waste management, lab safery
and chemical hygiene; Mark Pierro, radiation safety officer, and Susan Ferry, staff development and administrative operations.

�s.n.te ~~Waits report by SUNY cta.ncellor

Action postponed on New Paltz resolution
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News SeMce&lt; Auocllte Dlrec1Dr

HE Faculty Senate hu
postponed action on a
resolution
urging
T
SUNY Chancellor lobo
Ryan and memben of the SUNY
Board of Tru~tees to stop what
many feel hu been an attaclc on
academic freedom at SUNY College at New Paltz.
The postponement wu.made at
the senate's Dec. 10 meeting • in
apectation" that a report oo the
matter from Ryan will "reaffinn
the core principles of academic
freedom and free speecl&gt;."
Conference held Nov. 1
The controversy bas fOQ!Sed on a
conference on sexuality held at New
Paltz on Nov. I aod subsequeot aitici.sm of New Paltz Pmident Roger
Bowen. SUNY 'Ih1stee Candace de
Russy bas called fur Bowen's resignation, and Gov. George Patalci, who
also bas criticized the subject matter of the conference. ask&lt;d Ryan to
investigate the issue.
The fact-finding report prepared by a review committee appointed by Ryan was circulated to
SUNY trustees in mid-December
and draft copies were released by
SUNY later in the month.
The report concludes that the

decision by Bowen, who learned
detaib of the a&gt;nfm:nce program
•a ~weeks before it wu to open."
to allow the conference to proceed
"was bued on the time-honored
traditioo of free exprnsioo of cootroversia1 subjecu within higher
educatioo.•
WhileootiogthatBowen "might
have chosen other options" and
been more "vigorous" in public
comments about concerns be had
about portions of the conference,
itadds:"lti.s·theviewofthe review
committee that, at such alate dste,
hi.sjudgmeot .. . wucorrect,udi.stastdul as be anticipated aome of
theconferenoeactivityandcooteot
might become ....•
Among its recommendations. the
committee notes that "pmidents
who act in aa:ordsoce with the best
traditions ofacademic freedom aod
its responsible exercise should rec:eM the staunch support of their
faculty, students, (SUNY) system
administratioil, collqje couocil aod
(SUNY) boanl of trustees."

Trustees to discuss report
The SUNY tcusteer are expected
to di.scuss the report in CIIOCUtive
session at their next meeting on

Jan. 27.
The resolution before the UB
Faculty Senate, adapted from one

approved by the FacultySenate at
the College ofPurclwe, ub Ryan
and the trustees "to atop the cuerent attack on the College of New
Paltz, which i.s an attack oo the
entire State Uoivenity and on its
faculty, and to reaffirm the core
principles of academic freedom
and freespeech." Itwuiotroduced
by aeoate O&gt;alr Peter Nickenoo,
pro&amp;ssor of pathology.

Timely response lldwoalied
John Boot, pro&amp;ssor and chair
of the Department of Managemeot Science aod Systems and
chair of the senate's Academic
Freedom Committee, told aeoatonthathehadtnveledtoAibaoy
aod spoken with "the powen that
are" who told him that the report
"will be verymuch in lioe with the
thinking expressed in the motion."
Rather than vote on the current
reaolution, Boot suggested a more
effectiverespoosewouldbetowait
fo, Ryan to issue • ltltemeot 00
the report. If that ltltement undersoores what i.s expected in the
report. "it might be very wekome
toha'Yetheaa:olodesoragreement
oftheFacultySeoate." ·
But any response would have to
be timely, Boot empbuized, acknowledgiogthatmightbedillicult
with the then-upcoming holidays.

He WJOd the aenate ,t o "have
trust in a committee of l'oa:r or
five, perhaps appoiDted by the
chair of the senate," to meet """'"
thebrealr.andwriteal&lt;tterofsupport.
Oaude Welch, SUNY Diltiogui.sbed Service Pro&amp;ssor in the
Department of Political Scieoce,
told Boot that his suggestion
"kaver me with 1010e aeose of disquiet: namely, thllt tbt seoate
should pass on its collective respoqsibility to ao oooamed
group• during a time wbeo many
peoplearenotoocampus.
It might be better, and acoomplish the same goals. Welch said,
to have a grpup of current and
former chain to sip as individua1s a letter of support.
Lou Swartz, uaociate pro&amp;ssor
of law, apeed that "the device of
delepting the power to speak for
the entire bc?dY i.s ao wuettliog
arrangement," and suggested an
alternative be found.
After li.steoiog to the di.scussion.
N"!draaon told aeoaton be found
general agreement that the matter
should be poatponed until the
chancellor'sreportismadepub&amp;.
Nickerson said be expected the
issue to come up apin at the aecutive committee meeting on
Jao. 14.

Senate endorses revised checklist for promotion
More emphasis placed on teaching; candidates must prepare teaching portfolio
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News SeMces Auocllte Director

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Senior Vice Pro\'0$1 Kmnetb Levy
and William Fischer, vice provost
fur faculty developmen~ had proposed that external reviewers be
required to evaluste a candidstt:'s
teaching. committee memben felt
·that "esteroal evaluston probably
were not the best evalustors of the
teaching of a candidate." A&lt;:ara said.

HE Faculty Senate bas
endorsed a revised
checklist for the promolion dossier that places
increased emphasis oo teaching,
despitt: concern by some senaton
about the relevance of a "teaching
portfolio" in some academic fields.
The revised checldi.st, approved
by the senate at its final meeting
"It
the kind
of last semester on Dec. 10, was
of portfolio with the
developed in response to urging
by Provost Thomas E. Headriclc
flulollty desatbed .,_
that a fuller and more credible
-.let
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evaluation of teaching become
part of the promotion dossier.
MICHAfl.FlJSCH
Th"'additions to· the checldi.st
that address evaluation of a • Requiring candidstes to submit a
candidate's teaching include:
single statement about their teach• Analyses. including the percent ing.research and public-serviceoonof students responding, of a tributions. Thecommitteefeltthree
candidatt:'s quantitative teaching separate statement&amp;, as proposed by
evaluations
Levy and Fischer, would be a bur·
• Making the cbalr responsible for den on the candidste, A&lt;:ara said.
selecting reviewen to evaluate a • Requiring candidates to prepare a
candidstt:'s teaching, scholarship •teaching portfolio that would be ...
and community service. and ensur- plicitly evalusted by the department
ing that the mix of reviewers ap- chair, by selected internal reviewers
propriately addresses all three ar- and by selected eitternal reviewors.
eas. These reviewers may include when appropriate. The portfolio
external and internal reviewers, would be di.sQpline-specific. with
and furmer and current students. each unit ~ping its own list of
This provision would apply19 both supplementary material to be inthe confidential and non-confiden- dudedinit
tial.sections of the dossier.
The concept of a teaching portThe provision concerning exter- folio generated much discussion
nal review= elicited considerable among memben of the senate.
di.scussion among memben of the
Lou Swartz, associate professor
senate's Tenure and Privileges of law, observed that the "notion
COmmittee. which reviewed revi- of a teaching portfolio is an unfasioos to the current checklist sub- miliar notion to many units• and
mitted by the Provost's Office. ac- may need to be explained further.
He also noted that it's becoming
cording to committee OWr Margam Acara, professor of pharma- increasingly difficult to get "di.stiocology and toxicology. Although guished (external) reviewen" to

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read the scholanhip that i.s rent to
them. "I think that the idea ofscroding a teaching portfolio to them as
well a an'invitation to aome kind
of routine response," be said.
Any unit that wants to "solicit
opinions• about a candidate's
teaching should be free to do so,
he said. "Why thi.s undocumented
new proposal should be imposed
on all units at thi.s time is a mystety to me," Swartz said.
David Benensen, professor of
electrical and computer engitseering and a member of the Tenure
and Privileges Committee, stressed
that .the teaching portfolio is intended to be di.sciplinNpecific.
"The committee is reoogniziog that
each part of our system is a wee bit
different" and each unit, be added.
should be given the opportunity to
detennine what coostituter a teaching portfolio fur its candidates fur
promotion.
Michael Cowen, professor of
mathematics, told senaton be did
not understand how the teaChing
portfolio relates to bow a candidate "actually i.s in the classroom.•
He pointed out that the draft
checklist included such items for
the portfolio as exams, handouts
and course syllabi.
"None of that seems to tell me
how someone does in the classroom," Cowen said, adding that
while be finds student evaluations
valuable, be hu looked at exams
and syllabi .from both good and
bad teachers "and I can't tell the
difference.
"I definitely would like to see
people evaluated fur their teaching.
I don't see bow tbi.s teaching portfolio advances that one bit,"be said.
Michael Frisch, pro&amp;ssor ofhi.s-

tory·aod American studies, di.sagreed.
"It's hard for me to imagine a
situation in which I would not
learn aometbing from receiving
coune syllabi, aatOS and other
such materials," saijl Frisch, who
noted he hu written many letters
evalustiog teaching. "It seems to
me the kind of portfolio with the
flexibility described here would
clearly be addi!M."
Cowen suggested that including
a teaching portfolio be an option
fur units.
Dorothy Woodson, a librarian
in Lockwood Library, said it is
dangerous to have different standards for different caodidstes.
"You ha"" to have coosisteocy io
evaluating dossiers," she stressed.

BarrySmitb.profieooorof ~
phy; noted that faculty members
who are hired for their research contributiolis aod come up fur promotioo may be required to submit an
"empty" teaching portfolio that
would be a "bad sipal" fur thooe
decidiog on the promotion. In such
cases, a ca'Ddidate should ha'Ye the
right not to submit a teaching portfolio, Smith said.
Thomas Schroeder, associate
professor oflearniog and iostruclion, added that "teaching i.s the
respo.n sibility of all of us. even
though it is a. small responsibility
for some people. and it ought to
be documented in the dossier."
A motion by Smith to amend
the checklist to malce the teaching
portfolio an option fur individnal
candidstes for promotion wu defeatedbyreoaton.
Thecbeddistapprowd by the senate will be furwarded to President
William R. Greiner fur hi.s action.

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Two professors named fellows
of American Physical Society
MkhMI CO. Fudoo ....S Athoo P - . professors of physics, have

been named fellows of the American Physical Society. Only onehalf of 1 percent of the society's membership is eligible for election

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Benedict studies lm}' mint;l shiftsfrom one conversation tv another
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tm ..ads. Using positron emission
tomography (PET), Benedict and

urself, "W!at am I his a&gt;sreoearcben ha"" been able to
ignoringfi8ht n&lt;M" maptbepartsofthelnin that become
Are th= detectable adiYe wbm people listm lllaltiw!y.
voices or noises
"The c:luaic description (of this
somewhere in the study) -.ld be the cocklail-partypbmomeooo,"llidBenedict, "where
background? Wlat changes if yo
mind shifts its attention to co ·
someone is tallting to oomeone, but
there is another con..,..tion IP'ing
tho5e sounds directly? Are you
to continue ...ding!
on wilbinhearingclistmae. \\~!wanted
These are the ltinds of questions . towatchhowtbemindshiftsfromone
that Caseinate Ralph Benedict, an
~tion to another, trying to
that out It's easy to screen it
assistant prdf..SOr in the Department of Neurology. A neuropsyt as long as they're tallting about
chologist at the Erie County Medi- something that's not interesting, but
cal Center, BCnedict specializ.es in as soon as they say your name or
research into memory and attention. 'Buffalo,' your mind shifts."
"Wiat's most intriguing to me," he
Instead of cocklail. party con=said, "are questions about the rela- sation, said Benedict, "we 83"" our
tionship between our minds and subjects a primary. aural attention
our brains, and what systoms in the task (such as picking out a specific
brain are contributing to memory, syllable from a series ofsyllables), and
attention, thoughts, feeling&lt; or ideas." then we superimposed stories on top
These c o = Jed Benedict to do ofthaL._Thestorieswere""ffengag·
memory research. In 1988, shortly ing, and would be subject to spontabefore completing his doctorate in neous memory processes."
clinical psychology at Arizona State
The study reproduced the three
Uruv.nity, he began to develop the types of attmtion: SUSI3in&lt;d, focusod
Brief V'uuospatial Memc;&gt;ry Test, and divided. "Sustained" attention
now used by neuropsychologists to means detecting the target syllable
withoutthedistractionofthestories,
test patient memory.
R=tly, Benedict has been part "fucused" means ignoring the stories
of a UB team studying aural atten- in fiMlr of the 1aiJ1et fYIIable and "dition. He notes that there has been a vided" means paying attention to
shortage of studies that emphasize both the stories and the~ syllable
the "aural modality," in which the
"We asked people to lie in the PET
subject is asked to conczntrate on scanner while they did the attention
sounds and spoken words, as op- task," Benedict said, "and for the 60
poaedtostudiesemphasilingthe"vi- seconds while they were doing that,
sual modality," which asks the sub- we were taking images of their brain
ject to ron=trateon images or writ- to see which parts were utilizing Ida-

tMly high amounts of "")Fl."
The results suggest that parts of
the brain called the anterior cingulate gyrus and the left inferior
parietal lobule may be involved in
auditory attention. "The primary
result of the study:' said Benedict,
•is that we now know that the interior cingulate is involved in high
capacity demand attention tasks
in all sensory modalities."
While the results might only interest specialists in the field, establishing exactly where attention processes take place in the brain could
lead to benefits in clinical neurology. "The findings could have a lot
of implications for how we conceptualize and understand many attention impairments," he said. "including schizophrenia, attention
deficit disorder, mild closed-head
injury and multiple sclerosis."
Benedict's ro-~ included
Janet and David Shucard from the
Department of Neurology, Alan
Lockwood from the Department of
Nuclear Medicine and Brian Murphy
and David Wade from the Cmter for
Pcoitron Emission TOillOgl'lphy.
The team hopes to conduct a follow-up study; in the meantime,
Benedict continues to investigate
the mystery of human awareness.
"We were studying attention," he
said, "but we were also studying
consciousness...this is really what r...,
~ wanted to do. The research is
what drove me into this field," he
added "Jt's...:itingto be curious about
something and then to be able to pursue a project to answer a question."

Alliance
Contlnuod- _ ,
The Cmter for Industrial Effectiveness, formerly based in the
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, and still affiliated with the
school and the School of Management, aims to motivate and help
industry to devdop people, use technology, impro"" business practices
and modernize products, processes
and facilities. Since its inception in
1987, it has worked with local 350
firms and has been =dited with
creating or saving 5,000 jobs with
companies ranging from multinationals like General Motors and
Pratt &amp; Lambert to small operations

UB GRIT is a two-year demonwith fewer than 40 employees.
TCIE administers both the SPIR stration project to assist area businesses in developing new products
and GRIT programs.
SPIR,a~dfurtofSUNY's in cooperation with universities from
graduate engineering programs at the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse reUB, Stony Brook, Binghamton and gion.ltsaim is to provide the researchNew Paltz, is aimed at bolstering the and-&lt;levelopmentexpertisethatsmall
state economy by promoting the businesses need, but usually can't aftransfer of knowledge from uni- ford, to continuously develop and
versities to industry and providing improve their products in order to
consultation, research facilities and stay competi~ in the domestic and
resources for industrial restructur- global marketplace and maintain
ing.-During the past year, it contrib- American jobs. Since the project beuted to the retention of more than gan in 1995,14 product-imprtMtnellt
1,200 manufacturing jobs and the projects~ been conducted. or are
creation of more than 800 nev~ ones. intheworks,hytheconsortiwn.

to APS fellowship each year. Election to fellowship constitutes recognition of outstanding contributions to physics.
Fuda was cited for his development of techniques for the analysis
of the nonrelativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics of fewparticle systems and their application to strongly interacting particle systems. His work relates to aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity. In particular, it invol=looking at the probl~m of combining
special relativity with quantum mechanics. A faculty member since
1967, Fuda, who earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Rmsse1aer
Polytechnic Institute, is the author of numerous publications in scientific journals. His work is funded by the National ScienCE Foundation.
Petrou was cited for his optical studies of heterostructures and
for elucidating their band structure and optical properties. He conducts research in experimental condensed-matter physics: specifically, the use of photoluminescence, reflectance, absorption and
Raman spectroscopy techniques to study semiconductor systems.
His current work focuses on gallium arsenide- and zinc selenidebased superlattices. A faculty member since 1985, he is the recipient of
two Alan Berman Research Publication Awards from the Naval Research
Laboratory. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Athens in Gr= and ..00~ his doctorate from Purdue University.

,98 compendium to report on
public initiatives by faCulty, staff
The Office of Publk Servke end Urt..ft Affaln is updating "The
Total of All These Ac.U," a 1995 compendium of public-service initiati= undertaken at UB. The 1998 publication will highlight and
report on the expertise and scholarship that UB faculty and staff
have applied to public needs over the past three years.
In the current budgetary and political climate, it is imperative that
public higher education emphasize its commitment to the community and to society. This is the go:ll of the 1998 compendium, a docu·
ment that the Office Of Public Service and Urban Affairs believes
will be strengthened by the following definition of public service:
Public s.....U:e is service that is based on scholarly expertis~ that is
applied to public nwh and contributes to the overall mission of the
university. It includes activities th4t reprt;,.sent contributions tlult can
create new know~g~ train others in the discipline or arta of expertise, aggregate and interpret knowledge to make it understJJndable and
usefu~ or disseminate the knowledge to the appropriate user or audience. Such activities might include policy analysis; technology transfer; artistic, cultural or crwtive projects; community or program development, public information and program evaluation.
Faculty and staff are !l&lt;'eded to help complete this inventory of

public-service activity. A survey and a memo requesting this information have been forwarded to deans, directors, chairs and faculty.

Individuals are encouraged to complete surveys on public-service
projects that they know about or in which they are involved. The
deadline for returning the surveys has been extended to Jan. 23. For
more information, call Gloria Brennan, at 645-2097.

UB Law School to host
teleconference on Roe v. Wade
A n•tlon•l s.telllte teleconference on the landmark Supreme
Court decision Roe v. Wade will be presented from 3-4:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, )an. 21, in 120 Clemens Hall on the North Campus.
The event will be free and open to the public.
The live teleconference, organized by the Center for lkproductive
Law and Policy and brought to UB by the School of Law, will be
entitled "Roe Turns 25: The Blackmun Lecture on Privacy." It will
explore the values embodied in Roe v. Wade and the challenges these
values-bodily integrity, reproductive health, reproductive choice,
religious freedom and women's equality-face in the years to come.
Participating in the event, which will include a panel discussion, will
be retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, who authored
the decision in Roe v. Wade; the Hon. Shirley Hufstedler, former secretary of education and one of the tint women to sit as a judge on the U.S.
Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit, and David Garrow, Presidential
Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law and author
of the book "Liberty and Sexuality; which recounts the history of efforts in the U.S. to legalize birth control and abordon.
Also participating will be Janet Benshoof, president and founder
of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, a public-interest law
center that has litigated many leading cases challenging restrictive
abortion laws; Helen Rodriquez-Trias, past-president of the American Public Health Association, and Laurence Tribe, Ralph S. Tyler
Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. Author and
columnist Anna Quindlen will moderate the discussion. For more
information, call Lucinda Finley, UB professor of law, at 645-6152.

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Physical Therapy, Eim:ise and Nutrition Sciences, Jeff lowers hu
head, ahales and sink5 slowly under the water.
Cerny and Paula MaxweU, bU
doctoral student, keep their eyes
gl~ to a taolr.-side monitor until
it register-s J~s weight under water, then signal him to
Theproa:dureiscallod h)&lt;lroowic
weighins. the nxmaccuntemethod
of detmoioios body compooition.
Jeff, who will repeal the exm:Ue
I 0 times before he climbs out of
the tank, u at UB complying with
a new rule instituted by the New
York State Public High School
Athletic Association, Inc. The
regulation mandates that all wrestlers must be assi3ned a minimum
weight class, tied to percent of
body fat, in order to compete in
·the 1997-98 season.
UB is one of only two sites-the
other is Adelphi Uru..nityon !.Dog
lsland-«rtiiied by the association
to conduct hydrostatic weighing Cor
high-school wrestlers.
Certifying each wrestler at a
minimum weight class is intended
to eliminate interscholastic
wrestling's time-honored, but
health-threatening, practice of
"making weight," the process of
trying to lose pounds rapidly to
qualify for a lower weight class in
hopes of gaining a competitive
advantage in a particular match.
Wrestlers will starve thenudves,
take no liquids and pUJh themselves through puniJhing workouts to accomplish tbU.
. Sometimes the sacrifice pays off,
sometimes it costs dearly. A University of Michigan wrestler collapsed and died Dec. 9 in the midst
of a two-hour workout wearing a
rubberized wet suit in 92-degree
heat The medical examiner ruled
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Stadium
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and Arkeilpane said-people with
whom they have talked about UB's
athletic upgrade are supportive of,
and acited about, the change.
"UB has a strong existing base
of corporate support," noted ·' boughtorrenewedbypreviousaeaArkeilpane, adding, "and alumni, son ticket bolders and UB students.
friends and bwiness leaden, recSeason ticketsfor the 1998 fourognizing the importance of the game home stand are $40 and $30
1998 season, already have begun for reserve seats, and $20 for gento step forward."
eral admission. Individual game
That support is being shown with tickets at.o will be available. Stuthe pun:hase of 8,000 new Season dents still will have the opportunity
tickets, mostly by the Western New to attend games at no cost becaUJC
Yoik corporate community, includ- of the student athletic fee. For ticket
ing NOCO Energy Corporation information, call645-6666.
andtheNorthforestCivicAssociaIn addition to local corponte
tion, which both "have made a sig- season-ticket ·commitments, three
oifiant commitment" in support of local companies-Oover ManageUS's athletic program, said ment, Adelphia Cable CommuoiArkeilpane. Those ticket commit- cations and the Amherst Chamber
mentsareaboveandbe)'&gt;ndtheap- ofComrnen:e-bave lisned on as
proximaldy2,200seuonticketpur- game title sponsors for three of
chases that are expected to be UB's four home games in 1998. A

fourth bome-pme sponsor will be
announced in the near future.
Altbciughsomemaycriticize)he
move from Division 1-AA to DiviJion 1-A playas a financial drain
on a uoivenity already facing difficult 6scal times, Arkeilpane indicated tbU would be the least apensive upgrade so far.
"There is nota si8nificant difference between the coats of putting
together ai•AAand a 1-A team," he
said. "While the nunther of scbolanhip athletes will incmue, so too
will the university'• opportunity to
recoup its invatm&lt;:nt."
In fact, aca&gt;rding to Townoend,
competing in.the MAC could be a
tremcndouo bono to athletic fund-

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1e9J11 of increaaed
game gilarantees and ticket and
ing in

concasion revenues.
The-alooio.,q,.,a..t 10 pique
student a.- in UB albletia.
"UB has been Jdnd of an odd
mix," llid Thwnaend. "We're the
only M l J - uniwnity without
a major athktic prop-am. When
one llllmdoa uoivalilyofthlsldnd,
oneexpec~~ the athletic prosram to
be o( the caliber o(Syncuoe."
lt'o been difticulttoeo:ilielludmt
intaeat becauae ~II the Division 1-AA level dos&gt;'t seoentr
theaamem-•~hW&gt;&lt;r­

r&lt;aJSDitioo !ami, he added.

"Once we eotablilh rivalries
with achoot, such u Kent and

Bowling Green and are competing
for the n,htto pbly.in bowl games,
1don't think «U have a problem
aciting ltlldents."
But support of UB's football
program does not lie on the backs
of otudents, Townsend emphasized. Support of UB's athletic
program also is going to have to
come from the community.
"We need broader community
supp&lt;rt It's up 10 the communitythe in1erna1 unMnity community
and the exu:mal community-to
docide bow far we wiD Fo"he oUd.
He noted that 4,000- 5,000
people regularly travel to away
gameo to support Marohall
Univenity's foothall team. These
aupportcn are not ltlldento, but
members of the community of
ff1m1in81oo, W. VL, which haaa regional populllion ofabout 31,000.
"That'o the mode W.want to operate from," he said.

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HE university will be
one of eight national
sites for the 30th annual
Region 0 Kam.dy Center American College Theater Pestival (ICC/AcrP).
The fatival, being held in the
Center fur the Arts through Sunday, will showcase fM of the finest
productions submitted by academic institutions in New York

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quality of ...... lboder lbroushout the United States and to allow
theater departments and student
artists the opportunity to sbowase
their work and receive outside asseumentby ICCIKCfF respon:
dents. Its supporting organization
has grown into a network of more
than 400 academic institutioos.

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workshops and oeminan awuing a
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will feature the presentation of ICC/
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Caller fur the Arts. They are:

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• "Falsettos," a Broadway musical
to be presented by Suffolk Community College at 8 p.m. today
• "Specks," a new, student-written-and-directed production by
Rob Shimko, to be presented by
Hartwick College at 12:30 p.m.
tomonow

• "The Striker," Caryl Churchill's
newest script, to be presented by
sity at 8 p.m. tomorrow

• "W"Jts' End,• another new, student-written-and-dirfcted production by Kate Chell of Ithaca
College, to be presented at 12:30
p.m. Saturday
• "The Kalka Project," a piece

with mwic and movement con·
ceived by Professor Devon Allen
in concert with her students, to be
presentedby Mublenbers College
at 8 p.m. Saturday
The fustofficial festival event will
be the final round of the Irene Ryan
Foundation Scbolanhip Competition, which rec:ognius outstanding
acting srudmts. This year, six performers from UB's 1997 productions t - been nominated.
R&lt;gistration for the festival is
$55 per person and includes ad-

mission to all performances,
workshops and seminars. Tickets
can 1!&lt; purchased by calling 645ARTS. For more information, call
Jeft"Wdson at645-6898 at.1318.

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freshman I 58-pounder Vince DeAu&amp;UJtine pinned his opponent at &lt;4:46 of
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John Neal, 59, NCEER engineer of tests, associate professor of civil engineering
A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD DEC.
19 in St. Paul's Calbedral in Bulfolo for John
A. Neal, an oflic:er and engineer of tests for ·
the National Center fur Earthquake Engineering Ro.erch (NCEER) and an utOCiate
profe•&gt;r of civil ~Neal, 59, died
Dec. 14 in Rolwdl Park Cauc:er inStitull!.
He came to Bulfolo in 1965 as an assistaDt
profesoorofcivil~becameanas-

sodate professor in 1970 and was director

of construction and rehabilitation in the
Office ofFodlities Plannina from 1970-72.
Neal was involved in thedesicn and construction of f!le North Campus while he
was vice praident for facilities planning
from 1978-82 and asaistant vice president
from 1972-78. Since 1988, he bad been engineer of tests at NCEBR. He served as UB
repraentativeonmanycommunityboards
and committees, including Audubon New

Community, Niagara Frontier Transport&amp;lion Authority, U.S. Anny Corps of Engineers and Erie!N"1080'" Counties Regional
Planning sOan!.
A graduate of the Georgia Institute of
Technology, he received his master's and
doctoral degree$ from the University oflllinois. Neal, who specialized in the composition of concrete, published numerous
articles and was a consultant for "'veral

companies, including Bethlehem Steel.
Neal worked dosely with undergraduate
students, helping them with both academic
and personal issues, Dale Meredith, a profes·
sor of civil engineering and a colleague since
1973, told The Buffalo News.
He received several honors and awards
during hi s career, including th ose from
Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Phi, Pi Tau Sigma and
the Briaerian Society.

Charles R Petrie, Jr.; associate professor, Department of Communication
CHARLES R. PETRIE, JR., associate professor of communication, a former chair of the
Department of Communication and an acting associate dean of the Graduate School
from 1979-80, died Dec. 7 in MillardFillmore Suburban Hospital.
Petrie came to UB in 1966, and in 1967
became acting chair of the communication
department,~gaschairfrom 1968-71.
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ceived the SUNY Chancellor's Award for
l!xcellence in Teaching.
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"one of the best-read ·schobrs in the field
of communication," lauding his efforts to
make sure that"both classical and contemporary thought were fully presented to his
students." Petrie's contnbution to the dis·
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graduate students over several years."
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Pennsylvania State CoUege, a master's degree
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the top!
It's another successful year
for SEFA, thanks to UB's
Partners in Caring. Bany
Eckert, chair of the SEFA
campaign and dean of the
School of Health Related
Professions, paints the final
percentage point on the

campaign thennometer on
Rensch Road. (See related
story, Page 2.)

Internet 2: 'strategic investment' for UB
Network being developed by consortium of112 un~versities to support research
W:UUCf!iU

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News SeMces As.Sodate DirKt.or
B has joined Internet
2---'the •next generation• of the Int:ernet-

oped by a consortium of 112
versities. to support research activities and other data and voicecommun.itJtiOn needs that cannot
be handled by the commercial

andexpectsto~a ·
maximum of$350,000 &amp;om the Nationa! Sciencz Foundation to hook
into the VBNs, a network a&gt;onecting all the supercomputing sites in
theoountrythathasbeencalledthe
"glue" that ties Internet 2 together.
The move to join Internet 2 will,
according to administrators and
facultymembfis.improveandincrease the soope of research activities and keep UB a • player at the
table• with the top universities in
the country.
lntcrnet 2, officially called the
University Corporation for Applications in Internet Development,
is the· new network being devel-

Internet, says Hinrich Martens,
associate vice president for compuling and information techno!ogy.
•The Internet today is slow, it's
bogged down, there's too much
traffic and it can't handle all that's
going on." says Jerry Bucklaew,
network engineer. •If you want to
dointeractiveth.ingsorlivethings,
voice or videoconferencing, in
real-time, you need greater bandwidth and quality of service"guaranteed access to connection
capacity that will guarantee sole
usc of the network link.
"Today's Internet is a lot like a
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cqngested, it's slow for everybody,"'
adds Tom Furlani, research assistant professor of chemistry and
applications team leader... The
new Internet 2 is going to guaranteelanesbetweenpointsAandB,"
like commuter lanes on a highway,
he says.
Internet 2 is part of what UB
must do to .. retain and maintain
theviabilityoftheuniversity,"says
Martens.
"We believe we will have appli cations and research projects that
we wouldn't be able to carry out
without the capability of Internet
2," he says . .. We need it in order to
maintain our competitive position
to attract faculty, to attract research and to be a 'name' institu lion that will also be attractive to
undergraduate students."
Voldemar Innus, senior associ-

ate vice president for university

services who oversees UB's IT initiatives. agrees that by joining the
internet 2 consortium, UB has
shown •that we are with the Jeading institutions across the oountry in infrastructure development
and support of technology.
" It (Internet 2) will immediately
provide ...a limited number of our
most demanding users of the
Internet access to that new capability." It also will allow UB "to
begin planning its integration into "
the instructional and research
missions of the uniVersity," he says.
At an annual cost of at least
$500,000 a year, UB's membership
in Internet 2 is .. the most importan t stra tegic investment and
commitment we've made in '9798, IT-wise," Inn us says.

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Faatlty Senate, PSS to address training issue
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HEFacultySenateandtbe
Proti:ssi.onal Staff Senate
have joined fonzs to addras the issue of training
of supervisors, a n:cwring ooncan
for proti:ssi.onal staff members.
Faculty Senate Chair Peter
Nickenon, professorofpathology,
hasagrecdtoappointfacultymcmben to an ad hoc oommittce ereated by the Professional Staff Senate Exrcutive Committee to explore
the possibility of providing training for faculty and staff mcmben
whosupcrviscemployees,·but may
have little orno management or supervisory training.
Professional Staff Senate Chair
Michael Stolcts, director of the OfficcofStudcn t MulticulturalAffairs,
presented the issue to the Faculty
Senate Executive Committee at the
body's Dec. 3 meeting, noting that
56 percent of professional staff rc-

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side on the • academic side"' of the
univcnity. He added that that figure was 60 percent several years
ago, but has declined due to budget reductions.
Patricia Engel. assistant to the chair
oftheD&lt;portmentofGeographyand
chair ofthe PSS'QualityofWorkilie
Committee, presented results of a
surveyofprokssionalstaffmcmbcrs
oooductedbytheoommittteduring
the summer of 1996. She said there
wen: 227
to the survey.
While the committee was charged
withquestioningprofessionalstaffon
a variety of issues, it was spccifically
asl&lt;edtolookinto"theposs!bilitythat
perhaps supcrviso!S werm't particulart)-qu.alifiedorsupcrvisingparticularly well," Engd said
Stalfrncmbcnwm:asl&lt;edtocvalu·
atethcirsupcrvisors,aswellasthemselves, including their need for profcssional development and whether

respanses

their supervisor supported thcir·scckingprofessional developmcnL

"There's a lot of unhappiness, a
lot of uncertainty," Engel said, notiog that staff members vented on
"a lot of really big issues that we
can't do anything about."
The survey found that overall,
thoS&lt;O responding believed that their
supervisor needed some h~lp in the
are~S of oonflict resolution, project
management, receiving criticism,
developing leadenhip, time man agcmcnt and delegation skills.
Respondents felt they needed
training in several areas, including
giving criticism, receiving criticism, gaining respect, delegation
skills and "results without ramifi cation"-&lt;lefined by Engel as cases
where resolution to a problem was
achieved "without both parties being unhapp y, because you can
come to a peaceful solution."
R&lt;sults without ramification is a
key problem that professional staff
face, Stokes pointed ouL Many staff
membe!S have told him that they

would liklto be involved in senate
or other university activities, "but
there's not support from their supervisor or in their unit to leave the
office. leave the unit and put the time
in to do their S&lt;Orvicc componenL"
He said that while some supervisory training is conducted on
campus, it is not done "on a university-wide basis." He proposed
that the two governance bodies
"collaborate" to try to develop a
training program for supervisors.
.. This clearly is one of the items
professional staff responded to" in
the survey. he said.
Nickerson said that the Faculty
Senate would be willing to cooper·
ate, but that since the issue did not
fall under the purview of any ex·
istingscnate committee, an ad hoc
panel would have to be formed.
Stokes noted that the PSS al·
ready had formed such a commit·
tee, and invited Faculty Senate
members to join the panel.

�Roberts, assistant

professor of psychology
and a specialist in the area
of depression, conducts a
12-week program designed
to teach individuals skills
to help them cope with depression. He has been a member
of the faculty -since 1995.

There is very interesting research
that suggests that depression has
been on the rise in the past several
decad~more and more Jl"'ple
seem to be developing relatively
severe episodes of depression. FIJr.
thermore, Jl"'ple are ezperimcing
depression at younger.ages than in
the past-often having their first
episode of depression in their teen
years or even younger. There·are a
number of possible explanations
for these increased rates of depression, including social and cultural
changes, increased exposure to life
stress, lifestyle changes, greater
recognition of, and social acap·
tan&lt;% of, psychological problems,
and so forth. At this point, however, we don't know for sure what
is responsible. What we do know
is that genetics alone cannot~ ­
plain this increase in depression.
These changes have talf&lt;R.pia&lt;%
much more rapidly than changes
toe pia"" in the gene pool.

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'!llfference
t . .lln.g the
HdownH
and -cllnlc•l

Evtryoneexperimasoaasional fed·;,g.·of sadi!ess ani:! depresSion. For
moSt of us these feeling&lt; are shortJiVed and lOst oiuy a few hours to a

few days. However, for some individuals these feeling&lt; can bemme
more pmislmt, exlreme and debilitating.ln fact, approDmatdy IS petcent of the population will experience an episode of depression that is
..,_, enough to warrant a clinical
diagnosis at some point in their lives.
By clinical depression, we are n:lierring to a syndrome that often indudes sympcoms IUch as sleep and
appetile disturbonce, cooa:ntration
difliculties,fedingsof~

fed that life il no longer worth Jiving Should not besitak to seekbdp.
Fortunately, there are a number of
treatment alternatives with proven
effectivenas. These includ&lt; cognitive-behavioral therapy, interper:
sonal therapy and various classes of
antidepressant mediation. There is
some evidence that cognitive:behavioral therapy is effective at reducing the lilo:lihood of developing subsequent episodes of depression. In contrast, many would argue that medications need to be
toen over extended periods of
time (perhaps indefinitely) in order to redUC% the chanC% of relapse,

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I'm not aware of any well -&lt;~!=signed
studies that have tat&lt;d the e:f&amp;:ctive11&lt;01 of St.John's Wort in the treatment of depression. Of couroe that
does not mean that SL John's Wort
is not effective-it simply means
that we don't know for sure. I would
advise individuals to be cautious,
because there are treatments that
have well-established trade: records.

faligut and laos of energy, a laos of
intaat in previously enjoyable activities, and suicidal ideation. These
symptoms pessist for more than two
weeb (often lasting months oceven
)UI"S) and'Und to interfere with the
" Copilot wltlt Deprwolon"
person'sfunctioningatworkorwith ,.....••• teaciMo techalq"'
friends and family. It is important
that f.unilyand friends r=gniuthat
depression isadisorderthatcan profoundly iliilumC% a person's func- Ing. -do the)~ help7
tioning and that they enal""''!" the The "Coping with Depression•
person to seek help.
program is a distillation of some
of the most important dements of
cogniti.e=.Gebavioral"arld intctper~I!"'Pfw~7.
sonal therapy. The program il conI would advise individuals to ieek ducted in 12 sessions and is.struchelp if their symptoms persist be- tured as an adult-education course
yond a few weeks or if these symp- in which participants are taught
toms begin to seriously interfere skills that have been empirically
with thing&lt; lilo: close relationships, shown to .Uev.iate depression. The
work or getting things done at program is Dosed on the idea that
borne. Anyone whose-depression mdividuals suffering hom depnoshas reached the point where they sion have difficulty experiencing

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pleasure and ~I in their
lives. The particular lkilll that ;ire
t:auBbt bdp 110 this poaan.
For oample, llllllf clepn.d iDdividualo have...,.a.e llyksoithinking that bias how they peruM:
themadveo md their worlds. Sllch
bioaeo can malre il aaptioaollydif6cult fix the penoa 110 experimce
pleasure and enjoymenL I.ikewjse,
high levdl of tension and intctperanaal cli1liculties can often malre it
ditlicult.-110 pin •&lt;illhcement and
reward. The akillo thaton,
lilo: reiaDtioo, inaaoins pltaoant
activities, intape!oooal skills and
cognitive ratru&lt;:turins bdp to coc:
m:t theoe problems. My..,.. is that
this program can be e&amp;c:tiw: on itJ
own lOr individual~ with mildly to
moderately ~ depraoion, but
that it is moce uadul in axiibination with other treat:mcnll, such as
an~t modiatioosor iDdividual therapy, for individuob oufferina fiom
depraoion.
Currently, I am~ psychological and mvirorunental factors that may inJIII&lt;DO&lt; ihe degree
to which individuals benefit from
this form of treatmen~ as well as
predictoa of the loog-tmn maintmane%pftratmmt gains. Readers
who are interested in finding out
more can call the I'I)J:hologicaJ Services Center on the North Campus
(645-3697~.

What 1ot , _ l"tereotH

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I 6nd depression to be particularly

fascinatin£ &amp;om a research perspective becauoiit imoiYes the interplay
of a number of quite diverse processes, includjngpetic,phy1iological, psycboli&gt;p:al and environmental in&amp;ueoca.ln..,..-.1. my research
attemptstodorif)'the ~
anil e.Mioiunmtal procesta involved in the deYelopment. maintenanCe and IUilvery&amp;om depreosioo. .

Uruversity goes over $635,000 go~ for SEFA
untMn "
fn&gt;m
tlon&gt;uvthe
Feculty,
""
' · - - .....
~have demonstrated their

commitment to the community in
which they live and work by again
helping UB to meet its SEFA goal.
Although final tabulations
won't be available until sometime
early in the spring, as of Dec. 8, the
$635,000 goal had bqn surpassed.
"Congratulations and many
thanks to Barry Eckert, who took
on the huge task of leading the
campaign, and to all ofUB's leaders--deans, vice presidents, chairs,
.directors-who offered their supporL Building new partnerships
helped bring the campus COill)llUnity together to reach this goal,"
said President William R. Greiner.
· "Most importantly; Greiner
added, "our thanks go to all the UB
people who stepped up one more

time with generous contributions
to show bow much UB cares for
our Western New York community. SEFA is a great UB tradition,
one we all can be proud of."

"0.. -.u go to all the UB people who stepp.d up one

more ~me with generous c - to"-'much uac..atorow-...--~-·
PRESIDENT W1WAM R. GREINER

Irs everywhe~l Irs everywhere I
In lac~ you might say that •everywhere" is globalization's
" paradigmatic motif, .. which

isn't to say most of us actually
understand it.
Globaization ~both the proa!SS
and product of rapid, widespread
social change. tt has us eating sushi
and mashed lentils, watching films

•

In all, 13 units have met or exThe recipient of the annual
ceeded their goals for the 1997 SEFA Chair's Cup, honoring the
campaign. They are the Provost unit that achieved the greatest inAreas, School of Architecture and crease in the pelC%Dtage of Jl"'ple
Planning, Graduate School of participating in the campaign, will
Education. School of Health ~­ .be announC%d on"" all SEFA cards
lated Professions, School of Man- have been received and tallied.
agement, Faculty of Natural SciSEFA Chair Barry Eckert said he
ences and Mathematics, School of was pleased to ·see contributions

Course looks at globalization
as central feature of social change
BY PATIIICIA DONOVAN
News Sefvices Editor

Nursing. Offi"" of the President,
School of Social Work. UB Foundation, Student Affairs, University
Services and Public Servie% and
Urban Affairs.

made by Nicaraguan fishermen.
u.s. higher education,
reading Portuguese fashion mags,
buying sneaks made in sweatshops
in Ho Chi Minh Oty, enterlilinlng
Sudanese entrepreneurs and
hunkering down to learn new critical languages: Malaysian and Hindi.
For those sloshing around helplessly In the ideological blender,
help is on the ~- The Department of Sociology in the"Spring
1998 semester Will pffer a new
exporting

graduate seminar, "Special Topics:
Globalization" (SOC 593). Taught
by Christopher Mete, assistant professor, and Mart Gottdiener, professor and department chair, the
course will offer a aitical exam ~
nation of globalization as a central feature of social change in the
late 20th centu,ry.
The seminar will interest students acroSs a broad range of disciplines, since globalization has
changed nearly ev~ry field of
study, not to mention the lives of
many millions of individuals in all
but the most isolated cuiWres on
earth. Seminar participants will

pass the $635,000 mark.
"It's really gratifying t8 reach
this goal,".noted Eckert, dean of
the School of Health Related
Professions. •As chair,. I have
had the pleasure of working
with people from all across the
university, and it has been great
to see bow we could all pull together to accomplish this.•
"It also has been a great opportunity to experience firsthand
how much our contributions
mean to people in need: he
aqded. "Meeting the goal means
that" UB really knows the value of
caring for our community.
"On behalf of everyone who
workedonthecampaign, ourcongratulations and our thanks to every member of the campus community who joined in this great
partneiShip in caring.•
survey current literature related to
globalization as a set of economic..
social, cuiWral and political processes. They also wil look at how
global proc:e51eS tranlform regions

and communities hen! and abroad.
Perhaps especially critical to the
undeiSianding of globalization is
the relationship between globalization and the formation of social
identities. Mele's stJJdents will expkn this issue and the fonns of
coloctive action and resistance to
which g1oblllzation has given rise.
The axne (No. 173818) wil be
taught from 9-11 :«!a.m. onfridays.
For lrlormatlon, ai64S-2~17. .

�lleaii811.1!B7Nt19.1t15 IIepa "taa

'Checklist for Promotion Dossier'
wins FSEC approval after revision
IIJ SUE WIIITOIIII
News ~ Assodote Dirocto&lt;
·
"Checklist for
motion Dossiet" that
leave it to the de·
t c::IWr to deter.
mine whetherexttmal reviewers will
be used to evaluate the tt:ad!ingport·
folio of a candidate for promotion
has been approved by the Faculty
Senate l!lo!cutive Committee.
The dlcclc.list, which accompanies
a candidate's promotion dossier,
also would requm that the kOch·

ing portfolio be "discipline-specific,"
and that each unit devdop its own
list of supplementary material that
is to be included in the portfolio.
The revised checldjst, whlch was
presented to the FSEC at its Dec.
3 meeting, will be introduced to
the Faculty Senate at its last meet·
ing of the semester on Dec. 10.
Heildrldt urged fuller evaluation
Margaret Aara, c:bairofthe Fac·

ulty Senate's Tenure and Privileges
Corrunittee and professor of phar·
macology and toxicology, said her
committee's work was the result of
urging by Provost Thomas ~·
Headrick that "a more full and credible evaluation of kaching become
part of the dossier.• The current
checklist was revised first by Senior
Vice Provost Kenneth Levyanq -..yn.
liam Fischer, vice provost for faculty
development Their revisions were

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further tWeaked by the tenure and
privHeges committee, Aa.ra said.
She noted that the revision by
Levy and Fischer that caused the
mOst Controv~Csy and discussion
among the members of her com-

mittee was one that would requm
that external reviewers evaluate

the candidate's k&gt;chingportfolio.
"The committeefdt that while ex·
ternal evaluaton wm: the most appropriate and the best reviewers for
research and scholarly activity, they
were not the best evaluatonof reach-

ing," she said.

Cornmiuee mernben suggested
inskad that thec:bair be responsible
for selecting evaluaton, who may
include external and internal re·
viewen. and current and former
students, to comment on the
candidate's schoiarship, teaching
and public-service contributions.
1be chair must ensure that, in total, the evaluaton fully address the
three categories.Acara said, adding
that this provision would apply to
both theronfidential and non-roo·
6dential sections of the dossier.
She said the committee also
devoted much discussion to items
that are to be prepared by the can·
didate for inclwion in the port·
folio "becawe of the very diverse
nature of our schools. What comprises the teaching portfolio is
much, much different in the
school of medicine than in the
Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics.•
The committee bas proposed
that individual units develop
their own appendices for the
portfolio and that each unit have
avaHable to the candidate a list of
supplementary material that is
specific to the school, she said.

The revisions under ~nsideration
would make a candidate staternent a
formal part of the checlclist, he said.
Acara said that the k&gt;ching port·
folio, after it is romposed, is to be
"explicidy evaluated by the department c::!Wr, by selected internal reviewers and, when judged appropri·
ate, by selected external reviewers."
Jack Meacham, professor of

psychology, noted that the com·
miuee appeared not to be chang·
ing the criteria for promotion, but
nther to be • making more ex ~
plicit" the procedures by which
candidates put together the materials for their dossiers.

Acara agreed, adding: "It isn't
clear that by putting more em-

phasis on the presentation of the
teaching part of the portfolio, it
will also reflect more weight on it
in the process for promotion."
In response to a concern ex-

pressed by )ames Faran, associate
professor of mathematics, that

making candidate statements a for·
mal part of the promotion process
would "add pressure.. and increase

the worldoad.nfjunior fucultycom·
ing up for tenure, Acara noted that
the romminee addressed that issue.
"I think i~s fioir to say about the
rommirtee that they really ·~ the
Single statement bvored
Committee =mbers also felt . candidate'swdfureintoronsideration
in aiJ their deliberations," she said. I
that Levy and Fischer's proposal
that candidates produce three
COmmittee commended
separate statements about their
Claude Welch, SUNY Distin·
teaching, research and public-serviCe contributions Would be too guished Service Professor in the De·
partment of Political Science, commuch of a hardship, and that a
mended the oomm.ittee on its work
sin'gle-stateinenr addressing each
"in st=gtbeningthestepS"tal= by
of the categories "would be a bet·
Fischer and Levy to include items
ter statement,• she said.
that would improve evaluation of
The current checldjst does not
k&gt;ching. Having read many state·
require any statement from the
ments by candidates for promotion,
candidate, although the Pr&lt;sident's
Welch added, "i~s importantto have
Review Board has for the past few
the opportunity for the candidate to
years asked candidates to submit a
develop (a statement) in an inte·
statement about·their scholarly ac·
grated fashion."
tivity, according to Fischer.

BrieD
.
¥
Historians contribute entries
to new encyclopedia on Japan
ry after the year 2000?
What role does the government play in present-day Japanese edu-

Is J•.,.n like ly to develop.nude.,. we•-

cation? How does Japan manage its unskilled foreign labor forci?
Two scholars of East Asian history-David Abosh , reccntJy re tired associate professor of history, and Tom Burkman, director of
Asian studies and adjunct associate professor of history-address
such issues in a new reference publication titled .. Modern Jap41:n: An

Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism" (Ga rland 1998).
Abosch, an expert on modern Japan, published an entry on Kato
Hiroyuki, the Japanese educator and author who gave direction to ·
the newly established system of higher education during the firs t

three decades of the Meiji era.
Burkman published four entries in the encyclopedia: Kagawa
Toyohi.ko, a Japanese Christian evangdist and social reformrr; Japan's
connection with the Lr.tgue of Nations; Japanese nationalism in
World War I, and the Allied occupation of Japan following Japan's
surrender in World War II.
In addition to conducting extensive research in Japan , Burkman
has published a number of works on Japanese and East Asian diplo matic history and is currently working on a monograph titled, "Ja-

pan, the League of Nations, and World Order, 1914-1938."
The encyclopedia covers topics from Japan's emergence in the

1850s from a feudal society into the modern world, through empire
building in the early 20th century, World War II, postwar recovery
and international market building.
)ames Huffinan, editor of the encyclopedia and associate professor of
history at Wittenberg University, will lecture in February at UB on "Sen·
sationalism and Nationalism: Lessons from the Meiji Press." The lecture,
part of the hlstnrydcpartmen~s Colloquia Series, is being co-sponsored
by the history department and the Asian Studies Program.

Braun receives Polish award
K•z.lmlerz Br•un, professor of the.t" •nd d•nce, ·has been
awarded the Chivalry Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland in recognition of his outstanding work in Polish literature,
theater and scholarship. A native of Poland, where he had a
distinguished academic and theatrical career, he came to UB
in 1987 to head the acting program.
The author of numerous books and hundreds of essays,
articles and book reviews, he holds a doctorate of hurnani·
tits in theater from Wrodaw University, a doctorate of philosophy in letten from Poznan University, a master of fine arts in di·
reeling from the National School of Drama in Wanaw and a master of
letten from Poznan University. In 1992, Braun was appointed by thenPr&lt;sident Lech Walesa to the rank of professor, a state tide in Poland.
Among his recent works are "American Dreams," a play produced
by a Polish theater company "in Toronto; "Animal Farm,• an adapta tion of the George Orwell novel produced at UB, and "lmmigrlnt
Queen," a play produced in Poland, Ireland and Toronto. His translation of "Dummies' Ball," a 20th-century Polish play, was staged
last month in the Center for the Arts and marked its U.S. premiere.

Research developed In unlvenlty labs

UB takes equity in company developing new tec~ology
By EllDI GOlDBAUM
News SeMces Editor

eral of these procedures each day.
The FDA accepted the DRTS in

U

September, as did the agency's
European counterpart.
"This was an opportunity for
the university to invest in a strong

B has taken its larges.tever eqwty pos1t1on m
a start-up company

commercializing tech·
no logy developed by UB research·
ers. The univenity has acquired an
interest in MINRAD, lnc., of prchard Park, which is commercializing the Dual Radiation Target·
ing System (DRTS).
Developed by Michael K. Landi,

start-up company, being led by an
excellent entrepreneur with an ex-

ceptionally good technology in a
promising market,• said Daniel

Massing, director ofUB's Office of
Technology :rransfer.
MINRAD's founder and chief ex·

now a neurosurgery resident, and

ecutive officer, William Burns, for·

Robert M. Lifeso, clinical professor
of orthopedic surgery, DRTS dramatically improves the results of
orthopedic surgery, biopsies and

merlywas president and chief=·
live officer of Matrx Medical Inc.,
North America's largest manufac·
turer and distnbutor of emergency
medical products, and was named
Inc. magazine's 1993 Entrepreneur of
the Year in New York State.
Massing explained that in cases
where UB has patent rights on a
technology. the university traditionally receives an upfront licensing fee from the company commercia.lizing the technology.
In this instance, in lieu of the
licensing fee, the university will Te-

other procedures, while signifi-

cantly reducing X-ray exposure.
RadUitlon exposure a problem

The subject of three health-care
advisories issued in recent years by
the Food and Drug Administration,
this type of radiation exposure has
been eonsidered a significant problem for patients, as well as for their
physicians, who may conduct sev·

ceive equity in MJNRAD. The UB

portant commitrnent to a local com-

bilize the bone should be drilled.

interest consists of founding
shares and subsequent stock purchases equal to 4.7 percent of the

pany, he added, pointing out that
both the rompany's manufacturing
capability and its start-up funding
are largely New York-based.
By next spring, MINRAD plaiTs

Even then, he noted, it's on1y an
approximation: surgeons tradj tionally have had no choice but to

fully dHuted interest.
"The opportunity to take equity
in astart-upcompanythat is commercializing research developed
in our own laboratories is consistent with a national trend by uni versities,• said Massing.

Return to UB can be significant
Once the stock is sold, the re ~
turn to the university of an equity
position can be significant, he explained, often exceeding what
would result from the license in -

to gear up its production capacity
to 400 systems per month.
The company recently signed a
tO -year, $84 million contract with
Atmos InternationaJ for European
distribution.
Landi, who received a bachelor's
degree from UB in electrical and
computer engineering and is now a
rtSident in the Department ofNeu-

come generated by royalties. The

rosurgery in the School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences, began de·
veloping the technology as a first·

university has equity positions in
four other companies commer-

year medical student after learning
at a medical conference about a rna-

cializing technologies developed jor problem faced by orthopedic surby UB researchers.
geons. Lifeso, hiS advisor, provided
According to Massing, UB's li- financial support for the project.
cense and patents on DRTS were
Landi explained that ordinarily,
beneficial to the company as com·
ponents of the prospectus docu ·
ment for raising funds.
The investment signifies an im-

surgeons use continuous radiatio n
to guide them in locating the site
in fractured bone where the screw
holes to anchor metal rods to sta-

take a tTial-and-error approach.
Laser beam used as gutde
"That approach increases the
exposure of both patient and sur·
geon ·to ionizing radia tion and
increases patient time under an est hesia; said Landi.
Unsuccessful attempts , h e
noted, weaken th e structural in tegrit y of the bone, increasing the
risk of postoperative scconda r)'
fracture and the need for addi ·
tiona) operations.
DKT'S uses a laser beam to pm·
point the precise location in a bone

where the holes for scm.. should
be drilled.
The surgeon uses the beam 3!t
a precise guide to pinpoint both
the angle and point of entry.
The system also has been used
successfuUy to precisely target tu·
mars in the brain, and biopsies
of the brain, lung and spine.

�Santa)s 1ap ...1"t's scary
Don'tforce tradition on kids, Hoot says

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children this age have pictures
talcm while the child is clearly in
better watch clistras," Hoot says.
out; who cares if
Jo addition to being potentially
you cry?" appears to traumatizing. Hoot says the prac·
be the attitude of tice alao aends a confuiing, mixt!d
parents who force mesaage to children who are cautheir young children to sit on tioned by their parentJ to "stay
Santa Oaus'lap. a pnctice that a away from stranger5," but then
UB educator considers to be a find themselves being placed on a.
stranger's lap by their parentl.
form of child abuse.
Hoot says many parentl don't
Jim Hoot, professor and direc·
tor of the Early Childhood 1\£. anticipate or consider a child'• fear
search Center in the Graduate because u adultJ they focus on
School of Education, says parents Santa's respected reputation u the
should not force this tradition, bearer of gifts and holiday cheer.
Hoot says that children's fear of
since sitting on Santa's lap or beingbdd by Santa maybe too over· Santa Oaus generally fades ud
they are able to appreciate him
whelming for young children.
"From 10 to about 17 months once they learn to talk. By the time
old, children experience severe they enter school, they start to
separation anxiety and are tfPi~ question Santa's reality.
cally scared of strangers,• notes
Hoot, a past president of the A5·
sociation for Childhood Educa·
" FromlOto-17
lion International.
- o l d . &lt;hi*WI
He warns that it isn't worth the
trauma endured by the child just
expertence•.......,.t~on
to capture a photo. While parents
may view Santa as benevolent, the
.......,. " " " - typk.lllly
innocent toddler probably sees
sc.- of stnngen..
lWp as a "big. scary creature with
along, white beard."
PM HOOT
Hoot has witnessed a number of
parents upsei young childien dur·
'"IfpicaUy by first grade. aU chiling the holiday season by taking dren have had the idea put into t¥r
them to see jolly old SL Nick, of- beads that Santa isn't real," be says.
ten before they are old enough to
· An experienced parent himself,
recite their gift wish list.
Hoot considers Santa a symbol of
•Anyone can stand at a mall thU fantasy and encourages other par·
time ?f ~ and watch_ parents of ents to "prolong the fantasy as long

Search is
on for arts,

.
sc1ences
dean

The search for a ·dean for

UB's new College of Arts and
Sciences has been launched,
with a goal of having a new
dean on board by Aug. 1.
The search committee, which
was appointed in September by
Provost Thomas E. Headrick;
has met three times to discuss
the position and develop a po-

sition description "that reflectS
what we thought was Important
in a candidate," said louis J.
Goldberg, chair of the search
committee and dean of the
School of Dental Medidne.
"The dean wil wori&lt; closely with
uniYersity groups desiging the Internal structure olthe new oollege
and its relationship with other
units of the university and the
community; Goldbeig.said. "For
that reason, the search committee Is especially in~ In can·
didates with vision, energy and
the ability to ·wori&lt; in .a condition
ol ongOOg change iWld chalenge,
with faculty CXlOYI1Itted to the Idea
ol shared governance..
The composition of the search
committee •reflects various
communities of scholars that

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as possible."
"Parents are experts at evading
issues,• be says. "They obould not
consider themselves liars for pro-

moting a child's imagination..Fantasy is a wonderful thing."
He believes it's normal and
healthy for children to believe in
fantasy and that parents obol'idn't
worry about undermining a
child's trust if they evade the truth.
Questions about the reality of
Santa are a "rite of passage," aaord·
ins to HooL The fantasy then in·
vnlves introducing Santa to other
kids or younger siblings. He be·
li...,. adults' memories of joy from
believiitg in Santa are enough to
malc.e them want to create the mys·
tical kdJog in·oth=

will be inccitporated Into the
new college. This is going to
be a very Important college and
the dean is a very key position
within the university," he said.
"I've felt very good about the
discussions we've held. There's
been a lot of optimism and cooperation among members of
the committee.•
.In addition to Golcl:&gt;erg, members ol the seardl COfT1ITIIitee are
Joseph Gardella, professor of
chemistry; Peter Gold, associate
dean ol the Undergraduate Col~ Adele Hendorson, as.sociate
professor ol art; Bruce )aclcson,
SUNY Distinguished l'r&lt;Rssor in
the Department ol English; Robert jacobi, professor ol geology;
Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor ol
phiosophy; Martha Malamud, as-

•Parents tend to avoid uncomfortable subjects when dealing
with cliiJdren, whether it be Santa
or 'the birds and the bees,'" says
HooL "I~s l.ilte we want to avoid
breaking them into the real world."
He empbasius that parents, when
asked by • child whether there really is a Santa Claus, should try to
practice •toving avoidance" by
changing the subject or saying bow
much they. too, enjoy Santa and look
forward to his visit each year.
Hoot adds tha! parents should

k.eCp the !lleSIIjiO very simple when
kids Inquire aboutS&amp;nta's identity.
"Don't Fl too technical," he said
"Promote the spirit of the issue,
based on the idea that Santa
petuata thewodd ... jo)ous place."

per·

Sodii.! pri*s.Crii~~
~~olphysia;

Jack ll4tYdwn, professor ol psy·
chology, and Peter Rogerson,
professor ol Q0191Phy.
The committee olso ilj·

dudes Sarah Anderson, representing the UB Alumni Association, and students Emily
Neimeyer and Usa Merten ..
The committee recently
sent ads regarding the pos;..
tion to various newspapers
and professio(lal journals, according to Goldberg.
Review of llpplications will
begin after tl)e first of the
year and continue until the
position is filled . The preferred starting date for the
new llean is Aug. 1, 1998, or
before.

Report cards ra~e environmental responsibility
TUDENTS aren't the only
ones on campus receiving
report cards; offices and
departments throughout
the university are being issued re·
port cards rating their level of"en·
vironmental responsibility."
Letter grades will be assigned to
individual offices and departments
based on specific criieria.
Grading will follow compreben·
sive evaluations conducted by rep·
=tatives ofUB's Building Con·
servation Conbletl Network, a university-wide group that acts to en·
courage and monitor oompliance
with U,B's environmental policies.
R£presentatives will oontact super·

S

visors, office managers and department chain to discuss and ar·
range an evaluation:
"It's meant to be a positive and
funeu:rcise,"saidWalterSimpson,
UB's energy officer1llld coordinator of the BCC program. "UB has
huge environmental impacts, but
individuals can malc.e a difference.
"Jo recent years, we~ a oon·
certed effort to get offices on campus to begin to change the way
they operate. We issued recycling
binsto each of our 4,000 employ·
ees, we distributed booklets on
green computing. we developed
policies to minimize environmen·
tal impacts," be added. "Now we
want members of the university
oommunity to.see how far they've

rome and how much there is left
to do."
According to s;,;pson, the report. card is intended to provide
UB'sofficesanddepartmentowith
a means to systematically evaluate
bow they comply with UB's envi·
ronmental policies. Campus envi·
ronmentalists alao hope it will encourage employees to take addi·
tiona! steps toward environmen·
tal stewardship in the office.
Office practices are being evalua ted in th.- areu of waste tedUc·
tion, recycling and use of recycled
paper, energy conservation, green
computing. purcbuing. .hazard.
ous materials (where applicable)
and transportation.
The grades are based on spe·

cific criteria, such as the use of
double-sided copying. the use of
e-mail instead of paper. minimi·
zation of telephone-book pur·
chases, avoidance of space heat·
ers, use of scrap paper for drafts,
environmentally responsible pur·
chasing policies and education
programs that encourage mini·
miution and proper disposal of
hazardous materials.
If you do not know if there is a
BCC representative in your area,
and would l.ilte a oopy of the re·
port can! to evaluate your area,
please contact Walter Simpson or
Rachd Martin at645·3528.
The BCC network is a program
ofUB'sEnvironmentalTukForce
and University Facilities.

�HOUDAY RECIPE CONTUT

Apple ~orte wows the judges
W....,_•......._,:.....•,Norccn
Harbi.Jon, i aenuinc afiCionado of
good food and cooking. wbooe Bovarian Applo Torte wowed the judp of
the Reportn's lllnual Holiday R&lt;cipe
Con-.
Thit year, New• Seryices• staff
..,..d u Judseo-looldn&amp; over the
mqies that cam&lt; by mail, ~&gt;mail and
fax from North and So11th camp111
coob. Many thanlu to oil wbo participated-we wish we could have
given prius tD all-the entries were
that good.
The winnes of Olll priu, Soudnw:st,
the/JoJWful Cook Boo«, is a Sa:mary I
in the Deportmcut of PharmlallosY
and Thlia&gt;locY in IWber HolJ on the
Sollth Camplla. Noreaa boo._, It UB

for 23 yean, II y&lt;ars in pharmacology
and before that, in health related profaoion&amp;.About......, y&lt;ars . . . _, a third prize in the Rqortcr mnl&lt;lt for • chiclr.en dish, ahe recolJa.
Bllldeaaeruarehcr~this

r&lt;cipe, her husbood, Georwe. alway&gt; peds
the apples ("Malco sure Geors&lt; SOU th&lt;
aedit b that") and be's th&lt; ono who
does th&lt; cleanup-willins "He ben·
dill by-. Ill)' woodafui ~
A&amp;imd-Nomn the ,;pe--e
th&lt; lion pan. .. roa:Md th&lt; ..ape from
a former co-wodo:r, Gerry Richland,
who mired about 1M y&lt;ars 180 It If!'
70!" wrot&lt; in llli&gt;mittina her
r&lt;cipe, '"111ioisa~-looJ&lt;iasdeo­
sert thatlooblio:yoo boaebt it II. baltery!lt is. pcrfoct dish to ~at boj;day

parti&lt;s and yoo will II" rave r&lt;Yicws~
ill appearana and ......
"lmaloeitotleasl2Stim&lt;sa-,..r:says
Nom:n. who~ that it can be made
ahead and Croom. And if )'OU're rount·
ins calories, you can cvm use nonfat
aam-.ahesays
A recipe collector, Noncn cuts out
rocipa from tnapzinaandsubocribcs
to lltst&lt; of Homt, a bimonthly mapl'ine that ahe says me sou lots of coolcin&amp; ideas &amp;om.
Now that she's won 6nt prize. ahe
e2p«b hcrmlltaguesot UB"to join th&lt;
8an fan club."I!Yerybody in News Services who tasted it, already bas.
Here's Norem's winning recipe,
followed by a few of the othen that
intri81led the judges.

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IIAVAIIIAH Al'l'lf Totrn

112 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
I cup flour
Cream butttr, sugar and vanilla. Blend in flour.
Spread in an 8-10-inch tone pan with a removable bottom (or a fluted Oan pan).

8 oz. cream cheese
U4 cup sugar

!egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combinesotimedaeam dleese and sugar: Mix
wdl. Add egg and vanilla. Mix~ polll into pan.
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4-5 Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1/4 cup sliced almonds ·
Combine sugar and cinnamon. Toss apples
in sugar mixture. Spoon over cream cheese
layer. Sprinlck with nuts.
Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce
to 400 degrees for 25 minutes. Serve warm or
cool.
Delicious!!
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Admis.siorls S«tftary
School d lrtotrrotion and u - y -

Holiday aaziness is in the air-to
think of preparing dinner yet-it's
a pleaswe bearing the words
"Bourbon d!icken" tonight. Enjoy!
IIOUIIIION CHJCKEH

4 chicken breasts
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2tmspoon powdered ginger
2 tablespoons onion flakes
1/2 cup bourbon
Mix all marinade ingredients
and pour over chicken. Marinate
overnight. Bake at 325 degrees,
basting frequently, for 90 minutes or until w&lt;IJ browned. If
you double the recipe make sure
that the chicken is in a single
layer. Seive over rice or noodles.

•-A. c-.,

Professor of Education
Educational Organization,
Administration and Policy
One year my wife was called out of

town because ofa sick r&lt;lative.l prepared the Thanlcsgiving "feast."The
traditional turkey, etc., was okay but
I needed a dessert. I cilled my wife's
'.relative in Connecticut for some
h&lt;lp. She read me this "easy' recipe.
I made it and it was greaU So good.
in &amp;ct, that our kids have requested
it for special family oa:asions ever
since. Whim my wife Linda makes
it, she also pours some Comstock
cherry or blueberry filling over the
cake to make it even better.

"EVEN DAD CAN MAKE IT"
CHE£SECAJ(E

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PAIIT I Ingredients:
2-8 oz. cream cheeses, softened
2/3 cup sugar
3eggs
I/2teaspoonvanilla
PAIIT 2 Ingredients:
1 cup sour cream
I teaspoon vanilla
6 tablespoons sugar
Beat !he ingredients of Part Ito·
gether until smooth. Pour into
ungreased PyJtt 8-inch pie pan.
Bake 40 minutes at 350 degrees,
then let it cool!O minutes.
Mix the ingredients of Part 2 toseiher and pour into certterofoooled
cbe&lt;se caice. Ba2 10 minutes at 350
degrees. Cool, then rcfriserat.e at least
two houn. (A few days is even better).

- and
BusiMss

JCaniiMwia
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doa.m&lt;nts

lodcwood Memori&lt;ll Ubrary
This is a very simple and flexible

recipe. For example,.substitute
rice for the orzo, or okra for the
peas. The vital ingredients are
the tangy choriw combined with
the sweet red pepper. The combination of green and red gives a
festive appearance.
~0

Sl1IIRD liED

PEPPIIIS

(Makes6)

I cup orzo pasta '
olive oil for sautiing
I medi= onion, diced
I pound Choriw sausase,loose
I 10-&lt;&gt;z. J&gt;OClca8e frozm peas. thawed
llk&gt;uncr bottle taa&gt; sauce
6 red bell peppen

Cook the pasta al dente; drain
and set aside. Heat oil in a pan
and lightly brown and crumble
the chorizo with the diced onion.
In a large bowl combine the
orzo, chotizo, peas. and 1/2 cup of
the taoo sauce. Mix well.
Slice the tops off the red peppers. removing inner ribs and
seeds. Fill them with the mixture,
and spread a doUop of taoo sauce
across the top. Ba2 covered in ·a
350-degree oven for 30 minutes or
until soft.
P-'-M. Rose
Bibliographic Data·

bo,. Coordinator/
Cotatog.r;
Health Sdtnces Ubrary

Tliis dish was born out of a love
for sweet sauces on pork. but a
need to keep fat and sugar levels as
w-,.; as possible. The tart apples
and cider provide all the sweetness
without added sugar. Using very
lean ham, cooking off any fat lim
in a nonstick skillet, brings this
dish down into acceptable fat and
carbohydrate levels. And, it only
takes about20 minutes preparation time. A great way to use leftover holiday ham, and a wonderful alternative to those tired tur·
key leftovers.
Al'l'lf-FACED HAM

!large or 2 small very lean ham
slices (pre-packaged, already
cooked variety OR leftovers)
3-4 tart apples sliced
(Macintosh, Empire, Cortland).
112-1 cup apple cider

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Q
Sites for Your Holiday Appetite
Looking for • tried •nd tnM ~I dish for your festive
feast? Or perhaps something a bit more exotic for that leftover turkey? The Web can be your recipe box, whether it's Christmas, Hanullih or Kwanzaa.
There are twosila that haveexl&lt;tlSM rteipe&lt;Xlllectioos,and ~as naturalslartingpiac&lt;sbaholidaybxl searth. First, Holiday&lt;:oolcq Unb fiom
W:&gt;dd in Your Kitdlen (hap-.//~~
......,.__)r.anu.. a Holiday &lt;:oo1cq ~"a rnes&amp;l@l' board b
~andrequestingr&lt;cipesandidcasbhotidays all over the world,"
a Holiday Recipe Exchange and a valuable All Things Turkey area
with lots of links to pages that will help you use up those leftovers.
The Christmas International section p~ovides a virtual buffet to links
to other Christmas traditions around the world. Secondly, Mimi's
Cyber!Gtchen (http:/ / www.cybettcltchon.com/) is an online bac·
chanalia. Not only are ther&lt; holiday links, but Mimi has outdone
herself with a vast recipe coUection, cookbooks, food sofrware and
even food humor. It can be overwhelming, but this site is an impressive collection of food information on the Web.
The HomeArts Network (http: / / homeorts.com/) produced by
the Hearst Corporation, the
folks that bring us Good
Housekeeping, Redbook and
Mr. Food's Easy Cooking,
among other popular home
and garden magazines, have a
nice selection of holiday pages.
Their Holiday Cooking site
{http:/ /homeart1.com/
dept•/food/x matcl .htm I
cook ) focuses mainly on
Christmas, and includes Holi-

day Party Menus and Good
Housekeeping's Award Wmning Copkies. HomeArts also
has a Hanukkah Menu ( http://home•rh.com/gh/food/
1296mof4.htm ) and a page on Celebrating Kwanzaa (bttp:/1
homurts.com/ dopts/lood/kwanfl.htm ). Traditional Kwanzaa reci1 pes can be found on the Sankofa page (http://membon.tripod.com/
-NancyJ/kw... ua.htm) and include a variety of African vegetable
dishes, as well as a recipe for Benne Cakes.
~
So when visions of sugarplums dance in your head, impress your
family and friends with a recipe from the World Wide Web. Bon Appetit!
for oui11once in connecting to the World Wick Web via UB computer occounts, contad the AS CIT Help Desk at 645~3542.

-Sue Neumeister •nd Lori WkbJnskl. Univenity Ubrories

1/2-1 teaspoon cornstarch

Using a nonstick skillet,

lighUy braise the ham slices
on both sides to desired
doneness (2~3 minutes per

side). Remove ham to heated
plate, and pour off any fat. Add
sliced apples and a small amount
of the cider to the pan, just
enough to keep apples from
sticking or burning.
Cook and stir apples on merlium
heat until soft and slighUy
thick (aboutiO minutes).
Add remaining apple cider
and oook a few minutes. Stir

joyed a wide variety of flavors in
our food preparation. Of seven

children, the oldest in our family •
is 62 and I am 50,~ as long as I
can remember, this potato stuffing has been on our Christmas
and Thanksgiving table. We
looked forward to the holi ·
days, as well as visiting rela ~
tives and friends, just to
some of my mother's
• •uesSin2. So I hope the
readers will enjoy it as we
did.
POTATO STUFFING

l/2hotgr='pcpper (anyvariety),cut

I cooking onion, 1/4 cup chqpped
and the remainder cut into slices
amount of oold water, stirring a
and put in the water for giblets
little at a time into the apple mix2-6 white potatoes, cubed, bo~ed
ture, to desired thickness.
in salted water (for mashing)
Push apPle mimire to one side, and
I stick of butter or margarine
put ham sli&lt;:a back in pan. eo.erwidt
apple mimire and heat for anoiher
J'Tepart Giblets
minute or so. (!like to art11J1W' th&lt;
Clean turkey or chicken giblets
apples into a little pictwt!) Serve with
and boil until cooked tender in
small creamed potatoes and brussds
seasoned water (salt, onions, and
sprouts. (NOTE: this recipe is
crushed red peppers ). R&lt;·
_--,.-;;:::move giblets when
also VERY adaptilble
b~sim­
cool and chop into
ply .mstitute grilled
pieces.
tofu forth&lt; ham.)
Mash the potatoes
and margarine together.
A.n8 D•vls
Mix in the 1/4 cup
Univtnity Oevelopm&lt;nt
chopped onions and cutMy parents are from
up hot green pepper. Mix
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Season with additional black pepper (if you like); we like: this dressfrench. To say the least, we en· ing spicy hot!

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Adventure in Finland: studying, living at 35 below

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land, created the exchange program in collabo""tion with longET's face it-to college time friend Milton Numz, professtudents in Buffalo, a sor of archaeology at the Universtudy-abroad program in sity of OuliL The program is open
Finland, not fiu from the to qualified UB students for a seArctic Circle, does not coojure up mester or a full year. This semesvisions of Utopia.
ter, a Finnish student is studying
Nevertheless, three adventurow at UB and two UB students are in
anthropology students from UB Finland as part of the progranL
braved the Arctic terrain to study
The firtt participants spent the
such topics u Scandinavian art Fall1995 semester at the University
and reindeer-herding as pioneers of Oulu in Scandinavian studies
in a new exchange program with • courses such as"Historical and UnFinland's Univmity of Oulu.
guistic Survey of Scandinavia" and
Under the advisement of Ezra "lndigenow Cultures of the Polar
Zubrow, professor of anthropol- Region."Thecourses,all transferable
ogy, Patrick T. Daly, Phillip A. for UB credit, included exrursions
Trella and Michael D. Frachetti- or field trips to Fumish Lapland, the
all recent UB grads-undertook Russian-Finnish border, Helsinki,
an in-depth, on-site survey of Stockholm, the Arctic wilderness
Nordic culture, history and soci- and Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle.
ety. As part of their work in FinThe three said that one of the best
land, the then-undergraduates features of the program was the
also set up a joint geographic in- wide range of course offerings that
formation system (GIS) research allowed them to construct a plan of
center involving UB and the Uni- study around individual interests.
They agreed that the field =urversity of OuliL
Zubrow, who has lived in Fin- sions were the most exciting parts,
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especially those to Lapland, the
northrrnmost part of Finland,
where they studied the culture of
the Saarni people. The Saimi, also
known as Lapps, have their own
language and political system and
are related in some ways to the
Eskimo, or the Inuit of the North
American Arctic. Each student
spent a night with a Saami family
as part of the excursion.
They also visited a reindeer
fitrm, a paper mill, a logging site
and a peat quarry to study the
region"s rconomy.
One acunion required the students to climb a mountain to study
soowall patterns at high elevations
and thm to ski back down.
For Daly, an "awesome experience• wu living Cor a week in a
cabin with no power in the middle
of the Arctic winter. The students
bad tci cut through several feet of
ice on a lake to obtain drinking
water. The typical temperature35 degrees below zero-was "beyond anything that even people in
BuJfalo could ilmgine," he said.

However, Trella added, "There is
Yirtually no wind tb&lt;n, so the cold
isn't nearly as noticeable."
Other than weather, Buff:a1o and
Oulu have little in comii)On, according to the UB alums.
Frachetti said that in northern
Finland, the pace oflife is slower.
"Although the people are welleducated, their heritage drives
them to embrace their culture by
returning to traditional OCCllpations such as craftsmen, reindeer
herders, woodcarvers and hide
tanners. He alto noted another big
difference "No reindeer walking
the streets of New York" cities.
Prachetti, currently pursuing his
doctorate in prehistoric archaeology at London's Cambridge University, said that if it wue not for
his trip to Finland, he would never
have taken the step .&amp;om being a
student to being a reiearcher. "I
learned bow to otructure large-scale
projects and bow to produce results
&amp;om that structure. I attribute my
success at Cambridge to what I
learned in Finland," be said.

'Ubuntu' urged for South Africa's constitution

£ c1Em First black woman in Constitutumal Court advocates traditional social philosophy
IIJ-~HAM

Reporter Stoff

TI

E first black woman
ppointed to SoutJ:&gt;
Africa's Constitutional
Court urged on Dec. 4
that interpretation of that
country's newly created constitu·tiori showi! bOnow from the tra-ditional Afr!can social pbilosop!&gt;y
of•Ubuntu.•
Yvonne Mokgoro said that doing so would help incorporate
concepts like "personhood" and
*humaneness,• as well as concern
for the social good.
Mokgoro, also the first woman
named a professor of law in South
. Africa, spoke as part of a week-long
visit to the School of Law, where she
taught a short course and met with
students and farulti mernbm.
While malting it clear that she
would not claim the last word on
the subject, Mokgoro defined
Ubuntu as an African world-view,

or philosophy of life, that incorporates the values of personhood,
hu111anen~s, moraljty, llonesty
and concern for the social good.
Ubuntu, she explained, is a Zulu
word that is difficult to ddin~ in
abstract terms.
"l(soneofthose~gstJ&gt;atyoll

know when you see it," she said. ·
Contrasting Ub11ntu with as~ of both-African cwtomary
law and apartheid that have traditionally been based in victimization, vengeance and exclusivity,
Mokgoroargued that "the values of
the.[new] constitution and at least
the key values of Ubuntu do seem
to converge ... along with the values
of the bill of rights, in particular."
Becawe it grows out of a historical scarcity of resources, said
Mokgoro, Ubuntu values family
obligations and the pooling of
community resources. She
warned, however; against the superficiality of seeing Ubuntu as

anti-individual or as merely a social ideology. Rather, she at;gued,
it ought to be viewed as "the po-·
tential of being human."
The essence of Ubuntu, she
added, can be found in • number
of common African sayings, such
as "A human being can only be a
human being through other bumap being~" and "People live
through the help of othm.·
The preamble to the new South
African Constitution mentions and
appears to recommend the values
ofUbuntu, said Mokgoro. But she
·argued that while Ubuntu "has
been increasingly adopted as'the
basis of a new corporate culture,"
the South African legal system is
still struggling to create •a new indigenow law on the one hand, and
a new jurisprudence on the other.
"The values ofUbuntu, I would
like to think, can become central
to this ... but we must harness it
carefully, creatively,• she said.

As an aample, Mokgoro mentioned the Constitutional Court of
South Africa's stand against the
death penalty, when some o£ the
justices specifically mentioned the
values ofUbuntu in order to buttress their individual arguments.
She cbanoctrriud her co!lllDents
as an attempt to elaborate and
deepen thote earlitr rofemlas:
According to Mokgoro, the
death penalty is oneof the. most
divisive issues in South Africa. She
predicted that the current government will not review the court's
decision against capiJI punishment because it also views the
death penalty as inconsistent with
the constitution a.n d with
Ubuntu. However, she added,
there will be another ele¢tion in
South Africa in 1999.
"We will just see, politically, how
the ele¢on goes. There are many
[other) issues that divide South
Africans along political lines."

SPIR created, retained more than 1,800jobs
By EUEII GOI.IIMIIM
News Services Editor

New York
more than
manuf;lcturmgjobs and created
more than 800 new ones during the
1996-97 fiscal year as a result of efforts by the local arm of the Strategic
Partnership for Industrial R.surgmce
(SPIR) program, based in the School
ofEoginceringand Applied Sciences.
Recently renewed with up to
$210,000 in matching funds for the
Western NewYork a= in thecurnnt
fiscal year under·the New York State
budget, the local arm of SPIR is part
ofa statewide effort to help create and
retain manufacturing jobs at small to
medium-sized companies.
Funding for SPIR, established in
1994 by the State of New York. is
available to qualifying manufacturing companies to add research-anddevelopment support and technical

expertise, including new-product
development, red&lt;sign or erthancement of products and proass improvement
"The SP!R program is an example of the university's comrnitmrnt to economic development in
Western New York," said Mark
Karwan, dean of the School of
Engineering a·nd Applied Sciences.
"Now in its fourth year, SPIR can
be viewed as an important item in
Western New York's portfolio for
regional development."
During the past fiscal year in
Western New York, SPIR assistance contributed to:
• The retention of I ,274 manufacturing jobs
• The creation of SS9 manufacturing positions
• The completion of357 projects
• Assistance to 193 companies
In the four years of its existence,
SPIR bas allocated mo re than

$750,000 in state matching money
to Western New York firms.
SPIR projects recently awarded
to Western New York manufacturiDg firms r=ived &amp;om $5,000 to
$50,000 in matching SPIR funds
and took &amp;om three to 18 months
to complete. The projects included:
• ISO gap assessment and related training for srveral smalJ
manufacturers
• Development of facilities and
plant layout for an expanding
manufacturer
• Technical writing services
• Development of a test facility for analysis of heat exchangers
for a local indwtrial consortium
• Computer modeling and development of design criteria for
steam injectors
• Fmitedement analysis and testing for improving product design.
Through the UB program and
similar ones at the SUNY university

centm at Binghamton and Stony
Brook and SUNY Co!kge at New
Paltz, SPIR aims to bolster the state
economy by promoting the transfer of knowledge &amp;om university to
indwtry and providing consultotion, research lacilities and resources
for indwtrial restructuring.
SPIR grants will cover up to 50
percent of a project's cost for hiring faculty, students and other
technically trained personnel and
fees for wing sophisticated research facilities, such as those
available at UB.
Projects are evaluated on technical merit and the ability to create or
retain manufilcturing jobs in Western New York. Companies are required to quantify the number of
manufacturing jobs that will be retained and/or created if a project is
funded. Certain costs, sud\ as capital-&lt;quipment expenses and materials, may not be funded tmder SPIR

�UB 57, Canlslus 70
UB 70, Northe.utem
Illinois 59

UB 90, Chl&lt;li&amp;O State ll
The-~.,.,.,.

a&gt;nforonco matdlup cross.,.,., rMI Canisius Colece on
Dec. 2.1osirc 70-S71n A1um1
Arena. Serio&lt; Rasa&lt;.nYourc led
lt.-wichllpoina.Serio&lt;
Matt Clomons added II poina.

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~Urinncepby.

On Dec.5, UB -..cl
""'"'-tom 70-59.
belhl 22 polna lrcm~Serio&lt; Milot Martr00 added II poina. wNle
scphomo&lt;-e jon Kloidon ........t. ~ 10 polna and six rebounds.
On Dec.6.U8 neoded""""""" topt pan Olia&amp;o Stat.e. 9G-8l.Y"""'
scored 27 polna, 21 In the second and "'""""" periods. junior Raben Harris
scored 19 po1na and anbl&gt;ed tt rebounds.wllRe Manlm"'dded 16 po;nu.

Flower
Power

A special kind of flower power-proceeds from poinsettias and

wreaths sold by the.UB WOITlef1's Oub--will benefit students in
the form of Grace W. Capen Academic Scholarships. Above,
Winnie Doran presents an order to Frands M. Phelan, a UB
retiree. Th_,oo,settia distribution took place Dec. 4 in the Center
for Tomorrow, where the Women's Club held Its annual Soup's
On Luncheon, with Doran as chair.

lntemet2

~as~etoall
WOMEN' S

UB ll, Northeastern IIIJnoJs 68

Ull 78, Chl&lt;li&amp;O State 48
The &amp;Jib pthwed their fi.-n conleronce win ar the season .. they knocked oil
the Golden Ea&amp;tes ar Nonhea$wn lltr.ob, 83~. on Dec. 5. 8ulfaJo was led by
junior Catherine jaoob wid&gt; 19 polnu and freshman Tdl.ny llel. who added 15
polna and l 3 rebounds. The &amp;lib doleated Chico~&lt;&gt; Sat2 on Dec. 6 by a seo&lt;o
ar 78-48. 8ulfaJo was led by senior ~ Lisette Prlnzing wi&lt;ll 15 polna and
1M! r&lt;bounds. Serio&lt; L.atoya Crump&lt;Dn and jaoob each c:onrl&gt;uted 12 po;nu_

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The universities involved i~

partnership with the state to build
Internet 2 "are essentially the play- a high-performance network iners in computer science and com- frastructure that parallels the New
munication networking; notes York State Thruway and provides
StlJa!1 Shapiro, professor and chair connectivity to the VBNs from
of the Department of Computer New York City to Buffalo, Martens
Science. " Not br,ing theie(in says, noting that travelers along
Internet i) is being in the boon- the Thruway will notice huge
docks of universities.•
spools of multicolored cables that
Receipt of the NSF grant will are being used to build the netaltow uB io hooldnio ·the VBN"s, · work. ·
·
the very-h.i gh-speed backbone
The VBNs is the glue that ties
network 'serViee that ti.S tbgether evtiything together, "the way to
the supercomputing sites at such connect the states together into
universitieS as Cornell, Pittsbulgb one network.• says Bucldaew, UB'$
and nllnois, Martens says. UB will engineering representati ve to
receive the moneY as its share of a NYSERNeL
maximum $1.75 million grant
Martens adds that of the 112
from the NSF to five core mem- universities that are members of
bers of NYSERNet, a not-for- Internet 2, 80-85 will be connected
profit organization of New York to the VBNs after the current
research and educational institu- round of NSF funding.
In order to qualify for connections created in 1985 to advance
the use of cutting-edge network- tion to the VBNs, applicanu have
ing technology to support research to be classified as either R-1 or Rand education.
2 institutions--UB is an R-1 topThe grant would aid NYSERNet level research institution-and
in iU NYSERNet 2000 Project, a provide information to justify the

connection, such as collaborations
with other universities that require
high-speed communication on
dedicated bandwidths, Martens
says.
Among the projects cited in the 1
NYSERNet application for NSF
funding is ~ proposal by the National Center for Earthquake En-

gineering Research at UB in which
researchers at the University of
Nevada at Las Vegas would re-

motely control UB's shaking table
via .. real -time data and video
linb; says Furlani.
Other UB centers or units with
projecu cited in the application are
the Center for Stochastic Molecular Kinetics; the Department of
Computer Science, working with
the Hauptmann-Woodward Medical Research Institute; the UB site
of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis;
the Center for High Performance
Computing, and the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis

and Recognition (CEDAR).

Grant bolsters primary-care externship

The Bulb finished 20d\ out ar 41 ...., last at the 16th Annual Las Veps
lnvladonal. Senior 1~2-pounder jeromy McVoge upset filth.nnkod )efii!OO&gt;er ol
Ohio SQte in the: cOMObtion semifinals enroute to a fourcn.pbce finish.
Freshman 126-pounde&lt; Chad Caras upset ......O.r.four seed &amp;.ndon Howe ar
Michig:oln In the consob.tions to finish ~th.

~wimmin~
WOMEN' S

The Bulls broke five schoot records enroute to a thlrd-place finish out of elsht
wms this pan weekend at the Euum Micl!lpn lnviadonal. Freshman Carol
CoaU1&amp;fwn set school records in the 100 breaststJoob and 200 ·
white freshman Inger ~ set school records 1n the too i&gt;adcstrolaand •
100 buttorlly. Coalroglwn and ~ teamed up with freshman Carrie lvrnwonc and Junk&gt;r Ueselle Trinidad ro set a school marl&lt; In the 200-mediey .-.lay.
MEN'S

UB finished louMh this pan weekend at the Penn Sau ltMa-..lat Sate
Collep. Pa. ~ Dan Hldaoy finished fWn In the 200-.,... in • schoolroconl 1:39.50. He also finished third In the 100 -.,.... wi&lt;lla dme ar 46.06.

ln~oor lrac~ an~ Rei~
"The UB men's and women's indoor tnck and fiekl t.eamS boch finished second

"' Colp12 on Dec. 6, behind Albany Sate. but ahead ar Colp12 and CanlsNs.
~ sisters Laura and jen Fokbmer finished one-two in the women's
5.000-meter "'"·junk&gt;&lt; Shelly Hamilton capwrod the women'• hi&amp;\&gt; jump and
senior Ruth Con5on won the women's weight throw. On the men's side. junior
Ryan Candia captured the S()()..maer run, while freshman Eric Guk:ierru
capwrod the pole vault.
-Andrew Punzal, Allistant Spom Information OirrcfO(

Applicants being sought for
S. M. Small Research. Fellowship
Applicants with a

'.

An Innovative
progr""' providing real-life clinical
learning opportunities in primary care for
medical studenu has
received a $150,237
three-yea r grant from the
CQarles E. Culpeper Foundation of Stamford, Conn.
Administered by UB's Primary ea~ Resource Center,
the six-week Medical Student
Summer Externship program
is recognized as the largest of
its kind in the nation by the
American Medical Student
Association's Generalist Physician in Training Initiative.

.:P,e paid extemship exposes
first- and second-year medical students to the practice of

primary-care medicine in com-

.. Developing long-term rela -

munity-based settings throughout

tionships with patients and the
community through th e
extemship program, we believe,

Western New York.
Diane Schwartz, executive direc-

tor of the Primary Care Resource
Center, said'the Culpeper Foundation grant will help fund an assessment of ways toxetain UB medical
students to practice primary care

in Western New York. "With more
analysis and evaluation on the primary-care extemship program, we
will have valuable information on
how we can retain the medical stu dentsenteringprimarycare in Buffalo and the surrounding areas."
This information , explained

provides the impetus for the
medical students to continue

practicing medicine here."
The Culpeper Foundation
grant also will fund stipends for
20 medical students per year to
partidpate in the externship
program, as well as provide partial funding for an associate director of the program.
The Charles E. Culpep er
Found atio n, a private, non profit, charitable foundat ion,

Schwartz, could have a significant

provides approximately $7

impact in amos with too few medical professionals. " It is important to
attract students to practice primary
care in these areas," said Schwartz.

million per year in support for
activities in health, education,
arts and culture, and the administration of justice.

doctora~

degree or equivalent are being sought to

apply for the Professor S.M. Small Research Fellowship at UB. The
$32,000-per-year fellowship, funded by the national Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), honors S. Mouchley Small, the late chair of
the Department of P~ychiatry and past president of MDA. It will be
awarded March I, 1998, with a July I, 1998, start date.
It will provide salary support for one recipient to work with one of the
following faculty members on their research projects:
• Ridwd Almon. associau: proftssor, 1Jcpartm&lt;n1 of Biological Socnccs. dTeas of
disuse, rorticostcroids and growth hormone on muscle gene expression
• Anthony Auerbach. associate professor, Department of Physiology and B•ophys·

ics. dcarophysiology and ac&lt;tylcholin&lt; rccrp10r channels in myasthmic syndromes
• Linda Hall, professor, Department of Bioc.hrmical Pharmacology. electro·

physiological and molecular biological ana1ysis of muscle calcium channel mu tants in humans and Drosophila
• R... Nils Ol~ n . professor and via dean for academic affairs. School of Law.
special tducation nems. availability, advocacy training and legal representation of
childrm with neuromuscular disease:
• Satpal Singh, assistant professor, Departmmt of Biochemical Phannacology. de(·
ttophysiological analyses of hcortlmusdc: in Drosophila mutams
• Georgirme Vladutiu, associa.tt professor of pediatrics and neurolog}'. molt."CUlar
genetic studies of c:unitin&lt; palmiiO)'I transfmsc dcficicnci&lt;S

Applicants must submit in a single package, postmarked no later than )an.
1, 1998, a statement of interest to work with one of the designated mentors,
a curriculum vitae and three leners of reference. Mail the package to the
Small Fellowship Selection Gomminee, cio Edwin Hewlen, Office of Devel-

opment, Center for Tomorrow, University at Butralo, Buffulo, N.Y. 14260.

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Aaah!
Soothing
Kneading away the cares
of the day is the specialty
of Physical Therapy Club
members, who held a
massage.dinic/fund-raiser
Nov. 21 in the Student
Union. jill Werner gives a
massage to Marl&lt; Sorel, an
information specialist for the
Student Association.

Institute established on women and gender
Marcus, Acara head new unit promoting scholarship, research and teaching

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HE university has estab-'
lished an Institute for
Raearch and Education
on \\\&gt;men and Gender

A 10-memberccecutive&lt;Xjmmit-

of, and interest in, research and

tee, as well as a steering committee
with more than 30 represeuta!M:s
from each faculty and pror-ional

teaching on women and gender
among faculty and graduate students, the proposal called for the

school is helping to rormwte and university to support, promote
review the institute's programs.
and &amp;cilitate these efforts.
The directon say their mandate .
The proposal. studied by commitis to p romote exponential growth tees for several yean, was mentioned
in dis&lt;:iplinary and interdiscipli- by Provost Thomas E. Headrick in
miry research and teaching op- his academic planning report issued
tionsassociated with gender stud- in February. It went through a reies. The institute, they added. will view process this past summer. The
encourage and assist faculty and University is underwr'iting the
students to develop new teaching institute's first three yean of opera·
of Law a,nd noted human-rights and research directions. It also will tion with a $240,000 granL
•I think the institute is going to
scholar, will assume responsibility work with them to find new
rortheinstitute'steachingfunctions. . sources of grant money to fund be extremely attractive to UB stuShe recently was named director of some of these projects.
dents and faculty," Marcus said. "It
UB's Women's Studies Program.
The institute had its origins in a is going to have a pro-active, exAcara. professor of pharmacology proposal made more than six years pansive program, not a reactive
andtoxicologyintheSchoolofMedi- ago by the university's Graduate one--a program that we think will
cine and Biomedical Sciences, will Group on Feminist Studies eventually have national and interdirect the institute's research arm.
(GGFS). Noting the rapid growth national connections ...

tbathasamandatetoezpandanda&gt;ordinate intra- and intmlisciplinary
'scholanbip,resean:bandii!OChingrelated to wotrien and F&gt;&lt;ier issues.
Theinsliluleisco-directedbylsabel
Marcus and Margaret Acara. and reports to the Office of the l'roYost.
Marcus, professor in the School

Marcus and Acara plan to consult next semester with all facul·
ties and professional schools to
assessandencouragefacultyinterest in women and gender issues.
They also will suggest cortnections
with colleagues in other disciplines who share similar concerns.
A productiverdationship between
the new institute, the GGFS and the

Women'sStudiesProgramiscritical,
Marcus said, and that connection is
currently being line-tuned. She said
that by January, the institute will fully
incorporate the activities and mern·
hers of the GGFS, currently directed
by Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor of
philosophy.
The Women's Studies Program,
located in the Department of
American Studies, will assume the
teaching mandate of the institute.
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Journal ~lebrates innovative UB research
ay LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

HE Department of So·
ci~ l and P reventive
Medicine h as trained
some of the most respe~ epidemiologists in the U.S.
and produced significant and in·
nova rive research in ~cer, occupational, environmental, nutritional, reprod uctive and cardiovascular epidemiology.
In recognition of its contributions to the field, the Dec. 2 issue
of the Ameria~n Journal of Epidemiology is dedicated to research by
faculty members and graduates o f
the department.
Articles on research highlighted
in the American journal ofEpide·
miology appear on Page 5.
"The p ublication of this issue
celebrates the rich legacy of the de·
partment and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,..
said Maurizio Trevisan, professor

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and chair of the department. "It
affirms the important contribution that our training programs
have made to the field of epide·
miology and prevention."
Saxon Graham, one of the pio·
neers in the study of the relation ship of diet and disease, spent his
career at UB. where he conducted
some of the earliest studies in the
U.S. on the health benefits of a diet
high in vegetables containing beta
carotene, now shown to lower the
risk of ctrtain cancers.
)o!.. Freudenheim, associate professor, has continued that research,
and in the past decade has earned a
reputation as one of the natio n's
leading nutritional epidemiologists.
Other departmental resea rch
highlights include:
was designated as one of 15
vanguard centers for the NIH's
Women's Health I.nitiative, one of
the largest clinical trials ever as-

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sembled, focusing on diseases spe- ' and the Society for Epidemiology
Research . She. is conducting a
cific to women.
• More than $12 million in long-term study of tubal ligation.
The issue's lead artiCle, " Body
funded research is currently under
way, including studies of the ef. Mass Lndex and Mortality in a
fects oflifestyle on lung cancer and General Popwtion Sample of Men
heart disease, health effects of eat- and Women," authored by Joan M.
ing Lake Onta1io fish, relationship Dorn, assistant professor, reports
of alcohol and breast cancer and that being overweight is a significant
relationship of gum disease and mortality risk factor for women and
men less than 65 years old.
heart disease.
Other articles and lead a uthors
• Trevisan was the first to show
the beneficial dietary effects of ol· include:
• .. Lactation History and Breast
ive oil in population-based studies.
• John Vena , professor and as· Cancer Risk"-Jo L. Freudenheim
• '"Oxidative Stress a nd Lun g
sociate chair, has defined several
nutritional and environmental Function· -Holger J, Schunemann,
research
assistant professor
factors that influence the risk of
• '"Consumptio n of Contami bladder cancer.
• Germaine Buck, associate n a ted Sport Fis h fro m Lake
professor and one of the nation'S Ontario and Time -to -Pregnancy,
most respected specialists in epi- New York Angler Co h o rt "demiology of infertility, in 1994 Germaine M. Buck
received one of two research fel • "Consumption of PCB- Con·
lowships awarded in the U.S. by laminated Fresh Water Fish a nd
the Merck Company foundation ~-,...1

�UB method may help

detect land mines
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News SoMas Editor

nals are softer bulldles of energy,
which aJiawed us to strW: a middle
ground, ~ liBnals that, Iii&lt;£
solitons, travel wdl in granular systerus, but which abo have """"' interaction with tbeae ll)'ltaDL
"Whatour cosnpu~&lt;rsimulatioos
have demonstrated is that wben •
weak ohock wave penetrates into
granular media and hils an object,
the rdected pube carries a lot of
informalion about what it hii."
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his oollabonton would CXJDiitt of I

LASTIC land mines are a
guerrilla fighter'• dream:
they cost ulittle 11 a dollar, they'n: easy to make,
they're ofta\ ldt.d and they canoot
be del«ted by currm.t t&lt;dmology.
However, an accurate and inex~
pe!ISM dmction method etr.ctiYe
for land mines in either plastic or
metal cuinp may be on the horizon as the reault of computer
simulations conducted by Surajit
Sen, 111istant profesoor of pbysia. lpOciol~c!Mz
The ruearcb, to be publilbed in that would aend wak IICOUSticsbock
the February 1998 issue of Plrysi- waves deep into ooi1 and det&lt;ct the
ca/ Review E. indicates that weak pulses that are returned after hillins
shock waves sent into granular an object. The pulses would provide
bedl, like soil, will cause acoustic information about the weight and
signab containing critical infor- sbapeoftheobject,.......qwbether
mation to be reflected off buried it lilody iu land mine.
"Ideally, you would envUion fly·
objects, such as land mines.
lo previously published wod&lt;,Seo ing over a suspected mine fidd and
found that in model S)'llmlS. shock dropping onto it many of these
tra¥d tiuousbgranular media devices," Sen said. "The pulse or
as solitons, tight bundles of energy pulses would be sent down by each
that tra¥d without dispersing. That detector and aoy reflected signal
worksbowed that solitons, which are would be received and interpreted
encountered in only a handful of to ~ocate the precise position of a
known physical
are very land mine."
said thata key selling point fur
stable; they tra¥d compactly, interacting very weakly with the systems the proposed technology would be
iulow oost, a aitic:al factor in de\tithrough which they travel
Sen said the weak shock waves oping detectors for countries where
are soliton-likesignab. "These sit!· . plastic land mines arerommon, such

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in the D&lt;portmmt of Pbysia. and

as Cambodia, Afghanistan 'nd
Bosnia.
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~d graduate Christine B. Ambrosone discussc:s the new field of
molecular epidemiology.
The final two studies concern the
reliability of study participanu' reporu of lifetime driljkiog bistoty
(by Marcia Russell, cl1oical profes.
sor) and of reporu of pap smears,
breast exams and mammograms
(by Richard B. Warnecke, formerly
ofUB, DOW of the University ofn·
linois at Chicago).

Graduates of the department include top officio~~ md/or; reaean:hers at the National Cana:r lostitute,
Monsanto Co., the National Center
for Toxicological Resc:arcb, New
Yodt State ~t of Health,
Roswdl Parlt Cana:r 1ostitute, Centers tOrn-... Control and Prevon·
tion, Dlinois Deportment of Public
Health, UniYersityoCMmKbusett5
at Amherst, UniYersity'Oflowa and
Northern California CancerCenler.

"Women's Studies has been quite vdop a first-rate interdisciplinary will have to occur here.
· successful in cross-listing courses ·center- a blockbuster program;
"At least some administr.dors and
and encouraging interdisciplinary one thai will be e:xtremely attractive facullyareawareoftbisreoli!)('asaid.
scholarship,• Marcus noted.
to faculty and studenu and will at
"The insOiule is onlyooe smoll part
"The institute will support those the same time enhance our under- · oftbismaled~ooem.ld
programs,• she added. "but we also standiog of gender-related issues." -that the iostilla alont is .....
intend to build into the institute a
Acal1l added: "There's great inter· ci&lt;nlto remodythe&lt;lllftlilultioo."
bmad-based afliliation with schol- est and energy to get going in this
lo'Ocidition to Marcus and Aar:a, '
ars. researchers, teachers and gradu- area. 'These women and men have members of the ~s eii!CIJti¥e
ate studenu in many other fields as waited a long time to get going. I~s committee are Mary Hale Meyer,
well" These fields include, but are ociting. I~s time."
staffassistaniin theOfliceaitheVa
not limited to, nursing. pharmacy,
Marcus said that the work of the Provost for Faculty Development,
occupational thenpy, law, art, medi- institute "must go band-in-lw)d who is associate director ofthe insti·cine, architecture, biology, research with other transformations in the twe;~BerniceNobl&lt;,pro­
ana clinical. psychology, sociology university" as outlined in the 1996 fessorof microbiology;sram-stuand classics.
rqx&gt;rt of the President's Task Force dent Penka SbcbJcava; Margarita
Ar:arJ. said five "researdJ dusters" on Women at UB, which she called Vargas, associate professor of modhave been identified to date based on "a very significant document that ' em languages and litetatures, and
researchinteresiSoffacultymembers. ·summarizes· just how drastic the Carol Zemel, professor and chair of
the Department ofArt History.Fliza.
They are gender and -violence, situation is for women at UB.
women'! health, the impact ofcbang"We have deeply rooted mOOgynist beth Kt:nnedy, professor ofAmerican
ingwelfarelaws,educationon&gt;WlmeD practices here," she said, "that require studies, and Ruth Meyerowitz, assoand gender in the scbools and femi. a woman who wanu to 'get ahead' to ciate professor of American studies,
nist topics in tJ:&gt;e humanities.
fit into the prevailing male standard areex-offic:iomeDJbersofthe=··
She said that she and Marcus will for women. That standard defines live committee.
Mem~ of the steering com·
be meetingwithfacuhymembersand howsheshouldlookandbebave,how
stalf"'to identify interest5and de\tiop sheshouldeocpressherconcerns,and mittee are Beth Taulce, School of
somecross-disciplininteractions." even wben or if she should be beard. Arcbitecture and Planning;Aodrew
"These practices are systemic in . Hewitt, Jolene Rickard and
Faculty and professional staff
members from both campuses, nature," Marcus noted. "and reflect Reinbild Steingroever McRae, FoeMarcus said, "have responded with an anachronistic mentality. If UB ulty of Aru and Letters; Mirdza
enormous enthusiasm and en- wishes to be a ~!Diversity of the Neiders, School of Dental Mediergy.• She noted. "Our goal is to de- 21stcentury,many,manycbanges cine; Km Hornbuckle, .School of

Engineering and Applied Scialces;
Hank Bromley, Jacquelyn Mitchell
and 4&gt;il w.Do. Graduate School of
Education; Paul Kostyniak. School
of Health Related Professions;
Lucinda Finley and Terry Miller,
School of Law; Suzanne Hildebrandt, Univenity Libraries; Debra

The work is being fimded by the

journal
c--.... _ _ ,
Sho·n ened Mennrual Cycle
Length"- Pauline Mendola, formerly of UB, now of ihe EPA
· • "Gender Differences in the
· Relationship Between Depressive
Symptoms and Alcohol Problems:
A Longitudinal Perspective•Beth Steger Moscato, research assisiant professor
• "Physical Activity, Obesity
and Diabetes"- Timothy D. Dye,
a 1990 graduate, now at the Uni-

venicy of Rochester.
.
The issue begins with liistorical
overviews of the UB medical
school-which marked iu sesquF
centennial in 1996-the depart·
meot and epidemiology in WestemNewYork,datingbackto 1843.
Graduate Philip C. Nasca, profes·
sor of epidemiology at the Uruversity of Massachusetts, Amherst,
writes on current problems and
future opportunities in the field

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Jo Freudenbdm, Phyllis Leppert,
Peter Nickerson and Monica
Spaulding. Scbool ofMedicii!e and
Biomedipol Sciences; Mary Bisson,
Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics; Mecca CranJey,
School of Nursing; Marilyo Morris, School of Pharmacy; Monica
Jardine, Deidre Lyocb, Patricia Mason, Jack Meacham and Tamara
Thornton, Faculty of Social Sci·
ences; Hilary Weaver, School of
Social Work; Lorraine Oak. Office
of the Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences;
!l!mira-Mangum-Daniel, Office of
the Provost; Carole Smith Petro,
Office of the SeniorV= PresideD~
Sandra Fuebs, Center fi&gt;rthe Arts;
Nancy M'lchlllw, Office of the Vice
President for Univenity Advancement and Development, and l.o)u
Stewart. Office of E'Ju'l Opportu·
nityl Affirmative Action.
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TEACHING EVALUATIONS

Data not for public use, FSEC says

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lute, terms, Schroeder said, noting member. of his department fall in
there are many people who do not the middle range; •they're very
know the cliJfa-eua between per- similar to each other," he said.
cents and perta~til&lt;s, for example.
And, despik the fact that evaluCommittee lln"'88r
"I see too many difficulties in ations are given out in class to be
object ID JDOkins the providing information in a way turned in immediately. replies
....... of~evabllliooowidely that it will be tiled reapoDiibly and
usually are received from only
awiloble ID IIUdenls.
where the data that is presenkd is about 25 percent of the class, with
Several senaton maintained that presented aensibly," be said.
a muimum return from about 50
thedata,&lt;XJIJect&lt;d in the evaluations
He added that he would not liU 1D percent, he said.
are UJU&lt;Ijable_and that infimnation see ...-betim otudent CDDllllmls reClaude Welch, SUNY Distina&gt;llected for one purpooe should leuod, as tbeyare"higgiiyunreliable."
guishod Service Professor in the Denot be tiled for another.
Cedric Smilh, professor of phar- partment of Political Science, cauThe issue was hrout!bt before the maa&gt;logyand taxioology.noted that
oommittee at ill Nov. 19 meeting the evaluation process is adminis- tiooedsenatonto&lt;:lCII11ioe the norms
by Dennis Malone, SUNY Distin- tered diftiereotly across the univer- that t.M: been established fur the percentiles used in the evaluations.
guished Service Professor of Elec- sity, i:Yen within a givm course.
The norms, Wdch said, must diftrical and Computer Engineering.
"I think that unless one wants ferentiate such things as level of
In a letter to Faculty Senak Chair to really implement a major. uniPeter Ni&lt;hr&gt;on, professor of pa- form, administt:ml and well-un- class, size of class or whether the
thology, Malone nokd that in the dentOod-«lmost a contractual class is in a major or an elective."All
past, evaluationS had been a&gt;m- kind of-relationahip,I think tliis three of those are very significant
piled in book fonn to be tiled by is really very hazardous," he said. variables," be said, noting that a
students when clioosing classes. "It certainly should not be public large. required class is "quik liktly
However, be said, wbi.le some fac- information because it invites to have a very diftiereot distribution
of feeling" than a class taught to
ulty memben accepkd the idea of abuse of the most terrible kind."
majors in a much smaller setting.
making available the numerical
Jack Meacham, professor of psySmith added that there are
grades for a&gt;une instructon, they chology, agreed that the specific
found publication of student a&gt;m- procedures, traditions and expec- "vastly different" results when students
are required to fill out evaluments unacceptable.
tations for students and faculty
a grade than when
"The question is then. under members regarding teaching ations to
they • volunteer• to submit an
what circumstances should stu- evaluations vary among units.
evaluation, or when evaluations
dents have acce.s to these wrilkn
"It would be virtually imposentsl With or without the sible for a Faculty Senate a&gt;mmit- are given out at exam time rather
than several days before or several
tee to come up with a standard
recommendation ( regarding months after the exam.
"There are lots of ways of skewteaching evaluations) that would
red to the senate's Committee be useful or accepted" by the vari- ing this," he said.
He
nokd that teaching evaluaching and Learning.
ous units, said Meacham, a former
mas Schroeder, associate associate vice provost for under- tions are ililportant as a "piece"' of
r of learning and instruc- graduate education with respon - thebroaderissueoffacultyproduction, ·d he did not support re- sibility for course evaluations. tivity and assessment that Provost
leasing the information to the "This is not the road to head Thomas E. Headrick is addressing
public, stressing that "it was not down," he said, adding that he in his academic planning process.
Nickerson suggested that the isappropriate to use information would recommend not referring
that was collected for one purpose the issue to the Committee on sue of teaching evaluations may be
on a broader level than
addressed
Teaching
and
Learning.
for other purposes.•
Mdvyn Churchill, professor of is raised in Malone's letter. The isHowever, if the information was
released, it is important to present chemistry, pointed out that most sue, as defined by Malone, was not
the data in relative, as well as abso- of the numerical evaluations of referred to the committee.
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New Paltz resolution waits on Ryan
~:~iate Director

versial conference on sexuality
held at New-Paltz on Nov. I.
HE Faculty Senate ExSUNY Trustee Candace de
ecutive Cohunittee has
Russy has called for Bowen's resreferred to its Academic ignation because he allowed the
Freedom Committee a
Women•s Studies Program at New
resolution urging SUNY Chancel- Paltz to present a conference on
lor John Ryan and memllen of the women's sexuality that addressed
SUNY Boanl ofTrustees to "do ev- such topics as sadomasocbism,leserythmg in their power" to stop bianism and the use of sex toys.
what has been described as an atBowen has said that while he
tack on academic freedom at penonallyfoundsomeofthetopSUNY College at New Paltz.
ics of the conference objectionFS~C members asked ~e Aca- • able, it would have infringed upon
dem•c Freedom Committee to co nstitutional rights to free expresent the resolution to the full pression if he had censored them.
senate at its Dec. 10 meeting if
Gov. George Pjltaki, who also
Ryan has not by then "fixed" the has criticized the subject matter of
si tuation. At press time, no action the conference, has asked Ryan to
had.been taken by Ryan.
investigate the issue. Ryan has said
The resolution, adapted from publicly that he supports Bowen.
one passed by the Faculty Senate
Discussion of the resolution by
at the College at Purchase, asks FSEC members did not address
Ryan and the trustees "to stop the the merits of the resolution, but
current attack on the College of rather procedural matters.
New Paltz, which is an attack on
NicUnon said the FSEC had two
.. the entire State University and on options on the resolution: refer it
its faculty, and to reaffirm the core to the Academic Freedom Comprinciples of academic freedom mittee or approve it itself. with the
and fi&lt;e speech."lt was introduced "expectation" that the resolution
by senak Chair Peter Nickenon, would be presented to the full Senprofessor..Cpathology,at theFSEC's ate at its Dec. 10 meeting.
Nov. 19 meeting in response to seJack Meacham, professor of psy""re criticism of New Paltz Presi- chology, suggested the FSEC could
dent Roger Bowen and a contro- approve a resolution of its own, as

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well as refer this resolution to the
Academic Freedom Committee
for consideration by the full senate, '" with two resolutions coming
forward from our campus."'
Maureen Jameson, associate
professor of modern languages
and literatures, advised committee members to move cautiously,
noting that the FSEC "has very fre.
quently come under fire for tak·
ing itself to be the senate and dashing off and seeming to speak for
the senate."
James Faran, associate professor
of mathematics, noted that Ryan
has made a statement to the effect
that '"'I'm going to deal wit~ this;
please let me deal with this.' And
it"s not entirely clear to me that it
would be appropriate for us to say
'go do such-and-such.'"
It might be more appropriate
for the senate to let Ryan deal with
the matter, Faran said. "Perhaps
silence might be the best way ... Give
him a chance to fix it, which he
should and I expect him to."
He amended a motion made to
refer the resolution to the Academic
Freedom Committee. asking the
committee to present the resolution to the senate on Dec. 10 •if
appropriate.• The amended motion was approved unanimously.

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Consulting firm to aid School
of Management dean search
The School of Man.agement has hired an international management-consulting firm to assist in its search for a new dean. Komi
Ferry International, a worldwide leader in executive recruitment,
has been selected by the $Chool's search committee to help screen
appliants and attract highly qualified candidates.
Member. of the search committee are Chair, Mark Karwan, dean,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Brian Becker, professor,
Department of Organization and Human Resow=; Angela Bontempo.
senior vice president and executive director, Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Thomas Disare, clinical associate professor, School of Law; David
Fallace, MBA student, Susan Hamlen, associau professor, Department
of Accounting and Law; Duane Hopper, president and CEO, Graphic
Controls Corporation; Brian Ratchford, professor, Department of Marketing; Michael Rozeff, professor, Department of Finance and Managerial Economics, and Cynthia Shore, assistant dean and director of the
management school's Career Resource Center.

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understand? Alas. we can't rule out all conspiracy theories, but a committee ofUB librarians has compiled a Web page intended to minimize
your befuddlement. The University Libraries Online Help Center (http:/
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to frequently asked questions that will help smooth the way.
There's general information about the I.Jbraries, and f!'U'U also find
practical guides explaining how to search the UB Libraries Catalog effectively, including a set of search examples for those who don't want to read
narrati"" descriptions of all the ways to search the catalog. (These guides
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�F'loom's vocal noises create acverbal tapestry'
Poetry band uses voice as a musical instrument in its unique performance
.,~c~

RepofterSgft

OBERT Kulik is describing how to usemble a Model-T.
Rick Scott is telling
a story about firing ·a
shotgun at a Model· T.
. Michodha is making weal noises
that might (or might oot) repment
the noises a Model-T makes.
If you can imagine all of this going on simultaneously, you can get
a sense of what happened when
F'loom, the Roche$ter-based poetry band, came to the Center for
theArtsonNov. 19. Mmnghumor
and satirical wit and using only
microphone$ and their impn:ssive
vocal abilities, Kulik, Scott aod lves
created a "verbal tapestry" from
threads of speech, chant, text, musical rhythm and mouth noise.
lves, who has a remarkable verbal range aod a frenetic stage presence. wu able to perfectly mimic

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the smooth, commercialized "'ra·
clio" voice commonly used by disc
jockeys and television aonouncers.
He used it to great effect during the
first piece, in which verbal"dicks"

suggested the sound of a television
changing channels, with Ives
changing his delivery at each click.
In another piece lves repeated the

television phrase *Watch, as. ..• in
his announcer voice, foUowing the
•as• with ever stranger and inore
troubling images of what the

viewer is commanded to watch.
In addition to pieces they wrote
themselves, the trio culled mate-

rial &amp;om a wide range of sources,
including e.e. cummings, W.B.
Yeats, Paul Metcalf, American his·
tory, medical literature, televi-

sion,

radi~

and numerous dia-

lects aod language$. The Metcalf
piece began with a liturgy of
places that still have their NativeAmerican name and ended with
a medley of quack remedies for

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which wore adaptations oflitaary
works. An incantatory recitation of
Yeats' ·weU-known "The Second
Coming" dramoliud theapocalyptic thanes in thatpoem.anduuite
of fngmentary e.e. cwnmingo poems became even more fragmentary u all three voi= crossed and
recrossedacb other.
Whether F'loom is litenry-musical band, a musical-litaary band,
or something else, interest4D their
work has been growing. They have

migraine headaches.
This sort of range is one reason
P'loom is so hard to classify. The
group's publicity literature describes what they do u "language
music and polyrhythmic mouth
percussion.• But is it music! Spoken literature! Performance? Some
mixture of these?
On the one ~d. since they use
the voice as a musical instrument
rather than as a tool for .peaking
or singing. F'loom is working in a
tradition influenced by both
Bobby McFerrin and the jazz tradition of"scat." Carefully orches•
trated, minutely ;cored and
heavily rehearsed, F'loom's pieces
reflect their deep involvement
with music composition and performance: lves is a jazz musician,
Kulik a jazz guitarist, and Scott a
former studeqt of composition at

On the other hand, unlike
McFerrin and scat, F'loom's "music" remains, for the moot part, the
musicoflanguageand literature. In
this sense, F'loom is closer to the
traditions of compooen like John
Cage, who set a Jame$Joyce novel
to voice 'l"d music, or to the Buffalo-basedpoetryband EBMA,led
by "sound poet" Michael Basinski.
"We're all voracious readers,"
Kulik pointed out, •...and we are
all interested in languages aod linguistics." lves, who spent some
time attending UB in the early
1980s, is a student of classical literatureandhasworkeduabook·
seller. Kulik is an avid amateur
Saoskrit scholar and, along with
Scott, works part time u a techni·
cal writer.
The group's close involvement
with books and writiog.showed up ·

the country, have opened up for
Lily Tomlin and will soon begin a
tour of selected N~ York State
public schools.
After the UB performance, audience members and the
F1oomiaos were alreody tallting
about a return engagement next
year. " Rochester is close/ said

a German music conservatory.

in their more serious pieces, all of

Kulik. •And we love ooming here.•

beenperformingatcollqjesaround

Students report on plan for ambulance corps
Participants indicate work needs to be done before reinstatement can be approved
lly MAliA McCONIIS
News Services Editorial Assistant

TUDENT members of the
suspended Baird Point Volunteer Ambulance Corps.,
Inc., (BPVAC) Thesday presented a report on their recent
p"''fress and a plan of action for the
future at a forum where members
of the university community responded that the students still have
some work to do before they are
approved to reinstate the ser;vice.
Although students said that fi.
nancial matters and reliability concerns have been addressed, there

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still are administrative concerns,
according to sPeal&lt;ers at an open
forum held in the Student Union.
Sllrah JM Kolberg. Sub-Board 1
president, said that instead of the
e$1ablishment of an advisory board
included in the students' action
plan, the corps should have a fuU.

or part-time executive director to

ensure consistency with day-to-day,
as well as year· to-year, affairs.
Kolberg said her concern is not
whether the service is needed, but

rather if the students can operate
professionally and efficiently on
their own. She added that the group
must "ensure a level of continuity
and consistency" that she said has
been lacking in the past f~ years.

Discussing the stu&lt;knts' proposal for an advisory board, Geoff

Green, executive director of
BPVAC, said it will "ideally meet
once a month ... and allow faster
resolution to problems such as this
(the suspension)."
While the students have invited
representatives from the Buffillo
medical community· to serve on
the board, they have yet to invite

representatives of the university,
although they previously have indicated they will do so.
Concerns raised at a Nov. 4 open
forumaboutreliabilityofserviceprovided by the corps at campus events
have been addressed in the plan with
the creation of a 20-member BPVAC
committee that will staff on-campus
events and be on stand-by for at least
one hour before such events.
Ron Piaseczny, the BPVAC's di-

rector of finance; indicated that
the organization has used the suspension period to catch up on past
bills and to research previously
unexplored avenue$ of funding.
He also said that it hu found a
less-expensive local emergency
medical service company from
which to buy 'upplies and thus
lower operating costs.
Piaseczny also said the corps has
decided to consider itself ao inde:
pendent corporation rather than

a student organiUtion, since this
will open up more opportunities
for external funding.
Bill Hooley, eucutive director
of Sub-Board I, Inc., explained
that his orgaoization plans to "buy
a service for all students" by providing $15,000 worth of funding.

per semester if the service is reinstated. He also said Sub-Board I
waots part of this money to be set
aside fo r the purchase of a second
ambulance vehicle.
Hooley said he is concerned that
the corps has not filed required
reports with the Internal Revenue

Service for the pa$t three years.
John Grela. dinctor of the Department of Public Safety and a
member of the llliliersity committee . reviewing whether the corps
should be allowed to resume ser- ·
vice, has indicated nine steps that
the corps needs to complete b~ Jao.
9 to strengthen its cue for reinstatemenL One reqUe$1 is a letter recommending that the BPVAC be al·
lowed to continue handling emergencies on campus from the corps'
medicil di=tor, Raquel Martin, a
Buflillo physician.
In addition to Grela, members

of the committee are Barbara
Ricotta, interim ckan of students;
Sarab Bihr, director of student
health, aod Joseph Krakowiak, director of residential life.
The committee is scheduled to
make a recommendation on
whether the BPVAC should be al·
lowed to resume operation by the
beginning of next semester to Dennis lllac:k, interim vice president for
student affairs, who will make the
final decision on the matter.

�Oaw4,1!171Yt2Ut14 Repa..._
'-" - - · News SeMces' Senior HQIIh Sciences Editor, pn!pOIOd the reports describing
II!IOII&lt;h by hlculty memben ond groduates of the Department of Sodal ond PreventNe
_,.~on thls,poge. os -a as the orticle on Page 1. The full studies appear in
the Dec. 2 ~sale of the - . }9umal d Epldtmlology. whicll colebnotes the departmenrs
rich history ond II!IOII&lt;h legacy.

Study 'singles out women, younger men

Overweight is heart-disease risk
ONG-tenn follow-up of
height iri 1960. Researchers conparticipants in a health
ducted an extensive investigation
using a variety of sources to verify
study that began in 1960
participants who were still living.
"-" ohown that men who
Date
and cause of death were obwere fO""'et" than 65 at that time
tained from death certificates.
and moderately overweight bad a
Analysis of the relationship of
greater risk of dying from any
BMI in 1960 to overall mortality
cause, and from heart di.&gt;ease in 1+---especific causes of death over
and
particular, than their counterparts ·
the intervening 29 years revealed a
who were not overweight.
number of pertinent aSsociations:
Researchen at UB found that
• Men between the ages of 15
men who were I..S than 65 and
and 65 years who were overweight
-fell into the studfs highest catat baseline bad a higher risk of
egory of overweight with a body Gtapl!shows -riskdl1ii-&lt;DIM
and _.;c- rnotttJMy by boat
mass index (BMI) of 27.5 had a masslndexln-fenoles~21).96. death from all causes, and from
cardiovascular
disease and coro67 percent increased risk of over"For women, tbi.s study clearly nary heart disease in particular,
all mortality compared to those
shows you don't have to be obese than inen in the same age group
in the lowest weight range. The
to have an increased risk of dying who were not overweight.
BMI is a measure of relative
from heart disease," she noted.
• Among those men, an inweight, calculated by dividing
Dorn and colleagues baseq
weight in kilograms by height in their study on a"29-year follow- creased risk ofdeath from aU causes
meters squared. A BMI in the up of 611 men and 697 women became apparent at the second
range of 20-25 is considered ac- who participated in the Buffalo BMI quartile and risk increased at
each BMIIevel, with a 6 percent inceptable for most people.
Health Study, which began in
In older men, being overweight 1960. Extensive health data and crease in overall mortality for every single unit increase .in BMI.
was not related to mortality.
lifestyle information were col• Young men in the highest BMI
For women, being overweight lected at that time from a popupo
a significant heart-di.&gt;ease lation-based sample of black and quartile experienced a 67 percent
m
"ty risk at any age, the study white men and women between increased risk of o~eraU mortality.
• Among women, the only sigsh wed. Those in the highest BMI the ages of IS and 96.
nificant association observed was
ca oryof obesity were 2 1/2 times
Of the white participants, 295
between
BMI and death from
mo likely to die of heart_disease men and 281 women died between
than mcnwitha·lowerBMI,said 1960 and 1989, when follow-up coronary heart disease, with
rn, assistant professor of began. Only data from white par- women in . the highest BMI
preventive medicine and ticipants were incJuded in this quartile showing more than 2.5
lead autllor on the study.
study because follow-up was not times the risk of death than
Being even moderately over- completed for black participants. women in the lowest quartile. Age
weight increased women's risk of
Overweight slatus was based on was not a fa.ctor.
dying from heart disease, Dom said, the BMI. Men ·and women were
• No n:lationsbip was found bebut the risk did not reach statistical placed into four BMI categories, or tween a high n:la!M W&lt;ight and morsignificance until a BMI of27.1.
quartiles, based on their weight and talityin men older than 65 at baseline.

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and pesticides, aU recognized re-

of dioxin,mirex and PCBs than fish
from the other Great Lakes, a finding that has resulted in the New York
State Department of Health recommending that women of childbear.
ing age eat no Lake Ontario fish.
For the two studies, researchers
from UB's Department ofSocial and
Preventive Medicine assessed both
time-to-pregnancy, a measure that
can reveal conception delays, and
length and regularity of menstrual
cycle, aspects that a1'f&lt;ct a woman's
ftcundity. The time-to-pregnancy
study, headed by Germaine Buck,

productive toxicants, on the reproductive process in humans.
Women enrOlled in New York

associate professor of social and
preventive medicin~, involved 874
women who were trying to be-

State Angler Cohort provided data

come pregnant between 1991 and

for the studies. The cohort, com-

1993. Information on duration

to organochlorines, heavy metals

posed of 10,518 male anglers, 918
female anglers and 6,651 spouses
or partners of male anglers, was
formed in 1991 to provide a representative sample of fis~ing-license
holders between 18 and 40 from the
16 counties near Lake Ontario.
Eating Great Lakes sport fish de·
liven a mixture of toxic chemicals,
including PCBs at a level estimated
to be 4,300 times greater than
through &lt;:Xflbsure in the air or via
drinking water. Many of these

chemicals accumulate in the body.
Lake Ontario fish arc reported to

and frequency of sport-fish consumption was colleded when participants enrolled in the cohort in

1991.
.
Consumption data showed that 42
percent of the women of child-bearing age ate Lake Ontario fish, and I0
percent reported eating fish for at
least seven years. dating back to a time
when lake contamination was higher
than in recent years. Researchers
found a small conception delay for
women who ate fish, but the effect
was not statistically significanL
The study on the association of

one's breath away. Epidemiologists at UB have found that a
miniscule increase above an acceptable threshold of a substance in

the blood that indicates cell damage caused by bombardment
from free oxygen molecules (a condition defined as oxidative
stress) reHects damage to the lungs equivalent to the effect of 3-5
years of aging, or of approximately 15-20 pack years of smoking.
"It is we.U known that oxidative stress plays a role ln atheroscle rosis, cancer and other chronic conditions," said Holger
Schunemann, research assistant professor ·and lead author o n the

study. "Our results suggest that free-radical damage also is associated with narrowing of the pulmonary airways."
The study is one of the first investigations of the relationship
between lung fundion, oxidative stress caused by free oxygen mol-

ecules, also known as free radicals, and blood levels of aotioxi·
dants, substances that can help prevent free-radical damage.
Researchers assessed lung function in 132 non-smoking subjects
between the ages of 37 and 73 years, by measuring the volume of air
participants' could force from their lungs during a one-second ex-

hale. They collected blood samples from aU participants and measured levels of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, or TBARS, a
marker of oxidative stress, and levels of several compounds thought
to protect against oxidative stress. Results showed that oxidative
stress was associated ,;,ith obstruction of the pulmonary airways.

"We know that obstruction of the puhnonary airways, as revealed by
test oflung capacity, is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease and

aU-cause mortaliiy; said Scbunemann "These findings suggest a possible role of oxidants and antioxidants in determining lung func·
tion, and that these substances could represent, in part, the physiological link between impaired expiratory lung function and increased risk
of death from chiortic diseases, such as heart disease and lung cancer."

Women with depressive symptoms
qsk developing alcohol problems ~
One of the first studies to investigate the relationship between

gender, depression and alcohol problems in a large community
sample Over a number of years has shown that women who have
symptoms of depression are at risk of developing alcohol prob-

lems. The study by researchers at UB did not find a relationship
between depressive symptoms and alcohol problems among men.
Beth Moscato, research assistant professor in the Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine and lead author of the study, hy-

pothesized that depressive symptoms predicted subsequent alcothat alcohol problems predicted depression.

Diet danger: contaminated fish
have more than twice the amount

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High leveb of toxk free r.clkals in the blood can literally take

hol problems in women , but that the inverse was true for men, i.e.,

Effects seen on menstrual cycles, pregnancy

ATING contaminated sport
fish from Lake Ontario is
associated with shortened
menstrual cycles, epidemiologists from UB have found. They
also reported that the fish consumption was associated with a
small, but statistically iJlfignificant, delay in the time it took
women to become pregnant.
The results are from two sepa·
rate studies that are among the
first to assess the dietary effect of
low-level environmental exposure

Toxic free radicals are implicated
in impaired lung function

To test the hypothesis, Moscato and colleagues studied a group
of 1,306 adults from Erie County for seven years. Participants

were at least 19 years old when the study began in 1986. Follow-up

fish consumption and length of
menstrual cycle, headed by

int·erviews were comp leted in 1989 and 1993.
Participants supplied information on aknhol use, alcohol-n:lated problems and depressive symptoms. as well as socio-demograph information.

Pauline Mendola, involved data
from 2,223 women from the same
cohort who reported menstrual cycle length when they were re-in -

sive symptoms were three times more likely to have alcohol problems after three years and 2 1/2 times more Likely after four years
than women who did not report depressive symptoms. Np relatio n-

terviewed in 1993. Results showed

ship was found at seven years. Alcohol problems did not predict

Results showed that women initially classified as having depres-

subsequent depressive symptoms in men.

"These findings should be a Bag to health practitioners:· Moscato

to-.,_,.-thetheLlolce ~fish....,

reported

of dioxin,

- - PCBstlwln fish
fr-o!n
Glut l..oltes.

that eating sport fish from Lake
Ontario more than once a month
was associated with a menstrual

cycle 1.1 days shorter than the
cycles of women who did not eat
sport fish. Among women who experience regular menstrual cycles,

the

~uction

was half a day.

Mendola said that while these
small decreases in menstrual-cycle
length are not currently a major

public-health concern, the findings
may indicate that these environ ·
mentaJ contaminants have an effect
on hormone production, notably

estrogen production, which could
have larger implications.

said ... If a woman has a high level of depressive symptoms.. the practitioner should also evaluate drinking problems over time."

Breast-feeding for 20 months may ~
lower risk of developing breast cancer
Breast-feeding for at least 20 months during their lifetime appears to offer women some protection against developing breast
cancer later in life, a study-by epidemiologists at US has found .
Results of their case-control study involving 1,31 3 women
showed that premenopausal women had a 50 percen t lower risk of
breast cancer if they had breast-fed for at least 20 months, com pared to women who had at least one baby and had not breast- fed.
There was no effect of breast-feeding on the risk of breast ca ncer for
women who were postmenopausal at the time of the study.

"This is one of a number of studies now that show a d=-eased risk of
breast cancer with breast-feeding," said Jo L Freudenheim, associate professor of social and preventNe medicine and primary resem:her on the
study. lb.., is some question, however, about whether this is related to
how long a woman breast-feeds, to inherent breast problems in women
who don't succeed in breast-feeding when they try, lo treatments to stop
milk production or just to cessation of menstruation.This study shows
that breast-feeding is proteqive, but the effect appears only if women
breast-feed over a longer period of time," Freude:nbeim said. Breast-feeding time was measured in cumulative months during a lifetime.

�A journey into China's architectUral wonders·
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Reporter Syotf

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ANY of the photographs BeYmy Foil·
Albert brought back
from China are of
cmturi&lt;s-oldsit&lt;s that aoon will dis·
appear from the face of the earth.
When the Chineae gowmmentfinishes the Three Go'lles Dam on the
Yangtu River, some of the ttmples
she visited and many of the steep
gorges she paS$ed through will be
submerged under a vast lake.
The construction of the dam
added a poignant note to Foil·
Albert's UB at Sunrise presentation on Nov. l9. An associate pro·
fessor in the Department ofArchitecture and a leading Western New
York architect, she showed slides
of temples and mountains, de·
scribing her vioit to some of the
most stunning natural and archi·
tectural wonders in the world.
Foit-Albert focused on the connection between Chinesearchitec·
ture and Chinese thought, especially the value Chinese religious
thought places on harmony with
nature, balance and social order.
These ideas, said Foit-Aibert, are
all implied by the concept of "chi•
"The Chinese philosophy," she
said, "holds that the universe is in
a never-ending process of cbaoge,
and that cbaoge bas its order."
Photographs of a 200-foot-bigb
Buddha carved out of stone helped
Foit-Albert make her point about
integration. " In this case," she said,
"the temple is the sculpture, and the
sculpture is the temple."

These ideas of harmony, she
added, also show up in the Chinese
architectural tendency to integrate
the structure with the site. Foit·
Albert showed slides of temples
caJ'Ved from rock cliffs; temples

built on sheer, coiUIDil-like peaks,
and roo&amp; constructed to symbolize the sunounding bills and valley. Referring to a temple anchored
into the side ofa dilfliltea bamode,
she drew attmtion to "the way aolid
and void supplement each other."

the army of life-size, terra-cotta
warrion that wue buried near Qjn
Sbi-Huaog
tomb in the third
. =!WY s.c. Qin Sbi Jiuan1 wu
the first emperor of a unified China
and built the Great Wall of China.
Only discovered in 1974,Foit-Albert
'*"""'Y with'-'. ewth
said there are more than 6,000 unAccording to Foit-Aibert, an- t:OVered ·warrion and possibly as
other duality that .C hinese archi- many .. 20.000 llill buried.
tecture seeks to harmonize is that
between heaven and earth. In most Cydk:al design of bullclngs
Chinese temple$ and many Chi·
"I don't know if you'Ve ever bad
nese buildings, space spreads-out the experience of having your
horizontally and equally, creating breath taken away; 1she said, • but
a domain between earthlyllelights I have, and this place did iL"
and the "place where the supreme
Tile title of Poit-Albert's talk,
being dwells." The latter often is "The Silent Musk of Chinese AI·
symbolized by domes and roo&amp;, or cbitecture,. referred'IO the. cyclical
by the suggestion of "heavenly design of many Chinese temples
mountains,• another dwelling and buildings. In many cases, she
place for the supernatural.
said, there is a symbolic journey
Not everything in Chinese art through the structure, as wdl as a
and architecture is about peace and literal journey. The vioitor begins
harmony, Foit-Albert pointed out. outside, in silence, and passes up or

n·,

n

through the structure, often reach·
ing a point where the otructure
faces bade into the initial wid, into
sileoce and the infinite, the music
of the qde ofliie and deolb. Man
eumple, Foit·Albert showed a R- ·
ries of slides talcing the viewer
through a Buddhist temple~
in the spaa: between two gigantic
slabs of rock, which she compared
to bands prayllig. The building
turns back on itself, drawing the
visitot'sgazebackoutofthe~

in the direction of the sunlight and
the ttmple's entrance.
In imitation ofthis cydical"siknt
music," Foit·Albert ended ber slide
show where it began, with a photograph of one of the gorges along the

Yaoglze. Tbe "silent music" she refened to might also be applied to
the music of that gorge, as wdl as
the music of hundreds of temples
and arcbaeologial treasures, all of
which are destined to be silenced by
the Three Gorges Dam.

American dream: big enough for every child?
·Our.actions today can make that possible, Children's Defense Fund founder says
IIJ~VIOAL

Reporter Editor

W

E-as individuals,
communities and
a natiol&gt;-'-&lt;lllbavea

moralrespomibility

to protect children and to help
them grow, says the head of an ad-

• 1s the American dream big
enough for every fifth child who
is poor, every sixth child who is
blac:lt, every seventh child who is
Latino and every eighth child who
is mentally or physically ch allenged! Axe we big enough to be·
come healing agents!
"I hope so," she added, " because
I believe protecting children is

vocacy organization founded
nearly a quarter-century ago to
support projects to address the moral testament to our humanneeds ofchildren in the United States. ity and our overarching moraJ
Marian "'!right Edelman, challenge.•
founder and pres ident of the
In the past decade, 2.5 million
Children's Defense Fund, spoke children have been lcilled, 4.5 mil·
Nov. 20 in the Center for the Arts. lion disabled, 12 'million· left
Mainstage theater in the first pre- homeless, I million have been or·
sentatio{l of this year's Distin- phaned or separated from parents
guished Speakers Series.
and some 10 million have been
We all are living in an incred- traumatized by armed conflict
ible moment in history, said throughout the world.
Edelman. But bow are we going to
" Ninety percent of the victims
measure progress over the next of war are women and children
I 00 years or next 1,000 years, if and civilians," Ed~ said. "How
humankind lasts that long!
much child suffering is it going to
• The answer lies in what you take for us to stand up and say,
and I stand for and the decisions 'enough!'"
and actions that each of us takes
She noted that in the U.S.-&lt;&gt;ne
of the richest nations in th e
today," she said.
A thousand years ago, the United worl~two minut&lt;sachild
Stat&lt;s wasn't even a dream, and an- is reported abused or neglected,
other !,()()()years from now "will bu- every 20 minutes a child gives
manltind and civilization remain! birth to a baby, every 25 minutes
Will the United Stat&lt;s deserve to be a child oflow birth weight is born,
and every day a child is lcilled.
remembered!" she asked.

"What in the world bas happened t~ us that the killing of chil·

dren has become routine?•
Edelman asked.
"I wish every one of our children
could believe in parents and teachers and preachers and neigbbon and
leaders to protect and provide them
with safe passage to adulthood."

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confuMd bec.ue so

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child problem. ..tult problem,

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MARIAN WRIGHT EDElMAN

C hildren would feel mu ch
more valued if they saw us taking

steps to protect them. if we were
making decisions that would
make it Wier, rather than harder,
for children to grow up healthy
and educated , according to
Edelman.
"I hope we can begin making
progress by focusing on our children. I hope~ can reaffirm what
is important,• she said.

"So many of our children are
confused because so many adults
talk right and do wrong. We don't
have a child problem. We have an
adult problem.•
Edelman exhorted her audience
to be involved, not only in the lives
of their own children, but those of
other children.
"We aD need to reach out toal least
one child not
own," and make a
difference in that child's life, she said.
"Volunteerism is so importont and
figuring out bow each of us can make
a difference is so important.'"
As a society, Edelman said, we
have a long way to go toward supporting children adequately.
There need to be places fur children in every community that are
"positive alternatives to the street,"
she said. Workplaces need to be
mon: "Wnily-&amp;iendly" so that par·

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scbools and take care of their health
needs, including their health-insurance needs. Child care needs to be
not only adequate, but good.

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see bow we can help children and
parents," Edelman said.
We need to eamineoundves and
our nation and "stop oc:apegoating
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cur only if we all speak up."

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Claim of clamor for technology lacks support
Editor,
It iJ discouraging to see a university newspaper so blatantly
misidentify the theme of its own
Story. It is even more dismaying to
... the extent to which the adminiJtration inVests in "glittering technology" at the apense of educational effectivmess. The front page
article of the Oct. 23 Reporter,
"Proj~ tri!'les high-tech classrooms, begins:
"In a swift response to faculty
and student needs, 26 new 'tech -

nology classrooms' are up and
running this semester, more than
tripling the number of high-technology classrooms at the university" [my italics] .
.
The opening paragraph suggests
a gnwroots clamoring for com-

puter consoles and ceiling·
mounted projectors, a desnocratic
call for PowerPointC pedagogy.
Yet, the article .not only fails to
support this claim but, in fact, reveals the opposite.

The article, early on, states:
"Oas5r00m Thchnology Initiative
(CTI) ... was a collaboration between the Offiu of the Provost,
University Facilities, and Computing and Information Technology
(CIT)." nless there ase some un -

nable secret surveys init appears that this initioquite top-down. Not a reeducational needs, but a
push to
the Top-10 Wired
Univeroities list. Sean Sullivan de-

scrjbes ho .. It's-an example of
many fauts of the university coming together o n a project and getting it done.• Is this so surprising
when the adminiJtration funnels
SI million to the monopolistic enterprises of CIT (the same department responsible for three-ho\lf email delays between accounts on

the same computer)? The next
paragraph states that some individual input was invited for the

Statistics:

en

Abyssus Abyssum lnvocat,

Editor,
. The current commotion about the
statistics department started in
1987, when their dean summarily
declared its disbandmenL The ultimate result of this declaraqon
was a. transfer, in 1990, of the department (five faculty, plus extras,
all told about $600,000 worth of
resources) to the medical school.
The d epartment's move was
forced, in that vacant lines (ineluding one for a chair) were not
allowed to be filled until they acceded to the migration South.
In 1993, a statistician of stellar~
pute was hired as chairman. HiJ
maniling orders were to beef up the
departmen~ to emphasize biootalistics and to launch a consulting laboratorywherescienlistsofallilkmight

MEWS

Technology Action Plan, but even books in Lockwood Library (S I
they_.. from "within schools and million might go a long way toward
faculties responsible for informa- hlring reshelvers, increasing jourtion-technnlogy efforts.• lnustu- nal subscriptions and both replacous consultants at best.
ing and acquiring new volumes).
Furthermore, a portion of the And, of course, the parking probmonies were drawn from the Jem is still in need of fixing.
student technology fee (a fee that
Ironically, only a few weeks behas more than doubled in the past fore, the same reporter wrote an
twoyearsl). But the story does not a rticle on Dr. Ha nk Bromle y
reportwbetherstudentrepresenta- called "Computer Utopia? No
tives...,..approachedinthedesign Way?" The pieu describes Dr.
of this initiative. Evidently, the ad- Bromley's work regarding the
ministration unilaterally allocated largely uncritical use of technolfunds for high technology in the ogy, with a focus on computers in
classroom that serve the students the public schools. In this pieu,
themselves no betterthanlowt.ecb- Cunningham writes:
nology, such as smaller class sizes
• For starters, says Bromley,
and greater ieaching effectiveness.
.. .schools should not buy new tecbThereisaneedtograwtecbnolosi- nologies until they know what they
caJ1y; however, that need is for stu- plan to dq with them and who will
dent access to computer labs, not have acuss to them. And schools
higb technology for classroom pre- should assess whether the technolosentations. Likewise, faculty need gjes they do purchase ase actually
support to manage the technology increasingleaming.andforwhom."
they already work with, not more
Good questions to ask a provost
equipment in their teacbing spaces. bent on increasing technology while
Dothenumberof"smalldassesthat decreasing permanent faculty and
need technology" that Sullivan indi- programs.OrfortheRtporurtoa&gt;n·
cates j~ a three-fold expansion! sider before it thematized an article
Later in the article, Richard ontechnoJosjcalexpansionasapopuLesniak states: " Faculty are relying list demand. A tactic that rbetorically
more and more on these kinds of masks the administration's entrepretechnology.• This statement does neurial,noteducational,agenda.
not indicate that faculty are callThe lead sentence in thiJ article
ing for technology classrooms, sounds like the pi'D\'!)st's own selfonly that they, like the administra- congratulatory propaganda cut free
tion (to the tune of$8 million dol- from its quotation marks But even
Iars), may be somnambuliJtically if students and &amp;culty are requestacupting the myth of technologi- ing the construction of technology
cal determinism. Sadly: "If you classrooms, that does not mean that
build it, they will come.• Besides, the adminiJtration should "swiftly"
was this on the Union of Univer- seekti&gt;meetthatneed.Criticalquessity Professor's agerida when they tions need to be asked: Specifically,
were trying to settletheir contract does this equipment and this expense
with the state these past two years! really advanu the education of VB
Further skepticism should be students! Mightn't that $1 million be
aroused by the sheer speed with better spent in support of the Office
which this project has bi'On com- of'I&lt;aching Effectiveness! Oops. My
pleted; it is unpreudented. This is error. The Office ofTeachJng Effec•incredible considering the agoniz- tiveness was eliminated this year due
ing turn around for reshelving to budget cuts.
-Scott B. Waltz.. srudn.r, GnuiiUltr School of EduaJrion

tum for expert stalislical guidance.
The chair delivered Sacrificing
detailforeconomyofspeecb,hewas
able to hJre .a .biostatistician, and
three wdl-credentialed professors
who ase focusing their research on
problems in biostatistics.
Nevertheless, overall staffmg.
never even reached seven lines. The
dean had p romiJed eight lines in
writing, and orally beld out promise for more. But of the five who
moved in 1990, twoleftand oneretire&lt;t Of the five who joined since,
one left and one, sadly, died last
month. The current size iJ still five,
just what it was when they moved
The chair started a consulting
laboratory, which has since consuited for all eight major ho5pitals,
often repeatedly, and also serves

Campus walks need salt;
someone could be injured
Editor,
The ~t snows have turned the walks on the South Campus into skating rUiks. Even with strong anldes and boots with good treads, one takes
one's life into o ne's hands when one walks from the parking lot to campus b uildings. The walks near Wende Hall are the most dangerous, but
others are almost as lethaL
We all know our operating budget has been slashed in recent years,
but we still n~ walks to be salted on a regular basis. If campus paths
rontinue along their current winter oondition, someone is going to suffer
serious injury with possible litigation as a result.
-laurie Clleco, Rtcords and Registration

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or one misstep leads to another

other users of statistics, mostly in
the health scienus.
AD~thedopartmcnthastaugbt

in""""'ofi,IXX)studootsperye;u;thus
eamiJ-4!theirannualbudget bytuition
alone: wttate-disbandment will do,
it will not save money.
There iJ also a steady stream of
publiations. One faculty member is
a fellow of the American Statistical
Association, another (who has since
left) of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics; the dJair is a fdlow in both
these scientific societies.
Renewed commotion began in

1996. The.two "in-house" statisticians of the department of Social
and Preventive Medicine (SPM )
left, and the medical school dean
judged that progress on their grants
could only proued apace by merging the statistics department wholesale into the SPM department. The
current version would have o nly
some statistics farulty merge into
the SPM department , while the
others would be housed in math-

ematics. The department would
cease to be in either case.
The medical school sho uld be
blamed for breaking thei r blackon-white commitments to the
chairman , and for belyin g the
welcoming no ises they made
upon receiving the $600,000 from

the core campus. Yet it is not the
task of the medical school to educate statisticians.

The president's and provost's
Stances are more difficult to un derstand, in both style and substance. In substance, it is difficult
to see bow a university can be the
better for lacking an identifiable
department of statistics. The vast
majority of universities we'd l.i.kr
to emulate have a statistics depart ment, and many have two (statistics and biostatistics).
N; for style. th~ provost stat&lt;S that
a careful husbanding of resourus
does not permit the luxury ofkeeping departments which are "undistinguished and non-antral." Generically, it is a proper sentiment.
Unfortunately, the vast majority

of our departments are undistin guiJhed, and many ofthemasesliding down , rather than climbing
up-asstatisticshassinu 1993. But
no n- central ~ Statistics is one of the
few departments that feeds all fields
of acaaemic endeavor. lt is vital to
the hard scienus without excep tion, to the social sciences with nary
an exception, and it is becoming
ever more prevalent even in the humanities. On that score, demolition
of the department iJ positively contra-indicated.
The president states that even

without a department, .. statistics
will be everywhere.• He is correct
that the fruits of statistical scienu
will continue to be used everywhere, but where will the n'ew sta tistical tests and techniques be developed? Only the statistics department produa:s statistics. The other
departments are all consumers.
Neitherthepr&lt;Sidmtnortheprovost sound in the least apologetic.
Neither acknowledges tha t th e
forud move to the medical school
was a brutal error. Neither applauds
the current chair for accomplishJng
an epormous amount in a short
time under difficult constraints.
Neither deems relevant that sta·
tistics, unlike physics, comes cheap;
neither is swayed by the demand for
statisticians in the job market; and
neither seems troubled that there is
no preudent (any time, any piau)
for a ranking statistics group submerged in a department of math ematics: statisticians of note prefer
not to labor under such regimes.
Both think like lawyers. T hey
.. win.. or .. lose• cases. After 10 years
of grim diligence, they are about
to win this one. The law school,
meanwhile, received a bo na nza of
$1,500,000 fro m this dynamic
duo: no doubt because their scholarship is so cen tral, and their faculty so outstanding.

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Quartet treated UB to a mini
performance at lunchtime in
Slee Hall on Nov. 12. It was
a preview of its concert to be
held the next day. The ASQ.
from left: Salvatore
Andolina, Russ Carere, Harry
Fackelman, Stephen
Rosenthal.

senate endorses task force on minorities
Affirmative Action Committee :recommends creatWn ofunit to increase inclusiveness

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dation from iu Alfinnative Action Committee
suppo rting creation of a
Praident's Task Force on Racial
Minorities on Campus.
The senate, at its Nov. 12 meet·
ing, also approved resolutions
from the committee regarding sal·
ary cfucrq&gt;ancies and a proposed
policy on !he hiring of members
of protected groups proportional
to !he available pooL
The three resolutions, which
wae 6nt introduced to !he sen·
ate last spring but returned to !he
.committee for further refinement,
will be forwarded to President
William R, Greiner for his consid.
eration. Greiner, who attended !he
meetiog, commended the committee for bringing !he issues to

!he senate and the administration.
He indicated he would accept
the resolution on !he taslr. force,
and sugated thotthe taslr. force's
first order of business might be to
look at !he problems posed by the
o!her two resolutions.
David Banks, professor of an·
thropology and ao;ting chair of the

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ficer devote resources for pay equity, !hat requests for pay equity
be -treated separately from !hose

try to-devise new strategies, along

for merit increases, and that fac-

with the task force, that would

ulty members be able to appoint
an advocate to work with them on
pay equity.
The senate also endorsed a
policy on the hiring of members
of protected groups-blacks,

Affirmative Action Committee,

noted thot many people think task
forces are crc,ated to overturn exlstiog policy and •go forward to
rectify a lot of wrongs. That is not
what we had in mind," he said.
In recommending the formation of a task force, commi.ttee

members "wani to try to build a
constituency to increase the level
of inclusion of !he increasingly diverse student body into !he full
range of campus life," Banks said.
"We want to help everybody to un ~
derstand the problems in !his area..
The committee also wants !he

approved regarding salary discrepancies were those suggesting that
the responsible administrative officer-the cbajr or dean, as th.e

help increase inclusiveness,.. he
added.
The task force "would consider
salary inequities, recruitment and
retention of minority students,

faculty and staff, and inclusion of
minorities in policy and decision-

women, Native Americans, His-

making, and recommend solutions as they may be appropriate,..

panics and Asian/Pacific Islandero-proportional to tile available
pool in which:

according to ibe resolution approved by the senate.

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New structure streamlines business functions

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11J a.sTN VIDAL
plan to streamline
busin~ss functions at
UB by 0\'S)lving a single
business office to man"8e the administrative functions o(
!he university, the Research Founaation, the UB Foundation and
the Faculty Student Association
has been initiated by Senior Vice
President P,obert ). Wagner.
Details of !he plan wae outlined
by Wagner at a Service Excellence
Assem bly on Nov. II. The bimonthly meetiogs are held to update staff in University Services on
new initiatives within !he division
and at UB.
Wagner noted thot !he streamlining efforts are being made to
align UB's business operations with
changes thot have been occurring
at UB and in SUNY.

• we have a very lean adminis-

from Kevin R. Seitz, associate vice

payable functions, with the excep-

trative cadre if you compare ourselves to our peer institutions,
we hal(e one of !he
most complex ad-

president for university services
and controller, over the next few
months tht: current Research

tion of travel services, as well as

Foundation and state business offices will be integrated into three

property control.
Human Resource Se r vices,

to duster related

which will not be formed until early
next year, will be headed by Ellen
McNamara, assistant vice president
for human resources. The unit will
include the personnel and payroU
functions for both the Research

processes, regardless of funding
source, into a single organization.
The objective is to provide the
university with "beginning-toend .. transaction processing, according to the memo. ·

Foundation and the state.
Financial Services will integrate the Research Foundation's
grants and contracts operation
with the state's accounting and
budget operations. Formation of

The ·new organizational structure for UB's businm operations Duties of services units
Procurement Services will be
will be implemented in phases,
Wagner said, and will involve a sig- headed by )udi!h Miller, director
of purchasing, and will incorponificant amount of change.
Under !he plan, which was out- · rate the Research Foundation and
lined in a recent memorandum state purchasing and accounts

this unit also will begin early
next year. Plans for the development of the unit will be led by

ministratM struc-

tures in which we

functional organizations-Procurement SerVices, Human Re source Services and Financial Ser-

operate,• Wagner

said.
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precu rsor of Calspan, and
joined the UB faculty in 1983.
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behind the flight of a football.
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Interested In the dyn•rnks of •
football In fllght7

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of a football comes from toaching
the course called Flight Dynamics

of Airplanes to seniors in our aerospace program. One of the topics
that's covered has to do with spinning aircraft and missiles. and I
figured that study of a more be:
nign and more familiar missile
would arouse the students' interes t. I' m not sure it worked on
them, but I've certainly found it to
be fascinating!
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your favorite team? Did you
ever play football?

I swear every year that I will avoid
watching football , but I usually
succumb to it, and spend a lot of
time wondering why I should care
about a team called the Bills. I was
a third-stringer in high school-bardlywhat you'd call a first-draft
choice.
The •erosp•ce Industry has
seen a lot of neg.otlve
In recent yon, eopecl&lt;olly wfth
all the plant closings on the

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workln!l on with Cals~n -1·

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Research on the hypersonic airplane was cut back significantly,
only one year after it started. That
effort is continuing at several
NASA centers, but with somewhat
less-ambitious goals.
What do you think Dout the
sJtu.tlon on the lbu.W. spKe
l•b Mlr7 Should we continue
H ndlng •stronauts there?

The job market for aerospace engineers is quite good right now,
and has been for about a y&lt;ar. It
does tend to be more cyclic than
in other fields, however.

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more extensive than that of anyone else, but based on what 1 read
in the newspapers, I'm persuaded
that much more maintenance

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tems. If I had more hair, I'd prob- I have the privilege of being a facably include a blow dryer in the ulty member in a groat uoiversity
that he helped to establish.
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we can oontioue ~g Mir with an
aa:eptable risk.

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UB, and how do you compare
what you're doing now with ynur
earlier experience?
It's the greatest job in the world!
Sure, it has its financial problems,
a few pnma donnas, some po~tics,
and a lot of institutional inenia.
But at the eod of eacb day I say a
prayer of thanks-thank Godfor having bad the chance to join
witb wonderful colleagues and
wonderful students in sean:hing
for new knowledge and sharing it
with others. It's a pleasure to come
here every day.

Funding needed for information technology, Innus says
By CHRISTINE VIDAL

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think that some of them are actually envious. Besides, it brought us
some decent pub~city!

Unfortunately, womeo still make
up only one in nine or 10 of our
undergraduate population in engineering, despite a number of
programs and incentives offered
by the university.

needs to·be done on Mir. As to the
advisability of sending utron.aUU
there, my inclination is to gin
strong wtight to tbe opinion of

NFORMATION technology
plays a key role in UB's future, but its funding is below what is needed; accord·
ing to Valdemar Inn us, senior as·
sociate vice president for university services, who presented an
update on UB's information-tech nology (IT) efforts at the Nov. II
Service Excellence Assembly.
UB faces an increasingly complex
environment in which Web use is
dramatically on the increase and
information technology is changing equally dramatically. But,
Inn us said, funding iS .. not anywhere close" to meeting demand.
He said a study that compared
the state of information technol ogy at UB, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, Duke Uni versity and North Carolina State
Unive rsity showed that UB is
"much leaner• than the other thrtt
institutions in terms of IT central
staff and ..extremely lean" in terms
of IT ad~inistrative staff. UB, he

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noted, is going to find itself '" more
challenged as we try to take on new
projects."
He said that primarily for financial r&lt;asons, UB has ·put its emphasis on operating as an "early follower," rather than as an institution
culling edge.
on
He noted, however, that funding
is not what impacts information
technology at UB most negatively.
The major problem, he added, is "institutional culture."
To address that problem, an IT
Culture Change committee has
been formed. "Changing culture
means changing times," according
to Inn us. "We need to work across
organizational lines a~d roles are
going to have to be more blended."
Innus said that more than 400
information·technology professionals from across the university
have participated in a three-day
workshop based on Stephen
Covey's "The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People; as well as
other seminars. Those profes·
sional-developmenr efforts are

the

having a positive effect, [onus said.
Other works in P~ll'ess.. lnnus_
"fhe committee also has d~;el­ said; include upgrading BISON, a
oped a survey that will be distrib- re-eogineering of administratiye
uted to all information-technol- processes and information-tecbogy professionals on campus to nology support for enrollment
gauge their percep.tions of the cul- ~ Jonus noted that the
tural cbange that is occurring, as university has begun to develop an
well as information-technology all-funds budget to try to get a
handle on what is spent on ITjrom
plannjng on campus.
Innus outlined a number of ·sources that include state-budget
UB'sinformation-technologypri- funding, reseucb-foundation fund orities, which include fte:ms such ing and the student technology fee.
Innus noted that another posas funding education-technology
action -plan requests for things sible so u rce of support for UB
such as distance learning, partici- could be a Technology Initiative,
pation in Internet II, investment similar to the Graduate Education
in essential infrastructure, support Research Initiative (GRI)
launched in -1987. Such an initiafor essential adminjstrative-systive, he added, oould provide parttemdevelopment and support for
nerships between UB and oorpoWeb-site developmen t.
rations, such as IBM, Sun
The university, he added, also
Microsystems and AT&amp;T.
has identified as a priority enhancN6ting that such an injtiativc
ing the student experience by would "take a lot of time and effort,
working to increase student access and involve tre-mendous culture
to computing, providing under- change; lnnus said such partnergraduates with guaranteed access ships would be "important in the
to e-mail , the Internet and most provision of equipment, service
commonly used Microsoft tools.
and software, more than funding."

UB annoooces new M.A program in applied economics
By PATIJCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

new program offering
a master 's degree in
economics, plus advanced certification in
applied economics, will be offered
beginning next fall through a cooperative effort linking the De·
partment of Economics and several professional schools and aca·
demic departments.
Open to full-and part-time students, it will allow students to specialize in o ne of five areas: in ternational eco no m ics; eco nomics

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and fi n ance; health economics;
economics, law and regulation ,
and urban and regional development. Students wishing to touch
on each area can opt for a program
focusing on general applied ceonomics and permitting them to
tailor the program to their needs.
Full-time students
be able to
complete the program in four se:mesters; part-time students in three
years. Isaac Ehrlich, professor and
chair of the Department of Economics , said grad uates will be
well-positioned for jobS in business and fi nance, government,

,.;m

consulting firms, not-for-profit .
o rganizations and agencies in the
U.S. and abroad. Because it will
haveastronginterdisciplinaryorientation, the program is expected
to draw students from the fields
of business, management, law,
medical and biomedical sciences,
sociology, pSycbology and po~tical science.
·
He said the new program is expccted to be of particular interest
to st udents from Asia, Latin
America and eastern Europe beca use it will aPply econom.ic
methodology to fields of impor-

tance to developing nations.
Cooperating with the economics
department in the effort are the
schoolsofmanagementandlawand
the departments of geography, socia1 and preventive medicine, sodology and political science.
Ehrlicb said"it's expected undergraduates will be able to eoroll in
a new, five-year program combining an undergraduate degree in
economics with a master-of-arts
degree and advanced certification
in applied economics. That program is pending approval by the
State University of New York.

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" FATAL FAMIUES"

Book details cases
of family homicide

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N

EARLY half of the
nation's20,000 murder
victims each year are
killed, not by strangers,
but by relatives or 3ajuaintances.
And although the number of
intrafamilial homicides has somewhat stabilized during the past two
decades, it most likely will grow as
long as there ls a lack of recogni -

tion of the underlying causes of
the problem and dwindling com-

munity resources to deal with
them, a UB law professor and psychologist predicts.
In his latest book, "Fatal Families: The Dynamics oflntrafamilial

Homicide" (Sage Publications,
1997), Charles Patrick Ewing, professor of law and adjunct professor of psychology, details doz.ens
of cases of intrafamilial homicide
to examine th~ nature, causes and

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co nsequences of family homjcide
in modem America n society.
Ewing outlines five factor&gt; that he
says are the most obvious ones contributing to intrafumilial homicide:
• Domestic violence. "In trafamilial homicide is not only a form
of domestic violence, but often a
product of domestic violence," he
wri tes. For example, when abusers
kill or are killed by thcir abuse victims, the homicide is frequently the
culmination ofa long-standing pattern of child and/or spousal abuse.
• Overwhelming social stress.
"Stress is dearly a contributing factor to many, if not most, intrafamilial killings."The stress associated
with caring for a loved one afHicted
with a debilitating handicap or terminal illness, the stress experienced
by young mother&gt; of newborns and
the stress of unemployment all have
contributed to killings within the
family, he notes.
• Mental illness. A U.S. Department of Justice study of homicide

in large urban counties found a history of mental illness among U.3
percent of those wbo kiiJ.a spouses,
15.8 percent of those who killed offspring, 25. 1 percent of those who
killed a parent and 17.3 percent of
those who killed a sibling.
• Ala&gt;hoi abuse. The justi&lt;Z department study found that among
defendants charged with killing
family members, nearly half--47.6

percent-were drinking at the
time of the killing.
• Ready availability of firearms.
The justice department study
foun d that 41.6 percent of

intrafa-:nilial homicide victims
were killed with firearms, primarily handguns. "There can be little
doubt that many intrafumilial killings are committed in the heat of

passion and would never have occurred but for the perpetrator's

immediate access to a firearm ;
Ewing writes.

.. Like most of our nation's major social ills, intrafamilial homi cide is unlikely ever to be substan tially reduced until we begin to
successfully address these perva-

sive toxic aspects of contemporary
culture," Ewing writes.
Support networks and accessible
treatment programs and outreach
efforts perhaps could help amelio-

rate the causes to help prevent
intrafamiHal homicides, he says.
But shrinking community resources aimed at these efforts
likely will thwart comprehensive
efforts to aggressively address the
problems in the family and com-

munity, he believes.
l n his book, Ewing concisely
documents the often grisly gamut
of mayhem and murder that is ..all
in the family.• Amo ng them are
cases in which:
• Children, driven by a motive
of greed to collect an inheritance,
kill one or more parents.
• C hildren, who have been tar-

s·pecial event will feature
famed jazz musician Steve Lacy
_gets of parental abuse and are fearful of being slaughtered, kill parents in self-defense or out of an
ingrained feeling of hopelessness.
• Brothers and sister&gt; kill each
other, spurred by a smoldering,
intense sibling rivalry fueled by
alcohol, drugs and easily accessible weapons.
• Single teen moms, burdened by
shame and insecurityo&gt;1:f their newborns, toss them in trash receptacles
• Family caretakers kill elderly
and enfeebled spouses and relatives because they are unable to
bear the other's unrelenting pain
and suffering.
• Suicidal parents o r offspring,
facing financial or other reversals
of fortune, murder the entire fam ily and then kill themselves because
they are apparently unwilling to
subject their spouses, children or
siblings to an uncertain future.
Ewing, who has authored another book on the topic, noted that
the number of battered women
who kill th eir batterers has
dropped significantly over the past
20 yea rs, partly because society is
doing more to combat and legally
address this problem.
But he paints a grimmer picture
for other types ofintrafamilial hiomic:ide unless more aggressive steps
are taken to deal with the tragic and
frequently preventable ca uses.
.. The overall prognosis for reducing the incidence of intrafamilial homicide still appears
bleak, but withour continuing and
vigorous efforts to combat spousal,
child and elder abuse, the number
of fa tal families in America is, un fortunately, bound to grow."
Ewing, who is often called as an
expert witness o r legal consultant
based on his study and expertise
in th e field of intrafamilial homi cide, also is the author of.. Bauered
Women Who Kill" and "Kids Who
Kill."

Steve Lacy, lntern.tlonaUy renowned as the pioneer of modern
jazz soprano saxophone, will perform with his trio at 8:30p.m. today in the Calumet Arts Cafe, 54 W. Chippewa St., Buffalo, as a 1JB
" Wednesdays at 4 Plus Special Event."
Tickets, which will be available at the door, are $20 per person for
the general public and $10 for UB students, staff and faculry.
Lacy has established a friendship and history of artistic collaboration with poet Robert Creeley, SUNY Distinguished Professor in
the Department of English , Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and
the Humanities, and founder Of the .. Wednesdays at 4 Plus.literarj
series.
Lacy first set Creelefs poetry to music at tht- annual festival for
contemporary music held in Lille, France, in a performance called
.. Futurities." The performance was captured in a two-CO set of the
same name.
A tribute to Creeley that was part of a 1993 performance by Lacy
in Cambridge, Mass. , was described by a critic as .. the most inspired
and intense playing" of ihe evening. Lacy also appeared at the Cal umet in 1995 for a night of music that featured a selection of Creeley
poems set to music by Lacy and sung by Irene Aebi.
Like abstract expressionism and modern jazz. C reeley's poems are
reductive renderings of precise images and emotions. One of the
originators of the .. Black. Mountain" school of poetry, Cree:ley was
strongly influenced by contemporary visual art and music in forming his poetic technique.

Video artist Joan Jonas to give
performance, talk on Dec. 3
Jo•n Jon•s, recognized .s one of Amerlc•'s premier video, visual and performance artists, will appear at UB next month for a
video performance and a lecture.
The video performance will be held at 4 p.m. on Dec. 3 in the
Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
The talk, .. Video as Medium," will be given at 12:30 p.m . o n Dec. 4 in
438 Clemens Hall, also on the North Campus. Jonas' appearances,
part of Wednesdays at 4 Plus, will be free and open to the public.
In the early '70s, Jonas wasoneofthe first to discover the medium's
poten tial as a mirror that allowed performances to be easily disseminated and exhibited without the artist's physical presence. Jonas
-represented the United States in the 1995 Biennale D'art
Contemporaine de Lyon and has received grants and fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the CAT Fund.
A recipient of the 1989 Maya Da ren Award, her work has been
shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam :ind the Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art , among many other venues.

No Reporter on Nov. 27
The Rrportrr will not publish an issue on Nov. 27 due to the
Thanksgiving holiday. The final issues of the fall semester will be
published Dec. 4 and Dec. II.

Use new electronic form to send data to Reporter calendar
By ARTHUR PAGE

News Servkes OirectOf

M

AXIMIZING the use of new
technology, the Office of
News Services has devel oped an e,ectronic submission form located on the Reporter Web site
to collect data for the weekly calendar that
appears in the newspaper's print and electronic versions.
The form has been tested by a group of
10 campus users during the fall semester
and with the next issue , the Reporter is
opening use of the electronic submission
form to all individuals who submit information for the calendar. The deadline for receiving calendar information remains noon
on the Thur&gt;day prior to the issue in which
the information is intended l'o appear.
Use of the form will be optional
through the end of January.
Beginning with the Reporur issue of Feb.
..,_ 5, the electronic form will become the only
way to submit information for the calendar.
The form , as well as directions for us-

ing it, ca n be accessed at http://www.
buffolo.odu/ reporter/ cgl/lnput
It was developed based on the recognition that aU those who traditionally have
submitted information for the calendar by
campus mail, fax or e-mail have access to
a compu ter and can access the form,
either in their offices or in a nearby uni versity co mputer lab.
While those submitting info rmation tra ditionally have used their own formatssome clear, others more perplexing and difficult to decipher-the electronic submission fo rm asks for consistent information
in an orderly fashion. Users enter the information into fields, and have an opportunity
to view their entries before being asked to
make the submission final.
The entries, in turn , can be downloaded
by the Reporter staff in the font and type
size used in the calendar. While the staff still
mwt proof the copy, the new process eliminates the need to sort large stacks of paper
entries and to keyboard entries, frttlng staff
to handle other Reporter responsibilities.

Those submitting informati on for the
ca lendar have the option of doing cntrie:.
on a week-to-week basis, or submitting in·
formation for multiple weeks a ll at once.
The new form has proven to be efficient
for users, as well as for th e Reporrer Slaff.
Among those participating in the pilot
program has been Necia A. Black of Academic Services CIT, who has used th e form
to subm it information for ASCJT work ·
shops that arc held weekly on campus.
This semester alone, she estimates. there
have been so me 70 workshops.
Black admits that she was "dis mayed"
when, as a member of the test group, she
reali zed she was being asked .. to 'type in'
all the separate workshops on a Web form.
.. However, I soon learned that the form
was very much to my benefit," she adds... It
would take me more than two full days to
go through the contortions I did in the past
to generate the lener with aU the workshops
in it, and then you had to retype everything
I had already typed. But with this new form ,
it took approximately four hours."'

One way in which the form saved her
time, she notc'd, is that there was information common to all en tries thJt she did
not need to retype.
Like some others in the test group. Black
has suggested modifications to the form
that have been made. Similarly. the Rt&gt;·
porter staff is interested in hearing other
sugges ti ons that would make thl· form
more user-friendly,
The form was designed bt Ben)amm
Edelman, a student ass istant who works
in News Services, v.·ith assistance from tht:
UB Web Team, cons•sting of staff mem ·
bers from the Electronic Media Unit m the
Office of Publications and CIT.
In addition to Black, others who have
helped test the form are Jude Schwendler,
alumni relations; PauJ Vecchio. athletic:.;
Ray Dannenhoffer, anatomical sciences;
Rachel Costa, geology; Gemma DeVmney,
library programs; Marie Bennett, math
ematics; Sandi \Vheaton, pharmaceutics;
Eileen McNamara, philosophy, and Charles
Wenner, biochemistry.

�International students
enjoy traditional
Thanksgiving food at a
buffet Tuesday in the
Student Union, hosted
by the UB Women's
Club and the International Education Office.
·From left: Markus
Mielke, Tsako Majima,
Michelle Cheng and Dirk Tenne. Above:
Irene Lee, left, with julie Cohan,
Women's Club vice president

Senate discusses issue of retaining senior faculty
By SUE WUETCHU
News Services As.socYte Director

recent front-page article in The Buffalo
News about a perceived
"brain drain" at UB and
the university's policy on retaining senior faculty members
spurred a discussion among the
president, provost and faculty
members at the Nov. 12 meeting
of the Faculty Senate.
In The Buffalo News artick, pub·
lished on Nov. 2, D. Bruce
Johnstone, University Professor in
the School of Education and former
SUNY chancellor, maintained that
UB has slipped in stature because
top faculty members are leaving the
university due to budget cuts and
the politicization of SUNY by the
Pataki administration.
Several sehators called the article
"excellent" and "a breath of fresh
air," and one chided President W~ ·
liam R. Greiner for not stating
strongly in the article that years of
budget cuts have severely hurt UB.
Greiner responded by urging
faculty members to take the lead
in speaking publicly 2bout such is·
sues, notin g that .. there are some
things that a faculty member can
say that neither a president nor
provost can say."
Using the article as a starting
point for discussion , William
George. professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering. addressed the issue of retention of
senior faculty members.
The number offaculty members
leaving the university " may be
some of our own fault," he said.
While UB does a good job of
hiring good faculty members,
tenuring them and "fast-tracking

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bright people to the top," the univ~rsity has problem with ~the
next step-faculty members in
their 50s who have gotten tired of
the same old rat ra~,· he said.
"If we fail on 'this campus, I
think it's what we do after people
become full professors."
lJB does noi have its own
mechanism for IJ?Oving faculty
members into positions and titles
that recognize distinguished ser·
vice at UB, George said.
"If there's something we need to
address on this campus, it's what
we do to hang on to the really good
people. And frankly, I don't think
the issut is money." ·
Herbert Schue!,· professor of
anatomical sciences, said that in
his 20 years at UB, he has been "appalled" at tlie number of prominent faculty members who have
left the univers.i ty to go-e~bere
"without any real effort" by the administration to retain them.
"I hope in light of what's in The
Buffalo News. and the intention
(by the administration) to move
this university to the fi.rst rank.
that a major effort be made to provide competitive counter-offers to
faculty members when they receive offers elsewhere, and to also
act proactively so it's unlikely that
these people will even want to
leave Buffalo to go somewhere
else." Schue! said.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick told
senators that in the past year, there
have been three cases of prominent
faculty members-&lt;ill SUNY Distinguished Professors-who seriously
considered leaving UB for other
universities. In each case, Headrick
said, he "made a pre-emptive strike,"

and offered the faculty mern~rs
something that madi them reamsider and stay at UB.
"That's been my policy,as provost,,. he stressed, noting that in
one case, he bypassed both the
chair and dean.
"I will do that when ·I think .it's
in the long-term interest of the
university~• he said. ·
Greiner noted that faculty
members must lceep track of" both
the losses and the gains."While the
Department of Psycho logy re·
cently' iost essentially the entire
?'psychology group, he said
tliere have been some "outstanding" additions to the department,
some at the senior level "We must
as a faculty not just lick our
wounds, we also collectively have
to celebrate our gains.,. ·
Don Schack, professor of math- .
ematics, praised Tht Buffalo Ntws
article, saying that he found it
"quite refreshing• that a major
newspaper reported that "what
we're doing repeatedly (budget
cuts) is. in faCt, having a devastating effect on the university and it
will have a reallpng-term effect."
Schack said that while be supported Greiner's and Headrick's
efforts "to reinvigorate this place
and to help us retain our position,'"
he said he would have "rather heard
them ratify the position that Professor Johnstone took in that article
and to say.simply, 'Of oourse, it's
been a horrible thing that has happened to us, and of oourse, it has
damaged us enormously and we're
doing the best we can to prevent it
from being devastating.'"
While Greiner's comments may
have been politically astute. "we've

accep ting and approving ihe Af.
firmative Action Plan for each unit
• Appointment of members of
protected groups to upperadmin·
istrative positions would be a 'goal
during current administrative restructuring
• A special effort would be
made to recruit wel l-qualified UB
graduates who are members of
protected groups to be candi&lt;:lates
for open faculty and profess ional
staffpositions.
Michael Cowen , professor of
mathematics, pointed out that
early recruitment is "the most
critical thing you can do" to attract
minority faculty members to UB.

If the pool of minority and
women applicants is smaller,
"then by the time we recruit, the
top recruit in those pools is gone,..
he said.
Banks agreed that early recruitment .. is essential to any strategy in
a highly competitive marketplace.•
jack Meacham, professor of psy·
chology, commended the Affirm a·
tive Action Com·mittee on its
work, noting that he had recently
attended a national conference on
affirmative-action initiatives on
campus.
" I'm pleased to see that with
these kinds of resolutions, we will
be moving in step with many other

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been damaged and we have to S\IY
that," Schack said.
Greiner told senators that his
view of the issue is different from
Johnstone's; "not so gloom and
doom ... there are many real reasons to be optimistic."
While a president cannot say any·
thing openly aitical of his institu·
tion tO !he press, Greiner said "what
we have to do is deal honestly with
that intemally in the W.Mrsity."
He agreed that 10 straight years
ofbudget cuts "simply will leave an
institution in stress." The administraiion has "been very open about
that" on campus, '1&gt;ut we·re not
going to go public .. ..But faculty
members can,• he pointed out.
· Th~ president and provost
should provide leadership on
these types of internal issues, be
said, and faculty members who
wish to speak operuy about these
issues • are free to do so and
should; they have the protection
. of the First Amendment and academic freedom ...."
Johnstone's comments-and
the resulting front-page storymay have been unsettling. Greiner
added, "but it's right in the rradi·
lions of the academy; somebody
steps up, speaks their mind, and
then there's a response to it."
Johnstone "did a great service
for the university, the kind of service that only a faculty member
can do.'" he said.·
"I think the faculty ought to speak
up more,"Greiner told senators, "be·
cause you ~ve both the right and
the obligation and the authority to
do that in a way that neither the
president or provost do.•

Task force
Continued troni- 1

devise new procedures for recruiting members of protected groups,
including the employment of net·
working specialists and early-recruitment strategies to facilitate
the recruitment of members of
under-represented groups
• Schools or comparable unit s
would provide appropriate per·
sonnel to implement the new proced ures
• The administra ti on wou ld
provide budgetary support to recruit members of protected categories
• Either the Affirmative Action
Office or a panel designated by the
president would be responsible for

universities around the country,"
he said.
Reading from the exec uti ve
summary of a report that brings
together the results of 300 research studies on diversity on college campuses. Meacham noted
that "a broad campus commitment to diversity is related to
positive educational Outcomes for
all students, related to satisfaction
fo r students, academic success
and cognitive development for all
students.'"
" ... Diversity is for all the students in our campus community,"
he said . " I strongly support all
three of these resolutions."

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Smoking as an urban disease
M.D. works to decrease damage tobacco causes in the inner city

COntemporary Women's Issues

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Reporter Staff

Web-based products of exceUence, the University Libraries is pleased
to announce the additi.o n of Contemporary 'Nomen's Issues to the
BISON D "Online Resources" page (http://ubllb.buff.io.- !llbnrles/e-resourc:es). CWI provides full-text coverage of more than 600
journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings,
fact-sheets and regional newspapers. Coverage goes back to 1992
and is international in scope.
Vmuallyevery gender-related topic is searchable via this user-friendly
database, including human rights, pay equity, the men's movement, job
sharing, sexual harassment, the visual arts, osteoporosis. eating disorders, etc. Search it if you are looking for research studies, alternative
press commentary or statistical facts provided by U.S. governmen t
agencies and the United Nations. There is no need to spend tim e
tracking elusive material related to women's issues; just print o ut
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this is the abstracts-only coverage of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The New York Times and The Wail S1reet journal.
Naturally, the wider Web also has a wealth of information avail able to those interested in women's issues and interests. A super stan ing point is WWWomen (http:/ / www.wwwomen.com ), which has
the look and feel of the ever popular Yahoo Internet search direc tory (http:/ / www.y•hoo.com ) with an imponant difference-all
the links lead to women-related Web sites. The main directory ca tegories range from '" Feminism" and "Diversity'"' to .. Personal Time ..
·a nd "Women Go Shopping.• WWWomen also allows you to search
for gender-related topics by keyword. A5 the welcome screen stares,
.. WWWomen offers no political, religious or philosophicaJ agenda
and'h.,pes to attract women of all attitudes and persuasions." A keyword search on the topic ..abortion" provides ample evidence that
the developers of WWWomen are true to their word as links are
provided to sites for both sides of this issue.
Internet sites hand-selected by librarians belonging to Women's
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edu/ wn/) are also a good bet for finding the " best of the best"
women's resources for research and personaJ interest.

.

ARLOS Roberto )a~n
never waves his arms,
never raists his voice,

C

bu t every time he

speaks he conveys the paSsion and
urgency of his work.
An assistant professor in the
Department of Family Medicine.
in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, )a~n has been
working to decrease the smoking

rate among the urban poor ever
since he received his M.D. from
UB in 1989. As director of the
Center for Urban Research, and as
a physician to predominantly poor
patients from the Lower West Side
of Buffalo, he has both a statistical and an expe rie ntial und er~
!tanding of the damago that smokingdoes~people and commwlities.

"The rate of smoking for the

ge neral populatio n is about 22
percent,• he said. "ln the Lower
West Sid e, we found a smoking
ra te of 33 percent for the women

and 47 percent for the men ....
tobacco companies are p rofiting
fro m the death an d destruction of
inner city communities.

"If smoking were something

\

tha t kille d people q u ickly," he
added, •t could even see saying,
'Well, take your chances.'. But the
majority of these people will die
in extrem~ and excruciating pain."
Jaen is careful to separate his
criticism of smoking fro m a critibsm of smokers. A former smoker
himself, he says smoking is n'ot a
.. bad habit" but rather "a chronic
d~it's not unlike diabetes or
hypertension ... because it's something that stays with you for a long
time. I quit 20 y~s ago and I am
still haunted by the Marlboro billboards-it's a disease that will be
with me until I die ...b ut there are
very effective means of treating it."
From 1994-96, )a~n was part of
a national advisory panel that as-

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sessed some of those treatments

an d m ad e recommen d atio n s.
Their conclwio ns were p ublished
as the federal "Smoking Cessation
Clinical Practice Guidelines."
·
According to )a~n . the panel established that people who want to
quit smoking "need to develop the
proper skills so that they can deal
with issues lilce cravings, social
situatio ns, negative effects and
stress. And they need to develop
social support, whetherit beacom munity, your friends or your liunilf.'
Along with the need for skills
and social support, said ) a~ n . the
stro ngest conclusio n the panel
reached was that "nicotine replacement, whether it;s the patch or the
gum, seems to double the effects
of anything we do."
He notes that this is one area
wh~e the poor have a distinct disadvantage in their struggle to qujt
smoking. "Very select HMOs or
other health insurance may cover
nicotine replacement," said Jaen,
"but the majority d o not-they
decided not to cover any smokingcessation treatment. This is absurd
because they also cover heart attacks, lung cancer, all the experiences that come from the consequences of continuing to smoke."
But if insurance companies have

acted absurdly, Ja~n argues that
tobacco companies have acted with
nothing short of•criminal intent."
"Most of the health effects of
poverty,• he said, '"are not related
to bad habits. They are related to
structural social and economic
oppression,lack of opportunities
to advance, lack of hope.•
For Ja~n. the tobacco companies
are a key part of this oppressive
conglomerate ... The inj ustice is
perpetrated b.y a cartel that has
consiste ntly and systematically
profited from the death and suffering of the American people," he said.
Bu~ he added, to say the poor are
oppres5!'d is not the same as saying they should be pitied. "I see 1
wealth when I look at the people
on the Lower West Side ....There is
a tremendous sense of family," he
said. '"People not even related to
each other are constantly caring for
each other. I find that I'm privileged
to be in a situation where people
welcome me with open arms. I tell
my wife that I'm in love with all the
little old ladies who are my patients.
"We need to work hard to change
the social conditions," he added. "We
need to work hard to improve the
ability of people to move forward.
But in the meantime, I cannot sit
idly by and watch these people die."

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lung inflammation called aspin·
tion pneumonia.
Aspiration pneumonia also is
one of the leading cawes of death
in pregnant women, who are at risk
of developing the condition when
they give birth under general anes·
thesia or unckrgo other surgery.

Researchers in the

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of Anesthesiology have found that
inhaled nitric oxide, a new therapy
being tested to treat serious respiratory ailments, may do more
harm than good if used for aspi·
ration pneumonia, and reported
new information about the progression of this potentially fatal
form of lung inflammation.
Results of their studies were presented recentl y at the American

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HEdiscoverythatplantJ
respond actively to spe·
cific attacks by herbi·
vores and pathogens is
the topic of a new, state-of-thediscipline critical overview coauthored by !an T. Baldwin, pro·
fessor of biplogical sciences and ·a
specialist on plant defense systems.
The book, " Induced Responses
to Herbivory" {University of Chi·
cago Press, 1997), is a comprehensive review and ana lysis by
Baldwin and Richard Karban, pro·
fessor of entomology at th• Uni·
versity of California at Davis. of
the many circumstances in which

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stances. When unconscious, a person loses the natural reflexes that
prevent food partides and/or
stomach juices from entering the
respintory system.
Stomach contents often are
highly. acidic. When acidic matler
comes in contact with tissue linlog the air passages of the lungs, a
cascade of events results that can
lead to a decreased ability of the
lungs to transport oxygen. Even
when the process is interrupted,
the initial damage inflicted eventually may be fatal, due to late.r-

occurring reactions, Knight said.
· gestJ that caution should be
One of th• newest therapies for taken in using nitric oxide in
treating infiammatory lung injury is acule inflainmatory lung inju·
inhaled nitric oxide. This gas can ries that abo require oxygen
bring dramatic improvement in oxy· thmopy,' he said.
genation in some patients. Giving
Another study by the same
supplemental oxygen abo is a stan· team centered on the relation·
dard therapy to improve oxidation ship of the concentration of
during lung injury.
food particles aspired to th•
Knight and c¢Jeagues examined severity of lung damage and
administration of oxygen and nitric the progression of the damage.
oxick together in acid-injured and ResultJ showed that most of
normal lungs. using ratJ as an ani- th• damage occurred during
mal model
the first five hours after aspi·
RtsultJ showed that when lung in· ration, and remained unjury was caused by aspiration of changed after IS days. "Not
acidic liquid, nitric oxide and oxy- surpruingly,' Knight said, "the
gen worked synergistically to pro- higher the concentration of
duce an increase in reactive nitrogen· particles, the g~ter the darn·
species that are toxic to lung tissue. age.•
There was no effect of the combined
Researchers on the srudies,
therapies on lung injury from aspi· in addition to Knight, were
ration of gastric particles. Knight said Nader Nader-Djalal, Bruce; A.
these two etiologic agentJ have been Davidson, and Jerzy Cio of the
shown to usc different pathways in UB Department of Anesthesi·
producing inflammatory lung injury. ology; David Steinborn of the
•This observation, along with our UB Department of Pediatrics,
previous fipdings of microvascular and Kent Johnson of the Uni·
and functio.nal changes with expo· versity of Michigan Depart·
sure to nitric oxide and oxygen, sug- ment of Pathology.

Baldwin co-authors book on plant defense systems
By MARA McCOINHIS

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beglnnklg at 2 p.m. In c..
for lho Arts Screallng-.

Society of Anesthesiologisu annual meeting in San Diego. .
•we•re looking at the mechanisms involved in aspiration-in duced lung injury, how we can
treat this disease, and bow to avoid
things that rnaa the injury worse:'
said Paul Knight, professor and
chair of the Department of Anes·
thesiology and senior researcher
on the studies.
Aspiration of stomach contentJ
occurs during unconsciousness
brought on by anesthesia, trauma,
drug overdose or other circum-

De•r Edit or:
The enclosed is a letter I sent
to Professor Peter Nickerson,
chairperson of the Faculty Senate. I am submitti ng the letter
to you for publication in the
Reporter.
The Buffalo News (1 1/7/97,
A-1 , A-18) carried a front-page
story telling of SUNY Trustee
Candace de Russy's call for the
resignation of the president of
State College at New Paltz because h is campus sponsored a
conference titled "Revolting
Behavior: The Chall e nges of
Women's Sexual Freedom ."
She disapproved of the topics
discussed at the conference.
According to the story in the
paper, she had attempted to
censor the conference before
it took p lace, and New Paltz
President Roger Bowe n, to his
c redit, resisted her efforts. The
president rightly defended the
organizers' and participants'
c o nstitutionally protected
ri g hts to free expression of
ideas.

induced responses have been observed in planu.
The authors have synthesized
the diverse literature and research
on the topic using approaches of
biochemical ecology, molecular
biology and population biology.
They describe the different ways
in which plants detect damage
and respond to it, as weiJ as ex·
amine the mechanisms respon·
sible for induced resistance and
defense.
Also discussed are the types of
plants. herbivores and environments in which induced resistance
is found and the consequences on
herbivore life history and popula·
lion dynamics. The a~thor&gt; pro·

pose guidelines for collecting data on
the effects of induced resistance on
plant fitness and evaluale evidence for
various theories of wby selection might
favor induced, rather than constitutive,
plant defenses.
Baldwin and Karban also pr=nt the
prospective problems and advantages of
developing induced responses fur man·
agement o{agricultural pest:populations.
The content is targeted toward theoretical and applied researchers in ecol·
ogy,evolutionarybiology,biocbemistry,
molecular biology, plant biology, entomology and agriCulture.
A faculty member since 1989,
Baldwin received a five-year Presiden·
tial Young Investigator grant from the
National Science Foundation in 1991

TheMai•,•

By her actions in attempting
to censor the expression of
ideas, Trustee de Russy has
shown her unfitness to serve
as a SUNY Trustee. She has
acted illeg ally as a govern·
ment official to try to censor
protected speech before it was
uttered. U.S. Supreme Court
justice Powell once wrote :
"The First Amendment's hostility to content-based regulation extends not only to restrictions on particular viewpoints, but also to prohibition
of public discussion of an entire topic. [To] allow a government the choice of permissible
subjects for public debate
would be to [allow] government control over the search
for political truth. •
Trustee de Russy has also
exceeded her authority by al·
tempting to interfere with the
content of academic presentations. I believe she should be
censured by the Faculty Senate. The Senate should call for

her resignation as unfit to
serve ifl her post. I hope you
will introduce a resolution to
that effect. and encourage the
senates on all SUNY campuses
to do the same.
The Faculty Senate should also
urge the Chancellor, and the
presidents of all the other SUNY
campuses to stand behind President Bowen in his correct and
courageous stand. They should
let the Governor and ,the trustees know they will not stand by
silently .w hile politicians who are
out to destroy the State Univer·
sity system engage in such despica ble conduct
If the faculty does not stand
up against such outrageous
and unwarranted interference
in academic programming,
we are only askin'g for more.
In my view, sci me of the trust·
ees are not friends of either
pu blic education or academic
freedom . They will go as far
as we let them in destroying
the values of the academy.

-Murr•y Levine, J.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Strvice Professor, Adjunct Professor of Law ·

to conduct research on the
natural chemical defenses
plantJ use to fight off pestJ.
He reported a breakthrough
in nsearch to the American
Association for the Advance·
ment of Science in 1995 when
he stated that plantJ are like
animals in the sense that they
•remember• when they've ·
been attacked and that they r&lt;·
spond faster to future attacks
by hastening production of
chemical defenses.
Baldwin is on leave from UB
and is serving as the founding
director of th• Max Planck In·
stitute of Chemical Ecology iif
lena, Germany.

-1

Streamlining
Contlnuod , _

and payroll services, and Peter
Klumpp, budget control ofli=.
ln addition, a Continuous
Quality lmpf9Vement unit has
been formed to create a CUS·
tomer· service focal point.
Headed by Roger McGill, assis·
tant vice presicknt fur univer&gt;ity
services and director of campus
services, th• unit will focus on
customer communication and
feedback and continuous efforts
to improve quality service.
The streamlining also will
affect Campus Services, which
includes Campus Mail, University Prin t and Mail Services
and Trademarks and Licensing. Those units will continue
to report to McGill, who will
begin the process of identify·
ing the best organizationallo·
cation for them.
Feedback from a variety of
univ=ity constituents has been,
and will continue to be. an im·
portant part of the process as the
streamlining ofUB's business operations proceeds. Wagner noted
• we' re not going to deal
simply with administrative
processing but all university
systems,' he said. "We will in·
volve thoso staffs and admin·
istrator&gt; to talk this through."

�Noveam 20.1!1!17/Yoi.ZS.No.13 Rep aries

Events calendar
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=-llologkaiSclencos

Holm.-·-

The f&lt;lture of Medkol Care In Buffoicl.

Dr. Dovid
c. lnsthute. 222 Nlbnl
Part
Cancer
Sclences. North Campus. 5 p.m.

UB 2, Canisius l
Canislus foiled Buffalo head coach Bob Muwetl's c:moce for his 400th career
victory In a non-conference match on No.... 12 ;, AI~Mnni Arena.
Canisius got off to a corMncirlg sart. apturiniz the fin:t pme. IS-3. Bofbio
quickly bounced back in the second pme, winning I S-6. But the tables
continued to wm throughout the match, with Canisius grabbing game three.
IS-10, Buffalo snatching game four. 15-3, and Canisius finalty winning game five ,
15 ~ 10, and the match.
Sophomore outside h;,... Rebecca Meade connect&lt;d on I J lcills and gnbbed
II digs. Seniod&lt;othy 8rinkwonh h&gt;d 12 kills and 16 digs.

Opu.CiauksU..
Audrey Shller, plono; Paul HArtley,
piano. Allen HaU. South Campus. 7
p.m. Free. Concert to be broadast on
the f~ Sunday at 4 p.m. on
WBFO-FM 88.7.
Concot'l

Unlvonlty Chorus. Harriet Simons,
conductor. Sft. North Campus. 8 p.m.
Sponso&lt;ed by Dept of Music.

Thursday
UB 85, Southern Utah 75

Wednesdays •t 4 Plus
Tallc VIdeo as Medium. )oan )onas. 438
Clemens. North Campus. 12:10 p.m .

Saturday.

Phat'lflkevtics Seminar
Fet.l Alcohol Syndrome: Modulation

Guerrll&amp;. Imaging

of Neuronal Death by EthAnol.
Rkhard Rabif\ Ph.D., UB Dept of
Pharmacology and Toxicology. 508

Objects take on curious new functions in
an exhibit of wort by Paul Johnson In

Cooke. North !=ampu.s. 3:30-5 p.m.

~.u=z~~~~ ;:;~[for the

Ufe Workshop

continues through Dec. 20. Gallety
hours are 10:30 a.m .-8 p .m . Wednesday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m . Sunday.

Resolving Conflku as a leader. 34:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Offke of
Student Ufe. Call

~5-6125 .

Peter Halley Profert

"'The Peter HaUey Pro;ect.'" a series of

Biological Sciences Seminar
Progf'llmmed Changes In DKodlng.
Dr. R.F. Gesteiand, prof. and chair,

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Umpus. 4 p.m.

temporary public art projects ~ned
to engage the univefslty commun1ty In a
d ialogue about contemporary art and
Issues, Is on d isplay in the Center for the
Arts and at various sites throughout the
North Campus through July 1998. For
more information on the artist and his
WOfll, call the UB Art Callery at 645 ·
6912 .

otic:es
Polmettla reminder

The deadline for pnpaid orders fl)r

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Exhibit tided '"Can.dian Architecture,"
sponsored by the School of Atdlitocture
and Pt&amp;nNng, wiU be on d~
through Nolv. 26 In the james
Gallely, 335 Hayes Hall, South mpus.
Cal$ery houl'l are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday-Friday.
Cemonhlp~

"Bumlng Issues: The Heated Debate
Cen.sor~hlp, • a travetlng exhibit
created by the free Library of PhiLadephia, Is on display in Lockwood Ubrary
and the Law Ubrlry through Dec. 20. A
basic. introduction to some of the most
vis!~ censof'Shlp controversies In
contflnpor.~ry Americ.a, the exhibit
expfores book banning, record labeling,
pornography lssues, art censorship, film
editlng and Internet filtmng. Nomlal
library houD are 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Mooday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-9 p .m.
Sunday.
,
Over

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~r, ':c,"r, 5~ ~;o:~~~s
or decorated. Pick l!P is Dec. 4. For
more lnfonnatlon, contact Winnie
Doran at 839-9 71 0.

Jobs
f....tty
Asslsbnt Professor-History, Posting
tf-7081. Asslst.nt ProfeuorCommooialtfo.lt OisoJden and Sciences,
Posting IF-7082. Asslstont ProiessorMathematics,. Posting IF-7093. As.slstont/Assoclote/f&lt;lll Prof....,. (two
positions ovallable)-Gynecology and
Obstetria, Posting IF-7094, IF-7095.

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cancer
Institute. Posting IIF-7096.
Associate/ Full Professor-Surgical
Dncotogy{lhoracic Suryery, Roswell Paoi&lt;
Cancer lnstitu.te, Posting IIF-7097.

Research

CrHtiYe ¥kual work

~:lror=~~~~~r~~­
~=.r:s~ Posting
Sponsored Programs Personnel, no
posting •.

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Open~tiom

Analyst (SL-2}-SEAS Node
Technology Services, Posting IP-7090.
Counselor (SL-3)-Educational Oppor-

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Information Technofogy, Posung

fP-7096. Assbtant Ofrector of Admissions (Sl-4)-Admlssions, Posting
8P-7097. As.sJstant to the President
for CommunlaUons (SL-4)-office of

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~~:;~&gt;~~=or~\e"=~ns
(M P-4)-0fflce of the Presklent, Posting
f P-71 01. MAnager of lnfonn~~Uon

Techno~~SL-4)-School of Management. P::;,'l *P-7103. Classroom

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Posting IIP-7104 . Coordlnalor of
Clauroom Services (SL-3, two

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tP-7 105. Assistant Dun fOf' Minority
Affairs (SL-S)-Dean's Office. .5c:ho&lt;M of
Medid~ and Bbnedical Sciences,
Posting t P-7106. Staff As.ststant (SL2)-PhyW!ogy and Blophysks, Posting
IP-7107. Staff A»&gt;stant (5L-2)·
Anatomy and Ceft Bic*)gy, Posting
fP-7 108. Auoclate Director for

Residential Ufe (SL-S)-University
Residence Halls, Posting IP-7109.
Olrect.Of' of Flnandal Aid (Sl-S)Student f inances a~ Records, Posting

IIP-7110.
Competitive Classified Civil

s.m.:.

Keyboard 5pedallst 1 (5G-6)·
Univers.lty Facilities, line 1125610.
~-~Utlve / Labor Classified

Building Service Aide (NS-3, part·
tJme)(three positions available)·
Univemty Facilities, line II to be
determined. Dental Assistant (5G -7)
(part tlme)-School of Dental Medicine,

Une: , _.0790.

"Oinnkk and Howells: Pictures, Words,
Meani~ Effect." an exhibit of a wide

To obtain mor~ information on jobs listed
obovt, contact Perlonne/ Servkes ' fox
r~ system by calling 645-3843
and following the \o'Oic~ prompt
instructions. To obtain information on
Research jobs, contocr SponSOted
Programs Personnet. 416 CrofU.

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through Dec. 12 In the Art Department
Callery, Center for the Arts. North
Campus. Callefy hours are 10 a.m .-

~~~~~,!;~·1-Sa~~-8 p.m .

Junior Scott McMillin came off the bench to score 17 points as the Bolls won
over Southem Uah.85-75, on N ov. IS In their season opener and first
conference game of the season.
McMillin hft a 20-footer from the right wing with &lt;4:34 left in the second hatf
to ignite a 11-0 run by the Bolls and put them up 82-68. Southem Utah never
got closer than I 0 points in the final minuteS ol the second hatf as the Bulls
hung on for the win.
Buffalo shot an outstanding S I percent from the field and 81 percent from
the free--throw Jine, a.s three Buffalo players scored in double figures. In addinon
to McMillin, senior ~un Young led the way with 25 poina and senior Mike
Martinho contributed 20 poinu .

WOMEN 'S

UB 94, Cornell 55
Senior Charissa Gardner poured in 21 points as the women's basketball team
delea&lt;od Cornel Unive&lt;'sity. 95-SS,in che Bulls season-opener in hhaa on No&lt;. 14.
Buff.do scored the first sfx points of the game and opened up a I 6-2 i~d
on twO SUilight ) -point field p!s by junior Kim Coon with 15:34 left. Begmn1ng
the second haK with a commanding 55-27 lead, the Bulls pi~ up where they
left off. again scoring the fi rst six points of the twf.
ComeU co uld not handle Bufblo's tenacious defense as the SuUs forced the
Big Red tO commit 2-4 turnovers in the game.The Bulls turned the ball over
only 13 times and shot 53.8 percent from the field for the game.
Three Buffalo pbyers sc~ in double figures. with senior Charisg
Gardner leading the way with 21 poina. Also conoibuting for the Bulls were
juntors Kim Coon with 13 poinu and Utherine jacob witt} 1_. points.

Men's ~wimmin~
U8 I 1 I , St. Bonaventure I I 0
Sophomore swimmer Dan Hickey finished first ln two evenu as the men's
swimming ~m defeated St. Bonavenwre. 121-1 I0, on Nov. IS. Hkkey finished
first with~ tirne of 1:+45 9 1n the men's senior 200-freestyle and also grabbed
tim In the men's senior 100-freestyle with a time of .. 7.&amp;4.

~oot~all
UB 28, Villanova 42
The Bulls lost their final pme of the seuon lo the No. 1-ranked Villanova
Wildcaa, 42-28.With the loss. the young and inexperienced Bulls dropped to
2-9 on the season.
Despite a disappointing record, the Bulls posted several Impressive rmrks
throughout the; season, as senior Anthony Swan became the all-time leading
rusher in Buffalo history (3,103 yards}: quarterb~ck Ch.ad Salisbury set
numerous records. including completions (21 8). yards (2,889) and ~nempts
(3 &amp;4 ).~nd wide receiver Drew Haddad became the first UB player with over
1,000 yards receiving in a season. grabbing 67 puses for 1.058 yards-a new
single-season school record. Split end Jamie G~sparre rmtched the record for
touchdown receptions in a career ( 19) and finished his two-year US career
with I 02 receptions. Nose guard Keith Hanse;n finished with _. I career uckles
for loss.

Wmstlin~
Two freshmen finished In the finals at the Slippery Rock lnVItaOOnal held Nov.
IS in Slippery Rock. Pa. C~d Caros and Vince DeAugustin'e both made It to the
finals of the invitational and finished second ovenil
Josh States, also a freshman, and junior Brian Schaal both placed fourth
overall in the open tourTWnent. No ~ scores were recorded for the
invitational.

-Andrew Punul, Assisconc Sports InformaciOn Dtreaor

1998 University at Buffalo Commencement schedule
Friday, May 1 S
Phi B&lt;ta Kilppa Induction
2 p.m. Slec ConceFt Hall
,Graduate School
2 p.m .Center fo r the Arts
• Arts and Letters
• Natural Sciences and Mathematics
+ Social..Sciences
Honors Convocation
5 p.m. Ce n1er for the Ar1s

Saturd":y, May 16
School of Hea lth
Relared Professions
9 a.m. Alumni Arena
School of Social Work
9 a.m. Center for the Arts
School of Nursing
9 a.m. Slee Concer1 Hall
School of Information
and library Studies
10 a.m. Studen1 Union Theatre

School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences
I p.m. Alumni Arena
School of lAw
I p. m. Ce nter for the Arts
School of Pharmacy
1. p.m. Slee Co ncert Hall
School of Architecture
and Planning
3 p.m. Hayes Hall lawn
School of Management
S p.m. Alumni Are na

Graduate School of Education
5 p.m. Cente r for the Arts

Sunday, May 17
University Co mm et~ ce menr
10 a.m. Alumni Arena
Undergraduate Faculli es:
• Arts and Letters
• Natural Sciences and Math ematics
• Social Sciences
• Special and Individualized

Maj ors
• Associa u~ Degrees

School of Denrnl M~dicmt"
2 p.m. Center for the Arb

Friday, May 22
Medical Honors Program
10 a.m. Health Sciences Libraf)·
Scl1ool of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciencej
2 p.m. Ccn1.er for the Arts

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Journey to success
benDf ll 1!!7/ti 29.No.12

Fighting
~ Flu
Senior nursing students
have been giving flu shots
in clinics set up in stores
and senior citizen centers.
Here, Monifa Thompson,
with Judy Minott in the
background, administers
vaccine to a patient
at a Tops market
on Elmwood Avenue.

Academic information system vital to VB
Provost's report calls it the 'number 1priority' for the current academic year
IIJSUI!~

News -

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Associate Edlto&lt;
HB creation of .an academic InfOrmation system that will hdp UB as-

sess its Jcademic pro·
grams and ~its perfol'tll3Jla
as an academic and =earch institution is cited by l'nMlst Thomas
E. Headrick as the "number one priority" for the current academic year
in the ...:ood &gt;a&gt;ion of his ongoing academic planning rcporL
The report-published as an insert in this issue of the Reportn- and
available on UB Wmgs at http://
wings.buffalo.edu/provost/
planningr&lt;portl--elso so= the
importance of academic planning by
individualunitswithinthe · · .
1n "Planning Report n·~

planning and delivery of undergraduate education and puBUit of
resourasotborthan -taxdollan.
Headridc stre11es that the entire
UB community must work IOj!etber
to nialoothese changes to ensure academic quality and acdlence.
"In the future, our culture will
have to support greater cooperation
and coUaboration among academic
units, more teamwork among administrators and academic units,

and more oooscious cnncem for the
whole university, as well as iu several parts," he says.
Entrepreneurism needed
Mo=ver, the university will have

to be more alert to new opportunities to generate revmue.
"Our culture and administrative

restates the ·objectives 'and main • structures,• h~ ~-emus~ encour~
points of his previous planning re-- age acadein:tc mnovauon . and

port.respondstoconunentsfiomthe
uni&gt;a&gt;itycommunitydicitedbythe
earlier report and outlines decisions
that already have been made, some
that will be made, and issues that
need further consideration.

He also says be believ.s the main
message of his initial planning report "has been~ 'B"Ored in the
public discussions.•
Headrick has projected a 15 petcent increase in operating resources
over a 10-yearspan that can be used
for academic purposes.
However, 1,1l1iess some changes are
made in the current systems of decision-making and resol!r&lt;Zallocation,
he notes, "ourchanceoffritteringaway
opportunities is reasonably high."
The changes that are necessary involve academic unit planning, collaboration in planning and &amp;culty
appointments and development in
disciplines that span departments
and schools, support for &amp;culty initiatives that require a mix of disciplinary perspectives, integration of

entrepreneunsm because that IS the
contat in which higher education
will ~on and succeed in the 21st
century.
In stressing the importance of an

academic information system,
Headri.ck acknowledges the weaknesses in external ratings such as
those prepared by the National Research c;:ouncil and U.S. News and
World Report.
"For this university to function
successfully, we need to develop a
much more sophisticated system of
academic measurement and ac·
counting." he says. UB needs to build
"an appropriate local system of academic information and performance measures in which the uni·
&gt;a&gt;ity community has confidence as
accurate representations of our capabilities and performance, and which
for the outside world will provide reliablebasesforcomparingourperfor""""" with that ofother universities."
To that end, Headrick notes, he
has reorganized his office to include
a new Office of Academic lnforma- .
tion and Planning. headed by Vice

Q

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the uni&gt;a&gt;ity as a wbole.•
Provost
Sullivan.
Other. are "in progress," while
The academic information sys-tem will augment the academic several are "just beginning:' he adds.
Headrick says his goo! is to move
planning processes that are under
way in the individuaJ units.
those units in the advanad stage "to
Headrick says that some units are some closure" on performance meain the advanced stage of planning. sures, implementation strategy and
with a "clear definition of future de- finances as quicldy as possible durvelopment and priorities, but with ing this academic year, with the rethe need to establish performance maining units moving to the admeasures and then rnah some de- vanced stage or beyond by Falli998.
cisions on implementation and fiTh~ report, which Headrick says
nances in the contat of the overall is not a final plan but the next stage
financial capacities of the unit and ~- ..... :z

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vice president for student
affairs. He bas held.a number of student-services
__.._"' ... positions since joining the
- .:::..,.0111111!11 university in 1978, including
executive director of Sub Board I, dean~~ .....L-•·
uaociate vice president for student affairs. He received both his
bachelor's degree and law~ from UB.
spo- to boredom or stress. But

Researchers currently define
"binge" drinking as consumption
of five or more drinks in one sitting. Rq&gt;oru indicate that almost
85 per=t of today's college stu·
denu drink and half of these are
binge drinkers. And one out offi""
college studenu are said to binge
drink each week!

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Drinking remains a serious
problem, on and off campus, for
studenu and others. In addition to
the direct negative consequences

for drinkers, there are •second·
~d binge• imparu on .11then.
These can include confrontations,
assaults, date rapes, penonal property damage, vandalism, and interruptions to studying and sleeping.
As a result, non-bingers become

some of our younger students
view heavy drinking as a social

stance-abuSe problema. Prieruh,
family, neigbbon,in.structon and
staff can direCt students to thae
resources or to get Information
from them to sbatt directly or indirectly with lltUdarts in difficulty.
Qu.lity intenmtion and information pr:osrams are offa-ed at UB
tbroush unitl such u the Living
Well Center, Cowueling Center,
Residence Halls, and Health Servica. For more information, call
645-2837 or cbeclt out the Coun·
seling Center's web site.

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necessity, drinking simply "to get
drunk." That has to be a serious · We have already bad some limited
concern for us as a mmmunity.
success with them, but need to do
more. Tbere was a ttrriblo ala&gt;bol--atW7
related accident just over two
Yes, to some extent We have to weeks ago. Through periodic
meetings with bar owners and
remain Vl:ry concerned about UB·
student levels of alcohol use. A othen in University Heigbto, we
q.ticldook at our records and con· have pushed for greater pedestrian
tact with studenu indicate missed safety on Maio Street, more reclasses, accidents and illnesse•. sponsible alcohol marketing. efimpaired driving. trespasses, prop- forts, and increased awareness of
erty damage, fires, unwanted the consequences of serving unsexual activity, troubles with derage or intoxicated patrons, infriends and other problems. As a cluding our stUdents.
More outreach is needed-to
campus, we face a variety of alco·
hoi-related health, social and aca- the ban and to our studenu.

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demic issues related to continuing

binge drinking and feel the negative imparu in many ways.

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Substance abyse in all forms is
victims of binge-drinking stu- a problem. This can ix,lclude alcohol, tobaeco and illegal drug misdenu.
Why do you think binge drink· use. However, ~ &lt;&gt;flo~~ products or illegal drugs isdwufed by
lng occun7
the extent of alcohol consumption
Drinking !&gt;as long been a part · in today's collegiate enYironment
of the college experience. Unfortunately, it begins today long be,what
fore a student fint arrives on cam- doesWdotohelp7
pus.
I think students should know
Binge drinking can be a result
of students experimenting and that we care and can help.
UB has a suppo·n network availexperiencing new freedoms, feelings of social isolation, or in re- able to assist those facing sub·

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underpaduafe, I was able to buy
beer by lhe pitdler in lhe lllldmt
union and bad • proiaeor teo&lt;h
the 1ut dut of t h e - in •
M.a. s-barf Aloobol_mo,.,
lepiJy ...a.bJe then, but perhaps
leu acitinc to studalt life.

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Perhaps in another life, I'd be a
producer for ndio or television

news.

rve always been inl&lt;reiiM

in bow local and network news
Pr:osrams and oqma&gt;U are prepared and praent&lt;d.
Ocx:uionally, I talk back to my
radio or tdnision with COtDJDaiU
and sugestionl on bow&lt;the news
bro.dcut could have been better
handled if I wu in charge!

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to slip off campUI at lunch time
to read to the kindergarten class

my wife, Leilani, teaches. Lut
wecl&lt;'s selection was "'!yrooe the
Terrible,• about dealing with bul·
lies! I get to "wind up" her kids,
then leave ber with her hands full
Then I come back to UB.
I guess !still haven't learned everything I need to know from kin·
dergarten!

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cop&gt;muter campus than people

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Greelc-lette.- and residence-ball what wu up. lt hippened to be a
population when compared to '!UesdaynigblaroundlOp.m. The
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Academic
plan
ContlowM- _ ,
in the process "of shaping the fu.
ture of Ibis univenity and making

some critical choices," outlines
other decisions that have been
. made to move the univenity-wide
planning process forward:
• Formation of a College of
Arts and Sciences that would en·
compass the current faculties of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
Social Sciences, and Arts and Let·
ters. Two committees have been
formed; one to sprch for a dean
for the new college, another to lay
the foundation for the college.
• Integration of nudent academic services, including under·

graduate admissions, student
records and registration, financial
aid, student acrounu and academic
advising. under a single structun! in
the provost's office.
• Additional support, througb
the second phase of the Educa·
tiona! Technology Action Plan, for
the academic uniu to expand uses
of techn.o logy in teaching and
learning. This additional support
brings to $8 million the amount
of new and reallocated funds in·

vested to support educational

technology during the past two
yean.
• Creation of the Univers.ityBwiness Alliance. U8 is in the fi •
na1 stages of setting up an organi·
zation that will suppon and expand
the university's connection to indwtry. The alliance, which would
bring togetber The CenteJ: for lndwtrial Effectiveness (TCIE), the
Strategic Partnership for Industrial
Resurgence (SPIR), the Greater
Regional Industrial Technology
(GRIT) Program and.the Office of
Technology Thmsfer Services, will
provide easy access for local indus·
tries seelcing univenity help and
will arrange opportuniti!'S for fac·
ulty to work with indust'r y on
projeru of mutual interest.
• Formation of a task force to
address issues concerning interdisciplinary centers and institutes.
These include developing guide·
lines for formation, support and
dissolution of the structures, and
defining relationships between departmenu and the interdisciplinary organizations with respect to
appointment, tenure and promotion, allocation of faculty assign-

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The resistance generated in
some paru of the university, he
notes, "has been out of proportion
to the positive impact they migbt
have on the internal structure of
the university or the academic
work of arty individual faculty

member.•
.
In addressing some of the ron·
cerns that have been raised,
PROVOST THOMAS E. HEADRICK

ments arid decisions concerning
incentives and rewards.
1Wo proposals for institutesone for Raearch and Education
on Women 'and Gender and the
other on Environment &amp; Society-have reaived some start-up
funding from the provost's office.
Headrielc also says that several
proposals forcen~mewjth
significant potential for e:xtemal
support-will be reviewed later in
the academic year, once the task
force has filed a report.
The issue of interdisciplinary
institutes. centers and initiatives is
one that raised widespread reactions from mem!&gt;ers of the uni·
versity community last spring,
Headrick notes.

Headrick poinu out that the i~

for interdisciplinary structures
mentioned in his initial planning
report were based on proposals
from faculty, and on areas where
the common interesU are sbared

by numerous departments and
schools, such as the biological and

chemical sciences.
On the subject of promotion
and tenure, he says it would be
"both seDSJble and &amp;ir" for junior
colleagues to be evaluated by senior colleagues who are working
with them on interdisciplinary en·
deavon. And departmenu and departmental colleagues certainly
would main a role in such decisions, be adds, since the process
depends upon the "wdl·founded
ju~ts of many participants."

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·
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din
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and Goodyear, secretary, and

pointed u a tru111oe. Philip B. Wds

of'Rud Capital Corp., ttaawer.
New board trustees
dected to three-year tmDI
are Beverly Foit-Albert,
president and owner
Foit-AibertAModata,P.C;
Mark E. Hamiater, chairDWI and chief azc:utive offleer of National Health
CareAllillata, Inc.· jordan A. Levy,~ ofSoftbank
Services Group; WiUiam L.
McHusb, eucutive vice president
of Independent HealthAuociata,
and Louis R. Rei£ former chairman and chief
officer of
National Fuel Gu Co.
Serving u a trustee and chair of
thuudi!COIIIIDitleeisWiDiamM.E.
Carbon, an O!iiunct prolaaor in
theUBDeportmmtofl'lanninsand
foi'IDOI' chair of Gnpbic Controls
Corp. Robert Rich, Jr. praiclent of

New diftcton elected to three-

EG~a.Newmanu, DonaldA.~formerpraida&gt;t -D.med~ru~~eeemeritus.
paidont ofNOCO ~.avCorp.,bubeenreoppoiDted chair of the

~~.:n'-~thetlnivenity
81 ........., Fow&gt;datioo, Inc.
The board of truatea, which
participata in the uniwnity's de~t P~·~ reaponaible
for talllDf commuruty awareneu
oftheneedforprivateaupportfor
UB, aoliciting gifts on behalf of it
and manacin8 uaetl received by
the _foundation. It also provides
advice aod counad to the preaident of the university on matters
illvoiving the UB community and
ib constituencies.
Other officers appointed by the
foundation are John N. Walah ill,
chairman and chief eucutive offleer of Walsh Duflidd .Companies, Inc., vice chair; Richard E.
H&lt;ath, partner in the ~w firm of

.,.,;.live

year terms are Sal H.
Alfiero, chairman aod
chief erecutive officer of
Mark IV Induatria, Inc.;
R.obertT. Brady,praiclent
and chief erecutive officer
of Moog Controb, lOA:.,
and John N. Walah UL
The foUowing directors
werere-dectedtothree-yearterms:
William G. Gisd, Jr., preaident,
Food Group of Rich Producb
Corp.; Walter E.
pa, Jr., vice
president, financ of Gemcor;
Jonathan W.
chief invest-

Midland
attorney
with the law firm Jaecltle,
Fleiachmann, and Mugd, and JeremyM.Jacobo,Jr.,seniorerecutive
vice praident of Delaware North
Companies, Inc.

FSEC_unit reports on music issue
HE Academic Planning
Committee of the Faculty Senate has no objection to a proposal by
the Dep
ent of Music to drop
the 6achd r's-degree program in
music ed
tion, as long as studenh
tlyintheprogmnor
being
'ted to the progmn are
allowed to . mplete current degree requi
ts.
·
In addition, e committee said
in a prepared
ent, faculty in
thedepartmentshould"cletermine
the date on which student recruitment to the degree program in
music education u currently constituted will cease."

the music departmenL Faculty in
the department had approved the
proposal in September by a vote
of 15-2, with three abstentions.
The Academic Planning Committee had been asked by the FSEC
to report by Nov. I on whether
proper. prncedurea were followed
when music department faculty
membenvotedearlierthisyearto
drop the bachdor's-degree program in music education. Undergraduates who want to punue careeroas music teachers would earn
a hachdor of arb degrtt in music
and be certified in music education throusb the Gnduate School
of Education.
The issue has been a divisive one
within the department, with mu-

Theoommittee'sreportwaspre-

sic educators from outside the

sented to the senate's executive
committee Nov. 5 by Claude Wdch,
)r., SUNY Distinguished Service
Professor in the Department ofPnlitieaiScieDA:eandchairoftheAcademic Planning Committee.
Members of the committee,
Welch said, believe "that substantive. discipline-based issues need
to be decided by the affected faculty," and that "extended discussion" of the issue, as weU as some
planning, have oc;c;urred within ,

university weighing in on the issue, many through opinion pieces
published in The BlljfalD News.
At the Nov. 5 executive committee meeting, James Faran, associate professor of mathematics, said
thatwhilehebelievedforthemost
part that a discipline-based issue
should be decided by the affected
faculty, he can envision cases in
which, during the hiring process,
a department might graduaUy become overpopulated with facuJty

II)' SUI wuna.&amp;
News SeMces Associate Directo&lt;

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whose specialty is in one parlicular sub6dd.
"And they've decided that 'Yes,
that's the way their department
ough't to go; we're aU category
theorists, so the math department
ought to be aU category theorisb.
We're Jungian psychologists, so the
psychology department ought to
be all Jungian psychologists,'"
Fa ran said. "The question is,
should there be someone stepping
in, some administr&amp;tor, if such a
thing should happen!"
Welch said there were several
checkstokeepprograrnsfrombecoming overloaded in one particular area, including regular, effective means of progmn evaluation
involving outside evaluaton and
pressure from colleagues within
the institution to maintain wellbalanced programs.
Herbert Schue!, professor of
anatomical sciences, stressed that
the responsibility for academic
programs rests with the faculty. "We
cannotignoretheattitudesorperceptions of the community," he
added, calling the music-educa tion issue "a lose-lose situation
because of the way it has played
out .. . because of the way it has been
pm:eivedbypeopleontheoutsidc."

Greiner accents new technology,
.,plarketing efforts in talk to PSS
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RESIDENT WILUAM R. Greinersb-.-1 the
importanceofincorporatingnewtechnology
andstnlOimarllotinadl'orts into plaDningfor
the future of the univenity at the Nov. 6 Professional Staff Senate meeting.
"We must embnce and use effectively new technology, both as a teaching tool and with the facuJty
and staff," he said. Technology, he added, "will be integrated into planning efforts over and over again."
Asbd whether UB will be a leader or follower in terms
of information technology, Gmner said it would make
more~ 6nanciaUy to eatablish UB as an "early follower"that also discove!&gt; new and creative ways to enhance education using information technology.
"My sense is that early-foUower strategy works really well," said Greiner. "When you try to be in the
leader stage, you e.;;J up investing to train.. .instead,
we will be leaden in taking the new technology and
using it creatively.•

Greiner reported that a huge demand exists within
the univenity for information-technology staff, which
will create an opportunity for current staff members
to train' for these positions. He emphasized that the
new positions will be appropriately reassigned internally, rather \han initiating external recruiting efforts
for new staff.

With regard to improving marketing efforts.
Greinerstreased thata university the size ofUB must
have a dear institutional identity.
· The university's new interlocking UB logo, he
added, is a "distinctive, easy-to-recogniu and a clear
identifier" that will hdp to convey tltis identity. "As
time passes, everyone in the country will recognize
UB," he added.
Greiner said that the signs located at campus entrances will be changed to blue and white and will
include the new logo.
He noted that as part of its enroUment management
dl'orts, the univenity currently is involved in "heavy
mar1ceting" to prospective undergraduate students.

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of

-·-nation's- ddlall..tl'""'plllr'ill-loell poeto
and wioner of numerous literary awards, will present the 1997 Oscar Silverman Memorial ~ding at 8 p.m. tomorrow in 250 Baird
Hall on the North Campus. The reading will be free of
charge aod open to the public.
AmmoDJ will read in the place of poet David lgnatow,
who was scheduled to present his work before he suffered
a stroke last month.
Ammons' creative genealogy is in the romantic tradition.Besides the transcendentalistaRalph Waldo Emerson and Henry
David Tho~u, the influenus most frequently attributed to him by
critics are thoseofWalt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace
Stevens and William Carlos Williams.
Among his concerns are the implications of change in nature and
in daily life, the tension between the individual's sense of self as
bouod to the particulars of space and time, and the sense of self as
part of a larger continuum, a sense derived from nature itself.
Amonghisawardsandhono~&gt;aretheNationalBookAwardinPoetry
in 1973andagain in 1993; theRobertFrootSilverMedal frnm the Poetry
Society of America; the Rnth UUy Poetry Priu; a MacArthur Prize Fellowsbip for 1981-86; Yale uru..rsity's BoUingen Prize in Poetry; the Nationa! institute of Arts and Ldters A~ in Poetry; the National Book
Critics Cilde Award and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize.
His many notable books include "Ommateum, with Doxology,"
"Uplands,""VIStas,""The Snow Poems,""Worldly Hopes,""Lake Effecb Country" and "A Coast of Trees."
Ammons is a former poetry editor of Nation and a contributor to
Hudson ~. Poetry. Cm-leton Misallan and other periodicals.
He has been a member of the faculty of Cornell University since
1964 and previously was Cornell's Goldwin Smith Chair in Poetry.

Vocal trio Floom to present
performance poetry Nov. 19
F'loom, .,. .u.maJe .-ocaJ trio that uses aspects of musk, literature
and come.;ly to produce what has been described as "an imfoiJ!ettable
auditory and visual experience.- will present its performance poetry
at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Center for the Arts Screening Room.
The appearance is pan of Wednesdays at 4 Plus, events that are free
and open to the public.
Critics describe the group's use of "wit, humor and mind-stretching verbal pyrotechnics" to create a type of "language-music:" composed of"poetry, diattibe, tongue clicks, whirs, breaths and ululations.•
Members of the group are Michael
Ives, a jazz musician and stu-

dent of classical literature,
Robert Kulik, a jazz guitarist and avid amateur Sanskrit scholar. and Rick
Scon, who got his start at
a German music conservatory and describes himself as "a neopagan herbalist with a vast fondness
for the absurd ."

Originall960s "rocket man"
to speak at UB on Nov. 24 ,
William P. Suitor, the original "rocket man" who conducted test
flighh of the rocket bdt developed by BeU Aerosystems in the 1960s,
will speak at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, in Room 210 of the Natural
Science and Mathematics Complex on the North Campus.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the UB
Sciences Alumni Association Lecture Series.
Suitor was hired in 1964 at the age of 19 by B.U Aerosystems and
Bell engineer WendeU Moore, the inventor of the Rocket Belt, to
conduct test flighh of the belt. He went on to fly as a member of the
prestigious BeU Aerosystems rocket bdt flying team from 1964-70.
He holds aU of the records in altitude, distance, and speed for the
Rocket Ddt, and is the only person to have flown aU three venions
of the belt. He has made flying appearances in numerous movies,
including "Thunder BaU" and the television series "The Fall Guy," as
well as the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics.
For more information, call Cindy Nydahl at 645-2531 ,

No Reporter on Nov. 27
The leport.. will not publish an issue on Nov. 27 due to the
Thanksgiving holiday. lWo issues will be published Dec. 4 and Dec.

II before the end of the fall semester.

�Writing the new Inath standards
It's new challenge for Clements, de,signer ofprize-winning 'Turlle Math' software
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SPITE being re ctntlynamedtoone
of the wrilint! t&lt;arru
i&gt;r"Scandardo 2000,"
a National Colltlcil
offiochersofMalbematics (NCI'M)
project, Douglas H_ Oemmts may
llill be moot oommonly associaud
with a little blade turtle that draws
triangl&lt;s and m:taJl81esOne of the designen of the educational computer program
"Thrtle Math," which was named
1995 Softwue of the Year in the
math category by Technolofy 6Uarning magazine, Clements is a
professor oflearning and instruction in the Graduate School of
Education_ He also is oo-direttor
of the Center for Educational
Technology, wbich tests and writes
educational software.

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ClementsmettbissUmm.rti&gt;rthe
6nt time with the "Standards 2000"
group. Its pi is to revise and duify
the original NCTM "Standards"
document, which hal bad a wide""''!iniimpecton the national malb
curricula and tle:llbook produaion
aw:r the past eipt yoars.
Since the new project is still in
its early stages, Oements is reluctant to speculate as to aactly how
it plans to revise the "Standards"
document. But "Thrtle Math" is a
good key to the kinds of ideas he
will briog to the project.
An interactive comput~r program redesigned from the "Logo"
program by Oements and Julie
Sarama of Wayne State UniYersity,
"Thrtte Math" is used in elementary
schools across the United States.
Like "Logo." the game begins with
a black iurtle on a white screen.
Using simple oommands for distance and turns in degrees, children
can program' the turtle's path, creating and manipulating the geotnetric shapes it leaves in its wake.
~ Among other innovations,
Clements and Sarama added options
to the "Logo" tool bar that helped

oriplal'Standords' document) and
"" soy that in tb. wrong way, it
a&gt;uld be in~ u us ayina,
'We were wrong befo"' and now
,..,•.., changing our minds: And if
we a&gt;ntmut to aay it euctly the
same waytbey mieht soy, 'See, tbey
areo*t liltminc to our coocerna.*
"'~bore are all kiDdo of miouoderstandinp obout tbe whole ~
JDOIIOOIDOJil,"headded."l'l!opleocmetimo:s II)' to me, '\'hi, in
lllf'""""'is'right.'Jstbotwhot,.,u'"'
saying!' And, no, not at IIL.but in
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and pbysia ~ "" muhiple an......_ ~""a.nywoystomoke1
chair. Aod in math, that can be an
impor1ant!lmdof~

Put ofthe rnotiwlion for"Thrtte
Math," sai4 Oements, was to enoowagea kind ofleaming that "basic slcills" do not always cover.

"When the turtle draws the figure,
it ahows your ideas enacted," he
said. "Instead of writing down a
buDch of ltliWa'l and the t..cher
marb you wrong, you design

aometbina. )'Oil make it- and whm

stra&gt;gtben aJilDOCiioos bet&gt;wm the
cbild'Cpr&lt;ll!lmland thednwnfipft.
" 'Logo'
simplicity itself
from the kids' point of vit:w:' aaid
Oements, "and that was important Youwaotthekidstomake'the
mental actiolil, to create interating stuff, and not have the program deligners doing it for them.
It'a part of the whole ctructural
problem in education: most of us
teach what_we're taught. Much of
the education software is still
word-problems-at-the-end-ofthe-chapter, only now they have
songs or dancing bears."
Clements sees the "'dancing
bears• as an extension of a "'passive, viewing-oriented" culture.
"'Some educational computer
programs try to oompete with that
passiveculture," he said. "I don't ptetend it's easy to go against tha~ or
that
always successful, but I still
think people can be motivated by

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their own creatiom, th£ makiDg of. oomethiDc- WJ'OO&amp;.~
stuff that embodies deep mathCreating "Turtte Math," aaid
ematical ideas, ratbertban juol mak- Oements, was an interactive, cliaingitmoreandmore~·
logic procaa. He expects tbe same
Along with this a&gt;illtrw:tMst, intera&lt;:tM procese to be a part of
Jcids' -eye view of mathematical "Standards2000."TbednftdocuJomninc.Oanems will hriuga more ment is acheduled to be a&gt;mplded
seoonJ pbilooophy of education to by Pall 1998.
the "SSandards 2000" project.
Whatna- ~lions the
"It's largely about balance," he group clndopt. Oementl pointl
said. "On the one hand, education out that oil tbe malb nionns of the
triea to help .the inclivicluallllllize pul hiM not dwJeed tbe funcla- .
their fuD polmtiaJ and,oo the ocher mentalltruetW'el of tbecluarnom.
hand, it tria to help that inclividual "'That's nota 'pxl' ora 'bod' thin&amp;"
bea&gt;me a full, participatory memhesaid."ButtbesideolmetbatkMs
bet of a given culture. My position
to trytocta~~enewtbinss would like
is always to take both into cqnsidto say that we can hiM a new piceration, but not to put either the
t=ofeducation,anditwould;wo!Ye
practical utility of math or its aesthetic valut higher than the othec" tldmologyquirea bit, but it wouldo'
This cona:m fOr 1 balance. said beCGIIL!red oil thetechnology.ll:would
Clements, is one of the reuons be is be amerod oo people, on tbe image
hesitant to comment on the "Stan- of keeping the value of the indidards 2000" project in ils early Sblg&lt;S. vidual and the value of society in 1
"'If we come out saying we never ~balance. And I think tedlmeant to abandon basic slcills (in the nology could......, that balance."

·Council gets update on apartment-style housing
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ONSTRUCTJON of
apartment-style housing for UB graduate
students is on time and
on budget, aca&gt;rding to an update
presented Nov. 4 to the UB Council by Dennis Black. interim vice
president for student affairs.
The11rst 115 unit&gt; in the project,
being a&gt;nstructed at the a&gt;rner of
Sweet Home and Chestnut Ridge
roads by the UB Foundation on
land owned by it, ..., ezpected to
be a&gt;mplded for ocrupancy for the
Pan 1998 semester, and a numbet
of unitl will be =dy in time for
the university's an1.1ual new-student Open House in April, he said.
"The project. .. is designed for a
student population not addressed
befo~duate students, married students, students with children," Black said.
The apartment buildings P"'dominantly will offer two-bedroom units, with some one~bed ;

room units and units for students buildnewf3cilities,ifit's called for,"
with disabilities, he added.
Black added.
Students were consulted in
A third pbase of construction
plans for the housing, said Black. that bas been discussed Would inand in a survey of upperclaamen, volve new housing 011 Skinnersville
more than 50 percent said that Jiv- Road, Black said.
ing in university-run apartments
As the uniYersity enters the next
or townhouses would be an option construction phases, officials will
they would a&gt;nsider.
a&gt;nsult further with students to enBlack noted that plans alrady= sure future proje~ts meet their
on the boob for the oonstruction needs. Those needs, Black said, inof apartment-style housing on the dudechild~on the North CamNorth Campus and building""'-· ·pUS: wbich "=tainlyis a high pribilitations to c=te apartment-style ority for us."
housing on the South Campus.
State money will not be used to
The new housing on the North finance the building projects.
Campus, set to be ttady for ocru- "We're looking to finance much of
pancy in Falll999, will be located this through outside agencies or
near the old foothall stadium and ounelves," Black added.
Governor's Complex, and north of
In other business, Pmident Wilthe boolcstore. As the n ew housing liam R. Gttiner a&gt;ntinued to disbea&gt;mes available on the North cuss with the a&gt;uncil the role he
Campus, the univusity plans to wants the group to take in the
shut down residence halls on the llDMnity's budtJet proasL
South Campus and rehabilitate
He cl..ai&gt;ed how UB'c opcnting
some space into apartment-style bude&lt;t has been allo&lt;aled by SUNY,
housing. "We also ha... .the poasi- noting thot ""''FtF in tbe put hiM
bility on the South Campus to been clone in a "wry, w:ry perfunc-

tory fashion. Basically it's our oomputer~to (SUNY'c) c:ompull:l:"

Budget figures ..., based on the
pteviousyar's figures, with "modest adjustments" made for jnllation and a&gt;ntractual obligations,
such as salaries, Gmner added.
It bas been a process with no input from the campus, "a very mechanical exercise,• he added.
"What we lose out of this is the
planning process."
At the very least, G..,mer noted,
he would like the a&gt;uncil t~ play a
role in endorsing the university's
budgetary priorities. "I want to begin the process and discipline" of
reviewing UB's annual budget ..,.
quest, he sai4"I'd like to lay before you in the
spriog a preliminary plan .. .and
begin to get advice from the council on how ,.., might begin using
the uaet1 of the univasity- ..We
need to function mo"' u ·a boiJd
of trumes than the show-and-teD
procaa ,..,•ve had in the put."

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" A short ..,tng ~ contelns much wisdom." Sophocles' words

pD in a ratt&lt;d YaD OD

ring especially true for those of us drawn to proverbs, mottos,

Wednesday Cor li¥e MBA
students from the Sc:bool
of Management That's when they

set out Cor Arlington, Va., to compete Cor jobs, along with hundreds

of other MBA studerlts, at a mass
interview to be attended by 28 national companies Rdcing to hire
soon-to-be-miniM MBA graduates.
The li¥e MBAs are joining 18 of
their classmaus who are ftyins or
car-pooling to the""""~ the Capital MBA Consortium, being held
today and tomorrow in ArlingtoD-

...

_-

-businossoc:bools,lilr.eBulDio(wbich
Gonlll.- c.lpolt- ishthestudents'interviewing~
is ranked in the top 100 among
It's paid of£ Last year at the NamorethanSOOMBAprogramsnational MBA Consortium in OU-

Ready for the lntervtews
Armed with resumb and their
tionally),mustbuageasmuchas
.best business attire, most ofihestuthey can from r:ecruitm&lt;Dt consordents have been pre-selected for intia and use the e&gt;mts to l&gt;uild corterviews. Others are alternates, hoppo,:.t&lt;: interest in their MBA proing to move into interview slots va~
gnmsasasounzfor talmt&lt;dhires.
cat&lt;d by no-shows, and some will
try to coDVinao the corpont&lt;: reSt.olces""' high
cruit&lt;:rs of their interview-worthi"The S1aloes are much JUsber Cor
ness at a job &amp;ir to be held today.
our studenls becauoe they are~
Tbeconsortiwn,olpllized by IS
up
.,mot studenls from more-visbusiness schools nationwide, is deill&lt; programs." SI)S Mlcbod Poolini,
signed to improve the nDF of job
associate dim:tor of the School of
opportunities available 10 MBA stuManosemmt'sc.m.rRt:ottoeCmdents, and is particularly important
ter,aex&gt;-orpni21:roftheamotium.
for smaller MBA .prograriu. like
"1beoe conoortia are an important
UB's, that would Dot ordinarily atpartofourtlnllq!ytoexpondjobcptnct to their campuses the corpoportuniti&lt;s Cor our studenls be)uJd
rate recruite:n in attmdance.
Bullilo and NewYod&lt;Sia!e,"be aays.
Some oc:bools to be represented,
"!four gradualesprOYeto be~ to
such as Piusbwgh. Maryland, Caoe
theirfirins,l'&lt;ICI'IIilmwilbqpn to inWestm!. Floljda. G&lt;orgia and Notre w!Ye us more in r&lt;auilment plans."
Imne,areranilzdin thetopSOby U.S.
The managancntscbool's career
News6- W&gt;rld Rq&gt;orr.Tim campuses
cmll!rsttffrepeatedlystmsestostuare regular stops Cor major compa- dents the importana of attmding
nies during fill recruiliQg tours. Other . the consortia and work to help pol-

cago, UB's MBA program more
than held its own. In fact. it had the
most hires of 14 schools at the
event N'me Buffalo M8As landed
jobs, at an avenge starting salary
of $52,000, according to Paolini
1'beir suazss has proven to be a
signi.6cant reputation-boost Cor the
management school as more national recruit&lt;:rs have begun to apress ao int&lt;Jat in the program's
gnduat&lt;:s and because national
ranlcings of the best MBA prognms are based heavily on avenge

llarting salaries.
MlcbodGonici,ooeofthestudents
~to~basaninla-view

set with the Lake~ Gropp. a con~ firm ilrthemail industry. but
be hopes to line up addibooal interviews. "l(sddinitdy~tobevery
~butonagJJt-leYol,llcoow

I'Ddowdi."SI)SGonlci,V."i(sagreat
opportunityilr us ID prOYe the caliber
ofour education and~·

~

Decision on statistics should be reconsidered 0
An opm ,..,..,.,. 1M IJI!i&gt;omlly ccmmunlly:On0ct.29, 199l,Pr&lt;Sidmr
Gro!Mr htld o •p~r&lt;&gt;M-Jn•rolk show

on WBFO. -hhmnorblnon,_IOomlt&lt;obout IMD&lt;pottmtnr
of S!otlsl/a ...,. so upseWng. I om
addrtsslng through tht Rtporttr
somt commmts 10 him. and would
ask 1M community to nod who! fol.
lows dos&lt;ly. n.. "'"'"'.'"' .... upsotllng chlofly bealus&lt; Ito is announcing o d«&lt;sson about S!otlslia wfllch
will bo llomoging 10 UB (ol!hough Ito
claims that no d«islon has bun
mcx/o~ My IMIOfb .,. OS follaws:

OUr President CNiner:

Your remartu made in answer
to a caller on your •phone--in.,
show on WBFO on OcL 29 took
me by surprise. 1t did so, ~
cause it dearly made an annou.;.;ement about your decision regarding the Statistlcs Department at UB. But It also took
me by surprise because of your
Illogical and disrespectful sta~
ments used !o justify the decision to abolish Statistics. Because of space limitations .set
by the Reporter for letters (BOO
words maximum) I have set
forth an almost "line-by-line"
critique to your remartcs on the
air at &lt;http:/ /www.•csu.
buff•lo.edu/-dscbMidt/
stat.htJnl&gt;. Also on the Web
site Is the transcript of your ~
maries of OcL 29, an annotated
list of AAU uniYersltles. a mission

Wit and Wisdom on the Web:
Netting Some Quotations o

stalemi!nt of the Department of
Statistlcs, all of which I refer to
in the critique on the Web.
I write this ~tter not so much
In anger, but In sadness, that a
leader of a university that I
elected to join In 1993 can be
so disrespectful and Illogical
about our discipline. a discipline
that touches virtually rNery science, be it social sciences,

health sciences, engineering
sciences, physical sciences, etc.
This is because our di.scipHne is
the study of the experimental
method in its broadest sense.
For you to call people who apply the fruits ol our discipline's

research "statisticians" and to
pretend that their wortr IS the
same as research statisticians is,
simply, ludicrous.
For)OO to prel!nd thatstatistic31
........mean be done by Ph.D. 5tat-ilanrn-~De­

flourishing programs (under-

graduate, graduate), an effective biostatistical unit, an active
Statistical Consulting Laboratory, the Statistics Aid Center,
service courses in the health
sciences, the teaching of introductory statistics courses, etc.
And do)'OU really tlri that toplevel Ph.D.s il statistics wil ccme
to a ..wersily that does not- a
research Department ol Statistics?
~ wil be lnlere!ling CNer the next
yearstoseewhatcaiber Ph.D. statistics people )'OU attract!
As to your logic in saying on
the one hand that "(Statistics)

ts not mathematics• and on
the other that your decision
calls for some of the members
of Statistics to go Into the Department of Mathematics, I
can only say-the logic escapes
me. You may wish to know that
Departments of Mathematics

&lt;a Sl&gt;tistlcsr " "' mis-

and Statistics are notorious

deer:~. had llolownthatst11tistia, the

disdprne. was not badoed by the
presidl!rt d lA! v.tlen I anidered
ioo1&lt;i1g i*&gt; the ad lor chair lhat I

they do not work for statistics.
In fact, show me a successful
group in such a setting and I
will buy you a bottle of whisky

...........:lilfal1992an:lilthell&amp;

or wine of your choice.

"""""'"'~ll'o&lt;llilnot­
twched lkti:&gt; with a largo lwgo
pole. (My-., as I soy il the Web

1do hope you will reconsider
this terrible decision. I myseff
will be revi~lng my options.

partment

!Pded that l dolies de!cJ1llian. ""

*Your
atiquo.l dDl't inql.irel)
actions will kill two

amongst Ph.D. statisticians-

-4rwln Cuttln8n
Professor and Chainnan

!Hpartmtnt of Statlstia

thoughts-of-the-day, inspirational messages, bons mots,· saws and
one-liners. Memorable quotes are worth collecting. Many of us store
them for future use, whether in our writing. during a presentation,
at a social gathering or for gracing the end of our e ~ mail messages.
When we come across a familiar saying. we may wish to identify its
source and verify its aact wording. Whether tnclcing down the origins of quotes. or trying to locate quotations on any topi~ we often
turn to a reputable source, such as Bartlett's Familiar Quo~tions.
Bartlett's and a myriad of other quotation resources can be found
on the World Wide Web.
The Web version of the 9th edition ( 1901 ) of Bartlett's (http:/ I
www.columbla.__,ads/butleby/INWtlett/) represents over BOO authors and bibliognphic sources of quotations, from the ancient Greeks
up through the late
19th century. Extensive Biblical and
Shakespearean
quotes are also in·
eluded. You can
consult the chronological and alpha betical indexes of
all sources, or you
can type words or
phrases into the
search bar on the
main page. Don' t
forget to read the searching tips (http:/ / www.columbla.-/ads/
..__tatJon/ghttp/&amp;eai"Ch-lnfo.html) when you are searching
phrases or word oombinations.
The Quotation Guide (http://llfo.blo.sunysb.odu/oe/ msr/
CfUOle.html) features a robwt arrangement of quotations on a variety of subjects, including ..; ("Art is either plagiarism or revolution"), language ("Drawing on my fine command oflanguage,l said
nothing" ) and life ("In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular" ).
1f you are interested in a single compilation of many quotation
sites on the Web, then consult the Galaxy page of quotations (http:/
/www.elrMt.Mt/puy/..,_/_tlons.html), as it provides
75 links to olber Internet quotation·related sites. It indudes sites
devoted to such topics as labor (" Don't agonize. Organize"),libnries and librarians ("There are 70 million books in American libnries, but the one I want to read is always out") and zingers ("The chief
cause of problems is solutions").
You might agree with Emerson ("'Next to the originator of a good
sentence is the first quoter of it"), or you may lean toward Poole's
more cynical view ("The next best thing to being cleveru being able
to quote someone who is"). Nonetheless, as you hunt for quotations
on the Web, you could adopt as your maxim .. Nothing is so difficult
but that it may be found out by seeking" (Terence).

For assistance in connecting to the World Wide Web via UB computer
accounts, conracr che ASCIT Help Desk at 645-3542.
~eborah

Husted Koshlnsky and Rick McRae, Univrrsiry Libraries

Are you ready .
for the Holiday Recipe Contest?
Fllmlly and friends always ask for the recipe. ..so why not share it with
friends and colleagues at UB-and win a prize, too? I~s time to reveal

m•ll to:
Reporter Recipe Contest
136 Crofts
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

your favorite holiday recipe. the one thafs
and Cortune--you could have it published in theReporter and winahandsomecoffee-tableoook-

sooo good It can bring you fame
book!

Our annual recipe contest Is under
way. The rules are simple:
f•x to:
It's open to faculty, staff and students.
645-3765
(Contest winners of the past five years are
or e-m•ll to:
not eUgible.) The recipe (one to a contes·
~
tan! ) should be typed in cookbook style
with ingredients first, dirrctions following.
Put your name, address, department , your UB title and phone
number at the top of the page. We'U judge your recipe for taste appeal, ease of preparation and originality.
[f there's a brief •story'" about the recipe-how you created it,
what kind of traditions it represents, how many years you've servt"d
it to rave reviews, etc., include that. too.

Deadline for receipt of entries Is Nov. 26.

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Inte1esession Cwiaihnent Progrcn1·~
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/u prMouoly llliiOIIDad, 1be lJni¥enity Ill
Bullilo will be iJnplemauiaa an lnlmeooiao

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the-sovinp be ralizal throusb ............
ergy amsumplion ond o1ber Dlwa of 1be
curtailment willaaisllbe unMnity in ope&lt;· . - . - -...... llomo6or ...........
•tins within this year's budeet-

. ~274l10_the_,......,_IO
....a. the Male-. n...wilbe
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AIJ uniwnily offices will be doood, ...s tde. s-.e......,_
pOOilCI wiD- be--..1.~ bydcportmen.
ta1 ..,._q """""-&amp;om the c1oo&lt; o r - : Stat&lt; anploy.a wbo c:booao toW.. time off dor. in&amp; tho curtaUmtnt c:an utiJiu IIXWDulaloed naon 1\Jaday, ll&lt;c. 23, 1997, until tho bqilmlDc or
busina&amp; 00 Monday, Jan.
will apply fO . lion, pononal, or . , . . , _ . , . leowl«nnlla or
: ..., c:booao to w.. the days off- pay. Emtho~aNortb.South...S EOC~
Note: A number or cridcallibnuy. a&gt;aiJIUiinl ODd . po,..a wbo p1an to mu. uu or..,....., optioo
. ahoWd writ&lt; ....... fO tb&lt;ir ........... (ud
campuamailfunaioaawillbe..-inoddurioc
. ...... a&gt;pyfO Elizabeth DWidoo,- s.r.
lnlmaaion Cwtailmalt.S..detaila below:
• Temperatura in buildinp that are cloccd wiD : vic:a, 104 Crofia Hall, North Compua) llldlcatia&amp;
. tho ap&lt;cific dat&lt;a th&lt;y- t o w . . - pay.
be reduad ro SO clep.a, and bot wattt will
. Sidt ..... acauaJa may not be oaed.
not be aVailable.

s.

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• Nonnll unMnity ..mer.. ouch u bxl..mo.
and campua buaiJ&gt;c, will not be nailable.

For-~wbodn--ab:claylor

: -x.nU&gt;dlor.........-ra&lt;:aUIIa,butwbo
. wiab to be off wilb pay durioc IIIia period. the uni-

• Buildinp will be locbd for II&lt;CUrity raaona.
In th• &lt;Vmt nf anowfaJJ, only roodwaya ._w
for &lt;maJ&lt;IICY -=a ...Sa f&lt;w ll&lt;l&lt;co!d parkin&amp;
Iota will be plowed.

. ~willoc!Yanoeupll&gt;ab:claylor.-av

. auala.Siaoe~wbo-10-00IIII)'
: oraDortheab:~tbiiWwiiiiiDth&lt;aor. tailmalt,...S wbo ... -~ora d&lt;put• Publi• Saf&lt;ty and uru....;ty Facilitia II&amp;Jf will . mmt Iiiii baa bem JI'U*d
or wbo
provid&lt; n=-ry campua and buildins aaf&lt;ty . ... unal&gt;l&lt;., ....... -..... . . . . _ _ . and KCUrity.
: ootify Adri&lt;luio O&gt;llitt,~ ........ Aund.
. ...... MS-2646, .... 117, or tbllliaa
than
• Unlcu an ...,ption baa bem sranl&lt;d......,
10 cloccd buildinp will be ....my mtric1&lt;d. · ll&lt;c.1,1997, to-acopyofth&lt;1997-1998
. lnlmaaioo Outailmmt ~to
AIDerThe groups rcsponaiblt: for campus JCCUrity,
pononalaaf&lt;ty and buildin&amp; operation n..d 10 : --Sircbm. Thi&amp;ilrm...,.... ..........
· run/appro¥~~ or tho~· aupuviaor.
know if unr..nity llpo« ia bein&amp; ....... Unannounced use of space creatQ haurd to all in-

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In acc»rdancc with the lnt.encssion Cwu.ilment
Prosram Policy and Ex=ption Proadwa, th•
followins uniwnity &amp;cilitialactivitics haw: been

granted automatic eumption1 dwins this year's
lntcnc:1$iOD Curtailmc:nt
• All labora10ry animal facilitia
• The 0o.:mcuner Gretnhouse

• All emergency clinicaJJt.ratmc:nt facilities
• Alumni Arona (for ach&lt;dukd int&lt;rcoU.giat&lt;
athletic evmtJ only)
• A l l . . - buildinp wba&lt; th... ia. ai&amp;nificant pcro&lt;nta&amp;&lt; of"wct-labon10ry" facilitia
in tho buiJdina
Th• followin&amp; buildinp will...,Liinconopk&lt;djj.,
durin&amp; .... curtalliotnt

opal

• Fosttt lh1l

• Fronczak Hall
• Fumaslhll
• Jarvia lh1l
• K&lt;tttt lh1l

· All Sponaored Propama aerY~~ie~l"&lt;d

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: durin&amp; tho curtaUmtnL

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: All!&lt;m&lt;IIIOIIdiai-.zfiaDamaoberOltbe

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c~"'lc.nter

The machine room and supporting offica: only
of the Computing Cmttt will be opm. (S..
COMPUTING for additional detalb.)

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:' - · Tbe Campua Mail S.rvi&lt;a Cmter will be opa1
· -=h buainaa day (ll&lt;c. 24-)an. 3) to ann incom: in&amp; f&lt;deral mail, indudin&amp; ...... mail, rqiateredl
. oenifi&lt;d/priority mail and pored poat.
Tbe Campua Mail s.mc.. Cmttt will be

· &lt;loa&lt;d onll&lt;c. 25 and )an. I.

Althousb th.,. will not b&lt; any mail d&lt;liv.ria
during tho autailm&lt;n~ Campua Mail ~
· will load ita ddiv&lt;ry trud:a for fint ·day-back d&lt;Emplo)'ee O p t l o n a : - - Sit• . livery of all acxumulat&lt;d IDiil.l!xp&lt;ct Monday,
: )an. 5, 1998, to be a heaviu than uauaJ day.
Emplo)oawbo wiab to
any or aD orthou
All acxumulat&lt;d parczl poat wiD be ddiv&lt;red
....... -l:da)t.IUwbo . . DDt~in­
. •• )an. 5,1991.
that wilbeopm•araulloran...,....,orwbo
..._ ..... ...._...__wilbe...,.,.
D&lt;partmmta that wiab to...,.;, tbeir mail dor·
moclaood•th&lt;-----·~ : in&amp;th&lt;curtailmau aboWd CODJaa tho Campua
Li&gt;raryoo tho Nonh c.mp.... n.. lilt wil be......,. . Mall Servinea Cmttt no laler than ll&lt;c. 18, 1997, at
Select residence balls will be open to intcrnationalatudentJ durins the c:urtailmmL

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�Writing contest open to all SUNY campuses
Wrikn of science fiction and sci•
ence fact at all SUNY campuses
will be able to compete for cash
prius in. a conteSt sponsored by
OSW0$0 State College.
Part of the •our Digital Age"
cdebratinn Ibis month at Oswego.
the contest is open to any student,
faculty or staff member at any of
the State University's64 campuses.
Submissions may· be previously
unpublisbed short stories, poetry
or magazine articles.
"We are looking for short fiction,
poetry and magazino nonfiction
that address issues concerning
"Our Digital Age," said Leigh Wd-

son, contest ooordinator and director of tbt Writing Arts Program in
Oswqp&gt;'sl!nglisb.oOpartment "Wt

welcome sc;ience fictioncyberpunk to humanist-fantasy,
ra1ism, humor, autobiography, tbt
visionory and tbt ~visionary."
The comat. with prius of.$500
for 6nt; $200, second and $100,
third, wiU be judgtd by author
James Patrick ICeUy, wbo received
tliel996 Hugo Award' for bis novelette, "Think Uke a Dinosaur."
Submissions wiU bt accepted
through Doc. I by •-mail to
odawrit&lt;@oswogo.edu The following method of submission iJ

prtferred: Manuscripts must be
in plain ASCII tat format (not in
proprittary. wo.rd processor format) and may be iDcluded in the
body of an e-mail message or sent
as attachments to an e-mail message. Submissions also may be
mailtd to Leigh Wdson, Director,
Writing Aru, English Department, Oswego State College, Oswego,N.Y. l3126orfaxed toWdson at315-341-2854.

foot~all
UB 13, Maine Sl

=

:a:52~':~u~~pusestolead ct. ~Bean
Maino led 17-71arointheoecond C,"'-~a..d

~·

.:r.:;:~·

. who

the pid&lt; 73 yords ""'

reuon.-.

llulblo wide . - - Drew Haddad had ....., cat&lt;!- b- 134 yords 10 brook
the ~ rocon!"" recepdons in •
"""d61. Split end )lmie
Gupam muchod Ovl5 D'Amico' llulblo rocon! b- tDUChdown ....-..pdom In •
.,.._. (19) with his 33-yanltDUChdown catdo from Salisburf.
llulblo ..... auonl Kolth HanMn .... 5Chool rocon! by ~ - - for

ioss.&amp;SW'C him 41 1n hli cueer. o.n c..oone led the Bulls with ..,. adda.""'""
~Mit.chellhadel&amp;lttaaloo'"" •""-soci&lt;.Oon ....... added 15Dd&lt;sfcr

Volle~~all
UB 3, Niapra 0
UB l , Nol"'t:he.ut:em Illinois 0

!::"~.~=:~~~e'!;.."':r.",:.:t'~=IS-3, IS-9,1 S-7,and wve led by senior rnkSch hkrer Kady
sewn kill and three so6o b6odu In the trliltd\.

In

11m-- Ill"""'-

BrWcwonh.who had

On Nov. 8, the Bulls &lt;empe&lt;ed their final~~ pme
&gt;p1nst Northeutom
The Bulb~
by
In
the
but ""'ggled In the thin!. winnlrc 18-16.

NEIU 15-4 U&gt;d ISA""""'

U&gt;d~~R~s.!!'\~.,s;:;.:::~'%':'

:!il=~==...':t~~in~~fMkJU.U&gt;dsophomo«

Bas~etoall
MEN 'S
UB 75, Marathon Oi167
UB 6 7, Marathon Oil 64

eJ&amp;ht &amp;Uisu In 22 rNnutes and feQow senior
Matt Oemens ~ 16 points and 12 rebound~ u BufbJo defeated Marathon O il
75-67, 1n a Nov. i uhlbldon pme k1 AJumn1 Arena.

SeNor !Ugun Yourc had 16 polna and

Mike MMtinho added I I points and fre5tvNn MUiso L.l:lomi had I0 points and
shots for the Bl.llls. Frestwnan point pre~ Ryan PMenon added six
four .-.bounds for UB.

three~

umu

U&gt;d

The Bulb clooed theK exhibition ,.._, on Sunday nfll1&lt; &gt;plnst '"""-

=~~an~t~~fs:t:w:=~~~9
Raben Hams added 11 points
fM
rebound&gt;.

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E xhibits

Exhibit tltlod "Carwkl ~.
Sj&gt;COSOIOd by ""' School at An:hitect1ue
and """"*'9. wil be on dGploy tM&gt;ugh
Nov. 26
oy.t:t G*ry,
335 Hoyos Holl. South campus. Goliefy
hours ~ 9 .a.m.-S p.m. Mondly..fric:Yy.

in ""' .......

c:-.onlllp uplorod
" Burning Issues: The Heat«~ Debote

Om Cemonhip." I tmeling exhibit
a.ar.d by lhe Free Ubruy of Philadelphio, bon disploy in Lockwood L.illfOiy
and lhe Low Ubruy through O.C. 20. A
basic tntroductJon to some of the most
visible censonhlp coo.........., in
contempcnty Amorico. lhe exhibit
explo&lt;es boot bonnlng, r&lt;cord labeling.
pomognphy lswe5, art censonhlp, film
ed~ and lotemot filtering . Normal
libtvy hours are 8 a.m.-11 p.m.

Mondoy- Thunday, 8 o.m.·9 p.m. Friday,
9 a.m.-S p.m. Satun:Wt and 1-9 p.m.
Sunday.
Cuontllo lnMglng

Obfects tUe on curious new functions
in an exhibit of work by Paul johnson in
the Unlvenlty Art Gallei)',,S:enter for
the Arts, North Campus. The exhibit
begins with an opening reception for
the artist on Nov. 14 from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m ., and continues through Dec. 20.
Galtefy hours are 10::W a.m.-8 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday and noon-S p.m.

Sunday.
...... ......, ""'fo&lt;l

"The P&lt;ter Halley Project.. a series of
tempcnty public art projects designed

to erl99 the t..riYenhy community In a
dialogue about contempor~ry art and
iuues, b on disploy In the Center for the
Arts and at
tlvooghoot lhe
North Campus through' July 1998. For
more tnformldon on the artist .-Kf his
W&lt;&gt;&lt;1&lt;, caU the UB Art Gollety at 645·
6912.

various-

Sculptun ..,. Llso An exhlbllion al elegant moving sculptures by Americ:An artist Usa Hein b on
cfuploy through Nov. 1S lhe UB Art
Gallery's second floo&lt; exhibition room in
lhe Center for lhe Arts, North Campus.

in

are

p.m.

~hours
10 a.m.-8
~and10a.m. -8p.m.

Saturdoys ond llOOI&gt;-B)l.m. Sundays.

--bpoted

Notices

-

An Informational meeting will be

held
from 1"10()0-12:50 p.m. today in 4S4
Froncuk Hall, North Campus, and 44:50 p .m. Nov. 17 in 121 Cooke Hall,
North Umpu:s. for s~U ln~ed

~Wocf~/=ein~~~~to

~r!.e~~~.~e~~-

Jobs
F-,
AJ.slsta.nt Professor-History, Posting
IF-7069. Aulstont Profeuor-Histo!y,
Posting IF-7081 . Assistant Professo&lt;·
Communicative Disolden and Sciences,
Posting IF-7082. Aulstont/Assodate/

:t~~~~
~=:s::=~~

--Social-

ond Reseotdl C-.r Dl-..r-Sodal
Posting IF-7090. Assodate
Posting IF-7091.

Cllnlcai--/Asslstont
ovallable)·
Posting IF-7092. AssistAnt
Profeu«-Malhemltlcs. Posting
IF-7093.

-&lt;-positions
Social-

Ps)&lt;hology, Posting fR-97101. Senior
lleseol&lt;h Akle (part Ume)-Ps)&lt;hology,
Posting tR-971 02. Student Assistant·

Sponsored Programs Penonnet no
posting •.

Assistant Director of Athlete
Academic SeMces (SL-3)-Unde&lt;·
gradulte Academic s.Mces, Posting

~~~~~~~ng

I P-7090. DlrectorofRecn~ltment (Sl·
3)-School of Low, Posting fP-7091 .
Counselo&lt; (SL-l),fducatlonal

~~,d~L~}~092.
Publications, Posting IP-7094.
AppllcaUons Develope&lt; (SL·3)·
Computing and Information
Technology, Posting tP-7096. Assl•,.nt
Director of Admlukms (Sl"""'}-

~~'?o,'~:~~~=:
(SL"')-Offic&lt; al lhe Preslden~ Posting
lfP-7098. Assistant Dean for RHOUrt:e
Manogement (SL·S)·School of

~~a1~;=U:,osting

Technology Speclal;st (SL-l).Unlvenlty
Ubtaies, Posting MP-71 00. Director of
StAte Rela_, (MP...).Qffice of the
-~Posting tP-7101 . O.Ssroom
Technology Spedollst (SL...)·
Computing and Information
Technology, Posting tP-7104.
Coordinator of Cla.nroom Servk:es
(SL·3, ._positions avalloble)·
Computing and lnfOI'Tllation
Technology, Posting IP-7105 .

-

Competldw Clowlfled Civil - ·
Clerk 2 (SG·9)-Campus Mail Services,
Une 126296. Keyl&gt;ooRI Specialist 1

(holf.IJme posltlon).()eyelopmen~
Posting tR-97069. DirKto&lt; of Planned
GMng.()eyelopmen~ Posting
Speclallst-Psy·
t R-97093.
dlology, Posting fR-97094 . Clerl&lt; IllSponsored Programs Penonnel, Posting
f R-97095. lleseol&lt;h Ted\nldon I·Biochembtry, Posting t R-97096. SecretA')'
lli-Oewlopmen~ Posting f R-97097.
Senior DirKto&lt; of the Campaign for

Building Service Aide (NS· l , part
tlme)(three positions avallable)Unlvenlty FadHties, Une I to be
cleterm;ned .

P roject StAff Asslstont-Ps)&lt;hology,
Posting IR-97035. Resurch Support

~0:~~~
Educo-

~=,:·(~Jp..

-

UB 59, -InAction 62

~~=~.:n.byuB

_.....,. _ _ ng

'

WOMEN'S

~=~~
AJ.;r...posllms ovlllable)-

"'students, wil be 00 display through
Nov. 14 in ""'Art Oepaftment Gollety,
Center for""' Arts 00 ""' North
Campus. G*ry l1oors ""' 10 a.m.·
5 p.m. Tuesdays. 10 a.m.-8 p .m.
Vt'ednesdays-fridays and 11 a.m ..a p.m.
Satun:lays.

\n 19 I1'IPnes. whl\e Peterson added nine uslsa and

(SG~

Planning and Placement,

Une 126912. SeaeWy 1-Modern
languages and Uteratures, Une 121253.
~·!Lobo&lt;

Clowlfled

CMISonlco

To obrakl tn0tt lnfonnotion on jobs IUUd
a~contoctPtrsot'tM/~ ' fa.r.

=r:::::=r~::.:z:,.~

obtain lnfonnot.lon on R~rdl jobs.
contact SponsomJ Progr:oms Pmonnt:J,
4J6Ctofts.

UB 92, University of
Toronto 57
Senior awm. Gardneo- '""
r...hman T1fbny Bell contrii&gt;&lt;Md
12 poina each
ollon.
Nov. 3 ... the Bulb. Ad&gt;leuo In
Aalon knod&lt;ed off~ 62-59.
In che Bulb ' first exhibldon pme
of the"""""

In'""'"'

On N0¥. 8 , t:he BuHs pined an
~ 91-57 win rNer the
University ofToronco, as 1M! Bl.llb

kit~a::to~~pourtd~

:f"'polna U&gt;d anbbed""

.-.boundo in the vlctc&lt;y. Bell
added 14 points and ~
.-.bounds. while Kim Coon.
h..... )&gt;cob '"" freslvnvo
Marl McClure all had I I potna.

c...

~OCCBf

Bolio --.~ou~ IOpbomore
Sbw ....... wunamedtb&lt;
Conliemlce Newo( tbt Yar after scoriog.
Mid-Coa._..,_n hiP 34
J&gt;OiaD in his &amp;nt -.on willl tb&lt;
Bulk. The mc:o'1 team finished
8-9-1 for tb&lt; seuon.
~

MEN 'S

UB I, Colgate 6
In their

rtnat regular season pme. the Bulb were defeated by the Red

Raklers of

~~7~.;-~~~~~=~~~thepmea(
Triltan Borton. Butcher and Brian McCallion~ rwned to the Mid-Con firs(
Teom AI~Conf....ce squod. while Chrio Bor1eaa.llri&gt;n Cruld&lt;sNnk. CJou&amp; Geller
and Tim Merric:.k were second-tam ~ Butd\er was also '«Ked t:he
Conft,reoce's NeoNComer of t:he Year after~ a Mid-Con regular-season high 34
points In hb fti"St suson with the Bolts..

-Andrew Pun.z.al, Assistant Spotts Information Dirtctor

Obituaries
Ashim K. Mallik, 59,
assistant professor of statistics
Services were held Nov. 4 in the Amigone Funeral HOme, Town of
Tonawanda, for Ashim K. Mallik, an assistant professor in the De-

partment of Statistics. Mallik died Nov. 3 in Millard Filii mo re Sub·
urban Hospital, Amherst. He was 59.
Mallik joined US in 1993 after teaching at the universities of Min nesota, Pittsburgh, Michigan, Georgia and Toronto.
A native of Monghyr, India, he earned a doctorate in statistics at
Stanford University in 1970.

�8

Reporter November 13.1997/Vol. ~. No.11

Tomonow. -.n eamp..s.

Thursday

s

Noon. 10, plus. S5 ervollment

13

:::~~~
Relations.

Lifo Woriuhop
Fine Tuning Your Job Search
on the Internet. Noon-1 p.m.
5poruo&lt;ed by the Offoco of
Student life. For more
information, call 645-6 1 25.

Woriuhop
Treatment for the MICA

Client: Anxiety Disorders.
Cindy Cauidy-Gould, Daemen
Col~e . Time TBA. S40. Sponsorec. by l n~titute for Addic-

Ufo Woriuhop
Stress Management. Noon1 p.m. Sponsored by the Office
of Student life. for more
information, caii 64 S-612S.

~o0~~ ~~~~:~a~~~~~~~i~S-For
61 4 0 .

Women 's He•lth

Confef'enc:e

Roswell Pwtr. St..H Seminar
Genetics o f Axial Patterning
In the Mouse. Terry Magnuson, Ph.D., Case Western
Reserve. Kirchhofer Room,
RPCI. 12:30 p.m. For more
information, can ~ S-3 26 1.

Excellence in Womens' Health

Care: Total Woman 2000.
Buff alo Convention Center.

7:30 a.m.-Noon. Sponsored by
School of Nur1ing and Sisters

Hosp•lal Upressly for Women.
for more mlormation or to

reg•ster, calf 645-H40

~:f~.:~es

ASCIT Wortcshop
More UNIX . North Campus.

TBA. Sandra Witelson, Psychiatry, McMaster Univ., Hamilton.
Ont 280 Part. No rth Campus.
2-3: 30 p.m.

~e~~~d~~~~i ~1~:;;,~~on and
reqUired . For more information,
contact the Academic User
liaison Office, 215 Comput.ng
Center, 645-35 40 .

Biochemical Phannac:ok»gy
Seminar

UfeWorttshop
Intern ships. Noon- I p .m.
Spon ~red by the Otf1ce of
Stud ent life . f or more
information, call 64 5-6 1.25.
Wednesdays at 4 Plus
Randall Mcleod . 438
Clemem. North Campus
I 2:30p.m

\

ra~~=s~~~-~~~~

;~~ref~~~it,~·Si ~~i::C,':i~n

required. for more information,
contact the Academic User
liaison Office, 215 Computing
Center, 645-3540.

Phydu Colloquium
Coherent and Squeezed
Phonons: Control of lattice
Vibrations with Ultrafast
laser Pulses. Prof. R. Merlin,

Computer Science LectuN
R ecove~ of Geometric

~c~:~~~s~:~ta~~~gu~atural

Massachusetts. 222 Natural
Sciences Building. North

3:45 p.m.

~~~foufcl~ 1~ ~i';S:~ep-

Blologlul Sciences Seminar
CASPs: RNA Polyme rase 11Binding Nuclear Matrix
Proteins Involved In pre mANA processing . Dr. Jeff rey
L Ca rden, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute and Dept. of
Molecular Biology and Genet·
ic.s, johns Hopkins School of
Medidne 114 Hochstetter.
North Cam pus. 4 p. m.

f::r~~~ ~~';;~.~~~~es.

Seminar

Bhphosphonates-The Unk
Between Ba thtub Ring and
Bone. Donald Higgs, medicinal

Tht! Reporte r publlsh e1
li stlng1 for even U t a king

place on cam pus, o r for
off umpu1. evfnh wht-re
UB g r oup\ .tre prlnclp.1l
\ponson. lhlln gs are dut'
no latl."f" t han noon on

the Thunday preceding

publlut io n . A dd ~u

~~~t~~=~;~:·. ~og_~~efendorl .

~~:e~ fn~~-l:;;=l~~~ic
Century French Song. Virginia
Newes, Eastman School of
Music. 211 Baird. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m.

Concert
Our First Carnegie Concert.
Amherst Saxophone Quan.et,
Slee. North Campu ~. 8 p.m.
110, 15.

t."fl l rid t o Rt.-porter Ca~ ~

Coordinator, 116 Croft 1.,
or

t.•

mall ( repc.a l@pub .

buffa l o ed u ). Our FAX

num ber h 64 S-376S .

Friday

14
Pediatric Conference
What's New in Pediatric
Dermatology. Jill Crolhck, M.D.
Kmch Auditorium, Children's
Hospital. ·8 a.m.
Psychology Grand Rounds
Update o n Bipolar Disorde rs.
Alan Swann, M.D.. Unrv of
Texas Medical School Buffalo
Psych1atnc Center 10 30 il m
Biochemistry Seminar
fro m Estroge n to Androgen
Receptor: New Pathology lor
Sex Hormone in Prostate . Dr
Chawmhc1ng Chang. Un1v ot
Rochester I 348 Farber Sou th
CJmpus Noon

~~~iw~rt~o~~r;~£~u-

DMsion of Human Rlghts
watch. Rich Renaissance

lockwood Ubrary Book Sale.

Natural Sciences. North
Campus. 3:45p.m .

Friend's Room, lockwood
Library. North Campus. 10
a .m.-4 p.m. Hardcoven, S2/
volume; paperbacks S1/voJ.ume, periodicals 50&lt;enu/
issue. All sales are final , cash
only.

lntemat&amp;on.l Rim Festfv•l
By and About Women
Selbe. Screening Room, Center
for the ArU. North Ompus.
6:30p.m. n for students, S5
for the general public.

Book SaJe

informat ion, call 645-691.2.

~~rf~~~-~~ t~~c~:~~te
Stud ent Associat1on.

~ea~=~~~~~sY:e~rN~~~hen

~~rf~:~ gy~~~: ~fM';;ic~ -

2

wednesctays at 4 Plus
Music Lecture Series

SoMng the Northern Ireland
Dilemma: Human Rights In
Balance. Julia Hall, Heisinkl

Opening Reception
Exhibit by Paul Johnson .

F•culty Recital

Mathematics Colloquium
Knou, Unks and 4-Manifolds.
Prof. Ronald Fintushel, Michl·

ttwn.n Rights lertun

Practke. Center for Tomorrow.
North Campus. Time TBA.. 565
for one day, S120 for both
days, specaal student rate S45 .
cation. For more information,
call645-6140.

International Folk Dancing
All levels. 2 Diefendorf. South

phy). ~or m ore information,
contact John Corcoran at 881 ·
1640, 64 5-2444, Ext. 7S7

A.rdlltectuN Lectu.N Series
Shahin Vasslgh. 148 Diefendorl. South Campus. 5:30 p.m.

chemistry grad. student 114
Hochstetler. Non.h Campus.
3p.m.

~ortn~~~cu~B~f~i~~ P-~-

~oquium (Dept. of P~O~·

17
;::;~~~ ::;~ww::::.

Medicinal Chemistry

g~;~~~~t;t ~~~~~r~~~

0

Wednesct.ys at 4 Plus
Mac Low Birthday Cetebralion Ill, Performance Poetry.
F'loom, Screening Room,
Center for the Arts. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

Monday

Training Institute for
Advanced Social PrKtke
The Playl~ Field K""P'

Buffalo Logic Colloquium
What Is l~ic? Graham Priest,

~f ciu~~~a~~-P~l0 ~~~~rsity

Behavioral. Endocrine and
Molecular Effects of an
Ethylated Cocaine Metabolite. Dr. German Torres, Dept
of Psy&lt;hology, UB. 307 Hochstener. North Campus. 4 p.m.

ASCIT Wortuhop

~~~-e~~o~~~o R~~~~~~rth

Campus. 8 p.m.

Saturday

15
Orthopedic Surgery
Progr.un
Children's Musculoskeleta l

:rc~~~:~r~_~s~'!:~d. ~~h~;
Douglas Armstrong, M.D.,
Dept o f Orthopaedic Surgery,
Children's Hospital. Cemer fo r
Tomorrow. North Campus.
7 a.m.·5 p.m. Sponw red b y
Dept.s. of Orthopaedic Surg ery
and Continuing E.ducat10n.

Perfonnance
Snow White and the Seven

~~- ~~~~t!~~~~~~~ ~~~
and 7 p.m. S 10, SS .
Le&lt;ture and Performance
Korean Music: Traditio n and
Innova tio n. Slee. North

5:~~~:a~ ft~~:~rr;;ra~ b~
Concert

~~n~~~~~~~:sx,,~~~:~e

Wilhams..,itle South H1gh
Sc hool, 5950 Ma.n St .
Will1arnsvlile. 8 p.m S 15
Tic kets can be purcha~ed at

Discussion
The Relationship Between
Die t and Breast Cancer. Dr.
John E. Vena, Prof. of Social
and Preventative Medicine, UB
Medical School. Jewish Com·
munity Center of Greater
Buffalo, 2640 North forest Rd.,
Getzville. 7:30p.m. Reserva·
t1ons are requested

Physics Seminar
II -VI M•terials: Processing

~~~e:r.~~~c~~-si~5

Lifo Worluhop

~ ~~e~~!'!.p~~~~e
~ru'de~~e~f~~~ce of
information, call 645-612S.

Concert
Tafelmusik. jeanne Lamon,
music director. Slee. North

~~rf~~ byDe~~~of~~sft

Tuesday
Wednesday

18
Training Institute for
Advanced Social Practk:e
The Playi~ Field Keefts

;~d~~~~~ ~~s:x~s..::;;:.

Practke. Center for Tomorrow.
North Campus. Time TBA. S6 S
for one day, S120 for both
days, Spec•al student rate S45 .

~~~F~~fi(tc!n~~e~~~:~u-

calion. For more information,
ca ll 64 5-6140.

Pediatric Conference

g~~r~e~ ~dn:9~~:C":n ~.

1

Teresa Quattrin, M.D.
Cafetorium A. Child ren's
Hospital. 8 a.m.

19
Alcohol Abuse Wotilshop
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/ FA£.
Bob Cannata. Daemen College.
Time TBA. 135. Sponsored by
Institute for Addictions Studies

~~i~~.i:p64~~6~~~~ info r.
UBat Sunrbe
The Silent Musk of Chinese
Architecture. Beverty Fo il·
Albert. Principal, fait-Albert
Associates Architects. Center
for Tomorrow. North Campus.
7:30-9 a.m. S1 2, S10. Reserva·
t1ons required. Call 829-2608.
Physiology •nd Biophysics

Book Sale

Semlrta~r

lockwood library Book Sale .
Fnend'~ Room, lockwood
Ubrary. North Campus. 10
d.m --4 p.m. Hardcoven S2/ vol·

Phy5iology and Pathophysio·

~~:~~~n~h~~~~~j
sale~

are final, cash only.

CoHee Social
Wekome for International
Students. 210 Student Unoo

~~~~~~~~b.

~~~c~u~~~ez:~~:~~for Research and Grad. Stud1es,
UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sc1ences. 108
Sherman . South Campu~ .
Noon

Senior Luncheon Dllcusslon

~;~ W:t :h~g~~~- frd
of Lmguisoo. Center for

~~- ~~~~~~~

by UB Human Rights Centrr/
UB Law School.

Opus Classics Uvo
Chiron Presents: Ithaca Plano
Trio. Usa Hegyi, violin; Sera

e~~7:.~~~~~~~~:::~.

~t! b~=cbt ~-~i~~rt

~~~~y at 4 p.m. on WBFq.- FM

Concert
UB Symphonic Band. Sarah L
McKain, conductor. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m. Sponsored by
Dept. of Musk.

Thursday

20
Art Slkle Show/ Lecture
Pictures, Words, Meaning,
' Effect. Jonathan Howells and
Sarah Oinnick. Screening
Room, 112 Center for the Arts.
North Campus. 2 p.m.

Phumaceutks Seminar
Pharmacoldnetk/ Pharma codynamk Modeling of
Albuterol Enantiomers In
Humans. K.avita GumbhirShah, Ph.D., Visiting Sdentist.
UB Dept of Pharmaceutics,
508 Cooke. North Campus.
3: 30-5 p.m.
B&amp;ologkal Sciences Seminar
Calcium and the Cytoskeleton
In the Po llen Tube Growth.
Dr. Peter Hepler, Biology Dept.
Univ. of Massachusetts. 1 1 4
Hochstetter. North Campus
4p.m
Dbtlngubhed Speaken

sw..

~=r~~~;.n~:~t~~f~~~~- ArU

North Campus. 7· 30 p.m
Found er and Pres1dent of the
Chi ld ren '~ Defense Fund
Sponsored by The james
Fenton lecture FoundatiOn
Continued on

~

7

�PLANNING UB's
ACADEMIC FUTURE:
A Report to the UB Community
-PLANNING REPORT II Thomas E. Headrick, Provost

,,li

I&lt;••.1Wt•• what L'H aims to w·hie•·e from the plauuiuK proC''·' ·' and foeti\
my prior PlanninK Ht~port.

1111

till'

11/UIII

poiu/1 of

I

Re\JUUtd to cOIIllltent.\ , fritici.nn. coun /t•r '!'f.:U111l' lll.\ and information that tht• t•arlit' r Ht•p ort
elicited K:hich an• not ,\ pen fil' to a department , or an tzcadt•mic-unit. To respond to tht·
I h'partmentall.\clwol commt•nt.\ , I am arrtltl.f.~IIIK mt!l'lill l!.\ wlllr th e h•adt•nhip uftlwst• lUll! \.
f Jutlillt'

dt•ci.\ W /1 .\ that ltnt'l' ht•en tak en , dtYl .\ W IH that lll' t' d to ht' taknt a nd tht' prot'l' H jiJr
thrm. and th e i .\ .\ Ut',\ and co11n•n B that n ef•d furllu:r thoug ht and con.,ideration.

rn~ehing

I.

A IMS OF THE PLA,.,.:"'ING PROCESS

II.

HOW LJ B PLJRSl'ES ITS GOALS

�Memu ofHDIJf lgi!IICfd. Cluuw ofCultua IWmjmi
It is time the UB Community adjusted to the reality that the
public com"_~itment to an almost fully state funded university is over.
It's been over for some time, at least 10 years and probably more.
Let's stop banking our salvation on hopes for its return and move
beyond year by year reactive decision-making that is driven mainly
by the annual state budget. If we make clear choices to develop strong
programs and bring less strong ones to an acceptable level and give
up on those few which have no reasonable chance, UB will become
an altogether stronger, higher-profile University. With reasonably

•

Pursuit of concrete efforts .t o expand support for prograins from resources other than state tax dollars, both
to contribute to the projected 15% and to augment it.
The projected 15% would conic from managing turnover to advanc:e University priorities,
pursuing UB administration initiatives and
changes in SUNY trustee policy, and Continuing UB administration efforts to expand resources. But the most significant improvements in UB' s academic capabilities. and financial condition will come at the level of academic units which set priorities, pu~ue new
re~enue-producing activities, cut duplication
and otherwise take responsibility for their resources. To some extent changing the resource
allocation system to an RCM model will help.

careful analysis, I projected an availability of more than a 15% in-

I

\

crease in operating resources over a 10-year span, funds that would

Crucial, however, is a change in culture within our academic

be over and above appointing a replacement for every faculty rnem-

community. It is not someone else's responsibility to provide the

ber who retires or resigns. These increases in CCS&lt;?urces would fund

wherewithal to ensure academic quality and excellence, whether the

additional junior faculty, senior faculty appointments, improved tech-

someone else be the governor and legislature, the SUNY adrninistra-

nical and administrative support for research and academic programs,

lion, or the UB administration. It is everyone's responsibility includ-

and other academic needs. In contrast with the pessimism that has

ing all of the above •. the Deans, Chairs, faculty and staff. Strong

tended to pervade our academic community, the analysis pointed to a

public universities have widespread public support, and they also at-

way of approaching our future with a modest amount of optimism

tract and educate able students, appoint.and keep quality faculty, make

and hope.

outstanding contributions to knowledge and serve their publics be-

The next step is to decide how to spend that 15%. 1n my

cause they have found ways for people to work together toward these

view, if we maintain the past and current decision-ma1ting and re-

clear goals. UB has not done that as well as .it might have. In the

source allocation system, our chance of frittering away opportunities

future our culture will have to support greater cooperation and cot-

is reasonably high. Why? Because we have an unnecessarily frag-

laboration among academic units, more teamwork among adrninis- .

mented structure that has led to considerable duplication in faculty

trative and acadeinic units, and more conscious concern for the whole

backgrounds, competence and expertise disconnected from any strat-

University as well as its several parts.

egy for improving the stature of the University. Moreover because

A second aspect of cultural change relates to our need to be

we will continue to operate with models of programs and depart-

more alert to new opportunities to generate new revenue. The mid-.

ments that may not fit in the rapidly changing environment for higher

sized AAU public universities out-do us by a factor of 2.3 to I in

education, we need to take steps and make some changes (emphasis

generating such revenue. This difference, not state tax support, ac-

on "some," not a wholesale makeover), such as:

counts for the resources that provide them with their margin of quality. Our culture and administrative structures must encour,lge aca-

•

•

Development of a thorough program analysis and strategic planning process producing for each academic
unit future plans that are explicitly linked to the University mission, goals and strategy;
Collaboration in planning and in faculty appointments
and development where disciplines span several de(!'artments and several schools, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology/pharmaceutical science; computer, information and communication science and
engineering; and to some extent, in the social sciences,
humanities and arts and among several of the professional schools;

demic innovation.and entrepreneurism because that is the context in
which higher education will function and succeed in the 21" Century.

Rankingsand Measuamrnl
Many departments and some schools found fault with the earlier Report because of the apparent reliance placed on NRC and US
News rankings in my preliminary evaluations of Schools and Departments. I will .review specific responses from Schools and Depart-

Support for faculty initiatives, particularly in research

ments with their leadership. But a fair reading of the earlier Report

and graduate education, that require a mixture of disciplinary perspectives;

would acknowledge that I was and am aware of some of the weaknesses in these external appraisals and that for this University to func-

Integration of our planning and delivery of ur.dergraduate education, particularly in the Arts and Sciences,
which account for over half of undergraduate instruclion;

lion successfully we need to develop a much more sophisticated systern of academic measurement and accounting. To that end, this summer I have reorganized my office to create and enhance its academic
information and planning capabilities, separating that function from

�current financial management. In addition, I have established an ad-

not likely to attract more than 1/4 of the projected 15% and in all

visory committee to work with'me and the Office of Academic Infor-

likelihood less. Less than 4% of total budget of $~$240 million

mation and Planning, and we will enlist the Schools and Departments

cannot drastically restructure the University . It may and should con-

of building an appropriate local system of academic

tribute to enhancing the reputation of the University for high quality

information and performance measures in which the University com-

research and innovative graduate and undergraduate education, but it

munity has confidence as accurate representations of our capabilities

will not unfairly intrude upon disciplines or significantly neutralize

and performance and which for the outside world will provide reli-

departmental functions . A little perspective would be helpful amongst

able bases for comparing our performance with that of other Univer-

us as colleagues.

in the process

sities.

Another important factor to be kept in the fore relates to the
I regard the development and establishment of this system as

significant variation within this University in the conception of, im-

my number one priority for_the coming academic year. It is an essen-

portance of, projections of interdisciplinary activity. In the sciences,

tial prior condition to building a fair system of resource allocation -

including the science-based professional schools, there is widespread

i.e., a new budgeting system, whether based on some version of RCM

belief that much new knowledge will come from interdisciplinary

or some other principles.

activity. Federal research policy is moving in this direction. Unless
we board this train quickly, it will leave without us. In the social

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The resistance that these proposals generated in some quar-

sciences and the largely social-science based professional schools the

ters of the University has been out of proponion to the positive im-

situation is somewhat different. Among some social scientists inter-

pact they might have on the internal structure of the University or the

esting interdisciplinary connections have been fostered, but the group

academic work of any individual faculty member. Of the various

also strongly insists upon the need for disciplinary identity and re-

needs to which incremental funds might be put, interdisciplinary ac-

sists any blurring of disciplinary boundaries. Other social scientists

tivities was only one of several , and in light of the sources of the

have expressed concern that the more interdisciplinary the social sci-

additional funds and in comparison to other needs these activities are

ences become, the more likely they will focus on applied science and
not true academic work. Among the social scientists in the Social

•• Read '"interdisci plinary" to include crossdisciplinary and multidisci plinary if those

Sciences departments the culture is strongly resistant to applied so-

tenns seem more comfortable.

MISSION
UB SERVES the people of New York as State University' s sole comprehensive research-intensive
university and primary center for professional education and training.
UB HAS as its defining characteristic and distinguishing mission research , scholarship, anistic creation,
and post-baccalaureate training in the ans and sciences, and in the professions.
UB WILL continue to provide high-quality, innovative, university-level undergraduate education.
UB WILL suppon the development of its region and state through public and community service ari sing
from its research mission and broad array of professional programs.
UB WILL build upon the many cultures and traditions that have shaped us and our nation, in order to
better prepare our students and state for the global community and economy of the 21 st century.
UB WILL nunure mutual commitment between the university and its people, supponing the development and advancement of all members of the UB community and expecting their like suppon for the
development and advancement of the univensity .

VISION
II

UB WILL be and be recognized as the premier public university in the nonheastem United States, and as
a national and international leader in higher education .

University at Buffalo
State Univeristy of New York

�VISION 8c GOALS
Known as the premier public university in the Northeastern United States;
Recognized as one of the best mid-sized, public AAU universities
-in a league with Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Virginia;
Regarded highly for its doctoral-level programs and research 1 in both arts and sciences
and professional disciplines by having at least one quarter of these programs
rated in the top quartile and almost all in the top half of programs in the nation;
Extolled for its forward-looking establishment of Master's level education
as the standard student credential for meeting the needs of societies and economies
in the 21st century;
Acknowledged widely for insuring that its undergraduates are challenged to grow intellectually
by strong undergraduate programs that move students to Master's level accomplishment,
using wisely the strengths of a research university and preparing them exceedingly well for life and career,
and doing so in a University that provides a comfortable, supportive environment for students and treats them well.
Heralded in New York and across the nation for a successful linkage
of research and scholarship to the provision of quality public service;
Respected for its dedication to quality and for its commitment to innovation.
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Please read "research" 10 include "research, scholarship and creative activil)l" wherever used in that context.

cial science, for some good but wholly dispositive reasons, because

and a priori prefers the humanities to the sciences, the professional

in the context of a public university with a public service mission , schools to the arts and sciences, or vice versa is not consistent with
"some" focus on applied social science is essential. Again the key

reality. Thus, if there is good reason in many parts of this University

word is "some" and the crucial decisions are how and how much.

to support interdisciplinary activities, a Provost would not be inclined

Among the humanists there are a different set of concerns about

to open ihat opportunity to some segments of our campus and nqt

interdisciplinarity. Humanists regularly borrow concepts and frame-

others. Likewise, if some segment sees little value to their own areas

works of analysis from each other as well as to a lesser extent from

in such Provostal support, then rather than oppose it for colleagues in

social science and science. But they tend to work alone, not in teams. other areas of the campus and risk stunting their improvement. a more
They use the discipline as an anchor. They are not by and large constructive response would be to support these initiatives for those
problem solvers in the way that scientists and social scientists tend to
be. Rather, they are interpreters of meaning; they give shape to hu-

areas and provide alternatives that will enhance improvement in their
own.
The signs of the future indicate that interdisciplinary activity

man ways of perceiving and understanding. The conception of
d nterdisciplinarity among humanists has a different cast. Centers or
Institutes in the Humanities do exist at great universities, and they
contribute to advancing academic research and scholarship through

will grow, probably in all parts of our University, but it will grow
differentially and our future planning must recognize these variations
and not inadvertently slow the development of high quality programs.
I am presently in the process of establishing a Task Force to:

interactiyity rather than direct collaborations. They become magnets
for scholars interacting with other scholars, scholars from different

I) examine the current status of interdisciplinary Centers and Insti-

disciplines informing each other' s work, and thus facilitating the

!Utes

development of new scholarship. Interdisciplinary activity performs

University support, and for their dissolution, and 3) define the rela-

different functions in different parts of our University.
From the Provost's perspective, these variations across the
campus create opportunities, not problems. Surprising as it may seem
to some faculty , no Provost wants to advantage one academic sector
of the campus over another. The Provost wants to advantage quality
over mediocrity and to ensure that the educational needs and expectations of our students are met. The idea that a Provost intentionally

on this campus, 2) develop guidelines for their formation, for

tionships between departments and the interdisciplinary organizations
with respect to appointment, tenure and promotion, allocation of faculty assignments, and decisions concerning incentives and rewards.
In the interim, I have provided modest support for some interdisciplinary activities proposed by the faculty as a way of moving forward in
areas where faculty interest and commitment is high.

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A third area of concern has to do with the relative emphasis,

but ignore or downplay signal contributions in education or service.

the division of resource allocatio.n, the balance and distribution of

It comes from the way faculty identify themselves with the Univer-

faculty time among education, research and public service and their

sity and draw their academic identity from that relationship. It comes

synergistic refationships. As I said in the Planning Report and have

from peer pressure. It comes from the economic structure of major

reiterated since, academic units within a Research University can have

universities. The President of the University of Aorida recently ex-

differentiated responsibilities with respect to these elements of the

plained to the Aorida legislators, when they requested better and more

overall University mission and that within the academic unit indi-

teaching from his faculty , that he and his provost had often made

vidual faculty can have differentiated responsibilities. Within our

counter-offers to faculty who were being lured away for their re-

culture there are attitudes, processes and incentives that work against

search, but that they had never had to fight off an· offer to a great

differentiation. But we will need to find ways to reduce these resis-

teacher. All of this says we are not operating in an environment that

lances because they will hamper our ability as a public university to

will easily accommodate the conflicting expectations and conditions

demonstrate our public accountability.

within which major research universities operate. But just because it

This is a difficult and exceedingly complex topic, and I expeel it will remain so for some time. But we owe it to ourselves and

is difficult does not mean that we should not attempt to face the issue
and try to deal with it.

to our benefactors, public and private, to move ahead on it. The basic

We can make a start I) by better accounting for the activities

premise is that the University will use the talent it has assembled to

of our faculty and sharing that information with the public, 2) by

pursue all facets of its mission in the most resourceful and efficient

having our academic units define their missions more precisely and

way it can . This argues for some specialization, not just by discipline

evaluate the contributions of their faculty to those missions, and 3)

and expertise, but also by relative emphases among our multiple mis-

by coming up with measures of performance that reliably account for

ions of education, research and public service depending on the role

both the quantity and quality of our effort collectively and individu-

and mission of a program and the capabilities and performance of

ally. These initiatives all naturally form a part of the development of

ndividual faculty members.
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also comes from faculty who judge their colleagues on their research

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the academic infor!nation system described above and further em-

The resistance to these ideas comes from Deans who argue

for expanding their research productive faculty rather than other ele-

phasize the importance and priority given to those activities in the
Provost's Office.

ments of their programs because UB is a "research" university . It

POSSIBLE USES OF FUNDS
FOR INVESTMENT
In Planning Report I, I gave my views about how the additional 15% might be directed. The Planning Report did not attempt
to assign amounts to these various needs because that would have been premature. The appropriate information and analysis for those
decisions still need to be developed and priorities among those possible investments established. Those are tasks that now lie before
us.
Turnover and Reallocation Resources
Expansion of Faculty·in a few key areas
Undergraduate Teaching Incentives
Vari~us Initiatives, Institutes and Centers
New Tuition Revenue

From Undergraduate Tuition Differential
Further Expansion of Faculty particularly to enhance undergraduate programs
Improved Teehnology and Laboratories for undergraduate instruction
Expansion of Master's Programs

From Specific Professional Program Tuition Increases
Management MBA Program
Pharmacy Pharm.D.
Other Professional Program Needs as identified
Research Revenue Expansion
Expansion of Support for research faculty
Research Infrastructure including consolidation of high cost laboratories
and scientific instrumentation facilities
Other New Revenue
Support to Units generating revenue

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QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND RESPONSFS

In this section, I take up the topics and issues that raised the most widespread reactions in discussions and written commentary last
Spring.

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Is there a demand?

Within our present academic structure and milieu, there is. UB currently has 138 SED registered Master's degree programs.
Of our enrolled graduate degree students, 43% are pursuing the Master's degree. The remainder of our graduate students are enrolled
in Ph.D. programs (34%) and professional doctorate programs (23%). Because some faculty expressed concern that a Master's target
initiative might expand professional Master's programs at the expense of others, it is worth noting the following three year average
distribution of Master's students and degrees

0esP- Aw.ded
(A-..-1995-1967)

DegrMa

Number
Professional

Maste~s

Professional School

(MBA, MSW, MUP, MLS, Ed.M., M.Arch., M.Eng.)

Maste~s

(MS, MA)

Arts &amp; Sciences (MA, MS, MFA, MM)

%of Total

839

56%

339

23%

318

21%

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The current configuration already shows a tilt toward professional Master's degrees, but it also shows a substantial presence
of Master's students in the Arts and Science. Moreover, these categories treat separately some professional school graduate programs
that are quite similar to an Arts and Sciences program- (eg. Biomedical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Science).
That's our current situation.
What we don' t know is what would happen if UB encouraged and made it easier for more undergraduates to continue on to

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a Master's degree, ifUB made a concerted effort to create new attractive Master's level programs for which there was demand, ifUB
created an image so that our various publics would especially identify UB with education beyond the baccalaureate degree. Demand
both exists and is created. By aslcing- is there a demand?- the questioner ignores the potential for creation and creative educationa! leadership.
UB should not lose sight of its obligation to expand the horizons and opportunities for our undergraduates. Emphasizing
continued education to the Master's level would build on one of UB' s strengths.

Should every undergradUJJte pursue a Master's?

No, not all students should or would be so encouraged. Likewise, not all of our Master's programs are equally attractive. It's
lilcely in this era when a utilitarian linlcage between education and employment is high among the public expectations, some professional Master's degrees will be the most popular. However, the relationship between various aspects of arts and sciences education
and the demands and expectations of individuals in various lcinds of gainful employment are not well understood, or fully explored.
In our own discourse we generally concede to the popular conception that arts and sciences education develops broad, diffuse non-job
specific capabilities while professional education is narrow, focussed slcills development. Both characterizations, particularly in a
major public University setting, are caricatures unrelated to a more complex reality. If we explored the relationship between forms
of education and employment success, if we analyzed the experience of our graduates, we would probably find a much more complicated set of relationships between education and employment success, and between education and the non-employment aspects of
life. On the basis of that information, we could do a much better job of guiding and educating students to a higher level of achievement.

�Is it degree inflation?
It shouldn't be, and won 't, if our faculty hold to their standards.
We must preserve the integrity of all baccalaureate programs, as we always have, whether or not they are perceived as
connected to any given Master's Program.

What will it mean for Ph.D. programs?
Independently of the Master's proposal , UB should take a hard look at its Ph.D. programs in all aspects including: I) their
structure and content, 2) their relation to future careers of Ph.D. holders, 3) their conneciion to the immediate post-degree job marlcet,
4) the quality and numbers of students entering and leaving with degree in hand, 5) the attractiveness of stipends, 6) the trade-offs
among number of students, level of stipends, and success ratios (% of entering students completing degrees).
The evidence at hand indicates that fewer, better Ph.D. students would be a better strategy for UB, at least in the near term
future . But that certainly would not be true for all of our Ph.D. programs and the economics of Ph.D. education must be factored in,
that is, the

relationship~

to undergraduate programs and the support for sponsored research . Those issues have to be examined as

specifics with actual numbers and programmatic analysis, not as rhetorical arguments.

What impact would an increase in Master 's students have on Ph.D. programs?
In meeting SUNY enrollment expectations, it will relieve the pressure on numbers of Ph.D. students, but more to the point, no
answer to this question has university-wide applicability. It will depend on the structure of the Master's programs and the extent to
which Master's and Ph.D. students are compatible in beginning graduate courses, which may in tum depend on the faculty's ability
to invent forms of teaching and learning that use their time and their commitments in ways that accommodate different learning
objectives and varying levels of preparation.
Time and again, I will emphasize that problems that are identified are matters to be solved by using our creative imagination,
not to be treated as obstacles to forestall change.

How will the increase in Master 's students affect the attraction and retention of good faculty ?
This question opens a host of issues. First of all, what is meant by "good" faculty? The implicit meaning some questioners
attach to the word probably treats as "good" those faculty who have and build strong research reputations. Does'UB want to attract
and hold such faculty? Clearly, yes. But can UB function well and serve its multiple missions if such faculty are not interested in
undergraduate and Master's students? Clearly, no. Can we develop a concept of "good" faculty that is broader, that encompasses a
variety of faculty capabilities performed at high levels of quality? I would hope so. To the extent the questiDn implies and assumes
a one-dimensioQal model of a complex university, it represents a key problem that UB must addreSJi rather than treat as an accepted
norm. Saying that, I do not gainsay the importance of UB being attractive to outstanding scholars, but we also must be attractive to
outstanding teachers and educators and, one would hope, especially attractive to those who are both.

In general, having fewer lower division undergraduates and more Master-'s students should be a more comfortable academic
environment for most scholars. Having fewer Ph.D. students may discourage some faculty if that creates or intensifies a competition
among colleagues for Ph .D. students. But improvements in the quality and capability of Ph .D. students should moderate that downside possibility.

Will the downsizing of Ph.D. programs negatively impact access to externally funded research ?
This is an important issue which needs to be addressed in the context of specific Ph.D. programs as they relate to opportunities
for external support. Quality of students, size of stipends, and support for funded research are all desirable goals which affect the
optimum number of Ph.D. students in different directions. A resolution of these conflicting concerns must come in these analyses of
specific programs.

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What was the basis for selecting the foci mentioned in Planning Repon I?

1.) Faculty Proposals

- Environmental Institute
-Women and Gender Institute
- Policy Institute
- Humanities Institute

2.) Sizable University Investment Managed by Fragmented, Uncoordinated Decision-Structure (i.e. common interests shared by
multiple departments and schools)
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Biological Sciences Initiative
Chemical Science Initiative
Urban Initiative
Infonnation and Communication Technology Initiative
Neuroscience Initiative
The Center for the Study of the Americas

Note also that the earlier Planning Report said explicitly:

"Over the post few years the faculty in various pons of the University have come forward with proposals for
Institutes or Centers. In thinking through the opponunities presented 10 us by our present programs and
faculty, I and others have suggestedfaculty combinations which have led in some instances 10 the formation of
Task Forces to look into the possibilities of pursuing these initiatives. In order to give some concrete examples, I am listing most of the proposals currently .,.Ur consideration. Listing them is not a commit~nent to
proceed with them or fund them, but rather a way of putting them on the agenda for serious consideration.
Moreover, it is a representative but not exclusive list of Institutes and Initiatives that UB might pursue."

The Report also stated that the purpose of such structures is to enhance cooperation and collaboration among faculty in order
to improve our programs and increase our research productivity:

" The raison d 'itre of a university is that it brings together people committed to kaming, to the creation of
knowledge, to the sharing of ideas, perspectives, and speculations. It brings them together so they can engage
with each other on a regular and continuous basis. We may talk compo~ntally about our various activities
-education, research. and service- but they are all pan ofa larger commit~nentto knowledge and learning.
The essential character and quality of a university is detennined by the way it maintains and enhances the
vibrancy of intellectual engagement, exchange, and collaboration among its members, panicularly faculty
and students. As the communications barriers of time and place disappear, it becomes even more impol'lant
that a university make the most of its assemblage ofpeople-faculty, students, and supponing staff. In order
to do this UB must define clearly the academic and intellectual spaces it will occupy - that is, its degrees,
programs, disciplines, trWitidisciplinary interests, research foci- and the organizational structures that will
produce high levels of academic exchange, cooperation and intellectual activity. "

Will these structures have a role in tenure and promotion ?

To the extent that they involve junior colleagues in collaborative relationship with senior colleagues, it is both sensible and
fair to involve those senior coll~agues in the process of evaluation for tenure and promotion of those junior colleagues. It is sensible
because the senior colleagues are likely to have valuable experience related to an evaluation. It is fair because junior colleagues
deserve evaluation by faculty who know and understand their work and their achievements.

Would depaflments and depa~ntal colleagues still have a role in the process?
Of course. Presently, no individuals or groups of faculty or administrators have determinative control over such decisions.

The process draws upon wide participation in which the best opinion is that which represents sound analysis of the candidate's record
and in which the candidate's success or failure depends on the weight of the well-founded judgments of many participants. Widening
the number of participants to include faculty who know the candidate's work outside the candidate's department and/or school would
improve the process, not fundamentally alter it.

�How will these interdisciplinary structures interact with departments vis-a-vis RCM?
RCM is discussed separa~ely. (see below)
A fundamental issue is the relationship of faculty to the structure that shapes the use of their time and energy. Currently the
dominant authority in most parts of the University is tlie Chair, as buttressed by the departmental faculty culture and as overseen by
the Dean. Chairs assign teaching responsibilities within a set of faculty-acknowledged expectations. They may influence the time
faculty have for research by adjusting teaching loads, allowing for teaching buyouts, recommending sabbaticals, making other
departmental assignments, and assigning teaching and research assistants. If the interdisciplinary activity is primarily research, then
the potential departmentaVinterdisciplinary nexus will largely revolve around time available for research and the perceived value and
credit the department receives for the faculty member's participation in so-called (and misleadingly so) "extra- departmental'' activity . We may need special budgetary rules to facilitate this activity. We may need academic accounting and credit rules that treat
these activities as contributing to a department's stature, because in fact they do so contribute. But let' s keep a few basic principles
in mind. Our major goal is to enhance the University, not just one of its parts. Presumably, faculty will pursue research in areas and
in collaboration with other faculty which is most promising in terms of its likely results and, where appropriate, is most likely to
secure external support. The ~urpose of our structure, decisions and procedures should be to facilitate and encourage the faculty in
those pursuits.
If an interdisciplinary structure is involved in a degree program which requires specialized teaching, then the relationship

with departments becomes more complicated, and in those instances which are unlikely to be numerous, a budget allocation for
teaching resources may be the most sensible administrative approach. In any event, these issues will be fully studied before any new
budget system is put in place. It is a mistake to presume or expect that we have all the answers at this time.

What is the problem with traditional disciplines that these structures are designed to correct?
I

The issue is not what is wrong that should be put right. The issue is whether the University is as supportive of faculty interests
that operate across disciplines as it should be. The message from some faculty is that it isn't and they at times feel hemmed in by their
chairs, their colleagues and our current structures. What concerns me is that faculty who don't share these interests will block or put
up obstacles for faculty who do have crossdisciplinary interests. I am also concerned that our disciplinary structures may limit the
capacities of some of our faculty and students to add to knowledge and understanding, as well as dim the attractiveness of the
University to some potential faculty members with cutting edge interests and capabilities that are out of the ordinary .

Responsibjlily Center Manaument
The RCM concept has some attractive features: integrating resource and academic accountability and relating expenditure potential
to revenue generation . That clarity would improve administrative responsibility and should enhance our operating efficiency . Deans and
other unit heads would have before them the whole resource picture for their programs and would be able to make choices with an undetstanding of the full , rather than as currently -- a partial, picture of costs, revenues and tradeoffs.
RCM also has some potential for mischief: isolating academic units from each other; and encouraging competition among units when
cooperation would be both more academically sound and more efficient. That is why all along I have argued for a mixed economy, a blended
resource allocation system combining some aspects of RCM with some resource distributions based upon rewards and incentives for nonmarket-driven activities including cooperation and collaboration among units. Given that our revenue comes from a mixture of state tax
support, tuition and 'Other sources, it is easier to conceive of a mixed system at UB than it is in more tuition dependent universities.

Should RCM be instituted while other major changes such as formation of Arts and Sciences College are taking place?
No, -

for two reasons . One is that on further study, we realize that UB has neither the academic nor financial information

infrastructure to manage well an RCM-type finance and budget system. The second is that we need to give considerable thought to
the design of an appropriate system before leaping ahead.
Both improving our information and considering design alternatives should, however, go forward . We should not put off
indefinitely the building of an appropriate budgeting system that will help us better attune our finances to our academic mission and
goals than our present budget process provides.

�How will RCM interact with the interdisciplinary structures and the reduced size of some Ph.D . programs? As noted above,
those are important issues that should and will be considered as we develop various alternative models for a new resource allocation
system.

IV.

DECISIONS AND FUTURE PLANNING
Decisions
Thus far, the following decisions have been taken.

I)

ForMDiion of a Col/qe for tile Am GNl Seieru:n
As previously announced, the process of forming the College has begun. A Committee has been charged with
laying the foundation for a College of the Arts and Sciences that can prosper in the higher education environment of
the 21• Century. Another Committee is searching for a Dean for the College. The Council of the present Arts and
Sciences Deans is working on some of the administrative, financial and personnel issues connected with the merger.
There also remain organizational issues with respect to Computer, Information and Communication Science and
Engineering and the Biological and Life Sciences broadly conceived, and these maners are under active consideration .

2)

Office of Academk lnfomflltum aiUI Pkmni.ng
As previously discussed, I have rearranged assignments within the Provost's Office and appointed Sean Sullivan
as Vice Provost to guide a small staff on this critical need.

· 3)

lnJegratUm of Studellt Academk Services
Undergraduate admissions, student records and registration, financial aid, and student accounts and academic advis-

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ing are being integrated under a single structure in the Provost's Office. This integration of services should. enable us to
provide students with a one-stop service to answer their questions, to offer them advice, and also to support faculty in the
Schools and Departments who are providing academic guidance to students.

4)

Tech110logy Support for Academic Programs
The second phase of the Educational Technology Action Plan provides support for the academic units to expand the
uses of technology in teaching and learning. This phase raises the investment of new and reallocated funds to support
educational technology to $8 million over the past two years.

5)

University-Business Alliance
The University is in the final stages of setting up an organization that will support and expand UB's connection with
industry . This new organization will combine The Center for Industrial Effectiveness, the Strategic Partnership for Industrial
Resurgence, the Greater Regional Industrial Technology Program, and Technology Transfer, all directed toward providing
technological and scientific support to the New York State industry. The UB Alliance will provide easy access for local
inclustries seeking University help and will arrange opportunities for faculty to work with industry on projects of mutual
interest.

6)

Interdisciplinary Structures
a) As noted above, I am forming a predominantly faculty task force with representation from across the campus to examine
many of the issues raised by the faculty last spring.
b) I have made limited commitments of resources to faculty engaged in collaborative, interdisciplinary work in two lnstitutes:
• The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender
• The Environment &amp; Society Institute

�c) Several proposals for Centers- some with significant potential for external support- are in diffe"?nt stages of evolution,
and will receive full review after the Task Force report and the implementation of new guidelines later in ·the 1997198
academic year.

Fulure Planninr
Actukmic Unit Pkmnillg
Several Academic Units have taken their planning forward. All need further development, and more generally as a
University, we need to augment the plans with an information system and performance measures that adequately support our
accountability as a public university.
Roughly speaking, the academic units are at three different stages in their planning.
Advanced: (Clear definition of future development and priorities, but with the need to establish performance measures and then make some decisions on implementation and finances in the context of the overall financial capacities of the
Unit and the University as a whole.)
- Arts and Letters
- Dental Medicine
-Law
- Management
-Pharmacy
In Progress: (Some analysis completed, future directions reasonably clear, some further development of priorities
needed and much further work to be done on performance measures, finances and strategy of implementation.)
- Engineering
- Health Related Professions
-Medicine
-Natural Sciences &amp; Mathematics
-Nursing
- SILS (with Communication)
- Social Work
Just beginning: (generally, concrete planning just underway, though more advanced in some parts of the unit than
others .)
- Architecture and Planning
-Education
- Social Sciences
My goal is to move those units in the Advanced Stage to some closure on performance measures, implementation
strategy and finances as quickly as possible during this academic year. I intend to help the remaining units and their component parts
reach the Advanced Stage by the Fall , 1998.

Elements of a Plan
No one template for planning will work for all units across the campus, at least not when academic units include a Medical School
with over 500 faculty and SILS with 10; and when the Arts &amp; Sciences offer 113 degrees and the Law School offers one. But there are some
aspects common to most units that would figure in any forward planning.

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A projection that sets out a student profile, a research profile, productivity and performance expectations and reputational

aspirations that the unit expects to reach in 10 years or less .
Benchmarks; An identification and analyses of several comparable, more highly rated programs at other research universities that represent a set of aspirational, yet reachable, performance and reputational goals.
Areas of Focus and Empbasjs; A designation of program components that will receive emphasis and deemphasis over the
next decade. These choices should be related to disciplinary developments, interdisciplinary opportunities, current educational program and research strengths, and other compelling factors; and they should strive for selected excellence, not broad
coverage and balance.
The following analyses will be critical to defining the planning, goals and benchmarks and making decisions.
Workload Analysis; Projections of student enrollments for various program elements, analyses of degree program structures, a current inventory of faculty research and their relations to academic programs, and an inventory of service commitments and opportunities.

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Resource Analysjs: Currently available resources for delivering workload, that is the number and allocation of faculty ·and
staff efforts to each workload element -- i.e., teaching, research and service. Projected resource turnover available for
investment and program improvements.
Financial Proiectjons: A five year projection of (I) enrollments and other workload requirements and expectations; (2)
program costs, (3) revenues available to meet costs, and (4) resources available for program improvements and investments.

Fitting Current Conditions with future P/gnning
While this planning proceeds, we still have a University to operate, students to educate, enrollment targets to be met, and budgetary
limits to live within . Not every short-term decision will fit with the long-term strategy, and SUNY is still function ing within the framework
that the UB planning process is aimed at changing. For the time being, faculty and administrators will all live with more uncertainty and
ambigui ty than we like and more inconsistency between short-term action and long-term goals than appears rational. Contrary to popular
belief, universities do live in the "real world."

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New tmme llJ explore issues

ofgender. raa in the military.

November 6,1!117/ti29.1*1.11

Finish
Line
Freshman Anthony David
sprints to the finish line
to become the Bulls' top
finisher in the Mid-Continent
Conference cross-countly
championship held Nov. 1
at UB's Baird Point course.
David finished 13th overall
in the field that included
runners from nine schools
across the country.

Anderson to head School ofPhannacy
Provost cites new dean's 'outstanding leadership' during period ofchange
11J EUEN GOI.DtiAUM

tion of Colleges of Phar!Jlacy. (see
related story below).
AYNE K. AnderA UB professor sine% 1968, Anderson bas been ap- son previously ser.ed as professor of
pointed dean of medicinal chemistry and associate
the . School of dlairofthe Department of Medicinal
Pharmacy, effective Nov. l.
Cllemistry. He holds a joint appointThe appointment of Anderson,
ment as professor of chemistry.
who served as int~rim dean for the
past two years, was announced by Pioneering researcher
Provost Thomas E. Headrick.
Anderson has done pioneering
"The search committee con- research into the design, synthesis
dUcted a wide, national search, and development of anti-cancer
looked at outstanding candidates, and ant.i-HIV agents.. and in the
and by a wide margin recom study of enzyme inhibitors.
mended Anderson," said Headrick.
In 1992, the National Cancer lnsti"The president and 1 are extremely
pleased with the recommendation." . tute awarded him a five-year, $1 milHeadrick said that Anderson lion grant for ooncinuing fundamen"has provided the School of Phar- tal molecular research on new cancer
macy with outstanding leadership drugs. Through computeriz&lt;d moduring a period when changes in lecular rnoddingand d&gt;emicalsynthethe structure o(pharmacy educa- si.s in the lab, Anderson and his ooltion and developments in phar- Jeagues design and formulate hunmacology and pharmaceutical sci- dreds of chemical compounds,
ence pose some very important searching for properties that are desirableincancertreatment Their goal
challenges to the school."
Anderson's appointment comes is to find new drug candidates that
at a time when the School of Phar- have good activity against cancer, but
macy is launching a new, entry- also are selective, shrinking tumor
level doctorate in line with a di- cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
One of his drug developments,
rective by the American A.ssociaNewss..vtcesEditor

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tetraplatin, is in phase II dinicaJ
triaJs as an anti-cancer agent, and
three other anti-cancer drugs-lPP, silap\atin and carmethizo\eare in preclinical development.

els. He is a member of the NationaJ
Academy of Sciences National Re-

Anderson holds a number of pat-

than I 00 manuscripts ~nd has presented lectures locally, nationally

ents and conducts

search Council Chemical Sciences
Review PaneL
Anderson has published more

ongoing collabora-

and internationally.

tive research with
clinical and bio-

Was Inventor of Year

logical scientists at
Roswell Park Cancer In sti tute , the
Deve lopmental
Therapeutics Pro- AICKitSOH
gram of the National Cancer Insti-

tute and several drug companies.
His research has been continu-

ously funded by the National Institutes of Health for the past 24
years.
In addition to his research experience and leadership roles,
Anderson has served as a regular
member of the NIH Medicinal

He also has served as a member
of the UB Faculty Senate Executive
Committee, as secretary of the UB
Faculty Senate and his chaired or
served as a member of a number of
~tycommittees. He is a member of the President's Advisor y

Council and the UB Council on
Research and Sponsored Programs.
In 1988, Anderson was named the
N"..gara Frontier Inventor of the Year.
Other honors include a NYS/UUP ExcdlenC. Award in 1990 and a Buffalo
Ambassador Award in 1993.
Anderson holds a bachelor's de-

Chemistry Study Section, the Che- gree in pharmacy and a master's
motherapy Panel of the U.S. Army, degree in pharmaceutical chemisMedical Research and Develop- try from the University of
ment Command's Breast Cancer Manitoba, and a doctorate in phar·
Program, and as an ad hoc mem ber of numerous other NIH pan-

maceutica1 chemistry from the
University ofWisconsin, Madison.

Pharmacy launches new doctoral program
•Y EUEN GOI.DtiAUM
News Services Editor

year Pharm .D., or doctorate of

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fessional degree.
The American Council on Pharmaceutical.Education, the accrediting body for schools of phar-

HESchoolofPbarmacy
is launching a new, en-

try-level doctoral program designed to produce graduates who will spend far
more time oil patient-care man agement than they will on dis ·

pensing drugs.
That may sound Like a contra-

diction for a top-ranked pharmacy
school, but the new degree is in
line with a directive from the

American Association of Colleges
of Pharmacy approving the six-

pharmacy, as the field's only pro-

macy, says that the last B.S. pharmacy class it will accredit is the
Class of 2004.
Thecllan!Jeisdrivingoneofthemost
dramaticshiftsinemphasistheprofession has sem, aa:ording to Wayne K
Anderson, dean of the school
The new emphasis, he added, is
expected to produce significant

health-care savings.

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dalalipr.upli:om 18 _.. io lbebodldorofocia&gt;:z io pbmnocy program.

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poinll, obout bow to

manaae drug therapy me diflmot diseases. and

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lbenoplaonpolir.ola.
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moc!Wor....aher tboo a departmento1. approocb. in wNcb one subject.
Can:lioicJsy, Cor example, is ..,-taught by faculty &amp;om seYtnl di.o:iplines.

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" What most people envision

when they think of a drugstore
probably won't exist in the next 10
to 20 years," said Gene Morse, professor and chair of the UB Depart-

ment of Pharmacy Practice.
Pharmacists are assuming a
much more active role in patient
care, he explained, using their
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�How ab.o•t dental flou7

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It has been ohown that any mechanical means of reducing bac-

Mlrdza Nelders,

professor of oral diagnostic
sciences, is director of
the Breath Disorders Clinic,
one of five special-are clinics
in the School of Dental
Medicine. A native of Latvia, she has been
a member of the UB faculty sin·ce 1962.
What Is · - .....th"7 .. It all
lnthe-ofthe-7

·aad breath" or halitosis is a condition in which an unpleasant
odor is emitted from the oral cav·
ity, is detect&lt;d by other individu·
als, and in many cases the person
with the bad breath is not aware
of generating the foul odor.
What molt often CMIMI bad
bnath7 What c•n _ , . . do
-lt7

There are many causes for bad
breath, including systemic disease
and disease&lt; affecting the nasal
cavity, lungs and stomacb. However, the most common reason for
bad breath is overgrowth of
anaerobic bacteria in the oral cavity and their production of volatile sulfur compounds. The control of bad breath depends on reducing the number of anaerobic
bacteria in the oral cavity.
AnAmerlcMutooconcemed
about their breath 1 Is th.,..

_,

rully tht much -

bre•th

It is really hard to determin e
whether we are too concerned about
bad breath and at what level breath
is considered unpleasanLJudgingby
sales of mouthwashes and other
products to "freshen" the mouth. it
bas been suggested that two-thirds
of the population are concerned
about bad breath. Professionals es·
timate that about 50 percent of the
population over age 50 lia&gt;e bad
breath in the morning.

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IJ appears that the products that
can be bousht by the consumer are
relatively similar in controlling
bad breath. Toothbrushing re·
duces plaque (bacterial deposits
on teeth) and thus bad breath.
Mouthrirues mask bad odor, but
some are being developed that
ba&gt;e the ability to also reduce ibe
number of bacteria in the mouth.
I am not particularly devoted to a
specific brand of mouth-care
products.

teria in the oral cavity reduces
bad breath. Dental Boss, properly used, and tongue scrapers
are most effective in controlling
bad.breath.
Wh•t got you lntere1ted In
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dl.-n7

My department (Oral Diagnostic
Sciences) developed the Special
Care Clinics to assist the local dental practiti;,nerwitb disgnosis and
treatment of oral diseases, dental
fears, salivary disorden, temporomandibular disorders, orofacial
pain and bad breath. Management
of bad breath was a natural outgrowth from my background in
oral microbiology, periodontics
and oral pathology.

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ted_,.~

Enormow resourca: are committed by our society to get rid of
"bad smells" in our environment,
and from our bodies. ·Enormous
resources aisQ are committed to
mask bad smells, such as perfumes
and deodorizers. it appears to me
that a lot less empbasis is placed
on prevention of infections from
each other.

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ID my experJence, Nor·t h and
South Ameticans, Western Euro·
peans and Japanese are more
concerned about diapleaaing
body odora, includ ing bad
breath, than are the people of the
folll!er Soviet Union. Of coune,
there are exceptioru. There is a
big market for promotion o f
soaps. toothpastes and other
body- care product&amp; i n these
countries.
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• . . . - . - ... yo. get
Into ••ch a sweet·•••lll•g ·

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I guess it is my European background.

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flowen ... , _
I really do not go for exotic flowen, but favor roses and hostas.

Whet Ia ••••tlol•t p-ple
JOM and

cloa't know about
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I really am quite an open book. I
feel e&gt;eryone already knows as
much as they want-to know.

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I wish you bad asked me how I feel
about managing patients concerned with bad breath. I feel it is
one of the most rewarding services
that I cai. provide to a patient, particularly the patient who bas not
been helped by other professionals.

New doctoral program
c-tlnued , _ - 1

pharmacological expertise to act
as drug-ther.apy and disease-state
managers,· in cooperation with
physicians · and nurse practitioners.
In hospitals, that means making
rounds, reading patient charts,
monitoring interactions and making recommendations to physicians. In the commuhity, the practice of dispensing medicines-referred to bypbarmacists as "count,
pour, lick and stick"-is being increasingly handled by technicians,
freeing up licensed pharmacists to
counsel patients about taking
medications, evaluating changes
in their symptoms, possible drug
interactions and optimizing man agement of their disease.
Partnerships •ld graduates
In programs it has developed in
partnership with Tops Markets,
Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets,
Inc., two local supermarket cbains,
UB's School of Pharmacy has begun to place its graduates in pharmacies where they already func·
tion this way.
Morse said that 'close to twothirds of this year's freshman class
in the UB School of Pharmacy
have indicated that they plan to
switch from the current, five- year
baccalaureate program into th e
new, six-year Pharm.D. track in
1999-the first year UB studen ts
will be able to matriculate in the
program.
"The training we give our stu dents is far in excess of what the
consumer has traditionally seen,"
explained Anderson.
"Medical students take two semesters of pharmacology, while

"Our ~rrent system does not for his or her review.
focus on drug therapy; said
• we try to educate patients
Morse. "Instead, it focuses on get- about whatkii&gt;dsoftriggen in the
ling a patient to go to the doctor- environment-even some foods
or the hospital-for a disgnosis. -may cause an episode,;. she said.
Thepatientgetsaprescriptionan&lt;l "Most patients don't realize, for
goes home. No one follows up · example,thathotdogs,cheeseand
Drug complexity noted
with the patient to make sure the bologna ba&gt;e chemicals in them •
The tremendous growth in the medicine was talcen:
that could cause an asthma atnumber and complexity of drugs
But now, hospital and commu- tack."
on the market in the past 20 years. nity pharmacists are starting to
has made such an intensive edu- communicate about specific pa· Clw&gt;ce to educate Jl'ltlents
cation in medicines increasingly tients and the reasons behind the
Rothberg, also a UB clinical
important, Anderson noted, par- therapies that have been pre- assistant professor, added that
ticularly in chronic conditions, scribed. Community pbarmacists regular communication with pasuch as hypertension, asthma and are teaching patients how to take tients in the non-threatening
diabetes, and in AIDS and cancer, better care of themselves.
setting of a community pharwhere patients take muftiple
At Tops. for example, Linda macy provides an opportunity to
drugs.
Schultz Rothberg, a recent UB educate patients aboui their
medicines ·and why they should
tahthem.
"l!j&lt;t the' biggest: thrill when I am
"Tlle tnlnlng we give our students II f • In excess of wt..t
able 10 help someone who is.taking
the.........,_ h i tnclltlon.u, - ..... PhMm.D. students In
anti-depressants 10 realize that this
condition is not their fault, that they
the MW prognm wiD lulve four~ of .-ylng v.orloul
aresurr,n,gfrom something physiespects of 8pplled ~-·
cal, from a chemical imbalance that
can be straightened out with mediWAYNE k. ANDERSON
cations and their health &lt;are profesIn 1995, according to an analysis pharmacy graduate and coordina- sional," she said
Many times, she said, these conAnderson made ba; ed on pub· tor of .the 'cbain's new pharmacy
lished data for the U.S., pre&gt;entable programs, has developed an sultations reveal problems that
prescription-drug-associated prob· asthma· management program need attention by the physician. in
those cases, the pharmacist often
lems added $7.7 billion to the cost that does just that.
will make a recommendation.
of health care in New 'vork State.
" We are building stronge r
.. Insurers would prefer to pay CI~WeS for asthma suffe&lt;ers
Asthma sufferers attend several communications between pharfor a pharmacist to spend an hour
with a patient, if that hour will brief classes in which they learn macists and physicians; said
keep the patient from being ad - about their disease, the specific Rothberg. " I'm a specialist in
mitted to the hospital," said Morse. factors that seem . to aggravate it medications who knows about
And patients seem to like iL At one and how they should respond (i.e., disease and the physician is a
supermarket pharmacy in the UB use an inhaler, call the doctor) specialist in disease who knows
School of Pharmacy's network. pre- based on the symptoms they're about medications. Only when
scriptions jumped from 650 to 75/J a experiencing. Disease-manage. the two specializations are comweek since its pharmacists began at· ment plans are put together in bined do you get a coinple!e piclively monitoring patient care. ·
class and then sent to the doctor ture.•

nursing students take one semester," he said. • ay contrast,
Pharm.D. students in the !lew program will bave four years of studying various aspects of applied
pharmacology.•

�Rncllngs m.y offer Insight Into basis of attention disorders

Neuroscientists map brain's response
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NOws- Editor

T

YPICAL scenario: You're
at a party, listening to
your friend's vacation
pl.uu, while straining to

overbear the gossipy conversation

nearby.
Your brain, meanwhile, is mustering its neuronal resources to al·
low you to concentrate on both

conversations at once.
Nauoocientiats at UB have been
able to produce an image, or map.
of this neural activity, in one of the
few studies using positron emilsion
tomography (PET) and electrophysiologysimultaneouslytostudy
brain function. Their findings may
provide new insight into the basi&amp;
of many attmtion diJorden.
"We're learning bow the brain
attends to important information
and screens out what iJ not important," said Janet Sbucard, usiJtlnt
professor of neurology and a leading researcher on the study. "Using electropby.inlogy and PET, we
can identify bow resources areallocated. What we end up with iJ
an objective measure of attmtion.•
Their findings sboi,.ed that the
brain can successfully complete a
wk requiring focused attention
even in the presence of distrac-

tions, but it takes longer than
without the distractions. When
the brain iJ forced to divide its at-

tention, however, such as processing two cocktail-party conversations at once, it founde:n.
"The brain can only divide up
its resources so much: said David
Shucard, a co-investigator on the
research. Ralph Benedict, assiJtlnt

professor of neurology; Alan

Lodtwood, profaaor of neurology,
and Danielle McCabe, psychology
graduate student, complete the
research team. RaultJ of their
work were pracnted at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in
New Orleans in October.

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this wave, called the P300, indi cates the acuteness of the brain's
response to the relevant stimuli.
The P300 was recorded under
three conditions:
• Sustained attmtion-Detecting the target syllable without any
auditory interference
• Focused attmtion-Detecting
the target while ignoring distracting
stories played simultaneously
• Divided attmtion-Detecting
the target and also paying attention
to the content of the stories
• we found a huge reduction in
the P300 in respOnse to the divided
attention

Knowledge about the neurophysiology of attention will in -

crease undentanding and improve treatment of ittention disorden such as attention deficits
and bypervigilance, a symptom
of post-tra~~rn~tic stress disorder
in which penons are unable to
screen out irrelevant stimuli,
Janet Sbucard said. It also proVides information about the neural demands of any job that commands intense concentration.
The team coUected its electropbyaiology data via electrodes attached to the scalp while study
subjects wearing earphones ide:oti6ed a specific syllable-in this
case, the syllable "ba"-from a sequence of syllables. Neurat ac tions generated in response to
this task are called "event-related
potentials," and appear on a computer-generated map that reflects
the pattern of electrical r&lt;Sponses
from the brain. The height, or
amplitude, of a specific point on

~ask,'"

said David

Sbucard. "These findings are relevant to any activity that demands
constant attention, such as piloting an aircraft, or monitoring sensitive instruments. This is one of
the major causes of ·human error'-people get off target."

Simultaneous PET scanning
pinpointed areas in the br.tin responsible for auditory attention
wks by recording the areas of in-.
creased cerebral blood flow during the tests.
"By combining PET and electrophysiology, we are able to determine
the location of major brain areas
that are r&lt;Sponsible fg&amp;.these different types of attmti6'n processes, as
well as the time it takes the brain to
process information l&lt;fhen there are
different demands on attention,•
Janet Shucard said.
The researchers are applying
their finding.s to persons with attention deficit disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, as·wdl
as persons with sleep disorders,
some of·wbom have trouble concentrating on wks.

SEFA contributions nearing goal
Eckert reminds UB community to turn in pledge cards
Just clllp lifter the "oftkW" of the ,
it's the people whose lives have been
campaign, total contributions to SEFA are•
changed that give that tradition meaning."
approaching the univ~rsity's 1997 goal, acHeading this year's SEFA effort has been
a pleasure, Eckert noted, not only because
cording to Barry Eckert, dean of the School
of Health Related Professions and chair of
of the good the contributions do in the comUS's 1997 SEFA campaign.
munity, but because of how hiJ role as chair
As of Oct. 31 , Eckert said, pledges to the
bas allowed him to interact with the univercampaign stood at 90 percent of this year's
sity community.
goal, t&gt;ut more cards come in everyday, and
" 1 certainly enjoyed i~" he said. "l"ve been
"with any luck we're beyond that (percenthere along time, but beingcbairofthecamage). It's very encouraging. 1 think we're a
paign has put me in contact with a lot more
little ahead of schedule and ahead of where
people than I would otherwise have met."
we were last year at this time.•
UB historically is one of the highest col·
Encouragingresults, however,donotmean
lege and universit y co ntr ibuto rs to the
it 's unnecessaryJor those still holding onto their United Way in the nation.
cards to turn them in, Eckert said.
Two years ago, UB was the national leader amo ng
.. There ~re still quite a few people out there who universities with 5,000 or mo re employees when it
have n?t put in their pledge cards y.et. We're tryin.g · cam~ to per-capita giving and participation percent.to re~m~ them and to encourage them to get the1r age for United Way campaign giving, according 10 fig-

cards 10 ·
•
•
,
..
Eckert credits .thiS years SEFA the~e, 'UB: Partners m Canng," m part for the campa1gn s success.
..A lot of people 1 talk to seemed very responsive to

ures prepared by the United Way of America.

The report showed UB with employee per-capita
. .
. . .
g1vmg of $1~ .99 and a 59.8 per~ent parttcipauo n.
this year's message of partnership and of giving to The per-capata rate was n~rly _rwtce that of the secthe people in the Western. New York community. o nd-ra.nktd school, the Umverslty of Alabama, where
They understand that the need is there, and want to per-ca.pita giving was $56.07. The nearest compe~itor
make a difference,.. Eckert said.
when at came to participation percentage was Michi"As chair of the campaign, I've had many oppor- ga n S!ate Univ_ersity, with ~~- 1 perce~t.
tunities to visit agencies and meet people whose lives
UB s com~ttrn.ent to gtvtng contm ued_ l~st year,
have been changed by US's support of the United when the unaverstty set new records for gtvtng. The
Way through SEFA. That's where you see how mean- drive netted $650,627.06, raising 102 percent of goal.
ingful the campaign is--when you meet a homeless
But records are far less Important than the 1m pact
person who now has shelter, a disabled person who of UB's giving.
"There are a lol of people we can help by partnering
is getting the kind of assistance he needs, or a
troubled child who has found people to help sort with the United Way and contributing lo SEFA,"
things out," he added. " UB bas a great tr.tdition of Eckert said. The campaign wiU con tinue until all
being partners in caring for Western New York, and pledge cards are in, he added.

BrieD
Nursing school to co-sponsor
women's health conference
Medical lnno.,.tlons and breakth""'9hs influencing women's
health in the 21st century will be the theme of a conferei.ce. titled "Excellence in Woman's Health Care: Total Woman 2000," to be held on
Nov. 12and 13 in the Buffalo Convention Center.
The annual conference, which is open to the
public, is being sponsored by the School of
Nursing and SiJters Healthcare "Expressly for
Women" program, which educates.thousands
of Western New York health-care professionals
and women on clinical and consumer health issues.
Featured speakers will include New York State Health CommiJsioner
Barbara A. DeBuono, who will talk on improving the health status of
women in the state, and Nancy Snyderman, medical correspondent for
ABC's"Good Morning America," who will discuss "Women in Charge."
It will begin at 7:30a.m. and run until6 p.m. on Nov. 12, and from
7:30a.m. until noon on Nov. 13.
Participanr. will choose from mo"' than 70 clinical, psycho-social and
oonswner workshops thai explo"' iJsues affecting women's daily lMs.
The conference will teach health -care professionals more about
proven physical and emotional health techniques and expand the
lcnowledge of women in general to enhance personal growth.
To ffgisttt; or to obtain more infotmation, ro/1645-3705.

"UB at Sunrise" to explore
ancient Chinese architecture
Beverly Folt-Aibert, an award-winning architect and adjunct fac ulty member in the School of Architecture and Planning. will discUS$'•The Silent Music of Chinese Architecture• in a .. UB at Sunrise..
presentation to be held from 7:30-9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19, in
the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus.
Foit-Albert believes that the wonder associated with the ancient
architecture of China produces a form of •silent music," or a sense
of place, space and time that she has described as •enthralling'" and
•transcendent.,. A student of world architecture who has traveled
extensively in Asia, she will accompany her lecture with photogrnphs
of sacred and historical structures.
The price of the program, which includes a full breakfast, is S10
for members of the UB Alumni Association and S12 for all others.
For more information, call 829-2608.

Program set on musculoskeletal problems in chilsf.ren
A. progn~m devoted to children's musculoskeletal problems in

primary care will be held fro.,; 7 a.m. until5 p.m. on Saturday. Nov.
15, in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. The program is sponsored by the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Continuing Education, both within the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
Richard M . Schwend and Douglas Armstrong of Ch ildren"s
Hospital's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, coordinated the
program and also will serve on its faculty.
The program is open to the public, but is t~rge t td to primarycare providers for children, including pediatricians, famil y physicians, emergency-room physicians, resident physicians and interested allied -health professiqnals.
It wilJ include sessions on pediatric sports medicine, acute pediatric injuries, general pediatric topics and problems with walking.
Participants are encouraged to bring cases o r radiographs for discussion with the faculty.
The program is designed to help participants make accurate diagnosis, treatment and referral of common pediatric musculoskeletal
problems; perform a pre-participation spo rts physical. and exam·
ine the injured athl ete, as well as other children, for rotatio nal disorders, hip dysplasia, spinal defo rmity and general pediatric orthopaedic co nditions.
Participants who complete the program may receive credit hou rs
toward the Physicia n's Recognition Award of the America n Medica]
Association. For rl!gi.stration information, call64S·J705.

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�Exploring
gender, race,
class·in military
RENDA Moore, associate professor of socilogy, will introduce a

B

tary and report on
their concerns and
the conditions of

their service.
She also
member
of isthea

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ew course in the

pring, 1998 semester
that will explore race, class and

gender relations in the United

States Armed Services.
The coune, "Race, Class and
Gender in the U.S. Military," will
be a 300-level undergraduate
seminar aamining the military as
a social institution. Using socio-

logical concepts, theories and
methods. Moore will analyze the
internal organization and practices of the armed forces and the
relationships between the military
and other institutions.
Among the topics to be dis-

cussed are the recent coogressional bearings and· military
policies regarding race relations,
women in combat, sexual ha-

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rassment and quality-of-life issues related to military person-

nel. The course also will address
the effects of streamlining and
downsizing on miJirary life and
structure.
Moore is uniquely qualified to
develop the course. She served six
years in the U.S. Army as an equal
opportunity specialist and was recently appointed to the Department of Defense Advisory Com-

mittee on Women in the Services
(DACOWITS). Her appointment
requires her to travel to military
bases all over the world to inter-

American Battle
Monuments CommisSion and the
author of "To Serve My Country,
To Serve My Race,• the story of the
only group of African-American
women who served overseas in the
Women's Army Corps during
World War U. Moore emphasized
that the views.cxpressed in this article are her own and do not reflect those of the Department of
Defense, DACOWITS or the
American Battle Monument
Commission.

Decades of change
Moore pointed out that just as
American society bas undergonemendous change in the decades following the second world war,oo have
the roles of women and minorities

inthemilitary, spedbythecivil-~ts

'and women's movements.
"We need to remember, how·
ever,• Moore said, •that the military services, lilce other social organizations, have institutionaliz.ed
practices once rooted in racist 'Jim
Crow laws' and now reflected in
patriarchal ideas about the proper
'place' of women."
She pointed out that although
many black men have risen to positions of high military rank, it is
in part because the percentage of
military personnel who are mem·
bers of the African-American and

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other minority groups is far role specifically WllS&lt; they are
greater than their representation women and they suffer the consein American society as a whole.
quences btalwe they are women."
"Diacriminatory and aclusionShe noted, for eample, that "in
ary practice isn't alway$ overt,• the services, a certain DlUIIber of
Moore added. " It can be subtle and support pqsitions must be availstill be pervasive and damaging. able at all times so that combat
Racist laws and military regula- troops can rotate into those positions are no longer on the books, tions.lf women are not allowed to
so racz discri.mination is no longer take combat roles, then those suppublicly sanctioned. It continues port positions also are not availon a personal level, however, able to them.
through biased supervison who'
can severely liter a soldier's career -opportunities limited
"The military is only 14 pen:int
wing such weapons as an ~de
1s; a non·judicial punishment women right nO.., in pert because
that results in pay deduction and the armed oervioes limit ltlnCiive
a reduction in grade. So on a for- educational and employment opmal basis, no racism is allowed, but portunities for intdJiemt, SIJOng.
on an informal basis, it is still prac- ambitious women." sbe pointed out.
Moore said topics her new
ticed in the services.
•For women, the situation is course will aamine include the
different and worse." she added. "It mililary' as an avenue. of upward
is worse because disaiminatioo is mobility and the c:onaequeiiCe&amp; of
both formal and informal. The iu employment practices on difmilitary is a defense organization, ferent social groups and classes.
so success is measured in terms of
"I want to give the Department
combat experience--one has to of Defense credit for being among
have combat experience to rise to the first institutions to offer equal
the top. Since women aren't legally pay for equal work to minorities
allowed to serve in combat, stan- and women." she added. "But if
dard routes of advancement are women continue to be excluded
legally closed to them.
from certain military occu)llltions.
"I will state further that as mili- then they will not be able to comtary policy stands, women are le- pete for the highest military ranks
gally restricted in their military on an equal basis with men.•

Conference to chart perspectives on regionalism
gional approache~ . said John
Sheffer, director of the Institute for

(RIN) developed at the institute,

w!llcb is designed to improve the

Local Governance and Regional base of reliable, accessible inforGrowth. "That is the purpose of mation in the Western New York
the series, 'Regionalism From region.
Those scheduled to participate
Agenda to Action.'
"This first session on Nov. 25 is include:
• State Sen. Mary Lou hth,
designed 10 network many of the~
gionaleffortsWlderwayandatlmlpt chair of the senate Committee on
toacbieveaoonsensusonsomefun- Local Government who will dedamental principles. Most impor- · liver the conference's keynote adt1ntly, weneedtogetoverthebwdle dress, "New York State as a PartThe conference, coordinated by ofbelievingthatregjonalism is about ner in Regional Initiatives•
• Knln P. CO-han, the Hamthe Institute for Local Governance 'metropolitlngovernment.'•Theef·
and Regional Growth, will bring fort is to achieve systematic regional burg attorney who initiated the
Chautauqua
conference and bas
together s takeholders from ~andeconomic growth. not
throughout the region to follow . todissolveouroommunitiesandcre- remained an active proponent of
up on the Chautauqua Conference ate a highly centralized government." greater regional collabo111tion
• P..rtcla o . ......., executive
Sheffer said the series is built
· on Regional Governance held last
spring.
upon a collaboration of a wide vice president of the .G reater BufThe goals of the conference will range of regional groups. Ex- falo Partnership who has worked
be to outline perspectives on re· amples include The Greater Buf- in the economic development field
gional issues, review new data on falo Partnership, Gr.antma.kers As· for the past 17 years
• fohn a. - o r. II, director
Western New York, identify issues sociation of Western New York,
that emerge as priorities and de· Association of Erie County Gov· of the Institute for Local Goverand Regional Growth and
nance
velop an agenda for future: sessions ernments, University at Buffalo,
and follow-up actions.
Forum for Consensus. and many former New York State senator
and Williamsville mayor
•There is a very clear need to others.
• Kathryn A. Foster, assistant
ensure that practical action steps
Included in the session will be
and performance measures result a demonstration of ihe new Re- professor of planning, a founding
from all the enthusiasm for re· gional Information Network member of the Governance
EGIONALISM: From
Agenda to Action," a
series of region·widc
discussions on build·
ing a strong, enduring Western
New York community, will hold its
first session from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Tuesday, Nov. 25, in the Center
forTomorrowootheNortbCampus. •

Project -.nd director for the
project's initial report, •Gover·
nance in Erie County: A Foundation for Understanding and Ac-

tion•
• Alu Ana&amp;, UB professor of
economics and an expert in wban
economics and rqponal development
• OIMo Anlltl, operations di·
rector for the Regionallnforma·
tion Network
• -..ty A. s-fonl, associate
director for community relations
for the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth
• onld c . ......,., professor of
planning. a founding member of
the Governance Project and ere·
ator of the Regional Information
Network
Founded last summer, the Institute for LOcal Governance and
Regional Growth assists area gove:mmenu and other service providers in promoting regional opportunity throughout Western
New York.

For"""" infrmruuiDn on the am-

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for .........,lions is Ntw. 14.

�lovellierl1997/Vol.19.. ltt11Rap

All wrapped up in Schubert
Composer's. appeal is his stylistic, aesthetic variety, Gibbs says
.,..MINT aR•••GHAM
R&lt;portor Stoff

H

OW much Schubert is too much
Schubert?
For Orristopher
H. Gibbs, an assisunt professor in the Department
of Music and a specialist in Franz
Schubert, the answer is "mo"' than
you might think."
•one does get more and more
wrapped up by these types of figura, almost seduced by them." be
said. "To be working with a major
figure. a genius...can sustain you
for a lifetime.•

a model of what is possible to do
and what is out there.•

locate their affection in the romantic qualities of the music, or in the
high tragedy of a composer wbo
died at age 31, Gibbs finds
Schubert's greatest apj&gt;eal in his
stylistic and aesthetic variety.
"When you write 600 59ogs. from
the moot complex to the simplest. the
variety is incredible," be said. "He
wrote hundreds and hundreds of
danastbatwerew:rypopular,but=
real ~s writing a lower music
at an inaedibly sophisticated level.
And that affects his higher picas.
"That sort ofeclecticism anll mixture and ~g boundaries," be
added, "is something we now label

Mixing business and musk

"One of the answers for music
students," he added, "'is to work in
some way with the business side of
music. lbat sometimes means writing program notes~ working for
=ord finns, for symphony orchestras or opera companies. We haven't
had a program for that, but the university as a whole is developing an
arts-management degree."
Gibbs sees other benefits that
would come from broadening the
concept of what music graduates
can do with their degree. "I'd like
to contribute to the development
of the B.A. in music," Gibbs said.
•There are a great variety of career
paths that can come out of it.
"It is my hope," he added, "that
one of my contributions to teaching and to this community will be
in the area of music criticism and
thematic' programming."
As an example of"thematic programming," Gibbs referred to his
experience as musicological director of the Shubertiade. Under his
directorship, all the concerts in a
given year centered around a specific theme. "The'idea [in 1995]
was to present how Schubert was
known in his own lifetime ..~ then
· the next year to compare him to
Beethoven, his pre-eminent con-

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temporary and the one Schuoert

Gibbs, wbo =ei&gt;ed his doctorate from Columbia University, came
to UB five years ago as a visiting professor and ~e ao assistant prof=or this year. ~years ago, he
was named musicological director
of the Sbubertiade, the 10-year
Schubert festival in New York Oty
that ended this year on the bicentennial of Schubert's death.
Gibbs quickly found himself
teaching Schubert as he produced
Schubert, and he tried to convey the
thrill of working with artists like
Hermann Pray, James Levine and.
the Tokyo String Quartet to his students. Gibl&gt;s edited the recently
published "Cambridge Companion
to Schubert" and is working on a
Schubert biography, which will be
followed by a book on Schubert
and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Wh= some lovers qf Schubert

r~ther distinctly postmodern .. .lt
mak&lt;sbim a w:ryelusivecomposer.·

revered the most. ..then the final
year to show what happened in the
20 months that separated their

deaths, and where Schubert was
beading [when he died ]~

Gibbs has brought his own version of prolific eclecticism to his
career as a musicologist. This
month alone, he will deliver lectures, attend symposiums or introduce concerts at Carnegie Hall,

the Philadelphia Academy of Music, the International Schubert

Confe"'"ce in Germany, and for
the New York Philharmonic.
As m~ch as his research, Gibbs
sees his role as • public musicologist'" as a vital source for his teach -

ing. ["It is true that ] no matter
how esoteric your scholarship is,
it keeps you involved in your area
of expertise, it keeps your creative

juices going, aod I think students
see it. But for me, public musicology has an even more direct relationship to teaching ... because it is

Taking musicology to the public

Gibbs plans to shift some ofhis involvement in the Schubertiade to the
Buffalo music scene, and then to

work that involvement back into his
teaching. A longtime summer resident at the Olautauqua Institution,
Gibbs continues to writt m~ic reviews for 1'h&lt; Chauliluqua Dmly. He
sees this as yet another way to tal«
his musicology to the public.
"I hope," he said, "that as we'.., taking a larger view of what is appropriate to study in music, this wider eclecticism, we can also view it as appropriate for academics to be mono public intellectuals. But the practical
entryway is still to be an expert in a
particular

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professional level. All full-time instructors, regard-

less of academic rank, are eligible, provided that they
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Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching" is attached to their name in the Undergraduate Catalog.
The primary criterion for the Chancellor's Award
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�New part-time MBA program to begill in full
11J JOHN DBU CONTUDA
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and beyond, the PMB"' will offer
the~ best in real-world business education, with minimal in-

HE School of Manageterruption to students' work or
ment willlauoch a new
part- time MBA pro- family lives." said JC.tberine
Gentle, assistant dean and admingram nat &amp;II designed
is~tive director of the school's
to be highly oompatible with the
MBA program.
lives and schedules of Western
"Whiie pleased with the resulu
New York's working professionals.
of our curm&gt;t part-time program.
Called the Professional MBA
the school's MBA oommittee felt
(PMBA), the 48-credit program
we would better serve area profes•
will be a streamlined revision of sionals by crafting a program that
the achool's current part· time esaed registration and enroUment
MBA curriculum. It will be de- processes and that provided a
signed to mili it easier for work- clearer path for earning an MBA
ing professionals to obtain their degree.• she added. "Businesses
MBA degree in a shorter time than that sponsor the professional-deit takes in other part-time pro- velopment activities of their emgrams. The PMBA program will ployees should also appreciate the
replace the current part· time structure of the program.•
MBA program.
· AU student&amp; accepted into the
Student&amp; completing the PMBA PMBA will progress through the
program will receive a full-Oedged program as members of a cohort,
UBMBA.
or team, and will be required to
Designed
for middle enroll in two pre-determined
managers, or those who aspire to classes pet semester (six credits)
middle-management positions held twice a week during fall,

specifiallY

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spring and summer Kmesters.
According to GerstJe. this structure will make scheduling of
courses an easier task for lltUdtnu
and will enable them to earo an
MBA clegree in tJu.e yoean, instead
of the five years usu.ally needed in
most part-time programs.
The curriculum daign will be
based, in part, on a markding sur-

problem-solvers. e:rcellent team
playen and d&amp;ctive communicators.

Students will perticipolte in speciali2ed one-aedit "mini-counes"
at the bqimting of . . . : h that will cover ckvelopment of
important career sldllo-like
teamwork and communication
skillo-and will ·help atudeats
veyof~and current stu-. achieve a better I1Jidentmclina of
denu oooducted by the School of emersing corporate trenda. such
Management to determine a as international buaiDaa atrategy.
modd that would be moat oa:a~thepropam will utisible and Iller-friendly for fully. lize "Lotua Nota.. a ~-the­
employed students.
art oommu.nication networlt uaed
The program's structure is simi- by the nation'• top busineu
lar to the maJIIIIIOIIIeDI school'aauc- schools to facilitate oommunicaceuful &amp;r:cutive MBA program, tion aod discuaion oullide of the
created mr ~ex­ claaroom among students and
ecutiva who poaaesa the potential profaaors.
to assume top JJ~aDa~~&lt;~Dent posiWithin the next two y,ean, the
tions in their orianizat;ons.
school plana to make the PMBA
PMBA students will be required more a(ceuible for regional
to poasesa at least tJu.e years of business people by offerins the
work experieDce. Gentle noted.
program through teleconferencThe curriculum will be daigned ing at Jamestown Community
to procluce superior analysts and College.

UB needs on-campus ambulance service

.,Forum held to discuss future ofstudent~run Baird Point Ambulance Corps
News 5eMces fdlto&lt;tol AsslsWit

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TUDENT mernben of the
suspended Baird Point
Ambulance Corps wiced
their determination to .,_
establish the operation aod sewn!
speakers expressed considerable
need for the service in an open forum held on TUesday to discuss
the future of the emergency medical orpnization.
The student-run response-andtransportation team of approximately 70 wlunteer members was
shut down for the fall semester in
order for the.university to review
the orpnization's efforts, as well
as to establish if a need for the service still exist&amp;.
Medical emergencies on North
Campus are being handled under
a mutual-"aid agreement inwlving
the Department of Public Safety,
Getzville Fire Company and Ru·
raVMetro Ambulance.
Although the corps is nd longer
handling medical emergencies. it
continues to provide educational
and training programs, and to .,.
cruit memben.

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Several persons apeaking at the
forum expressed a need for an oncampus ambulance service. 1
Pete Bothner, coordinator for
facilities and event&amp; for the Division of Athletics, noted that it was
important to have ambulance service at UB football games for potential problems involving athletes, as well as spectators. He
added that events such as soccer
and bisketball games. track meets
and tennis matches also need
emergency medical coverage. although having an ambulance onsite in those cases is not as crucial.
ReliabiHty Is a concern

However, Bothne.r raised a concern about the reliability of the

student ambulance crews. •The
crew commitment was always
there: he said, "1&gt;ut sometimes on
the day of the event, I would call
and they would tell me they
couldn't cover the event because
they were short-staffed."
John Grela, director of public
safety, said that there is a medical
emergency approximately three
times a week on the North Cam-

pus. He added that UB frequendy
serves is a venue for 1arJ1e concert
events that require an on-site am-

fundin&amp; to help with &amp;na..cial difficultia,aod .... creatins oommit-

bulance.

crease oommW1ication aod effi-

A

$17.4 million project to save UB
$50 million in energy costs over 17
years has been named the f997
National Energy Pmject ofthe Year
by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).
Launched in 1994, the project is one of the
largest such efforu ever undertaken by an
American university. It is saving UB an esti-

mated $3 million annually, according to
Walter Simpson, project manager and UB
energy officer.
The project was implemented in conjunction. with .CBS/Way International rDc., a
Houston-based, energy-conservation company. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp~ pro·

within the orpnization to in-

ciency.
Other speaker~ noted that an ~ambulance transporb at least one
n..y" also said they are r&lt;Cruitpatient a day &amp;om the Student ing members for an advisory
Health Center to local hospitals.
board consisting of teptesentatives ·
Grela pointed out that bavint! 1D &amp;om UB and the Bufl'alo medical
rely on an off-campus ambulance community. GregSkibitskyofthe
can delay service to the patient, l!rie County Department of
since public safety often bas to Health aod Casey Czamara. chair
meet and bring the ambulance to of the Bufl'alo Ambulance Board,
the scene due to crews' u.nfamil- altadybaveagreedtoserve!mthe
iarity with the campus.
board.
"The operation (Baird Point)
StudmtssaidtbeybopeiDevenprovides· a great service to the tually provide coverage for the
campus and is a successful UB tra- South Campus.
clition; be said. The people I've
Although the student&amp; said that
been involved with over the last corps membership remains steady,
few years have done a gn;at job."
they adcnowledged that they have
Student members of the corps bad difficulty in the past maintainemphasized that the problems · ing a solid organizational structhey face a"' strictly administra- ture due to the nature of student
tive, not medical, and are being orpnizations. which have a high
addressed.
turnover rate.
They noted that they are seekAnother forum on the subject
ing grant&amp; and other sOurces of will be held nat month.

Simpson says the comprehensive project
accomplished in three years what might
have taken UB 10 to 15 years on iu own.
Since the project was a partnership with
videc:i a $4.3 million incentive toward the CF.SfWay and Niagara Mohawk, all parties
project
were able to coUaborate and creste a large
The award recognizes innovative energy project wherein quick payoff measures
management that has been in operation for helped pay for improvemenu with long·
at least six months and can be substantiated term payoff.
with actual installation com and operating
This particular project is the most recent
savings. The UB project was selected &amp;om accomplishment of US's overall campus
12 national noiilinations by a committee of · energy conservation initiative, which began
energy experts.
in the early 1980s and nQw saves the uniTwo of the most cost-effective saving mea- versity approximately $9 million a year.
sures of the project include a gas oonvenion
The AEE. a nonprofit professional sociand a heat-recovery system implemented in ety, confers anoual awards on individuals.
the Cooke-Hochstetter complex on the companies or institutions that have
North Campus, and a massive retrofit of achieved national aod international promi60,000 light fixtures on campus that now nence in promoting the practices and prinproduce the same amount of light using 40 ciples of energy engineering and managepercentlC.. electricity.
ment.

.,UB.'s energy efforts honored_
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Nov. I u UB. Senior ICoron lilly finished firs&lt; lor the Buls wtch a drno ol 19:04
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A family memorial service will be held Nov. 23 in Hawaii for David
Kimball Miller, UB professor emeritus and former chief of medi cine at E.}. Meyer Memorial Hospital, which later became the Erie
County Medical Center. Miller, 93, died in h is sl..,p Oct. 25 at the
home of his son, David -Rush Miller, in Hilo, Hawaii, where he had
lived since 1993.
A resident of Buffalo from 1938 to 1974, he was a native o f
Bloomington, Ill., and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University.
Miller graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1929 and begin ·
ning in 1937, was the first full-time professo r of a clinical depart·
ment in the University of Buffalo Medical School.
Known for his skill as a medical diagnostician and for his co m·
mitment to patient care and clinical instruction in medicine, he was
honored for his contributions to medicin e in 1984 on his 80th birth day with the dedication of the David K. Miller Wing of the Erie
County Medica! Center. He retired to San Francisco in 1974.
The family requests that contributions in his memory be sent to
the Clara March Trust Fund for Medical Education, 1620 Statler Tow·
ers, Buffalo, N.Y. 14202.

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Q &amp;A-Phillips Stevens talks about
superstitions, cults and psychics:

PAGE7

Findirig a Joh
Octiler 30. 1!17I ti 29. lh 10

School.

Spirit
VICtOr E. Bull, newly renamed
mascot for UB, excites Family/
Homecoming crowd with
1Ji.1nks in UB Stadium Saturday
before the football game
against Hofstra. See more
Homecoming pictures
on Page 4.

Research taking downturn, FSEC told
Landi ties drop-offin research proposals to loss of78 faculty members
IIJ a.sr.. VIDAL
Report.er Editor

B

ETWEBN 1991 and
1996, 78 faculty mem·
bers left UB, taking with
them s8.7 million in research funding, Vice President for
Research Dale M. Landi told the
Faculty Senate l!ecu!M Commit·
tee at it&gt; Oct. 22 meeting.

· FSEC clscuues IBUe ....... poge 6.
At the same time, Landi added,
the number of research proposals
1eni:rated at the university de·
dined 16 percent, which be called
"a huge drop."
The decline in proposals, he

added, can be tied th the loss of
the 78.

mended to the provost that exit
interviews be done with faculty

believe the research downturn has
resulted from a changing empha-

"'These were not senior p~ople,"

moving on to other positions.
AJ for the decline in research
proposals, Landi said UB has seen
"a pretty sharp drop-off in the
number of research proposals that
are generated by the university in
a year." The volume of research ex·
penditures, the overall dollar value
of extunaUy sponsored activities,
the dollar value of ..e.....ct, awards
and the number of awards also
have dropped, he added.
Robert Baier, professor of oral
diagnostic sciences and chair of
the FSEC Committee on Research
and Creative Activity, said some

sis from research to service within
the university administration.

he explained. "These were. for the

most part, junior people, some of
whom had been here one o&lt; two

years and were rising stars, and
people in their mid-careers who
wue weD-established and well funded and who WOTe nationally
ranked in their field&gt;-the kind of
people you would want to stay.•
Landi said he finds the loss of
the 78 "v..-y disturbing" and noted
that the university needs to under·
stand better why they left and what
needs to be done to slow such at·
trition. He said he has recom -

Salary may ha.,; something to
do with faculty attrition.
"Some people come here expect·

ing to move on,• noted John
Meacham, professor of psychology.
"They expect to run through four
or five institutions before the age
of 40 or 45, at which point they will
have their salaries' up to $100,000
or Sl25,000.... We're a way station
on the way to someplace else."
Landi agreed, noting: " I think
salaries had a lot to do with it.•
~.,....

HusiNind-wlfe team of psychiatrists emiNirlls on search

Gene link to schiwphrenia sought
11y LOIS IIAKU
Now&gt;

s.Mcos £dltor
husba nd-and-wife
team of psychiatrists at
UB bas received a $2 .6
million grant from the

A

Na tional Institute of Mental

Institute of Psychiatry, University of
Toronto, wbo is a co-principal in·
vestigator, and Eric Lander of the
Whitehead/MIT Center for Ge·
nome Resean:h, which will perform
a genome-wide scan and collaborate
on all data analysis.

Health to conduct one of the first
major population-based studies
)limed at finding the gene or genes
that may be linked to schizophrenia.
Carlos N. Pato and Michele T.
Pato, associate professors of psychiatry, are principal and co-prin·
cipal investigators, respectively, on
the project. They have been build-

•psychosis is a complex _syndrome, the most common form of
which is schizophrenia,• Carlos
Pato said. ·" In at least 20 percent
of cases of schizophrenia, other

ing the project for seven years in

termine how often the illness and
a partirular gene, or genes. are seen

the Azores, a group of nine islands
located off the coast of Portugal

that comprise a Portuguese state
and where most inhabitants are
descended from a few families.
_ Jloth researchers hold adjunct

appointment&gt; with the C=ter for
Neuroocience at the University of
Coimbra in Portugal. which is collaborating on the project. Also involved are James !. Kamedy, head
ofthe newogenetics oection at Clark

family members are also affected
with the illness, \mt genetics may

play a role in an even greater percentage. Our study will try to de-

together. If we can find the gene
that causes the- illness and then
find the product of that gene, we
can begin to design more effective
treatment.•
About I percent of the world's
population is afflicted with schizo.
phrenia, a mental illness chanc·
teriud by symptoms ouch as de-

terioration of personality. disordered thinking, delwions, halluci·

nations, paranoia or catatonia.
The main form of treatment is
anti-psychotic drugs, which mllst
be taken regularly and conti nually

to control symptoms.
The five-year study will be car·

ricod out in the Azores and in a
population group on the Portuguese mainland. uThe Awres are
ideal for a genetic analysis," Pato
said, "because the country is small

and its population has been relatively genetically isolated , with
most inhabitants descended from
a few families. The Azores have a
centralized health system, and all
10 psychiatrists on the islands are

collaborating on the project."
The researchers will look for
genetic links using a variety of approaches . .. We will select genetic
markers and look at how th e
markers behave in well famiHes,
compared to a family where the
illness shows up several times,"

son. We'U develop a description of
each suspect gene and determine
how often it occurs with illness."
An impprtant aspect of the
study will be a Halpotype Relative
Risk analysis. Using this approach,
researchers will analyu the- set of
genes from a patient's pare-nts that
were not passed on to that patient,
Pato said. The non-inherited set
then acts as a control.
A field team is alread}' in place
in the Azores. The UB researchers
travel there frequently to maintain
close ties with the project. 1\•tean wh.ile, they are setting up a genet ics resn.rch program and labora tory at UB that ultimately will be
capable of perform ing gconellc
analysis of any potentiall)' inher·
itable disease, the researchers sa1d.
M. Helena Azevedo. professor of

psychiatry at the University of
Coimbra, is the principal investi gator for the Portuguese team, and

Pato said. "We'll look to see if ill·

Carlos Paz Ferreira, director of

ness and genetic markers exist together, and we'll anal'y u genetic
patterns from ill person to ill per·

psychiatry at Psychiatric Hospital
S. Miguel, Azores, is directing the
field work.

�·sometbingoub-cultural,aometbinc

Phillips St~. Jr.,
.
aBlciate profr:saor of anthropology
and intematiooally prominent
in his field, has spent more than

of the UB

a quart&lt;r ce ntury studying
religion, cults and cultural
change. He has 1&gt;een a member
faculty since 1971.

ind standards of behavior and moWe should be careful bow we use
this tern. At; its Latin roots imply, it
indicates a superior, denigrating attitude towud other people's beliefs.
Moot of the bdi&lt;fs llld practices
we re&amp;rtoas supentitioos rq&gt;r&lt;Knt

magicalorrpiritull bdi&lt;fs that_..,
or in many cases are. very real for
the people wbo bold them. In &amp;ct.
all of us are "supentitious" obout
some thinp. /u I have r;ea:ndy
shown, some forms of mapcal
thinlr:ing are abaolutdy 1li1Mnal,
and do not correlate with aocial,
cullurol oreduc:atiooal t.dqpouod;
tbey-.n to indicate innalle human
cognitM proc:aaes (aee "MaP:" in

Etrqdoptr&amp; a{ddtunai Andrtopology, Henry Holt, 1996).

nlity. Abo, they can serve, as much
magical thinlr:ing does; to give an
individual a sense of personal contro~ hence comfort, in the impersonal confusion of life.

-1

Wllat •r• you superstltlo••

/u a ru,h school and college athlete, on da)'II was to compet&lt;.I conociously wore the same clothes I

had worn on da)'II wu sua:aoful
in my .....,ts. At timea in my life I
carried on my .penon mWI itans
that I ...a-! with good lixtune.
Tciday, )iU probably all people,
I eatabliab IOUtiDea of daily behavior-ouch u getting up in the
morning (that old quation. •Did
you get up on the wmng aide of
t!&gt;• bed .this momingr.' is rooted
in real magicsl belie&amp;!) and the
thinp I do ahr getting up, and the
order in which I do them. If I deviate from my routine, if anything,

Some supentitions seem to be panhuman---.udl as bdi&lt;fs in power in
no matter how trivial. remains
eggs, horns, or the colors red, bladt
undone, I start th~ day with a
orwm-but many such bdi&lt;fsare
ngue aense of unease. I can parculture-specific, and can be underti.ally ease my discomfort if I go
stood only by examining details of
back and re-do the thing that was
the culture that produoed them.
done poorly, ou&gt;ot done at all.
They may ~ aapects of that
culture's earlier or contemponry De
ltellewe Ia lll•st•7
systems of social relations, work, _ . . . .......7...,.....7
diet, ecology, rdi8ious beliefs, etc.
No, no llld no. But u an anthro-

J••

· Sure, in many ways. Some superstitions are recognized as holdoYen
from some practicsl warnings or
prOhibitions of an earlier time; but,
too, superstitions can serve us.eful
· contemporary functions. They can
be seen as agents of"oocial control,"

enforcing socio-cultural norms

pologiot with an interest in religious belidi, I undentand the cultunl nature ofbdi&lt;fs in ghosts, llld
in the abilities of certain gifted
people to communicate with spirits or forces in na~d. very
importantly, the filet that such beliefs are found ii&gt; every culture in
the world. We recognize that when
a belief or a cultural pnctice is
found to be universal, there is lilcely

_.....

_

..,_ _,

...., ,..... ...............

innately human, at work. Gboots - • . . . . , . , • ......._. Ia
are the soW. of~ people . 111e _...,
wbo for aome rea100 do not reside
in the Other World. but Jineer on ' - iD 1biap w.iooaoly lobded
the fringes of ours. 1;bey ofim aee1t "oa:ult" in naD1 cloc..se. hoo perto~aomuspectoltbeir loot voded our papalllioa Ill a ~
humanity, such u territoriality. unpvalled lila ~ Ilk Middle
Gboats and llDOellnl spirib oftinn Af1a. Wbr tbil io.., in a time aliabeliefs in an ahrlife; such beliefs credi&gt;le"" b !lo,P al acm.-.a.,
and thecertointythatcommunication can be establiShed betwl= the
living and the departed is gready
comforting to people.

...._.,_.,---f
Wiler• •re , _ ......,, •M41

Hallow= in Amoria bas becomo
principally a cbildren's i11iva1, llld
it not only..........., ...._,._ but, by
-..........,.

allowing them to induiF iD a bit o{
~illsp&gt;dilrtbem,too. "l'bae
are lou olkido in myneighbqrbood.
and being a p&gt;d neighbor,! wiD be
doae to mydoor,r.adylllo&amp;rp&gt;dies Ill trick-oc-trealln. Some ,.,...
aw&gt; my wife bousbt me a Pban1Dm
o{the~ outfit, with lladtwbite
...,....

holf-nM, bMdtbat,...tcope; but it
acamllbolilllerkids,ao aowl p&lt;arm
just my &amp;ieadly aelf at the dooc

Ia--.. . _.

irm...,.._...t_.........,.
I:lae • • lew aimple - F a r
lmG1 ;tltiPe. il's lim. Far ~ it
P- them a - al ponoaal cootrol in .., im!&gt;a-&gt;al...t .......
ingwlldd.Some.-.:bl~con-

ducted~thatb-U..,par­

ticipantl in .......... Giber New

AF groupo, the bdie6 c:spoa..~ by

the group uelea&gt;Ddary in importance, llld . _ iaciclelal, to the
social support proYided by the
group illelf {the IOCiol significancz
o{rdip&gt;ul bdie6 bas been wdl rec-

ogniled siDce l!milt DurkbeDn).
But, there an: a pat .,...,. true

' - " - llld .,__,_ -'-"·
~~..
a _ , . . . _ - -tion is CODJpiex. I ~ addraaed
this very qwDm in a J.9U article

(in n.. Slqliall hwftdtrr, Summer
1988); I fouad _ , in the bio-

..... . . , _ ....

tory, ttriiCtlft, l l l d - aifttigina. acimce llld llocboolosr.llld

. . . .f
... ~.,- .......

publicimuhemmtinllldlalil&amp;ctionwiththem.

-

....................

.... -

Jolalalaolbf
This ia an impomm question, but
it niles a wbole aepante iosuellld
it ought to be the subject ofanother
int.rview. But a quick answer iuppropriate here. ....,.._ it ..&amp;cts a
common-..mpliall that"cult"llld
"oa:ult" are reWed. They are not.
"Occult," of speciol intaeol at Halloween, coma from a Latin root
~"hidden,"notdeleclal&gt;leby

the human ...,...,llld bmce ..,.-

l&lt;rious.l'llbolosim speak~oa:ult
blood," __,.,.,.. o{ the "oa:ultatioo" olooe crcnnlnsial body by
anotha; Only in very ftiCIIII public

11118" bas it come to mean sinislac.
"Coot" is also a wid&amp;!lyt-.1 llld misused word, llld its meaning varies
with the beclqpound,tpecificallythe
religiousorimtatioo,ofthe.....-.It's
in~ to note that it derives
from the· same Latin root u the
word "culture." Look it up in ala!Je

dictionary.

........ _ . . . . . ........'t
. . _ ..... ... I bmo tallred publicly about this ·
stuff Cor many yars, llld on severa1 oa:uioas
bad coafrootationa wilb peapewith coaaervatiYe
retipoua belldi wbo asaert that I
can't talk openly aocl non judgmeo181Jr about peoples' "occult" belldi, IDd be a dea:at citiu:n, too! One Bibk-otudy group
cslled iD to a radio talk show to say
that tbey would pny tor me. Some
people's CODCalll fur my salntion
are ao..-bat allayed when they
learn that I am an ordained elder
of ala!Je llld old BufWo cburtb.l
" - reaoMd prablems ( uaed to
feel with the core teuets o{ mainstieam theoiogy, llld I am deeply
committed to the aoc:ii1 volues espouaed by all mijor religions. But
nevuthless, aome are sure that
there's no hope Cor my aouL

r.e

UB to realize cost savings in travel partnership
I!J ~ PACE
News SeMces Dirocto&lt;

N theory, the $5 million a year that UB
spends on travel apenses should earn
travelers significant volume discounts.
Savings, however, have been limited
because individual offices and departments
have used separate travel ogencies.
In an attempt to realizeCDOt~ tlutJu81&gt;oon-

I

solida!ion withonelrMI"'I""Y,theunMrsityear• li&lt;r this year entmd iniD a partnenhip with NFT
1iavel Service, lnc.ID provide tmel-related services
and act as UB's official trawl "'I""Y·
Based on third-quarter reports from NFT
Travel, the venture appears to be paying off,
according to Thomas E. Okon, ·manager of
travel services in the Office of Accounting and

Payroll Services.
"It is quite apparent, based on the increased
volumesobservedeacb quarter, that NFT1ravel
is being wieldy used across campus and is having a very~ effect on UB's effort to reduce
costs without reducing services," he added.
The report shows total airline volume booked
through NFT increasing, from $194,343 in the
first quarter of the year to $264,564 in the third
quarter, with a corresponding drop in the aver-

age ticket price from $438.11 to $394.76.
The increase in airline volume booked,
Okon noted, "is lianifkaot because the rew-

enue-sharing program in place with NFT
Travel is driven by total airline volume."
Tbedropinawragetickdprice,beodded, "indicates UB travolers are taking advantase of the
up-front discounts Dq!Oiiated with the prefmed
airlines, as wdl as NFT lhtvd's ability, ttuoup
imprtM&lt;I ted&gt;nology and familioritywith travel
patterns, to obtain lowest available airfua."
Okon noted that there also has been an optimistic downturn in the· avenge daily carrental cost: from $44.50 in the first quarter, to
$38.91 in the third quarter, resulting from negotioted prices UB has established with' preferred rental-car pirtners through NFT naVel

"'therbmditsbeingrea:iwdbyUBCromprefemd tmel partners," he added, "cannot neassarilybequantifial. n-indudeupgn&lt;lesinairline, hotel llld rental-car bookinp, on-ampus
ticket ddi&gt;ay,diocounts on airport parlcing. strakgic reporting llld impnMd customer ..mo.:'
Leonard F. Snyder, senior usoc:iate vice presidentforuniversityaervices;stlelledthatthesavings are two-fold. In addition to lower prices,
the partnership results in rebata and
sharing that "will go directly back into the departments.lt'spartofanoverallattemputUB
tooperatemoreintdligentlyllldeconomically."
· To educate the cunpus .bout the new partnerabip, NFT 1htvd will ~t a "Tnvd Fair"
from9Lm. to3p.m.onNov. IOilld II ia the

......,ue

Student Union on the North Campw.
Compenies that NFT 1htvd commonly uses,
including National Car Rmtal, U.S. Airways
and Radisson Hoteh, will run information
booths in the Student Union.
While UB personnei are not required to use
NFT, Okoo pointed out that discounts ano not
the only reason to work with the travd agency.
"They are the No. I corporate ogency in
Western New York, and they've been in business for 25 years. Under their system, tickets
can be delivered right to your desktop. They
are setting up a Web site that will let travelers
plot their wbole trip electronically."
NFT bas talren advantase of computer tecbnolosY in other ways, u wdl, Okoo qplaineci
"They bmo a compoter system cslled '1hvd
Commander'tbatcontinuestoc:hedcforcbeaper
rates, evm ahr you m&amp;U a reoervotion. Then it
notifies you if it finds a lower price."
Okoo admitted that aome people may be reluctant to change travd ogencies. "They may
be comfortable with the agency they'Ye been
using," he said,....., lboush it probably c:buJes
more.
Okon said .he and representatives of NFT
lravd are available to explain .the benefits of
the part.nenbip ID groups of taculty members
llld ataf[
be arranged breontactinl bim at64S-2660,ext. 251. ,

Seaoioas.....,

�Ottober l19971VD1.2Ua.11 Rap

a....., 13

BrieD
UB to host international fll.m
festival by and about women
TIM un1nn1ty Is - K.-nlng site for the second "'!"ual international 6lm festival, "About Women; the only international womenoriented 6lm festival in New York State. AU 6Jms will be shown at 6:30'
p.m. in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North
Campus. Ticlcets are $3 for students and $5 fur the general public.
Directed by a variety of talented international women filmmakers, the films focus on a variety of women's issues.
Co-sponsors of the festival are the Graduate Group fur Feminist Studies, the Graduate Student Association (GSA), the Council fur International Studies and Programs. the DOparunent of Media Study, the Department of American Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Arts and Letters, the World Languages Institute, !he Asian Stud·
ies Programs. the American Studies GSA. the Media Study GSA. the
Russian GSA and the Center for the Arts. aU at UB. The American Association of University Women also is sponsoring the program.
AU 6lm screenings will be Buffalo premieres. The schedule:
• Nov.IO:"Taleof!.ove,"U.S. (1995). This 6lm,directed by Trinh
T. Minh-ha, portrays the Vietnamese immigrant experience.
• Nov. 18: "Selbe," Senegal (1983). Directed by Sa6 Faye, the first
woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a feature 6Jm, this documentary focuses on the daily life of women in African society. Also. "Taafe
Panga" (Skirt Power), Mali (1997 ). This satire, directed by Adama Drabo,
features men and women acting in opposite gender roles.
• Nov. 25: "The Goat Horn," Bulgaria ( 1972 ). This story, directed
by Metodi Andonov, is about a woman who was raised by her father
to behave ·as a man, but falls in forbidden love.
• D.C. 2: "Gabbeh," Iran ( 1997). Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
this love story captures the life of a woman member of a nomadic
desert tribe.

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a partner in~ firm. now known
The convocation program, to
..; Jaeclcle, FleiJchmann &amp; ~ugel. run from 8:30a.m. to 2:30p.m. in
Several years later, Del Cotto the Hyatt, will focus on recent de·
OUIS A. Del Cotto, pro- ·
fessor emeritus in the returned to academia, earning a velopments in tax law, matrimomaster's d~ee in law from Co- niaJ procedures, supplemental
lumbia University. He joined the needs trusts and jury selection.
Scheduled to speak are Ann B.
ward-the law school's highest UB law faculty in 1961.
He was inftuential in broadming Bermingham, a vice president and
nor-&lt;iuring a luncheon to be
school's tax rurricu- senior trust officer, Marine Middat 12:15p.m.on,Saturday,Nov. and
lum and also land Bank; John F. Canale, a senior
n the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. Del
no will receive.the award follow·
taught thousands parU:.er with1 the Buffalo firm of
of'Studentstbein-- Bouvier, 0 Connor; Peter }.
g 'the law ~&lt;:hoOi's 22nd -annual
tric:aciesaridj&gt;olj&lt;y Fio~. fr., a p:1rri:Ji:r in the ·Bufumni Cotimdtio'n.
behind the iax falo firm of Fiorella &amp; Palmer; the
The award, r\amed for Edwin F.
Hon. Barbara Howe, New York
Jaeclde, a 1915 graduate of the law
axles.
State Supreme Court justice for
school, is given annually to an indi1-k is r&lt;garded by the Eighth Judicial District and an
vidual who bas distinguished him- DB. amo
fOrmer students as adjunct asSociate professor of soself or herself and bas made signifi·
anemern.!ydl£c- ciology at UB; Kenneth Joyce,
cant contributions to the law school live teacher, role model and mentor.
SUNY Distinguished Professor in
and the legal profession.
Nationally respected as a the School of Law; the Hon .
Recognized as one of the scholar, Del Cotto collaborated Nelson H. Cosgrove, New York
nation's top tax authorities, Del with top experts on the five-vnl- State Supreme Court justice for
Cotto graduated from UB law ume treatise on Federal Income the Eighth Judicial District, and
school in 1951 and practiced for a Estate and Gift Taxation.
Patrick C. O'Reilly, a S&lt;:nior mandecade with the Buffalo firm of
From 1981 until recently, he was aging partner with the Buffalo
Jaeclcle, Fleischmann, Kelly, Swart tax counsel with the Buffalo firm . firm of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer,
&amp; Augspurger. In 1955, he became of J&lt;avinolcy &amp; Cook.
Roll, Salisbury &amp; Cambria.
ly MAllY IIE11I SPINA
News Servkes Editor·

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Golden Key Honor Society
holds lOth annual induction

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Activist author to lecture at UB
I

ly I'Al111CJA -VAN
News 5eNices Editor

M

A.RGARET Randall,
internationally re·
garded author, poet,
photographer, feminist and political observer, bas Ld
a powerful influence on North
American and Latin American artists, scholars and stude.nu since
the 1960s.
A lively and popular speaker,
Randall will read from her most
recent book of poetry, "Hunger's
Table: Women. Food and Politics,"
on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. in
Hallwalls, Suite 425, Tri-Main
Center, 2495 Main St. Admission
to the reading is $4-$6 at the door.
In addition, she is presenting a
free public lecture titled "The
lmagihation of the Writer vs. The
Imagination of the State" at 9:45
a. mHD&lt;lay in the faculty lounge,
545 O'Brian Hall on the North
Campus.
Rand.n's trip to Buffalo is spon-

sored by the Law School, the
Samuel F. Capen Chair in Poetry
and the Humanities (Robert
Creeley), Baldy Center for Law and
Social Policy, the Sociology Departmen~ the James McNulty Chair in
English (Dennis Tedlock), the Program in Women's Studies. Just Buf·
falo Literary .Genter and Hallwalls.
"Hunger's Table" bas been
hailed by critics as a primary
women's text that offers a brilliant
diSC\Wion of the political, social
and emotional roles that food
plays in our lives and in our think·
ing about the world.
In 1984, Randall's outspoken
political views led to a five-year
fight by the administration to deport her as an enemy of the state.
Her critical writings on U.S. for·
eign policy, particularly in Viet·
narn and Central America, earned
her widespread praise from the
scbolan and readen, but outrage
and political rebuke from the
Reagan adrninistntion, which de-

clared her ideas ideologically an·
tipathetic to the U.S. government.
In 1984, it ordered the Americanhorn Randall deported, placing
her at the center
of a major political controversy.
Randall's deporta~ion cause
was taken up by
the American intell~ commUnity, which, with
a groundswell of support from
American citiuns, helped her to
win her legaliase in 1989 after a
five-year court battle.
Since that time, she bas continued her work as an activist,
teacher, writer and oral historian.
Her work has been the subject of
many essays, interviews, newspaper and journal articles, as well as
of senral doctoral dissertations
and other scholarly studies. She is
an international lecturer of distin guished reputation.

The Ul Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society held its
1

lOth annual induction ceremony on Oct. 20 in Slee Hall on the North
Campus.
This year, 650 juniors and seniors with grades that place them in
the top 15 .percent of their class were honortd, along with·several new
honorary melnbers and distiilguished studeniS.Stiidenti 'and lionorary members received ccnificates at the ceremony.
The keynote address was presented by Dennis Black, interim vice
president for student affairs. Michael B. Burke, director of music
programs. performed on the Fisk Organ.
The 1997 honorary members, nominated by members of Golden
Key are Carrie Tirado Bramcn, assistant professor of Englishi Roben Chatov, associate professor of accounting and law; Helene G.
Kershner, assistant chair and lecturer in computer science; )ohannp
M. Nitsche, associate professor of chemical engineering; Kenneth
W. Regan, associate professor of computer scienc-e; John Ringland,
associate professor of mathematics, and Kenneth J. Takeuchi, associate professor or chemistry.
Adam Tyler Mark, a junior majoring in pharmacy, and Lauren
Melissa Adler, a senior maj6ring in music and theater, were honored
for high academic and extracurricular achievements. They recejved
KPMG Peat MarwicltJGolden Key Scholar Awards.
Peter Gold, associate dean of the Undergraduate College, bas been
chapter advisor since the UB Golden Key chapter was fow&gt;ded in 1988.
This year's prtSident is Yi Huang. a computer science and business major.

Hillel of Buffalo hopors couples
for contributions, scholarships
Three couples were honored for their contributions to the success

and growth of Hillel Foundation of Buffalo at the organization's 50th
anniversary dinner held earlier this month in the Center for the Arts
Airium. Hillel, a national organization, provides Jewish college and uni·
versity students with social, political, cultural, religious and educational
activities and programs. Hillel of Buffalo sponso" programs for Jewish
students enrolled primarily at UB and Buffalo State College.
Honored at the dinner were Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Goldhaber, Mr.
and Mn. Ronald Schreiber and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wasserman.
The Goldhabe" have established the Dr. and M". Ernest Blaustein
Scholarship, honoring Mrs. Goldhaber,s parents, and awarded an nually for student travel to Israel. Goldhaber is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. His wife has been active
in community organizations.
Schreiber, imrpediate past president of Hillel, serves on several
boards, including National Hillel. His wife is actin in the Young
Women's Division of the Jewish Federation.
Wasserman and his first wife, Louise, established a charitable foun dation in their names that sponsors the annual Wasserman Conference at
UB, as weD as scholarshipa. oeminars and award programs honoring hospi·
talandnursing-facilitypatient&lt;are employees. He and his current wife,
Mindy, are involved in the community and in religious endeavors.

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Salubrious weekene:i

Saliva as reliable as blood for DNA screening

Oral biologist's discovery could have major impact on genetic screening process
8y LOIS IIAIIIII
News 5oMces Edito&lt;

A

UB oral biologist has
shown that saliva appears to be as good as
blood as a sourcz of ge-

netic material needed to screen
people for inherited diseases.
The discovery could simplify the

screening process enorm&lt;?usly,
eliminating the risks and complications of handling, storing and
transporting blood, including the
risk of oontact with blood-borne
viruses. It also would allow per-

sons who cannot or will not give
blood to be screened, and would
be a boon to the needle-phobic.
"This is such a clean, reliable,
quick, easy test," said Rob van
Schie, a post-doctoral associate in
the Department of Oral Biology
and lead raearcher on the discov-

ery. •There are no needles.
Samples can be collected by untrained personnel. And it's great
for children, becaUK they love to
spit."
Forensic scientists have UKd

·a stamp UKd by the swpect. At the
same time, he wu conducting a
major raearch project involving
genetic sau:ning of childrm for
potential risk lioctors fur juvenile
periodontal diseue, a particularly
aggreasive form of gum disease
that tends to run in families. Mark
Wilson, formerly of the UB School
of Dental Medicine, is the project
leader on that raearch.
Excited by the possibility ofhaving his young research subjects
spit into a test tube instead ofbeing stuck with a needle, van Schie ·
tested the salivary DNA theory
using saliva and blood fiom himself and his wife. Finding the ge~etic material in the blood and
dures on religious or cultural saliva samples indistingUishable,
grouods, while others may simply he collected blood and saliva
be apprehensive. Hence, an alter- samples fiom 69 adult volunteers,
native to the use of blood for ge- to test the theory further.
Using a proczdure called polynetic studies may be desirable."
Van Schie wu struck with the merase chain reaction, which repidea for the study after bearing a licates tiny pieces of DNA suffinews report on the Unabomber cientlyto deu:ct minor clif£amces
i.nvatiption telling of sua:eosfui in gene structure, he wu able to
DNA analysil of dried saliva fiom show that DNA fiom oaimt wu u

many materials as a source for
DNA evidence, but blood is currently the most commonly UKd
source of DNA for genetic testing,
both for clinical use and for basic
raearch, van Schie noted. Unfortunately, the use of blood has
many practical disadvantages and
inherent limitations.
•slood sampling is invasive, ·
painful and invplvea a potential
risk of contamination with hepatitis and the human immunodeficiency virus," he stated ip his study,
published in the October issue of
the Journ•l of Immunologic•/
MtthodJ.
"Somepatientsmayberductant
to submit to phlebotomy procz-

precise as that fiom blood in revealing polymorphisma in two
genes thought to play a role in the
development of juvenile periodontal disease.
The results pei1ain to only two
genes whose sequence iS knqwn,
van Schie noted. and the method
has DOl been proved universally.
However, he said, its potential appears very promising.
He predicts that genetic screening for disease will become routine in the near future, a view
shared by many, and the subject of
a recent editorial in the Jounutl .of
the Ameria&gt;n Mediazl Association.
Van Schie's findings could increase this momentum, and make
genetic testing easily available to
populations presently outside the
medical mainstream.
The only restriction associated
with this method so far? " No
French lciuing before testing,"
notes van Schie.
The research wu supported by
the National Institute of Dental
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President's condition ..-nutve In U.S. society

Hearing aids may not solve
Clinton's problem, professor says
. , LOIS lAlla
Newss.Mcesi'Ditor

HE hearing aids
being worn by
President Clinton
may not greotly
improve his ability
to undmtand faint
speech, aa:ording to a hearing researcher with the Centt:r for Hearing and Deafness who is an expert
on noise-induced hearing loss.
"Mild, high-frequency ~earing
loss reftects urulerlying damage to
the inner ear that interferes with the
ability to proasssighalsoutof noisy
backgrounds; says Robert F.

T

Burkard,asoociateprofesoorcifcominunicatiYe disorden and sciena:s.
"What CUntoo probably needs is
something that suppresses back-

ground noise. l~s possible, but not
probable, that hearing aids will help
his problem."
Burkard says noise-induced highfrequency hearing less is endemic in
the U.S., and poses a particular

problem CorchildreD.alfectiogtheir
ability to achiev. in school.
"Many childttn already have a
significant bearing loss, whicb often means they have a decreased
ability to process signals in the

presence of background noise,•
Burkard notes: "Noise levels in
classrooms today are unacxeptably
high, so these children often can't

understand what the teacher is
saying. it's ooe of the causes of kids
acting out in the classroom."
The hearing loss experienced in
old age, wb.ieh will become an in creasingly significant publichalth problem as the baby-boom
generation becoOle$ a senior generation, is not aole.ly the result of
aging itaelf, Burkard notes, but of
the summation of all the noise
experienced since childhood.

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andpmonalmu..icsystems.
• Some antibiotics and cancer
drugs cause hearing loss.
• The aging population will
dramatically increase the number
of people affected by hearing loss.
Burkard and colleagues with the
center are conducting some of the
most advanced research currently
underwayintothescience liehind,
and treatments for, noise-induced
hearing loss and deafness.
Donald Henderson, &lt;XHiir&lt;ctor of

thea:nter,rcportedinSept.emb«atthe
Inner-Ear Biology Meeting in Sari,
llaly, that ooise-induad hearing less
may be caused partly by &amp;.r-radical

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proiNollle, tat hurlng

that an antioxidant-enhancing drug
called R-PIA can leorm the damagie.
In earlier .....X imdving birds, UB
researd&gt;ers showed that S&lt;DSOf)' cd1s
in the bUds' cochlea, or semory organ,
can repera~e,res!Oringtheirbearing.
Tbey naw are trying to repliate their
finding. in mammab. A-'&gt;er ;,_.
tigalion involves the use of desensitization to pmu~t hearing less due to
"traumatic" noise.
Richard Salvi, a:nttr&lt;XHiir&lt;ctor, has
rea:ived a grant to seanil for the site in
the brain responsible for tinnitus (per-

ltOIOT F. IUUAID

"E:Ipooure builds upaw:rtheyean,
like. silent poioon in )'OUr system," he
says."OYer lime, the""""""" can lead
to damo&amp;e. and it almoot always starts
at the hich frequencies."
The impact of hearing loss on
Americans is underscored by statistics provided by the Center for
Hearing and Deafness:
• 9-12 million people in the
U.S. work in settings f.oith dangerous levels of noise.

• Pervasivehazardsoutsideof..OO..
include snowmobiles, lawn mowers

sistent ringing in the ears) using
positronernis&lt;ion tomcgrapby,or PET
scans. He also is~ the apparent ability of some tinnitus suffm
to alter the ringing.

ovetsial historian to speak
. , M11IICIA News SeMces Editor

H

AN

ISTORIAN Richard Pipes, Baird Pro-

fessor of History Emeritus at Harvard
University and a member. of the National Security Council in the Reagan
administration, will present a public lecture, titled
" Russia's Burden of History," at 2:30p.m. on .Friday,
Nov. 21, ill 107 Talbert Hall on the North Campus.
The lecture will be sponsored by the Ukrainian
Studies Fund, the departments of History and Political Science, and the Ukrainian Students Club. It
is free of charge and open to the public.
Pipes, who has an international reputation as an
historian of pre·Soviet and Soviet Russia. is the au ~
thor of many authoritati"" studies. Among them is
his 1974 book, "Russia under the Old Regime,"
which established him as one of the world's leading
historians of that country.
His claim that the weak nature and late appearance
of private property is a major cause !'f Russia's predilection to acxept authoritarian rule has had profound
international inftuma: in his field. Pipes also was one

of the lint American historians of Russia to realiu the
political significance of the tsarist and Soviet go..,mments of the non-Russian nationalities.
Pipes is a controversial figure in academic and political circles. His critics charge that he is not an objecti"" scholar, but a politically tendentious historian
who subordinates honest treatment of facts to his own
right-wing ideological obsessions.
His most recent book is "The Russian Revolution
and Russia tinder the Bolshevik Regime.• He is presently engaged in a comparative examination of the
relationship betweQ~ private property and political
liberty.
Pipes was born in Poland and grew up in Warsaw
between the world wars. After the outbreak of World
• War ll, he escaped with his family to the United States
and was educated at Co rnell University and at
Harvard, wh~re he has been a member of the faculty
since 1950.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1994, he was granted a doctor honoris"'""' by the Silesia University in Poland.

Business conterence set
By JOHN DI1LA COHTIIADA
Reporter Contributor
. . - . aports in linancial economics and acmunting will gather
Nov. 7-8 for the eighth amual Conference on Financial Economic:s and
Accounting. hosted by the Scl)ool
of Management The conlen!nce,
in the Un~ IM and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road,
Getzville, will feature presentations

from professols from leading univenily business schools nationwide.
"The con~ will address
contomporaoytopia in finance and
aa:D&lt;rlling. with an ~on
capital marUts. and will include
sessions on investment analysis,
mutual-lund mllnagernent and

earnings expectations," said
Michael Rollefl, conlerence co-director and U8 finance professor.

Michael jensen, professor of
business administration at
Harvard University, will deliver
the keyoote address, "The Brain
and Non-Rational Behavior,"
which will focus on human behavior, including the behavior
of investors hi the market.
Highlights will include sessions
on earnings expectations and share
price5, Clwtes TrMnlca, UB assoQ.
ate prolessor of ~ "The lfn.
pactoiEimings Prono..-.aments"
Sandlp Bhagat. presldont. T""'"'""
lnYeStment Management; "The
New En in Elmings Expectations,.

Edward Keon, senior vice presiden~
1/B/EJS International; mutual-lund
managemen~ Martin Gruber, finance proressor,NewYOII&lt; University; "Performance Measurement of
Institutional Money Managers, •
Trzdnka; "Off Shore Hedge Funds:
SuiVival and Perloonance," finance
professors Stephen Brown, NYU
and 'MUiam Goet2man and Roger
Ibbotson, Yale University; investment analysis, Louis Chan, finance
prolessor, University of Illinois; "The
Calendar Structure of Risk and Expected Retums on Stock, • Joseph
Ogden. chair of UB's Department
of Rnance and Managerial E&lt;:onomic&gt;, and "Arm Performance:
Long-Run Stock Mari&lt;et Performance Following Spin.offs, • finance professors Hemang Desai
ond Prem )ain, Tulone I.JnM!rsity.

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number at the top of the page. We'll judge your recipe for taste

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Feedback requested on tenure dossier changes
Issue should go on the fast track,' Senate Chair Peter Nu:kerson tells FSEC
llya.mNE'IIIDAL
Reporter Editor

T

HE chair of the Faculty

Senate bas called for it
and its Committee on
Facult y Tenure and
Privileges to move quiddy to provide the Offia: of the Pmvost feedback on proposed changes in informa tion to be included in dossiers prepared by faculty members
seeking tenure_
•This is an issue that needs to
go on the fast track,• Peter
Nickerson said at the Oct. 22
meeting of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
"We are getting this (revised
promotion dossier chedclist ) in

advance of the deans beiJ:&gt;g ronsuited-this is a draft-and· we
have to move or we' ll be left
bebind.:..lf we're going to have a
voice in this, we're going to have
to move quiddy and deliberately,
but it has to be done in this light
year and not the next."
The Committee on Faculty Tenure and Privileges last year recommended that teaching be given
more regard and weight in the
promotion proc:as.
In response to that recommendation, Kenneth Levy, senior vice
provost, and William Fisher, vice
provost for faculty development,
have proposed items be added to
the promotion dossier checldist to
provide additional information on
teaching activities and teaching
evaluations.
Addltlonolltems proposed
These include quantitative
teaching evaluations; letters of
evaluation from external and internal reviewers; items prepared by
the candidate, such as the
candidate's •statement about research or creative activity; the
candidate's teaching portfolio; and
the candidate's ·statement about

service.
The way dossiers are put to-

gether and interpretation of the
infOrmation they contain varies
from school to school, Levy noted.
" I~s used throughout the campus, not necasarily uniformly," he
added. "Apart from just reporting
of numbers, the comparisons that
are made are very diffen:nt from
school to school and department
to deyartmenL Not only is the
data not uniformly presented.

what is done with the data is very
different from place to plaa:."

"In terms of a teaching portfolio, it's hard to prescribe what

should go in there," said Claude
Welch, SUNY Distinguiahed Service Pmfessor in the Department
of Political Science.
The portfolio could include
material that would be highly rele\'ant to teaching, but also would
show how well the candidate has
worked to stay current in the field.
"It is nice to have syllabi that show
publications that are relevant and
recent," that show faculty who are
keeping up with their teaching, as
well u with their research, be said 1
Tl)e new criteria proposed in the
checklist for .the promotion dossier would give each candidate a
chance to speak in his or her own
voia: and provide a dearly better
dossier than has been presented in
the past, Welch said
Student letters o conflict?

Melvyn Churchill, professor of
chemistry, noted that letters of
support contributed by current
students could represent a possible
conflict of interesL
Evidmceofp&gt;d teaching is critical and should be provided in """
wayoranother,saidDmnisMalooe,
SUNY Distinguisbed Servi&lt;a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
However, be cautioned, quantification "has to be done carefully_J~s
a diflicult thins to do well."
James Faran, associate professor
of mathematics, questioned bow
faculty could evaluate a colleague
in a different discipline. "It might
be possible at the departmental
level, but when you get up to the
decanallevel..I couldn't evaluate
a chemistry assignment," he said.
Fischer agreed this is a concern,
and said review of the portfolio
should be set up to include peer
review so there is an internal peer
review, as wdl as an external peer
review, which would address these
issues.

Faran also questioned whether
faculty would, in effect, be fora:d
to •sell'" themselves when they
come up for tenure or promotion.
• 1 can understand your concern ,'" Fischer said. •tn the in stances where we have new mate-

rials, we will have to add instructions to the handbook u to how
these are to be interpreted. .•.Tbe
function of these documents is not
to have candidates matket.themoelvea. but to interpret their work

for the reviewers.'"
Personal statementa Ore helpful
to candidates, said Fischer, providing them with an opportunity to
say to reviewers, 'This is what my
work means,' rather than leaving
it to the whim of people in other
disciplines to figure OUL
M.u portfolios schookpedflc:
Margaret Acara, professor of
pharmacology and toxicology and
chair of the committee, said pOrtfolios need to be school-specific.
"Obviously, flinica! faculty will be
doing a lot different activities than
the arts and sciences faculty;" she
added.
Senators are perhaps worrying
about-the wrong area -of assessment,saidFiscber. "The reason for
enlarsina the teaching douier is to
neutraliu the quantitative teacbing evaluations ••. .It's relatively
meaningless in any significant
senSe. I think we abould be fncwing on peer review of the portfplio as the significant uaessment of
teaching so we don't get bogged
down in quantitative teaching
evaluations. Quantitative tacbing
evaluation~ should be wry low on
the radar screen."
The Committee on Faculty Tenure and Privileges also wiD need to
aamine the roles of a:ntas and in-

.

stituta in the review procaa, according to N"Jckeraon. "We need to
find out the issues that we wiD have
to look aL If we don't, otber"univenity committees will," be said.
One of the concerns that the
committee wiD need to examine is
"bow the institutes and the department interact and bow the instftute is consulted in the dossier .
process," said Acara.
Herbert Schuel, professor of
anatomical sciences; noted that
oneposoiblesourc:eofconftictwiD
be faculty inwl&gt;ed in interdisciplinary institutes who are up for
promotion. Departmental colleagues may. view the facul ty
member's inYOMmeol in an Inter;;
disciplin:urinstitum ~ ~­
quent1a1 or disloyal to tbedepertmenL The way - enlum contributiom in terms of tacbins and
scholarly contributions will be
changed," be said.
John Meoocbam, profalor of poycbology, disapeed that there was
muon to be concerned about the
role of institutes and a:nten on~
tenure and promotion process.
"Let people muddle through. It
might be that once we get two or
three yean down the line that we
see a type of issue emerJing. I really don't see an issue here now,"
be said.

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He added. • This is a period when there was a lot ofJ.d pmaon SUN'Land
that helped make us a recruiting ground for raearcb uniYersities."
State budget stress has contributed to research declines, u well, Landi
added. " In order for your proposal to be competitive, you have to have
probably 20 percent of the work done and you have to have demonstrated that there is a high probability of success."
Tbe initial research that allows faculty to wrik their proposals has to be
funded somehow, Landi noted. Some researchers find those start-up costs
in grant money that ~ already have, "but tha~s ~ not enough.
especially if you want to venture into tomething Dt!W;' be said.
Mo,.le is also an issue impaqing on faculty attrition, according to
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished Servia: Pmfessor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
"I think also a lot of faculty ba...,ldl becaux of the general depression. As one of them told me, be just got tired of listening to some
puffed-up, four-qed little twit in Albany taJkins about the fact that wt:
have to do more with lOSS:"
Landi told lleDators that the university also is cballenged by its inability to estab!ish and support interdisciplinary degree programs that
are very common elaewhere.
"It hurts our o...rall research efforts" because there are many areas,
such as molecular and cell biology, where disciplines are combined, yet
no interdisciplinary depee program is o&amp;md.
"I don't think we are u suca:ssful u we could be in attncting students to UB beca111e we do not offer interdisciplinary depee p~
that are beipa offered at other universitiea," Landi said.

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HANKS to a collaborative effort by faculty,
staff and ltudeDlS at UB,.
recmdy publilbed book
may give ltudeDlS now hope i&gt;r improving their d&gt;aoas of findU!8 per-

internships. apprenticeships and
cooperative education, oftt:n get
an edge over others in finding jobs
in today's market.
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•wmning Ways• examines the
effects of recent &lt;jhanges in technology, the nature of work and the

the book includ·e ·Katherine

phy and practices at American and
Canadian companies.
According to Bulfamanti, formerly a corporate trainer at Centennial College in Ontario, the
book will help students under·
stand how learning relates to earning, as weU as help leaders from all
educational entities in their ability to teach students how success
in a scholastic setting influences

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The now book. titled "Wmning
Ways: Best Practices in Work-Based
Learning" (Prakken, 1997),
25
ri&gt;ut&lt;S to SU&lt;XleSS of prominent educators. public-policy experu and
industrial trainers. It was edited by
Albert J. Pautler. Jr., professor of
educational orpni!ation, administration and policy, and Deborah M.
Buffamanti, director of the Geographic Information and Analysis
Laboratory in the Department of
Geography.
It concentrates on how students
who take advantage of work-based
learning opportunities, such as

ment; Jerry Newman, professor of

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organization and human resources. and Conrad Toepfer, professor oflearning and instruction.
Former graduate students Michael
Lillis, Sterne Roufa. John Thomp·
son and Scott Sweetland also contributed to the book.
It is the third in a series of four
planned by P3utler that deal with
work-based learning. Other books
in the series are "Vocational Education in the 1990s: Major Issues'"
(Prakken, 1990) and " High School
to Employment Transition: Contemporary Issues• (Prakkm, 1994).

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Pautler, an authority in the field
of vocational-education administration and curriculum development, serves as a consultant to
many organizations, including
General Motors, DuPont and the
U.S. departments of Labor and
Education.

WoR by Dutch artist Lara Schnitger is
on exhibit through Nov. 7 in the UB

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success in the real world.

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with I :S-4 remainirc and ran out
pis for l7 ........... ""' dock tD dinch ""' win.
The Bulls offense was able to
move the bail, but failed to reach
the end zone twice when In the red zone. UB moved to the Hofstra three·
yard line on iu 1«0nd pouession ol the pme. but Swan--who rushed 27
tlmes lor 68 yards and IWO IDUdldcMno • 'OS ""''I&gt;Id b- a cn&amp;,.,-d lea en b.nll
andllree.
The Bulls also t.Uied on a loun!Hnd-12 play on tlle,Holstn 18-yanlllne when
• poss irandod lor Swan from quanor1&gt;odt a..d Saiisi&gt;ury-who """'f''e'ed 24d-35 passes lor 348 yarc1s and two~ incomple&lt;o. UB wide
""""-'Kaiiw.ddns(sbt"""f'C'cns, 114yan:lsanda - ) a n d o.-Hodcbd
(nine receptions, lOS yards and a touchdown) both went~,. 100 yards
receivln&amp; lor ""' seoond s&lt;nl(ttt pme.

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Bufblo--.c 2-2 this
wis"'"*c0ctl4- - - I n pmes.IS-S.IS-4.1S-12,and0ct.2Sapnst Saintfnnds (Pa.) lnfourpmes.
IS-3: 10-IS,IS-4.1S-9.The Bulls two losses arne Oct.22 .pnstS&lt;-..,..
ln!Mopmes.IS-17,15-10, ·15-11. 14-16, 9-IS. and Oa.26apinst....,_rival
Syncuse In fou.pmes.12-15, 1-15, 1S-10.9-15.
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season. On 0a. 21, the Bulls deloate&lt;l Canislus, 1-0 on a pi by tr.shman P&gt;ub
LJstr-aN.In ks nOt two prnes. 8ufWo km. en the I"'ad Oct.H at Bowtirc Green.
1-2. and Oct. 26 at Eastern Michipn. 1-2.
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UB 4, Central Connecticut 0
UBI , How...-d2
The Bulls went 2-1 this past: week with an Oct.ll win ow:r Niapra.l-1 .
and an Oct. 26 win 0\"U Centn.l Connecticut. 4-0.The BWis aNy kKs !his past
week arne Oa. H apinst Howanlln cwenime, 1-2. Sophomor"&lt; SteYe Butd&gt;e&lt;ts leadi,. the ~ for the Bulls with 11 goals for 27 points this seuon.

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IF-7090. Associate Professor-Social
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Hotel in Space.
October 23. 1!!17/~2!1. No.9

University at Buff~lo

Procession led by a bag
piper and flag bearers
snakes its way through
the Spine on the North
Campus Oct. 15 during the
university's third annual
convocation.

Convocation: stressing academic unity
Ceremony's speakers, awards focus on sense ofcommunity for modern university
I

By 111tEHT CUNNINCHAM

ReportB Staff

maq: bearer and a host
of fhlg bearers extended
a 650 -yea r-old aca·
demic tradition la st
Wednesday when they led UB
deans, facul ty members, staff, stu·
dents and community m embers
along the North Campus Spine
and into the Center for the Arts for
the university's third annual con·
vocation.
While much of the ceremony in·
volved distribution of awards, hon ors and titles, the keynote speakers
explored the idea of"convocation"
its&lt;lf, asking what "coming together
fora meeting"ntightmean in an age
of techno logi cal expansio n and
budgemry reorganization.
Sargur N. Srihari, SUNY Distin-

A

guished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and directoroftheCenterofE.xcellencefor
Document Aruolysu and R&lt;cogni tion, suggested that information
technology might be able to provide
the modern university with the
sense of community it has lost.
Academy fuels Information age
Citing both the economic vi·
brancy of information technology
and its tendency to cross all aca·
dentic disciplines, Srihari reminded
his audience that , .. the academy
brought about the info rmation age
and will continue to fuel it"
. A good case can be made, said
Srihari, for co nn ecting in forma ·
ti on technology to almost any
discipline: mathematics, engi neering , the a rts, the hard sci -

enccs or the social sciences.
.. For example," he noted, .. the
attempt to get computers to read
English handwriting ...st raddles all
these disciplines."
In such cross-disciplinary ten dencies, Srihari located the possibility of real academic unity. He
compared information techno! ·
ogy to the elephant in the Indian
tale of "The Blind Men and the
Great Beast... While each discipline
understands information techno! ·
ogy from its own perspective, just
as, in the story, each blind man
feels a different part of the e) .
ephant, still there is unity and
community in the fact that th ere
is a common object of st udy.
Bruce Jackson , SUNY Distin·
gujshed Professor in the Depart·
ment of English and Samuel P.

Capen Professor of American Cuiture, discussed academic communityfromthcpcrspcctivcofliterature and the ans, evoking the bud getary and tcchnologicaJ stress he
and his colleagues have we;atherrrl.
Change creates stress
"All that ttthnology is so lovely,..
said jackson, echoing and complicating Srihari's comments. "But in
the humanities, we don't live in a
simple world of techncl'logy. We also
live in the messy world of politics
and priorities and programs...
According to Jackson , the
.. messy world" of change creates
st ress. "We all know that stress
compresses," said Jackson , .. but I
want to tell you stress can also
liber'!te."
Contlm.d on paoge6

Project triples high-tech classrooms
lly IIII£HT CUNNINGHAM
Report« Staff

N a swift response to faculty
and student needs, 26 new
"technology classrooms .. are
up and running this semes·
ter, more than tripling the num ·
ber of high-technology classrooms
at the university.
Conceived, planned and completed in less than a year, each
classroom is equipped wi th a com·
puter with an internet connection,
a video projecto r, a VCR, a tele phone, a sound sys tem and an ex ternal laptop ports, all co nt rolled
by a single touch-screen .. switch·
ing panel."
Officially called the Classroom
Technology lniliative (CTI), th e
project was a collaboration be·
tween the Office of the Provost,
Universi t y Facilities and Computer Information Technology
(CIT).

I

Sup ported by an investment of
nearly $1 million from lhe Office
of the Provost and in part by st udent technology fees, the project
was described as"an ext raordinary
effo rt," by Sean P. Sullivan, vice
provost for academic information
and pJanning.
.. It's an example of many facets
of the university coming together
on a project and getting it done,"
he added.
Sullivan sa id the proJect grew
out of the provost 's educational
technology action plan, with input
from the dean s and individuals
\\•ithin schools and faculties re·
sponsible for information -technology efforts.
"" We then constructed an aggres·
sive schedule around meeting the
need to increase th e number of
classrooms and diversify the size of
classrooms with technology,"
Sullivan explained. "We had tech-

nology in big classrooms and no
technology in smaU classrooms, and
we were wasting space using big
classrooms to house small classes
thai needed the lechnology."
He added: " The project actually
began in late November. From
then until the end of January. we
came up with a concept, found the
money, identified the equipment
needs and prepared for implemcn·
tation. From February to May, we
bought the equipment and orga·
nized an implementation sched ·
ule. From May to August , we
blitzed the implementat ion."
Leading the implement a tiOn
team were Kevin Thompson, in·
terim director of planning and design in the Office of University Fa·
cilities, and Richard Lesniak, direc ·
tor of academic services for C IT.
.. Faculty are relying more and
more on these kinds of technol ·
ogy," said Lesniak. "" It was a tre ·

mendous collaborative effort."
Thompson no ted , .. The project
went well thanks to the sched ul ·
ing and coo rdinating of Gordon
Love, project coordinator in Office
of Planning and Design. We were
on a very, very tight sc hedul e.
\Vork began o n May 19 and was
co nclud ed on Aug. 16."
The locations of the.~ new cl as~·
rooms are: five each in Clemen s
and Knox, four m Baldy, three each
in Norton and Cape n, and o ne
each in Bell, Cooke, Di efend orf,
Hochstetler. Kimball and Park.
The 2:6 new ch1ssrooms, \~hlle
taking advant age of less-c.&gt;xpen~l't.'
equ1pment, are s1milar to the 10
Educational Technolog) Equ1pped
Classrooms (ETECs) inst alled 10
th e Natural Sciences Building.
O ve r th e past 10 years, according
to Lesniak, UB has helped pion«r
the development of technology Con~onp-veS

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Faculty and Sta

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c.nn.la Thompson has served
as director of parking and trano-

portation at UB since 1992. She
previously was assistant director of admissions. A member of
the university community since
1987,sbe is working on a Ph.D.
in educational administration, organization and policy.
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Balancing the varying. and often conflicting.~ of multiple user groups
can oomctimes be difficult_ Padr.enon
campus come in three categories: faculty and staff; students, and visitors.
Each group is dillerent as it rdates to
their parking concerns. Student
pari&lt;= are ~ transient than faculty/staff, rtquiring an appropriate

1=1 oftumoYerin spa&lt;:&lt;sthrougbout
the day.VISitors are the moot transient
andperallytheleast infurmedabout
parking aa:ommodations, rules and
regulations. They ean be our bigsost
violaton, yet also reprcoent that group
fOI'wboma~lenien~ "warm and
fuzzy" approach is warranted.
Regardless of the gmup. one thing
is certain; everyone wants to park as
dose as possible to their destination.
Withonlyalimitednumberofconveniently located spa«s, there ~ to
be an enforced method of sharing to
ensure equal and Wr distribution of
resources. Enforcement, then, is

viewed as a "neo:ssaryevii."Nevertheless, it always is di11irult to explain to a
person wbo has been displaad, ticketed or has had to circle a lot for minutes, that our office repn::sents a ..ser-

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ever you go, so the differences at
times can be subtle or invisible.
For most it'• a simple case of the
eoooomics of supply and demand.
Some campuses can control demand simply by altering the pria:
of parking. Supply, for most campwes, however, is fiud.

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By fiu, the parking lots along the
hu!&gt; at our South Campus. For this
south side of the aeademic spine
f!IOUPo pub&amp; tramportalion is elli:crepresent our biggest trouble spots.
tMly utWzed. Blue Bini buteslllooaid
Everyone wants to park there, espetheampus&lt;XlllllJWilityin meeting its
cially folks wbo enler the campus at
transportation needs. Perhaps the
Flint or Conw:ntry roads. These lots
wid is in runt and abnbon
are the fir1t to 611 and oftentimes we
oervice. The N'Jalm Frontier lbnsfind vehicles waiting in line for an
portation Aulborily (NFfA) mmtly
available space. even when spaces are
roleaocd. as partofils new HUBUNIC
loeated in the lots on the north side
proposal, • regional ~&lt;~'Via ooncept
of the spine (north of Capen Hall).
drsipd tD address the dodining ridThe Michael-Farber lot on the
mhipandinc:ttaelautDmcbiletraw:l
!iouthCampusalsoeanbeatmuble
in subwbon areas. Hoving redefined
spot,particularlyduringpeakclinic
its mission as providing mobility
hours. lhat lot functions as a &amp;cthrougbout the region in the moot efulty/stafflot, a visitor lot and a patient parking lot fC&gt;r a wide range of -~manner.ratberthanonlyoper­
ating buses or trains, NFTA's
clinic activity.
HUBUNICsed&lt;sto,...imall,redesign
WIMre do you pertl7
and t..tructure the pub&amp; tnnsporWhile in the ofli~ I park in one of tolion S)&gt;lem. Amhmt is among the
the Spaulding lots. Should I have I&lt;gions being add......!, pasitiooing
to leave Ellicott for business else- UB as a primary bmefadoc

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campus parking that make it different from other parking envi-

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service space. I've also paid at
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visitor explainod that &amp;he poRed in •
rpoaraenodb.A"pmniu,beauoe
tbesiBD read,.A.PennitRtlquired."Sh&lt;
explainod thatliheindood b.d.t'pol
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sistmt wbomailod$3.24 ilrberparkingpermit-ell in pennies! \'kalwoys
get. chudde from liiDea enlbusiasts
wbo get padring bclr.ets bec:auoe they
can'tfindaiJ*I'dooeenough to!Mlid
walking I distanct tD Alwnni AraJa.
where they're en route fDr their daily
workout!

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oom&lt;Wbere on the eampus! 1Iy the
Cen1er for Tomorrow lot and utilize the shuttle; ifs a aborter wait
than stlDding in line for • parking
space. Crofu has lots of empty
spaca, too, and the shuttle stops
there. Abo, checkout the lots on the
north side of campus; or consider
parking in the Fmnaak visitors lo~
you can pay for one day, one semesler or oO. year at a time_ Use public
~rUtionorcarpool. When all
else fails, try to arrive earlier.

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have expres&gt;&lt;d interest in carpooling
to UB through the UB Rid&lt;shareprogram. This free, -.duntarycarpooling
servia was organized by the UB Environmental Taslc Force and is mordi-My greatest
love at theshouloiJ
university
natedbytheNFrA. RideshareusesPC based geographic information ooli- is its students. rve spent my enware to matth commuters wbo have tire professional career, 18 years,
similarpointsofor:iginanddailyrou- recruiting and working to make
tines. Participants may ride, drM or the student experience academishare the drivingeY&lt;r}'dayofthe.-k . cally and socially rewarding. While
or just a few days a week. Once NFI'A I enjoy maoy of the cballenges of
rec:cives a Ridcshare application, the my current position, 1 often misS'
system prints out a list of potential the student contac;:t.

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gaining-Wlit issues and the amcems
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HE UB Alumni Association will induct four new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame at a dinner at 6 p.m.
Friday in Alumni Arena. The four, to
be inducted as part of Homecoming Weekend
festivities, are Richard G. Abbott, Gerard F.
Forton, Edward W. Michael and Frank Price.
The UB Alumni Association established and
administers the Athletic HaJJ of Fame to acknowledge the importance of intercollegiate
and club athletics. It honors outstanding athletes, teams an,d other individuals wll.o have
represented and served US's athletic program
in a professional or participatory capacity in
an exemplary manner.

Richard G. Abbott, who earned his bachelor's
degree from UB in 1975 and his law degree in
l980,led UB's tennis team in 1974 and 1975 to
its highest finishes ever at the Eastern Inter-Col-

ChriiiJne Vodol

legiate Championships against Division I teams,

loonDondg

including Penn State, Notre Dame and Yale.
Selected Most Valuable Player in his sophomore and junior years, Abbott held the best

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in Buffalo. He is a partner in
the law firm of !'usa tier, Sherman and Abbott in Kenmore.
Gerard F. Forton, who received a bachelor's degree

from UB in 1987 followed by
a law degree three years later,

played both soccer and
hockey at his alma mater.
A three-time All -Confer·
ence pick in soccer and twice
elected to the National AllStar team by the National
Soccer Coach,es of American,
he captained the UB soccer
team and was named Most

Valuable Player two years.
Named MVP at the 1986 conference tournament, he led UB soccer in c;rreer saves and
shutouts. Forton later served as assistant men's
soccer coach at UB fro m 1991-96.

A fo rmer assistant captain of the UB hockey

ing both singles and doubles.
Abbott has served as tournament chair of the

team, he is in his second year as assistant men's
hockey coach at Niagara University.
Forton, who competed in two Natio.nal
lronman Triathlon Championships while attending law school , is a partner in the Buffalo
law firm of Forton &amp; Forton.
Edward W. Michael. UB'sdir&lt;ctorfor recreation

Buffalo Muny tennis tournament and was tennis chair for the 1993 World University Games

and intramurals and its wrestling coach from
1970-91 , is being inducted into the UB Athletic

win/loss reco rd at singles in UB history and
was captain of the team that won the fi rst an·
nual SUNY Center Tennis Tournament, play·

Hall of Fame for his personal accomplishmenfs. He previously
was named a member of the Hall
of Fame in 1995 as part of a
group induction. whidt included
the~ and coaching staff
ofUB's only national champion
team, the 1978 NCAA Division
ill wnstling team.
Michael mached two NCAA
Division ill champion wrestlers,
lOS tournament champions and
3Sali..Americans. Histeamswere
seven-time New York State Collegiate Wrestling champions, and
12 ofhis teams finished in the top
:W in NCAA Division U and ill
championships. His eareer rtmrd at UB stanPs at
213-106-3, for a 66.7 winning percmtage.
Frank Price, who received his bachelor's degree from UB in 1982, began his collegiate foot ball career in 1977 when the sport returned to
UB and, as co-captain, led the B!ills back into a
winning season in 1980.
He earned honors as ECAC Player of the Week
and, as a Hanker, held UB eareer records for total receptions and yardage_ The leading UB receiver in three of his four varsity years, Price.
dominated the offensive charts and was named
MVPin l979and l980. PriceispresidentofF.L
Price, a business consulting firm in Albaoy.

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Payments to UUP members
to be made in Nov. 26 check
Eligible ,_,._. of United University Profemioos will r=iYe payments

Photodynamic therapy
against Karposi's sarcoma lesions
.,. LOIS IIAIIU
News Services Ed~&lt;&gt;&lt;

R

ESEARCHERS at UB
conducting an FDA
trial of photodynamic
therapy (PDT) have
shown that Kaposi's sarcoma and
external chest-wall lesions from
recurrent breast cancer can be
treated sucttSSfully using PDT.
Preliminary results of the trials
were presented at the European
Cancer Conference in Hamburg,
Germany, in September.
Lesions reversed for 75 percent
Thomas Mang, clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, along with colleagues in radiation oncology and
dermatology, treated eight subjects with a total of 86 chest-wall
lesions and nine subjects with a
total of 121 Kaposi's sarcoma lesions, a common complication of
AIDS. All patients received one
PDT treatment in the PhotodynamicTherapy Center in The Buffalo General Hospital.
Results showed that:
• Seventy-five percent of the
Kaposi's sarcoma lesions were re·
versed completely and another 19
percent showed partial reversal.
• Ninety-two percent of the

chest-walllesions were completely
revened and the remaining 8 percent showed partial reversal
• The only adverse reactions
experienced by subjects were due
to sun exposure while the
photoreactive agent used in the
therapy was still active.
Pbotodynamic therapy is based on
the pmp&lt;n&lt;ity of artlin light-sensiIM drugs to accumulate, or localiu.
in cancer cdls. ThisselectM rettntion
allows r=arcben to direct abeam of
light into the tumor or lesion, whidJ
activates the drug• . tin ethyl
etiopurpurin (SnEf2)_ The resulting
m&gt;etion kills the cancer cdls.
Mang, who has done extensive
research with PDT, said these results
suppon earlier findings indicating
that photodynamic therapy holds
great promise for treating cancerous
lesions of the skin.

Cosmetic results good
·Compared to other treatments

for Kaposi's sarcomas, PDT is
easier on the patient, you can treat

large numbers of lesions at one
time and the cosmetic resuhs are
very good," he said. "PDT also
doesn't interfere with HIV status
and any other treatment patients
may be receiving."
Resyhs with recurrent breast

cancer of the chest wall were
equally exciting. he said. "These lesions, if left untreated, are annoying, painful and they can grow.
Treating them with more radiation
and chemotherapy after patients
already have undergone these
treatments foUowing mastectomy
is futile and makes patients sick.
Treatment localized
"PDT is a =y localized treatmen~
does not intcrf=with chemotherapy
and there are none of the usual side
effects of cancer 1therapy," he said.
"Many lesions can be treated in one
session, and the therapy is repeatable
if the response isn't complete."
Mang said PDT appears to be
most effective on small t~mors that
are cliscovered early. Because the
light-sensitiv&lt;: drug is absorbed by
all body cells, albeit to a lesser degree than cancer cells. patients need
to protect themselves from the sun
for two weeks following treatment
until the drug becomes inaaive.
Additional resea rchers in the
trials w= Ronald Allison and Vi tune
Vongtuna of the Depanment of Ra diation Oncology, and B. Dale W~­
son of the Department of Dermatology. All also are alliliated with the
Photodynamic Therapy Center at
The Buflitlo Genetal Hospital.

,pss gets update on academic plan
By~ YIDAL

Reporter Editor

ARAPHRASlNG Cl!arles Did&lt;ons, l'nMlst Thomas f. HeadrickiDldmernbmofthePror.s.ional
Staff Senate that despite the Ull&lt;Zrtainties that w:&gt;
3longwith the lilnnation ofa~ ofArts and
Sciena:s, the university is faa:d neither with the best of times
nor the worst of times. Rather, be said, "I hope people will
r&lt;alize we've got a g=t opportWuty here"
Speal&lt;ins before the tp'OliP Oct 16, H&lt;adrick J'l1'5el1ted to
senators an update on his academic plan aod the direction
in whidJ be sees the lllli=sity w:&gt;in&amp;While the decision has been made to merge the fuculties
of Arts and L&lt;ttm, Natural Sciences and Mathematics aod
Social Sciences into a Cplleg&lt; ofArts and Sciena:s, he noted,
there still are issues to be resolwxi
Headricksaidthtseindudehowthelllli=sitywillmerge
and integrate the 6nancial structun:s of the th= fuculties.
as well as the administra!M stalfs of the th= dean's ofli=_
He told senators that administra!M changes have been put
in plaa: to ease the transition. Those changes include the
reorganization of the Office of the l'nMlst and the appointrnmt of two committees that will guide the formation of
the College of Arts and Sciences and the search for its dean.
On another matter, H&lt;adrick noted that the university
does not have adequate academic information systems that
would allow it to aa:ess datt and use it to mal&lt;£ decisions.

P

Setting up those systems. and performance measures,""'
w:&gt;ing to be a major focus this~. and "many of )&lt;&gt;U are
w:&gt;ing to bear a sood bit of this as we work with the dean's
ofli=_" Headrick said
He added that academic units are w:&gt;ing to be aslted to
develop individual academic plans. whidJ will be used to
guide faculty hires and the allocation of resources. • The
key 1everagr in the system will be how we use resources as
faculty retire and leave," a procr:ss that Headrick said he
expects to be "contentious."
The p!tMl6t IDld senators that he hopes to have tbe new
dean of arts and sci&lt;nces in plaa: by June. "fuster if poosible;
and indicated that the new dean probablywilloa:upyoffia:s
in Park Hall, if'~"""' permits. Asked what be pen:eives to be
the "mood" of the faculty, Headrick said, "We can mal&lt;£
this a mud&gt; stronger lllli=sity than it now is...and attitudes will perk up a tinle bit..~- ne do things g=tly and
intelligently, and if we do them together.·
In other business, tbe PSS recmed the first draft of a
proposal to devdop an ongoing lllli=sity-wide training
program for employe&lt;s who have supervisory responsibilities. "We have proposed a model that would allow individuals who arr new or who have been promoted to
move forward and enhance their (supervisory) skills,"
said PSS Olair Michael Stok&lt;s. He asked senators to
review the proposal draft and forward their feedback
to him.

authorized under the recently apprmed oontract in the Nov. 26 paycheck.
Jean Dickson, president of the Buflitlo Center Chapter of UUP, said
that paycheck will indude a $1,250 lump-sum payment, and a I percent across-the-board raise di&lt;ided equally among members and added
to members' base salaries, about $500 per person. Since this increase i.s
retroactive to July 1996, members will receive a payment on Nov. 26 of
S780 per person, Dickson said.
John V. Bell, UB director of accounting and paymll services, confirmed that the paf.nents are scheduled to be made in the Nov. 26 paycheck. However, he noted the payments are subject to appmval by the
SUNY Board of Trustees, which will meet on Oct. 28.
Union members also are scheduled to receive 3.5 percent across-theboard salary increases in both January 1998 and January 1999.
In addition, I percent discretionary salary increases are to be paid in
December 1997,1998 and 1999.

Foul play is ruled out
as cause of student's death
.......,... Senkes were held Tuesday in New York City for a UB sopho-

more who died Saturday in his apartment near the North Campus.
Town of Amherst police are investigating the death of Daniel J.
Kim, 20. While the results of an autopsy conducted by the office of
the Erie County medical examiner aren't in yet, police ha~ ruled
out foul play in Kim's death.
Barbara J. Ricotta. interim dean of students. said the university has
offered counseling to Kim's roommates and friends at UB.

Entrepreneurial center
enrolls record class for fall
A record 41 Western New York business owners and operators have
enrolled this full in the Center for Entrepreneurial leadership (CEL)
in the UB School of Management.
The program this fall launched a pilot "Post-CEL" component for 17
graduates of last year's core program who will receive monthly clinics
and trouble-shooting advice on topics of interest to their businesses.
The panicipants receive instruction in the CEL's Jo-month corr pro·
gram , designed for successful business leaders Who want to grow or
better manage their businesses by developing or enhancing entrepreneurial skills. According to Marianne Sullivan, CEL director, the busi·
nesses participating this fall average $5 million in sales annually (from
$200,000 to $20 million ). have been in operation for an average of
22 years (from 2 to 50 years) and employ an average of 30 people
(from 2 to 1,200 employees).
The CEL "fellows" participate in a seJf.assessment program that
exposes their entrep reneurial stre ngths and «reaknesses; deliver a
detailed presentation about the status of their business and the cha1·
lenges co nfront ing it; and attend clinics and symposia designed to
enhance their understanding of business applications.
In its II th year of operation, CEL has assisted nearly 250 Western
New York businesses. 95 percent of which are still in operation, Sullivan
says. The program i.s hoping to expand to Rochester within the next
year and soon wiU launch an entrepreneurial " help· Line," on the
Internet from which local entrepreneurs can access the expertise of
successful business executives ·and management professors on topics
such as start· up financing, marketing or tu law, she says.

UB to host Buffalo premiere
of prizewinning Greek film
An e pic odyssey through the Balkan Peninsula will unfold in the

Buffalo film premiere of the 1995 Theo Angelopoulos fUm, "Ulysses'
Gaze... a modem rendition of Homer's "Odyssey" starring Harvey
Keitel. The film will be screened Nov. 1 in the Center for the Ans
Screening Room on the North Campus.

Admission is $20 per person and indudes a champagne reception
beginning at 2 p.m., followed by a lecture and the film. Two additional
screenings will be held at 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 2. Admission will be $5.50.
The event will be sponsored by Kerry S. Gran t, dean of the Faculty
of Arts and Letters, and the Hellenic Cultural Committee of Western
New York. Proceeds will benefit the Program in Modern
Greek offered through the World Languages Institute.
"Ulysses' Gaze," filmed in Greece, Italy, France and the
Balkans, won the Grand Jury Prize and International Critics
Prize at the 1995 Cannes International Film Festival Keitel
stars as a Homeric Greek film director who embarks on a
quest from Athens to Sarajevo to find three long-lost reels of film shot
by two Balkan brothers in another era The journey portraytd gives viewersa compelling eyewitness account of war-torn Sarajevo. while addressing the conOict that is still unraveling. A lecture preceding the screening
will be given by Peter Pappas. noted authority on Greek cinematography, who will discuss the film's historical implications. For more information or tickets, call645-6902, ext. 1494.

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Pioneering-law clinics have a history of service
Students gain real-world skills, experience, along with aaulemic training
ay MAllY IIETH SPINA
News Services Editor

T

HE School of Law has established a
tradition of service to the Western
New York community through its
Legal Assistance Program in which
students work in clinics that combine academic

training with real-world experience.
The program was one of the first in the country to moY&lt; beyond the traditional handling of

administrative proceedings and litigation for
individual clients to more community-based,
public-interest work.
·
The clinics address a wide range of issues,
including domestic violence, community economic development, housing and the environment.

Housing dlnlc one of first In U.S.

The Affordable Housing Clinic, supervised
by Thomas Disare and George Hezel, both

clinical associate professors of law, is one of the
first in the country to train students in the skills

necessary to plan, fund, construct and manage
decent and affordable low-income housing.
Within the past decade, the clinic has obtained financing of more than $24 million to
construct 350 of these units. A regional leader

in developing tax-credit financing arrangements, the clinic's clients have included Catholic Charities, the Blind Association of Western
New York, the Polish Community Center and
the Town of Hamburg.
Another pioneering UB clinic-the Economic Development Clinic, directed by Peter
Pitegoff, professor of law, and Lauren Breen,
clinical instructor of law-is one of the first in
the country to specialize in community economic development.
Assistance for community groups
Students and faculty assist community
groups seeking non-profit statw and entrepreneurs who want to create viable bwinesses in
the inner city and other economically depressed
areas. One of its achievements bas been to assist in the opening of a high-quality day-care

facility for single parents.
The Elder Law. Clinic, dirttted by Anthony
Szczygiel, clinical associate professor of law,
organizes and administert the Coalition of
Medicaid Advocates, a statewide professional
group dedicated to continuing education for
laWyers and others who represent the elderly.
Efforts through the clinic include advising the
governor and the legislature on health-care law
and policy, and helping ensure that the elderly
receive maximum benefits for home health care

and nursing home treatments.
Through the Domestic Violence Clinic, students, directed by Suzanne Tomkins, clinical
instructor of law, have worked with the district attorneys for Erie, Niagara and Monroe
counties to develop response programs for incidents of family violence and local police
implementation policies for dealing with family violence. A manual deY&lt;Ioped by the clinic
for use by Niagara County agencies that assist
victims of family violence is being expanded
for use statewide.
The Environmental Policy Clinic directtd by
R. Nils Olsen, vice dean for academic affain
and director of clinical stUdies, represents
municipalities and citizen groups that want to
be actively involved in siting proceedings for
proposed and controversial environmental
. projects, such as landfills and waste incinerators.

"brownfield" properties and haY&lt; authored a
comprehensiY&lt; report on the legal status of
brownfield sites for a joint New York State LegislatiY&lt; Commission. They also haY&lt; helped
local municipalities implement pilot projects
and developed model legislation for redeveloping such sites.
In addition to the Legal Assistance Program.
law-school faculty members•and students
work through internships funded by the law
school with suCh community agencies as the
American Civil tiberties Union, the MexicanAmerican Legal Defense Pund; the governor's
office and the environmental enforcement di-

vision of the New York State Attorney
General's Office.
In a recent letter to law school Dean Barry
Boyer, Michael Risman, acting corporation
counsel fortheCityofBuffalo, had high praise
for courses and clinia that encourage mo"'
"bands-on• experience for the students and
enban'7 activities within the city's law depart-

ment.
Risman wrote that while the law schoothad
in the past provided informal assistance by recommending "qualified law students for clerk
positions. .. more recendy (it) has taken a more
direct approach. ...•
Student reseerth .uslstence dted

Risman cited the research assistance provided to the city by students in Professor

Education Law Clink helps the disabled
Thousands of disabled youngsters are re-

ceiving appropriate and effective education
through advocacy efforts by parents working
with the Education Law Clinic directed by Jeff
Marcus, assistant professor of law. and
Melinda Saran. associate director of clinical
education. Students and staff alsO have helped
ttain lay advocates, assisted in estate planning
and guardianship concerns. and advised
school districts on policies affecting disabled
clients.
Students in the Environment and Development Clinic, supervised by Robert Berger, professor of law, haY&lt; prepared an analysis of the
City of Buffalo's policy and practices on

Milton Kaplan's course on state and local
government practice. noting that • in each
instance, the studenu provided a level of research that our attorneys would have been
hard-pressed to complete on their own.
given the demands imposed by thei r
caseloads.•
He also praised students in the Environment
and Development Qinic, who prepared the
brownfields analysis, and in the Affordable
Housing Clinic.
"We are enthused about the leY&lt;I of com·
mitment the law school bas demonstrated to
the city and deeply appreciatiY&lt; of the practical advice and assistance it has generated:
. Risman concluded.

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Designing
., ·hotels in space
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HAT will hotels be

lilcein theyear2045?
Howabouthotdsin
outerspaa?
Two teams of UB architecture
studenu ezplored the possibilities
as they each designed a "Hotel of
the Future" in a Student Design
Competition conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ACSA) . The UB
projecu were named 2 of 13 finalists in the competition, which in·
volved 561 studenu from 99 colleges and universities worldwide.
Competitors were encouraged
to select remote and unusual locations for their hotel. Options
included: the middle of a city, in a
remote comer of the Earth, underground, underwater, on top of
water or in outer space.
.
Designers
were
required
to use their ~lions to come up
with a design that would respect iu
site and surrounding
culture, incor-

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stations from around the world. On the Web, there's dance music

from England, classic rock from Sweden, and golden oldies from
Greece; there's also news and entertainment from Italy, talk shows
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added.'They(the
studenu)
also
learned the impo&lt;1ance
ofaxnm~docu­

menting and justifying
their design cledsms."
StudenU were allowed to form
their own teams and ...:&gt;rl&lt;ed on the
project outside of class tllree hours
a week for five weeks.
According to Danford, his studenu' achievement is particularly
notable becauSe they only had a
fraction of the time their competitors had. "Other studenu typically
tookanentire~,or 15 weeks
in a 6'7 aedit studio, to
do this project.
My students

porate local materials and landscape. had five weeks in a one-c redit
satisfythedient'sprogramandddigbt course." noted Danford.
iu guests-'not an easytaslc,especially
He also pointed out that other advisors were typically an:bitects rather
when the site is ow.r space.
Tbe UB teams proposed a modular than environmental ps)d&gt;ologists.
Although Danfurd is not an arhotel in orbit 200-250 miles aboYethe
planet and a hotel constructed in the chitect. In 1983 and 1984 he was a
interior of a "captured" asteroid.
faculty feUow at the National AeroAdvising the studeeu was Gary nautics and Space Administration,
Scott Danford, associate professor where be examined long-term habiof environmental and organiza· tation of space and the psycho-sotiona! psychology in the Depart- cial·factors that inOuence the design
ment of Architecture, who as- of a space station. His knowledse in
signed the project as part of a one- this area helped the students with
credit course on architectural pro- the technical content of their
gramming in Spring 1996.
projects.
"I am convinced that beyond
.. My role," he said, "was primathe novelty of the site (o uter rily to make sure that the students
space), what made these projecu ackn owledged the difficulty of
finalists was the st udent inquiry construction in zero gravity and
into and analysis of technical re- the isolated and hostile environquirements of the users, guests, ment of outer Space, as well as the
staff and construction workers in dramatic changes that occur (i n
a zero-gravity environment, which zero gravity) in the human body,
st rongly influenced their subse- particularly body posture, all of
quent architectural designs.
which pose severe challenges to
"This project forad the students to conventional architectural design
recognize that aU tnditional an:bitec- and construction techniques."
tural furmswere imlovantand tostlrl
The en tries were judged on
liom scratch without assumptions," quality of design, construction,

prescntation and
guest experience.
"Gateway Reson
2045• was the name of
the design created by a team
consisting of Chris MarteU,
Vincent Poon, Willer Yu, Anna
Beresniewicz, Sbantina Moore and
ElisabetteMoreira. The hotel's location: Lower Earth Orbit inside the
VanAllen Belt, approximately 28.5
degrees from the equator and "Oying" at a height of 200-250 miles
ahove sea level.
The group incorporated the use
of modules to ensure safety in the
event of a pressure breach, as well
for ease of construction, servicing
and recon6guring. It also altered
the size and shape of individual
rooms and other areas to accom modate new ways of sitting, eating and sleeping.
Advanced computer systems with user-friendly voice
recognition peripherals were
included to monitor guests'
physical well-being. act as a
translating device for the
multi-cultured guests and
offer means of communication with Earth.
The second UB designin which the hotel was constructed in an asteroid-was
called "Toutatis 4179."lt was the
brainchild of Jason Benedlct.
Karen Chan, Darren Hook, Melissa · Morgana and Scott
Nunemaker.
What made this project difficult,
according to Danford, was the
need to "capture" a passing asteroid and then excavate the interior
to create habitable space-in a
zero-gravity environment.
The design involved solarpower stations that were placed in
orbit around Earth to collect energy from the sun and transfer it
to Toutatis through microwaves
and energy converters.
The students chose to inhabit
an asteroid because, according to
their· statement. the solid mass
provided protection fo r the
guests and because "an astero·id
in pure form represents all that
is natural relevant to its environ·
ment and only such a spectacle
co uld allow freedo m and explo·
ration."
Toutatis also was equipped with
a museum displaying technological advances in space exploration,
as weU as an escape pod in case of
the need for evacuation.
Co mpetition sponsors were
ACSA, Wimberly Allison Tong
&amp; Goo, AT&amp;T, Fluor Daniel,
Mastercard International, Microsoft and PT Dharmala lntiland.

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when looking for radio stations having an
Internet pr~nce. While there are several other extensive lists of radio stations available on the World Wide Web, this list is one of the
most comprehensive. The site provides an alphabetical list (by call
letters) of links to more than 2,000 radio stations in the U.S. and
worldwide. There is also a search feature that aUows you to look for
stations by city, caU letters, frequency and station format. The
· aitcasters" section links to radio stations that broadcast their audio
signal over the Internet. Some other popular sites for radio-station
links are: On the Air (http://www.onthealr.com ), BRS Radio Directory (http://www.radlo-dlrtctCH)&gt;.&lt;om/) , TopRadio.corR (http:/
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righu to Webcast many of their sporu and syndicated programs.
Stations hope to acquire the Web rights to these programs in the
near future. But you don't have to wait for Internet radio t~ develoJrthere is, right now, an abundance of n~ and entertainment wait-

ing for you via radio on the World Wide Web.
For assistance in connecting ro the World Wide Web via UB computer
accounts, contact the ASC/T Help Desk at 645-3542.
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Classrooms
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equipped classrooms, installing 15 from 1989-96.
Sullivan said the number and array of tedmology-equipped classrooms now
available at UB is comparable to that at'peer n:seardl wUversities.
In selecting and designing technology for the new dassrooms, Lesniak
said his department was guided by the desire to create the .. illusion of
simplicity" for faculty members. For example, in the new classrooms,
every electronic device either turns on or begins to warm up as soon as
someone opens the door. "We decided on a minimum turn-on time of
five minutes." Lesniak explained. "We didn't want the technology to
pull people away from teaching."
The touch-screen switching panel also is an outgrowth of this ap·
proach. Attached to a custom podium designed at UB, the panel controls all systems in the room and requires a min~ mal amount of technical knowledge to operate.
While the project generally has run smoothly, problems corrunon to new
t&lt;dmologies haYe deYeloped.Someof the designs. according to l.esniak, ,.,r(ted
differently in their demonstration version than they haY&lt; in the actual classroom. "'ur best guesses sometimes fell shon of the marie." he said.
For budgetary reasons. visualizer.; (document cameras that enable pro·
jection of notes, pictures, textbook pages. overheads and tht«-dimensional
objects) were not included in the new rooms. However, he noted, visualiz·
ers can, and will, be added if there is sufficient demand.
Faculty who wish to use the new classrooms can apply through th~
UB scheduling department. Sullivan said the provost's office has rwo
committees, one looking at classroom quality and the other focusing
on classroom utilization, assc:ssing the use of the new classrooms with
an eye toward determining the next step in classroom technology implementation.

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Terminal will withstand quakes, anal}rsis.shows
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News SeMces Editor

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ORE than two
years before it
opens it doors-

and who knows

how long ~fore it experiences a
major earthquake-UB engineer·
ing students have determined that
the new San Francisco Terminal

Building should remain operational during earthquakes regis·
tering as high as eight on the Rich·
ter scale.
Assigned as a class project and
based on a study of what will be
the most heavily loaded section of
the structure, their analysis shows
that the building- located less
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by as much as 20 inches during a quake-will perform as expected.
Because of the structure's siz.e and complexity, the students analyud •
"This wasn't a textbook problem, it was a real project; said Michael longitudinal section of the building. They then asaessed the safety of all the
C. Constantinou, professor of civil, structural and environmental en- structural components in that section, auch as roof truss manbm, colgineering. who taught the ~uate structural engineering course. umns and bl'll&lt;leS. ~ -...re surprised thai they could look at this comp1es
At the National Center for Earthqu.ke Engineering ·Reaearch structure and fig=OUI bow.....-y1hingwcrked IJ:ltl'lb&lt;r," Mdd!asaid,adding
(NCEER) headquartered at UB, he has conducted atensive testing of thattheworlto{IIMnllllld&lt;otswasoCsuch hishqalitythatSkicknott&lt;&gt;wings
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on the terminal building.
A unique aspeCt of the assignment was the fact that the structure stands
"For this assignment, the students had to figure out how the build- oo sliding bearinp_ '"Thett is a standard wayto do seismic d&lt;sisn,a standard
ing was put together and how the devices worked. and then develop procedure fi&gt;r determining load on a sttucture that is s-1 oo the grotmd,"
models to assess the structure's safety; he explained. "The teams found Constantinou said. "But this structure is not 6ml; it is standing 00 bearings
that it is quite safe.•
that can slide bade and forth. So for this project, the students bad to toke into
The building was designed with the expectation that it will sustain account how the bearings would behave during an earthqualce."
virtually no structural damage during strong earthquakes that are typical
Before they taclded the airport project, the students had only worked
for a seismically active area.
on.problems involving structures ihat stood still "When.....-y1hingstands
When completed in the spril]gof2000, the terminal will be the Jug- stili, all forces equal u:ro,• explained AI Hanbridee. a·senior, wbooe paper was
est base-isolated building in the world. Base isolation helps protect struc- amOng thooe sent to Skidmore, Owings &amp; M&lt;rrill, and who plans to pursue a
tures from earthquake damage by isolating them from ground motions. career in earthquake engineering. "But in this case, the structure moves.· he
"Earthquake engineers have been primarily concerned with the pres- said. "Tha(s where it becomes a mon: complicated analysis."
ervation of human life," said Constantinou. "With this building, the
In a strong earthquake, the sliders may move from side to side as
owner's goal was to go beyond that, to ensure that the building would much as 20 inches, Co.nstantinou explained, although the amount of
not only preserve the lives of people in it, but that it would be strong movement felt by people in the terminal should be minimal.
enough to rerOain operational even during a major quake.•
The innovative earthquake engineering device, called the Friction J&gt;etlln addition tO the usual peer-review process that all new building designs go dulum System, will allow the structure to respond to strong earthquakes
througb. the UB students' papers have provided project architfcts and engi- by swinging gently from side to side like a pendulum.
neers with data that confirms that the stringmt safety and performance reVictor Zayas, the inventor of the system and president of Earthquake
quirements of the San Francisco Airport Commission have been met
Protection Systems, which is providing the devices, said that the system
"The students' results provided us with an independent verification of uses the characteristics of a pendulum in lengthen the natural period or
our design," said Anoop Mokha, associate with Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, swinging motion of a structure so that it avoids the strongest earthquake
forces. lt consists of several parts: a semi-spherical steel slider that is cona UB graduate and project engineer on the terminal building.
The tenninal is a Wlique, glasHndosed structure that will contain about I nected at the base ofeach column in a building; a concave sph&lt;rical surface
million square feet The massive, wing-shaped ro&lt;if measures 850 feet by 220 on which the slider moves back and forth during an earthquake, and the
feet, and is supported on only 20 steel columns. The structure is enclosed by a slider pocl&lt;d, which houses the bearings and transfers the weight of the
building down into the foundation where it is supported.
100-foot-tall glass wall that measures nearly a quarter of a mile long.

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Convocation

Arguing that delight and commu·
nity are just as possible in a univer·
sity during times of "dazzling and
sometimes terrifying change," Jack·
son quoted the poet William Blake:
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds
reptiles of the mind." But, he went
t m, even wbe"n individuals are capable of changing their opinions,
they do not become islands unto
themselves. "We
not only individuals," he said. "We are also partners, collaborators, family members
in the enonnow and oomplex enterprise that is this university. •
President WiJljam R. Greiner
later echoed jackson's comments
about charlge. · we are about creation , destruction and recreation
in the search for truth," he said.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick
concluded that both speakers were
concerned with "how much we
mean to each other as a community." The public distribution of
awards, honors and tides, he noted,
was a symbol of that togetherness.
ln a c=mony honoring prokssor

are

)aalb D. Hyman's SO years of service

chair of the Professional Staff Sen-

to UB, including 11 years as dean of

ate, with a glass and a plaque.
Also honored were five UB faculty members recently named Distinguished Professors, the highest
faculty rank in the SUNY system. by
the SUNY Board ofllustta: SUNY
Distinguished Professon Paras N.
Prasad of the DepartmentofO!anistry and director of the Photonics
Research Laboratory, and Srihar~
SUNY Distinguished Service ProC....
sors Peter H. Hare of the Department of Philosophy and O&gt;arles V.
Paganelli ·o f the Department of
Physiology. and SUNY Distinguished
Teacbingl'tofo:ssor DianeRChristian
of the Department of English.
Farulty and staff who received the
SUNY Olancellor'sAwards for Exrd'
lence also -...re honored. as fDilows:
Excellence in teaching: Shahid
Ahmad, associate profeSsor of civil,
structural and environmental engineering; Michael P. Long. associate
professor of music. and 'lliantafilos
).Mnuntziaris,associateprofessorof
chemical engineering.
Excellence in hbrarianship: Ed·

the School ofU.W, Greiner and Barry
llo)u, the law school's current dean,
praised Hyman's service to the ideal
of academic community. Hyman,
who oversaw the transition of the
School ofU.Wfioma component ina
private univmity to a component in
the State University of New York 5)'tem, said he bad seen "an e:xcellcnt
small school become an &lt;=llentla!ge
school"
Thomas B. Tomasi, former president of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, was presented with a SUNY
honorary doctorate for his steward·
ship of a "crucial biomedical resource for UB, Western New York,
New York State and the nation as a
whole" and for his own research.
Arnold B. Gardner, a member of the
SUNY Board ofTrustees, presented
the degree to Tomasi.
In honor of the 25th anniversary
of the Professional Staff Senate,
Voldemar A-1nnus, senior associate
vice president for University Services, presented Michael A- Stokes,

ward Herman, associate librarian,
Lockwood Library; Glendora
Johnson-Cooper, associate librarian,
Undergraduate Llbrary, and Nancy
A. Schiller, ~te hbrarian, Science and Engineering Library. .
Exttllenoe in professional service:
Martha A- Bartnn, assistant dean in
the Faculty of Natural Scienas and
Mathematics; Sandra). Fazekas, staff
associate/events coordinator for the
Center for the Arts; Maryanne L
Mather, instructional support technician in the Department of Peri·
odontics, and Leonard F. Snyder, senior associate vier president for Uni·
versity Services.
The solemn tone of the com'Ocation was undercut by humor
more than once. During Jackson's
speech, the Center for th.e Arts' disaster alaqn was triggered, cutting
him off in the middle of a skepti·
cal comment about computers.
"Have I offended the computer
gods?" Jackson asked.
•rt must be a computer glitch,•
joked Greiner.

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, . , . _ ~ Lilloon Ofllce. 21S

UB 0, W-VIO"Jinlo l

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The Bulslos&lt;Oa.l8otWostV'orpnia !nthreepmes.ls-B,IS.9, 1S.9,0&gt;broak
., ei&amp;l&gt;t-pme ~ ..-..k.)l.wlio&lt;"Aprille ~led &lt;he- lor thowichsbtkifls ond sbtdlpond ~-~-20
asslsa In the match. 8ufb&amp;o fell to 11-12 for the season and remaJns at ).(I .,

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homo. Cin Oa. 17, the a..ls los&lt; I~ on a penalty ldci&lt; by Pia's Mep&gt; Beasley at
9&amp;22 1n &lt;he pme. Cin Oa. 19 the rewmed home ., RAC Wd. only.,
lose., NQpo ~- ~~- ~the-- tho Pu&lt;ple Eaps
16-5 In lhe ....... they _.. unable ., put the ball in tho net.
foflowlnc a scxnloss fint half, acdon .... spirited In the secood. wich bod\
............... exalent ""'""opponLW1Ides. Analy. at 84-.55. Nbpn slipped
rho bol post UB ,..._... )aJme Adams and lmo the left side fill &lt;he nee aft..she had come ou&lt; ., plor the boll.

by ol C&lt;lmp&lt;.ar Sdonce.
Russ108
Miler, U8
Dept.
Campu5. Noon.

Shetmon. -

Thellb/E2F P-ay 1n c.l1 G . and~

Pruf. )osoph NeoAm,

ol Cenecla, DIAot Unlv. School. Room, Rl'CI.

Dept.

1~ : 30p.m.

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~ross ~ount~

Philosophy.=-~~

IOngdom. 280 hrt. North c.mp.a.
2-3:30p.m .

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s,ooo- ECAc ~hold Oa.l8 atYon Conlard Porlc.S&lt;nlorl&lt;oml
Llly~outfrontforlhe lk*a 21st.,.....witha time o/1~7.
Senk:r Pwfdc. Noan frished IB!h ., the tc4A 8,.00).mecer-""' 'Nich J, rme d
. 2&amp;21.Thementnshedl21h_,. ln&lt;he~withaa&gt;Calol298pcints.

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North Clrolna -Unlv. 330 511Jdent
Union. North Campu5. 3:30p.m.

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Poetry_,
Room. cen...-

--.....--by 1Mn Morlotty.
su..n;,g
f« lhe Arts.
Nofth Campu5. 4 p.m.

Aquoaolture AquollcRobert Bullis, Mlr1ne 8iologlaJ
W.S, Hole, Mass.
Sciences. North Campu5. s p.m.

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John Con:onn at 881 -1640, 645-2444,
Ext. 757.

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Drug Dewlopment and Drug
In the 2111 Cenlury. Roger

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tralloo. 216 NatU-al Sciences. North'
Compus. 3:30-S p.m.

the U8 Art Galery at 64~12.

kulpturo by U.. Heln

rn='s~~~t.'"onthe

-IA&lt;ture

Campus. 7 p.m.

•

Sloo/ -

Sbtng-

-lahlblt
Exhibit titled •Canadian Architectl.lre., •
sponsor«~ by the School ol AlrllitecWre
and Pllnning. wil be on di&lt;play thn&gt;ugh
Nov. 261n the )omes Dyett Gal)e!y, 335
Hoyos Hoi!. South Campus. Gallery
hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
M ) ' - Mr. Wright
"My DOor Mr. Wright Manuscnpts,

"kecent Exposu,... by Renee Ziegler

display on the tint floor ol the
Undefgro&lt;fuate Ubro&lt;y, Capen Hall,
North Campus. th!:ough Nov. 7.
5..-.-Expoaed
")(pose. UB M Students o.fine Themselves, • o collection ol wori&lt; by U8 art
students, will be on display Oct. 23
through Nov. 14 In theM Department
Galtefy, C~t:er for the Arts on the North
Campus. Galtery hours cw 10 a.m.·
5 p.m. Tue:sd¥, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wed·
~and 11 a.m.-8p.m.

- b y ..... Schnltger
WOlle by Dutch anist Lara Schnitger is on
exhibit through Nov. 7 In the U8 Galleiy,
een...- for the Ms. North eampus. Form
and bolora ... through
transitive, very non-traditional mattriab
-plastic. lotex balloons, foam rubber.
Galery hours are 10 a.m.-S p.m.

~and:~~.~ ~~~.K;.;,~=-

Mutln Collection" is on exhibit thn&gt;ugh
Oct. 31 In the UniYonity Archivos, 420
Capen ..... North Campus. Houn ""

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The UniYorslty fill Mouachuseas , _ up a schook-econi4S9 yards posslr,g. but
c:ame up with two lcoy ~ 1nurcoptions 0&gt; defeat &lt;he a..ls,26-20, on
Oa. I Bat UB Stadium.
The Bulls had pulled to within 26-20 wt.... Chad Salisbury-who completed
30-of-51 passes lor 459 yards and !h... touel!down&gt;--hi split end Drew
Haddad w;th an 11-yard TO pass wJin 6:04 left. Haddad was one fill three UB
~to co...,. 100 yards rec&lt;Mrc In the pme w;th a~ II catches
for 147 yards.
The 4S9 yards passlrc by rho Bulls_.. tho moot t h o - - p.n
up In thek I 14-year foocbafl history. IW WaDdns added nine c:atdles lor 128
yards ond Jamie Gospan-e had six c:atdles for 144 yards ond t w o (48 ond 63 yards) lor UB.
·
'We .....nod In &lt;he sea&gt;nd half to ........ mlstakos snowball on~· said UB
head a&gt;ach Cral( Orbus. 'We haYe been relying so much on the pass. but uxloy
Is an example ol what happens wt.... you create a penonallty.When you
become W.t biased In your pQy se&amp;ection and you become that retiant on one
part o( &lt;he pme those tNrcs w;l happen. you'"' P1l "' get ....,.,..,.._..

...-........,_ Assistant Sports fnfonnotiot&gt; Director

An exhibition of eleglnt moving SCUll&gt;
tures by American artist Usa Hein h on
di&lt;play through Nov. 7\n the U8 Art

c_.

The O«uut: Doo&lt;way to the Super-

Exhibits
Noon-1:30 p.m. Sporuorod by Sodal

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NO&lt;th Can1JU' through )uly 1998. For

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Men's Soccer vs. SL Bonaventure. RAC
Field. North Cam~ 7 p.m.

Cassatt String Quortet. Slee. North

TO&lt;onto. 280 Port.. North Compus.

"The-H*yl'rojocl."•-ol
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Regional Gow:mment The Toronto

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&lt;iologue-.. cor&lt;empcnry ""ond

GaDety's second floor exhibition room in
the cen...- for the Arts, North Campus.
Gaiety hotn are 10 a.m .~S p.m.
Tuesdoys. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wodnesday&gt;fricUys and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays.

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Campus.' 4 p.m.

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Noti.ces
er..t:tn Cnft Center
The Creative Craft Center, 120 Fillmore,
Blkott Complex. North Campus. is
offering fall cnoft wori&lt;shops beginning
the week of Oct. 27. All wori&lt;shops ·~
htld from 7-10 p.m. one night a week
for six Wftks; childm'l's daues are on
Saturdoy mornings. Fees are 530 fe&lt; UB

students and SSO for aU otnm. For
more infOITI\Ition, al 64S-2434.

-ayat-ct_,
Recent changes In leglslallon have
reopened rostrictions regarding tnru~..

Senior._..., finilb&lt;d
21st ovenll in !he 5.000-mtter
ECAC OwnpioniiUpa Oa. 18

Sopbo _ _ _

wu oneollbloe UB plafUS 10 go

at Van Cordand Park in New

om-100 yuds t&lt;ttivlng Oct. 18
apinst !he MiDut&lt;m&lt;n ofUMass.

York City. LiUy &amp;uided the
jlulls"' a ninth-pia&lt;% finish out

Haddad fiaisbed the game with
a career~bigh 11 catches for 147

.X!S_,inlhe~

yards.

of retirement systems, and members
who were etlgible to transfer between

pubfk retirement systems in New York
State and who did not may now be
ellgi~ for a ~troactive transfer to or
hom any of the New Yorir: City retirement systems. For more Information,
c.&gt;ll (518) 474-7736.

Job_
Foculty
Assistant Professor-HistCK)', Posting
IF-7069. Assistant Profeuor-Hlstory,
Posting IF-7081 . Anlstant ProfesJOrCommunkatiYe Disorden and Sdenc~.

~ 0~F~=~s:'~ Oe•n·

IF-7083. A.»ist&amp;nt Professor-Pediatrics,
Posting IF-7084. Aulsant Profeuo&lt;·
Family Medk:ine, Posting IF-7085 .

Cllnk..lln..structor/Assbbnt/Auoc:L.te
Profeu«-Dennatology, Posting
IF-7086 .

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Oeriiii-Spons.ortd Programs. Posting
IR-97092. Student AsslsbntSponsored Programs Penon~. no

posting • .

Competfttve Clautfled Civil Senke
Keyboard Sp«YIIst (SG-6)-Econorruo.
line U3662 . Mail •nd Supply Clerit

(SG-S)-Campus Mail, Une *31105.
CakulaUons C~ 2 (SG-9}-Purc.hasing.
Une 130667. S.C...wy I (SG-11)Mecha&lt;Uc.&gt;l and Aerospace Engineering.
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Director of Ubor•tory Anl~m~l
Fodlltles(Sl-6)-~boratory

Industrial EHect.iYene», Posting
fP-7084. A.»isbnt to the Vke
President (Sl~)-Offke of the Va
President for Public Service and Urban
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ReseM'Ch Auoclate (SL-4, two
posltfons •v•ll•ble)-lnstitutional
Analysis, Posting fP-7087, IP-7088.
Director of Recruitment (SL-3)-School
of Law, Posting IP-7091 . Counselor
(SL-3)-Educational Opportunity Center,
Posting IP-7092. Senlot- Sbff Assls~nt
(5l-3)·Pu&lt;tlwing. Posting fP-7093 .

Animal

Focllitles, Posting tP-6064. Technicol
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M.-..ger (Sl-4)-The Center for

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4!6 Crolts.

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Don't you just kM her?
It's actress Carol Burnett.

October 16.1!ID/ti29.1*1.8

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Strategy
N. a press conference Oct. 10,
UB officials joined with comrnrily leaders to amounce
strategies for bolstering the
l.rWer5ily community. Accepting
a check from Fleet Bank for
housing renovation study are,
from left: President GreiAer, jolvl
L.any ci Fleet Bank. Henry Louis
Taylor jr. and Rodney Richardson
ci Fleet Bank.

UB to invest $100 million in South Campus
University leads plan to bolster community with educational, economic development
ay SUI WUETOIU
~ Servkes Associate Director

HE univenity rtaflirmed
its commitment to the
City of Buffalo and the
region with the announoonent Friday that it is investing$100 million over lOyears in its
South Campus and will spearhead
new efforts to bolster housing,
safety, education and economic development in the neighborhoods
surrounding the South Campus.
UB's South Campus Master

T

Plan and the University Commu-

nity Initiative {UCI), a collaborative partnership led by UB, the
City of Buffalo and the Town of
Amherst to stabilize, rebuild and
revitalize the neighborhoods surrounding the campus, represe nt

one of the most ~bitious community-development initiatives
ever undertaken in Western New
York.
"'As Buffalo's univenity, we can
provide services and commitment

dences," Greiner continued ... The
University Community Initiative
has already gone a long way toward building opportunities for
real growth, development and
long-term investment in this area.

to bring our partners in govemanct

We look forward to working with

and the private sector together to

our friends, neighbors and partners to continue to provide the
services our region needs ."
As part of its strategy to make

make our city and region stronger,"
President W'tlliam R. Greiner said at
a press conference in Harriman Hall
on the South Campus.
"The South Campus Master Plan
is jwt one step toward fulfilling our
commitment to being a good neighbor in the Univenity District.
"'As the nexus of city and sub urb, UB's South Campus has the

the South Campus and the adja-

dynamic growth and development

cent neighborhood s a thriving
gateway between the city and suburbs, UB is investing SlOO million
over 10 years to develop the campus into a premier health-sciences
education and research cen ter,
imp rove the physical appearance
of the campus and improve recre-

of stable businesses and resi-

ational facilities and quality of life

potential to inspire cooperation,

for students on campus.

Individual projects include:
• Expanding campus-based,
health-care education and re sea rch through creation of the
Comprehensive HeaJth Sciences
Education Center, which will provide on-campus ambulatory
health care and patient access to

health professionals from diverse
specialties in a single setting, and
the addition of a Qinical Research
Center that sxpands on the
Women's Health Initiative

• Developing an on-campus restarch park to attract high-tech nology industry to collaborate
with health-sciences faculty and
expand job opportuni tie s for
Western New York residents

Senate opposes (meddling' with ~UNY Press
By SUE WU£TCHlll
News Services Associate Director

"unencumbered by political pressures, that seeks to identify the

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based on knowledge·of, and expe-

views is composed of four SUNY
administrators, only one of whom
has any experience with SUNY
Press, and only one faculty mem-

more public-policy st udies .
Sussman said that when he asked
at a Sept. 23 meeting of the edito-

rience in, academic publishing and
commitment to academic values."

ber, Sussman added.

lt opposes "any effort to meddle
with SUNY Press publishing op-

lion, which he acknowledged he

implication of the anecdotaJ evi dence was that these were to be
sort of political statements com ing from some direction."
The resolution \Kfore the Fac-

most well-qualified candi date,

HE Faculty Senate has
gone on record opposing what has been described b)' critics as efforts by high-level SUNY administrators to change the mission of

erational activities, including

SUNY Press, politicize its operations and tamper with its intellec-

those of the editorial board, that
would compromise the values of

tual integrity and independence.

academic freedom, open inteUec-

The senate, at its Oct. 8 meet -

tual inquiry and continued finan·
cia! viability."

ing,joined the faculty governance
bodies at a number of SUNY campuses, including Cortland, New

Henry Sussman, associate dean
of arts and letters and a member

Paltz and Brockport, in approving

of the SUNY Press editorial board,

a resolution urging that an open
search be co nducted for a new director of the press and that it con tinue to be run by an editorial

outlined the issues of concern to
senators:
• Interviews already are under
way to replace the acting director
of the press, who is being replaced
without any consultation with the
editorial board. The search committee conducting those inter-

board composed of SUNY scholars.
The re so lution supports a
search for a new d irector that is

He said that there is informa·
could not verify, ..suggesting that
the search may be a foregone con clusion in that an insider with con nections to the governor's office
may be the final choice." even

though that person lacks knowledge of, or experience with, SUNY
Press or any academic- publishing
operation.
• A senior administrator in the
SUNY Provost's Office, whom he

declined to name, has told a staff
member at the Research Foundation who works with the press that
the editorial board was being dis-

solved.
• That administrator also has
pushed for the press to publish

rial board what that meant, "the

ulty Senate, he said, "simply speaks
to intellectual integrity and process; it doesn't commit the university to \King liberal or conserva tive or to maintain any political
position whatsoever.
" It would be particularly mean ingful in Albany if this campus
wo uld also express its questioning
and its concerns about a very precipitous change in a press that has
established a modicum of open ness in the treatment of authors
and intellectual materials ."
In response to a question from
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women are not offeoded by questions of P&lt;*ihl&lt; violenoe It home.
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provider." However, the more violeooe is identified, .. well u the
common scenario is that the health provider'S own penonal isvictim's family will give up on her sua wi1b this topic, either u a vicin their frustration over her re- tim or perpetratot. So""' victims
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professor of internal m&lt;dicine,
heads a project at the Erie
County M&lt;dical Center looking at whether identifying the
victims of domestic violence
in the emergency room and
referring them to community services can decrease
the nun1ber of women who are re-injured. October is
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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""' ph)'Sically and emotionally injured by tb&lt;ir intimate partnen. I
am concerned about our society's
indifference toward victims, and
how - blame victims for the violence they have received. I have
learned that it is very difficult for
women to ~ve their abusen, and
bave&lt;Mra&gt;me my own initialkneejerk reactions of why don't victims
just leave ona the violena DCCUl1.

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No, domestic violence occw-s in

The Erie County domestic· vio·
lencc laws are sound, with a proarrest policy in place. How the laws
are enforced is the key to providing safety for battered women and
children.Ar=t,forexample,must
be accompanied by a coordinated
community response involving the
criminal justice system, so that the
barterer will be apprised that continued violent conduct will be met
with severe, adverse consequences.

experier&gt;adomesticviolenizthan deYelop cancer or AIDS.

dating relationships, as well as in
gay. lesbian, bisexual and
transgender relationships.

Do high-profile uses of domeslie

violence encourage or In-

hibit women from reporting
their own experiences?

Media attention to high-profile
cases of domestic violence is helpful for victims, insofar as the attention raises awareness and discus-

sion. However, if perpetrators arr
not sanctioned for their crimes, this
gives the message that the criminal

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talk with ber in private about her relationship. She may 001 be aware of the
delinition ofdomesticvicJimco.-.« pattern of pi1)Sical assaults and coen:iYe
&lt;Xlt1lrol. Mootvictimslald tolllinilnitt
the violence that happtns to !bern because of guilt and shame. Battered
_,.,areolimisolaledfiom l3milies
and friends, so anything )00 can do to
bolsta-bersdf-&lt;memandsupport ber
is important. Expect that sbe may debxl his behaviors, and~ try to ac&lt;Zpl respoosibilityfur his violen&lt;z. Empbasize)OOl CXlOC&lt;mS about bersaf&lt;ty

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The myth is that abtioed women sed&lt;
outanothermanwbowilabuoetbem.
Many women leaYe an abusiYe man
and find another portDer who !bern with mpect and dignity. Wllh
the possible &lt;:ICtplion of aloobolism,
there are ootvictim cbarad&lt;ristia that
predi&lt;:t reabuse.

Domestic violence causes a spectrum
ofbtalth problems, fiom pl1)'ical injuries to mental-bealth problems li2
depression and suicide, to death as a
result of homicide. There is no standard reporting of domestic violence
cases to law enfonzmen~ other than
homicide. Last year, II women dled
in Erie County as a result of domestic
vialena:, 20 percmt ofthe 1ota1 num-

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Is domestic violence ganer•tlotuol?

Domestic violence can be transmitted across the generations.
When children observe that their
family members use violence to
solve conllicts, this normalizes this
experience. Half the time that a
woman is being beaten, her children are being physically abused
as well. So, cbildren who either
witness or experience abuse are
more l.ilcely to experience or perpetrate abuse as ad ults.

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I reoognize that the inlluencr of my
day at the offia can not be simply
turned offonce I mum borne. I have
many patient encounters during
each day, and some leave deep impressions of pain and suffering.
Somdimes,afl.r 11!1'1 through the
day, I reali2etbot I am tJOubled about .
a particular patimL It is importmt
for me to discusstheoeradionswith
colleagues. Outside ofoffice boun, I
participate in COmmunity effi&gt;rts to
reduce domestic violence. It is importmt furthe medical profession to
work wilh law enforcement and
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sponse to this problem.

UB must monitor rankings info, Senate told
By SUE WUETCHER
News 5e.rvkes Associate Director

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ll1iOUGH rankings ofUB programs
by such extmlal groups as the National
~beard! Cow&gt;eiJ are flawed, they help
shape percq&gt;tions about UB and the
university must work to provide accurate information fo r these rankings, as well as improve its
performance in them, a Faculty Senate subcommittee bas concluded.
But UB also must develop its own system to
monitor and measure program performance in
order to make ...hard d«isions on resourtt allocation• in times of limited univenity resources,
Susan Hamlen, associate professor of accounting
and law and chair of the subcommittee, told the
Faculty Senate at its Oct. 8 meeting.
The subcommittee of the senate's Budget Priorities Committee was charged with examining
and explaining the methodology used to generate the ratings "numbers• in Provost Thomas E.
Headrick's academic planning document,
Hamlen said.
.In the document, Headrick stated that one of
UB's goals was to have at least one-quarter of its
doctoral programs and research rated in the top
quartile of the NRC rankings, and almost all in
the top hal(
Given the importance of the NRC data in
Headrick's report, Ham1en said, the subcomminee decided to analyze "the appropriateness"
of the NRC rankings, as well as the Stony Brook
Productivity Ranking- another system that

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Hamlen said is used to rate programs.
The NRC ranki ngs-the most recent of
which are based on 1992-93 academic-year
data-are reputational rankings that look at
two dimensions of program quality: the scholarly quality of program faculty and the effectiveness of the program in educating research
scholars and scientists, she said.
'
Faculty raters""' provided with lists of faculty
involved in each program and are asked to rate
each program on the quality and effectiveness dimensions, she said.
The .NRC report on the rankings includes
some observations on the attributes of the
rankings, including that.. reputation is correlated with the siu of the university and that
there is agreement among raters on the best
an d wo rst programs, but •rankings in the
middle quartiles can be unreliable," she said.
The Stony Brook rankings were developed by
1.awrmce Martin, dean of the Graduate School at
Stony Brool:, to determine a system of ranking on
productivity that is comparable to the NRC ranking
systemonrq&gt;Utltion,Hamlensaid. The Stony Brook
system takes NRC information on fourli&gt;ctorr-percen~ of faculty publishing, publications per fuc.
ulty,perczntageoffacultywithn:sean:bsupportand
nwnber of citations per facu1ty--ro rank each program on each fuctor, then """''''S the four ratings.
Don Schack, professor of mathematics and
a member of the Budget Priorities Committee, told senators he had analyzed the Stony
Brook rankings for mathematics programs and

found "huge deficiencies with the Stony Brook
index as a measure of almost anything.•
Independent of the subcommittee, be conducted a direct comparison of the Stony Brook
indo: with reputational indices in the 6eld of
matbematics. He called it "abswd• that the Stony
Brook rankings placed Oarkson and Southern
Methodist Univmity-both at the bottom ofthe
NRC ranlcings,-;unofust-quartile institutions
and "worse than abswd" that Yale placed in the
third quartile and the tJnivenity of Chicago in
the fourth. Yale and Chicago= in the top 10 percent of programs, according to the NRC.
Schack also decried the reliability of the data
used in the Stony Brook rankings, noting that
there are incredible inaccuracies in program
sizes: that significantly impact the raw scores
that are used. "If you want to go from SO percent of your program publishing to 100 percent publishing, just omit a judiciously chosen selection of your faculty," be advised. "It's
a very, very suspiciow ind~ indeed."
Hamlen presented the subcomrninee's key
conclusions about using rankings such as NRC
and Stony Brook in academic planning at UB:
• These rankings apply only to doctoral education, and may not be appropriate in evaluating undergraduate and master's-level programs.
• There are flaws in these rankings that may
limit their effectiveness.
"However, external rankings such as NRC
are influential in shaping the perceptions of
UB and they cannot be ignored," Ham! en said.

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Surgeon offers hope for reducing
violel)ce that pervades our society
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in place, increased
screening for mental
health, training in

Rather, according to Simpkins, the roots of the disease run.throughout our society: in television, in history, in •ultimate'" fighting, and in university politics. *Character assassination is a kind of violence,"
be said. ·ru bet everyone in this room has some experience with violence."
Simpkins described the various ways people end
up in his emergency room: a man beaten up by police officers, a woman battered by her husband, a
child shaken to death. At the end of the litany, he
sang a mournful song aboutlynching.s.
illustrating the role of history in the problem of
violmce, Simpkins showed slides of colonial tortures,
lynchings. and a photograph of his childhood
home after it was
bombed. Simpkins' par-

schools on principles of

ents were active in the

Reporter Staff

HILE it focused on violence,
Cuthbert Simpkins'"UB at Sunrise"
lecture last Thursday ended with a
glimmer of hope:
Dnwing on his experiences as a UB associate professor ofsurgery and a trauma surgeon at Erie County
Medical Center (ECMC), he outlined 16 proposals
which he claims will lead to "an effective diminishment of violence• in America.
Simpkins called for Buffalo-~pecific nesearch into
how and why violence occun here, rigorous evoluation of programs already

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justice, increased em-

ployment and police accountability to the communities they serve.
"We need to make the
piOO!SS dear in every case."
hesaid.Peopleneedtoknow
where to gP and what they
can do when victimization
occurs, he added, and perpetratorSofviolence need to
know that punishment will
he consistent and inevitable.
According to Simpkins,

when the process is dear,
and when justia: is prtsen~

violenre will decrease.

Civil Rights Movement.
Despite the sobering
situation America finds it-

self in, Simpkins concluded that "we must look
up from the ground of defeat into the universe of

the possible.·
It is a phrase that
might be used to de scribe Simpkins' profes-

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Meclkal Center. outlines plan fOr reducing

Ylolence for ...,. at Sunrise" ...tlenc:e In a talk
Oct. 9 In Center for Tomorrow.

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sionaJ accomplishments.
Frustrated at treating

(uthbet1: 0. SIMpkins. usodMe protestOr

Simpkins stressed that the problems of violence and
injustice transcend issues of race and gender, urban and
rural, ynungandold,richand poor. Referring to a study
restricted to the white Atnerican middle class, he pointed
out that homicide levels for this group are far higher
than homicide levels in other industrial#ed countries.
If you correct for socioeconomic issues 0111d population,

said Simpkins. "we're in the same boat"
""We need to see violence as a mental-health issue,"
he said, and not an issue of race, gender, class or age. At
the same time, he was careful to poin~out that calling
violence a d.isea.sc does not mean society can shift the
blame for violence onto the perpetrators alone.

patients on1y to see them
return t.o the emergency

room again and again,
Simpkins founded the

Violence and Victimization Prevention Program at
ECMC in 1996. Under the program, a social w6rk.er
talks with the viCtims of violence to find out why
they are in dangerous situations in the first place.
These discussions can lead to indjvidual interven·
tion programs, often including job skills counseling,
in an attempt to break the cycle of violence. As ages·
ture of respect, victims are given every opportunity
to decline these services.

On Sunday, Simpkins will be the keynote speaker for
a program called "Honoring the Peacekeepers.• The
event will take place at 7 p.m. in St. john the Baptist
Church, 184 Goodell St., as part of the YWCA obser·
vance of the Third Attnual Week Without Violence.

Mac Low: poetry by indirect aim
Performances are part of75th birthday celebration for poet
By IIIIENT CUNNINC;HAM
Reportff StaH

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EC\URING on poetry,

reading poetry, listening
to poetry: what better
way for a poet to eel·
ebrate a birthday?
Jackson Mac Low, often men·
tioned as one of the most innova·
tive American poets ofthi5 century,

was on the UB campus last week to
culminate a series of events celebrat·
ing his 75th birthday.

the 1950s when be bepn to employ
"systematic-&lt;:hance" methods to write
his poems. influenced by crpcriments

)ohnCagewasmakinginmusic. These

methods sometimes involved rolling
dice, stidcing pins through magazines.
or inventing elaborate mathematical
rul&lt;s to choo&lt;e what would and would
notgointoapoem Theidea.MacLow
explained, is consistent with ideas in
Orienlal re!igjons and pacifism that in·
volve"by-passing" or"evading" the ego.

Influenced by the co ncept of
Associated at different times in Zen Buddhism that was entering
American
consciousness through
his career with John Cage, the
FLUXUS movement, the Living scholars like D.T. Suzuki, Mac Low
Theater of New York, the rise of decided that to "try.. to express
Zen-inflected pacifism, the rise of so mething, to aim for expression,
"' Language .. writing, and almost actually ended up pushing "against
every experimental literary group · an actua1 Oow., and did not achieve
to pass th~ough New York City, its precise goaL Releasing the in·
Mac Low has meanwhile amassed tention , he felt, would allow th e
"flow .. to enter into art.
a large body of his own work.
"Expression, like happiness," said
Aher reading some of his poems
last week as part of the Wednesdays Mac Low, "is one of those things
at 4 Plus series., Mac Low delivered you can't obtain by aiming at di ·
a lecture Thursday to a crowded rectly. Anyone who tries to express
f oom in Clemens Hall, talking at themselves in art directly, won't."
Over the years, Mac Low said he
length about his political involvehas found him self questioning
ment and his own poetry.
some
of these early ass umptions.
He achieved a certain renown in

Since the 1960s, he has returned
to wri ting poems that invol ve
varying degrees of "direct" com·
position, which often means he
still uses a system to compose his
poems. Now, however, it is usuall y
a system that allows him to make
some or all of the choices.
What has remained consistent is
Mac Low 's sense of poetry as "performance." Last Thursday, he per·
formed a number of his poems at
Hallwalls, accompanied by musi·
cians and voice artists from the

Buffalo-based poetry band EBMA.
Most of Mac low's work includes
instructions detailing how to read the
poem out loud, either to a group o r
to oneself. These instructions are
similar to a musical score, often in·

duding "silences" of particular dura·
lion. Understandably, it is sometimes
difficult for people to adjust to such a
unique approach to writing. .. , sometimes lose one· fifth of my audience,"
he said, without a trace of resentment
But for the four-fifths who stay,
Mac Low's life and works are sin·
gular achievements, capable of
opening up new ways of thinking
about language, poetry and art.

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BrieD

Conference to address
political redistricting
What would election d istricts look like if they were drawn without bias? That question and others related to racial gerrymander·
in g. the U.S. census and the impact of redistricting on voter partici·

pation will be addressed by geographers and political scientists at a
conference, ..Geographic Information Systems and Political Redis·

tricting: Social Groups, Representational Values and Electoral Boundaries,'" to be held Oct. 24-26 in the University lnn and Conference

Center, 240 I North Forest Road, Amherst
Sponsored by UB's National Cen ter for Geographic lnformation
and Analysis, the conference will feature panels and presentations

on political redistricting and the use of Geographic Information Systems, computerized geographic analysis tools, in drawing political
districts.
Speakers will discuss inequities in election districts, methods of
population-counting and the impact of the recent Supreme Court
decision banning race-based districts.
Peter Rogerson, professor of geography, will discuss how election
districts might look if they were drawn without regard to politics or
race in a talk, "Political Di.stricting in Cities With Negative Residen·
tial Density Gradients: Some Theoretical Investigations ...
Other talks include "Race-Based Districts: Do they Help or Harm
Representation?"; .. Playing a Game with Cha nging Rules: Geogra·
phy, Politics and Redistricting in the 1990s"' and .. Racial Gerryman·

dering, the Supreme Court and the 'Shapes' of Things To Come."
Conference coordinators are Munroe Eagles, associate dean of the
Faculty of Social Sciences and professor of political science, and David
Mark, director of the National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis. Sponsors of the opening reception are Mark B. K.ristaJ ,
interim dean of the FacuJty of Social Sciences, and Provost Thomas
Headrick. For more information, calJ 645·2545 ext. 49.

Family violence clinic receives
$140,000 in state funding
The Family VIolence Clinic in the School of Law has received
$140,000 in state funding to expand its work throughout the Eighth
JudiciaJ District of New York and serve as a regionaJ resource center
offering technical assistance and training to various government agen ·
cies and community-based organizations.

The funding, announced by Barry B. Boyer, dean of the law school,
and John B. Sheffer II, director of the Institute for Local Governance
and Regional Growth, includes a $70,000 member item from New
York State Sen. Mary Lop Rath and a $70,000 SlDPViolence Against
~omen grant from the New York State Department of CrimJ nal Jus·
uce.
The Family Violence Clinic, directed by Suzanne E. Tomkins, provides legal support for victims o f domestic violence. ft offers stu·
dents an enriching educational component and strength ens relation ·
ships with a broad spectrum of agencies in the legal and social·ser·
vice system in Western New York.
The clinic has used the new funding to join with the Institute for Lo·
cal Governance and Regional Growth in a cooperative venrure begin·
ning this fall to serve as a regional resource cen.ter for the Eighth judicial
District, which includes the co unties of Allegany, Cattaraugu s,
Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming. The clinic
is providing technical assistance to the- counties in the form of training
and development of resource materials tailored to the needs of each
locale. The clinic also is working closely with officials in each county to
develop community·coordinated response projects.

Personnel reorganized in
Division of University Services
In • n effo rt to streamlin e a nd improve financial ma nagement of
the university, Senior Vice President Robert j. Wagner has announced
a reorganiza tio n of personnel within University Services.
Leonard F. Snyder has assumed the title of seni or associate vice
president fo r university services and is responsible fo r the un JversJt y's
initiatives in financial management. He previo usly was associate vice
president and co ntroller for UB.
Kevin R. Seitz has been named associa te vice president and con troller, and will report directl y to Snyder. He prcviouslr was ass astant vice president for universit y se rvices.
Both appointmen ts were effective Oct. I .
In announcing the reorganization, Wagner noted that the changt:~
added no new positions o r staff to the controllers o rgam za tion.
"'Th is ... will allow Len Snyder to delegate day·to ·day ope r a ti on ~
of the business offices and concentrate on institutional priorities. It
(will ), in addition, provide Kevin the increase in responsibilities he
has richly earned and insure co ntinu ity of leadership in th e
controller's o rganization ," Wagner said.

�UB to invest

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appearance of the campus, such as the resurfacingoffour parldng lots at a oost of$100,000 each;
the erection of o&lt;w fencing oo Wmspear Avenue
near Bailey Avmue; the installation and repair of
sidewalks along the perimeter, and a comprehensive study of the signage oo the campus cooducud hy the Sasaki consulting firm
• Renovation of historic Bedc Hall to house
the lostit:uk for Local Govemance and Regional
Growth, a new =tercreated to support and promote regional collaborations throughout WesternNewYorlc
• Rehabilitating existing dormitory space to
aeate apartment-style living units and inaease
hy 20 pen:mt the number of students living oo
the South Campus
• ~current =Donal and sports facilities 00 the South c-pu. hy~playing
fieldsandc:Dstingfacililiesandexpoodingprogramming fuc oommunityand uoMnity users.
In addition to the Master Plan, UB is reinforcingitscommitmenttOthecommuoityhyspearheading the lJDNmity Community Initiative.
Based in the UB Center for Urban Studies, located in Allen Halloo the South Campus, the initiative aims to structure an environment that
leads existing residents to remain in the community, encourages outsiders to make the area their
home and stimulates new business and eon nomic

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tration will continue to accept and cultivate an
expaoded University at Bulf.alo in the work of
building o better Buffalo."
Susan J. Grdiclc said that from her perspective
as supervisor of the TOWJJ of Amherst, "the most
crcitingaspect of the lJDNmityeommunity Initiative is the transformation of borders into
bridses betw.en our communities.
"Residents of Egertrvi11e and the lJDNmity
District have alwoys been oeigbbon," Greliclc
added. "This initiative will make us partners."
University District Councilmember kvin J.
Helfer added, "The regional partnerships that
investments.
have been forged through the Univenity ComThe "UniversityCommunity," as defined hy the munity Initiative will reach further and have
initiative. is broader than the immediate Univer- wider impact than anyooeofthese entities could
sity Heights section of Bulf.alo
ever imagine. Tbe Univerwhere the UB South Campus is
sityDistrict,atthebeartof
located. It also includes the Bufthis impact, stands to gain
"A strong city will
falo neighborhoods of
far into the future as the
1
Kensington-Bailey, Baileyproject unfolds.
Delavan and a portion ofNortb
"It is satisfying to know
Bulf.alo and Central Pack; the
that this partnership beKmilwortb section of the Town
tw&lt;cn the Oty of Bulf.alo,
of Tonawanda; the Eggertsville
the lJoNmity District and
portion of Amherst, and the
the lJDNmityat Bulf.alo is
Cleveland Hill section of the
only going to become
MAYORANlltONY MASIEllO
Town of Oteelclowoga.
more tangible for the
The initiative is headed hy Pmject Director oommunity: Helfer continued •From e:nhancHenry Louis Taylor, Jr., associate professor of ingits borden to funding and supporting the UniAmerican studies and director of the Center for versity Community Initiative. the university-is
Urban Studies.
maintaining its investment in the OtyofBulfalo."
"The UniversityCommunitylnitiativeis a bold
After a time-year planning stage. ua is movstrategy that focuses on the social, eon nomic and ing forward with several inaugural projects. Tbey
physical development of a unique border com- are:
(Ounity," Taylor said. "It is a collaboration that
• The Corporate Partnenhlp, a collabocreates a venue, that enables residents. business, ration with local businesses to underwrite a real
government and oommunity and economic de- estate development corporation that will acvelopers to plan and work together."
quire, rehabilitate, finance and sell houses to
UB's role, he said, is to "foster collaborations, middle-income residents. Fi.ftetn corporations,
coordinate activities and stimulate projects that including numerous banks, have expressed enwill Slllbilize, recreate and invigorate the commu- thusiastic support for the effort Fleet Bank, it
nity.•
was announced at· the press conference, has
Bulf.alo Mayor Anthony Masiello agreed that contributed $30,000 for a study to assess the
market for what has been called the first largeoollaboration is importanL
"None of ur-citydweller, suburbanite or cam- scale housing renovation project in the history
pw resident-exist in a vacuum,'" Masiello said. of Buffalo.
"We are all interrelated and interdependent. The
"Fleet is proud to be the corporate leader supsum of our coUective efforu will always be greater porting the redevelopment of the University
than the sum of individual initiatives.
Community," said John J. U!rry, e=utive vice
"A strong city will mean a stronger campus president and ~rket manager of Fleet Bank.
community and a more vital neighbor for sub- "With this strategic and comprehensive approach
urban communities," he added. "This adminis- to housing. the neighborhoods have an excellent

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soiira c.tw, an unprecedented, croa-jurio-

dictional collab!&gt;nttion among police agencies
from Buffalo, Amherst, Cheektowaga,
Tooawanda, the N"111gaf2 Frontier Thansportation
Authority, Bulf.alo Municipol Housing Authority and UB.l.ocated in Room 100 of Allen ·HaiJ
on the South Campus, the =ter will create a
venue where policeoflicers will work in partner·
ship with residents, businesses, govmunent and
social-service agencies to prevent crime and address community problems that impact on public safety.
• . . . . . . _ _ providedthrough
a range of p~e elementary and seoondary activities, and adult education and training
programs. An alliance oforganizations, agencies
and university departments has been forged to
address myriad educational cballenges. including mastery of new ll&lt;8demic standards, c:areer
education and job training. welfare reform and
self-sufficiency, and capacity building in public
schools. Activities include after-rd&gt;ool enrichment programs beld on the South Campus for
approximately 500 Bulf.alo school student&gt;; special summer residential programs in mOth, scitechnology and general acadoemic counes;
partnerships betw.en UB and S&lt;bools in the Buffillo and Amherst districts, and the America
Reads literacy program.
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projects involveoommercial irnproYmleots to the
Main Street commercial strip and the commercial section of Bailey Avenue between the
Kensington Expressway and East Delavan Avenue.
The Main Street project consists of the installation of new water mains and sidewalks, adoption of design standards for storefronts, ventwes
to assist proper!;f owners in making exterior and
interior rq&gt;airs. inaeased accesstbility to micro
loans and other forms of capital and activities to
assist homeowners to malce repairs to their propcrties.
UB h!s worked with, and will continue to work
with, such private-sector. partners as Benderson
Developmen~ Tops Markets and Walgreen Drug
Stores.
The Bailey project includes landscaping and
streetscaping. developing design standards and
encouraging facade improvements, and a "paintup,brush-up" campaign on adjacent side streets.

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Ken Regan, associate professor of computer science, Sussman noted
that the press is open to publishing any material, as long as the normal
procedures-whereby material comes to the press either through a staff

or faculty editor-are followed.
The issue, he stressed, is not a political matter ..of who's the governor
or what we like or what we don't like. It's a matter of the fact that the
procedures are being suspended (the director and board are being re-

placed) and nobody knows what the press is really thinking.•
Michael Frisch, professor of history and American studies and a
former SUNY Press editorial board member, said there is nothing wrong
with making changes at SUNY Press. "The ominous thing here is the
possibility of (overhauling) an entire struc:t= that is working well,
that involves peer review and involves a very active faculty role ... If the"'
is, in fact, a structural shadow over the operations of the press, this
would be very damaging to faculty governan"' and to the reputation of

our university nationwide," he said.
"This is not to say that everything the press has done is perfect;
contin ued Frisch, who has had his work published by the press and has
served as editor of series published by it. • ... It is to say that these procedures should not be changed or interfered with lightly."
It is appropriate, hr said, for the Faculty Senate to express its con·
a:m about "the nature of the search and the nature of the editorial
board and the role of faculty and faculty governance in them.•
Peter Hare, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Profes.sor in the De·
partment of Philosophy, urged his colleagues to support the resolution.
"SUNY System may have its difficulties in many areas, but SUNY
Press is one of the things we can be most proud of,• Hare said, suggesting that the SUNY campuses should send a delegation to Albany to
discuss the issues with the search committee.

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How Tabloids Twist the Past
Cltlssicist studies sensational tales culled from ancient world
of strange and hoary tales about Asia
Minor, Egyp~ Gre&lt;ce and Rome.
EVER mind Dodie.
"Maybe tlie andent era is familDi and those tape- iar to us from movies and elemenworm dieu th at tary school, so we assume-incordon't work. What rectly-that we know a good deal
malcrsDonMdJuire about il" McGuire said "Since the
average person doesn't have the information to counter weird stories
written about that period, the tabMcGuire is adjunct assistant loids have a field day.•
professor of
ics at UB and diBenign tabloid tales .U:,ply repon
rector of the Student Services Cen- "amazing" but well-known factster in the Faculty of Arts and Let- the Romans had apartment buildters. His areas of study and teach- ings. fast-food restaurants, clever
ing include the culture, litera- unemploymentstntegiesand,when
ture-particularly the poetry-&lt;&gt;f new heroes came along, they just
the Roman Empire. He also has changed the beads on the statues in
made a minor study of how super- the Forum.
market tabs represent the ancient
"Unfortunately," McGuire said,
world, lecturing on the topic at "another way to sell papers is to tell
classics conferences and currently lies that reinfora or subvert connecpreparing an article for the Jour- tions between the familiar (street
nal of Popular Culture.
violen&lt;%, Elvis, mental illness) and
.. Just remember I do research things that are alien to our reality,
other issues," he reminded as he likt andent cultures.
trolled a pile of loopy news clips.
In wedding borrowed (or in The story began when McG uire vented) aspects of the ancient world
decided to investigate the popular to common obsessions of our own
culture of ancient Rome, an inter- age, the tabloids tend to relieve our
est derived from the fact that many anxieties through a kind of
historical studies, with their con- ' empathetic conversion.
centration on politicaJ and liter"One example here" he said, pullary works, don't convey the fears, ing out a clip, "is this story that
assumptions and idiosyncrasies trumpets the discovery of the rethat comprise the popular culture mains of Hercules' gym, 'complete
of an historic era.
with his primitive Thighmaster.'"
The tal&gt;loids also will take one of
Med iterranean area favored
today's popular events or icons-a
"I needed to fin&lt;! a semiology of cult figure likt Elvis Presley, for expopular culture that could be ap- ample-and connect it with romeplied io the Romans," McGuire said, one like first century A.D. Turkish
"and decided to review tabloids. king, Antioch us of Commagene.
They reflect our own popular conMcGuire pulls out a startling tab·
cerns and I thought they might sug- loid photo of a 2,000-year-old statue
gesc areas of universal interest...
of Antioch us, still imbedded in the
Here comes the postmodern sands of western 1\ukey.
twist. In using tabloids to suggest
The acoompanying story exploits
popular concerns among lim -cen- our obsessive love for what UB socitury Romans, he found that the tab· ologist Mark Goltdiener calls "Elvis as
loids rulJ the cultures of the ancient Other )esus"by suggesting that he not
Mediterranean for stories reflecting only oontinues to live, but was alive 20
the concerns of 20th-century cmturies ago, as well.
Americans.
"They pay no attention to medi- Romans had graffW
"I just love this stuff," McGuire
eval Turkey or !Oth ~ntury Indonesia.... McGuire said, "but the an - admitted with a laugh. "Some things
cient Mediterranean gets nailed ev- don't change." He noted the abunery week." In fact, The Glob&lt;, The dance of Roman graffiti that says
Star and the rest, he found, are full "For a good time, call Aurelia" and

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says that long after Nero died, rumors persisted that he'd been seen
in Athens and Asia Minor.
"'The ancients weren't so different
in some ways." McGuire said. "And
apparently, using ancient motifs to
exploit our anxieties and obsessions
sells papers."
Clips galore:
AIDS ("... Found
in Tombs from
Sodom
and
Gomorrah!! "');
life after death
("Egyptian Rein carnated as Morris the Cat!•);
then there's health, space travel,
miraculous folk cures for serious
illness, and so on. No matter how
creep_y the phenomenon, relax!
Everything's under control. It's aU
happened before.
McGuire pulls out more stories:
"Noah's Ark Built by Martians!;"
"RDman Togas Cause Nervous
Breakdowns;""Gay-bashing in Roman Baths," and "Ancestors of
Pontius Pilate Slapped With a
Wrongful Death Suit"-by the enraged ancestors of Jesus Christ.
"Jokes aside, stories likt this do
violence to our undemanding of the
ancient world," he said. "Although
they're amusing and harmless in
general. a certain ignorance on the
pan of readers is required for them
to assign whole civilizations to simplistic cultural categories."
Thousands watching chess?
We must think of the Romans as
brutish imperialist orgiasts, for instance, he said, to be "astonished"
that th ey .. really" poured into the
Coliseum by the thousands to watch
chess, as one tabloid story insists.
"We can see that the tabloids play
off stereotypes to weave insane and
unsubstantial tales that sell papers,"
McGuire said. "At the same time, the
very fakery involved allo\.015 writers
to weave current subterranean preoccupations into the story as a subtle
hook."
He added, "That's why it's possible
to scan these stories over a period
of time and measure broad levds of
20th-century popular culrure and
consciousness ...

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"Send" and you will locate at least 15 anicles on this notable topic.
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Univetsity Archives' Web site for its current exhibi~ "My Dear Mr. Wright"
(http:// ublb.buffolo.edu/Wworles/ unlts/_/ _ _wrlghtl) This
Web site, which accompanies the exhibit on display through Oct. 31 in the
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Korean performers
to present musical medley

The-of- -

musk wiH be experienced on Saturday,
NaY. 15, when the UB Faculty of Arts and l.etlfn IM!k:omes six of Korea's out·
standing perfooners to the stage of Slee Concert HaD on the North Campus.
The program, titled "Korean Music: Tradition and Innovation," will begon
at 8 p.m. It ~ free of charge and open to the public.
C:O.sponsors are The Korea Society of washington, D.C. and the Korean
Culture Program of the Korea Foundation in SEOul. Republic of Korea.
The performance will be an exdting complement to the UB Korean Studies Program, which recently became part of the East Asian Languages and
Cultures section of the Depanment of Modem Languages and Literatures
and is experiencing steady growth due to the increasing popularity of Asian
languages.
Ha&lt;&gt;-Kyung Um, a research fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at Queen's University of Belfast in the United
Kingd9m, will discuss the characteristics of Korean classical and folk music.
The concert will consist of five classical pieces from the 18th and 19th
centuries and three contemporal)' compositioru from the 20th centul)'.

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A love-fest with Carol Burnett on Mainstage
. , I'ATIIICIA doHovAH
News Servkes Editor

S

INGER, actress, comedienne and raconteur Carol

Burnett appeared on the

CFA Mainstage last Thurs-

day evening for "an evening of
laughter and reflection." It was a
love-fest from beginning to end.
Bum~tt was, as always, charming.

gracious, slim, attractive and
honkingly funny. She looks about
400 times better than Mick Jagger,

that's for sure.
The evening began with a largescreen video montage ofscenes from
the 11-yearrunor-TheCamiBumett
Show." Most dips came from the live
audience question-and-answer sessions that opened each program.
These served as an introduction for
those too young to remember
Burnett's early years and recalled how
explosively funny and daring her
show was, and the weinlness of some
members of her live audience.
Burnett then arrived onstage to
a thundering ovation that was a

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to rev Burnett up into a hellz-apoppin' alubition of the narntive
virtuosity that made her a otar.
Some of her best TV characters
made an appearance-shrill
Eunice of"Mama's House;" Patsy,
the "good" twin (Burnett also
played the evil twin )--a space cadet in love with a lighthouse, and
Mrs. Wiggins, the totally stupid
Italy-shaped secretary.
Then there were the film icons
skewered by Burnett and oompany
over the years-Shirley Temple

("Oh, pweeze, won't someone
hewp me find moy daddy?" );
"Gone With the Wind" _'(as

Scarlett, Burnett's dress-madeout-of-the-curtains outfit featured
a drapery rod through the shoulders that nearly beheaded co-star
Harvey Korman),and a hilariously
creepy take-off on the creepy film
"Sunset Boulevard" that became a
classic of sketch comedy.

She offered ailvice to young acto" who questioned her from the
audience: •Get your education,•
and went on with hardheaded rec-

ommendation• for 1urvival in
show business. Burnett graduated
from UCLA, of which she iS now
a trustee, and her legendary charitable endeavors include aeftral
scholarship funds for students of
theater, musical theater and jour-

nalisn
The best~ of the evening
involved descriptions of the antia
of lunatic oomedian T'IDl Conway
who spent decades playing
Burnett (and everyone else) like a
pian.o onstage and oft: There isn't

room to repeat the tales of

Burnett's beloved granny, who
raised her in a one-room apart-

memoir, "One More Tune" ( 1986)
a read. Our lives should all turn

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Comedy, football, tours, lectures slated for the UB family
S~rvk~

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performance by comedian and
M1V' personality Bill Bellamy, a
mini-parade in UB Stadium and,
of course, a football game matching the Bulls against the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen will highlight UB's Family and Homeooming Weekend slated for Oct_ 24-26.
The weekend events will include the announcement of the winning entry in the
"Name the Bull" mascot contest, the crowning of a homeoomingkingand queen, and bonfire and carnival on the shores'of lake 1.aSalle.
Nso scheduled are lectures, a tour ofUB's
old-time apothecary, concerts, a kid-oriented haunted castle "bounce house" at UB
Stadium, as well as prizes and contests.
Bellamy, who prides himself on being a
stand-up comic who entertains his audiences without resorting to vulgarity, will
perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, in
Alumni Arena on the North Campus.

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Conway's torture-by-wit of his costars, his (now ex-) wife, traffic
oops, stodgy bridge-obsessed dinner guests, but most in the audience laughed until they cried.
Then _there were the tales of

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and used to check under the
Murphy bed every night for
Randolph Scott. Granny had "at
least rix husbands," Burnett said,
and when abe died at 81, herboyfriend was a 40-year-old ja.u: musician in Ronondo
Burnett's career has featured
hundreds of &lt;xceptional stage,
film and television performances
in comedic, dramatic and muaical roles, for which she has received dozena of preatisious
awards; five Golden Globes, a
Peabody, an A«, more People's
Choice Awards than any woman
in history and rix Emmys, including one this year for her recurring
role in the NBC comedy "Mad

Special guests will be The Buffalo Chips
and the UB Step Troupe .
The performance, presented by the Office
of Student Life, is sponsored by the Student Association and the University
Union Activities Board.
A portion of the proceeds
will benefit UB's SEFA
campaisn.
Tickets, which are $12 in
advance and $14 at the
door, are available through all Ticketmaster
locations, Doris Records and 221 Student
Union on the North Campus, and by phone
at 852-5000. UB students will receive a $2
discount.
An admirer of Bill Cosby and a 1981f economics graduate of Rutgers University,
Bellamy is known as host of "MTV Jams,"
as well as for appearances on HBO's "'Def
Comedy Jam,""The Arsenio Hall Show" and
in comedy clubs and televised specials.

And hey, she's still going! She
and daughter Carrie Hamilton

• Student Association Homecoming camlval and bonfire, 6 p.m.
to midnight, shore of Lake LaSalle
adjacent to the UB Bookstore,
North Campus
• Performance by the Zodiaque
Dance Co., presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance,
8 p .m., Center for the Arts Drama
Theatre, North Campus

Events set for Saturday,
Oct. 25, Include:
• Lecture entitled • Are You a
Smart· Shopper, • by Arun Jain,
Samuel P. Capen Professor and
chair of the Department of Marketing, 11-11 :50 a .m., Student
Union Theatre, North Campus
•rours of the pharmacy museum
and apothecary, the Center for the
Arts and the earthquake-simulating shake table in Ketter Hall.
• Bulls vs. Hofstra Flying Dutchmen, 1:30 p .m., qB Stadium,
North Campus; half-time parade
featurif!g student various clubs
and organizations, and the crowning of the Homecoming king and
queen

Events scheduled for
Sunday, Oct. 26, Include:
• Farewell brunch from 10 a.m.
to 12:30 p .m ."in Pistachio's in the
Student Union on the North Campus and a soccer match pitting the
Bulls against the Central Connecticut Blue Devils at 1 p.m. on the
soccer field behind the UB Stadium scoreboard.

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The Bulls didn't ' - enoug11 eq&gt;erience "" clefonse tD deol with the No. I
YDI.W1pt0Wn Suta Pon£u1ns on Oct. II .
The Bulls U&gt;iled just 24-17 late in the third ............ but hod their spirits
brobn by • ion&amp; Penzuin touchdown dmo uY~-.&lt; on"' 152- 17

win In Samba~~(~&gt; Sodium.

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responcllrc with t1H-H stniclrt !DUChdowns tD take a24-l 4 lead. uti O'lllied
before hatfdme wkh a 29-yan:f field p i to cut the lead to 24-17 at tatftime.
Howo..r.lote lo the th;rd .........- the f'en&amp;W1s toOl&lt; the lead ll - I 7, and
went on to score 21 ~ points .

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Oct. 31 In the Univef'sity Archives. -420
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Exhibit b ava~ on the web at http://

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overall with a time of 19:02 in the 5()()().meur run. The men's tam finished
third out of I 0 teams In the Albany Invitational with 83 points. Freshtnan Ryan
Guifd finished ninth in the race with a time of 27:18 in the 80()()...me(.er run.

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annual Albany Invitational held Oct. I I. F...r.n.n Eileen Rose finished IOth

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The Buns 'tYeOt 3-0 In the Mtd-Continent Ouster" hekf Oct. 10-12 in AJumni
Arena. On Oct.IO.Buflalo lcnocbd off 'hlponlso In louo- prnes. IS-6. 14-1 6.
15-9,1S.IO. On Oct. II the Bulls laced CAntril Connectiatt and deleated the
Lady Blue Dmls in three pme:s. 15-13 , IS-2. 16-14.The BuUs dosed out the
Ouster by defeati"IYoungstown Sate in four pmes, 15-12.15-3. 9- 15 , IS-10.

Golay. The Sa-*'9 -... 112 Cenl&lt;r
for tho Ms. Nonh c.m.,us. 4 p.m.

the Jomes Dyett 'Gal~e&lt;y:J1s Hayes Hall,

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to~ the university commumty In a

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dialogue about contemporary art and
Issues, Is on displly in the Center for the
Alb and at sites on the North Campus
through July 1998. For l'1"ttO'e information, all tho UB M Gallefy, 645-6912.

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Freshman cross-rountry runner lly8G COuUcl 6nished ninth in
the Albany Invitational on Oct. II with a time of27:18 in the
men'S sooo·~metef fUD ,
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Services w ere held Oct. 9 in Antioch Missio nary Baptist Church
for Carl Louis Evans Grant, chair of the medical staff at Sheehan
Memorial Hospital and a clinical instructor in medicine at the School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Gran t died Oct. 5 m Millard
Fillmore Suburban Hospital after a short illness. He was 46.

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Joseph Boyce, M.S. Cand~e. lJB
Dept. of Pharmaceutics. S08 Cooke.

Sepior middle hitter ltathy ....,.worth was named the player
of the. w~k for her acmmplishments in the Mid-Continent
Ouster held Oct 10-12 in Alumni Arena. Brinkworth led the
Bulls to three conferena: yictories against Valparaiso, Central
Connecticut and Youngstown State. She rtcorded 37 kills, 35
digs, 10 blocks and a .403 hitting pe=tage in II games.

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The Bulls lost a tough contest Oct. II to Mid-Con opponent Centnl
Connecticut Sate. O-J in overtime.The Bulls also k&gt;st. Oct. 12 to Howard.l-0.

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ThenueiYes," o c.ollection of wori&lt; by UB
art ~ts. will be on disp'ay Oct. 23
through Nov. 1-4 ln the Art Dtpartment
Gallet')', Center for the Arts on the North
Campus. Callefy hours are 10 a.m.-5
p.m . Tuesda~ 10 a.m...S p.m. Wed~~:£"!
and 11 a.m ...a p .m .

Soccer
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Director of Laboratory Animal

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2- 1 vktory over Cobnbia on Oct. I I. On Oct. 12. the Bulls were not as
fortunate , losing to Dartmouth. one of the Northeast rqion's top turns. -4-0.

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artist Usa Hein h
h Nov. 7 In the UB Art
CaUety's second
exhibition room In
the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Gal~ hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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UB medical sch ool, Grant attended Mansi C ol -

era ted a clinic at 305 Perry St. and made house calls. He was a staff
member at Buffalo Gene ral Hospital and the Erie Count y Medical
Center.
In 1992, Grant received the UB BiomedicaJ Sciences Co mmenda ·
tion for T~achin g Excellence.
He was a m~mber of the American Medical Association, the Ameri·
can Ana tomical Association and the Educa tio nal Research Board.

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exallence, divmity in CFA programs.

'AGI' Mortar marvel
lk:t!D!r 9, 1!117I'M 29. No.7

Latte,
please
campuses. Here, she serves
up a four-star coffee to
Karen Fien, a post-doctoral
student in the Department
of Mkrobiology. (See story
on new campus coffee spots
on Page 3.)

Earthquake center gets $10 million grant
Berkeley, minois join UB as National Science Foundation expands research efforts

T

HE Unive"ityat Buffulo's

National Ce nter for

Earthquak&lt; Engineering
Research {NCEER) has
been awarded a $10 million grant
by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a Center for
Advanced Technologies in Earthqual« Loss Reduction .
The award brings to more than
$56 million the total funding that
NCEER bas been awarded by the
NSF since the ce nter was established in Septemb&lt;r 1986 by the

NSF, following a nationwide competition.

The five-year grant, the third received by NCEER from the NSF,

will support a program to study
the application of advanced and
emerging technologies to minimize earthquake damage and
losses nationwide.
It is part of a
$30 million commitment by the
federal agency to

expand earthquake research
through
the
funding of three
earthquake-engineering research centers. The oth ers-the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, headquartered at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Mid·
Ameri"' Earthquake Center, headquartered at the University of lllinois, Urbana-Champaign-art
being funded for the first tim e
under the new system.

The grants were announced
Tuesday by the NSF in Washington, D.C.
In announcing the gran ts, Will-

iam A. Anderson, director of the
NSF's Earthquak&lt; Mitigation Program, said, "These new centers are
needed to extend our understand -

ing of the impacts of seismic
events on buildings, roads,
bridges, energy sources and other
compone nts of our buih environment and societal insdtutions.
"The knowledge gained through
these research centers and shared
wit h enginee rs, architects and
planners will help reduce hazards
and save lives."

NCEER reaches around g lob&lt;
Since its founding, NCEER has
operated as a consortium that an nually has involved the participation of close to 100 researchers at
institutions in the U.S. and around
the glob&lt;, including Berkeley and
Illinois.
In its 11 -yea r histo ry, NCEER
has successfully leveraged S46 mil·
lion in NSF funds to attract additional support totaling more than
S110 million for res~arch, educa-

tioh and outreach programs. It has
received more than $26 million in
matching funds from New York
State to support its work. to minimize the impact of earthquakes on
the nation's built environment.
Major funding has included S 14.2
million from the Federal Highway
Administration to conduct seismic
resea rch on highways and their
components.
Considerable knowledge and
technology developed through
NCEER's programs have been put
into practice.
According to Director George C.
Lee, NCEER's emphasis on net working across insti tut ions and
disciplines has been integral to its
success and led to NSF awardjng
it a third round of funding, and
funding an additional two earth quake-engineering research cen ters.

.. NSF is sending a strong signal
that the concept of center-funded
earthquake-engineering research
pioneered by NCEER has proven
to be an effective way to develop
methods of mitigating the damage
wrought by earthquakes ," Lee
added.
Gains recognition for UB

The S30 million commitment by
NSF was praised in a joint statement issued by UB President William R. Greiner, ChanceiJor Roben
M. Berdahl of Berkeley, and ChanceUor Michael Aiken of Illinois.
They said the $30 million com·
mitment to their institutions by the
NSF"will substantially enhance our
abilities to develop effective strategies for further reducing the loss of
life and major physical devastation
from future seismic shocks."

NSF decision will bolster scientific efforts'

President, chancellors issue statement
Th~ following

is the joint stntement on NSF's award·
ing of$30 million to three earthqunke centers, issued
by Chancellor Roberr BerdJlhl oft~ Univ&lt;rsityofCalifornia at Berlcdey, President William R Greiner ofthe
University at Buffalo, mrd Chancellor Michael Aiken
of tht University of 11/inoi5, Urbana-Champaign.
The PMtlonal Sdence Founct..tlon '5 decision to ex-

tend and expand its support of earthquake-engineering research will bolster the ongoing scientific efforts at the University of California at Berkeley, the
University at Buffalo and the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign to mitigate the potentially dev·
astating effects of earthquakes around the world.
Through its commitmen t of $30 million over the
next five years to fund basic research and public ow reach at Berkeley, Buffalo and Illinois, NSF assures
that we will b&lt; able to build on the progress already
made by our institutions. and other institutions with
which we work as a consortium. These funds will
substantially enhance our abilities to develop effec-

tive strategies for further reducing the loss oflife and
major physical devastation from future seismic
shocks.
While earthquakes cannot be" prevented, research ·
ers at o ur institutions have shown already that we
can build structures that will withstand quakes of
h.igh magnitudes; we can retrofit existing buildings.
bridges and h.ighways to minimize their vulnerabil ity to quakes, and we can improve the design and
construction of the vital Linkages on which our com ·
merce and life-support systems depend.
There is much yet to be accomplished 10 th1s tield
of scientific inquiry. Berkeley, Buffalo and !Uin01s are
prepared to provide the research leadership that " 'ill
ultimately benefit people throughout the globe and
place the United States at the fo refront of sctent ific
progress in earthquake-hazard mitigation. NSF's
investment will b&lt; returned many-fold through the
prevention of earthquake damage that can easil y
climb into the billions of dolla" and the loss of lift
that never can be" measured in financial terms.

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administralor, he has managed a
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theaters and served as a theater
management consultant to several
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rector of theater operations and assistant to the dean of the Yale School
o f Drama a nd the Yale Repertory Theatre Company.

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Westem New York7 What niche
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By demonstrating through our
programming choices that in our
search for excellence, diversity and
experiences that challenge, we are
addressing our primary mandate:
to enhance; to make positive contributions to the education of stu·
dents. We seek to complemenlnot to compete.
The center provides interaction
between Buffalo and Western New
York professionals and students in
theater, dance, music and the visual arts. It offers cutting-edge a ·
cellence in its dance series; shares
master classes, training with Buffalo schools of dance and dance
education in a residence/outreach
program. It also offers multi-cultural performances, lectures and
artists not offered anywhere else in
the community.

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anced program that includes music, theater and dance; events
unique to the community; pro grams that encourage the active
participation of students such as
our artists-in-residence programs;
financial responsibility; programs
and even ts that reasonably can be
expected to break even at an acceptable price in a 1,750-seat the·
ater; opport unities for mutually
desirable partnerships with other

presenters, i.e., Shea's Performing
Arts Center, UUAB, Pick of the
Crop and the Buffalo Philhar·
monic.
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sity, affordability, perceived value
educationally, innovative, multi cultural.

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related to the expense of the
events-and we are making specially priced student tickets avail·
able for all events this year.
The center receives no governmental support other than partial
salary support. W&lt; are a self-sup·
porting venue, earning our total
expense budget from our rentals
and our ticket sales. We provide for
the cost of four fully produced
showcases.for the Department of
Theatre and Dance each year and
our earned revenue allows fOr the
presentation of five international
art exhibits in the center gallery.

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former that yOu personally
would love to see at the c ...t e r
for tiM Arts7
I would like to have Morgan Free·
man appear here with the Buffalo
Philharmonic, reading •A Lincoln
Portrait.•

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remarkable ·facility is .. student
friendly;" that many of the stude.nt
clubs/auociations utillu the cen·
ter for their cultural presentationsi
that we are encouraging and will
schedule lunchtime entertainment
and creative student projects in the
atrium j that we now have special
student prices for aU performance
events; that joining the large vol·
unteer core of ushers and tickettakers is a wonderful Way to see
many performances free.

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seasoq,. O.anging the image of this ·
venue will not happen overnight-our main goal is to fill
seats and to have everyone stand
up and take notice of the center's
efforts.
Our renlal activity forms a good
base to begin meeting the basic
operating expenses. Weare &lt;Xplor·
ing many other revenue-generat·
ing activities (gift shop, incrra.sed
concessions, etc.). The success of
this year's presentations will influence next season's undertakinp.

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cert Season. Toronto's O'Keefe have renewed opportunities to inCentre was a great presentation . troduce the concept of attending
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By LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

T

HE Division of Student Affairs last
week launched a search-and-destroy
mission against racist graffiti on the

North Campus, followingstud&lt;nt
criticism that UB 's administration had acted
too slowly in removing a racist slogan
painted on a Knox Hall entranceway.
Customer -~ rvice pe rsonnel were di spatched Thursday and Friday to 15 sites
where offending messages had been sighted
and reported following a Sept. ~0 Student
Association -sponsored forum to air the graffiti issue.
De.nnis Black, interim vice president for
student affairs, and John Greta, director of
the Department of Public Safety, apologized
for th e lack of sufficient follow-thro ugh on
the initial incident, and asked for students'
~clp in reporting the location of other racist graffiti.
"We want them gon&lt;." Black told the au·
dience of 100-plus students, faculty and staff
at the for um . "They don't belong in our
communjty,"
Grela said public safety sent an officer
immediately to investigate the Knox Hall
complaint, but the officer didn't find the of·
fending graffiti on initial inspection. A sec·

.ond inspection turned up the racist slogan
and it was removed, he said.
Hoping to streamline the reporting pro cess, Black distributed a new .. Bias-Related
Graffiti Immediate Response Form" that he
said will be reproduced in the Spectrum and
will be available wid&lt;ly on campus to report
exact locations of racist slogans. Reports sub·
mitted to his office will go immediately to
public safety for documentation and then to
customer service for removal, he sajd, Students also .can report graffiti sightings viaemail to Rice@msmail.buffalo.edu
Although quick removal of existing graf·
fiti was the most pressing issue, student leaders asked for an airing of a broader question:
How to deal with the issue of racism in general on campus and discourage its expression?
Student comments about the graffiti
ranged from th&lt; pragmatic, to the hopeful,
to a call for more education on diversity:
• .. This is a large university where you get
a little bit of everything. Learn to cope with
it."

• "'We're not going to get people to stop
writing this stuff, but we can't let what they
write divide us."
• .. People come here to be educated.
When this (racist graffiti] happens, they ar&lt;

not learning. Faculty can help by teaching us
what's importanL•
SeveriU students asked for more discussion
of racism in their classes and for the required
"American Pluralism• course to include the
UB experi&lt;nce. They also asked for faculty '
to take a more active role in discouraging racism.
The question of student involvement also
was raised: "'We need to take responsibility
for w~at is ours and protect it; one student
speaker commented. ·we need to speak up
as a community against racism." She suggested that some type of rally at homecom·
ing might be effective.
Michael Stokes, co-chair of the UB Com·
mittee for the Promotion of Tolerance and
Diversity. pointed out that his committee
published guidelines for reporting bias·re·
lated incidents in 1995. The committee meets
regularly to discuss issues such as these, he
said, noting that the meetings are not well
attended by students.
Following the forum, Black said the up·
coming meeting of the Committee for the
Promotion ofTolerance and Diversity would
be devoted to reviewing the 1995 guidelines
and malting recommendations for including
sections on education and response to reports.

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DrieD
Tomasi, Hyman to be honored
at
Convocation Oct 15 New student housing to be
system laid the foundation for his
work on retroviruses and immune

SUNY honorary degree
will be presented to
Thomas B. Tomasi.
fo rmer president and
" chief executive officer o f Roswell

disorders, as weU as for the future
research of hundreds of other sci-

A

entists.
Greiner, Headrick and law

school Dean Barry B. Boyer will

Parle Cancer Institute, when UB
holds its third ~nnual Uni~ersity
Convocation at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the

Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
A recognition award for 50 years of service to the
university wiU be presented to Jacob B. Hyman, pro-

fessor oflaw and former dean of the School of Law.
Also to be honored are 1M UB fuculty members recmtly named SUNY Distinguished Professors and UB
fuculty and staff members who earlier this year were
named recipients of the SUNY Olancellor's Award for
o:cdlena in the areas of t&lt;aching.librariaruhip and professional servia:.
The convocation will open with an academic pro-

=sion,and will be declared open by Peter A. Nickmon,
professor of pathology and chair of the Faculty Senate,
who will be macebearer. Greetings will be offered by
Provost Thomas E. Headrick, SUNY Distinguished
Servia: Professor in the School ofl..aw. Oosing remarks
will be presented by President William R. Greiner, professor of law.
Keynote speakers will be Bruce H. Jackson, SUNY
Distinguished Professor in the Department of English
and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture,
and 5argur N. Srihari, S
Distinguished Professor
in the Department of
puler Science and director
of the Center of ExceUe for Document Analysis and
Recognition.

Gardner to confer hon rary doctorate

Arnold B. Gardner, am her of the SUNY Board
of Trw tees, will confer the honorary doctorate in
science on Tomasi, who hea ed Roswell Park from
1
1986 until February 1997.
To masi continues to be active in research at the
nation's first cancer center for research, treatment
and edu cation. His le3dC:rship legaCy includes renewal o f the vision of the center's founder, the late

Roswell Park, through expansion of the facility's
community-service role and repositioning its clinical and academic programs. Described as dynamic,

dedicated and energetic, Tomasi established a positive and aggressive vision for Roswell Park. insisting
on and fighting for progress, demanding exceUence
and promoting teamwork and thoughtful planning.
His discovery in the 1970s of the mucosal immune

present the recognition award to

Hyman.
Known as a "teacher, a scholar and a gentleman,"
Hyman came to UB in 1946 after five years in private
practice and six in government service.

Named the lOth dean of the UB law school in 1953,
he helped lead the then-private University of Buffalo
through its merger with the State University of New

York and helped make UB the leading comprehensive university it is today.

Hyman stepped down as dean alia II years and since then
has~innoYa!M:prog;.unstoprovidea&lt;:t:5tomern­
bers of undenepres&lt;nted groups who seck to en tor the legal

protes:sion.Alegendaryt&lt;ach&lt;randHarvardgraduate,bewas
the first non-alumnus to rro:iYe the )aeckle Award, the UB
law school's highest honor, in 1983.
Re&lt;ognltlon for Distinguished Professors
Also being rerognized at the """"t will be 6"" fuculty
members re=tlynamed Distinguished Professors, the highest fucultyrankin the SUNY system, by the SUNY Board of
Trustees. They are·SUNY Distinguished l'ltli=&gt;rs Para. N.
Prasad of the Department of Olemislry and diredor of the
Photonics Rtseanh l.aboratory, and 5rihari; SUNY DiWtguishedServia: ~ Pder H. Hare ofthe Department of
PhihsophyandChareiV.~OCtheDepartmentofl'l¥i­

ology. and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Proli=r Diane R.
Ou:istian of the Department ofEnglish.
Ten faculty and staff members who received the SUNY
ChaoceUor's Awards for exceUence also will be honored.
Recogniud for exceUence in teaching will be Shahid
Ahmad, associate professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering; Michael P. Long, associate professor of music, and 'IIiantafilos ). Mountziaris, associate
professor ofchemical engineering. Honored foro:cdlence
in librarianship will.be Edward Herman, associate librarian, J..ockwood Llbri.ry; GlendOra Johnson-Cooper, associate librarian, undergraduate library, and Nancy A. Schiller,
associate librarian, science and engineering hbrary.
Recogniud for excdlence in professional service will
be Martha A. Barton, assistant dean in the Faculty of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Sandra ). Fazekas,
staff associate/events coordinato r for the Center for the
Arts; Maryanne L Mather, instructional support technician in the Department of P~riodontics, and Leonard
F. Snyder, associate vice president and controUer.

·eoffee 'spots' bubble up on campus
Fifth location to open soon in Undergraduate Library
BY llllEHT CUHNINCiHAM
Report..- Staff

till drinking coffee from a
creaky old pot? A more ex-

S

otic alter n ative may be

closer !han you think. Not

counting the gourmet coffee avail-

able in haUway kiosks, UB has four
locations that carry espresso, foam 1
mochas and syrup~ A fifth location

will open soon in the Undergraduate Library.
Robin Cornwell runs two of the
four spots under the name "Metro
Express," and she has contracted

with the Faculty Student Association ( FSA) to run the new cafe
coming in the near future to th e
ground floor of the Oscar A.
Silverman Undergraduate Library

in Ca pen Hall.
In addition to ComweU's services,
there is a ooffee bar on the 1Oth floor
of Goodyear Hall on the South
Campus and a Starbuck's acroSS·

,from the Student Union on the
North Campus.

The coffee spots include:
• Metro Express, North Campus:
Located in the atrium on the ground
floor of Park HaU, this centrally located cafe features espresso drinks,
hot chocolate, Twining teas, bak&lt;d
goods and stir-sticks 1/lat are actuaUy uncooked fettuccini (for the environmentally-conscious). Chairs

and tables are spread throughout the
atrium. Co rnwell buys freshly
roasted coffee hearts from Premier
Gourmet in Buffalo and baked
goods from A Sweet Ending in
North java. She serves from 7:45
a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and 7:45a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Friday.
• Metro Express. South Campus:
Located in the lobby of the Biomedical Education Building. ComweU's
second cart offers the same products
as the finl The location is bright,
airy and comfortable. It is open from
7:30a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
• Goodyear 10, South Campus:
Run by Mike Hodge on behalf of the

FSA, Goodyear 10 offers espresso,
regular and flavored coffee, candy,
Celestial Seasoning teas and bak&lt;d
good s. It features unobstructed
views of Buffalo to the east and west,

aod comfortable chairs and couches
in a library-like atm osphere. Their
coffee is supplied by McCullagh.
Students, staff and faculty can read,
drink and eat from 3 p.m. to mid night seven days a week.
• Starbucks, North Campus: The
most visible gourmet coffee vendor
on campus,Starbucks is also the most
popular. It features espresso drinks,
Frappuccinos. lnfusia teas and baked
goods. lWice a week in the earl y
evening, usually on Tuesday and

Thursday, Starbucks offers live music free of chaige. They take great
pride in their coffee beans, carefully
selected from around the world and
roasted in Pennsylvania. Their hours
are from 6:30a.m. to II p.m. Mon day through Wednesday, 6:30a.m. to
midnight Thursday and Friday, 8
a.m. to midnight Saturday and 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m. on Sunday.

built as Pataki signs legislation
New student housing will become a reality on the North Campus
for the first time since the J970s, thanks to legislation signed re·
cently by Gov. George Pataki. Construction of apartment-style units
will begin in 1998, with occupancy expected in Fall 1999.
The legislation allows co nstruction on two sites: a parcel located
between the University Bookstore and Audobon Parkway, and a parcel located between Hadley Road and the Audobon Parkway, across

from the Cooke-Hochstetter complex.
Michael Dup re, interim associate vice president for university fa cilities, said that both sites will be developed as soon as possible ,
with construction on at least one s.ite, "if not both," expect!!d to be gin b y next summer. Occupancy is expected in Fall 1999.
"UB is very glad to have the suppo rt of o ur legislators and the
governor in passing this bill," said President William R. Greiner. "Giv ing us the authority to build the first new housing on our campus
sin ce the early '70s is a great leap forward in improving quality of
life for our undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
"Realizing the long-laid plan of a thriving residential communit y
on our North Campus will help to build the true sp iri t and essence
of academic community,.. Greiner said ... By bringing a cri tical mass
o f collegiate residents together, we'll be able to create a safer. more
productive learning environment, and strengthen US's dynamic vi tality by integrating living and learning into a truly top- flight uni vers ity experience."
Under the terms of the special bill approved by the state Legisla ture and signed by Pataki , the SUNY trustees will lease land to the
UB Foundation, whi ch will bid out the construction work and then
contract with the university to manage the apartments.

The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Mary Lou Rath, R-Williamsville,
and Assemblyman Paul A. Tokasz., D-CheeJ..~owaga. Rath and Tokasz
will be hono red for their support of UB at a breakfast sponsored by
the Legislative Action Comm ittee of the UB Alumni Association on

Oct. 23.
I

Award-winning engineer,
bridge designer to speak
Award-winning engineer T. Y. Lin, often called "the greatest struc-

tural engineer in the world," has been internationally renowned for nearly
50 yean. His designs for functional and beautiful bridges, buildings and
other public works unify Eastern and Western philosophies and aesthetic principles. The foremost developer of pre-stressed concrete, he
has used the revolutionary material to push building technology beyond existing limits, not only in bridges, but in arenas, conVention fa cilities and other long-span structures of surpassing lightness and grace.

Lin will present two talks at UB next week, both free and open to the
public
Thursday, Oct. 16: "Interaction Between Architecture and Engineering,"at 5:30p.m. in 105 Harriman Hall on the South Campus., as part of
the faU lecture series sponsored by the School of Architecture and Plan ning. For information, call829-3485, ext. 120.
Friday, Oct 17: "Creative Engineering for Bridges and Buildings," at 3
p.m. in Screening Room 112 in the Center for the Arts on the North
Campus., a Distinguished Speaker Seminar Lecture hosted by the Department of Civil, Struct ural and Environmental Engineering and the
Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs. For
information, call, 645·21 14, ext. 2400.
Lin, an American-educated civil engineer, served from 1933-46 as
chief bridge engineer and chief design engineer for the Chinese Government Railways, designing more than l ,000 bridges and culverts for
railroad companies.
In 1946, he returned to the U.S. to teach at his alma mater, the Uni versity of California at Berkeley, where he was the m ainstay. and now
professor emeritus, in one of the world's leading engineerin g faculties.
Among his notable achievements is Minnesota's Mississippi River

Bridge, whose central arch is flanked by two half-arches that give it a
carefree fluidity. In Costa Rica, Lin's Colorado River Bridge has its arch
inverted into the shape of a sm ile. In Singapore, his work can be seen in
an unusual bridge at the Safti Military Institute in Tuas. It is a tOOmeter curved bridge that is hung from only one pier and seems to be
suspended in the air.
He is responsible for the design of many major bridges so bold m

concept that they have yet to be built. One is the proposed poetic des1gn
for the Ruck-a-Chucky Bridge in the Sierra hills, a bridge whose slen·
der, curved 1.300-foot deck is designed to be hung from cables anchored
in the surrounding mountainsides, allowipg it to curve freely above the

gorge of the American River. Other spectacular Lin designs include a proposed 55-mile-long bridge across the Bering Strait and the UN-sponsored
link between Spain and Morocoo that involves twin 16,000-foot spans.
Lin was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and recently
received the highest award presented by the American Institute of Architecture, a rare feat for an engineer.

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Earthquake center

Greiner praised NCEER for its
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"During its first decade, NCEER
bas been a ddining mocld of a stellar academic research center for the
21st century," Greiner said. "It has
created international information
resources, trained new hazardmitigation engineers, advanced
our knowledge of special engineering techniques and helped to retrofit existing structures. At the
same time, these activities have
enabled NCEER to bdp create related economic opportunities for
firms in Western New York and
elsewhere in the u.s.·
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"We think that's how it works:

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knowledge, passing it on to today's
practitioners and future experts,
and using it to improve the quaJ ity of life for people around the
region, state and nation,'" be continued. "NCEER bas done all of
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challenge of devel oping sound engineering and disastermanagement solu. tions that are also
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O&lt;rUrring in the U.S., including those
in 1989 in the San Francisa&gt; Bay area
and in 1994 in Northridge, Cali£, as
well as those in other countries, such
as in Kobe, Japan, in 1995.

"We are proud that the NSF has
included NCEER in this new national earthquake-engineering research consortium. The center has
been a leader-it will continue to
be a leader and to take a leadership role irl forming important
new endeavors in the field."
Mark Karwan, dean of the
School of Engineering and Ap plied Sciences, noted, "NCEER
means a tremendous amount to
our school of engineering, to our
faculty researchers, most of whom
are in our Department of Civil,
Structural and Environmental Engineering, and to the education of
our students. This center of excellence helps us gain reoognition as
the great institution we are," said
Karwan.
Lee said that under its latest NSF
grant, NCEER will intensify its research program in three key areas:
quantifying the earthquake threat
by developing methods to better
estimate losses from future earthquakes; exploring and developing
new technologies, such as highpmormance oomputing, sensors
Many International efforts
and intelligent/smart materials, to
Other international efforts have
strengthen critical buildings and
included an NSF-funded, multilifelines to better withstand earthyear joint project between NCEER
quakes, and improving the effecand the International Center for
tiven ess of emergency response
Disaster-Mitigation Engineering
and crisis management through
at the University of Tokyo, and an
the use of advanced technologies.
e:xchange program involving re"While earthquakes are inevisearchers from the U.S. and the
table natural hazards, they do not People's Republic of China .
have to be inevitable natural di. NCEERalsohasplayoda major role
sasters,• said lee.
in broadening the product base ofsev"NCEER has in large part re - eral Western New York busiilesses.
vealed the great promise that new
In addition to its broad research
technology offers in reducing loss programs, NCEER functions as a
of life and property from earth- unique educational resource for
quakes. WeareapprecialMand proud undergraduate and graduate stu10 I&gt;= been given this opportunity
dents at institutions throughout
to further explore the frontiers of the center's network.. To date, 1~
technology and to accelerate its earthquake engineers have received
development and implementation their doctorates after participating
toward a future that is much safer in NCEER-supported research.
from earthquake destruction."
"These graduaU5 are now shaping
In addition to UB, other institu- the seismic-protection technologies
and
policies of the future at engineertions taking part in the NCEER
program include Cornell Univer- ing linns, llllivecities and public agensity, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- cies around the world," said Lee.
For further information about
tute, the Disaster Research Center
at the University of Delaware, EQE NCEER, go to the center's Web site
Center for Advanced Planning and at hnp://nceer.eng.buff•lo.edu

Many accompliShments
inNCEERs 11 years
11M ___, c-t..- for l!arthquah Enginening Research, b..dquartered at UB, has clirect&lt;d nearly SilO million toward rueatch and education provams in iu t 1-y&lt;ar history. Much of the knowledgr and t&lt;chnology developed through NCEER's programs has been put into practice. Its accompli..thmmu indude:
• AJ a result of NCEER research, major buildinp in California bavr
been retrofitted to reduce the risk of eartbquah damage. They include
the Santa Clan County Building in San )01&lt;, the historic U.S. Court of
Appcal.s building in San FranciJco and a U.S. Navy building in San Diego.
• The new San FranciJCO airport terminal, now unc:ler construction,
is being built with Ki.sm.ic-protcction devices that were aten.sively tested
at NCEER; it will
be the la'lest haseUolated structure
in the world.

• NCEERwao a
leadingad-.oc:ateand
todJnicol adviso.- lOr
a building code in·
dudins stUmic provisions for new
buildings that wa.s
(llaCled in New Yorlt
City in 1995.
• Ce-nter reJCalchtn haYe pla)ed
major roles in retDO naisance diOrts fiJIlowing major U.S.
&lt;anhqualces. including thooe ocxurring
in 1989 in tM San
Francisco S.y area
and in 1994 in
Northridt!t. Cali£, as
well as thotr ocx:urring in other countries. including tht
1995 earthqualc&lt; in
Kobe, japan.

• NCEER ~par·
ticipatinginanNSFfunded, multi-y&lt;ar

join! project with the
lnt&lt;mabonal Center
lOr Disast&lt;r-Mitiption~al

the lJnMnity ofTolq&lt;&gt;.
• Oostrto home, NCEER has played a major rolt in broadening tbt product base of sev&lt;ral Western New York busintsses:
-A partnership with Taylor Devices, a Tonawanda defense contractor, led to the defense firm developing a new nondefense market by modifying military technologies for seismic protection ofbuiJ~gs and other
structures.
- NCEER researchrn developed a "smart" c:arthquak&lt;-protection system that has been licensed to Enidine, lnc., of Orchard Park, which obtained a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency to further develop the technology for earthquake protection and
navaJ applications.
-A joint project bt:tween NCE.ER, Taylor Devices and Moo&amp;. Inc.,
involved developing active ftuid dampers to reduce earthquake vibrations in structures by combining technologies originally devtloptd for
the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
• Thn:e NCEER projects in and around Mtmphis, Tenn., which lies within
tbt New Madrid &amp;ultzoO&lt;, brought tog&lt;!I=Stismologists. mtmbtn of sevtralmgintcringdiscip~sodologistsand=nomiststoquantifythetartb­
qualc&lt; threat and develop a univ&lt;nal methodology to estimate direct losses
10 the built mvironmm~ and indim:t. «onClftlic losses that would occur with a
major earthquake.
• Researchen working on the NCEER Building Projtct haY&lt; devdoped
methods for evaluating and rehabilitating concrete and masonry structures
that W"ert not designed for seismic forces. structwt:S that are common in the
ccntr.t! and eastern U.S.
• Studies in San Francisco and the Memphis area have focused on the
earthquake threat to Ufelines, the network of systems that disperse energy
and water and prOvide transportation, td«:ommunk:ations and other critical services throughout population centers. offering strategies to reduce vulntrobility to these systems.
• N.CE£R functions as a unique educational resowu for undergraduate
and graduate students at instiNtions throughout 1M anter's network. To
datt, ISO c:arthqualc&lt; engineers haY&lt; r=iY&lt;d their doctorates after partici·
pating in NCEER-&lt;uppotted restarch. .

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Academic Planning Committee to study vote procedures

Music education on FSEC agenda
. , SUE WUETOtEII
News Services As:sodate Director

T

HE Academic Planning
Committee of the Faculty Senate bas been
asked to report by Nov.
I whether proper procedum were
foUowed when faculty members in
the Department of Music voted to
drop the bachelor's-degree program in music education.
The issue was refemd to the onmmittcebytheFacultySeoaleE=utive
Committee 11 its Oct. I meeting after
rea:iving a request for coonsd on the
issue from Provost Thomas E.
Headrick. Headrick told FSEC memben that while he was "very strongly
inclined" to endorse the proposal from
the department to "plan the future of
the department" without music education as part of the curriculum, he
wanttd advice from the FSEC before
making a final decision.
The music department recently
V&lt;lle&lt;l!s-2. with three abstentions and
r..u fucultymernben not voting. to no

longer offer a badlelor'!Kiegree program in music education. Undergraduates who want to pur.ruc
as music teachers would have to earn
a bachelor of arts degree in music and
be ce rtified in music education
the Graduate School ofEdution. (S.mlnted story below).
The issue of music edueation has
been a divisM one within thedepartt. Headrick and ~ senators

=

side e university weighing in on the
issue, many through opinion pi&lt;=
pub ·
in The Buffalo News.
FSEC members split 10-6 on
whether to !&lt;fer the issue to the /V::ademic Planning Committee and what
specific charge. if any, to give to the
oommittee. Some senators felt that
there clearly had been "fuU and oompleteoonsuhation"arnongthedepartmcnt lilculty and betw.cn the lilculty

was no need for the sonate to get inYDived. Otbm fdt that it was importanti&gt;rthe...-toeosurethatprop&lt;r
prooedures had been~ especiaDywhen sud&gt; a decisionoould have
a broader impact on the unM:rsity
than just at the departmentollevcl.
" I think we owe it to tlie faculty
to be sure that there bas been adequate consultation and that they,
in turn, can articulate that to the
university community. That iJ an

important part of the process,"
said Faculty Senate Chair Peter
NicUr5oo, professor of pathology.
Jack Meacham. professor of psydlology, nottd that it would be difficub for the senate to review every proposal for reorganization within the
university at the •disciplinary or oon-

" I think we owe It to the
fiKIIIty to be sure that

there hu been .....,te

consulbtlon -that they
...un IWlkulate that to the
..,lvenlty convnunlty. "
PETER NICKERSON

tent levd," adding that he trusts those
typesofdecisionsarebest made within
departments. But it is appropriate, he
said. for the senate to oonsider whether
the way in which such decisions are
made within departments are "'fair

with respecttoouroolleagues.our students an9 with respect to process."
Meacham said the Academi c
Planning Committee should focus
its discussion on the process of how
the decision was made, and not get
into "'trying to micro-manage" the
affairs of the music department.
Herbert Schue!, professor of anatomical scienc&lt;s. said he thought the

committee should address both the
proass and substanc%of the decision.
•Amajormrnrntomeisifthemusic

edueation program is terminated in
the music departmen~ that its functionbesetupina~ wayelsewhere (in the university) ... ,"he said
ThomasSchroeder,a.&lt;!IOCiateprolissor of learning and instruction, said
there must be a mechanism for the
oommittee to go beyond "merely
wbdhor the right"""" ......e tab:n at
the right time." It is not a question of
micro-managjng the departmen~ he
strtssed,but rather ofwbdhoropportunity will be provided """""""" in
the university for students who want
to become music teadlers.
Martha Hyde, associate professor of
music, said she believed that due process was CoUow.d in the departmen(s
decision, but asked that if the maner
was referred to the Academic Planning Committee that the panel be
given a time limit on deliberations.
"The destruction is going on with aU
aspects of this debate .. .and there's
more distortions and more commu·
nity involvemen~ it can be very hard
to work in that department," she said
Prtsident William R Greiner agreed
that swift action was needed from the
senate. The group "is on the verge of
really getting into ... issues that coll&lt;agues of ours have worked on for a
long. longtime; verydivisM, very difficult (issues). For the senate to string
this out without probabk cause ... !
think simply is unconscionable."'
1be senate's role is to advise, Greiner
added. "Here we have a department
and a dean and a lilculty that worked
very hard on a planning elfon and I
think there ought to be a presump·
tion of regularity here ...... he said.
The issue was referred by resolu·
Lion to the Academic Planning

Co mm ittee without a specific
charge from the FSEC. but setting a
Nov. I deadline for a report.

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One of the remarkable attributes of the World Wide Web is the
ease with wh ich anyone can put information online. It is a wonderful arena for free speech. However, since it is so easy to publish on
the Web, it is important to critically evaluate a site before uncondi tionally accepting what is presented. It is especially crucial when
wing the Web for research purposes. Here are a few questions to ask

to get started:
Authority. Is the author/sponsor of a site identifiable? Is contact
information (e- mail, phone) readily available? Are they reputable
or weU-known in their field?
Content. What is the purpose of the site? Is the information presented accurate? Are there obviow errors? Check for bias or point
of view. Is the information current ? Check for a revision date and/
or broken links. Compare with other reso urces in the field.
Design. Is the site well o rganized and easy to navigate? Do the
graphic design or any
visual effects enhance
J!,
or distract from th e
l ntl·t-till l'l.i dt, L I,:
content?
Several sites are
publishing reviews of Web pages to help users determine their effectiveness. While reviews are usually subjective, most of these sites
will also present brief descriptions of Web pages. Two popular review si tes· a re the M•gell•n Internet Guide ( http ://
www.mcklnley.com/ ) and Lycos Person•llntemet Guide ( http:/
/ www.polntcom.com/ ). Both use a rating system together wi th
site descriptions. They also make available their rating criteria. You
may have seen their logos on highly rated sites. The lntft'IM!!t Public
Ubr•ry (http:// www.lpl .org/) provides brief descriptions of\.Veb
sites, but does not attempt to rate them.
If you would like to find more information on the process of evaluating Web sites, a IUbllogr•phy on b•lu•tlng Internet Resources is
Iavailable at http:/ / reherver.llb.vt.edu/ llblnst/ crftTHINk.HTM.
O nly you can determ ine if the information p resented in a Web
site is appropriate for your work. However. the quality of that information is important to consider. The wealth of info rmation avail able online doesn 't always mean it 's a good starting point. Befo rr
using ~e Web for research, make sure it is the best piau to find th e
type of information you need. Check with a reference librarian m
any UB library for help with your research .

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Music faculty majority endorses recommendation for change
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T

HE majority of fulltime faculty members in
the Department of Mu-

sic have endorsed a rec·
ommendation to reconstitute the

department's program leading to
a bachelor's degree in mwic edu·
cation. Fifteen faculty members
voted •yes,.. two voted .. no.• three

music-education fucultymaytransfer
to the Graduate School of Education
(GSE),wheretheywouldinstructeducationooursesrtquiredforteacheroertification through the GSE's Bufl3lo
Rl:search Institute on Education for
Teaching (BRIET).

David Felder, professor and
chair of the music department,
said, .. This particular recommen-

abstained 'and two did not vote in dation would bring the departthe referendum on Se t. lS.
ment into common practic~ with
The reoommendatio:calls for rna- • the rest of the departments Itt the
jor changes in the mwic education

arts and SCie nces.

programasitisnowoonstituted.FacuJty members in music education
would oontinue to teach education
rourscsoverthenextfouryearstostudents currently enrolled in the: music
educationdegreeprogrun. This would
allow them to romplete their studies
under the ccisting structure.
The current music educatio n
program would be replaced with
o ne in which students who want
to be mwic educators would earn
a bachelor of music degree in performance or a bachelor of arts degree with a music major. The y
would take education co urses
through t.be Graduate School o f
Education to qualify them for New
York State teacher certification.
The three fuU-time mernbenofthe

Discussion has been ongoing
'"At this time, the Music Depart·
ment is the on ly one that integrates undergraduate teacher education courses into a deg ree

program," he said. He explained
that in other departments, undergraduates who want to teach are
required .to complete a degree in
their co ntent area-history, art or
biology, for in sta nce--and sa tisfy
course requi rements fo r the New
York State teaching certi ficate offered through BRI ET.
Feldersaidthedepartmentwould
continue progra ms leadin g to a

a musK ronc:mtration.

Professions and members of the mu-

"The discussion about this issue has
been going on betw.cn the dean ofthe

sic-education community expressing
concern. Public discussion tied the
recommended changes in music
education to the non · renewal of severa] part -time faculty members,

Faculty of Arts and Lett=. the proYOSt and the music
department lilcuby
sina 1992," Felder
pointtd oul
"The music education program attracts students," he
RLDIII

said, .. but there
have been prob-

lems with it for years. The proYOSI's
1997 reorganization plan for the arts
and sciences specificaUycittd the music education program, said that it 'is
not a program of distinction' and proposed that it be limittdorcliminated."
The recommendation to elimi nate the program was developed
with the Music Department Ex ecutive Commi ttee and submitted
last spring by Felder to Dean Kerry
Grant and then to Provost Thomas Headrick for co nsideration.
along with ot her proposed
changes. These recomme ndations
are now under rev iew by the Fac ul ty Senate at Headrick's request.

The proposal has caused some

which, Felder stressed, should not be
confused or conflated with the discussion about mwic education.
..Students who want to t.eadl mwic
will still be in an excellent position to
graduate from UB as music educators
wi th strong performance back·
grounds," he said "They can receive a

bachelor of music degrc&lt;: in perfor11'\allCeora hachelorofarts degree with
a music major, then qualify for New
YorkStateteachingoertification.lf they
wish to pursue pedagogical studies further, they can do so through thegradu·
ate teacher-preparation program in the
Graduate School of Education.
"For those who prefer an undergraduate music education program

with pedagogy courses integrated into
the four- )"31' curriculum," Felder said,
"Fredonia State College oflers a very
good one, as does the Easrman School
in Rochester. UBsimplyisnot,and has
never been, primarily a teachers' oollege," he added. ..nor are we a music

bachelor's degrc&lt;: in music perfor-

controversy, with so me part-time

mancr:andabacbdor&gt;s degreeinmu-

faculty members, the local musi·

oonsrrvatory.
"I think virtuaUy everyone in the

sic,essentiallya hberal arts degree with

cians' union, the United University

department agrees that we can't ron·

tinue to offer such a broad palette of
music programs with the budget restraints we Iiic.," he said "We can't af.
ford it and we can't alford to duplicat&lt;
very good Prog111JTlS dffered by other
SUNY colleges in sud&gt; close proxim·
ity to the university.
Accent will be on strengths

"When the' UB Music Department
was founded," Felder said, "it eropha·
sized programs that drew on the

strength of its lilculty in performance,
theory, history and oomposition. The
department is now reformulating itself with the appro,oaJ of the lilculry.
the dean and the provost to reflect the
departmcn(s strengths." He said the
changes are expected to decrease the
number of undergraduate music ma jors. "esperially in the shon run b.:·
cause a substantiaJ number are

l"W'-

rendyworking toward a bachelor's degree in music education."
Those enrolled in that program

eventually will b.: replaced, he said bv
a larger number of student-. in musu.
perfo rmance working toward a
badlelor's m mus.1c, with or '""i thout
teacher certi6cation, and by 0{"\-\' en rollment in the bachelor of arudegr«
program. now under revision, which.
may offer tracks in music administl'3tion, criticism and romputer music.

�New, improved mortar could cut oosts

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N ADVANCED COMPOSITE mat&lt;rial developed at UB
that strengthens monar could bring longer li~d lower
repair costs-to aging brick buildin&amp;&gt; and chimneys.
As owners ofQlderbrick homes know all roo well, the morlar joints between bricks will begin to loosen andaad&lt;instructures that are about 50 y&lt;ars old Tuck pointing. which invotv.s replacing
the damaged monar, is labor-intensive and very costly.
Now a UB engineering professor has developed a method of significantly strengthening the mortar that is used to "'glue'" the bricks together, resulting in a much stronger and longer-lasting bond.
The method is applicable to existing brick structures, as well as to
new construction.
Deborah D.L. Chung, Niagara Mohawk Chair of Materials Research
and professor of mechanicaJ and aerospace engineering, has found that
when short carbon fibers are added to cement mortar, the brick-tomortar bond strength increases by as much as 150 percent.
The research will be reported in a paper co-authored by Mingguang
Zhu, who conducted the work as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engine(ring, in the November issue of Cement and Concrete Research.

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cracks, it does so at the joint between the bricks. Tbat's the weak link."
Several variables can affect mortar strength, she continued, but a critical one is the drying shrinkage of mortar.
"'M it dries, the mortar shrinks while the adjoining
bricks do not," she said. "This weakens the bond between them.'"
In her experiments, Chung (ound that the carbon fi ber-reinforced mortar reduces drying shrinkage.
"There is a degree of bonding between the carbon fi ber and the cement and this bonding acts to restrain
a.the cemrn: matrix from shrinlting as much." she said.
By adding short carbon fibers at five-tenths of one percent of the cement weight to mortar, she was able to improve the brick-to-mortar
bond strength by ISO pereent under tension or pulling force and by II 0
percent under shear, a sliding force.
Chung estimated that the addition of carbon fibers to mor12r would
increase its cost by approximately 30 percenL
•1f one considers lifespan and life-cycle repair costs, then it's very
worthwhile," she said.

Teams awarded multidisciplinary research grants
By E1UH COOLDaAUM
News Services Editor

EVENrEEN f3cultyteamswith exrdlent
ideas for original. multidisciplinary ~
search have boen awarded grants totaling more than $300,000 by the university. The grants, ranging from $10,000 to
$20,000, are part of a program, now in its third
year, designed to provide seed funding for
multidisciplinary pilot projects to improve
their chances of attracting external support.
Applications w= evaluated by expert ~­
en at other institutions aroWld the ""rid who
had no personal or financial ties to the applicants.
Proposals with die highest ratings were funded.
Research projects had to be in an area central to UB's graduate-education, research and
public-service goals. and special oonsideration
was given to proposals that crossed traditional
boundaries of distinctly different disciplines.
Funded projects and their lead investigotors are:
• Evaluation of Immunologic Tolerance
in Solid Organ Transplantation, Julian L.
Ambrus, Jr., associate professor of medicine
·• Assessment and Quality of Life Out-

S

comes of Cancer Weight Loss, Jean K. Brown,
assistant professor of nursing
• Structure and Function of the KP6
Toxin, Jeremy Bruenn, professor of biologi-

cal sciences
• A Putlltive Cannabinoid Receptor in Human Sperm, !.ani). Burkman, research assistllnt professor of gyi&gt;eoology/obsteu:ics
• Great Earthquakes.of the Kam~hatkan
Subduction Zone, Marcus Bursik, associate

professor of geology
• Converting Mutant Mouse Models to
Cell Culture Systems, Michael D. Garrick,
professor of biochemistry
• Pilot for an Intra-SUNY Distributed
Network-Based G~duate Materials Course
on Molecular Conductors, Michael ).
Naugbton, associate professor of physics
• Brain Activation in Chronic and Acute
Pain Responses for Myogenic Temporomandibular Pain Patients, Elliot N. Gale, professor of oral diagnostic sciences
• Architecture of Marginal Spa=. Mehrdad
Hadigbi. associate professor of architecture
• Computational Modeling of Business Pro-

"""'"'Bharadwaj Jayaraman. computer sciena
• Flow Velocity Measurement in Arterioveoous Malfonnations (AVMs) Using Droplet
Path Angiography, B. Barry Lieber, associate proC...Or of medlanical and aeroopace engineering
• Cell-cycle Localization and Association
of the Human Replication Protein A Subunits, Thomas Melendy, assistant professor
of microbiology
• Tiber Valley Archaeological Project, ).
Theodore Pena, assistant professor of classics
• RNA Binding Prokins from Plasmodium Falciparum, Laurie K. Read , assistant
professor of microbiology
• The Pathogenesis of Gram Negative Ba cillary Pneumonia, Thomas Russo, profes ~
sor of medicine
• Adolescent Violence and Alcohol
Abuse: A Multiple Component EmpiricallyBased Prevention Strat&lt;gy, JohnS. Wodarslci,
professor of social work
• Effects of Dehydration, Osteoporosis,
&amp; Calcium Deficiency on Mechanical Aspects of Motion Segment in the Rat, Israel
Ziv, professor of orthopaedic surgery.

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Psychologist urges end to corporal punishment

Foculty/Stoll-11'!""
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By SUE WUETCHEII
News Servkes Associate DirKtor

stand children's normal need for
independence, to understand and

ORPORAL punishment should be abandoned as a form of discipline because it is
morally objectionable and because
ther: are effective, non-punitive
alternatives available, a UB psychologist maintains.
Parents should be encouraged to
learn and use techniques that effectively discipline offspring without resorting to forms of
subabusive corporal punishment,
such as spanking and slapping,
according to Anthony Graziano,
professor emeritus of psychology.
Thirty percent of middle-class
families could be at risk for child
abuse through the escalation of
subabusive corporal punishment,
and reducing this type of punishment would reduce the risk of escalation, says Graziano, co-director of the Research Center for
Children and Youth.
"Parents can be t2ught how to
control anger, to explore and under-

better deal with authority conllicts,"
he told participants in a sympooium
on spanking held recently during
the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
Graziano supporkd his position
with results of a study he conducted
and repomd last year of 590 parents and 320 of their children &amp;om
middle-class, educated, primarily
Caucasian, suburban families.
Although 93 percent of the parents felt corporal punishment is
effective and justifi~pecially
in curbing short-term defiant or
authority-threatening behavior86 percent felt agitation, anger
and/or remorse at using it.
Eigbty-five percent said they'd
be willing to use some other forms
of discipline if they believed them
to be as effective.
Most of the 320 children, aged 611 and interviewed separately &amp;om
their parents, said they believed parents bad the "rigbt'to use these and
other forms of discipline-includ-

Wings.
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ing hair pulling and pinching. But
they admitted that the punishment
was unpleasant and often hurt.
Graziano also found:
• 83 percent of the parents used
subabusive corporal punishment
less than a few times a month at mild
to moderate levels of intensity
• 25 percent used it about once a
week
• 17 percent never used it-a
10 percent decline from a study
conducted in the 1970s and 1980s.
But it's disturbing, Graziano
said, that 2 percent of parents said
they "usually" inflicted considerable pain, with I percent admitting the subabusive punishment
"usually" caused welts and bruises.
Also upsetting. he added, is the fuel
that 35 pera!Ot of the children said
their parents meted out discipline using paddles. whips and cords, while 17
pera!Ot said these items w&lt;re used at
least half the time.
More than half of the 320 children
said they experienced •some• to
"much" pain. Seventeen percent said
they underwent such discipline "a

few times a week," with 4 percent
indicating it occurred "every day."
Graziano notes that although
the empirical evidtnce shows that
oorporal punishment is effective in
the short-term and onl briefly
causes pain and emotional dis tress, there are many alternatives
equally effective in the short term,
that do not cause pain or distress.
Therefore, he says. the issue becomes •not a technical one of effectiveness, but is about the morality,
in a supposedly enlight&lt;ned world,
of inllicting pain on children.
"The question is, why do parents
choose to use oorporal punishment
when it is not necessary?" he asks.
"What is in parents that keeps them
wing an unnecessary punishment
that causes their children pain!
"Corporal punishment in childrearingshould be cliscour.'8'd because
it is morally objectionable and. in any
"""'~is not"""' .-led"
Graziano's study was supported
by the furry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation and UB's Baldy Center for La\v and Social Policy.

�Octoller 9, !91/Vot. 29.1a 7 Rap a.-tas

No link found between pesticides,
breast cancer risk for general population
IIJLOISaAIWI
News Services Editor

A

nificantly higher levels of orga-

newstudyoftherela-

tion.ship of pesticides
and PCBs with breast
cancer shows that
these compounds are not a risk
factor for breast cancer for the

general population of women.

Researchers at UB found that
blood levels of organochlorin~
such as DOE, HCB. mirex and
PCBs-were not higher in women

with breast cancer than in healthy
women.
However, when participants
were separated into groups ac -

cording to history of breast-feeding, women with breast cancer

who had never breast-fed bad sig-

nochlorines than healthy women
who never breast-fed. No difference was seen for women in either
group with a history of breast

feeding.
.. These results suggest that

higher blood levels of organochlorines were a risk factor for breast
cancer only for women with no

history of breast feeding," said
Kirsten Moysich, research instructor in the UB Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and
chief investigator on the study.

Previous studies by UB epidemiologists found that breast feeding, as well as having been breastfed, appeared to offer women
some protection against develop-

foot~all

ing breast cancer later in life.
These studies did not measure
levels of organochlorines.
"These chemicals are stored in
fatty tissue, including breast tis sue," Moysich said. "The chief
mechanism for eliminating
them from breast tissue is lactation, which flwhes them from
the system."
She said that even though the
baby is exposed to these substances, the beneficia] effects of
breast feeding appear to outweigh potentia] risks associated
with these organochlorines.
Results of the study were presented at the InternationaJ Society for Environmental Epidemiology in Taiwan.

UB 0, Connecticut 55
The Bulb

SS-0 loss on Ott. &lt;4 at undefeated
~

The Bolb tad the w for
more than 41 minuta In the pme.
COI""I\"et"ted l+of·26 third-downs
and had &lt;37 yards al coalal!onoe.

The Bulls broke _ , Khool
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the schoors alkime leader In rushin&amp; att.empts with 16 Clt'ries on the dq.
Offensiftly for US. RycNrd Dybs had a ~ six atthes for -46 yv-ds
Drew ~ddad, KaJIWaakn and Swan al added fiw atches for US. Ted McDuffie
led the defense wkh 10 tackles (eitht 50bs). while freshman Trrtis Blount ~dded ~

areer-hlch slx stOpS.

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lllologlul Sdenca S..,."'"'

Animal Zooxanthella Symbioses
from A to Z. Or. Rob Rowan, Univ. of
Guam Marine LaboratOf)'. 114
Hochstetler. North Campus. 4 p.m.

Peter IWiey Project
"The Peter Hal~ Project. • a series ol
temporal)! pobhc art projects ~ned

Professor-Geography, Posting
lf-7075. As~t Professor (two

The Bulb went 1-1 this put weekend In the Sunshine Sate. On Oct. 3. UB defuted
Aorida lntemationa.l, I~- Frestvnan ~ula Ustrani scored on a pass from sophotnon!:

~nnd ~~~~~~~~~~

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to~

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for the Arts and at various sites
throughout the North Campos

Posting JF-7077. Assistant ProfessorAnthropology, Posting Nf-7079 .

call the US Art Gallery at 645-69t 2.

Health Sctenc.es Ulxary, Posting
IF·7080. AssJstMlt Professor-History,
Posting t f-7081 . Assistant Profeuor-

~f~!'~! ~~~his wOO.
99

Sculpture by U.. Holn

~u~~~~~~\.;~ Hein
is on d~ through Nov. 7 in the US
Art Gal
s second floor exhibition
room in
Center for the Arts, North
Campus. Gal~ hours are 10 a.m.-S

~=~·~n:,~·~-~--8

Refereftce/lhstruction Ubriirian-

Communkative Disorders and

·-

Scief1ces. Posting Nf-7082 .

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Sciences, Posting IR-97080. Senior

Lob Anlmol Camotce&lt;-t.aborat&lt;&gt;&lt;y

Animal Fadlities, Posting IR-97081 .

Photos by Suson Dobson

~~~~~~ ~J:a\:)~nt

Acollection of photos by Susan

Dobson, winner of UB's •crossing

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Department Gallery, Room 845,
Center for the Arts. Gallery hours are
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-8
p.m. ~nesdays-Fridays and 11
a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays.

- b y Lara Schnltger

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Gallery, Center for the Arts, North
Campus. Form and balance are
add~ through transitive, very
non-traditional materials-plastic,
latex balloons, foam rubber. Gallery
hours are 10 a.m.-S p.m. Tuesdays, 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays and
11
p.m. Saturdays.

The offKe now ls open 8:30 a.m.-5

p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and fridays

=~ ~uo~myS~7km:~~~l

be
In effect throughout the fall semester.

Cure for c.abln fever
Schussmeist.ers Ski Club Inc. is
~ririg for its 37th season of snow

f:S~fS-~~~ifnd~ea~i~~ts

and bus tr.uuportation--on virtually a
daily basis-to ski areas throughout

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Professional

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UB I, Florida International 0
UBI, FloridaAdantic 2

1

TUil Donahue to dlnch the win.
On Oa.4.junlorTric:il DtQuattro scored the firstpJ dthepme a,pinst
Aorkb Adantk: on a pus from freshman cnwn DefGuldice. but late in the second
twf FAU ripped off ['WO ph to send the Bulls home u .500 for- the ~-

Men's ~occer
UB I, Oneonta 0
Frestvnan Brian t1c:Ca.Kion scored the wtnnlng p i wm 11 5eeonds ~ininz off~

p.m. Saturdays.

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Exhibits

in three pmes.
Somer Desctwnbault led the Bulb with 18

Women's ~occer

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UB 3, Ni"gara Univenity 0
On Oct l , the women's ~team defeated NQpn lJni¥enity

AssistAnt Professor-History, Posting
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men's soc:ur team with 11 seconds remaiDing in tbe game to
~ tbc victory over Oneonta

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Registration and refundable S1 0

.wa.iu had

tb.u Jbutot.rts in the last four
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Calendar
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University

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OUt to

Men's lennis
The men's team f1t1bhed ~t No. 12 In the ECAC Men's Open DMsion Temls
Tournament Oct. ).5 uVusar Col• . Fre:shrran jordan Levitt dneated a NYU
player In the second round. 241. 6-1 , 7-5. ~nd lost to a Fa.lrleizh Oldcinson pbyer in
thesemifi~ls. 6-1, 7-S .

Women's lennis
The women·s tum competed In the Zi~ Collegiate Tennis Ownplonsh•ps held O ct.
3--4. Senior Amy Borden lost to an Akron player In the No. I singles consob.tion
bracket. 6-2. ~- Borden ;and senior Annult:tt Dillon lost In the Na I doubles.
consolation bracket t0 CleYebnd Sa.te. 8-6.

Lmss Lount~
The women's crou-country tum finished fi~t in the Ninth Annlal H~rry F
Anderson Memorial Cross-Country invitatioN! held Oct. 4 n Roberu Wa ~
College. The Bulb had fiw top-- I0 Rnishen ln the mea. wtth 5ertlof" ~ren Ully
luding the ~ In the 5.000-meter run wtth ~ time of 19:40.gtving her ~ secondpbc.e f.nish..Other top-10 finishen were senior" Ken-i Shpur ~t 19:53 lot- third oven.ll.
frtihman TatT'IV&lt;l Bush at 20:18 for fourth. junior There:u Rood at 21 :OS for 1btth
and tuniorAndru Bishop at 21:&lt;43 for lOth.. The Bulb fini1hed the race with 25
points- as they defe~ted Roberts Welleyan (32 polnu) and ltN.a College (70 points )
The menS tum traYeled to the Notre Dame lrwia.Oonal on Oct. 4 ~nd finished
16th out of 19 teamS. Sophomore P:lt Nobn had the best time for US, fimlhmg 13th
lot-~

time of 26:27.

Posting IP-7034. Assistant to the
Vice P~ldent (Sl-4)-0ffoce of the

VICe President for Public Setvke and
Urban Affairs, Posting MP-7086. Senior
Research Assod•te (SL-4, two
positions .viiJIAble)-lnstituUonal
Analysis, Posting IP-7087. •P-70SS.
Assistant to the Chair (SL-3)-Music
Depanmen~ Posting IP-7089.
Operations Analyst (SL-2)-Node
Technology Servkes, Posting ·P-7090.

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Rose Weinstein Memorial Award
Compet!t*l has opened for the annual Rose Weinstein Memorial Award.
sponsored by the Emeritus Center at UB. The S500award is given for studies on
aging. The oompetition is open to any undergraduate or graduate srudent in
good standing at UB who has been accepted into a degree program.
The project (paper, art form, technique, etc.) must bewrinen or create'&lt;! un der the supervision of a member of the fuculty, and must be recommended in
writing by that fucuhy member to the Emeritus Award Comminee no later
than the last day of February each J'!'l!· The faculty supervisor of the project
shall testify to the scientific or technological validity of the project or to its
aesthetic or artistic value. depending on the category into which it fits..
Submit projects to Costlls Yeracaris,emeritus profe=rofsociology and chair
of the Emeritus Center Award Committee, South Lounge. Goodyear Hall, South
Campus, Univmity at Buffulo, Buffulo, N.Y. 14214; telephone 829-2271.

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A record turnout of
runners--more than 1,600
from UB and the
community-took part in
the 8th annual Unda Yalem
Run Sunday on the North
Campus. The event, which
promotes rape awareness,
is named for Yalem, a UB
student who was raped and
murdered while running on
the Amherst Bike Path.

Researchers receive $1.2 million NIH grant
Five-year study to focus on link between periodontal disease, heart attack
lly LOIS IIAIWI .
News Servka Editor

S

cipal investigator on the new study,
said the oral bacteria that cause gum
disease appear to be the culprit
"Oral bacteria enter the bloodstream via small ulcers that develop
in the gum tissue of persons with
periodontal disease. These bacteria
contnbute to plaque formation and
increase the chance o,f clots forming. Clots can also accumulate
around damaged tissue, such as a
lesion in the blood vessel or a replaced heart valve. These accumulations can narrow blood vessels.
The bacteria also cause platelets to
aggi!gal&lt;andcan increase thedlan=
of dots forming. Clots in a nanowed
blood vessel can cause a myocardial infim:tion, or heart attack.

TRANGE as it may seem,
taking care of your teeth
and gums may also protect
.
yo_ur heart.
Funded by a $1.2 million grant
from the National Institutes of
Heal_th, dental mearcbm and p,_
vm!M medicine specialists at UB
""'beginning a 1M-year study of the
relationship between periodontal
(gum) disease and heart attacks.
The study and the size of the
award rellect the growing interest in
new evidence suggesting that infections in the oral cavity may trigger
disease elsewhere in the body.
UB dental researchers are in the
"We've known for some time
forefront of this field, with several
preliminary studies already com- that oral bacteria can precipitate
.these
kinds of reactions," Genco
pleted showing that persons with
gum disease are at high risk of de- said. "We just recently put these
findings together as a possible exveloping heart disease.
Robert Genco, SUNY Distin -

guished-Professor, chair of the Department of Oral Biology and prin-

planation of how bacteria that
cause gum disease can also in crease the risk for heart disease."

The nqw study will involve 1,000
people who have survived a first
heart attack, and 2,250 people who
have.oot.bad a heart attack. A complete health history will be compiled on all participants, and all
will be given a
dental exam with

determine the incidence of second
heartattacksamongtheheartpatients
with and without periodontal disease. Relearcben abo will oolloct data
on the number of lint heart attacks in
a control group and determine their
relationship to periodontal disease.
If periodontal disease is found to
be a true risk factor for heart attack,
the next step will be to determine if
x-rays to deter- treating the disease reduces that risk,
mine the exist - Genco said. Because cardiovascular
CIHCO
ence and extent of disease remains a leading cause of
periodontal disease. Blood samples death in most developed countries.
also will be taken and cholesterol the answer to that question could
profiles determined.
have a major impact on public
Researchm then will analyze rates health. "Although we know much
of periodontal disease among bean- about the risk factors for heart disattack patients and those with no ease, there is still much unexplained
bean problems, eliminating the in- risk to be assessed," he noted.
fluence of other factors that contribCo-investigators are Maurizio
ute to heart disease, such as smok- Trevisan, professor and chair of the
ing or obesity, to determine to what Department of Social and Prevenextent gum disease is an indepen- tive Medicine; and Sara Grossi,
dent risk factor for bean disease in Ernest Hausman, Juan l.oza, Joseph
both men and women.
Zambon, and Mine Tezal, all of the
Participants will be followed to School of Dental Medicine.

Drug resistance 'rocketing~ study says
lly BUN COOUIUUW

News- Editor

B

y the year 2000: half of the
infections caused by the
bacterium respoo5lble fur 7
million cases of otitis media in children and 500,000 cases of
poeumonia in children and adults
each year in the U.S. will have some
resistance to penicillin. an associate
professor of pharmacy at UB warned
this week.
Already, according to a national
study conducted by researchers at UB,
Millard Fillmore Hospital and the
Univmity of Iowa College of Medicine, 32 pernent of inC.ctions caused
by StnpioaJcruspoeumonJaeare m;istant to penicillin to some e:xlent and
about IOpernentaresusceptible to few

oral antibiotics. Theformeraretermed
highly resistant infections and the latter are described as showing intermedia~resistance

And from 1994-97, the study
showed, there was a 40 pcra:nt incn:ase
in intmnediate-resistant Screptmxrus
poeumonJae infections and a 30 percent rise in those considered highly
resistant
Report given In Toronto
"This is a rocket ship," Charles
Ballow reported in Toronto Sept30 at
the lnterScienceConference on Anti·
Microbia!AgmtsandOxrnotherapy.
Ballow, director of Anti-Wectives
Research in the Oinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory at Millard Fillmore
Hospital, reported on a study that

looked at regional trends of bacterial
resistance based on mo"' than 4,000
St.reptocoerus pneumonia&lt; samples
fromhospillllandoomrmmitypatients
processed by 192 hospilllllaboratories
from May 1996 to May 1997.
The study,he noted, showed that resist:un varies by geographic region of
the U.S., and is found most often in
the Southeast.
Ballow said 40 pcra:nt of the St.reptoroa:uspneumonla&lt;samples from the
Southeast were resistant to penicillin.
while in the Midwest the rai.e was 36
pcra:n~ and in the Northeast and the
W&lt;St it was closer to 29 pcra:nL
The overall resistance ra~ in the U.S.
for the bacterium was 32 pernenl
Identifying a cause fur the higher
rate of resistance in the Southeast is dif-

ficul~ Ballow said

Nationwide Increase alarming

"It could he that one major hospital
in the region has really poor infectioncontrol standards," he said "With this
study, we have dissected the U5. by re-

gion. Now wewantto dissect it by hospital laboratory to see if there's one
major metropOlitan area in the Southeast that is skewing the results for the
region."
Ballow stressed that while the regi&lt;mal difl'=nas in bacterial resistance
are important, the rate of increase that
is being seen nationwide is especially
alarming.
Ballow characterized Screptmxrus
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. benditobserved(fourdaysvmus · continue to emergd Only in the
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cold dead in its tracks would be an E. a&gt;IJ diarrbea &amp;om undercoolud
beef, "mad ww dioeue," AJ.DS, inoverstatement.

n-thy F. Murphy
is director of the infectious
diseases division and professor of medicine and miaobiology in the School of
Medicine and Biomedical

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When the yearly influenza epidemic enten a community such as
Buffalo, there is a characteristic
pattern. Cases will begin abruptly,
reach a peak in numbers in two to
three weeks and last a total of five
to six weeks. Tbenwewon'tseeinOueoza until the next winter. The
annual six-week outbreak generally nccurs between late-I&gt;ecember
and March.

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is to p~t ear infections. That
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prevent ear infections.

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Infectious diseases is an exciting
discipline. To tili care of people
with infections, you have to be a
detective. And you can't just focus

on one organ or organ systemyou have to look at the whole person. Research in infectious diseases has advanced at a phenomenal rate. Many of the revolutionary developments in genetics and
molecular bioibgy of the 'pas\ two
decad~ were made in microbes.
Vaccine development in our generation has been enormously successful. Smallpox has been eradicated &amp;om the world and polio is
do~ to eradication. I think research in infectious diseases is the
most cballenging and rewarding
activity in academic medicine.

vasiYe streptocoa:al infections and
antibiotic-raistant Sup/Jylor:D«L
l(s getting 10 I'm reading about
infectious dil&lt;ua u much in the
J!&lt;WSPOper u I am in infectious
disease journals. My point is that
it is important that :we continue to
devou national resources to study
these things and train people in
theseareas.
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Anyone who wants to reduce his
or her likelihood of having influenza this year can get a flu ahot.
Fl.u vaccines are 70-90 percent effective in preventing influenza.
Health-care workers or people a posed to populations at higher risk
of complications &amp;om influenu
(such as people in nW1ing bomes)
should be vaa:inat&lt;d.

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with the so-called
common cold is that it is caused
by eight or IOdifferentvirusesand
each of the species of virus has
dozens of different serotypes. That
means you' re talking about developing cures and vaa:ines for lots
of viruses. I'm sure there will be
progress. but a complete cure or
prevention will be difficult

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Several well-done studies have
shown that zinc lozenges reduce
the duration of symptoms of a

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some years, but not others.

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The people in the Infectious Diseases Research Labs-technicians,
graduau students, post-docs, faculty-rent out La.sertron once or
twice a year. We run around and
shoot each other with lasers. I'm
not sure what it means that we
want to shoot each other. but we
have a good time.

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Antibiotic resistance is a big problem and it exists because of overuse of antibioticS. All of us would
be well advised to tili antibiotics
only when necessary. "Necessary"
means for treatment of a proven
or presumed bacterial infection.
Unfortunately, one of the most
common reasons for which antibiotics are prescribed in the U.S.
is for viral upper respiratory inf&lt;ctions. Antibiotics have oo effect in
~~eating viruses. Physicians are responsible for the judicious use of
antibiotics.

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school class about the importance
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ers. One thing that we can be sure resistance, we will devise ways to ·
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Environmental Rx proposed for City Hall

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T

IIJ' Ei.uH GOLDIIAUM
News Services Editor

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00 much hot air -literally-and too few re-

cycling bins are among
the concerns about City
Hall that a group of UB environmental-studies st uden ts raised
Wednesday with Buffalo Mayor
Anthony Masiello.
The students presented Masiello
with the results of their comprehensive environmental audit of
City Hall, including recommenda tions for improvements, several of
which will save the city money.
The report said the city can:
• Save more than $9,000 annually in disposal costs if it maximizes recycling efforts in City Hall
•Increase revenue by boosting
the amount of material it collects
for recycling
• Save an estimated $11,875 a
year on stationery by using recycled, unbleached paper
• Save both energy and money
over the long-term by updating
the building's heating, ventilation
and air-conditionl'!l system
The report also cites some of the
positive environmental actions
taken by City Hall to date, including the recent retrofitting of light
fixtures, which already is saving
$130,000 a year in energy costs.
The audit, a detailed study of the
ways City Hall affects its environ-

ment, was conducted this spring
by the UB students at the request
of Masiello and the Buffalo CommonCouncit
It's believed to be the first time
in the U.S. that university students
have been aslud to conduct an offcampus audit. as a public service.
"This project has allowed tbe
university to lay the groundwork
for a strong outieach program focused on environmental issues
with other institutions in Western
New York," said Joseph Gardella,
professor of chemistry and chair
ofUB's Environmental Task Force.
"We have already begun to see
interest from other municipalities
that would like our students to
conduct environmental audits;
Gardella said.
According to the report, City
Hall workers are, for the most part,
supportive of environmentally
friendly practices.
However, there are several areas
where significant improvements
cap be made in terms of City Hall's
environmental impact.
B~ on interviews with facili ties manageis and office worh.rs
in the 26-story building, and
through their own hands-on investigations, the students evaluated the solid-waste stream, purchasing policies and .energy use in
City Hall.
Wherever possible, they advo-

cated inexpensive solutions and
emphasized economic advanl2ges
of adopting environmentally
friendly practices.
The students found that
• In some City Hall offices,
there a.re more trash cans than
people
• ~ding bins are few and far
between
• Forty-two percent of the trash
contains recyclable material
• As much as 19 tons of
clable paper is escaping into the
waste stream each month.
"A large percentage of wha(s being thrown out in City Hall could
actually be recycled," said senior
Glenn Del6sh, who worked on the
project.
He noted there is an extremely
easy solution.
"Trash bins can easily be converted into recycling bins," he said.
"You don't have to buy anything,
you just put new stickers on the
bins. l(s a vecy low-cost solution
that will have a high yield."
The students stressed the need
to t:ducate City Hall employees
about what should be)'ecydedand
where.
The report also sl2tes that the
city would save money if it developed policies to encourage the
purchase o( recycled paper for letterhead and other sl2iionery.

recY-

The students fouod City Hall
employees vocal about the environmental problems they perczive,
including the fact that in warmer
weather, there seems to be a lot of
hot air circulating in offices.
The students found that an inefliCent beating. ventilation and
air-amditioning system increases
the amount of hot air in the building. fostering use of expensive and
inefficient window air-conditioning units and fans in summer and
space heaters in winter.
The report s12tes !hat a centralized beating. ventilation ·and airconditioning system would save
both energy and money. ·
The project provided the students an important lesson on the
relationship between environmentalism and economics.
According to UB instructor
Bruce Kohrn, a Buffalo community activist and president bf SBK
Environmental Research, that lesson is probably the most valuable.
•Their experience in this class is
more like being on the job," said
Kohrn. "Most classes have a carefully organized syllabus that tells
them what to do step by step. This
class does not do that, by design.
Students had to figure out them selves what they n~ed to do to
finish the job, and that was an important learning experience.•

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MacLow to give birthday
poetry reading, lecture

Bromiey sees shortcomings in technology for schoo~

into tho machine. ~ cornpulal neutral, be """ ._

F you think that "computer Utopia" is right
arowxl tho &lt;Xllller, you misht want to spend""""'
time lalkius to Hank Bromley about t«boooosr in
America's schools.
Anaosistantproiesoor in thoOqlortmmtofE.ducational Organi:r;alioo, Administration and Policy, Bromley
has emnsiYe exp&lt;riencz wilh axnpulm and tho ways tbat
schools ""' them. l1nlik&lt; many in his field, boweYer, be is
sJ«i,tial tbat &lt;XlDipUim' potmtia1 to belp students think
and learn wiD be easily realizal.
"Simppy d.rcpping t«boooosr into a daswom doesn't
imj&gt;roYe ttung.,"be soys. -n- is often an li(!OD&lt;ia attadled
tothot«boooosrwhich tOcuoeson nanowmrasur.sofstudent~ on standardized tests, fOr aample."
ln--liRthose,andinartidesand popm.Bromley

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has tried to position tho compul&lt;r"l!"wilhin tho social and
educational CXlllll:ll,arguing tbat CXlOlpl1lm, as human in-.:ntions, are quiZ capobleof masnifyingtho shortromings
o{ their iiMntors and their~
For Bromley. thosbortromingmost dtq&gt;lyembedded in
tho&lt;X&gt;mpUt&lt;risthotmdmcytoSibtiluterawdalaorf3cts.informatioo..-. knowledge. learning or intdligma.
He citts tho recmt popularity of "Integrated l..eaming
• Systems," softw.ue programs that pr=nt material, 1tst students and lr.lckstudent progress within a single automated
package "Administraton who 6nd the technologyveryattr.ICIM: because of tho efficiency it promises," says Bromley,
·-·may not recognize the student-as-oog-in-the-madline
model it impooes on the dmroom."
Theword"impooes"issigniliantWhile many in thottchnologyfield..ooldsaythatcoroputmarencuttaltools,able
to be used for or against genuine learning. Bromley asserts
that a tendency to homogenize and restrict thinking is built

lllilizes tho same logic as tho slos;m 'guns don't kill p&lt;eple.
people kill people'-it is true that guns can mwder only
through tho "'lfDCY ofhumans' murderousness, but guns
as a t«boooosr lond tbernseMs to &lt;main uses."
While axnputm may not be neutral to Bromley, neither are they aU-powerful. If l&lt;:ad!ers, administrators and
compu1&lt;r usen wxlentmd what uses computm naturaUylond ~to, what valuestheyembodyandwhat
&lt;lllllmthe ttchnologywiD be functioning in, they can use
the oomput&lt;r in ways that run counter to its own ttndencies.
"Thete:hoologiesas they exist establish certain parameters,• says Bromley. "They may make it easier or harder to
do certain ttung., but tha!'s just half the story. People can
take that situalioo and try to do something with it"
It is not aneasytaslr.however. "We~ to ask what it is
about the cbaracteristia o{ the technology, and how they
interact with thesocialcontmofits use. that benefit some
people at the expense of otbors (and) reinforce existing
I"""" relations."
As aamples. Bromley discus&lt;es tho aca:s:s, or lack of
aoxSs, that !Prls and students of color had to computrn
during the 1980s. Despite the impression that thing&gt; havo:
changed. Bromley says nwnerousstudiesSIJ!II!'SI that these
pattans are continuing.
How do these ideas and theories play out in tho classroom and in the schools? For startm, says Bromley, they
mean that schools should not buy newte:hoologies until
they know what they plan to do with them and who wiD
haY&lt; a=ss to them. And schools should assess whether
the te:hoologies they do purchase are actually increasing
learning. and fOr whom.
It may sound liR common sense, but Bromley points
out that the pressure teachers and administrators face
sometimes~ out common sense. He notts that politicians often push for quantitltive "lisults" tha'Jcomputm
are built to proYide. corporations are eager to gain access
toyoungaxisumersand parents are widely convinced that
their childrtn wiD fail in the job market unless they haY&lt; a
computer in tho dmroom.
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Bromley ~ the last notion to be myth. "Highttch sdx&gt;oling is Jarsdy irrelevan~· be..,... "Productivity
on thejobises!&lt;lltiaUyunrdated towhathappensinochool.
and tho skills~ are &lt;MrWhdmingly acxjuired in the
wod&lt;place"
The myth. be adds. may haY&lt; grown out of the fact that
"parents are legitimatdyworrried about tho job prospects
of their children."
Having spent some years in the computer field after
obtaining his bocbelo~s degree. Bromley has a personal
S&lt;nSC of how tho higb-ttch job market operatts. He left
the field to pursue a career in education. eantinghis Ph.D.
in educational policy studies at the Univmity ofWISCOnsin-Madison.ln 1994, be assumed his duties at UB as an
assistlnt professor and as associate cllitctor of the Center
for Educational Resources and Technologies.
Is it strange. after working with computm for so long.
to spend much of his time criticizing how comput= are
used?
"I'm often misread as being anti-technology;" he Sl)'S"but myconoern has been that (good educational results)
aren't going to happen automatically•. and the tendency is
for the opposite to oa:ur if you're not specifically looking
for certain problems."

Drug resistance

con.-frono-1

pneumon1ae as a "community bug."
aplaining that while it is transmitted
among patients in hospitals, it is transmitted more often outside of hospitals, particularly among children in
daycare centers.
He said that every year, the pathogen isoneofthe most~revalentc:;lllses
of roughly7 million cases ofotitis media, a common ear infection in children, and 500,000 cases of pneumonia in adults and children. Sinusitis and
bronchitis often are caused by it as well.
he said.
BaUow noted that the combination
of theovo:ruoe ofantibiotics and inadequate infection-a:mtrol methods.
both in hospitals and in da)are centers, accounts for the rapid rise of re-

sistlnce for Saeptmxrus pneumon1ae
throughout the u.s.
"'Oildren in daycare centrn share
their genns."be said. "They share them
on their toys. their clothes, their fingers."
The problem is compounded. he
explained. when a dlild who has a mild
ear infection is treated with antibiotics.
"Antibiotic use propaga1ts the prol&gt;lem," Ballow said. ·~·rea society that
thinlcs that fOr every ailmen~ there's a
pill You haY&lt; a sick child, you expect
to be able to go to the doctor and get
medicine. ~ grew up in the antibiotic era and we haY&lt; come to expect it
But very ott.n, the ca..., of the ear inftaioo is viral, llO( bacterial. and in that
case, you don't need an antibiotic."

For many ear infections, Ballow said,
adequatetreatmentcouldindudegiving thedlildan over-the-counterpainn:lief medicine, using cold compresses
on the ear and k&lt;eping the child home.
as ..,U as following any instructions
from the child's doctor.
In roost cases, be said, an antibiotic
should be prescnbcdonly if the symptoms change or persist.
The study, funded by RhonePoulenc/Rorer, also demonstrated that
sparfloxacin, a new drug devo:loped by
the company, shows exa:llent activity
against resistlnt bacteria, including
those that are highly n:sistant BaUow
cautioned,I - ,thatduetothopotential for cartilage toxicity, the drug
cannot be administered to childrtn or
pregnant women.

J.duon Maclow, one of the great American poets of the 20th un·
tury, will celebrate his 75th birthday with a short stay"at UB this
month, during which he will lecture and read from his work.
He will give a birthday poetry reading at 4 p.m. on
Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Center for the Arts Screening Room. He will lecture on • Jntt:ntion /
Nonintention/Chance/Choice/Other" at 4 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 9, in 438 Clemens Hall. His appearance is part of Wednesdays at four Plus, who2 events
are free and ope.n to the public.
Macl..ow has been writing and composing music since 1937 and is
widely associated with the second-generation Black Mountain poets Ii.kr US's Robert Cre.eley; with the internationaJ Fluxus movement, which influenced many art forms in the 1950s and '60s, and
with postmodern literary forms, especially language poetry. He began his career using what he now describes as ..quasi- i~tenti~ n.at•
methods involving subliminal choices among word chOices ansmg
in both the outer and inner environments, later moving into .. read ing through,"' techniques. Macl..ow has traveled t.x:tensively with his
wife, Anne Tardos, performing at many intemationaJ venues.
He has been awarded fellowships by New York State's Creative Arts
Public Service Program for multimedia art and poetry. In 1986, he
received a Fulbright travel grant to New Zealand, where he was the
keynote speaker at the Australia and New Zealand America n Studies
Association conference at the University of Auckland.

MFC awards two Lorraine
Saban scholarships
Two students enrolled in Millard Fillmore College (MFC ) have
been awarded Lorraine Saban Memorial Scholarships. The $500
scholarships, established in memory of the late wife of former Buf-

falo Bills' coach Lou Saban. were given to RoseMarie Romano and
Maureen Miller. The scholarships are designated for women enrolled
in MFC who have exhibited high academic scholarship and aboveaverage community service. Mrs. Saban had been an MFC student.
Both Romano and Miller have held jobs while working toward
degrees.
Miller, a medical office assistlnt with the Cleve- Hill Family Health
Center, earned an associate's degree in business through MFC and
is working toward a bachclor"s degree. A 20-yea.r volunt~e:r with the
WNED-TV auction, she has been involved in fund-raising to benefit the spinal cord and rehabilitation units at Erie County Medical
Center.
Coordinator of. surplus equipment at UB who formerly worked
in the fi~ancial aid office, Romano is wo rking towarQ a b.achelor's
degree. She has been involved with The Bu/Jalo News Neediest Fund
and serves meals at the Buffalo and Niagara Falls city mission. She
also has served on the board of directors for Upstage, a not-forprofit theater company.

Management alum donates
$25,&lt;mto hono~pro~r
An •lumnus of the: School of Management has donated S25,000 to
the school in appreciation for the education and guidance that he
and his son, also a former student, received from one of its professors.
S. Arthur Lowe of Ellicottvijle, a 1950 graduate of the school, and
his wife, Carolyn, made the donation in honor of retired professor
Robert F. Berner, who taught managerial statistics and was dean of
Millard Fillmore College during a 36-year career at UB.
The gift will be used to establish the Robert F. Berner Management Science and Systems Excellence Fund, which will help advance
cuning-edge curricula within the school's Department of Management Science: and Systems -the successor to the Department of Statistics and Insurance in which Berner taught.
An instrudor and faculty advisor to Lowe, Berner became a friend
of the family and later helped Lowe's son, Peter, enroll in the business curriculum at UB. Peter Lowe, a 1970 graduate of the management school, is vice president of the aerospace division of Huck In·
temationaJ in Tucson, Ariz.

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Team wins distin~hed
national design prize .
Beat out 300 in San Francisco competition
ay PATIIICIA DONOVAN
News SeMces Editor
design team from the
School of Architecture
and Planning ha• beat
out more than 300 com·
petitors to win the coveted Grand
Prize in the Second San Franci5co
Prize Competition, •Toward a
More Perfect Union: an attempt
to •re-invent" the city's 25-acre
Union Square.
The San Francioco Prize is one
of the mo51 distinguished and cov·
eted in the field of architecture.
ThiteamCDOSisll:dofRaleMmd&lt;:z,
lec:tw.r in the Department of An:hittcture and principal in foM Dtsign
of BufEdo, and Midlael Tunkey, one
of Mendez' undergraduate planning
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The team took home a $4,000
cash award and the strong possibility that it5 plan will be adopted
by the city of San Francisco.
Union Square is a 5habby confusion of ramps, stairs, planters,
bushes and paved areas atop an
underground parking garage. The
Buffalo team proposed that the

sq uare, which is now a wall ed
space above Sidewalk level, be reduced to a single plane that would
"unwrap itself• over the area like
a piece of origami.

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mrrounding walls and lowm the
parlc's outer edgs to sidewalk dovation on each of its fi&gt;ur Jides. It opens
up the square, making it pon of the
-around it and leuing lisbt into
the porldnggaraae.
The competition jury applauded
the winning design as an "dqpnt,
Wlfulding urban napkin (that) also
manages to sbelter an indoor-outdoor market and other uses." The
latter indudto a maje5tic bandstand
and wting rink tucked into the
oquare area that serve as a COilllterpointto the nearby o...q. Memorial
Mendez said that the plan was
mare than a theoretical exerci5t.
"We are definitely going after
the contract," •he added. She and
Thnkty have prepared an architectural model of the proposed redesign for presentation to San Francisco city planners.
Like other proposal5 in the com' petition, the Buffalo Jltoign is con·
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But members of the blue-ribbon
jury called it a "brilliant idea" and
it has excited much public discuo·
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Illustrated In Aldllteeturi
The Buira!o dtoign is illU5trated
and discussed in the September
issue of Archltecture magazine.
Noting that the level of competition was extraordinary, Jean
LaMarche, associate professor of
architecture, called the winning
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competition and the outcome really 5peak5 to the quality an d
strength of our junior faculty in
the Department of Architecture. It
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program itself, since our undergraduate5 contributed 50 •ignificantly to the winning entry. It's a
tremendous honor for all of us.•
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to sponsor national and international competitions to come up
with plans for the dtoign and redevelopment of urban •pace. Such
contests, explained LaMarche,
produce high-quality dtoign work
and the winners get national and
intematioDal attention.
Members of the jury said the
highly abstract and unu5ual Buffalo proposal, "would give the designers a chance to work with
neighborhood group5, the city and
cj~ps. of San Fq.nPs&lt;Q,to jind
the appropriate materials and de·
tails to turn this brilliant idea into
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By SUE WUETCHER
News Services Associate Director

Institute for Local
Governance and Re gional Growth willltick
off a full fall season of
events with an open house to be
held on Thursday, Oct. 16, in its
new home: historic Beck Hall on
the South Campus.
The open house will be held
from noon to 5 p.m., with an informal dedication set for 2 p.m.
New York State Sen. Mary Lou
Rath, chair of the senate's Local
• Governmen t Comminee; Presi dent William R. Greiner, and Provost Thomas E. Headrick will join
institute Director John B. Sheffer,
II in making remarks.
Created to support and promote
regional collaboratiOns through·
out Western New York, the institute provides an umbrella for new
and existing UB programs relevant
to regional issues. It also offers a
clearinghouse for related regional
information and provides a wide
range of training opportunifito for
local government and school officials, as well as other service providers in the region.
"We are hitting the ground running," oaid Sheffer, professor of law
and planning who formerly wao a
New York State senator and assemblyman, a• well a• mayor of
Williamsville. "There is a growing

interest in regionil collaboration
throughout the region's urban,
suburban and rural communities.
Our goal is to collaborate with every geographic and organizational
sector of the region in a very practical, useful manner.
"Our job is to help make -.rea
leaders, citizens and organizations
more aware of possibilities for exploring and furthering regional
collaborations and issues, and to
help them connect with UB and
other resources."
One of the institute's first assign·
ments is to coordinate a conference
on Nov. 25 at UB to follow up on

wide collaboration program for
5Chool districts and municipalities,
ba5td on a regional pmgram piloted
and overseen by Sheffer last year, in
cooperation with the senate Com·
minee on Local Government.
The institute's location in the
recently renovated Beck Hall is
particularly significant, Sheffer
noted.
"The South Campu5locationjU5t off Main Street, within an ta5Y
drive of the Thruway, the 290 and
Route 33- makes the institute·
readily accessible," he said. •It is
located on the border of the city
and suburbs--a great •ymbol of
the work·we do here."
"Beck Hall is also an appropriate location for the institute be"Our goal Is to col-.te
cause of its history,• he added. " It
with~ geographk and
was dtoigned by (prominent BufOI"!J'U'Wotlonal sector of the falo archi tect ) E.B. Green and
modeled on the original office of
region In • very practlaol,
the Holland Land Company in
Batavia, which opened in 1815.
useful manner."
"Since the Holland Land Company helped to define the Wtotern
JOHN B. SHEFFER. II
New York region as we know it,
this spring's Chautauqua Confer- and since the institute is here to
ence on Regional Governance. Fo· help the region position itself for
cusing on specific issues, challenges the next century, we think a buildand action steps for Western New ing modeled on the land company
York. the conference will bring to- office is a good place for us to be."
gether many stakeholders from
The Holland !.an)! Company
thmughout the region.
bought more than 5 million acrto
Another institute priority is the of land in New York and north·
development ofan innovative, state- western Ptnnoylvania in the 1790s

and sold it to homesteadel"li until
about 1840. Joseph Ellicott, the
land company'• chief•urveyor and
resident of the Batavia office, surveyed and 50ld the company'• 3
million acres in Western New
York.
ln announcing tlte creation of
the institute this summer, President Greiner 5aid that the "ultimate objective• of the initiative "is
to ensure ~at the Niagara Frontier is a vibrant region with a
growing economy, positioned to
compete and win in the global
m~rketplace , along with our
friends and partners in Southern
Ontario.'"
The institute, created by Greiner
to further US's regional service
priorities, has three primary goals,
according to Sheffer. It will coordinate existing UB programs focused on governance in the region,
including the Governance Project,
the Regional .lnformation Net·
work and the School-Municipaf
Collaboration Initiative. It also
will extend those programs
through cooperative arrange ments with other area organizations, both public and private. In
addition, it will offer practical
training and informational services to area localitieS and school
districts, officialo, and public, nonprofit and private entities.

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S~y keeps se¢ors agile, active
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INE'JY-one-year-dd Hall..awrence bolances WlSicldily on one tOot on a bod oi
larsegravd wxlerthewatchfuleyeoialllldent volunteer. Joan Campaoini, 69,
wobbles on a small I'&lt;Xhr board. while Lila Manball,
73,attanp1S to stand mosonablyfinnlyon a larse-'F
of foam rubber.
The aeoiors""' taking part in a study that bas them
runniiig relay """' and .,.,.,;.;ng II a ballet bo=, and
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olderadulll'""""""and agilit)land belp them remain
ac:tiw&lt; andorlf..wlicient.l.ouise Gilchrist,........,t pnr
fessor of physical therapy and c=tise and nutrilion
scimo:zs, wbo desisned the
is oonducting the
study Wider a UB-fundod Mark ThnncrGrant.
"Falls.,., sud! a problem in theddedf.said Gilduisl.
whose expertise is in gait and balantt. "1Hpping on a
rug might cause young people 10 stumble, but the elderly will f3ll. If"" can ~ """""" and agility so
they can stop tbenueMs, we may be
able 10 reduce the nwnber of liills."
W'rth little pi&lt;Ctdena to draw on, and to compare results from the exr:rGilchrist dellelopcd her (JWil cmri&lt;es. cise and control groups. Initial tests
"There is some undemanding that yielded interesting dato, Gilchrist said.
working on standing balance is help- "I was surprised at how specific the
ful," she said,"but there is little evidence ddicitcanbe.Someparticipantscould
aboutagilityin thedderly,beeauseno- '"""'very quiddy, but their standing
body has measured it particularly. balance was not very~ I was also
Most of our agility tests are modified surprised by the rangeofbalanceddifrom tests used with children and cits, and by the realization that ooordinationisn't~an'agething.m
young adults."
Physical stability, she noted, irn&lt;oMs
;.vishing to work with a population
o regular people"Gilchrist recruited many fuctors--the "&gt;"'&gt;inner ear, re' luntt:mforthestudyfromlocalse- Oco:s, reaction time---&lt;!nd a quality
ior citizen emten. If they were older called proprioception,which is knowan 67 and generally healthy, they ing what position your body is in. In
eligible. She took 15 voluntt:m the elderly, the ability of nerves to
as
jects and 19 more as controls. transmit this information 10 the brain
Parti
ts were tested for balance is reduced. To address this, many exerand
in UB's biomed!anics lab, cises in the study include an emphasis
using measures such as walking ,.,Joc- on being aware of where the teet are
The study class meets for an hour,
ityon bothstraightandaoolted paths,
three times a Week Gilchrist tries to
postural sway and standing balana.
Afu.rthe lo-weokstudy,shewill t&lt;st make it fun, as Wen as therapeutic. Parall participants again to determine if ticipants run obstacle courses, compete
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exr:rcise at a ballet barre, in addition 10
doing more mWldane exercises, such
as balancing on one foot on different
surfucrs and rising from a kneeling
position. Some participants say they
notice improvement after only three
weeks. "I nevor really knew what was
wrong with me,• said Hal lawrence,
at 91 the oldest participan~ who said
he fell and broke an arm a few years
ago. "My balance has improved tremendously. I used to have to grab
something to keep from fulling when
I turned arowul; now I don't do that"
Lila Mmhall said she feels stronger,
although the study is not designed specifically for that purpose. "I'm using
muscles I ha""''t used for a while. My
balance hasn't been good. and i~s getring bener. My ooordination is bener:'
If post-studytestsbearout theseobservations, Gilchrist hopes to convince
senior citiz.e:n centers to incorporate
the exercises into &lt;Jcisring progiams.

New externships to expand
law school's public-service role
The School of Low is expanding its tradition
of service to the Western New York community through a new externship course th at
sends students into the community to·work in

a variety of assignments.
The idea was first proposed by a distinguished alumna, Erma H. )aeckle, Class of '36,
who also has contributed generously to the
funding of the program.
Taught by R. Nils Olsen, vice dean for academic affairs and director of clinical studies,

and faculty coordinator Wendy Irvine, the
course gives second-and tt1trd -year students
the opportunity to earn academic credit while
gaining practical experience for unpaid work
performed in conjunction with an office out-

side the law school. The course enables students to study law in context and develop their
professional skills and responsibilities, especially
their research and writing skills.
The outside agencies, in turn, receive valu-

able legal help at no cost.
"The externship experience allows the law
school and the university to broaden its impact on the community beyond what is currently possible in our clinical-education pro-

gram: Olsen said.
Some of the placements have included
clerkships with federal, state and municipal
judges; government attorneys, including districl.,ilttorneys and corporation counsel; state
and county legislators, and such public-interH

est agencies as Legal Services for the Elderly,
Prisoners' Legal Services, the Volunteer Law-

yers Projects and Great Lakes United.
Studentl are supervised by attorneys or responsible professionals from th e agencies,
who assign students work with an eye toward helping them develop lawyering skills,
such as sharpening critical/strategic thinking,
predicting case outcomes, and identifying and
resolving issues of professional responsibility.
Seventy students were enrolled in th e
course when it was first offered this spring .
Thirty students took the course this summ er,
while 40 are enrolled for the fall semester.
Olsen and Irvine. noted that abou t 100
agencies initially expressed interest in taking the students and that the number is
growing.
The externship course has been well-received by students, as well as com munitybased practitioners and agencies.
State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, whose office was one of the first to receive externs,
called the program "mutually beneficial" for
both students and the agencies with wh ich
they're -placed. "I' m grateful for the university including such an opportunity in its legal curriculum," Hoyt said. Having externs
in his office #has been a huge bonus, a big,
big benefit for my office," he said, adding
that a former UB law extern, jeremy Toth,
now serves as his counsel.

- Sue Wuetcher •nd Mliry Beth Spin•. News Services

owt.-.glbh.pu.-.edu/ purdue/ lntroductlon.html) links to more
than 120 instructional handouts, covering everything from coping with
writing anxiety to writing with computers. Although much of the advice is targeted at writers of term papers, there are also guides for people
engaged in business writing, as well as useful information for both teachers and students in ESL programs.
Learning Through Wriringat http://www..W.co/-&lt;Jidt/cuonpen61m/
T~ is another good Web site for would-be writ= and
their teachers. It treatswritingasan interdisciplinary skill needed in all fields
ofstudy, not just in English classes The site includes techniques and exercises
for incorporating writing assignments in disciplines as diverse as sociology,
epidemiology and mathematics. In addition, there is a section on "Encouraging Effective Use of the L.ibrarf,' where instructors will find tips for collaborating with librarians to design course-integrated library assignments.
The UB Libraries' BISON II system offers online a=ss to a variety of
reference tools of use to writ= through its list of"Refert:n&lt;:e Sour= on the
Net."Here you116nd links 10 Elements of Style (http,//www.columbla.edu/
acls/bartleby/strunk/) , as well as Roget's Thesaurus (http:/ I
--uchlc.o!lo-edu/ torm._unrat/II(IC;ET.html) and the Merriam
Webster Dictionary, which is part of Britannica Online (http:/ I

www.ob.com:110/).
While these~ sites offer easy access to a wealth of electronic informa+
tion,don'toverlooka valuablehwnan resou.rceon US's North Campus. The
Writing Place, located in 113 Talbert Hall, is a free tutorial center where stu&lt;/ents can receive feedback on their writing, While not an editing service,
tutors in the Writing Plaa: are available to help with the overall thesis. organization and development of a student's written work and to make suggestions for the impruvmlel'lt of sentence structure, spelling and pWlctuation.

For help with connecting to the World Wide Web, contact the CrT Help
Desk at 645-3542. For more Information about the Writing Place. call
645-2394.
-Nancy Schiller •nd Will Hepfer, University Ubrones

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UB center to sponsor
photonics wofkshop
Leading researchers In the field of optical technologies will speak
at a workshop on ... Photonic Materials and Devices: Issues and Opportuni ties" to be held Oct. 24 in the Natural Science!: Complex on
the North Campus and Oct. 25 in the Buffalo Hilton .•

The workshop will be sponsored by the Center for Advanced Photonic and Electronic Materials (CAPEM ) and the Photonics Research
Laboratory. It is the kickoff event forCAPEM, formed last year to foster
collaborations on campus between researchers working on compound
semiconductors, polymers and novel conductorS, including superconductors. Bruce D. McCombe, professor of physics and director of

CAPEM, and Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and director of the Photonics Research Laboratory,are workshop coordinators. For more information, call645-64 75.

Hirsch to discuss use of color
materials in photographic art o
Noted photographer and photographic historian Robert
Hirsch , director and cu rator of CEPA, the Ce nter for Explora tory
and Perceptual Art, will give an informal slide talk on "Recent Color
Photography" at 4 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Screening Room, 112 Ce nter
for the Arts. The presentation will be free and open to the public.
Hirsc h will discuss work by photog raphers who in(Orporate tra d it ional photographic methods into unusual contemporary forms
or who work with digital imaging, sca nn ers and o ther technologies.

He is the author of two textbooks. "Exploring Color Photography"
and "Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Matenals

and Processes." A new text on the history of photography is to be published by McGraw-Hill in association with the International Museum
of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester. More informa tio n on CEPA and the artists associated with the center and with Hirsch's

talk can he found on the CEPA Website cepa.buffnet.net.

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An open letter to the~rommunity
THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE for the Promoti on of Tolerance and Diversity has read with regret the disturbing articles appearing in The Spectrum on Sept. 22, 1997, regarding the resurgence of
incidents of graffiti on campw. We share the stu dents' concern and agree that there is no place on a

To • clean up" those things that cause us discom-

fort so that we do not have to think about them
anymore appears to be the approach that many of
us utilize when finding solutions to controversial
issues. The ~quick fix, dean up" approach often results in our failur~ to approach "'cause• as a reality

to be seriously dealt with; thus, the issue is practically guaranteed to m&gt;ecur.
As for identifying a process for removal of grafo ther.
While we are in complete agreement that univer- fiti, the university has always had a proc:ess in place.
In
1994, in response to student concerns, the Unisity officials should work to curb hatred in any form,
we feel strongly that the action of officials alone is versity Committee for the Promotion of Tolerance
not sufficient to promote a celebration of diversity. and Diversity devdoped and refined a student-reAt UB, it is time to acknowledge that the univUsity portinB process, and the Student Guidelines for Rt1s "us" and is inclusive of every individual who porting Bias-Related Confrontations and lncidents
cla ims membership ln the university community; was distributed. This documentshould not be coothus, we all share resporuibiUty for what happens fused with EEO guidelines for reporting employeehe re. Moreover, it is time to understand that every driven discrimination in hiring practices or violamember of the campus community, regardless of tion of civil rights overseen by the EO/AA Office.
The Student Guidelines were reviewed by SUNY
race, color, creed, gender, age, religion or individual.
se t of differences, contributes equally to the diver- Counsel and approved by the university adminisuniversity campus for hateful behavior based on an
intolerance of difference, be it verbal, written or

lol l Y that

is UB.
Since campuses o f public institutio ns, in particular, are merely microcosms of the society at large,
they generally reflect that which is valued in the
larger society. If we are serious about creating an
environment that leads to a celebration of diversi ty, what is needed is for all members of the uni ve rsity community to examine themselves to determine how each individual contributes to the perpetuation of intolerance. We contribute to the survival of intolerance each time we allow a manifestation of racism , sexism, ageism or homophobia to
occur. ln addition, there is often a tendency to ignore

the abilities of those who may be physically challenged,
o r condemn those whose religion differs from what
we, as individuals, consider acceptable.
The thing that troubles us most about intolerance, in general, is that most people, even those who
co nsider themselves higQ.Jy educated, refuse to acknowledge the fact that intolerance, as a behavior,
is alive and well in both our society and on our campus until it physically screams out at us through an
act of violence, or in this case, an act of graffiti. The
young writer, who noted in the Spectrum discussion on graffiti that ... ~the question should not be
who is responsible for cleaning it up, but what can
we do to stop it from happening" has good insight.

tration and have worked quite well in most in-

stances of reported graffiti over the last few years,
providing that the process has been followed. The
implementation of the process is overseen by the
Tolerance Committee in concert with Public Safety
and Student Affairs. However, like most processes,
there may be times when the process does not work
as weU as intended for a variety of reasons, including improper reporting and human error. When

this happens, we need. to first, recognize a problem

tric bills are paid and that doors open properly. We
cannot, fl.Or do we wish to, change these facts.
VJhat does need to be changed is how decisions
about the Student Union are made. Currently the

Office of Student life makes all decisions. Student
input is superficially accepted via an advisory council, which can only give advice on what should be
done in the Student Union. A unanimous decision
by this council does not have to be, and often has
not been, approved or acted upon by the Office of
Student Life. The director of OSL can ignore students' advice as she-sees fit.
A better model for how decisions are made in
this building is found from our old Student Union,
which had once been located on the South Cam-

The project (paper, art form, technique. etc.) must be written

« created t.nder the supervision d a member of the faculty.
and must be recot I tme! lded in writing by that fao.ity member .
to the Emeritus~ Corrmittee no later ltWl the last day of
Februaly each year. The fao.ity ~ of the· project shall
testify to the scientific 01" !l!dv10iogical vallcity of the project 01"
to its aeothelic «artistic value, depending on the catego1y into
which it fits.
Projects must be submitted to Costas Yencaris, emeritus professor of sociology and dlairofthe Emeritus Center~ Committee, South Lounge. Goodyear Hal, South
U!Wersity at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214; telephone 829-22n.

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also by becoming more conscious of intolerant at-

titudes and beliefs that lead to the expression of
hateful beliefs, acts, speeeh and messages that may
take the form of graffiti. We urge that you not condone intolerant behavior; campaign against it by
speaking out in your own friendship or professional
groups, or wherever it happens to manifest itself.

Become a walking advertisement for the belief that
there is no place in our university community for
hateful speech or behavior.
Copies of the Student Guidelines for Reporting
Bias-Related Confrontations and Incidents may be
obtained by calling Student Affairs at 645 -2982.
Committn lor tM Promotion of Tol~ronu and Divrnity
Donn~~ S. llke •nd Mkb.el A. Sto kes, co-choirs

pus. The old union was very dynamic; it was the
center of student activity at UB. One can argue that
substantive student input into the old union's operation was the key to success. A council ofstudents
made decisions about the old union's operations
and rules. If these decisions were in violation of
any state laws or university regulations, then the
president could step in and override the student
council's decision.
Our new Student Union should be operated in a
way similar to this historical model. lf the council
of studtnts makes a decision about the Student
Union's future that violates the law or university
reguJations, then the president would always have
the right, the responsibility, to override the council. The advisory council that currently exists
should be replaced by a Student Union House
Council through which students can make meaningful decisions about their union.
fenYndo Malsonett. Pr~ident
Brtndan Keane, V'Ke President

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ing a graffiti-free educational envirpnment on campus, by not only reporting instances of graffiti, but

Student Union needs substantivestudent input
o n US's campus, are ultimately the responsibility

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exists, and then work to improve the process.
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UB rates well in efforts to diversify
student body, OIA data reveals
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The study breab down the number of minority

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degrees by discipline:

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• Bachelor's Degrees: UB was significantly more
diversified than its peers in architecture and related
programs. physical sciences, liberal arts and sciences/
general studies and humanities, and area, ethnic and
cultural studies. Bachelor's degrees at peer institutions were slightly more diversified in engineering,
interdisciplinary studies. communications and vi sual and performing arts. ln 1994-95, no b.a chelor's
degrees were awarded to minority students in phi losophy and religion.
• Master's Degrees: UB was more diversified in
the disciplines of liberal arts and sciences/general
studies and humanities, multi/interdisciplinary studies, and area, ethnic and cultural studies. Although
UB awards master's degrees in communications, phi losophy and religion, and English language and literature/letters, none of these degrees went to minority students in 1994-95.
• Doctoral Degrees: UB compared favorably in
the disciplines of engineering, physical sciences, bi ology sciences/life sciences, mathematics and social
sciences and history. Substantially fewer doctoral
degrees went to min,orities in communications, business management and administrative services, area,
ethnic and cultural studies, philosophy and religion , ·
health professions and related sciences, English language and literature/letters, and foreign languages
and literature.
• Professional Degrees: Peer institutions awarded
significantly more first - professional degrees to minority students in health professions and related sciences, and slightly mo re in law and legal st udies.

N its attempts to diversify the student body,
l1B stacks up wcll against the best mid-sized
public universities, according to data released last week by the Office of Institutional
Analysi&amp;. The study looked at the percentage of total university degrees that went to minority students
in 1994--95.
Areu of particular strength fo r UB included overall bachelor's degrees awarded to minority students
(16 percent by l1B vs. 11 percent by peer irutitutions) and overall doctoral degrees awarded to minority students ( 12 percent by l1B vs. 9 percent by
peer institutions).
Master's degrees were awarded to minority students in roughly similar percentages (8 percent by
UB vs. 9 percent by peer irutitutions).
Professional degrees were not as diversified as
those of peer institutions, however. Overall, 14 percent ofUB first-professional degrees were awarded
lo minority students, while peer institutions averaged 19 percenL
The .. peer institutions" in the study were the
University of California at Santa Barbara, the Uni versity of Colorado at Boulder, the University of
Iowa and the University of North Carolina at
C hapel Hill.
These are the same institutions Provost Thomas E. Headrick mentioned in his Academic Planning Report as among "'the best mid -sized public
AAU universities," a group within which UB
should work to be recognized .

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UB 3, Cornell 0

Women•• UOII....a&gt;~~Dtry runner

UB 3, St. Bonaventure 0

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tM SiaOxd Invitational oa Sept.
T he Bulls capt ured their
27 with a time of 19:11 in the
S,OOO..DKter
run. Spencer helped
fourth straight victory on
the Bulb to o founh OV&lt;talJ linSept . 27 as they defeated
ish, with 139 pointl in the inritationol.
Cornell University in three
games, 15-7, 15-10, 15-6 at
Men's aOSri-&lt;.OW1try ru.nner Pat
Alumni Arena. Outside-hit- - finisbod lOth"""'"" in the
ter Amy Burda led the way
Stanford lurirational to help the
Bulbaptw&lt;thlnlplac&lt;wilh t76
for the Bulls with seve~ digs
tolal p&lt;iinu. Nolan finished the
and 13killsfora .318hitting
8,000..meter raa: 3l 26;33.
pcrceotage.Also,outside-hitter Rebecca Meade and
middle-hitter Nancy Rose
made sound contributions
with 10 and 13 kills, respectively.
The Bulls defeated SL Bonaventure earlier in the week in three str.ught
games, 15-8, 15-3, 15-7 at Lockport High School. Three UB players,
Somer Deschambault, Christina Gianino and Burda contributed four
aces apiece.

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UB 27, West Chester JO
The Bulls couldn't shake the turnover bug in a disappomting 30-27
loss to West Chester University on Saturday before more than 6.SOO
fans at UB Stadium. Scott Keller's 38-yard field goal was wide left as
.
time expired.
The Bulls had four turnovers in the game, including two se-cond -half
miscues inside the Golden Rams' IS-yard line, to fall to 2-3. Chad
Salisbury completed 29-of-46 passes for 418 yards and three touch downs for the Bulls.

Voting Faculty hears Greiner
President reviews issues ofaaulemic planning process

U81 , Dusquesne 0
UB 4, Howard 0

By SUI! WlJETCHER
NewS SeMces AssoCiate Di r~tor

T

HEacademicplanning
process under way at
l1B is crucial if the uni versity is to take responsibility for its own future, address issues of accountability and
avoid becoming vulnerable as an
institution, President William R.
Greiner told members of the voting faculty on Sept. 23 .
.. If we take charge of our own
future, we won't have to worry
about b eing evaluated (by out si ders ); our performance will be
fine,, Greiner said in his annual
add ress to the faculty. " It's if we
sit idly by and let so meone else
take respo nsibility for it that we,
I think, become vulnerable as an
instit ut ion."
G reiner spent most of his presentation revieWing the academic
planning process begun last year
by Provost Thomas E. Headrick.
Using a series of overheads, he
reviewed US's multiple mi ssions
and goals; the diagnosi s of the
curre nt situation, includ ing assets, academic programs and
str uctures, and funding e nviron ment, and the strategies ~he uni versi ty will pur sue to achieve
those goals.
He then outlined th e .. next
steps" in the planning process,
including putting in place th e
new College of Arts and Sciences,
plan n i n g for interdisciplinary
opportunities, building an effective academic and management
info rmation system, and aca demic unit planning in such ar-

eas as the biological and bio medical sciences, computer and
information sciences, and pharmaceutical and chemical sciences.
"We've actually made so me significant progress" in academic
planning, he said, adding, " I don't
want to see the energy go o ut of
that process."

" If we toke dYrge of our

own future. we won't have
to wony .bout being

e v - (by outslclen); our
perfomuonce wtl be fine...
PRESIDENT GREINER

Greiner also noted effo rt s
made in improving the quality of
sludent life, such as consolidating th e admissions and retentio n
functions under the auspices of
the Provos t's Office, student
hou si ng initiatives, both on and
off-camp u s, and th e push to
build mathematics and student se rvices buildings on th e North
Campus.
G reiner responded to comments made earlier in th e meet ing by Faculty Senate C hair Peter
Nickerson, professor of pathology,
who reminded fac ult y members
that UB is operating in a context
in which it is being held increasingly accountable for what it does
by the public, the state and the
SUNY Board of Trustees.
"We don't have to worry about

that (" the ominous SUNY goblin") at all if we just do our own
thing our wa y, responsibly and
aggressively, over the course of this
yea r and the coming year," Greiner
said. SUNY, he said, wants to see
so me campus " lead in the plan ning effort, and they will reward
us and recogniz.e us for that kind
of initiative."
Greiner said a .. victim mental ity,. has been rampant on SUNY
ca mpuses because of budget cuts
over the course of th e past de cade-.. the state is taking our
money . .. that 's terrible.
"The way to deal with that is
to ourselves take respo nsibi li ty
and go forward," he said.
UB must fos ter a more "en trepreneurial spirit" on campus and
increase sponsored-program ac tivity and technol ogy transfe r, he
said.
In addition, th e univ.ersity
must expand income received
from tuition-most notabl y by
increasi ng the number of out -ofsta te and international st udents
attending UB-as well as in creasi ng philanthrop y.
..And certain ly we must have a
new Millard Fillmore Co llege,"
one based, he said, o n distance
learning, " the 21st-ce ntur y
eq uivalent " of th e former night
division geared toward non -tra ditional students.
"We should be a maj o r player
in that," he said. "Let's not con cede that to other institutions;
let's not concede that to SUNY
Ce ntral."

The Bulls traveled to Dusquesne Sept. 24 to grab their first victory of
the season. Tricia DiQuanro scored the only goal of the game at 3:30 as
the Bulls defeated Dusquesne, 1-0.
On Sept 28, UB earned its second win at Howard by a score of 4-0.
Linnaea DiNaUo scored two goals for the Bulls, both in the second half,
while Tara Donahue and Paula Listrani scored one gOfl apiece to move
the Bulls to 1-5- 1 on the season.

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UB 6 , Canlslus 0
UB 2, St. Francis (Pa.) J
The Bulls went 1· 1 this past week tO'ffiO\'C' their record to 4-4-1 on the
season. On Sept. 24, US defeated crosstown rival Canisius, 6-0.
Midfielder Frank Butcher opened scoring at 10:41 when he took a pass
from forward Sebastian Zawislan and put the ball into the near side of
the net, giving the Bulls a 1-0 lead. Forward Brian McCallion added to
the lead at 26:43 when he gathered a pass from John Shannon and fired
the ball into the goal from 20 yards out.
The second half was all UB as forward Steve Butcher tallied the first
of two goals at 58:30 to give the Bulls a 3-0 lead. A goal by Zawislan on
a penalty kick, another by Steve Butcher and one by forward Chris
Vinci made the final score UB 6, Canisius 0.
O n Sept. 27, the Bulls lost a dose game to St. hancas t Pa. I tn overtime,l-3. Butcher and Jarek Radzinsk.i scored the only rwo goals.

LfO~Loun~
Both teams had an impressive weekend at the Stanford lm•1tational

tn

Palo Alto, Calif. The women's team finished fourth o ut of 28 teams in
the 5,000-meter run with a total of 139 points. Casey Spencer finished
first for the Bulls and 21st overall in the meet with a time of 19: II .
The men's team placed third overall in the me&lt;t with 175 total poUlts. Pal
Nolan finished lOth overall in the 8,000-meter run with a Umeof 26:33 .tnd
Tony David finished with a time of 26:34 for lt th place o•-erall.
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Qand A; Ryan would make Career
Planning 'high-tech' and 'high-touch'

PAGEl

Grades by Phone?

PAGE 4

Science, humanities: bridging gap
between.'two ways uf knowing'

September 25.1!117/V!l29. No.5

Beach
ccmbers
Students and staff groomed
the shores of Lake LaSalle
Saturday during the annual
Great Lakes Beach Sweep.
From left William Leslie,
a junior; Keesha O'Galdez,
a freshman, and Janusz
Trzyna, a grad student.

School ofNursing receives $2 million gift
Bei[U6t is largest ever received by the schoo~ second gift will fund research
I

8J PAULA wmtliiEU.

honor of Petsan and her late hus -

port for st udent scholarships," she

Reporter Contribut&lt;&gt;&lt;

band.
The $200,000 bequest to sup -

added. "These scholarships will
give the sc~coo l a c:onlpetitivec'd~e

T

HE School of Nursing
has received a $2 million
bequest to fund undergraduate and graduate
scholarships that is the largest gift
ever received by the school, as weU
as a $200,000 bequest to support
nursing research.
The $2 million gift to fund
scholarships--&lt;&gt;ne of the largest
gifts from an individual in the
!51 -year history of lffi-was received from the late Nova G.
Petsao , a UB alumnus who
worked as a high-school teacher
and then a state employment
counselor. It will benefit the Nova
G. Petsan and Gustave Petsan
Scholarship Fund, named in .

port nursing research was received

in recruiting the

from Shirley D. DeVoe of Buffalo,
who holds bachelor's and master's
degrees in nursing from UB and
worked for 35 years as a nurse before retiring in 1975. 1t will establish the Shirley D. DeVoe Nursing
Research Support Fund to assist

best and brightest

nurs ing facult y members and
graduate students.
Dean MeccaS. Cranley said the
$2 million gift from Petsan, who
died in March , will bener positio n
the School of Nursing to anract

top-quality students.
"'A5 student aid is getting harder
to obtajn, this is a great time for
the school to receive so much sup-

students.

·

G reiner... Most of all , we are
thankful to be able to offer new
opportunities for UB nursing stu dents for years to come."
A 1922 UB alumnus, Petsan
taught French and Latin at

" It is especially
significant because
this is a perpetual

Niagara Falls High School from
1928-42, and was an employment

gift.. .as long as
there is a School of
Nursing, there will
be Petsan scholarships to benefit
students."
President William R. Greiner
praised Petsan and her support for
th e nursing school.
" '-"'t! are deep ly grateful to have
enjoyed Mrs. Petsan's confidence
and support over the years. and \'It
are hono red by her bequest," said

Department of Labor from 1943
until her retirement in 1970.

counselor for the New York State

During the time she was an
undergraduate student in th e

Faculty of Arts and Letters, few
women attended UB. Sht earned
a deg ree in French fr om
Middlebury Co ll ege in Ve rmont
in 1925.
William Broderick, Sr.. her at torney and longtime friend. said

Retention is critical issue as enrollment falls
By SUE WUETCHEI
New5 Services Associate Director

E

--

NROllMENT for the faU
semester is down about 287

fuU-tirne-«juivalents from
the targets budgeted for FaU
1997, which could cost !he university
about$1.1 million in lost revenue, according to Nicolas Goodman, vice
pr&lt;MlStforwxlergJaduateeducation.
This marks the second year in a
row in which US's enrollment was
down from the previous year, said
Goodman, who is coo rdinating
UB's enrollment· management efforts now that the Office of Admissions and other undergraduate aca ·
demic services have been moved to
the Office of the Provost.
"This puts us in the hole from the
point of view that next year we will
have to make this up; he added.
Although UB brought in mor&lt; new
students for the FaU 1997 semester
than it did for the FaU 1996 semester,
the numbtr of returning students

continues to decline, Goodman said.

Figures from the university's enrollment "snapshot" taken on Sept 19
show that the totl.l FTE enrollment is
20,743,down 188 FTE from last year
and 287 from the budgeted target
The actual headcount is 23,429,
down 521 from the budgeted target
of23,950 and 148fromtheFaU 1996
enrollment of 23,577.
Freshmen exceed target

The budgeted target is the enrollment number negotiated between
UB and SUNY and is the figure
upon which UB's budget is based.
Goodman said UB exceeded its
Ia '!let for incoming fresh men, bring-

freshman la'l\&lt;15, because we didn't
to do that; Goodman said,
praising the efforts of the admissions
staff, led by Director Regina Toomey.
.. The transfer numbers also are
better than we tho ught they would
expect

be," he said , adding that transfer
numbers for SUNY institutions as
a whole are down, "'so it's impres·
sive that we were able to bring our
numbers up" (over last year).
The real cause for concern,
Goodman said, is mention. The num-

ingin2,816 students, 11 6 morethan

ber of continuing wxJerwaduau:s declined by 352 from last year, to 11,140,
and by 2fl) from the target of 11 ,400.
The number of returning graduate studen ts fell to 5,743, a drop of
200 from the FaU 1996 figure of5,943

theta'!letof2,700and 24 1 more than
last year's number of 2,575.

and 257 from the target of 6.000.
TotaJ graduate enrollment for Fall

The number of students transfer-

1997 is 7,877, down 129 from last
year and 173 from the ta'!let.

ring to UB improved by 92 over last
year, to i,596,although the totl.l is204
below the budgeted target of I ,800.
" l ~s imp...,.;, that weexa&lt;d&lt;d the

He attributed part of the la rge
decline in continuing undergradu ates to the fac t that most of the un ·

usua ll y large freshm an class of
1993-mo re th an 3,000 students

entered UB that fall-has fcnall y
mov~

through the system.

Retention key to improvement
N~ertheless. retention rema ins a
crucial issue, Goodman stressed,
and in the long run, the key to im proving overall enrollment figures
will be to improve retention.
"We have to makt the whole institution more welcoming to srudents
and more effective in meeting stu+
dents' needs. The efforts wt make to
improve retention ... in the long run
will make it possible to recruit mort"
students." Goodman n ot~.·d that UB
has hired an enrollment -manage ·
ment consulting firm , Noei -Levttz.
to prov1de advace. soft,V"are and "di ·
rect technical help" to did the um
versit)' in its recruitment efforts.
EnroUment .. has got to be a ver~
high priority; we've got to turn this
around next year," he said.

�Q

w..-..--.--

DMiel J. llyan is UB's new

Job7

director of the Office of Career Planning and Placement
Porrnerly assistant director
of the Career Center at
Canisius College. he writes a
regular column for Business
First on career-development and job-search issues.
You're new to ua. What's the
uniYenlty'o g,_tat u-7

It may sound clich~ but without
hesitation, ! would say"the people."
I continue to be impressed with the
quality of the student body, and, of
course, the quality of the faculty
and staff
ttl gruteot handk•p 7

The university's bii!Sest weakness,
in my opinion, is not quite an inferiority complex, but that it
doesn't quite seem to grasp its
worth to the Western New York
community and to the world. I
guess I expected to experience
more of what is usually called
"school spirit" Athletics may boost
that spirit as we move to Division
I, however, you would think that

with a Nobel prize- winner on
campus, you wouldn't have to rely
as heavily on athletics.

Nothing too grandiose, but short-

term I expect that the UB Office
of Career Planning and Placement
will be the recognized leader
throughout New York State, and,
within the next 2-3 years, in the
country. There are some very tal ented people on our staff, and we
are already at the forefront in

many areas. My goal is to be both
"high-tech" and "high-touch" in
our interactions with students,

faculty and employers.
lt'o"-&lt;1..-.ghto-.W.
dents at a 1rnaU college
like
Conbloaofw_Job
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to clearly communicate their inter_
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est
in _
the position.

The key is to be visible to students,

and to reach them early and ofteo. I am excited about the prospect of working with Heather
Holmes, the director of new student programs, to reach students
and their parents as they enter the
university. Collaboration with
other offica, like admissions and

academic advising. and, of course,
with individual faculty and departments is key to preparing students for the transition from college into the world of worl: or
graduate school.
Thkwu_.- to be• good
yeMforto fiDel
jobl.-alotof-_..lltlll

,.-t..

11ne•ployetl, and all of the
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They say·that perception is reality,
and one of our biggest tasks is to
change perceptions. In the next 30
days, we will be visited by Microsoft,
Proctor &amp; Gamble, EDS, IBM,
Motorola. Kodak, l.ocl:heed Martin
and scores of other Fortune 500
companies, all looking to ~ UB
students. And none of them will be
hiringfor"Freoch Fry Technicians"!
Many students find that it takes
them much longer to find a job than
they had anticipated. As a liberalarts grad, I know that many of my
fellow students took years to find a
job in a career that they enjoyed The
biggest hurdle that they had to overcome was that they had not begun
toseriouslythinkabouttheirca=
until they had crossed the stage at
graduation. That lack of focus becomes evident in job interviews, and
leads to candidates being passed
over in favor of those who are able

The time you spend planning your
job search will pay off in the end.
To begin a search without having
gone through some serious introspection and self-assessment is to
invite months of rejection and depression. Only after you understand your strengths (and your
weaknesses) can you successfully
communicate to potential employers how you might be able to help
them.
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Far from it, actually. Cobol programmers are in particularly high
demand, given the problems asso-

There are bugecllirer.nce. betw=
someone born in 1946 and someone born in 1976. Ithinl:ooeoftbe
biggest differences is found in tbe
apectations aboui worl: (how often do you hear about someone
calling in sicl: the day after a Tony
Bennett COII&lt;Zrt?). People born at
the beginrting of the baby-boom
grew up and saw their parents (usually their fathers) retire after 40
years at the same company and get
the p..,..,-bialgold watch. Students
who are graduating this year at 22
may ha'le seen both parents l11aU
significant job changes, perhaps
changing employers several times.
Sometimes this was their parents'
choice, and sometimes it may t.a.e
been the result of a layoff or
downsizing. So perhaps the change
in outlool: from geoenotion to generation is more the result of the

changes in the workplace.

ciated with the conversion of
countless programs before the
deadline of )an. I, 2000. In addi-

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C++, java and other programming
languages are also in high demand.

It already has. No longer are people
sending the same generic resumt
to all employers. Word processing
programs and laser printers available at public libraries give applicants the opportunity to target
each resumt to a sp&lt;cific employer.
Desktop video conferencing allows our students to come to our
offiao in 259 Capen Hall and interview ,with an employer sining
at a desl: in Redmond, Calii Stu-

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with the interviewer as an individual Most candidates interviewed
for a position have air.ady met some
thnshold of qualifications. Obviously, you need to prepare for the
interview by researching the company and by antippating questions
and preparing answers to them.
However, most hiring decisions are
made on a "gut-feel" basis, anil positions =offered to candidates who

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and doWnload resurntsof students
and alumni too!

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Center receives grant for aerobiology research .
11f E1.UH GOUHIAUM
News Services Editor

T

HE Industry/University Center for

Biosurfaces (IUCB), headquartered
at UB, has been awarded $900,000

over a five-year period by the National Science Foundation to expand its research into a'erobiology-the study of airborne
co ntagions--and cardiovascular and respira-

tory health.
The award provides for the ~ddition to the
cen ter of a new industry/university team based
at the University of Miami and focused on cardiopulmonary research.

UB, the University of Memphis and the New
York State College of Ceramics at Alfred Uni'Versity are the other academic members of the
center, which is the only peer-reviewed national
· industry/university program devoted to ad vancing biotechnology and surface science.
The new program is focused on research that
will increase the understanding of how the hu man cardiovascular and respiratory systems react to airborne contagions, such as those that

cause "sick building syndrome" and multiple
chemical sensitivities.
.. The common theme of this center has been
what goes on in nature when anything living

comes into contact with anything that is not
living,• said Robert Baier, executive director of
the center and UB professor of biomaterials.
During the past nine year~ the center has
scientific research advancing the

knowledge of how artificial

also plan to test and conduct research on new

aerosol drug-delivery systems at the CalspanUB Research Center's aerosol research chamber facility in Ashford.
The work will build on pioneering research
conducted at UB into the development of

materials, such as medical and aerosol lung surfactants for infants suffering
dental implants, interact with from respiratory diseases.
living tissue in the human ·
An important objective of the center is to
body, as well as in marine and improve the competitiveness of U.S. biotechindustrial environments.
nology and of biotech companies in regions
li.We have spent about $2 mil- where the research sites are located: Western
lion collecting a unique set of New York, New York's southern tier, the Misdata on how polymers, ceramics and metals in- sissippi Delta and, most recently, south
teract with living things and their products, Florida.
To belong to the consortium, each school
such as bacteria, cells, blood, sweat and tears:
said Baier... Now we want to apply what we've must recruit local and nationa1 companies as
learned about those interactions to whole industry members, each of which pays an

people.
.. We want to increase o ur understanding of
these interactions,• Baier said, li.so that even tually materials that we encounter in the environment, s uch as pesticides and asbestos
and other substances that are making people
sick, can be replaced with materials that are
bland and acceptable and don't cause these
reactio ns.•
Under the new program, UB investigators

annual membership fee of $40,000.
A total of 15 industry and government partners now belong to the center, including Johns
Manville Corp., Owens Coming Science and
Technology Center, U.S. Biomaterials Corp.,
U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense
Agency and CertainTeed Corp.
Companies that have worked with IUCB in
the past include Procter &amp; Gamble, Bausch &amp;
Lomb and GIBCO Life Tec\mologies.

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Two committees formed to aid in
transition to Arts, Sciences college

BrieO

BY SUE WUETCHEII

The long-delayed United University Professions cont ract was over-

News Servk.es As$0date Editor

T

HE process of creating a

College of Arts and Sciences ha s begun, with
Provost Thoma s E.
Headrick appointing two committees to assist in the transition.
The task of the Founder's Committee, chaired by David Triggle,
vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate
School, will be to "design the structure and pattern of operation for
an arts and sciences coUege in the
2 1st century...

The Search Committee,
chaired by Louis Goldberg, dean
of the School of Dental Medicine,
will conduct a national search for
the dean of the college.
In his charge to the Founder's
Co mmittee, Headrick said the
role of the panel is fourfold:
• To appraise US's current capacity to create and maintain excellent undergraduate and graduate programs, support high-qual It y resea rch and scholarship in
the arts and ~ iences, and explore
ways that gr duate teaching and
resea rch
ght enhance undergraduate I ning
• To
· e and suggest solutions
to problems d issues identified by
the Hearing Pari on the Reorganization of the
and Sciences, including p.-oc:esses r acoommodating thedivme academic cultures that
exist among the disciplines in the arts
and sciences, and to oondua a r&lt;alistic appraisal of ttSOurces available
and needed to advance and
strengthen the arts and sciences at UB
• To study and propose ways in
which the arts and sciences can
work with the professional
schools to enhance the quality of
educational programs and resea rch

• To take up other related issues
to ensure a successful transition
from the current structure of
three faculties to that of the college
The committee will serve for
two years. During the first year, it
will study and report on the issues; during the
second yea r, it
will work with
the new dean to
implement the
new structure.
The members of
the Founder's
Committee are: Thomas Keirstead, associate professor of history;
Stephen Halpern, professor of political science; John (Sid) Shrauger,
professor of psychology; Barbara
Tedlock, professor of anthropology; Jan Mutchler, associate professor of sociology; Diane Christian,
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English; Nathan Grant, assistant professor of African-American studies;
Robert Hoeing, associate professor
of modem languages and literatures; Roy Roussel, professor of
English and media study; Carol
umel, professor and chair of the
Department of Art History.
Also, Stephen Hender.an,associate professor of theatre and dance;

Frank Bright, professor of chemistry; Stephen Frer, professor of bio-

logical sciences; Deborah Walters,
associate professor of computer science; William Menasco, professor of
mathematics; Michael Naughton,
associate professo r of physics;
Charles Mitchell, associate professor
of geology; Michael Frisch, professor of history and American stud ies; John Peradotto, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the
Department of Classics, and Judith

Duchan, professor and chair of the
Department of Communicative

Disorders and Sciences.
The Search Committee will consider both internal and external
candidates for the dean's position.
Headrick has asked the committee to identify an appointee no
later than March 15 who would

assume the post by Summer 1998.
Themembers oftheSearchCommittee are: Carolyn Korsmeyer, professor ofphilosophy; Peter Rogmon,
professor of geography; Jack
Meacham, professor of psychology;
Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished
Professor in the Department of English; Martha Malamud, associate
professor of classics; Adele Henderson, associate professor of atL
Also, Robert Jaoobi, professor of
geology; Bruce McCombe, prof&lt;ssor of physics; Joseph Gardella, professor of chemistry; Peter Gold, associate dean of the Undergraduate
College, and Sarah Andenon, representing US's Alumni Association.
Headrick said that the Council of
Arts and Sciences Deans also will
work on the reorganization by

studying the potential effects of the
transition upon the administratio n

of the three faculties and the problems associated with the integration
of the now-separate finance and resource-management systems into a
single system. The council, which
will involve professional staff members in this review and analysis, will
meet with the Founder's Committee to discuss these matters. he said.
The council also will assemble

a small group of facul ty members
to prepare a repon comparing the
appointment, tenure and promotion processes in the three facul ties, identifying problems con nected with the integ ration of
these processes and suggest ing
app ropriate solution s to these
problems, Headrick said.

UUP contract ratified
whelmingly approved last wuk in what union officials are calling the
largest member response to a ratification vote in UU P history.
According to William Scheuerman, UUP president. 93.4 percent of
those voting favor~d ratification of the new contract. Of 9,602 valid
votes, 8,969 were for ratificat ion, 626 were against, six were blank and
on~ was void. The vote represents 6 1.4 ~rc~nt of UUP members eli gible to vote.
The new contract covers the period from July 2, 1995, to July I, 1999,
and provides an across -the -board salary incr~ of 3.5 percent in each
of the last two years of the agreement.
·
The cont ract also includes a lump -su m payment of S I ,250 for full ·
time employees, prorated for part-time employtts. It also calls for an
additional lump -sum payment of apprmcimately $500 per person, also
prorated for part-time employees. to be added onto employees' base
pay and retroactive to either Jul y or September 1996.
Discretionary pay increases of 1 percent for each of the last three
years of the agreement also are part of the pact.
Th~ new co ntract offers protections against contracting 10 and contracting out, as well as full restoration of the UUP Benefit Trust Fund.
with retroactive reimbursement of all dental and vision claims incurred
during the fund 's suspension.
For more details o n the co ntract, visit UUP 's Web site at
www.uuplnfo.org .

Cultural warrior Larry Levine
to give Capen Lecture Sept 30
Larry Levine, maJor historian, public intellectual and cultural
provocateur, will present th e 1997 Capen Lecture in the Humanities
at UB on Sept. 30. The lecture, .. The Sea rch for American Identity,"
wilJ take place at 4 p.m. in the Drama T heatre 10 the Cen·
ter for the Arts. Sponsored by the Samuel P. Capen Chair
in American C ulture ( Bruce Jackson) and the Faculty of
Arts and Letters, it will be frtt and open to the public.
1 Levine is the author of .. T he Opening of the American

Mind" ( 1996), a politi cally powerful history of th e university in American society. It was written in response to the spate
of right -wing books publish ed in recent years that attack the contemporary university and blame educa tors (o r a pernicious decli ne
in America n culture.
In his book, Levine offers what many critics have cal led the first
reaso ned exploration of the explosive co nfli cts over the u n iversity,
the canon, and, fund amentally, the meaning of being ..American"'
that have co me: to be called " the cultu re wars."
Levlne ls a professor of history and cultural studies at George
Mason University in Virginia and Margaret By.rne Professo r of History Em erit us at the University of California, Berkeley. A MacArthur
Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts a nd Sciences, he has received many professional and academic awards.

Grades by phone, not mail? FSEC mulls the question
Goodman estimated that the uni v=itywould save about $12,000 per
, semester by not mailing grades, addHILE UB could ing that"from an administrative and
save an estimated budgetary point of view, I think the
$12,000 per semes- argument is quite strong" against
ter by not mailing mailing grades.
grades to students and means exAmong those advising that stu BY SUE WUETCHEII

News Servkes Associate Director

W

ist Ulat would allow them to learn
their marks by telephone or via the

Web, faculty members on Sept. 17
ca utioned the university not to
suspend mailing grades without
consulting students.
Nicolas Goodman , vice provost
for undergraduate education, asked
the Faculty Senate Executive Committee for advice about whether it's
necessary fo r the university to continue mailing grading reports to students' permanent addresses when
students are able to access th eir

grades throUgh BIRD via a touchtone phone.
Students also can obtain print ou ts of their grades from th e
Provost's Office, he said , and, effec tive next m o nth, stu~nts will be
able to get their grades o n the World

Wide Web.

malcing a sudden change." Ryan said

Powhatan Wooldridge, associate
professor of nursing, urged senators
to consider the symbolic implications of the issue.
.. Not mailing the grades out to
students will symbolize ano ther in cidence of the university not caring,"

dents be consulted was Michael

Wooldridge said.

Ryan, asso&lt;iate dean in the School
of Engineering and Applied Sci-

And when considering the enormous number of mailin&amp;" UB sends

ences. While many students may feel

out to p~ students, "it may
seem a little penny-wise and poundfoolish" not to mail grades. he added

comfortable obtaining their grades
via a telephone call or the Web, he
noted, "You may find that a signifi -

Reports used In various ways
He sa id students no t only may

Kevin McCue, a representative of
the Graduate Student Associa tion.
told senators that since grades usu ally are m ade available when stu ·
dents are away from cam pu.s--during the midsemester and summ er
breaks-students would incur costs

share their grades with their parents,
but use the grade report in a variety
of ways, as tho ugh it were an offi -

by making what for many would be
a long-distance telephone call to
BIRD. And many students do not

cant number of students fed, 'I pay
this tuition , the least you ca n do is
mail me my grades."'

cial transcript.

have access to the Web unless they

"l(s one thing to just look at "numbers'andsay'it'scmingus$12,000and
i(s really unnea:ssary;' there is a culture and a habit and an expecllltion
about how these thin&amp;" are used in reality and we want to be careful about

are o n campus, he said.
Whlle her initial feeling was to
support do ing away with mailed reports, Maureen Jameson, associate
professor of modern languages and
literatures, said she was co ncerned

that studen ts feel they were consulted on the issue and that there

was some sort of"fuil-safe"back-up,
such as a OARS report, to students'
electronic records.

Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, suggested that students first
be offered the o ptio n of not having
their grades m ailed to them in an
anempt to determine the popular-

ity of the idea.
Mid-semester grades proposed
Faculty Se nat e C hair Pe te r

Nickerso n. professor of pathology.
referred the issue to th e sena te's
Committee o n Grading, chaired by
Thomas Schroeder. associate professor of learning and instruction.

Goodman also asked the grading
commit1ee to examine the feasibility of havi ng som e selec ted stu dents-possibly those experienci ng
their first se mester at US-receive
mid - semester g rades in so me
courses.

These grades would hdp identify
early those students who are in academic trouble, Goodman said, al-

though be admitted it likely would be
more work for faculty membcB who

would have to provide the grades.
.. If we have some early warning
that th is particular student is not
doing weU in this particular course.
then we can use that information to
intervene," possibly by offering tutoring or talking to the st udent
about his o r her study habit~ he said.
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distin guished Service: Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Com·
puter Engineering. pointc..-d out that
the Division of AthletiCS has been
involved in such a project for a long
time and it's proven to be very help-

ful for the athletes.
In other business. senato rs:
• Heard a request for adv1ce fro m

Barry Ecken . dean of the School of
Health Related Professions and cha1r
of th e 1997 SEFA campaign, on
whether it would encourage g1vm~
at the university to publish the
names of those contributmg at cer·
tain levels to the cam pa1gn. Some
senators favored the idea, while oth ·
ers worried about confidenuality lS ·

sues.
• Heard a presentation by Good man o n preliminary enrollment
figu res for the fall semester.

�Science and the Humanities
OJmmunication flows as profs bridge the gap between 'two ways ofknowing

ay PATIIICIA DONOVAN
News Sefvkes Edttor

I

FONEWEREtoconstruda
continu um to represent

methods by whi ch human
ideation is understood, two
pointsofviewmightmarkits
poles-that of science on one end
and the humanities.on the other.
Historically, the gulf between the
two fields has been deep and communication between the two poles
fractious. HOW&lt;&gt;&lt;:r,atlast Thunday's
" VB at Sunrise" program, the gulf
narrowed and the communication
flowed as Louis Goldberg and Diane
Ouistian discussed thechangingfidd
of mind studies and the evolution of
the ideas ofconsciousness and ps)dle.
Goldberg. dean ofthe School ofDmtal
M:dicine,&gt;pektfo&lt;thescimas. Olristian, SUNY Distinguished Th!ching
Professor in the Department of English. represented the hwnanities.

" Blurred frontier"
Before an attentive audience of
nearly 200 in the Center for Tomorrow, they spoke across what
Goldberg, quoting Isaiah Berlin,
called ·the blurred frontier bceen two ways of knowing.•

He noted that the chasm between
the two bas narrowed considerably
in the past few yean. Consciousness
·es, which usually fall under the
ruli ·c of C!'S"itive sciences, have
co to embrace understandings of
min and self developed in the humanities, along with empirical data
from such fields as psychology, cellular biology, neurophysiology, biochemistry, cybernetics and quantum physics. All is not peaa:ful in
the realm of consciousness studies,
however, because it is there,
Goldberg pointed out, that the
battle between our ways of knowing is fiercely joined.
Berlin, he noted, commented

that "we hold many values that are
mutually incompatible and conflicts between them cannot be resolved Things. facts really exist, but
our attempts to make sense of them
embroil us in hopeless conflict."
Perhaps, Goldberg averred, not
too hopeless a conflict.
He discussed his personal odyssey to understand the mind-consciousness-body connection from
his graduate-scbool days. Beginning
with discussions with neurophysiologist James Perryman as to bow
the human brain can study the human brain at all, Goldberg contin-

of consciousness studies as a central battleground for the re-contesting of old and venerable wars.
h is a place where quantum me·
cbanics meets the zombies of cognitive scienGei where neuroscience
meets pan-psychism, where God
meets artificial intelligence.
"The floodgates are open," be
said, "Everybody wants to have a
shot at explaining consciousness.
What a glorious mystery it is, and
what glory would go to those associated with its solution. if there is,
of coune,such a thing as solution."
Galvanized by a talk given by

"1\xxor and Stuart Oub," which altornated speakers from literature and
medicine followed by beer (now orange juice) and discussion.
"Truth Is the prtze•

Later, "while exploring imagination and story and religion-the
stuff of myth-! was aware that
scientific skepticism sees myth as
false, superstitious and useless. not
as revealing a sacred story.
"So it was and is exciting to me,"
Ouistian said, "that a brain scientist-Nobel prizewinning brain
man Gerald Edelman-took notice.
He is ascientist,a musician and kMr
of poetry--but be believes in science. which be calls 'imagination in
the servia of verifiable truth.'
"Truthistheprizt,"sbesaid, "verifiable is the ocience. imagination sball
besubordinaled.alongwithsubjectivity. This feels like rdigion to me.•
She cited her readings in ~
Darwin, l'mld, lldelman--&lt;uld their
•understanding of body and mind.
Edelman's biological model ofbrain,
she said, "bas real resonance for the
problem of mind and body in the
reli&amp;ious story that promises we'D
survive, not as disembodied consciousness or souls or spirits, but as
i ''td
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..... . , . . . , _
..-~- .,
renewed immortal bodies.•
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In ber analysis of myth, mind, sciued the battle in his mind about his Ouistian-at the Olautauqua Insti- ence and "truth," Ouistian spoke of
mind by reading MIT's Marvin tution, Goldberg is attempting to Qoheleth. theproadler in Ecelesiastes.
Minsky, one of the founding scien- compensate fur his education in sci- and the great historian of Greek religion, Walt&lt;r &amp;uken, who stressed
lists of artificial intelligence, and en&lt;%, which, be said, "left me with .
Minsky's antithesis, anthropologist only a shallow appreciation of a the significance of imagination as a
territory shared and by both scienTam Ingold, who was drMn to dis- majorpartofmy(cubural,irl11:Dectual)
traction by Minsky's celebration of heritage•.• thepartthatisrw:assuyfo&lt; tists and scholars of the hwnanities.
Both speaken agreed that as the
nanotechnology as an ideal tool for fuDpor1icipationintheinldleCtuallir.
field of consciousness studies exsocial engineering.
of the late 20th antury."
"It is fascinating now," Goldberg
Christian said her studies in my- pands, it will continue to require
said,"toseebowalargepartofthe thology, religion, art and culture knowledge &amp;om many realms famil.
terrain over which I bad been developedberintrigueforwhatsbe iar to both science and the humaniwandering in amateurish delight terms "the story of science.• In ties to explain multiple aspedS of
bas crystallized. ..into the nocent, graduatescboo~sbeattendtdmeet­ the Vast, unexplored territory of human understanding.
dramatic and explosive emergence ings of The Johns Hopkins lJnMrsity
~SUNYD' rt'

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UGL is new home of libraries' reserve
systems; budget cuts force change
By IIIWfT CUNNINCOHAM
Reportor Suff

UDGET cuts and space limitations
have forced the Universiry Libraries
to consolidate their reserve systems in
the Undergraduate Library.
The change has met with some protest
and even a petition against it. The petitioners have noted that it will make it more difficult for those studying in Lockwood to access reserve material quickly.
Formerly, Lockwood reserve materials were
held with the old "current periodicals" area,
now occupied by microfonns and newspapers. Reserve material currently is located at
the circulation desk in the UGL
Judith Adams, director of Lockwood Library, explained that this year's budget cuts

B

to library personnel helped force the

change. The need to consolidate staff led
to the need to consolidate material, she said.
"It is ""'Y difficult to maintain print services and espand into electronic services while
we ha;';e less and less to work with," added
Kluen Senglaup, director of aa:ess services

In general, the petitioners appear sympathetic to the library's limitations.
"It is a considerable incorwmience for us."
said Beth Dill, a graduate student in English
who cin:ulated the petition, "but perhaps
not as considerable as the (budgetary) incon~ence the library is esperiencing~
Senglaup agreed. "'It is, indeed, an inconvtnience to those on the Clemens side
of campus,"' she said, "'but we are out of
physical space in Lockwood."
The consolidation, according to
Senglaup, is part of a series of moves the
library is making to try to free up space. Discussions she conducted last year with library
patrons led to the impression that, in generaJ, students who wrre using ~rve material were not simultaneously wing other
library material, and therefore could do
their work entirely within the UGL
Both Adams and Senglaup were quick
to point out the benefits of the consoli-

dation.
"'We hope in the future to have r~rve
materials avaiJable until 2 a.m." said

Senglaup, "which is something we couldn't have
done in Lockwood." The physical design of
Lockwood, she explained, does not allow for one
section to remain open after other sections
close.
Adams added that it will be easier and cheaper
to digitalize a consolidated reserve system.
" It was a difficult decision," said Senglaup,
"but we honestly believe students are going .to
gain froffi this ultimately...
Dill was careful to direct her criticism away
from the library and its staff, but said an alternative to the decision might be "worth fighting
for...
"I feel the reser ve system belongs in the
graduate l.ibrary,.. she said.
While conceding many of the library's points,
Dill maintained that her petition is generating
a beneficial and necessary discussion. Many
people, she said, .. are concerned that '(the consolidation) may be a bureaucratic mistake...
Senglaup also welcomed the opportunity for
dialogue ... It's good to have an art'icle about it,"
she said "'It gives us a chance to explain our situation.•

�Seplellber 1~ 1!1!7/Vol Z9.1o.5 Rep..._

Time-

Savers

JSTOR: A New Frontier

Memorabilia from
its 5oth anniversary

celebration was buried
in a time capsule by
the School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences Sept 12.
Frederick Meli, tenter,
Engineering Alumni
Association president.
joins Andn!'N Sarantapoulas, left, and Ben
Kujawinski, right. with
his son, Alex, at the

Engineering Quad.

Step into good health at fitness fair
IIY llllfHT CUNNINGHAM
Reporter Staff

I

N a creative co ll aboration
with Residential Life, faculty
and slud ent intern s from

The Departmentof Physical

Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition
Sciences have begun to offer a
range of new fitness services to
students in the Ellicott Complex.

This year, res,idents will be able
to

nutritional
amuys&lt;i:S, &lt;&gt;O&lt;JYtrrtass calibrations

and

ciall y launched during the "First
Step" fitness fair, scheduled for
2·5 p.m. Saturday. As in the past,
information about nutrition, exerci se, eating disorders, weight
loss and powerlifting will be
available at tables and booths io
front of Fargo Quad. This year,
however. faculty and student interns from nutrition , exe rcise
sc ience and physical therapy aJso
wiU be on hand to co ndu ct fit rnents.

Throughout the
year, interns will follow up on the initial assessments,
offering advice
and computer
analysis at

program "adds
up to having ·
your own personal
trainer.•
"AI an early age,
people make lifestyle choices,"'
Sochner said. •Some students have
more trouble when they're away
fro m home, because their diets
and their schedules are less flex ible, so ... we hope this will help
them establish good fitn ess habits."'
The new program will be offi-

least twice a
.-!&lt;.After eat-

ing in
h e
cafete 1

ria, for example, a student "will
be able to enter what they just ate inlo
a computer, and it will te.U them how
ITJ'li1Y grarrts of fat, how many grams
of sodium, how it fits their nutri tional picture," said Soehncr.
Wednesday night "Fit Chats" will
offer students another way to foUow
up on their assessments. Student

"power advocates" from the Living
Well Center will conduct informal
discussions about eating righl in the
dorms, eating disorders, proper
weight-loss programs and how to

shop for healthy food.
The new program got its stan last
year when Elizabeth Eckert, filness
programmer for Residential Student Services. began expanding the

aerobics classes in the Fargo workout room. Eckert, who also holds a
position in the Department of
Physical Therapy, Exe rcise and
Nutrition Sciences, acted as the ini·

tialliaison between Residential Stu-

For further information on ]STOR contact Charles o ·Aniello.
Coordinator. Collection Development. Lockwood Library ar
Jclchar/@acsu.Buffalo.edu or 645-2817.
--Gemma DeVIn ney • nd Don Hartman,

Umv~rs1ty Libror1es

I

dent Services and the nutrition and
exercise science departments. With

support from Barry Eclc.rt, dean of
the School of Heallh and Related
Professions, Soehner and Pete

Niland of R&lt;sidenlial Life turned
the aerobics dasses into complete
fitness regimens.
The entire program is free to
Ellicott residents.
"These are the kinds of programs that ca use a resident to stay
with us instead of moving off.
campus," said Soehner. " It's like
hav ing a stat e-of- th e-a rt health
club membership."
uwe're very exci ted about th e
en tire program," said Ecke rt. " I'm
expecting a good response from
the student s."

Campus heating policy for 1997-98
F• ll II here: and so is information on 1997-98
campus heating policy
Offices will be heated to 68 degrees Fahrenheit
from 8 a .m .-5 p .m . and classrooms will be
heated to this temperature from 8 a.m .-1 0 p.m .
For the rest of the time, and on weekends and
holidays, the temperature will be allowed to drop
to 55 degrees Fahrenheit before heating occurs.
In mosrs paces, the temperature will not drop
to that level before the normal working-day heating cycle begins again. However, during a severe cold snap or during an extended week- end /
shu tdown, or due to the particular characteristics of some of UB's facilities, there will be instances when the temperature will drop to 55
degrees Fahrenheit.
Heating lor academic program purposes will
be provided on off-hours and weekends as
needed . Each dean 's office should provide University Facilities' customer service departmen t
with a Jist of individuals in each departmental
office authorized to request off-hour/ holiday
heating. The request..(or off-hour/holiday heating must be received by Customer Service (extension 71 or 645-2025) by noon of the preceding business day. University Facilities will uti-

SchOI•n rejoice! The University Libraries have entered a new era
of electronic full-text access to scholarly journals with its charter
membership in Project JSTOR (Jo urna l STORage). What is the
JSTOR difference? Unlike other electronic journal initiatives,JSTOR
includes full-text from volum e one through at least 1989 of some of
the oldest and· most prestigious scholarl y journa ls; faithful repro ductions of each published page; the abil ity to search by au tho r, title
or keywo rd either the fuJI-text of th e archived journals across the
entire JSTOR archive o r by individual journal title. and the abiht y
to .. browse" individual journal issues.
At present, JSTOR, which was initiated by 1he Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, includes among its 30 titles The American Political Sci ·
&lt;nee Review ( 1906-1993), The Annals of Mathemalics ( 1884 -1990),
Ecology(l920-1994), The Journal of Higher Education ( 1930-1991 ),
The Journal of Modern History ( 1929-1991 ), The Quarterly Journal of Economics ( 1886-1991 ), Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval
Studies (1926- 1989) and Studies in Family Planning ( 1963-1993 ).
JSTOR plans to include titles in the disciplines of sociology and
philosophy in the near fu ture.
The University Libraries web site provides a va riery of access pomts
for jSTOR. You will find it on the "Online Reso urces" page (http:/ 1
ubllb.buff• lo .edu/llbr• rles/ e-resources ) under "Full -Text Journal
Anicles." You also will find individual jSTOR title entr it"s in the Uni ·
versity Libraries "Electronic Jo urnals and Serials" homt&gt;page {http:/
/ ubllb . b u ff•lo . ~u/ llb r•rles /e- reso u rces/e)ou m•ls ). The Un iver·
sity Libraries Catalog (formerly known as BISON), also alerts you
to th e existence of these full- text treasures. Finally, you can go to
JSTOR directly at its web· site at http ://www.Jstor.org. If ro u do
take th e direct rou te from your home compu ter, be sure to acces~
the web via your UB compu ter accoun t. JSTOR is onl y available to
current UB students, faculty and staff.

lize the most energy-efficient means of supplying heat for approved off- hour/ holiday requests.
Due to an inability to precisely control temperatures, it may be the case that some spaces
may be warmer than planned. It may also be
the case that central controls will not permit
the temperature in specific spaces to be raised
to 68 degrees Fahrenheit without significantly
increasing the temperature in the rest of the
facility. In those si tuations, University Facilities
will permit th e use of portable space heaters .
Note, however, that portable heaters not authorized by University Facilities wi ll be removed .
Call University Facilities, Customer Service (extension 71 or 645-2025) in the event you experience heating problems. The university community is requested to report overheated as well
as underheated areas.
II you see any opportun ities for energy savings
or wish to suggest an energy conservation project,
call Walter Simpson, the university's energy officer at 645-3528. Any general questions regard ing efforts in the energy conservation area should
be directed to Michael Dupre, interim associate
vice president for university facilities, 645-2145 .

Ways to

paper use

Edlto&lt;'s note: Th~ letter has been condensed for space. for lhe full tex~
as well as a Jist of contributors to th~ Jetter, see lhe Reporter's w.b site,

(www.bufflllo.edu/ repo&lt;ter)
Few lll&lt;lllber. of the VB community realitt the scope 'o f our environmental
impact~ are a big p1acr and we impact the environment in~~ olim

negative. w.l)'.ln 1996, VB ollia:s and departments purchased about 130,1XX&gt;
reams of paper. The manufac:ture of !hat paper consumed wood and energy
resoura:s and produced significant air and water pollution_
As pan of VB's commitment to envimrunental rrsponsibility and st""wdship. VB's Environmental Task Foro:, with thesuppon ofconcerned trutyand
administrators, is seeking cooperation from faculty in a number of areas per-

tlining to paper use and printing practicts. SpecificaiJy:
I. R&lt;:quest !hat departmental stalf prepare all class handouts using doublesided copying and printed on Unily DP =yded paper. Doublo-sided copying ·
redures paper use b)· 50 percmt Unity paper is unbleached. 100 percmt reC)ded. with 50 percmt post-oonsumer conu:nt from =yded mag;u:inc:s and
"""'JXlper'S.thus minimizing the environmental impact of the paper use. Unity
is manuftctured witholll chlorine bleaching to reduce water c:mi&gt;OOnsof dioxins and other toxic organochlorines. its off-while appc:arancr should be aarplable for most handouts.
Unity TWlS weU in most low· to medium-speed copy machines (tho ugh
some adjustments may be reqwred). This paper IS available to all UBolliee&gt;
through UB Central Stores. University Pnnt and Mail SeMCCS em print
handouts and other materials on Unity paper.
Z.lnform your students via syllabus as well as other means th..lt you pn.&gt;ft..Tor
"oold a&lt;Ul't (without prejudio:) COlli&gt;&lt; papers and wntu:n "00 tlut aredoubl&lt;sidcd printed and/or printed on Unity JXIper. \bur rerommendltion hill en·
oourage ~1udcnts to take these steps to protect ~ rnviromnenl llleie pnnung
options are availabk- at CIT computer labs. but often are oot util11.A.-. d txuU"t.'
stud~:.nts arc afraKi that paJX.n that an•doubk....sidt- pnntcd or pnnll'tl un uiT·
v..nite paper an~ 00{ aa:x.ptablc to pmfc.ssors or v..ill bt: \ 'li." \\\..J "'" k.-s-, att.ract.Jw
d&gt;m paper&gt; pruned 51!1gk sided on whll&lt;- whit.: JXIP'T.
Double-sided printing is available on CIT's high speed prmtl~f) 10 Bald' .
lkU, the Computing Center and Diefendorf Unit)' paper IS .tv.Uiablc.~ tn err
printers in Oemens and Diefendorf.
We recommend abo that, wh~,_-rc pr.tetx:al, fucuJty explore nle(..'ha.nbms l l lf
di.stnbutingcol.U'St:materialsandm:ctvingCOIJI'Sewo rkelcctrorucally-tofurther redoce waste and environmental impaa.
We bclieve that the process of education is not only oompatible w1th l'fl\'1-

ronmental responsibility bul should further !hal importlnt ,,..Jue. Ple-.tS&lt;
join us in taking steps to make that vision a rea.Jjty at UB.

Joe GArdella, et ol, fOf tit&lt;&gt; Univmity Environmental Tosi&lt; Force

�Major companies
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PSS celebrates silver anniversary
BY ~VIDAL
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"prioritizing...and UB is right at
the top of my priority lisL"
HE Professional Staff
Theuniversityis"critical, vital"
Senate marked a mile- to the health of the community,
stone last week as it eel- Rath noted.

ebrated the silver anni-

versary of its founding and bon·

ored officers who have served the
organization throughout its 25year history.
The anniversary was celebrated
SepL 16 at a commemorative dinner held in the atrium of the Center for the Arts. State Senator Mary
Lou Rath was keynote speaker.
In her address to the 130 mem-

"'With UB impacting on the
community to the tune of$1.4 bil-

lion per year, you're going

to

be

here for a long, long time," she
added
"Thank ynu for doing all ynu are
doing on behalf of the university
and Buffalo," Rath said.
Following her address, President

William R. Greiner, who served as
honorary chair of the PSS Silver

bers of the university community
who attended the celebration,
Rath called professional stalf"the
glue that holds together the uni·
versity."
Ratb bas been a staunch sup·
porter of the university through ·
out her 20 years in public office,
first as a member of the Erie
County Legislature and currently
as a member of the state Senate.
"I call it a way of life, not a job.
I'm sure that's something you can
all identify with," she said.
Noting that her work requires
balancing competing interests, she
said that if there is one word that
describes what she does, it is

Anniversary, praised Rath's com-

Petsan firmly believed in creating
opportunities for young students

portant to her because she had
prepared a brief speech for each
&amp;cholarship recipient. She encour·
aged the students to receive a good
education and to continue doing
good for others.•
The first Nova G. Petsan and
Gustave Petsan Scholafship
funded by the bequest is expected
to be presented in Fall 1998.
Cranley said the bequest from
Shirley DeVoe "will provide th&lt;
opportunity for faculty and students to conduct pilot research
and small studies in the field. Re·
search supported by this seed
money will enable the researchers
to show the significance of their
work and successfully secure other
funding to conduct larger scale
studies."
Research, Cranley added, .. is
important to nursing because it
provides the scientific data upon
which the practice is based."

to enable them to achieve similar
• educational aspirations.
"Throughout the 20 years I
knew Mrs. Petsan, she had a very
strong interest in..seeing her support directly aiding people," said
Broderick. "In particular, she
wanted to help ynung people get
a good start in receiving a quality
~ education and it is something she
is accomplishing with this gift."
Petsan was a strong supporter of
the nursing schooli her bequest
brings her total giving to the school
to nearly $2.25 million. A previous
gift established the Gustave &amp; Nova
Petsan Fund, which brought Petsan
back to UB as recently as last year
to personally present scholarship
awards to students.
"She was an amazing lady," said
Cranley. '"It was apparent that
meeting the students was very im-

mitment to UB.
"She bas worked tirelessly for

this university. This past year she
put in extraordinary effOrt on
behalf of our students," Greiner
said.
PSS also honored past officers
for their contributions to the organization. Among those honored:
Chairs: Allen Kuntz, Eugene
Martell, Robert Wagner, Walter
Kunl, Howard Duell , Ellen
McNamara, Clifford Wilson,
Thomas Hurle y, Anastasia
Johnson , William Wachob,
Marilou Jarvis , Neil Got;n,

Patricia Colvard, Arthur BurJte,
Rosemary Marciniak, Ruth
Bryant, Madison Boyce, Rosalyn
Wilkinson and Michael Stokes,
the current chair.
·vice
chairs:
Rosalyn
Wilkinson, Mary Kenyatta and
Keith Hermes, the current vice
president.
Secretary: Robert Wagner,
Judith Dingeldey, Sam Crisante,
Gloria Aniebo-Williams, Cather~e Dohn, Jacqualyn Cramer,
Josephine Capuana, Dorothy
Wynne, Barbara Evans, Mary
Brown, Ruth Bryant, Pamela
Rose, Carol Ali, Necia Black and
Maureen Kanaley, the current
secretary. ·
The PSS Silver Anniversary
celebration received support
from TIAA-CREF, United Uni·
versity Professions Buffalo Center Chapter and United University Professions Statewide.
Rosemary Mecca was chair of
the PSS Silver Anniversary com·
mittee.
Committee members included
Boyce, Albert Ermanovics, llene
Fleischmann, Jay Friedman, !.ani
Jendrowski , Anna Kedzierski,
Kunz, Sandra Reinagel, Rose, Sally
Sarns, Bruce Speller and Stokes.

adopted MBA courses i.n the
School of Management this fall to
gi~ doses of reality to the busi·
ness theory taught in the &amp;chool's
required core curriculum.
During classroom and industry·
site piesentations, executives &amp;om
the firms share company memos
and financial statements, detail
management strategy and shed
light on emergent business practices. It's part of the MBA
program's adopt-a-course initiative, which "'provideS a real-time
business backdrop to theories contained in a professor's notes," says
marketing professor Arun Jain ,
whose marketing strategy course
has been adopted by global toy
manufacturer Fisher-Price.
AJ part of its role as adopter,
Fisher-Price's senior vice president
for worldwide marketing will on
OcL 10 gi~ students an insider's
look at the company's new-product
lab, where marlcding ezcutives observe cbildrm's responses to toys.
Other companies, and courses
they baY~: adopted, are krox, stra·
ltgicmarJa8I'ID"'ll Price Waterhouse,
financial acmunting; Marine Mid·
land, managing human resow=;
Lucent Technologies, management
information systems; IIMAK (loter·
nationallmagingMaterials),corporate financial management;
Westwood-Sqwbb, operations and
service management; Blue Cross
and BlueSbidd, probabilityandsta·
tistia;and Graphic Controls. bebav·
ioral and organizational concepts.
Adopt·a&lt;OUrS&lt; began as a pilot
program last year with two companies participating, according to
Katherine Gerstle, assistant dean
and administrative director of the
MBA program. By next year, the
school hopes that all 12 core
MBA &lt;DUBeSwiDbaYI: been adopted.
"Students really appreciate the life
that adopt-a-course breathes into
their studies and the way it helps
them grasp the actual application
of business theory," says Ger&gt;tle.

DeVoe said '"research is vital to

traineeship, she earned a master's

maintain the objectives of nursing
and the necessary changes in educational preparation. lt seemed
only logical to me to give my sup·

degree in nursing at UB in 1958.
Now 79, she is a member of the
board of the School of Nursing

pon to research."
A lifelong Buffalo resident ,
DeVoe studied nursing a't the
former E.J. Meyer Hospital before
attending UB's nursing school on
a scholarship.
" I cou ld not have afforded
school without the scholarship,"
said DeVoe, who received her
bachelor's degree in 1942.
After serving as a nurse in the
Army Air Corps &amp;om 1943-46, she
joined the Army Reserves, from
which she retired as a lieutenant
colonel in 1968. She is the only
woman serving on the Erie-N"~agara
Sub-Council for Fort Drum.
DeVoe worked at Buffalo VA
Medical Center from 1950 until
retiring in 1975. With a federal

Alumni Association and served on
the school's 60th anniversary celebration in 1996.
DeVoe said her commitment to
supporting UB's nursing school is
fueled by her "goal in life to leave
something to benefit othero, par·
ticularly in the realm of education.•
She added: "In order to have a

vibrant, active nursing program at
UB, outside. support in the form
of gifts and continued involvement with the school as an alumnus is needed."
A longtime supporter of th&lt;
nursing &amp;chool, DeVoe previously
established the Sally and Shirley
DeVoe Fund for Continuing Education in Nursing and the Shirley
DeVoe Nursing Award for Excellerice in Communication.

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could compete against fullm Mid-American opponent Ohio University-«!
least on paper--despite
not having played a Division 1-A team for 27 years.

Boing!

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Rolling Stone's .Rock and Roll Bowl held Sept 16 outside the
Student Union. Contestants had to stretch against bungee force

to move a velco baton further than their opponent's. The Rock
and Roll Bowl induded quiz contests, as well as action games.

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alter 7 p.m.

But for&lt;a&lt;:h mistake theY
made, the Bulls paid d=ly,
losing 50-0 to the Bobcats.
Despite being outgained
only 367-247, the Bulls
found themselv.sdown 360 at halftime. The loss was
the worst the Bulls have
suffered since a 50-0 defeat at Ithaca College in 1991 , the Bulls' last season in Division IlL
The game was lost in the first half when Ohio took advantage of
all four of UB's turnovers to turn a slight advantage in yardage into
a h uge edge on the scoreboard.
The Bulls got sev=l good performances in the loss, including a strong
showing from their offensive line. The Bulls' offensive line did not allow
a sack against starting quarterback Chad Salisbury and helped tailback
. Anthony Swan rush for a season-high 107 yards on 28 carries.

Vol~uall
The Bulls went 2-2 this weekend at the Mississippi State Invitational
in Starkville, Miss. In game one on Friday, UB lost to Southwest Louisiana in three games, 14- 16, 10-15, 4- 15. In game two on Friday, the
Bulls were defeated by Mississippi State in four games, 8-15, 7-15,
15-5, 9-15. On day two of the invitational, the Bulls defeated Troy
State in three games, 15-7, 15-7, I 5-9, and Austin Peayin five games,
15-9, 15- 10, 14- 16, 11 - 15, 15- 11. Somer Deschambault was named
to the MSU Invitational all -to urnament team.

Men's ~occer
UB 1, Akron 6
The Bulls lost to Akron on Sunday. Freshman Chris Vinci scored
Buffalo's only goal :u the Bulls moved to 3-3-1 on the season.

Wmrnns ~occer
UB 1, St. Bonaventure 2
UB 0, Western Michigan 1
The Bulls netted two losses this past week, against St. Bonaventure
on Thursday and against Western Michigan on Saturday.
UB took an early 1-0 lead against St_Bona with a goal at 29:22,
but the Bonnies drew even at 31:56 to knot the score at l-1. The
only goal of the second half came at 52:45. The Bulls were outshot
12-5 for the game.
On Saturday, the Bulls lost to Western Michigan when the Broncos
scored the only goal of the game 41 seconds in the match. UB outshot

its opponen t 14-3, but could not find the back of the net.

Lmss Lount~
The men's cross-country team finished II th o ut of 13 teams this
past weekend at the Western Ontario Invitat ional. UB finished with
297 points in the meet, and was led by Ryan Guild, who finished
53 rd overall in the men's 10- K race with a time of35:33. The women's
team placed third out of 13 teams in the Western O ntario Invitational with 85 points. Sophomore Marie Macander finished 12th
overall with a time of 18:58.

lennis
UB 9, Robert Morris 0
The women's team defeated Robert Morris to move the Bulls to l·:?
on the seaso n. Senior Amy Borden captured th e No.1 singles slot, 6·
3, 7-6. Borden also helped clinch th&lt; No. I doubles slot, along with
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State 40-30 Saturday in UB
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Faculty is key to improving student life
FSEC speakers say increased support, involvem.ent could make a difference
By SUE WU£TCHE.R
News Services Associate DirKtor

ACULTY involvement is
the key to improving the
quality o.f student life at
UB. severaJ speakers, in·
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life by upgrading the athletics pro gram and focusing on fraternities
and so rorities have not resulted in
a ny significant improvements.
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that these (initiatives) have come
far more from fifth-floor leadership than from the faculty, and
what we have may be very useful
steps to have taken, but these have
not necessarily enhanced the quality of student life, and I don't see
where there have been any signifi -

cant improvements," Welch said.
He added that despite the commitmen t of the administrat ion,
these initiatives have not improved
st udent life, primarily due to the
.. weakness of faculty commitment:'
A better strategy, he suggested,
would~ to increase support to student academic dubs, which play an
important function in giving students professional preparation and
job contacts. While these dubs are
helpful in fostering faculty-student
contact, they have been ..chronically
underfunded." Welch added.
Dennis Black, interim vice president for student affairs, agreed that
the academic honor societies are
another area where faculty and staff
can "'make a difference" in the quality of student life.
But, Black cautioned, there are no
"quick fixes to the cu1rure issue. The
quickest and most effective thing we
can all do to make a difference is to
care, to get involved in a variety of
things that show we care for the stu-

dent environment."
Clifford Wilson , associate vice
president for student affairs, noted
that UB bas established five or six
smalJ ..special-interest'' areas in rhc
residence halls in which students

Broadway to sta r in Ken Ludwig's
"Moo n Ove r Buffalo."
She has received more Peop le's
C h oice awards than any other
woman . The winne r of five
Go lden Globes and the Peabody
and Ace award s, she recentl y
won her s ixth
Emm y in the
categor y Ou t ·
standing Guest
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Comedy Senes
for her appearances on uMad
About You."
The sponsor for Burnett 's ap pearance is the Center for the
Arts; co-sponsor is the UB Office

of Confe ren ces and Special
Events.
The Distinguished Speakers
Se rie s 1s pre se nted by UB and
th e Don Davis Auto Wo rld Le cture ship Fund. Affiliate sponsor is th e University Boo kstore .
Other spea kers sc heduled for
the 1997~98 series a re Marian
Wright Edelman, the founder and
president of th e C hildren's Defe nse Fund, o n Thursday, Nov. 20;
au th o r, colu mnist a nd CBS- TV
co mmentator Andy Rooney on
Thursday, )a n.l9. and author and
poet Maya Angelou on Thursday,
Aprill3.
The three will appear at 7:30
p.m . in the Ce nter for the Arts

"The qukkest and most
effective thing we can all
do ... ls to get Involved In a

variety of things that show
we care for the student."
DENNIS BLACK

with common interests:. such as engineering or American studies, live
together. similar to the "colleges"
that were housed in the dorms during the 1960s and '70s.
.. Those kinds of things, if contin ued, can get in that direction," Wil son said, citing the facuJty -student
dinner program as another initia tive that is making strides toward

improving student life.
Christopher Connolly, a junior
in the pre-professional special-in ~
te:rest housi ng program. agreed
with Black that there: are no Mquick
ftxes," drawing an analogy between
training a dog and training college
students .. to be good community
members."
Using incentives to get students
invotved in university ac tivities,
such as offering free pizza at rhe
football games, will o nly work as
long as the pizza 1s offe red.
Con nolly said.
"And there is a reason for that;
there's no real sense of spi rit, there's
no reason to be there besides the
token gift," he sa id. "Unless you in ~
still some true se nse of communit y
to the student s. some true-connec tion between the faculty and th e
residents, you' rt.· never going to
have th is kind of consolidated um versity that everyone talks about."
The specia l-interest housmg
program IS a good star! . he sa1d,

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Speakers Series a t US at 8 p.m.
on Thur sday, Oct. 9, in the
Mainstage theater in the Center
for the Arts on the North Ca mpus.
Burnett entertamed television
audiences for 11 years as star of
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in other situation comedies, including .. Mama's Family," as well
as in dramatic roles.
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Engineering and Applied Sciences, was an offensive
lineman at UB from 1977-79. After 11 years as a
member of the Penn State Nittany Lions
coaching stafl; he was recruited in
December 1994 to become head coach
ofUB's football program.

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you find - y o u unwrapped
the.-.-7
A: An opportunity! An opportu-

nity to play a part in US's transformation &amp;om a high-quality institution in the Northeast attended
by many New York State residents
to one of the finest state public
research institutions in the U.S.
Q: WIYt don 't you like . - .
foot1Nill7
A : Today's society allows for an
enormous spotlight to be laser-focused on every aspect of the more
highly vis ible college football
teams. A young 17- or 18-year-old
person goes to coUege to obtain a
quality education and an all-encompassing, well-rounded, diverse
coUegial experience. Without certain filters, the media can have a
tremendous and overwhelming
impact, on not only the no rmal
passage of that 18-year-old, but
also draw inferences upon the entire university's reputation based
upon that individual's actions. I
don 't think that is entirely fair.

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A: There is very little difference

when determming the course you
take, the objectives you state and

the mission you want to uphold.
There is also no difference in the
quality of, and suppan of, faculty,
staff, students and administrators.
The only differenao is one school
has experienced the growth process, while the other is just beginning the growth process.
Q; Aft then. advan._ at UB7
A: l really believe there are. The
State University of New York system is relatively young and nationa! recognition athletically at
the Division 1-A level is new to
them. Wherever we go &amp;om here
can be carefully initiated and dis=etly programmed to mesh with
the objectives of our university in a
step-by-step fashion. We at UB have
the benefit of having a "clean slate,"
wbile every o~ Slate bas years of
entrenchment in Division 1-A ath-

letics.Aprimeadvantagewebaveis
with Tide IX. We can carefully plan
in the years ahead 10 insure that
womenaren't"sbortcbanged"aswe
amtinue to build ~nversely. we are
witnessing the cballenges that the
other 49 states are experiencing in
having to adapt and retrofit their
historically successful programs in
order to meet new feda-a1 mandates.
The leadership of New York State
bas an opportunity 10 be in the vanguard. ~o be the role model for the
entire U.S. on all emerging issues
such as this.

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A: Without question, reuniting

with the faculty and students. Every encounter thf.t I have bad bas
been positive and highly supportive. Persooally, it has been enjoyable to vwt with many of my engineering professors who were
here in the late '70s.

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A: My dad died at .be beginning
of our lint season here in 1995. My

A: Certainly. AU it takes is the com-

mother passed just a year earlier.
They would have enjoyed ooming
to the games.

mitment to that objective. Al though there are potential roadblocks and challenges with "high
visibility" in college athletics today,
it is obvious that every one of the
other 49 states have reaped great
rewards from the relatively minor
investment that Division 1-A athletics entails. And believe it or not,
the average Division 1-A athletic
program · in the U.S. posts a net
profit financially. This is in addi.tion to the enormow exposure
some of these institutions receive
for free. Quite frankly, we can't afford not to pursue this course.
Q: c...........t on the ban
onswurtnvlnthelockerroom
and on the playing flald
adoptad by the Galdand llalden. you consider a simi-

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A: Every aspect of building a successful football program is analogous with the purity of civil engineering. The architects (no disrespect!) create and design masterful and appealing structum. But
no building will last for the long
term without a solid foundation
and without the proper reinforcement and careful attention to
structural integrity"bdow the surface• or "behind tbe walls." We
have tried to build this football
program the same way.
Q: Tell us so•ethlng tha t
llloout you.

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lar moft7

A: We do not condone use of foul
language from o ur staff or players. O ur team takes pride in acting as gentlemen. Vulgar language
usually is indicative of a lack of
poise. We hope to be above thaL I
must admit h owever, that when
Chad Salisbury tbuw an interception against Illinois State, I lost my
poise ...just a little.

A: l grew up in Bul&amp;.lo and applied
10 many a&gt;llqjes, but was forced to

choose UB strictly because of the
a&gt;sts. l oould not afford to go anywhere ebe. However, it was not until l was here at UB that I finally understood what a great school it was.
The percq&gt;tion growing up wasn't

even clooe to what actually existed
If! knew then what 1~ afterugbenrolling.UBI would_bave activo!ycbo
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so
t out
as a pnmary
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beating and my fingertips were
itnessing the ex- cold," she said. '" I could hear him
ecution of a death- coming. l could hear his acanl. He
row inmate can ei- was Cajun and l could hear the
ther paralyze or French accent. And l could hear
galvanize an individual. In the case him walking" and hear the noise
of Sister Helen Prejean, the expe- his leg ch.a ins made against the
rience became the catalyst for ac- prlson floor.
tion.
She was nervous at the prospect
Prejean, author of the best-sell - of spending two hours with this
ing novel that inspired the film man , she said, but he entered the
"Dead Man Walking." last Thurs- room, and "l looked into the eyes
day told a sold-out audience in the of a human being."
Center for the Arts Mainstage that
It was at that point that she beher involvement with the death gan to learn e..,rything she could
penalty began in. 1982 when she about the death penalty, she.added.
was asked to become a pen pal to
"Race plays a part in this couna Louisiana inmate on death row. try in everything," including which
The small, tidy nun, a native of crimes are punished most severely.
Louisiana and a member of the So does money, Prejean said.
Sisters of St. joseph of Medaille,
"In our society, we don't have a
spun a warm and often humorous good track record of caring as
story for her audiencr of her rela - much about the murder of a
tionship with the inmate who young black kid as we do about a
would have such a profound effect white suburban housewife.•
on her life.
While Poncelet never talked
Identified in the movie "Dead about the crime he had commitMan Walk ing " as Matthew ted, Prejean said she wasn't going
Poncelet, Prejean noted in her lee· to be naive, either, and asked to see
ture that after initially correspond - his background folder.
ing with the man, she was asked to
She was horrified, she said, to
serve as h.is spiritual advisor, and learn that he had been convicted
went to meet him. although she did of raping and murdering a teen not know the nature of the crime age girl and murdering her boyfor which he was being punished.
friend .
.. The first visit was really, really,
"l felt such a wave of guilt-still

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do,'" after learning the nature of his
crime, she said. "I'm p utting a tremendous amount of energy into
(this person) and look at what he
did. If someone d id that to my
Momma or my sister or my niece,
l knew l would feel all that loss,
that rage, that pain," that the victims' families felt.
Her experience also prompted
her to become involved with victims' families by starting a support
group, Survive.

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-to

crimes, but the flip side b ,
who ·deserws to kiH them7

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"A ball-million people have bad
someone they know murdered in
this country," she noted
Even though her sense of pain
and loss was "unspeakable," Prejean
said she dido't believe the State of
Louisiana should imitate the same
crime by killing the perpetrator.
Poncelet was eucuted on AprilS,
1984.
"Mine was the last face be saw.·
The death peoalty is not the an-

swer to horrible crimes, acoording
to Prejean.
"If we were some kind of perfect,
god-like people, and who the victim
was and who bas money didn't matter, then maybe we could make a
decision on the death penalty,• she
said.
But we all are mere monals, and
"You get all this stuff because we're
humon beings," Prejean added
Society, she ron tended, can be safe
without imitating theviolenoe again
by putting people to death for their
crimes.
Prejean said the death penalty is
a form oftorture because the people
on death row--ond their familierdie a thousand times before they are
cxt&lt;Uted, she said.
They aren't the only ones who
suffer, she added. Al l those in volved with death-row inmatesprison guards. spiritual .advisors,
the executioner, the prison warden-bear the emotional burden
of the death penalty.
"(know people do terrible crimes,
but the flip side is, who desenes to
kill them? Who deserves to carry it
ou~ They're victims, too," she said.
She encouraged her au&lt;lientt to
become more informed on the
death penalty.
"Getmoreinformation,read,dig.
The truth will set you free on this,•
Prejean said.

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Your doctor doesn't listen to you?

Briefly

M~ical-school

WBFO adds three new shows,
moves "Car Talk:' "Living on Earth"

project aims to correct that problem

. , ' - - IIAIIU
News Services Editor

C

WllfO 88.7 FM, UB's National Public Radio station; has added

AN medicalstud&lt;ntsleam
to bea&gt;me oensitiYe, caringphysicians in the same
way they can be taught to

three new shows and has moved the popular programs "Car Talk"
and "'living on Earth,. to more frequent, accessible times.

Host Ira Glass brings "This American Life" to WBFO from WBEZ
in Chicago. The program documents contemporary American life
from artists' perspectives. It airs on Fridays from 7-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 5-6 p.m.

bea&gt;me skilled t&lt;dmicians and ex-

pert diagnosticians~

The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences thinks the answer
is "yes."
Tackling one of the most common complaints about physicians
head on, the medical school is developing a program to train prospective doctors how to empathiu
and communicate with their patients. Results will be used as a
model by other medical schools
throughout New York State.
The project received the 1997
Manpix Award for innovation in
medical education from the Medical Society of the State of New York
and will be funded by a $50,000
grant from the Medical Liability
Mutual Insurance Co.
"'For several decades, the science
and technology of medicine and
medical care havt: been the primary
focus of medical education." said
Frank Schimpthauser, assistant dean
for educational evaluation and research at the medical school and
principal investigator on the project.
"This has left tittle time to pay
attention to the interpersonal
skills physicians need to comm unicate effectively with patients,
and to develop a mutually trusting relatjonship. Perhaps the most
common criticism of modern
medicine is that physicians either

do not take the time, or don't have
the ability, to discuss issues that
concern patients in language that
is understandable and sensitive to
their anxieties."

The project will employstandardiud cases and patients to present
medical students and resident physicians with typical situations they
may face in their practices. Standardized patients are persons

trained to portray actual patients in
a consistent fashion. They record
data on student performance and

WBFO has added Michael Feldman's two-hour comedy/quiz show,
"Whad'Ya Know" on SaturdaY" from 8- 10 p.m. Feldman challenges
calJers and audience members with pop tests. Contestants compete
for prizes like plastic pink flamingos. Other elements include: "All
The News That Isn't: Feldman's monologue satirizing current events;
.. Thanks for the Memos/' comically miswritten and genuine memos
submitted by Feldman's fans, and an interviC'w with an unswpect ing resident of•The Town of the Week."
Host Bill Littlefield reminds WBFO listeners that it's "Only A Game"
on his quirky program that manages to put sports in persp&lt;etive while
k..-eping things funny. It airs on SaturdaY" from 7-8 a.m.

provide feedback to trainees in a 5)'5tematic way, based on faculty-developed criteria, to assure that minimal
competencies are met.
Schimpthauser, who coordinates
UB's standardized patient program.
said that while most medical schools
use standardized patients to teach
students how to take a medical history or to demonstrate their slcills
at conducting a ph)"'ical examination, few use them to train prospective physicians how to listen, empathize and communicate.

Scenarios they will face include
substance abuse, teen-age pregnancy, domestic violence, sexually
transmined disease, obesity and nutrition, presenting bad news (such

as terminal-illness diagnosis), "donot-resuscitate" orders, HIV risk
and infOrmed ronsenL Students will

schools and provide copies of cases
forthe.iru.se.
UB has extensive experience with

standardized cases and patients. The
Macy Foundation funded a twoyear project in 1993 involving UB,
Albany Medical College and the Upstate Health Science Center at Syracuse to introduce the concept to
their faculty members. In 1995, UB
was named one of two national
standardized-patient re9eai'Ch sites

by the National Board of Medical
Examiners. These sites will test and
evaluate cases for possible inclusion
in the 1999 national board exams.
Co-investigators on the project
are Harry Sultz, professor of social
and preventive medicinei Lisa
Benson, clihical assistant professor

be videotaped and their performance critiqued. Those who don't

of medicine; James Hassen, professor of surgery and director of the
surgical residency program; Timothy Gabryel, clinical assistant pro-

measure up will be required to improve weak skills and participate in

fessor of medicine and director of
the internal-medicine residency

p&lt;l&lt;Si~Mrole-modeling.Communica­

tionskillseventuallywill become pan
of UB's annual competency exams.
The project will be implemented
at UB by next spring, and will culminate! in a statewide conference
next summer to demonstrate the
standardized cases to other medical

Student rooms
are hard-wired

program at Millard Fillmore Hospital; Stanley Spurgeon, clinical as·
sistant professor of emergency
medicine and consultant to the
standardized patient program,
a nd Karen Zinnerstrom, trainer/
evaluator of the standardized patient program.

privacy at UB.lssues of security
a nd acco untabilit y, said
Krakowiak, quickly have come
to the fore in electronic networking, making it impossible
to allow students w .. plug and

go." He praised CIT for assembling documentation that
lly IIIIOfT CUNMNGHAM
Reporter Stiff

T

heprojecttowireevery UB residence-

hall room for high-

speed data connections has been completed al-

guides students through the ofKrakowiak credits the joint effort of the residence halls and
Computer and Information Tech-

nology (CIT) with the early

phone tines from their double-

completion of the project.
In order to connect to the service, students must live in one of
the 5,400 rooms with the newly
installed data drops. They also
must own a computer that is
Ethernet-compatible. Nearly all
newer computers and many older
ones are Ethernet-compatible.
Students also will have to configure their machines to go behind

duty as computer lines.

the "firewall" that protects student

most a year ahead of schedule,
according to Director of Resi -

dential Life Joseph Krakowiak.
The new connections, fr« to
on-campus residents, will not
only function at speeds 10 to
100 times faster than the modems they are replacing, but
also will relieve dormitory tele-

ten -complicated process of selfconfiguration, and he noted the
high percentage of students
who are connec t ing to the
university's mainframe without
assistance this year.
On-campus residents who
have difficulty accessing the
university network can have
their machines configured for
them for free by contacting the

CIT help desk, said Krakowiak.
The installation of the data
drops was financed by the combined resources of the residence

halls and the Student Technology Fee.

.. Car Talk," the popular one-hour call-in show where the Click
and Clack brothers attempt to solve listeners' automotive problems,
now airs at 6 a.m. and lO a.m. on Saturdays and at 5 p.m. on Sundays. "Living on Earth," the investigative newsmagazine that examines aspects of the environment, now airs from 6-7 p.m. on Fridays.

Miller to lecture on software that
can aid fight on deadly bacteria
A new software package developed by Western New York re·
searchers that is allowing pharmacologists to begin to design new

drugs to fight deadly bacteria will be the topic of a lecture to be held
at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22, in Room 20 I of the Natural Sciences Complex
on the North Campus. Free and open to the public, the talk is spon sored by the UB Sciences Alumn i Associa tion of the Faculty of Natu ral Sciences and Mathematics.
Russ Miller, professor of computer science and a member of the
research team at UB and the Hauptman -Woodward Medical Research
Institute that developed the new software, call~ SoB, will speak about

"Drug Design by Shaking and Baking Atoms."

.

He will discuss how, with virtually no intervention by the user,
SnB is able to solve molecular structures that no other methods have
solved. For more information, call Cindy Nydahl at 645-2531.

Provost's ojfi.a; to focus
on academic information
By SUE WUETCHER
News Services Associate Director

ROVOST Thomas E. Headrick has reorganized his office
ro focus moreattentionon acadcmic-infunnation issues.
He has named Sean Sullivan, pre-

P

viously associate provost for re·
source management, as vice provost
for academic information systems

and planning. Sullivan will direct the
new Office of Academic Information and Planning, which will in clude the Office of Institutional

Analysis.
Elmira Mangum -Daniel, previously assistant provost for resource
management, has been appointed
associate provost for resource management, assuming responsibilities

for budgets and financial plans previously held by Sullivan. MangumDaniel will be the ron tact person for
budgeting and financial issues for
the academic units.

Sullivan will coontinate all university-wide,long-range planning and
management activities; build an aca demic management information
system, and design a long-range,
budget-planning strategy using responsibility-centend management
(RCM). He will continue to oversee facilities and educational-technology maners.

Headrick said he will appoint an
advisory commiuee to assist
Sullivan in developing information
systems and performance measures.
Headrick noted that the academic-planning effort of the past
18 months, the efforts of the dean

of the Graduate School to develop
more coherent oversight and di rection for graduate education
and the exploration of new bud ·
geting systems, such as RCM, all
"have accentuated the costs o f the
fragmented , inc o mplete and
unintegrated information systems
with which we have worked."
Moreover, growing demands fo r
accountability .. make it imperative
that the university develop performance expectations and measurements and routinel y assess a nd
t"valuate our progress," he sa id .
Th e rrorganization , Headn ck
said, will enable the Provost's O ffice
.. to focus more anention on the information needed to make crittcaJ
decisions, manage our academ ic
programs and measure our perfo rmance. This is a crucial initiative.
.. Without a functioning infor·
mation system and performance
measures attuned to our missio n
and goals, this university will be
hampered in its efforts to develop
and improve."

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public sofety, receMd 1ho
Directors Aword for Exa!llenoe
in Trllinlng lnstruction.}ly, who
attended C.nisius£olegt ~
joining public safety In 1974, has
been an Instructor with 1ho
aademy stall ~nee 1986. He
teaches homicide and deoth
i,.,..,tigotion, rules of evidence

and physla1 evidence.
Graduating during 1ho
ceremony wil Officer Dean L.
Swoger; who joined 1ho deport.
. ment this summer. He is a
graduate of SUNY B&lt;oaport.

MFC to offer three
paralegal courses
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and 11Ln&lt;loys ITem Sept. 23
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published by fiiCUity
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\'Ices In Sdlools"' by Co!horint
EmihoYicll. as.10dlll! profetor of .
coonseing and .WC.tlonal psychology, Grllduall! School of Education, and Carolyn D. Honington, Aorido Stoll! UniYenity, has
been published by Toochen College~ ~ pn:Mdes Wonnatlon
nocessaty to a cisamion of I
wide ~of problems: STDs,
teen pregnancy, a&gt;nlnel!ptiol1.
AIDS, slvinldng health """""190
and high school budgeu. limitations of managed health core and
sdlool-bootd po1itia.
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social• professor d"'""""",.;.
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has boon publishod by Kluwer

1901 photo shows T.....,. o f - ot

BY PAT1UCJA DONOVAN

News SeMces Editor

I
·

N THE SPRING OF 1901,
Buffalo inaugurated an explosion of light, color and
thrills th•like of which had,

quite Literally, never before

been seen. The Pan American Ex-

position was a glittering, city-cen-

tered celebration of internationa l
trade and t•chnology that h•r·
alded the American C.ntury.
The Pan Am was quite a show. It
was a playground for human ing•nuity hosted by one of the nation's
largest, youngest and wealthiest industrial cities. The exposition was
marked not only by Buffalo's vigor
and youth, but by international exhibitions. pavilions and entertainment. A splendid architoctural onvironment was spiced with elaborate lighting effocts made possibl• by
the newly perfected alternating doc-

trical current
The tOOth anniversary of the
Pan Am is fast approaching and a
new international celebration,
"Buffalo 2001." is in the works. It
won't look like the original, of

Volunteers sought for
hypertension study

and gondolas gliding through a
shi mmering City of Lights. There
will be no bustling, glittering es-

Adults 18 and older with high
bk:tod pressure are needed to
particlpat•ln two studios being
conductod by 1h&lt;!odote Herman, clinkal professor of modidoe. ~studies wil evaluate

a major civic event expected to

Participants will roaive hft
physical .....,., olocttoc.vdlogroms and lob tests. They olso
will roaM from S200 to S500
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Frisch involved in planning 'BuJialo 2001'

co urse. There will be no infra structure to speak of, no canals

investigational ontihyport&lt;nslvo

p1po

Pan Ameri~ Expds lOOth

Audomk Publishef&gt;.

mediations.

p..,.-., Exposition; It ' - e d ·-

planade, no 8 million visitors.
" Buffalo 2001" will, however. be
involve a broad range of activities,
a city-wide party offering opportunities for the contemplation and
celebration of th e ideals that
marked the progressive era ush ered in by the Pan Am.
Micha•l Frisch, professor of history and American st udi es, is
among those already involved in
planning " Buffalo 200 1."

The Way it Was
Perhaps the leut-kn-n fiKt about th• •xposition was the unusual coloring of th• colossal buildings in red, blue, green and gold,
which gavo th• sit• th• sobriqu•t "Th• Rainbow City." In previous expositions, the main feature had been architecture, but not color.
The thing that really galvanized th• Am•rican audi•ncc was the Pan
Am's extensive and exquisite electric lighting. Hydroelectric power bad
rocently been developed and the vast transmission capability of Niagara
Falls was harnessed to allow the first decorative application of electric
lighting on a massive scale.
At dusk, 240,000 eight-watt bulbs came on simultaneously. It produced not a brilljant flash of light, but a gradual increase in brightness
until every building was bath•d in light. Electric bulbs mark•d th• outlines and distinct features o f the exposition's buildings and other aspects of the grounds. Contemporary descriptions speak of"an amazing
fairyland of lightS... The Electric Tower alone, painted in deep green
with d•tails of cream, blue and gold, was studded with 44,000 ligbts.
Tb• structur• rose to a height of n .. rly 400 f..t and was topped by a
pow•rful searchlight that could be soen from Niagara FaUs and Canada.
His goal, he explains, is to help
link the university, its programs
and its resources to the upcoming
extravaganza.
"Within the next few months,..
said Frisch, "a formal regional organization to plan and direct what
will be a multi -year celeb rati on
should be in place. It will develop
sustained local involvement and
substantial outside public and private funding."
Frisch, who is working under a
grant from the Division of Publ ic
Service and Urban Affairs, says it
as a golden opportunity for US to
galvanize public interest in, and
understanding of, how global issues involve BuffaJonians and how
the university is integral to that in·
volvement.
What will " Buffalo 2001" be
lik•?
Frisch expects to ·see symposia
on topics such as Latin-American

trade issues, work.ers' rights ,
women's issues, futurism, urban/
suburban development; mega-exhibitions on historical themes, and
forums, academic symposia and
cultural festivals with an internati onal flavor, Maybe even a
cyberspace program that recreates
the exposition using virtual-reality tools and links it to the broader
context of American and world
history.
Frisch has suggested that a ma jor national "Turn of the Millen·
nium '" project be developed in
conjunction with the National
Park Servic• through the
Roosevelt Historical Site, a crucial
partofth•l901 Pan Am story. He
hopes, too, that pan -American
•v•nts will be organized by scholars throughout Latin America,
with the cooperation of the
American Studies Association and
hemispheric centers foi Latin

Q ~

American Studjes_
•perhaps," he says, •we can revisit the 'idear of pan-Ameriqmism at th• turn of th•last contury
and consickr the dovdopmmt of
this concept in th• 21st century."
Frisch alr..dy has bdped schedul• nat year's annual m .. ting of
th• Oral History Assqciation in
Buffalo and hopes to convince the
American History Association to
m ..t here in 200 I.
He also is anxious to discuss
possibilities with h is UB col leagues and to involve them in
plans to bring academic meetings
to Buffalo during the period, as
well as-the university's participation in •suffalo 2001 ."'
"This ccl•bration is really an opportunity for the community to
coalesce around the original
theme and the issues it continues
to raise,.. Frisch .says. • we can use
the Pan Am anniversary as a hook
to attract meetings, s peakers,
grants to produce instructional
materials, to generate analysis of
American trade and technology
issues, to draw an international
audience to Buffalo. Why not a
Great Lakes Conference here that
year? Why not a meeting of preservationists? ..
Frisch invites interested parties
to caB him with ideas and questions at645-2181, ext. 531.
• For background o n the 190 I
Pan American Exposition, go to
tb• following URL: http ://
freonet. buffolo .- /-llbrory/ locol/ ........,..html.
• Color illustrations of the
exposition's grounds and buildings can be found at www.
ulow•.eclu/-eft9llsh/ llt,cu1UO/
katccuny/ lndex. htn~l!p•n•m .
html.

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because it gets faculty members
ii:uo residence halls.
"In order to really get this community going, you need to have
the faculty take this 'small-class'
interest in students,• where stu·
dents become something more
than "jwt a social security number (posted) on a wall."
When students begin to know
"faculty members beyond "'Dr. soand-so who taught Psych 101 ,
they begin to cultivate this type
of enjoyment of the un iversity,
this appreciation of the university," C.Onnolly said.
Black, Wilson and Barbara Ricotta, director of student life and
interim dean of students, outlined various programs and initiatives under way for the fall se-

mester that Black said are .. aimed
at addressing concerns about
quality of life for students.·
Among them are:
• A series of roundtable discussions on issues of concern to the
university community. The first
discussion, to be held from noon

to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in
250 Student Union, will focus on
North Campus child care
• A series of "coffee hours" fea·
turing student-services sta ff
members
• A "pathfinder" program that
will recognize UB community
members who find better, faster
and more efficient ways to serve
students
• Construction of liS two-bedroom tow~houses for students on
Chestnut Ridge Road adjacent to
the North Campus
• Conversion of existing six- and

four-student rooms in the oncampus residence halls to doubles
and singles
• Wiring of all res1dence-hall
rooms for .direct computer access
• New food plans, ancluding a
Ko!her meal plan in one dining
hall and a breakfast-equivalency
plan that allows students to eat
breakfast at sites on ca mpus other
than their dorms
• Rehabilitation of the first two
floors of Harriman Hall on the
South Camp us into a student-services center that will include a
food court, a si t-down dining
room , recreational rooms ,
lounges and space for a few student dubs
• Conversion of the music listening room in the Student Union into
a lounge for commuter students
• Creation of a Leadership Center to coordinate studtnt -leadership programs on campus.

Improvement "dramatic" and long-lasting, study shows

Surgery provides pain relief
BJ LOIS IIAKU
News Services Editor

NE of 'the few pro spec t ive studies of
surgical treatment for
endometriosis ha s
shown that the majorit y of
women who undergo surgery for
the condition experience dramatic improvement in pain and
discomfort.
T he study also showed that
women who l)ad previously
given birth were twice as likely
to get pregnant again follo~ing
surgery than women who had
not, and that increasing age re duced the likelihood of becom ing pregnant.
Result s of the st ud y, co n ducted by researchers at UB, appear in the August issue of the
Jo urnal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
Ronald E. Batt, clinical professor of gynecology and obstetrics
an d principal a uth or of the
st ud y, said the pain relief was
partic ularly important because
it was long- lasting.
"Three years after surgery, the
pain relief holds," Batt said. "Seventy-five to 80 percent of women
were very happy with the result .
Surgery appea rs to be a good way
of t rea tin g endometriosis for
both health a~d fertil ity."

O

M•Jor c•use of Infertility
Endometriosis is a condition
in which frag ments o f the ult:..
ine lining, the endometrium ,
migrate and adhere to other sites
in the pelvic cavity, incl uding the
ova ries, bowel, bladder and ureters. It affects women of repro ductive age and is a major ca use
of infertil ity. Symptoms 'i nclude
p.elvic pain, abnorma l bleeding
and pai nful sex ual intercourse.
In addition to eval uating the
health and fertility outcomes of
patients tre ated surgically for
endometriosis, th e purpose of
the st udy was to identify signifi cant predictors of pregnancy fol ·
lowing su rgery. T he subjects

were 290 women diagnosed with
endometriosis between Novem ber 1986 and Ma rch 1988 at a
community-based gynecologic
practice and t reated surgically,
either via laparoscopy, or laparotomy (open abdominal surgery)
following lapa roscopy and drug
treatment.
Health and reproductive h.istories were taken when the women
enrolled, and medical and surgical records were abstracted for
pertinent information on disease
status. Par ticipants also were
asked to define the seve rity of
their symptoms and infertility
problems. Seventy·one percent
of the patients in the study had
come to the practice because of
infertility.
T hree years following treat ment, patients completed ques -

"Three years •fter surgery,
the jMin relief holds.

Seventy-five to 80 percent
of women were very happJ
with the result."
RONALD E. BATT

tionnai res requesting informa tion on changes in endometriosis symptoms, pregnancy history
and factors that can affec t the
chances of concept ion , such as
the number of mon ths attempt ·
·~pregnancy, special reproduc·
. • technologies, cigarette
smoking, alcohol and caffe in e
co ns umption , stress and exercise.
Of the 232 patients who com pleted th e questionnaires. the
majority rep orted "'so me " o r
"great" improvement for th e fol lowing s.y mp toms:
• Painful intercourse-46 pe r·
ce nt reported "great " improve ment; 33 percent "so me" im ·
provement
• Pelvic pain-4 3 percent re~
ported "great" improvement; 32
percent "some" improvement

• Abnormal menstrual cycles31 percent reported "great" improvement; 42 percent "some"
improvement
• Heavy bleeding-28 percent
reported "great" improvement;
40 percent "some" improvement.
At the three-year follow-up re port, 53 percent of ihe women reported one or more pregna ncies.
Approximately two - thirds of
pregnancies resu lted in live
births. The percentages increased
slightly when results we.re re·
stricted to women who had said
before surgery that they wan ted
to become pregnant. Of thi s
group, 61 percent rep o rted one
or more pregnancies and 69 perce nt of thes e p regnanci es re·
suited in a live birth, Batt said.
Advancing age • factor
Women who had given birth at
least o nce prior to surgery and
those with no gynecologic problems other than endometriosis
had th e best chance of giving
birth following surgery, resu lts
showed.

Advancing age significan tly decreased th e likelihood of a live
birth, even after all other factors
were considered, as well as reducing the chances of becoming
pregnant.
One unexplained ou tcome of
the study was th e preponderance
of baby girls. In the general
populatio n, bo}' babies generally
hold a sl ight edge. In thi s stud y,
first pregnancies fo ll owing surgery resulted in 36 boys and 39
gi rl s; second pregnancies-! ?
boys and 23 girls, and third preg·
nanci es-three boys and six girl s.
"We don't have an explanation
for it." Batt said. "We have observe-d
this endometriosis- related phe nomenon for yea rs . I suspect it is
one of the effects of the di sease
process: SelectiveJy, there are mo re
female fe tuses that survive."
Additional researchers were
Germaine Buck, UB associa te professor of social and preventive medicine, and Richard A. Smith of Tufts
University School of Medicine.

Harvesting WNY Arts
on the World Wide Web
Art •.nd music lovers rejolcel Newcomers and those returning
to Western New York this semester can be ass ured that local arts
institutions are abundant and flourishing. listings for these, along
with their new crop of fall events, are readily accessible via the World
Wide Web.
The Buffalo Free·Net list of art museums and galleries (http:/ 1
freenet.buffaJo.edu/ •rtJ/ gal/) incl udes !.inks to such pro minent
Western New Yotk art si tes as the Albright - Knox Art Galleq•,
Castellani Art Museum, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Ce nter, AJien town Art Festival, CEPA GaUe ry. and others. These sites con ta in news
of upcoming exhibitions and events, images of work in their permanent collections, and history and backgro unds of these important Western New York art institutions.
Several of these si tes incl ude .. virtual" exhibwons. The Castellam
Art Gallery cu rrentl y has a virtual displa}' for it!. "Underground Rail road" exhibit (http://www.nlagar•.edu/ - c:am/ ugr/ ugr.html ) conta ining pho tographs of the commemo rative stations and excerpts
from the cellar insc ript io ns 1n Undergro und Railroad locales m
Niagara Count y.
The Albright ~ Knox Art Gallery has a virtual version ofitsexhi b1 t1on,
"Michel Verjux: Light Co nnection" (http://www.albrightknox .o&lt;g/
,._,t7.html). When viewing the "Visuals" section, you will find stun ning night photographs of the gallery itself as it becomes pan of the
artist's elaborate light installation.
B)' clicking on the
" Wha~s New" icon on
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Web
site (http :// www .
bpo. org!), you may
b""""'through the list
of upcoming concerts
for the internationally
acclaimed orchestra's
6lst season. The site
also features historical
overviews of the BPO
and· its ho~ tht' rt'markable Kleinhans.
No less appealing are the varied musical offerings on the UB cam pus. Performers in the 1997-98 concert series listed on the Slee Hall
homepage {http:/ / www.stee.buffalo.edu) include faculty art.ists, student groups. and world -renowned artists and ensembles. Also, for a
convenient way to access a co mplete list of concerts at Slee Hall and
the US Center of the Arts, and to purchase tickets online, point yo ur
browser to: (http:/ / wlngs.buff•lo. edu/ news/ hc:ltedules ) and dick
on Center fo r the Arts.
Not only does the Web allow you to view extraordinary cultural
sites around the world, it also can be used to locate those in our own
bad.-yard. You will find th at these are well worth a visit: both onlme
and especially in person.

For assistance in connecting to the World Wide Web via UB com·
purer accounrs. conracr rhe ASCIT Help Desk ar 645-3542.
-Debor•h Hu.sted Koshlnsky and Rlc:k McRae, Umverstty Libraries

Obi

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Carlos Olivencia, 49, EOP counselor
A MASS OF CHRI STIA N BURIAL WAS HELD SEPT. II m Sl5.
Col umba and Brigid Church for Ca rlos OlivenCJa, ..J 9, .1 cou n!&gt;elor
for tbe Educational Opportunit y Program for mo re than 20 yea rs.
Olivencia di ed Sep t. 8 in Buffalo Genera l Hosp ital ahn a short bailie
with cancer.
Olivencia recru11ed hundred:. of H!!&gt;paniC !&gt;!Udl;'nb to UB. prvvidi ng advice o n academiC, personal and financtal ma ncr!&gt; and. on
maO)' occasions. inviting student s who had nowhere to gu ·IO !&gt; tJV Jt
his home.
While he was in the hospital, he had as manr as !00 Vl!&gt;ltors a day.
many of th em former and present US st udt&gt;nt !&gt;.
A graduate of UB, he served from 1990·96 as prt's ldt: nt of thL·
Agustin "Pucho" Olivencia Commun ity Center on $\,·an Strt·cl,
named fo r his late father, who was known as the patriarch of Buffalo\
Puerto Rican co mmunity.
Olivencia kept the center open almost smgle· handedly during Jh
lean yea rs, Andres Garcia, president of the Colum bus Com mun1t y
Health Center. told The Buffalo News. "He was one of those people
who did a lot for the comm un ity and nobody knew about it,'' Garcia
sa.id.

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the requirements of the
federal law, and in an effort to promote the personal safety of the academic
cOmmunity, the foiiO'Wing in formation has been prepared
for campus review. The informatiOD is updated on an
annual basis and is available
to all current students and
employees. and to prospec·
tive students and employees
on request.
This report focuses on
University programs, properties and facilities owned or
controlled by the University.
UB ha s ca mpu ses located
within the City of Buffalo
and Town of Amherst, and
each municipalit y ha s law
enforcement agencies and
maintains crime statistics.
For information on safety
and cri me in the local communities, co ntact the Department of Public Safety.
(Consult the "Livi ng OffCampus"brochur&lt; produced
by Comfl)uter Services-Office of Student Life and the
Personal Safety Committee).
T he Universi ty is con cerned about crime in th e
community and works with
local law enforcement agen cies in the investigation of
crimes and the promotion of
safety-aware ness programs
aimed at reducing the number of incidents.

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law enforcement agency. It
has an office on the North
Campus (Bissell Hall) and a
sub-station on the South
Campus (Clement Hall) to .
facilitate the ~rting. pre-

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vention, and investigal'ion of

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criminal activities and to provide for prompt response to
other emergencies.
Members of the academic
community and visitors to
the campus ar&lt; encouraged
to report crimes to the
Department's dispatcher by
telephone
(645-2222 ).
Crimes and emergencies can
also be reponed by using one
of thecampus'28strategically
located "blue light" tele phones that immediately
connect the caller with Publi e Safety's dispatch office.
This office is operated 24
hours a day, seven days a week

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open tothepublicunderex- ·
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. residentsandguests.AIIResi. dential rooms a"' provided
withlocksandexteriordoors
a"' controlled through a card
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ticipate in campus-wide
safety events.
The campus has an active
crimep..,...tionandsafetyawa=essprogram. TheDepartment of Public .Safety
conducts a series of campus
programs on topics related to
sexual assault, self defense,
personal safety and general
crime P"'vention. !'mentations are made in the residence haiLs, at employee and
student orientation programs,campusactivityfairs,
and for campus bargaining
un its on request. To niakearrangements for a group presentation, call Publk Safety
directly. Information about
PublicSafetyisalsoavailaQie
on the computerized campus-wideiniOrmationsystem
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including the Anti-Rape Task
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distribution on campus. There
is also a ~rded sexual assault
information line, (645-3411)
for information on action to
take in the event of asexual assault, options in reporting. and
resources available to a victim.
The following Is ua•s ..,._

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· Safety publishes a weekly listing
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· the date, time, location and of. fense of all campus criminal incidents. The listing is cin:ulated
tocampusofficesandissummarized weddyinthestudent news: paper. The Spectrum.
In addition, Public Safety uses
the student newspaper, The Spec· trum,telephonecalls,postersand
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. in the event of a sexual asaault,
the University will impoK
. maximum dilciplinuy sane· tions. It advila the victim of
: hlslher rights ID notify law en· fon:ement authorities and the
. Univenity's wiliingnaoiD as· sist in IUch notification. If vic: tims wish to press chafJCS. the
· University will arrest and
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· campus. Dilciplinary action
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· the University.1be.accwerand
· the accused will hav.: their le· gal rights maintained and both
: will be informed of the out· comeofanyinternalandexter: naJ proceedings. The victim is
· notified of available counsel: ing. mental health, and Olher
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. the oommunity. Public Safety
: and the University Health Ser· vices will provide a Crisis Ser: vices Sexual Assault Advocate
. andtanaleoffiars...,available
. to assist at all times. Victims
: also have the right to change
. theiracademicandlivingsitu· ations and will be assisted in
doing so if they choose. lnfor-

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emergency calls and to inves- _,local polceagandes; Safety Task Fon:ep.-.paresan
ligate ~rts of criminal ac- · - ( I ) poedes which en- : annual ~on campus setivity.Asappropriate, theDc- : courage accllrate and curity for review. The Task
reporting of • · Force also conduas open fopartment interacts with local · ...-opt
-tothe...,..spocrisisserviceagenctes, lawen- : lc::e:Md the llfJP"'OM''ate rums. distributes printed inforcement units, emergency . pollee~
fOfJTI"tion, and arranges for
Public Safety Department appropriate campus safety
healthcareagenciesandpmsecutors.
campuslawenforcementper- relatedsignage.TheDirector
The following ore the : sonnel have the full state au- of the Department of Publ ic
curnnt . _ polldes thority 10 enfoo:e and inves- Safety serves as chairperson
concerning semrtty IIIMI tigatealllawsand regulations. of the Task Force.
access to c..,...s faclll- The Department is in daily
In addition, safety and seties, Including umpus contact with theCity fBuf- curityprogramsforstudents
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reslclences. seaortty falo and Town of Amherst a"' offered by Residence Life
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police departments, the Erie . and Student Life offices. ResiCounty Sheriff's Office and dentialstudentsdiscusssafety
pu•f.lldlltlu.
issues at mandatory floor
The folowing clescrtbes
The campus has a Personal the New York Sta te Police.
The Department maintains . meetings and are provided
cuiftnt
polklel
SafetyCommitteewhichconregarding procedures
24-hour-a-day radio and with security related printed
materials. Student Life con-facilities for report- ducts facilities audits from a
teletypecontactwitharealaw ducts orientation programIng criminal actions or safety perspective. Deficien- enforcement
agencies.
other emergencies oc- cies a.re identified and corJurisdiction of campus law ming on campus, which in .-.cted when ~ned. Camcurring on c.....,..s enforcemen t personnel as dude security information in
polkies concerning the
pus community members
peace
officers is limited to the printed student guidebooks,
Institution' s response to
with security concerns should
campus and highways that distribution of a personal
such reports.
contac t the Department of
are adjacent to or travel safety brochure, a sexual asThe Depanment of PubPublic Safety di.-.cdy.
through the campus. Pert!&gt;n- sault prevention brochure,
lic Safety is the University's
Most campus faCilities are
nel may engage in "hot" pur- and related presentations on
su it into the surroundin g these topi cs: The presentacommunity.
tions are conducted by Student Life, Public Safety, and
These statistics reveal the nature and frequency of reported The following describes the University Counseling
cri me on the University at Buffalo campuses. In the cat- . ~-;"~ Center.
ega&lt;y of burglary, forced entries are rare: the majority of signed to Inform stu- The following Is UB' s
incidents are thefts from unlocked student rooms. One of dents and emplo)ees · campus polkJ concernthe most challerfging tasks we have is to educate students about compus sec•rlt) : lng the monitoring to lock their rooms at all times.
procedures and practkes . nc:on:Mng through local
•nd to encour•ge stu- · polka~ of atml-

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and community leaden a"'
invited to~ annually with
student organization lea&amp;Tship. particularly the campus
fraternities and sororities.
Students a.., advised if they
• .., app~nded for a violationoflawoftheoommunity,
Stale, or nation , it is the
University's position not to
request or agree to special
considerationforthestudent
becauseofhisorherstudent
status. Students who violate
a local ordinance or any law
risk the legal penalti&lt;s P"'·
scnbed by civil authorities.
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Department of Public Safety .................... 645-2222
Office of Student Life .......... ...................... 645-6125
Office of Residence Life ............................ 645-2 171
University Counseling Center .................. 645-2720
Student Affairs ........................................... 645-2982
Personnel Services ..................................... 645-2646

. Pr&lt;p&lt;&gt;r&lt;d by: Offoa of th&lt; Voc&lt; Prnid&lt;nt lor 5tud&lt;nt Alfoin ond th&lt;
D&lt;porlm&lt;nt of Public Sof&lt;ly in compliona with th&lt; l&lt;d&lt;rol 5tud&lt;nt

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UB 3, Notre Dame 2

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Sophomore forward&amp;..... Butcher Jofi&lt;d in a~~ into the right cor·
ncr of the goal past Nom. Dame goallc&lt;eper Greg Velho 9:47 into sud·
den-death overtime Saturday to lifi the Bulls to a 3-2 win over 19th·
ranked Nom. Dame. Butcher finished the game with two goals and an
assist to lead the visitors in the lim-ever meeting betwem the two schools.
All fiw: goals were scored in the second half. R&lt;ggie McKnighl
put the lristt on the scoreboard first. Butcher tieQ the game for Buffalo at the 56:48 mark. With Jess than eight minutes to play, Sebastian
Zawislan gave the Bulls a 2- 1 lead when he scored off a cross from
Butcher. AJan Woods' goal at the 86: 17 mark sent the game into
overtime.

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Kickoff!

Barry Eckert, dean of the S"hool of Health Related Professions and chair of '97 SEFA campaign, is shown with
Chair's Cup at kickoff reception Sept. 11 in the Center for
the Arts. The campaign co~tinues through Oct. 28 .'

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will host the Mid-Con cross-country championships on Nov. I .
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Youngstown Stale, Western Ontario, Toronto, St. Bonaventure and
Niagara. ln dual meets. Buffalo was 3-0 as it defeated Youngstown ,
SL Bonaventure and Niagara.
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lost to Illinois State, 40-28. On Saturday, the Bulls were outgained 479 119 yards in total offense by Delaware State and won 40-30.
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forcing none at Illinois State. On Saturday, UB fo rced six turnovers
and had no ne themselves in beating the Hornets.
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game, saw the Hornets rall y to 20-1 4, before scoring the ne.xt 20
points to put the game away before Delaware State sco red 16 po ints
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is going to be educational. One of the first things I did, having
a few spare minutes, was to pick up copies of the two UB newspapers, The Spectrum and the Reporter. I began with the studen t
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because it appears in print? Even incom ing freshmen can sepa rate fact from fancy. They cut their baby teeth on satire; MTV,
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a little more .
Thanks fo r the entertaining intro to UB-101. I can tell
you, after 17 long, hard years under the corporate yoke, com.ng
to a college campus that encourages a free exchange of ideas
is like being released to heaven on earth. I still feel a little dazed,
but grateful for this opportunity to find out how another facet
of society lives.
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Politics fostered tentative UUP pact
Union had six-week 'window ofopportunity' to bargain, Scheuemuzn tells UB chapter

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UUP negotiators endorsed the
agreement, which is now being
voted on by members statewide,

between the state and

even though it permits contracting

United U.UV.rsity Professions on a new contract
emerged this· summer after two
years of talks only because Gov.
Pataki felt be was going to have a
formidable challenge in his re-election bid from state Comptroller
Carl McCall, the union's statewide
president said on Thursday.
A period of uncertainty that
ended with McCall's subsequent
decision not to enter the contest
presented UUP with a six-week
"window of opportunity," Wdliam
Scheuerman told more than 200
members--the largest turnout ever

out of union jobs.
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or outsourcing in our contract ...
but there was no way we wtrt going to beat the principle back," he
said. Tht three other, larger state
unions representing SUNY employees agreed to contracting out,
setting what he called a "pattern"
for bargaining for the UUP pact.
"We weren't going to bring the
state to its kntes by staying out and
working without benefits or raises;
it would more likely bring us to our
kntes," Scheuerman added.
He said tht ttntative agreement
fulfills the goals for the contract set
by the union, which were to main -

for a chapter meeting-in
Pistachio's in the Student Union.

tain ljob security, hold the line on
workload and restore fully the Bendit '!'rust Fund.

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bring the state to Its
knees by staying out and

working without benefits
or raises; It would more
likely bring us to our

knees."
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Scheuerman fielded criticism
from several chapter office rs and
leade rs , who questioned him
strongly on a variety of issues, in -

eluding o utsourcing and what
some alleged is the failure of most
UUP members across the state to
hear dissenting discussion abour
the tentative agreement
He defended language in the
proposed contract allowing the
state to contract out jobs to exter·
nal corporations, maintaining that
the inclusion of nurnerous"fences"
would make it extremely difficult
and expensive for the state to do so.
He stressed that "contracting in,"
a versio n of contracting out in
which jobs would be outsourced to
internal corporations, such as the
Research Foundation or the UB
Foundation, is "particularly dan gerous and totally unacceptable"
and is not allowed under the pro·
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PLAN TO streamline
the universi~y's business operations was
presented to the US
Council Thesday .by Senior Vice
President Robert ). Wagner.
(See related story, P•B• 5)
The consolidation is needed to
allow UB to become more effective and efficient, he sajd, and offers a number of benefits.
While emphasizing that "this is
not a 'tomorrow' activity," Wagner
outlined the advantages of such a
consolidation.
He noted that UB's business operations have evolved over the past
50 years, and "we find oursdves in
an environment o f enormou s
managerial complexit y."
UB's business operations. Wagner
explained, are conducted through a
number of managerial entities: srate

operations, the Research Foundation, the Faculty Student Association and the UB Foundation, Inc.,
each of which conducts its business
operations separately.
"Our goal in streamlining is to
have' one business office for the
university," to meet the needs of
university "customers" who in clude research faculty, principal
investigators, staff and administrative units, Wagner said.
The four entities would rem ai n
separate. Their business opera tions would be combined and supported by a single administrative
system, he explained.
By putting such an administrative
structure into place, "the quality of
service and information will be bet·
terthan what we'rcdoingnow,"said
President William R. Greiner.
Wagner said the advantages of
streamlining US's business operations include:

• US's separate business offices
would be centralized in one location.
• Service would be tailored to in dividual customer needs.
• The stre amlined opera tion
would provide a simp!ified, common war to process transactions,
as well as uniform implementa·
tion of"best practice'' strategies.
• There would be a universitywide focus on providing administrative services, as well as increased
co ll abo ration and coo rdinat io n
among operating units.
• Tht streamlined o perati o n
would provide a standardized budget process and eliminate duplicate
data entry and rccon~iliation.
• There would be consistent, accurate data classification across entities..
Streamlining US's business opera ti o ns is not o nl y doable ,
Greiner noted to the cou ncil, it
proves that .. o ne mo re time th e
Universit)' at Buffalo is providing

a leadership model within the state
university."
He added, "No matter what
source funds a paycheck, we are all
part of the UB famil y," and UB's
business operations shou ld reflect
that unity.
In other business, Greiner asked
for thecouncil'ssupport of a plan to
appomt four volunteer-based com·
missions that would provide mformation and advice to the council
The commissions would advise
the council on facilities, finance, regionalism and studen t life. Greiner
and Council Chair LJwrence
Castellani will recommend \'Oiun·
teers to be named to thl' commlS·
sions at the council's nl'xt meettng.
Greiner also told the cou nCi l
that the university IS m the earh
stages of a major fundraising cam·
paign. Details of th e campaign.
including financial goals, will be
announced later this year. he said.

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Montserrat has e:xhibited a pattern of increasing intmsity of eruptions with time.. If this continues,
the whole island will be at risk. At
the present, about two-thirds of the
original population have been
evacuated. Decisions concerning
the rest are best made by the civil
authorities on the island.

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erupting and we were able to
climb up onto the active cone and
stand on flowing lava. From that
point on, 1 was hooked on active
volcanoes. At that time, I was a
professor at Arw;na State University, but I had never taken a course

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volcanic phenomena affecting
various areas near active or potentially active volcanoes. It ranges
from forecasting events that could
occur within a few weeks, as at
some volcanoes in Mexico, to
Jong-term forecasts of 10,000 to
1,000,000 years, as at the proposed
high-level nuclear waste disposal
site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
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but not tamed. Maybe we will
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would live on most volcanoes,
provided !Mt there was a good escape routeJ

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affected the course of civilization.
The eruption ofSantorini (Thera)
at about 1550 B.C. destroyed the
Minoan civilization and may have
been a prominent factor in the
Exodus from Egypt. Popocatepetl
(near Mexico City) probably
brought to an end the main civilization in Mesoamerica about 800
years ago and could cause as much
destruction at any moment. It i.s
unlikely that a single eruption
could cause a serious global disaster, although major changes in the
climate could be generated.
Q: What'••~dolng
at • university thous•nds of

miles from the nearest volcano?
A: Most volcanologists go to volcanoes, rather than Sit on them.
What is important is to have a
good research group and the facilities to analyze the data.

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at such close range the great force
and beauty of nature. I have witnessed both the gentle Oowoflava
and the terrible effeCts of giant
explosions. My wonder and excitement never cease.

Q: What has ~ your mo•t
dangerous encounter with a

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dome two days before a small explosion. The gas and steam were
terrible. The eruption 6lled a valley !Mt I had followed with about
50 feet ofboiling hot mud ~d rock

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to see "Dante's Peak" (which is a
more realistic movie).

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Mount Rainier is the most danger-

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present Of course, other Cascade
volcanoes could erupt before
Rainier. Mount Rainier could
threatm Tamma and Seattlt with
giant mudOows, as it has in the past.
Some volcanologis!a"believo that it
could become active within the
next few decades_
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breed parrots and currently
have about 16 (6 pairs and the rest
singles). They range from Macaws
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I also breed Damas for show and for
backpacking. Last month, we took
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foreboding place. The volcano bad
blown its top the year before and
loose ash formed small mudllows
every afternoon. Much of the area

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Drug can reduce noise-induced hearing loss
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News Services Editor

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OISE-INDUCED hearing loss may be caused
partly by free-radical
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sensory cells in the inner ear, and a
drug called R-P!Acan lessen the extent of damage by enhancing antioxidant activity, researchers in UB's
Center for Hearing and Deafness
have found.
Results of the ir most recent
study, which describes the action
of R-PIA in an animal model, will
be presented tomorrow at the Inner Ear Biology Meeting in Sari,
Italy.
Donald Henderson, professor of
communicative disorders and sciences, said the action of R-PIA
likely would be similar in the humanear.
"In the future, we may be able
to rescue the hearing loss of persons inadvertently exposed to
large amounts of noise, such as
those near an explosion, for example, through th e use of this
drug."
Noise-induced hearing loss, a
maj~r health problem in industrialized societies, is a primary research focus of the Center for

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exposed to large ..,_,tS of noise, such u
those nur an explosion, for example,
through the we of thb drvg."
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Hearing and Deafness, which
Henderson co-directs with fellow
scientist Richard j. Salvi.
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The new study, conducted by
Henderson and·colleagues Sandra
McFadden and Bo-Hua Hu, along
with Richard Kopke of the U.S.
Army, documents the action of RPIA on noise-induced hearing loss
in chinchillas, a mammal with an
auditory range similar to that of
humans.
[n earlier work, the researchers
showed that the stress of loud
noises causes an increase in free
radicals in the inner ear, which
can damage or kill sensory cells.
To defend themselves, sensory
cells express a rush of glu tathione, an antioxidant that ab sorbs free radicals. R-PIA was

found to increase the ac.tivity of
glutathione, thus providing enhanced protection from. freeradical damage.
To test the effect of the drug on
hearing loss, researchers applied
R-PIA topically to the round window (inner-ear membrane ) of
one group of animals and applied
a saline solution as a control in a
second group. The animals then
were exposed to mid-frequency
noise for four hours at levels high
enough to cause temporary deafness. The loss of hearing was verified by monitoring brain waves to
the hearing center in the cortex.
The lack of brain activity in response to normal sound indicated complete hearing loss.
Drug brought quick recovery
Brain-wave activity was mea-

sured again at one day, four days,
and 20 days following noise exposure. Results showed that the animals treated with R, PIA recovered
their hearing faster and more
completely than those treated with
saline.
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also showed less damage and loss
of sensory cells than control animals,• Henderson said.

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Enjoyed lno$hman year

"Although it was a rough start the
lim few days, it got easier as time
went on, and before! Jcnew it, I was
having a wonderful time," said Chris
Fedor=k. "The best thing that happened was making so many friends.
and !=ping those friends. I've hung
out with them several times over this
summer."
Independence also was high on the
list. But the responsibility that goes
along with living away fromj&gt;ome is
a double-edged sword, they said.
Not all were prepared for the kvd
of self-motivation that college studies require. "1 didn't do aoything that
was expected of me. It was a waste
of a year; said Susan Baebler, who
did not return to UB this y&lt;ar and
is studying at Adelphi University.
"UB was a great place. !loved it a
linle too much. I do hope to return."
While others also struggled at
times, they were able to overcome
the obstacles they encountered.
"Theworstthingwashavingtofmd
for myself,' said Yvelisse Ortiz. "It was
hard being broke and hungry and
not having Mom and Dad to help
me." But, she added. "it was good. because !learned a lot of things. I gained
a lot of Jcnowledge through books
(and) also by experiencing things
that happen in the 'real world:" Best
of all, she said. was being accepted
into the Sd&gt;ool ofNursing.
"I think one"'bf the best things that
happened to me as a freshman was
gaining independence." said Erin
Gala. But that independeoce comes

First Bonnie Bullou~ lecture
to feature nursing leader
An lntenN~tlonally acclaimed leader in nursing will deliver the first
School of Nursing Dr. Bonnie Bullough Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday,
Sept 25, in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus .
Norma M. Lang, dean and professor at the University of Pennsylva nia School of Nursing. will discuss .. The Power of Quality Nursing Prac ·
tice." A reception will follow the lecture.
Lang is known fo r her pio neering wo~k in nursing in areas sue~ as
quality assurance, classification systems for nursing p~acti~e, es_tabhs hment of nursing centers and innovation and profess1onahsm m practice. The author of more than 90 articles, she has served on numerous
national nursing commissions and boards.
The Dr. Bonnie Bullough Lecture was established in 1996 through a
$100,000 gift from Vern L. Bullough to honor the memory of his "':ife
and colleague, Bonnie, form er dean of the UB nursing school, who d1ed
in 1996.
The lecture will be free and open to the public. For reservations, call

Greiner, 10 others from UB
named to CGF bo~d of directors

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TIJDY. Meet people. Get involv.d. Have fun. That's the
advice from the Class of
2000 to this y.ar's freshmeo.
Twenty-four of the 25 have returned to UB for their sophomore
y.ar. All in all, freshman year was a
sucass, they say.
I can't picture myself without
t e people I've met," said Michelle
!au . .. (Freshman yea r ) was
reat-the friends I made are res nsible for that."
best thing· about freshman
the friendships.
"At e top of the list of best
things Is all the friends that I made.
Nothing can compare to that." said
MaggieZak.
Friends aren't just people to hang
out;.;t!L Theymirnportanttoadjusting to life on campus.

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at a price, she admits. "One of the
worst things that happened to me
as a freshman was having to become
fully responsible." But if she had it
to do over, the Jamestown native
said she migbt haY&lt; preferred to begin ·college somewhere else. "I would
haY&lt; chosen a smaller school farther
from home, maybe somep lace
warmer," Gala added.
While a couple of member&gt; of the
Class of2000 agreed they might have
preferred a smaller scboo~ the majority found that UB's size and the
wealth of activities lt offen were ex·
actly what they were looking for.
"I loY&lt; UB and had a great experience my firn ·year. I met a lot of
interesting people and experienced

"A unJven1ty like UB Is
large .._h to have •

huge.,_,, of resources
tluot- tt--e for the
tAking."
GAB[ SANTOS·WHITE

a lot It was a good year for me," said
Susan Deacon of Auburn. "UB offers everything I need and want The
large size of the school is perfect
And UB is far enough away from
home, but also close enough'lhat it
is easy to go home when I want"
Huge amount of resources
US's size is one of its greatest assets,
ai!-1 GabeSantn&lt;-White. "A university like UB is la!ge enough to have a

huge amount of resources that are
there for the talting.
US's size provides access to lots of
dillmnt people. too. ·us is so divene
that )'lU ha"' to take advantage of the
friendships you would find nowhere
else." said Kaya Gerberich.
A yearago.;;omeoftheClassof2000
wereCXl!lCIOlledaboutkeepingupwith
their studies. But their first year proved
to many that they were up to the task.
"The best thing that happened to
me this year was getting a 4.0.lt was
so unexpected. but what a great feeling it was to receive it,.. said FJana
Steinhaus. "I was very pleased with
the way this year went !love being
part of the UB environment and I
wouldn't trade this y.ar-full of experiences-for the world."

Sense of direction acquired
One of the best things about her
freshman y.ar, Deacon said. was"the
sense of direction r .. acquired. Going into my freshman y&lt;ar I was a
little apprehensive about what I
wanted to do and my major. Now I'm
more sure than ever what I want."
Complaints-they have a few, bu~
overall, any problems they encountered were as unique as each student
"Living in the donns was ugly."
said Jennifer Abbata, who recommends, "'get a single room. There's a
lot less problems.•
Roommates were both the besr

and the wont thing that happened,
said Erica Smith. One was "a pain,"
she said, while another became "a
really good friend." New students.
she said. should remember that "if
some people are rude or mean, ignore them and meet others."'
It's important for freshmen to keep
in mind why they're here, said Neene
Owate. "Incoming freshmen must re-

member that no matter what, they
must stay focused and remember why
they wanted to go to college."
Michelle Glatt had just two words
of advice for freshmen: "Bring earplugs." Others chose two different
words: Get involved.
"If )&lt;lu're intimidated at fint, it's
OK, it happens to e-veryone. Get involved with campus activities,"' said
Fedor=k. "1 was and !loved it."

Take advantage of what UB has
to offer, both its academics and extracu r ricular activities, the new

sophomores advise.
"The best thing to happen to me
as a freshman was talting UB 101."
said Jason Toto. "My teacher aided
me in .:Oeeting a lot of people who I
wouldn't have otherwise met That,
in tum, got me included in a variety of
school activities.! would advise all incoming freshmen to get involved with
everything from residence halls to
projects within classes. and to get to
know their professors and their TAs."
And a final word from the Class
of 2000 to the freshmen who may
be finding their fint semester at UB
a little unnerving: Courage.
Talk to people-they've been
through what )&lt;lu're going through,
said Eric lp."Don't be shy....Trusting
is a big part of college." he said.
And remember one important
thing: "College is what )'lU make of
it." said Sara Wozniak

President William R. Grelnet' and 10 other UB fa culty members have
been named to the 30-member board of directors for CGF Health System, a propo~ed new regional health -care sys tem encompassing
Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo General Health
System and Millard Fillmore Health System.
Among the new directors are John E. Friedlander,
president and CEO, CGF Health System and adjunct
associate professor of management, School of Man ·
agement, and the folJowing members of the School of
Medicine and Bio medical Sciences faculty: James P.
Burdick, anesthesia site director, Millard Fillmore Sub·
G.IUtU
urban Hospital and clinical assistant professor; Patricia
K. Duffner, professor of neurology and pediatrics; James C. Gilbert, assistant professor of pediatrics, Children's Hospital.
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Also: Fredric M. Hirsh, Highgate Medical Group and chmcal assistant pro fessor of family medicine; Thomas A. Lombardo, medical staff
president,MillaJd Fillmore Health System and clini~al instructor of orthopaedics; Robert A. Milch, medical director, Hosp1ce Buffalo, inc. and
clinical assistant professor of famil y medicine and general surgery.
Also: Susan H. Schwartz, head, Department of Medicine, The Buf·
falo General Hospital and clin ical professor of medicine; lren~ ~-S no w,
Buffalo Medical Group and clinical assistant professor of medicme, ~n~
RusseU S. Vaughan, medical staff president, Children's HospitaJ and chm cal assistant professor of pediatrics.

Women's Club to open fall
program September 20
The UB Women's Club opens its 52nd year with a fall membership

luncheon Sept. 20 at Daffodil's. Guests and new members are welcom_e.
The Buffalo Chips, an all-male a cappeUa group of VB st1,1dents, will
entertain.
.
Activity sign -up will begin at 11 :30 a.m., with lunch at 12:1S_p.m. Pres•·
dent Dawn Halvorsen will recogniu new members. Norma Zimmenn~
and Geraldine Ryder are hospitality chairs. Carol Greiner is honorary pres•·
denL
The program will feat ure information about the club's activity groups
and service programs.
Groups and their chairs are:
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Activity coordinators: Aurelia HoUoway, Josie Lapetma; Art Htstory:
Aurelia Holloway, Gerry Ryder: Books: Pat Lerner. Nancy Golden; Bowling: Rho nda Storr; Bridge: Nicki Yeracaris, Pat Addelman; Bridge Flight:
Marie Schillo.
Also: Cross-Country Skiing: Gloria Pleu; French Conversation: Jean
Jain; Couples Gourmet: Nicki Yeracaris; Evening Gourmet: Ca_rmella
Hanley, Maria Coburn; Gourmet Techniques: Barbara_Paga ndh, Su.nMi Fung, Helene Connolly; International: Meena Rustgt, Nor.ma .Rubm :
Money and You: Janet Fedor, Norma Rubin; Needlework: Lo1s Smd~n1,
Ann Marie Natalino; Tennis: Marie Schillo, Ann Shub; Theater/ Film:
Josie Lapetina, Aurelia HoUoway.
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The club is a service o rganization to US and 1ts commumt y. Mem bers participate in educational and charitable activities that spon~r t~e
Grace Capen academic awa rds in April and finan cial aid scholars~ 1 ps m
September. Membership is open to any woman who is interested m ser·
vice to UB and the purpose of the club.
For membership o r luncheon information caU Geraldine Ryder, 8338699, by Saturday, Sept 13.

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Halley public-art proJect satirizes attempts to limit behavior

By PATRICIA DONOVAN

News Servk.es Editor

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T GlVES new meaning to

the term "site·s~c."
Peter Halley, a New York
artist of growing national
reputation, has installed a
temporary public-art project on
the North Campw that satirizes
the physical and ontological orga·
nization

Of intellectual systems.

The nine-part conceptual
work-installed at eight different
sites-was commissioned by the
UB Art Gallery in the Center for
the Arts. It is the first in a series of
temporary public-art projects

logue about contemporary art and
issues .
The installation uses the iconography of cells and circuits as seen
in flowcharts to comment upon
the organization of the university.
The charts, appropriated from
various academic journals, are in-

stalled at eight public sites on the
North Campw.
Charts have specialized texts

Each employs a specialized text
referring to an information system,

along with "cells" connected by
conduits, plus arrows that suggest

possible directions for the "Oow" of
information.
The charts are not accompanied

by their original explanatory cap-

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will-&lt;lpen with • public lion from S.7 p.m. on Thundoy,
Nov. 20.11 will run through Friday, Dec. 12.

modernism's "geometry of mind•
has come to~ as a blueprint for
an entire man-made environment
in which manipulation is the name

of the game.
The art project pokes ·fun at the
segmented heuristic communication charts it mimics. Each installation attempts to grab viewers' attention at precisely the point at

Boor Ughtwell Gallery in the Cen·
ter for the Arts. Called "Cartoon
'Network." it is a massive, two-di·
mensional color geometric instal·
lation devised ofRoll-a-Tex plw
regular and Day-Gio acrylic and
who curated the show, said the metal paint in the ground Ooor of
language of the charts, familiar but the Lightwell Gallery. On either ·
not contextualiud, offen a kind of wall, perpendicular to the color
absur~ poetry that encourages piece, are the tint two Bowcbatts
viewers to reflect on the parallels in press type on the wall. They
between bureaucratic and inteUec- diagram "Unguistic Processing"
tual space, even as they move and "Despair-Appeal." The fourth
through iL
wall depicts a silk-screen collage
The tint and principal section· of the "cell• motif executed in red
of the installation is in the first silk-screened segments.
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planned by the gallery to engage
the university community in a dia-

tions. While the original chart may
have referred to a linguistic system,
management model, the development of the neurotic personality or

feoturing tho- ol Bobson.
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similarity between most modem which they are being manipulated
structures and prison cells or com- or controlled by the archi~
puter chips. The resulting instaiJa. i.e., wlieie thty are encoUraged to
tions---&lt;&gt;ften huge and arresting- 'go, "forced" to turn, made to stop
imply that culture is now irrevoca· or choose a directiOn. ·
bly divorced &amp;om the organic; that
Gallery director Al Harris F.,

now diagrams a way of conceptu-

with a reception in the gallery from
7-9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12, at
which Halley will speak. 11 contin-

ues through next July.
For more than a decade, Halley's
abstract geometric paintings have
mimicked modernist forms, suggesting, for instance, the unsettling

How the North Campus
keeps crowd flow in check
The ralatlonshlp ~ Halley• lnst.a.tlon and the North Campus is obvious to anyone familiar with the urban legend sum&gt;unding the
design of the campus in Amhent.
Stories of New Yorlc State's allegedly anxious attempts 10 control the physical activities of its college students after the 1960s campus riots may be
apocryphal. Nevertheless, a degree of government paranoia did prevail at
the time and, by accident 0&lt; design, the new NQith Campus incorporated a
variety of modernist, control-minded elements. For this reason, it stiU is considered by many to reflect the·urge to constrain student activity.
The North Campus manages to contain and moderate crowd flow in a

variety of ways:
• A series of narrow, overground bridges links major campus buildings.
These protect walker&lt; from the elements and also discourage pedestrian
traffic along the main campus axis.
• Access to and among buildings via the passageways is limitedby doors
that can be locked.
• The principal student residence, the Ellicott Complex, is sited some distance from the classroom complex and is not directly linked to it via tunnels or overhead bridges.
• The North Campus Student Union was completed only a few years ago,
nearly 25 years after the campus opened, and other •natural" gathering
places like Alumni Arena and the Center for the Arts are not connected to
the buildings on the Spine.
• The prindpal buildings are of similar modernist design, all constructed
in brick. Similarity of style a.nd limited signage tend to. make individual
buildings difficult for casual observers to identify.
• Traffic patterns have been obstructed in ways that prevent movement
and "allow" only one-way traffic on the main Spine road, Putnam Way.
nme and mitigating circumstances being what they are, campus wori&lt;ers and dwellers ignore most of the above, complain suspiciously about
some of the above and find •natural" gathering places to which they still
have access. Srarbucks. The courtyard of the Commons. The plazJI in front
of the Center for the Arts.

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Another press-type installation,
the cryptic, but fascinating, " External World; in the northwest
comer of the atrium, refers to the

integration of "deeper" potential
at critical moments and •thresh·

ol&lt;ls of unfeeling."
A third installation ("Is Response Improved!") is found on
the ground Boor of the Commons
on the south wall of the entrance

vestibule. Site four ("R&lt;maining
Memoryleu System") is . on the
east wall of the main Boor of the
Student Union, next to the south·
east entrance. Site five ("Echo of
A's Voice'") is on the second floor

of)acobs Hall at theend of the en·
closed bridge.
Site six ("Controller") is on the
second Ooor of Norton Hall on a
wall adjoining the bridge to
O'Brian Hall. Site seven ("Master

Slave Manipulator") is in Capen
Hall on the lower level of the Undergraduate Library next to the
co nversation pit .

Site eight is in Talbert Hall, lower
level, north wall of the corridor
adjacent to the dining area.

Site nine ("The Site of UnfeeJ.
ing") can be found on the third
floor of Richmond Hall, Ellicott
Complex, near seating aiea "Richmond 3; a site selected perhaps

becawe its name reflects so well the
··control'" issue in campus design.

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UUP meeting
'

"I wouldn't baV. shook bands on
a contract that bad that in. If that
were in our contract, e=y job in
this unit would be up for grabs," he

Wd.
Buffalo Center Chapter Presi·

dent Jean Dickson also urged members to ratify the contract "because
of morale issues, because of stability and because there are a lot of
pooitive aspect.s to this contract."
She stres&amp;ed that the union must
become more vigilant and orga·

niud.

"We need to be ready for 1999,
when, if the coniiact is paased. W&lt;'U

"w.needto ...

have to start negotiating again .. .It

.....,far

makes sense for us to have a more

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militant and a stronger UIJP chapter" on eacb of the UB campuses,
"so we can actually play a much

contnoctll......-.-·u

more significant role in making
sure we get a really strong contract
in the next run.•

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Votes to be counted Sept. 19
Scheuerman noted that UUP has

lEAN DICKSON

Joel Rose, chapter vice president

for professionals, repeatedly
pressed Scheuerman to explain
why .. protections" against
outsourcing arc outlined in the
memorandum of understanding,
in letters attached to the MOU and

on an earlier charge by James
Holstun, UUP vice president for
academia, that the union leadership lied when it accepted oontract·
ing out in the proposed contract
after two years of insisting it would

in verbal understandings, rather

not, pointed out that the union

than in the contract itself.
Scheuerman replied that the key
protections ar.e in the contract and
the others are binding.
Harvey Axlerod, grievance chair
for professionals, said he believes

"functions in the real world.•

the proposed contract does not
prevent outsourcing represented by
the hiring of freelancers to do the
work of UUP members.
.. 1 don't see where this contract
p~t.s any protections for that
whatsoever," he said. He added that
managers could elude any of the
"fences" in the contract hiring all

workers on a freelance basis, as he
said has been done for years in
Millard Fillmore College.
John Boo~ professor and chair of
the Department of Management
Science and Systems. commenting

membership at that time.'"
Even at UB, where he and others
have worked bard to urge members
to oppose the pact, he knows of
members who ~ved their ballot.s
and voted before they got any recommendations to vote "no.•

''W•y the world funetlono"
The bargaining team made it
very dear that contracting out was
unacceptable, Boot said. "But in the
end, we have come out. .. and have
thrown some water in the wine; we
have relented. And you know what
that is!- Tha~s just the way the world
functions," he said.
Paul Zarembka, grievance chair
for academics, asked Scheuerman
to rescind the ratification process
'"because it was not a democratically run process.•

.. 1 know

of

only

three

chapters...tha~ within a dose date
of the time that ballots were re·
ceived, bad any kind of critical or

negative commentary to all the

given members a month-two
weeks longer than usual-to make
their decisions on the proposal.
Votes will be counted on Sept. 19.
*We've done more than ever before," he said. "If people don't pay
attention (to the contract and its
specific language), i~s not because
we haven't helped them." He noted

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that once the bargaining team
agrees to a proposed contract, it is
legally bound to "sell the contract
1

and not to undercut the contcact."'
Stacey Johnson, assistant to the
chair of the Department of Anthro·

pology, reminded members that
everyone responds to balJots in
their own way; while some respond
immediately, many take the time to
inform ther;nselves before voting.
"It seems to me we're really making a lot of assumptions about
people and about how stupid they
are and ignorant that they sent in
their ballot.s without the benefit of
all this wonderful, intellectual dis·
cussion,"' Johnson said.
"If they sent their ballot.s in early,
that was a decision they made."

Obituaries
Fayek Ghabriella55a, 82, retired

anatomy professor

SERVlCES WERE HELD SEPT. 5 in St. George's O rthodox Catholic
Church for Fayck Ghabrid Yassa, 82, a retired surgeon who had s«Ved as
an anatomy professor at the School of Medicine and Bio medicaJ Sciences.
Yassa died Aug. 31 in St. Jo~ph Hospital, Cheektowaga.
He graduated at tile top of his medical class from the University of
Cairo and was a professor of surgery at Cairo University before coming to
the U.S. 30 years ago. He established a private surgery practh and began
teaching anatomy at UB in 1987, continuing until illness fo rced his retire·
ment.

Yassa was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Ameri can
College of Surgeons, as well as a mem~r of the Erie County and New York
State medical societies.

, Three new members named to UB coUncil
Pataki appoints Battle, Gicewicz, Lipke to university's governing council
By SUE WUETotfJI
News Servkes Associate Director

OV. GEORGE PATAK! has ap·
pointed three Western New
Yorkers to vacancies on the Universityat Buffalo Council: Joining the unlversitfs local governing coun cil are Patricia !C. Lipke, Sheila H. Battle and
Edmond J. Gicewicz.
President William R. Greiner noted that
the UB Council has a long tradition of
dedicated service by community members
who care deeply about the ·university and
its.future.
.. We are proud that the governor has
appointed three such distinguished com·
munity representatives as Mrs. Lipke, Mrs.
Battle and Dr. Gicewicz to the council, and
we look forward to working with them,"
he said.
Patricia K. Lipke will serve a seven -year
term. She succeeds John Walsh, whose term
expired on June 30. Former vice president
of public rdations for Gibraltar Steel Corp.,

G

yea r term . Sh e
which was foun·
ded by her late
succeed s Dav id
husband, Ken
Ca mpbell , wh o
resign ed befo re
Lipke , Patricia
Lipke has been
th e e nd of h is
active in the
term , which excommunity for
pired Jun e 30. A
many years.
ph ysi ca l th era &amp;Anu
ClaWKZ
She is a patron
pist with the Visof the arts, serving as chair of the 1996 iting Nurses Association of Western New
annual fund-raising gala for Shea's Buf- York, she also has worked as a physical
falo Theatre, a member of the fund -rais - therapist at Erie County Medical Center
ing committee for the .. Boo Bash .. in sup - and as coordinator of the Orthopedi c Out port of the Buffalo Museum of Science patient Department at The Buffalo Gen and a member of thC' Women's Co mmit - eral Hospital.
tee of the Buffalo Philharmonic OrchesShe is a member of the Home School
tra. She also holds membership in the Boa rd of th e Ea rl y Childh ood Ce nt er,
Albright - Knox Art Galler y and Studio School 54, and is active in the Roswell All iArena Theatre.
ance, The Junio r League o f Buffalo and thl'
In addition , Lipke has been involve&lt;\_,W Greater Buffalo chapter o f the American
the President's Council at Villa Maria and Red Cross. Batt..le earned a bachelo r's deCanisius colleges, and has served on th e gree from Ithaca College.
Edmond J. Gicewicz will serve th rough
board of the American Lung Associatio n.
Sheila H . Battle also will serve a seven- June 30, 1998, filling the unexpired term of

fo rmer co uncil Chair Philip B. Wels, who

resigned.
Gicewicz earn ed two deg rees fro m
UB-a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a
med ical d egree in 1956. 'Nhile p u rsuing

his und ergradu a te deg ree , G icewicz
served as captai n of the varsi t )' football.
basketball and baseball tea ms, and was
nam ed a Little All -American in footba lL
He is a m em be r of the UB Athletic Hall
of Fame.
Gice w ~ez

has held appointments as an

assistant pro fesso r of clinical surgery and

an assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics in th e UB School of Medici ne and
Bio m edical Sciences, and served as th e
fo under and first med ical director of th e
un iversit y's Spo rts Medi cine Institute.
He has been the medi cal directo r and
phys icia n -in -attenda nce for a var iet y o f
ama teur athlet ic co m petitions, in cl ud ing the Wo rld Un iversit y Games. He is a
p as t p reside n t of t h e Williamsvill e
School Distr ic t Board of Educatton .

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of that tradition. Each year, we lead Erie County, State Univenity,
New York State, and the nation with our combined generooity.
UB people also show an extraordinary outpOuring of support for
the United Way Day of Caring-this year, nearly 200 faculty and
staff turned out to pa.int, clean, teach, organize, and lend a band at
health and human services agencies in Western New York.
Such caring is a hallmark of what UB is all about. We are UB; we
care; we are partners in caring to our neighbors in Western New
York. Partnering with our community is an important part Of our
professional work here at UB. Networking and collaborating with
our colleagues across the university are part and parcel of bow we
do our jobs well. And forming partnerships with our counterparts
at other universities. in government, and in the private sector is crucial to our competitive success.
We are also in the habit of partnering with agencies in our com-

munity where we can provide euential servica to our friends, neighbora, and family members in timet of need. Wh&lt;!ther volunteering
our time or making crucial6nancial contributions, these partner·
ships are essential to malting our community healthy and SIJOng.
If you are in the habit of malting an annual contribution to SEPA.
thank you. If you haven't yet become a part of this proud UB tradition, we encourage you to look at the agencies listed in the SEFA
brochure your unirs liaison will share with you. You will probably
find that several of those agencies have directly alfected people in
your life. You may even find a special agency with which you will
want to get involved as a volunteer partner, in addition to your fi.
nancial contribution.
On behalf of the entire UB community, our appreciation to ev·
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UB researcher has developed a test pattern
that could cut by 75

time it takes to perform mandatory checks of nuclear-imaging
equipment and save nuclear-im-

One-Image testlng
Traditiona l test
patterns, composed
of bar patterns of
varying thicknesses,

aging facilities thousands of dol-

must be imaged four

lars in down-time each year.

times, rotating the

By law, nuclear-imaging gamma
cameras must be tested weekly to
ensure that they are performing
properly. But traditional tests,
which measure the camen's abil ity to discern small objecu and to
position images correctly on film,
can take 20 minutes or more per
machine. Multiply a couple of
cameras, some of them with two
or three detector heads, by 52 tests
each year and you have nuclear
medicine-imaging facilities losing
hundreds or hours that could be
spent testing patients.
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quality--control tests be performed
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plate by quarter
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Ce:rrobend'"", a metal alloy romposed of bismuth, lead, antimony
and cadmium. This high-density
alloy melu at the boiling point or
water, which makes it easy to work
with since, at that relatively low
temperature, it will not warp the
plastic test plate.

a solution: the UB
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nicians to perform
the same tests in one image.
.. The 20 or 30 minutes that it
takes to test each camera could be
the time it t:akes to see a patienL

That's money that's being lost out
of the department each time a camera is down for testing." V"dani slid.
Considering there are

as many

as 6,000 cameras throughout the
United State, the industry could be
losing millions of dollars each

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The prototype for the test plate
was manufactured in the Department of Nuclear Medicine's machine shop.
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evaluate the.garnma camera's spa·
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small objects-and spatial linearity-its ability to corrlctly position image data.
Acmrding to V"dani, Nuclear As·
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of I 00 of the UB Gamma Camera
Test Pattern, which is expected to
save the average nuclear-imaging
facility thousands of dollars in
down-time each year.

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Freshmen technology-savvy, survey shows
ly IIIIEHT CUNNINGHAM
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to UB this falJ. more

than half of the stu·
dents in the freshman class included
their own computer, according to a
survey of more than 2,000 members
of the Oass of2001.
The survey administered during
orientation shows that 61 percent
anticipated baving their own computer by fall. The remainder anticipated needing a computer, but ex·
pected the university to provide
them with oomputer access.

If UB had mandated entering
fiesbmen to purchase a computer,
such a decision would have bad
"minimal impact on admissions,•
acoording to the Office of lnstitu·
tiona! Anal)'Sis. which released re-

sulu of the survey conducted by the
Cooperative Institutional Research
Program.
If such a mandate were in place,
65 peroentsa.id they would be "very
likely" or "likely" to reconsider and
another 17.4 percent said they

would be "somewhat likely" to reconsider application.
Interestingly, another 32 peroent
slid such a requirement would have
made their application even •more
lilcely."
Taken as a whole, the survey resulu describe a class familiar with,
but not fixated upon, technology.
Ninety-one percent indicated •at

least basic proficien~ with wordprocessing software. Yet 86 peroent
ranked UB written material "very"
or"somewbat" important in fonn·
ing their impression$ of the university. Ukewise, while 80 percent have

some experience with the Internet/
Web, only 18 peroent slid the UB
Web site influenced their decision to
apply.
More than 80 percent slid that
parerits, teache"' guidance cowuelors and peers were • somewhat'" or
"very" important in their attempu
to select a univmity.
While a majority of incoming
freshmen may own computers, an
even larger majority (72 perceot)
ranked personal contact as the
method they prefer when conduct·
ing business with UB.
Other survey findings include:
• More than 95 peroent of entering fiesbmen are very confident of
their ability to solve personal and
academic problems.
• Natural Sci&lt;n&lt;zs and Mathematia (17.0 peroent), Engineering and

Applied Sci&lt;n&lt;zs (15.3 percmt) and
Social Scimces (14.4 peroent) are the
most popular choices for a major.
• Mo"' than one-third of fresh.
men (375 peroent) slid they would
have liked more information about
their intended major.
• More than 30 perceot would
have appreciated more information
about part-time jobs. internslliPs.
work study and financial a.id. A
similar nurober wished they could
bave tallted to more UB students
and faculty when making their decision.

"The survey was administered to
2,228 entering fiesbmen as part of
a survey of more than 300,000 stu·
dents at 700 two- and four-year in·
stitutions across the US.; 2,035 responded to one or more of the lJB..
specific questions on the question·
na.ires they r=ived.

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outside the Student Union.
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perform Saturclay at a
program in Niagara Falls.

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The Bulls lived the old adage "statistics are for losers• on Saturday
in a 40· 28 loss at Illinois. State before 8,262 fans in Normal, Ill.
Despite several tremendous individual performanus and SOO yards
of total offense, the Bulls were undone by six tumovers and ~~
big Redbird plays in falling to 1·1 forthe season. Buffalo squandered
a 21·7 first-half lead and allowed the Redbirds 21 second-hatf poirits
in the loss
junior wide receiver Kali Watkins tied the second-best mark in
school history with 12 catches for a career-high 167 yards, while
teammate Drew Haddad had a career-high of seven catches for 1 74
yards before injuring his knee in the third quarter. Junior quarterback
Chad Salisbury completed 29-of-45 passes for 445 yards (the secondhighest total in school history) with three touchdowns, but was
hurt by four interceptions.

Men's~occer
UB 2, Long Island 3
UB 3, lona 5
The Bulls went 0-2 over the weekend, with losses against long Island
and lona universities .
On Saturday, long Island squeezed past Buffalo by a score of
3-2. UB's Steve Butcher scored a career-high two goals in the loss.
On Sunday, the Bulls lost to a talented lona team, 5-3. Freshman
Brian McCallion, Frank Butcher and Steve Butcher each scored one
goal apiece for Buffalo.

Mens an~ Women's Lross Lount~
Pat Nolan finished eighth overall for the Bulls in the men's 7,800meter run at the Colgate Challenge on Saturday with a time of
26:1 5:00. The men's team finished third overall in a field of five
teams.
In dual m eets, Buffalo finished 2-2, with wins against Holy Cross,
27-29, and St. Bonaventure, 16-45, and losses to Bucknell, 45-15,
and Colgate, 34-22.
The women finished second overall in the Colgate Challenge in a
field of four teams. Sophomore lenny Folckemer led the way for US,
finishing fourth in a time of 20:18. Freshman Eileen Rose (sixth place,
20:28), sophomore Marie Macander (seventh plac~ 20:33) and junior Kerri Shpur (1Oth place, 20:42) all finished in the iop 10 for the
Bulls.
In dual meets, the Bulls finished, 2-1 , with wins over Colgate, 2332, and St. Bonaventure, 1 S-40. Buffalo's only loss came against
Bucknell, 32-23.

Women's Volle~~all
The Bulls traveled to Pittsburgh last weekend to participate in the
Pittsburgh Invitational. In its first match on Friday against Wright
State, Buffalo got off to a convincing start-winning the first game,
15-11 . However, Wright State battled back to win the next three
games, 15-5, 15-8, 15-13 to take the match. On Saturday, the Bulls
lost to Pittsburgh, 2- 15, 14-16, 13-15 and to the Un iversity of Maryland-Baltimore County, 3-15, 1 5-11 , 8-1 5, 14-16.
Senior middle hitter Kathy ..Brinkworth led the Bulls, totaling 27 ki lls
and 23 digs in the three matches.

Men's an~ Women's lennis
The men 's tennis team lost to St. francis (Pa.) this weekend . US's
Onke Murdono defeated Brian Akers 6-3, 6-4 in the No. 1 si ngles slot,
and jordan levitt defeated Tony 0 ' Abrasio 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the No. 6
singles slot. levitt also teamed with Travis Melnick to win 9-8, 7-3 in
No. 3 doubles play.
The women's team lost to Duquesne, 9-0 .
-Andrew Punz•l, AssJStonl Sports InformatiOn Dtrector

Men's soccer SWidout-- scored a careerhigh two gaols oo Saturday In a dose loss to Long lslond
University, 3-2. The sophomore also contributed another goal
for the Bulls on SUnday aglinst looa Universlt)-.
The Bulls lost to looo, S-3.
jeiMiy . . . . . . _ pl»ced fourth overall
the Colgate
University Challenge In Hamilton to INd the BuUs
women•s cr05rcountry team to a 2· 1 finish in the
Ghollenge.

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Tnmsitions-new rolumn details the

comings and goings at UB.

Septellber 4.1!JJ ti29.1h2

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Day!

Procession of students led by
flag-bearers makes its way from
new student picnic to Coventry
Circle plaza where US's bronze
buffalo was installed in a
Saturday ceremony.

Fighting drug-resistant bacteria ~

Software helps unravel structure of drug
ters for Disease Controb recently

reported the appearance for the

H

UMANS ARE one up

in the war against

drug-resistant bacteria, thanks to a software package used to solve molecular structures developed at UB
and Buffalo's Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
Called SnB, the software program bas allowed scientists to un-

first time ln the U.S. of a strain of
bacteria that is resistant to vancomycin, raising the specter of medicine having no weapon to fight often-fatal staphyloooccus infectionS.
The user-friendly SnB allowed
University of Pennsylvania phar-

macologists to determine the

Vancomycin is medicine's "'drug

structure of vancomycin.
"There just aren't any other methods that oould have solved this struc·
ture," said Russ Miller, professor of
computer science at UB, senior research scientist at HauptmanWoodward and a member of the
team that developed SnB.

of last resort." the only antibiotic
effective against certain Ufe-threat-

Patrick Loll, assistant professor
of pharmacology in the University

ening infections that resist all
other known antibiotics. The Cen-

of Pennsylvania School of Medi-

ravel the structure of vancomycin,
providing information needed to
synthesize new forms of the drug
to fight lriller bacteria.
And just in the nick of time.

cine who led the effon, said un -

raveling the structure o f vancomycin wasn't easy... Despite 30 years
of effort, no o ne has ever succeeded in synthesizing it ," he explained. The d rug is isolated from
soil microorganisms, which are
cultured in huge fermentors.
'" Because it's not even possible
to synthesize the drug itself, it's not
possible to blithely synthesiz.e lots
of variants of it, the traditional

trial-and-error method used in
drug discovery," he said. The only
alternative was to rationally decide
beforehand which modifications
would have the best chance of
eluding the resistant bacteria.
But doing th at required th e
structural information. Before trying SnB, the team spent about
eight months unsuccessfully trying other methods.

.. That's where SnB came in-it
enabled us to determine the structure and bypass most of the tr\a\and-error part,.. said Loll
.. SnB solves molecular struc tures like a black box, with no hu ·
man intervention, given data with
sufficient resolution ,.. sajd Nobel
Laureate Herbert Hauptman,
president of the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research In·
stitute and UB research professor
of computer science.
Hauptman's idea for the min imal principle, on which the pro gram is based, originated in a
18th-century mathemat ical principle. The SnB program has been
continually refined and its developers are about to release a second
version, which is even faster than
the qrigina:l.

FSEC staying out of music-ed discussion
lly PATIICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

T

HE FACULTY Senate
Executive Committee
has decided to stay out
,
of the discussion surrounding a proposal to move the
undergraduate music-education
program from the Department of
Music to the Graduate School of
Education unless expUcitly asked
to intervene by the music-department faculty.
Faculty Senate C hair Peter
Nickerson, professor of pathology,
told senators at the committee's Aug.
27 meeting that the proposed
changes in the program and removal of some part- time faculty
member.; have prompted charges of
violations of the music department's
governance proeedures and bylaws.
Nickerson said that while he
agrees that .. bylaws are extremely

important tn the faculty because
they state the way in which the
business of a unit is to be conducted." with regard tn the current
situation in the music department,
"there first needs to be an atteinpt
to deal with these issues at the department level and then at the
level of the Faculty of Arts and
Letters."
He concluded that there has not
yet been an attempt to do so at the
arts-and-letters level. and that no
one from the music -department
faculty or administration has requested to meet with the Faculty
Senate.
Den nis Malone. SUNY Distin guished Service Professor in the
Depa rtment of Electrical and
Co mputer Enginee rin g, main tained, "'VI/e should not insert ourselves unless we've been asked (by
department fa~ulty ). No one on
the fac ulty has even filed a griev-

ance for the senate to consider," he
said.
Terry Gates, associate professor
of music and immediate past chair
of the music department, said he
raised the issue of bylaws violations with Nickerson "i n order to
give him one side of the issue," but
suggested that a mechanism be
developed whereby faculty with
such conce rns could call upon the
sena te to offer counsel and in tervention.
Boris Albini, professor of microbio logy and chair of the senate's
Governance Co mmittee, agreed
that ear ly, formal interaction in
s ue~ cases could "avoid feelings of
desperation that send people to
the newspaper" for resolution.
Victor Doyno, professor of En glish, agreed, but noted that sincr
no formal concerns had been
raised by department facu1t)'. the
sena te is without recourse in the

matter. Moreover, it was not dear
that the alleged bylaws violat'ions
had actually occurred, he added .
FSEC members suggested that
the "good offices of the senate executive committee" be made available to the dean of arts and letters,
the chair of the music department
and the music faculty should th ey
wish assistance with th e issue,
which senators ackno.,..·ledged ts a
difficult one, g iven the c rossover
an d con tr adic ti on that ex1st
among faculty and departmental
by-laws, sta te labor lnw Jnd the
union cont ract.
At the meet mg . the first ol the
academic year. senators Jbo re
ccavcd a report from Gatt"!l, ch J1r
of the Budget Pnonl!e!l Commit tee, outlini n g the: commlllce"s
agenda for the yea r.
Ga tes said the commlttc:t· wants
to mcreasc commun ica llon among
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Library and curator of the
university's Polish collection. She's
worked at UB for 11 years.

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like to know, too. 1 guess it was a
combination of a sense of duty, and
thinking that I could do a deant
job because of previous experience
in unions.
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A: The impact of state politii'S on

SUNY. Who is in the governor's

chair, and whom he (will there ever
be a "she"!) appoints to the boanl
of trustees, all of this makes a difference that affects us all personally
and intimately. If we want SUNY to
continue to be a strong university,
if we care about access to higher
education for all, then we need to
be politically aware and active.
Q: How does UUP's sltu•tlon
reflect the national trend

university that full-time faculty and
staff have. Management likes this
"flexibility." There are a lot of other
similarities, such as the drive towanl
contracting out work, downsizing,
anempa to split the wor:kfora into
tim so that the ernp~ have less
in common-and can't work together
wdl. Also, there is a trend toward
"coordinated bargaining," which is
rdlectod in thestate'sinsistena that
ifall the other unions ha"" contncting out language, we have to have
it, too. Of course, UUP also works
with other unions in planning its
bargaining stntegy, too.
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..corporatization• of universities. I
think you can group the attacks on
tenure and faculty governance, the

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usc of adjuncts and part-timers,
tht' push to privatize state universities, the increased influence of
corporate grants in education~ and
the cut in public funding so as to
cut corporate taxes, as aU pan of

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part-time employment at the ex-

the problem. You can S« all of this
in SUNY, and at UB.

pense of full-time jobs (the kind
of jobs that provide ca reers,
enough money and benefits to

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raise families, own homes, etc.):

now about 40 percent of SUNY
employees are part-timers, and they
don't have the kind of voice in the

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popular Mini-Medical
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map....Many relate to genealogical
research, which is very inteiuting.
The hardest questions I have had
were from impoverished people in
Poland who hoped that I would
taU up a "collectioo• for them.
Q; What do y o u - .. the
but thing lla7
A: Tlie professors who really know
how to teach and inspire students.
They're the core of the university.
And the professional staff are the
unsung heroes that keep this place

running.
Q: W...,t would you most like

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union hos new presidena evr:ry two
to lOur years, so that long-term settling is more difficul~ hut also the
administntion is set in its ways and
intolennL This is one of the latpt
bureaucratic organizations in
SUNY: Also, on mo&lt;t campuoes, the
presideo~s d&lt;sigoee has direct, immodiateacassto the president. Here,
infunnation and responses ..... hard
to come by.
Q; _ . , t h e - unu.,...

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why I enjoy playing those stringed
instruments (mandolin and guibr).

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such thing as magic wands.

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become more responsive and consist.enL For example, we neec:hnore
women in the administration. For
example, few of the faculty and staff
teally use their right to free speech.
They seem to feel intimidated.. If I
could wave a magic wand, I'd alsO
change the arcllitecture and layout

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front of the CPA? 2. Why did we.
go to war in the Gull? 3. When will
the recommendations of the Task

I wish I had all the answers....

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odjaa!nt to the South c.np.s.
N.lhe servb.lhe Ndpiont

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reganllng hobor-IIUinagement
relations •nd methods of
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and two "micro-courses."
All classes will be held from 79 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in

gin on Thesday, Oct. 21. lectures
will focus on the digestive system
and its disorders, the respiratory
system and its d isorders, allergies,
childhood endocrine disorders
and adult endocrine disorders.
A two-session micro -course,

"Navigating the New Health Care
System," will be held on Thursday,OcL 9, and Thursday,Oct.l6.
Presenters will be Harry A. Suitt,
UB professor of social and pre·

p us. Registration fees range from
$30 for the six-week program to

ventive medicine, and Kristina M.
Young, president of the Center for
Professional Advancement at
Bryant &amp; Stratton Business Insti tute and adjunct assistant profes-

$10 for the one-session micro-

sor in the UB School of Manage-

course. Advance registra tion is
required.
All classes will be taught by full time UB faculty who are experts

ment.
Sultz and Young co-authored

Farber Hall on the South Cam-

in their fields .
The six-week p_rogram will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 9, and will
feature presentations on cardiology, neuroanatomy and neurosurgery, microbiology and infectious
diseases, oncology (cancer), immunology and psychopharmacol-

ogy.
The five-week program will be-

"Health Care USA: Understanding
Its Organization and Delivery."'
A o ne-session micro-course on

Thursday, Oct. 30, will feature Pe·
ter Ostrow, and a panel of experts
discussing medical-controversies.
Ostrow is a UB associate profes-

sor of pathology and host of
WIVB-TV's "Medical Update"
segment.
To reg-ister or obtain more in-

formation, call 829-2196.

Dinner to note PSS
milestone
The Professional Sblff S...•te will celebratejts 25th anniversary with a commemorative dinner to~ held Tuesday, SepL
16, in the Center for the Arts atrium.

President William R. Greiner is honorary chair of the celebration. Rosemary Mecca is chair of the PSS Silver Anniversary Committee.

A champagne receptiGn at 5 p.m will
precede dinner at 6 p.m. Past chairs of
the Professional Staff Senate will be honored.

State Sen. Mary lou Rath will be keynote speaker. A strong advocate for UB
in the state legislature, she served on the
Erie County Legislature from 1978-93.
In addition, she has been involved in a
n umber of community organizations
and received numerous honors and
awards, including the Outstanding Woman in Western New

York in the Field of Government award from the SUNY Community Advisory Council.
Founded in 1972, PSS was organized as the successor to th&lt;
State University Professionals Association, formed three years
earlier to represent non-teaching profession~s threughout the
SUNY system~ Its mission, according to the PSS Constitution:
to •sick an active role for the professional staff in the governance of the university... provide advice and counsel in administrative matters and ...assist in the development of administrative policies and procedures."
For more information on the anniversary dinner or other

events, call the PSS Office at 645-2003.

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Study IIUI)' explain Increased prevalence

Bla~ prone to hypertension
.y LOIS 11A1W1
News Services Edito&lt;

CARDIOLOGY researcher at UB may
have found one answer
to the question of why
mo~ blacks than whites have high
blood pressure.
The answer appears to lie in the
way the lining of blood vessels, the
endothelium, responds to certain
signals telling it to dilate. Bong
Hee Sung, associate professor of
medicine, has shown that in some
blacks, blood vessels didn't relax
and widen as they should in response to a normal blood vessel
dilator. Dilation of blood vessels
is one of the body's natural mechanisms 'for casing blood flow, thus
lowering pressure.
Sung presented the study results
at the 12th International interdisciplinary Conference on Hyperteruion in Blacks in London.
Why the blood vessels don't relax and widen as expected remains
unclear, Sung said. "These are all
healthy people," she added. "They
had normal glucose and cholesterol levels, and are not obese.
There was no apparent reason for
them to have endothelium dysfunction. Where this comes from,
we don't know. We can't really say

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what. the pathway is yet•
Sung and colleagues studied the
blood-vessel response in a group
of 12 healthy African Americans
and 11 Caucasians, all of whom
had normal blood pressure. They
also showed normal fasting cholesterol levels, glucose levels and
other parameters known to affect
blood pressure.

Results showed that veins remained narrowed in 5, or 42 perceo~ of the 12 African Americans,
indicating they did not respond normally to insulin as a vasodilator.
Sung said the blunted response
maybe one of the mechanismounderlying the increased prevalence
of hypertension in some blacks.
"This subgroup of African Ameri-

cans was resistant to the
vasodilatory action of insulin .

11M answer seems to He In
thew.ytheiiM&gt;gofthe

Nothing happened to their blood
pressure when insulin was infused."
Sung said the finding reinforces

thelium, responds to

the relationship between hypertension and diabetes, diseases that
are both more prevalent among

certain slgnools telling It to

tance is a risk factor for adult-on -

dllete.

set, or Type II, diabetes.
The question Sung and col -

The researchers measured the

leagues now are trying to answer

diameter of a vein in the left hand
of all participants and then intro-

is why an apparently healthy subgroup of blacks is not responding
normally to insulin. She said the

blood -...Is, the endo-

duced the vasoconstrictor norepinephrine into the vein to cause it
to narrow. Veins of participants in

both groups narrowed similarly.
Insulin, a vasodilator that acts
on the endothelium in addition to

blacks than whites. Insulin resis-

condition has important health
consequences, and that once scientists know what causes it, they
can work to prevent it.
Additional researchers on the
study were Marilou Ching,

regulating blood glucose, was
added to the norepinephrine, and
the vein diameter was measured

Surendra G. Gudapati and
Michael F. Wilson, all of the De-

again.

partment of Medicine.

administration, faculty and staff
around several budget-related is-

The FSEC also received an update.on the 1997-98 state budget

•

sues. Budget Priorities subcommittees, Gates said, will monitor

from Senior Vice President Rob-

FSEC
continued from p-ee 1

three "developments-in-progress•
at the university's administrative

level.
They are:

ert}. Wagner.
Wagner called the final budget
a "stand-still" budget that includes
no tuition increase, but does increase tlie technology fee by $25,
and restores most funding cuts.

• The Academic Information
System, or AIS, a program de signed to •reveal our operations
to us, and develop information of
importance to the academic operation and educational purposes
o'r the institution"

He said that the new UB budget, which should be in place in
about a month, calls for no baselevel reduction in expenditures.

• Incentives and rewards, "ways,"
said Gates, "to put wheels under

generates and is allowed to retain
above and beyond state budget allocations-"has changed down -

some of the budget-development

processes that are going on"
• Responsibility-Centered
Management, or RCM , a manage-

ment system emphasized by the
UB administration that Gates said

"will reach deeper and broader
into the institution to account for

what we do."

•

He warned, however, that the

university's stream of super-revenue
for 1997-9S-inoome the university

ward" to zero. He also acknowledged
that while the university's innovative utility project produced the
single largest eoergy savings of any
American university, UB will start
repaying in the current budget year
the loan that was taken out to put
the program into place.

In other matters:
Nickerson announced a meet-

ing of the voting faculty on Sept.
23 and noted that.the first meeting of the full Faculty Senate has
been moved from Oct. 15 to Oct.
8 to accommodate the university
convocation. An orientation on
governance for new senators will

be held Sept. 7.
• Discussion was entertained,
but there were no objections to a

proposal from Mark Karwan,dean
of the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, to change the
name of the Department of Civil
Engineering to Civil, Structural
and EnvironmentOt.l Engineering
to reflect the nature of the department.

•

Names of FSEC members who

nominated themselves to serve on
committees related to the new
College of Arts and Sciences were

collected and will be forwarded to
the provost.

Heads

Up

UB's mascot-the bronze
buffalo-is hoisted into
place Aug. 28 at its
permanent home on
new plaza on Coventry
Circle.

BrieBy
"Brain Stories" to be focus
of UB at Sunrise program
The dean of the UB School of Dental Medicine and a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the UB Department of English ar~ teaming
up to present the first program in th~ 1997-98 "UB at
Sunrise'" series.

Louis(. Goldberg-the dean-and Diane R. Christian- the English professor-will present .. Brain Stories: A Spir ited Dialogue Betw~en Art and Science
About Ideas of Consciousness" at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18.
The program will be held in the Ce nter for Tomor·
row on the North Campus.
Goldberg, a neurophysiologist and professor of o ral
biology, and Christian, a mytho logist and in ternationally recognized
filmmaker, will talk about brains, stories and what and how we know.
Among questions they will pose are: ls consciousnes.s a biological process like digestion , or is it the soul of the divine? Or both ? Or neither?
The price of the program, which will include a full breakfast, is SIO
for UB Alumni Association members and $12 for all others.
For more information, contact the alumni association at 829-2608.
Ticket orders must be received by Tuesday, Sept. 16.

UB to honor Henry Spiller
as Distinguished Alwnni VIsitor
Henry Spiller, •loc•l orthodontist and an early advocate in West em New York for adding fluoride to public water supplies, will be hoil ored by the UB Alumni Association at a breakfast to be held at 7:30a.m .
on Friday, Sept. 12, in the Buffalo Convention Center.
During the breakfast, which wiU ~held during the
Greater Niagara Frontier Dental Me-eting, Spiller will
br rteognized as a Distinguished Alumn i Visitor.
His role as an advocate of fluoridating water to reduce dental decay helped lead to Buffalo beco ming
among the fi rst large cities east of the Miuiui.ppi. River
rodoso.
He also was a pioneer locally in suggest ing that
.some cases of ear pain might be linked to dysfunction of the temporo·
mandibular (jaw) joint.
Spiller earned his dental degree fro m the UB School of Dental Medi cine in 1935 and has bren in private practice si nce 1939.
He is a consultant on fluoridation projecu and from 1965-67 partici pated in a National Institute for Dental Research -funded study to de termine the role of topical .;lpplication of fluoride to reduce tooth decay
in children enrolled in Cheektowaga public and parochial schook.
He is a former member of the Erie County Board of Health. the New
York State Council on Dental Health and past president of the Erie
County Dental Association.
For more information or r~servations for the breakfast. which costs
S12 per person, call th e UB Office of Alumni Relations at 829-2608.

Two UB projects recognized
in Microsoft contest

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ARIES, the UB Web site that reports the articulation ofUB courses
with those of other universities. has been awa rded second place in
Microsoft's Higher Education Innova tor Contest, open to universities
worldwide.
ARIES, which stands for Articulation Reporting Informatio n System,
also was designated the Microsoft Higher Educa tion Web site of the
Month for April 1997.
Another VB project, one to allow teams to develo p a book and then
convert the text to a Web site, received an ho norable mentio n in th e
Microso ft contest. The project was developed by Scott Co rrigal. presi dent of the Graduate Student Association and a doctoral student an
English and computer scie nce.
ARIES displays US's faculty -a pproved articulatio n fo r m~a rl)' 2,000
campuses from which students have transferred course cred it. The- ar ·
ticulation statements listed in ARIES compare specific courses, as well
as id entifying cou rses that meet maJor and general -education requ 1rc.· ·
mentsat UB.
In its first year, the Web site received more than 100.000 vJ:.Its from
commercial and educational institutio ns around the world. It IS used
daily by faculty and academic advisors at UB. and plays a sigmficant
role in efforts. to improve the university's se rvices to transfer studen b.
The award-winning Web site (http:/ / artes.buff•lo.edu ) was devel ·
oped by Frank D'Arrigo, management information systems ana lyst, and
Jennifer Gottdiener, transfer articu lation coordinator, working under
the leadership of Karen Noonan , associate vice provost fo r undergradu ·
ate education.

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THE CLASSIC ASSIGNMENT CUCH£ for the first week of school is an
essay entitled ·Wbac I Did This Summer.· CoUtttively, UB hu done a lot
over the past two to three months: new courses have been devdoped, and
syllabi generated; books and articles published, or pushed along toward
publication; research project~ commenced, and others completed; new

faculty welcomed and departing colleagues bidden farewell For our stu-

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dents, summer has been a time for a whole range of experienCCf-in-

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The summer has also brought some signl6ci.nt changes
here on campw. Huewith an update on some of these transitions.

j Bob Palmer, UB's chief Student Affairs officer since 1987,
accepted the equivalent post at California State UnivcrsityFullenon, and left for his new position at the end of July.
Now serving as Interim Vice President is Dmni.s Black. longtime Associate Vice President and Dean of Students and a
member of the university's staff since 1978; stepping up as Interim Dean
of Students is Barbara Ricotta from the Office of Student Life.
j J!&gt;hn Sheffer, who had sc:rvc:d u Interim Vice President for Public
Service arid Urban Affairs since Muriel Moore's departure for the: Presidency at Buffalo St3tc CoUcge, stepped down on Augwt 1 to become the
Dir«tor o(UB's new Institute for Local Govemanct and Regional Growth.
A new community resource for regional thought and planning. the Institute will help to connect UB's best academic strengths with the curren.t
needs of local, municipal, and regionalleadc:rs and citizens. John Sheffer
also will serve as Sc:nior Counselor to the President, acting aJ an advisor
on community and regional issues for the university.
With John's departure: from Public Service and Urban Affairs, Mary
Grcsham-A.s$0ciate Vier Prtsident in that area since 199l--egreed to
accept the post of Interim Vice Prtsident. Mary's service to UB extends
over 20 years. and we an gnteful,to her for lending her apcrtise in this
significant interim capacity.
j Nidc..Goodma.o, as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, will
serve as coordinator of the student academic serviceS offices, including

Academic Advising. Student Finance and R&lt;cords, and Admitoions, !be
Jut IWO of which haV&lt; now been moved to !be Provost's ana of r&lt;JPOO·
sibility. Nick will work to integrate the univc:nity's.increuinsfy important student recruitment and retention programs. By bri.ngi.n&amp; recruitment, retention, and other student support terVices into dosu coordination with academic advisement and other general underJraduate i.rtitiatives, we believe we ca.n provide more ra:ponsive, more coordinated
usistance to students from the day they apply to UB until
the day they graduate. Nick deserv&lt;s our thanb for hdpini
to guide this new area.

j The Gradual&lt; School of Education hu a new deanJacqudyn-Mitchcll, formerly ofSc:ripps Colleg&lt; and UC San
Diego-while Social Work hu a new dean-designatt,
Lawrence Shulman of Boston UniV&lt;rsity. Lany formolly u sumes the deanship next Joouary, and will be tnvdin&amp; between Bulf.alo and Boston this fall Rklt W'mter, Dean of the
School ofManasm&gt;&lt;nt since 1993,1cft inN!gust for !be ICatt
School of Businoa at the Uni...UtyofPituburih; John Thom.as is now serving as the: school's interim dean.
Within the: next few weeks, searches will corrunena: for the vice presidencies in Student Affair&gt; and Public 5&lt;rvice and Url&gt;an Affain; the search
-for a new Via: President for Health Affain ~ill also continue. ln addition, se.rchc:s for the deanships in Management and in Pbumacy arc
l!-Ddcr way. With the: decision regarding the. new Col1qe of Arts and Sciences now made:, we will be: considering issues of leadership and Structure there, and will JOOn begin a search for a dean. Meanwhile, we will
also be rrnewing several major UB leadership areas to lilt whether and
how they better perform their 10011 essential functions. and bow their
structures could more: appropriately accommodate thc:ir cffons.
We think these ongoing changes in leadership and structure will bring
UB new prominence and productivity by the tum of the c:mtury, and we
look forward to the: support of each and every me:rnber of our university
community in those efforts. ln the meantime, please join mt in congratulating and supporting aU our colleagues who have assumed nc:w
r&lt;Sp&lt;&gt;JUibilities over !be past few months, and in wishing each and rvcry
membee of the UB oommunity a productive and lltisfyingacad&lt;mic yeu.
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comedy and social commentary
and are rapidly ckveloping a na·
tiona! reputation as pc::rformance
artists. This performance will
honoDjackson Macl.ow's birthday.

EDNESDAYSat4
Plus," the bi-annual literary se·
ries sponsored by
the Poetics Program in the Depart·
ment of English, this fall will eel. ebrate the 75th birthday of Jackson Maclow, one of America's

fonls here Dec. 3 ond 4

most renowned and innovative

poets, with special readings by or
in honor of MacLow on Sept. 24,
Oct. 8 and Nov. 19.
David lgnatow, one of the nation's
most distinguished poets, considered the poetic heirofWhitman and
William Carlos Williams, will
present the Oscar Silvmnan Memorial Roading on Nov. I 4.
ln the 1950s, Macl.ow was associated with both the second gen·
eration of Black Mountain poets
like Robert Greeley, and with the
Fluxus mOvement comprised of
such artists as John Cage, George
Bre ch t, Tos hi lchiyanagi, AI
Hanson, Allen Ka prow and
LaMonte Young. From this convergence of the minimalist forms developed by both groups emerged
sound poetry and language poetry,
of which Maclow is a critically
recognized master. He has been
cited as an important influence by
several major postmodemist writ-

ers, and his work, .. Words and
Ends from Ez.• is an important rereading of seminal American poet
Ezra Pound.
Ignatow is recognized for the
subtlety of his art and conctrn
with human mortality and alienation in the: worJd as it is •dc:fmc:d

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by suffering and despair, redttmed
at crucial times by cosmic vision
and shared lives."
Of lgnat.Ow, writer Gerald Stem
has said, ..... what I have always
liked most about his poems, the
wisdom, and tlie humility. They
are: truly there. We arc: in the presence of an overwhelmingly impor-·
tant voice. It is eternity speaking.'"
Writers to lecture
In addition to Maclow and
lgnatow, writers who will read or
lecture in the fall series are poets
Kevin Killian (Sep t. 17 ) and
Michael Basinski (Sept. 24); novelist Marta Werner (Sept 30); auth or and poet David Bromige
(Oct. 20); poet Laura Moriarty
(Oct. 29), and poets Steve
McCaffery (Nov. 5) and Randall
McLeod (Nov. 13).
Bilingual poet and performance
artist Janine Pommy Vega will be
tlie guest author at a reading and
book signing on Oct. I at Talking

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!Laves Books honoring the publication of her new travel book,
"Tracking The Serpent Journeys
to Four Continents.'" Vega is often
included in lists of the best American beat writers, and her work can
be fo und in a compilatio-n by
Brenda Knight titled "The Writers,
Artists, And Muses At The Heart
Of A Revolution.•
On Nov. I 9, UB will host a per·
forman« by F'loom (formerly
knownasMurmer),anall-malevocal trio w)tose members draw their
material from literature, music,

On Dec. 4, Joan Jonas, a renowned performer, stage: director
and video artist from New York
City, will present a lecture, "Video
as a M«tium.• Among her early
and well-known works is"Double
Lunar Dogs" (198-4), which origi·
nated as a performance and was
later rea&gt;rded on both videotape
and film. The recorded material
has been transformed in the editing process, notably through the
use of video effects. The performen include Jonas, Spalding Gray,
Jill KIOesen-and David Warrilow.
There also will be a lecture on
Oct. 14 by poet Alan Halsey and a
poetry reading on Oct. IS featur·
ing Halsey and Geraldine Monk.
Author of "'Five Years Out• and
"'Perspectives on th e Reach:
Halsey is known for his fierce,
quiet poetic voice, both determined and without illusion. Monk
is the author of"The Sway of Precious Demons: Selected Poems•
and the novd "Interregnum." The
latter work explores current and
historical abuse and misuse of language for the purpose of limiting
the freedom of certain individuals and groups, in this case, a group
of East Lancashire •witches:
hanged in 1612, who had fallen
victim to what Monk calls a •pa·
triarchallanguage-magic far more
potent than their own."

�Elecb-oniclliglnvays

Bison II: more than indexesQ

Bravo, Maestro!
Conductor Magnus Martensson seeks
the truth in performance
. , ntOM.UI'IITMAM
Reporter ContributD&lt;

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0

N THE PHONE is
an ailing cellist calling to bow out of

rehearsal for the

next day's concert
by the UBul&amp;lo Symphony.
Conductor Magnus Martensson
is cajoling. He says into the phone
things like, "You cap do i~ I ia)ow
you i:an do it, I really thiDk you
should. ...•

university orchestras to conduct.
This spring. a professional chamber orchestra was formed for himthe OB Sinfonietta, about »-strong.
There is a big difference ,
Martensson explains, between
what he calls the "student-slashcommunity orchestra: and the
Sinfonietta. ,.A professional orchestra will respond on a more subtle

.

later, the ronductorwill persuade
orchestra musicians, not by tdling
them they can do i~ but by tdling
them what it is they should do. They
should obsene the dynamic markings. Tbeyshouldlislm. They should
not rush. Nor should they lag.
•The. conductor is a teacher in
any circumstances, in any orches-

"Tnnth In performance b

- - .. perfonnen, •t
this very moment, understand, -

the perfonn-

....:e Is taking place."
MAGNUS MAAT£NSSON

tra; Martcnsson says. ""You have to
know more, and you have to teach
them what you think is the truth ."
The Swedish-born conductor
came to UB in 1996 from the Cleveland Institute of Music. When he
arrived, he was given one orchestra to conduct-the UBufr.Io Symphony, which is composed of students and community mwicians.
With that orchestra he has had successful concerts. One in December
featured faculty pianist Stephen

Manes as soloist and included
works b y Cliarles lves and
Shostakovich,, two very different
20th-century composers-the one

a Yankee innovator, the other a
Russian possessed by histor)..
New musk attrocted conductor
Signific~nt

in

attracting

Martensson was UB's history of

association with new mwic. David
Felder, chair of t\le music"department, is a composer Martensson
admires.
"The musical life in the city, and
at the univer&gt;ity, as well, has lots of
potential," Martensson says. •This
univer&gt;ity has a tradition of contemporary music-there is a strong
composition department here, and
an electronic music studio."
Martensson must be doing
something right Now he has two

level to your motions--the waving
of the stick. A student orchestra
often bas to be reminded of the
same thing several times."'
Martensson, who is tall, chooses
to conduct without a podium.
With his shock of blonde hair, he
looks like a kindly Scandinavian
bear. He conducts with considerable reach, but does not wave his
arms unnecessarily. He does not appear to be reaching for the spotlight
"1 think you can achieve what you
want with your eyes-with other
means than large gestures." he says.
Martensson comes from Malmo,
in the southern part of Sweden, 45
minutts by boat from Copenhagen
A pianist, violist and composer, as
well as conductor, he came to this
rountryto study orchestral conductingat the Cleveland Institute of Music. There he conducted the contemporary music ensemble.
At UB, in addition to conducting
the UBul&amp;lo Symphony and th e
Sinfonietta,Martensson teaches con ducting and viola. He has about a
dozen conducting students. " I teach
them to follow what's written," he
says. • "Jh.n we can take tiberties.•

•1

Not
musk ls true
.. True• and "'truth"' are words
Martensson resorts to often when

talking about music. Not all music
is true, according to his conception.
Music that's chiefly commercial
probably isn't For him, audience
approval is not necessarily the best
measure of what good music is. Ives,
one ofMartensson's &amp;vorite American composers, does fit the bill of
truth-teller. One thing Martensson
likes about Ives is that he is "daring."
The piece by Ives that Manensson
conducted with the UBUff.alo Symphony in December was a fugue in
four keys---;1 remarkable piece not
for the riumber of keys. but for their
simultaneous presentation.
•A lot of oomposen write music
that is suited to what they think the
audience wants," Martensson says. "It
doesn't sound true. These composmare stealing from what is old."
Of hi s own compositions,
Martensson says. " I try to look for
sonorities, and l try to look for new
contrapuntal devices." That puts
him very much in the mainstream
of post-World War II composition.
An exciting project is an opera
he is composing for Gary Burgess's
univer&gt;ity opera studio, to be staged
this fall. Before !he Law will have an
English tibretto based on a story by
Franz Kalka (from his novel The
Trial) . Before !he Law is the story
of a man who is face-to-face with
absolute futility.
What about truth in old musicin Beethoven, for example? In a
work like the Seventh Symphony,
one truth that must be settled is the
tempo. The slow movement: How
slow should it go? Martensson believes most tempos for this movement are too slow, that they ignore
the metronome marking in an attempt to sound "'serious." In reheanal he keeps the pulse moving,
to avoid a ponderous feeling.
"Truth in performance is what
we as performers, at this very mo ment, understand, when the performance is taking place-that this
is the truth, what I think the composer meant."' He th inks about
what he has said. "This truth; he
continues, "will very probably be
something different next time."

You •lre.dy know th•t BISON 11 has online periodkal indexes
and information about the various UB libraries, right? WcU, there are
lots of other useful features, too.
For example, there's a slew oflinks to reference sources, such as encyclopedias, English and foreign language dictionaries, conven ion tables,
directories and style manuals. Major works, including Britannica Online
and Books in Print, are Jisted on the Online Resources page (http:/1
_....buffMo..../llbrlll'ta/e-nsourca) under "R.eferenct Sources," or
you can dick on "Full List" to see all of the categories.
A variety of helpful forms (http:/ / ubUb.buffalo.edu{llbrariu/
fonns) is available, which you can use to ask a referenct qu~tion , make
a suggestion, recommend a title for purchase, renew a book or submit
an interlibrary loan request. You also can take advantage of US Docu ment Express, the University Libraries' intercampus document delivery
service. This service is available to UB faculty, staff and students whose
departments are located on one campus and who are requesting library
materials located on the other campus.
There are SC'veral handy features that allow you to discover on your
own all that BISON JI offers. You can access an alphabetical list of all
UB Libraries Web pages by clicking on " Lib Web Index ,. (http://
.buff.ao.eclu/llbrories/ HM"Ch/subject.html). You can then scroll
down and select from the various subject headings, or click on a letter
from the alphabet at the beginning for a quicker route. Cliclci ng on ..T,"
for example, takes you directly to the section of the list that incl udes
lin.ks to "Tax. lnformation,""'Teaching and Learning Resources" and .. Tele phone Books."
Clicking on "Search" (http:// ubllb.buffolo.edu/ llbrarles/ seorch)
presents two ma.in options. One allows you to search all BISON II Web
pages by keyword (s). Typing "health care reform· or "patents," for example, wiU list all UB Libraries pages that include those words. The second option leads to numerous Web directories or search_ engines that
allow you to search the World Wide Web for resources not based at the
University Libraries. Link to Yahoo or AltaVista from here, as weU as
LookSmart, Excite, InfoSeek and Lycos. Dogpile and MetaCrawler can
search several search engines at the same time, while Ali-in-One and
HotSheet an search engine meta -sites that offer even more Internet
search options. Each presents unique advantages for different types of
searches, so it's a good idea to experiment with them aU to see which
ones are best suited for your particular needs.

For het&gt; with connerting to the Htvtd IW&lt;&gt; Web, rontoct the OT Help
Desk at 645-3542.
- - Hepfer -

Nancy Schlllor, Univmily Ubmrie

Schoolof11anagennent
offers two programs
A " Micro-MBA" Certlflc•te Progr•m is being offered by
the Center for Management Development (CMD) for individu -

als who wish to develop basic knowledge of the managerial concepts and tools required in today's global business environment.
The SO-hour, credit-free program, will be held twice a week
from 6-8:45 p.m. Sept. 15 through Nov. 24 in the jacobs Man·
agement Cenler on the No rth Campus.
The program, for an yone unabi"e to take an extended leave to
obtain an MBA degree, addresses managem~nt methods and
issues in 14 key areas, including accounting, economics, entrepreneursh ip, finance, human resources, information technology, international business, leadership, managerial strategy and
marketing. Courses are taught by School of Management and
CMD faculty. To register, call645-3200. Deadline is Sept. 12.

A Team Performance Certificate Program is being offered
by the School of Management's Center for Management Development from Sept. 22 through Nov. 24.
Designed for business owners and managers who wish to im proVe their work environment through development of team
skills and team -based operations, the I 0-week professional program will be held in Jacobs Management Ce nter on Mondays
from6-9p.m.
The program is a co mponent of US's Center for Team Perfor·
mance (CfP), directed by Jerry Newman , professor of organi zation and human resources and a leading researcher and con·
sultant on the effecliveness of team skills in the workplace.
Seminar topics will indude "Leading the Transition to Team work," " Identifying Diversity in Team Members." ""Empowe rment,lnterpe..onal Skill Building,""Coaching!Counseting," " Facilitating Team Problem Solving and Decision Making," "Conflict Management" and .. Team Leadership."'
To register for the program, contact program coordinator
Sandra Pugliese at 645-3200.

.

�SOCIAL AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

The power of vitamin C
in protecting against disease
A populatlon-bued study of vtt.mln C's antioxidant properties,
conduct~d by UB epidemiologists, has shown that people with higher
levels of vitamin C in their blood serum have lower levels of a marker

for Ox.idative stress.
.. It is weU known that o:ridative stress (cell damage cau.std by free
radicals) plays a role in atherosclerosis, cancer, pulmonary disease and
other chro nic conditions," said Holger Schunemann, research assistant
professo r of sociaJ and preventive medicine and Lead author on the
study. "In this po pulation, vitamin C was negatively associated with
ox.idative stress, suggesting it may play a role in protuting against these
diseases."
Schunemann presented results of the study at the annual meeting of
the Society fo r Epidemiologic Research in Edrnonton , Alberta, Canada.
Th is study differs from most other attempts to determine vitamin C's
po tential as an antioxidant, Schunemann said, because it was population -basM, and because researchers measured the actual leveL of the
vitamin in each participant's blood, rather than relying on dietary
records. The study involved 187 women and 206 men,selected randomly
fro m Erie and Niagara counties.

1'1 DiAT RICS

Chemotherapy &amp; kids: is there
later risk to offspring?
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ME!=HAN ICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Zap go the designs!
New computer tool developed at UB morphs
designs of auto, aircr.rt parts

Chemother•py given to youngC.ncer .,.tlents does not appear to increase the risk of cancer in their offspring, the first large study
of children of survivors of pediatric cancer has shown. Results of the
study, conducted by researchm at UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute,
appeared in Arcluves of Pediatrics &amp; Adolescent
Medicine.

"This study is important because we don't
know whether therapy we give these patients
will affect their children," said Daniel M.
Green, professor of pediatrics at UB and
Roswell Park and the study's primary author.
The study invoiV«&lt;405 sucassivdy treated
patients who were diagnosed with Cancer at
Roswell Park between )an. 1, 1960 and Dec.
31, 1989,and were 18 years of age or older at the
most recent follow-up visit. Within this group. 148
patients reported that they, their spouse or female companion had
become pregnant at least once since completing cancer treatment.
Ninety-one of these: patients had received chemotherapy and had pro-

duced a total of 153 children.
Analysis of the health records of the children of the chemotherapy
patients showed that none of the offspring bad developed cancer. The
frequency of birth defects, or congenital anomalies, was slightly less
than for the general population-3.3 percrnt versw 3.5 percent. There
was no difference in frequency of birth defects among children of female
patients and children born to spouses or female companions of male
patients.

PHYSI&lt;(\l THERAPY AND NUTRITION AND EXERCISE SC IENCE

'"freadmill study may prevent
secondary injuries to runners 4D
With runners, one Injury often leads to another. Anecdotal
evidence of this experience abounds.
Now for the first time, researchers at UB are attempting to document
the relationship between initial and s«ondary injuries in runners, using
a force-measuring treadmill developed in UB's biomechanics labOratory
in conjunction with Kistler Instrument Corp. The researchers have been
able to show that runners who develop a muscle injury in the lower
eJCtremities alter their running patterns unconsciously after an injury.
This change causes a deviation in the foot 's normal impact and push ·off
force, which can be measured on the treadmill.
Harold Burton, associate professor of physical therapy and nutrition
and exercise science, one of the.researchers on the study, said a change in
running mechanics may affect the way that force is dissipated. As a re·
suit, ·the added or altered forces are absor~ by joints and/o r muscles
unaccus tomed to this stress, which may lead to a SKondary injury in
areas such as the knee, hip or lower back.
.. Having an idea how a person with a particular problem changes
running strategy, we hope to eventually identify a pattern and predict
the risk and location of a secondary injury," Burton said. " If we can
predict what's going to happen, intervention with corrective measures
...can prevent the secondary injury from occurring."
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Balcer, News ServicH Editor

.,. ElliH GOI.DeAUM
News SeMces Edit&lt;&gt;&lt;

dimensional computer screens by
demonstrating how changing a

to tluee-&lt;limensional designs.
The objectM is to enmine po-

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variable in a multidimensional
design space will affect the con-

tential trade-of&amp;, situations where
a chan~ in one design parameter
significantlyaffeasone or more design objectives, con&gt;traints or dis-

IKE THE CARTOON
!CIDS who zap therruelves

into Mighty Morphin'
l"ower Rangt:n,enginem
designing complex systems like can
and airplanes can now morph their
design rep=entations, thanks to
graph morphing---4 powerful, new
computer visualization method

developed at UB.

straints and objectives that comprise the design representation of
a complex system.
Until now, according to the UB

"Before -

clewloped this

The new method allows engi~
neers to visualize how changes in
their designs will affect design
requirements.

aopllbllty, It -

The researchers also have developed a way to apply virtual reality.
to this new tool, allowing different
individuals to access and modify
the same three-dimensional design
across a computer network or the
Worlq Wide Web.
Christina L·Bloehaum, associate
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and principal investigator, said graph morphing
will significantly improve the design process in any industry that
produces a complex product, par-

In • design .......... .., •

ticularly the aircraft and automo-

tive industries. It also will help
improve the design and layout of
industrial plants, where it will help
planners to decide how changes in
specific configurations would im·

pact the function of the plant.
Bloebaum, who developed graph
morphing with doctoral candidate
Eliot Winer, described it at the Sec·
ond World Congr= of Structural
and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization in Zakopane, Poland.
She also described the first known
application of Virtual Reality and
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML) to multidiciplinarydesign
opt.imiution, the field of engineering concerned with making complex, largc~scale design more

efficienl and less costly.
Graph morphing allows designers to transcend the limits of two·

virtluolly

..........-to vbu.ly
thelmpKt

of~

Judge

chMage

complex, rnultlcllmenslo
design problem."
CHRISTINA L BLOEBAUM

researchers, designers working on
such large-scale, complex design

projects typically would be restricted to a very scaled-down vis ualization method that would

addressDnly two or three variables
out of the entire problem.
"Before we developed this capability, it was virtually impossible
10 visually judge the impact of a
change in a design variable in a
complex, multidimensional de-

sign problem," said Bloehaum.
"The purpose of graph morphing
is to capture in a two, or three-dimensional space on a computer

screen both the objectives that are
being designed for, such as minimizing cost, as well as the design constraints, such as maximum stresses
or displacm&gt;erits or any of the other
physical and performance limitations typically imposed in romplex
design," she said
Working in the Multidisciplinary
Opt.imiution and Design Engineering Laboratory (MODEL) at UB,
the researchm first dMoped graph
morphing to apply to two-dimensional designs and then extended it

ciplines-such as structures or
aerodynamics-in a multidis -

ciplinary environmeoL
•m a complex design environ- .
ment, you have all these different
subsystems that relate to each

other in different ways, so when
you change a variable over here. it
changes what's happening dsewbere," Bloebaum explained. "It
can be very difficult to understand
those relationships without some
sort of visualization capability.•
In two·dimensional graph

morphing, only two design variables may be plotted on the "x"
and "'"y" ~; the others are as ~
signed to, and controlled by,
switches, which function like scroll
bars on a screen. A designer can
change one of these variables by
wing a computer mouse to grab
the switch that controls that variable.
The image will respond by al most immediately morphing to a
visual representation of that
change, as well as of the subse-

quent design changes that modification will cause, as the switch is
moved again to new design vari-

able values.
Bloehaum explained that virtual
reality takes the power of graph
morphing one step further,
She cited the example of a designer working on an aircraft wmg
who is not sure whether or not the

span of the wing should be longer.
"'With virtual reality, you can
actually reach out and pull that
wing longer and then see a representation of what will happen to
the design space in tluee dimen sions so that you can move around
it and examine it from all angles,"'
Bloebaum said.

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Moving ill
Asblab Gupta, &amp;om Simulation Sci, encet in Brea, Calif., to auistant pro-.
rasor, D&lt;partmen1 or ClJcmial EngineerinsCoriooAiberto do a-rio lloptlota.

&amp;om Memorial Sloan-Krttcrins Can-

cer Center in New York. to racarcb
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l'lychiatry.
MlcheleT.Ploto, &amp;om Brown Univerlity, to UIOdate professor. Depart-

meot or l'lychiatry.
Carloo N. Poto, &amp;om Brown Univerlity. to usistant professor, Department or Plychiatry.
VIctor .faa* Hernandez, from National hutitute or Child Health and
Human o...lopmen~ Bethada, Md.,
to assistant profesSor,' Department of
Miaobiology.
Joydeep
llbattacborya. &amp;om University or Southrm California, 10 usistant professor of niacroeconomics,
Department of Economics.

jlnyoung Kim, reappointed as visiting professor in labor development,
Department of Economics.
Austin Booth, hom University of •
Michigan Libraries, to humanities
subject specialist in Lockwood Library.

Chrbtophor Gibbs. &amp;om Haverford

Coil&lt;se.10 aaistant professor, Depart- Sharon Dittmar, professor, School of
mont or Music.
Nuning.
Mory J11aa1can, &amp;om Hliman Code, Non:na Shatz Rubin, coordinator of
Inc..,Aulti.n. Texas, to assistant profes~ the CurriCulum Centtt.
tor or cliaital media, Department or Stuart Scott. associate professor, DeMedia Study.
.partment or Anthropology.
jluan Yu. fr'om Orlord Univenity, 10 Cbarlotte Grantham. dinjcal assisassistant professor, Department of tant professor, Department of ComPhil010pby.
municative Disorders and Sciences.

Moving up
Offtcer Michael Vlrc:bau. to lieutenan~ Department of PubUc Safery
Lorna Peteraon. from assistant profepor lO ISIOCiate profeuor, School of
Information and Library Studi...
J&lt;ny Godwin. &amp;om usistant director tb director of ttudent activities in
the Offico of Studeot Life.

IUcbard MitcM:U. associate professor,
Department of Geography.
Geora lgen. SUNY Distinguished
Professor. Department of History.
Madeleine Mathlot, professor, De.partment of Linguistics.

Richard Friedman, associate prof...
sor, Department of Political Scitnce.

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Anthony Graziano, professor, Department or Plychology.
Gunter Schmitz, professor, Depart·
menl or Architecture, School or Architectur&lt; and Planning.

Richard T. Hull, professor, Department of Philosophy, to executive director, Texas Council for the Humani-

Mareus Klein, professor, Department
of English.
£riel Metzaer, professor, Department

Movillg Oil

tift.
'
Maggie Saxon Wrl&amp;bt. assistant dean
for minority affain, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Donna juenker, associll.e professor.
director of undergraduate education,

School or Nuning.

of Modem Languages and Uteratwes.

Man.! Sbmle£slty. professor, Depart·
meal or Engfuh.
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UB 30, Lock Haven 7
Junior ttansfer Chad Salisbury threw three touchdown pas5eS and the UB
defense limited lock Haven to 149 net yards in US's 30-7 Aug. 30 opening night win.
Salisbury thre'W' a six-yard TO strike to junior David Hinson to cap a 71yard drive on the game's first possession. He also threw 4- and 27-yard
TO tosses to senior Jamie G.uparre while completing 19-of- 32 paues for
214 yards. On UB's fint two scoring drives, Salisbury completed 6-of-7
thin:kktwn conversions as the Bulls went on to convert 11 ~-1 7 (65 per-

cent} third-downs for the game.
Ga.sparre had six catches for 90 yards and raised his career touchdown
total to 12 in just 12 career games. Sophomore Drew Haddad added six

catches for 62 yards.
Sophomore linebacker Dan Curcione led the defense with 12 tacldes,
while senior Keith Hansen had nine tackles and a half-sack. junior Dan

Poulsen had seven stops and a haH-sac.k.

·

Men's~o~r
UB 1, Eastern Michigan U. 1
UB 3, Brock U. 0
The SuUs opened their season with a 1 •1 tie against Eastern Michigan
University Friday night in the second game of the 1997 UB Fall Classic.
EMU got on the board first when junior forward M o Hijazi scored off a
pass from Junior mtdfiekter Diego Alvarez at 26 minutes. After several

unsuccessful scoring attempts late in
the first haJf, the Bulls fina lly put one in
the EMU net when senior m idfielder

Oops!

Tim Merrick dribbled around two Eagle
defenders and fir~ the ball into the far
side of the goal at 59:02. The game
was a tight defensive battle throughout. w;th both teams combining for
only 15 shots on goal.
The UB Fall Classic wrapped up Saturday with the Bulls defeating Brock
University 3-0. Merrick. sophomore
Sebastian Zawislan and freshman
Brian McCallion scor~ one goal
apiece. Merrick also was named the
Mid-Continent Conference Pl ayer of
the Week.

Sophomore Karen Bernstein and
her dad, Mike, deal with a
moving-in problem, above, as
cart topples her possessions
outside Fargo Saturday. All's well a
few minutes later, right.

Women's ~IIDlr
UB 1, Stony Brook 1
UB 0, Toledo 1

Senior" voleyball stond-

out ~-­
started
her last season
off with a bang as she
taWed 57 kils and 53
digslor the Bulls in r.....,
game-s over the labor
Day weel&lt;end.
In Sunday's match

versus cross-town rival
Canisius, 8rinkworth
contributed a careerhigh 22 kilb and 13 digs
for a UB victory. Brink·
WOf'th leads the Bulls so
tar this season w;th a

.333 hitting percentage.
junior transfer Chad
Salbl&gt;u&lt;y had an Impressive weekend, as
well, throwing three

The women's soccer team opened its
1997 season Aug . 29 with a 1-1 tie
against SUNY Stony Brook at RAC field.
touchdown passes in the
After a scoreless first half, freshman
football season opener
Paula Ustrani scored her first collegiate
versw Lock Haven.
goal at the 49-minute mark for the Bull~
only tally. Junior forward Erica Keller
scored at the 69-minute mark for Stony
Brook. An evenly played game throughout. the teams both hred 15 shots
on net
On Sunday, the Bulls lost to Toledo 1-0, also at RAC field . The
Rocket '~ Odia Jahurally scored a goa l a t 23:43 to g•ve UT the lead for
good . The Bulls put 11 shots on goal, while the Rockets managed 1 7
shots on the UB net.

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Saturday. the Bulls lost to Toledo in four matches, 1 S-11 , 14-16, 3-1.).
6-15 . Also on Saturday, the Bulls d efeated American Un1vers1ty in fou r
matches, 15-10, 4- 15, 15-11 , 17-15 . On Sunday, the Bu lls beat cross·
town rival Canisius in four matches, 15-12, 15-17, lS-12, 15-10
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Handwriting
' &amp; History
MJm Lt l!ID 'M Z9. No.1

looking

ahead
Up in the stands at UB

Stadium, Head Football Coach
Craig Orbus siles up the neoN
aop of Bulls as they scrimmage
in preparntion for the season
opener on Saturday.

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College ofArts and Sciences to be created
Provost Headrick announces merger; committees will set direction for college
By SUI WUETCHEJl
News Services Associate Director

EXPECTED, Provost
Thomas E. Headridc has
announced that the fae ries of Arts and Let .
ters, Social Sciences and Natura1
Sciences and Mathematics will }&gt;(
merged into a College of Arts and
Scien~.

The college will be formally es·
tablished by next summer at the
latest.

"There's strong support for it (a
College of Arts and Sciences )
among a broad range of the faculty
and the UB community," Headridc
said in an interview with the Re porter, noting that the Faculty Senate endorsed the proposal in June.
"There's still a number of issues

to be worked out, but we can work
those out over the course of this

coming year."
Creation of a College of Arts and
Scie-nces was Headrick's favored
option for the reorganization of tht
three faculties ca.Ued for in his aca -

dernic planning document released
in mid-February.
ln the document, Headnck out lined numerous reasons for establishing a College of Arts and Sciences. Among them: having a single
dean overseeing the arts and sci ences would correct what he has
called a "fragmented approach"' to
undergraduate education and pro·
vide for better management of
problems and coo rdination of 1s·
sues among the various arts and
sciences faculties and departments.
Headrick sajd he wilJ form two
committtts to help bring the arts
and sciences together.
The Founder's Committee, com -

posed essential ly of faculty mem
bers., will"help set the tone and di rection fo r the college," he sa1d.
It will be chaired by David Triggle.
vice provost for graduate education
and dean of the
Graduate School.
The comm ittee,
wh1 ch w1ll serve
for two years, wtll
focu s on faculty
and governan ce
tssues. Dunng the
first year, the com mittee wJJI ""co me to gnps w1th
some of the maJOr tssues of trymg
to form th1s co llege." mcludmg Its
direction, 1ts miss1on , how 11 bal ances 11s various responsibilitieS
and how the separa te organ•za llonal structur" and cultures of tht"
three separatt" facult•es can be
brought together

The commlltee 1s not to develop
any " hard -and-fast recommenda uons"' during this first year,
Headndc stressed. hscharg&lt; will be
to srudy the 1ssues Involved 10
formmg the new coll~e and work·
mg 10 the sttOnd year with the ne-w
dean to develop the actual governance structure and the deLalls of
the o rganizalion and admtmstra tJon of the new college.
"'I want them (comrmttee mcm
bers ) to come 1010 that hav1ng
g1ven a lot of senous studv and
thought to those londs of tS5ut&gt;s so
that they are prepared 10 g1Yt" coun
sd to the new dean m a ~onstrul
IIVt W3 )'," he sa1d.
A search romrrunee wtll be set up at
the same 11m&lt; as the Founder's Comm.Jtt.ee to ronduct. a seard"J for a dean
fOr the llt'W oolkge. Headndc Slid.

Work-study students to fight illiteracy
By SUE WUETCHEJl
News Services Associate Director

F

OR THE FIRST TIME,
this fall federal work -study

stude:nts at UB will go into

Western New York schools
to help fight illiteracy.
UB has joined tbr ..Americ a
Reads"' program, a new campaign
initiated by President Clinton that
aims to recruit a million volunteer
tutors--including 100,000 work st udy student s-to beco me in-

volved in school literacy programs.
Under new federal guidelines designed to encourage par-ticipation
in the program, UB will partnrr
with t he West Seneca Youth
Bureau's AmeriCorps program to
begin a pilot project this fall involving up to 100 work-study students
who will go into elementary
schools to serve as reading tutors,

said Mary Gresham, in terim viCe
president for public servicr and
urban affairs.
... We have good studen ts at UB,
and good students usually havC' a
variety of experiC'nces that will btusdul for th is ki nd of K-8 out
reach," sbe noted "They're" wonder-

ful models for kids. and kids who
need literacy assista n'e will not
only get literacy assistance, but
th ey'll get mentoring and roiC' model help and a future focus in
terms of higher education. Just m ·
teracting with our students will be
good for them."

The UB students will go through
a literacy training course, as weU as
the ArneriCorps comm unity-service training course, which covers
such to pics as conflict resolution,
awareness of comm uni ty-service
needs. trust-building, team -build -

mg and professional eth1cs-.. all of
wh.Jc.h are thmgs studen~ need lO
know before they can becomt&gt; effective volunteers," Gresham sa1d.
Fifty students wiU be placed b)
AmeriCorps in schools throughout
Erie County.
The umverSIIy, whiCh for years
has worked wt th schools 1n the
Buffalo, Sweet Home and Amherst
districts, will place the remammg
50 students in schools in thosedas tncts, as well as the Kenmore/Town
of Tonawanda schools. if requested.
Gresham s:ud she hopes students
will be placed '" schools by Oet. I.
The program is open to aJ1 student.s,
although those not eligible' for work
study cannot as yet be patd
"This (A menca Reads ) g1ves
those who are espec1ally interested
m teaching a wonderfu.J opportu~
nity to go out, do somethmg use

ful. ga m

J b11!e wnrJ,. o.pe-m·ncc
Jnd get patd lur tl "
~ tudeniS who .tre piJ~ot'"d tn
schoo ls b)' AmenCorp) \-\ Lll bt· eh
gable to re letve Amcrtl orps
"htgher-.:ducat•on tu1t1on lxndir ;·
satd Mark Lazarra. exe&lt;:ut1vc d trt'l
tor of the West Seneca Amt'TJCorp)
The students .llso may partKtpatt
m o thn maJOr commumt y- )(' r\' l~oC
pro1ects through Amt&gt;n Corp) .
Lazarra sa1d, add1ng that tht'"
amount of the tUJllon benefit these
students earn will dt&gt;pend upon the
number of hours thn worJ,. on
AmeriCorps proJec~ .
Lazarra st ressed that th e l'B stu
dents will be "tutonng, not teach
mg" when they go mto the elemen
tary schools ... WC' want to help stu
denu enhance theu readmg skills"'
and reall.Zf' that Mreadmg IS fun. tlt!l
acceptable."

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F. · ficult cboias. This is a time when

the 11m .,.anmmt is callina for
PETER A. NICKERSON, professor of pathology, was chair of the Fac- an iDcreued accountability and
tOr an impnMD&gt;ent in acadanic
ulty Senate in 1993-95. _A filculty member since 1967,
ltaDdank; the board of t:ruoteos
he's Jeading the Faculty Senate again this year. Deeply
and the chancdlor are proposing
a miNion review and outcomes
rommitted to university governance, he has
.-mmt for SUNY campuses.
been president of the Medical Faculty
Our ability to meet these cbal·
lenges wiU dekrmine whetherCouncil and served for nine years on the
· are able to move u-d or whether
SUNY Senate.

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dialogue with &amp;culty, staff, students and administrators.

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A: UB in particular and higher
education in general &amp;a: a wide

variety of serious problems; I
sought another term as chair of
the Senate becawe I liU a chal·
lenge.l firmly believe that- as a
&amp;culty and we as an institution

can resolve these problems by
working together. Many times I
have seen that • the wisdom of the
&amp;culty" as shown through coUegial discussion of a problem can
produce a solution that i.s much
better than can be devised by any
one individual.

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A: Our relations with administration at UB are similar to tha.e
at most other units of the system.
Of special importance at UB are

the regular interactions of the
three senior administratot1: President Greiner, Provost Headrick
and Senior Via: President Wagner,
with the Senate. Such regular and
coUegial relations with senior adrninistraton do not occur at all institutions in the SUNY system.

- wiU fall behind other public re-

yean ago, there~ was a draft for
military service; some students
sought admission to professional

schools becatue of an .....,ption
from the draft that was available
for such ·~ Today I have
seen an in~ount ofideali.sm among students. A5 a co-advisor for the undergraduate Association of Premedical Students. I
have seen that many U8 students
wi.sh to enter medical school for al-

lftlistic reasons. This is c:ncoungiDs.
especially in the face of the uncertainties fiocing health care today.
A more disturbing tiend today i.s the lack ofacademic preparation in the basic skills needed for
succas in coUege and in the world
· ofwork.

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A: I am an experimental pa thologist and basic scientist in the
medical school; I obtained my

Ph.D. in the amo of a:U biology.
A5 with most &amp;culty memben, I
am actively involved with teaching, research and servia: in my department. In my opinion, successful communication is an essential
&amp;cet for a facultt member. The
same holds true for the Faculty
.Senate, where it is essential for
governance to deve.Jop i. reguJar

A: During my four undergraduate years, 1 was a teller in a bank
on Cape Cod during the summer.
Those were the days when there
really were banker's houn (9 a.m.
to 2 p.m.). ! thousht ydry seriously
about going into business.

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When I lint arrived at UB 30

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Erosion of the perception and
support of the mission for higher
education by the public has provided an enormous challenge to
the academy. This loss of confi·
dence i.s reflected in erosion for the
fuwtcing of public higher education in New York State. UB is faced
with the necessity for e:umining
carefully all of its academic offerings. While self e:wnination i.s aJ.
ways hdpful we are &amp;ceil with dif.
A:

search univet1ities.

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A: I liU boob that ulr. difficult
quosboDiaDdtrytoltl@liOII....-s
by treating isou&lt;s &amp;om a variety of
perspectives. Most rocently I hav.
r...s·Iqb!CoiJe&amp;o Yars: llllidethe
American Campus Today" written
by Anne Matthews. Questiool on
students aDd faculty aDd their responsibilities are raiaed in the light
of trerneodous choose being foad
by American higher education.
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Cooperation among &amp;culty
membetl is a strength of the &amp;culty at UB. It i.s increasingly important in interdisciplinary research; thi.s type of cooperation
wiU be essential for us to compete
suca:osfully with other research
universities for Umited funding
that i.s available to support research and creative activity.

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I would likt to ..., us aildress ·
the issue of improving interaction
among &amp;ollty, and also to increase
interaction of &amp;culty with staff
and students.
A:

Hormone study involves new technigue

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Siberian hamsters use4 in research to identify brain chemical regulating prolactin

baoll. "The- ol ra..ln

.BY LOIS IIAIWI

variation, which is small aDd oaun
at the basal leY~!~, is easy to condate
with a sp&lt;cific stimulus.

News Service$ Editor

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UB neuroendocrinologist is providing new in·
sights into the cause of
changes in blood levels
of the hormone prolactin, which
plays a role in regulating many vital
human physiological functions.
Supported by a grant from the
National Science Foundation, Lori
Badura, assi.stant professor of psycbology, is attempting to identify the
neurotransmitter that signals those
Prolactin i.s perhaps best known
changes. If sucassful, her research
as the hormone responsible for
could lead to interventions to keep
stimulating mammalian mill&lt;'prothe hormone at optimum levels.
duction. Its lesser-known func" "'Some medications--ones that
tions include activating the imincrease dopamine, for examplemune system in response to stress.
can cause prolactin levels to be low:' It also plays a role in fertility.
she says. •Too much or too little
prolactin can cawe infertility. It's Identifying Inn chemical Is key
important to know what neuroIt i.s another of prolactin's lesserchemicals are affecting any system known effects-its role in regulatbecause a change in one causes a ing the seasonal moltiog cycle in
change somewhere else.
such animals as the Siberian ham"We already know prolactin's ef. ster--Ulat drMs Badura's research.
fects, but we don't know what Siberian hm\sten tum from brown
causes the brain to regulate its pro- to white in winter and experience a
duction. I f - can find the chemi- corn:spondingdrop in prolactin levcal signals that cause these changes, els. Badura is attempting to identify
we can design a drug to regulate the brain chemical that triggm thi.s
them. Knowing the chemical neu- change. Once identified, the chemirotransmittm that underlie each cal could be manipulated to correct
system would allow us to compenan existing borinonal imbalance.
sate for problems in any of them.•
The Siberian hamster is • ~

Neuiolladlllltters llwolved

One of the neurotransmitters that
BailuraaDdcdleagues are looking at
is norq&gt;inephrine because its levels

also appear to change under differ.

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ent lighlljX&gt;Dditions aDd it is known
to be invohed in prolactin release.
"We don't know if thi.s is coincidental, if other facton are inw&gt;J-.ed,
or if there i.s a real cause and effect."
she says. "Once- estJblish a rela-

tionship. we can manipulate norepr-olactin's effects, but -

don't - - c..es
the bnln to ....,we Ito
production••
LORIIAOURA

nient model for studying prolactin
regulatioobocauoeitsbormooal variationis~by

...ooo.t cbanses in amount of day-

ligbl. During loog SUII1Dla" da)o. the
banula's aJOt is darl&lt;; as winter approocbrsanddo)sb=mesborta; tbe
aJOtcbanpto wbite. Tbeae""""""'
ligbl oooditions can be simulated in

the lobonolvry by adjusling the lighl
bOl. Tbehamsta's natural bormooal

pinephrine and see if prolactin
changes. No one has done that yet."
Before Badura can mow: into that
realm ofcliscovory, t.o.-er,she and
her grad students must master the
difficult technique of implanting
two miaoinstruments in the ham·
stm oo pbysio1ogica1 change$ can be
measurcli. Aa::onjing to Badura, DO
resean:ber has yet been able to sue·
assfuJly implant both instruments
aDd conduct dual ana1yoes.
"If this lz&lt;hni&lt;ple beaxncs viable,"
shell)'."itwouldp&lt;m&gt;ita new direction in raeorth that is very a_ttnctiYe
to gnntiDg "!l'Dci&lt;s-. This wiD allow
us to document any kind of physiological activity aDd .physical state

minulebyminute.\'kwillbeable'!&gt;
answer many questions that we
haven't been able to ansW1!r before.•

�Brorurebuffruoh~newhome BrieBy
Coventry Ci~ plaza setting will be dedicated on Saturday
IIYa..srw.VIDAI.
Reporter Editor

T

HI! UNIVI!RSITY'S
life-sized bronu buffalo, housed in the
lobby of Alumni Arena
since it.o wmilling last October, is
moving this week to a permanent
home on a new plaza on Coventry Circle, adjacent to Alumni
Arena and the Center for the Arb.
The p~ will be dedicated in a
ceremony at 6 p.m. on Saturday
that will wrap up the celebration
of UB"s sesquicentennial, for
which the bronze buffalo was created. A brass plaque commemorating the opening of the plaza will
be unveiled as part of the ceremony.
Prior to the ceremonial opening
of the plaza, a procession of studentsand parents will march from
the new-student picnic at the Student Union to Coventry Circle.

The plaza was built by Ciminelli
Development Company/ADF
Construction Corp., which donated the cost of construction.

Buffalo placed on platfonn
It features a lighted, raised plat-

form on which the bronze buffalo
stands. The 20-foot concrete platform is accessible via stain located
on the north side of the plaza and

a handicapped-acceSSible ramp on
the northwest aide.
·
The handicapped-accessible
ramp is inlaid with four diamondshaped designs, each composed of
a tight granite centeratone, four
comentone bricb ai:ld 112 oingle
bricb. As part of a fund-raising
effort being conducted by UB's
Office of Development, the briclcs
will be engraved with names or
messages of donors. To obtain information about how to purchase
a brick, call 829-2630, ext. 226.
Funded by gifts

The bronze buffalo was funded
with $25,000 gifts from Gerald
Goldhaber, associate professor of
communications, and the
late Burt P. Fticlringer
Jr., prominent
Western New York
community leader
and businessman.
It is a reproduction
of the original statue
that for years was the
focal point of the old
Central Railroad Terminal in Buffalo.
The statue was produced by Messmore &amp; Damon,
Inc., a New York City company
whose founder, G. H. Messmore,
sculpted the original Central

Terminal buffalo for the New York
Centtal Railroad in the 1930s.
The plaque will be un..i!ed by
Goldhaber and Col. Francis B.
Messmore, son of the original
buffalo's sculptor and president of
Messmore &amp; Damon.
Among those presenting re marks at the opening will be President William R. Greiner; Ronald
H. Stein, vice president for advancement and development, who
launched the search for a bronze
buffalo to serve as UB's campus
mascot; and Philip B. Wels, honorary chair of the Sesquicentmnial
Planning Committee and chair
emeritus of the UB Council.

New officiallog~you'll be seeing it
soon on everything at UB
Ull's offtcWiogo, an intertwined treatment of the univenity's ini-·
tials, soon will grace e=ything from business cards tot-shirts.

Designed by the Office of Publications, the
logowasaeatedattherequest ofPresident Wdtiam R. Greiner. The interlodcing lettm are composed of a modified, computer-generated serif
font. Supporting typography is in the fo nts

vide the univenity community with detailed information regarding prop&lt;r
use of the new logo on ~ity stationery and bwincss cards. The manual
is expected to be availabi&lt; in October.

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With this Issue, the Reporter is introd.uclng an~ look and re-introduc ing a second color- "UB blue'"-on Pag~ One and as part of its weddy
calendar.

The redesign is the result of the work of Rebecca Farnham, a membe-r of
the design staff in the Office of Publications, who worked with the staff of
News Services this swnmer to give the Reporter a new look. Her goal: to
streamline and modern.iu the newspaper's layouL
In the proass, Farnham selected new typefaces, redesigned the R&lt;port&lt;r's
Page One "flag'" to incorporate the university's new logo and added new
icons to refer readers to the newspaper's Web site.
AI the same time. the Reporter's online ve:rsion is sporting a new look
and orpnization executed by the Electronic Media Unit in the Office of
Publications and coordina~ by student assistant Navin Jain. Cleek it out
at www.buffU...-/reporter.
The first issue of the redesigned R&lt;port&lt;T-in print and online-includes
a new feanm, "Q&amp;A," that each week will feature, in his or her own words,
a member of the faculty or professional .staff.
Asecond new feature called '"Transitions,"highlighting individuals at the
univa'sity who are "moving in,'""moving up'" and "moving on; will bt: introduced in next week:s Reporter.
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Look us over-the Reporter has
a new design and a second color

Ks apartment-style
student housing for North Campus
students, is expected to be completed by Summer 1998.
Noting that the state Dormitory
TUDI!NTS MAY BE living
in apartment-style housing Authority has constructed on-campus
housing in the past, Wagner said
on the North Campus, possibly as soon as Fall 1999, the move toward privately develthanks to a special bill passed by oped housing at UB is part of the
the state Senate and Assembly and university's "facility development
pending approval by Gov. Pataki. stra~ for housing.•
The legislation allows for the
construction of 250 apartment
units accommodating up to 1,000
"The..- effective • .,
students on one of two sites: a par(to buld housingcellocated between the University
Bookstore and Audjlbon Parkway,
act..-..and a parcel located between
Is through ..
Hadley Road and the Audubon
Parkway, across from the Cookenot-~&lt;OOJNN-•
Hochstetter complex.
aetheW-."
Construction will begin in 1998,
with occupancy expected in Fall
ROBERT j. WAGNER
1999, said Robert 1. Wagner, 'UB
senior vice president.
He added: "From our vantage
Under the terms of the bill, the
SUNY trustees will lease land to point, the most effective way (to
the UB Foundation, which will bid build housing and other non-acaout the construction work and demic structures) is through a
then contract with the university not-for-profit corporation like the
UB Foundation.• Wagner noted
to manage the apartments.
The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. that the stratesr should not be
Mary Lou Rath, R-Williamsville, viewed as criticism of the Donniand Assemblyman Paul A. Tokasz, torj Authority, which, be said,
"does a fine job."
D-Cheektowaga..
The UB Foundation c;ould conTownhowe complex under woy
ceivably get the capital for the
Ground already has been bro- project from the Dormitory Auken for 115 two-story townhouse thority, be added. The Dormitory
unit.o that could bouse up to 460 Authority also could sell the bonds
student.oonland owned by the UB for construction of a mathematFoun"'dation on Ch .. tnut Ridge ics building on the North Campus
if the project is funded from a
Road near Sweet Home Road
That complex, which Wagner $300 miltion lump sum included
said will be marketed to graduate in the capital budget approved by

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Frutiger and Minion italic.
s-v.-., -ttww r..t
A strong visual identity-including quickly
identifiable logos. signature marks and school colors-helps to create a
strong. familiar institutional presence. The p~ of the new interlinked
logo is to provide just such a visual identity for UB.
The Office of Publications is working on a visual identity manual to pro-

- Chrtttlne Vid•l,

~~,&amp;u:·lature bill 0

aY SUE WIJUCitlll
News SefVices Assoc:lote Director

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the Legislature.
Wagner noted that in the past,
the capital budget as approved by
the Legislarure identified specific
projects. But this year, money has
not been allocated to specific
projects. UB should know within
the next two months if the math
building will be funded from that
$300 miltion lump sum, he said.
The design for the estimated $6
miltion math building is finished ,
and documents needed to bid the
project are ready, he said, adding
that if approved , the building
could be ready for occupancy by
Fall 1999 or Spring 2000.
In discussing the overall state
budget, Wagner noted that this is the
first budget in a decade that does not
assign a base-levd reduction to UB's
state operating budget.
No tuition Increase In budget
The state budget includes no
tuition increase and provides full
restoration of funds to the Tuition
Assistance Program.
The UB budget includes a $25 per-semester increase in the campus technology fee. This is the only
university-wide fee increase for
1997-98, Wagner said.
•tt's very positive, very welcome," he said of the state budget.
'"It give~ us some stability," he
noted, adding that he hopes this
stability continues for the next few
years. "The challenge will be to
make use of these resources and
continue to make the case that further investment in higher education will benefit New York State.•

ChrtstJne VIdal~ RtpOITtr tditor

All public areas fully cleaned after
discovery of PCBs in Fargo Quad
Cleanup of PCBs discovered this summer in Fargo Quadrangle in
three ground-floor equipment rooms used onJy for utility purposes is
continuing and, according to a u niversity official, "aJI public areas arc
fully cleaned."
The problem was identified in early August afte r a cont racto r instalJing a new ho t-water system discovered PCB-laden fuel oil in an underground elect rical co nduit.
uw e have tested all areas in and around the area of concern and , with
the exceptio n of the utility closet in the area, all l eve~ of PCBs are below
the EPA's lim it," said Dennis Black, in terim vice president fo r student
affajrs.
He added, .. We expect that the limited dean-up that remains and monalo ring that will co ntin ue will have no impact on the use of the facili ty."
Black said that the wo rk on the hot-water system has ~n co mpleted.
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UUP members to query union leaders
Sept 4 on tentative contract
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Members of United Unlvenlty Professions at UB will have the opportunity to question .statewide union leaders about the union's tentativt
contract agrcemmt at a chapter merting to be held o n Thursday, Sept. 4, in
Pistachio's in the Student Union on the North Campus.
UUP President Will.iam Scheuerman and Thomas Manhews, the union's
chief negotiator, will discuss the tentatM agreement, which was reached
last month, during the business portion of the meeting. beginning at about
6 p.m. Ballots were mailed to membcn on Aug. 21 . Votes will be counted on

SepL 19.

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The tentative agrecmmt would allow the state to ..contract out'" jobs per·
formed by SUNY faculty or professional staff to &lt;xtemal corporations, al ·
though union officials say the "extensi.., and oomplex procedural standards"
the state would be required to meet in order to outsource jobs would deter
the state from doing so. Union officials also say the tentative agreement
prohibits the state from "contracting in• jobs to internal corporations such
aJ the SUNY Research Foundation or the UB Foundation.
The full text of the tentative agreement is on the UUP Wtb site at http:/
/ www....plnfo.org

�Boston University prof named dean

Shulman to head School of Social Work
11J SUE WUETCIIEil
News 5eMces As&gt;oclate Director

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AWRENCE SHULMAN
has been named dean of
the School of Social Work
by President William R.

Greiner.
Shulman is professor and cochair of clinical practice and chair
of the Group Work Department in
the School of Social Work at 8os·
ton University.
His appointment, made on the
recommendation of Provost Thomas E. Headriclc, is effective Jan. I,
1998. He will serve as dean-desig·
nate through Dec. 31.
Shulman will succeed Fredrick
W. Seidl, who had served as the
school's chief academic and administrative officer since 1985. Seidl
will return to the faculty as a pro·
fessor and researcher.

Headridr.noted that Shulman "enjoysao inlmlalional Jq&gt;Utltion fir his
scbolarship in tbefiddofinlmctiooal
social-work pr1ICii&lt;z" and bas a&gt;-developed a series of videolapes on
teaching social-work practice and diversity that involved extensive
work with minori·
ties.
"He brings to
hisdeamhipbroad
aperimce in fac.
ulty governance,
the accumulated
wisdom of &lt;Mr 30 &gt;""" as a faculty
member at 6ve outstanding research
univenities and a strong r=rd of attracting funding !Or innovative programs and researih."Headrick aid.
Prior to his work at Boston University, Shulman was a professor
and research project director for

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the School of Social Work at the
UniversityofBritishColumbiaaod
an associate professor and research
project director at the School of
Social Work at Mdiill University.
He also bas held faculty positions
at the University of Pennsylvania
and Rutgers University.
He bas published 16 boob and
monographs and more than 20 articles and book chapters.
He bas received funding &amp;om
numerous sources for a variety of
research projects, the most recent
of which addressed the impact of
unemployment on family stress
and the development of a model for
predicting the effectivmess of services to families with children at
risk and children in care.
Shulman earned a bachelor's
degree in sociology from City College of New York, a master's de-

gree in social work, with a specialty in social-work practice, &amp;om
Columbia University, and a doctorate in educational psychology
&amp;om Temple University.
Shulman will cm:rsee the activities of full-time and part-time be·
ulty memben, u well u "field be·
ulty"who~studentawhile
they are working off campus gain·
ing experience in the fi!'I&lt;L He will
have overall responsibility for the
development of academic pro·
grams, faculty recruitment and
advaocanent, and for maintaining
standards of ...ming, scholarship
and creative activity.
He also wiD have chief responsibility for plannU\g and budgeting,
equipment and space allocations,
and personnel. and oversee development activities within the school and
among its alumni and supporters.

'My Dear Mr. Wright' exhibit explores
architect's relationship with lifelong patron
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HE ARCHIVES next
month will open an exhibit featuring letters,
manuscripts, photo-

graphs, architectural drawings
and other materials from its Darwin D. Martin Collection and
other sources.
The exhibit, " My Dear Mr.
Wright," will be curated by Chris·
topher D.ensmore, acting director
of the archives, and will explore
the intricate 30-year relationship
between architect Frank Lloyd
Wright and Darwin D. Martin,
who was his client, loyal friend
and lifelong patron.
It will be presented in connection with the Frank Lloyd Wright
Building Conservancy Annual
Conference, to be held in Bulfalo
on Sept. 17-22.
The exhibition, free and open to
\he public, will open with a r:cep·
tion from 5-7 p.m. on Sept. 5 in
the Archives, 420 Capen Hall on
the North Campus. Brief presen·
tations will be made by Densmore,
Archivist Emeritus Shonnie
Finnegan ~, architect Patrick
Maloney and Wright scholar Jack

Quinan, professor and former
chair of the Departmel)t of Art
History and first vice presideot of
the conservancy. Quiban also is
curator of the Darwin Martin
House.
Among items to be displayed are
invoices and other documeols citing
the original cost of the land
($23,843.42) on which the Darwin
D. Martin bouse is built, and of the
houses, outbuildings, furnishings
and other equipment ($149,380.96)
that comprise the Martin oomplexon
Jewett Parkway.
Extensive collectlon
" In 1903 to 1905 prices, it was a
very expensive project," said
Densmore, noting that the UB collection houses the most extensive
plans, correspondence and specific
information about the details of
construction of any collection reIa ted to a work of architecture.
Densmore said that because of
his job as executive of the Larkin
Co., Martin knew a great deal
about construction, finance and
getting projects finished.
.. It's very interesting here that
Martin clearly knew exacdy what
was going on-the financing, the

mistakes, the details-be didn't
just stand back and gasp at the inevitable Wright cost overruns,•
Densmore said.
"The materials we have in the
collection prove that he was involved in every single aspect of the
construction. It was his nature. He
was extraordinarily detail-oi'ient~ By 1926, for instance, Mar·
tin had already figured out what
kind of finish he wanted on the
bathroom tiles at Graycliff, which
wasn't built until 1928."
The collection also demon strates the extensive and intimate
nature of the Wright-Marti!Korrespondence. Densmore pointed
out that one set of letters involves
Wright's explanation to Martin as
to why it was acceptable for him
(Wright) to leave his wife and severa! children and spend a scandalous year in Europe with Mamah
Cheney, his lover and the wife of
his neighbor and client.
.. Martin answered this missive
with a letter explaining to Wright
why some people might disap·
prove,• Densmore said.
The Wright-Cheney relationship carne to public attention in
1909 and was publicized further in

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1914 when Cheney was murdered
by a Jamaican houseman, along
with her two children and four
other members of the Wright
household, while at Taliesin East,
the home and studio Wright had
built for her in a bucolic WlSCOnsin setting.
Graycllff !etten featured

The Wright-Martin letters re·
gardiog Graycliff, a large retreat
built on the cliffs above Lake Erie
in Derby, also will be part of the
exhibit.
Graycliff was designed by
Wright for Mrs. Darwin Martin in·
the 1920s. The point that she, not
he. was the client, was one that
Martin needed to drive home to
Wright. Graycliffis one of several
Wright-designed houses in Westem New York that will be toured
as part of the conference.
Densmore said the exhibit also
will include many letters in which
clients and architects praise the
value of residences of Wright 's
design to one another in flowery
epistolary style. It includes detailed notes by Martin to himself
itemizing construction questions
in extraordinary detail.

UB first in U.S. to meet WHI recruitment goals
The university Is the flnt of 40 sites in the U.S. to

trial cancen; osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease. The
meet all of Its recruitmellt goals for the S625 million
WHI eventually will involve 163,000 women nationally
Women's Health Initiative, the largest clinical trial ever
"
between the ages of 50 and 79.
'
Karen Falkner, recruitment directorfor US's Vanguard
undertaken in the U.S.
UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
.
,·
Clinical Center, said being the fim to reach its recruitwas selected in 1993 to be one of the initiative's 16
ment goals is a significant accomplishment for UB, and
Vanguard Oinical Centers. These sites established the W 0 MEN' 5
a testament to the generosity and insight of the women
study's design and developed the operating procedures
in Western New York
for the remaining centers. A total ol4,000 women in
L
.
The uni-.lenity's share of the grant lor the WHI study is
Westem New Yori&lt; have volunteered to take part in
TNfTIATIVE "'I S11 million spread oVer 12 years.
this landmari&lt; study.
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UB's recruitment success in this clinical trial will help
The WHI's goal is to arrive at answen on the relationship of hor· make It a prime site for future investigations, Falkner said.
mone replacement therapy and various aspects of diet to women's
Co-principal investigators on the trial are Maurizio Trevisan, prolong-term health. A third part of the project involves tracking women lessor and chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medi·
over the 12-year study period to determine lifestyle habits that are cine, and jean Wactawski-Wende, assistant professor of gynecology
beneficial or harmful. The study will seek to determine risk factors for and obstetrics.
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heart disease, the largest killer of women; breast, colon and endome-

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Give Tom Headrick credit for
raising fundamental questions
EDITOR,

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Handwriting History
Thornton s book sheds light on the role ofpenmanship
... ,.,.~. -~uunderstanding Americas cultural history
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HERE IS NO reason
to mourn the "demise
of penmanship,• says
a UB historian, the

method of forming and describing character; scientific experts,
who chalked up variations in
script to physiological distinctiveness. and autograph collectors and
handwriting analysts who believed

adapted to the "rush of business"
in America's industrial age. To thiS
end, millions of American ch.il·
dren were subjected to decades of
Palmerian exercises ln uniform
stroke formation. Penmanship, the

author of a new and

that signatures that broke

very trait once celebrated as an id·

popular book that is the only cui-

copybook rules were marks of personality that revealed "the uniqueness of the self."

iosyncratic art for~ne's personal mark, so to speak-thus became subject to rigorous training
in uniformity.

Ever since the 19th century,

formal attempt to develop a homogeneou.s American character,
handwriting in the 20th century
has generally been marked by the
popular idea of individuation on
a grand scale.
She points to the popularity of
graphology-a 20th-century in vention believed by aficionadosto
reveal information about the
writer's secret self or, io its more
scientifically acceptable form, reveal clues to the identity of the
writer.
Although Thornton disdains
the notion that penmanshjp accu rately denotes character and personality, she does read other cuitural goings-on from attitudes toward handwriting. wwe can read
our past through the values with
which we embued handwriting in
the past,• she says. "The historical
study of. handwriting offers the
reader the possibility of being sensitive to the many meanings that
earlier generations inscribed in
their saipts. It teUs us many things
about ourselves and the culture we
constructed at various times in
o ur history."
Thornton's book is rich with
fascinating details about handwriting mythology and pedagogy,
the love of"beautiful forms; celebration and fear of idiosyncratic
expression, post -World War II
handwriting paranoia and other
desperate anempts to embrace or
escape from what she calls "'Ye
Olde Penmanship."

rural history of handwriting.
Today many Americans lament
thefactthathandwritingskillsseem

obsolete, but cultural historian
Tamara Plakins
Thomton, associate professo r of
history, says the
demand for oldfashioned penmanship training
ismerelynostaJaic
aodrepr&lt;SeDts the
rejection of modernity itsel£
In • Handwriting in America•
( Yale University Press, 1996),
Tho r ntoi:t explotes the ways in
which Americans have used handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. Her book explores the historical shifts in our notions of
handwriting's significance and
function as a way to better u~derstand our cultural history.
Thornton notes, for instance,
that handwriti ng didn't always
carry a heavy burden as the signifier of character. It wasn't until the
19th century that script came to
be associated with the articulation
of self, in contrast to the Unpersonality of print.
"Ever since that time,• Thornton
says, "the 'kind' of self defined or
revealed in one's script has been
debated in the context of changing economic and social realities,
definitions of manhood and wornanhood, and the concepts of mind
anc1.body_•
Parties to disputes over the irnportance of handwriting have ineluded "writing masters,• who
used penmanship training as a

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"1be .,_ of self defined or
1n one's scrtpt tuu

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context of changing
economk 11nchodal

realities."

Thornton notes that Spencerian
script popularized in the 19th century was l}ter replaced by the
"plain and rapid• Palmer method
for reasons having to do with at tempts at character formation.
By the late 19th century, hand writing was seen by many educators as an important tool through
whose application •the vast body
of conglomerate material that
comes from Europe., could be
turned into competent American
citizens. This notion, Thornton
points out, arose out of the presumption that if handwriting signified character, then character
could be molded by the formation
of leners.
The Palmer method, which emphasized conformity to specific
forms, was thought to be better

In the new spirit of interdisciplinary research I start with AJben Einstein's
famous equation. Madness equals continuing to do the same thing in
the same way and expecting a different outcome_
Thirty-five yean ago, we set as our goal making US a leading
univerlity. Today we are no closer to that goal than we~ 35 yoar&gt;
ago. ~ ~ not madness to think we wiU achieoe ~ by continuing to do
e&gt;&lt;act!y the same thing? Tom Headrid&lt; should, therefore, be praised for
raising some fundamental questions.
for example, we all know that academic bureaucracy has been
growing at an exponential rate both in our and other universities. Yet,
Initially, theno was opposition to Tom's proposal to roduco academic
bur9UCIK)' by combining three faculties into one arts and sdences
faculty. Theno is, of cou,..,, the beliof that old deans never die, they just
lose their faculties. But is it really our task to keep them from their fate?
I now see the same visceral reaction to the plan to expand MA
programs. we have almost an open admissions system for
undergraduates; yet we can barely fill our places for them . And with
only a handful of Ph.D. programs rated in the top 50, most
departments can hardly expect much growth in that sector of the
market at least in the short-run. Any organization that wishes to survive
must find new markets for its services when major components of its
aid markets are declining. It is in this spirit that the proposal for
expansion of MA programs needs to be viewed-

"J"hWe Is one bs.ue, howeftto, on which Tom has engendered more
opposition than he need have. It arises from his failure to distinguish
dearly between interdisciplinary teaching programs and
interdisci~inary research. The fonner can, indeed, be appropriatety
initiated by an administrator if he sees opportunities for more effective
~of scarce resources. Yv'hen it comes to research, however, inter- (as
well as intra-) disdplinary ventures can only be launched successfully by
those on the firing line of research. That i:s, by individuals who have an
insight that appears likely to tid to an inteUectual breakthrough.
Who is to judge if an opportunity fe&lt; an intellectual broakthrough
has been found? It is not a department chair, nor a dean, nor a
committee efected by a faculty senate. It is the worldwide community
of scholars and scientists who are experts in the field(s) of the alleged
b&lt;eakthrough . The academic marl&lt;etplace wort&lt;s vert well and an
individual who has made a broakthrough does not need to worry about
whether his coUeagues like it or not. He will have ample opportunity to
ay about their lad&lt; of support all the way to the platform on which he
receives his applause.
In short. if opportunities exist for intellectual broakthroughs via
interdisciplinary research, it is not clear why administrative intervention
is needed. The inteUectual marketplace is a better mechanism than
administrative f~t for sorting out the good from the bad research
ventures. Anyone who sees opportunities for expk&gt;iting new directions
of research should, therefore, do so via conventional means--that is•
through publication of new knowtedge. ~. instead, one takes the route
of going to one's provost. hat_.n·hand, to collect support for a research
venture, it is, in a sense, a confession of failure.
Trying to ollmulote o portkuJ.r type of resean:h through the
creation, by administrative initiative, of centers and institutes i:s a form
of research targeting. Experience te11s us that research targeting is more
effective in sotving narrowty defined, practical problems than in creating
fundamental knowtedge. The likelihood of success in promoting bask:
research is furthef reduced by a probable advene selection bias- The
most productive scholars and scientists are likety to have a fairty fu ll
research agenda. They are least likely to switch their research focus in
response to incentives offered by institutes and centers. It is generally
well+fllotivated but less productive faculty members who are easiest to
draw into such targeted ventures. They are apt to be, in G. B. Shaw's
words, good sorts but a bad loL
In sum, a hands-on ~icy to promote interdisciplinary teaching may
be entirely proper. Teaching programs do not require intellectual
breakthroughs and the incentive system for faculty memben to
accommodate the institutional needs of their empk&gt;yers is often weak.
This is not true for the pursuit of scientific opportunities. Hence, a
hands-on policy to promote interdisciplinary resean::h is probably not
needed nor is it very likely to succeed . Several additional
interdisci~inary seminars may enliven the intellectual atmosphere at the
university. And a few interdisciplinary educational programs would
probably enhance the efficiency with which the university's resources
are used. It is not clear why anything more is n~ed .
Mkhoelc;ort
Prof~ssor

of Economics

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�Predicting earnings in the stock market
Management profs research shows stock returns as predictable as calendar
aY JOHN DIUA Cotn11ADA
Reporter Contributor

TOCK RETURNS are as
predictable u the calen-

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dar, new research by the
chair of the Department
of Finan~ and Managerial Economics in the School of Management has shown.
According to Joseph Ogden,
66- 85 percent of the average an nual return on NYSE stocks is
earned in the fourth and first
quarters of the calendar year (October through March), while the
second and third quarters (April
through September) provide only
15-34 per~nt of the annual return-despite evidence that risk is
identical in the two periods.
Moreover, Ogden's research
shows that when the market is
down in the second and third
quarters, losses tend to be fully reverRd in the following fourth and
first quaners.
Ogden's findings are based on
the analysis of stock returns for the
50-year period following World
Warll,l945-l995,and are documented in his paper "The Calendar Structure of Risk and Expected

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Returns on Stocb."Tbe paper will
be presmted at the Eighth Annual
Conferen~ on Financial Economics and Accounting to be held at
UB on Nov. 7-8.
According to Qsden, an associate professor, the findings chal-

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mooted by hiJ reuarch, Ogden

says.
"Among the immediate implications iJ that short-term imaton
should generally avoid stock investmenu during the second and
third quarters becawe average returns are low during thiJ period,•
Qsden says. "And if they do not
hold stocks through the folloWing
fourth and first quarten, they will
not benefit from the subsequent
reversal of the market-"
"For long-term investon, however, holding stocks through the
second through third period iJ not
irrational, even though the expected return iJ low. Any losses in
thiJ period will be reversed if you
hang in there," Qsden adds.
He explains the calendar-predictability of stocks by tying it to
• corraponding seuonal pattern

in the salaries of white·collar
lenge conventional Wall Street
wisdom and academic theory,
which state that the market iJ effi-

cient and stock returns are not
predictable. Instead, both shortand long-term investors can ben'
efit from the "calendar-predictability" of stock returns as docu-

workers, who ultimately are the
major infeston in the ~ket- Using U.S. Labor Department sill tistics, Qsden analyzed the monthly
aggregate salaries of white-collar
workers from 1966-93. He found
a 15 percent average jump in salaries during the fourth and first

quarten, October through March,
punctuated by a tranendous jump
in January.
"Salaries grow at a much faster
rate in the fourth and lint quarters of the year, probably because
business executives, Wall Street
traders and others tend to receive
most of their profit distributions,
bonuses and pay raiJes in these
quarten," says Ogden. "As a result,
the demand for stocks, and thus
stock returns, have a strong seasonal pattern."
Qsden's research also casu new
light on the"January Effect"-the
tendency of small firms to provide
exttm&gt;ely high returns in January.
Conventional wisdom states that
thiJ effect iJ due to reversals of
December losses ind~ by investors dumping small-fum stocks in
December to realiu losses for tax
purposes.
"My research shows that taxloss selling bas a subslllotial impact on January returns," he says.

•However, the January Effect is
also part of a larger cyclical reversal of previous second- and thirdquarter losses."

College of Arts and Sciences

In addition, another panel will be
formed "built around the current
three deans" of the arts and sciences
&amp;culties-likely the Arts and Sciences Deans' Council-to examine
some of the administrative and financial aspects of the merger.
Headrick added he also may
form a committee to examine the
"justifiable concern" about possible
differmces in approach to tenure
and promotion issues among the
three faculties.

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Promotlon and tenure Issues
"One of the things that would be
helpful is if there was simply an
explanation given of the ways in
which promotion and tenure have
been handled in the three &amp;culties
and then identification of ways,
when these faculties are merged,
that these issues can to be attended
to," he said. ThiJ will help," not only

!'Jext steps
mprocess
for
planning

dOClUilent

to mainlllin continuity, but also to
ensure that some of the young
&amp;culty's expectations haven't been
shifted by the change in o~BaDiza­
tioo, with respect to the tenure
process.•
Headrick said that the meetings
of the bearing panel convened to
gather input from the univenity
community on the reorganization
of the arts and sciences~ "extmnely helpful," adding that a lot
of issues that ~ raised during
these meetings will be addressed
by the committees involved in the
transition to a College of Arts and

Sciences.
Headrick stressed that the hearing panel's function wu to gather
information on the issue and pro-

vide a forum for community
members to express their views,
not to provide recommendations.
"If there had been a ground

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swell of negative reaction (against
a College of Arts and Sciences) with
strong reasons that I hadn't
thought about , obviously that
would've had an impact on me," he
said. "But there wun'llf anything,
there wu a strong positive reaction
to the idea."
Heorlngs produced~
The bearings. the prorost added.
prod~ some interesting alterna-

a good idea for the long run.
"It clearly makes sense, and we
Ollihtto position ourselves in making thiJ transition to move in that
direction," be said. "But investing a
large amount of money in addi-

tional administration when we
don't have the &amp;culty infrastructure yet to justify it, I think, would
be a mistake.._But the idea iJ a good
one and one that clearly is going to
be part of o~o~r forward plan." .

tives that "have suggested things to
us about bow we ought to organiu
certain upects of the campus, particularly in the natural and life sciences, that are not foreclosed by
putting together a College of Arts
and Sciences.•
He noted that the proposal presented to the hearing"panel to create a School of Computer and Information Sciences aod Engineering iJ premature at _thiJ time, but is

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• The forma~ this faJI of a committee or task force to exainme the issues surrounding the creation of inter·
disciplinary conters ond Institutes, some of which ......, raised by faculty at meetings held last semester to discuss the academic plan.
The panel will address soch topics as the procedures used to form the giOUps and through which they will
secure support, the relationship between commitment to educational programs and research activities, the
roles of departments and centers regarding claims on faculty time, and the means of appointing, promoting
and !enuring members of departments and interdisciplinary groups.

recxganization of the Olfiu of the Provost to better handle academic Information systems and planning.
'We hope to upgrade the quolity of information and also make • chonge in the w-rs in which the various
kinds of academic infonnotion have been used in the past.. Headrid&lt; said.
He said this step flows out of the planning roport and some "quite legitimate c.oncems" expressed by faculty
and staff about the quality of information the univonity his about its acoden)ic programs.
The reorganlzillion •will enable us to ~ much more atterition on t;he information we need in order to
make critiaJ decisions, to manoge our academic programs, to ossess and evoluote those programs on a ~lar
basis and to measure our performance as an academic and reeM:h institJ.Jtion, • he said.

• A

• Encourogement ol """" ~ planning omong schools and departments. some units have ,.._
sponded "quite fully" to Headridt's "invitation" to exomlne ...,_they ... and doYolop longer-«nn plans, he
said othen have not 'We've got to bring people who hoven~ responded into this process In • """" direct
way,. the pr&lt;M&gt;SI noted.

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�Agreements to ease transfer of students
to UB from community colleges
~- wwYoa

.

SoMces ASJ«iite Director

T

HI! U!:JIVI!RSITY recently signed joint-ad-

mission agreements
with two SUNY community colleges that will facilitate
the transfer of students from the
colleges to UB.
The agreement between UB and
Broome Community College in
Binghamton is designed to incn:ase
thenwnll&lt;rofstudentstransfi:rring
with associate degrees &amp;om the college to the UB School ofl!ngineuing and Applied Sciences.
An agreement with Genesee
c..mmunity College in Batavia
will guarantee students admission
to UB at the sophomore l..d after completion of their first year

at GCC. The college and UB ain:ady maintain an agreement in
which GCC students can transfer
to UB after earning an a.uociate's

degree.
"Early transfer" students from

GCC must complete the required
two-semester curriculum--&lt;~ total
of 30-34 credits-with a minimum grade-point average of 2.5
to continue their studies at UB as
a sophomore. GCC staff will advise students who enroll in the
program, with UB staff offering
special advisement sessions. UB
staff also will train GCC faculty

and staff advisors.
UB also will co-sponsor
Genesee's Advanced Studies Program, which offen college-level
counes in Genesee County high

schools and 'allows acceleralcd
high-school students to earn GCC
credits. Students who later are admined to UB will receive equivalent UB credit for the courses.
More than 600 students from 28
different high schools registered
for the program this past year.
Under the agreement with
Broome Community College,
BCC will recruit for the program.
Students will apply to BCC and to
the program and qualified students will be admitted simultaneously to both the college and to
UB. Students arc guaranteed
transfer as junion into the engineering major upon completion
of the BCC degree with the required course work and specified
grade-point average.

Sympo&amp;ium to honor Mendel Sachs
Two - . ! &amp;.urutes and a best-selling author
will be among those honoring internationally
known UBphysicist Mendel Sachs at a symposium
to be held from 8:30 un. to 6
p.m. on Sunday, SepL 7, in the

Center for Tomorrow on the
North Campus.
Speakera at the event, "Fragments in Science: A Symposium
in Honor of the Retirement of
Professor Mendel Sachs,"will include Willis 1!. Lamb Jr. of the
UniveBity of Arizona, who won the Nobel Prize
in physics, and Herbert Hauptman, UB research
professor of biophysical sciences, who won the
prize in chemistry.
Buf&amp;lo native and UB graduate Clifford Stoll,
author of"The Cuckoo's l!gg." will Speak at a banquet to be held at 7 p.m. in the University Inn
and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road,
AmheraL Stoll wrote the best-seller based on his
computer sleuthing that led to a group of inter-

national hackeB.
Sachs, who joined the UB Department of Physics in 1966, retired this spring. Noted for his work
in quantum theory, be hu authored two books
on Einstein's theory of relativity.
Symposium speakers include James H. Bunn, UB
professor of English, "Relationship of Literature to
Physics;" Lillian Hoddeson, University of lllinois,
"The Invention of the Transistor and the Reality of

the Hole;• Marcus Cohen, University 1of New
Mexico, "A Non-Linear Twist on Inertia~ Ia Mendel
Sachs," and Joe Rosen, University of Arkansas,
"Other Worlds."Sachs will speak on "The Influence
of the Physics and Philosophy of Einstein's Relativity on My Attitudes in Science: An Autobiography.~
The symposium, sponsored by the Department
of Physics, will be free and open to the public. Banquet tickets are $26. For banquet reservations or
more information, contact Mkhael Ram at 6452539 or by e-mail at phymram@ice.physics.
buf&amp;lo.edu.
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Beth Spin..

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Editor

The
Caring

Toudi
Shirley Walker, director

of the Office of Student

Accounts, puts finishing
touches on flower beds
at the Salvation Army Family
Resource Center, 158
North Pearl St, during
Day of Caring activities
Aug. 20. More than 200
UB faculty, staff and
students took part.

Obituaries
Gerda I Klingman. 73, profeNJr emeritus,
biochemical pharmarology
PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICES wen: held for Gerda I. Klingman, 73, pro-

feuor emeritus in the Department ofBiochcmicaJ PharmacolOgy, who died
Aug. 16 in Buffalo Genenl Hospital.
A graduate of Fordham University CoUegc of Pharmacy, she received
her Ph.D. from the Medical College of Virginia. She joined UB in 1961 u
an instructor in the Department of Medicinal 0:1emistry and Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy. She was named assistant professor in 1963
and professor in 1967.
The author of numcrow scientific publications. she took part in many
international meetings and served on National Jnstitutn of Health study
sections dealing with drugs of abuse. Her research interests were in ncu·
ropbarmacology, neurochemistry, addiction, stress and embryonic differ·
entiat ion.
A member of the American Sociery for Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics, she also held mcmbcnhip in Rho Chi, pharmacy honor so·
ciety. Among her community service efforts: serving as a voluntccr facuh y
member in Calasanctiw School and training pharmacy students to speak
in area schools on the: dangers of drug UK.
Survivors include her husband, Jack D. Klingman, professor emcritw of
biochemistry, and a daughter, Karin L Klingman, research assistant pro-fessor of medicine.

Frances R Pettapiece, 80, retired secretary
to the president
SERVICES WERE HELD Aug. 6 in the Delaware Chapel of Amigone Funeral Home for frances R. Ptnapic:cc:, 80, a retired secretary in the Office
of the President. She died Aug. 2 in Millard fillmore Hospital.
She was a full·timc: bomcmalc.cr until the early J960s, when she returned
to work at UB as a rc:cc:ptionist in Goodyear and Clement ha.lls. Known
fondly at the univasity as •Mrs. P," she worktd in the office of foreign
student affain in the early 1970s.
Mrs. Pcttapic:cc:. who served as a secretary in the president's office from
1975 until her retirement in 1979, was a member of the UB cmttitw society.

Kenneth W Rasmussen, 60, associate
professor of modern languages
MEMORIAL SERVICES were held July 26 in Unitarian Universalist Church
for Kenneth W. Rasmussen, 60, an associate professor of modem languages,
who dicd July IS at the home of his daughter in Watertown. Rasmussen
had battlcd cancer since May.
Involved in cultural activities his entire life, Rasmwse.n Jived for five
years in Brazil and Maico and traveled to manyolhcrco~tries. Fluent in
several languages, induding Spanish and Portuguese, he could converse: in
Italian and French and read books in Swedish, Danish, German, Roma ·
nian and Galician.
He earned a bachelor's degree in Portuguese from Brigham Young Uni ·
versity in 1960, receiving a master's degrtt in Portuguese and Luso Brazil·
ian Studies and a doctorate in Portuguese and Spanish from the University
of Wuconsin in Madison in 1971 .
Rasmussen canle to Bufhlo in 1966 as an assistant professor and was
named associate professor in 1972. He taught dassc:s in Spanish and Por·
tuguesc languages as wcU as Portuguc.sc: civilization, Brazilian literature
and Brarilian and Spanish cuJturc. He was a consultant for Portuguese bi ·
lingual, bi·ruJtural programs at UB and a facuJty advisor to the Brazil ian
Student Association.
He had served as an interpreter for the U.S. Immigration Scr vice and
was an cxaminer for the Critical Language Programs at Genesco State, C.W.
Post, Skidmore and Nazareth colleges, as well as an examiner in Portu ·
guc.sc: for Houghton College, the American Conservatory of Musi c in Chi ·
cago, Ul. , and the state Department of Education .
Rasm ussen produced numerous publications, presentations and exhib ·
ilS relating to Brazi.Jian and Portuguese ·culture.

New Computers
Donation ofequipment will speed research
at Center for Structural Biology
The Center for Structural Biology has received a donation
of computer equipment from Sun Microsystems,lnc. of Moun·
lain View, Calif., to facilitate research in virology, immunology,
medicinal chemistry and other biomedical fields by faculty,
graduate students and post·graduate fellows.
The donation of four Sun Ultra TM workstations and periph·
erals will allow researchers to create three-dimensional rcpre·
sc.ntations of molecular structures. The research has wide-rang·
ing implications for progress in the search for treatments for a
host of human ailments, including AIDS.
A. Joshua Wand, professor of chemistry, biological sciences
and biophysics and director of the center, noted, "Work that is
ongoing in the laboratories of professors Frederick Sachs and
Anthony Auerbach of the School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences is extremely computer-intensive. The Sun workstations
will speed their ability to analyze and then visualize the data
collected up to five times faster than previously."'
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                    <text>STATE UIIVERSITY OF lEW YORI AT BUFFALO

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VolumL 28 No 35

UUP, state reach tentative agreement;
.,no 'contrading·in' ·of faculty, staff jobs

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News SeMceo ~e Direclof
HBRBWll.L BE DO "contracting in" of jobs petfOI'ID&lt;d by
SUNY faculty or professional
staff to internal corporations
such u tbe SUNY Research
Foundation or tbe UB Poundatioo under
a tentative coolnlel agreement reached
last week betwceo tbe stale and United
University Profeuioos.
Wbile tbe four"')'ear agrcemcot does
allow tbe state to "contract out" jobs to
extt:mal corporations, unioo officials say
!bat tbe stale would be required to meet
"extcosive and complex procedwal standards" in order to outsource jobs.
"I tbiok contracting out would be very
difficult and expensive" for tbe state to
do under tbe terms of tbe tentative agreement, said Jean Dicboo, pn:sident of tbe
BuJfalo Center Chapcer of UUP, adding
that lbomu Mallbewa, tbe unioo 's chief
oesodiftjr.......,f8 aa dR! waa:nag.
out Wlguage bu 27 pages of cooilitions
built in.
"I bope it's all tbe protectioo we need,"
Dicboo said.

UUP President Wtlliam Scbeuennan
DOled !bat tbe unioo bu "built so many
fem:es around tbe alate's ability to cootract out that we are certain no one will
become unemployed durin&amp; tbe life of our
contract. In some key respects, we have
actually increased job security tbrougb
tbe obstacles tbat we've created to obstruct contracting-ouL"

tentative agreement allows the state to
save face on the outsourcing issue ..without, I hope, hurting our members.
"On tbe whole, I ibioi&lt; tbat in a very

P

tough situation~ our negotiating committee did a great job," Dickson said.
Although tbe full details of tbe tenta-

"It's real importaolto have a contract,"
Greiner said, noting that tbe agreement
appears to include a compromise on tbe
cootracting iolcootractiog out issue while
providing some money for faculty and
professional staff.
"It 's a good morale·booster," be said.
UUP members have been working
without a new contract since July I, 1995,
and tbe "cootnctiog iolcontracting out"

tive agreement are not yet available-members will receive the full text in late

resident William R. Greiner said he
was "tbrilled" tbat tbe stale and UUP

have a tentative contract ag:reemenL

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tenure and pmnaoeot app00&gt;1mr:01 and give

SUNY admioistraton uolimiled power 10
faculty and Sl8lf salaries, reduce benefits and fire union membe:s at will.
Dicboo DOled tbat tbe language in tbe
cut

August, aloog with a ratification ballotScbeuennao did release a summary. In
addition to the outsourcing issue, lcey
points of the agreement. which would
cover the period of Jul y 2, 1995 through
July I , 1999. include:
• A $1 ,250 lump-sum payment in
October.
• A 1 pcn:ent, !ICI&lt;lOs--tbc-board raise

bad been
contentious negotiations.
The stalt: bad iosisled 00 tbe ability to
OlliSOUn:e jobs. The union bad maintained

divided equally among members and retroactive to 199!&gt;---approximately $500
per person. This increase. which would

that outsourcing would, in effect. undercut

Continued on page 2

Research links cholesterol levels, hypertension
NOI'LI wnN NOaA&amp;. blood pressure can experience greater increases in
blood pressure during stressful situations
if they have high cholesterol, UB researchers have fouod in the first study
showing a link between cholesterol levels and hypertension.
Conversely, tbey found that lowering
cholesterol with drugs and diet also lowers stress'related increases in blood pressure. "We don't know the cause of higb
blood pressure in 90 percent of

hypertensives," said Bong Hee Sung, IOSsociate professor of medicine and chief
investigator on the study, which appears
in the June issue of tbe Amuican Jour-

nal of Hypenension.

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"These findings shed some light on
the mechanisms that cause high blood
pressure, opening up possible new av enues for treatment and prevention."
Sung said approximately 12.7 million
adults in the U.S. may be candidates for
cbolesterol-lowering drug therapy.

"Our results indicate that lowering
cholesterol may have the added benefit
of controlling blood pressure bener during stress, which will lower the chances
of developing hypertension and bean disease," she added.
High cholesterol is a well -known ri sk
factor for cardiovascular disease, given
its role in tbe formation of plaque that
narrows arteries and restricts blood flow.
Higb cholesterol also has been shown to
cause the blood vessels to constrict excessively, which..may interfere with overall blood-pressure regulation. 'This effect

of cholesterol on vasoconstriction has
been well documented in isolated peripheral vessels. Sung noted. but until now,
the overall effect of cholesterol on blood
pressure bas not been studied.

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To assess the relationship between
high cholesterol and blood pressure.
Sung and colleagues estJtblished a sl udy
groupCoil!posed of 70 people with normal blood pressure, 33 of whom had normal cholesterol and 37 with high cholesterol. Blood pressure was monitored in
hoth groups while they took a mental
arithmetic test. a standard method to
simulate psychological stress.
Researchers added stress to the equation, Sung said. because a dramatic increase in blood pressure during physical
or mental challenges has been shown to
be a risk factor for later development of
hyperteosio&gt;n and cardiovascular disease.
Recent evidence also shows that tbe damage to organs caused by hypertension is
more closely linked to blood-pressure
Continued on page 5

Management names
1homas idetill dean
ay DELLA CCNmtADA
Reporter Contributor

J

OHN M. THOMAS has been named
interim dean of the School of Management. replacing Frederick W. Winter.
who has accepted the deanship at the
Universi ty of Pinsburgh
Katz School of Business.
Thomas. wh o ha s
served as associ~te dean
of international programs
and associate professor
of organization and human re sources at the
management school, will
assume leadership of the
school on Aug. I.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick appointed
Thomas to the position after consulting with
management-school facult y and senior staff.
The school will begin a national search for a
permanent replacement for Winter. and Thomas will be considered a candidate for the
position.
"John Thomas has an excellent record of
innovation and success at the managemem
sc hool and strong suppon from his co lleagues." said Headrick.. "Hi s appointment
assures that the school will progress. even a~
it searches for a replaceme nt for Dean Wm ter. With his nearly 30 years ' expenence at
UB. Thomas can step right into the pos1110n
and keep the school movi ng forward··
A main consideration for Thomas's ap-pointment. said Headrick.. was hts comm it ·
ment to implementing a new stralegtc plan
developed by the managemenl faculty under
Winter's leadership. The plan will refocus
some of the school's curricula and see k to
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Doyno book will offer new findings on Twain's
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Reporter Contributor

N EXPERT ON the writings of
Mark Twain is extending his research on the manusc-ript of
"Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn," one of the seminal works
of American literature.
Victor Ooyno, a professor in UB 's English Depanmen~ bas written and lectured
extensively on 1Wain. wbose real name was
Samuel Clemens. Among Ooyoo's earlier
books is the 1990"WriliogHuckF'IM: Mark
'!Wain 'sCrealive Process," an analysis of lbe
second half of the novel's manuscript. which
at the time was the only portion known to
have survived the aulbor's death.
After the missing pages of the "Huck

A

Finn" manuscript were rediscovered ,
Ooyno helped prepare a new edition of the
novel , published by Random House in
1996, that includes original material that
had been edited out before the 1885 first
publication.
Now Ooyno is worlting on a study of the
first portion of the "Huck F'IM" manuscript.
With the help of a grant from the National

Endowment for the Humanities, Doyno
spent a semester doing a scientific examination of the handwritten pages.
By comparing the pages with the paper
Oemens used for his personal letters, Ooyno
determined the dates of undated portions of

imporUDt early lliOIDelll in the novel when
TIDI reveals tbll he ii IWIIIitig away from
slavery. He bep Huck not to give him wway;
and Huck promisea to keep the oecret.
In his scrutiny of the manUICripl. Doyoo
foood that Clemens originally bad Huck

manuscript.

Ooyno also learned
to distinguish between the purple ink
Clemens used for
parts of the first drift
and the faded gray,

ink in the corrections, revisions, and
cancels he made
laler. Inspecting the
manuscript under
ultraviolet light also
revealed dilfemx:es
between inks of different ages, as well
as the texiS of passages that Clemens crossed out when he was
making revisions, Ooyno says.
"I've ' solved' aU the cancels by now,
except for ooe passage that be caoceled
fourtimes. lcan'tligurethatoneou~"says

Ooyno.
These kinds of studies have allowed
Ooyno to follow the evolution of the text
as the author revised and rewrote i~ a field
of scholarship known as "geoelic studies."
Ooyno's new liodiogs will be published
in his forthcoming book. "Beginning to
Write Huck F'IM." In additiO!I. he is exploring the possibility of creating a CDROM containing the novel, a facsimile of
the manuscrip~ and a large selection of

critiCal euays aDd t.cqrouod information
inteoded to help scholars and atudenu.
"My main interest focuses on bow this
amazing American novel wu written;•
Ooyno says. "All these techniques are just
tools to belp learn about that central ques-

tion."
be draft shows the meticulous c,are
Oemeos took to get his characters' dialeciS right. In page after page of Jim's dialogue, Oemens crossed oui every "and"
and
"can" and substituted "en" and "kin."
'
Seemingly small revisions also can
show bow the aulbor's own sense of the
story changed as be was writing it.
One of these details comes during an

shake Jim's band to seal the bargain. Later.
Clemens aossed out the baodabake.
Doyoo poinll out that the change could
have been caused by one of a number of
reuoos. Cleloeos may have c:oasidered the
inlemleial baodabake too progressive for
1845, which is when the story was set, or
even for the 1880s, when it was pllbliJbed.
Or, Ooyno says, Clemens may have realized as lbe story evolved that the bandshake no loaF rude IICIIIe in light of one
of the themes of the story, Huck's powin&amp;
respect for Jim and his gradual acceptance
of the former slave u a fri&lt;od and ao.cqual.
A baodsb¥c 10 early in the story )WUid
have brought the two main cbaracten together too early, too quickly, leaving little
room for cbarllcter growth.
While there always will be room for
speculation about Oemens' lhougbll and
intentions, Doyno says such theories must
be grounded in fact.
" ll's important 19 make these r.:tuaJ
detenoioations based on,.tbe manuscript

before maldtig.an .~oo." Ooyno -

says. "If you don'~ !bOre ';. att:odency to
skew the facts to lit the interpretation." •

$107,000 Cummings grant funds ,brain activity research
llr I'AIIi.A-...-u.
Reporter Contributor

HE UNIVERSITY has received a
$107,000 grant from the James H.
Cumming&amp; 'Pouodation of Buffalo

ro fund a pioneering research
project looking at bow the brain transforms
the sounds we bear into information.
This three-year study will combine images of brain activity formed using Positron
Emission Tomography (PE'I) scans with
images of structures in the brain acquired
through Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) to create a unique image that links

neuraJ activities to specific brain sites.
Through the combined images, researchers hope to gain new insights into how
sounds relayed by the auditory sysiem are
understood.
Directed by Alan Lockwood, professor
of neurology, the multidisciplinary project

will involve the departments of Nuclear
Medicine, Neurology, Communicative Disorders and Sciences, Linguistics. Psychiatty and Rehabilitation Medicine, and the
Faculty of Social Sciences. Alto participating is the Department of Veterans Affairs
through the VA Western New York
Healtbcare System.
"This award by the Cummings Foundation will allow us to continue mapping the
critical pathways by which humans understand language," said Lockwood. " By
studying the links between sound and emotion ceJ].ters in the brain, we may also be
able to better understand bearing loss and
disorders such as tinnitus or ' ringing' in
the ears, which is associated with adverse
psychological symptoms such as depression, anxiety and insomnia."
In addition, the study will examine auditory attention systems that require more

complex processing of aural information
and analyze how the brain handles language, including studies of reading, grammar and syntall. Such tests already have

UUP CONTIIACT
Continued from page 1

be added to members' base salaries, also
would take effect in October.
• 3.5 percent across-the-board salary
increases in both January 1998 and January 1999.
• l percent discretionary salary increases to be paid in December 1997, 1998
and 1999.
• Full restoration of funds owed to the
Benefit Trust Fund, which provides members with vision and dental insurance.
Members also would be reimbursed for all
dental and vision claims incurred since the
state stopped payments to the fund and cov-

Process developed at UB makes batteries better
llr--YIDAL
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IIESUIICII8tS liT
havr devised
a way to make batteries better. The
method could CUI manufactUring COSIS as
well.
The process
developed at the

university has
improved the
current-carrying
capabilities of
batteries by using thermal oxidation to charige
the
electrochemical behavior of the form of carbon used in them.
Deborah D . L . Chung , Niagara
Mohawk Chair of Materials Research
and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, said using thermal
oxidation to change the electrochemical

behavior of carbon black improves the
electron transfer rate in batteries.
She presented the findings in State
College, Pa., July 13 at the Biennial Conference on Carbon. A paper on the work
bas been accepted for publication in an
upcoming issue of the journal Carbon .
Chung explained that carbon is the
most commonly used material, and carbon black the most frequently used form
of carbon, in batteries.
Thermal oxidation involves heating
carbon in the presence of oxygen, creating carbon-oxygen bonds tha~ in addition to improving electrical conduction,
change carbon black's morphology, or
form and structure.
While some carbons are composed of
filaments or fibers, carbon black is made
up of particles, like a powder, Chung
noted. Ordinarily, a material such as oil,
wax or another polymer is used to bind
it for use in batteries.

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concussive brain injuries such as those suffered by Buffalo Sabres player Pat
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Thermal oxidation changes carbon
black's particle size and increases ilS
macropore density, allowing the carbon
black particles to "hang together" without a binder, Chung said. And since the
types of binders used '~nd to be a material that degrades in a chemical environment like batteries," sbe said. eliminating the binder will not only enhance
the batteries' ability to conduct curren~
it also will save processing coslS.
While the findings are expected to be
of greatest interest to battery manufacturers, Chung' s work also has applications for analytical instrumenlS used for
chemical and medical analysis.
Chung conducted the research with
Christine A. Frysz, a doctoral student
who is director of materials research at
Wilson Greatbatch Ltd.
UB anticipates commercial development of the process and is prepared to
make it available for licensing.

erage ended on May 9, 1996. The state
would increase ill cootribotion to the fund
for years three and four of the contract.
• The state would maintain responsibility for prescription drug coverage.
• Members would be allowed to occumulate more than the current limit of 40
vacation days.
• Employees wool~ ~ allowed to take
compeiiSIUOry time within 12 months of its
being earned.
Scbeuennan will atteod a Buffalo chapter membership meeting scheduled for Sept.
4 to discuss theteolltive ~~Dickson
said The American Albitration Association
will conduct a mail ballot on the agreemen~
with the votes to be counted on Sept. 19.
Scbeuerman said that waiting until September to conduct the ratification vote will
not delay the distribution of any payments
or beoelilS to members.
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THOMAS
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position it as a leading public business school
in the Northeast. particularly in MBA education. "The faculty support of this plan is very
important for the future of the school." said
Headrick. " It should attract a number of
st:ron&amp; candidates to the dean's position."
A UB faculty member since 1968, Thomas bas helped the management school become a leader in the delivery of intematiooal
management-«lucation programs. He developed the school's Executive MBA program
in Singapore, as well as MBA programs in
Latvia and Hungary, and is developing a
management program in Beijing through the
scbool'sOW~Etb:alionl'lojoct.

He earned a ba&lt;;helor's degree from Yale
University, a doc:torale from the Massachusetts Institute of Thcbnology and a law degree from UB.
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Hornbuckle studies their distribution
air and earth's surfaces is required. For
example, jUJt looking at lbe air alone, one
can't determine tbe ultimate fate of almospbetic pollutants," sbe said.
In her current research, "I'm interested
in bow organic cbemicals are deposited in

I!Rl HORNBUCKLE' S projects
bave included IUbmarine work 81
lbe bottom of Lab OnWio aDd
· vigils in a Minueaota bog to
aample air quality. P"~eld Willi&lt; is
the rut fun of ber research, although
Hombucldeaaysmootofberandbergnduale studcnta' time is spent 011 mathematical modeling ID predict chemical behavior.
How polallially toxic orpDic cbemicals
get dislribuled arouod lbe world is lbe focus of bet work. Much of her put research
bas cooceutn=l Oil water bodies and bow

water surfaces and bow they're degased
from water. The other balf of the same
question, really, looks 81 non-water sources.
sucb as fo~ or grasslands or peatlands.
"Tbe same kind of mechanisms worlc
in both places, but lbe way we model the
exchange of chemicals is different ,"
Hornbuckle said.
'
"I go out to a site and measure these
chemicals, in air and in water and in particles," along with gathering a lot of
meterological information.

toxic chemicals can accumulate in the
Great Lab&amp; in puticular.
She is investigating atmospheric processes, " because atmospheric processes
tend to be an important pan of getting those
chemicals dislribuled globally as well as
distributed regiooally as in tbe Great Lakes
region.
"Most of tbe cbemicals r m sllldying are
anthropogenic, produced by human activity. Many are liirmful to dev&lt;:loping animals, are endoCrine disruptors, or are possible carcinogens. Tbe problem is that figuring out where and bow to reduce their
inputs is difficul~" Hornbuckle said. ''Most

er research tries to get a handle on

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the mechanisms that control
whether these potentially ,toxic
compounds will be deposited or released.
She also is pursuing bow organic chemicals get deposited on plant surfaces and
then transferred somewhere else.
" We think that plants may act as
sources for these compounds in the environment not just by volatilizing, but
also when leaves fall off trees and into

tributaries, for instance." The result
would be to deliver atmospheric pollutants into tributaries. becoming non-point
sources for these toxi cs to the lakes,
Hornbuckle said.
Her latest research could belp to explain
earlier studies showing that even when
there are no toxic dumps or other contaminants ln the water of a tributary, there still

of theae compounds have non-point
sources.
"It may be that incinerators and fossil
I bwnc:rs are at faul~ and that 's all of
us. e haven' t regulated them with respect
to polluting lakes. Better underslanding of
the exchange of these chemicals between

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are sources of toxic chemicals.
" We hypothesize that that's really an
atmospheric signal. The mechanism by
wbich llie atmosphere delivers them to the
tributaries may be mostly driven by uptake
by plants, especially wbeo you' re notlalking about tilled land, where erosion is a
factor."
One of her students is studying thi s
process in a small tributary near Machias.
where she has found that, indeed, chemicals that are delivered to plants through
the atmosphere do end up in the tributary . This work was funi:led as a
multidisciplinary pilot projecl from the
provost's office.
"ll'sdifficull for us to quantify, but they
are a source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wbich are released mostly from
fossil fuel burning" into the air. by gas exchange or by particle fallout.
' We studied a place in southwestern
New York !bat's pretty far from any known
sources of these panicles. We think that
wbat we 're seeing is a result of gas exchange."
She pointed out that the concentrations
a1 this level are so low they are not toJrJc.

.,Computer is artistic tool in new master's program
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advertising; teaching; curating; gallery,
museum and regional media-center programming, and a broad range of arts management activities.
" It's not for everyone," Roussel admits,
" but for those who want to use new technologies to develop advanced methods of
visual and auditory expression, this program is a quantum leap forward." Students
will be able to devise their own academic
programs by drawing from four existing
areas of study already offered at UB: digital music, computer science, computer art
and media study.

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HIS FALL. tbe Depa11ment of Media S1udy will introduce a
master's-degree program in digilal arts, a largely self-directed, collaborative cour,se of study expected to draw
studeniS from a variety of disciplines.
1be new program is a bigb-ald enlerprise for people with unusual sltills, said
Roy Roussel, assistant professor of English
aod interim chair of the Department of
Media Study.
By teaching students to use tbe compuler
as ao artistic tnol, lbe program will prepare
them for can:ers as artists or applied artists
in institutions and corporations that marry
image, sound and digilal technologies, such
as television production; movie· making;

.-oose with similar interests but different

I sltills will be encouraged to dev&lt;:lop collaborative thesis projeciS. Roussel said the
digilal-arts program will be "perfect" for
studeniS with a bachelor of arts degree , for

Fall schedule
for the Reporter
begins Aug. 28

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instance, who have an idea of what they
want to do and bow they want to position
themselves in relation to their chosen area
of investigation, but need to develop skills
not available here before in an existing program of study.
1be new program will have a formal
relationship with the Center for Cognitive
Science, an interdisciplinary research cen ter that draws faculty from many fields to
build a new and unified understanding o f
cognition that includes. but moves beyond,
the perspectives of individual disciplines.
Cognitive science theory and research
represents a change in the directi on of
American social and behavioral sciences
research . It reverses the movement coward
ever-finer disciplinary distinctions to suppon an integration of the disciplines to
develop unified theories of knowledge. "The
departments involved in the center includt:
anthropology, biophysics, comm unicative
disorders, geography, industrial engineering, learning and instruction. linguistics.
neurology and nuclear medicine, philosophy, physiology and psychology.
For more infonnation. contact Roussel
at 645-6902.
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and electronic- is the final o ne to be
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stay in touc h with what ' s going o n at U B
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but o n ly become
toxic
as
th ey
bioacc umula te tn

animals.
" We' re really in terested in lhe nonpoint sources into
the lakes. because
that will accumulate
in fish. which then
become a hazard to
hUtru111S. 1be tributaries are an important so urce of
chemicals to the
lake."
Her other big
project was funded
by the Environmenlal Protection Agency.
wbicb asked ber to look at direct deposi·
lion from the air to Lake Mic higan 's surface area.
" It's driven in par1 by our desire to know
when we can stan to use the Great 1...akes as
commercial fisberies again. Righi now we're
prohibited from doing that by the aocumulatioos of toxins in tbe fish. It turns out the
atmosphere is a really important pathway
for the deposition and release of these
chemicals, and so underslanding the atmospheric portion of tbe model is critical for
predicting what's going to bappen over time .
"Twenty years ago. everybody was qui~
sure that eventually PCBs would be all
gooe and buried in the bottom mud. Now
we ' ve changed our minds completely.
'These compounds aren't really going
away. They 're continuing to be put into the
air and then they can go somewhere else.
which means that they have a lot longer
residence time in ecosystems than we had
ex peeled."
Hornbuckle, who earned her Ph.D. from
the Department of Civil Engjneering atlhe
University o f Minne sota, rece ntly was
awarded a National S cience Found•lion
grant to exami ne the effect o f climate on
the distribution of persistent organic compounds between terrestrial plants and the
atmosphere. Her project has been funded
for four years by the NSF's Faculty Earl y
Career Development program.
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Ryan is director
of Career Planning
and Placement
DANIEL J. RYAN has been appointed
director of the Office of Career Plaoning and Pl acement Rya,;. comes to UB
from Canisius College, where he servOO
as ass1stant director of the Career Center. coordinated college disability suppen services and was an adjuncl professor in counselor education.
While at Canisius. he was respoosible
for the deve loping the Career Center's
hornepage on the World Wide Web and
implementing the ·'One Year After Graduation Survey" of new alumni. He also developed can:er woricshops for srudeniS and
alumni. created a career-awareness program for minority studenu and mrule presentations on career planning 1ssues at
nationa1 conferences.
Ryan wri tes a regul ar co lu mn for
Business Firsl on career-developmen t
and job-search tssues. He has published
anicles in professiOnal JOUrnals and was
recognized in ·'Who's Who 10 the East.
1996-97:·
He IS a member of the NatiOnal A:!oo soc iation of Student Personne l Adnun istrators. the AssocJ3 tJ o n fo r H1 gher
Educa1ion and Disabihues. and the National Career Development A ~oc Jat1on
Ryan rece1ved a doctoral degree 10
h1gher educauon admmtslrauon from
UB and maste r's and baccalaureate degrees from Cams10s.

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EPA-~gchqe

'does not INik' for Great Lakes
.

else will be loolcing
al biOICCUIIIulation
of PCBs in phytoplankton off the
lake's eastern basin ."
DePinto
uked, "Who will·

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URING TilE PAST 2.5 years,
federally funded research programs bave been =poosible for
many of the succeuful efforts to
clean up the Gn:al Lakes. But
lately, scientists and engineeR in the Gn:al
Lakes research community bave noticed
that the kinds of projects being funded may
not be the ones with the greatest potential
public benefit.
"Research funding by the Environmental Protection Agency is being directed
more and more to basic-science projects
througb national programs in Washington
rather than througb regionally focused
laboratories," noted Josepb V. DePinto, director of the Great Lakes Program at UB.
"'I'm not opposed to basic or exploratory
research," be DOted, "but EPA sbould not
abandon its mission-oriented, problemsalving approach to applied research. Tbere
are still an awful lot of problems in the
Great Lakes. We will only be skirting those
issues if this funding trend continues."
According to DePinto, the EPA bas done
this to make its =earcb competitive on a
national, rather than a regional. scale. "Now
the EPA bas moved more toward a National
Science floundation-type of mode~ wbere
individual investigators compete against
each other for these funds on a national
leve~" be explained. "But that model does
not wort for the Gn:al Lakes." be said, noting that the Great Lakes comprise a large,
complex system with problems that cannot
be solved by individual investigators worltU,. OD indivUiual problems in lsolaDon.
DePinto said the
research model in
EPA's Office of Research and Development
and its emphasis on small, basic·science
projects is not conducive to funding the
large, multi-institutional projects that will
have the greatest positive effect on the
Great Lakes.
"Under the new research-suppon model,
it is more likely that somebody will be
studying the effects of zebra mussels on
phytoplankton in some little bay in the
Western basin of Lake Erie and someone

new

take aU these resulls

D1P1fm1

and put them together? Wbo will
know how to put
them all together in

a meaningful way?"
~ synthesis of ....Wts
separate
environmental science studies is a critical
aspect of studying large, complex ecosystems like the Gn:al Lakes, be explained.

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ePinto said the Green Bay PCB Mus
Balance projec~ completed in 1994
and in which be was a participan~ is an
example of one such large, coordinated
research program. Tbe project focused
funding from five agencies and supponed
research by investigators from 20 different institutions, aU directed toward understanding the sources, transport and
bioaccumulation of PCBs in large lakes. It
was believed to constitute the largest set
of coberent data ever compiled about toxic
chemicals in a natural system.
Tbe study, which used computer modeling to pinpoint the sources and fate of
PCB contaminatioo in Green Bay, showed
that current point soun:es, such as industrial discharges, account for less than 10
percent of the total external PCB load to
Green Bay, while the remainder come from
resuspc:nsion of sedimenu that bad been
contaminated as long ago as the 1940s.
DePinto said environmental information
like this that is so global in scope and that
is critical for public-policy decisions cannot be gleaned solely from small-scale
studies that focus on basic science conducted by individual researchers.
'"The new funding patterns create this
disconnect between environmental data
and the synthesis of that data into a description of how the system as a whole functions," he said.
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OBEKI' C. WETHERHOLD, as-

sociate professor of mechanical
and aeroapace e.ngineeriog, bas
been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to do research and teach in Germany
during the 1997-98 academic year.
In A ugus~ Wetherbold will travel to
Germany for a six-week German language
coune to be held at the University of

R

1,600 American students, teachers and
scholars who will travel abroad ~ 140
countries for the 1997-98 academic year
under 1be Fulbrigbt program. Established
under legislation inlroduced by former Sen.
J. William Fulbrigbt of Arlcansas. the program is designed "to increase mutual understanding between the people of the
United States and the people of other coun-

~gensbwB .

tries....

Following an orientation, including a
meeting with the u.s.ambusado&lt; in Bonn,
Wetherbold will begin his research at the
University ofKaisenlautem. He will study
fracture and fatigue properties of composites, as well as trihology--the friction and
wear-&lt;&gt;f composites.
In addition to his research activities,
Wetherbold wiU teach courses in composite materials at the University of
DarmstadL
Wetherbold is one of approximately

A UB faculty member since 1983.
Wetherbold has been active natiooally in
the American Society of Mechanical EngineeR and is an associate feUow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and As-

tronautics.
He bas authored or co-authored more
than SO articles in scholarly jownals and
edited several books.
Wetherbold received bachelor' s ,
master's and docloral deS!""' from the.
University of Delaware.
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Telecourses set for fall; to focus on nutrition, American film
11J
IIAIIY Ulll News Services EditDf
l1IE UNIVERSITY WIU further its participation in the bwBeoning area of distance
learning this fall with two telecourses offered through its Millard Fillmore College
Division.
The courses focusing on American film
and nutrition will air from Sept. 2 througb
Dec. 13 on educational access channels via
TCVBuffalo, Adelphia Cable and Lockpon
Community Television.
Telecourses are ideal for busy adults
who want to earn coUege credit in the comfort of their own homes. For some, these
courses may be a fir.;t step toward earning
a college degree.
They are designed to be "user friendly.'"
allowing students to videotape sessions and

replay them at their·convenience.
Brian Henderson, professor of media

study, and Peter Horvath, associate professor of physical therapy, nutrition and exercise science, will provide additional study
material and instructional suppon. Tests
and study guides wiU be available through
the UB bookstore, and students wiU be required to attend an orientation session and
take exams on campus.

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Ten one-hour classes on ..American
Cinema" (OMS 108) will provide students
with an exciting introduction to American

tilmmaking. Througb encounters with classic films, students will learn about the interplay between society and popular culture and bow to think, speak and write critically in an increasingly visual culture.
Tbe course will feature interviews with
more than 150 Hollywood insider.;, incl uding studio executives, directors and
cinematographers. and clips from more

than 300 movies.
It was produced by the New Yorlt Center for Visual History, KCET/Los Angeles
and the British Broadcasting Corp. for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting and
the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
Topics to be covered inClude the classic
HoUywood style, the studio system. the star
system, the Western, film noir, film in the

Bnlckenstein is award winner
TANLEY BRUCKENSTEIN. A. CongerGoodyearProfessorofChemistry, will
receive the Award in Electrochemistry from the Division of
Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
The award, given annually to an individual "who bas
uniquely advanced the field of electrochemistry.'' is sponsored by
the Electrochemical Instruments Division of EG&amp;G Princeton
Applied Research. It will be presented at the American Chemical
Society's annual meeting in September.
A member of the UB faculty since 1968, Bruckenstein served
as the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 1974-83. He bas
authored or co-authored 200 research articles for publication in
scholarly journals. His research interests include electroaoalytical
chemistry, electrochemistry and chemical instrumentation.
He received the Faraday Medal from the Electrochemistry
Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1994, the Charles N. Reilley Award of the
Society for Electrochemistry in 1991 and a Heyrovsky Centennial Medal from the J.
Heyrovsky Centennial Cong=s on Polarography beld in 1990.
Bruckenstein holds eigbt U.S. patents on electrochemical gas monitor.; and other apparatuses.
He received a bacbeloc's degree in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
and a doctoral degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

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tel!vision age and romantic comedy.
Henderson teaches film history and
theory, and screenwriting at UB. He bas
authored four books on 61m and is on 1be
editorial board of Fdm Quarterly.

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"Nutrition Pathways" (NTR 108/Human Nutrition) willfollow three individuals for a year to dernonstiate how nutrition
choices affect their health and their lives.
The telecourse, consisting of 26 half-hour
sessions, was produced by Dallas County
(Texas) Community CoUege District. Topics to be examined include the basics of
nutrition, energy regulation and weight
control, carbohydrate and fiber intake effects on health, lipids and the health effects
of f~ nutrition from pregnancy to aging,
various health problems and the relation to
nutrition and consumer concerns.
Horvath is a fellow of the American
College of Nutrition and for the past eight
years bas been a faculty member in UB 's
nutrition program.
Although anyooe with access to TCU
Buffalo, Adelphia Cable and Lockpon
Community Televisioo can view the telecourses, those interested in obtaining credit
for participating m~t register in advance.
Class size for the telecourses is limited.
For more informatioo or to register for
the courses, call 829-2202 to speak with
an MFC advisor.
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OBS 1liE EPIDEMIC popularity of aport utility vehicles mean
tbe '"""'BY crisis is over'l Or
just tbe appeal of oupedlu. ous COIIIUIDOr Joods cooquen
all? How euily we fo«p:&lt; tbe social and
environmental effects of our lifestyles.
In 1990, tbe United States sent-troops to
the Middle Bast to fight for oil While war cost billions and produced many casualties (in oddilioo to U.S. and alli&lt;d casualties,
over 100,000 Iroqis died), it is ooly a dim
memory fO&lt; most of us as we rocc: to the
nat oil war in our "sport utea," not-so-mini
"mini-VliDI" and all variety of p$-guzzlers.
Average U.S. vehicle fuel ellicieocy is dccJinin&amp; while we slill import over half the oil
we COiliUIDO.
Meanwhile, just last year the interna·
tiona! acientific community (through the
I~

Panel on Climate

&lt;lwlge):.iabcludod- global warming
bu beguD and that tbe impact of global elimole change could be aeverc if llllCheckcd.
The releaae of carboo dioxide from burning
fossil fuels is fO&lt;Omost among tbe causes of
climo1e change. &amp;erJy cooservation and
improvements in energy efficiency are es·
sential to mitigate climate change and its
effects oo ecosystems, 118ricullure. public
health, stO&lt;m intensity and sea levels.
Global warming is by definition a global
problem r&lt;qUiriog a globol solutioo_ Un·
fonuoarcly, tbe Clinton Administnttion has
stopped calling for near-term reductions in
carboo dioxide emissiODJ by industrialized
countries at the ongoing Global Climate
Cllange Treaty negotiations. Why? Because
U.S. '"""'BY use and carbon dioxide emisoiODI are rising! It's time for realleadenhip
and effective energy policies to turn that
arouod.

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l.tiM
&amp;erzy industries are now being deregu lated. Detegulation bas been ongoing in the
naiUtll gas industry fO&lt; a number of yean.
A Slealtb campaign to deregulate or restructure tbe e~tric industry is now mov ·
ing ahead swiftly in New York witbout the
benefit of public participation or environ·
mental safeguards.
Unlike tbe deregulation of otber industries, deregularing tbe electric industry
could have huge environmental conse-

quences. Electric geoeration consumes vast
amounts of primary fue ls and is responsible
for tbe lion's share of our air pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions. But tbe big corporations that an: pushing deregulation

don., care about environmental consequences. All they want are lower rates.
Restructuring proposals will break up
the electric utility mooopolies like Niagara
Mohawk and NYSEG, and allow other
companies to genent.te power. "Retail competition" will permit new companies to seU
power directly to consumers.
In May 1996, tbe NYS Public Service
Commission (PSC) released its plan for restructuring that called for eventual retail
competition and required utilities to present
their own implementation plans last October. These plans are now being reviewed
and implemented. Unfortunately, they appear likely to increase air pollution and seriously set back energy conservation and
efficiency efforts--despite overwhelming
public support for environmental protection.
Statewide, environmental groups are
challenging the PSC and Gov. George
Pat:aki to see the environmentallighL But
it's an uphill battle. Tbesc: groups also are
pushing for mechanisms to maintain or accelerate the development of renewable, so-

lar enerzy"""""""' that are essential for
addreasing the global warming tbreal
As deregularinn approaches, we are going in tbe wrong direction fasl For example, Niagara Mohawk already bu written CODtnlcll incorporate rate Struc·
t~F - sigoilicanUy disc;ount increased
energy use. These lock in new customer.;
while providing incentives for enerzy
waste, destroying the economics of energycooservation measures and projects. UB 's
own nationally recognized campus enerzy
coosezvatioo program may be threatened
by this kind of "declining block" rate structure.
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In tbe fall of 1994, UB's electric utility,
Niagara Mohawk (NiMo), began discussions witb tbe Uni-.ily about a multiyear custom cootracl for NO&lt;th Campus
electricity. With tbe uwlcetplace becoming

more competitive., NiMo didn' t want to
lose UB as a customer. By spring of 1996,
UB had signed a tbree year contract with
NiMo under tbe SC-I I tariff.
While the new NiMo contract reduces
elcctticity costs, it does have some troubling featurea. Pint, specific rate or price
information is defined as a "'uade secret"
and hence is confidential. Should enerzy
price information he secret? Doesn't the
public have a right to know? What about
our tradition of openness and public accountability?
Secondly. our contract with NiMo contains a ..marginal rate" structure that
charges different rates for different blocks
of power. For example, while the North
Campus's baseload requirements are met
by electricity costing, say, an average of 7
cents a lcilowatt bourl' the remaining JM)Wet
used by the campus is purchased at a much
lower price. Our previous contracts with
NiMo allowed us to save energy at the
baseload price, thus encouraging conservation. But this contract does not. Energyconservation savings accrue at the lower
rate, undermining the cost-effectiveness of
energy projects-malting them less likely
to happen.
If "marginal" or "declining block" nue
structures undetmioe conservation and efficiency, are tbey environmentally responsible? Should NiMo have proposed this rate
structure? Should UB have accepced it?
Should the Public Service Conunission have
allowed it? While prudence demands that

UB aeek to lower cow. could IUlOCher opproocb have yielded energy cost savings
while preaetving incentives for continued
energy saving?
UB is still actively ptnUing energy conservation improvements through the CESI
Way enerzy project, !bough the future of
our energy conservation program is an
open question. Hopefully the North Cam·
pus SC-11 cootrac1 is 001 precedent-selling.
I think the secrecy is inappropriate. And I
worry about rate structures that make kilowan hours at the margin too cheap to save .

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There are many reasons to conserve enerzy. A recent independent study by the
Colorado-based Results Center concluded
that UB's energy conservation program has
saved the Univenity more than $60 million
since its inceptioo in the late 1970s.
But energy coo.serva.tion also mitigaleS
the: numerous environmental and social impacts associated with energy production and
use. These include air pollution. acid ntin
and global warming, oil spills and water pol·
lution. loss of wilderness areas. construction
of new power plants, fomgn energy dependence and the risk of international conflict
over energy supplies. Conservation is seri ous public service. This is no time to focget
!hal
Walter..._..., is US's Energy Officer
He is also co-chair of the Western New York
Sustainable Ener~ Association

Alumni make gift to School of Social Work
i1r PAULA~
Reporter Contributor

AYNOR AND FLORENCE
Jacobson of New York City and
Sun City Wes~ Ariz., I 996 recipients of honorary doctorates in bumane ]etten; from tbe State University of
New York in recognition of their lifetime
of humanitarian service, have given a
$50,000 gift to the Scbool of Social Work.
It was their education at UB that the
Jacobsons say enabled them to become international leaders and belp bundreds of
thousands of Jews escape discrimination,
tonure and death following World War D.
"Because of the training we received at
UB, Gaynor and I have bad two wonderful careen;," said Florence Jacobson, "and
our support is a way to show our gratitude
for the education UB gave us."
Gaynor Jacobson added, " More and
more we are realizing what our education
and training at UB have meant to us, which
was a main incentive in making this gift."
Hundreds of thousands of Jewisb refugees were saved through Gaynor's efforts
to negotiate tbeir safe immigration and resettlement to the United States, Brazil,
Australia, Israel and other countries

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throughout the world. Gaynor was a key
figure in 'The Secret Alliance," a book
chronicling the rescue of nearly 2 million
Jews in post-war Europe. He is tbe recipient of many bonon;, including the Cross of
Merit from the Hungarian Republic, Commander Medal of Brazil and Silver Pin
from the State of Israel.

H

e received a bachelor's degree in anthropology and sociology from UB in
1937, a certificate in social work in 1939
and a master's degree in social work in
1941. While a student at UB , be met Florence; they were married in 1937 .
Aorence Jacobson received a bachelor's
degree in sociology and anthropology from
UB in I 934, and a certificate in social work
from the univen;ity in 1935. She returned
to the university to complete her master's
degree in social work in 1955.
Also determined to help post-war refu gees. she was appointed supervisor of social services and immigration for the Jew ish Joint Distribution Commit=, under the
aegis of Gaynor, who was country director
of the program in Czecboslovalcia in 1946.
Under their leaden;hip, thousands of refu gees from Romania. Hungary and Poland

received food, clothing, medical can: and
temporary housing, as well as transportation and travel documentation aid . When
tbey moved to Budapest one year later, Florence Jacobson set up a social-welfare program for more than 100.000 of the di s ·
placed Hungarian Jews. During this initiative. she rumed to UB for assisumce.
"When in Hungary, I had the enormous
responsibility of senting up the Department
of Social Welfare, but I needed some guid·
ance on bow to establish a training course
for social workers," she recalled ... 1 requested assistance from Dean (Niles) Carpenter of the social work school , who was
a tremendous belp "
The Jacobsons were honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards in 1995 .
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CHOLESTEROL
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response to stress than to ··casual" blood
pressure, she said.
Results showed that during the stress
test, systolic blood pressure increased to
the bypenension range (gleater than 140
mm Hg) in 46 percent of the high-&lt;:holesterol group. compared to 18 percent of tbe
normal-&lt;:holesterol group.
Sung said that high cholesterol appear.;
to impair the a bility of the blood-vessel
lining (endothelium) to relax and constrict
normall y. Blood-vessel constriction causes
an increase in vascular resistance, whic h
causes an increase in blood pressure.
The study's second phase was designed
to determine if lowering cholesterol low·
er.; blood-pressure response to stress. In a
double-blind design. half of 26 memben&lt;
of the high-cholesterol group took a c holesterol -lowering drug for six weeks. while
the other half received a placebo. and the
protocols then were reversed . Total cholesterol fell 26 percent during drug treat ·
ment.
Participants repeated the mental anth ·
metic stress test after both the drug and
placebo periods. Results showed that peak
systo lic blood press ure dunn g st ress
dropped from 141 nun Hg without treat ment to 133 mm Hg after treatment.
Sung 's co-authors on the study were
Joseph L. lzzo, Jr.. professqr of medici ne
and professor of phannacology and tox•·
cology, and Michael F. Wilson. professor
of medicine.
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more compelitive.

BLOEIIAUM TO NRnCIPA1'E IN MEDING
OF TOP YOUNG IEN8INEDS

Judltlt ...._., director of the
Lockwood Ubfary. has made a bequest to the library. one of the largest monetary g ifts to the Umvers1ty
Libraries ever receiVed from a h·
t&gt;rary staff membes
Adams. recently named pres~ ­
dent of the SUNY Ubralians AssoCiatoo . said •t have a strong commitment to making Lockwood a fine
and anractive library for the univers•ty conmunity. • lmpt'ovements are
needed to bring the library's interior

environment up-to-date, to benefit
the university community and the
publiC who use the library's resources and services.
Adams is a member of the
American Ubraries Association. l.Jbfary Administration and Management Asoociation, and Society tor
the History of Technology. She rece•ved a bachelcw's degree in English from Wilkes CoiktQe in Wilkes-

Barre, Pa : a master's degree in ltbfary aclenca from Syracuaa University. and a master's degree in

English from Lehigh Unlvonoity.

She fa

L - . aasociate prolaSSOf of mechanical end
has been selected to participete on an annual
mMting that brings together some of the netion's
top young engineers . She is one of 82 engineers,
chooen from 8 field of 270 applicants, who will take
part In the Nalionel Academy of Engineering's 1997
Symposk.m on Ftooliers of Engl,_ing Sept. 111-20
In Irvine, CalK. The symposi~m will host engineers
30 to ~5 from Industry and QOY&amp;fnm&amp;nt, 88

88 academia.
The Fronlienl of ~ meetings were be' gun In 19951n responee to the incfeesingly lnl8&lt;disclpllnary nelure of enginMring end to allow engo-a 10 learn about
developrnents end problems In olher lielda. Thla year's sympook.m
will address such topico es biornechanico, ..,.,.. and control tor
manulecturing processes, safety and oecurt1y laaueo, lntelligenl transportation syelamo and decisioo-maklng loolo lor design end manu-

leclurlng.
A UB lecully member since 1991 , l!loaOalJm cooducts research In
multidisciplinary design synthesis, concurrent engl,_;ng end arlifi.
clal-lnlelllgence applicallona In op1ima1 de&amp;Jgn.
In 1995, she was named a Proaldentlal Faculty Fellow, an award
bestowed by Pr..-,1 Clinton to recognize the acholarly activities of
the nation's , _ outstanding eclonc:. and engw-ing faculty morn-·
bono. The award carne wi1h a fMt-year, $100,000 research grant from
the Natlonel Selene:. Foundation.

the author of a number ol

articles in books and journals on
the subject of technology end culture She also has written three
books. including the widely rotgarded ·The American Amusement
Park Industry: A History of Technc:&gt;f..

ogy and Thr,ills.•

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Family Physocians .
In addillon, he received the
Mead Johnson Award for Graduate
Education In Family Prectlce, given
by 114ead Johnson, a Bristol-Myers
Squibb Compeny, in recogn~ion ol
his WOJk and convnitmertt to the
ideals of famity practice .
A graduate of Canlsius College,
Mahoney holds masta(s, doctoral

A. Ault. assistant pro-

tesSOf' of classics. has be&amp;n
awarded the Bktgen Research Fellowship at Vassar College tor the

t997-98 year.
The fellowship was endowed by
Vassar College aJumna. faculty
member and classical archaeok&gt;
gtst Elizabeth Denny F1erce-8Jegen.
who was married to the archaeolo-

g ist Cart Blegen. Offered ennually
to specialists in a vartety of areas
within ctass!cal studies, it was
awarded to Bladley Auh for classical archaeok&gt;gy. While in residence
fOf the year at Vassar he will work
on an 1n-progress book, •Qikos and
Oikooomia Late ClassJCal Houses
and House~ds at Ha/Mlls .

Greece.·

and medical degrees from UB. He
also serves as an assistant professcw
in Roswell Part&lt; C8nc8f institute's
Graduate Division and en assislanl
prolesaor of epidemiology at SUNY
Albeny's School of Public Health.
He is the resident representative on the Council on MedicaJ Spe-

cialty Societies of the American
Academy of Family Physiclans . and
received the Ameran Public
Health Association's Jay Dortman
Memorial Award fOf his research Involving mortality patterns among
the Seneca Nation of Indians.
He has continued his research
wtth native populations, and is a
founding member of the Network for
Cancer Cont~ Research in American-Indian and Alaska-Native populations. sponsoted by the National
Cancer Institute.

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llwtln~,ac Hnlcal i n­

0 1 ' - DIJiiUnMIJr'r

structor in the Department of Famity
Medicine. recentty received three
awards Mahoney. who is completIng a three-year residency in family
medic1ne •n Western New York hospitals. was awarded the American
Medk:al As!bciatiori/Gtaxo Weltcome Leadership Award !Of his ·extraordinary leadership abilities.·
He also was chosen as the reCipient of the Resident's Award lor
·Contribution By 8 Resident To
State Academy ActiviUes,• given by
the New York State Academy of

F-.. C. -Ill
has
of

bean
appointed chair the Pediatrics
Department in the School of Medi-

cine and Biomedical Sctences and
pedlatrtclan-in-chief tor Chik:Sren's

Hospital.
A graduate of the University of

Notre Dame and Yele Unive&lt;sity
School of Medicine. he joined UB in
t986 as assistant professor of pediatrics . He became chief of the neonatology division at Children's Hospital end associate professor of pediatrics and~ in 1989. In

==~~~~~!!J~t994 he became professor of pedi-

abies and vice chairman of research
In lhe Pediatrlco lloparlmerc.
The~ division, under
his direction, hea grown to """"
than 84 beds at multiple levels of
care and is respdlsibie for 1,200 clellveries a year. It is the only newborn
refarrat center tor

a region encom-

passing 22,000 deliwries annually.
Morin, who has published 48 articles in peer review Journals, has
conducted research on the use of
fnhaled nitric OJdde to tre8t newborns wi1h persistent pulmonary hypertensiOn. The work, whtch resutted in a successful tnal of the
therapy on newborns 8t Children's
Hospital and other centBfS, was r•

ported In the New England Journal
of Medic ine.

...:mva--

" - ' aaaociate profeoaor of perlodonllco, recently r.,.
celved the Olatinguishod Dental
Alumni Award from the School of
Dental 114edicine at the Unfveraily
at Slony Bfook In recognition of her
hafd """" and dedication to the
field of dentistry.
The award ...- conferred at the
Slony Brocl&lt; dental schooi'a com-

present a recital of organ students
from Eestmen on Sunday, July 27,
at 5 p .m . in s.e&amp; Concert Hall .
The concert, free and open to
the public , will feature four outstanding student organist~. J.
Christopher Pardini, Bruce Frank,

JeMilar Pascual and Ctvistopher
Marks. all of whom have pieced
highly In sev&amp;fai compelilione.
The collaboration belween UB
and Eastman affo.-ds talented students who study In the internation-

ally recognized department at
Eastman the opportunity to perform
on the highly acclaimed Fisk pipe
organ in Slee Hall .

n:• A-IICU 1WO NEW
~

The Center fOf lndustriaJ Effectiveness (TCIE) he&amp; announced two
staff changes. The center has hired
~~ as financial adminis-

UB and Is a paol ~

doni oflllo Medical School -

lhe-s..glcal
Socioly,
tho ·Pttl
Lambda Kappa
MedicafAUmi and tho
- M e d i c a l Socioly. He Is
pal cllairman of-the James Platt
-Socioly.

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--~-

The Unive&lt;oily at Buflalo Olild Care
Cenler Is accepting~
tor a program ~will open tor tho tal
semester in a satellite ctauroom on
lhe Nof1h CWnpuo.

Tho program. "" chlldrwn -

3-5 , willbe~bythe~

care c:entar In cooperWian wllh the
~~and._;ng

Clinic. Mwill run from 7:15a.m. to

moncemorol caremony, at which

5 :~

Tampro - l h e graduotaa.
A UB faculty membat' Iince
1993, Tampro MMid as &lt;»-director
of tho Oral Microblc*&gt;gy l.eboralory
In the School of Oentalllledicine

In lhe c:inic In Perlt Hel.
Artyore - I n lhe program
shoUd ooni8Ct r.nar Moyer II
11211-2226 01 a-mol II

from 1993-IM.

She Ia the prtnclpet lnvesligalor
on a fiv&amp;.year, $350,000 grant from
the NallonaJ lnstiMe lor Dental R&amp;aeerch to lludy the strud1Jr8 of cet'·
taln · which may lead to
ways of preventing the attachment
of bactMia that cause periodontal
disease.
A member of the lntemetional
AesociBilon ol OenlaiAoaearch and
the American.Socioly""ogy, Tampro has published ......,..
oua arllclea in acholarly journals.
A graduate ol Pace University,
she rocoived a cer1lficata In period-

p .m. Mondays IIVough Fridays

......

~Spece'ia llmiled. and applicants

---· -and
ant~ on

alinol-coomo, finol.

The lJniverllity at Buflalo Cltild
Cant Centar Is • non-ptoli. 11-

cenaect. child-care program that

...._ UB laculty,
1111&gt;dento. The conta&lt;, localad on the
Soulh Clwnpua, hal • ol 24

early-&lt;:lllkllood_.and Is
...::ocradiled by t h e - Academy of Eatly Chiktlood P!ognlmo.

--~·
COIOill'loMiiCE

--. ..
--·· ..na-ontology from Columbia University.

....,..,.. _ _ 01'

- - . has been appoinled director of new lltudent prograrrrnlng. Formorty director of ori-

enlallon at SUNY~ . she also
served 88 8S!JOCiate direcD" of college and union activities and associate director d residence tife.
Her duties at UB w111 include
OV&lt;lfsight of all orientation pnograma

for Incoming freshmen, transfer st~.r
dents and paienta. She also will be

responsible tor the

·us 101·

classes offered to new students as
a way to learn about lhe university.

The Department of Musk: and the
Eastman Schoc:M of Mustc will ccr

_..lron1

tinancutl administrator.

Based In tho School of EnoiM«·
lng and Applied Sciences and ated witto the School of Management. TCIE promoi8S economic
growth In Western New YOfl&lt; by
helping local companieo become

In addillon, she will be in charge of
pnogrems run through lhe commuter center and ongoing restdenc&amp;-IKe wor1cshops.

Wlsharlls a rroarrber of the NationaiAuociation of Sludont""""""
neiAdmlnistralors and tho National

Orientation C&gt;ireclcd Asoociation.
She received 8 becholor~ degree In.
r&amp;enl8lion education lrcm SUNY
Corlland and a _ . . degree In
higher/post aeconda-y education
from ~ U"'-"ity. She Ia pu-sulng a docloraJ degree In higher
education aantnistrationlrcm UB.

DPLOWIIZ--

CCMIIT-~
,,....... ~ clinical in-

struclor of surgery at the School of
114edicine end Blomedical Sciences.
was Installed May 13 aa president
of the Erie County 114edical Society.
Medical director and chktf of
stall al Our ~ of Voctory Hospital
in Lackawanna, he is a practicing
general surgeon in Buflak&gt;.

Zeptowftz received his medical

_ . . . , - . proleasor In lhe
Art Hiolo&lt;y, reconlly
at lhe Gilman lntamalional
Conference on CUIIufallnten:hange
In the 114editamlnean. Her topic was
"Tho Holy Land In Italy.•
~of
iect~&gt;'ed

__._

~ .receptioniSt
in the oap.nmant of Periodontics,
Is featured In lhe July •Better
Homes and Garoens Floral &amp; Na·

ture Crahs• magazine for her use of
pressed herba and ~~ower$ to tum

T-shirta Into weerable en.
Michalski, who leaches in US's
cred~·lr&amp;e

Ute Wor1&lt;shops end

conwnunity education pro-

-

grams, has won numerous awards

lor her uae of pressed bQienicalsln
cralt wort&lt;.
A community lec11xer and member oflhe Buffalo &amp; Erie County Botanical Gardens end the Herb Society of America, she maintaons herb
and flower gardens specializing in

---miniature specimens.

.........,RIIDI ......

" - " - Q , who wil attend
UB as a freshman in the tall, he&amp;
been selected by Wa14.1arl Stores.
Inc .. as this year's recipient of its
annual WaJ.Mart Competitive Edge
Scholarship. Which totals $20,000

four years.
The scholarship. awarded to an

OY'8f"

outstanding

lrestvnan in 8

technol-

ogy-related program, w•ll make it
jX)Ssible for Kopecky to pursue
studies in mathematics .
A City Honors High School graduate with a 4.3 gtad&amp;-point .-age,

Kopecky was a volunteer in Sister'S
fUpitaJ's skilled ruslng tacility

trator end promoted lite..
IIMtullr.e to training assistant.
Padu- will provide general ac-

counbng and fonanclal administrative
support to the center. A graduate of
Erie Comrnl.nity College, she has
more than 20 years of accounti"lg
and offiCe-management experience.
As training assistant. Manulke
will assist in coordinating state
training-grant administratk&gt;n and
company-funded training acliv1ties.
A graduate of Erie Community College, she is pursuing a bachelof"'a
degree ""at UB. Manulke WOfked in a
variety of accounting , administrative
and financial-support roles In indus-

try before joining TCIE In t996 as

FRESCHIIS FEUOW OF WORLD ACADEMY
OF ART AND SCIENCE
.,_.. •· Freechl, dean of the School of Architecture and Plann1ng.
has been elected a fenow of the World Academy o f Art
and Sclence. A fOfum of international sctentJsts. arusts
and scholars vested in a •work:J umversity 1n deep human understanding ,.· the academy is focused on ·social consequences and ~icy impUcattons ol knowl·

edge."
Fresch1, who IS working on waterfront plans lor Buf-

falo and Tacoma, Wash., devetoped the mast8f plan
tor Vancouver's World EJ&lt;position. He has won many
awards, including the Orde&lt; of Canada. the higheSt
honor the Canadian govenment bestows upon an indivk:JuaJ.

�wu one or the acieotiltl involved in the Man·
hanaoProjcct
!hal produced the IIOmi&lt;: bomb and aecured
America'• miliwy aup«macy. Laoerl)e helped
create Preatoee Aotif~ liquid nilrofleo used

Tribute to Daniel R. Acker
ANIEL R. ACKER JIIIIIOd away May 12.
1997.1be..., wboaelife bad boca de·
lillod by iJidefllipbility IIUCCWI1bed after

D

a piJIIIl fivo-IDOIIlh IINaJe apiatt formi·
dable beallh compllc:aliolla. for- wbo do
110( know. Ael:tr waa a port·time lil&lt;ulty member al UB !01" weU cm:t a doeode. How be fouod
the time aod coerJY to lcacb iJ a major wooder.
He allo COUI&gt;Ielod lllldeDu. adviaed lbem IDd
IIOI1ldimes ...ponded 10 their ~Jht calls
roc belp. For....,. yeon, be aenec1 u preaideoo
or the Minority FKU!ty IDd Slalf Auocialioe.
loe,..-lhae aeyooe. Durio&amp; biJ oeoure, the Martio Lwber KiD&amp; Commamonliw: propom
achieved prom.ioax:e, helped ltudeatJ with
scbolanhip, aod publicly recosnizcd ..... citil.CRIICI'OU radalliocs for tbeir cootributiool to
society io tbc spirit of Martin Lulbcr King Jr.

Only biJ il)oca lloppod bim from - ing---ew:o !boo be bopod 10 """"'- AlliC 811Dd
c:ountin&amp;. be . .y - - UB'aoldeat faculty
rnernber--ccnai ... o( t h e - ever;
lt ia with sadnea and a feeling of lnadequacy lhalllllempllhillribuoe 10 my friend
Dan Ael:tr. Wbeo I aay be wu my friend, I
hear a deafcniog ~poose from a multitude of
voices Jhoutinglo un.i.Joo, .. Mine, 100 .....Mioe.
too." ..He wu my friend, 100... Dan Acker was
!hal kind of IDIIl.
Daniel wu born in Weal VuginiL He overcame an educ:alioDal bect&amp;round impoverished
in l"eeiW'Cee bul DOt iD carina. and atteodcd the
poorly~ ~~~ted Wbt VUJiDia State
College. He cootinucd hia education and
earned a master'l degree in chemistry at the
Univenity of Michigan. SublcqPmtly, Dan
raugln high tchool owbematics and chemistry
before joinina Union Carbide. where he
wort.cd for 30 yeus. During World War U, he

Mac S. Hammond,
71, poet, English
professor emeritus
A memorial seMce will be held 1n
lhe rail !of Mac S. Hammond. 71 . a

pool and

prole"""'
emeritus of
English. who
d ied of cancer
July 91n his

home in Buffalo.
Hammond
began his

career at UB in
1963. part of a
talented .
avant..garde group of writers and
teachers wtlo came to the university
to create an English department that
soon came to be regarded as one of
\Amerk:a's brightest and most progressive.
Hammond became a lull profesSCH' in 1969 and was active in the
Fac ulty Senate. S8fVing as secretary
in the tate 1960s and earty 1970S.
He was secretary and coordinator of
the Senate's Collegium on Educat100
lnnovaticfl in 1974-75. He became a
professor emeritus in 1993.
From 196810 1971 , Ha&lt;nmond was
masler of cass;,.. College, wtlich

began es College E. one of UB's

in cryOCIJt&amp;&lt;tY IDd &amp;.czin&amp; blood. Dan was pvticularly pn&gt;Ud or the domestic breaklluoo&amp;J&gt;s.
Mud&gt; bas alteady.boeallid about Dan 'aaetViogll the helm oftbe NAACP ror over 2S yean,
his auc&lt;:&lt;Uful banJe 10 inleiJIIethe Butralo
ICboolayscem.IDd oumerous civic, service, and
relipou. orp:o.i.zations 10 which be 1ave 10 much
quality lime. The DCWI media oornclly caJJod
him aleJCnd. He aeemcd 10 be everywhere, always oa time. witbow. ever appearina 10 be hurried. He aeemcd 10 know aod lite everyone, the
jOOic:iary, local, 1111e, IDd Bllioeallepslalon, indultriali.su. mayon. educalcn, KtivillS, religious

leaden. Yea be acver lost the commoo U&gt;U&lt;:b. He
U...Uy lr&lt;Oiod everyooe the llmO--«l aomebody imporunL for aU, Dan bad lhia OUIIImdled handallake, quiet amile, wann greeting.
aod endleu aupply or funny (bul cleae) jokes.
He~ much. and wu often hooorecl Yel ia aU lhiJ be remained modeat almost oo
a
albuiabc 10 the core. Dan fou&amp;b&lt; hard
for poaltiw: c:11aae yea biJ paliencc wu Jeaendary. lle aod biJ family- hale ..........
aod vile lhreou bul acver did be RlpOnd in kind.
He~ maey roadblocb. diuppoinlmenu, and -mo,Jy ioaurmounllble odds. Yet
be wu tbe molt politive periOD I bew, bit dW·

fault_.

ICier uoaullicd by b i - .

Leu than two yearsqo Dan lost his beautiful LouiJe, hil wife or 60 yean. bit coostant
companioo, tbe mother or bit three adored childn:n. Sbe autrered from • Joe&amp; debilioatiog illness that almolt inevitably leads to • home ror
rpccia.J care. Yet. deapile hia advanced age, Dan
cared ror her in their home, until her decease.
Whenever I inquired about Louise, Dan would
talk about the wooderfU.IIIdies, and his children
who helped him. He never complained. He
loved her. To him, she wu not a butdcn. Upon
her passing, he told me, ..It is hard to bear...
Wheo Dan Acker •poke like !hal, you knew he
was hutting. When he bc:ca.me seriously ill and

the Paris Review, Poetry and
Choice. He was invited to the White
House in 1960 by President Jimmy
Carter for 8 program honoring 200
American poets.
Car1 Dennts, 8 poet and colktague on the UB English facully.
noted in The Buffalo News that
Harrvnond's poetry was ·a mixture
ol romantic hoping and very dO'Nnto-earth concreteness ... He was very
much his O'Nn man He wasn't part
of any school •
Hammond. a co-founder of lhe

Sludenl Fecul1y Rim Club al UB. also
made audio and video recordings.
including 8 three--track tape of -rhe
Holidays,• a suite of poems for simultaneous voices made at UB's BeeIronic Music Ubrary in 1968. In recent
years, he combined video art and
JX)Btry in videos shown in Buffak:l.
Chicago and San Francisco. The cofounder of lhe Nic:l&lt;el City Poetry/
Vtdeo Association , Harrvnond was
presidenl of Squeaky Wheel. a nonprofn organlzalion d&lt;Mlled 10 video
arts. until early lhls yeer.
Hammond S8fV8d in the Navy V·
12 program while studying at the
University of North Csrolina and
received his bachelor 's degree from
the University of the South in
Serwanee, Tenn. He receiVed h1s
master's and doctOfal degrees from
Harvard University.

Walter P. Koprucki,

experimenlal colleges offering an
alternative to the traditional educaoonat experience. Hammond wrote o1
lhe college, "Uving and sWdying in

85, clinical professor

such a college should complemeol e
student's specialization elsewhere in
lhe &lt;.Wlivenlily,. nolingJhal lhe studenl
' should emerge with increased powers of generaliZalion. a sense of lhe
'Ntloleness of existence. and a living

retired clinical professor •n the School

oodersoanding of lhe wtues

ance and compassion.·

of·--

From 1979 to 1983, Hammond
was director of UB's graduate program in creative writing .
The author of lour volumes of

poelry- "The Horse Opera and
Olher Poems' (1966): 'Cofd Turkey·
(1969); ·six Dutch Hearts· (1978).
and · Mappamundi, New and Selecled Poems' (1989}-Hammond
also wrote lor magazines such as

A Mass ot Christian Burl81was held
Juty 14 at St. Benedict's Church Ln
Amherst for Walter P Kopruckl . a

of Medicine and BoomedJCSl Sco-

ences.. Kopruckl diOd Juty

11 1n
Sisters Hospital after a lengthy 1llness
He graduated !rom UB medical
school in 1936 and began a pnvate
practice on Fillmore Avenue the
next year. cont•nuing until h 1s reure·
ment in 1980. From 1971to 1977,
he served as an ass1stant climcal
professor at the UB medical school .
and from 1977 to 1983, was a
fulltime c hmcal professOI' at UB He
also served as a clinical faculty
member at BuHalo Stale College

uoderweru major aurac:ry, hia children cared for
him. lbe old warrior quietly told me Wt he
wu in ror. tough fight-. rare penooal admiaion for him. In spite of his own serious con·
d.ition, he went on to ioquir-e: about my wife's
heaJth. lbat was Dan Acker. Yes, he was that
kiod ora man.
1 will miss Dan Acker. As I say that.. agam I
hear the mauive chorus in quick response: - 1
will, too." ··1 will, too.'' "I will miss Dan Ack.er.
too." That 's because when we needed bim. ht:
wu always there. He inspired us. made us
laugh , made us hope: . And so we s hould and
muat be grateful that we koew this wonderful
man who lived among us and stood for some:·
th.iog. We knew what he stood for. Remc.m ·
berin&amp; him we can say without fear of contra ·
diction. 1'here stood a loving husband. a canng
father. gnmdfathcr, and great -grandfather~
1'hett stood dignity, gentleness and com pas ·
sion." 1'here atood integrity." '"There 5tood determination" 'There stood a petrel for JUStice ··
'"'There stood Danjel R. Acker...

IDWMDS• .-.NS
Professor Emeritus. Graduate SchOol of
Education

Giving tax credit for
children sends a wrong
message

T

HERE ARE C URRENTI.Y three LU pro·
pou1s for debate, the House versaon. the
Senate version and the Presideo!'s version.
All three have ooc: thing in common : they propose SSOO tax credit per child.
It is debatable whether a tax cut at lh1s ti111e
is oecesu.ry and wise; however,givingt.u
credit for children certainly sends a wrong mcs·
sage. With the world population at mor-e than
5.7 billioo aDd still growing at an annual rate or
1.5 percent (doubling time 46 years) we certainly do no1 need to encourage mort: popula·
tion growth. Obviously, the rastest populat1on
growth occun in developing nations. yet of all
the industrialized countries. Canada and the

from 1976 to 1977.
Kopruckl was SChool physlc1an tor
lhe Erie Counoy Heallh Departmenl

!rom 1944-1976andwaSmediC8J
examtner lor the Federal AVI8tl0n
Adm~ntStratiOO from 1961 to 1980 A
veteran of Wor1d Wai fl. he served as
a member of the Greater Buffak&gt;
tnternaoonal Airport 01saster team

James H. McReynolds,
54, biophysicist,
professor, lab director
James H McReynolds. 54. a b K&gt;physk:ist and UB fac ulty member
since 1977. dted July 6 tn a rock·
climbing acc1dent 1n Mount Nemo
Conservation Area 1n Burlington . Onl
AcC01"d1ng
to reg100al
poiiCEI at
Burlington.
McReynolds
an expenenced climber.
was making a
first ascent on
the south rock
lace of Mount
Nemowhen
the rock lace
gave way. causmg h•m to fall 50 feet
and the rock slab to tan on top ol
h1m Desp•te rescue efforts by
poliCe. firefighters. a~r- ambulance
personnel and a fnend With whom he
was climb1ng. Mc Reynolds d1ecl at
the scene
McReynold s was an assoc1a1e
professor •n the b iOphys•cs and

physiology deparuneno ol lhe SchOO
of MediCine and B101nechcal Sciences He was d irector of the mass
spectrometry laboratory and held an
appomtment 1n the Department ol
Pharmacology and ToxK:Otogy
· or. Mc Reynolds was a very
Important member of the biophySICS
department: Richard Zobel. v1ce
cha•rman of the medical school's
b10phys1cs and p hys!Ok&gt;gy depart·
ment. told The Buffalo News "He
was d~rector of undergraduate
stud•es 1n the department and was
the maJQI" person responsible lOt the
undergraduate program • Zobel
noted that McReynolds was consc•-

SENDING I.D1BIS 10 TIE

IIEPCMIER
The Reporter wekx:rnes letters from read·
BfS CCifTVll8000Q on ItS stones ana content
Letters should be hmued to 800 words ana
may be ed«ed lor 51y1e and lenglh Because

ot space

hm•tataons .the Reportet" canf'IO(
publ•sh all letters rece•ved They must be
rece1ved by 9 a m Monday to oe COOSKJ·
erecl tor pubhcatoo 1n that weeks rssue

Unned States have the h1ghest rate or population growth. 1.2 and I 0 percent. respectively
Although thas 1s a relauvely slow growth as
compared to Afnca. South Amenca and As1a
where the annual rates of growth are 2.5. I 7
and 1.6 percent. rc.spectlvely. we should 001 ~ ­
come compl acent about our own populataon
growth .
Cons1denng our c:lltravagant hfestyle and
hagh consu mpuon. every baby born 10 the.
United States has a future envaronmentaJ impact
or 30 babies born 1n India because we arc USing
}() times more r-e:souras thao they. More people
means more housang. mort automobiles. more
consumer goods, more agncultura.l land taken
for development. and 10 consequence more pol
lution and more stress on the already overburdened eovironment. The conventionally thtnklng
economists may consadcr that population growth
is good because: it keeps the economy growmg
However, th11 log1c assumes that ecooomy has
to grow for us own sake II puts the carnage 10
front of the horse.. 11 makes people serve the
economy and noc the economy serve the peopl~
Our present tax law already prov1des for ell ·
empuons ror children. so why g•ve Still an add• ·
tiooaJ credit? It only encourages people to havt
more childn:n and unjust! ~ pc:nahzes those who
prudentJ y chose to limit the s1zc: of thear fami lies . Stabilizarion or popu lation at the earhest
date and decrease in consumption should ~ our
goals. and not a continuous growth
S-ND F. ZAIUIZEWSIU
Professor Ememus

entious and well-hked by h1s students. and •nterested 1n undergraduate. graduate and medical·
student educat1on He was also
responsible for tra1n1ng students 1n
mass spectrometry
McReyn&lt;Mds rece•vea a
baCheiOf's degree In phySICS !rom
R•ce Un•versny •n Houston and a
Ph D 1n b iophySICS from the Umver·
Slty of Houston Before com1ng to
UB 1n 1977 , he spent five years as a
researcher at the Stanfora Research
fnst•tute 1n Palo Alto. Cahl
He was Jrrvnechate past pres1oent
of the lOcal chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club and was an
active member of the Lumber C1ty
Rock Gym 1n North Tonawanda For
many years . he served as a leader
for Boy Scout Troop 991 at North
Presbytenan Church 1n Amherst •
A memonal serv•ce was held
July 19 1n Umvers•ty Presbytenan
Church. w1th graves•de serv1ces •n
Conroe . Texas

William E. Mosher, 88,
health commissioner,
clinical professor
Wilham E. Mosher. 88. who was Ene
County Health comm1SSKJ(Ier from
1959 to 1976 and had served as an
assoc.ate chmcal professor at VB
died Juty 13 1n Buffalo General Hospttal aftef suffenng a fan 1n Toronto
Mosher was an assoc1ale chmcal
prolessOf 1n prevent1ve med1c1ne '"
the VB med•cal school and assistant professor m the School ol Nur sIng H1s published articles on child
health •ncluded a w•de range of
top1cs lrom heanng loss to neuromuscular and heart d1sease
He served as Ene County's ch~el
health officer dunng years when
government had to address water
pollutiOn 1n Lake Erie and contamlna·
1.10n ol area waterways by muniCipal
sewage treatment plants The depart
ment. under hiS leadership , expanded wOO&lt;. on treatment and preventiOn of tuberculoSIS and anracted
more than $5 m1ll100 1n federal grants
He established commun1ly heallh
centers. programs lOt tam1ly piann•ng, glaucoma test1ng . lead po•son·

1ng. rodent control and tubefcuiOSIS
testJng of schoolchildren ano welfare
rec1p1ents As recently as last month
he was consulted about Amherst's
ITIOSQUIIO control program
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Amencan Board of Prevenl!ve Mea1
c1ne and Pubhc Healttl ano was a
fellow and past secretary ol the
heaflh off•cers sect1on ol the Amer 1·
can Public Health Assoc•at•on as
wen as a past pres•dent ol tne State
PuDhc Heath Assoc1a11on
Named an outstanding c •t:zen by
The Buffak&gt; News rn 1960 and
honored by the NatiOnal Conference
of Chnsuans and Jews he served
on t&gt;oards of the Amer1can Cancer
Soc•ety. Emp•re State Health CounCil and n1ne other health orgamza·
11ons In 1972. he rece.vea the
Hermann M B1ggs Award from the
State PubliC Health Assoc•at.on
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cal SchOol he held a master 's
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Pubhc Health

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St Joseph HOSPital Cheektowaga
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he graduatecJ •n 1955
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the Jl.ll8 17 FacUiy Senate I008ting
are ptillished today on Page 2.

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creates lnstibde for Local
Governance, Regional Growth
ESiPONI,ING TO RENEWED public focus on
"nv"''"''"''" and regionalism, UB has an
nounced the creation of the Insti-tute for Local
Governance and Regional Growth to assist area
~·ovc~mme:nts and promote regional opportunity
throughout the Western New York area.

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dean at
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Mitchell to succeed Petrie

News Services Edi!Of

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HE APPOINTMENT OF Jacquelyn Mitchell as dean or the
Graduate School of Education has been an-nounced by UB
President William R. Greiner. Mitchell is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at lhe University or California. San Diego. Her appointment,
made on lhe recommendation or Provost Thomas E. Headrick, is effective July I.
She will succeed Hugh G. Petrie,
who served as the school's chief academic and administrative officer for
16 years and last year announced his
' decision to return to teaching and
research in September 1997.
Headrick, to wbom Mitchell will
report, prajsed her as "an experienced educator who is committed to
maintaining the school's outstanding
reputation as an innovative leader in
educatlbn.
"In addition, she has a strong interest in the quality of our urban
schools and looks forward to work· MITCHEll
ing closely wilh lhe schools in Buffalo and the surrounding region. Attracting her to Buffalo is a major
plus for the universily and our region."
Mitchell was vice president and dean or faculty at Scripps College in
Claremont, Calif., from 1993-96 and associa~e dean [or acadentic affairs in 1be Johns Hopkins University School or Ans and Sciences from
t990-93. She also has taught at the University or Califontia. Davis.
She is a scholar with extensive research experience in the field of
ethnographic and sociolinguistic studjes. and cognitive devel o pment
and community intervention, particularly among low-income children.

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er research has demonstrated a long-standing interest in the interface of learning with race, ethnicity and gender. It includes stud·
ies of educational decision-making in students' careers. literacy resource s in a pre-school context, family stress and coping strategies.

and neighborhood social organization. Widely published in her field.
she has received many national and regional awards and cita tions for
he r work .
The UB Graduate Sc hool of Education serves 1,150 stude nts in
Continued on page 7

The initiative. announced today by President William R.
Greiner, builds on the 1996 re·
pori, '' Go vernance in Erie
County: A Foundation [or Under·
standing and Action:· produced
by UB's Governance Project.
"'The ulti mate objective," said
Greiner, "is to ensure that the
Niagara Frontier is a vi brant region with a growing economy.
positioned to compete and win in
the global marketplace, a long
with our friends an~ partners in
Southern Ontario."
The new institute will be di ·
reeled by John B. Sheffer, II.
Now UB interim vice president
for public service and urban af.
fairs, he will assume his duties on
Aug. I . A professor of law and
planning at UB and a member of

the Governance Project. Sheffer
aJso is a fanner mayor and sta te
assemblyman and senator.
According to Greiner. the new
institute has three primary goals.
It will coordinate existing UB programs focused on governance in
the region. including the Governance Project, the Regionallnfor·
mation Network and the School-

Municipal Collaboration Initiative.
It also will elllend those programs
through cooperative arrangements
with other area organizations, both
public and private. ln addition. H
will offer practical training and informational services to area localities and officiaJs.
"The Governance ProJeCt re pon generated really useful con+
versalions with elected officials.
business and community leaders.

and other committed area CIU·
zens." said Gremer "Leaders
from around the reg1on hav~ al so
participated 10 previous unaversuy programs on policy and management issues. such a.'i those of
the UB lnstnute of Government.
wh1ch w11l merge wuh the ne\.\
anstitute
"Thas broad bast= I' an Important foundation :· he added " We
wtll cominu"t to budd on 11 by
bnnging lhese prog ram~ wgethc:r
in the lnsli lute for Local Gover·
nance and Reg1onaJ Growlh And
we are going to be aggressave
about connectmg wtth new pan ners to promote regaonal collabo·
ration. growth and effic1ency.··

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he institute, wh1ch has been

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the p\anning stages for

months. has been supponed by
Sen. Mary Lou Ralh. chaJr of the
New York State Senate Local
Government Commiuee . The an nouncement comes on the heel s
of the recent Chautauqua Conference on Regional Governance.
AI Chautauqua. nauonal and

Cont1nued on page 7

Black, Gresham to succeed Palmer,
Sheffer; Wmter to leave UB for Pitt
.,. SUE WUETCHER
News Services Assoc•ate Otrector

DENNIS R. BUCK will become
interim vice president for student

affairs and Mary Harley Gresham
will serve as interim vice presi dent for public serv ice and urban
affairs, effective Aug. I.
The two associate vice presidents will step up to replace Rob-.
en L. Palmer, Jr.. and John B.
Sheffer. D. respectively.
Palmer is leaving UB to he·
come vice president for student
affairs at California State University at Fullenon. Sheffer is assuming new dulies as directorofUB 's
new Inst itute for Local Governance and Regional Growth (see
story above).
In ano ther admmistrative
c ha nge , Frederick W. Winter,
dean or lhe School or Manage·
ment. will leave UB next mo nth
10 become dean of the Joseph M.
Katz Graduate School or Busi ·
ness and the College of Busi ness
Administration at the University
or Pins burgh.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick
said he will consult with facuhy ln
lhe ~boo! of Managemen~ mem·
ber.; of the Dean'sAdvisory Coun·
cil and other interested parties on

the appointment of an mtenm dean
and on the search process to iden+

tify Winter's successor.
UB President William R
Greiner sa id national searches
will be conducted for both vice
presidential positions.
A UB administrator sa nce
1975. Palmer served as associate
provost and vice provost for student affairs. and assumed the
helm when the Divisaon of Stu c~nt Affairs was enlarged to a vace
presidential office in 1991 ,
Pal -

elted for .._nlllp

Greiner said Palmer has made
the units responsible for student
services "va~ tl y more responsave
10 students· needs;· has helped re·
direct the university 's approach to
adntissions. has guided lhe De pan·

ment or Public Safety through
"significant uansalions .. and has
helped to mcrease the effectiveness of auxiliary services, such as
dining and vending operations
He also has provaded leadership for a number of campus-wide
co mmittees and ini tia ti ves. In cluding the University Bookstore
Tusk. Force. the Calendar Commi ssion, the Task Force on Intol erance and lhe annua1 SEFA cam-

pa1gn. Greiner added
"Bob Palmer ha s contnbuted
Immensely tO the Un1vers11y at
Buffalo and to our Western New
York com munit y." Greiner noted.
"We will miss h1m. and we wtll
m1 ss has leadership."
Black joined UB In 11178

Black has held a variety of student-services positions s1nce joinmg UB m 1978 as executive da rector of Sub Board I. Inc ., a UB
st udent -servtce corporation. He
has been dean of st udem ~ smce
1988 and was named assocaa te
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College.of·Arts and Sciences gets Senate's unanimous support
Resolution passed June 17 after reports
of hearing panel, academic planning unit

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HE FACULTY SENATE ha s
unanimously endorsed a resolution supporting the formation of
a College of Arts and Sciences.
The resolution was passed at the
Faculty Senate's June 17 meeting following
repons by the Hearing Panel on the Reorgantzalion of the Arts and Sciences and the
Faculty Senate Academic Planning Committee . (See Hearing Panel report below)
" I move this resolution because I do beLieve we need to get this thing moving for-

ward:· said William Baumer. professor of
philosophy. who initiated the motion. "We' ve

lion or dissolution of academic units."
" We will have an ongoing year of decision-making (on the academic plan) ... and
the committee felt it was necessary to keep
the serutte in this process and add to our
structure (a) point that allows the senate to
be informed on future decisions that will
be made by the administration," said Boris
Albini, professor of microbiology and chair
of the governance committee.
But Jack Meacham. professor of psychology, proteSted strongly the oeed for the resolution, noting ''there has been ample oppor·
tunity on this campus for discussion ."

exemplary....! think we've already spent too
much time discussing """''"filzaon arld too
liUie time discussing implementation ... .l really feel that we oeed to move forward on
issues facing the campus," he said.
The resolution is intended to deal with
those future issues, Albini noted.
1bere are many other issues in the
provost's repon that need discussion and I
think it makes sense to have those structures written down:· Albini said.
Errol Meidinger, professor of law,
called the resolution "too broadly drafted.

I would suppon a narrower resolution."
The senaJe Wled 10 return the .i.otution
to commitu:e for future considentioo.
In his repon10 the Faculty Senate, UB
President William R. Ore,iocr indicated that
there is rea!OO for optimism concemiog the
state budget and the status of United University Professions contract negotiations.
According to Greiner, indications are
that SUNY has a " reasonable chance" for
a full-restoration budget, although be did
not elaborate. He added that UUP and the
stale "are working very, very hard...quietly
and behind the scenes" toward a contnocL
" I can think of nothing better for this
institution than to come back in the fall"
with both the budget and a contract in
place, Greiner said.
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been discussing it for six months.... The pro-

Panel hears eight presentations, concludes meetings.

posal that this should go back for further fac-

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ulty consideration serves no purpose."
In all , the hearing panel received feedback from 17 indi viduals regarding the
provost's proposed academic plan, accordmg to Michael Stokes, director of student
multicultural affair.. He c haired the panel
and. along with Elizabeth Mensch. Jrofessor of
law and a member of the panel. presented preliminary findings to the Faculty Senate.
The mission of the hearing panel. notC:d
Mensch. was nol to provide recommendati o ns regarding the proposed academic
plan, but to compi le infonnation and conem s presented during those hearings.
ccording to Stokes, concerns expressed
g hearings on the academic plan feU into
cate ories that included the quality of and
em
is on undergnlduat.e education, proViding a commoo educational experience \0

students, unde'llJ'IIduate identity, linkages
between undecgraduate and graduat.e education and creating interdisciplinary programs
while limiting bureaucnocy.

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hearing panel also found that proposals for the reorganization of the
ans and sciences at UB fell into two
categories: fonnation of a College of Arts
and Sciences and a series of proposals for
what Stokes called "local options," such as
the " Big Sciences" option and the College
of Computing and Information Science.
The hearing paoel, which was appointed
by Provost Thomas E. Headrick to examine options for the reorganization of the arts
and sciences, has agreed to provide a detai led summary of its fi ndings to the provost by the end of June 1 Stokes said.
Senators also heard a report by Dennis P.
Malone, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and chair of the Faculty Senate's Academic Planning Committee. Calling his remarl&lt;s ''the most recent interim report. because we are nowhere oear
completing the task," Malone nol&amp;l that his
group had found many of the same concerns
as the university-wide hearing paoel. In addition. he said. "we looked at the question
whether there is a reason not to form a College of Arts and Sciences" and found none .
''The fact that the leadership will be imponanl is obvious. We obviously want the
best person to head thi s .... The search process (for a dean of arts and sciences) should
stan as soon as possible," Malone said.
In other business, the senate returned to
commince a resolution from its Universily
Governance Committee on the review of
plans of the future of the unjversity and
reorganization of its academic units .
1be resolution outlines a four-step review
process that would be followed before UB's
president makes a final decision on "plans
for the future of this university and on proposals regarding the formation, reorganiza-

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A PROPOSAL TO CIIEATE a College of
Science at UB was formally introduced into
the mix as the bearing panel gathering evidence on the reorganization of the arts and
sciences concluded its meetings earlier this
month. The panel heard presentations from
four speakers on June 4 and held an extra
session on JuneS to accommodate four additional speakers.
Ronald Berezney, professor and chair
of the Department of Biological Sciences,
presented on behalf of his depanment what
some have called the " big science" proposal. Berezney advocated realigning the
ans and sciences from the present threefaculty structure to a two-&lt;:&lt;&gt;llege model: a
College of Science and a College of Arts,
Humanities and Social Studies.
The College of Science would be comprised of basic sciences, sucb as biology,
chemistry and physics; appropriate departments from the social scieoces, such as Anthropology, Psychology and Communicative
Disorders and Sciences, and basic science
departments from the schools of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine
and l'hannocy. The remaining deponments
in Social Sciences would merge with the
Faculty of Arts and Letters to form a College
of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies.
Berezney acknowledged that since moving science departments out of the healthsciences schools would be a complex undertaking-and Provost Thomas E.
Headrick wants a new structure for the arts
and sciences in place by Fall 1998-a
" modified" two-&lt;:ollege model should be
adopted that would immediately bring the
science departments in social sciences and
the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics into a College of Science. That
college eventually could expand 10 include
"increased interaction. in terms of research
and teaching programs," with the healthscience based science departments, he said.

mation studies from the School of Information and Library Studies, management information systems from the School of Managemen~ Geographic Information Systems from
the Department of Geography and medical
informatics from the health-science schools.
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The creation of such a school would
"strengthen, rather than erode," the numerous connections between computer science
and other departments, Shapiro said.
James Whalen, professor and chair of
the Depanment of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, adv0¢ated the creation of a
College of Science and Engineering that
would join natural sciences andmathemai·
ics with the School of Engineering. He also
favored merging the depanments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Computer Science.
Other speaJcers at the bearing paoel were:
• Irwin Guttman, professor and chair
of the Department of Statistics in the
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, who urged that his department remain a department and be moved to the
same school or college as the Department
of Mathematics.
• William Baumer, professor of philosophy, who told the bearing paoel he fa-

vors the creation of a College of Arts and
Sciences and that Headrick should bonow
from a national advertising campaign and
"just do iL" Headrick, be·added, should appoint a senior faculty member as the dean
of arts and sciences, effective July I, "with
all the powers and privileges" of the pos~
including budgetary power, to set up the
college's administrative and faculty governance structures. The faculty member
would serve for a three-year term, at which
time a permanent dean would take over.
• Victor Doyno, professor of English,
who said a merger of arts and letters and
social sciences " will have a negative effect
on the disciplines."
• William FISCher, vice pl'O'IOSI for faculty~ wbo supported the creation
of a College of Arts and Sciences with a resilient and flexible SlrUCtW'e, "keyed 10 the
over-arching breadth of its eooslitueol disciplinesldeponmonb.:nlhtrlhan keyed 10 the
old·triplltite division of the former faculties."
• Peter Gold, associate dean of the Undergraduate College, wbo argued for a College of Arts and Sciences "because it will
best pri.vide the critical portions of undergraduate educatioo--geoenl education and
elective counes for DOO-ma~t get
too liUie attention and ~on under the
current structure."
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Berezney said the two-&lt;:ollege model
would achieve a better organizational struc·
~what be called the major reason for the
"""''"filzaoo-by decreasing the nwnber of
decanal units from three to two. "And we
would have something better. from an academic, prograrrunatic point of view and research potential, than exists right now."
Stuart C. Shapiro, professor and chair of
the Department of Computer Science, told
the paoel that his department would prefer to
be pan of a free-standing School of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. The school would be composed of
his depanmen~ and faculty involved in computer engineering from the Department of
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Faculty, staff, librarians horwred
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HREE FACULTY members,

three librarians and four professional staff members have received the
I 997
SUNY
Chancellor's Awards for Excel-

lence.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence
tn Teaching honors "superb" teaching at the

undergraduate, graduate or professional
level.
Recipients are .......,. AIIMM, asso-

ciate professor of civil engineering ;
Mlclulel P. l..clq, associate professor of
music, and TJ. ~ associate
professor of chemical engineering.
They were cited for "mastery of teaching, dedication to students, adherence to
the highest academic standards and continued professional growth and scholarship."
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence

in Librarianship recognizes ''skill in
brarianshlp, service to the campus. the
university and to the field ; scholarship and

professional growth, and major profesional achievements."
Recipients are Qleedonl Johaso,..
, associate librarian and collection
dev pment coordinator of the Oscar A.
Silv rman Undergradu ate Library; Edw
...._, associate librarian in the

business/government documents center,
and ,._,. A. Sclllller, engineering librarian in the Science and Engineering Library.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Professional Service bonon accomplishments and SUSillined performance excellence
"both within and beyond the position."
Recipients are - . . , . -.toe, asrociate dean of the Faculty of Natural Sci-

ences and Mat hematics; •••llr•
Fu.lla, associate director of the Center
for the Arts; - , _ L ......,,clinical research coordinator in UB 's Center for
Dental Studies in the Department of Periodontics, and &amp;.eon.d F• ...,....., associate vice president and controller.

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hahid Abroad, who also serves as associate chair and d irector of undergraduate studies in the Department
of Civil ~ Engineering , specializes in
geotechnical and earthquake engineering.
A UB fac ulty member since 1982, be was
named by students as their favorite engineering professor last year. An honorary
member of the Golden Key NatioQai Hooor
Society, he received the new faculty development award in 1987.
Ahmad holds doctoral and master's degrees from U B and a bachelor's from

N.E.D. University of Engineering and
Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Michael Long also is music-history coordinator for the Department of Music,
where be has been a faculty member since
I 990. He developed the depanment'o
World Wide Web site and collaborated on
development of the local area network for
provision of digitized multimedia reserve
materials for on-site and distance Jearrting.
Long teaches undergraduate and graduatelevel music courses to music majors and
non-majors.
He earned a doctorate and a master of
fine arts degree from Princeton Univen;ity,
and a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude,
from Amhent College.
T.J . Mountziaris carne to UB in I989
from the Univen;ity of MiMesota. A past
president of the electronic and photonic
materials division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, his research
interests include thin film technology focusing on electronic, pbotonic and magneto-optical materiaJs.
He teaches undergraduate and graduate
courses and taught the tint televised coune
from UB in the EngiNet series for Distance
Learning with remote sites at Binghamton
Univenity and SUNY Stony Brook.
Glendora Johnson-Cooper also is
project manager for the Univenity Libraries library residency program . She has
encouraged more than I 00 minorities to
consider academic librarianship as a career
in a field in which fewer than 5 percent are
Native American, Hispanic American and
African American. Johnson-Cooper earned
a bachelor's degree in sociology and a
master's degree in library science, both
from UB .

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dward Herman is the University Libraries contact person for the New
York State Data Center. He trains staff
to use government pubtications and provides
government documents, business and microforms reference services to students, faculty
membcn; and individuals in the community.
Before joining UB in I977, Herman was
with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is associate editor of LffiRES, an electronic journal, and
has authored chapten and library texts.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Hunter College and a master' s
degree in library science from Queens College.
Nancy Schiller joined UB in I 989 as
engineeri ng lib rarian in the Science and
Engineering Library. She provides reference assistance in engineering and applied
science, natural sciences, mathematics and
computer science, and is liaison between
the library and the School of Engi neering
and Applied Sciences.
Schiller earned a bachelor's degree from
the U n ive rsity of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and a master's degree with
honors from the Columbia University
School of Library Science. She formerly
was senior technical writer and assistant
publications director with Ecology &amp; Environment Inc. and a freelance copy editor
with Buffalo-based Prometheus Books
Martha Barton carne to UB in 1986 a&gt;
assistant for budget and personnel in the
Office of the Provost. She was named assistant to the provost in 1988 and assOCIate dean of the Facull)"bf Natural Sciences
and Mathematics in 1995. Barton serves
on the faculty 's executive committee, is a
presidential appointee to UB 's Committee
on Professional Evaluation and is a mem -

ber of the Facilities Advisory Commiuee.
Prior to coming to UB, she was executive
director for Erie Community College/South
Faculty Student Association.
A fitness instructor with Dance Spec trum in Lancaster, she has taught fitness
and dance in several community education
programs. Barton earned bachelor's and
MBA degrees from Canisius College.
Sandra Fazekas plans and implements
budge~ supervises staff and volunteers, and
solicits local, national and international
user groups for the Center for the Arts . She
came to UB in 1972 as a staff member in
the School of Law and subsequently has
served in various capacities ln the Office
of the Provost, the Faculty of Arts and Letters. School of Architecture and Environmental Design and the office of the senior
vice president.
In 1992, she became staff associate and
events coordinator at the Center for the An.s

and was named associate director th1 s year
Fazekas gradua ted magna cum laude
with a bachelor' s degree from the UB
School of Architecture and Plannmg .
Maryanne Mather supervises clm1cal
projects and teaches laboratory technique !&gt;
to students and vasi ting pro fessors 10 the
Department of PeriodontiCS. She has participated in and co-authored numero us SCI·
entific papers on research conducted 10 lhe
department
Mather earned a bachelor's degree 10
medical technology from UB and jomed
the Department of Periodontics in 1967.
She is a past president and a former board
member of the Niagara Fronuer Society of
Medical Technology.
Leonard Snyder has been associate vice
pres ident and controller of UB si nce 1987.
providing leadership and direction for ad mini strative. general institutional and sru ·
dent-service operations. He joined UB an
1965 as an assistant accountant and became
chief accountant in 1968. For nearly a decade, he was assistant vice president for
housing and auxiliary enterprises, and was
named assistant vice president and controller in 1986. Snyder has served as a member
or chair of numerous university committees.
He served in the U.S. Anny and received
a bachelor's degree from Canisius College
and an MBA from UB .
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Charles V. Paganelli named
SUNY Distinguished Professor
CHARL£$ V. PAGANELU, PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY. has been named a SUNY
Distinguished Service Professor.
Paganelli' s appointment was approved at the May meeung of the SUNY Board of
Trustees. The rank of{,listinguished Professor is the hi ghest academic title in the SUNY
system.
A member of the UB faculty since 1958. Paganelil JS h1ghl y
respected as a leader in depanmentaJ and university service. Since
1991 . he has served as interim chair of physiology. a position he
also held from I 980-82 and in 1986. In addition. he was assocJate
chair of the department from 1976-80 and I 982-91.
Paganelli was a member of UB 's Faculty Senate for more than
a decade, including a one-year term on the Faculty Senate Executive
Comminee. He also was a member of the steering commi ttee for the
self-study that led to UB's 1982 Middle States accreditauon.
From 1984-86 he served as chair of the President's Rev1ew
Board on Appointments. Promotions and Tenure, the body that
makes recommendations to the president on all tenure. promotion and permanent ap·
pointment cases.
st.rt~rctn 1170, P.,....lll was named to several commiuees of UB' s Facult) of
HeaJth Sciences, made up of all five of the university 's medical and health profession'
sc hool s. helping to shape the role of those schools in the university 's mi ss10n.
An active researcher, throughout h1s career, Paganelli has brought more than $5 7
milhon in awards to the un iversity. His research has raken him to locau ons that mclude
the MarshaJilslands. Midway Islands. Alaska and Hawaii.
H1ghl y regarded throughout lhe world, he has presented lectures 10 Den marl. F ran~:e .
Switzerland. Italy. Israel, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, as well as lhroughoutthe Un1ted State'
Paganelli has published more than 70 articles in professio nal JOurnal s and 1 ~ l'o-edltur
of the book "Physiology Funclion in Special Environments."
His professional memberships include the American Phys1o log1cal Soc·1et) and the
Undersea Medical Society. ln 1995 he received the dean 's award of the School o f Med1·
cine and Biomedical Sciences and the Student National Medical Assoc iation Award
Paganelli holds a bachelor's degree from Hamilton Col lege and master 's and doctoral
degrees from Harvard.
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�Albert ·speaks on issue of physician-assisted suicide
Law prof gives talk

social oonns as the only real deterrent to
attempting suicide.
These norms are eoougb to satisfy the
Supreme Court, wbichAibendescribed
as "chastened" on deciding such issues by
the fires that erupted under it over the abortion issue. The Supreme Court ruled on abortion nearly a quaner century ago and is still
haunted by its decisi!"' today.

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CURRENT CLIMATE in whic h
ysician-assisted ~ uicide occurs in
U.S . without legal prescriptions
IS preferable lOa situation where the
practice would be overseen by legal protocols. according to UB law professor Lee
Alben.
There arc no codified legal instructions
in place concerning physician-assisted suicide, he told a June 17 UB Senior Alumni

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Series luncheon, addjng, "very strong soc ial norms discourage it.''

Albert said: "Medical accelerauon of
death is a practice which the legal system
currently condones, because the prosec utors don't prosecute and the doctors don't

naunt

it."'

The o bvious exception. he noted. IS Jac k
Kervorkian .
Alben said legal protocols for physi·
Clan -ass isted su•c ide wou ld amount to ··a

tidy legal fix ," replacing the compass ion
that characterizes the practice today with
di spassionate logic .
He noted that there are scverdJ problems
inherent in trying to legaslate ass isted sui c ide.
Among them as the lack of consensu

about who should be considened competent enough to make a self-determination
decision. Alben questioned wbether a person in pain or weakened by illness is capable of making a sound judgment.
He a lso discussed the ambiguity surrounding who would be eligible for assisled
suicide under any proposed law. He described a person who has a terminallllness.
suffers intense pain and has a month left to
live as a likely candidate. But he questioned
whether assisted suicide would be appropriate if an individ ua l is not in pain or isn't

mentally sound.
Another concern about physician-assisted suicide, Albert said, is that condoning su icide could discoW1lge people from
striving for life. He recommended guarding against the potential effects of this
mentality, since "suicides have a cascading, or bandwagon, effect~'
The myriad of possible cin:umstances
creates a situation that makes any attempt
at legislation ''very diffic ult," observed
Alben. Noting that " no state makes at tempting suicide a crime,'' he described

lben s peculated that the abonion
legacy provides ample justification for
the Supreme Coun to walk softly when
dealing with assisted suicide. He reasoned
that "the coun will return assisted suicide
to the sjates ...io short, it will not hold that
there is a constitutional rigbt"
Regardless of whether or 001 there exists a constitutional rigbt to pbysician assisted suicide. it is still done.
Alben discussed its use by an amalgam
of individuals: people with tnminal ill nesses and constant pain, Alzheimer's patients who seek a pre-emptive suic ide before mental deterioration sets in, and families of unconscious or incompetent
individuals, people whose medical costs
represent what Alben called " non-trivial
sums of money."
Asked how widespread the practice is,
Alben said, " It's common for doctor.; and
families and patients to agree on using pain
killers, even when there is a risk of accelerating death .... Sometimes they even go a
little funber."
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HE UNIVERSITY laun c hed i rs fir s r s rud yabroad program in C uba on Jun e I when five students
left for a month in Havana, where they will be involved in
an interdi sci plinary study of the city's history. architecture and urban development.
As part of the program, th e students will develop and present
a proposal for the preservation and restoration of one of Havana's
hi storic ne ighborhoods. Partic ipants will receive six graduate or
undergraduate credits for their work.
The program may be the only summe r program in C uba sponsored by a U.S . university, according to Stephen Dunnett, vice
provost for international educati on, who will conduc t an on -site
evaluation of the program. Owing to the U.S. embargo of Cuba,
Dunnett said the U.S. Treasury ~parunent has pennitted few
such ventures by American sc hools or busi nesses.
The UB program. which will pnesent its final restoration proposal
in September, is direcled by Jose Buscaglia, visiting assistant professor of Spanish. He holds a master's degree in planning from the
UB School of Architecture and Planning and is a doctoral candidate
in the Depanment of Comparative Literatures.
1be course of study began with an intensive two-week presentation on the history of Havana from 1519- 192D. It was taugbt by Daniel
Taboada, Cuba's foremost authority on architectural restoration .
Taboada has supervised restoration projects on entire historically
valuable urban centers in Cuba He also oversaw the restoration of
the historical fortification and defensive systems of the city of Havana. Built between the 16th and 19th cennuies, these fortress walls
and battlements are the most extensive in the Western Hemispbere.

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uring his course, Taboada will present Havana in a wide range
of contexts , including the representation o f the city over the
centuries in mediums suc h as film, art, literature and music.
'This study-abroad program is designed as an interdisciplinary exercise," said Buscaglia. " A city is the best ' laboratory site'
for a productive engagement between disciplines because of the
stimulus provided by its setting and structure. Despite what we
ha ve beard of its decline, Havana is a magnificently designed
city and one of the most important in the region .
"As a matter of fac~" he said, "in this pan of the world-the
Caribbean hasin-Havana is considered the only 'real' city. That is,
it has developed a particular urban culture, a characteri stic peculiar
only to the major cities of the world, like Paris, London, Cairo, Rome.
Barcelona. Calcutta.. Beijing. A separate urban culture develops in
cenain urban centers because of the traffic patterns. among other
things. Most great cities have greatly limiled auto traffic and many
have well-developed mass tmnsit sySlentS. Havana, on the other hand.
has few cars and much pedestrian traffic 001 because of urban planning, but because gas and cars are just 001 available and the public
uansponation system is crumbling," be said.
" Nevenbeless, Havana was designed in the 1930s according to a
very clear and rational system. It was extravagantly designed and

well-planned. I studied Havana for more than five years, but wben I
visiled for the first time the city's ~ scal&lt;&gt;--its ' monumentalily'- was completely unexpecled to me," Buscaglia noted "It has
magnificen~ arcaded boulevards, for instance, beautifully and strongly
built in stone and concrete that protect pedestrians from the sun and
rain and encourage street life and pedestrian traffic.
"Like all great cities, it has a very rich urban culture," he added.
'That is, it is not a typical city of automobiles with urban sprawl.
Havana is a city of the pedestrian . a city that must be 'walked' in
order to be understood."

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uscaglia said Havana isn 'i in ruins, although it could have
been. It was abandoned after the Cuban revolution because of
its identification as the capital of a colony and a center of corruption. Much attention has been paid by the government to other,
smaller Cuban cities, some of which have been restoned. Until now,
however, Buscaglia said Havana has been pretty much ignored.
''Casrro's government didn't bother to demolish the city, fortunately. so it has been preserved," he said. " It ' s run down , but
because it was very well built, it can easily be rehabilitated, and
that 's what's going on now.
"The amount of foreign investment in the city is staggeringmillions and millions of Ewopean. Mexican and Canadian dollars
are pouring into Havana," be said "The pace of reconstruction. rehabilitation and rebuilding is amazing. The idea now is to bun Havana
into a sbowpiJice again so as to draw more investment to Cuba."
After studying Havana in a classroom for two weeks. the students will select a specific site in the city for a group project focused ·on the question of how a panicular urban site migbt be
saved. As a group, they will study and document the site and then
design an actual physical intervention proposaJto·restore it.
The study group consists of two students of architecture, one
planning studen~ a history and a sociology student. The planning
student wiU lead fellow students through the streets of Havana
and be in charge of writing about the urban signs and history of
the site selected. The history and sociology students will broaden
the group's understanding of the political and social relevance of
the site selected and of the project itself. The architecture students will design the actual physical intervention.
Students will live and study in the Old Convent of Santa Clara
in the colonial section o f Havana- Habona Viejo or "Old Havana"-which today is also the site of Cuba's National Center for
Conservatlon, Resroration and Museum Studies.
" h is a magnificent old place," Buscaglia said. " As the re ligious o rder that li ved there diminished in size, the nuns moved to
a smaller convent and the 17th-century cloister.; that comprised
the original convent were converted to a beautiful residence for
students with wonderful studio space and classrooms. The administrative offices of the national center are also there."
The Cuban study-abroad program will be offered again in the summer of 1998. It was developed by the UB Faculty of Ans and Letters
and the UB International Studies Program. whicb operates programs
with universities throughout Europe. Latin America and Asia.
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'Disability
New view ofAttention Deficit Disorder
ltr!MSUIIDI

News Services Editor

EDIATRIC RESEARCHERS
from UB and Children's Hospital of Buffalo have shown that
children diagnosed with attention
.
deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADIHD) have as much functional rusabil ity as children with mild mental retardation and are not merely exhibiting .. inconven ient,. behavior.
Results of the study were presented in
Washington at the annual meeting of the
Society for Peruatric Research.
Using a standard developed at UB for use
by the developmental -and rehabilitationmedicine community to assess a patient's
needs for rehabilitation services, the researcber5 detennined thst most of the 43
children in their preliminary study were significantly less able to care for themselves.
recognize appropri ate sociaJ behavior and
communicate than children of slmilar age
who were not ruagnnsed with the disorder.
" When we applied thi s standard measure of disa bility to these children, we
found that children who get referred for hyperactivity have high levels of document·
able needs and reql,lire a lot more help than
other chi ldren thor age," said Thomas M .
Lock, who prese ted the results. Lock is
UB cljnical assi tant professor of pediatrics and associ a medical director of the
Robert Warner ehabilitation Center at

P

Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
Lock said the results could have significant impact now because, as of this month,
children ruagnosed with attention deficit
rusorder who routinely have been receiving federal Supplementary Security Income
funds must demonstrate they are truly rusabled.
Considerable controversy exists within
the medical and education communjties
about whether ADIHD is a rusability or a
behavioral problem. Diagnosis of the disorder occurs most often in school-age children and usuall y is precipitated by disruptive classroom demeanor.
and colleagues felt that if funcnal deficits of children with AD/
could be documented outside of
school, the results would suppon the hypothesis that the disorder is, in fact, a disa bility. To accomplish this, they used an
assessment tool called the Wee-F!M .
The Functional Independence Measure.
or FIM scale, was developed by the UB
Department of Rehabilitation Merucine and
has been adopted universally as a standard
measure to characterize the level of adult
disability and to rurect treatment. The Wee FIM has been standardized for children. It
contains measures for self-care, bowel and
bladder control, mobility. communication
and social cognition.
The 43 children assessed were found 10

have lower than normal Wee-AM scores
overall. and to show significant deficits in
self-care. social cognition and communi cation. There also was a ·corTelatioo be tween inattention symptoms reponed by
parents and the self-care and 'social cognition deficits characterized by the Wee-FJM.
'"'These results confinn that young children with ADIHD have functional deficits
in both self-care slciUs and social skills and
thst these deficits are related more closely
to inattention than rusruptive behaviors. age
or IQ," Lock said. 'The study should shed

su-

light on the pubhc debate about whether

these children are rusabled or whether thelf
families are playing the system for benefits."
If these functional deficits can be confirmed in a broader study. they should be
the focus of treatments in children with AD/
HD. Lock Stated.
Other researchers involved an the study
were Nadine L. Duchan. Sue E. Olexenko
and Michael E. Msall. of the UB Depanmenl of Pediatrics. The study was spon·
sored in pan by the Chi ldren's Guild of
Buffalo .
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prccram

tr..tment
set for children with AD/HD
All award-winning program to treat children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder, or ADn-ID, will be offered at UB this summer under the direction of Willlam E. Pelham Jr., UB professor of psychially and psychology.
The e~-week program, open to children ages 7-t2, will be offered from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m . weekda~ from late June through mid-August in the Ellicott Com·
plex on the North Campus. A fee will be charged.
The program is noted for ~ effectiveness in bringing long-term Improvement
by combining psychosocial treatment in a summer-camp setting with parent
training and medical evaluation.
"This is a chance for parents whose children are on Ritalin to decrease dra matically their reliance on medication." Pelham said. "Ritalin alone 1s not a good
treatment. By adding psychosocial treatment. we can cut the dose of medicatiOn
in han."
One of the nation's leading authorities on the diagnosis and treatment of chll·
dren with AO/HD and other behavioral disorders , Pelham came to UB last September as director of clinical training and directpr of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Program in the Department of Psychology.
A key component of the summer treatment program is its emphas1s on helping AD/HD children develop normal peer relationships, one of the foremost diffi·
culties these children face and one that has not been addressed effecllvely 1n
traditional outpatient settings, Pelham notes.
Parents interested in enrolling their children in the AD/HD Summer Treatment
Program should call the UB Psychological Services Center at 645-3697 be·
tween 9 a .m. and 5 p.m . Monday through Friday.

·ds to wear bike helmets? Better make it the law
•• LOla IIAKEII

News Services Ed•tor

IF YOU WANT IUDS to wear bicycle hel mets, pass a helmet Jaw because gentle persuasion doesn'l work. This appears to be
the message from a three-year study headed
by Kathleen Lillis, a pediatric emergency
medicine specialist at UB .
Li lli s reponed at the annual meeting of
the Society for Peruatric Research that the
percentage of c hildren owning and wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle tripled
during 1995, the first full year New York
State's helmet law was in effect, compared
to 1993.

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An assistant professor of pediatrics and
medical director of emergency medicine at
Chi ldren 's Hospital of Buffalo, Lillis treats
the injuries children suffer in bicyc le acci~
dents, the most serious of which are head
injuries. Working wi th a pediatric o utreach

coordinator, Lillis and colleagues in I 993
initiated an in-school bicycle safety pro·
gram to educate students about the importance of wearing helmets. The students an·
swered 10 questions about helmet owner·
ship. use and bicycle safety.
In mid-1994. 18 months into the study,
New York State passed a law requiring all
chi ldren under the age of 14 to wear a hel met while biking. The law 's passage allowed Lillis to compare answers on the
questionnaires before and after the law
went into effect.
A tota l of 8,890 public and private
middle-school c h ildre n comp le led the
questionnaires prior to attending the safety
course. Results showed that the number of
c hildren who said they owned a helmet
increased from 3 1 percent in 1993 to 91.6
percent in 1995 . The percentage of c hil dren who said they always wear their belmet increased from 23 percent in 1993 to

stigma went awa}'
While a lot more ch ildren may be wear+
ing helmets , some still aren't. and when
they turn up 1njured in Lillis· ped1atnc
emergency room, they get a stem lecture
"We tell them we can fix arms and leg!!..
but we can·t fix heads very well.''

She said the Jaw also
made weari ng helmets more
acceptable to kids. eve r fearful
of looking "dorky."
"One of the items on the questionnaue
was 'I don't wear a helmet because .. .' and
a lot of kids said 'because it's not cool.'
That changed after lhe legi slalion. More
kids were wearing them. so some of the

Helmet l•w ahoukl cover lldutta, too
Lillis hope!!. her study prompts other
states 10 enact helmet laws. She also would
like to see New York State 's law go fur·
ther. requiring helmets o n all bike riders.
''You can't e~pec t children to wear them
when parents aren't wt:ar1ng tht:m." she
stated .
Also parllc1paung in th e "tudy were
S usa n Carden of Children·s Ho spital.
Lmda C. Duffy. associate professor of pe·
diatrics, and Christopher J. Rook . of the
Women and Children's Health Research
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Samsung execs in management school technology program
ltr -

DIILI.A CON1IIADA
Reporter Contributor

rn

-FI VECHIEFinfonnation
(CIOs) from the Samsung
tion' s South Korea headquarters arc participating in a fourweek information-technology strategy program at the School of Management thi s
summer. The program is one component
of a $500,000 contract awarded the school
by Samsung for development and admi nISiration of c urriculums that illustrate the
strategic application of information tec hnology in the business world.
The program, taught by management
faculty through the sc hool's Center for
Management Development, includes visits to businesses in New York for demonstrations of bow U.S . industry employs
emerging technology to develop new and
more efficient management systems, reach
new c ustomers Md expand its services to
the global marketpl ace. Visits also are made

to Caoaruan firms.
Samsung commissioned the program as
pan of its plan to update the informationtechnology skill s of managers across all
levels and divisions of its operation, according to Song Joong Kang, a senior specialist for Samsung's Informati on Technology Academy.
'The program is a pan of a big commitment by Slimsung to enhance its level
of information-technology expertise," said
Kang. " Its purpose is to demonstrate how
technology learned in the classroom is applied and customized by U.S . companies:
to see technology in action."
On a rece nt vi sit to Marine Midland
Bank headquaner.. in Buffalo, the C JOs
were given a glimpse of new desktop bank·
ing applications and an insider's look at
the information-technology infrastructure
developed by the bank to manage its international operations. The group also bas visited operations at Corning, Inc., EDS-

Xerox and KPMG Peat Marw1ck.
'"'lbe entire education process is driven
through cases and site visits." swd Larry
Sanders, associate professor of managemenr
science and systems at the school. ··our de ·
partment also receives several benefits from
the program because the Samsung C IOs are
a tremendous repository of information ·
technology knowledge.' '
The program concludes June 27 w1 th a
graduation ceremony. but the )c hool's relationship with Samsung w111 contmue in
July with a similar prog ra m for the
company's infonnatlon-systems d1recton.
and with lhe devel opment of t·urnculums
throughout the year for o ther Samsung
managers. In addition. Samsung has assigned an executive-in-residence at the
management school for participation in an
eight-month program to enhance English
speaking abHity and management, leadership and marketing skills.
Samsung is ranked among Fortune

magazine's most profitable mtematJonal
corporation s and selected the School of
Management among bids from several un1 ·
versities to develop and deliver the program.
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Faculty&amp;StaHBillboard
SPENCER NAMED WINNER OF
PSS OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

hvertr A. Spencer,

assistant
dean lor community affairs in the

School of Dental
Med•c•ne, has
rece1ved the
Outstand•ng
ServiCe Award
from the ProfesSIOnal Staff Senate
The award IS
g1ven to a fullt•me proless•onat staN member for
outstandtng volunteer service to
the community and excellence
wl!hrn the •ndl-vtdua1's professiOnal poSitiOn
A UB staff member s1nce 19B 1
and af111l8ted w1th the dental
schOOl s•nce 1994. Spencer asSISted tn wntJng the proposal that
secured fund•ng for the ftrst Head

CEDAR, aiiiiiAJII
FEATURED ON AaC-TV
The Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recogn111on (CEDAR) was featured June 18 on
ABC-TV's ~world News Ton1ght With
Peter Jennings - An ABC News
c rew was on campus to 1nterv1ew
a.rgur Srlhart, professor of computer sc1ence and director of CEDAR. and .to film a demonstration of
a system that reads handwriting
and ulthzes computer software developed by the center under lund'ng by the U .S. Postal SeMce .
The WOI'k of CEDAR came to
ABC's atteniiOfl as a result ol the
center being a finalist in the Eighth
Annual Discover Awards for Technical Ach~evement sponsored by Discover magaz1ne

The Architectural Awareness Project
(TAAP) of the School of Architectunl
and Planning will sponsor a fiV&amp;-ffiile
bike nde through the historiC Buffak&gt;
waterfront and some of the city's early
tndustrial neighborhoods on Saturday, June 28
The $6 lee per nder can be paxj
day-QI-the-rtde. Children in bicycle
seats BTe free ; those pedaling their
CJYVn bikes must be rH8f age 10. Ra!n
date 1s July 5. The ride will begin at
10 a.m. in the parking lot of Crawdaddy's at the Erie Basln Marina
Parking IS free.
The tour, led by docent Mac
McCaffery, will continue aklog the
waterfront through the Cobblestone
Dis"ict. past Buffalo's oldest wori&lt;ing
blacksmith shop and """"'sing the
Old Firsl Ward. 'Nhere original WOI'kman cottages are dwarfed by gra1n
elevators on the Buffalo River.
Riders will swing up Ganson
Street. first in the nation to be lit by
electriCity. and take a look at the only
box elevator still standing in the
country
Doubhng back toward downtown. the ride will come upon
Buffalo's firefighting tugboat , the
Edward M . Cotter. at the Michigan
Street Bridge . Riders also will see
the old O&amp;L Railroad Station and
the south terminus of the riverwalk.
Last leg of the tour will head '"'
the rocky hook of land that swings
out into Buffak&gt; Harbor, past
Crawdaddy's, stopping at land's eod.
where riders can lunch.

IIOIIST NAMED ~ OF
DISMIUTY SIIIYICU

-

L-. wno

nas served

as director of Services for Students
with Disabilities and ADA coordinator
at lndlana University-Purdue University, Ft. wayne, Ind. since 1990, has

Stan Health Clink: in Western New
Yen. She continues to support the
program as a member of the Erie
County Head Start Heahh Advisory Committee.
She has helped local schoots,
health centEHs and civic groups in
the areas of heath-care education.
women's and minority issues and
children's heatth .
Spencer also has been cred•ted with developing creative and
tnnovative apprbaches to securing
local and national grants lor
health-home improvement for lead
abatement. capital and site improvements for the Geneva B.
Scruggs Community Health Center and a summer infant-mortality
program for pregnant teens
She earned bachelor's and
master's degrees from UB

been named director of the Office of
Disability Services at UB.
tn 1995 he received the school's
Administrative Excellence Award.
presented to one administrator annually by a consensus of a diverse
ad hoc committee of faculty and
staff. He was a member of the associate faculty in the Department of
English and Linguistics .
Borst is a graduate of Purdue
University Calumet and received a
maste(s degree in educatk&gt;n from
the Purdue Graduate School in
counsellng and student personnel .
He 8el"oo8d as president ot the Indiana Asoodation on Higher Educauon and Disability from 1992-96 and
co-ct\aJr of the Blindness and VISUal
impairments group of the Association
on Higher Education and Disability,
the international association of disability providers.
Chair of the Indiana Rehabilitation
Services Commission In 1995-96,
Borst was also president of the
League lor the Blind and Disabled 1n
Fl. Wayne lrom 1994-97 and presideot of the Still water Place Community Association in Ft. Wayne.

FACUUY, S T A F F ATDINTALTwo facutty members and two staff
members were honored recently
when the School of Dental Medicine
held its 1997 commencement .

---associate

prclessor
d oral biology, """"""" the Society
kY
the Advanc8ner&lt; d Dental Research
Award, wt-Och honors the faculty member """""'oontritUions a n d _ .
have ~ i'1vaiLeble in lostemg p&lt;in-

---......professor

ciplesdst&gt;.dert""""""".

d oral diag10Siic sclenceo, I9C8iYed
TI-e Woli!wn M. F9ogans Award, narred
after the dean d the schoollnrn 197993. TI-e award Is presenled infrequertly
by the OentaiSitxB&gt;t Association to
distingLished ,.,..,-. d the faculty,
staff or aarr.istnllion who "have shown
10 studerts a concem thai~

TADUCIII-.c:uva . . _ FllOII
CHIIIIICAL~
-~. -. associ­
ate profeuor of chemlolty, has

demic denbStty. tempered wrth an

the recipient of the U8 Ffiend of
EOP (EdlJcational ClpportLvlity

been selected

appreciation ollhe demands of 'real
life· dentistry and the inherent chaiMtnges of student life.·
- - . a secretary in
clinical dentistry, and - ..., a senior steoographer in clrical deotistty, received the Florence
Kronson Award reoognizing ~the indr
vidual who has Sxecuted his or her
responsibitity in an outstanding manner and has contributed sign~icantly
to the welfare of studOnts.• TI-e award
is named for a long-time member of
the dental school staff

as a nattonat recipient of the
Chemical Manufacturers
Association's
1997 Respoosib$8 Care Cata·
lyst Award.
The award
honors 1nd1vtdu81s who, through
their excellent teaching ability
both in and out of the classroom.
inspire students to choose careers
tn chemistry and science-related
fields.
A member of the UB faculty
since 1983. Takeuchi has received
a number of teaching awards . including the SUNY Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching .
the UB Student AssociaUon Award
for ExceUence in Teaching and the
UB Student Association Milton
Plesur Teaching AwBTd. He also ts

Program) AWard.
T-.:1\1 has served as a mentor to a number of student programs, including the Minority High

- D i c k , a medical student in
the School of Medicine and B cal Sciences, has ~ selected as a
1997 Academic Medicine Fellow by
the Fellowship Program in Academic
Medicine, sponsored by BristoiMyeB Squibb Company. TI-e program IS run by the National Medical
Fellowahips, Inc .. a nonprofit organization providing assistance to minority medical students. TI-e $6,1XXllellowship recognizes hts polentiaf fa a
career in researd'l and academic
medicine. He was one of 35 feUows
selected 1nrn among eo nominees
representing 54 medical sct-.xlls
across the country.
He will study the consequences
of congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
a disease that prevents the proper
deveklpmenf of t~ diaphragm. He
also won the Pechatric Award at the
1997 National Student Research Forum for his work on prophyiactic vs.
rescue surfactant therapy in the
neonatal lab.

TI-e Graduate School of Education
conferred 8W81'ds upon one of its outstanding graduating docl()(al students and several alumni at the
school's May 17 conmencement.
The 1997 Delbert Mullens "Thinking
C&gt;utside the Box" Award was pre-

sentedto A M i r -.
who received a doctorate in social
foundations of education from the
Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Poticy.
White-Johnson was honored for
the quality of her doctoral dissertation. whk:h focused on the identificatk&gt;n and analysis of school-relared factors that contribute to decisions by young African-American
men to leave high school before
graduation. Her findings led her to
participate on a task force for the
school district In which she conducted her research as it developed approaches to address needs
of under-served students.
She wrote a proposal for a new
course at the high school that has
received state funding and approval
for implementation.
She was nominated for the award
by the Center lor lnte&lt;disciplinary Research on Teaching Africana Studies
in Schools. a joint proiect of the
Gfaduale School of EdUcation and

the Faculty of Arts and Letters.
The school also presented its

Dean's Service Award to AIMal, assistant superintendent for
currictJkJm evaluation and developmoot in the Buffalo Public Sctools.
Distingulshed Ahxooi Awards
were presented to three graduates
of the school's doctor&amp; program:

· - L - . . . . , p.-esidentof
Notre Dame College of South Euclid,

Ohio. Deming r808M!d the award
from the Depar1ment d Counseling
and Educational Psychology, from
which she earned a doctorate i'l
counseling psychology In 19n.
• Roltert L .,_...., rlr.. vice
president for student affairs . Palmer
received the award from the Department of Educational Organization, Admtnisrration and Policy, from
which he received doctorate in
higher education in 1979.
• ~RI ~ professor of
education at 1he University ol North
Carolina , Chapel Hill , Frtzgerald r&amp;cetved the award from the Department of Lparning and Instruction,
from which she received a doctorate In educattonal research and
evaluation In 1979.

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u - - -.ocAUST

WNI._,- A - ,

professor of history, is the recipient of the
1997 Toby Ttektin Back Award, it
was announced by Benet&amp; B.
Silberstem , prestdent of The HOlocaust Resource Center of Buffalo.
The award is given to a k&gt;ca:l
educator ·in recognition of outstanding and decHcated efforts that
have resulted in conveying to students a stronger understanding of
the Holocaust·

W10C~OitiMIDICAL

~

A conference on ·Medical Rehabilitation: Managing Managed
Through
will
be held on July 13-14 in the Sheratoo
Inn Buffalo Airport. Waldeo Averoe.
~- Three pnHX&gt;nlarence
worl&lt;shops wl! be held 01'1 Saturday,
July 12, also In the Sheraton Inn.
The conference is sponsored by
the Department or Aehabilitatk&gt;n
Medicine, the Center for Functional
AsSessment Research in the UB
School ol Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences , the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on
Functional Assessment and Evaluation or Aehabilitahon Outcomes. the
NatK&gt;nal Institute on Otsability and
Rehabilitation Research and the
U.S. Department of Education.
Topics to be addressed include
characteristics of effective and efficient medicaJ rehabilitation pro-grams. measuring satisfaction, prospective payment systems. rehabilf-.

School Student Research Apprenticeship Program, the New Vorl&lt;
State Surnme&lt; Institute f"' Science
and Mathematics, the Howard
Huglles Medical Institute Undergraduata Biological Sciences
Education Program and the Unovarsity Honors Program.
His research Interests focus
primarily on coordination chemistry and transition metal redox
chemistry, that makes possible the synthesis of new complexes and the study of new
chemical reactions. including redox-based catalysis.
Takeuchi hok:Js a bachelor's
degree In chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and a doctotate in chemistry from The Ohio
State University.

talion engineering adaptive deYK:es
and work-site disability management and industrial rehabilitation
For mot'S Information call Car~

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M. Brownscheidle, 859-7575.

SYW'Oelllll10 fOCUS 011
Scholars of music theory from major

universities will ga!het' a1 UB on July
1B and 19 kY a symposiLm oo the
roosical and mathemalical lheOOes of
innuential German roosicologlst and
~Hugo Riemann (t8491919), """&lt;is enjoying a r&amp;birtll d in!Bmational allentiort.
The SY.fllposi...-n, ·Neo-Riemannian Transformations: Mathemabcs
.a nd N'pl!cations, • will be hejd oo
the North Campus. nwiN cons&lt;ter
contemporary applications or recently revived obS8Mitions of Riemann. who9e theory of harmonic dualism treated major and minor
chords as mirror mages of one an-

othe&lt;.
Riemann was long held in disraVO&lt; among English-speeldng scholars, but his theof'ies have recently
been strengthened and generalized
through the application of mathematical group theo&lt;y.
"These ""¥' formulations have
provided a fresh perspective on

19th- and 20th-century harmony
· and counterpoint.· said ......,
~ Sloe ProfeSSO&lt; of Music,
who headed the organizing committee for the event.

Set-. wl come l n r n lkWersily, ComellkWersily, ll1e lJrj,
YerS~ya Chicago, 111e ~a

New Me&gt;&lt;ico, ll1e lXoMlrsily cJ; Aberta

and the Library d Cortgrasa ...... and a-loe ... - . . pn&gt;fesaors d ITU!ic, and UB ga&lt;1Jala sa.-

•--~a and - - oloo

wl par1idpelq. For """" r.lorma!ion.
cai64S-2766, ext 1271.

care
Outcomes-.
-

Three UB students racetlled the
Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence 81 CE!f81"1l00ies held May 27 at

State University Plaza in Albany.
They were among the first recipients
d the oow award, created by Chancab John W. Ryan to recognize students wlx:l demonstrated outstanding
academic: achievement and received
stgniflcant recognition and acclaim
during the past academic year.
Wimers

were -""-""

and ~

a

D.-.

bach re-

cipients nalional Goldwater Scholar&gt;hips, and _ ,
winne&lt; of the Thayer Prize in the Arts.

c. - - . .

Twa-&lt;ysll.!dentsatt4SUNY~

_ , I8CXlgized by the ct1a'lc:elklr in a

wide VIWieoy d areas.

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May graduate, student die in accidents;

BLACK, 8RESIIAM
Continued from page 1

more than I, 700 colleges and universities,
he also speaks, writes and coasults on student service-relaled issues and legal concerns at conferences and institutions nationwide.
"Dennis has a familiarity with the whole
range of student affairs concerns and priori tie s that few people could match,"
Greiner said. " He also has a very deep and
gen uine commitment to servi ng UB 's students, as well as a thorough understanding
of their needs for service and support."
Gresham has SC(Ved as associate vice
president for public service and urban af-

fairs since the division was created in 1993.
"She has a very keen sense of the key
issues and priorities for Pubtic Service and
Urban Affain ," Greiner noted, "as well as
a genuine personal commitment to public
service, urban and regional outreach, and

diversity initiatives-all of which are central to the division 's mission."
- l i t UB,.,.. - - 2 0 r An adjunct assistant professor of counseli ng and educational psychology at UB.
Gresham has been affitiated with the university for more than 20 yean. As associate vice president, she serves as the initial
point of contact for requests for university

assistance from the Western New York
community.
She also supervises minority-focused
campus initiatives such as Coni P. Maloney
CoUege, the Educational Opportunity Program/Center for Academic Development
Servioes, Undeuepresentod Minority Graduate Fellowship Programs and the Office for
Univenity Preparatory Programs (OUPP).
Gresham also has served as executive
director of the OUPP and as assistant to
lhe vice president for student affairs.
Wmter, appointed dean of the School of
Management in 1993, cited professional
and personal considerations in announcing

his resignation.
He said be was attracted to the Katz
business school because of its reputation
as one of the SO best in the country, and
the University of Pittsburgh's status as a
"state-relaled" institution, whereby only
one-fifth of its budget is provided by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-a budget formula that allows the univenity more
autonomy in decisio n-making , tuition
structure and program development than
institutions within the SUNY system.
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During his tenure, Winter was responsible for numerous improvements and innovations within the school, including a
reformation of the MBA progran:&gt;, creation
of an Executive MBA (EMBA) program.
implementation of the only U.S.-accreditod
EMBA program in Singapore, development of an agreement with Renmin Univenity in China to launch an EMBA program at the Beijing institution and advocation of a customer-service philosophy for
all management-school programs.
Winter also bas helped to rebuild the
school's external connections with the business community, alumni and donors. and
sought to make the school more competitive with business schools throughout the
country.
Headrick said that the school has made
.. significant strides" under Winter's leadership. "He leaves the school well-positioned to continue providing excellent programs in management education.
"His leaving also underlines UB's re-1
current mes ~ge to state officials and the
state Legislature: flexibility and freedom
from ill-designed state oversight are absolutely essential ifUB is to prosper and continue to nouri sh the stale 's economy,"
Headrick said.
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UB to co-sponsor conference
of Wright Building Consemncy

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NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE of The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Con-

rvancy, a national organization of Wright homeownen and preservationists, will
held Sept. 17-21 in the Buffalo Hilton. UB will co-sponsor the meeting. The first
vice-president of the organization is Jack Quinan, professor and chair of the UB Depart-

ment of Art History and curator of the Darwin D. Martin House, one of the finest of
Wright's "prairie" houses, which is owned by the univenity and is currently undergoing
restoration.
The conference will include presentations by distinguished speakers on aspects of
preservation and the history of Wright's arc(litecture, and a symposium of noted scholan
and preservationists, led by Quinan and Neil levine of Harvard Univenity.
Among the activities planned are toun of the Darwin Martin complex buill in 190305; Grayctiff, the rarely viewed home that Wright designed for the Martins in Derby in
1927; otherWright-&lt;lesigned homes in Buffalo and Rochester and toun of other architectural highlights.
•

phannacy student suffers injuries
A May graduate of UB was lcilled and a

student injured in an auto collision June
13 while another student died from injuries suffered June 16 in an accident while
hilcing in Zoar Val ley.
Lisa L. Hertel. 21, of Albion. a May
graduate of UB , was lcilled June 13 when
lhe car she was driving was hit by a minivan
on Sweet Home Road between Rensch and
Chestnut Ridge roads. A passenger in the
car, Johanna M. Hill. 21. a UB pharmacy
undergraduate, received head and inlemal
inju ries in the accident. She IS 1n Ene
Co un1 y Medical Center in senous but
stable condition.
According 10 Amherst Police Lt. Willard
Tillman, the accident occurred at I 0:20
p.m., when a northbound minivan dnven
by Gregory P. Ross. 18. of Williamsville.
crossed the double yellow line tnto the
southbound lane and collided head-on woth
the Henel car. Ross was alone in the car.
He was created for injuries in the med1 caJ
center and released . The cause of the acci dent remains under investigation.
ln a separate accident, undergraduate
student Amanda Occhino. 22. of Buffalo.
was sitting with friends watc hmg the wa ~

terfall near the Deer Lick Falls secuon of
Cattaraugus Creek in Persoa. Cattaraugus
County. when a log weighing more than 70
pounds was dislodged and fell more than 200
feet before slriking her head. She died June
23 in Erie County Medical Center.
State Police found the person who may
have dis lcxiged the log. but have not sa1d
whether they think the indiv idual knew that
anyone was below at the time Cattaraug us
County District Attorney M1 chael P Nevm"
JS looking int o the case.

OBITUARIES
Kenneth H. Weber, 68,
retired mechanic
Funeral serv•ces were netc May 30 ro• toe.e,..
neth H Weber 68 a re tired general mecnannIOf UB who Cltec:l May 26 IOilQw !ng a rengrny

rUness
A veteran or Worra War rr Weoer se•vea ,(1
me New York Stare Guaro trom 1944 46 when
ne JOrneo the Navy serv1ng aooaro rne u 5 S
Aenooova untrt 1948 He won.. ea as a relr •ger
ant msoector ana as an 1ndusrna meta ls
salesman betore tak•ng a ,oo wr!n UB tr 197~
He ret~reo rn 1990

GSE DEAN
Continued from page 1

several departments, research centers.
laboratories and special programs. These
include the Department of Learning and
Instruction; the Department of Coun seling and Educational Psychology and the
Department of Educational Organization,
Adminislration and Po li cy ; 1he Early
Childhood Research Center; the Buffalo
Research Institute on Education for Teaching; the Educational Resources and Technology Center; the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education; the
English Language Institute. and the UB
Reading Center and Clinic.
Mitchell wiU oversee the 3Ctivities of 60
fuU-time~uivalent faculty, 22 full-timeequivalent staff and 70 graduate teaching
assistants. She will have overall responsihility for the development of academic programs, fac ulty recruitment and advancement, and for mainraining standards of

teaching, scho lar.;htp and c n:aLJ v~ actt VII )
in education and educauon research
She also will exercise ch1ef responsabal ·
ity for the faculty 10 matters of planmn g
and budgeting. equ1pment and space allo·
cations and personnel and oversee devel opmem ac tivities within the school and
among its alumni and supponers.
In her fonner administrative posiuons
Mitchell has had major responsibility for
strategic planning. faculty appointments.
policy and program development. and
shon- and long-term financial planning
Mitchell earned a doctoral degree an
education, culru ral anthropology and
sociolinguistics from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. where
she was a teaching fellow. She is a gradu ate of Trenton St.ate College and holds a
master 's degree in education and chald
study from Smith College
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Continued from page 1

regional participants. including conference
coordinators Kevin Gaughan and Stan
Lundine. cal led on UB to take a primary
role in continuin g public disc uss ion of
gove rnance issues.
One of the institute's first assignments.
Grei ner said. will be to coordinate a November 1997 confe rence at UB . The UB
session will follow up on the Chautauqua
discu ssion of regionalism. focusing on
specific issues and challenges in the Buf.
falo metropolit.an region.
Sheffer noted that the Western New
York Grant.makers Association. the Greater
Buffalo Partnership and the Association of
Erie County Governments have expressed
suppon for and interest in the November
conference .
·Their collaboration is imponant to u~
That is a model that the In sti tute for Local
Governance and Regional Growth will employ again and again." Sheffer ~ose
of us in Western New York who are work·
ing on issues and effons of regionalism
need to be a good example ourse lves of
collaboration and efficiency."
Greiner noted that Sheffer's appoint ment to direct the institute signals the imponance the universi ty places on the ~ issues. "John has been a first-rate leader for
our overall public service effons during hi s
time as interim vice president. We would
not want him to leave that posl except for
a role of thi s priority.

"He-and we -are very. very commi tted to this new initiative," Greiner added.

Sheffer noted. "1 could not be more enthused about th: chance to concentrate on
the goals of this institute. For me personally. it is an opponunity to focus my public service at lhe university on my primary
interesls as a faculty member---effective
governance and regional growth.
"If Buffalo and Western New York are
goi ng to compete successfully 10 the 21st
ce ntury." Sheffer sa1d. "it w11l be bec au~
all sectors have worked together on very
specific. very practical •ssue' and chal·
lenges in the region.
"Regaonal governance d oe ~ not mean
metropolitan government :· he added "h
means pubhc leadel) and pn vate carizen'
working acro ss mun• c •pal and dem o graphic boundane ~ on a who le frontiC::r u l
specific 1ssues of plannang . bu s an e ~~ dt:\d opment. housmg. land use . governme m
efficiency. economiC growth. serv1 ce dela v
cry and many other area ~
"UB and thi s mstitute cannot mctl lh o~e
regaonal challenges on our own. but \\ C can
play a cnucally lmiX&gt;rtant role . As w1Lh the.'
Governance Project. the real strength of
us·s role is 10 its diverse. talented facuh)
who provide a strong base of research.
policy analySIS and public SCfVICC lO thl ~
effon. The role that Kate Foster. Davad
Perry. AI Proce and Henry Tay lor ha-e
played in the Governance ProJect. for C). arnple , can hardly be overstated."
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                    <text>STATE UIIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
This issue ol the Reporter-both print

and electrooi&lt;&gt;-is the last lor the
spring semester. There will be two Issues during the summer-on June 26
-and July 24. The publication of weeldy
issues lor the fall semester will begin
on Aug. 28.
Faculty, stall, students and alums
can stay in touch with what's going on
at UB by reading the Reporter on the
World Wide Web at

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Faculty Senate

Resolution calls for three-step review,
delay in decision on reorganization
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News Services Assoc•ate Dtrector

A

PROPOSAL to delay
a final decision on the
reorganization of the

arts and sciences at

UB until at least Oct.
I to allow a formal review of the
issue by the Faculty Senate was
the topic of lively djscussion at
the group's May 13 meeting.
The resolution by the se nate's
Committee on University Governance outlines a thme-step review
process that would be followed
before UB's president malces a
final decision on any " plans for
the future of this un iversity and
on proposals regarding the forma -

ti on, reorganization or dissolution
of academic units."
The process would require that
the faculties in volved directly in

any such type o f change subm it
to the senate reports representing
the various views of faculty and
the positive and negative effects
of the proposed plans on the academic units involved and on the
university as a whole.

The senate's executive committee would forward these documents to the appropriate standing
or ad hoc committee for review.
Thar committee would, in tum.
repon back to the executive com·
minee, and subsequentl y, the full

senate, where debate and action
or recommendations to the administration would take place.
To allow such a review of the
reorganization of the arts and sciences, the governance committee
has asked that the decision on the
reorganization be delayed until at
least October.
Provost Thomas Headrick' s
timetable for the reorganization
includes a target date of June 20
for a repon from the hearing panel
that now is collecting evidence on
the reorganization, with a final
decision to be made in Jul y by
President William R. Greiner.
Both Headrick and Greiner say
a decision must be made this summer to allow for sufficient time
for transition to the new organization. which is expected to be in
operation at the start of the Fall

__

I 998 semester.
Some faculty have challenged
the timetable, saying a decision
should not be made during the
su mmer. when man y faculty
members are away from campu s.

B

oris Albini. professor of microbiology and chaJr of the
governance committee, noted that
the Faculty Senate has the responsibility, under its charter. to review aJI fonnal plans relating to
the future of the university.
He called the review proces~
recommended by his commi ttee
a "minimalist process" that allows the facuhy of the aqtdemic
units involved in any change to
"evaluate the pluses and minuses
of whatever is bei ng proposed"
and then lhe Facuhy Senate "in a
structured way" can debate and
resolve itself with the issues.
'We hope to be able to discuss
thi s for another three month s;
three months after 30 yean (when
the College of Arts and Sciences
was dissolved by then -President
Continued on page 2

UB 's Educational Oppottunity Program:
.,placing achievers on the road to success
News Services DirectOI"

IF . . . . IDUCAliONAL Opportunity Program
didn' t exis~ BarbaraAbad might not have accepted
the Dean'~Award for the Faculty of Ans aod Letters on Sunday at the 1111iversity's !51st geoeral
commencement ceremony.
Sim ilarly, Fernando Maisonett might not be at
the helm of the UB undergraduate Student Association for a second year, and Simon A. Johnson
or us might not have represented the stUdent voioe
at the table when 1M SUNY Board ofTrustees held
its meetings during the past year.
And the UB community might have missed out
on the opportunity that was afforded it on Aprill7
when graduating senior Botumroath Keo Lebunas a poignant farewell and ''thank you" to the university----=ged for a performance by a troupe of
classical dancers from her native Cambodia.
1be four are among the some 850 students with
disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled this past year
in UB's Educational Opportunity Program.
Despite the fact that EOP attracts talented students-to the university and provides them with the
suppon they need 10 succeed, it remains a program "1hal is often misunderstood and misrepresented," said Mary H. Gresham, associate vice
president in the Division of Public Service and
Urban Affairs, which administers the program.
As Henry 1. Dllr1llld, UB's EOP director and
head of the stalewide Coun&lt;;il of Educational Opponunity Program Directors, pointed out, despite
the success of studenls ill EO!' programs on SUNY

campuses across the state, "there are still those
who don't waot 10 understand, even in the face of
evidence to the contrary."
Gov. Palalci, for example, proposed in I 995 that
the EOP programs on SUNY campuses be eliminated. While 75 percent of their funding was restored, Durand says the cut that occurred beginning in the 1996-97 academic year means 1,000
fewer students a year are being given the opponunity 10 attend a SUNY coUege or university.

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The 13,000 students enrolled in EOP programs
statewideille from academically or economically
disadvantaged backgrounds; most co me from
families with an annual income below $11,000.
While EOP programs provide them with direct aid
averaging about $500 per semester, the major assistance it gives them is the help they need to
strengthen their sldlls and obtain a degree. Durand
notes that not only do many EOP students work
their way through college-some at two jobsbut they contribute more proportionately to their
education than other students.
''The perception is that EOP is about undeserving students who can't do college work aod are
vinually given a free ride and are here because of
things like affinnativc action," Durand notes.
"The truth of the matter is almost the exact
opposite. lbe truth is they are very talented students who happened 10 have been handicapped by
disadvaotagcd cin:umstances in which they grew

Continued on page 4

Four Years as Friends
Fnends srce frestTra1 year. 1w&lt; grads gathe&lt; o.ASK:Ie the Center 1c1
the Arts after cx:mneo cerra ~ on Su"lday F10111eft Dana Valach.
Verontca Krn. 01nstre So &lt;rod AliCe Chin. See addillonal pciUreS .,
graduation scrapbookat www~

Researchers realizing need
to make case for their wol\
Br EU.IiN IIOI.DIIAUM
News Serv•ces Editor

R

EM EMBER THE Superconducting SuperCol ·
lider?
Now JUSt a b1g ho le 10
the gro und in Texas. the SSC
would have been the most powerful partic le accelerator m the
world well into the 21st century.
It was to be funded with $8 b1l·
lion of taxpayer money.
Wnh that kind of money at
stake-before Congress voted to
ki ll the project- public debate wa&gt;
heated and prolonged. Not onl y
d1d the controversy tngger a neY.
round of ··small-science-versusbig-science" disputes. it also un·
derscored the perenmal rift be tween po liucians. academ1cs and
citizens who val ue scie ntific mquiry m general and those who
think that such effons are a luxury.
to be funded only after education.
urban infrastructure and other domestic problems are fixed
Particle physicists tned to mal..~
their case to all kinds of aud1ence:-.
During one telev1sed sc1entific
meeung. a young researcher went
as far as to note that wuhout the
SSC. the Star Trek tran sporter
would never become a realit y
Whether or not the analog)
was on the mark. remarks hL e
those, made to unders core the
va lue of research. are on the mcrease . Fueled by today's eA tremel) competi tive research ell mate and effons to cut federJI
government funding for research.
the pressure IS on to make science
not only relevant to the Citizen on
the street, but also exciting.
Scientists are comi ng to therealization that it is not enough to
do great research. h 's equal ly imponant to inform those outside of
the scie nt ific commu nity about

what they do and 1ts Implications
for the public good and social
progress.
"Since I entered SCi ence .
then.~ 's never been a time that I
d1dn't feel I had to convince
someo ne to fund my work..'' said
Lmda M . Hall. professor of biochemical pharmacology. "But
now it's a harder sell . There are
more people competmg for fewer
dollars . What was excitmg and
novel and fur'ldable even f1ve
years ago is now routme
For scie nti sts who staned the1r
caree rs 1n the 1950s and '60lt.
when funding for sc1ence was seen
as the responsibility of the federal
goven\ment. the ability to "sell" or
promote o ne 's research wasn't
nearly as 1nLegral to the1r success.

D

avid J Tnggle . dean of the
Graduate School. noted that
"after Wo rld War II. and for the
next 25 years of increasmg prolt·
penty. there was an accepted na ·
uonal commument that the um ·
vers Hi es would do the nation ·,
research m return for fundmg
"The fedeml gO\emment,"' hl'
added. ··1, no" 10 thl' proce!'!o' of
hreakmg. It :-. co ntract ..
Joseph Tufanello. dt:an of thl'
Facull) of NaiUral Sl' lt:nce' and
Mathemat1n . noted that tnd&lt;~~
there are mort&gt; presltures than t' \t!r
on SC it!ntl!'!ol !&lt;. to target then rt' ·
":arch
·· Politi Cian' U't"d I ll 'd~ · 1
don 't undt!rltta nd II but l"m u dl
1ng to suppon 11. ... hl' ... ~uJ 'That
penod llt O\t!f. nou the~ 'J~
thmgs hke · F1~ the oLone lit~ t"r · ·
In a .;;en!'!oe. Tn gg le ... a1d. re
.;;earch h~ been too successful
"People e~pect re~e arc h to
conunue and to enJOY lb bene fib .
but they don't want to have to pa)
Cont1nued on page 4

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~ne Christian,

T

WO FACULTY members a1 lhe
University at Buffal o were
named Distinguished Professors,
lhe highesl rank in lhe S1a1e Universily of New York syslem, al
I he April meeling of
lhe SUNY Board of
Trustees.
Diane R. Chri sllan. professorofEnglt sh. has been
named a !lt:IN Y Disllnguished Teaching
Professor. Peter H.
Hare, professor of
philosophy, has been
named a SUNY Dislonguished Service Professor. BOih designallons are a rank above full professorship.
Christian, an internationall y recognized
sc holar and filmmaker known for her commitment to connecting literary and philosophical works to current social and political concerns. has been a member of the UB
facu lt y si nce 19?0.
Her prizewi nn ing documentary films,
for whic h she has received consistent pri vate. corporate, state and federal funding,
are known for their circumspecl. yet de lib-

Peter Hare.named Distinguished Professors

eralely activisl, elhical orienlation. Dealing wilh subjeciS ranging from lhe condemned inmaleS on Dealh Row, IOex-nuns,
10 lhe poel Robert Creeley, her films bave
been screened before such diverse groups
as inmates in a Texas prison and at the
College de France.
Christian. has aulbored or co-aulhored
lhree books. In addition, sbe bas published
numerous articles and preseoled more !han
50 film screenings, film lectures, scholarly
lalks, serninan and conferences in locations
ranging from Helsinki, F'mland, 10 lhe University of Soulbem California.
Since 1970, Christian bas laUghI a course
on lhe Bible as lilerature, which over lhe
pas! 25 yean; has bcenme lhe mosl popular
class in lhe UB English department.
In addition, Christian is direciOrofUB's
Ph.D. Program in Folklore, Mylhology and
Film Sludies; an adj uncl professor of comparative literature, and associate director
of lhe Cenler for S1udies in American Culture. She has presenled numerous leclures
and seminars al prestigious institutions !hal
include lhe Cbaulauqua Institution and lhe
Albrighl-Knox Art Gallery, as well as al
colleges and schools.
Christian received her bachelor's degree

from Nazarelh College c(Rocbcster and be&lt;

in uaditional European branches of
study while benefiiIWI£
ing from !be scholarship of ouiSianding Latin-American and
Asian philosophers as well.
Considered one of !be primary movers
among !hose devOied 10 !be study of American philosophy, Hare has received numer-

ous profeasional bon&lt;n IIIII awwds, including !be Herb&lt;rt W. ScbDeider Award c( !be
Society for !be AdVliiCai)Orll of Amcril:an
Philosophy, preseal&lt;d in 1996 "for diJtinguisbed conlributions 10 !be UDdenlanding
and developmenl c( American philosopby."
lnlemationally !mown forhia wodt, Hare
has developed an importanl relationship
wilh !be philosophy departmem 111 Moscow
Slale University, lhe most prestigious !Wssian philosophy program. ani! in 1989 was
a visiting professor there. He n:a:ived !be
National Endowmenl for !be Humanities
award for lhe 1990 Conference on !be
American Philosophy Tradition as lnlerpreled and Used in Other Countries.
Dedicaled 10 lhe education IIIII well-being of graduale studeniS, Hare bas supervised more !ban 56 dociOnl dissawions.
He is !be aulhor or ediiOr of seven books,
including 'his 1968 book_ co-aulbored wilh
Edward Madden, "'Evil and !be Concept of
God." In addition, Han: bas published more
!ban 50 articles and served on a number of
ediiOrial boards and professional societies.
Hare recei ved his bachelor's degree
from Yale University and his masler's and
doc10ral degrees from Columbia University. He is a Buffalo resident.
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Facully of Social Sciences which, he said,
canceled iiS las! meeting "because il had
nothing on its agenda."
The senate will vote on the resolution
at an upcoming meeting.
lo other business, the senate:
• Senl back 10 lhe Educalional Programs and Policies Committee a resolution regarding the acce ptance of
coursework from undergraduate transfer
sruderlts. Senators cited concerns about
ambiguities and inconsistencies in the language of lhe resol ution.

• Received and filed a report from lhe
Committee on Research and Creative Activity on confliciS of inleresl and confliCIS
of comrnitmenl and recommended lhe university administration implement its specific recommendations.
• Heard a report from ils Affinnalive
Action Committee !hal includes a variety
of recommendations concerning Wary discrepancies and hiring members of proleCled groups. Tbc repon also recommends
lhe crealion of a Presideol's Task Force on
•
Racial Minorities on Campus.

master's and doctoral degrees from The Johns

Hoplcins Univcnity. She is a BuffaloresidenL

H

an: has llllghl al UB since 1962.ln addition, he has served in a number of
leadership positions, including 13 years as
chair of lhe Departmenl of Philosophy,
from 1971-75, and again from 1985-94.
Hare's service 10 !be field of philosophy
has conlribuled 10 !be developmenl of lhe
work of colleagues around lhe world and
has pullhe UB Oepartmenl of Philosophy
on !be inlemational
map. Through his
guidance and leadership, !be UB philosophy departmenl
has become unique
among American

universities, strong

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Martin Meyerson) is a short lime . 1 think
that due process is important for the end
effect ... Albmi said .

Powhatan Wooldridge, assoc1a1e professor of nursing, agreed that the decision
should be delayed until !he fall. He look ex ce ptio n to a co mment he attributed to
Greiner that the faculty wants to delay in definitely a decision on the arts and sciences.
" I don '! feel !hal delay, per se. is lhe poinl
of this motion,'' he said. ''It seems to me that
the point of this motion is to avoid making
major decisions concerning faculty governance and organization in the middle of the

sununer .. . when faculty are not in residence.''

D

on Schack, professor of mathematics.
disagreed with any attempt to del ay

lhe process, noling lhal lhe Triggle Commission three years ago spent an entire year
studyi ng the very same iss ue. Nothin g
muc h has changed since that time, and
there is no need to mount the "full -scale
re view that we di d in the past," he said.
" I think we just need to face the decision," he added .

While Schack said he also did no1 like
the idea of such decisions being made du ring ttJe summer, he added: "but let us as a

Faculty Senale be brulally hones! wilh ourselves: if that happens. it's our own fault. "
He poi nted out that Headrick released
his planning document in mid-February. " If
we regarded this as a matter of such urge ncy. why did we not assemble our own

hearing panel 1hen?" he asked. "Why did
we not make that the si ngle, primary top ic
of consideration of the executive co mmittee or the academic planning committee?
Wh y ha ven't we done our work ?
'"The answer is that we didn ' t treat it
wi th urgency. and now we' re acting a little
bi t petulant that (the administration is) going forward wilh lhe decision !hey said !hey
would make and gave us. at this stage. three
full monlhs warning of." he said . "l lhink
that we should accept that; a lot of informati on is out there and thi s decision can
be made reasonably and we do have lots
of opponunity for input between now and
the time that it will be made."
David Benenson, professor of electri cal and computer engineering and a member of the governance committee. said he
did nol lhink lhe "fac ully should feel lhal
1hey are being laid upon and shou ld have a

guih trip for wanting to carry out its responsibilily as colleagues of lhe Faculty
Senate."
He poinled ou1 1ba1 lhe planning docu ment was received by faculty in mid-February, "rather late in the academic year."
The document deal s with a wide range
of issues of importance, he added.
'"To think that one can respond to thi s
document in a week, a month or so I think
is pushing the envelope a wee bit."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in lhe Departmenl of Electrical and Compuler Engineering, said lhe
issues seem to be clearly divided into two
parts: "whelher we will or won 'I have a College of Arts and Sciences in some form," and
lhe delails of lhe cenlers, cross-disciplinary
work. and !be merger of some departmeniS,
whal he called "second-phase delails."
The College of Ans and Sciences issue
can be decided much earlier than the second-phase delails. he said. "If lhe facuhy
feel lhal 1hey desperalely need a chance for
inpul and debale and discussion, !hen I would
hope lha1 some olher !ban lhe presenl lhree,
plus lhe nexl scheduled four faculty, would
holher 10 show up al lhe hearing panel and
say somelhing." Malone said.

M

alone 's comment referred to the fact
!hal only lhree faculty members spoke
al lhe forsl IWO sessions held by lhe hearing
panel appoinled by Headrick 10 galher evidence oo options for reorganizing !be arts and
sciences, and only a handful of speakers are
scheduled for lhe final session on June 4.
William Baumer, professor of philosophy.
slaled !hal lhe Oct I deadline in lhe resolution makes "'any further faculty involvemenl
in !his issue essentially meaningless."
The dale is four weeks afler lhe slarl of
lhe fall semesler, he DOled. "And we all know
how much work we gel done, olher !han gelling our classes going, in lhe firs! four weeks
of lhe fall semes1er. Which is lo say, !hal if
we have nol yel done anylhing wilh regard
10 lhe issue of a College of Arts and Sciences,
we are nm going 10 do il by 30 Seplember."
The lack of any action by lhe lhree faculties since their meetings with Headrick
''is. I think. indicative of the great urgency
with whi ch thi s issue is viewed by all three
faculties involved." he said.
Baumer added lhal he was speaking as
a member of the Policy Committee of the

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FSEC approves calendars for 1998-2000
as submitted by Calendar Commission
lly SUE WUElCIIEJt
News Services Assoc1ate

Editor

THE FACULTY SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTDE approved draft calendars for lhe
academic years 1998-2000 at Its May 14 ,_,;ng, a mow lhal mlghl help avoid for at leasl
lhree years lhe amual hagg.,g over lhe uni\leniily's academic schedule.
The FSEC Is lhe first ollhe campus govem1ng bodies 1o rBCOrMI!IOd approY8I ollhe draft
calendars submitted by lhe caJendar Convnlssion, said Doma Rico, associate vice poesidenl
for sludonl affairs and a member ollhe COIIY'Disslon. The reoommendalions are forwaJdod lo
Presidenl William R. Greiner, who will make lhe final doci8ion.
The execullve committee and lhe Facully Senate as a whole have urged lhe caJendar Commission lo sOOmil multi-year academic calendars 'thai follow ctoar and conslstenl principles,"
said senate Chair Claude Watch, SUNY Distingulshod Service Professor in lhe Oepartrnenl ol
Political Science.
Rico ou1llnod to COITilTitleo mon-bofs lhe role and COI'J1I(ISition ollhe Calendar CorTvnlssion
and lhe principloo--llo !hose 18Ql.irod by lhe state and !hose desired inlernaly-lhallhe commission used lo develop lhe calendars for lhe academic years 1998-99, 1-2000 and 2000-01 .
Required prindplo6 are lhel each semester oonsial ol a minimum ol 15 waok&amp;, including lhe
examination period, and lhel stale education policy relative lo scheduling ol classes and absence from classes for religious reasons be adhorad 10.
Among lhe inlemal principles identified by lhe
are lllal calendars for lhe next
lhreo years be developed; lilaI each semosler aim for al least 13 weeks ol urtorok8n inslruction:
lllal each semester lrlcludoil a six-&lt;lay final exam period wilh no Salurday exams, and lhel caJondan; lllal begin alter Labor Day be developed in lhe years lhe calendar pormils.

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• The Fall 1998semesterwould begin on Aug. 31 and end on Doc. 22. The Spring 1999 calendar would begin on Jan. 19, wilh commeucemetd
for May 14-16.
• The Fall 1999 semosler would begin oo Aug. 30 and end on Doc. 20. The Spring 2000 semesler would begin on Jan. 18, wilh commeucernonl - . n d sel for May 12-14.
• The Fal2000 semester would begin on Aug. 28 and and on Doc. 18. The Spring 2001 semeslerwould begin on Jan. 16, wilh commencemenl - . n d scheduled for May 11 -13.
The FSEC's oiJjaclion lasl Jail lo lhe proposed calendar for lhe upcoming academic year,
which included an Aug. 25 start for lhe Fal 1997 semester and a Jan. 12 start 1o lhe Spring
1998 semester-a woo1t eat1ior lhan usual--pror1'4llo lhe caJendar Convnlssion 10 teeonSidor
its proposal.
The commission lhon submitted anolhar calendar--whiclllhe FSEC 18C0fTV1181Jdad and
Greiner~ which, lor lho first time in,_, rnerno&lt;y, lhe fal samoster wll start after
Labor Day, on Sept. 2. The Spring 1998 semester will begin on Jan. 20, wilh comrnet ocomen1

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James Carville
Barbs, advice from Clinton strategist
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News Services Editor

J

AMES CARVILLE, President
Clinton's charismatic political strategis~ lambasted the news media and
skewered Rush Limbaugh and Dick
Morri s last Friday while encouraging graduating seniors in the UB Department of Communication to become involved in the political process.

Carville was invited to address the
department's recognition ceremony in Slee
Hall after students viewed the documentary
''The War Room," an inside look at Clintoo's
1992 presidential campaign headquarters

and the roles of Carville and George
Stephanopolis in winning that election.
Today Carville is Clinton's senior political advisor. authorofhest-selling books.
husband of Republican strategi st Mary
Matlin . father of baby Mary Matlin
Carville, and master at skewering the religious right. conservative Republicans, the
national media and anything else that
strikes hi s fancy.

In a press conference before the ceremony, Carville tackled a variety of issues.
displaying his formidable wit in a down home Louisiana drawl.
• On
national press and Whitewater:
thi s will go down as one of the
sorries periods in hi story .... They (national
newsp pers and TV nelwork.s) told him
(Ciinto to leave and he didn 't leave .
When the p ss elders decide it's time for
you to go. y u' re supposed to go. If you
don't. you arlger them .... "
• On his involvement in the next presidential election: " I'll be involved in some
way, but there's probably another role for
me other than eating cold pizza and drink ing warm coke.•·
• On Jack Kemp as a potential presidential contender: "He's a remarkable man ,
a good man. He just happens to he a wrong
man."
• On running for political office him -

self: "'The only thing I run for is the state
line ... .! wouldn't pass muster."
• On young people embarking on a political career: "Do it because you want to
do something, rather than be somebody.
Understand you are destined to be disillusioned . You need a strong reason and a
strong gut."
ln his speech to the communication
graduates. Carville was a passionate advocate of the American political process. After poking fun at his own less-than-stellar
college career-"! finished LSU in fqur
terms : Kennedy, Johnson. Nixon and
Ford"-he made a pitch to the graduating
seniors and their families for civic involvement at any level .
" We ' ve been told that everything that
is political is rol!en," he sttid. "With this
constant harangue against everything political, it's no wonder surveys show that
young people are becomjng less involved
in the process. But these decisions are going to be made whether you participate or
not. The question is, arc you going to be
part of the process'? ln the long run , it's
worth it, for the counlr)' and for you ."
He asked them to approach the task as
a skeptic, not a cynic or a Pollyanna. "Both
are equally destructive ," he sttid. "Any true
skeptic would look at America 1oday and
find a lot more to be proud of than not ."

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arville reminded the sludents that one
of the United States' greatest stJengths
is the desire of its citizens to "do beuer."
even when the odds are against it.
He cited Justin Morrill, Republican congress man from Vermont, as an example of
perseverance in the face of great obstacles.
Morrill introduced. a nd ultimate ly succeeded in passing. the Morrill Act of 1862,
known as the Land Grant College Act.
which provided grants of land to found
educational institutions.
'The land -gran t colleges have produced
more Nobel Prize winners than any other
entity." Carville said. " If Mr. Morrill could

Prasad, leader in optics research,
awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
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News Services Editor

PARAS N. PRASAD, SUNY Dl&amp;nNGUISHED Professor in the Department of ChemIStry at UB and director of the university's Photonics Research
Laboratory. has heen awarded a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship
Award.
He is one of 164 artists, scholars and scientists selected from
among 2.876 applicants.
Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of unusually
distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise
for future accomplishment.
The fellowship provides suppon for Prasad 's research on highdensi ty, three-dimensional optical memory, an applicatjon of new,
photonic materials that Prasad developed lasl year. The new rna- PRASAD
terial s could revolutionize infonnation storage because they are
able 10 store thousands of times more data than conventional compact disks .
In addition to storing digital data, the new storage media are ideal for archiving very
large quantities of pictures. photographs and other visual information that cannot be
stored efficiently on today 's COs.
Prasad. a UB faculty member since 1974. is an internationally recognized leader 10
the fie ld of optics and spectroscopy.

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Hela
clrector of the Photonics Research Laboratory. which has a un1que
position among the world 's photonics laboratories of focusing on both the fundamental
scie nce behind photonic material s, as well as on industrial applications.
Prasad also conducts research on nonlinear optical effects in organic polymers and 1s
developing new generations of multifunctional, nanostructured organic hybrids that co uld
lead to the synthesis of "smart" materials.
Prasad is a fellow of the American Physical Sociel)l and of the Optical Soc~ety of
America. He was a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship .
The author of more than 300 technjcaJ papers, he has co-edited or wriuen seven books.
A native of India, he attended Bihar Universil)l. where he won several scholastic awards .
He received his doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. •

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JAMES CARVIW, left, cheb w1t11
UB MeOC!m
communlc.tlon, befoie opuklnc at recocnJtlon ceremony May 16 In Student Union.
bleakest hour. is it too much 10 ask you to
have that kind of vision, tenacity and commitmenr to make this country better, in the · give this country some of your tenac1ty.
your vision , your commitment ?"
•
midst of the Civil WBI, during our nation' s

AAU presidents endorse statement on
importance of diversity in admissions
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News Services 01rector

W

ITH A TEXAS coun decision
barring a race-based admi ssions policy and voter initiatives in California barring ra cial and gender preferences in admission s
and hiring. the Association of American
Universities has issued a statement affirming the importance of diverSity in uni versity admissions.
The statement, endorsed by the presidents and chancellors of the 62 leading
North American research universities in the
AAU at ilS annual meetjng. stresses the in ·
stitutions · "continuing need to take into
accounl a wide range of considerationsincl uding ethnicity. race and gender-as
we evaluate the students whom we select
for admission."
UB President William R. Gremer was a
member of the sutx:ommiuee that prepared
the starement. Neil Rudenstine . president
of Harvard University, led the commiuee.
which also included Rohen Berdahl , preSI dent of the University of Texas at Ausun .
"As leadership institutions. the AA U
membership felt we needed to reaffirm ou r
commit ment to ensuring diversity among
our st udents-that"s an important intellectual and academic issue for us. not merel y
a political one," Gremer n01ed . ··we had a
lot of di scussion around these issues; lead ers at the various mstitutions thought very
hard about how to maintain this commit ·
ment. and how to articulate its importance."
ln the statement, which was featured in
a full-page advenisement in the April 24
editions of The New York Times. the um versities noted, " If our institutional capac·

ity to bring together a genuinely d1verse
group of students is removed--or severel y
reduced-then the qualit y and te ;tt ure of
the education we provide will be signifi cantly dimini shed ."
Noting " we believe that our students
benefit significantly from education that
takes place within a diverse setting," the
state ment said: ··we therefore reaffirm our
commitment to diversity as a value that is
ce ntral to the very concept of education tn
our mstitutlon s."
lt noted. " We do not advocate admitting students who cannot meer the critena
for admission to our universities. We do
not endorse quotas or 'set-asides' in admis SIOns. But we do insist thar we must be able.
as educators, to select th ose: st udents from among many qualified applicantswho will best enable our institutions co ful ·
fill their broad educational purposes."
Noting tha t the AAU instituti ons are
training tomorrow's leaders. Greiner added:
"'Tomorrow's leaders need to learn from and
w1th others who are both hke and unlike
themsel ves. and they need us to ensure that
they will have opportuniues to do that.
"In an increasi ngl y di verse society, they
co me from Increasingly d1verse back grounds. and they need th~1r univerSJUes
to g•ve them every possible opportun)ty to
learn leadersh1p . That 's why AAU institu·
t1 o n ~ have th1s commumem. and why we:
be lie ved we needed to restate it pubhcly ..
Gn:mer s:ud that for the same reasons. "UB
has long had an intellectual, etlucal and prac·
tical commiunent to ctiversity in adrtUssions
We continue to uphold that comm.iunenL. and
we ' re proud to have our fellow AAU member~ standm g right alongside us ."
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SUI• 1997 alr-conditloinu policy

1M ............., Ia oontlnuMg the air-conditioning policy nhas had over the pas1
lew summers.
Doring the normal wort&lt;ing day, all alr-&lt;X&gt;Oditioned offices (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) classrooms,
llbnuiee and labs (8 am.-10 p.m.) wiU be CXIOied to 76 degrees. Reheat systems will be
bypassed In ·the air-conditioning process whenever possible. Doring the evening and on
-'&lt;ancl8 and holidays, the tsmperatum will be allowed to rise (except in those rooms
wi1h classes scheduled on Saturday).
Call the University Facillties Customer Sarvtce Otfice at 71 (or from off-campus at
645-2025) to report 81'1 air-conditioning deliciendes.
University Facilities will monitor buiking temperatures to determine which alr conditioning systems should be enabled first. All systems wem expected to be fully operational by May 13. Special purpose spaces and facilities will be monitored to determine H
modifications to the policy are warrantsd.
If you - 81'1 opportunities for energy savings or wish to suggest an energy conservation project, call Walter Simpson, the university's energy officer, at 645-3528.
Any que&amp;tions regarding this policy or UB's e nergy conservation efforts should be directed to Mlchaef Dupre, Interim associate vice president for University Facilities, at
645-3000.
SUpervisors are encouraged to accommodate reasonable requesiS from ernplo)'ees
lor -mg more C88lllll clothing because of Increased tempera1Ures.

�EOP
Continued !rom page I
up and over which they had no control. ''
Gresham notes, "I think EOP really em-

bodies the best of pub~c educatioo in that
when we talk. about public universities pro-

viding access to the larger society, EOP does
so in no uncenain terms. It accepts the responsibility that that wider access entails,
takes these students and works with them,
supports them in concrete ways to achieve
the best they can. When presented with a
challenge and the means to belp them neg&lt;&gt;tiate it. these students rise to the occasion."
Durand avees. "EOP is probably ooe of
the best programs that New York has in
tenns of maximizing the potential of its human resources,'' he notes. "We have been
making the argument over a number of years
that it was the ethical and moral thing to do
to gjvc these students a chance to achieve .
But the truth is. it is also the most costeffective thing to do. You are taking students
with potential and giving them an opponunity to put that potential to work for the state
as a contributing, productive citizen."
EOPhaallelped30,-

Smce becoming part of SUNY 30 years
ago, EOP has helped more than 30,000 individuals earn a college degree. Durand says
the Council of Educational Opportunity Pr&lt;&gt;gnun Directors has documented that at least
80 percent of EOP grdduates remain in New
Yon State, working and paying taxes and
conuibuung to their home communities.
Barbara A bad, who graduated with a B+
average from a h1gh school in Queens .
came to UB through EOP and subsequently
e arn ed a place in the University Hono~
Program. She graduated summa cum laude
o n Sunday as a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and the Golden Key National Honor Society. She has interned in the Office of the
V1ce President for Student Affairs. tutored
financially disadvantaged students and
served as a resident advi sor.
Life was not easy for Abad and her brother,

-.-,.-- - -- - - - - - - , "aod U:Cbnical fields.
Although VB's
engineering pro·
gram seemed ap pealing, Maisonell
said he was "truly
convinced VB was
the place for me"
when an EOP counselor spoke to him in
his native Spanish
about the program.
EOP counselors and
staff members and
taculty made him feel
port of a "family" aod
the SUilliDer preponltory program prior to
his freshman year
~ . ............ -loft: ...... ~........ flltloe_fll ...... - - . - . . -;
"spadted my~ to
_ , . J. ·flltloe EDP;- • . . , _ , IICtloC vice get involved aod give
something back to
- . -lncrtd Aponta,
my community."
Thomas. Althougll thcir lllCliJer ..,.,.;ved a oolPrior to heading the SA, Maisooeu was
lege c&lt;lJcalion in her nalive Ecuador, it dim't
president of the EOPStudcntAssocialion and
translllc imrncdialdy inlo wade~ in
PODER: Latinos Unidos. He has organized
the U.S. Abad's brother was diagnosed with
effons statewide to recruit more students of
non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but thanks totmllcolor to UB, as well as srudent proteSts of
mcn~ has dooe well and graduated last weekcuts in state funding for VB and SUNY. The
end from Forcllam Univeosity, l&gt;ilere he was in
rutoring be received through EOP led him to
the Higher Eru::ation Oppatunity ProgJam, the
spearhead SA funding of expanded rutoring
IJ'ivate-9eC10requivalcnttoEOP.Their mother,
for all undergJaduates that is being initiated
initially employed as a sales clerk, today
through the University Learning Center.
works as a paraprofessiooal with mentally
Simon A. Johnson earned an associate's
and physically challenged children.
degree from the SUNY College of AgriAbad this fall will enter thC University
culture and Technology at Moms ville and
of Michigan as a graduate srudenL
was attending SUNY at Albany wben
Fernando Maisooett says his interest in
Durand encouraged him to come to UB.
engineering dates back to the second grade
As president of the New York Stale Stuwhen be subscribed to a scientific maga.zine.
dent Associatioo, Johnson served this past
Maisonett, who this spring became the fust
year as student representative oo the SUNY
student in more than I0 years to be elected
Board ofiTrusu:es, setting an example for
to a second term as SA president plans to
"'how people can become more involved and
obtain a doctorate in electrical engineering
give back to their community.••
and work with high-performance computer
Johnson, who served in the U.S. Army in
systems. Also on his agenda is developing
counter intelligence., worked in the public
a center in his hometown in the
safety department at Hofstra University and
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn to enwas a counselor for the Keep Encouraging
courage others to get involved in scientific
Youth program in Amityville before atu:od-

AtEOI'_'*- ........ ...._,_...,7:

.,._ ... pulllc.,..... __ - ·--

ing college at Morrisville. He credits his
mother, • single Jlll=l and immi~ from
GUyana, for instiJJing in berfour c:hildrm the
importance of an education. A nuac practitioner, sbc m::ently
degree
from SUNY 81 S1011y Brook. ''Through bani
worl&lt; and educatioo," Jobnson DOles. "you
can accomplish anything."
·

_

earned.-··

. ...,..._

Botumroath Kto l.cbuo hasn' t seen ber
Cambodian bomeland since sbc was 5 &gt;"""'
old aod forced to flee to Thailand with ber
mother aod older brothcr during the Khmer
Rouge regime. They were int.emed io "'"
Pbaoat Nikbom refugee~ for 3 112 &gt;"""'
until being released fort:llligrblo to the U.S.
1.cbuo also enrolled ll VB through the
EOP. Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguisbed
SeMce Professor in the DeJ-tmen1 of fo.
lilical Science who bas oerved as Lebun's
mcotor, described her as a )'llUII&amp;....,....., wilh
joie de vivre, "who grows with every single
experience that comes ber way."
lo 1994, .......... tnlVdo:d to Thailand IDler
the World l..camiog Sumrntr Abroad l'logJam
and, to her surprise, was assign&lt;d to l&lt;aCtt En~to refugees in the l'banal N"lkbclm ..rug.,.
camp. Last SUIIIITI&lt;r, she served an inlcmship
with the Cambodian Gcoocide l'logJam at Yale
University. At Yale, she traoslatedo:onscripiS
of interviews with survivors of the genocide
and catalogued the cases of execution at the
Khmer Rouge extcrminatioo a:nta" at Thol
Sleng in Plmom Ftob. '1 emerged from this expma.:.e deeply shalcm," she sa\d, "and ooovina:d that promotion of cross-&lt;:ulllllll understanding and universal human rights is the
answer to atrocities such as this me."
l..eiJuodccided tobonortheCambodiandead
and her bomeland's living aJilure by inlroducing the Cambodian American Ht:ritage Dancers to the VB oommuni1y. She helped raise the
funds that brougk a performance by the aoupe
to the Cenlcr for the Arts in April lcbun, who
received a bachelor of arts degree last weekend, described the performance as her "legacy
and gift" to the university that bas Provided
ber with educatiooal tools for a lifetime and
a career in intematiooal diplomacy.
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RESEARCH
Cont.nued from page 1

for it," he said.

Just how far scientists should go in making
their case, whether it's to a funding agency, a
l:Ompany or an academk or pub lic
audience,V".tries in each discipline and with each

individual. Yet wid1 fundingoppo!tllnitiesgrowing tighter-the American Association for the
Advancement of Science estimates that reducooos for noomilitary scientific research could
reach 23 percent by 2002-more and more organizations are stressing the in1portanceofcommunicating nbout resean:h. Professiooal conferences nowofferwod&lt;shops that tell scientists how
to communicate with noo-tcchnical audiences.
Speaking at a recent meeting of public infonnation officers at AAU institutions. Neal
Lane. director of the National Science Foundation. said "it's time for the science and technology enterprise to embrace reaching out to

the public. In more per.;pnaJ tcnns, researchers need to engage in genuine pub~c dialogues
with their local communities, in the mold of
what I have come to call the 'civic scientist.'"
He added that before he became head of
the NSF, " I was accustomed to speaking to
scientists around the world and to students,
but only rarely to groups outside the research
community. Now I' ve come to see how vital
11 is to reach beyond the converted-to the
local Rotary club. the local radio Ja)k show,
community forums of various kinds."'
Lane said he has become so convinced of
the importance of communicating about research. he thinks training for it should become
an integral pan of a scientific education so
Lhat those mvolved in research can convey
''the complex link between science and tech-

nology and social progress. Preparation for
research careers has not included this dimension. and most of us could use some he lp. I
have been urging researchers to seek out and
take advantage of the pub~c affair.; resoorces
available at their institutions ... in making a

"Even issues like the black hole
have to be explained in plain English-or plain Chinese, for example. You have UJ have a cartoon version ofyour science. "
-wo
compelling case to the public."
Lane's view is shared by many VB researchers, in part because the skills that come
with communicating with nonscientific audiences also are necessary when approaching funding agencies. "Communicating with
funders is a lot like communicating to the
pub~c,'' said Keri Hornbuckle, assistant professor of civil engineering. "Most of the time,
you send in your proposals to a panel wbere
the people are really smart, but they doo ' t
know about your field."
Often, she continued. reviewers wiU base
their decisions largely on the established
funding and publication record of the scientist. a practice that puts junior researchers at
a disadvantage. But whether a young scientist is preparing a dissertation or writing his
orherfirstgrantproposaJ, the emphasis lately
is not just on good science and publications.

'l'o a growing group of faculty. making
I the connection between basic research
and future applications is becoming criti cal and they urge their colleagues-particularly younger ones-to do the same.
For example, one of Hall's graduate students
is preparing foc a defeose on his work with a
drosophila (fruit fly) gene. ''Sorralne might look
at that and say. well fruit ffiesaren't relevant to
anything,'' she said, "but it's a gene that happens to be very close to a human homologue
that causes cardiac anhythmias." Including

and stressing that kind of infonnatioo in a g111Dt . tered a situatioo where be questiooed the
proposal was always to one's credit, said
timing of the release of ioformatioo. Several of his collaborators at another instiruHaii.''Whal's new is the extent to which you
bave to do i~" she said.
tion were about to.release information about
In fact, many young researchers take
their work to the news media. Davies is glad
be opted 001 to be part of the llllDOUDCelllCOt.
that responsibility as a given today.
"It's a question of ethics," declared Hong
lo his opinion, the wori&lt;, which has 001 been
Luo, assistant profess..- of physics. "As scienpub~sbed in a peer-review jouroal, was not
tists, we are asking somebody else--4be taxready for general release.
"l thought it was pmnature," be said, "and
poyer-to pay focthis, so what we do has to he
it's a danger to push a theay or an idea too far
COITUJli.TCially useful or DlheJwise imponant to
before one really knows the .......... You can
the average iJC"'Ol· You have to be able to explain your science to a high school student,''
publish a paper on the results because that's
Hong said "High school studalls are the future
l&gt;ilereyilucan pr...n yourooncerns anddoullts.
of everything, they're a much bigger audience
But wben you popularize something, you often
do not go into the details o{ that ailical assessthan college studenls. We .-1 to target them."
According to Hong, whose research has
men~ you often just go with the theay."
resulted in the world's first flexible semiftnoe research is ready to be released, sciconductor, complex issues must be transV entists face the problem of bow thcir wade
lated into understandable language for the
will be interpreted. "Some scientists refuse to
widest possible audience. He noted that the
speak with the press because they want ~
American physicist Richard Feynmann
cootrol oo how their work is cooveyed," said
used to say that if you cannot explain your
Hornbuckle. That's not completely appropriwork to a college freshman, then you do
ate, she said. "As scientists, we have to learn
not understand it well enough yourself.
to let go a liule bi~" sbc said "We have to find
"Even issues like the black hole have to
the angle people like about our won and to
be explained in plain English-&lt;&gt;r plain
say 'Yes, I work oo that part."'
Chinese, for example,'' Luo said. "You have
While some researchers disparage attcmpiS
to have a canoon version of your science."
by' 'superslarsof.aer.:e" lil:c the laleCad Sagan
While none of the VB researchers who
to bring science to the public through the news
were interviewed for this article said that
media, Hocniluclde noted that they are actually
coverage of their work in the popular press
doing other scicnlists a favor. Hombucklc. who
is integral to their success or that of their
works on how polliOntS alfect the environment
research. most believe that entering into a
and who has plwnbed the depths of some of the
dialogue with reponers on issues in their
Great Lakes henelf, noted that, for example,
field is something they and their colleagues
many scicnlists in her field really hate Jacques
need to do. Those that have done it note
Olusteau. ''They think he spends time makthat it is a learned skill and that scientists
ing pretty pictw-es and that what he's doing
must be careful about what they say-and
isn't really science," she said. "'But I really like
when they say it-to the press.
what he does because it makes people think,
Huw Davies, professor of chemistry, who
'Oh that'soool; do more resemt:h. 'Thl!se people
is working on developing new compounds
are doing a job that's hard for a lot of scientists
to treat cocaine addiction, recently encounto do. They should be our heroes."
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�Letters

Clarifying remark made
at meeting with Provost

Editor:
am writing this letter to clarify the out·
of-context publication (in the April 3 issue) of a part of my comment made at
the March 27th meeting of engineering
faculty with the Provost.
The current enrollment crisis was a topic
of discussion in this meeting.
I commented that in the last few years to
fu lfill our enrollment goals we have admitted
students who are ill-prepared in math and sci ences. I suggested that we should seriously
think about offering a remediaJ math course
to improve their math sltiiJs and we may be
able. thereby, to reduce the current attrition
rate . This is not a new idea. lo a recent book
on American colleges titled " Bright College
Years : Inside The American Campus Today,"
the author reports that remedial math is one
of the hi ghest-enrolled courses in U.S. colleges .
I aJ~o commented that to reduce the attritiOn rate. lhe instructors of fre shman courses
at US must •mprove their personal interaction
w1th students, provide encouragement for
leammg and show real concern for their edu cation. In this context. I mentioned that a
number of students in my sophomore enga neering mechanics class have complained
that they felt intimidated by their freshman
instructors at UB . They mentioned that , for
example, in introductory physics classes. students liJ'C told to look. to their left and look to
their right. and told that one of them won't
pass the course.
Recently, afrer pubhcallon of your story. I
aga in asked my j uni or class about this " look
to left and look to right" comment. Their rec ollections are speci fi c but further public argu ment o n this issue will be unproductive . The
physics department might want to refer to a
recent survey of engineering students published in the Nov. 22. 1996, issue of 'lhe En g aneers' Angle ."
In retrospect. my specific comment concerning the reponed attitude of some instruc tors in introductory phys ics hurting our retention rate was not carefully phrased and was
certai nly undiplomatic . I had no idea that
there was a reporter in the room and the content of our discussion would be published as
u news report. I certainly overstated my hearsay evidence to sharpen the debate . In my
opinion , engineering. mathematics ttnd phys ICS at UB should wo rk together to develop
our engineering students' ability to think
about and understand fundamental concepts
without feelin g intimidated .
Sincere ly,

l

SHAHID AHMAD
Associate Chairman
Departql6nt of CIVIl Engmeeong

Has fair solution to issue
of graduate athletics fee
Editor:
believe that I have a fair solutJOn to the
question of ..thether or not graduate and
professional students should be required
to pay an athletics fee. AIJ new graduate
student s should be required to pay the fee at
the snme rate that undergraduate students pay.
For existing students the fee should be li sted
on their tuitio n bills u.s an optional payment.
Jr they pay it they will be allowed to enter
athletic contests free as all other students. If
they do not pay they should be required to
1
pay to go to the games . Those students who
do not pay the fee should also not be allowed
to use any of the athletic facilities at UB .
Thi s is a fair system because the incoming
students cannot complain about being given a
new fcc while in school, si nce the fee is being
1mposed on them from the time that they matriculate at UB . Those graduate students
already at UB will have an option to get a
benefit for paying a fee, and if they do not
pay the fee they will not get certain benefits
that they now receive for free.

I

~ULJEJI

Class of 1980
vtae-mail

First they came for
Statistics; then
they came for UB

T

alk about " DEJA -VU ALL OVER
AGAIN." Eight yean ago. an article
appeared in the Reporter, over the byline of David M . Snyderman, en1it.Jed
..StaWtics: borne, sweet home in the Medical
School?"' J wish to inform the readers of the
Reporter that the issue of the existence of the
Department of Statistics has emerged yet
again, but this time the consequences are not
only dire for the discipline of statistics. but
also for lhe entire campus of SUNY at Buf·
falo, and its conduct as the flagship center of
the SUNY systam.
_
This sad tale begins May 1996. I, as chairman of the Department of Statistics, was
called into the office of John Naughton, dean
of lhe UB medical school, who informed me
that Provost Headrick had decided to merge
Statistics with the Depanment of Social and
Preventive Medicine (SPM). However, it appears that it was Dean Naughton himself who
put forward this proposal and that, further,
the use of the word ..merger" was a smoke
screen . Naughton 's proposal called for the
disap~aran c~ of the Department of Statistics
and its Biostatistics Unit, as well as its undergraduate majors program and its graduate
programs . Because of this announcement I
sought an appointment with Provost Tom
Headrick, and met with him in his office in
early June 1996. I presented the case for the
continued existence of the department to h1m,
and it was agreed at the end of that meeting
that the provost would think about this case,
and give hi s decision "soon." In fact it was
four (4 !) months later in a letter to me, dated
Oct 2. 1996, that he reaffinned the decision
that in esse nce Statistics be amalgamated mto
SPM: .. ... among the options UB has. I be·
lieve your dean's recommendation is the preferred path ." Also. " .. .Statistics within SPM
will play an important but supportive role in
a research and intellectual enterprise nor (emphasis mine) focused on the main theoreucal
concerns in statistics as a discipline ." Those
teamed in Greek and Latin will understand
the translation-from now on. statisticians.
you will not practice your profession. but a~ ·
sist SPM members with using the product~ of
the Discipline of Statistacs to set up stud1es.
clinical trials. etc ., and analyze and help mterpret the data so generated . But as far as
teaching and research 10 stat iStiCS. well. that's
to be tenninated.

So

much for col legiality and academi c
freedo m at UB . Never mmd that th1 s
would bring our Consulting Lab's actavltiC:l&gt;.
available to all researchers on this campus.
inside and outside the Sc hool of Medicine , to
a halt And never mind that our undergraduate major and master's program would~ terminated: this, in spite of the provost 's oft stated support of such programs. especiall y.
as in the case of Statistics. if they lead to
jobs. Neve r mind that we take care of the
teaching of introductory courses in stat istiC !&lt;&gt;.
needed by undergraduates in fulfillment of
their general education requirements. etc ..
etc ., ad nauseam .
How was the decision made ? Exclusavely
by Dean Naughton and Provost Headrick
conferring, that is to say, no apparent faculty
input. and cen ainly no input from the Depart ment of Statistics was made or sought . Why
was this decision made? Incredibly, this momentous move of destroying Statistics and ill&gt;
programs has not had any publishtd jusrifico ·
tion by the administration to back it up.
None. whatsoever!!
I must explain that I arrived on campus an
1993. having answered an ad for the pos111on
of chainnan of statistics. Until some Lame be fore 1973, this was o ne of the pre -e mment
departments ofstatistics in the U.S .A. But 1n
the period 1973-75. that depurtment started to
break up--some faculty went to Harvard .
Minnesota, Texas. etc . The department, smce
that time. except for a small hiccup in I 992 94, was neglected by the administration of
UB . It had been weakened, and kept weak :
Dean Naughton once remarked to me that the
department was nol neglected, it was abused .
So, true to fonn, he initiated this amalgam·

auon of Statasucs 1010 SPM . (lncadentally. 10
spate of the foregoing, the: provost keeps usmg the fact that we are weak to justify this
cessation of disciplinary activities 10 stausucs
at UB . In invoking the .. Statistics as weak" argument. he also tgnores the fact that I was
brought in to strengthen the department, and
that commitment to me for various resources
at the time of my hiring have nor been fonh coming, and are necessary to build up the department.)
However. I objected to this amalgamataon
and wrote Dr. Alan Saltzman a letter on Sept.
9, 1996. asking him, in his capacity of presi dent of the Faculty Council of the School of
Medicine. to have a commiuee look into thn
matter. This was done , and the report of thi s
committee is scathing about thi s proposal being initiated without the consequences to the
School of Medic ine, in particular, and UB. m
general, being thoroughly explored. It points
out that there is a danger that if th.is proposed
amalgamation goes through. 'There will beno pure statisticians on campus who could
develop new methods required to cope w1th
unus ual problems and new problems that result from the ex.pans1on of scientific inqu1ry ··
We note here that statistics is the study of
the ex perimental method. The implication of
th1s IS that by its very nature , stati sucs as 10 terdisciplinary in scope . We arc: not a "'De panment of Egyptology" in that our products
are used. and ~xr~nsively u.ud. m almost ev ·
ery branc h of science. be it social or phys1ca l
science .

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e address , an our own research, Issue s
such as : G1ven a general expc::nmental
si tuatjon. what is the best experimental design that should be utilized. and what 1s the
beSt way to analyz.e the data 10 light of the
purposes of the ex.penment? (Here. the tenn
experiment is used in its broadest se nse. and
mcludes polling, clinical trials. stud1cs of dif ferent educauonal methods, plant -w1dc eA penments m industry. etc .. etc.) We al so
siUdy the effect of. and how best to mcorporate , prior mfonnauo n. and broadly speakmg.
study the nature of scientific mference and
the role of stati stical inference Statisucs 1s a
thnving and excitmg disctpline-some 20
major research journals in the Enghsh lan guage a lone attest to this fact.
And turning to the educataon of o ur stu dents, 1.n this day and age when SOC ie ty 1:,
continually bombarded with poll results. sta tistics about our economy. etc .. 11 IS vnalthat
all students take at least an mtroductory
course in this di sci pline to get an mk.ling of
what the di sc apline is about, to say the least
And the u contact with thi s mathe mataca l SCIe nce serves to sharpen logical thinkmg. How eve r. none of the above seems to matter with
our educators at the top at US .
There is a lot more to say about the process that led to th1s ill-conceived proposal
Unfortunately. it now has a life of 1ts own. so
that des pite a strong case for a viable and
n ouri shing StatiStics Department to ex ast at
US (as affanned in the extensive 1988 Triggle
Report), the interim dean of the Sc hool of
Medacine . Dr. John Wright. is undergoing hi s
own revaew of the merger. a nd doing thiS an a
way that contradicts the spirit o f a resolut1on
passed at the School of Medicme 's own Executave Committee meeting of Apnl 17,
1997. whach urges in-depth revaews of any
proposed " merger." Hence. the threat of
amalgamation. prt!mised purt!l)' on admitus rrau vefiat. IS still with us. with the danger
that Dean Wnght will push this !llllalgamatlon through thas summer. based on an mad~quatt&gt; rt'VIl'W , and when. of course. relutave1)
few faculty and students a.re around
But all thl:t 1.!&gt; nor without cost . I am refcrnng to the fact that I have rece1 ved. and am

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recc:lvang, strong suppon from the statuucal
commumty out!ide of SUNY People talk.
and although I ha ve been carefui no1 to stres~
our pre&lt;hcament outside UB. bad news trav·
els fast. Indeed . besades the numerous telephone calls. I have rece1ved letters of support
from tbe premSents of tbe Amuico11 Staristicol A.ssociotio11 and the lnslituu of Math t'mllticol Statistics. two of the largest Statisti cal AssociationS 1n the U.S.A .. if nol the
wortd, and I have received other leiters from
various distinguished statisticians. For ex ample, Professor Hennan Chernoff. Harvard
University. a NatJonaJ Academy of Sciences
member: Professor Seymour Geisser. head of
the School of Statistics at the Umvers1ty of
Minnesota, and as well. Professor T. Louu.
chair of the Di vas1on of BiostatiStics at Mmnesoc.a. Inside UB . I have rece1ved letters of
suppon from Professor J. Boot. Management
Science (and an mfonned user of stausucs
and where it comes from ). and Professor
K.D Mag1ll. Department of Mathemaucs.
who was c ha1r of the Search Comm111ee thai
brought me to UB. and who. of course. ll&gt;
knowledgeable about staiiSIICS and ns math
ematJcal underp1nmngs Space requaremen ts
do not allow quotes from the~ JetteD and
phone calls. unfortunately. but these letters
and the mteresung art1cle mentiOned at the
o utset of th1 s d1 scuss1on that appeared an the
Reporter m 1989. art available at o ur
websne. The address of o ur webSJte as http:/1
www.acsu.buffalo.eduj- ()s{;bmidtjfac.html/
- 1 urge the readers of th1 s arucle to consult
this websue to more fully apprec1ate the
gravi ty of the Sltuatao n
As to these leners and phone ca ll s from
outsade the umven:aty, I must say, thai al though I welcome them. I worry about them
at the sa me ume. For af evems do not proceed
an :,uch a way as to clear the a1r. who w1ll en courage young Ph .D.s to JOin the faculty at
Buffalo. "'·here .!o UCh a narrow -nunded aru tude to o ur d1sc1phne. as well as other 1mpor
tant d1SC1plmes. re1gns supreme ., I take th1s
matter up la1er m th1 s amcle
t as to be borne m mmd that the consulta uve process that Jed us to th1s pred1cament
IS anta -collegaal A dean proposes and dJS·
cusses (maybeJ amalgamauon of Staustacs
mto SPM w11h the provost - that IS to say.
shamefully, there was not to be any fa cult)
mput. diSC USSIOn . o r srudy about th1s proposal. We art a first example of thas What I
mean when I ~ay thas has to do w1th the fac.·t
that UB IS now preoccupied w1th the study of
a Planmng Report made b) Provost Headnck
However. th1s planmng report emerged
largely without faculty mput For example .
on page 120 of the copy that I receaved . there
appears a chmce quote (with no ex planat1on
befort or after)- the quote as " Plans to
merge B1ophys1cs w1th Physaology and Sta ustiCS with Socaal and Preventave Med1cme
should move forward ." It IS mterestmg that
Provost Headnck would couple a true merger
with o ur case. trymg. I suppose , to g1ve our
case the fa cade of a true merger. rather than
an amalgamauon. Indeed, B1ophysics and
Physiol ogy have merged. and 11 as a true
merger- the new department 1s called "BIOphysiCS and Physiology.'' and not on!) the
name of o ne of the two magmg department ~
Recall that the Naughton -Headnd me rger o l
"Staust acs with SPM" call !o for an amolgam atum of Stat1sUc :t mto SPM. and that the C'- ·
panded department "'a~ to be called SPM
Further. no programs from e11hcr 81o ph) 'K'
or Ph)'Mology have been IO!&lt;tt, unhl..e the ..:a:-e
of our abso rptaon mto SPM . sho uld 11 o..:~.·ur
Ne1thcr set o f professao nab m Bmph)"' ll'l&gt; m
Phys1ology ha ve bee n asked to -.en e the
o ther. that IS, the) have not been a!&gt; l..ed nlll It •
pracuce then profess ion In fa1.·t. the merger
of 81ophys1cs and Phys1olog) ha.!o txcn tn th~·
diSC USSIOn stage. for at lea st two ~car' th.tt I
know of. und poss1bl) mo re
And I mu st remmd you that th1 .. pl.1nntn!!
report. because 11 Yroa:t wnlten and appc.tn·J
w1th pracucall ) no facull) mput Ia ' dJ,tJnll
from dean:, and 1,:ertam \ 1Ce pre.!&gt;JdCnl !&lt;t I. h.t'
not been well receaved Recall thl' eumple til
Profe~M&gt;r Wilham Allen. a da!otmgUI,hed US
hastonun. when dt.!oCUS.!&gt;mg the Plannmg Re
port m front of the provost. dcclanng that an

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Continued from page 5
30 years, other h1stonans will say, "that a
good univers-ity was destroyed by Tom
Heudrick ." Further. the Faculty Senate has
matiated studies , by various comm..inces, of

the consequences of certain facets of this
Planning Repon. The administration has chosen to effectively ignore these repons, for
cc:nom decisions . For example, they have announced that the decision about the reorgani/.&amp;IJon o f Ans and Sciences is to be taken in
July. when nobody will be around , and very
lmle t1me will have elapsed for proper study
of the Faculty Senate 's reports, by both facuhy and the provost and president. And the
danger ske tched above as a result of the reaction of the USA's Statistics Community,
holds true for vanous other intellectual communiues outside UB, and they are reacting
ud\'UJr/y-bad news travels fast !
And one hears, again , abou1 other ridiculous proposals {with no consullation of the
fuc uh y) for mergers. The latest example that I
huvc heard about 1s that of Pathology wuh
Anato my.
Yes . indeed. firstlhey came for Stausucs.
and now th~y luJvr cum~ for UB .
I do hope that my colleagues of UB w•ll
prote st the treatment of Statistics. and the
treatment of other disciplines in general . by
contacung the Provost (Thomas Headrick)
and the President (William Greiner). J have
10uc hed on some of the dangers, exposed
Mnce May 1996--and they are reaL The qual·
II )' of educa tion afforded by UB is at stake.
And the dccis•on as to what programs remain
and what programs should cease, IS. as the
example of Stat istics allustrates, not thought
through nor adeq uately studied. and this 1s
on ly the tip o f the aceberg. In my opinion, we
J&gt;hould all be contacti ng the provost and the
presiden t and protest m the strongest terms.
For conven1ence, the1r addresses and phone
numben are :

Provost Thomas Headrick-Offi ce of the
Provost. State University of New York at
Buffalo. 562 Capen Hal\, Amherst. N.Y
14260 (716) 645-2992
President William Greiner-Office of the
President, State University of New York at
Buffalo. 506 Capen Hall. Amher.&gt;t, N Y
14260 (7 16) 645-2901
IRWIN 8UTT'MAJII

Chalfman
Department ot StatistiCs

Another view on
reorganization plan
though many mnovative reorganization plan s have already been dasussed. I would li ke 10 presenl iln·
ther one for your consideration.
Estab lish the following three board divi ·
sions of our core academic faculty. which includes the Ans and Sciences faculty and
members of professional faculty who partlci pa(c m university -wide teaching programs:
• Division A of Arts, tAtters and Social
Sciences as outlined in one of the provost 's
a ltcmarive plan s. The breadth of this division
provides more Oexibility for constructive rearrangement of its programs .
• Division B of Physical, Mathematical
and Applied Sciences. Some engineers and
infonnationo&amp;eient·i sts may want to join thi s
division without necessari ly relinquishing
thei r present roles in professional schools.
Science students with additionaJ engineering
knowledge will have more employment opponunities after graduation . Engineering student'\: with deeper knowledge in sc ience will
have a greater polential to develop new tech·
nology after the state-of-an skills they
learned uxlay become obsolete. A closer cooperation between science nnd engineering
faculties will enable both groups 10 recruit
brighter students .
• Division C of Life Sciences. More fac ulty members in the School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences. School of Denial Medi cme. and School of Phannacy may want to
JO in this division 10 panicipate in university·
wide teaching programs without necessarily
g1vi ng up completely their responsibililies in
the professional sc hools. Biology majors with
additional health-relaled knowledge will have
a wider range of employment opponunities.
The designation lif~ scitmccs includes the
s!udy or both living beings and their environ·
men I. It also conveys an implicit moral incen-

uve thai could help to atuacl superior slu ·
dents into this division without duplicat:mg
the rwnes of heaJth-related professional
schools at UB . In view of the great potenuaJ
for future development in neuroscience, it
would be nice if the Department of Psychol ogy could join this division.
Each division wiU have a director or associate provos1 who repons directly to the provost. This will sbonc.n the line of communi·
cation between facuJty and the president, and
remove some of the communication barriers.
The appointment of a new all-embracing
dean of Arts and Sciences will create an even
higher barrier, because then each proposal
will have to be pre-examined by one of his
new associate deans with proper competence
in that field before it reaches the new dean,
since be does not know everything. His associate deans will then be actually doing the
work of the present deans but without the au thority to decide on academic matters or di rect accc..ss to the Provost's Office on fi.SCI..I
matters. Without the incentive of niaking important decisions, we cannot e.x.pect these
new associate deans to be as motivated as the
present deans in meering challenges with enthusiasm and dedication. Consequently, the
appoi ntment of an all-embracing dean of arts
and sciences will delay communication be·
tween the faculty a.nd the provost or presi·
dent.
Each division is responsible for both
graduate and undergraduate education programs in their field , and hence the uodesir·
able separation of research and teaching is
avoided. All the brilliant undergraduates J
talked with expressed the desire tO-have some
experience in research before graduation, and
that is why many of them prefer universities
to four-year colleges.

entists and engineers Without making the
NSM faculty worry about their autonomy or

EAS faculty worry about their professional
sW&gt;ding. If the Gnduate School dean a1Jo
serves as vice provost of Division C, be could
effectively encourage the cooperation be·
tween HS faculty and NSM faculty via the

establimed guidelines of Gnduate School
and the tuition waiver program .
.IUIIL WAIMI
Einstein Professor of Sctence

Goal of hiring own best
applicants is wrong
EoMor:
n the May IS issue of the Reponer, Professor &amp;rruce Noble is reported to have
noted that MIT hu increased the representation of women on its cbe.m.isuy fac.
ulty because the department is hiring "the
most outstanding of ill own chemistry graduates" in tenure-track positions. This reference
to MIT chemistry is a mis-swement of a Jet-

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ter to the Reporter written by UB Department
of Chemistry Professor Joseph Gardella, who
refCTTed to the MIT Department of Chemical
Engioeering. Gardella would be among the
first to admit that his views are his own and
do not reflect those of the majority of the fac ulty of the Department of Chemistry. In my
humble opinion, tbe assenion that UB depanments should make a goal of hiring their own

hile the breadth of each division will
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any universities have the position of
dean of Ans and Sciences with differen! job description. For example. Harvard
Universi ty does not have a provost, bul has a
dean of Ans and Sciences in c harge or the en lire academic core budget, which is equal in
amount to the tolal budget of Princelon Uni versity. and reports direc11y to the president.
For the present situation at UB. the appoinl ·
ment of a new vice provost for each of the
above three divisions could shorten the response time in dealing with difficult problems and their collective wisdom will enable
the provost to take a breath once in a while .
The replacement of three deans by the new
associate provosts wiiJ also reduce the total
administration budget if the lan.er already
function as deans in other capacities that
complement their new responsibilities. For
example, if the SEAS dean aJso serves as
vice provost of Division B. he could effectively promote the collaboration between sci-

doctoral affiliotioos with MIT. Tbe MIT de- .
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neering eacb are probably in' the top five
(IIWIY would 5aY II) in the world in terms of
sn&lt;~uau: rescarcb. MIT hu link:-: as
one of the bel~ they must hire some of their

own if they are to maintain their repuw:ion.
Such is not the case at UB. If MIT were. hiring UB snduates, I could support Noble's!
Gardella·slllJUlll&lt;nL Sadly. this is not so (although one of our distinguisbed B.S. alumni
i.s on the MIT Chemistry faculty). If we are to
aspire to this ga.L we must hire the best ~
p)jcants, regardless of their academic pen:ntagelger&gt;de&lt;lrtl:detc. I believe dW it is possible to inause the representation of women
and under-represented minorities in our fac·
ulty, while continuing to hire the best caod.i·
dates. UB alumni inciLided but no( targeted.

Sincerely.
-LUISJDI

Professor and Chair. Oeparrmsnt of Chen'Hstry

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Plt.D. (6) nr post-doctonl affiliations (2) with
MIT: none of the female faculty bad prior affiliations with MIT. Of 34 faculty (4 female )
in the MIT Department of Chemical Enai·
,_ring II male faculty (I. 9, I) IDd three female faculty (1 , I, I) bad B.S., Ph.D. nr post·

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The hol.n are 1:15 a.m. m5:&lt;45 p.m.
Chlldran wl I.e aaaa 1o the Alumni Anlna pool, as wei as
Olhet' aciMIIe8 on C81111US·
The coet iB $125 per week. A mirWTun ~lion of two
weeks iB required. A llOII-f'llfLwld deposit of $25 is due al the
&amp;1)8 of regilllralion.
The UB Child Care Center is accrediled by lhe National l&gt;.r:»
amy of Eal1y ChilctlOOd Programs.
For further infonnalion, contac:l Debbie Yantomasi al the child
What'a a WOI1dng p8l8l1l

IIIIAND . . . _ . KI'I'OII
S'-E IIUIWICII CIN1D

College. Rlr more 111formation. contact Domske at 645-2068, ext 2337

The Toohiba Stroke Roseatch Center at UB, one of the most advanced neuroimaging facilities in
the world , will be showcased at
grand opening ceremonies at 10:30
a.m . oo Wednesday, May 28, on
UB's South Campus.
Special ~ wil be t-i'orotxJ
-.ctielc~~tor­
Japan; Masamichl Kalsurada. president Toohiba America Medical

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Systems; YLi&lt;ol Sakai. director of
prodUCt support

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Medical Systsms, and JaiY1 Zimler,
vcepr-.tor~ .

Charles Gargano. commissioner
of the New York State Department
of Economk: Development. will represent Gov. George Pataki.
The center was made poss1ble
by a $3 .6 million gitt from Toshiba .
w1th additional grants from The Margaret L Wendt Foundation and an
anonymous donor
The ceremomes wi111nclude remarks from UB and Tosh•ba officials
and tne unveihng of a commemoratiVe plaque 1n the Llppschutz Conference Room of the Biomedical
Education Building, foflowed by a
reception in the budding's atrium
Gu1ded tours of the facility, housed
on the fourth flOor of the adjacent
Biomedical Research Build1ng. also
will be offered .

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OF~

LAKES

IHYI1ED TO

Everyth1ng you always wanted to
know about Great Lakes fish and
their environment-but didn't know
who to ask-will be available at a
public forum to be held from t-4
p .m . on June 1. 1n the Center for the
Arts. North Campus .
Anglers. boaters. birdwatchers
and anyone etse who enjoys living
near and playing on the Great
Lakes-adults and children-are
InVited tO participate in JOt8faCIIVe
actMties . see exhibits and meet
researchers, held biologists and
resource managers
Free and open to the publiC, the
forum will kick off the 40th annual
meeting of the lnlernational Associatk&gt;n for Great Lakes Research
being sponsored by UB's Great
Lakes Program and the Great Lakes
Center at Buffalo State College
Highlights of the forum
• The elec:troshocker boat that
researchers tn the U.S. Fish &amp; W1ldllle
SeMce use to conduct surveys on
the health of Great Lakes fish
• A casting contest lor kids
• Exhibits showcasing Great
Lakes fish , including a 52-inch-long
muskle and a Lamprey, a parasitic fish
that feeds on sport fish.
According to Helen Domake,
associate director of US's Great
Lakes'Program and extension speCtahst lor New York Sea Grant a1
UB. the forum w1ll allow the community to have questions about the
Great Lakes answered by experls
The research portion of the meetIng Will beg1n June 2 at Buffalo State

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Raautts of the HUBNET (Hospitals &amp;

University at Buffalo Ubrary Resources Network) User SUrvey diStributed last fall are now available
A total &lt;1937 surveys-&lt;~ 2t petcent response rate--were ~
pieted. Raspondents indicated they
use HUBNET t2.3 times pet month;
half access the system less than

once per quartsr, 55 percent of respondants were male, 45 petcent female; average age was 37.3 years
Netwafi/Wildows ll8nlion of
HUBNET is used by 78 percent: 4t
percent connect to I;IUBNET from
homa: 59 percent do nee use any
other computerized health informaoon source; 36 percent use the system 1n many locatlons while rotaung
among hospitals.
MEDliNE was tha most popular
database, willl94 percent usage; followed by CURRENT CONTENTS
140%) and CANCERUT (26 percent).
Top five HUBNET onhne reference
texts ctted: Marek Manual(62 petcent), Stedman's Medical DICtionary
{49 petcent). Harrioon's Principles of
Internal Medicine (46 percent) and
Textbook of Pathology (25 percent).
No. 1 complaint: the awkward array of access modes (Telnet. dlal-10.
etc ) and interlaces (DOS vs Wndows) across difl8fant platforms (PC
and Mac) This will be largely resolved wrth the debut of HUBNET 2
Second area defined for Improvement · tra1ning. While 48 percent said tra1n1ng was adequate .
the need tor onhne help, better
documentation and train1ng classes
were frequentty mentioned
Third concern· the future of lhe
electronic mail system Two-thirds IndiCated they have or continue to use
the HUBNET e-mail systam Of those.
69 percent satd HUBNET was thetr
prmary e-mail system. The mail system IS undergoing restructunng, thiS
summer it will be downsized and WJII
be managed by the Schoof ol Med•·
ctne and BIOI'Tled.cal Sc~ences
HUBNET User Survey Protect
Team plans to create a fact sheet to
address major issues and reply to
frequently asked questl()(lS, library
staff at part1cipat•ng HUBNET InStitutions will g1ve personal responses
to survey comments as requested
For more inlorma!.ion contact MaUl
Mutka( ~ )

()(Nancy Stinson
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Some the
odentified
ttvoug1 the HUBNET u- &amp;Mly
win be addressed the advent of
HUBNET 2. which wil a.low access to
HUBNET ttvougl the ~ Wde Web
HUBNET 2 w1ll be fasler. univer·
sally accessib le to users and eas•er
to admimster. Performance will no
longer be dependent upon a user's
computer and HUBNET administration will be able to track usage of
1nd 1vidual dalabases.
HUSNET 2 will eventually replace

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• an.

the current means of accesstng
HUBNET, and wtll offer access to the
networiVWindOws VBf'SOO of the
OVID b ibltographic and full·text CSa·
tabases such as MEDLINE, CliniCal
Reference Ubrary, Cl1n.cal Phatmacology. the POR , Hamsorl's Pnnciples of Internal Medic me. Sted·
man's Medical Dicuonary and the
Stat-Ref clinical manuals The new
OVID full-text database of nursmg
;ournats may be online by fall Efforts
are being made to update tra1n1ng
and docurnentatoo materials IOf the
Web-basad HUBNET 2 apphcauons
For more ntormaoon, contact Maron

care center at829-2226.

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FUNDING
- S E T FOR MAY 29
A WOfkshop lor faculty, staff and stu·
dents on how to obta1n •ndustnal
funding will be he6d Thursday. May
29, in 225 Natural Sciences ComP'ex.

sponsored by the CAMBI group
BasiC SCience and chmcallac·
ulty who have been successful 1n
sacunng industrial funduig wtll g1ve
the morn1ng presentatiOns. w1th diScussions and questiOns lollow1ng
Afternoon sessiOnS Will 1nclude a
dtscuss100 group on companng research ln industry vs academ1c
settings . geared to graduate and

postdoctoral studems and groups
on mteUectual property patent •ssues and selling up tndustnatlla•son off1ce a•med at what IS needed
to make 11 eas•er 10 obta•n lndustnal
tund1ng at UB
Advance reg1stratl()l') LS recom·
mended In the event of oversubscnplion . onty prereg•suants w111 be
admmed For more •nlormauon. c;on.
tact LJnda M Hall. Department of 6 10chemca.J Pharmacology. 645-2834
or e-m&amp;Jl lmhaJICacsu buffalo edu

WIWAMS TO DEUVER
IIAIIIIINGTON LECTUR£
Redford

a.

WIIUama, Internationally known for hiS work on anger
hOStility. coronary-prone behav1ors

and hfe-sk11ls tra•n1ng w11l oehver a
Harnngton Lecture at 4 p m on
May 29 at the Umvers•ry Inn and
Conterence Center 2401 N Forest
Ad Amherst
Williams lecture sponsored oy
tne US School of Mecllc•ne and B10
med1cal Sc1ences wtll De on "The
M1nd-Body ConnectiOn m Card•ac
Heallh • II will culmmate a lorum on
m•ndlbehaviOt factors and cardiOvascular health leatur~ng nationally
known researchers
Wtlhams IS d•rectOf ot tne Benav•orat Med1c1ne Reseatch Center at
Duke Un1verstty Med1ca1 Center
There •s no fee but preregistration IS requested For more .ntormalton call 687..4093

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SportsView
UB junior basketball standout
Rasaun Young
has been
named one of
six recipients
of the N4A
Achievement

Award given
by the NationaJ Association of

Academic
Advisors for

Athletics.
The award goes to a student
''who has overcome great personal,
academic, and/or emotional odds 10
achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athlet ·
ics ." He will be honored with five
other winners on June 21 in Phoenix
at the N 4A's national convention.
YOW1j! is the thin! all-time leading

""""' in UB baslcelball history. with
I J54 points with ooe y= remaining.
He k:d the Mid-Con eoor~ in
sooring during the regular SC3Son and
WJS named a first-team Ali-Confcrencx:
n&gt;:mber this past """""· Earlier this
spring, he was named the Most Valu·
able Pl.ayer of the Big 4 (Canisius.
Niagar.l. St Bonavc:nnu-e. UB). His
549 polnts this pas1 season was !.he sec·
on&lt;H!ighest total in schoollustory
Young was given very little
chance of succeeding in h1gh
school. having grown up in the
housing projects of New Rochelle
surrounded by, in Young 's words ,
"'drugs. sex and violence .·· He was
given even less of u chance to attend college when he was diagnosed late i n his h1gh sc hool career
with dyslex1a 11nd dysgruphia. No!
only di d Young achieve a score on
the SAT that allowed him to pan.icl pate in collegiate athletics. but he
has achieved a 2.9 GPA while majori ng i n sociology at U B .
In his first two seasons at UB.
YQIIJlg led the Bullsto an 18- 10
record in the 1994-95 season w h ile
earning A U-Conference honors.

However, nfler bcmg named the
Mid-Con's pre-season MVP dunng
the summer of 1995, thmgs started
to crumble around htm . First he lost
h1 s father-who had left his famil y
when Rasaun was very you ng be·
cauK of drug abuse-to the A I DS
vtrus . He learned that h1s girlfriend
was pregnant and the two had a
baby daughter. to whom Rasaun
has dedi cated all of h1s success. He
suffered 11n ankle inJury in fall
workouts that caused h1m to medi call y redshm the 1995-96 season
Desp1te those hardships, Young
returned from a year o f macttvtty to
lead the conference m '&gt;Cori ng 1h1 ~
past season and help the Bulls to a
17· 11 record while contmumg to
•
succeed m the classroom
"Rasaun Young exemplifies all
thlll. IS good about mtercollcgiate
athleucs," stud Craig Howe.
Young' s academtc adv1sor at UB
who submjned has nommation " He
has succeeded because of h1s w1ll .
h1 s drive . and h1 s work ethiC "
Said US President Wilham R
Greiner, "Rasaun Youn g has con·
fronted and conquered more problems than many young people can
1magine. He has mdeed been an
outstanding success, as both an ath ·
lete and a student. at UB."
I n me essay written for th1 s
award. Young said. " A s long as I
can remember, my life has been
about a struggle to surv1ve. About
strivmg and bemg detennined to
reach my goaJs. AboUI competmg
to succeed. About conunuing to
maintain. Most tmponant. m y hfe
has been about making myself the
best person I can be . I have alway~
dreamed of becoming a college
basketbaJI pl ayer and one day to
play professional baiL I plan to hve
the dream with passion ."

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ROYALS FOURTH,
BULLS FIFTH AT MID-CON

TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS
Youngstown State captured its first ever M id-Con Conference Men 's
and Women 's Outdoor Track and

Field Champtonshaps on May II at
US Stadium. The Lady Pengums
edged Western llhno1s, while- t.he
Pengum men outdistanced Troy
State and Western Ul inoas f or 1M
men 's tttle. The UB women wenfounh and thco men finished fifth
Buffalo gOI strong performances ·
from Melissa Ryan. who won the
100-meter hwdles and fuushed tlunf
in the 400-meter hwdles. Amy
Tabone was second tn the 400-meter

hurdles while Usa Kragbe firushed
tlunf and fourth in the 400- and ZOO.
meter dashes. 1be Royals placed four
on the ftm-team All-Conference hst
Ryan. Shelly Hamilton, Ruth ConJon

and Terry Scheme. Tabone earned
second-team honors.
On the men's sade, Omar Doyley
firu shed second m the 400 meters
D ave Clabeau.x finished fowth m
the 800 meters. Ry an Candaa fin ished second in the 400-meter
hurdles. Neil Murray firushed lturd
m the pole vault and Man Streng
firushed second 10 !.he Javelin.
Dayley, Candia and Streng earned
second-team All-Conference honors
Buffalo got outstandmg performances from Scheme. Coolon and
Hamilton. Scheme won the
heptathlon and firushed second in the
women 's long Jump. Conlon won the
hammer throw while Hamilton won
the tugh JUmp. Ryan St:t a meet
record 10 the 100-meter htgh hurdles
UB 's Usa Kragbe broke the meet
marl;: m the long Jump
On Fnda y·~ opemng da) . us ·s
Gretc hen Welch placed fou nh 1n
the IO.CXXl meter.; On the men's
s1de. U B 's Chns Keenan was fifth
m the I 0.000- meter run

e COLE JOINS VOLLEY·
BALL COACHING STAFF
U B women 's volleyball coach B oh
Maxwell has named former
Dowhng College a~s1 s tan1 and
Long Island Po'Wer Volle)•baJI Club
coach Cathy Cole a.!&gt; a full -lime .:b
s1stant Cole comes to U S alter l\lo"
seasons at DI VISIOn II power
Dowhng. where she helped lhe
Golden Lions to consccuuve
NCAA Tournament appearance)&gt;
A 1991 graduate of H ofstra.
Cole was the team 's stanmg s.ener
and earned all -conference hon~

-TED WASKO,
SPORTS INFORMATION OFFlCE

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Campus 8-11 p m Free Spon-.orcd by GSA

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rtogr.un can ~ seen on
Adelphia Cable's channel 18

Introduction to UN IX and the
Com putiac Environment of
the C IT Timc-Sbaria&amp; Rr!&gt;O u~~- Noon-2:30p.m. Rcg•s tnlllon and S I0 deposll rcqu1red

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UN IX, Part I. 10 a.m.-Noon.
Rcgistntion and $10deposn ~ ­
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L1a1son Office . 2 15 Computi ng
Center. 645-3S40.
Ro.well P ..... Staff

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T he Mechanisms or Acdoos or
Agenu Tarcetiac DNA Topoi.somerasu. Dr. John Nitiss. St
Jude Children's Hosp1lll Memphis. RPCI. 12:30 p.m.
EOC Ac:hlev- 0.,
Educaliooal O pportunity
Center's 24tb Annual AcbWvt-mc:nt Day Program. Center for
t ~ Aru Nonh Campus. 7 p.m.
~c-.uv•

Fn:derk Bednan. violin ;
J e nn ie Perron, plano. Allen.
Sou th Campus. 1 p.m. Free
Cuncc:n to be broadcast on the
(ollowmg Sunday at 4 p.m. on
WBFO-FM 88.7

THUR29
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lnduotrlal Fundlnc

w--.,

How to Obtain Industrial
Funding. presentations by basiC
and clinical facult y and an mdustnal rt:prcscnta tivc:. 225
Na 1urnl Sc1e nces. Nonh Cam·
pu~ 9 a.m.- 3·30 p m To rcgn·
1cr. call Lmdn Hall. 645-2834

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Introduction lo Pine Mail on
UN IX. 10 a.m .-Noon Reglslralton mrnJ SIO deposit ~mrcd
lhrough AcademiC U~ r l tatson
Office . 215 Compuung Ccn1cr.
M5 · 3540.
Harrlncton Lecture
T he Mind-Body Connection in
Ca rdiae Health, Redford B
Wtlhams, M D.. Duke Untv
11-kdu:al Center. Umvtrstty Inn
and Conference Cenu:r. 240 1 N.
Forest Rd. 4 p.m. Prert:gtslratlon
requested. Call 887-4093

FR.I~~

Tatubi Munbmi•s "lolL Dob"
is a 40-foot-h:.iab iaflacable
oeulpllft~ "": ....

Rc&amp;iJtntiocl aod SIO
depo•H roquil&lt;d throuah Ac:adem.ic U&amp;er UWoa Office. 215

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la.lrodudioa to Emacs Editor
oa UNIX ~bar!A&amp; Syotem. 3-5 p.m. Registration and
$10 deposit required through
Academic U5er Uaimn Office,
2 15 Computing Center. 645-

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lotroductloa to PiDe MaJJ oa
UNIX. 10 a.m.-Noon. Registration and $10 deposit required
through Academic User Liaison
Office. 215 Computing Cenlet,

lntroductioa to UNIX aad the
Computi.ft&amp; EavinKllllent of
the C IT TI.a:te-Sbaria&amp; Re-

sourcu. 10 a.m. l2:30 p.m.
Regtstnlllon and $10 deposit
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Center. 645-3540.

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FOLK

DANCING contli!Uft on

SUN1
Great LM. . Pubflc Fon•
l n leradi~ Ktivllies. ublblts,
inlormatkta. sponsored by UB
Great Laket Prognm and Buf·
(alo State 's Great Lakes Center.
Center for lbc: Ans. Nonh Campus 1-4 p.m.. Free Call 645 ·
2088. ut 2331

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Registration and $10 deposu required lhrou&amp;h Academic User
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Abboud, Univ. of Iowa. Butler
Aud., Farber. South Campus. 4
p.m

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through Academic User Liaison
Office . 215 Computing Center.
645-3540 .

ucnw--.,
lnt rod ucticm to SPSS, ~
neric:, Part I. I :l0-4:30 p.m.
Reg1slntion and SIO deposit required through Academic User
L1aison Office, 2 15 Computing
Center. 645-3540.

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lnt-Current
China's Ctaa.,pn.&amp; EcoDOmy,
Frank C. Jcn, UB School of Man·
agemenL WiiiLamsviUe Branch
Ltbrary. 551 1 Main St. 7 p.m.

WED4

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A-mlcl'lanHeattnc

To collect evidence concerning
reorganiuttoa or tbe Arts aad
Sciences, ud possibly Encin~ri ag. 14 Knox Nonh Cam·
pus. 9 a.m.-Noon

ASCITw--.,
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UN IX, Part U. 10 a.m.-Noon.
Registnuon and $10 deposit~­
qui red throu&amp;h Academic U~r
L11t..ison Ofnce, 215 Compuu.ng

FrldaJ• from S-1.1 p.m. In
2 Diefendorf.
Center, 645-3540

ASCITw--.,
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Part L I :30-4:30 p.m. ReaistntJon and $10 deposit required
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Re.teplase: Tbe Latest Tlarombolytk Ia the ~at of
Acute Myocardial la.farctioa,
Melissa Woosler, UB Phann.D.
candidate. 121 Cooke. North
Campus. 3 p.m.

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Opoo.:
Uv•
J une ia Buffalo. Allen. South
Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Concen to
be broadcasl on the following
Sunday at 4 p.m. on WBFO-FM
88 7.

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Center, 645-3540.

Retlr_P'r_
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R eU~me nt System Seminar.
Cenler (or Tomorrow. Nonh
Campus. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. For reservation. call 645-2646. ext 101
or 102

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Campus 8- 11 p m Fru Sponso~d by GSA

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through Academic User Liaison
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p.m. For information or to ~gi s­
tcr, call Dr. Suzanne t.aychock
II 829-2808 or
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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BU FF ALO
Whether you're leaving campus just for
lhe surrvne1 or picking up your d iploma
and pacJOOg yoor bags, you can still stay
in touch with what's going on at UB by
reading lhe Reporter on lhe World Wide
Webat ww • ......,...a~
The May 22 issue of lhe Reporterboth prlntand eleclronlc-wlll be lhe last
for lhe spring semester. There will be two
Issues during lhe sumner-on Jtroe 26
and July 24. The publication of weekly issues for lhe fall semester will begin on
Aug. 28.

Senate COIIIIillee recommends
task force on racial ninorilies
lly -

WUEJCIIEII

News Services Associate 01rec10r

FACULTY SENATE' S Affirmative Acti on
mminee has recommended the creation of a
esident 's Task Force on Racial Minorities on
ampus to address issues pertaining to race sepaely from those pertaining exclusively to women.

My Dildy, the Doctor
Littfe Olivia Lopes dons her dad's cap as Joseph Lopes
receives his M.D. Sunday from the School of Medicine and Bier
medical Sciences. Ceremonies were held in Center for the Arts

Job placements, salaries
soar for UB's MBA students
BJ DIELLA CONTitAIIA
Reporter Contributor

B

ENEFITING FROM BOTH a national boost in hiring at bluechip firms and a pro-active, customer-service philosophy
within the management school's revamped Career Resource
Ceoter.job placement and average starting salaries for graduating MBA students in the UB School of Management have surged
this spring.
As of the fir&gt;t week of May, starting salaries for full -time MB A
students at UB have increased 18 percent, or almost $7,000 from last
May. to ,an average $42,600, according to Cynthia Shore, assistant
dean and director of the school's Career Resource Center. Salaries have
ranged from $23,500 to $70,000. with 30 students pulling down salaries in excess of $40,000. compared to just 14 students who surpassed
that mark last spring.
Moreover, 70 percent of t57 graduating MBAs are expected to be
placed in positions by June. That figure is expected to rise to belween
80 percent and 85. percent by the end of the summer, compared to a 70
percent job-placement rate at the end of last summer. All 14 domestic
accounting MBAs already have been placed in jobs.
"Ou r strategy was to increase placement of our MBA s at the bluechip firms," says Shore. " In doing so. we found that many of these
finns are now trylng to rebuild after years of cutbacks . Their foundation of promotable managers was slipping away and now th ey want to
rebuild that foundation with qualified MBAs.
"Some of these companies are starting or rewstarting manage me m
development programs." adds Shore, who joined the management
school two years ago after ~ marketing career at Fleet Bank . .. So me
companies don't even have names for these programs yet. They j us t
know that they need to stock them with top MBA grads."

W

estern New York finns that ha ve hired UB MBAs inc lude Anhur
Andersen, Deloitte &amp; Touche, Ernst &amp; Young. Price Waterhouse.
M&amp;T Bank. Moog, Rich Products, Westwood Squibb and Xerox.
Nationally and international ly, the hires have included positi ons a1
Andersen Consulting, Atlanta; AT&amp;T, Berkley Heights, N.J .; Bricker
and Associates, Chicago; Citibank, Taiwan; Dunn &amp; Bradstreet. Murray
Hill, N.J.; GE Capital, Stamford, Conn.; Kimberl y Clark. Pari s, Texas;
Merrill Lynch, New York City, and Samsung Finance, Korea.
A heal thy economy. however. isn't the sole reason for the Buffalo
MBA program•s improved placement statistics. says Dean Frederic k

Continued on page 4

The recommenda tion was one
of s e veral con ta in e d i n th e
committee's repon tha t was de livered to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee a1 its May 7
meeting.
The tas k fo rce on racial m inoriti es wo uld be akin to th e
Pres idenl 's T as k lf o rce on
Women , said c ommittee C ha ir
Brenda Moore. associ at e professor of sociology.
While lhe task force on women
did a " wonderful j ob speci fyi ng
some of the proble ms assoc i31ed
with gender. there was Jinle stated
about racial minorities." Moore
said .
The pro}X)sed task force would
be all -inc lu sive. e ncompass in g
iss ues conce rnin g e thni ci ty as
well as race. she said.
In additi on to the task fo rce,
th e
Affirmati ve
A c ti o n
Committee's re port made numer·

ous reco mmendations regarding
s alary di scre pan c ies . A mo ng
the m were that the responsibl e
admin istrat ive offi ce r- the chau
or dean , as the c ase may be--d isc uss ho w he or she has addressed
the salary inequity issue in the
annual repon . that the adm inistrative offi cer devote resources for
pay equa li zation and that fac uh y
me mbers be abl e to appoint a n
advocate to work w ith them on
pay equalization.
The repon also incl uded recommenda ti ons o n hi ri ng me mbers of protected groups 10 proponion to the avail able pool. in e ludin g that searc h committee s
feature a me mber who has k.now ledge of how to network and re c ruit me mb ers o f pro tec ted
groups. th at eac h unit des igna te a
person to moni tor its a ffi rmative
acti on pl an and that appointment
o f members o f prolected groups

to upper adm tmstrati ve posHto ns
be a goal dunn g current admim!&lt;.trattve restructuri ng.
A recomm enda uon that a spectal effon be made to rec ruu UB
grad uate s who are me mbers of

protected grou ps pro mpted con' tde rab le dt sc uss to n am o ng
FSEC members.

S

ever-~d senators- noted that

their deparunents do no t
hire their own graduate!&lt;o.
for a varie ty of reasons.
Dennis MaJone. SUNY DlslJ ngui shed Serv1ce Professor in the

De partme nt of El ec tr ica l and
Computer Engineering. sai d th at
hi s depanme nt will no t hire its
own graduates directl y at the con cl usion of their doc toral studies.
bul will hi re gradu31es at lhe as soc iate leve l with te nu re if lite)'
have gone firs t to another um ve rsity and earned te nure there .
.. Part of our co ncern was Simpl y the questio n of proof of q ual·
u y. We know they ' re good. but
we ' d like to have some ot he r
place say so.·· Malone sa1d .
The policy also helps to ··avOid
the continu ing explotta t1 on o f the
Conunued on page 2

Only three present remarks at hearing
sessions on arts, sciences reorganization
lly SUE WUETCHER

News Services Assoc1ate

O~re c tor

WHAT IF THEY HELD a heari ng.
and no one came ?
Three persons--onl y one of
whom was a .. new voice"- pre sented remarks Ma y 7 and 8 during the first two sessions held by
the hearing panel co ll ectin g ev idence on the pro posed reorgani w
zation o f the arts a nd sciences at
UB .
One oflh ose speak e r~. C laude
Welch, chair o f the Fac ulty Se nate and SUNY Distingui shed Service Pro fessor in the De partme nt
of Politica l Sc ience, said later that
he was " a little surpri sed at the
lac k of partic ipati on (in the hearing pane l process) at thi s point."
a lthou gh he no te d lh a t thre e
spea ke rs are sc hed ul ed for the
pane l's \asl 4iession on June 4.
The " nc " voice" - Jui H .
Wang. E insteJO Professor of Sci e nce- led off the hearing-pane l
scs ~ ! o n s . Wa ng presented a proposal to estab!!5h three broad di vi sions of the core ac aJ~!!Ii C fac ult y to parti c ipate in uni versi tywide teaching prog ram ~.
The other two spea kers were

Nico las Good man, vice provost
for undergradu ate education. who
argued strongly for the creati on
of a Coll ege o f Arts and Sc iences,
and We lch . who decl ined to support e ither reorganiza lion opt io n
that is o n the tabl e or propose a
new a li gnme nt.
ln his planning documt.!OI. Provost Thomas Headrick has recommended two poss ible reorganizatio ns o f th e an s and sc ie nce s:
mergi ng the fac ulues of Ans and
Le tters . Na tura l Sci en c e s and
Mathema1ics. and Social S c i e nct.!~
into a Coll ege of Arts and Sc iences. o r combining the natural
scie nces and mathemati cs and the
School o f Eng ineering and Ap·
plied Sc iences into a College of
Sc ien ce a nd En g ineer ing and
me rging arts and leners and socml
scie nces into a College of Art ~ .
Humanities and Social Science~ .

P•nel to provide .,..lyal•
Headric k has c harged the hearin g pan e l wi th ga th e rin g evi de nce. both written and oral. o n
these two o ptio ns . He also ha!-.
askeO :~ ~ pa ne l lo consi der .. loca l o pllo ns,'' oi ~ ropo s a \ s from

sin gle de partme nts or stgnificant
cohesive grou ps within a departme nt to be placed wt th in so me
acade mic un it ot her th an a n art s
and scie nces coll ege
The panel wil l p ro v1de an
analys1s of the ISSue. and has bee n
gi ve n a target da le of Ju ne 20 10
present it s re port o u1hning "the
preferred course for the untven.J t)
to foll ow 10 connectiOn wu h the
proposed reorgan J7.atJ on ..
Pres tdent W il li am R Gre 111 ~ r
~ ~ cx.pe&lt;.·ted to ma ke a fin al d e~.· I ·
~ 10 11 on the reorg.am zauon b) Ju l)
Wa ng sugges lt.!d 10 hea nn gpa nel
membe n
th a t lh t:
universit y's core acadc mu.: I&lt;K ull y be splil into thrt.!e d1' ts um'
a DivisiOn of An s. Le u e rs and
Soc ia l Sc ie nces: a Dl\ 1 ~ 1 0 n n l
Ph ysicaL Malhemauc al and Ap phed Sc ie nces. a nd a D" 1'1on o f
Ltfe $(' J en c e ~
Each di v 1 ~ 1 on . wh1c h woul d tx
respon sible for both graduate a nJ
undergrad uate ed uca tio nal peng ra m s 1n !IS field . wo uld be
headed by a di rector who woul d
repon direc tl y to the provos t and
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SENATE
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tndividual by their former thesis advisor,' '
he said, adding that the dcpartmenl violated that policy twice ...to our infinite
regret. when exactly that happened."
Offering another viewpoint, Bernice
Noble. professor of microbiology. noted
that MIT has increased the representation
of women on its chemistry faculty because
the depanment is hiring ..the most outstanding of its own chemistry graduates"
tn tenure -track positions.
"(The MIT model ) provides a response
to the complaint that it may be difficult to
find members of undenepresented groups;
the y may be in our own pools," she said.
Jack Meacham. professor of psychology. suggested the wording in the repon
be changed to state "a special effon be
made in hiring to not overlook UB graduates.··

David Banks, professor of anthropology
and a member of the Afftrmati ve Action
Committee, noted that discussion of tiUs
poiol within the committee concerned the
question of whether members of protected
groups would be forced upon departments
or be promoted to facuhy staJus .. no matter what."
'The language there renects the feeling

that we are letting a certain number of
wonderful students get away and that !here
shou ld be a mechanism that when a Stu·
dent is really good. we don't have to give
him away; we can keep him here," Banks
said.
"So the language is supposed to renect
lhe effon tc keep the best, not the effon to
get any old (student) at all."
The FSEC forwarded !he repon for review
by !he full SenatAO at its May 13 meeting. •

Greiner sees little focus on goals
in academic planning discussion
lly SUE WUE'ICHml

News Services ASSOCiate 01rector

PRESIDENT WIWAM R. GREINER told FSEC committee members at the
group's May 7 meeting that he f&lt;?und the discussion on campus of the academic
planning process undenaken by Provost Thomas Headrick "disappointing in a way"
because there has been little discussion of the ··goals.. of the institution as outlined

in the plan and the ''diagnosis" of UB 's current situation. Most discussion up to
this point. he said, has focused on the "prescription."

"I haven't heard much engaging with the goals," Greiner said. "If faculty dis·
agree with the goals. then we ought to Know that; if staff disagree with the goals,
wC ought to know that. I haven't heard any of that. Maybe that means nobody
disagrees with lhe goals ...
The "diagnosis" pan of the planning document assesses such things as how UB
rates. how the university is seen by others and the size of the institution compared
to its peers. the medium-sized AAU schoo ls. he said.
" I haven ' t heard much discussion about that," he said. "Maybe that mean s ev ~
erybody says. 'Yeah. basically !he diagnosis is right and that really is !he right
comparisorl' to make '."
If there is no disagreement with the goals or the diagnosis. "and 1"could con~
elude that from the si lence. or the relative silence on this. then we have to move on
to the prescriptions."
Greiner noted that there are three "macro-issues" regarding the planning process that are especially appropriate for the Faculty Senate w deal with.
l'wo of the issues-resources-centered management and centers, institutes and initiatives-need much analysis and evaluation and will not be resolved soon. he said.
But the other issue- the reorganization of the ans and sciences-''cries out for
a quick response ,·· he said.
The issue has been·studied to "a fare ~ thee-well," Greiner said. adding that until
it is resolved, other issues will be held up.
He noted that if Headrick had no! proposed the College of Science and Engi neering as an option for the arts and sciences. "there would be no need to have a
(hearing) panel."
And if the hearing panel does not present a compelling case for the science and
engineering option, UB will move forward and begin the transition process to a
College of Arts and Sciences. he said.

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be on an equal standing with the deans.
He said that under his plan, whole departments would not be brought into the
various divisions, but faculty members who
wished lO do so could join !he divisions on
an individual basis. Tbe idea, he said, is
"not to disrupt the present structure of the
professional schools."
He used the term director, rather than
dean, because be does not want his plan 10
be associated wili) the present decanal system which, be said, many fmd 'ioo restraining for progress."' He said be hopes the directors would have more authority than !he
deans currenUy do, and would place more
emphasis on programs, rather than traditional depanmental boundaries, 10 encourage interdisciplilliJ)' collaboration. Many
universities are, in fact, abolishing depanmenlal names, he added.
In his remarks before the bearing panel.
Goodman took up the case for a College
of Arts and Sciences.
Emphasizing that he was spealting for
himself, not for the provost, Goodman
noted that while a majority of the Triggle
Commission three years ago recommended
the creation of a College of Arts and Seiences, then-Provost Aaron Bloch was unwilling "10 take the political risks involved
in taking that step."

o.-co.cll,.,_..• ca..,,ra• l••
Tbe Council of Arts and Sciences Deans.
composed of !he deans of !he faculties ofArts
and I..ettcn. Social Sciences and Natural Sciences and Mathematics. as well as Goodman
and Peter Gold. associate dean of the Uodergraduate College, was formed as a compromise, be said. The idea was that !he three faculties would act as a single unit in matters
regarding undergraduate education, while
mainutining !heir aulOnOmy in graduate and
research maners. be said
And although !he council has achieved
a number of successes. most notably the
implementation of the general-education
curriculum, increased access to majors and
an improved system of advising. there have
been some drawbacks, he said. The coun·
cil now is dormant. in part. Goodman said,
because Headrick has not "responded very
enthusiastically" to the council's initiatives
and has not given it a mandate.
The deans respect each other's turf and
don't step on each other's toes, be said.
"When there is any sense at all of interfering in the internal affairs. or the possible
interfering in the internal affairs of one of
the units, the other two deans back off," he
said. Moreover, the deans do not have the
authority to reallocate resoun:es, he said.
"The budget belongs to the three deans
separately, so there is no way that that or~
ganization (the council) can move money
around to meet the needs that are presented
by the undergraduate problems;" he said.
And since the three budgets are separate. there is a ..disincentive" for a particu~
Jar dean to reallocate money in his unit
from graduate resean:h programs to undergraduaie programs if the other deans are
not doing thai as well. he said.
- - for'-lty d i 'There is a lack of consensus (among
!he deans) on priorities," he said.
'The arts and sciences are not three separate fields," Goodman continued. "The arts
and sciences are. and by rightS ought to be, a
unified collection of disciplines that need to
interact and there needs 10 be faculty discussion of how we organize !he curriculum" and
address other common·mattcrs. be said.
A merger of the natwal sciences and
mathematics with the engineering school
will not solve the problems of undergraduate education, he said.
There is no tradition in engineering of

service inslCUCtion. be said, noting that
while tbe majority of !he teaching load of
tbe science departmeolJ involves sllldcots
from Olber departments who are taking introductory and prerequisite science
courses, faculty in !he eoginecriog school
"only teach !heir particular students.
"As a result. there would be a lack of fit
between !he inslructionai mission, cauinly
on tbe undergraduate level, between the
natural sciences and enginecriog," he said.
Welch, !he only speaker at the May 8
session. told panel members he was "an
agnostic" wben it comes to reorganization.
"I bave no prior position, for or against,"
he said.
He ouilined nine " principles" that he
said are important in terms of effective re organization. including having a clear set
of institutional missions, !he need for accountability. consistent two-way communication, measures of effectiveness. regular evaluation of paniCipanu and programs.
and sufficient resources to carry out the
basic mission.
Welch also addressed areas that be said
need attention, but would not be affected
by an arts~and~scieoces reorganization.
These include curricular emphasis across
fields, enrollment management. international education. issues witiUn tbe bealth
sciences and information tcehoology.
'These points all make me conclude that
an activist Provost's Office will continue
10 be necessary in a whole variety of areas, irrespective of any reorganization of
arts and sciences," he said.

- -·...-...·...-.

Welch suggested that a position of a vice
provost for ans and sciences could bave
been created tiUs past fall 10 intervene wilh
!he council of deans. "Perj&gt;aps. there might
have been some. steps lalceo so that that
council might not have languished,• be said.
He also endorsed efforts '\I "groi!Jld-up
planrung" witiUnlhe various units, in i&gt;articular commendibg the planning effort un dertaken by the Faculty of Arts and Let ters before Headrick's academic planning
document was released. "We need 10 have
such planning" among the other arts-andsciences units as well, Welch said.
He said that although be does not favor
any particular reorganization option. he
hopes any reorganization will be seen as
"inspiring,"' will clarify the mission. have
a reasonable basis of resources and will
engage the facuhy "in a positive sense, as
opposed to a negative or critical sense.•·
In response to questions from the bearing panel. WO!ch said he feels a reorganization would ease the integration of the
three units by giving them a "sense there
is a ser of common missions for the three
faculties that would supplemeot and perhaps override tbe lr.inds of different instilutional cultures that have developed ...
He said that a unified College of Arts and
Sciences could promote cohesive under~
graduate education if it moves ahead wilh
"what has already been reasonably established," namely !he general-education curriculum ...There is a good reason to believe
there would be benefits 10 undc:rgJ1Iduate education from such a unity. bu~ on !he other
hand, it does 001 solve all !he issues." he said.
Welch added that be believes some of !he
same benefits could be achieved through a
functioning council of deans, as well as
through inpul from !he Faculty Senate, which
will be addressing such undergraduate education issues as administrative resignations
and academic requirements in general.
The hearing panel will convene again
at9a.m. on Wednesday. June4. in 14 Knox
Hall. Three proposal s are scheduled to be
•
presented.

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Concert Sunday to Honor David Fuller

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SUNY CONfDiaNCE SET ON
I~

...._ Alltlnli, professor of microreceived the New York
State United
Teachers
(NYSUT) Community ServiCe
AW81d at the
NYSUT convention held May 1-4
in Washtngton.

D.C
Alb1nl comnbuted more than 900 hours of com-munity service dunng the past year
He •s an executive board member
of the International Institute of Buffalo and prestdent of the Faculty
Club at UB
In 1996. he volunteered lor one
month in Bosnta, representing
Medical Relief . US and the WNY
medlcal community. Information he
obtained •n Bosnia helped to secure
federal grants to establish the partnership between Bosnia and The
BuHalo General Hospital. providing
sktlled care and medical educat100
tn Bosnia. On April 17. he recerved
the Regina Kocteekt Award tor Ols·
ttngutshed Achievement from
United University Profess100s He
serves as vtee president for the UB
Health Sc nces chapter
A lac ty member at UB s1nce
1974 , a
authof of lllOfe than 140
sctenuf publiCations. he serves on
the edi Jal board of several peer
rev•ew urnals A Fulbnght scholar
1n 1991 . bini received undergraduate a
graduate degrees
from Coleg lo
ericano, Caracas.
Venezuela: R !gymnasium.
V1enna. Austrl . Akadem1e f Mustk
u Darstellende Kunst. Vienna. a degree 1n Romance languages and
h•story of theatre and h1s M .O degree from the University of Vienna .
Austna

IIIlTH IIRYAHT REAPPOINTED
TO COUNTY

AD~

IIOARII

Ruth D. lllyant, aSSIStant dean in
the School of Architecture and Planning . has been reappotntedto
membership on the Ene County
C ultural Resources Advisory Board
lor a rwo-ye81 term by Dennis T
Gorski, Erie County executrve
Bryant . a UB graduate . IS a
former chair of the Profess100al
Staff Senate (PSS} A 30-year employee of the untvers•ty. she rece•ved the PSS Outstandtng Serv1ce
Award in 1990

Two UB faculty member&amp; and a staff
member recetved speclal aw81ds
from the Early Childhood Research
Center (ECAC) at UB during a special d inner held on Aprtl 17 to celebrate the ~eek of the Young
Child.·
Hugh Petite, outgoing dean of
the Graduate School of Education.
.,.,..... Hoot. who has been dt·
rector of ECRC for 10 years, and
ctwletlne ...... who has been
a secretary at ECRC for 10 years
and coordinated construction of the
Christine Cataldo Playground adjacenl to the center, were honored for
their significant and conlinutng supporto! ECAC
More than 100 staH members.
teachers . guests and parents of
youngsters enrolled in ECRC attended the event held in Baldy Hall
The
of the Young Child" IS
sponsored by the National AssociatiOn for the Education of Young Children. the national accred1t1ng group
for earty childhood educatoo and
daycare centers

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UBP'IIOfESSOIIIS

BIIIKILEY LI!CTUIIEII
Elllluckenateln, SUNY 0 1SIInguished Professor In the Oepanment of Chemical
Engineenng at
UB. was the invited speaker this
sprtng for the
Thirteenth Berkeley Lectures in
Chem1cal Englneenng at the
Umvers1ty of California at Berkeley
Each year. a leadtng chem1cal
engtneer ts chosen to gtve two lec tures to academtc and industry researchers at the Untverstty of California at Berkeley Ruckenstein lec tured on "Thermodynamically and
Kinetically Stable Oispers1ons· and
on ·colloidal Scale Polymenc Com·
posites.·
A UB professor s1nce 1973.
Ruckenstein has made sc1entthc
contribulions in a broad range of areas. including applied mathematiCS
and catalysis . polymers . enzyme
catalysis. surface phenomena . colloids and emulsions He IS a member of the National Academy of Engtneering and the w inner of numer·
ous national and tnternat1ona1
awards .

FORMEII ENEIIGY SECRETARY '
HAZEL O'LEAIIY TO SI'EAK

UB CENTEII ANNOUNCES
TWO NEW AI'POINTMENTS

Hazel O'Learr . former U.S sec -

The Center for lndustnal EHecttveness (TCIE) at UB has announced
two staH changes The center has
h1red . .,., Anderson as quality
d•rector lor the Strategic Partnership fgr lndustnal Resurgence
(SPIR) program and has promoted
P•m•l• Keen to manager of
tratning servtces
Anderson wtll provtde quahty
and manulactunng ass•stance to local compames through projects that
wtll tnvolve students and faculty
ltom the UB Department ollndustnal Eng1neenng She also w111 ass•st faculty •n the School of Eng ineering and Appt1ed Sc1ences 1n
cumculum devel6pment and teachIng A graduate ol Alfred Un1vers11y.
she earned a master's degree 1n
business admtmstrauon from UB
Keen. formerly tratmng cOOtdtnator lor the center. wtll asstsl chents
1n tratnlng-needs assessments.
state tra1mng-grant admintstratK&gt;n
and company-funded tra1n1ng Keen
has been an employee of TCIE
s1nce 1993. A graduate of Emptte
State College. she previOUsly
worked at Moog as an admtn1s1ra ·
liVe BSSISI&amp;nt

retary of energy. will speak at the
ftrst ALANA Convocation at UB. to
be held trom 1t a .m . to 2 p .m on
Fnday. May 16. 10 the Student Umon
Theatre on the North Campus
The event will tlorlOr graduating
students-both undergraduates
an? graduates-who are of Afncan
Launo . As1an and Native-Amertcan
(ALANA) descent.
A reception for O'Leary and the
students and their lamihes and
lnends will be held from 10-11 a m
•n the Student Unton lObby pnor to
the program
The event. free and open to the
pubhc 1s sponsored by UB's OH1ce
of Student MultiCultural AffairS and
supported by the Student Assocta-

uoo
O 'Leary graduated Ph1 Beta
Kappa from Ftsk Untversity •n NashVIlle and recetved her law degree
from Rutgers Untvers1ty As secretary of energy, she led several malOr 1nternauonal trade mtssions to
lndta. Paktstan and China. promotIng U S energy proposals that resulted tn internatiOnal pannerships
1n susta1n8ble energy deveklpment

Clvtat.Jne Sauclun8tc, aSSOCiate
director for infOfmation technoklgy
services at UB. and M.G. ParA

are members ol the planning comminee for Learning With Techf'IOK)gi8S: Design "lmplement•Assess.
the sixth annual SUNY FACT Conference on Instructional Technologoes (CIT) to be held May 27-30 at
Brockport State College
The conference. open to all
SUNY faculty and staff. and on a
limited basis to other interested
educators , is designed to encourage SUNY fatuity to develop and
use instructional tech/"'Ik)giBS
CIT will feature more than 150
presentations focusing on design of
learning technologies . their implementation and assessment
Among the presenters are Edith
Martin. chief informatoo offiCer.
Eastman Kodak Co., who will speak
on ·Getting the PiciUre : Technology
and the Future; ~ Bernard Pet•t. coordinator of BrockJ)Of't State College
tnteracttve Telecommumcattons
Network. who will dtscuss and demonstrate the Rochester Area Interactive Tetecommun1ca110ns Network. and Gerald PuCCIO, acting d•rector of the Center for Stud1es tn
Creativity at Buffalo State College .
who will discuss ·Fostenng Change
Through Technology •

WELCH INYmD TO CARNEGIE
COUNCIL E'IIIICS SEIIINAII
Cleude E. Welch Jr., SUNY D•sUnguished Service Professor 1n the
Department ol Pc»lttcat Sctence.
has been tnvtted by the Carnegte
Counc11 on Eth•cs and tnternattonal
AHa1rs to parllctpate 1n an •nvtted
faculty development semtnar. ·rna
Pohhcs and Ethtcs ol Humanttanan
Intervention Expet~ence and Prospects · u wtll be held June 12-1 4 m
New York Ctty. and has been llm11ed
to 24 partiCipants

UB P-IS YJSmNG
PIIIOFES.oiiiN FINLAND
Marjorie A. White, professor
and dtrector. Center tor Nurs1ng Research tn the School ol Nurs1ng.
was a v1S11tng professor at the Umvers•ty of Tampere. Department of
Nurs1ng Sc1ence . Tampers . Ftntand .
dunng March She taught a course
1n Fam•ly Theory and Research 10
50 graduate students !rom Greece
Germany, Italy and F1nland as part
of the ERASMUS program (European Act1on Scheme tor the Mobiltty of Un1vers1ty Students) 1nv01v1ng
educational excnange among European umvers1t1es
She prov1ded research consultatton to colleagues at the Umverstty
of Tampere on a study of tam11tes
and ch1ld abuse 1n Ftnland . tor
whiCh She IS pnnctp81 IOV8SI1Qa!Or
The study was launched through a
Fulbught Santor Scholars FellowShip to the Untverstly of Tampere 10
t994-95

S11IAINCHAMP5 TO GIVE
PAI'EII AT ITALY CONFEIIENCE
E..,ond Str•lnchampa, asSOCIate professor of mustc and asSOC Iate chatr. Department of Mus1c , w• ll
dehver a paper at a scholarly conference •n Florence Italy May 2325 The event 15 betng held 1n conJuncuon w1!h events mark1ng the
700th anntversary ol the found1ng of
the Cathedral of Florence
The conference en11tled Cantata
Dommo wtll exam1ne the role ot muSIC 1n the h1story of the Florent1ne
duomo through the centunes
Suamc hamps has done research
and pubhshed on mustc. both secular and sacred . 1n Florentine culture
w1th emphas•s on the t6th and 17th

A concan hononng the retirement of Davuj Fuller, professor of musiC
atgan1s1 and dtrector of the UB Organ Performance Program w111 oe
held May 18 at 3 p m tn Slee Concert Hall The pubhc IS 1nv11ed and
no admtssiOfl wtll be charged Fuller 1s retlrulQ after 34 years as profes·
sor of mus•c at UB and a teach1ng career that spans 4 7 years
Among the pertormers will be Wilham ChnSI18 founder ot the Pansbased ensemble Les Arts Flonssants who w11l rece1ve an honorary degree from SUNY at UB 's I 51st commencement May 18 L1sa Goode
Crawford . professor of harpSIChord at the Oberlrn Conservatory ot MuSIC who has performed throug/'loul the U S and 1n Europe and Japan
Roland E. Man1n. a member of the UB musiC faculty and a noted Ot·
gantst. and Davtd H1ggs. one ol Amenca s leadtng concert organ•sts
and head of the Ofgan department at tne Eastman School of MusiC
The hrst pan of the program will t&gt;e works lor harpSIChOrd the sec
ond part will feature works lor organ
Fuller's eHorts over two decades were key tn the des1gn and 1nstat
latJOfl of UB's F1sk organ . one of North Amenca s most d1s11ngwshed
concan hall organs
Fuller is reoarded as one ot the worlds foremost authon11es on me
performance ol baroque muSIC He has had a career !hat encompassed teach1ng. research , performance and recordtng and has
authored art1cles . book chapters. rev1ews and notes Hts recordtngs
1nclude the Penn Fantasy for harpstchord ana wtth Will tam Chnst1e
workS of Armand-Lou1s Coupenn He has publ•shed an ed1t10n ol
Handel organ concertos and an edtt•on ol harps1chord duets by A L
Couper in
Htghly regarded as a concert and church orgamst he has performed and taught harpsiChord pertormance 1n the UB mus1c program
He rece1ved an A 8 1n mustc hiStory 1n 1949 an A M 1n 1950 and a
doctorate 10 1965 hom Harvard Umverstty Before t&gt;e1ng appointed to
the UB mus•c faculty tn 1963. he was an tnstructor tn mus1c at Robert
College. Istanbul. and taught at Braotord Juntor College and
Dartmouth College

centunes . and has published extenSIVely on these top1cs

IN-UlAN TEACHEIIS

IIIIADUAnNG..-ua
Among those graduat ing !rom UB
thiS weekend are nme lndones1an
school teachers who w•ll recetve
master's degrees from the Graduate
School of Education dunng ceremontes on Saturday May 17 at 5 p m
tn the Ma1nstage of the Center tor
the Arts on the North Campus
The ntne are the last graduates
among 18 lndones•ans whO came 10
US tn 1995 as pari of an eJdenSNe
teacher-retratn•ng program und9ftaken by the lndones•an government
That program •s pan of an efforl to
transform the country tnto an tndustnahzed natiOI'l wtth1n 25 years
Oespote great language diffiCUlty
and a prolonged aosence !rom . _
tones and lamhes. aJ nne have ma~n­
talned grade pc~~nt averages t&gt;e(Ween
3 58 (B•) and 3 72 (A-) On Saturoay
etght Will recerve master's degrees '"
1J0"0'31 eoucaoon lhrrugn the Depart
ment d Educatoonai O&lt;garnzatoon AdO"WllStrallOn and Poley One Will recerve
a maste(s 10 scence eaucat.on
Alter reporttng to !he M1msuy ot
Education 1n lndones1a the gradu·
ales will resume tne•r work m 1un10r
or sen1or h1gh schools 10 lndones1a
The l~rst seven members of the
group gradualed !rom UB 1n August
1996 and December 1996 after com
plating thetr master 's degrees 1n
teachtng EngliSh as a second language and tn SCtence educa11on
One additional teacher was called
home by the lndones1an government
and later completed h1s master's de·
gree at an Australian un•verstty Another t&gt;ecame 111 and dted last summer upon hts return to lndones•a
The program has been headed
by Wilham Cumm1ngs dtrector ol
!he UB Center tor Comparattve ana
Global Stud1es 1n Eouca t•on

OBITUARIES
John C. Eccles, 94,
Nobel physiologist,
emeritus professor
Su Jom Catew Ecdes 94. a neurophysiologiSt whOse researcn rolhe
basiC lt.nctJons of nerve cells won a
Nobel pnze 1"1 1963. died May 2 fl
Swl\zerland where he had lrved tor the
past 22 yeatS Eccles wtlO dorec!OO the
Center for the Study" NeuroOdOgy 81
UB. retired frtrn the lK'tiVefSity as amenIUS prof8SS()' 10 1975
Ecdes Shared the Nobel Pnze wrlh
Alao HoOgkln and Arorew Huxley for
'NQO( thai Showed haw eOOncal mputses ac1 acmss synapses the I'Jf'C·
bOnS oetween nerve cells HIS ocncluSIOnS led to a bener understanding ol
noghe&lt; bra" tuncoons
The New York T•mes noted May
4 that h1s career as researcher
teacher and author wh1ch spanneo
more than hall a century ·was
spent at presllg1ous scnoots and
1nsututes around tne world lnctud•ng the Amer.can Meo•cal Assoc1a
hon s lnshtute for B•omed1ca1 Research 1n Ch1cago and the State
Un1vers11y of New York at BuHalo Born •n Melbourne Austraha
Eccles earned bacnetors ano
med1cal degrees Iron Melbourne
Un1vers1ty He won a Rhodes scnol
arsh•P to study at Oxford UntverSity
where he earned a master 's and a
doctorate He conduc ted tne research that leO to the Nooel wMe at
the John Curt1n School o f Med1ca1
Research ot tne Austr a han Nat1ona1
Un1vers•ty 1n Canoerra 1n tne 1950s
Eccles was kn1ghted Oy Oueen
Ehzat&gt;eth II 1n 1958
In 1966 he came to the US to
head the Amencan Me01Cal Asso
Cla!lon ·s tnstllute lor 8 1omed1ca1
Aesearcn '" Ch1cago Two years
later he moved to Buffalo to dtrec!
the Center for the Study of Neuroo•

~::::~~~e:=;~~~golog::y~;·;~t
was named SUNY
1~UI~B~~HeProfessor
~
1n 1975

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DoolaiMcdicioe"s Doponme01
Bk&gt;too. For ioformalioo. calllhc&lt;CDic1 11 829-Wl .

of Oral

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A one-day New Yort State Emt&gt;toY-" Retiremool Sysocm
Seminar will be held Juac 6
from 9 Lm.-4 p...m.. at the Center
for Tomorrow, North Campus.
"TheR will be one IC:IIioa ror
'lier I and 2 membcn, and another for Tter 3 aad 4 memben.
Tbcre wiD be rcpraen~a~ivea
from the. Social Sccurily A.dminiwatioa. tbc Orepl. of Civil Ser·
Yice. aadlhccompooytholaolnUniiiCrl the New Yort Scate

Delemd Compe...OO. f'ro.

F_,,__af_
--afSLEE HALL otpn concert
-,a3p.m. wll

UB .tauarl. .
Cut Aw•y Your IUusioos: It
will Takt Bold Plam lo Fb: th~
Cily and Subur b, Henry Loo1s

ca-•nn••Jit
School o r Pbarmaty. Slee.
North Campus I p.m

200K

Plannin&amp;- Lawn. Hayes
Hall . South Campus. 3 p.m.

Ro•w•U Park S..lnar
Rq:u~tioathe

lnitl.atlon of
DNA Replica tion in Buddin&amp;
Yeast, Dr Jo hn D1ffiey. Chro
nwsorne Rephca tJOn Laboratory.

IC Rf C l~ Hall Labonuo nei .
United Kmgdo m Knc hhoffer
Room. RPCI 12 30 p m

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Co•••nc•••nt

Takuhi Murakam.i's ..Mr. Dob"
is a 40-foot· hiab inflatable
scuJpc:u.re. commissiooed for the:
Lighrwell Oallcty and on view
Ill= through July 13. The

Ca••••t•••nt
Gndualt School or £ducal ion. Center for the Ans.
Nonh Campu$. 5 p.m.

Co••••c••••t
!K.bool or Maoa.emenl.
Alumni Art:na North Cam·
pus 5 p m

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University Commencemeal, Unde:rgraduace.s in

naul 0'

voc81Jon
ry, former u s

!&gt;ttl'l!tary oft energy . Student

Umon Theatre Nonh Campus
I I a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Evemllongrnduating students who are
of Afncan, Latino, As1an and
Nauvc -Amencan descent

&amp;li

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Mutants ortbe £.coli RNA
Polymerase Wbk.b Alter Promoter Escape rrom the Initiation Com plex, Dr. V. James

Hernandez. UB Dc:pc. of Micro.
h1ology 1348 Fa.rber. South
Campus II :30 a.m.

Ans :~nd Letters. Nauo~ra.l
Sciences and Mathematics.
Soc1al Sc1ences, lncerdisciplinary Programs. Special
and lndivcdualiud Majors.
Associ ace Oearces. Alumni
Art:na Nonh Campu5. 10

Co•••ac•••Bt
School or Dea lal Mtdkioe.
Cencer for lhe Arts. North Campus. 2 p.m.

c-t
A Concert Ia Honor of David
Fuller oo lbe Occukm of His
Reli~meoL Slee . North Campos . 3 p.m. Free

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Violence and Victimization Pre vention Program at ECMC.
Alumni Summer College at
Chautauqua. Alumm Association Awards Dinner. Oozfest.
Program can be seen on
Adelphia Cable' s channel 18

lnfectfoue DC .....•
1nvestigating Vaccine S t rat ~
Kit:S to Pn'venl Bacterial Respiratory l o rections.. Jenndle
Kyd . Ph.D Un1 Y of Canberra.
Aumnlla. 244 Cary SoU!h Ca mpu ~ Noon.

Graduate School, Arts and
Lt:ners. Nacural Sciences and
Machemalic5. Soc1al Sc tences
Center fo r che Ans Nonh Campu~ 2 p.m.

Te.UIIIOftlal DIIIIMr
llooori.ng Dr. Robe rt Huben,
alisoc. prof. of urology, Roswell

Park Cancer lnscllule. McKinley
Park Inn. 6:30p.m. cash bar:
1 30 p.m. dinner $35 . Sponw red by Us Too Cancer Groups
Call626-39 33

UB Alum.nJ ldevision

newspJaguiDe, presented b y
Alumni Relations. 6:30p.m.

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Wor kl n &amp; willa the C hrook Recidivist C lie.nl, Mark Sanders.
~;:;;en ~ollege . S65. Call 64.5 -

lnteraatlotwl Folk
Dane IIIII

B-Iatry-Fu nctioaal Sicnif'teantt aod

All levels. 2 Du:~ fe ndo rf Souch
Campus M- 11 p.m. Free SponJ&gt;orc-d by G raduoce Scudenl As-

Enz.ymoloJY of Protel.n
lsopre.nylaliolt/Melbylatioo,
Dr. Roben Rando. Harvard
Um\'. Butler Aud. Farber. Souch
Campus . 4 p.m.

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CCMIIIft8ncemeftt
Grad uate Sc.hool or S«I.J
Work. Center for lhe Arts.
Nonh Campus. 9 a.m.

Ca•••nc•••nt
Sc.bool o r Health Rdattd ProrHSions. Alumna Arena. Nonh
Campus . 9 a.m
Ca•••~~e•••nt
Sch ool or Nursina. Slee Nonh
Campus. 9 L m.

co-••~• • ••
School of Ioronaatioo aod Library Studies. Student Union
Theam. North Campus. I 0 a.m.

Ca-IRICI.IM
School of Enain«rinc aad Ap-

Jvanovich Fokin, Sl Pctenbur&amp;
State Uoiv. Ruu~. 244 Cary.
South Campus. Noon.

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Cell~/

TloeMOtolle•-

Dr. J im Lln, Univ. of Iowa. 306
Farber. South Campus. 2 p.m.

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Ninth Aon.W Seo'or Resident
Praentatio• Day. Kinch Audicorium, Childreo's Hospital.
JOa.m.

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Bad.erial Eaclocytobionll or
ParaaaecJum: B olt-Eodocytobiont l o tft'Kiioos, Dr. Sergei

Gnduate lhesis presentations
an: on view May 1 throuJ.h May
30 in the James Oyeu Gallery.
334 Hayes Hall, South Campus
The exhibit is presented by lhe
School of Architecture and Planning. Gallery houn are 9 a.m.- 5
p.m. Monday-Friday.

Ttac.hiol SodaJ Work from an
Eduealioa Tbtory, Dr. Wilburn

JOB PLACEMENTS

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Hayden. Cen(er for Tornonvw.
North Campus. $120 (lwo day
conference). For more: infonnation, call 645-6140.

ProfeukMaal Staff Seute

ClaanciUor's Award wlnoen
and Out.IC.aDdiD1 Servkt:
Award wln.aer to be booored.
Center for Tomorrow. Nonh
Campus. Noon-2 p.m.

Opooo: CIMelce Uve
l.ps The:J M u.sic01: J asper
Wood, violin; J esw Morain,
cello ; David RJaty, plano.
Allen.. South Campus. 7 p.m.
Free. Concc.n to be broadcasl on
lhe following Sunday ac 4 p.m.
on WBFO-FM 88.7.

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C ompariloo of Plasma
Cytokiot: Cooceotnton' between H IV-P Oiitlve Patienb
a nd Nonu.J Voluntftn, Pau l
Mudd. Pharm.O. candidate. 248
Cooke . Nonh Campus. 8 a.m

TolliooloCJ
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Ad't'II.DCI!:I ln O besity, l uull.n
ud Diabetes. Untversi.ty Inn
&amp;. Conference Cenccr. 8 a.m..5 p.m. For information or co ~g ­
ister, call Dr. Su:z.anne Laychock
at 829· 2808 or
slaychocfi)ubmed. buffalo. edu .

ProfJ JlhRal
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(SL-4)-Equal ()ppomuU!YfAifu.
malive AcrioQ Off'J«. POMinJ
tP-702.1. 111-.. of r.lucalioll (SlA)- Uoiven.ity Services.
Poltin1 MP-7032. Slal'f ~
lUI (S.L-2)-Center for Mauaement Oevc~ Postin&amp;

tP-7034. s..JorStaJr-.t
(SL-3)-Med;cine, Poo:lng

aeulpe.ure, wilh iu cartoon· like
da.ip, is both playf"' and menacina. The l.ightwcll Gallery is
loc:ated within the Univcnity at
BuffaJo Att Gallery in the Center for lhe Arts. North Campus.
Gal)ery houn an: Wednesday·
Saturday 10:30 a.rn.-8 p.m., and
Sunday Noon-S p.m. Admiu lon
is free .

IP-703S. SealorStalr"-c~
ate (SL-5)-Educahooal Oppcw·
tuniry Ceoler, Podin&amp; fP.7036.
SealorSialfAalotoat (SL-3)·
Pl&gt;blkatioos. Postina tP-7037.
1ttotnoctloaal S..pt1011 Special·
bl (SL-4)-Aru and Letten.
Postin&amp; tP-7038. ._.ruc&amp;aal
Sapport1Kbldu (SL-3)·
Atts and Leu.en., Postinc
tP-7039. Aloodato 111-.. of
Computio&amp; Soni&lt;es (Sl.-4)-VP

..Sheldon Berlyn: New Wort"
ccatinues lhrouJ.h June 8 in tbe
Uoivenity at Buffalo Att Galiery. Center for the Ans. North
Campus. A COOC\U1'mC &amp;how of
Bcrlyn's aew wort will be on
view April 2? lhroucJl June I at
tbt Cuttllani An Museum of
Nia&amp;ara Univcnity. UB Art Gallery hours an: Wcd.nesd.ay-Satur·
day 10!30 Lm.-8 p.m., and Sun·
day Noon-S p.m. Admission is

Clinical Affairs, Posting

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Teatb lne Sodal Work rrom an
Eduealion Tbeory, Dr. Wilburn
Hayden. Center fo r TomofTOw
North Campus. S 120 (twe&gt;-day
confer-ence). For more info nna
tion, call 64.5 -6140.

2646. exL 101 or 102.

'"',!!' Siee0tpncumor.

School of lAw. Center for
the Ans No rth Campus .
I p.m.

Tay lor Jr , Ph 0 UB Center for
Urban S twhe~ BuffaloiN 1agan
Mam o u , 1340 Millers pon Hwy
7 \0-IJ am $1 0. ~1 2 Ca ll 829 -

cram. To make • J'eSa'VIIioR.

caiii'UtoooetServices.64S.

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The Periodonlll and Implant
Resean::h Center is looking for
individuals between the ages of
2.5 and 74 to volunleer for stud·
1cs they an: condocti.ns on dental implants. The center, located
in 120 Fosce:r Hall on the: South

Winter. An enthusiastic customer-service
approach within the school's Career Re-

source Center and the MBA program"s new
emphasis on development of students '
"soft skil ls"-interviewing techniques.
business etiquette, public speaking-have
resulted in bene r-prepared students with
dramatlcally improved access to, and
awareness of, job opponunities.
'"This year's MBA graduates are the
first to fully benefit from programmatic
and personnel improvements and additions
implemented two years ago,·· says Winter.
"Increased starting salaries and better job
placements are evidence of the success of
these improvements ...
Innovations like the Career Resource
Center's creation of an award-winning, onLine response network for matching student
qualifications with corporate contacts is
one example of improved service to both
students and company recruiters, says Winter. Increased attendance ofbener-prepared
UB students at an exclusive MBA interview event in Chicago. co-organized by the
career center in February, is another example.
Eight UB MBAs were hired by promi·
nenl companies at the event-including
Kimberly Clarlc.. Andersen Consulting. and
Brown and Williamson- at salaries ranging from $43.000 to $70.000 and averag-

fP·7040. s..JorStalr-.,t
(SW)-Univen.ily Hoaon: Prognm. Postina IP-1041 . Director of Flae AtU C..ter (SL-6)·
Center ror the Arts, Postina tP1042.

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(opoa)·BK&gt;cbenUcat l'!wmax&gt;logy. PostiDJ IR-9608.5. Adaio·
lstratin~~ia&amp;

and Educotionall'lychnl"')'.
Posting tR-97028. Seerdory
W-Social and Preven1ive Mcdt·
cine, Posting IP-97029. Secft..
tary U -Med.icine, Postin&amp;

tR-97030.

To obt12in lrtlJIT infonnotiott on
jobs listed abow, cottltlct p,_,....

SONVI Mrvic~s 'faz ruponu
sys1em by caiHnt 64J-384J ond
[ol/owin1 the wHee prompt illstn.ctiCHU. To obtain ilf/omtDtion on Reseatrh jobs. COIUQCt
Sporuorrd Progroms Personnel.
&lt;IJ6 Crofts.

ing S5I.OOO.
The school"s MBAAdvanU!ge program.
a series of seminars and professional development exercises that begins during stu·
dent orientation and continues at the start
of each new semester. also has contributed
to this spring's placement success, says
Katherine Gerstle. assistant dean and administrative director of the UB MBA program.
..Our students have never been as wellprepared for interviewing and job searches
as they are now."" Ger.;tle says. "An added
benefit of the program is that it helps us
know our students more completely. We
lrnow their strengths and weaknesses so
we're better able to assist them in their job
searches and we know exactly which students to ~fer to which corporate recruiter.;
Students and recru iters, though. won ' t
be the only ones who will benefit from the
MBA program 's job-placement successes.
The management school itself is ex peeled
to benefit through an enhanced regional and
national ~putation . Salary and placement
statistics figure prominentJy in ratings of
the best business schools by U.S. Ntws and
World Rtpon and other publications. And
top MBA candidates refer 10 a business
school's placement report when making en·
rollment decisions.
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�STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

May 15

1997

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REPORmt COMMENCEMENT EXTRA

UB's 151 st Commencement
concludes Sesqui celebration
8J IIAIIY 11011 SPINA
News Services Editor

W

ILLIAM CHRISTIE,
founder of the Parisbased ensemble Les
Arts Florissants, will
receive an honorary degree from
the State University of New York
when the University at Buffalo
holds its 151 st commencement
ceremony at 10 a.m . on Sunday,
May 18, in Alumni Arena on the
North Campus.

John P. Naughton.
dean of the UB School of
Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences From 1975-96.
wUI receive the Chancellor
Charles P. Norton Medal.
the University at Buffalo's
highest tribute.
Phillp B. Wels, chair
emeritus of the UB Coun cil . will be awarded the
President 's

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Chencellor Nonon lleUI

caJ Sciences were held
Sunday. May 11. The various ceremonies wiJJ con clude the university's ISmonth celebration of Its
sesquicentennial.
UB President William R.
Greiner and graduating
senior Krlstlnn R.
Rzepkowskl of Rochester
will speak at the
university's I 51st com mencement ceremony at
I 0 a.m. on Sunday. May
18, in Alumni Arena on

the North Campus.
Greiner and Provost Thomas E. Headrick wJU conFer degrees on graduating seniors From the Faculty of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics. the Faculty of Arts
and Letters and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The recipients of the three Dean's Awards wlll be
Christian R. Brunelli of Jleeksklll. social sciences:
Soumya Raychaudhurl of Rochester, natural sciences
and mathematics, and Barbara Abad of Sunnyside.
arts and letters. Stuart S. Goldberg of Rochester will
receive the senior leadership award .
Student vocalist at the university commencement
ceremony wlll be Heather M. Robert of Grand Island.
Naughton. who will receive tne Chancellor
Charles P. Norton Medal during the general commencement. stepped down on Dec. 31 as dean of the
UB medical school and vice president for clinical affairs. He continues as a professor of rehabUltation
medicine. social and preventive medicine. medicine
and physiology.
Naughton was one of the key players In establishIng UB's Innovative consortium of teaching hospitals
and It was under his guidance that the school instituted aggressive new approaches to medical training
for underrepresented groups. His leadership brought
renewed emphasis to programs in prlmary·care medi·
cine .
Wels, who wUl receive the President's Medal.
earned his baccalaureate, master's and medical de·
grees from UB .
He has served his alma mater In many capacities.
He is a trustee of the UB Foundation. served on the
UB Co uncll for 17 years and Is professor emeritus of
surgery and associate dean emeritus of the School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. A founder of UB's
fencing team , Wels was a member of the United
States' Olympic team In fencing In 1936 and In 1965
was the first person Inducted Into the UB Athletic
Hall oFFame.

SUNY Trustee Candace
de Russy wJU confer an
honorary doctorate ln mu·
sic from SUNY on Christie,
an East Aurora native who
has earned worldwide renown for his unparalleled
accomplishments In classical music.
Christie In 1979
founded the group. Les
Arts Florlssants, which perfortnS music of tlje 17th
and 18th centuries in the
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original style and on origl- _ . , nallnstruments. He has
produced recordings and Internationally acclaimed
perfortnances of the music of Monteverdi. Lully,
Rameau. Handel. Mozart and other composers up to
Beethoven.
He Is the only American to be named a professor
at the Parts Conservatory. In 1993. Christie received
the Legion of Honor. the highest award the French
government can confer on a clvUlan.
Commencement ceremonies, speakers and those
who will confer degrees this weekend are:
• Gradl@te School, 2 p .m .. Friday. May 16. Center for the Arts. Claire Fraser of the Department of
Molecular and Cell Biology. Institute for Genomic Research. Rockville. Md .. will speak. Headrick wUI confer degrees.
• Health Related Professions, 9 a.m .. Saturday.
May 17. Alumni Arena. Peter Pileggi. SUNY associate
provost for health sciences and hospitals. wlll sP'fal&lt;.
John R. Wright. Interim UB vice president for clinical

MAY 15, 1!W7
afl'alrs and Interim dean of the School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences. will confer degrees.
• Graduate School of Social Work. 9 a.m .. Saturday, May 17. Center for the Arts. Speaker will be
Bonnie Collins. family counselor and social worker.
Greiner wiU confer degrees.
• School of Nunlng. 9 a.m .. Saturday. May 17.
Slee Concert Hall. Donna M. juenker. associate professor and director of UB School of Nwsing Undergraduate Program. wlll speak. Headrick wlll confer degrees.
• Information and Ubrary Studies, 10 a.m. , Saturday. May 17 . Student Union Theatre. Elizabeth
Sywetz, executive director. Western New York Ubrary
Resources Council. will speak. Senior Vice Provost
Kenneth J. Levy will confer degrees.
• Engineering and Applied Sciences, I p.m .. Saturday. May 17. Alumni Arena. Dean Mark H. Karwan
wlll speak. Headrick wJU confer degrees.
• Law School, I p.m .. Saturday, May 17. Genter
for the Arts. Nationally known attorney Herald Price
Fahringer, a partner in the New York Jaw office of
Lipsitz, Green. Fahringer. Roll. Salisbury &amp; Cambria.
will speak. Greiner will confer the degrees.
• School of Pharmacy, I p.m .. Saturday. May 17.
Slee Concert Hall. There wlll be no speaker. Wright
will confer degrees.
• School of Architecture and Planning. 3 p .m ..
Saturday. May 17. lawn of Hayes Hall. Allan Temko.
Pulitzer Prize winner and architectural critic for the
San Francisco Chronicle, wiU speak. Levy wlll confer
degrees.
• School of Management, 5 p.m .. Saturday. May
17. Alumni Arena. Dean Frederick W. Winter wlll
speak. Headrick will confer degrees.
• Graduate School .of Education, 5 p .m., Saturday. May 17. Center for the Arts. Dean Hugh G. Petrie
will speak. Greiner wJU confer degrees.
• School of Dental Medicine, 2 p.m .. Sunday.
May 18. Center for the Arts. Arthur A. Dugonl, professor and dean of the School of Dentistry. University
of the Paclflc, wlll speak. Greiner and Dean Louis J.
Goldberg wlll confer degrees.

�MAY 15,1997
A

ME~ \AC.I

REPORTER COMMENCEMENT EXTRA
FROM l HE PRESIDENT

To the Members of the
University at Buffalo
Class of 1997:
This commencement weekend marks a turning point In
your life. UB lJ proud to celebrate the completion of
your studies here and to wish you the best of new chal-

lenges and opponunJties.
We are also at a turning point for the University at
Buffalo, as we conclude our two-year celebration of UB's
151st anniversary. ln fact, this 1s an era of change for the
entire enterprise of higher education- an enterprise
nearly a thousand years old.
The monasteries of medieval Europe, where modern
universities have their roots. were centers of knowledge.
sheltered from the turmoU of the world around them
and from change. But the
world did change. As new
uade routes brought new
Ideas from the Arab world .

Greece. and ChinaEurope's first multicu ltural
moment - a broader Interest
In learning arose, and the
clergy founded sch ools.
Some of these-at
Sa1erno. Bologna, Paris, and
Oxford - attracted studen ts
from across Europe, and
were chartered as universities In the II th and 12th
centuries. Students at these
universities were · bachelors· who completed basic studies to beco me candidates
for the Master of Arts degree. a license to teach . Some
also undertook advanced studies to earn the philosoph/at
docror. or doctor of phil osophy. the origin of our modern
Ph.D.
As the future leaders of Europe's rising cities increasIngly required ' e best of educations. the privileged
classes gained cess to universities. The Invention of the
prin ting press n the 15th century and the increasing d isse mination of owledge In national languages also
challenged th former Intell ec tual Isolation of the clots
1ers
Th e legacies o hese early unlversl tl es-ln cludlng the
degrees we award a d the robes and ceremonies of co m mencement- are stiU part of university Ufe. At the same
time. society and lts\unlverslties today face social, economic. and cultural change even more sweeping than
that which Arst gave rise to universities.
Just as the travels of medieval merchants opened new
challenges for European culture. so today our society Is
challenged to compete In a global marketplace. Universi ti es today must look beyond Europe's cu ltural traditions
In order to offer students the wide-ranging education
that makes lnternational co mmunity possible. We strive
to o ffer this breadth of preparation at UB and hope you
have made the most of it.
In medieval universities. scholars were charged prima rily with reproducing traditional knowledge. Today. uni ve rsities also add to knowledge. UB faculty. for exa mple.
are creati ng better therapies for stroke: new supe:-con ducting mateMals: new ways to understand, deal with.
and prevent domestic violence: and Internet resources
for poetry. poetics. and literary discourse. We hope that
your time at UB has given yo u a greater sense of your
own potential to contribute to such advances and to the
betterment or the world .
Just as Gutenberg's Invention of the printing press
cha nged the way knowledge was shared. the Information
superhighway challenges the way we transmit knowledge.
Twenty years ago, about a hundred co m~uters were connected to the Internet. Today, there are over 13 miUion
Universities not only help to build this information
superhighway, bul must also teach students to navigate
It In their careers and Jives. During the medieval informa tion explosion. universities guaranteed teachers' credentials by granting degrees. The degree conferred on
you this weekend not only testifies to your skills. but
also represents your ability to analyze a nd evaluate. We
hope you will use that ability assiduously In the Lifelon g
process of learning.
Medieval universities were accessible at first primarily
to the clergy. then later to the privileged classes.
Through publicly funded universities like UB , America
has opened educational opportunity to people from all
classes and backgrounds. UB takes special pride tn providing broad access to educational excellence. We hope
that you leave us wi th an appreciation of the value of
th is opportunity, and a strong commilment to helping
preserve It for others.
As you step forward to new stages o f your life. a/J of
us confront change even more sweeping than that which
ushered in Europe 's renaissance: all of us are facing both
challenge and opportunity. You will have great responsi bilities. but your tools and understandings for making
change wisely are better than those of any previous gen eration.
We who have known yo u. taught you. and learned
from you here know that you wJIJ change the world ,
with every step you take. You must also help us to
change UB. Come back to us as leaders. and help us to
ex tend the adventure of the future to the generations
that co me after you .
The University at Buffalo congratulates you . We hope
yo u will remember UB with all the pride and affection
that we have In you .
Sincerely.
William R. Greiner

Awards to honor students for
leadership, academic excellence

F

our graduating seniors wlll be hon ored and two others will have
prominent roles as student speaker
and vocalist when UB holds its
151st annual commencement ceremony
May 18 in Alumni Arena.

The awards will honor outstanding achievements
of UB stude nts for academic excellence and leadership . •
Those to be honored
with Dean's Academic
Achievement Awards are:
ChrlsUan R. Brunelli
of Peeks kill . Faculty of
Social Sciences Dean's
Academic Ac hieve ment
Award , who Is graduating
with three majors: geogra phy. poli tical science and
social scie n ces Interdisciplinary-international swd ies. Brunelli. a University
Ho n ors Sc holar. Is a mem be r of Phi Beta Kappa and
the recipient of a Robert
C Byrd Honors Sch olar·
ship. A staff w rit er for the
Spectrum. UB 's stud ent
newspaper. h e served an
internship with the WashIn gton Bureau o f The Buffalo Ntws. BrunelJI also
was the 1994 -95 winner o f
the Robert H. Stern Award
fo r outstanding writing in
a polit ica l science class. In
1he fall . he will begin
graduate study In the
Co mparative Politics Pro gram at Harvard Unive rsity as a Be nja min
Schwartz Fellow.
Soumya Raychaudhuri
of Rochester. Fac ulty of
Natural Sciences and
Mathematics Dean's Aca·
demi c Achievement
Award. who Is graduating
with maj ors In biophysics
and mathe matics.
Raychaudhurl, a UniversHy Honors Scholar. h as
co mpl eted Internsh ips at
NASA's Space Life Sciences
Training Program and In th e Superco mputing Progra m for Undergraduate Researc h at Cornell Univer sity. He is a m e mber of Phi Beta Kappa and th e
Go lden Key National Honor Socie ty. as well as the re
clple nt o f a Ba rry Goldwater Scholarship and a Grace
W. Cape n Memorial Award . Raychaudhurl. who h as
p ublish ed several anlcles in scientific journals. will
enter a joint M.D.- Ph.D. program in I he fall .
Barbara Abad of Sunnyside. Facul ty o f Arts a n d
Le tters Dean's Acade mi c Achievem en t Award. who is
graduating with a major In French . Abad ca m e to UB
through its Educational Opponunlt y Program and

.

Amy Williams Wins
Thayer Prize

A.ry C.

~A

PRESIDENTS

RECEPTION

CAndidate for a Ph.D. in music

composition. has been .awarded the S2,500 Thayer Prize
In the Arts. The IWirds are given to young creative and
performing artists as they grflduate from the State Unj...
verslty to estJbllsh professional career&gt;.
WtHiAms. • composer and pi.lnlst. recervec:t an M.M.
In m~ performance last yur at UB and holds a B.A. in
music composition/pion&lt;&gt; performance ITom B&lt;nnington
College. She: was 1 fellowship student at. Funen Music.
CONOfVOtoly In Denmork.
•m the upcoming )tit, 1will write several extended
composltlons and signillanUy expand my solo piano
~for competitions and pe&lt;fOflnllnct, • Williams
saki She wiR perform In Vennont and Maine and plans a
Europeon tour In the fall ol1998. She will.,.....,! her
'-1&gt;lrt seminar, "Writing lor tho Contemporary Plano•
at colleges and un'-&gt;llles.
Tho Thoyet Fund was established In 1911-4 by the late
Walter N. Thoyet, choltmon of Whllney Communications
Corp. In New Vorl! Oty, In honor of h~ wilt, IHnne C.
Thl)oe&lt;, who was 1 State Unlvenlty Trust.. lrom 1974-

1911-4.

subsequently earned a pla ce in the University Hon ors
Program. A member o f Phi Beta Kappa and the
Golden Key National Honor Society. she also is a re
clplent of a Minority H igher Edu cation Program
Sch o larship. High Ac hieve men t Awards and the 1994 95 Multic ultural Award She h as interned in the O f
flee o f the Vice Pres ident for St udent Affairs a t UB. tu
tored finan cially disadvantaged student.s and served
as a resident advisor . Abad will pursue graduat e stud
les in French at th e University o f Michigan
Receiving the Division
o f Student Affairs Senior
Leadership Award will be
Stuart S. Goldberg of
Rochester. w h o will gradu
ate with majors in com
mun icatlon and psycho!
ogy Go ldbe rg has served
as an associate j u sti ce and
ch ie f justice of US 's Stu
d en t-Wide Jud iciary A
membe r of the Mortar
Board and Golden Key Na
tiona) h onor societie~ . he
was Inducted In 1996 into
~ Who 's Who Among Stu
dents in American Univer
sities and Co ll eges ~ H• s
UB leaders hip has in
eluded serving on the
Committee for the Promo
tion of Tol erance and Di
versity. the Scudent Lead
ership Task Force and the
life Wo rkshops Advisory
Com m iu ee He was
crowned hom ecoming
king in his senior year a t
UB
The stude nt speaker
will be Krlstlnn R.
Rzepkowski o f Rochester
Grad ua ting with a degree
in an with a concentra
tion in communication
design . he co mpleted an
int ernsh ip with the Milton
Glaser design firm in New
York Ci ty Rzepkowski is d
me mber o f the Uni versity
Hono rs Program . a C race
Capen Memorial Award
winner and a member of
th e Colden Key National
Ho n or Society Tht&gt; recip1
e nt of a scholars hip from th e Polish Arts Clubs of Buf
falo . as well as th e Bloo m -Sc h oe llkopf A\o.!ard fo r ex
c:e ll e n ce In typography. hl' ha s been on th&lt;' dean 's list
every semester
The voca list for the C lass o f i997 will be Hea th e r
M. Robert o f Gra nd Island Sh e will gradu a te with
degrees In music performanct&gt; and musi c ed ucation
A student teacher at Amherst High Sc h ool and
Wlll owr idgt&gt; Ele mentary School during 1996-97. she
will p ursue a maste r's degree in music education a t
the Universi ty of So uth Carolina in the fall She tra v
eled to Italy with the UB C hoi r in 1995 . and returned
to Sie na to study Italian in 1996 A me mbe r and so lo
1st with the UB C horu s. she also dm•rts t\V O choi rs a t
St josa phat C hurch in Cheekt owaga

A Salute to International
Students, Scholars
The President's Reception for Graduating Int erna tional Students and Departing Scholars. which celebrated the achieveme nts of UB 's international
students and exchange scholars. was held o n May
6 In the Center for the Arts Atrium.
Speakers at the reception included UB President
William R. Grel""'r, joseph Williams. dlre&lt;lor of
International alumni; William Evitts, executive di rector of alumni relations. and Mary ldzlor of the
Office of the International Student and Scholar
Services. Shao-Chln Chang, who will graduate
from VB with a Ph.D. in finan ce, spoke on behalf
of international students.
Music at the reception was provided by a stu dent ensemble from the UB Departme nt of Musi c

�REPOimR COMMENCEMENT EXTRA

A SALUTE TO
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT

I

ru1y bpoctMJe• I• PlanAU...
...,....TW.rftntY...-a.a

--nolr

~ola-p!U..
......~,....C.Dtri•
......._. .... s.-tc. to the

Henry Ad..aau Medal

Department of
~hltkture
A~;:ademJc

Ac hieYement

Aw-.nb (aw.rded to Rudent.
with the hJ&amp;be.t CJYeraU CPA)

Sl:ntor Klrnberly Knit (3 7051
junk..- Ellllne Chow (3 883)
~phornore Scott Adalllll (3 1128)
fn::shn\.111 John McCurnlV.y (3 936)

'

Henry A.S.au Cutlflcate
Yu-Chl Ja$on Uu

Student or llhrlt:

PeU.IWUTN\' Scbolanhlp
F1n.t PJ.Ke; j.am.)e Robideau. Mart
Fhher. WtlJ.I.am Grft:"'Y
Stcood PlKe btwl Lowry a.nd Ja

Urban Planning .

""'""""'
o.an·,

Award (•tvdent ,...
turnlftC. llnal year, hl~
CPA)

D.N.Ip bc-eUencc AwU'd

BPS Ela1nrChow

l•wardelll t.o ... lldenl wtlh
•tudlo work)

Gr.duate· TR Yan Ng

ouuc•n~lnc

Who '• Wbo Ccrdftcate-

~nlol (tie) jame Kovach .nd
l..lona p_.lrfdo
Jumor Sllbll'lol A.pfeld
Sophomore \tie) Kroydon Smith
•nd ChMie O.vts
he~hnw.n Ericluon /I.Urqut:s

GioN !'.)lema. lama Kovach.
ElaJrw Chow. Shanntlf\11 Moon~

Department of Planning
EnvlronmentaJ Design
Budunhut.ltl' PuU•r Award:

AJph• Rho C hJ Me-dol

llmothy M Pvtu

Ra ben Bwnham

Dean'• AwiU'd Conllnutna
BAED:

Award

joNthen M.

O;mlel Dwyer

Outatanclina s.rvlcr.
Mk:fw,I&amp;A.. Rosen

~IW.

C h•lr '• Award

Out.Uodlq Academic
Ach&amp;•n•eDMnt:

Sor'lakul Mee.}Muen ;md ROOHt
6urnh.&amp;m

Regan 0 Thompson

Christ~M.Cotl'redo

Dean'• Award C.attauifta
MUP:
Randal T Evans
.\JCP O .. btand.in8 Student
Award:
Daniel 8a1dwtn Hess
~tn..1a:

o.niel Baldwtn l-Ieu
Outst.andlna· A.cade-1"
Ach&amp;e-nt:
Tan l Hoy1
Out......._nc~ce:

Robin

L"""""""

Student of W.rit Awat'CI:

'""""'"M""""

Cert.llkatlon or llef:eplltlon
ln Ach.Jnol. . the H,Ja.heet .......
r...aoa.al ~.apectau.- ln
Plaftllln&amp; ..,.ond 'lllelr Plnt
Year . . a GrMhaate Student:
KmyA Could
Cert.lflcate or ltK-cnJtlon tor
Achlevtna tbe Hl&amp;bnt Schol-

Art Students To Receive Annual
Departmental Awards
Sht ~tudenU in the UB Dep.l~t of Art have ~ 1996-97 departr1"M!n~l aw.t~rd:s for their wort. Among
the aw;~rcb art two nt"W one in the prinli'T\MUng fiekl, OM of whkh wAS es~blished this year by Eugene C.ter,
~tw profeuor ;n the UB c.r.c:su.te School ci Education.
• Hyuna Jun Yum of St. ten lllaDd hAJ been ~ted by the art ctep..~t facutty to receiYt the
Philip C. .00 Vk'glnNI Cuthbert E.aiott P-nUng ~p. The cash award G giYen to a tuA-tlme junior in

thr~~~~~w::~~.;:~::iott.field~mdheflate~Phlllp
~

for lO ye-&amp;n as art:!stJ 11nd 11rt educ.lton; In Wl!sten New Yort. lnduding lengthy ten.ns 11t Uv
Albright Art School lind II its IUCCeuof, the UB ~~ ol Alt. From 1~1-69, Philip Eliott serwd SIJC.C.ti...
Wety as director ol the 11rt Khool11nd the first cNir ol t1w UB 11rt ~t. Vwglnia Cuthbert El6ott taught
art 111 both irutitutioru from 1941 -6 1. Both ~ a strong force In sha.plng the UB a rt ~t during IU forC. El&amp;iott,

Nancyw.ldl- g ; , . n O . h o n o &lt; d l h e - - - .
... d ....... c.non Colego.

nne y_,-. Cract-t•k•-

--..cognlzos•CI.WTintly-~­
tial student
who hilS tniiiCk • subslantilll c::orGbulian to the lriwnity
lhn&gt;ugh .... .......,._.. .. c~ .. . , . _ ... ..._..._

•at:

Rktwn:iJ

~II

___

Appled Public Attain

"v"""""" hills-"' pn&gt;joO "'""'!~ .... 1996-97 ICidori:

0....'•

'!OM· RedpienCs . . . - . - - '"".
signifi.
unc cOI"'tJ'b.Jtion to1ht ~·
l.idUI W I S
- b h«
ltlpe T... fOia
-'&lt;TrioiP"'iocL
_
_ _ IO_IpbNs

......, A....,.

"""'"nadng-

C.nilint.lq

highly"""""""-

..............,._...,.
Oonlol...,....

-

Pe'Bnunedo.

Four·Honored with
Nancy Welch Awards
............................. ,............_ ........ ,..........

~lt. .M.l

landal T E\WII

.........,,
t's graduation time- time to salute the many
MkheUeKubant:
achievements of UB students in academics, re. . . n...wPr.ject .~
v.-,...
search, community service and artistic perforJIAall-l Pt-.f....a&amp;l
Eapect..de&gt;• Award:
mance . Today's Reporter gives recognition to the Lori ...... """"' Raymond
H1pMt lc:...llll'ty hpoct.a.....A.wanl:
efforts that have brought distinction on many fronts .
o.ru.J...,....
Among the awards presented this spring are those listed hbllc Serria Aw-.rd
j ayrN wuu.n.. o.vtd Ruddft-. Edbelow. The list, by no means complete, is based on
..... Scoa WUib. Shonnon
Vmbush hL Lori BurT.. Daniel
materials submitted by various university departments. ...,.... """" ..ymond
ART HISTORY
ARCHITECTURE
AND PLANNING

MAY 15, 1W7

T-.

HUt_,.

TIM f.u.wt . . Art
........ a...,. ,-.-lv..t . . . ..
do.l •ward ... Moor:
Gillian Born. M.A An Hbtory.

Cnduau Studeoc E..ar.Uenr:e In
T-=hina Awwd..

MM1on Tobobld. B.A.. An History.
Ouwandlna SeNor Ln An HJsrary

~~~·""""""'

South Ol1"'p..MS. Tied for ttWd

_

,......, _lusTripP"'iocL

,..._,.,""'"""YWISheldonlo4ondoy, Apll21, O.lhe
- - - ........ lloom.

_..... .... --.
......
.......

ClluOe-......,. -a.;,'""
Wonwn'a

~· JIUI..emb

T...,Aw....

........, ........ !Moot~ .
1\w:ey BrittOn {eo.ches' Awwd).
lori Perillo(MoRValUIIblert.yer)
Men'a Soc:cw:: 11m Nen1dt (Top
Newoomer). Doua Gdla (MC»t lm

-·-~

{Cood&gt;oo' Awool) , )oo Mom~&lt; {Moo&lt;

Playw).

Men'a 'hftnk: Mike Ml.nt« (Top
Newc:onw). Travis Mtlnik (Molt

A'NW'd). lkwlnl Doty ~
tc-hoo'

- - · Dt¥tno:
.,-.c.~~oy. -v...-.
Jennif• Quinn.. lea:.a w.runo..

Mdnomoy.

....... -....!Moot~ .

M.nle Oulfeu (Coctw' Aw.d).
Sue 8ohnd (Molt V.tueble Plllytr)

~ . OnkeM­

- - - ( T o p N e w·
M.tl T.ylor (Cc.chel" AWMQ.·
IJnamo"""'
_
_,
c..Ja
Guest l).b;(
Valuable~

. . ...,..,.
-

· ).- w.ru._{Cood&gt;oo'

Award) , John Stutzmlln (MOll Vatu·
Men'•a..k.elball:Mlke~

(Ddenstw Award). Scott McMillin
(Top Newtomer). ~t Clemens
(MOlt lmprowoed). Chandan .Jor-

Boht'll'l lwomen"ssw:Jmmlna a. dtv-

-.ApriiOU..{Coocl&gt;M'
A.wwd). DanleUe Rakowsky (Mol.t
Valu.bie Player) .
Men'• Tndt • Rdd: em. Dayley
(Top Newalrnet). Micah ~n
!Moo&lt;~. Min Sumo
(Coec:ha" Awwd). Ryan Candi.l
{Most v.Juable Pl.lynt .
Women"• Tndt a fidd.: Mei.Jswl
Ryan (Top Newawna1. Kum Ully
(Moa~ llrlpf'OYed). Ja,mte HtnchR"IIln
(Coaches" Award). Teny Scheme
(Mea: Valuable Pl.lyw).
Men'• en. Country: Pat Nola.n
(Top Newmmerl . Clvts 8ouen
{Moo&lt;l....,..s), J o h n (eo.ctwl' Awwd). Chrtt lteman
(MOlt Valuable PS..yef).
Wonwn's en- Country: Caley
Sprner (Top Newawner). Andrea

CUtrord C. funw. Award
(•warded for teholanhlp •nd •lhletk •bUll)') : Marit Horpn (men 's

. . _(lOp_.
--·
l.owa-,..._
..... c-.-ln&gt;
v.w-

- ·Caclw1no-

(eo.cne.' A.wwd). Mike Proulx
( M o o t V - -.
Yolleyba1l: Son-.- Delc.hambauk

tnek.

Geotr W..kxk (men '• croa coun·
try). AdMl Tard.Jf (football). Mike
Schk!t)eln (l'ootb&amp;U) , Crttdvn
Wdch (womtn'• aou country.
tnd a. fldcl) , Joth Rebsls (men'•
croa country. tnd &amp;r Reid) , Chris
K.ft!f\UI (men's croa counuy, U"Kk
II ftdd) , Cortney Lansford
(women 's buk.et.b&amp;U) , Amy Hale
(WOt'Of:R 'I bakftball).

HUe

Awwd). Lal~ Cnunpton (Top

-

Women'• Soc:cr. a.....-n
tt.run.y.- (Top~ .

Val uab~

~: Amy

a.-.
c.rctr.- (Drefenlfw
{Outooondino·

(eo.cne.' Awwd). buun Youna
(Mou Valuable PLayer)
Wonvn's TIIIVlif.:. Amy Snyder (Top
Newcom«). Amy Borden (Most lm-

lngl . Josh J&gt;1eczonb (men 's swlm
m.tns &amp;: dtvtng). Kony Mill«
(men's swtmm1rc • diving) , Rob
A.uer (men'•IWirnmin8 &amp;r dMng).

5UN'I

~--to&lt;O.IheDiponmontdi'OIIIaiSdonce.

tec.ne.• Awwd). C.nd! Slrra
(MON. Valuable Playet).
~ Et1c:Ctou (Top New·
comer) . jeromy Mcvtce (Molt lm·

ECAC Academk Medal of Merit:
t.4.n Horp.n (men'J swtm~ .
UM Raws (women's aou country.
Oe.kl).
UB Academk Aclllevtment
Awards {Redpkna have aKDp)eted
•lhietk: dlgibWty •nd attained 3.0 ·
4.0 pde: point - . p )· Candl
Sims (voUeybaUJ . Sue tt.lotr
twomen 's tennb) . Mike Proulx
(men's tennbl. a..n.r. Newman
(women"• swim~ II dlvtfl&amp;).
Martie Duffett (women 'sswtmm1Jl8
a. diving). Mepn ConnoUy
!women's IWimrnlns lo dlvb~ . Sue

Holeo.Md

- ' " " ...... - . . b&lt;&gt;&lt;gonldng .... _

( T o p -. Amy """"!Moot
lmprowd). Chrild.na Gianino

1997 W Athldk: A.w•nk
Rodplonb

II

her

- INdonNpo. ~ .... ..-..111/GoyJriondlya.a-.""""'

A1HLETICS
=~~:!,UB's•thleta

....

~we-e ............. b

The UB Dtvtsion of A.thleOa held

Its 1997 Awwds Banquet on Mly 5
•t Samuel's CJandt Manor In
CWence to cekbrale lhe .mtev.

..

.......,._.oll:hrmidf:nahll(fnt~~.

Bbhop !MOO&lt;~ .

Spoca

Koty

cc:o.cna· Awwd) . lhe 1996

tH.m (MOll Yaluable PWyfts)

Men's Swimmlnc a

Dlvtnc: O.n

Hkby(Top-. K&lt;vtn
Ke.Uy (M ost lmprowd). Stew SmJih
(Coeches' Awwd}. Kony Miller
(Moa Valuable Pl.lyn).

swimming .. dlvt.ngl

......., . ......

(Moot~ .

the Sr.uder-.-Alhlete A.cMiory Com·
rnittf:et; Stew: Smith (men's nrimd~ . l..enlna Trtnld.d
(women'•~ • dMrc).

Seniorm!ns •

"-dd: Heidi
Alb«c cwomm··~ · o.nen
Alcone (wrestUns}. Ben AtJUnaon
(rnn'l"• tndt lo ndd). iob Au«
(rnm"siWtf1V1"1lrW • d.tvtrll). Sue
8ohnel (women"s sw:Jrnmtnc t.. dtv
tn&amp;) . ~Bokurnion(11"Jen"l

.oecer), Kyte loc*« (focxb&amp;ll) , Amy

-·-

Barden lwomen'l t~ . CtR
eo.rt (Jrwn '• en. counuy. tr.::k
• fteid) . Cenld c.rt.on (Jood:lall)
" - " ' Chunoun ,......_,

I__,., ......... a
..... """'-"

Connolly

dlvlno). Mont&gt;onoyUoocboll).
Brenna Ooty (women's ~ .
Marta Outreu (women'I swtmrNns
• dlvlnl) .

c,.. DuvallfootbUO. Ed

Ellis (foocball). Eric CrOll (wres-

dlnoJ, CnJoC.- Uoocboll)
TatJ Hadavt (men"• ~ .
Amy..,.. (women'• t.Utb&amp;IU.
Colteen Hart (women"s mlll coun-

uy. t:rack &amp;r f\dd) , .JI:m)e Hinchman
(women"• tndt • ftdd) . M.wtt
Horpn (men'• IWtmmtne II dtv·
inC). Chandan jones (men 's blst.et
t.IJ). Ctvts KHI'WI (rmn"• a-oa

c:ounuy. tndt. field) . Ben Klncel
(roocball), ctrb Klink (men'siO(·
err). Alida Kollmorgen (women'•
......boll).
Cortner J..ansford (womeni
baketball). frk Lee (foolball).
KadCeen Misner (women's -.-ar).
SleYe McDume (JrJoct.U). Kmn
McQ1Jf (footbai.Q. Joe Merdt
{men's soc:c:er). Kony Miller {men"•

IWimmirc •

dtvlf\1), Kweb MUM

{rnm'l 0011 counuy. tndt • Oekl).
FAin..l Okpewho (men's IOCCitt),

mativeyun..
Yum, who g~u.11.ed from 8tookJyn Technical Htgh School, is the Kin of I~ and Young Mtu Yum ol Stlltrn
Island.
• Lori Diane MO&amp;ZOIMI of ColllllltaCk has won the ft,IUus BkMwn Memorilll Sc.hotanhip for uceRenc:e
"' typographic study. The ~is ~ted to a tuniot In the Convnuniution Design Progrllm lind Is selected by the facutty ol that program. Mazzone graduAted h'Oin Commack High School and is the daughter ol
Dor1"Wnk: and~ Mo.uone ol COO'\IT\kk..
Toby Bloom SchoeWwpf ~the 8klom Scho&amp;anhlp \n mmlOt)' of~ tathrf, who WOI'ted tor~
~~known printing companies, lwt II lifelong interest In the typographk arb and helped ~ the first ln.
trrmtional conl~ci ~am \n the mld.. 1960s.
• Nahoka HJyoehl ot lkoma. Nara. ... pan. I c.ancf.c&amp;.te for I tt.chekw's degree In fine IIIU in the
Communication Design Program. has t"Kftved the 1997 Rumsey Award. Estabti~Md through the genrrosity ol
Buffalo J)Ai ntrr Elf'efyn R~ lord. It is to be used for travel for 11rtistk: •nd ~I enrichment or for tuftion
aul,~nce for 11 sunvner 1tudio art program outside the Unlwnity at Buff~. Hiyoshl will Wcttd for the IIW¥d
by ~nmrental faculty.
She will we the S1,400 cash IIWIIrd to a n~ th is ye11r"' four-day International Design Conlem'lee in Aspen.
ColO Hi)'oshi is I gradu.lte ol Obilka Shinal Giris High School aMI is the dlughtrr of KAnfi and Mas.Uo Hiyoshi
oflkoma.
• Marau Eric Clark of the Bronx1w rec~ the s.fly Holldn' Potenza MemoriAl XhoW"ship
lor hil \NOR a.s a membet" of the Jlfustr11tlon ProgBm. In which he is 1 junior. The Kho&amp;ars.hip ~ rstllblished by
t~ family ol .S,..tly Potenz.a. who was a promising young palntrr pursuing graduate studies in the U8 11rt ~rt ­
ment 11 the time ol hef death.
CLartt ila graduate of John F Kennedy High School"' RivHdale and is the wn at Matilda CLartt -~ of Uw
&amp;-om•.

• Ole.nka Bodnanky of Wll11allln'llle., the daughtrr of MaN and Zenon 8odn.llnky ol WIIIWnsville,
ha~ been .-..med the tint recipient of the Eugene L Caler Award preented tor ucellence in printmaking. The
cash award w11 es~lshed thii year by c..le.f, UB emeritus profe:uor of courueting and ec:lr..otional psyctdogy
whO hti lwt I longtime interest k-1 the IIU. Bodr~~~Bky Is a graduate of 'MIIiamsvile East High School.
• Kyoto ROGIDanll or Lockport has been .-..med the recipient ol anochef new IIWard for ucdlence
'" printmaking. t1w ePIC AW¥&lt;1. This IIWWd, which JUnd:s tor bperimentlll Print lm.ging Crnter, is made to a
grMjuating UB student or ajunYIUJ tor widf:..tanging ~~ In the printrNking field.
The ~nd ~ allooNs the redpirMt to continue het" printmaking WDfit ~ the univenity's printmHing
facilit iel aftrr

g~tlon.

Rm.zrnMln

WIIS

educated In

~

and has .I gtoWO famlfy

Smiles on the

D~uble

for Twin M.D.s

Twin sisters Danielle, left. and Denise Woodall smile as they graduate from the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Sunday in ceremonies held in the Center
for the Arts.

�MAY 1~, 1007

REPORTER COMMENCEMENT EXTRA
He.thtf D Morpnta Usa M
Reavn. Carl H. Reynokb. Mkhael
R. Tackett tt.mirU S V)'lU Mod1

-

F ruhlnan Chemistry Award
(UCH--of
ca.-..
and "''"" fOf'"
bc.ellenc:e In Freshman
ChetniJtry)

t..,.

Put Fonc Chan. O.Vkl P Delbf:llo
K.athlern A fbh. Mk.h!Ue M
Fuenc. Robtn A. Gunnlp. MlcNel
Y Hsle, htrk:lr. Huhgr~n Tho~
w Kemut. Klithryn c ~- Will
am o K.lrby. Suns wu1r. Lee Jo
lltph M Montt. ~ndan C Mon
M lchwl J Prowiltm, Min Chul
Shin. l..ai Kuen Wore- jullt' A
Y..:.avone. Helen Y111

ENGINEERING
Engfnecrtng Dlltlnctlon

Rose Weinstein Memorial Award
kra A. are111er, .OOW: left. 11 andiditefor • rNSt.er'sdegret: in sodology, t5 thewimer"olthe 1997 Rose
~ Memorial Awilfd. ~ by LIB's Emmlus Center. She b shown with }wl £. Mut.dller, UIIIUOCilte
proleuor ol MJCiology.
The ~tein Award, which atrits • S200 prize, W1J crNled in honof of the late Rote ~ 11 U8 fKUity
member and one ol the foundeR ollhe Emeritus Center. Presented ~ 13 It a Utti"'''In)' in the Etnericus Centrr,
the awJid is given f01 studies on aging. 8faWier btied her entry on her mastef"s thesis. .,., Analysis d the ~ tJon.
ihlp Between ~lity and the LMng ArrangernenU of Ekierty Women, 190()..1990." MutcNef supet'Vised the ~
opmrnt of Br.tlief' s wY\ning entry.
1'l'tt winning entry~ chosen by the Emeritus Cmttr's Awards Comm ittee, chaired by (onsbnone A.
Y~ UB prole:mw emeritus of sociob]y. Itt her entry, &amp;allier note tNt okief women t.od.ay .Jre much moJe
liMty to livt ~ thAn at the tum of the century, with ptrtkularly signifant cN nges in P'tt.trm of such beNviot
occuning in the INof1d W.r II enr..
Todd P.ce (football)
8 W P•yne (football). loft
Perillo (women'• 5CICUI") , .lo&amp;h
Pkaonb {merfs IW1rnmltl8 &amp;r dlv
lng.l. MIU Proubr (men 's tennis) .
Joth Rds.si&amp; (men'scrou counuy.
u.:k &amp;. fle,kt),.)ohn Sandusky {fOOt
t-11) . M lb Schledein (footbtill
Cand l Sims (vol ~l). St!YI!
Smith (me n 's JWtmmtns &amp;. divtnW.

Spotu (WOITII!n '• cros.s country
trackl&lt;fleld) , K.ellySurchok

K.ity

(women's MJCCer), Stacey

Scroc.hmann

(womm '~o a~

coun

U'y. II'Kir.&amp;.fleld).
Ki t Swen by (men '• basketball)

Joh n Sytroeyrukl bnen'• aoss coun
try ti"Kk &amp; 1\eldJ. Leonard
Tangtshaka lmr:n's bak.Hball).
-'dl.m TardU' (football}. Mart l'Jiylor
(footbr!U). BW Tipton (football).
l.enlna Trinkllld (women"• S'Ntm·
mtns &amp;. dlvtn«) , Jennlf« Vaughan

IWOfnffi'l swtmml.fli 6 dl vtng).

Geotr Willock (mrrfs CTOU country) . Kei th Wvren (fOOlball). ,laon
Warti0£8 (wrestling)
fema ~ Athiete of the Year.
Brenn~ 0oty (wofnffi"s basket.br!ll)
Ma le Athlrte o( the Year. Kony
Mill« (fnffi .. IWi mmlns a. :ttvtng)
Quantum LM.p Awwd.: Football

CHEMISTRY
knlon graduating with
honors:
Stephen-' -'n1m1n . C harles P
Barone lort J Bumeu. Vtvtan Mel
Ylfll Chan. EUM! Chana. Mini
Chwepoo (high dbt.l nctlon), Chin
II Choe, O.vtd C Churchill. }&lt;.Ge
M Clnuvn Chlgh distlnctkwl).
Mkhael Costowsld. Elan 8

Ka pp~~ ( 1996). ACS/Divb.lon or Arw
lyt!QI Chemistry Undefgr.ciU11t
-'ward (1996) . Barry M Coldwl1rr
SchoLinhlp. Colden Key Nallol\ll
~lonor Sodety ( 1996) , c~ C.pen
Memorial Award (1995). Usted In
Who's Who o\rnoni ScudMu In
Amer1aln ~ and UniVl'nln~
(1995-1996) , Sophomore Merck In
dVI: Award (1994 199S) FreshrNn
Chembtry Awvd (1993- 1994)

Han1!on Sven Hlda, C m chrn
lm~hori. Krtslln M. Jabklmkl.
DuUe:l s. K1rnbi.U. Uonan:i
U ndqulsC Jr.. Wan Yen Lau. Carl f
Mlller (h lghe$1 dbdnct.lon). Mwl l.il
V.B Phelps. Andrew E. RUey (db
tinction). joseph Scott. Tho~ P
Vanelll, je:Rrey C Wlnlln..

joM Mlau-tl Cintron

Setdor Award aedplentl :

MI..- Charepoo

Carl &amp;toel M.Ul.r

Merck -'wwd. AcadrmK Exc•l
kna In Chrmblry Award ~
tl'lll!nt Honon High Dbtlncuon
elec1ed 10 Phi Bell Kl!ppa noma
rl3tf'd to Phi lAmbda Up511on

Nominated for Ouwandlf18

Sen ior. FNSM Oun'1 Award . WNY
Section of ACS Award. Academ ic
Excr.llence In C hrmlsuy Award lAo
panmet u Honon· Hi8hesl Dbtlnc
lion. OuUCAndlng l.adetshlp In
SMCS (StudMt A.lflllau:s of ttw
ACS). nominated to Phi lAmbda
Upsilon (1997). ek!aed to Ph i~

Phi Beta Kappa ·

Americlln lnsUu.n e of Chemlsu
Awvd. Aade:mk Excr.llence 111
Chem istry Award. Department
Honon High Dlsllnctlon. nom!
l\lted co Phi lAm~ Upsilon
Sophomor-e Metdllndex Awwd
U99S 1996)

Wan YenLu

Academk' bc•ll~nu• In l.twm
tstry AWMd. Oepart~nl Honon
DistinctiOn. l~ed In Who~ Whu
Amofll Scudenu 111 Amerieln Col
leges and Uni""BIII~ fi99S 9G)
Roberl o Sanchez
Audt:mk Excellence In C hern
btry Award. Dep;&amp;nment Honoo

Oisllnctlon. lOUd 1n Who·, Who
Amofll Stlldenu In Amenan Col
lrges and Untveniun I199S 961

Andrew E. Riley
Ac.demtc Exa-lltncc" In Chern
l.stty -'wan:i. Depanrnent Honon
D~ l nc'llon,

nomln.l1ed to Phi

Larnbd.. Upsilon. lbted In Who'
Who Amons Scudenu tn Alllrl"1an
Collesn and UntvH-sittes I 199S
96}

Nomln•ted to Phi Lambd•
Up Ilion
~ M•n~

Ryan Sotm

M ichelle GomlkJewla

Junior Analytk•l Aw•rd
Paul L SzymlrultJ lACSIDtvWon of
Analytical Chemistry Undtf"grld1J
ace Award nomln~ t ed to Pht
lAmbda Upsllon. elected to Phi
Beta Klippl (1996} lb:ted In \Vh(n
Who Among Studt-n t) In ArnerKan
Col~ and UnrventO~ ti99S
96) Phi Ell 518ma I 199SJ Goldeu
1\ey Natlona.l Honor Sockty ( 199Sl
dean·l h." lflll1994 Spring 19961

Elected to Phi &amp;eta kappa
Snnlvu lbghu Ryan So•.m Mod i
Wr-ull!f

Who 's Who Among
.Stvdents In Amerkan
Colleges and UnlveniUe1
Silty Del~nt m St~n De ... tw
KamaljoC Dhlngra. Mlchellf'
Gomlkii!WkJ: . Ellz.abf:th lngillb
1\lm Kell. Dlmltrtos Kourouk lb
Lronard Lindquist )1 j&amp;rnll A
Tokhl. Kam Wong. Chonk1 'oo

Sophomore Merck Ind. .
Award (for bceUe.nce In
o..,...k ctMmbtry)
Timothy S CorrtU. Mohamed
Klirnal. Aodrty S K ~~·

H.avtns achieved an·~ of a1
leatt 3.5 In Ill q~Jverlfltl coun-ts
laken tJvouah W f all 1996 toeml'!l
let". the Collowtni tenlon have ~n
aw.ded Englnftrtllfl Oistlncuon
C&gt;thrn who IIChJeve this le-ve:J
t.Jvoush lhrl-tr flllll temHI.er will
k.lbteq~ly '- 10 honcnd
Mlchl.tl Stephen Albright. flee
11M:Il £nalneerif18. M uhlmmad
Amir. EM!c:tncaJ fosineotring. Jay
Robert Andenon. Uectrica.l Eng.t
I"W!Mfll. Brian Chrtsl:opher
Att wood, Chemk:al Englnt-erlr«.
Bnan Thomu Beuchart. Chemlcal
Engl~: foA.Ilthew David
Blascz&amp;k. Electrlc.aJ Englne-er"lf18.
W&lt;ll~.e~ WIJI~m Bta~lt j r . Meehan!
cal Eflllneertns. Marlin WW~aim
Bnun. Ctwm.lca.l Englnemna.
Genld .Jmeph C.ponrn Electrical
Englnl!ft\.ng. Todd Richard
Chalmm., Mec.ha~Ua~l [nsinft:flflg
WUlllm }o$eph Conlon j r
Civil Englneertn&amp;. Richard J Com)
C hem k.&amp;l Engineering. Chrb.lopher
M Cummlnp. Electrical Efl8ineer
1"8 AndrEw CretorY Cushing
Clvtl Ertt~lnerring. }oleph Samurl
D"AJfomo. lndustrill Engl nl!-ffing.
Bjorn Nonlwv DeBeat. Mechanial
Enginl!t!f1n&amp;- Cnn1 Morvoe Oerue
C ivtl EnglneHtns. Shahll Dor EIP.("

~~=~k.~~::l~

c.rotyn R.e Elllngrr Chem!Qal En

"'""""'"

fnd John Erickson Electrical
Engn~tn&amp; Chun Kwolo. For'K
l:.lectncrol E.ngineerlO(t. Sty Pftll8
Wn Electrlal Enfllneering, C tun
~~ Goh h1du.nl"l.il/ Efl81nernns
1\.obnhev. John Counl~ Mec/W!ntnlll
Englntftln&amp;- Wilham Ronald

Hacker Electrical Ens,,_,.f\8

Z..ctwy Scot WaJnlef Ball. lnd~D
trtal .Enginftrlng. Tho~ Paul
tunley. Elec1rical Engineering }t'n
ni(er loube Howe-. El.ctric:al Eng1
r~ng. Edw.nl Sung lfwang F.l...trlcal Ensi!Yfting
MtiW.. j&amp;nt jusdtlno.'ln lodu)
uc.l Ell(l:lnefl"tng, EdWII'"d M.chMI
Kaspn.a l.. Me-chank:al Englnttnng
)non lee Kn k~ Me-chiln\('a \
Ens1neenr18 E.Ltzabf:t:h ~una
Klimklewkz. Ctwmlcal [1\glllt'H
lng. Mltthev. )m-e-ph Kll nczar M"
charlk.ll Engineering, ~n R~
KokldnrJ Mtchlntal Eng;nec!'l'\ng
Doug~ Ctwle~ Umbf:n C tvd En
glnttrlfl8. Ryan lhl lei. C tuemlcal
Englnectlng. Ckieon Nehembl
l...t'vlnsky Elen11cal Englflftl1n(l
James Welsh• Un Ele-ctrlal Eng1
neoerlng
lba C•rri• Lomblno Clvtl En
gtlll!ltfing. Sunl.l Maloo. Ele-ctrical
Efl8lneerln&amp; Jacquelyn M.arilt
Mancini. Elecuical Engllll!ltfilll!
Tllomas Edward Mann. MechlrUcAI
Englnftrlng. Thomas MM1o
MlthlaJ. Ekctrk:&amp;l Engilll!ffing.
Owen J T McCarty. Chemical Engi
nftling. Sean Andrew Millet. Me
chankl.l f.ngineerlf18. Jes.syalyn
NiMUft . lndustrU.I fl"l81neoerlf18
LIWRnc~t Oliv)ef Neukom. Eieclfl
cal Engh-nng Richard Tom
Otloncza.k... El«trlc:al Englneenng
Menq Jye Pan Electncal Engt
neet"11'f8. Mary-beth Ann Pys:z
C hemical Englneertal8. Mltm~lt'lb Rider EIKtrtcal Enstnrertng
)&amp;sonE.d¥o-.rd Rotella Electncal En
gulltl!fi08. Scoct MlchMI Rytwo:vk
C ivil Engineering Timo1hy John
Speyl!l" MKhlnkllll Eng1neertng
)&amp;me Robrn. Sl.iol;hov.-sk1 Ctvi\ l:n
Kinerrlng Ctvbtuphrf CMI
Strilt'ml!f Ele-ctrklll Erl811~1ng
Robert Tlllm. ElK"Incal En~tmeenntc
Andr_. }arne. Tyo Mf'('hlnic•l En
gu\eltnf"lil Yl \ Varta lndumul Eng•

c:;.radu•tlng .Students In
New Yorlt. Nu, Tau Bet• PI
Enalnee.-lnl Ho non Society
1\.nche•l Stephen Albrtgh1 Elecmcal
Engmeertng Jay Robm Andenon

Elenlic.. l Enf!ineer!Tlfl. Kun John
..uctal Al!l"lhpi(T Engl,_.,ng. Br...n
Chfutoper Anwood Chemical En
gmeel'"lfll, Brian TN.InlM Bltuch.vt

C hemkal Enat neerlng. Jennlrltf
Mane Clar\. ClvU Enganeertng
lon-thln Paul CulkowHJ Me-chlnl
cal fnglneertn&amp;. ~ Crepy
Cuih tng. Civil Enall-nfll. Jowph
S.mueJ Dalforn.o. Industrial Engl

Order of the Engineer
LMng up ,. the hlglwst """'"'.,.."'""'

""""'*"' •""' goo1 "' ue

goaduoling -ln~----""'Onlo&lt; "'

thefng~Mw. .... -~~ sode&lt;y. .. . """"""'

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N. lhoceranany,
,tDor ~ " WI .-.d knowJ.
fW dellng.
tD6ennce _
ll1d
repect. "' to~ his
edgo-.......uonlo&lt;tho-good" ondtD-~
...I"'If''e bA

honest enterpriJes."

-.lhonSOUO.wdenUIDOkN-.

,_,ng.

Scou R O.Vldton Mr
chanlcal E.nfJlnenlf18
Bjorn Nonatw Crlk&amp;r Me
chank:al Engineering Crant Mon
roe De:Rue Civil EOfP.neering. W11l
ilm John Owora).. MecNnlca.l En
81111!Mn&amp;- c:.anMyn RM- EJIIngrr
Chemical Englnerrtns C hun K... m
fOIIfl . EJectriaj f:n&amp;:irwerlng. Tho
rna' E.d-d Gerber Civil Engull'f'1
tng. Mauhrw .John Coune&gt; M"
chanOI fn«l,_.,fll Z.Chillry Xu!
Walmer lUll lnd~UUII Engi~
1ng. Moruca lynn Heavey Ctvll En
glr_.fll. ,J.mes Fnncu tt_.f'll
Elec:tricll Englneenng
Mgrll Mane Hmu. C i,ll ~-'Ill'
netting. Todd Hiru.. C~nuc.al i:ng•
l"lll'fting. Jrnnlll!f l...oww HowP
E.lecmaal Engtneenns. Man,....
Bryan Kahn Chemical ~'""'"11&lt;18
Eliubf:th Marte Klllrnlo.irwll"'l
Chrtnlar.l E"fllllflft1r"'8 ~t.rgam
Anne Kin! lndlnlflill.l fJI811lrt'nnj!
)lUOn Robert Kolod •eJ Mt'("h.lm r .o~!
fngllllt'el'lng va,n~

KouO.oumelb (I,..IJ l:.ngm~t~IIJ8
Slu.ar1 Jeffery Krup~ E~Ktneo~l
Enguw-ering. Doug~ C h.irle l.am
ben CIVil Engllll!'el"l"fl
Ryan lhllf-1 C hem1n l f.ntc•
rll'nlng .leffery Bretl leo CIVIl En
gulef!li"8 lisa Came L.ombmo
C 1,..11 E.ngtneftlng Sunil Maloo
E)eclrical Eotl:l~. }Kq...e.i)'n
MMw Millnc1nt Elecuial Engi,_.,
'"M TllOINI$ Ed""':f.rd M.11nn Mt
cha nica\ ~lntenr'l Owen J 1
M (C..ny Chem.tc;al E"fj:111ft"f"lrtg
Sean Andr- Mallet Mechlmcill
Eugull!'l'f'lng. Macheal Chiule
M01oeli.. Mech.lmcal E.!1f1111t'trang
}ruyc;.lyn Nildll"f ludU)tnilll:n~a

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UJ,.·..,r~nc" O hv.r• N.-ul..orn
F.lf'f"lrial Engu"li't"f"n1g Mo•nq h-r
EJectrJal Englrlft'f1'l8 J~ph
John Pilutll!f EIKcnal t-.ngtrlOe"elll'+(
Jrnm fl!f Pullara lnd~lrwl Efl81
P;~n

·-nng. Milfybelh An"" Pyu
l i~m•c;al

Englneenr'3 Dlt'nl!
Phillip Reilly Elec.ti'IQ\i:ngnw-t"t"
1ng Manhc"" ~ll'll!l- RJder f.I~K III&lt;&lt;~I
E.rtalnttfll'l! Sharon )O)'Cf'
Robuuon Civil fugu~ang Xull
MICtlillf'l R)•billrczk C hil E:.ngn'""'
IIIH C..rll..c--lt' Sc-hornth.-1 C1\ 11 f.n
~lnl!ofl"flll8

Ann M Sl~jU lndumlllll Era~•
rw-enng Timotfl) John S.peytor '1.1 ..
chan1(';JI Engtnrrnng Gr"KOf)
rl;JW)()n S1everuon Chemlcall:.uw
nc-ethlg. C tvtstuplw! CMI Scraomllt'r
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Suen Ele-ctrteal Er111111ft"l'"lf18 J.;ar.,.,...
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lng Roben Tam Elennc-o~l l-.ng1
nretlf18. A~ J,lml!$ Tyo Me
c han~] Enf!inr-ertng. Juyeun Yoo
Me-chanlal Engltli!WII'H Sae1d
7-llbrlnej.d ElrarKal Ell@;IIW1"flllf!

Dean' s Aw•rd
1lll! De•n' Award fOf Ouuu.nding
Engulf'l!nng Achie\"l!ml!l\1 the
KhooJ ~ hlghesl hooof l""'llrdf'd 10
• penon who 1\a) ~ .an e.-up
uonal con trtbuuon 10 1\w pn!CIIc•
o l Cflllnrrrlng. thl.\ )'~!ill b gt ...en 10
Calvin C C hk-n
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tht' DuPont Comp;~~ny wotlul"'oK m
tht&gt; COfJ)Of'l tt&gt; Rtrnt'dlallon Croup
Chien hal ~ respora.iblf' for
IKhniCI.I w.ppon lor envlronm.!n
Uli pnxen1on and remedlluon o l
C"U mp;my open!IIOIU ttvUU3houl
lhr lull Paciflf" reg1u11 In ~1110n

he le.cb 11-w compan y 1 Com;am
Tr11npor1 Modellf"l« Techno!

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010 Tnm to faclhtolltt' 1hr ~lop
men1 t'"VI.Iu..tiOn and ~nnsrn of

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o~llhe N ...... YOI"k Slat• C.enlt'f for
dw~uure

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OPPORTUNITY
CENTER
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Preparation
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Vtl'"onka B.ansil ~rdo 8emu!t.
ry Bldwt-11 Dan-an iklokl!f I )·nd.t
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Wllkm1 Andrt'• \VIIhartu. lrrnr-n

English As A Se co nd
L•ngu.ge
H:m ll' Adanw \'ar~ Arnt.h R••n•
S.aryan Syrlr\31 &amp;rlb.Oish
Brend.lhl Burp AmpilrO Lulon
l u.n.a ltarb S.nth) J•yakurtw.r
)u;tflil Lennok S!t'"YI!fl Leon Anh
Kim Nguyen Ahrnrd 0rntf
Carloe-. Ovalle Man~\ I&gt;He1
1 two}' Ph.am M.nlyn R""t'fil Nanf\

H:IVru Enc Rodriguez lui\
Rudrlguv Mlu"llt S...nuagu " .II"IC'\
S.nllill80 DarleiV" Sc-Uolo("W \\o~1KLI

5-olon.ano :&lt;.taru S.,.,.nwrWJ"'"!okl
S!cp.an V.anonv:.. k lutl \'qto~
lr01ndro \ lll.o

FNSM Outstanding
Senior Award
lh•~ year'\ wmrw:r lor the FN)M OuUiandJng St-mor Awaro ·~ \ou~m.o
R.aydwudhun lrom the Dep..lrtment ol M.tthtomat iC\
R.lych•udhun '' gradwt•ng w1t h a B.A. 1n mo~ t~t tt 1 .. 8 ~ •n
btophywa ind mcnon 1n c~t~otry •no phyK~o Hl' ~~" membl'f 0 1 lflto
U8 Hollon Program. Phi 84!'u. Kapp.. GoiOf'tl Key and Pht Eta Stgmol
w.1' named to the de&lt;~n '' ll~ot and rK~ the Grace C.a!)f'n Awo~ ra
&amp;.liT)" Goktw.tttr ScholiiM•P &lt;lind Chemiul Awo. rd CRC Pt~~
In .add•tJOO. he hai ~ormKI•ntrm~'P~ a1 CorMti &lt;~nd N-"~ o~fl(1
li • res-e•rth ~unttn the ~ltmtr"lt ol Ph}"\\IOogy
Raychaudhun hai a uthored II \C.entJhc pubhcal10n\ H'' lutur t'
pl.lm mc.lude the M .D ./Ph D MSTP (Medol SIUOtflt Tr&lt;I!Jn•ng Prog"tm ·
l!t Stan ford U~ty. i W'V@"n -ye.lt progr•m Hf" W.l' o~wardecl ol lull
Khola!VMp hom NIH
~ lour other" norm~ •~ Mud•l ) har~ (810kig1Citl Sc~")
CartE Mtllef (Chemhtty), )arne. R Erw:lr. (Computer Sc~nc:e). ana
8nxe C Al6trl (Geokltgy)
The fN SM de• n'$ olfK~ held I! luncheon tn r«ogmt1011 ot trw Out
sta nding S«&lt;10t Award wmner and nomtntfl on May 1

�6

REPORTER COMMENCEMENT EXTRA

Shyrock Is winner
of NEH ACOR Fellowship
Andrew Shyrock hts been twwdtd the ACOR Naiorw11 EnckJwment
tor the~ CAnten fof Advrad Study Felowship for 1997·98,
1t tw been M\I'IOUOUd by s.arun.s R. M~ profeuor and cNir,
Otpi~"t~Mnt ol Anthtopology. The MVII'd is for .....an W'l Atntnw\ joniln,
lor 1 period ol tour to WI months between ~ 1997 and Au·
gw:t 1998.

o.m.n

Brown. \lakncY
Brown. Shawntej ~u.
8nu\Oda Caratinl. Scon ChadwkL

YUieCColenwn. Ow~ CoUey
OeniU Collina. TonJI CoWnt.
Monalu Cob&gt;
Irene Cueva. Scott o.vb.
Chence Evana, jaw~- TyB

flommlno.NiroleConuon.
C&lt;ay. Down

c-......
-.c._.....,..._
1\rniJI.o HMil. Alan Harrow.
Anthony Harwdl. Heyah KMan.
Norrr.jeut HW. M.J,cNd Horton,

-

Tanub H~

Moen. ~ IWey. ~y,.
Robl.-..
Marqujtu Ragen. MMIII Romiln., ShancdJ Rusadl. Oetlme
Salu.. Katherine Suon. Wendy
Smith. SandB Steward. MaurMn
Todaro. Aurm Toro, Odn
Wet~dwnpoon. Christ.l.an WiggiN.
Unda Wlbon

CkcupaUonal Oe9ree

Shon

Pre~ratloft

C1rol Amer. J•~ Aust in. Jdfrey
&amp;rtlemu!. ja~ S.tor Thomas
~ill ~ly C.ldwtll. Amonl.l
{..,u.uo Carl C hinn, Shonda
( lKkJey 0ar i~I'W' Colley
MurUqiM' ComAn. Tracy Den

ru' Diltl Ot-Ue M k:hHI

~

Defttal Assisting

Juht:' Fill~ . WIIIU!m f(a( er Row
Hawklm Eltubeth Hesler. o.tren
1-l o ffmuler N.sanJ•h Jayalu.1 nw
Vf't'umq~ Johnson. Mat~
Lwk" '· Lorenzo Magnu1. ~h
M:mln Wanda Pa~bf . klfl"'bbo,rte,-·
Pupr C hrbtlnl' J&gt;o ...
u.""'"'ncr
Ru·waldt ,IKquli~ Rogeo. Kilthy
....,t1u ....,kl
Mo~ Shunrd }ohn Simorw
U&lt;~vld Smith Alllhony Stepheru
l hrt:n al Steveruon Earl Stf'Wart
t kwu Towne ~queltOI' Turner

Joy Art'lbrngkJ. Tamlko A.nMnon.
Oentw BoMn. M.IIM BrooNn,
Chatiene ClaytOn. Nancy

~~Alba~~Fox

-en.

CMsu CenJtz. Patreect
Hendenon. Monlque HolllN. Dorothy Litgeza. Lori Manucd. Venba
Puu. lynn St.T. 8eft.l.a Swan~.
Crac:e Waslak, lynda WNyland.

--

ht&gt;lltw Wtlll•ru3o ShanUu Will
~omu Rm~ld Wlman.kl

TriC)'

~nrv-.t
Mvrd~

TI-.nes~~

N 11b Hildy. Ramor111 ~

0etn

lrooovd Rodney Munford ~
~ Kenyeattea Samud. ~udy
)~ Ang'e Stuchal. Andrloa WUUam.\.
Rhunda Woocb.. JKquellnr \M1ahl
IJrnDe Z.varr:l.la. John Zwft

Admlnhtrath'e Offke
Asdstant
Br.. nda Ahton. T~lta 81-lmm
Uuult' Coleman Mow Crosby Ella
l &gt;illden. l..atoy. Dillvlcbon.
I.Mv1 ~

hnd .
itdll

~

8rktpi Febchow. 1....aJoyce
Conz.aJa. Mary

E~beth

.

Wendy Hl(l81m FlonnW
Hm..·ard Unda liuru. L.oretu.
(_r..ch ,t,londa Lnrpe1't Shei la
~f"Kie

Elizabeth McC\erkln

IJor~

Mmea1 o . Dame! N&amp;pl~
ff'hCloi Ponder Trud~ Scoct,
Marilyn Smu.h Nancy Smtth·Crule

Bank Telle-r
Ly nda Br11dley. ,leonlfn Oavb
Soru. Dean. Sandni Fadhll
Rl-gu\lld Freeman. Amy Cu.ce
Toni G.nce. Shannon Hal. Sheila
Johmon. Lba K.y
Ol.lne lewis , ~ Mcleod
N•k~ya P;~~yne. Dorcas Rot.a.
(.ynthl.l Samuel ~Uz Soto
lm Then Nancy \\'d)s:tn. ~tree
Whlt~lde . Mlchellr WIKBhu .
Claudius Wibon

Business Office Assistant
~rol ~ugh. Taw.ndn. Al'lder·

Uw. Be&amp;rd. Teresita Beltnm.
El"illlOf Bowen. WUil.lm &amp;-let.
Mulr ne BcooU Vonnettf' Brown
f)f-bn Bulr.nb. R~tnlta Cohill
Ar~ttl\1 Coleman. C.,-olyn
Co n yf'l Tf'ni Covell. Pamela Curry
NtdlJ Esqullln. }ltnnlru Federkk.
Alroxb Flnchf't' llilnlta Garvin.
M.uta Gonuln.. Mary Ha.ll
A.nnallf' HarTb BNtrb HanU.
Ot-bont h 1-tt"rn.al"lde:. Debor-ah
Ho lmel nna Howard. Mark
Humphr"Y· ,loaruv lmorn. Tracy
~rluon . l.au.W Jan'W!I. Rkhard
'IUn.

jl"r.-,.k.l

Eula Knight catandn l.indiey.
U.-.a long. Mary ROSof' Mat". C&amp;rol
Milly. IUtif' McClain.

Can-t~"

Mrd.ley.

tunis. lyd.LI Heney

MelbY Kllcoynlt. UndaN~
l'iundll Noah. Dech RobWon.
JKquellne Sandlflo. l.uanne
SanUIIf!O, Marion 5lawlen*1. E1Jm

"""· c........... .,...., Corolyn
lbher. l&lt;.alhlem Webster

Nune's Assbtant
Tamlnl Allbon. ClariDa A.blon.
Pr.ttk:la Ayala. Tammy Bak.er. Will
Lam Hellam. MAr!Hle BktweU.
D.vkf Billups. Bobb'e Bbhop.
'l1leresa &amp;-ady. Rhonda Stull
Ce.\ftte Brown. Dawn
Campbdl. KJm C.lble. Carla
Cii"Vt'land. Stepharut Colen\ln,
A.lvtna Conner. Renee O.rUitb.
Antoine D~vU. ~lUll EUington
MichtlleErv\n
lolltha Fa.l.r, Adair Fkkh.
Donna Caina', Mary Canton. lesfu
C ny. Mf':lvinll Gny. Robin Crl!t'n
Tammie Hal.J. Crystal

Mftahen

""'*"

Judllh)onoo. T...... -

.

MMvmia tan.. Chwee Lanpton.
lynette l..emtuez. w.ry lesnld.
Gerald lewb, M.tlhew Unddl.
Soou MKk. 18ywarv\a Mack.
MltliOU"Mamol.r. byshonnt

Martin. 1lna McMasten, Jef'[rey
~icQu.lliel. Chl1stir» Moen. A.ltnft
Morpn. Timothy OYenon. U5ll
Ower-a.. Trtnahrls. LancePwbr

Quanchll'aneu. ..............
·~ Pftu. l1rnla Powell. Shmy
Quinones. Juniln" Ram!Ju. Sherry
Ray. Tomldl.o RetO. CynthM 1Uoa.
Fabian Riven.

_

Annette Ropn. Shahkiah Ropn.
Dawn Rounds. Marion Royslf'f.

................

Cho&lt;yi---

Harris- Lup~tt

CornElia 1-teane
Danl Hftlrick, Margam
Howud. Kdth ltby. Judtth Jamo
...Chnsa }ltct. Kmntth Jlmenon.
MMzo Jones, Oank!:Ue KJns. Dentw
Knmpen. CatTle ~ter
Mllty Maine. Tara Mall'll"
Mkhel)lt Manh, Salina Ma~ .
Ck:JN McWibon, BeYefly Miles.
Mary Mlllu. Mk helll" Mllln. Erkka
Mon.e. liM Munter
Madene M)'fft. nwana
P"adge(t. Marpret: Prnmba..
~ndolynn Powell. ,t,ntolnf"'tr Riven. Mary Robtruon. Launya
RoRbrough. Renita Saffold, l ynn
Salamon. Nawha Sanchez.
Melvin Santt.aco. Wmdy Sc:int~
Rosallnd Stns~on. Rita Smtth.
Khnbuly StOYU. Kan Su mpl~tt.
Raflat1 Sykes. Reena Taylor. Row
mary TOfTes. S.Ota Vela
letitia Ven~n. Anthony
WallKt. TamWu! W.u.a. DionN
\~n Stabha Was.l.ngton. P~ul
Williams. Lb. Wright . S.ndno
Zadon

&amp;...., Preparation
Me.lls.sa A.lmo, Fanleu A.ndenon.
Kha1ilah A.ndt-non. Linda A.ndl"t
ton. Dinah Apontf'. jacqueJine
,t,viln. K.tu-bt.lna Bedl"lyun. KJm
berly Berdlf'ld. Monla Blbtn.
Ultanya Brxken

Anlhony Todlto. Mkhlel TcDro.
M.delyn VUllo, )rlanetta WtJrk~Mn

•bt.anc
Shant! ~ Stephanie Halnl.on.
Nlles Hardy. Rhonda Woods
Oe.nbe Zavardla. John Zurek

Special award givt:n to those stu
denu who ~ ~tatTled a padf'
point lvt!f'9 oll.O or betu!r

CEDP,.....,.doo
Claire Abrams. Krlly Benton.
Utanya ar.btt. E&amp;obf' Brown.
joanne Claa.. Dc-kw'b Clay. M.via.lu

Colon, Jennifer OucWak.. ~
ErnmonL Malfthl, Foy
N.dtne Comn. 'tlsheha Cr11y.
~ 1-iaagen. Anthony Harwell.

~=M~~Honltr~

Hubbard, lucy jKobl
Shane.qu. johnson, htrida
,looes. Janet Kenyon. Yolanda let
Cer.ld Lewb. AnrUit McCal.lat. John
Mbialr.. Clze:Ue Moltlller. Shirley
Noblit. l.l:sa~

Jan'« Rtkl Tamklr.o Rl!kt.
Rl~. Cttud Rivera. Chrb·
topher Robtmon. Drenbe: Role. An

Carle»

gtlaSaW)"f'f. Joll!ne~. Mel

w.. Swanson.

Occupational

n..,._ Prep.

Ckwia. Alexancln. Carol Amf'f.
Rmee Avant. Al phomo !kuncUse.
Charm.lni! Bums, ~ly
Caldwell, Antonio C.SUO. Carl

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School

ol""'
ol ~Montl8goMII. .... ond ~ ... Condo. .... pogrom dire&lt;·
'"'· - - t h o - o n d leUComrn&amp;Sigmo\~ Pf1ndl*s:'- o n d -·
"""· Tho~--ln 1932to...:ogniot~,.,_._-olltlghld'&lt;Jionhip

ondgood.,..."""""'. leUComrna~lslhohlghat--•-lludontan-..
Michoel
A.llondeloc......,. E . - ....0o1n.
~ tllny. Je&lt;omy ... DoYid .. &lt;:-&lt;-c. Colon'b. _,._~Philp

-l.

...

·· ....,.,
"""*'T·""'--~-.

.,...,..,A.- iC&lt;nne!h ...
Goo. - A . Hetwy.- c. W}\ 'JW&gt;.Ou ~
M.orgom~ ........ ....,..; - . T...-,..,..,.... -~ -.to.DMI h4. ......,.Qoggw.
N;.,yt)', Moot A. NoW, U..ht-.Kiri&gt;lrly~----GobdeiaE.
RaNd
john L Slgoll. OM! A . - Oougla~ Smilh, a...- W. 1&gt;n.

N.-

s.-.
MIA lnduc:tea:

Pog N. Adom!, Gor1h D............... -

'
... lonl, CNk On Choy. Moot f. Domoly, Clrto flglonwtl

)oM P. c.ringor, ......,llolnric!-.-~-a..CiutgU.,-A.~FoonciosA.

........ J&lt;jlrey ... ~-A.-"'-YC....... Dortlol~c...IS. . . - , ~~-. _ , , . _ _ Tlmolly~- Don C. SNot,J.

M.~. DoNid P.st--,...,.C.- ....._ ... -.s..p.. f.

ScCIII-. _,
--sandMp-

PotrlclaA.-lanA.--~--~-jlnglhong.

Ph.D.Inducloos:

K h o l l d A . - D i o n o H . - - l . - - R . -.

- - . . . . . . ..... ~.-~ln!nglolt

"""'pions to begin ... &amp;tglilll- pogrom .. ""'...........,."'
~

......

....... . . -• .....,....~-lnEnglolt

-~-·~lnkonsosond•pottly-ln .....

M eclkal orne_. AMbt.anc
nxy Belch. Vl"rl\&amp;ata Bnu. Bonnif'
CarlorU. Pamela Dobbins. Debbie
Duson.. Shlnequlla Ff'f'I\DOn.
Ramone Fomby, Judith Cozdziak..

,_

-.-.,.-.r~g.w~~o•..--~

--.....
--

---A.floiwt,•h6&lt;irno""'*-ln""'
Schoalal_ond
_ _ _ ..
~-·

_..,...!'fngllh.

s.nu..co.

au .... omce~c

beborah Budutl:l. Roberta

.

~

Al'ctaw ........ ..._... ........

.... ~ ..... ~----·-c...p,....._,_

Ca.-eM

May. Eva PopkwWJ. Marta Roman

!Njo&lt;lng In Englolt ond. U!Wonlty Honan Scldor.

Adaa.l.lllbt.ratl- A.Nbtant
Tawanda Andltnon.. T«estta

EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITY
PROGRAM
HlghAudcmk
Ach'-vement

sprtna• ...

s..ro.r. Ab.d. ChafTara Abdul·
A.llm. K._ji Abdullah·M\DL Adel K
Ahmed, Willy Ahkil Eric R.
Almonte. Sheldon Anthony. lll8fid
Apont1t. Spenar Lee Ash. 1oM! M
Bautlsb
Catb Belen. Tamlk.o 8e.lt Scott
Bmjamln. Franc:es Ann Best.
Ste-phany Ann Best. Cunlf'dline
Blenvftlu. Edith K.. Blak.nlee. M.rtln

v.lnnor:JII ... ~

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Um.ar All HDan.. Donna Hlg1nt.
Davkt Hodp. jf'fmell D. 1-ic:Mwd.
Maty Elalne Hoyt. Halbl.n H~ans.
Umlns HU.f'll. Mkhellit ,Johnlon.

Derrick o Mooft. Yoneo
Moora. M.rana NnantDkb.
Stllron Ng. St'II.Jen Min&amp; N&amp;- Hon£

Youns. Trida Kelly. Martha

Karm lynn hpno.
Manbh hld. MktUd J'Mn.
Nkde hbone. Nonnll Ptna, Juan
1\!tu. Khat The Phu. Nk:ole Ptuaro.
A.lbon Poole, Deria P'l'lltchef, Clvb-

.....,.,.,.,..

Kharoul:l.. vona Chan K1m. Jlrutw
Kons. Vladimlt korolev. Debbif' U
Lai. lol Kuons Lam. Shetyle s . Uu
Yolandl. UIWR:nOt:. Trtnh 1Uyet
lc. Botunv-o.th Lebun. Frvtk Ka
Hons Lee. Hon Stne ~ - Vanau
8o lee. o.nny Lei. Akvtete M.

l..e!Jow. cuu u. Han z. u
ja!me_U . Krblen Hul U.na.

WUUam Uu. francbco IJtaukota.
Jimmy Lo. Antonio Lofton. Kaml
LoWe. Yao Quan L.u. Kai Jtne Mal.
WWiam Mabonec.t.
M.Jchl.tl Mak. Netalle M.anuella.

Nkok Manywether. Anlhony
Marra. Chrbtophef MMtell. S.m
Massaquot,Jt-•• Samlomma
MaJMquot. Alida Matthews..
Migur:Hna Mn"tedes, Tony Mif1181k&gt;

oMautww
.-.....,.,........_,_
SotUsJ}trl.

Marcia Brown.
Uunah Burney. Adrlenne
Campbell. Suzeu.e C.mpbf'_ll
Jxque.llne Cansdale. AUII Ann
Cardona. Hervy c..rtapnL Tabatha
Castro. Christopher Chan. CynthY
Chan. ltan&amp; Wet Chan
Kenny Chau. Jtmmy Ch!
Chens- Amy Chin. Cat tuns Chin.
Apri.l Chlu. WUUam Ctuu. Shlll.an
Chona, Betty Chow. Bhawna
Chowdhary. Unda Chu.
.,lole Cl.ntron, ,lismlne Coma.
Nedn Cornmodorf,, Patrict Colt.
Elijah O.vis. Kenyattl Deeter.
Clvtslophn Detvalle. )aleph
Oegweck. Robert Dibbk Cheryl
Dodoon.
A.llce Orozdowsld. Mlnh Han
Duoni- feUd&amp; Evaru. Yuliyll
fblunon. '!l&gt;do·Kay A - S h·
annon Floyd. Lnlie ford)ow". Jude
fn~ncoh. Fumu Cakodl. Jes;:Uca
Collo
Satah JanE Catcu. Susana
Carda. James G.rmh.UMn. Yonna

ChlnnaU:lon.. Ke.tlhCUt fldr:lE.
Cornu.. CLaudia Conzakz.. Mana
Gonule&gt;.
juon
Couloh.SUooyC&lt;vu.
.Juon Guffey. A.lthl.l Hamllton.

"'"'Coon.

..... lnPII'·

-.g.,..._ ....

cllology ond. lAIn &amp;tglilll ond lnguis1la.
pions .. _ - · Ph.D. I n - psy&lt;halogy.

Unda Nledzw~hl. htricla
Noah. Toni Pra,tchtr. Dedra
Robii'IIOI'I. jac:qudlne Sandaflo.
luanne
Mlt1on
Slawknskl. K.at.hftn Wet.ur

johnson, hutda Kenyon.

.... --... Peetr7

....._.e~m.u~~u

Melbaa Kilcoyne.

}Itr)nlm O.vb, Soma

Scholastic .......

ond ....... writing.

- I n 2l1ll&gt;artluoy ........... -

-

Howwd Alanda l..e-atpf'fl
Sheila Mamr11cle. Francynr
M.Tt-n, [)oree,n Molato, Felldl
Pondf'f. latan)'ll Scou, Trudie Scon.
Maffietta Silk. Marylon Sm!th,
Nancy Smlth-Cruk

NurN'• A.Nbtant
BobMe Bishop. Rhonda Bruit
l.f'dtla Elllnston. Michf'.lle Ervuv.
Ta mmlit Hall. Keith llby. Judith
James. Marso Jones. Tiwana
~t . ~taha Sancho. Wendy
Scinta. lynn Staff. ~ Sumpter

-..-~.-~ln!nglolt- .........

Drenbe: BoMn. Allul
Doria. Alesia. Oudll"y. Usa 0\nnd,
Mary Fox. Chrtsu Cersltt. htre~W
Hendmon. Dorothy l.qe:D. Loc1
Martuc:ci. 8utla Swant, A.londa

Julia FUipsk.l. WWl.lm Foster
latv. Cnly. f.Uu.bdh Hesder.
Tem1na Lockett . .Joseph Martin.
Wanda Morpn. N~
Jayakun\ln, .Jes;s.la hru Kimberly

Banlr.T•UDNn. SrondB
Fadhll. Amy Guaa!. Toni Cenlce.
IJrl'Sirert Whl1eskle. Cltudi\D Wlbon

-.-dyotua:
..._.,_.__,.,_

Joy~-

Behn.n. Tm1t Covt:ll. Mile Crosby.
JennlferFedrlck.BridtJe!Febhow,
lajoycr Ford, Mary Hall. Flon.nlt:

Popt":.Chr1stine Ptnw,lJ.
Catanya Roblrdon. jatnH $pencu. Chrtstal Steveraon.. llw:lma
Strons. Leola Thomas. Cf:rsory
Torblcld. Ro:wmuy Torres..
Jaeque.llne Turnet. ~ndn Vuq ua
Timo1hy \VIlll.lrm., Erk VVr1Bh1

Poetry

TIM,_.,.-.. ,,.- e#-,....,.

Dental Aadatlna

Chinn. MorUqOf' Con\ln. Mkh.el

lnduct&lt;d11 - . - . ....

...._Wei

blLth Sykes. RHna Taylol'. Diona
Warren. Lu. Wrf&amp;ht

r-r.p. rer Medlcal ornce "-·

AchlevMtMnt

Sodely.
pnoslded-byFrriE.~Comrnaol"--~-

~c. .... -

Dennis Black, right, Dean of Students, pours coffee lor UB seniors at the Senior
Celebration Breakfast May 2 in the Student Union. Enjoying the meal-and the ser·
vic~ are Melissa Martin and Bernie Furst

Otrut.ncllngAcademk

Management Inducts ·New Members
Into Beta ~amma Sigma ·
School"'
.
.....,__,.
-Comma Sigma.""'qmontThe ICNo-""' -.g far ... lndudlan "'""""'l'heidAjwl 25. The lndudlan.-c.-.-The

Good Breakfast, Special Service

Fernando RMB. Joan

RodriBua. Je-nne~

Tllfany"""'ult. RooollndSircJou&gt;n.

"""""'-·""""'-·

Bell Shomthl &amp;r"lloOn..
Cw._Sc ~wue ~ on

Jol ]omlooon.

........ S..OO.Jodl""'""'.

Besh, Boi'\JUt- Carlon!.

Rahin\1 D.anieb, Pamd.e Dobblra.,
Debb~ Duson. ShlnequLa FtfBuson.
R.mone Fomby, Judith Codnak.

Preparation for Medkal
Assistant

-

CNrma!nt Rutherford. Tammy

Medkal Offtce Assistant

'Wirw:ira Vuquez. Andru WUII.11TU

MAY 15, l!Mn

KleeNJUYen.MyKidNIUYft\.

o.t&gt;o&lt;coN......, Oiuyoml Olawaiyo.

J...., _ _
llan-.

Quloh. ........... . . . . . . _.
Tony. Rtid. fftdettdtm-.o.des.
Mkhf':Ue RDrt. Shau,. Rlnehub.
Todd Rlw!rto. Peph 1oberu.

PrimltiYo-s.aon.w.

Rebeca Anne Root . .Janws
Roundrn-e. hula
Kara
Sartorii, Jaon Sean. Yohavws
Semere, Ariel Shea, Mesh Mike
Slncf1. Sandeep Sln&amp;h· Shao Yu Sllu
TamiU Small. Vtola Smith.
Dvu\b Slulurc So. Oran W. Spen·
cw. Shlftne Spencer. Antonia

Sigma XI Annual
Research Competition
The 1997 Sigi'NI )U Annual Res8rch Oiy WAS Mid Miy 1 In UB's Center
for Tomonow, with &amp;S Uf'ldergRdu.ll~ ll'ld gradullte students pmenting postm from UB, Roswdl P.tl, ClnisM and D'Youvillle coleqes.

I

UttclergriMhaate awllt'd winners were=
Clvbtophe&lt; Comol, o.p.tmont ol Olology, I&lt;&gt;&lt; • po&gt;t.,. titled
"'Roae ol DNA Sequence Otpendt-nl DNA Bending on R«ognition ol
04 Openolon by 4:14 ............
EiDbeth johns. Oepirtment of liochemistry, tof I poster titled
·-otv.n.dium Folowlng ........ OBI Doolngv.n.ctyf Subte in P•tients with NSOOM...
............... ...,. Roolvlg. Deponmeni o/P,ychology,
for ll poster tided ~oding oi~Jnopresed ln:strvmmts ,-d LDations. "'
(;raduMe award winMn ~
T1mottoy c-y, o.p.tmont ol ~. "".-titled
.. Ac:ule M.wllpul&amp;don ol OriltWy fM and fonnltion ol \lenous Gas Embofi (YGf)- DMng."

.....,.-..y.

C'llnlcollob&lt;nto&lt;y- ........... -

• ............,"'""'
........... Usin
g Photod)'nomic
··
........................
o.nleiS.
.........
~ol~ogy, for. postef titled "Modu&amp;Won ol Ex.~ lloprwnine in the
MtdW Pftoptic ArH of Fetn.l6t Rab In Oiffft'tnt MMing Contub."'

�v.lerie Poder b a .,..SU.U J(U
dent wtth a pnMous depee In rdl-

Mortar Board

pon. She hokll a ~-a

Mort. Bawd. the f\lltklnlll senor honor tOdety, lncM:ted 21 new members Mitch 31 • an lnlliltlon ceremony
In the Studetc l..lna'i n..trL
~blhe~--~-pnftu«.~ol-...._

un..n -

.................. - - · Oponk1g ....- _..by Moly C"nsNn\ . . . - . . - pmldenlb
,.... ond
-daolng ....wbbyT&lt;&gt;by ShApW. - - · Thewolc.omewu
by IClmberly- ~ ct.s ol 1-.97,
portldpoled in !he
Udt&lt;a. - tions en., dal r11996-97. Othwltaldng plf't wetel-.nComwfll, trtesurer, dlssd 1996-97, Mcwtarlowd

who

-Def-.
.....

Induction--

l'lodvo;ondhbldllltojowo.--.~St&amp;.dont----"'

hono&lt;. SiullrtGoldberJI.das ol l -.97. - -...
. , _ indudod ......... UllAUNCH ~ ...,

Shonl- """'· ........

• . . - - . . . - - ... ColbogAn.
o.n.niulo
-_
· _ _ (B;gMM----&lt;:..on~. "".... TlffvoyMotthtwo,-Ortlr.JII'hinne)'. a.bono-judithAM ....... NicdeSoj&lt;d;, .....
~ s.-. Singh. r ....... Smi1h, P o u l - Scott Thuo-. OoNid Vleden. _...,
Waldmlnn, Modi WetDer.

sno.......,

Scamal, ctwia Swtdenkt. 8ethann
Sypma. Pet Cen 1W\. llbnxn

T-..

'"-!Tekelte. KJt Hom Thai,
Denwutus Thomas.~~
Thonw, )adnthe Thoma. 'J'ynxw
Thomal. van. Sheo n.o. o.nea.e
Tlnhan. KhaWah TCJQ&amp;e, EmeM
T~. BuuVanTran.

LydLI Trezevant. hny Pul
Ta.ana, pecwo Venu.n. Donak!

waJa.:. Jr.. lJnc-Huey W&amp;n&amp;. Amie
Wheder, 8emard Whetler. bcqud
White. Talis~ wtnndd. R.lymond
Mlr« Wonc. St Nun Wof'l8. Atulln
Woo. Kinston Wu. Wan Hua Wu.
Cindy Sui Van. Halls Chun Y•u. Siu
lion&amp; Yu, Tong Chen&amp; Zhafl8
PaU l . . .
Barbua

~-

Ghaffara A.bdui-

Allm. WWy -'lnldl. OlutOllmi

Abnbt. Anthony .\l.flert, Aybh
fJomart. SheU. Baptiste, Scon BenJamin, Stephany Ann Besl:. lammy
Lynn Bllltk. Cunudllne Bienw:nu.
MkNel Blum. JaR L Bonllla,
Mant- Bot~. Lw. bquotl
Bnev.. Nk:o~ Btoob. Atnanc11 Lee
Brown, Van-Khol Th Bul. Uunah
Bl.amey. ~y c.t:nn.. Stanh1ne
Candoll
•
Monla Carter. l'abl;tha Castro,
CynthLa Chan. Dewey Chan, Elu.
bfth ChaJ\a. Kenny Chau. Xln
Mtns Chen. nne CNu. Thetul
J~ Cho. Shlllan Chona. Suman
Chottdhwy. IJnda Chu. W~
Chung.
Jox Cintron. Jasmine Coma
Christina Cna. RocUens O.uphln.
lull DavUa. Elijah O.Vb. Juanita
Davb. Kenyaru Oecbr, BWy
OekJsuntm, Clu'Utophrf Delvalle,
ROOm Dlbble, Makellll Dixon.
Cheryl Docbon, Cynthia
Donoho, A1lllon E.dwanll, Edward
Encamadon.. Tawandl EftnOfl.
joyc:e flauerua. Daniel Flnk&amp;er".
Leonard flowoen.. Lealie fonfjout.
Jude Fr.ncob., Cenen Gabriel
NK1a &lt;Addis. Sanh )ant
CaroN. Susana Cwda. Confidencr
Gbar.p. Yonna ChitmaUlon,
Clludla Gonz.alez.Juon Coulah..
Nicole Crtlfln. Jason Currey. Eunn
Culllol... Jo)'Ol' C)'llmf!. Althla

Ha-on.
&lt;AneU A.. Hill, O.vkl L Hinson.
jaime H lnctunan, Ho&amp; Vee Ho.

Dmd Hodp. KeY1n Hoft'man. J!,r
Yu Hu, Halbln Huanc. Ulflinl

Huan,. Tao Huana. StephHl
lmef"fte. Nmande Jolt'ph.
Shsyl K.T. Chin W. K1m.
l&lt;..aYand.-. ~Amy be Kramer.
Marpret K.wtyko. OeiJbte u lal
Chunc Mutl.am. Karen HW lam.

"""'1.uft\
w.na..nt.
"""
"""""
l.au. Wlnt:
Puni;
l.au,
Quoc: Ton Le. Hon Stnc Lee. KMny
Lee. Shek Lee. Vanma 8o lef:.
LouLs Wd Leuna. Chun U OW.
Yons U, Cloria U Han Z. U.
Ja1.nw: U . K1nc u. Shu·Fen U ,
Jla Jle IJanc. Krtllm HW 1..iang.
WUUam Uu. j immy Lo, China
ChinS Loo. !Wen lou!,r, Beto 0 .

"'""'Q. """""·
o.mn Ly. Ky Hoa Ma. Kal Jlq

l.uau.

Mal. MJchda MUo1a. Fernando
MabOneu. WUUam MaboneU. Aldo
Alain Manlno, MtchRI Manudla..
Nata.Ue ManueUa. Nk:ale

~Sean.

Nlcho&amp;al Semerwo.
Mil Shea. Dlbcnh Shrtwr.
Ndn. Sinc:Wr, Adllh MJte

-....-

l.,.

K1pa. Clinton Lamur. Quoc: Le. Kal
Mat. Pemando Mabonttt,
Lauttne Murvoa. Oeudl.ne Jled..

~

.....__,.,.Soo&lt;t.c.,.al

SluJurcSo.llnoPhot--

11nhon. Lydlo 1\aeYan&lt;. Jomoo

Ju.- Sultan.. Ywn Ho Tam.

SUQwkle Aw...-..:

Tamika Small. MD Smimoft.
VIola Smkh. .JarwJII Snaad. IlretWI

.......... ...._.
n

Hom n.t.
l)ronothomoo. ........... lloo.
DanetU: 1\ntwn. twoon Tl*hl 8uu
rc.~nt.ta..

v.... n.n. htty

Pul,..,..

Sene

~N:dni~Udo.

Un.ldl Ve&amp;&amp;. CadUo VeNlM1L
S.O ll1lll Vu, Heather Hien Vu.
K&lt;nny Hono
Welte, t...Mun Wllllami. Tallsa
Wlnftdd. c.roun. Wane. june Ye
Al WU, wan Hu. Wu. Cedwdl
Y&amp;~Mw. E1.IDbeth Yoo, TamtU
Yournar., Lomd Yu. ZhltnUs&amp;Jy,

v....,.. """"'""'

""'XlnZou

Fe:bniary 1997 , ,. . . ., ..
Tammy 81a1dl... Olenny Cabfen,,
Sallnl C~ Irene Chlu, H~
Dkc. Hector cu. f.upnl c~.
)aon Coulah. Taykw Ctaham.
MkhelJe Johnson. Debbie Lal. K1ny
t..rancuent Htien Lee, Hon Slfl8

.....Y1no

Shirley. ........ Scay&gt;."""""
WUUomo)

eor--.~-·
J .O or a.tter
a.t.r. Abed. WUJy A. Airaktl.
Chariton 8efl)am1n. Van-K.hcM Th
Bul. lenny Chau. SeliN Yu.kyan
Cheuna-lrtne Chlu, jose Mtcuel
Clruron.. SarVt c.a.. Kd.ly Coon
jamn

Peter Cou1ah. o.vkll

Hodtle. Urntnc Huarc. Mkhtlle A
)ohraon. Debbie U Lat Fr.nk Lee.

Hon Sln81..ee. Nacal.le Manuella.
KaJ
Mal. Tony Artfldo Mira8Jio
Kar-en Lynn hpno.
Oundleuane Phaltoulonh. Khal
The Phu, Daria Lynnette Pnrolher.
1nd Ramadan. Edward Roblnlon.
Prtrnldvo ~ Rebeco Anne

una

___ ..,.,_

Roberto Sanc:ha.. Anlonill

.scamc.. YOid Abeba Tebu~. Kit
Hom nw. Yuhua SNo n.o

.._, 1997 &lt;;r.duates
Barbwa AbMI. KweU Abdullah·

M\aa. Wllty AnkH, Khuram
A.lhraf. Benjamin Atkinson. ja(ar
s..kal. Wout.het Bellde.
Charhon Benj&amp;m.Jn. Scon Ben
...min. c~nd Bennlna.
Fb:shaye Bolwrukln, La.Sheue
Bovlan, Luz Brleva.. Van-Khc:» Bui
K.Jmbetty Campbell. jal.ro Casttuo .
Tlbalhll Castro, Wai Chan. Chrbtophet Chan. Mkhdt Chan.
Kftu1y Chau.. ShUlan Chong.
jole Clnlron. Phaednl Clut.
MonO Comas. Ctvtstophef
Ddvallt, Anna M.vt&amp; Dina. Eric
Dimn.. Met.-. Dlxon. Brian Doyle.
Allc:e Droz:dowUd, Janem El·Amln
Edward Enc:amK:Ion. JennlleFeUbetty. Yul.tya Fbhman. LAonard
Rowen. s.rah
Mlch.ael

10-

mrln UB's Schc:d ol EdUC8Cion. bu1
me never loll het love ror aeoWIY
not tw
that oenaln doon
Clren ~ IO h.-. a woman
This b the fourth y.. DuuwtU.tf
hill stvtn money 1.0 amc ftma&amp;e
Rudenu llteodt"fl geology summer
ll&lt;ld&lt;amp

rearec.

HEALTH

~-Conmlu.
Claud1a Conala.. jaon Gonzalez.
Kelly Coon. ........ Conlon.
Althlo Hamilton. ......
Hochman. O.vld HodtJe. Uml.118
Huanc. Walt Hul. lin jabbear,
Ertlr.a)Mn-Francob. B.lniun ~.
Manuel ~. Thanh La.l. Audrey
Lam. Trt Lam. Botu.nvw.th Lebun.
Fr.nk Lee. S.X,. lef:. Akwete
L.edow, Raymond Lew. Hanak.o

TIM rollowlna .tudenta w •re
accepted lllt o Wbo 'a Wba

" - -Ill Stadenta In A.-rican
C.tMp. - d tJ nJvenJ.d e.:
Wendy L A.llen {Occupatkmal
Tilenpy}. Pul Shan Susanna Au
(OccupatlonaJ Thenpyl . Amy E.
Bowen (CUnkal Labont.ory Sdence). Roben A.. CUano (Enrcbe
Science). ~Anne Duffetl (Ell.
erdle Science}, Rac:hel Sarah
~ (Oc:cupatlonal Thenpy}.

Lewis, 0ruUeJ Upon.. Dutyrll
l.ondry, 0.:. Lopez. DemetrlWI
MKk. Natal!,r Manue:lla. ~et

....-..

~ t.4ci&gt;ume. Allen
Mcfwiand, Le)ia ~LL Tony
MJnsUo. Cuaandn Molrr-UA.
C&gt;ndany\e Morpn. Adam
MupW!rO. Nablla Mukhajelr.
Souphot Murath. Laurtne

..........

WUiyA Alraklt, j(neS..utlstli. Sa.shll
8edr., l.ul R. Bneva. Marcia Brown,
Van-Khol 8ul. Tabatha L Castro.
Kenny CNu. Kenny Chen. Car L
Chin. !tent: Chlu. l'haecn Clar\
nid.a-kay S flt:rpUi. SusaN
M c.m.. K.dlcyCoon. Daniel
Hom, Ti1da S. IWly. Shede S i.Au.
Hae You A.. Let. Zhi-Da ~.
M.Jauelll'lll Merc:edrts. Souphoc
MunMlh.J,ack NJ.
Davkt R. Nktuns.. Marta.
On..tz.. ~ L Papno. Robeno
Sanchez. Ariel ShM., Adesh M
SlJlah. V1o1a Smith. ,lendle M

Davkt Nk:bna, Oluyemi Olawatye.

stvem. David Stmmons. V\ola

Roundtree.
Roblrt Rowley.
Prtmlllvo -Yu Yu

Ruan. Roberto

Sanchez. Mark

Smith:
Sdharl Sn-Uth. Katarzyna

Sobczuk. O'Nd.J Spencer. Antonia
K.Jbrom Ttkeste. Yote!
TeUate. Kit llW. Yuhua 1\eo,
Dante llpiani. Uen Trvt. Ktmbtrly
Van EVftdtnarn. HNther" Vu. jan"l.l5
WUllama. Susan Wonrg. Peter Wu.
Kam Yan. Michael YOf"l8. Yevaenly
lhltniWdy

Sl:amo&amp;,

August 1997 (;r tMiuates
Tr.vb Ballard. ~ Becke-.
Cunardll.nr B~envtnu. Aprtl Chlu.
Amy Chin. Wook Chuns. UM
Colltti'IIJ\. Char\el Fabon lr . Tany.
farnll. Susan11 Cwda.. Eunn
CuilkM. NUrJtl Ho!loony.
w.Jt Hul. EmUy Ja&amp;dhar,
Rachdll J,amn. n1d.a Kelly. HoUy

P~ter

u.

... --.g-tolho..........,.

She MrW:d far tMro )'MI'$ • president cl !;he Ul ErMrorwnenc.al Nee.·
.. ~~in~•.....telyoiP"'!J""".
_..,.,...,.,
bylocoiSiw _ _.................
..,..............,
...

-

lhe_~

"Free the Pllnetr and • member ol tt. UB &amp;MranrntnaJI Tast foru.
llocJPerOsollheC..OOW.~---.-·

ond SlOO. The-~glwwl ll&gt; ...,..,.,..... ~
hours ol .......... IIUdy •

N.---

who-""""'""" ..... ...._ 4S-SO

-

Ul .-.d hlw' a qullt)'-polnt~ofl.9cw~

llocJPona- &amp;tc w. G&lt;lsingor, Std Ung ...... S.OIIAnlfjoo.lomy S.

c.rle A. -

Lon K~ Harbbon (Occu
pAUOnal Thenpy) Sandn Mana
l..&amp;Bel1a (Phf$lca.l Thrn.pyl )atne$
Allen Lenker (Oo:upatloNI
Thetapy). Dtneen l..oni {CIInk:al

Komoi.--CNy~~ Thong Due~­

Pnonty,WolldG.I&gt;rM, - D . ....... Aol&gt;ertA.5pn&gt;&lt;lllondMKNel
LT&gt;dodl

0Kar l.opn K&lt;IWil!la McC.11l

Pu·ntntrl

Pou n de r'• Aw•.rd:

"""&gt;Amo
W ho '1 W bo In "-rlc:an Col
lqn 6 tJnJve rsltlea:

Amy Bowen. Dineen Lont.
NeubAuer. Oavtd Nlckem
Chunltne Tsul

PAtrK"~

MULTICULTURAL
AFFAIRS

BArbian Abad

T~1 h.il ~tro

Anna Dina. ~uno l..ewb
C.U.ndra MolynNWl. ~otY Roch
eter Milll T•ns Ow-lrnr ROM
SluunlU LKKey

The f ollowing students In
t h e Multkuttural AHalrs
program have been named
t o Who 's Who:
AnN BAn . Kevtn M Buri..f bon 0
C..1~

Tablthl

~

Casuo

~n

C hrn. Uz.a Chopra.. 'AObon E.dwatlh
Kelshll Ellu.. Jude Francob . Vaneu
~. Trung H OA"8. 0ota
Jtmenn, ~men Kong

Stv.mtlul Lackey. Alk lA

McSNII. SNnnon M~land
~gn t'!VI'•u l.eU1I Rod~Jer
Charlene Ros-s f oluhadt- ~nya
YCMf Tritetr Tryo~ 11\ornM
Nslnl Udo. llilt Vu b;ndy Wlbon
Shou·Su Yu
Special

Neubauer {Cilnk:al Labontoty SCI

ence). Davtd Nickens (Clinical
l..abcntoty Sc:ienct).

Ternnce C

Palmer (Oc:cupatJonalllwnpyJ
ll»hua M PJea.onka (E.xerctse Sci
ence}. Chrbtlne Mane Salem {Ck:
cupatlonal Thenpy) . Peter B
TOf'dOllne (&amp;:etcbe Sc:lenct!), Chu n
Ufll Tsul (CIIrUeall.abon[ory Sci
enc:e} , PAul Fr.nds Yhbenbu'iet
(Occupational Therapy)

MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY

.....,._,

LAboratory Selene.

_.......

......-y C..:.lna

llllo...l a lo
Se..beJ.anhlp Aw ard:

AmAndA Adllmcu~ Khuram

AmolDlJd1

Mdbu R Dixon. Cesar DuclaJr
Drnnb Durpdeen. Fklel11

EjlmAdu. Olga Ucobu. l..or1 A
Fr.rw;U, Susana Garda. Hector 0
Gil. Edward Gonuiez. TIIU1 Goode
LYBM CUDO. Miehe.lle Hart

Marvin C ~- Patricia M
Hl!fl"\&amp;rlde:z. Tan .)abbAr Erlb jean
franco~
.lo~.

Doni Jlmtf'leL Chandon
Walld Kass.!!m. }Nn Klru.H"

Uha"fl l&amp;t Clln1on l.amur
~ncurnt . Qwoc lA'
Bol:umroath Lebun. fraN.~ - Bmt
Levin. Glorill Ll. O.nkl l.Jpon.

K1ny

Two Students Awarded
Goldwater Scholarships
r.o IJnlwnlly II. Wlalo ltUdenb lvve been ~ •

-.junior

natk:JniJI t!Cipi--

- " ' . Goldwoter Sdlolonhlp -.d. They ... Roghu "' East
.t.rnhersf. • junb' majoring in dl&lt;mimy, and CyntNo D. RucOn ol
majoring in
music.
A total ol 282 natioMf sctw:Un Wll!ft idecLed on the bub d KA·
by l h e - - - - The scholonhips «&gt;«&lt; lu;&amp;n. foes, boob .,., room ond bowd up 10 S7.SOO P" l"'"'·
The purposed the ~ Scho&amp;lnhlp Awud5 5 to fostt'f" and
encourage outstanding students to pursue areen In the fitkb ol mathI&lt;Nda,lhenol&gt;nlsdonao ond~

-merit

.....,.,...lla .....

Sw.aru1illl bor 51~ RrW!.
Skkllq SUid AI Mawdl Todd
Rl~ C hr1~ophr1" Robcru Sh..run
J Robinson l.usilll Rochcs[C'I
Charlene RUM }Arne Roundth'"
Rot::lrnoSil!lnchez
•

Foluhadt Shawn)'il Mvra
Sum. ,lennlfet J SIT\Jth. AleMrlder
Somdulnhmavon 0 Neal Spr~
C~

Staple$ Mon.tqur

Sl.illl~

Chaslly Stewan. Pet Gen Tan Hem
Vu
MAttft« Wagsu.fT. A\eiCl.il
Whornu Edwm Whyr t WtJ Tao
XtAo U:w. You"l

SOCIAL SCIENCE
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Departmental Honors w ill
be presented to the
stucMnts du ring
• May 16 Rec:ogniUon
Ceremony In the St ude n t
Union Theatre:

following

AmandA Adarncut. Krbun
Adduo Debcnh A.gugl1.1
AOrroUm.l Ajllyi Chanlell

An: h lbrque Lls.t Mk.hell
Atrruuuf18 Suunnr Anol lno
}Arne s..Jc:arayk Amy Batabaio!.
HeKII Blllllller
Amy Black bum Jerel Bogdln
Lu.a Bokit C t\r"alian BrunrJU
Darn!'n lkyanl Amy Bump D•vld
Can:3trn"O JulW Ann C.n MM)
Ellen Coakley. A~UJ Cor"~Yh'1

Tasha Crabtrft. Donna

Curt~

~Jo~a.. MIInhrw

Sentlces ProJect

Amnii. Jatar Rarak.lt. ~ M
Becket. Btend.an Bcnj.lmln
GetadM:W 8HNne. CuNirdhnr
Blen~nu. FbYulf" Boluu10n
l.mhelte BovYn ntt.ny &amp;blow
Olenny Cabrenl. Kl~ly I.
Campbl!ll. Tonya E. Can )ow M
Cintron, Deborah Colen-.An.
Monka Comas, Nicole ~nda
Yaz.mtl Y Dt.u.. Anr"IA M DinA.

T

WhonM Long
Lnlw McLeod AW~ MuhAmmed
Bey NAbiiA Mull.herjC"r Souphoc
MunNih l..lunnr Muruoe Shrur"~g
L Pang MAAII"W' Pilllul Wl!lll m

ScholanhJp A.wa.rd: Amy
Bow.r:n,
Gordon Suurll

l.abonlory~l

Mk:haele Ann MArtin {O«upA
OOnal ThHI.py). Patl1cla A

M. Dinero,

-.g_ ...... D. Mill, Annkk

-MolgonCI. Cion Hinddoy,
..,.. •. ~&amp;I:J.~--Aly&gt;so
........... ... C.Yeung.-Y. - - A .

"''-"!thews. Hyla M cCotlum Bl.ollrw

Department of Cllnkal

GEOLOGY

IMt~-

1
A.,.,..__
ol the U8 .....
\lfllll0men
S rvtPf teM\. lobfth!k Is rnlfDring
in _
poillal-.ce.

Und•rgrtMiuate Mino rity
Htgher Education
M.,...,_ment Development
Progr am

Voltairt

Fan 1997 Who's Who
Awardees

'*"""'1i'y.

rbJ Sc.bolanb..lp Award:

The following McNair studenb a re completing m a.s hr' s
degree•:
Marbo1 knltu. ~n Sienko jr•• ~ C~. Unh Nguyen, Rob
bmphul, Riquemfo Rodrigoel.. IndirA Sanchu, Fntz T+mo. RrvarOI

Danenr Tin M n. HeAther Hlen Thl
Vu. Adrl.an Warodcr. Amle Marte

..,..,.._...in_ceremonO&lt; ........

l.Wjunb'Oonio_-.:hek_lhoUOO~

Michael [hiegt'k-wUJ

J&lt;anty.

c.a..

Thel.W-•CU&gt;--·~----

--11&gt;2&lt;5

s.ra Marie Clc..relll Memo

RELATED
PROFESSIONS

~. !Ong;A ~k.l.

The Dl!pwtmem or Geology halo
announced thai lhme studenu will
share
1997 Dorothea c
Duttweilef Flekt Camp Awvds..
E&amp;owyn Yarr. who has a QPA
o! 3.933. hM been nomiiWed 1.0
Phi Beta Kapp1. and b a mernbef of
the Hor.n P'rop"am and the Unl
Yti"lity Chapcet ol Morur 8oat"d
Recipient ol the Gr.ce W Capi!n
ScholAnhlp In 1996. she has a n
NSf Fdlowshlp for Undeqp11ChW~Ir
ResMrch under the supervtOOn o(
Puke~" Calkin She b abo a volun
leer with the Buffalo MU5Nm of
ScH:nce and dutina tt. J.Utt\11"1Cf
vol unteen a1 a ~ebnle pa.leon
IOklgy site YA8ft" wilt rKrlvt SSOO
for twf pan or I he 1'\rld camp
ow...
jennlrer Je:nnlnp has a QPA of
3 241 She wu nomlnated 1o AJI
Amrc1can Scholan., NAUoNI Co.lle
giale Na1w.l Sclencts Award~.. and
Mortar Board's Emergl"fl laden
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wl keep to July timetable
Sees reorganiwtion in place by 1998-99 academic year
in mid-l'ebnlary, Headrick has urged a
reorganizatioo of the faculties ofArts and
ESPITE CRITICISM from
some faculty members, Provost Thomas Headrick intends
to keep to a timetable that includci a July target date for a
final decision on the realignment of the
arts and sciences at UB.
Waiting longer, even a few months,
would delay the search for a new dean that
will be requlJed regardlcu of wbicb realignment optioo is pursued, acoocding to
He.lric;lc. Putting off a dcci&amp;ion until this
fall. be added, would push back the search
process "so we would looc a wbole year."
Plus, Heodrict said in an interview
witb the Reporter, the issue "has been
thoroughly studied, talked about, reviewed and analyzed on a number of oc-

casions."
In his academic planning document,
which-has been the focus of review and
OOIIIIDelll oo campus since it was released

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Letten, Social Science, and Natural Sci-

ences and Mathematics.
1bc two options on the table are to reorganize all three into a new College of
Arts and Scie.oces, or to combine the Faculty of Arts and Lea= and Faculty of
Social Sciences into a new College of Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences and
merge the Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences into a new College of Scieocc and Eoginocring.
Regardless of the option •elected,
Headrick has called for the new organization to be in place by the 1998-99 academic year.
Some members of the Faculty Senate
Executive Commince-most notably
Senate Chair Claude Welcb and Boris
Albini, chair of the Senate's Govcmancc
Committec--bave objected to President
WiUiam R. Greiner making a final dcci-

sion on the reorganization during the
summer. when many faculty members arc
away from campus.
In fact, the Governance Committee
has drafted a resolution urging that the
decision not be made before Oct. I to

allow more discussion of the issue.

N

o matter which reorganization option
is chosen, one dean' s position will
be filled. 1bc search would be for a dean
of arts and sciences or a dean of ans , hu manities and social scie nce s. Mark
K.arwan. dean of the engineering school.
would become dean of scieoce and engineering if that option is chosen.
Altbough Headrick said be favors a
College of Arts and Sciences, be said he
will listen carefully to evidence supporting a merger of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics with Engineering. caUing it
a "close second choice.••
He said the faculty members within
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.,Senate•endorses policy on resignations
News SeiVfcea Associate Editor

T

HE FACULTY SENATE has
endorsed a policy on administtative resignations that puts a limit
on the timelinc under which students can witbdraw from courses.
1bc senate also discussed at its April
29 meeting proposed policies on conflicts of interest and the acceptance of
lnlDSfer credits for undergraduates.
Tbc policy on administrative resignations developed by the senate's Grading

Committee includes several revisions
that had been suggested by senators when
the resolution was first introduced at the
senate's April 8 meeting.
According to the policy. students who
decide to resign from a course by the
middleofthescmestcr-orupto II weeks
for tint-time freshmen and first-lime
transfer students--would receive a grade
of "R," which would count as a course
having been attempted. but not completed,
for purposes of determining a student's
academic standing.

Students who want to resign from a

course after the dcadlinc must seck an administrative resignation from the Office of
the VJCC Pmvost for Undergraduate Education by the end of the next semester.
The policy spells out several guidelines. or " principles;· to be used by the
vice provost when ruling on requests for
administrative resignations, including
students showing that "extraordinary circumstances.'' such as a lengthy illness.
preve nted them from completing the
course, and that administrative resignations be considered only on an "ali-ornone basis."

lllbe policy also instructs the vice pro-

1 vost to consult with the faculty member in question when considering requests for administrative resignations and
rep:&gt;n to that faculty member when such
requests are granted.
Students granted administrative resignations would receive a grade of ··w;·
whiCh would count as a course not having been attempted.
The al1~-nothing provision, which
requires students seeking administrative
resignations to withdraw from all courses
taken during the semester, even those for
which satisfactory grades were awarded.
again prompted considerable discussion.
1bc provision had been debated at a
March 26 meeting of the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee, as well as at lhe
April 8 senate meeting.
At those meetings, some senators felt
the provision Would prove a bardship for
students, while others thought it would
address the increasing use of administrative resignations by students-some
sought as much as two years after the
fact-to clean up their academic records.
Thomas Schroeder, associate professor of lear:llng and instruction and chair

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$3.2 tDillioo.llrillliD&amp; 10 57 lbc.IIUIIIbo&lt; of
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wilb .. addilioaal $800,000 C8lb lift from the
doaor who Cllabliabcd lbc program wilb a $1.6
million casb gift iD 199S and a year later &lt;boated an additiooat $800,00&gt; cash gift
ThanJcs to the donor's lali:SI gift. 2D students recruited to enter UB as freabmcn in
Fall 1997 will receive fulJ coverage of tuition, fccs, boob, personal expcnsca and
ttavel between school and borne fc. their four

years II UB.
The oriainal S1.6 miUioo was the largest
cub gift ever received by UB or any ocher
~ or univenity in the Slate Uniwnily
of New Yort syacem in wlilcb lbc fwldlwae
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· "'De of the recent most signiflCBDl dovclopmoau from these gifts." Herreid added,
"is !bar we've aeon a marked increuein the
number of applications from higb-&lt;:aliber
students from out-of-Slale. Because of the
program. the university is enjoying a higbcr
national profiJe.
"1bcsc sllldcnts can attend any school in
the country, but the Distinguished Honors
Scbolanbips allow us to be equally competitive with IV)' League ocbools and bring to
UB, as the donor bas intended. students who
otberwisc would bavc bccn unable to lllcDd."
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frcsbmoo students to attend UB.

Of the 26 .ICbolars who entered UB this
past fall, six arc frooi out-&lt;&gt;f-Slale and residents of Contlcclicut, Kansas, MinDcoota.
North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington. Amoag the 26, the av~ com~
vcobal and lllllh SAT score is IS II out of
1600, up from 1469 in tbe tint group of
scbolan. Tho of the new group were Nat:ional
Merit Scbolanbip winDers.
UB Pnesideal William R. Greiner cited the
dooor's 111pp011 as the driving force behind
briJJgiD&amp; in tbesc top-DOk:h studcnls.
"11 is signiticanllhat this frieDd of the university ba&amp;oow come bacl:two times to add
to billllppOII foe our Distinguished HOI!Or$
Scbol..- Progwn. which bas pined major
nalioo!ll visibility," said Greiner. "Because
of this dooor's aeacroaity, some truly talcntcdpcople wbo might 1101 Olberwi5e be at
a univenity are IIOW II UB, and arc bringing
rcmaztable new climeasions to the University Hollon Propam.
"We arc vecy grateful to this anonymous
donor for tbe continuing investment !bar
makes this program pouible." be added.

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Awards, honors to mark UB's 151st Commencement
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Greiner and
Provost Thomas E.
Headrick will con-

News Servtces Editor

J

AMES F. HOLLAND, internation-

ally known cancer researcher. and
William Christie, founder of the
Paris-based ensemble Les Arts
Aorissants, will receive honorary
degrees from the State Unive,.ity of New
York in commencement ceremonies to be
held this month at the Univc,.ity at Buffalo.
John P. Naughton, dean of the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 1975 to
1996, will receive
the
Chancellor
Charles P. Norton
Medal, the Univers ity at Buffalo ' s
highest tribute.
Philip B. Wels,
chair emeritus of
the UB Council ,
will be awarded the
university's Presi-

dent' s Medal.
About 5.500 students will be candidates
to receive degrees in 14 ceremonies to be
held on Sunday, May II , and Friday, May
16. through Sunday, May 18. The various

ceremonies will conclude the university's
18-month celebration of its sesquicentennial.
UB President William R. Greiner and
graduating senior Kristinn R. R2epkowslci
of Rochester will speak at the university's
151 st commencement ceremony at I 0 a.m.
on Sunday, May 18, in Alumni Arena on
the North Campus.

May 16, Center for
the Arts . Claire
Fraser of the Department of Mo lecular and CcU Biology, Institute for
Genomic Re5ean:h,
Rockville , Md .,
will speak. Head rick wiU confer de·
grees.

fer degrees on
graduating seniors
from the Faculty of

Natural Sciences
and Mathematics,
the Faculty of Arts
and Letu:"' and the
Faculty of Social
CHIItSTI£
Sciences.
The recipients of the three Dean's Awards
will be Christian R. Brunelli of Peekslcill,
social sciences; Soumya Raychaudhuri of
Rochester, natural sciences and mathematics, and Barbara A bad of Sunnyside, arts and
le!lers. Stuart S.
Goldberg of Roches-

ter will receive the
senior leadership J
award.
Student vocalist
at the university
commencement
ceremony will be
Heather M. Robert
of Grand Island.
Greiner
and
Headrick wi II confer the deg~s at the
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences commencement at 3 p.m. on Sunday,
May II, in the Center for the Arts.
Other commencement ceremonies.
speake"' and those who will confer degrees
are:
• lllr8tluMe ~. 2 p.m., Friday, '

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llltM Prote--, 9 a.m., Saturday,
May 17, Alumni Arena. Peter Pileggi ,
SUNY associate provost for health sciences
and hospitals, will speak. Joho R. Wright,
interim UB vice president for clinical affai"' and interim dean of the School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will
confer degrees.
............ ._.,. ofSocllol Walk,
9 a.m., Saturday, May 17, Center for the
Arts. Speaker will be Bonnie Collins, family counselor and social worker. President
Greiner will confer degrees.
• Scllool of ............ 9 a.m., Saturday, May 17, Slee Concert Hall, North
Campus. Donna M. Juenker, associate professor and director of the UB School of
Nursing undergraduate program, will
speak. Headrick will confer degrees.
• llnfonutloa .... Ulnr)' .......
lee, 10 a.m., Saturday, May 17, Student
Union Theatre, North Campus. Elizabeth
Sywetz. executive director, Western New
York Library Resources Council, will
speak. Senior Vice Provost Kenneth J.

Levy will c;onfer degrees.

• ..., ......... a,.... ...

- , I p.m., Saturday, May 17, Alumni
Arena. Dean Mark H. Karwan will speak.
Headrick will confer degrees.

• ._.. Scltool, I p.m., Saturday, May
17, Center for the Arts. Natiooally known
attorney Herald Price Fahringer, a par1ne1:
in the New York law office of Lipsitz,
Green, Fahringer, Roll ; Salisbury &amp;
Cambria, will speak. Greiner will confer
degrees.
• Scllool of ......_,, I p.m., Saturday, May 17, Slee Concert Hall, North
Campus. There will be no speaker. Wright
will confer degrees.
• School of Arcloltect11re M4ll
.......,_ 3 p.m., Saturday, May 17 ,lawn
o f Hayes Hall, South Campus. Allan
Temko, Pulitzer Prize winner and architectural critic for the San Francisco Chronicle,
will speak. Levy will confer degrees.
• Scllool of" ...... .... 5 p.m.,
Saturday, May 17, Alumni Arena. Dean
Frederick W. W'10ter, will speak. Headrick
will confer degrees.

......... Sclloolof~,
5 p.m., Saturday, May 17, Center for the
Arts. Dean Hugh G . Petrie will speak.
Greiner will confer degrees.
• Scllool of DMbll ........... 2
p.m., Sunday, May 18, Center for !heArts.
Arthur A. Dugoni, professor and dean of
the School of Dentistry, UniveRity of the
Pacific, will speak. Greiner and Dean Louis
J. Goldberg will confer degrees.
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Communication students land James Carville as speaker
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News

will be a limited
number of tickets

Services Director

CHEUEA CUNTON MAY have selected

available on a fi"'t-

Stanford, but one of her father's top political advisors, credited with helping him win
the White Ho use in 1992, has opted to

come basi s. Requests for tickets
are being taken by
Ku rzeja at 6452141, ext. 105 .
Carville 's work
as a campaign man·
ager dates back. to
when he was in
high school and canvassed for a car dealer
running for the Louisiana State Legislature.
He entered Louisiana State University
in 1962 and, as hi s biographical sketch
notes with the comment "not to put a spin
on it''. ··... flunked out four years later." He
subsequently returned to Louisiana State-

come to the University at Buffalo.
James Carville, considered by many as
the country's best known and most colorful political consultant, will be at UB on
Friday, May 16, as the featured speaker for
the Department of Communication Recognition Ceremony at 4:30p.m. in Slee Hall
on the North Campus.
Carvi lle will be at UB because of the
determination of graduating seniors major·
ing in communication to have a nationally
recognized speaker for their ceremony.
Landing the "Rajun Cajun" for the proglam were Matthew Pillar, president of the
Communication Undergraduate Student
Association, and Jamie Kurzeja. coordina.
tor of the recognition ceremony. Also in·
strumental in the effort was Gerald M.
Goldhaber. associate professor of communication and owner of Goldhaber Research
Associate&amp;-.
While the program is not open to the
public-Carv ille is expected to attract a
large crowd of communication students
and faculty and students ' family membe"'
and friends that will nearly fill Slet&gt;-there

after two years in the Marine Corps that
his resum6 says was ••to assuage his Catholic guilt"-and later earned a law degree
from LSU.

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Carville teamed up in 1989 with Paul
Begala to form the Carville &amp; .Be gala po-

litical consulting firm . which lists Bill
Clinton 's election to the presidency in 1992
as its biggest win.
He is married to Mary Matalin, deputy
campaign manager of George Bush' s unsuccessful re-election bid in 1992 and with
whom he co-authored the best-selling political memoir, ..All 's Fair: Love. War and
Running for President."
He has served as an advisor on several
gubernatorial and Senate campaigns-not

all of them successfUl-and has been a
political advisor to Greek Prime Minister
Constantine Mitsotalcis.
His second book, "We' re Righ~ They' re
Wrong, A Handbook for Spirited

Progressives," is a no-nonsense guide to
the "real meaning and consequences" of
the current Republican agenda and bit No.
1 on Th~ New York 1imes· best·seller list
in March.
In his latest venture, Carville has formed
the Education and Information Project,
which according to him. is conducting "an
education campaign to inform the Ameri can people about the partisan activities" of
Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr and
to provide Bill Clinton with a "vigorous
defense that the President deserves." •

Cemal Basaran receives Young Investigator Award
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ELUN IIOI.DBAUM

News Services Editor

C

EMAL BASARAN, assistant professor in the
Department of Civil Engineering at UB, has been named
a recipient of a highly prestigious Department of Defense Office Of Naval Research Young Investigator Awatd
Basaran is one of only 29 young researche"' In the U.S. to be
honored this year with the award. He is on ly the second UB fac-

ulty member to receive this Young Investigator Award.
The award comes with a research grant of $350,000 over three
ye.,., with additional funding available for three more yean.
Basaran received the prize for his proposal on .. Damage Mechanics of Semiconductor Devices," based on a theory, the Dis·
turbed State Concept, that he developed in his doctoral dissertation to understand how and why materials degrade and fail.
Even though the theory is applicable to all constructed and
manufactured structures. Basaran ·s research interest is in apply~
ing the theory to predict the fatigue life of computer chips. Basaran
and his graduate students are trying to develop a universal criterion to quantify damage in marerials in order to predict the life
cycle of computer chips.
Studying the structural behavior of computer chips requires a
multidisciplinary background and a collaboration across disciplines, such as electrical engineering, physics, material science
and computational engineering mechanics.

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Analyzing computer chips for structural
failure is a new and emerging field, which
became neceSsary with the advent of fast
compuu:... Compute..-chips are widely used
in civil and military vehicles and equipment. Presently, because their life span cannot be accurately predicted, vital computer
boards are regularly replaced when they
still are relatively new.
Criteria for the ONR award include the significance of previous resean:h by the applican~ a proposal that demonstrates the potential for making significant progress in an important scientific area
and along-term commitmeot by the university to the applicant and
the research. Basaran received his master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of'!echoology in 1988 and his doctorate from the Univ.,.ity of Arizona in 1994. A staff engineer at Cygoa Energy Services, an engineering consulting firm in Boston, from 1988-92, be
carne to UB in 1994 as a visiting assistant professor and was appointed to the faculty the following year. The author and co-author
of numerous publications, Basaran teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in civil and mechanical engineering. His previous awards
include the Thrkish Academy of Sciences prize given to the most
outstanding and promising junior civil engineer in the nation.
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Elder films legendary Esldmo traditions

IIJ-News Setvices Editor

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THNOGRAPHIC filmmaker
Sarah Elder, UB professor of
media srudy, bas been documenting the traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Aictic for
more than two decades.
This has been one of Elder's shining

with Alaska's native culture, Elder said
nothing bad prepared ber for the response
of the Yup'ik upon being reuniled with the

masks.
"It was very emotional," she said. "Everyone spoke in bushed tones. The children
were reverential. The masks were produced
at a time when the Yup'iks bad tittle contact with while people. Very few villagers

after a series of major film awards,

or anyone else had ever even seen the
masks.

"'Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Wm1er,"
her classic documentary about Aluka's
Yup' ik Eskimos, last summer swept the
lhree top prize calegories at the prestigious
1996 Native Americas lnlema.tional Film
Festival in Santa Fe. Co-produced with
Leonard Kamerling, the film documents
the rich tradition of the Yup'iks' mus ic,
dance and spiritual world and attempts by
missionaries to suppress them. The ftlm received prizes for best documentary feature,
best documentary direction and best cinematography.
Elder served recently as media consultant for "Agayuliyararput (Our Way ~f

"But the elden remembered them from
their childhood," she added. "When they
lwwlled and stroked them, .floodgates of
memory were opened.
"The old men !eared up. They began to
recount stories of their childhood, of seeing the grand masked ceremonies with shamans. Some even remembered the men
who made the masks they held in their
hands. They remembered stories they had
been told as very tittle children. These were
stories that we had never heard before, even
those of us who bad been documenting this
culture for years. Their past came alive in
new ways. It was amazing and very mov·

seasons.
F"us~

OLDEST MAN IN THE REGION , AGED 104,

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to Yup'lk NUnlon t o - the .........

mid-century French Surrealist
collections. From these she selecled 200 for presentation.
Some of the masks are threedimensional representations of
animals, sea creatures and holy
spirits: ~vers and loons. caribou and walrus, animistic pow ers to be propitiated. Some were
created in pairs or in threessimilar-looldng, bul not identi·
cal companion masks depicting
contrasting themes or related
objects. Many have feather halos (the Yup'ik call them "rings
of the cosmos"), others have appendages-arms. legs. wings.
heads. They are winy. often startling.
While growing up. Elder S81d
she was cautioned to avoid
working in a field that traditionally was a male domain.
She defied the odds and today, although still one of the Few
women m her field. has recet vcd
dozens of major international
film awards. represented the
SARAH EI.D£R otancla before -tor descrtblnc her
Unned States m virtuaJJy all rna·
prtawlnnlnc ftlm. Scone lo ohown on video ocreen.
jor mtemational ethnographic
Elder noled, "For 25 yean l' ve searched
film festivals over the pasl 20 years and
has been an organizer and consultant 10 imfor this missi ng Link. in the spiritual and creative history of the Yup'ik people. Finally. portant traveling exhibitions. includmg the
on that day in Toksook Bay. I annual Margarel Mead Film Festival sponsored by New York City \ Amencan Mu found it It was astoni shing and
I had the good fortune to be
seum of Natural Hisi.ory.
filming it all. I thin\: it was the
ln 1995. Elder was
greatest experience of my life ...
She recounted how. long
ago. the Yup 'ik danced and
drumm ed th rough the lon g
winter nights wearing the frag·
stitule
ile. intricately designed masks
L y o n .
of driftwood, bone. fur and France. for
feathers. some with hole s
through which nnimaJs were celebra ·
believed to come into lhe
li on of
world. Many were carved by I h &lt;
s h amans 10 represent their
Lumi~re
dreams and visions.
brothers' mvention of
The dancers wou ld k.neel or ci nema. The same year. she won the award
stand, their feet very still. their for Best Cultural Film at the international
upper bodies f()Ck.ing and twist - Northern Lights Film Festival. competing
against films from Ru ssia, Japan. Sweden.
ing as their arms arced through
the air in the "heathen'' attilude Canada. Denmark and other nations.
anathema to the missionaries
mong her II other award·w1nnmg
who described them. ln dance
documentary films are "Every Day
the Yup ' ik celebrated the a bun·
Choices: Alcohol and an Alaskan
dant harvests and hunts lhat Town" (1985). winner of the Award for Ex had carried them through the cellence from the American Anthropolog• winter. In dance they expressed cal Association); "On the Spring Ice"

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Malting Prayer): The Li ving Tradition of
Yup'ik Masks," a major inlemational
exhibition mounted by the Anchorage
Museum of History and Art , the
Smithsonian Institution and the Na·
tiona) Endowment for the Humani·
ties.

T

he exhibition showcases hundreds of mystical masks,
Or them legendary in their
power and beauty, produced by the
Yup' ik people during the last century
and taken fro m them by traders and missionaries.
It opc!ned in March at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian
in New York City with a screening of
''The Drums of Winter" and a lecture
by Elder about her work with the
Yup ' ik. The extiibition will continue
through Aug. 17 and then travel to
Wa s hington , Seattle . Juneau an d
Fairbanks.
Elder now is making a film about
the Yup'iks ' reunion with the masks
featured in the exhibit. In January, she flew
to Toksook Bay, a tioy Yup ' ik village on
the shores oF the Bering Sea to film the
opening of the exbi b i~ which then went to
New York City. This is the region where
the masks were produced.
Despite her deep and long experience

"B ut it was also
an exce ptionally
joyous time," Elder
s.lid. "Dancers and spectators from 12
villages flew in on busb planes for the
opening. They danced for four days and
nights ! Nothing like this had ever happened before . Even a 104-year-old man,
the oldest man in the region, came to see
the masks.

hope and supplication to the spirit world
to help them live what Elder calls "a right
and generous life."
Although the Yup'ik traditionally
burned the masks after ceremonial use.
their intricate carvings and fanciful ex pres·
sions of animism attracted the attention of
traders who carried away thousands of
them from the 1890s to the 1940s and later
sold or bequeathed them to museums and
individual coll ectors.
The exhibition's curator. anthropologisl
Ann Fienup-Ri ordan, located about 2.000
of them in museums and private collections
throughout the world. including many on

( 1976). first-prize winner at the American
Film Festival and of the 1977 CINE Golden
-Eagle Award. and "Overture on Ice" ( 1983).
which won the first prize in the Sinki ng
Creek FUm Festival and special honors from
both the National Endowment for the Aru
and the Alaska State Legislature.
Elder served as jurist and visiting arust
at the 1995 Big Muddy Film Festival and
has been a film and v1deo consu ltant for
dozens of indigenous cullural organizallons
in the Pacific Rim and Nonh America. Her
films have been fea tured in nearly I00 speciaJ film exhibitions in the U.S .. As1a and
Europe and she has rcce1ved many state.
federal and foundauon grants m suppon of
her work .
Present I). Elder 1 ~ loolung for mterested
UB faculty to JOin wHh her m estabhshmg
a University al Buffalo Cenler for Med1a
Cult ure and Htstory. an JnterdJSCJphnaT)
program that will link facully who "an somr:
way use photography. f1lm. documenlal)
1ext and aud1o recordi ng 10 bnng thc1r worl..
10 the public.
"Media has a place 10 the arts." she srud.
"but it is also a powerful force m the wa)
society knows and understands itself. It hru.
a very imponant place in the criucal ex amination and documentary study of SOCIeties and cultures, our own included." In terested faculty may contact Elder in the
Department of Med ia Study or al
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selder@acsu.buffalo.edu .

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UB's six new dental dinics treat special d.
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News Services Ed1tor

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FIN SPRING a young man 'slwoman 's
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,
worries about fresh breath are sure to
follow.

Romance is the maio reason people
come to UB 's Breath Disorders Clinic, one
of Six clinics established last fall by the UB
School of Dental Medicine to treat special
dentaJ problems. The others are devoted to

d1agnosing and treating facial pain. dental
phobias. salivary -gland dysfunction and
medical condi tions of the oral cavity. A

s1xth offers specialty diagnostic imaging.
"We hope to make thi s the Dental Mayo
Clmic of Western New York.," Nonnan D.

Mobl said of the clinics, which were his
brainchild aod are housed in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, which
be chairs. "We have all this taleot bere,"
be said. ''Our senior faculty memben are
leaders in their specialties. I felt there was
a real need they could fill ."
Not swprisingly, the Breath Disorders
Clinic is one of the busiest clinics. "We live
in a very smeU-&lt;lrieoted sociery," said clinic
director Mirdza E. Neiders. "'ne-thin! of
the U.S. population uses mouthwash because or fear of having bad breath."
Many of Neiders' patients are young
people trying to pick their way through the
minefields of social life aod relationships.
"They come here very coacemed," she said.

Athletic fee tabled until fall for
graduate, professional students
Sy C-nNE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

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AN INTERCOUEQIATE athletic fee for
graduate and professional students at UB
has been tabled until next fall in order to
allow for broader consultation and discussion of the proposal.
"'At thi s point in the spring semester,
with classes nearly over, it is obvious that
thi s academic year will not afford us the
time to have the funher conversations
which, were we to institute a new graduate
and pro~sional student fee for ne&lt;t fall,
would be required." said UB President William R. Greiner. "We believe it is important to take time to continue discussions.
develop more detailed analyses and recon·
ci te various objectjyes and viewpoints on
these issues. "
Graduate and professional students at
UB currently are not charged a separate
athletic fee . An undergraduate athletic fee
of $50 per semester was instituted in fall
of 1990; the fee was increased to SIOO per
semes1er nt 1he stan of the spring 1997 semester.
The fees are just one pan of the evolution UB's athletic programs have undergone over the past decade.
"The concept of students supponing
intercollegiate athletics has been with us
since we began the Run to Division I several years ago," said Roben L. Palmer. UB
vice president for student affairs. "Along
with development activities and state support, (the intention was) students would
contribute to the llpgrade of intercollegiate
athletics. lnvolving graduate students has
always been pan of the plan."
No specific dollar amount has been proposed for the graduate- and professionalstudent fee. he said.
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UB's intercollegiate athletic programs
are supponed by a number of revenue
sources: gate receipts, concessions, advertising, guaniJltees, philanthropic gifts and
state operating funds, in addition to student
fees .
"It is clear that our overall investment
is going to need to grow and I don't just
mean student fee revenue, but all revenue:
gifts and grants, gate and concessions. stu dent fees and the overall level of uiljversi ty suppon," said Roben J. Wagner. UB
senior vice president.
"Given the tremendous strain which has
already been placed on UB's state-operating budget and our academic priorities for
state-operating funds, we are most focused
on increasing non-state support for our intercollegiate-athletics programs. Broadening the revenue base for intercollegiate athletics has been pan of the five-year plan
for this upgrade, and the notion of an athleti c fee for graduate and professional students has long been considered as pan of

that broader base," Greiner said.
A stronger financial base also is important as UB prepares to move into the NCAA

Division 1-A Mid-American Conference.
he added.
"MAC membership is a key step for UB
toward competing among other inajor public institutions, but it is only a step, and
up-front investment is going to be necessary before we can realize the benefits that
major athletics programs offer...

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Major athletics programs benefit the

institution in a number or wa:ys. according
to Greiner. They provide "a different. richer
quality of life," build loyalty and suppon

among communities and alumni. attract
student and faculty interest. recruit higherquality students and student athletes, at1n1et
external invesuneot from advenisers and
philanthropic supponers, and help the institution maintain outstanding recreation
facilities that have broader uses for the
campus.
"A stronger intercollegiate-arhletics program already bas been a big boost for UB ,"
Greiner said. "We believe it is appropriate
for graduate and professional students to
belp suppon intercollegiate athletics, since
they. too, benefit from the broad institutional
advantages of these programs."
The athletics upgrade is "a direction
we've talked about moving in for a long
time, and in order to compete, the university has to give more support and student
fees are one piece of it." Wagner said.
"We've looked at institutions in this conference (MAC) and at 10 institutions students do pay some ponion or the costs or
the program. At all the institutions where
students pay, graduate students also pay."

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The proposed fee has met with considerable and vocal resistance from graduate
students at UB, in pan because of the rami-

fications an additional fee can present to
students facing financial hardship.
According to Jim O'Lougblin, president

of us ·s Graduate Student Association.
unlike financial aid for undergraduate students. financial aid for graduate students
is merit-, not need-based, and tuition
wavers do not cover academic fees .
For students with little financial flex ibility, panicularly international students
who are prevented from working, ..the only
way to make an adjustment in their budgets when there is a fee increase is to cut
back," O'Loughlin said. lf graduate and
professional students are assessed the same
S200 annual fee as undergraduates. it could
inflict significam hardship. ''In Buffalo,
lhat's about a month's rent," he said.
"I'm happy to see that they decided to
switch plans. l think it's a good sign and bodes
well for next year," O'Loughlin said.
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"Many definitely have problems because theY don't take
the time to follow good oral
habits."
Although bad breath can
be caused by abnormal conditions in the nose, stomach.
or luogs, or by systemic dis-

eases such as diabetes,
Neiders said most cases can
be atlributed to'lax oral hygiene. ult's bacteria," she
said. "Bad breath iso'ta very
complicated thing. Bacteria
hiding in places patients
don't think of cleaning produce volatile sulfut-&lt;:ontaining compounds."
More often than not, sbe
recommends flos1ing,
brushing the teeth and the
tongue, and seeing a dentist
regularly.
For an estimated 5-25
percent of the U.S. population , however. the mere
thought of going to the dentist can cause incapacitating
anxiety.
'There are people who
will have all their teeth
pulled rather than go to a
dentist," said E1li01 N. Gale,
professor of oral diagnostic
sciences aod director of UB's Dental Fears
and Phobia Clinic. He bas been treating patients with dental phobias since 1969.
lmlt:ional fear of the dentist can be caused
by bad personal experiences, frightening stories, a popular rulture that frequently equates
dentists with pain, even by misguided parents wbo use going to the dentist as a threat
to induce good behavior, Gale explained. He
tries to help patients overcome their fears by
defining the specific scenarios !heY find most
frightening, and working through them one
at a time, using relaxation and visualization techniques, a process called systematic desensitization. Eighty percent of his
patients-nearly all of them adults-gain
the ability to go to the dentist without extreme anxiety. 'They may not be comfonable," Gale said, " but they can go."

'l'bree of the new clinics were established

Ito help diagnose relatively new denial oonditions. Sane or these cooditioos are the naru11!1 oonsoquence or an aging population. others
have axne 10 light tluough dental research and
new knowledge about the relationship of oral
health to other medical conditions, such as
bean disease and osteoporosis.
Ahmed A. Uthman, an oral medicine specialis~ directs the UB Temporomandibular
Joint Disorders (TMO) and Oralfacial Pain
Clinic, which diagnoses and treats many
types of facial pain. Along with Alfredo
Aguirre, D.D.S., an oral p¢K&gt;Iogist, be codirects the Salivary Gland Dysfunction
Oinic. In both clinics, most of the patients
are women. ''The ratio or women to men with
lMD is 5 to 1," Uthman said. "We don't
know why. Maybe they have more stress,
more to worry about (Grinding the teeth,
often a sign of stress, is one cause ofTMD.)
Pregnancy also may intensify the sympcoms."
Fac ial pain attributed by patients to
TMD often originates from other causes ,
Uthman said "If you can eat properly and
can open your jaw without pain, you don't
have a joint problem," he stated. When the
facial pain is caused by a joint disorder.
treatment may involve physical therapy to
correct the movement of the j8w, hear treatments to increase blood supply to the jaw
muscles, pain medication. or a mouthpiece
that patients wear at night to keep them selves from clenching their jaws or grinding their teeth.
His treatment also involves simple reassurance. " Yes, there is TMD." Uthman
tells his patients. "But there is also life af-

tcrTMD."
While TMD patients are moslly women
between the ages or 18 and 40, patients with
salivary gland dysfuoction, ocdry moulh, are

90 percent posiJDeoOpaUSal.Theooodilioo is
quite common, and am be c:aJIOd by mcdicatioos, radiation,c:lr.ntabeupy.~dis­
ord&lt;rs DC bcrmonal c:l!lnp. Sali.-.y dysfunction is a majoc denial oonam becouse the lack
of saliva can cause kdh ., rot The clinic was
set up -. dclcnnine the cause of the loss of sativa and~ treaiiDID.

A

lan J. Drinnan, along with Aguirre, links
the fields of medicine aod dentistry in
UB's Oral Medicine Clinic. Drinnan specializes in diagnosing unusual oral symptoms, and is an expen in bite-marl&lt; analysis, a skill be bas been called upon to use in
more than one criminal trial . In the Oral
Medicine Clinic, be belps detenmine the
cause of conditions such as painful toogue,
loss of sense of taste, oral lesioos and ulcers. fungal and yeast infections, and numbness in the lips and jaw, often the first sign
of an oral tumor.

"Physicians pay limited attention to the
oral cavity," Drinnan said. "1be range of
things that can .occur there is very wide."
Patients are referred to the UB Oral Medi-

cine Clinic from across the state.
Laurie Caner, director of UB 's Oral and
Maxillofacial Diagnostic lnlaging Clinic,
provides critical support to aU of the clinics.
An accomplished researcher with a degree
in experimental pathology. she reported the
results or her srudy showing that a standard
type of dental X-ray can reveal blockages of
the carotid aneries, one or the main causes
or stroke, at the 1997 International Association for Dental Research meeting.
"A dentist is responsible for anything on
the dental film. not just the u:eth," Caner said
"We really are physicians of the bead aod
neck area Many systemic diseases manifest
themselves first in the oral cavity." Her clinic
provides a wide variety of imaging services
to help diagnose developmental, inflammatory, metabolic. traumatic and other diseases
and conditions or the bead and neck.
Mohl hopes to add a sleep apoea clinic
and other specialty clinics as the need arises.
"Dentistry involves much more today than
caries. gum disease and replacing missing
teeth." he noted. " It is now a very broad field
that is integrating increasingly with medicine.
We thinlc these clinics reinforce the dental
expertise of the entire community."
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�HEADRICK
COQtinued from page t
Nanni Sciences who have proposed a " Big

Scieocc" foculty composed of all the science
units on both campuoea have oot as yet "laid
the groundwork" for sucb an option.
Once a decision on the aJU and sciences
is made, UB will have to focus on the next
• stage of academic planning, the implemen·
tation process, Headrick said.
He suessed thai the implementation process wiJI bave to involve those who have a
stake in the issues.
"For a smooth-functioning organization,
the decision-making has to be spread out
to the people who are responsible for implementing the decisions and the people who
are going to be affected by them," he said.

"One of the opponunities we have in
some of the changes we ' re working toward
is tbst we may be able to set up groups like

that and give them the power to resolve the
issue," he said.
"If we do that, it wiU change the culture
and the way in wh.ich we operate and we'll
be able to function much better as a uni versity."
Headrick reiterated a point he had made
dvring a presentation to the Faculty Senate
on April 29: Each of the four "next steps"
that UB will undertake during the 1997-98
academic year will involve the fonnation
of various steering, search and planning
committees to actually implement the
changes.
~ose

"neK.t steps" ar selecting the new
I organization for ans and sciences,
planning for interdi iplinary centers and
institutes, building
academic informa ~
Lion system and devel ing academic unit
planning.
He said that the feedbac he has r&lt;eeived
from faculty and staff duri g the past several months-both comments received during unit meetings and written commentsclarified to him the ''inadequacy of the in ~
formation we have under our current system
10 be able to really measure and evaluate
the quality of our programs.'"
As a result, developing an academic in ~
formation system was placed "much higher
on my priority list. .. moving ahead of any
kind of revamping of our budgeting system." he said.
"What I've learned (through input from
the university community) is that there are
certain proce(lures and processes that we've
got to go through on some of these issues
that I might have wanted to sort of shon~
circuit before," he said. "And in that process, more people are going to have more
of a hand in shaping the outcomes that will
most directly affect them.'"
While the idea of community involvement in the implementation process was not
a new one to him, Headrick said that the
public comment has "re-emphasized" the
need for it in his mind.
''I think I have a clearer idea of how to
proceed with respect to those issues than I
may have had when I sent the report out,"
he said.

H

e said he does not feel there is much
disagreement within the university
community about the overall goals of the
plan and the need to change the way the
universi ty "analyzes and makes plans for
the future ."
But many of the questions he was asked
during unit meetings were "next-stage questions," he said. "We need an understanding
of some of the larger issues at stake, and
how we resolve them before we get to how
we're going to do it. how much it's going
to cost and who's going to decide."
''We've got to get some control over our
future. sort out what our goals are and understand how we ' re going to organize ourselves to accomplish those goals before we
get down to the nitty-gritty," he said.
" lt"s going to take another year. But I
think the foundation' s .been laid to begin
that process."

Headrick llOied thai during the April 29
Poculty Seoale mceling be focused on some
"l:.ey points" in the planning doc:wnent that

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be said have been ''missed" in tbe discussion.

• UB has to take cootrol of its future .
lbe past severlll years, UB has been react·
ing to the annual state budget cycle and has
ignored the long-term picture, Headrick
said.
At the meeting, he presented figures
from the planning documeot that projected
university operating funds over the next 10
years . The figures, he said, are conserva·
Live, and include state suppon maintained
at current levels...modest'' tuition increases
and a "turnover pool" in which senior faculty who retire would be replaced by jun·
ior faculty, creating a differential tbst could
be used to fund a faculty replacement at
the senior level or for other things at the

institution.
He anticipated a total of $36 million m
additional operating funds over the I 0
years tbst could be used to fund some of
the changes he has proposed .
• UB is a complex university with mul tiple missions and multiple goals.
UB must improve the way il delivers
undergraduate education, he noted. and the
major responsibility for doing that has to
res1 with the arts and sciences departments.
Making the master 's degree a "target" de·
gree for more students would play up UB "s
strength of upper-division and graduate·
level education and give UB a "niche"
within the SUNY system. he said. As for
doctoral education, UB must look at the
job opportunities for its graduates, both
inside and outside the academy, he said.
As for the centers and institutes.
Headrick rejected criticism that the ideas

for centers outlined in the repon were a
..top-down mnovation." when such i nnovation must come mstead from the faculty
He detailed where the ideas for each such
mstitute or center had come. noting that
only a few had come ""from Capen Hall··
• Academic units have collective re ~
sponsibilities and co llecti ve accountab1l ·
ity. an idea that Headrick called "'the most
conltOversial and radicaJ" of any presented
in hi s plan.
While un its' responsibiliues must Jibe
with the uni versity's overall goals and mt ssions. each particular unit may accomplash
its responsibilities through a different ··max
of miss ions." with some having more re sponsibility for undergraduate educauon.
or graduation education or public servtce
or interdisciplinary programs. he satd. Fac ulty members may make different contnbuuons to the institution. he swd
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down the amendment

to major 10 philosophy at UB .
''That (three credits ) is not one-th1rd (of
the major 's requirements); there is no way
we can rule that s he 's got one-th1rd."
Baumer said.
Metzger said the credits would not be
considered as one-third of the major require ·
ment. but rather would be considered toward
the first third of the unit's requirement.
''Obviously, I'm not sayi ng that Lhose
three credit ho urs shall be. or replace. onethird of the unit's requirement," he said.
Victor Doyno. professor o f Engltsh .
asked Metzger. "What 's the difference be·
tween zero to one-th ird and ze ro to twothirds? What you mean is no more than
two-thirds."
Senate ChwrCiaude Welch. SUNY Dasunguished Service Professor an the Depanment of Political Science. interjected that
the purpose of the policy. as outlined by
Metzger at the April 23 meeting of the Fac·
ult y Senate Executive Co mmmee. ts to
ensure that a transfer student graduates
from UB with "at least some stamp of the
major; that's why at least one~third of the
credits for the major" must come from UB

SENATE
Continued from page 1
of the Grading Committee, said the com·
mittee feels that the ''principles" to be used
by the vice provost in ruling on requests
for administrative resignations do not "bind
the hands of administrators" and are not
too'•rigid."
The committee chose to call these
guidelines "principles." rather than "hard
and fast rules and regulations without exceptions," to allow some flexibility.
Schroeder noted.
Michae l Ryan, associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. called the
ali-or-nothing stipulation ''overly restrictive." In his experience, students who have
had serious illness or other extraordinary
circumstances "are making every effon to
try to salvage what they can from the semester," but sometimes it is diffi cult to
salvage every course. he said.
Tbe provision, Ryan said. tell s students
"il's too bad" if t.hey manage to successfully complete some courses. but not all.
He proposed the senate consider a
"friendly amendment" to the resolution that
would strike the all-or-nothing provision.
Following discussion. the senate voted

W

illiam Baumer, professor of philosophy and a member of the Grading
Committee, stressed that the gujdelines are
set up "as principles" and that the committee anticipates that there may be exceptions.
"What the present wording ... requires as
that a student (in a situation such as the
one Ryan described) make a particular case
for that exception and not simply come in
and say ' I was ill and I want a ·w· from
Course X.' but ' I want a ·w· from Course '
X and not my other courses because ... ' and
make a reasonable case," he said.
Under this policy, the vice provost does
have the option of granting a "W" in these
cases. Baumer added.
"We think that will get rid of a lot of
nonsen se of student s cleaning up their
records," he said.
Don Schack., professor of mathematics,
agreed that the guidelines are princip le s.
"but principles can rigidify and become
precedence," he said.
''ln a school where we are told Lhat re tention is a serious issue, thi s is some th ing
which could cause students not to want to
'itay here." he said.
"We need also to recogmze that as the
tuation gets higher. a student trying to salvage what he or she can of a semester (m
the event of extraordinary circumstances)
is a natural event," he said.
Charles Fourtner. professor of b1ologt ·
cal sciences. said he would suppon the
amendment only if it was extended to all
students -not just those experienctng "ex traordinary circumstances"- and all owed
them to resign from a course in which they
had had trouble.
" You don'tjust do it for a panicular student in a panicular case," Founner sa1d.
" If you want to make a rule that fll!&lt;l those
panicular concerns. then change your grdding procedures.'"
ln other busi ness, Machael Metzger. pro-fessor of modem languages and litenuures
and chair of the Educational Programs and
Policies Committee. introduced a reso lu tion concerning transfer credib.
The resolution would instrvct that all
undergraduate major programs allo" at.: ·
cepted transfer st udents to apply ~o:o urse !&lt;l
that they have completed at other !&lt;~C h oo l~
toward at least one~t h ird. but no more than
two-thirds. of the program ·~ graduat1 un
requiremenb
aumer sauJ hL' ..:ould not undt:r,tand
from th e resolution tht:" nllnunum
number of credlls a dcpanmcnt wou\J be
required to accept. etther for the maJOr or
the prerequisites for the maJOr
He posed as an example a case m wh1ch
a student with an associate's degree and
one three-credit philosophy course decided

B

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icolas Goodman. vice provost for un dergraduate education. swd the idea is
that a depanment should be willing to ac cept at least one-t hird of the credi~ On
the other hand. the depanment should tn sist that o ne ~ third of the work required for
the major should be done at UB "so that.
tn fact . th1s is our st udent." he sa ad.
He acknowledged that 1t seemed to be a
diflicult thought to express. "I agree the
language in the resolution doesn't quite do
11." he snad.
Welch asked the committee to provtde
the se nate with a brier rati onale for liS lan guage and a few examp l e~ at its Ma y 13
meeting
Senators also rec~aved a dmft pohcy on
conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment prepared by the Research and Cre·
ative Activity Committee .
Commi ttee Chair Philip Yeagle. profes·
sorofbaochemistry. told senators the poltl' )
woe, designed .. to be one of d1sclosure that
w1ll be helpfulm providing gu1dance to the:
fat..:u lty to thi~ new envaronment. .. 1n wh1 ch
the un1versity is askmg tndt vid ual facult~
to be en treprene uriaL "
There ha ven't been adequate gu1deltne.,
govemmg tht s type of acuvity "to pruh.'L't
faculty agamst gomg down roads or gomg
too far tn some directions Lhat wouldJeopardaze their ~tutus (a t the untverStt) )."
Yeagle said.
The mtent of the commmee wa~ to drall
a policy that would provade gutdanc~ lt J
fal·ulty and help them aVOid Connli,.' t ~ Of
1nterest. he satd
The se natt:' wall vote on the poltl·~ .J.l lh
May 1.3 meeting
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F
well as olfering a oonoep1Ua1 ~amoworl&lt;
The Ementus Center will present 1ts
Rose Weinstein Award at its meet·
•ng at 2 p .m . on May 13. A Board of
D•rectors meeting is set for 1 p .m .
Provost ThcMnaa tleedrloll
w•lt address the meeting. at wtuch
c•tahons will be awarded to votun·
teers who parbCLp&amp;led 10 the
center 's REV-UP program (Retued
Employee Volunteers-Un•vera~ty
program) during the current year

!Ala. 1"-1 - . . , REV-UP
COOfdinator, noted that more than
80 Ememus volunteers whO have
contnbuted some 3.500 hours of
volunteer work s•nce May 1996 Wlll
receJVe spectal recogn111(}(1 The
REV-UP program. launched '" 1990,
has amassed nearly 19 000 hOurs
of volunteer work

ENWN£EJIINIII'LAHS
JU.. LE£ IANQUIEI' MAY 10
The School ol Eng•neenng and Apphed Sctences w1ll hold LIS conclud•ng Jubilee Banquet on Saturday,
May tO ,'" the Atr 1um. Center for the
Arts, North Campus
The Barroom Buzzards Dixieland
Jazz Band and JOhnny Matn. ventuloqu•st. w1ll prov1d e mus•c and enterta•nment The even1ng will beg.n
at 6 p m w1th a c a sh bar. wllh d inner at 7 p m and entertainment fol lOwing d1nner Cost of the d1nner IS
$20 per person FOf more lf'lforma
tlon celt 64~~ 2768

IID'FEII WINS IOWKEII/
U...CH' S SDIALS

lor ..-.ong lhem and findings
about tt&gt;eor use and~
Foster is d~rector of the Governance Protect. a research and pubhe service program established to
anatyze systems and Issues of governance In Western New York. She
received a Ph.D. in pubhc affairs
from Pnnceton University.

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The public accounting firm of

~~io~~~'7t:u~\:C::~
Management lor use in its Department of Accounting and Law.
The contribution was a result of
the KPMG matching-gifts program
and contnbutions from 21 KPMG
empk&gt;yees , many of wnom are
graduates ol the UB School of Man..
agement . SulCe 1988. KPMG has
ra1sed more than $73 ,000 for the
School of Management. which offers both undergraduate and MBA
degree programs In accounting .
lhe School of Management Is
grateful to KPMG Peat Marwk:k and
our alumni lor thetr generous support. · sa1d Dean Frederick W. Winter ·our tong association wllh the
flfm has lruly been a w1n-w1n s•tua1100 -

I'AitASI1'0LCIQIST AI'I'OINTED
CHAIR Of NIH STUDY SECTION
Philip LoVerde, professor of mtc robiotogy at UB. has been appointed chair of the Tropical Med1-

u•ltARIAHSHII'AWARD
Clncty Hepfer, head. Senals and
~ [)epM'nent olltle Health Sc•

ences I.Jb&lt;ary, is tt&gt;e recopoett oltt&gt;e
1997 Bowl&lt;erN!nch's Senals Ubrananslllp Award. spoosored lly A A
Bowker and conferred aMually by
the Amencan Ubfary AssoclaliOn It
recogmzes lndivtduals whO have
ShoWn leadership 1n senals-rOOited
actMties through then" partiCipatJOn 10
prolessiCW\8.1 associations or library
education programs.
Hepler was selected lor her commitment to Improving the f.ald of sensis librar~anship through hef admlniS·
tratiV8 and programmatic leadership
oltt&gt;e AlCTS Serials Sec1oon and \he
North Amencan Serial Interest Group
She recerved the award parUy tor her
role as editor ol Serials Review She
•s a member of the Serials Industry
Systecps AdVIsory Convninee
(SISAC) executiVe committee and
ed1tor of SISAC News. She l"dds an
M.L.S degree from the Unrversity ot
Pmsburgh and a 8 A •n anthropology
tram Indiana UnrverSity.

FOSlER IS AUTHOR OF
NEW 1100K ON GOVERNMENT
Kethryn #L Foater, ass1stant
in the UB Department ol
Plann1ng . Schoo!
ol Architecture
and Plann1ng . 1S
the author of a
new book. ·rhe
Polit1cal Economy
of Special-Purpose Government .· pubhshed
th1s month by
Georgetown UmverSity Press
In recent decades. local goyem.
men\s have ncteaSKlQiy turned """

specialized functions to autaurous
agenoes ...-.gilg In scope from sulldoVISI00-6IZ8d water districts to rT1Jili.stale

ll'a'lSii auttlonties. Foster's book examnos oM1y ltlis trend is oooxnng and
- . , h makeS a difference. tt is tt&gt;e
frst canprellensM!8XIIfTW18!.o'l olltle
causes and oonsequon:es ol specoalpurpooe gcMiffY1'l8ltS In ltle u.s. and
presents rew EMdence en the ecopoliOC8I and sooa1 ~
ol relying on 1hese specl8l distncls. as

ncmc.

c1ne and Parasl-

lology Sludy
Section. Dlviston
of Resea rch
Grants. of the
Natooaltnst•tutes of Health
D1tector of the
UB Center fDf MILOVERDE
crobial Pathogenesis . LoVerde has devoted hts
career to studying and develop1ng
a vacc1ne !Of sch•stosormasis. a
virulent disease caused by blood
flukes called schistosomes. wh1ch
k1lls 800.000 people annually.
He has been collaborating lor
several years w1th the government
tn Egypt. where the disease 1s partiCularly severe, to help train Egyphan scientists 1n parasitology and
SChiStOsomiaSIS research.
LoVerde JOined the faculty of the
UB School of Medicine and 8Jomechcal Sctences as an assisrant
prolesSOI' in 1981 A recipient of the
Henry Baldwm Ward Meda~he
highest award presented by the
American Society of ParasltoloQISts-lle has spoken YIOfidwide
and has wntten more than 100 ab·
streets. art1ctes. books and book
chapters He has served as ed1tor
of fxr.t"'ffnmsntal Parasitology and as
a member of the editOfi&amp;l bOard of
!Aicrobial Pathogenesis
He holds a bachelor's degree 1n
zoology. a master's degree 1n Wlldlile
management and master's and doctoral degrees in ep+derruologiC SCI·
ence from the University of MIChigan

JAMU MEINDL NAMED
C-ICIIAIL , _ _
IN SC-OF MANAIIEMENT

.a.m.e R. Melnd,

professor of
organization and human resources.
has ~ narred 1t&gt;e Donald S. Charrrochael Professor o1 Organizalion and
&gt;-Unan Resruces l'lltle School ol
Managomonllor aIM&gt;-~ 1erm The
position IS endOwed by Delaware Nor\n
~. I re

ol BulfaiJ

A member oltt&gt;e SchoOl ol Management faculty since 1981 , Meindl
1s the author and editor of numerous
811icfes. c:hapC8rs and books on bellavloral aspects ol organimg and managr.g. He IS fnlemalionally recogrized fo&lt;

roo_,.,

on lhe ·romance ol feacj.
ershlp, • an analysis o1 chansma and
other lom-e of popular leaderotlp.
Meindl leaches organozaiJOOal
behavior and leadership In lhe
MBA, Singapore Executive MBA
and doctoral p rograms at the management school . He is director of
the school's Center for International
Leadership , endowed by Marine
Mtdland Bank, which fosters educattonal initiatives tn the areas of international business leadership for
WNY and internaUooal executives.
In 1996, he was awarded the
SUNY Chancellor's Award lor Exce ~
hlnce 1n Teaching, one of the highest honors bestowed by state untversity system, and in 1995 he received the management school 's
Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award. He has served on the
editorial boards of leading journals ,
including Academy of Management
Journal, Academy ol M8118pement
Review. Administrative Sciflncs
Ousrisrly and Leadership Ouarierly.
Frederk:k W. Winter, dean of the
UB School of Management . cited
Meindl's ·versatile and gihed teachIng sk1lls : contributions to numerous management school committees. and pro bono consulting work
Meindl received his doctorate
and master's degree 10 soc:lal psychology from the UnNersity of Waterloo He earned bachelor's degrees 1n psychology and sodology
from the UniverSity of Rochester

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SUNY Olsttnguished Professor and
director of the Center of Excellence
for Document AnalySIS and Recognruon , and his team of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate researchers as one of 25 finalists in
its 1997 Discover Awards lor TechnoiOQICSI Innovation Winners and
finalists will be featured in
Otscover's July 1997 awards 1ssue
According to Dtscover Magazine . the awards ·honor the men
and women whose crealive genius
1mproves the quality ol our everyday lite and alerts us to what's next
from the fronUers of human achtevement and ingenuity Srihari and his team have developed an automated postal system
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FALL UIIUTEJt AT MFC
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The Professional Staff Senate will
begtn its 25th year Sept. 16 with a
gala dinner program in the Center
lor the Ans Dtnner will be at 6 p .m.
preceded by a cash bar at 5 p .m .
State dtgManes will be invited
and members will hear a ·very speCiar speaker. Throughout the 199798 academk: year. woO&lt;shops and
programs will be scheduled to highlight the anniversary year.
PSS Chair
Stokee Invites all staff to mark their calendars
for this silver anniversary event.

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UNIVDSITIU,NATOSC- - . profes9orol~
sclonce. was a speek.er Apri 8 e1 P8m

Slale Unlversil)ion "MooectA!v Slruclue
ClelemW&gt;alion." He~ ltle same

lak" ltle ~ ol t..4altenalics
and ~Science Ill Kent Slale
I.Jroiv!nily on Apri 16. He wil be an lnlliled speaker elltle NATO School on
Oir8ct Meil1ods lor Solving Mactanolecular ~In Etice, flaly, ln MayJLI'le, o11e&lt;1 he willecill9 on Shake
and Bake: ApplcaliJns and A&lt;Mn:es
and Paralel CorT1lW10 and Cryslallog-

VlC8

president for undergraduate educa·
tion. will be installed May 10 as first
vlee president for programs by the
Buffalo Branch, Amencan Association of University Women. The installation will take place at a noon
luncheon in Fanny's Resraurant

NIAAA I'U- STUDY Of

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search Institute on Addtctions (RIA).
has been awarded a grant for
SS04,740 for the next five years
~ from
Natk&gt;nallnstltute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcohofO;m (NIAAA)
for her research proiect. "'Women's
~ Use. Onnking Context and

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opment Award des1gned to aUow
the pnncipal Investigator to develop
a reseafch program assessing the
relationships among alcohol use.
drinkmg context and women's nsk
for vK:tirmzahon
Pari&lt;s has publiShed research artdes oo wcmen'S issues. such as VICImzalion, and other afcollokelaled
subjects, SLCI1 as DWI. She has ~

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SianCe Abuse SeMces and an elfiloaled

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Gov. Palald hM again a9l8d l'8lilemsnt incentive legi&amp;lallon if*&gt; law.
To be lliglblllor thelncenliwJ, ~ enroled in TIM-CREF
nut be .t lla.t 50 y8lll8 of age with at least 10 y8lll8 of SUNY &amp;elvioe
while enrolled In ~EF 88 of the date of retiremenl The lncentille
lllloM tlae ~to retire and raceiYe an lncentille caJculated by
theiDIIowlng tomua: 1/12111 fqr each year of &amp;elvioe multiplied by 15
peroanl rrUIIplled by thelll'l'lployee's earnable atn.l8l salary up to a
IYIIIXInun of 45 peroent of salary in effect Feb. 1, 1997-The Incentive
wll be paid In lhnle ln8lallments at two months, 14 months and 26
monlhe followtng Allirement.
~enroled In the~ Retirement System (ERS)
and the Teachers' Retlrerrient System (TRS) must be at least 50 years
of age with at least 10 years of retirement &amp;elvioe aedit as of the date
of l1llinlrnenl The incenlille allows ERS and TRS employees to retire
with one month of adcjtjonaJ service aedit for each year of pension
&amp;elvioe alraady Ctllditad 88 of the date of retirement, to a maximum of
three years or 36 monlha.
For al ~ 001111idering the retirement incentive, eligible tiUes
and the open period during which an employee may retire and receive
the tncenllve for UB wll be determined at the May 28 meeting of the
SUNY Bollld ofTIUII888.
Empeoye. intereelad in participating in the incentive must file a
'1llon-8inding Nodce of lntereat" with Personnel Services. Further detals regaldlng the retirement Incentive will be forthcoming from Personnel SaMces 88 aoon as IPilional infonnation Is received.

Alulni Aa:illion Presents IMrds
The UB Alumni Association honored nine Individuals fOf contributions to UB, career accomplishments and community service at its annual awards dinner held May 2 in the
Center for TOfnOrrow. The event was dedicated to Philip Wels !Of his l~etime servica to
UB. The honorees were: Front row, from left Tanri Abeng , Lanny S. Uebesklnd, Mrs.
S. Mouchly Small, who accepted the award honoring her late husband; and Muriel A.
Moore. Back row, from left Craig Cilbus, Louis R. Roo, Philip Wels, President William
R. Greiner, H. William Lichtenberger, CaMn G. Rand and Arthur E. Levine.

teners
Provost's document

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goals our being known as the premier
public univcnity in the Nonheast, and in
u league wi rh the likes of Virgini a-with in a
decade. These goals are vague and hard to
gauge .
A more concrete goal would be to increase
y1eld-that is, the proportion of students aca ptt d at Buffalo who actually corM here. A
second goal might zero in o n retentio n rutes.
II is much easier to measure success against
internal data than externa l percepti ons. It also
will spotlight failure mo re c learly.
Buffalo is ftnt in the SUNY system only
1n size and comprehensiveness. Our undergraduate education comes off poorly: stu dents admitted to both Binghamton and Buffa lo flock to Binghamton at twice the rate.
and students a lso accepted at Geneseo or
Fred onia li kewi se tend to bypass Bu ffal o .
To raise our yield. c urrently stuck somewhere below 25 percent , to 30 perce nt, would
be a worthwhile objective. The provost's plan
pleads again fo r pennissio n to charge (and
keep) a differential tuition of $600, but o n the
e vide nce such a co une is contra-indicated.
Our grad uate programs suffer in compari son with Stony Brook. barely hold their own
against Binghamton , and are dismal when
broader bases of comparison are used. To its
credit. the provost's repon is q uiet up front
o n all that.
The provost argues that urltlergraduate
education will be served by combining " the
three deans. " Their current meeting point, the
vice provost for unde rgraduate education, has
no budgetnry clo ut. The fi scal incentives facing the three deans work against their emphasizi ng undergraduate educatio n.
The provost is correct that a "superdean"
w ith purse stri ngs wo uld he lp address the
problem o f decanal neg lect for undergraduate
progranu. But so would a fi nanciaJ ince ntive
system whic h would give the deans the n ght
signals. The structuraJ problem will remain to
haunt the " superdean" q uite as bad ly as the
provost is haunted by it today.
To tackle graduate ed ucatio n shon comings, the provost looks for structures of col·
laboration of facult y across depan.rnents m
centen or institutes. This would show o ur ca·
pacity to innovate and lead our peers .
Past experiences w ith suc h ventures, first
the so-cal led colleges. then graduate groups.
later ye t the undergraduate college. were unsuccessful. The accounti ng acumen is unequal to the task, and personnel decisions o n
ca ndidates with split a llegiances are una void ~

abl y contentious.
A fu nctional Faculty C lub (the old Tiffin
Room wo uld have been the perfl:!Ct locatio n)
will be more e ffective than fonnal structures
Nonethe less. maybe we are smarter and
can succeed where others fai led . Try it. But
try it retail. Try it o ut o n the ne w chemistryb io logy~medi ci ne combine which received
about S4 million in de velopme nt funds. lA
si milar amou nt fo r similar pu rposes was obtained by Sto ny Brook fro m Ce ntral AdmmJS ·
tratio n.)
The provost's document · ~also mterestmg
for what it d oes not say.
• h does NOT say whether the better de parunent.s will be rewarded by e xtra resources. o r the lagging de panme nts will be
funded extra to bring them up to speed. Past
actio ns and md1cated inte nti ons show a
who ll y erratic, rando m pattern on tht s score
• It does NOT mentio n market demand
The repon devotes a good deal of attent ion to
e thn ic- and ge nder-study prog rams. but dt i! misses the statistics de partment in a forlorn
o ne- liner-get rid of it. Casual perusal o f
o penings pamts a di ffere nt picture of socu:tal
needs . So d ocs the de mand of serio us stu dents fo r seri ous courses .
• h d oes NOT say much about o ur be ing
part of a syste m. O ur who le history has been
one of fighting Central Administratio n, and
not deigning to even talk to the leaders of
other Universi ty Centers and Coll eges . Our
motto is "sit apan" and stri ve fo r ..campusbased tuitio n fle xibility." Yet collaboratJo n
could pay huge d iv idends: a mo re econo mical
division of labor. a smooth stream of trans fer
students, greater suppon in the legislature.
• It does NOT me ntion our athlet1c programs, w hich have become the huge sink it ~
detractors feared , rnther than the bountiful
source its promoters pai nted . It di ven s real
mo ney from acade mjc programs. and Im poses a $200/year burden on stude nts.
• It does NOT say that man y of o ur problems co me about because we simpl y don' t a ll
do o ur j o bs as we ll as we sho uld. Where ts
o ur seriou s nes~ of purpose whe n the provost
leaves fo r a go lfing week during the fe v.
weeks academe actually operates at full
speed? Where is o ur credibility w ben a full ·
time dean accepts a second full -time posluo n., Whe n a professor takes off for 10 day!&gt;
m the sun while a sub "covers .. ?
None of this is addressed by reolltam z.ation. o ne way o r the o thet. with o r w ithout m·
stitutes . And none o f thi s has anythmg to do
with whatever transpires in Virg in ia.
JOHN C. Q . IIOOT
Professor ana Cna~r
Dept of Management Sctence ana Systems

Hats off to planners of
'Take Daughters to Work'
Editor.
ake Our Daug hters to Wo rk" tA pnl 24.
1997) proved to be a h1 ghl y de lig ht ful
e ve nt fo rm )' g rnnddaughter and mySc: lf
My granddaughter was op at 5:45 a.m a nx ·
ious to begin ou r day On the way to work.
she infonned me that she could have gone on
a school hike, but was really lookmg forward
to visitmg SUN Y at Buffalo Amvmg at the
Stude nt Unto n around 8 30 a m . wr were
greeted by commm ee member~ who pro·
ceeded to gtve out "gocxhe bag!&gt;·· to thr chil dren A hght breakfast wa!l fum1!. hed and af·
terwards. parents . guanhan~. t..:h1ldrcn and
gnmdchildte n wen: U!ohered 1nto the Studl'nt
Unio n Theatre to hear a presentauon . wh1ch
wa3 ex tremely interestmg The !&gt;peaken. ""ere
very informative and really e nforced the 1dea
that you can make anythmg of yourself 1f you
reall y try hard enough and don ' t g1vc up even
though obstacles may get m your way ''Follow your dream " I was very •mprc!osed Tht•
mo rning (silk scrcem ng) and aft ernoon ( v1s1t
mg the dorms) proved to be very educat io nal
and info rmative , Ou r guide for the donm trul)
had the c hildren's interest and they as ked
many quest.io ns. The lake looked very mvumg
around Ellicon CompleJ.. so we dec1ded to ~•t
and e njoy the scenery for a few mmutes Besides the friendliness we enJoyed everywhere
we went. she found two new fn ends, the
ducks. Her new-found fn e nds stayed w1th u ~
unti l we le ft fo r the Commons (you guessed
It -Burger Klng) . We o.lso Vl.!&gt;ltcd the bookstore for a fe w sou,·cmrs. The progrJ.m ended
at 2:30p.m. Our da) wa~ no t qu11e over for I
took het back to my offi ce m Baldy Hall
Looking out the wmdow fac mg Bell Hall, !ll)
grandda ughter W a!o Impressed w1th the love!)
\' JCW from my wmdow She enjoyed watchmg
the students going from one: bu1ldmg to an ·
other All m all . she loved the uru vers1ty hfe I
was informed on the way home that she can "t
wau unu l next year's event
The emphasis 1would hke to convey 1~ the
professJonal1sm and orgaruz.at1onal sk.Jlls the
conumttee d1splayed while handlmg this event

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LETTERS TO ntE REPORTER
The Reporter welcomes leuers lrom read·
ers comment•ng on 1ts stones ana content
Letters shoula be hm1ted to BOO words and
may oe ed1ted for style and length Because
of space hml!atiOfls, the Reporter cannot
puDhsh all leners receiVed They must be
recB•ved Oy 9 a m Monday to be cons•O·
ered tor pubhc at•on 1n that week 's 1ssue

Hats off to every o~ of them It all revolved
around what a wonderfu l day and an enjoyable
ume we had to spend with our ctuldre.n wtulc:
they were leammg about our work envunn·
mem. It proved to be a very educatJonal day for
both of us. Look..mg forward to next year.
JANICE MINQ.S
Soc1al Sc1ences

Look to your left and
ri ght in Physics

I

am a Professor Ementus Was on the en

g mccn ng faculty from 1966 to 1994. The
stOr)' about "\oolto your left. look to your
nght. of you won't be there at graduat10n "
where N=2 or 3. has been around the whole
t1 me In one C3!.C. the pen..on ~aymg th1s "'a ..
suppo!&gt;Cd to be a member ol the engmec:nng
dean 's office
Thts stor)' ts an " urban le~end ..
There are a few facts One IS that engt ·
neenng has an aunt 1on rate of about 50 per
cent Eng •necnng 13 \'ery dcfcns ,ve about
thn. In fact. the attn t1on rntc for all program!&lt;~
at UB 1S also about 50 perce nt In fact. eng• neen ng at UB rmght ha\•e fa., u attnuon rate
than the UB avemge. 1f controlled for fa~:t
!hat engmecnng s tudent~ mu ... t declare thelf
maJor as fr~shmt:'ll
Al~o. I once d1d a stausucal !otudy on a
large. tandom sample of mco mmg freshman
students Used UB math placement test a~ m
dependent vanablc and grade tn math. chem IStry and physll''\ a... dependent van able
Found that. when t..:Ontrolled lor math slJi b.
stude nts who got an A 1n chem1 Stf) and an A
m math, got a B Ill physJC!O And '\O on. do" n
the I me PhySil'S grade!. about o ne lener grJde
bclo"' math. chenu stry grade' for SIUdeOI'
wnh same math sk.JII Sludcnt:t who got C m
malh and c he m1 stry got 0 or F m phys1 n
And. IRClde ntally. Student.' who got 0 or l-In phys iCS kne w fl O phySJCS11
Phys1cs need.!&gt; to do a beuer JOb of 1n1om1 ·
mg stude nts of what IS eJ.pectcd of lhem . and .
fr.mk.ly. warmng stude nts" 1th lo"' math
skills tha t rt'al phys 1cs, as taught at UB . tru l~
depends o n. at least. college: algebra and a
httle-very l• ttlc: 1--calculu.!&gt;
Also. ph)'SlC:t ha.!&gt; a fearsome reputatiOn
and needs to do some honest pub he relatu,m'
with tncomi ng :ttudents
Accordmg 10 a colleagm: , nu"' a depan rne nt cha1rman m e ngmeenng. but once: a UB
student. th1s feanomc reputal1on goel&gt; bad at
least to 1950s and early 1960s
Regards.
STEPHEN Cl. MARQOUS
Professor Ementus Electr1ca1 ana Comouter
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.30 in the James Dyen GaJiery,
334 Hayes H.aJ1, South Campus.
The exhibit is presented by tbe
School of Atch.itccture and Plan·
ning. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Mooday·Friday.

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Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by Graduate Student AsSOCiation.

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Campus. 4:30p.m. Free.

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located within the Univen.ity al
Buffalo Art Gallery in lhe Ceo.., for the Ans. North Campus.

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Saturday 10:30 a.m.·B p.m., and
Sunday Noon-5 p.m. Admission
is

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Charles Carr, UB Prof. of Law,
moderator. Wick CcnlCl,
Daenx:o College. 7:30p.m.

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Clly ODd Suburb, Henry louis
Taylor Jr., Ph.D., UB Center for
Urban Shld.ies. Buffalo/Niagara

MarriOtt. 1340 Millersport Hwy.
B0-9 o.m . SIO. $12. Call8292608.

'"Sbeldon Bertyn: New Wor:t"'
continues through June 8 in the
University at Buffalo Art Gal·
lery. Center for the Aru, North
Campus. A concu.rre.oc show or
Bertyn's neW wort will be on
view April 27 through June I at

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Tbe cost is $30 for atudenu, $SO
fot everyone dse. 1be Creative
Cnft Cc:oler is kx:al.ed aa 120

Fillmore. Ellicott Compiex,
North Campus. For informalioo.
call 64S-2434.

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Seminar will be bekl Jw.e 6
from 9 a.m.--4 p.m. ac the Cc.Dler
fot Tomorrow, North Campus.
There will be oae scuioo for
Tter I and 2 memben. and an·
other forTter 3 and • mc:mbc:n.
There will be represenwives
from tbe Social Security Admin·
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hands-on consultations with a
variety of community and policy
groups. BuffaJo and Erie County
Historical Society. 7:30p.m.
Call Christopher Payne. 829·
3485. ext. 309.

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Tanmoy Bose. (Tabla). Slee
North Campus. 2 p.m. $10. $15
advance. S 12. S 18 at door.

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sumer, Arun Jain. Ph.D., UB
Samuel P. Capen Profe~sor or
Marketing Research. Center for
Tomorrow. Nonh Campus.
Noon. $10. Call 829·2608.

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Park Gn~duak Division. Han·
onuy degree to be awarded to
James F. Holland. CUNY dislinguishcd professor and chief of
neoplastic diseases. Mount SinAl
School of Medici~ Cemer for
the: Arts. North Campus. 3 p.m.

uaTMey-UB AJUJII.O.i klevision
newsmaauint:, presented by
Alumni Relations. 6:30p.m.
Violence and Victimization Prevention Program at ECMC,
Alum ni Summer College at
C haucauqua, Alumni Associacion Awards Dinner, Ooziest.
Prognm can be seen on
Adelphia Cable 's channel 18.

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Dr. David Lee. Univ. of North
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awanb cl..lnnu. Hyatt Regency
Buffalo. 5:30p.m. Honorees include Arthur Eve, Joseph Mint2.,
John Canale, Dennis Vacco.
Michael Baule, lbomas Bremer.

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e BUUS, ROYALS PREP FOR MID-CONS WITH

STRONG UB OPEN SHOWINGS

Under adverse weather conditions, th~ UB track and field
teams completed their regular seasons Saturday at the UB
Open at UB Stadium.
Freshman hwdJer Melissa Ryan broke her own school
record by winning the IOO.meter high hurdles in 14.44 to lead
the Royals . Ryan 's previo.us best was 14.68 set March 22 at
the Wake Forest Invitational. The time is also the fastest in the
Mid-Continent Conference Otis season, heading into this
week's Mid·Con Championships at UB .
Ryan was also victorious in the 200-meter dash (26.14)
and was part of the Royals' winning 4 ~ 100
relay squad with Lisa Kragbe, Jamie
Hirschman and Amy Tabone in 50.15 .
Kragbe also won the 400 meters in I :0 1.65
and 400-meter hwdles in 1:07.91.
Sophomore Jennifer Kilborn tied the
school record and set a personal best by wi,n ·
ning the triple jump with a leap of 11 .17
meters .
The team of Karen Lilly, Casey Spencer,
Marie Macander and Theresa Hummenyj
took the 4 • 400 relay in 4 : 15.55 . Lilly also
won the 800 meters (2:26. 77), while
Macander won the 1,500 meten: (4:56.64).
Also earning victories for the Royals
were Gretchen Welch in the 3,000 meters
(II :06. 11 ), Kaoy Spous in the 5.000
(20:05.45). Rachael Referm.al in the shot pul ( I 1.78 mcoen)
and Ruth Conlon in the hammer throw (47.78 meters).
The Bulls picked up double wins from Omar Doyley,
Kweli Musa and Man Streng. Doyley woo the 200 meters in
21 .94 and combined with Mike Quagliata, Streng and' Neil
Murray to win the 4 x 100 relay in 43 .8. Musa won the 800
meters (2:0 1.17) and was part of a foursome with Dave
Clabeaux, Juan Somersel and Jordan Ganzelhaufer to win the
4 ~ 400 relay in 3:33.23. Streng won lhe javelin witb a toss of
46.70 meters.
Also among the winners for the Bulls were Jelani Headley
in the 100-meter dash (ll.i4). Pot Nolan in the 1.500 (4: 13.5)
and Chris Keenan in the ) ,()()()..meter steeplechase (10:10.48).
Due to strong winds, the high jump and pole vault compe·

titions were canceled.
1be Bulls and Royals host the Mid..Continent Conference
Championships Friday-Sunday. May 9· 11.

e McVJQE EARNS SPOT ON U.S. NATIONAL
WRES1UNCI TEAM
UB wrestler Jeromy McVige posted upsets over the first· and
fourth-ranked Greco-Roman wrestlers in the country to c~
turc second place in the United States National Wrestling
Championships on April 26, earning All· American honors
and a berth on tbe U.S . National Wrestling Team.
Entering the tournament ranked seventh in the country in
Grcco-Roman. McVige defeated Anthony Napolitano by
oechnical fall, 11-0 at 3:4110 odvoncc: 10 the
quarterfinals. In the quarterfinal round,
McVige upset fourth-ranked Phil Rembert
10-2, before upseuin8 top-nlJlked 8Jld defending U.S. National Champion Shoo Lewis
7·3 to earn a trip to the finals . ln the finals,
McVige's run came to an end when he was
defeated I 0-0 by technical fall by 1996
World Cup Champion Kevin Bracken, an a.J .
temate on the I 996 U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman team.
Now ranked second in the country follow·
ing: his runnec-up ftnisb at the U.S . National
Championships. McVige will represent the
United States in the Coocord Cup. an intern&amp;·
tional tournament in Concord, Calif., to be
held May 31-June I. McVige then will lnlvel
10 Minneapolis, Minn., 10 wrestle in the June 26-28 U.S.
Greco World Team Trials for the righ1 10 compete for the
United States in the 1997 World Championships. to be be.ld
Sept g...13 in Warsaw, Poland.
Expected to compete coUegiately for tbe UB Bulls next
year at 134 pounds. McVige has established himself as one of
the top Greco-Roman wrestlers in the United Swes. A two-time Norlheost Regional Champion ( 1996 and 1997) 8Jld
1997 U.S. National runner-up. McVige traveled to Colorado
Springs, Colo., last summer to wrestle in the U.S. Greco-Ro-man Olympic Trials. McVige will again go 10 the U.S. Olympic Training Center in mid·May to begin tta.ining with Team
USA for the Concord Cup.
-T~d Wa.rko, Sports Information Offiu

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Re:Jtl thP Reporter on 111.- WPh
"wl'..huHalo.etlu reporter
INSID£:

Special Insert
This -k's Reporter includes a paid Jn.

.n In wblcll PnMlst lJlomas E. Headrick
outlines the membenlhlp of, and cha'ge
to, the he~ panel that has brien 81&gt;
pointed to OOIIec:t eWience and pnMde
IWIIIIysls of the two options to reorganize
the arts ai1d sciences at UB.
In addition, the Insert contains an esSBJ Ill' Dean of the Graduate School David
J. TtWe on the~ for ch~ that w!U
enhance the quality of UB's Pf'OIVliAlS.

FSEC takes aim at target date
for decision on altslsci8nces
News SeMces Associate Director
~--

T

HE JULY TARGET
dale for a fioal decision
on the fate of the arts
and sciences at UB wu
the topic of spirited disc ussion at the April 23 meeting
of the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee.

Some senato rs, including
members of the senate's Gover-

nance Committee, objected to
President William R . Greiner
making a fioal decision on the reorganization of the arts and sciences during the summer, wbeo
many faculty are away from campus.
But others said they thought
the timetable outlioed by Provost
Thomas Headrick hu given faculty ample time to provide input
on the issue.
In his report to the FSEC, Senate Chair Claude Welch, SUNY
Distinguished Service Professor
in the Ileparlment of Political Seience, said be wu "bolbered" by
Headrick's timetable, which the
provost bad outlioed in an April
14 memorandum to the university
community.
The provost's memorandum,
which is published u an insert in
today's issue of the Reporter, de-

tails the membership of, and
charge to, the bearing panel that
Headrick hu established to col-

lect evidence and provide an
analysis of the two options on the
table to reorganize the arts and

sciences. In the memorandum,
Headrick gives a target date of
June 20 for a report from the bearing panel, with a fioal decision to
be made by Greiner in July.
" Having the president issue a
decision in July, at a time historically when faculty participation

is lower and student awareness
nil, seems to potentially encourage this notion that this is a tough
decision that people won't like,

therefore we'll make it in the
summer,'' Welch said.
"There's no question that the
president and provost have been
very open in their desire to recreate the College of Arts and Sciences," be said. "They feel
strongly that this is the correct
academic option for this institution. I feel potentially it may be,
but I' d like to at leut have more
discussion on this because my
mind is open," he said. "To do it,
the senate must be involved."
Welch noted that Headrick 's
memorandum to the university
community indicates that the
bearing panel's report will be sub-

ject "only to comment and advice
from only the (senate's) Academic Planning Commiltee and
the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee."
This "falls way short of the
senate's responsibility," he said, .
noting that the senate 's charter
emJX&gt;wers the body "to review,
prior to adoption, all fonnal plans
relating to the future of the university and all proposals regarding the fonnation , reorganization
or dissolution of academic units ."

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elch said that when be raised
the issue with the provost,
Headrick replied that he was recognizing that the senate c ustom·
arily does not meet during the
summer.
Welch said that if the admin istration "persists on this pw:Ucu·
lar timetable," he feels that a special meeting of the Faculty Senate should be held during the
summer.
"I really feel very strongly
about the important role that we
as a tOI!tl body ought to be playing and the way in which our colleagues need to be informed, nor
only by the bearing panel, but in
terms of serious, significant dis·
cussions within our respective
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· The typical freshman student earns a 2.66
grade-point average during his or her first semester at UB, according to the study. While 12 percent of freshmen are "seriously c hallenged."
eamiog a QPA of less than "2.0 during their first
semester at UB, the profile found that 41 percent
achieve a 3.0 or better.
The typical distribution for final grades is broken down into 31 percent of gntdes being "As,"
34 pcn:ent "Bs," 21 percent "Cs," 7 percent "Ds"
and 7 percent "Fs." In additi011, 121 incompletes,
650 resigns and 343 PIS/U grades are given ouL

5 initiatives make UB
more student-friendly
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&amp;liE WIIIETCIIEJI
News Services Associate 01rector

B HAS implemented
five initiatives to help
enhance student rcten·
tioo and satisfaction at
the university.
They are part of what Nicolas
Goodman, vice provost for un·
dergraduate education. calls a
continuing effon to make UB a
" more hospi table, accessible.
friendly. convenient place for stu·
dents. "
UB has "a wonderful curricu·
lum," and students have access to
top-rated programs. "but we have
not always done everything that
we could do to make it possible
for students to achieve success in
these programs," Goodman said.
Three of the initiatives--S uccess 2()(X), the Transfer Student
Advisement Center and the Ex ploratory Program- have been
instituted by the Academic Ad·
vising Center. which reports to
the Office of the Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education .
The founh is the expansion of
tutori ng offered by the Universuy
Learning Center in a vanety of
areas. suc h as chem•stry. where
there has not in the past been any
centrali zed tutoring. The addi ·
tiona! tutoring will be made possi ble by funds from the undergraduate Student Association .
The fifth initiative is the move
of all lower·division mathematics courses to the North Campus.
which will occur in the fall as a
result of a tightening of the scheduling process for classrooms on
the No11h Campus.
As a pan of Success 2000. the
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freshmen and first-semestertransfer students who encounter aca·
demic difficulty and immediately
intervenes 10 help them identify
the cause of their problems. said
Janina Kaars. director of the Academic Advising Center.
New students may do poorly
not because they lack ability. but
because they have trouble adjust ing to college. Kaars said.
Staff in the advisement center
call the students and invite them
to visit the center and talk with
pdvisors. Students are encouraged
10 use the Retention Management
System. a questionnai re to ideo ·
tify factors-such as family prob·
lems, financial issues. lack of
stud y skills or lack of social
skills-that may contribute to
poor academic performance.

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dvisors refer students to a va·
riety of places on campus for
help. such as the Counseling Center. Office of Career Planning and
Placement or the Learning Center for tutori ng .
"Students respond very posi tive ly to that kmd of attention.'·
Kaars noted . "Th1s kmd of Interest and constanl contact 1~ whal
these students particularly need
Interven tiOn earl) on IS the cnll ·
ca lJssue ··
The expenence of student ath letes. as well as students 1n th ~
Un1versity Honors Program and
the Educau onaJ Opponunuy Center. mdicate that there IS ·'be tter
retention and academ1c succe~:.
for those student populauons who
have interventioniSt ad'" 1~1ng .''
Goodman added
The advisement center trucks
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faculties and schools," Welch said.
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, said he does not feel !hat be has "been
had, in terms of process."
The senate has had .. fair warningY' since
February that numerous changes were contemplated, Meacham said, adding that the
planning document is being reviewed by a
variety of senate committees.
" It seems to me that we are being faithful to our responsibilities under the charter," he said.
Boris AJbini , professor of microbiology
and chair of the Governance Committee,
said the planning document is "not easily
grasped" and the senate needs more time
to digest it.
"I don ' t understand completely why it's
necessary to have a deadline that is at least
s u s pec~ being in the middle of the sum mer. and cutting thus not only our (senate)
work short, but also the work of the (hearmg) panel.
"All voices should be heard," he said.
.. It 's beuer to try to lead by recruiting
people 's suppon than by instituting something where a majority or large portion of
people may be against it."
S tan le y Bruckenstein , A . Conger
Goodyear Professor of C hemi stry, to ld
Welch he agreed with his "gentle assessment'' of the situation. But holding an ex·
tra meeting of the full senate devoted to
general discussion of lhe issue would be
fruitless. he said.

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he meeting should address the specific
issue-should a College of Arts aod
Sciences be formed-and then a referendum should be held, he said.
Peter Nickerson, professor of pathology
who will be the new senate chair effective
July I , noted !hat !he senate needs to bring
the issue lo "closure."
There already has been considerable
mput o n the issue, and conclusions will be
drawn from that input, both from the hearing panel and from the various senate committees, Nickerson said.
'There has to, then, be some kind of
closure: reac1ion 10 those (conclusions):
that's what we ' re not going to have under
the present plan (timetable)," he said.
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and
chair of the senate's Academic Plah.ning
Commiuee, said the members of hi s commiuee have a problem with the hearing
panel "identifying the preferred course" for
lhe reorganization of the arts and sciences.
" I find that to be the sore point in the
doc ument (charg'lng the hearing panel),"
Malone said. " It puts much too much responsibility on a very small and generally
ad hoc-created commi ttee. That preferred
course is the responsibility of the senate to
at least stare its opinion.··
Albini presented senators with two draft
resolutions from the Gove..--nance Committee for their consideration.
The first resolution urged that a final
decision on the reorganization of the arts
and sciences not be made before Oct I to
allow more discussion of the issue.
The second resolution urged the uni ts
involved in a reorganization-the faculties
o f Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and
Mathematics and Arts and Leuers and the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences-to perform a "careful and thorough
anal ys is of the poss ib le consequences,
positive and negative , of such an acti on."
''This would make it possible for these
facuhies to come together and come up
with a more stru ctured response to the
pro vost's proposal," Albini said. "I think
it would be useful to have assurance that
mosl of the faculty have the opportunity to

say something•• in a collective form, he
said.
Malone said that Headrick has known
aU along !hat !he faculty's automatic reaction to his timetable would be "let's take
longer to discuss this."
Headrick has considered this and decided that a decision needs to be made by
July, Malone added.
"So other than endorsing the fact !hat it
would be nice if we went more slowly, I'm
not sure !hat this (resolution) is something
!hat !he provost and president could, in fact,
accept."
He suggested that opposition to the
timetable be presented in !he form of "advice and comment" to the provost, rather
than as a resolution.

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his own behavior... I've come to realize over the years it makes no difference
if I've been given three months 10 write
that chapter. .. despite my best effons, it always gets written in the last two weeks.
"!think my faculty colleagues will give
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The FSEC took no action on the resolutions offered by the Governance Committee.
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and chair of the senate's EducationaJ Programs and Policies Committee, presented
a draft resolution on the course work of undergraduate transfer students.
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c harged by FSEC with examining the
policy that regulates c:our.e credit for transfer students because of anecdotal evidence
that students had been given "shon shrift"
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~e resolution tries to fulfill two func -

1 tions, Metzger said: to recognize previous work done by transfer students and
give UB a curric ular role in the studenr 's
degree program.
It proposes that students apply courses
that they have completed at other schools
toward at least one-third of the program's
graduation requirements.
Senators debated the language used in
the resolution.
Michael Frisch questioned the phrase
"at least one-third," wondering "what if it's
less than one-third?"
"Up to one·third is not the same as at
least one-third," he said. '
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost for undergraduate education. said the intent of the
policy is that UB can accept one-third of a
student's major requirements from another
school or schools. but at least one-third of
the requirements must come from UB.
Bruckenstein suggested the language be
cha nged to state that students can apply
courses taken at other institutions to "at
least one-third but no more than twothirds" of their major program 's graduation requirements.
The resolution. with revi sions, will be
presented to the full senate for di sc ussio n
at its meeting on April 29.
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the students and monitors their progress.
Kaars said, and, if they continue to perform poorly. advisors continue to intervene.
The "interventionist .. approach is a
change from the way advising has operated in the past, when staff waited for students to come into the office to seek help.
she said.
" Now we ' r&lt;:aggressively seeking them
out," she said.
The Transfer Student Advisement Center is an auemptlo deal with the bigh attrition rate of transfer students , who al so
may suffer from adjus tment problems.
l&lt;llars said.
UB now is "essentially beginning the
orientation process before they (transfer
students) get to campus," she said.
Center staff contact students when they
are admitted and monilor their progress
through the admissions system, Kaars
said. An "800" telephone number has been
set up for use solely by these students.
" What we' re doing is reaching out to
students before they come and making
sure thar the contacts have been made
(with the individual schools and depan ments in which they want to study) and
offering advice and suggestions on alternatives within UB (if !hey do not gel into

their preferred major),'' she said.
l&lt;llars added that the center plans to set
up a club specifically for transfer students,
as well as develop workshops to address
adjustment issues.
The Exploratory Program is designed
for students who need help in determining
a major or a realistic course of study.
Advisement may work with Career
Planoing and Placement to help students
interested in a panicular ca=r field choose
the appropriate major, l&lt;llars said.
Staff also may contact students who
were denied admission to a particular
school or program and help them find "very
appropriate alternatives.··
They also hope to identify students
"who may be headed in the wrong direc tion befor&lt;: they even get too far," l&lt;llars
said. For example, if a student pursuing
physical therapy as a major fails freshman
chemistry, "we probably should be intervening with them and talking about alternatives at that point, and not later."
The five initiatives are in addition to
Operation Reach Out, a program developed
earlier this semester by Goodman's office
to aid retention efforts in which all undergraduates received a personaJ contact from
faculty and staff within their academic de panments.
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.UB research wiD open window on earlier universe·
Physicists first to show critical prerequisite
in the quest for quark/gluon plasma
II}'IIWDI_.._

News SeMces Editor
SING WHAT THEY term "a

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poor man's technique," UB par-

ticle physicists have successfully
demonstrated the most important
prerequisite for producing the
quarl&lt;/gluoo plasma, the "soup" !hal existed
for an instant following the Big Bang.
They reponed recently in Physics I.Lttus B that they are the first to detect a collective now of nucleons resulting from
stopping an incoming high-energy lead
beam. the highest energy beam available
in the world today.
"Detection of this collective flow is the
litmus test for creating the quarklgluon
plasma, which wiJI give us our flrsl window on the earlier universe," said Piyare
L Jain. professor of physics at UB and
principal investigator. He conducted the
work with Gunnakh Singh. research assistant professor of physics at UB.
Their research confirms theoretical predictions that conditions that approach the
recreation of the quark/gluon plasma can
be achieved by using very-high-energy,
heavy-ion beams. The UB researchers used

the world's highest energy accelerator. 7
kilometers in circumference, located at
CERN. the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva. Switzerland.
ln this experiment, a heavy-ion lead
beam was accelerated to its total energy of
33 trillion electron volts and directed to hit
the researchers' specially prepared thick
emulsion, which serves as both target and
detector. The interaction of the lead beam
with the emulsion target produced more than

20 times the density of ordinary rnaner.
Jain explained that these results, taken
together with those of other groups, all
working on different aspects of quark/
gluon plasma detection, have created increasing optimism in the field. "Within two
to three years, physicists might be very
close to detecting the direct evidence of the
quark/gluon plasma," he said.
The achievement by the two UB scientists is particularly noteworthy because in
the field of particle physics, teams of 50 or
even 100 researchers for a single experi·
mental paper are commonplace.
No other group has been able to show
this collective flow with a lead beam.
Once the plasma is directly detected,
scientists will be able to study the quark.
believed to be the most basic fonn of matter, because it finally will be freed from
the nucleon. By freeing the quark, scientists will, for the first time, be able to study
it and test the current assumption that the
quark has no substructure. making it the
most basic fonn of matter.

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ccording to the Big Bang theory. the
quark/gluon plasma was created dur·
ing the cataclysmic explosion that caused
the creation of the universe. During that
explosion, temperature and pressure were
extremely high and the quarklgluon plastna
formed for a microsecond. After the Big
Bang. the plasma expanded, temperature!
cooled and the quarks become "frozen"
into neutrons, protons and other particles
of which the universe is comprised.
ln heavy-ion accelerator cxpcrimenrs.
the interactions of colliding particles ere·
ate for an instant a high-energy, high-den -

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siry mass like a fireball that scientists believe
is the quarklgluon plasma The fireball produced in these experiments exists for an ex·
tremely short time. 'The bigger the fu-eball
we can create, and lhe longer it can survive.
the more we can see in it." said Jain.

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he fir:eball created in thi s latest expen ment had the highest density that has
ever been produced in the laboratory: it re sulted in more than 1,000 panicles in a
si ngle interaction. By contrast, in 1995.
Jain conducted experiments with a gold
beam at Brookhaven National Laboratory
that created a fireball with a total energy
of 3 trillion electron volts and produced
300 particles in one interaction, fewer than
one-third of the particles produced at the
recent CERN experiment.
For a fraction of a second. the temperature in this latest experiment hit a peak of
many hundreds of thousands of degrees Centigrade. 1bc combination of such extremes
in energy. density and temperature closely
mimics the conditions of the Big Bang.
Unlike with the gold-beam experiment.
Jain explained. the plasma produced in a
fr.tction of a second with the lead beam
was large enough that he is c~&gt;nfident that
further analysis will re veal other. impor·
tant infonnation that will lead scienti sts
closer to detecting the quarklgluon plasma.
.. Physicists believe that quarks move
freely in the fireball , but once it stans to
cool and give binh to new particles. we
cannot break the force that binds these particles together." said Jain. "So we need to
produce a fireball with even higher vol ume by achieving interactions with even
higher energy and density."
The UB researchers ' success was not
achieved with mulli · million·dollar electronic detectors. the technique of choice
among many of the large particle physics
research groups working today.
Instead. Jain has developed his own
special. photosensitive detectors made
from ordinary photographic film mounted

on glass. The de tectors, which are
·small enough to
bold in one hand.
regi ster results that
allow the scientists,
using a high-resolution microscope.
to see interactions
belween panicles.
Jain painstakingly customizes
the detectors for
each experiment.
He lravels to
CERN. the only
laboratory 1n the
world wnh the
proper fact lilies for
project.
mak1ng a spec 1al
liquid ge l into the 600·mJcron-thlck emul sion he needs for his expenment~ .
He then conducts the expenment-1n
th1s case it was 10 the CERN laboratol)
Back at UB. he analyzes the emuls1ons. a
process that takes several months to years
Accordmg to Jam. 1n add1t 1on to the
achievement of producing collecuve flow
With lead, the results of the most recent ex periment also prove that h1 s umque emul sion tech nique works very well under el!. treme conditions
hat it lacks 10 sophisticated electronic s. Jain' s special photo·sen si llve
emulsion makes up for With extremely ac curate space resolution. 1.e .• the extreme!)
small angles at which hundreds of pan1cles
are produced in a single interacrion in these
high-energy nuclear coUisions.
It is because of that hi gh resoluuon that
it has achieved what other detectors could
not: the first direct evidence of the nuclear
collective fl ow with the highest possible
energy and densities available.
To acce lerate with higher energy. the UB
researche11i will have to wan until 200 I when
a new accelerator comes on·lme at
Brookhaven National Laboratory. But Jam
noted that experiments with lead a1so must
be conducted with accelerations at lower energies in order to determine exactly when the
collecti ve flow of nucleons begins to fonn.
ln a separate paper. published last Au gust in Physics Leutrs B. the UB researchers also found evidence of a phase transi tion during the nuclear interactions with the
lead beam. a phenomenon that had not been
previously observed at such hi gh energies.
Jain explained that the quarklgluon
plasma story becomes a bit clearer each
time another set of results is published.
"Like archaeologish. each group is
helping to add a different piece to recon struct the main event." he sa1d. "Each new
ex:periment helps physacists to more closely
explore the conditions of the early universe"
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UB medical school graduate establishes
fund to increase anesthesiology research
BJ PAULA WITHEREU.
Reporter Contnbutor

A $110,000 GIFT FROM RICHARD J. HAGEL, a 1953 alumnus of the UB Schoo l of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. has establi shed the farst endo wed fund a1me-d al
increasing research in the school's Department of Anesthesaology
It was during hi s teaching career at UB that Nagel. an Orchard ParL res1dent . tlr-.t
became aware of the need 10 augment research in anesthesaology. "Although the un1\ ersi ty offers excellent climcal experie nces for its med1ca\ siUdents stud ymg anest ht:~1 o l ·
ogy. research in thi s area is somet hm g I believe requires more attentiOn ... 'a1d Nagd .
UB emeritus professor of anesthesiology.
"Supporting research now Will allow me to see some resultS from UB '&gt;tudu~s and o pen ~
up many opponunities for students to learn from these ex:penences. I also hope Dl) g1ft
will encourage others to offer thei r su pport to lhi s fund."
Nagel's medical career spanned nearly 43 years. He JOined the UB meda cal ~-hool
faculty in 1955 and was a clinical professor of anesthesiology from 1992 until h.Js retirement in late 1995. He served for four years o n the medical school's admiss1ons comnunee.
Nagel was chair of the department of anesthesiology at Mercy Hospual for 15 years.
and previously served a 14·year tenn as chair of anesthesiology at Our Lady of Vic tory
Hospi tal in Lac kawanna.
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�Toni MOITison

Career Resource
Center receives
excellence award

A look at Nobelist's writing process
By CHIIISliNE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

ANS OF TONI MORRISON got
an intimate look at her creative

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processes, and were treated to a

reading from her current workpioprogress. when the Nobel Prizewinning author spoke April24 in the Center for the Arts as part o f UB's DistinguiS hed Speakers Series.
Morrison, who received a standing ovation as she took the stage, is author of six
major nove ls. Tar Baby, The Bluest Eyes,
Song of Solomon, Su/a, Beloved and Jau..
as well as a book of essays, Playing in the
Dar/c. . She was editor of Race- ing Justice,
En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill,
Cla rence Thomas and the Construction of
Social Reality.
She di sc ussed her work and what is required for an idea to become " bookworthy"
before an audience of 1.700 that filled UB's
Mainstage .
"When one spends six or seven years
on a project. it must be one that cannot be
easily abandoned," Morrison said.
She doesn't keep notebooks of ideas for
a number of reasons, but mostly because
"I don ' t believe I have the leisure time,"
she said.
"GeneraJiy. I respond to some di s-ease
or di s-quiet that 's connected to some troubling imjtge, an incident or a remark or an

impression ... that is serious enough to keep
coming back." said Morrison, who is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of
Humanities at Princeton University.
Her writing comes from her own Hfe.
her childhood. her experiences and observations.
"I just wait for a question to surface ,"
Morrison said.
"Occasionally a larger question poses
itself. I don't write down these musings
because it would give them a heft they
might not deserve."
An idea must haunt her. "I need to feel
pursued by the question," she said, in order [or it to be "bookworthy." And when
such an idea occurs, "I get out a legal padyellow-with a No. 2 pencil, and see what
happens."
~e process does not become easier with

I time. Each novel is mo"' challenging
than the one that preceded i~ said Morrison,
who told the auclience she has been writing since 1960 and published her first book
in 1969.
'They all seem astonishingly more difficult each time I publish. The mo"' I know
about writing , the more difficult it becomes
Morrison also read from a novel she currently is worlcing on. teotatively titled Paradise, a work "which might change at any
moment, but at this moment it is wh:U it is."

By DB1A COIIIIWIA
Reporter
Contributor

THE CAIIEEII IIIESOURC£ CDnEII in

NOBEL PRI~TONI-­
talka her wr1t1nC. her life for DJ.-

tlnculohecl,......... - Her readjng centered on a wedding in
a black church in which the participants
grow increasingly uncomfortable with the
pastor's terse message.
It also dealt with the nature or love.
'The"' is nothing in nature like it. .. .lf
you think it's easy, you '"' a fool. If you
think it's natural, you are blind. It is a
learned application without reason or motive," Morrison said.
"You do not deserve love, "'gardless
of the suffering you endured. You do not
deserve love because someone did you
wrong. You can only earn by practice, by
careful contemplation, the right to express
it and you have to learn bow to accep1 it."•

Government revenue is reduced when estate taxes
go higher, School of Management study shows
By JOliN DELLA CDNTRADA

Reporter Contributor

H

IGHER ESTATE TAXES aclllally
reduce the amount of tax revenue
collected by the government and
provide a disincentive for people to
acquire more wealth, a study by economists
in the UB School of Management has found.
The study, recently published in the
Family Business Review, concludes that individual s have historically responded to
higher estate taxes by accumulating less
wealth. either by putting less effort into
wealth acquisition or by spending more of
their money on tax avoidance plans.
Govind Hariharan. UB assistant professor of managerial economics, co-authored
the study with Lawrence Southwick, UB
associate professor of managerial economics, and Kenneth Chapman, associate pro-

fessor of economics at California State
University at Northridge.
The researchers looked for trends in individuals ' response to higher and lower
estate taxes by aoalyzing estate and gift tax
as a percentage of the federal revenue and
as a percentage of the gross nationa1 product from 1917, when the estate tax was instituted, through 1995 . They also analyzed
data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Performance or Older
Men to deten:nine the effect of estate taxes
on wealth accumulation during years that
the estate tax was raised or lowered.
They round that in the years 1978-84.
when estate taxes were raised. revenue from
estate taxes decreased significantly at a rate
or almost $947 million per year, as did estate tax revenue as a proportion or the GNP.
from 0.37 percent to 0. 16 percent. After the

1984 estate tax rate reduction, however, revenues rose at a rate of mo"' than $630 million per year and estate taxes as a proportion of the GNP rose to 0.23 percent.
"This suggests that higher revenues
from estate taxes are possible through
lower rates; • Hariharan says.
Correspondingly. the National Longillldinal Survey data or older men "'vealed
that the net assets or 69-year-old men in
1995 dollars we"' higher before the 1978
estate tax increase and after the 1984 tax
dec"'ase. "Clearly people we"' responding to estate taxes in their behavior. and as
a consequence, affecting the revenues generated for the federal government,'' .
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Hariharan concludes.

Music a_. •IIY ..u

The ..almost paperless" system networks existing university systems and software to link student data with inputted job
poslings aod employer information. Using
this data, SIS autOmatically retrieves online "'sumes of qualified sllldents for forwarding to prospective employers. while
simultaneously e-mailing job postings to
appropriate students.
SIS also is used by the management
school to gather student job-placement statistics and to analyze common attributes
of successfully placed students. This data
is shared with the MBA office for use in
recruitment of students most likely to succeed in the program and is used for moni toring cuniculum effectiveness.
·
Cynthia Sbo"'· assistant dean and director of tbe Career Resource Center, said,
"Ninety-one percent of MBA students now
use our office, compared to a participation
rate of 50 percent before SIS was implemented."
The system was created by Sbo"'; Joseph Mantione, the scbool's assistant dean
of resource management; l acqueline
Gbosen, asspciatc director of the Career
Resource Center; and MBA students John
Lovelace and Peter Pomeroy. Sbo"' -will
receive the award at the association 's regional confen:nce in September. An announcement wiU also be featured in the
Journal of Career Planning and PIDc&lt;m~m.

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Holland to lecture, receive honors
By LOIS IWIIII

The UB Department of Music conCludes the yea( with tour outstanding concerts
in May, hrghllghted by a performance of Haydn's The Craatlon by1he University
Chorus and UBuffalo Symphony, conducted by Harriet
Simons, on May 2 at 8 p.m. In Slee Concert Hall.
Two of the three major roles will be sung by Teresa Williams, soprano, and Jeffrey Halill, tenor. both students of
Gary Burgess, associate professor of music. The bass soloist will be a US alumnus, J. Robert Adams (BA 1971 .
M.A. 1973). professor of voice at Alabama State UniVersity in Montgomery. AdilffiS, who was a student of William
Warfteld at the University of Illinois, has appeared In the
U.S. and Europe in 9f8torio and opera roles.
Other May coocerts include a perfoonance by the UB
Saxophone Ensemble, directed by Edward Yadzinski, on
May 3 at 1 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. Therecis no admission chargli. The UB Aute
Choir. directed by Marlene Wrtnauer, will perform May 4 at 8 p.m. in Baird Recital
Hall. There is no admission charge.
On May 5. the University Choir will present a concert cond~ed by Harriet
Simons at B p.m. in Slee Jjall, featuring Brahms, Debussy, Schein, Vtadana,
Morley, Gershwin and Hawley. The coocert will conclude with a pertoonance of
Dry Bones, a composition made lamous by the Fred Waring Glee Club and Its arranger, Professor LMngston Gearhart, who died in 1996. TlckatB are$3.
Ticil_els for all events In Slee Concert Hall can be purchased at the Center for
the Arts Box Office-or at Ttcke!MaslEif outlels.

the ·us Sehool or Management ' has received an award of-excellence for technical innovation from tbe National Association of Colleges and -Employers (NACE).
a professional association for career services practitioners on college campuses.
The center's Student Information System (SIS) was cited by the award. which
recognizes outstanding technical tools or
designs created by career services centers
from NACE's 3.500 member colleges and
corporate human resource offices. SIS was
created by mi.JUt8ement school personnel
to enhance "'lations with corporate recruiters. improve student access to employment
opportunities and to track student jobplacement
results
Uooka
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News Services Ed itor

NTERNATIONALLY KNOWN cancer "'searcher James F. Holland will
deliver the Harrington Lecture on ' The
Search for HMTV, Human Mammary
Tumor Virus," at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May
12. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on
the UB South Campus. The lectu"' is free
and open to the public.
A reception honoring Hollaod, CUNY
Distinguished Professor and chief of the Division of Neoplastic Diseases at Mount Sinai
Scbool of Medicine, will be held prior to the
lecture in the Lippschutz Room. Biomedical
Education Building, South Campus.
Holland will receive an honorary degree
from the State University of New York during commencement ceremonies to be held
by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at 3 p.m. May II in the
Center for the Ans on the North Campus.
Holland, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons. spent a year
at the National Cancer Institute befo"'
coming to UB and Roswell Park Memorial Institute in 1954. He was named chief

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of medicine at
Roswell in 1956,
serving until
1973. During
much of that
time, he also
served as director of Roswell' s
Cancer Clinical
Research Cent~r
and rose in the
academic ranks
at UB from assistant professor of medicine
to "'seareh professor or medicine.
In 1972, Holland received the prestigious
Lasker Award for his work in cancer chemotherapy. He spent the following year conducting and coordinating cancer "'seareh in
the Soviet Union with a team or researchers
sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
He "'turned to the U.S. to accept the
position of professor and chief of the Division of Neoplastic Diseases at CUNY's
Mount Sinai Scbool of Medicine. In 1982,
be was awarded the endowed Jane B. and
Jack R. Aron Professorship of Neoplastic
Diseases. He was named distinguished professor in 1993.
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teners
Physics instructors do
"outstanding job
maintaining standards"
-Editor:
I am writing 10 protest. in the strongesl
possible terms, the following statements
which appeared in the April 3 issue of the Re-

poner.
Shahld Ahmad, associate professor of
civil engineering, noted that. for example, in
introductory physics classes. students are 1old
to look to their left and to their right, and told
that two of them won't pass this class.
1'lle caring isn't there," said Ahmad .
It is absolutely not the policy or the Department of Physics to encourage or condone
any such behavior by instructors in our introductory physics courses. I have consulted
with every member of our faculty who has
been involved with teaching introductory
physics courses. and I fmd oo evidence that
such a starcment has ever been made in an introductory physics class at UB . Prof. Bruce
McCombe bas assured me that he has never
, h~ard of such a statement being
i~ the
mne yean he served as department chauman.
It is simply factually inconu:t that twothirds of students in our introductory physics
courses do not pass. I have examined the
gntde records of all courses taken by EAS
majors over the past three years. The most
commonly assigned grade in these courses is
a C. Fe"ier than 20 percent of students obtain
an F. We would be more happy to discuss
these distributions with you in detail.
As to the statement about caring not being
there : 1 respond emphatically that it is the
policy o f our Department to assign the best of
our instructors on a rotating basis to teach the
introductory physics courses. Despite the recent loss of two faculty lines, and of all our
instructionaJ suppon. staff lines. due to UB's
budget woes. I am convinced that our inslnlc tors do an outstanding job in maintaining
standards and teaching a syllabus agreed
upon with the School of Engineering and Applied Science. We do not pretend to be per-

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SENDING LETTERS TO litE
REPORtER
The Reporter welcomes letters !rom read-

ers commenting on its stOf'ies and content
Leners should be limfted to BCXI WOfds end
may be ed~ed IO&lt; style and length. Because
of space lfnitations, the Reporter cannot
publish all letters recetved. They must be
recefved by 9 a.m. Monday to be considered fOf' publication in that week's issue.

feet: when problems arise, we would like to
hear about them, and we will do our best to '
correct them.
1 understand from communications with
Dr. Ahmad and his department that the R~ ­
porur failed to mention that he was quoting
students, and that his comments were taken
out of context Given the current enrollment
crisis. the widespread dissemination of thi s
type of misinformation in the lobby of every
building on campus, and on the World Wide
Web, is not helpful. Any steps you can take to
correct this situation would be greatJy appn:·
ciated.
Yours sincerely,
RICIWHI J. -SALVES
Department Chairman

Editor's Not~ : Th~ artrcl~ in th~ Apri/3 iss~ ~
of rh~ R~ponu accu rat~ly rrprrsenud the
comm~nu mad~ a1 1h~ public muting.

Point of report is to
strengthen graduate,
undergrad education

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Vice Provost Goodman writes that be·

cause of the need "above aJl" to improve un dergraduate education, more faculty time will
have to be devoted co this wk.. He thu s suggests that, "Since most of our facu lty are already fully occupied, they will have less time
and effon to devote to other activilles, including gntduate education and research." Then
he adds the prediction that with fewer and
larger Ph.D. programs. "the total faculty ef.
fon. devoted to Ph .D. programs will go
down ... One week later Dean Tufariello asserts that the Provost's rcp:m. "s uggesL'i 1m·
plicitly the possibility of reducmg the SIZe of
some graduate programs in order to 1ncreasc
the quality of others ."
It docs not strike me as a reader of the
Provost's repon. that he believes that any subset of o ur c urrent Ph .D. programs 1s so out·
standing that other graduate programs should
be cut back so these favored ones may pros ·
per. Indeed, were this the pomt of the
Provost's repon. I think that 11 would be well
to throw bodies in front of that tram . However. as I understand it. the point of the repon
is to reduce Ph.D. level graduate enrollment
general ly and at the same time crea te fewer.
but larger Ph .D. programs, most of which can
be expected to excel. Fewer, of course. mean!&gt;
that some programs will no longer e~st as
they do now. But the subject maner of those
programs may be amalgamated, which admit·
tedly is not to say ''included unaltered," in the

new, larger Ph.D. programs . Th1s ts not takmg from the weak to bulk up the strong as
Dean Tufariello would imply.
Nor do I gather from readmg the Provost')
words that he believes that graduate education and research here are so relatively strong
that resources should be divened from them
to .undergraduate education. Were the point of
the Provost's repon., I think that it would be
appropriate to throw bodies in front of that
train too. However again, as I understand 11.
the point of the repon is to s~ngthen both
graduate and undergraduate education by
raising the number of upper-diyision under·
graduates and master' s candidates. Now if
there are fewer Ph .D. theses to supervise. but
overall it does not look to me that the net re·
suit will be that less graduate education w1ll
bt offered. So agam. this is not a recognitiOn
that "above all" undergraduate educatiOn
must be improved at some cost to gruduate
educauon as Vice-Provost Goodman would
have it
I am impressed that the readmgs of the
Provost's repon. offered by Messeni

Goodman and Tufariello. mdividuals w1th obvious tnterests m undergraduate educatiOn.
and gruduate educauon and research respec ·
tively. seem to be no more likely or Jess mter·
ested than the readings offered by faculty 1n
the soc1al scaences and humanities that I re·
sponded to in an earlier letter. Perhaps we all
ought to swear off the indoor spon of tele ·
graphing to others our hopes and fears for
ourselves, our dJSCiphnes. our depanmentJ&gt;
and our umverstty by usmg the repon. m a
Rashomon-Jike fashion . Instead. we maght
treat the Provost's effon.s as a chance to Im prove educatmn for all of our students here at
Buffalo. for that is what it asks us to do when
it suggests a reorganization of the structure of
ou r effons. An organizatiOn of our enterpn!oe
m terms of the topics that. m their d1vers1t y.
grab us JUSt might make us all more excttmg
teachers of our students as well as more ex ·
citing researchers in our fields and so dehver
a better product m both areas of our hves.
Sincerely,

JOHN HENRY SCHL£GE.L
Professor of Law

Center for the Arts to stage May events:
percussionists, Grammy nominee to perform

T

HE UBCENTER for the Arts will

present two performances in May,
with percuss ioni sts onstage May
4 and Gram my nominee

Cassandra Wilson appearing May 9.
The international Ani stic and Cu ltural

Exchange Program of the UB Cemer for
the Arts will present a free Percussion Recital on Sunday, May 4. at 8 p.m. in the
Drama Theatre. The recital. sponsored by

the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Cul ture. promores c ultural exchange among the ani stic communities of Mexico and the U.S.
and Percussion Mexi co/USA. a project that
aims to develop a closer musical exchange
between the two countries .
The e\'ening will include perfonnances
by Mexican composer and percussionist
Antonio Fernandez Ros . Mexican percus sio nist Ricardo Gallardo a nd percussion ist Kirk Brundage, a UB alumnus . Tickets
are available at the CFO box office!.

On Friday. May 9, the UB Center for
the Ans presented Cassandra Wil son at 8
p .m . o n the Main stage. Kn ow n for her
moody ballads. Wil son entices audiences
with her rich alto voice and unique ability
for improvisation . Recently. Wilson has

s hifted her a pproach to a mix of pop. blues
· and rock tunes expressed in a jazz/cabaret
s tyle . Her late s t album is New Moon
Daughrer. Opening for Wil son will be Jall
newcomer Madeleine Peyroux .

Tickets ($24 . $20. $16. adults and
$20.50. $17. $13 . 50. students) are avail able at the Cemer for the Ans Box Office
and Ticketmaster locatiOns. The concen 1:-.

sponsored by WBLK-FM.

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O'Connor. will be honored "I()( lead·
erahip by example as a prNate
practitioner.• He is • past ptesideot
of the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association and a former director of the Erte County Bar AssoCiation. Rec1pient in 1992 of the De·
fense Lawyer of the Year Award
from the Defense Trial Lawyers Association , he is a member of the
American C&lt;Miege of Trial Lawyers .

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Gllet, • pate! -

oll8tlck, 1995.

BR£YERMAH PRINT SHOW AT

NEW YORK'S B2ND Bl1IEET Y
FOI' wnter "-Y Fedennan, the arltcula!lo n of hts personal e xpenence
ot the Holocaust •s hts li fe 's wOI'k
Now htS lnend and UB c olleague.

an•st H•rv•r •revenn8n, has
•nterpreted Federman's sense of
Federman '" an exh•b•ltan of hts sa oat work. "The Federman Cycle (A
Port•on Thereof).· on exhtbll at New
York C •ty 's 92nd Street Y through

May 8 The 92nd Sueet Y has long
oeen known tor ti S art exh•bttlons
hterary readtngs and presentauons
of mus•c and performance art
Federman holds the Utle of
SUNY D•st•rfgUtshed Professor and
the Mekldta Jones Cha1r tn French
at UB. where he also LS a professor
ot Enghsh and comparat•ve literatures He IS the author of several
a ward-wrnn•ng novels and essays.
as well as books of poetry
Braverman. a dtsllngutshed art ISt o f tnlernatlonal distinction . 1s prolessor of art at UB.

A three-day lecture senes tn PEAL
tra1ning . a popular programmmg
language for the World W1de Web .
w111 be held May 5-7 from 9 am to
4 p m The course has a $100 class
lee lor UB faculty/staff plus $34 .96
lor class books. a $50 class fee
plus books lor students. $250 class
fee plus books for all others H IS
not for non-programmers
For more 1nformalion and loca·
t•on of the course. call Kerr. Cabana
at 645-3568
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LAW ALUMNI ABBOCIA110N
T O - SIX AT DINNER
Frve graduates of the UB School of
Law wlll recetve Dtsttngutsned Alumm
Awards at the Law Alumni AssoctattOn's 35th annual meeting and
awards d1nner. to be heJd at 5:30
p m on May 14 1n the Hyan Regency
Buffalo The awards recognize the
contnbuttOns that US law school
alumn1 have made to lhetr professiOn
and community Deputy State Assembly Speaker Arthur 0 Eve w1U r~
cerve an award ·tor hiS d1Sttngu1shed
serviCe to the community •
Awards will be presented to·
• Hon. Jooeph D. Mintz, '56, Su·
preme Court justiCe of the Eighth Ju·
d tctal 01stnc t. who will receive an
award "for h1s consctentious and d•h·
gent performance •n the /U(JICiary •
An 1nstructor rn mal technique at the
law school. Mintz serves on the New
Vert State Supreme Court Judges
Assocl8tiOO's Committee on C~vtl
PractiCe . He 1s chalr ol the assoctallorfs ttghlh Judicial District Committee on Judictal Evaluaoon and the
bOard of the Ene County Bar AssoctatiOO's Aid to Indigent Prisoner Society, a past presideot ol the New Yorl&lt;
State Delendefs Association and the
Eighth Judicial District AssociatiOO.
• John F. C•nale, '47. special
counsel to the firm of Bouvier.

publications . Ross Will answer
Questiona about legislative research
at the National Archives. His talk will
be of Interest to librarians, historians . students. journalists and others
who use the National Archives for
research purposes .
Ross hofds a doctorate 1n Ameri.can histCH'y from the University of
Chicago and has worl&lt;ed In the Na·
tiona! Archives since 1977.

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• Hon. DoMioC. V.CCO, 78.
New Yorl&lt; State anomey general, wiN
be honored "I"' his coomitmeot to
public service." VOIXO began his
public service C81eet In 1978 8$ a
prosecutor in the Erie County District
An"'ne-{9 OlfJCe. Ten ygan; later. he
was appointed U.S. attorney for the
Western District of New Vtwk. Elected
attorney general in 1994, he IS the
f1rst from upstate New VorX to hold
the post s1nce 1928. He as&amp;Sted 1n
crafting the state's death penatty law
and was Instrumental in enacting
"Megan's Law.· the sex'&lt;ltfender reg•stry and nouficauon act.
• Hon. MlchHI A. Battle, '81 ,
Ens County family cour1judge , w1U
be honored ~ for h1s many contribu ·
lions to the betterment of the community • Baltle helped open the
Federal Public Defender's OfflceJ
Western New York Region and rep·
resented tndtgent clients charged
wtth viOlating federal crim 1nal law
He also was with the u S. Attorney's
Office in the general litigation unit
and the ctvtl diviSion. He ts a former
pres•dent of the Minority Bar AssoCiation of Western New York
• Thomu R. Bremer, '79. se·
n1or vice president and general
counsel of U .S Surgical Corp., will
be honored "for his exemplary performance in business.· He received
a bachelOr's degree cum taude tn
mechanical engineenng from UB

• Han. Artlu 0 . Ew, deputy New
be racog-

Vorl&lt;~ speaker, wit

PERL TRAINING LEC111RE
SERIES BEY

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nzad 'lor OlJ1Sta'lding seMCe to tl'e
carm.xitybye~

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g&lt;aduate o1 West Vrgin;a State LJ&lt;we&lt;•
sity. heisa~d~cctT&gt;­

nlt!ees on Agng and Corporanons.
and is senoor ~ ol tl'e Wflys and
Means and Rules oorrmttees. Fm
elected to tl'e Assembly in t966. he
haS a record ol sponsorship on a range
o1 ossues. including economic develop""""- ec1Jcation. job .....-.g. social sar·
""""'· em.. preventior&gt;'patole relorm,
day cat8 and housing.

DDAYRE IS~ (W
BTWENT FIIWICEB,Ellu G. Eld8yrlo has been ap.
pointed director of student finances
'--...---... and records at UB.
A member of the
UB prolessiOOBI
staff since 1987,
he moot recently
served as director
ol the Office ol F1-

nancial Aid.
He also has
held the positions
of assistant d lrectOI' and d irector of
student accounts and assistant di·
rector/systems analyst in the Offic e
of Student Finances and Records.
A native of Lebanon, he rec8fVed
a bachelor's degree 1n computer SCI·
ence from UB 1n 1987 He w111 recetve
the M .B.A. degree next month

EI.DAYRIE

~ARCHIVES

UBRAitiAN TO LEC111RE AT UB
The US Schoc:M of lnfOJmatoo and
L1brary Studies will present a lecture
by Rod Roaa, a reference archrvtst
with the National Archives 1n WashIngton. D.C .. at 4 p .m on May 7 •n
the Friends Room of LockwOOd LIbrary on the Nor'th Campus. The title
of the lecture ts ·A V18w from Washington; The Public Documents U brary is Alive and Well as Record
Group 287 at the National Archives •
A specialist in congressional

llllriec ue eva
wid! 8UIIio ad video
reporu. Boch Iiies olfcr lleleviJioo oebedules ~ ~
ill&amp; Jll')llallll 011 dldr reepeclive aetworb. togetbcr wilb onliae
belp 1D Ul in lllvipliDJ lbeir aill:l.
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CNN ~ is orpni'zed iDio several m&amp;Jor ICCIIOOS,
including $clence and technology, ttav.d, style, show bu&amp;inesa,
health and earth. There arc links to CNNfn (financial news) apd
AJIPolitics (a partnenbip between CNN and TUDe .magazine).
AJChMd news from past months is aa:cssible via the "Scan:h
Tool." While each sile provides beadlines with links to lhe full
stories, CNN In~ve also offers links to related stories and
siles ll!lhe eod of each article. It even provides Pointcast, a free
Internet news network lhal allows you to watch lhe lateSt bead·
lines move across your computer screen.
MSNBC categories include world news, commerce, sports,

Pharmacy's
AlumrU Spring Reunion Weekend ,
to be held on May
3 1n the Buffalo

Mardott.

c-tanc.
~ Calil()(·

nia·based pharmacist and president of the Association of Natural
Medic ine Pharmacists . will present
the continuing educatton program,
~The Pharmacist and the Return of
Natural Medic1ne. • at 9 :30 a.m . A
graduate of the University of Minnesota College ol Pharmacy. Grauds is
a registered pharmacist. certifl8d
herbalist and regtstBfed nutritional
consuftant ., pnvate practice. Editor
ot the natural health magazine Health
Education Technologies. sh8 is a
member ol the American and Calilor·

science and teChnology, life and opinion. Click on "Index" to
gel full contents of each section. This site offers the opportunity
to design your own personal fronl page to display only bUdtines and infonnation thai interest you, including stock quotes
or sports scores. You can also join in a chat session to discuss
current topics.
1bese two sites provide an innovative way to receive your
daily news with full coverage of up-to-the-minute headlines from
around the world 10 your desktop.
For assistanc~ in conn.ecting to the World Wuh Web via UB computer accounts, contact tM ASCIT Help Desk at 645·3542.

nia PharmaceuticaJ associations.
W _ K . . . - - . , Interim

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dean ol the UB School ol Pharmacy,
will present the "State of the School"
address at the noon luncheon. Tours
ol the UB Pharmacy Museum and ·
Rober1 Cooper Professional Practice
Laboratory and Model Pharmacy will
be held l.J p .m .in C-o Hall , North
Campus. Speclal reunoo celebrations will be held by the classes ol
1947 and 1972. as well as induction
of the Class ol1997 into the Pharmacy A.lumn1 Assoc18Uon For tnfor·
mation, call645-3931 . ext 247

The horses will r9ll'laJI"lln the1r stalls
1Nh1le the humans parucipate In the
second annual SteepleChase 5K Run
and walk May tO around the South
Campus The race beg1ns at 10 a.m
10 the Parker Lot behind St Joseph's
University Church. 3269 Main St.

The ...... will benelit ectivit&gt;es d
Nev.mv1 Cantors on bah carTlllJS9S. I
Arst-place male and female finIShers and the first three f10ishers in a
dOZen age categories will win prizes,
as well as the first male and female
US finishers. A postrace lawn party
will be held near the finish line
PreregistratiOn is $12 ($16 Canadian}: race-day reg istration is
$15 ($20 Canadian) . UB students·
registration is $10. For reg•stration
information . caii6J6..7495

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A r&lt;M!Ita by ~
OistJngushed Prolessor.
Department ol English. haS been pro-

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a Becl&lt;ett conlara'lce n Berlin. Ger·

many. 'Sarruet Beckett ou le !!ontelx
en Enfer.• appears 111 a c:oUecoon c:J essays " several ia'lg\.&lt;lges. Komikl6ld
Solipsosmus im Becl&lt;ett.
Three poems bY lnlntl
DistinguiShed Prolessor.
Department o1 English, have been

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pubfished racentty-~Of This and

and Lee· 1n the Arizona 0uarter1y;
"Wisconsin's Fox Aivef Valley and the
Mesquakie. A New Local History.• in
the WtSCOOSin Magazine of History

2 p . m . , - . - . I.Jnl.
-.ity d Michigan. The Ugllt at the
End ol tl'e Tli'Wl9i. AA archaeologist.
&amp;he haS worked extensively on Grcutt and the landscape and society

ol Roman Graece.
3.-p...... . . . . . . UniYonlly d Wfsa:x&gt;.
sin, fteadro Statues. Gazing at Text
Mixed ~in tl'e CtassK:s. Har worl&lt;
on tt-e an:haic Graek poet Arectaon
has taken her not rriy
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P&amp;.ANB BUQUJ COLLOQUIUM

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The Classics~ wil hold a
Sesquicentannial Colloquiun. "The
Futuro o1 the Past. Classical Studies al
the MilleMiun.• on May 2 in Room
330 Student Union. North Campus.
The symposlun brings together lois
literary scholars, ancient hlstcrians
and erchaeologists to talk about intellectuallrcntiers ol the discipline.
The times and speakers are
eJ30 a.m., Clvtat......

STIIIICTUitAL

Faraone, University of Chicago,
Coloring the Classics. He has pioneered the study of Greek magic as
a phenomenon of Greek religion
and social hiStory.

•.m., O.wld F - I t ,

Umversity of ArM.nsas. Reading the

An essay by Robert .J. Daly, D1s·
tinguished Teaching Prof8SS()(, Department ol Enghsh.
Have A~
ally No Coultry I&gt;J I&gt;JI, • haS been l"bhslledln Aracllne AA Interdisciplinary
JoumaJ d Language and Uterature

Roman Body. He has pioneered on
the application ollilrn theory and
gaze theory to Roman lyric poetry.

ScNNtz, prolessor, Depart·

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c:Uced as a CO. with Federn'la"las
reader A 1octue g""" by ~'-.man

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BlEEI'LECHABE RUN
TO AID NEWMAN CENTERS

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That. and the Other. and the Fall ol
Man.' in Raritan: 'Episode" and 'Bad
Brunch' appear on Poetry.
A poem. 'Castle on the Rhone: by
- - , prolessor emeritus. Department ol Engl.sh. has been
published in the Western Humanities
Review. University ol Utah.
Aecantty·published essays by

poetrybl.t-

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lions tl'rough tl'e Byzantine period.

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A one-day symposlun dedicated to
discussions In structural biology will
be ~ in the Na!lJrat Sciences Complex at UB on May 3. The symposium. organized by Joshua WBnd. director ol the Centa&lt; lor Structoool Biology. Is supported by a grant lrom
Fujlsawa USA. Speakers wil include
_ , _ Wwld, UB: Tom Alber. University of GaNfornia: Atthur Pardi, Um·
....ay ol Cobado: Joachim Frank.
the Wadswor1h Center: Benoit Roux.
UniverSity ol Montteal. Staphen
Slogar. Unoversity ollllinols For more
tnlormation call 645-7394

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UB'S Blue Tope White
37-33 In - . 1 scrt__,e

The UB offense, which averaged ocarly 25
points per game last season. was in mid·season form in lhc fmt half of the annual BlueWhite scrimmage at UB Stadium on Sunday.
The offense-wearing Blue--scored 30
firn-quarter points on four touchdowns and a
field goal as Uwent on to defeat the White,
37 -33. before a crowd of more than 1,100
fan s at UB Stadium.
Rychard Dykes had 1wo first -half touch down receptions and David Hinson had a 39yard touchdown run as the Blue dominated
the farst half offensively. The White team.
however, owned the second half. allowing no
points and scoring on a 27-yard interception
return by Steve Blake.
The Blue began the scoring on a 24-yard
fi e ld goaJ by Scott Keller on the first drive .
Starting quarterback. Erik Rusin opened the
game with a 36--yard pan to Jamie Gasparre.
Hinson scored on a 39-yard run to make it

I0-0 before Dykes scored hi s first touchdown
on a IS-yard pass from New Mexico State
transfer Chad Salisbury. Sophomore Drew
Haddad hauled in a 52-yard touchdown gntb
from redshin fre shman Billy Feldmaier to
make it 23· 7. Theron WaJker added a twoyard scoring run and Dykes caught a !()..yard
TO pass from Salisbury to c lose out the
Blue 's scoring.
Senior tailback Anthony Swan led the
Bulls ' und game with 57 yards on only
three arries, while Hinson added 56 yards on
e ight carries. Dykes had five catches for 76
yar . while Haddad had three grabs for 73
y
and Enrico Pierre had four catches for
34yar

At qu erback, Rusin was 4...of-11 for 83
yards, Fel maier was 9-of- 17 for 155 yards
andSalisb
was IO.Of-16forl26yards.
''I thought at times there was a lot of hitting
on both sides of the ball ," said Head Coach
CnLig Cirbus. "We~ totally out of position
at times defensively in the secondary and had
a lot of missed tackles, but we knew going in
that that would be our inexperienced spot It 's
encouraging to see the offense move the ball

and 10 sec alllhnc quarterbacks do well."
Lineback= Anlonio Pcny and Pc1e
Mandc:rano had seven tackles apiece to lcacl
the White team. whil~ Hardy Mitchell had fi ve
tac kles and a sack and a half. Mike Stumpf
added two sacks while Blake, Jeff Lawrence
nnd Ibrahim Giles had interceptions.
The Blllls open the 1997 season on Aug.
JO against Lock Haven .

• Craig Quest agrees to deal
with New York Jets
US inside linebacker Craig Guest, a native of
Nonh Haven. Conn., has reac hed a free-agent
agreeme nt with the New York. Jets.
Although speci fi c tenn s·were not d1s ·
closed, the deal is for two years. with playing
mcentives included. Guest participated in the
Jets' mini-camp last weekend and becomes
the second UB player to hook on with tUl
NFL team thi s year. Offensive tackle Edward
Ell is became the first UB player ever selected
man Nfl.. dntft when the New England Patn ots made him their founh · round pic k.
Guest is the school's all-time leading tad ler and became the first UB player to record
I 00 or more tackles in three straight seasons

( 1994-96). He hod 136 !ACkles las! season and
holds !he school record fa&lt; tackles in a game
(29 venm Maine), season ( 161 in 1995) and
car&lt;er (446) .
""Craig bas been a very producti ve college
linebacker who has size and speed. but, most
importantly, IOUghncss," said Todd Haley, a
New York Jets 5Cout who worked Guest out
in Buffalo. " He's a big hitter. We're look..ing
for help on speciaJ teams and linebackers, so
we're trying to get tough, fast guys in here.
When the draft ends and a guy like that is
still available, it's a bonus."
Haley said Guest had an excellent workout and impressed the Jets wben they saw
him play at Hofstra, a game attended by John
Griffin, the Jets' Coordinator of College
Scouting.
" He had a big game against Hofstra., which
is right across the street from us," said HaJey.
" When you work out a guy who you like on
film , you want to make sure he has the quickness to play at this level and Craig does."
With punterlk..icker Gerald Carlson also
entertaining free -agent offers, head coach
C ra.ig Cirbus says this week 's developments
make a statement on where the footbaJl program is headed .
"To have two players-and hopefull y
more-be viewed as NR..-quality players is
an indication of how far our program has
come," said Cirbus. whose team fini shed 8·3
last season. "I'm extremely happy for both
Ed and Craig and their families and grateful
to them for the effons they made on behalf of
the UB football progrum. They will no doubt
represent this uni versiry very well ."

• Bulls, Royals vlctortous
at UB Invitational
UB hammer-thrower Ruth Conlon set school
and stadium records and quaJified for the
ECAC Championships and as a provi sional
NCAA qualifier in leading the Royals to victory at the UB Invitational at UB Stadium on
Saturday.
The Royals scored 289 pomts to o utdi stance Canisius. which fini shed second w1t.h
121. Youngstown State (76 ) and St
Bona-venture (7) rounded out the
team scoring in the women 's meet.
UB 's men outscored Cani s1us 148167. while Youngstown Sta te (78)
and St. Bonaventure (8) trailed
Both the Bulls and Royals art no ....
8-1 in dual meet .;coring th1 s season.
Conlon's toss of 49.72 mete rs
bettered her o ld mark that she had
set two weeks ago at the Mount St
Mary 's lnvitational.1lle record is
the fir.il established at the stadmm
by a UB athlete. The previous mark
for the hammer was set by
Denmark 's lnge Faldager in the
1993 World University Games .
The Royals won 13 of 20 events
Melissa Ryan was a triple winner.
laking !he 100 high hurdles in 15.07 . She
teamed with Karyn Eichler, Marie Macander
and Theresa Hummenyj to win the 4 x 400
relay in 4: 13.83 , and was p1111 of the winning
4 x 100 relay team with Shannon Hayes,
Jamie Hirschman and Amy Tabone (50.05) .
Hirschman al so won the 400 meters in
I :02 .40. while Macander was victorious in
!he 5,000 ( 19:03 .02) and Tabone won !he 400
hurdles in I :07 .08.
Omar Dayley was a triple winner for the
Bulls, winning the 200 in 22 .79 and 400 m
48.96. He also teamed with Ryan Cand1a..
Kweli Musa and Spencer Be ll to win tht: 4 A
400 relay in 3:26.66. Candia also won the
400 hurdles in 55 .26. Di stance specialiSt
Patrick Nolan wo n the 5.000 m 15:55 .58 and
3.000 steeplechase in 9 :37.91.
Conlon a nd She lly Ha.m1hon represe nted
UB at the prestigi ous Penn Rel ays in Phil adelphia. Hamilton placed fi fth in the high
jump competition at 5·6, while Con lon was
ninth in the hammer throw at 157- 10.
Both squads host the US Open meet on
Saturday, beginni ng at 9 a.m. US also hosts
the Mid·Continent Conference Champion·
ships starting May 9.

• Men' s tennis team

ftnl..... sixth at Mid-Cons
Coach Russ Crispell 's Bulls tennis team went
into the Mid-Continent Conference Touma ·
ment as tbe sixth seed in a nine·tearn field
and that 's exactJy where they finished--s1 xth
UB went 2·2 during the tournament . dropping their opening match to third-seeded
Central Connecticut State 4-1 . The Bull s
moved up the bracket on Friday, downing
host Chicago State and rival Youngstown
State by identical 4-0 counts to move into the
fifth -place match against Western Illinois.
UB dropped a 5-2 decision to the Leathernecks to conclude the season and t..ake sixth
place in the toumamenL Top-seeded Troy
State captured th~ir first Mid -Con tennis title
with a 4-2 win over Mi ssouri -Kansas City in
the championship round.
Senior Mike Proulx was the Bull s· spark

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plug dunng the tournament . gomg 3-1 m the=
two-day cham p1 onsh1p. Proulx. at second
smgles. dropped h1 s f1rs1 match. a 6-2. 6-0
dectston to Central ConnectJcul's Ka.reem
Bryant Proulx the n cnused to vtctones over
h1s Ch1cago State and Youngstown State op·
ponents. sett mg up a meetmg wJth Western
llhno1s' N1ck D' Ancona o·Ancona had pre ·
VIOusly defeated Proulx 6-2. 6-2 when the
teams met m Hilton Head. S.C.. m March
Proulx gamed revenge m h1 s last colleg tatc:tenms match. rally mg from a fi~t -sct ue
breaker loss to beat D' Ancona 6-7.6-3.6-2
Proulx also teamed wtth Andrew Garber at
number one doubles to go 3-1. falling onJ) to
Western Jllino1s m the final match Garber
was 2- 1 in sing le:, play dunng the tourna·
ment.
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OBITUARIES
Burt P. Flickinger Jr., 70,
community leader,
VB Foundation member
A memonal serv•ce
was held Apnl 26 in
Westmln&amp;ter Presbyterian Church for
Burt P Flick1nger Jr .
a prom•nent Western New York bUSInessman and community leader who
served UB •n many
roles, 1nclud1ng
memberShip on the
Board of Trustees of
University at Buffa~
Foundation
Fhclonger d•ed Apnt 21 1n h1s home tn East
Aurora He was 70
UB President W•lham A Gre•ner descnbed
Flickinger as ·a great . great fnend to UB and
to the whole Western New York community
He loved Buffalo. he loved our reg1on_ ana he
put most of h1s hfe 1nto mak1ng 11 a better
place He was a genu1nety wonderful person
warm and dechcated and v1s1onary We were
lucky 10 have h1m •
Fhck1nger was a member ot the un1vers1ty s
SeSQU1cemenn1al Honorary Comm•ttee and
last year 101ned w1th Gerald Goldhaber UB
assoc1ate professor ot commun1cat•on to !uno
tne produCtiOn of UB's llle·StZed bronze bul
lalo . wh1Ch 1S 1n the lobby ot Atumn• Arena
Fhckmger spearheaded tne etlan to bt~ng
tne t993 World Umverstty Games to But1alo
maktng the C1ty the l1rst U S Slle ot tne 1nte'
national event and served as 115 chalfman
UB's 18.000-seattootbalt s taO•um was jUSt
one of the sports complexes bUill lor the
Games . and wh1ch cont1nue to serve the
Western New York commun•ty
Gre1ner called Fhck1nger's leadershiP rote
1n bnng1ng the 1993 World Umvers1ty Games
to Bullate ·a crowntng achtevemem
"He worked day and mght overcomtng au
challenges to make that event happen • he
added -n was really Burrs show ana 1t
snowed jUSt hOw much he truly cared abOut
our cornmunaty In 1994. Fhck•nger rece1veo an hOnora•y
degree hom the State UniVerSity ol New York
at UB 's 148th commencement
tn 1989, Fhck1nge• •ece•ved SUNY s D•sllngu•Shed C1t1zen Award and was named
N1agara Front•er Execut1ve of the Year by tne
UB School ol Management lor O•Shngutsh•ng
h1msetf tn a career marked by execut1ve
success a proven w1lhngness to assume a
leadership role 1n c•v•c at1a1rs ano a oemon ·
stra11on of htgh personal •ntegr•ty That same
year The Buffalo News nameo h1m a C•hzen
of the Year
Fllcktnger a magna cum laude graduate ot
Harvard Un•vers1ty oversaw the r1se ot htS
lamlly s S M Fhck1nger Co as one of tne
nat10n s largest food suppliers S M
Fhck1nger·s Northeast Group was sotO to
Scr1vne• Inc ot OklahOma C1ty 1n 1984 When
ne retired tn 199 1 Fltck1nger was sen tor v1ce
pres10ent lor governmental retallons emet~tus
for ScriVner
In hOnor of hts 70th btrthday hiS children
created and funded a schotarshtp award tor
the UB-based Buffalo Prep Program a ngor-

ous 14-month program that prepares H1s

pan1c . Afncan-Amencan and Nat1ve Amet~can
students to attend one of hve college prepa ratory schOOls 1n tne Buttalo area
Fhck1nger tS survtveo by hiS w1le . Mary a
son. Burt Ill of New York C1ty . two daughters
~ly Fhck1nger Ford of Greenw1ch Conn
a nd Cathenne · aamb.- Fl•cktnger Schwe1tzer
a brother. Peter B two stepsons Peter H
Ryan of East Aurora and Dav•d E Ryan ot
Berkeley. Cahl . a stepdaughter Molly A
Ewert ol Orchard Park. seven grandchildren
and two step-grandchildren

George P. Biela n, 70,
bookstore manager
SeMces were held Apnl 7 1n Mayfield
Heights . Oh10 lor G801'ge P B1etan 70 a UB
Bookstore manager for 15 years 81elan d1ed
Apfll 4 tn Cleveland where he hved
Alter work1ng at the UB Bookstore !rom
1954 to 1969 . ne lett Buffalo to head the
bookstore at Case Western Reserve Un•vers•ty tn Cleveland He retlfed !rom BaldwinWallace College •n Berea OhiO after manag
1ng 11s oookstore lor 12 years
B•elan served 1n the U S Army dunng
World War II

Dorothy K. Simon, 89,
psychology instructor,
administrator
Dorothy K S1mon 89. a UB psycnotogy 10
slfuctor and aom;n•strator lOt many years
01e0 Aprtl 23 •o St AnOrew·s Presbytenan
Nurstng Home She earned bachelor's and
master 's degrees 10 psychOlogy from UB
Alter graduatiOn . she heto a number ot
DOSIIIOOS at US IOCiud1nQ InStructor ~n psy ChOlogy counselor 1n tne olhce of student
personnel and asstslant to the dean of
women In ner last post she estaOhshed tne
Freshman Women s Forum for new stuoents
Sne estabhshed a scholarshtp at UB 1n
memory of ner daughter J1ll who prede
ceased her and tor ner tate husband
D Bernard S1mon For more than 20 years
11 helped more than 75 s tudent s at the
univerSity

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I

�REORGANIZATION OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES
(AND POSSIBLY ENGINEERING)·
Formation of Hearing Panel
and Other Comments
Thomas E. Headrick
Pr01.10st
In m ~ n ·c r nt lltt·t·tm g!'l With the._· Faculues o f Arts
.111d l .e uas. Sonal Sr u•nc r·s a nd 1\atural SCie-nces

,uul Ma1h ema t1 n , the' qu t:suon of 1he me rger of
tlw~e farulues mtu u nt: of two possible ro mbina111 111 ~ ha.\ twt·n pronunem m the d• sc ussio ns. As I
m.1dt· de.u m Ill\ rt·pon . the prest·nt triparute
' qMra llun uf trachtional .t i l'&gt; a nd sc ie n ces facuil\'
..tnrl program.-, nu Io nge • !lervt:s the nt·eds o f this
tlll l \ 't"r&lt;oi ll \ .md thu!&lt;! 3Uill t ' c hang e i3 necessary. Sev·
t'r.li fac uh 't h,t\'t' d!.knl mt" to rlaboratt" on the rca-

'un' g •q·n
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tin~

111 tht· J't• p• &gt;lt ,

and I wd l do so

10

Pan I

ua·mo ran dum . In a ddltnH \ , I Ind iCa ted m
tht' rq&gt;orl ~~~ ~ Ill I t' ll I loll to con st itute._' a Hca nn g
P.ua·l tu wke rvldt·nu· fro111 the ft\cuil) , staff a nd
-.ltldcnts o n thl' two proposab for rt'organiL.allon .
t·ndt· rH't• th at wo uld he lp gauge.· th e- pn:fnencn
lw t"''tTn tlw '"" dl! t·rna ti ves withm o ur lO IIIIIILI IIL I\ and tde nuh hoth the prob lelll :!! th a t thest:
p• n po:-.t·d l t"U I).fdl1 1l.&lt;H IOns might nc.·atc.· a nd pm.'ib l«· ..,J,JtilLii iL..,IIl tho~e prob l em~ . The llt· a nn g
l' o~n• · l h.t~ bt' ('ll lor mt:·d . LL' 1 o mpos111on .wd
l h.u ~ t · d l t' 111rluded 111 Part II
~Lun f.tc u[t , haH· qUitt· 1 l'a:&gt;orMhl~ .tsked nw to
1 Ltnh tlw 11111111 g of ..t dt'( ''"Ill 1111 thl :-. JeorganLL.a oun l.t ·l lilt' do" '
I l&gt;c·he\t ' there .t i t' .J I lt·.tst two lt'.t:!lu n.!&gt; th l:!!lll.tllt ' l nn·d-. [( J tw ~t·..,oht·d bd o rt· \\' t ' lllO\t' on to
11lh t·J .1spn L'i o l tht· Rq&gt;Of'l dnd futult' phtn:!!lut
tlw un Lvt·rsu \ · l'lw IS...o;.ut· h· rHi s to do111in.Ht' dtsc u-.)HIIl:O. wnh tht· lacult\ 111 tht· arts ,md sc a·r tcrs .wd
1 IUWd OU[ l l lfhidt' l t'd t'X(l!nlllai!On n l o lfH' I prof'1l&lt;,£tJS. ;md tht' unpil'ml'ntati o n of 111 her n·com FIH' I! d.mo n s wi ll c.kpt: nrl :o. Lgn •fi, ..t!Hh o n th l' org.1 111t:tt 1on o l th e a n s a nd scienc t ·~ o n dus &lt;ampu:!!
Furtherm o re . I belicve wt· can &lt;md should n ·-.oiH· tlw qut:s t.ion Lhi s sp ring. th ;:u is bvjuh IY97 .
.1nd the.· sc hc.·duk propost&gt;d fo1 tht' I tearing Pant· I
li t' wi t.h th a t plan . The issut· 1s not new to thi:!! Lampm. Most ft'et·nth in 1993-94, thC' Trigg le Cmn nn v
-.um spent ne.·Lrh an acadt· lluc Vt'ar g-alhering inl o lllt.ltHlll. nJit sulting \\'ldt-·h ,md a n a.lvzJ ng several
pos:-.1hlt· rt·str unurings related to t ht· art.o; a nd 'n, ·tu n . Tl tt' maj()J-il\ of th ;ll cumllll :-.:-.io n f;~vored thc
hI[ 11\.tllon or an Arts and Scit'nn· ... ( :(11\t'gt•. ,tJt iHllij.;h a mtn o nh . p nma nh a~M)ttdtl'd With l l l/l ' t' l ll t:'XfJf't'SSt'd from ~O illl' n at ur,ll :-.t U'IH"t' f.teu lt ' .
oppu:-.nl suc h ~"' c h ang&lt;· . Tht' Tnggk ConlllliS.!'tnn
Kepo n IS ;n otibhk till lh l' Provost\ \\'d &gt;~ lit ' . h11p :
\\"ittg ....httfl.tlt l. t'd u prtl\IJ'i t Tng~ kR l'pu rt Thu'
!Itt• ISSUt' p n•!oot' LHt' d llll\\ I ~ !lOt llt•\, .111d riot•:-. 1/0t
llt't' d t'X It:"llSI\'e and ('Xlt'' lldt'd IO n"d t:!';t! HHl 10 ,\!··
1"1\'C.' .u a st" nsihle dt·cision .
Fut a ll \' let lilt" Tn&lt;1kt• &lt; ka1 wh,tt ,1 dt'CISIOII b\ .Ju h
I ~ l9 i will t•nUJ.il. If the o puon of combining th e
t lll t:(• lac ulli rs into o ne coll ege i:-. c host:' ll , il will
tLi ggt· r du· t'.!&gt;tabl ishmt·nt oLt search CO I11111111 &lt;T fu1
the pos ition of dean o f Arl.., a nd Clt'n f f"S. If th&lt;· optum o f e stablishing a Co llc.·gt· o f A.rt... . Humaniti t:s
,md Sud a I ~W: it'll Ct"S and a Co ll ege of Scie n ct' and
Engin t•cring is st: lene d. Dt"an Tufaridlo has a ln ·;uh· Indicated hi s desire to step dmom by St~mmcT
I ~98 , and Ot· an Karwan would lwcome dc.·an of tht•
TWW Colleg e uf Science a nd Engint·t'fing. He wo uld
.tppomt. aftt'!' a n intt·rn al or ex ternal St'arch.
\\ hTC ht'\'C;"r S c.' C;"IIlS t"&lt;tpabJe of yie lding tht• lllOSI
-.ut lrd t"ctlldidatt'S, a deputy dean drawn f r om O IH'
uf tht· Na tura l Sc ien ces and Matlwmatic-s disc lplnws ..-\ t tht· S..lnlt" tinu· ~~search wo u ld be iniu a tt·d
l1•1 tht· pos1 Li on of cl ea n o f tht' Colkg:t· o f An .... H uTn .:t ll lllt:':o. .md Socia l Scienct"~ to &lt;tno mm o d a t(' tht·
lllngc r o f Soc ial Sdenn·s and Arb .tnd l .t"llr r-. .
On ce LIW kev dc.·c ision is m adt·. I "'-i ll Sl't 111 lilt ~
11un a pruct·ss o f review &lt;Hld a n a lvsl.!&gt; o f issut's that
nct'd to bt.~ resolvrd in lht" Lr&lt;m sit ion. &lt;I process th &lt;.1 t
wi ll mvolvr OTlt' or m o rr co mminees rompo:o.t'd PI
f ~ICLd l\ and sLaff fro m tilt' afft'cted u n its. Th1 s
'it.: arch .l!ld tra us11i o u p rocess will p&lt;nn t toward tht'
lo 1lll.ll/011 o f thl· /It ' \\ UIIII (S) bv Sulllllll'f l 9~1H

PART I

WHY REO RGAN IZE?
First off, I do not lhink that th e~ are momentous changes for the university. BasiCa lly. th e\ are
attempts to locate deosions and ad minisw.t u ve suppon in slightly differen t places withm the umvnsin
for our a n s a nd sc ie nces deparlJ11e1ns. In Uw short
run . the c hange s will h ave liuJe real t'ffcct o n Llw
university; O\'e r Lime they m ay and should change
th t· unin:rsny. I Lhink beneficiall)·. bv c reau ng llllt"J acuons among faculty and stude nt\ dttd dewlopmg
programs and initiatives lhat migh t n ut ot h crwist•
occ ur. O n e o r the: ot her of these.:.· com hin a u o n s may
!\.i:!Vt: on resources devoted to ad n: 1111stra tion BtH .
&lt;Ind I emph asize t his poim. n o unt" "~II loSt' th ei 1
.t ppoinUlWil l in the unl\·t·rs ll' bt·ontSt· of the
t ha ngcs. T hf"rc.· .l rt' too m am un a lll. IH"kd llt't."cl!&lt;. ol
th t· univt·rsi ty-from ser\'i ng u ndt ·q:~ ra du a t t· stu·
dcnb 10 suppo rtin g fandt' rt·St·an·h -to cumem pl a te losmg va lued staff. Ne" opport unitie s w1ll
opt'n up for anvunt" whost: position ma' h&lt;· ronsoli da tf·d bv this rt"orgamLauun
Some.· o f th(· rl.'asons for ,.t ( hdug:t' we1e to u c he d
illl 111 111~ Rr po rt on Planntng. but I ca n dahoralt·
ColleC• of Art• and Science•

fht· t asr f( &gt;r ,tn An~ .wd Sc.Lf'n( n ( .ollq~(' l't'"'" til l
thl' lu ll o"1 ng .
1. 'I ot:;t·tht.'l the.- Art.!&gt; ,tnd St tt'tH n tt·a1 h ()I
JH' rtt ·nt o f the underg •ad uatc..· stud t·n t ~IE..s .utd
~ra nt -tO pt'ICt'llt o f the.• undngrad11at&lt;· dq.:-rct•,
But dtt" thrt·t' f,H' Lillln rlo n ut .H comphsh tht·-.t· n· ·
.,u]b liJgt• thc.·T
Onh a t the Pnwos t \ le\'rlL.!&gt; th e! t' .un llltt..'gr.tted
pt·rs pt·c un· u n undcrgradu&lt;Ht· I''(ILH auon 111 Lht'
:\rl\ ..t nd St Tt'l t n·~ that 13 con !H:Clt·d to co n tro l.-. 011
rL"~Illlr C e ~ . l.t't "&lt;, S,l\ lilt' Ulll\t'f"SII\ Wt-. hcd t() dt·\·e lup
lug:hlv cumpctt'llt wnung .·thllil\ &lt;~lllollg .1 Slgnil i(cL ILI pn }JUHLUHl ol lt.5 baet.tl,turt·att· gr.t&lt; IU tl ll~ :-. . ,I IHI
th.tt thiS ~tbiitt\ \\'(H Jid l&gt;t' llll l llltt-•d .H 10~-' till' ,-IJ"L&lt;,
.md 'c tt·llrt'~ t uLT·au l.t l ' ndt·T thl' ( ll l n·nt ~ lr \IC
!l il t' t h ,\1 t'lh.1rt would h&lt;1\1 ' lobe 1'1l ht.'.!&gt;t r.ttl'd IlLII
&lt;Jfthr Pro\u..,t'-. Olf1u· bt'l',ll h t' II \H1tTid 1101 fall t' :\·
( lu ... l\t'h to oll l\ dt' •.tll L' nd t•t .Ill .-\t '-' .tnd St It'll&lt; I ' '
( :ulkg c·, th e.~ I dt.'.lll t.ot!ld ptt•\'IC!t- lt·.ukr..,hq&gt; .tnd dt
t t't I lt'SUII Hl'\ I ll ,It 1 0111ph-.h th,l\ I lblt'CII\t' J'ht·
-..tme \\'Otdd bt· 11 tw lot progr.tlll"' ,unwd .11 q11.11111
ldtl\t' Co lllpl'tt.'llet· Ul lllf llrll\ ,llh Ill It'( h!Hlltl).," ( (l!l\pt·tt.'llt t.' . wlu·n · nun pt' lt' IH t' g 1U\\':!1 IT u ll t rept'. tl t·d
,utd lllC"!'t'asingh more ckm.mdm~ .tnd lu Khc ·l-lt.·H·I
expcril-nc.e after t'Slablislttng .J ...ou iHI bttSIC n ltt C.t·
tJOllal found auun . Th t:!! stJ' UCIUH' would .tlso lltd~t ·
11 possible 10 loe&lt;IIC.' stu d t·nt adviSII)~ lo r IH' \\ Stlld t: n L'i .tnd major.!&gt; With Ill the c o llq.~l· "-' \\'t'l! .1.:-. 10
u-.:~. n sft:r professto nal ..1dn~o r:-. tu the Lul k g t·.
2. Tht' c urrt'nt ro nf1gura tion st 11nulatn lt11k
b road ro nsidrrali o n or que su o nmg of tlu· 1 ok o l
a maj o r in the structuTt· of .:11l undergrctdU.lh' t·flu c.·a uo n . An ArL'!. a nd Snt·nn"':o. Colkgc.· m •gh1 1101 n ther, but 11 cc n a ml v wuuld prondt· th{· platf orm
for such a ro ns1dera tio n bt&lt;Ctlll.!&gt;t' o f thr dl\t'f"Sil\
of disCiplines rc.·p rt'st'nted . At pn·:-.t'/11 tllt'Tl' t-. IL111t·
llllt" IHi n· for all\ ont.· ol lht· thtt·t·l.u ult lt''i to t'X ·
post.· tht:ir p 1ogram' to "cru ttm 11 ckc&lt;tn.tlh prolt·n ed progr.Jnb 111 o tlw t An:-. .111d ...,, a·n1 '"' urut~
('~t: a p t• .!&gt;tiCh MTUUil\
3. BcctL t!ot' tlw thr~t' l.u ul llt'' ~ '""Pt'tt· ltH It' ·
'&gt;11\l f" (" ("~. th.-tt SOillt'lllllt'' lllhT IUb t Cll lfH"'l&lt;l lll lll .t!ld
,tlmost a lwavs ,Lttadw-. 111.111\ tullahora tton .tmong
thc.·m .t rt.' 'iOUflt' t la 11 11 t :ombmtng l.tn iltL t':o. will
nut ft' lll U\'t' tht· (OitliJ&lt;'Ili! Pll Ill till:-. S\'S tt'm . !ot tht•
co mpetruon orr ur!'&lt; a mung clt-p.t rtlllt'nb •.1:-. wt'll .1 ..
l;u-ultit''\, but 1t m.n ennn u ag t· tht' L l ~&lt;.. of auL dr·mlc l l'ltt"n a to re so ht· tompe ttll\ t' t l.t~m~ Tat he r
th .nt th e LISt' o f ad mm tstr.tll\'t' b.ur a· r., 10 o;uppon
,1 "po h tLtal~ rl 1st ribuu o n of re:-.mu (n
4 . Th t· t' urr('nt tnnfigut.tiHlllt' LICOLLr.tg(-,
tk.tn:!!. lll d f:t c uliu·., to tlt'.llllllf\1'1\tn rt:'&lt;JIIIIt '·

111t' lll.S ,111d (,(· nt.' l al l-.dtH iH t011 cl:!olltlfJO.!&gt;IIIOih Ill ht:·
lunded b\ thf' Pro\u~t (lor lll"il:tn &lt;t' Ill IYY!'l-9b.
tht· Pn .vo ... t lOiltnhutrd S4 :E&gt; .OUU to suppon th (·
(~r TH'ral Educo:~.llun curnndu m ) r.utwr th.:1.n ... _
.,
t•duca u onal responsTI&gt;ii1Ut~ ~ ol the lll\lt. rt11s u (
Ill!'!&lt;. because th esl' un 1vers11' l"t'C]lllrt:'lllt'IIL' f&lt;tll dd fl'ren u a llv upon th e lhrt:·t· f Mttlt 1 e~ IOSit'dd o l let II
mg on o n e comb1m·d facult' o r cnllrge
5 . Tht· parti c ular dtv1s1 o n bt· twt't'll Art!&lt;. d.JHi
Lc.:'ttt:' r ~ d nd Sn&lt; L&lt;tl Suen t n LnlllbT[1, ~unH · nc~tut .:!.l
d1snplinan affi nltlt.':o. , .md 111 111\ oh:-.t' l \-c~uo n !'&lt; ol
&lt;tnd co nt aCL'i wuh th O ~l' fd&lt; ulllt'!'&gt; , onh a ft·" dlld
nut e n o ugh connt'CIIH' chan ne ls havt' dt'n·lopt·d
to support th o3t.· affilllllt ''\
6. lllljJIOVt'lllt'lll..!&gt;ld.ll bt· g&lt;Uilt.'d /!l tht· wgctn//,1
l/1)11 .111d support nf und(· rgT-c.~rltt ; T h' nfu.-c.~LJtHI ,.. nt. 11111 nega tl\'t' llli)M(l.:O.tlll ~r,trlu.llt ' t·duc.uum . \\'hl c h
\\Ill C"U il ll llllt' lObe Ja 1gc.-h I)!Jt'ldlt'd ih l!lll gh .1 dt "ot /pl!llal'\ ' deparUl a·nuf ~ t ruct u n· \\'h1c h \\'c&gt;ttld not
bt· c hanged b' th1s n-orgallllf.HIIHI
7 . In the responsn tt&gt; tht· rrpon . then· 1:-. at on lllllllllg Jt· lr.tin !rum tht.· An_., .md ~ - ~~·n&lt;.- t'!'&gt; fa&lt; ull\
1h.11 Lht' dllll uf the Provo:..~ 1:!1 to relegate tl1t' ArL-.
,tnrl Snence" to 't' nllld-·dass !'&gt;i.&lt;IIU3 w11h111 lilt' U lliH'ISII\ :'\othmg uwld be furthn from tht· truth
\'etthn dll objt't tl\e Tt·.tdutg uf lh t· doCUlllt.' lll litH
t ht• t'XISUilg dJS!IIbUUUII 1}! J"t''Ollf"("(' ' \\"lllllll tht•
lllll\t'r~1h ... upporl th.tt t o 1H htston . Be th.u ib 11
111&lt;1\ , d Colkgt.• nl An.. ..md "'w. lt'IH t'~ wo uld
1[1, !'II("
.md tt np&lt;Ht.tJHt· ' " tlw tll\1\t·r-.Tt' bt· tht' lll·':JOT .tradt'lllll UILII 111 dw 11111\t'JSII\ . ,·\ s111gle .-\rL" aurl Snt•ru t'~ dr.u1 \H•u ld ht·· l&gt;ettt'T abk tn ach uTt' &lt;tnrl dt·lt\t·t llh Jn· (l lh t"-.1\t' .tpp1t1&lt;ll ht:.!&gt; tu undt:rgradltalf·
.tlld gr.t dU.tl(' prngntnt .-. th.tn t., poss1blt· ulldt."'! tht."'
lll l lt'lll dl\'ldt·d tl1Ti\ngt.'Jnt:'l11.
:\1 th t· ~o.u1lt' t lln t.· . I l"('!l('flll(' Ill\ Lf\liLdl statt.·n~c· nt :\ltht1ugh tht'&lt;,t"' benefit.~ wou ld nnpron· tht·
tllll\t·r-.Jt\ . lhJ' lel)rg.tn LJati(Jil 1:-. 1101 ;t .,olution to
.til P'"hlt·lll' On tht.' oth t·t h.md. 11 would uot gt· t
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College of Science and Engineering,! and College
of Art•, Humanltlea and Soc:l al Sci ence •
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..._ Cl!lllo.
In addition lO the above options, the Hearing
Panel will entertain proposa!J from single departments or significant cohesive groups within a deparunent not to be part of an Arts and Sciences
College , but rather to be placed within another
academic uniL These proposa!J should identify
clear improvement in the quality of undergradu·
ate and graduate programs as well as in research
and service productivity that will flow from the
proposed affiliations. The proposals should also
clearly demonstrate why the unit's participation in
an Arts and Sciences College would be disadvanta-

CONSIDEREST
NOT T HE BEAM
TIMTIS IN
THINE OWN EYE?

geous.

David ]. Triggle

I"ART II

HEARING PANEL ON THE
REORGANIZATION OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES

Professor of Bi«&lt;teooiwl p~
SUNYDistinguish«&lt; Pnifwor
Via Prooost for GrudU4le £duaJliqn and /Weardo
DmnoJU.. GrudU41e ScJwoJ
MllaiL· tri~. buflalo. edu.

The purpose of the Panel is to solicit and assemble information and opinions covering the following two major reorganization proposals along
with the possibility of local options:
11 Create a College of Arts and Sciences from
the three separauo Faculties (Arts and Letuors, So-

April 28, 1997

cial Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Math-

e matics) , OR
21 Create a College of Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences from the Arts and !..etten and Social Sciences Faculties and a College of Science
and Engineering from Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) and Engineering (SEAS),
AND receive
31 An y Local Option proposals as described
above.
The panel is to invite both oral and written submissions on these two options and any Local 0~
lion proposals. From this evidence it is to identify

both the problems that might be created by either
o ption and proposed .solutions to those problems.
It is also to sift through conflicting opinions to
identify lhe reasoned preferences of the faculty
and staff covering the cwo options. It should also
evaluate any predicted consequences of these
changes with the best evidence and information
avai lable to iL
In the end, the panel will prepare a report that
distills from the evidence the preferred course for
the university to follow in connection with the
proposed reorganization, taking into consideration the university mission and the goals set forth
in "Planning UB's Academic Furure." That preferred course is likely to be one of the options indicated above, or it may be some variation on
them, but it is not to be the status quo. The current target date for this report is June 20, 1997.
The report will be referred to the ~nate Academic Planning Commiuee and to Faculty Senate
Executive Commiuee for com ment and advice. Af.
ter their review and advice, the President will issue
a decision. Again , the rarget daLe for a decision is
July I997.
Customarily, in the university, we establish committees or task forces to study particular issues.
These groups gather information, weigh it and
then exercise their judgment, individual and collective, in making recommendations. It is often
important that such groups be broadly representative of different interesl5 and perspectives. What is
proposed here is quite differenL It envisions a
group that takes evide nce from those parties both
interested in and affected by the proposals and
evaluates that evidence from a disinterested point
of view. The Hearing Panel, then , will forward to
me its critical evah.1ation of information and opinion , rather than attempt to create an agreement
among represented interests.

Hearllqf Panel Members
ARLENE ALBERT. Associate Profwor. D'f&gt;'Jrtmr.nt of
Biochemistry
GEORGE BOBINSKI . Dean, Sclwol of lnfurmatum
and Library Scitna
ELIZABETH MENSCH . Profwor, School of Law
MICHAEL STOKES. Diredor, OJ!ia of Studrot
MullicuiJural Affairs (Panel Convt:nor)

JOHN THOMAS. Associat&lt; Dean, School of Manag&lt;mrot, International Programs

"Change is not
made without
in.
convenzence,
even from warse
to better, "

qbserved Dr. Johnson.
However, some recent public and prinLed utLerances from among our faculty argue that con ternplation of change ls either premature, unnecessary or both [and certainly inconvenient}; that
any change will destroy the university overnight.;
that change will foster destructive competition ;
that all resources should be left in the originating
departments; that faculty are being told what they
ought to be researching; that we will end up as a
market economy, that our fundamental disciplines
[as opposed to "those professional ones") are being marginalized; and that we are turning ourselves into a ..Leaching institution "--or worse. We
are apparently on our way to Hell in a hand-basketll Some of these views deserve substantial further discussion and I have no doubt that a public
forum for doing so is being provided and will continue to be provided. However, to deny that we
face problems and to deny that change is necessary in .some of our structures, modes of educaLion and disciplinary arrangemenl! is foolishness.
The most obviow demonstration, although certainly not the only one, of the reality of our problems is the considerable difficulty t.hat we now
face in attracting sufficient numbers of good students to fulfill our enrollment expectations. And
this is true for all categories-from freshman , to
transfer to graduate. Too many good students go
elsewhere.
A few weeks ago a colleague visited me on campus. Afuor he had arrived and we had rewarded him
with th~ customary parking ticket, he commen ted
on the arrangement of the traffic lights on cam-

.• I1Ai@
auu••• • ._taX

pw- "all Jigns and all dirn:tions ", he observed. A
metaphor for our current plight at UB? Perhaps.
We have indeed followed many signs and gone in
many directions. Continuation of this policy may
not serve w well The Provost's Planning Repon
presenlS a summary of wh~re we are, and where w~
might be going and indicates the dimensions of
!Orne of the changes that will have to be made. It is
a long overdue document. Pan of our p~esent predicam~nt is that w~ have not planned well-when
w~ had resources we grew at random and when we
lost resources we cut acro.55-the-board. A5 a result
we now have priorities and an organization that are
not well suited to the major challenges lhat lie
ahead, which are unsupportable with our existing
resources and, which indeed, constiwLe structural
and cultural obstacles to the changes that are increasingly necessary both here and in higher education in generaJ.
This university does face major structural and
functional problems that demand our immediate
attention. We are not, protestations to the contrary, the institution that we should be. We mwl
make changes that will enhance in real terms the
qu;&gt;Iity of our programs at both the undergraduauo
and graduauo levels, changes that renect evolution
in disciplinary directions, that ar~ sensitive to
state and national priorities and expectations, and
that, as a public institution, maintain access to
higher education. [f we lose sight of these goals
there is neither public nor political reason for our
existence. To accomplish aU of this is a real challenge. H - , giv&lt;n tM very real int&lt;lkdual
strmgths and qualities that we haw at BuffaiD we
slwuld be able kJ acapt_this chaJJmg&lt; with mthwiosmlf we fail to then we will have accepted the fate of
the Donner party-&lt;onsumed to no particularly
productive end.

CHALLENGES TO SUNY
ANDUB
Our challenges arise from several related areas:

•
•
•
•
•

Budgetl':rosian
EnroUmmt issues
Declining commitment
Declining reputatian
Lack of sense of direction

APIIaOI'IIIA110

. .[1.0...cAftOII
mootpopulous
Jlales)
STAll

to-YLUGAIN

U.S. IIAHK

186/ 87-96/ 97]

Georgia
Texas
Florida
New Jersey

Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
California
New York

82
61
58
56
53
49
45
43
22

7
16
18
20
23
27
31
34
42

4

49

Budget Erosion. Viewed from the perspective of
10 budg~t reductions over the past eight years we
have reason for a degree of self-pity. This we have
amply demonstrated . However, even though New
York State may rank almost at the bottom among
states in 10-year gain in support of higher educa+
tion [86/ 87-96/ 97: TABLE I], the absolute support assigned to higher education is second on ly
to California. This is still a very large commitment. Additionally, the percentage of our total
support derived from state .sources is sti11 higher
than most of our peer institutions. The 1994 stale
appropriation provided 40.4 percent of the SUNY
operating budget; in contraSt, the University of
Michigan r~ceived 1~.8 percent, the University of
Virginia 14.7 percent, Indiana Univenity 25.8 per-

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cent. lhe University of Texas syslem 50.8 percent
and lhe University or Maryland syslem M.5 percenL However, no one smsiiJ9 dmw that budg&lt;l issues
an not pari of our problem; n/Uf is n«dtd in terms of
grtaii!T jlaibility, ulf-disciplim and ltmg-lerm rommilmenl.

It is, however, quite unlikely that New York
Stale will significantly incre;ue support for higher
education in th e immediate or near future . Despite !.his year's apparent budget surplus, New
York State has major and long-term financial
problems. New York Stale has some SW billion of
long-term debt. consisten tly uses "one-timers· to
balance iu budge~ has lhe lowest bond rating or
any slate, is facing serious "out-migration• of its industry and population, and !.his year's budget derives largely from high ly cyclical Wall Street activity. The long-term economic develop ment plans
for New York State include the introdu ction of casino gambli ng and lhe bringing of lhe O lympic
Games to New York City. The benefiu of lhese
plans to higher education, or to the state
economy in general, are of dubious significance.
Absent the promise of such in=a.ud support Jrr&gt;m the
stak wt mwt loolc lO ourselves for our futun. We must

"'"'"" proadiw, rather than passiwly nadiw, lo lheS&lt;
outside pressum on mouJUJ.

And:

critictsm and in a recent book- The IU.u of Amen·
can &amp;s.arch UniversitieS: Elites and Chalkngm in the
Postwar Era, Graham and Diamond argue !.hat by
examining the research achievements of faculty
o n a per capita basis, reputations can be discerned
for institutions that were rwt previously vi.sible or
had been obscured by repuGttionaJ halos. According to this 1UUJ paradigm SUNY at Stony Brook is
now ranked second amongst public universities,
behind only UC Berke ley and ahead or UC San
Diego, UCLA, th e University of Wisconsin at
Madison and the Universiry of Texas at Austin . AJ.
bany and Buffalo are ranked 17 and 29 respec·
lively in th is analysis. The contrast ~tween these
indices is dramatic and was observed also in th('
analysis of lhe NRC data. TheS&lt; amiTasts sugg.st not
only llu need for 11u determination of"""" rejin&lt;d
analyses of "quality, • but also that d&lt;ficimr:Us and frag·
mentation of OUT organiuJlion may he i mportanl facttm
amlributory ll! our r&lt;pulationol d&lt;ficient:Us.
However, other indices offer liu.Je further comforL Our federal research support also compares

"There's this notion that SUNY is
very big and it is something that
New York State can't affard.... New
York State may choose not to affard
it, lnlt that's not the same thing"
D. AUQ IOIINSTOIII
FCKme&lt; Chancollo&lt;, SUNY

Because or lhese widely differing perspectives
!.here will be no easy resolution or lhe future or
~ moved to a
system that is more decentralized, more accountable and more productive, more flexible in its tuition policy, more responsive to iu students, more
differentiated, and more cooperative both within
itself an~d with private institutions. Oiscw.sio n of
these issues is productive only in the context of a
understanding of where the institution needs to be or has determined to go--a clear, mean' ..
ingful, well understood and
broadly accepted mission stateI•
menL This we lack for SUNY

SUNY. Regardless, we must move or

"

••ai!Ua .........
u. at lluffolo

Declining Reputation. We are

'

Declining Gommihneot: Skirmishes in the Search
for the Soul or SUNY. The departure of Thomas
Bartlett-lhe former SUNY Chancellor-is but
o ne example of the sk..irmishes being fought for
the soul of SUNY. And, as in many a religious
battle, lhe innoce nt-lh e railhful public-are
likely to be the principal casualties. his clear that
we-SUNY--cannot continue to absorb the ongoing series of budget cuts and maintain existing
str ucture and qualiry. Neither can we respond sim·
ply by raising tuition in direct proportion to the
budget cuts. To a significant d egree determina·
tion of our future will have to come from the rec·
o nciliation o f the several confli cting views that ex·
isc

"Many campuses are the economic
and cultural center far a
region .... closing these institutions really isn 't a possibili.ty "
AIIAI'Oil UNNIITII P. I.AYAU.I
Choir, Seno le Higher Education Commitfee.

"I would prefer to make the system
smaller. .. the kgitimacy of our programs is one thing we cannot give
away"
CICAIICIII.LOII THOMAS A. 11A111Un
{Fonne' Cha ncello&lt;. SUNY}

"You should encourage each of these
campuses to go out and reinvent itself, ar recreate itself, ar sharpen its
focus, ar even alter its mission to be
more responsive to what it perceives
to be its market"
lMOMAS Po IOAJI

Choir, SUNY Boord of Trustees .

"Rethink SUNY means Doumsize
SUNY"
IDWAD C. IUWYAN
Choir, Assembly Higher Education Committee

"We're shifting the responsibility far
public higher education in the state
of New York from the state to the students and their families"
lMIODOU 10-IR
SUNY Trustee, Binghamton

ITABl£ 21
CIOMMWOII 01' MU. 1H.
CLAU PllOfii.U
UC, San Diego

2685 (oil)
3062 (oil)
Closs Size
not what we should be or, perMean H.S. GPA
89 or 3 . I (regulo' odmits only) 3.86 (oil)
haps. what we claim to be. That
Mean Totol SAT
1066 ('egular admits only)
1136 (all)
this is so is confirmed by a va.riery of distinct indice s. Each index is, of course, subject to criticism and none provide perfec t
!TABlE 31
comparative bases, but collec1H·..C---OI'IIIAMCII
tively !.hey spell out our
DOCIOIIAII M0e11AMS
reputationaJ problem.
(Program ~ss)
I
Table% compares the characU. Cal
SUNY
CUNY
teristics of our entering fresh69 of 229 (30%)
Program&amp; in 0 of 104 (0%) I of 23 (4%)
man class wilh !.hat or UC/ San
the Top 10
Diego. This co mparison is
made because UCSD is approxiProgram• in 5 of 104(5%) 4 of 23 (17%) 119 of 229 (52%)
mately our size, is likewise a
the Top·20
component of a large
multi-center universiry
•
~7
system and joined the
ITABl£ 41
public university enter1H• ..C......_ 01' IIIAARCII
prise at about the same
DOCIOIIAII ...,..,...
lime that we did. Table
5 summarizes and com_....,-~·Ptogral'fu
"lop 25"
"lop 5""
" lop 25"
" lop 50"
pares lhe latest NRC
40
37
Buffolo
35
6
3
ran kings of the aca61
UNC
28
61
82
86
demic doctoral programs in SUNY and
UC.Oovis
91
23
87
30
35
CUNY wilh !.hose of the
95
UC-Irvine
27
86
32
22
University of California
73
U.Calo&lt;.
30
67
20
20
system. AI !.hough defi14
U lowe
29
21
76
72
ciencies in these
u Q,eg
17
39
18
44
22
reputational assays are
U VirQ
92
88
36
25
36
well known, the comparison can provide nei64
U. Pin.
11
II
36
56
ther us nor CUNY with
much comfort.
These comparisons between SUNY and the
)TABlE 51
nDIIIAL . . . . . . . . . . . .
Universiry o f California system are ex trem e in naAIIO'IIItlll ClOIINaiiOII
ture and they reflect in significant part the ver y
d iffe rent organizational and finan cial realities
FY 1995 (in Millions)
lnstit.mon
that exist and have existed in th e rwo states. The
271
UC/ Son Diego
University of California system is significan tl y
UC/los Angeles
262
older and more mature; it grew when the oppor·
239
UC/ Son Francisco
tunities for foundation-growth we re greater: it ex183
ists in a three-leve l differenti ated system, it exists
UC/ Berkelev
in a state where private high er education is not
116
UC/ Dovis
d ominant; and it has e njoyed lo ng. and generally
UC/ Irvine
86
co nsistent, legislative support. Additionally. th e
UC/ Sonlo Bo,boro
65
California economy (and climate ) has for manv
University at Buffalo
84
years been more buoyant than

:

..............................

that of New York: suppo rt for th t·
Universiry of Califo rnia has rt··
fl eeted these economir fac ts.
These are very real and substan ti al differences. They tran slate to
tht• ou tcomes illustrated here . A r·
cordingly, compansoru with othLT rnslilutioru ma)' be mOTt appropnate.

Table 4 provides such a co m pan·
son between Buffalo a nd other
selecte d public AAU institutions.
These and other ran kings have
been subject to much pertinen1

....

I TABLE 61
MIMUU NIWLY IUCftD TO TNI
11A!1011AL ACADUIY Of ICIIIICII
U Col
Calif. Private
Colif. Tolol

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

Toto I

10
4
14

8

9

10

5

II

13

20

10
6
16

15

47
31
78

0
0
0

I

I

2
3

2
3

2
4
6

12
17

SUNY/ CUNY

I

N .Y. Private

4

N.Y. Totol

5

5

5

�4
unfavorably wnh the Umversity of California sys--

a·m (Table 4) . Fin ally, Table 5 summarizes the
eleCLJon of new members to tht" NationaJ Acad·

t·rn) of ~1e n ces over a five-year period . This compan~un between SUNY/ CUNYand the University
uf C.allforma sys tem

l!t

111deed stark, although even

111 tlw, a..oisa\ the MMatthew Effect" likely ope rates.
ll owrveJ , d secondary message of Table 5 1s that
Nt·w York SLatt· dun 1101 co mpare well with Cahft,rni,IIJI nthrrthe pnvatt' or public sectors. At th1s
lt·\1· 1~~1 &lt; ompanson -.nt'nlllic lt:adersl11p ma\' " 't"li
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l't~t· tndrlt' ~ of ~~u cess 111 .Khtc:·,·ing 1111~ arc likt·h
to hc· \I' I' cilffc.·T('Il l Irom tiH•sc.~ that nrrrenth de··
lim· tlw state· of tht• t' llt t'rpnst· . The ddini1ion nl
lht'!-!t' m·v. 111drfe!, w11l bt· ,111 lllt{'gral pan of llw
pt oc. c.·~~ ol t t.tn sftlrma tum .
Out dungt·~ 1111Ut mclude tht" rcdcflllll run ol
tlw (':\.1\ttng !-!&lt;. houl ,mel dt'parunenlal houndant·s .
Th 1·..,c· bou n dane' rt"Ot'ct a \ ' t '!'\ tr.uiition..tl organr·
l.t ll un-mu luplc.· st·h oo ls a nd dt"panmrnLS o rg.tntll'd along class rc dlsetp lrn d l ' lint&gt;s. And It • ~ . 1
morlt'l ~ hart'CI by m any of our fJt'i'r ln.!&gt;Utution~
\\'hosc.· qualities and repuuuions Wt' wts h to c:mu·
I,Ht' . Howe"er. 11 1~ .al so a large!) hist onntl modd
h'llh boundanes that s.1.1lsfted rnstitutional rt'·
quJrt·menLS wht·n rcso urn·s we re expand •ng.
when disciplint:s ....•t·re m ort· r igidly definc·d and
wht'n t"ducation was still dc.·linab le b\ tonn·n·
ti o na! papt·r-bascd 1cchnologies, a ~sum dard M .!&gt; ttl
d(· nt body, and was ac h ieve d on a largc.·h· "o nt r ·
pe;:-r· lifetime" basi s. Now tlwse same bounda ri e!,
sent:' too frequent!) as our rultural me: m o nt"-" uf

things past and as o bstacles to change Our modt"l
of small deparunenu and small programs does
not permit economies of sca le, and t.hts IS e-xace-rbated by a multiplicity of overlapping and paruall\
duplicative programs. These c haracteristi cs hmdet
the efficient use of resources, raise obstacles tO
their reallocation and prevent the establishment
of nationally visible reputations for our program~
Fin a ll y, our multiple divisions have fragmented
commiunent for academic program s and th1 s has
led to an overall lack of responsibili ty, particularh
at the undergraduate level. \\'e nced a change and
a rearrangement, bOlh physically and cu hura ll}. to
e nsure that undergraduate education is the best
possible . is delivered seam lessly and efncient.h .
and is seen publicly as worth pursumg. At the
gradualt' leve l our efforu must focus in creasing!\
on quality and we sh ou ld becomt:· ven well known
for a smaller number of select programs that are
wt"ll supported. responsive to chang~s in disoplrnan modes, represent newl y e mergmg discipl ines
ur socrc:ta l necds. and an.· those th at we are prt:pare;:-d to Mbe t the bank .. on .
We have. for example , at UB probabh dbout ..t
duLen departmen ts m tht• Mbio logica l se~enn: s~
brodd ly defined and t'Xisting in four schools a nd
at Roswe ll Park. Edch is a large I~ st~pardtc dornam
.!IU~JeCI to tl\ own htring modt:!i, iLS Oh'll 1eachm~
objt"etives. il.S own graduate program and tl'i o wn
fanrlt\ t. ulturc . 0 \•era ll . tht:re 1~ an mad{·q uate coopt'rauon. parucul.trl~ in fac uln hinng and teac h mg at Lhe undergrarluate and gradu.llt' lt"\'t'ls. and
tht:· graduate programs ex 1st largd~ 111 1solauon .
T ht!,, cit'sp ite tht· fact that 1hc.· dtffen·nce . . betwt"en
the sepa ra te di.!&gt;ctplrnt'~ rt:prcsl·ntt·d b' the depan IILt'llLS art' frequt:Jilh small and . 111 fact. SO IIH' depdrtlll en~ significanth duplruue othc.·r!, tn a
'\·anauu n~n ~;.Hht·me M fortnat. Th1s operates tu
the;- de1nnwnt ul both the unrlergraduate and
graduatt' progr.llll" cwd prt'\'t'nts the instrtullun
I rom 11\akmg :,t: ll !ilblt' J't'allocalluns of rt"~ourc e~
Tht· b1olugicdlh tH il'ntt·d disciplines an· Ill 11 0 w.~,
c·nq.&gt;tiOIIdl. F.lsev.·ht·n· . ~1gmli c ant cht'mlcal
~tn·ngth cx tsb o ut.o;;tdt· llw Dq.&gt;artmt'lll of Cht·mt'·
tn-: comp uting ,md rn .ttht.·m.JI!cal slrt.· ng ths uut Sid{· tht· dt:parllllt-'lllS of Computer Sot·nc e a nd
~-l .tthrmaun: t'CnnonHn 1!1 .-t disriplm(' ...,,dt'h sc.tt ·
lt·red oUL&lt;ildt· of tht' Ot' JM!'tnwnt uf Econom1o.
sta iiSI ICS 1~ t-'\'t:nrwlwrr and. I \'t·nturt· It&gt;''"· that
schol.u.. h rp rn Engli.!&gt;h i~ not limitt·d to tht· Oe p&lt;lfllllt·nt of Engh~l1 Wt· m·cd to he able- 10 makt·
purou~ our..,, huol .wd dt:'JMrlll\{'llt.tl buunrlaneo;;
to fat Lilla It' •• f.tr K' t:' lHl'l fit-gn·t·
~h..rt:d rnMrttl ·
tHlll .t nd n·sca l lh . We no longl'f )1d\'t' the· lu xun
of dupltcaung Ill on&lt;·.,&lt; huol '" dep.tnmt·nt thost·
d1"&lt; 1plrnan stn·ngth!, 1h.u .tln· ,trl' CXI'il t·lst'\1 ht'l t"
Tht· Pn)\ost'o; prupost'd tTufJ.{dllt7allon to hnng
tu~t'tht·l the d 1 ~&lt; 1pltnc·, th.u .t it' TlO\\ 111 thrn·
.. ep.u--.ttt' sc houls .mrl Iat ulttc·., w1ll pi'fl llll tilt' lwt lt'l .-tnd 11101 t' t1111tA
h dt·il' t'l' ol undt·l gt.lCiu.ttt·
t"dtH ..auun Jed b\ fa( ull\ '"''' tLnron . lht· o 1gan l/d·
tion of graduate;- p1ogra111' th.u bt·tlt' l lit cha 11K111g
disc iphnan bor1ndanr' .tnrl tntr 't:'&lt;tt c h for quail!\ ,
dlld Will gc~ n('ratt· lht· ln·t·dum tu t.'SI.tblish nev.
pro.,; rams a nd tH'W fh rc c uon s I do not bc::ht·ve
that tht:IT is anv sc nsihk aiH•ItMtiH' to s JgrHfic ~tnl
changt'!, 111 o ur structurr and ( ultun· rlwrt' will
sun ph not bt' enough mane\ from a m llllOlt'dJalr
~ource 10 raise the lcvt'l of ,til of our t'X I!-!Illlg stnH ·
turt·s to the q 11alin· th &lt;:ll wt· c·spousc . Ah~t·nt IIHs
we \\'ill Slmp h conun ut· to rle1. lim· furtht•t
h'h rO'tiCt"nl with thl' r hmlf(P!I propmrd"' tht'
Provmt '.\ donntJnll H 'wt thatthn art' tou dmmaiH m
tou ratllml. bu t tlwt thn· ma, fWI br md11(ll nwugh I
bdwve that we sh ou ld nms rdet also m o rt' S t~mli ­
cant slructural ( hangr!-1 111 tht· lu tur('-111 I.H·t . .tn
t·vo luliunar\ t.ran &lt;.;ft&gt;r matuHl

or

''Transforrnation of any wrtwhether human ar dwmiml or corporate-is a perilou~ passagP at
best, calling far a mdiml!Rtting go,
and an &amp;jlenness to thf
unknoum .. .. . lt comes down sirnpl)'
to this: we can 't advance as long as
Wf 'rp holding tight to what no
longer wo'rks. And wf have to break

the mold before a new form can
emerge"
MAAJOIUI ULLY
Tommg the Demons of Change

We may w1sh to cons1der, 111 addiuon lo the
changes advan c ed in the Provost 's plannmg docu ment, a mort' l.tdical reorganrzation an whtch IS
crealed a Faculty of Engtnet'nng . Namral and lnforma tion Sci(·nces from the cur rent Facult) of
Natural Sc1enn:s and Mathemaun. the School of
Engmec:nng and Applred Sctences and the School
of lnformauon and Libran Snenn·s. Th1s ma;or
sc h oo l wou ld be para lleled b' a m•w Faculrv of ArlS
and Humaniues co mposed of the appropn:&lt;ll t' dt'·
panments in the currt"nt Faculue;:-~ of Art"i and l Kt ·
tt"rs and Sonal Snences. A School of B1ologKal
dnd Life;:- SCiences co uld houSt.' all lor the maJOr·
trv ) of th e bJOiogtcalh based d1snphnes housed
w1thin the curre-nt Faculues of /'\at ural Scrf'nces
and Mathemaucs. tht· professional He-alth St.. rene t"
Schools and from Son a I ScteiH' t:'~ To he: sure.
"uch changt:s Will t:x- v.'Tt' nf.-hlllg to our fundamt::"n ·
u l orgamzauon. hut the\ ma\ also offt·r grt'dl
portunilie!,. In parti c ular. thr proposal bnng"i ltr
gt• ther related .md s1mi lar d1st_ rplrne s thctt curt·emh eXISt within several ~choo]!, . Thts will ~Ieath
fanhtalt' the deh\t::'J'\ of both und{·rgrddllillt' and
~radu.ttt' education 111 tho:-.e di!,Crphn e.., , rurrc.-mh
lundc:re;:-d b\ our t'XIstlllg boundann at ro~~
!'&gt;Chools. It ma\ .tiM.&gt; perm !I u~ to focu~ uur t-nt:r·
g lt:S [and resource~! 111 ('nlt'rgem dOd. enH-r~1ng
..trf'as-mformatJOII sc1enn·!,, il grecith strcngth·
t•twd se t of programs centered arou nd broloiD
.md the lrfe ~denct'S, tncluding the pharnMccuucal M. lt:llCt.·s and the neurosc reJH_t'S, matenals and
.tpphed matenal~ SC tt·nc-es and .t strengtht:mng o f
tho~ f' .-lrb dlld hum.n11Un dr.!&gt;npluu: s cur rrntl\'
sprt'J.d acrus~ I\,'O fan1lt.ic~ .
A.. largc .c. thcst· t·hangt·.'J mrght bt' I beh{·ve
tha t wt· ner::d to lw thrnkrng also abo ut t'\Cil largt"t
.tnd mort" l&lt;t l·rt·athlng struttur.d a nd funcuonal
1 h.tngt · ~ - Tht" 1nple wuchm.g huu1 of changt"llt'V. tt•chnolugu'~ .!l , t. hangmg dc·mographro \\'tth
llt'\\ .md tJI Cft'asm~ educational dt:mancb . and tht·
unpetU'i for COIII IIIU OLIS lt·arnrng-that ha~ now
..oundc·d fm hi ghr t education means th ;,u we net'd
tu tlrrnk about J UIIIVt·rsJI\ that 1 ~ 111 constant opt·r;.uton to lll.lXIIlH/t' tht· U!,t' of our expen.!&gt;l\'t'
lixt·d d.'IM' I .S, tlldt opt"ra les stgntli canth as a virtual
lll .... tllllliun .111d th.tt is inrreasinglv st•en as tht' edu·
c tt1onal. rt·.,t"ar(h .:1nd trauung t:' ll){lll e fo1 at lt:a~t
tht.· 1t'g1onal t"tunolm . The . . e willlw ch.tngt·s fat
bt·\o nd tho~c: th,u wt· dl't:' curn·nth contt·mplating
.mel wt· net·d to bc· ron~ tdenn g them nov.
J'hl'~t' and othn pombf, ~tnl rtuml rhtmgr~ nud to 1H'
tlnfliiT't' mul ~tart wah thr alrrad\ propowl jormniiOfl
of tw :\tl\ and Snt't/11' C.oJ/rg,. wJurh thr11 1"11()/tJI'l Hllu
uthn ,,,·urtun'' / l1 pltw for thr P"'f~'rl Hr-urlllfl' wllh
1ouwwwu!l acmnlo on ummb:ab!R ub)l'f/lt lt' 111 tm
madt"mu t'rll llfOTIIIWfll llo\,e\t:'l . lltl\ suuciur ..tl
'hangc· w1 ll be ~utft.'S!,Ittlut~h 1f wt' und('r .. t.tnd
tha i 11 11.:1:-. .ts 11.\ haM· tht· re.u r;:w genH'I'I ul f..tt ult\
pnuntie:,, lnJ&gt;tlll~rbillttt:~ and rewards : fm111 .mel
fuiiCiron .ut· mUiualh unerani\'C The fa&lt; ult\tt•~ wJII haH' t11 subscribe to th{'St' changt:"s. Th1s
wdl not be eas,-but the altcrnaun· 1!, \ 'I' I' c lt-ar.
If we do not bt"&lt; CJ!ll{' mort' auountablt" , prodw 1.1\t' . c.·flictt'llt and responSI\'{' to our collectiH· re·
~ponsiblli uc: s around edtKdliUII J.nd o u r swdent.s.
.tnd ifwt· d o nul :-.urret·d 111 dt'finrng \\'IMI difft·lt.'lll!ates us h·o m othc:r insllttllrons. th t"l'l' will bt·
fewer of us and ft·wet program!! But. tf V.t.' Tl.:,t' to
tht· l halle ngt· .dw.trl of us Wt' will h.tH· t1 bt•llt•J
LLIII\'t'l'"'iiY and wt· \\'Ill make .1 largrr t on tnh ul!OII

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\laudmg. humafl rr!lourrt'l fltid talnil tll { '8 m1tl. tj wt'

nnplfl) 11. ron.n dt•mbf, potrntwllo bm1g about thl'
f hmJgrJ 1/t'Ct'Uflr)' to rt'd~fnu aur tducalw,wljJutpo!lt'l
1wd t~a lurl, wh1l.st prt'srrvrng tht' bt-sl uj what u..,. hatli'
bw/1 Otii'T lht ptul J 50 warl . Thu u thl' purpu.\t' of thr
~mr.l of plar111mg dwlog:, m wh1ch wt m·, ntn-nlt/_'t pu,
unpcJtwg. If Wf arr bol.t.l fltld ~nu tlu mom.nH WI' rm1

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there must be some way out of hr&gt;rf
said the joker to the thief
tl~ne's too much confusion
I can 't get no reliPJ

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&lt;p&gt;The feeling was that the University lacks a sense of community—that communication is too helter-skelter—that too many groups feel alienated, apart. Somehow, it was felt, if these groups—faculty, student and staff—could come together on the commons and share their concerns and ideas, their activities, their aspirations and whatever else they have to offer, community and communications would result…But it will not produce instant community. Each of us will have to work toward that goal.&lt;/p&gt;
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Read the Reporter on the Web
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Advanced Honors
Program set
to start this fall
.,-~ -

News Services Associate Director

UB . , . _ to Mtllllllall this WI an Ad·
vanced Honon Program to serve upper-&lt;li·
vision students and allow students cunenUy
in the t!llditional honors program lo continue
"the boOOR experience" as juniOJS and se-

niors.

FSEC discusses proposed policy to help
faculty, staff avoid conflicts of interest
By SUE WUETCHER
News Serv•ce~ Assoc1a1e D•rector

PROPOSED PO LI CY 10

A

he lp fa c ulty and sta ff av o id
con nicts of inr erest and conni c rs of co rnmilment was

di sc u s~cd b) th e Facully
Se nate Ex ec uti ve Commiltee at its Apnl
16 mee tin g

Ph i lt p Yeag le . professor o f biO·
c heml\ lf) a nd c har r o f th t: Facu lt y
Senate Cnmrm ll ee on Resea rc h and
\rc&lt;III VC Ac ti vit ). wh1c h drafted th e
po h q . .;au.! it ~ pu rpose I S to gu1dc a nd
help all me mbrr"' o f the co mmunit y.

•nc lm.h n g faculty . sraff and adm •n• o;; tr a tor'i

li t 'a u..l n ne rca'\on a poiiL') ., needed
'' because fa c ult y me mbers arc be ing
e ncouraged by the in stilullon 10 become
c nln.· pre nt:'ur~. whi le ar ria: 'a me rim t&gt;
the unt vc r '\ 11 ) "ex.pec t ~ . d cm:tnd!l a cc r
la i n leve l o f responsibili t) from 11 s
members.
"So there is a connie! the re. Wh ic h
ca n put facult y in some cases. in some
sc hool s. in positions in which they feel
uncomfon able." Yeag le sa id .

TI1e goal of the com mittee in draft·
in g the po licy. he said. was to crea te
guidelines to he lp facul ty "deal with that
stress and let faculty know when they
are on grounds that are more so lid or l es~
so lid with respect to these potential con·
nicts, and thereby give them some guid ance on how to proceed."
The policy addresses such to pi n as
identi fi ca ti on and di sclosure o f conni cts.
connicts between personal and uni ver sit y respon sibilities. co nflicts between
seco nd ary e mpl oy ment and un1 vcrs11y
reo;;ponsibihties. and faculty consultin g
and husme ss intere sts.
II alo;;o proposes the crea ti on of an ad\ 1sory com mittee to reso lve an) sub~ t •m ·
li ve conni ct.,. th at ca nno t be resohed hetwee n the empl oyee and hi s or her "unit
head." or supervi sor.
The e mpha sio;;, Yeagle said. 1s on d1~ ·
clos ure
The po licy d oes no t impl y th at some
ac ti vities can' t continue. o nl y th at they
mu st be di sc losed. he said . The proposed po li cy inc lud es what he ca lled
"red nags'' that indica te to facult y the
types of activi ties th at sho uld be di s-

c losed.
" It doesn' t mean il's bad. 11 doeo;;n ' t
mea n i!'s contrary to your interests or
the instituti on 's interes ts: it's a guide to
lhe facully 1ha1 says. ' look. you'd bel·
ter get it ou t there .' And th en if it 's fine .
it'll be sanctioned and you can go (orward comfonabl y." he sa1d.
everal FSEC nu~mbc rs obJeC ted to
language in the proposed policy refe rrin g to ac ti vity '' th at harm s the
universit y's repu tati on"
Facull y Senale Chair C laude Welch.
SUNY Dist ingui shed Serv1ce Professor
111 the Depanmcnt of Poluical Science.
wondered if a supe n 1o;;or "ould be the
one to ultim ately dec1dc "" hat l'i good
or what is not good. in lhis case. for the
uni versi ty's reputation ."
Dennis Mal o ne. SUNY D1 s1 1n
gui shed Serv1ce Profeso;or in the Depan rnent or Electrica l and Computer Engi ·
neering. concurred. " In " hose op11110n
docs thi s harm the univers uy's rcputa·
ti on?" he asked.
Powllatan Wooldridge. assocmtt pro-

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UB student helps to preserve Cambodian
traditions as co-sponsor of dance program
By PATRICIA DONOVAN

Cambodia tu th e United Nati ons. an d
Jo hn McA ulifr. exec uti ve direc tor of
the United States-Indochina reco nc ili ati on project. both of whom spo ke to
th e aud ience about Ca mbod ia 's rece nt
hi story

News Serv1ces EdHor

H

ER NAME IS Bo iUmroa lh
Keo Lebun . or just "Lebun."
She is a 22 -yea r-o ld Cambod ian- Ameri ca n who wi ll
receive a bache lor o r ans de gree wi th a major in po liti cal sc ience
from UB nex t month and she has a f1re
111 her he;.lr1 .
C laude Welch. SUNY DiSiingui shcd
Service Proressor in the DepoU1mcnt of
Poli ti ca l SCience who has served as
Lebon 's mentor. desc ribes he r as a
young woman withjote de \'il•re. "who
grows with every sing le experie nce that
ro n1c s hc1 way."
Lebon 's lire is inrormcd by a deep
lm e of the ancien t and exquisite Ca m·
hodmn home land ~ h e hasn' r seen s in ce
~ h e was 5 years o ld. The depth of her
(eclin gs toward her cult ural heritage \\aS
ht•hind her drive to conceive and de ve lop a spec ial program held at UB on
April I 7 10 ce lebra te o ne o f the l ovt~ Ji ­
~"' ' and mus t unCICill or Ca rnhlx.ll a's perfo rmance :U1 s.
"The Liv 1ng An~to;wr. " a pcrfm ·
man c c hy the Ca mbod 1an AmenL·an
l kntage Da ncen.. "a s p rese nted
through Lebun 'o; effon s to an eruhu"''
no; tH.' audu: nL't:' of 500 111 the Cen ter for
the Art~ She ra iseJ more than $10.{X)(J
to hrin g her dream to fruition o n the: e' e
o f he r grad uation. fi ghtin g. she sa id. "to

t the performance. Lebun wa11. presented with an awa rd from the
uni , 1ersi ty's Di ve rs it y Commi uee in
recognition of her contributi ons to to lerance and dive rs it y on campu s and ror
th e creativi ty and leadership she dem onstrated in spearheading the end eavor
The dance troupe is one of several
in the U.S compoo;;cd of Cambodian
refuge e artist s who ha ve dedicated
themse lves to the preservation and per·
pctuation of classical Cambodian dance.
despite ove rwhel min g odds. They are ,
like Lebun. th e rare and fonunate sur\'lvors of one of contemporary hi story 's
mos t ap palling reign s o f terror. th e
genoc ide o r near!) o ne -third of the
Ca mbodian popu lati on be tween I 975
and 1979 under Pol Po!'s psyc hopa lhi c
Khmer Rouge regimr
To place Cambodia's cultural loss in
pt:~pec tive. it is estimated that on ly 300
o f some 380,0&lt;Xl Cambodian intellectuah. and anists o r all kinds su rvi ved
the death marche s and conce ntrati on
L·amp.;; dunng that terrible time. part of
" tu ch wa s depi ctc.-d in the film . "The

A

Botumroath Keo lebun Is shown at dante
program with the Hon. Slsowath Sl rlrat h .
Cambodian ambassador to the United N•

tlon1.
ret a1n Ill) O\\ n ~ tron g. clear V l ~ l on of
what th1 s program should be "
'llu:· performance. wh ich marned ria'&gt; ·
sica I Camhodian dance fo nn ~ ,., llh a med le) o r Amen can danL'C e l eme nt ~. \\ a'&gt; l'O·
spo n..,ored hy the Facult y of Arts and Let te-ro;; It 1!1 what Lebun called "he r Jega t·~
and g1l!' ' to the un1vers11) that ha.s edu
t'iltc:d her and prov ided her "ith the cduL'atwnaltoo l., fur a lifel ong caree r
The aud1 cncc included the Ho norahit'
Si.~oowath Sinrath. Amb;.~ssado r Ex traor dinary and Ple nipo tentiary and perm ;lnent reprc o;;e fll ali\C o f th e Kingdo m o r

Con tinued on page 2

University Honors Program administtalolll say the expanded program will help UB
recruit quality students. as well as retain them
once they come to the university.
The program will be opeo to all students
who have completed 60 boors of university
credits with a grade-point avenge of at leasl
3.25. Students who are not enrolled in the
Universily Honors Program. as well as those
cwrenlly in the program. are eligible.
Josephine Capuana. administrative di rector of the honors program. said pl ans are 10
ru:cepl all studenls who apply and are quali fied .
Capuana and Kip Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Depanment of Biological Sciences and academic
director of the boners program. announced
plans to eSiablish the Advanced Honors Program al lhe April 16 meeting of 1he Facull y
Senate Execu tjve Committee.
Capuano also announced thai 50 sloiS for
freshmen will be added this fall 10 the 1radi ·
tional honors program. bringing the total
number of fn:shmen in 1he program 10 150
Herreid said that the traditional honors
program has been ••fronl-loaded."" focusing
mainly on students' first two years of study
Jt "has not addressed the interests and concerns of juniors and seniors," he said Al though students remain in the program as
juniors and seniors, .. we've largely abandoned them. in a sense. 10 the depanmen!S.""
he added.
Most universities have advanced honors
programs to provide juniors and seniors opponunities to do advanced work in their disciplines. he said.
Capuana called the advanced program a
"second stage to the honors program: · Stu dents moving from the traditional honors
program ro the advanced program will move
from a program tha t is broad-based to one
that is more focused, she srud, noting tbnt
students will determi ne that focus .
To complele the program. Sluden!S mu SI
maintain GPA of alleast 3.25. comple1e a
se ni or thesis or project. complete three hon·
ors courses al lhe 300 level and fu lfill a
"'breadth requirement·· which. enlails partici-

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Bombarded from space: Earth
a target for asteroids, meteors
IIJ CIMISTIHIIVJDAL
Repo&lt;ter Editor

T

HEY CAN BE BIG, they can be
bad, they can be ugly and they're
all around us.
They· re asleroids, and acconfing
to Charles H.V. Eben. SUNY Distinguished
Teaching Professor in 1hc Department of Gc·
ography. the possibility that the Earth will
be hit by one "exists 24 hours a day."

Eben discussed asteroids, meteors and
other celestial bodies in a lecture titled "'As-

teroids: A Menace from Space," presented
April 17 as pan ofthe UB at Sunrise series
of breakfast lectures .
.. We all have the illusion of empty

In fact, Earth had a near miss 25 years
ago when an as1eroid named Hermes, estimaled at 38 feel in diameler and 1.000 tons.
came within 37 miles of the planet on Aug.
10, 1972. Fortunately, its lrlljcctory was too
nat and the asteroid bouoccd off the carlh 's
atmosphere like a stone skipping across
water.

Bul when asteroids strike the earth,
" they hit like an artillery sbell," Ebert said,
colliding with the planet at a velocity of
16-20 km/second . The result is a crater,

formed by e,normous compression-as
much as 750,000 to 15 million pounds per
square inch-and enormous heat that vaporizes the asteroid.

space .... We have to understand the space

around us is full of natural material and
space junk," he said.

And that natural material and space junk
isn't just whizzing past us. Earth is bombarded by 500,000 visible meteors- and

three to four 10-pound meteors--every
day. A five-ton meteor hits the Earth's atmosphere each month, a 50-ton meteor hits

every 30 years, a 250-ton meteor every 150
years. and a 50,000-ton one every I 00,000
years.

"The good news is. thanks to our atmosphere. when they fall to earth they bum
up." Eben said. 'These things are there and
lhey ' re going to hit."

T

here are about 70 known craters on

carlh. Perhaps the best known is the
Berringer crater in Arizona. A lesser-known

crater was formed in Russia in 1908, and
according to witnesses, the sound of the
asteroid hitting the earth was audible for
more than 600 miles. Indeed, if the asler·
oid had fallen five hours carli~r. the city of
St. Petersburg would have been incinerated, Eben said.
So what would happen if an asteroid
struck a lillie closer to home?
"If a full-nedged asteroid hit Buffalo,
the destruction would extend 1.000 miles
and nothing would be left standing.

"We all have the illusion of empty space.... We have to understand
the space around us is full of natural material and space junk. "
etWilD DU1, - - -

" And I'm sure classes at UB would be
canceled," Ebert quipped.
Hale-Bopp has gencraled a lot of inler·
est in comets, which. Ebert noled, arc very
different from asteroids. While asleroids are
composed primarily of stone-like and/or
metallic malerial. comets are more like a
dirty snowball. composed of ice and gases,
such as methane and carbon dioxide.

This nucleus is solid. but begins to va-

College ~dents are drowning in debt, UB
By ARTHUR PAGE

I

T WAS A UB STUDENT who deliv -

ered the message that "students nationwide are struggling with increasing studen! debt burdens" when the U.S . Sen-

ate Finance Co!llmittee opened hearings on
April 16 on a proposallo allow inlerest paid

on student loans to be an "above-the-line
deduction" for college and university studenls and their families .
Jennifer Long. a fourth-year denta l stu de nt from Binghamton. said the prospecl
of high indebtedness for 10-25 years after

l(jiJing Fields." Among the dead wen: 80-

gradualion is negatively impacling on
whethbr some individuals are going to col·
lege and the post-graduation career choices
of those who are in college.
Her testimony-in which she asked Congress to "intervene to assist students and their
fami lies"-was endorsed by 44 national stu-

dent and professional organizations. She

denlS. She said Sen. William Roth, R-Del ..

chair of the committee, was particularly interested in finding out what impact the
on a student's decision to anend graduate

''My circumstances ," Long told the
committee, "are strikingly similar to students all across the United States who also
have worked hard to earn an education and
face debts that are equivalent to a home

school.

"Like many others, I have this
student-loan debt burden to
deal with before even thinking
about the next generation. I ask
myself. how can I save for my

s

inlerest-deduction provision in any

JENNIFER LONG, fMnt.a at.dent

islation bei ng considered this year. An above-

the-line deduction is one taken before taxes
when filing an income-tax return.
A graduale of Binghamlon Un iversity.
Long said she will be paying $1. 100 per

month on her student loans when she
graduates from the UB School of Denial

Medicine next month. In her first year of
repay me nt, she added. she wi ll pay approx imately $7,500 in interest on her loans.

"Despite my effons to save money and
work hard. I am facing a moumain of debt ,"
she to ld the commiuee. " Upon graduation

from my endeavor to become a dentist, I
will owe $90,000."

Long said she estimates that monthly
payment of her student loans will "eat up

Evidence on that issue is anecdotal at this
point. Long noled in her leStimony, but she
reported on a study conducted by 1hc Educational Testing Service at 1he high-school level.
the results of which showed that high-school

seniors concerned about borrowing for col-

asked thai Congress consider a studem-loan

leg-

prospect of accumulating a huge ~ebt has

bills and a year of uti li ly bills.

children education ... ?"

tax

90 percent of Cambodia's world-renowned
classical dancers.
Among the millions who died was

$1 ,500 and $2.000 in taxes in the firs! year

mortgage when they graduate.

lege were more likely to delay college, choose
lower-priced schools or not go at all.
Long said she came away from the
meeting feeling that.the commiuee looks
favorably on the taJ&lt;- break proposal.

S

he lold the commillee she will be the

first person in her family to receive a
professional degree ."l grew up in a
single-parent home with a deaf parent on

disability. Because I am from a family of
limited means. I faced the cost of college

alone.
"Like many others. I have this student loan debl burden to deal with before even

thinking abou1 the next generation. I ask
myself, how can I save for my children's
educalion when I marry-in Jun&lt;&gt;-and starl
a family when I already face a mountain of
debt from my own educational endeavors?"

She noted that "a student-loan interest
deduction would be especially important
for heavily indebled Sludents like myself

in the early years afler graduation when
earnings are low and interest makes up a
greater portion of loan repayment."
Long was selected to testify before the

"I shopped around for the best education I could afford and consequently chose

to attend lower-cost. state-supported institutions .... " Noting that her cost for attending UB's denial sc hool will amount to
$88.742. she added: "Despite my efforts
save money and work hard, I am facing

10

a mountain of debt."
Long said that a studenl-loan in terest
deduction "would be a critical slep 1hc government could take to assist individuals
with high student-loan debt. This would
especially help low - and m iddle-income

families who have to borrow to finance
higher education. Low-income and minority students ore two groups which would

40 percent of my take -home pay. If the stu-

committee not only because of her debt,
but because she chairs the American Asso-

especially benefit from the student-loan

dent-loan interest deduction is passed this

ciation of Dental Schools' Council of Slu-

interest deduction."

The Reporter Is a campus community newspaper publlshed by the Division of
University Services. State UrWeralty ol New vonr. at Buffalo. Edllorial offices are
k&gt;cated at 136 Crofts Han, Amherst. (716) &amp;45·2626 • repen~wa.lHI"• I o .edu

'"'llle universe puts on a fine show, and
as long as we put ourselves at the center of
the universe. we should enjoy the show,"
Ebert said.

Continued from page 1

Congress, I would expect to save between
of loan repayment. This savings could
equal over six-month's worth of grocery

ization. Ebert shared a point of interesl
about 1hc tails of comets: lhc)&lt; point directly
to the place where the sun has set.

CAMBODIAN

student tells U.S. Senate finance committee
News Services Director

porizc as the comet is struck by solar light
and solar wind , fonning 1hc tail that renccts
the light from the sun and the glow of ion -

n

Lebun's falhcr. Her mother escaped to Thai land with Lebun and ber older brolhcr. They
were interred in 1hc Pbanat Nildlom refugee
camp for 3 112 years until being released for
emigration to 1hc United States.
After being ntiscd in 1hc United Slales.
Lebun enrolled at UB. In 1994, she traveled
to Thailand uoder tbe World Learning Sum·
mer Abroad Program. "to give back to the
Thai people what they had once given to me...
she said. "and to fiod my identity.. .lost during my childhood years in the camp." Unexpectedly, she was assigned to 1each English
to refu~tccs living in 1he !'banal Nikhom refugee camp, for which she still expresses enormous gratitude.
Last summer. she served an inlemshi p
with Ben l(jeman. director of the Cambodian Genocide Program al Yale University.

one of America's foremost authorities on
modem Cambodia. At Yale, she read and
translaled transcriplS of inlcrviews with stir·
vivors of 1hc genocide and catalogued lhe
cases of execution at 1he Khmer Rouge ex~er­
mination cenler at Tho! Slcng in Phnom Penh.
"I emerged from this experience deeply
shaken." she said, "and convinced thai pro-

motion of cross-culturaJ understanding and
universal human rights is the answer to
atrocities such as this one." After that ex·
perience, and inspired by 1hc artistic contribution of Maya Ying Lin. the Vietnamese-

American designer of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, Lebun decided to honor the
Cambodian dead and 1hc country's living
culture by introducing 1he CarnbodianAnleri·
can Heritage Dancers to 1hc UB community.
After graduation. she plans 10 retwn to her
homeland 10 worlc for a year as an administrntor
in 1he Cambodian govemmenl and then to at·
lend law school in 1he U.S .. pcrl1aps at UB.
in preporation for a career in inlemalional di plomacy.

Oiredof o1 News Servioel: Art:hw p._. • Associate Director o1 News Services: au. Wu.tchN
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Ryan named SUNYchancellor; notes
plans to increase enrollment, fund-raising
ar AR111UR PAGE

News Services Director

J

OHN W. RYAN was appoin!ed the
12th chief executive of the State
University of New York on Monday
when the SUNY Board of Trustees
voted to name him chancellor.
Ryan, who had served since July I as
interim chancellor, was president of lndi·
ana University from 1971 -87 and is a past
chair of the Association of American Uni versities .
While Ryan declared he was not a candidate for the permanent position when he
was give n the interim assignment. earlier
thi s month he indicated he was now avail-

ab le for the job and the search committee
o n April 14 voted
unanimously to reco mmend him as c hancellor.
llte SUNY Trustees
approved his appointment by a vote of 10-1 .
The dissenting vote
was cast by Roderi ck
Ch u . who sa id he
AYAH
voted in th e negative
not because of th e outcome of the search,
but because of a "fl awed" process. Chu told
repon ers that he had been a candida te for
the position.
Ryan sa1d in a press re lease issued by
the SUNY Office of Universit y Relation s
th a t he looks forward ''to leading the State
Unive rsit y through and beyond its 50th
an ni versary year.
"Even before the university 's creati on
in 1948," he added, "our ca mpu ses have
bee n makin g imponant contributi ons to the
qual ity o r life and to the economic vitality
of the state. My pl a n is to build upon these
great resources so th at we may further enhan ce the outstanding ed uca tional experience rhat our srudent s now receive ."
Ryan said he wanrs to "co ntinue to re-

cruil the best and brigh!est faculty, students
and top campus leaders in order to create a
unique educational experience at the State
University. As pan of a key goal to increase
our enrollment, will be an effort to attract
more in-state and out~f-state students, thus
furthering the university 's richness and diversity."
He added, " We will be increas ing our
fund -raising, and seek:ing to improve upon
the support we receive from alumni and
the State University campus communities
in order to keep our campuses strong components of these comm un ities.
"Our,energies also need to~ aimed at
completing the Rt thinlcing SUNY goals. We
will continue to sharpen our focus in serving the Stale of New York by allowing each
campus to develop a more defined mi ssion,
greater autonomy and greater managemen l
flexibility."
Thomas F. Egan, chair of the SUNY
Trustees and the search committee. praised
Ryan's appointment, noting , " Jack Ryan.
unquestionably, is an outstanding leader
wirh the experience. knowledge , intellect,
te mperament and wisdom to take the State
Univers it y to the forefront of American
hi gher education.''
UB President William R. Greiner desc ribed Ryan's appointment as "a great
appointmen t for SUNY and for UB .
" I believe the SUNY system can really
make some progress for our s1ude nts and
fellow New Yorkers with Jack allhe helm,"
Grei ner said . " He 's already done some
wonderfu l things under very difficuh circ umslances. I appl a ud the choice o f lhe
Trustees a nd searc h commiuee."
Greiner noted that Ryan "brings a wealth
of experience. He 's nationall y known and
respected . wi th a first-rate nerwork o f contacts that will stand State University in very
good stead. He's also a genuinely decent
human being, as smart as can be."'
Also praising Ryan was Molly

McKeown, deputy to Grei ner, who represented UB on the search committee.
The fact that Ryan was willing to extend his commitment to accept the chancellorship ''sends a very strong message to
people across the U.S. When a person of
the caliber of Jack Ryan, having been in
the system several months and having seen
its strengths and weaknesses, decides to
stay as part of the team , I think that sends
a strong message."
In addition, she noted, " He has a weal th
of knowledge and con nections built into the
higher-education network across the U.S ."
cKeown said that when the sean:h commince got down to interviewing final ists for the position. it became clear to her
that the stn:ngths that each of them offened
were collective stn:ngths held by Ryan .
She said she thought to herself more
than o nce, " It 's too bad Jack Ryan won ' t
be a candidate."
When Ryan made himsel f available as
a candidate , Mc Keown said it came as no
surpri se to her th at he garnered un animous
support from the search committee.
McKeown said the search, which began
with the appointment of rhe committee in
May 1996 foll owing the resignat ion of
Thomas Bartlett, who had been chancell or
since 1994. attracted strong candidates.
She took issue with repons in the news
media th at the searc h did not attrac l high ca liber candidates because of SUNY's ongoin g financial problems.
" I don't think the reputation of the institution pre vented people who wanted to
ex pl ore the possibi lit y of bei ng chance ll or
from applying," she added .
According to the SUNY Office of University Relations. more than I 00 candidates
a ppli ed for or were no mina ted for the job
and the search committee interviewed
··more than a dozen interested candidates
from across the country."

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SUNY Board of Trustees names Paras Prasad,
Sargur Srihari Distinguished Professors
Br ELUN OOLDaAUM
News Serv•ces Editor

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WO FACULTY mem bers at UB
have been na med Distin guis hed
Professors. the highest rnnk in the
State University of New York system , by the SUNY Board o f Trustees.
The rank. an order above full professorship. was conferred. upon Paras N. Prasad ,
Photo ni cs Science Professor of C hemistry
a nd director of the Ph oto nic s Researc h
Laboratory, and Sargur N. Srihari . a professor in the Department of Computer Scie nce and director of the Center of Excel le nce for Document Analys is and Recognition (CEDAR ).
Th e designation is awarded to indi vidu als who ha ve ac hi eved national or internatio nal pro minence in their fields.
Paras N. Prasad, a UB fac ulty member
si nce 1974, is an internationally recognized
leader in lhe fi eld of optics and speclroscopy.
li e is fo under and director of the U B
Photonics Research Laboratory. which has
a uniqu e pos it io n a mong th e world' s
photonics labora tories, foc using on the fun ·
dame ntal scie nce behind photonic materi als. as well as on industria] applications.
Last yenr, Prasad announced the develop
ment of new photonic materials th at could
revolutionize information storage because
they are able to store thousands of time s
mo re data than conventional compac t disks.
The new sto rage media are idea l for
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arch i ving ve ry large
quantities of pictures.
photographs and other
visual information that
cannot efficie ntly be
stoned on today's CDs.
Appli ca ti o n s for
thes e mat e ri a ls a re
currentl y bein g e" ·
plored by Prasad with
the UB Schoo l of Engineering a nd Applied Scie n ces a nd
Roswell Park Cance r
In stitute. He also condocts research on nonlinear optical effecl'i in
organic polymers and is
developing new generations of multifunctional.
nanosm.Jctured organic
SRIHARI
hybrids that could lead
to the synthesis of "smart" materials.
He is a fe ll ow of the American Phys ica l
Soc iety and of the O pti ca l Society of
America. Author of more th an 300 technical papers. Prasad has co-edi ted o r wrirten
seven books. A native of lndia, Prasad attended Bihar University. He rece ived his doc toral degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania
Sargur N . Srihari . a UB faculty
member si nce 1978. is the founder and
direc to r o f CEDA R. whe re he supervises

a nd conduc ts re sea rch o n devel o ping
methodologies. algorithms. so ftware a nd
hardware des igned to enab le machines to
read . Recog ni zed interna ti onall y for its
work. the team Srihari lead s at CEDAR
conduc ts resea rch on one of the mosl difficult problems in artificial intell igence-ge ttin g a compute r to "read "
ha nd wr itin g a nd poor-qualit y machine
printing.
ast winter, the U.S . Postal Service in stalled the hand w riting-interpretati on
system Srihari and his team developed into
it s main postal-distribution centers in order to automate the processing of hand written addresses on envelopes.
Other projects Srihari has supervised and
whic h now are in use include a system that
is helping the Internal Revenue Service automate the neading of addresses on tax forms.
Srihari, • fellow of lhe Institute of Electrical and Eleclronics Engineers and of the
International Association for Pattern Recog·
nition. has aulhoned more than 150 papers
and co-authored several U.S. patents, as well
as a txxlk on computer-text recognition.
He earned bachelor's degrees in physics
and mathematics from Bangalore University
and a bachelor's degree in electrical communication engineering from the Indian lnsti ru~eofScience. Bangalore. He earned master's
and doctoml deg~ in computer information sc ience from Ohio Slate University.

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pauon in such things as a second major or
a minor. study abroad. co-op programs. an·
temships. community service. involvement
in campus organizations and research in
areas o utside of the student's major.
Herreid said that the minimum GPA for
the program was set at 3.25. rather than
3.5 . because many departments and fac ult y members have said that the undergraduate s tudents wh o make the best
graduate students are those who do well.
but not extraordinarily well. "'!bey are · Bish · s tudents. not the people who are
'4.0s' ," he said.
Establishing an honors program geared
toward upper-division students also will al low UB to serve man y excel1ent students
who cannot be served by the traditional
honors program, Herreid said. He pointed
out that at an y one time. there are more
than 1.000 undergraduates at UB who have
achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or
higher. Many of these high -achievers are
··late bloomers" who did not quali fy for the
honors program as freshmen . he added .
Herreid said the advanced program
shou ld help attract qualit y students lo UB .
" We feel that . in our discussions with stu ·
dents look.i ng at Buffalo seriously, any time
the y get to have their talents appreciated
m some tangible way. they are much more
likely to find th is an attractive school.
" We do think that sirfce we have an ex trao rdinaril y high re tenti on (rate) in our
honors program, the more people that can
be enclosed under that umbrella , to feel
special. for us in any way to help
them .. . we feel that has a real impact upon
people staying here."
t sai d that when comparing student s
admitted to the honors program with
studen ts entering UB wi th similar h ig h ~
sc hoo l grades and SAT scores. but who did
not get into the honors program. the reten ti on rate is 95 percent for the honors program stude nts, compared to only 67 percent for the other students. "'T he hon ors
program ... gives them that little touch th at
makes that difference." Herreid said.
Stud ents wi ll be se lected for the Ad vanced Honors Program based on two let ters o f reference from faculty members and
personal letters from students addressing
the reasons for their applicati on to the program and outlining their plans for the fu ture. their area of specialty and other interests a nd activities.
O nce ad mitted to the program. they will
rece ive all the "perks" of the trad iti onaJ
honOrs program. including priority registrati on. library registration. transcript notation. grad uate-school advising. summer
researc h information, an on-line newslet·
ter and evening programs with facult y.

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'R' Grade policy Incorrectly
stated In Reporter article
A story '" the Apnl 17 ed!l)()n ol the Reporter tnconectly stated the unrverSity
poliCy on 'A' grades
Under the current poliCy any student
can res1gn from any course lor any reason
dur1ng the Ill'S! e1gh1 weeks ottl'le semester
or ftrst 1 1 weeks ilthe student IS a tirsl-ttme
fr eshman or transfer student No extraordinary ctrcumstances. documentatiOn. 0t approvals are reqUtred
The Gradtng Commtnee of the Faculty
Senate 1s not suggesting any 11ghten1ng of
the pohcy 101' normal. ttmely res1gnat100s

The grade ol

-w has atways been a stu

dent-selected and studenHnthated grade
and 11 will rema1n so. even lithe resolutiQf'l
passes
The commtttee has proposed that a ddlerent grade be g1ven 1n cases of ·actm•n•suatrve ·or ·reuoactrve· restgnatKll'ls A
grade of --w.· S1Qn1fylng W1ll'ldrawal WOUIC
be g •ven 1n such cases. su"'Ce the student
1n extraordtnary c•rcumstances. appl~es to
the admJnlsUaiJOn lor permtSSIOfliO wllhdraw lor reasons thai are beyond the
student's centrO. such as lengthy tnea.PaC•
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Leading scholars to teach new 'Humanities One'
Br PATIIICIA DOHOYAH
News Services Editor

OMER WHO? And does it malll:z'1
It does to Bruce Jackson. As

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who recently was named Samuel
P. Capen Chair in American Culture, humanities are bis game and he plays it with

passion and determination.
Jackson and other members of the UB
faculty have expressed concern that undergraduates have difficulty squeezing courses
in literalure, philosophy, art history or classics into their schedules. Thermo-fluids research and the study of cell biology, they
would add, are enhanced by an understanding of the social environment in which they
are produced and which they, in tum, infonn in many unexpected ways.
To help busy students to place their studies in a cultural context. Jackson has spearheaded the development of a new 200-level
course "Humanities One," which will be
offered for the first time in the fall . It will
feature lectures and discussions on issues
in 1he humanities by some of the
univcrsity's-and the nation's-leading
sc holars. Many of them have until now
been relative strangers working within a
stone 's throw of one another along Putnam
Way, sometimes in the same building.
The class, English 299, will be held in
the Screening Room (112) of the Center for
the Arts on Tuesdays from 3:3()-6: 10 p.m.
Humanities are widely cited as disciplines that help to order the intellect and
teach students how to learn and to think
for themselves. While "Humanities One"
will not provide students with depth of
knowledge in any one of the areas covered,
it is designed to offer breadth and an opportunity for students to survey the field.
They will have a chance to hear experts
discuss the astonishing cosmology articulated by William Blake. Samuel Beckett's
black existential humor and just how and
to what end popular media produces
Shakespearean drama-and how about the
new TV mini-series s tarring Armand
Assante as Odysseus?
Students will di scuss "new music" and
its intriguing explorations of sound. the architectural imagination, personal narrati ve,
the idea of justice and " Huckleberry Finn"
with the cultural critic whose observations
about Huck, Jim and the American cultural

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landscape have delighted and horrified not
on ly the literati, but the general public for
more than 30 years.
'The study of the humanities is as rel evant today as it has ever been," according
to Jackson. "because this field informs the
practice of every field of human endeavor,
includ ing all of the natural and applied sciences and technologies."
The humanities field is generally con·
sidered to include the study of classics, an
hi story and literature. but essentially it is
defined as the study of the things human s

do rather than instruction in how to do
them; the study of how and why art is conceived and created. rather than the actual
making o f an; the meaning df techno logy
and culture, as opposed to the production
of techno logies and cultural artifacts.
"It embraces English literature," says
Jackson, "but not engineering and Buicks;
the "meaning" of the atom bomb, but not
how 10 make one; the "meaning" of cars,
1rucks and roads or the information superhighway, but not how to design a freeway
interchange or a Web site; the "meaning"

members of the unit. "Where can they go and
what can they do about" these situations,
which, she says. arc "very common" at UB
and crea~ much bittcmcss and "poison the
collegial environment. There really has to be
some mechanism for equity," she said.

home with a you ng child, she said. Yet. in
the section on secondary employment, ''the
language is very differen~ " she said, noting that a faculty member who arranges to
teach all of his classes on one day and
comes to office hours and meetings only
on that one day "may be guilty of frequent
and excessive absences.
"Would it not be allowable to have similar language for the two situations?" she
asked. ''I'm not sure I understand who is
worse off: 1 have a hunch it's the mother."

of art in human life. but not bow to painL
Tbese issues are the business of the humanities."
Tbe notion of humanities as an important pursuit originated with the Sth century
B.C.E. Sophists whose paideia, or course
of study, engaged young Athenian students
in analytical and critical methods of inqwry. Tbe goal was to prepare them for -an
active and educated participation as citizens of a democracy.
That's because the strength and success
oftheAthenianpa/is was understood to be
linked directly to active, educated and
shared democratic practice, which, in tum,
was described in terms of the citiz.cns' appreciation of human values and of the
unique ability of the human spirit to express itself.
It is a position widely supported by
scholars over the past two-and-a-half millennia, from Plato to Augustine to longtime UB Chancellor Samuel P. Capen.

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od what of claims thJu the humanities
are .. irrelevant" in a high-tech world
demanding concrc~ skills, or "hardly rigorous" in the manner of physics. biochemistry or electrical engineering? Non-humanities faculty have been lmown to arch
an eyebrow at studen~ clogging up their
academic pipeline with courses in film
studies and art history. Some have made it
clear that they don 't even want their disciplines to be considered in the same breath
as the humanities.
The suggestion tba1 the humanities consti tu~ a pscud&lt;Hiisciplinc, a "lesser" field than,
say, biosurfaces engineering. epidemiology or
pharmacology. makes Jackson Oamc.
"Computer sciences, neuroscience .
botany, education, art, architecture. law,
medicine--&lt;:very single field of study is il luminated by a study of humanities," he
says. '"To put humanities down as ·unnecessary' or 'not rigorous' is ignorant and seriously misrepresents the significance of
these studies to our understanding of the
world.
"The well-educated man or woman has
a healthy appreciation for the many differ. ent ways of 'lmowing' and of looking at
and assessing the specific knowledge developed in other fields . The new course
offers an excellent introduction to these
different modes of thought. in no small part
because highly qualified people will be
discussing things they love."
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fessor of nursing, said the idea of banning
the university's reputation " is a very slippery slope. In one sense. you could dispute
such a thing, but yet. in another sense, there
are all sons of activities which someone
might deciiJ to harm the university 's reputation. but are protected under the principles of academic freedom," he said.
Bernice Noble, professor of microbiology,
said she was particularly concerned about
what sbe called special cases, such as union
membership and activism. 'There has been
a real conflict between the faculty and management in the last few years and I just don 't
want to leave a wedge where people can be
attacked and be vulnerable," she said.
Yeagle said the committee would reconside r the language concerning the reputation of the university.
Noble also said she was uncomfortable
with a policy that "vests the oversight in
the hands of unit heads because those are
often the people who are in some sort of
collusion about the kind of arrangements
the document seeks to preclude."
She wondered about the recourse for
"whis~ebl owcrs" in situations in which a per·
son with a conflict has "made some deal" with
his or ber chair that adversely alfccts other

"There has been a real conflict
between the faculty and management in the last few years

and I just don't want to leave a
wedge where people can be attacked and be vulnerable. "

Maureen Jameson , assoc iate professor
of modern languages and literatures.
pointed out what she called "inconsistencies in the document."
A footnote in the section discussing connicts involving personal responsibilities
states that an employee may request that
classes be limited to the middle three days
of the week to permit the employee to be

ichard Hull, professor of philosophy
and a member of the Committee on
Research and Creative Activity, said that
language recognizes "that the primacy of
commitment to the institution may not be
the highest commitment one has in one's
life," but that in terms of financial arrangements, "commitment to this institution is
primary with respect to other income-generating commitments.''
Hull addressed Noble's concerns by noting tba1 there is nothing in the document that
prevents an employee wbn witnesses an apparent conflict of interest from raising the
issue, and if be or she does not receive a satisfactory response. talcing it to "a higher level.

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··1 gather your sense is that a more explicit mechanism needs to be identified so
that someone who has a sense that something is fishy in the state of Denmark. or
Baldy Hall, or whatever, can look at this
document and find some guidance on bow
to proceed with it effectively," he said.
Hull noted that all members of the uni versity community, not just unit heads,
have the ultimate responsibility for the
reputation of the institution. In preparing
the policy, committee members felt tha~
apart from the individual employee in question, the first level of the "exercise of that
responsibility" has to be prior disclosure
with the unh head or supervisor. he said.
'The problem with entrepreneurial spirit
is that one goes out and makes all sorts of
commitments and then lets the cards fall
and often they fall on other people's doorsteps and other people find themselves
picking up," he said. At least. there should
be prior disclosure and approval by the unit
head of activities that will shift responsibilities to others or constrain an employee's
accessibility to students, he added.
The FSEC voted to send the proposal.
with revisions, to the full Senate for discussion at its meeting on April 29.

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Art historian views Van Gogh as a
modem professional, not tortured hero
11J DONNA SlDNaEIIe
Reporter ContributO&lt;

"The two major
thrusts of the
book come out
of the fact that
I'm a social historian of art and
I'm a feminist."

HAT ART HISTORIAN
Carol Zemel left out of her
admitledly " unco nveo tiooal" new book oo Vancent
Van Gogh is exactly what
most books on the troubled genius put in-"'his per.onaiity, madness. greatness."
"Van Gogh's Progress: Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Art "
reOects the way the UB professor likes to

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do ar1 hi story, usi ng the artist as "a lens on
the broader cuJ1ure."

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'The two major thrusts of the book come
out of the fact that I'm a social historian of
art and I'm a femini s~" Zemel said. Her
work presents Van Gogh as "a determined
modem professional. rather than the tortured
romantic hero that lege nd has g iven us." according to the publisher.
Ze me l has been c hosen as the next chair

of the Department of An History. succeeding Jack Quinan in the fall . As a member
of the Women' s Studies Steering Commit -

tee, ac tively concerned with the presence
of women faculty and students at UB , she
is eage r to take her positi on as one of the
few women c hairs .
..T h ere need to be more women'' in lead-

ership at UB , she asserts. desc ribing herse lf as "an advocate for women 's issues o n
thi s campus and within arts and letters."
The changing ro le o f women in society
is o ne of the themes she addresses in her

as an an hi sto rian-visual c ulture and the
thri ving European Je wish community be-

stud y of Van Gogh and his era. a centu ry

tween World War I and II, "diaspora cul -

ago . Her book "shows how the iss ues e nta ng led in Van Gogh' s work-issues of the
market , gender and c lass- were also knot te d into the work of many avant-garde art ists of the late 19th centu ry.
"Eac h o ne embodies a spec ific soc ietal
c ri sis for Van Gogh 's ge ne ra ti on: women
and sex ua lit y, th e rura l artisan , repu blican
c it izenry. profess io na l identity, the bu rgeoning art market and the construct ion of
a modern rura l idea," accordin g to the
publisher 's introduction .

ture in the positive sense o f the term ."
S he is focusing o n Jewi sh photographers and their "role in fra ming a kind of
modem Jewish c ulture .'' Her research also
looks at early Jewish artists such as Chagall
a nd so me contemporary anis ts s uc h as
French Canadians .

"I felt there was always a kind of optimi stic view of the future" in Van Gogh 's
work, Zemel said . Using the •·no ti o n of
spiritual and social progress" remini scent

o f one of Van Gogh's favo rite books.
Bun yan's " Pilgrim's Progress," Zemel ex a mines the arti st' s pai ntin g as a series of
uto pian proj ects . "Again and agai n, with
great en thu stasm and energy. Van Gogh
deve loped strateg ies to reach broade r au diences, to pro mo te popular art forms. to
represent alternati ves to urban civilization
and to foster creative communities," she
writes in her book.

Zemel is not finished wi th the Van Gogh
family. ho wever. She Ls wri ting a short c ul tural fe minist biography of Van Gogh 's
youngest siste r, Wilhelmina. who aspired
to be a wri ter. " She's cl early another tale nted Van Gogh . Because she' s a woman ,
he r life takes different turns," Zemel said.

Z

emel and Clai re Kahane of the Eng lis h

Department taugh t a co urse o n the
Ho loca ust last se mester. Preparing for the
course a nd another on art be t ween the
two world wars sti mul ated Zemel's in te rest in th at period's e m erg in g Jewish
c ulture th at has been ove rshadowed by
the Ho loca ust.
''The Ho locaus t is immense ly difficult
to write about and to di sc uss and to teac h.
It 's very diffi c ult to penetrate the cliches
of good and evil ," she said. "'The re's a fashio n for Ho loca ust studies. I do n' t th ink it' s

a bad thing." She hopes lO he able to teach
the course agai n in the future .
Her own interest in the "very thriving ,
m odern but di stinc t" European Jew is h
co mmunity be fo re th e Ho locaust " rai se s
press ing questions about multic ultura l soc ieti es" today. Zemel said .
As she considers her coming role as

chairm an of the An History Department,
Zemel draws a parallel with her study of
Van Gogh. 'These are gloomy times in the

After the Van Gogh project, Zemel will

university. but I'm optimistic in g loom y
times."
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have more time for her other main interest

The Center for the Arts is just part of

what makes the present "expan sive and
interesting," she said. She sees her depanment moving toward a more profess io nal

focus. Although the plans are still very preliminary, the de panment is inte rested in
developing as a museological training program, while con tinui ng offeri ngs in gene ra l art hi story. The expanded program
wou ld incl ude more art c ritic at courses. art
and the law, and ans management to bol ster profess io nal training .
"You 'II have an answer fo r parent s
abo ut what you can do with an art history
degree," Zemel sa id.
She a lso wants to see the depart ment
deve lo p it s mu lt icu ltural dimens io n. rep rese nted now by Jolene Ri ckard, whose
specia lty is indigen ous cu lture . For instance, US's large Asian student popul ati o n suggests the value o f e nlarg in g the
stud y of Asian art. Zeme l said.
"We're an acti ve department ," shesaid.
pointing to two othe r faculty members who

recently published books. Dorothy F. Glass
wrote " Ponals, Pilgrimage , and C ru sade in
Western Tuscan y." L. Vance Watrous has
a new book entitl ed 'The Cave Sanctu ary

of Ze us al Psychro: A Study of Extra-Ur-

Faculty must give up
some dreams to have a
say in the new UB
The reaction of the faculty to the Provost's
plan for reorganizing and refocusing UB ha.s
been. at best, frosty. The Provost has been accused of fostering ..destructive" competition.
focusing almost exclusively on public-relations goals, and using ""top down" management to implement a "recipe for disruption
and decline." There is merit in some of the
criticism but in all the documents that ha ve
been publ ished I find it remarkable that nobody is questioning the assumptions of the
plan. In si mple tenns. the Provost's report as sumes that:
• Departments at UB are underfunded
relative to peer schools.
• New York State is unlikely to give UB
signifi cant new resources.
The lack of cri ticis m of these basic I!I.Ssumptions indicates to me that the university
communi ty. and especiaJiy the faculty. be lieve they are l.rlJC . We know that departmental funding cannot be restored by cutting the
maintenance staff or reducing heating costs
We know that no amount of "developmenl''
or winning football seasons will build our
faculty to the level s of our colleagues a1 other
universities .
If so. then how is the UB commun it y supposed to respond? One response is simply to
do the same thing we've always done but do
it with less money. Another response is to
change the university in some way. The Provost and the President have clearly decided
that change is better th;ln doing what we've
always done . They have proposed change that
has commanded attention (to say the least).
They have described this plan in some detail
and have (more or less) reveaJed their prefer·
cnccs. Cri ticism of th is plan that does no!
deal wtlh its assumpti ons is not useful and . in
some cases. strikes me as di shonest. Cri tics
have accepted the view that we ca nnot haH'
the university that we had even fi ve years ago
but have not proposed what they would
choose-other than more money for their de panments. Faculty {who intend to stay at UB )
need to deal honestly with the plan 's assumptions by proposi ng goals and plans that an
consistent with UB's lower level of funding
A "real dialogue" begins with reality. To cri ticiz.c based on dreams of a better world is to
increase the power of the President and Provost to implement thei r plan. Faculty will
have to give up some dreams if we want to
have a say in the new UB.
ChMI•• Trzclnb
School o f Management
{VISiting New York Untvers1tyJ
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ban Sanctuaries in Minoan and Earl y lron

Age Crete."
Ze mel came to UB in 1978 from the
faculty of the Tyler School of Anal Temple
Univers ity. He r interest in Van Gogh stems
from research for her di ssenali o n at Co-

lumbia University. later published as 'The
Formati on of a Legend: Van Gog h Criti cism ." She also is the a utho r of "Vincent

Van Gogh," published in 1993.

ThoU.$. lnlonnollon APnc1 (USIA) , the J. William

Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board and' the lnstiMe ol [nlernationel Educalion (liE) have _.oo the t998-99 oompelltlon for Fulbright and relaled grants for graduate s!\Jdy abroad in acedemlc fields

and lor professional training In the creative and perlorming ans.
Fuibrlgl1l grants ere fUnded Iinde&lt; the Mutual Educetionel and CUltural Exchange
Act of 1961 through an arinuar appropriation made by congress to USlA and by foreign governments. unlvemilles, CQfPOfations and private dono&lt;s. Fulbright orants are
available for study or reseercll. Travel grants are available to selectsd CO&lt;Xllries to
aupplemenl malntenance awards froin other soorces that do not prOIIIde funds lor lntematlorjai .travel or to !!UPpiomenl the I!PPicant'li perscoal fonda. The J. WB1lwn
Fulbright Foreign Scholarahlp Board, CC&gt;fTllOSed of12 educalion and pUblic ieede&lt;v
appoinled by the president of the U.S., 8Slablishes alter1a lor selection of candldales
and baa final auttoritY for the awarding of grants. ,
·
Applicants must be u.s. cklzens at the lime of appllcalion and hold a bachelo&lt;'s
degree Of Its equfvaleot by the beginning date of the grant. Creative and perlonning

n

Sending Letters to the Reporter
Th ~ R~portu w~lcomn lett us from rradus
commenting on its stories and cont~m Ut ters shou ld lH limited to 800 words and may
bt edited for style and length. Because of
space limitations, tht Reponu cannot publish all/etten rt!ctived. They must b~ T? ·
uived by 9 a.m. Monday to In corwdurd for
publication in that wedS issue.

artists ara not required to have a bachelot's degree. but they must have four years of
relevant trainng or study. Candideles In medicine must heve an M .D. or equivalent (i.e ..
D.D.S .. O.D.. etc.) at the tined appllcalion.
All appllcanls ara 18QUired to have sufficient proflcloncy In the lang._ d the host
country to carry out their proposed Study or research.
Full grants prollide round-trip lntemalional travel, maintenance for the l8nuRI of the
award, a researcl1 allowance and tuaion walv81$ Kapplicable. Tra&gt;ml grants piovlde
round-trip lnlsmationel !railelto.the country when&gt; the student will pursue study"' n&gt;seerch. All grw1ls Include OUpplemental health and IICCident lns&lt;nnce.
Complete program and appllcalion Information Is contained In the bloc;hu-e,
"Fulbr1ght a n d - grants lor gradual&amp; study and
abroed. 1998-99."
UB students atould conlacl the Fulbright Program-- Bamara BIJ'lksr. 362
Parte Hall, for~. applcalion forms and fu1her lnlamalion. Deadline for receipt
of appllcatlons Is Sept. 26. 1997. Appfrcations will be I8Yiewed on campus prior to beIng forwarded 10 liE for the Ocl23. 1997. deadline.

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Charity Begins at
Home(Page)
dependent Health in Williamsvilkt.
Established this year, the new

Faculty from the Nurse Anesthesia
Program at UB will join with ophthal·
rl"'Iklgists !rom Eye Health AsSOCi·
ales of Western New YOfk to provide
free cataract surgery to Western
New YOfkers who need the operation
but aren't covered by insurance
~ Free Cataract Surgery Day ~ Will
be held on Saturday, May J . 1n the
Eye Health Associates tacility at 170
Maple Road . Williamsville Surgery
will be per1ormed In the tacilily's
lree·standing. ambulatory surgery
center by KeMeth Anthone, UB
clrnical asststant proleS50( of ophthalmology. and Andrew Stedleckl
Anesthesia care will be donated
by Mk:h"l F• llaearo and Thomas
Obst, chmcal asststant p10tessors 1n
the UB School of Nurs1ng and codtrectors ollls Nurse Anesthesta
Prograrn . and Edw• rd McHugh, clint·
cal lnstructOJ in the nurstng school
Eye Heatlh Assoctates serves as
the UB clinical tra1mng site lor students 1n the Nurse Anesthesia Program
Screemng of potential pattents
wtll take place lrom 1-5 p m on
Wednesday. Aprtt 30. and Fnday.
May 2
he hee surgery tS part of a na t al et1ort Involving t .500 phystCl ns around the U S to serve the
un sured The local volunteers hope
to
form 12 cataract surgerJEts lhts
year. 1 ''second in the program
Last ye they operated on e1ght patients Tt\e free service Includes the
standardl90-day foUow·up period
Anyone Interested In being
screened lor the free surgery should
can 634--4050

SENIOR AWMNI WNCHEON
MAY 14 WILL FOCUS ON
CONSUMER ISSUES
A crash course on ~how to be a
smart9f consumer· will be the topic
of the UB Senior Alumni Luncheon to
be held at noon on May t4 1n the
Center lor Tomorrow. North Campus
Arun Jain, Samuel P. Capen Pro.
lessor of Marketing Research at UB
and chatr ol the Department ol Marketing. will tell participants how to get the
most lor their money
as consumers and determine whether a bargain Is really a b~r­
gain . Parlicipants w111
J•ln
conduct a "taste tesr
of house brands vs
brand-name products
Jain also will discuss the role of
coupons and special store·issued
-club- cards. and the motives be·
hmd other marketing tactics.
Luncheon lickets are S tO each
Graduates and· individuals who
have completed 12 semester hours
as matriculated students In a degree program at US are eligible to
,o1n the Alumni Association The senior luncheon series is designed lor
UB semor alumni. their spouses
and guests
For reservations and more inlormation . call ,the UB Office of Alumm
Aelat1ons . 829-2608

UB AT SUNRISE TO FOCUS
ON NEED FOR BOLD PLANS
TO FIX CITY AND SUBURB
There ·s no magic wand lor lixlng the
econom1c and fiscal problems conlronling the Buffalo area, Henry
Loula Taytor Jr. will tell those anending a UB a t Sunrise breakfast program a t 7:30a .m on May 15, in the
Buflalo/Niagara Marriott. 1340
Millersport Highway. Amherst .
"Cast Away Your Illusions: II Will
Take Bold Plans to Fix the C1ty and

Crystal Buffalo Award P&lt;ogram oilers the opportunity lor UB supporters who give new annual g ifts of
$1 ,000 Of IT'IOfe. as well as supporters who Increase their gMng to that
level over prkw years' g ifts, to honor
a c urrent or emeritus faculty mem·
ber, or current staff. fOf their guidance and support.

Toylo&lt;

class. and attacking

the problems of uneven development between the cenllal city and
suburbs.
The key to making regionalism
work on the Niagara Frontier. he
ma1ntains. is creating a new vis1on
based on those three premises
~ us at Sunnse • IS a sertes of
breakfast programs jointly produced
by the UB Alumni Association and
US's Ot11Ce of Conferences and Spa.
c+al Evems. News ServiCes and Offlee ol Publications II also Is SUPpaned by the OHlce of University
Development and Office of Public
SeMce and Urban Affairs. The Buffalo/Niagara Marriott is corporate
sponsor of ~ue at Sunrise ~
The price of the May 15 program . which w1ll include a lull
breakfast . IS $10 lor UB Alumni Association member s and $121or all
others
For more +n lormat1on. contact
the alumnt assOCIBIIon at 829-2608
T1cket orders must be recetved by
May 13

SILS OFRRS FREE VIDEO
ON EFFEcnVE INTERVIEWING
Techntques for negotiating reference interviews are demonstrated
on a VIdeotape produced by students In the School of Information
and Library Stud1es The 13-minute
vtdeo describes open questioning.
act1ve listen1ng . paraphrasing and
other tools for elfective interviewing
A free copy of ·Reference Negotiation : Interview Techniques~ is available by sending a blank VHS video.
tape . self-addressed mailing label
and S3 for postage lo: Reference
Video. School of inlormation and LIbrary Studies . 534 Baldy Hall. Box
60102 , Buffalo . NY 14260--1020

PEQELS RECEIVES FIRST
CRYSTAL BUFFALO AWARD
The university's first Crystal Buffalo
Award has been presented by UB
School of Management alumnus
Wflff•m McHuCh to his former pro.
lessor. Cert Pe~ela, In recognition of
Pagels' ·outstanding Teaching and
Overall Guidance "The genius and uniqueness of
.. Dr Carl Pegels was his ability to get
students involved and to bring the
real world into the classroom: said
McHugh , who received his MBA In
1979 and Is chief operating officer
and executive vice president of tn-

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WIIIom

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Pegels, ..too has taught In the UB
management school lor more !hen
:D years, rf!C81ved
and
mastar~ degrees I n _ _ . Iran
PurciJe UrWersity, and 8 bachelor's
degree In engr-tng Iran the Doln&gt;t
lnstilute-of Technology.
WOMEN'S CWI TO HAVE

SPIIING WNC. .ON,
I~

The UB Women's Club Spring Luncheon and installation of officers will
take place May 3 at 11 :30 a.m . In
the Harriman Student Center on the
South Campus. The Women of Stu·
dio Arena will present ·Visions of
Seasons Past.· a traveling show of
original costumes.

A highlight will be presentation
by P-ldent ond Mra. Wllltom R.

o,.m., of UB Women's Club Com·
memofa!lve Sesquicentennial
Awards to two undergraduate students for outstanding service to the
university.
The follow1ng offteers will be installed. president. Dawn Harvorsen.
\lice president. Julia Cohan: trea·
surer. Lena Allendoerfer; recording
secretary. Karen Fountain: corre·
sponding secretary. Carmella
Hanley: members-at-large. lee
Baker. Romaine Austum. Joan Ryan.
Twenty-live-year members will
be honored with the presentation of
a special print and SO.year found·
ing members w1tl be recognized
Hospitality chairs are Shirley Buckle
and Mana Coburn.
The Annual UB Women's Club
Flower Sate is now In progress. Topquality geranium plants in scarlet
red , white and pink are available in
4 1/2-inch pots for $1 .80 each or
$20 per dozen. Beautiful red. pink .
white Of mixed impatiens are available in 10-1nch hanging pots for
$10 each and six· plant packs for
$1 .50 a pack. New this year are 10inch hanging pots ollvy geraniums
at $1 0 each
The deadline for orders 1s Fnday.
May 2, and pickup will be Wednesday, May 14 . from 10 a.m . until 5
p .m . at the Center for Tomorrow. To
place an order and for more inlor·
mation call Judy Baumer. 688-4508
Proceeds of the sale go to support
the Grace Capen Academic Award
Fund
Group activities in May are
Book group, Monday, May 12.
12:30 p .m at the home of Irene
Swiatowy. for planning sessk&gt;n A1ta
Jenczka. ca.hostess.
Money and Investing, Wednesday, May 14, Sean Patrick's Restau.
rant. Getzville. 6:30p.m . for planning sessk&gt;n and discussion: Janet

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Nc1l! also-~ bylf,elolowlng calegcries: canow ~
Cleo, lellel agoncle!l a n d - organlzatlc&gt;m.) You can reQU!IIil up IO ll)ree 11M hiPo!is Ullr\g an onJi1e orderpm. The ~IB
AIIPo&lt;1B ~warlytetiorl on lhellrucl&gt;n of !he agency, Ita ICIIol(tiao,
Ita go:.IIII'JIIUU, and Is,........~ P"':P'*" and lund-raising

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Gul!leStar ~/..........__... proYJdes fr~ repbrt1 on
ovet 40,000 llUI!!ic Charltlea.- repbrtl are baNd on IRS form
990 (required of au hon,reWgloUI pul* c:hlrltieo W!lh ,_.ue ovet
$25,000) and on lnlorm811on ailpplledpy chanties'themsetvea. The
GuldeSiar site haa a se!lfCh feature thai alloWs users to search by
keyword, locallon and type of cllarfly. GuldeStar also provides llnlca to
Web homepages of national nOpproflllnstllutions, stata charity offic ials, and g!8lll.lnii""J"IIon.
The lntOmei NonPfOflt Center C- . . / 1 - - - - . J provides boU) a 'l)brary" ollndeponcl!fil lnformatlon about nonprofit orgarjzatlona and a "ll8flery of Ofll'lnlzallons" thai Includes nonprofit
orrj8nlzatlone' own brochures, annual reports and Web sites. ParticularlY lJaelul are Ilia INC'i "Best BuyS for Big Hearts' based on evaluallons of the Amelfean Institute of Philanthropy and the listing of the
"Top For)y [largest] Charnable Organlzallons in the U.S.; lrdudlng
!lie American Red Cross, Catholic Charities USA, Girl Scouts USA,
Haqltal for Humariljy. Mareh of Dimes, Second Harvest. etc. The INC
also provides numerous links to additional web resources ol special
Interest lo donor$ In Its "heliport" lrduding, for example, HungerWeb,
International Service Agencies , the NonProfit r.lfl'les, the Program on
Non-Profit Organizations at Yale Unlverslly, and Who Carss, a national jou&lt;nal de\loted to communi!)' service.
For information on connecting fa lhe World WidB Web via University
at Buffalo computer accounts, contsct lhl&gt; CIT Help Desk at 6453542.
-DeVfnnoy- .-~.-..yu..Fedor, Norma Rubin, co-cha+rs
Evening Gourmet will close the
year Friday. May 9. at 7 p .m w1th an
Indian Banquet at Tandoor i's Au·
thentic lndtan Cuistne. Wilhamsv1ile;
Meena Austgi. Norma Aubin cochairs .
Bridge Fhght. clostng d inner and
bridge evening . Tuesday, May 20. 6
p m.. Wah Sing Restaurant in Buffalo; Mane Schillo, chair.
Membership in the Women 's
Club Is open to any woman interested in service to the umversity
and the purposes of the club

FIRST SUMMER AWMNI
COUEGEPROGRAM
TO IE HELD AT CHAUTAUQUA
College will be "in session" from
June 29--July 5 at the Chautauqua
Institution when the UB Alumn1 Association holds its first Summer
Alumni College Program. The prog ram. focusing on
·rhe Built Environment.· will be conducted by Bruno
Frnchf, dean of the
UB School ol Archflec·
ture and Planning . who
Freschl
will share his g lobal
perspectives on the
design and Impact of houses . cities
and public spaces.
Freschl. who is working on
waterfront plans for Buffalo and
Tacoma . Wash ., developed the
master plan lor Vancouver's World
Expositton. He has won many
awards, Including the Order of
Canada. the highest honor the
Canadian government bestows
upon an IndividuaL
Those enrolled in the UB pro.
gram also will be able to participate
In the Chautauqua lnstitutlon's
week·long program on "The Politics
o f the Environment.· an in·depth
look at the past and present debate
over the use and preservatton of the
natural environment. Speakers will
Include marine btQk)glst Sylvia Earle

and John Sawhill , president of the
Nature Conservancy. Concerts and
other s~ial programs at the Institution during the week also will b e
available to those enrolled in the
UB Alumni College.
The cost per person Is $1 . 190.
which Includes doubfe occupancy
in the Athenaeum Hotel. meals.
Chautauqua Platform Programs ,
gate pass, parking. recepUon,
guided walking tour and class rna·
terials. Single rooms are available
for the week for an additional $360
For those who make other living/
dining arrangements or are resi·
dents of the Chautauqua Institution.
pricing can vary.
AeservaUons for the UB college
program must be made and paid

lor by May 15 Call B29-26081or
reservations and information.

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CALENDAR

UnlvenltJ M ..,... ...aor offeealve t.clde Edw.-d Ellla-a native of Hamden, Conn.
-is going back to New England to launch bis professional football career. The 6-7. 335-pound
tack.le was selected in the fourth round by the New England Patriots on Sunday in the NationaJ
Football League draft at Madison Square Garden . He was the 12Sth player taken overall in the
draft and is the first UB football player ever selected in lhe NA.. draft.
Gerry Philbin, a standout defensive end for the New York Jets, was
the last UB player drafted by a current NFL member, but he was taken in
the American Football League (AFL) draft in 1963. Ellis was a four-year
starter at UB and helped the Bulls make the transition to Division I foot baJI. One of the first full scholarship players signed to UB during its foot bal l upgrade, he helped the Bulls go from a 1- 10 season in his freshman
year to 8-3 as a senior.

Ellis" play Bl tackle helped lhe Bulls avcmge 372.5 yards ofiOOII offense per
per gam&lt;. His bloclcing hc:Jpcd tailback Anthony Swan be·
come only lhe lhinl UB player in school history to go over I.OOOyards. AI UB
he: played bolh left and righl tackle and showed excellcnl mobilil)'.
thi s put.o; our school on the map," said an exc ited Ellis shortJy after receiving word of his
gam&lt; and 24.6 points

"l ho~
sclecrion . 'This is probably lhe sweetest thing in my life, particulnrly coming out of New England.
where i!'s tough to get noticed." Ellis was a projected late· round selection whose stock continued to grow throu gh his workouts with over 20 NA.. clubs. He said it was difficult waiting for
the phone to ring . " It was nerve-wracking waiting 10 get the word," he said . ''Then New England ca lled and I couldn't believe I was going to be stayi ng at home . I thank Coach {Jim) Ward
for giving me the opponuni ty to get an education and bringing me to Buffalo. I also have to
thank Coach Cirbus and his staff for really turning the program around and helping me achieve
this ." Including his II years at Penn State, Ell is became the II th offensive lineman that Cirbus
has coached who has been drafted by an NA.. team.

Royela take fifth at M16Con Women'• Tennla Champlonahlpa
The Royals fini shed in fifth place at last weekend's Mid-Continent Conference Women 's Tennis
C hampionships held at the Country C lub Plaza Tennis Center in Kansas City, Mo.
UB. seeded fifth in the nine-team fi e ld, dropped its firs t-round contest to fourth-seeded
4-0 on Friday. Matc hes were called when the winning team reached four victories
o ut o f a possible seven.
The Joss sent coach Kathy Twist's squad to a second-round meeting with ninth-seeded Northlll inois as the RoyaJs thumped the Golden Eagles 4- 1. Sophomore Danielle Rakowsky at
singles breezed past Erin Stanton 6-0, 6..() to lead t.he Royals. April Kiser took the
number six match by defau lt, as Rakowsky and
Kiser were awnrded the number three doubles
match by defau lt . Amy Borden was victorious
for the Royals at number three singles, defeating Me lissa Lentz 6- 1. 6- 1.
UB completed the weekend tournament by
winning the fifth -place match over host Missouri -Kansas City 4-3. The Royals took the
number two through five singles matches to
defeat the Roos. Rakowsky, at number fi ve,
rallied from a set down to defeat Sha lini Bhat
0-6. 6-3 , 6-0. Annulett Dillon and Amy
Snyder also took. "double-bagel" victories
with 6 -0. 6-0 wins at number two and four. re spective ly. The Roya ls closed out the contest
as Borden took a grueling number three match
from UMKC's Rebecca Kl ontz 7-5. 7-5.

Bulla Tennis heads for Chicago
and MI6-Cona
Coach Russ Crispell' s Bull s te nnis program
took the weekend off as it prepares for th e
Mid -Continent Conference Me n's Tenni s
Championships in Chicago. Chicago State
University will be the host ~c hool. The SuUs are 8- 11 in dual meets this season and a part of a
logjam in the middle of the conference race . As of Aprill7 . few schools -Missouri-Kansas
C ity, Youngstow n State, UB and Valparai so-all stood wi th eight wins . Seeding for the nineteam tournament wi ll take place on Thursday when the league's coaches meet in Chicago.

Track and field team hoata UB Invitational
The UB men 's and women's track and fie ld teams will host thi s weekend's UB Invitat ional
meet at UB Stadium. Events will begin at 4 p.m . on Friday a nd 9 a.m . on Saturday. Coach Dick
Barry 's squads are both 5· 1 thi s seasOn with their second -place performances at the Mount St.
Mary 's Invitational mee t cou nti ng toward their dual meet records. This weekend's meet a lso
wi ll serve as a dual meet. with all Division I programs being scored.
Di vision I teams expected to co mpete include Canisius, Day1on, Duquesne , You ngstown
State. Colgate and St. Francis o f Pennsylvania .
- TEO WASKO . SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE

Football Open House will be April 27
UB witl 1-old a foolball open house on St.nda)(April 27. Jrom rioon to 4 p.m. at UB S!adium.
Open House offers activilies !Of Jans of all ages, all Jree ol charge, Including food and
drinks. Fans will gel a sneak peak of the '97 Bulls lootball learn starftlg at 2 p.m. v.ilen
Coach Craig Clrbus' learn oollldes In the BIUE&gt;-Whlte scrimmage. the JinaJ spring practice.
Among olher things lans can do:
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Select !heir 1997 seats and gel an "all-access" look at UB loolball: tour the press box,
see how the SCOfeboard system works and enjoy the view lrom a luxury suite.

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Talk with WBEN sportscaster "The Bulldog," who will have Jive remotes Jrom the sla·
dium. WJVB-lV sportcaster and Bulls' loolball radio voice Paul Peck will greel lans
and let them tesl their vocal talenls with "Fanlasy Football Play-by-Play.·

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Rembrandt et the
Thresh~d will be
the lecture topic:
of Suun DoMhue
Kurotdcy Ap~J 27
at Albrf&amp;ht-Knox
Gallery oudltort u m .

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UB 's Edward Ellis selected in draft by
AFC Champion New England Patriots

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Meal the senior class of UB loo!ball players. who will sign autographs Jrom 12:15-1
p.m. near the Iron! gale.

Edlllcatloeal Resource•
G SE laterad Homepaae: 11M
New Look. Chris Barrick. and
Nilam Shukla. 218 Baldy. North

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Metba.aJsau: of Syn.aptk
Vesklc Exotytos"ls, Dr. Thomu
C. Sudhof, Howard Hughes
Medical lnstiiUle and Univ. of

Texas Southwestern MedicaJ
Center. Butler Aud .• Farber.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Btoc.btacbr, Newspaper
Readu, Tim Clinton. Center ((n
the Arts, Screening Room.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. Free.

Colfeebou.v. Free coffee and
free music. Harriman Hall.
South Campus. 8- •1 p.m.

partna: for Capltadoa, Sponsored by School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences.
Marriott, t 340 Millerspon .
Noon. Call Holmes McGuiaan.

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Cell a1o1oey

Myoemk Cr:U Fate Odr:rminaUoc and Dilrr:n:ntlatJoo Durin&amp;
Dtnlopmmt. Dr. Judith Venuti,
Columbia Univ. )()6 Fatber.
South Campu!. 12:30 p.m.

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Concert

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lnteradln Works for Lin lnrt.rumeotJ and Computer bJ
UB Graduate Studenu aod
Facully, Elizabeth McNutt
Drama ll1e&amp;ler, Center for the
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m.

R r:c:r:ptor/Gr:nr:-M tdlat.r:d Effr:ct or Cortk:oste,ld s In tbe
Rat: A FuU P KJPD Momt, YuNien Sun. 508 Cooke. North
Campus . 3:30p.m .

Concert

Au tonomy, Empathy and Punisbmen~ Martus Dubber. UB
Law School. 684 Baldy. North
Campus. 3:30p.m.

UB Symphonic Band, Sa.ru.h L.
M c Kain , conductor. Slce. North
Campus. 8 p.m. Free

PllllooopltJ Coii-Jum

BlolotJcal klencea

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memorabilia. and photos relating to the Nobel Laureate poet.
is on display through April 24 in
the Poetry/Rare Books Room.
420 Capen Hall , North Campus
The exhibition originated at the
Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, and is presented here in
conjunction with the Second
Conrerence on Polish Studies in
America. Poetry Room hours
are Monday- Friday 9 a.m -5

p.m

FocuMd Mnlore
An eJthibit or work by scmor
photoglllphy majors on v1ew
through April 29 at Campos
Photoglllphy Center. 101 6
Niag8111 Falls Blvd The student s
art: from Tyront Georgiou's Advanced Photography eouru

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~

Beavi!!i and Bullhead Do
America. Student Union The ·
alec. Nonh Campus 9 p.m
$2 .50. $4 . Ca ll 645-2957

A oBe-day New York State Em ·
ployees' Retirement System
Seminar will be held June 6
from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Center
for Tomorrow, North Campus.
There will be one selSion for
Tier 1 and 2 members, and another for Tier 3 and 4 members.
There wi ll be represcnlatives
from the Social Security Admin IStralio n, the Dept. or C ivi l Scr·
v1ce. and the company that admims ters the New York State
Deferred Compensatio n Program. To make a reservatio n.
call Peno nncl Services, 645 2646, eJtL 101 or 102.

Pharmacy Seminar

TheMa to be e xhibited

Pr ofeaalonal

Mtropene:m : Tht Stcond U.S.
Markrtfll Carbapene:m, Amy
Calabrese, UB School of Pharmacy. I 2 1 Cooke No rth Campos. 4 .30 p.m

Graduate thes ts prescntalions
art o n view May I through May
30 m the James Dyell Gallery,
33-l Hayes Hall. South Campus
The exhibil is presented by the
School of Architecture and Plan ·
mng Gallery hours are: 9 a.m.- 5
p.m Monday-Friday

Oil'fttor (SL-5)-Career Plan ·
nmg and Placement , Post•ng
NP-6059. Assistan t ~ Pnsid~nt , FeciUtir:s Planning and
Design (MP-Ja)-University Facilities. Posting II!P-70 18. Instruction•! Support Trcbnidan (SL-3) -Central Technical
Service s (Cataloging Dept.).
Posting lfP-7021 Senjor Prognmm~r Anllilyst (SL-4) -Equal
Opportunity/Affinnative Action
Office, Posting lfP-7025 . Senior
StafT Assistant (SL-3)-Student
Services Center. Arts and Let ters. Posting NP-7028 . lnstructional Support Ttchnician
(SL-3)-Co mputing and Informa tion Tec hnology, Posting
lfP-7029 StafT Assistant (SL2)-Physiology and Biophysics.
Posung itP-703 1. Dil'fttor uf
Edu cation (SL-6) -Univers•ty
Services. Posting MP-7032

ut.Workahop
Carur and Life Planning.
Noon- I p.m. Ca11645-6 12S .

RPCiateft'Semlner
DNA Topoisomenue 1-mrdlated Cell Death by Camptolhedns, Yves Pommier, M.D ..
National Cancer Institute.
Bethesda . Md. Kirchhofer
Room, RPCI. 12:30 p.m

Qeolo_, Lecture
Age: Te:cton k Imp lications or
Dtvonian Black Shalt Bas ins
in New York State: • n d I he:
Midwest, Dr. Jeffery Over. 228
Nalul'lll ScienCe! . Nonh Cam·
pus . 3:30p.m

UUP SUNY / Buffelo
Center Chapter
Membership Meeting
Pistachio's, St udent Umon
North Campus . S· t!'i p.m For
reservations. call 645 -2013

UUAI Movie
Kafka. S!Udent Union Theater
North Campus 6:30p.m. $2.50.
$4 Ca ll 645-29!57

Opu a: Cl•aalca U v e
Melody Fade r, piano . Allen
South Campus . 7 p.m

Concer t
UB Wind EPKmb l ~ , Sarah L
MeKom. conducto r Sltt North
Campus. R p.m $3

UUA.B Movie
Buvi.s a n d Bulthead Oo
America. Stodc:nt Umon Theater. North Campus 9 p.m
$2 .50, $4 . Call 645 -2957

May
'I'HU 51
lnsUtut e for Addiction.
Studlee and Tr•lnln&amp;
fuatment P lanning, Hann
R~d u ctlon and Managfll Care,
Mary Jo Musco\ino Daemen
College Ca ll 645 -6\.tO

Architecture Exhibition
Graduate Tbrsis P~nt• ­
tions. Through M::.y 30 Gallery
houn Monday-Friday 9 a.m .- 5
p.m. James Dyeu Gallery. 334
Hayes South Campus

Bl oethlce Lectu re
Living With Your

HMO-P~

Cop ing wlt b Uncertainty: The
Evolu tion of Wine Dimorphism in lnstcts, Dr. Derek
Roff. Depl. of Biology. McGill
Univ. 114 Hochstetler. North
Campus . 4 p.m .

UUAB Movie
Kafka. Student Union Theater
Nonh Campus b · 30 p m $2 .50.
$4 Call 645-1957

UUA.B Mowle

Jobs

The ala Exhibit
Ma.ster o f Fine Ans lncsis E-. hibit. Jeffrt'y 811Ulcato. Apnl 24May 5, Art Department Gallery.
Center for lhe Ans. Gallery hours
are Tuesday. 10 a. rn.-5 p.m ..
Wednesday-Fnday, 10 a.m.-8
p.m.; Saluniay. II a.rn.-8 p.m.

lnft• teble KUipture
In UChtwell
Takash.i Murakami 's " Mr. Dob" IS
a 40-foot-high inOatable scul ptu~
corrunissioned for the Lighlwe\1
GaJiery and on view the~ through
July I 3. The sc ulptu~ . with 1ts
cartoon-like design. is both playfu l and menacing. The Lightwell
Gallery is located within the University at Ruffolo Art Gallery m
lhe Center for lhe Arts. North
Campus. Gallery hours are
Wednesda)' -Saturday 10:30 a.m.8 p.m .. and Sunday Noon-S p.m.
Admission is f~

New palnttn&amp;• by
Sheldon Bertyn
"Sheldon Berlyn: New Wort" continues through June 8 in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery. Cenlef for the Aru. North Campus. A
concurrc:nt show of Bertyn's new
work will be on vtew April 27
through June I at the Caslellaru
Art Muscwn of Niagara Universit)'. UB An Gallery houn ~
Wednesday-Sarurday 10:30 a.m. -8
p.m., and Sunday Noon-S p.m. Admissionisf~

E.Jthlblt o f book• end
manuaertpta
" Wislawa Szymborska A
Search for the Word :· an exh1b1
t1o n of books. manuscn pt~ .

Feculty
L..tcturer 10-Ath letlcS, Po sting
II!F-7035 . AssistantjA.s$0Ciat~
Professor-Psychiatry . Posting
fiF-7036. Assistant/Anodat~
ProfHSOr-Psychiatry. Posting
I#F-7037 . Assistant/Associate
Professor-Psychiatry. Posting

•F·7038
ReH•rch
Resurch Support Spuiatist
Biochemical Pharmacology.
Post ing *R -96085 Researeb
TKbnidan It -Microbio logy.
Posling IR -97026

Non-CompeUUve/ Labor
Cleaalfled Civil Servi c e
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(SG-5) -Umvcr..ity
Residence Halls. Lme 1'4 ;4:2 I0

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CaroLe J. Camp. Center for

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136 Crofts, Of e-mail
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Tomonow. North

Our """ ......- Is 645-3785.

M•olc Reclt81
Elhabttb McNut~ flute,
Works by UB araduate compos·

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........

en. R,jchan Barrett Monon
Feldman and Olbcn. Baird.
Norlh Campus. Noon.

SpriiiC Sympoolu01

... Pr.-n

Sym posium on Membrane'
Protein Structure, U B
B•omcmbnnes Graduate Group
Univenity Inn. 8 a.rn.-4 p.m.
SIO. S l 5. S20 Call 819-2366

T•k• Our

Contemporary flute Reper·
toin., Elizabeth McNutt 211
Baird. Nonh Campm. 2-3:30
p.m.

D•a:tat•re

Prealdewt Review Board

To Wort!.
UB North and South Cam ·
puSH. 9: 15 a.m.- 2:30p.m

--tl"'l
Ope.n to membc:n or lhe un.ivrnity c:ommuaity with quH tioas on promotion prouss.
Prof. David Nyberg. PRB chau.
and Dr. Ken Levy. senior vtcc
provOJt. 330 Student Union.
Nonh Compos. 3 p.m.

S2.SO
Book Sale
l' r iends Room, Lock.V~ood
l1brary. North Campus
10 a.rn.-4 p.m. Hardcovers S2 ,
paperbacks S I; and pcnodicals
50 cemsliss~ Cash only.

Rua.aan Cutture Todlly
A Cognatln 1\bp of Russia at
the Millenlum, Pror. Kathleen
Parthe, Univ of Rochester. 930
Clemens. Nor1h Campus. II
a.rn.- 12:20 p.m

Student

P-trr RNdiiiC

Winnen of Academy of

Amukan Pods contest,
Friends of tbe University Li·

brarles Uodercraduate poetry
prlu , Arthur Anlrod Memo-rial Award a nd Scribbler 's
Prlu. Spec ial Collections Reading Room, 420 Capen. North
Campus. Noon.

Anatomr and Cell Bloloey
Seminar
Cytoklnr a nd Adrenergic In ·
te rac:lions in the Brain, Dr
Robert N Spengler. US Dept or
Pathology. 306 Farber South
Campus 12:30 p.m

Loan CounHII..,
PreMntatlon
O ffi ce of Fin11mcial Aid a nd
Stud ent Accounts. Student
Union Theater North Campus
3 30 P·"'·
Pharmaceutic• Seminar
Nitric Oxide In lnleslinal
bchemkaJ,fReperfwdon Inju ry,
Ashish Khanna. 508 Cooke
North Campus. 3:30 p.m.
Phralca Colloquium
Diffraction : From Young's
Slits to W -Bosons, Prof.
Michael A.lbrow. Fenni National
Acce lentor Labontory. 205
Natural Sciences. Nonh Cam·
pus. 3:45 p.m
Mualc Lecture a.rtea
On Contemplation and
Other Excnsn ; or, Rrpruen·
ta t ions of PhUo!M)phy In Ope I'll
BufTs, 1765-1790, Edmund J.
G€Xhring. Univ of Georgia 2 11
Bai rd North Campus 4 p.m

Forum. 146 Diefendorf.
South Campus. 7 p.m.

.,._.,. Sert••

P-atloolaftSAI-

Toni Morrbon.
Mains1..1ge. Center for the
Aru. North Campus. 7:30
p.m. SI O, $1 3, $1 6.

puler, Charles
Van Loan,
COC"'''ell Univ. 205
Diefendorf. South
Campus. 3 p.m.

Hloto&lt;y- E - l c
P.........,Lectar•
Whose Heritage, Ma nha
Norkunas. Center for
Ame rican History. Univ of
Texas. T)lc: day a her each lee ·
ture, the individual speakers will
conduc t hands-on consultations
with a variety of community and
policy groups. Buffa lo and Eric
County Historical Society. 7:30
p m. For more infonnation. call
C hristopher Payne. 829-3485.
ext. 309

UB Jazz EnHmble
Sam Falzone, conductor. Ba1rd
Nonh Campus 8 p.m

UUAB Movie
First Strike. Student Umon
Theate r. Non h Campus 9 p m

S2.50. S4. C• ll 645-2951

::nu2s
Pedlatrtc Grand Round•
Hemtology 101: Wbat Every
Pediatric Primary C are Prac·
tltiontr Nttds to Know About
Heml.as, Bydroc~les and Undescended 'hstldes, Phillip
Glick, M.D. Kinch Auditonum.
Children's Hospital 8 a.m

WNY Re&amp;Joul Commlttof the AIDerlcan Council
011 E.ducatiM AMtaal
Conference
Success Mapping: Leadership
from the lnJide Out. Center for
Tomorrow. North Campus 8· 15
a m $40. For more mformat1on.
call Chns Sauciuniac at 645
)544

Shine. Student Umonlne:ucr
North Campu~ . 6.30 p m S2 50.
S4 Call 645 -2957

Book Sale
Friends Room, Lockwood
L1brary North Campus
I 0 a.m -4 p m Hardcovers S2,
paperbacks S I: and period1ca lo;
50 C"e ntsliu ue Cash onl)

-

SL Rita's lAne. North Campus
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Call 829-2608.

DI.U....,IoiMd

UUAB Movie

Buffalo-Niapra Chapter,
Amertcan Stlttlatlcal
Auoc:latlon
Sta tb tlca l Consulta nts'

Campu~.

$65. For I'1'Mn: information.
co11 645-6140.

Chemlotry

P-trrc-.
Louis Zukofsky Conference,
John Taggan, Burton Halle n,
Paul Zui.ofsky, Joseph Conte.
Ira Nadtl. Mark Scroggins.
Michele l..eggou , Stephen
Fredman; organiz.ed by Roben
Creeley. Poetry/Rare Books
Room. 420 Capen. Nonh Cam ·
pus. 10 a.m -4:30p.m. Call645 ·
3810

De.,..tmental Semi...,
The Novel Role of Interferon·
Inducible Prot~ios in C ontrol
of L-&amp;kdin Adhesion. Dr
Sharon S. Evans. Dcpl. of Mo.
ltcular Medicine and hnmuool·
ogy. Roswell Part Cancer lnsti·
tutc. 244 Cary South Campus
11 ·4Sa.m

Aala .t Noon
G~oder G aps in Korean
Births, Jinyoung Kim . UB
Dept . of Economics I45A Stu ·
dent Union. North Campus
Noon

Nurstnc Lecture
Cost Analysis of Nurse Ma rr
aged Heallb Care Program for
the Uome.5eu., Jua nita Hunter
Ed.D .• FAAN . 825 Kimball .
South Campus Noon- I :30 p.m

Col'-lu•
Fora:s and lnteractions In
1\toJttular Monlayen Stud l~
by STM, AFM, Surfatt Spec·
trosroptes and Mol«ule Cof'rals, Prof. Thomas Beebe. Univ
of Utah. 21 S Natural Sciences.
North Campus. 3:30p.m.

Phr.ac. Seminar
Transverse: Quantum C ur·
rents lo MesoM:Oplc Solids,
Prof. Salvador Godoy. UNAM .
422 Fronczak. North Campus.
3:45p.m.

Free

Louls Zukofs ky CoDfertnct:,
John Taggart, Burton Hallen,
Paul Zukofsky. Joseph Coote, lra
Nadel, Mark Scroggins, Michele
Leacott. Stephen Fredman; orpnized by Robert Crecley. Poetty/
Rare Books Room, 420 Capen.
North Campus. 10:30 a.m.-1
p.m. Call 645-38 10 .

Ufe Worttahop
Stand-Up Com~y. 1-2 p.m
Call 645-6 125 .

Dence
Pic k of the C rop : Ha nsel and
Mainstage, Center for
the Arts. Nonh Campus. 2 p.m.
and 7:30p.m. S5 -SI4 .

G n!:t ~l .

Rec:lt.l

Crtcket Club
Alumni A~na. North Campus
3:3()..5·30 p.m.

VolleJl&gt;all
Alumni Art:na. Nonh Campus
7· 15-9: 15 p.m.

sa.., ...thoven crcle
Muir String Quartet. Slee.
North Campus. 8 p.m. S4. SS .
SB. SIO
lnternatJOftaJ Folk

D...:! riC
AU tevels. 2 Diefendorf South
Campus. 8· 11 p.m Free Sponsored by Graduate Student As·
wciation.

Alumni Art.nL Nonh Campus.
lla .m.· l p.m.
NaY)'

R.-ne T1111DIIIC

Natatorium. North Campus.
l -4p.m.
Sbhw. Student Un10n Theatt.r.
Nonh Campus 2 p.m. S2 .50. S4 .
Call 64S-2957

aot11 AB-al sprtnc
Cllnlc8lllay

Lectar•

lndocN' Soccer

Rembra.odl at tbc Thru bokl.
Professor Susan Donahue:
Kuretz.ky. Vassar College. Audt·
tori um. Albright-Knox An Gallery 2 p.m Frtt to UB students.
faculty. staff

Tournament

Concert

Alumni Arena. North Campus
8a.m.-8p.m

Fac ulty Recital, Andrea
Blanchard-Cone. v1olin. Fneda

Rationinc of Uu llb Care.. Bu f·
falo Marriott. 1340 Mi llenpor1
Hwy. 7:30 a.m.- Noon. To regis·
tcr, ca ll 829-2778

Hlstatlns: Promislnc ADtifun·
&amp;al Tbrr:rapeulk A~nts, Dr.
Libuse Bobek. UB Dept. of Oral
Biology. 1348 Farber. South
Campus. 4 p.m.

ute-...op

-·-

Fred~ Start! Bow to Qu jt
Smok.lo&amp;· 5:3()..6:30 p.m.

IAcblre

Tnasculturalism: AsiuAme:riea.a. Women ArtJsts,
Prof. Margo Machiday, New
Yort Univ. Scrttning Room.
Center for the Aru. North Cam·
pus. 1 p.m.

Spec:llolkreeMnC
St.alrway to Heaven. Student
Union Theater. North Campus.
7:30p.m. WWII film. tied up in
rights controvusy, is rarely sec:n.
Sponscnd by UB Center for
Studie.s ln American Cultun: and
English Dept. fro&amp;ram in
Folk.lore, Mythology and Film
Studies. Frtt and open to the
public.

CopltJve Science
Colloquium
Warning and Interact ive M ul·
limedia, Rog~::r C. Shank, Institute for Learning Sciences.
Nonhwestc:m Univ 225 Natural
Sciences. North Ca.mpuJ. 7:30
p.m

Quarterback Brunch

UUUMovle

Scl..ce ........

Mualc
Master C lass, We1-Pm Kuo.
v1olinist. Muir Stnng Quanr:t.
Slce North Campus 2 30 p m

P-trr~-

Udo K.astmets. Estonian-Canadian new music composer.
Hallwall s. 249S Main St .
6·30 p.m. Pan of UB's Lou1s
Zui.ofsky Conference . Call 64538 10.

Enwlr011111eatal
En&amp;Jneerlnc-

In-Situ Remediation of Contaminated Groundwa ter, Dr
Tim Sivavcc, General Elec tric
Research and Dc:vdopmcnt
Center. Natural Scu:nces Nonh
Campus 1 p m

AJumoJ Arena. North Campus.
10:30 a.m.· 10:30 p.m.

·•-•otrr ...........

Hlatorr and EcoDOIIIIC
l't.WIIC Lectar•
Heritace Tourism as Econom ic
Devdopmenl : Tips, Tech·
aiques, and Tnps. Elaine. Van
S. Cannichael, Economic Researchers Associates. Washing·
ton. D.C Tbe day after each lee·
ture . the in&lt;hvidu.l speakers will
conduct hands-on consu ltations
wtth a vanety or community and
policy groups. BuffaJo and Eric
County His10ricaJ Society. 7·30
p.m. For l1lOft: information. call
Christopher Payne. 829-348S.
eJI:t. 309

Muafc
UB Conte m porary EnKmb~ .
Jeffrey S1adelman . d1rcctor
Slu Nbnh Campus 8 p.m

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NfW YORI AT BUFFALO

Apnl 17 1997 Vol u mt.• 28 No 28

UNIVIIISII'Y AIIIUFMLO

State University ofNew Yom

http:/ j www.buffalo.e du / r e port er /

Senate discusses proposal
·to tighten policy on 'R' grades
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News Services Associate Director

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PROPOSAL FROM the Faculty Senate's Grading Committee to tighten the policy governing the
awarding of administrative resignations, or "R"
grades, and address what many say is the increasing use of the " R" grade by students to "clean up their
records" was discussed by the Faculty Senate at its meeting
on April 8.

\ Hearing panel to analyze
·options .on reorganizing
arts and sciences
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News Services Associate Director

ROVOSTTHOMAS HEADRICK has created a hearing panel
to collect eviden~ and provide an analysis of the two options
on the table to reorganize the arts and sciences at UB .
The panel consists of a professional stal"f member, a dean
and lhree faculty members from areas outside of the arts and sciences.
It will hear evidence, both written and oral, on the options and has
been given a target date of June 20 by Headrick to present its repon
outlining ..the preferred course for the university to follow in connection with the proposed reorganization."
That report will be forwarded to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Faculty Senate's
Academic Planning Committee for their comment.
,President William R. Greiner is expected to make a
fmal decision by July.
Once that decision is made, Headrick said he will

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appoint one or more comminees of faculty and staff
from the affected areas to assist in the process of
review and analysis of issues that need to be resolved during the transition. The target date for the formation of the
new structure is Summer 1998.
In his academic planni ng report, Headrick has proposed two options for reorganizing the arts and sciences: merging the facuJties of
Arts and Letters, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences and Mathematics
into a College of Arts and Sciences or combining Arts and Letters and
Social Sciences into a College of Arts, H umanities and Social Sciences and merging Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences into a Co llege of Science and
Engineering.
n a memorandum to the university community. Headrick said the
hearing panel will hear evidence. bo.th written and oral. on these two
options. It also wi ll consider "local opt ions," or proposals from sing le
departments or significant cohesive groups within a department to be
placed within some academic uni t other than an Arts and Sciences
College. The full text of Headrick's memorandum is available at http:
/fwings.bulfalo.edu/provostJHearingPanel/
Members of the hearing panel are Arlene Alben. assoc iate professor of biochemistry; George Bobinski, dean of the School of Information and Library Science; Elizabeth Mensch, professor of law; Michael
Stokes, director of the Office of Student Multicultural Affairs. who
will serve as panel convenor, and John Thomas, associate dean for
international programs in the School of Management.
The panel membership was selected from outside the affected rae-

I

Continued on page 3

In introducing the resolution ,
Committee C h air Thomas
Schroeder. associate professor of
learning and instruction, noted
that there have been a growing
number of requests for the retroactive awarding of "R'· grades.
In the fall 1995 semester, there
were 609 courses for which students requested "R'· grades weU
alter the deadline, he said. Of
those requests. 527, or 87 percen~
were approved. In the spring 1996
semester, there were 925 such requests, with 809. or 87 percent,
being approved.
" I would be concerned that the
word has gotten out among un dergraduate students that it is possible to get these requests a pproved, even in somewhat questionable circumstances,'' he said.
ln fact, he added, one admin-

istrator who is responsi ble for
considering requests for administrative resignations told him that
many students who request these
grades retroactive ly "are de fa cto
cleaning up their records ."

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urrent policy allows a student who experiences ex traordinary
circumstances-such as a len gthy illness-to resign fTom a specific
coijrse wirhout a Q .P.A. penalty
up to II weeks alter the beginning of the semester for first-time
freshmen and first -time transfer
studems. and up to eight weeks
for aU others. The student must
have supportin g documentat-ion
and the approval of the instructor
of the course.
But . Schroeder said, there
have been numerous cases where
students see k administrative ''Rs''

well after the deadline.
To address thi s. the committee
proposed a provision that would
require that st udents seeking "R"
grades after the deadline resign
from all course s talc.en during the
semester.
Students who are able to com plete some. but not all. of their
co urses during a semester can
apply for an inco mplete.
Schroeder said.
This ··au-or-nothing" sti pulation had prompted some opposition among members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. who thought it would prove
a hardship for students, while
adding significantly to the
workload of faculty members
who would be inundated by requests for i.ncompletes.
Some senators agreed.
Powhatan Wooldridge , associate professor of Nursing. said that
while he supponed the general
intent of the policy, he thought it
would be a mistake to "formulate
policies in a rigid fashion when
there may be numerous exceptions to the policy that can validly be made:·
Conunued on page 2

UB, Xerox form alliance to collaborate
in research, technology, training
BJ ARTHUR PAQE
News Serv1ces Director

THE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo
and The Document Company.
Xerox have signed a five-year
memorandum of understanding
outlining ways in which they will
provide benefits to each other.
Under the partnership. the two
will collaborate in areas including research. information technology, and education and trainin g.
It is the first university-wide
pannership agreement for UB
The agreement was sig ned by
UB Senior Vice Pres ident Roben
J. Wagner and Maryann J. Lawler.
Xerox senior vic e president.
Xerox is an $18 billion global
enlell'rise wtth more than 90.(X)O
employees. 18 .000 of whom are
employed in New York State.
Wagner said Lhat as UB examines ways to provide support and
resources for the future, it increasingly will be looking at alliances
with compapies and institutions.
..There is a spectrum of in·
volvement we can have with outside concerns," he explai ned .
'They can range from an exdu·

sive contract for a good or services. like the 10-year exclusive
contract we have with Coke that
provides the univer sity with
$220.000 a year. to memoran ·
dums and partnerships. which are
not a contract , but which have
benefits for the uni versi ty.
··we·re look ing for mutual
benefits. We get something from

the relationship. the other organization gets something from its relatio nship with us ."
Wagner added. "Other mstitu tions are doing this and we are
beginning th is as well. We probably are the leader in SUNY in
thi s regard. but certainly not
among our peers.··
Michael Brannigan, vice president and general manager for
Xerox's Upstate New York C ustomer Business Unit. described
the understanding between Xerox
and UB as reinforcing "Xerox ' s

commitment to pubhc mstitulions
of higher learning.
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""''1M ext-.cl

··we have an excellent opponunity to showcase the benefits of our
document products and services as
Lhey re late to supporting UB's aca·
demic and business missions."
Brannigan said. ··we·re both m the
busmessofknowledge transfer. We
believe UB will serve as our bench·
mark for alliances wtth olher col leges and universi::es ...
The agreement. covenng the
penod from reb 18 . 199 7.
through Feb. 17. 2002. rna~ be
extended for an addiuonal fi ve
years by mutual wrinen consenl
The two panners will meet semt·
annually to evaluate the sucres!'! of
the agreement and to 1denlify a~.: ­
tion steps for the next su month:-.
Wagner said the university w1ll
"support Xerox by mak.mg avail able university expertise and
equipment on a cost recovery basis. UB wiiJ also evolve its technology acquisitions in the future
to provide for a much more inteConunued on page 3

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FACULTY SENATE
Continued from page 1
Michael Ryan, associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said that in
hi s experience. "the majority of these requests are for legitimate reasons."
The all-or-none provision is too rigid,
he said, malting it "difficult to deal with
real problems that students have."
But other faculty members strongly supponed the ali-or-nothing provision.
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, said that he has noticed in the past few
years a marked increase in the number of
students requesting administrative "Rs."
" I can look back through my records and
see that the studeniS who have health problems in November are aJso the students
who got 'Ds' and 'Fs' on the first midtenn,"

he said.
He ac kn ow ledge~ that there cenainly
will be some legitimate requests for "R ..
grades .
"But it's very clear to me that the administrati ve withdrawals are being very

much overused in my classes," he said.
While he added that many of these requesiS
are accompanied by documentation. "the
coincidence is just too much for me to believe; students are usi ng these to clean up
their records."
Chuck Fourtner, professor of biological

sciences, noted that the deadline for requests for administrative "Rs" comprises
half or a course.
" And so if a student goes through half the
course or tbree-quatten of !be coune and tbel1
comes back and asks for an administrative
'R,' basically what they've done is bypass
the particular time thai they were allowed to
make tbc request. they've done poorly in tbc
course and essentially they W1llll out of it, they
don't want the grade."
Fourtner said he's beard the argument
"about being really fair to the student.
''The problem is, that wben you ' re fair
to that student, you 're unfair to every other
student in the course," be said.
Fourtner added thai studeniS who receive
fair grades, whatever they may be, "should
not be treated unfairly by the squeaking
wheels who know how to wor1&lt; the system
to get their 'Ds' and 'Fs' taken care of."
If faculty are unwilling to grant an incomplete simply because a student was sick for
the final exam, be added, "!ben we have to
rethink our responsibilities to the studeniS on
this campus. We have to consider the incomplete as a reliable designation of a student's
activity for a course for a semester."
Jeannette Ludwig, associate professor
of modem languages and literatures, said
that many of the requesiS for "Rs" she re-

ceives come as much as two years aft&lt;:r the
student haa taken the course.
This "signals a kind of cavalier attitude
toward one's progreu toward degRe and
toward the sort of implicit conlniCt that
signing up for councs maintains," sbe said
She urged the commiw:e to add a sentence to the resolution "that governs the
pllilosopbyoftbcdocument; thai is, we have
to recognize that some students will get
grades thai they' U be disappointed with."
Students may withdraw from a course
for iUness or other reasons, but there haa
to be recognition that there is no1 a loophole for every situation, ~or otherwise there
is this sense that 'Is' are an entitlement."
It must be pointed out, she slleUed, that
incompletes may be granted to students if,
for some compelling reason, they are not
able to complete the final portion of the
work in a course, providing they are passing the course~ an administrative withdrawal is for some compelling reason "lbat
does not have to do witb academic progress
toward completion of the course."
Senate Olair Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Depanment of Political Science, said the resolution, with likely revisions, Will come before the Senate for a vote before the end of
the semester.
•

. CommiHees report to Senate on academic plan
J SUE WUE1'CHEJI
ews Services Assoc•ale Director

\

THE FACULTY MNATE continued its reew of .Provost Thomas Headrick's academ1c
anning document at its April 8 meeting, re iving interim reports from three standing
oommiuees charged with exami ning specific
a~pects of the plan.
'The Acadeudc PlanniD&amp; Commhlee.
which artemp(Cd to su.mmarize the various coo·
cems and comments surrounding the planning
document, has concluded that a reorganiution
of the ans and sciences must be undertaken be·
fore any other aJterations to the university's operating structure can be carried out, committee
Olair Dennis Malone. SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department of Elecuical and Computer Engineering, told SCilliiOn.
"1'he major issue facing the institution at the
moment. if it is accepted that the goals of the
proposed changes (as stated in the planning
document) are correct. is that many ofthc:sc: al ·
tc.r.ttions in operational structures cannot be ad·
oqwuely carried out, or even properly analyzed.
until the general question of the Faculty strucrures is determined. ln other words, what about
the aru and science faculty. or the alternatives
proposed for considc:rationT' he asked.
Malone said that while some faculty feel

Headrick is moving

to6 fast in suggesting

changes to the present throe-unit structure for
the arts and sciences, there is a loog histOI)I of
discussion on the topic. And although many feel
the present structure is floe, ''in view of the difficulties extant with the programs, it seems that
the present suucture is noc flllC at all." he said.

He DOled thai Headridt willse&lt; ~a panel to
~the~ of the arts and 1c:c:tm..

With rcsolubonofthetsSUeexpededbytbe faU.
··~ntil that ~~ F~ty ~isba·
sically out.lined--lherc.1s little sense.m attempl·
ing co analyu. che dc:tailsdthe proposal." he said.
. Some of the proposed c~anges in the plan-

nmg document are mnovauve, some are relative\y minor, Malone said.
"' Whatever the ~suJts prove to be , it is
clear that the planrung document has ~ked
the cradle of our complacency, and that IS
perhaps long overdue," he added.
n.
PrlorttiM Committee has dj.
vidcd its work into three pans, said Jobn
Naylor, professor of history and a member of
the committee wbo was presenting the panel's
rqxxt in place of OWr l'eler N"ocl&lt;mon, wbo
was out of town. Naylor stressed that he was re·
porting on the committee's work-in-progress.
He said that three subcommittees have been
established to examine responsibility-centered
management and at what level this conccpt will
operate: to look at the methodology and the
numbers associated with the planning document, which will focus on the National Research Council quartile ratings and the validity
of the rankings as they apply to UB, and to assess the n:soon:es .-led to support the plan.
Naylor expanded on work of the resource
assessment subcommittee because, he said, he
was a member of that panel and was more famHiar with its work. That panel will coooentralc
on three issues ''that are really the core of what
wouJd QX\Stitule the increased ftmds thlr:R

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needed intheprovosfs jt..rgroenltoii&lt;XXllllpiishhis

porticuW desRIO do thinp &lt;liffi:mllly," he Slid.

n. firM: .._. is the usu.mptioo that there
will be a oons:tant base ofswe tax suppxt for
opc:nuing funds. That ..assumptioo," Naylor
said, was viewed with some ..skcptici.un"
within the su.bcommittce because "'we've seen
nothing like that over the past Several yean.
The second issue is increased tuition rev·
enue for UB, either swe-set or differential,
he said, ooting that Headrick assumes that tuition wiiJ increase over the fli'St four yean of
the plan. This issue is viewed by the committee as ''a kind of minefield to negotiate," be
said, given lhe fact that state tax suppon. and
tuition seem to be linked. If lhere is movement in one direction, there is likely to be no
movement in the other, be said.
The third issue, which Naylor called the
..turnover pool," deals with the 1-to-1 faculty
replacement rate for most depanments. Scnior faculty members with advanced salaries
would be replaced, upon their retirement,
with junior faculty hired at much lower sala·
ries, he said. "The deparunent would have the
replacement; the Provost's Office would have
the differential," he said, noting that the djf.
ferential would be used by Headrick to fund
those items that he hu identified u priorities.
The Budget Priorities CapmitiOC., a wbole
will f3ise two adl!iticnaJ issues 'W'iJh the provost.
Naylor said. 1hec . . the &lt;Xlllt lnlbmefiosct stiltifw the erqillsis from maqinaldocknl Jl'lllll"l" tD
irM'sq: in t1:1iLWr's ~ llld ifd::ae ae any
~~ineilherdth::tv.oopionspo-

poacd in lbe pm I) nnp:ize kiltS llld &amp;Ci::nas.
The Uaivmily c....- ~is
focusing on the centen and instirutes that have
been proposed in the planning doeument, said
committee OWr Boris Ajbini, professor of miaobiology. "We feel thai the gnvernance SIJUCtuR: has to he tbougbl through and in place bcforecenl&lt;rS and inslillll&lt;$ ""'&lt;=lied," Albini
said. This ~stnaure IDJSI tala: U.Oacoount the relaDonship ctthe"""""'
10 the dcpWnera, espocially in l&lt;lmS of prornc&gt;tion, the grming of depes 1R1 financin&amp; he Slid.
Albini said the committee also will deal with
such l&lt;ll&gt;i&lt;' as 1J1C11CB of deportmeots and
scboOO. includin&amp; the SlruclUre that is to he followed and ensurin&amp; faculty inpu1; the ralionale
that is being made to bock up pllticular rmort~­
mendalioos in the plan: outside reviews of UB
progrwns, bow they are made and whether they
relleci reality or are just peroepDoo. and the

and-

univenity's mission SlalemCDl, wbicb, he said.
seems to address oaly the peroq&gt;1ioo of UB,
rather that the acbievemenls of the uoivenity.
The""""""- areexpociOd

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mii-med school
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HIS IS NOT YOU R doctor 's
medical school. ID fact,.it's for just
about anybody b.u doCion.
On 1\aday,May6, tbc UB ScD:lol
of Medicine and Biomedical Scieoa:s will
lan:b ilsMini-Med Scbocl, a..,.;.son.a...s
dealiD&amp; witb IUbjecla covered in tnlditional
modicol&amp;:bool butped !DaJI!III"'IIIIIimco.
The foculty will be composed or several of the most dynamic teKben and occomplisbed scientists on tbe medicalschool faculty. Lectures will be beld from
7-9 p.m_ on six consecutive Tuesdays
through June 10 in Butler ·Auditori- in
Fuher Hall oo the South Campos.
Class size will be limited only by the
auditorium's 280-some seats. Coot for the
ruu curriculum is $2S per penon, with special rateo for couples, senioro and students.
TheminHnedocllool CODCqlllasbeen lriod
ll more than 30 U.S. medical&amp;:bools and las
been wildly successful. Harty Sultz, DD.S,
M.PR.. UB professor of socialiiJd ~ve
medicine, dirot:urdUB's lbltb SerWzs R.&amp;searm Ptogne and "dean" r:1 the Mini-Med
Scbocl, said tbc idea is ID help people uo:lerstand tbc scim:z behind medicine. 'This program will address tbc public's desire for beat:r
underl;aanding and knowledge &amp;boot health and
disease," he said.
he six lectures will be devoted to
anatomy, physiology, neurology, pharmacology, microbiology and immunology.
Cowses and lectwers are:
• May 6-Cardiology 101: "The Hea!t
is a Wondetful Organ" and "Sometimes It
Needs Repair," Perry Hogan, PhD., professor of physiology, and Susan Graham, MD.,
associate professor or medicine.
• May 13-NeurouolomyjNeuroourYP'Y 101: ''Stroke Can Curreot.ly Be 'rre..lln
A V,nety d Ways" and "New MediOds Are
Em:tging For Dealing Wttb Sin£," Linda
Henhey, MD, Ph.D, professor of neurology
and researdl assislanl professor of pharmacology and toXicology, and L .Nelson Hopkins DI.
M.D,jXOI'essoranddlair, ~dJIIeu..
I'OSUIJII'IY.
• May 20-lmmUDOiocY 101: "Your
Body is A H=," Rogrr OII1Dingham. PhD,
associate professor of microbiology and irnrnunology anddira:taoftheEmest \&gt;{"tldJskyCenter for Immunology.

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• MayrT~Dio­

101: ''The Mic:robesAre 0.. 'lbem: It's a
Wa" and "New Diseases Are l'morgin&amp;; Old
Ones~ The WarConinues," Alan
M. Reynanl, Ph.D, jXOI'essord phaonacology
and toXicology, and Alan J. l..esse, MD, ..,...
cialc proCessor of modicine and ph8r:macology
and toXicology.
• J wae 3-0orolocr 10l :GenesGiveUs
Ufe; Genes Gi"" Us Canczr" and "Slowly, But
Surely, Wefim Ways toCornboiThis Disease,"
l'l:ler Aplan, MD, assislant proCessor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, and
Daniel Green, MD, po{essorof pediatrics.
• Jwae 10-Psydliolry/l'sydlatborapy
101: ''IbeOanistty of!be Brain" and 'Th&lt;rapeuics of tbc Mind," krold C. Willi«, Ph.D.,
and QQic M. Smith. MD, profess&lt;n ofpharmaoology and toXicology.
Rqisualioo is required; everyone oompleting tbc aniculum will receive a certificate.
All faculty l.ecturen are donating their
services; costs of developing the Mini-Med
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Reporter Editor

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HE UB COUNCIL would late
on a new and expanded role in
university governance under
recommendatioD.S oudiDed last
week by UB President William
R. Greiner.
Greiner detailed his vision for the COUD·
cit Aprii!O at the group's final meeting of
the academic year and in the coolinuatioo
of a diacussioo that began on Feb. 6.
1be cbangea in form and structure that
Greiner is recommending are "lbe culmination of a lot of con venations over sev·
eral yean," be said.
"I think we ought to manage ourselves
dilferenUy... Jt's time for us to consider this.
1be future of the university is going to de·
pend on a variety of efforts," including
changes to the cooncil's role, Greiner said.
1be changes Greiner is recommending
would give the council more power and te·
sponsibility in maners concerning both UB
and SUNY.
Among the areas Greiner said be would
like to see the cooncil involved in is the review of major institutional plans, which then
would be submiaed, with oouncil rcc:ommendations, for approval by the SUNY Trustees.
" We might wake up a sleeping lion, but
I think on a campus this size the council
should ... establisb a direct and important
working relationship with the (SUNY)
Board of Trustees while the president bas
a direct and important worlcing relationship
with the chancellor," Greiner said.

of regulatioos governing the care, custody
and managem&lt;lllt of lands, grounds, build·
ings and equipment, and in the review of
UB 's proposed budget reqtaU and recom·
meodalions made to the SUNY Trustt:ea.
Greiner said be wants to seethe development of citizens • committees that would advise the oouncil on issues coming before it
"We've made a lot of decisiOD.S that we
think we did really weU, but we'd have
done much bener if we bad coosulted with
volunteen and otbers," Greiner said.

lbeappoinlmentofcitiuns' comminees
would be a belleflt 001 only because of the
"careful work and full public debate" that
would be involved, but also because appoinlin&amp; UB alumni who live out of state to
these cOmmiJsees would provide the univer:
sity wilb &amp;llllll'e national presence. be added.
Greiner compared the proposed model
for the council to those in place at the University of Dlinois and Indiana University.
schools that are run "more as public corporations than state institutions.
"The fact that they've been (run as) pub-

lic corporations is one of the greatest
sources of their strength," he said. 'The

time to make these changes is right
now... but we have to seize the moment.
We 've got to change the way we're doing
some things to make it work."

Greiner asked the council to come back
in the fall with recommendation s on
whether it should go in this direction. He
asked the council to "review. reconsider

and reconfirm" UB's mission and vision
statement as well as other documents to ensure they are consistent with the council's
goals and its work .

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n other business. Greiner praised lhe ef
forts of two departing councilmembers.
John F. Kopczynski Sr. and James P.
Phillips, wbo are being succeeded by Jeremy M. Jacobs Sr. and Gerald S . Lippes.
Jacobs and Lippes were appointed to the
council last week by Gov. George E. Pataki.
Noting KopczYDJki 's and Pbillips' long
service to the university, Greiner said they

had "served extraordinarily well" and
"both were ... members of the council who
saw fit to appoint me president, and I'm
eternally grateful for that."
Council Chair Lawrence Castellani also
thanked Kopczynski and Phillips for the1r
..commitment and support to the university."
The council also passed a resolution
recommending that the name of UB ' s
women's athletic teams be changed from
the Royal s to the Bulls.
.. We're all one institution and we ' re all
one team," Greiner noted in proposing the
change to the council.
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the oouncil might be asked to con
could include, for example. the
sal or improvement of the faculty and other personnel, expansion or restric·
tion of student admissions, appraisal or improvement of academic programs and of standards for earning degrees, expanSion of

institutional plants, appraisal or improvement
of student activities and bousing and other
major plans as determined by the SUNY

Trustees.
1be council also would play a more in fluentia1 role in the recommendation lo the
SUNY Trustees of candidates for appoint·
ment as campus president; in the formation

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grated infrastructure across the campus.
buill on hardware. software and services.
consumables and consulting avaiJ;lble from
Xerox. The university also agreeS to serve
as a Xerox beta test site for emerging tech·
nologies."
UB also will make available lO Xerox
education and training for its employees
through formal degree programs and specially designed classes and training sessions.
1be umversuy and Xerox. according to
the agreement. will identify areas of mutual interest in the evolving strategic in·
formation technology planning of the university and, where possible, ...the univer·
sity will enter into a sole or primary
supplier purchasing agreement with Xerox
for document management services to include hardware . sofrware. services .
consumables and consulung. To suppon
this exclusive purchasing agreement.
Xerox will guarantee that the university receives its most favorable discounting arrangemem ..
While under a conLract such as the one
with Coke the uruver.;ily agrees to buy onJy
the products of the company with which It
has the agreement. Wagner said that with
a pan.nership individual units retain the
option to decide whether to purchase Xerox
products.
Other benefits 10 the university from the
agreement include a commiunent by Xerox
to :
• Actively recruit srudents for internships and students graduating from UB for
JObs .
• Provide the university with event and
marketing support .
• Suppon UB 's athletics program in
ways that include athletic scholarships.
• Support Student Affairs programming.
• Support the university 's effons 1n
public service and urban affairs.
• Develop with the University Libraries a collaborative effort addressing a mutual interest in information technology for
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ulties, Headrick said. in order to evaluate
evidence from a "clisinterested point of
view."
Headrick stressed that the "present tripartite separation of the traditional arts and
sciences fllculties and programs no longer
serves the needs of this university, and thus
some change is necessary."
These changes that are needed are not
momentous, he noted. " Basically. they are
attempts to locate decisions and administrative support in slightly different places
within the universMy for our arts and sci-

ences depanments," he said. " In the short
run, the changes will have little real effecl
on the university; over time, they may and
should change the university, I think beneficially, by creating interactions among
faculty and students and developing programs and initiatives that might not otherwise occur."

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Hcadrick outlined numerous reasons for
adopting either of the two options proposed
in his planning document.
He noted that although arts and sciences
faculty members continue to claim that his
aim is to relegate arts and sciences to second-class status within the un iversity.
" nothing could be further from the truth ."
A College of Arts and Sciences would.
by its size and importance in the uni versity, be the major academic unit. he said,
noting that the three faculties now teach
61 percent of the undergraduate-student
FfEs and grant 40 percent of the undergraduate degrees.
"A single Arts and Sciences dean would
be better able to achieve and deliver more
cohesive approaches to undergraduate and
graduate programs than is possible under
the current clivided arrangement. •· he said.
Moving the leadership and direct resources for undergraduate education from
the Provost's Office to the Dean's Office
(in a College of Arts and Sciences) would
encourage tbe units to treat university requirements and general education as edu -

cational responsibilities of the unit. rather
than as impos itions lO be funded by 1he
provost. he said.
While it is conceivable 10 split Natural
Sciences from the other Ans and Sciences,
since aspects of science education and research do differ in some ways from educa·
tion and research in the ans. humanities and
the social sciences. it sho uld not be iso·
lated as a separate faculty. Headri ck sa•d.
Exlensive science education and re search occurs. and is supported . m other
parts of the unjversity. he said.
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A merger of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Engineering makes sense .
Headrick said, since the two faculties share
a substa ntial number of students who de pend on integrated courses and teac hing.
Faculty in both unil s depend heavily
upon external research suppon. creating
some "commonality of academic c ulture."
he added .
And. with 239 faculty and 4.400 student
FfEs. a College of Science and Engineering would create a ''significant confluence
of resources and access to ex ternal sup·
port," Headrick sai d.
lf a decision is made 10 merge Natural
Sciences with Engineering, Joseph
1\Jfariello, dean of the Faculty of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics. has indicated
a willingness to step down by Summer
1998 and Mark Karwan. dean of the school
of engineering, would become dean of the

new college. Headnck sa1d.
Karwan would appoint, after an internal or external search. a deputy dean drawn
from one of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics disciPlines.
A search would be held to identify a
dean of the College of Arts. Humanities and
Social Sciences 10 oversee the merger of
Social Sciences and Ans and Letters.
If all three facuhies are merged into a
College of Arts and Sciences. a search committee would be fonned to find candidates
for the position of dean of ans and sciences.
Headrick S8Jd.
lbe issue of the arts and sc1ences must
be resolved before: VB can move on to other
aspects of his planning document. he srud.
'The issue tends to dominate discussions
with 1he faculty in the ans and sc1ences. and
crowd ou1 considered exami nau on of other
proposals. and the implementauon of other
recommendations will depend significantl y
on the organization of the ans and SCiences
on this campus ... he said.
The issue is not new to campus. he sa.Jd.
noting that the Triggle CommiSSIOn spent
nearly the enure 1993·94 academ1c year
studying the restructunng of the ans and
sciences. The majority of the cornrruss1on
favored the fonnation of a College of Arts
and Sciences, while a minority opposed
such a structure.
"'Tltus. the tssue presented now IS not
new and does not need extensive and ex tended consideration to arrive at a sensible
decision," Headrick said.
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Superconductivity
Magnetic field may enhance it
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News Services Editor

AGNETISM DESTROYS
superconductivity. Physicists take that premise as
gospel .
But according to a 1986
theory initially considered outlandish, superconductivity should reappear in a material if it is oriented precisely in Hoe
with a very high magnetic field.
New experiments conducted by UB
physicists have demonstrated the strongest evidence yet for this strange and extremely promising phenomenon, called
reentrant superconductivity.
this phenomenon exists, it means
the complete opposite of everything that
is known about superconductivity and

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magnetism," said Michael N011gbton, associate professor of physics and chemistry at UB and lead investigatOr.
The results may constitute the best
demonstration so far of an extn:mcly rare
type of interaction between electrons in a
superconductor. This type of interaction,
called p-wave spin, has only been seen
once before in nature, and its discoverers
were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
It has never been seen in a superconductor.
While the UB findings arc fundamental. the existence of reentrant superconductivity could have dramatic practical
applications, ranging from greatly improved energy storage to far more precise
magnetic resonance imaging.
The research is described in a paper

Physicians protest insurer action
Childs suffering linked to 'cheaper' drug
8J LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Edllor

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7 112-YEAR-OLD boy with cystic fibrosis landed in Children's
Hospital of Buffalo with a bowel
obstruction shortly after his insurer mandated substituting a cheaper, generic drug for the brand-name drug recommended and administered by his physicians. His physicians consider this action
Wld its repercussions blameworthy, and
have coined a term for it "'asfaliogcrtic
complicatiom."' lmllling medical publems
caused by the profit-based decisions of insurers. which they introduced in a caulionary leiter published in the Mardi issue of P.dialrics.
The term is derived from asfalia, the
Greek. word for insurance. The UB phy sicians think it is a growing problem and
that this boy's plight is not unique.
"An asfaliogenic complication is the
natural course of a decision based on
profit not quality" says Phi lip L. Glick. associate professor of pediatrics and surgery
at UB and one of the letter's four authors.
Staff at the local cystic fibrosis foun dation made 25 phone calls and sent six

faxes and 10 letters to~ insurer protesting the change in medication for the boy,
to no avail. Shortly afterward, the child
developed a condition called distal intestinal obstruction syndrome, or DIOS.
"We suspect that this patient's DIOS
was directly related to the inadequacy of
the gcocric pancrcalic enzymes that this
third-party insurer, 001 his physician, recommended." his physicians state in their
letter to P&lt;diarrics. "' ... a profit-motivated,
business decision was made that directly af.
fected medical care of a paticn~" the physicians write. "insw"ers deny that their policy
decisions are medical decisions. In their
view, if a physician deems a treatment ocv
cssary. the patient should shoulder the cost
whether or not it is a covered benefit
" In reality, many patients accept whatever medical care the insurer covers because they are unable to pay the additiortal
out-of-pocket COSL and they trusl that the
insurer will adhere to the physicians credo.
'Fus~ do no harm.' Asfaliogenic complications are inevitable when medical decisions
are made by parties whose credo is, 'Fust
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make a profit' ,"' they state.

publisbcd in Physical Revi&lt;W utters
(Vol. 78) authored by N011ghton and In
Jae Lee, a doctoral candidate in physics
ai UB and co-authored by researchers at
Princeton University.
The rcscarchen caution that they do
not yet have solid evidence of reentrant
superconductivity.
However, according to Naugbton and
Lee, results with their material, a lowtemperature, molecular superconductor(TMTSF)2PF,-&lt;lemonstrate several key
indicators that strongly suppon the existence of such a phenomenon.
"'We can sec this interesting behavior
because we worked so hard to orient the
crystal in the magnetic field, accordjng to
the 1986 theory," said Naughton. "If you
move it, this anomalous effect is gone.·•
Typically, Naughton explained, magnetic fields destroy superconductivity because the energy they generate perturbs
the close interaction between paiB of
electrons that is a prerequisite for superconductivity.
The most common way that a magnetic field destroys superconductivity is

II)' ELUN IIOUIU.UM
News Services Editor

R

ESEARCH AT UB is the first to provide a biochemical explanation for obesity
that could help pave the way for development of treatments .for the rondition.
Mulchand S. Patel, professor and chair of the Dcpanment of Biochemistry.
reponed in New Orleans on April 7 that research with rat pups has shown that
different tissues exhibit specific responses to hyperinsulinemia. the overproduction of
insulin that occurs in obesity.
The UB model is the fiBt to demonsuate chronic hyperinsulinemia precedes obesity. Working with rat pups born to mothers who were hyperinsulinemic and obese, the
researchers have measured the effect of chronic hyperinsulinemia on key enzymes in
the insulin-signaling pathway.
"Our results show that in the presence of an overprod uction of insulin. obesity develops because, while the functional activity of the insulin-signal transduction pathway
is decreased in liver and muscle tissue. its activity is increased in fatty tissue," said
Patel. '1bis information provides a biochemical basis for the development of obesity
and may make it possible one day to develop specific interventions for obesity."
Patel reponed the results at Experimental Biology '97, the annual meeting of the fed.
cration of American Societies for Experimental Biology. He conducted the work with
Malathi Srinivasan and Satyaprasad Vadlamudi, postdoctoral associates in biochemistry at
UB. Patel said the findings suggest the rat pups have an early metabolic setpoin~
which programs them to overproduce insulin early in life and become obese later on.
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This is because wbile tbe field may cbqe tbe
electroos' total energy, it doesn't cbange
the dill"mnoe in """'BY betwa:ri thom.
Naugbton said that the existence of pw~ve spin has been proven only once, in
supcrfluid helium; the discovery was so
profound that Cbe scientists wbo made it
were awarded Cbe 1996 Nobel Prize in
Physics.
But if p-wave spin is truly what tbe UB ~
scart:hers bave dctecled, this would be Cbe
first time that p-wave spin has been found
in a supctCODduc1or. "Our results may constitute the strongcs1 evidence yet for pwave supen:onductivity, sbolt of acwally
proving its existeDce." Naughton said.
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Improving computer chip fabrication

Snowmaking-machine approach used
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Explaining obesity: a biochemical first
Research could pave way for treatment

by dislurbin&amp; the orbital cf.
feet. wbete Cbe clec:lmns in •
'*'orbit each Olbcr, acquiri n g - and cocrgy
from the magnetic field.
Once this energy bca&gt;mes
~than thai which unites
Cbe two clcctrons, Cbe electroo pain break aport and
llllpCI"COIIducvity is suppreased.
The other way magnetic
fields Call destroy IIIIJIC"''D·
duclivity is when two clcctrons bave wbat is called opposite spin; this is wbcn in
addition to Cbe two cleclrons
orbiting one anolber, Cbey
also are spinning likt topS
but in opposite directioos,
called s-wave spin. Wben the
masnetic field is tumed on,
one electron gains cocrgy
while the Olbcr loses it
"If thai difference is bigger
than the amount of coergy
holding the electrons together, then they fly apart
and superconductivity is gone," explained N011gbtoo.
But when electrons exhibit the extremely rare phenomenon known as pwave spin, where both are spinning in the
same direction, the magnetic field cannot
destroy supen:oolb::livity by Cbe spir&gt;decL

T TEMPERATURES far hotter
than the sun's surface, UB
chemists are generating new
coatings and then dramatically
cooli ng them to, or even below. room
temperature before depositing them on
electronic devices.
By using such extremely higb temperatures and then quenching the bca1. the new
technique solves one of the trickier problems in computer-&lt;:hip fabricalion: how to
coot them while avoiding higb temperatures that can cause computer chip samples
to fail. This has bcco a serious drawback
for fabricators of expensive chips for research-grade supercomputers.
The technique-similar to that used
in snowmaking machines-also is an improvement because the coatings it produces arc always uoifonn and it removes
from the fabrication process toxic precursors utilized in conventional methods.
The new method. callcd Laser Assisted
Moltcular Beam Deposition (LAMBD),
has applicalions in faOOcaling a wide range
of thin films for usc in electronic and opco.
electronic l1lllaials and in fabricating uniform nanopowden forclectronics applications. according to James F. Garvey, professor &lt;1 chemisby and principal in&gt;esliglm:
Garvey discussed the research today
at an invited talk at the American Chemi·
cal Society's national meeting in San

Francisco. He conducted the work with
Robcn DeLeon, UB adjunct associate
professor of chemistry.
Funding for the work is being provided by several Small Business Innovation Research grants, funded by Wrigbt
Patterson Air Force Base through the UB
researchers' cooperative effort with
StruCtured Materials Industries, Inc.
(SMJ) of Piscataway, NJ.
The UB scientists envision their technique and the apparatus they devised to
impleMent it as eventually being marketed and sold as an accessory to expand
the capabilities of equipment used widely
in materials fabrication.
'We have developed a hybrid tech·
niq ue that marries the advantages of the
two conventional fabrication methods
and overcomes their disadvantages," said
Garvey. The new method also takes the
process for producing coatings for electronic devices a step further.
"Instead of simply sputtering a target
material from point A to point B, we're
chemically modifying it at the same time,"'
Garvey said. "What's key about our fabri.
cation method is that it causes cbcmica1
reactions that would be impossible to generate otherwise, and it does it all in DOC
step. It pro~ us with a way to cooduct
novel, high-tcmperatw" c;hcmistry."
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Leners

Provosrs academic plan:
it's hardly revolutionary

faculty member in ODe of the
"evil" profeuiooal acbooll, I fU&gt;d
tbe controversy over the Provost's
academic plan eodJeuly IJJllllin&amp;
for what oo ooe seema 'willing 10 aay. Sinee,
11 best u I can oell. we of the profeuiooal
scboola are all Neanclertbab iDleD! on destroying the "true" univonity, I IUJlPOI" that I
may be forgiven if I pick up my bluol rbelori-

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caJ club to comment.
Pin~ the problem that the Provost's plan
is oddressing aod !hal all soru of people seem
to miu is simple. There is not DOW, oor is
lh= likely 10 be in any foreseeable funue,
eoougb money from eilher the Sw.e of New
YO&lt;t or locally relain&lt;:d SIUdenllllitioo sufficient to support stand-alooe departments of a
size sufficient to create nationally prominent
scholarly groupings in mos1 of the tradi,tiooal
areas in the Arts and Sciences. The best we
are likely to do is to hold toW funds at their
current level and that is going to be a

struggle.
Second. in such a circumstance, it is a
plausible, though bard.Jy revolutionary, strategy for this university to attempt to identify
areas of knowledge where enough faculty

share teaching and research interuts such as
would make possible assembling groups of a
size sufficient possibly to reach national
prominence and then to foster the growth of
such groups. The proposed Centers and Institutes are just such groups. This is a less risky
strategy than 001 rn.aking such an attempt, a
choice that in all likelihood rem.iu tbe tradi tional areas in the Arts and Sciences either to
increasing national invisibility or to conversion to largely teaching programs such as arc
found in the state colleges. lbc academic
plan is thus an anempt to save scholarship
and teaching io the Arts and Sciences at the
university, DOt to destroy them .
Third, it is not obvious thal the Centers
and Jnsti[utes identified in the Provost's plan
are the groupings that wiU bring their participants national prominence. Better plans often
may be devised by lhe troops in lhe uenches
than by the generals on their mountain tops.
But, !hose groupings presenlly proposed by
the Provost come from discussion with inter·
ested facully. If such groupings are somehow
··wrong," thee it makes better sense to spend
time identifying more plausible groupings
than to rail about the demise of "the disci plines." An examination of the history of
higher education would show that the disciplines as we lcnow them arc an accident that
reflects the organiz.ation of lcnowledge in the
West at the time-late 19th and early 20th
centwy~f their creation. lbcy arc in no
sense "natural" divisions of the world, howeve~ familiar they are. In alllik.elihood, were
the modem university not to have taken fonn
at that time, but have been delayed in its organization the present day, changes in the organization of knowledge would have OC·
curred during the intervening years such as
would give us a very different set of disciplines , and th~s departments, in the university.
Fourth, the cheapest way to secure money
to support faculty engaged in teaching andresearch is to eliminate administration-deans.
associate deans and chairs. It is truly odd to
see faculty attempting to defend their disciplines by retaining the costs that are most expendable in any university. The level of professional insecurity lhus displayed is truly astonishing. since unintended.
Fifth, the best way to ensure the continuation of gnduate education in the Arts and
Sciences would seem to be by increasing the
number of graduate students. Master's candidates generally pay their way; it is never a
bad thing to add a terminal master's candidate of sufficien t qua lity. Doctoral candi·
dates, on the other had, most often follow fi.
nancial aid. Since the available pool of finan·
cial aid is not likely to be increased in even
the medium future, the most plausible way to
attract good graduate students is not by offer·
ing increasingly marginal and fragmented
programs from small deputmeniS, bul by
presenting programs that offer approaches not
obviously available elsewhere. While surely

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iiEFCMIER

Ulydlina but I IDill&lt;r Of "If you build i~ !hey
will come," if the groupings are sensible, if
!hey presenl approocbes that lalensed, odven lllnlW gnduate siUdeniS find inleTeSling, !hen
il seemalikely sucb SIUdenl will inquire. If
we cannot tum inquiry into matriculation
lheo we bave 1 more dilftCUII problem lhao
even the Provost is willing to 8dmit
Sixth and last., anyooc interesled in lhc fu ·
rure billory of the univenily ougbiiO be worried most aboul bow timid is the Provosl's
plan. II abolishes tittle. coosotidaleS only
lligblly more. '~ben: is oo idea in the plan
that bu DOl been around for 1 decade or
longer and it shows little effort to gauge
wbere knowledge groupi ngs will be in 20.
mucb leu 49 yean. The IJCIIeSI risk itposes
is that by tbc time it is fully implemented it
wiU be 100 tittle, 100 !ale. As an individual
whose scbolanhlp is in the iOCial sciences.
whose leisure reading includes a long-time
devotion to good science writing and whose
spouse and children have cbosen art and mu·
sic for their careers, I think. that eventuality
would be a tragedy that far exceeds our recognition of the decline of traditional disciplines or a diminution in graduate programs
staffed by not more than a few individuals
and undertaken by. at best few more .
Sincerely,

to that specific document. 1be draft 's lan guage was fuzzy. its tone was moralisuc, and
it.s substance violated the United Slates Constitution.
Our Faculty Senate shouldn ' t endorse
fuzzy, moralistic documents that encounge
unconstitutional behavior by university offi cials. We have no Deed for a puritanical regulation t.hat exiles from all university dec1sion
making or advising all people whose only
..crime.. is that a past or present spouse. lover.
or close companion elects to register for a
course at SUNY Buffalo. And we should
never accept a code of any lcind in which the
accused-faculty. administrators. librarians .
graduate students-an: presumed guilty until
they prove their innocence. That's what I
lhougbl mean aod muddle-headed about lhe
draft code and that's why I wrote the Faculty
Senate Executive Committee opposing it. I
was delighted to see that they. for whatever
reasons, also found John Boot's draft unac -

-J-cepable.

Sincerely yours,

SUNY Otstinguished ProtesSOI

Are some using report for
research, teaching clash?

-Ytor.
Professor
of Law
SCIIUIIEI.

Why all this commotion
over foreign contributions?

n

is no question that our election
paign fmancing system is rotten to
core. However. I do DOt understand
this co!DJ'DO(ion about alleged campaign contributions from China and Indonesia and no concern about corporate contribu tions. Certainly these governments are human
right abusers and we shouldn't uphold their
behavior. But even if they succeed in buying
some favors. it will not affect our lives. 1 am
much more concerned about contributions
from big American and international corporations. By and large. corporations, especially
the very big one, are inherently am0111l. They
have neither social nor environmental consc ience. as evidenced by massive layoffs due
to mergers. downsizing and moving abroad.
or by lhe tobacco companies claim that cigarettes are harmless. Their guiding principle is
the bottom line. Neither Chinese or Indone sians try to wrack our environmental or labor
protecting laws. Yet American corporations
do . No foreign contributors lobb~to render
EPA and OSHA powerless . Yet American corporations do . Who is trying to wrack or at
least to slow down any progress in the international negotiations on climate change? The
lobbyist for coal and oil industries united un der misleading name The Global Climate
Coalition. They don ' t care about eanh's future. They care about lining up lheir pockets
with money. Who is lobbying the Congress to
prevent repeal of the 19th-century law that
mandates the federal government to sell land
for $5 per acre to whoever discovers mineral
deposits? American mining companies. So
who represents more danger to our welfare .
Chinese and Indonesians or corporate

America?
To protect us from being dominated by
corporate America. as well as from foreign
influences. our rotten campaign financing
system should be scraped down. all contribu tions should be outlawed and a public financing of elections should be instituted .
- N D F. ZAIUIZEWSill

ProfesSOI Emerirus

'Fuzzy' draft was not
a code of ethics
T o - - of- R_.er:
Reporter attributed thmgs to me I
never wrote and things I never said.
ve never opposed a code of ethics for
8 or anyplace else. I think rational
codes of ethics are fine things and if I heard
of one being considered by the Faculty Sen ate Executive Committee I'd support it
What I beard about instead was the draft
code on social relations brought to the FSEC
by John Boot. AU my remarks were directed

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an you believe it ? Members of OUI
universiry community are begmning
to question the importance of uni versity-based research and scholarship. Are these people misreading the
Provost's repon. or am I? What I read 10 the
repon is a strong attempt to ancrease the qual ity of the research undertaken. and the quahty
of the relevant graduate prognms that gave
sustenance to that research. It suggests Implicitly the possibility of reducing the SIZe of
some graduate programs in order to increase
lhe qualily of others . Whether one agrees
with this approach or not. this is the intent as
I pert:eave 1t. To me the Provost 's repon IS a
quality-centered document . I am distressed
that some of us appear to be using this repon
to set fort.h a clash between the research and
teaching activities at the unive rs ity.
The University at Buffalo 1s a Research I
Universat y as categonz.ed by the Cameg1e
system. As such , we should continue to suppan an emphasis on research. scholarly, and
creallve activity. To the extent that we dinunish our commitment to excellence in these areas we alter the essence of lhe anstuuuon. and
nm for lhe better. I don·t ask the doubters and
Cassandras to take my word for th1s . Indi cated below to itahcs arc quotes from a talk
entitled, ·• Best Practices in Research and
Graduate EducatJon," given at the Counc1l on
Research Policy and Graduate EducatiOn
Summer Forum ( 1996) by Uni versi ty of
Aorida Pres1dent John V. Lombard• . one of
the trUe shining lights in modem academu1.. I
will let h1m speak for those of us who have a
positave view of university research. ·
Many non-academic communities are hostile to the notion of academic research. They
don •t understand why we arc involved 10
studies of the chem1stry of natrones (what the
hell is a nitrone anyway'!). or the h•gh physICS involved in smashing the nuclei of a10ms
to smithereens. or the ramifications of lhe
mathematical theory of knots. They don ·, un derstand that this research can have practical
Implications that can benefit humanity: how ever. they do understand that th1s research
can cost a 101 of money-and they don't want
to foot the bill . Yet, when people send the1r
children to a um ve rs•ty. which univers11y do
they c hoose ?

And tho5e who hare ~uarch and art! hosto groduau ~d~cation only want to send
to a u.nivusiry whou n.am'
brand is build ~pon tht! ~5~arch and gradu al~ ~duca tion that exi5t at thou instit~tion.s
Why a~ people lining up at the galt!s (at
til~

th~ir child~n

Harvard or Yale or Michigan or Illinoi s or
Florida) wh~n you say that b~cawt! of rt5earch and graduate ~ducation our undugraduate program 5ucks ?
Higb quality research and graduate educatJon enhances the prestige of the mst1tution.
that's why.

We 'refamow tHcau.u we do fl'search. Wt'
a" Jammu ~cau.u we turn o~l gradual' stu-

The Report9f wetcomes ~ers from readeta convnenhng on its saones and content
Letters shou6d be hmited to 800 wordS and
may be od&lt;edlor style and lenglh Because
of space Imitations. rhe Repor1ef cannot
pu~sh WI leners recewed. They must be
receNed by 9 a m Monday to be consKIefed lor publteaiJOn 10 that week's ISSUe

dtmu. w~ are famous for tM wort that our
professional group does. our stud~n u do. at
the higlu!stlevel of achifllement in tit~ aca tkmic world. and thal is what buys tlv raatnt!
brand. That's what informs it with its qu.aliry, and that 1s whtlt distinguislu!s it from tltt'
gen~ric collt!ge thai d«s no1 havt! that qwol iry built in.
It 1s often very diffi cult to convince
people thai the aforementioned is iodced
true . YeL. it seems obvious that
tlu! slll11d4rd you Jtl in thL high end of
your businus-tlu! rr!St!arch and graduate

edu.ca11on-1hat stll11Ll4rd informs ~very
other siandDrd in the university. And if thtlt
standard is high enough lll tlv JH!rformanu
of ~s~arch and gradtune ~du.cation , tlu!n
thost' who driv~ the undergradu.att! program
lwvc&gt; to drivt! against that standard. And if
tlwt standard isn 't thLrr. tlvn tltt' qualiry of
tht' undugradunu program can drift down ward without any ref~rrnCt' point and wllh ·
out any s~tUt' of /on in tM qu.ality of the un dergraduate program IHcau.sc&gt; tht!re f.f no
nationally ~fu~nad activity going on Ul
tM university.
Whether we hkc 11 or not. a umversuy 's
prestige 1s built io the areas Or research and
graduate education. The National Research
Council (NRC) ranks universities on the basis of the perceptions of faculry at other academic institutions. These perceptions art
based on the graduate education and research that occurs in the institutions bemg
rated. There IS a recent srudy of productivit)
facto~ implicit in research and graduate
education whach has been assembled by the
folks at Stony Brook for tbe pwpose of rat mg universities . These factors (e.g ., publicaLi ons. citations. grants. awards, etc .) ~rn:
based on the research accomplishments of
the faculty at the university being rated.
Very recently. an excellent book has been
published. ·1"he Rise of American Research
Umversities:· by H.D. Graham and N. Dta mond (Johns Hopkins University Press)
whtch ranks universities based on per cap1tu
research and scholarly activity productivity
measures (I.e., publications/faculty. Cita tions/facult y, awards/faculty, grant fund s/
faculty. etc .). Nobody that I know of ranks
umvers1t1es on teaching excellence. You can
WDll and you can gnash )'OUJ teeth, but you
can ·1 c hange the fact that academic prest1ge
1s based on re:se.arch!scbolarship.
How often have you heard of faculty being recruited from anolher universit y based
on teaching excellence? Teaching is important. btn 11 IS not marketable. Academic Stat ure. like 11 or not. IS based on research and
scholarship.
Tht! marUtpUJu u on tM nst!arch and

gradu.att!

~d~cauon.

How amponant IS teachang ? From what
has been stated thus far. you might think that
I undervalue teaching. Nonsense . Teacbi.ng
is exceedingly importanL It is important
because our constituencies demand it . Our
students deserve it. The1r part:nts want 11.
The leg1slators mandate 11. And they pay the
bills We should reward good teachmg by
g1vmg s1zeable dascrettonary awards 10 our
truly excellent teachers. The Umvemty of
Ronda has gtven awards of SS.OOO to base
salary as the result of a compeuuon whac h
tdenufied the troly outstanding teac hers on
lhat campus . Good teachmg 1s tmportant m
Its own right and because 1t enab les us to do
our research and scholarship w1thout engen denng so much an1mosaty from the commu niues we serve . Good teachmg enables us to
do good research because 11 calms the al tack.s on umversmes that have been so
prevalenl m recent years. But make no ma ~ ­
take about it. 11 as good research and good
graduate educauon that are of prune Importance in a Research I um verslly It IS the crt ation of knowledge thai must ma1ntD1n pn macy m such an environment That IS the
way it has been , and that i~ the way 11 w11l
always be.
S1ncerely you~.
JOSEPM J. t\lf'AIII£U.O
Dean. Facufty of Natural Setences and
MathematiCS

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CeniB&lt; on Analytlcal Psychology at tile
Mt Verron lnstrtute. Mt. Vernon College, Washington, DC , will be keynola speaker lor tile aflllUIII oonfe&lt;ence of tile \foM'I Regoonal Corrvnittae
oltlle Amencan Coonci on Educatior1/
Na!JOnal 1-UfocatJon Prognlm (ICE!
NIP). The confe&lt;ence WIH be held Ap&lt;~
25 tn the Center tor Tomorrow
The program theme ts Success
Mapptng Leadershtp !rom the lnStde Out

Pearson has extEIOSive expertence as an adiT'IIOistraiOr and teacher
at Gooche&lt; College. the~ of
Cob'aoo at Boulder and the Univetsny of Maryland at College Parlt. She
was recently appointed a Senior FellOw tor the ACE Office on Women
and Semor Schotar !Of the National
Assocaation for Women in Education
The authof or co-author of soc
books. she holds a Ph.D tn English
lrom RICe UniverSity
At the conference . Muriel A.

llllool9, prestdent of Buffalo State
College and !{)(mer v1ce president
tor publiC service and urban affatrs
at UB. wtll rece•ve the etghth annual
Bermea Poss Award gtven lor outstanding effOfts lor the advancement of women protessionals
Aegtstration fee tor the conference ts $40, whiCh includes a buffet
lunch Contact Chns Sauc•un~ac at

645-3544 lor reg•stration tnformallon
UB members of the conference
pianntng commtttee •nclude Kathy
E11ans Brown . Donna Dormno.
Den•se Hood. Anastasia Johnson .
Leshe J McCatn, Kvn Pachent.
Sandra Peters and Christine
Sauc1umac UB Conference FacilrtaIOfS will be Karen Noonan. 8SSOCIBte
11K:e president lor Undergraduate
Educatic&gt;n and Donna RICe. associBte
IIICe president for Student Atfatrs.

WEll S I T E ARIES, THE ARTICULATION Web
Site of the Office of Transfer and Arttcutation Services tn the OffiCe of
the VICe Provost fOf Undergraduate
Educatton . has been selected as
the "Microsoft Htgher Education
Website lor April 1997. •
ARIES. or Arucutallon Reporung
lnformatton Evaluation System. was
developed by olennlfer
Qottdlener, d irector of transfer and
amculatic&gt;n seMces. and Frenll
D'Ameo, director of undergraduate
services. to distribute and mainta•n
course articulation 1nlormatl0fl. lt
takes data from US's degree audtt
artiCulation tables . whiCh are stored
tn US's data warehouse. and disP'avs
easily read articulation reports comparing home campus courses to
coorses at other campuses
Users may access reports lor any
of the morn than 1,5CX) transfer colleges and universities and request
etther lists of all the articulation lor a
particular campus. or articulaUon for
stngle depanments. sorted by
courses at either campus. The Web
s•te was hOnOred lor its 1nnovative apphcatton of Microsoft technok&gt;gy to
create a unique solution to the prob-lem of dtstribvting up-to-date course
arttculation reflecting the constant
changes 1n curricular mformatiofl
II can be v1ewed at http://

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THE JOURNAL OF World Anthropology, Eznl z.-row, edttor-tnChlef , has been named one altha
best educatton-related sites on the
Web by the educauon Index. Hugh
W. -larvle i!i, ednor and operations
manager, with techmcal support by
-lim Qerlartd and llarlr. Winer .
The journal is an electronic jou'nal
dedicaled to scholatshlp in all fields of
ani!Yopology and publishes articles

on ac:ademic research. maners ol

ll1eory and mettlodology, tile educauon of tile public and bool&lt;. software
and lim""""""'· Journal issues 8t8
amounced CNfJ( t i l e - tiYough

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AT -CLINICAL DAY
"Rationing of Heatth Care" will be
the theme of the 60th Annual Spring
Clinical Day, to

be held from ·

7:30a.m. to

noon

April 26 in
the Buffalo
Marriott, 1340
Millersport Highway, Arnh8fst.
Spring Clinical
Day is sponsored by the Medical Alumni AssoCiaUon of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Oeauono, New
York State heatth commissK&gt;Oer. witt
present the Stockton K imball Memorial Lecture at the noon luncheon She will discuss the role of
academiC health centers in the future of health care .
The event is open to the public .
There 1s a registration fee for nonalumni and non-dues-pay1ng alumni
of the medical school .
The program will focus on state
Health Department planS for healtt&gt;care deWery and financing: an update on mergers of Western New Vert
hOSpitals and wl\at IIley mean for pllysicians: stratagoes for avoiding pitfalls
and maximiZing advantages of 111&amp;'\aged-care organizations. and discussion of physicians· concerns about
healttH;are policy and deiiiiOI)'
Program topics and presenters
Will be .
• 8: 15 a.m -·western New
York Hospitals and Managed
Care· --John Friedlander. CEO of
the CGF Health System . the 1ntenm
corpocate name of the system
merging Buffalo General, Millard
Fttlmore and Children's hospitals
• 9 a.m .- "Managed Care
Across Amenca· -steven A
Peskm. president of NCI Managed
Care and med1cal dtrector of NCI
Consulttng of Princeton . N.J .. and
medical director of Medisphere
Communications in New York City
• 10: 15 a .m.-"Practicing MediCine Under Managed Care" -Irene
S Snow, UB clinical assoc iate prolessor of medicine and a 1980
graduate of the UB medical schOOl
• 10:45 a.m.-" Rationlng of
Health Care in America" -panel
discussion lnvoMng the presenters
and DeBuono.
FOf registration and tnformation.

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EUNEIIIIIYU -NTA11011
AT NATIONAL -.uM OF
11IE AIIIIEJIICAII INDIAN
S.rM llcler, professor of medta
study, presented a screening and a
d iscussk&gt;n on The Drums of Winter/
Uksuum Cauyai . a dOcumentary of
dance . music and sptrit •n the
Yup'ik world , at the Smithsoman
Institution's Natkmal Museum of the
Amencan Indian on March 9. The
presentation was part of the Medta
Talk series orgamzed by the Rim
and Video center of the Nauonat
Museum of the American Indian. located 1n the old U.S. Customs
House near Banery Park. N.Y.
Elder is a co-founder and directOf of the Alaska Nat1ve Heritage
Film Center. encompassing 25
years of work with native communilies in Alaska . With co-founder
Leonard Kamerling , she p ioneered
communiry collaborative tnmmak·

ing . in whk:h +ndigenous community
members wor1( with the filmmakers
to shape the production's content
and point of view.

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Thel&lt;our Frestvneo , America's stetiar

fau: vocat group, will retLKn to

UB's Canter '"' tile Arts May 8 in a
benefit concert lor Habitat fof Humanity/Buffalo and the UB Student
Habitat Chapter. The concert. with
the George Beck Orchestra under
John Hasaelback, wUI be in

Mainstage, c;:entar !Of the Arts, at 8
p.m. The Freshmen appeared at UB
last June '"' Habitat.
Concert tickets are availabkt at
the Center for the Arts box office
and at Tlckeunast8f locations.

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The Luctus N. Utlauer Foundation
of New York City has given a
$20,000 gift to UB to endow the
Lucius N. unauer Judaica Book
Fund. This is the first named fund for
UB~ Judaic Studies program_Proceeds Item tile endowment will be
used to put&lt;:hase books, periodicals.
CO-ROMs and OChef tib&lt;BIY trOlleriafs
for faculty. student and poblic use In
the university's libraries.
AccOI'ding to ......._. Paler,
director ol the UB Judaic Studies
program. the libraries' current
Judaica ho(dings exceed 8.000 vol·
umes. This makes UB's llbl"aries
among the largest resources of
Judaica in Western New York.
US began teaching Judaic Stud·
ies informalty in the late 1930s, and
1n the 1970S an interdisciplinary Judaic Studies program was estab-lished within the Department of
Classics. Now, approximately 250
students enroll in Judaic Studies
courses each semester.

J~UWialleadvla..Jpel. 'Ibe,..,._UC&gt; a11owt yooa tocteaie
&lt;tft-lbt&gt;.fty "movie" clipo. ~·full view aldie frog yooa're
~Oil. UaiJiadle Vlnui ........... ~Yeuctlllll)'
your sk:iJI at buildiD&amp; a frog from die JIOUIId up, 10 to epeK. 01ae
orpn at • time.
Califomia Slate University'sll:loctro* Deoktop Project at
ldlp:/~+-lltmloffenanumberof

interactive educatiooal applications illcluding the Virtul
fty.L ab. wbidl teiCbes the priDciples of genetic inherituce by
lettlllg you play resean:h geneticist. Tbere's also the V..-1
Eartbqaake, which illustrates the coocq&gt;ts of epicenlet and
Ricbter magnitude. You won't feel the. ground sbake, but you
can view several regional seismograms and calculate the loca·
lion of a quake"~ op~;")d its relative sttengtb by measuring
chan data. As wtth tbe other sites mentioned, all you need is a
connection to the Internet and a graphical browser such as
Netscape to access this malerial.
For information about co~~~~ecting to the World Wirk Web, contactthe Computing Center :r Help Desk at 645-3542_
-Nancy Schiller and Will Hepfer, University Libraries

Art. and Kale Csmlef. lotmar chief curaD d the AmericcWl Craft Museum.

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ate professor. electrical and computer engineering , presents~
an invited paper
March 13 in the
Third ISSAT In·
ternational Conference on Reliability and Owility in Design at
Anaheim , Calif.
The paper, "Path-based Fault Injection,· was co-authored with Tim
Tsai, Hong Zhao. Sandy Hsueh and
Ravi lyer of Universiry of Illinois at
Urbana·Champaign. Path--based
fault injectK&gt;n is an approach to increase the efficiency of computer
system dependability evatuatior.l .
Upadhyaya earned out this work
while on sabbatical leave at the
Center lor J;teliable and High Performance recruiting, Universiry olllli·
nois. The research was supported
in part by the Advanced Research
Project Agency (ARPA)
He is on the editonal board ol
the International Journal on ReliabilIty, Ouatiry and Safety Engineering

.a-nee Pappae. an artist and as~
societe profeSsor of African· American Studies at UB. wilt serve on a
panel of jurors for the 1997 Rochester·Finger Lakes Exhibition.
The 811 exhibition, to be held July
12-Sept. 7 at tile Memorial Art Gallery

of the University of Rochester. Is one
of tile most prastigious juried exhibitions in the mgion. On tile ;..y with
Pappas 81'8 Merry Foresta. senior cu-

rator, National '-t-.m of American

Seve&lt;al hundred scientists from 19
co..nries wtlooe specialy lies in probing tile microscopic world will converge on Buffalo for "Focus on MultiDimensional Microscopy 1997," to be
held Ap&lt;il 27-30 in tile Buffalo Hitton.
Sponsored by the UB School ol
Engineering and Applied Sciences.
the meeting is the premier, interna·
tiona/ conference for scientists
working In research microscopy. It
is a joint meeting of the 10th International Conference on 3D Image
Processing in Mictoscopy and the
Ninth International Conference on
Confocal Microscopy.
The scientifiC program will Include the most d ramatic break·
throughs In medical. material. industrial and educaUonal uses of microscopy, such as the recent development of an optical tweezers and
microscalpel. which use light to manipulate or slice through microscopic structures. New methods of
diagnosing diseases through talepathology and the use in the classroom of remote-&lt;:ontrcX microscopy
over the Internet will be presented .
UB researchers will make presentations on their development of
X-ray tomography, the first tech·

TUque to aUow scientists to noo-de-

structlvaty ptobe and Image In
three--dimensions solid samp~ .
such as human teeth and industrial
materiaJs at high resolution . Papers
afS:Q will be given on laser scanning
confocal microscope and the twoplloton fluorescent trkroocopa_Also
10 be discussed 818 ~ In n&amp;affiefd, atomic force and scanning wnnefing microscopy. taclwliques that

provide scientists with tile ability to

·see" structures on an atomic scale
The WOtld's major research mi·
cTQSCOPe manufacturers and image-processing software vendors
will exhibit their products. Short
COUfses that introduce microscopy
technologies also will be given.
II'.C. - . , associate professor
of elactrical and comput..- ~­
i'lg. is the conference program director. Co-orgeitizen; are the Royal Microscopical Society, Academia Sinica
(Taipei) and tile lnt..-nafionat Society
of Molecular Morphology.
UB faculty may register at a re·
duced rate of $50: students may
register for $20 Copies of conference proceedings (the Journal of
Cell Vision) are available lor UB fac ulty and students lor S40
For more information. call UB's
Advanced Microscopy and lmagtng
Laborauory, 64&amp;-3868, or send e-mail
to: FMM970corn.eng.buffalo.edu .
or visit the conference homepage at
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UPCOMING HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
UB lnYilallonaf Trsd&lt; &amp; Reid Meet

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Bfue..White Foocball Game

e 'IRACK TI'AIIS FIIIISII SECOND
I4J MOUNT ST. MAllY'S _.-

The Buls and Royals track and fiekl . . . . m-

ished second in the~ Mcu1t St
Mary's lnvltalional Meet held in Etrrrillsburg'
Md., on~- Bof1 squads firished bet-rod the hoot ~. wilh the Buls
scoring 96 points and the Royals scoring 132
Freshman distance specialist Patrick
Nolan took the 3,&lt;JOO.meler steeplechase for
the Butts, winning in 9:32.4. Micah Adalstein
won the hammer throw with a toss of 134-10
(41 .10 meters).
The Royals were led by a record-sening
pertormance in the hammer throw by Ruth
Canton. Cantons toss of t 60-t l48.eo
meters) eclipsed her previous school record

ol159-10 set Mascl1 29 at the Raleigh Relays.
Malissa Ryan and Usa Kragbe finished
1-2 in the 10Q.meler high tudles for the Royals, wilh Ryan croosing the line in 14.7 and
Kragbe in 15.3. Othe&lt; winners fot the Royals
included Shelly Hamilton in the high jump
(5-3.75, 1.62 meters) and Alicia Croak in the
triple JLrnp (34-1 .25, 10.39 meters).
US's fllJiiHMinl ~were at the
Millersville University Hepca1hlon and Decathlon in Mille&lt;sville, Pa. Colleen Hart finished
six1h of 19 entrants in the hepta1hlon with
3,777 total points. Hart captured the javelin
toss at 113 feet and was third in the tong JLrnp
at 15-6.25. l&lt;af'll'l Eichler was 101h wilh 3,306
points and Terry Scheme, who won the high
JLrnp (5-2.25) and piacect third in the 100
hurdles ( 15.57), pulled out of the oompe1itioQ

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W9f8 held April 14 lfl the Weskryan
Church of Hamburg fO&lt; Joyce Anderson, a UB
Csreer Planning and Placemen1 assocl8te. w11o
doed April 9 when she was struck by a p!Ckup
truck wtlile walking with her husband along
Ward ROad in the Town of Boston. She was 42
M"' Anderson's husband. Man&lt;. 46. w11o
suffered maSSNe .ntemal injt.H"ies. remains 1n
senous condihon 1t1 Erie County Mechcal Center
State Aoltce sa1d the Andersons were

when they w8fe struck by a truck that
swerved to avoid a dog on the road

Mrs. Anderson had been employed al UB
lor one year, aher serving as a graduate aSSIStant in Care84' Plann1ng and P\acement lor rwo
years Ear1iet she had WOfked lor the state
Department of AJcolloj and Substance Abuse
A graduate of H1lbert College. she held a
bachelor's degree 1n commumcallons ana a
master's degree in career counseling from UB
She was active In several prolessK&gt;nal organ•·
zaoons, 1nckJdrng the N~&amp;gara Fronuer College
Placement Assoc:•alton. the Society ol Human
Resource Managers and the Amencan Col·
lege Personnel AsSOCiation

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l...euon or • Valuable Druc?
Alison M e~gher, UB School of
PhlrlnBCy. 12 1 Cooke. Nort h
Campus . 4:30p.m.

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S:30.7p.m.

Opua:CIMalcoU•e
Eva Stern, viola; Joel
Sdtotahats. plano. Allen.
South Campus. 7 p.m. Taped by
WB FO 88.7 FM foe- bro.dcas1
the fo llowing Sunday at 4 p.m.

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ANNtecture Lecture

D avid Gordon, Queens Univ
30f Crosby. Sooth CAmpus.
5:30p.m.

UIJ.U . . . .
SbiDt:. Student Union Theater.
Nonh Cam pus. 6 :30p.m. S2 ..50,
$4 .

..........

Symposium on Membrane
Protein StrudW"t:, UB
Biomembranes Graduate Group.
University Inn. 8 a.m.--4 p.m.
SI D, SI S, $10. Call 829-2366.

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Ol'l'ltt of Jil.a.uc:lal A.ld a nd
Student Accounts. Student
Union Theater. North Campus
3:30p.m .

--Nitric Oxkk In lntHtlnal
lxbemieaJIR.epc:rfution

luJur.y, Ashish Khanna.
S08 Cooke. North Campus

....,..Col._....
) : ~ p.m.

Ditfradion: From Young's
Slitt to W-Bo5ons. Prof.
Michael Albrow. Fenm Nauonal
Accelerator Laboratory 205
Natural Sciences. North Cam
~ - ) :4S p.m.

-__ -_..__. _
U B North and Sou.tb Campu.aes. 9: 15 a.m.-2:30p.m.
S2.50. Call 64.5- 272. U l . 121

....__. Science•

Lockwood Ub....-y's Friends
Room. North Campus. 10 a.m.·
4 p.m. Hlldcovcn $2, paper·
back.s S I, periodicals SO cents/
issue . Cash only.

,_,

A Coplllvt Map ol Rldlia ot

tbe M.Waaiu., Prof. Kathleen
Panhe, Univ. of Rochesler.
930 C lemens. North Campus.
II a.m.- 12:20 p.m.

R d.blakhll C e.ll Structure,
Dr. Sheldon Pe nman, M IT 114
Hochstetter. North Campus
4 p.m.

Oa Coou.pl.ation and Other
Exttt~t~; or, Jlepn:sentations
ol Phu-pby Ia Op&lt;n Bull'•,
176$-1790, Edmund J.
Goe.hriDg, University of Geot-

FORM~

Youngstown State UB lost to Robert Morr•s
4-3 but rebounded to earn a key Mtd-Cont•·
nem Conference Vtetory over Youngstown
State 6·1 tn the tr regular-season dual meet
finale Coach Kathy Twtst's club •s row &amp;- t 0
th1s season
Two Royals swept the•r matches to lead
the team on Saturday Oamelle RakO'NSky
downed bolh her opponents •n stra1ght sets
at number lrve. while Apnl K1ser also took two
stra1ght set wtns at number snt, •nclud•ng a
6-0. 6--0 ·double bagehng · of Robert Morns
Chns C1uto
With the regular season complete . the
Royals head for lh1s weekend's Mtd-Contfnent Tournament1n Kansas Crty With a 6-10
overall mark. the Royals are expecung a
seedtng •n the m1ddle of the mnEHeam f1eld
- Ted Wasko. Sports fnlormatKJn Offrce

lery hours a« Wednesday-Sa!urday 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.• and Sunday Noon-.5 p.m. Adm1ssaon •s

r...

....~bJSu-10•
A master of fane ans theSis ek ·
h1btt of JWRllngs by Sunah Kim
contmues through Apnl 22 1n
the An Depanment Gallery located tn the Center for the Art!..
Nonh Campus. Gullery hour~
~Tuesday tO a.m -.5 p m .
Wednesday·Fnday 10 am
8 p.m .. and Sa1urday I I am
8 p.m AdmiSSIOn IS free

Exhibit

o f - and

-ocrlpto

UB Jau E nsem ble. Sam
Falzone, conduclor BamJ
North Campus. 8 p m

UU.UIIoYie

Student art for eale

Wbo5e Heritage-, M ~tnh a
Norkunas, Cemer for Amencan
H1s10ry. Umv of Teu!. 7 30
p.m For more mfonnat10n. call
Chnstopher Payne . 829 3.;8.5.
eu. 309

CytoldDt: and Adrt:Dt:ra;k lnteradloas in tbf: Brain, Dr.
Robert N. Spengler, UB Dept. of
Plthology. 306 Farber. South
Campw . t 2:30 p.m.

KANSAS CITY

"'Wislawa Szymborska A Scan.:h
for 1he Word." an exJubauon of
boob. manuscnpts. memora·
bilta. and photos n:laung to the
Nobel Laureate poet . IS on dis
play 1hrough April 24 10 !he Poetry!R~ Book Room. 420
Capen Hall . North Campu~ Th..e.Uub•tton ongmated at the
Jag1elloman Umvcrsity tn
Krakow, and 1s presemed here m
COOJUIK"tl011 With lhe Second
Conference on Pohsh S1ud1es 10
Amenca. Poetry Room hours anMonday-Friday 9 a.m -~ p.m

,.._.,Lecture

Flrst Strike. Studem Union
Theater. North Campus. 9 p.m.
$1 .50, $4 .

CE.. C - 'lloenpJ

number one Singles Mrnter's 7-6, 6· 1 VICtory
over Youngstown State's Vince H11l pa1d back
Hilt's wtn over Minter when the Bulls and
Penguins met 1n October at UB Sena Mike
Proulx at number rwo Singles rolled to a pa1r
of wtns in the final regular-season dual meet
matches 1n h1s career
Also w10n1ng both the1r s1ngles matches
on Saturday were number three Onke

lti-JandE-Ic

on CeU Oath, Richard A.
Rabin, UB Dept. of Pbannacol·
ogy and Toxicoloay. 307 Hochste tter. Nonh Cam pus. 4 p.m.

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Although inclemenlwea1her forced the Bulls'
men's tams team rndoors 10 play 1hetr finai!Wo
reg.Aar....ason dual matches of the year. UB
swept past Robert MO&lt;ris (7-0) and Youngstown Stale (8-1) 10 move 10 8-1 1 """'all
Mike Minier led the way for Coach Russ
Crispell's team. winntng both matches at

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IJ This Wba1 You Wtre Born
F or ? Abigail Child. Screeni ng
Room. Center for the Arts.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. Free .

e ROYALS SPUT WEEKEND

'IENLIUS AC110N; HEAD TO

tor their matches at Robert Morns and

YOUNQSTOWN STAlE

To ni Mo r riso n. M:u nstage .
Cenler for the Ans onh Campus. 7 30 p.m. SID, ~13. S\6

AcbJever, Helper or Drumrr:

Murdono. numoer lour Andrew Garber and
number five Tra\l'ls ~n•k
The SuUs are back 1n actoo 1n rwo weeks
when they travel to Ch1cago 101 the Mld-Con·
bnent Conference Champt0nsh1ps

The Royals also moved 1ns1de on Saturday

Dlot.......-

Wlikb Aft You! Donna

pus. 3:30 p.m.

after the first day and finished 18th overall.
The BIAs received an elghth-pjace performance from Matt Strang wilh 5,696 poon!S and
a rWllh-plaoo finish by Ben Almson wilh 5,670
points in the decathlon. ScoU Masters finiShed
17th """""" wi1h 5,083, wirring the pole vauh
compeliban at 13-7. T--.ty4wo deca1hletes
cx:rnpfe1ad the two-day compeliban
Both squads are off thrs weekend

Shine. S!udem Unmn The-a1er
North Campus 6 30 p m S2 50.
S4

ut.-...op

m Friday, 9 a m Saturday

. . . .tt

Sunday: awards P&lt;esentauons 2 30 p m Sunday

UUAB Movie

lioa, and tbt Computer Model
o f the MiDd, Ausonio Marras,
Univ. of Western OnLirio. 280
Park. North Campus. 2 p.m.

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a

UB Stadium. 9 30 a.m Fnday-Saturday, 9 a.m

g•a 2 11 Baud Nonh Campu!.
4p.m .

CoCIIIII••eono.lnteatioaallty, Mental Caua-

GNioc or lbe Rettofe Mine
Collapse: La:tons for lbe Fu·
lure, Dr. Richard Young . 228
Natun.l Sciences. North Cam·

US Stadiun, 4 p

Mld-Conlinanl Conference Tract&lt;

---1.

Dr. William G. St.tJer.
Slevt:DliOD., National Cancer In·
stifute, Betbelda, Md . Kitch·
hofer Room. RPCI. 12:30 p.m.

-.oo IActure

.......

&amp; Reid Championships

GUITARIST OSCAR
QHIQUA wfll perform
April 1a at a p.m. In

Provost TboiDU Badrid.
:no Studenl Union. North Cam·

Manion, Office of Student Life .
3-4 p.m. Call 645-6 12.5.

U8 Open Trsd&lt; &amp; Foeld Meet

ROIIERT MORRIS AND

Joyce Anderson, 42, Career
Planning and Placement
Associate

._.........

.... . _ _ , .... N

e BULlS TENNIS SWEEPS

OBITUARIE S

pus. 8- 10 a.m.

UB Stadiun, 4 p .m . Friday. 9 a m Saturday

Coocert

Flnt Strik~ . S1uden1 Unao n
Theater Nonh Campuli 9 p m
$1.50. S4

lllflat8bte eeulpture In
u,htwoll
Talash1 Murakam1 's ·· ~h Dob'"
I~ I 4().fOOC·hlgh mnatab\e
sculpture comm•ss1oned for the
L1ghtwell Gallery and on vae~
1here through July 13 The
sculpture. wuh liS canoon-ltkr
dr:s1gn. ts both playful and menacing The Ligh1well Gallery •s
localed within the Umversuy at
Buffalo Art Gallery m 1he Cen·
ter fo r the Arts. North Campus
Gallery hours~ Wednesday·
Saturday 10·30 a.m -8 p m .. illld
Sunday Noon-S p m Adm1 ssaon
tSfret

....,.

A sale of two-d1mensmnal art
worb by graduate and undergradualr studenls IS scheduled
Apnl 18 from Noon-4 p.m . and
Apnl 19 from 10 a.m.·Z p.m 10
1hc:: Atnum and 1he Art Oepan menl Gallery. Center for tM
Ans. North Campus

o..a,.. exhibit

Oo--·dosln&amp;

St Rita 's l...ane w•ll be: closed 1o
all bu1 emergency vehicles o n
Apnl 26 fro m 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. durang Oozfest

ProfeNJOftal
DirMtor (SL-5)-Career Plannmg
and Placement. Posting
,p.b()59 Assistant V~« Presidrnl. F.cilities Plano lnc and
Design (MP·Ja)-UnJversity FaCllilles. Postmg MP-7018. ln~ rucdonal Support Tec.bnkian
{SL-J)..Centn.l Technica1 Ser·
VICCS (Cataloging Dept.), Posting
MP-7021 Senior Programmer
Anofyst (SL-4)-Equal Opponunny/Arfannauve Acuon Offw:c .
Posung lfP-7025. Senior Staff
Assistant (SL-l)·St~nt Scr·
\' ICCS Center. Arts and Letters.
Postmg MP-7028. lnstrudional
Support Technician (SL-3)·
Computing and Jnfonna11on
Technology, Posnng IP· 7029

··cannon," curated by Chmlo
pher Less of Cannon Des agn. IS
on d1splay through Apnl t8 m
the James Dycu Gallery. 334
Haye1o Hall. South Campu~
Hours ll!'T 9 a.m.- 5 p m Monda}
th rough Fnday

Feculty
Assistani/As.sociate Proressor
Ana1om1ca\ Sc tences and Cell
Biology, Pos1mg •F· 7033 As ·
sistaai/Associate Professor Oral D1agnos11C Sc•enccs. Pos1
mg IJF-70)4 Lec1urer 10-Ath·
leucs. Postmg •F-7035

An e.:h 1bi1 of wo rk by ~ nt or
ph01ography maJOrl on v1ew
through Apri l 29 at Campos
Pt!Oiognphy Center. 1016
N1agara Falls Blvd. The "udents
an- from Tyrone Georg1ou's Ad ~· anced Photography course

R-ch

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To obra111 morr •nformtJliOII on
JObs I1 Sl~d abow, conUJC"l Pn-

---lon

New pMitlnla bJ Sheldon
"Sheldon Serlyn · New WOJk "
continues through June 8 m tbe
Umversily at Buffalo An Gallery. Cen1er for the Ans . Nonh
Campus . A concu~nl show of
Berlyn 's new won: will be on
view April 27 through June I al
the Cas1ellani An Museum of
Niaga~ Un1versi1y. UB Art Gal·

for TomorTow, North Campus
llJere WI \I be one SCSSIOn for
Tier I and 2 members. and an·
other for Tier 3 and 4 members
lbc::re W ill be representatives
from the Socaal Securily AdmmtSlratton. the DepL of Civil Ser·
v1ce, and the company thai ad·
mmast.cn 1hc New Yort State
Deferred Compcnsauon Prog~m To make a reservatiOn,
call Personnel Services. 64.5
26-UJ. eAI 101 or 102

Retl,......ayat...
A one-day New York Slate Employees ' Retirement Sys1em
Scmtnat will be held June 6
from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. a1 1he Center

Researc.b Support Specialist
(0pen)-8iochem.Jcal Pttanna·
oology. Postmg MR-9608.5. Rese.n:.b Suppor1 Specialist -Psy
chology. Posung MR -9702.5 . Resea.rc.b Ttchn k lan 11 -M!crotuo logy. Postmg tR -97026

sonn~l S,.rwu

:r jQJ.

rtSfKHCS~

sysum bv cullir~g 645-JIUJ and
follo-..·mg thl' \'OIC~ promp1 1n ·
suucUollS To obtain utfonNJ·
11on 011 R n~arch jobs. comacr
Sponsofl'd Programs PtrsonMI.
4/6 Croft~

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U.AtAIIenlok:A.Ma.o,_
8 - , Chortoa H. V. Eben,
Pb.D., UB Dept. of Goopopby.
Center for Tomorrow. North
Campus. 7o30 LID. $10,$12.
Call 829-2601 10 roll*&lt;.

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-~- 7p..,_

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............... Seidl, Plr.D, ......
o~Sodol
Work. Ccau:r for Tcmonow.
North Campus. Nooo. $10. Call

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8~2608 .

-~Tra..
pon : blt~by

PUICI_C..._
.... _._s-4

a.,.._.THwa~..coo&amp;l..ce.

S08 Coot&lt;. NMh Campus.
3:30p.m.

Of' IIUIIIINil'

THE -

..-..,c-....
la-oiPulllic l.aJt.
pqe, Ruth Millibn. Univ. of
CoMectkut. 684 Baldy. North
Campus. 3:30 p.m.

....... 740 ..... . .

11111 ........... . . . . . .

TM~olllfodollllonr­

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......."........

-

8 Me.ou: 11M New Bydro~a. Prof. Persia Dtell, Cornell

Stoul*......,. .._

Univ. 20S Na&amp;:llnJ Scienoea.
North Campus. 3o45 p.m.

Scroeollla Room, c.- fa&lt; lhe
Ana. Campus. 8 p.m. $3 .
Call 645-AR'I'S.

_..,.

......... DNA Seiodh11yoN""
l ........ r.--......Stud;.sol--ud

....

~F-0..

......_a.-- bloqoiry. 1-2

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AI...._ 2 {l;ef....sod. Soulh
Campus. I-ll p.m. ffte. Spoo.....-1 by obo ~ Soudeoo
Auociotioo.

p.m. Call ~2A44• ..._ 771.

doloo,AdriJ-C., Gooiofur-

.... fa&lt; loqoiry.
-....
2-3 p.m. .....c..
morelllf0111111ioo.call645-

2.444,e.t. m .
.....
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~o1~1or..--1

.........,,A.dlille Vanl, Pbi-

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kloopby, CohwbiL c....r fa&lt;
loqully. 3o30-4o30 p.m. Call
64.S-2A44.en. n8.

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......
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UUP-- --- ---.tAp--.............
--AnDel Auannl. ColumbU
Univ. 114 Hochatr:U.er. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

Matt
Ute~
Mayer Wtn&gt;a a e Dyaaaical
01oouo, Prof. w.uw. Lana-

font.

..,.c...,..

8 p.m. s.s. $10. Caii645ARTS.

hutitute. I 03 Diefendorl. South

..............

Campus. 4 p.m.

EaU., BloodoAAd Becoml'bb, Doua Rice. Scncn·
in Roem. Center for the Arts.
N
Campus. 4 p.m.

Oo

~'·Us&amp;.

~­

CouJUdio&amp; Ccoler. 4o30-5o30
p.m. c.I164S--6125.

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llarriolluL South Campus. 5o30

Eadea. Studcat Uoion Tbea&amp;cr.
North Campus. MldaiJbL $2..10,
$4,

K.iacb Auditorium.. Olildren's
Hospioal. 8-9 LID.

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-lleplollooa...............
u..
olllaonlou

w-.

o.. GovUod Harilwon.
ScboolofMonqmeoL 140
Ketter. North Campus.. II a.m.

p.m. To make reservations, call

8~2505 .

UUAII-

Walkhl&amp;ll: Talkin&amp;- Student
Union 1bealer. North Campos.
6o30 p.m. $2.50, $4 .

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Spriq '1\me-Up: Bleydo
Maiataw~ee, Ric.h Wolcocl 7-8
p.m. Call645'6125.
TIN: Uvtaa A.ac&lt;IU&gt;r, The Cambodian American Heritage
Dancen or Wuhinston. D.C.
Mainsugc, Cau.er for the Arts.
North Campus. 7o30 p.m. 53,
S.S. Call 645-ARTS.

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BIKkMIIIIcolu Poftrud
Dtvc:n:ity, Raymond JICbon,
pianisL Slce. North Campus.
8 p.m. $5 , $8.

CIU"'U RiDtoe,

Lons Bow

Group. 14SA Union. North
Campus. Nooo. Cali64S-6184
or 645-2181, CXL .558.

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T bt Gate of Beavuly Peace.
Canna Hinloo, Prof. Rop 0..
FcrJ!ea, Prnr. Junhao Hoaa. 222
Natunl.l Sciences. Nottb Campus. 1-4 p.m. Call64.5-6184 or
645-2 181, c.xL 5.58. Free.

l'lle_,.,_

c:-.pta., . _
........... 'l'kories or spoc:e,

lttvan Bodnar, Pbilolophy, UB
and Univ. of Budapest. Cenltt
IO&lt; loqully. 1-2 p.m. Call 6452444. ext. 718 .

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CODvenatioa with the Artilt:

The Gnpa of Wrath, Saul

Elkin. director. Drama lbelt~t .
Center for the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. SS . $ 10. Caii64S-

Dr. Ra,.....S Jocboa M ....
U.. Child-. Baird Recioal
Hall. North Campm. 2 p.m.

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ARTS.

c:-.pta., . _

UUAII-Yle

SL Aupstiae'• Critique of
Em pln: A.-flls-11
R~pablica, Paul Cornish. Politi·
cal Sc:ieoce. Buft'a1o. Center for
Inquiry. 2-3 p.m. For maR informatiOQ. call645-2444, exl

Sc:blad.k:r''l List. Student Union
Thelter. North Campus. 8:30
p.m. $2.50, $4. Caii645-29S7.

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Sbort-Tttw So1utloa-F~ued
TIN:nopywilll Couplol, Bonrue
CoiiUu, SCT BOCI!S, Elmin.
$65. Caii64S-6140.

c.... lllllleL Law Ubovy,
Room A. 5th floor, O'Briu.
North Campus. 2-3:30 p.m. Call
64!1-6184 a&lt;645-2181 , cxL 558.

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• PaiHollve Care for Ufe-U...

kod Clllldrn ud11odr Faal-

U.., Gctold Holman, M.D.

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-pby, Bull'alo.
Dovid C.....
~fa&lt;PbiloooLoquiry.

4o30-So30 p.m. Call645-2444,
ell 778.

uaa.wt • ..,.~,..,......
- - N o r t h Campus.
6-9 p.m.

Sbldcnl Union

North Campus. BolO
p'.m. $2..50, $4. Call645-2957.

Mdbocb, A.pplltalloas, ud
lJaJtalloooo, Prof. Slwoo-Liae
Nonn&amp;od. Dept. of BioaWUtics,
Harvud School of Public

c~s.......p, Barbero U..UU., UB

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RqionCanlllla: Sioliollcal

Ufe--..

oiWntk, Saul

Elkia, dioO&lt;IO&lt;. Drama 'l'beaDe,
Cclller fa&lt; lhe Ani. Cam-

Uo.iv. ofGuelpb A: Fields

Health. 24&lt;1 Cary. South Campus. 4 p.m.

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-------&lt;=-A.--.oal- "ll-7 p.m. .....
an- c-. be - - Addpllia
Coble's-11.

_,

a -rar-yt 'l'nuooferuo ....

lllbll«i.A.alowini Kamal. 114
Hochsoeru:r. North Campus.
3p.m.

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'111eSioloooWcdoiA.rto
no..too ol Spoce lo Baroq..
PlailalopiiJ, Bany Smith and
Leononlo Zaibert. Pbikloopby,
Buffalo. Ccoler fa&lt; Inquiry.
3o30-4o30 p.m. Call 64S-2444,
UL 778.

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Art oao1 U.. 111o1«y or
Spoee, Thnolhy Enptrom. Pbiloaophy, RIT. Ccoler for Inquiry.
4o30-So30 p.m. Call645-2444,
ext. 778.
Virtu~

K....t.bl!'ruaptoa, Wue Prof.
of Attb., Columbia Univ. 301
Crosby. South Campos. Sol07 p.m. Studcol exhibit opco.inJ,
7- 10 p.m. cro.by and Hayes.

.. ca..rt••111nC ~

G)W...UC. ROO&amp; North Cam·

pus. 6-9p.m.

w.w.,

TIN: c ... or Beo...Jy Peoa,
Cann1 Hinton. 215 Natural Sci-

Erie ~ SJIOdol Olpapka.

A1umoi Areal Natatorium.
North Campus. 7o30 LJD.-1 p.m.

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Pud-·BIKkMusic:
It'• Power .... Diwnity, Dr.
Rlymond loebon. modenoor.
Baiod. North Campus. 7 p.m.
Free. Paac:l wfU fcarwe jau plaoist AI TIMCy, vocalise Gary
Bwzeaa. and anohropologisl 0..
Simeon ChitdtiJU.
~
. . . . Juaall[......
so..,.
Mae. Ta&amp;cs from the African
diupon. Rockwe:U Hall, Buffalo Slale Colleae. 7o30 p.m. $7.
$7 .50, $8. Co-lpDGIOI'Cd by

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WBFO.

u .......--ble,A.o-

lhooy Miouda, direct«. Ske.
NMh Campus. 8 p.m. ffte.

-

Vlollloool-

0oeaor GlllaJio, pllor. MUiiC
fa&lt; bruJ and .............. from
Bod&gt; 1D Zappa. Sloe. NMb
CampuL 8 p.m. $4, s.s. $8, $10.

l!lklll.dioO&lt;IO&lt;.Drama'l'boaue.

c..... fur obo Ani. Nonb Cam8 p.m. s.s. $10. Caii64.SARTS.
•

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- - N o r t h Campus.
8 &amp;.m..l:30 p.m.

- - N o r t h Campus.
8 &amp;.m.-9 p.m. Coatiauea April
20.

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Ciortt Gya. 8Lm.-3 p.m.

Campus.

-~fiiWntk,s..l

ElidA. direct«. Dramo 'l'beaDe,

o.u.JoPoo ol Spoce ud pt.,.
lllzetlo-C-.y GMp-.pllk
........... Mkboel CUny.
UCLA. c.- for Inquiry. lOll a.m. Ca.U645-2444, CJ.l ns.

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Clpeol-

........ oopa. Sloe.
NMh Campus. S p.m. $2. SS.

ol Al&lt;lllUctuft ud
........._Knox. North Campus. II a.m.·l p.m.

$6,$8.

l'lle_,.,_

~ Spoce lo CopiO.vid MJUk. UB
Gooppby Dept. and
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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFA LO

UNIYIIISII'Y AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Yorlc

Apnl 10 199 7 Volum e 28 No 27

http: / / www.buffalo .edu j reporter /

Faculty-student relationships
focus of prOpoSed code
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PA1IIICIA
News
Services
Editor

was not consensual."

code of ethics and the "mean and

Several faculty members took

PROPOSED ethical
code to guide the behavior of faculty
member.; with regard
to per.;onal relationsbips with students was presented
to the Faculty Senate Executive

A

issue with the proposed code's
objection to ..consensual relationships" and the suggestion that such
relationships are, prima facit, an
exploitive use of personal power
on the part of a facul ty member.

Committee at its April 2 meeting.

of law and a member of the Com-

The proposed code objects to
a faculty member's ..amorous or
sexual relations, consensual or
otherwise, with a student enrolled
in his/her course, or whose performance is supervised or evaluated by that faculty member."
In this case, ''faculty" would include all those who teach and/or do
research at UB, including faculty,
librariaos, gmduate students with

Elizabeth Mensch, professor

"The burden ofproof
is on you when a student complains that a
relationship was not
consensual. "

--

teaching responsibilities, visiting

and part-time faculty and other instructional personnel, including
coaches, advisor.; and counselors.
The proposed code was presented to the FSEC by John Boot,
professor and chair of the Department of Management Science and
Systems and chair of the senate's
Comminee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.
FSEC committee membcr5
agreed that they would like to have
some form of ethical statement that
would help order behavior in these
instances. Boot noted that the last
paragraph of the proposed code is
"especially useful precisely because
, it says, 'Listen, male faculty member, be careful. You've been used
to a system that says you' re inoocent unless proven guilty. The burden of proof is on you when a student complains that a relationship

mittee on Academic Freedom and
Respc:)nsibility, questioned situations in which information about
code violations would arise, how

such charges would be adjudicated and how this information

would be used by department chairs
and deaos in siruations in which tenureorconttactrenewal was at stake.

pinched" spirit of a "foolhardy
policy, one that will provide
growlds for endless mischief here
and make us look like VICtOrian dolts
to the world at large. It demeans us."
Although it was acJcno,.ledged
that Jackson's letter raised issues that
shoold be considered by the FSEC.
several senators objected to its tone
and to a reference to an "antisemitic''
remark allegedly made some years
ago by a member of the corrunittee
that produced the JrOPOSed code.

J

ack Meacham, professor of
psychology, suggested that

differences between background information and "the code"

itself be more clearly delineated so
that faculty are alerted to the fact
that the atmosphere-legal and
otherwise-in whicP such complaints are entertained are quite

different than they might expect.
Maureen Jameson, associate
professor of modem languages

and literatures, proposed changing
the language of the document to
cite as "unethical" any behavior on
the part of male or female students
or faculty who use sexuaJ relation-

the proposed code of ethics, which
had been faxed to Faculty Senate
Ou!irCiaude Welch by Bruce Jack-

ships to gain advantage in an academic environment
Suggestions also were entertained regarding a broader code of
ethics covering the entire uni versity.
The proposed code was returned
to the committee with a request for
a revision with deliberate speed.
since, as Welch pointed out, the
President's Task Force on Women

son, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of English.
raised a few hackles as well. In the
letter, Jackson strongly opposed a

one of the most important issues on
campus among e mpl oyees, students and faculty alike .
•

thers objected to the fact
at there was some conusion between their un derstanding of the doc ument as
"guideline" or as " regulation."

A Jetter addressing the issue of

has identified sexual harassment as

BERNARD WEINSTEIN wltll telescope uoed to view comet-

Comet Curiosity
Hale-Bopp viewers converge on VB
lly IWZN GOLDBAUM
News Serv•ces Editor

N A SCENE UKE SOMETHING OUT of a 1950s science-fiction
flick, hundreds of Western New Yorkers flocked to a small hutch in
the middle of a field on the North Campus the night of April 2. all
drawn by the same extraterrestrial phenomenon: the Cornet Hale-Bopp.
"There must have been 600 people out there, at least." said Bernard

I

Weinstein, professor of physics, the tone of his voice revealing di sbelief. Lines of people waiting to get a closer look at Hale- Bopp through
the tel escope housed in the hutch stretched across the field to
Skinnersvill e Road . "Parents' arms were getting sore from holding
young chtldren while waiting on line ," Weinstein recalled.
It all began with a phone call to the physics department from Channel
7 weatherman Andy Parker. who wanted to know ifWeinstein. who teaches
the UB astronomy course-and is no relation to WK.BW-TV's news
anchor lrv Weinstein-was going to organize a public viewing of the
comet at UB. "I hadn "t planned anything because I dido "t think that we
had sufficient facilities and was unsure how to coordinate a pubhc
announcement with Buffalo's fickle weather," said Weinstein.
But Channel 7 was eager to provide a curious public with information
on how to get the best view of the comet. · ~y told me the weather
would be ideal April I and 2. and that if UB were to plan a public \iewing.
they would announce it on the "news.... said Weinstein. "So I said "OK."'
Channel7retumedtofilmtheeventforthe II o'clock news April I. Olannel4 also sent a camer.unan. WBEN Radio followed the next morning with an
intaview of Weinstein. While 001 everyone who showed up Apri12 got to look
through the telescope, Weinstein said he was "delighted to see that much public
interest in science.'' Physics doctoral candidates Andy NickeL Huicheng Clang
and John CaneUos provided technical assistance during the viewing. •

Provost, Faculty of Social Sciences discuss academic plan
lly SUE WUDCHER
News Services Associate Director

QUESnONS AND CONCERNS about the proposed reorganization of the arts and sciences-and whether a struc ·
tural c hange is needed to improve undergraduate education-surfaced again la st week as Provost Thomas

Headrick met with member.; of the Faculty of Social Sciences to discuss his academic planning document.
Some faculty rilembers also expressed concern about

what they said was Headrick's perception that they do not
care about their students or the future of the university,

and that the faculty is being left out of the decision-mak ing process.
At tbe same time, others agreed with h..is assessment of
student unhappiness with UB's undergraduate experience.

Headrick opened the meeting on April 3 by reading a
prepared statement responding to an open letter he had
received the previous day from the Faculty of Social Sci-

Reporter on March 27 .
It a lso maintained that Headrick 's reaction to criticisms
of his plan so far indicates hi s " unwi llingness to engage in
a real dialogue," which is prod ucing ··a hardening of the
lines between facult y and administration." (The lener is

published on page 5).
M - q c:lull .....ea depend• on '-"ltJ
Headrick said he agreed with the letter 's assertion that
meeting the c hallenges faced by the university depend s
upon lhe faculty, adding : " My conception of what I've
written fits precisely with those sentiments."
The report is not beyond criticism, he said, but "cri ticism ought to accomplish realistic alternatives that will
make this university better and not be based on "distorted
or inaccurate accounts of what I have recommended."
When Headrick opened the floor for comments. Wil -

liam Allen, professor of history. noted that the building of
a university is-a long, slow process. but a good un iversity

ences Policy Committee, a group of elected representatives from every department in the faculty.

can be destroyed very rapidly.

The letter endorsed specific criticisms of the planning
document made in a letter to the editor published in the

fort virtually

"'I think your plan threatens to undo generations of efovemigh~"

added. noti ng that the basic feature of the pl anning docu ment is '"the assumption that the top admi nistratjon is much
more important than the faculty and should be the source
of c hange ."
As a historian. he predicted that 10 30 years. other hi storians will say "that a good universny w as destroyed b)

Tom Headrick.''
Barry Smith. professor of philosoph y. then asked the
provost to "commit yourself to not acting on th1s plan un til there is a consensus among the facult) of the univen.Hy
that the plan is a good thing; in other words. no behind·
the-scene mac hinations ."
Vince Eben, SUNY Distinguished Teachmg Professor
in the Depanment of Geography. used an analogy about
growing a healthy tree to express h1 s concerns.
In order to grow a healthy tree. it has to have the proper
location. tim~ to grow and it has to be pruned, he saJd.
adding that the same process applies lO buildin g a soun d
university.
''Why is it that we must make all th es~ changes at one

Allen said.

The only real asset of a uni versity is its fac ulty, he

Continued on page 2

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Gender-bender
Controversial author to appear at UB
a, PAJIIICIA - V A l l
News Services Editor

A

MARRIED FATHER of two
young children with another on
the way, Doug Rice seems an unlikely subject of congressional
outrage. But the assiSlallt professor at Kent Stale University is also the author of some of the most daring and playful
fiction in contemporary American literature.
He has become the recent target of rongn:ssiooal criticism because of allegalions !hal his
work. an expknlioo of gender-shifting lhrougb
language. is funded by theNalional Fndowrrv:nl
for the Arts and offers proof !hal fundingshoukl
be ended for the NEA Tbe Blacl&lt; Ice Colkctive, whicb publishes his work, denies claims
that Rice's &lt;XXll!O\Imial plblications are funded
thought its NEA grant.
The whole thing is nuts. Rice said. "We
need the NEA. Without the NEA I'd never
have read Ray Federman."
Rice-the Ohio family man and gendcr·bender-will present a reading and
multi-video performanceofhis work. in whicb

be says be "wiil tum inlo a woman" oo-stage,
a1 UB this month. Tbe perfonnarw:e, whicb
incorporBJes a readin&amp; and presenllllioos on
t1we video screens, is tilled "'n Ealing Blood:
And Becoming Flesh." It will take place 814
p.m. April 17, in the S&lt;:n:eniog Room of the
Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
Tbe ...... rn.: and """" to the public. is
SJlOIISOI"d by Sub-Board L Inc.; the Melodia
Jones OIBir in Modem I...aoguages and Ulerllt=s(Raymcndl'elbman),andthe~

of Modem I...aoguages and UlCnlllln:S.
Altllough be's spent years in the acadeO).ic trenches, Rice is a relatively new
published writer whose recent noveL a gender-bender titled " Blood of Mugwump: A
TtreSian Tale of Incest," has been described
as an "'incestuous smear of gcnderlessness
and hormonal confusion.·•
Rice agrees. "God forced me to write
this book," he said. "And I say this without any sort of bip postmodem, avant pop,
ironic pose." "Mugwump.. offers a witty
narrative, fluid in fonn and engaging to
read considering that the author tends to

"So wbol if you'.e I .., oaklt c:apa.list
man wbo wwa to expan: bow it rms 10 be
feminine, to fiodOUiwbol'sfaDninolbOUiyou.
h:&gt;w you -*1 'be' fimiuine If you Cl·
p...q ~is 'your' r.mininily'l Well,
youCIIIhavel .........."4""'im. I q&gt;p010."
be aid. ~ I WII!IIO expan: wiiM my ib
and Dilly my idea ol limlinily is, and I doa't
Wllli!D have to a,.. my body tbrousb -FY tocarespond 10 mycksira. So I lillllrlttbis
tbrougb in....,...
1'bc self," be cootinues, "is diswrbed
by sucb use of l.aoguage. but the self can
never be free of bodies, of fluids, of desUe. Language keeps rc-llllebing itself to
the body in ways that confuses the signifier. It's like pulling blood oo the page."
As acary as this pnctice is for c:erWn of
the coopessional deleption, Rice bas bis
champions in the scholarly COIDIDIIIIity.
Maria Elena Gutihrez, assisWII professor of llalian in the IloporlmeD of Modem
Languages and UltnlllreS, is deligblod witb
the way in which Rice "does" laquqie. "He
approocbes tbese•issues from such. playful
perspective,.. she said. "He.s brilliaDI iD that
be explores these notions of suQiect, lquo&amp;e
and desire the way Freocb tbooris1s like I..uce
Iriglny and HdeneQxous do Ibis. Butbesbal..... blurs and displaces lheae notions llrou&amp;b
parody. h's very inla'esting. And~ fumy."
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liken human activity to the movement of
sludge or the flow of mucus. Tbiogs and
people flow in and out of ooe another and
morph playfully, weitdly, dangerously, in
a lyrical and carefuJJy observed dance that
sometimes turns cryptic, poetic, sometimes
into a bigh-modem rauncb romp.
In his M~ wodd, boys have Canale
pitaliaandgirlshavemalcl!l'flilaliaandchorIICI&lt;n....,.IO beuniYersllllyc:atak up ina wide
variety o( pbysica1 and mmlll abuse. If mioo:ry,
giggling. aelf~ and UU&lt;r cpr:emess
describe the buman oooditicn, they have oome
to fuD Oower in Rice's prose.

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ice and many Olbon of his litmuy gmeration are emboldened by the
pooiiDOllcm LlllP' to divostus of the ....
lion !hal words have discrete and univenal
J1le8lling$. His work, be explains, operliii:S
against the notion of"n:ason" as the aJIJirOUing
pinciple of the univmle. "Reason-as-ort,"
lxxn of the Greek l'lamism and wilb us ever
since, is held by Rice !D be one of Western
cullure's liiOSI fondly held OOIIC&lt;i!s. "My book
is wriat:n in language !bat. speaks notoutof"reasoo.. but out of the siJo:oce of desire," be said.
''I don'tlmow h:&gt;w ailyol&gt;e can say 'I am
male' or 'I am Canale' wilii&lt;M acknowledging
the flux we all experieoce between lheae two
culturally defined JlOies--hl is, if we arm'!
corrq&gt;ld.ely deoying our erotic and Ji!ysical dosires. Our identities shill all the time,.. be said.

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time. in a massive reorganization, instead
of pinpointing the very problems that you
have correctly identified and then creating
the metho4ology
the limited amount of
money or the activity lhat will remedy
maybe one or two or three of these problems, but not change the whole scenery, the
whole scenarior' he asked.
WiJiiam Baumer, professor of philosophy, began his remarks by noting that he
wanted lO stan with the "basic issue of dis trust. which needs to get out on the table."

Mitchell Harwitz, associate professor of
economics, told bis colleagues that faculty
should sit down together in small groups
and ask. "What will improve the real edu-

Faculty have "concluded several of the
concerns that were expressed in the Policy
Committee statement. and that i s that. .. the

excessives of scale and impersonality."

ana

fifth floor of Capen doesn't care where the
faculty are ... doesn ' t care what they (the
faculty) have to say; the fifth noorofCapen
will go ahead and do whatever the hell it
wants to do.

"Now, that 's a very blunt and nasty thing
and I say it not to be blunt and nasty.
but because .. . I think the topic needs to get

to say

on the table," he said.

Baumer said that he and many of his col\ leagues agree with Headrick 's assessment of

the quality of UB 's undergraduate education.

"What is bothersome is the plan does not,
for example, with regard to the College of
Arts and Sciences, specify how that (structure) is going to solve this problem," he said.
Liana Vardi. associate professor of history,
said tha~ Headrick seems to think that the
faculty is not interested in the future of UB.

"It seems to me we have come together
.. . raising serious questions about the spirit.

process and particular aspects of the plan.
"A nd yet we are made to feel that we
are somehow narrow -minded. have no vision. have no stake in the fu ture of this university," she said .

Jonathan Dewald, professor and chair
of the Department of History. said that the
repon and H eadrick's remarks confirm

cational experience of the students who

come through here so they're prepared to
tell others about it? If we want to improve
undergradu ate education, it's not a big
structural answer that, it seems to me, we

ought to be looking at," be said. "I don 't
think we've tried to answer the question in
a nonstructural way, in a way that avoids

Tamara Thornton, associate professor of
history, noted that when she asked students
in her classes about the strengths and weaknesses of UB , " I didn't even come c l ose to

hearing that the faculty don' t care."
Students complained about the "scale of
the place" and about such areas as advising and financial aid, she said. When asked
why they come to UB. stude nts cite the
prestige of a UB degree and that the faculty are research faculty.
..They aren't complaining that we're
writing books and not spending lime on

them," she said. "The problems they (students) deal with are very mundane. I don't
see them addressed anywhere in this report. They're mundane, but they may be
far more imponant."

Jerry Slater. professor of political science,
told Headrick that the provost has identified
a dilemma: On the one hand, UB must be
enrollment--driven to avoid the budget consequences. But on the other hand, in order to
keep the enrollment up, the university may
he forced to admit less-qualified students.
"I don ' t see the dilemma," Headrick responded . "What you're describing is a
static role in which all we do is respond to
what happens to us on the outside. I'm saying. ' No. let's create a sense in thi s institution that this is a mission that we're on .'

what Dewald sees as the big problems: "the

"We've got the quality faculty todetiver

terrific level of discontent and unhappiness
at the undergraduate le vel" and the declining graduate rankings and overall status of
the uni versity. " The concern 1 feel, and

and we're going to convince people on the
outside that this is imponant," he said.

other people feel , is the disproportion between these problems and the sol utions lhat

are being put forward," Dewald said.

"We're going to attntct really good students
because we decided to do that. That 's what
we've got to do," Headrick stressed.

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Planning document: Doctoral students give
views of its effects on graduate education
Data orr a stUGienrs activities while at UB
·1s an important chunk of data when evaluating an lndividuaJ department: more Important than who they let fn is what !hey do once

THI! I!FFI!CT OF PIIOYOIIT Thomas ·
Headrick's academic planning document on
graduate students at UB and graduate edu·
caUon In general were among the topics of
discussion at a meeting Headrick held with
members of the Graduate Student Association on April 2.
Headrick told the students he had made
a number of assumptions about graduateeducation when preparing his document
~They may or may not be valid. I'd like to
talk about your perceptions of·the institution,
of graduate education in the lnstitutkx'l. of the
strengths and weaknesses,a he said . ·1 have
a faculty accounting of what they think Is going on (in the institution), but I don't have a
student. . it would be helpful.·
Jim O'Loughlin, a doctoral student in En-g lish and president of the GSA. said that the
planning document places a lot of emphasis
on the GPA and GRE scores of incommg
graduate students. but does not mention such
quantifiable statistics as time to degree
completion, placement records or GPA whtle
anending UB.
"A concern I have is lhat it seems like the
report talks about graduate students until
they get here. and then nothing,· O'Loughlin

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Headrick said that that data is not available and he is working to build an informatton system that gathers it on a regular basis
Headrick said the point he was trying to
make in the report with regaid to doc:taal stu-

dents is that UB has a faculty !hat's 'spread
too thinly.· UB needs to cut the m.mber of doctoral students acJrnitted and increase the stipends of those students who are admitted ·so
they can be suppo&lt;ted in a way !hal's appropnate
"I would hope that with fewer students .
lhey would get better mentoring and move
to degree faster than they now do,· he said .
John Floyd . a doctoral student in anthropology. said he sees a big difference in the
quality of students who enter programs at UB
and those who are in programs at UB.
·t thtnk I've changed significantty since
I've been 1n the (anthropology) program, and
rm probably one of the students who would
not have been .admitted • based on undergraduate GPA if the program was smaller. he
said .
In his live years at UB, he has made
steady progress toward degree, completing
a master's degree and nearty comi)Jeting his

dissertation proposal. Floyd said.

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they're here," he said.
Scott Corrigal. a doctoral student In En.

glish and computer science, said he was 111"1pressed with the report's recommendation to

mak&amp;the master's Pe~~ree the target-degreo
for many students. But, he satd, he was concerned that this emphasis on lhe master's
degree wilf Increase the number of students
and physical size of departments.
·I'm concerned that we're going to get

away from what the master's program (should
be}and star! producing something which Is
somewhat of the .,_ bachelor's degree· of
sorts, a oow 'push-through' degree.·
Jessica Nathanson. a doctoral student in
American Studies. tok1 Headrick she was
worried about the future of her department
and the programs within it.

She asked Headricl&lt; to consider maintaintog American Studies as a department within
the, propoSed Center for the Study of Cullures

in the Americas and keeping Women's Studies as part of the department. while still fundIng the Institute fOf Gender.

He said he was still sorting through the
1ssue of American Studies. Some facultY. he
added, do not feel there is much Interaction
between those within American Studies and
faculty outside of the department who are In·
terested in these areas.
It is not true, he added , that he wants to

get rid of departmeots. and it's not true that
only departments can offer degrees.

Headricl&lt; asked the students to Identify
strengths and weaknesses of the university
tn terms of graduate education.
The main issue , Nathanson replied . •s
funding. There are many master's and doctoral students who are having trooble findmg funding so that they can pursue their
studies. she said.
The bottom line, O"Loughhn said . •s the
faculty that graduate students work wtth.
·There are good mentors, and then here
are good mentors who all of a sudden have
their class size Increased 25 percent. You
can't really hold that against them. but at the
same time that hurts you.
·rhere are ways in whtch the qualrty of
the people can go down . in a way ; people
who have been giving a lot get ktnd of demDfalized.• he said.
· 11 1have a lear for the future here, it's that
good people get demoralized '
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More than 50 events planned to introduce students to UB
I!XT WEEKEND as many as
4,000 students and parents from
all over New York Swc and beyond will travel to Buffalo for
an up-&lt;:loae-and-penooallook at
the Univenity at Buffalo.
'.fbey will come for Open House, an
opponunity for at:eepted freshmen and
transfer students to visit the place where
they may be pursuing their undergraduate
degrees. To be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m . Saturday, April 19, it's a big day for
the Office of Admissions.
In fact, "it's the most irnponant thing
we do all year," according to Regina S.
Toomey, interim assistant vice president for
student affairs and director of admissions.
More than 50 events have been planned
to introduce accepted students to the wealth
of academic programs, variety of student

services and numerous state-of-the-art
learning resources that are available at UB.
Coordinated by the Office ofAdmissions,
activities will include academic presentations, exhibits, demonstratioos, campus tours,
financial-aid information, tours of the residence balls, student performances and the
President's Reception. In addition, for the fust
time, students who come to Open House will
receive a special souvenir T-sbin.
The imponanceofthe university's annual
Open House canno1 be overstated.
..Open house has a tremendous impact
on enrollment,'' Toomey said. And enrollment this year has been a bard-fought....,and

apparently succ:essful--baJtle. Although the
number of students who bad applied to UB
was down significantly at the end of the fall
semester, efforts by the Office of Admissions and the entire univen;ity community
have paid off, she aaid.
"Things look good now. Freshman applications are down l~s than I percent and
deposits are up from (this time) last year,"
Toomey said. " We have caught up a lot."

A

tremendous amount of work was involved in getting the application
numbers up, she noted.
"We've dooe a lot of good programs and
a lot of good publicity. We've just finished
five receptions for parents and students all
around the .we, inch'lling one in Syracuse,

where we've never done one before,"
Toomey said.
Receptions for accepted students and
their parents are just one pan of the work
that's been done this year.
A lot of effon from throughout the university community bas gone into recruitment for
Fall ''17, Toomey said. The goal: to get the
word out, all across the state, about the variety and quality of UB's academic programs.
llt.al effort has included an aggressive radio advertising campaign in late December
that targeted the New York City metropoli tan area. Toomey said. UB also did more
radio advertising locally last fall and again
this spring, as well as buying local televi sion ad time on Nickelodeon. MTV and Fox .
Ads also were placed in a number or
community college newspapers. Toomey
said, " al~over the •tate, (at) any school that

Pataki appoints Jeremy Jacobs Sr.,
Gerald S. Uppes to UB Council
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News Servtces Director

J

EREMY M. Jacobs Sr. and GeraldS.
Lippes, two Western New York com-

munity leaders who are among the

University al Buffalo's most active
volunteers, have been appointed to the UB
Council by Gov. Geo!Jle E. Pataki.
Jacobs is chainnan and chief e,;ccutivc
officer of Delaware Nonh Companies Inc.,
a S ! -billion-plus diversified international
holding company owned by him and his
immediate family.
Through its subsidiaries, Delaware North
Companies is recognized as a world leader in
food service, retail operations, recreation and
hospitality management, airport services,
sportS ownership and facility managemen~
and pari-mutuel operations. Jacobs owns the
National Hockey League's Boston Bruins
fmnchise and Delaware North owns Boston's
FleetCcnll:l'spons and entertainrnentoornplex,
where the Bruins play their home games.
A distinguished attorney, Lippes is
founder and managing.Panner of the law
flfll\ of Lippes, Silverstein, Mathias &amp;

Wexler, LLP. He represents businesses
such as Mark IV Industries, a Fortune 500
company of which he is corporate secretary and a director, and serves on the board
of directors of Gibraltar Steel Corp. and
National Health Care Affiliates.
Ufl President William R. Greiner applauded the appointments and the exper-

tise the two will bring to the university's
local governing council.
'1bes~

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are two very exceptional ap-

pointments," he added, noting: 'They both
are UB alumni and they love UB .
" Each will bring to the table exceptional
skills based on their own experiences ~ Jeremy Jacobs in building a world-wide company and Gerald Lippes as a premier business attorney, negotiator and astute investor.''

Jacobs will succeed James F. Phillips,
whose most recent term expired June 30,
1996. Lippes succeeds John F. Kopczynski ,
Sr., whose most recent tenn expired June

JACOBS

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30. 1992.
Jacobs. a 1960 graduate of the UB
School of Management, has been a trustee
of the UB Foundation, Inc. for 25 years.
He served as cha.ir of the foundation from
1980-87. He chairs a group of international leaders, known as the President 's
Board of Visitors, that advises UB on stra ·
tegic issues.

I

n 1983, Jacobs donated a $1 million plus
endowment to the university to fund two
academic chairs in the School of Manage ment. He was named the school's Niagara
Frontier Executive of the Year in 1985 .
At UB 's sesquicentennial commencement last May, Jacobs, a former general
campaign chairman for the United Way of
Buffalo and Erie County, was awarded an
honorary doctorate in humane leners from
the State University of New York.
Lippes, a 1964 graduate of the UB
School of Law, in 1995 received the Jaeckle
Award, the highest honor presented by the
law school and the UB Law Alumni Association. He serves as chair of the Dean 's
Advisory Council of the School of Law.
Lippes also is chair of the UB Regional
Advisory Board, a member of th e
President's Board of Visitors at UB and a
trustee of the UB Foundation.
The recipient earlier this week of the
National Conference's CitAtion Award for
community leadership, Lippes is chair of
the Children's Hospital of Buffalo Board
of Trustees and a member of Roswell Park
Cancer Institute's Community Council and
the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation. •

has been a good

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moderate
feeder-for
(transfer ) applications" to VB .
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UB faculty also
f to;: ~ '"
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met with faculty
~;~
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~ ,. at com mun ity
colleges to pro'
' ~ vide information
about recruit ment , anicula tion, .. whatever
FABIENNE LEROUX,
is
needed to
aUB-.-Io
....,_,, T.,lrt to be eliminate roadblocks"
that
....... tootuclentaat
Open-.
might preve nt a
student fro m
L - - - - - - - - - ' transferring to
UB, she said. Those efforts have made a substantia) difference in the number of transfer
students applying to UB.
While transfer applications earlier were
down by as much as 50 per-cent. that number now shows a decline of 13- 15 percent
from last year, Toomey noted. She added
that UB traditionally g~ts most of its transfer applications between April and August.
" Not that! want people to be complacent.
but we still have time." she said.
The I 9'17 recruitment campaign also has
· included a greater effon to provide every
student accepted for fall admission with per-

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sona.l contact with someone at UB. Deans
from all academic disciplines have sent letters congratulating students on their acceptance to the university and encouraging them
lO contact UB if they have any questions
about the university and its programs.
Individual schools also have made special
efforts to boost recruitment The School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences sent a
video to each student welcoming him or her
to UB. as well as a copy of "Angle,'' the engineering student publication. ArtS and Letters has invited accepted students to come to
campus for a day, giving them an opportunity to an.end classes. Other units also~ en·
gaged in special recruitment efforts. Toomey
said. And the offices of Residence Life and
Student Life have been invaluable in the help
they have provided, she added.
With Open Ho use just a week. away,
Toomey said she hopes to gel other member.i of the university commumry involved
in extending a hand to the students and farm lies who will participate in activities at UB
April 19. " The message we're IJ)'ing to gel
across to the umversity community is every·
one should come to Open House and act as
ambassadors." she said . .. A friendJy face.
someone to ac;k., 'Do you need help' can go a
long way" toward breaking down concerns
prospective srudents may have about attending VB. For more information on how you
can help at Open House, call 645-6648. •

Acclaimed pianist, educator to take part
in UB Pia~ Festival April17 and 18
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~y ACCLAIMED CONCERT PIANIST and music educator
Raymond Jackson will panicipate in UB's eighth Piano Festival, to be held on April
17 and 18 on the Nonh Campus.
Jackson, who earned three degrees from the JuUiard School of Music, will kick
off the festival with a performance of an eclectic repenoire of European classical
works and works by composers ofAfrican descent.
The concert, to be held at 8 p.m. on Tbursday,April17, in SleeCnncen Hall, will
featwe worts by Beelhoven, Brahms, Liszt, Howard Swanson and Roben Nathaniel
Dett. Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens; $8 for others.
A professor of music at Howard University, Jackson also w.ill conduct a dialogue
with area pre-rollege-age students at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 18, in Baird Recital
Hall.
The dialogue is an exten5ion of his interest in ""tivities such as The Raymond
J acksoo Scholarship and
Mentoring Program for
pre-college, gifted African-American pianists and
the Raymond Jackson
Music Forum for music
teachers and students.
ln addition, Jackson
will moderate a panel discussion, " Black Music: lts
Power and-Diversity,'' at 7
p.m. on April 18 in Baird
Recital Hall. The discussion will be .free and open
to the public . .,
Panel members will include Gary Burgess, UB
associate professor of music and director of the
0(eater Buffaio Opera
Company; Buffalo resident and legendary jan
great AI Tinney, and
Simeon Chilungu. a cultural antblopologisJ at
Buffalo State College and
lecturer in UB 's World
Languages !pstitute.

Spearheading a musical
mission to gain recognition for often-invisible, African-American classical composers, Jackson bas performed on concen stages
throughout Europe and Nonb and South America.
The Piano Festival is sponsored by the UB Depanment of Music, with support
·from the UB Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs.
Frina Arscbansl&lt;a Boldt, UB associate professor of music, is festival director.

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Alumni Association to honor

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nine at annual awards dinner
May event will be dedicated to Philip Wets
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News Services Editor

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HE PRESIDENT and CEO of

one of Asia's largest multinational

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conglomerates, the chainnan and
CEO of Pnlxair and a co-founder
of the national Muscular Dystrophy Association are among nine individuals to be honored at the UB Alumni
Association's annual awards dinner.
The dinner will be held at 6 p.m. o n
Friday, May 2, in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. Tickets for the
dinner are $50 per person. For more informat ion and reservations, cal1829-2608 by
Aprill8.
This year 's event
will be dedicated to
Philip Wels (B.A .,
'37 ; M .A ., ' 39 ;
M.D ., ' 41 ) for hi s
lifetime se rvice to
UB.
Wels is chair emeritus of the UB Council. A well -known
wn.s
and res pec ted area
physicia n, he was a member of the UB
Council from 1980-96 and its chair from
1992-96. A chaner member of the UB
Alumni Associ ation 's Alhletic Hall of
Fame, WeiS: was a varsity fencer who repI resented the U.S. at the 1936 Olympics.
UB President William R. Greiner and
, Jean C. Powers. chair of the awards commince. will present awards to the nine hon orees.
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Louis R. Relr (B.A., ' 48), Williamsville, will fe\'CiV~ !Jle Sarpuel P. Capep
Award for notable and meritorious contributions to the university and its family.
Former chair of the executive committee

of the UB Foundation, Inc. and national
chair of the UB annual fund drive in 198889, Reif is a strang supponer of UB 's intercollegiate sports prograril and a member of the UB Foundation Board of Directors and the UB Foundation Investment
Committee.
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The Walter P. Cooke Award recognizing non-alumni who have made ootable
and meritorious contributions to UB and

its family, influencing growth and improvement for the university, will be presented to Calvin G. Rand and posthumously to S. Mouchly Small. A Buffalo
civic leader and philanthropist, Rand has
been a supponer of the UB School of Management and an advocate of the arts who
has created a vital connection between the

campus and the Western New York arts
community. Small , who bad served as
chai r of UB 's Department of Psychiatry
for 27 years, was a founder and multi term
past president of the national MI!SCular
Dystrophy Association. His widow, Sophie
Small of Williamsville, will accept the
award.

-..w.-AwCraig R. Cirbus of Getzville, UB 's head
football coach for the past two years, will
receive the George W. Thorn Award, presented to a UB graduate under age 40 in
recognition of outstanding national or international contributions in their car= field

or academic area . Cirbus received a
bachelor's degree in engineering from UB
in 1980. Prior to returning to his alma mater,
Cirbus was assistant football coach for 10
years at Penn State. lbis past season, tbe
UB Bulls fOOiball team posted an 8-3 record
and Cirbus was named national Division 1AA Independent Coach of the Year.

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Lanny S. Llebeskind (B.S., '72) of Atlanta, Ga., will receive the Clifford C.
Furnas Memorial Award, presented to a
graduate of the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences or the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Liebeslriod
is a prolific research scholar and chair of
the Chemistry Departmelll at Emory University. Associate editor for Organometaltics, the most prestigious journal in bis research area, he bas an international repu-

tation for excellence in the area of
orgaoometaltic chemistry.
l'l•l•ltof.U...AwDistinguished Alumni Awards, given in
ra:ognitioo of exceptional career accomplishments, community or university service or research and scholarly activity, will
be presented to four recipients:
• Tanrl A benc (M. B.A., ' 68 ) of
Jakana, Selatao, lndooesia, is president and
chief executive officer of P.T. Baltrie and
Broth~rs. one or Asia's largest mul~ ­
tional conglomerates. Well-known andrespected throughout the Far East, Abeng is
founding president or UB's alumni chap-

ter in Jakarta.
• Arthur E.
Levine (Ph.D .,
' 76), is one of
America's foremost
leaders in higher
education and president of the Teacbers
College or Colum-

bia University.
Levine 's " Hand·
book on ·under- IIIAU.
graduate Curriculum" is considered a landmark in the field . Holder of a dozen honorary degrees, he chaired the graduate
higher~tion program at Harvard University prior to joining Columbia.
William LlchteoberJier(M.B.A.,
' 66), is chainnan and chief executive officer of Pnlxair, one of the largest producers or industrial gases in the world. He ~ves
in Ridgefield, Conn.
• Muriel A. Moore (M.A., ' 73; Ph.D.,
'85) is the flr5t woman to be president of
the SUNY College at.Buffalo. A Bulialo
resident with a 23-year career in education
at UB, she served as UB's flr5t vice president for public service and urban affairs.•

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Distinguished VISitor: Tyabji's corporate philosophy gets global attention
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News Services Editor

H

ATIM TYABfl and his company,
VeriFone, Inc., want to take the big
Automatic Teller Machine out of
your local supermarket and bring
il into your living room .
Yet at the same time, he describes his
company's goals as "very modest."
Tyabji, who received a master's degree

in electrical and computer engineering
from UB in 1969, returned to his alma
mater last Friday to participate in a series
of activities, including a breakfast meet-

ing in the Center for To~rrow where he
received the UB Alumni Association's Distinguished Visitor Award. His visit was cosponsored by the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences and the School of
Management.
Tyabji outlined bis business philosophy
at the breakfast program in a talk entitled
"Creating and Running a Vinual Company:
The Impact of Technology and Psychology
on Business."
Swipe your credit card through the machine at any Wegmans or Tops supermarket and you can see how pervasive the

VeriFone syscem is.
Dubbed the fastest-growing small company in America by Forbt!s, VeriFonc is
the market leader in the U.S. and the world
in credit-card transaction verification.
In 1988, two years after'I'yahji took over
as CEO, VeriFone 's sales began growing
at an annual average rate of25 percent and
profits have grown even raster. The company recently went public.
While such measures ofVeriFone's sue-

cess are the standard ones, the approach of
its CEO is pretty unusual.
In Tyabji's discussion of VeriFone 's
corporate philosophy, which he wrote, the
words "compassion" and "humanity" come
up again and again.

"What distinguishes VeriFone is a set
of ground rules that have absolutely nothing to do with business," he noted. '"Our
feeting was that success in these parameters would be ao outgrowth of our corporate culture, but that our principal gnal was
to improve the quality of life for our people.

"We wanted to create an environment
on a global basis that would make it fun to
come to work." he added, "and that would
be the unifying thread, irrespective of an
employee 's ethnic background or geography."

'W'be philosophy wasn't an instant bit. But
I Tyabji notes that to make a corporate
philosophy stick, the emphasis must be on
"constant. unceasing communication .. and
on not ignoring any pan of the audience.
Today, VeriFone's corporate philosophy
is available in seven languages.

That global outlook is intrinsic to
VeriFone's success. Tyabji said the company has no corporate headquaners and,
indeed, key corporate executives live in
Dallas, Santa Fe and Southern California.
It's fitting that the world's first virtual
company, as VeriFone sees itself, is now
worlcing to become a leader in Internet
traosactions and "chip-card" technologies
that could make ATMs go the way of the
eight-track tape.
Tyabji explained that VeriFone technol-

ogy would allow a consumer to attach a

device similar to an answering machine to
the home telephone. To obtain cash, one

co uld access a personal bank account
through the telephone lines by simply sliding the card through the device. The
amount of cash desired would automatically be ttansfened to the card, wbicbcould
then be used like a credit card to pay for

purchases in stores.
The idea, he explained, is to eliminate
the security problems inherent in withdrawing cash from ATMs, while allowing
stores a way around handling cash, considered a li:ey expense by many retailers.
The new technology could be ready for
pilot-testing as early as this fall .
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Objections to Provost's
Plan : some reasonable;
others, less reasonable
Many of the objections dw have been nlised
apinst the Provost's propooais for the future
of the university n:praent n:uooable disagreementJ. It is perlcctly ·~to differ about the significance of iDtenliJcipliruuy
studies or about bow they can best be fostered. It is naturu dw foculty will have differillg views about the proper role of the depanmenu, or about bow the Ans and Sciences and the professiooal schools can best
wort togdber to support tbe univenity's
commoo minion. or about tbe proper rela·
tionship between graduate and UJidetsnduate
eduplioo. Faculty always argue about the
strengths, wealmcues, and future prospects
of particular programs and fieldJ.
Olbet objecti.ODJ, such as those in the recent letter from Jean Dickson, seem less reasonable. For example, you cannot have a secretly exceUent academic program. If your
program is perceived as poor, you will be unable to attract good students, unable to attract
research funding, unable to attract good fac ulty. Thus it makes no sense for her to complain that, "The Planning n:port focuses almost exclusively on public-relations goals ."
The President and the Provost have repeatedly emphasized that they are not contemplating retrenchment. The Provost's report makes proposals about how we might
beuer deploy the faculty and staff we have
and the resources that we might be able to
obtain in the near future . No ooe's job is on
the line. The tenure system is in no way questioned . The repon discusses how we might be
able to raise the money to hire more faculty
and staff in the future. It is dishonest for
Dickson to ask., .. How many tenure·track or
permanent· appoinunent jobs will be lost as a
resuh of this plan?"
On the other band wme of the objections,
such as most of those in the Jetter from Boot.
Dewald, Fisdunan, Fleron, Sachs. Smith. and
Wolf. seem to reflect an inadequate understanding of the main lines of the Provost 's
proposals. His report. Planning UB ~ca­
tkmic Futurr, is long and not easily grasped
as a wbole. It occurs to me, therefore. that it
might be useful to write a brief summary of
the vision that I extract from bis repon. Of
course the authoritative statement of his position is in his report. not here. What foUows is
a brief outline of what I take to be the main
suggestions the Provost is making:
The effect of more than a decade of bud get cuts has been to degrade the quality, both
aclual and perceived, of the entire institution.
We are now having difficulty anractinJ suffic ient good students to achieve our enrollment
targets . That is true in every major category:
freshmen , transfer students, continuing students, graduate students. We must move expeditiously to improve what we offer our students. Above all , that means we must im prove the experience we provide for our undergraduates. lbey musl find UB a welcoming environment, and one which provides an
excellent and vocationally relevant education.
ince we will not have significant new resources in the shon term. that inevitably
means that faculty will have to devote more
of their time and creativity to the needs of un dergraduates. Since mosl of our faculty are
aln:ady fully occupied, they will have less
time and effon to devote to Olher activities,
including graduate education and research.
We want our undergraduates lo receive a
coherent liberal education. At one time such
an education was sufficient to guarantee
midd le-claSs employment. That is no longer
the case. We are thus e xperiencing pressures
either to make our education narrowly voca-

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tiooal. which would be to abandoo our core
educaliooa1 values-&lt;&gt;r else to 110p pretendinc thu. out degree is voc:atiooally relevant,
which would be to neai&lt;ct the felt needs of
our ltUdeDts. We cao escape this dilemma by
JtCOgnizing dw ill many fields the entry level degree for DJiddle.&lt;:l.au employment is
increuiDsJy the master 's degroe. Let us lead
the way Dlliooally by making the master 's
degree the WJet degree for many of our stu dents. In this way we wiU have time 10 combine an excellent liberal education with a vocatiooally oriented credential.
Moct of our Ph.D. programs are also havin&amp; trouble attracting adequate numbers of
good studeou. This is in pan because we are
unab&amp;e lO offer competitive stipends, and in
port because our programs are widely considered mediocn:. We can n:spond to both problems by having fewer, larger Ph.D. prognuns.
The total number of PbJ), students will decline. making it possible to offer higber stipends. Moreover, by coooentrating our re1ources, we can have a few programs which
arc nationally prom.ineot and will attract the
very best gnduate students. Since the total
faculty effort devoted to Pb.D. education will
go down, that will free facult y time for un·
dergraduate and master's level education.
Moreover, as faculty replace TAs in the class·
room. the perceived quality of our undergraduate education will rise. The remaining
Ph.D. programs wiU also have sufficient
streoJih to attract significant external research fundio.g , thereby reversing the recent
decline in our research profile. The overall
effect will be to improve both the reputation
and the actual quality of our undergraduate
and graduate prognuns.
In order lO cooc:entrate our faculty resources effectively into a smaller number of
larger and stronger Ph.D. programs, we need
an organiz.atiooal structure that ua.nscends the
boundaries of the tnditional deparunents. UB
is unusual in tbc extent 10 which we have divided up our faculty into many small depanments, often with similar or overlapping missions. Let us therefore create new, interdisciplinary structures which will serve as the foci
for Ph.D. education and research. Undergraduate education is likely to remain centered in tbe departments, but Ph.D. education
will increasingly be organized on a crossdeparunental basis . We oeed broadly based
institutes to provide support for intellectual
foci that cross depanmental boundaries, and
more nanowly based research centers lhat
bring together faculry actively working on
common research agendas. These institutes
and centers will be the primary academic
homes for most Ph.D. students.
In order to provide the incentives for fac ulty to make the changes in their activities
which are needed to improve our undergraduate and graduate programs. it is crucial to tie
our budgeting system more closely to lhe
goals we are ttying lo achieve. Specifically,
units must keep most of the revenues they gcn enuc-including both tuition and research fund ing. The resulting budgewy system, called
Responsibility Center Management, will still
leave room for the Provost to invest in perceived excellence or in unusually expensive
but vital programs, since he will allocate the
tax support which represents about half of our
university budget Nevertheless, it will provide
clear incentives for faculty to make their programs attractive to students, to seek external
funding, and to make the quality of their programs visible to students, fww:iing agencies,
and donors. It will bring our entire institution
more fully in touch with the forces which in
facl aR: shaping our future.

IIICOLUD-Professor of Mathematics
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Open Letter to
Provost Headrick
Whether intended or not, as presentl y formu lated the Provost 's Planning Report has further deepened tbe sense of malaise thai exists
among faculty members at this university. AI·
ready battered by e.ndlc;ss cuts or threats of
cuts in fmancial support for the SUNY system and the lack of commitment by the state
government to sustaining the existing missions of this university, we are now faced
with a document which appears likely to join
those other forces ill funbcr undermining faculty morale and our corru:IDtmentto this university. The Provost's PI&amp;Ming document has
received pointed critique in the letter from

Profeason Boot. Dewald, Fischman. Aeron,
Sachs, Smith, and Wolf in the Reporter of
March Tl. The Social Sciences Poticy Committee endonc.s the points raised in this letter.
Provost Headrick's plan seems diametri ·
cally opposed to the stated goals of the document, which include raising the national and
international reputations of the university for
intellectual leadership and enhancing the
learning environment for s1udcnts. Stranger
yet, the way the Provost has reacted thus far
to criticisms made about the document indi cates his unwillingness to engage in a real
dialogue about the possible cosu of pursuing
the directions he has proposed. What seems
to be developing, in place of a sense of common purpose. then, is a hardening of lines between faculty and administration that promises an unhappy outcome for the university.
Meeting the challenges faced by the uni versity depends upon UB's primary resource.
its faculty, and concentration on UB "s unique
role in serving its society: teaching. research
and creative activity. UB's faculty llJ"C developed and maintained by getting the best and

SortsView
e 'IliACI( TEAMS FACE

MID-AMERICAN COMPETmON
AJ OHIO U. INVITE
UB's men's and women's track-and-flelo
teams got their first taste of M1d-Amencan
Conference competition Saturday at the OhiO
University lnvttational 1n Athens. OhiO The
Bulls fJmshed eighth of mne schools with 40
potnts, while the Royals were loonh of eoght
in the women's meet With 96 points Eastern
Michigan took the men's Utle w•th 205 112
points, while the host Bobcats won the
womens meet with 237 1/2 poonts. MidAmerican members Central Michigan and
Akron. as well as future member Marshall.
were also represented et the meet
The Bulls' 4 x 400 relay squad ol Omar
Dayley, Man Streng . Ryan Candia and Spencer Bell placed second In 3:17 70 MICah
Adelstein placed ninth in the harrmer throw.
sening a school rBCOfd with h1s 144-loot toss
On the women's side, Shelly Hamilton

continued her strong season performance.
again taking the high IUfllP at 5-4. The sophomore has now won three of four h1gh Jump
competitiOnS this season. Terry Scherne was
also victorious for the Royals wtnnlng the 400
meters in 57.4 seconds.

e BUU.S ANNOUNCE

1817 FOCmiAlL SCHEDULE
Call it a -MAc snack- IO&lt; the UB football pro-

gram.
The Bulls, who enter the M1d-Amencan
Conference in football In the fall of 1999. WJII
play their first OMsoo 1-A opponent since
1970 when they travel to future MAC oppo-

nent Ohio University on Sept. 20 for a showdown with the Bobcats . htghllghling the t997
football schedule.
Ohio was 6-6 overall last season and 5-3
1n the MAC , losing to eventual league champion and Las Vegas Bowl partic1pant Ball State by three (30-27) in ovenorne. lromcally,
1n theu last season of 1-A competibon 1n 1970.
the Bulls played foor future MAC opponents
(Ball State , Toledo. Kent State and Northern
Illinois) befOte d isband1ng football from 197176. This year rnar'Ks the 20th ann1versary of
the return of UB football in 1977
The Bulls will also have some tamdtar 1-AA
opponents aher the1r breakthrough 8-3 season last fall under third-year coach Crwg
Cirbus. The Bulls Will once agatn play 1-AA
powers Illinois State (Sept . 6). Connectocut
(Oct. 4), Yoongstown Slate (Oct 11) and
Villanova (Nov tS) all on the road
The Bulls will also host 1-AA playoff contenders Massachusens (Oct. 18). Holstra
(Oct. 25) and Maine (Nov. 8) at UB Stadtum
The Bulls will open their 84th season of foot ball on Saturday, Aug 30. when they play host
to Lock Haven in 7 p .m . a1 UB Stadium. The
Bulls Will also host Delaware State (Sept 13)
and West Chester University (Sept 27) at UB
Stadit.m. where the Bulls finished 4-2 last sea·
son and drew 41 percent more fans than they
d•d"' t995. The Bulls Will play seven teams tn
1997 that won StX or more games last season
·0nce again this season we lace a tremendOus challenge on the fl61d by play•ng
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April

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supporting them with re:soutCC$ and cnucaJ
evaluation of their activities. lnnoVatioo in
teaching, research and crealivc activity. and
service can be punued. c:o&lt;:OUnged, usisted
and evaluated, but not planned. In universities it comes from faculty insight, foresight
and imagination guided by knowledge and
experience.
We need 10 enP&amp;e ICOOUSly in a discussion
of where the university is going and how it
migbl get there. but the Provost 's Report does
not appear to be the vehicle for doing that.

WIU.MM-.

Philosophy
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.IAN CHA• a-t uca, Communlcatlye
Dlsorrlers and Sciences
IIATIMW DlrYIII, Linfuistics
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DON IIOSDfniAL, Politkal Sc.ence
TAIIAIIATHOitNTON,
History
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LIANA YARIM. History

the calrber of opponents on our schedule •
S&lt;lld head coach Cra~g C1rt&gt;us "We obVOJsty
wlll get a raste o f our future 111 the MAC when
we play OhiO Unrversuy. one of the most Improved teams 1n the country last season
· tn addition to that game. we look forwaro
to continUing 'Nhat has become good riValnes wrtl'l well-established 1-AA teams like llhnotS State. Hofstra. Youngstown. UMass ano
Ma1ne We feel that we have put together one
olthe toughest Independent 1-AA schedules
1n the nation •

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at Ohio Universi~
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e 1RINIDAD, JACOB
TO REPR£SENT UB
AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
A pair of UniverSity at Buffalo athletes-5Wimmer LJeselle TnniCiad and women's baSketball
player Cathenne Jacob---have been selected
to anend the 1997 NCAA Foundahon Leadership Conference The conference will be held
May 27-30 at Disney's Wide Wortd of Sports
complex 1n Ronda.
Approx.rnately 500 norrunations from 140
CHAMPS/Life Skills instituuons were recetVed
by the NCAA. The selecuon committee. compnsed of soc adrmmstrators representing DM·
stons 1-A, 1-AA. 1-AAA. II and Ill. •nllited 276
student-athletes to parbCipate 1n the conference Student-athletes from 20 different
sports wtll be represented
Tnmdad . a sophomore , helped lead the
Royals to their th1rd consecutiVe Mtd-Contlnent Conference uue thtS season An All-MidCon first-team ~ecuon . she won the 100and 2(X)-bunertty at the conference champtonshlps and was part of the two Wlnntng relay squads She holds a 2 910 graoe potnt
average 1n mechan1cal engtneenng
Jacob. also a sophOmore. has been the
Royals' starting potnt guard the last two seasons leadtng the club to a 45-14 record She
broke her own school record thiS season w•th
166 ass1sts and IS currently second all·tJO"le
With 329 Jacob camas a 3 902 grade pomt
average •n mechaniCal eng1neenng and was
one of five women"s basketball play8fs selected to the GTE AcademiC AII·OISincl 1
Umversny 0MSK)O f1rst-team
- Ted WBsko, Sports lnlotmalron Office

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UB Invitational Track &amp; F101d Meet UB Stadium. 4 p m (Fnda ). 9 am (Saturda_l)

Aprllr7

Blue-White Football Game

UB Stachum. 2 p m

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UB Open Track &amp; Fteld Meet

UB StadiUTl, 4 p m (Fnda 1. 9 am Saruroay

Mid-Continent Conf8fence
Track &amp; Ftek1 ChampiOnShips

UB Stachum, 9 30 am (Fnday-Saturday) 9 am
(Sunday),
Awards presentations. 2 30 p m (Sunday)

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fa more riorrreoon.
cal Ctrisocphor Payne, 82»185, ext

policy goups

lnnovatJYe approaches that hnk hiS·

tory and hentage to development
planntng on a regional basis will be
explored 10 a senes of free pubhc
lectures to be held from April 10
through May 13 at the BuffaJo and
Er•e County H1stoncal Soctety
The senes wlll be presented by
the UB Graduate Group on lndustnal
Hentage Pohcy and the historical !)(&gt;.
CISty Assoclate sponsors are the
Greater Buffak) ConventiOn and V~
tors Bureau. the Landmark Soctery
of N•agara Frontter and the Preservatl()(l Coal•llon of Ene County All
leciUres will be held at 7 30 p m
Top•cs and speakers will be

• Apnl 10 "S1raiegoes lor RegoonaJ
Hero1age and Development· James
Pepper. aSStStanl tietd dwector. NatiOt'\al Par1c. SeMce. Pt11ladelptua
• Apnl 24 "Whose Hentage. •
Martha Norkunas. Center for Amen·
can H•story, Umverslty of Texas ,
and lormer research d•rector. Lowell
Nattonal H•stoncal Park
• Apnl 28 "Harnage Tounsm as
Economtc Deve~pment Ttps, Techntques and Traps." Elatne Van S
Carmtchael. Economtcs Research
Assoctates. Washington. 0 C
• May 6 "lndustnal Heritage m
the U S and Europe,· Thomas
Leary and Elizabeth Sholes. lndustnal Research Associates. Buf1alo
• May 12 "Gerung 111e Story
Stratght The First Step in Effective
Downtown Oevek&gt;pmenl. • Michael
and Carrie N Kline. folkkxists and
Ofal hiStonans IOfmerty w1th Wheehng
(W Va ) Na1oonal Heritage Area Corp
The day a1ter """" \octullo, speakers wNI eoosu11 -Mth CO'l'WTU'liry ana

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For 1'1"101'8 InformatiOn, call the

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UB Office of SlUdent Muttteultural

,_DAY TO liE HEIJ)
ATU.OICANILU
TRIO Day-a celebration of the accomplishments of BuHak&gt;-area students enrolled in TRIO programs
that serve low-1ncome and first-o~m­
erahon coHege students and those
with disabiltlies-wlll be held from
10 a.m . to noon April 16. in the Cen-ter for Tomorrow, North Gampus

TRIO programs, fl.Wlded . . T111e IV bl1ho Higher Education Act of
1965, serve more than 700,000 students tn 1. 750 programs nationwide
They Include Studen1 Support Ser·
VICeS. also known as Special Ser·

an undelgraduat&amp;-retention
program: 1he Ronald McNair Post
Baccalaureate Achievement Pro-

VK:eS,

gram. a graduate-school-preparation
program: Upward Bound. a colleg&amp;preparation program; Talent Search,

a secoodary-scl'loQl.retention ~
gram and

deliver the keynote address.

col~

program, and

Educational Opportunity CentBfS
UB has roined W11h other institu·
IIOOS in the Buffak:l and Rochester
area that have TRIO programs to
form the Western New YOI"k TRIO
Consortitm. which aims to educate
the COITYT'IUf'lity about the nature. ac1Mties and success of TRIO programs and students.
As part of TRIO Day at UB.
Robert hiiiMf' .lr., UB vice
president lor s!Udent affairs. will
welcome the students . staff-and
faculty representing all TRIO programs from localtnstitutions. Hal
P•yne, vK:e pres1dent for student
affairs at Buffa lO State College. will

Aff8&gt;rs . 645-2732.

The fourth annual Childhood VIO-

lence Symposium will be held from
8 a.m . lo o4 p .m. April t4 , in the Bu1faJo Hilton. 120 Church St. Buffalo.
The symposium, "Coring, Sharing
and Creating a Nco-~ CorrmJ.
nity," wil be presented by 1ho UB Depar1merll ol Pediatrics and 1ho
Olildran~

Hospi1af ol Buffalo, wi1h fi.
nancial support from Kiwanis ln1oma·
loonal. The program, wllich Is open to
the pubiC, wiU feature national experts in 1ho field . with a stress on pr&amp;-

vention. T'hefe is a registration fee.
Four tectures will be presented
during the morning session Topics
and speakers wiU be:

• "The&lt;a Is a Desperate Cry on
1he Land: WtrJ Hears or Cares"Judge Glenda Hatchett, head o1 juvenile court systems in Allanta lll1d &amp;or·
rounding municipalities lll1d an actJv.
ist with the Chtldren's Defense Fund .
• "Violence Prevention: A Multifaceted &amp; Multidisciplinary, Community-Based Approach" -Danielle
LaAaque , medical directOf. Pedia!ric Resource Center at ~umbia
University and Harlem Hospital.

• "P!crmting Efteclive Family Life·
Lassons on Video from !mer Cily Par·
........J&lt;rnes Say!e, cinical professor
a pecialncs, l.JI'lio.lers1ty of Rochester
• "Keeping 0.. O&gt;ldn!n Safe:
Overview &amp; SokJiions to 01lktlood Volence"-M'S assernllly!na'l
Hoyt
Afternoon discussklns wiH be on
strategies lor preventflg vk&gt;kwlce In
1ho schools, 1he cornmuni1y. by rroed&gt;cal and mental heal1h provldeis, via
1ho media lll1d through legislation.
fa roore information, call876-7109.

The sky is falling? An omen of the

ratod by lllel\CIIItimc for pu111isb1q,
orpnizolioaa, lilllal.. .
ets iD lhe lTnii!Od S -11D ~llelaiiQie
America Q!Jiwe.M YqJ a.)' IIIYe
.tYCIIiled- iD
lbe media. Bul ~ tbe lint liiM, daD is a cemralloc8lioll for
informolioa about l b e - ...
celebnle poecry dur·
iDg April. You ca1111Dd lbe Nllloaal Poelry Wooth Web pa£O at

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, The NPM 'Web lliiB o~ a awltitude of ways 10 participate,
making available linlr:s socb u "Forwns," "Rcsoun:es," IIIII "UI·
crary Unks." "Forums" offers diiCIIISion areas for boobellen
librarians, and leadiOI'S 10 share ideas on ho\¥ besiiO pro~
poetry. The range of discussion areas makes this idea quile ill·
teresting. Also useful is "Resources," a page offering various
indexes, a list of major poetry award winnen, and a small sclec·
tioo of National Poeay Month paste,.,
From d.e National Poetry Month page, you can also linlc to
the ~ of the Aclldemy of American Poets organization
homepage, which includes poetry exhibits and the 11Cadcmy's
calendar. "Poetry Exhibits" is a pamcularly interesting page and
offers selections sucb as "Special Events," "Current Exhibits,"
"Archive." "Fmd a Poet," and a booksiOre page.
This April, don't forget our rich local resources for poetry!
The Electronic Poetry Center (bttp:/fwings.bulfalo.edu/epc), a
site featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education twice during
the past few months. offers a large number of celebrated poetry
resources. An: you tip for a poetry conference? If you'd like to
attend one of the most significant poetry events of the year, you
might also wish to find out about UB 's April conference celebrating the work of Louis Zukofsky (bttp:ffwings.bulfalo.edu/
epc/autbors/Zukofsky/april.btml). Interested in community·
sponsored resources?T'ry the ACORN Uterary Arts page at http:/
/freenet.bulfalo.edu/arts/lltuary.
April doesn' t have to be the cruelest month, not with the
weal th of poetry at your fingertips!
For help with connecting to the World Widt' Web, contact the
err Help Desk at 645-3542.
- Lara Bu.shallow Wilbur and Loss Pequeiio Glaziu, University Libraries

011n•

•nto ...... .tUB

Chine....bom, - - filmmaker
will
present her documentasy, "Tho
Gates of Heaventy Peace . ~ at two

c.-

showings at UB on Frtday, Apnl
18. The film examines 1he 1989
Chinese student movement for democracy and its tragic aftermath
culminating in the massacre tn
nananmen Square.
The 140-minute film probes
into the cultural, poUtk:.al and soc~l causes of what it depicts as a
social tragedy. It is cntlca! of
hardliners in the government . as
wffil as hardlinec,s among the students. It has been banned in
China and has been attacked by
some student )eaders as well.
Screenings wiN be held from

1-3:30 p.m. in Room 222 ol1he
Natural Sctences and Mathematics Build ing on the North CamP-uS,
and from 7-9:30 p.m . In Room 215
of the Natural Sctences and Mathematics Building . The screenings

will be "'"' and open to 1he public . They will be followed by dis·
cusslons led by . . _ " - associale prolauor. Department ol History, a apec1a11st
on China;
asslstan1 proiossor, D o - of
Communications, a speclalist on

and - " -

Chinese film.
Hinton wiU give a Web site
demonstration on archival materials used to make the film from
2·3:30 p.m. in 1he law Ubnlry,
O'Brian Hall, filth floor Room A.

The presentations win becosponsored by 1ho Juno 4 Memorial
Fund: 1he depattmonts ol CorrmJ.
nication, History and Philosoplly;
1he Council on lntomational SttJd.
ies and Programs: 1ho vice proYOSI
lor international education; 1ho Program in Asian Studies and the
Gra&lt;;loata Group on Heman Rig/us
Law and Policy. The public Is welcome to adend. For mcwe informatJon, call 645-6184.

s..n

DBITTO--W/IIJ_._

Naaa.l

Director or ~venlllll filM

end ol1he planet?
- H . Y . - , SUNY
Distinguished Teaching ProfBSSOf 1n

1he Oopanmeni of Geography a\ UB
lll1d a nationally known expert on
natural disasters, wdl discuss · Aster-

okls: A Menace From Space" a11he
UB at Sunrise breakfast lecture to be
hek:t at 7:30 a.m. on Apnl 17 in the
Center fOf Tomorrow. North Gampus.
Ebert will d1scuss how asteroids
may have been responsible for
drastk: changes 1n the evolution of
life on Earth
Cost of the program, whtch includes breakfast and the lecture, 1s
$10, UB Alumni Association members: $12. others. II is sponsaed by

1he UB AUmi Association. UB News
SeMces. offices of P\blic:ati::n; and
Conlerences and Special Evern at UB.
Addi1iorlai support is prtMded by 1he
Office of i.Jroillersl1y DeYelopmen1 and
1he Office of1he Vx:e - l o r PIJb.
ic Service and l.&lt;ban Allan at UB. The
Bclla\0 Marrio1l is a oorporatB sponsor
Cal fl29.21i08 lor more l'1lorrm1ion

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SOCIAL ACTIVIST TO DISCUSS

Nationally known Galilornia-based or, _ _ _ _ will
ganazer. activist. wnter and rT'IJSician

presoni an evening of dialogue lll1d
song a\ 8 p.m. Apnl16. in Unitarian
Universalist Church ol Buffak&gt;. 695
Elmwood Ave. Herrera will dlscuss
"The Liv.es of lmmtgrants &amp; Refugees: Hope Through Adversity.·

Cl&lt;ganizl1r and programwith~ OWties of1he Eas1 Bay &amp;
Oektond Diocese U!tino Ministries. ,..,
olso is a racording artist and producer.
Sponsors are UB School o1 Social
Wort&lt;, The Bertha Gapen Reynolds

Society-Erie Coun1y Chap1er and 1ho
New Vorl&lt; Stale Chapter ol1ho National Association ol Social Workers.

Admission win be ss. Students With
current ID wiU be admiUed free .
Henara~
Hspark irm'iga!ion and rolugoo-

special-""

He t'es colabora1ed- aociol-·
.... - a n d peace and lunanrigh1S activists relocating ex-combat·
an1S and aiding victims ol torture. war
...,. and econcmc dislocalion.
He Wll preseOt a lecture lor UB
st.-.,. and 1acu11y. ·eroos CulnJral
Social Wort&lt;: lnta&lt;venlions with Native
Americans lll1d New lnvnigran1S"
from 6-7:50 p.m. April 16 in Room
258. Gapen Han, Nor1h Campus.
fa mo&lt;e inlorma1ion. call 645-3381.

SOUTH AFIIICAJI MINISTEII
FOW JUSTICE TO SPEAK /IIJ u•

- -.South
African minister tor justice and a key
figure in hts nation's transition from
apar1hoid, wil1 speak on "Tru1h and
ReconcHiation in
i'oJ;.
counting lor the Past~ at 2:30 p.m.
AprU 11 , in 1he Moot Court Room in

South Afric8.

O'Brian Hail. Nor1h campus. The presentation will be sponsored by 1ho
UB School of Law lll1d 1ho uniwrsity~
Heman Rights Cen.... The program
will be lreo and open to 1he public.
Omar, a lawyer and close friend
ol South African Presidenl Nelson
Mandala. is one of the most influential btack leaders in South Afrk;a.
F&amp;-mer director of the University
of Western Cope~ Corrrnunity Law
Cen1t0. he wrote 1he law lor 1he Tru1h
and Reconciliation Conmission,
charged with irM1stiga1ing crimes of
1he apar1hoid past, and heeded by
Archbishop Desmond r..u.
Omar earned bachelor ol arts

and bachelor ollaw degrees from 1he

Univor&gt;ily ol c;-.town and a docto&lt;al degree in law from 1ho lJnM1r.1ity
ol Durban. W8slvilo. AdmiiiBd os an
attorney in 1960 and as an adYocata
ol.1ho Supremo C&lt;ut in .1982. te.
practiced and cMIIaw involving cases on lunarwights is...,., housing. peso laws, labor lll1d

- caoes. His cliercs rw&gt;ged
from pcllical priocners 10 .-lrions
and cMc and 1l!lgicua. ~AY TO IIBNEit

WITIUKY LaCftllll!
"Autoitrvnunity: lessons From Mice
About Human Autoimmune Dis·
eases" will the topic of the 27th annual Ernest Wrtabsky Memorial lecture, to be held April 15, at UB.

Cll8rtee

A..........,.

.Itt,.. are-

searcher at 1he Hug/los
Medical institute lll1d prc1essor o1
irm'tJnobiology. Yale Univetsity
School of Medicine, will speak a\ 8
p.m. in Butler Auditorium, Farber Hall.
Campus. The lecture. sponSO&lt;ed by UB~ Et.- Wllabsky Cen1er lor Immunology lll1d 1ho Depan·
men&lt; of MicrobiolOgy, honors 1ho late.
inte&lt;nalicnally known UB researcher.
Janeway, co-atJihor ol - ~
biology: The lnvnune System in
Health lll1d Disease,•• widely used
tex1 for medical and graduale swdents. is a gradual:e of Harvard Mad..
cal School and a merrber ol1he
American As!ociation ell~
gists and 1he Clinocallmmunoiogy
Society. Au1hor or co-au1hor o1 roore
!han t75 scholatly artJCles and 1 t5
boolt chapters lll1d reviews, he haS
lectured on autolm'U'lity research .,
1ho U.S. and abroad. fa more fllor·
mation. call 829-2901

South

�OBITUU ifS
Ker1neth Goldstein, 81,
alcohol rehab pioneer
A memorial &amp;etVice was held April 6 In the
Amherst Memorial Chapel, GeiZVille, lor
Kenneth Goldstein, who began and directed
the firat alcohol rellabllitalion center In New
York State In 1948. Operated In conjunction
with UB, K was the first unlveraity·aiiHiated
center of ita kind In the country. Gotdstein ,
who died March 23 In Millard Fillmore Hoop!·
tal , was 81
He pioneered the concept that alcoholism
1s a diSease, and helped create public aware-ness of alc:oholtsm as a public heatth problem
through the UnlvO&lt;sity of Buffalo Round Table
d iscussions televised during the 1950s.
A 1939 graduate of the UB medical
schOol . he served as a major In the Alrrry
Medtcal Corps during Wortd War II. For hatf a
century, he specialized in internal medicine
and gastroenterology.

Gotdstein, a clinical profeSSOf' at the UB
mechcal school, was a past president of the
UB Medical School Alumni Association.
He was on the staffs of Millard Allmore
Hospital and 'Nhat is now the Erie County
Medical Center.

Richard P. Kucharski, 59,
computer analyst
A Mass ot Christian Burial was held April 4 10
St . Barnabas Catholic Church, Depew, fDf
Richard P. Kucharski, 59, chief applications
analyst for the Computer Center at UB.
Kucharski died suddenly March 31 in M illard
AIIITIOfe Hospital .
In addition to serving on the Computer

Center staff, he was a computer apphcatoos
instructor In Millard Fillmore College
Kucharski received an associate's degree
In mechanical technology from Ene Cornmu·
nlty College In 1957 and graduated cum
laude from UB in 1970 with a degree tn buSt·
ness administration.
He served in the U.S. Arrrrt Corps of Engt·
nears Reserves for eight years, attaining the
rank of farat sergeant. Before ;otning US tn
1968, he was a supervisor tor the Union
Garbida Co.

Kucharski was a Cheektowaga Oemocrattc
corrmittaeman. He served United Untvef'sity

Professions, a union representing faculty and
professional staff of SUNY, for many years In a
variety of capacitles both at the chapter level
and statewide.
At the lime of his death he was grk!vance
chair for professionals. PrOVIOUsly, he had
served as chapter treasurer, chapter vk:e
president for professionals. statewide UUP
deklgate, and member of the statewide fi.
nance and grievance committees; he was
also a delegate to the New Vorl&lt; State United
Teachet"s Representative Assembly
Colleagues noted that he was the kmd of
person friends, famity and fellow workers
came to lean on and depend on. He was weU
known for his candor and sense of humor

Daniel D. Pollock, 79,
engineering professor
Services were hekj April 2 in Whtte Chapel
Memoria! Pari(, Amherst, for Camel 0 . Pol lock.
a UB prof8SSOf of engineering for 19 years.
Potlock died March 30 in Buffak&gt; General
Hospital following surgery. He was 79
He earned a bachelor's degree by anending night school at Temple University for 10
years while he worked full-time as an ass1s -

tant supenntendentlor a relngerator l~rm In
1948. he earned a master's degree 1n metallurgiCal eng1neenng from Leh•gh Un1vers1ty
and rece1ved hiS doctorate !rom Leh1gh 1n
t 961
Before com1ng to U B as a professor 1n
1966, he was a manager of the 450-person
metals and ceram1c research group for
Douglass A1rcraft Corp 1n Santa Morllca
Calif
Pollock . who had t&gt;een a professor ementus s•nce reunng from UB 1n 1985. wrote e•ghl
bOOks after ret.rement
He was a member of the Amertean Jns!ftute of M in1ng . Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engmeers. the A:nencan Soctety lor Metals
the AmeriCan Soctety for Testing and Mater.·
als. the Amencan Phys•cal Soc1ety and the
Soctety of S1gma X•

George McKaig Rupley, 75,
engineering instructor
A memonal service will be held May t O •n
Calvary Episcopal Church. Wdliamsv111e tor
George M cKa1g Rupley. 75. who d 1ed Apnl 2
1n the Erie County Medical Center after a t&gt;nef
illness Rupley. a structural engmeer ana
des•gner who worked on mc)(8 than 300
pr0f8Cts 1n the Eastern U S . served as a
lecturer m structural eng1neering for UB
evemng classes from 1952 to 1965
Among Rupley 's local commiSSIOnS were
MBiody Fair in North Tonawanda . the Butfalo
Central Llt&gt;rary overpass of Wash•ngton
Street , the Buffalo Metropolitan Transportat1011
Center. the expanSIOn ol Memorial AuO •tonum
and numerous high school and college t&gt;u•talngs. tncluding those at UB . Buffalo State
College and Fredonia State Colleg e
A graduate of Cornell Unrvers1ty. he served
as a 1unl0f engineer fo r the U S Atmy Corps

of Eno1neers ana became a ctvd englfl88f lor
the U S Navy tn World War II A lieUtenant '"
lhe Navy he also served tn the Naval Res&amp;rve
unt1l 1959
He to~neo hts uncle·s f~tm , Thomas H
McKBJg Consutttng Engtneers 1n 1946 as a
structural des,oner. became assoc~ te and
ch1ef eng•neer m 1949 and' a partner 1n 1966
In 1967 he became a semor partner when the
ftrm beCame McKa10 Rupley Bahler and later
Rupley Bahler Blake He rettred from the firm
•n 1982 Out pned Cannon Oe~gn . where he
served as a v1ce prestaent until 1990

Hashim Iyoob, 63,
anesthesiologist, assistant
clinical professor
A ftnal prayer serv1ce was halO Apnl 6 '"
MaSJia-e-Noor (lslamtc Commumty Center)
Amherst for Hash1m lyoob 63 whO had
servea as an ass•stant chnteal proCessor at
the US medtcat school He was an anesthes•olog•st a1 Buffa lo General Hosp•tal from 1975
unhl hts ret•rementtn 1992 lyoob died unex
pectedly April 5 1n M1llard F1Hmore Hospttal
Born '" BritiSh India and educated tn
Pakistan and West Germany he recetveo rus
medical degree from tne Un1verst1y ol
Ousseldorl•n Germany He pract1cea med•
c1ne 1n 1/ekerhagen Germany until t969 ana
then worked m Paktstan unt1l he moved to the
us 10 1972
Involved 1n many commumty pro,ects he
was a member of the Ene County ana New
York State med1ca1 soctet•es and the Amenc an Med1ca1 Assoctallon He belonged to the
New York State ana Amencan soc~et•es of
anestn&amp;SIOiog•sts and the Assocra!lon of
Astan Phys1ctans He was a dtplomate of the
Amencan Board of AnestheSIOlOgy

CALENDAR
Conl inued from page 8

W.~.l;)~~
c - t . for

CGC~o~~~Y•

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More Mama. More Milk. and
Mon MOUR: A Nnr Way or
ThWdaa Aboul CODa!pU.
Ruth Milliken, Univ. of Connccticut. 280 Park . North Campus. 2 p.m.

ur.-.....

latrrpenoaal Coallict Rrsolutioa Skills, Dean Reinbart. 3-5
p.m. Ca1164Hit2S.
-..cr~.actu

..

Dust 'J'raDSport to t.M North
Paclfk: Wbtrt Do Dust BuaDia Got Dr. Eve Arnold. 228
Natural Sciences. North Campus. 3:30p.m.

-.try

C:OO..Iu•

Reartlvity Scalel for RationalWDc a.ad Prcdidia&amp; Polar OrpAle aAd Orpaom...Ulc Rr~Prof. Herbert Mayr,
Univ. of Munich. 215 Natural
Sciences. North Cunpus. 4 p.m.

__,_

'QI~ MDX MOUJe u a Model
Syst~m ror Ducbt11~~e Museu-

larD-by. JosephA .
Granchelli, UB Dept. of Biological Sciences. 307 Hoch·
sletter. North Campus. 4 p.m

__,_

Sepsls-IA:aonJ ~..earned rrom
lbt lnskl~ Steven Bltriere, UB
Dept. of Pbannacy. 121 Cooke.
North CamP,s. 4 :30p.m.

ur.-.....

Tbe los and Ouu ot Vlsitiaa
Enalaod, Jerry Godwin. 1-8
p.m. Call 645-6 t 25.
Opuo: c - . Llore
Pa.rttu Stria&amp; Qua.rt~4 Alan
Ross, violin: Roben Prokes. violin: Suzanne lbonw, harp:
Leslie Salathe, v._la; Nanc:y
Anderson , cello. Allen. South
Campus. 7 p.m. Free.. Concen to
be broadcast on the following
Sunday at 4 p.m. o n WBFO-FM
88 .7.

uuu Mowle
Walkla&amp; &amp; ruJd.nc. Student
Union lbea.ter. North Campus.
6:30p.m. $2.50,
of _$4.
___

E.....,

._

The Liva ollauai&amp;raaU &amp;
Rdllaoeso Hope Tbrouab Ad·
VU"'ky, Fraocixo Javier
Herrera. Unitarian Unive:rsalist
Church of Buffalo. 8 p.m. $5 .

r....

uuuScbiadler's Llsl. Student Union

_ ----

Theater. North Campus. 8:30
p.m. $2.50. $4.

:1:~1).1~1~7

....
ue-AJe-

Fredrick Seidl. Ph.D, dua,
UB Grodualo S&lt;bool of Social
Work.. Center for Tomorrow.
North Ca.mpw. Noon . SIO. For
rucrvations ot infomut.ion, call
829-2608.

...........,C:OUO.Iu•

1D Defft!Jf or Publk Laupap, Ruth Millikan, Univ. of
Connecticut. 684 Baldy. Nonh
Campus. 3:30p.m.

-.
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Protria DNA Se:~Uvlty : New
liW&amp;bU from Structural Studtes of Eodoaut:&amp;eues: ud
Troucriplloo Fad&lt;&gt;n, Dr.
Annel Agarwal , Columbia
Univ. I 14 Hocbsteuer. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m .
-COI~fUIII

Mayu Wna u • Dyu..ndcal

Ddcaa. Prof. William Laneford, Univ. of Guelph&amp;. Fields
Institute. 103 Deife.ndorf. South
Campus. 4 p.m.

·-COl._.....
R~port

C ard.iD&amp;: Statistkal
Mr:thocls, Applications, and
Ullliladoas. Prof. Stwon -L1se
Normand, Harvard School of
Public HcaJlh. 244 Cary. South
Campus . 4 p.m.

ur.-.......

Tbesl.s/Dlssert.at.ioa Suppor1
Group. Barbara Umiker. UB
Counseling Center. 4:30-5:30
p.m. Thursdays through April
17. Call645-6 125

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UUP Butralo Beallb Sde.ocn
Chapter aeneral meetinc.
Haniman. South Campus. 5:30
p.m. To make reservatio ns. call
829-2505.

UUUMovle
WalkiD&amp; &amp; Talkio&amp;. Student
Union lllcater. North Campus
6:30p.m. $2.50, $4 .

Life--..

Spriac 1Uae-Up: Bkydr
Mainka.a.att, Rich Wolcott. 7-8
p.m. Call 64S-6t25 .

PerfcM
The Livia&amp; A.Dcutor, lbe Cambodian American Herilage
Dancers of Wasbioa:too. D.C.
Mli.nstace. Center for the Arts.
Nonh Campus. 7:30p.m. $3 ,

$5 . For tickets and more: 1nfo.
call 645-ARTS.

\'10e .... . . . _ F _ e l
Black Musk: 111 Powu aud
Din.n.lty, Raymond Jackson ,
piani5t. Slec. North Campus .
8 p.m. 55, S8.

TH Grapa: or Wrath. Saul
Elkin. director. Dnma lbcat~ .
Center for the Aru. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5, $10. Call 645ARTS .
uuu-w~e

Scbiadlt:r's List. Student Umo n
Thealer. North Campus 8:30
p.m. $2.50. S4

J;X"•~•rs
lftt'latMie eculpture In

LJ&amp;Iotw.U
Ta.kashl Mu~kam i's " Mr. Dob"
1s a 40-foot-hlgh innatable
sculpture comnussioncd for the
Lagh1well Gallery and o n view
there through July 13. The
sculpture. which in 1U canoonl1ke design is both playful and
menacing, is pan of an ongomg
proJCCI by the Japanese artist.
The Lightwell Gallery is located
within the University at Buffalo
An Gallery in the Center for the
Arts. North Campus. The~ is an
opening reception for the anist
April 10 from 5-7 p.m. Gallery

hours arc: Wednesday-Saturday
10:30 a. m.-8 p.m.. and Sunday
Noon-5 p.m. Admission is free

....

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lerlya
"Sheldon Berl yn· New Work"
continues throu&amp;h June 8 m the
UB An Gallery. Cenler for !he
Arts. Nonh Campus A concurrent show of Berl yn's new work
wtll be on v1ew April 17-June I
at the Castelllll'li An Mu.scum of
Niagara Universi1y. UB An Gallery hours are Wedneiday-Saturday 10:30 a.m -8 p.m . and Sunday Noon-5 p.m. Adml !'!l iOn IS
f=
Pallltl.._ by Su_,. Kim
A master of fine ans thesis e-..
hibit of pain11ngs by Sunah K1m
opens Apnl II w1th a recepuon
from 5-7 p.m. m the An Depan ment GaHel)' located 1n the Center for the An s. North Campus
1l1.c. show contmucs through
Apnl 21 . An lkpanmcnt Gal !cry hours are Tuesday 10 a.m ·
5 p.m .. Wednesday- Fnda) 10
a.m.-8 p.m., and Saturday II
a.m.-8 p.m. Admass1on •s free:

Exllll!lt of booka end
-.-Kttpte
"Wislawa Szymborska A
Search for the Word .'' an ex h1b1 ·
uon of books. manuscnpts,
mcmorabihL and photos retatmg to the Nobel Lau~ate poet.
as on d1splay through Apnl 14 m
ltM- Pocti)'/Rart" Book Room.

llllalnnce 1o locus
. . . . Ill the WebIIII.LAIID ~ COLUOE will sponsor a
viclaoooule~enca. The Wortd W!da Web: Gateway to El·
lac:llve ~and R8Siruduring Courses
lor Higha( EWcalion, from 2:30p.m. to 4:30p.m. Thurs·
day, Ap11117. in 120 Clemens Hall on UB's North Campus.The vldeoc:onferanc is designed to show participan1B the 8lr8ngthe and weaknesses of the Web as a
Ieeming tool, . . wei .. how to ras1nJclure existing
courw - . l o r the Web and ellectil/8 course devol·
~ The vldeoconlel8llC also wtl focus on rnetlloclllor lasting end 8ludent evaluation, ways in which
....._use the Web as a cotnmlri::alion mecium,
~ rae0wces lor faculty use, tools that can be
UMd 1D build eocialllkill with stuclanls and partnering
madill w i l l - end olhar groups.
iniiiKIIve vicleoconl..-.ce is free and
open ID lhe LIB communiiY· To .-.ve a seat and a set
clccriMnce ........... call Janice in the MFC dean's

n.....,

ollica, 829-3131 .

420 Capen Hall. Norlh Campus
The e.lhibii!On on ginaled at ltMJag1elloruan Untversity m
Krakow. and IS prHt:nled tw: rc 1n
conJUnctiOn wnh the Seco nd
Conferc:nce on Polish S1ud1es m
Amc nca to be held Apnl 11 and
13 Poetry room hours are Monday-Fnday 9 a.m.-.5 p.m

• . _ .... for ....
A salr of two-dimensional an
works by graduate and under·
graduale students is scheduled
April t 8 from Noon-4 p.m., and
April 19 hom 10 a.m.-2 p.m •n
the A1rium and the An Oepaninent Gallery. Center for che
Arts. North Campus

•-photo-•

"Soc1al Photography: 11lc
Meld," an e-.hibit of photographs by students. 1s o n v 1 c~
through April II m the Oscar A
S1 lvennan Undcrgraduale Li ·
brary CUGlJ on the firs1 noor of
Capen Hall, Nonh Campus 'The
exh1b1t features black-and-white
photographs by Jennife r
Bo nheim, Ltnda Mut..ka. Hantel
Rodney. and Renee Zletler. studems tn a SOCial ph01ograph)
course taught by David Gordon
For mfonnanon. call 645-1943

.,_.,.. ellllfblt
''Cannon." curated by Chnsto·
pher Less of Cannon Dcs1cn. IS
on d• splay through Apnl 18 m
the James Oyett Gallery. 334
Hayes Hall. South Campo!.
Houn arc: 9 am -5 p.m Monda)
through Fnda)

"QT.I~~$
R--.rve llete reminder
Reserve hsts for the summer
sessions arc now due Fonns are
ava•lable at the resene dc.)k.S of
the unJ\enll) hbranes Deadlme
for the fall .)Cmc..~ ter I!. Aug I

closl.,

Oozfeat force• ro.d
St Rna 's Lane= w1ll be clo.)Cd to
all but emergency veh1cles on
April 26 from 8 a. m -5 p m dut·
mg Oozfest

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VICe. and 1M company lh:u ad
m1msters tht New York Statr
Deferred Compensat 1on Program To make a resc:rva11on .
call Personnel Services. 645·
2646. e.lL 10 1 or 102

~Q~$

...- . -

DirKtor (SL-5)-Career Planmng and Placement, Postmg
IP-60.59 Assistant Dean (SLS) -School of Management. Posl ·
•ng IP-70 19. lnnruction.al
Sup por1 TKbnidau (SL-J) ·
Central Techrucal ServiCe!.
(Catalo&amp;lng Dept ). Posuns
•P-702 1 Se.oior Procrammer
Analyst (SL-4) -Equal Opponu
nuy/Affinnau,·e Action Off1cc .
Postmg liP· 7025 Staff Assistant (Sl-2) -G~ua te School.
Postmg IP-7026 St:aior Staff
Asslstaat (SL-3)-Payroll SerVICe.!&gt;. Post1ng WP· 1021 Se.nior
Staff Assistant (SL-3) -Stucknr
Sen••ces Crnter. Ans and Lei ·
tct'l&gt;. Postmg •P-7028 lostruc ·
tional Suppor1 Ttc:hoidan
(SL-3) -Compuung and lnfonnat10n Technology. Postmg
lfP-7019 Senior Starr ""i5tant
(SL-3)-0fficc of L'le ProvOit.
Post1ng •P-7030
FIICUity
Rtsearc:h Asslst.aot Profnsor
Neurosurgery. Posung IIJF-7030
Assislaot/Msociatr/FuJI Professor -Socaal and PreventiVe
Med1c1nc. Posung IJF-703 1 As~
slstanl/As.sodatr ProftsJOr ·
Lmguisllcl&gt;. Posung IF-7032
Assista.ot/Assoc::iatr ProftsSO.AnatomJca.l Sc1ences and Cell
B10logy. l'osttng •F-7033 A...sistant/Associatr Profrs50r·
Oral DiagnostiC SCienCe.!&gt;. Po,,_
mg IIF-703-l

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Research Suppor1 Spr-cia.list
Biochemical Ptnannacolog)
Posung •R -961:»!5 C lioinll
Nurse Spr-cialisi -ScJr::.al und
Preventive Medll'Jnc. Posung
"R -97023 Rr:snrc.h TK"bnician 11 -Chcm•stl"). Po.;ung
•R -97024 RHn~rc.h Suppor1
Spr-cia lisi - ~)Chulo~~ - Po~tm~

•R -97025

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Non-Compeutlve/ Labor
c - . . . Cfvlf Service

A one-day New York Slate Employecs' Ret1~mcnt Sys1em
Semmar wtll be held June 6
from 9 a.m.-4 p. m. at the Center
for Tomonow, Nonh Campus
lbere Will be o ne SC.SSion for
Tier I and 2 members. and another for Tier 3 and 4 membc~
ll\err Will be ~prese ntat!VeS
from 1he Soc1al St:cunty Adnun•strauon. the- Dept of Civ1l Ser-

C&amp;eancr (SG-5} - Um,ersil~
Res1dence Hall!.. LHK •318lN
Cl~a ner (SG~S) -U nl\cf"SJI)

Restdence Halls. L1nc= -.. 31 tl:'i
To obtam morr 1njormatwn on
Jobs luud abo1r , C1.m tact PC'r

sonMI St'rvtus. 104 CroftJ
Hall. To obtam uiformatlOtl on
Rruorrh jobs roruacr Spntt
sorrd Progronu Pt"rmnt~d.
.J/6 CrojrJ

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l'tlyololoCJ
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a.ad Cal~
clum Slpalloc. Dr. James W.

~T-HIGH

-s:a.For more inforrnalic:.l. calJ

INFlATAIIU

129-2319.

Putney. 108 Shennan . South
Campus . Noon.

MurakamUd, 1..cludlnc "Mr
Dob,. far riCJrt,

- - A CellllloloO

c•nbe~ln

T he RoW of Ubtqu.iti.D i.a
Erythroid Ttnalnal Dift'trutl.atioa and Apotot;is. Dr.
Judith Tamburlin, Dept o f
Clinical LaboralOr)' Science.
U B. 306 Farber Sooth C ampu!o
12 :30 p.m.

O.llery from
Aprll 10
thi'OUII)I July 13.

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T-hl

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OOYiciO. S!Odt.-ood l&lt;i·
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UCJrtwell

MikiJo - . Pror. or umay.

ANiooll.anlotc ~.

Kaox Collqo. 130 ae-aa.
Compus. 3:30-5 p.m.

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&amp;.okJo&amp;. 5: ~30 p.m. Mooda)'llhroup April 28. Call 64S.
6125.

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bln&gt;dacllooloVol..__ 7-8:30 p.m. Call
645-6125.

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cal EO'ec:lJ, Joan Rong Zhou
S08 Cooke. North Campus
J .JO p.m .

Hal-

Tb&lt;
C...pulerud
1M Vloloo ol '20111' AS,..

l'tlllooophy C:OOO.Iuoa
Primal Sin~ How C'an Morally
Jolawlns C~ tu ru FaU, Scou
McDonald, Cornell Univ. 684
Baldy. North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

()rd,_.y,' David G. Slerk, author and KientiSL 215 Nan&amp;n.J
Scionca. N&lt;n1h Compus. 7:30

...

p.m. For mc:n informalioa.. call
645-253 1.

...........

UBCouiOCII-...

. . . . . . . . . . . . tall-~.,

Council Room, 505 Capen
Nonh Campus. 3:30 p.m.

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,....,...,.....Uat................

Prope:rtit:s of lntq.rable Models, Prof. Ashok Das, Univ. o f
Rochester. 205 Natural Sc tences Nortb Campu5. 3:45 p.m

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Tra,nscription Jnitlaliou ud
Ac h•atlon, Dr. Richard Ebright.
R gers Um v., Wabmann ln51il e . 114 Hochstener. No n h
ampus. 4 p.m.

ll'...aoeKelly
Lectare
Ru ' na Womeo Ttacher'•
Narn
a: Leuoos from tbe
Put, thleen Weiler, Ph.D ..
Tufts U iv. 330 Student Unio n.
North clmpus. 4 p.m.

S - C o l . _. . .
B'oloaM:.l Sin Rdatioosbips:
A Srmlparamdrlc Bayesian
Approach, Prof. Alan E.
Gelfand. Dept . of Statistics.
Univ. of Connecticul. 244
Carey. South Campus. 4 p.m.

ute-...op
Tbesis/Disartatioa Support
Group, Barbara Umiker, UB
Counseling Center. 4:30-S:JO
p.m . Thursdays through April
17. Call645-6125 .
Art£xhlbltlooo~

Tak.ubi Mu.rakamL UB Art
G allery, Cen1er for the Arts.
Nonh Campw. 5-7 p.m .

C-oEiw-Lecture
EvaJWition of Mlnde Clal.ms,
Paul W. Kuru. Ph.D. UB prof.
emeritus. Albright Knox An
G allery. 6 p.m. $25, $45 . $50.
For more information, call Tim ,
Madigan at 6 36-7571.

ute-...op
EurcUin&amp;for Spiritual F1tness, Ron Ingalsbe. 6-9 p.m.
Call 645 -6 125 .

UUU..ovle
Winp of Honneami!:e.. 20 I
Student Union . Nonh Campus.
6:30 p.m. S2 .SO. $4 .

PolloltMowleNijlllt
Eu ropa, Europa. 11 2 Center
for the Aru. Nonh Campus.
7 p.m. Free .

Hlotory_E_
......... IActu..
Stratqla for Reaional Heritage and DeveJopmenl, James
Pepper, Asst. Field Di~tor, Na·
tional Park Service, Philadelphia. Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society. 7:30p.m. Fo r
more information, call Christopher Payne. 829-3485. ext. 309 .

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The Grapn or Wralh, S aul
Elk.in , director. Center for the
Arts. Drama TI.eatre. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $5,$ 10. Call
645- ARTS .

uuu-m
Patbtbor l . 20 1 Student Umon.
Nonh Campus . 9 p.m. $2.50. $4.

FRill
. .......

c.mpus. 3 p.m.""' .....

laformMian. call ~S-253 1 .

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Fundional Ma&amp;Ddic ~
oanct lmq.io.&amp; of' a ltat Brain
Thmor Modd: lmplkatiom
ro..- EnllllltiD&amp;1\uztor Ht:m&amp;dy oamks and Pbarmacoio&amp;l-

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Sl&lt;e. -Campus. 8 p.m. SS .
SIO.

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dse. Buffalo Hilton. 7:30 a.m.-5
p.m. To register, call 645-3705.

Pndiet Panuaet.tn ro.: Febrile Sdluns, Patricia Duffner.
M.D. Otildreo's Hospital. 8 a.m.

......

Cydiaa of Partk.k--ReKttve

Cbemlcolr Ia the Cbaopealto
Bay Eltu.ary: 'Be World' s
Lai'JUl FUtr:r! Dr. Joel Baker.
Cbcupeake Biological Lab,
Uni¥. of Maryland. 140 Ketter.
North Campus. II a.m.

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Functioa.al A.Dalysi.s of RepliPtotdo A in Yeast. Or.

.uu,-c:~~tioo

Steven Brill, Rutgers Univ. 244
Cary. South Campus. 11 :45 a.m.

-

Wekomc ReuptioD. 640
ClemeOJ. North Campus. Noon.
Lecuu-es in 210 Clemens will
follow reception.

..........

RallieDCe in Aduh Cbildn.o

or Akobolla, Sondno Tw=l.

Ph .D.. R.N. 825 Kimball. South
Campus. 2-3:30 p.m.

Lecblre
Truth a.ad llec=oncllbtion io
South Atria: Accou.atln&amp; for
tbe ~.Abdu llah Mohamed
Omar. South African Minister
of Justice. Moot Court Room.
O' Brian. Nonh Campus .
2:30p.m.

l'tlyololoCJ
-Es:chance:
·Pulmoury Gu
Buffalo in 1958-59 aDd Some
Later Sequels, Prof. Johanneli
Piipc.r, Max-Planck Institute for
Experimental Medicine. Germany. 106 Cary. South Campus.
2:30p.m .

Col._
...
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lnc:hutry: Wlut Can Matbematia Do in a Pbct Llk.e
Tb.iJ?, Peter Castro, Eastman
Kodak. 205 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 3 p.m.

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h lkrt:Dt CMD:Ii&amp;try aad its

Poaible Applications to Medicinal Cbaa.lstry, Zhe Nie.
114 Hochstetler. North Campus.
3 p.m.

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Eacuuto. 930 Clemens . North
Campus. 3-4:30 p.m. For regi s-

tratioo and information. call
645·2191.

_._...

·~

Conllictl ol Lite and t.H Probloau or Goocl, Patrick
Romanell, Pb.D .• Dept. of Phi losophy, Univ. of Arizona at
l'uscon. Center for Inquiry,
Amhent. 4 p.m. For mc:n information, caJI Tim Madigan at
636-7571.

...,..., LoCic eoao.Mathematka aad ttr PhUosopby, Stewan Shapiro, St.
Aodtews Univ. (Scotland) and
Ohio State Uaiv. 280 Part.
North Campu.1. 4-5:30 p.m.

c--,. COIIoclllle•
lafared Eaaiaioa a.ad Mokc:ular AstroDOIDy, Prof. h ter
Bernath, Waterloo Univ. 215
Natural Sciences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

Ar....._..,,. Lectare
PoU.b Arc.bllec.ture Siaee
World War D, Hanna Palecka.
architect. 350 Crosby. Sooth
Campus. 4 p.m.
UUAaWiaporBoa......U.. 201
Student Union. North Campus.
6:30 p.m. $2.50. $4.

Peortor.Mea
Tbe Ma&amp;k School Bus.
Ma.instage, Center for the An.s.
Nonh Campus. 7 p.m. $ 12, $1 6.
$18 for adulll; $6.50. $10.50.
$12.50 for children.

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All levels. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by the Graduate Student
Association.

-.........~

Melissa Tborburo, m.nzo...so-.
prano; Gary BUJ'I'$S. tenor;
James Bl&amp;bam, piaoo. Slee.
N&lt;n1h Campus. 8 p.m. S2. S5.
$6. $8.

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the "birthcllly""'
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14-puter HAL In

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S-813p.m.
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llnKtloa ...... 5111 Gnde
I.evo~ Beth Troy. 218 Boldy.
North Campus. Noon.

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Tb&lt; Grap01 of Wrath, Saul
Elkin, director. Dnma ~ .
Cen1er for the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5.$10. CaJJ 645-

ARTS.

Campus. 3~:30 p.m. For registntioo and infonnation, call
645·2191.
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uuuPatlabor 2.. 201 Student Union.
N&lt;n1h Campus. 9 p.m. $2.50. $4.

UUAaGboa. in t.M SHU. Dubbed in
English. 201 Student Union.
Nonh Campus. 11 :30 p.m.

$2.50. $4.

----

Silesian String Quartet with
Janun Olejnic::z.ak, fonepiano.
Slee. North Campus. 8 p.m. $7.

Tbe Gnpet ol Wrath, Saul
Elkin. di=tor. llmna "l"beab&lt;.
Q:nter for the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $.5, $10. Cali645ARTS.

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or llrivia&amp;

Wb.JJe latoxbtcd.. Moot
Couruoom. O'Brian. North
Campus. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $25. For
n:giwatioo and infonnation,
call 645-3036.

lll Ceot.er for tbe ArtJ.. North
Campus. 9 a.m.-Noon. $15, $80.
To register, caU 645--2368.

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Rudiaa: Poetry of Wislawa
s.y.borasllo. Sa=Uns

Ill Cea..tcr ror tbe ArtL Nonh
Campus. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $1.5, $80.
To register, caJJ 64.5-2368.

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'The Map: Sc.bool Bus.
Mainstage, Center for the Ans.
North Campus. II a.m. and 2
p.m. $12. $16. $ 18 for adults:
$6.50, $10.50, $12.50 for chil ·
.U.n.

ur.-..StaDd-Up Comedy. 1-2 p.m.
Saturdays through May 3. Call
645-6125 .

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R.e-eiKuft't.o. 120 Clemens.
North Campus. 1-2:30 p.m.
Deja Vu. 120 Clemens. Noeth

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Herlinde Pauer-Studcr, Harvard.

280 Porlt. N&lt;n1h Campus.
3:30p.m.

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Topoloc "' hrtlc:lo Pllysks
aadiiiC.......,.....cq..._ Prof. T. V..:lwpati.
Case W~em Re«rve Univ.
20S Natural Sciences. North
Campus. 3:45p.m.

l.ectaN
C.-.&lt;:ultural Sodol Wort.:
J.aterwa.tioot wltb N.tme
~aadNewJamol.

arutt. Francisco )avier
Herren.. 258 Capen. North

Campus. 6-7:50 p.m .

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Good EoliDJ: Aa lllln&gt;du&lt;lioa
toV~, Walter and
Nan Simpson. Off campus.

6:)0.9:30 p.m. Call645-6125.

UUAaWalldDa 4 1lolkiD&amp;· S&lt;uden&lt;

Union Theater. North Campus.
6:30 p, m. $2.50, $4.

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Strasbusters. 7-8 p.m. Call

Room. Center for the Arts.

645-6125.

North Campus. I :30 p.m.

BILS-~
~
Di&amp;llal Llbtvia: DdiaJiioDI
....... plkolloDI, Dr. Deana
Marcwn. president. The Council
on Library Resources and the
Commission on Preservation
and Access. Buffalo Manion.
7:30 p.m. Coll645·24 12.

TH Grapes ofWntb, Saul
Elkin. director. Drama Theatre,
Cente-r for the Ans. North Campus. 2 p.m. $5, $10. Caii645-

ARTS.

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Wislawa Say.bonka: A
Search for the Word. 420
Capen. North Campus.
2:30p.m.

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UB AlumaJ Newsaa.apz~De.,
presented by Alumni Relations.
Center for fu.cellenee for Document R.ecoa:nition and Analysis,
Patient Stimulation Center, Dental Museum. 6:3G-7 p.m. Progrun can be seen on Adelphia
Cable'a channel 18.

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Mitt About HuJDaD Autoim•uu Diseua, Owle5 A.
Janeway Jr.• M.D .. Howard
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South Campus. 8 p.m.. For more
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Martensson. cooductor. Melissa
Tbotbum. ~sopnDO . Slc:e.
N&lt;n1h Campus. 8 p.m. $8. SIS .
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Box Office or llc.Uunaster.
852·5000.

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UNIYIIIIII'Y AIIIUJII.ALO
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FNSM, engineering faculty meet
with Headrick ·on academic plan
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Distinguished Teaching Professor
in the Depanment of BiologicaJ
Sciences.

News Services Associate Director
AND

IIUDIIOLNAUM
News Services Editor

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HE PROPOSED REORGANIZATION of the arts
and sciences at UB was among the topics discussed
on March 27 as Provost Thomas Headrick met in
separate sessions with faculty members from the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Faculty
of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the continuing effort to gather reaction to his academic planning document.
While reorganization dominated the discussion at the
meeting of the natural sciences faculty, their colleagues in
engineering spent most of their meeting focused on the planning document's references to the school's decline in enrollment.
At their session, members of

the Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Malhemalic o repeatedly
ask«! Headrick to stale his reasons
for recommending a change from

the current alignment of three
separate faculties handling the arts
and sciences. Headrick has proposed two alternatives: merging
the three faculties into one large
College of Arts and Sciences, or
merging the faculties of Arts and

Letters and Social Sciences into a
College of Arts, Humanities and
Social Science while combining
Natural Sciences and the School
of Engineering into a College of
Science and Engineering.
"Tell us what 's wrong with the
current system and where it's fail·
ing, and how the various models
(on reorganizing the arts and sci·
ences) might address these problems," said IGp Herreid. SUNY

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eadrick said the reorganization is designed to deal
with two issues: handling
problems that should be resolved
between groups of faculty or be·
tween depanments but that an:
bumped up to the decanal level
and ultimately the prnvostial level
when the various deans fail to
reach a resolution. and correcting
what he called a "fragmented approach to undergraduate education ."
He said be does not have a
strong feeling about which of the
proposed reorganizational approaches the university should
undertake. '"That's why I want to
take infonnation and evidence on
it and get some reaction from the
university community," he said.
Ronald Berezney, chair of the
Department of Biological Sciences, suggested Headrick consider a third option: creating a
large science coUCge representing
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FSEC discusses proposal to tighten
policy on awarding 'R' grades
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News Services Associate 01rector
A PROPOSAL TO tighten the
policy governing the awarding of
administrative resignations, or
"R" grades, to students, was discussed by members of the Faculty
Senate Executive Committee at
its March 26 meeting.
A resolution outlining specific
principles that would govern requests for "R" grades after the
deadline was presented by the
senate's Grading Committee.
Current policy allows a student
who experiences extraordinary
pem&gt;nal circumstances--such as
a lengthy illnes~o resign from
a specific course without a Q.P.A.
penalty up to II weeks after the
beginning of the semester for first·
time freshmen and first-time trans·
fer students, and up to eight weeks
for all others. The student must
have supporting documentation
and the approval of the instructor
of the course.
The proposal from the Grading Committee would require students seeking administrative resignations after the deadline toresign from all courses taken during
the semester.
Some executive com mittee

members objected to an "aU-ornothing" provision in the resolution, noting that it would prove a
hatdship for students. while adding significantly to the workload
of faculty members who would be
inundated by requests for
incompletes from students who
otherwise would seek "R" grades.

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Thomas Schroeder. associate
professor of learning and instruction and chair of the Grading
Committee, said the number of
students applying for " R" grades
has accelerated, with many appearing to do so retroactivel y to
"clean up their transcripts.··
He quoted from an e-mail message he received from Karen
Noonan. associate vice provost for
undergraduate education, in which
Noonan told Schroeder that there
have been "excessive requests" for
administrative resignations and
that students "appear to be cleaning up their transcripts."
She cited one student who had
applied for an "R" grade, not for
one or two semesters . but for five
semesters.
"Our feeling is that many of
these requests for retroactive ' Rs.·
while they may be supponed by

some son of documentation. arc
probably not all legitimate re·
quests ," Schroeder said. "And
both the nature of the requests that
have been put forward. and the
number of them suggest that there
ought to be some son of tightening up of the policy."
Schroeder noted that during
the 1995-96 academic year, students requested 1.500 'Rs." 1.300
of which were approved.
DeMII_. would be Mt

Under the resolution devel oped by the Grading Committee.
" R" grades would be awarded
o nly in cases where studenl s
make a "timely election" to resign
from one or more courses. And
in cases where students wish to
apply for administrative resignation after the deadline. resigna tions only would be considered on
a "complete-semester. or all-ornone basis."
Schroeder said the rationale
behind the "aU-or-nothing" sti pulation is that if there is a legitimate case in which a student 1s
unable to complete some of the
courses in a certain semester, he
or she may appl y for an incomContlnued on page 7

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UB sociolcPt links thening
of America to decline of cities

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Book
., explores origins of themed spaces
News Services Associate Director

F

ROM WALT DISNEY World to
Las Vegas to Planet Hollywood to
the local mall , America is obsessed
with therncd environments.
Whether city dweller or sub-

urbanjte, these environments increasingly characterize our daily lives.
We eat in the franchised
world of fast food outlets
or in theme restaurants,
shop in "galleria.. -style
malls and vacation at
theme parks and aurae-

GOTTIItEIIER
tio ns.
This preoccupation with lhemed environments is due in large pan because these
spaces provide the type of pedestrian urban experience that in the past was found
in cities, a UB sociologisl maintains.
ln hi s new book, "The Theming of
America: Dreams. Visions and Commercial Spaces" (Westview Press, 1997), Mark
Go ttdiener, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at UB , contends that
these themed environments are selling an
experi nee that for many is lacking due to
the d line of cities, and renects the increas ' g competition among commercial

space for consumer dollars.
The
k is the first to explore comprehensively e origins, nature and future of
themed sp s.
" Airport.¥. malls , theme parks. casinos
all offer the same kind of experience-being a pedesllian, a wall:::er in an urban mi ~
lieu with others in a crowd''-that was once
freel y available in the downtown sections
of most American cities, Gottdiener says.
But as popular as themed environments
have become, they never will take the place
of a bustling urban center, he adds .
''Our themed environments are only
limited substitutes for the kiod of rich public spaces that are nurtured in a healthy
society with open cities and a strong public sphere of action." he writes.
The book also raises concerns "about

the way in wbicb the oeeds of consumption now dominate society and how they
negatively affect our culture." he says.
He offers several theories to explain
why Americans have such a strong need
for themed environments:
• Commercial establishments need a
theme to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive business enviroomenL Although the products that are being sold-such as food and gambling-are
essentially the same, each restaurant or
casino must have a theme to attract ~s­
tomer~, be says.
• Environments must entertain, as well
as sell merchandise. Walt Disney pioneered
the concept during the 1950s wben be built
Disneyland, and that park has provided the
inspiration for the multitude of others to
follow, Gottdiener says, adding that it also
has influenced malls, such as the Mall of
America outside Minneapolis, and museums such as the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in Cleveland.

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'The Disney vision has had a great effect on the construction of tourist spaces
all over the globe," be says.
• People fmd thematic environments
entertaining and enjoyable. "Las Vegas and
Disoey World are the world's top tourist
attractions," he says.
In the book. Gottdieoer provides historical context for this present-day obsession.
tn the earliest civilizations, everyday
life was "over endowed" with symbols and

CHILDHOOD
Continued from page 1

' The diagnosis of childhood cancer represents a crisis for the patient and family,"
Zevon said. ·•ouring this time. 'they have
to quickly absorb an enormous amount of
complex information so that.. .treatment
can begin. This learning must take place
in what is obviously a highly emotional
context. a consideration that works against
the efficient exchange of information.··
Zevon said the oew program addresS&lt;!S
three audiences: the pediatric patient, the family and the patient's peers and schoolmates.
''The patient module," he said, "will be
keyed to the age of the child and present
material in a developmentally appropriate
manner. When a child signs on. for instance,
she will give her age and the prognun will
automatically access the appropriate information. The family module will target the
patient's parents and siblings and the p«&lt;/
schoolmate module will attempt to facilitate
the patient's post-treatment 'adjustment and
school re..:ntry."
Zevon said the program offers clinical
information. games and Quick~time movies. personal narratives, patients' art work
and music composed by them, all intended
to reduce stress, lessen feelings of isolation and anxiety and help entertain kids

themes, most of which were derived fiom
religious and cosmological ideas, be says.
This use of symbolism progressed to aperiod in early industrial society wben the
social use of themes in the environment
was discouraged. he says. Later, the mod-

ernism movement minimized the use of
symbols, be adds.
But' tbe extensive use of themes crept
back iDtD society during the 1960s with the
development of consumerist values and
their associated social institutions, such u advertising,
mass owbtipg and the rise
of the mass media.· be says.
While the book examines
the use of themes and symbols
in commer. -,..
' ' principally
n
cial ·spaces, it also loon at
airports and edu'
II
.00 moniimenuil architccture.
Gottdiener offers case studies of themed environments
- ~ of everyday life, in~luding
restaurants, malls and even
aiiports such as those in Pittsburgh and
Denver, whose concourses have become
mini shoppi ng malls.
He also devotes a chapter to the Las
Vegas casioo and theme parks, themed eovironments that "depart from the everyday.~ A!; opposed to malls or restaurants,
these spaces were constructed priocipally
to entertain, with merchandising as a secondary function.
Las Vegas, he writes , "is an entire

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who can be in the hospital for a long time.
lt includes a gallery with art programs to
which a child can log on. describing his or
her experiences and sharing them with others. They also can post photos, poems. recipes and essays. ..They are able to~ their
feelings through various media and make
them available to others," Zevoo said.
He noted that it is particularly important to provide infonnation to a patient' s
peers and classmates. "When a child is diagnosed, we will be able to contact the
school and explain the program. Then we
can take the CD ROM to the school and
present it to the child 's classmates.
"It's vety experiential," be said. "For instance, classmates of a child undergoing chemotherapy can experieoce vir1ua1 baldness.
Ooe of our programs under development can
morph users so classmates can see bow
they' d look if they were bald and perhaps
understand more about how the patient feels.
"We can leave CD ROMs with the
school module in them with the teacher,"
he said, " so that students can use the program privately. Our hypothesis is that the
use of the program will facilitate the reentry of the patient into the classroom in a
more adaptive way."
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metropolitan uu that is quite literally
tbem&lt;d" and wbooe function is "tbe oeducdon of tbe consumer.~
Individually, caaiDos possess separate
themes"tbalretlccttom~&gt;desinoblefanwy
aspect of American culture," he writes.
Palace Hotel and Casino, for
example, is desigood as an immense
Roman villa. The Milage Hotel and
Casino IIIIOdo as a 'iropicaJ JWIIIise,~ wbiJe
tbe MOM Grand--lbe largest casino-bote!
in tbe wcrid-elaJ&gt;oral the theme ofHol-

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lywood glamour and movie memorabilia.
In ex.amining theme parks. Goudieoer
provides two examples: Disneyland, the
granddaddy of all theme parks, and
Dollywood. Dollywood is proof that the
theme-park environment, u perfected by
Disney, can be replicated in any settingin this case Pigeon Forge, Teno., be says.
• The book also discusses cultural experiences that are not commercial enterprises,
but have nonetheless become themed envirooments. Gottdiener calls the VietnarQ
War Memorial in Washington. D.C.-4he
first successful "built environment that represents the umepresentable." The concept
has been copied in otbeT memorials, such
as the memorial ui coiruoemonle tbO Battk
of Okinawa, and museums such as the
Holocaust Museum in Wasbingtoo. be says.
A UB faculty member since 1994,
Gottdiener is an internationally known authority on urban and cultural studies. "1be
'Iberning of America" is his l Otb book. He
currently is conducting research for a book
about Las Vegas.
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Center for the Arts to present programs
of adeltainment and dance in April

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celebrates the rebinh of a new Cambodia
XCITING PROGRAMS of enterthat is proud of its cultural heritage and deditainment and dance are planoed for
cated to rising above the tragedy of its reApril at the UB Center for the Arts.
Scholastic's The Magic School
cent history. The Cambodian Heritage ComBus Live will be presented for three per- pany aims to preserve traditional Cambofonnances: Friday, April ll , at 7 p.m. and dian court dances whose origin lies in
Saturday, April 12, at 1l a.m. and 2 p.m. ancient rituals. Tiekets for The Living An·
on the Mainstage of the Center for the Arts. cestor are: general admission, $5; students,
The Magic School Bus Live is adapted $3, available at the Center for the Arts Box
from the top-rated PBS TV serieS and the Office and all Ticketmaster locations.
award-winning Scholastic book series that
he..eveniog will also include a Cambochronicles the exploits of scieoce teacher
dian photography exhibition by Hei Han
extraordinary Ms. Frizzle and her class of
Khjang, a UB alumnus. in the Center for the
enthusiastic students as their magic yellow
Ar1s Atrium. Attmding the event will be the
school bus takes them oo cliff-hangi ng
Cambodian Ambassador, the Hon. Sisowalh
"field trips" into the human body, Jo the
Siriralh, and Jolm McAuliff. ex«:Wve director
center of the earth and into outer space.
liJdo.Oiina Raxo::ilialion Project.
Tickets are: adults, $18,$16, $12; chil- of the
The missioo of the iolmlalionaJ Artistic
dren, $12.40, $10.50 and $6.50, available
at the Center for the Arts Box office and all and Olltural &amp;dlange Pl'ograrn is to [XOOlOie
a!lnual and artistic contributions of diverse
Ticketmaster locations.
On April!?' The lntanaliooal Artistic and national heritages. Other lACE programs will
Qllnual Exchange Pl'ograrn of the UB Centa- · include a Spooisb poetry recital April IS, &amp;18
fortheAr1s will present The Living Ara$r, a p.m. in the Saoeniog Room and Mel&lt;ico'USA
p&lt;rlmnaoce by theCarrtbodiaoAaaican Heri- percussion recital May 4, at 8 p.m. in the
Drama Theatre. For more infonnatioo call
tage Dancers ofWasbingtoo. D.C.
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Conference
to celebrate work of poet Louis Zukofsky
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News Senlices Edilof

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HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo
will present a cdebta!ioo of the
work of modernist poetic genius
Louis Zukofsky on Apri125 and
26 designed to illumioalc variousaspectsufthe poet'slife, wort. and considerable importance as a writer.
AU events will be free of charge and
open to the public.
One of the centwy's most influential
and daring literary figwes, Zukofsky was
a prolific writer little known to the general
public because of the experimental, noncanooical nature of his work_ His effect
upon contemporary American literature bas
been nonetheless profoond, emphasizing as
it dues the dissonance, melody and contradiction inherent in 20th-century American
culture and language.
The Louis Zukofsky Conference was
organized by poet Ruben Creeley, Samuel
P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at UB, who counts Zukofsky as
one of the major influences on bis work.
Events will feature readings and discussions by Zukofsky scholars that include:
• Poet John Taggan, professor at Pennsylvania State University at Sbippensberg,
whose pioneering joumaf "Maps" was
among the fttSt to attempt a useful overview of Zukofsky's work and legacy.
Taggan. said Creeley. "is also a remarkab le poet and st udent of Zukofsky's
legacy."
• Bunoo Hallen, professor and editor of
the journal Sagetrieb at the University of
Maine. Hallen has long been engaged in the
study of Zukofsky's wort and has hosted

imponaot annual confen::oces on primary
American poetic elden. He will participate
with Taggan and UB Professor Joseph
Coote in a panel discussioo of Zukofsky's
wort. from 10 LDl. to 12:30 p.m. OD Friday,
April 25, in the Poeby/Rare Books Room,
420 Capen Hall, North Campus.
• Zukofsky's son. eminent violinist and

conductor Paul Zukofsky, also will participate. He is immediate past director of the
Arnold Schoenberg Institute at the University ofSootbero California and in the 1960s
was in residence at UB as pan of the Department of Music's Creative Associates
Program.
He wiUjoio Zukofsky's biographer, Ira

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY: U B - to Ill.,.

mlnate hl8 life -

Nadel, professor at the University of British Columbia, and poet Mad Scroggins in
a panel discussion from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on
Friday, April 25, in the Poetry/Rare Books
Room. Nadel is the author of a recent biography of Leonard Cohen.

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croggins, assistant professor at
Aorida Atlantic University, is the
author of essays on Zukofsky and
other contemporary poets and of the book
"Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge."
• University of Auckland scholar
Michele Leggett. author of "Reading
Zukofsky's '80 Flowers"'' (Johns Hopkins
Press, 1989) will be in residence at UB
during the month of April. She will participate in the conference and will conduct
a seminar on Zukofsky's work this semes·
ter. Those interested in attending the semi·
oar may call645-3810. Among those who
will meet with the seminar is Jenny
Penbenhy of the University of British Columbia, whose book "Niedecker and the
Correspondence with Zukofsky. 1931 1970.. is an imponant contribution to the
scholarship on both.poets.
ugou will join Crecley and Stephen
Fredman in a panel discussion from 10:30
a.m. to I p.m. on Saturday. April 26. in the
Poetry/Rare Books Room.
Fredman, professor of English at the
University of Notre Dame and author of
''Poet's Prose," among other works , is
working on a study of Zukofsky 's longtime
friend and fellow poet, Charles Reznikoff.
Creeley will host a reception at his home
for conference participants that evening.
In addition, the conference will feature a

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cum-" on a Zukolsky -

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recital by the outstanding Estonian-Cana·
ctian new music composer Udo Kasemets.
who will perform a work he composed on
Zukofsky 's poem. "'80 Flowers." The recital
will take place at 6:30p.m. on Friday. April
25. in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Tri -Main Center. 2495 Main St.
The conference sponsors are the Poet·
ics Program, the Depanment of English.
the David Gray Chair of Poetry. the Samuel
P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humani ties. and the UB Poetry/Rare Books Co llection. which will be primary venue for
the action. To read more about the confer·
ence . go to http:/fwww.burralo.edu
/oews/CampusNews/
ZukofskyConference_html
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Service Excellence Awards given for outstanding projects
UNIVEIISITY HRVICES PII£SEN1ED
its Service Excellence Awards March 5,
recognizing employees who have undertaken initiatives that advance the basic
mission of University Services.
The awards were presented for outstanding projects within University Services by Robert J. Wagner. senior vice
presiden~ in a ceremony at the Center for
Tomorrow.
Ftrst Place Award went to the Departmental Computing Consultants Forum. a voluntary group of 180 infonnation technology
(m professionals whose mission is to share
computing expertise and """4J"CCS and to
explore new technologies and their potential
uses on campus. The program encoorages IT
professionals from diff~nt university units
to wort as a team to provide specific product recommendations and services.
Second Place went to a system contract
for office supplies with Staples Bus iness
Advantage. The system contract for office
supplies provides for a full line of office
products at very competitive prices to be
de livered directly to tbe requi sitiooer
within 48 hours. It will eliminate much
paperwork and processing time for plac-

ing, receiving and paying for office supplies. Since 5,000 orders for office supplies
are placed yearly, cost savings of$82,300
are expected with the purchase of supplies
through Staples vs. Central Stores.
Tie

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Third Place Award , a tie , went to
Renaissance System and to SUNY card.
Renaissance System facilitates personnel
transactions by providing help functions.
definitions, transaction edits and valid val·
ues to walk the user through the transac·
tion. A microcomputer·based Foxpro ap·

plication that runs on a local area network,
the system eliminates redundancies and
duplicate data entry ; serves as a user friendly tool to facilitate the appointment/
change process. especially for those with
littJe or no training. and reduces paperwork
and manual edit checks.
SUNY card was introduced to provide
one consistent form of identification for all
service providers on campus. It also includes a magnetic strip like an ATM or
credit card so that it can be used to purchase food. place phone caJis or function

Faculty, staff and students urged to
'Take Daughters to Wort' April 24
IS ITS TO CAMPUS labs and wodshops focusing on career options will be on the
agenda when UB observes "Take Our Daughters to Work" on Thursday, April 24.
Presented at the university by the President's Task Force on Women at UB .
the even I will emphasize expanding career horizons and increasing self·esteem.
"Take Our Daughters to Work"' is a public-education project begun in 1993 by the
Ms. Foundation for Women.
UB faculty, staff and students are encouraged to bring their daughters. granddaugh ters, sisters, nieces or friends to campus on April 24. Sponsors must accompany the.ir
guests all day.
While girls of all ages can spend time at work with their sponsors infonnally. opening
ceremonies at9: J5 a.m., workshops and site visi ts at 10:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and a
lunch at noon in the Gymnastics Gym in Alumni Arena will be limited to girls ages 9·14
and thei.r sponsors.
Wodshops will be held on topics including "'Career Options: Women Can Do Anything;·
"Just One of Those Daze: Dealing with Emotions" and "'lnfonnation in the Internet Age: ·

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irls ages 9·14 also will be able to get a first·hand look at UB 's seismic simulator lab,
behind-the-scenes at the Center for the Arts and the exercise-physiology and mus·
culoskeletallabs in Diefendorf Annex.
They will have an opportunity to see self·defense techniques demonstrated by UB
public safety officers, get a glimpse in Richmond Dining Center of what it takes to feed
UB students and participate in a hands-on exercise in which they will use silk-screening
to imprint aT-shin with the ''Take Our Daughters to Work" logo.
Participation in workshops and site visits will be limited and will be assigned on a
first-come basis. More information and registration forms are available on the Student
Affairs' ''Take Our Daughters to Work" Web site at h«p:/fwings.burraJo.edu/studeotllfefvp-atralrs/eveols/todtw/
There is a $2.50 registration fee for girls ages 9-14 and adult sponsors panicipating in
the fonnal program, in addition to a $3 optional fee per person for a box lunch.
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as a debit card for banking. The immedi·
ate income -producing ability o f the
SUNY card system is estimated to be at
least $100,()()()..-with the potential for
many times that amount. This project
marks the first rime that a di stributed eli·
ent/server model was used for an adminis·
trative system on campus.

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Honorable Mention went to U B
lnfoSource. Participants developed a new
data delivery mechanism for UB 's infonna·
tion systems-a data warehouse for histori·
cal information that is accessible through familiar and eco~omical end-user tools. such
as Microsoft Access and E;;cel. Almost all
administrative operational data have been
moved into this environment
lnfoSource inrorporau:s data contained in
a variety of disparate administrative systems
into a single source that allows the client to
choose the cycle. population and format of
the output generated.
Other nominated projects mc lude the
Five-SUNY Campus Trademark Licensing
Consortium: the On-line Project Status Repon; the Migration of Business Computing
System and Sewage Metering Project
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Polish Academic Center to open
at UB during national conference
II)' I'AIIIICIA -VAll

News Services Editor

HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo
will open its new Polish Academic Information Center during the Second National Conference on Polish Studies in the
United States, to he held April 12 and 13
on the North Campus.
The conference will he sponsored by the
Polish Embassy
and co-sponsored
by the UB Faculty
of Arts and Letters.
The center, developed by Piotr
Pienkowski, a pro-

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fessor

at

J agielloniao U oive~ity in Krakow,
JANUSZ OLEINICZA.K

is a unique, inter·
university agency

of UB and Jagielloniao Univer.;ity that will
operate at UB under the aegis of the Polish Ministry of National Education.

It will serve the academic communities
of both countries as an information clearinghouse for those interested in pursuing
studies related to Poland, its culture and
language.
Through an extensive hyper-linked Web
site, the center also will provide on-line listings and databases thai. pcnain to resourCes,
events and opportunities of interest to those

interested in Poland and in America's
Polonia (i.e., Polish-American community). The Web site may he accessed after
April 12 at http://wlnp.bulralo.eclU/infopoland

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April conference will include prentations by distinguished Polish and
Polish-American scholars, a reading of
work written by Poland's 1996 Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, an exhibition
of Szymbor.;ka's manuscripts and memorabilia, au archival exhibit about UB and Poland, and a concert of Polish music featuring the celebrated Silesian String Quartet
and the distinguished Polish pianist Janusz

IIUIIAII.,._ QIIAIITET ...... Olejniczak.
Featured presenters will include
Leonard Polakiewicz. professor at the Univer.;ity of Minnesota and an expen in the
starus of Polish language and literary training in the U.S .. and Wladyslaw Miodunka,

director of tbe Polooia Institute at
JagieUonian Univer.;ity.

Registration is $80, which includes

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meaiJ, concert tickeu and re$OUJCe matorials, or $15 for conference observation
only. For conference information and registration, call Tim Rutcnber in the UB Office of International Education at 6452368. For concen information, call 6452921 . To read more about the conference
go to http:/fwww.bulralo.eda/Dews/Latesl/PollshConfereDCe_pat.html
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deparunents in Natural Science and Mathematics, science-oriented departments in
other faculties, such as anthropology and
psychology, and basic science depanments
in the School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences.
Admitting there may he some problems
associated with the creation of such a college, be urged Headrick to consider what
is best for science at UB .
··we strongly think this is what is best
for science and many of our coJJeagues in

r.he sciences here agree that something like
this could really integrate the sciences and
do the kinds of things we' ve talked about
with biology, for example, in getting people
in closely aligned areas together."
culty members in the natural sci
nces and the humanities have "dif-

erent mindsets," Berezney noted.
Tho;e in the humanities "have a lot of prob-

lems with institutes and centers; they 're
very concerned about the flow of re sources."
Moreover, faculty in engineering are very
professionaUy and commercially oriented.
He called a merger with either group
"risky," noting that "I see as the real winner a big science faculty."
Headrick said he was not opposed to
considering the "big science faculty," but
added that there would he enormous difficulties dealing with accreditation agencies.
particularly in dentistry and medicine. in
the event of such a merger.
He encouraged Berezney and others to
pre52nt the idea to the hearing panel he will
set up to tackle the issue of wb.i'ch merger
option will he pursued.
Alan Selman, professor of computer science. asked Headrick to "go deeper in explaining what's wrong with undergraduate
education (at UB) and why it takes structural changes to fiX it."
UB's undergraduate program, the quality of its students and the "care and nunuring of the faculty" is comparable to that of
other state universities, he said.
"I don't under.;tand what's so terribly
wrong with undergraduate education."
Headrick said he disagrees that UB is
doing as good a job with undergraduate
education as it could be doing, noting that
the univer.;ity has a higher drop-out rate,
lower retention rate and slower progress
to degree than other SUNY instirutions.
Michael Cowen. professor of mathematics, told Headrick that a reorganization will
not correct what be perceives as the problem, which is "communication at the bottom." Depanments do not communicate
within the decanaJ units, much leas across

decaoal lines, he said. "You can't get the
Don Schaelc, professor of mathematics,
He said he wondered why, in comparison
right ki11d of contact with people who bave
told Headrick that despite previous questo those record highs, the current number.;
similar jobs and similar problems across
were believed to be low.
tions from four coUeagues, he had not
heard a satisfactory answer about "what
the univer.;ity, whether they are staff, or
eadrick responded thai. the ideal eoneeds to be done" to improve undeJgradufaculty or administrators," he said. "'Those
roUmcnt target for the school would
are aJJ problems that have to do with bow ate education.
be somewhere between the record
"We are talking about expending a lpt
we communicate and it's not the way we're
highs and current levels. Determining the
for gains which we can't eveo yet identify.
organized."
target. he added, is largely influenced by
And they should he very clearly identified
Bruce Nicholson, associate professor of
faculty resources available.
first," he said.
biological sciences, noted that within the
James Whalen, professor and chair of
sciences, more so than with other disci~ . . . . . . . . . - I a .....
the Department of Electrical and Computer
plines, "there is a real complete marriage
Engineering, urged an effon to boos! .0between what happens on the front lines
roUment, led by the provost and president.
arlier in the day, Headrick met with
of research and what happens with under"Has enroiimoot and recrui1ineotrea:ived
engineering faculty members to
graduate education.
anywhere near the priority that, for example,
gather input about the planning docu"Any consideration of what one does to
devdOJ&gt;ID""1 has rea:ived'r' he asked.
ment, but they spent more time discussing
realign groups has to take into account how
Only very recently have admissions eftheir reactions to the pllln's references to
to best promulgate the most effective reforts been given a top priority in the unithe
school's
enrollment
declines
than
on
search environment at the university," he
ver.;ity, Headrick responded.
specific proposals in the plan.
said. Nicholson added that with the best re"We know, for example, thai. we' re subAsked to discuss his views on the
searcher.;, students likely will have the best
stantiaiJy IIJider.;pending Binghamton and
merger options outlined in the document,
Albany in admissions and recruitment, and
uodergraduate educational experieoce.
Headrick responded that while he does not
they talce in sinauer classes," he said
Placing many of the science depanmcnts
favor one option over another, one benefit
But blaming enroUment declines on the
into a College of Arts and Sciences will aJof merger.; is the opponunity to reduce the
perception thai. UB is large and complex
fect faculty recruitment and turn UB into
size of administration.
also is wrong-headed, said Dale Meredith,
..an
undergraduate
teaching
The engineers expressed varying views
professor of civil etllineering, who pointed
instirution . . .that's going to have a hard time
of the proposed merger, with some favor- out thai. students still go to Ohio State Uniattnleting the best researcher.;," he said.
ing retention of the school of engineering's
ver.;ity,
which is twice as big as UB.
John Ho, SUNY Distinguished Service
identity as a professional school.
William George, professor of mechaniProfessor in the Depanment of Physics, said
For others, a possible merger involving
cal and aerospace eogineering, added thai.
UB already has a dean of arts and sciences at
the school brought baclc memories of pre"UB gets a bum rap" wheo it comes to the
the undergraduate levei-Nicolas Goodman.
vious efforts to combine faculties.
issue of being too large.
vice pmvost for undergraduate education.
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished
"Srudents teU me they'd rather go to
"We have to balance between cause and
Service Professor in the Depanment of
Oarksoo University because it's a smaJk:r
benefit," in coosidering a reorganization, Ho
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
school," he said "Well. Oarksoo has 5,000
said. "Benefits are minimal; cause is pretty
noted that 15 year.; ago, efforts to create a
engineering studenls. Our programs are relahigh. Unless we can prove otherwise, I don't
college of arts and sciences engendered artively smaJJ compared to other institutions."
think we should proceed (with a reorganiguments "that were almost entirely emozation). The structure that is currently in
everal faculty agreed that once silltionally and culturally based."
place actually can work. We can either imdents arrive at UB, they oeed to re
Some faculty member.; complained that
prove it or change the per.;onnel," he said.
ceive better advice, both about bow
future decisions about academic programs
to
proceed
academically and bow to go
may be based on numbers in the provost's
eadrick and Goodman disagreed that
about meeting their goals after graduation.
report that are inaccurate.
Goodman functions as director of
Shaltid Ahmad, associate professor of
The document states that enrollment in
undergraduate education.
civil engineering, noted that, for example,
the engineering school "has declined sub"I bave no authority at all to do anyin introductory physics classes. students are
stantially" during the past eight year.; and
thing that has budgelltry implications," said
told to look to their left and to their right,
that the school "needs major increases in
Goodman. When he is approached by facand that two of them won ' t pass this class.
enrollment if ir is to maintain its current
ulty and departments in ans and sciences
'1be caring isn't there." said Ahmad.
faculty size and breadth of programs."
for resources for undergraduate education,
Malone added that there is a difference
Those increases should come at the unhe added, "I have to go to the provost and
between
the acruaJ and perceived quality
dergraduate and master's levels, the plan
ask for them. There is no inclination to reof UB's eogineering programs.
states, since the doctoral programs are reaallocate for those purposes in the depan"We thinlc we are better than the NRC
sonable in size.
ments. Undergraduate education is still
(National Research Council) ratings." he
Some faculty questioned whether the
seen primarily as the provost's problem not
said. " But if we are trying to increase our
enroUment declines have been as steep as
our problem. That has not changed."
perceived quality, it could talce 10 years.
described in the documenL
In response to a question from Cowen,
The question is. how patieot is the univer"We're talking about enrollment deGoodman said that "if the leadership of thai.
clines, but we're comparing to levels thai.
sity willing to he'r'
new organization (a CoUege of Arts and
For expanded coverage of both meetwere record highs," said Roger Mayne,
Sciences) had the right attitude, it (prioriprofessor and chair of the Department of
ings, go to bttp:/fwww.bufralcudu/fttizing undergraduate education) would
Mechanical
and
Aerospace
Engineering.
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News Services Editor

T

HE CASTING INSTITUTE in
the UB Department of An has

begun work with Tuscaroran
businessman Joseph "Smolcin'
Joe" Anderson on severs! proposals to benefit that Indian community
and the UB Sculpture Program.
The first project on line is an edition of
bronze csstings of a small and delicale stone
sculpture by Joe Jacobs, one of North
America'smost respected Native-American
artists. His work can be seen on the frieze
of the Museum of Civilization, Canada's
premier Native American art center, operated by the Department of Indian and Northem Affails Canada in Hull, Quebec.
The casting project, funded by Anderson, is now under way at the institute under the direction of Tony Pat&lt;:rwn, UB professor of art.
Anderron also will fund a 30-foot enlargement of the work for permanent exhibition on the Tuscarora Reservation. A special enlarging mschine purchased by him
and already in place on tbe.reservation wiU
be used. PaU:rron and the Casting Institute
will assist with the lengthy process.
Anderron has a facility that will house
the large Jacobs work. He also hopes to
establish a gallery of native art on the reservation, as weU as an art foundry to help
promoU: self-sufficiency for his nation. The
foundry, he said, will train Tuscarorans in
new skiUs so that they may continue wassist Jacobs and other Thscaroran arti sts.
Jolene Rickard, a Thscaroran native and

assistant professor of art and art history at
UB, has written and lectured widely on the
aesthetics of native art_ She points out that
although Americans are familiar with art
produced by American Indians of the
southwest, little is generslly known about
the art of the Iroquois nations. Andemm,
she said, has expressed interest in helping
to develop an awareness of this work on
the American scene.
ln producing the small casts, Pat&lt;:rron
faced a challenge.

ike -much of Jacobs' art, the original
work is marked by delicate and comlex carvings of native motifs into
soft stone in a way that accentuates the
quality of the mat&lt;:rial. ln order to cast it
in bronze, Paterwn had to make a flexible
mold that would not stain the porous stone
or break the delicately carved original.
He used a higb"&lt;!uality rubber and blanket mold technique that picked up the delicat&lt;: tracings but preserved the inU:grity of
the original work- Students in the Sculpture
Program working under the auspices of the
Casting lnstituU: are learning this new technique by working with the Jacobs sculpture.
The University at Buffalo has longtime
affiliations with the artists and scholars of
the Tuscaroran community, along with
members of other tribes of the Iroquois
nations.
Rickard is a noted photographer and
specialist in 19th- and 2Qth-century art. She
teaches courses in visual theory, aestbet·
ics and criticism, and her photography has
appeared in muse ums and galleries
throughout the country. A popular lecturer.

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she regularly presents invited talks at major universities.
Tuscaroran artist Richard Hill, assistant
professor in the Department of American
Studies, is noted for his work as a curator
of Native-American art. He has long been
a principal in the development of the Na-

tional Museum of the American Indian, a
division of the Smithsonian Institution. and
currently is curating three important exhi bitions of American Indian an in the U.S .
and Canada. He is also at work at UB on
an electronic library of contemporary In-

dian thought.

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Engineering school publishes history of its first 50 years
11r DUN IIOLDUUM
News Services Editor

I

N CELEBRATION OF its 50th anni versary, the UB School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences has published
" Engineering the Future from the
Ground Up: A History of the First Fifty
Years or the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo-and a Glimpse at the Future."

Compiled by Charles M . Fogel, UB professor emeritus, and ediU:d by Anne B.
McGrail of the school's Office of External
Affairs, the hook is dedicated to George
C. Lee. director of the National Center for
Earthquake Engineering Research and
former dean of the engineering school.
The history chronicles the engineering
school from its beginnings in 1946 through
half a century of growth and increasing

Wmner of Nobel, Pulitzer prizes
will be Distinguished Speaker
11J IIAIIY K11l SPINA
News Services Editor

NOBEL AND PUUTZER PRIZE•WINNINQ author Toni
Morrison will speak at 7:30p.m. on Thursday, April 24, in the
Mainstage theater in the Center for the Anson the North Campus.
Morrison, who serves as Robert F. Goheen Professor in the
Council of Humanities at Princeton University, will speak as
part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.
The lecture is sponsored by just buffalo literary center, inc.
Morrison's six major novels-"Tar Baby," ''The Bluest Eye,"
"Song of Solomon," "Sula," "'Beloved" and "Jazz"-bave received extensive national acclaim. She received the National
Book Critics Award in 1977 for "Song of Solomon" and the
1988 Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved."'
She also bas authored a book of essays, "Playing in the Dark," and was editor of
"Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the
Construction of Social Reality."
With degrees from Howard and Cornell universities, Morrison has taught and lectured at Yale and Rutgers universities and Bard College, among others. She held the
Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at the University at Albany from 1984-89.

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Sefles, now in its lOth year, is presented by UB and
the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund. The affiliate series sponsor is Amherst
Chamber of Commerce.
Co-sponsor of Morrison's lecture is the University Bookstore. Contributing sponso,-,;
are The Buffalo News, Planned Parenthood of Buffalo and Erie County. and the Student
Association and Faculty of Arts and Letters, both at UB.
Call 645-ARTS for ticket information. Tickets may be purchased in person at the
CenU:r for the Arts Box Office and at all TicketMasU:r locations, or by phone through
TicketMasU:r at 852-5000.
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national and international recognition for
its educational and research programs.
The establishment of the sc hool as a
separate entity in the universi ty coincided
with the end of World War ll and the increasing need for ski lled engineers in Westem New York industry. In its first year, the

school had an enrollment exceeding 800
students, many of them attending school
on the Gl bill .
The 88-page text and more than I00
photographs refer to such 1940s-era practices as the awardi ng of the "Engineering
Sweetheart" pri ze at the Engineering
Sweethean Ball and classroom situations
where students sat at rows of desks working on engineering designs with pencils and
rulers. The book also chronic les more recent achievements, such as the studem built high-mileage car that gets BOO miles
to the gallon and the broadcasting of engineering classes to other SUNY schools
through EngiNe!.
Also fea~ are personal comments on
the past-and future-&lt;&gt;f engineering by

famous a lumn i, including Wil so n
Greatbatch , the co-inventor of the implant able cardiac pacemaker and recipient of the

U.S. National Medal of Technology; Erich
Bloch. Distinguished Fellow. Council on
Competitiveness and fanner director of the
National Science Foundation, and lra S.
Aatow, host of National Public Radio's
"Science Friday" show.

A detailed time line lists milestones in the
ft.chool"s history. from the 1946 dedi·
cation of Karr Parker Hall on what is now
the South Campus. to the first offering of
classes off campus at a local corporation
in 1952, to the 1958 hiring of Robert Ketter.
who would eventually become UB 's presi den~ and the establishment of the National
Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and the Calspan-UB Research Ceo·
U:r in 1986.
The soft-cover book is available from
the eng ineering school for $20, which covers the publishing and mailing costs. To
purchase a copy. contact Pat Doeing in the
Office of External Affairs at 645-2768. •

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speak al 3:30 p .m . on lhe need for
a national energy policy. A panel
discuaaion on sb'ucturing a national
energy policy and hs impacl on
geopolitics will begin at ~ : 15 p .m .
Other spaakers and topics:
• Jol1n Aoborls. senior analyst.

NYS Oepar1menl o1 Public Service.
-.,nuclear-waste program developmort and lhe role ol nuclear power
in a cxmpetilive rnM&lt;et
• Carl Peclonan. supervisor o1
energy and environmental economics. NYS Departmenl ol Public Ser·
vk:e, New York electric restructuring
and tr&amp;atment of nuc~ar power • Clvis Flavin, sr. vice ~~
director ol research. Wor1dwaU:h Institute, atternative 808fgy scuces
• Joseph VISalU. program manager. envirom1er1lal research. NYS
- a n d DeYelopmenl Author·
ily. ozone 1ranspor1 research and fossil fuel and erMrcnmenlal air qualily
• David Wcx:M;y, executive d._
The Faculty of Natural Sciences
and MathemaUcs at UB is marking
the "birthday" of the 1ntamous talk·
•ng computer. HAL, of the movie
"2001 A Space Odyssey,· by presenllng two lectures by author and
sc1enust Oavtd G . Stork on Apnl14
Stork will deliver a lecture for
general audiences. "The HAL 9(X)()
Computer and the Vistan of '200 1 A
Space Odyssey·: at 7:30pm. 1n
Room 215 of tt)e Natural Sc1ences
Complex on the North Campus.
Slcrt. aultlo&lt; ol "HAL's Legacy
2001's Computer as Dfeam and Reai•IY" (MIT Press. Ocl&lt;lbe&lt; 1996). ;sa
chl61 sclentJst at the Ricoh Calilorn18
Research Center, head ot its Machine
Learning and Perception Group and
a consuhmg prof8SSOf ol ekM:trical
engoneering and visiting scholar in
psychology al Slanfotd University.

For a more lechnically prol"ocienl
audience. Stork will talk on "Seetng
Speech: Speechreading ('Upreadong') by Compuler'" al 3 p.m. in Room
220. Narural Sciences C&lt;lmplex. He

Will discuss the Ricoh speectveading

system. potential coovnercialappli·
catiOnS and future research.
Free and open to the public , the
talks are pan of the 1997 John W
Cowper DISiingUished VISiting Lecture Senes Princ1paJ tund1ng for the
seroes os pr&lt;Mded by lhe Cowper·
Siegfned Company, Inc .. Orrin Foster
Lecture Fund , and the UB $esqu1·
centenmat Ptanmng Committee
According to the Arthur C
Clarke novel on which "2001 A
Space Odyssey" was based . HAL
beCame operational•n January
1997 For Stork. HAL's btrthday IS a
pnme 11me to look back and compare the 1968 film's computer sCI·
ence "predictions" w1th current
technological fact .
Stork will illustrate his talk Wlth
chps from the movl8. For more informallon . call Condy Nydahl. 645-2531

,_Eit SEN. aiiADI.£Y
INvmD TO I'AimCII"ATE
IN LAW SYMPOSIUM
Former New Jersey Sen. William
Bradley has been invited to partic•·
pate tn an enwonmental law sympoSium to be held May 9 10 the
Center for Tomorrow. North Campus The event is the third 1n a se·
nes sponsored by the Enwonmen·
tal Law ColloQuium, which focuses
on 11mely Issues of special interest
to professionals 1n law and science
Top1cs to be addressed •nclude
role of public utilities in a compell·
11ve market, future of utilities In a deregulated environment and 1mpact
ol deregulatiOO on a utility's ability
to handle facility-related ammonmental issues.
John B. Sheffer II. UB intenm
v1ce president fOf publiC service
and urban affairs , will make opening remarks. Bradley is expected to

rector and professor of law, Center
for Environmental Legal Studies,
Pace University Law Schoot renewabM! portfolio standards and other
regulatory mechanisms to promote
renewable energy resources.
Reg;slra!ion is S50; daadlino "'
Aprit9. Call Sharyn Eklund, 645-7342
tor more information or to regist8f.

on exercise phys~­
ogy empha~izing the therapeutic
benefits of exercise in rehabilitation
will be presented from 7:30a.m . to
5 p.m. on Friday, April 11, the
Buftalo Hilton. 120 Church St
The program, sponsored by the
UB Department of Physical Therapy
and Exercise Science, will feature
sessions on bask: energy metabo-lism. neuromuscular function, exerc•se-induced muscle injury and repa.r, and pulmonary and cardiovascular responses to exercise in
heatth and disease. It will conclude
Wlth a session on exercise testing.
The conference is open to the
public . There Is a registration fee.
F'-* .1. c.m, chair ollhe UB
Departmonl ol Physical Therapl( and
Exercise Scoence. and .....,... w•
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ment's exercise science progtam. W1U
be presenlers. Bolh ha110 pubUshod
Widely In professional journals. For
more informabOn, caU 645-3705

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MIC-IAL P - U I S
CONI'EJIDICEISAI'IULZI
Four authorities on the molecular and
cellular mechanisms that rrncrobeS
use to cause disease will speak at
the annual Buffak&gt; Conference on MIcrobial Palhogenosis. seller April 23
1n the Sheraton Inn. Cheektowaga.
The ail-day conference will be cosponsored by lhe Microbial Palhogenesis Graduate Group at UB and
lhe WNY Branch olll\0 American Society of Microbiologists The S25 registration fee includes lunch
The speakers and thelt presentattons will be:
• Lynn W Enquist. professor.
Department of Molecular BIOlogy.
Pnnceton Umverslty- ~ C1rcuit-spe­
c1flc Invasion of the Bra1n by NeurotropiC Herpes wuses •
• Thomas E. Wellems . head of
the Malaria Genetics Section. Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases. National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Dtseases-·AntigeniC Vanation ar:d
Immune Evasion In Malana. •
• June R. Scon, proleSSOf of ml·
crobtology and immunology, Emory
Umverslty-·v.rulence Factors of
Streptococcus PyoQenes.•
• Magda)ene Y.H. So, professor
and chair. Department of Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology. Or·
egon Health Sciences Universlty•Rote of lgA 1 Protease in Survival of
Pathogenk: Neisseria&amp; within Epl·

lhelial Calls •
MorrUng and afternoon poster
sessions also witl be hekl.
For more informaUOn. call 8292459.

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TOU-.D-H
The Universlly at Buffalo's 131h annual Ooziest, biHed as the •targest
voUeyba/1 tournament played continuously in the mud in North
1\marica. • will be held /l.prN 26 on
the North Campus. Teams must
reglstar by Friday, April4 .
Tho IOlml/m8r1l last year 8II!8Ciod

naarty 100 _,.,._ more !!'&lt;In 1.00J
pJayars ard tulci-ads ol spectaiD!i.
Six· and aighl-mambar teams rap""""'ling WNY businasses. cornrrunlly organizations and collages and
universities. as well as colleges and
I.Vliversilles from elsewhere In lhe
Nor1heasl and Canada. lr8dilionally
compote lor trophies and prizes.
Each team will receive Ooztesl
T-shirts. lunch, COtTVTIEHT'lOI"alive programs and a team photo snapped
after the compeUtion. Shower facitities will be provided .
Sponsors ara needed. as well as
IIOUlleer.l wl1o can retaraa. judge.
kaap scora and assisl wi1h regislra·
!ion, lunch and cJean.op. Tho ......, ;s
sponsored by UB's University Studanl
1\Umi Board (USAB). studanl alliiate ollhe UB 1\Umi Associalion.
Team registra!ion faa is $110 (U.S.

currency). wi1h procaads benafrtlng
lhe J. Scoll Flaming Scholarship
Fund. which honors ..-,IS wl1o
hiM! demonstrated posi1ive Jeodar.
ship quaJitias- allanding UB.

For more inlormalion. C81829-2!nl.
Aagisnlion lilomwion is availabla on

Oazfest-:
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, _ Selcll, dean ollhe Graduate School of Soc~l Work at UB, will
speak-and sinll--&lt;&gt;boullhe uosa ol
modern folk rruslc: to educate auchences about social problems and triumphs of "lhe lolk' al a noon Jon.
cheon April 17, in the Center lor Tomorrow. North Compos.
The presentation will be part
of the UB Senior Alumni luncheon
series sponsored by the Otnce of
Alumni Relations lor UB sentor
alumni, spouses and guests.
Seidl and his musical partner.
Rochester social work educator
Dean Santos. perform as Hull·
House RevivaL The duo. which en·
tertains audiences with voice and
guitar, has several recordings.
Luncheon tickets are $10 each.
For reservations or more information , call the UB Office of Alumni
RelaUons at 829-2608.

Ua SI-IETTA TO ...uT IN
SENIPIT CONCIEitT AI'IUL U
The UB Department of Music will
present the all-new UB Sinfoniena
under the directton of .......,_
11artenaaon in the Music
Department's annual Benefit Concert April t 5 at 8 p .m . in Slee Concert Hall. The professional chamber
orchestra is comprised Of members
ol the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, UB music faculty, students and
Buffalo-area musicians.
The first program fa the
Sinfoniena. approximatety half the
size of a symphony orchestra, will
include Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.
Barlol&lt;'s /JM&gt;rlim8nfo and opera
arias by Mozart, wilh Tholtlurn, mezzo-soprano, as
guest artist . Thorbuln. visiting assislanl professor in llle UB Music Oeparlmenl. is firsl prizewinner ollhe
Mellopolilan Opera Now England
Regional Auditions and has been

u.s.. bu
dalabe-.

ac..~m.a-111

~ ...
aua-llaMiiaaa-dl.llllll.u-ced......,~

Sciea&lt;:e Pauadllioa,

pan. nr.o-aplicx.b'lllole~ID,....._,..

ue the F..UTGJ 1t6ii#erand c - ' " ..,._ Dtdly.

WbiJe .,., of the ~ is -.:billie Ia - ' of illelf,
tbere -~ eoola u llllt.-..-. UDder.
v~oredocumeatcldivayiOOiam.trillllow ~

a:slo order and rcc:eive clocumenlt eJI!clroaiadly. ()a1iDe dacamenwion is available to assist Ia sean:hiD&amp; tecbuiqueo for bel-

lcrn:suliS.

UB is a member of the Community of Science. and scieotiJts, researcbera, and faculty memben may add or'upclale tbeir
infonnation to Ibis dalabase through WINGS. Complele insuuctions are available at bttp:/fwla&amp;s.bat&amp;lo.edll/faollty/COI/, as
well as on the Community of Scicnc:e Web site.
For assistanct in c01111ecring 1&lt;&gt; the World W"uie Wd&gt; via UB
computtr accoWJts, contact the Compuring Center~ Htlp tksk

at645-3542.
-Sue Ne&amp;U'MisUr a.nd Lori W'ulzilislci. University Libraries

engaged by such.disllnguishod organizations as lhe Malropolilan Opera. lhe Nalional Symphony. lhe Los
Angeles Philharmonic and lhe Seattle Symphony as well as being a

leaturod aoloist 111e Philadelphia
Orchestra lor lllle seaoons.
Tlckats lor lhe Benefit Concan
are $20; senior citizens and UB
communil'(. $15; and studeniS. $8.
They may be purchased lhrough
lhe Slee Concert Hall Box Ollice .
the Center for the Arts Box OHice or
at TICketmaster locations.
SUQUIS~NI'

ON-.-s
Several graduales ollhe UB doc·
toral program in Spanlsh who have
gone on to J:iecome highly re·
spected scholars. in lhelr fl&amp;k:J will
join UB faculty on April 11 and 12
fOI' a symposium on Hispan)c studlea sponsored by lhe Spanish sac·
lion ollhe UB Departmenl of Mod·
ern Languages and Literatures .
The event. 10 be held in Clemens
Hall, North Csmpus, is and open
lo lhe public. h ;s funded by 11\0 UB
Dean ol AriS and Loners in connac·

tion with the university's sesquicenJannial celebra!ion. For regislra!ion
and lnlorma!ion. call Departmanl o1
Modern Languages and Ulararures.
645-2191 .
The symposium was conceived
as a celebration of the achtevements of the Spanish section and
its doctoral graduates and as a
tribute to retired Professors Peter
Boyd-Bowman. Leon L.Ningslone.
Wilma Newberry. George Schanzar

and

-led

c. Alan Soons.

Papers wJI be
In
Spanish and Engliol1 on topics on
Spanish-American lilarawre. Peninsular Ntsraturo, Hispanic linguistics
and ioauas rolated 1o loreigo4anguage programs in general and
study abroad programs in par1icular.
Participating UB doc1onll aiLmni
wil include Debra D. Anais1 (191l6).
associate professor. lJrWarsi1y ol St.
Thomas, Houston; Ro&amp;emary
Geisdorfer-l'eal (1964). professor.
lJrWarsi1y o l - J.sa I&gt;M
Grace (1976}, direclor ol inlarnationaJ
oducalion and associate professor.
SUNY Colega 81 Bullalo; Barbera P.
Esquiwi-Heinarn (1989}. associale prolassor. Wtnlhrop UnlYersily.
and Aida L Heredia (1992), assislanl
professor, Howard UnlYersily.
Also Kalharina E. l&lt;oYac:h-/l.llen
( 1964). associate dean ot human
communications and behavior.
Genesee Convnunily College:
Kathleen March (19130). professor.
Univarsily ol Maino: Dorothy Rissel
( 1976). associale professor. Depart·
ment of Learning and Instruction,
Universily at Buffalo; /l.llrodo
Torrajon (1984). associale proles·
sor, Auburn University, and Juan
Zamora (1971). professor. Univer·
sity of Massachusetts.
The doctoral program '" Span1sh
language and literature at UB. estabhshed in 1964, has produced 47
doctoral graduates who ho&amp;d faculty
positiOns at cofleges and univer~
ties In the U.S. and canada. Current
aruollmanl ollhe UB graduate program in Spanish is 48 students.

�- t h e 4 X 400 l8lwn ol Doyley, Bell, Hinson
and K- Ml.a were victorious in 3:27.36.
Da.tia - l o r The Royals ..... Jennifer
Klborn. who won the 100 tudles in 18.00 and

the~~wltladistanoeol10.51 ri1el8r.l '
and
whoblk the shot P&lt;l
(11.29 -&gt;and tvmnar (34.84 """""')

Aadlal-.

e DOI'Y UVIIIIII• , _ . .

Other wimenllor the Royals lrdudad
Ks&lt;rl Shptx In the 1500 (5:11 .24), Gretchen
Welch In the 5000 (18:V.95), Amanda
Knataltls In the high l&lt;nll (1 .55 meters).
A PI* c/Aoyals had ~ perlorrnln;es
ellhe Ralei!1&gt; Relays Ill North Carolina State.
Soptaraa f\Ah Ccnon lOpped he&lt;"""'
8Chocl rTIIrk In lhe twrrnar ttrow wilh a disllnle cl 159-10 10 win the BYBnl Soptaraa
Shely Hlmlon- tl1id In lhe high~
815-7. Up naxl-the C'*&gt;rial Relays In
Wililwnsbug. Va. this~-

POINI' IIIDOIUUT;- araT

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UB senior Brema Doty fnohed """"""'ol
eight competilonlln the 1997 NCAA Tlve&amp;Pilint ShooCout on
March v at Mar·

kat Square Arena
in Indianapolis.
She scored 10
points out ol a
posaible 30 and
was eliminalsd lei-

·-··-~

lowing the fltSt

. , . _ --IMI'CHD

round ol the
shootout Ohio

Coach Kalhy T&gt;WII'a v.anan's tsmis tl9n traveled 10 t-I10n Head lsla'ld, S.C. lor 1hel' anrua1

""*"""'·

Stale-

oprilgThe Royals dropped all
&amp;ix cl.,...dual rretc:has lor a 5-Q reocrd but
did haw!~ lndilllcLel perlormn:es.
The Royals ..... lad by Dar** Ralo:lwsky
e1 No. 1M! aingloa wilh a PI* c1 vic10ries.
~downed Amy Haybeksr cl Morellead
S1alo 7-8, 6-3 and delealed Bracley's ZM
Holoczy 6-1 , 7-8. Ralo:lwsky is 10-81M!r811 this
season and 7-41n dual mafchas. ~
was romed the Mid-Con Conference's Rrnale
AINele cl the Week. Wernllie Arellano, playing
at No. ltvee, picked up a win fa&lt; the Royals
in the Weste&lt;n Cssolina meeting, defeating
Terry Jean Youtz 6-3, 6-4. Arellano also combined with Amy Snyder to deleat Morehead
Stale's Haybeker and Karen Von Deenen 9-7

Marcle Alberts

won the women's
shootout and 1hen
wool on to defeat
the men's champion Nate Erdmann of Okla·

home lor the 0\lefalllitle.
Doty's 3.51hre&amp;-p0int field goals per
game Ia&lt; the season has earned he&lt; the
AT&amp;T Long Distance Championship. The
award is given each year to the individual
who foniSMs with the best per game average.
A pmss confe&lt;ence will be held April 8 at 4
p.m. in The Bullpen in All.mni Arena lor the
award presentation to Doty.

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~FNSHUCOND

In the No. one doubles match.
The Royals' 5-Q 0\lefatl mark. which includes their lall season, puts the team in
lourth place in the Mid-Con's standings. Central Connecticut at 13-1 leads with Weste&lt;n
Illinois (8-3) and Valparaiso (5-7) lollowing.

AJ IIOCMSIIR W.ma'IIONAL
The Bulls and ROyals bo1h fltlished second at
last weekend's University of Rocheste&lt; lnvita·
tional Track and Field meet. The Bulls sea&lt;ad
76 1/2 points finishing behind Allred's 82 1/2.
Rochester (64 1/2), Brockport (37 t/2) and
Fredonia ( 17) lollowed. The Royals tallied 36
potnts to finish behind host Rocheste&lt;'s 52.
The Bulls tool&lt; two Individual events and

a pair of raiays. Lee Nanton tool&lt; the 110
hurdles in 15.64 while Mike Ouagliata won

UB is off until April 12 whe&lt;e 1hey will face
Robert Morris and Mid-Con loe Youngstown
State on the road. The Mid-Con Tournament
is scheduled Ia&lt; April 23-28 in Kansas City
- Tad Wasko,_Sports lnlrxmation Office

11IIS WEEK'S HOME ATHlniC

1ha 100meters in 11 .32. The 4 x 100relay

EVENI'S
None scheduled

team o1 Omar Doyley, Spencer Bell, David
Hinson and Ouagliata placed first in 43.90

OBITUARIES
toral degrees from the University of Minnesota.
He was appointed to a number of horlofary
positions during hts career and was a member of the first board of directors of the Harry
S Truman U brary 1n Independence, Mo.
He was the author of several mathemallcs
textbooks as well as articles in educational
research journals

Richard Matthews Drake,
90, former dean at UB
Richard Matthews Drake. 90. who was dean
of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at UB from
1947 to 1954, and tater served as vice presi·
dent of the University of Kansas City, Kansas
City, Mo .. died March 10 In Mariner Health

Care Center. Newport, Tenn.
Drake, was director of tnstitutional re-search at UB when he left Buffalo In 1955 to
join the University of Kansas City. While in
Buffalo he also served as d irector of tutorial
instruction. a program for which UB gained
international lame
In 1962. Drake went to Fairletgh O~k m son
University In Teaneck . N.J .. as provost and
head of acad emic affairs. In 1972 he relired
U p rovost, remaining there as an adjunct
ptofessor of higher education until 1976 when
he moved to Camden, Maine. He moved from
Maine to Indianapolis In 1992 and than to
Newport In 1996.
Drake held bachelor's, master's and doc-

Irene Hurley, secretary,
office manager
A memonal serv1ce will be held Apnl 19 at the
Newman Center. 490 Frontier Rd .. Amherst at
1 1 a.m. lor Irene Hurley. secretary and oHice
manager lor the cha1r of the UB Psychology
Department for 18 years. Mrs. Hurley, who
worked at UB from 1955 until her rettrement 1n
1973. d 1ed March 24 after a brief illness
All active member of St. James Roman
Catholic Church and Ladies Sodality. she was
also a member of U ght of Christ Roman
Catholic Church. Clearwater. Fla. She had
served as a volunteer at St Francis Nurs1ng
Home tn Williamsville .

FSEC

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plcte and "complete the complctablc ones
in a timely fashion with something worked
out between the student and the instruc-

tor.··
But if students seek to withdraw from
courses after the fact "because they want
to clean up their record." they should be
forced to withdraw from all courses, including those in which they h.avc received
satisfactory grades, talcen during the semester, he said.
Several FSEC members questioned the
wisdom of the "aU-or-nothing" stipu lation
i n the resolutio n .
M;cbacl Frisch. professor of history and
American Studies, said that while he fava&lt;s
tightening up procedures, " I can think of a
lot of cases in which I don' t see the compel·
ling logic of the all-or-nothing thing."
From a faculty member's view, he added,
the problem with banding out grades of incomplete is that there arc many courses, such
as seminars, that require a lot of group inter·
action. In effect, faculty members would h.avc
to "virtually reinvent the course" for an individual studcn~ Frisch said.
In the case of students who may have
c o mpelling. comple x personal ci r c um -

stances, "I' m not sure wh.at we gain by saying to that student, ' You ei ther h ave to li t ·
ter your record with a lot of 'Fs' ... when

they might feel , (despite) so me family
emergency or health problem, that they're
able to complete one c ourse o r two courses
and in that sense maintain their connect ion
to the unjversity;• he said.
Maureen Jame son. associate p rofessor

of modern languages and literatures, agreed
that the clau se w~ " problematic ." Since
fac ulry

are

not required to agree to g i ve

out inco mpletes, there may be students w ho

have a problem after the "R" deadline has
passed , but who have d o n e eno ug h w o r k
in t wo or three oftheir courses to ··get a B.
e v en if they d o n o thi n g f o r the next three
o r four weeks .

" I think we ' re f o rcing c h oices that are
reall y too draconian ," she said.
Roben Hoeing. assoc iate professor of
modem languag es and l itera tur-es , al so o p -

posed the clause.
'"There arc very legitimate cases. I think
the number of students who it hurts. or would
be pcnalizcd unjustly, far exceed the number
who would he penalized justly," he said.
William Baumer, professor o f philoso-

phy and a member of the Grading Committee, di sagreed , no ting that he teach es
larg e survey courses in which he receives
t w o o r three requests fo r admini strat ive
leave every sem ester. Lne v itabl y. he sai d ,
the d ocumentatio n he rec eive s states that
the student i s physi c all y o r m en tall y un able to complete the course .

" If the student is physically or mentall y
unabl e to continue srud y ing in the cou rse .
wh at 's se parate about m y cou rse f rom any

other (the student is taking) is something I
can' t figure," Baumer said. "I think the all·
or-nothing rule is very appropriate in every sucb administrative =ignation ~uest
that I can see. Otherwise. it is just fl ush ing
the transcript."
The FSEC sent the resolution to the full
Faculty Senate for discussion on April 8.•

UB a safe campus,
Palmer tells FSEC
eotrn1l.ARY TO TttE impression grven
by recent reports 1n the news medta. UB
does not have a problem Wlth campus
cnme. the Faculty Senate ExecutNe Committee was told on March 26
Robert L Palmer Jr . v.ce pres1de01 IOl
student affa1rs. sa•d a ·stnct 1nterpretauon·
ol cnme report1ng by the untverSity led to
UB be•ng ranked 1 1rh among nearty 500
colleges and untversrties 1n the number ol
burglaries cornm1tted on campus dunng
1995 1n a recent art1cle 1n The Chror11cle of
Higher EducatiOfl
The StOly reported 10 categones ol
cmne StBIIS!ICS that IOStltUIJOOS are reQUifed to report to the federal government
UB reported 220 t&gt;urglartes . 24 motorvehiCle thehs 19 aggravated assaults ano
7 robberi8S
·we know that what we report as t&gt;urgtanes at Other tOStltUtJOOS woukj be CSt·
egor•zed as larceni8S . • Palmer told faculty
members noting whtle UB reported 220
ourglanes. Buffalo State College only
reported 40 "Now tog1c should tell you
that that's too great a d1spanty. • he sa•d
When looking at property crtme---bur·
glary, motor-vehiCle theft. larceny. lheh ana
arsoo-at 22 AAU schools . UB falls Jn the
middle of the pack, ranking mnth. he S8Jd
·we are a safe campus. we are a wellprotected campus and we'll continue to be

one ·
.lohn Qr.ta, director of public safety
noted that UB pubhc safety IS an aggres·
stve department that has persuaded members ol the campus communtty that tt tS
"Detter to repor t (cnme} than not • Moreover. the department has chosen to report
cnme staiiStiCS w•th a ·very stnct lntarprelaiiOfl of what the statutes are and what
Bla requ1red by the FBI. New YOlk State
taw and the federal EducatJOn Depart·
ment. • ne sa1d
"When you looK at all the numbers (for
all cnmes) and compare those to other
campuses. we ·re very sale .· Greta sa1d
Palmer sa1d that 1! someone entered an
unlocked dorm room at UB and took three
compact dtscs. 11 would be reported as a
burglary "Now you tell me that those types
of thmgs oon't happen all over.· he addea
Wrth a less stnct Jnt&amp;rpreta.lion. we could
report that as a larceny Ol a pet1t larceny •
Palmer cntJcued The Buffalo News lor
a story at&gt;out cr1me at UB that was based
on the art1cle tn the Chronicle. but focused
only on burg lanes He said The News
focused on the one category "that puts UB
1n the most negahve light . wh1ch g1ves an
Inaccurate ptcture ol the safety and quahty
of hfe at UB •
Palmer and Greta emphasiZed that UB
IS safer that the surroundtng commumty,
both BuffalO ana Amherst . named the
sales! ctty tn the counuy by Money maga ·
-Sue Wueteher
z•ne

CALEfl!DAR
Contrinued from page 8
printmaking, illustration, communication dcsip, and com·
pucer art. Gallery boun are
Tuesday 10 a.m.-!5 p.m.,
Wednesd.ay lhrougb Friday I 0
a.m.-8 p.m .. and Saturday II
a.m.-8 p.m. Admiuion is free .

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"Social Phoo&gt;snpby: The
Meld... u exhibit of photographs by students, is on "view
through April It in tb&lt;
A.
Silverman UnderJraduate Ubraty (UOL) localOd oa the first
noor of Capen H.a!l, North Cam·
pus. The cxh..ibit features blackand-white photoaraphs by JeMi ·
fer Borlheim, Linda Mutka.
Haniel Rodney, aod Rcooe
Zie&amp;lcr. Tbey are atudcoll ln 1
social pbotoarapby .......
ooupc by David Gonloo. Focirlformation, call UOL at 64!5·

o.ca.-

290.

DMII!Io'"Cannon,"' curated by Ouisto-

pbe.r Leu of Cennon Design. is

on display through April 18 in
the James Dyett Gallery. 334
H1yes Hall. South Campus.
Hours are 9 a.m.-!5 p.m. Monday
Ulrough Friday.

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The Financial Aid Office is accepting applications lhrougb
May 24 for the Bufhlo Ne:ws
Scholarship for students punuing 1 career in journalism and
news reponing. Three sc.holarsh.ipa will be awarded; applicants mus1 be junion or seo..ion
enrolled for the 1997-98 ICI·
dcmic year, and must have 1
Free Application for Student Aid
(FAPSA) oa file. The Fioaocial
Aid Office is loca1ed in Hayes
C. South Campus. For iafDnnll·
tioo. call 829-2491 .

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The Abe Halbn:.icb Memorial

Fund offers scholarships and
low interest loans to under·
greduatcs who are.hea.IUI SC I·
eooc majon. The Financial A1d
Office in Hayes C on the South
Campus is eccepting applica·
lions through P.by 24 . For mfor·
mation, call 829-2491

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A one-day New York State Em ·
ployccs' Retirement System
Seminar wiU be held June 6
from 9 L m.-4 p.m. at the Ccn1er
for TOfllOfTOw. North Campus.
There will be one SC$Sion for
n cr I and 2 members. and another for ner 3 and 4 members.
lbc:~ will be repn:sentativ e~
from the Social Security Admin·
istratioo, the Dept. of Ci vil Ser·
vice, aod the company that ad·
ministers the New Yort State
Defemd Compensation Propam. To make a reserv11tion.

r;a] l Personnel Services. 64!52646. ext. 101 or 102.

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'The: Employee Assislance Program is seeking volunteers 10
fi ll the position of coordinator.
EAP provides euasta.nce with a
variety of problems employees
may be ttaving-family. mcdi·
cal, legal. financial, etc. Dead·
line is M ay 19 for rh umi and
lcuer of 1pplicarion addressed to
Chair. EAP Search Committee.
Personnel Services. 104 Crofts
Hall, North Campus.

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llosldao&lt;e BaU Director (SL2)- Un.ivenity Residence Halls.
Posting IP-7014. 1tac:hia&amp;
Boopital Nuno Proctltloaer
(SIA)-Siudcnt Health Center,
Posting IP· 701 7. Auista.Dt
0... (SL-5)-S&lt;hool of Man-

age~nl . Posung lfP-70 19 lo·
structional Suppon Technician (SL-3)-Centra.l Tcchntcal
Serv~ces (Catalogmg Dept. ).
Pos11ng iFP-7021 . ~nior Programmu A.a.alyst (SL-4)-Equal
Opport u n n y/Affi rma i Jv~ Act ton
Office. Pos1ing iFP-702!5

F. . .ttr
Ledurer-Athlelics. Posu ng
IfF· 7029. ReR&amp;J"C:b AsAsta.n1
Proreoor-Newosurgery. Posl ·
tog I F-7030. Assistant/Associ·
ate/Full Proressor-Soci•l and
~ventive McWcine. Posllng
lfF-703 1 A.ulstaat/Associale
Prorcuor-Linguistics. Postmg
IfF-7032. A.uiltant/Auociate
Professor-Anato mical Sctences
&amp; Cell Biology, Posting
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Nortb Campuo. 9 Lm.· l p.m.

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UB students do environmental audl at Buffalo City Hall

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At city srequest, teams look into
.,energy
...... use, recycling efforts

Marr, director of
refuse and recycling for the
City of Buffalo,
and Tony Lup-

News Services Ednor

pino of tbe
Mayor 's Office

NVIRONMENTAL STUDIES students from UB
have been picking through garbage in Buffalo City .
Hall, and neither Mayor Anthony Masiello nor the
Common Council would have it any other way.

sifting
That'sbecause
through coffee
thestudentsare
grounds
and old memoranda at thetr request as part of a comprehensive
environmental audit
It is believed to be the first
time in the U.S. that coUege students have been asked to conduct
such an off.-campus audit as a
public service. An environmental
audit is a detailed study of aU of
the ways that a particular institution affects its environment. and
includes recommendations for
improvements. A finaJ repon
from the students is expected by
mid-May.
Last year, after local news reports described the detailed audit
UB environmental-studies students had conducted on their own

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for the Environ-

ment also provide ongoing
guidance and
expertise for the

students. All are
working with
lhe students on a
volunteer basis.
'"The students
have to begin to
understand the
techni cal and
political issues
involved," con~

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campus, Buffalo Councilmember
Barbra Kavanaugh co ntacted
Walter Simpson, UB 's energy officer and co-instructor of the environmental studies course, part
of the interdisciplinary program
in social sciences at OB, to see if
the students could do something
similar at City Hall.
. .
The formal invitation to do the
audit carne via a resolution passed
last year by the Common Council.
Simpson and Joseph Gardella,
professor of chemistry and chair
of UB 's Environmental Task
Force. immediately began work-

ing with Kavanaugh to arrange it.
"This seemed like it could be
,._ greiJ.l!!!!ffiue," . JS..t~.v,n~u&amp;lt

said, "not only as a way to deal
with environmental issues in City
Hall, but also to use UB as a re·
source."

A team of 14 students was broken into two groups: one to work
on solid waste and purchasing

policies, the other to investigate
energy use.
. ~ n;-project- grounds the students in reality, " said Bruce
Kohm, a Buffalo community
activist. president of SBK Envi·
ronmental R.esean:h and instructor
of the UB course. In addition to
Kobm, Dennis M. Frank Sr., president of Energy Advantage: Edwin

tinued Kobrn. "The audit creates
a context for this."
Several times each week. stu ~
dents visit several floors of rhe
66-year-old Art Deco building,

wh.icb houses 3,200 employees in
its 26 stories.
Students on the energy team
interview faci lities man agers

Continued on page 2

Research provides further evidence that
pets, music effective at reducing stress
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~ iillbo VB Scbool of Deolll MediciDe are the ·
, fini1Dibow,la a a--1 popllatioD.Ibat a atUdud deolll Xuy 1libD em - plliaaiiiD esaiblillla balellae piclule of denIll bo8llb also ctlll ~polelllially daoaerous calcl1im depooita

in !be carotid Ullllriea.
In a review of denlll X-rays, they detecled caldfictllioDa in
tbe carocid ~ Iqe--. 011 bolb .... of !be DeCk
lbat mpply bloOd 10 the tnm-iD S pen:entoftbe deolll X-rays
o(-llwt 2,700 new paiiellls in UB's deolll cllaics. Sucb
c:alclfiCat;oos are a sign of llllvanced atherolclerosis. a major
cauae of stroke. All of !be ptllienta were told of tbe fiDdings and
referred to their perso!W. pbyslcWt for foUow-up.
Results of !be research were presented by Laurie carter, a
radiologist and usociall: pcofeuor of on! diagDOStic sciences,
Friday, Man:lt 21, at lbe atmual DIOCiing of ibe lntemati~ Msociation ofDeolll Reoean:h in Orlando, Fla. The stud)' was one
of several from UB presenred attbe meeting. (For results of three
of the other studies,- NC S).
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Tbe UB in-fi&amp;alicm ~reviewing the screeoill&amp;panoramic radi0Jiallll4 ~752- pa1iea1s Ill tbe UB dental clinic&amp;. Apoaoramic radioppb Ia a widr&gt;-u&amp;le froolal X-ray taken
cU:laa a polietlt's lial Yi1if 1D ea.blilb tbe initial condition of
lbo'lllelb and surroundiD&amp; ~and Ill periodic intervals thereaf- lel'u.-lod.
Cak:ificatioos in tbe carocid ancrios...,.... detcc:ted in 143 patieals, or about S pen:eol oflbe aamplo. Two thirds of this group
were women, with a meaa. . . of 6S ~ Jllndin&amp;s showed
tbal-40 iJIICOGI of J*ioats wilb calclllealion bad lbo fiDding in ·
both i:arOiid artpiel.
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UNIVERSITY at Buffalo behavioral scientist
whose work bas focused
on the sooth.in~ effect of

spouse, and that trained com pan~

with many supportive friends or

ion dogs can replace paid health-

family. Owning a pet had only a
slight moderating effect o n the
blood pressure of young women
with little social support.
'"'These findings incticate that
there is more than one type of posi~
tive social support," Allen said,

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aides in assisting persons with
disabilities in their daily routine,

pets and music on hum ans has

played during surgery concluded

taken ber research in both areas a

that pl ayi ng music of their choice
during surgery may help some
surgeo ns relieve stress and im~
prove their performance.
The new study to measure the
effects of pets on women living
alone was conducted over six
months and involved I()() women
who lived alone. Half were in
their mid-20s. the other half were
in their early 70s. Twenty-five
women in each group had a dog
or cat to which they were very
attached. The other 25 in each

step funher, investigating the ben ~
efits of pets for women who live
alone and music for patients under~

going eye surgery.
Karen Allen has found that for
women ~ving alone, a four-legged
friend may be nearly as effective
in keeping blood pressure down
as a human companion.

And for older adults undergoing out-patient eye surgery, Allen
and Lawrence Golden have show
that those who listened to their
choice of music during surgery

saving S 13,000 per year per pel'
son. Her previous study of music

blood pressure and cardiac work

group had never owned a pet. Of
the yo ung pet-owners, 17 bad
dogs and 8 bad cats. The break-

load than patients who did not lis-

down for the older pet-owners

te n to music.
Allen, a research scientist in the
UB Oepanment of Medicine and

was 9 &lt;logs and 16 cats.

bad significantly lower heart rate,

Milllird Fillmore Health System,
reported the results of both studies last week at the annual

meet~

R

esults showed that blood

pressure of pet-owners was
lower than that of non~pet-own ~
ers in both age groups. Among

conducted by Allen have shown

elderly women, those with pets
bad significantly lower blood
pressure·readings than those without pets. Elderly women with pets
but little human companionship

that in a stressful situation. a pet
dog is more comforting than a

had blood press ure reading s
nearly as low as young women

ing of the American Psychosomatic Society in Sante Fe. N.M.
Earlier studies involving pets

"and they suggest that for people
with few human con ta cts or

friends, pets can play an important
role in moderating age-related increases in blood pressure."

I

n the study looking at the ef-

fects of music o n those undergoing out~patient eye surgery,
Alle n and Golden, UB clinical
professor of medicine. focused on
40 cataract or glaucoma patients
ranging in age from 51 ~ 88 . The
patients were divided into two
gro ups, each co mposed of 15
women and five men. Two participating surgeons treated half of
each group.
Patients in the expenmenta l
group li stened to music of the1r
choice through headphones be fore. during and after surgery.
Those in the control group did not
listen to music at any time.

Heart rate and blood pressure
of all patients shot up the morning of surgery. These measures of

canliovascular stress dropped sig·
Continued on page 2

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'U International'

ArJeotina

atPal

He DOled tblt UB
recently signed a
memoraadum of
..,_...... wilb lbe
Univenity of the
West c.pe in Soulb
Africa ond hopeiiO
develop prognms
with West African
llllivasiiiesondoations when lbe political liability of those
llllions permits.
"'ur goo! now," he
said. "is 10 pboliz.e
the UB compus and
get many more UB
IIUdoots ovoneos. not
only for till! junior
year abrood. but for

Dunnett describes global leadership
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some of wbom bold very high positions in
their govemmco!S and business communities.
Then: are thousands ofUB alumni allrold-1,500 in Taiwan alone.
Dunnett said American higher education
is recognized everywhere as being a very
good bargain for consumers. He. stressed
handful of American universities to rethat it's also a good bargain for those wbo
spond to the anticipated educational deprovide i~ since more than 99 percent of
mand abroad.
foreign students pay for their own educaIn 1997, UB is ooe of the leaders in in tion or are sponsOred by their governments
ternational education, to the benefit of not
or international agencies.
only those countries and students who parAmerican programs in higher education
ticipate in the university's programs, but ' bring billlons of foreign dollars into lbe U.S.
to the Western New York economy.
economy. The U.S. Commcroe Department
"We have a presence in more than 60
last year added higher education 10 its list of
nations worldwide," Stephen C. Dunoeu.
export industries and esbmaled its ccooomic
vice provost for internalional education, told
impact at f7 billion a year. Dunnet1 said forclose to 100 people attending the March 13
eign SIUdenls enrolled at UB and ocber area JlpiD, Malaysia, niWIIIIIId Thailand andcJi.&gt;.
UB at Sunrise program. " and UB is ooe of
colleges cooll'ibutc more than $2S million cuaed Dt!fW llllldy-abroed programs in Voetthe top 30 universities in the United States
every yeariO lbe Weslcm New YOlk economy, DIIIIIIId one under development in India.
Dunneu said future overseu programs
in foreign student enrollment"
spending it on housing. food, clothing. enterwill COIIIiDue 10 focus on three target areas:
Under Dunnett's leadership, the multitainment and educational services.
Asia, Eatan Europe and lbe NAFTA nafaceted UB program in international eduunoett presented a history of UB's . lions. "Our paeoce is very strong in Eastcation bas grown rapidly and solidly, with
wide-ranging international pro- em Europe," be said, noting lbe large. USIAemphasis on Eastern Europe, the Pacific
grams, which range from the tradi- funded gmlble program in business manRim and NAFTA nations. He bas earned
tional junior year abroad to entire overseas
agement UB is helping 10 establish in La1Via.
recognition by the international education
campuses. faculty~cbange programs. en- the extensive exchange program with
community as ooe of its most distinguished
gineering and management degree pro- Poland's Jagielloniao Univasity, managoand forward-thinking leaders.
grams-many of which are linked to UB's menl programs with univasities in Hungary
Dunnett said that UB 's overseas presence
enormously successful English Language and programs in Booniacooperativdy run by
today focuses by design on the Pacific Rim
Institute (ELI), which serves as a model for Western New YOlk physicians and lbe Ell.
region. '1 don' t think that any American unisintilar programs all over the world.
Programs in the western hemisphere invershy bas as many relationships with Asia
He outlined the extensive UB programs clude those in Costa Rica, Venezuela,
th1111 does UB," be added, "and that includes
in Asia operated through the ELI and Mexico, Brazil and Paraguay. Dunoett said
universities in California." Between its Enschools of dental medicine, medicine and Dt!fW programs are wlderdiscussion for Cuba.
glish Language Institute and its faculties and
biomedical sciences, management and enprofessional schools, Dunnett noted, UB bas
gineering. He emphasized UB' s strong ENVIRONMENTAL
produced thousands of overseas graduates,
presence in China, Malaysia, SingapQre, Continued from page 1
News Services Editor

W

HEN THE UNIVERSITY
'!_I Buffalo began to export
ill higher education programs overseas in the early
1970s, it was one of only a

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PETS
Continued from page 1

nificantly in the music group within 10
minutes of tuning in, and remained low,
results showed. Only in the music group
did cardiovascular measures nearly reach
baseline, Allen said.

Music patients also rated the stress of
surgery lower and their ability to cope
hi g her th a n th e
control group.
··u this were a
drug intervention,
people would be
clamoring for it, ..
said Allen. " Patients like it, it's
cheap and effec-

feet of pets for women wbo live alone, go
to http://www.hutralo.edufnewt~Latest/
AllenPetsWo men_ L ois.html. To read
more about the study of patients undergoing out-patient eye surgery, go to http://
www. b u ffalo.e d ufnews/Latest/
AllenStressSurgery_Lois.html.
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tive, and has no

negative side effec ts . Ho spitals
could o ffer it and
be heroes to their
eatients.··

Other investi-

Fillmore;

Alan

Forrest,

Charles Niles,
Philip Niswander,
Jared Barlqw, and
Joseph L. lzzo Jr.,
all affiliated with
UB. Music for the
s tudy wa s provided by Digital
Music Express.
To read more

about lighting, beating, air-conditioning
and computer use. They are exploring improvements, such as zoned beating and
ceolnll air-&lt;:&lt;&gt;oditioning, that could reduce
the cost of running City Hall.
"By the end of the pro~ we will be
able to tell them, 'This is bow much mooey
you can save on eoergy and this is the payback period,'" explained Pete Acampora. a
recent UB environmental science graduate
on the energy team. He was hired by Dennis Frank after working with him last semester on a US-sponsored environmental
audit for the Buffalo Museum of Science.
Energy-team students also talk to employees about bow office equipmeo~ s~
as computers and copiers, are used and bow
they might be utilized more efficiently.
Students on the solid-waste team-survey
workers about office practices such as use
of recycling bins and recycled paper, bow
much electrooic niail is used, what they know
about lbe building' s recycling policies and
bow recycling efforts could be strengthened.
All of the information they gather, the
students have learned, bas a definite ceonomic impact. "City Hall bas to pay for
every ton of waste that's hauled away, so
if they hav e less waste to landfill, that
means less expense," said Glenn Delfisb,
a UB senior on the project.
Students also ask employees and managers in charge of waste policies iJi City Hall if
lbey are buying and usioa recycled paper.
"ffthere's on market forrecycted items,
then there's no reason to recycle, so we
are asking, 'IS City Hall buying recycled
paper?'" said Delfisb.
in the dumpsters. students pick
through 55-gallon bins of~ They joke
that they have seen far more coffee grounds
than they ever expected. "The mix of information that passes you by in a dumpstz!r is
interesting." said Delfisb. "Once, I saw an

pawn

u.msbipL We-fur!her development
ofour Asian. EastEurcpe.n llldAfricm Sllldies programs and more exciJon&amp;e programs
with tbooe regions.
.

"W e'd see a

lib: to
greater variety of
foreign language takm up by our
IIUdenii-Spanisb. Jllplll080. Olineae, Korean, Vldnamcle and. German, in
particular," be said. "Today, college groduates oeed a pnctical knowledge of the international sc.:ne and an IIJ'Ilft'Clation of the
values and customs of other culttures if
they' re to be competitive in the job market"
Dunnett said lbe university also would lib:
to see more faculty oetwoddng oveneas and
more possibilities for international collaboration andresean:b. "We'll conlinueouroverseas alumni developmcnt effort. . .it really
pays off because alumni promote our programs and they are aggressive recruiters." •

empty box of cereal go by. I though~ somebody gets here real early in the morning!"
The solid-waste team expects to produce a report that quantifies in weight and
volume the amount of waste that is geoerated, bow much could be recycled, bow
much actually is being recycled and the
average amount of waste that is geoerated
per office in City Hall.
Kobm. who bolds class once a week.
noted that the work is stnJctured lib: most
real-world, on-the-job assignment$.
" A task is assigned and a quality product is expected, but you never really know
what is involved until you stan." he said.
Delfisb said that be and the other students are experiencing the practical application of problem-solving techniques they
may have learned in school, but never before bad the chance to apply.
AI the same time, according to Gardella.
the project extmds UB's sustainable-cam
programs into the community, which helps
to further die university's public-service mission. ''With our increasing emphasis on regional cooperation. we can start thinking
about bow 10 integrate public service into.the
educational experience for our students,"
Gardella said. "'bis project is unique in that
it stresses IJands.oo access to real-world prot&gt;.
!ems, while making a contribution to saving
energy and increasing recycling."
Students report that they bave been
warmly received by City Hall's employees add that people are willing to cooperale, signs that Councilmember Kavanaugh
sees as extremely positive. "I bope the audit serves as a pilot program not only to
help us look at environmental issues in city
buildings, but also to serve as a model for
ways in whicb to involve the university and
its students in municipal issues and municipal governmen~" she said. "lt's a model
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__O'Rourke
_ takes aim at pOiitics•••and pOliticians

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T

HE DEMOCRATS took itonlhe

chin. So did the Republicans.
And so did a couple of Great

Lakes cities. There were no sa~

cred cows when PJ. O' Row:lcc
took lbc Mainsrage Man:b 12 as part of
UB's Distinguished Spcalccn Series.
"I'm here to tallc about politics. ..aod I'm
going to try 110( to malcc you run screaming
from lhc room. It's 110( an easy thing to do in
lhc wake of las! year's presidcntialcampoign,
which was as bad as a bouse visit from Dr.
Kevorkian," said O'Row:lcc, foreign alfain
editor for RoiUng Stone magazine.
He's been called "the funniest writer in
America" by 7im• and Th• Wall Strut
Journal, and is quoted in ''The Penguin
Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" more
often than aD) olher living person. Andregardless of their politics, lbc self-avowed
Republican lccpt members of his UB audience laughing, even when he took a goodnatured shot at Buffalo.
" I am a native of Toledo, Ohio, so I am

I did and move','' he said.
But the primary focus of O'Rourke's

tallc was politics.
The I 996 election was "a hard trip to
the polls for me," he noted, but " we had to

vote because otherwise the person our
spouse was for would win." O'Rourke
a uscd. " And he did."
Last fall's U.S. presidential race was a
lot ike Russia's, characterized, he said, by
" w~m-out , left-wing ideology vs. sleazy
special interests. Of course, that was just
the fight between Hillary and Bill."
Aaazt~~C ••apa l.._.

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The Russian election also resembled the
Clinton-Dole race, especially during the
Russian runoffs, when Yeltsin disappeared
and no one knew where or how he was. It
was, O ' Rourke said, an amazing geopolitical coincidence between the two most JXlW·
erful countries in the world. " And what is
the main issue? Is one of lbc candidates

dead ... .lttums out Yeltsin

waso·~ ...

O'Rourke said he has trouble accepting
the quality of public figures, especially
when he considers what he called the four
most prontinent politicians in the U.S. over
the past year. AI Gore, Bob Dole, Newt
Gingrich, Bill Clinton.
"Would you hire any of those people to
mow your lawnT' he asked.
" Dole would be down on his hands and
knees trying to make a deal with the grass
not to gmw. Gore would be asking the cat
if the dandelions were an endangered species . Gi ngrich would steal the Toro. And
Bill wou ldn't be able to make up hi s
mind-you know, do the front orolhe back,
power moWer or push, rake and then mow

or the other way around ... so he'd give up,
and he' d be inside raiding the refrigerator
and nin ing with lbc babysitter."
O ' Rourke explained the difference he-

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tween the two dominant political parties

in the United States.

The Republicans, he said, operate on
'1he goofy-old-dad-giving-you-a-man-toman-talk-in-the-deo platform. They comer
the voters and they kind of ramble on."
Democrats, on the other hand, run on
the "whining-spoiled-brat platform. 'You
said we were going to have a drug-free
America and I want my free drugs now ' ....
"The Democrats say, 'We know what is

don ' t thiolc so: " I want you to go to King

tics? ..There's too much
whining going on."

smelled," he added.
"Even the bad things are hener than they

O ' Rourke said .
"Whi ning is the single

used to be. Bad music has gotten much
briefer."

most imponant force in the
Ameri can

political

~ss ....lf we're going to

understand the process.
we're going to have to un·
derstand the politics of
whining."
The United States is in
lbc midst of"an optintistic
moment in history. If you
thiolc about it, things are
pretty good righ t now."
O' Rourke said we are no
longer in the grave danger

familiar with your weather and your
economy and the !alec. All I can really say
is, 'It's a wonderful place and everything,
but maybe you should consider doing what

directly rather than getting
the IRS to do it for him,"
he said.
What's wrong with poli -

pas~ and the Republicans, who can't stop
living in it; between the Democrats, who

__ .........

want to tax us to death, and the Republicans, wbo' d prefer we get shot to death by
a member of the Michigan ntilitia."

,

When you look at Republican politi-

cians, what you see is the scum on the top
of the business world, O ' Rourke said. But
when you look. at Democrats, what you see
is the scum on the top of politics. " A dis-

honest businessman will steal from you

of the atomic war. The
fonner Soviet Union has
dissolved into a space on
the map filled with "countries with too many Ks and
Cs in their naines." And
China has decided to conquer the " world
shower flip-flop mark.e~" he said.
'The ordinary men and women of the
world have greater liberty, more material
benefits than they ever have had at any time
since the beginning of civilization. Thjngs
are better than they were a fow years ago.
Things are better than they were at 9:30
this morning. thanks to 'TYlenol and two
bloody Marys ... but that's personal ."
Life is better than it ever has been, and
0' Rourke has one suggestion for those who

Anhur's dentist''
The one thing everyone forgets about
the old times is "how the old timers

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We should be enjoying ourselves. and
we're not, O'Rourke said . .. I hear Ameri can whining . 'There's a holt in my
ozone ... there's terrible poverty because the
rich people used up all of my money in the
'80s.' Why are we so unhappy?"

And we whine because it work s.
O'Rourke said. ''Whining works because
being unhappy makes us imponan~" he

said. And , more importantly, whining is
less work than figuring out what to do to
solve the problem.

''Everyone wants to save the earth. No
one wants to help Mom with the dishes."
he said.

Politicians make the ir livings off our
worries, which may not be to our best ad ~
vantage, O' Rourke said, because our political leaders have no vested interest in our
being optimistic . Politicians want bad
things to happen to us, because they want

to be able to rush in and save the day.
" When bad things happen. should poli-

tics be our first resort? Do we want politics to control the whole world? Do we
want our life to be one endless visit to the
Department of Motor Vehicles? Do we
want our hean-bypass operation performed

by the post office? Do we want our children raised by Donna Shalala, do we want
to marry Dick Morri s?"
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Greiner asks Clinton to support university-based research
Give research funding high priority, letter urges

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B PRESIDENT William R .
Greiner has joined presidents from

other major U.S . research~inten­
sive uni versities in asking Presi-

dent Clinton to make federal suppon for
university-based research a national funding priority.
In a letter dated March 12, Greiner

praised Clinton's ••strong and positive
stance on education" and asked him to take
sintilar leadership io supporting universitybased research.
" Your leadership in supporting university research in the federal budget for fiscal I 998," Greiner added, "will mean continued advances and continued promise for

generations to come."
The Association of American Universities, whose members are tbe nation's
leading univenities, has called upon them

and their presidents to communicate to
Clinton, as well as to members of Congress.
the need to maintain federal fu nding of uni-

versity-based research.
In his lener to Clinton, Greiner noted,
"The United States' constellation of research-intensive uni versities remains the
finest in the world , setting benchmarks for
scientific endeavors everywhere. Work at
our institutions produces remarkable scientific, technological. and sociocultural resources."

G

reiner cited the example of UB re
searchers who ..are learning to build
structures and roadways that resist earthquake damage; to better understand
women's health issues; and to program
computers that can 'read' handwritten
postal addresses.
" Federal suppo n ," he added , " ma de
possible these UB projects, as we ll as many

others."

Greiner added that ..experience suggests
that the university setting is the most productive of all venues for research. By
bringing together talented scientists, cuttin g-edge technology, and international
contacts, and by supporting their work in
a spirit of creativity and free inquiry. uni·
versities are a veritable font of ingenuity.
Unjversities aJso dtvelop talented scientists. cutting-edge technology, and international contacts."

H

e noted th ai not only have students

from around the world "long Oocked
to our country for doctoral and postdoctoral
education at research unives:sities," but that

scientists from other countries look to the
universities ..to set the pace for many international advances."
Greiner also addressed the "very specia l academic experience" offered to
"America's most talented young people"
by the nation's major research-intensive
universities.
"Again, the federally supported research
en te rpri se, built largely over the past 50

years. helps us to cultivate and preserve the
human and intellectual capital on which
America's future as a world leader depends.

"'Moreover. federal su pport for university research is aggressively leveraged."'
Greiner said. "It is the foundation on which
we build our many partnerships."
" UB 's National Center for Eanbquake
Engineering Rescan:h-funded for lhc past
10 years by NSF (National Science Foundation), with additional New York State fundshas helped oneofWestem New York's former

defense contractors redirect his business to
produce new technologies, retaining jobs and
potential for economic growth.

'f/C have in this counuy is a choice between

..We and our colleagues across the nation have many such stories.·· Greiner added.
"Federal suppon is the underpinning of a
range of joint ventures between universities.
state and local governments. and the business sector. The outcomes benefit Ameri-

the Democrats, who can't remember the

cans locally, 1egionally. and nationally." •

wrong with America and we can fix it.' The
Republicans say, 'There's nothing wrong
with America and we can fix 1ha1.' What

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UUP chapter board has
questions on documents
OI'DI LETTD TO II'IIOVOST TIIOMAS
MADitiCK:

T

he Chapter Boatd bas delegaled me to
express our coocerns. Like many othen
at the university. we have seriOUJ qucs·
tions about the implications of the planning

document you recently released ( .. Planning
UB's Academic Future"), as welt as the much
less known and discussed "Report of the
Provost's Task Force on Incentive and Resource Allocation" and the draft paper, ..Revenues, Allocations and Cost Attribution by
Responsibility Center." Like many othen, we
are unsatisfied with the responses you have

partmenll and programs whieb ba~ !he most
ethnically diverse faculty and otudenll7 In
light of !he n:cently released "Report of !he
President's Tuk Force oo Women at UB."
wbicb showed the need for a strong academic
proaRJD in Women's Studies. wby weaken
the univenity't commitment to women's
otudies and gender otudies7
How many of our best faculty would be
induced to lu~ if they losttheirdeportmontal homes? How many untenwed faculty will
loot for jobs in more stable universities? Will
the percentage of part-timers continue to increase dnmaticalJy?

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m order to clarify the issues for the university
community.

You have dismissed most of these practical questions u ..ad..m.i.o.iarw.ve details" or
..questions that we will woct out later.".You
even diunisscd questions about tenure IDd institutional stability with a renwt that the faculty and stalfoflhe new, reorpniud UB
woold bring "their own inu:mal security"
with them, oeeding no long-term commit-

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ments from the university. You sugges&amp;ed that

given at recent pub tic meetings.
The following are a few of the questions
lhat we believe need to be answered quickly,

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sively on public-relations goals.
An eumination of the SUNY Mission
Statement shows a striking contrast in approach. SUNY's mission is based on the assumption thai higher. education is a common
good The legally sanctiooed SUNY mission.
unlike this repon. ealls for !he ..broadest possible access," for a student population "fully
representative of aU segments of the population'' to a complete range of academjc ~
grams, as a means of ..enhancing the well-being of the people of the state and the region,
and ''protecting our environmental and marine

resources ." lbere is no mention of rating systems of competition with other universities.
The Planning report does not make a serious analysis of UB 's past. It would be instructive to sec, for example, how and when
interdisciplinary work has been carried out
sueeessfully, and how !he programs being targeted for dissolution are viewed by faculty,
staff and students (not only the administration's point of view). Is there any precedent
for successfuJ reorganization of this k.ind in
an era of shrinking budgets?
How will the proposed reorganization improve undergraduate education at UB , as your
plan alleges? It is clear that students will lose
options if some departments are closed. and it
is by no means clear that students have anything to gain.
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relatively obort lives, and an: usually adminisl&lt;ted by the V10e PresideD! for ~ oo
"soft" DIOIIe)'. 1be people wbo are employed
only at ceulei"S ve not port of our wtioa borpiniaa uni~ ba~ DO tenw"e, and tiUI be dismilled without cause. b this the "adveaturesomo" future in store for UB faculty and
stall? Will faculty and sWr &amp;I the ce111en and
inaituteo eavisiooed iD !he plan wort for the
J1a1e. the Raealeb Fouudatioo, UB Poundatioo, or what? Will they be II:DtpO&lt;Uy, permanept or term employees?
How many tenure-trock or permanent-appointmeDt jobl will ~ lost u a result of this
plan? How many iD the next year? How many
iD the n..t three to fi~ yeon7 Will womea
and minorities be affected disproportiooally,
clesuoyiDa the meager propeu made 111 !he

lut20yean7
- t h a t UDder the Policies of !he
Boatd ofTnaslees, OlllliDod iD the Faculty and
Staff Hauclbook, the l'oculty deportmonta
slwe docilions oo biring. .,..,.-ioo and tenwe with the ad..m.i.o.iarw.on. In the cenlei"S of
your plan, this dctision-maldng power ap-

peon t o - solely w i t h b the implmwoMarion of the plaD depeodent oa aettill&amp; c:oalnCIID&amp; 0111 iD the UUP
tolllllct? How many jobl would be Albecotroct&lt;d to outside or illlide COipOI'&amp;liclm7

loa
implemcmarim ol the plutJ
cum:ody beilt&amp; clitcuoaed would ~y
wort COUll:&lt; to the Miuioo 0( SUNY, rioUUP eoaanct. local put pnc-

l&amp;le the c:urreat

tices, and (&amp;I leal in spirit) the Policies of the

8ootd olTrusu:ea, forte""""~ to
close, and introduce a series of compditi'~
diseaaei iDto the univenily. Uoivcrsitiea need
iD order to
the unity inbaau iD tbe provide u IIIIIIOipbere c:oadutive 10 ttllldy,

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resem:1t and leamiDaovorturJtin&amp;
of the . - quo may be wduJ roc tompditive ~but c:ertainly does not foaw a
scltolorly IIIIIIOipbele.
Given aU of the serious questioos tbal
your plan raiseo, the calendar and ICidemic
respouibllitiea, a mid-May doodline for resolvin&amp; them is completely umeali.stic. The
university community aceds mucb more time
to CODJider thoroughly the implicatioas of
these documenll.
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Chapter

The Provost's plan: A recipe for disruption and decline

The Planning report focuses almost exclu-

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!he employee of the future woold be a more
"adventuresome" penon tlwJ the stal&gt;ilityoeekinJ faculty and otalf today.
Research ceotc:n., u we know them, have

be Provost and his staff deserve our
gratitude for !he &lt;IICtJY and boldness of
vision which they have shown in dnfting their report "Plannin&amp; UB's ACIIdemic
Futwe." Then: are major probl~101 confrooting UB in the future, and ways must be foond
to tackle these problems if we arc to compete
'in an age of increasing pressure on resources.
Unfonunately, !he plan u it stands will enfeeble UB in sucb competition. It embodies a
plea for a regionally rather than an intemationaJJy focused university, for a dumbing
down of our educational mission (master's
rather lhan doctoral education; fa..oding rewards for facu lty wbo cease to be active
scholars), and for a professiona1 school orientation of the university, with Arts and Sciences retained as a service unit onJy. All this
is done, paradoxically, in the context of a
stated need to raise scholarly rankings.
The plan thw contains proposals that are
inconsistent with each other. Yet we understand that the Provost's Office is already
implementing the details. 1be plan does not
examine what might be the reasons for the
low rank.ings of so many of our departments;
and it is at no point directed toward improving matters in this regard via the provision of
incentives for scholarly exceUcnce. Rather.
the implementation of its proposals will bring
a funher decline in our national rankings.
The remarks which follow are addressed
espccia1ly to Part Ill of the Plan, which contains a series of proposals for radical changes
in almost every aspect of the way UB is run .

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The Incentive report and the Revenues
(RCMJ report, mentioned above. seem to
flesh out some of the financial aspeclS of the
plan. For example. the Incentive report states
that the "Provost will keep a percentage of all
university revenues, i.e.• a provostaJ tax or
subvention, to support innovative academic
programming and research that serves the
university's mission."
The draft Re,renues paper outlines a
scheme that would really bring Dean
Triggle's Donner party home to UB. How can
collegiality survive, not to mention interdisciplinary cooperation, when departments must
vie for cuition fu nds to k.eep their programs
running and to buy supplies? Would the curriculum become more rigid, instead of more
Oex.ible? In practice, would ''RCM.. operate
on the department level, the dean's level. or
where? lf tuition becomes the measure or a
unit's workload and funding, where docs that
leave student services, administrative offices,
and libraries? Will these have to bold bake
sales or fold?
What effect would such plans have on
work.load and jobs for professional staff?
How
be affected?
Wlo)' would
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with increasing interdisciplinary work. why arc you targeting
some of the departments that are most involved in interdisciplinary work.? If we are
concerned about "diversity" wh axe the de-

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Seven or eight years ago, President Greiner,
as Provost. indicated that the unique feature
of UB was its comprehensive collection of
professional schools. He indiCited that we
should foc us on that and suggested that the
Arts and Sciences should become a suppon
system for that collection of professional
schools. There was a major negative response
to that statement. and it was DOC mentioned
publicly again. However, the present plan can
be viewed as a version of that original goal.

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1be plan maintains that the present system
does not work. and that this provides a rationale for the changes projecled in !he plan.

But it does not tell us bow the system is broken, only that it causes ""tensions between
Arts and Sciences." No One can deny that
there are major problems at UB. The extent to
which those problems can he blamed on !he
cUJTeot Arts and Sciences structure has not,

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however, been investipted. Tbe extent to
which a change in structure will improve the
silll&amp;lioo bu 001 been detmnined. The plan.
in th.iJ: respect. seems to rely on wishful
thinking and oo a reckless desire for change
for change's sake. Yeltbere an: many piec»meal improvemenll to the system that could
be made witboot the major disl~on produced by a complete restructuring.

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About four yean ago, a wk force was put ~
getber under Dean Triggle by then Provost
Bloch. 1be commission, or which our pre:sc:nt
Provost was 1 member, was charged with ex·
amining the future of the Arts and Sciences.
The report of the commission disctwed three
allemati'(ct: a two-unit strUcture (fusin&amp; Ans
and Letters with Social Sciences, with Natural Sciences as a separate fiCillty); a single,
aU-emi&gt;Bcing College of Arts and Sciences;
leaving things as they are. It decided in favor
of the last of these. arguing that the disruption produced by resiJUCIUring would no&lt; be
outweighed by any likely benefits to be derived from either of the remaining two alternatives. AI the same time it recommended
piecemeal reforms designed to address concerns relating to co-operation between existing facu1ties and deans. That such reforms
can be effective is demonstrated by the successful interdisciplinary degree programs
whieb already exis~ and which could easily

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The discussion of !he "M.A. as larJel degree"
initiative began with the idea that it was pri-

marily a means of getting an addjtional year's
worth of tuition, and graduate tuition at that.
from most of our undef8111duateo. No market
study bu been under!aken to detennine
whether there is a demand for a greater variety of M.A. degrees, or for combined B.AJ
M.A. degrees.
It is cumntly unclear wbetber our undergnduate IIUdenll exit with ~te
breadth and depth of knowledge iD their majors. At UB many of our SfU:dcnts enter college unp&lt;q&gt;ared for scholarly work. Rather
than addressing this problem, for example by
a rigorous kstructuring of the initial year in
such a way that our students would be
brought to the level where they could cope
with the demands of a geouiDe and reputable
undergnduate major iD the three yean which
remain. the plan seeks to tag on an extra year
of tbe same coasting whicb we alllOo often '
have at present-where even studeou entering college fully p&lt;q&gt;ared would lind it bani
to achieve a genuine master's level education
in 5 years.

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Despite an avowed desire to iDcreue the national rankinp of our Ph.D. prosrams. the
emphasis on mu~~:&lt;'s degrees will for eeruin
crucial """' disciplinet IJiltably degrade'lbe
intellectual environment for Ph.D. studenll. It

will thus reduce the appeal of UB to pocential
Pbl&gt;. otudenll with ye1 furtbcr deaimeuW
c:onsequeoees for our Dlliooal nnldnss- Furthesmore, the Provost bu sugesled iD the
most r&lt;eent diJCUSSioos OD the BAJMA initiative that perhaps the M.A. portion of !he
joint B.AJM.A. degrees will be iD the profeasionalscbools exclusively. ThiJ would result
iD an eveo gnoater tlwJ predicted shift in resoun:es from !he Arts and Scieoc:es to the
professional schools. sioce the crossover to
the M.A. specialty would begin in the thin!
year of college, and DOl after !he fourth, as in
the conventional sequeoce. Ratber than viewing Olhc:r AAU public universities as our
competitors. the UB con: eampus will be
competing with !he SUNY colleges feeding
into the professional scbooti.

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Our most visible and important resean:b faculty will eeruinly DOl want to be pan of a
univeaity that focuses on master's degRa.
Our most movable faculty will leave, and we
will bave even more difficulty than we cur·
renlly have in recruiting top-notch faculty.
The real scltolan are already llllSIUe of UB "s
future. Switehing !he emphasis to M.A. training will be the last straw for many.
The report of the ProvOSI's Task Force on
Incentive and Resource Allocalion coatairu
the statement that 1be intention is to bring
into better balance the reciprocal relationship
between institutional priorities and individual
career enhancement (in a cultw'e wbicb presently privileges ihe latter to the detriment of
!he former)." This is an eallWlnlinary usa-. tion. In a context of undue emphasis on
flaw¢ evaluati~ tools such as the NRC
rankings. a context of threats of closing Ph.D.
programs that are DOl high enough in the
rankings to suit the administratioo.. the Pn&gt;
vost and Presidenc .simultancoU51y maintain
that fltculty wbo punue national or international recocnition among their peers and in
their disciplinet are operating against the best
interest or tbe uoivenity!

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This pan of the plan completely removes the
elemenll of flexibility and planning from the
deans. It represents, iD effoct_ a dcmOiioo for
tbe deans., and an assault upon their status
and function. It makes an intruse iD departmental rankings unattainable. since such
nnkings depend mostly on !he size of !he
unit and ~ numbers and eminence of senior
faculty involved. Under the Provost"s plan,
new senior faculty positions will be assiped
almost exclusively to institutes and centen:.
which will dnw resources away from tbe
con: ICidemic disciplines. Senior positions
will be filled DOl by cieportmellll bot via what
the plan ealls a "group process." We an: DOl
told what will be the role of sebolarly eapertise in this "group process." and what will be

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the role of adminisuaton.
The Plan lalla of 1 "Provostal Tax" 10 be
levied on nvinp from faeulty tumover. The
tu should be levied oot atiOO ~~ u the
Prov011 proposes, but at.JOmO modest leveluy 10 percent-«ncc increued (or doaeued)
in li&amp;ht of subsequent experience. In ~lion

the n:veoue from this tu lhould be distribuced on the basis not of administrator ftat but
of I properly eat.ablisbed symm Of peer 1'0view governed by a collegial council of facuhy with experieoc:e of interdisciplinary research. Additioool ceoten aod loatituru

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uniYei'Sities, noc: by drawing reJOUrCeS from
the core disciplines but from external eodowment funds specifically raised for this pur-

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pose.

Nobody who criticizes the Provost's plan believes that interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary activities per se are a bad
l.hing. In fact such activity has been flourishing and even increasing for several years; but
the plan gives every evidence of ignoring the
repons of these successes. which repraent
ground-up collaboration nwtivated by genuine discipliMry nutb . Either the Provost
does not appreciate the nawre of the activities
thai the roeulty already pursue, or be feels
that the faculty are not pursuing the issues
that he happens to find important

The Plan includes a Hst of foci for instirutes and initiatives, with little or no ana)ysis
of needs, quality of facuhy incerested.
whether the ideas are passt. or of pedagogical
value. The Provost is quick to claim that w~t
he has offered are just suggestions; at the
saroe time, however, departments an being
in ructed by dean.r to produce dekliltd pro·
sals for the futun allocation of thpartmen1 I resources in ways which will enable tM
portments to become integrated into tM
institutes and centers which arr listed in

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The plan proposes that contributions to centers/initiatives/institutes will have a role in
tenure and promotion. This possibility bas already created some anxiety among junior faculty. The proposal is consistent with the
plan's notion that a department-based aca demic structure is a hindrance to the development of the free-floating type of educational
institution that he visualizes (as stated in the
initial plan in the Fall of 1995).

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Univenltiea have repeatedly found, u the
Tri&amp;&amp;Je Commissloo reported.. that inu:rdisci- pfuwy oetivity doea oot flow from adminis-

trative fial. Not only can 1.11 administration
oot maodlte sucb oetivity from the top down,
but the opprooch proposed by the Provost,
which is to advocate 1 finite number of foci
that should, he 1w maintained, oeeommodou:
almost every faculty member, U tanlamount
to telling facwlty whar they tnlght to ~ ,.._
scan:hing. The plan doea oot octoowledge
the extent of cwrent interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary activity occurrinsat UB .
Funher, it presupposes that such oetivity, by
defmition, always requires team efforts. In
fact, however, very many faculty members
engage in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary activity in their own individual research.

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1be plan proposes a oew.accounting"ystem.
dubbed "Responsibility Center Management"
(RCM), under which eacb budget unit is essentially accountable (or generating the revenue needed to cover its costs. Market competition does, certainJy. have its advantages,
but it must be introduced with great care, and
from this point of view it is regrenable that
RCM is to be instituled simultaneously with

so many other global changes (e.g. the nostructuring of Aru and Sciences) which make
impossible the son of detailed preparations
necessary to make it wort:. For the plan, with
its many centers and institutes, will yield unclear reporting relationships, and it will mandate competition between departments and
institutes/centers for the very same faculty
lime. resources, enrollments, and allegiances.
Institutes and multidisciplinary activities require cooperation among units. RCM produces only competition. Assuming they can
be blended is ludicrous, unless depanments
disappear and resources flow only to institutes and centers. All of this seems to have all
the potential for consequences which can
only be described as catastrophic. At the very
least it will mean that facullf members with
fund-raising savvy, rather than being encouraged to att.ract new funds to the university,
will be pitted against their colJeagues in a
scramble for those existing funds which have
now become centrally pooled.
RCM will transform UB into a market
economy in which the activities worth pursuing or supporting are those that are most saleable. Everywhere that RCM has been implemented, proressional schools have benefited

at the expense of the Arts and Sc1ences, and
vocatiorral training has benefited at the expense of liberal education and of pure research.
The Provost proposes, in the spirit of

RCM, that UB n:ploee retiring science foeulty who do not have external funding w1th
foeully who on: funded. Yel then: on: fields
within every discipline, aod especially so in
the sciences and matbematics. that for differ·
ent reasons do nol attract external funding.
Their presence is nonetheless necessary for
scholarly reasons. The long-term effect of
this suggestion would be to kill the academic
enteJprise: one type of cell would eventually
dominate all of the other cells within the organism, thereby destroying the balance
within eacb discipline that is required by any
university that is to be able to fulfill its mission as described at the beginning of the
Provost's plan-that of the creation of new
knowledge and the sharing of ideas.

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One is tempted to suggest that the decisions
simply reflect rhe Provost's and President's
biases. Poor rank.ings in professionaJ schools
such as Law and Management are responded
to with an increase in resou.rces. The School
of Management recently faced problems in
re-accreditation. The recommendation by the
accrediting team was that an infusion of resources was nor the solution. Instead, the
school should divest itself of some of its degree programs. Yet the Provost and the President still intend to infuse resources. The Law
School, which plunged in the rank.ings in recent years. has nonetheless been allowed to
reduce enrollment, charge higher tuition , and
has been given money for major raises in the

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The appendix to the plan discusses what de·
partments have been doing and what they
ought to be doing ; its recommendations are
often anachronistic in a way which bears witness to a Jack of knowledge of the various
disciplines involved. Yet for most faculty thi s
is the most important aspect of the plan. since
it deals with the realities of their home departments and not with abstractions or vague
futuristic concepts. We urge both faculty and
administraton to focus their attentions on !.he
recommendations in Part Ill of the plan.
Their implementation would amount to an attack on scholarship and on the faculty that
punue it.
It is the function of administrators to put
forward proposals for considen~tion by the
faculty. But it must be left to facult y to
sharpen and concretize, and 1f necessary to
reject, such proposals. for in tht: end it wil l ~
they who will be caJied upon to conduct re ·
search and 1.0 teach the stude nts or the ruture.
JOHN .OOT, professor ana Cllair. Department
of Management Science and Systems. School
of ManEJ6ement
JONATHAN DEWALD, professor and chalf,
Department of History

ST\IART L FISCHMAN, professor. SchOOl of
Dental Medicine
FIIEDEittC J. F'I.DtON JR., professor.

Department of Political Science
MENDEL SACHS, professor, Department of
Physics

aABY SMITH, professor. Department of
Philosophy
HOWAJtD WOU', professor, Department of
English

a,.pMa mlho• open for a 20-hour-a- week position writing for the
Reporter, beginning with the fall semester. Seeking a graduate sludent
with strong writing skills; newspaper experience is preferred but not required. The position may cover graduate tu~ion as well as salary.
ApplicaniS are urged 10 mail resumes immediately to Christine VIdal, Reporter EdiJor in the Office of News Services, 136 Crotts Hall, North Campus.

DENTAL
Conlinued from page 1

While most of the patients had no stroke symptoms and
only three had a history of transient ischemic attacks, or ministrokes, many had several risk factor1&gt; for atherosclerosis.
Individuals sboold not consider it strange thai their dentist would be the first to warn them about stroke, Carter said.
"Many systemic diseases make their presence known

fir1&gt;t in the oral cavity," she added. "Dentists are really
physicians of the bead and neck areas; that is their training. We are responsible for everything on a panoramic

dental film, not just the teeth."
To read more about thi s st udy, go to http://
www.buffalo.edu/news/Latesl/
Goo
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CarterStrokeDental_Lois.btml

institutions is showing a strong relationship between conditions in the oral cavity and many systemic diseases . In

this case, bacteria present in periodontal disease is thought
to be the culprit, Genco said. He explained that oral bacteria that enter the bloodstream via small ulcers in the gum
tissue cause platelets to aggregate and form clumps. or
thrombi, that accumulate on damaged tissue, such as lesions in the blood vessel or a heart-valve replacement.

To read more about this study, go to http ://
www.buffalo.edu/news/Latest/
GencoNativeAmer_Lois.btml
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A multi-&lt;:enter study has shown that daily low doses of
Per1&gt;ons with gum disease are at high risk of developing heart disease in the future, particularly if they also are
diabetic, UB researchers have found.
Results of the study, conducted among Native Ameri cans from the Gila River Indian community in Mesa, Ariz.,
40 percent of whom have diabetes, showed that periodontal disease was a stronger risk factor in this population

than other conditions traditionally associated with heart
disease risk. including hypertension, high cholesterol , age
and gender.
Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor and
chair of the Department of Oral Biology, said, " We have
always suspected that periodontal disease was a true risk
factor forcanliovasculardisease, but our studies have been
confounded by the presence of smoking.
"Smoking is nii'C in this community of Pima Indians,
so it was not a factor," be added. "We found a powerful
association between the existence of periodontal disease
at the study baseline and the development of cardiovascular disease in the succeeding 10 years." Diabetes was the
only factor that showed a strooger association.
New dental research being conducted at UB and other

a common antibiotic can halt the progression of adult pe-

riodontal disease.
Sebastian G. Ciancio, professor and chair of the Department of Periodontology. said the 12-month clinical trial
showed that 20 milligrams of the antibiotic doxycycline
taken twice a day can stop bone loss. gum detachment and
bleeding of the gums in adults with periodontal disease.
..We found that we can induce the disease to go into a
holding pattern," said Ciancio. "The significance of this
finding is that people who have no dental insurance or

www.buffalo.edu/news/Latest/
CiancioAntibiotic_ lois.html
IMW ca-. of CUm d i People who have health y gums are highly likely 10 de -

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velop g um disease within two to five years if they smoke
cigarettes. dental researchers from the Universiry at Buffalo have found.
The study is the first to show a direct association between smoking and the development of gum detachment

and loss of bone in the jaw-symptoms of periodontal
di sease-i n healthy persons.
Sara Grossi. clinical director of the VB Periodontal
Disease Research Center and director of the new st udy.
has reponed previously that smoking increases the severity of existing gum disease. that gum disease is more prevalent in smokers than non smokers. and that smoking slows
the healing process after treatment. but had no t yet impli cated smoking in the initiation of the disease process.
'1'his is a definitive step in establishing s moking as a
trUe ri sk factor," Grossi said. "We now can show. not only
that people who have the disease have more, but that people
who were free of disease now have the disease ."
The study involved 181 men and 230 women who 101 ·

riodontal disease in check until they can afford treatment."
The low dose of antibiotic did no t induce bacterial resis tance, he said.

tially showed little or no evidence of gums pulling away
from the teeth or deterioration of the bone in which the teeth
are embedded. In those who subsequentl y developed pen ·
odontal disease, only a history of smoking was associated
with bolh.gum detachment and bone loss, results showed.

In addition to the UB School of Dental Medicine, the
trial involved researchers at Eastman Dental College,

"Of the individuals who did not have the disease and
chen developed it, significantly more had a smoking his ·

lose their dental insurance temporarily can keep their pe-

University of Oregon, West Vrrginia University, Univer-

tory than those who didn ·, develop the disease." Grosso

sity of Aorida, Univer1&gt;ity of Missouri, UCLA. University of Michigan, Univer1&gt;ity of Texas-San Antonio. Univer1&gt;ity of California-San Francisco and State Univer1&gt;ity
of New York at Stony Brook.
To read more about this s tudy. go to http://

said. " Some developed disease as early as two yean into

the study.
To read more about thi s study. go 10 http://
www. bu rra I o . ed U/ news/Late' t/G ross i
SmokingPerio_Lois.html
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The Friends of the Center for the
Arts will ho'd a black tie Venetian
Masked Carnival April 5 to supi)Oft
the center's •ntemational artistic
and cultural programmulQ
The event wit! begin at 7 p.m. tn
the Center Jor the Arts Atrium with a
cocktail reception and cash bat. A

seven-course dinner. leatunng north-ern Italian cutstne. will begin at 8 p.m.
Entertainment will Include stroll•ng musictans during the cocktail
hOur and ptano music during d inner The G reater Buffalo Opera
Company will perform during
dessert Follow•ng d tnner, the Toots
Otntlno Orchestra will perform
lnd•vldual reservations are $75.
o f whtch S3S is tax deductible. and
may be made by calling the Friends

of the Center for the Arts. 645--6776.

..,_...Del-, n lefimchaw
and associale prtX8SSCJ&lt; ol radiology

a.m . and the event will conctude
with a final question-and-answer
segment at 4:30p.m .
Opening remarks will be given
by Barry B. Boyer, daan of lhe UB
Sc ~ of law, and Rochester aUor·
ney Brian Barney.
Topics and presenters will be:
• •Anorney-Ciienl Relationship
in Matrimonial Matters , ~ Patrick C.
O'Reilly, Buffalo
• ·Preliminary Maners,• Brian
Barney, Rochester, and Roger T.
Davison, Buffalo
• •Negotiating Agreements.·
Joyce E. Funda and Peter J . Foorella
Jr., Buffalo
• ·custody Issues,· James
P. Renda and Barbara Ellen
Handschu, Buffalo
• ·o iscovery and ValuatiOn of
Marital Assets,· Nelson F. Zakia and
David G. Stiller, Buffalo
• ·Matrimonial Trial Praclice, •
Mark G . Hlrschorn and Paul/van
B•rzon, Buffalo

There is no fee, bul sealing is limIted and will be available on a first.
come basis. Tho6e who wish 10 at·
lend mus1 call !he UB School o1 Law
a1..m office. 645-2107. 10 register.

atUBanddir8ctcr

ol radiology at !he
Erie County Medi.
cal Centef, was a
member ol !he Re-

fresherCotna
Faculty al ""' ,....
cenl annual meetIng ol ""' Radiological Socielyol
Nor11h America He also gave a presentation on !he radiographic evalu&amp;hon of jaw lesions and the dental mplanl patient
De!Balso. author of ·Maxillofacial
tmag•ng ,· the standard lac ~al- •mag ­
lng re ference text. is an internationally recognized expert in this field.
He obtamed his dental degree , a
master's degree in pharmacology
and his medical degree from US.
He serves as secretary of the
Buffalo Rad~og lcal Society, treasurer of the ECMC medicaVdental
staff and was recently appointed to
the Committee on Technologists of
the New York Radiological Society

JUDM DIUOH TO SPIAII
ATDWI-E
The Mon. Kevin DIUon, State
Supreme Court, Eighth Judicial Distnc t , will deliver the keynote address at a conference on legal aspects of driving while Intoxicated , to
be held from 9 a.m .- 5 p.m . April 12
1n the Moot Courtroom in O'Brian
HaiL North Csmpus. The conference
IS sponsored by the Cnmina.J Law Society of the UB School ol Law and
Group Legal Sei'VICeS.
Also scheduled to speak at the
conference are A. Gil Kerlikowske ,
Buffalo police cbmmissioner. and
Michael Taheri. senior partner in the
Williamsville firm of Condon &amp;
Tahen. A Judicial panel includ•ng
the Hon. Barbara Howe, State Supreme Court . Eighth Judicial Distnc t, will be featured .
Registration fee is $25 . Call
Group Legal Services Offic es of
Sub Board One, Inc. al 645-3036
for registration and information.

LAW-TOI'IIUUn
MA-IALLAWA symposium for recent taw gradua tes and current students on •Matn·
monist Law: The Realities of Practic e· will be held April 5 In O'Brian
Hall on the UB North Campus.
The program will be presented
by lhe New York Chapter of lhe
Amencan Academy o f Matrimorual
Lawyers •n cooperation with the UB
School of Law and 1n memory ol
Raymond F Pauley, a nationally recognized matrimonial-law practttloner.
Aeg1s1ration will begin at 8:30

.._ I'IVE APPEAL
I S - YOUIMl ALUMNI
For UB graduate student Kerry
......_,, serving as chair of the
university's Pride for Five is an opportunity to show her appreclation
lor receiving an excellent education
that also oHers her a way to contrit).
uta to the university's future:
Pride for Ave, part ol UB's Annual
Appeal, is a live-year approach 10

raising suppon for !he ..-shy from
)ICX'lg alumllhal begna with ""' S&amp;rior Cl1aJienge appeallhat asks ....
niors 10 suppo&lt;1 a class giiiiO UB.
SOOeley, who received a bachelor's degree n pllyslology and ll&lt;Jiri.
lion from UB n 1996, previously
served as a OOf'IY'Ilittee member for
!he Senior Challenge. Studying for a
master's degree In nutrition in the UB
School ol Heallh Related Prolessions.
she plans IO attend medical school.
"Pride for Fove gives me !he opportunity lo give back 10 UB, and by doKlg
so. hopefully I can help promole lhal
same feeling ol pride on Olher stu. - .. .- she said.

C:UUVRE OF I'IIOVUICE:
UWC:CMIIIIIDUB and Erie Community College announce the third year of a co-sponsored interdisciplinary program .
·The Culture of Provence : to be offered in the south of France in June.

1997 .
Offered through the Studies
Abroad offices of the two institutions
and laugh! by Professors Ann
- . U ol UB and
K_..al of ECC . The Cunure of
Provence is a four·week intensive
course In Provencal culture and the
French language. Students are able
to earn 10 credits, six in the culture
course and four fCH' French. The next
program will leave fCH' Paris May 31 .
Based in Nyons, France . the
program is organized around learning French in the morning and ap-plying that language In ahernoon
trips to historical sites and museums, beginning with the Roman ruins in Vaison·la Romain, and the
c ity's Haute v.n~·hi gh town· --a
medieval village built high on a rock
outcropping across the river.
Students In the first two years of
the program called It ·a transforming experience.· Previously, participants visited Avignon, srte of the
medieval Popes' Palace and the
Petit Palais, whiCh houses an exten·
s1ve medieval religtous art c oHecttOn They vrsited the Vasarely Museum in Gordes, Madame de
Sevigne's chateau in Grignon and
museums in Paris. as well as the

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antique Roman theater at Orange,
oeve&lt;at Roman bridges still In use

and parts of the Roman aqueduct
that auPP'ied water to Avtgnon.
Stodanla live Independently In
Nyons, where they can experience
the local cafes, restaurants and the-aters: visit the city rnar1&lt;et, in continuous operation for n,ore than 600
years, and make lrips 10 local
"ceves· or wine cellars 10 aample
lhe regional COios-du-RhOne.
Co81 for the 1!k:fedi1 program
and an._,.... is approximalaly
S5,400-$5,1l00. For intormatlon, eel
IWI Haskell at UB at 645-2575, or fti.
chard Koepsell at ECC at 851 · 1091.

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Two new concentrations have been
added to the undergraduate business program In the UB School of
Management Beginning ne&gt;ct fall ,
concenttalions in internal auditing
and international business whl be
offered as pert of UB'a bachelor of.
science degree in business admin-

istration.
The Internal auditing concentra·
tlon1s a senior-year option for ac·
counting atudents whose career Interests lie in corporate, industry or
governmental accounUng . ltls one
of only 30 curriculums wot1dwtde
endorsed by the Institute of Internal
AuditCH's , a designation that will give
UB graduates a competitive advan-lage in lhe job marl&lt;el, according 10
program coordinator Alex
Antrpedu, assistant professor of
accounting .
The lnternatlonal· buslness concentration will require students to
complete geography courses In in·
ternational business, WCH"Id commerce and international culture,
and two semesters of a fCH'e~n language, In addltion to courses In
general business. It is designed to
prepare students for management
positions within an lncreaslngty international business environment.

LOU _.TO SPIAII AI'IIIL J
011 IICOLCielc:AL IIIAirVB.S

OP,.__.,.

IAu Gold, former professor of

American government and urban
politics at Oberlin
College, will

speak on ·Lessons from the
Ancient Forests:
Earth Wiadoln
and Political Ac·
tivism" on April 3
at 7 p .m . in the
Allen Hall Auditorium on the South Campus. The talk
is free and open to the public .
A dynamic storyteller, Gold will
share his slides and stories from the
Oregon wilderness.
Noted as an outstanding.
teacher, Gold leh his academic career to lead a quiet life in the great
coastal.w ilderness. When he found
it threatened by chain saws, he
began speaking out on behalf of
bears and owts to audiences across
the country, and has become a na·
tionally known pied piper of ecological idealism.
Gold's laik is sponsored by the
UB Environmenlal Networ1&lt;. UB Environmental Task Force, UB Environmental ~icy Colloquium. the Sierra
Club (Niagara group) and
Adirondack Mountain Club {Niagara
Frontier Chapter).

The annual Chinese Banquet of the
UB Women~ Club will be held April
13 al 6:30p.m . on the Gol- Duck
Restaurant in Amhersl A 12--course
Chinese Banquet. Including Peking
Duck, will be served. The comptete

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placcifor lliop8plly buf&amp;, bullbey -oa~y two ofllevenl bancln&gt;d sires on the Web specializiDa ill iilfonDIIIioo about fmloua
people. For an extealive-liJtill&amp; of biopapbical &amp;ilcs"cbecl&lt; out
the -people- aectioo on Yl;boo ('aHp:JJyrww.yalaoo.cftl/
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plly &amp;Dd Ga.locY &amp;&amp;Iter bda, whicb can be fOUDd on the
Univenity Libnries' BISON 0 ('attp://abllb.bulfalo.eoholl
~ . While tbese sourc:es'may DO( be fulltext,
they are very comprebemive. Wbelber you are looking for in·
formation on a minor 19tb-&lt;:eotury novelist, a biography of

Buffalo's Jimmy Griffin or ti profile of a company's CEO, then
BJocrapbyiDdex and lliop"aplly &amp;Dd GeDeaio&amp;Y Master IDdn are the reference tools for you.
For assistance in coiiiU!cting to tM World Wule Web vio UB

compurer accoWits, contact the Computing Center's Help Desk.
at 645-3542.
-(JemmtJ Del'iiiiU!y and Don Harrmo.n, Univt!rsity Libraries
cosl Is $30 per person. Proceeds
from the dinner will benefit the
Grace Copen Academic Award
Fund . This schotarshlp Is provided
by the Women's Club for UB stu-dents with a 3.9 or above grade
point average after three semesters .
Guests are invited to attend. lv·
rangements were made by Dorothy
Soong and Anne Brody.
A social hour with ~lary

desserts. coffee and tee will be held
at3 p.m. April3 1n Room 1~ n lhe
Student Union, North Car'rl&gt;us. as
part ol !he monthly lnternallonal Committee program. Students, faculty and
communily members are welcorne.
For inlo&lt;malion, call Chairperson
Jean Jain, 633-5932, or !he U\1 fnlaf·
nallonal Education ollica, 645-2258,
Money &amp; inYeSIIng group meets
Aflri 9 at 1 p.m. n ~ Lllrary,
Tonawanda, 10 hear lOby Laplng. presidert of lOby Laplng Associalso, Ser·

vices for !he Eldeflt, 181&lt; on lonQ-teml

The·-

care cOols and franlnce. Jlnlt Fedor
and Norma f\Jbn are eo&lt;:llairs.
Corm1illee ID
- UB
canes ............... .-xmers
m assists i'1 the trllnSlO'l c a new
selling. lniBrnali:nai aciMies .... open

"'a11h6oe-- n ~ peop1e
from Olher OOU1ries. English """""""'

lion-.arealways-.

Evening GOlJme( Group meeiS
Apri 17 817:3&gt; p.m. Rosemary Mayne
wil be hoolass for a spring dimer. For
each .-..g a lheme is cl1ooen; a
radpes andparas loods ID be asnplad ~
FUigi and Nonre FU&gt;in""' eo&lt;:llairs.

conmill8e-

Meena Ruslgi and Shirley
Buclde win represent !he group at
lhe 92nd annual convention ollhe
Federation ol Women 'a Clubs althe
Sheraton Buffalo Airport.
lila WD SITE_.,. .U

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Ball Allantic lnlemel Solutions has
identified a UB web sila (hltp://

wlngs.bulfalo.edu/studenl-lile/
ccenler/centflfll.hlml) 10 be included
within its Internet Access Service as
a "bes1 ollhe net" sne. The aeMce
provides a graphical user Interlace

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• lhal eOabies the
ID inluilively navigate an index ol "tha bes1
of the net• web sites.
The UB site is a d trectory for
counseling center professiJnals.

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written by L
a clinical psychologist in lhe
UB Counseling Center, 120 Richmond Quad. It is Intended to be an
outreach vehicle lor coUabofation
among counseling professionals.

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7

The C8mpus Club invites the canr
pus convnunity .to join with col~gues fa a reception and a night
o1 music by !he Armersl Saxophone
Ouarlal on Monday, April 7, alB p.m .
in Slee Concert Hall. The pre-&lt;:or&gt;cert reception ol wine and c:Mese
will be held from 8:30-7:30 p.m . In
!he entranceway o1 Slee. Cool os $6.
Call Rooemary Mecca al 645-2258
for tickets and rn:JI'8 infortnation.

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Researcher in _...,5 education
to
.,. live Gal Paradise Kely Lecture
News Servtcee EdiiO&lt;
AnfLEEN WEILER, a distinguiabed researcher in the field of
women's education and associate
professor of education at Tufts
University, will preseot the 1997 Gail Paradise Kelly Memorial Lecture at the University at Buffalo.
Her talk will take
place at 4 p.m. on
Thursday, April 10,
in Room 330 of the
Student Union on the
Nonh Campus. The
public is invited to

K

atteod.

It will be sJlClDS'nd
by tbe UB Graduate
Scbool of Education
and the Women's Studies Program in the
Department of American Studies in
memory of the late Gail Paradise Kelly, a
UB faculty member and piooeer in the field
of comparative women's education. The
endowed I = is devoted to the exploration of feminism aM education from an
international perspective.
Weiler's lecture, "Reading WoJDen
Teacher's Narratives: Lessoos from tbel'ast,"
will refleet ber research intereSts in tbe social
and political oontext ofeducation, particularly
WEILBI

in reialioo to questions of gender.
Tbe quality and importance of ber scholarly wort bas been widely recognized and
bas been supported by fellowships from tbe
Spencer Pouodation. tbe National Endowment for tbe Humanities. tbe Mellon Foundation and tbe Buoting lnatitute.
Weiler recently completed an historical
study of women teacbers and administratorS in rural California from 1850-1950 in
whicb sbe explored the nature of teaching
as "women's work" in relation to local
communities, gender and race ideologies
andriseoftbeeducation state. Sbe is working on a comparison of Freirean and feminist pedago&amp;;ea.

•

Kelly was professor .of education at UB
and chair of tbe Depanment of Educational
Orpolzation. Administration and Policy in
tbe Graduate School of Education. Sbe died
in 1991.
.
At the time wben the study of women
was not considered an important topic, Kelly
almost single-bandedly made research on
women's education a centtaJ focus in tbe
field of comparative education. Her C&lt;Hdited volume, "New Approacbes to Comparative Education," is now a standard text in
gnlduate courses lhrou~t tbe world and
ber earlier textbook. "Comparative Education" achieved status wcrldwide as one of
the most widely used books in tbe field. •

OBITUARIE S
Harriet F. Montague, 91, UB
mathematics professor
A memorial service was held March 22 in First
Presbyterian Church, Symphony Circle. for
Harriet F.
a profBSSOf of mathematics at UB for
44 ye8rs and a
nationally recognized educator with

many published
works. She died
March 191n her
Town of Tonawanda
home aher a long
illness.
A Buffalo native,
she earned a
bachelor~ degree
In 1927 and
master's In 1929
from UB and her Ph.D. from Cornell University
in 1935. She joined the facutty of the Depart·
ment of Mathematics at UB In 1929 as an
instructor, rose through the ranks and retired
in 1973. After her retirement she kept in touch
with raany of hef former students. some as
long as 50 years.
She served the department as chairman
(1962-1965) and from l957to 1969. was
director of National Science Foundation lnsti·
tutes in MathemaUcs for high sctm teachers
and gifted high school students.
She also served as a member of the Board
of Governors of.,the MathemaUcal Association
of America (MAA) from 1961-64: was vice
chairman of the Seaway Section of the MAA in
1952-53 and chairman of the Seaway Section
in 1953-54.
Her dedication 10 lha departmanl has been
recognized by lha creation of lha Harriet F.
Mootagua Award f"' junior mathematics majors.
Among her many published wOOts was
·The Significance of MathemaHcs. • a textbook
that she co-authored, used in many courses
for non-sctence studenta.
Active in many professional organizations,
she had served as president of the UB chapter of the American AssoclaUon of University
Professors. She recefved the Achievement
Award of the Buffalo chapter. American Association of University Women. in 1966 and
received a lifetime membership in the association. In 1972, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from UB.
She was a member of the board of the
Buffalo Zoological Society from 1978to 1982
and an active volunteer at the zoo tor many
yean;.
A longtime member of First Presbyterian
Church, she was the first woman to serve as
elder of the church and moderator of the

Presbytery of Was!am New Vorl&lt;. She was a
member of lh8 National Board of Christian
Education of the Presbyterian Church USA
from 1968to 1979 and was a board member
of the Auburn Theok&gt;gtcal Seminary.
SurvMng is hef dear friend. Mabel D.
Mootgomery.

Robert W. Haines, 69, UB
medical school lecturer
Services were held March 11 lor Robert W
Haines. a past president of the Erie County
Medlcal Society who had served as a guest
lecturer at the UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences. Haines. 69. died March
9 in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital alter a
lengthy illness.
A graduate of the UB School of Med1C1ne.
he received the highest score on the medical
boatd certification exam the year he took it. A
general practilioner who retired In 1995. he
made house calls even late in his career. On
many occasions payments from patients took
the form of home-baked goods, according to
The Buffalo News.
Haines formed the Highgate Medical
Group with Herbert E. Joyce in 1955.
A licensed antiques appraiser. he was
active in antiques dealing with his wife. Edna.

Leola C. Sheehan, 78,
purchasing agent
A Mass of Christian Burial was held March 12
In St. Mary's Catholic Church, Swormville, tor
Leola C. Sheehan, who served for 16 years as
a purchasing .agent at UB. Sheehan died
March 9 In Kenmore Mercy Hospital after a
stx-month bout with cancer. She was 78
She attended Albany State Teachers
College and Chown Business School in Buffalo. During World War II she became a superviSOf at Marine Trust Co., working there for
13 years before joinirig Buffalo State College
for two years. She came to UB as a purchasing agent about 1970, remaining here until
she retired 16 years later.

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NCAA DIY.1 CIIAWIONSaPS
Senior 11B-poond wrestler Jason Wartinger
was the University at Buffalo's lana representative at last week's NCAA DMsion I Wrestling Championships at lha University of
Nonhern Iowa In Cedar Falls. Wartinger finIshed the meet with a 1-2 mark and was
eliminated from the competition with a 5-3
Dss to Howard University's Derrick Hinson tn
lha Consolation Bracl&lt;et on Friday March 21 .
Wartinger began lha championships with
a toss by fall1o fourlh-&lt;anked Shane Valdez
of Oklahoma. However. Wartinger stayed
alive by defeating Robart Chavez of Amencan 7-3 in his first consolatiOI"' bout on Thursday evening.
The senior finished lh8 1996-97 season
with a 31-6 overall record. Wartinger. who began his career at Hofstra whefe he wrestled
lor two years before transferring to Buffalo,
posted an overall collegiate mark of 99-27 •ncluding a 66-12 record for ll1e Bulls.
The University of Iowa won the team
championship, taking their sixth crown tn the
last seven years ..

e OUTDOOR TRACK a FIElD
SEASONS UNDERWAY

UB's track and field squads headed south to
begin their outdoor seasons over the past
two weekends.
Sophomore high 1umper Shelly Ham•llon
won Saturday's compehhon atllle Wake Forest Invitational with a leap ol 5-5 to lead the
Royals.
The squads began the1r seasons at the
29-team Seahawk lnvitatiOMI at North Carolina-Wilmington on March 14. Hamilton 'NOf'l
the high jump at !HI. while Terry Schefne
took the long jump at 18-7 1/2 For lh8 Bulls.
Pat Notan finished second tn the 3,()(X) meter
steeplechase.

e MEN'S TENNIS FACES &amp;nFF
COMPETmON AT HIUON HEAD
The Bulls traveled to Hiilon.Head Island.
S.C.. for their BMuai Spring Break matches.
where they went 0-6 for ll1e . . - against
some of the strongest teams in the East. UB
is now 6-1 1 f"' 111e 1996-97 season.
Coach Russ Crispell's plan was not to
schedu)e easy wins tor his team on the tnp
llu1to give his individual players competition
against national and international level opp&lt;&gt;-

nents.

Onke Murdono was the Bulls" top player
during the week, winning two of his six
matches, primarily at number three. includtng
three set wins over Western Illinois' Ben Williams and Bucl&lt;nell's Steve Bomberger.
Murdono a!so was strong in his k&gt;sses, especially a 6-ll. 6-2 declsiOO to West Alabama's
SaW Naeem. who is world ranked and has
earned AlP points. Murdono also had strong
matches In tosses to Brian Boyle ot Colgate
(7-5. 6-4) and Corry Ehlen of Bradley (7-6, 75). Murdono also tearMlod with Mike Minter
to win the number two doubles match
against Bucknell 6-4.
Against Bradley. a strong Missoun Valley

Conference team. Ornn Pndgen stepped up
1o&lt; lha Bulls. defeating Travis Graf &amp;-3. 6-2 at
number five singles and combining with
Travis Melnik to down Gral and Ben Close B5 atlh~d doubles. Melnik also earned a
singles victory at number six OYer Jason
Hutchison of Western Illinois 6-4. 6-1 .

e BUUS FOOIBAU. SET 10 BEGIN
SPRING PRACI1CE APB. 3

The University at Buffalo Bulls football team
..,.;11 convnence work on a fofJow up to rhelf
season last fall when they
begin spnng wor1&lt;outs for lha 1997 season
on April3.
UB will once agam have one of the finest
1ndoor football facilities in the country at their
disposal when they begin ll1e hrst of 15
spring sessions. The Bulls will utilize lha Buffalo Bills" Ralph C. Wilson Fieldhouse for 14
of their pracuce sessions, with the annual
Blue-White scrimmage set for Sunday. Apnl
27. at 2 p.m at UB Stad1um. Admtssion IS free
tor that event
Head coach CrSJg C~rbus Will welcome 66
veterans to spnng practice. of which only 12
are seniors.
·The emphaSis will be on teaching th.ts
spring With so many underclassmen.· satd
Cirbus. 'We have some ma;or holes to fill With
the loss of 19 seniols last season. not only
because of the1r productivity on the field but
also tt~alf·leadership Qualities.
"Personnel-wise, our emphasis during thiS
spnng w1U focus on exposing the many players to as many repetitions as possible," said
Ctrbus. "II is not necessarily a goal to deter·
mine exact starters lor each position but
rather an opportunity to force-feed expenence on so many underclassmen in the hmited ltme we are allowed under NCAA rules •
Last season~ ll1e Bulls' use ofllle complex
was a btg reason for thetr remarkable turnaround on the gridiron. After mne stratghl los·
ing seasons. the Bulls put together an outstanding 8-3 record that Included octones
over Cornell. Maine, lllinots State and Hofstra
"The opportumrues that the Ralph C Woson Fteldhouse g1ve us 1n terms of preparatiOn and the ability to 'tYOI1&lt; out under the
same environment every day cannot be measured.· said Cirbus, honored as the NCAA
Division 1-AA Independent Coach of ll1e Year
after last season. "The work that we were
abte to accomphsh there last season was a
rna;or factor in the strides that we made as a
football team.
'"We are once agrun extremely thankful to
John Butter. coach Marv Levy and lha Bills organization fo&lt; their continued StJppM of our
program." said Cirbus. "We are looking lorward to anolher highly intensive spmg session in a great atmosphere to wor1&lt; and get
better. Quite frankly. assembling a car;lOIUtve
Division 1-A college football program '" thiS
geographic region would be impossible withoutlha suppM of these facililles. •
-Tod l-llislro. Sports lnfrxmstion OfOOe
breakthrough 8-3

THIS WEEK'S HOME A'IHLETIC

EVENTS
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c.mpu.. 3 p.m. rn..

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Spanos. 640 Clemens. North
Campus. 3:30p.m. SJ&gt;CHI'O'"CI
by the Graduate Amcricanilt
Group.
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KlDdla of Nitric Oslde
Syatbue IAhlbitioD. Trislan
Mawu. S08 Coote. North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

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C-.try COIIoqoo-

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A Cbeaakal Approoda to ED·
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R......ltloe oiTnaoltloa
Statn., Prof. Tony Kirby, Cambridae Univ. 12 1 Cooke. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

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Cary. South Campus. 4 p.m.

UUPTttuue, Coatnctlq Out
ODd PrMtballoa, Speal&lt;cn '
Panel: puy Earl Rou, Tcny
Menkc:ina. Daniel Boody, Don
Denier. Moderator. Jean
Dickson. Scxia.l Hall, secood

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Out oiiM Cell N - Dr.
G0n1e&lt; Blobe~ Roc:kefelter
Univ. io New Veri:. Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
114 Hochsteta.er. Noeth Campus.
4:15p.m.

I'IIJ*-Col._...
Th« Bo.ott-Ji'enaloa Model of

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North Campus. 4: 15p.m.

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Tbesk/l)laertaUoo Suppor1
Crou~ Barbara Umiker, UB

Counselin&amp;Center. 4:J0..5:30
p.m. Thursdays through April
17. Caii64S-6 125.

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Page. Dept of Planning. 108
Hayes. South Campus. 4:30S:JOp.m.

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Newman Ccnt.en al UB.

Exhibit runs throu&amp;h April 8.

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1'tftt Louo~ 201 Student
Union. North Campus . 6:30
p.m. $2.50. S4.

.,....,... I.KtltreJames Luna. Luiscl\o Indian
performance artist. AlbrightKnox An Gallery Amphitbe1ter.
8-9:30 p.m. Presented by UB
An Gallery.

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Kansu City. 20 I Student
U nion . North Campus. 9 p.m.
$1.50. $4.

in&amp; admi.uioDs, women'• bultetball. 6:36-7 p.m..,.,...
can be 1ee0 oo Adelphia Cable'•
dwu&gt;ell8.

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CoUeae. 930 ClelllCU. North
Campus. 2:30p.m.

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BiadiD.&amp; or Drup to Plasma
PrOtelu-Medicl.nal Cbemilts
Prosptdlvt, Sonali Rudn. UB

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AU

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Coopentlve l'r'ojeds oo 1M
lotUDOt, DeDDis Mike. 218
Baldy. Nottb c.mpu.. Noon·
I p.m.

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Maple ID Pllpkr. A New lleaftmia&amp;o Proi.'Robert Hun&lt;. UB
Physics J:&gt;ept. 205 Natural Sciences. North Campus. 3:45p.m.

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Tbt Senior Show. An Depart·
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Ans. North Campus. 5-7 p.m.

ASCIJw...........,
Introduction to Suo X-windows Syltflll.S. 10 a.m.-Noon.
Register through Academic User
Liason Office. 2 15 Computing
Cenler, 64S-3S40.

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Dr. S. 1bevanayq:am, UB Dept.
of Civil Eogineeriq. 140
Keller. North Campus. II a.m.

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Wooin l..ec.. 508 Cooke. North
Compus. 3:30p.m.

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DvlqStoabSedivy, Uaiv.
at Rocbcl&amp;er. l80 Pitt. North
Campus. 2-4 p.m.

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Sumners. FJorida State UoivJ

Tallob.-. 146 Diefendotf.
South c.mpu.. 4 p.m.

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Sriram Nambiar, UB J)cpc.. of
Philooophy. 2BO Padt. Nottb

c.mpu.. 4 p.m.

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Ch.iua R.ath. 201 Studell1
Union . North Campus. 6:30
p.m. 52.50. $4.

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South Campus. 7 p.m. Free.
Coaccrt to be broadcasl on tbc
following Sunday al4 p.m. on
WBFO-FM 88 .7.

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your cboice. 1bc COlt
is Sl07 for bus. • abow, ud dDtncr. To raave a place.IC:Od S50 .
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Alumni Arena. North Campus.
3-6 p.m.
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Mlinstage, Center for the Arts.

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Tallahassee. 146 Diefendotf.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

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Cou.n.seling Center. 4:3():5:30
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Uving Well Center. S~ p.m.
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Marr:h 13 1G97 Vohwu· 2H No 2-1

Faculty voice views, concerns
on Provost's planning document
ROPOSALS TO create more interdisciplinary cen'ters and institutes, and reorganize the arts and sciences spawned considerable concern at a meeting
Thesday of the Faculty Senate to discuss Provost
Thomas Headrick's academic planning document.
Similar sentiments were expressed at meetings Headrick
held last week with arts and letters faculty and department

chairs. The meelings are part of a
series of such discussions the pro-vost is holding to gather input
about the planning document.
While faculty members at all
three meetings welcomed the in-

creased emphasis on interdisciplinary research that the focus on
centers and institutes would rep-

resent, they voiced concern about
what they perceive as a de-emphasis on the departments as the
defining structures .within a faculty or school.
They also wondered what the

ratiooale.was for reorganizing the

arts and sciences.

Speaking at the Faculty Senate meeting, Don Schack, professor of mathematics, said there is
concern within the senate's Ten-

ure and Privileges committee
about how centers, institutes and
initiatives would fit within the
promotion and appointment criteria of the university.
In particular, he said, the committee is conc.errled about the centrality of the department in promotion and tenure decisions and
the issue of properly valued collaborative work.
Committee members feel that
if the university is to move in a
direction that emphasizes collaborative work, there is a need

for a broad outline for dealing
with some of these significant issues in promotion and tenure, he
said.

B

arbara Bono, associate
professor of English, said
concerns among her colleagues revolve around "critical
mass, a sense of homt , a sense
of integrity. a sense of material
base for doing work, a sense of
the long run," as opposed to concern that .. we will dissipate our
energies and divide ourselves as
a faculty."
She urged that the university
resist tendencies to polarize the
notion of depanments from cenp
ters and think carefully about
how deparune nts have a history
and an integrity.
Headrick said there seems to
be an underlying presumption
among faculty that centers and
institutes will "take over the university.
Continued on page 2

UB's Creeley helps City Honors
develop own Web site on Internet
lly II'AJIIICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

WHEN HE WASN'T being honored last fall here and abroad for
his own work as one of the most
prominent 20th-century American poets, Robert Creeley was
busy at Buffalo's City Honors
School, helping to fund and develop the school 's very popular
on -l ine Web site-one that he
calls ·•run in abundance."
With the help of Creeley.
SUN&gt;Y Distinguished Professor in
the Departme nt of English and

Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry
and the Humanities at UB, City
Honors is now one of only two
schoo ls in thG Buffalo P ub lic
Schools that bas its own Web site
on the Internet The other is the Dr.
Charles R. Drew Science Magnet
at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
The City Honors project was
fun ded through a three-year grant
to Creeley from the U la Wallace
Reader's DigesLFund designed to
create public programs to foster
an exchange of ideas and a greater
appreciation for contemporary literature.
The Wallace Fund required

grant recipient s to
partner with not-forprofit cultural and
community organizations. Just Buffalo Literary Center administered the program and
hired UB graduate student Ken Sherwood to
oversee its implementation.
The Wallace Fund R~ c:...y, loft, ond Ron AotJidCe waWI
purchased the equip- WOik on City Honors- atte.
ment necessary for the school to
steps further. They developed
make an Internet connection .
what Creeley call s "a usefully diverse Web site" ihat not only pubNYNEX provided a free dedicated
phone line, and extra computer
lishes four literary journals, bur
equipment and software was proassists with the school 's educavided by the school districl
tional programs and offers news
Sherwood. a poet himse lf.
and personal pages. Five hundred
helped set up UB 's Electronic
of the school's 839 students now
Poetry Center and is the co..edihave e-mail addresses.
tor of the UB Poetics Program's
The school newspaper is onon-line journal , " Riflt." With
line. All three of the school's
Creeley, he helped City Honors
sixth-grade classes have devellntemet Poetry C lub to develop
oped e-mail correspondence with
and publish "CHOPS"-its own
students around the world-a few
Internet literary gro up (http://
students are writing in French.
cityho nors.buffalo.k 12 .ny .u s/
Another class in evolutionary hicity/CHOPS) and publish an elecology is resean:hing the Web to
tronic li terary magazine.
create an evolution b ibliography.
"chopstyx."
Math students are researching
college math department Web
- . . . ..w-la--'1pages; biology students are playWh ile Creeley sparked the
ing 'The Blackout Syndrome," an
project, City Honors and its students took it several enthusiastic
Continued on page 3

Nursing School dean Mecca Cranley is shown with co-directors
of the Nurse Anesthesia Program, Thomas E. Obst, left, and
Michael D. Fallacaro they demonstrated school's computerized mannequin. SAM-SON. on Match 1. The school is
of
only two nursing schools in the wond with a patient sirulalor.

as

one

FSEC hears talk on medical
education in managed~re era
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Reporter Editor

T

HE UB SCHOOL OF MEDICINE and Biomedical Sciences
is "somewha t unique" among medical schools because it nei·
ther owns nor operates its own hospital. And while that facwr
has been considered by some to be a curse in the past. it may
turn oui to be a blessing, albeit a mixed one, in the future as the medi·
cal school deals with the challenges of managed care and other changes.
John Wright , interim vice president for clinical affairs and dean of
the UB medical school. brought that message to the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee on March 5 at a joint meeting held with the
medical school's Faculty Council Steering Commi ttee.
Wright presented what he called the ""idyllic model'" of medical
education vs. " the Buffalo scene and how it relates to the challenges
of managed care and our situati on."
A typical, arguably idyllic, academic health-center environme nt.
Wright said, "is represented by a single focus for faculty practice,
usually in some physical juxtaposition to the medical sct.ool itself."
Clinical fa culty are able to engage in scholarly interaction and collaboration among themselves and with their basic-science facuhy colleagues . Medical students from each of the four years Jearn in the
same environment, often from each other. And res1d~nts receive their
training in each discipline at a single site.
In a typical academic health-care environment. he added. the medical school is affiliated with other institutions as needed and desirable.

T

he hospital understands. indeed is pan of, the academic environment and shares common goals with the medical school." Wright
said. 'These institutions are admittedly expensive because of this shared
mission. but reimbursement, tied to patient care. has traditionally been
adjusted for this expense and applied to the teaching mission."
However. "i n our env ironment, we must operate in a consonium of
nine hospitals," eight of wh ich are geographi cally distant from the
medical school. he noted . "Altho ugh all have professed an academic
commitment," the hospitals are academic medical centers "in name
only. The clinical depanments are consequentl y sited in multiple locations, without a critical mass at any one site, and contact with the
basic science faculty proves to be sporadic at best"
As a result, clinical responsibilities often are so extensive that scholarship becomes compromised. according to Wright. 'lhere is an odd
mix of faculty at each site. with volunteer, geographic and strict fulltime faculty working side-by-side, with varying degrees of state suppen, or non-suppon. some with renure and some without." Funding
for faculty comes from various sources, "incl uding university or state
support, hospital salary or contract funds and clinical practice income.
For those tenured geographic full-time faculty who receive little or no
state suppon. cenure is for title only."
Because medical students are scanered among the various hospi Continued on page 3

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FACULTY
Cootinued lrom page 1
. "What I'm looking for .. . are opportuniues for people to find that kind of iotelleetual sustenance,.. he said. While some individual s may find that within a department, Headrick added, others may be
frustrated by the departmental slructure and

may find their opponunities outside their
departnlent or discipline.
Laura Wmsky Mattei, assistant professor
of political science, told Headrick that she
personally supportS the idea of more interdi sciplinary resean:h, but is concerned about
hi s idea of generating agreement for the

theory without worrying about the practice.
"I simply want to reiterate to you that
the great uncenainty associated with a decision in principle is going to lead to a Jot
of opposition in the initial stages, particu-

larly among junior facUhy. a lot of whom
are dying to leave UB , quite honestly, and
are looking for other job opportunities."
Headrick said he hopes co chart a direc-

tion for the university that "people will find
exciting and fmd attractive and wilJ want to
scay here. That's what the purpose of this is.
not to scare people away and it 's not to throw
up warning flags. Quite the opposite."
Jean Dickson , Polish curator in
Lockwood Library and president of the
Buffalo chapter of UUP, wondered "what
exactl y is the problem we ' re trying tore-

solve with this reorganization?"
She said she thought the problem was
the lack of money, but the only problem
she said she saw being addressed was "the
lack of ratings."

of opinion, not the summary of opinion
that's expressed by a vote."

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A realignment of the arts and sciences that
would feature an even broader view of the
sciences than has been suggested by
Headrick was proposed at a meeting of department chain on March 6.
. Headrick has proposed two options to
reorganize the arts and sciences. One would
merge the faculties of Arts and Letters,
Social Sciences and Natural Sciences and
Mathematics into a College of Arts and
Sciences. The ocher would merge Arts and
Letters and Social Sciences into a College
of Arts, Hu!IIJilitica and Social Science
while merging Nalunll Sciences and M.ithcmatics and the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences into a College of Science
and Engineering.
Stuan Shapiro, chair of the Department
of Computer Science, and several others
favored the latter option, but suggested including in the College of Science and Engineering science departments from other
faculties and schools, such as the medical
school and social sciences.

to submit the idea ~o him in writing.

realignment of the arts and sciences besides
the ones he has proposed.

state . At what expense are we going to cre-

these institutes and centers? How many
JObs probably will be lost?" she said.
Headrick replied thaclhe plan should not
reduce the size of the faculty and staffand in face should substantially increase the
number of faculty-since he plans to have
more resources to spend.

Christina Bloe-baum, associate profes~or of mechanical

and aerospace c;ngineermg. noted chat the National Research Council ratings of doctoral programs are ·~otally.
completely and utterly inadequate.
"I question the validity of using something like NRC co make these kinds of de-

cisions-extremely important decisionsabout v:ability of programs, for instance."
Headrick agreed lhaclhere are problems
with che NRC' s-and ocher-ratings, buc

noted that UB can't ignore them because

Headrick told faculty members chat he

would consider other recommendations for
··sur what I won 't listen to---and 1 think
I' vc made chat clear-that we ought to stay
as we are; I don't think that's working,"
Headrick said.
Robert Van Valin, professor and chair
of the Department of Linguistics. said he

thought it was crucia1 in making a final
decision on how to realign the ans and sciences to detennine ftrst what the primary
problem was that would be addressed by

the reorganization.
lf the primary concern is undergradu-

ate education. then a particular alignment,
such as a large arts and sciences college,
might be preferred, he said. If the primary

concern is promoting an environment for
gradOate research, a different alignment
might be the way co go.

Headrick noted that although concern
for undergraduate education is one of the
factors that is driving his effon to realign
the arts and sciences. "I don't chink you

o f the reputation the NRC hold s in

can say it's primarily this or primarily that.

academia.
He proposed that UB create its own internal system or evaluation of programs.
as well as develop a better data collection
system to funnel information to groups

things are important. The question is, how
do we put together what we're doing in

such as che NRC.

James Holstun, associate professor of
English. said a number of his colleagues

are puzzled about ..the democratic content
of the new university" that Headrick is proposing, and how the institutes and centers
would be funded and administered.
"Con ultation is great; I think democ-

What I kept saying in this report is chat all
of those things are primary, all of those

order to meet all of chose objectives?"
John Boot, professor and chair of the

Department of Management Science and
Systems, criticized the planning document
for what he called a lack of "vision" and
integration with the rest of SUNY.
He told Headrick he personally "would
have preferred a document first of all chat
puts the university fairly and squarely as

racy is beucr," he said, asking Headrick if

an instrument that serves the citizens of the

he would be willing to submit his document to a vote of the faculty and commit

state. Second, as an entity which clearly
belongs co a larger system."

himself to abiding by chat voce.
The provost responded: "A voce, which
you describe as democratic, is probably not

He also said he would evaluate success
based less on extema1 measures and more
on internal measures such as retention and
graduation rates and infonnation gleaned
from student surveys.

the fonn of democracy we want to operate
here," he said. "We want considered delib-

eration and discussion and recommendations chat clearly reflect ~ large spectrum

But be wondered wbere these interdisciplinary units will be "parkccL.Who' s
going to own them? Who' s going to be
answerable? Who's the power?"
Heidrick said be bad not sorted out
tbosc issues yet, although "they won'(grow
10

He wondered if the " basic philosophy
of the Provost' s Office" is to "make the

our current structure the way it's 'set."

Carol Zemel, professor of art history,
noted that for some time interdisciplinary
work bas been done through the graduate
groups. "Would the graduate groups drain
off into the distance (under the plan)?
There' s a structure in place that is facultygenerated based on mutual desires to converse and needs to develop programs.
"It seems that the anxiety ffeel about
this plan is (because) I don' t know bow it's

Shapiro said.
·
Headrick said he had considered a complicated version of that proposal in an early
draft of his report, but had been advised
chat it wouldn ' t work.
"But bring it (the proposal) back and
Icc 's talk about i~" he said, asking Shapiro

R~ing s , she said, are only a reflection
of what 's happened to the university be-

~te

versities have gone."

This scenario "'woultl make much more
sense.. than other possible configurations,

cause of eight years of budget cuts.
"We need to calk about the basics, which
is the resources that we have or do not have
and if we're going to set up aU these ne~
programs. institutes and centers, we do not
have a growing fund coming in from the

Heidrick said faculty memben will
contioue to be members of deponmeotsevCil if tbcy are porticipeting in intenlisciplinary eodcavon u a more ceDtnl part of
their academic tif&amp;-With respoosibilities
to dcpanmcntal and degree programs.
Bruce Jackson, SUNY Diatioguishcd
Professor in the Department of Engtisb,
wd be welcomed the institutes and centers since an iocreuing number of faculty
work in multiple areas. He added that be
did not think they would ltiU the dcpanments, but rather would take UB "in the
direction wbere most large research uni-

going lO run and it seems as if there is not
much attcntion being paid to what is already there and implementing that initia-

tive in terms of the structures that we have
better departments better yet" or is it to
funnel money to those dcpartments,that are
lagging behind to give them a chance to
catch up?
James Sawusch, associate professor and
acting chair o f the Department of Psychology, expressed concern over what be called

"potential for conflicts across di.fferent
components of the plao."

Centers may have a role in hiring and
promotion of faculty, he said. Yet departments, not centers, are rated by the NRC,
he added.
Headrick responded by stressing that
programs, not departments, are rated by the
NRC.

.......
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lty of Arta- Lett-

1be concept of centers and institutes dominated discussion at a meeting Headrick
held with the Faculty of Arts and Lettcrs
on March 5,
Ken Dauber, professor and chair of the
Department of English, voiced concern
about what he called "a kind of stippage
between a response to the budgetary
situation ... and the conceptual issues about
the nature of this university."
While he said he understands chat where
departments have been eroded due co budgetary re~traints it becomes necessary for
departments to work better together. it
seems that the problem for UB 's reputation and programs is chat the departments
indeed have been eroded.
"lfthat's'lhe problem. the report seems
to make the further erosion of departments
almost a goal," he said. 'The reason why
we have slipped is not because departments
have been stubborn in terms of thinking
about the nature of the university, but because the budget bas simply crnded departments over the course of the last 15 years."
Headrick said departments have been
eroded, but added lliat that problem has not
been addressed by looking for ways in
which units can work together. He said that
a number of his proposals are ways in
which people with common interests can
work )ogether.

seen work."
Liz Kennedy, profcasor of American
Studies, told Headrick that as someone wbo
has done interdisciplinary work for 28
years, she was "excited by the viaion" of
the plan, but worried that under i~ two interdisciplinary departmental programsWomen's Studies and American Studieswould lose their departmental status.
In his report, Headrick proposes forming a Center for the Study of CultureS in
the Americas to manage the doctoral and
master's programs in American Studies.
The center would be composed of the Af-

rican·Ame.rican, Native-American. and
Spanish and Latin American Studies departments and tbc U.S. SllJdics portion of
American Studies. Women's Studies would
become part of an Institute for Gender and
Women' s Research and Education.
Disbanding the American Studies De-

partment, Kennedy said, "undercuts the
work; it means you can't hire. your access
to degrees is drastically changed.
· "In my mind, we have lO work out ways
that will preserve the interdisciptinary work
that 's connected to degrees and hiring now
as we move toward this other plan. It

doesn't make sense to me why we would
want to backtrack on chat."
It doesn't make sense Bt this time, in
light of the recent release of the report of

the Task Force on Women. for Women's
Studies .. to be put inro an institute that
doesn't have the hiring basis. that doesn'l
have access to degrees rhat it has now.·• she
said.
Moreover, Kennedy scrcssed that pro-

tections for faculty members in their work
come from the departments and chose protections must be built into future scrucrures.
notiog that in the future there could be institutes that exist at the pleasure of the dean
and hire only part-time faculty.,_ .
•

No Renorter Next Wee11
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3

UB
alumnus, top.business leader, to speak, receive award
.,BUll ___
The talk. which
is open to the public, will be sponsored by the UB

News Services Edttor

I

nlessthan IOyears,HatimA. Tyabji,
a UB alumnus with nearly religious
convictions about how to nm a business, has increased annual revenues
IG-fold at the international telecommunications company where be serves as
CEO. The company, VeriFone,Inc. or Redwood City, Calif., was dubbed "the fastest-growing small company in the nation"
by Forbes Magazine.
On Friday, April 4, Tyabj~ who earned
a master's degree in electrical engineering
from UB in 1969, wiU sbarc the secrets of
his success at a breakfast program at his
alma mater.
The breakfast and talk will run from
7:30-9 a.m. in the Center for Tomorrow on
the North Campus. At the breakfast, Tyabji
will receive a UB Distinguished Alumni
Visitor award.

Alumni Association. The cost will
be $12 for members
of the association;
$1 S for all othen.

Reservations may
1'YMII

be made by calling
the UB Office of

Alumni Relations at 829-2608.
Currently the. world leader in transac·
lion automation systems, which retail=

use to verify credit-card purchases,
Verifoge is positioning itself \&lt;&gt; lead the
emerging markets that will make shopping
on the Internet and banking from borne
truly convenient and secure.
Thanks to "smart card" and Internet
commerce technologies that VeriFone is

CREELEY
Continued from page 1
interactive biology game about disease diagnosis.
'This is a great big thing for us,'" said
Ron Astridge, City Honon' computer instructor. "We had computers, but we didn't
have the mortey or equipment to connect
to the Internet. We just had an in-house
computer network that was limjted in its
application. and so wasn't used very much.
'The kids arc very much involved now in
on-line publishing, communication with
other schools and developing creative edu·
cational projects in class and on their own. It
wouldn't have happened without Bob
Crceley. He was very much involved in this
project from beginning to end,'' Astridge said.
Crceley says the City Honon Web site
is more lively and more fun than most
schooi ·sites be's visited. "They've really
enjoy¢ themselves here," he said. "and
these kids and teachen have produced a
lot or remarkable information and articles
that arc fresh, artful and intelligent."
~r·a~oe~p·•-·

Astridge wodald wither.dey and Sherwood
to oomplete the project. ''Bob was an invalu·
able belp to us,'' be said. "Because of him.
the kids' use of the Internet for research. writing and worldwide conununication has in·
aeased and imjxoved in a variety of ways."
Crceley says Aslridge is" not only very
patien~ but hejustloves this stuff. It 's wallto-wall kids in that computer room. I give
City Honors ' administrators and teachers
\l tremendous amount of credi t for the success of this project. As teachers," Cree ley
said, "we naturally want to give students
more 'input' -easier access to information--and the Internet is great for that. But
to give them the license and authority to
produce output? That's very unusual."
One e&gt;g1111ple he cites is the school's oo-line
~ publication or a stay titled ''Fir&amp;
Kiss," in whidl a gay teenager described being
. set upoo by straightscboolmlifes. ''Very straightforward,'' said C=ley. "And very moving."
"I have great respect for this schooL'" he

added. "N8111I8lly, they exped the stuclcots to
keep civil tongues in their heads, but beyond
that, they don't muzzle them. They routinely
enoourage exploratioo. debate and aealivity."
"Students and teachc:%s also needed some
hands-on belp to implement educational
projects like those now Wider way," Aslridge
said, "and we were able to provide tha1 oneon-one belp with the assistance of Bob and
Ken. The results arc preny amazing."
l'roject . . . . . . - . - ...ty

The school's alumni association has created
a dimctDry of alumni &lt;&gt;-mail addr&lt;:sses and will
be placing them on-line. The site is used not
only by students, but by teachen, administrator.; and clubs like the Debate Club. which
uses the Net to researdl debating topics.
Because the City Honors project got up to
speed much soooerthan expected. Oeeley will
finish at the end of the semester, a year early,
and will spend the last year of the three-year

grant period wcddng oo a poetry-and-art project
with Nwgaza University's Castellani Gallery.
Poe~ novelist, short-story writer. essayist
and editor, Creeley is a writer of international
repullltion and co-founder and member or the
core faculty ofUB's Poetics Program, which
was developed to encourage the exploration
of language and its capacity to express and
represent human experience.
Despite a very busy schedule of teach·
ing, writing and speaking to audiences
throughout the world. Crceley has a long
history of involvement with Buffalo and
Western New York writers, writers' organizations, publications and artists, whom
he has supported and encouraged in many
ways, incJuding the sharing of his time,
money, creative assistance and presence.
Creeley was one of the originators of
the " Black Mountain" school of poetry, along
with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and
Denise Levertov. Black Mountain established
a new and anti-academic poetic tradition that
has
reflected in the work or many poets
who have come to occupy significant places
in the 20th-century li terary canon.
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been

pioneering, consumers in the not-too-distant future should be able not only to pay
bills electronically, but to download cash
directJy from home, using a "personal Au tomatic Teller Machine."

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abji bas attracted international recognition for transforming VeriFone
rom a s mall. not-very-profitable
company to a market leader and for engendering a unique-and remarkably ubiqui ·
tous- corporate culture.
He is credited with having c reated what
could be the world's fttSt truly virtual corporation: He has all but banned paper and
made e-mail the primary mode of communication; corporate functions are decentraJized, and executives live wherever they
want, qnbound by the concept of a corporate headquarterll.
In 1986, Tyabji, then a vice president at
Sperry Corp., was recruited to take over
VeriFone as chief executive officer. Ar thar
poin~ the company had yet to see a sig·
nificantly profitable year. Tyabji instituted
a bold business plan that stressed low cost.
high value, high reliability and high volume and the company began a radical tumaround. in 1988. its sales began growing
at an annual average rate of 25 percent and
profits have grown even faster.
VeriFone is considered a prime example
of the principles espoused by management
guru Stephen Covey, which stress the relationships between the persona). interper-

sonal, managerial and organizational Jevels of a company.

company's coiporate philosophy.
hich Tyabji wrote, stresses perllOnal
esponsibility, open communications
(employees may reach the entire company
through e-mail-anonymously, if desired)
decentralization. a blending of penonaJ apd
corporate life for its employees and a deep
commi unent to working in the g lobal marketplace.
Tyabji has achieved what be calls a "cui·
ture of urgency," with VeriFone programmers working around the globe so that the
development of new products can continue
24 houn a day.
Company linanciaJ data are on-line and
accessible to any empJoyee. SaJes figures
arc updated daily.
In spite of the emphasis on electronic
communication, face-to-face contact with
internal and extema1 c ustomers is emphasized and many VeriFone employees spend
up to half their time on the road .
Tyabji earned hi s master 's degree in
eJectrica) engineering at UB after gntduating from the College of Engineering in
Poona in his native India. He also has an
MBA from Syracuse University and is 8
graduate of the Stanford Univenity Execu·
tive Program.
ln addition to running VeriFone. Inc ..
Tyabji leccures at the Harvard Business
School.
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tal s, teaching can be "inefficient" and it is difficult to hoJd " interdisciplinary teaching
conferences capable of reaching a wide range of students." Postgraduate work also is
complicated, Wright said. " by the necessity for program duplication in multiple sites,
which nor only presents 8 'critical mass· problem, but also resuhs in an unnecessarily
hu·ge number of residencs in order to accommodate both service and education.
"Although education is the primary. and according to the accrediting boards the only.
objective in the residency programs. make no mistake about it, residents provide service
that is relatively c heap insofar as the hospitals are concerned," he said.
There are positive aspects ro UB 's model of medical schooJ education. however, he
said. 'The breadth of clinical experience for our students is enhanced and the medical
school is not fiscaJly responsible for a clinical enterprise thar is often financi al ly margina) at best and ... assoc iated with a significant annual deficit.
'' In these turbulent times," Wright said, some hospita1s have begun to question their
educational mission , which puts the faculty "in an uncomfonable position .. .in which
they have seemingly littJe or no control over their immedi ate environments or programs.··
But ar some hospitals. ''the medical staff acts more as a group and seems more wiJiing
to accept directives and therefore move in a single direction. 1 would submit thi s reflects
the presence of the university as an integral pan of the depanment structure more than
perhaps any other factor," he said .
"In th is era of managed care, and the need to function as a group. thi s may be a
previously unrecognized ' value' that the uni versity can bring to the table."

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anaged care is growi ng in Western New York . and , he added, the medical school
needs to be aware of ·•what is happening nationally and how will it affect Buffalo."
As managed care becomes more prevalent. Buffalo may be at an advantage because
the area has one of the lowest medical costs in the country. even though Western New
Yorkers also overutiJize medi ca) services by 25 perce nt.
But there are a number of issues that will need to be addressed . Wright aid, such as
facu lty support within hospitals for admini stration , quality assurance and continuing
medical educati on programs.
" Faculty practice within institutions and within the comm uni ry-ac-large will be an
issue." particularly in relation to perceived co mpetition with volunteer fac ulty. Wrighl
said. "The town -gown issue will be alive and we ll in Buffalo."
Other issues of concern, he noted. are the reJevance of the uni versity-practice plan to
the development of centers of excellence at UB . undergraduate and postgraduate medi cal-teaching programs, research programs that could be in competion for managed-care
dollars, and the depanmenta1 suucture within this new health-care system and the changes
at UB that could rcsull
There also are global issues that will need to be examined. Wright sai d. such as concerns about oversupply in the physician work force. These conce rns affect not onl y the
region, but the entire country.
ln other business, chair Claude Welch asked the FSEC ho w best to follow up on the
Report of the Task Force on Women. and what role the Faculty Senate should ta.ke in any
action plans.
Bernice Noble, who co-chaired the effort, said she would " urge people to think of
things sooner rather than Jater." She encouraged the group to pick one issue as a matn
priority "and get on it.
" I think nothing is going to be enacted or c hange" unless we push it, she added .
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, suggested that the FSEC invite Senior Vi ce
President Robert Wagner and Sinene Denson. acting directo r o f the Equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action Office, ro discuss where the uni versi ry 's EO/AA plan and the Repon
on the Task Force on Wome n would intersect.
'' I don't wan110 be here 20 years from now (still ) tal king about the status of women,"
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Nutrition-to-go
Helping students find healthier lifestyle
-,KAJEWAffMII
Reporter Contributor

J

ANICE COCHRAN'S small office
in the Resource Suile or the Living
Well Center, 223 Student Union, has
room enough for a desk, a chair, one
shelf and a bulletin board tacked
with events, charts and lelephone numbers. But it's a busy hub or activity. In
addition, Cochran, a certified dietitian and
nutritionist has an office in Michael Hall.
the Student Health Center on the South
Campus.
Students have free access to Cochran' s
nutritional knowledge and assistance.
They visit the nutritionist for a number

of reasons including interest in weight loss
or gain, vegetarianism, achieving a healthy
diet on cam pus (despite having little time
and lots or junk food), diet ror an athlele
and combating eating disorders.

Cochran has also come to recognize
cenain cases that have much deeper psychological, emotional and physical factors.
For these, she makes use of her role as liaison between the Living Well Cenler and
the Student Health Center to refer students
to counselors, psychologists and medical
doctors at Michael Hall.
Erica Walz, a freshman at UB , says she
slumbled upon this jewel in the Student
Union at a time when she was feeling un-

healthy. Ironically, the Living Well Cenler
is surrounded by the fast world or video
games, pool tables and vending machines.
When she fmt noticed the center, Walz
made .. a conscious decision to become
more aware or my life and take the initiative," so she walked in and set up an appointment with the nutritionisL
Walz did 1101 take on an easy task. AA a
freshman in such a large univenity it's IIDI
unusual to l'eel ~ alone, -out or control, uninhibited, compleldy fiee and as a
result, beal!b can suffer. There is really on
haven of escape: even the Living Well Center is just down the hall from a ternplleSSthe Food Court-where everything is convenien~ unlabeled and prepared. So in collaboration with Cochran, Walz is trying to
become more selective, and take the time to
make her meals an activity, IIDI a side-note.
e suggestion Cochran gave Walz
control the eating-while-studying
habit is to take just a handful or a
snack or some set portion ( whalever Walz
prefers and it doesn ' t have to be fruits or
veggies) and then make sure the bag is
bound and gagged before she stans to
study. Although Walz probably knew
(deep-down) that the bag or snacks sbould
be set away from her study area it was beneficia] to receive outside advice and gain a
fan who will cheer her on. And that is just

Anthology by UB profs explores

pluralism controversy in America
. , PAJIIICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

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OUR PROFESSORS at UB have
produced an anthology that explores
200 years or public discussion and
controversy over the complex issues
or cultural di\'ersity and social pluralism.
Unlike many books or this genre, this
collaborative effon illustrates that while
America is a pluralistic society. its member.;
have historically shared many values and
attitudes that constitute our shared identity
as Americans, despite our many differences.
" Identity, Community and Pluralism in
American Life" (Oxford University Press)
was edited by William Fischer, vice provost and professor or English: David
Gerb~r. professor of history ; Jorge M .
Guitart. professor or modem languages and
literatures, and Maxine S. Seller, professor
of educational administration, organization
and policy in the UB Gmduate School or
Education.
Their purpose in editing the book, the
authors said, i ~ to illustrate that many or
today's civic debates involving issues such
as racism, immigration, communal identity
and government control are not new. These
issues had their origins in the founding of
the republic and have continued in one form
or other for centuries.
The book developed out or the author.; '
experience as instructors of a course titled
"American Pluralism and the Search for
Eq uality," which was introduced into UB's
undergraduate curriculum in 1989, after
several years of development. After four
more years as a pilot program, it became a
mandatory undergraduate course in 1993,
one typically !Jiught by senior faculty members from many departments.
"When we were developing the course in
the late 1980s," Fischer said, "our experience
was that available anthologies were too narrow in the range or multiethnic and pluralistic cultures that they covered Also, some were
more particularly politicized than was helprut for an introductory college course.

"UB instructors then collaborated to
compile their own anthology of materials
that many or us used," be said. "The present
project is an outgrowth or that first attempt.
It is, however, far more extensive in its
coverage or cultural and historical malerials and has a bener focus oo the consequent
social and political dehaleS that have defined the djscussion of our complicated
national identity."
The authors said they bope the anthology
will engage readers in the ongoing conversation on themes that recur throughout
American histOry. These include debates over
theformation or group and communal identities, the position or various groups in the
American social syslem and the intendationsbips or the people or the u.s. within the
framework or a common public life.
be readings include material from usually marginalized or excluded groupsimmigrants, labor unioni sts, prisoners,
women , Chicanas and Chicanos, Native
'Americans. Selections were culled from the
academic disciplines, fiction, poetry, oral histories,joumali,sm. bi&lt;&gt;g!Bilhy and memoirsall in historical and conceptual conlexL
Gerber said, "I think the singular .contribution or our anthology is that it concentrates
considerably on ordinary people and daily
life and that it emphasizes sources or unity,
as well as diversity among Americans."
Fischer added, "What we find here is
that to be an American, is to share certain
values, certain assumptions about what is
imponant. Sometimes, in crediting and
honoring our differences, we lose sight of
these similarities."
Gerber agteed. ''Too often," he said,
"books about American pluralism leave
srudents with the impression that Americans have nothing in common but the tendency to get in each other's way. What
we ' ve tried to do here is include a great
deal or material on the common public lire
and the framework of public institutioOs
that speak to the many experiences and
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what Cocbrln docs; CIICb of her clients comes
in to receive an initial evaluation and if the
two can work
a Jl!08I1Iltl is set up,
which includes foUow-up visits.
On Walz's follow-up visit she worked
with Living Well Center interns and had a
complele nutritional analysis done by JJ
(Johnson and Johnson), the center's computer. In addition to Walz's focus on diet
she has thoughts or also worlcing with the
exercise specialist, David Hartzell. Walz has
decided to devOie a lot or time because she
wants to make a change in her lifestyle.
Others might not want to change their
lifestyle as Walz is doing, so COC:hnm worts
with each person on an individual basispersonal goals. schedule, time available. If
a student is just curious about present health
be or she may come in to have a physical
assessmenLwhich gives information about
weigh~ heigh~ body rat, grip strength, blood
pressure and flexibility.
As a nutritionist Cochran does not focus on the fads; she says they are "packaged roi the media." lnslead she looks to
leCtUuques that IJ\lly bring about a healthier
and sustainable dieL
Some might ask, why would I put myself through all this hasslc&gt;-wbo has the
time or the energy? First or all, a healthy
lifestyle produces energy and although
nutrition is a lifelong process it can become
second nature, Cochran explains.
Cochran's ides is to be realistic. Most
people aren ' t content to replace an ice
cream cone with an apple (or even non-fat
yogurt) and Cochran believes that "a celery diet is not the answer-people get sick
or it and they're going to stop." lnslead
she tries to focus on quantity and combi-

toF!ber.

natioo. If someone cbooses to eat pizza she
recommends that fruit and vegetables get
worked in, not because they are colorful
and clU11Chy, but because carbohydrates
and flhers work well together.

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nother suggestion she makes is to
stock cupboards with healthy foods
that an; tasty so when the stomach
takes control the hand has no cboice but to
grab what is available and fits into a hectic
schedule. Ease is a main component to any
type of diet-if it is difficul~ too far from
the norm. bland, and oot easily assimilated
into the individual'• lifestyle, it is quickly
checked off, Cochran says.
Cochran said that some people do come
in to lind out more about specific diets such
as the 40,30,30 diet and although she docs
not recommend them ror everyone she is
a wan: or them and tries to work in the type
or diet that works ror each individual-he
it rigid or flexible.
Many times Cochran will point people
to the magazines in the Center, such as
Veggie Life or Natural Health, for alternative recipes. The ides behind a nutritious
die~ in Cochran's opinion, is 001 to cut out
the snacks and eat only one meal a day,
but to work with a personal schedule and
fit in the amount of food nocessary whether
it's with snacks or meals.
Cochran has begun to think about setting up a-cooking class which emphasizes
healthy and aeative meals and appeals to
the many cultures at UR Another ides that
she is working on in coojunctioo with the
Faculty Student Association which ovenees
the dining services, is to provide the public
with the nutritional value for the foods offered at tJle dining halls and food court. •

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UUP, not state, has
"refused to negotiate"

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As a faculty member who bas never ~ a
memberoftbe UUP, but whole inllmSIS it alleaeclly rqJn:ICD!J, I think it_,- 10 say
a few !hiap in rq&gt;ly 10 1be leuer in 1be
lllan:h 6 Reporter hom a local committee of
this union about the coob"'d situation. It
.-11 10 be pointed out !hal we bave DOC received any raises for two yean, thus in real
terms have seen our salaries decreuing, and
we bave lost signif!Call! beal!b beneli!J whicb
we bad come 10 coont on. 10 rq&gt;IJK:e whicb
we must do ourselves at our own cost For
this situ.alion the union is entirely responsible. To uphold a purely !IJcocnticai and putative ideological pooitioo, 1M UUP, and 001
!he stale, bas refused 10 oegotia!C, and especially u recommended by President Gn:iner,
to compromise. That much the leuer makes
clear. " ... UUP should never and will never
accept any contract with provisions for out50W'Cing." Tbe ideocn.ts wbo run the union,
rather than suffer an ideological reverse,
seem willing to sacrifice everything and

everyone else.
ln light of this, I have been trying to imagine what the nwter plan of the UUP's brain
uust mwt be, and it finally came to me.
Outwait the Pataki administration! Work like
beavers to get a Democrat in the governor's
chair, get him to appoint fellow-traveling
GOER members, and by spring or summer of
1999 they will get the contract they want. Its
simplicity is stunning, its scope and audacity
breathtaking! Of coune, there are some

&lt;!Bwbaclcs. Suppose by some horrible chance
Pataki is reelected, and again, it's true we' U
have gone without a pay raise or many health
benefits for another two or three years. But in
spite of that a play worthy of the minds
which conceived it
On the other band. I would like. as a taXpayer, to extend my heartiest congratulations
to the GOER for having discovered a foolproof system to save the tupayers of this
state tens of millions of completely unexpec!ed dollan by the si mple expedient of offering the UUP a contract provision which it
will not negotiate. It is truly an amazing
world.
Sincerely,

-.uc.IWIIrY
Classics

Research Foundation
firings not on UB campus
IEAMor:
A letter in last week's Reporter regarding the
UUP contract st&amp;lemate made reference to the
ftring of Research Foundation employees as a
result of union-organizing activities. Since
the writers did not do so, I would like to
make clear that the situation referred to did
not occur at this campus. Furthermore, I
would suggest that the "facts" presented may
reflec1 less than a full picture of the situation,
n:ndeli.ng the "conclusions" drawn at best incomplete, and at worst, inaccurate.

-A.-

Director. Sponsored Programs Personnel

Excuses delay needed
work for faculty diversity

To liMo Editor:

uodentood !he data preaen!ed, or if I questiooed them, be could have called me to ask .
Needless to say be didn ' t Tbe~e~son for thai
is this was limply a means lO advance his
thesU. 'I'Iw thesis can be su.mmariz.ed as follows; Since Professoc Foster bas doubts about
the numberl presenled in his field , then perhaps the eotin database is at doubl. Jumping
10 such c:ooclusioos il, 011 best, simple minded
and laolcin&amp; in statistical validity, at wont, a
cover for fwtber delay ractics. I will comment further about thai below.
M an analytical chemist, my profession is

deeply cooc:emed with accurxy, pr«:ision,
llatistics and incerprewion in complex measuremeo!J. Pabapl because of that I do examiae the aou.n:a and values of numben preOICO!ed in my field. However, I do 001 rely on
aay ooe simple measurement to dnw my

c:ooct'!'loos. IJJ my discipline, I am weU
aware of tbe statisbct on current and ~
~

availability of women and minorities. I

ba'Ve foUowed this dala for oVer I0 yean, and
wu involved in praenting seminan in diversity and career opportunities in science based

oo oati0110lstatistics developed by NSF,
while a program officer 011 NSF in 1989/90.
Further, I would suggest that any projections
based on availability of Ph.Ds in science are
just that, projections and obviously subject to
(interminable, academic) debate. A number of
metrics are available about performance at
UB in affinnative action over the past years ;
the mosl impon.ant, of course, is tbe bouom
line. In Cbem.iJ:try, we have one woman fac ulty member out of 26. Another interesting
metric Professor Foster may examine is the
rate of hiring, which in Chemist.ry, over the
past 10 yean, is zero (ooe hired, one left). Either of these measures is absolute. not open
to debate about accuracy and the qualifications of the pool, and these data indicate that
we will not get any further improvement if
they continue. Fmally, I would note that I am
well aware of what our peer institutions have
done
are doing to deal with increasing
numbers of women and minority facult y: in
my previous letter I noted some important
things we have not dooe and could do in the
sciences. Comparison of data at those peer instirutions serve as another metric (common in
science) to guide us to the conclusion that
more can be done.
I restricted my comments to the situation
in sciences because 1 do know these data and
t do know that we can do more and that we
have not done enough. I do not have any
doubts about my conclusions, and carefully
restricted my arguments to what I know
about, and did not project these to other
areas. I feel Howard Foster's intention of
calling all data into doubt is disingenuous.
The second, irritating device Professor
Foster uses is to identify potential problems
with his argument, perhaps to convince us
that he is really on our side, and to note that
he could be accused of nitpicking. 1 would
not say he is nitpiclting about his data ; I believe he is practicing a common tactic of providing excuses to delay the wort which needs
to be done. My advice 10 anyone who wants
to delay progress by further debate about
numbers is to identify all metrics which
prove that we are on track with hiring women
and minorities, not to get into the standard
debate that we cannot do anything unlil we
agree on the magnitude of the problem. There
is a problem in lbe sciences, and there are
many ways to measure it. Any projection of
the pool of qualified Ph.D. candidates is
likely to be frougbt with imprecision. 1 think
it is also important to limit our discussions of
what we can do to where we have expen.ise .
Lei 's stop using excuses under the cover
of ..reasoned debate" and getlo solving this
problem.
Sincerely,

ana

Professor Howard Foster 's letter uses two
rhetorical devices. to present his argument
against the efforts needed to address the di versity in gender and race among the faculty
at UB. Since he cited my leuer in bringing
his argument forward, I would like to re-

JONPtl A. 8AitD£LLA JR.
Professor of Chemistry

spond.

To- Editor:

First, Professor Foster compliments my
letter, and then states be does not know the
situation in the sciences, but goes on to raise
the possibility that I do not undentand potential inaccuracy and imprecision (or at least
would want to question them) of the numbers
that are presented in the repon of tbe Task
Force on Women at UB. With aU due respect
10 the conventions of "collegial" discourse, if
Professor Foster really cared about whether I

Blue light phones integral
part of campus safety
In 1974, the University at Buffalo Public
Safety Officers numbered 54, the mu.imum
amount of pa[l'OI officers ever. The subsequent 22 yean have seen the loss of 14 positions 10 budget cuts, bringing the Division to
its present staff of 40.
While c rime prevention fonnulas combine
training requirements, officer vacation schedules, and number of calls (includes crime,

medical and service) to suggesu 52-person
force for UB. the university has been forced
to fiod alternate and innovative means to as~
sure campus safety. As is the trend in so
many other proressions, law enforcement has
turned to tecboology to improve effectiveness
and efficiency in li&amp;ht of staffing shonages.
With two campuses, each lcx:ated in separate municipahties. UB faces the problem of
deaJing with different community safety issues. 1be Main Street Campus is located
within the boundaries of the City of Buffalo.
A lqe population of students reside in the
neighborhood around the South Campus and
several local merchants (boolcsiOres, grocery
stores and ban) frequeo!ed by UB students
an: within walking distance of the area. ln
contrast to !he South Campus, !he North
Campus is largely self-contained. Located m
Amhers&amp;. the city voted ..Safest City in
America, 1996" by Forbes magazine, the area
around lhe Non.h Campus boasts a crime ratio, 1:30, a figure markedly belter than that of
!he city, 1: 13. Slrilcing a balance between the
urban threats surrounding the Main Street
Campus aod the ..safe" suburban town of the
North Campus, Public Safety is able to main·
tain an overa.U crime ratio of I :45 for lhe uni ·
versity community.
While Public Safety works conjointly with
local law enforcement agencies, offi cers also
rely on student volunteers and service organizations, like the Anti-Rape Task Force, 10 help
promote awareness and to deter crime. Bul, to
a certain extent, the success of any crime prevention program depends on individual members of the community. Blue light phones. el ·
evator emergency phones and building corri dor phones are three examples of how civilians and technology work: together to make the
univenity a more secure place.
Imagine that you see someone walking to
their car in Capen Lot. Suddenly you see
someone else, a suspicious person trying to
stay in lbe shadows, following that person .
Wha t would you do? Well , you could yell and
hope to startle the anacker, but what if you
were 100 far away? Maybe you could run
over and confront the suspicious individual.
bullhen again if that person had a weapon
· you could be seriously injured. Why don·t
you just pick up a blue light emergency
phone and report everything 10 the 24-hour
emergency dispatcher? Even if you are afraid
to identify yourself, just taking a blue light
phone off the hook ensures that Public Safety
will be then: in seconds.

There are 28 blue light phones serving
both campuses. The phones are placed with
consideration to student traffic. but with leu
than 30 phones 5Cf'Vi.ng the entire UB community, !be system is still expanding. Each
phone carries an awroximate installation fee
of $3000, depending on the remoteness of the
location, and 11 least one phone is figured
into the overaU cost of construction for any
new parlt.ing lots.
This pas! September. the Persooal Safety
Committee recommended the addition of 14
new blue light phones io specific locations.
Although money is ~immediately available
to lnstall all 14 phones, the University Administration has assured students that ~
new phones"' would be inst&amp;lled this year.
The Office of Student AtTain bas stated that
it is reasonable to plan for two or tJut:,e new
phones per year to be constructed and linked
to Public Safety.
With crucial locations like the Health Sciences Library and Women's Heath lnitiative
on the South Campus, and North Campus
parking lots like Jarvis A&amp;.B . all EHicon lots,
and Govemon C&amp;D still without blue light
emergency lines, a dedicated source of funding musl be found to supplement current blue
light phone resources .
Even though no immediate statistics are
available from Public Safely to demonstrate
the benefil of the safety phones, the phones
have become a symbol of empowennenl for
students and staff. as well as a deterrent to
those considering committing an assault. The
bottom line: the emergency phones. whether
they are indoors or O!Jldoors. are m integral
pan of campus safety. If you need assistance.
then pick up a phone .... Public Safety's help is
only a call away.
IIAIIIaAJIET M. HAUMECK
Assistant Director, HeaJrh Education and
Human Services O,vtsion
A component of Sub Board I. Inc
Member. Persanal Safety Committee

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The Reporter weK:omes ~ners from readers commen11ng on its stones and content
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catiOn •n that week's 1ssue

Swedish conductor is named
director of UBuffalo Symphony
1J I'Al'IIICIA -VAN
News Services Ed itor

M

AGNUS MARTENSSON ,
former conductor of the Contempon!l)' Music Ensemble at the
Oeveland Institute of Music, has
been named director of the UBuffalo ~ym­
pbony, the ?(}.member orcbestra comprised
of UB music majors, non-majors and musicians from the community. He will also head
the UB Sinfoniena, a chamber orcbestra comprised of music faculty, Buffalo Philharmonic
members and other area musicians.
David Felder, chair of !he UB Depanment of Music, called Manensson. a native of Sweden ... simply a gifted musician
with a tremendous ability to communicate
that musicalil'y to musicians and audiences
in all ranges of experience."
Manensson, who also holds !he position
of assistant visiting professor of music. studied piano, voice. conducting and composition ar MalmO Musil&lt;hogskola. from which
he holds a master's degree in conducting and
a posrgraduate diploma in music. He received
a master's degree in conducting from the
Cleveland Institute of Music and in 1995-96
conduct'ed the institute's ensemble.
As director of the UBuffalo Symphony.
his responsibilities will include the selection
of repertory, orchestral rehear&gt;al and conducting the orchestra's symphonic concerts.
"He's been here only a few months," said
Felder, "bur his programming choices and
!he new, high level of performance accomplishmenl evidenced by the UBuffalo Symphony have already proven to be a shock-

ing delight to listeners across the
uni vers it y. We
can hardly wail
to hear what happens in upcoming seasons."
From 1989-92,
Martensson con-

ducted the Opera
Sernplice in his native MalmO and n,
MARmiiSON
Santa Cecilia Oratorio Society of Lund. He also founded and cooWc!ed n, MalmO Olarnber On:hestra.
He is a composer as weD as conduc!or, and
his commissions have included incidental
music for !heater plays by Swedish playwright Per-Anc: Bengtsson. His lau:s! wori&lt;.
"Two Miniarures for Aute and Qarinet and
Two Poems by e.e. cummings.'' premiered
during the 1996 Composer.! in !be Shape of a
f\:ar axx:at series in Cleveland.
•

�Fast delivery from UB to
the PrMident of the u.s.
On Feb. 20, the University Ubraries Interlibrary Loan Department re-

cetved a rush request from the Executive OffiCe of the President of
the United States. The request was fOf an arttele from a German
crim.nal statistics JOUrnal hek1 by onty seven librartes '"the U.S. The
Executive Office of the President came to UB for fast document delivery service! DeloNe

Satter,

10 charge of lntBflibrary Loan requests

that come to UB from other libranes and organtzations, Immediately
located the artk:te in the lockwood collections and faxed It to the
While House within 20 minutes.
.fudfth ........_ directOf of Lockwood Ubrary, notes that the
White House is not the only realm or the power1ul lhat the Interlibrary
Loan Department has assisted so far in 1997. 1n January. the department received rwo ·rush" requests for books from Gov. PatakJ's office.

books'"

The governor needed to have the
AJbany' on the following
morn•ng at 9 o'clock ! Despite receiving one of the requests after 4
p m . the Interlibrary Loan staff located the books. and arranged with
overn1ght dettvery services to get the books to the governor in time
tor a 9 a.m meellng the next day! Who could ask for anything more?
The SUNY Chancellor has also relied on the Interlibrary Loan servtce lor arttcles 1n the past month . US has, perhaps. a national repu·
tatton for FAST document delivery service. and coUections which are
the envy of the htghest realms ol1nlluence.

QIIADUATE SlUDEif'IS

TO III!CEJYE AW- FOit
EXCI!LJ..EHCE IN TEACHING
Excellence tn Teaching Awards wtll
be presented to graduate students
1n a c eremony to be held at 3 p .m
Marc h 14 tn the Art Department
Gallery, Center lor the Arts
The GradJale Scrool and !he
Graduale Sl!xmt As9odabon OSUII&gt;kshed !he awardS., recognze graduate studerjts who are committed to
teachtng and who have developed
exceptional ccmpetence in teaching
The program Will include lntroduc·
t~ r~ by Da111d J . Tnggle , VICe
provost fOf graduate education and
dean of the Graduate School. a talk

on "The An of Teaching.· by Charles
H V Ebert. DIStinguished Teaching
Professor In the Department of Geog·
raphy, presentatiOn of the awards by
deans and a reception
The following Will receive awards
Faculty of Ans and letters:
Gtlttan Born . Art History; Julie Hus·
band . Jennifer Kehoe . Daniel
Wetnstein. English .
School of Management: Paul
Houghton . Sandra White, Account·
1ng and Law
Facully of Natura l Sctences and
Mathematics: Rosa Garc•a·
Castelan . Physics; Tamar Goulet.
Biological Sciences; My Hang
Huynh . Chemtstry
Faculty of Soctal Sciences Mel·
, tssa Neave, Geography: Bridget
Russell. Ktm Ttllery. Communtcahve
D•sorders &amp; Sctences
Honorable Mention awards will
be presented to:
Faculty of Arts and Leiters ·
Helen Bugallo. Music; Robert
Devens, Andres Zlotsky, English
Schqs&gt;l ol Management: Shaoch•
Chang. Finance and Managerial
Economics.
Fac ulty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics: Alistair Campbell .
Computer Sc10nce: Tyler Ross .
Natural Sciences.
School of Nursing . Michael
Ostolsk1 . Nursing .
School of Pharmac y. Kelly
Mahar, PharmaceutiCS

lecOod ...

"""""8 -.ty~ci

$178. Talcton.,....,...,S478a-.
Students and teachers will closely wl1h an experienced UB researchef on a protect and share re-search experiences in weekly seminars. Teachers also will participate in
a cout110 on Ualning Sluaents In cellular-moleaJlar biologocal 18Chnlqtles
and !he application of !heir research
experiences to the classroom.
Deadline for applications lor the
program Is March 27. Applicallons
are svaitable from high-schoot prin·
cipala or guidance counselors, or

from lhe UB Oepartrnen1 of Oral 81·
olagy, 829-3827.

- I N WILD
-.cTOFTAUI
Molecular genetics is changing lhe
way sclentists v;ew human disease

and pl1ysiology 8lmoot on

a dally ba·

sis. But what could these same I'T'IOIeculat 1ools have IO 1811 US aboullhe
mores and customs of wild anWnals?
Plenty, aceotding to lllllclwel
Welleter, assistant professor of

biological sciences a1 UB. He will
...,.., A. Maier is serving as chair
of the second annual UB Division of
Athletics volunteer scholarship
drive, being held through March 19.
Mater, who volunteered last year for
athletics' first drive , was a member
of the US Bulls football team in the
late 1970S and early 1980s and
played on the same team as Craig
Clfbus, current head football coach

Maier

os leading 131eams of YOf.

unteers: each team aims to raise sup.
port lor at least one full ath1etiC scl"darsnip. A $150,000 goal, $30.000 beyond the first year's total, has been
sec fOf the six-week drive to generate
funds for the SCholarshipS. More than

2.500 UB allmnl and friends of alhletics are expected to be contacted.
Maier, general manager of Rail
Rigo Agency in Tonawanda. is a

board member oflhe UB Alhlelics
&amp; White Club. established 1n

~ue

1996 to enhance the Wiibility and

repulalion oflhe Division of Alhfelics,
and increase funding tor student·
athlete scholarships.
Nelson E Townsend , director of
athletics. noted that aScl'l&lt;Marshtp
. opportumhes are the impetus to US
recruiting and retatntng exceptional
student-athletes .~

For more lnformatiOO on ways to
support UB athletics. call US's development offiC8 for athletics. 64~7 .

The Department of Oral Biology In
the UB School of Dental Medicine is
offering a ·voung Scholars· summer
program designed to provide minor·
•ty high·school students with hands·
on research experience.
The eight-week commuter pro.
gram. funded with a grant from the
National Institutes of Health, will take

place from July 71hrough Aug . 29.
E"tghl mtnority students entering
!he senior year of hogh school wll be
selected to partiCipate. as will two n.
service teachers who are minorities
and/or leaCh e predominantly rrinonfy
IV&gt;!d'ool pop..lalicn Sluder1s ...

meetl..,

0.1181'111
of Interested faculty with
chair of President'• Review Board (PRB)
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution four years ago asking lor an
annual meeting of interested faculty with the chair of the PAS. At such
a meeung . the cnteria and procedures used by the PRB 1n recom·
mending promotion will be described and questiOns answered. The
Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate are sponsonng a meet·
ing for all interested university faculty. David Nyberg, chair of the
President's Review Board, and Ken levy, senior v1ce provost. will d•s·
cuss the promotion process and answer any ques11ons
Date1 Monday, April 28
Place1 Student Union, Room 330 (Assembly Hall)
TlmeJ 3 p .m.

discuss ~Molecular Ecok&gt;gy: Using
DNA to Understand Natural History•
at 7:30p .m . on Monday, March 24,
in Room 215 of the Natural Sci·

ences Complex. Nonh campus.

The lecture. free and open to the
public, is pan of the UB Sciences
Alumni Association lecture series.
In !he past lew yean~.­
in !he field of ecology have beg"' using mcleoJtar approaches. such as
DNA~and DNA sequencing. IO answer ecological and
evolulionary questions, many of w!1ich
were dillicul1 or even irT'4'(l6Sible 1D answer a few years ago. Recent studies
have shown that in many species of

bird, the male feeding nestlings at a
nest is often not the lather of those
nestlings . Webster's own research
uses genetic mar1&lt;ers to investigate
the ecological causes and cons.equences of this surprising finding.
He also will discuss new data.
denved using molecutar·b~y
techniques , on individual mating
patterns in b irds. social structure
and altruism in whales and how le·
ma}e b irds manipulate the sex ratios
of their offspring . For more inlorma·
tion, call Cindy Nydahl. 645--2531

IIATES LEC1VIIES AT
UNIVIIIWn' OF WUIIINGTON

,..,.,. a.tee. assoc&gt;a1e professor
of O&gt;Jsic, lec1Ufed feb . 19 at !he University of Washinglon on !he subject.
"'Mlere Does One Go wi1h a Musical
r--:::::-=:::---. lmp.Jise In
America?" !he gen.
erallopic of a book
he Is wor1Ung on
cUr.ghissabbatical. ln addiJon 10
,_;ng wi1h lacUiy
and SIUdenls. he

was hosled by !he

UTES
school of Music~
rrusic education area. headed by
Palricia Clwnpbei. a no&lt;ed rrusic educator and autt1or who is an authority on
comparative m.JSic educabon.

FEMALE MIIIYIY- OF
SEXUAL AMAULJ

. - J FOit U8 STUDY
Female sexual-assault survivors
ages 18 and older are being sought
by researchers 1n the Center for
Anxtety Research at lJB to panici·
pate tn a study des1gned to help
women expenencing psychological
distress as a result ol a rape.

Siudy par1icipan1s will provide information that researchers expect will
impnwe treatments lor JX)St..ass&amp;ult

problems experieoced by During the study, which will re-quire six visits to the North campus,
wonien will be asked to emolionalty
process life events through struc·
tured writing tasks. The first and last

in,.....................

a..U aaliltotW...._
!loa. .. refaeacill&amp; clectraaic;
pidel aldie lilo,oame olwllidl _,..._.oeclallk-s1!11 IUCh a lbe APA aDd die WlA lllJie ...... (-IIIIDw),
be aa:eoaed by cliclliDa .. dlelr . . .. Odal ..... . . .

compiled wilb specific~ ia lllilld(for.example, .... .
E. Pap"a M A Brief CilalioD Ouiclo for lmaDot ReoouR:a in If».
lory ud lbe Humaoities"). but of lbem caD be odapled to
lllit aliiiOII ...,. IUbject.
Although 110( oo lbe Internet, lbe ~ editions of clauic
ldereoce wocb IUCb as the Clli&amp;ago lriQIUIIJ/ ofSiy/L, MLA &amp;nd·
book for Writen of RueaTrh l'apen, and I'MbUCGiion lrlfWIQ/
of the American P¥yehologicDJ A/sociafion bave been updaled
10 iDclude electrooic cilatioo examples. "Jbc:&lt;'e are al5o ..,.enl
books devoted exclusively 10 making recommeodalions for citing electronic resources. Electronk Styk: A Gu&amp; to Citing Eke·
tronic JnformtJJion. by Xi a Li and NIDC)' Crane, i5 ooe of the
most popular because it provides more eumples of different
electronic information sources than the others. An abbreviated
version of Li and Crane's book is entitled "Bibliographic Formats for Citing l!lectronic loformation." lt isn't iDcludcd in the
meta-site listing. but it's worth a look at bttp:/fwww.uvm.al.u/
- ncrane/estyles.
Most of the books referted to at the CIIID&amp; Electronic Reaoun:es Web site are available in one or more of the University
LilKllries refctence collections. The onliDc guides can be aa:esscd
from BISON ll terminals in the Libraries· or other computers
that can link to the lntemeL Unless you've been asked to use 8
specific fonnat for your references, any of them will setve most
cases by establishing a format for bibliographic consistency.
For hL/p with connecting to th• World IVuf• W&lt;b, con/act thL
err H•lp V.sk a1 645-3542.
-Wiii.H&lt;pfu and Nancy Schill•r. Univ&lt;rsiry Ubrarios
visits will be foe assessment during
the other lour visits, women Hill be
asked to write for 20 minutes In a
private room. Some w ill be asked to
write about their sexual assault.
Although this research ts not a
substitute for treatment. It is ex·
pected that some women Will show
a reduction in psychological stress
aher und6fgoing the intervention.
said doctoral student Jessica •

Hamblen. who is heading lhe sludy.
Participants must be at )east
three months post-assautt and must
have Post· Traumatic Stress Disorder.
They may be in therapy, but it is not

8 requirement lor par1iclpa1ion.
The s1udy involves complelely
confidential interviews conducted
according to a flexible schedule in
a safe, qulet atmosphere in the Psy·
chok)glcal Services Center in Park
Hall, "North Campus. The research-ers are advanced . female graduate
.students in clinical psychok&gt;gy specializing In the needs of women
who have been assaulted.
Up-to-date information and refer·
rats to free or low-cost treatment resources for sexuaJ.assauH survivors
will be provided to partiCipants. For
more information , or to partM;ipate

in lhe siUdy. call Hamblen a1 645-

3650. ext 337.

--........ -.
MilA STUDENTS -

TOP

PIIIZISIN~

Second-year MBA studenls

...... . . . . , . . and _ L - .
Llu claimed lirS1 place and a

$1 ,500 prize recen11y a11he School
of Management• anoual MBA case
Competition sponrored by EmS1 &amp;
Young and Columbus McKinnon.
Founeen student teams submitted
papers for the competition detailing
their strategy for Acer, a Korean
computer manufactut8f attempting
to increase its international rnari&lt;.et
Share in the next century.

Wrnln were -.oo flmll:u
- o f linalis1s who. acting as Ns
oonsulta:1ts. made oral presentations t&gt;
a panel of j,.dges incUling 1&lt;eme111 W.
~and c. Hftmy - o f Ernst
&amp; ll&gt;slg, Robert L Monlgomery Jr. of

CoUrous McKmon a n d - fos.
lor. Scrool of~ associale

dean of acader"rOc programs.

The $500 second-place prtze

F----ttand
--

was awarded to part-time MBA stu·
dents DrDn*tlc ....... Ann

�7

eiiOYALS MU. SIIGin' • QWST

f'Oit~mu:
The Royals entered last week's Mid-Continent
Conference Tournament with high hopes ol
claiming the ~lp and the NCAA
TOIKMnall bid !hal _,. with it UB fell short
ol its goal, falling in t h e - to archrival YDIM1gStown Slate alter a~
rally to finish the season with a 22~ mark.
Troy State defeated Youngstown for the title
and will represent the Mid-Con in the
women's ~meeting Wginia.
UB opened the tournament on Ttusday
as Elrama Doty scored a garne-.11igh 19
points and point guard Catherine Jacob had
17 points and eight assists to defeat the University ol Missouri-Kansas City, 74-58, in the
quarterfinal round .
Ooty and Jacob combined for seven threepoint field goals as the Royals s11ot B-&lt;lf-18
from beyond the arc in the gwne. The Royals
pulled- from a 27-221ead with 5:161eft in
the first half by outscoring the Kangaroos 16-2
to close the half. Doty and Jacob combined
for 11 of thooe 16 points as UB buih the lead
to as many as 24 points In the second half
(65-41) to cruise to the victory.
Charissa Gardner added 10 points for
Buffalo and Alicia Kollrrorgen added eight

points and 10 rebounds.
., felt !hall had to the open shots
when I had them and they _ , doubling
down on the bfg people inside and that created more opportunl1ies for me,· said Jacob.
"I still think we can get the ball inside alitlle
bit more than we did INs ........,;,g,· said Buffalo OOBCh Sal Buscaglia, "but we have so
rruch confidence in 01K perimeter gM1Et !hal ~
the shot's there we're oertak1ly going to take it
"We asked Catherine 1o do more scoring ·
alter her fraslman year and to become more
cia lead guard than ;.ost a point guard, where
she'd have more capabilities ol scoring and I
think !hal really helps Brema," said Buscaglia.
In a semifinal rematch ollast year's Mid-

Continent Conference Tcunament title gwne,
Youngstown Stale edged UB 54-531o end the
Royals' season 8122-6. The Lady Penglins
have nt:IN mede tt to the Mid-Con championship gwne for the third straight year.
After an early 2-2 tie. the Lady Penguins
seized the momentum and_,. up by 15,
32-17, on a Shannon Beach three-pointer goIng Into halftine. The homestanding Royals
took control for most of the second half, forcing Young~ State Into eight turnovers in
the first nine milutes.
A Doty three-pointer pulled Buffalo to 42-

- ·t

CHEERS OF "SIXTit MAN" llbove,
enc&gt;ICh M
Roy. fell 54-53 to Younptown State In M~n
-..1-ftnalo March 7. lnoet Royelo C-ne JKOb,
left, and Brenna Doty conoole each other after lou.
41 with 8: 10 remaining. The Lady Pengutns
went up by four, 51-47, on a Caroline
McCombs three-pointer at the 3:02 mark.
The Royals seized the momentum again
on consecutive basKets by Kim Coon and
l.aToya Crumpton to tie the game 51-51 w1t11
1:46 leh. McCombs broke the tie witll another
tllree-Po;nter from the right side witl11 :12 leh.
Doty htt a running jumper to pull Buffalo to
within one. but Crumpton (14 points) rrussed
a s11ot with :03 leh before the ball went out of
bounds off of Youngstown witll :01 leh.
Buffelo inbounded the ball to Doty but her
fallaway shot came after the buzzer as
Youngstown advanced to i1s third sttaight
final . Beach led Youngstown with 16 points
and 10 rabounds, while Uz Hauger added 14
and McCombs 10 for the winners. Gardner
added 13 points and Doty 12 for the Royals.
·The first kx:lk was for laToya to set a
screen f"' Brenna and t11en roll off of it to the
basket and I told Kim that if you have LaToya
right from the out of bounds pass, get ~ to
her because she was having such a great
game. Unfortunately, she caught it a little too
far under the basl&lt;el"
"We knew that they would come back on
us because they're an e)(cellenl team,· saJd
Youngstown's Beach, the tournament MVP
last year. "But I tllink we composed ourselves
and played great in-your-face defense the
last few possessions.·
The loss proved to be the final game 1n the
stellar career ol Doty, who leaves UB as the

school's all-lure leading seo&lt;er Wltl11 .703
points. Doty will compete '" t11e natiOnal threepoint shootout at the Men's NCAA Fnat Four
~pin lnd"'""pohs late&lt; tillS montll

eWRESTUNG
The Bulls wrestling squad ftnlshecl a dlsapf)Ointing fourth at last -end's East Coast
Wrestling AssocijitJon meet at~~ Umversity. UB seo&lt;ed 52 points to place behind
Rider (89). whiCh took 1)s second stta1ght utle
Boston UniVersity (6 t) and Hofstra (52 1/2)
were second and th1rd
UB qualified one wrestler to represent the
Bulls March 20-22 at the NCAA CharT]pionships 1n Cedar Falls, k&gt;wa. Jason Warttnger
was seiectad at 118 pounds as an at-large
qualifier. marking his third appearance 1n the
NCAAs Wartmger was defaatad 5-2 1n the fl.
nals of the 118-pound class by John
Carvalhera of Rider.
John Stutzman at 150 and Enc Gross at
,67 were selected as alternates for the
NCAAs Stutzman was p1nned at 1 44 of h1s
final match against Boston UniverSity's Dave
Leonardo. who was selected as the meers
outstanding wrestler Gorss lost a 10-4 dectsion to Aider's Chad l.Jon 1n the finals of h1s
weight class
- Ted Wasko. Spans JnlrxmatKXI Office

11IIS WEEK'S HOME ATMLETIC
EVENTS
None scheduled

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
Union. North Campus. 9 p.m

Maurer Jr. 7-9 p.m. Caii64.S-

S2.SO. S4.

6125.
~~pua:c-.uve
Sa~balom Stroa&amp;, piano.
Allen. North Campus. 7 p.m.
Concert to be broadcast the raJlowing SUDday at 4 p.m. on

'-·tlocly-..

Anlllc eldllblt In UGL

WBPO-FM 88.7.

"Anbic Scholarship 1n Pre: ·
ColoniaJ West Africa and the
Diaspora," curated by UGL reference librarian Musa Abdul
Hakim, IS on view through
March 14 in lhe Oscar A
Silvennan Undergnduate L1 ·
brary m Capen Hull. Nonh
Campus. The exhibit features
biographies or lillie-known
Black scholan and samples of
their original Arab1c writmg
from pre-coloma! Afnca and
,pre-Civil War America. Fo r Informati on. call 645-2943

Sutu.rr: Sdf: Multimedia by
Womm Artists. Screening

Room, Center for lhc: Arts.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. Free.

-r-.-Mtoolc
East ami West, Kirtc Brundage.
percussion. Slee. North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

UUAII-vle
Kansas City. 20 1 Student

-art

Union. North Campus. 9 p.m.

S2.SO. S4.

EJoCHM '--bore
Vidum aDd lbe 'Pu: Amt:ri-

SEE GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP volleyball Morch 15 from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. In Alumni Arena.

caa.~~ ' :A~,William

SpaDOI. 640 Clemens. North
Campus. 3:30p.m. S~asored
by the Graduate Americanist
Group.

......... ctlrltca Lectllre
KlDeticr ot Nitric Oxkle SyatbuclD.blbJtJoa, Tristan
Maurer. 508 Cooke . North
Campus. 3:30 p.m.

-

day.
- . t r y Colloquhl•
A Cbe:•ical Appi'OKb to ErtZ)'liiC Metbulsm: MoiKul.ar
ReeopiUoa ofTraMltion
Slats. Prof. Tony Kirby, Cambrid&amp;e Univ. 121 Cooke. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m.

ment GaJiery, Center for the=
Aru. North Campus. 5-7 p.m.
E.dllbit runs through April 8.

uuu ..vle
Tttts Lounat:. 201 Student
Union. North Campus. 6:30

lllolcoCI-I - ........
lllatloCII-

ur.--..

DlaloCII• Lecbue Sertee

1'1lais/Diae:rtatioa Support

P rotela TrarlkldDalnto a nd
Out ot lbe CeU Nuckus, Dr.

Group, Barban Umik.er. UB
Counsclin&amp; Center. 4:30-.S :30
p.m. Thursdays through April
17. Cati64S.Ot25.

James Luna. Lui5e00 Indian
performance: artist. AJbrightK.nox Art Gallery Amphitheater
8-9:30 p.m. Presented by UB
Art GaJiery.

GUnter Blobcl, Rockefeller
Univ. in New Yoric. 114
HocbSieuer. North Campus.
4p.m .

""The Graduate Show · F1r5t- Year
Students" in the UB An Gallery.
second Ooor. Center for the
Arts, North Campus. Through
March 16. Gallery hours are
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesds.ySaturday. and Noon-5 p.m. Sun ·

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The Sutor Sbow. Art Depart·

p.m. S2.SO, $4.

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Work by Duane Zaloudek. who
since the early '60s has been ex·
ploring what he refen to as lhc:
kse nsuahty or the act of seeing ...
Lightwell Gallery. Center for
the Aru. Through March 16.
Gallery hours art 10:30 a .m.-8
p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, and
Sunday Noon-S p.m.

maneuve ~ of mantels and mold mgs. Through March 16. UB An
Gallery, Centl!r for lhc: Ans
Gallery houn at I 0:30 a .m ·8
p.m. Wedn~sday-Saturday, and
Sunday Noon-S p.m.

.,_.,.. exlllblt
''Cannon~ curated bY, C hm lopher Less of Cannon Destgn. on
display th rough April 18 1n t~
James Dycu Gallery. 334 Hayes
Hall. South Campus. Houn arc
9 a.m.-5 p.m Mo ncby through
Fnday

ogy. Post~ng •P-70 12. Raideoce Hall Director (SL-2) Unh·ersity Residence Halls.
Posting IP-7014. Instructional
Support Assistant (SL-1}Preservallon Program. University Libraries., Posttng fP-701.S
Wd Prognmmer/Aulpt
(SL-3)-Athleocs. Posting
lfP-70 16. Ttac.bin&amp; Hospital
Nurw Practitioner (SL-4)Student Health Center. Posting
fP-7017 Assistant V'tce~i ­
dent (MP-la) -Un1ven1ty FaCihtiCS, Posllng fP·7018

Re ...rct.
Rtsean:b Aide-Sponsomt Pro1nc Creat m~ Craft Center be: ·
g mmng March 24 offen work ·
~hops in 1c.uilc des 1gn. kmumg
and crocheting. quilling. Bral.lllan embroidery, photography,
swned glass. weaving. JCWeiT).
and pottery. All works.hop:r. run
one night a wet:k for si), weeks
from 7- 10 p.m. with the exct'p·
lio n of Saturday mommg wo rk ·
shops for chtldren. Fees are S30
for students. and $50 for Olt\Cr-5
The Creative Crafl Center is located at 120 Fillmore, Ellic'on
Comple.1. , Nonh Campus. Fo r
information please caJ I Juhe
Smith mornings at 645-612S . or
the: Cn.fi Center afternoons and
evenings at 645-2434.

grams ileBOnnel. Op=n. Restartb Support Specialist Biochemical Phannacology.
Posung •R -9608!5 Research
TKhnkl.an 1-Biological Science~. Posung •R -96068.
Counselor-Cora P Malone)
College. Posung •R -97015
Sn:mary Ill-Development.
Postmg
•R -97016 Project Administrative Ofr~r-Dc: vdopment ,
Posung IR-97017
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Dental Assistant (SG-47}School or tkntal Medicme.
Line 140904. Dtntal Assistant
(SC-07) -School of Dental
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a barefoot woman in a red party
dress as she carefully moves
aJong the walls or her room,
finding convenient footho lds in

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645-.3580 or e--mail:
ilfair•K&amp;U.bu.ffalo.edu or web

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CaUOak: Llpkll in ~ne aud
Drua Dtlivtry, Robc:n Cambell .

3:30p.m.

p._.,

to lilt Ceotwy Ploysks, Prof. Me00el Sachs. UB
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are Un«.rtal.n, Pror. Joseph
Sc:dransk, Case Western ReKrve
Univ. 244 Cary. South Campus.
4p.m.

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Tbc:sls/Diutrution Support
Group, Barban Umiker, UB
Counseling Center. 4 :~5 : 30
p.m. Thursdays throuah April
17. Call645-6125.

UUAII-Yie
Crust; followed by Tbat
T hin&amp; You Do, Diet Coke Uncapped Film Festival. 201 Student Union. Nonh Campus. 6:30
p.m. S2 .50. $4.

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UB

GreiDer. WBFO-FM 88.7. ;.g

p.m. Call 829-6000 with questions.

llleiGCitle ,_.,. AUucqu&amp;t: Roauc: "Sandy•

Stooc:, cybenheorist. educator
and author. Albri&amp;ht-KnoJ. Art

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Gallery Amphitheater. S..9:30
p.m. Co-spomorcd by US An.
Gallery.

U B Sympboak Baad and

Uolvenlty Cbo...., Sarah L.
McKoin and Harriet Simons.
conductors. Slcc. North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

M.D.

Coretllrium A. a.ildtoa'o Horpi·
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lama M. Morrisey; GcorJt
Smylllek; Sbenyl D. Weems.
Ed.D. M - . : K.dly I .
Ashe&lt; lllld Cuol M. Doticr.
Opportuolty COoter.
465 WasbinJtoo SL 11 Lm..·
I p.m.

Oo Qu.utua Mec.luuaicl from
Geoeral Rta.tlvlty. Aa A~

Tbe lmportaoce or Traultlv·
ity: Make Your Owa Chaos
in Three F.uy Steps, Pror.
Annal isa Crume! I. Franklin
&amp; Marshall Colleae. 103
Didendorf. South Campus.
4 p.m.

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CaU Ciady Nydlhl. 645-1!131 .

lire: bup:/lwiDp.bafralo.edu.

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Ph.D.; Loutdeo la.Jesiu;

508 Cooke. Nonh Campus.

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FiiDeU. Father Belle Commu-

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h uerns or love.rtebrate Producdon in Run.nla1 Wat.en.
Dr. Anhut C. Benke, Univ. or
Alabama. 114 Hochstener.
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.

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The Rolf: of Protein Kioa..te
c oo.y.....1a Rqulalloo or
lotestlaal Epltllellal CeU
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7 p.-. s__. by UB

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teoollllt lit • ,..._ ... Art lit

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p.m. Thundays throu&amp;)l April
17. Call645-6125.

New York. 4 Knox. North Cam-

pus. 3-4:15 p.m.

Dyspbaala lo Child....., Joan

Arvecl$on, Ph.D. Kinch Auditorium, Children's Hospital.

8a.m.

Hu-- RI&amp;Ma Lecture
An A.sstssmeat of SaactionJ on
lnq Under lnt.emalioaal Law,
Sarah Leah Whitson, Center ror
Economic and Social Rights.
545 O' Brian. Notth Campus.
9:45 a.m. Sponsored by the
Human Ri&amp;bts Center and t~
GBduate Group on Human
RighlS Law &amp; Policy.

~. Ralpb H.B. Beoedict.

CroduoteStudeatEuelluce
iD Ttochia&amp; A - Ceremony. An Department Gallery.
Center for the Ans. North Campus. 3 p.m.

Ph.D. Center focTOIDOfTOw.
N - Campus. Noon. Call8292608 for tickets. rcscrvatioa.s.

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Nortb Campuo. 7:30p.m. $16.
$20,$24.

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Adolb, !Won Jeffries, EOC Ubrarian. EOC's Archie Hunttr
Memorial Ubnry. 465 Wuh·

llarrimoa Hall. South
8· 11 p.m. ffte CC*a1.. free cof-

fee.

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lo Criolo,
CounseliDa -..
Ceo.ter. Nooo1 p.m.
Call
645-6125.

TBA. Richud M...,.hul:.
Ph.D.• Dept. or Biophysics.
RPCI. Kin:bbofer Room. RPCJ.
12:30p.m.

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North Campus. II a.m.

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Viral Dileasa. Corey Stilts.
114 Hochsteucr. North Campus.
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Campus. 8-1 1 p.m. Free. Sponwred by the Gndu.ate Student
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Yasmin. Thanavala, Roswell

Part Cancer Institute. 244 Cary.
South Campus. II :45 a.m.

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School or Biological Sciences,
Tbc: Univenity of Manchester.

Manchester, England. Hilleboc:

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Auditorium. RPCI. I p.m.

815 JG.balL South Campus.
I:J0..4:30 p.m. For more inrormation, call 829-3314.

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Demon.sttations, presentations
throu&amp;h 5 p.m. Natural Sciences. North Campus. Free.
Call645-3580 or e-mail:
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Crosby. South Campus.
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informatioo, call Profeuioaal

StaffSeoate, 645-2003.

DeputmeotorMoloculaclllld
CeUular BioJoay, RPC1. Kitchharer Room, RPCJ. 12!30 p.m.

Clillu:-U...

6800 CXL 6100.

· Children's H01pi&amp;a.l. 8 a.m.

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TBA, William Burbao&amp;. Ph.D.,

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All~o. South Campus. 7 p.m.

Uoloo. Ntxtb Campuo. 6:30

p.m. $1..50, $4.

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                    <text>STATE UNI VERSI TY 0F NEW Y0I·I AT BUFFAL0
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UNIVIIISII'Y AI BUFFALO
State University ofNew Ycri

http. / ; www.buffalo.edu / reporter/

Making Things Happen
UB GRII' gets company sstamp ofapproval

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HE OFFICE OF Admis·
sions and some other related units would move to
the Office of the Provost
under a proposed plan for a r&lt;&gt;·
vamped ..enrollment management" system, the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee learned at
its Feb. 26 meeting.
Robert Palmer, vice president
for student affairs, reported that

the search for a new director of
admissions has been put on hold

and the position description is
being rewritten for a new viceprovostial post that would over·

see admissions. financial aid and
records and registration, and
would have ..some involvement"
with academic advisement and
institutional analysis.
The admissions office now· is
part of student affairs, while finan·
cia! aid and records and registra·
tion are part of university services.

P

almer said the new vice provost also would be respon·
si ble for "bringing together others
in key .,.,.. outside" enrollment
activities, including orientation,
career planning and placement,
Equal Opportunity Progra m,
a lumni affairs and Millard
Fillmore College.
Palmer said that a "drastic ,.,.
organization and restructuring" of
admissions activities is called for
because ''what we •ve done in the
past simply does not work". any·
more.
Provost Thomas E. Headrick,
who also attended the meeting,
said it makes sense to begin moving various student-service enti-

ties into a coordinated structure.
'The work you do with stu·
dents at the recruiting level and
at the advising level. .. their aca·
demic programs and their longer·
tenn aspirations, ought to be seen
as a single piece," he noted.
Headrick told the executive
committee that there are two aspects of the issue that must be con·
sideR!d: how UB restructures its
"interactions with students in order to serve them better from be·
ginning (of their academic careers)
to (the) end" and whether it in·
volve~ having a single person in
charge or having a team approach.
''Clearly, making this kind of
change ... you begin to focus on
those kinds of issues. What we
have now doesn ' t provide that."

W

here enrollment activities
arc located on the vicep=idential organizational chart is
not i mportan~ Headrick empha·
sized, although he conceded that
with the current sense that more
faculty involvement is needed in
the process, "it may be easier for
that to be managed, or nudged,
from someone in the Provost's
Office than it is from one of the
other vice-presidential 81&lt;'85."
ln soning out the issues of enrOllment management. the universi ty must start from the proposi·
tion that "we want to provide adequate suppon and service for
students in terms of pursuing their
academic and other aims at the
university, and we want to do it
in an integrated way in which
nobody gets lost in the process,"
Headrick said.
Continued on page 4

A RY STONE was
leery.
President of Buffalo
Brake Beam, a lacka·
wanna-based manufacturer of brake beams for trains,
Stone's previous experience with
a state program designed to help
manufacturers "wasn' t very satisfactory."
But Rebecca Landy. executi ve
director of The Center for Indus·
trial Effectiveness (TCIE) at the
University at Buffalo and an acquaintance of Stone's, convinced
him that UB GRIT was differ&lt;&gt;nt.
UB GRIT-UB Great~r Re·
gionallndustrial Technology Program-is a consortium of engineering schools at universities
from the Buffalo-Rocbester·S,..
cuse r&lt;&gt;gion that helps small - . .
factun:rs become more competitive by incorporating the latest
technology into their products.
Buffalo Brake Beam was fac·
ing as its major competitor a Mexican company that had significantly
increased its market share during
the past year. The company ap-

plied for and received a $24,278
grant from UB GRIT to conduct
engineering analysis of proposed
changes in its brake-beam design.
The consonium--of which UB is
the lead institution--detennined
that the Rochester Institute of
Technology was the most appropriate consortium member to assist Buffalo Brake Beam.

W

orking as a team. RIT
and Buffalo Brake
Beam designed a new
brake beam that could be produced at a lower cost but which
provided improved performance
and quality. Faculty at the insti·
tute designed and produced a prototype and tested it on its "shake
table" to ensur&lt;&gt; that it performed
to the specifications of the company. The company then took the
working prototype to a trade
show, where a utility company
so ught specificatio ns o n brake
beams for fr&lt;&gt;ight cars that would
mean $300.000 worth of business

for Buffalo Brake Beam.
"I was skeptical that (becom·
ing in volved with UB GRIT)
would be worthwhile for us."
Stone says. "But Becky talked us
into it (applying for a grant ).
Right away. we found it was a
whole different situation (from
hi s previous experience).
"W

ith their help , we were
able 10 design a product
that offers more to the
customer than just low price," he
says. "We're adding more value
and quality to the customer prod·
uct, and it's all due to GRIT.
' They made things happen for
us."
UB GRIT is just one of sev·
era! programs and initiatives
headquarteR!&lt;! at UB that .,., de·
signed 10 help local companies
improve their competitiveness in
the global marketplace, ther&lt;&gt;by
helping to cr&lt;&gt;ate and retain jobs.
Programs such as GRIT. TCIE
and SPIR-the Strntegic Partner·
ship for Industrial Resurgencehelp to further those universitycommunity partnerships that UB ,
Continued on page 2

Trouble in cyberspace: meeting on
Internet sparks international uproar
lly LOIS IIAIIDI

News Services Editor

UB'S F1RST MAJOR CYBERSPACE controversy
began innocently enough.
A doctoral candidate in UB's Department of An·
lhropology struck up an acquaintance on the internet
with a respected archaeologist at the University of
Western Australia in Perth.
The story of how thi s acquaintance between individuals half a world apart resulted in lhl&lt;'ats of
legal action against UB and others and prompted
hearings in the West Australian Parliament is a tell ing example of the power and reach of the Internet,
and highlights the differ&lt;&gt;nces thatex.isteven among
westernized cultures on the issue of free speech.
It also points out the pecuHar circumstances in
whicb universities can find themselves when they
take up residence on the great information autobahn.
Unlike Internet-re lated incidents at Co rn ell .
Northwestern, Vtrginia Technological Institute and
Georgia State, to name a few, that were played out
in public, UB 's controversy proceeded quietly on
campus and went unnoticed in the U.S . press. Not
so in Australia, where the inddent in which UB was
involved caused an uproar that still reverberates o n
the air waves and in editorial pages.
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Hugh Jarvis, the UB doctoral candidate. was
putting together an international on- line directory
of anthropologists when he first met David Rindos
on the Internet. A Cornell-educated academic who
had been recruited to the University of Western

HUGH JARYIS

Austrnlia (UWA) in 1989, Rindos had offeR!&lt;! to pass
along his own list of colleagues for Jarvis to include
in his direclOry.
At the time, Rindos also was deeply involved in
a nasty and decidedly uncollegial tenur&lt;&gt; battle pit·
ting the respected academic against the uni versity
that once prized him. but denied him tenure. The
affair had taken more twists and turns than a surfer
on one of Australia 's famous breakers. One Austra·
lian newspaper termed the case "The Dispute That
Split A University."
The charges involved were messy. intensely personal and in some insUUlces, bizarre. including possible undue influence of Australian mining interests
on the Archaeology Department. Rindos was fight·
ing the denial of tenure fiercely, and he was not alone.
The West Australian Parliament had set up an inquiry
into the events surrounding the whole affair.
Continued on page 3

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UBGRIT
Continued from page t

government and business officials say are
vital 10 economic development in Western
New York and elsewhere in the state.
l.AJke Rich, vice president/dirccto&lt; of the
regional office of Empire State Development. a state eConomic development
agency, says government can be most helpful to private companies by assisting them

in becoming more competitive.
Programs like GRIT and SPIR help
companies from the .. pe-rspective of their
processes," while initiatives such as TCIE
help productivity by aiding in the training
and effectiveness of workers, be says.
"Together, they help immensely in ways
that make companies world-competitive by
enhancing their productivity and worker
effectiveness," Rich said.

T:

e pioneering entity for economic deelo~ment at ':JB is the Center for lnustnal EffectJveness, which will celebrate its lOth anniversary thi s spring.
Based in the UB School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences and affiliared with
the UB School of Management, TC IE's
mission is to motivat; and help industry to
develop people, use technology, improve
business practices and modernize products,
processes and facilities.
The center takes a ..proactive approach"

to establishing partnerships with bus inesses, acting as a "broker within the university and beyond to serve a company and
all its needs," said Mark Karwan, dean o
the UB engineering school.
TCIE officials cite impressive results:
program has worked with 350 finns in Westem New York and has been credired with
creating or saving 5,000 jobs in companies
ranging from multinationals like General
Motors and Pran &amp; Lambert to small operations with Jess than 40 employers.
lbe center provides assistance in a variety of ways. ranging from helping Moog, Inc.
develop an ergonomics system that improved
accident and injury rates by 69 percent to
providing training assistance to Irish Welding Supply Co., a family-owned distributor
of welding supplies. (See story 81 righL)
Scott Aviation, a manufacturer of equipment for the aviation and health and safety
industries, contracred with TCIE to provide
training assessment programs at its Lancaster
and Monroe. N.C.-based facilities.
"'The training. assessments were done by
people with experience in business and industry, not just academia," said Ruth
Stevenson, human resourcesdirectorofScoa
Aviation ...They have a good understanding
of what goes on in a manufacturing planL"

other locaJ manufacturer. American
Axle ~nd Manufacturing, Inc., is in
e m1dst of a five-year training and
education project developed by TCIE. As
a result, the company has achieved its ISOQS 900 I certification and improved its
overall quality rating, said Ron Allman,
manager of the Tonawanda Forge plant.
Moreover. soine new business has come
in "that is partly attributable to the foundation we've put in place in educating our
people," Allman said.
"TCIE has been instrumental in helping us get to where we are now."
ln 8ddition to its own work in the areas of
R&amp;D, process improvement and training and
training assessment, TC!E also helps to
implement two other major economic developmeni initiatives-the UB School of
Engineering's UB GRIT and SPIR programs.
UB GRIT is a two-year demonstration
project to assist area businesses in developing new products in cooperation with regional research universities. Funded with
S 1.5 million from the federal Small Business Administration-upon the initiative of
Rep. John J. LaFalce-it serves as a model

for small-business product developmen~
and job creation and preservation.
UB GRIT provides the research-anddevelopment expertise that small businesses need, but usually can't afford, to
continuously develop and improve their
products in order to stay competitive in the
domestic and global marketplace and maintain American jobs.
Since the project began in 1995, a total
of 14 product-improvement projects have
been conducted, or are in the works, by the

consortium.
In addition to Buffalo Brake Beam, examples of companies receiving assistance
through UB GRIT include BUD Medical Devices of Holland. which received a $20,098
grant to redesign dental implants with the help
or faculty and students in the UB schools of
Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dental Medicine, and Taylor Devices of North
Tonawanda. which received a $49,489 grant
to design, test and fabricate new devices that
wiU be used in systems that dissipate seismic ene~gy. Taylor Devices is working with
faculty and students from the UB engineering school on the design.
SPIR-4he Strategic Parmership for Industrial Resurgenco-is a cooperative effort
of SUNY's graduate engineering programs
at UB, Stony Brook, Binghamton and New
Paltz aimed at bolstering the state economy
by promoting the transfer of knowledge
from university to industry and by providing consultation, research facilities and resources for industrial restructuring.
Funded by New York State, SPIR grants
cover up to 50 percent of a project's cost
r hiring faculty, students and other techn' cally trained personnel that small- to meum-sized companies cannot afford to hire
on their own, and for fees for using sophisticated research facilities, such as those
available at UB.
arwan last week testified at a hearg held by the state Senate Com-

ittee on Higher Educiltion that
with the assistance of SPIR during 1996,

the engineering school served, and was
served by interactions with, I 74 companies
with 356 projects in such areas as R&amp;D,
product development/improvement, pro-

cess and operations improvement, and
training and training assessments.
This past year's SPIR participants anticipate creating 561 jobs and retaining more
than 300, thanks to the assistance provided
by the program, Karwan added.
Amo ng the Western New York companies that have rece ived SP!R grants are
Buffalo Computer Gl-aphics, Inc . of Buffalo , a computer graphics and services
company; Global International, Inc. of
Buffalo, a manufactureroflightweight conveyor belts, and Father Sam's Syrian
Bread, Inc. of North Tonawanda.
While TCIE, UB GRIT and SPIR are the
UB entities with the most intetaction with
Inca! business, several interdisciplinary centers housed in the engineering school, including the New York State Center for Hazardous Waste Managemen~ the Great Lakes
Program and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, have industry-affiliate programs or a significant industrial emphasis, noted Karwan.
With 100 faculty members and 700 graduate students, the UB engineering school "is
the largest engineering/R&amp;D unit in Westem New York," lie said. "We're offering expertise to the business community that can
be a major addition to their capabilities."
Moreover, "Our partnerships with the
business community are invaluable to the
education of students and the expenise
gained by faculty members," he said. •

ATale of ~we Sisters
TCIE 'great resource 'for Irish Welding
~.._
~ditor

wOI'ked here during the SUJJUDeiS.
"I think initially our male C1JSIOIDen still
IVE SISTERS running a welding
wanred to deal with my father. But any inicompany in a blue-collar, Northtial reluctance has evolved over time."
eastern city sounds like the story
Irish-Jones credits The Center for Indusline for a television sitcom.
trial Effectiveness, based in the 1Jll School
Eat your heart ou~ ABC. CBS, NBC,
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with
Fox. This is a true story, and it gets better.
making the transfer of the business from
Take the "Irish" in Irish Welding Suptheir parents four years ago much easier.
ply Company. It isn ' t Irish, it's English.
But matriarch Marsha Irish is Irish on
"'l"be people at TCIE have been wonderher mother's side, which is why 5everal of
I fu1 to us," she said. "We were 81 Syher daughters are redheads.
camore Street for 50 years, we were out of
Then, consider the company's officers.
space and we needed to move. They came
Pam, the president, ,-------_:.in:.=and=.:di='d:.=a.!:pre:.:=;liminary assessment of what

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has a UB degree in
polilical science.
Victoria, the chief financial officer, was a w
UB music major.
Lori, the bead ofhuman resources and legal matters, graduated
from UB in elementary education.
Granred, there's more to the story. The
president may not have an MBA. but she
has worked for 25 years for the company
her grandfather founded . The music minded chief financial officer is also a CPA,
and the former teacher of young children
with special needs also holds a law degree.
Together with two other sisters, Holly and
Katie , the five women are running a business in a decidedly male milieu.
"It's been very -challenging," said Lori
Irish-Jones. "People say, ' You ' re involved
with welding?... with big trucks?' But we
were all raised in the business. We all

I

ourneedswereindifferent areas, prepared a
time line, helped us to
move, helped us select a

new computer system.
"They' ve been a great
resource for me," she added. "'They've
helped me with anything I've needed. We
are now doing some training with other
women~wned manufacturers."
The Irish family was initially in the coal
business, until the advent of natural gas,
when it divenified into Irish Welding, Irish
Propane and Irish Carl&gt;onics, which supplies businesses with juices, bar equipment
and soft-drink syrups, in addition to CO
for dispensing. The family also owns ~
carbonics business in Rochester.
With TCIE's help, the company just
moved to new quarters 811444 Clinton St.
in Buffalo. " It has been the best deci sion
we ever made," said Irish-Jones.
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CYBERSPACE
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fair in March, and
Jarvis contin ues to post
updates on UB 's web
site.
The incident ha s
prompted SUNY to
speed up development
of a model computeruse policy that was already under way at the
tim&lt;. The policy is currently in draft form and
is being reviewed by
the various campuses.
For its pan, UB has
had a "condition s of
use" policy in place for
a decade, said Richard
Lesniak. d i rector of
academic servi ces for
UB 's University Computin g Center. The
poli cy addresses behavior, not content , he
said, and is updated as
changing technology

The beleaguen:d professor had been diJ..
cussing his situation on-line with Jarvis
back in Buffalo. Convinced tbalcollcagues
on the anthropology listaerv should know
about the llealmenta fellow acodcmic was
receiving. Jarvia began posting updates on
the affair with various discussion groups.
Interest within the on-line academic
communitY was intense. Jarvis decided to
create a World Wide Web archive for
people who wanted to keep up will! developments and learn more about wfuu had
CO{DC to be known in Australia simply as
''The Rindos Affair." Many parties, including Rindos, supplied documents tba1 were
in the public domain and Jarvis posted
them on his UB web site word-for-word.
Tbe Australian press, in its tenacious
and enthusiastic coverage of the story, be81!0 to refer to documents on the UB web
site and to provide the site's lnteroet address.

......

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For UB , that is when the trouble began.
The University of Western Australia threatened legal action against UB as the provider of the web site, claiming it contained
material that defaroed certain administrators and faculty, and asked UB to remove
the offending material. In addition. according to Jarvis, it wanted UB to point it to
every site on the Internet where information from his archives may have migrated.
UWA also required its graduate student association to cut its links to the UB web si te.
The Australian university claimed further
that anyone who even rrfurrd to the UB
web address was guilty of defamation. The
university threatened legal action against
Th&lt; Australian and Campus R&lt;vi&lt;W, both
national newspapers, for printing the web
address, and against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for mentioning it on-air.
Its actions set off a new wave of press
stories in Australia about the UWA and
Internet censorship.
Jane Figgis oftheAusttaliao Broadcasting Corporation contacted UB to find out
if the University of Western Australia actually wa.s suing UB , as it was claiming.
" If they have not, but keep telling us they
have," she stated in a fax to UB News Services, ''it smacks a bit of intimidation."
UB officials conftrroed that letters had
been exchanged, but that no legal proceedings had been initiated. Meanwhile, the
matter was referred to Carolyn J. Pasley,
associate counsel for the SUNY Office of
the University Counsel in Albany.
Experts in the U.S. who follow Internet
law saw liUle'polential for lawsuits in the case.
" Without presuming to know anything
about the law of Western Australia," said
Eric M. Freeman of Hofstra Law School,
" I can state with some certainty that I have
never beard of an English-speaking jurisdiction-and I seriously doubt that one
exists-in which if l say ' There is a full
discussion of this subject in [a particular
book],' I thereby become liable for whatever libel [that book] contains."
Declan McCullagh, who runs the Justice on Campus Project at M.l.T., a free
speech watchdog group, flatly called the
lawsuit threat ' bull( ... ).'
_
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Jarvis, meanwhile, had not been contacted by the University of Western Aus-

"I was upset that UWA had refused to
even try to work with me on the archive or
updates, and then was going over my bead
while never bothering to make any real effon to communicate with me," he said recently. "I was also rather SUl(!rised to bear
that they felt documents which almost exclusively came from their own files were

considered defamatory and actionable
against me.
"So it was obvious to me that they dido 't
really care about the site at all. They just
wanted to score some points in the media."
Pasley wrote to UWA, telling it, in effect, that UB doesn' t control the content
of web sites, and that since Jarvis was willing to work with the university, it should
address its concerns to him directly as site

manager.
No-frOMUWA
''We believe this provides a practical and

simple solution to the iss ues yo u have
raised and that it is neither necessary nor
appropriate for the university to act as an
intermediary in this matter," she said in he r
letter of July 3, 1996, to the University of
Western Australia' s lawyers in Perth.
David Rindos died in his sleep of a bean
anack on Dec. 10, 1996, at the age of 49.
He was still fighting UWA's denial of tenure at the time of his death.
Neither Jarvis nor Pasley has heard fro m
the University of Western Australia si nce.
The maner is still quite alive in Western
Australia. however. Parliament is scheduled to resume its investigation of the af-

dictates.
"Our statement js not unn ecessarily
broad. It doesn ' t really deal with any major fust amendment issues. We steer clear
of that: We do not in any way censure. To
do otherwise would be insane."

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The policy, which can be found on the
"UB Wings" web site, stipulates that all
persons must use UB 's computer services
in an effective. efficient, ethicaJ and legal
manner, "consistent with the instructional.
research and administrative goals of the
university." The guidelines prohibit certain
practices, including "spaouning'""""""nding
a message to a universe of news groupsgenerating chain mail and printing unnecessary listings.
Content is not an issue unless it breaks
the law, Lesniak said, and harassment complaints are pursued only if a person presses
charges.
While civil libertarians are most com:.
fortable with a completely free expression
of ideas on the Internet. permitting this ··anarchic discourse in cyberspace," as Karen
Frank of the Practising Law Institute in
New York City tenns it, isn't always practical for univers ities, Lesniak noted.
" People often roil about First Amendment rights," Lesniak said, " but this is a
university populated in part by stude nts
who don't always act as adults. The uni versi ty does have to assume the in loco
parentis role on occasion. They sometimes
have to deal with incidents in tune with

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he considered himself an information handler, not a protagonist.
Shortly after learning of the legal threats
against UB, JarvisCODiaCted UWAau..:tly last
May and offered to worlc with them, if they
would tell him what they found to be defamatory. He n:ceived a two-seruence lqliy a mooth
lalerstating tbe rnatt&lt;:r was in the hands of lawyers
UB and the university.

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their own governance."
Meanwhile, the question of who, if anyone. will govern the Internet, is ~subject
of animated discussion in governmental commissions, think tanks and talk shows; on
newspaper editorial pages. and around dinner tables across the nation. Questions about
the responsibility and liability of providers
of Internet aa:ess are equally perplexing.
Writes Frank. of the Practising Law Institute: ·· ... the lntemet is largely IerrO incognita. There are very few decisions (and
even fewer reported cases) from which to
determine how traditional concepts and
rules will be applied to this n&lt;w medium.
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a nd the posting of that material to the
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questions. it's every univers ity for itself. •

College, legislative
leaders meet
IIJ~NEVIDAL

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L

EADERS REPRESENTING public
and private colleges and univers ities throughout New York State met
with state legislative leaders last
week to stress the impon.ance of higher
ed ucation in keeping New York State economically and educationally competitive.
John W. Ryan. SUNY interim chancellor.
and W. Ann Reynolds. chancellor of the City
University of New York, were joined by tbe
presidents and chancellors of seven private
institutions at meetings held in Albany.
..New York's coUeges and universities
are integrally linked to the future economic.
cu ltural and social health of the Empire
State," they said in a joint statement.
Higher education, the statement notes,
is a major industry in New York State and
pumps billions of dollars annually into the
state economy, including more than S1 billion in federal research grants.
'1be research and scholarship we un dertake is critically important to the state's
future. as it has been in the past." the group
said. The higher-education coalition al so
stressed the importance of funding for the
Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), which
currently provides funding for 270,000 students from middle- and low-income families.
··Increased state support for TAPis needed
to ensure student access to postsecondary
education, to permit srudent choice among
institutions of widely different tuition levels.
and to enhance student retention in their programs until achievement of their education
goals." tbe joint statement said
The gro up also called fo r increased
managerial and operational flexibility that
would allow institutions to operate effective ly and efficientl y. '"Public sector insti·
tutions shou ld be able to respond to chang·
ing external forces. panicularly in the field
of health care. to establish flexible tuition
policies and to carry over financial bal·
ances from one year to the another. " it said.
Other priorities noted by the presidents
and chancellors included direct institutional
aid to the independent sector. funding for
educational programs suc h as Higher Edu cational Opportunity Programs and Educational Opponunity Programs and suppon
of the Centers for Advanced Technology.
In addition to Ryan and Reynolds. the
meetings with legislative leaders were attended by Thomas H. Jackson. president.
University of Rochester. Augusta Kappoer.
president. Bank Street College of Education;
Joseph A. O"Hare, SJ., president. Fordham
University; L. Jay Oliva, president. New York
University; Hunter Rawlings, president.
Cornell University; George Rupp. president.
Columbia University, and Kenneth A. Shaw,
chancellor, Syracuse University.
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NPR host regales audience with stories from 23-year career
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B

OB EDWARDS, HOST of National Public Radio's daily
newsmagazine Morning Edition,
brought his quick wit and sonorous
voice to UB last week for an hour-long
program that iouched on his more than two
decades at NPR and his deep appreciation
of the radio network's listeners.
"You all don' t look a thing like I thought
you would," he told the packed audience,
which greeted his self-deprecating humor
with hearty laughler. "I'm giving you a moment to gel over the shock.l'vedisappoinled
audiences from Alaska to Aorida.lt's a face
for radio. There's~ reason we're in radio."
Edwanls was the guest for a Feb. 27 program broadcast live from Allen Hall, where
WBFO-FM 88.7 is located. He shared stories about his 23 years with NPR and toolr.
questions from the audience. Mark Wozniak,
local host of Morning Edition, moderated the
program. (Morning Edition can he heard on
WBFO weekdays from6-10a.m.)
" I had an interesting day yesterday,"
Edwards said, referring to his interview
with Barry Sanders, the only member of
Congress who, Edwards said, is neither a
member of the Democratic or Republican
parties-he's a socialist ''I didn' t like his
answers and he didn ' t particularly like my
questions," be recalled. And when their
conversation had ended, the line berween
interviewer and interviewee had not been

disconnected,

and

he

heard

the

congresamao's next query.
"'Who was tba...?' ax! tbeo he aid a word
!hal rbymes with 'glosl bowl' ... Edwards said.
'1 guess I must he, because wbo would dispute the expertise of a m&lt;mber d Congress?
1ba1 wculd he like being called usJy bY a frog."
His anecdotes were met with enthusiastic laughter, as well as questions about his
work. The finn question from the audience:
What kind of hours does he lr.eep?
"I go to bed at 6:30 or 6:4S if I'm good,
and I walr.e up at I :30. I could walr.e up at
I, but it seems so early," he said wryly.

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1bc&lt;¥JIIion bascl-..od Iince ill lllotldoys,
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with llrings altllched, "and we said 'oo',"
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miilioo to NPR to do enviroomaiW _.,.,
but w.-d IOdir:lllc wbai diOIC _.,. wculd
be. 1bc ofJa- WIS turned dowD. he Slid.
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whether anyone has sat down NPR '1 onair people and said "thiJ is where you can
improve." Edwards laughed, "'bviously
not. ...Thaok you for sharing. OK. let me
just open up a vein here."
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said, when funding was tbreoteoed in 1994
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jazz film to note Fiedler's 80th birtp.day
.,Reception,
'
News Services Editor

come, but ~&amp; is limited. Ticlr.ets will
be available at the Center for the Arts Box

llOLL DOWN YOUit S10CIUN8S and
bnb your hair!
The 80th birthday or Leslie Fiedler,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Professor of
English at UB and universally aclr.nowledged as the "bad-bny of American letters,"
will he celebrated by his family, friends and
colleagues with a public reception and jazzbaby film on Sunday, March 9.
The party will begin at 2 p.m. in the
Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts
on the North Campus with a ..;reening of
Fiedler's favorite movie, the 1928 silent
film "Our Dancing Daughters." It will he
followed by a public cbampagne-and-&lt;:alr.e
reception in the center's atrium.
The event is free and everyone is wei-

Office immediately preceding the event on
a first..:ome, first-served buis.
The pllt)l is lpOIIS&lt;lRid bY UB Prtsident
and Mrs. William R. Greiner; Provost Tho-

Electrical and Computer Engineering, said
that while he can see the point of pulling
these various activities into a more cohesive uni~ be was surprised that they would
be located in the Provost's Office because
"it is not exactly what I'd describe as an
acadentic area."
He also questioned why another vice
provostial position needed to be created to
oversee the operation.
Palmer stressed that the "key element"
missing from the current structure is the
involvement of the deans and departments

than a particular unit.. . we all have to he
involved."
He noted that placing responsibility for
the activities at · the vice-provostial level
would give the individual overseeing the
effort " muscle and clout and a base of operations."

mas Headrick; Kerry Gran~ dean of the
Faculty of Arts and Leiters; Bruce Jackson,
Samuel P. Capen Professor of American
Literature, and the George Eastman House.
"'ur Dancing Daughters" made Joan
Clawford a star and introduced Art Deco to
Americans. It is considered one of the best
silents of the Jazz Age. Film historian James
Card called the movie "a parable of morality~y pointing out the perils that
lay in the paths even of those golden youth
with aever a care about where their next yacbr
ride was coming from."

1bc movie will he accompaoied bY pianist Pbilip Carli, one of America's most
highly regarded film accomponisls wbo performs regularly at major film (estivals and
screenings in North America and Europe.
"'ur Dancing Daughters," directed by
Harry Beaumont, features Johnny Maclr.
Brown, Dorochy Sebastian, NilsAsther,Anilll
Page. Katblyn Wtlliams and Edward Nugent.
Clawford had completed 21 ftlms before
sbe hit the big time as a dancing daughter.
F. Saltl fillFIId said Qawford was the actress wbo best embodied his vision of the flapper. Card would agree. "No other of
the time," he wrote, "could have rem&lt;llely
oombioed the sense ofAmazonian, sexual ag~ with~pmilityttd&gt;m&lt;:lor

in the way that Clawfml, with her sinocle porttait tt 192fls doa:ncy, WIS able 10 preoml." 8

ADMiSSIONS
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For years UB had a recruitment system
that brought in large numbers of qualified
srudents by focusing only on marketing, recrujtment and related processing activities.
Bu~ Palmer noted, ''the competition has
become much different and the pool (of
prospective students) is drying up."
The acadentic literature identifies several key activities that are part of a success-

ful enrollment management strategy,
Palmer said, including strategic planning,
institutional research .tnd evaluation, marketing, recruitment. financial aid. orienta-

tion, student retention programs and career
planning and placement.
'These types of activities force us to look
at enrollment management in a comprehensive way," he said.

H

e added that enrollment management
includes not only an institution's initial contact ~ith students, but also retention activities that engage students with faculty and move them through the institution
"all the way through grsduation."
"I thinlr. that's the approach we need to
look at."
But, Palmer noted, the cum:nt organi-

zation of enrollment Activities at UB does
not allow the university to follow this approach in enrollment management
" It has become apparent to me that the
Division of Student Affairs, the senior vice
president for university services and any of
the support areas truly does not have the
muscle and wherewithal" to put together a
"flfSt-rate enrollment management system."
Palmer said, " because the ntissing element
in all of this is the involvement of the acadentic arm .

.. we·

must

have

the

deans

involved ... faculty must he engaged in the
recruitment and retention of students,.. he
said , adding that ''the acadentic uni~ the
provost's area has the capability to encourage that interaction.''
Palmer noted that he bad spoken with
President William R. Greiner, Headrick and
Senior Vice President Robert J. Wagner about
his proposal, and '1 believe we have an agreement in principle on bnw to J1COCCed."
Dennis Malone, SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in the Depanment of

in the enrollment-management process.
"We're going to have to change the way
we thinlr. and ac~" he said. "We have to
see that enrollment management is broader

H

e added that it also would give the position Ma bit more leverage. You can't ·
get there from student affairs, folks, where
we need to go. I'm convinced of that."
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, said that while most any organizational process will work, what will count
will he bnw the process is perceived by students. "'The question is, who does the student come in contact with? Is it one person

wbn carries that student and his or her family from the admissions point all .t he way
tluough to graduation?'' he aslr.ec!. "'r does
that student and his family get banded off
from one person to the next and to the next.
And then what happens in .that hand-off
process? Do students and families get
dropped along the lioe?"
The medical profession has moved to a
case-management or team approach from
a single-practitioner approach. Meacham
noted, adding that UB should be thinking
about a team approach in enrollment maoagemenL '1t's the model down~ the level
of touching the students and families that I
thinlr. is irnpnrtao~ and !10( the model up at
the organizational level that matters." 8

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SUNY at Buffalo UUP
Chapter: Statement on
Contract Stalemate

..........

To . . ~ CC••--"'t)tw ....

U

oiled Univemty Professioos (UUP),
the union representins 21 .200
SUNY faculty ond profeuiooal suff
soa~wide ond more than 2.700 at
UB, is now in ita: 20th mouth without a new
coob'ecl. ha ocs:otiatioos with tbe Governor's
Office of Employee Relatioos (OOER) have
latseiY brol«:n down. To make thinp wane,
the Soa~ continues in its attemptiO buUy
UUP into submission by arbitrarily withholdins previously nesotiated beahb care benefits
from UUP memben, despi~ a rulins by an
admioislnlive law judse or the Public Employment Relations 8oatd (PERB) that this
action is illegal.
In the Feb. 13 issue of the Reporter, UB
Preaiden1 William Greiner addressed rhese
problems in a position paper entitled
''President's statement on issues of StatcUUP st.alema~." We an: happy to see that be
has now taken a clear public position on the

contract dispute. We~ also happy to hear
him say that. if be believed that the Sta~
were "mounting an assault on faculty tenure
by insisting on a contracting~ut provision."
he would ~mmend against it. forcefully
and in the strongest possible tenns ... We are
writing him and the rest of the campus community to assen (I) that the Soa~ bas

launched precisely such an asuul~ (2) that
President Greiner's response does not yet
fully reoosnize or respond to the tbru~ (3)
that permanent appointment for professional
staff deserves the same protection as faculty
tenure, and (4) that a successful resolution to
this crisis depends on coocerted resistance to
GOER's proposal by all those committed to
SUNY's future, including the president of its

flaphip campus.
The negotiations have run aground on the
s~·· appan:ntly oon-nesotiable demand for
an outsourcing article in its new contract with
UUP. What is ..outsourcing"1 A contract with
an outsourcin,g provisioo would allow State or
campus ma.nagement to "contract out" the
worlc or professiooals and academics to private
bidders, or to ..contract in" their work to nonunioniud SUNY- or UB-owncd and manased
internal corporations such as the Resean:b
Foundation or the UB Foundation. With the
unlimited outsourcins article proposed by
OOER. SUNY managers in Albany or UB
managc:n in Capen HaD could terminate all
the professional employees in a univenity office and contract out their wort to a private
bidder. 01; they could termina~ all academic
employees in a department. contract in their
work to a oew division of tbe Research Foundation, and offer lower-paid, non-unionized.
and noo-tenure-.track lectureships in that division to a few former professors.
s "contracting in" a compromise position?
Far from it. It poses an even gn:ater threat
than contractinf'Out. for it offers managers eager to break union power all the advantages of contracting out without its disadvan-

I

tages-namely, a cheaper, non-unionized, and
more ''flexible.. (which is to say, "ftreable..)

labor force with no loss of management control. Consider what happened to Anne
Cornelius and Michelle Acevedo, two longtime employees of the Research Foundation.
One day last summer, after cootacting union
organizers of the Communications Workers
of America. they distributed fliers complain-

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ina that non-unionized Researcb Foundation
ing why UUP, with 21,200 members, all of
them SUNY employees, should follow the
employees are paid leu than their unioniu:d
lead of three unions with many sorts of state
COWiterparU in the rest of the SUNY system.
. worlcers ond only 15,600 SUNY employees.
Two days later they were fin:d.
The Feb. 14 issue of The Spectrum repons
In his position paper, President Gteiner
President Greiner as saying that these other
says thai aU obsl:rven with whom be bas
three unions resent UUP's ..special treattalked believe thai the ral stictins point in
ment.. in DOt having submitted to
the aesotiatioos is the status of the 7,700
outsourcing. We hope that hi s words have
UUP memben on staff or io State employbeen misintetpR:ted. but if not. we would apment at the three ~~ hospitals. We fear
preciate bearing some evidence for this rethai his informatioo may be incompl~ or out
marbble claim. When we ta.lk to our SUNY
of date. Tom Matthews, oor UUP Negotiacolleagues in tbe other unions, we bear pretions Clair beard the same rumor, but when
cisely the reverse. Teni Menk.iena.. President
be asked GOER to ltlbrnit for diJcuuion
or CSEA at UB , says that ber members feel
some specific lanJuase limitins the demand
no such resentment. regret the outsourcing arfor ootsourcing 10 the hospitals, it coosisticle in their contract with SUNY (which they
~ntly doclined 10 do so, insistins on the risbt
have long attempted, unsuccessfully, to have
10 outsoun:e aU UUP jobs. F~. the
removed), ond an: deeply concerned abuut
rate or the bospitalJ DOW Jeem.J to have been
workplace
safety ond the quality of work at
completely detacbed from the oosoins conUB worksites, such as the new Fine Arts
tnct nesotiatioos, for the ~ lcpsla~ is
Center. where CSEA services have been
currentJy discussing their separation rrom
outsourced to low-bid contract.on.
SUNY.
,
And when we examine the specific lan We are coocerned about some of the hints •
suase in the Council 82, CSEA, and PEF
Prosiden1 Greiner bas dropped in recent weeks
contncts,
we are far from eooouraged. The
about the sort of cootnct be would like to see.
State promises onJy to consult with Council
In bis Dec. 10 address to the Faculty Sena~.
82 when it lays off members and outsources
be sugested that. with reprd to ~ure, ques·
jobs. The CSEA contract (PEFs has simi lar
tions or job security (wbic:b must remain flexlanguage) appean to protect the jobs of curible) miJbl reasonably be aepamed from quesrent CSEA memben, but not the jobs of futions or intellectual freedom (which must reture
members or CSEA wortc as a whole .
main protedCd). He also suggested that certain
However, the ankle then goes on to describe
professional suff jobs misbt reasonably be
the procedure to be used when pennanent apootsoun:cd in the future, and be repeated this
pointment jobs are. in fact. about to suffer
suuestion in his Jan. 28 address to the Faculty
layoff (subcontracting/retrenchment). If UUP
Senate. But we simply cannot imagine how inaccepts
the CSEA contract as a model. we
teUectual rreedom could survive separation
from job security. And of course, we cannot
view as friendly any attempt to break down

UUP solidarity by trying to divide academics
from professionals.
If UUP gives in to such divide and conquer
tactics-if we divide hospital from non-hospital staff. campus rrom campus. questions of ln~Uecrual freedom from questions of job security, ond academics frol)l professiooal&gt;-we
will be left without a leg to stand on. And in
the recent past. wben push has come to shove,
we should remember that those shoved have
tended to be academics. Last year. campus
managers retrenched the physical education
department at New Paltz, retru~chcd ond iUe-

gaUy outsoun:cd the German Department at
SUNY Albany, retrenched and WesaUy
outsourccd the Program or American Music,
Dance, and Theatre at Old WesthUty. If the
State is willing to engage in such actions. and
if moreover it is willing to withhold our benefits in direct defiance of PERB rulings. how
far would it be willing to golf it had the legal ,
contractual power to outsource1

L

inda Ansello, director of GOER, bas
written many UUP members telling them

'Employees should not be misled by

rhetoric designed to incite and needJessly scare
them into believing that the State plans to conu-act out on a wholesale basis, eliminate tenure, and abolish academic freedom . This is
simply untrue." President Greiner sounds a
similar note in his statement But as is usual
in coritract disputes. good intentions and pleas
of "trust us" are not enough. for new State-created budgetary "crises" might produce new in tentions. And in the long run, the mere threat
to out.source might damage SUNY just as
much as actual out.sourcing, for it would give
management a trump card in every oew dispu~ .

For inslance, departments misbt be told

to choose between being outsourced and "voluntarily" accepting an increase in worlc load. It
is only 100 easy to imagine the chilling effect
on academic and inteUectuaJ freedom.
President Greiner conltaSts UUP with
three other unions which have signed contracts allowing limited outsourcing: Council
82. the Civil Service Employees Association

(CSEA). and the Public Employees Federation (PEF). He bas publicly-pmsed these
unions for agreeing to State demands for outsourcing. ln his statement, be calls the limited
outsourcing language in their contracts a
''benchmark" for any new UUP contract. and
says that the State is willing to provide UUP
with similar limitations on outsourcing. But
GOER has never proposed to UUP negotiators any such limitations. or explained why it
wants to out.source UUP work in the first
place, or demanded any outsourcing language
in the contracts of two other major academic
unions: CUNY's Professional Staff Congress

and SUNY's Graduate Student Employee's
Union.
Furthennore, we have some difficulty see-

still would not be protecting pennanent appointment or tenure . We would be ceding to
Management the right not only to subcontract
any or all current positions. but also diminishing the job security of new UUP members.
and the right to begin transferring UUP work
to non-unionized, non-UUP employees.

W

e would like to be able to join President Greiner in his parting call for a
..spirit of compromise" in resolving
the dispute, but in all contract disputes, some
issues are simply not open to compromise.
Justice doesn•t aJways lie in the middle. Everyone involved in this debate should address
at some point ·the question of whether or not
it is just for the State to claim the right to de stroy the jobs of UUP members and weaken
their job security by outsourcing. We assert
that present and future UUP members, both
academics and professionals. have a right to a
secure job, free from the threat of outsourcing, and we will never suppon any contract
that undermines or compromises their job security. We believe that this is why UUP mem bers at UB polled in 1996 favored no new
contract by a three-to-one ratio over a new
contract with an outsou.rcing provision. We
cannot agree to any contract giving the State
outsourcing privileges in black and white in
exchange for fuzzy gray promises of good intentions, ..consultation." or "retraining." We
call on President Greiner to state unequi vocally his opposition to any outsourcing at all
for aU UUP members. whether academics or
professionals, and for all UUP unit wortc. And
we call on him to do all he can to convince
his fellow campus presidents, the Trustees.
the Chancellor, and GOER that UUP should
never and will never accept any contract with
provisions for outsourcing.
We thank President Greiner for the
thoughtful tone of his statement. We second
him in encouraging all members of UUP to
communicate their opinions on the ongoing
contract discussions to their elected UUP
chapter and statewide representatives, and to
the GOER representatives appointed by the
Governor. Moreover, we encourage them to
continue communicating with Chancellor
Ryan. the trustees. and especially with President Greiner, whose suppon may well pto\le
crucial to our efforts in coming months. We
cannot make ourselves believe that he would
want to be remembered as the UB president
who stood by while outsourcing destroyed his
colleagues' job security and further weakened
our great university system.
~ AJ MIFFALCI UUP' CIW"TEEIIIOAIID
Jean Dickson. President Richard Kucharskt
Lorna Arnington
Bertha Laury
James Lawler
Harvey Axlerod
David Ballard
John Meacham
Tonnalee Batchelor
Joel Rose
Alice Bergmann
Roosevelt Wardlaw
Milton Carlin
Dorothy Woodson
Jane D&amp;tJvo
Patnck Young
Paul Zarembka
Albert Errnanovtcs
James Holstun

OBITUARIES
Kevin M. Durkin , 54,
assistant vice president
for student affairs,
admissions director
A Mass ol CIYOSiian
BuriBlwashek:t

Match 1 tn St. Gr~
goty the Great
Catholic Churcll.
Atmerst. for Kew1
M. llurltin, assostant
VICe president for
student affairs and
d1recl0r of admissions at UB untJilast

November Ourkon
doed Feb 26.,
Buffalo General
Hospital He was 54

DURIUN

·Ke\lln was truty committed and dedtcated: S8td UB President William R Gretner
·He worked hard to accomplish a lot of great
thtngs fOf our unrverstty commumty as a
whole He cared deeply about ue.· Gretner
sa1d . · and most especially about our stu·
dents--they were genUinety personally tmportant to htm And he was a truly good and
gentle person Kevin was a model tor servw:e
excellence at UB We wtll m•ss htm Robert L Palmer. viCB prestdent for student
affa~rs. said , "When lthrnk of K&amp;VIn Ourk•n. 1
recall a man whose knowledge and talent were
hrghly respected rn the admtsstOns ftekl across
the state and beyond He took senousty htS
responsibthty to provrde the H!aderstup requrred to ensure that the unrverstty met or
exceeded tiS enrollment targets !Of' freshman
and transfer students and was always successful in achrevrng those ob,I&amp;Ctrves
"Kevm was a man of rmmense character
and integnty; the consummate team player.Palmer said "He exhibited the rare quality ol
taking his JOb senousty. but n9V'9r hrmself
Dunng hts tenure at UB . he touched many
hves •n many drfferent ways Durk1n earned his bachelor of arts degree
tn hrstory and secondary educahon at
Fredonia State Col~ge and a master of sctence degree in secondary education at Buttak&gt; State College.
He taught English and soctal studl&amp;s rn
Jamestown and Dunkirk htgh schools before
becomtng d irector of admrss10ns and records
at Buffalo State College tn 1975
Durkin became director of admissions and
records at UB rn 1982, and then director ol
admrsstons from 1984 to 1988 In 1988 he
became assrstant vice president !Of student
aHarrs tn addition to conltnutng as dtrector of
admrsstons
He belonged to numerous professl0fl81
orgamzatoos. tncluding the Western New Yoril
Consortium of AdmisSfOflS Officers and Regts trars. whteh he served as charr , he was a
member and fOfmer executrve commmee
member of the State Unr~erstty ol New York
Admiss1011s Personnel Association and past
cha1rman of tRe New York Consortium of Colleges and UnrverSitiBs for Peterson's GUides
He served on many committees at UB
includrnp the Enrotlment Management Commmee . Committee on Integrated Advisement.
Public Retattons Task Force. Faculty Senate
Committee on Admtssion and Retentoo.
Flnanctal Atd Steenng Commtttee and Ortentalton Advtsory Committee Among hts community work was serviCe on the Board ol
Trustees for the Recovenng Chtld Foundatron
and for Mt. St. Mary"s Academy
Survrvors rnclude hrs wrfe , Nancy a
daughter. Maureen. of Wilhamsvt11e. two sons
MIChael and Thomas. both of Amherst. two
srsters . Saranne Karalus and Mrchele Vallone .
both of Dunk1rk, and one grandson

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SUMMD M A N I S aY UIAJI~-

The Asian Studies program is offering rwo summer grants of $2.000
each to UB faculty lor undergraduate course development in East
As1an studles The end product may

be a new As•a-centered course or
an Asian module in an existing or

projected course Applicants may
be Asia specialists or non-spectal•sts Fundmg is provided through a

US/DE Title VI grant.
Similar grants given last summer
ted to the pioneering of a new
course on Japanese Architecture
and Urbanism and malar revisions
m an Industrial Geography offenng.
The apphcatiort deadline Is April
1 For more information and applicat•on •nstructions. contact the
As1an Studies program, 636 Baldy
Hall , 645-3474 : a--matt
burkmanOacsu.bulfalo.edu

•rue• .lackaon, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of English
and Samuel P.
Capen Chair of
American Culture
at US . will be the
guest of journalist
Sander Vanocur
when the History
Channel series
•Movies in Time"
presents' ·Against the Wall: a fea ture film about the 1971 Attica
pnson upr1sing starnng Kyle
Mclachlan. Samuel Jackson and
Clarence Williams Ill
The film and an mterview w1th
Jackson . who has wrinen extensrvely on the subject , will be broadcast at 9 p.m. on Friday, March 7,
and at 1 a.m . on Saturday. March 8
Jackson will discuss the film's
depiction of the violent. lour-day uprisrng in New YOI'k State's Attica
Pr ison that resulted in the deaths of
39 prisoners and guards and serious rntury to 89 others.
He also will discuss the Attrca
felony and crvil rights tnals that followed the uprising . then-Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller's pres•dential
ambit1ons at the tune of the riot and
how these may have 1nfluenced h rs
response to the riot.

DOCUMINTAIIY, LIC1UII£S ON
HUMAN IIMINTS IAuu
Pk&gt;grams on human rights issues
and a documentary and lecture on
the 1989 Chinese student movement lor democracy and 11s aftermath are being presented this
spring by the Human Rights Center
and the Graduate Group on Human
Rrghts Law and Polrcy at UB. For
more information. contact the Human Rights Center at 64s.6184 .
Sarah Laah Whitson ol the New
Yor'K City-based CentBf for EconomiC
and Social Rights will discuss "An
Assessment of Sanctions on Iraq Under lntBf'national Law'" at 9:30 a.m . on
March 14, •n 545 O'Bnan Hall. In this
lecture. free and open to the public,
Whitson will locus on the legality of

sanctions under internationaJ law and
the impact ol UN sanctions on the
Iraqi population.
Chtnese-born, Boston-based
fiii'TVT\8ker Carns Hinton will present
her documentary, "The Gates of
Heavanly Paace.• at two showings
on Apfil18 . The film examkles the

t 989 Chinese student movement for
democracy and its tragic aftermath
culminating in the massacre in
nanarmen Square. Screenings,

!rae 811d open to the public, will be
held from I -4 p.m. In Room 222,
Natural Sciences and Mathematk:s
Building , North Campus, and from
7·10 p .m . in Aoom215, NaturaJ Sc;...
ences and Mathematics Building . A
discussion will follow.

March 12. from 8: 15a.m . to 11 :30
a.m . at the Center for Tomorrow.

The seminar Is sponoorad by the
Empire Stata Development Busl·
ness Competitive Program: Erie
County Industrial Development
Agency: PllMIIps. Lytle, Hitchcocl&lt;,
Blaine &amp; Huber: Rand Capital Corp.
and the TDC.
SpeakBrs Will be T1moChy Klein.
presidar&lt; and CEO, ATTO Tachnology Inc.; John McGowan, dinlctor,

oosr.ass lncubetion. wm Technol-

ogy Development Centar, Inc.: James
Smyton, partne&lt;. Philips. Lytle,
Hitchcocl&lt;. Bleina &amp; Huber. and Nora
Sullivan. vice presidar&lt;, Rand Cepital
Corp. Thare Is a fae o1 560. For more
information can 636-3626.

·-~TODAY·
Four kK:tures will be gtven in March
and April as part of the series.
"Russian Culture Today,• presented

by the UB Russian Program. Admls·
sian is free and all are welcome.
The series Includes:

MFrom Russia With Love: What It
Means To Be Russian: Valentina
Sanders, former UB Jectur8f in Russian, March 13 from 11 a .m;-12:20
p.m.. II 8 Baldy.
"What~ So Funny. E&gt;&lt;-Comrade:
Post-5oviet Russian Humor." Prof.
Emil Oraitsar, Hunter Coflega (CUNY).
March 28. 2:30 p.m.• 930 Clemens.
"Ivan the Fool an:j Vasilisa !he w..,.:
Some Psychologic8l Consldarations on
!he Essance of the F\Jssian Sool. •
VladirrOr AgilyfN. ~ prolassor, UB
t3rac&gt;SB School ol Edl.cation. Apri 22.
11 am.- 12:20 p .m .• 9:J&gt;Oemens.
"A Cogn~ive Map of Russia at the
Millenium," Prol . Kathleen Parthe.
University of Rochester, April24 , I I
a.m.- 12:20 p .m. 930 Clemens.
Cosponsors are the Council on
lnt8fnational Studies and Programs:
Grey Chair. English Department;
Political Science Department: Department of Modem Languages
and Literatures : Russian Club .
For more Information call Emily
Tall. associate professor of Russian.

645-2191 . axt. 1199.

S - XI TO HAVE StuDENT
I!EaEAIICHCOM~

The student research competition of
US's Chapter of the Society of
Sigma Xi. the scientific research society. will be held May 1, at a dinner
in the Center for Tomorrow. North
Campus. Cash prizes will be
awarded for the best graduate and
undergraduate posters. The dinner
is complimentary for aU contestants.

Korea Waek is being presentad
March ~ by the Koraan Graduata
Student Association, Koraan St1Jdent
Association and the Koraan Folk Art
Club. Included are an International
symposium, Korean Night and a cu~

luralexhibltloo.
·
The lntarnational Symposium on
Ko&lt;aan Aaunification will have thraa
sassions. Session 1on March e at 6
p.m. in 330 Student Union faaturas
Rev. Dr. Seono-Woo Part&lt;. S8Ciel8ry
ol the Departmant of Cooperation
and Wrtnass. the World Alfianca ol
Aelormad Cllurches; Session II, also
with Rev. Dr. Seong-Woo Part&lt;. is
Match 7 at noon In 250 Student
Union. It is part ol the Asia at ..-,
series: Session Ill , also on March 71s
at 6:30p.m. in 104 Knox with Rev. Dr
Seong-Won Part&lt;. Dr. Benjamin Min,
professor, Buffalo State College and
Song-Ho Kim. graduate 51\Jdent in
English. Moderator is Seon-Wook
Kim, graduata student. philosophy.
Sponsors are Asian Studies, Buf.
falo Koraan Presbyterian Church,
Buftalo Koraan United Mathodlst
Church. fJee.Han Foundation at Buf.
falo. Graduate Philosophy Association, Graduate Student Association.
lrrwnanuel Prasbyterian Church, Koraan Studies and Office o1 VIC8 f'ro.
vost for International Education.
Koraan Night, March 8 at the Cooter lor the Arts. has the theme. "His·
tory of Korean lnvnigrants.• The Korean Cultural exhibit continues today
and Friday frcm 11 a.m.· 1 p .m.in the
Student Union Socoal Hall.

EOC TO-T IVDml FOA
.IN'S HISTOIIY _ . .
A pa~ d iscussion on the·impact of
welfare reform and workfare on
women will be one of several events

The competition has an April t

organizad by UB's Educational Op-

abstract deadline. AppUcation forms
are available frcm department chairs.
directors of graduate and under·

portunity Center during March to
observe Women's History Month.
The panel discussion wit! be held
from 11 a.m.-1 p .m. March 20, at
EOC, 465 Washington St. Panelists
wiB include Narri&lt;ea Choi. UB associala profassor ol social WQrl&lt;: Lourdes

graduata programs 811d from David
Triggle . dean o1 the graduate school.

For more Information, call645-7315
MMINAIIATON
-~FIHANCIN8

The Western New York Technology
Development Center, Inc. (TOC) will
present a seminar. ~ Non- Traditional
Financing Sources . on Wednesday.

1997 Poetry tontests: prizes • • $100 HCh

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The 1997 poetry contests sponSOf'ed by the Undergraduate Library in cooperation with the English Department and the Friends of the University
libraries will offer two prizes of $100 each 104' the best poems by UB students. The prize amount was listed Incorrectly in last week's Reporter.
The Academy of American Poets (AAP) contest is open to graduate
and undergraduate students. The Friends of the University Libraries prize
1s for undergraduates onty.
Entries should consist of one or mQ(8 typewntten. double-spaced poems, not to exceed a total of six pages. The writer's name should not appear on the poems, but '.Kl a cover sheet with the name of the prize and
the writer's name, class . address and phone number. Send entries to Mar·
garet R. Wells, director, UncY..ff'graduate library, 107 Capen Hall. North
Campus, Buffa)O, N .Y. 14260-2200. Deadline Is Friday, March 14. Winners

will be notiflad by April I 7.

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Iglesias, projecl diractor of Hispanics
Unitad of Buffalo (HUB): James M.
Mor:risev. director, Western New York
LBw Center: George Smyntal&lt;. regional economist, New Vorl&lt; .Stata Department of Labor. and Sherry! D.
Weems, EOC director.
Moderators will be Kelly J .
Asher. research assistant at EOC,
and Csrol M. Dozier, EOC employment specialist.

EOC staff. lacUty m studa1ts wil

read onginal poetry an:j 98iac:OOns

pemad by lamous woman IMiers at
1:30 p,m. Man::h 12. A aafl
hobby_
8&gt;C11ibit wil shoNcase woo1&lt;s ol EOC faoulty. studants &amp; staff.

m

EOC librarian Karen Jeffries will
present videos and d iscussions In

the EOC'a Archie Huntar Memorial
library to celebrate Women's His·

tory Month. All prasanlatlons will
begin at·noon. The schedule:
• Tuesday. March t 1: "Alice
Walkaf/Gap-Toothed Women·
• Tuesday, March 18: "Risk Tak-

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accounls, conJact th~ Computing Center's Help lksk at
645-3542.
-lAra Bus!Ulllow·Wilbur tJJUilAss Pequeno G/aVer. University libraries

ing In Children and Adults"

• Tuesday, March 25: ·An
Evening With Sharon Amos and
George Grace" AJI events are free
and open to the public.

Qenkl L ~. associate
profesSOf, Department of Convnun._
catton . participated Feb. 20 in a

Consumer Product Safaty Commission Chairman's Roundtable on
·How to Motivate Young Teens to
Usa Salety Gear." The roundtable,
held In Washington, D.C., included
representatives from business and
the non-profit sactor. Goldhaber. the
onty academic to be invited to the
event. was also invited to meet
separately with the CPSC Human
Factors staff.

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I!'UJIS
~-I'VINTS

The Woman's Club ol the University
at Buffalo will hold its annoel alaction
maet1ng March 11 , al 7:30 p.m. in
the Student Union. Room 210, North
Gampus. The following slate of officers will be presented: Preskjent
Dawn Hatvorsen: Vtce President,
Julie Cohan: Treasurer, Lana
Allendoerfer; Recording Secretary,

Karan Foontaln: Comlsponding
SeCretary, Cormelle Hanley.
The alection win be lollowad by
a talk on •.._ to Gat Along with
Anyone, Anytima, Anywhere,. by Susan Makai. presidant, Penional Eleat.
Desserts, fruit. tea and ccllee will be
served following the program. Dawn
HaMln;en Is chalr. Arrangements for
refraslwnents ara by hoopitality chairs
SIWiey Buckle and Maria Cobl.m.

A lew openings are leh tor the
dey ulp to Cliovaland on April tO. to
..,. the Faberge in America Exhibit
at the Cleveland Museum ol Art.
Admission to the museum, the
Faberge exhibit, a Faberge Aoyat
Taa. tine to browse the museo.m'a
collec1ions and • box supper, -....
bus tr1lnSpOrlation and guide are ir&gt;ctuded in the 560 per person cost.
A social hour with complimentary
desserts, coffee and tea wil be head
at 3 p.m. today in Room 145 E in the
Student Union, North Gampus. as
part ol the International Committae's
monthly meeting. Students, faculty
and conwnunity . . . . - . welcome.
Group events Include:
Money and lnYesting: Man::h 12. 7
p.m.:
vice president. ...
vestments, A.G. Edw1Wds &amp; Sor-. wil
discuss tho Dow 10 theory. nicltnamed "Dogs ol the Dow." along with
the concept ol using ..... trusts . . .
vel1icta lor lnYesting. They wil , _ in
the Jaannetta Martin Room. fif1ll floor.
Capon Hel, North CarTl&gt;us; Janat
Fedor and Norma !\bin, eo&lt;:heirs.
Books: March to, 12:30 p.m.:

David-·

Ann8 Brody will lead discussion of
"The Wedding" by Dorodly Wast
Bridge: Mart:h 17, Dandelion's-

.....n. 10a.m.-2p.m . l o r -

ard advanced play; Bridge Aigt ....
sions schadulad at rnarrbars' """"""
r&amp;x:e: Maria ScNio. ~Bow~ng : every Monday, tO a.m..
at Sheridan Lanes for three games
ol oper1 bowling: Rhoda Storr. chair.
Cross~ntry skiing: every Friday, tO a.m. at Part&lt; Country Club
for a roornlng ol skilng or hiking:
Gloria Pleu, chair.
Tenris: fN8f'( Wadnesdey, 1:30-3
p.m., Amherst Hilts Tannis Cklb:
l\laria Schilo, IWo Shub, chai"s.

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Jacob named regional academic All-American
Royals point guard is a
UB sclwlar-athlete
eiiOYALS IIUDY ,_-.coN
co•~~
The Royals open the 1997 Mid-Con Conference Woman's Basl&lt;etball Tournamenll'hufsday against MiSSOtJrl.l&lt;anaaa City al 7 p.m.
UB is seeded third In the aight-leMI cllampionship; UMKC enters as the Bixth seed.
Other contes1s Thursday: lllp seed Troy
State meets No. 8 Chicago State 8112:30
p.m.; lourth seed Northeastefn Illinois laces
fifth seed Valparaiso at 2:30 p .m.; defending
champion and second seed Youngstown
State lakes on No. 7 .WBS1em IHinois at5 p.m.
Two ...,-;tina~ wil be played Friday,
March 7. The charrl)klnship garne wil be
played Sab.&lt;day March 8, at 4 p.m., broadcast
1M! by ErT'4)ire Sports Network. T"'-"""""'l
champion earns M I!I.Jbn8lic berth in the
NCAA Woman's Basi&lt;Bttlall Too..mMlent
Tournament tickats are
sale at the
Alumni Arena tx»c office, or by caUing 6456666. Master Card and VISII acceptad. TICket
prices are $15, reserved all-sessions pass
and $12, general admission all-sessions .
Daily sessions are $7, reserved seating and
$5, general admission. UB and Mid.COO
Conference students admitlad for $1 .

en

e BULLS DROP CHICMIO STAlE
IN a.N'S~OPENER
After leading by only four points at the half,

the Bulls pulled away In the second half to
dispose of Chicago State 81-08 in the first
round of the CitgoMid-Conlinent Conference
Tournament in Moline. IU. UB moved into the
serrifinals for a meeting with third-seeded
Wastem Illinois, a team the BuHs had beaten
twice dtiing the regular season.
The Buls hit on l!kli.3J III1Cis in the second
half as they aABccred the Coug&gt;n 51-32 in the
final20 rrn.tes. UB used a 12-o n.n early in the
half to build a cushion and didn' loci&lt; back.
UB led by no fewer than 20 points in the last
five minutes as all 12 Bulls scored in the
game. Rasaun Ycrng led a balanced scoring
attack with 12 points while Mil&lt;a Martinho and
Sco!l McMiHin added 11 and Matt Clemens
had 10. Clemans a n d - JoiToson led the
leoo1 with Bi!tt ~apiece.
The Bulls saw their season come to 8
closa late Monday night with 8 heartbraal&lt;ing
rn-77 overtime loss to Western Illinois in the
semiflnals.The loss closed out a 17-11 season for the Bulls.
Pri:lr to the lClrnMlent, the conference arr
r-an::ed the AI-Conlerence squads VOOid on
by the ooaches and the , _ _ Yrulg and
Martinho earned firsl-teM1 nods from the
coaches, wf1ile the...- named Yrulg to the
firs! teMl and Mar1inho ID the second. Yrulg
tnshed as the conference's reg&lt;.W season
champion in scoring with his 20.11 average and
omong the league's best in fial6.goaJ

Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals

B SOPHOMORE point guard
Catherine Jacob is one of five student-athletes from five different
schools in the New York/New England region selected to the GTE Academic All-District I Women's Basketball
team, as selected by CoSIDA (College
Sports Information Directors of America).
Jacob now is eligible for selection to the
national GTE Academic All-American
Team, to be announced March 20.
A mechanical engineering major with a
3.902 cumulative grnde-point average, Jacob
is the Royals' starting point guard. Jacob and
the Royals will take their21 -5 overall n:cord
into the Mid-Coo Conference Toumamen~
March 6-8 at Alumni Arena, with a bid to
the 1997 NCAA Women's Basketball Own-

U

percentage. free..throN percentage, reboo..nding
and assists. His J9 points vs. Northeastern Illinois rar1&lt;s as the league~ best this season.

MEN'S SWIMMING
Korry Miller set meet, pool and school
records. winning the 200 backstroke at the
ECAC Championships in Gloucester. N.J.
Miller won the race in 1:49.22. a time good
enough to qualify him for ll1e U.S. Senior Nationals. The Bulls placad fifth out of 43teams.
Kevin Jessop tied the UB school record
with his seventh·ptace finish in the 400 lndr·
vidual Medley. Dan Hickey took fifth place in
the 200 freesty1e. He was eighth in the 100
free and part of 200 free relay, 400 medley
relay, (eighth), 800 free relay (fourth) and
400 free relay (seventh) .

Miller took Hhh in ll1e 100 backstrol&lt;e and
eighth place in ll1e 200 Individual Medley;
Mark Horgan was Bixth in the 500 freestyle
and .,;ghth in the 400 Individual Medley.

Mid-Continent Conference Womens
Basketball Tournament &amp;-rnifinals

Alumni Arena.
Troy State-Crncago State w inner vs. Northeastern
Illinois-Valparaiso winner, 5 p .m .;

Youngstown State-Western Illinois winner vs.

• WOMEN'S SWIMMING
Glolcester. N.J. UB scored 283 points lo finish
behind champion North Canfua-Wtlmington
and second place William &amp; Mary. OlVer Arldrea Skillman took a fourth-place fintsh rn the

Basketball Tournament Rnals

CALENDAR
Conlinued from page 8
1'1-oc:arr Requlriaala....-.tioo
of s..-y ID!"III. IUclwd
Hurtig, Uaiv. of Iowa. 280 Part.
North Campus. 2-4 p.m.

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Motlvallq Younelf and Olben. 3-4 p.m. CaJI64S·612S .

Art -/IAcbore
Pbotoanpber Merit Allee
DuraoL Art Department Gal lery. Center for the A.Ju. North
Campus. 4.,p.m. Free.

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A JDS Wutin1 Syndrome:
II Biger Better? Kristin
Gilliland. UB Phann.D. candi date. 121 Cooke. North Campus.
4:30p.m.

-

Arcllltecture Lecture

.

Laurie Bawldnton, Smith·
Miller+ Hawkinson Architects.
30 I Crosby. South Campus.
5:30p.m .

Opooo:c-.uve
American Lepon Bud of the
Thoawaodu. Allen. South
Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Concc:n to
be broadcast on the following
Sunday at 4 p.m. on WBFO-FM

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88.7.

Dlstloo&amp;UI- ..,._.,.

P .J. O'Rourke, bn;t-selling
author and political satirist.
Mainstaae. Center for the Aru.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. Call

645-ARTS.

F11mmaker Lawreocc Brose,
UB Visitina Prof. of Media
Study. Screening Room, Center
ror the Aru. North Campus.
7:30p.m.

F-ltylteclbl
Dlvid·FU.Uar, barptkhonl.
S lee. North Campus. 8 p.m. S2.
$5. $6, $8.

--·- --Hoi}'--Tbt Orcbettra, Maria S.
llome, director. Black Box lnc.·
atre, Center for the Arts. North
Camp&lt;u. 8 p.m. $3. Call 645-

ARTS.

PeD&amp;&amp;H:e Suvic:e.. Newman
Center, 2091bc: Commons.
North Campus. 9 p.m.

ACSIT_.....,
lntrodudioo. to Microsoft
Word for Maciatosb Students.
10 a.m.-Noon. Reaister lhrou&amp;h
Academic User liaison Office,
~IS Computing Center. 645-

3540.
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C.lbl.. , _,

From Ru.ala with Love:
What it ~DUD~ to be Russian,
Valentina Sanden. former
UB lecturer in Russian. 118
Baldy. North Campus. II a.m.·
12:20 p.m.

ICMPc-t
Mary Artman, cello, Jonathan
Goklove., ce:Uo. Baird Recital
Hall. North Campus. Noon. Music by Carola Bauckho1t. Mara
Gibson, Jonathan Golove, HyeJeoog Hwang, Casper Johannes
Walter. Free.

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T he Role of Prothn IODAR
C I'"ymes lD Rq,ulatioo of

lot...laal Epithelial

CtU

Growth, Dr. Jennifer D. Black.
Dept. of Pharmacology. 306
Farber. South Campus. 12:30
p.m.

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Bask Slntepe. for Pbyskal
FitDeq. Father Belle Commu·
n.ity Center, 104 Maryland St ..
Buffalo. 2·3 p.m. Free. Spon·

sorcd by the UB Living Well
Center.

Slee. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m.
Fr« .

Catioak: LipidliD Gene and
Dnaa DtUvuy, Robert Cambell
S08 Cooke. North Campus .

_~;x"•~-•.r$

3:30p.m.

-

lllolotlcel-

"Arabic Scholarship in PreColo nial West Africa and the
Diaspora. ~ cun.ted by UGL rderence librarian Musa Abdul
Hakim, is on vic;w through
March 14 in the Oscar A.
Silverman Undergnduate li·
brary in Capen Hall, Nonh
Campus. The exhibit features
biographies or linle·known
Black scholan and samples of
their original Arabic writing
from pre-colonial Africa and
pre-Civil War Americ.t. For information. call 645-2943 .

P atteras of lavertebrate ProdudJoa iD RuaoiD&amp; Waters,
Dr. Arthur C. Benke, Univ. of
AJabama. I 14 Hochsteuer.
Nortb Campus. 4 p.m.

-eouo.···
The lmportaDC'e of Tnt.nsitivity: Make Your Own Cbaos
In n.... Euy Steps, Prof.
Annalisa Cta!mell. Fnnklin &amp;
Manhall College. 103 Die fen dorf. South Campus. 4 p.m.

ur.-......

Tb~tioa

Support

G roup. Barbara Umiker, UB
Counseling Center. 4:30-5:30
p.m. Thundays lhrough April
17. Ca11645-612S .

uuuG....., followed by Thai

Thln&amp; You Do, Diet Coke Uncapped Film Festival. 201 Sludent Union. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. $2.50, $4.

-Fono·

UB Praideat WIUiam R.

Grdoer. WBFO-FM 88.7 7-8
p.m. Call 829--6000 with ques·
tions.

IIWoCH Lecture se.teo
All~utre Rossaae "'Sandy'"
Stoeae. cybertheorist. educator
and author. Albright-Knox An
Gal lery Amphitheater. 8-9:30
p.m. Co-sponsored by UB Art
Gallery.

-

U B SympbOillc Ba.nd and Uot-

vonlty Cbond, Sanh L.
McKoin and Harriet Simons.

exhllllt In UQL

-wt

l'he Graduate Show : Fitsl· Year
Sludents" in the UB Art Gallery.
second noor. Cemer for the
Aru, North Campus. Through
March 16. Gallery houn are
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. WednesdaySaturday. and Noon-5 p.m. Sunday.
~

... .,.

•· 1997 Rumsey Candidates, .. a
collection or work by junior·
level an m~jors competing for
the Rumsey and Polenz.a
awards. Art Dcpa.nme:nl Gallery.
Center ror the Arts. Through
March II. GaJiery houn are I0
a.m.-5 p.m. 1\lesd.ay, 10 a.m.·8
p.m. Wedne5da.y-Friday. and II
a.m.·8 p.m. Saturday.

. .......,.

.._.

Work by Duane Zaloudek, who
since the early '60s has been exploring what he refers lo as the
"sensuality of the act of seeing."
Lightwell Gallery, Center for
the Arts. Through March 16 .
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.-8
p.m. Wednesday· Saturd.ay, and
Sunday Noon-5 p.m.

===-.____. . .,

1-meter competJUon and followed with a StXth
place showing in the 3-meter event. l.Jeselle

Trinidad placed fifth 1n the 100 butterfly finals
and tied for fourth 1n ll1e 200 butterfly. Martie
Duffen was seventh 1n the 400 lndMdual

Medley. Duffett. along With Sue Bohnel. Carr+e Grant and Roxanne Kuba placed fourth
the BOO free relay competitiOf'l.

cu_..,

1n

.WR£S1UNG
The Bulls are back 1n acHon thiS weekend
when llley head to Lewisburg. Pa., tor ll1e
East Coast Wrestling Associatron Championships at Bucknell University. Competition be·
gins on Saturday, March 8, and concludes

on Sunday, March 9, with the crowning of the
team champton and individual

wetght~lass

winners. Champions of the 10 weight
classes. as well as two wild cards, move on
to the NCAA Championships '" Cedar Falls.

Iowa. on March 2()..22.

• INDOOR TRACK • FIELD
At last weekend's ECAC Championships

The Royals finished sewnth out of 43 teams "
last weekend~ ECAC ~ips in

Mid-Continent Conference Women's

pionship at stake.
Jacob has starled all
26 games this season and_ bas averaged II. I points.
2.6 rebounds, 6 .0
assists and 2.5 steals
per game. She is
ranked 17th in the
nation in assists per
game and 22nd in
the nation in free lhrow percentage.
She set a school r=rd as a freshman with
163 assists and already has 153 this season.
Jacob is shooting 45.4 per=l1 from the floor
and 33.8 percent from three-point range. A
dean's list memberc:a::h ofher semesters 81 UB.
she also is a UB Seholar-Alhlete.
She has started 55 of 57 career games with
the Royals, compiling a 44-13 r=xd. She was
named to the AU-Tournament team at the St
Joseph 's Hawk Classic this season. •

tn

Hanover, N.H. , lhe Royals' Terry Scherne
broke her own school record in the pentathlon competition with 3,5()) points . Shelley
Hamilton competed in the h1gh jump, fimshing with a leap of 5-7 3/4 .
- Ted Wasko. Sports Information Office

t11e .....

Lucy Gunning's video "Climbing Around My Room" follows
a bardooc woman in a red pany
dress as she carefully moves
along the walls or her room.
finding convenient footholds in
maneuvers of mantels and moldings. Through March 16. UB Art
Gallery, Cemer for the Arts.
Gallery houn at I 0:30 u.m.-8
p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, and
Sunday Noon-S p.m.

0...., exhllllt
"Cannon" curated by Christopher Less of Cannon Design.
opens March 10 and stays
through April 18 in the James
Dyeu Gallery, 334 Hayes Hall.
South Campus. Hours are 9
a.m.-S p.m. Monday throug h
Friday.

HQJ_I~~$
The Creative Craft Center beginning March 24 offers workshops in textile design, knitting
and crocheting, quilting. Braz.il·
ian embroidery, ph()(ography,
stained glass. weaving, jewelry,
and pottery. All workshops run
one nighl a week for six weeks
from 7· 10 p.m. with the exception or Saturday morning work shops for children. Fees are SJO
for students, and $50 (or others.
1be Creative Craft Center is located at 120 Fillmore. Ellicolt
Complex. North Campus. Fo r
information please call Juhe
Smith mornings at64S-6125. or
the Craft Center afternoons and
evenings at 645-2434.

_

~Q~$
.... .........
Jnslructional Support Associate (SL-2)-lnfonnatJOn Man-

agement &amp; Technology. Posung
fP-70 II . Lead Programmer
Analyst {SL-3)-Infonnation
Management &amp; Technology,
Posting fP-7012. Residentt
BaU Oirtttor (Slrl)-Univer·
sity Residence Halls. Posting
MP-7014. 1.ostructiooal Support Assistant (SL-1)-Pn:servalion Program, University Librvies. Posting fP-70 15. Lad Pro-

gnmmer/Amdyst (SL-3)-Ath·
letics. Posting IP-7016. Teacb·

ing Hospital Nurw

Pnctit~

ner (SL-4)-Studcnl Health Center, Posting MP-7017. Assistant
Vkt: Presideat (MP-la)·Universily Facilities, Posting

NP-7018.

R-ch
R~rcb Aide-Sponsored Programs Personnel. Open. Re-

search Support Spedalist-B•ochemical Phannacology. PostJng
NR -96085. Research Tethoi·
ci.an I·Biological Sciences.
Posting IR -96068. CounseklrCora P. Maloney College.
Posting lfR-970 1S. Secntary
UJ -Development. Posung
JR-97016. Project Administralive Officer-Development. Post·
tng ltR-97017.

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Dental Assistant (S(rl)'7)·
School of Denial Medkme. Lmt
140904. Dental Assistant (SG·
07)· School of Dental Medic1ne.
Line t4092S . Dental Assistant
(SG-{t7)-School of Dental Med1 ·
c ane, L1ne 140926. Maintenatt('e Helper (SG-06)-UmverSlty Facilities. lane 146010 .
46082.
Tu obtatfl morr lfljonnoti On on
jObs lutrd abcJvr. contact Prrsonntl Mrv1as, 104 Crofts
Hall. To obtam mformation un
Rruarc-h jObs. contact Sponsorrd Progroms Pr rsonnrl.
4/6 Crofts

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Alta--r-. .--pllon - I n the A - .

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Lobby. North Campua. 9· 10

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p.m. S2.SO. S4.

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7-1:30 p.m. Caii64S.

6125

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Re,;.ter lhn&gt;u&amp;h Academic: User

l..iaisoa Offoce. 21S ComputinJ

C otree TaUt with Faaahy ud
Staff, Michael Ryan, Chemical
Engineering. Student Union
Lobby. North Campus. 8,J09Lm.

ucrr-.....

WordhrfKt 6.1 (or WUMiows
for StuckatL 9-11 a.m. Reaister

c.n.... 64S.3S40.

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Jtloluo ud ........... of()walq
Your 0..... ...._Melvin

Davis., Offtee of StudeDI Ule.

6:30-9'30 p.m. Caii64HI25.

omce. 21 Com puling Cencu.
64S·lS40.

City or Loa ChUdn:a. 20 I Student Union. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. S2.SO. S4. F....,b/En&amp;lish
subtitleo.

C offee Talk with FKUity llOd
swr. Kim O=oe. Putll!aand
Transportation. Student Union
Lobby. North Campus. 9·

Publk lateral Law
Prop-ul'•lodA.aauaiAue·
Uoa. Calumet Arts Cafe. 7· I0
p.m. Tte:keu, $1.5 pre-We; S20
at door. and include open bar

thtouJh Aademic User Liaison

s

J Jutra)o

I0:30a.m.

-w.;...

K......, Collunl EsblbiL Social Hall, Student Union. Nonh
Campus. II a.m.- I p.m.

and bon d'couvret. Call
Kristen. 8li·I6S8.

l lulr.lo l'llllba..oak o.u..

In, with jiZ% le&amp;eDd Beuy

Carter. Kleinbant Music: Hall.

- - - CellllloleO
C aldal Mo~ Ill Me-c.bukaUy SaaDtive Cdls, Dr.
Georsc Hajducwk. UB Dept.

o f PhysiotoaY and Biophysics.
306 Farl&gt;er. Soulh Campus.

12:30 p.m.

7,30 p.m. S2A. Co-sponso&lt;ed by

DWope.._....._

Elb:abd.ll S...U, eu.ra~or,
Whitney MURW'D of American
...... Albri&amp;J&gt;t·Kno• Art Gallery
Ampbilbea~tt. 8-9:30 p.m. Co-

IHDt QuartuftaaiL Alumni
Arena. North Campus. 12:30

p.m. 2:30p.m., S p.m.• 7 p.m.

--.....

BIV/Se• uallyn-a-llled
Dlsouol ........lioaStnote&amp;iH. F1ther Belle Comrounity
~ntet, 104 Maryland St, Buffalo. 2-3 p.m. Free. Presented by
UB Living Well Center.

UB Art Gallery.

n.. &lt;&gt;rc-.., MariaS.

Kuuko S1gawL S08 Cooke.

or VacdDa lD l•muB..... 11mochy
Bunc:hman, M.D.,
Univ. of Mk:IU&amp;an.

Col._...

.......,_._
.,___

BIP&lt;r Order Arnuo..-.t of
DNA Ia tllo Speno Nucleus,

Dr. W. Steven Ward, Robei1
Wood Johnson Medical School.
New Brunswick. NJ. 114 Hoch-

stetler. North Campus. 4 p.m.

Lit.--..

~tionSupport

G roup. Barbara Umiker, UB
Counseli.n.a Center. 4:30-.5:30
p.m. Thundlys through April
17. Call 64s.612!i .

nocompromlJed

Kinch Auditorium.
CIUidren's Hospital.
I a.m.

-

A w. . . . . . WeN.
Colfee'l'alkwlth

FKuttyudS&amp;afl',

--

lnterDaUouJ S)'IDpo&amp;ium on
Kornn R.nu~ ltkatioa (ftnt
sea:ioa), Or. Seona- Won Park.
330 Student Union. North Campus• .5-6 p.m.

put.

3:30p.m..

C elreo 'l'lllt rill Faculty ud
Stair, Sandy Handy.
Plannin&amp; and PlacemeoL Student Union Lobby. North Cam·

ea.....

pus.

1~10'.30

a.m.

. ,. ··•··....

TIIollole fiiOrpak Colloldt
Ia ... Mlpdo. fiiOrpak

s,-,.._,_

FouodatlCXI. O'llriaD. North
Campua. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. S50. SIS
studeDts.l'« iDformMioa: http://
winp.bulf.alo.edullowlblr/

.aat SealftaaiL Alwnni
......._ North Campua. S p.m..

ur.--..

............. Syoopoolaa oa
~Uweuhaalllcolloo(Wnl

-·Or.

Scoa&amp;·WCXI Park.
Dr. Bcojamin Min, Suaa-Ho
Kim. 104 Knox. North Campus.

6'30-9:30 p.m.

Campua. 6'30 and 9 p.m.

8. Call64s.6125 .

KOftOD Cttlllanl EsblbiL SO.
cial Hall, Student Union. North
Campua. II Lm.- 1 p.m.

ltallu," Maria Varps. U8
assoc. prof. of Spamsh. Screen·
in&amp; Room. Center for tbe Arts.
North Campus. 7 p.m. $3. Call
64.5-ARTS for more i.nformatioo.

-.&gt;.Rev. Part Scoaa·Woo.

MutdJaa Arts EG.•ble.. Mu·

sic for brass ud pcrcu.ssioo.
!rom Bach 10 Zappa. Slcc. North
SID.
Campus. 8 p.m. S4. SS.

sa.

n.. &lt;&gt;rc-.., Maria S.

M ooterC'-: Meridlu ArU
-....._ Sl&lt;e. North Campus.
I p.m. Free.

Home. director. Black Box Theatre, Center for the Arts. North
Campus. 8 p.m. S3. Call 64S.

~­
c:oao.-

Eoliq llMuL 201 Student

ARTS.

Colfee TaUt witb

Facullyud Stoff.

Shelly Frederick.
Assl. Vice Provoo for
Undergraduate Education, and Kim Greene,
Parltin&amp; and Tronspo&lt;·
tation. Student Union

ur.--..
w_......,..,.,.ear-

Campus. • p.m.

-

-c-..

111o0ory or ~Uweu ~aa~.
....... Ceotu !O&lt; tho Arts.
North Campua. 6 p.m.

1'11e~MariaS .

EHSEMBL£,_..

, . , . ........ 7at
I p.m. In liM

of

c-tH811a
part
-,/VIs-

ltlnc
Artlat riM.

...... Solly-· Emeritus

Cooter. Goodyear. Soutb Campus. 2 p.m. Preceded by I p.m.

..........
.,....,
........ _...,.

u_~~-,..._

atre, Center for the Ana. North
Campua. 8 p.m. $3. Caii64S·

ARTS.

Klva. 101 Baldy. North Campua.
3:3()..5 p.m.

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s,_r.,-S.7p.m.

UaiJoo 0!6cc. 21S Computio&amp;

a

,

c-.64S.~.

O':

NlopnDiolridMuten
s--.~
Alumai Atma N.worium.
Nonb Campus. 1 LDL-2 p.m.

....

_.._,

- .....-.udpublk
._,....,
..-.,80th

birthday of LcsiM: P"ledlcr. U8
Samuel L. Clemeos Prof..- of
£oalish. 2 p.m. - . . , or
1928 silent film "''ur Daacioa

Dau&amp;J&gt;ters." Droma Tlleauo.

Ceoltt foe the Ana. Notch Campus. Followed by~
arxkate reception in Ceoter for
the Arts Auium.. Free tickett
• available in Ceoler box office
immedialcly preced..inJ tbe event
on a flRl-come. ftne-servcd

--·buis.

........ Sip~
Seaolaar. S:J0-6:30 p.m. Tueo·

daystbn&gt;u&amp;J&gt; April I. c.u 64S.
6125.

ur.--..

Dialope: Lob Arrin&amp;·
ud £laiDe Zidia. IJtaitu\e
lor tho Heoliq or Racism. 7· 10
p.m. TaeadayslhrDu&amp;J&gt;-Man:b
II . Call64s.6125.
lOG

............ ,.....
c.rt

t

~

Hmiman HaiL South Campus.
8-11 p.m. Fm:.

n. o..c-.., Maria s.

Home. diroctot. Black Boa The·

au.. Ceotu IO&lt; tho Ana. Nonh
Campua. 8 p.m. $3.

c.u 645-

ARTS.

n. &lt;&gt;rc-.., MariaS.

Home, dim:tor. BlaCk Box The-

atre,

CerMer for the Aru. North

Campua. 2 p.m. $3. Call 64SAKIS.

ar.-~«of Amotic.an Guild of Orpn·
isu. Slcc. North Campus. S p.m.

---c---.
·
Wortdoa wtl.lt Splrltaal

. _ ... c...._.c......,
BoGllic CoUiDs. DacmeD Col·

..... S6:5. Call64s.61&lt;10.

........... ax.....
ea-. James Oycn Gallery,
MERIDIAN ARTS

Campus. 8 p.m. $3. Caii645-

- . 12:30-1,30 p.m. Call
64s.6125.

S2. ss. S6. sa.

A w....... w.-

Home; - . Blact 8oJ&lt; The- . Caller for tho Ana. Nonb

~c-...

w-·,....-....n.r.a-

Campus. 8:30-9 a.m.

-

1'11e~MaiaS.

-n.&amp;AI01DIDi......._

Home. di=tor. Black Boa 'lbo-

Soop, S.O,O. Clstaaa: Mbed
C......lo"Woilloaforllle

....._.

- b y SalatW..-.

ARTS.

Scnaa. 201 Student UDioo..

North
.._.

""--'.,.... sz. ss. S6. sa.

la............... C - y.l-2
p.m. Saturdays lhrDu&amp;J&gt; Man:b

1 p.m.

Nonb Campu.a. 11 a.m.

..K.....,......__&lt;--1
..._._.s,....... ..

GodwiD. ElocuotUc-

cybcrlaw.

l'ollaluli~W&lt;tlucl

ud SjlolloiTo.ponl VarialioM, Dr. Deben Baeld11u.
Univ. of lnd.iana. 140 Ketter.

Cyilalaw: Lepl DDctriloe and
. . . - . KcyDooe speUcr. Mike

- .............. eo.
spooscred by tho Buffalo chap-

Korn.a R.eu.nifkaUoa from a
Global ~npedive, Rev. Park
Seona-Won, World Alliance of

330 Student Union. North Campw . .5p.m.

Bob-

.,__

San. Birth, Student
Health Center. Student
Unioa Lobby. North

Aolll.t-

Reformed Ouan:bes. Geneva.

Bydrldo..- &lt;lc.n-yl
C--:AaidaYLAdd

w_.,, Belketball Twna-

Lu Schubert. Univ. of Roc.hcs-

13th .U.Oual MikbeU
Rubia Leduft: Utt

1-1:30 p.m..

· Mid..c_,c...-

-/YioltloC-

North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

Ployalcs
Skyr.ktld ud the Quantum
• HaU Effect, Prof. Shivaji Sondi,
Princeton Univ. 20S Natural Sciences. North Campus. 3:4.5 p.m.

Re,;.ter tbrua&amp;h A&lt;adeutic

Userl..iaisoa Office. liS Computina Ceotu. 64S.)S40.

uu.u-

~c:oao.­
Pbllooopby ud O.lolo&amp;l&lt;al
Noa-Rellithity, Ob-Hyun Shln.
Kyungboot National Univ. 684

Baldy. North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

p.m.

Home. director. Black Box The·
atrc, Cenltr for the Arts. North
Campus. 8 p.m. Sl. Call 64S·
ARTS.

Antibody Productioa to So.

dium/Sutrate Cotraasporttr.

Advuad VNIX. tO a.m.- I

Cloloridel, Prof•.
bwJ. SUNY Gatoaco. 21S
Natunl Seioocea. Nonh Cam-

---..

World Alliance of hformcd
Cbwt:bts. 250 SIUdc.ot Union.
North Campus. Nooa. Co-span·
SC&lt;ed by tho K....., GSA and
Asian Stu&lt;fies Propm.

Sueaa. 201 Student Union.
North Campus. 9 p.m. S2.50, S4.

KlmboU Towor. Soutb Campua.
3 p.m. Eveatt are plaDDCd from

-,c-...

WBPQ.FM 88.7.

~~by

Mld.CO.IIMal c . . WOIHII'I Bubtball Touru-

v.... -...,......,....

Ccater for the Artt. North Campus. 9 a.m..t:IS p.m. Pnoo. Cospooscred by tho U8 Dept. of
Media Study and tho Media Arts
TcocbcnAuoc:iatioa(MATA).

)~ Hayea. Soulh Campus. 9
LDL 'l"bnJu&amp;J&gt; Aprill8. Gallery
boun 9 a.m.-.5 p.m. MODdayFriday.
•

Dew '
Celtllw
Noa-'I'radllloul " - l q
Soarca. Ceota" for Tomorrow.
North Campua. $60. Caii6J6.

l.o3626.

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Coaopulla&amp; E l l - of

llle CIT'!-. SMriso&amp; lle....ua. 9:30 a.m..PNooa. ReJittcr throu&amp;h Acade.mic: Uter Liai·

""" 0!6cc. 21 s CompulinJ Ccn·
ter, 645-3540.

ut.--..

-·-n..~LNooo-

1 p.m. Call64s.6125.

Ciiakal SbtcUel witlt tile U•
of~Jobai..W«.

M.D .. Univ. of PittsburJb Medical Caller.~.. Room.
RPCL 12,30 p.m.

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lltlllal- Ia ' - Upeak_e

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- - . . , D r. Tl:rryD.
CoaDdl. UB Dept. of Mkrobi·
otosY· 1~8 Farl&gt;er. Soulh Cam-

pus. 4 p..m.

c.......,.s,..c~t ·........... by Ear, Eyo
udSJUa:Aa..,..-fora

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                  <text>The UB &lt;em&gt;Reporter&lt;/em&gt; began publication on January 22, 1970, a time of tumult at the University. It succeeded the newsletter, &lt;em&gt;Colleague&lt;/em&gt;, and to this day, serves as the official source for "in house," internal news. The first issue included an editorial, "Why The Reporter?" explaining the rationale for the newspaper: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The feeling was that the University lacks a sense of community—that communication is too helter-skelter—that too many groups feel alienated, apart. Somehow, it was felt, if these groups—faculty, student and staff—could come together on the commons and share their concerns and ideas, their activities, their aspirations and whatever else they have to offer, community and communications would result…But it will not produce instant community. Each of us will have to work toward that goal.&lt;/p&gt;
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Faculty Senate begins review of provost's report
.,on academic planning; ·mid-May set as deadline
sttessed the imporlance of the uni-.

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HE FACULTY SENATE has begun what likely will
be an extensive process of reviewing Provost ThO:

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mas Headrick's report on academic planning at UB.
lbe senate's Executive Committee has charged
12 of the senate's 18 standing committees with examining
specific aspects of the plan and delivering formal reports
on their findings to the full Faculty Senate at its meeting on
April29, said Claude Welch, chair of the senate and SUNY
Distinguished Service Professor in the Departnient of Political Science.
have to work to convince faculty
members that their comments are

welcome.
He noted that several

issues: assessing w
ommendations in the plan are
commensurate with
goals as
sUited in tbe plan.lllld
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faculty have input into the plan.
Peter Nickerson, professor of
pathology and a member of the
Academic Planning Committee,
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leagues have told him that they
believe the specifics of the plan
"are set in rapidly setting c:oocrete.
"We have to try to dispel this
notion" and instill the belief that
"the dialogue is real; this is not.a

sham-type discussion.» Nicker-

son said.
Members of the committee

vemty community looking al the
report from a wide perspective,
nllber than !ian a parochial position.
"I would hope the committee
would try to keep a broader view"

when assessing the plan. said
Catberine Cornbleth, professor of
learoing and instruction and associate dean in the Graduate School
of Education.

P

eter Horvath, assistant pro-

fessor of nutrition and
physiology, said be was
glad the document bad been published as an insert to the Reporter
without an appendix because it
forced people to consider issues
other than those penaining to their
own particular unit
·
"I think tba1 one of the problems
tba1 we have '11 this univenity is
people are so myopic and self-&lt;:entered, which is naiUral, but they just
go to their one page (on their own
unit) and read what's there and forget tba1 other departments might

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even be having a more critical iselch said that the senate
sue," Horvalb said "'That's somemeeting of March II
thing we have to get across."
will be devoted to a disHeadrick said that with the
cussion with Headrick of the gen·
plan, be's trying in some ways to
era! principles of the plan. The
''widen the perspective and also
meeting of April 8 will include
widen the discussion" so that
progress repurts fmm the stand·
when faculty members focus on
ing committees, with fonnaJ retheir own units, they "'consider it . ports to be delivered to the senin the context of what else is goate on April 29.
ing on.. at the university.
Welch said the senate meeting
He noted that it aids the dis·
of May 13-the last regularly
cussioo process to "put out some
scheduled session of the acaconcrete ideas ... because it then
demic year-will "hopefully con·
produces a much more signifi- elude" examination of the plancant focused dialogue of what the
ning document
issues are.
He urged faculty members to
"The message I hope that goes
attend faculty- or school-specific
out is that you may have better meetings that Headrick will
ways of dealing with the problems
schedule to discuss the plan.
as I've identified them, and the
He also in vited colleagues
purpose of thai is to elicit those
with comments about specific isreactions, not foreclose them," he
sues covered in the pJan to consaid. adding that is wby be wants tact the appropriate senate com·
an extensive review of his proj,osminee. The committees and their
als before a set of concrete plans
are formed and implemented.
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.,Robot
....... that "sees" one of UBiindusby success stories

student, Henry Hex -

News Services Ednor

N 1HE SECOND-FLOOR laboratory of a suburban
corporall: pork, a 5-foot, 14G-powxl robot is being comIIIAilded in plain written English to "get the red ball."
Hidden wheels propel it forward as it sets out across
the room. which looks like an obstacle course. The cylindrical robot carefully navigates its way amid a clutter of
deslcs and computers. Barely seconds later, it bas cornered
the red ball like a soccer player.
This soene wasn't played out in some Silicon Valley lab;
it happened last week in Western New York at Amherst
Systems, Inc., a high-tech company of about 200 employees tba1 develops equipment that tests and evaluates aviation electrooics.
Acoordiog to engineers al the company, it wouldn't have
happened at all if it were not for the intense collaboration
between Ambers! Systems and a team of computer Sc;jentists at the University-at Buffalo.
It's not an isolated incident
At a time wben companies are rethinking and often reducing their ~hand development operations, UB ' s
role in providing a vital economic service to area businesses is becoming more important.

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"With today's very rapid pace of technological advance.
industry can no longer remain competitive by relying solely
on In-bouse research and development" said Dale M.
Landi, vice president for research at UB.
''Commercial companies need access to institutions tba1
offer both advanced technologies and the scientific personnel that can customize technology and specific applications. In Western New Yorlc, that place is UB."
Froni conducting analysis of dental adhesives to improving the design of devices for the disabled, more and
more local companies are tapping UB's broad range of
R&amp;D capabiHties for services that are critical to their current and future viability.
In some cases, such as Amherst Systems, the relationship helps create new jobs, while in others, such as !voclar,

moor. that discussed ex·
actly the kind of intelli-

gence the vision system
needed.
Tod ay, the robot is
controlled by an artifi·

Inc., of Amben;t and Enidine, Inc., of Orchard Park, it al lows a company to broaden its product base.
" If we had not been doing the work with UB. we would
have gotten neither the original Small Business Innovative Research contract from NASA to develop the robot
nor the two subsequent contracts," said Cesar Bandera,
head of the Machine Vision Department at Amherst Systems. Such grants are available only to companies working in partnership with a university.
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cia] intelligence technique developed by
Stuart Shapiro, profes·

sor and chair of the
Computer Science Department, who is an internationally ItCOgnized
expen in the field. and

Hexmoor, who has since

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earned a doctorate and is

As a result of its NASA contracts, Amherst Systems

has been able to recruit a computer engineer from
England's Oxford University, along with an additional four
engineers who are working on the prototype robot. The
company plans to hire even more engineers as the project
proceeds with additional NASA funding. A prototype of
the robot will be demonstrated for Johnson Space Center
officials in April.
Bandera explained that NASA was seeking a sophisti·
cated artificial-intelligence control system combined with
a vision system that could accomplish real-world tasks. The
goal was to develop a robot tba1 could perform these tasks
autonomously in dangerous environments, such as outside
of a space shuttle or a space station.
At Amherst Systems, Bandera's group has designed a
vision system that allows robots to see the way humans
do, with very precise resolution in the center of the fieldof-view and very wide peripheral vision at lower resolution.
1bat type of vision, called foveal vision, is a critical component for the NASA applications, but NASA also required
an anificial intemgence component. lt was aa area out of
Amherst's field of expertise, so Bandera calls it ..serendipi·
tous" that he attended a seminar given by a UB graduate

now a research assistant
professor at UB.

That technique utilizes SNePS, Semantic
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Sys te m.

a general

knowledge representa·
lion system developed
by Shapiro over the past two decades.

R-.,.. fUDCtlon COCIIHIYMJ- MY- lev...
The robot is technicaJly remarkable: It relies on its sophisticated vision system more than any other robot de·
ve loped to date , while also being able to function
cognitively on severaJ different levels.
''We would not have had the time to develop such a
system, nor should we ha~e." said Bandera. ''Since we are
a small business. we have to choose our battles wisely."
Local firms need not be malting products that go into

outer space to benefit from a research-and-development
relationship with UB.
In fact UB last year licensed to Enidine, Inc .. a ..smart ..

new seismic-protection technology that is literally down Continued on page 2

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COLI.ABORA'"noN
Continued from P!'ge 1
to-earth.
Transfer of technology developed at the
univenity is a critical aspect of the UBfmdustry partnership.
UB researcben register their technologies with the UB Office of Technology
Transfer Services, whose job it is to make
them available for public benefit and to

place technologies or inventions with industry. Many of the matches involve companies in Western New York and contrib-

ute to economic development in the region.
The office administers the commercialization of products and processes developed
by UB faculty, including intellectual-property protection and licensing of inventions.
Royalties collected by the office benefit the

university and the inventors.
The new technology licensed to .
Enidine-its technical name is Real-Time
Structural-Parameter Modification system
(RSPM)-is an energy-dissipation system
based on the biomechanics of the human
body. II is designed to reduce vibrations,
such as those produced by earthquakes, in
manmade structures. RSPM allows a struc·
twe to adjust itself in real-time in response
to an earthquake.
II was developed by George C. Lee,
Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering
at UB and director of the National Center
for Earthquake Engioeering·Research at UB.
Enidine manufactures and markets industrial shock absorbers, seismic dampers
and vibration isolators with applications in
robotics. materials handling, packaging,
defense, aerospace and seismic systems.
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ln addition to seismic-mitigation products for new and existing structures, the new
technology may be useful for other systems,
such as those in electronics applications and
otfsho~ structures, where protection from

impacts and/or vibrations is essential. ·
Transfer of the RSPM technology has.
resulted in a university-industry-goveroment
partnership. UB , Enidine, Moog Controls
and the Office of Naval Research now are
developing the new iechnology for military
and commercial applications. Under a $6.7
million cooperative agreernen~ the institutions will be working together to develop
the RSPM system for shock protection in

naval applications and for seismic protec·
tion in civil applications.
"Universities provide industry with a
greater capability to research oew technologies," said Edward 1. Krasnicki, president
ofEnidine, adding that industry allows uni-

versities to develop and commertialize basic research. ,
"Our partnership has allowed both of us

to expand our capabilities and strive for
greater achievements," he said. ''The successful development of new technologies
in the future will be built by partnerships,
such as ours, that utilize each partner's

strengths and resource!."
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Sometimes an industrial partnership
with UB becomes so much a part of a
company's R&amp;D effort that it evolves into
a formal agreement on future projects.
Companies with which UB has developed
such agreements include Enidine and Praxair,
which has had an ongoing R&amp;D partnership
with UB for much of the past decade.
One of the most recent such agreements
is with lvoclar, Inc., a dental products fmn. It
recently formalized a research-and-development agreement with UB to conduct product
developmen~ testing and clinical evaluation
on a routine basis during the next five years.
"Right now, we are very aggressively
pursuing new areas of product development

and this agreement allows us to use UB in
a consulting capacity, to rely on them for

expertise we doo't have in-house to evaluate and assess v.arious materials," said
George Tysowski, vice president of tech·
nology for Ivoclar.
While the finn has bad sucb relation-

ships with other univenities across the
U.S., Tysowski said the company realizes
economic benefits such as low travel eosts
from keeping such ties close to borne.
He noted that when Ivoclar seods work
out-&lt;1f-towo, it simply receives a written
report about the results.
However, when Ivoclar uses faculty and
Sludeots in the UB School of Demal Medicine to evaluate produds, oompany and uni-

versily penomel wtrl: ~--- solYOCiar
learns the raults of inVC&amp;Iigllions first-band.
" And it keeps dojlars apd cents here in
Western New York," Tysowski added.
By testing and evalualing products for the

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Company, UB '• dental clinics also play an
intpOI1aDI role in the portneBbip with lvoclar.
"The oniva-sity has a bugepool of pllimls

to ckaw on in trying out new producls in for·
malized clinical trials," Tysowski added.
"They're a tbinl ]lllty, so they can povide
enema! expertise as filras product releviDoc."
Sebastian Ciancio, professor and chair
of the dental ocbool's Department of Periodontology, is research coordinator of
Ivoclar's partnership with UB.
'!ysowski also noted that lvoclar has
benefited from its relationship with UB's
South Campus Instrument Center, which
services more than 60 companies. (See related story, below.)
Another on-&lt;:ampus group wcxking with
a growing roster of compaoics is the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center

for Technology Evaluation and Transfer
(RBRC-TBT) botlled in the School of
Health Related Profesiions.
' Its lim i.&amp; to find inventors wbo have
designed promising. but untesled, devi&lt;:es
for disabled COIIIWDerS and to move them
from the wodabop to store shelves.
Tbe center fills the gap between inventon wbo may lack the appropriate resources witb which to nwtet their ideas
to poteotial manufiiCI:Um"l and IIWIUfac..
turers wbnoftcn lack information llbout the
~and productrequirrmenls of cliubkd
consumen. Its COIJllllercialization arm,
AZTech, Inc., finds manufacturer~ for
proc1ucta, focil.iwes CODII1ICI oegoeialions
and worts to provide private or ccrporoiC
inveoton with resources necessary for
product eval.ualion and Dllrketing.
''M
on
_ _ . . _
In the few yean in wbich the center has
been in operation, it bas established formal working relatioostiips with 22 private
and ccrporoiC inveotors and bas been responsible for moving into or toward the
marketplace a total of 10 devices.
Last June, with the assistance of
AZrecb, Inc" Columbus-McKinnon Corp.
of Amherst introduced an inexpensive per·
sooal lift system.
Aceonling to Robert C. Dearstyne, director of sales at Columbus-McKIDnon
Corp., an extremely difficult challenge
feced by innovative companies is the task
of assembling a representative group of
capable persons to provide critical feed·
back as PJr1 of a focus group.
• AZrech Marketing Services, an affili •
ate ofUB, offered us a solution to this cbal·
lenge," be said.
He said it organized three focus-group
sessions, wbicb were vidootaped so reactions
and commeots could be reviewed unfiiJmd.
Through the focus groups. the company
was guided in its effolt to tes1 price sensitivity, P!"C"!ved _value.ancj prociQCI applications, as well as reactions to its product. •

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Hopkins explains how stroke can be stopped
NELSON HOPKlNS, professor
and chair of the Dcpanmcnt of
NeW'OSurgery, held an audience
• of more than 200 people in thrall
at the Feb. 19 UB at Sunrise program, held
in the Center for Tomorrow, with an engrossing presentation on how a stroke, or
"brain attack" can be stopped in its tracks.
He dcacribcd an 18-month study be is
conducting on the use of an intra-arterial
clot-&lt;lissolving procedure, which so far has
involved 22 stroke patients.
"Eight of those patients were brought
back to normal or ncar normal ," he said, a
note of astonishment still in his voice.
' They carne in paralyzed and unable to
talk. Administering the drug was like
throwing a switch. It was amazing."
Hopkins, director of UB 's new Toshiba
Stroke Research Center, is an internationally known expert in the newest methods
of dislodging blood clots and repairing aneurysms in the brain, the two main causes
of stroke. He also is a vocal proponent of
the medical establishment's initiative to

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instill the conccpl of "brain attack" in the
public mind, and bas been instrumental in
developing quick-response protocols at
area hospitals.
He wants the public to get this message:
A srroh is a mLdical •mLTB•fiCY •qual in
ufB•fiCY to a heart IJIUJck. l..eam th• warning sigru, and if you up..Unc• them, g•t
to an •mLTB•fiCY room ilniMditJJ•Iy.
"We can reverse a stroke if we can dissolve the clot within the first six hours,"
Hopkins told the audience. "The brain is
so hungry for oxygen and glucose that the
cells will die if blood now isn't restored
within six hours. But if you wait longer
than that, the damage can't be reversed."

A

few years ago, thinking of stroke in
this manner was irrclevan~ be said, because physicians dido 't know how to restore blood How quickly. Now they can,
using blood-&lt;:101-dissolving dnlgs and Olbcr
procedures, aided by advanced imaging
techniques that allow specialists to pinpoint
precisely the location of the blockage.
Drugs then are administered through a standard IV line, or as is Hopkins' specialty,
via a miniature catheter threaded through

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cal, because the cost in
human lives and bcalth
~dollars is enonnous,
Hopkins said. He noted
that:
• 550,000 people a
year experience a stroke.
• One-third recover.
one-third die, one-third
arc "destroyed," living
out their lives in nursing
homes.
• Stroke is the leading cause of adult di sability in the U.S.
• Strokes cost this
L Hopklna - - lit SunriM PfOCtMI.
nation $20 billion a year
in direct and indirect costs.
an artery in the groin until it reaches the
Health-care professions face a major
clot in the brain.
public-education challenge if they hope to
In addition to clot-dissolving drugs.
change the nation's perceptions about
Olber dnlgs work at the cellular level to
stroke.
prolong cell life and increase the window
Hoplcins said 97 percent of the participants
of opportunity to restore full blood How.
in a recent study couldn't name the sympHopkins said.
toms of stroke. and less than 50 percent knew
Treatments on the horizon include usthat the organ involved was the brain.
ing lasers to "shake" the clot apan , and
UB at Sunrise is a series of breakfasr
mechanical clot removers that can suck. out
programs produced by the UB Alumni Asa clot.
sociation and UB 's Office of Conferences
None of these treatments are risk-free,
and Special Events, News Services and
be noted, and not all patie nts can be saved
Office
of Publications. It also is supported
from disability or death. or the remaining
by the Office of University Development
patients in his 18-month study, six im and Office for Public Service and Urban
proved panially, five remained the same.
Affairs. The Buffalo/Niagara Marrion is
and three died.
corporate sponsor.
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Improving the outcome of suoke is criti-

Senate urges advocacy for campus consbuction funding
lly-~

News Services Associate Director

T

HE FACULTY SENATE ha s
unanimously approved a resolution
urging President Wtlliam R. Greiner
and members of the faculty and administration to "advocate vigorously" for the
restoration of funds in the state budget for
two campus consttuctioo projects.
The resolution, focusing on funding for
construction of the mathematics building
on the North Campus and the rehabilitation of Farber Hall on the South Campus
into a Comprehensive Health Science Education Center, was introduced by the
senate's Budget Priorities Committee and
approved by the full senate at its Feb. 18
meeting.
The senate deviated from its usual procedure of introducing resolutions at one
meeting and voting on them at the next
because of the urgency of the situation, said
Claude Welch, Faculty Senate chair and
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in
the Dcpanment of Political Science.
Gov. ~taki 's Executive Budget docs not
include money for major new SUNY capital projects, including the mathematics
building and the Comprehensive Health
Science Education Center.

T

he mathematics building, estimated to
cost $6 million, is in the design phase
and has been apprqved by the SUNY Board
of Trustees and the SUNY Construction
Fund, and reviewed by the Division of the
Budget (DOB). An architect bas been hired
and a schematic design finished for the education center, which would consolidate the
educational functions of the health sciences
into one building and add a primary-care
clinic for use as a training ground for students.
During a briefi ng on the budget situation
earlier in the meeting, Greiner told senators
tbat ·UB will continue to push for funding
for the education center and for consttuction of a cogeneration facility on the South
Campus "with the realistic hope of gening
them into the capital process next year."
However, the university will make a
special appeal for funding this year for the
mathematics building because it is "so strategically important for this campus and for
undef8CBduate students and for the well bei ng of the math faculty," he said.
The university ..will go outside nonnaJ

channels," appealing for funding to the
state legislative leadership, Greiner added.
He said officials in the DOB have indicated
they have no problems with UB seeking a
special exemption on thi s project. adding.
'"'They just don 't want to be the o nes to ini tiate it.
"It's just in the budget strategy this year
they (DOB) are following statewide, for
them to initiate any building would just open
the floodgates. We're going to have to sec
if we can manage to get this done using the
good offices of the Western New York delegation and some others," Greiner said.
"'We think there's at least a reasonable
prospect to get that project on-li ne."
ln introducing the resolution support-

ing the restoration of the two capital-construction projects at UB , the Budget Priorities Committee felt it was important for
faculty to have a role in advocacy for the
university, said Peter Nickerson, professor
of pathology and chair of the commillee.
The committeedetennined that for UB,lhe
two priority items for restoration in the
budget are the mathematics building and
the rehabilitation of Farber Hall. he said.
"In the process of advocacy, it would
be helpful , the commiuec feels. to be able
to have the senate speak." Nickerson said.
"'And that process of advocacy starts n&lt;;~w.
The UB Council will meet soon, so if we
are going to have some say, the committee
proposes we deal with this resolution."

The resolutipn would come from the
faculty and would be directed to the president and othen involved in the advocacy
process, Nickerson said.

W

elch added that as senate chair, he
would send copies of the resolution
to Greiner and urge him to use it in hj s
meetings with members of the Western
New York legislative delegation. the UB
Council and SUNY system administration.
He said he thought the resolution would
strengthen Greiner's hand in advocacy efforts. "We arc a representative elected body
of the faculty. We' re speaking about the
academic importance of these buildings."
he said. " I think. we have a legitimate and
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appropriate voice here."

School of Nursing to unveil Patient Simulation
Center March 7; Ira P. Gunn to be honored
lly Lilla IIAIWI

News Services Editor

THE UB SCHOOL OF NURSING will
unveil its new Patient Simulatio n Center
on the 11th HoorofiGmball Tower on UB 's
South Campus on Friday, March 7, with
demonstrations, lectures and a ribbon cut ting. Events are planned from 1-8:30 p.m..
with the ribbon cutting set for 3 p.m.
The centerpiece of the facility is an advanced patient simulation system, a li fesize, fully computerized mannequin programmed to respond realistically to nearly
any nursing or medical intervention.
The opening of the center will culmi nate two years of planning by the sc hool's
Nurse Anesthesia Program fac ulty and
staff, who brought the patient simulator to
campus in July 1995 to demonstrate its
value for teaching in a number of disciplines, and to generate interest in facili tating its purchase.

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Only 19 of the simulators arc in place
throughout the world. UB's School of Nursing is the only nursing school to own one.
The center's opening also will honor Ira
P. Gunn, founder of the Nurse Anesthesia
Program at UB in 1981 and a premier authority in the field. Gunn, who will participate in the events, is a self-employed consultant in nurse-anesthesia affairs and a prolific writer and educator. She has served as

consultant to the U.S. Anny Surgeon General, and the American Association of Nurse
Anesthetists as well as the UB School of
Nursing. She lives in El Paso. Texas.
Diane J. Skiba, associate professor and
director of informatics at the University of
Colorado Health Science Cen te r, will
present a keynote address titled .. Vinual
University of Tomorrow" at I p.m. in I I I
Kimball Tower.

CllttiJtC Mt to&lt; a p.m.
A ribboit cutting will be held at 3 p.m ..
followed by an open house, refreshments and
demonstrations of the patient simulator.
From 5:30-8:30 p.m .. Joanne L. Fisher.
president of SimuNet, Inc., will conduct a
workshop titled " Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management." An expert in anesthesia co mpu ter si mul atio n, Fis her is
founder and president of S i muNe ~ a company that provides simulation-related consulting to businesses and instilutio ns. She
also is an adjunct assistant professor with
the sc hools of Nursing and Medici ne at the
Uni vers ity of Pittsburgh.
1be main attraction of the day, however,
will be the pati e nt si mul ator. dubbed
"SAM-SON" the acronym for "Simulated
Anesthesia Mannequ in-School of Mursing," by center staff. Origi nally designed
to train anesthesia prov iders, rhe patient
si mulator can be used in any field where
experience in human ph ys io logical re -

sponses are critical. said Thomas E. Obst.
director of tiS 's Nurse Anesthesia Program. The system also is valuable for training in team-crisis management, evaluating
human behavior under stress, assessing
perfonnance of routine medical procedures
and testing new equipment, he said.
The mannequin "'breathes," has a palpable pulse. maintains body temperature
and produces breath and bean sounds.
Monitors record a variety of responses induced by circumstances such as equipment
malfunction, life-threatening drug interactions and various metabolic, pulmonary
and/or cardiovascular events.
SAM-SON .... ~.-

to,..,..

For example. SAM-SON can be in duced to suffer from hypenension and diabetes, enabling students to Jearn the physiological effects of various drugs and interven tions on s uch a patient. It can
experience an allergic reaction to an anesthetic. Hean valves can ~ made to malfunction ; breathing tubes to become dt splaced, monitors to become disconnected.
IV lines disrupted.
Purchase of the patient simulator was
made possible by funding from the UB
Office of the Provost. Dean 's Offict in the
UB School of Nursing and the Indian
Health Service. which also funds the UB
Nursing School's Native American Nurse
Anesthesia Program.
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�Abdui-Jabbar adds to black histoly store of knowledge
NBA Hall ofFarner speaks at Martin
Luther King Jr. Commemoration
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N

OT KNOWING ABOUT the
historical impact of people, both
black and white, "robs us of our
personal heritage," says Kanoem
Abdui-Jabbar.
Better knowledge o f the accomplishments o f African Americans throughout
history "certainly would give a lot of black

Americans something to say 'this is our
country, too, and our ancestors have done
some thing heroic, " ' he said.
The NBA Hall of Farner and co-author
of " Black Profiles in Courage," brought this
message to UB last week when be presented
the 2 1st annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Commemoration Feb. 20 in the Center for
the Arts' Mainstage.
The impetus for hi s book, Abdui-Jabbar
said , began with a homework assignment
of his son's, who was unable to find information on the accomplishments of African

Americans.
" Black Americans have to go and fight
fo r information that doesn ' t relate to slavery and the civil-rights movement. You
wonder if black people have done anything
(else)," he said.
Western European culture is the primary
influence on the c urrent understanding of
history, and other cultures are treated as in-

who falally abo! the commaoder of the
Britiab fon:es ai Bunker Rill aDd helped to
aecure the tint American victory of the
RtvolutiOOII)' War.
He ended his lecture with I story about
one of his favoritcdwactas, Bass Reeves,
along-lime peace officer in the Oldaboma
tcrritooy IDd a man of such integrity that
be arresled hia own 0011 on a murderchaqe.
"If anything could test the quality of
boooriDd integrity in a lawman, thai cue
shows what Bass Reeves wu aU about,"
Abdul-Jabbar said Responsible for more
than 3,000 arrests during his..,.,..., which

significant, aa:ording toAbdui-Jabbar. The
result is stereotypes that "make it impossible to know what black Americans have
bad to suffer through," be said.
"Stereotyped ideas of people based oo
where their ancestors came from became
part of the mythology," be said "On the
other hand, a lot ofblac;kAmericans don' t
really understand what bas happened in
their past. A lot bas been lost in history."
The problem is compounded by the impressioo man~ blacks share of white people
as repressors, not realizing the contiibutions of many white people who have
fought on their behalf.
"For me, personally, John F. Kennedy
was a hero with regard to his personal courage" during the Cuban Missile Crisis and
his support of civil rigbls,Abdui-Jabbarsaid

spanned more than 35 yean, "Bus Reeves
wu a cut sbove...a premier lawman of the
19th century," be added.
unngthe~period

H

e also noted that people in the West-

em New York area historicaiJy have

been supportive of the rights of African Americans, particularly through their
efforts in the Underground Railroad.
"Nothing in popular culture deals with
the heroism and ingenuity of white people
who made the Underground Railroad happen," be said.
Abdui-Jabbar traced lives of several
African Americans who made important

Crispus Attucb, a seaman who befriended
the palriots and died during the Boston
Massacre, and Peter Salent, a slave whose
freedom was purchased by the palriots and

1997 Poetry Contests Announced
TilE U~ .....uy AIINCMINCD the 1997 poetry contests spoDJOred
in cooperation with the English Department and the Friends of the University Libraries.
1\vo prizes of $200 each are offered for the best poems submitted by UB students.
This year's Academy of American Poets (AAP) contest c:ommemoratcs the late John
Logan, reoowned American poet who taught at UB for two decades and woo numerous
awards for his published works. The AAP contest is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. The Friends of the University Libnaries prize is for undergraduates only.
Entries should consist of one or more typewritten, double-spaced poems, not to exceed
a total of six pages. The writer's name should notappearoo the poems, butoo a cover sheet
with the name of the prize IDd the writer's name, class, oddress IDd phone number. Entries
should be sent to Margaret R. wens. director, Undergradllatc Library. 101 Capen Hall,
NO&lt;tb Campus, Buffalo, NY 14260-2200. The deadline is Friday, March 14.
Winners win be notified by April 17 and wiU be invited to read from their work at a
poetry reading to be held on Thursday, April 24, at noon in the Poetry/Rare Books Room
of the Libraries, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus.
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contributions to history, among them,

Sbident speaker to be selected for
1997 University Commencement

T

he University CommenCement Committee bas announced the criteria for selection ofa srudent represehtative to address graduates at the I 51st University Commencement scheduled for Sunday, May 18, 1997, at 10 a.m. in Alumni Arena.
A student speaker was first incorporated into the ceremony in 1991 and bas
been wen received by graduates and their guests. The competition for a commencement
speaker is open to aU graduating seniors in the Faculties of Arts and Letters, Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, Social Sciences and Special and lndividualiz.ed Majors.
Nicolas D . Goodman, vice provost for undergraduate education, wiU chair a selection
committee comprised of faculty, staff and student representatives.
Seniors who wish to be considered must submit a written version of their speech to
Goodman. Each of three finalists will present his/her address before the committee. The
winning speech will be presented bY. the student at the University Commencement.
Speeches should be no longer tlian six minutes. Selection will be based on relevancy,
appropriateness of content and delivery.
Entries must be submitted by Thursday, April 3, to the Student Speaker Selection

Phi Beta Kappa nominations open
MAIICH 1 IS TilE DEADUf.: for applicatioo for election to Phi Beta Kappa. the
national honorary society for students in liberal ans degree programs.
Chief sources for nominations are departmental nominations, self-nominations and a
computer printout from Records and Registration indicating students who meet the credit
hour and GPA thresholds. Send nominations accompanied by. the relevant student transcripts by March I to Dr. Barbara Booo, President, Phi Beta Kappa; Ann: Ms. Mili
SidorsJcj, 1_be Undergraduate College, 220 Talben Hall.

Committee c/o Dr. Nicholas D. Goodman, vice provost for undergraduate education,
255 Capen Hall. North Campus, 645-2991.

fonowed his lecture, Abdul abbor eocouraged young people in
the audience to learn, educate themselves
IDd have a dream.
"Roallblocks are not part of the landscape. They can be overcome IDd they wiU
be overcome," be said
"It is an unfOitUDI!C fact of life in the
black community thai a lot of our kids are
running the streeta IDd are not made to
understand the value of lmowledge. The
· lack of knowledge is what holds any group
of people back.
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Social Sciences and Undergraduate Education (special and individualized majors). A
smaU number of juniors in these programs are also elected annually.
• Have achieved breadlh in the liberal ans (meaning, at a minimum, satisfaction of
the university's current general educatioo requirements).
• Have a grade point average of3.75 or higher (with 85 hours completed) or 3.50 or
higher with 100 hours completed. For students with transfer credits, the UB average as
wen as the overaU average must meet these minima and at least 32 hours must have been
taken at UB.
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FACULTY SENATE
Continued from page 1
chairs are:
• Academic Planning, Dennis Malone,
electrical and computer engineering
• Admissions and Retention, Mitchell
Harwitz. economics
• Student Life, Joseph Mook, mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Budget Priorities, Peter Nickerson,
pathology
• CO&lt;nputer Services, Michael Cowan,
mathematics
• Faci lities Planning, G . S c ott
Danford, architecture
• wonnation and Library Resoun:cs,
Richard Lee, medicine
• Educational Programs and Policy,

Michael Metzger, modem languages and
literatures
• Faculty Teoure and Privi leges, Margaret Acara. pbatmacology and toxicology
• Public Service, Michael Frisch, history and American studies
• Research and Creati ve Activ ity.
Philip Yeagle, biochemistry
• University Governance. Boris Albini ,
microbiology
The narrative of the provost's report on
academic planning, along with an appendix that details proposed changes oo a departmeot-by-&lt;lepartment basis, is available
oo UBW'mgs atllttp://wblp.bulfalo.eduJ
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io Sloe Hall wbicb mbance the cuttunllife or

the CIDipll aod our tqioo.

1991 recipient. ChancBIIor'll Award tor

Excellenoe In TMCI&gt;Ing

Deja vu all over again
--...:
For those of us in Music wbo were here in the
Sprios of 1991 there are few swpri~e~ io Provost Heodrick's Acaclemic Report. This report
of 1997 u it pertlio110 the Music DepanIDCIII IOUIXk suspiciously simiJM 10 a elm\
proposal of April 1991 , written by a former
Ollir of the Music Departmeot aod bis AssociateOllir. Their 1991 proposal. which &amp;aid:
''The underJroduate prosram io Music Educatioa will be phased out over a four-year period, .. grew out of a letter from Interim Arts
and Letten Oeao Headrick 10 the Music Department chair io Ausust 1990. I quo~e :
"The Department may have 10 choose between attracting ao adequate nUIJlbu of uo~- 10 support major ensembles and
eohaociog pllduate slmlgth io Composition,
Histo&lt;y aod Theory.• And laler, "'oe cao
pose the cboice... betweeo fwtbcr enhancement of Composition. Histo&lt;y, Theory and
selected sttong perfOf'Dli.J)Ce areas ...or expansion of Music Education ... "
The Departmeot Ollir at that time refc:nM 10 Ibis letter 11 the "catalyst" fO&lt; his
propooa!IO the music faculty. The eosuiog
"Slit" created by faculty aod student n:sponse
10 the elm\ proposal wu widely reported io
the Buffalo New1, on local TV, and io the

S~clnun. (lnteratcd researcben." see S~c­
lrum, AprilS, 12 and May 3, 1991 , aod The
Buffalo New1 or Apri19 and June 8, 1991.)

Two pans or last week's report by Provost
Headrick raog particular bells for me. Although be says in one place that
I) .....Music Educatioo ... is not an essential
program" (in spite of the fact that its students
comprise aooually aoywbere from 35 pen:ent
to nearly SO percent of the department 's un-

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dergnduale eorollment),
He also admits that:
2) " ...a low--enrollment-and primarily
graduate-Music program would not necessarily improve the ccooom.ic picture, particularly if the undc:rgraduate prosram shranlc
considerably; nor would it provide the Department with the music ensembles essenrial
for a sound graduate program. [Italics mine.]
(Music ensembles may contribute to graduate
programs in music, but they are essential to
wndergraduate degree programs, the recruit·
ment of music majors, and the overall health
of the Department, not to mention the attrac·

tion they bold for DOD!Dijon.)
l'&lt;lrtuoa~ely for the Department io 1991,
Dean--elect Grant was successful in counseling the Chair to wait until he arrived in Buf·
falo before any proposals for massive restructuring or the Department went forward.
By the Spring or 1994 the Music Depanment was engaged in two national searches to
replace earlier faculty losses-one for a specialist in vocal mus\c education and the other
for a Director of Bands. The ~bes yielded
two junior faculty (female) who are still hen:.
but fO&lt;how long? By Falll995 the Deparunent
had survived that noubled period aod beeo re·
accrediled by the Natiooal Association of
Schools of Music. Sioce 1991 the Deparunent
has gradualed approximately 50 music educa-

tion majors. Nearly all of theniare employedthe vast majority cwrently providing music iostruction in the schc:M&gt;ls of Western New York..
J am forced to conclude that the Provost

has a limited comprehension of the role of the
Music Department in a public university like
ours. (How did Harvard and Berkeley get into
a repon about UB 's Music Department?) But
that 's why Chain and Deans compi le all
those statistics and Jnpare all those reports.
ln introducing the section about our sister
in the Arts, the TheatreJDaoce Department,
Provost Headrick states: 'The Dcpart.mcnt relies on pan·tiine faculty... and is particularly
blessed by being able to draw on some extraordinary local talent." 'The same sentence
could have been used to introduce the repon
of the Musk: Deportmeot The reason we have
beeo able 10 maiotain our prosnms over the
yean or decreasing state support is. in large pan
(as io TheatteiDooce), because we have sucb
extroordiouy port-time faculty, maoy or wbom
play in the Buffalo Pbi1hannonic: Orchestra
We' n: cutiO the bone, but we are determined 10
cootinue as 1 viable ICidemic deportment as
well IS I provide&lt; Of the usual amy of concerts

Education must prepare
for life in a democracy

......

Ouiatiaoity is America's domioant religion
aod uofortunately IDIDY of its adbeteoll fOIJOI
that America is I pluralistic democnocy. Maoy
UB

llllderznduall: COlli&lt; 10 our univeaity

with Ouiatiaoity's religious dogmas tho&lt;ougbiy pem&gt;ealing their miods aod bearts.
IU tboae who take them, counes io logic,
acieulific melhod aod ~ve reJiaioo geo&lt;nlly !brow lbese dosJuatic belids ioiO doubt.
A period of sla:plioism oR.eu ......... As port or
their _ . t education SIUdies, UB lltldeoll are
roquired 10 take a course io world civilizatioo.
wbicb .,._the....._ of&lt;llrislianity as
Wellem civiliDitica's ~~religion.
Wb11t is oft.eu D&lt;X ID&lt;Illiooed bowev&lt;r is that
10 importaDt ~is raging among seriousocllclln iotllis field. '~bono.-. a.JY aspoas
ID lbisaJOIIOValy, but dae is ooe 00111raJ questioo
llroUDd wbicb all the debote binges. who
fouodod the am.;., rdigico: Jeous 0&lt; Pad?
Hyam Maaxlby is ooedthe wodd's leoding
1Wmodic- md his grouo&lt;l-lmokingbas Jbod mud! ligU OD Ibis CJIII!liD8 CXJOIIOValy.
He bas -IDCIII dbis life 1D pnuing the
cpat [O&lt;the IBIDric Jew, I Vl3ln gready impelled by Ahn Sc!Jwatzzr'sclassic, publjsbod io
1906. Maccoby's major WO&lt;ks io Ibis area are:
R&lt;volution in Jwka, 1"11&lt; Mylhmak.&lt;r-Pmd
and 1M lnVf!ntiott ofChrimaniry aod PDJd,
Pharlsabm and Gnonicism. His cooclusions
are D&lt;X only startling; his aoalysis of Rabbi
Josbua'siiCillal place io bistO&lt;y is both highly
&lt;XJII1ldling aod proYOCIIIive. His methodology is
ba.wdontheJewisbochooldiBIDric.-an:ll, but
his eruditioo is"' pofuuod that 00 ODe seriously
inl:ratod in the subject can ign&lt;e his work.
However. the full uuth about this famous
religious figure wiU probably never be actually known. None of his original writings are
available for scholarly analysis. Why Western
civilization has been so greatly influenced by
a penonality we know so little about remains

a myslery bard to uruavel or thoroughly
grasp. Students and scbolan studying
Maccoby's work will obviously not have all
their questions completely answered, but his

brilliaot scholarship wiD greatly enhaoce
their quest for tbe true historic Jesus.
Dispassionately delving into controversies

such as Ibis is centto110 becoming a liberally
educated human beiog aod inimk:aJ 10 the
fanaticisms our age. UB's under!Jaduate

or

_ . t education prognuo should uooqujvocally commit itself 10 Ibis process as pan or preparing our students D&lt;X just for vocations but for
life in a democracy. At a time wbco the run.. or
American democracy is in jeqlatdy. wbco religious. racial. gmdcr, class aod political divisions
""'tlut:ateoing 1 0 -AmoricalSUilde&lt;, the impO&lt;t.ance or Ibis endeaVO&lt; sbould not be mioimized.
Yours sincerely,

DAWISUYE
Ctassoi'BS

Metro Rail link to North
Campus long overdue
Editor:
The Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) fmally recognized the fact that construction of new and widening of existing
highways docs not solve the congestion problems because it induces more traffic. The
only question is how much. The study on
highway expansion in California conducted
by professor Mark Hansen of the University
of California detennioed that tO percent increase in highway lane-miles immediately increased traffic by 2 percent and within two
yean by 6 pc:roent Yet the Town of Alnherst in
a futile attempt to solve its traff.c congestion
problems is conlemplating to spend $35.4 mil·
Lion on new and wider RNids, which will resuh
in more traffic: and consequently will increase
air pollution. wban runoff and waste of energy.
Garren Hardin, the a uthor of Managing
th~ Commons, wrote in the World Walch
magazine : "Whenever it is thought to be im possible to limit the growth of either population or desire. it is impossible to solve a
shortage by increasing the supply. Solving
the sbortage increases the demaod until the
same mismatch is re-established at a bigher
and more painful level ." ll is apparently in
this spirit that in U.K. the House of Com-

fDODJ is contemplating to draw a plan to
achieve a S pen:ent reduction in traffic ntiles
by 2005 aod 10 pen:eot by 2010.
l'orilapl this might be the right approach
10 our tnDipOrtltioo ooods that Ambent and
other communities in the region (and in the
Dllion) sbould adop&lt;. lnsleld or coostru&lt;ting
new highways let us UTest suburban sprawl
and diversify our transportation system. It is
becoming more and more obvioos that our
ootdated transportation system based almost
exclusively on an automobile is socially, economically and environmenta.Uy unwholesome
aod WlSUSIIinable io a long term. Whereas some
other cities io the natioo woke up 10 the reality,

wbetas Europeao coontries with already superior public triDSpClltation keep developing new
roilli.nka. we io Buffalo aod Erie Couoty feU in
a deep slumber. II is a aying shame that 10
yean after the completion Of I very III.ICC:e$5ful
trun1: 1ioe or our metro roil nothing has beeo
done 10 complete the projc:&lt;;t by tinting the line
10 the suburbs aod 10 the North Campus or the
uniYI!nity .. originaJJy planned.

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R8S8arch Professor Emeritus

Questioning numbers
in Task Force Report
TollleiEolter:
Professor Josepb Gardella's thoughtful letter
makes many valuable points about divenity
in geDORI and the Report of the Task Force
on Women in particular. Tbue is one area,
bowever, where his argument beat$ some
critical scrutiny. Professor Gardella asks, "so
why do we fail to address the serious imbalance in numben reported in lhe Task Force 's
tablesr Later he observes that "the statistics
published in lhe report by the Task Force on
Women ar UB for FNSM departments show
that there are few women in certain depart·
ments and that rhere are tkflcits when compond with the expect~ values from th~ cur·
rrnr populalion in thai discipline. ·•
Professor Gardella is of course right about
what the numbers show, but I wonder if he
has satisfied himself that the numbers are
real. I have no independent knowledge about
lhe facuhy availability pool in the sciences.
but the number used by the Task Force in an
area I do know something about is entirely at
variance with reportS that we have every reason to believe are authoritative. The National
Center for Education Statistics of the U.S.
Department of Education published data on
degrees awarded in the field of .. Business and
Management," data that are disseminated an nually by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. Since the availability pool for facult y presumably consists
of people having received relevant degrees
over a period of time, it is instructive to look
at the gender brea.lcdown of graduate degrees
awarded over these years . The most recent
data for doctoral degrees show a steadily in creasing female percentage of 8.3 in 1977·78

UNDIN8 LETYEIIS TO 1HE
REPCMIER

The Reporter welcomes lett8fs from read·
ers cornmentilg on its SIOries and content
leU8fS should be briel and may be odoled
for style and length. Because or space limitations, tile Reporter cannot publish all let-·
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to 28.2 in 1993-94. (The pen:entages are
much smaller, of course, in the years prior to

1977.) If we allow that a do&lt;:lorate may not
be oecessary 10 be a faculty member (something I doubt many fields would ackoowledge), then we may note that the percentages
for ma.Jter :r degrees range from 16.8 in 1977-

?8

10

36.5 in 1993-94.

The " national availability pool" for fac ulty in management is given in Table F o( the
Task Force Repon as 46 percent women. It is
unclear where this number originates, but it is
without any plausibility to anyooe with even
a casual familiarity with the field. From this
"pool," UB's shortfall is calculated. I have no
idea whether this discrepancy between the
Task Force's numbers and the numben routinely received in ao::aiemic offices would be found
in other fields. but Prof=a Gartlella mig!&lt; want
10 irqJite bow it was dctcrminod that 21 d
the people oow Uviog who would qualify for I
ulty poQtion in Ox:misuy at UB are women.
I realize that anyone raising these issues
risks being dismissed as a nitpicker who is in
deoial about the ''big picture.· I suggest. however, thai addressing any problem starts with ac:
cura1e measures of its ~ and rnqnitude.
Without them, we don't really know how far we
have come, how far we bave to go, or even
wbetber we are suoceeding or failing. An even
bigger danger is that the aoalysis reiofor= the
conception that our otullbets, wbi&lt;:h I most everybody would like 10 be larger, reflect
a demaod side problem rather than 1 supply side
problem. It's not that IOD few pecple with fac·
ulty credentials are being produced, it is implied. it's that we are oot trying hard enough or
cleverly enough 10 fiod aod attract tbe """" that are
beiog produced in sufficient numbers. We also
cootinue 10 think we pcrlO&lt;m 1 social good by
recruiting women away from olher univeBities,
as though that serves the objective or gender di ·
,...ey in the acodcmy. And we igoot-e. relatively at
least. the real service: malting an effort 10 fill the
pipeline by increasing the representation d WO&lt;nen
ui doctoral prt&gt;gJ:t~~M. perhaps by encouraging or
underwriting gifted women in our baccalaureate
and rnastl:r's programs 10 l"""ll' a ALD. Then we
could even hire some of our O\lto1\, as in me MIT ex-

roc-

.....,to olfered by Professor Ganlella.

But the whole process :;tans with numbers
that we can rely on.
Sincerely,
HOWAIID

Q.

FOSTEII

School of Management

University Honoracy Degree
Committee seeks nominations
~ - . n '...... IION_OIIAIIY- Commiu.e is soliciting nominatiaal of aemplaly penoaa ill lbe fields of public affairs, tbe sciences, bumllliliellllld die -.ICbobnbip lllld ...suc.boa, buliDeu lllld philantbropy, lllld social

oetvicea tobeCC!DiitJond for 111 boaonry dqpec fl:om lbe Swc Univenity of New
Yo4. '!be boaonry doclonlc is lbe bigbool booor die Swc Univenity can bestow
for lllllrilorious lllld OlllllaDdiD&amp; service 1D bumlllity II large.
l!liaibility for D&lt;liDiJWioD is ·n!olricted to penons of state, national or intemalioaaJ IIIIDie. Nominoes wbo bave Dillie extraoRiinary cootributioos to UB wiU be
t:OIIIidmed if tbey'bave also Dillie sipificalll coottibutions to areas beyond UB
lllld 1be w-.. New York "'Pon.
NoaUDatioD focma may be olllaiDed fl:om University Advancemcot lllld Developmem. w c.peo Hall, oc by calliaa 645-2925. ~ ..... be IUboalt... to llle a-...y Depee C= Is , 513 c.pe. lbiJ, lldalo, NY 142M
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•l'lculty lllld Professional St.tf Selwc Offices. 543 Capen Hall
• &amp;allb Scieot:e Uhrary, Administrllive Alca. South Campus
• Lockwood Uhrary, lnformllioo Kio&amp;k near tbe circulation desk
• Office of Studeat Ufe, ISO Sludeat Union
• Office of tbe Pro\'011, S62 c.peo Hall
~ DOle tbarecipieall wbo bave noceived SUNY i:IODOI'II)' Degrees from
O!bcr SUNY ICboola ""' DOC elipllle for coasideration. A listing of past recipients
aiJo ia avaiiUie 11 die above IOCI!ioos.

�6

H8nl ~' cllntcal profes
SOf of nuclear medicine at UB, has
been named a fellow of the Ameri·
can College of Nuclear Physicians

(ACNP). Abdei ·Nabi is one of only
200 members of the 2,0Cl0-member
ACNP to be named a fel6ow in the
Ol'ganizallon . He is board certified
by the AmertCBn Board of Nuc~
Medic1ne
Criteria fOI' select)on as a fellow
1ncludes scholarly and community
act1vi11es. educational skills, k&gt;cal
and nauonallmpact on the f.eld ol
nuclear medicine. voluntary continUing education and special certihcaUon by the American Board of
Nuclear Medicine.
Nuclear medicine 1S the medk:a I
specialty !hal uses small amounts
o f radiOactive mat8fials lor diagnoSIS and larger ones for treatment of
certain diseases.
Program director of the residency training program 1n the UB
Department of Nuclear Medicine.
Abdei-Nab1is also medical d irector
of the nuclear medicine technology
program in the UB School of Health
Related Professions.
Abdei-Nabl earned a medical
degree from the AJexandria (Egypt)
Faculty of Medicine and a doctOI'ate
1n radiatoo biology from The Ohio
State Univers.ry. He joined the UB
faculty 1n 1988
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'10 ftS11FT AT

WEUAIIE L A W -

A group of UB students, who studied
and anatyzed welfare reform In a
course at UB law School. will
present indiVidual and cofl6clNe tes·
11mony based on their COUt'S8WCh1t
today during a public hearing from
10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Buffak&gt;
Museum of Science auditorium,

2020 Humboldt Parkway.
The hear1ng will allow speakers
to present issues implementing 1n
New YOI'X State the Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
This Federal welfare law. enacted last August . gives each state
discretion in determining 11s own
!)Oiicies.
The law students' testimony will
1nclude aspects of welfare benefits
relatirig to domestic violence .
workfare. educational requirements ,
1mm1grants and job requirements
,
UB law students took the
course on welfare reform with UB
law profesSOf
Jluneer.

F,..

Gerald Flnftegen, assistant professor, Theatre and Dance, has
been honered by a meritorious
achievement award from The
Kennedy Center American ~ktge
Theater Festival . Finnegan received
the award, presented in January,
1997, for his work as director of
Cabaret at UB.

Notice

to•

Fatty

The deadline tor submitting
ballots for the Facuhy Senate
officer elections has been extended to Friday, March 7.

• March 6: HIV/Sexually Trans-

mitted Diseases Prevention Strate-gies

• March t3: Basic Strategies fO&lt;
Physical Frtness
Bloocl-pressure 8Cf8ening, fitness
assessments, exercise and relaxation
demonstrations and dislribution of
materials on a variety of healtl1 topics
and prevention, wiH be among the
highlights of the Healtlland Wellness
FWr, to be held frcm noon to 3 p.m.
on Tuesday, March 25.
Among the goals of the neighborhood weflness-center program.
which is funded by a grant from the
Office of Minorily Health in the New
YO&lt;f&lt; State Department of Healtl1 are:
• Promote the wellness concept
using qualified bilingual and cultur-

ally sensitive staff
• Promote good nutrition and
health and eating habits
• Provide physical fitness and

other activities to reduce stress and
encourage appropriate exercise
programs
• Provide infOJmaUon on healthcare access to nearby facilities
• Demonstrate how ·wellness·
can be achieved.

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and
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UB associate
professor of civil engineering , were
honored Feb. 21 at the annual Engineers Week awards d inner sponSOI'ed by the Erie-Niagara chapter
of the New York State Society of
Professional Eng ineers
At the d•nner, held at the
Roycroft Inn in East AurOI'a, Gramer
received the Citizen of the Year
. Award . presented annually to a
non-engineer who has made an outstanding contribution related to the
goals of the eng lneenng profession
or to the Society of Professional Engineers during the past year. Chen
was named Engineering Educator
of the Year.
The award recognizes individuals whose activiUes 01' contributions
in the field of education have broad
and lasting sHeets on the goals of
the engineering profession or the
Society of Professional Engineers .

IMPACT O F - - CAlliE
'10 R TOPIC O F A continuing-education program,

"A Wake-Up Call f0&lt; Pharmacy: The
Impact of Managed Cera· will be
presented in March in Buffalo and
Rochester by the Division of Continulng EducaHon In the UB School
of Pharmacy. The program will be

held March t 2, In !he Rochester
"Spnng into Wellness· will be the focus of a series of free' workshops
and a Health and Wellness Fair to
be held during February and March
at the Father Belle Community Center. 104 Maryland St. . Buffalo.
The programs . which will be free
and open to the public , will be held
in conjunction with the Living Well
Center at UB. lnstructOI'S are associated with the Living Well Center.

The schedule fO&lt; the wori&lt;shops.
which will be hetd from 2-3 p .m .• are·
• Feb. 27 : lntroducUon to Good
Nutrition
• March 5: Nutrir)on for Infants
and Children

Thruway Marriott. and March 13. in
the Buffalo Sheraton Inn.
The program at both sites will
open with registration and a light
meal from 6-7 p.m .• followed at 7

p.m. by the speaker, &amp;.ow.ll ol.

Anclerson. a pharmacist. educe101' and president of the Watauga
Corp. in St. Paul, Minn. Anderson ,
who holds adjunct appointments in
the departments of Graduate Stud·
ies and Pharmacy PracUce at the
University of Minnesota, Is a past
president of the American Pharma·
ceuUcal AssociaUon, the Minnesota

Task FO&lt;ca on Managed care·a Impact on Pharmacy Practice and Education, he is 8 foooding - o f 8
performance-bas, pl1armaceutical
care - o f pharmacies In Mim&amp;aota, Iowa and Nebraska.

A panel discuaslon will follow
Anderaon's talk, faatiJfing J. Fred
Benrl8a of Medical Partners of
Western New Yoik; John R. DiBona,
director of pharmacy at Rochester
General HoapitJIJ; Steven L. Giroux,
co-owner of Middlepo&lt;t Family
Health CantB&lt;, and Joel Owerbach,
directO&lt; of pharmacy managemant
fO&lt; Finger Lakes Blue Croaa and

EUue ShMMd. For more information or
to regiatB&lt;, call the Division of Continolng Education in the UB School
of Pharmacy at 64&gt;393t , ext. 247.
-'10-~

In' y - IIIDIA AII1WTS

MO&lt;a then t50 area tigh achool media-&lt;lrts students and lheir teachano
wllpresentotudentwO&lt;f&lt;lnvideofilm,
cornp!ABr
plalgaphy MM:Il
7, wf1en UB hoots the 2Bih BnrU11
Western Aagicral Show b- !he New
'ltll1&lt; Slale Yruh- Ans f'ltlg1m
The program, free and open to
the public, will run from 9 am. to
1:15 p .m . in the Center for the Arts.
North Campus. The exhibition is cosponsored by the UB Department of
Media Study and the Media Arts
Teachers Assoclalion (MATA).
The show will featUleiWO ce&gt;rnp&amp;litions. Several exhibitors wiD be ...
lectod as candidates for the NYS
&amp;nme&lt; School of the Media Ails,
held al Cornell Unive&lt;slty. Prasentalions also will be judged fO&lt; an exhibition to be held In Ajri at a conference
on,_ arts IWld eclJcation,. leach.,.. Cologe of C&lt;lUnbia LJnMnily.
One of last year's summer-

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lap oldie :10111 _ , -, Youc:&amp;._.lliMdND.oa'a
......
daa-...arRe¥. Dr- ..._LudlarJCbw.k.'a "lbnea..,_
IIIII oae.day etlfil1 valley IliaD be aalled"' .,_._
Thday ia "'''Farmotioa" day. FiDd oat why by oelec:tiDa 'IWI
Da,- Ia Jllallory. N01 only will you find fuc:illaliD&amp; trivia iD tbe
"evaJts,• "birtbday list" IIIII "cblrt IDppen" liltiDp of tbe day,
but you caD occ 1 video clip of 1n ~ event in today' a
hislory. NOI rcstric:led 10 "'bis" day iD biltoly, you can also travel
10 tbe dale thai means tbe most 10 you.
Continue your journey lbrough time by acarcbing otber bis.tmy-"'laled Web sileS for more iosisbt iniO tbe past in 1he a.
tory llodiat secli011. Linb 10 geoenl resources IS well as world,
ancient, medieval, U.S., African American, Native American
and women's histmy sileS cao be explored.
For as•istance in Coi!Mcting to tM World Wide Web via UB
computer accounlf , contacttM ASCIT Hd p.D&lt;U. at 645-3542.
-Sue Neumeister and Lori Widzinski, University libraries

school studenrs, John Glassy of

SWeet Home High School, will
pt"esent his work, as will film and
video artist Tony Conrad , UB ptofessor of media study.

Judges wil b e - - -

Geo&lt;ga Eas1n'l!ol House; Robert Reels,
&amp;.nmer Sctoool of the -Arts; Stan
· MATA: Cheryl Jacl&lt;son, dire&lt;&gt;
tor of Squeaky Wheel media access
centB&lt;, also known as Buffalo Media
Resources; Dan Callari, photograplly
19Chnician, UB Departmeot of Art,
and Barbara Lattanzi, visiting professor. UB media sludy departmeot
Program chairs are Mike
Townsend. Lewiston-PortBf School
and president of MATA, Nancy
Kitchen, Clarence Central Schools
and Stefanos Papazahaiias, UB
Media Study Department.

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sor of Spanish in the UB Depart-

ment of Modern Languages and lit·
eratures, will d iscuss \hB play 'Wait·
ing for the Italian a by Venezuelan
writer Mariela Romera as part of the
US International Artistic and Cul-

tural Exchange (lACE) Program.
Vargas' talk. "Songs, Spaps, Cin+n Waiting for the
Italian", ·will be held at 1 p.m. on fri.
day, March 7, In the Screening Room
"' the Center fO&lt; the Arts, North Campus. Admission is $3 and the public
IS onvitod. The box office wiH be open
one houf prior to the lecture.
ema: Mixed Genres

cau

645-ARTS for more information.
Romera has WOfked in theater as
a writer. director, actress, producer_

and stage designer in hBf native Venezuela. In "Waiting for the Italian,·
staged In t968 by the New Theater
GICUP of Caracas, Roment raaeates
the,.., of the t940s by Incorporat-

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-~.-AHT
The Departqlent of Management
Sclenca and Systems In the School
of Management has been awarded
a Microsoft Instructional Lab Grant .

The $7t .900 grant Is 10&lt; software
courses within

to support existing

the management school. The software includes Mtcrosoft Office Professional, Microsoft Project, Vosual
Baste, Vtsual C++, VISUal FoxPro
and Windows NT Workstation.
The COfT"4l8litille grant was 8Willdad
based on a proposal S&lt;ilmiaad by •

Sctoool of""'-""'"" Ph.D. students

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·Sclance
~prolasoorof~
,..,.
and Syslems.

'10 UCTUIIE

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Ing

ICIIOOL OF U"'M!PMf

Pharmacists Association and the
Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. A

from such period
gerwes as music, soap opera and
fiinl. l1ie play depicts 8 plan by ku
fT'Iiddl&amp;.ag8d women to hire a di&amp;-

member of the Pew Commission

creet and Ideal laYer.

A ke)&lt; part of the proposal was the
lnterlacets website deYeloped by
Rao and the .,.-,., as a sample repos~"'Y .of JnfO&lt;mallon ~ management Information systems and its
Interface wilh ,..,_...., disciplines. The website Is also a repositO&lt;Y for web-based projects
and can be found at http//
wings.buflalo.-interface.
"The award Is a good example
of how students and faculty can
work together for the betterment of

the management school,· said Reo.
•It win help all students stay current

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on the development of infO&lt;mation
technology that aids manage&lt;s in

their business practices.·

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'10 UTOI'IC OF

-~Does your memory play !ricks on
yoU/Is thai elusive name, piece"'
fact ·on the tip of your tongue," only
to come ro mind hour$ tater?
How memory WOflcs and ways to
test and lmproYe ft will be tha focus
of an audience-interactive lecture to
be held March t8, as part of the UB
Serior AUm f'ltlg1m The kn:heon
progrwn wilt be held at noon In the
Car&amp; b-li:mornlw, N&lt;rth CarTlu.
The lectiJ(e, to be presented by

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~ UBassis­

tant professor of neurology, wiU in-

ckJde sample memory testa and
techniques. Benedict conducts research on memory and factorfl that
can affect tt.
He earned mastBf's and doctoral
degrees In cHnical psychology from
Arizona State University and served
a postdoctoral fellowship at The

Johns Hopl(;ns School of Medicine.
l.tJncheon tickets era $tO aacll,
plus a SS enrollment charge for tha
Senior MJmni Program.
Gmduates and Individuals who
haw completed t2 semester hours
as matriculated students in a degree program at UB are eHgibkt to
join the UB Alumni Association. The
luncheon series is designed fO&lt; UB
senior alumni, spouses and guests.

For rroe............., arm r.-.,..

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Doty headed to-Final Four
ellOYM.a WIN-~

CON'I'MNI'-

Pat c:lulrBl. and Miler k&gt; win tha 800 lree relay.
MiflercapUad tha 1 0 0 -- Ks\lin

••• mLE

.-,p won tha -100 lndivicUII Medley lor UB.

The University at Buffalo's women's swimming and diving squad, buoyed by threetime Mid-Continer1t ConfEII8009 Swirrrne&lt; of
the Y881' Sue Bohne!, captured their third
straight Mid-Con crown at the AILmnl Arena
NatakxiLm Sa!Lwday night.
The Rovals outdistanced second place

On Tht.nday UBI! squad depth helped the
BlAis to an a8l1y lead over Western Illinois in
tha meet with Ho&lt;gan, the _ ,.. lone wimer,
tal&lt;ilg the 500 freestyle, Hickey firlstW1g sec·
ond and 1&lt;8vin Kelly ttWd. UB also placed
second in the 200 free relay and -100 medley
relay events behild Western llinois.
The Bulls placed six Bwin1mers on the

Western lllirw:&gt;IS by a soore alll8&amp;008.

Valparai9o (559), Central Comacticut State
(348) ~ IJ!i'ds (223) and Yooogslovm State (209) flrlshed behild the - ..
8olnll capUed her ttWd straig1t Mid&lt;:on
9Mrrmer althe Year- Saluday as she
won tha 100 fi88Siyle and :m braast. She also
was part altha Royals' wi1ning -100 lree relay
squad, aloog with L.aua Herrici&lt;, Martie ~

league's Arst T88fn Ali-Conference squadHo&lt;gan, Hickey, Jesaop, Miller, Pieczonka
and Quinlan. UB aiso placed kxx members
on tha second team: Cart cartoon, Jose
Moncion John Nilles and Kelly. The season
isn' ~yet for the E!ufl&amp;-lhey make their
annual appeatance,in the ECAC c::twnpionshlps in Sewell. N.J .. this weekend .

and CMie Gr!rt

AiexMdra Barrera took tha ~650 fi88Siyle.
Andraa Sl&lt;ilman, w11o won tha 1· and 3&lt;netsr
dM1g oarrpetitions on 1luaday and Friday.
e&lt;med Diver altha Year hontln! lor tha second
0009I!ClAive year. Royals coach Donli Raynolds
was l1!rn8d conference Coocl1 a tha Year for
tha second oonseculiYe year.
The Royals won seven ot the eight events
Friday evening. Kin Theetge set a school

e 11UU.S NM. DOWN S11C0ND
..UC. .. 11A11CDULL ltACIE
The BUis will heed to the Quad Cities seeded
second in next week's Mid-Continent Confer. ence Toomament following a tate rally to defeat Central Connecticut State 7&amp;-73 In New
Britain Saturday. The win fini.shes the Bulls.

reoord, wi1ning tha 100 bfeaslstrol&lt;e and
~ tha old mark set in 1993. 8oiYlet took
fist In tha :m fi88Siyle- Duffett capllJrac
tha -100 lrdvidual Medley. 8oiYlet and Duffett.
aloog with Raxame Kl.ba and Grant. also cat·
ried tha Royals' 800 lree relay squad to victory.
Also taking top honors for the Royals was
Skillman, who captured the one-meter diving
championship, and Lieselle Trinidad. wl1o
won the 100 buttertty. UB alsc took the 200
medley relay.
Grant was a double winner to take the
Royals into the lead on Thursday night, winning the 200 Individual Medley. with Megan
Conooly second. Grant also was part of the
Royals' winning -100 medley relay squad.
along with Theetge, Trinidad and Bohnet.
The Royals also finished 1·2 in the 500
freestyle and 3-meter diving competitions.
Duffett tcx:Jk first in the 5CX) free. with Barrera
finishing second. SkiUman won the 3-meter
event; Karen Phipps was second.
Nine Royals (Barrera. Bohnet, Duffett.
Grant, Herrick, Kuba, Skillman, Theetge and
Trinidad) eanned Arst Team Ali-Mid-Con honors by finishing first in their respective events.
ConOOiy and Phipps registered seoond team
honors. The Royals now hope to make ~ two
post-season championships as they head for
Sewell, N.J .. and this weekend's ECAC
Championships.

e 11UU.S PLACE SECOND IN

lEN'S SW. CHAMPIONSHIP

The Bulls placed second to Western illinois in
the men's Mid-Continent Championships at
the Alurrni Arena Natatorium. UB SCOfed 834
points to the Leatherneci&lt;s' 878.50. Central
Connecticut (626.50), Valparaiso (393) and
Northeastern illinois (209) rtUlded out tha field.
Kerry Miller established a , _ school
record for the Bulls as he won the l!Jl back·
stro1&lt;e and 1tas named the conference's
Swimmer ot the Year Saturday night. Other
Bulls winners Saturday included Marl&lt;
Ho&lt;gan in the 1650 free. Dan Hickey in the
100 free and the 800 free relay team of
Hicf&lt;ey, Josh Pieczonka. Ho&lt;gan and Miller.
Hicl&lt;ey earned tha teago..es ~a
the Year Award. Hicl&lt;ey and Miller were also
winners for tha Bulls on Friday. Hickey
took tha 200 lree and cO.roined with Horgan.

regular season at 16-10overail and 11·5 in
league play. UB wiH face Chicago State in the
first roood al the Mid-Con Tourney March 2.
Rasaun Young's driving layup off the glass
with 4.3 seconds remaining gave the Bulls
the win, their fourth straight. Young led the
Bulls with 22 points. including 19 in the second half. as the Bulls rallied from an eight·
point de~ with 8:34 to go. Young's threepointer with 39.3 seconds lei! gave the Bulls
their first lead althe afternoon and Mika
Martinho's two lree throws 15 seconds later
gave UB a 73-70 edge. The I3Ul Davis tied tha
contest a1 73 with 12.1 seconds left as ~
Edwards Ill a lt1reeiXlinler off tha glass before
Yo.rlg made his gane-winrWlg shot.
Martinho and Matt Clemens added 17
and 13 points respectively for the Bulls as UB
claimed their 350th. win in the program's history. Leonard Tangishaka pulled down a career4ligh 10 rebounds in the game.
Ear1ier in the week the Bulls gave their seniors a big sendoff in the home finale with an
80-47 win over visiting Chicago State. Four
Bulls SCOfed in double figures. led by
Martinho with 14 points, as all 12 players saw
quality minutes in the rout. Young and
Harris added 12 apiece, With Scon McMilitn
SCOfing 11. Tangishaka pulled down t 0 rebounds as UB held the Cougars to just 29 7
percent shooting.

Robert

e ROYAU TAKE PAIR, AWAn

MID-CON TOURNEY /Ia AWMNI

with 11 points each;
Kim Coon added 10.

c-t
Bull'alo Pbllbarmoa.k On:bestra, with jazz leat:nd Betty
Carter. Kleinhans Music Hall.
7:30 p.m. $24. Co-sponsored by

UCIT_......,

Scream. 201 Student Union.
Nonh Campus. 9 p.m. $2.50. $4 .

WBFO-FM 88.7.

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'"The Graduate Student Show:
First-Year Students.. in the UB
AJ1 Gallery, second floor. Center
for the Arts, North Campus.
Openina S-7 p.m. Feb. 27:
throuJh Mardi 16. G&amp;Jiery
hours are 10:30 Lm.-8 p.m.
Wcdnesday..Saturday. II a.m.-

Chy ol LM Cbllcb.... 201 Stu·

dent Union.. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. Sl.SO. $4. FrenchiEn&amp;lis.h
subtillcs.

8 p.m. Sunday.

e WRESTUNG MOVES UNBEAJEN
STREAK TO NINE DUALS
Coach Jim Betchner's wrestlers finished the1r
regular season with a pair o1 road w1ns at
Duquesne and Ohio Unrvers1ty over the
weekend. UB is. now 12·2·2 as they head •nto

the East Coast Wrestling AssociatiOn meet

March 8 and 9.
The Bulls defeated Duquesne 27 · t 4 as
Arturo Mazzeo took the 158-pound bout with
his pin ot Bill Curry at the 2:29 marl&lt;. Jeremy
McVige pulled out a 54 overtime Win over
Pete DeCarli in the 134-pound match. wMe .
Jason Wartinger at 126 and Enc Gross at 167
also were victorious for the Bulls.
UB defeated Mid-American Conference
member Ol'io University 2&gt; 14 in AJhens Sun·
day. Wartinger and McVtge earned overtime
wins in the 126- and 134-pound matches
John Stutzman improved to 34-2 th1s season
with his win at 150 over Steve Kaiser

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6:30-9:30 p.m. Call 64S-6t2S.

Lisene Prinzing tied her season-h1gh w•th
eight rebounds to taad UB on the boards as
the Royals out-rebounded their hosts 4&amp;-32
Sunday in Baltimore against Copptn State.
the Royals raced out to a 41· t 8 haifttme lead
and cruised to an easy 85-4 7 Win over the
Eagles. Charissa Gardner led five Royals '"
double figures with 21 points. as Doty added
15. l.aToya Crumpton scored 12 potnts and
bk&gt;cked four shots, while Pnnz1ng again
pulled down eight boards.

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Koreu. R.autlfk:ation from a
Global Penpec:tlve. Rev. Part
Seona-Woo. World Alliance of
Reformed Churcbcs. Geneva. 330
Student Union. North Campus.
5 p.m.

Davis, Offtce of Student Life.

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Continued from page 8

RiiU .... RewaniJ ol OwoiDg
Your 0wa Bualaca, Melvin

B WOMEN ' S basketball star
Brenna Doty bas been selected as
ooe of just eiglu women's players
from across tbe country to compete
in tbe N"mtb Annual CoUege Basketball Slam
Dunk &amp;~SboocingCl&gt;ampionships
March Z7 in Indianapolis' Market Square
Alena.lt willbebroadcastliveon ESPN with
Dick VItale and Brad Nessler hooting.
Doty is currently leading the nation in
~-point field goals per game (3.54 per
game) and was ranked second in ~-point
field goal accuracy last week by the NCAA.
Doty also has a chance to fulfill her
dleam of leading her Royal teammates to
the NCAA Tournament when UB hosts the
Mid-Continent Conference Women's Basketball Tournament on March 6·8 in
Alumni Alena. The Royals enter the tournament with a 2 1-5 record, and have 20 or
more games for the fourth straight seascn.
"Of course our ultimate goal, as well as
Brenna's, is to get to the NCAA Touma-

The Royals reached tha 2(}.win plateau for the
fourth straight year with their weekend victories a1 Central Connecticut State and Coppin
State. The Royals are now 21·5 overall and
INDOOR TRACK 6 FIELD
t 2-4 in Mid-Continent Conference play. UB will
be the third seed when tournament play beThe Royals finished third and the Bulls fourth
gins at Alumni Arena
UPCOMING HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
on March 6.
UB picf&lt;ed up win
No. 20 and finished
MKI-{;ontinent Conference WOmen's
their league schedule
Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals M.nn Arena, 12:30, 2:30. 5, 7 p.m
with a 70-56 win over
the Blue Devils on Friday night. Brenna
Micj.Continent Conference Women's
Doty and Alicia
Basketball Tournament SemWinals
Alurm• Arena. 5 &amp; 7 p.m
Kollmorgen led a bal·
anced Royals attack

CALENDAR

lnlnMiuctloa. to Sun X·
wlDdowlq System~. 6-8 p.m.
Register throuah Academic ~ser
Ulison Office. 2 15 Compuung
Center, 645-3540.

Senior standout invited to Three-Point Shootout
Championships in Indianapolis on March 27

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Mid-Contu'IBnt Conference Women's
Basketball Tournament Rnals

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" 1997 Rumsey Candidates." a
collection of wort by juniorlevel an majon competina for
the Rumsey and Pocenu
awards, AJ1 Oeparunent Gallery.
Center for the Ans. Opening 5· 7
p.m. Feb. 27: through March II
Galkry hours are 10 a.m.·5 p.m.
Tuesday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m
Wednesday-Saturday. II a.m ·
8 p.m. Sunday.

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Work by Duane Zaloudek. who
since the early '60s tw been Cll·
plorin&amp; what be refen to u the
"sensuallty of tbe act or seeing ...
Liahtwell Gallery. Center for
the Arts. Gallery hours are 10:30
a.m.-8 p.m. Wcdnesday-Salurday, II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

Alumn1

Are~ .

CU...., .ot~nd •J

JOOIII

~Q~$
Profe1alo•.,
latcrnational Studut Advisor
(SL-JH&gt;ffice of International
Educationllntemational Student
· &amp;. Scholar Services. Posting

IP·7006. S.olor Proaram....-1
Analyst (SL-4)-Engineering &amp;.

at last weekend's M1d-con Conference In·

door Track &amp; Fteld Champtonshtps tn Ster·
hng. Ill. The Royals scored 113 points. placng bel1ond team ci1M1Xfl Miss&lt;ll.ri-I&lt;Ms
~ (137) and~ Ycx.ngsiOMl State
(114.5). The !lUis tailed 76.5 potnts to finish behind champion Yoo..ngsto.vn State (201 .5).
UMKC (161) and Western lllirots(97.5).
Two Royals set meet records as Usa
Kragbe took the 400-meter dash in 58.08
and Shelly Hamt~on established a new mart&lt;
tn the htgh jl.mp with her winning leap of 5-a
3/4. Kragbe was also pan of the Royals' Win·
ntng 4 x -100 relay squad. along wtth Jartlle
Hirschman, Amy Tabone and Terry Scherne
Scherne was second 1n the kJng jump
Stacey Strothmann took first place.m the
S,CXXl meters and rhird 1n the 3.CX:Xl ~issa
Ryan grabbed firs! place for the_Royals.., the
55 tudles. Ryan. Kragbe. Hlmlton.
Strottmam, Htsctman. Tabone and Scheme
earned Ars1 Team All-Mid-con honors.
Chris Keenan was US's lone Winner •n the
men's championships, taking the 5,CXXl
meters. Neil Murray placed second •n the
pQe vault and Steve Montone was third.
Keenan earned first team All-conference w•th
Murray ~ng a spot on the second team

The Bulls' 4 x 400 relay squad of Man Sueng.
Jelani Headley, Spencer BeU and Ryan
Candia placed third. Patrick Nolan fintShed
third 1n the m•le run and VICtor Arch1ba1d was
tturd 1n the high Jump .
The Aoyats are send1ng two competllors

to thts weeY.end's ECAC meet at Dartmouth.
Ham1lton will compete in the h1gh tump and
Scherne in the pentathlon

e WOMEN'S TENNIS

The Royals droPped a 6-3 dectSton to St
Bonaventure 1n ()ean on Friday to beg1n their
spring schedule. Dantelle Rakowsky was the
Royals' lone s1ngles wmner. tak1ng the number five match 6-1 . 7-5 over Rebecca BettJn

UB's No.1 doubles team of Stacey Gargan
and Wemilhe Arellano and rh•rd team of Amy
Snyder and April K1ser also posted 8-4 Wins
The Royals are oH unt1llhey begin their
Spnng Break match schedule March 16 at

Hilton Head island. S.C

4 p.m

Work by Lucy Gunning. Camera
follows a woman as she per·
forms an act or circumvention.
her feet never touching lhe floor
as she gingerly traverses
shelves, mantels, r.diators and
molding . Lower Level, UB An
Gallery, Center for the Ans.
Gallery hours a1 t0:30 a.m.-8
p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. II
a.m.· 8 p.m. Sunday.

ment as a team."
said UB coach Sal
Buscaglia , who
sports a 136-60
record at UB, "but
for Brenna to receive this kind of
recognition says a
great deal about
her talents as a
player and the rec ognition nationally
that our program is receiving.
" I couldn't be happier that Brenna is get·
ting a chance to shine on the national
stage," Buscaglia said. "Sbe bas been a cornerstone of the success that UB Royals basketball has achieved in the last four yean."
Doty has started and played in all 115
games of her UB career and has led tbe Royals to an 84-31 record during that time. She
is the school's all-time leading scorer with
1.672 points and holds 13 school records. •

- Ted Wasko, Sports Information OffiCe

Computing Services, Posting
MP-7008. Tu.bnkaJ Support
Spul.alist (SL-1)-Associo.te
Vice President &amp;. Controller,
Univenity Services. Posting
;;p. 7011 . Systems ~~per
(SL-3)-Associate Vice Presidem
&amp;. ControUcr. Posting IP-7012.
Raidcou BaU Dlnctor (SL2) (lbrft positions available)Student Affa..irs. Posting
MP-7014. Library Coutrvatoo
Ttcbn.idan (S.L-1)-Univcrsily
Libraries. Posting lfP-70 I 5.

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Rcseardl Akl~ponsored Programs Personnel. Open! Rrsearcll Tec.bn.idaa J-Biologacal
Sciences. Posting tR-96068.
Gift &amp; Pledat: Reportioc As·
sistaat-Development. Posting
MR-96084. Couurlor&lt;on P
Maloney College, Posting
•R-97015. Secretary IU -De\·el-

opmcnt. Posung MR-97016.

CoMpetitive Civil Service
K~yboanl S pcdalisl 2-Pur·
chasing, Line i32l44 SK~
tary 1 (SC- 11 )-0ftkt of Ad·
missaons, Lane ,26767

Nott-Ca•pautlwe/L.Mor
C-Civll_,._
Automotive Body Mu.hanK
(SG-12)-Unaversity Facdilles.
Line 121630. Maintenance
Helper (SC~-Unwersuy Fa ·
cilities, Line 146011.46012
Motor Vcbidc Operator (SG7)-0ffice of Parking and Trans·
ponation Servaces, Lme 140416
To obtain mo rr informollon on
jObs lwd tJbovr. contcu:t PnsONU!I ~n•ius, J(U Crofts
Hall. To obtalll informotion on
Rrst"orrh jobs, contoct Spon·
sorrd Programs Pusonnrl.
416 Crofts.

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A aknt s.- Meet. AJumni
Arena Nata&amp;Orium. North Camput. 8 Lm.- 10 p.m.
ASCIT_..,..
Iatroduedotl to Maple for
WiDdoWI-Part 0. I :3()..4 p.m.
Re&amp;ister throucJ:I Academic User
Uaiaon Omce. 215 Compulina

645-&lt;5125.

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llioll 0.,0. 210 Post.-

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no ' - &lt; L . , . , . _ ,
llew-CooV.O.Tilr,
J&gt;oay B.-s."""'-. Olllce
o ( - ure. 2-3 p.m. Call
645-&lt;5125.

Center, 64S-JS40.

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Jatroducdo. to Good NutJi..
doG. Fat.ber Belle Community
Ceno.r, 104 Maryland SL, Buf(alo. 2-3 p.m. Free. Ptuc.oted by

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Moloador Gaodlcs lor C,..X
flbi'Oiil, Dr. L.c. 'hui. Hospital
for Sick Children, Toronto.

S08 Cooke. North Campus.
3:30p.m.

....,_ CelloqooR«tatnat SuptftODduct.lvhy

and

n..~~ewno~

S,......uy

-~

Ala&lt;bralc Voridltlud T-~
OIJ' oC Kablor Maalfolda, Prof.

Mohan Ramachandran. 103
Diefendorf. Sooth Campus .
4 p.m.
·
- Collocjol
...
C•pture-ltecapture
Md.bods

, .. Software RellabWty, Prof.
Roman Vivcros-AJuilera,
McMutcr Univ. South Campus.

p.m.

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Tbesls/Dlue:Ntioa Support
Croup, Barbara Umiker, UB

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Cou.nselin&amp; Center. 4:30-.5:30
p.m. Thtu'Jdays through April

17. Call64S-612S.

1m R.....,. Cudldotes. An

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Dept. Gal\cry, Center for the
A.ru. North C&amp;mpu.~ . .5· 7 p.m.
Exhibit rwa throuJ.b Man:h II .

Tbe Gradate Sllaow: FirstYear Stu.deats. Uaivenity Gallery, Cc:nt.er ror lhc Arts. North

Campu1 . .5-7 p.m. Exhibit runs
ohrouaJ&gt; MM&lt;b 16.
ASCIT_....,.
lalf'Oductioa to UNIX ud tbe:
Coa~put:l.q Eavirouant of
tbt: CIT 1\me-Shari.q Re-

sourca. 5:)()..8 p.m. Re&amp;iJter
through Academic User Uaisoo
Office, 215 Computing Center,
64S-3S40.
lfldlp1ad1nta' Movie

NICift
Sct:nl of • Woman. 145A Stu-

dent Union. North Campus. 6
p.m. Free. Film will be shown
with closed captionin1 and a de:·
scriptive track for people who
are blind or htve low vision.

'
Tbt: Color Pu.rplt:. Student
Union Theater. 20 I Student
Union. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. S2.SO. S4.

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Dal&amp;a.l.n&amp; Your Own Rubbt:r
Stamp. 7-10 p.m. Call 645·
612S.

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Allu UDburdt:Dt:d: M.asup
Tbt:npy for Nu.k and Sbouldt:rs. 7:)()..9 p.m. Call 64S-

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612S.

Natlvt: Alat:rican storytdt:r
Gaytt: Ross, direct descendant
of John Rou:. principal chief of
Chcroket: Nation durin&amp; infamous 1"rail of Tears," tells legends and myths of native people
of our continent. Center for the
Arts Dnml Theatre. 7:30 p.m.
Sponsot'UI by Student Association. Call 645-295()-for fret:
ticket info.

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falo.2-3p.m. Proe.-by
us Livisoc Well c-.

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Dept. o( . . . . _ _ _ X17

c.m.r "" the Arto.

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4p.m.

Cbt:1llkal Dept:adt:DCJ Treat·

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Nonh Campus. 9 p.m. S2.SO.

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to Good Nutridoa

tbroup t1oe WIC ............

Modiea1Sdlaal222-.
Sdooceo. Norlh ~ 5 p.m.

..,.._..,..

Melinda Cameroo. MD. and
PeJIY Eiss, R.N. Kinch Auditorium, Children 's HospiW of
Buffalo. 8a.m.
ASCIT_..,..

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Office, 21S Computina Center•
64S-3S40.

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C..loalooal-...oCRe-

B ........ (Eploe.eropten)
Lob Erie, Dr.
Lynda 0 . Corb.m. Univ. of
Wlndsor. 140 K.euc:r. North
Campus. II a.m. Sponsomd by
NYS Great Lakes Research
ConJOrtiwn. SUNY-ESF.

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8-A*-Jiooetlllaala&lt; .M..
tabollsm Ia Mrlcaa TrypaaoIHtt:l u a Buil for Dru&amp; Dt:dp. Dr. Janice R. Sufrin,
RosweU Park Cancer lnstirute.
244 Cary. South Campus.
11 :45 a.m.

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UBul'ralo S)"lOpboay. Slcc.
North Campus. 8 p.m. $3.

R.t:U-n.e Latu Ft:a~tosccoad

Cbemlstry IUid lu Poulble
Applk:atioa to tbt: lnVfttlptJoos of Bioc.bt:mkal Rt:aeUon

Mec.haaluu, Moustafa ElAnby. 114 Hochstetler. North
Campus. l p.m.
c~c:oao.

..

Carboll Dioxide AdfvaUon of
8....-opoly Thapta.... Prof.

Mariusz Kozik, Canisius Colleae. 215 Natural Sciences.
North Cimpus. 4 p.m.

Schkk J..oa.3 BuUtboll
TOili'IWDt:DL Triple Gym,
Alumni Arena.. North Campus.
6-10 p.m.

-Life

of Stolrlt

I Gtn You tbt: Dawn. Student

B uffalo nnhanDoak Orcbat ra, Sk.itch Henderson, conch.c-

lor. Kleinhans Music Hall. 8
p.m. S 18-$40. Co-sponsomd by
WBFO-FM 88.7.

Nortb Campus. 8 p.m. Sl. SS.
$6, $8.

c - ""'Lodltl. JriJb ....

sic. Rockwell Hall, Buffalo
Stale CoUeae. a p.m. S18. S20.
C&lt;HpoDJOI'Cd by WBFO.

..SAT1
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A-

wiDdcnrial Sysa.... Noon-2
p.m.. Re&amp;ister through Academic

Ja~provlsatioaal Comt:dy. 1-2
p.m. Saturday• through March
8. Cal i 64S-612S.

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uuus.... Natblq. 201 Soudeno

Union. North Campus. 7 and

9:30p.m. S2.SO. S4.

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tra, Ski&amp;c:h Hc.adenon, conductor. Kleinhans Mwic Hall. 8
p.m. $18-$40. Co-spoosortld by
WBfO.FM 88.7.

M ayurd F........ IUid Bls
Bil Bop N..,...u lloDd.
Mainst~~e. Center for the Arts.
Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. S I 0, S12.

$13. SIS. $18.

.,

Miebad Fullu. ...... Oalario
ln&amp;tituce for Studies in Educatioo, Ulliv. ofTorooro. Bulfalo
Yocht Club. 7 p.m. Call 64S·
2491 roc informatica &amp;Dd reset·

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Dlalopo: lloclua, Leb
Anioaton and Elaine Zielin. lnstiturc for the Hea.Una of Racism. 7- 10 p.m. "1'\adays tbtou&amp;b
March II.CaU64S-612.S.

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Mort. MODddl, Cannon. Graad
lslond, N.Y. 301 Crosby. Soulh
Campus. 5:30p.m.

UB distiquishcd service pro-

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S.lh8 Yop: Aa latrocbacdoa,
Val Latona, Office of Student
Life. 7-9 p.m. Call 645-6125.

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ceruuo..J ~for Ba-

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A), Mary Jo llcm:tiai.
ftce of Studtat Life. 6-7p.m.
Call64S-612S.

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mull!pU. - u d

616S.

W...,Wlay,oodllew&lt;L

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Prof. Ruthann Robson, City
Univ. of New Yort Law School.
UrUVt:nity ln.n, 2401 N. Forest
Rd.. 6:30 p.m. $25, S8 for stu·
dcnlJ. TtekelJ available 11 883-

subtilles.

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for a Rt:alltala' Ult:, Office: of
SludeDI Life. 7-9 p.m. Cal164S.

Goy IUid Leoblaa Marriqe:
............. Equality!

........ Sipl.oapop
· S:J(Hi:30 p.m. 'J\oa.
daY1"-P April1 . Call6oi5612S.

612S.

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User Liaisoa Office, 21 S Computin&amp; Center, 645-3S40.

deatUaiao.NMb~6:30
p.m. Sl.SO. Sol. Preao:b~Ea&amp;llsh

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~ 7 p.m.

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followiol Suedoy 11 4 p.m. DD
WBfO.FM 88.7.

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MeKoin,-lcl&gt;o
Fullom. elariaet. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $3,

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201 Sludent Uaioa.
North Campus. 9 p.m. $2.50, $4.

vatioos.

Sludeno

Union. North Campus. 2 p.m.

S2.SO, S4.

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6-7 p.m.

CIIJ &lt;LIMI CWidnL 201 Stu·

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A abt:nt Swia Meet. Alumni
Arena Naworium. North Campus. 8 a.m.- 10 p.m..

Jaaio• : Copltlvtud Moral
l•pllcalioDI o(
Prof. John Kotler, Rensselaer
Polytce.hnic: Institute. Center for
Inquiry, Swcethome Rd..
Ambent.IOa.m..
ASCIT_....,.
lotroducUoa to Sua X-

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Slq&gt;beo Maaes, plaao. Sloe.

IOciatioo.

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Campu. 8-11 p.m. Fne. Sponaored by Gnduale Student AJ.

,Ambt:nl Swim Mm. Alumni
'IIU'c:na Natatorium. North Campus. 8 a.mAO p.m.

C lau IUid Sexuality, Prof.
Ruthann Robson, City Univ. of
New Yortr: Law SchooL 545
0' Brian. Nonh Campus.
12:30 p.m. Free.

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Olliee o1 SIUdeat
Call 64S-&lt;512S.

Tt:mplt:. Prof. John Koller,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
250 Student Union. North Campus. Noon.

Union Theater. North Campus.
8 p.m. S7, $10. Call833·9342.

Rt:eord Ket:pln&amp;and Documt:ntadoa t Ac.hiUH Heel oftbt:

-~4-S:JOp.m.

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llleater, 201 Student Union.

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AIIlht:rd Sw.t. Met:t. Alumni
Arena Natatorium. North Campus. 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

l.atrodudioa to lott:md Re.au.rus oa UNIX-Piaca.
Part D. 10 a.m.-Noon. Reaister
throu&amp;b Academic User Uaison

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•ut S,..u.a. Andrew O'Brien.
Dac:men Collese. S6S. Call 6456140.

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at 8 p.m. on MalnlltJCe,

AA_,..,
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JAZZ GREAT MAYNARD

Brulda.a, Dr. C.A.R. Sa De
Melo, A.rzonne National Laboncory. 20.5 Natural Sciences.
Nonh Campus. 3:4.5 p.m.

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UB Livin&amp; Well Center.

~(INBUUD),

Weody Moore.. UB law student.
S4S O'Briaa. North Campw.

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12:30 p.m.

Elutldty, Plutidty IUid Criti-

coln.- .. Slldlq

Cbora&lt; Dooolty w... Caod...
ton, Dr. Clris Myon. O&gt;noeU

0.7
Aftico, Claude E. Welch, Pb.D.,

reuor. Williamsville Bruch Librv)'. 5571 Main St.. Williatn~­

ville. 7 p.m.
c.rt'I hi I
Alloaqolo Tobie CoftHhou-.

Hurimap Hall. Soulh CampuL
8-1I p.m. Free.

ASCIT_..,..
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Faculty question bookstore,
private-sector service providers
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News SeMces Associate Director

T

HE FAll..URE OF FOLLETI College Stores to acknowledge a requesl to upgrade the operation of
the University Bookstore that the company runs
on the North Campus has prompted several faculty members to question the relationship UB has with privale-sector service providers.

Union Picket
UUP protests contract stalemate
ORE THAN 100 FACULTY AND STAFF gathe.W Feb. 13
ouiSide the Studeot Union to protesubc UDited Uoiversity
Professions (UUP) contract stalemate.
The iofonnational picket was one of many held across
the stale last week to draw a!tention to the stalled contract negotiations. UUP members have been working without a new contract since
July I, 1995, and have seen dental and vision can: benefiiS withheld.
Tbunday's demonstration was "pan of a state-wide effort by the
union to impress upon a number of people that our situation is quite
serious. We want to convince the local administrators that we need
more uDity to save SUNY," said Jean Dickson, president of the Buffalo Center Chapter. ''We need the help of more political forces than
j ust our union to get this (message) actoss to the citizens of the State
of New York."
At the heart of the issue is whether the new contract will include
language that would allow the stale to ouiSOUrce jobs. This ability to
..contract out" and ..conttact in,.. the union contends, would in effect
give SUNY administrators unlimited power to cut faculty and staff
saliries, reduce benefiiS and f~re union members at will. Both private
corporations and SUNY's own internal corporations, such as the UB
Foundation, would be able to ouiSOurce jobs, according to the proposed,cbanges to the UUP contract.
"I've been here for almost 30 years," said James Lawler, associate
professor of philosophy, who braved last Thursday's cold to join the
demonstration. "If we sign the contract they're offering us, it says they
can contract out our jobs bY. a paper shift. AU of a sudden our depart.-----..,------,,.--;:-:---r~ ment is closed and
the University
Foundation says,
'We ' ll hire you
back
on
our

terms . ·•· Lawler
noted that while
UB 's administrators may not agree
with such moves,
"the governor is
going to put the
university under
pressure
and
they'll have to do
that to people. (President Wtlliam) Greiner may be putin an economic
bind and have to act on it"
Some of the signs protesters carried, including ''Toothless professors who can't see the chalkboard do not make a quality university."
showed better humor than perhaps the marchers themselves felt .
"Nineteen months without a contract is ridiculous," said Don Erb
of the University ResidenCe Halls. ""It's one thing to disagree, it's an·
other to sit down and talk about this ... .I'd like dental care and eye care
back for my family. It 's ridiculous. It's not fair."
Continued on page 3

Follett bas igno.W a 1995 report from the University Bookstore Task Force requesting "upgrades in several different areas
where we felt the local operation
is grossly deficient" comp&amp;rW to
other univers ity bookstores, a
member of the task force told the
Faculty Senate Executive Committee at iiS Feb. 12 meeting.
"They simply blew us off,"
said Berni&lt;&amp; Noble, professor of
microbiology and a member of
the task force and the University
Bookstore Committee.
Noble and Peter Nickerso n,
professor of pathology and a
member of the bookstore committee, briefed senators on a Feb. 5
meeting of the committee and the
Follett management team, which
included the regional manager
and a senior vice president of the
Elmhurst, 111.,-based company.
The meeting had been requested,

Noble said. in response to "st udent
agitation" this fall and also what
she called auempiS by Follell to
violate a memorandum of under·
standing under which it operates.

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he University at Buffalo
Foundation , In c .. which
owns the land on which the
bookstore is located, has a memorandum of understanding with
Follett that makes the company the
sole campus bookstore until 2020.
The Feb. 5 meeting with Follett
was an attempt "to work with the
bookstore; we' re trying to make it
better for all of us," said Nickerson.
But, be said, "It's not yet clear what
they're going to do" about the task
force report. He added that the issue was a compleX one because the
UB Foundation-and not the uDiversity administration-has to ne·
gotiate with Follett on space and
other issues.
The task force. whose members

include faculty, staff and studeniS .
was formed several years ago in
response to complaints from Stu·
dents about the bookstore's ser·
vice and prices, Noble told sena·
tors. According 10 the memoran·
dum of understanding. Follett will
provide UB "with an operation
that is up to the standards of the
best camp us bookstores in the
country; ir's no more.specific than
tha~ " she said.

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n preparing its report . Lask
force members visited a num·
ber or campus booksiOres. in·
eluding the stores at Cornell and
Syracuse universities, and interviewed the managers or those
bookstores about their space and
pricing policies. lt was on the ba·
sis of those site visits and interviews that the task force issued its
report requesting upgrades.
Several senators said the situ·
ation with Follett does not bode
well ror university relations with
other private-sector service providers.
.. If the relationship of the universiry to the bookstore and the
responsiveness of the bookstore
managemen~ and the request for
compliance by the university can
Continued on page 2

First semester: what they learned
a lot easier to talk to...

IIJ~YIDAL

Reporter Editor

11IE FIRST SEMESTER is un der their bellS. Members of the
Class of 2000 have survived the
fii'St round of finals, the first challenges of living with strangers,
the ftrst encounters with donn
food. And they're all back and all
have positive things to say about
their first semester at UB.
If there was anything about the
fii'St semester that they ' d do differently, almost to a person. it
would be "study hanler." Friends
and new-found independence
continued to be the thing they
enjoyed most about the first se·
mester ; the more difficult
workload than high school was
the most frequent response when
asked what they liked the least.
"My first semester at UB was
great. I mel a lot of new people
and made many new best friends.
I came home (at) winter break
telling all my friends that I love
it," said Jayme Benjamin. "What
surprised me the most about the
first semester was the amount of
work required. But toward the end
I adjusted well."

Adjustment was the operative
word for these freshmen . Living
away from home. for those who
chose to reside on campus. pre·
sented the double-edged sword of
freedom and responsibility.
"I think being on your own and
not having your parents keeping
an eye on you has been the greatest learning experience. It makes
you grow up," said Susan Deacon.
"I think. I've become more independent since coming here.··
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...pC811

For Chris lbbara. the first semester at UB was "eye opening. a
real wake-up call! Either I do the
work and succeed, or not and fail.
It's up 10 me from now on." Get·
ting used to UB's size and the level
of work required has been a real
learning experience, he said, but
the faculty have been a real help.
"I was scared they wouldn't
remember me and wouldn't care."
he added. " I realized as time went
on that they were human, too, and

Said Jason Toto: "As a firstsemester freshman, I figured my
classes would be easy and the
amounl of work that I would have
to do wou)d be less. However,
unlike my roommate and some of
my friends, J found myself spending countless hours researching.
doing homework and typing up
papers."

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The first semes1er was ··interesting." he said. "I learned a lot
about myself. living with others.
managing time and money. and
how this immense campus works.
Overall, it was a good semester. I
mel a lot of new people and did
rather well in my classes.''
Managing their ow n finances
was a learning experience that
many mentioned.
.. Since enrolling. rve learned
that money is some th ing of
value," said Jennifer Cotig no la .
'Things that I reall y want to buy.
I won ' t, becau se I k.n o w my
money should be saved for some·
thing I really need ." In fact .
Cont1nued on page 3

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UB prof on
Shuchman is medical commentator
ay IUSICA AIICKIII
Reporter Contributor

serious side-effects, including ulcers.

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oneself wbeo it's a rna= of having pain is
such a had idea," Sbuclunan said. "You don't
want to always have to eaii your doctor and
say, 'I have this pain again, whal do you think
I should do?' It does make it easier for people

HROUGHOUT her career,
Miriam Shucbman has drawn on
her medical expertise to write at·
ticles for the popular press and

to create broadcast commentar-

ies and documentaries. Today Shucbman,
a member of the psychiatry departments at
UB and the Erie County Medical Center
CEC MC). is also a regular medical commentator or. NPR 's " Medical Rounds." It 's
broadcast once a month as part of Weekend Edition Sunday. and heard in Buffalo
on WBFO-FM. UB 's National Public Radio affiliate. on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m .
A graduate of the University of Connectic ut Medical School, sbe completed her residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Fellowships at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire and the Roben Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Pmgram
at the Univer.;ity of California at San Fran-

cisco allowed her to pursue her interests in
consultation psychiatry and medical ethics.
She has also worked as a psychiatrist at San
Francisco General Hospital.
Since moving to Buffalo in 1995,
Shuchman has been spending three days a
week at ECMC and the rest of the week in
Toronto with her husband, Don

Redelmeier, a physician on the faculty of
the University of Toronto, and their son,
2-year-&lt;&gt;ld Daniel. Currently, she is on a

six month's leave of absence, which began
in November. to complete a radio documentary on schizophrenia for the Canadian
Broadcast Corpomtion, to be aired this spring.
Some ofShuchman's work for the popu-

lar media has been in coilaboration with
Michael Wilkes , one of her classmates
from hoth high school and medical school
who now teaches at University ofCalifor·
nia at Los Angeles Medical School.
In their first collaboration, an article for
the Hanford Courant written while they
were in medical school, they discussed the

medical school socialization process that
helps tum a student into a doctor. Later, in
columns for the Los Angeles Times,and the
New York Times, Shuchman and Wilkes
educated readers about such issues as clini·
cal depression, back pain, smoking cessa·
tion, and vaccines. llleir writing caught the
attention of a National Public Radio execu·
tive, who invited them to create their monthly
ptbgram for Weeund Edition Sunday.

T

heir close professional relationship
shows in the smoothness of their fastpaced discussions on the radio pro·

gram. One of them may begin an explana-

tion of the day's topic, and hand it over to
the other to complete, as in a well-rehearsed duCt They translate medical terms
into simpler language that will be familiar
to a lay audience. When they disagree. they
do so politely but unapologetically.
In the week before each broadcast.
Shuchman. Wi lkes. and NPR host Liane
Hansen hold a telephone meeting to choose
a headline-grabbing topic.
Shuchman then prepares herself with a
blitz of research. combing through profes-

sional journals and news clippings and in·
terviews experts around the country. She
may ask professional societies, such as the
American Psychiatric Association, to provide
background material, or seek the help of
NPR staff in collecting relevant news articles.
On a recent " Medical Rounds," Wilkes

and Shuchman discussed non-steroidal
anti-innammatory drugs such as Aleve.
They pointed out that these drugs can cause

Hansen asked whether self-medicatioo was
dangerous. "I'm not sure that medicaling

that they can walk into the drugstore and talk
to the pbarmacisl and say, 'I know that there
arc a number of tbeoe drugs which are over
the counter. What do you suggest'?'"
" I think I've got to disagree, Miriam,''
Wilkes ~ponded. "I think that few people
talk to the pharmacist when they buy overthe-counter drugs. I'm worried about bow
many people end up in the hospital with

serious complications like ulcer disease,
etc., and even death, as a result of taking
too many of these drugs."
be pair said later that the issue was
one on which they have long disagreed. "Michael tends to wear a public health ha~ and I tend to wear an individual patient hat," Shuchman said. "I really think there's a limit to how much people
'want to be protected from things-whether
it's in medicine or in something else, like the
speed lintit on the highway. We know that a
55 mile-per-hour speed limit is safer, but

people want to drive faster."
Much of Shuclunan 's media wtxk focuses
oo mental health, including such topics as
the impact of violence on children who witness it and the value of talk therapy and medicatioo in the treatment of ilepression.
Sbucbman woo the 1996 Media Award
from the Northern California Psychiatric
Society. It.' s unusual to get such praise for
her journalism work, Sbucbman says. "Far
more often, you get a letter from someone
who disagrees with you or is offended by
something you said." Bu~ she says. she

appreciates even these )etten.
She adds, " If I get letters that are very

moving, where people share their penonai
stories or have been offended or hun by
something I oaid, I'll often call back oremail." In one cue, after a program on mastectomies and lumpectornies. sbe spent several bows on the phone with a listener who
had lost his wife to breast cancer.
Sbucbman sees her two careers, medicineandjoumalism,asclosely intcttwined
Being a physician gives her the credibility
to influence the public's understanding of
medical issues.
"I keep getting gnobbe&lt;i by stories, coming from my patients, or my students, or
the ideas that come up in practice."
•

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Continued from page I

be taken as an·exampleofwhat's in store for
us when we have more private-sector arrangements to solve our problems, we'd better
wony," said Noble. "This is not a happy relationship. The students are not satisfied,
many faculty are not satisfied and neither
the university nor Follett seems at all highly
motivated to do anything about it
"And if we go from this to donnitories,"
she said, referring to a proposal to build
apartment-style housing on UB Foundation
land adjacent to campus, "it's going to be
bad. So I think actually it behooves the university to son this out correctly, just so they'll
have some credibility for setting up similar

relationships with the private sector."
ack Meacham, professor of psychology,

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told senators that be often updates his professiortallibrary at local university bookstores
when traveling to professiortal conferences.
" I simply can't do it here on my own campus, and my graduate studcntscan'ldoitand
my undergraduates can' t do it," be said, referring to scholarly works and not classroom
textbooks. "It seems to me there is
material ... that provides grounds for terminating the contract That is, if the contract
says that they have to provide us with a first-rate
bookstore and if theY clearly have&lt;~\ in comparison with other colleges and uniYaSities, then
we should not be bound until the year 2020."
Errol Meidinger, professor of law, questioned UB's record of negotiating with pri vate-service providers. If the UB Foundation
is negotiating tbeoe kinds ofcontnlets, he said,
"there's a soft system of accountability, and
that may be part of our problem."

He also criticized another private provider, the Bluebird bus system. calling its
treatment of students "really appalling."

The topic of private-service providers
may not be an appropriate topic of action
for the Faculty Senate, "but somewhere we
ought to be applying pressure because I

have this sense that once it's farmed out to
the private sector. nobody gets rewarded
for riding herd and for negotiating a strong
Meidinger said. He added that

contrac~"

with the memorandum of understanding,
it's questionable whether the university

could cancel its contract with Follett.
Nickerson said he's heard that a bookstore will be locating in the former Chi-

nese restaurant on Maple Road ncar campus. "If that's true, there may be some competition," he said.
Jason Hobson, treasurer of the Graduate
Student Association, said that he had beard
that the bookstore "gives a 10 percent kickhack to the UB Foundation. That's my impression that it was in the UB Foundation's
interest to keep Follett," be said.
Noble said she and Nickerson were told
by the manager of the South Campus booksto~ Follett bookstore that is located

on Main Street across from campus but is
not covered by the memorandum of under-

standing-that that store continues to pay
UBF a fee, even though it is no longer an
official campus bookstore.
UBF is r=iving a lot of money from the
bookstores and "they're not using it to mdua:
the price of boob to students," Noble charged
'They ntight be using it to invest in other
privatization arrangements." The fees, she
said, arc being used to "strengthen the power
and influence of the UB Foundation, and not
influence the quality of life on Campus."

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dward Schneider, associate vice president for development systems and op-

erations, denied that the foundation recei•es a 10 percent kickback from Pollens.
He declined further comment
In other business.- Ronald Stein, vice

president for university advancement and
developmeo~

outlined the university's development efforts, including a capital campaign whose public phase is expected to
begin in 1999 and this year's faculty and

staff solicitation. The capital campaign,
dubbed "'The Campaign for UB," is in the
first of three phases. Stein said. During this

infrastructure phase, academic priorities
are identified. individual statements and
unit plans are drafted. appropriate staff is
hired and the process of identifying and
cultivating campaign prospects is begun.
The second phase, the nucleus phase,
will be begun by university units at differ-

ent times, be said. During this phase, the
university will be seeking leadership gifts.
Six academic units are scheduled to begin
this phase on July I.
The third phase. the public phase. will
begin once UB has obtained commitments
equal to one-third to one-half of the
campaign's worlcing goal of $250 million,
be oaid. That phase is expected to begin
sometime in 1999.

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tein noted that faculty will be asked
to help identify successful alumni
from their areas who might he approached
for gifts. He cited a study done at Yale University that found that donors who gave
gifts of $25,000 or larger did so because
of "the relationship between that alum and
a faculty member at the school."
Michael Shippam, senior director of de. velopmen~ updated senators oo the faculty
and staff appeal, which is set to begin the
week of March 3 and conclude the week
of April21.
While there is no formal goal for the
Faculty and Staff Appeal, which is part of
the university 's Annual Appeal, development officers hope to surpass the $23,000
raised last year. Shippam said be hopes the
faculty and staff ap~l will increase the
visibility of development initiatives and the
Annual Appeal within the university community; increase the percentage of participati.o n by the university community in the
Annual Appeal; increase the dollar.; raised
for the Annual Appeal from the university

community, and increase the number or
non-alumni President's Associates who
give annual gifts of$1,000 or more.
Robert Wetherhold, associate professor
of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
wondered if the stalemate in contract tallr.s
between United University Pmfessioos and
the swe will affect the appeal.
" A lot of people say, 'when I get my contract settled ...• (then I'll give money to
UB)' ," be said. " I'm not oaying it's my opinion, but this may be something that you ' ll
have to directly address in some kind of way
or maybe skin around in some way."
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Exploring medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes
Dorothy GlaSs
bookfirst study of
portals in Tuscany
ORTALS, Pil.GRIMAGE, and

Crusade io Western Tuscany,"
the fust book to expl01e medieval uavel along Italy's pilgrimage roulel, was published this
month by Princeton University Press to

much critical praise.
The author is Dorothy F. Glass, professor of art history at UB and a distinguished
historian of the Italian an of Europe's
Middle Ages.
The book is the tint study of several of
Tuscany's aiost important and richly
evocative chun:h portals. Their complex
religious and secular iconognphy is interpreted by Glass as a depiction of events
and places along medieval Italy's pilgrim·
age routes to Rome.
"Portal" is the name given to the whole
architectural composition surrounding and
including the doorways and porches of a
cbun:b. Its statuary and often elaborate and
multi -leveled friezes are rife with encrypted information about the life and
times of the period and region in which and
for which it was created.
Glass focuses on the activities and personages represented on nine important
12th-century portals from chun:hes located
·nand around the cities of Pi sa, Lucca and

toia-siles at lhe nexus of medieval
tr e, travel and pilgrimage. She drove
12,
miles in Italy and Prance during two
rs to do research for the book.
su
These ponals are alJ in situ except one
from the chun:h ofS. Leonardo al Frigido,

which is installed in the Cloisters museum
of New York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Glass spent the 1991-93 academic
years studying the S. Leonardo portal at
the Cloisters as the museum's Jane and
Morgan Whitney Senior Research Fellow.
The material she interpreted, Glass said,
can be seen as a series of stories, medita-

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dowment for the Arts.

from the American
Academy in Rome and
this spring was the Ema
Ttlley Distinguished Vtsiting Professor at the
University of Puget
Sound, Wash.
A 1964 graduate of
Vassar College, Glass
received a doctorate
from The Johns Hopkins
University. She bas been
a member of the UB fac·
ulty since 1974 and has
PorUI , _ ... ~ ell'fllldo, lintel,
Tile Metnlpollhn M_..... of Art, Tile
taught and lectured at
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universities throughout
the United States and Canada.
lions, warnings and news items addressed
tals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western
Glass is the author of several books in ·
Tuscany" one of the best art history books
to many audiences at once, particularly to
eluding .. Romanesque Sculprure in
local citizens, crusader~ and pilgrims. Its
be has read in 10 years, noting that Glass
Campania:
Patrons. Programs and Styles"
imagery owes much to the artists ' knowl has opened the way for future research in
and "Srudies on Cosmatesque Pavements."
edge of the history and politics of that time
art history.
and of medieval theater, uade routes, relGlass has received a number of major She is a former consulting editor for '1'lle
Dictionary of Art." a 28-volume edition
fellowships and grants during her career,
ics and pagan antiquity, all of which found
published by Macmillan and by Grove 's
including the SUNY Chancellor's Award
voice in church ponals.
Dictionaries and in 1984 and 1988 was a
for Excellence in Teaching and fellowships
e new book is important to art histopanelist for the National Endowment for
Oaks
Center
for
Byzfrom
the
Dumbarton
rians like Professor Deborah Kahn of
antine Studies and the American Council the Human ities. She has also been a reader
Boston University. A scholar of Rofor several journals including Medieval
of Learned Societies. ln 1985, sh~ received
manesque friezes, she called Glass' interStudies. Gtsra and Art Bulletin.
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the Rome Prize, funded by the National En·
pretations "entirely new" and noted that her
examination of little-known and scantilyPROTEST
published materials has turned up what
Continued from page 1
Kahn called .. infonnation of utmost interest and importance."
Other professional staff said stagnant
oontinue to be available Wider the same tennS
It is important because although pil·
salaries were the issue they wanted to see
as they curre ntly are to fac ulty and staff.
grimages and crusades were endemic to
resolved. ''Nineteen months without a conAlbini said. "It 's not a question of security
medieval Europe, until now only pilgrim
tract, and four out of six years without a
for faculty and professionals as it is for keeproads through France have been traced.
raise .... Basically, we're on a fixed income
ing the strucrure of higher educatioo intact"
Glass explained that this is because the
here," another protester said.
Last Thursday's demonstration also
study of medieval art began in France early
Thursday's informational picket also
drew the suppon of emeritus faculty.
in the early 19th century and the first mawas about education---a{ both the campus
"l taught here for 30 years and wanted
jor publications on piJgrimage routes were
and Western New York com.munjties.
to express my solidarity with my colwritten in French about the French routes.
"I think a lot of faculty don ' t understand
leag ues." said Irving Massey. professor
These appeared around 1934-35 and have
contracting out and I want to make sure they
emeritus of English, who noted that concontinued to interesl historians. In Italy,
understand the issue," said Mary Bisson.
tracting out and cuts to the SUNY budgets
most art historians have focused their atprofessor of biological sciences. ··contractwere the issues that he found most probtention instead on the country's rich reing out allows the state not to do away with
lematic. "Maybe you can run a technical
sources from the Classical and Renaissance
tenure. but to circumvent tenure, and this is
institute without tenure, but you can' t run
periods.
the point I want to get across."
a university without tenure," he said.
Jeroslav Felda of the University o f
Contracting out is about more than ten UUP is just one of the first groups to feel
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a noted
ure, said Boris Albini. professor of microhi·
pressure from New York State, said Dickson.
historian of 12th-century art. called " Por·
ology. "It really is the way to lose any par·
"We feel we're just the present target and
ticipation of faculty in the governance of the
there will be other targets." And that's why
university because it opens a flfXXJway to
it is important to get the message out to
outsource any uniL" Unfortunately, he added,
people all across the state, she sai d.
too many people believe that privatization is
"Obviously. thi s is an ongoing batrle."
a way to make things more efficient. "but in
The un ion effon was effective, Dickson
the end, it doesn't work," and in fact winds
added, "partl y because it was held on
up costing the institution more money. ConSUNY campuses state-wide ... Locally, fac·
tracting out should be allowed "only when it
ulty and staff demonstrations also were
is clear there is some advantage.'' Albini said.
held at Feb. 13 at Buffalo State College and
Tenure and pennanent appointment should
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Feb. 10 at Fredonia State College.

Emty--.

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Knox to receive honorary
riA.,~ in ceremonies Friday

CLASS OF 2000
Continued from page 1
among the things she says she' d do differ·
ently, besides studying more and going to
bed earlier, is "cut down on my phone bill."
Or as Neene Owate put it, simply: "Money
management is not the career for me.·•
l..eamiog bow best toonpe with the academic
standards ofooiJege vs. high school also was an
adjUSimall '1 onulcXt't believe that ooe of my
best sut&gt;;ects in high school was my """"" and
my 1r:a.l favorile subject in high school gave me
the best gmdes." said Gabe Sanla; White.
Said Jennifer Cotignola, "I studied so
long for one exam and then I realized that
I didn ' t s_tudy hard enough ...
Rra.is Fedorczak. adjusling tocolJege was
the easy part. Picking a major is another stay.
Over the course of the semester, his plans
changed from psychology to pre·med to vet·
erinary science to media study to undecided.
But ''by seeing several academic advisors and
financial aid advisas, and taking UB 101. my
first semosrer was a success," he ..:lded.
The first ........,.,says Jennifer Abbota. "was
a lot axxedifficuh than I had anticipaled....Wha!
SUijlrised inc most was the large quantity of

wed&lt; that was much more difficult than I was
used to." Friends made transition to onllege
"easier and a lot more fun." Her greate51learn·
ing experience? "Procrastination is deadly."
Some missed the onmforts of home, such
as "being able to loaf around and watch 1V
in a living room.'' said Erin Cala. who said,
however. that she enjoyed "being on my own
and not having to answer to anyone."
Arxl then there was the abserxx of home
cooking. 'The 'food' here a1 UB is simply disgusting and since I am not the greateSI onok. I
find myself suffering tluough meal after meal.
counting down the days until I can go home
and have Mom ooolc for me." said Jasoo Toto.
Arxl how have these freshmen changed? " I
have become more irdependenL I' ve learned
to deal with things on my own I've become a
liule nne outgoing." said Sara W02Itiak.
.. 1 feel I am more mature and more re sponsible.'' said Eric lp.
"Some say I have (changed). most say I
haven't," said Jennifer Abbata. "My parents
think I have. but I'm the o ldest, so I think
what they see is me growing up."
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�Center to foster collaboration
among ·materials scien6sls
McCombe to direct research facility

UB Information Technology Fair
offers advice, information, demos
UB will pr-..t Ita MCond Information Technology Cm Fair on Wednesday and Thursday. March 19 and 20, in the Natural Sciences Lecture HaU Complex.
The fair is designed to promote consciousness and awareness of information technology at UB. as well as to provide faculty and staff with infonnation on technological
advances. what else is available and the future of information technology.
The fair is targeted at persons with both novice and advanced computer skills.
knowledge tracks will be offered: Teaching and Learning, Administrative and UB's IT Strategies. (A description of each program being offered is available on site and on the web.)
ln addjtion. the fair will feature a demonstration area where anyone interested in an
mtroduction to information technology can explore hands-on displays specializing in a
number of djfferent areas. Consultants will be available to answer questions, offer ad·
vice and demonstrate effective ways to use information technology for personal and

nu.:,

professional empowerment.

For more infonnation on UB 's IT Fair, visit its web site, http://wlngs.butralo.edu/
itfair . Information also is available by ca lling 645-3580 or by e -mail at
itfair@acsu.bulfalo.edu .
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UB IT Strategies Trac\C -tatlona
by DCC (Distributed Computing
Consultants)
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KEYNOTE 2: Voldemar lnnus, senior
associate vice president Ia&lt; unlver·
sity sefVices. University ai Bullalo"UB~ IT Vision"
IIOcJ8.1:IO P.M.
Lunch Break
~P.M.

Teaching &amp; learning Tracie (1): BISON
11-General Overview and llighlights
Teaching &amp; Learning Tracie (II): UB's
Public Computing and Printing
Administrative Track: UB lnfoSource
Orientation
UB IT Strategies Track: Joint Sessionlibraries. CIT (Computing and
Information Technology), and Aca·

demic IT Nodes
2:1NP.&amp;
Teaching &amp; Learning Track (I): UB"s
Internet and Intranet Presence--eUB
and UBWings
Teaching &amp; Learning Track (II): Faculty

Showcase 1
Administrative Track: UB lnfoSource
Demonstration
UB IT Strategies Track: Joint SessionUbraries. CIT (Computing and
tnfDI'mation Technology}, and Academtc IT Nodes (Continued)

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Teaching &amp; Learning Tuick (I): BISON
11- Health Sciences Applications
Teaching &amp; Learning Track {II): Dis·
tance Learmng and Remote Access
Admimstrative Track: IT Strategtes .n
Higher Education
UB IT Strategies Track: US's Internet
ConnecUon , Present and Future

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lJndarg,_ EdUc:lllian
UB IT StralegiM Traclc: ~
by DCC (Qiotributed Computing
Consultants)
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Teaching &amp; Learning Trad&lt; (1): Technology Classrooma-lntemet Resources for Science and Engi-rlng
Teaching &amp; Learning Trad&lt; (II): BISON
11-Sclence and Engineering Appl~

cations
Administrative Track: UB lnfoSource
Orientation
UB IT Strategies Tracie: IT Policles and
Guidelines

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I.:SNP.&amp;
Teaching &amp; learning Tracie (1): Faculty
Showcase til
Teaching &amp; Learning Track (V): BISON
11-Art and Music Applicatlona
Administrative Track: Ciient/SefVer
Overview-An Enterprise Archltec·
ture for Distributed Computing

UB IT Strategies Tracie: Cmlcal Mas·
sage Systems-E-Mail at UB
2:10-aP.&amp;
Teaching &amp; Learning Track (I): Compos
Networking and Access
Teaching &amp; learning Track (II): BISON
11- Business Applications
Administrative Track: UB WebFiow

Project Update
UB IT Strategies Track: Making IT Stu·
dent Friendly

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IIJIIUP-....News Services Editor

HE CENTER FOR Advanced
Pbolonic and Electronic Malerials
(CAPEM), which will absorb the
activities of the Cente{ foe Electronic and Electro-optic Materials
(CEEM), while incorporating other research activities in materials science in·
volving faculty in the several departments,
has been created at UB.
Bruce D. McCombe is director of theresearch center, the wod: of which ·will incorporate activities of the departments of
CllemicaJ Engineering. Cllemistry, BlectricaJ
and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering and Physics.
Pmfessor and former chair of the Department of Physics, McCombe conducts
research on .semiconductor physics and
electronic materials. He was co-director of
CEEM with Wayne A. Anderson. Anderson, professor and fonner chair of the De,
partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is associate directorofCAPEM.

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he new center will foster coDaborations
on campus between researchers working on compound semiconductors. polymers
and novel conductors including supettonductors. ..We want to crea1e an environment in
which people communicate, are aware of
each other's worlc and depend on each other's
participation," said McCombe.
A major reason for establishing the new
center is to be able to improve researchers'
chances of success when they apply for external funding from federal or other sources.
"We need to 1evernge oor internal resoura:s
to get more from outside the uni....tty," said
McCombe. "We can do that bY making better
use of the disparate efforts in materials science that are occurring on campus.
"Most of the individual researchers worl&lt;ing in this area have been wlcast moderately
successful, but to bring in a major grant in
this funding environment almost requires that
people wort together," he explained.
For example, several research groups on
campus are interested in funding the establishment of an atomic force microscope/
scanning tunneling microscope facility.
Several local companies also have ex.pressed an interest in such a capability.

more receptive
if it were to he
shared among several research groups.

APEM also will help coordina~ in~rdisciplinary educational and instructional programs in materials science.
A Materials Research Instrument Facility will be established as pan of CAPEM
and will assume respoosibility for the characterization instruments of the New York
State lnstitu~ on Superconductivity, the
new transmission electron microscope facility in I09 Furnas HaD, the Oean Room
in 212A Bonner, the Cryogenics Facitity
in Fronczak HaD and the Thin Film/Surface Analysis focility in the NOIUral Sciences and Mathematics complex.
The new organization will be respoosible
for maintaining and acquiring scientific instruments in these facilities, as weD as for
developing funding strategies for them.
Joseph A. Gardella Jr., professor of
chemisuy, will be director.
The New Yorlc State lnstitu~ on Superconductivity wiU retain its separate identity under the direction of David T. Shaw.
executive direcoor. Faculty presently involved with the institute will be invited to
participate in CAPEM.
A faculty executive commince has been
established to .advise the director of
CAPEM on research strategy and center
operations. Memben are TriantafiDos J.
Mountziaris, associate professor of chemical engineering; Michael J. Naughton, associate professor of physics; Paras N.
Prasad, professor of chemisuy, and Shaw,
who also is professor of electrical and computer engineering. McCombe. Anderson and
GardeUa will be ex-officio members.
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Activist; inner-city teacher, storyteller
to appear in P-eople's Speaker Series
IIJIWn'.niSPINA
News Services Editor

ACTIVIST AND ENTERTAINER DICK 811E801rY; cast Los Angeles mathematics
teacher Jaime Escalante, who inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," and Native-American storyteDcr Gayle Ross have been scheduled for the People's Speaker Series at UB.
Sponsored by UB 's Student Association, the programs, to be held on the North Campus, also will include a play based on a fictional meeting between Malcolm X and Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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•Jaime Escalante wiD speak at7:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 21, in the Katharine Cornell
Theater. Escalante, a m8lb teacher at" Garfield High School in ·cast L.A., developed programs for his inner-city students and encouraged them to excel. They became lmowo for
their skiD in-advanced math and their success earned them advanced college credits.
• Jeff Stetson's ..The Meeting," a fictionalized discussion between Malcolm X and
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be perfonned at 6 p.m. on Thesday, Feb. 25, in the
Center for the Arts Drama Theatre.
• Speaking at8 p.m. on Feb. 25 in the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre will be Dick
Gregory. A fonner high-school track star turned activist, he started in 1992 the "Campaign for Human .Dignity" to fight crime in his native St. Louis. Well-lmown as a comedian and satirist in the 1960s, he became aetive in the civil rights and anti-war movements. He has been bringing wit and dedication to human rights causes here and abroad
for decades.
• Native American storyteller Gayle Ross will speak at 7:30p.m. on Thursday, Feb.
27 in the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre. A direct descendent of John Ross, principal
chief of the Cherokee Nati.on during the infamous "Trail of Tears," she will teD the
legends and myths of the native people of our continent.
Call645-2950 for free ticket information. Prognun locations are handicap accessible. •

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Guest Quarters
Home away from home for UB visitors
HERE DO international
visitors live when tliey
cOme to UB for lectures,

teaching

or research

projects? Some of them
stay right here on the South Campus in UoiveRity Guest Quarters, special living quarteR in Oemeot Halt In response to a growing need for on-campus guest housing the
Office of International Education, beaded
by Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for
international education, leased the ninth
floor of Clement Hall from the Office of
Residential Life and renovated the west
wing into 16 single roam s, a lounge,

kitchen and laundry room.
The idea bebind the project is to provide visiting lecturers, researchers and
scholars an affordable alternative to hotels
and apartments. Presiding over the Guest
Quarters are two resident staff, Janis
Berzins. the manager, and Lau ren
Lombardo, the concierge, who assist the
guests with such things as setting up ba.ok
accounts, uodeRtanding the transportation-basically providing information that
makes a move to Buffalo easy.
Due to the success of the Uoivel"liity
Guest Quanel"li, a north wing was added
which ·doubled the size of the faciUty-32.
rooms and two lounges. In this wing, (on a
clear day) guests can iron clothes in the
lounge as they watch the mist rise
from Niagara Falls.
UB is not the only uoiveRity to
provide guest housing ; many
schools around the country have
constructed guest buildings, incl uding not only living quartel"li,
but also conference rooms. The
South Campus was the chosen site
for the project because of its proximity to public transportation, its
closeness to Buffalo plus the fact
that many of the guests are associated with the medical facilities
located on the South Campus.
, _ of of the c:omlortably fur·
nlahed rooms In G._t Quarter&amp;.

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BUUS RIDING WIN S1REAK,

DOWN NOR'IHEAS1ERN IUJNOIS
RasalMl Yoo..ng put on a one-man show. scoring

a ~-llgh 39 points. v.tile Robert Halris had
six of his 10 points in overtine as Buffalo 00.
fealed Northeaslem liinois. 81-78, at AUmi
Arena SallXday right Young t-il1&amp;of-23 shots
from the field fur the Bolls. wto moved into sec·
ond place in the Mid·COrl. Halris added 10
points and r1ne ltlba.nds; Man Clemens added
nine points and seven ltlba.nds fur Buffalo.
Marl&lt; Heidersbach had 25 po;nls-lnclud·

ing hilling 7-of-111hree-pdnl shots-to pace
Northeaslern Illinois. The Bolls led by 10
points (56-46) wilh 8:461eft belore Heiders·
bach led the Golden Eagles badt Heiders·
bach had eight po;nts daNn the stretch. in·
eluding the game-tying lhree-pdnter wilh :25
left In regulation.
In overtime. the Bolls overcame a 73-69
defictt as Harris and Young connected on
back-lo-back layups to tie the game. Four
lree throws by Harris broke a 75-75tie anc
the Bulls went on to win their second straight.

The Bulls snappi,d a lwoilame losing
streak wilh a 67-59 win at Youngstown Stale
Wednesday night Young and Clemens each
had excellent games to help the Bolls overcome the Penguins.'Young scored 22 po;nts.
· pulled daNn eight rebounds and dished out
fove assists for the Bulls. while Clemens netted a season-high 1B points and snared six

rebounds lor UB. Mike Martinho added 12
po;nts lor the Bolls. while Harris had nine
po;nts anc seven rebounds for UB. which
held a 33-25 edge on the boards.
The Buls""" a 12-poinllead wi1h 9:381eft
shm&lt; lD lhree poinls wi1h 2:191eft. Clemens
then t-il a cfOO:h 17-loot jur1per to put UB back
up by five points. Alter another Penguin bucket.

Yoo..ng lo..nd Halris lrodernealh the baskBl on
an inbol.nds pass l'ol1ich Harris turned into a
ltve&amp;jlOinl play for the gaone-cincher.

UB closes ou1the regular season at Central ConneclicUl Slate on Sai\Jrday before
Pfeparing for the Mid-Con Tournament in
Moline. Itt., starling March 2.

e

ROYALS ROUT YOUNaTOWN,
FAU. 10 NOR1HIM1ERN IU.

ll was expecled to be a close game, but the
Royals made shor1 wor1&lt; of first place Youngstown Stale, demolishing the Penguins 91-61
at Alt.mnl Arena Monday night The Royals
used a sclnlkeoord 14ltvee-pointen; kl dis-

pose of their nvaJs as Krn Coon led UB with 26
points oil the bench. Coons 26lied her career·
l&gt;gh set earlier al Siena. Brema Doly also
paced the Royals. adding 20 points. including
five treys and six BSSISIS. Catherine Jacob
scored 14 and dished OUl nine assists: Nicole
Blakeslee pulled down 10 rebOl.nds including
nine on the delensille end. UB shola blislemg
64.0 percent from the floor and carY1ed 58.3
percent (14&lt;&gt;1-24) of their lhree-poinl attempts.
The high·flying Royals came back down to
earth Saturday as their 10-game home unbeaten streak was snapped wilh a 72-61 loss
to Northeaslern Illinois. It was the Royals" sac·
ond loss to the Golden Eagles this season and
dropped UB into a tie fur 1hird place wi1h NEIU m
10-4 in Mid-Conlinenl Conference play.
UB. ranked first nalionally in lhree-poinl per·
centage and 101h in the 00t.r1lry n field goal
and free ttvow percentage. was ice&lt;:old n
shooting SallXday. ......., they only made 36.7
percent of field goals and were a dismalll -of·
23 from the free throw line. The Royals held a
31-28 halltine lead. but""" that slip- as
NEIU made 17-of-3J field goals CNeT the final
20 mnutes to take the contest 0\arissa
Garlh!r led the Royals wi1h 16 poinls; Brema
Doty was the only other Royal in double figures
wi1h 14 points.
Doty earned national honors last when she was named the AT&amp;T Long Distance Award winner for January. She aver·
aged four lhree-pointlield goals per game
during the rroolh. the most in the country.
The Royals conclude the regular saasoo

wilh road games at Central Connaclicut State
Friday anc Coppin Stale Sunday. UB hosts
the Mid-Con Conlerence Women's Basketball
Tournament on March 6-8 at Alumn1Arena.

e BUUS WRESTUNQ UNBEAJEN
IN LAST SEVEN DUALS

the Grover Cleve-

land golf course .
Berzins noted that it
is the perfeCt place 10
catch some morning

suo. The lounge is an
interesting place to

be during mealtime.
be said. with people
from all over the
world

preparing

foods and following

There is no stipulation on the duration
of the stay-a night, a week, a month, a year.
Since 1994 the Univel"liity Guest Quartel"li
bas been a temporary "home" to 270 guests

from the U.S. and around the world. Tuncthy J. Rutenber, associate vice provost for
International Education, remarked that there
are more than 400 guests on the UB campus each year.

I

o the ninth-floor atrium. outside the elevator, Berzins, the manager a nd inresident staff. took. a visitor on a tour of
the facility. He punched some numbers on
a lock which opened a door into the west

wing, revealing a carpeted hallway with a
world map on the wall. To the left is the
laundry room

comp l ~te

with washers and

dryel"li and to the right is the lounge. which

has a television and VCR. plants. and a
kitchen with a ll the amenities to fix a meal
(including a microwave).
Best feature of the lounge is the northeast wall of large windows which overlooks

ln the second meet. the Bolls captured the first
SIX weight Classes and Rocco recorded hiS SOC·
ond win by fall as UB downed Hofstra 40-4
UB moved to 10-2-2 overall and 5- 1· t 1n
the ECWA. The Bulls close out the1r dual
meet season this weekend when they lace.
Duquesne Saturday and OhiO Unrvers•ty Sunday on the road UB travels to Bucknell for
the ECWA national qualifier March 8 and 9

e MEN'S SWIMMING
The Bu1s host the Mid-Con Confe&lt;ence Swrn-

mng and Dovng Cf1anl&gt;oonstops at Afurmo

Arena Feb 20-22. Pte!ironaly races begon aJ 11
am.: championship finals stan aJ 7 p.m
Coach Budd Termins creN looks to regam
the conference """"" that slipped OUl of their
grasp lor the first tme on seven years. UB finished third lD Western Illinois last year The Col·
legiale SWm Coaches AssoCiation of America

on their nalional publication Poolside sees the
men's fonal c:orning down to the wire as UB and
WlU return the exact same nont&gt;er of poolS to
this seasons championshops
The Bolls have been strong lhos season and
hold the conference's top limes.., 18 of 21
events. Backstroke specialiSt Kerry Moiler and
distance frees1yler Marl&lt; Horgan are two of the
Bolls"lOp swinmers. Miller swept the 100 and
200 backstroi&lt;es atlas! year's meet and holds
the leagues top mar1&lt;s on those events. as weH
as the 200 Individual Medley this season. He
has been named Mid-Cons Mens Swirrmer of
the wea&lt;. twice this year. Horgan was pan of
the wrong OOJ free relay squad and finished
second n the 500 and 1650 lreestyles last year
He is top distance swmner tn the conference
this season t'Oiding best mar1&lt;s in the 500. 1CXXl
and 1650. Earlier in the .......... sprint freestyler
Jctn Nilles eamect Mid-Cons Mens Swirrmer
of the Wee!&lt; fur his performance on UBs trHneel

many different customs.
typical room has a double bed. linens. IOwels, a television. a desk and chair and a balhroom. All the necessities are there. The idea is
to provide the visitor with a "'hassle-free'" move.
Berzins said. Mads Strogaard Jensen. a philosophy scholar visiting from Denmark, commented '1t is very nice. 1be room has everything I need. Very comfonable.'"
At the Guest Quarters recentl y, two
Chinese research scholars. Yifu Deng and
Lesley Zhang. were making plans for tbeir
New Year- the year of the Ox. Both work
on the South Campus and find the living
arrangements very convenient.
Zhang, a microbiology scholar from
Beijing. China. has been here for three
weeks. and plans to stay for a year. Deng.
an assistant research scholar in ph3rmacology and toxicology. is the longest guest to
date-a year and a few months. He had
no thin g but kudo s for Berz ins and
Lombardo; as for hi s room. it is "clean.
qui et. Quietest place lever lived."
•
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Feb 8 vs Cleveland State and Moam of Ohoo

e WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The Royals host lhe Mid-Con Conference Swmmong and Dovng Champoonships at Ai&lt;.mru
Arena Feb 20-22. P!el.mnary races begon at 11
am eacl1 day Wl1h championship fonals startng
aJ 7 p.m. Coach Dorso Raynolds"Royals enter
as the team to beat after sragng a camebad&lt; to
""" last year's meet by 20.5 poolS CNer Weslem
lllonoos. Raynolds. named Conference Coach of
the Year. looks to repeat.., 1997
Last year's Speedo Mid-Conbr'enl Women's
Swirrmer of the Year Sue Bomel and Speedo
Mod-Conlll"lel1l OM!&lt; ollhe Year Andrea Skillman
return to lead the Royals Bomel swept the 100
and 200 breaststroke events and was pan of
four olthe Royals" winning relay squads Thos
season. Bolv1el has set the teague standard on
lour events. ncluding 100 and 200 freestyles.
and has been pan of lour of UBsleague lead'1Q relay squads. SkiliTlan leads the conference
on t- and 3-meler boards this year

e INDOOR TRACK A FIELD
l'h1ile most of the squad was prepanng for lhis
wee!&lt;and"s Mid-Con Cf1anl&gt;oonstops. a feN
team rrerroers panx:opated in the Kane lnll1la·
bOnal at Cornel Sattxday St-elly Harrinon rook
the high fl'Tll Wl1h a leap of 5-6 Hamilton holds
the conference's top performance on the event
at 5-7 set at the Syracuse lnll1lab0nal. The Roy·
ats• Melissa Ryan and l.Jsa Kragbe also hold lhe
leagues top tme nthe 55 rreter tudles atB 40
as they bed at the Class ol ·32 lrMtabOnallasl
wee!&lt;and. Kragbe earned Mid-Cons F€mate
Athlete of the Wee!&lt; Award Both SQuads P&lt;epare tor lhos weekend's Mid-Con Conference Indoor Champoonshops hosted by Western

llhnoos

- Toi ll'as.lo. Spans /nf""""""" Offi"

The Bulls wrestling team extended the1r w•n·
ning streak to seven dual meets with victones
over visiting Boston College and Hofstra on

an East Coast Wrestling Assocoatoon In-meet
Saturday at Alumni Arena
ln the lirnl meet. L6 defeated Boston College
44-6 as1~ Jctn Stutzman set rew
sdlool records wi1h 102 career and 62 singleseason lakeOOwns, v.minQ tis InA by leCirical
lal &lt;Net a_., 9Mwsy aJ 4:27. 158iX&gt;-rder
Aruo Mazzeo - t h e Eagles' Faile Mar·
lin by leetnicallal. 167-jXU'Ide" Cleorge
Ol!m:u\ 1niJ(U'Ide" Man Ricci and heavy'Mlighl Mike Garofalo
by lal.

also-.. . .

THIS WEEK 'S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

.._-..

Mid&lt;;ontinent Sw1rrvning &amp;

_DMngChamplonships

A!umn1 Arena NatatoriUm, 11 am (Prehm•nanes) 7 p m {F•nals)

Mid-Conlinet11 Swimrrung &amp;
Diving Championships

Alumni Arena Natator1um. 11 am (Prehm1nar1es). 7 p m (Ftnals)

Mid-Conlonen1 Swimming &amp;
Diving Championships

Alumn1 Arena

........ -.21

~ --2:1

Natatonum.

11

am (Prehmmnes) 7 p m

(F1nals)

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---RIUAif 10 II'UKIIJ

-one- F,.._,

widely regarded
as
of the world~ leading autOOrities on education reform, will
address the 1997
alumni dinner of
the UB Graduate
School of Education , to be held at
7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, in
the Buffalo Yacht
Club. One Porter
Ave.

The dinner Is open to all educattOn-school facully, students. staff
and a1um01. and to the general pubhe FOf infOfmation and reservations , call the Graduate School of
EducaHon Dean's Office at 645-

2491
Fullen is dean of the newty
IOfmed Ontario lnslitute for Studies
'" EducaUon at the University of
TOfonto and Is one of the most
highly respected educational innovatOfs of th•s age
In a talk, ~rak•ng Action Am1dst
Chaos .- he will offer ins•ghts into
the management of change under
c haot•c conditiOns. They were developed , he said . during many years
of actiVe practice thrOughout Ganada
and the U.S. He also will drscuss
lines of action and strategies effective
10 dealing with change.
Fullan revoMionized the way
schOO( reform is regarded with h1s
1982 book, "The Meaning of Educa110081 Change.· In a newly revised
editiOn. ·The New Ueamng ol Edu·
cational Change,· he extended h1s
examination of the concept from its
tntrOOuctJon into educational parlance to its meaning and most eHecllve practice W1 a COil'IPiex society.
Fullan deve)Oped pannershlps
w11h school systems. teachers' federaHons . research and development
1nslitutes, and goverrment agencies
designed to bring about major school
tmprovernant and educational refonn.
He has served these projects as
a researcher. trainer and policy advisor. He also has been •nvolved
wtth major evaluations of educational initiatives undertaken by the
Ford and Rockefeller foundations.

RPI,__10SI'EAJ(
AT ASIAII.-.,IIIIADUATE

'"II.OSOI'HY IYIIfTS
John Koller, profeSSOf in the Philosophy Department of Renssalaer
Polyteclvlic Institute, will lead an informal discussion, ·An Anatysis of a
Hindu Temple: on Friday. Feb. 28
at noon In Room 250, Student
Union. A slide show will be included
in the program. The brown-bag luncheon event, part of Asia at Noon ,
is sponSOfed by the Asian Studies
program and the yraduate Philoso-

phy Association of UB. It is open to
students , faculty and the pubfic.
On March 1. the Asian Studies
program and the Graduate Phik&gt;sophy Association will co-sponsor the
Rfth Annual GraOOa!e Pl1ifooophy
Conference beginning at 10 a.m . in
the Center for Inquiry, SWeet Home
Road. Amherst. Kofler will give the
keynote address. • Jainism: Cognitive and Moral lmplicattons of
Anekantavada.• The conference is
open to students, faculty and the
public

NYCIIOUMIY - 1 0
CIIYENPDINW.Iulle Attl, a psychology major
whose research has been accepted
into the Eastern PsychologicaJ Association program, wiU present her

student paper for Psi Chi (nationol
honor society in psychology) in
washington, D.C., April 11-13.
The subject of her paper Is affective style and attachment type in

triadic family interacliona. Atti waa
one of 15 aiUCfonto who alto r&amp;ceived a "bolt paper" oward of
$150 to defray travel oxpenoes.

ClAMIC -I'UTIWIL
10·-•--.:u
The firat-ever Classic Bond Festival
will be prOSMted Saturday, Fob. 22,
by the Undergraduate Student Association (SA) and the Univeroity
Union Activities Boord (UUAB) In
conjunction with the - . . , Nuvs'
007 Shrine (h«pJ/www.nuvs.com/
jbond). The event, to be held at the
Student Union Theater on the North
Campus, is a salute to the'Orlglnat
James Bond. Sean Connery.
Two classic Bond fitrns from the
'60s will be shown: From Russia
With Love at 6:30p.m . and
Goldfinger at 9:30 p .m . These are
the original films in 35mm format.
Speclal screenings of rare and unusual clips from the Bond film sa.
ries will be presented , with trivia
contests held before each film , and
a tree raffle for a special prize just
before the second film.
Tickets, at $3.50 for each fllm ,
$6 lor both, are available at the UB
TICket Office, 221 Student Union,
645-2353. A limited number of tickets will be available at the dOOf. For
more information call UUAB at 6452957 . The Student Union Theater is
wheelchair-accessible . To make arrangements, call Pat at 645-2950.

MA1tU11a I'- . a NAilED
ECIIC MIDICAL ~

.......,., W. Paroaltl, clinical
associate professor of neurok&gt;gy at
the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed medical d irector of the Erie

County Medical Center (ECMC) by
the board of managers .
She will oversee the medical operattons of the ECMC Healthcare
Network, which Includes the Medi. - - - -- . cal Center, the
Erie County Home
and a growing
base of off-site
health centers.
A graduate of
Canisius College,
she received her
M .D. degree from

UB medical
school in 1980.
From 1992 to 1996 she served
as clinical d ireotor for ECMC's Qe..
partment of Neurology. She has
served as director, EEG laboratory

and chief. Department of NetJrofogy
at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center
from 1988 to 1992. From 1986 to
1988 she was director of the EEG
laboratory at Buffak&gt; Veterans Administration Medical Center.
She has publtshed a number of
articles and her recent research has

Involved a collaborative study on
PET scanning In patients with minor
head Injury.
.
She S0MH1 on the UB Medical
Alumni Association board of governors, UB Dean's Advisory Council,
and Is lrmlediate·past P""'ldent of
the UB Medical Alumni Association
She..., tho Amorican Medical
Wcmen's- Gonder Equity
Award In 1996 and has raceilled -

----

ert!lawardsfor...-.:eln~ .

AJIIIICAM..&amp;MD"UUI
_ . . LOOKIIJ WE

•t Give You The Dawn: A CelebraUon
o1 ~rit and Ute,· a one-woman
show that embraces five performance Styles, will be staged Friday.
Feb. 28. at 8 p.m. in the Student
Union Theater. The original, partly
autobiographical production. the
worf&lt; of -Whitis, Incorporates
theater, poetry, storytelling, song
and dance to showcase the AlricaoAmerican woman~ P&lt;npoclive on

IW8, past, present and futuro.
Whitis, who heo wor1&lt;ed as ectraas, dancer, atorytaller, TV pmduoer. director and choraographef
for 25 yeatl, heo been a performing
arto 1n11ructor at tho Univeroity of
~. Brockport State College,
Empire Slate College and the'
Eastman School of Music. In 1996
1116 received the Dls1ingulolled
Scholar Public SeMce Award from
the Brockport State College Alumni
Association.
riCkets for the performance ($7,
students: $10, general public) are
available at the door the night of the
show. For more information call
833-9342. The show Is presented by the
GSA Social Wort&lt; Club. co-sponsored by the UB Graduate School
of Social Wort&lt;, the UB Department
of Public SerW::e and Urban AHa!"'
and GSA clubs, Including Information and Ubrary Sciences, Classics,
Graduata American Studies and
Urban Affairs.

New findings that coufd affect
whether a nuclear-waste disposal
site is tocated atong the ClarendonUnden Fautt system in Allegany
County will be discussed In a lecture to be held at 7:30p.m . on Feb.
24 on the North campus. D•
associate professor of

.a.co111,

geology at UB, will diSC&lt;Jss new
findings he has made on the fault
system with his colleague, .fohn C •

Fountain, professor of geok&gt;gy.
The talk, •ts There a Conflict Berween Geology and Nuclear Waste
Disposal? Allegany County. An Example: will begin at 7:30p.m . in
Room 215 of the Natural Sciences
Complex on the North Campus.
Free and open to the public , tt will

be part of the UB Sciences Alumni
Association lecture series.
Jacobi. who wilh RlLr&lt;aln has SI1Jd.
led this lou~ system .-.sively, will
disctJss their latest findings, including
a clear Indication that the system Is
comprised not of a s1ng1e 1au1. but a at
--paraffelfalJtmnesatthe
!Uface and below l
He will discuss their conclusion
that while there Is little probability of
a large-magnitude earthquake occurring on the fautt system in the

next 10.000 years, aspects of the
site's geological history suggest that
locating a nuC~ waste disposal

site along the fau~ system would r&amp;qulre more money and resources
than would areas outside of it.
For more information, contact
Cindy Nydahlat 645-2531 .

IAUY AI'I'IAitSIII
-IIAUift10 ~
- - , _ principal flutist
with the BuHaloJ'tlilharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at
UB, will appear with an all-Buffalo
group of guest stars joining the
BPO for the presentation of Scandinavian Rainbow Feb. 22 and 23 m
Kleinhans Music Hall.
The presantation, • bibute to Buffalo musical heritege. includes 8 concer1 at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 and a 2:30
p.m. performance Feb. 23. Bailey, a
graduate of the Cleveland Institute of
Music, has been principal flutist with
the orchestra since JLn0,1996.

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10-~·-

The World Languages Institute
(WU), a section of the Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures. will offer elementary Hindi in
the fall semester. Hther9 is sutlicient
ervollment, the program will be expanded In subsequant-. AI
finll- and ooconcl-year COLrMI , _
the for8ign ~ raquir9r\'llrt

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your -a. quory with ~ brtoge:..,. Par example ifyoa wae
looiWig for pictureo of Preaideot ClioiOI! yooa wwld type
~:clinlmt or if you wereloolcin&amp; for piclum ollbc yoo would brtoje:-. Refer 10 ~·• oaJiDe llelp

for more delailed usistauce.
If you need ~ oa:ess to an extensive colleclioo of !lOCk
photos. then lades Stoek Pll.otop-apl!y (fiUp:/1
.....,.Jaduotock me/) is the lite for you. l!llla !lied&lt; Ploolop'aplly functions as an electronic photo-~ egeocy for
authors publishers, and advertising agencies. This stte allows
..,~ users access to more than 200.000 digital
as
well as sophisticated search, payment, and dowDioadiog features. A researcher looking for pictures of Teddy Roosevelt, for
example. can now find and purchase them in moments without
leaving the office. If you have questions about IDdtx Stock J'llo.
tograpby you can send them 10 WtbmulerOindexJtnrk.eom.
For rusisronce in conneczing to tJoe World Wule \fd&gt; via UB
computer ac~ounts, contact the Computing Center :s- Help Desk

im:"F'·

at 645-3542.

-&lt;itmma DtVinney and Don Hartman, Univusity librarits
Nearly 700 students are studying Hindi nat~. according to a
survey by the Modern Language
AssociaUon. UB will join 30 other instituUons of higher education that
offer the language.
For rTIOfB information, call Mark
Ashwill, WLI director. at 645-2292 or

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ASHWILLOacsu .buHalo.edu.

. - n ' l fOUIIDIIJION

-'(IW(

-~ nationally

syndi-

cated newspaper COIOOVlist and political analyst, &gt;Mil present his views
on character In politics at 7:30p.m .

on Wednesday; Feb. 26, In the
Amhorot Middle School Auditorium.
55 Kings Highway, Snyder.
Hia vis~ is sponsored by the Rev.
A. Joseph Blsaonet!e Memorial Fo&lt;.ndation in OOI'l'MI610atiolid the 10th
~a~~-. The

""""" is free and open to tho pOOiic.
_Shields wil speak on "U&lt;a
Sporls, Politics Doosn' Develop
Charac18r. It RoYoafslt" He is donetlng his limo for this_.,.,.,,
Bissonette, whose ministry centered

on soclal }ustice. was mur-

dered In his BuffalO 'palish residence In 1987. The foundation perpetuates his ministry by supporting
projects aimed at asalsting the
needy. addressing problems of the
inner city and educating the public

on social-justice issues.

Shields. principal analyst on
·Newshour with Jim Lehrer,· and a
moderator on CNN's award-wiMing
program. "Capital Gang,• writes a
nationally syndicated ooftJmn.

- of fll(!llly· medicine
UB associate 1f11-r
professor
and Fr. Bissonettaw brother, established the Bissonotte Foundation
and chairs its board of directors .

- - .8

student and
athlete at UB. was honored as senior athlote at the National Girls and
Women In Spor1s Day brealdast
held on Fob. 6 at UB.
An occupetional therapy major
and member of the croos-coontry
and trad&lt;-ilnd-fiokf taama, Welch
has excelled In borb academics

and athletics during her career at
UB. She heo been named to the
Dean~ List for achieving 8 gradepoint average of 3.6 or hlg/le(, has
boon recognized by the Depar1rnent of Occupational Therapy for
excelktnce in extracurricular activity
and has received the Mid-Continent
Conference Scholar Athlete Award.
She has ....-..d AIC&lt;nerence
honor&amp;. along wilh- ~Player
andMoat~Piayer-ln

~andtrack-8'ld-liefd.

�~-.

L

rs

... --. .....

I am disttessed that few coocened effons
to deal with this imbalance are made in any

Extra efforts needed to
reach balance in faculty

-.

I rood the Rq&gt;ort from the Toslt Fon:e on
Womeo 11 UB with great inlerell I finnly believe that a Concerted. aggressive and clear ex·
In effort (defined os allinnalive action in lower
case) 10 reach ~balance in our faculty gender and rocW divusity iJ • valuable goal.
I think it will lessen the culwral differ-

ences in the academy, it will increase our
ability to deal with mentoring and providing
role models for our increasingly diverse stu ·
dent base, it will open UJ to new models of
teaching and communication, and enrich our
scholanbip, teaching and service, possibly
developing a new thinking tow4fd balancing
thc:se more equitably in the sciences and engineering in a research univenity.
Spealting slrictly aboul the dala for science faculty, !he report clearly illustrates that
despite written commitmeota, we have failed
over tbe past 20 years where many of our

peer institutions have succeeded in increasing
the numbers of 1cnured and tenure track
women in science and engineering.
AJ a member of the NSM faculty I have
long been interested in the apparent lack of undentanding of the historical roots of the Jack
of gender and raciaJ balance and diversity
among the faculty in physical sciences at UB .

planning during facuJty searches in Cbemis·
try, in particular. (I limit my comments to my
borne department, because I am aware of
sean:h procedures aod actual searches in my
dcpanmcnl, bul I guess I make the [perhaps
poor) assumption thai the same types of procedures are common in physical sciences de-

paruneniS in NSM.)
Some of my distress grows out of my ex·
periences in natiooal policy discussions whiJe

11 NSF and oo review and policy panels a1
NSF. I watc h how other institutions deal with
this issue.

I do not believe my colleagues seek to exclude women and minorities during facuJty
recruiting. I do believe that they are oot cognizant of a number of issues related to facuJty
and staff recruiting in a straU:gic manner. I
believe this grows out of the view that affirmative action is someooe else's administrative coocem. And, our affirmative action ef.
fons 1eod·IO be "after.,the fac1."
Affirmative action to me means making

exln effons 10 e•pand the pool of qualified
candidates ABOVE that of the statistica1 distribution. No such efforts are made in th.is de-

partmeDL Advertisemenu are placed. including in minori1y and affl.nllAtive action
sources, strong and clear statements of preference are made in the advertisements. my
colleagues on the search committee are dili·
gent. in my view, to identify qualified minority and women candidates during the screening of applications.
So why do we faillo address the serious
imbalance in numbers reponed in the Task
Force's tables? In my view it lies in our
sloppy search procedures. We also are stuck

7

with Simplistic nostrums about uienlifying

and finding candidates. We have no training

in ex.tra efforts to identify candidates. We
don' t pay attention to what others do. We
fack the knowledge or procedures to address
the imbalance in the firsl step-identifymg
candidates.
An example can be gained from observing
MIT's Chemical Engineering Department
over the past few yean. Despite the convenGonal wisdom that you never hire your own
srudentslpostdoc's, MIT's ChemicaJ Engineering has hired two women by identifying
their own best people and mentoring and recruiting them. One associate professor was a
postdoc of a senior faculty member a t MIT;
she was recruited to stay at MIT as a faculty
member. A current assistant professor was a
graduate student at MIT who was convi nced
to postdoc down the road at Harvard and then
return to MIT. This long-range planning and
unusual recruitment are what is needed.
Since we do not reach out beyond adver·
_ tisements and b lanket letters, we cannot
know who does not apply, and we cannot c ull
the best women and minority candidates be cause our pool of applicants is not large
enough . We do not use personal contacts with
s uccessful women and minority full professors to identify by phone and mail. qualified
women and minority applicants who might be
postdoc'ing for mentors with si milar in1eres1s
and backgroonds.
I have sat on NSF review panels charged
with identifying the best young postdoctoral
scholars over the past few years. Each year, I
have offered my colleagues who are running
searches the lisl of the applicants and nomi ·
nees, as a means to write these people to invite them to apply. Personal contacts like th1s

overcome the reputation that precedes us. that
by virtue of our statistics, we are DOl a
friendly place for women and minorities..
The statistics published in the report by
the Task Force on Women at US for FNSM
depanmcnts show that there are few women
m certain departments and that there are defi cits when compared with the expected.values
from the current population in that discipl ine.
Despite 20 years of concern, we cannot even
keep up with the distribution of women
which are still underrepresented !
In my IS years in Chemistry at US, we
have gone from one associate to one full 10
two (one full and one assistant) back to one
(one associate professor). Despite recru.iting
wh1ch has raised the distribution of women m
the depanment 's graduate program over that
periOO. we do not have sufficienl numbers for
role models or mentorship for women graduate students .
It is sensible to ask what I recommend as
a step 1o ward solutJon. I hope we focus on
improving the facuhy recruiting process at
the ini[ial stage of obtaining applicants. by
developing 1deas and insisting on aggress1ve
measures to increase the pool or qualified
women and mino nty apphcants BEFORE the
inlerview process.
We need leadersh1p from the top to make
this happen . We need dtrection from the
President and Provost. at least in developmg
standards for our search procedures to help
increase the pool of qualified a pplicants. And
we need commilment. equally. from the fac·
uhy who make the cho1ces .
Sincerely.

-.rH A- QAIID£L1A IR.
Professor of Chermstry

CALENDAR

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tridoa. 7-8 p.m.

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Caii645-612S.

L ady..utb Black Mambuo.
M~t·~· Center ror the Arts.
North Campus. 7:30p.m.
SI2.SO. $16.SO, SI8.SO. Call
645-ARTS.

CleMic:a

~Aicooquln Table Colfeoboute.
Harriman Hall. South Campus.
8- 11 p.m.

l'eople'e.....,__
COODOdlaa uclaatlrist Dick
Grqory, former tnck IWtumed-activist, started '"Campaign

for Human Dignity'" to

fight crime. Brings wit and dcd.i-

carioo to human riJ.hll causes.
Center for lhe Ans Drama The·
atte. 8 p.m. Sponsored by Stu·
dent Association . Ca11645-29SO
for fru: ticket info.

JewlaiiAW---.. Su.rvlnlln Sarajevo." photo
exhibit deplcLS role of Jewish
community during Serbian siege

of Bosnian capital. Suite 210,
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hofer Room, RPCI. 12:30 p.m.
...._ ....,a I.Ktlo..
Prospedl for Puce In I be
Foi"1Mr Yuaoelavla. Zdenka
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Tul-Liaplsdc Aaalysls,
Elisabeth LeinreUner, Depc. or
Linguis1i01. Univ. or Vienna and

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Maabe:nor
Cllrotaatk: C lub,
Audrey Sharer,
soprano; James
Mabry, trombone':
Paul Hanley. pi ·
ano: Linda Mabry.
piano. AUen.
South Campus. 7
p.m. Free. Concen to be bi'OMIcast on lhe rollowing Sunday 11
4 p.m. on WB FO·
FM 88.7.

Lecture
ille Sporu,
Politics Doesn't
Dnc:&amp;op Chane·
ter, It Reveals II,
Mark Shield.J.. nationally syndi·
catcd newspiiper
columnist and political analyst.
Amhenl Middle
School auditowork,
rium, SS Kings
"Aknelo'a value added Cooda," Is on
Hwy.• Am.hent .
••htblt In Art Dep11rtment Gottery.
7:30p.m. Free .
Sponsored by Rev. A.
Dept. or Germanic Languages
Joseph Bissonette Memorial
and Litentures. Univ. or Michi·
Foundation.
gan. 280 Park. North Campus.
2p.m.

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Student Leadenblp : Issues
aod Answt.rs. 3-4 p.m. Call
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B iocbemka i-Gtnc:tlcs and
Molecular Aaalyaa of Anthocyanin Biosyatbetk Pathway•
In Ill«, Dr. Vab Subba Roddy,
Mu Planck Institute for Chemi cal Ecology. 651 Cooke Hall.
North Campus. 4: 1S p.m.

...,_ LoCic ~, ...
Bulfalo fA&amp;Ic Dlclloaary
l!roject-Propol.itioulldentley,
John Corcoran, UB Dept. or
Philosophy. 280 Park Hall .
North Campus. 4-BO p.m.

Alclllt-.. I.Ktlo..
Daa Banp.nu.. Dan Hanganu
Architects, Montreal . 301
Crosby. North Campus.
S:30p.m.

•••

The Schubert Ensemble or
Londoa. Slce. North C.mpus
8 p.m. $10.$12. SIS. Call
645-2921.
UUA8 FilM
Sw~t

Notblng. Student Umon
1beater, 20 I Student Union.
North Campus. 9 p.m. S2 .SO. S4

THUR27.
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Amherst Swlm Meet. Alumm
Arena Natatorium. North Cam·
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Register through Academic User
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UUA8Fit.

"
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Geoetk:s
for Cystk
Fibrosis, Dr. L-C. Tsui. Hospital

Tbt: Color Purple. Sludent
Union 1beatcr, 201 Student
Union. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. $2.50, $4.

ror Sick Children. Toronto. S08
Cooke. North Campus. 3:30
p.m.

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Weight Manaat:mtnl aod Nu-

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C•pturc:-Rtc.apturt Met bods
for Softwan RdiablUty, Prof.

Roman Viveros-Aguilen.
McMastt:r Univ. Sou1h Campus .
4p.m.

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Tbals/DWe:rtatioa Su pport
Group, Batban Umiker, UB
Counseling Center. 4 : 30-~ : 30
p.m. Thursdays lhroogh April
17. Cali64S-612S .

-"-1"'
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Department Gallery, Center ror
tht: Arts. North Campus. S-7
p.m.

Exlo*!OpeoolttC
The GndLllltt Sbow-Fint
Year. Uniw:rsity Gallery. Center
ror the: Arts. Nonh Campus. ~- 7
p.m.

ASCIT-.bop
Introduction to UN IX a nd tbe
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3540.
UUA• Film
Tbe Color Purple. Student
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Union. Nonh Campus 6:30
p.m. $2.50. $4.

Ufe-.bop

'"'Tht GBdua1e Stucknl Show
Second· Year SIUdenls" m the
UB An Gallery. Center ror the
Ans. Nonh Campwo. Through
Feb. 20. Gallery hours 11te 10:30
a.m.-8 p.m. Wedncsday ·Satur·
day. II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

&amp;. Controller. Univenily Ser·
v1a:s. Posting IP- 701 I . Sylt.IUill
Devftoper (SL-3)-AJ.sociate
Vice President&amp;: Controller.
Posting IP-7012. Systnus Dtvelopu (MP-5}-Associatt: Vacc
Presidcnl for Univenity SerVICCS, Polling IP· 701 3. Reside ncr HaJJ Dirfttor (SL-2)
(three ~tioflJ •vailablt)-5tu dent Affairs, Posling •P-70 14
Library CODHrVaton Technician (SL-1)-Univt:rsity Ubrarles. Posting IP-701S.

~Into

Feculty

School or Architecture and
Planning's James Dyeu Gallery.
3)4 Hayes Hall , South Campus
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.·S p.m.
Monday through Friday.

_..,.,..._
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Work by Duane Zaloockk. who
smce the early '60s has been eA p1oring wh:u he refers to u the
"sensuality or the act of seeing ..
L1ghtwt:ll Gallery. Center ror
the Aru. Gallt:ry hours arc 10:30
a.m.-8 p.m. Wcdnesday-Satur·
day. J I a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

CUinblq.-ouMI•yrOOM
Work by Lucy Gunn1ng . Camcn
follows a woman as she per·
rorms an act or Circumvention.
her rcet never toochmg !he OOOC'
as she gmgerly traverws
shelves. mamcls. radiators and
moldmg. Lowt:r level, US An
Gallery. Ccn1er rOf' the Aru.
Gallery hours 111 10:30 a.rn.·
8 p.m Wednesday-Sunday.
II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

Oesienin&amp; Your Own Rubber
Stamp. 7-10 p.m. Caii64S·
6125 .

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Tbuapy for NKk and Shoulders. 7:30-9 p.m. Call 64S·
6125.

l'eople'e..,_..........e
Native American storyteller
Gayle Rou. dircc1 dtscendant
of John Ross, princ1pal chief or
Cht:rokee Nation during infa·
mous ''Tnil or Tears," tells leg·
ends and myths or nauve peop1t:
of our con1inen1. Center ror the.
Arts Drama Theatre. 7:30p.m.
Sponsored by Srudent Associa·
tion. Call 64~·2950 for rree
11cke1 mro.

UUA8 Fit.
Sweet Nothin&amp;. Student Union
Tneater. 201 Studenl Union.
North Campus . 9 p.m. $2.50. $4.

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"'Chinese Mountainscape Archl·
tccture." an eJ.hibit or photographs by John Valentino w1th
tt:xt by Beverly foit-A1bt:n.
continues through Feb. 21 m lhe

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to COftduct

dllllc.ltrt.l
The UB DeJ)IInment or Dermatology a1 Buffalo Ge~ Hos·
p1tal is conducting a c hmcal
tnal for men or women who
have acne. Panicipants mwt be:
age 12 and older to qualify For
more information. call 8593749

Assistant Profeuor-Surgery.
Posting •F-7022. Assistant/As·
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Pos1mg fR -970 13 Telefuad
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ConlpetttJwe Civil Service
Keyboard Specialist 2 (SG-9)EiectricaJ &amp;: Computer Eng• ·
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School or Education, Posting
fi!P-7009. Dean lc Proressor
(MP·lHJraduate School of Social Wort . Postins MP· 7010
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(SL-l)-Associalc V1ce Pres1dent

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46148. 46149. 46150. 461S I.
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Alumni Arena Natatorium.
North Campus. II Lm.- 10 p.m.

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IDellt, panel diiCu.uion with
Beverly Ony. E. JtaMette
Ogde Robert
Arthwo . E • modemor. Noon.
An:b"
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p.m. Tbundayslbroup April
17. Call645-6125.

Ro.ptr Sto.pu. Student
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Union. North Campus. 6:30
p.m. $2.50. $4.

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MainJtaae, Center for lbc Arts.
North Campw. 7:30p.m. Free,
but tickets must be reserved by
calliaa 64S.ARTS .
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ZocUllqwe o..c:e Co.puy,
Prontien n . Drama 1'beatre.
Center foe tbe Arts. North Cam·
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ARTS.

DiloloM. Abbijit Cbakrabony.
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3:30p.m.

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684 Baldy. North Campus.

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UB; Dt. Jamc:t A. Schafet, Ulliv.
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JL. Medical Collqe oC w.......
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wbo will Jive tbe Harrin&amp;IOD
Lcc::tun:. Ccatcr for tbe AtU
Screeaiaa Room. North Cam·
pua. 8 a.m.-3: u p.m.

VB Pit Fair. O)"IIIIWlics Room.
Alumni AJooa. North Campus:
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Chic:aao. 114 Hocbsteaer. North
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or Pinsblu&amp;b. Klnch Audioorium. Children'• Hoapital.
8a.m.

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North Campus. 4 p.m.

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�Planning UB's
Academic Future
A Report to the UB Community (Part III)
Thomas E. Headrick, Provost
This Report is the sequel to Managing Our Future. Another iteration will inevitably follow later this year, so that in the steps toward a strategic plan, UB continues on the path of work in progress.
Neither the analyses nor opinions expressed here represent a finished product. But at the same time, this Report serves to set overall directions and focus our efforts on further refinement .
A maJor ai m of this pl a nning process

shape the academic s tructure and me thods of

to enable the UB co mmunity to escape from

the trap created by the annual s tate budget

umvers1t1es. They are not financial. but as in
all of life they can and will connect to fm an ·

process and cycll' . It has te nded to restrict

cial implications.

IS

tion built upon the premise of face-to-face dis ·
cussion and dialogue, upon human proximity,
upon s hared expe rience and mteraction upon the proverbial log with Mark Hopk ins at

our pl anning , a nd th e pursuit of our aspira -

Inte llectual d1scourse IS not bounded

one e nd and the student a t the other. The log

tions . Our focu s. particularly recently. h as

by the pe rs pectives and the methodologies of
our present disciplinary categories . Increas-

can now be a fibe r ·optic cable. the lecture and

a lmost e ntire ly been upon short te rm adJuSt ·

me nts, filling lines so as not to lose the m or

ingly we can expect biologists to work and

taking cuts where vacancies occurred, a nd

lea rn with ant hropologists . Physicists will

versations a nd teaching take place without
real -tim e dialogue , at once re moving the fru s-

using one-time resources to cover long-term

Pngage with humanists, compute r scientists

trations of phone tag, and in time possi bly

ob li ga tions for the next year. Under t he cir·

with arti sts and many others with collabora -

avoiding the administrative nightmare of class

seminar digitized, stored and reca lled . Con ·

cu mstances, these actions may have been se n-

tors from seemi ngly dista nt discipline

And

scheduling - to the re lief of every chair. man y

s ible a nd certainly they have been necessa ry

yet this conce ption of learning has its built-in

of whose fa culty want th e most proximate

for ann ual management. But they have also

paradox . To take part in an intricate investi -

classroom a t 10 in t he morning . Although

been debilitating for the long run s uccess of

gation. to learn interdisciplinarity , most indi -

presently central to the organi za tion of uni -

the University .

viduals must come first from a base discipline

versities. t1m e and place may no longer be cru -

As we continue to manage, we mus t at

and the n return to it with the ne w lea rning to

cia l structural determinants. Without them .

the same time plan a head. By taking a five to

redesign or refashion or at least freshen the

ten yea r view, by e ngaging in a comprehen -

disciplinary home , or to set about gathering a

universities will be shaped by the importance
of human contact for learning, the value of

SIVe look at ou r exist ing faculty and p rograms.

group of similarly minded and motiva ted schol ·

spontaneous and serendipitous hum a n ex ·

by making some reasonable projections of ad·

ars to create some newly synthesized intellec -

changes for the creation of ne w knowledge a nd

ditiona l resources that might be available for

tual home . The evolving university mu s t

access

mvestment in added quality. the hope is that

somehow incorporate the conventions of famil -

mg resou rces .

to

shared faci lities and other s upport ·

our sights will be raised, the s hort run diffi ·

iar di sciplinary structures as we ll as the flu -

H and in hand with the c h anges

cu lties can he put in perspective and we will

idity of inte llectu a l di scourse that chall enges

wrought by communicatiOns and technology ,

make wtse decisions and judgments that will

them . For that reaso n. th1s report suggests

maJor research universi ties will face mcreas -

se t the University on a path to g reater
s tre ngth and prestige over the nex t decade .

some ne w organizational structures and van allons upon our curre nt organization to accom -

mg imperatives to ope rate on a global scale.
To bring credit and credibility to the univer-

That IS what should flow from this process.

moda te this need .

Sity , its fac ulty will need to be read. heard and

In Managing UB's Academic Future.

We will also be contend mg w1th an -

the Presi dent and I described the various fi .

other fluidity . It is co mmonplace to re mark

physical presence)

na ncial forces that a re reshaping resea rch

on how the merger of compute r and visual com-

These reputations will draw students from fa r·

seen (through both digital transmission and
throughout the worl d .

universities. both public and private . in the

mu nications changes the social world : how we

flung places, and at the same time our pro·

foreseeable world. I see no need to revisit that

work in it. and how we act in it. It will also

grams must enable our domestic students to

analys is. But I do want to underline the forces

change our concept of the university . For cen ·

work and prosper in a global environment . It

that will, may be quickly or maybe slowly. r e·

turies the university has been a social institu -

may seem obvious that higher education and

�2
research will function on an increasingly glo·
bal scale and stage. It is also obvious that UB
wiU have·to change and adapt to these global
demands and opportunities.
Universities face a future full of both
possibility and challenge. Age-old justifies·
tions will disappear, current structures may
seem irrelevant. But our fundamental purThis Re port has three p arts:
poses and functions will remain importantmore people will need to learn more, and the
- Part I elaborates on the goals set
creation and use of new knowledge will con·
out in Managing UB's Academic Fu·
tinue to be crucial for the maintenance of
ture and gives them further explica·
healthy people and well -functioning civil socition and specificity;
eties. How universities will organize to serve
those purposes will test our creativity.
- Part II describes and projects an
This challenge is presently underlined
academic and financial context which
by two major pulls in different directions. On
will enable us to pursue and reach
the one hand, universities are urged to clarify
these goals and creates the outline of
missions, to use resources efficiently, to be
a strategic plan for the next decade;
more nimble and responsive administratively
a nd to account to their benefactors and stake·
- Part III establishes the process to
holders - in short, to operate more like a busi·
be followed in moving from this Report
ness. On the other hand, the long· term value
to the final version of the Plan.
of universities - which are among the few
enduring organizations of Western culture has grown from their capacity to insulate the
creative process from the economic market·
pl ace and to support activity with limited
s hort-term pay-offs but often extraordinary
long-term impact. For those reasons univer·
sities sometimes seem to expend resources that
lead nowhere. The resolution of these contend·
ing forces lies not in the triumph of one view
over the other, because both have their place
and use in the contemporary university, but
in a proper blending. The University must use
In Managing UB's Academic Future,
its resources credibly as well as be account·
able to its stakeholders for those uses, particu - several ten-year goals that developed from our
larly those directed to short-term needs and overall Mission were set out in the following
objectives, but there must also be some play, forms:
Within a decade UB should be some slack in that accounting for the long-term
effects of allowing creative individuals the
• Known as the premier public univer·
scope and freedom to c.ompete in the market
sity in the Northeastern United States;
place of ideas . Th is need for blending is very
• Recognized as one of the best mid-sized,
much at the center of the concerns of this Re·
public AAU univer~ities- in a league with
port.
Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, UC/Santa
' Though our present and projected fu ·
Barbara and Virginia;
lure financial condition imposes some bound·
• Regarded highly for its doctoral-level
aries upon our actions, it will not in the end
programs and research, in both arts and
be finances that will limit our accomplish ·
sciences and professional disciplines by
menta or ensure our success. Nor is the need
having at least one quarter of these pro·
grams rated in the top quartile and almost
for change dri ven by straitened financial cir·
all in the top half of programs in the na·
cumstances. It is the changing world that re·
tion ;
quires universities to apply their collective
ingenuity to adapt to new demands and ex·
• Extolled for i·t s forward -looking estab·
lishmentofMaster's level education as the
pectations and to shape them . UB can accom·
standard student credential for meeting
plish many of the goals set forth in this Re·
the needs of societies and economies in the
port without a substantial increase in fi nan·
21st century;
cial resources if collec.tively and individually
•Acknowledged widely for insuring that
the members of this community apply their
its undergraduates are challenged intel·
creative capacities to design the paths to those
Jectually by strong undergraduate pro·
goals - paths that may depart significantly
grams that move students to Master's level
a ccomplishment , using wisely th·e
from our ways of the past - and then also
strengths of a research university and pre·
develop the will to journey down them.
paring them exceedingly well for life and
career, and doing so in a University that
provides a comfortable, supportive envi·
ronment for students and treats them well;
• Heralded in New York and across the

nation for a succeaafullinkage of research
and schola.r ship to the provision of quality
public service;
• Respected for ita dedication to quality
and for ita commitment to innovation.
Let me add some refinement and ex·
planation to those goals.
But first we should be clear about the
nature of goals for a university. They should
be seen as a standard to be achieved by the
University as a whole, to which ita academic
units and supporting services each contribute.
But the overall goals do not translate directly
into specific goals for each unit. Because the
University wants to have itself compared fa ·
vorably with the University of Virginia does
not mean that each academic department or
school should use ita counterpart at the Uni ·
versity of Virginia as a model. Because the
University wants to expand its educational
role for students by emphasizing the impor·
tance of advanced education at the Master's
level does not mean that each department
should expand its BA orBS programs into MA
or MS programs. But it does mean that many
should where the circumstances of student
interest and employment markets will support
this development. University goals must be
translated into directions for various parts of
the University, but the translation should be
tempered by reality and appropriateness and
shaped by analysis and judgment.

Premier
Public University
Q{ the Northeast
The environment for public universi·
ties in the Northeast differs considerably from
that of major public universities elsewhere in
the country. Private universities flourished
in the Northeast long before many of the publics were established. The1vy League schools
set the standard for quality which other pri·
vate and public universities across the coun·
try have sought to emulate. Northeastern
public systems, which mainly started with land
grant universities and teacher training col·
leges, were only expected to have a quality
appropriate to their limited missions. The
post-war era has changed that landscape, but
it has not wholly removed the attitude bound
up in the earlier expectations. A few North·
eastern publics are members of the AAU Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Pittsburgh
and UB. Penn State, Maryland and Rutgers
have histories connected to the land grant
mission. Pittsburgh, like UB, started as a pri·
vate university and was brought into a sys·
tern of state support later . Stony Brook ,
CUNY, Massachusetts and Connecticut have
yet to achieve AAU status. Vermont, New
Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island all have
histories and cultures that give them the char·
acter of public-private hybrids. Within t he
AAU University evalua tion system Penn

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Table 1
PROFILE: AAU PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS WITH MEDICAL SCHOOLS ( 1993-1995)

Cam.gle Clautftcatlon

Ros 1

Ros1

Res 1

Ros1

Ros1

Ros1

Students, Foii1Freshmen
Selectivity%

60

86

79

41

82

38

Yoeld%

24

41

51

57

39

48

1,066

24 .4

24.7

1.128

1,033

1,217

24,943

27.671

22,175

24 ,565

26,328

21 ,421

16,411

18.356

16,439

15,849

16.721

12.568

66

66

74

65

64

59

6,815

7,965

4,623

2,502

8.023

7,156

AvgSAT/ACT
Headoount

Unde&lt;graduate
%of Total

G&lt;aduate
%of Total

27

29

21

10

30

33

151 Professlonal

1,717

1.350
5

1,113

6 ,214

1,584

1,697

5

25

6

8

%of Total
21l,620

23,244

19,366

21,290

21,238

18.565

12.9

12.9

8.9

10.9

8 .2

10.8

FutJ-time%

74

76

81

80

71

80

Minority %

17

9

9

15

12

17

1.599

1.800

2,188

1,958

2,595

1,722

41

15

27

24

33

18

62

257

390

791

296

657

1,732

1.255

2.735

2,728

Full-time Equivalent Students

FTE Students/Full·time Faculty

Full-Time Facutty/St.ft, Feii1H3
Foculty

%of Total

ExecAdm

%of Total
f'rolesslonaj

2

2

644

4,949

7

10

17

42

21

15

35

28

1,569

4,910

3,8n

4,289

2.231

4,680

41

41

47

52

28

48

Professo&lt;

78.9

72.4

64 .0

74 ,7

76.3

79.5

Assodato

56.1

51 .8

48.8

53.9

53.4

Assistant

44 .2

44 .2

42.5

44.5

44.0

52.9
43.7

lnstrudor

28 .9

40 .9

30.4

41 .3

33.3

31 .8

Instruction

7,139

8.484

8,169

13.086

9 ,078

8.295

Academic Support

1,790

1.966

1,585

1,902

2.166

2.887

606

727

785

432

1,502

7'12

1,503

1,480

1,265

1,315

2.095

2 ,586

21.286

23,847

21.233

30,475

30,281

23,792

40.650

61,944

38,&lt;183

71 ,808

61,888

58,537

SM for Current Operations

9 .9

39.0

14.8

41 .6

37.2

37.0

$M fO&lt; Copital Purposes

3.1

20.5

7.9

41 .1

2.2

29.9
36.9

%of Total

OlherSuwon
%of Total
Avg Salaries, FY 1995

Expenditures per FTE Student

Student Services
Schola~ps

&amp; Fellow

Total E &amp; G Expo&lt;ld

Expenditures per Fuii-Thne Faculty

Rosoardl
Volunt.ry Support, FY 1994

SM frorlllndlvldual s

4.8

26.4

9.8

43 .7

10.7

SM from Organizations

8.3

33.2

12.9

39.1

28 7

30.0

187.2

301.0

143.2

407 8

444 .5

641 .1

Fed R&amp; 0 Obligations

31 .4

87 .9

28.5

129.1

136.8

79.2

Fed R &amp; D Expe"9

80 7

93.5

29.6

130.9

141 .8

75.6

59

62

58

85

65

91

75.9
16
0 .0

92.6
15
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92 .9
19
7 .2
2

188.4

125.9
25
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244.9

200.5

145 .4

53
88.8
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18.9

33

75.5
9
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0
283.8
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213.2
24
64 .1
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SM Endowment Mari&lt;et Value

Rea. .rch (SM), FY 1993

Program a
Six-year Graduation Rate

RevenueSourcealel8 Hoapltala, FY 19S.

% based on revenue less hospitals
Tuttion and fees
% ofTotal Rev . less Hosp
Fed . Approp

% of Total Rev. less Hosp
StateApprop
% of Total Rev. less Hosp

Gov't Grants &amp; Contracts
%of Total Rev. less Hosp
Priv C'tracts, Gn. Grants

% of T otal Rev. less Hosp
Endowment lnoome

%of Total Rev. less Hosp
Total Current Funds Rev less Hosp

22
383

4

31 t
6 .7

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0
1398
23.0

143.8
30.1

228.8
26.1

464.4

607 .5

478.0

8n.3

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%of Total Rev. less Hosp

Olhor

135.7

30
55 .8
12 .
26.7
6
6.2

11 .9
1

27
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109.6
16
185.8
27
58 .9

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15.4

22 .3

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132.6
19.2
69(l.7

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104.0
20

71 .2
14
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State, Pittsburgh and Maryland rank slightly
ahead of UB while Rutgers and UB are rated
evenly. On measures of faculty productivity
and quality and of recognition of doctoral pro·
grams, external research support and com pre·
hensiveness, UB is capable of excelling in our
region if we make the right decisions for the
future and realize greater autonomy from the
state bureaucracy. All of the strong Northeastern public uruversities operate far more
independently of state supervision than do UB
a nd the other SUNY schools.
The major Northeastern public uruversities differ from public universities in other
regions in several ways. Generally, the circumstances of state finance have forced all
major Northeastern publics to charge higher
tuitions. As population and political power
have shifted south and west since 1945, moreover, th~ economic base of Northeastern states
has been eroded, leaving them with increasingly dependent populations, particularly in
the older inner cities, and with less flexible
political cultures shaped by the earlier eras of
strong political parties and centralized leadership . ln our regional setting, then, major
public universities do have to play a role
slightly different from the roles of major publics elsewhere in the country. They cannot
assume strong public support; they have to
create it and earn it. They must be involved
in a public agenda that reshapes the economic
base of their region and that attacks the djffi .
culties faced in the urban centers and the de·
caying social , economic and physical infrastructure. Those issues are not entirely dif.
ferent from those confronting public universi ·
ties elsewhere in the country, but in the Northeast we may need to be more assiduous in deal ing with them.

One of the Best
Mid-Sized Public
AAU Universities
The group of mid-sized public AAU
schoo ls includes University of Cali forniaDavis, University of California-Irvine, Uruversity of California-Santa Barbara, Colorado,
Jowl', Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska ,
North Carolina, Oregon, Pittsburgh, and Virgi nia. Their overall enrollments vary from
Oregon at 16,000 to Iowa at 27,000. Of that
group, Iowa, North Carolina, Missouri, Pittsburgh, and Virginia have health science cen·
ters included with the campus organization
and an arts and science/professional school mix
similar to uB's. Among those AAU Universities North Carolina and Virginia stand out;
Pittsburgh and Iowa are rated slightly ahead
of us, and Missouri trails us.
The focus upon mid-sized AAU public
universities as a standard of comparison
makes sense because size is a significant determinant of the capacity of public uruversities to develop quality over a broad range of
programs. UCLA and Michigan (both of which

have health science centers) are 50% larger
than UB. UC-Berkeley (which does not have
a health scien~ center) is 25% larger. Besides
a history of strong state support and accomplishment, these universities have an edge
over UB that their size and longevity afford.
Though UB would like in the long-run to be
seen as comparable to these great universities,
it is more sensible in the short-run to set our
sights on matching the excellent mid-sized
AAU public universities.
The comparative data (Table 1) point
to a few key conclusions about UB's financial
situation vis-a -vis these peer schools.
•Overall UB is underfunded for its mission . The full-time student/faculty ratio
is at the high end. The expenruture per
student is at the low end. Aa a result we
have fewer faculty and staff than these
peers for similar missions and overall enrollment.
Until the mid 1980's UB's state tax support was more generous than the tax support in these other states, though. But the
policy - until recently - of keeping tuition low has restrained our development.
Then the recent loss of state tax support
damaged us, particularly as the tuition
increases have only partially replaced the
state tax support. Those tuition increases,
moreover, have been too large and come
too fast, thus discouraging students from
applying and enrolling. This rapid decline
in state support for SUNY has significantly
altered our capacity to compete with our
peer AAU universities.
•The biggest difference in funding, however, lies in the thinness of our outside revenue - philanthropy and endowment income, research funrung, and other revenue
streams. It is upon those areas that UB
must depend more in the future and in
those areas that we have the most work to
do. To expand these sources, however,
SUNY Trustee policy and New York State
legislative and administrative regulations
will need to change and allow greater campus managerial flexibility and also to recognize that these funds will not flow without investments and time to allow the investments to pay off.

Distinguished doctoral level programs in both arts and sciences and
professional disciplines - one quarter in top quartile and almost all in
top half among US universities.
UB sits apart from other SUNY universities and colleges by the range of its
graduate and especially doctoral level education: UB's 6, 700 graduate student FrE's
exceed Stony Brook's by over 60% and
greatly outnumber those at Albany ,
Binghamton , Environmental Science &amp;
Forestry, the state supported colleges at
Cornell and the Health Science Centers at
Syracuse and Brooklyn which are the other
major graduate and doctoral granting
SUNY universities and programs.

•

Doctoral level education in particular
is one of UB's distinguishing characteristics
within SUNY. It is also a key factor in establishing the reputation of UB among other fine
universities, both public and private. It was
UB's distinction and quality in doctoral edu-

cation and research that led to its admiaaion
to the AAU in 1989. It ia therefore important
that UB maintain and enhance the quality of
its doctoral level programs and measure its
accomplishment and progress against other
doctoral universities. For some programs
these comparisons would involve as few as 30
other universities, for others, as many as 300,
thus our goals have to be stated in percentile
terms.

The more important issue is percentiles accorrung to whose and what scale. The
National Research Council (NRC) has rated
Ph.D. programs in the arts and sciences about
every decade; the most recent was based on
1993 data and published in 1995. This study
gathered both measurable data on faculty producti vity and reputational assessments by
experienced faculty. Its rankings, however,
were based on the reputational surveys, not
the productivity data, and those faculty who
participated in the survey rud not have access
to the productivity information. Moreover, for
many programs the reputations! assessment
varied over a reasonable range so that many
programs had considerable overlap, both upward and downwards, that was obscured by
the average scores and the orrunal rankings
which were based upon them. In adrution, the
strong correlation between size of faculty and
reputations! quality among public university
programs put UB at a disadvantage.
Despite the weaknesses, the NRC
study provides a base of information that is
important for measuring UB programs against
those of other uruversities. In Appendix A I
refer to both the reputational rankings and
~omparisons using the productivity data .
Stony Brook has calculated revised rankings
based on the productivity data for some, but
not aJI, of our programs. Where available, I
have included that information in the Appendix A analyses. For some programs the productivity indicators are stronger than our
reputation; for others, the reverse is true.
The quality of information from other
sources on professional doctoral and other
graduate programs is much more suspect. US
News publishes a coJJection of rankings, some
based on flawed reputations! surveys, and
some that merge such reputational surveys
with other data on student test scores, graduate salaries, school finances and other somewhat objective data to create indices. The computational formulae for these inruces are not
open to examination . The reliability of the
objective data is suspect, and the whole process has been widely and legitimately questioned by the significant shifts in rankings that
occur from one year to the next. Universities,
and programs within universities, just do not
change that rapidly
Despite the weakness of these ranking
systems, they cannot be ignored because they
shape the perception of the University and its
program quality, both among the public and
within the academy. In this report, I will refer to these rankings and to others developed
from less universal sturues because they are

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Table 2

UB AND RANKING STUDIES
Rating
SoJm;.a

ScbooUProgram

Ada

Number of
Programs

Quartile Ranklngs
Faculty
Program

Ba.tt.d

~

Effectiveness

&amp; Sciences Ph P programs

Music

NRC

49

English
Comparative Ltterature
Classics
Modem Languages
French
Gennan
Spanish

NRC
NRC
NRC

127
29

1st
1st
not submitted not submitted
not submitted not submitted

NRC
NRC
NRC

45
31
51

not submitted not submitted
4th
4th
4th
3rd

44

3rd

3rd

American Studies

no rating

Anthropology
Communications
Communicative Disorders
Economics
History
Linguistics
Philosophy
Political Science
Sociology
Psychology
Geography - with technology

NRC
no rating
no rating
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC

69

3rd

3rd

107
93
41
66
78
82
141
34

3rd
3rd
3rd
3rd
3rd
4th
2nd

3rd
3rd
3rd
4th
2nd
4th
1st
2nd

Biological Sciences

NRC-Genetics,
NRC-Biochemistry
NRC-Cell Biology
NRC-Ecology
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC

102
187
165
127
166
107
135
146
95

3rd
2nd
2nd
4th
2nd
3rd
2nd
3rd
4th

2nd
3rd
3rd
4th
2nd
2nd
3rd
3rd
4th

Biological Sciences Ph.D.
Physiology
Pharmacology
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Genetics
Statistics

NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC

135
121 '
187
165
102

2nd
3rd
3rd
3rd
3rd
4th

2nd
3rd
3rd
2nd
3rd
4th

Englnnring Ph P Programs
Chemical Engineering Ph .D.
Civil Engineering Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Aerospace Engineering Ph.D.
Industrial Engineering Ph.D.

NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC
NRC

93
86
126
110
33
37

2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
4th

2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
4th
2nd

Rating
SoJm;.a

Number of
Schools/ programs

Ouadile Raqkjngs

Dental Medicine (D.D.S.}
Medicine (M .D.}
Nursing (M.S. Nursing}

US News
US News
US News

54
125

230

1st
Not inciuded in top 25
Not induded in top 38

Phannacy (Phann .D.}

US News

62

Chemistry
Computer Science
Mathematics
Physics
Geology
Health Science Ph

p

2nd

programs

School/Program

58

2nd

Health Science School/ Programs

1st

Professional School/ Programs

Architecture (MArch}
Education (School}
Engineering (School}
nfonnation and Library Science (M .L.S.}
Law (School}
Management
MBA Program
BS Program
Social Work (M .S.W.}

US News
US News
WesV Rhee Study
US News
US News
US News
Brennan Study

51
194
approx. 200
219
103
174
179

Not induded in top 20
1st
1st
Not induded in top 50
1st
3rd
1st

US News
US News
US News

292
112

Not induded in top 50
1st
Not induded in top 27

US News
US News

110
247

Not induded in top 29
Not induded in top 31

Arts School/ Programs

Ari (M.F.A}
Music (M.Mus.}

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what is now available. But these references
are not to be taken as unquestioning endorsement of their results. I believe UB should de·
velop its own set of measures by which it can
judge improvement and progress, and a start
on this process has been made by the Graduate School and the Task Force on Quality under the guidance of Dean David Triggle. UB
will also participate in efforts underway to
establish pools of common information on universities and their programs, which are overseen by disinterested experts. These efforts
will make it easier in the future to have more
reliable standards for comparisons of programs
with other universities. In the meantime, we
must read the messages of the ranking sys- ,
terns in public circulation for the guidance they
can provide, but avoid over-reading them.
In Table 2, I have assembled estimates
of the quartile rankings of our doctoral level
programs and our graduate professional
schools from the information in public circulation, and I have compared the NRC rankings
with some peer institutions - both mid-sized
AAU and Northeastern public universitiesand also the NRC faculty productivity measures of our departments with the average topquarter program . These comparisons suggest
that with proper planning and the right investment choices, a goal of having one quarter of our programs in the top quartile and almost all in the top half can be realized over
the next decade, and that reaching that goal
would put UB among t he top, high quality
public universities where it belongs.

Undergraduate
&amp;Masters
Education Goal

Fifty years ago, considerably fewer
high school graduates entered college than
now . In the interval, the baccalaureate degree became the sta ndard expectation for a
s uqstantial portion of a well educated, well
trained work force . As this nation moves into
the 21st cen tury, its work force will require
broader and deeper education and higher levels of competence. US's place within the
SUNY system and ite role as a major public
university ·have given it a special responsibility in advanced and graduate education.
Among the public AAU universities with medical schools, only four schools have a higher
percentage of post-baccalaureate students
(Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina and Pittsburgh) and then each is only a percentage point
or two higher. Qui strength as a faculty lies
in our capacity to work with advanced students, to share with them the benefits of research, scholarship, expertise, and the production of knowledge at the highest levels. As an
institution UB should emphasize this distinction and create a special place for ourselves as
a University. We should make ourselves appealing to undergraduate students who intend
to pursue post-baccalaureate education, a nd

we should appeal to undergraduate. students
to continue their education past the baccalau reate degree at least to a Master's level because in many fields the added knowledge,
improved investigative and analytical skills
and broadened intellectual and technical competencies will give them an edge in competi·
tive employment markets. We can do this in
several ways.
• By constructing our programs so that
the Master's is considered a target degree
rather than as a step along the path to a
Ph.D., so that the baccalaureate degree becomes a step toward the target goal of the
Master's degree. Some fields and programs
are likely to be more attractive to students
t han others, p'llrticularly t hose Master's
programs that offer either specialization
or lead to higher orders of competence for
an employment market.
• By arranging for combined programs
linking baccalaureate degrees in the arts
and sciences to professional Master's or
doctoral degrees, in some cases shifting
emphasis away from undergraduate professional programs to graduate programs.
• By offering early admissions to doctoral
programs so that undergraduates can better shape their preparation for graduate
work .
Not all UB undergraduates would pursue advanced study, but many more would if
UB made it a part of the institutional culture.
At the present, approximately 25% of UB undergraduates pursue a graduate degree at UB.
If UB doubled this percentage in ten years,
that would give UB a special character. Moreover, by expanding graduate enrollments, our
faculty would be more engaged in their areas
of strength, making better use of their academic expertise. Pressures to expand undergraduate enrollments would subside. The
University would be more attractive to highlymotivated students, a nd the importance of
strong undergraduate education would
thereby be accentuated.
In this context as well, it is crucially
important that the University also construct
an environment that stud~nts find attractive
and provide services that treat students well
so that their needs, as they perceive them, are
met.

Quality
Public Service

Universities generally serve the public by making the expertise of their faculty and
administration available to the many different segments of the public. These activities
extend and reinforce the education and research missions of the University. As indicated above, this responsibility has a special
character and even urgency for a public university in the Northeast. It may be met by
organized groups or individuals, operating in
formal programs or by informal arrangements.
It should flow from a logical connection be-

tween specified needa of the public and our
particular academic programs. This is most
likely and most prevalent in the professions.
Since the professional schools are one of our
distinguishing features, particularly within
SUNY, UB is well placed to carry out tliis mission.
UB established a Vice Presidency and
Office for Public Service and Urban Affairs in
1993, a move that indicated the importance
the University attaches to its public service
mission. That office has guided several important initiatives, including the much-heralded Governance Project, and it will continue
to play a leadership role in similar activities.
But to fulfill the University's public service
mission adequately and be properly recognized
for it, public service must be taken up broadly
by the academic sector of the University. Compared with other public AAU's, UB appears to
devote fewer resources to public service, although this is probably more an artifact of the
budget structure than a measure of actual activity. Even so, the perception and probably
the reality are that our faculty and staff are
Jess engaged in public service than a major
public university should be. IfUB is to be true
to its mission and responsive to its public benefactors, both the reality and perception should
be substantially changed.

Quality and
Innovation
UB has emphasized quality in all its
programs, and over the years has imposed
standards and expectations that have brought
us well-deserved recognition. To have moved
from a small and good private university in
1962 to membership in the AAU in 1989 and
to recognition as one of the major research
universities in North America could not have
been accomplished without that commitment
to quality.
Clearly, quality cannot be maintained
unless our leadership and our faculty are constantly looking for improvements and innovations. If we completely measure quality
against standards set by other universities,
however, then innovation may be restrained;
we become followers rather than leaders. A
strong university must measure itself not only
against the accomplishments of its peers but
also by its capacity to innovate and lead its
peers.
Changes in our external environment
and the rapid growth in communication and
information technology will test our capacity
to adjust, change and innovate.
For instance •Technology will make certain aspects
of education less place-bound. Interactive
computer-based educational programs will
deliver courses to learners who need both
place and time flexibility. How quickly and
in what proportion these developments will
replace the more traditional forms of cam-

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pus-based education is anyone's guess, but
there can be little doubt that they will to
110me degree.
• Packaged multimedia courses - particularly at the introductory levels in some
disciplines- are likely to provide attractive alternatives to standard large lecture
courses. The enormous market potential
for such courses offers considerable opportunity for sizable investment in perfecting
and demonstrating their efficacy. They are
likely to rearrange lower division education in many subjects.
•Campus-based education will be
advantaged in areas where it is dependent
on faculty-stude nt and student-student interactions, particularly those that are individualized and collaborative, and will be
necessary where the education is dependent upon the use of expensive equipment.
• Because of the profusion and rapid diffusion of knowledge in research and graduate ed ucation, even the largest universities will become collections of sub-specialties for med around groups of faculty whose
research interests coalesce and thus provide support for each other. If they do not,
then the justification and value of having
a place-based faculty cannot be maintained.
• Digital publishing will replace print,
though probably slowly. Conventional academic conceptions of what constitutes publication and what indicates quality will be
changed by new forms of scholarly writing and dissemination.
These expected changes will shape re·
search universities - which are predomi nantly collections of specialists -

and rein-

force our goal to set Master's education as a

target for our undergraduate population. They
wi ll lead to graduate and professional programs that are focused - that cover a limited
number of sub-specialties or have a definable
niche. They will necessitate different modes
of attracting and educating students. many of
whom will come to campus for only limited
periods of t ime, or not at all.
While technology will stimulate some
changes, others should flow from challenging
' our conceptions of organization and ways of
doing things. For example, most academic
parts of the University have been organized
around a nine-month, two-semester academic
year. Lea rn ing is normally packaged as a 15week,"45-class-hour course with var iations for
laboratory or clinical instruction. Our conception of teaching focuses mostly on classroom
perfor mance. But there is much more to teaching tha n that: selecting books and materials
for t he students to study and organizing them
in a way that unfolds the s ubject matter to
facilitate and advance learning; prepar ing ex ams and other assignments to test student

learning and then eva luating and grading stu ·
dent performance and measuri ng the learn ing outcomes; meeting with individual stu dents to explain material that they have not
understood; organizing and preparing lectures
and other classroom activities to make the best
use of scheduled time with students. By treating student learning as ou r objective and the

full range of faculty instructional activity as
teaching, we may begin to think about opportunjties to restru_cture instruction and academic programs, break out of the traditional
scheduling modes and forms of faculty-student
contact and interaction, and actually use our
faculty resources more productively .
In the same vein, we should consider
the role of Millard Fillmore College and the
relationship of the academic departments to
part-time learners. The traditional separation
between full-time "day" students and part-time
"evening" students is no longer as clear as it
once was. Many students are part-time; some
have day jobs, some have evening jobs. In addition, many Millard Fillmore College evening
courses are now part of the program's of fulltime "day" students. Perhaps it is time to shed
this ar tificial division between regular aca de mic and Millard Fillmore programs and sim·
ply operate the academic programs on an 8
a.m. to 10 p.m. basis. and to make the academic
year a full 12-month year, minimizing the distinction between summer sessions and the
regular academic year. By placing these responsibilities within the broader academic
structure, Millard Fillmore College could then
be changed to focus on specialized certificate
programs, short courses, distance learning and
other innovative and experimental educational
ventures c1eariy outside of our main academic
structure.
In these ways and many others. UB
shou ld be looking for opportun.ities to improve
the quality of our work - education, research
and service - and expand the opportunities
for present and potential students . Quality
and innovation have to be a way of life at UB.

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Finances - Past

rose $20 million ·from 1988189 to 1995196, but
the increase was much less than the rate of
inflation . If the 1988189 appropriation were
adjusted for inflation by 1995/96, our state
budget would have been $251 million, or $36
million higher than it actually was. · In some
years the cuts were softened by some adjustments for inflation and for salary increases.
But more importantly, as the state support declined. the faculty and staff used their
ingenuity to make up for the losses. 1-F R accounts, research and sponsored programs, UB
Foundation activities , an expanding endowment, access to tuition overage. practice plan
and other revenue generators all increased,
most by more than inflation. These revenues
are only partially reflected in the state account
expenditures which between 1988189 and 19951
96 increased by $60 million. representing a $19
million loss in inflation-adjusted dollars. A
significant part of this loss has been absorbed
by cutting administrative and s upport services
and by sacrificing considerable central flexibil ity which supported new programs and other
investments .
Over the same period, however, the
numbers of students have also declined since
headcount and FTE enrollment hit its high
point in 1988. By fall 1995/96 headcount was
ofT 13%; fall FTE by 10%. The overall student/
faculty ratio remained constant between 19881
89 and 1995/96 at 14.4.
The full story is that since the state
cuts started in the I 980's, UB has become a
smaller university. UB was underfunded in
!985 and is still underfunded for its mission.
But it has lost more students than full-time
tenure-track faculty , and more staff than faculty. From the student point of view, the cur riculum has become narrower and the educa tion more costly. From the faculty point of
view fewer tenure- track colleagues enrich our
intellectual lives. and unfortunately some out·
standi ng faculty have left. The coverage in
some programs has become rather thin . From
the Provost's point Jlf view the deans and faculty deserve credit for their ingenuity and effort in replacing lost support. Even with these
changes. UB remains a strong University with
a solid base on which to build for the future .
The State has invested handsomely in facili ties, which for the most part are less than 25
years old , and has plans for additional con struction and renovation. More importantly.
UB has asse mble d faculty o f quality w h o
have m a int aine d h igh sta nda rds a nd created a c ulture committed t o quality. They
a nd t h at are UB's m ost impo rta n t assets.

Part of our recent history involves the
repeated cuts in state support that have oc·
curred since the mid-1980's . By one count, UB
has lost $45 million in state appropriations
since 1988. Not only has the state appropriation. which is composed of tax support plus
tuition. gone down. but tuition has gone up.
Since the late 1980's the taxpayers' portion of Finances - Future
the SUNY operating appropriation has gone
from nearly 90% to under 50%, and for UB it
In the future as in the past UB will be
has dropped from 78% to 60%. Undergradu- dependent upon state tax support. tuition rev ate tuition has nearly tripled; graduate tuition enue and other campus generated revenues.
has more than doubled .
The proportions of these revenue streams have
Like many stories this one is not as been changing and are likely to keep changsimple as some of the numbers suggest. The ing. For many major public universities. the
whole truth is more complicated and less dis· state tax support portion of their total expen heartening. Actually the state appropriation diture is lower than UB's. The tuition portion

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at some places is lower; at some it is higher;
but the portion of other revenues is usually
much higher at other major state universities
(see Table 1). These universities, however,
have gradually reduced their dependence on
state tax support over a number of years; they
have had the time to build the infrastructure
an d establis h contacts that have gradually
lessened their dependence on the state tax
payers, a nd they have had some flexibility in
tuition setti ng a nd the capability to relate tuition to program com petitiveness, reputation,
cost, and student financial a bilities. SUNY's
and UB's problem is that the political system
in New York is pursuing rapid withdrawal of
tax support when only gradual withdrawal can
ensure quality and access, and it is making a
rapid withdrawal of tax support without granting the fl exibility necessary to ma nage and
replace the losses.
For many years a nd particularly in the
last few turbulent years for SUNY, UB has
pursued an agenda proposing stabilized tax
su pport, campus-based tuition flexibility (subject to SUNY a pproval and political accountability) and more campus-based decision flex ibility a long the lines recom mended in 1985
by the Independent Commission on the Future
of State University of New York. At the sa me
ti me UB has invested in infrastructure to expand private giving, to enhance our research
capa bilities, a nd to spread the recognition of
the University through programs for honors
students and intercollegiate athletics .
UB has not been as successful in advanci ng this agenda as it would like, but each
year some progress is noted. The forces for
change are moving in the right direct ion, even
if not at the s peed we would wish. In thinking
about the future, we can a ssume that in some
reasonable time frllme, many of the changes
UB advocates will occur and that in some measure the financial effects of these changes will
enable UB to improve. In the section that fol lows, s hort s ummaries are provided of some
reasonable ex p ec tation s a bout t h e major
sources of fl'nds for support of the University
a nd its academic program s.

State Tax Support
The Government in New York State is
not in a healthy fi;.,ancial condition. Budget
cuts and shifting public priorities, moreover ,
have eroded public support for higher education. Yet even so the per capita state tax allocation to higher education presently compares
reasonably well with s imilar allocations in
other major industrial states, including Cali·
fornia . It wou ld be a major policy mistake for
the state government to continue to cut SUNY
and CUNY, for that will curtail the capacity
of the state to generate the well-educated work
force that it will need in the 21st century and
stem the flow of innovative research a nd technological development that is crucial for economic development . New York State certainly
has the ca pability to maintain the 1996-97
level of state tax support for SUNY and adj ust

it for inflation and labor contracts in the fu ture. For this analysis I will project UB's revenues on the assumption that the political will
can match the State's capabili(y, even while I
recognize that this stable support will not be
secured without much political effort on the
part of SUNY's supporters and beneficiaries.

Tuition
Students a nd their families want quality, public-supported higher education, and
will have to shoulder a slightly larger proportion of the cost in the future. Currently SUNY
undergraduate, graduate and professional tu ition ra~s are not out of line with the Northeastern public university tuitions, nor with
those in California a nd Michigan. But any
increments need to be modest and gradual, a nd
conti nued pressure will be brough t on t he
University to manage these resources well.
Certainly the co mp etition for stud e nts
throughout higher education will do that. If
UB could initiate campus-based tuition increases, it would propose increasing under·
graduate tuition by $600 to $4000 and make
increases of$1000 to $3000 in selected professional programs, if, and only if, the tuition
is retained by the campus for program
support, and only if the state does not
make further reductions in state tax support. If furt her cuts a re made, then t he tuilion will have to increase commensurately, if
UB is to maintain and expand its quality . Projections incorporating these tuition proposals
are included in Table 4. They do not count on
campus-based tuition adjustments for undergraduates until several years fro m now.

Private Philanthropy
UB is coun ting on private giving a nd
increased endowment for a larger share of its
operating budget. In 1995/96 the University
at Buffalo Foundation (UBF) raised $14.5 million, which equaled about 7% of our state operating budget; 1996/97 looks to be even better . Endowment income added the equivalent
of about 3% of the state operating budget.
Given the investment UB has made in devel opmenl infrastructure, we should expect slow
steady growth in these aggregate numbers a nd
percentages. The projections of growth in
spendable funds are included in Table 4.

External Research
Support From Public Sources
Given the cha nging climate for publicly-supported research, t he expansion of research s upport is less predictable. UB might
do well if this support stabilizes a t current levels over the next I 0 years. But if UB can expand the number of actively supported faculty
and develop more interdisciplinary research
groups working in highly fundab le a reas,
which is part of our strategy, then external
research s upport s hould expand. Expansion

of the research supported faculty can come
from replacement of retiring faculty who have
little or no support with faculty who have support. lf UB replaced its unfunded retiring faculty in the sciences with faculty who are
funded at the current average level for our
funded science faculty, our aggregate research
support would grow by $11 million, generating about $2.5 million in increased indirect cost
recovery. That level of increase is unlikely but
some increase is. ln addition, current licensing agreements of UB technology are projected
to produce improved revenues over the next
sever al years. The estimate of projected revenues from these two sources is shown in Table
4.

Other Revenue Streams
Other sources of revenue - clinic and
practice income, private industry collaboration
a nd r esea rch , specialized educational programs (certificate, continuing education, distance learning), supported service activity and
applied research - will grow if we put effort
a nd organizational resources into these activi ties. But estimating the likely contributions
is difficult, and to provide incentives for their
expansion, the individual academic units
should reap t he benefits. Thus for the overall
academic plan and t he support of University,
I expect these revenues will expand, but I assu me that they will be devoted to the needs of
the academic units generating t he m, rather

than directed to centrally-supported University priorities.

Faculty Turnover
The age distribution of our faculty indicates that UB can anticipate significant faculty turnover during the next decade. Anticipation of those resources has to be an explicit
part of our planning. Turnover resources are
the one part of our future financial planning
that we can most rely upon, and thus estimates
of the aggregate resources from turnover in
the next t wo five -year periods become a key
part of our planning. The resources available
for University priorities have been calculated
by estimating a one-for-one replacement of
each tur nover line, but at an average entry
level salary. The difference between salaries
of retiring and newly a ppointed faculty would
be pooled for University investments Again
these projections are set forth in Table 4.

Looking Ahead:
Changing The Enrollment Mix
With the current SUNY targets, UB
will be expected to maintain its enrollment at
about 24,000 students. Gradually over a five
year period, this Report envisages a change in
t he enrollment mix; undergraduate freshmen
enrollment would decline to 2200 and overall
retention would be improved . Recruitment of
transfer students would return to levels realized in the 1980's so that overall undergrad u-

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OFFI CE OF THE PROVOST

Table 3

ENRO LLMENTP ~G

Enrollment Summary
Five Year Plan
HEADCOUNT

PLANNED
Actual

EalLll6

..£aJI.Jl.Z

Eaii..:9B

15,800

15,835

EalL9ll
15,880

EaJLOQ
15,934

EaJL:01

15,571

2,575

2,700

2,565

2,437

2,315

2,200

1,700
11,400

1,756

1,814

1,874

1,937

Continuing

1,504
11,492

11,514

11,629

11,745

11,863

G.w1.u.ate

8,006

8,410

8,305

8,201

8,099

8,000

Masters
Doctoral

3,251

3,633

3,660

3,682

3,700

3,753

2,628
1,682

2,650
1,682

2,518
1,682

2,392
1,682

2.272
1,682

2.120
1,682

445

445

445

445

445

445

23,577

24,210

24,140

24,081

24,033

24,000

Undergraduate

Freshman
Transfer

1st Professional
Other
TOTALS

ate enrollment can be stabilized at 16,000.
Graduate enroll ment would be stabilized at 8000. The number of Ph .D. students
would gradually decline . Professional doctoral
degree enrollments would essentially be stable,
and Master's level enrollment would increase.
These changes are consistent with the
genera l direction the University will take:
• emphasize undergraduate academic
quality and student support to increase retention;
• expand and emphasize upper division
and Master's education;
• raise the quality of Ph .D. students and
programs; though the quality measure
data fo r P h.D. students are incomplete, a
rough calculation of Ph.D . candidates with
undergraduate GPA's at 3.0 or lower yields
an esti mated 500 students in that category;
UB would gain by having fewer and better
' Ph.D . students who complete their degrees;
• maintain professional program en rollments at about current levels, though some
program changes might result in altering
the mix .
The year-to-year projections of this changing
enrollment mix a re shown in Table 3.

Looking Ahead:
Marshaling Funds for
Improvement
By linking this enrollment plan with
projected revenues based upon sever al as sumptions about the finan cial environment
and the expectation of greater financial flex ibility, UB can foresee some accumulation of
operating funds for program changes and development over the next decade. These expectations are shown in Table 4 below. T h ey d o
not constit u te an a ssure d str e am offund s,

b u t a reasonab le exp ectatio n . one built
upon plans and proposals UB has made over
the past few years to the SUNY ad ministra tion and the SUNY trustees, proposals that
fit with the direction charted in Rethinking
SUNY. They are presented in current dollar

16,000

resource distribution system , one that reduces
the number and frequency of ad hoc budget
decisions and funds distribution, one that functions according to com monly recognized prin ciples. Within academic units, most of the
budget concerns revolve a_r ound numbers of

facu lty a nd staff positions. That is, the size of
tion. Thus the projections are at best rough the unit.
Size should be a function of three fac indicators of the orders of magnitude. But
even without greater precision, they indicate tors: student work load, research productiv that resources can be available for wise uses ity, and most importantly unit mission which
is, of course, related to student work load and
that can make UB a better University.
Even as I project possible resou rces, 1 research . And any assessment of unit size
do not wish to leave the impression that mov- must include tenure track, full -time non-ten ing ahead in the directions outlined in the ure track and part-time faculty a nd supportterms and do not account for inevitable infla-

Report depe nds upon having the fund s in
hand . Many of the proposed changes and improvements can be made without centrally
developed resources . Others will require some
redirection of current spending. Certainly
some will be advanced by new funds . But increasingly our t hinking and planning must be
shaped by the expectations that new programs
develop as replacements for old programs, not
as additions to our current repertoire.

ing staff. In a University of our complexity,
these relations hips of work-load, productivity
and mission cannot be treated with simple formulae. Variations in student level and in
methods and objectives of educational programs affect the number and type of faculty
and staff required to deliver programs. Likewise, measures of research output vary across
disciplines, so that it is difficult to develop
measures that satisfactorily work for crossunit comparisons. Even so, any resource dis-

Missions and Incentives
Conventional wisdom to the contrary,
UB has not operated a resource allocation system based entirely on student FTE's, nor have
budget cuts only been distributed across the
board . Certainly teaching workload has affected the distribution of resources, but many
other factors have as well. But certain too is
the fa ct that the lack of clarity and widespread
understanding about what counts and how it
affects programs and resources has not been
helpful in managing our resources .
One by-product of this planning process should be a clearly understood budget and

tribution system implicitly involves such com parisons, and any system should be based on
openly available information and data, even
though in the end the decisions will turn on
the values of the decision-makers.

Unit Mission
Unit mission , of course. drives both
stude nt work load and research . The topic
deserves some general commentary because
some people in our academic community have
thought that the university mission has not
been sufficiently well-defined.
Is UB's primary mission resea rch ,
graduate education, undergraduate education

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or public service? If University leadership
stresses the importance of undergraduate education or public service, the message is sometimes interpreted to mean "research doesn't
count anymore." 1f UB is described as a "major public research university," then the message may be taken to mean "undergraduate
education a nd public service do not matter at
UB." This misunderstanding ignores both the
sense of "public" and "university" in that de-

having different relative emphases among the
various missions. The second is to develop a
reward system that encourages individual faculty members to find the best way to use their
talent to support their unit's missions. This
may well translate into differing expectations
for individual faculty members.

the educational significance of their faculty
research programs may decline. ln a number
of fields, a faculty member who is up to date
with his or her field but not actively contributing to its development can do an excellent
job of undergraduate or Master's level instruction. Accordingly, it is possible that some facFor instance, a unit's teaching mission ulty may devote a larger proportion of their
will be determined in part by the number of time to instruction rather than to research
students it attracts and their interests. Some programs which may in fact no longer be acscription.
units provide basic level instruction to stu- tive. This is another source of incre11sed indents who plan more advanced study in a re- structional resources which we cannot afford
• UB enrolls nearly 16,000 undergradu- lated discipline or program, which the unit's to overlook. Nor can we ignore the fact that
ates, more than any other SUNY school.
faculty often call "service instruction," thus our incentive structure should match our
This past year UB granted over 3,000 undergraduate degrees. Undergraduate edu- implying it is a less favored responsibility. But goals, in particular by hono.r ing and creating
cation matters and matters greatly, apd in a university _such instruction is important; incentives for quality and expanded teaching
like everything else at UB we must strive it is part of the unit's mission; students and at the undergraduate leveL
to do it extremely well. It often is and must
This differentiated way of defining and
continue to be excellent education , and other faculty depend upon its being done well.
ln providing such instruction, say in a n un- evaluating unit and individual faculty effort
where it is not we must make it so.
dergraduate general education course that runs counter to our normal perceptions within
• UB enrolls over 8,000 graduate stumeets University requirements, some units the University . Yet I believe making this ad·
dents in the arts and sciences and in several professional areas, again more than want to characterize this responsibility as justment in our perceptions and behavior
any other SUNY school. The breadth of University duty, not unit duty. But that mis· would be a step forward . It will not force a
our graduate level education marks UB off takes the relationship. The unit's role and revolutionary change in our academic program
from all other units in tbe system and helps
to give UB its distinctive role within the mission within the university is to provide or research, nor should it. It will, however,
such instruction. The point is that our atti- allow us to make some adjustments .that will
SUNY system .
tudes and our language sometime imply a di- enable the University, the academic units and
• Generally, UB's faculty are expected vision between ours (the unit's preferences) individual faculty to perform better and be
to do both teaching and research at the
highest level. The standard teaching load and theirs (the University's or other's man- recognized for it. That's worth doing.
matches that common for faculty at major date and expectation), when in fact these reresearch universities, which is meant to sponsibilities belong to the unit and in fact
allow significant time (25%-50%) for full justify and define the unit's place within the Academic Structure
time tenure-track fa culty to pursue research. In addition, graduate education University.
and resea rch are inextricably linked in
Research mission is more difficult to
The raison d'etre of a university is that
many programs, and the University spends specify. Generally speaking, all academic it brings together people committed to learns ubstantial (though many faculty would
say , "not substantial enough") funds on units have a research mission. The problem ing, to the creation of knowledge, to the shararises because some units are more adept at ing of ideas, perspectives, and speculations. It
research support each year.
and better known for their research than oth- brings them together so they can engage with
• UB's public service mission fl ows most
ers. In some cases the traditions in the disci- each other on a regular and continuous basis.
directly from our publicness. It is the least
well developed of our missions, but because pline have varied the emphasis on research; We may talk compartmentally about our variwe have twelve professional schools with in other cases the tradition and attitudes of ous activities- education, research, and ser·
links into the professions and the commu- the faculty have emphasized or de-emphasized vice - but they are all part of a larger comnities and publics they serve, UB has been
mitment to knowledge and learning. The esactive in serving the public and has the research . For a particular unit, the faculty or
faculty time committed to research and the sential character and quality of a university
capacity to do more in the future .
number of individual faculty involved in re- is determined by the way it maintains and enAll of this seems rather elementary, search may vary from the practice of others in hances the vibran~y of intellectual engage, probably even insultingly so. but for the fact the University, depending on the research ca· ment, exchange, and collaboration among its
that faculty and students often seem to think pability and focus of the unit. In the same way members, particularly faculty and students.
that UB has choices, or has chosen, to empha- some units, because of their connections with As the communications barriers of time and
size one mission over others or to the exclu- the public, are better suited than others to place disappear, it becomes even more imporsion of others. Obviously UB cannot do that. serve the public, though all can have some tant that a university make the most of its
assemblage of people- faculty, students, and
public service component to their mission .
It mus_t do them all and do them well.
The overall understanding must be supporting staff. In order to do this UB must
But there are subtler issues that are
related to the general question. One has to do that our different units will have a different define clearly the academic and intellectual
with what relative emphasis among these mis· mix of teaching, research and public service spaces it will occupy- that is, its degrees, prosions by individual faculty is likely to lead to responsibilities. The leadership will have to grams, disciplines, multi-disciplinary inter·
recognition and rewards by the institution. think about the mix in rough quantitative ests, research foci - and the organizational
The wide-spread belief is that research promi- terms which in turn will reflect and affect the structures that will produce high levels of academic exchange, cooperation and intellectual
nence carries the greatest internal reward in distribution of faculty effort required to meet
addition to the obvious external rewards. But these responsibilities. lf the relative propor- activity.
There are aspects of our current
if UB is to succeed in the expectations which tion of the mission elements within each unit
our students and the state hold of us, and suc- is understood. then it is possible to have indi- School/Faculty academic structure that need
ceed in our multiple missions, then we need to vidual faculty devoting more of their time to to be changed. I know that some faculty will
promote the importance of teaching and pub- one or another of the significa nt elements. regard such changes as a rearrangement of the
lic service without downgrading the impor- Accordingly, the university could evaluate and "deck chairs on the Titanic," and some will
reward individual faculty on the basis of their cynically observe that when administrators are
tance of research .
role
in delivering the unit's particular mix of out of ideas_ for improving the quality of the
This will require two shifts in our
University, they reorganize. I accept the risks
thinking. One is to regard academic units as mission elements.
As some Ph .D. programs phase down, of those reactions without crediting their sen-

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timents. After all, structure determines who
makes decisions and the criteria they use. It
is the accumulation of those decisions that
determine the direction of the University and
its priorities. Structure is therefore important.
Let me first quickly summarize some
of the weaknesses and impediments created
by our current structure, as I see them.
• We have lacked any sustaining struc·
ture for the development of a coherent ap·
proach to undergraduate education. For a
time the Undergraduate College served
this function and did it pretty well. But it
lacked generally·accepted legitimacy and
a sustaining fin ancial base. The initial
faculty enthusiasm that carried it and its
curriculum forward waned as the lack of
an organizational place accentuated its
tenuous position with the University. The
College accomplished a great deal, but its
growth from a good beginning has been
stunted.
• We have divided the humanities be·
tween two faculties and made their devel·
opment the responsibility of two different
decision·making structures. AB a result
we have not been able to take advantage
of the interrelatedness of the humanities
disciplines on this campus.
• We have assembled a strong and highly
competent faculty in the biological and the
chemical sciences spread across two facul·
ties and six schools. UB has over 100 full·
time tenure track biologists in basic sci·
ence de partments, and yet no biology pro·
gram was rated in the top quarter by the
NRC. Similarly UB has about 60 full·time
te nure track faculty in the Chemical Sci ·
ences, again spread across several schools
and faculties. This fragmentation has led
to uncoor dinated approaches to opportu·
nities, to more obstacles to cooperation
than the University needs, and to less rec·
ognition than the University deserves.
• We have lived with more tension be·
tween arts and science faculties and their
perspectives on the one hand and profes·

sional schools and their perspectives on the
other than is probably h~lthy for our long·
term success. Actually the arts and sci ·
ences faculties and the professional schools
share .:nore in common than separate
them; yet our organizational and decision
structures have tended to accentuate the
divisions and downplay the common con·
cerns.
• Likewise the relative organizational
isolation of each professional school has not
wholly worked to its or the University's ad·
vantage. Professional accreditation stan·
dards have protected that isolation and iso·
lationist tendencies, and our organiza .
tiona! structure has supported rather than
counteracted these tendencies.
• By splitting of the Arts and Sciences
into three separate faculties and decision
structures, which evolved from a different
structure - one that ironically sought
greater interaction between the profession·
als schools and the arts and sciences- UB
has probably helped to advance graduate
education in the arts and sciences, but also
hindered the full development of under·
graduate education in those areas.
To deal with these issues I am propos·
ing several organizational changes.
First, I envision three related and
somewhat interlocking structures: Institutes,
Centers and Schools/Departments.
Institutes would draw faculty broadly
from a number of disciplines with common
interests. The Institutes would have relatively
large memberships; they would serve to bring
together faculty with related and common dis·
ciplinary foci . They would require some mini·
mal administrative support - to run confer ·
ences or internal colloquia, to ensure good in·
ternal and external communications among
the membership, to make the membership
aware of current and future possibilities for
collaborative projects. Membership would be
inclusive, non·selective and essentially volun ·

tary.
Within these broad umbrellas there
would be a number of Research Centers and
Interdisciplinary Program Centers. The Cen·
ters would be operating units of faculty and
students working together in a well.defined
area of academic and intelleCtual endeavor.
The Faculty and students would normally,
though not invariably, come from several dif.
ferent disciplinary homes. A Center might
well be the prime (or at least a significant) fo·
cus of its members' research activity. Some
Centers might act like departments; they could
be selective of their membership, and mem·
bership could involve mutual obligations be·
tween the Center organization and the mem·
ber. Such Centers would then have an admin·
istrative identity and administrative support
appropriate to their membership size and level
of activity. Some reasonably rigorous system
of oversight would have to be in place to ap·
prove the creation of Centers, monitor their
progress, and disband ineffective Centers.
Eventually a reasonable proportion of
our faculty members would be part of some
Institute and probably some Center . To
strengthen the status of fa culty participants,
the appointment and promotion process could
support these organizational directions by in·
volving Centers as well as Departments/
Schools in appointment and promotion recom ·
mendations . For some Centers the budget
system could provide direct support by assign·
ing them the revenues and costs associated
with thei r operations, if that independence
would make them prosper and not detract from
other academic programs. Institutes would
foster intellectual dialogue and communica ·
lion among faculty and students. Centers
would foster collaboration and joint work in
research and scholarly production and teach·
ing. Because scholarly work and our schol ·

~PROJECTED INCREASE IN OPERATING FUNDS
AVAILABLE FOR UNIVERSITY PRIORITIES
($

State Tax Support

Table 4

=Millions)

0

0

0.5

3.7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

7.8

11.9

12.1

12.1

12.1

12.1

12.1

12.1

0

3.6

7.2

7.2

7.2

7.2

7.2

7.2

7.2

0.5

3.7

4 .2

4.7

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.9

4 .9

Research/ Technology
Transfer

0.4

2.2

2.4

4.6

5.8

6.0

6.3

6.5

6.8

7.0

Turnover Pool

0.6

1.4

2.3

3.4

4.5

5.8

7.1

8.4

9.7

11.0

0

2.8

3.8

4.9

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

6.0

1 0.1

16.3

24.8

28.4

29 .9

31.5

33.0

34.6

36.1

8.6

6 .2

8 .5

3.6

1.5

1.6

1.5

1.6

1.5

Tuition
Undergrad
Grad/ Prof.

Private Giving/
Endowment Income

Cumulative Increase

TOTALS

1.5

Annual Increase

TOTALS

1.5

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arly cultures vary across the campus, however,
the actual structure and purposes of Centers
will also vary among different parts of the
University, and we must avoid the one-sizefits -all syndrome that infects large organiza.
uon administra tions.

How would the existing Schools,

~'ac ·

ulties and Departments fit into this structure?

Schools and Faculties (possibly renamed as
Colleges) will continue to have the major, but
not exclusive. res ponsibility for establishing
and maint.aimng degree programs. This res pon s ibility will extend to s etting requireme nts and standa rds . monitoring and evalu a llng students and al so gathe ring information
from graduate s, e mploye rs and educators

about the efficacy of these programs . SchooV
Faculties would continue to have major, but
not exclusive. responsibility for appointing and
promoting faculty . As a general rule the budget system would support th e educational and
rese arch mission of the units. but in some in stances the distribution of support for the re search mission could depend upon the prime
location of the faculty members' research in volvement . which could be a research Center
rather than an academic unit. By and large,

teaching responsibilities still would be managed hy the academic unit.
I also recommend that the Arts and
Sc1ences be reorganized in one or the other of
the following configurations :
• merger of the present Faculties of Arts

and Letters , Social Sciences and Natural
Science and Mathematics into a College of
Arts and Sciences. or

• merger of Arts and Letters and Social
Science into a College of Arts, Humanities
and Social Science , and merger of Natural
Science and Mathematics and the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences into
a College of Science and Engineering .
We have had these proposals on the
table before and failed to pursue them. mainly
in my view because we have allowed the iden tification of the inevitable problems associated
with any change to obscure the longer run
advantages of n1ore integrated decision-making in the Arts and Sciences. My recommen·
dation is that we find ways to solve the prob·
lems within a new structure . Our task in the
short run is to select which organizational
structure serves our long-run interests better.
[n my 'v iew the status quo is not an option.

Academic St rateg y
Our Academic Strategy is guided by a
set of goals for undergraduatefMaster's edu cation in which many sectors of our University would participate in some way, and by a
strategy for graduate education and research
which would relate to enhancing our reputa -

tion among Northeastern public and the mid size AAU Universities.

Overall, to achieve this we will have to
successfully pursue two strategies.

I. An assurance of adequate teaching
resources and supporting services for stu dents to maintain quality programs at the
undergraduate/Master's levels. The analysis of this Report is least well developed
on this issue. It is possible tO make some
crude estimates of the adequacy of re ·
sources available to meet current stude nt
workloads . But these estimates are insuf.
ficient for the detailed planning and pro·
gram development that we need to do for
undergraduate and Master's programs. In
the next phase of our planning the aca demic units will be asked to develop this
detailed analysis. It will incorporate projections of student workload by department
and program, analysis of course offerings,
assessments of faculty available for teach ·
ing (both within a particular department
and outside), possible restructuring of pro·
grams, and a thorough study of services to
students that support the llcademic program and create an academic community
- all within the context of overall param ·
eters of the enrollment and financial plan
developed in this Report.

2. A reconfiguration of resources in sup·
port of graduate education and research
to move one-fourth of our programs or
Schools into the top quarter and virtually
all into the top half over the next decade.
Where programs are not likely to achieve
top half status within a modestly increased
resources envelope, an alternative course
of action will be considered and acted upon
- combining programs or building them
into a multidisciplinary structure or network or phasing them out. These new
structures will also serve to draw together
strengths of already strong programs or
provide platforms for collaborative re·
search and teaching for faculty from dif.
ferent academic units.
The data assembled in Table 2 indicate
UB has some work ahead if it is to meet these
aspirations. In terms of improving our status
in the NRC ran kings. certainly some consoli·
dation of programs and more careful report·
ing will help . But we also need to focus some
resources on programs of existing and potential strength. In the preliminary review provided by this Report. several programs appear
to be likely candidates for top quarter status.
that is programs. not necessarily existing departments :

• in Humanities - English, Campara ·
tive Literature. Classics and Music Com·
position and Theory;
• in Social Sciences - Psychology. Geography and Linguistics:
• in the Sciences - Chemistry (which
program would broadly draw upon Chem·
istry. Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry on our campus); Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (which would broadly
draw upon Biochemistry. Microbiology .
Biological Sciences. Structural Biology and
CAMBI and some faculty in other depart·
ments in our current configuration) ; Phar macology (which would link the Pharma ·
ceutical sciences in Pharmacy and Phar macology in the Medical School) - more·
over, we cannot ignore the possibility that
several science program/disciplinary con figurations may undergo revision by the
next NRC iteration:
• in Engineering - Civil , Chemical and

Mechanical.
For the professional schools, the rank ing systems are even less reliable than the
NRC study, and the universe of schools against
which UB's schools should be measured is less
well defined, but top quarter or better status
has recently been accorded to Dental Medicine,
Pharmacy, Education, and Information and
Library Science . Management is also now in
this group or capable of becoming so. Law.
with its recent developments and continued
innovations could and should join this group.
Medicine, if it can expand its research and
solve its financial challenges. could as well.
The plans for Architecture and Planning. Social Work, Health Related Professions and
Nursing are less likely to raise them to top
quarter status. but that level is not wholly out
of reach .
These rankings are not thebe-all-and ·
end -all of our academic strategy. Nor can they
be ignored since they affect our attractiveness
to students and our capability to maintain and
enhance the quality of our faculty . Perhaps
more important will be the quality of our
graduates. the quality of our research. and the
extent and importance of our public service,

measured particularly by their outcomes and
impact.

It is also not the case that because cer·
tain of our existing graduate programs are

targeted for emphasis that others will be ignored . The strategy involves choices of rela tive emphasis. In many other areas UB has
sound programs which can improve without
any special emphasis or can be part of some
alternative strategy which will benefit the program and the University . ln a few areas, moreover, UB has an opportunity to develop new
cutting edge graduate programs that can
achieve leadership recognition.
Another key part of our academic strat·
egy will be to find ways and create structures
that will lead to stronger programs, better re ·
search . and more effective public service .
Many of the strengths will have to be gener·
ated through new forms of cooperation or collaborations, which will be encouraged in some
cases by University investment.
Over the past few years the faculty in
various parts of the University have come for ward with proposals for Institutes or Centers.
In thinking through the opportunities pre ·
sen ted to us by our present programs and fac·
ulty, I and others have suggested faculty com ·
binations which have led in some instances to

the formation of Task Forces to look into the
possibilities of pursuing these initiatives. In
order to give some concrete examples. I am list -

ing most of the proposals currently under consideration . Listing them is not a commitment

to proceed with them or fund them. but rather
a way of putting them on the agenda for seri ·
ous consideration. Moreover. it is a representative but not exclusive list of Institutes and
Initiatives that UB might pursue. lf l had to
distinguish between Institute and Initiative at
this stage, I w~uld describe an Institute as a

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that has been developing rapidl y. UB has [ac-

proposal that contemplates some formal structure for faculty collaboration across our cur-

uity in psychology, medicine and the biomedi -

Technology Initiative

rent SchooVDe partment structure and an Ini -

cal sctences who could. if linked together, pro·

tiative as an academic focu s for collaboration
that as yet has no formal stru ctur e, but in time

vtde a strong set of programs
This Initiative would bring together faculty

111

neuroscience.

These possibihlles deserve seri ous exploration .

wtll. tf we proceed forward with it. By setti ng

in information and communication technology

out these possibilities perhaps other ideas may

from Computer Engineenng in Electrical and

The details of the Academic Strategy

be generated. which would indeed be a plus .

Computer Enginee r ing, Computer Sctence.

mvolve a number of recommendations with

Information and Library Science. Com mun i-

respect to the academic units. Thetr key potnts

Humanities Initiative and Institute

cation , and the Center for Cognitive Science

are summa r ized here

The purpose would be to set in motion the
Through a jointly developed process the

building of a major program in inform ation and

Hum anities would make six to eight chatr level

co mmunication technology linking both th e

appomtml:.'nts of semor fa culty in the Hum ani -

creators and users of the technology into what

li es. Th t:se appomtments would be shared by

will eventually become one academic unit with

two or more departments . These new faculty

several different, but related, sets of programs .

would he ex pected to partiCipate s ignificantly

m both

under~raduate

and graduate educa -

Urban Initiati ve

tion and bt• kl• y playe rs m a H uman1lles lnstJ tull' and/o r Center. which would provide sup -

port for co llaborative groups of faculty to ex -

The Urban Initiative could be a part of the

pion.• s uhJtCt~ of common mtcrcst for bounded

Policy Ins titute or a sepa rate Center . Its ini ·

penods of t 1m e

tial direction would be shaped by a focus on

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Pnhcy Institute

~

urban education/social services and planning
mvolving the Graduate School of Education
and the Schools of Social Work and Architec ·

ThiS I nstltute would bring together faculty

ture and Planning and other mte rcsted fa c-

and graduate students from several Schools

ulty from other units with an urban focu s. tn ·

and Col leges wllh tnterests

cludtng Nursing and Law .

nnd pul1c!'

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poltcy analysts

Its scope would be broad

JSS U&lt;' S

Women and Gender Institute

t•nouJ.!h to encompass both bas1c and applied

rrsea rch rl·hncd

to

policy . Several top1cal ly

· cused Centers for Research and Graduate
~Xtu cauon

a nd proJects (e .g .. the Governance

Ptojecl) would become ope rati VE." umts o f the
I nstilut.e

Thts Institute follows from a proposal from

a number of mostly women faculty members
to estabhsh a collaborative mechanism for r
search and cooperative graduate educauon 1n
gender and feminist studies . Several schools

Bwlngtcal Sctences lnttiatiue

and departments offer cou rses that focus on
gender and the1r fa culty have resea rch inter·

Tht s lnttlativc would link together depart -

ests in gende r -related toptcs. These mtcrests

rnf'nts and faculty in the biolog1cal sc1enccs.

and foci operate more broadly than th e cur-

m cludmg b1ologica l science. microbiOlogy. a na -

rent programs in V\.1omcn's Studt e s offered

tomical scie nces and cell biology. physiology.

withm Amcncan Stud 1es. and th1s Institute

btophysics and other biologi sts tn related de ·

would be a way to bnng a broad group of fac ·

partme nts. The Center for Structural Btol-

ulty together who are engaged tn thts field

ogy, CAMBI and other collaborative research

across the campus. Once developed. this In ·

ce nte rs would be key parts of this effort. The

stitute would become the home for under -

Initi ative wou ld aid m the development of CO ·

graduAte a nd graduate programs as well a"

ordinated plans

fo~

faculty appoint me nts in the

for research on women and gendPr

·~A,r. t"""o.".nd

Ill

Sciences

Arts
• focus on role as regtonal cultural r ata ·
lyst and leader
• maintain current programs and faculty
tn Art and in Theate r and Dance
• expand Media Study but only as part
of a collaborati ve effort among Art. The ater and Da nce, Med1a and Mustc wllh
digital technology. and wllh co mmuntca ·
tion as a pivotal focu s
• restructure the Musi c program LO em phasize graduate program 111 ComposttiOn .
Theory and H istory. and the undergradu ·
ate B.A . and mmors tn Mu s 1c or a hm1ted
undergraduate mustc edu catiOn program

Humaniti es
• maintam and enhance strength of En ·
glish and Comparative Literature through
replace ment of faculty turnover a nd mod est increases 111 key areas
• maintain Classics and Art His tor y at
curre nt levels if enrollments can be in ·
creased
• refocus Modern Languages on lingws ttcs and language instruction m co llabo·
ration wnh Lmguisucs
• drop Ph .D. program s tn German and
French Literature : maintam M.A. pro ·
grams
• focus Span1sh Lite rature on Lattn
Ame n ca and reshape Ph .D. program to fit
thts emphasis: make Spantsh section the
co re for Latin -American studies
• enhance the visibility of Hum anittes at
UR through Huma niti es Initi ative - attra cung senior humanists to the faculty as
part of a Hu manities Ins titute and buildmg collaborative programs on key issues
111 the humanities: bring Hi story and Ph i·
losophy and othe r related social sciences
departments 1nto th ts co llaborative effort

biological scie nces. development of Resea rch
Centers. and research str ategies and teaching.

Chemical Sciences Initiati ve

Ethnic/Gender Studies

Environmental In stitute
This Institute follows from a proposal from
the Environmental Institute Task F'orce and

Thi s Initiative would link the chemical and

the presence of e nv iron mental programs on

btochemical scie nce depa rtm ents and faculty.

ca mpus.

mcludi n g Ch em ist ry. Medici nal Ch e mi s t ry

would link facu lty with Inte rests in environ -

As with other In stit utes. this one

nnd f3iochemistry. plu s fa cu lty in Che mi cal

mental issues mto a broad affi lt auon

Engi n eering.

sea rch Cente rs such as the Center for Haz ·

F'aculty in Pharmacology and

Ht&gt;
;.:~nd

Toxico logy, Biochemical Pharmacology. and

ardous Waste. the Great Lakes Ct&gt;nter.

Pharma ceutics might be part of this Initiat ive.

proposed Center for l::nvtronm e ntnl Polley

a

or of a separate Initiative in pharmaceutical

would become the operative parts of thts Jn .

sc1ences. Aga·in this Initiative would provide

stitute. as would other cn\'lronmental educa -

a platform for coordinated appointments. plans

tiOn and research acuvtut:•s

for the development of Resea r ch Ce nters,
longer term resea rch strategies in the ch e mi - &lt; :Neuroscience Initiative: &gt;
cal sciences. and the s h ari ng of teaching re spo nsibili ties.

NeurosciencE." 1s a

c ross-d1scip linar~·

field

• develop Women and Gender Studtes
through a Research and Education Ins ti tute as a broad collaborattve effort, draw tng faculty from across thP campus and
mcorporaltng present \-Vome n's Studtes
program inLO the lnsutut.e
• maintain e ffective programs 111 Native
American Studies and Afncan ·Am e ncan
Studies at their current s1ze. e ngaging fa culty in other units to e nh ance th e pro grams
• develop Latin-Amen ca n :;tud1cs wnh
Spanish Language and L1terature faculty
as its core and drawing faculty collabora tion from other departments such as HIS·
tory. Political Science. Anthropology. and
English
• develop Asian and Asian -Amencan
Studies from current developing program
in Asian Studies
• ex pand Cultural Studtes of the Amen cas through deve lo pment of a Center en ·

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gaging a collaborative group of faculty from
African-American Studies, Native American Stu dies, Latin -American Studies ,
Asian Studies, Art, Art History, English,
Com parative Literature, Modern Lan guages and Literature , History ,
Anthrophology, Political Science and other
interested facu lty; this Center would manage the American Studies Ph.D. , probably
with a reduced number of students.

menta in Geological Sciences to combine
programs and foster connections of inter·
ested faculty to broader programs in En vironmental Science
• reduce size of Ph.D. programs

Professional Schools

Social Sciences
• expan d Geography and Linguistics
slightly to add research strengths and con- Architecture and Planning
• maintain current faculty size
tribute to expa nded undergraduate offer• connect faculty research interests with
ings and enrollment
Urban Initiative and with Policy and En• maintain Anthropology at current size,
vironmental Institutes
but exa mine potential for concentration
• upgrade quality of graduate students
and focu s on fewer areas of specialization
or reduce size of program
• integrate History and Philosophy into
• to accommvdate reduction in gr!'duate
Humanities Initiative; reshape Philosophy
enrollment, expand undergraduate enrollto have less breadth and more focus; dement in generalist programs with profesvelop turnover plan for History that will
add strength a nd support collaborating
sional overlay
programs in Asian Studies, Gender and
Wom e n 's Studies, American Culture ,
Latin-American studies and expand under- Education
• reshape Ph.D. programs and reduce
graduate enrollment; consider slight ex size
pansion of History faculty and better inte• expand Master's enrollment
grate historians in professional schools into
• develop joint Urban Initiative with Soteaching programs
cial Work and with Architecture and Plan• integrate Communication into planned
ning that also draws upon faculty in other
coordinated programs in Information and
professional schools
Communication Technology
• build cooperative links for counseling
• expand Psychology slightly to enhance
education with Social Work
undergraduate program and develop re• maintain current size of faculty andrearch strengths in neuroscience and cogdirect programs through turnover as long
ive psychology as part of campu s
as aggregate enrollment is maintained
ultidisciplinary efforts in areas of neuscience and cognitive science, bringing
ether related faculty in social sciences, Engineering
dicine, and the biomedical sciences; con• maintain faculty at current size, if
tirtue enhancement of clinical psychology
enrollments can be expanded to justify
with ties to medicine and biomedical sciences
• expand undergraduate and Master's
• develop Political Science, Sociology and
enrollment to justify faculty size; reduce
Economics with some common foci; bring
size of Ph .D. programs.
related faculty in professional schools into
• develop programs in Chemical, Civil
teaching programs and research collaboand Mechanical Engineering as leading
ration; do collaborative hiring around inistrengths
tiative to develop Policy Institute and re• develop hazard mitigation engineering
lated Centers; where appropriate, particiand materials science in collaboration with
pate in Humanities Initiative.
CAPEM , with Physics and Chemistry
• explore moving Communicative Disorthrough turnover replacements
ders and Sciences into Medical School
• develop biom edical engineering
through turnover replacements and coor• reduce size of most Ph.D. programs
dinated appointments with Medicine and
Dental Medicine
N atural Sciences and Mathematics
• develop manufacturing and design con• develop biological and chemical Scinections through Mechanical and Indusences in context of fOllaborative plans and
trial Engineering collaboration
programs among departments in Natural
• expand ties with industry as part of reScience, Engineering, Biomedical Sci search and service mission
ences, Pharmacy and Dental Medicine;
• play key role in Information and Cominvestment in research and technical supmunication Technology Initiative
port is more important than an increase
• provide impetus for Environmental Inin number of faculty
stitute along with Biology, Geology, Chem• further develop Structu ral Biology Iniistry, Law, Planning, Toxicology, and Epitiative and CAMBI as joint biomedical scidemiology (Social &amp; Preventive Medicine)
ence, biological and chemical science collaborations
• reshape Physics into Material Science Information and Library Science
focus with appropriate collaboration of
• maintain current Master's programs
Engineering and Chemistry and reduce
• integrate School into Information and
Communication Technology Initiative (A
faculty size in Physics Department
• reduce size of Mathematics De partfirst step might involve merger or linkage
to College of Arts and Sciences or College
me nt and develop replacement plan
around areas with potential for faculty col ·
of Science and Engineering.)
laboration with other UB units
• expand commitment to Computer Sci ence through inte gration of Computer Law
• maintain current faculty size and sta Engineering, Computer Science, SILS and
bilize enrollment at 650 (800 FTE)
Communication into Information and
• continue emphasis on interdisciplinary
Communication Technology Initiative
teaching and research and strengthen con • en·courage developing collaborative efnections wit h social sciences and humanifort of SUNY University Center departties; provide teaching support for these

rel11ted programs
• contribute to development of Policy lnstitu.t e, Women and Gender Institute,
Environmental Institute and Urban Ini tiative

Management
• focus efforts on enhanced MBA program, the undergraduate major and a solid
array of graduate and undergraduate minors or certificate programs supportive of
other academic programs
• focus Ph.D. on one or two areas which
are linked to programs in Economics and/
or Psychology and reduce size
• expand revenue generation and tuition
as major sources of program enhancement;
receive modest investment to expand faculty, enhance School's reputation and position it for increased tuition

Social Work
• modestly expand faculty if the quality
of students and enrollments justify
• maintain current research focus on addictions and interpersonal violence
• evaluate Ph.D. program
• build strong Urban Initiative with
Education and Architecture and Planning;
develop counseling strengths in collaboration with Education (Educational and
Counseling Psychology)

Health Science Schools

Dental Medicine
• maintain current reputation of School,
range of programs and enrollment
• enhance quality through expansion of
clinic and other revenue
• participate in development of biological research and biomedical technology
through collaborative programs in chemical/biological and biomedical sciences
• expect state tax support to decline
• contribute more extensively to undergraduate science instruction
Health Related Professions
• maintain and develop Occupational
Therapy and Physical Therapy as key programs
• expand enrollment for Clinical Laboratory Science or phase down program
• combine Nutrition with Exercise Science and review resource requirements for
combined program
• integrate research faculty into r esearch programs with other health science
faculty
• drop program in Health Behavioral
Science
• join in cooperative instruction for
health science students

Medicine
• expect state tax support to decline
• establish an appropriate and stable size
in equilibrium with available resources;
reduce range of programs and focus on
quality
• develop academic and financial plan for
clinical MD and Graduate Medical Education that is fully integrated with community hospital plans and faculty practice
structure
• expand research through turnover replacement and planning of faculty addi-

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tions in biological and ch emical sciences
in collaboration with Biological Science
and Chemistry Departments and Dental
Medicine and Pharmacy Schools
• integrate related research faculty in
Nursing, Health Related Professions, Com·
municative Disorde;s and Sciences, and
Psychology into health science/medical
research groups
• develop biomedical engineering with
Engineering, Dental Medicine, and Phar·
macy
• contribute more extensively to under·
graduate science instruction

rizes the estimates of added operating funds

essentially accountable for generating the rev·

from various sources that might be invested

enue to cover its costs. Usually the budget

in the academic program. The possible uses

units coincide with decanal units, but some

of these funds are identified below. Money is

systems treat other units, such as relatively

money, however, and any plan to link specific

self-sufficient Research Centers and Under·

sources must be tempered by overall· priori·

graduate General Education programs, as

ties and current needs. And I will reiterate

separate budget centers.

not all of the proposed de·

In a publicly supported university rev·

velopments will require new funds . Certainly

my earlier view -

enue comes from unit generated and controlled

new funds will help, but they are not invari ·
ably essential.

activities and from conscious academic judg·
ments allocating state tax support. A key revenue source generated by a unit is tuition . As

Nu rsing
• establish balance between enrollment
and faculty size - either increase enroll·
ment or reduce faculty
• join in cooperative instruction with
health science students
• integrate research faculty with other
health science research programs
• expand revenue producing activities,
such as offsite training and nursing prac·
tice plan

Pharmacy
• phase down B.S. in Pharmacy and in ·

\

troduce entry level Pharm .D. program
• expand BS/MS opportunities in phar·
maceutical sciences
• reduce numbe r and increase quality of
Ph .D. students
• develop collaborative plan for faculty
a ppointments a nd research development
with closer integration among Pharmacol·
ogy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• connect Med icinal Chemistry and
Chemistry more closely
• join in cooperative instruction for
health science students

.

Possible Uses of Funds
for Investment

tuition becomes a greater part of this
University's revenue base, RCM makes more
sense. Tuition then becomes the measure of
student workload, not student FTE's, and if

Turnover and Reallocat ion R esources
- Expansion, of Faculty in a few

~ey

areas

- Undergraduate Teaching Incentives
-Various Initiatives, Institutes and
Centers

New Tu ition R evenue

from

Undergraduate Tuition Differential

- Further Expansion of Faculty particu ·

the University and/or academic units can make
or affect the decisions about e nrollment and
tuition , then the system provides a creative
interaction between academic and managerial
judgment. Tuition of course is not the only
revenue source - grants and contracts (in cluding indirect costs), private gifts, clinic and
practice revenue, and various educational en ·
trepreneurial efforts also get credited to the

larly to enhance undergraduate programs

unit. But then the unit is expected to pay all

- Improved Technology and Laboratories

of its costs- direct and indirect, not only fac·

for undergraduate instruction

ulty a nd staff costs but also charges for facili ·
ties, academic support (library, computers), ad·

- Expansion of Master's Programs

ministrative and general university overhead.
From Specific Professional

Some universities have developed elaborate

Program Tuition Increases

- Management MBA Program

schemes for chargin g back these costs, others
have chosen simpler algorithms. In any event,

- Pharmacy Pharm.D .

the system clearly grants considerable au·

- Other Professional Program Needs as
identified

tonomy to and places clear responsibility and
accountability on the leadership of the bud·
getary unit. It also conveys a message back to

Financial Strategy
Earlier in trus Report, I sketched an
overall fi nancial strategy . It looked to avail·
able resources from 1) increased tuitions, 2)
expanded reven ue- producing activities, 3) use
of tu r nover resources.
None of these sources wi ll lead to over·
night fixes. Increased general tuition revenues

Research R evenue Expans ion
- Expansion of Support for research fac·
ulty
- Research Infrastructure including con
solidation of high cost laboratories
and scientific instrumentation facilities

Other New Revenue
Support to Units generating revenue

bution across the U n iversity. Not all parts of
the University are equally situated to gener·
ate new revenue, though all units can certainly
generate some. The availability of turnover
resou rces Certainly has its contingencies as
well, both as to location witrun t he University
and timi ng. But it is t he one category we can
most count on. And, of course, the risk of an·
nual budget cu ts has not disappeared, cuts
which have and will if t hey contin ue, restrict
our flexibility .
In building a financial strategy at this
time, it makes sense therefore to focus first on
the use of turnover resou rces, then revenue

enhancement, and finally tuition-generated
increases, and to translate the academic strat·
egy into a fin a ncial plan that employs avai l·
able resources in that order. Table 4 summa ·

they do and the money they have available to
spend .
The other part of RCM involves rel at·
ing budget to other institutional goals, such
as maintaining quality high-cost programs,
supporting outstanding research, and encour·
aging cooperation and collaboration across
tion of the system tends to downplay t.hese

most speculative. An enhancement of reve nue
a bout the pace of this expansion and its distri·

see more clearly the relationsrup between what

academic units. The revenue generation por-

are likely, but at the present moment also the
production will occu t, but there is uncertainty

sub-units and to faculty who will be able to

needs of the University. But through an open

Budgets and
Responsibility Center
Management

system of subvention involving the distribu ·
tion of state tax support, the University can
pursue these institutional goals and support
academic values not fully promoted by the rev-

Recently a number of private and public un iversities, including Micrugan and Indi -

e nue generation portion of the RCM system .

ana, have changed from the open-textured
advocacy and negotiation budget system to one

vironment is shifting toward allowing tuition

Currently the SUNY management en ·
and other revenues to remain on the ca mpus

which ties responsibility for revenue and ex·

whe re they are generated, leavi ng to SUNY

penditures to specific un its. This system also

trustees and administration the task of allo·
eating state tax support. That major change

provides for an explicit and open allocation
process that adjusts for program cost varia ·

in SUNY policy would give us more campus

tions and university priorities. Budgets a re

flexibility in handling revenues, and, if coupled

t hen driven both by academic values and goals

with campus-based tuition fl exibility, UB

and by enrollments and tuition revenue, by

would then have the managerial tools and in ·

incentives to de velop other revenue sources.

centives that exist at other major public uni -

and by pressures for cost efficiencies.

versities that have adopted RCM .

This system goes by several names, one
of which is Responsibility Cente r Management

begin to move toward RCM . It should lay the

(RCM). Under the system each budget unit is

ground work in such a way that it avoids dis·

Given these developments, UB should

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incentives for cooperation and sharing of re-

through The Reporter and UB Wings, so that

sources , but gathers up the benefits of respon sibility and accoun tability and the clear link mg .of budget to University mission and pri orities . An RCM syste m will produce these

t he University community can gain a widely
shared understanding of the variety of perspectives within our academic community
about our future and the commonly-held val -

benefits, tf it blends revenue generation and

ues that will guide future choices.
Another key part of the next steps is
further development of data a nd analysis.
Each academic unit - and in some units, each

retention by academic units with a provos ts)
a lloca tion system that uses sta te tax -s upport

f\lnd s to pursue academic missio n priorities
across the uni t.s, and if its revenue incentives

The Task Force on Ince ntives and Resource

department - needs to develop a resource
analysis and projection that fits the unit within
the parameters s uggested in this report -

Allocation has studied and re ported on these
1ssues and offers Important guidance to our
fa culty and administratiOn as we proceed w1th
the des ign of an RCM sys tem appropnate to

enrol lm ent, size of fa culty, and other relevant
fa ctors - and supports the unit's responsibilities in pursuing overall University goals. The
structure of these analyses will vary somewhat

U B.

a nd perhaps a great deal from unit to unit,
but they should aim at translating educational,

do not clash with our commitment to quality.

Th e RCM syste m can create s trong in cen tives to increase enrollm e nts. es pecia ll y
unde rgraduate enrollments, even at some cost
to the quality of our programs. UB should res1st s uch pressures and maintain high quality
aca~e mi c

progra ms . Those who oversee ou r
undergraduate and graduate programs will

have to assure that quality is not sac rificed
for s hort -term budgeta ry advantage by prov1d ·
mg regular assessments of undergraduate and
~aduate program s .

discussion period, and after considering all
counsel, the President and I will present a fi .
nal version of the Academic Plan and begin
the process of implementing it. Our target date
for publication of this final version is June,
1997.

• - Please read "research" to include "research,
scholarship and creative activity" wherever
used in that context.

resea rch and service responsibilities of a unit

into resource terms. They should be informed
by study of highly regarded academic programs at other fin e universities and which
operate within a resource envelope and with a
facu lty size si milar to our own unit's size and
resources . It is difficult to be more specific in
th1s docum ent, but discussions between the
Provost's office and deans, and between deans
and chairs, will clarify what needs to be done.
The overall a im is to move toward more specific planning within the context of the overall directions outlined in this Report, to un derstand more clea rly the impact of the rec ommendations made here, to take steps toward

This is the third in a series of reports to the
UB community. The others were:
Part 1: Recent Efforts, Cu rrent Euents, Future
Directions, by President William R. Greiner.
Published February 8, 1996 in the R e porter
Volume 27, No. 17.
Part II : Managing UB's Academic Future, by
President William R. Greiner and Provost
Thomas E. Headrick . Published February 22 ,
1996 in the Re porter, Volume 27, No. 19.

implementation where that is advisable and
to focu s some of the discussion of the recom mendations on the details wh ere. as the say·
ing goes, the devi l (and angels?) may live.
A third part of the process will involve
a continu ation of the work of various task

The release of this Report and the goa ls
1t describes, the directions it indicates. and the
information it provides is meant to stimu late
discussion a nd shape furth er analysis and in vestigation .

The discussions ought to and will proceed in several contexts and for a bounded

period of time . The President, or I, or both of
us plan to visit with faculty in each academic
unit, as recommended by the Faculty Senate
last year. The proposed Plan will be reviewed
and co mmented upon by several Faculty Sen ate Committees and the full Senate. The President, the Vice Provosts, and I will meet with a
number of othe r e xisting faculty and staff
boards and committees and less formal assem blages for com men t and advice. And both the
Pres ident and I will have on-goi ng conversa·
t1ons and information exchanges with th e
Dea ns. individually and coll ective ly.
Out of these discussions we hope to get
help and advice for improving the Pl an. Most
of these conversations should take place betwee n now a nd the end of this Spring semester, I 997. Notes of the major meetings, reports of committees and other considered com mentary will be communicated broadly , mostly

forces or groups, including those for the Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Information and Communication Technologies, Envi ronmenta l Institute, and the Women and Gen der Institute, as well as the fostering of dis cussio ns among faculty interes ted in other
areas indicated as Initiatives. Groups study ing the ways to implement a Responsibility
Center Management system and the Measurement of Quality and Performance will a lso continue their work .
Finally. the President and I intend to
establish a small hearing panel to take evidence and present findings on the proposal to
fOrm either a College of Arts and Sciences or a
Coll ege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences a long with a separate College of Science
and Engineering. This panel would be cha rged
to identify the preferable choice between t hese
options by learning the preferences of the fa culty , examining the proble ms identified in

Office of the Provost
State University of New York
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562 Capen Hall
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making the transition. and eval ua ting this
information in light of the University goals set
forth in this report. The id entifica tion and

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assessme nt of the problems connected with th e
proposed change will serve to effect a sensible
transition to the new structure, not to fru s·
trate the change.
At the conclusion of this review and

Thomas E. Headrick
Provost

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Planning
Provost's report calls for reorganizing arts &amp;
sciences, rn£lking master's 'target' degree
RBORSJANIZATION OF the arts and sciences, the
creation of interdisciplinary institutes and centers,
reworking programs to make a master's dea "target" degree are among the recommendations proposed by Provost Thomas Headrick in his report on academic planning at UB, which is to be released to
the university community tomorr w.
The loog-awailed report also
sets as a goal raising the quality
of doctoral programs in the aru
and sciences and professional disciplines over the next decade so
that at least one quarter are rated
in the topq~ almost all
inthetophalf-&lt;&gt;fprogramsinthe
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doctoral programs in most areas.
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·in hich we're doing things and
e have the capability to make
'sa better university within the
ource envelope that we see
av
ble to us,". said Headrick.
"We' tallting about some fairly
sigoifi ant changes."
The report, which Headrick
stn:Sstd Is a'WorlriD progress and
is not yet IM academic plan, will
be released tomorrow to deans,
department chairs, and the Fac-

Focus on issues beyond
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~'1M I'IIDIDUfT'S TASK FOIICE ON WOMEN at
UB confirmed that a salary disparity does exist between some male
and female faculty members, the. university community should move
beyond the salary issue to focus on other issues that are more important to women and the university as a whole, according to the co-chair
of the task force.
"I don' t think the salary story is the most interesting or impPrtant
story (to come out of the task force report)," Bernice K. Noble, professor of microbiology and task force cO-chair, told the Faculty Senate
Executive Committee at its Feb. 5 meeting. "There are lots of other
aspects (of the report) that are more readily dealt with."
Noble cautioned senators against getting "hung up" on the salary
disparity issue. Although the task force fo und a $8,500 disparity between the salaries of males and females at the full professor level,
there is no evidence of a di sparity at the assistant and assoc iate levels,
she said.
In dealing with the di sparity issue, the task force was very carefu l
to make comparisons only on the basis of comparable years in title,
she said, "because the issue is often raised, 'well, women didn't get
(more) money because they weren't good enough; they didn' t have
merit or they haven't been here long enough.
· "Discussion of salary is very loaded, is very emotional," Noble said.
"I would like us to take this information (on salaries) to go forward."
Noble briefed senators on the task force's report, which, she said,
found "a very thick glass ceiling at this institution." There are not
enough women at the top echelons of the university and a.disproportionate number of women at the bottom, she said.

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• Establish an Office for Women that would maintain intra- and
extramural records and data. sponsor networking activities, serve as a
coordinator of activities and publicity, increase universitywide awareness of women's perspectives and worll;place needs, identify women
leaders and conduct climate surveys. Until such an office can be es~lished, the task force suggesled that its ·mandate be extended and
expanded to include these functions.
Continued on page 2

ulty Senate and Professiooal Staff
Senate executive commitlees,
among others. It will be posled
next week in its entirety-including two appendices that detail
proposed changes on a department-by-department basis-&lt;&gt;n
UB W'mgs. The addross is: http:/
fwlilgs.buffalo .edu/provost/
Academidleporl/. The narrative .
section will be published as an
insert in next week's issue of the
Reporter.
eadrick said that once his
report is available to the
university community, be
and President William R. Greiner
will be speaking with various campos constituencies and gathering
input from them to help in preparing the final planning document.
He hopes to have that document by June. It would be implemented over several years.
In an interview with the Reporter, Headrick gave numerous
examples of the changes-both
administrative and philosophical-that he said the university
will have to undergo in order to
achieve its goal of becoming the
premier public research university
in the Northeas~ on a par with such
mid-sized AAU institutions as VU'gioia, North Carolina and Iowa.

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or ~nstance, he said, there
will have to be much more
coordination among areas
that now are split among several
units and schools. The biological
sciences, as an example, are split
into four or five units in different
schools, he said. As part of the
proposed plan, those units would
come together "on a forward plan
~that links their aspirations and capabilities together." While those
individual units would not necessarily be merged into one larger
unit, they would begin cooperating in ways they have. not in the
pas~ such as in making decisions
about pl anning, appointments,
tenure and promotion.
"That 's a very s ignificant
change," he said.
Headrick noted that undergraduate education is an extremely important focus for UB.
"Some people have wanted to
argue that this is primarily a graduate research institution: it's not."
he stressed. "It's an undergraduate and gnoduate research institution. And we' ve got to do all that
entails and we'vegottodoit well."
While some individual departments and schools have done an

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Council proposal would pave
way for aparbnent housing
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HE UB COUNCIL Feb. 6
endorsed a resolution to
the SUNY Board o f
Trustees that would pave
the way for the development of
apartment-style housing on the
university 's North and South
campuses.
The proposal amends a state
law that allowed the UB Foundation to contract with a developer
to build The Commons and the UB
Bookstore. "We would like to
buil~ on that preoeden~" noted UB
President William R. Greiner. The
proposal sent by the Council
would take out space limitations,
as well as restrictions that allow
building to occur only on the North
Campus and only on Lake LaSalle.

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he goal : To make land avail able for the development of
housing and other services, and
to enhance the quality of life on
the North and South campuses.
The agreement is ''the only feasible way" to build the type of
housi ng that uni versity officials
say is essential to the quality of
student life at UB, and providing
apartment-style student housing is
integral to that goal, Greiner said.
The resolution was the first
step toward defining a new role
for the University Council, which
up until now bas functioned
largely as an advisory body.
"I think it's time to consider

changing tha~ " Greiner said, calling for the group to become an
..activist council" involved in decision-making at UB

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• Allow the council to function to the full extent of its legal
authority. "which I think is considerable," he said.
Greiner said he would like to
see the council become involved
in reviews of major institutional
plans. including appraisal of faculty and other personnel; expans ion or restrictions of student admissions; appraisal or improvements of academic programs and
standard s for earni ng degrees;
expansion of the inst itutional
plant; appraisal and approval of
st udent acti vities and housing,
and o th er maj or issues. Such
plans then would be submitted,
with council recommendations,
for approval by the SUNY Board
of Trustees.
"We are depriving ourselves of
a great opportunity," Greiner said.
" If we start to function more like
a board of trustees, then sooner
or later we will start to be treated
like a board of trustees."
• Develop a mission and vision statement expressi ng the
council's goals.
• Extend the body's authority
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ACADEMIC PLANNING
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excellent job 81 undergnldwue educalioo, the
institution as a wbole needs to focus more
on undergraduate education than it bas in
the past, he said. 'Those changea will be
reasonably significant for a lot of people."
The report does 1101 focus on cutting pro.
grams because "there isn 't much tbat we do
that we can simply drop," Headrick said.
But it does "change the emphasis," he
said, in tenns of the focus on undergnlduates
and encouraging more students and faculty
to cona:nllllte on graduate educalioo, particularly at the master's level. It also changes the
focus on doctoral programs, with many programs reducing the number of students pursuing degrees, while attracting higher-quality students and giving them better support
in their programs.
Aclcnowledging that there bas been a lot
of apprchei&gt;sion in the university community
about the forthcoming report on academic
planning. Headrick said he would not de·
scribe the proposed c hanges as "ominous."
'"They're indicative of what we have to

do to position this university to be a major
research university in the 2 Jst century," he
said. " But they will change a lot of what
we do and bow we do il."

Among the major changes outlined in

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Headrick bas proposed two options. One
would merge the faculties of Arts and Let-

ters, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences
and Mathematics into a College of Arts and
ciences. 'Ilte other would merge Arts and

Leners and Social Sciences into a College
f Ans, Humanities and Social Science
~bile merging Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences into a CoiJege of Science
and Engineering.
Although the repon does not fa vor ei·
ther oJ!tion, ··the status quo is not an option," it says. Headrick said he will appoint
a panel to gather infonnation on the op-

tions to help in making a final decision.
The reorganization is necessary, be said,
because the current division of the humanities into two faculties with two different
decision-making structures has not "developed a strong sense of the importance of
the humanities and humanistic studies on
this campus."
And by splitting the arts and sciences
into three separate faculties and decision making structures, " UB has probably
helped to advance graduate education (in
those areas). but alse hindered the full de·

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velopment of undergraduate education in
those areas."

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Institutes, which would have relatively

large memberships. would bring together
faculty with related and comtflon interests.

mUment can be stabiliud at 16,000.
"Graduate enrollment would be stabiliud 818,000," the neport says. 'The number of Ph.D. students would gradually decline. F'iM professional degree enrollments
would remain stable, and master's-level
enrollment would increase."

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dents working together in a well-&lt;lefined
area of academic and intellectual endeavor.
They would foster collaborations and joint
work in research, scholarly writing and
teaching. Some centers might act as departments. and some will be involved, along
with depanments and schools, in appointSchools, departments and faculties
would continue to have the major, but not
exclusive, responsibility for establishing
and maintaining degree programs, setting
requirements and standards, monitoring
and evaluating students, and teaching.

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During the past 50 years, the baccalaureate degree has became the standard expectation for a well-educated, well-trained

work force, lhe report says. Bur as the nation moves into the 21st century. its work
force will require broader and higher levels of competence. "The bachelor's degree

will not have the same significance that it
has had in the last pan of this century,"
Headrick said.
In malting the master 's degree the " target" degree for students entering the university as freshmen or transfers, UB is "try-

ing to stake out a place for us in higher
education and in SUNY: it would give us a
very distinctive cast," Headrick: said.
A UB education would be seen as something more than a four-year experience,
with the bachelor's degree becoming a step
toward the target,.goal of the master's degree, he said Not every student would pursue a master's degree, he said. While about
25 percent of the university's graduate students have an undergraduate degree from
UB , Headrick would like to see that number increase to 50 percent.

"Students may continue on in their rna·
jor field, move from one field to another
or move from an arts and sciences basic
undergraduate program into a professional

program," he said. "We can make that
easier. so the students don't have to finish

Among the proposals for institutes and

The repon projects a restructuring of the
"enrollment mix" over a five-year period "in
ways that are compatible with other aspects
of the (academic) plan," Headrick said.
''With the current SUNY targets, UB
will be expected to maintain its enrollment
at about 24,000 students," the repon says.
"Gradually over the five-year period, the
plan then would he for undergraduate
freshman enrollment to decline to 2,200

Within the institutes would be located a

number of research cente~ and interdisciplinary program centers. These centers
would be operating units of faculty and stu·

some minimum level."
Headrick said tbat some doctoral pro.
grams are likely to be coosolidated-lioce
in many areas higher education is producing two many Ph.D.• for the number ofjobs
available in academia-or restructured so
thai gradUIIeS can pursue aueen Olber than
those in academia.
Reducing the size of doctoral programs
can be done without huning the quality of
the programs. he said The lower end of the
doctoral admissions at UB are not very highcaliber, be said. "If we lost them, we would
not be losing many rcally good SIUdents wbo
are likely to make a significant mark in
academia or other areas," he added. "So we
might as well concentrate our resources on
SIUdents wbo will make a diffetenee." •

FSEC
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ment and promotion recommendations.

They would require minimal administrati ve support to run conferences, internal
colloquia and ensure good internal and external communication. Initiatives have an
academic focus for collaboration that as of
yet has no formal structure. Initiatives
could. in time, evolve into institutes.
initiatives that are under discussion are
those to establish a humanities injtiative
and institute, a policy institute, a biological sciences initiative, chemical sciences
initiative. information and communication
technology initiative, urban initiative.
women and gender institute, environmental institute and a neuroscience initiative.

To get to the level of the institutions thai
it aspires to, such as Vuginia. North Carolina and Iowa, UB bas to bring more of its
programs up to the top quartile of the National Resean:h Council ranlcings. Headrick
said. "Butnol all of them," he said ''I think
it's ~stic to think we'ne going to get
all of them up there." So the goal is to get a
quarter of UB programs in the top quartile
and vinually all of the programs in the top
half of the ranlcings, he said.
'Thai will take some stretching for us
over !he next decade," he admitted, noting
that while UB has some programs in the
top quartile, it also has some in the third
and founh quartiles.

" I leon toward inveating in our streoglbs
and making them bea.er and trying to do
the heal we can with the oocs tbat are weak ·
to improve them." be said. "But in malting
the choices and tradcoffs, I would lean toward malting our strengths much better
r8lber than trying to bring eVCI)Ibody up to

their undergraduate degree and then think
about where they' re going to go and what
they're going to do .
" I think that will change the character

of this institution."

and overall retention to be improved.
Transfer students would increase by 28
percent so that overall undergraduate en·

• Increase the tepresentation of women.
particularly 81 the higher levels of academic
and managerial units. "We need more highly
placed women; we need to stan malting
cracks in tbat ceiling," Noble said.
• Develop a procedure for dealing with
sexual harassment.
• Establish child-care facilities on the
Nonh Campus.
• Promote scholarship around gender
issues and women's issues.
Brenda Moore. associate professor of sociology and chair of the Faculty Seoate's
AffinnaliveAction Conunia.e, said the task
force report substantiales wh8l members of
her committee bad already suspected: tbat
there is geoder inequity in salaries and appointments, and thai women are "generally
less-valued by the university community than
are men." She said the committee agrees
with the task force's recommendations, particularly that a standing committee monitor the university's progress "as it becomes
more gender diverse."
In addition, she urged thai a standing committee on racial issues at UB be established.
Michael Frisch, professor of history and
American studies, concurred with Noble's
view thai there are issues other than salary
disparity thai the university should focus on.
These issues "connecnlramatically to the
issues thai are facing the university in terms

of its survival and its viability and its
attractability and its recruitment of SIUdents
and its roauitment of graduale srudents and its
roauitment and retentioo offaculty .. .," hesaid.
For example. he said. 81 the admioistralive
level, there should be some mechanism for
"riding herd" on peMnnei searches "and say.
'we know each one is potticular. but somet.ow
there's a larger institutional in1erest in altering
the profile that oor univ=ity projects. •••
Frisch said he's heard that there are dramatic changes afoot at Buffalo State College-M instillllioo with which he said UB competes for srudents -4lecause Muriel Moore,
fonner UB vice president for public service
and wban affairs and c:urreot BuffaloStaepesident. "is making a lot of difference there."
"We can't afford to be left behind in all
of this, even when it's not anybody' s fa ult
necessarily that such and such a candidate
dido 'i accept the offer for the med school
(dean's position) or tbst Betsy Cromley
(former chair of Architecture) went to
Nonheastem .... " he said. 'The situation
needs to change ... ! think we have to try to
encourage the admioistralion to see this, as

Bernice says. as really an oppoi1Uoity if we
rcally want to make this a friendlier and more
attractive place. which we desperately need
to do, to prioritize some way of moving forward on these issues wilbout getting involved
in a lot of hair-splitling over wbo did wh8l to
puduce this thme years agocr five years ago."
Added Noble: 1be academic rules are
changing rapidly; this particular institution
has been very slow to see tbat. The less responsive we are, the fw1ber behind we' re
going to fall ... and the more likely we ane to
collapse ocademicoolly, OCDIIOIIIically.•-111111's
why I say, in a simplified way, tbat women
are the solution, they're not the poblem."
Jack Meacham, profeasor of psychology, said that his own department has lost
several good female faculty members during .the past several yean and is trying hard
to hire additional women. Some of the female candidates who have visited UB have
been among the best in their subfields.
" But I'm not confideiu of our ability to
hire them because they are very aware of
wh8l the climate is on this campus." he wd.
"I'm very concerned about us getting in a
downward spiral here because we haven' t
looked after these issues. We're finding it
increasingly difficult to get the very best new
faculty and the very best graduate students
to come to our programs."
Noble tolcisenators thai the impetus for
changing the environment for women at
UB bas to come fmm the faculty.
" We've made some suggestions. the uni·
versity administration bas a zillion things on
their table and we have to help them to see
which are the things that are the most important to move forward," she said. " And as far
as I' m concerned. thai's now your job."
Faculty members should consider what
they think are the most imponant issuessuch as salary inequity or lack of child-care
facilities on the Nonh Campus-and "take

the initiative and make sure that your chair
knows i~ that your dean knows it. If you
think tbst the women in your department
are underpaid and you' ne angry and humili·
ated about it, go to your chair and say
'that's whene our money bas to go.'
"That has to onme from the grass roots,"
Noble added. ''Wc've(theiDsk furce) givon you
the information thai you need ... there are lotS
of competent people wbo dido 't lcnow about
it Aodona: they can 90C1hemoutlinod like that.
they'll want to change. They don't want to be
in an environment where there's that much
injustice or unfair hardships for women. But
the action bas to come from you."
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., China experience changed prof's life
notable for the way in which it communes
with what at times appears to be a particularly inhospitable environment. Some
everly Foit-Ait&gt;ert has difficulty
buildings are jewel-like aeries perched oo
giving voice to the transformatioo provoked when she encoun- the very tips of rugged, windblown mountains. Others are strung along cliff faces or
tered the architecture of ancient
seem to meld into nearly inaccessible raChina. She acknowledges simply that the experience changed her life.
vines or incorporalc natural outcroppings
An award-winning arc:hitec~ UB alumas roofs, stairs, gates and eatraoceways.
nus and associate professor in the School
The architects designed and built these
of Architecture and Planning, Foit-Aiben struetures according to ancient philosophical tenets familiar to us in terms like "fenspent nine weekS in 1995 traveling thoushui," "yin/yang" and "ch'i."Thus the ravine
sands of miles (trekking much of the way)
becomes the building. the building is a cave,
with photographer and UB alumnus John
the landscape itself takes the form of a flying
VaJcntino and a Chinese architectural
dragon or a giant tw11e rising from the mornscholar with whom she is writing a hook.
ing mist to embrace the sacred site itself.
Together, they visited some of the most
amazing, remote and mysterious works of
he result of this ancient architecture of
architecture ever constructed, many of
wonder is the production of a form of
which are in their last year of existence.
"silent music"-uenseofplace, space
They are scheduled to be submerged in
and time thai Foit-Aiben described as "awfloods which will be produced by a masful," "enthralling" and "transcendent"
sive dam, pan of the YangtZe River' Project
The exhibit opens with a few of more than
Valentine's detailed and evocative
130 sacred and historical struc111res scheduled to be submerged
when the massive Three
Gorges Dam of the
YangtZe River Project is
complete; the project is
now in its tinaJ construe·
tion phase. Some of the
sites that will disappear
date to the Neolithic era;
others are of historic and
even mythic significance.
They are situated along
the middle reaches of the
YangtZe in central China,
to which Foit-Albert and
her group traveled. The
dam projec~ which she
said has produced ran corous dispute in China.
The x--.T....... In . . . . W - .. • -.tex of
--......~on-llwertedlntowill displace nearly 1.5
million people at the
photographs are presented with text by Foitsame time it inundates a section of the scenic
YangtZe River Valley, now believed by arAibeninanexhibi~ "ArchitectureofHeaven
and Earth" thai will run through Feb. 21 in
chaeologists to rival the Yellow River Valley
300 miles to the north in its importance to
the James Dyen Gallery, 334 Hayes Hall,
the study of the ori~ of the Chinese people.
South Campus. The exhibition is sponsored
Among the treasures to be flooded this
by the School of Architecture and Planning.
year is the 12-story Shibaozai pagoda. which
Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
"leans" on a 330-by-60-foot outcropping in
Like Foit-Aibert'~ lectures and writing,
the Xiling Gorge. Its internal staircase leads
the exhibit explores the philosophical teto the mountain sununit where 16th-century
nets so beautifully articulated in these
splendid and unique structures. Each mon- Ming Emperor Wan Li built a temple courtastery, pagoda. temple and nunnery so yard to memorialize remains of the Buddha.
Many legends surround this site, includkeenly recollected in Valentine's photos is
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ing one about the "Duck's Hole," which
penetrates from the temple courtyard above
to the river below, emitting ch'i (the ethereal substance of which all things are composed) as a mysterious mist. that fortifies
the connection of earth to heaven and
heaven to earth.
The exhibition ends with photographs
of the endangered sites. In between, the
viewer can explore a broad range of astonishing Chinese buildings. Some reflect the
design pageantry of Beijing's Forbidden
City. Others are isolated "presences" built
thousands of years ago but still occupied.
Site photographs illustrate several
themes around which the exhibit was designed. One of those themes is the concept
of the "Mystic Mountain" in architecture.
" Mystic Moontain" is explained by Foil-Albert
as an articulation of the endless intemction of
the fentioine principle of yin and the masculine principle yang. It involves the belief, she
said, thai the mountain reaching up to heaven
is the dwelling place of the heavenly supemall&gt;rnl on earth; the place where heaven and earth
, _ and from which all diJeclions emanate.

ecause they provide channels for
communication between the kingdom of heaven and the l::ingdom of
earth, Daoists consider mountain tops the
dwelling place of the immortals and named
36 heavenly caves and 72 blessed mountain
top sites. The Buddhists established four of
the most famous of China's mountains as
their Holy Land and developed them with
hundreds of temples. Many Buddhist sites are
linked to DnoiSt sites by Confucian "bridges."
Confucianism is Wlderstood to hannoniously
marry the two earlier traditions.
In one case, a Confucian school connects a Buddhist temple to a Daoist shrine
via a series of literal and metaphorical
bridges. The structures are strung out along
a sheer rock face on long. slender pillars. a
living example of the relationships among
man, earth and the spiritual realm.
Foit-Aibert points out that the buildings
are placed in nature in a'way that the visitor's
concentration on the natural landscape c&lt;&gt;ord.inates her metaphysical mind with the
mysterious world. This principle is summed
up for her in the Confucian saying, "Heaven
and Earth grow with me simultaneously and
all things are one with me"-a principal tenet of spiritual practice in many major world
religions throughout history.
This careful "placing" of a building is
the practice of "feng-shui" which FaitAlbert calls "a form of sacred geomancy."
Now popular among well-heeled southern
Californians, feng-shui is the ait of siting
houses, religious and corporate temples,
graveyards and cities in the most propitious
manner in any natural setting.
Tbe concept of feng-shui is codified in the
Chinese doctrine of "wind and water," FoitAiben says. "It considers the interaction between yin and yang. the murual prorootion and
restl'8int aroong the five elements, and the flow-

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naiUral environm&lt;ot." The exhibition illUSiraleS this oosmic CXlO- .
nection of yin and yang with the
buildings' interplay of heaven
and earth, interiority and
exteriority. masculinities and
femininities, activity and passivity, lightand dade. sun and rmoo.
The interrelatedness of site.
structure and symbol are covered
in the exhibit as well along with
discwrse about caves and architecture. water and architecture
and a section on the expression
ofch. i in building inlt:ricn. In the
leX! Foil-Albert discl&lt;ises how the
Chinese express ch'i and direct it
within the interior space by "remembering" manifestations of
naiUral imagery in decorated surfaces su::h as s=ens and altars;
in interior gardens. pools, sculptures and in cascades of tumbling water.
The exhibit features a few interesting artifacts with which the architect returned from
China. These include sections of a few handcarved balusters and perhaps, most telling, a
large. weathered wood carving-from a roof,
perhaps, or a garden-&lt;&gt;f -·Lions Playing the
Ball," a visual metaphor for the discourse
between Daoism and Buddhism in Confucianism_ which mediates between Daoist and
Buddhist spaces and philosophies.
H= the "third e~" Confucianism (the
ball). is thrust between the Oaoism (the lion)
and Buddhism (the liooess) as a playful SYIDbnlic reference to the relationship aroong the
three that finds expression in centuries ofbrealbtal::ing architecture as it has in many other aspects of the Chinese aesthetic experience. •

COUNCIL
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to aJ low the co unci I to function more as
trustees.
• Enlarging the council from its current
nine members, to possibly 15-2 I members.
'1t's time for us to think how we might
provide some leadership" to the SUNY
system, Greiner said.
For example, il is within the council's
authority to recommend to the SUNY
Board of Trusrees candidales for university president. 'This is a crucially important issue," Greiner said. The UB Council,
he noted, "has to be a body very actively
engaged in the institution to make that kind
of recommendation." .
Greiner added that he wants to make the
council "a very functional body," and that
"integration of the council and UBF ought
to be pan of the process."
Greiner said that he also would like to
see the council's role expanded to include
functions that would allow it to develop
citizens' committees that are advisory .to
the council, name buildings and grounds.
make regulations governing student con·
duct and behavior. prescribe for and exercise supervision over student housing and
safety. and make an annual report to the
SUNY trustees. He also suggested the formation of a faculty council that would advise the UB Council.
Chair Lawrence P. Castellani, conducting his ftrst meeting of the council. proposed that the future role of the group be
made the "sole topic" for the council's next
meeting, scheduled for April 10.
In other business. the council heard a
report by Senior Vice President Robert J.
Wagner, who provided details of the Gov.
Pataki's I 997-98 Executive Budget. and
outlined its potential impact on UB. Although the proposal calls for a reduction in
overall funding for operating needs, a cut
to the Tuition Assisumce Program (TAP) and
a tuition increase, he reminded the council
that "this is just the start of a dance," and
some budget restoration is likely.
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Honors for Inventors
26 faculty, sto,ff1Ul11led on 21 patents
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News Services Edijor

NVENTORS WHO ARE oo the faculty and staff of UB wiU be hooorcd
during a reception to be held at 4 p.m.
on Monday, Feb. 17, in the Center for
Tomorrow on the North Campus.
UB faculty and staff inventors who ue
named on 21 U.S. patents issued to the State
University of New York Research Foundation in 1996 will receive awards, which rteognize their achievements as inventors of
patented devices, materials or drugs.
-nus is a significant increase over last
year in the number of patents received by
the university," said Dan Massing, director
of the Office of Technology Transfer. Last
year, the university received 13 patents.
One reason for the jump in the number
of patents awarded is that the university is
filing a larger percentage of the invention
disclosures that it receives from faculty and
staff, Massing explained.
"We believe that the quality of the disclosures is improving,.. he said ...Also, faculty and staff are becoming more awue of
the process for protecting intellectual property. They are beginning to consider invention disclosure ahead of publication in orr to protect their rights to the invention."

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He explained that when researchers
blisb their findings ftrst, they may lose
rtain rights to file patent applications.
In addiiioo, Massing pointed to changes
the rules of examination for software inntions by the U.S. Patent Office that are
owing more of them to be patented.
As is the case each year, some of the
inventors are being honored this year for
patents involving improvements and modifications on inventions for which they previously received patents.
Faculty and staff who believe they have
an invention that may be patentable should
contact the Office of Technology Transfer
at 645-3811. Technology Transfer staff also
are available to deliver to any academic
department a 2(}-minute presentation that
provides an introduction to the disclosure,
patenting and licensing processes.

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The uar-ny Involved

• Linda B. Ludwig, research assistant
professor of medicine, inventor of a method
for preselecting a specific recombinant
vector containing a nvcleic acid sequence
or gene of interest from a large number of

other recombinant vectors.
• Ho-Leung Fung, professor and chair
of pharmaceutics, and John A. Bauer, formerly research assistant professor of pharmaceutics, inventors of a method for the
preparation of new, transderrJllll nitroglycerin patches, which will give sustained
beneficial effects for more than 24 hours.
• Eli Ruckenstein, SUNY Distinguished
Professor and Furnas Memorial Olair Professor in the Department of Olemical Engineering, and Liang Hong, adjunct research
instructor and visiting scientist, inventors of
a process utilizing emulsions to prepare
composite, conductive polymers.
• Ernest Hausmann. professor of oral
biology; Darold c. Wobschall, associate
professor of elec!rical and computer engineering; Lance Ortman, associate professor
and associate chair of restorative dentisuy;
Kristin M. Allen, research associate, and
David S. Odrobina, doctoral candidate, inventors of a device thltt-allows for exposure
of a consistent and reproducible set of se-

rial autoradiographs, ensuring accurate
prognoses of tissue loss due to periodontal
infection. Evren KuUubay is co-inventor.
• Venu Govindaraju, associate dirtetor
of the Center of Excellence for Document
Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) at

UB,IIld SaJgur Sribari, director of CEDAR
and professor of COIIlpUler science, inventor&amp; of a aystem for recognizing handwritten words of cursive script. Dacheng Wang
is co--inventor.
• Yong-Olul Shin, research scientist at
the Center of Excellence for Document
Analysis and Recognition; Ramalingam
Sridhar, associate professor of electrical
and computer engineering; SaJgur Srihari,
dirtetor of CEDAR ODd professor of computer science, and Victor Demjanenb&gt;, assistant professor of eJectrical ODd COIIlpUler
engineering, inventors of a t.ecbniquc that
provides real-time image enhancement in
processing systems wbere images have
large variatioos in oontrasL
• George C. Lee, dirtetor of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering
Research and professor of civil engineering; Zhong Liang, research assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mai Tong, research instructor of civil engineering, inventors of an
energy-dissipation system for manmade
structures that is based on the biomechanics of the human body.
• Ramalingam Sridhar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, inventor of a new type of field-effect
transistor logic circuit for wave pipelining.
Xugang Zhang is co-inventor.
• Yong-OJul Shin, research scientist at
the Center of Excellence for Document

Analysis

and

Recognition,

and

Ramalingam Sridhar, associate professor
of electrical and computer engineering,
inventors of a single layer neural network
·circuit, which performs linearly separable
or noo-linearly sepamble logical operatioos
in a single layer.
• Rlcbanl T. Evans, associate professor of oral biology; Robert J. Geooo, SUNY
Distinguished Professor and chair in the
Department of Oral Biology, and
Hakimuddin T. Sojar, assistant professor
of oral biology, inventors of components
of a vaccine shown to inhibit attachment

of bacterium to the surface of teeth .
Gurrinder S. Bedi is co-inventor.
• Deborah D .L. Chung, Niagara
Mohawk Professor of Materials Science and
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, inventor of a new binder for making preforms for fabricatioq of metal matrix composites by liquid metal inftlttation.
• Edward G. Niles, professor of biochemistry and microbiology, inventor of a
transient expression that utilizes bacteriophage RNA polymerase in the p=ce
of a DNA-based cytoplasmic virus to facilitate expression of a foreign gene in the
cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell. Bernard
Moss, WiiUam Studier and Thomas Fuerst

are ~inventors.
• Donald Hickey, rese&amp;JCh assistant
professor of physiology and clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery, inventor of
a non-invasive apparatus and method for
obtaining a quantitative determination of
mean left-atrial pressure.
• Tunothy Mwphy, professor of medicine and miaubiology, inventor of a method
for detecting branhamella catan:halis and the
use of proleins and peptides as antigens for
vaocine formulations and as antigens in diagnostic irnmunoassays.
• Yi-Han Kao, professor of physics, and
Deborah D .L. Chung, Niagara Mohawk
Professor of Materials Science and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, inventors of a fullerene that is superconductive at much higher temperatures
than bas been previously shown. Kevin T.
Fredette and Liwei Song are co-inventors.
• Scott Diamond, associate professor
of chemical engineering, inventor of a rapid
assay of activators and inhibitors of clot-

tina. Jung-He Wu is co-inventor.
• Dooald Hickey, research assistant
professor of physiology and clinical assistant profe..or of neurosurgery, inventor of
a method for positioning an esophageal
catheter for detemtining pressures associated with the left atrium.
• Wayne K. Anderson, interim dean of
the School of Pharmacy and professor of
medicinal chemistry, inventor of new compounds ODd new-compositiooa comprising
these compounds that may be useful as
fungicides, bactericides and inhibitors of
cancer in wum-blooded animals. Dennis
C. Dean is co-inv..itor.
• Wayne A. Anderson, professor of
electrical IIlii COIIlpUler engineering, inven-

tor of a method for fonnius a hip capllcitance thin film C8!*ilcr-~ Tta, Junsin
Yi IIlii Lin-Huaos Olang ue co-inventors.
• Wayne A. Andeuoo, professor of
electricalllldoomputt:r~ inventor of a thin-film resistor compriains ruthenium oxide. PranldyD M. Collins,
Quanxi Jia, Kaili TUIO ODd Hooos 1. I.,.,e
are co-inventora.
• Marie-Louise Hammarskjold, fonner
associate professor of biocbemiolry, David
Rekosh, fonnerprofessorofbiochentistry,
Molly Bray, fonner aenior laboratory spc&gt;
ciaJist, and Eric Hunter, iDventors of a purifl&lt;d, retroviraJ coostitutive transpo1t enhaDcer to facilitate mRNA transport ODd
produce rteambinant, attenuated HIV. •

Let's find the facts, hear new ideas before we rush
to change programs for increased enrollment
r.ltor:
Ruponding to 1M uniwr.sity ~ lop administrators in IM kpomr of l/3f¥97:
Afkr t/u Soret'1

I read with interest the exbcxiation to concentrlte oo undergraduate edue~tioo in order
to increase enroUment and implicitly, co save
our jobs. I also read it with the weary f0eting
that I'd heard it all befono.
I've beard it in universities and from
friends in corporations.
Step 1. When we see a storm on the horizon. we ignore the sigus, deny ibem or assuno
oursc:IV&lt;S that things will sooo r&lt;1Um to 110&lt;'mal or at least that every cloud bas 1 silver
lining. Thai's not always unreaiJstic; ~
times Olicken Uule is wrong, &amp;Ometimes a
President promises two fr&lt;e yeatS of college
to every high school studenL
But If Olicken Utile is right, we always
seem to foUow a thn:e-step process, a kind of
fantastic quest; sorcery.
Stop 2. When we feet the fiiSt nin drops.
we huddle toselber and ldl each ocher that
it's our fault. that we can increiSe our emoUment or find more customers if ooly we do
things differently, that we can teach more
with less, lower the qualifications, maintain
quality results and that we can avoid substantial change if we sharpen our people skills
and recruit more eoergetically.
Professor Goodman says that we must do
"a better job of talcing care of these young
people." Professor Malone says that our students need their attitude adjusted, that it's aU
a pen:eptlon problem, that they don't need
the "draconian solution" or English-speaking
instructors for eumple. He says that students
at other schools tell him that they bear that
we are ~big, and impersonal." So whaL Berkeley, Penn State, Ulinois aie also big and
impersonal. Can we make owselves small
and cozy? Can we convince prnopective students that we're DOC a big, impersonal bureaucracy, just tiny comfy cour.;es within our
llllJe, friendly, academic family. Would it
make any difference?
Stop la. Bring in the son:=, consult•
ants for sensitizing workshops and toss a
little more money at the recruiting magicians.
Or, if we' re a corpontioti, bring in the consultants and start a new ad campaign. See

questions must be pan of the mix if we want
a realistic approocb to change.
Step 3. Tho fmal IIOp. Tho most painful
step. When sorcery lbsJ't work, change the
product. Get new products. Support and promoce solid pn&gt;ducU. Get rid of i=levan4 unprofitable products.
Ase we ready yet?
If. we are,. we need 1 solid marketing
study, maybe seven! marketing &amp;tucli... We
must know why students don' t come. We
need accurate answers from prospec:dve srudents and from the pecple in all our disciplines. Aed we must aalt the pomiiS why
they have ao tittle regard for higbor oduatioo? How can we cbangn our program to interest them? Which of our propams ano oboc&gt;lete or simply wrong-beaded? We need answers to fundamental questions tike, Do porenta want us to cbanp the warld « teach
their childten to Uve and succeed in the world
that exists? Aed fioally, what new procrams
must we invent iD cxdet to pesent ourselves
truthfully u an OUIItaodin&amp; lllliversity? How
do we change? We .need credible plans for
implemeotatioo, Complete with timetables.
We have an opportunity to~ and
radically r&amp;-Sbape our lllliversity. Maybe it's
time. II would certainly be fun.
But, let's 6ncl the facts before we scurry
around, proposing our ~ tittle How-&lt;o-

bold-up-thc-Uy fantasies, then let's bear
some ideas. Let's see thooe new products.
Let's tes1 them and implement a few. 'lben
we can rec:tuic because we can promise something llllique and valuable. 'lben I suspect
that we'D 6ncl all that sorcery irrelevant.
or course, we could do DO!hing, and hope
that the storms will blow over and they will,
of course, leaving fewer
teachers, less
impn:ssive research, a few more unquaUfied
students in each "classroom. Until the next
stnnn. But, at least we •u still have our jobs,
metaphorically speaking.

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Assoclato Prolossor. Hoad, Communicstion
Design. An Depsrtmont

Oil bert.
Professor Harwitz agrees with Professor
Malone. He wants a new ..C9rporate culture..

achieved through "quality circles and change
circles.•
Not good enough, guys. Naive.
Professor Meacham says that his faculty
"will just laugh at me" if be asks them to emphasize undergradUate cducatioo over research. He knows as do we all that our reputation depends on what we do other than
teaching, and that our wages depcod upoo our
reputafion. lbat 's realism. And we n-eed a lot
of that DOW.
It's also realism to wonder if the
Governor's minioos want a state university or
even educated citizens. They're having their
way with us now aod pan::nts don't seem to
care. Given the Slate of our contract I imagine
that our lies! people are looting for jobs.
What of our school's reputation if they leave?
What of recrultina then. Tho answer to these

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statement on issues of State-UUP stalemate
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The most recent collective bargaining
agreement between the Stale of New York
and the United University Professions
(UUP) expired on July I, 1995. In the bargaining which preceded lbat dale, and in
all subsequent bargaining, the Governor's
Office of Employee Relatioos (GOER) and
UUP bave been unable to conclude a new
agreement The results of this stalemate are
several:
I. There bas been oo general salary adjustment for UUP members since
Man:h I, 1995, wben the last of the
adjustments negolialed in the preceding agreement took effect
2. Tbe convenience wilh which members may access bealtb care benefits
has been imPJired, in spile of a judicial detcnninalioo that the membership is entitled to these benefits under the lermS of the last contract
3. All other provisions of tbe last con-

tract--e.g. grievance procedures.
proleetion of benefits, conditions of
employment, etc.-remain in full
effect.
In light of all Ibis, fuculty and affecled staff
have more than enough reason to be impatient at bes~ and in fact angry and downright indignant I sbare ihat impatience; our
faculty and staff are tbe core of our campus community, and any situation delrimental to faculty and staff disadvantages
lhe university as a whole. The delay in
settlement of this negotiation is, as one of
our colleagues recently put i~ "more negative atmospherics" about SUNY, which can
drive away faculty and staff, and discourage faculty. staff and students from coming to us.
While I am enjoined, as a campus presiden~ to remain scrupulously neuiral with
respect to the collective bargaining process.
it seems to me appropriale to take a careful look at both sides of the current stalemate. In the past few weeks, I have discussed these issues with the Faculty Senate; lhe leadership of our cbaplers of UUP;
colleagues at SUNY's central office; and
olhers in Albany. I had hoped lhese conversations would at least provide me with

teet their own soun:es of strength by pre- ·
(h) Notwithstanding the provision of Article 22. 1(a), permanent
serving not only the actual jobs of current
members, but also the "stale work" which
employees affecled by the Scale's exercise of its right to contract out for
provides the employment base for both
current and future employees. Preserving
goods and services will receive 60
this "stale work" supports both the politidays written notice of inleoded sepacal aod economic power of the union, i.e .,
ration and will be offered a redeployits membership rolls aod dues. Contractment option .. .[as described elseing out is feared as a trend which may erode
where in the contract], but where
this base.
such redeployment option is not able
Regarding this issue, three of the four
to be offered and where no displacement rights as provided for in Civil
bargaining agents which represent SUNY
staffbave composed their differences with
Service Law Sections 80 and 80-a
the stale and bave agreed to provisions reare available, the affecled permanent
garding contracting out. These are the &amp;vii
employee shall be offered the opporService Employees Association (CSEA).
tunity to elect one of the ... transition
the Public Employees Federation (PEF),
benefits ...
( 1995-99 CS£11 AgreemenJ)
and Council 82 ~ Stalewide, CSEA repre;
sents about 76,000 employees, roughly
Guaranteed transition benefits include a
12,500 of them in SUNY; PEF represents
finaocial stipend for an identified retrain50,000 employees statewide, with some
ing/educational opportunity; severance
2,500 in SUNY; aod Council 82 approxipay, per negotiated terms; or preferential
malely 23,000 employees, over 600 in
employment with the contractor, at the
SUNY. UUP represents about22,000 facemployee's option and if such employment
ulty aod staff, all in SUNY.
is available. The transition benefits are
The smallest unit at UB , Council82. repavailable to all affecled employees whether
resents our public safety officers. Council
or not they bold continuing appointment.
82 settled on a very brief provision, to wit:
Wbat light may all of this shed on the
Slale-UUP stalerriale? My reading is that
The Employer shall not contract out
the slate will insist that UUP agree to a profor goods and services performed by
vision guaranteeing to the state the opporemployees which will result in any
employee being reduced or laid off
tunity to contract out work, given the
benchmark set by CSEA, PEF, and Counwithout prior consultation with the
cil 82. On the other band, it would appear
Union concerning any possible effect on the terms and conditions of
that the state is willing to provide some
employment of employees covered
protections regarding those holding continuing
appointments, and to provide some
by this Agreement.
special transition benefits for all affected
( 1995-99 Council82 Agreement)
employees. In UUP's case that could mean
CSEA and PEF have agreed to contracts
which have more extensive and near iden- a guarantee of protection for tenure (for
faculty) or permanent appointment (for
tical provisions regarding contracting out.
staff), and a guarantee of transition benThose contracts state:
efits
for those who do nor hold tenure or
.§22. 1 (a) There shall be no loss o f
permanent appointment.
present employment by permanent
lf this were the sole issue at stake , I
employees as a result of the Scale's
would expect that thi s framework cou ld
exercise of its right to contract out
support
the makings of a contract between
for goods and services.

a basis for advising the campus community regarding lhe issues outstanding in the
ongoing collective bargaining. That hope
has been realized only in part.
Those who bargain for UUP and those
who bargain for the Stale (GOER, on hehalf of SUNY) will not disclose the decails
of the b~aining. That stance is appropriate; neither side wishes to negotiate in the
press. As a resul~ none of us, other than
those at the table, bas a complele picture.
Based on my conversations, however, I will
hazanl the following observations, in hope
that they will shed some additional light
on these matters.

The economic· elements-salary and
fringe benefits-may have been significant
early in the collective bargaining process;
however, all the other slate bargaining units
have settled and signed, and their economic
package probably sets the general parameters for a new UUP contract. In a setting
where the workforce is represented by sev-

eral different units, such congruence of
agreements is an inevitable result of the
statewide politics of collecti~e bargaining.
In the UUP bargaining. another issue

stands-so most observers believe-between the parties. As best as can be determined, the state is insisting that each agreement with each bargaining unit include a
provision or provisions to allow ..contracting out'' of"state.. work. This situation, not
surprisingly, is problematic for the collective bargaining agents. In the first instance,
unions will and must work to proleet the
jobs, salary, and benefits of their current
members. Beyond tba~ unions seek to pro-

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polilical ntirill P.J. ·
O'ltoalb will briD&amp; his
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t M)'pallliclltD lbeUJii..,..
slty Ill Bllffalo QD Wodaeaday,
Mardi 12, u J1U1 of lbe DistinJUi*dSpelba ScrieL
O'Roarb will llpCik on "The
Polllica af Wuty" at 7:30 p.m. in
lbe ~dater illlbe Center
rw lbe Arts !'fllbe Norlb eampu..
Called "the fuDnieat writer in
~-by
magazille"and

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7JNo llbU StiWI JOilntlll, O'Rourke
II qUOied in "The PeDaPio Dk:tio.ry of Humorous Quotations"
marc often thon any other living perBOIL

Foleign affain editor for RoUillg Stone magazine, be's written for publications raqgiug from $JqrUn to Ctu and Driver. He allo bas served as editor-inchief of 7'h&lt; Nlltional /.4mpooll aod bas been a Hollywood scriptwriler.
Amoq bil beat-selleri are "Republican Party Repcile," "Oive War a Cbaoce,"
•AD die Trouble in the World," "Age aod Guile," "Beat Youth" and "Innocence

ad. Bed Hain:uL"

.

O'llaalke'a lecture is presented by UB and lbe Doo Davis Auto World Lecllllelblp Puad. Aftiiiale amiCI spoqsor .is the Amherst Owuber of Cotlllll&lt;:rCC.
1..0c1um apoiiiCllllle lbe School of Management Alumni Association and Univer'lity llooblolaL c-ributia&amp; lpODICln for the lecture are Rolling Stolte and BauiIIUI l'lnf; OOIIIIIbuling 11p01110n for the speakers teries are the Buffalo Mairi~
Makin' CQPes, Cealer for the Arts and lbe UB Alnmni Association.
Par ticbt infCIIIDation call ~5-Altrs.

the stale and UUP. albeit tailored to the
special interests of UUP regarding faculty
tenure. However. an evolving plan to provide the three hospitals in SUNY (Syracuse, Brooklyn, and Stony Brook) with
more openting flexibility may raise some
compounding problems.
Among the management options which
have been floated in the recent past is the
possibility of creating separate and legally
independent corporations to subsume the
responsibilities of the three SUNY hospitals. Such an approach also bas been suggesled for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Moreover. there is some precedent in
SUNY for such arrangements. for at least
some SUNY-based activities. The SUNY
Research Foundation. for example, is alegaUy independent corporation, as are the
several campus-based auxiliary services
corporations, such as our Faculty Student
Association. Sub Board Land so on. There
are, however. some 7,700 UUP members
on staff and in state employment at the
three hospitals. Accordingly, the prospect
of contracting out the hospital operations
to SUNY-controlled but legally independent corporations cannot be treated lightly
by UUP.
AJI the observers with whom I talked
believe that it is this hospitals issue which
is the ultimate sticking point berween UUP
and the slate. Regrettably, they have little
wisdom to offer on what can be done to
break the stalema1e. Neither do I, though
my own opinion is that some compromise
on both sides will be inevitable. It will take
flex ibility and creativity on both sides in
order to reach a mutually acceptable and
beneficial agreement.
As to the claim that the state is mounting an assault on fac uJty tenure by insisting on a contracting-out provision, I remain
skeptical. but open to persuasion otherwise.
If I believed that thi s were. in fact, the
s tate' s purpose, I would recommend
against it. forcefully and in the strongest
possible terms. I am sure that all other
SUNY presidents and officers would join
in that effort.
To be sure, contracting out. unless regulated and limited by contract protections.
cou ld be a threat to tenure and permanent
appointment. But there is no evidence of
which I am aware that the SUNY Trust ees. Chancellor, or SUNY Presidents have
any interest in contracting out as a device
to assault faculty tenure. Indeed, neither the
Trustees or·SUNY officers have much
stake in the issue beyond maintaining some
reasonable flexibility regarding the use of
ourside contractors for limited purposes.
The State and GOER. however. have much
more at stake given that the largest bargaining units in the slate-CSEA and PEFhave already negotiated contracts including provisions on this point. As noted, however, the State has also agreed. in those
contracts , to limitations on the exercise of
contracting out.
In my view. it will serve little purpose
for any of us to make the Chancellor and
SUNY Trustees the sole, or even primary.
focus of our advocacy. It is the GOER and
the UUP negotiators who are the essential
panies, with CSEA. PEF. and SUNY look ing on as very interested observers: it is
the GOER and the UUP negoti ators who
must find the wisdom to resolve this difficult but solvable set of issues. All of us in
SUNY shou ld urge both the Stale. through
GOER. and the UUP negotiators to work
in a spirit of compromise to conclude th is
mauer soon. 1 will use my best efforts in
this regard, and I hope my colleagues and
friends in our UUP chapters will make like
efforts.
Sincerely,
WIWAIIIL UEIIIO
President

�-NETT HAMID CIIIZIIN

IVD'ISC....a'n

Of YIAII •Y Aa4'0I. 1A41LE

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OJChibits
lectures on such

Steptwn C. - . vice provost tor international education, has
been h()&lt;l()(ed by the Am-Pol Eagle
as one of its 1996

Citizens of the
Ye&amp;I. Dunnett was
named in the category ol non-Pol·
ish Community
Leader. s1ngted

out for his dedic a~~~--- Uon to Polish programs at UB and
contributions to the field of international education .
The Eagle noted , "A leader tn
the protnotion and facilitation of International education. Dr. Dunnett
has lor 25 years headed UB's Eng hsh Language Institute . II is considered one of the best of its kind In
the world and has trained more than
18.000 students and professionals
here and abroad :
Citing Dunnett's efforts in build•ng a cooperative exchange between UB and the Jagiellonian University in POland , The Eagle said ,
"The exchange has devek)ped into
the most comprehensive of any between an American and Po{ish university. "Or. Dunnett's support and
leadership is credited with making it
easier for the Pofish programs at UB
to prosper. He helped organize the
Committee for Cooperation with the
Jagielloniart. which supervises the
activities ot'the exchange. His office
has pro vided administrative and fi.
nancial suppon to vartous initiatives
Lnvolving the two schools.
· Most recently. the PoliSh Academic Information Center has been
established at US by the two univerSities. it will serve institutions throughout the U.S. by disseminating information about Polish studtes and exchange opportunities in Poland:
In 1996. Dunnett received the
Merentibus Medal from the
Jagiellonian University In Poland. the
greatest distinctOO of merit conferred by Jagiellontan. He also received the Homer Higbee Award
from the AssoctatOO of International
Educators, professional association
of international educators in the U .S.

TIUC-CIN-Y
CIIOICD TO.HBJ»-.11
The Western New York Sustainable
Energy Association, in conjunction
with the UB Envitqlmental Task
Force and other local groups , is local sponSOI' of a national video teleconference produced by the Wash·
ington. D.C.-based Renew America .
The teleconference will address is·
sues of energy choices and p&lt;Mic y
impact on the economy environment and national security.
Teachers. students, con:!umer
advocates and environmental advocates as well as government and
business leaders are urged to at·
tend the session which is free and
open to the public. It will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 1 :45 to
4:30p.m . in the WNED-TV Studios,
Horizons Plaza, in Downtown Buffalo. For more information , call
Walter Simpson , UB energy officer.
al 645-3528.

PANEL TO DISCUSS
.viiiCAII AIIIJIICAHS
IN80~

•African Americans in Government"
is the topic of a panel discussion
free and open to the public, to be
held at UB's Educational Opportunity Center, 465 Washington St. , on
Thursday, Feb. 20.
Panelists for the noon program
will be BuHa)O Councilwoman
Beverly Gray. Judge E. Jeannette
Ogden and Judge Robert Russell.
Moderator will be Arthur 0 . Eve Jr.

Pholo
and
topics as cunent Ssues ln Israel,
tracing one~ Jewish ·rooca· and "Sur·
viva! in Sara)ovo" will be among highlights of Jewish Awareness Month. 10
be held ltYough March 8 at UB.
The 11th annual Wasserman
Conference, presented by Hillel and
co-sponSOfed by the American
Jewish Committee of WNY Buffalo/
Niagara Chapter, Jewish Famity
Service of Buffalo &amp; Et;e County
and the Division of Student Affairs
at UB. held Feb. 9 on the North
Campus , kicked oH the observance.
Keynote speaker was Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz. professor of edu-.
cation and Jewish religtous thought
at Hebrew Union College.
Other events at US that are free
and open to the public during Jewish Awareness Month will be:
• ·uncovering Jewish Roots•
with Jack Katz, US professor of audiology, noon to 1 p .m ., Wednesday, Feb. 19, Suite 210, The Commons.
• "Survival in Sarajevo· photo
exhibit depicting the ro*e of the
Jewish c ommunity during the
Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital , Tuesday, Feb . 25, in the )abby of
the Student Union and Wednesday,
Feb. 26 . Suite 210. The Commons.
• ·current Issues in Israel:
noon. Wednesday, March 5. Suite
210, The Commons. featuring
Daniel Kutner. the Israeli consultor
academ ic affairs in the U.S.

compoeition.
His compositions have received
many international prizes and have
been premiered at major festivals In
North America. Sooth America. Europe end the Far East.

,_ ~ p&lt;-­

elect of the Erie County Medical
Society and a cHnical mstructof of
surgery at the UB medical sci&gt;Jol,
has been n,..lected chief of staff
at Our Lady of Victory HospMI,

Lacl&lt;awanna, for 1997-119.
Zeplowitz. a member of the New
York State Medical Society Govern-

;ng House of Delegates. Is en attending surgeon at OLV and past

p&lt;esldent of ns medical staff. He Is
also pest president of·lhe Buffalo
Surgical Society and the UB Medical Sci&gt;Joi Afumn; Assoc;ation. He
Is past chairman ollhe James Platt
White Society at UB.

A book h()&lt;l()(ing the wOO&lt; of

se-, ZIGiota, Afumn; Professor
of 0ec;s1on Support Systems in the
UB Sci&gt;Jol of Management, has
been publ;shed
by SpringerVerlag, Ber1in, in

conjunction with
the International
Society ol Mutt;ple
Criteria Decision

Mak;ng (MCDM).

L..&amp;..::lo:..-_.J
Cort Lippe, 8 leading composer
of oomputer music, has been appointed assistant
professor of music and d irector of
the Hiller Computer Music Studkls at UB.
Uppe. who has
been visiting professor of music
UPPE
composilion at
UB since 1994, will teach music
composition and be responsible for
Overall program administration .
management, funding, equipment
and staffing of the Hiller~ sune in
Baird Hall, plus a satellite studio in
Sloe Hall. The studkls use1RCAM
signal processmg worl&lt;stations to assist composers In the developmeflt of
live interactive computer music.
-we are absolutely ecstatic to
have ProfesS()( Lippe as a member
of our faculty,· said David Felder,
chair of the UB Department of Music . ·He is lnternaUonalty ackfla.NIedged to be his generation's leading coniposer of computer music . •
Uppe, who has studied under
several celebrated composers.
helped to develop new technolog ies at IRCAM (lnstitut de Recherche at Coordination Acoustique-Musique) the world-famous, statesupported Ffench lnstitutk&gt;li for research Into the techniques of mod·
ern music composition . It was
founded by renowned French composer/conductor Pierre Bou\ez.
Lippe's mentors include com·
posers larry Austin in the United
States and G. M . Koenig and Paul
Berg at the Netherlands' lnstitut
voor Sooologie, where Lippe stud·
ied computer and formalized music.
He also studied at the University
at Paris with innovative composer
lannls Xenakis, and worked for
three years at the Centre d'Etudes
de Mathemaliques et Automattque
Musical. which Xenakis directed.
Lippe later worl&lt;ed at IACAM at
the Georges Pompldou Centre
where he developed real-time musical applications and taught courses
on new technok&gt;gies used in musk:

The volume was
ed;tedby M• .___., dean of the UB
School of Engineering and Applied
Sctences, together with two other
k!ading scholars in the field of management science and decision
making , ProfeSSOf Jaap Spronk, of
Erasmus University in Rotterdam,
The Nethertands, and ProfesSOI'
Jyrki Wallenius of the Helsinki
School of Economics, Anland.
Trtled Essays ;n Decision Malting:
A Volume In Honor of Stanley ZXlnts,
the Festschrift was presented to
Z"100ts last month on the occasion of
h;s 60th blrthdey atlhe 13th International meeting of the society m Cepe
Town, South Africa. It contains 21
essays written by ktading authorities
mthe f10ld of MCDM that d;scuss the
use of malhertl&amp;tical methods for
solving reef-world problems.
Zlonts Is the founder and f;rst
president of the International Society
of MCDM. The rec;pienl of the
society's Gold Medal and Presidential
Service awards. he has published
rrore then 100 articles and several
books on management topics.

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~IH-PD.21

Crossing Borders. the second annual student conference on Canada
and the U.S.. wUI be held Friday,
Feb . 21 at Niagara University,
Nlagara Falls, N.Y. It is sponsored
by the Golden Horseshoe Educational Alliance in association with
Niagara University, Consulate General of Canada-Buffalo, University of
Toronto and UB.
The all~ seeks to promote
greater interaction, d iscussk&gt;n and
collaboration among undergraduate
and graduate students across all
disciplines in southern Ontario and
Western New York.
Students will present and address issues of mutual interest and
concern to Csnada and the U.S.,
including topics on arts and literature, business, trade and iilvestment. education. engineering ,
physical and environmental sci·
ences and social sciences. Artists
will present their WOfk at 8 show In
the Castellani Art Museum on the
campus of Niagata University. fol-

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beeofflbe lnlemet), you can like a Vutual Reality loUr of several of the galleries.
Thereisn'tenougb space here to describe all of the Web sileS
for all of the museums IIIII are now online. The World Wide

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Web Lib rary-Mueums at http:/fwww.comlab.OLac.uk/
archlve/other/lllu.,•ms. hlml is a meta-sire IIIII links 10 many
museums on the Internet You cao browse its list of links by
country or sean:b by keyword and view some of the grealeSt
works of art from around the world.
For help with colllll!cting to the lll&gt;rld Wuk Web, conllJCI ihe
err Help Desk tU.645-3542.
-Nancy Schiller and Will Hepfer. University Libraries

k&gt;wed by a reception .
Thera is no charge to attend the
confer8f1C6; lunch and the reception
are $7 U.S.. $10 CanadU!n. Reg;stration forms. avaHable from James E.
McConnell. chair. Departmeot of Geography at UB. 105 Wotkeson Quadrangle , Buffalo, N.Y. 1426Hl023,
must be returned by Feb. 14. For
more information call 645-2722 or
fW&lt; McConnell et 645-2329.

The Campus Catering Departmeot ls
;ntiOducing a new PM:k-l)p Service
avallabkt on lhe North Campus.
Breakfast, lunch and snack items
are klcluded in the menu. with e
min;mum orde1 of 10 for lunch items.
Orderll must be placed. three
business days ahead of time during
the hours of 8 am. to 4 p .m ., Monday throogh Friday.
Campus Ceterlng , located In
Norton Hall. Room 8 , Is open from 7
a.m . to 6 p .m. For more information
or to place orders, s;:all Campus Catering at 645-3037. This is a pick-up
service onty; there is no delivery.

-

IV....,..,... TO DISCUSS

I'IIY..c:IAII-1111Should physicians be allowed to
help patients die? This controYOfSial
question wm be examined on "Mind

Over Myth,· a public affairs tele~­
sion program to alr Saturday, Feb.
t5, at ooon on WKBW-lV, Channel
7. Produced and moderated by
. . . . _ . . . . . . . , _.,assistant
dean for alurmi and communk:atlons. School of Law. the program
will address the legal, medical
and ethical aspects of physJc;an-

ass;sted sulclde.

Dr.-_..,

Fleischma{ln will interview:
medical d irector of Hospice Buffalo end an ass;stant cl;n~ professor at the UB
Sci&gt;Jol of Medicine and Blonledical
Sciences; he has published numerOOs papers and artic5es on pain

and symptom management and

serves on the steering committee of
the NYS Cence&lt; Paln Initiative.
........ en attorney end
partne&lt; In Magavem, Magavem &amp;
GrinYn; a graduate of the UB Law
Sci&gt;Joi. she Is a member of th8 National Health lawyerll Assocletion
and the New York State Bar Association's Health Law Committee. She
serves on the Buffalo
Hospital heatth oonmittee, counseling on
declslon rnaiOng in critical care and

G..,.,.;,r

Dr.--.

patient rights Issues.

a prolessor

of pllilooophy and cHnlcal essbtant
professor of medicine at US, he has
speclalized In clink:.al and bk:wnedicaf ethica and has sarved as consultant to area hospitals and medi-

cal facilities.

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Royals to a 6-2 January record, averaging
18.9 points- sllooling 44.3 percent from
the ftoor, 47.1 peroent from three-point range
and 91 .7 percent at tile free throw Nne.
The Royals headed intO their game Monday against YOl.llQSlown State JUS1 a game
behind tile Penguins. h begins an imporlant

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three-game homestand for tile Royals as
t11ey host Northeastern llinois on Saturday
In the second overtime, UMKC started to
and ChicagO State on Monday.
pull away, hitting their free throws as the ll&lt;Jtls
were forced to foul in order to stop the clook.
eWIIIS1UNG
UB was held scoreless rNe&lt; tile first four minCoach Jim Beichner's wrestlers improved to
utes of tile second overtime as the Kanga6-2-2, defeating Bucknell20- t 1 in Lewisburg,
rooe built a ninei&gt;ofnt lead.
Pa., on Saturday. The win also moved the
Again, Yc:u1g led tile ll&lt;JIIs with 21 points,
ll&lt;JIIs to 3-1 · 1 In tile East Coast Wrestling
playing 47 of a poosible 50 rninu1es In the
Association.
game. Martinho eddied 15 and Scoll McMillin
The Bulls picked up a victory from John
reglslered
with 12 points
Stutzman at 150 pounds as tile senior moved
and 10 rebounds. UB shot )ust 8-&lt;&gt;1-21 from
Into third place on tile alHirne tak8downs list.
tile free throw line and were 10-of-42 behind
Also tal&lt;ing wins for UB were seniors Eric
the thr8e-polnt line.
Gross at167 and Jason War1inger at 126.
The Butts were on tile road again at
UB hosts ECWA foes Boston University
Youngstown State on Wednesday. They host
and Hofstra In tile finai home dual matches of
NortMas1em INinois and Chicago State in tile
tile season on Saturday at M.rmi Arena. The
final home games of the season on Saturday , Bulls squara off with tile Terriers at noon and
and Monday nights.
then take on tile Flying Outctvnen at 2 p.m

four ear1ier In tile extra session.

~ON ROAD
The University at Buffalo men's basl&lt;etball
team suffered road 1o6aa8 at Troy State and
Missouri-Kansas City rNe&lt; tile weel&lt;8nd to
drop to third place In tile Mid{;ontlnenlGonference standings.
UB dropped an 83-74-declsion at Troy
State on Thursday after leading tile Trojans
69-64 with less than 3 minutes to play and
rallying from a 39-34 hafltme deficit. But tile
Bulls -e held scoreless In their next six
possessions as Troy State started their final
rally, scoring tile next 15 points to lead 79-69.
Raseun Young led tile Bulls with 25
points, eight rebounds and six assists. YCUlQ
nailed 11 of his 20 fl&amp;id goal attempts. Mike
Martinho and Man Clemens added 13 and
12 points respectively. All fJVe Troy State
starters SCOfed in double figures.
The ll&lt;JIIs used a pair of buzzer beaters
against Missouri-Kansas City, but OOJidn~
come up with a third as tl1ey feU to the Kangaroos 65-74 in dooble overtime. The Bulls
rallied from a 46-35 deficij with 10 minutes remaining In regulation. With eight seconds left
and UMKC leading 60-57, the Bulls got their
first buzzer beater of the night as reserve
guard Chandion Jones nailed a three-pointer
to send tile contest Into overtime.
UB came back with a second buzzer
beater five i:ninutes later to force the second
OT as Bemard WM&amp;Ier's layup tied tile contest at f57 -f&gt;7 after tile ll&lt;JIIs had trailed by

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e ROYALS FAL1IR AT lROY,
RDOUND .. KANSAS CrrY

A private m
ial service will be held m
Santa Barbara , alii ., for Charles R Fall . 78 . a

reured professor

education at UB who died

Feb . 5 in SL Fran s Hospital. Santa Barbara .
a week aher f'1"10V' g there from BuHaJo.
Family members reported to the Buffalo
News that Fall died of pneumonia, a complicallon after a year·k&gt;ng battle with cancer.
Fall. who retired in 1982, taught at UB for
33 years. He earned bachelor's and master's

degrees from Ohio State University and came
to Buffalo In 1949, a year after he received his
doctorate at Columbia University. He taught
social foundations to graduate students and
undergraduates.
A decorated veteran of World War II . he
received a battlefield commendation while
serving in France and Germany and was
awarded a Bronze Star and the Purple Heart
lor battlefield injuries.
Fall received Fulbright grants •n 1958 and
1962, traveling to Pakistan and Sri Lanka: he
was an exchange professor in Melbourne,
Australia, In 1972.

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The Royals splij two games over the end, but got help In the Mid{;ontinent Conference race In the important battle for the
top seeds in next month's league tournament
atUB.
On Thursday, UB le1187-80 at Troy State.
Brenna Doty scored 25 points against tile
Trojans, connecting on six thre&amp;i&gt;Ointers in
tile game. Charissa Gardner and LaToya
Crumpton also eddied 15 points for tile Royals. Crumpton's 15 was a season-high as she
hit seven of her nine fl&amp;id goal attempts in tile
contest. Troy State's inside combination of
Mandee Armstrong (34) and Samantha
Tomlinson (25) did most of tile damage to the
Royals, scoring 59 of the Trojans' 87 points.
Armstrong was 16-of-22 from tile ftoor, while
Tomlinson M 12-of-14 at the free throw line
and grabbed 11 rebounds. A kay to the contest proved to be free throw shooting as the
Royals made 15-of-21 and were whistled for
24 fouls, while Troy State made 22-ol-29 and
corrvnined just 16 personals.
UB rebounded with a 73-58 victory over
Missouri-Kansas City on Saturday as the
Royals blistered the Roos for 53.7 percent
foeld goal shooting in tile game. Kom Coon
came off tile beilch to net a team-lllgh 23
points on 9-of- 1~ foeld goal shooting and 4of-5 from behind tile three-po&lt;nt line. Ooty
was the only other Royal in dooble figures
with 15. Gardner, Crumpton and Nicole
Blakeslee each grabbed six rebounds lor
UB.
While the Royals were handling UMKC.
the team got good news concerning the conference race. Troy State defeated league
leader Youngstown State 81-80, while th1rd
place Northeastern Illinois was forced to forfeit to Valparaiso because the Golden Eagles
showed up at the Vatpo gym four hours after
the scheduled game time.
Doty also earned recognitJOO from the
Mid-Continent Conference as its January
Female Athlete of the Month. Ooty led the

e MEN'SS~ING
UB's men's swirmling and diving squad fell
to Cleveland State 143-110 and Miami of
Ohio t54-a8 In Ctevetand on Saturday. The
Bulls are ncJN 4-5 in dual meet competition .
John Nilles tool&lt; tile 50 freestyle for the
ll&lt;Jtls in 21 .98, while Korry Miller was again
victorious in tile 200 backstroke in t :52. 15.
Josh Pieczonka finished second in the t 00
freestyle at 48.08 while tile 400-freestyle relay
squad of Nilles, Pieczonka, Jose Moncion
and Mark Horgan placed second in their
race at 3:11.05.
The Butts host the Mid{;ontinent Conference Swirrmlng and Diving Charnpoonshops
at Alumni Arena on Feb. 20-22. Prelmonary
races begin at 11 a.m. each day with the
championsl1ip finals starling at 7 p.m.

e WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The Royals fell to Toledo t41H6 to firusl1 their
dual meet mark at 4-4 The Royals were led
by Sue Bohnet's dooble victory in the 200 IM
(2:14.71) and 200 breaststro!&lt;e (2:30.78)
Carrie Grant had a pair of second place linoshas in the 200 freestyle (2:00.29) and tOO
freestyle (55.43) .
The Royals host lhe Mid-Continent Conference $wiCTYTling and Drving ChampK&gt;n·
ships at Alurmi Arena on Feb. 20-22 Pret1m1·
nary races begin at 11 a.m. each day, WTth
the champK&gt;nship finaJs starting at 7 p.m

e INDOOR TRACK a

FIELD

The men's and
women's squads

51 points to place fofth on a none-team men's

field.
Junior l.Jsa Kragbe sat a school record lor
tile Royals, ptacmg second In tile 400 meters
In 57.9. Kragbe bro!&lt;e tile old marl&lt; of 59.0
sat by Maureen rdlman on 1989. The Royals·
distance-medley relay squad was also VICIDrious. For tile ll&lt;JUs, Neil Murray captured the
pole vauh oompetition at tf&gt;.t
Meanwhile, Terry Scherne took tile Cornell
Pentathlon with a school record 3,446 poonts
The Junior bro!&lt;e tile old school record m
3,130 points set last season by Marna Morns
Both squads naw prepare for thiS
weekend's Mid{;ontinent Conference Indoor
Championships hosted by Western llhnoos
Last season, the Royals finiShed second to
Youngstown State •n the team standings as
Stacey Strollvnann earned Mld{;on Athlete
of tile Year honors. The ll&lt;JUs placed tllird on
last season's meet and should be expectec
to move up this season WJth the departure of
league champoon Eastern lllinoos to the OhKl
Valley Conference.

e MEN'S a WOMEN'S TENNIS
The RoyeJs spnng tenn•s season began last
week as the team competed 1n the Cornell
Invitational in Ithaca
Darcy Wl"'eeter earned a VICtory •n the consolation roond of tile tournament. downing St.
Bonaventure's Rebecca Benin 8-4 aher dropping her openong match 6-0, 6-1 to Stephanoe
Chase of krrrt in the C s.ngtes fhght
In doubles play. the team of Oamelle
Rakowsky and April Koser defeated St
Bonaventure tandem Sara Mortimer and
Tracey Barry 8.0 •n the opentng round of the
· 8 doubles flight The pair were el•m•nated Jn
the next round by a team !rom MassachusehsS.l
Coach Kathy TWist's squad 1s back •n
acuon th1s weekend as they travei iOf the
Pittsburgh lnvitatoonal on Feb 14- 16
The Bulls also opened their season at the
CornelllnVltatiOMl as Mike Proulx advanced
to the consolation finals losing to St Bonaventure's J.P. G1ngras 6-2 Proulx was 2-2
playing at the number rwo s1ngles slot
WibJSOnO Murdono also advanced 1n consolation play. lalhng in the sem1f1nals of the
bracket at number three singles to Zach
Kaplan of Colgate 8-0
The team of Trav1s Melmk and Joe
Hamilton took their first round match at th1rd
doubles The pa1r were defeated 1n the second roond by a duo from Cornell 6-1
Coach Russ Crispell's team •s 1n action on
Saturday when they face St Bonaventure
and Cornell on Olean
-Ted Wasi&lt;o. Sports lnfrxmatJOn Office

THIS WEEK 'S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

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mn ~k~~~-~Nocn==~--1
'32 Invitational
over the week·

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·

Alumn• Arena. 2 p m
Women's Basketball vs Northeastern llhnots
Men's Basketball vs Northeastern llhflOIS

Alumn• Arena. 6 p m

Alurr\01 Arena. B 15 p .m

~~;~~to 1-~~~~~!..!!...!=::.!!.:~"7=::
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the seven-team
women's meet

The Bulls scored

Women's Basketball vs Chlca

State

Men's Basketball vs Ch1cago State

7

Alumn• Arena. 5 30 P m
Alumn• Arena. 7 50 p m

CALENDAR

Conti nued from page 8
for Dltorieated C blral Coa·
Alricaa AJDtrk:aas lo Governmeat, panel discussion with
Beverly Gray. E. Jeannette
Ogden, Robert Russell ; Arthur
0 . Eve Jr., modentor. Noon.
An:hie L. Hunter Library, Educa.tional Opportunity Center, 465
Wuhington St.

~tel, Prof. Cyrus Taylor.
Case Western Reserve Univ. 205
Natural Sciences. North Cam·
pus. 3:45p.m.

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n.boloae, Abhijit Chakraborty.
508 Cooke. North Campus.
3:30p.m.

..........,c:oao....
Wbat (aad Wll&lt;ft) b Life!
Jeslls Mosterin, ConJCjo Superior de lnvs Cientificu. Madrid.
684 Baldy. North Campus.
3:30 p.m.
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T1oeltehlreof.EtlserT
Fe,..Uab T.- aad tile Search

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T'bt: Evolution ofSociaJ l a teroctloos La Boweri&gt;lnb, Dr.
Stephen Pruett-Janes, Univ. of
Chicago. 114 Hochstetler. North
Campus. 4 p.m. Co-sponsored
by the Gnd uate Group in Evohnionary Biology and Ecology.

pus. 8 p.m. SS. $2.50. Call 645 ARTS .

J;X.........r$
~-

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"Chinese Mountainscape Archi·
tecture," a.n exhibit of photo-

Tbtsii/DisRrtaUoo Support
Group. Barban Umiker. UB
Counseling Center. 4:30-5:30
p.m. Thursdays through April
17. Call 645-6125.

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IDuodudiN)' ltdluolo&amp;f.

7-9 p.m. Call 645-6125.

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Kanno A.bduJ-Iabbar.
Mainstage, Center for the Ans.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. Free,
but tickets must be reserved by
calling 645-ARTS.

---·Zodiaqu&lt; Daau c-poa7,

frontiers II. Dram. Theatre,
Center for the: Aru. North Cam-

graphs by John Valentino With
text by Beverly Foit-Aibert.
continues through Feb. 21 in W
Sc~ of Architecture and
Plann.iJll'l James Dyen GaJiery,
334 Hayes Hall, South Campus.
Callery houn are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday lhrou&amp;)o Friday.

_..,,.._

1'he Graduate Student Show:
Second· Year Students.. in the
UB Art Gallery, Center for the

Arts, Nonh Campw. Through
Feb. 20. Gallery hours are 10:30
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Satur·
day. II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday
~Into

__.uoo,

Work by Duane Zaloudek. who
since lhe early '60s has been e.t ·
ploring what he refers to as the
..sensuality of the act of seemg."
Light well Gallery, Cenu:r for
the Arts. Gallery hours are 10:30
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday -Saturday. II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

Cl.....,.. •ound •Y rOCNII
Work by Lucy Gunning. Camera
follow s a woman as she performs an act of circumventaon.
her feet never touchmg the floor
as she gingerly traverses
shelves. mantels. radiators and
molding. Lower Lever, UB An
Gallery. Center for the Arts.
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.·
8 p.m. Wed.nescby-Saturday.
II a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

N.QJ.I~~$

and older Jo qualify. For more
mfonnauon. call 859-3749.

~Q~$
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Lead ~/Analyst (SLJ)-Heahh Science Node. Posting
WP-7001 . ,lntemaliooa.J Studmt
Advisor (Sl,J}-()tfw:e of !mernalional Educalionllntemat.ional
SJudcnt &amp; Scholar ScMces. Postang ilfP· 7006. SftUor Proaram·
mn{Analyst (S!A)-Engin«ring
&amp; Computing Services. Posting
IP-7008. Dean &amp; Professor
(P.tP-2)~uate School of Edu·
cation, Posting fP-7009 . Dean &amp;
Professor (MP-l )..Qraduate
School of Social Wort. Posting
IJP-7010. hUdmce Ball Dirutor (SL-2) (lhnr pooitions availablr:)-Student Affairs. Pbsring
tP-7014.

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ProfeDOr -Surgery, Posting
Iff. 7003. Assistant ProfessorSurgery. Posting ftf. 7022. As·
sistant/Astodate Prof'~
Surgery. Posting IF-702.3. All·
sistani/Aaoclate Prof'euorSurgery. Postina IF-7024. Allsistant/A.uodate ProfeuorSurgery, Posting lfF-7025.

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The UB Department of Orerma·
toloa;y at Buffalo General Hospi·
tal is condoctina a clinical triJJ
for men or women who have
acne:. Pa.rticipanu must be age ll

RtRArt:b Aide-Sponsored Programs Personnel. Open. Secre-

tary !-Psychology. Posting
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Sptel.alb:t ·Baochtntical Phanna·
colon. Posting IR-96085 . Re·
surc:b Su pport Spedallst·
NCEER Information Servace.
Postmg IIR-97000. SKretary I·
Violence Prr\·emion Program.
Postmg ilfR -970 10. S«.rtt.ary to
tbe Director of Spteial GirtsUniversuy Development, Post·
mg lfR-97011. Assista nt Dii"K·
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Posting IJR-970 12. Managu or
Stewards hip Progn m.s-Un1·
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Data Manage:r-Un1versity De= velopment. Posting IR-97014 .
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Electrical&amp;: Computer Eng• necring. Line 134856.

Nolt-e a 1111 ttttlve/ L.IIbor
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(part t ime)-Univers•ty Facah lies. Line *46146. 46t·S7 .
46148,46149,46150.46151.
461152.46153

To obtam morr mjOrmDtiOII on
jobs lur~d abo~~. coruacr Pr.rsonnd Suvices. 104 Crofts
Hall. To obtam mfornumon on
R~uarch jobS, contact Spcm ·
sorrd Programs Pusonn~l.
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Sc:hool of Phumacy Swdc:nt Association {.SPSA). 210 Student
Unioo. NO(th Clmpus.
12:30 p.m.
ASCIT-.Mp

Sciaoca. Nortll Caospso.

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I :30-3:30 p.m. Re&amp;ister lhrou&amp;h
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643-JS40.

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ut.-.Mp
Tbesls/DlacrUdon Support
Group, Barban Umlker, UB

Counselina Center. 4:3()..5:30

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Aaiu-

llioiopall-.vloral Models
otlltalllo ud Worlc Eu&lt;
Pro)&lt;cll, Prof.
Ted Sleegmann ani! Sharoo
Hewnet, UB AolluopoiOI)'

Dept- 2SO Student Union. North
Campus. Noon.

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JatrodQdioo to SPSS for Windows, Part lL 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Reaiater through Academic User
Uaison Office, 215 Computing
Center, 645-3540.

_,_

p.m. Thursdays lhrouJh April
17. Caii64S-6m.

Theater aDd Redt:mptioa.
Lorna Hill . Part of lnt.emational

ut.-.Mp
Dlsconriaa Butralo. 6-7 p.m.

Theater Lecture Series. Screenin&amp; Room, Center for the Arts.
North Campus. 3 p.m.

........... ....._._

Caii64S-6123.

Barry Wu. China humanrights-abuse-authority. 7:30p.m.
Katharine Cornell Theater..EIIicou Complex . North Cam-

pus. SponJOred by Student As-

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ticket information.

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W bat Doet Your Face Look

Llkd Dr. Zhong(ei ZhanJ,
Center or Ex.cellence for Docu·
ment Analysis and Recognition.
4 Kncu. Nortb Clmpus. }-

4:15p.m.

c-.vy c:oaa.~~o

Zodlaquc Daace Compuy,
Frontiers ll . Drama Theatre,
Center ror the Ans. North Cam·

Aaalylls o( the Topolocy o(
Expen... olal Cluor&amp;&lt; Dtultid. Dr. Y.A. Abn.mov, Univ. or
Missouri. 215 Natural Sciences.

pus. 8 p.m. SS. S2.30. Call 64S-

North Campus. 4 p.m.

ARTS .

u•w-•acllllt

w•

Sixth Aaaual Valeatlne'a Day
'JUtiD&amp; Party. Center ror
Tomorrow. North Campus. 7:30

..-tric-_,...

p.m. Call Sun-Mi Fuog, 6898147. (or reservatioru.

HypentuioD, Leooanl F&lt;ld.

M.D., Ph.D. Kinch Auditorium.

Children's H01pital. 8 a.m.

UB Fit Jl'alr. Oymnastic.s Room,
Alumni Arena. North Campus.
8 Lm.-5 p.m.
ASCIT_.....,
latrodudloa to SPSS for WlDdo....., Part D. 9 a.m.-Noon.
ReJ.ister Wouah Academic User
Uaiaon Offtce, 215 Computina
Center, 645-3540.

Mardi II. Coil 643-6123.

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Dla1opr. . - . Ld&gt;
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Ill Tloop-1
Ddldetll
Mice, DT.
Plul Solowoy, Rolwdl Park
Can= iasti!Uie. ~Cary.

Procules: Rn6sitiaa tk
Beckdt-Diacoais Tack Data,
Prof. Michael Escobar, Univ. of
Toronto. 244 Cary. Sooth Cam-

6123.

$10.$12. Callll29-2601; ,_.._

The l•portaDCe ot Tra.uitivlty' Moke Yov 0.... C....., Ia
Three Euy Sltpl, Pror.
Annalisa Crannell, Franklin &amp;.
Marsh.aJ Colleae. I 03 Diefendorf. Soulh Compos. 4 p.m.

-~
Applicatloal with Diricbld

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Qodtn.e.
doyollvou&amp;h Feb. 23. Caii64S-

Hoptinl. M.D. eo-- forTomor- . - c - . 7:»9a..m.

niuu~ ...

Butralo LOpe Dlclloury
Project, Rkhord Mala, e&lt; al.,
UB Dept. of Pbilotophy. 2liO
Park. Nortb Campus. 4 p.m.

6123.

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loooltol PloGoplua... ODd Col-

ciu.m Sipa.l.liaa. Dr. James W.
Putney, Laboratory of CelluJar
&amp; Molcculu Plwmacolo&amp;Y.
North Carolina. 114 Hoehsletter.
Nortb Compus. 4 p.m.

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Aj&gt;ril I. Call 64S-

ilm. 7-10 p.m. ~yx lhruoah

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0x1c1e Doaon, Cbi -Mina
l'KnJ. 308 Cooke. North Cam·
pus. 3:30p.m.

Tho CCOiley IAdex 0.... A
Bate, Prof. Jim Reineck. 103
Diefendorf. South Campus.

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Ma,a

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cappella vocal eoscmblc. Slec.
North Campus. 8 p.m.

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All 2 Diefendcxf. Soulh
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Spon-

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Auocialion.

By c-p, II'• By C.nll-.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

and ClloruS. Elizabeth Scbulu,
conductor. Kleinb.ans Music
Hall. 8 p.m. Co-opoosorcd by
WBPO. For tickeu. call U5·
3000.

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NortMMI uu.ok. Alumni
Arena. NorthCampw.

2-4 p.m.

8:1!5 p.m.

M ...... AJsolywlsoiPIO-.

taroo(Y_F_MaoqallotS, Dr. Guiywt Van. UDiv. of
W'liCOOSin. MadiJoo. 121
Cooke. North Compus.
3:1!5 p.m.
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Frootien D. Droma n.w...
Center ror lhc Artl. North Campus. 8 p.m. s.'l, $10. Caii64SARTS.

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U8 vs. ao.toa. Ua.iT. Alumni
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8. Caii64S-6m.

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UB vs. Hofstra. Alumni Arena.
Nortb Campus. 2 p.m.

WCMDH'I bukdball v1. Northeast WiaoiJ. Alumni Arena.
North Campus. 6 p.m.

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Book lauKh, or the late John
Clarke's ..lD the AnaJogy."l'llk·
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SL 7:30p.m.

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Buffalo Pbilbannonic Orchestra
and Cllond, Elixabeth Schulze.
conductor. Kleinhans Music
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WBFO. Foo-lkkeu. call 8853000.

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Gollolck. UB Dept. of BK&gt;Ioaical Sdeoca. 1348 Fatber.
Scwh Compos. • p.m.

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caao State. Alumni Arena.
Nortb Compos. S:JO p.m.

Study A.b...-d, Sandy Reinagcl,
UB study abroad coordina\Or.
Noon- I p.m. Caii64S-6123.

M e•'• bukdbUI vs. Cbkap
State. Alumni Arena. North

L i - C o . . - N J.
!2:30p.m.

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Cl!sn:-UYe

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N&lt;&gt;&lt;th Campus. 1 p.m. rn..
Coocert to be broMtcul oa the
following Suodly at 4 p.m. oa

praenWion.

Prcparlola- .......
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Campus. 4 p.m.

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Center for the Ans.

DaviciJ. lliaJe- UB
vice provwt (or OnduMe Education. 301 Hocbslet&amp;ct. North

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tiH E FUtl.URE
AIN'T
ITUS
THEU

ITYAS

THE
DON ER PARTY
BY DAVID J.TRIGGLE

INTRODUCTION
A few months ago I anended a conference on professional ethics at the University of Montana at
Missoula. Doubtless by chance, the Sunday edition
of the; newspaper, The Missoulan, featured an article
on the unfonunate members of the Donner party

who, one hundred and Hfry years ago on their way
West to California through the Sierra Nevada, were
trapped by an unusually severe winter. Facing a severe practical dilemma, unable to rerum and unwilling to proceed Westward, they wintered in the pass
w hich now ~rs their name and literally consumed
themselves-one of the larger instances of American
canniballsm.
The Donner party is a parable for the contemporary university. We, and comparable institutions,
may face a similar fate if we fail to redefine ourselves and move forward . It is clear that, absent
time travel, we cannot simply reassume old models
of organization and, just as surely, we cannot stay in
place. Nor to move forward aggressively will condemn us to the cannibalistic sacrifice of faculty and
programs. There is no choice other than moving
fOrward into new territory.

There are broad issues facing higher education-political and public skepticism, uncertainty of
mission and direction, budgetary, programmatic and
quality problems, and general and considerable faculty anxiety. These broad issues are quite well
known and have been discussed prominently. although too frequently in isolation. It is, however,
the synergy between the issues that will make their
impact so powerful and so long-lasting. If we fail to
recognize their cumulative and interactive signifi-

cance and change accordingly. then like the Donner
pany we will simply consume ourselves to no very
productive end. While we may choose to discuss
these issues separately, we must embrace a collective solution as we redefine our mission and organization. The issues that we face , and must respond
to, can be su mmarized under several broad headings:
1. PUBUC AND POIInCAL CHAU..ENGES
The paradox of increased demand and decreased respect
2. ISSUES BEYOND ACADEMIA
Education and research and the end of expansionism
Health care costs and Academic Health
Centers
The impact of the new information
technologies
3. TilE IMPACT OF CHANGE
On the University
On its programs
On its educational processes
On the faculty

*

*
*
*

*
**
*
* Assuming responsibility
* Allocating resources.

4. OUB PROIII.EMS---&lt;&gt;UR SOLunONS

"Twenty yea,; of scbooling and tbey put you 011
tbe day sbifl, " sang Bob Dylan more than twentyfive years ago. As usual he was right. Education is
still being challenged and still lacks the respect and
commitment that will increasingly be needed in the

United States in this competitive global enterprise
Whether justified or not, education is being challenged at both the public and politi cal levels and
that challenge includes· higher education, where
budgetary pressures are becoming particularly
acute. At the s·a me time there is amplt! evidence that
the demand for education will increase-from both
demographic and per capita perspectives. These increased demands will not be simply accommodated
within the existing physical structures and educational paradigms. Thus we have the apparent paradox of decreased respect and increased demand.
There is abroad in this land an unprecedented
emphasis on increased efficiency in higher educa
tion. The advocates of this policy assen that
4

•Fac ull.y are not as productive as they
could be •
lr~terpreta tion--facuhy sho uld spend mo rt' time
teaching undergraduates who pay the tuiuon and
less time pursuing activities calcubted to enhanct.'
their personal careers.

•It talles too long to g et a coUege d egree •
lnterpretatio~poor administration and a non
productive and self-centered faculty results in a prolifer:uion of peripheral events and an inadequate
number, sequence and qualiry of core course~
4

Te are paylrrg too much for what we are
getttftg"

lrllerpretation---the faculty and administration
are not earning their pay. Get your how~ in order
or we will do it for you .
Faced wi th these challenges we may be

�tempted to ignore them on the grounds that the
professoriate always knows best and that we, as
priests of the temple, are the sole guardians and dispensers of knowledge. We should contemplate
long-lost religions and civilizations who doubtless
held the same views.
These challenges are not., of course, new, but
this also should be naught for ou r comfort. Consider, for example, what Adam Smith wrot.e some
two hundred years ago, of the faculty of his lime
who:

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all.,.,

aiOOiber, mul ~ .,.,.
IO COII$etlllbal bls -gbbor ""'J' wt~l«:t
bu dNI)I proullkd lbal N biMselfu allowed lo -sl«:t bU """" 7'be grealer jNJrf
oflbe pubUc professon bave,for lbese
mDIIJI y ears, glvert up altogether IN prelerue of 1eacbl11g. •
IJUlulgftll IO

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- AD AM SMITH, lliE WEALTH OF NATIONS, In6

H o wever, the challenge is far more serious today

and with fa r more teeth because higher education is
a much larger and more expensive organization and
because, whether private or public in name, higher
education is far mo re dependent on public dollars.
We are, in fact , berween the promise of Vannevar

Bush:

'Tbe Govenrmelll sbould accept """' respo11Sibllltlesfor prtnrf01111g lbejlow of
rteW scletll(/k llrtowledge alld develojnllnll
of scletll(/k laletlll11 our youtb. Tbese resporJSibl/ltUs are IN ProP- cmocert1 of
I be GoverrntfDil, for I bey vitally tV/eel our
jobs, our betJitb, our sec:urU.y. •
-VANNEVAR BUSH,
lliE ENDI£SS FRONTIER, 19-4 5

and the harsher realities of the present so succinctly
summarized by Thomas Kean , former Governor of

New jerSey and friend of education, some 50 years
later:
"Here Is lbe reallly, plol11 alld sl"'ple.

Our Ivory lower Is ullller skge. People are
quesHOIIIIIg our mlssloll alld wbo we a"'Tbey clohll we coslloo ,;..,.,b, spelld carelessly, leacb poorly, plo11 IIIJIOplcally mul
wberr we are quesHOfled, act tkferulvely. •
-lliOMAS .KEAN, PRESIDENT,

DREW UNIVERSITY, I 995.

And yet it is increasingly clear that educatio n brings
sign ificant personal financial benefits [Table 1) that
translate to national prosperity and societal benefits.
Fu rthe rmo re, it is increasingly clear that there wi ll
be increased demand for higher e?ucation in the
decades immecliately ahead. This demand will arise
both from demographic factors (increased high
school graduation rates from the "boomer" generalion) and from the realization that, in a future where
multiple careers will increasingly be the norm, educatio n and re-education are likely to be a life-lime
commitment and activity. There are presently some

12 million fTE students at approximately 3,600 institutions of higher education with an annual budget
approaching $200 billion. It has been projected that
this number w ill increase to 20 milHon rrE, thus
"justifying" an additional 650 campuses with a capital cost of some .$200 billion and a p roportional increase in operating-fund demand. If these projections are correct and given the current and anticipated pressures o n State and Federal budgets, it is
exceedingly unlikely that these educational needs
will be met simply by expanding higher education
along existing lines. We will not end up with "more-

TAbLt

HIGHER EDUCATION: HIGHER EARNINGS

Category

Meon Annual /na&gt;me

Professional
Doctorate
Master's
Bachelor's
Associ&lt;lte's
High School
No High School

(1992)
75,000
55,000
41 ,000
33,000
24,000
19,000
13,000

of-the-same" in higher education or, for that maner,
in education in general. Rather, the increased and
enhanced needs will be met in significant pan by
the use of new information technologies and by expanding considerably the use of existing university
physical facilities to year round use mul by reordering our own priorities.

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ISSUES BEYOND ACADE.M IA
Discussions of the problems facing universities almost invariably tum to discussions of budgets. This
is eminently undetstandable, given the frequently
held assumption that nothing is sufficiently wrong
that a 5 percent increase in budg&lt;t or a bener priority score on a grant won't fix. However, tbe budg&lt;t
is no1 the real issue, altho ugh it may well be the
precip itating factor. Rather, the real issue is the Umit
to continued expansionary growth in the academy
and the attendant changes of priority and directioo
that are necessary. We must have new p rograms to
' respond to new socieCll and disciplinary demandsbut we will not have new resources. Hence, we
must ellminate or combine the old to make room
for the new and the faculty must adapt to these
changes by applying their knowledge and skills in
new ways.
The American university has a tripartite function. In the classic liberal artS tradition it propagates
a body of knowledge--criginally defined as a
canon. Bonowing from German universities we
have embraced the concept of the creation· of
knowledge-research-as a second fundamental
characteristic of the university. Finally, we have
added uniquelY, through Abraham Uncoln's signing
of the Morrill Act and the creation of the land-grant
university, the concept of public service as a third
characteristic. All of these fu nctions are now consid!!rably stressed in the contemporary Research University as we come to the end of a uniquely expansionary era.

The Changing Raearch University In an Age of
Uncertainty_Tot.lay's research university is not.
your father's and tomorrow's research university wiU
not be ours. The post-war expansion of opportunities, the massive infusion of Federal and State funds,
the ease of internaliortal communication, the changing ethnic climllte and the consequent multipUcity
of perspectives have generated massive stress in the
conventional canon. Richard Atkinson has observed
that these factors have led the university to a degree
of uncertainty as to

•... wbelber U&amp; purpose Is lo ullllernalld
or lo lrmlsform U. •

I be world

-RJOiARD ATKlNSON , CHANCElLOR,

UNIVERSITY OF CAUFORNIA SYSTEM.

Additionally, the increased requirements and
demands fo r professional education have become a
major component of university function. Nor is this
increase confined to the conventional professions of
law, meclicine and the iike, but it expands increasingly to other careers where university eciucation,
increasingly at the postgraduate level, is required.
All of this adds to the complexity of the research
university and compounds the stress berween the
"professional" and conventional liberal arts areas.
There is no indication that this level of stress is
about to wa ne in the near future : the opposite is, in
fact, more likely. The changing funding patterns for
both science and technology mul the .artS and huma nities, the changing political and public expectations of higher education, and the demands for accountability and workload definition as our institutions have assumed prominence on leg~lative radar
screens are going to impact us all-&lt;hemist and
classicist. mathematician and multiculturalist, and
p hilosopher and physicist. As institutions whose
teaching, scho larship and research impact directly
on change in society, universities are paradoxically
ill-adapted and often resista nt to change with in
themselves in an age of uncertainty. We w ill, however, have to consolidate and rethink o ur fragmented disciplines, wh1ch increasingly fu nction· as
isolated academic fiefdoms closed to o utsiders. If
we fail in this then we will have failed the test of
accountability and we will be judged accordingly.
This uncertainty In the u niversity was aptly described by the late Bill Readings:

Norfb A-*'",., I N - - -liN

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•bfltlttB.-Bill. READINGS, 1liE UNrVERSITY IN RUINS, 19\16.

llaean:h Beyond l!xplulslonlsm.. It was once calculated that at the pace of expansion of reseasch
funds in tbe mid.OOS, by the middle of the 21st century some 95 percent of the American population
wou ld have a research grant! David Goodstein has
oboerved that by a number of measures sdence bas
grown exponentially since 1700. In fact, we have
seen close to an exponential growth of knowledge
during that same period. The beginning of the end
of that expansion occurred around 1970:
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assulfi/JIIolllbaiiNjilture
will N jrul IIU liM past •

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-DAVID L GOODSTEIN,
VICE-PROVOST, CAUFORNIA 1NS'TTJ1rre OF
TECHNOLOGY

The significance of these changes is reflected in
the anticipated federal research and development
budgets in the United States. For the ftJSt lime since
data have been kept the R&amp;D effort is actually decreasing. The abandoned Superconducting Super
Collider tunnel is but a water-logged bole in Texas,
the great government and corporate industrial laboratories have gone or are being diverted to other
missions, and traditiortal avenues for scientific careers offer fewer opportun ities. Nor are these
changes limited to science and technology: support
for education and humanities, although starting
from a far smaller base, is also decllning and possibly to a much larger extent. We are all facing major
cha ng':"
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-!&lt;OBERT H. A'IWEU., PRESIDENT,

AMERICAN COUNOL ON EDUCAtiON, 19\16.

A comparison of FY 1996 and 1997 Federal
R&amp;D suppon reveals a bright picture with acrual increases for some agendes [Table :Z). However, this
is a Presidential election year and this factor, together with the Congressional balanced budget
plan, reveals an alarming decline of some 25 percent in constant dollars through 2002 [TIIble 31.

FEDERAL RAD FUNDING SUPI'ORT FOR
SELECTED AGENCIES
(In billions after l~med to be 2.2" )
Non-Defense

FY 1996
32.7

NSF

2.4

NIH

11.4
9.4
0.1 7
3.6

NASA
Education

Enerv

FY 1997
34.4
2.5
11.9
9.7
0.18
3.8

" 0&gt;onge
+5.2
+4.2
+4.4
+3.2
+5.9
+5.6

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SELECTED FEDEIIALAGENCIES
(In b i l l i o n - - lttS dollan)

NASA
EPA
AGRI.

1995
11.7
10.8
2.5
3.9
9.9
0.6
1.5

Total NO R&amp;D

34.3

HHS
NIH
NSF
DOE

2002
9.8
10.3
2.3
2.0
7.6
0:4
1.0
25.9

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-9.3
-4.8
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-35.9
-24.4

urge as these declines in science and technology
support are, they pale beside the projected declines
in support for the National Endowment for the Arts
[NEA] and for the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] [TIIble &lt;61.
These projected declines, large an&lt;! uncertain as
they are, may even be the good-news component of
these predictions. In the post-2000 years very significant deficits in the so-&lt;:alled "entitlement areas·-Medicare, social security-&lt;1re p rojected.
These deficits, together with the continuing escalation of health care costs aggravated by our aging
population, will increase further the pressure on the
discretionary component of the budget. Additionally, political trends to "downsize" the Federal government will result in increased service pressures on
state and local governments: their budgets will be
stress&lt;;&lt;~ and little extra funding for education
should be expected. Nor should we demand it. The
fundamental problems that face American societyworld-wide competitive challenge, our entitlements,
a decaying infrastructUre, and the social and educational problems of the rotting inner cities---&lt;&gt;re the
four horsemen that must be our primary focus . Education is the key. When K-12 education works.so
does higher education and when K-12 fails then
higher education is simply expensive, and fre~
quently futile, remediation.
It may well be true that these pressures on the
federal budget are caused by the progressive decline in the U.S. economic growth rate over the past
three decades, but there is no reason to be optimistic that we will or can rerum to those 4-5 percent
economic growth figures ever again in an increasingly competitive global economy. We will have to
accommodate.

Education Beyond Expansionism. The development of the contemporary research university"/ bat magnificent institution, tbe pride of American
education "-&lt;1ccording to Richard Atkinson, is very
much a phenomenon of the post-WW II era. With
the disappearance of that era, the stress on the educational mission caused by the dominance of the research mission is being increasingly realized:
'Tbere are too ""'"Y researchers cbaslrrg
too few dollars. Tbe sobltlolt - s t be to
reorgturlze au COfiSolldale tbe stnu:hlre
ofresearcb.... tbu effort will require MD}or
refo""" lrt tbe relallorublps betw""" re·
searcb aU teacblrrg lrt tbe Judverstty. •
-RICHARD ATKINSON, 1992

And:
'Tbe overproductUnl of rrn4tlrte scboiRr-

:sblp u 011e of tbe MOISt egregious aspects
of COIII""'JH&gt;NI"Y acadelrlk life: It teruls to
COJJCeal really l...portafJt worll by Its sbeer
vo~~~-. It wastes tiMe aU valuable resources aU u a ""'}or llfftalor of academic casu.•

·-.tbe t1lk oftbe article he'd wrltt""' It
was 11 J&gt;ri:fect title, lrt tbat It cry•tallb:ed
tbe llrflcle'• ffiggllrtg
Us.fu·
rwreat.}Hiralle ofya.,.-.forclrtgfact•, tbe
P•eJUio.llgbt 1t •bed 011 - -problerlu.
Dbt011 btul read, or begurt to read, dozeru
IIJu It, bNt bU o""' """""'d worst tbart

tldrulk•-·..

lf/IO$L. ••
-KJNGSL£Y AM IS, LUCKY JIM, I WI

The necessary shifts in the balance of research,
teaching and scholarship will not be simple and will
require changes in both faculty and administrative
attitude and changes in incentive and reward structures. The expectations of career advancement now
built into several generations of faculty will not be
easily or rapidly changed. But changes must and
will occur together with altered expectations of
graduate student education and support. There will
be much faculty anxiety.

Inf&lt;&gt;rmAtlon Technology. The advent of the current electronic technologies has decentralized information and will progressively diminish the function
of the university as "place,· at least as far as learning and instruction are concerned. For over 300
years, learning-whether at the library of Alexan·
dria, the medieval monastery, the Victorian school
or the contemporary university--has centered on
"place," where student and teacher came together.
And the technology has been. essentially un·
changed--the wrinen word. Thus we have created
the "University-within-the-walls." This is now in the
process of dramatic cha nge:
"Society teruls to overestltNDte tbe Impact
ofteclnlo/Dgy lrt tbe sbort-lert~~, but to un·
tlerestltlfDte It lw tbe lorrg-t.,.,. •
-EU NOAM, 1995, COLUMBIA UNIVERSlTY

'Tbe outcome oftbe

l~tstnu:ttonaltecbiiOI·

ogy revolt4UHJ._a substaiJIIally diversified
~e to •uver blgb quaWy educa·
, _ au tnlltdrtg tailored to tbe require·
"""'" of a"J' cttlzen, lw a society In wblcb
worll au leandrtg are Intertwined
tbrougb a lifetl""'. •

-DONALD LANGENBERG, 1996, CHANCELLOR,

UNIVERSITY OF MARYlAND SYS'rn.\1

Increasingly, knowledge exists "without-the- ·
walls" and so will the University. It will be a fatal
mistake to underestimate the significance and magnitude of these changes, although the technologies
are still, comparatively speaking, in their infancies.
The traditional ·crupsian• model of instruction will
be displaced, at least in significant pan, by a variety
of forms of distance-based, on·demand, interactive,
electronically assembled learning modules. The efficiencies derived from this process will permit fac-

ulty to play larger roles in instructional and learning
modes in, for example, mentoring and clinical situations where social contact and interaction are important. The impact of this technology will not be
Limited to the conventional classroom setting. Research collaborations have long been carried ou t at
a distance: indeed, these collaborations have contributed to the criticism that facu lty allegiance is less
to the university than it is to the discipline. Nonetheless, it is clear that the expansion of this techno!·
ogy will facilitate significant changes in education,
permitting individuals to be "University Professors"
in the widest sense of the word, advising and teaching srude nts simultaneously at several institutions
and being supponed si multaneously by these sev-

TABLE 4

- DONALD KENNEDY, 1993, PRESIDENT,

STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

Few have commented more appropriately, or hu-

morously, than the late Kingsley Amis, on this production of second-rate scholarship, whether in the
humanities or the sciences and expressed by his
anti-hero, Dixon:

PROJECTED FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
(in billions after Inflation assumed to be 2.2")

FY 1996
0. 10
0.11

FY 1997
1.10
0.105

"Chonre

NEA
NEH

FY 1995
0. 16
0.17

FY2002
0.00
0.00

"O.Onre

NEA
NEH

-2.2
-6.6

- 100
-1 00

era! institutions.

Finally, we cannot ignore this newly emergmg
technology as an increasingly important discipline,
and indeed polydiscipline, that will demand a place
in our curriculum and for which there will likely be
a progressively increasing public demand for instruction.

We resist these technolOgic changes at our collective peril. We must not become Academic
Luddites.
Health Care Coots and Academic Health Care
Centers. Universities with Academic Health. Care
Centers, with or without an integral hospital, face an
additional set of issues. Given 'the uncertainties concerning health care funding at State and Federal levels, even in the near-term it is clear that there will
be significant and immediate financial stress. Already a number of institutions are rethinking their
relationships with their Medical Centers, including
divorce. This latter pattern has already been suggested in New York State where the impact of

change will be more significant than in other states
given population size, demographics, fraction of

medical residents trained and the unsatisfactory
State finandal picture.
The recent Pew Commission report on the

health professions made a number of speciflc predjctions and recommendations that would have major impact on both heaJth care delivery and the
health care profession. The Commission made some
pungent observations on the need for change in
these professions. These observations impact higher
education in general:
"Bold action Is rtot soml!tblng tbat bas typl·
fled tbe govenu~ru;e oftbe professlotu, or for
tbat tlfDtter, blgber education. •

"FuUarnental aUeratlons Ill tbe processes
tbat gcwerrt professtonal etlucatlotr, regulate
tbe professto.u, orin~~ tbe professions to prac·
tlce au./filii~ educatlort wiU be required..
Tbls wiU ""'"" action at tbe federal, state, in ·
structtonal a'"' professlortallevels. •

-The Pew Commission, 1995.
Panicular impact on the health professions derives
from predictions of substantial manpower surpluses
and proposals for the closure o f significant number.;
of medical, nursing and pharmacy schools. The latter proposals have been [predictably) poorly received, but it is likely that cost and market influences will mediate these predktions, at least in pan.
The recommendations of the Pew Commission
include additionaUy a collapsing of the health care
pyramid, breaking down educational and clinical
barriers that exist berween many of the professions.
and the education of multi-skilled health practitioners. This suggests that the conventional academic
health center, composed of several schools existing
in relative isolatio n and responsible for separate didactic and tlinical education, may undergo significant transformation with blurring of the conventional bounda ries.
Regardless of the draconian manpower predic·
lions of this Pew Commission. there were other recommendations that, if implemented, will have a
qualitative influence on academic health centers. It
was predicted that the emerging health care system
would have the following characteristics:
Orientation towards health
Population perspeaive
Intensive use of informauon-Mecilcal
informatics
Focus on the consumer
Knowledge of treatment outcomes
Constrained resources
Coordination of services
Reconsideratio n of human va lu e~
Expectations of accountabilny
Growing interdependence
These proposed characteristics serve also a~ a
model for many of the change:, that will necessarily
occur in university education in general-notably
the role of outcomes, coordination of services, accou nrabilicy and interdependence. The Pew Commission report may serve as a marker of a paradigm
shift for the University.

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these decisions must be made:

THE IMPACT OF CHANGE
Change will impact the contemporary university
in some very fundamental ways:
* On the unJversity
* On its programs
* On its educational processes
* On the faculty
"Tbe cbal/er(ge for todDy's Ulflvenltks Is
to decide wbelber lbey walfl to be Ill lbe
ca~ lrullutry or I be ekclrlcal busllfess. •
-DONALD N. L'.NGENBfRG , 1996, CHANCEUOR.
UNIVERSITI OF MAJIYL\ND SYS'reM

Nor is the anticipated impact of change strictly a
USA-only perspective:

·Most universities rww bave to see tbem·
selves rrot as agelfls oflbe sl#k Ill wblcb
mo..ey just comes '"' but as elflrepre-

neurs...
-DAVID JOHNS, 1996, VICE OiANCEU.OR,
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

"So wbal we've gotlo face Is I bat we lfeed

mucb, mucb more marlred dlfferellllatloll
betwe"" lrrsHiullo"s ... lrr terms ofwbaltbe
objective Is I bat tbey are lrylrrg lo acbleve.
In Ibis context bomog"'""ly breeds medl·
ocrlty. •
BERNARD SHAPIRO, 19'95, CHANCELLOR,

MCG ILL UNIVERSITY

If it is true th at the fut ure ho lds greater inter--organizational differentiation, then a key component
o f the evolution to this sta te will be the critical examin ation of programs.

Examination of Programs. In general, programs
will be examined from the following perspective:

* What is the mission?
* Wby' are we doing it?
* What is the outcome of the program?
* How well the program fulfilling it's mission?
* Ho w do we know how well it is doing?
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* Is the program still worth doing?
* If we were not already doing this, would we
go into it now?
This means that issues of:
* Centrality
* Size
* Cost
Nature of inputs and outputs
Future importance
will, despite the rea l and potential ambiguity of
each phrase, be necessary compone(lts of any dialog. The difficulties are illustrated by reference to
the word-square game of Figure 1. If we assume
that programs of high quality and low cost are the
mos1 desirable, then our choice is straightforward
enough . If, however, we eva luate cent.rality or future importance, then the choices may not be so
clear-cut. Programs likely to be of future importance
may be high cost but low quality, and what is to be
done with the Issue of low quality, but high centrality programs? These decisions, like many others in
the academy and unlike those sketched in the fig-

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dollfg lbU Ill lbe be•tway1 Should we be
dotlflllbU at alii"
-JEREMY R. KNOWI.ES, DEAN,
ARTS AND SCIENCES, HARVARD, 1996.

Dialog concerning program change is already
occurring at the national level. The Pew Commission has made far-reaching iecommendations con·
ceming health education. Similarly, the report of the
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public
Policy (COSEPUP) of t!Te National Academy of Sciences has addressed graduate education in the sciences and engineering. The report concluded that
significant changes were needed although it
stopped short of recommending a reduction in the
number of doctoral students. It did, however, recommend the following changes in graduate education:
More focus on non-research careers
* More focus on non-academic settings
* Broader curricular emphasis
Discourage students from over-specialization
* Changes in support mechanism needed
Do not increase time to degree.
These changes will be difficult to implement, although they are increasingly necessary. The training
of graduate students to seek posit.ions that will no
longer be available and where the driving force is
professorial clonJrig will no longer be supported by
public or private resources and is viewed with increasing skepticism even by the intended recipient!
of this education. The market will, in any event,
eventually influence graduate education in both
qualitative and quantitative terms:

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•o..ce studelfls bear I bat llfveSHifll years
arrd lbousalfds of dol/Dra 111 a Pb.D. bas
Unk or rro eco110mlc vaiNe or l..sellectual
satisfaction tbey wiU sl#rl cbalfllllflllbelr
pla~~s. "

-PETER EISENBERGER, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITI. 1995.

We need to ensure that universities get ahead of
the cu rve in the changing public and private worlds
of research. More and more forces are pressing on
the academy at large. These changes are being felt
particularly in the sciences, principally because of
their high funding demands. Accordingly:
"Academic sclnrce Is urutergolrtg a culturall"fWWOMHtm. Ills glvllfg way lo •postacadeMic" sclelfce, wblcb ""'Y be so dlfferrlll socloiDglcally arrd pbllosopblc&lt;lllly
tbal U will produce a dlfferrllltype of
bowledge. •
-JOHN ZtMAN, PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS,
UNIVERSITI OF BRISTOl, 1996.

But these changes will come to all disciplines, if
only because of the ease and speed of communica·
tion and public and political expectations of educa·
tion.
The Faculty. There are almost I ,000,000 full- or
part-time teachers at American institutions of higher
education. In significant part t~is number derived
from the post-WW II expansion and the later expansion in the 1950s and '60s. If the faculty are indeed
the key players in the universiry as we claim, then
we are likely to experience the largest change.
As faculty, we are not a particularly small group
and we are neither particularly badly paid nor subject to particularly difficult working conditions-no
heavy lifting and, apart from the football and the
track coaches, no outdoor work either. Additionally,
budgets for higher education are not insignificant
components of state expenditures. The consequence
of these numbe~ and conditions should not ·be surprising--we are under increasing public·and legislative scru tiny and much of this is with a jaundiced
eye·. How we respond to challenges to and demands for •faculty accountability," "work-load defi·
nitions," "post-tenure review• and o;teaching not researching" will be critical to the shaping of higher
education in the next century. It is crucial to realize,
however, that difficult as these times may appear to

be, there is·going to be a continuously increasing
need for higher education, and the unlversities is
institutions of higher education are going to continue to be important players. We will not, however,
be players in the old mold.
There are already indications that cll2nges are
occurring or are under consideration at both private
and public institutions. These changes include the
introduction of post-tenure review, reconsideration
of tenure and the tenure process itself, and the introduction of alternatives to tenure, including lortg·
term contracts. Similar considetations exist ouiSide
the United States. For example, in the Unlted Kingdom tenure does not exist for new faculty positioris,
although the generally realized anticipation of continuous employment past the initial probationaty
period still continues.
Current discussion In the Chronicle of Hlgher
Education illustrates the point with medical school
faculry. During the period 1965 to 1995, the number
of FTE faculty incre:~sed from approximately 17,000
to 90,000 while the number of students only
doubled from 33,000 10 67,000. The rapidly cll2nging p311em of health care support and its impact on
Academic Health Centers are forcing reconsideration
of faculty support 10 alternatiVe models, including
the provision of rwo-component salaries made up of
"core· and "flexible" portions, the latter derived
from grant and/or clinical income and possibly dependent upon general departmental success.
During that remarkable period of affluence, expansion and certainty of direction that marked
American higher education in the approximately
rwenty years berween the mid-50s and 70s, impor·
tan! determinants in shaping our current defmitions
of both unlversity and university faculty were established. Eugene Rice notes that this period marked
the establishment of the "assumptive world" of the
academic professional where:
*Research 1$ I be domllflllfl professWifal
elfdeavor mulfoau
ProfessWifal quality requires profe•·

*

s1olfal aNiolfOIIIy

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depart-.

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fessWifal ass~
*Rewards flow to lbose wbo llfcrwlse
tbelr r e p - - . arrd lbelr speciRIIzatlolfs.
In the expartsionary economy in which this
·assumptive world was established, higher education
flourished mightily. In the current economy that we
call "new," although it has been with us for some 20
years, these assumptions are increasingly wrong.
However, the changes necessary to satisfy the current challenges will be extremely difficult, requiring
the establishment of priorities that will, in many in·
stances, run counter to those prevailing. We have
several generations of faculty whose beliefs, careers
and rewards have been founded on these assumptions. And these same assumptions have shaped the
nature and the missions of our institutions ..We have
been remarkably successful. Change will bring anxiety to many of us: regardless, a reshaping of Arneri·
can 1\igher education is both inevitable and desirable. If we are bold, we can seize the moment. If
we hesitate or procrasti~te, we will, like the membe~ of the Donner party some one hundred and
fifty years ago, be consumed.

"Arrd Us all over 110w, &amp;by Blue"
-BOB DYlAN.

DAVID). TRJGGLE
Unlverslly Dlsltngulsbed Professor
VIce Provost for Graduate EducatiOn and Dean oftbe
Gmduate Scbool

State University of ew York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1608
Tel: (716) 645-7315
Fax: (716) 645-2941
Email: triggleOacsu .buffalo.edu

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State .UniversUy ifNew Yom

1997 Volume 28 No 19

Reaching Out
to Students
New program aims to strengthen
faculty-student ties
Ill'
WUITCHEII
News Services Associate Director
N AN ATTEMPT TO STRENGTHEN the relationship ~tween
students and faculty, the Office of the Provost has initiated a program in which all undergraduates will receive a personal contact
from faculty and staff within their academic depanments. ·
Dubbed "Operation Reach Out" by Provost Th~mas Headrick.
the effort will try to·help students deal with any academic or caree r
problems they may have while making them feel that they're part of a

I
Spotlight's on UB volcanologists as fieiJ
disasters erupt on-lY and movie screens
Ill' IILUII--.u.
NewS SeMces Editor

W

HEN IT COMES to
natural disasters, the
University at Buffalo
may be best known
for earthquakes because it houses
the National Center fo r Earthquake Engineering Research. But
UB is also on the map-and soon
to be on TVI-with experts on another kind of natural disastervolcanoes.
This month, nalure's masters of
pyroteChnics are coming into your
living room and to a theater near
you. If 1996 was dominated by a
"1\vister," 1997 has three volcanic nightmares in store for you.
"Dante's Peak," a film that
promoters prpmise will"take you
deep into the heart of nature' s

most devastating spectacle"
opens in theaters this Friday.

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nd on Feb. 23 at 8 p.m., ABC

will broadcast a news pro-

gram about the fiery natural phenomena called "Tbe World's
Most Dangerous Volcanoes." The
show will be followed by a madefor-TV movie, "Volcano: Fire on
the Mountain" about a beautiful
ski resort that is about to be blown
to bits by a long-dormant volcano.
A third mov ie will open later thi s
year.
When the producers of the
news program needed an expert
o n some of the most powerful
volcanoes, they intervi ewed
Michael F. Sheridan , professor
and chair of geology.

Sheridan has made a career out
of mapping the predicted direction of flows from volcanic eruptions before they occur, based on
extensive fieldwork and knowledge of the historic patterns of a
particular volcano.
Most recently. he has developed three-dimensional computer

simulations that

p~ct

bow far

and how fast those dangerous
flows will travel, helping pubUc.iafety officials to determine ahead
of time which areas to evacuate.
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community.
''Studen ts sometimes feel that nobody knows their name." said
Nicolas Goodman, vice provost for undergraduate ed ucation . ._.We want
to make it clear that we do care, we know they're here, we want them
to stay and we're interested in helping them get the academic program
that they need.
''The essence of undergraduate education is the relationship be1ween
students and fac ulty," Goodman continued. ''We need to strengthen
that, and that 's what we're trying to do with this program."

H

e noted that due to different cultures within the different depan ments, it wouldn 't be workable to impose a universitypwide approac h to implementing the program. However. he said.
Headrick "very definitely wants to see every undergraduate student
who is not graduating contacted."
The initiative is, in pa~ an attempt by the Provost's Office to respond to what Goodman called a "serious enrollme nt problem."
"We 've got to tum this around," he said. ''The way to do it in the
short tennis in retention (of current students) and continuing to recruit
new students."
But in the long term it is hoped that Operation Reach Out will be
the foundation on which to ..establish these types of relationships between students and their departmental homes," he said.
''We have to produce a university in which there is sufficient conContinued on page 2

Task Force report represents a year's work

11J C_,..E VIDAL
Reporter Editor

THE HIQHUT RANKS of faculty and administration at UB are
overwhelmi ngly male, according
to the report of the President's
Task Force on Women at UB .
The report, prepared in 1996
for President William R. Greiner.
represents more th an a year 's
work by a commiuee composed
of 21 members of the univers ity
community. Bernice Noble, professor of microbiology. and Joh n
Staley, headmaster of Cora P.
Maloney College, served as cochairs.

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• Although 26 percent of fulltime faculty are women, only 17
pen:ent are tenure-track and 10 percent of full professors are female.
• Women are poorly represented in the highest administrative ranks. Of 17 academic deans

at UB, only o ne is a woman .
There currentl y are no female
vice presidents. Of78 department
chairs. eight-&lt;&gt;r 10 percent-are
women.
8 Minority women have seen
little progress in representation
since 1977. While the absolute
number of minority women faculty has increased in proporti on
to the overall increase in women.
they have made "disappointing"
progress toward tenure . Since
1985. minority women have represented I0 percent of fac ulLy, but
by 1993 only six perce nt or ten·
ured women were minorities.
• Women represe nt "significantly less than half'-45 percen t~f the student body.
[The entire report of the
President's Task Force on Women
at UB is printed as an insert in
today 's Re porter. Presi de n t
Greiner 's statement regarding the
report appears on Page 4 .]

'The report has surprisi ng elements, both on the good side and
on the bad si de," noted Noble.
Many - " reviewed

.. For each aspect of women's
li ves at UB that was reviewed. our
aims were to descri be existi.1g
cond iti ons, make compari sons
with other s imilar institutions.
assess the concordances or di screpancies betwee n actua l circumstances at UB and the perception of them, and. finally, consider
strategies that might alter tho ~e
co nditi ons that seemed in the
most urgent need of improvement." accordi ng to the report's
introduction.
The fi ndings were not su rpri sing to those conscious about the
issue, said Staley. "The findings
provided a fair account of the sta~
tus of women at UB over the past
25 years. There is a tremendous
amount of intell ectual and creative talen t that needs to be en-

cou raged and utilized into the
next century."
What is importa nt now. he
added, is to begi n "a serious community discussion of the issue."
In its research. the task force
drew upon repons on the status
of women gathered from 16 other
AAU institutio ns. among th em
the University of Delaware. University of Maryland and University of Michigan.

1970-'ln''We focused on ones like Buf·
falo. public research universi ties
of comparable size." said Noble.
Also invaluable 10 the lask
force's efforts. she added, was a
1970 report . The Half-Eaten
Apple. written by the late Ann
Scott, a former UB professor and
one of the local founders of the
National Organization for
Women (NOW).
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Volcano Risk Map

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UB software aids in development
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OR THE FIRST TIME, the official risk map for the Mexican vol·
cano Popocatepetl, which has

shown alarming activity during

the past 1wo yean, has been designed with input from computer models,
rather than based solely on fieldwork.
Publfc·safety officials in Mexico are
making decision s about Popocatepetl, a

towering volcano just 40 kilometers from
Mexico City, based on a risk map designed
using software that simulates volcano acti vi ty developed by resean:hers at UB.
The software can provide public-safety
oFficials with more accurale information
than may be available from fieldwork, and
is useful particularly when fieldwork or
hi storical data on a volcano is missing.
'This is a huge volcano surrounded by
millions of people," explained Michael F.
Sheridan. professor and chair of the Department of Geology at UB . "That makes
Popocatepe.LI the riskiest volcano on the
planet."
Sheridan developed the simulations with

Hugo Delgado, associate researcher althe
Geophysical Institute at the National Univer.;i ty of Mexico in Mexico City.
Located just40 kilometers from Mexico
City and even closer to the city of Puebla
(population: 2 million), Popocatepetl is one
of the t8rgest volcanoes in the world .
It also is the fifth highest mountain in
North America. a feature that adds to its
catastrophic potential.

Since a series of ash explosions that
occurred in December, 1994, the volcano
has gone through several stages of vary-

ing severity.
Last year, hikers from a prominent
mountain-climbing ocpniz.ation scaled the
volcano. While they were near the peak,
the ash emissions suddenly and dramatically increased, killing five of the hikers.
In October, it seemed as though the volcano had entered a quieter period, but that
period was followed by renewed expl&lt;&gt;-

sions.

,

.. An eruption is not inevil~able, ..
Sheridan stated, " but Popocatepetl is like
a dusty champagne bottle sitting in a cellar. The activity may seem to be dying out,
but the conduit through which gases could
escape to the atmosphere is prerty plugged
up right now. That allows pressure to build
up and, if the underground chamber gets
hot enough, the obstruction could be
blasted away."

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arlier,

the

volcano

began

exhibiting tremors and renewed ash

emissions llUll'ked by intennittent ex-

plosions.
"Reports of the end of this eruption have
been greatly exaggerated," Sheridan declared.
Much new geologic infonnation about
Popocatepetl has been gathered in the past
few yean by resean:hers at the National

University of Mexico.
That new information easily can be incorporated into the computer models ,
Sheridan said. "These models are well-

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COMPVTIIIIZED RISK MAP for- Me-.._~

suited for updating because they function
like a spreadsheet," he said. "Results from
new parameters can be calculated within a
few seconds."

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eveloped by digitizing paper maps
of tlie area, the colorful, animated
simulations show the volcano and
the sunounding area, with towns, villages
and roads superimposed on it
Using the simulations, the researchers
can estimate how fast and how far lava
nows from an eruption would travel and
in which direction. They feed that data into
computer models, from which they can
calculate the probability that sliding material will destroy towns and roads. They take
into account factors such as turbulence and
viscosity of the now, the coefficient of friction and the now's starting velocity.

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Because it is essentially a topognophical map that has been digitized. the threedimensional simulatioo also shows the precise form of the land in relief. The image ·
can be manipulated to be viewed from any
direction in real-time so that eruptions on
any side are visible in three dimensions.
"From a management and public safety
point of view, it's really ill!pDI1ant to have
an IICCliBie idea about where the nows will
go and bow fas~" said Sheridan. "Without
the aid of computer models, it's hustrating rtying to predict where the hoi nows
would go."
For example, he said. if an evacuation
is being considered, the map provides information that allows officials to decide
which areas should be evacuated and which

areas are safer.

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catastrophic eruptions. especially those
near large populalion centers, must be
made with extreme caution.
For that reason, volcanologists like
Sheridan and his colleague Man:us Bursik.
associate professor of geology, are ll}'ing
to uncover as many secrets of these powerful, subterranean phenomena as they can.

V

olcanologists stress that all aspects of
volcanoes, from the fortes thai cause the
plumes to eject so violently to the chemical canposition of the tiny particles that""' liberated by
eruptions. ttR: all critical pieces of the puzzle.
"Right now, the main focus of my resean:h
is pn big eruptions that produce bot. pyroclastic flows that travel up to 150 miles away
from a volcano," said Bursik. "We are rtying

to explore how these flows travel so far."
He also is attempting to discover why
some of these nows jump very high ridges,
up to 3,000-feet high at distances of 40 miles
from the volcano. To find ou~ he and his col-

leagues nrc C:xploring new methods of examining volcanic plumes. He has authored. anew
book on the subjec~ to be published in April.
To find out how fast the lava dome on top
of Long Valley Calden! in California may be
expanding, Bursik has been using data obtained by the Global Positioning Satellites
network. Changes in rates of expansion may
provide scientists with clues about impending eruptions. Other data may provide scientists with information about what happens underground just prior to an eruption.
In a paper published in Nature , Bursik
described how he and a colleague at the
California Institute of Technology modeled

the eruption process. The results demonstrated that a conventional theory about
how eruptions occur could be incorTCCt.
That thoory described entplions as restJitirlj!
from processes similar to those thai expel cham-

pagne corks from their bottles: thai magma
chatged with dissolved gases bubbles OUl of
solution, shooting it OUl of the volcano.
BUBilc and hisrolleague simulated an etUption, using a 20-inch rube filled with glass beads
and the liquid refrigmnl Freon. which they spun
in a certlrifuge and then subjected to a sudden
redx:tion in pr=ure. Acalrding to Bursilc. "a
wave of depressuri7JIIi" then moved across
the tube, vaporizing the Fn:oo and ejecting the
glass beads, poinling 10 a new explooive vaporization process in eruptions.
For people who don'tlive near volcanoes.
such investigatioos may 001 be of cont:&lt;lll.

But researchers are discovering that in
rae~

no matter where you live, you will
be affected by volcanoes. The Mt. Pinatubo
eruption of 1991. for example, has been
mentioned as a possible cause behind the
disruption in global weather patterns in the
yean just following the eruption.
In sean:h of information oo the particles
emiued from volcanoes. Sheridan and Bursik
have visited Kam::batka, a retnOtetegion in eastem Siberia and home 10 30 active volcanoes.
According to Sheridan, it is possible that
volcanic emissions, as well as other natural soun:es of gases, may have a major ecological effect on the atmosphere, such as
expanding the hole in the ozone layer.

Measurements of volcanic compounds
therefore could have important implications for the modeling of global change.
Another area of Bursik's research will
get the attention of ftequent nyers: volca-

nic plumes or ash clouds can pose serious
problems for aitplane engines.

P

articles that have been ejected into the
atmosphere from explosive volcanoes

get into jet engines, temporarily causing
them to •name out' or stall," said Bursik.
He gave an example of a KLM jel that in

I989 flew into a volcanic: plume produced by
an cruplion of the Redoubc \\llcano in Alaska_
Its engines stalled and the jel feU througb the
ash cloud from 25,000 feet 10 about 14,000
feet before the pilot could restart the engines.
And you don' t have to be directly overhead a volcano to be affected by the ash it
sends into the atmosphere. In I 992, an ash
cloud from the eruption of the Spurr volcano in Alaska drifted over Cleveland airspace forcing aitplanes to ny around it.
Bursik and his colleagues are developing ways to calculate how much ash may
be found in different areas of a particular
cloud, so that they can then see bow dan-

gerous it is. He is developing a mathematical model that could predict for aitplanes
how much of the ash they might eocounter, given a particular night route.
Students also bene6t from this expertise.
Bursik and Sheridan. with Dennis S. Hodge,
professor of geology, developed an interactive computer prognun that brings volcanoes
to life in two undergnlduate c:ounes: 1be
Earth" and "Environmental Earth Scieoces."
Unlikeotberprog&gt;'BOlS that are mostly pointand-click. this one shows how changing a
variable, such as the viscosity of a Java flow,
can alter tbes~ or outcome of a geologica)

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tact between faculty and students," he said. "Students need 10 feel they're in a nurturing
environment where they can Jearn , where people care and where they can get help with
their problems."
Most university students are young adults ages 18-22, Goodman -pointed out. '"These
young people need to have a place to go which feels like borne, where tbere are adults
who care about them," be said. "We haven't done a good a job, or aren't perceived to
have done a good job of that."
The way to tum that around, he stressed. is 10 ''produce a better relationship between
students and the progtams they intend to major in or are majoring in."
Mark Karwan, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said that
Operation Reach Out ..re-emphasizes our commitment to the individual student ... it's
the right thing to do."
Students do not always take advantage of advisement opportunities, Karwan noted.
"We'll proactively make contact and sbow our concern with each student and rty to
facilitate their program needs." he said.
The program should be "fairly easy to implement" in engineering, since students are
given a faculty advisor once they chose a major and faculty a!Jeady are heavily involved
in mentoring students in the Honors Program, he said
Operation Reach Out is "an extension of the concern that is already shown to students
by faculty." said Keny Grant, dean of the Faculty of Arta and Letten. It recognizes that
those students most in oeed of help ftequently are those who don't seek it out on their
own, be said.
"We are really moving against the perception that a large university by its very nature
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compiling electronic library of Indian culture, thought

Native American Studies program
documents shifts in perspectives
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HE ONGOING RADICAL shift
in cultural perspective that we
call " postmodemity" hss illuminated many, many path s by
which to explore questions of
how individuals and groups construct our
assoned versions of reality.
One of those paths opens into the realm
of Native-American peoples. There, the
shift in identity that they and other indigenous and aboriginal groups have experienced is both the subject and object of ongoing se lf-exami nation.
The Nath·e American Studies Program
of the American Studies Depanment at the
Unive rsi ty at Buffalo was one of the first
academic programs in Nonh America to
explore this shift in terms of its meaning
and its consequences.
Now. Richard Hill, a graduate of the
program who is an assistant professor in
the depanment and teaches an undergraduate course on Iroquoi s cultural history, is
compiling an electronic library on Indian
c ulture and thought based on materials by
faculty of the Nati ve American Studies
Program. It includes a vast amount of artistic and written material , including
speeches, essays and published documents
on a wide range of research subjects.
"I hope it will be a resource that will
offer practical assistance to future UB students and faculty in different fields," says
Hill , a Thscaroran.
"Native-American subject manerhas been
taught in many departments in the university-English. an. architecture, media study.
social work. medicin&lt;&gt;-but only in American Studies has it ever been presented and
cri tiqued by Indians themselves," he notes.
"Since its inception, the UB American
Studies Depanment has made an imponant
contribution to the development of Indian
intellectual history. Those of us who have
taught here actually revolutionized even
o ur own thinking about ourselves.
" We wanted to document the process
wbereby the old Indian intellectual tradition spawned a new thinking by Indians
about Indi ans-concepts that then spread
and, we hope , continue to spread into the
general culture."
In addition to soning through and cataloging a quaner century of cultural analys~ and teaching. he is a nationally regarded
curator and explicator of Native American
visual nns of the past and present who has
four exhibits on display or in preparation.

ill received his undergraduate and
graduate education at UB and has
gone on to make significant contributions to•the reclamation and restoration
of Indian art treasures in the U.S. and
Canada_ His publications include "Treasures
of the National Museum of the American
Indian" ( 1986); "Creation'sJoumey: Native
American Identity and Belier· (1994); " Beyond History" (1989) and "Creativity is Our
Tradition: Three Decades of Contemporary
Indian An" ( 1992).
" He's brilliant," said Ruth Meyerowitz,
professor and chair the UB Depanment
of American Studies, "and an enormous
credit to our department and to its Native
American Studies Program." Meyerowitz
cites not only his teaching, research and
archival work. but his growing reputation
as a major curator of First Nation art, including some of its more ironic contemporary manifestations.
Hill was the architect of the original
Smithsonian exhibition at the National
M useum of the American Indian (NMAI)
in New York City several years ago. That

H

or

ing juxtaposed with contemporary nati ve
political demonstrations. It offers commentary on Native spirituality by Norval
Morrisseau, a native anist who revolution ized painting not just amOng Indians, but
among Canadian nnists in general. Selfreflexively, he uses the ancient pictographic style. with its vivid colors. heavy
black outlines and anjmal imagery to express hi s conception of what Christ would
look like if he were Indian.

exhibit,
as
Meyerowitz points
out, in its conception and the design
of its exhibits,
s peaks
to
the
thought processes
n a larger culture that h3s taken up a
and aesthetic sensiromance with its aboriginal pas1 and is
bilities of Native
busy reinventing its own spirituality in
Ameri.c an peoples.
terms of Indian s weat lodge~ and the
.. It was very nonshamanic tradition. Hill poinred out that
western, non-linear
Morrisseau 's painting reminds us quire vivin its app"'""'h." she
idly that regardless of our illusions about
said, " It was denative spiritual traditions, the vast majority
sig ned
instead
of Indians on the Nonh American cont inent
around the idea of
are now and have long been. Christians.
natural cycles'The public conception of Indian an."
cycles of birth,
he says. " tends to collections of ancient
growth , life and
artifacls. These are very important. of
death-and their incourse, because they represent the visual
ter-relatedness. This
tradition of the Native Ameri can, a trad ition central to the articulation of our econocaused some contromies
and belief systems.··
versy, of course, beHill does not eschew exhibitions that honor
cause it wasn't what
and reveal tradition; in fan his own paintings
museum critics were
and photogrnphy fmquently meld the "idea" of
used 10. There were
the American Indian with the concrete tenns of
also many interachis existence in 20th century Ameri cati ve fearures 10 the
Disney's Pocahontas at Wounded Knee.
exhibitions. too. It
He SlresSCS, however. that contemporary Inwas wonderful...
DIMd - · · LMt ... tiJe J.Btll1990) II from
dian artists, like true artists everywhere. work
Hill was one of ~·· ·~ 1- · exhibition cocurated by Rick HIHin
a
continually evolving rradirion innuenccd
seven
c urators
rural Indian communities, he said. These
by changes in the lasgerculrure of which they
whose sens ibilities represent the aesthetideologies, according to Hill . have been exare a pan. Someoftheirworl: carries painful
ics and ethos of several different tribal trainsights and projects not only humor, joy and
panded during the last 30 years to accomditions reflect~ in "Stories of the People ...
hope but terror. disappointment and rage and diverse
modate
new
audiences
and
new
the first exhibit to be pn:sented by NMAI
the varied experietas of the Ft"' l'eoples at
intellectual
concerns.
on the national mall in Washington. D.C .
the end of the 20th century.
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The work to be exhibited in this show
The exhibilion opened last Augu st in the
Hill emphasizes that rhere is no uniform
is visual1y arresting and often very funny.
Smithsonian's Ans and Industries Buildstyle
used
by
contemporary
Indian
nnists.
Hill curates the aspec t of the exhibit that
ing as part of the institution's 150th ann ilbey are not working out of a single stylistic
focuses on an as an expression of th e
versary commemoration and will be on
tradition. "What they have in cornmoo," he
c hanging Woodland Indian cultural history
view until August.
says. "is that they're Indians-Indians who li ve
from 1960-90, a period that embraces the
A second exhibition rontinues at the Peabody
different lives from those their ancestors
beginnings of postmodemist ani sti c forms
Museum in Salem, Mass., through May 1998.
lived; Indians who live differently from one
among these nnists. It will be illustrated
TWo more will open this year-one at the Inanother. The commonalities are conceprualby work produced by 20 Ojibwa. Odawa,
dian An Centre of the Depanment of Indian
a focus on family. community. relationships and
Mi cmac and Iroquois ani sts.
and Nonhem Affair.; Canada in Hull, Queissues related to the environment-but apThe works include play on such subjects
bec, and the other at the Institute of Ameriprooched in an entirely new way."'
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as the American Indian tradition of namcan Indian Ans in Santa Fe. New Mexico.
Hill considers it important to examine
the evolving native tradition and the ways
in which it' s expressed. For the current
Smithsonian exhibit, he selected and interpreted works produced during the last 150
years, a period of rapid social and cu ltural
change for American Indians. The show
II}' SUE WUETCHER
features 200 artifacts, most never before
News Services Associate D•rector
exhibited, from the Smithsonian 's collecFACULTY SENATE CHAIR CLAUDE WELCH is facing former chair Peter Nickerson
tion of one million lndjan objects.
in a run-off election 10 determine who will ass ume the position of chair of the Faculty
To represent tribes from New York state,
Senate for 1997-99.
Hill chose, among other items, a 19th-ce nA run-off election became necessary when none of the origi nal four candidates for the
tury beaded Tuscarora blanket and an in post received a majority of the votes in an earlier ballot. said Roben Hoeing. Facuhy
tricately-headed Tuscaroran cloth purse.
Senate secretary a nd associate professor of modem languages a nd literatures.
he exhibition also features the archiWelch and Nickerson were the two top vote-getters in that ballot. The other canditectural model and plans for a Nadates were James Holmes. associate professor of economics. and Stephen Halpern. protional Museum of the American Infessor
of political sc ience.
dian at the Smithsonian, to be built on the
Welch , SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Depanment of Political Scilast available site on the national mall. Hill
ence. twice has served as chair of the Faculty Senate and also has held positions as chair
has been involved in the development of
of the Faculty Se nate comminees on Budget Pri oritie s. Public Service. Teaching Effec the museum from the beginning.
tiveness and Undergraduate College Curriculum.
Hill is one of seven curators working

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Welch, Nickerson in runoff
for chair of Faculty Senate

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on Canada's Indian Art Centre exhibition.
which opens this fall. That show has the
working title "Contested Identities: Towards aNew Reality in Art" and its principal goal is intriguing bul quite different
from that of Hill's other current exhibitions.
He said that in this case the show is a
critical interrogation of the concepts and
terms by which conlemporary native an is
defined. It demonstrates, he said, just how
First Nation artists and curators locate their
artistic practice in thtir experience of
postmodem Canada.
The exhibition is driven by ideologies
born in contemporary Canada's ur-ban and

An 8Uthorfty on

Aflle~~ , human rights and the political role of armed Forces. he ha&gt;
held numerous administrative appointments in his 32 years at UB . These include dean of
the Di vision of Undergraduate Education. associate vice president for academic affairs.
chair of the Depanment of Political Science and c hair of the President's Board on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure.
Professor of pathology and director of graduate studies in the Depanment of Pathology. Nickerson served as chair of the Faculty Sena1e from 1993-95 and currently si ts o n
the senate 's Execu1ive Committee. He is a member of the SUNY-wide Facult y Senate.
representing the health sciences, and is a member o f that body's executive com miuee .
He also has served as president ofthe Medical Faculty Council at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
A UB faculty member for 30 years. Nickerson conducts research on the mechanisms of
pulmonary and systemic hypenension in experimentally induced models of the disease.
Ballots for the Faculty Senate run-off election have already been distributed and are
due back Feb. 18. For more information, call the Faculty Senate office at 645-2003. •

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Membe"' of the task force kept copies
of The Half· Eaten Apple in front of them
lhroughout their work, Noble said, as a
model that asked all the right questions
about rhe status of women at US.

According to the Report of th e
President's Task Force on Women at UB ,
"The Half· Eaten Apple. a look at sex di s·
nimination at the University (at Buffalo),
had accomplished many of the tasks assogned to us in 1995. including a detailed
demographic analysis of conditions at UB

and an overview of women's star us in other
academic instilution s. with general and

specific recommendation s for achieving
g&lt; nd or equity at UB .... The Half· Eaten
Apple served as a valuable reference that
made it possible for us to compare the UB
'dimate' for women 25 years ago with the

"A lot of things we looked at are issues that are changing
rapidly across the country and from my point of view, I
would not like us to fall behind. "

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presenL None of the extra-mural repons we
studied benefited from such prec ious his·
torical information."

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While the task force also examined
quality-of·life issues such as child care and
sexual harnssmcnt, for many, the greatest
interesl in the current status of women at
UB focused on salary and promotion incq·

President's statement regarding the
report ofUB Task Force on Women
SINCE THE QM c:a.noN OF THE . . TASK RlllCa ON wo.N, this
group of21 faculty, staff, and students has reviewed a wide I'IDge ofi'!SUOS for women
at UB, riDging from campus climate to.compeosation and advancement opportuni·
ties. Professor Bernice K. Nobl~ of tbe Department of MicrobioiO&amp;Y and Dr. John M.
Staley, Headmaster of Cora P. Maloney College, did an outslallding job as co-chairs
of the Task Foree; our thanks to them, tbc mcmbcn of tbc Task Pon:e, and all !bose
who have provided this group with infonnation and usiJtance.
The report of tbc Task Foree is reproduced in its entirety as an insert in today's
Reporter for the review and use of our entire univ=ity community. It indicates
whet'D we can be proud of the progress we have made, and where we need to go
farther. I have accepted-indeed, welc:omed-lhe recommendations of the Task
Force. When a report of this magnitude is released, the natural question to ask is,
"Where do we begin? What do we do?'' All of us need to ueat tbc Task Pon:e
report as a text from wbicb we can learn and teach, as well as a basis for funhcr
analysis. But we must tlso take the tim action steps.
To that end, I have asked the provost and vice presidents to share this report
with senior leadenhip in their areas. I wiD be expecting each dccanaland vice
·presidential area to relllm, by tbc end of this semester, a detailed reaction to tbc
Task Foree's findings and recommendations, as well as an action plan for appropriate responses to those rei:ommendatioos. While some oftbc issues raised in the
report are long-term issues, it is often tbc cue that addressing more "doable" mat·
initially facilitates progress on larger eoncerns. I will tberefore urge the senior
leadership to focus tint on short: to middle·term issues wbicb can be accomplished
in concrete ways within a relatively sbol1 period of time.

tcrs

a - other 1-H

~tile~ to women of senior positions-will be resolved in tbc middle· term, as scniorcoUeagues who came to UB
in the mid·l960s to early 1970s retire. l'r9gress on these issues wiD also be made
by conducting more effective affirmative action scarcbes for key senior positions.
While in the past UB has underuken such searches in good faith, we have rarely
identified more than one or two competitive candidates of any sort.for any given
position; we have found even fewer candidates, such as women; whose appoint·
' mcnts would also belp satisfy our divel'Sity initiatives. We must ftnd wa)'1 to do
better in the future. We need to put much more emphasis on aggressive recruitment
effons for our senior leadership positions.
More immediate ways in which we can all participate in the advancement of
women at UB include participating in Women's History Month (March) and supporting Take Our Daughters to Work Day (April 24). Many of us can easily re·
member the days when the abilities and accomplishments of approximately half of
our natl&lt;lnal population were less valued. It behooves us all to remind each other,
and to teach the next generation, about the important contributions that women
have made, do make, and will make in year.i to coii)O-&lt;IIld about tbc integral role
that women, as leader.i, scholan, and coUcagues, play here at UB. It also behooves
us, as the Task Force has indicated in its report, to belp maximize the contributions
of and opportunities for women at UB.
·

In world"' town
that .._, we will need support and commitment from
every sector of our campus community. The Task Force was created precisely because problems were pereeived in some areas, and a considerable runouill of frus.
tration stemmed from them. In such a situation, whatever repons or suggestions
are generated by ·an initial approach, there wiD always be some few who wish to
politicize initiatives and point ftngers. We must all resist the temptation to become
defensive when confronted with such attitudes; our goal is effectiveness. DOl ilc·
fensivencss, and we must approach the work ahead of us with equanimity and
open·mindedness in order to move forward.
I believe that we will move forward on these issues. Our univer.iity con!munity
has determined, intelligent, dedicated people at every level and in every area. lm·
proving the climate for women at UB will take tbc best effort each of us can offer,
beginning with a thoughtful review of and cogent responses to the reporL Please
read it carefully, and stand ready to participate in our efforts to adopt and imple·
mcnt the Task Force's recommendations.

Sinco,.ly,
WILUAII&amp;-

uities, Noble said.
"A lot of people entered into this activ·
ity and encouraged us because they thought
salary disparities were importan~" sbe said.
"(But) it's a complicated issue, and there
are other ways in which careers of women
arc disadvantaged besides not getting paid
enough. On the faculty side, salaries ~t the
moment at entry level appear to be OK and
that's been true for a while."
However, she noted, part·timc jobs at
UB are occupied disproportionately by
women. "And the low·payingjobs are dis·
proportionately filled by women. What that
means is. women don ' t get as much of a
fair share of state salaries," Noble said.
"Women occupy jobs that have less ceonomic worth. Men get jobs that society has
agreed should receive higher pay. Those
are complicated issues. so it 's no wonder
the institution has been sluggish to respond."
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While salaries are by·and·large cqui·
table at the entry level. women who achieve
the rank of full professor receive only 85
percent of their male counterparts' salaries.
In addition , .. women are significantly less
successful than men in their academic careers ,'' according to the report.
''One of the ...things that was surpri sing
to me was how limited the opportunities
for women are at the top. I think a lot of
people didn't realize that either," Noble
said. 'There is a disparity in salaries at the
very senior level. and since there are relatively few senior women, we aren't talking about zillions of dollan to make it
right. "
Collecting reports from a number of
other peer institutions also allowed UB to
assess how il stacks up against other universities.
"How the status of women at UB compares to the status of women at other universities depends on what issues you look
at ," Noble said. "We' re in the middle, or
maybe a little below the middle, which isn't
surpri sing. because that 's where we fit in

with many things.... We' re DOl offtbc scale
in either direction."
l'ertlaps the greatest challenge UB faces
will be 10 change theclimare in which women
work at a time when most schools share tbc
same conccms and goals, Noble said.
"A lot of things we looked at are issues
that are changing rapidly across the coun·
try and from my point of view, I would not
like us to fall behind." sbe said. "I was 001
surprised to find that we were not in the
avant garde. If we are not careful, then
those schools that arc being more aggres·
sive will outflank us quickly."
She noted that progress won't be easy
because there is intense competition for
qualified female faculty and UB is in com·
petition with other schools for them.
Noble added that there are no quick
fixes.
"But I think if there's a commitment to
a fix and an appreciation of the need for a
fix, then it 's doable."
Staley agreed that some changes in the
status of women at UB will occur more
quickly than othcr.i.

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"Now, the key point is for tbe campus
community to read the report very closely
and come forth for the OCJ&lt;t level of dis·
cussion on the status of women and where
do we go from here, what are the solu·
lions;· he said. ''In conversations we have
had with the president and the vice presi·
dents and otber.i, they' re very excited to
get on with tbc solutions."
In addition to the two co-chairs, the Task
Foree on Women at UB was composed of:
Kathleen L. Berchou, Payroll Services;
Ruth D. Bryant, Architecture and Planning;
Susa n Hamlen, Accounting and Law ;
Donald Hcndcr.ion, Hearing Research Lab;
Richard T. Hull , Philosoph y; Ruth
Meyerowitz, American Studies; Judith K.
Miller, Purchasing; Jennifer L. Roth ,
WBFQ..FM; Erwin M. Segal, Psychology;
Margarita Vargas, Modem Languages &amp;
Literatures, and Betty M. Williams, Ac·
counting Services and Records. Wiltiam C.
Fischer, Office of the Provost, and Ellen
McNamara, Human Resources, were exofficio members of the group. Gina
OeBiase·Trzyna, Gretchen E. Knapp. Jen·
nifer L. Newkirk and Sharon O'Neill were
student member.i of the task foree. Bonita
M. Ryan of the Office of the President
served as secretary, and Sharon Oh·Will eke
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as graduate assistan~ to the group.

Gift to aid Neuroanatomy·Museum
lly I'AIILA - I L

Reponer ContrlbutO&lt;

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$50,000 GIFT from a 1935 alum·
nus of the UB School of Medi·
cine and Biomedical Sciences and
his wife will be used to support
the Museum of Neuroanatomy, housed in
the.Biomedical Education Building on the
South Campus.
Willard H. Bcmhoft and his wife, Clarice
L , made the gift in honor of Harold Brody.
SUNY Distinguished 'leaching Professor in the
Department ofAnatomy and CcU Biology who
spcarlleadcd establishment of the museum in
1994. It is dcdicatcd 10 the study of the brain
and consists of specimens, models. photographs, X·rays, brain images and computer·
izcd multi· mcdia instructional material in
neuroanatomy, as weU as other exhibits.
"Dr. Brody...haS served as an inspiration 10
a lot of medical students and colleagues at UB."
said Bemhoft, UB emeritus professor of
colorectal surgery. "He dcvaed much time 10
this project and even traveled 10 Denmark 10
study and learn bow 10 creare a neuroanatomy
museum right here at UB. I greatly admired his
worl&lt; in sctling up~ museum."
Bcmboft received a bachelor's dcgroc from
UB in 1931, then ~ UB medical school.
After receiving his medical degree. he served

from 194246 as a neurosurgeon in the U.S.
Army during and immediately after World
War U. On his return 10 Buffalo, he opened a
private prnctiCe in colom:tal surgery that continues today. His 6().ycar career also included
serving as aconsultant at the l:iepwtment o['W,f.
erans Affair.; Western New York Health Care
System from 1946-96.
During his year.i teaching at UB from
1946-76, be belpcd ocquire hooks for and
continues to be a supporter of the medical
school's Willard Bemhoft and Carlo DeSantis
Library of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neu·
roanatomy, also established by Brody. •

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Forum on government change
New computer resource developed by UB professor
BRA ND-NEW computer re-

. source being developed at UB
by David C. Perry. pmfeasor in
the Depanment of Planning in
the School of Architecture and
Planni ng, is "fast becoming the center in
Western New York and hopefully in the
world" for information on government
change, Perry said.
The Regional Information Network (RIN)
will malce a difference in how Western New
York adapts to impendi ng changes in the basic slructUre of society, Perry believes.
·Perry is a political economist widely
recognized in the fields of urban and suburban political economies. regional economic development, public administration
and politics, and urban redevelopment.
'The next two decades will be an era of
political and government restructuring" as
government foJlows changes in the marketplace, he said. ''Our urban lives are not

contained in any particul ar government or
political structure any more.
"We are living cmss-horder lives. The
trouble is we continue to divide up taxes and
resources in some sort of ultimate baule."
based on boundaries of the pas~ he said.
As governments grapple with pmblems,
they can use RJ N on the Internet as a forum
for communication, whatever their level of
technological sophistication, Perry said. He
works with a task force of technical community information users who help defi ne
what the RIN should look like. 'The RIN
will be a state-of-the-art source for information on government change," he said.

P

erry contrnsts lhe RIN approach with
the old ·~vory tower'' system, where
lhe Wli versity 8CUld as lhe dominant center ofknowledgo-thedata basc&gt;--&lt;lnd lheoommwlity was dependent on Wliversity experts for
access. Instead, RIN is like an "electronic
table," where users thmughoutlhe community, and beyond, can get together and share
information independently. His job as a
professor is to "listen to the community and
then in terpret what they need and create a
model or network" fo r communication.
"The un iversit y is tryi ng to provide
mechanisms Ia enhance the way people talk
10 each other about change," learning from
the mistakes of the '70s and '80s, Perry said.
During lho!;e decades, as Buffalo's manufacturing base suffered a series of downturns,
uni versity experts were unable to convince
area leaders that the setbacks represented a
fundamental change in the structure of the
economy, and not mere ly a cyclical issue .
"We could not pmd uce the regional response needed," ~Le said. ' 'This time we
hope we do our work better."
Perry holds permanent posts as !he Albert A.
Levin Urban Scholar at Cleveland University's
CoUegeofUrban Affairs and as a senior faculty
feUow at lhe Rockefeller Institute, New Yorl&lt;
City. His work on developing and implementing RIN cootinues his cootribution to regional
issues as a memberofUB 's governance pmject.

P

erry was one of five fac ulty mem-

bers appointed by President Greiner
three years ago to study Western

New York government Kathryn A. Foster,
project director and assistant professor in
the Department of Planning, School of
Architecture and Planning; Alfred D. Price,
associate professor in the Department of
Planning, School of Architecture and Planning; Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director of
the UB Center for Urban Studies and associate professor in the Department o f
Planning and Depanment of American
Studies and John B. Sheffer n, interim vice
president for public service and urban af-

ken, as shaip and unsatisfying for some
people as any violently broken piece of
glass can be.
"If we don 't engage these issues, then
we' ll be forced into the same sorts of decisions io IS or 20 years thatlhjs region was
forced 10 wben it wouldn't engage the issues of economic restructuring.•• he said.
"It's time to engage these issues."
Perry's goal is "planning based on the
way we live our everyday lives," he said.
"Planning should be about the everyday life
of the city.
"These are really fun projects for me.
They go right 10 the heart of what I think
contemporary planning should be about in
Buffalo and Western New York and the
whole Niagara Frontier.
'There's no better place to be a sc holar
and citi7.en than right here." he said.

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hlo H•yes H811 olllce.

fairs, are the other members of the pmjecl.
They examined 123 jurisdictions acmss
16 service areas in Erie County, developing a clear definition of structure, efficiencies and inefficiencies in service delivery.
ineq uity in tax delivery and changes in
demographics and issues of representation,
among other concerns. The governance
project findings, shared with the commu nity more than a year ago, continue to attract interest from outside the university.
"We're not in the P.,litical leadership
busi ness," Perry emphasizes. in explaining
how hi s foc us has resulted in the RIN.
which is funded thmugh Sheffer's department. He sees UB•s role as providing diagnosis, not prescri ptions, serving Westem New York leadership in developing a
better set of diagnostic tools.
Perry is the author of many books, including "Police in the Metropolis," "Violence as
Politics," ''The Rise of the Sunbeh Cities,"
"Managing Local Government," "Building
the Public City," ''The Cleveland Metropoli·
tan Reader" and "Spatial Practices."
His current research and writing projects
focus on the changi ng q ualities or the
American city. He is expanding on a chapter of "Building the Public City" in a his-

tori cal study of the effects of what he terms
Americans' "public selfishness."
"We want public works, but we don 't want
to pay for them," he said. He is studying the
relationship of public debt and large-scale
public works, the fiscal and physical crises
of the state and resulting political responses,
such as the ''Contract With America."

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nother project he has tenned 'The

Splintering Metropolis" looks at

"the new American city" and issues of
space and making of space. His view of lhe city
lnlnSCends the borders of Buffalo and ''this 19th
oenllll)l analog we have in our head"
'1'he city is Amherst. The city is
Lackawanna, Springville. N'1Bg3111 Falls, Walden
Galleria, lhe new airpM. lhe MRI machine in
the suburbs, the hospital downtown, the
lhernpist's offioe... ," Perry said. He lives on lhe
West Side, but, like other area residents. he cootinually crosses borders in his daily life.
These "wonderfully exciting spaces" become "sharp shards of urban rejection for
others," the people who can't get in, Perry
said. "We shop, we live in a splintered metropolis," as if the 19th century melting pot
somehow were dropped on a very hard noor.
"The city of today is just shattered
across that floor, spread out. diffuse. bro-

Slides, lectures will dig into
archaeology ofWNY, Rome
n. . . _ lle7 ..... UC1UIII! . . . . . presented by the Western New
York Cbap1er oldie Arcbacologicallnstitute of America (AJA) will feature pm-

snms deaipecl 10 ioterest • Jeoeral audience, as well as professional archaeoloaii!S. urbu pluoen. antbmpologisu, historians, art l)istorians and classicists.

The lim prop~~~~ wt11 focus oo tbe telltale signs of urban life found in and
lrOWid lbe fouDcllliOD pit of Buffalo's Marine Midland Mna. The second wiU
explore wbat recent excavations on tbe Palatine Hill have divulged about life in
ancient Rome.
The propams are co-1)l011801'ed by the UB Department of Classics whose chair,
Slepben Dyson, is national president of lbe AlA. The series is beaded this year by
Donald McGuire, adjWICt professor of classics at UB. leclllres will take place at
7:30p.m. in tbe GNpp Fu-eside Lounge in tbe Canisius College Student Center.

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ArrllaniDCir .. Excavations at the New Marine

Midland Area&amp;" tbalbave obed a sipificanl.lipt oo the early history of Buffalo's
~ and ill Deipborboods, will be lbe topic of'a lecture on Feb. 13. The
lpCIIb:r will bo Blizabolh Pella of Dean &amp; Barbour Asoociates, a p(ivate Buffalo
u:~l ~Iilii linn beaded by Warren Barbour, ~ professor of anlhropoloa;y. DIID &amp; Barbour AaocWes performed much of the archaeological
uc;aYIIIca wadi: -.ad !be
UB r.t:u1tJ .-bon Bnd Alii! and Ted Pella will make an informal presentalioa rillod ,_A-'ca Excavalioaa oo tbo Palllioe Hill in Rome• on March
12. AIIIIIDII Na. bolb . . . _ ...,._,.. of clusics, bave supervised signifi1*11 apeca aldlla M'CIIeootop:ll pnljec:L Ault ia • apecialist in ancient domestic
~ Na ~in ceruiUc productioo and trade.

new-.

erry par.tphrases "my samted Irish
grandmother'" on mo th erh ood to
emphasize that " A planner's work
is never done . The one thing a planner
knows for sure is that once a project is put
into aclion , tomorrow 's age nda will be the
problems caused by that action." he said.
At home in Buffalo. Perry confroms the
problems of the splintering metropoli s
from another direction. For more than a
year, his wife, Judith Kossy. has been living in San Diego as second-i n-command
of the San Diego Dialogue, working on a
regional economic development agency
that even crosses inlemational borders.
··we live in a global space." Perry said.
conducting their relationship with one part
visi t and phone call, two pans fax . e-mail

and cyberspace and "three parts loneliness."
'1've got oneoflhe greatest jobs in ac:ldemic
planning in the country. and she's got one of
the greatesl in economic development plan·
ningon the continent" As his wife would pul it,
Perry said. "I'm theory, and she's practice." •

Public service
grants awarded
lYE UB FACULTY members have
received grants of up 10 S I 0.000 as
part of the Faculty Development
Public Service Initiative.
Forty-eight proposals were received by
the Office of Public Service and Urban
Affairs, which founded the program to provide UB faculty with opportunities to engage in projects that consider the role of
publ ic service in the university: integrate
scholarship with the universi ty's public
service mission : and/or enhance faculty
awareness of rile ways in which public service can enrich teaching and sc holarship.
"We were very much encouraged by the
number. diversity and quality o f grant pro·
posals from faculty.'' said John B. Sheffer
11. interim vice president for Public Service
and Urban Affairs. 'This effort has moved
forward the service mission of the: university in very pnJctical and valuable ways."
Faculty members receiving awards are:
Stuart Chen, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences. Panne!ships for Continuing
Pmfessional Civil Engineering Education.
Michael H. Frisch, Faculty of Ans and Lett= Buffalo 200 I and lhe Millennia! Movement
J ose ph A. Ga rdella Jr., Faculty of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Integrating Public Service and Environmental
Education : Improving lnt ernshipffeam Based Field Studies in Cooperative Programs with the City of Buffalo. Buffalo
Public School District and Communit)
Groups through Improved Acces~ tu
Chemical Analysis Facilities at UB .
C uthbert Simpkins, School of Medi cine and Biomedical Sciences. and J oseph
S. Woda rski, Graduate School of Social
Work, Violence in Buffalo: lts Impact on
Siblings and Children of Injured Victims.
Harry A. Sultz, School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, Mini-Med Schoo.!
Where People and Science MeeL
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of physics at UB. has been named a
Fallow of the

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Sodety. EJec1lon to
AI'S fellowship is
limited to only one
hall of one percent
of the membershop
of each unit tn the
social'(. Accotding
to the society,
election to fellowshtp constitutes recognition by one's peers of an
tndrv~dual 's outstandtng contrtbullons to physics.
The soc•ety c•ted Wetnstetn for
h•s apphcations ol the diamond anv•l cell to sem•conductor physics
and expenmentat studies of the ellects of pressure on vibrational, optical and phase-lransition phenomena '" semtconductors . He conducts research In h1gh-pressure
and optical propert tes of tetrahedral
crystalline semiconductOfs. semtconductor heterostructures and
amorphous semtconductors.
The aulhor ol 84 scientific publtcattans. he has given numerous
talks a t national and international
sc•enttlic conferences. In 1994, he
co--chaired the Sixth International
Conference on High-Pressure Semic onductor Physics in VancOUYef.
Weinstein's work has been funded
by XeroX Corp .. the National Science
Foundation and the Offoce of Naval
Research. He al9o was the recipient
ol an A.llred P. Sloan Fellowship.
A tacutty member since 1967 .
We•nstein previously was research
scientist at Xerox Corp. and an as•
s•stant professor of physics at
Purdue University. He also conducted research at the Max Planck
Institute in Stuttgart, Germany.
Weinstein, a lkWersity ~ Roches-

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ACE/NIP SEIIINAII CMI
WOMEN a FAMILY LITI!IIACY
SETFOWI'D.Z1
aetty C.ppela., interim dean.
Applied Science and Education.
and Oenllcllne 8ard, associate
professor. English Department , at
BuffalO State College, will speak
Feb. 21 at a seminar lor the American Council on Education National
ldenlif1cahon Program (ACE/NIP}.
TopiC lor the breakfast meeting ,
to be held at 8 a.m . in the Moot Hall
Oak Room ol Buffalo State College.
will be · women. Educalion and
Family Literacy Strategies for Empowerment: A Collaborative Community Response.·
The group works for the advancement of y.,qnen in higher education. UB represen tative Is 10m A.
P8chetu, Department of Histe&lt;y,
537 Park Hell, phone 64$-2181 .
To attend the seminar, a registration fee of $10 payable to ACE/NIP
must be sent by Friday. Feb. 14 to:
Sarah Anderson , Undergraduate
Studies, Buffalo State Coltege.
South Wing, Room 130. 1300
Elmwood Ave .. Buffalo, N.Y. 14222.
Parking Is by permit only-phone
878-5303 by Monday, Feb 10

SYEE8MANN,-ER
TO SPEAK I'D. 14
IN ASIA A T - SERIO
'1*1 S t - prof85S()( of AAthropotogy, and -

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of the Department of Anthropology.
will speak oo ' Biological Behavioral
Models of Health and Worl&lt;: East
Asian Research Protects• at noon on
Frtday, Feb. 14. in Room 250 in the
Student Union.
The second event of the spring
1997 semester. the talk is part of
the Asia At Noon series of brown

bag luncheons, wllk:h taka place
generally oo a bi-weekly schedule.
The inMtings are sponsored by the
Asian Studies Program at UB. Campus and community are invited to
these free presentations.

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Friday and Saturday SONice to the
Theatre District and Chippewa St.
on Jan. 31 .
The shuttle bus ~begins
at 7:30 p .m . and provides ptckup
and drop-off service for students
every half hour until 3:30 a.m . for $2
each way. Package inctudes non·
stop uansporlation , music and d is-counts on food, drinks and admission to BuHak&gt; hot spots including
Studio Arena. General Cinema. The
Coliseum and Arcade Trading Company and Prima Pizza.

A book launch for 'In the Analogy"
(shuffaloff books, 1997), by the late
poet and scl"lotar olohn Clarke, will
be held Feb. 15, at 7:30p.m . in Talk·
ing Leaves...Books-, 3158 Main St.
Clarke, who died in 1992. was a professor of English et UB for 28 yaars.
A noted poet. jazz musician and
scholar of William Blake and Charies
Olson. Clarl&lt;e was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures. In 1989 he was awarded the
Ohioanna Poetry Award from the
Ohio Ubrary Association and In
1991 . the prestigk&gt;us Artists Feltowship for Poetry presented by the
New Vorl&lt; Foundation for the Arts.
·1n the AnaJogy" is the culmination of Clar1(e's lif8WOfX in poetry.
The event, open to the public , will
include readings from Clarke's ~-

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~···Of INIDNA110NAL
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Phlllp Coppena, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Oepartment of Chemistry,
has been appointed a member
of the General
Committee of the
International
Council of Scientific Unk&gt;ns
~~=..:&gt;.."" (ICSU). The ICSU
is composed of
international scientinc unk&gt;ns from
all of the scientific disciplines.
He represents the International
Union of Crystallography, with a
term running until August 1999.
Coppens is immediate past president of that group.
Coppens~ his Ph.D. in
physical c:helristry hom the lkWorBity
Amsterdam. Holand. His rrejor ,...

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The author or co-author of numerous pubiK:ations, his awards include the Schoellkopf Award of the
Western New YorX Section of the
American Chemical Society and the
Gregori Aminoff prize of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences .

IIIIIIIIIUS CDI'ID TO -

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CloMyl .1. " - " - director of
'Squeaky WMels,' wiN be the
speaker at a meeting of the Emari-

tus Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 2
p .m. In the Center In Goodyear HaJI ,
South Campus. Her topic witt be Independent Media Making In Wastern New Vorl&lt;.
The tall&lt; win be preceded by a
Board meeting at 1 p .m.

- _ , has been appotnted to a t'NO-year term as the
American Academy of Family Physl·
clans' (MFP) resident repraseotative oo the CooncH oo Medical Specialty Socleti8s. He also has been
reappointed as resident represents·
live on the AAFP's Commission on
Public HeaJth for one year.
The IV\FP represents nearly
80.000 farrily physicians, larnily pracllce residents and medical stOOent.s.
Its Convnlssion on Public Health

wort&lt;s to in1proYe the health a the

u.s. population tlvough healtl1 pro-

motion. disease praventlon and patient and public education.
The Cooncll on Medical Specialty Societies, composed of representatives from 17 medical societies·: is concerned with po4icy devel·
opment and decision-making on issues of graduate and continuing
medical education. Mahoney will be
vice-chair of the resident section.
Mahoney. compU3ting a threeyear residency in family medicine in
WNY hospitals, atso is a clinical instructor in US's Deparunent of Fam·
ity Medicine, an assistant professor
in Roswell Park Cancer Institute's
Graduate Oivisk&gt;n and an assistant
praessor ot epidemiology at SUNY
Albany's Scl&gt;oof of Public Health.
A graduate of Cenisius Col~ .
he hotds master's, doctoral and
medical degrees from UB . He won
the Upjohn Award tor Research and
the Amertcan Academy of Family
Physicians President's Award in
1995, and the Dr. John Paroski Memorial Award from UB Medical
School In 1994.
He received the American Public
Health Association's Jay Dortman
Award in t992 as a UB
graduate student lor his research involving mortality panerns among the
Seneca Nation of Indians.
Mahoney has continued his research with native populations, and
is a founding member ol the NetIIYOI1t for cancer Control Research
in AmericarHndlan and Alaska-Na-tive populations, sponsored by the
National cancer Institute.

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pertment of Biological Scieoces. has
be«! selected as first redpient a the
Mc:Croskay Endowment Fellowship.
The annual fellowship provides
support lor deserving students in
the final year of undergradu8te
study In biological sciences. Recipients are selected based on academic aChievement. laboratory research, independent-study experience and financial need.
Boruk. • ,..,..,_ of the Biological
Sciences Undergraduate Honors f'n&gt;.
gram, Is worfcing in moleaJiar biology
and ganetics as a research assistant
-.w, associate professor of biological sciences, and completing. worl&lt;-srudy ~in

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~ professor of biological sctencas and chair of the
selection committee for the
McCroskay Fellowship, said Boruk's
outstanding academic reccxd and
research experience made the
committee's deciskxl easy. 8oruk is
a resident advisor. an active mem-ber of the Golden Kay Honor Society, Pill Beta Kappa and Phi EJ4
Sigma. a freshman honor socl&lt;ity.

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She has volunteered as an aide at
LaGU81dia Hospital in Queens.
The M&lt;:Croskay Endowment
Fund was established in-honor of
Sidney M. M&lt;:Croal&lt;ay and his wife.

desserts will begin at 3 p .m . Stu-

Marjorie, strong supporters of UB.
He attanded UB In 1936.

Other group activities incfucfe:
E-*&gt;g G&lt;umat. Feb. 20, 7:30
c:an.- Henlay: an
._,;ng foods Morocco. M&amp;ena
Rustgi and Norma Rubin. &lt;X&gt;Chaits.

dents, faculty and community members are wek:ome. For information
call Jean Jam. 633-5932 or International Education off'oca at 645-2258.

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The Women's Club

oi the UniversitY

at Buffalo will have its sixth annual
Valootine's Day wine-tasting party oo
Feb. 14 at 7:30p.m. in the Center for
Tomorrow oo the North Campus.
Wones from France, Spain and

Italy, hers d'08lM11S, cheeses, fn.oits.
_ _ , and coffee ..yiN be feetured.

The wine tasting wil be conduc1ad
by Kevin Driscoll, general , . . _,
Premfer Center in KBmlOfe.
The event is planned and
chaired by Maria and Bob Coburn
Shirley Buckle is co-chair; reserve·
lions chair is Sun-Mi Fung. Committee members include Jean Jain .
Janet Fedor. CarnlBIIa Hanley,
Dawn Hatvorsen. and Women's
Club president Ninfa Straubinger.
Proceeds wiH provide scholarships
lor UB students through the Grace
Capen Scholarship Fund. Guests
are wek:ome. For reservations-and
information. call SUn-Mi Fung. 6898147 .
Reservations are being taken for
a dey trip to Cte_veland oo Thursday,
April10, to see the Fabefge in
Arnerlce axhibit at the Ctewland Museum of Art. Admission to the mu-seum. the exhibit, a Faberge Royal
Tea and a box wpper, deluxe bus
transpOrlation and guide are all ir&gt;cloded in the SS().per- person cost.
Chinese artist and leacher Vi
Yuan "Theresa' Lee will demonstrate Chinese paJnting at 4 p .m .
Feb. 6 in Room 145E, Student
Union oo the North Campus. The
program is part of the monthly coffee of the lnternaUonal Committee.
A social hour with complimentary

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Gooonet Techniques,

Feb. 13.

10:30 a.m., home el8arbar•
Meenaghan; demonstration of gyoze
by~ chef Klmoko Zimhetd.
Book Groop, Feb. 10, 12:30 p.m..
at Barnes &amp; Noble, Niagara Fals
Blvd.; Knten Milbrath will lead discussion 'Snow Faling oo Ceders';
Vetina Aucl&lt;erostein. Kathryn Cohen .

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Barnes &amp; Noble l!ooksD'e, Niagara
Fals Blvd.: Katherl'le Momay. O'P. fi.
niroal CXlrlSl.tant &amp; senior patfotio
""""00'. Smith B!Vnay, wil diocuss
-to.....- in todey's ect:Jf'CifP( with
80l)hasis on txn:ts; Janel Fedor,
Norma FUJi&gt;. ex&gt;&lt;:hairs.
Art History, Feb. 8. 11 a.m ., at
Albl'ight-Knox Art Gallery, slide lee·
lure on Satvador OaJi; Auretia
tioflowBy, Gerry Ryder, co-chairs.
Bridge, Monday, Feb. 17 at
Dandelions Rsslaurant from 10
a .m . to 2 p .m . for intermediate and
advanced play. Pat Addelman and
Nk:ci Yeracaris eootdinate the
groups. Bridge Aight sessk&gt;ns will
be scheduled at convenience of
member&amp;. Marte Schillo is coordi·
nator.
Needlaworl&lt;, Feb. 27. at noon.
home of Maris&amp; Mihich, tor lunch
and needlaworl&lt;; Lois Sindoni and

Anne Marie Natalino, co-chairs.
Bowling , Mondays

at 10 a.m . at

Shal'idan Lanes for thl'ee games of

open bowling; Rhoda Storr, chair.
Cross-&lt;X&gt;Untry skiing, Frideys,10

a.m.. Park CourVy Club. for IDOOW1g

a sf&lt;iing or hi&lt;ing: Gloria Pteu. chair.

Tennis, Wednesdays. 1:30 p.m.-3

p .m .. Arnherol Hils Tennis Cllb;

Maria Schillo, AM SOOb. chaR.

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loss to first .place Valparaiso In front of an
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The Bulls trailed Valpo by 15 points wi1ll
nine mlnu1es leh on Saturday before RasaJJn
Young and a crowd of 5,284 rallied UB to a
lhriHing finish. Young had 18 of his 22 poin1s
in lhe aecond half-incfuding 12 In 1he final
10 minutes 1o lead 1he Bulls' charge. Young's
~ation heave from just inside half-court
bounded off 1he bacl&lt;board and off 1he front
rim at 1he buzzer as Buffalo fell to 11-a
and 6-3 In 1he conference.
Mike Martroho eddied 11 points and lhrae
assists for 1he Bulls while guard Bernard
Whaeler apar1&lt;ed 1he team off 1he bench with '
eight points, two assists and two steals In 21
minutes of action. Senior trk:apteln Tali
Hadavl had one of 1he finest games of his career as well, scoring fJVO points and adding
seven rebounds while matching his careerhigh of 19 minutes.
The Bulls again held Bryce Drew (14
points) well below his average, but Tony
Vilcinskas (16 points), Chris Artis (15 points)
and Jamie Sykes (11 points) were aU in
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e ROYALS ROLL BY YAU'I\IIAISO
The Royals shol better lhan 50 percen1 and
limited Valparaiso to just 25.9 foeld gael
shooting In a 69-49 win over 1he Crusaders at
Alumni Arena on Saturday.
UB jLmped out to a quick 18-31ead over
lhe first seven and a half minutes as Brenna
Daly scored saven points during 1he opening
run. The Royals held Valpo to just 6-of-26
shooting (23.1 percent) in 1he first han as
!hay took a 30-23 lead Into halftime.
Earty in 1he aecond han, 1he Crusaders
started to make a game of ~ . moving to within
IWO at:l0-29 wilh 17:40 to go as Mo Drabicki
corJVOrted off a UB turnover and Satrah
Strlcidett hit a !rae lhrow. However, !hal's as
close as Valpo got as UB lhan turned up 1he
defensive pressure and bettered !heir second-half shoaling to comfortably move
ahead, taking as much as a 22-pointlead
late in the contest.
Daly scored 24 to lead 1he way for 1he
Royals, while Kim Coon added 10. Senior Ali·
cia Kotmorgen pulled down a career-high 11
rebooods (eight in 1he firSt hall) as 1he Royals
controlled 1he boards 41-31 . Calherine Jacob
addled seven assists and four steals from her
point11uard position,
Wrth 1he win, 1he Royals moved into a sacondi)lace lie wi1ll Troy State at 7·2 in Mid·
Continent Conference play. First place Troy

ing a 2-&lt;J decision R.J Galioto
Senior 126-pounder Jason
Wartlnger swept alllhree of hos
matches. while George Chamoun
won alllhrae of his matches by falls.
UB travels to Bucknell for an East
Coast Wrestling Assocoation matchup
on Saturday at 7:30p.m. The Bulls
t'osl Boston Universey and Holstra in
lheir final home dual maets on Feb
15.

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Womeri~ Basketball vs.

Youngstown State

ming and diving loam dropped lheir
final home dual meet of the season
Friday night atlhe Alumni Arena Natatorium with

Notre Dame squad. The loss puts lhe Bulls at

UB Ms 1he reed for a pair of conference
clashes at Troy Stele on Thursday and UMKC
on Saturday. The Royals return home on
Monday to renew lhatr rivalry wilh Youngstown State. npoff is slated for 7 p.m.

4-3 in dual meet competition.

e WRESTURS TAKE Tal&amp; IN
PENNSYIYANIA
The Bulls swepllhree matches at Wilkes Um-

versity on Sunday to raJse their duaJ meet
mark to 6-2·2.
UB's grapplers
opened with • 31 ·
12 win over Seton
Hall and followed
Alumni Arena NatatOfium, 9 a.m.
with a pair of
thrashings over
Chayney 51-4 and
Wilkes54-&lt;J.
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triple winners for 1he Bulls on Friday. Horgan,
ille Bulls' distence specialist, took 1he 1000
freestyle in 9:42.06 and 1he 500 freestyle in
4:43.25. Horgan also anchored 1he Bulls' winning 400-free ratay team as UB took 1he

event in 3:12.04.
Hickey also tool&lt; first placa finishes in lhe
100 freestyle in 47.64 and 200 fraestyle on
1:43 16. He also anchored 1he UB's winning
400-&lt;nedley relay squad to a 3:30.49 linosh.
Also v;ctorlous lor UB were Korry Miller in
the 200 backstroke (1 :54.85) and John Nilles
on lhe 50 freestyle (21 .79).
The Bulls next action is a triangular meet
at Cleveland Stele wilh Miami (Ohio) on Feb
8. UB hosts lhe Mid-Continent Conference·
Swimming and Diving Championshops on
Feb. 20-22 at Alumni Arena.

e WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The University at Buffalo women's SWVTYlllng

Continued from page 8

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and diving team look a pair of dual meets
last week . UB defeated Canisius 125-76 at
1he AJumno Arena Natatorium last Wednesday
and 1hen powered past Cleveland State 14384 to move their dual meet record ro 4-3.
The Royals were Jed by Martie Duffett's •ndivodual VICtories in 1he 1000 free ( 10:54.35)
and 400 IM (4:42.25). Sue Bohnet was also a
double winner, taking lhe 200 free on 2:00.31

compellhon

(294.25)
Freshman Kom
Thaetga set a school
record in a ume trial of
1he 50 breaststrof&lt;e
Thaetga's lime of 31 15
bettered lhe ole mark ol
31 .83 set by Laune McDonald and lied by
Condy Mrul&lt; seton 1992. Roxanne Kuba qualo·
hed for 1he ECAC Championshlps on 1he 1000
free •n 10:59. 11. She finished second to
Duffett, who had prOVIOUSiy qual~ied . "' lhe

event.
Against Cleveland Stale. Bohnelled 1he
way with a pa~r of IndiVidual WVlS 10 the 100

freestyle (56.01) and 200 freestyle (2·00 61)
The Royals close out lheir dual season on
Fnday when IIley travel to Toledo for a 6 p m
maet. UB hosts 1he Mid-Continent Conference Swimmong and Doving Champoonshops
on Feb. 20-22 at Alumni Arena.

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FI£LD

Both the men's and women's track and fie\d
squads competed over the weekend at the
Syracuse Invitational.
UB's Voctor Archlbeld look the rnen.'s hoghjump competition wilh a leap o1 6-5 ( 1.96
meters). The Bulls' distance-medley ratay
squad of Chris Kaenan, Patrod&lt; Nolan, Ryan
Candia and Geoff WaJ1ock also fimshed first
wilh a time of 10:33.79.
For lhe Royals, Shely Hamihon fonoshed
second in 1he high jump at 5-7 ( 1 70 meters)
Stacey Strolhmann was lhord on the 5,000
meter run at 18:10.55
The teams are back •n acoon on Saturday
when they travet to Hamihon, NY tor a tnan-

gular maet against host Colgate and Lehigh
- Ted WBslro. Sports lntormauon Olfoce

Leners
Fat, Food and Running
Editor:
I find it interesting that the study about eating
high rae foods and having good cholesterol
levels was paid for by Mars, Inc. Will doctors now advise athletes in training to eat

Snickers bars and M&amp;Ms while jogging?
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OBITUARIES
Richard A. Valente, clinical
associate professor,
UB dental school
A Mass ol Chnstian Burlal was held Feb. 3 1n
St Benedk:t's Cstholk: Church , Eggertsville,
IOf RIChard A . Valente, who served as a clintcal associate professor at the UB dental
schoof from 1974 10 1984. Valente dted tn

Buffalo General Hospital Jan. 29 after a long
illness. He was 74 .
Last ye81, Valenle received the Humanitarian Award for outstanding public and professional service from the UB Dental Alumni
Assoctatk&gt;n .
Valente. who attended St Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Canlstus College. graduated from the US dental school and served in

the U.S. Navy as a denlist dunng World War
II. He saw seMce as a lieutenant at
Bainbridge, Md and Quantico. Va
After the war he returned to Buffalo to
open a private practtce . wn1ch he ma•ma•neo
until1993 .
He was a member ol lhe New York State
Board lor Denttstry from 1978 to 1988. seMng
as chaitman in 1984 and 1985 He was also a
member of the Northeast RegK:IOB.I Board of
Dental Examiners and the AmefiCan Assocl8 too of Dental Exammers for tB years FollowIng hfs retirement. he wonted as a dental
consultant for Blue Cross of Western New York
A life member ot the Amencan Dental
AssociatiOfl. he rece1vecl1he Ftank J Stone
Memorial Award 10 1995 fOf outstand•ng
service to the commumty from lhe Er•e County
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�Report of the
President's Task Force
on Women at UB

Published as an insert to the Reporter
FEBRUARY 6, 1997

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Report of the
President's lilsk Force
on Women at UB

1. Aclla•rl

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A. Subcommittee k ChArges 1, 2. ond 6 .............. ..
1. Chorge 1: University policies and procticos In
hiring. AdvAnCing. lind compens,ltJog women
f.cutty, ldmlnisttAton. 1nd stiff ........................

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UB ........................... S
(1) lnltOductoty remoru ................................ s

• · Demographic dot&amp; from

(2) Women In the hlculty ............................... S
(3) Women in the st~t body ..................... 8
(4) Women in odmlnlstrotion ......................... 8
(S) women In prolessionol ond
support-stoff positions ................................ 8
b. S.lory dot&amp; from UB ....................................... 8
(1) Introductory remarks ................................ B
(2) Foculty solorlos .......................................... B
(3) Stoff solorlos ............................................ 10

c. Summary and conclusions ........................... 10
2. Cho~ 2: S,trotegies IO&lt; Addressing

•ny u1equhies ................................................... 1o
a. Existing str.te!gies .............. ........................... 1o

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b. Recomm~ slrlt~ies ........................... .. 10
3. Chorge 6: Devoloping • process of
accountability at all ~ regarding the
progress being made toward ach~ng
equity for women ............................................ 11
a. General commenu ....................................... 11
b. Specific recommendations ........................... 11
8. Subcommittee B: Ch•rges 3 and S .................. 11
1 . Charge 3: Improving the campus climate for
women, with full consideration of the special
needs of diverse groups .................................. 11
a. Insights from other institutions .................... 11
b. Brief reports on special topics ...................... 11
(1) Chlk:t...are fadlittes ................................. 11
(2) Athletics ........................
.. ... 12
(3) Women's studies ..................................... 12
(4) Family needs (other than child care) ...... 12
c. Summary and conclusions ........................... 13
2. Chorge S: Methods lor identifying.
encouraging. and developing women leaders .... 1 J
a. DemonstraUon projects ................................ 13
b. 1995 calendar of activities
............... 13
c. Summary and conclusions .......................... 14
C. Sub&lt;.onlmlttee C: Charge 4
.... 14
1. Charge 4: Methods for developing a
campus environment that is fr~ of
sexual harassment .......................................... 1-4
a. Introduction .......
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b. ExiJting strategies ..........................
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c. Recommended strategies ..
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d. Summary and conclusions .......
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VI. RMom......Utlon• ...
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A. Introductory Comments ...
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B. General Recommendations .............................. 1S
C. Spedflc Recommendations
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VII. Appendb&lt;• ......................................................... 16
Task Force Member1hip Roster
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Task Force Meetings ........ .......................... ..
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•Additional appendix material, which includes the
following, is on reserve at Lockwood Memorial Ubrary:

MU Member Institutions
Calendar of Women's Activities, 199 5
Chlld-Cire Center Report
Hoff-Eottn Appl&lt; Tobl.,
Ust of Extnlmural Reports
Ust of Tabtes

Newspoper Coveroge
Original Presidential Announcement of

Tosk ~e Chorges
Questionnaire
Take--Our·Daughten·to-Wort Brochure and Material
Task Force Subcommittee Assignments
Voke~ Workshop Brochure

I. Ackno.wledgments
Numerous Individuals lruplred and anlsted the
President's Task Force on Women at UB In the
completion of this report. UB President William R.
Greiner requested th~ formation of • committee of
studenu, staff, and faculty memben, and charged It
with specific areas to Investigate. Katluyn A.
Sawner and Constance Holoman, memben of the
president's staff, are thanked for their assistance
and guidance.
A very special thanks to Gretchen E. Knapp who
worked tirelessly for the period she served the Task
Force until she completed her doctoral degree and
was hired at the Unlvenlty of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. We appreciated the willingness of
Bern tee Sandler, senior scholar in residence of the
National Association of Women In Education, to assist Gretchen and us with suggestions and significant information about status reports on women at
other universities In North America. We are Indebted to our research assistant, Sharon OhWIIIeke, who obtained and read the stack of university reports, and organized an Index of the studies
based on the charges to the Task Force. Martha E.
Harntl and Wllliarn Tuttle, two research asslrtants,
also worked with the Task Force.
A study such as this would be Impossible with out the librarians who assisted us in centrally locatIng the wealth of documents collected to lnfonn
the Task Force and the academic community. Four
people In particular are recognized: Lockwood Memortal Ubrary Director judith Adams; Unlvenlty
Archivist Shonnle Finnegan; Acting University Archivist Christopher Densmore; and Collection Development Director Charles A. Daniello.
Speclar thanks are given to Assistant VIce President for Human Resources Ellen McNamara, Assis·
tant Provost for Institutional Analysis j effrey E.
Dutton, and Associate Director of Personnel Ser·
vices Operations Vivian Fernandez.
As with most Task Force studies, this one depended on scheduling numerous meetings, recordIng minutes, and typing numerous drafts of the report as It evolved to iU final stage. Bonita Ryan was
the key person the Task Force depended on to complete these tasks. She worked tirelessly to make th is
effort succeed. Our very special thanks go to
Bonnie.
Inevitably, when one llsu thanks to others for
their efforts and encouragement, someone Is left
out. The Task Force has no intentions of omitting
anyone who contributed to this report. We are
grateful to any colleagues who encouraged and as·
sisted us in this work, and who have not been mentioned.
Finally, the greatest inspiration for this project
came hom the work of late UB Professor Ann Scott,
the author of Th• Half-Eaten Appl•. probably the
most significant study for IU time on the status of
UB women in the university's history. Dr. Scott's
study personifies a bold, fearless spirit of women
and men who seek gender justice in our American
society.

�II. Executive
Summary

Report of the
President's
TaskForce

on Women
atUB
August 1996

+ Extramural practices should be monitored to
keep UB In dose touch with rapidly changing U.S.
social/workplace patterns.
Charge 3: Improving the campus climate for
women, with fuU consideration of the special needs of diverse groups
• Adequate child-care facilltl.. should be provided
as soon as possible to meet existing demands.
+ Personnel policies should be formulated that are
friendly to caregivers, Including flexible work
schedules, job sharing. tenure clock flexibility,
among others.
• Ncltional and/or extramural observances about

women should be supported and celebrated on
campus.
• Women's studies should be strengthened and ex -

panded.

Activities

• Athletics programs need more women head
coaches and senior administrators.

• Regular meetings of the entire Task Force were
held from December 1994 through Apr!l!996.
a. Local expert consultants provided Information
and perspectives.
b. Task Force members reviewed "Bnd discussed
those Insights.

• Positive images of women should be incorporated
Into publicity and other documents that represent
UB to the community and to potential donors.

• Subcommittees were formed to respond to each
of the six charges (see Appendix).
Subcommittee A: Charges I, 2, and 6
Subcommittee 8: Charges 3 and 5
Subcommittee C: Charge 4

Charge 4: Methods for developing a campus
environment that is free of sexual harassment
• A specific, detailed, practical program for dealing
with complaints of sexual harassment should be an
urgent priority in 1996-97. Essential elements in

• A comprehensive archive was collected of reports
on the status of women at other North American
universities. That archive Is on reserve at Lockwood
Memorial Ubrary to serve as a community resource.

• All appendix material gathered by the Task Force
is on reserve In Lockwood Memorial Ubrary.
• A calendar was kept of all 1995 campus-wide activities of special interest to women.

• Two demonstration projects were organized:
a. March 7, 1996: A career-development workshop that honored several outstanding UB women.
b. April 24, 1996: UB participation In National
Take-Our-Daughters-to-Work Day.

Recommendations
Guiding principles:
• Consensus

• Practicality
+ Specificity
+ Benefits for UB

+

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campus-wide survey should be conducted to as-

sess the current It climate" for women at UB.

such a program lndude

+ professionally conducted educational/awareness workshops;
• effident, timely procedures to review com-

plaints;
+adjudication processes free of all conflicts of
interest;
• emphasis on satisfactory informal resolution

of complaints;
+ full protection of the rights of all parties to
complaints; and
• significant sanctions for Inappropriate behavIors.
Charge 5: Methods for identifying, encouraging. and developing women leaders
• Significant representation of women should be
mandated on all university committees, search processes, policy-making bodies, awards and honors
committees, etc.
• A consultant panel of senior women should be

constituted to facilitate identification of qualified
women for committee service.
• Career-development workshops for women

Overall recommendation
Extend the mandate of the Task Force on Women
at UB until a petmanent alternative is In place.

Specific recommendations
Charge 1: University policies and practices in
hiring, advancing, and compensating
women faculty, administrators, and staff
+ {l.egular updates should•be made of data describing the distribution, representation, and compensation of women at UB.

+ Regular updates should be made of archives of extramural reports and other scholarly documents on
the status of women in U.S. academe.

+ Archives/Data responsibility should be assigned
to Task Force/Office for Women.

Charge 2: Strategies for addressing any inequities
• A plan should be made for timely rectification of
persistent gender-based salary disparities.
• Specific plans with targets should be devised to
increase representation of women in those work

should be conducted at regular, frequent Intervals.
+ Specific Initiatives should be supported to promote women's careers. Possibilities include intraand extramural training courses, intemshJps, seminars, and flnandal awards for research and/or edu cation .

Charge 6: Developing a process of accountability at all levels regarding the progress being made toward ach1eving equity for

women
• Strong, unwavering leadership decisions that facilitate, promote, and reward efforts to achieve gen-

der equity are key.
• Regular updates should be made of the data In
this report, describing distribution, compensation,
and representation of women at UB .

• Specific, timely plans should be formulated, with
targets for achieving gender equity of compensation and/or representation by individual units.

+ Regular assessment should be made of progress
toward those targets, with rewards and incentives
for success.

+ Campus-wide surveys should be conducted to
monitor changing community perceptions of the

sites where they are significantly underrepresented.

climate for women at UB .

+ Significant representation of women should be
required on all committees dealing with promotion,
hiring, resource allocation, policy formulation,

• Task Force findings should be widely disseminated to the UB community.

awards and honors, etc.

• Existing programs to address Inequities should be
strengthened and reinforced.

Report of the
President's Task Force
on Women at UB

3

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IV. Methods: What
the Task Force Has
Done

Report of the
President's Task Foree

on Women at UB

Task Force charges and
composition

III. Introduction: Comments
from the Cochairs
We accepted the responsibility of serving as cochairs of the Task Force on Women at UB
with trepidations. At first reading, the charges to the Task Force appeared dauntingly comprehensive. We knew that community expectations were high for a thorough and detailed, but
rapid, response. We realized that investigations of many issues would be complicated by preconceived opinions, cultural myths, and/or ignorance.
We quickly came to appreciate that American academic institutions are largely derived from
centuries-old monastic models that excluded women entirely. Seen from that perspective,
women are relatively recent interlopers in the academy. Although it is not surprising that full
gender equity remains elusive, we are appreciative that UB has undertaken a systematic analysis to accelerate the process of modifying deeply rooted social and institutional patterns.
To our great fortune, a resourceful graduate student member of the 'fask Force retrieved a
document that had been prepared by late UB Professor Ann Scott and published in the May
14, I 970, issue of the Reporter. Dr. Scott's report, The Half-Eaten Apple-A Look at Sex Discrimination in the University [at Buffalo], had accomplished many of the tasks assigned to
us in 1995, including a detailed demographic analysis of conditions at UB and an overview of women's status in other academic institutions, with general and specific recommendations for achieving gender equity at UB. The Half-Eaten Apple has been our inspiration and, to a large extent, our model and guide. It was reassuring to realize that our
task was do-able, as Dr. Scott had produced her report essentially alone and with much
less institutional cooperation than had been provided to us. The Half-Eaten Apple served
as a valuable reference that made it possible for us to compare the UB climate for
women twenty-five years ago with the present. None of the extramural reports we studied benefited from such precious historical information. ln addition, the Scott report
helped us focus our energies and define practical goals for Task Force activities over a
limited time .
For each aspect of women's lives at UB that was reviewed, our aims were to describe existing
conditions, make comparisons with other similar institutions, assess the concordances or discrepancies between actual circumstances at UB and the perception of them, and, finally, consider strategies that might alter conditions that seemed in the most urgent need of improvement. We were also concerned to find ways to modify faulty perceptions and correct misunderstandings. In formulating recommendations, our main premise has been that the creation of a
woman-friendly campus is absolutely essential for the academic and financial prosperity of UB.
We believe that this study of the status of women at UB is important for three reasons. First, the status of women in our society has changed dramatically over the past
three decades. The reasons for this change are complex, and require careful study and
analysis at the societal level. If the university can be viewed as a microcosm of our society, this study may help us understand what has taken place and what is still changing
in the academy.
Second, as the university faculty age and a significant number of faculty members retire, a
strategic plan must be developed to increase diversity in keeping with changes in American society. Participation in the academy should reflect the ethnic, racial, and gender composition of
American citizenry. Priority" must be given to hire women in the schools, faculties, and departments where women are underutilized or essentially absent.
Third, UB is typical of many large public research universities that are undergoing change.
In its sesquicentennial year, the university has an unprecedented opportunity to establish a
model for the role of women in the academy.
There have been many rewarding aspects to this task. The opportunities afforded to us to
meet and work with colleagues, especially women, across the university community were educational and stimulating. We made many friends whose opinions and perspectives we value and
respect. We came to appreciate that women at UB are extraordinarily proud of their professional association with the university. They are accomplished, energetic, resourceful, and ambitious. Women at UB recognize that their personal career success is closely linked to the prosperity of the iitstitution. They are anxious and willing to cooperate in all possible ways to promote that prosperity. This report is testimony to the positive force of women at UB.
Bernice K. Noble
john M. Staley

On February 1, 1994, President Greiner an- ·
nounced the formation of a university-wide Task
Force on Women at UB. •workplace Issues of hiring.
advancement, and equitable compensation )were to]
be among the Task Force's primary concern•, as [well
as] more general questions about the climate for
women at UB.• Members of the Task Force, with two
cochairs, were formally appointed tn late autumn
1994. Selections were made by the president from.
nominations submitted by the senior vice president,
vice presidents, deans, Faculty Senate Executive
Committee, Professional Staff Senate Executive Committee, the labor un ions representing UB employees,
and the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Assodatlons. At the request of the cochairs, two ex-offldo members were added to the Task Force: Vice Provost for Faculty Development William Fischer and
Assistant VIce President for Human Resources Ellen
McNamara. On the advice of the original members,
the Task Force was also eventually expanded to In·
elude several more men and people of color.

Meeting schedules and topics
The Task Force held Its first formal meeting on
December 9, 1994. At that time, President Greiner
presented six charges to the committee and shared
his views on the function of the Task Force. The six
charges were divided among three subcommittees.
Subcommittee A was given responsibility for
Charges 1, 2, and 6, Subcommittee 8 for Charges 3
and 5, and Subcommittee C for Charge 4.
Regular monthly meetings of the entire Task
force were held throughout the second semester of
1995, from january until May, and resumed in September. Guests were invited to many sessions to
provide Insight and Information about th e experiences of women at UB. With those experts, the Task
Force reviewed university polides and practices on
a variety of matters, including hiring, compensation, promotion, harassment, safety, and gender equity In athletics.

Sources of information:
extra- and intramural
Considerable effort was placed, from the beginning, on collecting a comprehensive archive of reports on the status of women at other unlverslties
and other relevant extramural documents. Those
reports and articles, now on reserve in Lockwood
Memorlai Ubrary, are freely avaUable to the university community. The Task Force also acquired spedfic local information about women and women 's
concerns at UB from the Offices of Personnel, Institutional Studies, Affirmative Actlon, Public Safety,
Student Life, President's Review Board, President's
Panel for the Review of Search Procedures, United
University Professions (UUP), and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA).
After lengthy discussion, the Task Force decided
not to conduct a formaJ rigorous opinion survey at
that time. Ftnandal resources were limited; appropriate professional expertise w.S not available among
Task Force members. An informal questionnaire was
written, however, from models provided by other Institutions. That questionnaire appeared in UUP and
Graduate Student Association newsletters; responses
were voluntary and confidential. The Thsk Force felt
strongly that all women should have the opportunity
to communicate with the Task Force,.adding personal
comments and advice to the more formal Input from
Invited experts. Furthermore, opinion survey&gt; had
been used widely at other universities to assess the
prevailing climate for women. Those surveys were
valuable In shaping polities and served as a solid basis
for measuring improvements in the dimate.

1995 calendar of activities of
special interest to women
During 1995, the Task Force kept a record of the
most Important and/or representative activities on
campus concerned with women's accomplishments,
interests, and concerns. Those events were attended, whenever possible, by at least one Task
Force member.

Projects to promote professional
development and a sense of
community among women
Members of Subcommittee 8 chose to organ1ze a
career-&lt;levelopment workshop that honored outstanding women at UB and provided a forum for
those women to share information about the skills

�that led them to their success. That workshop was
held March 7, 1996, during National Women's Hlotory Month.
In addition, members of the Task Force organlzed
local activities for National 'fake.Our-Dal!gbtero-1&lt;&gt;Work Day, April 25, 1996. These two activities were
viewed as 'demonstration proJects,• examples or
steps that can be taken to promote the Interests or
women and Improve the campus dlmate for women.

Report of the
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on Women at UB

5

TABL£ E

V. Results:
Subcommittee
Reports and
Activities

Ro jll o \t 111 1!1\o
\,\. .. 1!1111

practices in hiring, advancing, and
compensating women faculty,
administrators, and staff
a. Demographic data from UB
(1) Introductory commmts

.

[

TABL£ 8

.....

1

--

(number)

(number)

('6)

328

214

fKulty
Professtonal

13

...

&lt;40

C1osslfled

27

158'

85

77

Dato from Alfirmatrw Adlon Offlct, 1994

~

• The criteria for .. counti ng" vary from office to
office, as do the categories for data analysis.

+ The information we used for this report was the

tlest available during our year or study (1995), but It is
imperfect. Some numbers are older than we mJght
have wished; all sources did not employ similar standards or rigor in collecting information; lneyitabiy,
much Information was incomplete and/or not usefully available. For example, it was not possible for us
meaningfully to evaluate salary patterns in those
dinlcal programs, such as medictne and dentistry,
that derive much salary support from non-UB sources.
TABL£ 01

(2) Women In the faculty

UrWenltyol ~

N/A

15
14

Arizonasute

24

14

UrWenlty ol c.Afumlo/LA..

21

12

Univenity of C.IWomi.I/Bertoley'19

12

Univwslty ol ~

33

12

Univonity of W.&gt;hlngton•

23

12

~"'-·
o..ogon•

24

11

29

10

Z1
Penruytvanla State UnMrsity• N/A

10

11111VaS1rY AT -ALO"

28

9
7

vance to tenure at the same rate as th ei r mal e colleagues. Interestingly, women predominated in
nontenure-track assistant professor (55 percent)
and lecturer (65 percent) positions.

ferent times in one academic year, or in different
yea rs, will reflect those population fluctuations.

We view this aspect of the report as a model for
further study and follow·up. Many interesting and
important questions raised l!y this first look could
not be examined in detail in the one-year period of
this report. A few examples: Are there gender differences in the academic experiences of graduate students? How does the gender composition of our administration compare to other public research
units? Are there gender differences in promotion
rates for faculty or staff?

('6)"""

u•oara uprnsftJ os 96 W'Offlf'n of tolol faculty (I'I'Wn and wornn~)

• In the university com munity, employee and stu-

• Some typographical mistakes and errors of tran·
scription will almost certainly have been missed despite careful scrutiny. We apologize for those in advance and would appreciate notification.

..............

I'll"""
N/A

Univenity of

1

"MU imtitut/1011
••AJ.UPdoto

dent turnover is a fact of life; data collected at dif·

• Data describing demographics, hiring, promo·
tlon, and compensation are available in much more
detail for faculty than for students and starr. The re·
sponse to Charge I is, therefore, unbalanced in the
emphasis on faculty experiences. From the available
information about other women employees, the
faculty figures seem at least representative, if not
actually rosier, tha~ others.

I""

,......,.

Rulgen Sute Univenity'

Unlwnlty ol New H1mpshlro

For a full appreciation of the following tables
and graphs, several points need comment and explanation. The great majority of information about
UB was provided by the Offices of Institutional
Studies, Affirmative Action, and Personnel Services.
The biannual report of the American Association of
University Professors (AAUP), published in Academe, March 1993, was also an Important reference
for us (and for many extramural Task Force reports).
A careful reader may notice, as we did, that data
from different sources may not be Identical. There
are several reasons for discrepancies:

• For those few instances In which apparent discrepandes required us to choose among data sets,
we used the information provided by the Affirmative Action Office in official national reports.

Ur111. o 1 \lilt

!,,,j.. I 11llil, I " I '
V\,.,11\t 11 I ull Prnl1 \\&lt; r \

i•lllJio

WomenT~Trad

A. Subcommittee A:
Charges 1, 2, and 6
1. Charge 1: University policies and

1\1 11 &gt;I P11/JIIt

W1111Hn

Un1'-' n1l y ,Jt Bulf.tlo
Tt nun lf.l(k f.Hult} Con1p.11t d '"

Wunu n Full Pruh Hun
TenUred/Tenu,..TrKk
Wommfaculty

Women fu ll
Profeuors

Ytor•

(96)"

(96) "

1970

14

5

1915

14

5

1983

15

6

1985

16

1987

18

.8
7

1989

18

8

1991

19

9

1993

21

10

"Data~ as" womtn of total faculty(~ ond womm)
Data fmm Afflnnotiw Action OffiCt, ucrpt I 970: from H111f-E.Itl!fl Apple

TABL£ 02
Um H nil)' .Jt Bull .1 lo
I\111Hlld}

Ytor •

WonHn F.J( ult) Cornp .u t d to
All Wonu: n f.t(ulty '
With
Tenure
Number (96) ••

Tenure
Tnod
Number(96r•

1977

3

(3 .2)

4

(6.2)

Tables A and B:
In 1994 at UB, approximately one-fourth of the
faculty, nearly one-half of the professional staff,
and well over one· half of the fuil·time support staff
were female. In each category, the proportion of
women working part time was substantially higher.

1979

3

(3.2)

1

(8.3)

1981

5

(4.6)

6

(8.2)

1983

3

(2.8)

5

(8.8)
(13.8)

Table C:
Although women constituted 26 percent of fulltime faculty, thelr representation in tenured ranks
was much lower, at 17 percent. Only 10 percent of
ali full professors were women. The high propor·
tion of nontenured women on tenure track may
well reflect recent Increased hiring of women (fable
M). lt remains to be seen whether those women ad-

1985

3

(2 .6)

9

1987

4

(3.4)

12

(12.5)

1989

5

(&lt;.2)

15

(16.2)

1991

9

(7.3)

1993

10

(6.1)

10 (12.8)
20 (16.9)

• Data uprn.S«J as 96 womm of total tocufry (~ ond womm)
••Data ~ os 96 minority womtn of rota/ womtn faculty (minority

and nonminority Mlmtn)
Data 1tom Afflrmot~ Action

OffK~

Tables Dl, 02, and E:
Women have been much less successful than
men In achieving the highest faculty rank. Fo r the
years from 1970 to 1983, during which they consls·
tently constituted approximately 1S percent of the
faculty, women were only 5 percent of the full pro·
fessors. Since 1985, the proportion of women full
professors has increased slowly (approx.Jmately 0.5
percent per year). That increase, however, was
matched by the overall increase of women in the
tenure-track faculty (approximately 0.5 percent per
year). A woman's relat\ve opportunity to ach\eve
full professorshJp at UB has not improved since
1970. VB Js below average for Association of American Universities (AAU) schools in the representation of women both in the faculty as a whole and
at the rank of professor.
The data for minority women are even more disappointing. with Urtie improvement in representation
since 1977. In 1977, minority women faculty at UB
included three African-Americans, four Asian-Ameri·
cans, but no Hispanic Or Native Americans. The absolute number of minority women faculty has increased
in proportion to the overall increase ln women. The
progress toward tenure for minority women has been
highly disappointing. Although minority women
have constituted more than 10 percent of the cohort
of women faculty since 1985, by 1993 only 6 percent
of tenured women were minorities. The relative opportunity for a minority woman to achieve tenure at
UB has been substantially less than for her
non minority female colleagues.
Table F:
In all UB faculties and schools, with the exception of the schools of Architecture and Nursing, the
proportion or women faculty was well below the
proportion of qualified women In the U.S. employ·
ment pool. The proportion of undergraduate women
students at UB In e~ch faculty and school was simi·
tar to the size of the available pool, and served to
validate the estimate or that pool. The female gradu·
ate student population also reflected national
trends, with a few notable exceptions. Women
graduate students were underrepresented in Natural
Sciences and Pharmacy. In Law and Education,
women students were more numerous than might
have been expected.
The Task Force recognizes that estimates of the
national availability pool in any particular discipline
may not necessarily reflect (I) the pool of women
Interested in working at UB and/or (2) the pool from
which expertise may be found for a specific work responsibility at UB. On the other hand, the proportion of women students in each program is a real
and important indication of the need for women
teachers as mentors, role models, and support systems for those students. In schools and faculties like
Management, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions,
and NaturaJ Sciences and Mathematics, women stu·
dents may have a difficult time making effective
contact with women faculty. Women faculty, in
tum, may find themselves overburdened in an attempt to cover the gender deficit. The situation Is es·
pectally acute for minority women who serve as role
models for women and for all students of color. In
many schools, minority women students will find
no female minority faculty role models or mentors.

�Report of the
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on Women at UB

6

-- - ---

.

TABLE F

Ull Wn1111 11 f Hull~ l, \ludo nl \ ( &lt;IIIII' 11, d I
Wnrntn 111 ~.Ill&lt; HI II :\\,lil.alul•t} p,,,j f.,, f 11 tdl) f'.,\111&lt; 11

Tenure-Trad
khool/hculty

Fvii-Time
Facuky •t Ul

AvalloDIUty

(91.)

('No)

Atchltecture &amp; Planning

26

Ms &amp; Letlel1

32

OenUII Medicine

14

Education

30

Engineering &amp; Applied Sciences

..
,....

~

SludenUat
Ul

('lf&gt;)

~·

-olUI

('lf&gt;)

20

28

32

ss

..

ss

ss

.

23

30
72

15

13

13

HulthRolotedProlesslons

~5

73

61

81

Law

2~

29

M•nogement

1S
18

46

42

Medkine &amp; Blomedkal Sciences

30

~1

~8

N1tural Sciences &amp; Mlthemotlcs

7

36

38

23

Nursing

92

80

88

93

Ph•rmocy

20

_60

59

Social Sciences

23

Soclll Woric

62

~·

5~

~

~9

.

69

"Prolnslonol or groduot~ programs only
Data from AlflnnotM Action Off~er. I 994

")4

37
~9

80

- --. I

.

Total

,_...,_,.

I

TABLEH

Tenure-TrKit

Foadty
(-)

bporud
from

Available
Pool

...........
,....

Shortfoll

Focully

(-)

t")

I""'"""J

(-)

Tenur.Trad:

1-A

Amerian5tudles

12

~

55

7

3

Art

14

4

67

10

6
2

Art History

7

3

67

5

Owlca
Compor1tivo lJt.

7

2

39

3

1

8

0

59

5

5

fnglbll

53

18

36

30

12

Modem Lang. &amp; Li1

31

12

57

18

6

Music

2S

7

33

8

1

Th..~&amp;O.na

11

4

40

4

0

Biology

28

2

36

10

8

Chemlslry

23

1

21

s

4
-2'"

Computer Science

16

~

12

2

~

11

0

19

2

2

M•themltlcs

~0

2

17

7

5

l'hysta

14

0

10

1

1

•

2

Anthropolocy

18

5

42

Communicltlon

-

13

1

~2

Communk.ltive
Dlsordon &amp; Sd.

14

8

67

9

1

1~

0

20

3

3

3

3

Geography

14

2

27

4

2

Hlsto&lt;y

24

s

34

9

3

Ungulstks

8

3

55

4

1

I Phllotoohv

16

3

2S

4

1

15

2

24

~

I Psld1oloaY

3S

11

Sociology

10

2

S4
50

"

•

Counseling &amp;
Ed. Psych.

20

6

57

11

5

~~

~~

19

'

46

9

3

l.olmlng&amp;
Instruction

27

8

~

17

9
2

Politlal Scleoco

Anltomy

..

5

2

3

14

3

36

5

14

3

s

2

Mkroblology

20

3

36
37

7

~

PhlrniiCitlagy

1S

2

n

7

5

·~llmhtd!O..,...,.,...Uiorwl&gt;ldldoto...,.r&lt;adlly-. ThislltiiUo&lt;lon~~ttv
~ ol

wonvn Itt t~ ~ ollndMduol unitl ot Ul with tJw numbrr that would b. up«rfti if tM

awJIIG'*

Ul W'Otiloru rdl«tftl tht notionol
pool. 1M colum bbdtd •sltottfoll• M:st.s diw~pondn ~­
tw«n tM numbtr o1 ~ ct ua ond tM ~ 1n t1w nationcl pool.
..EJtlnwJtt::s of cwoloblt pool slu dmvtd from Nctlottol RtuOtdl Coundl doto

•• •Ntgatlw numbtr rrtf«t:s

tr~C~tr ~WJtMn

Table G:
Because UB schools and faculties vary considerably In slu, attempts were made to convtrt percentages In Table F to actual numbers (Table G).
The column labeled "Shortfall" Indicates, for eoch
school and faculty, the number of women to be
added If the UB workforce· were to reflect the national pool of women In each field. In Dentistry
and Engineering. which have not yet attracted
many women, the shortfall numbers were relatively
small, as they were for Social Work, Nursing. and
Ubrary Studies, traditional •women's" professions.
From an examination of Tables F and G, It became
evident that women were especially deficient In the
schools and faculties of Health Related Professions,
Pharmacy, Arts and Letters, Social Sciences, Management, and Natural Sciences.
• 1M comporlsons modt In Tal* G 011' bc:s«&lt; on tht "total wortlott"r'"
JChoot 0 numlwf thot mcompGS:Ja fMUrt'-ffOd oftd I'KN'ff~·
rnxt loculry (Toblr 0 . end h. tMrrlrn. diftrrMr from end lcrgn tlton
thr total ttttulf'-ttOd loaJfy counted in Tobks D, f, ond H.

lfl toeh

Table H:
Within Individual schools, there were large variations among departments In the representation of
women. In some, the shortfall was considerable. Deficiencies in English, psychology, biology, comparative literature, microbiology, counseling and educational psychology, and leomlng and Instruction were
notable and disappointing. as those professions have
attracted women scholars for many years. Most strik-

them

~td from

O\'Oilobk pool

tng was the complete absence of women in economIcs, geology, and physics.
In this report, the analysis In Table H was limited
to departments/fields for which data were readily
available; with more time and effort, It could be
made more Inclusive. The departments Usted In
Table H should be appreciated as representative examples from the schools and faculties of Arts and
Letters; Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social
Sciences, Education, and Medicine/basic science.

TableJ:
From the data in Table J, It Is possible to assess
some of the Impact of recent hiring practices on female representation in individual departments. In
some units, recent recruitment of women junior
faculty may eventually lead to a modest reduction
in the existing gender Imbalance. In others, the absence of women assistant professors suggested that
gender disparities would persist for many years. For
example, In Natural Sciences, the gender composition of the faculty In 1994 had remained essentially
unchanged since 197{). or the assistant professors,
only two tn computer science were women. When
computer science data were removed hom the
analysis, the picture for women In Natural Sciences
appeared even more disappointing (Tablejl).
In basic science programs of the medical school,
the number of female assistant professors was also
very low, raising the serious concern that tenured
women might not be replaced from below as they retire. In clinical sciences, the cohort of assistant profes-

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I

TABLE] . .

t&amp;M@M6Mdi·**1 11 111 fi 9 M* 611
OepAttment

African ~. SwdiH
American Studies
Art

Art History

.... .. ..

..

Numbef

5

0

5

0

2

0

8

4

12

33

6

10

4

14

28

4

3

7

F

'rofessor

F

F

-

'

...........

..

F

..

A»&gt;st:ant

Oep8rtment

Number
M

F

F

13

s

Communlatlon

7

2

Com. DlsordorJ I;: Sci.

0

1

0

1

0

Anthropology

2

2
1

1

1

1

4

0

6

2

0

43

2

1

2

1

.... .. .

"ofessor

F

F

-

.

Auodote

18

28

7

2

4

1

8

13

2

0

6

8

14

57

4

Economics

14

0

14

0

F

Aulnant

F

M

2

0

4

3
1

1

0

1

1

3

1

4

7

0

3

0

4

0
1

Cluslcs

7

2

9

29

3

0

3

2

1

0

Geography

12

2

14

14

7

0

s

1

0

ComparaUve UterJture

8

0

8

0

3

0

3

0

2

0

History

19

5

24

21

11

0

6

2

2

3

3S

18

53

3-4

25

5

10

9

0

4

UngulsUcs

s

3

8

38

2

1

3

1

0

1

23
12

7

0

5

2

1

1

6

0

3

0

6

2

English

4

1

s

20

2

1

1

0

1

0

Philosophy

Modem Lin. &amp; Ut.

19

12

31

39

10

4

5

5

4

Pollllcal 5clence

13
15

Musk

18

7

25

28

5

3
1

9

4

4

2

Psychology

7

4

11

36

3

0

2

2

2

2

Sociology

125

55

180

26

65

13

43

26

17

Media Study

The1tre &amp; D1nce
Total

16

13/78
· 17%

26/69
· 38%

16/31
·52%

09(,

11%

25%

Total

3

16
17

24

2
11

35

31

13

4

9

4

2

3

8

2

10

20

3

0

4

1

1

1

136

42

178

23

69

8

47

18

20

8/77
· 10%

1

18/65
·28%

16/36
·39%

11%

17%

16

Ho/f.fottn Appk.

Half-Eottn Appk,

1970

12%

..

:

.. . .. ..
F

Anatomy

Biochemistry

10%

.

Number

Dep.1rtment

1970

4%

Doto from Institutional Studif's. I 994

Data from Institutional Studin, 1994

.,

Professor

F

M

F

Numbef
AnoclAte

F

M

.

Assistant

Dep.~~rtment

F

3
11

14

. 21

4

1

6

2

1

0

0

Clinical

4

14

21

8

1

1

3

2

0

Health Behavk&gt;ral Sci.

~b .

.... ..

Numbd
M

F

3

4

1

0

Sci.

Professor

F

M

7

57

1

0

1
1

F

Number
Asso&lt;Y.te

F

M

A.ubtant

F

M

0

1

0

1

4

0

0

0

0

0

10

0

10

0

5

0

5

0

0

0

Nutritkxl

3

2

5

40

0

0

1

0

2

2

M icrobiology

17

3

20

15

14

1

1

1

2

1

Occupational Therapy

5

3

8

38

1

0

2

0

1

3

Pharmacology

13

2

15

13

6

2

4

s

20

25

13

3

1

3
1

Physlal Theropy

15

0
1

0

Physiology

1

Total

3
3

8

2

0

2

2

8

20

2
11

0-

19

20
18

4

85

10
104

8!62

1

' Biophysical Sciences

(

M'M''"h@¥t!M'·MDH§t

7

5

s

10

so

4

0

1

17

14

31

45

7

0

6

~lal &amp; Preventive

edklne

To\al

54

'

· 13%

9
9/29
·31%

2

Department

.... .

NumW
M

F

16

4

Oermatok&gt;gy

2

2

20
4

Emergency Medicine

4

1

5

Family Medicine

13

3

Gynecology
Medicine

20
61

Neurology

12
7

10

1

3

1

1S

Num~

Professor

1

19

20
19

5

25

10

71

2
0

12

1

9

1

5

0

Chemistry

22

1

23

4

13

0

7

1

2

0

Computer Sclenu

12

4

16

2S

4

1

6

1

2

2

AssocU.te

F

Aubtant

F

3

0

2

0

0

11

4

MathemaUcs

2

40

s

22

2

12

0

4

0

0

0

2

1

Physics

38
26

0

H

0

H

0

7

0

~

0

0

1

0

2

1

Tota l

135

9

144

7

71

4

44

3

20

1

0

3

0

9

3

20

3

0

8

3

9

2

14

29

1

20

3

12

6

14

14

5

2

5

1

0

2

7

0

2

0

0

0

5

0

11

9

5

1

2

0

25

3
1

0

4

0

1

0

1

1

0

15

0

s

0

2

0

8

0

4

1

s

20

1

0

0

1

3

0

Pediatrics

22

19

41

46

9

1

7

1

6

17

Psychiatry

20

7

27

35

3

1

5

2

12

16

0

15

0

1

0

6

0

12

8

20

40

3

0

3

0

Surgery

21

0

21

0

6

5

0

0

0
0

7

Urology

2

263

64

327

6

78

Total

1

7

F

M

0

Medicine

0

28

Professor

6

Rehabilita~

50

2

F

0

Rodlology

3

26

....
11

Otolaryngology

0

.

Biology

F

0

Orthopedic Surgery

2

Nu-

.

Numbef'

11

Nudur Medicine

20

1
20

76

M

Stud~

I 994

.... .. ..

1970

10%

.

Schooi/ F.culty

27

26

4

Dental Medicine

56

8

64

9

0

Engineering &amp;: App. Sci 98

4

6

8

0
0

8

0
0

Information &amp;
Ubrary Science

11

109

-

•

Slud~.

30

91

0

&lt;4

3

1

3

Educational Org.,
Admin., &amp; Policy

13

6

19

32

7

2

4

1

2

3

1
3

7

5

3

2

Number

15

9

6

8

I s I"''

l.umlng &amp;: Instruction

19

8

27

30

9

46

20

66

30

25

3/28
· 11%
Doto from lnstffutiortol Studin. 1994

F

7

1

9

1

13

24

2

22

2

•
10

102

4

45

1

31

0

22

F

M

5

•3

1

0

3

2

0

3

36

21

8

6

7

0

0

so

8

58

14

16

0

20

1

14

7

3

33

36

9i

0

0

1

16

2

17

24

6

30

20

14

1

5

2

s

3

5

8

13

62

2

0

3

2

0

6

•With J.tnOtl numbnl ol WOI'nftl ond/rK lrw dtJxmmentJ
Doto from Institutional

20

Total

M

S6

Social Wort

6

..

Assbtant

F

M

9

Management

14

F

AssocU.te

42

Nursing
Pharmacy

F

Numbo&lt;

Professor

5

27

""'""*'9 I;: Ed. Psydl.

"ofe.uor

F

S%

15

Law

Number

F

.... ..

7

.

DefMrtment

9%

,,

Number

20

47

4%

Doto from lmtitutionol Studin. 1994

Architecture &amp; Plannin

47/1S E
=30%

=5%

2/20
=1 0%

Haff.fotm Applt,

F

2

2

3/47
=6%

4/75

M

11/89
=12%

6/82
· 7%
Doto from tmticutlonol

F

Assistant

.

..

Dep.~~rtment

Geology

Ophthalmology

M

Doto from Institutional Studin, 1994

F

Neurosurgery

F

11/15
· 73%

M

AnesthHiology

F

Allsoc::late

3/9
=33%

2

11

2/13

=15%

"Thr OqJortmml of Pothok&gt;gy. which has bofh bosk Jdnlc' and clinical mponsibilitid. hos not b«n includ«J
In this tal* nor in tM Clinicol SdMcn tot~Jt
Data from lnstltutiono/ S tud~. 1994

..

0/7
=0%

0

•

Assodale

F

9/24
• 38%

..

1994

Aubtant

F

8/14
· 57%

I

M
123

F

121

..
4

Nu-

Prot......

F

Doto from lnsrlfuUonal Stlldin, 1994

I

TABLEJl

" IF
67
3

Assistant

Auodate

1'"'1"1 1'"s'1 I I'"'
4

38

2F

M
18

0F

0

�sors Included many women, most notably In pedi.ltrlcs, where women corutituted two-thirds of the junIor faculty. The rate of success of those women should
be monltoted closely, as only 10 percent of the senior
posltioru In pediatrics have been awarded to women.

Report of the

8

President's Task Force
o n Women at UB

TABLE K
Rt.·lt.ntHJn of Nt.w

-

.....

11

29

61

62

ltiHJrt

Tt.lck f.uulty

19811to 19!'4
Hln!d hi 1988 (numbet)

16

Retained to 1994 (number)
Rmntion('N&gt;)

47

Doto from AlfirmotWr Action Offa

I

I

TABLE L

19811vo1!'!'4
19M
F.culty

(number)

(

..

1994
)

(number)

(

..

)

Total

1093

Men

900

(82)

781

(76)

Women

197

(18)

242

(24)

1023

Doto from AHirmotiw Action omcr

I

TABLE M

Men
Nontenured
Year Tenured

Trnu~

- -.
I

Nontrnured
Track Tenured Tenure Track

H1...t

1~79

11

24

0

1981

5

35

0

19

32

1983

2

14

0

7

28
29

29

14

198 ~

6

26

1

12

19,'7

12

27

1

8

19

19(89

5

32

3

5

18

19Y1
199)

:7

60

0

so

43

' 7

23

2

22

44

Total \ 55

241

7

137

32

Dolo from ».HrrrnorM Action Offlcr

I
:

I

-.. -..
TABLE N

Year

..........n
( )

1970

Tout
)

(

53

37

1984

43

43

1986

42

44

1988

45

46

1990

44

1992

45

46
45

1994

47

46

1995

45

46

Data from lrutitutlonol Studkt

TABLEO

-..

Worlllll Frt \hnu 11 .Jt Rt JHt \ t nt.lll\t
1\AU lfHIItut•on\ ( l'J'~) l

.....,men
)

(

Sd&gt;ool

NOI1h)Yestem

•"o:' '';,\','

Slanford

...,..,.,

,,

Univenity of Virginia

55

54

54
• 54

Un~of~

51

Columbia

so

Unlvelslty of Coflfomil/leltde

49

Un~r&gt;ity

48

of Mkhigan

Cornell

46

UNIVUSITY AT IIUFfALO

45

MIT

42

johns Hopkins

38

C.ITech

24

Tables K, L, and M:
In the most recent seven-year cohort for which
data were available, women remained In tenur~-track
posltioru with the same success as men. The proportion of women In faculty jobs has Increased since
1988; a comparison with Table D shows that the Increase (3 percent) was as great In 1993-94 alone as It
had been during the entire period 1988-93 (3 percent). No pattern was detected In the rate of hiring
of women from 1979-93. Recent high points In the
proportion of women among new faculty (approximately 45 percent) In 1991 and 1993 were counterbalanced by the very lowest peteentages (approximately 20 percent) of women hired In 1987 and
1989. The historical data In l'able M provided more
evidence that women have been significantly less
successful than men in acadernlc careers at UB. From
1979 to 1985, women represented approxl.m ately 30
percent of all newly hired faculty, yet, even In 1994,
they were still only 21 percent of the total faculty. Of
the 296 men hired from 1979 to 1993, 55 (19 percent) were hired with tenure. In contrast, only 5 percent (7/142) of the women hired In the same.perlod
were hired at senior ranks. Stated In another way, of
440 appointments between 1979 and 1993, 12.5 percent were awarded at the tenurial level to men and
only 1.6 percent at the tenurial level to women.

(3) Women In the student body
Tables N and 0:
Women have been, and remain, significantly less
than one-half (45 percent) of the student body at
UB. In contrast, at many sister institutions and in
U.S. higher education overall, women have predominated for some time. The discrepancy between
UB and others could not be attributed readily to
imbalanced enrollment in traditional "'male" fields
at UB. For example, a recent large drop in undergraduate engineering students did not alter the gender composition of the student body as a whole.
(4) Women In admlrristraNon
Table P:
Ln a 1994 intensive evaluation of the Graduate
School, the team of outside reviewers were "'struck
by the overwhelming predominance of white males
in positions of leadership at UB. • They felt that it
"' is imperative for a modem research university
with diverse faculty and student populations to
have women and people of color in key declsionmaldng roles ... • and urged that "attentlon ...be
given to (djversity} considerations In the hiring of
all future academic deans, vice provosts, and vice
presidents." Since the submission of that report,
several important administrative appointments
have been made, Includi ng the provost; vice provost for Faculty Development; deans of the Graduate School, Millard Fillmore College, and health related professions; and interim deans of engineering,
social sciences, and Pharmacy (Table P). Disappointingly, all of those positions were awarded to white
males. or the seventeen deans, six (35 peteent)
have been recently appointed. Only three of those
appointments resulted from systematic, committeerun, nationwide searches for the most suitable candidates. Interim appointees were chosen by processes that were not well defined and/or widely
publicized, exactly the mechanism by which qualified women are overlooked or ignored.
At the decanal level, only Nurslns, an overwhelmingly female profession, has a woman dean.
The appointment of a minority woman, Muriel A.
Moore, as vice president for the Office of Public Service and Urban Affairs was an encouraging step In
the right direction; that position Is now held by a
white man as well. Dr. Moore's office, however, represented a new administrative Initiative for UB. The
need remains for women to be appointed to high
leadership positions within the traditional academic hierarchy.
At present, approximately 10 percent of all department chairs (8/78) are women. Three serve In
the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
and nearly all (7/8) were appointed within the last
five years.
Open, well-publicized searches, conducted by appropriately representative search committees, proVIde the best opportunity for qualified women to be
Identified. This Is especially Important In the
present fiscal climate, wh ich Is likely to limit the
practical choices to internal candidates.
(5) Women In professlorull and supportstaff posiNons
Figure 1:
Figure I Illustrates the distribution of women
among the ranks of professional staff at UB. Gender
Imbalance Is readily apparent. In Management Confidential (MP) ranks, women are represented by only
a few Individuals In positions of high rank (MP1, 2),
although women constitute the vast majority of the
workforce at the lowest level (MP5). Women are significantly underrepresented In higher Salary Level
(Sl) ranks (SL4, 5, 6) of employment as well.

Figure 2:
FlfNre 2 Illustrates the distribution of women In
classified service positions. A slmUar pattern can be
discerned. It Is Important to note, however, that the
higher-level classified-service positions tend to be
In predomina ntly male fields (e.g., mechanics, electricians, public safety) and recruitment Is often a result of competitive examinations.

b. Salary data from UB
(1) Introductory remarks
The Task Force on Women at UB found Itself at a
considerable advantage compared to peer Institutions, with respect to the evaluation of possible
gender bias In salaries. In their 1985-118 collective
agreement, New York State and the UUP established
a labor management Disparity Committee to review
salaries statewide for disparities related to gender,
race, and/or ethnlclty. The report of the committee,
submitted In january 1993, was based on a highly
sophisticated methodological analysis of the most
comprehensive and accurate data thai could be obtained. Among the variables for which the Disparity
Committee controlled were rank, discipline, education, years at SUNY, years In rank, etc. On the basis
of the findings of the Disparity Committee, a onetime salary Increase was granted to women and mi norities (professionals and faculty) where salary disparity was Identified. No further systematic adjustments have been made since then.

(2) Faculty Salaries
The data from 1996 presented In Tables Q and R
represent a modest update of the 1993 Disparity
Committee report. The l'ask Force was limited In Its
ability to conduct a revJew as complete and sophisticated as the SUNY-wide report. In many cases, for
example, statistically significant analysis of salary
data was precluded by the small numbers of women
working In Individual employment units. In addition, the Task Force had neither the human resources nor the detailed information to include a
compreherulve review of all the Important employment variables analyzed In the statewide report.
To prepare Tables Q1-Q3, average salaries were
calculated for all faculty holding tenured/tenuretrack titles of assistant professor, associate professor,
or full professor. For schools and faculties in which
the number of incumbents In any category was

I

I

TABLE P

:
President

William R. Greiner

Provost

Thomas E. Headrick

nfrc~

5/ 3/95
Senior Vke President

Robert J. Wagner

VIce Presidents
R6earch

Dale M . Landi

Student Attain

Robert L Palmer

Advancement&amp;;
Development

Ronald H. Stein

Publk Service &amp;;
Urban Affairs

John B. Sheffer II (Acting)

Clinical Affairs

John P. Naughton

tlft&lt;tivt 4/24/96

Duns
Architecture &amp;
Planning
Dental

Bruno B. Freschi

M~ icine

Engw-ing &amp;
Applied Sdonces
Health

Louis 1. Gold berg

Mar\ H. Karwan t!fer:tM 7/ 1/96

Relat~

Barry s. Ed&lt;ert dltdivt 1/16196

~

Information &amp;
Ubrary Studies

George S. Bobinski

i.Jiw

Barry B. Boyer

Managem~t

Frederick W. Winter
C~nley

Nursing

Mecca S.

Pharmacy

Wl'jne K. Anderson (Interim)

Social Work

Fredrick W.

Education

Hugh G. Petrie

Arts &amp; Letters

Kerry S. Grant

Natural Sciences &amp;
Mathematics

Joseph J. Tufariello

tlftdivt 11/15/ 95
~dl

Mar\ B.Krislal (Interim)

Social Sdences

tlft&lt;tivt 6/ 1/96
~School

Da\lid J. Triggle- 11/ 13195

Medkine &amp;
Bklmedk:ll Sciences

john P. N1ughton

Millard A~ College

George I. Lopos dltdivt 7/ 1195

~-

Da\lid J. Triggle- 11/ 1J/95

~Eiintion
Underg~Uite

Education Nicolas 0 . Goodman

lntemaUonal Education

Steph~

Faculty Oevefopment

Yv'illi1m C. Fischer

C. Dunnett

�FIGURE 1

I

Report of the
President's Task Force
on Womep at UB

Man.gement Confidential (MP)

9

100

F

90

10

..
10

J

~,.

=

.1&lt;1
40

#

30
20

10

n

...., Ai
..... ..,, A.....

...,

0

lncrush"tg S.IM)' ~

AtchitKture &amp; ptanning

Salary Level (SL)

...
..
J.

~

70

F

~

F,"

..

Graduate School of

Edualloo

JO

20

10

..

su

5U
su
Increasing Salaty ~

'"

rQ

10
0

Sl6

Medicine &amp; Biomedical

..

....

F

~ineering &amp;
Applied Sc;.nces

#

100

0

F

""

Sll

1S
16

.
.
.

Oent.l Medicine

so

0

..

Arts &amp;. lettm

.. .

100

Sci~CH

Natural Sciences &amp;.
Mathemalk.s

~

c

j
#

-

60

Nursing

........

-

- '"'
1-r-- r - I - -

.Sl~

..
so

1-m.-

r-r--

JO

10

..

.s

6

7

•

9

10

11

liT

12 1)

~6
,.

15

16

11

.

Pharmacy

..

Social Sciences

18
Not~:

39,514
39,561

F

~ . 4f47

.
.

Social Work

Totals

Salary Grade (Increasing S.l•ry -+ )

F

16
16

~S , 609

88

F

42,936

All

4020

32
170

Shockd arras rrprrunt doto supprrsud (f~ than thrn incumbrnrs)

Prrporrd by PrnonMI Sl'Mc"- April r996

19
17

Graduate School of

Education
Engineering &amp;
Applied SclencH

0
0

..
..

16
11

F

13
8

11
7

Dental Medicine

.
.
.

3S

Education
Applied Sciences

F

Health Related

.
.
F

Graduate School of
Engineering &amp;

14

.
f

76,426
70,686

25

17
8

18

14

84, 172

22

15

38
1

11

18
6

13

14
0

F

Health Related

3
0

F

Medicine &amp; Biomedical

Sciences
Natural Sciences &amp;
Mathl!!matia

Nursing

Pharmacy
Social Sctence.s
Soc.iiiiWorit

.
.

.
.
.
.
..
.

17

13

18

1S
10

12
6

37
3

21

12

0
10

18

0
0
56,162
52,499

20
17

17

62,243

16

14

57,927

17
1S
17

14

13

47
16

Pharmacy

F

ALL
Not~:

66

57

.
.
.
.
F

Social

Sci~nces

F

Social Worlc

F

Totals

14
11

78, 345

22

70,752

20

16
14

79,056
70,556

22
18
22

1S
11
14

6

F

56, 171

Shodtd or«JJ ,.,-runt doto supprnud (fnwr than thnt lncumbtnts)
PrPportd by Ptnonnd SMrlc~ April 1996

9
13

210
S1
261

Totals

ALL

Not~: Shodtd ortes ~t doto su~ (frwrr than thlft lncumbmts)
Prtporrd by Ptnonnd ~(S,. ~I I 996

280
38
318

�In lower sa1uy grades and consplcuowly missing
from the hJ&amp;her ones. Women employed as professional staff In Management Confidential grades
MP3A and MP3B (Table S2) receive significantly
lower compensation than their male counterparts,
despite very similar average years of service and
title. The analysis of salaries In classified service positions also did not disclose any apparent gender
bias within Individual salary grades (Table S3). As
with other staff Jobs, however, male employees are
mostly clustered In higher-pay categories, reflecting
the relative values our society, ln general, and New
York State, in particular, place on men's and
women's work.

Report of the
President's Task Force
on Women at UB

10

fewer than three, the data have """n suppressed for
reasons of confidentiality. Suppressed data are reflected In the total salartes, years of service, etc. lt
was encouraging to see that entry-level salaries for
assistant professors show little, If any, gender bias.
Salaries of associate professors seem also to be free of
gender-based disparity, especially when average years
c. Summary and conclusions
of service are Included In the assessment. In many
schools and faculties, however, women full profes+ Women employees at UB are underrepresented at
sors receive substantially less salary compensation
all but the lowest ranks of faculty and staff.
than their male colleagues, probably a reflection of
hiring practices at UB twenty years ago when those
+ Notable gender-linked disparities In salary (for
full professors began their academic employment.
comparable rank/years of service) are evident
The most flagrant disparities are noted In Arts and
among women full professors and women in the
Letters, Education, Law, and Social Sciences. Those
higher ranks of professional staff.
salary discrepancies affect a relatively small number
With respect to the distribution of women at
high ranks and to compensation, UB compared
of women and could, therefore, be readily erased.
For several reasons, the Task Force was not able
relatively unfavorably with peer Institutions, and
to do a useful comprehensive review of the salaries
was, for most comparisons, rated below average. A
of full-time faculty on twelve-month appoint·
• thick glass ceiling seems to be In place at UB. From
ments. In many of the schools and faculties In
the persistent, pervasive, and systematic exclusion
which faculty serve for twelve months, the num ~
of women from the high-paying. policy-forming
ber of women was small and the data were supranks of faculty and administration, It seems clear
pressed . Furthermore, In many of those schools
that responslbtllty cannot be assigned to one office,
(e.g., Medicine and Dentistry) faculty salaries are
unit, or process within the university. No single acsubstantially Increased by clinical funds, with state
tion Is, therefore, likely to serve to Improve the
contributions constituting a minor component of
situation. The record shows conscientious and successful efforts by some units to achieve gende.r eq·
annual Income. The only salary data for which a
review was practicable were those from baste sciulty. Unfortunately, improvements overall have
been achieved much too slowly. At the present rate,
ence departments of the School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences. Those data confirm thai
appropriate representation of women at UB is unwomen full professors are substantially underpaid
likely to be achieved until the third decade of the
compared to male colleagues. Again, the number
twenty-first century. Fiscal constraints are almost
of affected Individuals Is small; that salary dlspar·
certaJn to reduce the present rate of employment of
ity should be relatively easy to rapidly eliminate.
women.
In a 1994-95 survey by the AAUP, UB ranked
The Task Force was especially surprised to realize
among the large research universities with the larg·
that the proportion of women In undergraduate
student ranks Is also below average. It would appear
est difference In salary between men and women
full professors. On average, for all large research
that an important part of the student • market• is
universities, women full professors earned 90 perpresently lost to us.
From discussions with consultants, members of
ce nt of the salary of men. At UB, women full pro·
fessors on average earned only 85 percent of the avthe UB community, and each other, it is evident to
the Task Force that most men and women have not
erage salary for men. Most AAU schools had much
fully appreciated the magnitude and penetration of
smaller salary gender gaps than UB. Within the
SUNY system, Stony Brook, at 84 percent, was a bit
gender-linked disparities in rank and/or salary.
Most people expressed a desire to see those dlsparl·
worse, and Binghamton, at 86 percent, a little bet·
ter. The data provided to the Task Force for 1996
ties eliminated.
show a slow decrease in the gender-based salary
Finally, it should be noted that compilation of
these data required many hours of work by many
gap, with women full professors at UB earning 89
Task Force members. The information was not lopercent of the average salary for men.
cated In a central file, but was divided among a variety of offices, each with a different focus of Inter(3) Staff salaries
est and responsibility, none specifically charged
Within the Individual SL grades of state employand/or provided with adequate staff to produce the
ment, no evidence of gender bias Is apparent (Table
detailed analyses and comparisons In this report.
SJ). As can be seen In both Table S1 and Figure I ,
however, women are disproportionately represented

.......

Full Professors
Numb«-r
lncumb«-nts

Assistant Promsor

·-·....

53,296

9

Auoclate Professor

70,773

18

65,024

7

Pn&gt;less«

87,416

42

77,604

6

129, 315

5

N/A

0

.,.

Titlt

Professor and Chairperson

Average
Sal•'l'

a. Existing strategies
At present, UB has two maJor Institutional strate·
gtes for addressing any Inequities. The first strategy,
which has been In place since 1973, Is a rigorous affirmative-action search and hiring process. The
President's Panel for the Review of Search Procedures checks the documentation for each appoint·
ment before final approval, to enswe that approprl·
ate efforts were made to Identify qualified candl·
dates from underrepresented populations, IncludIng women. The requirement for thorough docu·
mentation and review of search procedures and the
commitment to affirmative action at hiring are reassuring polldes that should continue to receive
strong support.
Unfortunately, the data collected as part of
Charge I reveal that this approach has had relatively little Impact on the overall gender Imbalance.
Systematic underreprese.ntatlon of women is a persistent phenomenon: UB Is below average among
peers In many categories for which comparative
data were avallable. In faculty ranks, women have
long represented a substantial fnctlon of the newly
hired. In general, the more troublesome aspects of
gender Imbalance are manifested at higher-level
ranks rather than entry-level ranks, reflect ing diffl·
culties women experience with retention and/or
promotion after they have been hired. It Is also evident that, despite the mandate for rigorous afflrma·
ttve-actlon searchesJ many units continue to choose
only men. That behavior Is especially disappointing
In the face of considerable evidence (Including UB's
graduate student body composition) that women
scholars are not at all rare In the vast majority of
fields. For many of the recalcitrant hiring units, the
approach to affirmative-action searches has become
cynical, with close attention paid to the form but
not to the substance of Identifying qualified mem·
bers of underrepresented groups. There would seem
to be considerable room for tougher administrative
enforcement of affirmative-action h iring poUcies,
especially for departments/schools/units in which
women have been most dramatically and persistently excluded.
A second UB approach to Improving the gender
imbalance, aimed at improving career success rates
of all faculty, has been the 1994 establishment of
the Office of the VIce Provost for Faculty Development. A maJor function of that office has been edu·
cation, with the goal of Increasing gender and racial
diversity In hiring. and strengthening those cultural
and Institutional mechanisms that contribute to ca·
reer success. The efforts of the vice provo.st are absolutely necessary and should receive the broadest
and strongest possible support. Many members of
the UB community, like their peers In other lnstltu·
tlons, have not yet come to fully appreciate the Importance of equitable, balanced representation for
the financial and academic prosperity of public universities.

b. Recommended strategies
Reviewing the strategies In place at, or proposed
for, peer institutions, the. Task Force recommends
the following new policies:

\dn, (nrllp111\nl1\ h~ C.trHI••
II 1\H \&lt; 11 rH, ~
\o lro&gt;nl o&gt;l l\1o dr&lt; lilt
1iull lrnlt f.Hull} o111 l\... tl\t !\1onth Appo1rnl111&lt; nl\

M...

2. Charge 2: Strategies for addressing

any inequities

(1) Setting Tatiets
• Specific short· and long-term goals should be set
for Individual hiring units to Increase representa·
lion of women. An emphasis should be placed on
Increasing representation of women of color. Spedal attention should be paid to those units In
which the gender Imbalance Is greatest and/or most
Inappropriate.

Number
Incumbents

2

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10

15

6

13
1
14

13

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128

16

157
104
261

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17

Minimum 47,200
Maximum 97,411

19
16
18

9
13
11

97
140
237

Minimum 47,200
Muimum 97,411

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F
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18
20
19

12
4
16

6
9
8

36
52

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F
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5
13
8

10

13
9
8

Minimum 21 , 345
Maximum 41 ,524

MP2

10
5
8

88

12
8
20

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Minimum 38,232
Maximum 73, 263

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34,300

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19,607
' 42,668

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4
27
16
2
18

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5G16

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f
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17,428
17,556

7
2
9

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19,900
14,241
17,185

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12
25

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11, 707
34,052
11,815

46
21
67

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11,269
31 ,290
32,012

1
5
8

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31 ,075
31 ,482
31,117

156
18
174

28,425
29,119
29,219

11
112
121

27,170
25,256
26,022

4
6
10

25,899
26.781
26,445

84
136
220

25,516
25,671
25,571

13
7
20

24,057
24,044
24,050

65
67
132

21 ,880
22,162
22,124

59
174
411

20,545
20,570
20,556

95
79
174

21 ,119
21,271

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thr~

• Short· and long-term goals should be set to
eradicate persisting race and gender disparities In
salary. A substantial portion of all discretionary pay
Increases should be committed to achieving full pay
equity for women at UB In as short a time as possible, with more Immediate attention paid to those
units In which disparities have been greatest.
• A program of rewards and/or Incentives should
be established for units that succeed In meeting tar·
gets for equitable representation and for equitable
pay.
• Special attention shol'ld be paid to hiring
women at the top, In senior faculty and administration ranks in which women, at present, are so conspicuously absent .
• Systematic "exit Interviews" should be conducted to determine why women applicants refuse
jobs at UB, and why women faculty and staff leave
to take other jobs.

(2) Mandate significant, not token, representaHon of women on important committees, including

experlenced women scientists to supplement the
sparse ranks of women In biology and chemistry. To
Increase the participation of women as expert consultants In federal programs, lists of qualified, willing
women have been complied at many agencies In
Washington. That approach has been quite successful at the national level and should be easy to Implement In our relatively smaU community.

(3) Conduct open, well-publldud, CBmmit·
tee-run searclies for all admlnlstraHve po·
siHons, including chairs, associate deans,
deans, vice presidents, etc., espedally when
interim and/or internal appofntments are
contemplated.

3. Charge 6: Developing a process of
accountability at all levels regarding the
progress being made toward achieving
equity for women
a. General comments
At this time, the Task Force would rather not be
overly prescriptive in recommendations to ensure
accountability. We believe that the community
needs to review the contents of this report and be·
come famJllar with present circumstances, as de·
scribed here, befor comprehensive institutional re·
sponses are formulated . A few general remarks and
suggestions do seem appropriate now.
Leadership-based accountabUity with vigorous
enforcement of guidelines Is essential for accomplishing change. Gender Imbalances and disparities
at UB have been so pervasive, systematic, and
widely experienced that responsibility cannot be as·
signed to particular Individuals, offices, depart·
ments, schools, etc. MaJor changes in the culture of
academe, ln general, and UB, In particular, are re·
qulred for gender equity In institutions that have
tradJtionalJy been, and remain, centered around
men. For that reason, the attitudes of local leaders,
especially the president and the provost, are the
most potent forces to direct change. Publicly dis·
seminated position papers, such as the recent afflr·
mative-actlon policy statement of President
Greiner, are laudatory measures. Actions are even
more Important than words in communJcatlng
leadership commitment to gender equity. Unwaver·
lng enforcement of the strategies recommended
above (see Charge 2), for example, could slgnlfi·
cantiy improve the opportunities for women at UB
In a relatively short time. In the absence of deflnl·
tlve action by UB's highest leaders, virtuous profes·
sions of intent will be perceived as hollow state·
ments. Many university workplaces w\U remain as
cynical, half-hearted, and Insincere about achieving
gender equity as they have been In the past.

b. Specific recommendations
A few specific actions are proposed to facilitate
leadership-based accountability.
• Maintenance of a database similar to that presented In this report. Responsibility for recording/
keeping analysis should be assigned to those with a
vested Interest In those records. A continuing Task
Force on Women at UB or an Office for Women's Af·
fairs would be an Ideal body for this responsibility.
Task Force members have a record of commitment to
gender equity and are now extremely knowledgeable
about local conditions. Furthermore, the Task Force
Is a committee of volunteers whose efforts have been
available without additional costs to UB.
• Monitoring on a regular, perhaps biannual, basis
of the responses of Individual units to targets (see
Charge 2). The annual reports of departm~nts and
schools might be a convenient mechanism for col·
lecting this Information.
• Disclosure of findings to the UB community at
large. One potentially effective way to change our
male-oriented culture Is to make everyone aware of
the nature and magnitude of gender lnequltles.
Many UB employees, administrators, students, etc.,
would be much more cooperative and energetic in
efforts to eradicate existing Imbalances If they were
fully Informed about the pervasiveness and magnl·
tude of the problems.

• search committees for hiring at any and aJI levels;

• promotions committees at all levels;
• resource allocation committees, executive steerIng committees, etc.; and
• committees to bestow honors and awards.
In many units, P.3St hiring and promotions prac.
ttces have resulted in serious shortages of women to
serve on policy-making committees. As a consequence, gender Imbalances In those units are !nevi·
tably perpetuated. Women's needs, points of view,
and accomplishments remain poorly appreciated. To
compensate, until those demographic deficiencies
are corrected, the Task Force proposes that qualified
women might be "borrowed" from other depart.
ments or schools. For example, the Faculty of Natu·
rat Sciences and Mathematics might tum to Medl·
cine, Dentistry, and Health Related Professions for

B. Subcommittee B:
Charges 3 and 5
1. Charge 3: Improving the campus
climate for women, with full
consideration of the spedal needs of
diverse groups
a. Insights from other institutions: Factors that may limit full participation of
women in the life of educational communities.
(1) Introductory comments
The UB Women's Task Force was successful in
collecting slxteen recent reports prepared at other
academic institutions. All were studied carefully,

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President's Task Force
on Women at UB

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but spectal attentio n was paid to those fro m schools
most similar to UB and those concerned with issues
relevant to the charges for ou.r Task Force. Among
the most valuable reports were those from Stanford;
Purdue; Northwestern; and the Universities of
Michigan, Delaware, and Maine.
A variety of methods had been used to assess the
climate for women . For a maJority of reports, sys·
tematic written surveys had been conducted. Panel
discussions, focus groups, and open forums had
also been used at some schools to sample the attl·
tudes and opinions of women and men in the com·
munity. Campus publications, activities, events,
and organizations were reviewed and analyzed. Despite substantial heterogeneity of the institutions
from which reports were available and the methods
used to evaluate the climate for women at those In·
stitutions, patterns were readily detected. In the
sections that follow, the main consensus views have
been summarized.

(2) A Hchllly Hclimate prevails
All reports were In agreement that women fac·
ulty, students, and staff in academic Institutions
function in an environment that is often cool and,
sometimes, hostile. Women frequentl y experience
more isolation, marginalization, and powerlessness
than men, no matter how enlightened parts of th eir
respective university communities might be.

(3) UnderrepresentaHon: A generic problem
It is the consensus view that both improvements
in the quality of working Hfe for women in academic institutions and the future competitiveness
and prestige of academic programs within those Institutions will depend on the achievement of full
representation of women at all ranks of staff. fac·
ulty, and administration . For women students, the
paucity of senior women faculty and administrators
delivers an explicit message that they also will be
highly unlikely to attain positions of stature In
their chosen fields. For Junior women employees,
the denctency of women In high ranks slgntncantly
limits introduction to the .. culture .. of success In
thelr profession .
Senior administrators establish, foster, and main·
tain the values of an Institution . Most extramural
Task Force reports revealed that women admin\stra·
tors remain clustered and barely visible In middle·
level posts, with llttie or no opportunity to formulate and/or influence Important policies.
Underrepresentatlon of women Is pervasive In
U.S. academe. As a consequence, American educa·
tional tnsUtutlons respond poorly, If at all, to
women's aspirations, potentials, needs, and accom·
pllshments. A vicious circle exists: The absence of
women in strategic, influential positions prevents
and discourages women from aiming for and
achieving those positions.

(4) Low priority of women's concerns
An important corollary to the systematic
underrepresentation of women Is the relatively low
priority assigned to Issues deemed "women's prol&gt;lems.• Safety, child care, salary disparities, spousal
accommodation at hiring. maternity leave, family
leave, and nepotism rules are matters affecting the
quality of personal and family llfe for all men and
women employed by universities. Marginalized as
.. women's .. rather than "'people's.. problems, those J.s..
sues have for too long been superficially discussed, If
not entirely overlooked, and Incompletely resolved.
Most extramural Task Force reports acknowledge
that as society becomes more egalltarlan, with family
responsibilities well-divided among both parents,
successful recruitment and retention of the best stu·
dents, faculty, and staff will depend Increasingly on
gender·free workplace accommodations.

(5) CriHcal mass, not token representaHon
According to many reports, past responses to the
problem of underrepresentation have resulted in ap-pointment and/or promotion of small numbers of
women in various units. It has been a universal ex·
perience that such token appointments do not con·
tribute significantly to promoting women's concerns
or to filling the leadership gap for women . When
women constitute a small minority In a group discussion, their voices go unheard, their interests remain unrepresented. Many observers noted that out·
spoken and assertive women often suffered
marginalization and negative career consequences.

b. Brief Reports on Special Topics
(I) Child-care fadliHes
The expression of a need for increased child·
care faclllties at UB was more widespread, and con·
slderably more vehement, than had been antic!·
pated by many Task Force members. Campus child
care was identified as an essential element in im·
proving the climate for women at UB. Expert con·
sultants to the Task Force from the Offices of Per·
so nnel, Student Life, UUP, and CSEA testified to

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Report of the
President's Task Force
on Women at UB

the wgent need for aompw-l!aR&lt;I chUd aore
among all female constituencies: graduate and un dergraduate students, ond professional and classified staff ond faculty. In thelnformol wrttten·surveys conducted by the Task Force, chlld-care Issues
emerged consistently as one of the pressing needs
shared by many women at UB.
In the present economy, the great maJority of
parents find It necessary to work. In so-&lt;:alled "traditional" two-parent families, It Is the rule rather
than the exception for both parents to work outside the home; nontraditional famiUes, In which
either the male or female parent may be raising
children alone, are Increasingly common. ChangIng social circumstances make the university of
the 1990s a very different place from the academic
Institutions of the 1950s and 1960s In which
many of the senior faculty and administrators at
UB were "raised." Increasingly, competition for the
successful recruitment of hlgh-quaUty female students, faculty, and staff wtll require the provision
of amenities, such as child care, that could make

UB a uniquely attractive environment for women
to study and work. Adequate child-care facilities
could be an Important factor In a woman's deci-

sion to Join the UB community. The provision of
child care should be appreciated as a marketplace
Issue, an essential element In the healthy financial
future of a competitive university. Child-care arranaements must be seen not as a luxury to be deferred until some convenient futwe time, but as a

necessity for acquiring and retaining the best possible students, faculty, and staff, men as well as
women.
Since 1985, UB has had an excellent faciUty on
the South Campus. There Is, however, unlversaJ
agreement that the existing facility Is too small for
the needs of the community, and that the South
Campus Is prohibitively Inconvenient for the vast
maJority of potential users working on the North
Campus.
The Task Force was delighted to Jearn that an .
o utstanding, comprehensive, and detailed report of

child-care needs had been prepared by a blue-ribbon panel In 1994. That study could rapidly be updated; Implementation Is long overdue.
The Task Force recognizes that many constraints
(fiscal, regulatory, technical, etc.) may Influence the
plans for a chlld-care facility and hinder their realIzation. It Is our observation, however, that the UB
community Includes many enthusiastic, energetic,

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and needy young parents who would be more than
willing to develop Innovative, low-cost solutions to
difficulties that may have seemed Insurmountable
In the past. We recommend that the child-care
"problem" be placed primarily In the hands of
those with a vested Interested in a successful out-

come, Including. but perhaps not limited to, those
In the previous Child-Core Advisory Committee
(see Appendix).
(2) Athletics
There appears to be considerable agreement
that women's athletic programs at UB have no t received either the resources or the attention accorded to programs for men. The recent association of UB with the NCAA Division I has brought a
new focus on the opportunities and facilities provided to women. The standards for gender equity
Imposed by the NCAA promise to have a longterm sanguine Influence on local policies. As with
many university practices, however, change can be
slow and resistance to change considerable. ln the
past, the budget for women's athletics has been
only about three-quarters of the expenditures fo r
men when all football costs are removed from the
calculation. Future budgets have been planned to
be more equitable, but close monitoring for compliance Is recommended in this period of fiscal
austerity.
The local (UB) NCAA Commitment to Equity
Subcommittee, chaired by Mary Ann Sharrow, has
made several strong recommendations for improving the situation for women athletes at UB. First,
the subcommittee suggests that more sports programs be developed for women's participation,
and second, it urges the hiring of more women in
head coaching and senior administrative staff positions. It also urges regular monitoring of the perception of women students about equity. issues In
athletics.
The Task Force felt that the chilly climate in athletics could be considerably, and rapidly, Improved
by concerted university-wide efforts to enthuslastlcaUy honor women athletes, attend women's
games, and publicize women's events . The outstanding annual February celebration for National
Girls and Women In Sports Day was Initiated by
students themselves, and remains to this day
largely a student undertaking. A university-wide Office for Women's Affairs could play an Important
proactive role in promoting appreciation of and
partlctpation in women's sports. Publicity, fund
raising, ticket distribution , award ceremonies, etc.,
are among the kinds of support that could be centrally coordinated to enhance the efforts of the DIvision of Athletics on behalf of women. It Is our
conviction such centralized, visible encouragement
o f women's sports could also have a very positive
Influence on successful recruitment of women
coaches and women student athletes.

(3) Women's st'lu&amp;s
In revlewlnJ th.e status of women, many academic Institutions have come to appreciate a strong
correlation ~ tbe overall cUmate for women
students, faculty, and staff, and tbe Institutional
commitment to academic programs on women and
gender. The University of Mlcblpn's Agenda for
Women, Issued by their president In 1994, speaks
dearly to this point. It Is the University of
Mlcblpn's vision to "become the leader among
Amerlaon universities In promoting the success of
women of diverse backgrounds, as faculty, students,
and staff.• In the agenda, five goals ;m cited as
• necessary to achieve this vision.• One Is to make
the University of Michigan "the leading [U.S.) Institution for the study of women and gender Issues. •
As an aaodemtc discipline, women's studies b.ts
produced a slgntHaont body of scholarship that has
Influenced and changed the direction and substance of scholarly activities In many fields. Gender
has gained recognition as a slgntHaont, often essential, aotegory of analysis In many disciplines.
Women's studies at UB has a long and distinguished history. Our program Is widely recognized as
a national pioneer In the field. Courses were first offered In the late 1960s, spurred by the late Professors
Ann Scotl (English) and Daphne Hare (medicine),
and the late Bernice Poss of the admlntstratlve staff.
By the mld-1990s, women's studies at UB has developed as a center for research and teaching about
women and gender. To overcome Increasing Impediments to program development Imposed by financial constraints, women's studies helped to found
the Graduate Group In Feminist Studies, which has
fostered highly productive, collegiate, scholarly, Interdisciplinary Interactions among faculty and students In many departments and schools.
UB women's studies faculty have contributed lm·
portantly to the development of the National
Women's Studies Association and have made scholarly contributions to fem inist pedagogy. The faculty
serving women's studies at UB over the years have
Included Ellen DuBois, Endesha Mae Holland,
Masanl Alexis DeVeaux, Elizabeth l.apovsky
Kennedy, Hester Eisenstein, and Ulllan Robmson,
aU highly regarded nationally for their scholarly
and/or creative output.
To consoUdate declining resources and to com·

pensate for the recent departure of Professor
Eisenstein, women's studies spent 1995-96 devising
a realistic academic and research plan for the imme-

diate future that could protect the extraordinary resources and reputation accumulated during the last
twenty-five years, and permit UB to retain Its national visibility and stature.
The 1996 Proposal for the Future of Women's
Studies reflects the collective efforts and collaborative commitments of more than thirty faculty from
the schools and faculties of Law, arts and letters, social sciences, education, medJd ne, and dentistry.

Interdisciplinary programs of lectures, workshops,
and internships on issues of women and gender are

planned to facilitate scholarly and pedagogical Interactions among departments, schools and faculties, and campuses at UB. The month-long women's
history celebration In March 1996 provides an exciting example of the potential of women's studies
to enhance Intellectual life on campus and In the
Buffalo community, to honor women and focus attention on their accompUsbme.nts, to Integrate activities on women and gender among different aca·
demlc units, and to maximize the use of limited fl.
nancial resources.

Despite these accomplishments, women's studies
has been persistently undervalued and Inadequately
appreciated by faculty colleagues and the university
administration. In that respect, the low status of
women's studies In the academic hierarchy at UB
may be viewed as paradigmatic for all women at

UB. Any plan to Improve the climate for women
and develop women leaders must include a com-

mitment to the stability of existing women's studies
activities In teaching. research, and service, and a
plan for strengthening and enhancing those activities in the near future.

(4) Family needs (other than child care)
UB has been slower than many academic Institutions to adopt polldes that address the needs either
of two-career families or single parents. Other uni versities and colleges, as well as other businesses,
have come to realize family responsibilities are no
longer clearly divided on gender lines. Mec han isms
have been developed to accommodate family needs
without Imposing severe limitations on the opportunities for Individual professional development
within the Institution. Policies and practices that
are gaining widespread acceptance Include spousal
accommodation at hiring. abolition of nepotism
ruJes, matemJty Jeave, caregivers leave, flexibJe

working hours, and Job sharing. Institutional sensiti vity to the special needs of families Is Increasingly
recognized to be a distinct advantage for hiring and
retaining high-quality faculty and staff. Working
conditions that facilitate necessary careglvlng without JeopardWng career development are aHractlve
Incentives for choosing a place of employment and
for choosing to remain there.
Some steps In the right direction have been taken
at UB. In the last few years, spousal accommodation
at hlrtng has been encowaged, supported, and rewarded by the administration. It remains, however,

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to formulate and promulpte an oftlc:la1 unlvmltywlde policy on this practice. In addition, the I«ZZIt
policy
from the prooost on rondltloos for
stopplns the tenure Clock Is a beartmln&amp; positive
attempt to deal reallsticaJJy with family raponslbilltles that CXlUld disrupt an academic CIJOOf.
There are at UB alaqe number of Individuals In
the faculty and staff who have coped with chUd
rearing and other forms of c:uqlvtng whUe also
working productively and successfully at their Jobs.
Most, but by no means all, are women; many have
spouses who are also UB employees. (The'IUit Force
on Women at UB Includes many such women and
men.) Practical, fair, and successful strategies to Integrate raponslbilltles of modem family Ufe Into
university employment should rely heavUy on the
experiences and advtao of those faculty and staff. In
the past, proposals for family-need policies have
been reviewed and evaluated by govemanao bodies
(senates, councils of deans, vlao presidents, etc.) In
which men predominate and the proportion of major family caregivers Is low.
In keeping with U.S. federal guldellnes, personal
r~sumh and curriculum vitae nearly always omit
details of past or present family responslbllltles.
That policy Is designed to protect employees and
Job applicants from preJudicial use or the Information In personnel decisions. Such omissions are extremely unfortunate, especially when they might
explain a period of lower productivity Of absence
from the workforce. In addltlon, and much more
Important, such personal information Is often revealing of an individual's managerial and organizational sk.Jlls, dedication to a profession, commJtment to a career, effective performance under stress,
sense of responsibility, and physical stamina. With
guarantees of suitable protection by managers, employees might be encouraged to disclose evidence
from careglvlng histories of attributes and experiences that could have a positive Impact on the job.
Documentation might go a long way toward dispelling the myths that family responsibilities can only
have detrimental effects on careers and that
caregivers are a liability as employees.

gulshed Teaching Professor Beverly Bishop, Spectrum Editor-In-Chief Bonnie Butkas, Asslst&amp;nt Provost for Resource Management Elmira MangumDaniel, Law School Staff Assistant Gloria
Paveljack, and WBFO General Manager Jennifer
Roth-were each glveo an opportunity to share
the strategies of their own successes In a plenary
session and then to conduct small workshop sessions on specific skills, recommendations, problems, etc.., relevant to career promotion. Topics of
the breakout sessions Included workplace dynamIcs, networking. voice modulation, teaching skills,
and Juggling many roles.
Invitations to the workshop were sent to more
than 2,500 women; the final attendance of 240 was
limited only by the capacity of the facllltles at the
Center for Tomorrow. The response of all organizers, panelists, and attendees was overwhelmingly
positive. Evaluation reports revealed that participants look forward to more, and perhaps more frequent, workshops.
The process of planning and coordinating the
activities of the workshop was Itself an enormously gratifying and job-enhancing experience
for workshop organizers. Many constituencies In
the university community were brought together
advantageously to cooperate with and contribute
to this workshop project. The University Bookstore
prepared a table of current books by UB women
authors, offering them for sale and highlighting
the accomplishments of those published scholars.
The UUP chapters, especially the Health Sciences
Chapter, accepted a large financial responsibility
for reheshments and mailing. The Offices of th e
Provost and the President were also especially
helpful In defraying cos ts, which allowed the
workshop to be made avallable at no cost to participants. A more detailed summary report on fi.
nances, demogra phics, and evaluations-prepared
by State Purchasing Director Judy Miller, who
served as chair of the Voices workshop-is Included in the appendix materials on reserve In
Lockwood Memorial Library:

c. Summary and conclusions

For the first time, UB formally participated in the
April 26 nationwide project, sponsored by the Ms.
Foundation, to bring young girls to work. The program, which targets girls ages 9-i4, ls aimed at promoting their self-esteem and informing them about
career opportunities. For UB, the project had the additional advantages of Informing girls about the
wide range of educational facilities at UB and provld·
lng another forum for pleasurable, productive network interactions among women students, faculty,
staff, and administrators. The program was judged
an enormous success by organize~ and participants.
Enrollment was at full ca pacity. More than 150 girls
and their parents spent a rewarding day that included organized visits to selected work sites (see Appendix), a sell-esteem workshop, a group luncheon,
and an awards ceremony (see Appendix).
The orchestrati on of this complex activity required an extraordinary co mmitment of time, energy, and professional expertise by th e coordinatIng committee and other volunteers. Fi nan cial
support and/or professional services were contttbuted from all co rn ers of the campus; among the
many spo nsors were the UUP, CSEA, Public Employees Federation, Office of Student Life, School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Partners'
Press, the Counseling Center, Women's Health In itiative, Department of Chemistry, Association for
Women In Science, Office of the President, Office
of Conferences and Special Events, and Office of
Public Safety. The vol unteers on the coordinating
committee came from academic departments, Oflice of Development, Public Safety, Computing
and Info rmation Technology, Office of the Vice
President lor Student Affairs, Office of Student
Life, and Office of the President. Presentations at
the awards ceremony were made by Deputy to the
President lo r University Relations Molly McKeown
and WBFO General Manager Jennifer Roth. Work
site sponsors were equally varied and representative or the rich resources and energetic goodwill or
UB employees. Those sites Included the Center for
the Arts, School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry,
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Computing Center, WBFO, Lockwood Memorial LIbrary, Public Safety, Ellicott Compl ex, Department
of English, and others.
Many parent participants, site spo nsors, and Inte rested observers have already voluntee red for next
yea r's Take-Our-Daughters-to-Work Day.

National Take-Our-Daughters-to-Work Day
In reviewing campus-climate issues at UB and
making comparisons to similar academic Institutions, Subcommittee B concluded that admin istrative leadership was urgenUy needed In several areas that afrect women In all university constituencies.
• A child-care cen ter on the North Campus should
be arranged wlthout further delay.
• Flexible work time and job-sharing policies
should be developed, encou raged, and promoted to
permit effective Integration of work and famil y responsibilities for both men and women at UB.
• A group of experienced caregivers, with senior
positions In university faculty and administration,
should serve as the main counsel for future strategies and policies to facilitate and promote careers
for those with Important family responsibilities.
• Women's studies programs should be given
stro ng academic and administrative su pport to continue the highly visible and widely respected contributions made by UB scholars.
• Athletics programs lor women should be
strengthened with more equitable distribution of
resources, appointment of women coaches and administrators, and Investment in efforts to pro mote
local enthusiasm for women's athletic events.
• A rlgorous survey should be conducted to assess
an accurate current climate for women at US. The
survey would provide a baseline for monitoring
cha nges. It would also help to sort out those ellmate issues that are real problems from misconceptions, myths, and/or misunderstandings.

2. Charge S: Methods for identifying,
encouraging, and developing women
leaders
a. Demonstration projects
At the strong recommendation of Subcommittee
8, the Task Force responded to Charge 5 by undertaking two major demonstration projects aimed at
developing women leaders and promoting positive
• network" interaction among all women in the UB
community. The first was a career-development
workshop open to aU women at UB; the second was
a ca meus-wlde program for National Take-OurDaughters-to-Work Day.

Career-Dn-elopment Workshop
A career-development workshop was held on
March 7, 1996, titled Women's Voices: Insights for
a Successful Career. The workshop had three specific goals: to identify women leaders at UB, to encourage leadership among women, and to provide
practical advice abuut career development. To accomplish those goals, five outstanding women
were selected to represent the diversity of careers
within the universi ty. The panelists-Dlstin-

b. 1995 calendar of activities
The 1995 calendar year Included many events
si milar to the demonstration projects undertaken
by the Task Force In 1996. Unfortunately, most or
these 1995 events were organized In Isolation and
some, sadly, were poorly attended because of a failure to inform the widest potential audience.
Women's History Month celebrations were not an
Important locus In 1995, whlcll was a major disappointment. That void was filled successfully In
1996 by a coalition effort of Interested groups,
among them the Program In Women's Studies,
Graduate Group for Feminist Studies, Department
of History, the Baldy Center for Law and Social
Policy, Grad uate School of Education, and the
Women's Center. A central coord ination, as well as

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centrallud adverfuement, fund raising, and· planning, of activities recognizing women's activities
and honoring women's accomplishments would Increase their visibility, Improve quality, reduce costs,
and serve the function of drawing wide attention to
the Interests and contributions of all women at UB.

c. Summary and conclusions
• Regular frequent events, analogous to the Voices
career-development workshop, Take-Our-Daughtersto-Work Day, and Women's History Month observances, should be part of the university calendar, organlud, coordinated, and administered through an
appropriate central office or standing committee.
• A mechanism should be developed, again
through an appropriate central office, to Identify
women at UB who are quallOed for and Interested
In administrative and/or managerial positions.
• Leadership training programs should be devised
to facilitate the progress of those women In their
careers. An effort should be made to Identify and

celebrate cunent women leaders at UB, as well as
accomplished alumnae.
• Regular public ceremonies honoring women leaders In the faculty, staff, and student body should become an Integral part of annual university activities,
perhaps with named awards, slgniOcant Internal and
external pubUdty, and strong support of university
administrators, deans, chairs, etc. These events highlight the needs and the accomplishments or women,
and they provide the opportunity for women across
the university to become acquainted, to share general and specific Information about career paths, and
to focus their energies for the beneOt of all women
at UB. In the view of the Task Force, these lr.lnds of
events can serve as both powerful employee morale
boosters and a source of excellent Internal and external public relations for UB.

C. Subcommittee C: Charge 4
1. Charge 4: Methods for developing a
campus environment that is free of
sexual harassment
a. Introduction
The Task Force Subcommittee C sought "hard
facts • to help them assess the nature and magnitude of sexual harassment problems on the UB
campus. Institutional data on this Issue were not
available. To draw a picture of present circumstances and formulate recommendations, the Task
Force relied heavily on local expert consultants
from the Offices of Student Ufe and Affltmative Action, the UUP and CSEA, and the Law School. In
addition, Insights were derived from Informal surveys, careful scrutiny of campus publications, and
many anecdotal reports. To place the situation at
UB In an appropriate perspective, the Task Force
studied extramural reports from other universities,
scholarly reviews, and national media.

b. Existing st rategies
Sexual harassment Is a violation of federal law
(Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX or
the 1972 Education Amendment and Executive Order 11246). A New York State executive order and
the policies or the SUNY trustees also forbid sexual
harassment of employees and students. UB has a
comprehe.nslve policy that Is consistent with, and
In compllance with, state and federal guidelines. At
orientation, incoming students receive a dear written statement of t hose policies (prepared by the Affirmative Action Office); the Office of Student LUe
goes to considerable efforts to ensure that all students, male and female, are properly Informed on
the matter.
A number of weaknesses and/or limitations of
the existing strategies were Identified by aU the UB
consultants. First, there Is widespread Ignorance
among both men and women, faculty, students,
staff, and supervisors about federal law on workplace harassmen t. In particular, most people do not
realize that sexual harassment Is recognlud as a
form of Illegal discrimination, and that Illegal harassing behavior Is not llmited to well -&lt;Ieser! bed
quid pro quo behaviors, but Includes the creation
and maintenance of a hostile, Intimidating, or offensive work environment. Second, most lndlvtduals are poorly Informed about UB channels of grievance for alleged violations of the law. Third, those
reporting channels are overloaded and/or otherwise
Inadequate, especially for students. As a consequence, often only the most troublesome cases
and/or the most determined complainants are dealt
with. All local experts were In full and Independent
agreement that formal complaints and grievances
represent only a very small proportion of unacceptable behaviors.
Fourth, In the present system, the supervisors
and administrators responsible for the Hrst hearing
of complaints are themselves freque ntly poorly Informed about the law, and sometimes have personal conflicts of Interest that Interfere with an ol&gt;lective and balanced review of grievances. Victims,
with little conOdence In the reporting chan.nels, are

often reluctant to report Improper behavior, fearing
unsympathetic hearing, little or no action, and pos..
slble reprisals.
A variety or sources, Including wrttten.surveys of
graduate and undergraduate students and of UUP
members, provided clear evidence that harassment
can occur on campus In all work/study areas, and
may Involve faculty-faculty, faculty-student, student-student, and staff-staff relationships. At UB, as
elsewhere, the overwhelming malorlty of Inappropriate behaviors are directed against women, but
men may also be victims. Some student publications are distressingly Insensitive to the creation of
a hostile environment for women student.s. The
Task Force heard many anecdotes describing Instances of the use by faculty of sexist language and
off-color humor as a teaching device.
There was consensus among the expert advisors
to the Task Force that the otherwise excellent
sexual harassment policy at UB Is In urgent need or
a carefully crafted mechanism to ensure enforcement. The present system accomplishes little but
crisis management of the most overt problems, and
does far too little to encourage the deep-seated
charges In attitude and behavior that will be required to free UB of sexual harassment.
The expectations of American women for harassment-free wor.k settings have become markedly elevated In the last decade. Throughout the United
States, rates of complaints have Increased and the
propottlon or legal dectslons In favor of Victims has
also Increased, In many cases with substantial 0nandal compensation for the victim. Our consultants were In agreement that U UB does not respond
proactively to rapidly changing publlc standards of
behavior, the Institution will be at high risk for potentially embanasslng and possibly expensive legal
action .

c. Recommended strategies
Thert are now many models for effective university programs to develop a campus environment

that Is free of sexual harassment. The Task Force
recommends that development of a carefully
crafted, written program be an extremely urgent

priority for the academic year, 1996-97. Knowledgeable Task Force members should work to develop such a program together with other Interested and experienced parties, Including representatives of the Affirmative Action OfOce, Student Ufe,
the Counsellng Center, the UUP and CSEA, and the
Law School. The essential elements for a successful
plan are discussed below.

+

Education Is the most crudal factor for promot ing a campus environment that is free of sexual harassment. There ls widespread misunderstanding

about legal definitions of sexual harassment. Many
behaviors that were widely accepted In the past,
and well within old cultural norms, are now proscribed by the law. Education to recognize harassing
behavior Is especially needed In a community as diverse as UB, which comprises people of very different ethnic, socioeconomic, rellgious, and educational backgrounds. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators mwt be brought up-to-date on current
legal and social standards of sexual harassment.
Achieving communJty consensus on such a com plex and often emotional issue will require much
guided discussion and professionally supervised
training. In each unit, regular sessions should be Instituted to heighten awareness and Increase sensitivity to the workplace problems created by Inappropriate behaviors. QuaUOed, experienced professionals should conduct those sessions. Regular follow-ups to monitor the effectiveness of training
should be part of the educational program.
• A well-&lt;leOned mechanism for re~rtlng and
dealing with complaints should be developed. The
process must Include guarantees of full protection
and conOdentlallty for all parties. To establish the
credibility of the process and encourage conOdence,
scrupulous care must be taken to ensure that reporting channels are entirely free of conflicts of Interest. The process should be timely and efficient,
with an emphasis on achieving satisfactory Informal resolution at the lowest levels of reporting.
• An effective policy must Include the Imposition

of sanctions and/or disciplinary action when Informal resolutions cahnot be achieved. A sexual ha
rassment policy without • teeth" will be worse than
none at all .
4

• A program of Incentives and rewards should be
established to recognize units that take Innovative
and effective steps to develop and maintain a workplace free of harassment.
• A strong, unwavering leadership commitment Is
required to generate a truly harassment-free environment at UB . The attitudes, behaviors, and enforcement decisions of senior management will be
the key to effective strategies aimed at eliminating
Inappropriate behaviors.
• Regular monitoring of the UB climate should be
Instituted. A rigorous, formal, broadly based survey
should be conducted as soon as possible to establish a ~Une for existing community perceptions
about the magnitude and Impact of harassment.

�Regular follow-up studies should be conducted to
document Improvements, the effectiveness of education, and enforcement strategies, and to Identify
persistent trouble spots.

d. Summary and conduslons
• UB polldes on sexual harassment must be backed
with carefully, crafted'enforcement mechanisms that
protect victims and Impose sanctions on perpetrators. Development of timely, effldent mechanl5ms
to deal with harassment complaints should be an W ·
gent priority for the academic year 199&amp;-97.
• Educational programs, supervised and admlnls·
tered by trained, experienced professionals, should
be Instituted as soon as possible.
• A survey should be conducted to monitor
present community perceptions and attitudes, and
to provide a baseline for tracking improvements.

VI.
Recommendations
A. Introductory Comments
Compiling a succinct list of practical recommen dations from this very comprehensive review of the
sta tus of women at UB and sister institutions has
been a daunting ta sk. Several principles have
guided the final formulation .
• Consensus.-These recommendations reflect the
collective wisdom of the Task Force and represent
"the sense of the group.
H

• Practicality-These recommendations have been
formulated for their inherent achievabllity, given
current fiscal constraints and the inevitable slug~
gishness of administrative ma·c hlnery In academe.
• Spectflcity-These recommendations are highly
focused and timely. They are not an "all-time wish
list," but address urgent needs.

\

• Measurable Benefits for UB - We believe that
most of th ese recom mendations will promote the
long-term health and vitality of UB. Creating a distinctive woman~friendly environment should en~
\ cou rage talented women to choose UB as a place to
1 study and work. Public relations for alumnae/1 and
corporate giving could also capitalize on initiatives
for women.
The following section of specific recommenda~
tions is a summary restatement of material that has
been reviewed In detail in preceding sections of this
document. For full appreciation of the rationale and
justification of each recommendation, the reader Is
urged to review the relevant material In Sectlon V,
Results: Subcommittee Reports and Activities.

B. General Recommendations
As an overall recommendation, the Task Force
on Women at UB requests that President Greiner
extend the mandate of the Task Force until a permanent alternative is In place. There are many
models for administrative programs on behalf of
women In academic Institutions. Other.schools
have commissions, deans, vice presidents, and/or
standing committees, which function to
• maintain Intra- and extramural records and data,
• sponsor networking activities,
• serve as coordinators of activities and publicity,
• Increase unlverslty~wide awareness of women's
perspectives and workplace needs,
• ide~tify women leaderS, and
• conduct climate surveys.
The members of the Task Force on Women at UB
are now highly knowledgeable about the spectrwn
of permanent Institutional arrangements for an Offlee for Women. It Is essential for UB to devise a
strategy that reflects local administrative styles and
structures. For that reason, the details of such an ar·
rangement should be worked out by a committee of
appropriate representatives of the president, provost,
senior vice president, and other vice presidents, together with selected Task Force members. As a minimum, the permanent arrangement should Include
• a prominent physical location, with essential
support for telephones, mall, and other communication;

+ guarantees of convenient access to the highest
levels of university administration; and
+ a smooth transition from the present Task Force
to the permanent arrangement to maximize conti·
nulty and maintain the Impetus of ongoi ng efforts.

C. Specific Recommendations

(by charge)
Charge 1: University policies and

practices in hiring, advancing, and
compensating women faculty,
administrators, and staff
• Data describing the distribution, representation,
and compensation of women at UB should be collected regularly for biannual review. The tables and
graphs In this report should serve as models for
maintaining and updating those records.
• Aichlves should also be kept up-to-date of extramural reports on the status of women at other
North American universities.
• Responsibility for maintaining and updating
these data and archives should be assigned to the
Task Force/Office for Women.

Charge 2: Strategies for addressing any

inequities
• Salary disparities revealed In this report should
be rectified' as soon as possible. A financial plan
should be developed (and promulgated) to eliminate gender-based disparities within a reasonable
time (I.e., five years). The greatest disparities are
limited to a few units and/or payroll categories, and
affect a relatively small number of Individuals. Developing timetables for closing those salary gaps
would send a very powerful message about the
commitment to gender equity.
In our society, financial compensation Is a pow~
erful symbol of the value and respect we assign to
individuals and groups. Visible efforts to correct exIsting salary disparities would have a very positive
impact on the morale of all women employees at
UB and would go a long way toward developing a
perception that UB Is a woman~friendly Institution .

+ Specific plans, with targets, are needed to increase
the number of women in those work sites where
they are significantly underrepresented. Those plans
should be developed within each unit to accommodate spectallocal needs. but they should aim for sig·
nificant improvements in the foreseeable future . In
addition, those plans should be promulgated lo ensure that all employees within the unit are well in~
formed about them. Special attention should be paid
to those units with the greatest and/or most inappropriate gender disparities.
• Significant representation of women should be
required on all committees dealing with important
policy matters, Including promotion, hiring, resource allocation, honors and awards, etc.
• Extramural practices and policies should be
monitored by the Task Force/Office for Women to
ensure that UB does not lag seriously behind national standards and to recommend policies to
place UB In the avant garde.
• Existing programs to address inequities (the
President's Panel for the Review of Search Proce·
dures Reports, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty
Development) should be strengthened to Increase
their Impact on university policies, decisions, appointments, and promotions.

Charge 3: Improving the campus

climate for women, with full
consideration of the special needs of
diverse groups
• Adequate child-care facilities should be provided
on campus to meet existing demands. The Task
Force found that Improved child care was an extremely urgent priority for women In all UB constltuenctes. A North Campus day-care center was
Identified as a very pressing need. On-site day care
Is a highly visible symbol of an Institutional commitment to create a woman·friendJy environment .
As a public 'relations measure. investment In childcare fadlitles should have a rewarding payback In
recruitment of staff, faculty. and students.
• Personnel policies should be developed that are
friendly to caregivers, Including flexible work
schedules, job sharing, tenure clock stops, etc.
• National/Extramural observances about women
should be supported and celebrated as Important
events on the university calendar. Examples Include
Women's History Month. National Girls and Women
In Sports Day, and National Take-Our-Daughters-toWork Day. The Task Force/Office for Women should
have a central role In planning, coordinating, publidzlng, and promoting these events to ensure broadbased partldpatlon and successful outcomes.
• Women's studies and other academic programs/
research projects on gender should be strengthened
and expanded with moral and financial support.
UB has been in the forefront of studies on women
and gender since the early 1970s. Vigorous schol-

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arly programs In women's studies are recognized to
be an essential element In warming up the "chilly"
climate for women in academe. It Is critically lm·
portant that UB not lose the energy and vltallty of
existi ng programs, and that future planning permit
those programs to develop to their full potential.
• Athletics programs need more women as head
coaches and senior administrators. Promotion, publklty, and celebration of women 's athletic events should
be coordina ted through the Office for Women.

+ Positive Im ages of women should be Incorporated in to th e symbols, publicity, and advertisements that represent UB to the public and to potential donors. The unequivocal message should be
th at wom en at UB are welcomed, respected, valued,
and integrated in to all activities a nd function s.
• A formal , rigorous ca mpus-wide survey should be
co nducted to assess the current climate for women at
UB and to p r ovldt~ a base li ne for monito ring changes.

Charge 4: Methods (or developing a

campus environment that is free of
sexu.11 harassment
+ lkvt'lopmen t of a pracucal, univl·rsity·wid e
po ltcy o n 'e xual hara ssment shou ld be a major pno nt y fo r the academi c year 1996-97 . Task Force
mrmbt·r s hav e become well-informed about poliCl{'S
a nd practices elsew here; they ca n prov ide ex perti S('
(togeth er w11h o th er appropriate personnel) for de·
s1g ning po licies that are sui ted to UB Important elr ment s 111 th e fo rmu la ti on should In clud e
• proft•ss to nall y 'upervt sed cducat io nal /awan:ness
work shops;

+ adjudir t1on mechantsrn s free of all conflicts of
m terest;

+ specifi c, Hicient , a nd practical procedures 10 review co mp la

• adequate protection of the rights of all parties to
complaints;

for these kinds of Initiatives. The expertise of tho
Task Force should be shared with UB administration
to devise the most appropriate versions for us.

+ mechanisms for informal resolution of com·
plaints; and
• san ction s for Inappropriate behaviors.

ChargeS: Methods for identifying,

encouraging, and developing women
leaders
• Women should be well-represented in alJ university com mittees, search processes, policy-making
bodies, and awards and honors committees.

+ A co nsultant panel of senior women should be
constituted to aid In the Identificat ion of qualified
women for such comm ittee service, and to develop
and encourage female junim: colleagues to prepare
th emselves for university service.
+ Ca reer-development workshops, similar to the
successful workshop o rganized by the Task Force,
should be regul ar, freq uent events. Supervisors
should encourage and facilitate participation. The
Task Fo rce/Office for Women, representing all
women's constituencies, should play a central role
in o rganizi ng, planning, and eva luating these wo rkshops. Coope rati on and collaboration of the Offices
or th e Provost and Senior Vice President, and all
vice presidents will also be essential for the success
or these programs.
+ Specific initiatives should be institu ted for th e
pro mo tion of women 's caree rs. Some possibilities
include intram ural internships in administrative offices, financial Incentives to attend extram ural
traini ng courses, seminars and/or internships for
the acq ui si ti on of managerial skills, and competi·
tive financial award s to support ca reer-enhanci ng
research and /or ed ucation at UB or o utside. Oth er
institutions can provide us with successful models

ts;

• Activities should be promoted that Increase opportunities for women faculty, staff, and studonts to
develop career-enhancing • network" relationships.
UB participation In the national Take-Our-Daughters-to-Work event was an excellent example of
such an activity. Regular public ceremonies to identify and honor women leaders, highlighting their
accomplishments, would serve a similar networkJng
function .

Charge 6: Developing a process of

accountability at all levels regarding the
progress being made toward achieving
equity for women
• Strong, unwavering leadership decision s that facilitate, pro mote, and reward efforts to achieve gen der equity will be the key to an y process of accountability.

+ A database, similar to that presented in thi s report, should be main tained by th e Task Force/Offi ce
for Women.

+ Specific, timely plans and targets for achieving
ge nd er equity of representation and/or compensa tion should be fo rmul ated by in dividual units.
• Achievement of th ese targets shou ld be assessed
regularly, with clea r incentives and rewards fo r success.

+ Regula r, rigo rous surveys should be conducted to
monitor changing community perceptions of the
cli mate for women .
• Finally, the findings of this Task Force and subsequent updates shou ld be widely disseminated to
the UB community.

'

VII. Appendix*

T,nl&lt;. fnr&lt;l on Wumt•n .tt UR
M t nlhtntup Ru \h•r

Coduilr

Task Force M ee tings •
Diltt-

Bernice I(_ Noble

Guest(s)

Topic

Microbiology

Coch1lr

12/9 /94

Organization

President William R. Greiner

John M. Staley

Cora P. Moloney

1/10/9S

Demographics, Salary,
Affirmative Action

Ms. Barbara Burke, Sponsored Programs
Ms. Vivian Fe rnandez, Personnel Services
Ms. Loyce Stewart, Affirmative Action

2/3/9S

Hiring, Promotion
Review of Search Procedures
Board on Promotions and Tenure

Or. Margaret Acara, President's Panel for
the Review of Search Procedures
Dr. Mirdza Neiders, President's Review Board
Mr. Barry t&lt;:obrin, CSEA
Ms. Jan Moritz, UUP

Stoff
Kothleen L Ben:hoo
Ruth D. 8ryont

A.tdllt«tur~ and Planning

3/ 10/95

Organiza tion

4/ 7/95

Harassment, Student life

Ms . Barbara Ricotta, Office of Student life
Professor lucinda finley, School of law

4/ 28/9S

Academic Programs

Or. Hester Eisenstein, American Studies
Professor Isabel Marcus, School of law

S/ 19/9S

Clima te Issues

Dean l ouis Goldberg, School of Denta l Medicine
Dr. Paul Zaremblta, UUP

10/12/9S

3/lS/ 96

Mr. Nelson Townsend, Division of Athletics
Dr. Mary Ann Sharrow, School of Nursing
Ms. Pam Cardoza, University Development
Ms. Deborah Scott More, University Development

Athletics, Outreach,
Developme nt

Organ ization

won:

MU Member Institutions
C1leodar of Women's Activities, 1995

*Additional afcpendix material, which
includes the ollowing, is on reserve
at lockwood Memorial Library:

Child-Care Center Report
Half-EDttn,.,. Tobles
Ust of Extramural Reports
Ust of Tables
Newspoper Covorage
OrigiN! Presidentlll Announcement of
Tosk Fora Chlrgos
Questlonnolre
Tiike-Our-Diughten-to-Work Brochure 1nd Materiil
Task Force SubcommlttM Assignments
VOkes Worbhop Brochure

Offict ollht Viet Pmldtnt
ffx UnN&lt;Nity O.V.Ioprntnt
and Adwmarntnt

SUsan Hlmlen

Accounting and Law

Oonold Hendorson

R....,rch Htoring laboratory

Rkhlrd T. Hull

Pllllo10p/ty

Ruth Meyerowitz

Am&lt;rlaJn Studies

Judith K_ Mil~
)ennlfe&lt; L Roth

Dir«tor, Stotr PurdKnlng

Erwin M. Segli
Morgorlto Vorgos

~
ModtmLonguogn

Betty M. WIUilms

Aca&gt;untlng Strvicn

Unlv~rnll y St'IVICII'• ~bnury

199 7 C 1114·91

GtrltfOI Monogtr, WBFO·

and Utnotures

andR«Wds

Gina DeBI.ue-Trzyna
Gail Briuon
Gretchen E. Knapp
Jennifer l. Newk irk
Sharon O'Neill
Vivian Santora

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WIMilm C. Fischer

VICe PIO'f'Ost lot

Faculty Dtvtlopmtnt
Ellen McN11m11'11
Gr11du1te Asslst11nt
Sharon Oh-Willeke

AnlJtant Via Pmldent
for Humon R~ourcrs

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Secreloly
Bonilll M. Ryon

l'mdu«&lt;&lt; by llll' UniYl' ntl)' •I 8uf11lo O ffiCII' of f&gt;ubiH:•uorn. DI YU\on ol

Poyrolls.Mces

SuSIIn-Milrie. Fonzl

Studenu

• Thu is o r«&lt;fd oft~ pWnory snslotu o1 t~ Tad forcr on W~ ot UB. TM mojot
of tht ToU forcr wos conduct«/ at counrlrn subcommitrrr mnring~ and in formo/ ond lnlormol uouiom involving smalle-r groups of mtmbrn. ohm with porricipotion ol out groduotr oulstonts.

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                    <text>STATE UNI VE~ SI TY 0F NEW Y0·aI AT.BUFFAL0

UNIVIItiiTY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Yom

J.uw.try 30 1997 Volume 28 . No 18

Faculty urged to focus on
undergraduate education
IIJ
- Servtces
WUEI'CtiEII
News
Associate Director

U

B MUST DO A BETTER JOB of undergraduale educalion if il is 10 a11rac1

enough students to meet its enrollment targets, the university's t_o p admini~tra·
tor for undergraduate education told the Faculty Senate Exe.cuuve Commmee

at its Jan. 22 meeting.
'·1 ltis university can no longer continue to function with priorities that put un-

dergraduate education in second or third place: it has to come first." said Nicolas Goodman.
vice provosl for undergraduale education .
..lf we do not provide an educational experience for our students that the~ are willing to
pay for, !hen !hey will go elsewhere. If lhal happens. !hen lhe budge! of lhe universily will
shrink even fas1er !han il has in recenl years. and lhcqualily of everylhing we do will decline ...

Kathleen Howell, director of US's Art Illustration Program. Is shown at the opening Jan. 23 of the hot new elChlb~. •Art from Hell-i!le Ell! I Works of Illustration
Faculty, Students and Alurml. • Howell Is shown with her creation. the "Hell:
Make Your Owo' cookbook. on dlsp~ In the.Art Deeartment Gallery in the
Center lor the Arts. The exhibit opened with a 'deception' for Which- guests
were asked to "bring an offering for the deVIl" and·"dress Hke hell." It will continue through Feb. 11.

Goodman emphasized that faculty involvement is essential for any university to change
a culture that values research over teaching and graduate students over undergraduates.
"Each department and eac h program must urgently find ways to attract more students.
to treat its students better, to enable more students to succeed in its program and to make
the whole experie nce happier and more sati sfyin g for our students." he said. "Programs
that do not do that nrc a drain o n the institution that we can no longer afford .
"The truth is that , as we ofte n say. the university is the faculty ; only the faculty can
change the faculty culture," he said. "Only the faculty can exert the pressure on col·
leagues that will be required really to change uni versi ty priorities."

Goodman added: "Bill G.einel.IU!II Tom Headrick and Duvid Triggle and I have been
say ing for some time that the faculty must c hange their priorities or they wi ll be forced
by ex ternal circu mstances to change their priorities.
Continued on page 2

Graduation guarantee, UB software speeds mail service
co-op plan fOr engineers
11J EU.EN IIOUMIAUM

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equipment
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than 2 per·

News Services Editor

11J II&amp;UIIIIOUIUUM
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T

HE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has announced two major initiatives designed to improve the undergradu·
ate experience for its students.
Tlle school has instituted a "graduation guarantee" for
all entering freshmen and some new transfer students as of
fall 1997 and this summer will launch its first co-operative
education program.
The two initi ati ves are part of a continuing effort by the School of
Engi neering and Applied Sciences to stay competitive with peer insti·
tutions while responding to the c hanging needs of students as prospective employees of local and national busi nesses.
'"The guarantee and the new co-operati ve education program are two
important new components in the portfolio of opportunilies we are of·
feri ng 10 our sludeniS," said Mark H. Karwan, dean oflhe UB School of

Engineering and Applied Sciences. 'They demonstrale a conlinuing
commitment to our team of students, faculty, staff and corporate part·
ners to provide an excellent program of engi neering education."

The "gradual ion guaranlcc" is lhe firs! of i1s type 10 be offered a1 UB.

I

f students follow the prescribed program for their major and remain
in good academic sta nding, the engineering school guarantees that

lhey wi ll be able 10 complete !heir degrees on-time: in four years if
Ihey choose lhe slllndard four-year option or in four-and-a-half or five
years if 1hey choose lhe new co-op plan or Ihe fi ve-year oplion.
Any stude nt who meets these conditions and is unable to grad uate
o n time because courses are unavailable will be e nrolled in the neces·
sary course or courses tuition-free.
K.arwan explained that if students keep up their e nd of the educa·

1ional pannership. lhey should nol be prevenled from graduating on

BEGINNING THIS WINTER in
selected post offices across the
U.S .• handwrinen addresses on
envelopes will be read and interpreted by a sophisticated. new

cenl of all
handwrit ·
ten mail ,
according

1echnology developed a1 UB.
Funded by 1he U.S. Pos1al Ser-

10 1he Posl·

vice. the new Handwrinen Ad·

al Service.

dress lnlerprelalion (HWA I) lech-

SRIHARI

nology is expected to e nable the
Postal Service to realize substan ·
tial savings in its processing costs
because it reduces the need for

software will improve the autO·
mated reading of handwritten addresses by an order of magnitude.
Upgrades to the system in the nex t
six months will boost the success
rate even further.

manual keying.
It al so demon strates that re ·
searchers at US 's Center of Ex·
celle nce for Docu ment Analysis

and Rccognilion (CEDAR). who
developed and refi ned 1he lech·
nology during lhe pasl decade. are
nearing a sol ution to one of the
most difficult problems in artifi·
cial intelligence-reading human
handwriting.

CEDAR's

The HWAI soflware has been

inslallcd in 34 U.S. Postal Service
mail-processing and distribution
centers across the U.S. It is ex·

peeled 10 be installed in a IOial of
250 processing and distribulion
cenlers in lhe U.S. during 1997.
The HWAI lechnology ap·
proaches its task in steps. First. il
locales lhe address block on lhe

time because they can't get into required courses. In the event that
those courses are unavailable, the school will pick up the tuition tab
for the extra courses.
..With thi s guarantee, we are able to assure o ur student s who main·

for approx imalely 15-20 percenl

pans of lines. such ascily, slllle and
ZIP code. Then lbe software lries

Conlinued on page 2

of the entire mail stream, but

to read the numbers in the address.

read handwrjtten mail."
Handwritten addresses account

of computer science. executive
investigator.
He explained that becau!'e cursive handwriting tend~ to run to·
gether. it usually cannot be read
character by charac1er. the way
machine·printed addresses are
read by automatic mail sorters.
Instead. handwriting interpretation programs attempt to take the
whole image of a word and then
cond uct a pattern-matching process. matching the image wath a

tial test results have been out·

impossible-help posllll machines

said Sargur Srihari, UB professor
direclor of CEDAR and principal

slallding.

in general," said Edward Kueben.
manager of image and telecommunications technology at the Postal
Service. "II will do lhe seemingly

correc1 address of I he mail piece.
which is then imprinted with a bar
code to be read by subsequent automatic mail sorters either at the
same post office or other post of·
fices as it ~ravels to its destination:·

process dail y seve ral million
pieces of mail with handwritten
addresses. with virtually no hu·
man intervention.

The Po.tat Service says ini-

jor slep forward. nol only for lhe
Pos1al Service. bul for lechnology

" The ..... of ell thl• reading is
for the computer to detennine 1he

H automatically will ralld and

integrated into the a utomated
mail·processi ng system using a
Remote Compu ter Reader.
Thi s enhance ment has been

'"11lis project represe nts a rna·

Slarting wilh lbe ZIP code and pro-

ceeding to th ~ street number and
even post office box number, if
there is one. This interpreted address is matched against a druabase
of valid. deliverable addresses for
the act ual solution.

mail image. Next. the address is
divided into lines and then into

lis1 of words lhal look like i1.
The problem, he explained.

IS

that if the list of ~1\ible matches
the program comes up with is very
long. it becomes unworkable.

"'CEDAR's principal discovery
was in mak ing th e lisl small
enough so that word recognition

wou ld be successful:· Srihari said .
Conlinued on page 2

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2

Native Americans.

people thought they were immune," said
Arthur Michalek, UB associate professor
of sociaJ and preventive medicine and lead
author on the studies.
"As Iale as 1950. cancer still was nolan
important health issue. But il is a growing
menace now, largely because of an increase
in life expectancy. In I 950, 1ife expectancy
for American Indians was 30 years less than
for whiles. They didn ' t live long enough
IO heal risk."
The findings come rrom surveys or state
health departments and directors of NativeAmerican Health centers in cities and on
reservations across the U.S. The studies
we"' conducted by researchers from UB
and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, with the
aid of Native-American cancer-rontrol programs in Denver, Colo., and Rockville, Md.
Michalek, who is director of education
al Roswell Park, said the results predict se·
rious ruture consequences for these popu-

lations... Many tribes and agencies that
work with tribes don't have an appreeia·
lion for the growing magnitude of this
problem. Through these studies we hope
to raise the level of awareness of the cancer problem in Indian country, and to try
lo bring their perceptions into balance with
the reality."
A study on lribal·based cancer control
activities appeared in Cancer, the Journal
of the American Cancer Society, while an
urban -based study was published in the
Journal of Canc&lt;r Education .

M;chaJel&lt; noted that cancer i• Slill not the
No. I killerofNaliveAmericans-«lcidenls
and injuries bold that position-but it is a
growing health coocem and steps .-1 to
he taken, one pf which is more raeardl, to
proiC(:t cUJTCnl and futur-e generations.
''These sllldies say to researchen •If you
wanllo do something that will hove a public health impact. this is il. '"he said. Such
studies must be sensitive to cultural mores, he noted, and will require researchers
lo stay involved long enough to belp na·
live populations implement and evaluate
new programs.

• Tribal health directors ranked cancer
fifth in importance out of seven health
problems afflicting Native Americans, af.
1er alcoholism, diabetes, injuries, and car·
diovascular disease.
• Urban-based directors also ranked
cancer ftfth. but included AIDS in their lop
five health concerns.
• Cancer ranked sixth in funding allol·
led lo combating serious health conditions
by tribal health directors.
• Only 33 percent of urban health di·
rectors and 53 percent of tribal health di·
rectors were aware that cancer deaths are
increasing among Native Americans.

A were Martin C. Mahoney. from the UB

slart a dialogue." UB should he making a
"long-run commitment to the kinds or
changes thai will improve the quality of what
we do, both undergraduale and graduate and
then you have lo balance the graduate and
undergraduate," Greiner said.
He called undergraduate education "our
rranchise mission-that's what the people
of the Stale of New York pay us for first"
But, he stressed, taxpayers also want undergraduate education "that is of the type
you would expect from an institution of
our type, which is a university, and I think
that oughllO be a differenllype and quality and character of education than of the
type of education you would expect to get
in a college ... and that's where our graduate and research mission comes in."
Jack Meacham, professor of psycho!·
ogy, questioned how raculty members will
react to statements that undergraduate education is the top priority or the university.

"Quite frank.ly, if I carry those messages
ing alicut here is gelling a 101 of faco-to-1\r:e
back 10 my colleagues I'll be mel with a
l8ll:ing dOne." he said.
fair amount of skepticism: some"will just
Robert Palmer, vice president for student
laugh al me, some will jusl tum away and
affairs. told senators the university. has an
not even continue the conVersation," enroUment l8rgd fortheooming fall of about
Meacham said, noting thai faculty think the 24,000, including 2,700 ftrst·lime freshmen
university's mission "has to do with re- and 1,700 transfer students. With the numsearch grants and graduate education."
. her of applications in both categories dec lin~
iu:bell Harwitt, associate professor ing, meeting those tatgets will be "a Slrell:h,"
Palmer said. He n01ed that at this point in
of economics and chair of the Fac
the ealendar year. the Office of Admissions
ulty Senate Admissions and Reten·
will concentrate on three area.~: increasing
lion Commiuee, compared UB to a axpora·
the number of applications from transfer
tion thai is rapidly losing marl&lt;cl share and
students;
increasing the yield of freshmen
needs to change "theaxporateculture." One
and increasing the yield of transfers.
technique thai wOtb, he said, is an effort by
''We lhinl&lt; we can do the job of getting
the administration of the company 10 involve
individual decision·mak~n this case. the
euoughapplicalioos; when theWs! settles. we'll
have over 20,000 applicalions. We will acx:ep1
facuhy-in things like quality circles and
change circles. Instead of issuing orders from
enoughSiudenlslO~&lt;UiarFt" ifwe'n: look·
the lop down, the company, he said, shculd go
ing ala yieldof24 pen:aa." he .rud. Follow-up
into an "intensive communicalion...OO.Ieaming
wilh aocepled snxlenls hy deans and facuhy, he
mode to sort out issues. llhinl&lt; what we're 1811:·
t1Cied, will be crucial to int=sing the yield. •

Cancer a growing health concern
ar LOIS 11A11E11
News Services Editor

C

ANCER IS 1liESECOND lead·
ing cause of death among Ameri·
can-Indian and Native-Alaskan
women and the third leading
cause among American-Indian
men. according 10 available statistics.
While cancer deaths between I973 and
I990 increased 4 percent in the general
populalion . they increased I 0 percent
among American lnd ians, who have the
poorest cancer survi val rates of any racial
group in the United States.
Yet. providers of health care to these

populations give cancer a low priority and

commit few funds to its prevention, the first
~ tudies assessing cancer control programs
for Native Americans. conducled by University nt Buffalo researchers. have shown.
.. At the tum of the century. cancer was
so rare amo ng American Indi ans th at

n.,oy--

~tional researchers on the studies

Department of Faniily Medicine, and
Martha Tenney and Unda Burhansstiptnov
from the Native American CancerResean:b
Program in Denver, Colo.
Nat Cobb, of the Cancer Prevention and
Conuol Program. Indian Health Service,
Rockville. Md .. also participated in the ur·
ban-based study, and Deanna Tome, from
Roswell Patk, contributed 10 the tribal·
based study.
'The research was supponed by a Na·
tiona! Cancer lostitule Cancer Education
Grant.
•

FSEC
Continued from page 1

"Those e~te mal circumstances have arnved," he stressed. "We no longer have the
luxury to neglect our undergrnduate students.

If we do not do a bener job of laking care of
these young people and if we are 1101 perceived
of doing a hener job, they will not come."

D

ennis Malone. SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
noled Goodman's use of the word "pen:eplion"
"'vcml times in his I'Cill8lb, calling il critical to
the issue. "Because. in a sense. il reolly doesn't
maner as much as we wish il would what the situotion is :rrually here; what""'""' is what il is )JCI'cei ved to he here.•• Malone said.
He said thai when he's talked to Slltdents at
other institutions about their perceplioos ofUB,
he's been told thai UB is big and imper.;ooal and
that the faculty must be more involved wilh undergraduates. Moreover, Malone said, those SIU·
dents perceive thai in the sciences. lower-divi·
sion Slltdents are lallghl in large numbers hy fac·
ulty and teaching ao;siSlants (fAs) who do 1101
speak English well. ''The data probably show
thai in fact thai is 001 nearly so lJUe as you might
think. Nevertheless. it is damn well the perception." he said.
In the short term, there are "draconian"
~o luti o n s that could be undertaken, such as
nol using TAs who do nol speak English
well in lower-division courses, he noted.
·-thai in volves a big change," he said.
""The questio n is. are you willing to do it'?
Arc we willing 10 pay that price?"
President William R. Greiner told senators
Goodman's remarks were a "great piece to

SOFTWARE
Continued from page 1

The program co nstrains the list of possibl e words th at match by first recognizmg the ZIP code and then the street num·

be r on th e add ress, ex plained Venu
Govindaraju. CEDAR assoc iate director.
"There are only a small set of street
names that will correspond to both the
' treet number and the ZIP code," he said.
The mai n architects or the technology
an: Srihari. GovindarajU and CEDAR research scientists Paul Palumbo: Evelyn
Kleinberg; Ajay Shekhawal; John Favata
and Gyeonghwan Kim, as well as several
former CEDAR researchers.
During the past five years. hundreds or
undergraduate and graduate students at UB
and postdoctoral researchers al CEDAR
have contributed to the success of the
HWAI system.
•

M

ENGINEERING
Continued from page 1

tain good academic performance that they
will not be delayed from gelling lheir de·

grees beca use courses arc unavai lable,·· he

added. "Course availability has uaditionally
not been a problem with our curricujum, so
that having this type or guarantee is very
natural for us."
He said rhat in introduci ng the guarantee,
the UB School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences is joining some or its peer institutions that are introducing similar measures. MARK H. KAIIWAN
The school's guarantee is dependent on
srudents following the engineering req uire·
ments as described in the undergraduate catalog and remaining in
good academic standing. also as described in the c a~alog .

T

low for creation of a co-op .,ro'gram," said
Karwan. ··we are proud to announce this
major initiative beginning in May."
He noted that a unique aspecllo US's
engineeriflg e&lt;Hlp program is lhe UB Engi·
neering Career Institute (ECI). which will
be mandatory for all co-op students.
.The inslilule, now in its third year, provides students with intensive '1xx&gt;t camp..
type classes during which industry leaders
teach them important corporate survival
skills not covered"in academic course work.
ECI will continue 10 offer·summer employ·
ment experiences for engineering students who have finished their
junior year.
"The pre-employment classroom wort involved in lhe Engineer·
ing Career Institute affords our students the opportunity 10 learn the
soft skills they' ll.-! to be successful on the job, such as teamwori&lt;.
leadership, entrepreneurialism, problem-solving, time-managemen~
communications and lOla! quality managemen~" said Karwan.
During the co.Op e&lt;perience, each student could enm as much
as S I 8,000 while gaining the perspective and experience thai only
full-lime employment can provide.

"Course availability has...
not been a problem with
our curriculum, so that
having this type ofguarantee is very natural for us. "

ransrer Students will haVe to work with their advisors to lind
out whether or not they are eligible ror the guarantee.
While only entering rreshmen ·and some new 1ransfers will be
covered by the guarantee. the co-operative f!ducation program will
be available beginning in May to most UB engineering students
who have completed the junior year.
Under the program, students will he able to supplement their
academic work with nearly a year or paid, rull-time work experience in their chosen fields at engineeri ng firms. Participation in
the co-op program will extend by only half a year the lime II takes
for students to get their four- year degrees because two of the three
work experiences will take place during the summer.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is in the process
of identifying companies 10 participate in the program. Representa·
lives of companies interested in participating in the ctHJP program
are being invited 10 a meeting lo he held al UB on Feb. I 8.
··Both our corporate partners and our stodents have asked if we
could build enough flexibi lity into our academic program to al-

'l'bis summer, students in the departments of Electrical and Com·
I puler Engineering. Industrial Engineering and Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering who have completed the junior year will
be eligible for lhe C&lt;H&gt;J&gt; program. 'The first co-op won: experi·
ence will begin June 9 and run through September. the second
begins in September and runs through mid-January and the third
runs from mid·May until the end of August.
In its first year, the program will cona:nlrate on companies in
Western New Yori&lt;. 'The plan is 10 include eventually other compa·
nies throughout the stale and the U.S.
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PB leader in NSF program to increase minorities in scienCes
IIJIU.III--News Services Editor

"UB ho.s a rich array of
programs for minorities,
but in order to be truly effective, these programs
need additional support. "

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HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo
bas been selecwl as the lead institution in the region to panicipate in a new National Science
Foundation program designed to
increase the number of underrepreseowl
minorities in the physical sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Under the State University of New York
(SUNY) Alliance for Minority Participation, a new five-year, $5 million program,
UB isexpecwltoreceiveatOialof$1 million. The university has received $200,000
in funding for the first year.
By the end ofthe five years, UB expects
to see an increase in the number of minor·
ity undergraduates in these areas, as well
as in the number of minority students who
go on to graduate school in these fields.
The idea behind the SUNY Alliance is
to provide and strengthen alliances between programs for minority students that
already exist at SUNY institutions so that

more students can be accommodated.
"With this grant, we are trying to change
the face of science,'' said John Staley, headmaster of Corn P. Maloney College at UB,
and principal investigator on the grant.

He noted that a recent report by the U.S.
Department of Education showed that out
of a total of nearly 78,000 bachelor's degrees awarded in engineering in 1993.
3.700 were earned by African-Americans

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and 2,900 by Hispanics.
A report in Sci•nc• magazine stated that
in the U.S., minorities earn a "tiny" proponion of science and engineering Ph.O.s,
only 5.9 percentofthosecooferred in 1992.
Statistics at UB reflect this national trend,
according to Staley. On the undergraduate
level UB 's School of Eogjncering and Applied Sciences graduates about 20 minority
students each year, out of a typical class of
about 400 students. A handful of minorities
graduate each year with degrees in mathematics. Statistics are similar at the other SUNY
institutions and across the U.S.. Staley said.
rexel Gidney, director of engineering minority programs at UB and
co-investigator on the grant, noted
that many activities providing academic and
pre-professiooal support to minorities already
exist at UB. He cited C-STEP (College Science and Technology Enrichment Program).

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the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate
Achievement Program. and active student
chapters of national societies. such as the

National Society of Black Engineers and the
Society of Hispanic Engineers.
"UB has a rich array of programs for minorities. but in order to be 1ruly effective.

these programs need additional suppon," he
added. citing the decline in state funding that
the programs hove seen in recent years. '"The
goal of this grant is to serve as a cntalyst in
linking all of these programs so that we can
expand the numbers of students we serve.··
Minority programs throughout SUNY
have seen recent declines in state funding,

Staley noted. "By making snoogerconnections
between programs that already exist."" he
added, "this grant allows us to leverage the
opportunities available for mioorities at UB."
The SUNY Alliance for Minority l'ruticiJl'l-

tion will focus on two areas. The fm;t is ocademic support services. such as specialized tu-

toring in engineering. math and science. It also
will inchdethe fonnationofstudy groups. where
studentsoolluboraleand Jearn from one another.
" At UB, we have found tt.lt the most successful students are those who study with other students." said Staley.
'The second area of focus is e nrichment
of the academic experience through placement in internships in campus-based research
projects or at local technology compariics.

s pan of the grail~ UB also will host
an annual statewide conference of
gruduau: and professional schools

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geared toward minority

st ud~nts

through·

out SUNY. The 1997 conference will be
held in April.
In addirion to increasing the number o f
minority students at the undergraduate level
in science, mathematics, eng ineering and
technology. the SUNY Alliance is expected
to increase their representation at the gradu·
ate level by enlarging the pipeline of minor-

ity undergraduates in these areas.
In addition to UB. the un iversity centers

at Binghamton and Stony Brook, and the
State University College at New Paltz arc the
other lead institutions in the state. Each will
work with a four-year and/or community
college in its region to strengthen programs
for minorities in the phys ical sciences. math·
ematics and technology. UB will work with
the State University College at Buffalo.
A regional board of advisors. with mem·
bers from the academic and husiness com·
munities, is being formed .
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Buckle to·be deputy vice chancellor at Auckland university
11J l!lUN IIOlHAUM
News Services Editor

AFTER SERVING FOR EIGHT YEARS

as deputy director of the National Center

for Earthquake Engineering Research at
UB , Ion G. Buclde. man who haS made a
career out of studyi~g such down· to-earth
problems a5 howlo'keep britfges standing
during earthquakes, has decided to take a
broader approach to research.
BuckJc. whohas~·as UB professor of
civil engineering since 1989, has nccepled the
position of deputy vice chancellor for rese:ucl1
at the University of Auckland. New Zealand.
A native of New Zealand. Buckle received
his bachelor's degree in engineering nod his
doctorate in civi l engineering from the Uni·
versity of Auckland. RJr 14 years. he taught in
the university's civil engiruring department
"UB is losing a great faculty member and
rhe center is losing a great deputy direcror:,"
said George C. Lee, director of NCEER.
"but it's a terrific opponunity for Or. Buckle.
This is a new beginning for him."
Buckle is one of the world's leading ex peru
in seismic·isolation technology and an au·
thority on the seismic performance of highway
bridges. However, a senior administrntive
post in ncadernia has long been one of his goals.

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He nDted that- bctor that attracted
him to NCEER was the chance to Jearn more
about academic administration by working
alongside the late Roben Ketter, the former
UB president, educator and administrator,
who was the center·s first director.
"Bcing at NCEER has providod me with a
tremendous opponunity to improve my administrative ski Us by waiting with UB's presiden~
vice presidents and other senior administrators. and in intanclingataseniorlevel with leaders at other large. prestigious institutions in the
center's research consortium." he said.
Lee noted that Buckle's administrative
and research contributions to NCEER will
be missed and he said he was pleased that
Buckle will continue to work on NCEER's
Federal Highway Administration grant.
Since 1992, Buckle has performed in a
leadership role on the $14.2 million highway projects, which suppon studies on the
vulnerability of federal-aid highways,
bridges and tunnels to eanhquakes and
which provide for the development of new

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and des ign re ·
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Buckle expressed pride in
loo~ing back on

NCEER .
"NCEER has
been a pio neer

Buckle is not the only member of the family
that UB will miss. His wife. Shirley, has worked
tirelessly on behalf ofUB and Buffalo event&lt; as
a member and Jl'ISI president of the UB mmcn 's
Oub. She was instrumental in planning and cxecutinga World University Games gala. as well
as the club's Celebrate SO event and a gala
evening in conjunction with the Bernice Pos.~i
Memorial Concert. which raised more than
SIO.&lt;XXl for the Center for the An.o;,

.. We will miss her dreadfully as a friend
and as pan of a team because she's been
invaluable.'" said Janet Fedor. immediate
past presi dent of-the Women ·s Cl ub.

Both of the Buckles' children""' UB stu,
dents. Bronwyn will graduate thi&lt;spring with
a degree in political science. Her sister. Sa·
rah. has just completed her freshman year in
civil engineering at UB and will conti nue her
education at the University of Auckland. •

as a un iversity·

based center
cond ucting problem ~ focused resea rch ,'' he
said. "One of its major contributions has
been to improve the se ismic performance
o f lifelines. Before the center existed. very
little work was done on lifelines: now it"s
a major area o f activity for eanhquake e n·
gineers." Lifelines are the ne twork of sys·
te rns that di sperse energy and water and
provide transponation and ot her criti cal
services in population centers.
NCEER also has made major. technical inoovntions in protective systems for structures.

Buckle said. noting that it is through these developments that the center has strengthened its
collaborntions with industrial panncrs such as
WM Corp.• 3M Corp., Enidinc Corp. and Taylor Devices, arnoog others.
"The center also he• ....bll ...... a
very strong constituency in the eanhquake
community and has proven itself a model
for conducting multidisciplinary research."
he said. " We are one of the few ce nters that
has bridged the gnp between engineers and
social scientists. We have successfully used
teams of researchers involving se ismologists, engineers. economists and social sc i·
enlists to determine the economic and social impacts of earthquakes."
In addition to his administrative post. Buckle

has been appointed professor of civil engineering at the University of Auckland.
RJr Buckle. an added attrnctioo of returning
to New Zealand is the proximity to his ex.
tended family; save for his immediate family, all of hi s relatives li ve in New Zealand.
Since 1984, he has lived and worked in the
U.S .. [m;t as diredor of research and development at Computech Engineering Services and
then as vice president of enginc.cring for Dynamic Isolation Systems. both in Berkeley. Calif. He began working at NCEER in 1989.

Nayler accepts post at tbthwestem

R

ONALD NAYLER, associate vice president for
university faci lities si nce 1991, has accepted a
pos iti on as associate vice president for facilitie
management at Nonhwestem Un iversity. He will

be leavi ng UB at the end of March.

At UB. Nay ler has provided leadership for a staff of 650
peopl e responsible for all facili ties·related services. Manag·
ing an an nual budget of $35 million. he has supervised units
responsible for facilities planning and design. construction
manage ment. space management. en9ironmental health and
safety. facilities operati ons and admi ni strative services.
Nayler also has been respon sible for leadi ng UB's en vi·
ron mental effons. as well as all campus planning acti vities. the campus· sponsored rehabilitation program . assign·
ment of space and negotiation and management of all uni versity leases.
Nayler spearheaded the uni versity's SIS million energy .conservation pmject. tht: largest
and most comprehensive such effon ever undena ke n by a university in the United States.
As pan of the project, he negotiated new e nergy rates that have saved U B more than $2
milli on a year.
is other accompl ishments at UB incl ude oversee ing design and con.,aruction of the
new $54 milli on Biomedical Research Building on the South Campu'\.
"We will mi ss Ron at UB. He has provided a clear vision a nd stron g leadas hip for
university facilities. He has been an innovato r a nd a superb man ager:· ~a id Robcn J.
Wagner. UB se nior vice president. "Even within a declining ope rating budget. he h:d an
effon that improved the level of o ur service to our st udents. facuhy a nd 'taff. and de·
voted increased resources to the training. career development and equ1ppi ng of \taff m
uni versity facilities.
" In addition. Ron is always willing to put institutional goa ls at the forefront. Fnr all
that he has done, Ron has o ur admiration and thanks."
Nay ler came to UB from the University of Massachu sens in 1989 U!\ a'"'tunt \ltc=
president for facilities planning and design.
According to Wagner, a commiuee will be formed shonl y to fill the po'\1t1un of asso·
date vice president for university faci lities within the next fo ur months. In the mean time. Mi chael Dupre, director of facilities :lnd systems maintenance. will ~erve as o1cting
associate vice president.
" Mike's talent and expenise have been recognized and appreciated by all who h av~
worked with him."" Wagner said. "'Mike has been repeatedly promoted and asked to as sume greater responsibility within Facilities. I am very pleased that Mike has ag~ed to
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Making Waves
Youni

_,.,_.at UB urn -a.lm

8J I'ATWICIA DONOVAN

News Services Editor

S

EVERAL DOCTORAL students
in the Composition Program in the
UB Oepartment of Music have received notable honors and critical
acclaim from institutions in the United
States and Europe.
The students. from the U.S., Argentina,
lsmel and Korea, all came to UB to study
under composer David Felder. Felder, chair
of the Department of Music and director
of the Composition Program. has a distinguished international reputation in new
mus ic composition. He directs the annual
JUNE IN BUFFALO Festival and Conference for emerging compose~ at UB.
Eric Oiia of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
is one of two composers selected this month
from an international field of more than 400
candidates to receive a commission from
the Ensemble Inter Contemporain. a performance group now in residence at
IRCAM , the world-renowned Parisian insti tution for the research and performance
of new music.
Oi\a recently completed two other distinguished com mi ssio ns, one from the
Stuttgart Opera and another from the Nieuw
Ensemble of Amsterdam, the premier new
mu sic performance ensemble of the Netherlands. Oiia recently recorded for German
Radio in Cologne. and last summer made
his conducting debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Amy Williams of Buffalo has received
a nomi nation for the prestigious Charles
lves Award of the American Institute of Arts
and Letters. A visi ting faculty member this

spring at Bennington College. Williams'
recent composition for string quartet received rave reviews in the German publication Neue :Uirung. She is the daughter
of Jan Williams. a percussionist with an
international reputation in new music performance and a UB emeritus professor of
music.
The work of Eliav Brand of Tel Aviv,
lsmel, has been singled out in publications
mnging hom "20th Century Music" to the
daily newspaper of Bremen, Germany, as
the most accomplished work presented
among the 60 new compositions performed
during the 1996 JUNE IN BUFFALO Festival. Brand's composition ... Studies of
Fragmenting VU," was "'ferred to by German critic Hans-Theo Woblfabrt as "stunning, ecstatic and groundbreaking."

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oo Ran Jeong of Korea has received
the first honomble mention in the International Composers' Competition sponsored by Holland's Gaudeamus Foundation. Her prizewinning work, the percussion quanet ··cell," was premiered in
Buffalo by the Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble. In recognition of her award, Jeong
has received a commission for a new work
for chamber orchestra that will receive its
premier performance in Amsterdam in the
fall.
Jonathan Golove of Los Angeles, a
Woodburn Fellow at UB, recently completed a commission from the Amherst
Saxophone Quartet that will receive several performances this spring. Golove is a
cellist who frequently performs in the cello
section of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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National:conference on classics
studies will honor John Peradotto
8 J PATRICIA DONOVAN

News Services Editor

T

HE UNIVERSITY OF Georgia has
announced that it will .sponsora na·
tion a! co nfere nce in March in
honor of John J. Pemdotto. Andrew
V.V. Raymond Professor of Classics and
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
at the University at Buffalo.
The colloquium, "lnterdisciplinarity and
the Classics," will take place March 7-9 at
the University of Georgia Museum of Art,
, Athens. Ga. It will feature presentations by
more than 25 scholars from classics and
related fields including anthropology, art
history, hi story and comparative literature.
The topic will be interdisciplinary studies
in theory and practice.
Peradouo. an internationally recognized
Homeric scholar and former president of
the American Philological Association. will
be recognized for more than three decades
of teaching and scholarship and in particular for his pioneering work with the journal Arerhusa, which he edited from 197595 and which continues to serve as major
forum for the discussion of interdisciplinary work in classics. Upon hi s retirement
from that position he was given an award
us Distingui shed ~etiring Editor.

P.

erudotto has also served as the ge neral
editor of the SUNY Pn:ss Classical Series and is a former fellow of Harvard
University's Center for Helleni c Studies in
Washington, D.C.
Highly regarded as a teacher as well, he
has been a recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for
Teaching. the most distinguished teaching
award bestowed by the New York state
university system.
Hi s publications include "Classical
Mythology: an Annotated Bibliographical

Survey," "Man in
the Middle Voice :
Name and Narration in the Odyssey" and 22 edited
volumes including
''Women in the An·
cient World: The
Arethusa Papers."
He has a lso published many anicles
on myth, epic and tragedy.
His works in progress include a booklength study of assumptions underlying
200 years of classical philology: a study
of prophecy, narrative and ideology in
Homer and the Greek tragedians and a text book-anthology for use in courses on Greek
myth.

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eradotto has lect ured at more than a
bundled colleges, univetsities and classical associations throughout the country as
well as abroad, and delivered the prestigious
Charles Beebe Martin Lectures at Oberlin
College in 1986. The classical journal Helios
dedicated an issue to him in 1977.
The colloquium ij hosted by the University of Georgia with grants from its Department of Classics. Humanities Center
and Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Additional support was provided by the College of Wooster. the Uni versity at Buffalo and the University of
Georgia Museum of An.
Among those scheduled to present are
Helen Bacon, Simon Goldhill , Maril yn
Katz, David Konslan, G"'gory Nagy. Peter Rose, Joseph Russo and Froma :Uitlin.
Re spondents are Ivan Karp. Michael
Herzfeld, Charles Segal and Laura Slatkin.
An additional 16 workshop participants
include Martha Malamud, associate professor of classics.
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University at Buffalo Campus Recycling Policy
.......
The Universi[¥ at Buffalo, as a matter of sound management
principles, seeks to identify practices which involve damage to the environment and to encourage oew pnctices
thai are consistent with environmental protection.
The UB Senior Officers Coosemotion PoUcies and Procedures statement was adopted io 199S by the University's
Administrative Group. .This policy swes that "all paper
that can be recycled (including shredded paper) should be
recycled." It also endorses the use of recycled paper and calls
for the adoption of waste minimization strategies.
In 1993, UB's "Campus Worl&lt;JProductioo Processes Policy" was approved and
stated that the university "will constantly strive to promot~and publicize the implementation of work/production processes which maximize the use of recycled products. minimize or eliminate waste, seek economies and effic.iencies. and reduce
the consumption of energy." This policy implies a commitment to recycling, as
does existing state law and "'gulation.
The New York State SoUd Waste Management Act of 1988. established the state
policy on waste reduction, "'use and recycling. The New York State Solid Waste
Management Plan has M:r a stafewide waste reduction and recycling goal of 50
percent by 1997. To successfully implement this policy, state agencies must play a
leadership role. Executive Order 142, issued January 1991 , directs state agencies
to initiate waste reduction and recycling activities in all state-owned or leased facilities. Additionally, this order mandates that state agencies use recycled paper for
letterhead and other paper uses unless a suitable recycled paper product is not
available or the cost of the recycled paper product exceeds the cost of the nonrecycled paper by more than 10 percent.
l'ollc)'

The university seeks to maximize the recycling of waste materials. Our initial objective is to achieve a minimum level of 50 percent recycling of our solid waste
stream established to guide the continual improvement of our program.
This policy is also posted on the UB University Faciliries World Wide Wt'b site at
&lt;http:llwings.buffa/o.edulserviuslfacl&gt;.

Dyson elected to second term as
president of Archaoological Institute
8J I'ATWICIADONOVAN

News Services Editor

St ephen L Dy11011, swot- ....t c ...lr ol the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, was elected to his
second two-year tetm as president ol the Archaeologicallnst~
tute ol America (AlA} at the 98th annual meeting ol the AlA In
New York on Dec. 29.
The AJA has roore than 10,000 members and is the oldest
and largest archaeological organization in North America. The
mganization publishes the American Journal of Archaeology
and Archaeology magazine and sponsors conlerences. colloquia and lectures throughout the United States.
Dyson is a specialist in Roman archaeology, Roman social
and economic histOtY and archaeological theoly and has participated in fteldwotk in
Italy, Sardinia, France and the United States. He has received many academic honots
during his career. including severallellowships and tesearch grants from both the National Endowment lor the Humanities and the American Council ol Laamed Societies.
A Iarmer president of the Classical Society ol the American Academy in Rome.
Dyson has lectured widely at universities and archaeological conlerences throughout
the U.S. and his research is published extensively in archaeologicaljoumals.
He has held his present position at UB since t991 and previously taught at
Wesleyan University, Yale University and the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.
He is a summa cum laude graduate ol Brown University with highest honots in classics and in 1961 received a d iploma in classical arcllooOiogy 'from Oxlord University
(England} as a Fulbright scholar. He holds a master's of arts degree and a Ph.D. from
Yale University.
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.,University
. opens first fiber.oplic distance leaning Classroom
News Sefvices Editor

T

HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo bas
opened its firSt fiber-optic, realtime distance learning classroom.
Located in 200G Baldy Hall
on UB's North Campus, it is a
completely inleriiCtive, full-motion video
learning and conferencing center.
The $160,000 facility was funded and developed principally by a COD&amp;Ortium made
up of the Sehool of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Office of the Provost and Graduate stbooJ of Education. It is available for
use by any UB academic department
The fir.ncourse to be offered live via the
new facility is a gnuluate cOurse on publicschool finance taught by Austin Swanson,
professor and chair in the Depanment of
Educational Administration, _Organization
and Policy in the Graduate School of Education. Graduate students will participate in
the class via distance-learning labs at Pioneer High School in Arcade and Franklin
Elennentary School in Olean.
The special classroom, linked to a satellite site in Bell Hall, was designed and
implemented by Engineering Computer

Services under the supervision of Lisa
Stephens, lead technician on the project.
It is designed to accommodate the needs
of EngiNet. the state-wide learning netwo rk that connects SUNY engineering
schools with one another and with indus-

tries throughout the state.
Engineering classes for up to 45 students are now produced in the Baldy lab
and distributed under the auspices of
EngiNet to the SUNY universities.at Stony
Brook and Binghamton and the SUNY
College at New Paltz, all of which have
engineering departments. UB receives
tapes of classes taught at the other SUNY
institutions.

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urrently. four EngiNet courses are
offered through the new lab, taught
by Christina Bloebaum and Joseph

Mook, assistant professor and associate

professor. respectively. in the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering;
Cemnleuin Basaran. assistant professor of
civi l engineering. and John Zahorjan, adjunct professor of industrial engineering.
The lab link s with the campus-wide
cable system. so that information can be
broadcast into different classrOOms and
dormitories," said Corky Brunskill, director of Engineering Computer Services.
Associate Provost Sean Sullivan said
the lab is pan of the provost's Educational
Technology Action Plan, which focuses on
the universit}"s goals in the rapidly ev"'olv ing field of educational technology.
'The lab is a prototypical site that employs several different kinds of distancelearning technologies and involves coordination among different faculties with
different needs," Sullivan explained.
"It will let us get our feet wet by studying different distance-ltaming technolog ies, teaching approaches and the demand
for various methods by various schools and
faculties," he added.

The Baldy Hall learning facility resembles
UB's first real-time distance learning site, the
Roswell Park Distance
Learning Lab located in
the basennent of Abbott
Hall on the South Campus.
Both are "sy nchronous" learning labs.
That is. students and instructor at all connected
sites are visible and audible to one another, ~ Shuell, left, U.. Stephens In distance leamtnc
making '"4!-time class cl _ , _ .
instruction and discussion possible acros the miles. On-screen
Resources and Technologies in the Gradudigital data, slides, overhead projections
ate School of Education, explained that the
and other vjsual materials also can be
Abbott Hall lab, which opened in 1995 and
broadcast live.
has been upgraded several times since, opbe Abbott Hall site, which does not erates with ISDN (Integrated Services
Digital Network) technology. a synchroinvolve fiber optics, has been used to
nous system that is relatively slow and re·
teach. among other things, UB 's nurse
lies
on point-to-point connections.
practitioner graduate..degree program to
Shuell and Ellis pointed out that !SONstudents in the Southern Tier at a learning
operated labs can connect to phone· in sites
site in Olean. Many of the enrolled nurses
'are in their fifth semester of study.
all over the world, but, as sites are added,
Shuell said. visual qUality can deteriorate ,
David Ellis, associate professor of medidepending on the number of telephone lines
cine and chair of UB's campus-wide disdedicated to the system.
tance learning committee. said an investiThe Baldy Hall classroom has ISDN or
gation is under way regarding use of that
digilal connection capabilities as well .
lab for the preceptorship phase of the nurse
Over the fiber-optic network , however,
practitioner's program. Physician precepbroadcast communication is limited to sites
tors or mentors, using a ponable broadcast
on that panicular network.
system, will broadcast live to the students,
The fiber-optic network of which the
allow ing them to question patients and deBaldy site is a part, Shuell explained, is
velop diagnostic experience.
called " Project Connect. .. It was developed
Thomas Shuell, professor of education
by Erie I BOCES (Board of Cooperative
and director of the Center for Educational

Educational Services), which serves anumber of school dislricts in Erie County.
" Project Connect"· links the Baldy Hall
site with 24 learning labs located jn several BOCES facili ties. II Western New
York school districts and Buffalo State
College. Instruction in virtually any disci pline at any grade level-elementary
through graduate study~an originate at
any of the learning sites and be transmitted simultaneously to up to three other ~ites
on the system, making possible live interaction among instruc tor and students at
those sites.
The BOCES system has been up and
running for some time and UB faculty have
taught courses through a lab in the
Williamsville School District. making otherwise: inaccessible classes avai lable to
rural. suburban and city school districts o n
the system.
Sullivan, Ellis and Shuell said distancelearning technology doesn't neCessarily save
money, at least up front It is. instead, a
method by which UB can make scholarship-Ellis calls it "our product"-more
convenient and readily avai lable to a broader
audience through such technologies as synchronous live broadcast. and non-synchronous technologies like videotaflC and software applkations that create a virt ual-classroom environment on the Internet

I

s "live" distance learn ing the wave of
the future or atechy trend? Is it the Beta
or the VHS of our educational future?
lllere's no way to know yet said Sullivan,
who says the goal should be to make different
systems and different technologies available,
teach people to use them and see which ones
work best for whom
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Parameters on Political Fund.raising1Campaign
Activities by Membe.-s of the UB Comiinin·ity

T

HIS MONTH ' S Presidential inaugural marked the formal close of
the 1996 election cycle. Before the
inevitable beginning of another
e lection cycle . a nd in light o f the
university's ongoing work within a political environment. it is appropriate to remind
ourselves of seve ral important parameters
pertaining 10 political fundraising and other
campaign activities by or among university personnel. Such parameters are found
in state law, and it is esse ntial that UB
employees stay within them.
This statement is not intended as a comprehensive review of existing law on the
topic of political activities by state employees. but ruther as a response to several practi cal inquiries raised in the last election
campaign. It is very important that all UB
faculty and staff note and comply with the
following points:
• There must be a clear separation be tween political campaign activities and the
performance of duties as employees of the
State University of New York. Politica l
activities, including fundrnising. may not
be conducted on state property or state
time.
• No political fundrnising tickets may
be sold, purchased or transferred on campus, either inside or outside of buildin gs.
Similarly, no money or checks may be paid
or collected on campus for such purposes.
• Moreover. university employees are
prohibited from soliciting political contributions off hou rs and off campus from
other university employees. if such circumstances give either the reality or appearance of coercion. UB personnel should not
solicit such contributions. nor attempt to
compel any other political action or vote.
from those individuals over whom they
have supervisory authority.
• No university telephones. faxes. supplies. letterhead, postage or other sta te re -

sources of any kind may be used for political purposes.

T

hese and other restrictions are prima- .
rily contai ned in Section 74 of the Public Officers Law. Section 107 of the Civi l
Service Law and Sec tion 17- 158 of the
Election Law. Copies of these New York
State laws are available for pickup at th e
circ ulation desk of Lock wood LibrJ.ry and
the Law Library (205 O ' Brian Hall ) on the
North Campus. and at th~ ci rcul ati on desk
of the Health Sciences Library on the
South Campus. It is importa nt to unde rstand that. pursuant to state law. politica l

activities on state time or property may
subject employees to criminj( prosecution
and the loss of employment.
We at UB should be willing and eager
to take an active part in the political processes of our community, st~tt e a nd country. It is critically important. however. that
we undertake such activit y only as private
individuals and within proper parameter"
as establi shed by the laws of the State of
New York. We must give careful ~mention
to these issues and comply :.~bsolu t ely with
appli cable restriction s.
WI W AM R. GREINER
Prestdenr

Comprehensive text by UB prof applies
feminist theories to social work field
By MARY liET1I SPINA
News Services Editor

THE F1RST COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL-WORK TEXT to combine femmi st theones
and their practical application has been published by Christine Flynn Saulni ~r. assistant
professor of social work at the University at Buffalo.
Flynn Saulnier's book. " Feminist Theories and Social Work : Approache..; and Appli cati ons" (1996. Haworth Press. Lnc.). counteracts the notion that femin1.;t theory · ~a
single theory with many contradictions.
In stead. she ide ntifi es and describes each of the eight theories in easy-to-understand
terminology. avo iding the "jargon" often associated with theoretical subject maHe r.
Ind ividual chapters focus on liberal, radical . socialist, lesbian. cultural. womanist.
postmodem and global feminism . Every chapter ends with real-world examples of hO\~
the theories have bee n used by administrators , community organ izers. policy-makers.
group workers. case workers a nd researchers.
The final chapter is a concise wrap-up that looks at four areas- battering. sc:x worl...
employment issues and alcohol problems-from a few different perspectives. It describes
contradictions and overlaps. for instance, between liberal and radical -femin•.;t a pproache;;;
to alcohol problems.
Fly nn Saulnier, an assistant professor of social work at UB. has plenty of .. real ·
life" experience, with nine years spent in providing services to people with disabilities
and six more in alcohol and health treatment.
Her current research focuses on alcohol and drug service deli ve ry. speci:..~ li zed alcohol
services for women and social-service needs of lesbian and bisexua l women.
She earned a master's degree from Boston University a nd a doctorate in social wel fare from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Best of the UB Web 1997

The English Language lnstttute
(Ell) tn the UB Graduate School ol
Education will oller Enghsh language classes lor non-nall\le
speakers t&gt;eginntng Feb 10 The
courses are destgned for mterna honal prolesstonals. scho4ars. stu·
dents_ restdents and \IISitors who
want to tmprove the.r English sktlls
Among the course oflenngs are
Ad\lanced CommumcatK&gt;n 101 the
International ProlessK&gt;nal . Ad·
vanced Wnllng and Grammar f01
the lnternaltonal ProlesstOnal , Lt\ltng
and Worktng tn Engltsh (tntermedt ate) . Accent Reduclion and TOEFL
Preparatton
All ctasses are held tn the
evenmg For more tnlormatton . c all
645- 2077
The ELl . whtch has offered English language tratntng to students
and proless1011als for rTlOfe than 20
years. has been ranked as one of the
top three pt"ograms tn the country for
tiS prolesstOOahsm and commttment
to quahty language tnstrUCtiOI'l

Thomaa Fr•ntz, US assoctate
pro fessor and cha1r. Counseling
and Educattonal Psychology. will
lead a gutded retreal. · expiOttng
Personal Losses :
to be presented
Feb 2 1 and 22 at
Stella Ntagara
Center lor Renewal . Lewtston
The retreat tS part
ot the outreach
program at Clfcle
of Hope Ceoter.
Nia-gara Hospice inc 1n Lockport
The retreat wtll alter those who
ha\le expeuenced personal loss
due to the death ol a loved one ,
separatton or dtvorce the opportuntty to come together wtth others
deahng wtth stmllar tssues
Co-tac tlttators are Sharon Brauer
and Pat E\lans. CtTCie ot Hope
board members. c OOI'dtnatOJ Jane
Emborsky and counselor Bonnte
KwtatkowSkl N1agara Hosp1ce soc tal worker Ttm Deeks and h•s wtfe .
Ltnda . wtll provide mus1c The
weekend retreat. which w1U cost
$80. •nctudes meals and lodg•ng
Some sc holarshiPS are a\lailable lor
tho se on hm•ted 1nc omes
MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NAMES
SUPEIIVISORS OF YEAR
St x area bus•ness people ha\le
been named · supervtSOfS ol the
year ~ by the tnternshtp program at
the US Sc hool of Management
The tnaugur at award recogmzes
the1r dedtcated par!ICtpatlon m the
program and thetr etlq,rts to mentor
the undergraduate and graduate
management students who've tnterned at the1r places of bus1ness
Award rec1p1ents tnctude
Su••n Bouch•ne, chapter development coord•nalor. American
Diabetes ASSOCialion, M8rk
Fuller, manager of accounting
and finance. Soltbank: M•ry
KlucKyckl, \liCe president lor human resources . Bryhn Hospttals.
Kim McAvoy, asststant portfolio
manager. M&amp;T Bank : Lynn Mll•n,
asststant v1ce prestdent , M&amp; T Bank .
and M•ry Rein, regional dtrector.
Amencan Dtabetes Assoctauon
-Apphcable work expertence ts
an tnvaluabte credem•a1 on the resume of any bustness student.·
satd Ger•ldlne Kogler, program
director ·Thts award recogn1zes the
tmportant role that bustness managers can play tn developing !he skills
of thelf future colleagues •
Estabhshed tn 1978. the School
of Management tnternstlip program
•s one olthe largest m the country,

accordtng to the Nat100al Society of
Expertential Educatk:Hl . It recefvss
over 700 requests per year from
businesses seeking Interns and
places more than 300 students annually at sites providing hands-on
experience In accounting , linance ,
human resources, management science and systems, or marketing
The program as mandatory 101'

UB MBA students and opt101l8t Ia&lt;
business undergrads; students receave 3 credtts IOf 150 hours at an
1nternsh1p Site.

tnEIUtER HEADS ICIENCU
AWMNI Aasqc:IAJWH

Rendall K.

st..- has been

elected president of the board of dt·
rectors of the Sctences Alumni Association of the US Faculty of Natu·
rat Sciences and
Mathematics for
the 1996-97 academtc year
Stegner 1s a
branch manager
lor the Site
RemedtattOO 01111 - - - - - - sian of Water
STEGNER
Tectlnok&gt;gy International Corp.
Martha M . Hams. an auorney
wtth Buchanan Ingersoll. PC . wtll
continue as secretary/treasurer
Newly appotnted to the board
lor a three-year term tS Wtlliam F
Sull111an. a semor chefTllst at
Catspan SAL Corp
Appotnted as commtttee ct1a1rs
are Nancy Markwart , nomtnat1ons,
Ted A. Badura , memberShip, Stuart
0 Gossels , programming and Joseph F Ceravolo . networktng
Conllnufng members of the
board are : Patnc1a M Costanzo.
Mary E. &amp;oc:k, John R Tibtlens and
Howard Tteckelmann
The Sc1ences Alumm Assoctahon is a mullldtsc1phnary group affiliated w1th the Faculty of Natural
Sc•ences and Mathemahcs . whtch
compnses the departments of Siologtcal Sctences, Chem1stry, Computer Sc•ence. Geology. Mathemat ICS and PhySICS It is a COOSI!Iuent
group of the US Atumn1 Assoctalton

STUDENT TEAM PLACES
IN NAnONAL COMPETITION
A student team hom the accelerated accounttng program m the UB
School of Management recetved a
reg1ona1 honorable mentton award
at the annual Arthur Andersen Tax
Case Challenge held recently 10
New York Ctty US was the only New
York State college or un1verstty to
place at the event.
Sandt• White and P•ul
Houghton .lr. placed tn the top
20 among undergraduate teams
from 129 bustness schools nahonwtde They earned $500 lor the
school's general schofarship lund
Ann Burstein Cohen, ass•stant professor of accounting and
taw, served as the team's faculty
advisor.
The competition is des1gned to
enhance the study of taxation at
un1versities and develop imerest 1n
it as a career

HOPKINS TO DISCUSS
STROKE AT UB AT SUNRISE
"Future Treatments and Prevent.an
ol Stroke· will be the toptc of a US
at SUNRISE program to be held at
7 30 am on Wednesday. Feb 19.
'" the Center tor Tomorrow on the
US North Campus
The program wtll be presented
by L. Nelaon HopkJn•, UB prolessor and chair of the Department
of Neurosurgery, d~rector of the new
Toshiba Stroke Research Center at
UB and chief of neurosurgery at
Millard Fillmore Heallh System.
Hopkins is a piOfleer in the use
ol endovascular techmques-work-

1ng w1thin the blOod vessels with
catheters-to treat cerebtwascular
diseases and prevent sttoke, the
third leading cause of death in the
U.S. and the number one cauSe of
adult disability.
·us at SUNRISE. is a series of
bfeakfast programs produced by
the UB Alumn; AssoclaUon and UB~
Ottk:e of Conferences and Special
Events, News SeMces and Office
of Publtcations. It also is supported
by the OHk:e of Univer.sny Develop-

ment and OHK:e for Publoc Service
and Urban AHalrs The Buffalo
Marriott is corpot"ate sponsor of

·us

atSUNRtSE.'
The price of the program. which
will include a full breakfast. is $10
for UB Alumni Association members
and $12 for all others.
For more 1nformatlon. contact
the alumm assoc1ation at 829-2608 .
Ticket orders must be received by
Monday, Feb. 17.

BURDICK HEADS STATE

ANUTIIUIOUMIISTS
J•me• P. •unfick. UB chnical
assistant profeSSOf of aneslhesiol·
ogy, was tnstalled Dec. 8 as president ot the New Vorl&lt; State Society
of Anesthesl()k)gists Inc. (NYSSA) ,
dunng the 50th Postgraduate Assembly in AnesthesiOfogy tn New
York City He has been involved tn
acli\lihes lor NYSSA. one of the
largest anesthesiology organizations in the world , With 3.000 members. lor almost 20 years.
Burdick. a graduate of the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedtcal
Sc1ences. 1S chatr of the quality assurance commmee tor the medtcat
school.
Director of anesthesta services
at Millard Filh'nore Suburban Hospital. he is a member of the board of
dtrectors and serves as president·
elect lor the medtcal staff ol the
Millard RIIITIQ(e Health System.
A member ot many professional
organtzations tncludiOQ the Amencan
Soc:IBty of AnesthesiOiog•sts. Amencan MediCal Associatoo. the New
York State and Ene County MedtCBI
Societies. the lnterna.tJOnal Anesthesia Research Soc.aty and the Amert·
can SocJety of Reg100al Anesthesia.
he 15 a dipklmate of the Ameocan
Board of AnestheS&amp;a. He also serves
on the board of the Office of Profes·
siOI'lal Medical Conduct. New York
State Department of Health
WOMEN' S CWB UNIT TO VIEW
ART OF CHINESE PAINTING
Chtnese art•st and art teacher Y1
Yuen "Thereaa" L- wtll demon·
Strate the Chinese "free brush· style
of traditional Chinese pamung
Thursday. Feb 6 at 4 p .m 1n Room
145E 1n the Student Umon on the
US North Campus The program will
be part of the monthly coffee of the
lnternattonal Committee of the US
Women's Club. Students. faculty
and community members are welcome to auend
A soc1al hOur teatu11ng complimentary desserts w•ll precede the
demonstration at 3 p m
The lnternattonal Comm•ttee
stnves to provtde a warm welcome
lor tnternattonal newcomers to UB
and to ass• sf tn the transtlton to a
new setting and culture tnternattonal actavttiBS are open to all those
mterested 1n meehng people from
other countnes
FOI' more tnl01matton , calllnternattonal Comm1nee cha11person
Jean Jatn at 633-5932 or the lnternattonal Education oHtce . 645·2258 ..

ADULTS OVElt AGE llll

SOU8HT FOR M-Y S11JDY
Researchers at US are seeking
adults ages 55 or Otder to particl·
pate in a study to test memory, at·

The university - . o i l y is inviled 10 mate nominations for
lhe Belt fllllle VB Web compo1i1ioo. wbicll wiD function u
lhe pand finale of !be second ...-1 UB lntann.lion Techllology (IT) Pair 10 be beld MNch 19di1Dd 2IOih In lhe NIIUral
Sciences Lecttue Hall Complex. Surf UBWU.gs
wlsop....,.,...) IDd find lilellllll
delerve rec:opi1ion or nomillllte your
own web lwldiworkllbe only reqabllments are: nominaled sites be affilillled
with lhe Univcnity at Buffalo IDd UB
students, staff IDd faculty nom~ • sire
multiple site norninotions are wek:ome.
Aword categories are numerous IDd include: Be&lt;t Overall
Awatrlr ("Best Academic Homepage," - sest Administrative
Homepage," " Best Faulty Homepage," " Best Studen l
Homepoge," "Best Thocbing or Instructional Homepage"), Do·
sign Awards ("Best Page Design." "Best Logo," "Best Usc of
Multiple Media," "Best Usc of ln1enletion," "Best Navigation
Aid") and Technical Award• ("Most 'Thchnical Merit" and "Most
Important Service Concept")Por each category there will be one site that receives lhe
award wi th possible honorable mention citations. The winners
will be granted the honor of being allowed to display the Best
of the UB Web ''J7 logo on their site. The wi noing sites will
also be on permanenl display on the Best of the Web homepage
(bUp:/fwlngs.buffalo.edufbest_web).
To nominate a silt go to the UB IT Fair homepogt (http:/!
wings. buffaw.edufU/airl) and se/ecr • Betr ofrhe Web Contest. •·
A nomination form thaJ ducri~s thecrituiafor~ach cat~gory
is locat~d th~rY for your convenienc~. 17re deadlin~ for nomi·
nations is March I st. The winn~rs will be announc~d on M_arch
20th at th~ rr Fair at 3 p.m. All nominat~d sit~s will b~ dis·
played on th e "Best of the Web"' homepage ar hllp:/1
wings.buffaw.edu/best_web/curnntcgi. Quesrions rrgarding
th~ comp~titio n can b~ answ~ud by ~-mailing
iJfair@acsu.buffalo.tdu or calling 645-3580.
-Gemma D~Vinn~y and Don Hartman, Univ~rsiry Librariu

tention and perception . The study is
being conducted at Erie County
Medical Center by Ralph Senedtct.
US assistant professor of psychology and neurology. Particip_ants will
be required to take an hour·long
test and will recefve $10 upon
completion mthe test
Anyone interested in participattng in the study may call Dennis
Zgaljardic at 898·3372•.or k!ave
their name. phone number and the
words "memory study· on the answenng machine .

ZODIAQUE DANCE COMPANY
TO GIVE SPIIING CDNCEitT
Zod1aque . the dance company of
thtt UB Depanment of Theatre and
Dance, will present ·Frontiers II.· a
spring concert of new works celebrahng the 150ttl anmversary of
the founding of .us
The produclion will open at 8
p .m . on Thursday, Feb. 13, tn the
Drama Theatre in the Center for the
Arts on the UB North Campus. Per!Otmances will continue Thursdays
through Saturdays at 8 p .m and
Sundays at 2 p .m .• through Feb. 23.
The program. which will be d j.
reeled by Linda Swiniuch, will feature music ranging from medteYal to
urban house. The score will1nclude
a new commissioned dance score
by Ben Toth , a compoSition major at
the Eastman School of MusH: who is
recording his Composition , titled
·embracing the Shadows," with
eight instrumentalists and e IIOC81ist. ·
Choreography will be designed
by William E. Thomas, Tressa
Crehan. Lynne Kurdzie~Formato,
Eileen Lambert, linda Swin1uch.
Karen Georger, Joyce Miller, Shelley
Hain and Tom Ralabate. Set and

costume design are by UB VISiting
Arttstleandro Soto, ooted Mexican
perfOfmance artist who.perfcwmed
and lectured here last semester.
Tckets ere $10 (general admis·
sian) and S5 (students and senior
citizens) and will be half price on
Feb. 13, 16 and 20.

Tickets may be charged by
phone through the UB Arts and Athletics Tocket Ottk:e. 645-ARTS, or
obtained in person at the offiCe.
which opens one hour before per·
formances TK:kets also may be obtained through any TICketmaster
ouUet , including Movtes Ptus, Music
P1us and Kaufmann's stores Of may
be charged by calling 852·5000.

"DOWN AND DIIITY"
T...URT DESIGNS WANTED
The Untversity Student Alumnt

Board is holding a contest for an
orig1nal t-shin design lor "Down and
Dirty• OOZFEST '97 W1nner will receive S50 cash and a complimen-.
tary OOZFEST t·sh;rt
Participants in the contest am
asked to submot a camertKeady
copy ot theor d&lt;!S&gt;gn on 8- 1/2-by· 1 1·
nch taser-qualny paper 'OOZFEST
"97' and • 13th Annual' sOOotd appear ;n the design. wlloch also should
""""Porate the theme ot ·~ and
Q;rty: Contast deadlm os Monday,
Feb 10, des;gns wilt be judged by
students on Thursday, Feb. 13.
The tournament w•ll be held on
Saturday, April 26. The w1nning de·
sign and the winner's name will appear on ITIQ(e than 1,000 team and
staH shirts and on OOZFEST '97
promotional mat81ials . Entries
shouk:f be sent to: University Student Alumni Board. 109 Allen Hall ,
South Campus, BuHato, NY 14214.

�e MII.U RUN WIN STREAI( TO
FIVE

The Bulls continued their impressive play ol
tate with a 95-60 win at Chicago State on Saturday. UB has taken five straight and seven
olthe last eight to Improve to 6-1 In the MidContinent Conle&lt;encll and I I -6 eve&lt;all. The
win also moved the BuNs within a hall game
ol Hrst-ptace Valparaiso.
·
Mike Martinho led the Bulls with 26 points
on 7-ol-10 sl1ooting including 6-ol-9 Irom
three-point range. Rasaun Young added 13
and Man Clemens 10.
The BuHs gel strong bench production
from Scott McMillin with nine points and SIX
rebo&lt;xlds in 15 minutes. Be&lt;nard WMeler's
nine and Chandan Jones' car--high sight
points also keyed the Bulls' bench snack.
"We tried to use our bench, not only to
give our starters a break, but to get experience (lor the reserves) and keep lhe&lt;n
sharp,· commented head coech Tim
Cohane.
Earlier in the week, Young SCO&lt;ed 22
points and freshman forward Zaid Alkhas
came off the bench to net I~ points as the
Bulls downed Youngstown Stille, 70-48, in a
Mid-Gontinent Conference banle at Alumni
Arena.
Young hit 10-ol-16 shots from the fNlkl.
whrle Clemens added I 4 points, Hve assists
and a career-hjgh nine rebounds for UB. The
Bulls, who Shol·48. I percent lor the game,
also held a 42-29 advantage off the
backboards.
The Penguins connected on JUSI30.6 percent of their shot and committed 19 turnovers in the g
. Leonard Tangishaka, who
had live blocks
the Bulls, led UB on a 132 run with a pa· ol blocked shots midway
through the
hall, as UB extended a
30-271ead to -29 with 10:22lellln the
game. Youngs!
State neve( got the lead
'" s•ngle digits for
rest of the game.
Following a Jan. 7 meeting with Northeastern Illinois, the B Us return home for an
important conference ilt against Valparaiso
that should determine the league leader

heading into the frnal month olthe regular
season. UB then laces Weste&lt;n IUinois on
Monday beginning at 6 p.m. and broadcast
live on the Empire Sports Networlt

e ROYALS ROLL PAST CHICAGO
STAlE
Brenna Doty set a school record lor threepointl!fS In a game with nine as the Royals
rolled to an 86-66 victory at Chicago State on
Saturday. With the win, the Royals lmprpved
to I 4-2 OVOfali and 6- I in the Mld-Gontlnant
Conle&lt;ence.
Doty scored 30 points in the game, the
most all season by a Royal and most by Doty
slnce 23 In the season opener against
Cornell. The Rexford, N.Y.. senior bene&lt;ed
he&lt; previous record ol seven treys in a game,
set last year at Hawaii, and also dished out a
season-best eight asslsts, one shy o1 he&lt;
caree&lt;-high.
The Royals also placed three olhe&lt;s rn
-ligures, led by Charissa Garder With
16, while Kim Coon and Caihe&lt;ine Jacob
added I I apiece . Jacob also tallied live
asslsts, while Usene Prinzing and Nicole
Blakeslee tied lor high rebounding honors
with live each.
UB shot 52.5 parcentlrom the freld, nailing 32 ollheir 61 atte&lt;npts rnctuding 13-ol-26
from behind the three-point arc.
Following a showdown on Jan. 27 at
Northeastern Illinois, the Royals are back
home at Alumni Arena to host Valparaiso Saturday and Weste&lt;n Illinois on Monday. The
Monday game with the Westerwinds is
scheduled to start at8:30 p.m. and will be
televised live on the Empire Sports Network

e IUU.S WRESTUNG SPU1'

HOME DUALS

The University at Burtakl wresUing team
earned a split in t\YO dual meets at Alumn1
Arena on Saturday, defeating Wagne&lt; 50-0
before losing a close 18-12 decision to MidAmerican Conference member Kent State.
In the match against Wagner, the
Seahawks lortehed f!V9 olthe 10 weight
classes and senoor 126-pounder Jason

WBninger ponned hrs opponent at 1 30 ol the
bout. as the Bulls cw!Sed to the wm
The second match against Kent State was
much close&lt;, with three lead changes dunng
the meet. Wartinger was egalr\ victorious at
126 pounds, as we&lt;e senior 134-pounder
Je&lt;omy McVrge and senior I 50-pounder
John SMzman. who extended his winnrng
streak to 24 straight bouts Sanror 177po4..I"Kier Eric Gross was a w.nner at htS
weight class as well.
Down I 5- I 2 entering the heavyweight
bout, the Bulis needed a win by freshman
Mike Garolalo to tie the match. Despite a
strong effort by Garofalo, Kent's 1996
NCAA Division I national qualifrer Stephan
Terebieniec scored a takedown in overtime
to give the Golden Rash the 18- I 2 WJn.
The Bulls are in action th1s weekend,
meeting Wilkes Unive&lt;slty and Seton Hall on
the road before returning to Alumni Arena on
Feb. 4 to host Slippery Rock at 7:30pm.

e MEN'S SWIMMING
The Bulls were off tills week, preparing lor
Fliday night's important test agatnst Notre
Dame. Action begins at6 p .m. The Bulls and
Fighting Irish are familiar wilh each olh8f this
season as UB traveled in December lor the
Noire Dame Invitational, where UB finished
third and Notre Dame second.

e WOMEN'S SWIMMING

e INDOOR TRACK a FIELD
The Unive&lt;Sity at Buffalo man's and woman's
indoor track and f"'id teams took VICtones rn
a dual meet against Canisius as part olthe
UB Invitational at Alumni Arena on Friday
night. The Bulls downed the Golden Gnffrns
80-59 while the Royals took an 88-34 Wln.
Teams from Buffalo State, Erie CorTvnunrty
College and Roberts Wesleyan also partJC•pated bu1 were not included in the scorng
Te&lt;ry Sche&lt;ne set a UB school record lor
the Royals rn the long jump portiOI'l olthe
woman's pentathlon with a leap ol5.62
mete&lt;s. Sche&lt;ne Hnished second rn the pentathlon with 3,023 points behond Ene Convrurllly College's Candice Hill, who had 3,086
l.Jsa Kragbe was a double Winner lor the
Royals taking the 200-meter dash rn 27.38
and the 55-meter high hurdles rn 8.64 Other
winners for the Royals included Amy Tabone
in the 55-meter dash at 7.68. Janl6e
Hirschman in the 400 (I :04 I 2). Theresa
Humannytrn the 800 (2:25 07) and Casey
Spencer in the I ,000 (3: I 1.59). Stacey
Strothman took the 5,000 in 18:06.38. wrth
Marie Macander winning the mile (5 :22 42)
and Shelly Hamilton taking the hrgh jump
(1 .62 meters). The Royals also won the 4 x
400 relay.
UB's Chns Keenan took the man's 5.000meter run'" 15:41 .05 to lead the Bulls Geoff
Wartock won the 400 in 52.38 Ryan Candra
won the BOO in 2:00.35 and Patnck Nolan
won the 3,CXX) in 15:41 .05 In hetd events.
Steve Montone look the pole vault at 4 27
meters, while Man Streng won the pentathion
with 2,958 po&lt;nts. The Bulls also swept the
relays winning the 4 x 400 1n 3 ·34 47 and diStance medley relay rn II :04 18

The Royals dropped a pair ol dual meets Saturday at Cornell. UB lost to the host Big Red
167-121 and to Dartmouth 174-123. The Royals are now 2-3 in dual mee1 compe!hion.
Megan Connolly won the 200 IM for the
Royals in 2:16.72. UB's quanetol Sue Bohnet,
- Ted Wasko, Sports Informal/Oil Office
Laura Harrick, Martie Duffett and Carrie Grant
took the 40Q.Iree
relay in3:41 .17.
THIS WEEK' S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
Lieselle Tnnidad
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took the 100 butterMen's Swimmino vs. Notre Dame
AlumnJ Arena NataiOttum. 6 p.m
fly lor coach Dorsi
Raynolds' squad in
- . - y Feb.1
1:00.53.
Women's BasketbaU vs. Valoaraiso
Alumn1 Arena . 6 p m
Following the
Men's BasketbaJI vs. Valparaiso
Alumni Arena, 8 15 p m
makeup ollhe RoyaJs meet against
_.,_Feb.3
CaniSIUS on Jan.
Men's Basketball vs. Western llltOOts
Alumn• Arena. 6 p m
29. UB will travel to
Cleveland State lor
Women's Basketball vs Western llhnots Alumni Arena, 8 30 p m
a dual meet on Sat......-v,Feb.4
urday beginning at
Wrestling vs. Slippery Rock
1p.m .
Alumru Arena. 7.30 p .m

OBITUA RI ES
John Karrer, 68, assistant
vp or student rmances
A memorial service was
hekj Jan. 29 in St. Paul's
Evangelical Lutheran
Church . Eggertsville . lor

John G. Karrer, ass•stant

KARRER .

vice president and director
ol student ffnances and
records at US. Karrer, 68.
died unexpectedly Sunday,
Jan. 26, in Olean General

Hospital.
Karrer. who had planned to retire in a lew
weeks. was honored at a senior staff retreat
held last week at the Ouffalo Marriott, and was
to be the guest of honor at a university-wide'
reurement party Friday In Classics V restaurant.
Karrer began his career at UB in 1980
slier spending 20 years at the Park School of
Buffalo as school business manager, d1rect0f
of development and then headmaster.
A section of The Observer. a publication of
the Off1ce of Financial Aid, recently pointed to
h1s many accomplishments. including overseeing implemenlatk&gt;n of the Voice Response
Registration System. the Direct Lending Program and the Tu1tion Payment Plan. The
pubhcation lauded his work on various com·
mmees including SEFA and service excellence as well as intercollegiate alhletlc asSignments.
·John's cons•stent performance made him
a member of the professk&gt;nal staff who was
both admlfed and emulated: noted Robert J.
Wagner. senior vice president .
Leonard F. Snyder. UB assoc1ate vice
president and controller. characterized Karrer
as a ·canng competent professional who
strove for excelktnce 10 customer service.
team building and employee support and
development on a daily basis.·
Snyder said . •t had lunch this week~ith
Ed Doty (vice president emeritus, office of the
senior vice president for unjversity servk:es).
·ed characterized John as a 'tOial gentleman
whose success was tied to his respect tor
others.··
Noting that Karrer was a soccer fan whose
retirement plans Included traveling to France

to attend the World Cup, Snyder added. ·He
played soccer. he coached soccer and followed international soccer:
Karrer was "an exceptooal person who
throughout his career at UB gave outstand1ng
seMce to faculty, staff and students each and
every day and ... setthe stand\Ud lor professional performance at UB and throughout the
SUNY system.- said Ehas G Eldayrie. d1rector
olllnancial aid .
A member of the bOard of the Restorahon
Society. the Lutheran Association lor Develop·
mentally Disabled and the Samaritan Pa storal
Counseling Center. Karrer was a member of
the Scriptores and a charter member of the
Buffalo Soccer Club. He also held memberships in the New YOfk State Officers and
Bursars Association and the New York State
Financial Aid Assoc1ation.
Karrer earned his bachelor's and master's
degrees from UB .
Survivors include h1s wife of 46 years .
Mary; two sons. W•lliam T of Amherst and
Mark W. of Clarence: and four grandch•ldren .
fontributions may be made to the John G
Karrer Memorial Scholarship Fund . cJo UB
Foundation . Box 590, Buffalo. NY 14231

Melford D. Diedrick, 84,
medical illustration pioneer
Mellord D -Diedrick, 84 . the
first tratned medical illustrator to practice in Buffalo
and one of the first in the
country, died Jan 24 in
Queenstown, Md ., where he
had lived since 1982
Diedrick, first director of the
Department of Med•cal
DIEDRICK
lltustrahon for the UB med•·
cal school, relired 1n 1977
Diedrtck. whose detatled drawings of parts
of the human body were constdered an •mportant teaching toot for medical students. provided illustrations for texts lnctudtng ·vagtnal
Surgery· by Dr. David H. Nichols and the late
Dr. Clyde L. Randall. He was major Illustrator
for three surgical atlases and collaborated
with the late WiOard Cameron Shepard •n
providing illustrations for Shakelford's edition

of ·callender's Surgery.·
A founder 1n 1945 of the Assoc•atiOO of
Med1catlllustrators. he served as 1ts pres•dent
•n 1963. when he was host lor the group's
annual gathenng tn Buffalo
Many of his draw1ngs appeared dunng the
1950s in the pioneer med1cal TV program .
· Modern Med tcine." on WBEN-TV
D•ednck stud1ed art 1n what •s now the
Rochester tnslltute of Technology. then contln ·
ued h•s stud1es 1n med1ca1illustration at Johns
Hopk1ns Un1versity Return•ng to Buffalo alter
graduation, he had the task of selhng his new
profession lo the Bullalo med•cal commun1ty
The late Kernel Terplan . a professor of pathol ·
offered him work•ng space m the Bullalo
General Hospital pathologv labol'atory To
make ends meet. D1ednck also worked as a
substilute for morgue auendants and as a
cleaner lor laboratory ammal cages
In 1936. he became aSSIStaOI curator of the
Pathology Museum lor the UB med•cal school .
then located on H1gh Street near BuHaiO Gen·
erat. and was named hosp•tal phOtographer In
1947, Dr Stockton Kimball , the late dean of the
med1cal school. named htm to the newty created post of dlfector of med1cat 11lustra!ion
A founder of the Cheektowaga Community
Symphony Orchestra. D•ednck served as
preSident of •ts board of d1rectors lor 11
years He was a guest lecturer 1n medical
dlustrat1on at the Un•vers•ly of Rochester
His rema1ns were donated for med•cal
research

ogv.

Grant H. Hobika, 68,
Roswell Park physician,
medical school instructor
A Mass of ChfiSiian Bunal was held Jan . 29 in
St John Maron Church , Amherst. lor Grant H
Hobika. 68. former secretary of the medical
staH at Roswell Park Cancer lnsttlute and an
assoc•ate chmcal •nstructor 1n the Anesthes!OI·
ogy Department m the UB School of Medic1ne
and B•omed1ca1 Sciences Hobika diBd Jan 25
•n h1s Wilhamsville home aher a lengthy 1llness
A 1948 graduate of Colgate Un1versity. he
receiVed his medical degree from the State
Un1vers1ty of New York Health Science Center
1n Syracuse •n 1952. He served in the US
Navy Medical Corps as a physic•an w1th the

rank of heutenantlrom 1953 to t955. and
rema1ned 1n the Naval Reserve until 1968
Hobika served as a general pract1t10ner from
1955-1964 1n Uuca. where. he also was
One•da County Coroner and surgeon ch•el tor
the Ulica pohce and lire departments
In 1967 Hobika toined Roswell Park. and
alter servmg as associate chtef oft he Anesthesiology Department lor 13 years he was
acttng ch+eflrom 1966 to 1987 From 1982-95
he was secretary olthe med•cal staff For 25
years. 11e was an attend•ng anesthes•ologiSI
at Mercy Hosp•tal
Hobika was co-author of numerous sc•enllfiC and med1caf JOUrnal articles

Elfriede Fendt-Sicari, 90,
bacteriologist, teacher of
medical, nursing students
Etfnede Fendt-S•cao. former ch1ef bacteootog•sl with the Eoe County Health Department
died Jan 16 1n Orchard Park Health Care
Center aller a long 11tness She was 90
Born 1n Germany, she came to the U S 1n
1922 and worked hrst as a secretary lor the
ophthalmologiSt Luc•an Howe . who encouraged her to pursue a career 1n the laboratory
In 1926 she became the hrs! student ot med1·
cal technology .10 Bulfalo General Hospital's
tra1n1ng school
She took add1t1onal stud•es at I he Untver
S1ty of Buffalo and later taught c ourses lor
medical and nurs•ng students at US She
began work1ng 1n the labs at lhe former Sui
falo C1ty Hosp1tal , whiCh became Meyer
Memonat Hosp1tal . •n 1928. and became ch1el
technician 1n cnarge ollhe bacteoolog•cal
laboratory
In 1941 she was lteensed as a c hmcal
patholog•st and was appomted to the Health
Department post1n t963 Alter her retuement
tn 1973. she Jranslated med•cal jOUrnals fr om
German to Enghsh lor local phys1c•ans
A past pres1dent of the N•agara Fron!ler
Assoc•atiOn of Medical Technologists and a
member olthe Amencan Soc1ety of Med•cal
Tec11nolog•sts. she was a member of the New
YOC'k State branch oft he Amertcan Bacteoo\oglcal Soc1ety and the New York State Laboralory Assoc•a!lon

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Introduction to Pint' Mail on
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Cemcr. 64!1 -3540

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No nh Campus 5 p.m. $2. $5 ,

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Scavenger Hunt. The Club

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Physkian Involvement in
Early lnternnlion, Thomas
Lock, M.D. Kinch Audiumum,
Ch •ldrtn's Hosp11al. 8 :t.m

OrouiiCIJioi: D•J'
Ridge Lea Larry n1 ak~ his
annual pl't'dictlon. Behind
Natural Sciences Building.
Nonh Campus. II :45 a.m.

MlcrobloloCY . ..,._
Mod ulation or B..CeiJ l mmunoclobulin Production by
Ret inoid§. Dr. Mark Ballow,
C hildren's 1-lospital . 244 Cary.
So uth Campus. II :45 a.m

Adv.nud Pine Mail ror
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lntrod uclioa to lbe Macintosh
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Register through the Academic
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Theater
Tbrouab lbe Eyt:s of a Fr£t:nd:
Tbt: Story or An nt: Fnak.
Rockwell Hall. Buffalo State
College. 1 :30 p.m. S7 , $7 .50.
$8, Co-sponsored by WBFO.

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Aela at Noon

Pedllltrtc. Confere.ce

JapaneH lnlernalionalisls'
Apologtllc ror I he: Manchurian l nddtnl, 19J 1, Thomas W.
Burkman. director. Asian Scud• ~s 250 Scudcm Umon Nonh
Campus. Noon.

Journal C lu b, Quality lmpronme nl, Bu!ilnHS Mt:tting.
Board Room. Ch ildren 's Hospi tal. 8:30a.m.

ASCR Worluohop
l nlrod uclion lo UNIX and l hr
Com pul ing Environmr nl or
Cht CIT Time-Shari ng Re:-sou~rs. 1-3:30 p.m. Re gisu~r
lhrough 'flr: Academic U!ler Li :uson orr.~. 215 Computi ng
Ccnler. CH5-3S40.

Ch-llltry Colloquium
Elttlrostalks In Moltt ular
Re:c:ognilion : Fundame:nlaiJ
and Utility, Prof. Alcxey
F.hSC'cv. Med icinal C~mimy.
! IS Natural Sciences. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m.

Concert
Mu!iit rorThra crr, K1rk
Brundage. percuss ion. Band
Nonh Campus. 8 p.m.

lntematlota.l Folk

Danclq
All levels. 2 Ditf~:ndorf. South
Ca mpu!i . 8- 11 p.m. F~e . Sponsnred by Graduate S tudent
A~wciut1on .

FEBRUARY.
SAT1
. . . . . . .
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Rcg1ster through the= Academic
U!'&gt;C:r Liaison Office, 2 15 ComflUting Center. 645-3540 .

APO C - hrvlce
Frateratty
Trip to Niagara Fa lls. Meet at

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Tlu""p t1oo Eya of o F.....,d:
Tbe Sto.-y of Auo Fronk.
Rockwdl Hall. Bu"alo State
College. 7:30p.m. $7, $7.50.
S8. Co-sponsored by WBFO.

Human Mosiacs all an ElperiDiffusioa of
Dy&lt;lrophb&gt; and I'IIOOclty of
MU5dt and RmtiT'ml Preg-

Nur1h Campu\ "I p m

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0.,. Recital

~ntaJ System:

nancy Lots. Dr. Eric Hoff!'1Wl,
Umv of PitMuflh. 114
l·lndtsccuer. Non.h Campus. 4 p.m.

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lnetttute for

I ntroduction to SPSS-G~
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p.m. Reaister throu&amp;h the Aca·
dc:mK: UJer Uaison Office. 21 5
Computina Cc:nu:r, 645-3540.

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lntrodPdiott to Microsoft
Word ror ltfac.iatosb ror Students. 10 a.m.-Noon. Reaister
through the Academic User U aison Office, 215 Computing
Center, 645-3540.

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Food ror Thou&amp;ht St:rits:
Auer1ivcntU. UB Counseling
Center staff. Noon· I p.m. Call
645-6125.

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C eUWar Mechanisms or ~ptide Chain Foldia&amp;and Tnnsmembranc. Puseae: A Revirw
or Rectal Developments.
Gabor Markus. M.D. Kirchhoffer Room, RPCI . 12:30 p.m.

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lntrodudion to ~pit, Pal1 L
I :30-4 p.m. Register throogh lht

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UNI~ Part II~ 2-4 p.m. Regis·
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Center. 645-3540.

Come. Shelly Schmalheiser. Office of Student Life. 3-4 p.m.

Call 64S-612S.

l.oCic Colloqulu•

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Baffalo

Finding a J ob or Internship
Using the l n l emet~ Renee
Michalski and Joyce Anderson.
Career Planning and Placement .
12:3~1 : 30 p.m. Call645-6125.

Buft'alo Loak Dktioury
Project- l nrere.n«, John
Corcoran. US Dept. of Philosophy, and others. 280 Park Hall.
North Campus. 4-5:30 p.m.

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Volunte-er at soup kitchen.
Meet at Student Union seal.
Nonh Ca mpus. 4 p.m.

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Seminar. 5:30-6:30 p.m. TUesdays through April I . Call 645-

612S.
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Fresh S tart: Row to Quit
Smoldnc. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Feb. 25 Call 645·

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the Academic User Liaison Office. 215 ComputinJ Center,

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Lft WUkins, vktlin, Stephen
Ma nt:s, Piano. Baird. Nonh
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Fratemlt}o
Volleyball. Gym nastics Room.
Alumni Arena. Nonh Campus.
7 p.m.
Opus: Clulllca Uve
Eva Stern, viola, Joel
Schoenhals, piano. Select•ons
from Schubc.n, Milhaud.
Avshalomorr. Allen. South
Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Concen to
be broadcast o n tht following
Sunday at 4 p.m. on WBFO·FM

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Theater

Dlato&amp;ut: Radsm. Ltb
Arrington and Elaine Zielin, In·
stitute for the Healing of Racism. 7- 10 p.m. Tuesdays through
March I I. C..J1645-6 125.

Throu&amp;h tbt Eyes or a Friend :
The Story or Annt: Fnnk.
Rockwell Hall. Buffalo State
College. 7:30 p.m. S1. S7 .50.
$8 . Co-sponsored by WBFO.

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The Department of Computer
Science and CIT have aareed 10

shan:: the Bakty 19 Macintosh
lab as a public: s.iae when it is not
bc.in&amp; used for Computer Science tiUICL This apparendy is
"an unprccederued and unique
form of coopention between
CIT and an ICAdemic depart·
ment." Baldy 19 wiU be a public
site Monday throuJh Friday
from 9 Lm. untilaooo. be&amp;btnin&amp; Jan. 27. For fnronnarion.

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On Thursday, Jan. 30. new SlOp
signs will be in.stalled at lhe in·
terstction or Whiu: and Hadley
Ro.ds to make il an all-way 110p
int~lion.. Public Safety will
issue wa.millp fot a one-week
period to driven who do rKM observe the new saop sicns. Effective Thursday, Feb. 6, Public:
Safety will issue New Yort
State vehicle aad lrlffic summoues for violations.

Council Room, 50S Capen.
North Campus. 3:30p.m.

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Funpl Toxin that Blocks Mam-

malian aod Funpl Caldum
Channels. Or. 'Tom J. Smith,
Purdue Univ. 114 Hochslener.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Group. Barbara Umiker, US
Coun.se:lina Center. 4:30-5:30
p.m. Thursdays lhrough April
17. Call 645-6125.

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Warfarin Resinance: A Look
at Why II Otturs and How to
Brnk t.bt Ru:istance, Charles
Frost, UB Pharm.D. Candidate.
121 Cooke . Nooh Campu$.
4:30p.m.

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Evllwt
..An From Hell- the Evil Works
of lllu.,.tration Facully. Students
and Alumni " in the Art Department GaJicry lOcated on the
lower level of the Center for the
Ans on the North Campus. The
show continues lhrouah Feb. II .

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leXI by Beverly foit-Aibert ,
continues through Feb. 21 in the
School of Architecture and
Planning's James Dye« Gallery.
334 Hoayes Hall, South Campus.
Gallery houn are 9 a.m.-S p.m.
MONby through Friday.

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'"The Graduate Show: SecondYear Studc:nu" in the UB Art
Gallery. Center for the Am.
Nonh Campus. Jan. 30-Feb. 20.
Gallery hours are 10:30 Lm.·8
p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. II
a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVIRSII'Y AIIIUFMLO
State Univmity ofNew Yoril

Ja nu a ry 23 . 1997 Volume 28, No 17

Focus now on academic planning,
not budget numbers, Greiner urges
Public discussion ofhigher education needed
117 _..VIDAL

Reporter Editor
LTHOUGH THE SPECIFICS of the
1997-98 executive budget "are about
what we expected,'' it is ..enonnously''
premature to extrapolate what those numbers mean for UB or any SUNY campus, accordi ng to UB President William R. Greiner.
Rather than wringing its hands over another budget cut, the campus community needs to focus on
the business at hand. 'The most important thing this
spring is academic planning, which the provost will
lead," he said.
"Don't let (the budget) distract us from the more
important business we have. This is an opportunity
for the institution to focus on teaching, learning and
scholarly research." Greiner said.
The 1997-98 executive budget, released on Jan.
14. includes a $124 million overall reduction in the
SUNY budget. It also proposes an undergraduate
tuition increase of up to $400 per year and a $175million reduction in fundin g for the Tuition Assistance Program. The executive budget includes $5
ntillion for grad uate and technology equipment. It
does not, however, include proposals for any flexibi lity regulations for the campuses.
A decade of budget cuts, Greiner said, are leaving him-and probably mosl other campus leaders
throughout SUNY-so "jaded" that it's difficult to
keep track of how many reductions have been aDsorbed . ..Fifteen reductions in II years? Who knows.

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we've lost count." he said.
According to Greiner, the constant squeeze on
funding for higher education in New York State "is
a drag" on the operations of the entire SUNY system. Campuses keep working harder and harder at
efficiencies. Tuition keeps going up and the amount
of operati ng funds keeps going down .
"Bleed a little here, bleed a little there. It just
gets tiresome," he said.

P

erhaps most disconcerting to Greiner is the
lack of public dialog on th&lt; future of higher
education in New York State. "What are we
really trying to accomplish ? The governor has no
discernible agenda. Taking funding out every year
is not an agenda, it ' s an activity," he said.
••What is the reaJ value assigned to higher edu ~
cation? How good is higher education in the state?
Let's have somebody ask those questions."
Greiner noted that he finds the current attitude
toward higher education in New York State both
puzzling and troubling. "We' re a lower priority than
we once were," he said. "People are not thinking
about higher education."
The state's higher-education expenditures are not
outrageous, he added. " In New York State, the
amount of money spent on higher education looks
to be about right, compared with other states we're
similar to," Greiner said.
"The real problem is th ere 's no sense of an
agenda. What does the state hope to accomplish?
•
There 's been no public discussion."

It dldn~ look rriJeh like spring Saturday with snow blanketing the
WNY 8flMI, as senior Michael lamb, 21, andehis mom, Janel,

carried boxes and bags overflowing wittl his possessions into
Spaulding Quad, Ellicott Complex, to begin the spring semester.
Studen~ returned to the campus over the weekend and classes
began TlJ!!S(iay.
.

VVagnersees 've~long High fat diet doesn't hann runners' health
road' to final state budget
"liberalizing the fat
117 LOIS IAIIEII
News Services Editor

117 PATIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

ALJ1IOU8II tllliV· P'A1lUCI'S proposed 1997-98 state budget would
cut overall funding to the SUNY
system by $124 ntiUioo-including
cuts in student aid through the Thitioo Assistance Program (fAP}and raise undergraduate tuition by
$400, it's too early to predict what
UB 's final reduction will•be, according to Senior Vice President
Robert J. Wagner.
"We' re in day one of a very
long road," Wagner told the Faculty Senate Executive Comntittee
at its Jan. 15 meeting, providing
senators with what be called a
"possible translation" of a "prelimi nary analysis" ofPataki's exec utive budget.

"" Ia not ........ at this time
to know for certain what our over~
al l reduction will be," be said, noting that in the past several years
the state Legislature has restored
funding to SUNY that the executive budget bad proposed be cul
If Pataki's budget was to be
adopted as proposed. Wagner said,
UB's cut would be about $8 ntillion, or about 3.8 percent of the total state-budget reduction-higher

than it likely will be in the end.
"I d ido 't give specific campuses' reduction numbers (because) we can throw around numbers-$6 ntillion, $7 millionbut last year our campus budget
reduction was $2. 1 million, al though the original overall SUNY
budget reduction started at $98
million,•• Wagner said.

Tile tultl011 lncre•H alone
would reduce the budget gap to
a pproximately $64 million ,
Wagner said. And he noted that
TAP fu nding was cut by the governor last year, then restored to
the budget by the Legislature.
"We need to be aware of this
as the process plays out," he said.
. '"'lbe problem is that in the major
period in which students are making decisions on where to enroll.
we conceivably have two unknowns : What' s the tuition
level.. .and what 's the aid available?"
Wagner downplayed fears by
some senators of ..plummeting"
enrollment figures due to the possible tuition increase.
"If (the system) lost I0,000
Continued on page 2

THLETES TRAINING
on a high-fat diet have a
healthier cholesterol profile than when they eat
the traditional low-fat, high-carbohydrate training diet and they
do not gain weight or body fat in
the process. new data from researchers at UB have shown.
Tbe study, thought to be the first
to show this effect in women, has
important implications for anyone
who puts in high running ntileage
for bealth purposes. It shows they
may be blunting the beoefits of running by eating a diet too low in fat.
Previous results from the same
study group of athletes showed
that increasing dietary fat also
improves endurance performance .
The new results, reponed in
the January issue of MediciM and

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Science in Spans and Exerrise,
show that trained male and female
runners who consumed a diet
composed of as much as 42 percent fat had higher levels of highdensity lipoprotei ns (HDL) in
their blood than when on a diet
of only 16 percent fat. HDL is the
form of choles terol known to
lower the risk of coronary bean
disease. LDL, or low-density li-

content gives athe/etes
more calories and it
cenainly doesn t hamz
their health, like everyone though!. "
JOHN LEDOY

poproteins, is known as the " bad
cholesterol" because it has the
opposite effect.
~ runners. who trained at least

I 35 miles a week, did not gain
weight on the high-fat diet or
show an increase in any risk factors for coronary heart disease.
"Liberalizing the fat content
gives athletes more ca1ories, and
it certainly doesn't harm their
health, like everyone thought,"
said John Leddy, associate director of
UB Sports Medicine
Institute and primary author of the
study. "We thought the cholesterol ratio would get worse, but
LDL and total cholesterol didn ' t
change, and HDL went up. The
best thing happened that could
have happened.

the

"I think these results are particularly important for female athletes." added Leddy. research as sistant professor of physiology
and clinical assistant professor of
orthopedics.
''Gymnasts, runners and swim·
mers; for example , tend to be very
concerned about weight gain. Fe·
male athletes who consume too
few calories to support the energy
they expend are at risk for the
potentially lethal triad of eating
disorders, secondary amenorrhea
and osteoporosis."
It isn"t the fat. perse. that keeps
these athletes healthy. Leddy said.
it's eating enough food to supply
the body with as many calories as
they expend in training, a nearly
impossible feat without including
foods high in fat.
"This study sho ws that if they
are burn ing up the calories, it
doesn't matter where the calories
come from. and it appears that a
very-low fat diet is dearly detri mental."
~ study

involved 25 competirunners who trained at
least 35 miles a week. They spent
a month on their normal diets, followed by a month each on diets
composed of 16 percent and 30

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lnfonnation technology critical to UB's future, lnnus says
ly~­

Reporter EditO&lt;

I

NFORMATION TECHNOLOGY is
an essential ingredient in UB's ability
to attnlct and educate students, and the
need to continue to embrace this tt:chnology, despi~ its complexity aod regardless of budget cuts, is vital to the

university's future.

This is the message that Voldemar Innus,
senior associate vice president for university services, has been taking recen~y to
various campus groups in an effort to acquaint the university community with UB's
co mputing needs and to keep them in-

fonned of plans to meet them.
Inn us, who was appointed to lead UB 's
mfonnatioo technology efforts i.n August
1996, has developed an agenda, which he

continues to refine . to assess the effectiveness of UB 's IT capabilities, keep track of
the state of IT globally and determine the

directions in which UB needs to head.
"On our desktops Lhere is power no one
env isioned a couple of years ago. That's
what's driving demand, which is astronomical," be sai d.

Expect the role of IT at UB to change
rapidly and dramatically, lnnus said, as global and universit y computing needs increase .
Key to UB's technological future is a
ave toward a three-tier, open-architecture,
istributed clienl-server environment that
ses the lntemelflnltanet as a strategic tool.

\

The plan is to build on, not discard , the
niversity':s current IT infrastructure. as
well as to emphasize mainstream IT direcons and opera~ as an "early follower."

He ooted that Nortbwes~rn Univeraity,
which bas a student populatioo rougbly half
that of UB's, bas 200 staff in centralized
IT and another 200 staff worlting tbmugbout the campus. "UB bas half that..•. We've

in information tt:chnology."

"On our desktops there is
power no one envisioned a
co~,tple ofyears ago. That's
what's driving demand,
which is astronomical. "

W:

formed. Its cbarge:

got some cause for concern," Inn us said.
"We are uoderinvested significan~y in
tt:chnical staff. That bas put a severe con-

straint oo wbat we've been able to invest
le the IT problems UB faces
are not unique, they are critical
ligbt of dramatic cbanges both
in the delivery of education and in New
York State funding. lnnus said.
" In this environment of tension, we need
to define, fairly quickly, centralized and
decenlnllized respoosibility," he said. "lnfonnation tt:chnology at UB is missioncritical and addressing iofonnation tt:cbnology on this campus is very imponant."
For example, he noted, last year in the
Unit&lt;:cj Stales 700,000 students took some
type of class that used distance learning. And
the governors of 13 Western sta~ have
gotten together to offer classes tbmugb distance learning bec.ause of a projected 30
pen:ent growth in college-bound students
and lack of sufficient institutional spa&lt;:e.
'The die has already been cast," Innus
said.

..Other institutions with whom we want
to he compared are already moving aggres-

sively in lhe distance-learning direction,"
and UB needs to keep pace.
"Changes in New York State also are a
catalyst for this emphasis. Stpdents are

demanding services in a way lhey never

nology and the gap is widening. We have

have before because they ' re paying the
bill," lnnus said.
UB needs to develop a comprehensive,
multi -year IT plan that in~grates academic
IT needs, administrative IT needs and IT
infrastructure needs.
Toward that end, the lnfonnation Tech-

to account for that and address it."

nology Steering Committee has been

The currenl demand for computing services "is actually much higher than the
university has been able to accommodate,"
In nus said . .. Most of our competitors have
been outspending us in information tech1

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• Establish the vision and principles fO&lt;
the lnfonnation Technology Development
Plan (riDP).
• Make recommendations regarding the
scope and strategies for implementation of
theriDP.

• Set riDP goals and priorities.
• Approve project plans, budgets,
deliverables and schedules.
• Provide advice and guidance to the
IT Coordination Committee.

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haired by lnnus and reporting to the

senior vice president, the committee consists of Nicolas Goodman,

vice provost for undergraduate education;

David Triggle, vice provost and dean of the
Graduate School; Robert Palmer, vice
president fO&lt; Student Affairs; six deans representing the academic nodes; a Faculty

Senate representative: Hinrich Martens,

project plans, including budgets and schedules; provide project leadership; monitor .
budgets and schedules; report on project
progress to the IT St=ing Committee, and
conduct p:ocess reviews, technicaJ reviews
and analyses.
chaired by Innus, the coordinacommittee includes Charles
n. di=tor, CIT tt:cbnical services; Dennis Heoneman. director, CIT operational services; Susan Huston, director,
CIT administrative computing; Charles
Kaars, assistant vice presiden~ Sponsored
Programs; Richard Lesniak, director, CIT

academic services: Elmira Mangum·
Daniels, assistant provost; Martens; James
Nadbrzuch, assistant vice presiden~ Student Affairs; Carole Petro, associate vice

president, University Services; Stephen
Roberts, associate director, University Libraries; Louis Schmit~ director of admin-

istrative services, Universit y Facilities;
Edward Schneider, vice presi dent for fi nance, UB Foundation; Kevin Seitz, assistant vice president, Universily Services;
Snyder; Sullivan; von Wahlde; six staff representatives from lhe academic nodes and
a repn:sent.ative of the Depanmental Computing Consultants (DCC) Committee.
Communication is vital to UB 's IT
goals, Inn us said, and regular meetings will
he held with deans and associate/assistant
deans, the Faculty and Professional Staff
senates, administrative groups and depan mental computing consultants, and student

associ&amp; vice president for Computing and
lnfonnation Technology (Cin; Barbara
von Wahlde, associa~ vice presiden~ Uni-

governments.

versity Libraries; Sean Sullivan, associate
provost; Leonard Snyder, associate vice

said he plans to establish faculty, staff and
student focus groups, and to encourage the

president and controller, and a yet-to-henamed professional staff representative.
In addition, an lnfonnation Technology
Coordination Committee bas been fonned
to structure and define projects; develop

cludes all planning and implementation
documents and provides an e-mail address
to which comments can be sent.
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Feedback from throughout the uni ver-

sity community aJso is imponant. lnnus

flow of information by developing a web
site for information technology that in-

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full -time students. it would be a very big
number,'' he said. "At the moment, it isn't
anticipared that the difference this year will
he that significant a number, and the numbers were running behind befon: we talked

about lhe $400 tuition increase.''
Despite the uncertainty in the executive
budge~ Wagner ooted there also wen: some
.. good news items."
Among them are k proposed capital budget that provides $5 million for gradua~ and
technology equipmen~ and no cuts from
1996-97 levels in the appropriations for the
National Cen~ f0&lt; Eanhquake Engineering
Resean:h, equipment replacemen~ the Minority Fellowship Initiative, tuition scholarships, the Educational Opportlutity Program
(EOP), the Educational Opportunity Centa"
(EOC), Strategic Program for Industrial Research (SPIR) and Stale University Supplemental Thition Award (SUSTA).

Oa •,........ ......,, President William
R. Gn:iner addressed the FSEC about the
relative parsimony of the Sta~ of New York
when it comes to higher-education funding.
· "New York doesn' t have anything to he
ashamed of when compared to California,
Texas, Illinois, Aorida and Pennsylvania
and other states similarly situated in terms
of expenditures on higher education."
Greiner said.
"We have the most generous state in terms
of spending on the priv~ sector, but the priva~ sector makes up a bigger share of total
(higher-education) enroUmeot in New York
than it does in all other states," he said.
Greiner added: "We have way too many

"New York doesn t have anything
to be ashilmed ofwhen
compared to California, Texas,
minois, Florida and Pennsylvania and other states similarly
situaled in tenns ofexperuiitures
on higher education "

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s.Wl, underfunded, struggling institutions
in New York--;&gt;t~blic and priv~ . (Among
the priva~ colleges in the stale) there may
he 20 schools that coun~ that have any kind
of significant national reputation or even a
really significant regional reputation. So we
have a lot of money spent on small schools
and then SUNY has a tremendous debt burden compared to other places," he said.

......, ....._. tll8 d811t burden on too
many over-built, small campuses . He
poi nted out that SUNY has "way mon:"
sq uare footage per student than do other

state university systems because of the
large number of small campuses.
Moreover, most campuses are relatively
new, having been built during the past 30
years aod refinanci ng hes resulted in high

debl burden compared lo other stales.
Greiner said.

Regarding resolution of this issue,
·•we're not even on this governor's screen.''
Greiner said. He added, "I think we actively
raised the issue so we sort of got on the

screen this time around. and the
(governor's) budget message is very positive about the benefits aod values of higher

education in New York.
In other business, Voldemar lnnus, senior associate vice president for university
services, gave a slide presentation about
the sta~ of infonnation tt:chnology (IT) at
UB and the IT development plan formed
by lnnus after numerous meetings during

the fall semester with various campus constituencies.
His presentation generared considerable
discussion, particularly about the organizational structure proposed by lnnus to
develop the university's stra~gic IT development plan. In particular, senators questioned the lack of faculty members and stu dents on the IT S~ring Committee, which
will set goals and priorities for the development plan, and the IT Coordination
Committee, which will structure and define individual IT projects .
The S~ring Committee is made up of
vice provosts, associa~ vice presidents and

an associate provost; the Coordination
Committee is made up of Computer and
Wonnation Technology (CIT) direclors,
provostial and vice presidential staff, rep-

resentatives of the academic computing
nodes established by the provos~ aod a representative from the Departmental Computing Consultants Committee.

a...ton _.atlaaecl llow and why
those individuals were chosen, and if they
were knowledgeable about the IT field,
since filtering information ''is a very dangerous thing." They also asked whether,
given other committee and professional
duties, committee members would be able
to be active in this area.
Boris Albini, profesSor of microbiology,
no~ the complexity of the proposed plan
and expressed concern that the ''big structure" presented mij:ht become autonomous
and begin to define priorities and the direction of tt:chnology at UB. even as they
apply to curricula and academic issues.

Oilier ca
"tee........,. were concerned that while some deans on the steering committee are more aware of their faculty members' activities, knowledge and
needs in the IT area, others an: relative IT
neoph~s . Differential funding for IT in-

frastructure. equipment. training and services is also a problem, they said, noting
that some faculties and schools are wealthy.
tt:chnologically astute and able to upgrade
and maintain far more sophisticated sys~ms than others.
Senators asked that faculty members,

including new juojor faculty who have
worked in compu~r ~hnology and wen:
familiar with its application to the disci plines, he named to the IT committees. It
was suggesred as well that "power users"
of tt:chnology in various depanments, particularly in the library school, be identified
and involved in the discussion and planning stages.
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Mullicu ral Dialogue

Discussion in class helps students in 'real world'

News Services Associate Director

"Often the greatest clwllenge in teaching a multiculturalism course is raising the temperature and
thus having all students become genuinely engaged
with the issues. "

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NOAOINO STIJDI!NTS in class-

room dialogue about multicultural

issties !hal respectS the integrity of
others' views, prepares them for
the debate about these importantand often oontroversial-issues !bat goes on
as pan of a larger, democratic society, a UB
psychologist says.
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, says lhe key to maintaini ng a meaningfu l discussion is for faculty members
to "anticipate when students might become
defensive, angry or hurt, or when conflict
might erupL" This, he notes, will help instructors "know when to lower the temperature (in the classroom), as well as when
to raise the temperature.''
Meacham, who conducts workshops on
multicultural education for colleges and
universities, has published articles on the
topic in journals such as Ubera/ Education and was guest editor of the November/December American Behavioral Scientist , which was a special iss ue on
" Multiculturalism and Diversity in Higher
Education." At UB , he teaches a generaleducation course entitled " American Pluralism" and covers such topics as religion
in a developmental psychology course.
Meacham says the issues that arise in a
multicu ltu ralism course "can to uch students very personaJiy, for gender, religion .
ethnicity, sexuaJ orientation and race are
among the core dimensions of the identities that traditional college·aged students
and you ng adults are constructing."
Moreover, for many students--whose
ideas about themselves and society in general are grounded in their limited experience of growing up in homogeneous neighborhoods-a multiculturalism course provides the first opponunity to talk about
these issues with persons who are unlike

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themselves.
The e&lt;perience can he difficul~ he admits, noting that viewpoints can be seriously chal le nged and emotional conflicts
can arise, since students do not leave their
feelings or personale.periences at the door
when they e n ter a classroom for a
multicultural course.
Meacham offers several tips for main taining meaningful debate on muhicultural
topics in the classroom without unnecessary conflict:
• Stay in close touch with what students
are thinking-but not saying-aloud. End
the discussion a few minutes early and ask
students to write a few anonymous paragraphs th at summarize the issue's pros and
cons, or that suggest how the discussion
could be improved.
• Raise only issues that can be resolved.
in some sense, during a class period or over
the course of a term. The introduction of
more difficult and challenging issues may
require more planning on the part of the
faculty member fro m day to day throughout the course than is the case in other
courses.
• Frame difficult issues in terms of empowerment. rather than victimization.

l.eppelt ..... dlai" fi gynecology
and obstebics at nalcal school
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PII'IUa C. LIPPIIr'f
IIIDI NAMD CIWilof !be Department of Gynec;ology lod Obstetrics ill !be UB Scbool of MediCine and Biomedical Sciences.
She formerly served u professor lithe Uoivenity of Rochester and .cbief o f obstetrics and gynecolOJY 11 Rocbesler Genenl Hospital.
Leppert is a specialill ill !be pbysiology of !be cervix and has lectured and published widely ill llw area.
She was principal invCIIip!Or on 1 four-year project to
study the elfccta of reproducllvc bonnooes 011 tbe uterus
and cervix t1w wu funded by !be Rochester GefteniJ
Hospital Poundllion. Sbe also has compleled I on&amp;-year
investigation of the effect o( aatunlly occuning estrogen on uterine cervical elulase ICICJ'e!ion.

Leppen received tbe Bcris lutemational Raearcb
FeUowabip ill 1989, wbicb oaabled bor to study and
teach in Japan. Ia 1996, lbc c:ompleled three yean u
principal invellip!Or o( I study funded by the Robert "'----IL....--....._-'
Wood Jobnsoa l'ounclMioD aimed II nociucing IOCiocul- tural berrien to beabb e~~e.
Sbe holds 1 bacbelor'a depoe ill nursina. 1 muter' s deJRC in.nunc midwifery
and a doc:torlle ill pllbology from Columbia University. Sbe earned ber medical
depoe from Dub University Scbool of Medicine, compleced 1 two-year residency
there in pediatril:l and toot 1 threo-year llllicloncy i n obsldrics and gynecology at
Yale New Hax~ Hoepilal. Sbe IIXCpled a cwo-year fellowship in mascmal fetal
medicine 11 Columbia Unl,venlty's .Colleae of Pllysiciaos and Slltlleoos. wbere
sbe tauaht for 10 yem before~ to Rocbeater.
Amon&amp; bet many bonon arc two lllaebina cxccllcoce awards from Rocbeiter
General Hospital's DepulmeatofOblteuica and Gynecology, !be Rocbeller Academy of Medicine Cenific8lc of Merit, 1be ~Achievement Award from
the National AuociallaG Cl.fCbiJdbeariD&amp;Centa'S and lillinga in "'Wbo'1 Who in
AmeriCID WOIIIOQ." "Wbo"J Wbo ill ScieDce and ~na'" and "'Best DocloB

ill tbe NorlbcuL"

"Rather !ban framing the course so !bat students conclude that misunderstandings and
animosities are pan of the human condition and always will be, it is far better to
challenge them to consider what actions
they might take in their own lives to reduce prejudice and discrimination on campus. in their communities and nationally."
• At the beginning of the term. discuss
with the entire class the potential for classroom conflict and establjsh some informal
procedures for avoiding conflict For example. let two or three other st udents speak
before a very talkative student speaks
again. "It is, of course. not any parti cular
procedures that are impon ant. but rather

engaging in sUch discussions so that students become aware of their shared responsibility for developing a classroom atmosphere in which they can freely e.press
their own viewpoints without fear of being attacked."
• Have ready a set of procedures for
shifting the class away from awkward or
connict-laden situations. These may include the careful use of humor. redirecting
the emotional energy of the discussion
from talking to writing or early dismissal
of the class.

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eacham points out that discussion
in a multicultural class-as in any
class-&lt;:an he dull and not condu cive to good learning. Students may not
speak out due to fear of saying somethi ng
wrong ; fear of exposing. and having to ex amine, their own assumptions. or difficuhy
in reconciling what they are learning with
prior beliefs and values. he says.
"Oflen the greatest challenge in teaching a multiculturali sm course is raising the
temperature and thus having all students
become genuinely e ngaged with the issues." he says.
He suggests framing an issue in terms of
sharply contrasting positions. such as pointing to simplistic media portrayals. as a means
of gaining students· interesL Also. permitting
emotions to enter into the discussion can be
a means of raising issues or topics that students wouldn't otherwise talk about.
The multiculturalism classroo m,
Meacham says. provides stude nts ··with
opponunities to engage in the skills and
practices of dialogue and debate that they
must have as citizens if our democratic and
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Campus safety issues on agenda
as Grela speaks at PSS meeting
11J ELUEN lliOLHAUM
News Services Staff

BOTH THE UB NORTH and South cam ·
puses have lower crime rates than the Tow n
of Amherst. whi ch recently was named the
safest town in America by Money magazine. John M . Orela. director of the Depanmenl of Publi c Safety, told the Professional Staff Senate at its Jan . 15 meeting.
Based on 1994 crime figures. Grela said
a person's chances of being a victim of a
crime were I out of 10 in the City of Buffalo. I out u f 34 in the Town of Amherst
and I out of 49 on either the Nonh or So uth
campus.
The figures were obtained by dividing
the number of crimes in a particular jurisdiction by the population.
Grela also reponed on UB 's crime statistics for 1996, which show a decline over 1995
in several categories, including burglaries.
assaults, false ftre alarms, bomb threats, grand
larceny. stolen cars and arson.

The ft&amp;UrM for 1196 did increase in some
categories, however. There were 12 robberies in 1996. up from seven in 1995: 325cases
of petit larceny, up from 312 in 1995 :25 bike
thefts. up from 22. and 313 repons of crimi·
nal mischief. compared to 291 in 1995. One
rape was reponed in each year.
Greta said the improvement in most of
the statistics partly reflects reductions in
crime seen at the national level.
He discussed with senators some of the
changes in the way s that Public Safety
deals with incidents. such as the use of
yellow •· A len" signs that immediately ~
posted in an area where an incident has occurred . The signs state whether a suspect
has been identified, gives physical details
about suspects and requests help from the
campus community where necessary.
Public Safety also maintains a "constant
dialogue" with Buffalo and Amherst poli ce, Orela said.
In addition. he noted thai when there is
a repon of an incident, Public Safety o f-

fi cers respond within three minutes.
While South Campus staff members
applauded Public Safety's effons. they
noted that some incidents still seem to occur with disturbing regularity.
"Our concern is that although the statistics show crime is going down . it seems
like every week someone in the building
is being robbed," sa id o ne woman who
works in the Cary-Farber-Sherman addition and feels there has heen an increase in
thefts of purses and other personal items.

She 8ftd-. ..tded that many students
and staff membe~ who work in research Jabs
do not leave campus until 10 p.m. or taler.
They e. pressed "9"Cem about having 10 wall.
to parking lots aJone at those hours and during weekends. and said they would like to
have a Public Safety officer escon them.
Grela said that any member of the UB
communi ty who is leaving a building after
hours may req uest an escort by ca llin g
x2222 on either campus.
Depending on availab1lit) . a patrol car
will be dispatched to the appropnate par~­
ing lot. Grela also suggested th at. where
possible, staff a nd student!&lt;~ try to leave
buildings in groups
Moreover, deans. depanment heads or
other adm ini strators may request that spe cific buildings be equipped with additaonal
security measures. such as card-access or
alarm systems.

In C_,.l, Grela MIYIIMCI senators 10
exercise caution. remain alen and call Pub·
lie Safety whenever someone or somethmg
look.s suspicious. "Wherever you are on
cam pus. if you see somebod) who )OU
don't think belongs on campus, call us.··
he said. '1'hafs what we ' re here for··
Senators mentioned other safe ty ~.·on­
cem s on the South Campus. mdudmg the
lack of signs in buildings. whtch often leach
to unauthorized people in cenain areas. and
traffic problems for both drivers and pedestrians. panicularly around Michael
Road .
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�Hooked
Prof takes look at today sviewers
series, and Santa Monica, Calif.-based
General PublillUng Group commissiooed
ARY CASSATA confesses
Cassata and her former student Barbara
she never used to follow lbe
Irwin, now a Canisius College faculty
"sudsy" offerings on televimember, to write a book on lbe sbow. 1be
sion.
photo-packed, 280-page "1be Young and
Or their foreruMen on
lbe Restless: Most Memorable Moments~
radio, eilber.
- - - .,.
was published last month.
But fate stepped in when
lo 1998, lbe duo again wiU
CassatA was assigned to teach
team up to write a book cela mass communication course
ebrating lbe 25th annivenary
at the University at Buffalo in
of lbe series.
the mid-1970s.
When soap operas debuted
It was !ben that lbe conunua half-century ago during
nication professor thought
radio's early years,those who
she'd better tune into a few of
stayed 11 home--&lt;:specially
the programs, if only to familmolbers with young children
iarize herself with the pheand older women-were
nomenon that appeared to be
among the most frequent lisa daytime stAple for a growteners of lbe serials.
ing segment of viewers.
he programs hecame lmown as "!be
She got hooked on lbe shows and tosoaps" because most were sponsored
day confesses that she knows some of the
by companies that manufactuJed and
on-screen characters better than she knows
sold soap products.
most of her real-life oeighhon.
But many of radio's offerings like
From Cassata's admiu.dly inauspicious
"Stella Dallas~ and " M.a Perlcins~ graduforay into soap-o-rama, she has risen to
ally disappeared do)VIl lbe drain with lbe
become an authority on the genre.
William Bell, creator and director of advent of television. "1be Guiding Light"
was a notable exception, says Cassata.
"The Young and The Restless ,~ believed
With television taking center stage in
to be lbe most popular of the daytime soap
lbe living rooms of American homes. a new
generation of soaps was spawned. 1bese
included "Edge of Night," "As lbe World
Turns" and "1be Young and The Restless."
There have been changes in the audi rector of the Program for the Public Service

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Peter D. Salns named SUNY inlelin pnwost
ETER D. SAL!NS, chair of the
Hunter College Depanmenl of
Urban Affairs and Planning and
director of the college's Urban ReCenter,
has been named interim prosearch
vost of the StAte University of New York
by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
"I am delighted that Dr. Peter Salins,
with his impressive academic credentials
and teaching experience, will be joining the
State University as interim provost/• said
Thomas F. Egan, chair of the SUNY Board
o f Trustees, in announcing the. appointment
Jan. 14. "Dr. Salins brings first-class intellect. recognized leadership skills and a
record of achievement in such far-ranging
areas as economic developme nt and health
care policy to a position of great importance
to our (Stale) University."
In addition to his positions at Hunter
College. Salins is a senior fellow at the
ManhattAn Institute for Policy Research and
associate director of the CUNY Institute for
Transportation Systems.
SUNY Interim Chancellor John W. Ryan

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said he was pleased to recommend Salins
to the trustees "given his strong credentials,
experience in the public university sector
and his broad involvement in issues of imponance 10 the State University."

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alins recently served as a member of
lbe Mayor 's Advisory Panel for New
Yorl: City, a role that Ryan said gives him
additional experience in an area of vita) concern to SUNY. He also serves as director of
the Citizens Housing and Planning Council
of New Yorl:, nusteeofthe Lavanbwg Foundation. trustee of the Village of Baxter EslAICS and director of the New Yorl: City Council on Economic Education. He is project W-

UB profs to teach under Fulbright program
II)' MARY liEnl SPINA
News Services Editor

TWO UNIVERSITY AT .UFFALO faculty
members will teach abroad during the
spring semester under the auspices of the
prestigious Fulbright scholar program.
Isabel S. Marcus. professor of law, will

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perce,pt fat. Six males and six females spent
an additional month on a 42-percent-fat
diet Protein remained stable at 15 percent
and carbohydrates made up the difference
in the diets.
Researchers measured resting hean rate
and blood pressure. as we ll as total cholesterol. HDL and LDL cholesterol. triglycerides and the major protein components of HDL and LDL.
Results showed that HDL levels rose as
the amount of fat in the diets increased.
There was no change in weight, percent of
body fat. bean rate. blood pressure. serum
triglycerides. total cholesterol or LDL. The
42-perce nt-fat d iet decreased risk factors
for bean disease, while the 16-percent-fat
diet increased the ri sk factors for coronary
bean disease by lowering the levels ofHDL
and the major protein component of HDL.
Leddy said the mechanism causing this
effect is still in q uestion. but he suggested
it may involve the activity of the enzyme
lipoprotein lipase.

under grants from Revson, Booth Ferris and
the New Yorl: Tunes Foundation.
Sa1ins was a rnembcrdtbe advisory JliiD"l to
the White l:bloe Domestic l'blicy Stalfon Udxln
l'blicy in l9'n. He is a member d a rurt&gt;or d
ocganizalions. including tbeAm:rican Planning
Association. Am:rican Economic Associalioo
and Anaicao Society fer Nllic Mninistntlioo.
Salins is expected to lake over as interim
provost once his leaves Of absence from
Hunter College Md CUNY are authorized.
He holds an undergraduate degree in
architecture, a M .R.P. and a Ph.D. from
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Syracuse University.

"Trained athletes have higher levels of
this enzyme, which breaks down dietary
fat and. in the process, removes plasma
triglycerides and forms HDL. If dietary fat
is restricted, lipoprotein lipase activily is
inhibited.
"Also, dietary fat increases the production of the major HDL protein, so dietary
fat restriction would mean' less HDL protein is fonned. Both mechanisms could
reduce the beneficial effect training has on
HDL levels." An increase in triglycerides
raises heart disease risk. while an increase
in HDL lowers the ri sk.
"'Runners who restrict dietary fat may
inhibit the enzyme and may make less HDL
prote in, therefore HDL levels may remain
blunted.'' Leddy said.
Also contributing to the srudy were Peter
Horvath, UB assistAnt professor of nutrition
and physiology; Jill Rowland, graduate studc;nl in nutrition, and David l'el)dergast, professor of physiology. The work was suppotted
by a grant from Mars. Inc.
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lecture on American constitutional law, international human rights and family law at
Babes-Bolyai University io Cluj, Romania.
Mark E. Shechner, professor of English,
will lecture io Israel on American nlodern
literature. He will teach at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University
in Tel Aviv.
Known and respected as a legal scholar
on abortion and women's and human rights
and related issues, Marcus eamed master's,
doctonll and law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
She is working on a book on domestic
violence and the law in the former Eastern
Bloc countries of Russia, Poland, Hungary
and Romania.

Shec:IHMor, 8lao - . . . , _ . of UCBerkeley, tAught as a Fulbright scholar in
Japan in 1980.
At the two Israeli universities, he ' ll focus on modem American fiction and authors , includjng Toni Morrison, Maxine
Hong Kingston , Richard Ford and
Raymond Carver.
For half a century, the Fulbright program
has been recognized as the flagship program
in international educational exchange.
Selection is a highly competitive, peerreview process conducted by lbe Council for
International Exchange of Scholars. It is administered by lbe United State lofonnation
Agency and awarded by the J. William
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ences since the "soaps" debuted on the

small screen in the mid-19SOs. CassatA
says.
Devotees today cross all kinds of socioecooomic, ethnic and gender lines.
And contrary to what many might think.
a majority of lbe more than SO million aficionados who tunc in, do have a life.
Some admittedly are closet viewers in
professional and executive positions who
are unwilling to admit !bey are hooked on
the programs and secretly set their VCRs
SO as not to miss an episode.

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hey also may be spotted buying magazines devoted to the storylines, the
characters and the actors who play lbe
parts, or calling national phone numbers
to catch up on plotlines and developments.
It's true, Cassata says. that some of the
"faithful viewen adopt their favorite chnractcrs into their mental social circles and
families. They can become so intenwined
with their favorite series' characters that
they send wedding presents for marriages
and flowers and sympathy cards to survivors of the recently "deceased."
But. sbe believes, most viewers who
creale their own imaginary world to include
favorite characten consciously know what
they're doing .
Meanwhile. the fascination of viewen
with the soaps shows no signs of abating
as new generations of viewen get hooked
on programs where pregnancies can last for
more than nine months and weddings are
more elaborate than those in high society.
Their pupularity holsters the saying that
"an imitAtes life."
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CerrtdiOil
The Jln. 18 Rlportllr article on
Bruae Jldtlon t.lng named
Clpln ..,......ol American Cuitin lrloolmcly ldlnllfied him as a
SUNY Olllllgullhed l8achlnO ~
...,... Jldtlon I'IOicltl the IIIIa ol
SUNY ~ Prolessor.

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State funds project aimed at reducing domestic violence
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News Services Editor

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HE UNIVERSITY 81 Buffalo bas
received a $350,000 grant from
the New Yodc Stale Oepanment
of Health to detennine if fewer
women will be reinjwed by 00mestic partners if they get help before they
leave the 18fety of the hospital emergency
department The t!Jre&amp;.year grw will fund a
program called the H.ealtb Care En-oesgency RA&gt;sponse llootatic Vooleoce Projocl, which will
be carried out in the Erie County Medical

Centor's ~of En-oesgency Medicine.

The project will educate emergency de·
partment physician s and nurses to identify
domestic abuse injuries and train volunteer
domesti c violence advocates who will
come to the hospital's emergency depart·
ment to link women with community ser·
vices before they.leave the hoopital The project

also will CSIIblish a 24bour autoollled teloJilonc helj&gt;-line in E.nglisb and Sponish tba

women can access
from their homes.
Experts estimate
that domestic violence accounts for 30
percent of the inju- llliASNOfF
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n es women present
within emergency departments in the U.S ..
yet without an established protoCOl. physi·
cians have been found to identify only one
abuse victim in 35. Studies have shown that
banered women, if asked, almost always wiU
admit they' ve been beaten, but resean:h also
reveals thai physicians are uncomfortable
with the topic, are afraid of the
involved
and feel powerless to intervene.
The new project will try to overcome these

time

barriers by training physicians to recogniu
possible domestic-violence injuries and by
bringing volunteers into the emergency de·
partment to provide immediate intervention.
The goal, said Margo Krasnoff, UB associate professor of medicine and director of
the project is to show that in-hospital inter·

vention in domestic ~ violence cases is a form
of prevention thai can decrease the number
of women reinjured by their partners.

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e hope to increase identification of
women who come to the emergency
department suffering from domestic violence
who might not have had the opportunity to
discuss their situations with health-care providers," Krasnoffsaid."By having the domes·
tic-violence advocate come right to the pa·
tient in the emergency department. we arc
demonstrnting that we talte this problem very
seriously, and that we are concerned about
the safety of our patients. We want to make

sure they receive the belp they need to prevent them from being injured again."
The project is an outgrowth of a collab&lt;ntive effort among 12 Erie County hospiUils 10
develop a unified approach to domestic violence. Krasnoff tested the concept a1 Millanl
Fillmore Health System's Gales Circle and
Suburban hospitals, where the program is """"
in effect before applying for the grant. A similar program exists 81 Sisters ofOlarity Hospital in Buffalo. In its third year. the project wiU
be replicated in two~ area hospitals.
Crisis Services, Inc., along with Krasnoff
and Ron Moscati. UB clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine and project coprincipal investigator. will train emergency
department personnel. Crisis Services also

will recruit, trrun and supervi se volunteer
advocates. UB departments of Internal Medi·
cine and Psychiatry and the UB School of
Law aJso will be involved in the project •

President issues university affirmative action statement
HE UNITED STATES has a 350-year
legacy of discrimination based upon
race, from chattel slavery through Jim
C row laws and into the civil rights
struggle of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The
Western world has an even longer history of disrimination againsl women. And, in recent years,
e as a nation have been increasingly sensitized
10 ways in which we have disadvantaged others
on the basis of their membership in certain groups
o classes, rather than on their individual abililies and merits.

T

S me of our country's most obvious discri minatory
pract es and traditions are a thing of the past-for example, the maintenance of separate public accommodations for members of different races, or the posti ng of employment opportunities for members of one gender only.
In other instances, however--such as last year's Texaco
case-we are reminded that egregious discrimination still
exists, and too many members of our soc iety are daily
aware of far more subtle, invidious discrimination.
ln the academy, we have a keen sense of these legacies
of de j ure and de fac to discrimination and segregation.
partially because we have studied them, and partially because we know our own institutions have historically participated in them. We also have a meritocratic academic
culture, based on principles of intellectual and professional
achievement. And most of our current generation of faculty and university officers have grown up with the civi l
rights and feminist movements.
r all these reasons. we in the academy strongly support equality of opportunity in all aspects of our acaemic community; we also support affirmative action programs, both as rc~edies for the effects of past discrimination and as means of assuring true equality of opportunity. This ethical position is reinforced by our lnldi·
tion of academic freedom and the firmly held sense of
indepe ndence which arises from it We expect to make
deci sions about acade mic policy-i ncluding particularly
admissions and the hiring of faculty colleagues-without
significant pol itical or judicial int! rvention .
Political and judicial events of the past five years mark
an apparent shift in the public policy environment for colleges and universities, particularly where matters of racial diversity arc concerned. National attention has focused
on several high-profile cases in higher education:
• the University of California Board of Regents ' 1995
vote to end racial preferences in hiring and admissions;
• the 1995 decision by the Supreme Court not to hear
argu ments in Podberesky v. Kirwan after the U.S. Court
of Appeal s in the Fourth Circuit ruled againsra race-based
scholarship program at the University of Maryland; and
• the Supreme Court's similar 1996 refusal to intervene in Hopwood v. Univusiry of Texas, in which a Fifth
C ircuit appellate court ruling effectively barred colleges
and universities in Texas, Louisiana. and Mississippi from
considering race as a factor in admissions.
In the current judicial posture of the nation's courts, all
preference programs based in race are suspect under the
Fourteenth Amendment. Moreover, the 1995 Supreme
Court decision in Ada rand Constructors, Inc. v. P~na has
created a new emphasis on "strict scrutiny," requiring that
iristitutions use affirmative action programs only to ad-

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dress a "compelling public interest" -suc h as remedying
either demonstrable current discrimination or demonstrable effects of past public discri mination. Such programs must also be "narrowly tailored" to remedy spe·
cific instances of discrimination by the institution which
creates them.
In creating and maintaining these positions. it is generally judicial policy to defer to the findings of elected
public officials in the executive and legislative branches.
or of specially appointed and/or expert agencies such as
the Civil Rights Commission. Even these officials and
agencies, however, must now be prepared to meet rigorous judicial scrutiny regarding findings that justify affir·
mati ve action programs.

T

hese recent events have led a great many of our colleagues in the academy to re-examine the relationships-and the differences-among affi rmative action, equal opportunity. and racial and gender-based preferences. and to ask how they can appropriately preserve
their commitment to affirmative action. While colleges
and universities may be particularl y aware of and sensitive to past and present societal d isc rimination , we are
accorded no special standing to remedy such discrimina·
lion, and we must be prepared to justify everything we do
in terms of remedying demonstrable past or present discrimination at our institutions.
Does this environment mean that universities must stop
working to ensure balance and diversity among students.
faculty, and st.aff? No. It simply requires us to do careful
analysis of deci sions involving admissions. hiring. and
professional advancement, and to ensure that what we do
is justifi able based upon our institution's specific situation and our academic and professional needs. At UB. that
analysis is the business of a range of uni versity offices.
committees, and leaders (se~ sidebar at rig hi).
oes the current national re-examination of affinna
tive action change the University at Buffalo's com
mitment to mai ntaining and promoting diversity
among our students. faculty. and staff. and to ensuring a
climate in which that diversity is respected and considered
an asset? No.
• UB still upholds all state and federal laws that ensure equal access to educational and employment oppor·
1unities for all Americans. regardless of age. religion or
creed, color. ph ysical ability, national origin. race.
ethnicity, gender, and marital or veteran status.
• UB also subscribes to New York State's Executive
Order Number 28, prohibiting discrimination based upon
se&lt;ual preference. and to the SUNY Trustees' policy that
no judgment concerning any member of our university
community shall be based on personal matters, such as
sexual orientation and private expression. that are unrelated to performance.
• UB remains committed to creating an environment
in which all the many differences among the members of
o ur university community are respected. appreciated. cel ebrated, and seen as the source of new insigh ts into ourselves and our world.
At UB and throughout the United States, our diversity
is and must be our great source of new strengths and new
perspectives for the century ahead. It is our task at UB to
preserve that diversity as a living resource, so that students, fac ulty, and st.aff alike are better able to serve our
community. state, and nation in years to come.

D

WIWAIIR.-ND
President

The fi*Mtng deocription olretponsibllities fa&lt; affirmative
- . . equ8l ~ity. and dMinllty ln~lallves has
bee!&gt;- by 1 r.nge ol uniVetoity oll'tcers. as well
•• the FKulty and ProiROlonol Stoll Senates ltls being
lndMduoJty - · along with a aet of detailed noles
on each reoponslbifny, ·to Voce Presidents, Deans. Oiracto&lt;s, Chan. Program and Unk Heads, and the Facuhy
and Prolnslonaf Staff Senatet.

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• . _ .. _ _ _ Aetlonotllce

f. Aaaitt in developing policy scatements and affirmative
action programs: provide guJdance and support to uni-

venJity committees charged with addressing affirmative
actlonlosues.

a. Prepare and submit mandatory reports: respond to
requests from other agencies; report to semor manage·
menton the status and progress of the unrverslty's alfJr.
mative action progrilm; disseminate appropuate IOtormaUon to units.
3 . Coordinate activities related to addresstng discrepanc ies and findings identilled In repotts and complaints
4. Design and implement an audit and report system that
meets federal and state mandates and 1den111y areas
requiring correction.
111. Serve as a ltaison between tederal anc state agenc1es
and the university.
8. Assist in keeping the un1verstty commuMy tnlormed
on developments 10 Equal OpportuMy/Afftrma!ll.le ActiOn
and in securing feedback on what mlormat10n uMs
require
T. Conduct audtts conststent w1th the unlvers.ttv 's obhga·
uons and mandates
R•aponalbllttlea of S.nlor 1t1ana9•m•nt
8. Take every appropnate occas1on to prov1de on-go1ng
and VISible leadership 1n torward1ng eqllal opportuntty
and dtversity imtiatives among lacuily. students and staf1
msurlng that the un1versity community understands these
to be imponant tnstitutional ob1ecuves
a. Assist deans. chairs and directors m 1denhfy1ng ancl
solvtng tssues related to recruitment and h1r1ng ol I acuity
and staf1
1 0 . Prov1de leadershtp 1n tostenng 11es among and
between organ1za11ons and the un1vers11Y to promote
efforts at enhancmg drverstty
1 1 . Ensure the establishment of un1t goals and obtec ·
uves. and of a system of accountab1hty lor meet1ng them
12. Encourage pubhc serviCe w1th1n sentor managers
areas of responsibility to help promote mcreased •nvotvement between women and m1nonty organ1Z8!10ns and the
umverstty
1 3 . Develop plans and strategtes to prevent narassment

RetlpOftalbllttlea of Deana, Chalra, Directors
IUMI lndlvl-1 F.c:ulty/Stllff Members
14. Ensure that career development plans (not necessar
tly written) ex1st tor all employees
15. Ensure that annual revtews are conducted lor au
employees and that any d1vers1ty eHons and results on
the Part ot the employee are 1ncluded 1n the evaluation
cnteria
16. Untt managers are best pos1lt0ned to ensure that
women and mtnonhes are g1ven lull opportun1t1es lor
transter and advancement
17. Develop and Implement effecuve strategtes tor
tncreastng the recruitment and htnng of mmonues and
women . and lor reta1mng them once h1red

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L ......... has been
named campus director of techno!·
ogy transfer services in the OtfK:e of
the V.ce President
IOf Research at
UB Massing has

served as assis·
tant and assoct·
ate dtrector of
technology lfans-

fer serv~ces at UB
stnce 1992
MiSSIOn ot the

OffiCe of Techno6ogy Transfer SetVICes ts to make UB tnventJOns avail·
able lor public benerrt and to place
those technok:lg~es ex tnventions with
localtndustry to support WNY economiC development
Masstng 's new responstbtlll!eS
tnvolve managtng actrvtlleS relattng
to the dtsclosure. development.
marketing. proteciiOn and hcenstng
of tnteUectual and tangible property
developed by UB faculty and staH .
tncludtng the hlfng and prosecution

of patent appltcalions m the u S
and loretgn countnes
He tlas served as d~tector of en·
gtneertng at Keller Technology
Corp . as vtce prestdent of manu·
lactunng at Ktstler Instrument Corp
and as seniot mechamcal engtneer

at Catspan Corp
Masstng recerved the 1980 Engt·
neenng Excellence Award fran the
U S Department of TransportatiOn for
studteS .improvtng the response of anthropomorphic crash-test dunvrues
He chairS the Survey, StattSIICS and
MetriCs Comm1nee of the Asscoation
of Umversity Technology Managers
He earned a master's degree in eng•neenng and a bactleiOr's degree tn
electriCal and mechanical engtneer.ng fromUB

EPIDEIIII-IST ON IIOAIID
OF NA1'10NAL AIIENCY
STUDYINQ YETDAIIS' HIEAUII
Genftlllne •uclt, UB assoctate
professOf of soctaf and preventive
medicine. has been appointed to a
three-year term on the board of the
fnstl!ute of Medtc1ne's Medical FollOw-up Agency, an arm of the Nat tonal Academy of Sciences
The agency conducts ep•dem•ologtc research on the health status
ol veterans Us board tS composed
ol 14 phystctans and researchers
!rom umverstttes and research cen·
ters across the country
Buck has won national recogmhon fbr her eptdemiOiogtc research
1n human reproducuon and fetal
and early-Childhood heal!h In 1995.
she was appotnled to a three-year
term on the NatLonal Research
Counc1l Comminee on Tox1cotogy.
wh1ch prov•des expert adv1ce to
government agenctes on toxtcoloQ IC issues a11tt problems
She holds a prestigiOUs three-year
lellowshtp from the Merck Company
Foundation and the Society f01 Eptdem!Ok&gt;gy Research to conduct a
long-term study of the safety and effecuveness of tubal hgattOn
Buck is a registered nurse and
holds master's and doctoral degrees
tn epidemiology from UB She is a
member of the Amencan College of
Epodenuofogy, Socoety for ~podemio­
logiC Research and the Society fCif
Pediauic EpidemiologiC Research.
and tS a fellow of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental MediCine She publishes fre-quently in professional journalS

MIUD ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF DENTAL ALUMNI
llllymond Q. 11111. . has been
elected president of the 1,300member UB Dental Alumni AsSOCUI·
lton fOf 1997. A 1985 graduate of
the UB School of Dental Medicine .
Miller is a clinicallnstructOf of oral

diagnostic sciences at the dental
schc:lot and maintains private practices in Lancast9f and Amherst He
also is on lhe anending staff of the
Erie County Medical Center.
A major with the 107th Air Refueling Wing of the New York Alr NaIIOilal Guard, Millet' Is a member of
the American Dental AssociaUon
and its state and district societies.
Other newty elected officers are:
-~D.-. president-elect. A 1985 UB dental
school graduate. Ehlers is a UB
clinicallnsuuctor of restorative ctenusuy and is in practice in Boston.
• Paul ~o, secretary. Oibenedeno graduated from
lhe UB dentaJ school In 1979 and is
tn practice in Cheektowaga.
•Richard .1. Lrnch, treasurer. Lynch is a 1983 UB d ental
school graduate and is in practice
1n Bufla)O

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KAAIIS, TAI'LIN, K - N
NAIUD TO I~ I"'STS IN
U N - A T E DIUCA.,_
Janina Kaara has been appointed interim assistant vice provost for Undergraduate Education.
11 has been announced by Nicolas
Goodman, vice provost for Undergraduate Educalion. Kaars, who will
continue as director of the Academic Advisement Center. witt be
responsible for coordinating and
monitOJing the university's undergraduate academte pohcies and
procedures and will serve as senior
member ol the vice provosl's staff
She has worked at the university
s1nce 1975 and since 1993 as dt·
rector of the Advisement Center
Other Ofganizatooat changes
announced by Goodman include
Cheryl Taplin, senior academtc
advisor. has been appointed lntenm
assistant d irector ol the Academic
Advisement Center. She will be re-sponsible for several new tnnialives
within the Advisement Center and
will serve as acung director tn
Kaars' absence Taphn has been an
advisor at the untverstly since 1988
and has been the coordinator of the
transfer credit base fOI' UBDARS
C.rol Kobrin has been appointed interim assistant to the VICe
provost lor Resource Management
and will be responstble for budget
and personnel. She will also conllnue as the assistant to the d1rector
of the Academic Advisement Center She has worked at the umverstty
stnce 1975 and has been in Academic Advisement stnce 1995

IEIHIEL NAilED I'IIESIHNT OF
LAW a SOCIETY ASSOCIA.,_
David M. lneel, professor of taw
and directOI' of the UB Baldy Center
for Law and Social Polley. has
been elected
president of the
1,400-member
Law and Society
Association
(LSA). He will be
Installed as prestdent at the
group's annual meeting m St Louis
in June.
Members of the LSA. founded 1n
1965. include U.S. and internatiOnal
scholars from law, sociology, polittcal sctence . psychok&gt;gy, anthropol·
ogy. economics and history
Concerned with the role of taw tn
soctal. political. economic and cultural life, a major aim ol LSA •s to
encourage input from a vanety ol
dtsciplines Into the study of
sociolegal topics .
A UB faculty member stnce
1985. Engel teaches courses tn taw.
culture and sociEtty, and law and soeta! science. A book he coauthored . "Law and Community tn
Three American Towns.· won LSA's
book award in 1996. He is associ-

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SCIIIICD ALUIINIIAU(
Imagine an environment that is
~der than outer space. It may
sound Inhospitable, bot for the pest
100 years, some physicists have
made such k1N temperatures the
focus of their work.
One such scientist , Francia M.
caaap.tnl, professor of physics at
UB. will discuss "The Saga o1 Low
Temperature Physics: A Ouest lor
the Absolute Zero· at a talk to begin
at 7:30p .m. on Monday, Jan. 27, in
Room 215 of the Natural Sctences
Comptax. North Campus.
·
A tour of UB's tow-temperature
research facility will follow the talk.
The lecture . free and open to the
public, is part of the UB Sctences
Alumni Association lecture series
According to Gasperini, the disCCNflf'( that began 100 years ago
with the cooling of helium gas until ~
became e liquid orvtiated a revolution
in physics. He will explain how the
drive for absolute zero ts motivated
by the desire to observe . - ph&amp;nomena such as superconductivity
and superffuidity that only can be
WrNed at these tempefatures. He
atso will dtSCUSS how initial observations of these phenomena paved the
way for the acceptance of a new
physics-quantum mechanics. For
more information. call Cindy Nydahl

at 645-2531 .

~- Core Biomedical Collection I coven journals from 1993
10 presenl, and Core Biomedical Collectioa U includes titles from

1995 10 pmenl.
Every word of arti&lt;:lc text is searcbd&gt;Je. including references
and graphics captions. Once a list of articles is retrieved, existing displlly options include: a brief bibliographic record. an abstract, or the full text of the article. Hypertext features al low
moving 10 selected sections, displllying complete references cited
in an article, and linking directly 10 MEDLINE and other full
text documents. All graphics. !Ables. and photographs are included as they appear in print.

For Mlp connecting to tM World Wide Web and BISON /1, call
IM ASCtr Help Desk at 645-3542.
-Sue Neumeisur and Lori Wulzinski, University Ubraries

Ao, Dong Ho Kim. Ho Yool Lim ,
Hy\Jn Choon Jeng. Sang Bok Lee.

Jeong Muk Lim. Jae Sam Yang, Suk
Kee Baek. Kweon Kang , Wang Jln
Mun. Young Tae Kim, Kyung In Kim,
Jin Wool&lt; Han . Jin Saol Yang . Byung
Chul Kang . Yong Chul Kim. Sang
Youn Lee and Woo Tae Shim.
NIDLHLE~RIIIVIIID

CNI..W RIIJ( R E -

II'I\IITICIII'ANTS N - . , FOR
~IIUSHEVAWA.,_

Researchers in the UB School of
Dental Medicine are seeking more
than 100 healthy adu/15 between the
egas of 21-65who have signs of penodontal (gum) disease to help evaluate the eHects of a new toothbrush on
oral health. Symptoms of penodontat
disease include red and/or bh3eding
gums aftBf brushing .
Participants will be reQuired to
make five v1sits to the dentaJ school
on the South Campus They will receive $125 reimbursement lot time
and travel upon completion of the
study. Anyone tnterested in partiCipating can call 829-3940 between
9 a.m . and 5 p .m . weekdays .

Twenty-four senior-level executives
from Samsung Corp. have gradu·
ated from an information-teichnotogy education program administered by the Department of Management Sc1ence and Systems in
the UB School of Management.
The graduates, chief information
oHicers from Samsung's headquarters in South Korea. completed a
six-week program that analyzed
ways information technology can be
applied to a company's strategk:
business iniUatives. "Information
technotogy is havtng an Increasing
global tmpact on the way business
operates.· said UB Professor and
program director c.rt ........
Samsung. ranked among Fortune
magazine's most profitabkl international corporatk&gt;ns. COf'Mlissioned
the pt"ogram as part of its strategy 10
remain a global business ktadef.
Grad uates included Ooo Hyung

Kim , Chart Koo Par1&lt;. Chung Sam
Ahn , Wan Goo Gee, Bang Hwan
Chung. Kyung Hoe Koo, Yoong Sik

"Song of ,._ Ho&lt;izons." a piece
perlormed by Hull House Revivmthe folk duo comprised of F Seidl, dean of the University at
Buffalo Graduate School of Social
Wor1&lt;. and Dean Santos, a faculty
member at the Rochester Institute of
Technology-is one of 25 selections
on the recently released audio cassette and CD "Rochester Sings in
Many VISions, Many Voices.·
The recordtng . a mullicuttural
JOUrney of 250 musicians . IS a YO(.
unteer collaboration between
Rochester's WOKR- TV and Dynamic AecOfding Studio. PrOCeeds
benefit the project Beyond Racism.
which trains facilitators to create
and deliver diversity education programs in the Rochester area.

w.

"Song of New Honzons, • wntten
by Santos and featuting Seidl and
Santos on guitar and vocals, teHs
the story of a 1•-year-old with dystexla who seeks to find ·a fertile
garden· where hts differences are
cultivated as unique assets .
"Rochester Sklgs in Many Visions, Many Voices· ts available for
under $15. wNch includes shipping
and handling, by calling 621~270

IUIIVECNIU.II.-n

RECIIUnMENT lUll
Nine Buffalo residents are members
of US 's newty-formed M1nor1ty Recruitment Team, a group of students
who assist the OHtce of AdmJssions
and the university with the recruit·
ment of students, particularly those
who are African-Amencan. NativeAmerican Of Latino.
They are: Natalie Armstrong .
Catvin Baxter, David C&lt;Miins, Tanika
Edwards, Mk:helle Hare, Kawanza
McCall, Moritz&amp; Ortiz . Yohannes
Semere and Teraysa Smith.
The team participates in specie!
recruitment prognwns. such as US's
amuat open house and doversity reception, and telephone campaigns.
and speak wi1h prospectiVO students.

II'I\IITICII'IUITS IIOU8HT FOR

- -IIESEAJICH

Do you suffer from sudden rushes
of intense fear and anxtety that appeBI out of the blue? Are these tearful episodes accompamed by rapkj
heartbeat. shortness of breath.
sweating and trembling?
II so. and you are at least 18
yeBis of age. you may be eligible to
partiCipate in research on paniC
diSOf'der being conducted by the
UB depettments of Psychology.
Physical Therapy and Exercise Sc•ence, and Psychtatry
Participation will beg1n Wllh a dt·
agnostic intervteW. with appomtments scheduktd at individuals'
convenience at the North Campus
Participants will recetve S50 upon
com~tion of the procedure
Individuals wi1h hean or lung disease, seizure disorders or who are
pregnant are
eligible. Anyone intarasted in participating should cor&gt;tact the UB Center for Anxiety

noc.

Re-

search, 645-3650, ext 337.

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To Give or Not to Give

AM AFRAID mAT I will be labeled
Sociallst, but the fact is !ball am sic1c
IIIII lin:d to.beoo everybody's sucker
lists. If Ibis is socialism, so let it be.
Here is how the SIOI)' goes.
I am an immigrant who arrived to Ibis
country after WW U. Although I bad a job
right from the stan, the lim few years
were a struggle to have the ends meet.
Eventually, I landed myself a relatively
weU-paid (by my standards of those days)
job, and pooling our resources, my wife
and I were able to afford a modest twobedroom house. Since prior to arriving at
the United States I spent nearly s1x years
as a piisoncr of war in Germany, and then
seven years as a war refugee (what was
then called displaced person) also in Germany, I was not spoiled with luxuries.
Having a house, enough to cat, and two
small cars meant for me a fulfillment of
the American Dream. I fell America was
good to me and DOW I should give something in return.
I picked up a charity, I think it was
Father Flanagan's Boys' Town, and sent
a small contribution. It didn' t take long
that I received a thank-you note and an
envelope implying that another contribution would be welcome. As the time went
by, more and more reqUests for contri bu~

I

tions from other charities began to arrive.

The more I was giving the more requests
were arriving.

Where were they getting my name
from? I didn't advertise that I am wiUing
to satisfy all needs of the world. With each
request there was a lengthy Jetter dcscrib-

ing all evils tbal happen to people, frequently ICCOIIIpBoicd by gruesome photographs of emaciated children or sick
people. There was also a pledge card with
a series of little squares accompanied by
numbers inausing from left to right in a
geometrical progression. An additional
square labeled o/Mr was always at the upper end o(.lbc progression, hardly ever at
the lower end. Some fund-raiser even told
me how mucb I should give.

Ulb= did they~ information

n

about my financial staiUS to make
such decisions for me? I don' t know.
Sometime in the mid~ a new idea
cmcrgcd. The newly created United Fund
proclaimed tbal if I give gcocrously to UF,
all human occds will be taken care of and
no one will ever bother me. This was a
splendid idea; unfortunately, it didn't
work. I gave generously to the United
Fund but this didn't stop the flow of mail.
After I became a citizen and registered with the board of election another
flow of mail began to arrive. Now there
were requests for political contributions.
Once I sent a modest contribution of $10
or $20 to a political fund-raiser. they began to call you a community l&lt;ad&lt;r and
they immediately made you a member of
a political organization whether I wanted
itoroot.
It is strange that one can easily renounce U.S. citizenship bui it is impossible to surrender a membership in these
political fund-raising orgartizations.
Many times I enclosed with my contribu-

lion a note saying that l supported their
cause but I did ool want to be a member
of anything. Nevcrtbcleas, next month
another request for money arrived with a
lcn&amp;tby letter beginning with the words
Dear M&lt;mber of ...Obviously they didn't
read my note. WeU,I didn't read their letters either because I know that all they
wanted is my money.

S

ince I am a registered

Dcmocra~

most of the political mail came from
Democratic organizations. However, occasionally I received mail from the opposite side of the political spectrum. Once I
received an adorned letter from Senator
Phil Gramm ;;wiling me to join the R•p•blican S&lt;natoria//nner Circl&lt; . For a
mere $1,000 a year I would have the
privilege to rub elbows with Mr.
Sunnunu, Arnold Schwarzenegger and
other Republican hotshots at the Inner
Circl&lt; meetings at the additional cost of
$200-$300 per meeting. Of course, travel
expenses to Washington and the hotel in
WashingtOn are on me. Being now such
an important personality, I couldn' t take
a room in any flopbouse but would have
to stay at the Omni Shoreham Hotel for a
minimum of $135 a night (a special rare
for YIPs). Another time I received from
the Reagan White House a proposal thai
if I contribute as little as S I ,000 or so to
Reagan 's campaign I will receive a
medal and a special letter of appreciation
thai I may display prominently in my living room. This was a shock to me since
my European background taughr me thai
medals and crosses are given for !.pecial
achievements in peace and war and cannot be acquired for money.
Now that I am retired a new type of
mail began to arrive. Some charities figured out that after contributing for 30
years or so I may have reached by now
the end of the line. So, in case 1 am
brooding about how to dispose of my al leged estate I should consider to bequest

evcrytbing to ibcm.
Ptescolly, I am flooded every day of
the week with four to five letters asking
for contributions. I am glad that there is
DO mail on Sunday; at least one day a
week I am spared bcartbfeaking decisions to give or not to give. Mostly the
requests arc for, what I consider, wonbwhile causes. But unfortunately my limited means do not do not allow me to
solve all of the world's ills. so I have to
be selective and dispose of some of the
requests into the wastebasket. Tbcsc arc
hard but unavoidable decisions to make.
It certainly would case my conscience
if we would reverse the trend for
privatization of charities. Let the governments take care of the occds of those
who cannot help themselves as it is done
in most of the West European countries.
This will not stop the flood of requests
for money entirely, but certainly will
ameliorate the situation. It will simplify
our lives and will save a lot of paper and
thus preserve our forests and cut down

on pollution from the pulp indusrry.

I

n addition it wiiJ be more cost-effective
because charities usually collect money
through fund-raising agencies and only
parr of the contributions go to the charily.
whereas the rest fattens up the fund-raiser.
I would rather send once a year one sizable check to the IRS than hundreds of
small checks ycar-rouod. Let everybody
chip in, not just the suckc ~ .
As far as the political contributions
are concerned, let us eliminate money ·
fro m the campaign process altogether.
This way, our elected representatives
won't need to take bribes from corpora-

tions and alms from the citizens. So
much is being talked abour how welfare
devalues people's self-respect. Shouldn ' r
the same apply to our elected officials
who bave to go begging to have chances

ro be elected?

- F. ZAiliiZEWSIU
Research Professor

SportsView
BUUS U8H1' UP I..EA11&amp;NECU
TO EARN SECOND PLACE
The BIAs st&gt;Jia blislsmg 00.7 percenl frcrn lhe
field and 61 .5 peiC81l frcrn beyond lhe""' to
doMl Weslem Jllroois 96-85 SaUday t&gt; score
one of rr.eo- biggest road llicklrios since joi1ing
the Mid-Coolinenl Confefance ltYee ~ ago.
Weslem lllroois had won 26 of !heir prBIIious
~ - a t Weslem Hall before lhe Bulls
cameto""""and~ro~and4-1

n

lhe Mid·Cort The loss dropped Weslem 1D 4-2

n lhe conlerence and~ 01o'!lt81. The Bulls got
oulSlallding frcrn Mike Marlilt'o. Rasa!.n
YOU'1Q. Mall Clemens and Robert Harris.
Marmho hil11-of-15 shots frcrn lhe field
en route ID a seasorHligh ~ points. Young

had 23 points. while Harris added 18 points
and 10 reboLnds for lhe SuUs and had a monster slam dunk in lhe closing minutes to help
dinch lhe win. Clemens added a season-high
14 polnts.After a home conleslagainsl
Youngstown Stale Jan. 22, lhe Bulls hillhe
road for Mid.COOtinenl c~ al Chicago
State and Norlheaslern Illinois.

ROYALS FAIL IN YOUNGISTOWN
UB-Youngstown Slate women~
basketball game was not decided until !he
final shot as lhe Royals fell In a 76-741oss in
Youngstown. UB is now f&gt;-1 In lhe Mid-continent Conference and 13-2 overall. With Troy
State's 113-58 win over Chicago Stale Monday, lhe Trojans tool&lt; over Mid-Con's top spot
and dropped UB Into a lie for second with
Youngslown and Northeastern Illinois.·
Shamor1 Beach's layup with jusl3.7 seconds remaiAing gavelhe Penguins a 76-74
edge. UB lrrmedialely -lineoul t&gt; set up a
Saturday~

fl1aJ play. YSU used alight pressue defense as
catherine Jacob rushed lhe bal up lhe orut.
lelling loose a Hall Mtvy stJJI that til lhe frool of
lhe rin as lhe final buzzer SOlrded.
Brenna Doly and Kim Coon led lhe Royals
with 13 points apiece. Charissa Gardner
added 11 points. Blai&lt;eslee scored a seasonhigh 10 points. Alicia Kollmorgen grabbed

seven boards to lead lhe Royals.
The Royals head to Chicago for a pair of
league malchups facing Chicago State Set·
urday and Northeastern Illinois Monday.

MAR11NHO, COON EARN

MIDCONIINENI' HONORS
Junior guard Mike Martinho and sophomore
guard/forward Kim Coon were selected as
lhe Mid-Continenl Conference~ Men's and
Women's Basketball Players of lhe Week. lhe
conference announced Jan. 14.

Martinho reached lhe 1 .~nt plateau
Monday, becoming lhe 10th player in Bulls
history to achieve lhe mileslone. Martinho averaged 22.3 points in three games last week,
including a season4ligh 29 Saturday againsl
Missouri-Kansas City.
Coon averaged 16.1 points in ltYee games
for lhe Royals, leading lhe team to a 3-0 week.
Coon came off lhe bench In 1w0 of lhe three
games. including Monday's 91-75 win """'
Troy Stale where she scored 20 points and
nailed four lhree-jlointers.

BUUS SECOND AI STAlE
WIID1UN8~
ComellklMirsity had fa.r state c:lltwJ1)icns
and placed fa.r o4hers on lhe podiun scoring
168 pOOls as they won rr.eo- second consecu-

livuNYSl!&amp;nlille
and lhid In fa.r
~overlhe

weekend. UB.
pooling !heir besl
fnsh since 1978.
capllJed second
place-1'Z7
poiris.

UBS&lt;ri:lr1SO.
pculCier ..kllvl
SUzmtwlex-

lllnded his wming streak to 22 bouts and capIliad his schookeoord fourth I&lt;&gt;.XTla'nenl Wlf1

spots 00 lhe honorable menlloo offensive team. Ellis. who
has been gaining
plenty of attention
frcrn pro scouts, alklwed just one sack
all season and

IIWs seasoo. Defeating CoUrbia's Brian
McGuie 6-4 to lake lhe lille, he is now 24-1
and hasnl losi a match since Noo.oerroer.
Senior 126-pounder Jason Wartinger also
captured his second tournarnenllille of lhe
season as he successfully defended his stale
championsllip frcrn last year. wartinger also
_,l ~ over lhe weekend. scoring a 6-5 win
over Bob Hanson of Syracuse in lhe finals.
Rlrs Mall Hamill. named lhe lournamenl's
M9sl Outstanding Wrestler. defealed UB's
Eric Gross in lhe finals.

FOUR F0011IAU. BUUS EARN

AI.WIImiiCA STA11IS
Four UB players. highlighted by sentor defensive back Michael Chichester, earned spots
oo lhe Don Hansen Football Gazene AllAmerican team. Chichester earned a berth
on the first·team defense in an outstanding
senior season. helping lhe Bulls to an 8-3
record, their most wins in a decade.
Also earning spots oo Football Gazene AllAmerican teams were Hnebacker Craig Guest
(ltlird team def1&gt;1se). offensive tackle Edward
81is and tailback Anlhony Swarr-who both
made lhe honorable mention offense.
Chichester played both come&lt;back and
slrong safety, and was a rock in lhe Bulls defensive secondary es well as oo special

teams. He was fifth oo lhe team wiltl 63 tackles. led lhe team in pass breakups and returned both of his Interceptions for touchdowns against ll~nois Stale and Edinboro. He
bloci&lt;Bd three kicks and had a pair of fumble
recoveries in a steUar season.
Guest finished a brilliant career as UB's
all-time leading tackler. He fK1ished lhe year
with a tearrHeading 136 tackles and lied lhe
school record with four fumble. recoveries.
He leaves UB as lhe record.hoJder for tackles
in a game (29versus Maine, Oct. 7. 1995).
season (161. 1995) and=- (446). He is
lhe only Bulls player to ever """"d 400 or
more tackles In a = - and regislered 100
tackles or more in ltlree stmlght seasons.
Senior offensive tackle Edward 81is and
junior tailback Anlhony SWan both earned

helped lhe Bulls av·
erage 372.5 yards
and 24.6 points per
game.
Ellis was a big

reason why tailback
CHICHESTER

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Anthony 9Nan became rrty the lhird

player
history to crack the 1.00&gt;- 9Nan rushed for 1,117 yards on a
record 244 carries and scored nne lOlJCI&gt;.
dc&gt;Nr6_He caug,t16 passes for 172 yards.
islling lhe year ranked 29th 1n lhe nation n rusning at 101.55 yards per g&lt;rne. He-- qo/6f lhe
1~- seven lines lhls season. .,.
eluding a career-lligh 215 yards al LBI'ql
The Bulls. who will become a Oiv. 1-A
member in 1999 with their entrance 1nto the

yard -

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Mid-Amertca.n Conference, were ranked 27th
in the final Spotts Netwodr poll and sixth 1n

ltle final l.amberlJMeadowlands Awards

MEN'S SWIMMING
The Bulls traveled ro 0!1io Jan 17 to face a
tough Toledo team frcrn the Mid·Arrencan
Conference. UB dropped the meal 137-100
falling to 4-2 in dual competition .
Distance freeslyler Mall&lt; Horgan was lhe
BIAs' klp performer, taking lhe 500-free "'
4:45.88 and lhe 11X»Jlee n 9:46.52. l-is rrne "'
lhe 1000 was his besl of lhe season. slicing
r:Nel a half a second off his prevws besl a
9:46.89. The line is also lhe reoon:led by
a Mid-Conlilenl Conference swirmer IIWs year
Also winning for the SuUs were Kevin
Jessop in lhe 2!JO.bullerfly in 1:58.11 and
Korry Miller In lhe 200-IM in 1:58.37. The
BuHs look lhe lop three spots in lhe 200-IM,
with Par Quinlan finishing second In 1:59.94
and Jessop third al 2:00.27
-Ted Wasko. Sports Information Office

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who recently argued an abonion
cli nic acceu cue before the
U.S. Supreme Coun in October.
Centerforlnquiry, 1310Sweet
Home Rd., Amherst. 8 p.m.
Sponsored by Friend! of the
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for the Arb oa the North Campus. The a.how coalillues
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Monday cluoul)l Friday.

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. as antique medical and dental Jnstrwnents.
HUBNEr Glos!Xtal and University at Bu!falo
IJbrary Resowce NETwork) provides coinputer
a:x:ess tn bJbtlogtaphlc databases. full text
journals, c1lnJcaJ manuals and textlxxllcs, drug
Information resowc:eS. and expert systems In the

Each librcny unit maintains its own hours of operation. Please phone the
Circulation Department of the unit to determine the hours for that unit and its
service departments. Since hours vary aooording to the =demic CXIlendar as
well. a phone CXlll will help you to make the most efficient use of your time.

health sciences dtsdpllnes. HSL's HOME PAGE,
avaltabte through Wings. provides tnlormatlon
on services and resource&amp;. and pointers to
relevant biomedical Internet sties. Instruc:tion on
the organization o1 biomedical tnlormatlcn and
other special toPes Is pravlcled by cmangement
with a reference llbrarlan. lnterllbrary toan
.services for Health Sciences faculty and students
are available at IISL through the INFORMAI10N
DllJVERY SERVICE DEPARTMENT (11:6).
Health care prolessionals, law lbms. bus!·
nesses. and lnd!vlduals not affiliated with UB or
located oU campus cxm also oblaln biomedlcat
and health tnlormatlon through the IDS. Boot
and audiovisual loons. photoc:xlpes of journal
articles, lntmUbrary Joan referrals. computer
99CD'ch8s. and reference tn1onna1ion can be
provided on a fee.lor...,rvlce basts.

�Charles B. Sears Law
Ubary
(JAW)
C7BRWf JIAI.L, 2ND TqOUQB 7!11 PLOOIIS,
Ol(mll CoUIPUI)

Circulofion/Re..,..../IU (2nd Floorj6AS-6765
Fax 645-3860
Koren Center/Audiovisual &amp; Microlorna
(5th Floorl 645-2045
Reference (2nd Floorl 645-2047
E-Mail Reference
ASKlAWOACSU.BUFFAlO.EDU
URL hHp:/ /wings.buflalo.edu/libraries/units/law
The Law 1Jbrary oollecllon covers a wide
variety of materials on LAW and LAW RELAlED

SIJII.lOClS.
The library oilers students. !acuity, alumni,
and the community lull research l~.
lncludlng polesstonally stalled relerenoe and
eleclroolc Information oerv1ces and audlav1sual/
mJcrolorms departments.
A r1ch research collection ol 475.000
volumes (books, mJcrolarms and CD-ROMs) and
425,000 mJcrolarms Includes FEDERAL and S'I:A'lL
COURT CASES, S'J'A1UTES, CX&gt;Df:S. REGULATIONS.
and GOVERNMENT IXX:UMEN'I'S; TEXTS and
TREATISES on a wide variety ol legal loplcs:
collections of OO'ERNA110NAL and CX&gt;MPARATIVE LAW; UNITED NA110NS RECXJIID'i: and a
small oollecllon ol FOREIGN LAW. The MORRJS L.
COHEN RARE BOOK COll.ECilON In the Law
Ubrary. which contains ENGUSH AND AMERI·
CAN LEGAL SOURCES from the 16th. 17th, 18th,
·and 19th centuries. povldes bcx:.l:ground
' materials for research In the foundo:Uons of our
trad1tion. The papers of John Lord O'Brlan.
d1sltngulshed lawyer and porntnent publlc
I for whom the law school building Is
. me qvailable for the use ot researchers.
The KOREN CENTER FOR CLINJCAL LEGAL
AnON maintains a collecllon of audiotapes.
~-

mlcrolorms, and other non-boolt
materials and equlpnent to support the Law
School cun1culurn. Law students r«rf pactioe
thelr oral advocacy or oourtroorn sldlls using the
vtdealaptng equlpnent In the CENTER.
Computer-asslsled legal research through
the on·llne legal databases, LEXlSfNEXIS and
WFSrLAWfDlALOG, Is avallable to cwrenUy
enrolled law students and lull-11me law !acuity.
Other university patroos r«rf acx:ess ELEC
TilONIC !NFORMA110N SERVICES via government and oommerdal CD-ROMS and on-line
databases In the Relerence Department and the
Internet Room. The Law Ubrary's WEB PAGE on
the Internet, available through Wings. lXovldes
pointers to other gophers and web sites of Interest
to legal researchers.

provided by Lockwood ata1l. A lull range ol
·~oolc dalabaoeoln !be IOCialldoncal.
bumanlllal. a n d - il avallable on
cxmpullar atallcDI and via netwcxlt
'""""""· A lull-1811- ol dll ENGLlSI!
POEI'RY publlobad 600-1900 Is available In !be main -.moe area. students and ·
lacully may _,ch the exiBnslve NEXISjLEXlS
system at four ampulor statlcrls. Lockwood abo

povlcles

a-

aornpulor search service.
The BUSINESS/GOVERNMENT IXX:UMEN'1'S
REFERENCE CENTER Is a depadtcxy for U.S.. New
York State, and Canadian Gavammant Publloallons, and H aantalna -enos r_,.,ces ln
- a n d Mcmagemenl. The Center povldes
ar;:QS to hundleds olelectrmlc r--.uces
relala1 to~. !raSe, buslness/lndusbial
flrms, ecoocmlc and llnar&gt;dal dafa. etc. The

extensive DATASTREAM online service contains
cwrenl and hlsforlcal stotisllcs far more than
200,000 l1me- covering economlc and
llnar&gt;dal dafa from countries and marltels
worldwide. Geagraphlc Information System (GIS)
software Is avallable Ia- !be creation o1 custom12led maps deplcllng IOCial and eoonornlc
tndlcatoB, and natural and tnfraslructural
leafures lor areas and regions.
The POLISH CX&gt;ll.ECilON ls an extensive
research collection ol Polish language boolts and
joornals, eopedally strooq In hlslory and
literature and reoources for geneaJog1cal
research.

Mathematics IJbrary
(MATH)
IIUILDING 6 (SOUTH CAioiPIIS)

829-2165, 829-3278
Fax 829-3913
A branch of the Science and Engineering
Ubrary, the Mathematics Ubrary houses
research maferials In matl)ematlcs. tncludlng
books. professional journals, relerence books,
tndeiBS, amtracts. and reserve items. A full
range of library services Is available. Including
reference, lnterlilxary loan, database searching.
and pholooopy fadlitles.

Music IJbrary (MUSIC)
11AI11D JIAI.L, 1ST FLOOR &lt;NOiml CAioiPIIS)

Circulation 645-2923
Director's Ollice 645-2935
Fax 645-3824
Reference 645-2924
URL hHp://wings.buflolo.edu/ libraries/units/

Busineu/Government Documents Reference
Center

Iht Floorl 645-2821
Circulafion 645-281 5
Fax 645-3859
Interlibrary loan 645-2812
Reference 645-2820
E-Mail Reference
UNLOCKOACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Reserve 645-2144
URL hHp://wings.buflolo.edu/libraries/units/lml
ART. BUSINlSS, EOUCA110N, II1JMANITiEs.
LIBRARY SCIENCE, 50ClAL SCIENCI:s, and
50ClAL WORJC collections are ~ad In
Lockwood 1Jbrary along with GOVERNMENT
IXX:UMENTS. POLISH and EAST ASIAN materials.
and the .JUVENil.E books collection. Holdings
Include over 1.500,000 books and joornals, and 3
mllJlcn mJcrolorms, maJctng Lockwood the largest
llbrary of UB and In the SUNY system.
Relerence. tnstrucllon. tnterlll::wary loan. and
graduate reserve are some of the servk::es

The r1ch Archives Include original materials
documenllno.the HISIORY OF U.S. MUSIC
LIBRARlANSHlP (dorens ol cxallntervlewsl. the
archives olthe CENTER OF TilE CREATIVE AND
PERFORMING ART5 (1964-80) and the DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC. Tape archives peoenUy
nwnberlng aver 2,200 cassettes. and grawlng.
Include performances from these sarles: EVENINGS FOR NEW MUSIC (1964-80): CREATIVE
AS50ClAl'E REClTAL5 (1964-80): SLEE LECIURE
REClTAL5 (1957-76): JUNE IN BUFFALO (1975-80):
FACULTY CX&gt;MP05ER WORKS (197H 1): DEPART·
MENTCX&gt;NCERI'S &amp; LECTURES (1967-81): and the
NORTII AMERICAN NEW MUSIC FES'!TVALS (198393)- ecx:h with Its own catalogue .
Other spedallndexes. catalogues. and aids
assist In llndlng works by Buffalo musldans.
Buffalo residents, pogroms and revlerws associated with au of the Departments events since
1962. works in several manuscript collections of
compooers' works, and maferlals In the Faculty
Archives gtven by Professors Feldman. HWer.
WWiams, Mlthasholf, Gearhart, et al. A !Xfnted
list of Archives and Spedal Collections ln the
Music Ubrary Is avallable.
The Music Lfbrary offers IBM· PC and
Mcx:intosh workstations for research aSsistance.
network ac:cess and word processing. A growing
collection of CD-ROM UUes Include music-related
bibliographic databases (e.g ., lHE MUSIC INDEX)
and muiUmedla pocluch; (e.g .. MICROSOFT
MUSICAL fNSTRUMENTSl. The Music Ubrary
home page, available via Wings, offers addi~
t1ona1 tnformatlon about the Music Lfbrary's
history, collections and servic:es. and points to a
variety of usefullntemet music resowces.

Science cmd Engineering
Library (SEL)
CAPEN HALL, 2ND AND JRD n.ooRS
&lt;NOiml CAioiPIIS)

Circulation/Reserve 645-2944
Fax 645-3710
General Information 645-2946
General Microcomputing/BISON Connect

Support, call Help Desk
645-3542
Information Technology Center (ITCJ 645-3326
Reference 645-2946, x233
E-Mail Reference ASKSELQACSU .BUFFALO.EDU
URL hHp:// wings.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel
SEL is locxrted on the second and third floors
of Capen Hall, w1th entrance Uuough the first
Ooor of Copen in the Undergraduate Library. SEI.

music

serves the faculty and students of NATURAL

The Music 1Jbrary holds brcxxl-based
research collections which support not only the
pogroms oflered by the Department of Music.
but abo lhos81n DANCE, AFRICAN AMERICAN

SCIENCES and MA.JHEMAllCS. as well as
ENGINEERfNG and APPLIED SCIENCES. Cotiections include over415,0tXI books, 1.500 profes-

STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY
and IJNGUISTICS. The aiialag'ued collections
contain over 66,()(() scores and pertormance
I.OCitWOOD LIIIJIAJI1' IIUILDING
(NORDI CAMPUS)

tam are ODdlyoed).

parts, 28.500 volumes olllterature about music.
17,000 perlodlcal and serlal volumes, hundreds
ol photos, 6,000 mlcrolorms, several hundred

video tapes, and nearly a thousand muslcrelala1 posters. The recording collections.
nwnberlng nearly 28.000 Items Include JAil.,
FOLK. l.JI'URGICAL, POPULAR, CLASSICAL, and Is
espedally r1ch ln the AVANT-GARDE. The
recacdtngs can be listened to at any of 24
listening stations (18 ol which are equipped with
oompact disc piayers). Over 1.800 separate
mlcrollche contain Images of over 925,000
cxrta1ague c=ds r81Xesenllng books and soores
ln the Paris Bfbloth8que Nationale and the
Conservatoire.
Spedal strengths of the library Include 20'11l·
CENTURY MUSIC, JAil. and JAil. DISCOGRAPHY.
OPERA, CX&gt;MP05ERS' AIITOGRAPII 5CX&gt;RES fN
FACSIMILE. MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEW MUSIC.
and REFERENCE MAl'ERIAL5. Spedal aollections
Include clo5e to a bundled "FAXE BOOKS.'
thousands ol MUSIC ANTIQUARIAN AND
AUCTION 5ALE CAIALOGUES, 2,000 MUSIC
!CX&gt;NOGRAPHY SLIDES, as well as whalls
pobably one of the largest collections of SOLO
SONGS In the U.S. (In which au olthe crulhors of

sional journaJs. 1.5 million microforms. and
various audiovisual collections. SEl has one
branch, the MA11lEMATICS LIBRARY. looated on
the SOuth Campus.
SEL offers circulation and reserve services
JoinUy with UGL. The CirculaUonjReserve Desk Is
looated on the first Door (In UGL). Other SD.
services include reference. interlibrary loan. and
library instruction. SEI. also makes many science
and engineering databases and other electronic
resources .a vailable to users. 'nlese resowces
nxry be acc:essed from workstations in sa and
Uuough the SEI. home JXJge on the web.
The !NFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
(ITC) houses a variety of microcomputei and
audk&gt;-vlsual equipment. Computer equlpnent
includes Madntoshes. IBM PCs and Sun WOiksta~
tions. 'nlese computers m e networked. offering a
variety of software. and cue oormected to highspeed laser printers. Optlc:al scxmners me
ava1lable lor text and graphics scanning. The
Capen ITC abo has VCRs and crudiocassette
players for video- and audiocassette playbaclr..
The MAP ROOM Is on the thlrd Door of SD..
The collection oontatns over 200,000 map;
tncludlng TOPOGRAPI!JCAL. =LOGICAL, LAND
USE. HISIORICAL, POLrnCAL. FOREST. WORLD
AND CITY MAPS, and AI1.ASES from around the
woild.
Also on the lhlrd Door Is the NATIONAL

�Which library to use?

T f~ f

EACH OF TIIE ten UB Libraries has services and rollections tailored to stuUndergraduate Library (UGL). which contains general works in moSt subject
&amp; NO " t.. &amp;N N i t.oD

HAYES HAl.1. CSOU111 CAMPUS)

so you may use several different libranes whose collections overlap. Below
a gwde to the subject specialties of the UB Libraries.

J

(APL)

areas Keep m mind that research projects will often be multi-disciplinary.

IS

·

Architecture and
Planning IJbrary

dents and researchers in specific subject areas, with the exception of the
&amp;Jf C .. tl C C 1Ulfl

.. f :. '

829-3505
Visual Resources Center 829.3 485

URl hHp:// w ings .buffala.edu/Bbraries/unib/apl

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LIBRARY

Architecture cmd Planning Library
Lockwood Library
Science cmd Engineertng Library
Lockwood Library
Science cmd Engineenng Library
ChemJStry
Lockwood Library
CI=cs
Health Sciences Library
Dentistry
Lockwood Library
Educallon
Science and Engineertng Library
EngmeE-nng
Government Docwnents
Lockwood. Law, cmd Science cmd
Engmeertng libraries
Health Related Professions
Health Sciences Library
Hlstory
Lockwood Library
Hlstory of Mecllcme
Health Sciences Library
Languages
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Lockwood Library
Law
Law Library
Library StudJes
Lockwood Library
Literatur e
Lockwood Library
Management
Lockwood Library
Maps
Science and Engineertng Library
Mathematics
Mathematics Library
Mecllcme
Health Sciences Library
MUSIC
MUSIC Library
Health Sciences Library
Nursmg
Health Sciences Library
Pharmacy
Science cmd Engineertng Library
Phystcs
Lockwood Library
Polish StudJes
Poetry
Poetry/Rare Books Collection. cmd Lockwood
Library
Psychology
Lockwood Library
Soc:!al Sciences
Lockwood Library
(Anthropology . Soc:!ology . Economics)
Lockwood Library
Social Work
StatJsbcs
Health Sciences. and Science cmd
Engineertng libraries
TheatJe cmd Dance
Lockwood cmd Music libranes
Aictutecture Des1gn Studies
Art Art Hlstory
B•ology
Busmess

• UB History

University Archives

University at Buffalo 71-IESES and DJSSERTATJONS are found in the
library of the discipline.

Over 23,000 students attend UB and use the l1l::la!ies. With ml1llans c:t re-

oources In the ten lll:mrles, }:l'ctllems oan occur In flndlrO what you want,
when you want it The best way to~ lftrory resoorces Is to encourage everyone to olx!eive these lftrory rules and regulalla'ls:
+ Return boots on time
+ Use library maleD:ds wtth oore
• Bdng ~items to the attentkln c:t lflxary slaf1
+ Ol::serve the no srooldng pollcy
+ Ol::serve ~food and drink )JQ~k::&amp;;. Food and drink are permtlled Cl'l!y In
designated areas
• Study quietly
+ Follow p:lSied signs
The rules and regulatials are t8pt to a minimum and are Intended to
}XOV1de the greatast good b the greale&amp;t nUJl'lber c:t people. 'lhey extend
to alllflxary fa:::llilles and serve as a reminder to us all to be cxmlderale.

LIBRARY

HOURS

Each library W'lit maintains its own hours of operation. Please phone the
Circulation Department of the W'lit to determme the hours for that W'lit and its
service departments. Since hours vary a=rding to the academic calendar as
well. a phone call will help you to make the most efficient use of your time.

APL has a collection of over 24.000 volumes
on AllCHlTECT1JRE. AllClllTI:CTURAL HISTORY.
DESIGN THEORY. ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
PLANNING and URBAN S1UDIES APL

IS

a brcmch

of the Lockwood Memorial Library and IS located
on the tust noor of Hayes Hall, whlch houses the
School of Archltecn.ue and Planrung APL's
coUecbon includes lxx&gt;k:s pwnals maps
mctutectwal drawings. Vldeotapes CXISSettes

nucroforms and CD-ROM resources such as the
Avery Index, Sweets ConstructlOn CatalCXJ frank

Uoyd Wright dJawings and selected census data
hies Master's theses of the School are aJ.so housed

m APL APL provldes reserve materkl.l study
areas. work tables a typmg room an A -V room
and photocopymg facllJues There IS a lso an
exte nsive sHde coUectlon in the V lSual r&lt;:esowces
Center assocta1ed Wlth the School m Room 332

Hayes Hall

Health Sciences IJbrcny

(HSL)
ABBOTT HAU.-CSOIITII CAMPUS)
Adm inistration 829·3 402

Circulation/Reserve 829-3335
Fox 829-2211
History of Medicine 829-3024
Information Delivery Service liDS! 829-3351
!Fax 835-4891)
Interlibrary loan 829-3351
Media Resources Cenler IMRCJ 829-361 4
Reference 829-3 900
E-Mail Reference ASKHSl@ACSU .8UFFAlO.EDU
URl hHp:// wings .buffalo.edu/li braries/u nits/hsl
HSL. founded m 1846. contcnns matenals m
!he fields of DENTAL MEDICINE. HEALTH-RELATED
PROFESSIONS. MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL
SCIENCES. NURSING, and PHARMACY. Com·
bmed booKs and JOurnals tota1 over 300.000

volumes. and tournai subscnptions total approxtmately 2.000 bUes The MEDIA RESOURCES
CENTER (MRC) con tams over 2.000 audtoVlSUal
noes m venous formats. mcludmg oomputer·
ClSSISted mstruction lor self·11'l.Struction. reVIew and
classroom use The ROBERT L BROWN HISTORY
OF MEDICINE COLLEcrtON houses 12.000
v olwnes of raze and hlstoncal matenals as W'eU
as antiqUe med1cal and denta111'l.Struments
HUBNt.T (Hospttal and Uruversny at Buffalo
l.J.brary Resowce NETwork) proVJdes computer

access to blbllOQlaphlc dataOOses. full text
)OW nals.

clmical manuals and text.l:xx&gt;ks drug

resowces. and expert systems m the
health sciences dLsclplines HSL's HOME PAGE
avOllable through Wmgs. proVIdes mlo rmatJon
1nlor motion

on seiVlces and resowces. and pmnters to

relevant btomedicallnternet

Sites

Instruction on

the orgaruzabon of btomedical tnJormat10n and
other speclal topacs 1S provlded by arrangem ent
Wlth a reference librcman. lnterllbrazy lcxm
services for Health Sclences faculty and students
are available at HSL UUough !he INFORMATION
DEUVERY SERVICE DEPARTMENT (IDS)
Health caze proles.oonals. law turns busl·
nesses. and mdlvlduals not aftlliated Wlth UB or
located off campus cxm also obtam btomedical
and health 1nlorma1Jon through the IDS Book
and audiovisual loans. photocopieS at townal
arucles. mterlibrary loan. referrals oomputer
searcheis, and reference tn.for motion can be
provtded on a fee-lor·se.JVlce basiS

�Charles B. Sears Law
Ubrary
(JAW)
01IR1AN HALL, 2ND TIIROUGII 7TH FLOORS,
(NOIITII

CAMPUS)

Circulotion/Reserve/IU (2nd Floor) 645.0765
Fox 645-3860

Koren Center/ Audiovi,uol &amp; Microforms

provided by Lockwood stall. A full range of
elec:tronlc databases In the social sciences.
hwnantties, and b\1s!nesS Is available on
dedicated computer stations cmd via network
access. A full-text database of all ENGLISH
POETRY published between 60().!900 Is available tn the main Reference area. Students and
faculty may search the extensive NEXlSfLEXIS
system at four com puter stations. Lockwood also
provides a fee-txJ:sed computer search service.

l.IBRARlANSHIP (dozens of oralmterviews). the
cnchives of the CENTER OF TilE CR£ATIVE AND
PERFORMING ARTS(! 964-80) and the DEPART-

PvtENT OF MUSIC. Tape cnchives presently
numbering over 2.200

cassettes. and growing.

include performances from these series EVE·
NTNGS FOR NEW MUSIC ( l 964-80). CREATIVE

The BUSINESS/ GOVERNMENT DOCUMEN1S

ASSOCIATE RECITAJ.S ( l 964-80). SLEE LECTURE

(5th Floor) 645-2045

REFERENCE CENTER Is a depooitory for U.S•. New

Reference (2nd Floor! 645-2047

E-Moil Reference

York State. and Ccmadian Government Publicotions. and tt contains reference r esources in

MENTCONCERTS &amp; LECI'\JRES (1967-81). and the

ASKIAW@ACSU .BUFFALO.EDU

Business and Management. The Center provides

NORTH AMERICAN NEW MUSIC FESTIVA!.S (I 983-

ac:cess to hundleds of electronic resources

93)- each with Its own catalogue .

related to census. trade. business/Industrial
firms. economic and tinandal data, etc. 1be

other special indexes. catalogues. and &lt;Ilds
assist m finding works by Buffalo mUSlClcms,

extensive DATASTREAM online service contains

Butfalo residents. progyams and reviews OSSOCl·
ated Wlth all of the Dep;Irtment's events since

URL hHp:/ /wings. b uflolo .edu/li bror ies/un its/law
The Law Llbrary collection oovers a wide

variety of ma1erials on LAW and LAW Rfl.ATED
SUBJECfS

The l.lbrary ofleis students. faculty . alumni.
and the community lull research facilities.
mcludlng professionally staffed teference and
e lectronic ltlformation serv1ces and audiovisual /
nucrotorms departments
A nch tesearch collection of 475.()(X)
volumes (books. rruaoforms and CO-ROMs) and
425,000 microforms mcludes FEDERAL cmd STATE
COURT CASES . STATUTES. CODES. REGULATIONS.
and GOVERNMENT DOCUMEN1S. TEXTS and
mEATlSES on a Wlde vanety of legal topics,

collections of INTERNATIONAL and COMPARA·
TIVE LAW. UNITED NATIONS RECORDS. and o
small coUection of FOREIGN LAW. The MORRIS L

tinancial data from countries and markets
worldwide. Geographic Information System (GIS)
software is available for the aeation of customized maps depicting social and economic
indicators. and natural and infrastructwal

and 19th centuries. proVldes background
atenals lor research m the foundations of ow

research .

MUSICAL IN51llUMEN1Sl

Mathematics Library
(MATH)

ScienceandEn~ring

829-2165 , 829-3278

research materials in ma1hemabcs. mcluding
books. profess1onaJ fownals. reference books.

Library (SEL)

A branch of the Science and Engmeertng
I..J.brcny. the Mathemabcs Ubrcny houses

CAPEN HALL, 2ND AND JRD FLOORS
(NORTH CAMPUS)

indexes. abstracts. and reserve items. A full
range of Ubrary servlces is avcnlable. including
reference. interl.lbrary loan. datab:lse searching ,
cmd photocopy facilities

thell oral advocacy or courtJoom skills using U'\e
Vldeotapmg equipment in the CENTER
Computer~ted legal resea:rch through

Music Library (MUSIC)

the on-line legal databases. l.EXlS/ NEXIS and

BAIRD HALL, 1ST FLOOR (NORTH CAMPUS)

ment and corrunerdal CD-ROMS and on -line
datCI.bmes in the Reference Dep;Irtment and the
internet Room . The Law Ubrary's WEB PAGE on
the Internet. avaUable through Wings. provides
p:&gt;inters to other gophers and web sHes ol interest
to legal resea:rchers.

LOCKWOOD IJBRAIIY Bun.DING
(NORTH CAMPUS)

Business/Government Documents Reference
Center
(1st Floor) 645-2 8 21
Circulation 645-2815
Fax 645-3859

C irculation / Reserve 645-2944
Fox 645-3710

Generollnformolion 645-2946
General Microcomputing/ BISON Connect
Support, coli Help Desk
645-3542
ln lormolion Technology Center (lTC) 645-3326
Reference 645-2946 , x233

Ci rculation 645-292 3

E-Mail Relerence ASKSEL@ACSU.BUFFALO .EDU

Director's Office 645-2935
Fox 645-3824

URL hHp:/ / wings .buffolo .edu/librories/units/sel

SEL IS located on the second and thud floors
of Capen Hall, 'Nlth entrance ttuough the fust

Relerence 645-2924

floor of Capen m the Undergtadua1e Library SEt
selVes the faculty and students of NATIJRAL
SCIENCES and MATI£EM.A11C:S. as well as
ENGINEERING and APPLIED SCIENCES Collet·

URL hHp:/ /wi ng s.buffolo .edu/librories/uni ts/
music

The Music Library holds broo:d-lxlsed
research collections which supp:&gt;rt not only the

bons include over 415.000 bc:x&gt;ks. 1.500 profesSional jownals. 1.5 million microforms. and

programs offered by the Dep:ntment of MUSic .
but also those In DANCE. AFRICAN AMERICAN

Lockwood Memorial
Libraiy (I.ML)

The M USIC Library

home page. available VIa Wings. oJiers add!·
tiona! intor matlon about the M usic Library s
hlstory , coUecbons and servtces. and }X&gt;mts to a
vanety o f usetullnternet mUSic resowces

Bun.DING 6 (SOUTH CAMPUS)

cnned. are available lor the use ol researchers
The KOREN CENTER FOR CllNICAL LEGAL
UCATION mcnntcnns a collection ol audiotapes.
VIdeotapes, microforms. and other non-bc:x&gt;k

mQNIC ll'JFORMATION SERVICES via govern-

The Music Library offers WM-PC and
Macintosh w orkstabons tor research OSSlStance.
network access and word p rocessmg A gtowm.g
collection o f CD-ROM hUes mclude mus1c-related
bib~ograptuc databases &lt;e g . TilE MUSIC INDEX)
and multimedia prcx:l.ucts (e g . MICROSOFT

literature and resources tor genealogical

Fox 829-3913

WESTI..AW / DIALOG. is available to currently
eruoUed law students and full-time law faculty .
Other wuversity patrons may access ELEC-

MUSlC Ubrary is available

;ournals. especially strong in tustory and

egal tJod.illon The p;:rpers of John Lo
. rd o·snan.
e distinguished lawyer and ptomment public
rvant lot whom the law school building is

matenals and equipment to sup):Ort the Law
School CWTiculum Law students may practice

1962. works in several manuscript collecbons of
composers· works. and matenals in the Faculty
Archives given by Professors feldman . Hiller.
Willlams. Mikhashofl. Gearhart , et a1 A pnnted
lis1 of Archives and Speaal CoUections m the

featwes for areas and regions.
The POLISH CO!l.ECTION Is an extensive
research collection of Polish language books and

Library . which contcnns ENGI.lSH AND AMERICAN LEGAL SOURCES lrom the 16th. 17th. 18th.

RECITAlS (1957 -76); JUNE IN BUFFALO (1975-80).
FACULTY COMPOSER WORKS (1973-81): DEPART·

cunent and historical statlstics for more than
200.000 time series covering economic and

COHEN RARE BOOK CO!l.ECTION In the Law

·

texts are cmalyutd)
The r1Ch Archives include ortginal matenals
docurnenlin_gthe II!STORY OF U.S. MUSIC
.

various audiovisual rollections SEI.. has one
branch . the MAniEMATICS LIBRARY. located on

STUDIES. AMERICAN STUDIES. ANTIIROPOLOGY
and UNGU!STICS. The catalogued collections

the South Campus.
SEI.. offers cuculabon and rese!Ve seT"VlCeS

oontatn over 66.000 scores and performance
parts, 28.500 volumes of literature about mUSic,
17,000 periocik:a1 and serial volumes , hundreds
of photos, 6.000 microforms, several hundred

;omtly wtlh UGL. The Circulat:Jon/ Rese!Ve Desk ls
located on the first floor (tn UGL). Other SEI..

video tapes. and nearly a thousand musiCrelated posters. The recx&gt;rding co!Jecbons.
numbering nearly 28.000 items inc!'..lde JAil.

mclude reference. interlibrary loan. and
library ll\Structlon. SEI.. also makes many science
and engineering databases and other electroruc
selVlCeS

IS

especially rich In the AVANT-GARDE. The

resowces avcnlable to users. These resources
may be accessed !rom workstations in SEL and

Relerence 645-2820

recordings can be listened to at any of 24
listening stations ( 18 of which are equipped With

through the SEl. home p::Ige on the web.
The INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER

E-Mail Reference
UNLOCK@ACSU.BUFFALO. EDU

compact d.lsc players). Over 1.800 serx:na1e
miCicfiche contain images of over 925.000

audl~visual

Reserve 645-2144

CXItalogue COids representing books and scores
in the Paris Biblotheque Nationale and the

mcludes Macmtoshes. IBM PCs and Sun Worksta·
bans ·111ese computers cue networked. offenng a

SOClA1. WORK collections are located in

Conservatoire.
Special strengths of the Ubrary mclude 20TH·
CENTURY MUSIC. JAil. and JAil. DISCOGRAPHY
OPERA. COMPOSERS. AUTOGRAPH SCORES IN

speed laser pnnters Optical scanners me
avcnlable for text and graphics scanrung The
Capen ITC also has VCRs and audiocassette

Lockwood Ubrcrry along with GOVERNMENT
DOCUMEN1S. POLISH and EAST ASIAN matertals.

FACSIMILE . MUSIC BlliUOGRAPHY . NEW MUSIC.
and REFERENCE MATERIALS. Special collecllons

players 101 vtdeo- and audlOCXJSSette playback
The MAP ROOM is on the third floor ol SEL

FOLK. UTURG!CAL. POPULAR. CLASSICAL. and

Interlibra ry Loon 645-2812

URL hHp ://wi ngs.buffolo .edu/librories/units/lml
ART. BUSINESS. EDUCATION .

HUMANJ'm:s.

LIBRARY SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCES. and

·rAKE B(X)KS.•

(ITC) houses a variety of rrucrocomputer and

eqwpment. Computer equipmen t

vanety of software. and are connected to tugh-

The collection contains over 200.000 maps

and the JUVENILE books collection . Holdings
include over 1.500.000 books and jour nals. and 3

include close to a hundred

thousands of MUSIC ANTIQUARIAN AND

Including TOPOGRAPHICAL. GEOLOGICAL. LAND

million microforms. making Lockwood the largest
library at UB and in the SUNY system .
Reference. instruction, interlibrary loan. and

AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. 2.000 MUSIC

USE. II!STOR!CAL. POLITICAL. FOREST. WORLD

ICONOGRAPHY SLIDES. m well as what is
probably one of the largest collections of SOLO
SONGS in the U.S. (in which all of the authors of

world.
Also on the tturd floor IS the NATIONAL

graduate rese!Ve are some of the servlC:es

AND CITY MAPS. and ATI.ASES tram around the

�CENIER FOR EAJmt;WJ.XE ENGINEERING
RESEARCH 1NP0RMAn0N SERVICES. The lnlorma-

rccm. ""'*""'PrhlQ - - a r e atoo available.

llcn S4orvlca bav8 cleYelcped an lntamallcoan earlbquo:Jke r..,....,..
called QUAmmE. available on BISON n. In

el blllodcally llgnlflcant ~ reoordll, the

dlly

acx.-bl8-

a-

acldlllco they provide opadalilad

-once

Cl!IOstance lo malartallln earlbquo:Jke ~­
lng.

SEL ol1an
oompular II8CilCb and
doc:umanl dellvary IOIVIce. the m::HNJCAJ.
INFORMADON SEARCH SERVICE (TISS). fa local
~and any other r-=a-c:llers lnlereotedln
pactagecllnlormallcn. Pdce- and other
lnlormatlcn about nss are available at the
Aeferenoe Deslt a: by calling 645-2946.
VAX tarmlnals OOD08Cied to Unlv8rslty
Computing Services are available on the third
floor. Aloo, mlcroccmpuler lnstructlcn lor the
untvar.dty oommwllty Is provlcled In 212 Gapen
On SEI.). Arrangemenls fer this oompular lralolng
are made through Unlv8rslty Computing Services.

Oscar A SUvennan
U~Ubrary

(UGL)
CAPI!N IIALL, GIIOUND AND 1ST l'tOOIIS

ClfOIITH CAMPUS)

Circulation/Reserve {1st Floor) 645-29-U
Fax 645-3858
Reference {1st Floor) 645-2945
E-Mail Reference ASKUGLOACSU.BUFFALO.EoU
URL hHp:/lwings.bulfolo.edu/libraries/units/ugl
The Undergraduate Lllrary, commonly
c:aiied "UGL,• servas as em entry point to the larger
UB library~ Founded In 1973, UGL Is
c:laslgned espedally lor undergradualeo. It Is the
only W&gt;dergraduate library In the SUNY system
and I el only 34 undergraduate Ubrades In Na:th
America. UGLis a great place to begin your
research and learn mere about the UB library
system. Located on the ground and first lloan oi
Copen Hall. UGL fealwes oervlces and mal8rlals
c:laslgned fa the research and study needs e1 the
undergraduate. lJI:mrfans at the UGL -aooe/
Information Deslt can help with all aspec1s e1 your
research-lrorn selecting an Interesting topic to
locx:rtlng the best lnlormatlon about It-and w1ll
_. the slr:flls you need to be "'nnarmaalon
teach you

_

UGL's collection of 105,000 boolr:s. 600 i0uma1

suboalptlons, 50.000 mlcrolorms. and variety el
study areas w1ll help you do the best wak
possible fa: your a&gt;UfS85. other research aowces

-ence

are available on computer workstatlc:ns In the

area-lnc:luding full-screen Images of
artlcles. full-text news and journal oervloes,
college and un1verslly prollles. and much more.
The ClrculationfReoerve Deslt on the first floor Is
where you can charge and return library
rnaterlals and 1oc:ate readings placed on reserve
by preleSoars. Finally, when trsttme to wrtte your
paper, !be Information Technology Center,
located on the sec:ax1 floor In the Sdanoe and
Engineering Lllrary, elfers a variety el computers.
!IOI!ware and printers.
VIsit the library eleclronlcaJiy by using your
e-mail account to .ASKUGL. .ASKUGLis an
el9ctranlc relerer&gt;oe oerv1or&gt; available to emyoae
• with an E-Mcdl accounl Referenc:a questions cxm
be sent to UGL Ubrarfans via eleclranlc mall from
the VAX and UNIX systems and are answered
wtthln twenty-four bows.

Spedal .CoUections
420 CAPliN ClfOIITH CAMPUS)

University Archives 645-2916, 645-2918
Fax 645-3714
URL hHp:/lwings.bulfalo.edu/libraries/units/
archives

Poetry/Rare Boolts Collection 645-2917
Fax 645-3714
URL hHp:/lwings.bulfolo.edu/libraries/units/pl
Special CoUacUons Includes !be Unlv8rslty
Archives and the POetry;Rare Boots Collection.
Materials In these oollectiarls do not drculale:
~»wever, mater1als from !be Special CoUacUons
can be .-!In a large, oomlartable rea:!ing

~- h the ciUiclcd r8pQIIIory

l1rl!nnity Arcblvao conlalno - - doc:umeollng the HIS'IOilY Of 'I1IE I1NIVEIISITY and Ill
llludanls, alumni. bcully. a n d - The
colledlcn, wllld&gt; conlalno ova 7miDianllams,
lncludao untvenlty records, pencoal and
p r - - e l ~elthe un1verslly
oommwllty, unlvenlly p.lbllcallcos, and
more !ban 250.000 pbuh&gt;gtt4iao and 2.500
reocrd!ngs.
Unlv8rslty Archives- IllCIIedab
r-.g to !be arcbbacl FRANJ: U.OYD WRIGHT
and the DARWIN MAR'!IN HOUSE. tbe ·Archlves
.-maintains a lmdlllocal hlllcry CXlllac:tico

and piO'Yidos lnlormatlon_about local """"""'
available lor 1'8118arC1lln the Bullalo area.
~,.._-~ llevt*od to
201H CEN'IUilY POEI1lY IN ENGLISH AND
ENGLISH TRANSLAIION, !be POetry Collection
contains 100,000 VCllum8o by every major and
many mlDo&lt; poets Willing In Englioh. IIBcarcllngs
e1 poets rea:!inQ from lbeh own waa. poets'
nolaboob, and manUIICtl;la, and a wide
variety elttterary ~are atoo Included In
this collactlan. ~y 4,500 lillie
magazine -

· I ,200 current aul:ecrlptlans, and

a n . - e1 porhalll, oculpluree, and pi"*&gt;

graphs round out !be colledlcn. The CXlllac:ticoll
Internationally lr:nown lor lllllgnlflcant boldlngs

on JAMES JOYCE, ROBERT GRAVES, DYLAN

-e

lHOMAS, WYNDHAM LEWIS, and WILLIAM
CARLOS WlWAMS.

the~ ellbe
Boots Collection
Is 1bcmas B. Loc:kwoad's colledlcn elfirst editions
ellbe wab el ~language aulh&lt;n from the
16th through 19th cenludes.

report b&lt;&gt;Ugb CIS.
ll:lr Jura. deEIIpllon e l l ! » - cmd

""-""tar

e1 crs
lobmallao m
&lt;11gttat library~. -the crs ~
at the 1J!IL glvwlabove.

Center for Bed:

Prase1vation
IDCitWOCD~

OICmll~

645-2255

URL http:/lwings.bulfolo.edu/libraries/unitl/
cts/pr~

Preavlng the u~ IJI:mrloo' CXliJeo.
liens bas become mere c:balleoglng In .--.r
yeam due to the lncreallnq variety, age, and
heavy uae el library mC.Iortcd.. In reopcaoe 1o this
cballange, the Ceolllr lor llacli:- was
da1lelcped wtlbln II» Unlv8rslty IJbraDes lo
- ! b e -.utlorl el library CXlllectlcm.
A goal ellbe Ceolllr lllo pr_,.. malartallfer
!ulure geD8IallcDs el ochalam.
Since Its loooptlon In 1985, the Ceolllr bas
crealedapagmmel~~.

lnduc2lng archival pl'rlr&gt;dl q&gt;llcatlorj e1 brlllle
boolr:s, and !Ill cwreoUy a&gt;q:blno c:ltgsumticn as
cmolher """"'"el preavlng maloo:lalo. The
Center bas.-~ a boigbtoned --.tty
to laclon wllldll!-' delalorallor• Wbrtlllg
with the drculating oollectiarls, t h e - sfrJfj
have rejuvanalad lbauoandl ellx&gt;cb, conslructBd prollacllv&amp; Olldclur.. fer fragile maladals. and upgraded lbage el opeclallormal
Items. The Cenlar Is atoo reopaDSible lor creallng
!be IJI:mrloo' Dllallar Pkm and teepng II .
updalad.

In acldlllco to Its reopansll:lll1t lor !be
physical pr..vallanel library malodals, !be
Cenl8r a t o o - - and public~el
~CAPliN

IL\I.L ClfOIITH CAMPUS)

Fax 645-38-U
Genemllnlormation 645-2965
URL hHp:/lwings.bulfolo.edu/llbraries/units/do
The Olllce e l l b e - VIce P r - t fer
Unlv8rslty lJbro:des supports the admlnlslroticn el
system-wide library oarvtcas, Func:tlans wllldl
operate out e1 tbe admlnlslrallve olflceo are:
Lllrary P8aorlnel, Budget, BISON D. Fllands ellbe
Unlv8rslty !Jbro:des, Syslams, and VendaCard
oarvtcas. II you have problems with operating
your VendaCarcl. or U you need to credit
VendaCarrls with an lntadepcutuallatlnvoice,
pieaOB go dhectly to Room 434 c:apen Hall.
Fllands membershlps are available In Room 214
Copen Hall.

~-- lnltructlcn regarding the
proper care, -.c!11nQ and sbage el the
oollectiarls, and food and drink . - wtlbln
the Ubrades ~the lmportance el
ooopera11cn with the un1wn11y oommunlly to
achi!Mtanelledlve
The Cenlar's ~ are lundlld In part by
!be New York Sbla Program lor the can-vat1on

--pagmm.

andPr..vallaneiLII:rary ~-

OCLC
· The DB IJI:mrias are a member ellbe Online
Compu1ar Library Cenlar (OCLC), !be world's

largest arganllallon olfadDg oompular -

oarvtcas to Ubrades a n d - . . . .. The OCLC
-...n linD mer!' !ban 23,000 111:mr1eo In
63 counldee and Ill central ilalal:&gt;aoe,

-

t h e - Wllon calalog, ~ el &lt;Mil 35
mlllJoo catalog reca:rls with attacbed holdings
lnlormallcn. Not only Is this file a~ lbal
the lJbro:des Ul8 In calaloglng the malartaiiW9
acquire, bull! Is aloo crloal .-1 In locx:rtlng

t.OCKWOOD I.IIIIIAIIT IIUIUIDIG ClfOIITH
CAMPUS)

wllldl

CTS Dlredor's Office 645-2510

Acquisitions 645-2305
Cataloging 645-3459
Fax 645-5955
URL hHp:/lwings.bulfolo.edu/libraries/units/cts/
Centml Tecbnlcal Services (CI'S) II a major
unit In the Unlv8rslty !Jbro:des. CJ'S sfrJf1 are
responsible !;Jr manag1ng em aoqulllllcns budget
In amass el four miDian dollars; fa: acquiring

material ~ all areas ellbe Unlv8rslty IJbraDes

. ucept Health Sdarx:es and Law and fa: managIng the related ltnandal reocrrls; fer calaloglng
material In allllbrarlas ucept Health Scleocel,
Law, and Music; fa~ pedodlcal-and fer cmanglng lor the bUldlng ell*lodlcals
and other library maler1als. crs a1oo recelvao
and catalogs pullllcalions recalved thr"""" the
U.S., New York stale, and Canadian depaoltodee.
The rasponslbOity lor malnliiDance, lnduc2lng
aulborlty CCllllrol. el the BISON online oalalag
rmts with crs. To accomplllb 1wx:11ona crs
Is &lt;Xllllprlled el two departmants: ~
and catalog!nq. The iJilrarial'pagmm and Ill Mall and Dallvary apemiiDn

p-

- - requested through JnlarU!lrarY Loan.
OCLC . - ollan online r-enee oerv1or&gt; to
library . . . . through Ill FlriiSearch calalog

online ODOI!IIIo mere !ban 60

· lnduc2lng Wa:ldCal (the OCLC.Wllon catalog).

In acldlllco to !be UB !Jbro:des, tt."e are

other oollectiarls"" campus. Since coiJao.
liens oomplement !be reeearch el fa:::ulty and/a:
~tal speclalllatloos, then&gt; may be
carta1n r - . an lbeh uoe. Consult the sfrJf1
at each locallc:n lor lnlormatlcn CXlDC8lillrJQ
-Ubrades.
AJir IIISftlm' IUilll LIIIIAIIT

{By appoinbMnl only!
508 Clemens Hall {North Campus)
645-2437
ILAD-~

{Open 24 houn during final exams)
167 fillmore Centor, Elicoll Complex {North
Campus)
645-2348

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259 Capen Hall (Nor1h Campus)
~
~CDIID

209-217llaldy Hall (Notth Campus)
64.5-2488

TO FlNO lHE lll::rory malerlals you want. you need to follow a ·game pan· and
allow yoorse1t sc:me time. At eo::h step c;( the research prooess, you ·r «l'/ use

fd::.-r:::-ea!:i

both genero1 and subject-i'elaled resources. These are in a varleity a formats

~

soch as paper, audk:Msoo:l i:natericds. or~ c:latabases. REFERENCE

WIW:IIMAL 'DCmiOLO'IY

.A$ISfANCE IS AVAILABLE IN EACH UB LIBRARY TO HELP YOU DECIDE WinCH

-~~
24 Capen Hall (Nor1h Campu•J
64.5-2802
IIAINI1Bft--~

RESOURCES TO USE. The following "Research Strategy Flow QIOJ1" suggests the
path you sOOuld lake:

128 Clement Hall (South Campus)
829-2118

&lt;return&gt; from almc5l any ocr-. oothe ~ U
you need help, - a relerencsllbrarlan.

IIIUIAIIL WlllftBKA8CII~
II1DIAif aa.AfiCIIII AIIIIA I'IUI CIIUP&gt;
260 fiKmore Center, Ellicolt Complex (Nonh
Camp&lt;~ I)

-

J. IDWlUIDI LIWIIIDIG CDmlll

103 Talbert HoH (Nonh Camp&lt;~•)
645-2394

sovm UIIIAJIY

(Study area only, open 24 haura during exam•)
220 Fillmore Center, El~co)t Complex (Nor1h

Campus)
645-3649
VISUAl.~

CDmlll

Schaal of Archilec:lure and Planning
332 Hayes Haii(South Campus)
829-3485, eld. 317

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the auclalllntllap In UDdoddl::lng a project
lnwlvlng 11gn111cant Ublary ,_,ell. Your tcp::
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thai w1l1 hold your -lhraugbout the
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help you~ tope Ideas. n ts a goad Idea

-ence

to ccnaull wllb the Cllllgnlng the
r-=b paper to make carta1n !bat your Ideas
lbls Is a short list a o11a llbrarles In our "'""
you 01e IJkely to use.

Dow-..~

Main Ubrary .....................•............•.. 858-8900

Audiovisual Department ..................... 858-7188
Busineu and labor ..... .. .......... ... ........ 858-7096
Children ...... .... .... .. .... ...... ......... ........ 858-7193
i:lalabase Searching (a&gt;ll individual dopa.)
fiction ............................ .................. 858-7123
General Relenonce (Humanities) .. ... ..... 858-7111
Handicapped Services
(includes hearing impaired) ................ 858-7161
Hours ............................................... 858-8900
learning Center ........... ....... .......... ... . 858-7123
Microforms ............ .......... ...... ........... 858-8903
Mosie ............................................... 858-7121
Patenb ............................................. 858-7101
Rant Boob .. ...................................:. 858-7118
Science &amp; Technology ........................ 858-7101
Special Collections
&amp; Genealogy ...... .............. ............. ... 858-7114
Telephone Directories ......................... 858-7103
Arnhent Main Ubrary
--~

(Audubon Parlcwayj ........................... 689-4922
Clearfield (Hapltins Road,
Arnherstj ........................................... 6811-4955
Eggertsvift.Snyder
(Main Slnlol, Snyder) ......................... 839.0700
Fairfield (Arnhent Street,
Buffalo) ............ ...................... .......... 834-7500
Gr.enhaven (ofF Niagara
Falls Blvd, Tonawanda) ...................... 694-2111
Brighton (near Parlter,
Tonawanda) ...................................... 832-7931
IIUPPAID rrA11! CIOLIJIGII
(Butler Ubrary) 878-6313
CAN1111US CIOLIJIGII U111A11Y ................. 888-2910

l l - ' - CIOLIJIGII tiiiiiAJIT .................. 839-6243
D'!OUVIU.B CIOLIJIGII tiiiiiAJIT .............. 8.81-7618
IIIII COIIMUNI1T CIOLIJIGII UIIIIAIIIIS

City Campus .............................................. 851 -1074
Nor1il Campus .......................................... 851 -1273
South Campu• ........................................... 8~1 - 1m
~

CIOLIJIGII U111A11Y ........... 649-7900 X361

NIAiiAIIA COUNTT COIIMUNI1T
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at UB. When you want to lab&gt;Ubrary materials
outstde ol the Ubrary. lollow tbeeelllllp:
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Cclledlaoo, lccm s-~ac~~.--.,
ohcrl All baaowlng ~wiD be *'A*! lor
a Ubrary , _ In all UB !.lbrarles .,... daf . - a
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l-&lt;;laY aDd 7-day locmo, the-ta SSI* daf
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the North campus at SUlfB 101 , UB CCmmana aDd
on the South campus at 101 lbrlman llcD1.
laos ol a SUNYCald obould be rapcrlod
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class assignments are reserved for class uoe In
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parllcular class. Because these small oallecllarls
are In sucb heavy demand. the foi1awlng spedal
rules lor uoe are stdclly mitaced.
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·p.ADDNT Df , _ . .,
Flnea can be paid In penon at:
BISON llllllngjBorrawlng Ol1lce
214 Copen 11a11. North campus

645-5950
Entar the Undergraduate Lllxary on the lbst

floor ol Copen llall and- etlher t h e fntdde the Ubrary or the oarvlce stems across !rom
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PADDIIT f t MAIL:
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Reserva baaowem must peoent UB
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!.lbrarles Special Borrowars Card may"""
Reserva rnaterl&lt;;lls (bulln the 1ll:lCary only).

PADIDIT Xl~IIU~:
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Law. Health Scteooos and Undargraduale

Send'cbect &lt;X mooey order, with arfgfnai·BISON
notlce to:
Unlverstty IJblarles
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b:ully a n d - only.
DALDIICIDK:II u.Aft: AYI:dlable to
-Sdonoallacultyand - . .. heaHh axre
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All Oftll* AVAILAILI 0111.1'
S.lltmry oc:haclul&amp;

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available at all UJ::wary Clreulallcn Coots.

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Failure to pay wUhln 35 days '!"'Y
result In th&amp;loE c1 borrowing pMJegeo and
. . _ , - . cl regislratlcn; tt Cillo stops th8 releaoe

d. traruJc:rlpls:
Calms regarding return d. Ul:rary matedc:ds
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lNG c~ays· th&amp; 111:rary Is cDed. such a s and holldctys. Ptlyment should be m&lt;XIe allherln
peroan at or by mall to th8 BISON Bllllng and
'
llonowlng ottice. 214 Capen Hall. North campus.

Lost,IDamaged Materials
OVerdue charges. replacement costs. and a
pcx:essfng charge will be levied lor all loot or
damaged rnaledals.

UB atudonll, faculty. and.staff may borrow
matedc:ds from th&amp;lllxarles d. olheJ educational
frlstllutlcNin New Ycrk Slate, wtth certain

provtoicns. 1beoo Include:
• All S U N Y - and any c:xmmuntty
college In New Ycrk Slate partic:fpalfng In the
OPEN ACCESS pogram-avaflabie to UB
students. faculty and stall; requires a UB

SUNYcard.

• w_, New vm fpsl!luflons parlidjxrtlnc
In th8 UJ::wary """'- Projoct (LAP)
aYallable to UB b:ully and reooarch staff
as well aS gra:2ua1e and pr-.o&gt;at
studanls who have obtained an lnlopass
from a UB UJ::wary.
• untvarltty o( Roc:besleJ and Syracuse
Univ81Sity-avaflable to UB faculty and
cloc:laal students: requires a UB SUNYCard
and a Jetter cllnfroductil:xl from a UB
Ulrary cfreulallcn department suparvisar.
Buffalo residents and nonresident
students and staff are ellg1ble to apply for
borrowing privileges from the Bu!Jalo and Erie
County PubUc Library: a Ubrary axrd will be
Issued upon pesenlalion o( pool d. local
and/ or permanent address.

Special Services
1HE UB ~ offer a m.rrnber of special servioes whlch ~ the research

JXOOElSS a little easier. Whether you acx::ess information electronically. or visit
the Librazies to oonduct your research. you will find special servioes available to
help you. Among these are typing and ~ooomputing facilities. photooopying and electronlc mail referenoe service.

P110C11S1NG CIIAIIGIS:
$25/Uem
~CIIAIIGIS:
In-Print: CUrrent c:cst of ttern
out-oi-J)Ilnl: Average current Item cool by

unit

+ APL/ SSO
+ MAlli/ SHJO

• LMI./SSO
+ MUS(Boct)/$55.

+

(Soore)/$40
• SEI./ $100
+ UGL/ $30

+

HSL/ $100
LAW/ $70

BISON_n povldes you with the oppor1unf1y to
ask a ta::tual ':ready reterence• question viaemail. Just connect to UB Wings (http:/I
wtngs.bulfalo.edu). select 'Lfbraries, • then
'Services; then 'Send a comment question, or
suggestion: Or you cxm contact one of the
lllxarles directly at the followfng e-mail address:
• unloci:Ciac:su.bulfalo.edu
Lockwood UJ::wary

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
rnaledals not awned by th8 UB
lJI:lrailes may be borrowed from other lllxarles
through Interlibrary" Loan Servlces.

Law UJ::wary
• asbelOa::su.bulfalo.edu
Sdence &amp; Engfneerfng IJbrary

A minimum of lwo weeks should be allowed
for receipt a materials. More Ume should be

allowed as the """""""' pogr8!111811: the number
ollntarlll:rary Joan requests Increases dramal!c:ally as daadllnes for term papers and class
assignments approa::h. To speed th8 dellvary
pooess. an EMPIRE EXPRESS service has been
lnltfated among the lour SUNY Centers: Buffalo.
Binghamton. Albany and Stony Brook. Syra:use
University also partfclpales. U the desired
rnatimalls avaf1able at any of these lnslltulfons.
the request Is automalk:ally routed and ff1lecl
pompUy.
Certain restrictlons apply to lnterUbrary Loo::m
requests. Only .materials not avaf1able at UB may
be borrowed. Furthermore. certain types of
materials '$"hlch normally do not circulate (such
as rare books. manuscripts. fiagfle materials.
reterence books. etc.) are not available through
Interlibrary Loan. However. pholooo'*'!' of
chapters and arlfcles from non.cfrculal!ng
materials cxm be oblafned, povfded thai the
request does not violate copyright Jaw.

1be Librar18s' Interlibrary -

Loan·Offices
GlENEIIAL LIIIIAIIIIIS: Avaflable to faculty,
regfslared students. and staff who are normally
served by any the GenerallJI:lrarles (LML, SEL.
UGL. APL, Math) and the Music Ubrary. The
General Ubrartes ILL alice 1s localed 1n Lockwood
Ul:llary. seoond1Joor. south side. The phone
number Is 645-2812. For patrons served by the

a

General Lfbraries. a servlc&amp;-LIBLOAN- Is avaf1able
for submlllfng requests eleclranlcally. At the

system pomp! In e-mail. typng UBLii)AN brings
the form request form to the oc:reen. A serlas of
easy to follow dfreclfons make this oorvloe
convenient to use. You may Cillo submit requests
via the Lfbraries' Web page at http:/ I
wtngs.bullalo.edu/lllxarles. Look Wlder the
'services" option.

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UGL (lsi Floor)(ASCD terminals)

SOUTH CAMPUS
• D!efendorf .......... ..
(IBM. Ma:: &amp; ASCR terminals)

UBWings

Typing FadliUes
The University Ubrartes d.fer a variety of
equipment and facflllfes to prepare term pape!S.
research reports, and other docwnents. 1he
followfng typing facflllfes are avaflable:
• Architecture and PJannlng
IJbrary -&lt;:hecJc out key at the
Clrculalfon Desk ................................ 829-3505
• Health Sciences Library - sign
up at the Reserve Desk .
.. .... 829-3339
• Law IJbrary - stgi, up In
the AUdloVisual
..... 645-2045

UB Wings Is the axrnpus-wfde Information
service which povldes electronic access to
o:&gt;UISe schedules. academJc department home
pages. student services. =nJOUS telephone and
e-mail dlrectorles. etc. UB Wings also povldes
aa:ess to the Internet. For acx::ess to the many
sources and services offered by th8 University
Lfbrarles select the 'Ubrarfes" button on the UB
Wings menu. Use the URL http:/I
wings.buffalo.edu to make the connection to UB
Wings. For lnlormalfon on using yow UB
computer ac:o:&gt;unt to connect to UB Wings,
contact the Computing Center Help Desl: al645-

3542.

• Lockwood Library - check out
key at the CUrrent
l'llriocllcals,!Reserve Desk .................. 645-2144

err Computing Sites
campus-wide computing facllllfes admlnJstered by the University Computing Center (CIT)

cxm be found at the following localfons:
NORTH CAMPUS
• Baldy ........................ ..
(IBM &amp; ASCR terminals)
Consultant................. .
Printing Consultont

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.... 201&gt;-207

For lurth8r fnlormalton regarding publlc .
computing silas conta::t the ClT Help Desk
localed 1n 216 Computing Center. North campus
(645-3542).

-• askulllCiac:su.buflalo.edu
Undergraduate Ul:llary

Deparfrnenl (5th Door)

.................... 645-3546

• SEL (3rd Floor)(ASCD terminals)

Consultant ............................ .
... 829-3460
Printing Consultant.. ........................... 829-2198
Math Ubrary(ASCIJ terminals)

• askhslO&lt;Jr::su.bulfalo.edu
Health Sdences Library
• asklawOacsu.bullalo.edu

~ch

• Fronczal: 408
SUN &amp; ASCR terminals)
Consultant

.. ....... 208-21 2
.. .. 645-2386
................... 645-5905

BellJOJ
(X-tennlnals &amp; ASCR terminals)
Consultant64s-2797
Printing Consultant ............................. 645-2877

• Capen 201-212 (In 5EL)
(IBM. Ma:: &amp; SUN) ............................................. .
Consultant .......................................... 645-3326
Printing Consultant 645-3326

• Clemens 218(1BM &amp; Ma::)
Consultant .......................................... 645-2333

Buffalo FREE-Net
The Buffalo Free-Net Is an all-vollinteer effort
which provides computer useiS across Western
New York tree access to a broad range of
oommuntty Information. UB Wings poVides
access to the Buffalo Free-Net (use the jwnpword
treenail or connect directly to http:/1
'www.freenet.bulfalo.edu and register for a FreeNet a=unlln the 'Admlnlslralfon Building :

PholocopieiS are localed throughout the
Ubrary system. Copies cool S.IO each. Photocopiers also a:x:ept SI bills. Machines are operated
by cash and VendaCards.
The VendaCard System features reencodable ands, which have a one Ume charge
of $.60 and cxm be purchased lor S I (lnc:ludes
$.40 copy credit) from encoder/ clispenseiS
localed In the llealth Sdences. Law. Lockwood.
Undergraduate. and Science and Engtneertng
Lfbraries. Adclllional tnstruct1ons fa use of the
eno:xler/ dlspensers are J)llnled on ecr=h ma-

chine.

�Ulxaly Services b
Persons With l)lscHHttes

VendaCards pura.c-1 at UB will operate
Clllly at the UB Lltoarloo.

N01E: VendaCards am be il5ued to Jaculty
or llallmemban tlvoughan lntar~tal
lnvclce cbargtng a ~tal account or
granl n-c::ardsareillueda&amp;r~ to
meet the Individual's at~· particular ·
.-!. For more Information. oontact the lJblary
Admlnlsbal!ve Ollie&amp;. 64&amp;-2974. at go to llocm
434 In CcJpen Hall.

Change Machines
11wre Is a dollar bill c::hange machine
loc:aled In the 1..oc%wood lJblary en the North
Ccunpus. Addillonally, lhere Is a one-dollar and
ltve&lt;lollar bill c:hcmger loc:aled In the vendJng
area outside olthe Student Aocounls Ollie&amp; en
the 2nd floor ol CcJpen Hall. North Ccunpus.
Ocx:osionally. these machines run out o1 ct&gt;ange;
tt Is always a good Idea to bring change (dimes.
nickels. quarters) at your VendaCard with you
when you know that you11 be pbolooopying. Our
photocx&gt;piers also accept $1 bills. stall at the
Orculatlcn Desks o1 UB L11:rar1es cannot 1TICID
change lor you-so be prepared!

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIYIIISITY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Ycirlc

January 16. 1997 Volum e 28. No. 16

Report on variable tuition
State Task Force recommends implementation
lly ~NE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

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More efficient use of
classroom space urged
lly SUE WUIETCIIER
News Services Associate Director

UB IS WASnNG CLASSROOM SPACE and , unless significant

changes are made, will not have enough space to accommodate mathematics classes when the Departme nt of Mathematics moves to the
North Campus in three years, Sean Sullivan, assoc iate provos t for resource manage menl, told the Faculty Senate Executive Committee at
its meeting on Dec. 18.
Sullivan is head o f a working group that was organized to investi gate complaints about the scheduling process that surfaced during the
fall semester from a variety of units from across the institution.
The group identified three "sub-problems" to the general problem
of dissatisfaction with the scheduling process, Su1livan reported . It
fo und that there is insufficien t response to thd demand for educational
technology in the classroom. inefficient use of classroom space-more
than 60 percent of classroom slots are not in use on Fridays and more
rhan 50 percent of slots are not used afte r 2 p.m.-and ineffic ie nt con·
nica-and· problem·resolution mechanisms.

"W. don't have any r-1 g ood w ay of resolv in g conni cts or
enforcing policies that are already in place." Sullivan !aid , noting that
c urrently there is interaction bet\¥een the scheduling units-the indi·
vidual departments- and the Sc heduling Office, but none involving
the dea ns or the Provost's Office. "'There's no real mechan ism 10 en·
force policies that are already in place so that we can utili ze o ur class·
rooms more e fficie ntly and more effectively," he said.
The group has de ve loped severa l recommendations that, it hopes.
will enable the university to "gain a much beuer utili zation of a pre·
cious resource, our classrooms." Sulli van said. "We believe we ' re
wasting cl assroom space. sign ificant amounts of classroom space."
The recommendations:
• Install a standard level of fixed instructional tec hnology by the
fall se mesler in as many classrooms as. possible. This would include
video capability in a loc ked cabinet, computer projec tion capabilit y
appropria1e to the s ize of the classroo m and access to the UB com·
pute r network and the Internet. The group estimated that inveslment
would cost between $750,000 and S I million.
" If we do that. we can take and distribute our course sections. we
don't have to worry about technology in assigning rooms for our
courses," Sull ivan said, noting lhat there now are classes with 30 students assigned to 450-seat rooms because of the technology required
of the class. " We could actually put 30-seat classes in 30-seat rooms
with technology in them," he said.
Continued on page 2

HE NEW YORK State
Temporary Task Force
on Variable Campus·
Based Tuition last week
released a report recommending that the s.tate legislature consider implementing variable tuiti on for SUNY.
lf passed. the recommendation
would allow individual campuses
to detennine their own tuition lev·
els, within prescribed limits set by
SUNY and the SUNY Board of
Trustees. Funds raised by variable
tuition would remain in that campus' budget.
The report is the result of Several months of work by the task
force, appointed by the gove rnor
in July and composed of 13 member.; representing SUNY. the New
York State legislature and private
industry, and c haired by SUNY
Interim Chancellor John W. Ryan.
Variable tuiti on is not new to
SUNY, according to the report .
'The university has different tuition rates for graduates and undergraduates, profess ional sc hools
and graduate schools, in·state and
out--of-state students, twcryear and
four-year campuses. The SUNY
community colleges already have
variable ca mpu s- based tuirio n.
within a ceiling established by the
Board of Trustees."
Ryan noted th a t "The State
Universi ty of New York is o ne of

only seven publi c uni versities in
the country that charges the same
tuition to aJI undergraduates. Variable tuition has been a val uable
tool for public colleges in many
states that maintain broad access
and quality."

T

he report notes that, " Uni
versities in more than 30
states set their tuition by type
of campus, or sector. These states
typically set differing tuitions for
research universi ties. comprehen-

"The findings of the
task force complement the ___ broader
plan to decentralize
the governance of the
University. "
THOMAS f, EGAN

sive co ll eges, libera l ans ca mpuses and commu nity colleges. In
two-thirds of these states. campuses within each sector are allowed to make adjus tments or
impose additional charges. usuall y
within limits. In a no ther dozen
states. campuses set their ow n tu ition based solely on market forces
a nd costs . In a lm ost all cases.
campus tuition rates are subject to

Pataki appoints Castellani to
seiYe as chair of UB Council
AWREN CE P. Caste llan i,
presiden t and chief executive officer of Tops Markets Inc .. ha s b~en appointed c hair of the University at
Buffalo Counci l by Gov. Geo rge
E. Pataki .
Castell ani. who was appointed
to Lhe council in Jan uary 1996.
succeeds Philip B. Wel s, who has
resigned from the co uncil.
From 1993 -96. Cas tella ni
served as chair of the Board of
Trustees of the Universit y at Buf·
falo Foundation Inc .. with which
he has been affiliated since 1986.
Cas tell ani joined Top s
Friendly Markets as a stock clerk
in 1962. After ho ld ing severa l
managerial positions throughout
the company, he was appointed
direc tor of operations in 1975. 1n
1991. he was named president
and CEO of Tops Markets Inc.
He was named Western New

L

LAWRENCE P. CASTEllANI

York Exec.utive of the Year by the
UB School of Ma nagement in
November 1995.
Castellani 's tenn as a member
of the UB Council runs through
June 30, 2002. The UB Council
is the local governing counci l of
the University at Buffalo.
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approval by universily tru stees or
a state higher education panel."

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barging variable tuition
rates wo uld benefit the
State University system in
a number of ways. according to
the task force . It wou ld more ac ·
curately reflectlhe varying costs
o f serv ing students on different
camp uses; p rovide ca mpu ses
wi th the needed fle xibility to at·
tract and retain new students; provide additional campus- based financial aid and student programs.
a nd make campuses more ac ·
countable to students for overall
costs.
Thomas F. Egan. chair of the
SUNY Board of Trustees. said.
"The findings of the task force
com plemen t
th e
{S t ai.t)
Un iversi ty's broader plan to dece nt rnJ ize the governance of the
University, attract and retain more
st udents and return more management re sponsibility to the cam·
puses

I

n issuing its report, the task

force noted that implementa
tion of ca mpu s-based tuition
should be gu ided by six pri nciples
to maximize the policy's effectiveness and min imize dis locati ons:
• Variable tui tion shou ld no t
be used as a mechani sm to replace
state assistance to SUNY.
• Funds raised by any cam·
pus through a variable IUition ad justment sho uld remain in thl!
budget of that campus.
• To support access. a variable
tuit ion policy must anticipate the
need to allocale some portion of
any new revenues collec ted by a
campus to student fin a ncia l aid at
that campus.
• There should be prescribed
limits to a campus ' discretion to
recommend an inc rease or de crease in tuiti on.
• No in ·state unde rgradua te
tuition leve l should be allowed to
exceed the maximum award under
the Tuition Assistance Program
unless resources equivalent to TAP
are avai lable to cover the excess.
• Four years arter implemen·
tat ion of a vari able tu ition policy.
the SUNY Tru stees should submit a report to the Legi sluture on
the pol icy 's results and its impact
on SUNY.
The report also recommended
th at the legi sla ture a nd SUNY
Board of Trustees put togelher a
comprehensive. muhi -year tuition
and fundin g policy that would allow both students and campuses
to plan ahead financiall y.
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Annuallnfonnation Technology Fair.set for March 19, 20
•rc-..-viDAL
Repo&lt;ler Edilor

U

B WILL PRESENT its second
annual Information Technology
Fair on Wednesday and Thursday, March 19 and 20, in the
Natural Sciences Building.

The fair is designed to promote con·

sciousness and awareness of information
technology at UB , as well as provide faculty and staff with information on techno-

logical advances, what else is available and
the future of information technology.

Speakers representing Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Adelphia Cable Communications will present a keynote address,
" Bringing High-Speed Interne! Access to
the Home," at 8:45a.m. on March 19.
Michael Stoner, vice president of Hal~
Public Relalions/College Connections, a consulting finn that provides strategic communications services to education, associations
Wld non-profits groups, will present the second keynote address. "Taking Charge of
Technology: Using the Tools of the Informati on Age," at 8:45 a.m. on March 20.
A national authority in new media, the
Internet and the World Wide Web, and
online services, Stoner has made numerous presentations at professional conferences and on campuses. His expertise is

frequently cited in a variety of higher-education publications. including CASE Cur-

Chronicle of Higher Education,
ournol, Th~ New York Times, The
lo~ and the Washing ron Post, and
's ''The Best of Our Knowledge." .
In ad · ion, Voldemar lnnus, senior as·
societe vic president for university servi ces, will iscuss .. UB's IT Vision" at
II : 10 a.m. oq March 19.
\nnu s wa s appointed to lead the

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university 's efforts in information technology in August 1996. He works directly with
the University Libraries and Computing
and Information Technology (CIT), and
closely with the Provost Office's technology planning efforts and initiatives, providing UB with a single focus for its information planning and implementation i:f.
forts, as well as improved coordination and
communication with campus constituents,
improved financial planning for information technology and more progress toward
achieving the university's identified objectives in information technology.

T:

e fair will offer information aimed
t persons with both novice and adanced computer skills, focusing on
three knowledge tracks: teaching and learning, admini strative, and UB 's information
technology effons.
The teaching and learning track will
include sessions on Unix and VMS migration, Bison II, e-UB and UB Wings, CIT
faculty suppon programs, public computing and printing at UB, dislllnee leamipg,
library partnerships, technology classrooms, campus networlting and access, and
a faculty showcase.
The administrative track will include
sessions on ADAMS update , UB
InfoSource orientation, UB InfoSource
demonstration , IT strategies in higher edu-

cation within administrative computing,
undergraduate education IT initiatives, client server overview and UB Webf1ow
project update.
The track on UB 's information techno! ogy strategies will include sessions on
OCC presentations, a joint session on the
Libraries, CIT and provost's nodes, UB 's
Internet connection: present and fuLUre, IT
policies and guidelines, critical message
systems: e-mail at UB, and IT and malcing
IT student friendly.
(The Reponer will publish the entire
schedule of evenu for the Information
Technology Pair in iU Feb. 20 issue.)
A variety of technological demonslnltions also wiU be offered throughout the
two-day fair.
This year, the lnfonnatioti Technology
Fair will include the "Best of the UB Web
1997" competition. UB students, faculty

and staff can nominate websites for c:atego-

ries that include bell ovenll awards for
academic, administrative, faculty, student
and Leacbing or insttuctiooal homepages.
In addition, design awards will be presented in categories that include beSI page
design, best logo, best use of multiple media, best use of interaction, best intetactive environment and best navigation aid.
be " Best of the UB Web 1997" competition also will present awards for
technical meri~ the most important
service concept and the most important
contribution to the world wide web's future success.
' For more information, visit the lnformalion Technology Pair website at bttp:/1
wiap.bulralo.eda. Information also is
available by calling 645-3580, or e-mail
itfalr.IICSII.buffalo.edu.
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UB Archives to receive Love Canal
records; public reception today

T

HE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, University at Buffalo, will bold a public reception today at 4 p.m. to bonor its receipt of records belonging to the Ecumenical
Task Force of the Niagara Frontier that document the Love Canal and toxic waste
issues on the Niagara Prontier.
The reception wiU be held in the archives, 420 Capen Hall on UB's Nonh Campus.
The donated records document the controversy over tlle Love Canal and other hazardous waste issues in Western New Yoric from 1978 to the 1990s. Tbe collection is
extensive, stored in 97 record boxes and containing an estimated 300,000 pages of documentation, including numerous reports not readily available elsewhere. The University
Archives anticipates that the collection will be heavily used by researchers interested in
the environmental, public policy and engineering aspects lll the Love Canal.
The'tffi.An:hivcs also hOlds the Love Ganal collection·of Adeline Levine, UB emeritus professor of sociology. That collection contains the research and correspondence for
her 1982 book, "Lovi:"Canal: Science, Politics and People," a study of the citizen action
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that took place over the Love Canal issue.

FSEC
Continued from page 1

• Invest slnltegically in higher levels
of classroom technology to stay ahead of
the high-end-demand curve.
• Reaffirm and enforce existing scheduling policies. "We have good policies on
the books now. we just don't enforce them,"
Sullivan said. The group will ask the deans
to become "compliance officers" who work
with departments to schedule class,rooms
more efficiently.
Under the new pa.n, depanments would
submit classroom and course schedules to
the Scheduling Office as they currently do.
The Scheduling Office then would produce
a repon outlining which course sections in
the schools and faculties arc out of compliance with existing policies. The deans would
then have discussions with the appropriate
depanment chairs to determine the reasons
the departments are ou t of compliance.
Implementing these recommendations
will eliminate the technology bottlenec
Sullivan said. "I think .we' ll use classrooms
much more effectively. and therefore allow
more of our course sections to be scheduled closer to where our faculty, staff and
students would like.
"One of the things that we'd like to try
10 do is develop enough of an inventory so
we can consider moving freshman and
sophomore math (classes) from South
Campus to Nonh Campus for Fall 1997,"
he added. "We feel these changes will allow us to do that. And that's going to be a
significant improvement to the student experience.''
In other business, Ronald Nayler, associate vice president for university facilities,
updated senators on the master plans for
the Nonh and South campuses.
The general approach for the Nonh

Campus, Nayler said. is to invest $100
million over a tO-year spali to fry io iinprove the quality, accessibility and diversity of the undergraduate ana graduate programs. The money will be 'spent to bring
the Depanment of Mathematics and the
School of Architecture and Planning to the
Nonh Campus, and to ''provide integrated
student services," which are now on South
Campus, on the Nonh Campus, he said.
The major projects to be undertaken in
the next I 0 years include construction of
the mathematics building, which is now
under design at an estimated cosl of $6
million; construction of a new natural sci·
ences and engineering building, which is
now in the program-study phase to determine the size of the building and estimated
cost, and to move student services to the
Nonh Campus.

...,.._, 8dded tlult the university hopes
to generate an additional $25 million in research funding by providing the new facility for the natural sciences and engineering, by bringing the Department of Mathema tic s to North Campus, and by
"targeting ou.r investments in many of the
interdisciplinary programs."
UB is leasi ng space in The Commons
for the Center of Excellence for Document
Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) because it does not have enough research
space of its own on campus, he added.
Renovation of Hayes and Crosby halls
is anticipated within the next five years,
Nayler said, since construction of a new
building for the School of Architecture and
Planning on the Nonh Campus is a longerterm project that likely will fall outside the
10-year plan.

ing for students at Sweet Home and Chestnut Ridge roads on propeny owned by the"
UB Foundation, Inc. is "a major factor in
enhancing the quality of student life,"
Nayler said. The projec~ which would be
financed entirely by the foundation and
would be self-sustaining. is uoder review
by the foundation. If approved by the foundation and the Town of Ambers~ construction could begin in June, Nayler said.
On South Campus, the master plan calls
for a "full integration, both programmatically and physically, of all the health sciences."
Eventually the Scbool of Medicine and
Biomedi.:al Sciences, the School of Health
Related Professions and tbe School of
Nursing all will be located in the Biomedical Education Building, formerly known
as the Cary-Farber-Sherman complex,
Nayler said. The Depanment of Occupational Therapy will remain in Kimball
Tower, given current space restrictions,
while the Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine will relocate from Parl&lt;er Hall to
Kimball because its students work closely
with those in ~upational Therapy.
An architect has been hired and sche-

malic design finished for the Coniprehensive H"ea1Lh Stienc'e "Education Center,"
which would be located in Farber Hall,
Nayler said. This project would consolidate the educational functions of the health
sciences in one building and add a primarycare clinic for use as a training ground for
students.

OtMr lllfOiects hi tlte

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on the
South Campus include renovation of
Harriman Hall, which would provide relocated office space for the dean of medicine, as well as space for student activities
and a restaurant: renovation of the Black
Box Theatre into conferepce space, and
construction of a cogeneration_ facility to
replace the McKay Plant
Longer-range projects include renovation of Diefendorf Hall into the central instructional-technology facility on South
Campus and renovations to Wende Hall
and to Clark Hall, malcing Clark the student activity center for South Campus.
Acheson Hall will remain vacan~ but
could provide space on campus for clinical chairs who might lose office space in
local hospitals, Nayler said.
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on Tbunday, feb. 20, In lbe
Mainstaae !beater In lbe Callier for
the Ani on lbe UB Nodb Campua• .
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readlnp fmm. boot be CCHIIIIIInd
on cour.,_.a lllld ~ African-AmeriCan .f lpres In biliary.
ADiona 111e profiles included io
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lbe Ynderpoand Raillaed wbo alao ..-1 u a apy lllld ICOUI forlbe UnioDAnny
cluriDa lbe Civil War: 1to1a '-b. who refuaed 10 ail ill "lbe back of lbe bul" and
becale •llvina aymbol bllle Jllliclera Civil RJabta movemenl, and Lewis Latimer,
the aon of"llave~ Wboee ~ wod&lt;' wu in~qral 10 lbe achievements of
Aleundar Onham Belland 'J'bomaa A. Ediaon.
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IIIOiivallna c:blldrea 11&gt; 118)' in acbool aDd ~ lbe value of hiaber education.
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New Raymond Fedennan
novel published in France
. , P'AJIIICIA -VAN

News Services Editor

A

NEW NOVEL titled " Fo urrure de

ma Tante Rachel" ("Aunt Rachel's

Fur") by Raymond Federman.
Distinguished Professor of English
and Melodia Jones Chair in French at the
University at Buffalo, has been published
in France by Editions Circ~.
The novel is the second of Fedennan 's
novels written directly in French. The first ,
" Amer Eldorado." was published in Paris
in 1974 and nominated fo r Le Pri x
Medicis.

Jackson appointed to chair in American Culture
.,_lA_
News Services Editor

IIIIUCE JACKSON, aTAft Univel:llity of
New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at UB, has been appointed to the
Samuel P. Capen Chair in American Culture at UB , effective Feb. I.
The appointment marks what UB President William R. Greiner and Provost Tho-

Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Nation.
New R~public, Th~ N~w York 1imes and
Texas Monthly.

mentary films,
several in collaborati on with
hi s wife and
fellow UB facuh y membe r.
Diane Chri s·
ti an .
Man y
h ave
been
shown at museum s in the
U .S ., Europe
and Asia. and at
a number of
major intern a·
tiona! film festi va ls .
A me mber of
the UB fac ulty
since 1967, Jackson has been the recipient
o f more than 25 major fellowships and
grants. including those from the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation. National Endowment
for the Humanities, National Endowment for
the Arts. Guggenheim Foundation. Harvard
Universiry's Milton Fund, American Film
Institute and Skaggs Foundation.

He baa written 18 books, including
" Killing lime: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary" (Cornell Univel:llity Press. 1978).
" Fieldwork" ( 1987) and "Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America" (U niversity of Illinois Press. 1985). " Disorderl y
Cond uct" is a compilation of articles writ ten by Jackson on aspects of American social conditions. public policy, crime and
punishment His most recent book. edited
with Edward D. lves and published by the
University of Illinois Press, is 'The World
Observed: Reflections on the Fieldwo rk
Process."
Since 1966. Jackson has produced. di rected and edited seven independent docu -

He has...., an editorial board member. consultant or reader for eight major
university presses and has served as a
policy. program or technical consultant for
a number of institutions , including the
Smithsonian institution. the American Civil
Liberties Union and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of
the Board of Governors of the Ne w York
Foundation for the Ans. and has chaired the
Board of Trustees oftheAmerican Folklife
Center of the Library of Congress.
Jac kso n earn ed a bachelor's degree
from Rutgers University and a masler's
degree from Indian a Univers it y. and is a
Fellow of Harvard Unive r s ity. •

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mas Headrick referred to as .. part of a
broadly conceived initiative to advance the

humanities at UB-an initiative that we
hope circumstances will,x:rmit us to imple·
ment over the next few years ."
Jackson's current position as SUNY
Distinguished Professor is the highest professorial designation awarded by the State
Univel:llity of New York. Headrick said the
new appointment "recognizes the importance of Jackson 's teaching an&lt;1 scholarship in the humanities, the role it has played
and will continue to play in the intellectual life of the univOJ:llity and the leadership he can contribute to thi s initiative and
to direction for the university."
A......,.._ of IEIICIIM. Jackson directs
the UB Center for Studies in American Culture and the UB program in folklore, mythology and film studies. He also has held
academic positions in the Depanment of
Comparative Literature (1971-84) and in
the School of Law·( 1974-79).
A former president of the American
Folklore Society, Jackson has edited the
society 's Journal of American Folklort
si nce 1986. Much of his work is devoted
to the exploration of methods and means
by which social and cultural ''truths" are
constructed for mass consumption. To this
end, he has written extensively on subjects
ranging from the American West to life on
death row, and has presented and directed
workshops and seminars at scores of uni-

versities here and abroad.
He is the author of more than I00 articles and book chapters and sco res of
scholarly papel:ll and booklets. His work
has appeared in s uch maga z in es as

The new novel. Federman says. is wri tten in the " pure French slang" he spoke as
a young Frenchman lost in the great turmo il of World War II. A German translation will appear in Germany in March and
Federman may produce an English version
as well .
" Fourrure de rna Tante Rachel" con·
cems the misfortunes and failures o f its
young French Jewish narrator. a Holocaust
survivor who returns to France to make a
new life for himself. He wants to forget
America. "the land of mi sre prese ntation
where o ne spends one 's illusio ns in advance." America. however. refuses to be
forgotten and he must come to terms wilh
the facts of his life. including the abandonment of hi s parents and sisters to the .. Final Solution" by aunts a nd uncles who
managed to save their own skins.

T

he stnry, like many of his novels. bears
a remarkable resembl a nce to
Federman's own biography. which he has
written and rewritten in mult i-voiced narrative constructi ons throughout hi s career.
The French-born Federman is a Samuel
Bec ke H sc ho lar and tra ns lator, and is
widely regarded as one of Ameri ca 's leading writers of experimental fi cti on. He has
a distinguished reputation and wide readership in Europe. where new literary fonns
are popular with the general public, as well
as with the literary establishme nt.
He is the a uthor of seven prizewinning
novels. four books of poetry. translation s
and many essays . short stori es and work s
o f c riticism. He is panic ularl y well -known
in France and Germany. where h1 s work
has been widely trans lated. and he fre quently reads and lectures there.
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BJILUJI-.-ull
News Services Editor

IDS RESEARCHERS ha ve
long sought a treatment that
would work, even in the face of

A

the virus' uncanny ability to

mu~ate.

Now, UB researchers have reported

promising results
with a new, anti ~
HIV compound
they designed and
synthesized that
seems to be effec-

tive when a virus
mutates.
lu i Wang, professor of chemistry

and Einstein Pro- WANG
fessor of Science a1 UB, said the new compound has inhibited reverse transcriptase,
the critical enzyme in AIDS virus replica-

tion.
In in vitro studies, he added, it has inhibited this enzyme in HlV-1 , HIV-2, AZfresistant HIV and a strain of HJV that is
resistant to Nevirapine, a drug being used
to treat AIDS.

"In addition. this compound was also
able 10 inh ibit the reverse transcriptase enzymes from two other viruses, which differ extensively in their amino-acid sequences from the HIV reverse tran-

Green Plants
Do they really cleanse environment?
By ELLEN IIOUIBAUM
News Services Editor

ONTRARYTOA WIDELY held

C

belief among environmental sci-

enti s ts and the public , g reen

plants do not cleanse the environment of atmospheric pollut-

ants as efficiently as has been ass umed.
according to new research published re-

" But while pla nts do take these c he mi -

cals up, they don't do so as efficiently as
we thought they did."
Hornbuckle explained that the finding

will affect how scientists develop future
models of concentrations of atmospheric
pollutants.
The paper was published in the Septem-

ber issue of Armosphtric Environment.•

dependent on specifiC amino-acid =idues,
the compouod would not be compromised
if some of them change as a result of viral

mutation.
" Beca use the molecule fits into the
whole cleft of the virus, it prevents ~
transcriptase from making viral DNA,
thereby preventing viral replication," said
Wang.
Tbe compound, poly-2'-0 -(2,4dinitrophenyl)-poly (A) (DNP-poly A), is
an oligonucleotide inhibitor, the first that
permeates the viral envelope and ceO membrane and which is not degraded by n'bo-

nuclease.

S

o far, in vivo studies conducted by
the UB group using an improved
version of this DNP oligonucleotide

on mice infected with leukemia have
shown that the new compound also eliminated the presence of this virus in the blood.
" After treatment was stopped for two

months, the virus did not return." said
Wang.
According to Wang. those studies show

that even at very low dosages, such as .25
mg per leg of body weig_ht, the compound
is able to stop the replication of a retrovirus
similar to HIV.

A patent was issued on the compound
earlier this year and a second patent on il
has been filed.

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scriptase," Wang explained. "'These results
imply that the compound probably is mu-

tation-insensitive and, therefore, should be
effective against all retroviruses with similar reverse transcriptase structures."
He reported the results on Nov. 21 at a
meeting on " Novel HIV Therapeutic StrBtegies" held in McLean, Va., by Cambridge
Healthtech Institute.

W

ang said an important reason for
the new molecule"s efficacy is

that it fills the entire binding cleft
ofHlV- 1 reverse transcriptase.
It is the fi rst potential anti-AIDS molecule that has demonstrated an ability to
do this.
Wang said that because its binding is not

ce ntly in Atmospheric Environmenr,

The evidence is contained in a paper coauthored by Keri C . Hornbuckle, assistant

professor of environmental engineering at
UB and Steven J. Eisenreich, chair of the

Depanment of Environmental Sciences at
Rutgers University.
The paper, describing work. they con-

ducted at the University of Minnesota, describes the atmospheric concentrations of
more than 100 semi volatile organic compounds that exist in the environment as
gases.

T

he researchers recorded for the first

time how these compounds volatilize
and adsorb to plants throughout each

day.

The fieldwork was conducced in a remote , forested bog in Northern Minnesota,

where lhe only surfaces were plant surfaces .
"Our work shows that plants can ac t as
conductors, or temporary resting points, for

Domestic violence found in stable white families
BJ I'AJIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

A NEW STUDY OF WHITE. workingclass women in relatively stable families
has revealed what the researchers call a

horrific picture "of lives saturated with serious domestic violence."
The findi ngs are part of a larger study
funded by a $500,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation that will be published by

Beacon next year. The study was conducted
by Lois Weis, professor of education at UB ,
and Michelle Fine, professor of social psychology in the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

The researchers defined "serious domestic violence" as battering intended to
cause serious physical injury. Ninety-two
percent of white female respondents said

working-class families during the Bush and

Reagan administrations ( 1980-92), a period
of significant changes in government social policies affecting this population
group.
It involved in-depth interviews with 154
men and women from Buffalo and Jersey
City, NJ. Each n:spondent was interviewed
in-depth for from three to five bows. Weis
said she hopes the study will lead to further
research and perhaps to policy changes.

"DoMeatk: ~ Is not a phenomenon found only in poor and workingclass homes," she ad,ded. '1t's fouod widely
in very privileged homes as well.
" We know from the past 15 years of research in this fie ld that when an individual
has been the victim of family abuse in childhood, the chance of her being abused in another relationship-even of repeating the

atmospheric pollutants trBveling around the
globe," said Hornbuckle.

that such domestic violence was directed
against them, their mothers and/or sisters,
either in their birth households or in later

According to the data, rising atmo spheric temperatures correlated with
chemical emissions from the plants, while

relationships. By comparison, 62 percent
of black female subjects reported similar

friends, husbands and lovers-is very high.

levels of violence in their lives.

deep generational domestic abuse in fairly

falling temperatures correlated with ad-

Weis called the n:sults "extren'lely disturbing. This does not mean that 92 pereent of all
white working-class women are or have been

stable white families,•• she noted.

sorption of chemicals to the plants.
"O ur data show that plants are sources

of these chemicals as much as they are

victims of serious domestic violence,•· she

sinks, or absorbers," said Hornbuckle.
" We always figured that because plant
surfaces are waxy and lipid, that once the
chemicals stuck to their leaves they would
stay with the pl ants, and in a sense disappear from the environment," she said.

said. "It does, however, suggest a far more
serious problem in this populalion than has
othelwise been acknowledged."
The Weis-F'me study was designed as a
major qualitative analysis documenting the
lives of white, black and Latino poor and

experience over and over again with boy"In this case, we uncovered evidence of

Weis said that "when asked about their
lives in general, the vast majority of white
n:spondents poured out stories of lives saturated with serious domestic violence. We
weren't looking for it It was not a major
part of our study. We certainly did not expect as pervasive a problem as was reponed.
"Some women said they grew up in
homes in which serious abuse was part of

the fabric of their daily lives," she noted.
'"They described regular beatings of themselves, their mothers and sisters by other
family members. Some spoke of being seriously abused in adult male-female relationships as well. Others described the violent,
abusive relationships of one or more sisters."
~tllelr ......... Weissaidnot

one of the n:spondents reported any violence
in her current relllticinship. She cautioned,
however, that this does not mean that the
women are now established in placid households. "Sorne women choose not to talk about
domestic abuse until they've left the environment," said Weis. "For others, the very
powerful unconscious defense mechanism of
denial is operating. Denial is frequent and
strong in most domestic abuse cases."
Weis said the results were especially surprising because the subjects in the study were
oot selected because the researchers believed
them to be the wor.;t off in their communities. '"The... subjects were all members of relatively stable families and were involved in
church, school or community organizations
and activities," she said. She said that they
found that the 31 black women respondents
were much more open about the violence they
saw and experienced
"The white women in the study, on the
other hand," she said, " were very secretive." Weis speculated that such Secretiveness serves to protect the popular image of
family life in the white community.
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New book details transfonnation of Ken·Ton School District

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rollmenl in continuing education programs
increased by 8 I percent.
By 1988, 12 of the district' s 13 schools
had been cited lis a "School of Excellence"
by lhe State of New Yorl&lt; and seven were
named "National Schools of Excellence"
by lhe U.S. Department of Education.

Researchers slww how community efforts
moved
district from mediocre to excellent
.,
News Services Editor

NEW BOOK BY education researchers at UB offers a delailed account of bow ooe community turned its middle-&lt;&gt;flbe-road school district into ooe
of !be most exemplaly in !be United States.
"Expecting Excellence: Creating Order
Out of Chaos" (Corwin Press) traces the
13-yearprogress, from 1981to 1994, of !be
Kenmore-Town ofTonawanda Union Free
School District as it successfully applied
industrial principles of shared decisionmaking to the development of a schoolbased system of management.
Authors James A. Conway, UB associate professor of education, and Judith A.

UB scholars' essays
in reference worlc
1J I'I\JIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

"THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Cultural Anthropology" (Henry Holt, NY) is a new reference work called by its publisher "the

most comprehensive, wide-ranging and authoritative single-source reference ever
published in the field of anthropology."
It features 340 essays by 3-10 scholars
recognized as among the world's most respected authorities in their field . Six are
facully members in the UB Department of
Anthropology, one is a facu lty member in
the~J?eP11!111lCnl_ofSociology. and four,
including lhe project's c~lilr. are alumni
ofUB's graduate program in anthropology.
library·JouinQl. citing WOO&lt;S in !be PaSt
decade that have filled significant gaps in anlhropological refertnee liternture, praises lhe
publication as ''!be icing oo lhe cake.'' BookJist
llOieS that the wale "defines the 6eJd of cullllnll
anduopology. covering all li!JimiCiles. methods. """""P'S and topics" of significaoce in the
last decade of the Wlh century.

UB Mlhl mp ala .. rte who contributed to
lhe encyclopedia are Professor David Banks,
who wrote lhe entry on colonialism; Associ·
ate Professor Donald Pollack, whose entries
cover person and self and elhnopsychiatty,
and Associate Professor Phillips Stevens, Jr.,
who contributed lhe entry on magic.
Also irduded are Pn:iesu EnaWs William
Stein. wluie&lt;lllry is 00 parrooage.AsoociMeJ&gt;ro.

fess&lt;J" Ann McElroy, who COOiribuled the essay
00 rtalical andwtJpology, and Pn:iesuTedJocl&lt;. who ..-rae the essay oo diaspoms.
UB . . . . ..,... lhe contributors are
David Levinson, lhe book's co-editor, who
l'eceived his doctorate from UB in 1979 and
is lhe aulhoroflhree articles; Deborah Crooks
of !be University of Kentucky, who received
her doct01111e from UB in I 992 and authored
a piece on biocultural anthropology, and
William Divaleof Yoril: College, CUNY, who
received a doc10111te from UB in 1974 and
wrote on kin groups, residence and dissent.
Gay Kang, who received his doctorate
from UB in I 978 and is an attomey with lhe
U.S. Department of Justice, co-authored lhe
entry on alliance, conflict and exogamy with
Tai S. Kang, UB professor of sociology.
Tedlock and Keith Otterbein, UB professor of anthropology, are members of the
project's 24-member editorial board.
The four-volume encyclopedia is published by lhe Human Relatioos Area Files,
lhe renowned nooprofil foundation at Yale
University dedicated to facilillling lhe crosscullwal study of human behavior, cullllre and
society. Levinson is !be vice president of the
Human Relatioos Area F"tles. He co-edited
lhe boolc with Melvin Ember.
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Shipengrover, senior education specialist
in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, offer bands-&lt;&gt;n guidance
to other communities that want to improve
their schools.
In the I 970s, the district
in suburban Buffalo went
through a period of greaUy
declining enrollments,
teaCher layoffs. school closings and low teacher and
parent morale. From the
'early I 980s to I he mid1990s, it transformed itself
from a respected but com- CONWAY

placent,

bureaucratic ,

closed organization with less than challenging expectations of its students into what
the authors call "a teaching and learn ing
community for the 21st century."

T

he book offers a step-by -step examination of exactly how the district developed shared planning teams, peer
clinical supervision, new monitoring processes, new incentives to improve professional training, a teachers' training center.
teachers' mentoring program and other
strategies.
Today. decision -making is not just a
series of political compromises; instruction

is djverse enough to ensure that all students
are engaged in learning; teachers, parents.

administrators, c ustodians and bus drivers

rogether engage in research as a process to
solve problems, and teachers and staff determine the contenl of their own professional development.

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The district now is run largely by elected
sc hool planning cou ncils with significant
involvement in decision-making by teach ers, board members. administrators. community members, neighbors, clerical staff.
parents, students and facilities staff.
espite their early skepticism. teachers. parents. students and other parties came together to build, from the
inside out. In the Ken -Ton School District.
changes for the better were reflected in student performance: higher elemenlllry reading, math and writing scores; a steady increase in mean SAT scores; an increase in
the percentage of students receiving college scholarships from I 7 to 23 and the
percentage going to college fro ·.n 75 to 80,
and a decrease in the drop-out rate from
4.6 percent to less than J.5 percent. En-

D

d community suppon grew. Since
987, elections on school budgets
d bond issues have passed by a
considerable majority-more than 80 per·
cent.
Conway said that none of this was accomplished without difficulty.
1be plan encountered much resistance
from the out.seL Once it was announced.
one-third of the principals took early retirement. The school board was wary. The
teachers' union offered suppon. but even
with that, it took four years to implement
the frnt change.
"h took a long time;· Conway said. " but
as a result , the ability to set goals. identify
problems and solve them quickly is totally
embedded in the Ken-Ton system and has
complerely altered the way it operates."
Conway has, over the last 35 years.
taught higher-education research at colleges and universities that include UB .
Buffalo State College. the University o f
Miami and University College. Galway
(Republic of Ireland). His work has been
published in many pro fessional journals
and in several books .
Shipengrover is a c urric ulum consult anllo the Robert Wood Johnson General ist Initi ative Projec t at the UB Sc hool o f
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. where
she facilitates curriculum reform linked to
the preparation of primary-care physicians.
She received her doctorate from the UB
Graduate School of Educatio n.
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FIVe projects are approved for funding by UB's

municipal-school district collaborations program
1J
- WUE'ICHER
News Services Assoc1ate D1rector

T

HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo has
announced th at five projects have
been approved for funding under
a new initiative encouraging collaborations among area school districts and
municipalities.

.. We are very encouraged by the response to this initiative," said John Sheffer.
UB interim vice president for public service and urban affain. 'We received a wide
breadth of projects. I I in all. aimed at improved efficiency and propeny -tax stabilization." The Municipal-School District Collabo-

1\vo giftS to UB will help university's
research and educational efforts
1WO IIIICIII'I' ~ '10 U8 have eobanced the university's research efforts.
1be UB School of Nunin&amp; bas received a $70,000 gill from a !JUSt created by
!be 1a1e Cbristia Wyua. who died in 1991 and was !be husband of the late
Geruude Vaupa WyaDI, a 1!136 aiUJ~~~~tD-of the school.
Support from !be llllnlllricted gill to the Nursing Bodowmeot Fund initially
wiD provide support for !be school's Center for Nuning Relearcb. Tbe center,
ellablillbed in 1995, Mlillt lilculty and students in devclopina interdisciplinary
.-n:h, provides c:ompa1er resources, houses a resean:b library and serves as a

repoorilory ror·.-n:~~ fuodinc sources. Oertrude Wyao1. a native of Corfu, was
a tache&lt; inAdami"COIIIIly School District 14 in Coloredo and resided In Aurora,
Colo .. UDiil be&lt; deeth in 11119.
Tbe acqulllliao of a poup of odlolarly electrooic reriOIIrcel in humanities for
Loctwood Llbnry 10 IUJIPOiliiCW tmlds in database reoearcb bas been made poslliblc lhroup a SSO.OOO gill from lima DeVoe, a 1936 aiiiDIDus of !be tmiwnity.

1'lllt-........

te ........ !be lima De\bl Hllllllllilies Blectrooic:
'llllllallildw. 'llt!idl will allow UB IIUdcoll and &amp;cu1ty fuU-liW access to map
taa.lldar- via-.-.-. Dalabelcion Ameril:aD poelly, Atricao-Ameri. . . . . ...,.,_, l l dHealury .6l:lioa IDd !be Oxford JlD&amp;lisb
dlcliaaiiJ IIH,..CIIId eo be available via com~ Dllworlc by
1997.

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ration Program is a part of US 's Governance Project. which is under the direction
of the Office of Public Service and Urban
Affairs. The I 5 school districts in the 60th
State Senate District (northern Erie County
and all of Genesee County) were eligible
to apply in cooperation with another school
district or a municipality. Maximum award
available for a project was $20.000.
"This program itself is a collaboration
between the university and the Senate Local Government Committee," Sheffer said.
'"'The chair of the committee, Sen. Mary
Lou Rath. has been exceptionally supportive of the entire effon and the focus that
we have in this program on tax stabiliza·
tion and demonstrable outcomes."
''This is a pilot effort which helps to test
possible efficiencies and collaborations
using the school districts and municipali ties in the 60h Senate District," Rarh said.
Tbe projects receiving funding are:
• Kenmore -Tonawanda Union Free
School District and Town of Tonawanda:
$19.661 for expanding the capacity of the
town's compressed narurnl -gas fueling sta tion .
• Tonawanda City School Distric t and
City of Tonawanda: $20.000 for scbooUcity
partnership to enhance service delivery.
• Clarence Central Sc hool Distri c t.
Town of Clarence and Clarence Fire Companies: $20.000 for development o r a
shared-fuel management system.
• LeRoy Central School District and
Town of LeRoy: $20.000 for development
of shared schooVcommuniry recreational
facilities .
• Byron-Bergen Central School District
and Village of Bergen: $16.200 for devel opment of shared municipal electric service.
a

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F
"-'- a. w....,.., assistant
dean

atfatrs in the UB
Sc~o!Medo ·

cine and Biomechcat Sctenees. has
rece1ved the Outstanding Contnbu-

tion to Medical
Educat1011 Awatd
lor 1996 from the

LU..a.IL.....L Nallonal Assoc~a WRIGHT

t1on ol MulOnty

Med•cat Educ ators . Inc
Wnght spent 15 years at UB as
ass•stant dean !Of' student allaus
and d•rector of m.nonty programs
for the med•cat school before assumtng her current pos1lt0n in order
to conc entrate on her work with
underrepresented students

One ol the goals of UB's Pnmary
C ar e lntll&amp;tJve IS to recru11 rT'I()(B

med•cal students from underserved
populatiOns '" hopes they wtll return
to practice '" their communities.
Wnght has played a mator role m
•nc reas•ng the percentage ol mtnor•ty med•cal students at UB to 12
percent . one of the highest In the
nahan
WriQhl e8fned master's and doctoral degrees in COl.flseling from UB.
and WDil&lt;ed at the Unoversity Counseling Center belcwe taking her pos._
11on at the mediCal SChool She has
been dlrea:tOf of the Minority High
Sc~ Aesealcll Apprant.K:e Pmg,am. the Sc0onoo end Technology

Ennchment Program tor talented mtno&lt;oty coltogo students and the
Health CarOO&lt;s Opportunity Prog&lt;am
Her recent honors include the
SoJOurner Truth Award from the Naltonal AssoctaUon of Negro Business and Prolessk&gt;nal Women's
Clubs; award for teadership in
meeung the challenge of children
w1th special needs from the Robert
Warner RehabilitaHon Center OMsoo ol Human Genetics: award
hom the Buffalo chapter of the National Medical Association IOf leadershtp, commitment and service .
and award tor outstanding contributions to medteal minority education
from the NOftheast region of the Na tiOnal Association of Mtnoriry Medl-

soc~tion of~ AdministratOts
as one of 10 outatandlng math--SCI·
ence activities across the country.
Program directOts are Gerald A.
Rising , UB Distinguished Teaching

Professor Emorijus, and Betty J .
Kirst, professor and chair of the
mathematics department at Buffalo
State ~lege . Other faculty are out·
standing teachers drawn from area
schools and C&lt;M~es .
Deadline lor nominatJons is Friday, Jan. 24 . To obtain Initial information about the program . the
schedule of informational meetings
and directions to meeting and test·
ing sites. students or their par8nts
should call Anne M. Szczesny,
Gihed Math Program admintstrator.

at 645-3 t 75.

A course to help individuals learn
how to recognize and cope with de·
pression will be oHered next month
at tho UB North C&amp;mpus.
Designed fOf adults ages 18 and
older. classes are set to begin in
mid-to-late February. Enrollment is
hmited to 60. Registration deadline
is Feb. 3. Classes. which will meet
once a week for 12 weeks. will be
available afternoons and evenings
during the work week, according to
participants' schedules.
Goal of the course is to teach
Individuals how to identify and
change negative thought and be·
havlor patterns that can contribute
to depression . says olohn . . _
erta, assistant profeSS()( of psychology and course Instructor.
Changes in appotit8 and stoep

habits end a sense o1 worthlessness
or guilt can be signs ol depression,
Aobo&lt;ts says. W!lilo ·~has
pro01oms or situations wllich make
them occasionally loel'down'." tho
course can be helpful lor those who
find those feelings or signs OCCtJf
more often and interlere with normal
interest in life activities. he says.
Although there is a tuition
charge. potential enrollees will receive a free evaluahon to determine
if they would benefit from the course.
For more information, or to regis. ter for the course. call645-3697

ning, ls joining Cannon, a natlonai
design Urm, as a principal Cannon
notes that "Freschi wiK provide
design leadership on a variety of
l)(ojects while maintaining his current position as protessor and dean
at the university.·
With more than 30 years of professional pracUce In urban planning
and atchi1ecture, Fresch1 has raceiv&amp;d numerous awards including

tho Ordo&lt; ol Canada, highest hono&lt;

the Csnadian government can be-stow on al"' individual. A Canadian
citizen, Freschi received this award
lOt hts national and international
contributlons to scho4arship, architecture and education
Freschi~ project experience Includes dovoloping a masto&lt; plan lor
the WoOd Exposition in Vancouver in
1986 and more recent involvement
in the master planning for wat8f·
fronts in BuHalo and Tacoma. Wash.

US's medical school is on the top-10 list of wlnners for the 1996
G&lt;Mden Hartz Awards, annual
awards given by the Hartz Mountain
Corp·. fOt reaffirming ·the loving ,
life-enhancing and interdependent
relationship between humans and
their pet antmals. •
The award was given to UB . cit·
lng the effOtts of research scientist

a - - and ......,
....,....... who retired in Decem-ber as dean of the medical school.
lor •COI'M'Iissioning a survey that
confirms the powerfully therapeutic
effects companion antmals have on
reducing stress in human trves.• A
study conducted by Allen indicated
that under stressful conditions, a
pet dog was more comfort than a
spouse. Hartz will make a donation
to a charity selected by tho UB

medical school.

A Jecture Jan. 24 by UB law professor ~ Finley will highlight
the Winter
Speaker Senes at
the Center for In-

GIFTED MATH I'IIOGIIAM

nolov Abm-clcts. Gewral Sciencu ~. H.,.,mities lndex

IDd lbe S«::GJ SclaeeslNJu. Rllbctr.lbe COIIIellll or these dala·
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Reference Cen~er IDd E;rpatolkd ActMkmic index.

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ing in witlr the domain 1&gt;14ffalo.ed1L Though you might want to
come inJo the UroiW!nity Ubrories and ~It drive otre ofour beau·
ti.ful new Stu~ worbtali&lt;HIII The URL for BISON II is llllp:/1
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ctH!fOCt 1M Compwing ~nter Help Desk Ol64S-3542.

-Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartm&lt;~~~. UroiW!rsit). Ubraries

-show olh sea&amp;&gt;n-"Art

experiences. The resuft may be the

Tho luncheon is~ ~.in.
conjunction with tho ~ 'forti Slate

From Hell--&lt;llo Evill'l'orl&lt;s o1 Illustra-

Bat Association's annual_~ -

tion F&amp;C&lt;Jity, Studer4S and Ak.wmi .•
II will open with a public reception
!rom 5-7 p.m. Jan. 23 end ccntinuo
througll Fob. 11 in the Art Departmont Gallery on the tower.- ol the
Center lor the Arts on the North campos. For the opening "deception ••
said the students. visitors ara como to bring ·an oftoring lor the
devil" end "dross like hell."
·~ sl1cUd be alul fh&gt;N.· said
- - . dinlcoordthe 1-

1W8 patlicipating, end I think the aucionce v.illhal&lt;e a """ good time. ~~true
ltlat tho 'field lfl&gt;' was bnAal." said. "Stuclar&lt;s ........- t o the

an-to Freachl, dean of the UB
School o f Architecture and Plan-

The Gifted ~th Pr~ram at UB ts
accepting normnat100s of outstand tng stxth-grade mathematics students lrom schools and parents lor
participallon tn tiS Fall 1997 entertog class.
lnlormalionat meeungs lor the
families of nonunated students and
others interested in the program will
be held at UB during f!tabruary. In
March. approxtmately 200 students
will take a three-hour banery of four
tests to obtain one of the 60 available places in the new class.
Now in its 17th year, the Gifted
Math Program enrolls about 250
students hom secondary schools tn
Erie. Niagara and Orleans counties
Classes meet on the UB North
Campus tw1ce a week during the
school year Seventh- and eighth·
grade students anend from 3:30·
5 35 p .m .. semor--high-school students auend from 6:30-8:35 p .m .
The program for participating
students 1n grades seven through
12 replaces their regular schoof
mathemattcs curricula. Students will
complete more than lour semesters
of umverslly-~vel mathematics durIng their six years in the program
The Gifted Math Program recently was honored by a review
group established by the National
Science Teachers Association, the
Natk&gt;nal Council of Teachers of
Mathematics and the American As·

on 1lle BISON D 11-. Ollllide lbe VB IIOIWOit by typin&amp; 1be 10: eric IDd
1be PASSWORD: ........_ Olher BISON dllllbues 1bat ba..,
miiJ'MI'd 10 OVID on III80N D iaclude An Index and PrycUt.
Tbe Uoi¥alily Ubreriel no Joaaet ....,;be 1D the ooliDe
WU.. indcul tt.JMn"GtliMAlulnla!, AppliiNl Sciena &amp; Ted&gt;-

kJs!Jmion progrtrn. "AUrA end tao..«y

cal Educalion

SEEKS StuDENTS

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MleonB~D's
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u.-·••
......s inr..-;on
-.
1IJ ..._ Jaallll

Lany Q~ assistant dean
fOt summer sessions and marketing , Millard Fillmore ~lege . gave
a mari&lt;eting presentation, "New
ways to kx&gt;k at old problems ....We
need to devek&gt;p a new perspective" at the 33rd annual conf8f·
ence. North American Association

ol Summer Sessions (NAASS)
held 1n St Louls. UB received recognition !rom NAASS hono&lt;lng 25
years o1 membership.
..._. K. CopJec, associate
professor of English. conducted
two seminars at the Academy of
Fine Arts In Vtenna while she was
a Fellow at the Society tor the Hu·
manities at Cornell University dur•ng the 1995-96 academic year.
She delivered papers at the lnslltute for Contemi)Ofary Arts , The
Messapalatz, and the University
of V~enna , at George Washington
University, the University of Rochester and the "legacies of Freud"
conference sponsored by
Cornell's German Department.
The second book in her S se-ries , Radical Evil, was published
by Ve'so and MIT brought out a
paperback edition ol Read My

Desire.

spaces 1n which
anti-abortion demonstrators can accost persons seeking clinic access
Her lecture at 8 p .m . at the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home
Ad .. will be sponSOfed by Friends of
the Center for Inquiry and the ProChoice Netwofk of Western New
York. Other speakers include

_ . , _ - - . director ot
Buffak&gt; GYN Womenservices and
Kathleen Mccawr., a longtime ·
clinic escort. AJI events in the
speaker series are free.
The Center !Of Inquiry IS pnt
headquarters lor the Convninee lor
the Sctentific Investigation of Claims
ol the Paranormal and the Council
lOt Secular HUmanism. national edu·
catMlnal and advocacy organizations
chaired by .._.. lturb, UB professor emeritus of philosophy.

"AliT,_ HELL• EXJIIIIIT
W1U- JAM. 21
Studoris in the UB Art Illustration
Program claim that a recent "field
trip" designed to expand their cutturru and intellectual horizons turned
sulfuric and scared the wtts out of
them. Instead ol being lakan to e
museum or gallery, the students
claim to ha\10 been plutmlOtod
straight Into the ol hell.
Upon their retum. the artists_,

asked to submit wor1&lt;1or on oxhibttion that would illustrate their horrific

linorpointsol--bycul...... thoi' &lt;8ligious. philoeophical trod

poiticalsysans."
.
After months ol "counseling" and
"therapeutic dl!cussion" with instructor'S---DI8 K
A1 fCZIIk, assis-

tant protossor. e n d - end - . . . - . bo&lt;h
adjunct professors-tho illtJstrators
were able to face the deYit and turn
their experiences into "Art From
Hall-tho Evill'l'orl&lt;s ollllustration
Faculty, Students end AILfMI. •

ua LAW ALUMNI TO -

NEW YOB'S C......_

, . _ S.

~ Now

York's chief

judge. will be tho koynoCe spaakor
when the officers and directors of
the UB Law Alumni Assoclatio() host
a luncheon at noon on Friday. Jan
24, in the Union League Club, 38

East 37th St .. Now Vorl&lt; City.

·TM-..............-.-.-.

- - presiding~ d tho
Appolote OM!tion. State Supremo
Co&lt;.rt. Foutth ~ wil inttoduco Kaye. -~ .. ..,..
w;n update aUnnt end lrionds a tho
taw school on activilies 81 the school.
Kaye. who was appointed by
GoY. Mario Cuomo to the Court ol
Appeals in 1983 ah8f a 21-year career as a private litigator. was the
first woman named to seMt on New
Yorl&lt;'s highest court. She was promoted to chief judge in 1993.
An olloctive
working to
bolster public conlidonce in the legal
prolosoion, she has OYOfhaulod the
state's jlMy system-from tho-;...
rors are chosen to conditions l.l"lder
which they SO&lt;VO-making ~ more
·usor-lriondly.• Kaye also has taken
stops to lilt ethical standards in the
legal process. defended judiciallndopondooco against politJcaJ encroachment, opened drug """"' to
help 'ehabintate addicts•.imposed nr
forms in the matrimonial practice end
called lor a wider use olarbiltalion
and attomotivo dispute resolution.
ABama1jCologa~ . Kayo
lllOOivod her law degree !rom tho Now

r"""'-.

Yon&lt; lX1iYo&lt;sity Scl'ool ol Law.
luncheon costs are $35 per person. or $20 per person for those
graduating in 1992 or later Nonalumni guests are welcome. Make
checks payabkt to UB Law Alumn'
Association: mall to 309 John Lord
O'Brian Hall. BuHalo, N.Y t 4260.
For more inlormat100. call Ilene
Fleischmann, &amp;45-2 107.

�7

•-··IASI(EmAU.

The Bulls IT1CM!d lo 2-11n lhe ~t
Conf"""""' with their ~ W:looy CMW Misoouri-l&lt;ansas City at Alt.,-nl Arena on Saturday.
l.61oroed Ut.t&lt;C
10 ~ tlm.-s to p&lt;JI- fr&lt;ln a 'i9-Z1 haftre laad,
soor'rog 51 perm in lhe second toll. A key 14-0
.., aMy In lhe second half giM! lhe Bulls lhe rrornere.n as l.6 bUit as rrudl as a l!lliX*t cushm to sealtte .....,_Rasa.rl 'ltu1g becM"e lhe
ninlll &amp;A to soore 1.000 perm in his,._ hittilg lhe-.., with a ~two rrirUes i*&gt;
lhe contest 'ltu1g scaed 20 I1'ICliiWlg pest Jack
Cllalrnon (1948-61) lor Biltoth place with 1,019.
He led lhe Bulls witl1 eiglt reba.nds.
Mi&lt;e MartW-o, also I1'ICliiWlg cloee to lhe
1.CXJO.i)Oi't plateau, led lhe Bulls witl129 points
oncluding fl.&lt;Jf- 16 fr&lt;ln lhe floor and five assists.
He nailed t&lt;Hll- 12""" thrt&gt;Nsln lhe second half.
The Bulls !lropped a 72-65 decision 81 oorler-

"*'

enoo-

Valpi&gt;"aiso in front ci"""' 4.000 1a&gt;s
.m. 8. The Bulls, v.ro trailed 16-13 at lhe nine-

mirute rTlllll&lt;. saw valpo go on a 14-0.., to take
control and lead a1 halftime 37-18. That lead
grew to as rrudlas 46-22 with t5:551eft belore
lhe Bulls went on a 16-2.., to dose to 48-38
with 12:39 remaining In lhe game. However, lhe
Crusade!s shol53.8 percent in lhe second half
10 hold elf lhe Bulls lhe rest cA lhe way.
UB was led by Mike Martinho and Rasaun
Young, v.ro each had 15 points. MartW-o also
played outstmding defense oo fl.1id.&lt;:on pre-

season MIIP selection Bryce Drew, holding lhe
""""" lndiena Slale Player cj lhe -to 4&lt;:113 shooting IWid 13 points. Young had """""
rebotnds, tor..- ....... and ttvee assists, Acbe&lt;t Ha-ris conti'ued his me p1ay with 12
perm and 10 reba.rds-his secondcA lhe season and sixth ci his .,.,__
The Bulls are at Western Illinois Jan. 18
and return to Ailnvli I&gt;Jena lor a clasl1 with
Youngstown Slate Jan. 22 at 7::Jl p.m.

e WOIEN'SIASilEmAU.
UB's women's basketball team IT1CM!d to 12-t
and a perfect 4-0 In Mid-Continent Conference play with their 80-62 win CNef MissouriKansas City at Alurmi l&gt;lena on Saturday.
The R:&gt;yats Jt.nl&gt;ed out to a 37-28 halftime
lead, lhen went on a 9-3 .., to open lhe second
hall and PlA lhe
Km Coon nailed
two cA her five tl1reei&gt;olnters lo seallhe victory.
Missouri-Kansas City was held to just 27. t
percent field goal shooting on the night wnile
lhe Royals connected on 42.3 percent of
their anempts. In the second hall, UB held
UMKC to just !H&gt;I-28 shooting (17.9 percent)
outscoring the Kangaroos 43-24 in the final
20 minutes. Coon and Megan McCray led
the Royals with t 7 points each, wnile Doty,
Charissa Gardner and Alicia Kollmorgen
addled tO each. Kollmorgen led the Royals
on the boards with eight rebounds.
Following the win, ~was announced that

game--

lor lhe second consecutive year the MidContinent Conference's women's basketball
tOUfnament would be held at Alumni l&gt;lena
March 6-8. The winner earns an automatic
bid to the NCAA TOUfnament.
The Royals began their weelt with a 77-73
....., at Valparaiso. UB, ranked second in the
country In free-throw percentage, shot 78.6
percent (22-ol-29) to put lhe Crusaders away
UB was 20-ol-25 (80 percent) in second hall
Aller grabbing a 34-29 halftime lead, UB
led by as many as tO early in the final stanza
belore Vatpo ,_a lour-point lead. 49-45.
with t 1:18 to play. The Royals took the lead
lor good wl1en Doty nailed a three-pointer
with 9:08 remaining to go ahead 54-52. UB
went t t-ol-121rom the line, including a perfect 8-ol-8 by Gatherine Jacob, In the final
2:20 to cap the win. Jacob scored a teamhigh t8pointsandwas tt-ol-121rornthe
charity s~ipe . l.aToya Crumpton and Gardner
each addad 14 points with Gardner grabbing

seven rebounds.
The Royals will lace Youngstown State on
the road Jan. t 8 lor the
first time since the two
met in the Mid-Con finals
last season. Their next
horne contest is Feb t
vs. Valparaiso

e MEN'S

sWIMMING
Freshman Dan Hickey
won two indMdual
events and was part of a

e WRESTUNG
UB scaed a pair ol dual meet victones n
Washington Jan. 10 to EMlfl their mark al2-2
The Bulls rolled past James Madison 32-9 anc
host American 32-tO. John Sl1.czrran scored a
paW cA major decisions at ISO pa.nds 10 mprolle hs rdMdual record to 20-1 Jason
W&lt;vl&gt;'lger at 126. Jeremy McVtge at 134. Enc
Gross at 177 and John Escl1enletder at 190
were also IIICIOnOuS n both matches oo the day
UB hosts the New Val&lt; State Collegiate
Wrestling Championstops Fnday and 5ab.xday
-Ted Wasko, Sports Information OffiCe

THIS WEEK 'S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
-Y,.IAII-17

New Yori&lt; State Collegiate
Wrestling Championships

AJumn1 Arena. Noon

IATUIIIIAY .IAN. 18
New Yori&lt; State Collegiate
Wrestling Championships
AlurTV't~ Arena. 10 am
Women's Swimming VS. CanisiUS

Alumn1 Arena Natatonum. 1 p m

-DDAY, .IAN. 22

winning r~ay squad for

the Bulls as UB dropped
a t22-t19decismto

Marytand-8attimore County Jan 1I It was
the SI!&amp;Sorl"s first dual meet loss lor the Bulls.
now4-t .
Hickey took the 200 freestyle on a trne ol
1:42.13wtlile capturing the tOO free on 47 60.
beating out UMBC's Jeremy Sansbury .,
both events. Hickey was alsO part of the
Bulls" 400-lree relay squad With Jose
.
Moncion, Josh Pieczonka and John Nilles
The Bulls finished In 3: 11 81

Men's Basketball

vs

. Youngstown State

Alumru Alena 7 30 p m

OBITUARIES
S. Mouchly Small, 83,
chainnan of psychiatry at UB

lysts, the American Medical Association. the
American Association for Social Psychiatry
and the New York Academy of Medlc1ne

S Mouchty Small. chairman of the UB Depart·
ment of Psychiatry !Of 27 years and a founder
and past naUor\aj president ol the ~uscular
Dystrophy Association

Fawzy F. Abdelmessih, 70,
physician, professor

(MDA), died Dec. 20 in
Mitchell Campus of Hos·
pice BuHalo. Cheektowaga,
after a lengthy Illness.
While he was chairman
from 1951 to ,978, the UB

Department of Psychiatry

groio from a'handlul to
about 140 and secured
more than S8 million in grants.
A founder of the Muscular Dystrophy
Association in the 1950s, he was national
president from 1980 to 1989 and served until
his death.as chairman of MDA's execurtve
committee. He also was chairman of the
group's scientific advisory committee and
wori&lt;ed wllh pattents who had emoUooal
problems resulting from muscular d isease
Robert Ross. MDA's executive d irector. noted
1n the Buffalo News that Small "made huge
contributions to the associatiOn's develop·
ment as one of the nalton·s most eHeclive and
efficient health agencies.·
Among his awards were UB 's Stockton
Kimball Award for outstanding work in community health. the B. Bowis Gold Medal
from the American CoUege of Psychiatrists
and the Dislinguished Service Citation from
the American Psychiatric Association.
Small was a graduate of City College of
New Yor1&lt; and the Cornett University Medical
College. Neuropsychiatric consultant to the
surgeon general of the U.S. Army lor 25 years.
he taught clinical psychiatry to Army phyS~·
cians. trained thousands of Sbcial WOf'kers to
act as medical field agents during World War II
and was co-author of a paper on the psychological aspects of chemicaJ warfare.
He wrote more than 100 artides and book
chapters , including ·A Handbook of Psychiatry,· a 1943 publicatkm widely viewed as an
authoritative guide to psychiatric theory and
prac tice . Small was also a consultant to the
Defense Department , the Peace Corps and
the United States Information Agency.
In the mid·1950s. he helped organiz' the
Ene County Mental Health Board, serving as
its first director. In that post he obtained
funding for BUffalo General Hospital's Community Mental Health Center and was instru·
mental In establishing the state AlcohoUsm
Research Center in Buffalo.
He was a member of the psychiatric committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners and served as a director, vice J)fesident
and director emeritus ol the American Board

f.

of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Small was a life feUow of the American
Psychiatric Association, emeritus felk7w of the

American Coii!!Qe oJ Psychiatrists and a
fellow of the American College ot Psychoana·

Funeral services were held at St . George
Orthodox Church, Buffalo. for Fawzy F.
Abdelmessih , who pracuced rehabilitation
medicine and was an associate professor of
rehabilitalion medicine at the UB medical
schoot. Abdetmessih died Dec. 25 in DeGraff
Memorial Hospital . North Tonawanda. after a
brief illness.
A native of Port Said. Egypt , he rece1ved
h1S medical degree from the University of
Cairo in 1952. In 1970. he came to the BuHalo
area, joining the staH at Deaconess Hospital
Abdelmessih was a member of the Amencan Medical Assoc•ation . New York State and
Erie County Med ical soc1et1es. and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United
States.

Ginger Burke, 82, teacher,
founder of ballet company
Ginger Burke. 82. founder and director of the
Royal Academy of Ballet 1n North Buffalo lor
live d ecades and a teacher for 14 years 1n the
Department of Theatre and Dance at UB . d1ed
Dec . 29 in her Buffalo home after a long
illness.
Burke was also a co-founder of the Buffalo
Regional Ballet Company. a professk&gt;nal
dance troupe that perfOfmed in the Kathanne
Cornell Theater at US ln the t980s. Burke also
performed in vaudeville before opening her
ballet school. which conlinues today
Among her students were Michael
Bennen, famed Broadway creator of ·A Cho·
rus Una.· and Mans Banaglia of the Amencan
Academy of Ballet. Other students went on to
dance with the New York City Ballet, the
American Ballet Theater and the ballet corps
of RadK&gt; City Music Hall
Unda Swiniuch. chair ol the Department of
Theatre and Dance at UB described Burke to
the Buffalo News as ~one of the best teachers
I've ever seen anywhere" and one of the lew
who were personalty "endofsed by the one and
only George Balanchine.· Burke was InVIted by
the George Balanchine School of Arnencan
Ballet in New YOOt C1ty to partiCipate 1n sem1·
nars sponsored by the Ford FoundatiOn and
Balanchine provided a lener of recommends·
lion for her to the Umvers1ty at Buffalo

Irwin Felsen, 89, physician,
medical school instructor
Irwin Felsen . 89, a k&gt;ngMle physic1an who
had served as a chmcal Instructor 10 fam1ly
practice atltle UB medical school . dted Jan
2 in Highland Health Care Facility, Wellsville
Felsen. who pracliced medicine in New York
State for more than 50 years before reunng 1n

1986, helped to create Jones Memorial Hospl·
tal 1n Wellsville
Among Felsen·s many honors was the
State Medical Soc1ety President's C1tat100 for
distingUished communrty serv1ce. and fam1ty
members noted h1s many community contn·
butions 1nclud1ng efforts to build a modern
hospital 1n Wellsville and placement of me
Nat1011al Health Serv1ce Care Phys1c1ans in
Allegany County. Members of that group now
make up more than 50 percent of the primary·
care doctors 1n that area Other honors in·
eluded the Sek!ctive Service System Medal.
the Federal Aviation Administration Proles·
s1ona1 Service C1tat100 for 40 years of serv.ce
and the Wellsville Chamber of Commerce
Person of the Year award in 1983
A graduate of City College of New York
and the Unlvefslty of Glasgow Med1cet School
1n Scotland . he was a past pres1dent of the
Lakes Area Regional Medical Program . the
Health Organization of Western New York . the
E1ghth District of the Medical Soc1ety of New
York and the Jones Memonal Hosp1tal medl·
cal staff

Louis L. Jaffe, 90,
fonner UB Law School dean
Lours L. Jaffe. a former dean of the Un1vers1ty
of Buffalo Law School. d1ad Dec 1t at a
nws1ng home 1n Norwood . Mass He was 90
Jaffe rece•ved h1s law degree from
Harvard Law School 1n 1932 and served as a
clerk to JustiCe LOUIS D BrandeiS
He became a professor at the UB Law
School in 1936 and was named dean ol the
school 1n 1948
Jaffe jomed the Harvard Law School lac·
ulty 10 1950. where he served as Byrne Prolessor of Administrative Law He was one of
the sc~ ·s most w•dety known analysts and
writers in tort taw and adm101Strat1ve taw.
particularly on the role of the courts 1n rev1ew·
1ng adm1nlstrat1ve agenc1es like the Federal
Commumcati()I'IS Commission
He wrote • Jud1c1al Conuot• (L•ttle Brown)
1n 1965 and was co-author of ~Adm1n1stra11ve
Law. Cases and Matenals~ (L1111e Brown) 1n
1976. both texts Widely adopted by law
schools
A res•dent of Cambndge , Mass , lor more
than 40 years. JaHe ret1red 1n 1976

Dorothea Nisbet, 75,
educator, women's activist
Dorothea D ·Peggy· Nisbet. 75. an educator.
researcher 1n gerontology and women's ect1v·
1st. d1ed Dec 20 ln Roswell Park Cancer
Institute after a long 1llness
A co-founder of the Women's Stud1es
College at UB. she started the first Buffalo
Women's Community Day in association with
the YWCA As a facutty member at the umversity. ~he taught courses on the cross-cultural
aspects of women and aging. At UB she
became known as an 1nnovator 1n develop1ng

multHnedla approaches to teach•ng comparative gerontology
Her research 1n that area had worldwid e
focus and over 20 years . It took her from
Russ1a to the S1benan Arctte and to previOUsly
closed areas of Tibet and to the Gob1 Desert
As a guest of the People's Republic of Ch1na.
she was ooe of the first Amencans Invited 1nto
the counlry follow1ng President R1chard
N1xon's d1ploma11c lflitiauves 1n the early
1970s She was gwen access to parts ot
Ch1na that had been closed to fore1gners for
decades
She was a charter member of the NatiOnal
Association of Scholars and was a founding
member of the Independent Women's Forum
She receiVed bachekw's. master's and doc·
torsi degrees 1n gerontology frbm the Umver·
suy of BuHalo and completed post·doctorat
work at Oxford University. the Un1vers1ty of
Hawaii . the University of Southern Californ1a
and Umvers1ty of Michigan

Hildegard Poech Pinak, 70,
library employee
A Mass of Chnshan Bunal was held Jan 11 10
Queen of Martyrs Catho11c Church. Cheek·
towaga . lor Hildegard Poech P1nak . 70, a
former employee of LockwOOd Memor1at
Library. who d1ed Jan 8 1n M1tchetl Campus
of Hosp1ce Buffalo. Cl"'eektowaga
She earned an assoc1ate's degree from
Villa Mana College and a bachek&gt;r of arts 1n
h1story at US 1n 1980. atter wh1ch she worked
at Lockwood L1brary

Charles R. West, 62,
neurosurgeon, research
associate professor
Charles A West . ch1ef of the Department of
Neurosurgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
for 22 years . d1ed Dec 6 1n Millard Fillmore
Hosp1tal attar a short illness West. a research
asSOCiate of neurosurgery at UB . was 62
He received hiS bachelor's degree 1n 1959
from Roosevelt Un1vers1ty. ChiCago and m
1964 received h1s med1cat degree from
Howard Umvers•ty School of Med1c•ne. WashIngton DC
West was aSSistant neurosurgeon ana
researcher at the National Institute of NeurologiCal DIS9ases and StrOke 1n Bethesda. Md
before his appointment as assoc1ate ch1ef of
the Department of Neurosurgery at Roswell 1n
1971 Three years later. he was promoted to
ch.al of the department . a pos•hon he held
until his ret11ement in 1996
He was a member of the New York Stale
Neurosurg1ca1 Society, the Amencan Soc1ety
of Chn.cal Oncology and the Amencan Asso·
c•ahon of Cancer Research West autholed or
presented more than 74 sc~arty papers and
rece1ved four U S patents lor the development of drugs used to treat bra1n tumors
Pnvate funeral serv•ces will be held

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For information, call 829-3291 .
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"Chinese Mountairueape Archi·
tectwe," an exhibit of photographs by John Va1entino with
text by Beverly Foit-Aiben,
continues throuJh Feb. 21 in the
School of ArchitectUre and
Planni11a'• James Dyen Oallery.
334 Hayes Hall, South Campus.
Gallery hours are 9 Lm.·S p.m.
Monday through Friday.

slnaers u well as students are
invited to joia. Worts ao be re·
beaned include Haydn's "Cre·

atioa.. for performance May 2
with the UD.ivenity Symphony.
and RllcdlbcrJer's "SI.Iboo
Mater"' to be presented on a
Man:h 13 JWOifUD with c.qaa.
H.atriet SiJnona is diru:tor. hhearuls are 'I'besdlys and
Thursdays from 5:30-7:20 p.m.
in Baird Recital Hall on the
Nonh Campus.

Haaerman: Robert

Richardson. Music
of Bacb, Haydn,

Speer. Bona, Lotti
and Lowell Shaw.

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Concert to be:
broadcast the followina Sunday at 4
p.m. on WBFO-FM
88.7.

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Quartet Jan. 22 at 7 p.m.
In Allen Hall. Free adml•

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Arena NataiOrium. Nonh Campu5. Free.

Bloc_atry_
Reculalion of lnteatlnallron
Absorption: Compilrtmental
Analysis of Mueos~l Iron Kinetks, G.D. Mc~n. M.D..
VA Medica) Center, Farao. N.D.
1148 Farber. South Campus.
4 p.m.

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Si.nUJilis. Peter Campione.
M.D. Cafetorium A, Children 's
Hospital. 8:30a.m.

AD laterditdpUaary Approec.b to
Tnchiaa Evolution as a Critical
Tbinkln1 Tool,
Tom Geelan, Buffalo City Honors High School.
170 Mill&amp;ld Fillmore Academic
Center, Ellicott. Nonh Campus.
7:30p.m. S2p for the: series . To
register. call 645· 6800. ut.
!020.

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After ,.._..., lifter )'011,

The Depanment of Computer
Science and CIT ~ve •arced to
shart the Ba1dy 19 Macintoah
lab as a public site when it is not
being used for Computer Sci·
ence classes. This apparentJy is
"an unprecedented and unique
form of cooperation between
CIT and an academic depa.nme(\1·" Baldy 19 will be a public
site Monday through Friday
from 9 a.m. until noon beginning Jan. 27 . For information.

call645-3 180.

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The Office of the Vice President
for Research has announced the

Equipment ChallenJe Grant
Program for 1996-97. The proJram will provide up to $25.000
as matching funds to facull y
who plan to submit a proposal 10
an utemal government or pri·
vate sector source. Ouidelines
are available from the: office.
516 Capen HaJI, Nonh Campus.
or by calling 645· 3321 .

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Allometric SaUna for Human
Dost Seiectioa, Dennis J.
McCanhy. Ph.D.. Astrt Arcus
USA. SOB Cooke. North Campus. 3:30p.m.
Art lleceptlooo
Ope.llln&amp; Rettption, Art from
HeU-the EvU Works or lUus·
tration Facuhy, Stude:nU IDd
Alumnl. An Oepanment Gallery, Center for the Atu. North
Campus. 5-7 p.m. Through
feb. I I.

I.U..t
''An From Hell-the Evil Works
of llluslration Faculty, Students
and Alwnn.i" opens Jan. 23 with
a m:eptioo from 5·7 p.m. in the
An Department Oallcry located
on the: lower level of the Center

T he Office of the Vice President
for Research has announced the
Multidisciplinary Pilot Project
Program for 1996-97. The program will provide limited seed
funding of up to $20,000 in di rect cost to enable faculty to be·
gin multidisciplinary research in
an area, which is new to them.
Awards should be announced by
April 18. 1997. The deadline IS
Feb. 7 for submiuion of propos·
als to the Office of the VKC
President for Research. Guidelines art: available from the: of·
rice. 5 16 Capen Ha11, Nonh
Campus. or by callina 645-

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fif'lt rehean.al Jan. 21 for lhc:

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK -AT BUFFALO

De cembe r 12. 1996 Volume 28, No . 15

Toshiba gift to fund
stroke research center
$3.6 million contribution will en£lble VB to
establish high-tech unit on South Campus
Br LOIS BAKER

News Services Ed1tor

A

STROKE RESEARCH cemer unmatched an the world m technology and so·
phistication is being established at the University at Buffalo with a $3 .6 mil lion gift of equipment and suppon servtces from Toshiba America Medical

Systems. Inc., university and Toshiba officmJ ~; announced Tuesday. Toshiba has provided the most advanced t:qUipment ext&lt;Jntto help researchers develop and perfect new minimally invasive neurovascular surgery techniques usang
ultra-high-tech image-guidance technology.

"Mi nimally invasive procedures will dominate surgery in Lhe 21 st cemury:· suid L.
Nelson Hopkins. M.D.. director of the new center. '"Tomorrow' c; neurovascular technol ogy will be developed, tested and perfected here. We know of no other research center
with comparable equipment and capabilities.''
A pioneer in the area of endovascular surgery. chair of UB's Department of Neuro~ur·
gery and chief of neurosu rgery for the Millard Fillmore Health System. Hopkins wa ~:;
instrumental in developing the new pannership with Toshiba.
He said successful new surgi cal techniques developed at the Toshiba Stroke Research
Center will be transferable directly to treatment and prevention of stroke in human!&lt;o.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. and the number one cause of adult
disability.
Toshiba also is providing fundmg to support graduate student stipends and an ex ·
change program between Japanese and UB researchers.
UB President William R. Greiner said of the new center:"This new stroke research
ce nter will capitalize on all the best strengths of UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences-pioneering research. outstanding clinical care and exceptional teaching .
"Dr. Hopkins is a great example of all three.'' Greiner added. " He is a superb medi ·
Cont1nued on page 3

Greiner to discuss UUP contract with SUNY presidents
Br SUE WUETCMR

News Services Associate Director

PRESIDENT WILLIAM R .
Grei ner told members of the Faculty Senate on Tuesday lhal he
plans 10 urge orher SUNY-sySicm
preside nts to become more actively involved in the stalled con·
traer negotiations between the
stale and United University Professions.
Greiner noted that the campuses
are not asked to panicipate in col·
lect'ive bargaining "in a significant
or meaningful way.'' In the past,
collective bargaining in the system

was done. for the most pan. in AI·
bany and "the balance of it we
worked out more or less collegially
on the campuses," he said.
" It just seems to me now we
have an issue that has dragged on
long enough that h's my intention
to get as actively involved in it as

I can," and 10 lhar end. he said he
will attempt within lhe next two
to four weeks to become as "fully
informed as 1 can on the issues.''
Members of UUP-Ihe ~nion
rhar represents faculty and professional sra!f al SUNY campuseshave been working under an ex·

pired contract for more than 15
months. Negotiations between lhe
Governor's Office of Employee
Relations and UUP have been
stalled for months, primarily over
the issue of contracting out state
jobs. The state wants the ability to
contract out UUP jobs to internal
or external corporations: UUP
maintai ns lhat contracting out
would make tenure and permanent
appointment null and void.

In a bid to get UUP back ro
the bargaining table . the state
stopped p ay ~ent s to the union's
Benefit Trust Fund. which pro-

vides members with dental. vision
and prescription-drug coverage.
The state is appealing a court rul ing requiring it to resume fund ·
ing the Benefit Trust Fund.
Greiner told senators that he
intended to raise the issue of
stalled contract negotiations at a
meeting of SUNY presidents later
this week in Albany because "it's
not clear to me that there is a kind
of urgency on this issue in ceotral office.
But before he did that. he
wanted to get "some sense from a
group of colleagues on this issue~ . "

Greiner got an ear ful from
facul!}' members when he asked
them. "from the per~;~pective of a
faculty member ... what differ·
ence. if any. has it made that w!!
haven't had a con tract for going
on two years ? From a facu lty pc;:r·
spec ti ve. what diffefence does 11
make?
"Th1 s 1s a truly 1n g enu o u ~
question," he added. "I really am
curious how it affect s an 1nd1 ·
\•idual faculty member"
Powhatan Wooldndge. a~ 'l''IC I ·
Continued on page 4

SUNY to categorize campuses for better funding allocation
BJ SUE WUETCHER

News Services Associate DirectOr

S

UNY IS IN THE PROCESS of categorizing irs

64 campuses in order to deve lop a better way of

allocaring funding. Provost Thomas Headrick rold
the Faculty Senate Executive Committee at its
Dec. 4 meeting.
Headrick briefed commiuee members on the effort to
deve lop a new resource allocation me thod (RAM). as requesred by lhe SUNY Board of Trustees.
Toward the end of the process, which involved repre·
sentatives from SUNY administra tion and the various
campuses ... it became clear to everyone that it was preuy
hard to go forward with that unless you had some under-

standing of what the various campuses expected to do and
what their mi ssions were within the system." Head rick
said.
A Task Force for Academic Mission Review-cf which
Headrick is a member-was set up and has been trying to
place the various groupings of ca mpuses within the sys·
tern inlo a set of categories and define the particularquali·
ties that would put a campu s into a ce rtain grouping, he
explained.
"Groupings would then constitute a kind of boundaries
for institutions," he said. noting that institutions would
not move from one groupi ng to another without significant review.
Groupings also are designed to co ntrol what is known

within the SUNY system as "mission creep." wh1ch
Headrick. described as a situation in which an institution.
once established in a certain category. begins to expand
the level or kinds of degrees it offers 10 order to "expand
its attractiveness, and then it begins to look like ~;~ome ·
thing that it wasn't 10 years ago."
The latest draft from the task force outlines e1gh1 cat egories. he noted.
Universities are divided into two ca1egories: those with
first·professional degree authorization, which would JO ·
elud e UB and Stony Brook. and those wit hout. which
would include Binghamton and Albany.
Conttnued on page 3

�2

Distinguished Honors Scholars: high achievers, higtlly motivated
.y CIIIIISTINE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

T

HEIR MEAN high-sc hool average
is a 98. Their mean h igh-sc hool
runk is in the 98th percentile. And
their mean SAT score is 1511.
UB has been abl e to attract some oflhe
best and brightest high-school st udent&lt; the
Uni ted States has to offer. thanks to the

generosi ty of a benefactor committed tore-

warding academic excellence.
UB 's Distinguished Honors Scholars, as
they are called, receive sc ho larships to
cove r tuition and all expenses for each of
their four undergraduate years at UB .
thanks to an anonymous donor who be-

\

li eves that stude nts of exce ptio nal merit
should be able to pursue an education at a
premier university without having to worry
about the cost.
In January 1995. he gave the university
a cash gift of S 1.6 million. the largest cash
gi ft eve r received by UB or any o ther college or uni vers ity in the SUNY syste m in
which the funds were immediately avail ab le for use . The sa me donor contributed
an additiona l $800.000 in cash in January
1996 to allow the uni ve rsi ty to expand the
program.
Eleven siUdent!&lt;l compri sed the first class
of Distinguished Honors Scholars and enlered UB in the Fall 1995:26 more joined
their rank s in thi s fall , and a third group is
b~ing rec ruited to begin nex t fall. They
come from stat es that include Connecticut.
Kan sas. Massachu sett s, Minnesota. North
Carolina, Pennsy lvania and Washington, as
we ll aS New York.
They're hi gh achieve.,; and hi ghly moti va ted. Their interests are as di verse as
their minds are bright. To be considered
fo r the program. they must have a hi ghschool average o r a1 least 95 percent. and
..,corea 1470or higheron theirSATs. Many
are pursuing special majors or dual degrees,
o ft en in widel y diverse fields.
Di versity -ofU B's academic programs
as we ll as of its studenr population-is
important to these students, says Clyde
Herreid . acade mi c director o f the UB Hon o rs Program and SUNY Distinguished
Teaching Professor in the Department o f
Biological Sciences.
Distinguished Honors Scholars are pan
of the UB Honors Program. a unique and
high ly regarded program th at provides a
..,e lect group of bri ght and highl y moti vated
~t ud e nt s with ~pec i a l course offerings, ad\" l"' ing. early reg istration and c lose faculty..,IUdcnt intcr:.JC\ IOn.

"Most honors scholars have d isparate
int.erests. Some will narrow them down ,
othe.,; will widen the range," he says. UB's
breadth of curriculum allows these students
to pursue several different options. such as
double degrees, disparate majors or dual
degrees.
Range of academic programs was imponant to a freshman from the upper
midwest who chose UB over schools such
as Purdue, the University of Minnesota and
the University of Wisconsin. "I was looking at big school s because I wasn ' t sure I
wanted to go into computer engineering
and knew I might change my major," he
says. "I wanted to go to a big school that
had all kinds of choices, all kinds of options for what you could go into."
- u is insti ncts served him well. " I started
n out in computer engineering, but I
didn'tlike the project&lt;." he says. He's now
majoring in math and economics, and says
he may pick up a minor in accounting or
co mputer science.
This student says he also was auracled
by the hono.,; program, which he described
as "kind of like a college within a
college .... At the other colleges. I would
have just been a number.''
The scholarship he receives also was an
important pan of hi s decision to attend UB.
"I probably would have gone to college
without the scholarship, but I would have
needed (financial) he lp from my parents
and my sister, and I would have had a debt
when I finished. I'm quite thankful for(the
scholarship) and so arc my parents:·
Selection of Di stingui s hed Hon o rs
Scholars takes into co ns ideration bo th
meri t and fimmci al need. "Some students
are impressed because the schol arships
. .. are meri t based." says Jose phine
Capuana. administrativedirectoroflhe UB
Honors Program.
But for some. she adds, the scholarships
are the only way they'd be able to pursue a
co llege education .
"Five o r s ix in the freshman class
wouldn't have been in college at all without the Distin guished Honors Scholarships
because finances were a problem. Their
financial situarions were preuy desperate.''
Capuana says.
While the financial help is important.
the quality o f education is vi tal to attracting these exceptional students to UB .
" Nobody is goi ng to come to a schoo l
that isn't going to prov ide a good education.'' says Herreid. "Our job is to show

Greiner approves 1997-98
academic calendar; fall classes
to begin after Labor Day
Classes for the fall 1997 semester will begin after Labor Day under a calendar for the
1997-98 academic year that was approved recently by President William R. Greiner.
The semester will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 2, and end on Saturday. Dec. 20. The spring
1998 semester wi ll run from Tuesday. Jan. 20. through Thursday, May 14. Commencement weekend will be held from May 15-17.
The ca lendar had been revised by the Calendar Commission after the Faculty Senate
Exec utive Committee. at its Oct. 9 meeting. objected to the commission's first proposal
th:.Jt would have started the fall semester a week before Labor Day and the spring semest~r on Jan. 12. with commence ment set for May 10. The FSEC had asked the commi ssion to reconsider the proposal, citing concern s that the earlier-than-usual spring start -up
would stifl e scho larship during the intersession.
The commi ss ion then came back to the FSEC at its Oct. 30 meeting with its origi nal
proposal and the proposa l. ultimately approved by G reiner. that would start fall classes
aft er Labor Day. At that time. Greiner said that he believed UB should start classes after
Labor Day in those years when the holiday falls early in the month. He sa id this would
allow the university to start after the holiday while providing enough time to meet the
state guidelines of 15 weeks of instruction per se mester, including exam time.

"Nobody is going to come
to a school that isn't going
to provide a good education. Our job is to show
these students the facilities,
the people and the opportunities. Once we've done
that, they 're convinced."
CLYIIII-

these student&lt; the facilities, the people and
the opportunities. Once we've done that,
they' re convinced. The students may be
initi ally auracted to Buffalo because of the
honors program. but we have to live up to
that obligation, and we do ....We arc as good
or beller than any place in the country."
A freshman from New England says sbe
chose UB over two other colleges that also
offe red her full scholarships because of the
caliber of the university 's programs.
"It 's a higher-level school. I thought UB
cou ld o ffer me more." she says.

T

he scholarship, however, was an important pan of her decision to attend.
"It took such a load off our minds. My family worried about sending me to school,"
she says. "Having the scholarship allows
me to spend more time on my studies.''
Being a member of tbe Distinguished
Honors Scholars enriches more than just

these student&lt;' academic lives. A sophomore from downstate New York explall&gt;cd
that her scholanhip has allowed ber to continue with one of the great loves ofber life,
competitive figure skating.
"Skating is a big part of my life. I've
skated all my life and competing is very
important to me," she says. "I couldn' t bave
continued skating in college without tl&gt;is
scbolarship." Sbe skates six days a week
with the Amherst Skating Club.
With a major in biology and a minor in
Spanish, sbe hopes to enter the UB School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
through it&lt; Early Assurance ~gram . She
also would like to coach skaters, too, but
"on the side, not as my career."
Although UB was among the schools
she was considering in high school, she
wouldn't bave come bere witboutthe Hono.,; Program and all it&lt; advantages. ''The
advising, the early registration. all the perks
of the Honors Program," she say•. "It made
it a lot more attractive to come here."
While the Distinguished Honors Scholars have a lot in common. Capuana stresses
that each is an individual .
"When I look at the students in the program, I describe them as bright and normal. lbcy work very hard and they play
very hard. They're adventuresome and
willing to take some risks . You can't put
much by them. They question and they
challenge in different ways," she says.
''They're also very accepting of each other,
but they don ' t sec themselves as a closed
·group.
"For some of them it's the first time
they ' ve been accepted for their abilities. It
helps them to grow up and grow out."

SEFA Clllr~ Cup

preseniBd; Blllzer
throws nrst ball
UBs SEFA Chai"'s Q.p was~
Dec.10 aJ the lJB.S&gt;yfacuse basl&lt;etball
g&lt;WTlB i1 M&lt;me MidMd Alena lD the
Faculty ot Nall.mJ Sciences and Malhemalics. IM1ich supassed its gilli1g
IJ)8I by rrom 11m 15 percent; The UB
~wert CNf!/( the top, raising

$640.00&gt;. f!«Ne, fttrn left:
Nelson "l"oMlsend, '96 SEFA C8fTllBign
chair, Pmsident Grei1er and RIISM
Dean Joseph Tufarielo. Left: Wdl
Blltzer, CNN Ser1a 'M&gt;Ie House COO&amp;spondert and a UB gad, shc&gt;M"I Mil
uss Leonard TMgishaka. left. and
Syracuse!! Otis 1-U, 1hro.ols out the first
bal at the g;wne.
CNf!/(

�3

From chess to complexity: Kenneth Regan's career route
UB prof was chess
prodigy as child

bug. Complexity tlleory is "an intellectually amazing field , very challe nging:·
Regan said. He desctibes complexity
tlleory as tile formal study of how long it
takes a computer to solve certain problems
or, more generally. how much memory and
other computational resources are used .

ENNETH W. REGAN was
beating his father at chess six

months after he learned the
game at tile age of five .
Regan, an associate profes·
sor in tile UB Department of Computer
Science whose work is in complexity
theory. was a c hess prodigy who attained
master at 12. He was the first of a series of
phenomena] chess players to be touted as
··you ngest to hold the title of master since
Bobby Fischer:·
"A ll my c hess memories are good
memories,'' said Regan, who discovered
tournaments at age 10. His experience in
the 1970s was not at all like the daunting
world of junior chess competition depicted
in the book a nd movie, "Searching for
Bobby Fischer." "That movie is completely
unrepresentative," he said. "I loved the
New York chess tournaments."
As a chess prodigy, he made friends
with other elite young players and e njoyed
access to the adult c hess world on equal
terms . "Rivalry. but in no sense enmity,"
is how Regan describes the relationship
with other prodigies. incl uding Michael
Rohde , John Fedorowicz. Lewis Cohen.
Jon Tisdall. Mark Diesen. Peter Wins1on
and Michael Wilder. "We were a wave" in
the c hess world. he said.
After a couple of years. tlley stopped
entering youth tournaments and moved to
open competition. "We wanted the challenge. The best way to improve is to lose
hard-fought games to better players.··

C

KEHN£1lt W~ REGAN tectured

to fi ve hours a day studying the game . He
set his sights on attending Princeton University.
The rfgors of a demanding universit y
left little time for c hess, but the game in directly led him to the next phase of hi s
education.
In the summer of I 980. Regan competed in two chess tournaments abroad .
Meeting a friend in London. he decided to
visit Oxford and immediately loved it.
Oxford quickly became his next goal. "1
applied to Oxford knowing I would like
it." he sai d. He won a Marshall scholarship and eventually earned his Ph.D. in
mathematics there.
In his first three weeks at Oxford. Regan
admi rs he was bitren by the complexity

omplexity theory is still a ver&gt;.J
young field in which it is easy to
do certain things bUt "very hard to
tackle the big questions,'' Regan said. The
field has possibilities for applicative re search in genetic technology, cryptography
and pract ica l algorithm de s ign. among
many areas.
'1"he intellectual side IS very theoreti cal and starkly beautiful." Regan said . "My
research gives me the same enjoymenr I
derived from chess."
With research. teachmg and famil y re quiring his energy. Regan no longer has the
time or inclination for competitive chess
that earned him the lifetime tirle of international maste r from the World Chess Federation. But at a chess tournament in Roch ester in March. "'the rustine~-. came out. "
he said. He tied for second .
Ahhough he is not active m ches~ at UB.
Regan lectured to the chess club last spnng
aod later presented hi s lecture on computer
chess to a larger audierrce as pan of the
UB Sciences Alumni Assoc iation Series on
Oct. 21.
"Computers may beat human players. but
rhey will not get out of reach," Regan said.
noting that in the East. the game of Go. not
chess. is considered a symbol of thought.
Go has a bigger board and more pieces. The
human style of play is not affected by tile
size of board or number of pieces. but computers are. he said. "Computers can' t play a
good game of Go." Regan said.

therapy for stroke. image optimization with
radiation-dose reduction. flow analysis and
device development," Hopkins said. ' 'Further, since any area of the body can be accessed through the vascular system. other
depanments, such as Cardiology. Surgery
and Radiology, will have the option of conducting s tudie s using the Toshiba
angiographic equipment."
Hopkins said the educational potential
of the facility is virtually limitless.
"We c urrently offer working courses in
endovascular techniques for treatment of

experimental aneu rysms . The Toshiba
Stroke Research Center will enable us to
expand and diversify our offerings, attract ing course participants from around the
globe. The now of personnel and informa tion between the center and Asia. other in ternational research centers and the U.S .
will offer unique educational opponunities
to UB students and faculty and the Western New York research community -atlarge."
UB researchers expect to begin work in
the rrew center in February I997.

on computer chen for Sclencea Alumni Auoclatlon Seriea.

Regan said.
His years as a chess competitor had ''tremendous social benefits.'' he said. Regan
enjoyed the opportunity to travel and make
friends at an international level. Competing with the U.S . student team in the Student Olympics, now discontinued. was a
"great experience," he sajd.

W

ith self-taughl expertise in lan guage. he was able to converse
in Spanish and Gennan with other
c hess players. He enjoyed the opponunity
to get to know Cuban chess players at the
tournaments in Sweden. Caracas. and
Mexico City. In 1976 he was the only nonRussian player to win a gold medal.
Regan continued competing in chess after the age of 13 but no longer devoted four

TOSHIBA
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cal educator, clinician and researcher, and
he is a leader in the Western New York
medical community-at-large. His work has
gained him international recognition.
" We are absolutely delighted to have
Toshiba as a partner in this center. Witll an
international corporate leader like Toshiba
generously supporting tile wod of a firstclass researcher and surgeon like Dr.
Hopkins, we tllink tllat'sara:ipe for success.
Most imponantly, the creation of tllis center
promises better healtll and fuller ra:overy for
millions of people. And we think tllat 's tile
real success ...
' The Toshiba Stroke Research Center is
housed on the founh floor of UB's new Bit&gt;medical Research Building on tile South
Campus. Installation of the equipment was
aided by a grant from tile Margaret L. Wendt
Foundation, which helped offset the cost of
essential structural alterations. Another grant
from an wfonymous donor will help cover
operating expenses.
The angiogrnphic equipment includes
positioners and focus tubes. cameros, digital video recorders and interfaces, generators, compuler software and workstations.

J

effrey T. Dillon. sales man ager with Toshiba America
Metlical Systems. Inc .. said Toshiba
"is honored to be pan of this new exciting
research venture wiih the University at
Buffalo."
The internati onal firm's "interest and
involvemen t (in the stroke research center) is in direct response to Dr. Hopkins and
his team's c linical expertise. commitmem
and research ...
Stroke researchers at the center will concentrate primarily, but not exclusively. on
developing and perfecting minimally invasive endovascular surgical procedures. This
approach involves accessing abnonnalities
ofthe brain through the blood vessels. rather
than by opening up the sku ll.

Hopkins is one of the foremost ex pens
in endovascular surgery and recently was
a lead researcher in clinical trials of lhe
Guglielmi Detachable Coil. the first product to receive approval from tile U.S. Food
&amp; Drug Administration for treating patients
with intracranial aneurysms that are considered inoperable or very- hi gh-risk for
traditional surgery.

J

ohn P. Naughton . M .D .. UB
vice president for c lini cal affairs a nd dean of the UB medical
school, said tile sc hool is "pleased and hon ored" tllat Toshiba America Medical Systems made such a significant contribution
during the celebration of the school's sesquicentennial year and that of the university.
'The Toshiba gift will enable the school.
through the leadersh ip of Dr. Hopkins, to
establish a major inrerdisciplinary center
that will deve lop fundamentals for the
treatment of pa tient s with stroke. and ,
hopefully. improve the quality of life for
patients in the years ahead, " he said.
"The school also is thankful to the
Wendt Foundation for its support of. and
confide nce in. this new center."
Several UB clinical departments ami
basic-science disciplines will collaborate
in the stroke research. Major col laborators
have formed the Neurovascular Research
Affinity Group. involving the depanments
of Neurosurgery, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Radiation, Physics and
Compu ter Science. Other researchers will
come from surface science. clinical engi neering and neurology.
The facility also will be used by re searc hers developing new treatmen t:-. for
conditions other than stroke. and will be
an educational center for students from UB
and around the globe.
"We will pursue inves tigation s in
neuroangiography and endovascular

FSEC
Cont inued from page 1
The co lleg es a re div1ded into two
groups: comprehensive colleges and those
that are primarily undergraduate colleges.
Headrick pointed out that there are three
ca tegories for specialty institutions: those
with a discipline focus, which could include the School of Environmental Science
and Forestry or the College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences at Cornell; those with a
medical specialty. which would include the
Health Science centers at Brooklyn and
Syracuse. a nd those with a technical spe·
ciahy. which could include the In stitute of
Technology at Utica/Rome and the techni cal colleges. formerly the agricultural and
technical colleges.
The community colleges make up the
eighth cutegory.
Once each _institution is placed in a cat·
egory. there "should be some differenti ation among the institutions within the category." Headrick argued. "In other words.
there ought to be spec ial charac teristics that
are pc::culiar to each institution within the
system. The notion of categories is not to
son of homogenize the characteristics. but
to sel them apan from others and then further increase differentiation among them

within each category."
The 1ask force will present its set of cat·
egories to the campus presidents this week.
Headrick sa id. adding that once that is
done. the task force will place individual
campuses into specific categories and bring
that proposal to the board of trusree s.
After that. the "ge neral understanding"
is that SUNY administration will devdop
a mi ssion re view proce~s and " mvlle the
members of each group to come in and fur rher define their mis~ion withm t:ac h of
these categories and have that m1 ... ~ 1on approved," he said.
Resource allocation . h~ o;;ud . 1., ~up ­
posed "to flow out of ha\ mg done thl!\
'"The th eory was that Y.e couiJn "t d~ ­
cide how we would div1de up the mnne)
until we k.new what kind of m-.tllutJon-. and
for what purposes we were dn 1d mg 11 up "
Although he estimated that It m1ght only
take six to eight month!!t to in stllute 1h1~
process. he wns not optimistic that it would
happen within that timetuble
Headrick stressed that each campu.o; would
be encouraged to develop ils own u01quc
mission. and that UB would use it:-. current
mission statement "as a starting point"

�CONTRACT
Continued from page t
ate professor in the School ofNursing, told
Greiner that he has been most directly affected by the lack of benefits for dental
and eye care. " I currently have a new pre-

scription from my physician that would
enable me to see better: I have not had it
filled . I have dental work that needs to be
done : I haven't had it done," he said. "I
also am personally aware of a substantial
number of other faculty that have done

pretty much the same thing. And consideri ng that the state court ruled that (cutoff
of benefits) was illegal. as I understand
it. it seems to me that something is very.

very wrong."
The lack of a contract is panicularly

hard on yoonger faculty, observed Charles
Ebert, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Geography. "'The net impact is
lowering the certainty that we are on
course .. .lt's a little disconcerting and they
don' t have the feeling they are standing on
finn ground and they' re beginning to look
for another ship," be said.

"I'• _..., .........

that my colleagues are speaking in such even tones,"
said Thomas Schroeder, associate professor of teaming and instruction. "Because I
personally am very concerned about these
issues. I think it's (lack of a conlnlct) intolerable; I think it does a great deal of
damage to morale and to our ability to re-

cruit (faculty) and have a national standing, which we say we want.''
Tenure is an issue that is not understood
by the genenl public, be added "I think it
would be very valuable if the leadership of
this onivenity would explain to the public at
large that tenure is not a guarantee of a job
for life; it's simply llSSWIIIlCCOf dueprt&gt;&lt;&gt;:SS."
Tile lack of a contract is a ~strong indi-

cator" that the state bas "walked away from
its obligation or its commitment to public
education." said Victor Doyno, professor
of English.
''The great loss," added William George,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. "to yoo, Bill, and to us, is this
collegiality we've enjoyed. Innuendo,
whether true or false, whether right or
wrong, whether necessary or unnecessary,
bas deteriorated" that relationship," be said.
"-'a Wlllelcy lllllottel, assistant professor of political science, said that before
coming to UB, she had worked at a private, liberal arts college where sbe had received an annual salary increase of at least
5 percent. Her salary has fl'mained Oat
since coming to UB, she said.
She has been asked by individuals being recruited as faculty members by her
department why they should come to UB.
''I' m faced with a choice," she said. "Either lyi ng to them or telling them the truth
and saying 'well, there are a few reasons
to come here but certainly we can't guar-

antee you a solid contrac~ I can't say I've
had a salary increase and I can't really say
there's a vision'."
Greiner told senators that while he
"would not hazard an infQrmed opinion"
of whether it would be appropriate to have
a contracting out provision in the UUP contract-he noted that be basn'tseen the specific language that the state has proposedJohn P. Naughton, M.D.; rellrlng this month as vice president for clinical affairs and
dean ol the UB School of Medicine an&lt;l Biomedical Sciences, was honored at the
unveiUng ol a bronze bus! in his likeness C18BIBd by award-winning sculptor Jeffrey T. Slomba and cast 81 the UB Casting Institute, at a recognition cerermny held
Dec. 3 in the Biomedical Education Building. From !eft: President W~liam A.
Greiner; Dean Naughton; Sculptor Jeffrey T. Slomba. a UB MFA graduate; Philip B.
Wels, chair ol the Uniwrsity Council; Prollost Thomas E. Headrick.

1997 Commencement Schedule
Sundey, Mer 11
School of Medici'¥! and Biomedical Sciences
3p.m.
Fr!Uy, Mer 18
Phi Beta Kappa Induction
2p.m.
Graduate School
2p.m.
Graduate Faculties
Arts and Letters
Natural Sciences and Math
Social Sciences
HonorS Convocation
5p.m.
s.turdloy, Mer 17
School of Health Related Professions
9a.m.
9a.m.
School of Social Work
9a.m.
School of Nursing
10a.m.
School of Information and library Studies
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 1 p.m.
1 p.m.
School of Law
1 p.m.
School of Pharmacy
School of Architecture and Planning
3p.m.
5p.m.
School of Management
5p.m.
Graduate School of Education
Sundey, Mer 18
10a.m.
University Commencement
Undergraduate Faculties
Arts and Letters
Natural Sciences and Math
Social Sciences
Special &amp; Individualized Majors
Associate Degrees
2p.m.
School of Dental Medicine

Center for the Arts
Slee Concert Hall
Center for the Arts

Center for the Arts
Alumni Arena
Center for the Arts
Slee Concert Hall
Student Union Theater
Alumni Arena
Center for the Arts
Slee Concert Hall
Hayes Hall lawn
Alumni Arena
Center for the Arts
Alumni Arena

he thinks it is an imponant element of the
CSEA contract. The issue, however, is ·
much more complex "with regard to a cootract that covers a batpining unit that includes within it the key professional staff
of the university and even more so? given

there is a distinction between permanent
appointmenl--&lt;15 it's l:oown and available
to the professional staff -and tenure as we
know it that's available to the academic
faculty," be said.
"ltlllllll e-. lesometbing, as we have
l:oowo i~ that bas worked very, very well

for American higher education as a matter
of public policy in this country and I think
we should continue in that mode. It bas to
do mostly with how to protect academic
freedom and that is not something to be
treated cynically....
"At the same time, tenure gets mixed
up .. . with issues of job security, which I
think are differeot. How the differences are
explained to the world at large is an issue
that we have to address," be said.
••tn general, Greiner said, .. it seems to
me we should be very protective of the
kinds of security and freedom from interference with regards to the ways in which
we teach and the ways we try to help people
learn. Tenure is an extraordinarily important protection."
But in the collective bargaining process,
there has to be recognition of the realistic
needs of the institution and the state for
flexibility in the ways in which they do
busiriess, be said.
''Contracting oot is not a new concept to
us," be said, noting that all auxiliary oorporations, such as FSA, are contracted oot.
"What I'd like to see is to come to an
understanding ... the state needs to have the
potential for outsourcing but we can't have
that in .~ way. that undermines academ~
tenure, he wd.
~

Nominations are being sought for 1997
Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
ominations are being sought for the
1997 Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Librarianship, Professional Service and Teaching.
These prestigious awards provide uni versily-wide recognition of superlative perronnance and outstanding achievement by
faculty and professional service employees. Recipients are individuals who embody SUNY's highest standards and who
inspire and serve as role models for the entire uni versity community.

N

Excelt-la U - l p

lnfonnation on criteria for nomination is
available from, and nominations should be
sent to. Donald Hartman, associate librarian,
Lockwood Library, 645-2818, or Jean Decker,
Central Thchnical Services, Lockwood Library. 645-2788. Deadline for completed dos-

siers is Thursday, Jan. 16. _1997.
Excelleace .. Prof• ....... Service

lofonnation on criteria for nominations,
nomination packets and detailed guidelines
is available from Christine Sauciunac, Professional Staff Senate Awards Committee
chair, 645-3544. Deadline for completed
dossiers is Thursday, J"'!. 16, 1997.
ExMI-IaT........

lnfonnation.on criteria for nominations
is available from the.Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, 255
Capen Hall. Completed nominations. including a Summary Presentation Statement, an up-t&lt;Kiate vitae and letters of support, must be received in the Office of the
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
by the close of business on Tuesday. Jan.
21. 1997.

Competition open for Weinstein Award

.....-far

Col....tltla. ....
the annual Rose Weinstein Memorial Award, sponsored by the Emeritus Center at UB. The $200 award is given for studies on aging.
The competition ii open to any undergraduate or graduase student in good standing who bas been occepled into a &lt;~epee program at the Uoivemty at Buffalo.
The project (paper, art form, technique, etc.) must be written or created onder
the supervision of a member of the faculty, and must be recommended in writing
by that faculty member to the Emeritus Award Committee not later than the last
day of Febnwy each year. The faculty supervisor of the project shall testify to the
scientific or technological validity of the project or to its aesthetic or artistic value,
depending on the calegory illto which it fits.
The project must be submitled to:
Dr. Constantine Y~. Olair
Award Committee, llawillll Center
South l..ouDp. Goodyelr Hall

Soudl CllllpCII. s - Uaiventty arBui'Calo
Bull'alo, N.Y. 14214

Center for the Arts

Pboae 829-!271

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a Winner

Areta Buchner's Holiday Biscuits take cookbook prize

hand until they are 1 creamy yellow.
Slowly add the chocollle mixture to the
eus and mix. well.
Pour the bauer into 1 areued
springform pan lined on the OUISUk with
aluminum foil. Place the p.n on 1 cookie
sheet and bake for 40-45 minulCS uocilthe
center is set. Test (Of doneneu as you
would ror pumpkin pte. It's done when a
knife inserted near the center c:omes out
clean. Dus1 with confcctioner's sugar

Q.
From OANIEL E. QA YGEH, Graduate

s - , Poycholoel'
The UB community-everybody from
A toZ (Aitma.o to Zoller--teOt recipes
to the Reporter's annual COOlell. 1be
1996 prize, • handsome cooltbook by
Giul iano Bugialli, ..Foods of Sicily and
Sardinia and the Smaller Islands" wenc
to Arell Buchner, associate profeuor
in the Educational Opportunity Center,

465 Wu hina:lon St.
Buchner, who has worked at UB for
17 years, teaches scienci in the GED
program and biology in the occupa·
tiona! degree progwn.
'This is wonderful!" Buchner s.aid
when we told her about her cookbook

award . ''Do I get a trip to Paris or
ltaly1"
Sorry. no. but we expect she'll en·
joy the book. rich in recipes and color
photos.
"I love Sicily-rvc never been to
S1cily." said Buchner, who loves to
cook, and admits that her husband and

From ARETA. BUCHNER, associate
professor, Educational Opportunity
Center
Thru tasty. colorful drop bucuiu orr
f!IISJ to malt'-f"Vt'n for tht' no1•iu! Ajrs·
tu•r touch for a holiday m~al or buffn.
thq'rt good any lim' as an ap{Mti:..a
suwd withf~it, druu, cut-up wgries
and dip. Also good ~·ith pasta, salads,
t'ntrres of most any kind y~ar-round!
The S tory Behind the Biscui ts:
"Myfri~nd Rosanna \Wfnucci un&gt;ed
thu' to my husband, Raymond, and mr
wh~n w~ visited her in BrrsciD, Italy. .Shr
found th' rtci{M in an Am~rican mqgDlin' trotulaud and so/J in Italy. Rosanna
srrv'd th e~' wilh chus~. fruit , mush ·
rooms and, ot.Mr cut-up, v~ggi~ QJid_of
course-win~!
Wh~n

I maU thur /think ofour trip.
Tlr'y mob m' drram of Italy! Th ty male'
mt' wont to go back and visit Italy!

HOLIDAY BISCUITS
(Tomato Basil Drop Biscuits)
112 cup finel y chopped onion
1 tablespoon o live oil
314 cup finely diced fresh tomato
114 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 cup chopped fresh basi l or about
1/8 cup dried basil
2 cups all-purpose fl our
I teaspoon sail
I teaspoon baking powder
1/4 to 1n teaspoon coorsely ground
fresh pepper (or regular)
113 cup vegetable shonening (lii.c:
Crisco) or margarine
213 cup milk (2 percent is fine!
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Saul~
onion in o li ve oil in small skillet o n me·
di um hc:at until tender (about se\'C:n min·
utes). Add d iced tomaiO, cook an additio nal minute with onion. Remove skillet
frum heat and sti,-i n basi l and oregano
Set o.sidc: to cool for five minu1e:s .
In bowl, milt floor with baking powder, salt and pepper. With a pastry blender
or using two knives , scissors-fashion. cut
m shortening until mixture resembles
coarse crumbs. S1ir in milk and tomatobasil mi Kiure un1il dough comes together
!dough wi ll be slicky).
Drop by heapi ng 1ablespoons. 1wo
1nchc:s apan on1o a n ungreased or Teflon
baki ng sheet. Bakt' at 425 degrees F. for
10..12 minu1es on ml(idle rack o£.oven until golden brown . Remove: 10 w1re rack 10
cool . Makes 16 biscuits .

•

and phoning up my lrlvel agent!"

___

,...,,_,

wlnnln&amp; rect,. -.d hef . .ard.
her dog "are m y guinea p igs,"
According to reviewer Michael
R omano--"ln this beautiful book,
Giuliano BugiaHi serves up exquisite=
dishes lhat evoke the siglus a nd scen1s
of Italy' s enchanted islands . After reading 'Foods of Sicily and Sardinia ' I was
tom betwun cranking up my stoves

tt'nl wr hav~ startt'd IO mokt tht'St' using
ground lurlc~y and lhry turn oul jusl as
ddiciou.s. Thru arc "~ry ~asy to molcr
and prcparation probably taku about I 5
minult'S.

BEEF AND ONION PINWHEELS
3 c ups prepared biscuil mix
(Bisquick.)
I cup milk.
1- 112 teaspoons Tab4sco. divided
(fed free to use more)
1- 112 pounds around bed or ground
turkey
I c up com flakes, crushed
I medium onion, finely chopped
2 1easpoons ult (feel free to u~ less
Or omit)
I tablespoon dried/minced onion
1 tablespoon minced parsley
I eu, sli&amp;htly beaten
To make the biscuit foundation. add
112 teaspoon Tabasco to mi lk and add to
1he biscuit mix, For added color to the
dough, add a linl~ parsley. Mix wdl.
Add aU remaining ingredien1s to the
meal, including the rest of the Tlbasco.
and mix well.
Roll dough to a rectangular sheet 10
by IS inches. Cover the surface: with thr
meat mixture . Roll as a jelly cake and cui
inlo 12 slices. Remember, the dough w ill
purr up in baking so it should be rolled
very thin. You Can a lso cui the dough in
quaners and do smaller pinwhetls to
serve a.s appetizers.
To usc immediately: Placeona~1e
sheet that has ~n sprayed wilh non-stick
spray, CUI side down, and bake in a 375 degrec oven for about 30 minutes
Serve wi th ketchup. sweet and sour
sauce, or if you are daring, a hoi sauce .
These fn:czc wonderfully for furur-c: use.
Jus1 reheat in the microwave or the oven.
To serve for breakfasl. make: them
With Bob Evans or Jimmy Dean sausage
and serve: wi1h eggs.

~
From HARVEY AXLEROD, Ch1ef Programmer Analyst, User Services , CIT

This dustrt is a rral rrowd pl~nsn t.h
wift. Rhoda, has bun maA:mg uforo\'t'r
20 ytars. This )''lJr I lrltd prrparmg If
m)·srlf. and it rrafly u a strmghtforword
rrrifH. Enjoy.'

SNOW PIE
c~st:

2 c ups graham cracker crumbs
6 tbsp. (314 stick) unsalled buuc:-r
(melted)

From CAROL M . ALTMAN, Secretary
Ill , Hearing Research laboratory

3 cups (24 oz.) IMITATION sour

This i.r a rui{M lhat my mothu crcat~d
wh~n my .ristrr.r and I wrrrjust childrtn
and has paued along 10 u.s. I rcm~mlH!r
that I did not lib th~s~ wht'n I was
yoiUigt'r. Now, llo•~ tMm. Ont' ofmy.ri.rtt'r.r /i'tl'l owt oftOK'n and t'Vt'fY time .rM
NNMS in or if som~Ott~ goes to visit ll~r,
tMre has to lH! pinwltuh. (SM is not a
cool: and Nu l'tOI allt''"l'lt'd to maA:e tlfvtt
so tither Motht'r or I how to mttU th~m
for h~r.) In thtse doys of K'Otchingfat COtl·

2 cups sifted, powdered IOx sug:u8-114 oz. can crushed pineapple
(packed in its own juice)
In cup cream of coconut
112 cup white ru m (or to taste)
Gontisll:
112 cup lhredded coconut
113 cup chopped pecans
PreheMOYCn 10 375 F. Combine aumbs
and butler in medium bowl until well

This year 's judge. Vergic Oettinger.
is a double winner of the contest from
puc years. Oettinger. who has worked
in Purchujng for more than 20 yean,
iJ a dedicated cook and recipe collector. What helped her decide on the 'best
recipe '? .. It was the ingredients ,"
Oettinger said, that attracted her to the
winning recipe-""the basil and tomato."
She aJso approved Areta Buchner's
introduction to her recipe-..S3ying wtw
it was good wilh-it made: it sound appealinc. Tomalo and basil are very eyeappealing ... Oettinger said . " And it
sounds like she has used the recipe."
The R eporter !hanks all the UB
people who took pan in th~ contesl.
We're printing as many of the entnes
as we can. As often happens, a few arrived too late for judging. Look for the
1997 contest announcement n~xt fall'
A~ta Buchner's recipe is first :

blended. Pal nuxture C\'cn inlo boctom and
sides of well gr-eased 8" springfonn pan
Bake 8 minutes until set. Re-move from
oven, and let cooJ complct.t:ly.
Combine sou r c ream, sugar. pineapple:, crc=am or coconut, and rum in a
large: bowl and beat on low s-peed of dectric: mrxc:r until well bknded. lncn=ue
speed to high ttnd continue- beuung for 3
minu1es (Towel placed over bowl will
prevent spauering.)
Pour mixture into prepared crust.
Sprinkle with COC'Of'IUI.S and nur.~ Freeze (or
6 hours until finn. L..ct Sland :u room ~m·
penrur-c: about 20 minutes befcn scrvmg.
Run s.harp knife around crust and remove
from springfonn pan. Cui pit' mto wedges
Serves 8-10.

I developed this Jttipe because we aJ ways
hive plenty of pumpk.ins left over after
Halloween. and my son loves cookies.

PUMPKIN, IIIAPI.£, OATMEAL

c-.u

1- 112 cups sifted unbleached fl our
In cup sugu
In cup real maple syrup
1n teaspoon baking soda
I teaspoon nutmeg
314 teaspoon c mnamon
112 teaspoon I IISpiCC
112 teaspoon ginger
3/4 cup shortening
2 eggs slightly bea ten
J cup pumpkin
1-3/4 cups Irish oa1mcal
112 cup chopped walnuts
112 c up r.a1.sins
Sifl flour. bakmg soda. nu1mcg. cmnamon. allsp1ce. and ginger together. C ut
m shor1enmg. D1ssolve the sugar 1n the:
maple syrup. Add eggs and stir in the: re·
maining in~ients, mix well and bake on
ungreascd cookie sheet 12- 15 minules at
350 degrees. Makes 2-3 dozen cook1es

Fr0111 KATHY GRIECO, University
residence halls

Lo.FAT CHICKEN In PHYLLO
3 whole chicken breasts, sk1nless,
bone len
Seasoned fl our with salt and pepper
3 tablespoons hght margarine
4 tablespoons sherry or other white
wine-not cooling wine
Cut chicken breasts m half and dredge
the chicken breasts in seasoned flour
Saul~ chicken 1n Iicht mqarine until
golden brown on both sides Deglu.e pan
with sherry OJ wme. scrape bouomofpan
and strAin liquid . Reserve

Ht'rr 's a rrnpr that is alk'UD u hu tmtl
10 mok~ :

~asy

SCAI.l.OPED SWEET POTATOES
WITH APPLES
4- l n tablespoons buner. d1v1dcd
2 cups sweet poca1ocs. pcdc=d.
cooked. and thinly sliced
2-3 la'l!e cooking apples. peeled.
cored and 1h1nly ~ h eed II prefer to
use G&lt;llden Deltc1ou~ for lh1~
rec1pcl
112 cup brown ~ugar, d1v1Jed
Heat oven to 350 degree\ F Grease
1-ln-quan covered ba~1ng d"h w1th 112
tablespoon buner Arrange I cup of the
pot aloes 1n an nen laytr un !he boltom
or lllc diSh. Co\'er With half the apples
Sprinkle wuh II~ cup bmwn sugar and
dot with 2 1ablespoons bullet Spnnk le
with salt. Repeal layer.. w1th rem:mung
ing~dients Bake CO\'Cfed ror '0 mmule\
Remove= CO\er and baste with JUice' m
d1sh. Bake unco,ercd 30 nunutc=s longer,
baSIC: agam Sene Makt:' 4· 6 scn•1ngs

From PAT DONOVAN, News SerVIces

Thu rrnpr ftctut~/1\ ntmt'.l fmm 11 1·muf/
pasu/ of t'lllrrl1 SHtrr~ uf Mnn who
usrtl w lk1A:r till' II' fuckt'N "I'm Chn.Jt ·
maJ llmt ami xu·r rhrm W t/1r1r :lfWCIUI
frrtnd.f It k 'U.J 1hr1r rronr-ttift 11ntl it IS
l 't'n· SfW&lt;WI- nch but nm drmt. surpru mg l1ght find ~ouffii-tsqut It romtsfrvm
a fnrnd to ..-hom thr nuns gm·, both th'
,·akr und th' rrnpr Mcausr fht' was a
gCXHI Mun x•rl. unltA:r '"'

OLD NUNS' CAKE

Filling:

I lb Stmlswcet &lt;" hocolatt'
I lb . unsalte-d buuc=r
8 eggs at room lempcr.ature
I cup hair and half
I cup sugar
21sp. vanilla

c"'""'

PrdleaJOVC'Ilto3SO~- Put all in-

gredtenu butlt'C vanilla and eggs into the
topofadoubkboilttandcook until everythin&amp; ts melted. Stir in thc: vanilla and set
the

mix~

aside to cool ror 15 minutes.
In 1 separate bowl. heal the: eqs by

LASAIINA -.&amp;All'S
I
I
I
I

lb. ,..nc~ beef
tbsp. minced onion flakes
tsp. aarHc powder
tbsp. Cftpno
I can (10-314 ounces) condensed
tomato soup
1n cup water
I can (6 ouncc:s) tomato paste
1-112 pounds ricotta chces.e
I cup (8 ounce pecb,e 1 shredckd
mouarc:lla c:hecs.c
I tbsp. pan:ley flakes
8 lasaana noodles. cooked and
dmocd
I /4 cup grated Romano cheese=
Sauc-':
In a 2-quan microwave-safe bowl usIng 1 microwave stramcr (Of a plastic one)
to fit m tht bowl, crumble ground bod
Add on1on. carhc. ~gano and mu.. Mrcrowave on H1g.h for 3 mmui.C$ . usrng a
fork. mrx and crumble ground bccf. microwave on H1gh for anolhrr 3 m1nutes
Remove and crumble mixtu~ agam Dr.un
fa1 from bowl and clean Add crumbled
mtxturc 10 bowl and stir 1n 1000p. 112 cup
of water and toiTUIIO pa~le St1r. cover and
nucruwavc on H1gh for 2-3 mmute~
Ftllmg
In a huge bowl. comb.nt' IICOIIll
cheese . mozzarella cheese and panolcy
flakes St1r and set asrdc Pat dra1ned
noodles dry wuh paper mwels On each
noodle. spread aboul 113 cup cheese fill mg Fold over I 1nch and roll up each
noodle like a Jelly-roll fosh10n Spread 2
cups or the= sauce 1n 12 by 8-1nc:h microwave-safe dish . Place rolls Starn s1de
down m dish. Spoon rema mmg sauec
over rolls. Sprinlde wnh Romano cheese=
Cover and M icrowave: on H1gh 12- 15
minute' unlil hc=ated lhrough. r01aung
dtsh IWICC l.rt stand, covered, .S mmutes
before servmg

From MOLL'Y SIDQRSKI, keyboard
specialist, Undergraduate College

An tlpfMII..,r for "rry s~rial «ruslonJ
as th' asparagus and prosr.utto tlrr
c-ostl_v-but ~-onh "'t"n· prnm• Th" k'ill
br th~ h/1 of tltr parry

ASPARAGUS 6 PROSCIUTTO
(appetizer)

Crcam soucr:
From GLORIA CALATO, office manager. Technology Transfer Services

aNI y~t Ito~ ~I"'JJ'V think 10fJ p~pa~Td
this mt':lllfor ltofln. 0#1/y totU.g Jus 1M11
JO minut~s from stan 10 pt~nU.ttN fin ·
ishrd prot:/Ju:t ON TH£ TABL£

4 tablespoons hght marganne
1 ~ 1 12 cups 2 percent or sk1m milk
demi -glaze. reserved from abuvc:
2 tablespoons light Parmesan
cheese, gnued
2 1ablespoons hght cheddar cheese-.
gra1ed
Juice from one lemon
I 1c:aspoon chopped parsley or
d lamro
Me\1 light margarine and st1r m flour
to m.akc= a roux . Cook over mediUm heat
for 4 minu1cs. Do not brown. Add dcm1·
glaz.c to milk and hcnt. add 10 roux. surring constantly. Add remammg mgredients
and stir until ~ITIOO(h and l-reamy Sci as1dc
ASSEMBLY
112 1b. phyllo
114 cup mehed hght m:ug:rnnc
Sau1h:d ch 1cken breasb
Spng of pan-Icy
Cream saucc
Lay out one shce1 of phyllo and pam1
lightly w11h mc=ltcd marganne (usc pa!oll)'
brush) Place second layer on lop and rtpnL Div1de phyllo mto th1rdJo ve n1call y.
place 2 tablespoons cre:am saucc and 112
ch1cken breast on boUon1 center uf phyllo
Fold forward o nce or tWil'C covenng
chrcken and sauce and fold tn JoldtS and
conunue rolling 10 seal
Whc=n rolled. pa1111 phyllo wtth water
ur Egg Bea1ers to seal scam and place on
cookie shee1 Repeal w11 h the other S
pteces or ch1cken L1ghtl)' p:unt the !Up
or each roll w ith Egg Beaters hrfore plal.'mg in a p~heatc=d oven of JSO dc=grttS F
for 20-25 m1nu1es or until the phyllo ll&gt;
golden brown. Remove from O\'en and
place on pla1e Top wtth heated cream
sauce and 'png of parsley Sc:n·es 6
Can bc fimshed latc=r in 1hc day but
must bc cooked thai day. Hold the sauce=
in an airtight container and refrigc=r.ace
Chicken can be frozen and used later m
lhe wec:k and thawed m the rcfngenwr

fC
From DONNA M. KING, admiSSionS
secretary, School of Information &amp;
Ubrary Studies
E"~ry Wed,uday in our houst is AtSTA
DAY!!.1!!!.' !!!! Brrausr of our busy
lifrsrylr and scMdult, itS grcDt 1o preparr a ~Mol so quick. ~azy and drlicious

12 spc;us of aspangus
6 thm slices of prost:lullo
3 ounces c~am cheese, room
lempc:nuurc112 cup gra1ed ronuna. fonunclla or
Sw1ss cheese
Wash and tnm ends or asparagu ...
1~1ace m a large= shAllow sk1lle1 wuh about
112 1nc:h hoi wate-r Cover and bml2 m•n utes. Dr.am and cool under cold water
Dr.am and pal dry.
Cui prosc• uuo shrc' 1n half lcnglh ~- ~ )C. so that each Johce produces 2 long
ftflp~ In a JomBII bowl. beat 1ogc=1hcr the
checsc!i unlil creamy. Sprrad cheese= miA·
cure on each stnp of pmsc1u1to Chreo;c Sidc rn. wrap stnp~ around ao;.pang.u ~
!itai ~ Jo 1n a ~pu:~l
Place on cook1e ~tk~l and brml ltll
pro...C iulln ~lans tu bm~ n and I) bubbl)

~
From WALTER ZOUER , Technology
Cootd1na1or. SchOol of Information &amp;
L1brary Stud1es

Thu rrl''fW htJJ ~rn /11 tilt' l.o/l,•r j omull
smct" I wus iJ ch1ld ond nt\ mothn usr•l
10 mul..' 11 uround htJittltl\ tlmt'

SOUR CREAM COFFE£ CAKE
I cup buner
2 cup!&gt; • -1 l~p 'upa1
! egg'
I ~· up ~ou r t' r&lt;'am
J f2t~p vamlla
1 cup~ nnur
lt~p balm~ JlO"'dt·r
l/-1 bp ~all
I cup r.t•s•nl&gt;
I hp cmnamon
Preheat men to 150 1- Cre-am hull t" t
Add 2 cu~ ~ugar Bcal m C!!i!' f-old m
sour cream and vamlla F11td m "lied
flour Add ha~mg po~o~.·dt"r and ~all Com
bmc remammg mgred•cnl\ m ,mall bo~ I
(r:usmmlxturel
Place 113 of 1he bauer 1n e1ther a
spn ngform or bundt pan csprayed ~ uh
Pam). Add 3/4 or !he taiSIR mu:ture
Spoon 1n ru1 of bauer Top w11h remaining ra1sin mixture (add add111onal cmnamon if desired).
Bake in oven 60 mmulc:s.
Remove from oven. cool completely.
remove rrom pan.

�BAlD TO LECTUIIE AT
UNIVEaiTY OF MEMI'IIIS
Robert E.....,., UB professor ol

oral d•agnost•c sctences and executrve d•rector lOt the Nalionat Sc•ence Foundat•on's lndustry/UmverSIIy Cooperat•ve Research Center
tor B•osurfaces at UB . w•lllecture
Feb 8 at Fogelman Execuuve Cen ter The Untversl!y of Memphts. on
B•omtnerahzatton of StiiCone and
Srhca Subslrata
· The canter wtll add a fourth performance Site The Untverslly ot M1·
amt to mtegrate then tndustry part ners and spec•al sk•lls '" cardtovasc utar/ heart valve research wtth the
c ur rent three untverSlly streng ths ot
Otoceramtcs (Allred) btoengtneenng
{Memphts) and b•ornatenats (Buttate) Ba•er notes

BREVERMAN PLANS SERIES
OF EXHIBnS, LECTURES
H•rv•y Brevertna~n , US professor of aft plans a busy schedule ot
lec tures and exhibtts dunng 1997
Among Breverman·s 1997 sok&gt;
shows Kalamazoo Institute o t Art
(Punts and Monotypes) Jan 4 -Feb
3 where Braverman w11l JUry the
museum's regtonal exh1bttton and
g1ve a publ1c lec ture at Kalamazoo
College Buller lnsttlute ol Amencan
Art (Painting and Draw1ng Survey)
March 2-Apnl 13
Also Btnghamton Untvers1ty Art
Museum (Orawtngs Ntghtworks
and other works) March 14-Apnl 11 ,
where Bre\terman wtlllec ture under
!he aegis ol the Roselsky V1s1t1ng
Arllst Lecture Senes. Yeshtva Umverstly Museum. New York C•ty,
(Mystery o f A Prayer Shawl Senes)
March 16-July, Mtlton Wetll Gallery.
92nd St . New York Ctty, {The
Federman Cycte) March 31-May 8
Braverman wtll also represent
the Uniled States 10 the "lnternattonal Pnnt Tnenmat '97-Cracow·
open1ng June 20 at Palac Sztuk1.
He 1S developtng the Expenmen tal Pnnt lmag1ng Center {EPIC) at
UB w1th Adele Henderson, asSIStant professor of art . and
..l•ff•ry She.rw•n, pnntmaktng
technic1an. as part of the
pnntmaktng program at UB

MUSA HAKIM IS VISmNG
ASSIITANT UBRARIAN
Mu. . A. H•klm was appotnted
v•sillng asststant libranan follow1ng
a national search to select the

1995-1998 hbrary restdent lor the
Library Residency Program The
program, sponSOfed by the UniverSity Ubranes. is a natiOnally recognized diversity effort aimed at rec ruiting Afncan Americans. HISpaniC Amencans and Nattve Amencans to the profession ol academic
hbrananshlp The piogram is supported 1n part by the DIVISIOn of Student Affairs
Dunng hiS two-year reSidency at
UB. Hakim will be responsible lor
providing reference services , library
Instruction . colleclion development
and research. His subject expertise
•s Afnc an history with 'B focus on
West Alnc an oral tradiUons.
Pnor to receiVing his master's
degree 10 hbrary sctence , Hakim
earned a B Sc from Buffalo State
College From 1985- 1987, he pursued a graduate degree in hiStory
at Dan Fod10 Umversity tn Sokoto,
Ntgena
Hak1m has taught at the Haltru
Abu Teachers College 1n Sokoto and
lor the Buffalo Board of Educat100.
where he served as a cumculum
consultant to rts Alncan-Amencan
Htstory Curnculum lnlusiOO PrOJ8CI

CHAIR
C-MISSIONON
PHARMACY EDUCATION

~TO

David ..1. Trlggle, dean of Lhe
Graduate School and VJCe provost
for graduate edu·
catJon at UB, has
been appotnled
by the Ainerican
Association ol
Colleges of f'tlar.
macy to chair a
new Commission
on the Future of
TRICIQLE
Graduate EducatiOn in the Pharmaceutical Sc~nces
The new comrrussion will ad·
dress questions about the future
need for doctoral graduates in the
pharmaceutical sciences and ways
to monitor supply and demand ; the
appropriate skills needed by doctoral graduates to maintain productiVIty in a multidiSCiplinary sctentiftc
environment . and the nature ol the
education doctoral students requtre
to achte¥e those skills .
A SUNY Distinguished Professor
•n the Department of 810ChemiC81
Pharmacology and former dean of
the UB School of Pharmacy. Triggle
JOined the US faculty 1n 1962. He
served as chair of the Department ol

$200,000 Gin TO SUPPORT
UB PHARMACY SCHOOL
The UB SchOOl of Pharmacy has received a $200.000 bequest from
the late Wtlham M . Palmer Jr.. a 1959 graduate of the school who entered the pharmacy program as a nontraditional student at age 37
The g 1ft w~s des1gnated for current unrestricted use by the school
Wayne Anderson . intenm dean of the School of Pharmacy, satd .
'Mr Palmer's g1ll allows the pharmacy school to create and ma1nta1n
quality programs lor students and to run programs that might otherWISe have been discontinued •
Jean Bartow. Palmer's SISter. commended her brother for help1ng
the pharmacy school Palmer. who d1ed in 1995. apprec1ated the
educauon he recetved . Bartow added , and mak1ng the bequest was
h1s way of thanktng UB lor tus exceptional education and ass1sl!ng
h1m 1n reahz1ng h1s professional goals
Palmer 's other surviv1ng sister, Billie Rene Page . sa1d , ·rm glad he
IS help1ng the school It 1S an unsell1sh gesture to aSSISt others. espeCialty those 1n h1gher 'Bducauon •
A nauve of Buffalo. 'Palmer served as a ptiOtln the U S Atr Forc e
dunng World War II and the Korean War When he returned to Buffalo . he entered the US pharmacy school . where he rece1ved the
1956 Rodge r J Cologgt Memonal Award and the 1957 Rho Ch1
Award After completing the pharmacy program . Palmer prac ticed
pharmac y 1n Warsaw, N Y . and later 1n Olean . where he l1ved through
most ol hiS ret1rement
UB has been a part of the Palmer lam11y for many years sa1d
Bartow. whose husband and two daughters also are UB alums The
Palmers· roother. Irene. who d1ed 1n 1988, served as manager of the
UB Faculty Club unhl she reured at age 79 She later was honored lor
her years ol dedtcauon to UB wtth the naming ol the Palmer Room 1n
the faculty c lub prevtOUsly located m Hamman Hall on the South
Campus

Boochemcal Pharmacology from
1971-85. when he was named dean
Triggte~ internationally recogmzed research focuses on how
drugs Interact w ith cak:ium channels . cellular mechanisms that regulate the entry of calcium when
st1mulated . He has conducted pioneenng research into the action ol
cak:ium-channet anta9orusts 1n the
cardiOVascular system and studteS
calc1um channels and agtng
Tnggle has served on numerous
internal and external committees relating to pharmacy and health-SCIences curricula and the future of
graduate programs in general.
A fellow of the Amertcan Assoc iatiOn for lhe Ac:Nancement of Sctence and chair of 11s Pharmaceuttcal Sciences Section, Triggle ts a
member of numerous professiOnal
soc.aUes. He serves on many ed,tonal boards and recently started h1s
own trade magaz1ne. Pharmaceutical News, of which he is editor
Among hts numerous honors . he
has rece1ved the Ouo Krayer Award
tn Pharmacok)gy from the Amerk&gt;an
Soctety lor PharmacokJgy and Experimental TherapeutiCS and the
VoMtler Researc h Achtevement
Award of the Amenc an Association
olthe College of Pharmacy
A native of London. England .
Triggle received a doctorate in
chemistry from the Umvers1ty ol Hull
and a bachelor's degree !rom the
Umversity of Southampton

MFCOFFDS..IN AIICHmCTURE
The Uni¥ersity at Buffalo has reopened Its evening undergraduate
program leading to a bachelor of
professional studies degree (BPS)
tn architecture. The program Is offered through M1llard Fillmore College. UB's evening diVISIOn
The UB School ol Architecture
and Planning suspended the program lor two years in order to restructure its course requirements to
bring them more closely in line with
those of the day program.
"We've offered the evening baccalaureate program in architecture
since the School of Alchitecture
opened in 1970, • noted Elizabeth
Cromley. cha~r of the Department ol
Architecture. "As a matter of fact .
the school opened with an eventng
program
·what we've done here 1s 1ncrease the des1gn-stud10 requirements from eight to 12 hours a
week.· she said . "This enhances
the quality of the BPS degree offered through the evening division
and ensures that its students graduate with ¥1rtually the same program
as those 1n the day school.·
For more information, contact
Millard Fillmore College at 829-2202

NEW UB SAFETY OFFICERS
C-PLETE TIIAINING .
Four members of the UB Depart·
ment of Pubhc Safety were among
29 new State Un1verstty of New York
safety offtcers who recently completed a spec1al tra1n1ng program
held at the New York State Police
Academy 1n Albany
The lour hmshed a 15-week program that focused on administration
Of JUStiCe. baSIC law. campus-police
procedures. hrearms. defenstve
taCtiCS . cflm1nal ~nvesugattOOs , spectal patrol tOPICS and human relations •n a campus setting
The four are
Amy Pedlow, who has been
with the UB department for the past
year She was formerly a security
offiCer w1th Protection Technology
and attended Buffalo State College.
majoung 1n elementary education.
Tim ThompHn, who jotned
the US department in February. He
has been employed by Fay's Drugs,
J.C. Penney and Mercy Hospital.

CIANCIO~

AWAJID.WINNINCI ARTICLE
A sctentific artlckt co-authored by Sebast._, G. Ciancio, professor
and cha~r of the Department of Periodontok&gt;gy in the UB School of
Dental Medtcine, recenUy won lhe annual
Clinical Research Award from Quintessence
Pubfish;ng Co.
The award honors an outstanding put;
lished scientiftc manuscript having dtrect
clinical re~ance and appfication to the
pract;ce of periodontics.
The arttcle , co-authored by UmverSity of
Oslo researchers Hans S. Preus, Jorgen
Lassen and Anne M . Aass. describes the
efficacy of the antlbiottc minocycline on
speciftc bacteria associated with periooontaJ diseases.
Ciancio, a US dental graduate. IS recognized naUonalty fOf his research on prescription and over- the~ter
products and dental aids for improvtng Ofal heatth . especialty 10 the
area of penodontal (gum) dtsease.
He has been Included in the 1997-98 edition of •Who's Who 1n
Medicine and Healthcare •

He has an assoc~&amp;te 's degree tn
cnminal justice from Ene CommuMyCollege.
Clv-t. hrtokNIMI, who pned
the UB department in May and
holds a bachelor's degree from Buf·

lalo Stale College .

Chrta W'ard, who earned a
bachelor's degree 1n phys1cal edu ·
cation from SUNY Brockport and an
associate's degree in liberal arts
and social sciences from Tompkins
Cortland CommuMy College. He
jo;ned the UB clepanmentln May

ITHIIEJI HEADS
SCIUICUAWMNI

- n K . ' " - has been
elected president of the board ol directors of the Sciences Alumni As·
sociation of the UB Faculty of Natural Scteoces and Mathematics for
the 1996-97 academic year.
Stegner is a branch manager !Of
the Site Remediation Division of Water Technology International Cofp .
Martha M . Harris. an attorney
with Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C ., will
continue as secretary/treasurer.
Newly appo;nted 10 the board
for a three-year term is Witliam F
Sullivan, a seniof chemist at
Calspan SAL Corp.
Appointed as committee chairs
are Nancy Markwart , nominations:
Ted A. Badura, membership: Stuart
D. Gossels . programming , and Joseph F. Ceravolo, networking .
Continuing members of the
board are Patricia M. Costanzo,

Mary E. Stock. John R. Tibbells and
Howard rteekelmann.
The Sciences Alumni Associ&amp;·
uon Is a multidisciplinary group affiliated with the Faculty of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, which
comprises the departments of B iological Sciences, Chemistry. Computer Science. Geology. MathematICS and Physics. It is a constituent
group of the UB Alumm AssociatiOn.

WELCH' S -

RECEIVES

HA-L-

A book written by Claude E.
W•lch ..lr., SUNY Distinguished
Service Professor in the Department
of Polihcal Science at UB. has been
recognized for special honors by
flHO major national organizations .

WeiCh's t995 bOOk. Pro/OCIIfl!l
Human Rights in Alrk;s: Roles and
Sl!ategies ol Non-

Govemmental Or·
ganizations, has

,._,....._,. b8en selected as

a finalist fa the
aMUall-lerskOYitS
award by the Aln-

can Studies Association (ASA). The
award ts Pf&amp;senled annually 10 111e authOr of whal
IS judged the outstanding anginal
wort&lt; published on Afr;ce ;n English
during the preceding year. lhe winner witt be announced at the annual

ASA meeting eaity In December
The Amer;cen Ubrary Assoclatk&gt;n. publisher of Choice. has selected Welch's bOOk as one of the
.OUlSianding acader1W: - · of
the year; the s81ection will be annoonced;, the January 1997 Oisue.

This ;, the second Ume Welch has
been on that elite tist-his 1984 ed~ed bOOk. Human Rights and I:JIMll.

opment in Africa. was also selected
A UB faculty member since
t964 , Wek;h has written extensrvety
on Africa. human rights and the political roles of armed forces.
Welch earned a bachelor's degree In government from Harvard
Umversity and a doctoral degree
from Oxford University.

US's Launch ChaptBf of Mortar

Board has been named a Chapler
of Excellenc&lt;: by the National Coon·
ell lor the 1995-96 academic year.
The U~ chapter. recognized for its
programming which serves concerns of the university and k&gt;cal
community, its visibility on campus
and communfcation among members , will receive a certiiicate and
wtll be hsted tn an honor roll •n The
Forum. the organ•zatK&gt;n's natiONll
pubhcahon.
An Ofganllallon governed by
students for roore than 75 years.
Mortar Board Is a nat.anal honor soctety of c~lege sen!Ofs recogn1zed
lor their superior scholarship. out·
standing leadership and dechcated
service to the universny commumty

�......

• auu.s auT auZZDI,
-.viDn'UIIa

e ROYALS ROU. PAST
I.OUISVIU.E

Rasaun YOl.flQ-i&gt;IOil6!Jed lhe Bulls pas1 51.
llonavenlu&lt;e ~ on SaltJrday al Marine
Midland Alena, gMlg UB a sweep Ol9f Big
Four~- The win nlOII9d lhe Bulls IO
3-21aki1g !heir ltree wins in dramalic fashion.
Kenny McFarland's layup with 5.1 seconds gave 51. Bonavenlue a 67~ lead.
Young !hen look lhe inbounds pass, headed
up lhe court artd SlOPped 25 feel from lhe
baskal, double-pumped artd let loose a shot
!hal found lhe hoOP as lhe final buzzer
sounded. UB had rallied for lhe win aher faHong behind lhe Bonnies by eighl po;nts with a
minute remaining.
It was the second time 10 a week that the
Bulls pulled out a win on the final shot. Mike
Martinhci nailed a three-pointer to defeat
Niagara 78-77 the pr8Vl0Us Saturday.
Martinho's 22 led lhe Bulls while Young
was the only other UB player in double figures with 19. Robert Harris added eight
points and eight rebounds while Zaid Alkhas
also pulled down eight boards in just ten minutes of WOfk
~we wanted to go to double overture, but
Rasaun ruined 11. He was supposed to go to

The University al Buhalo women's basketball
learn recorded one of lhe biggest wins in
school history by erasing a five-point second
haH defoclt with a 22-0 run to defeat L.cuisville. 67-49, on Sunday ahernoon al Alumni
Arena.
The Royals used a malchup zone to confound Louisville artd hald lhe Lady Cardinals
to !heir lowest po;m IOta! since a 65-51 loss
to Illinois on Dec. 5, 1992. The win also
et'asad a 91-421oss lo Louisville two seasons
ago, UB head coach Sal Buscaglia's WO&lt;SI
loss as a head coach.
"A win like this means ~ing for us,·
said Buscaglia after his learn improved to 40 for lhe first time since the 1982-83 season.
"ll's these types of wins that help a program
climb lo another level . Louisville almost beal
Vartderbih (63-60)---which is ranked in lhe
TOP 20--artd IO beat a learn that's been IO
lhe NCAAs artd beat lhem lhe way we did.
we're ecstatic about it.·
The Royals - e Jed by Brenna Doty's t9
poiniS--17 of lhem ahet' intermission-while
Catherine Jacob had 1t po;nls, seven assists and two steals. LaToya Crumpton
added 10 points and five rebounds while

Anolhef buzzer bealer-1his lime by junio&lt;

the

basket. ~

joked UB head coach nm
Cohane. He then looked at Young and

cracked, "Follow the play neX1 time *
"A guy was coming towards me. so 1
made an up-fake,· said Young "I JUSt put 11

I
\

up and hoped 11 went 1n "
Earher 10 the week, the Bulls erased a
double-digit deficit to defeat Canistus 53-50
belore over 4,CXXJ lans at Alumnt Arena.
Marlinho's 15 points and three trey led the
Bulls. Young added 14tncluding an 8-ol-10
performance from the lree throw line. Harrts

grabbed a game-l1igh 10 rebounds artd
added 10 poonts.
Aher the Bulls' Manne Mtdland Arena cant test with Syracuse. UB returns to Alumnt
Arena to take on Morgan State on Friday,
Dec t3 for a 7·30 p.m topoH

LeUers
UB sports build pri de
in the university
Kudos to Nelson Townsend hi s stuff in bringing UB Athletics to the foregrou nd nnd crea ti ng a pride in UB. I on ly t.ake exception to the
fact that you state that no one is brugging
about UB at the watercooler. Not onl y do I
brag about US at the watercooler. I al so take
pleasure in posting messages on the Internet
bragging about UB athletics.
Some friends (evtn those who arc UB
gmds) think that I am nuts in how I brag about
UB. But I will have the last laugh knowing
that I have been supponing the Bu lls and Royals from the beginning. I take great pleasure in
the fact that J stood in a store in a mall in Orange County, N.Y., last weekend watching
most of the US-Niagara game on Direct TV in
a store. It was even more fun ts hear the wi nning shot on the radio driving home. You
should let everyone know that the Bull s can be
heard for all of their games on WWKB 1520AM . With the 50,000 watt signal at night the
station can be picked pretty clearly in the New
York City area (as well as probably well into
the Midwest) at night. Some of the games can
also be seen on Channel 3 13 on Direct TV
uround the nation.
I also tty to post messages around the
Internet about UB athletics. Last March I got
into a running debate with a student at CuiBe rkeley over who hud beuer teams and academics. Naturally I pointed out that Berkeley
was o nly the " Buffal o of the West." and a
poor imitation at best.
If people start watching and li ste ning to
the Bull s they will begin to talk about the
Bulls and Royals around the watercooler and
evecywherc else.
Go Bulls!!! !! !!!! Go Royals!!!!!!!!!!

-AUIIIALJEII
UB 1980
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Nicole Blakeslee led the Royals with etght rebound s.
The Royals turned the game around 1n the
second haH with a matchup zone that hm1ted
the Cardinals 10 33 percent shooting for lhe
game and held them without a point for 7 ·44
in the second half in the decisive ralty Trail-

ong 31-26, Buhalo look the lead for good on
a trey by Doty, a lhree-poonl play by Jacob
and straight baskets by Chanssa Gardner
· A matchup zone is very diffiCut to do because you have to have real commumcation
and locus,· said Buscaglia "That was the
best matchup zone we've run since I've
been here and I thtnk that really helped us
win the ballgame •
UB also handled Loutsvi!Je's pressure defense--which forced 13 hrst-half turnoversrTli.Jctl bener in the second half. turmng 11
over JUSt seven trmes and drshrng out 20 asSISts lor the game.
·we made some adJustments to stop therr
trap from being etlecttve and were very active on the boards." satd Buscaglia WI was
very happy wtlh the reboundtng totals (41-40
Loursvtlle): I thought Ntcole Blakeslee played
an outstandtng game w
Earlter tn the week. Ktm Coon's careerbest 26 potnts, rncludrng 18 rn the hrst hall.
powered the Royals past Srena 85· 71 on

7

Dec 4 Doty, playmg on front of her hometown
fans. scored t 7 poonts Jacob added 15
points artd Gardner took reboundong honors
wrth eight
Aher lheor Mod-Contonent Conference
OPener willl Central ConnectiCUt State at Marone Modland Arena on Dec 10. lhe Royals
travel to Syracuse fO&lt; a Dec 2 t contest and
partocipale in lhe 5I. Joseph's Hawl&lt;s Ciassoc
on Dec. 28-29 facing powerful Kansas rn the
first round.

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MEN'S SWIMMING

The Bulls traveled to the Notre Dame lnvuational Ol9f lhe weel&lt;end, where they compelad against some of lhe stiffest compelnoon
lhey have faced all season.
UB picked up w;tories from freshman
Dan Hickey in the 200 freestyle. wrnntng the
race 10 1:40.92, JUSt a hatf second off the
meet record. Korry Miller again was V'Cton-

ous in lhe backstroke, tal&lt;ing the

100-yard
event in 52.06. Marl&lt; Horgan placed second
in the 500 free in 4:39.62. with Hockey takong
third in 4:41 .82.

Coach Budd Termln's squad f'ICN takes
the exam and winter break off as they prepare for their next meet. a Jan 4 date wllh
Canisius at 1:00 p .m.

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WOMEN'S SWIMMING

Coach Dorsi Raynolds' Royals finished th1rd at
last weekend's Eastern Michigan lnVJtahonal
Denison edged Oakland University for lhe
922.5-900.5, while lhe Royals were next at
67 t 5. ahead of lhe host Eagles' 52 t 5 poonts
Andrea Skillman recorded a second place
hn1Sh rn the 3-meter diving competition Wtth
4 11 45 points Martie OuHen was second in
the 400 lnd1vidual Medley in 4 :39.67
Alexandra Barrera was thtrd in the 1650

freestyle on t7.57 96
The Royals are oow oH untrl Jan t 1 when
lhey travel to lhe Sun Ciassoc lnvotational UB
hosts CantSIUS tn their next dual meet actJon

on Jan. 18

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INDOOR tRACK 6 FIELD

UB's men's artd women's ondoor trad&lt; and
foeld squads OPened their t996-97 seasoo on
Saturday Wtth

some strong performances at

lhe Corneil Relays
Two Royals set schoof records at
Saturday's event Ruth Conlon. who transferred lrom V.rgirWa Cornrnorrwealth, shattered
lhe schoof record and reached a provosoonal
qualifying distance in wonnong the 20-pound
weoghllllrow al 5 t -6 The prevooos marl&lt; was
set I~ season wtth a toss of 39-6.75 Terry
Scherne also set a school record lor the Royals wonnong lhe long 1ump at 18-2 5
For the Bulls, the quanet of Man Streng.
Ryan Candoa. Spencer Belt and Geoff Warlock combtned to take the 1600 relay •n 3 24
Both teams now take the rest of the month
off and return to actiOn Jan 10 at Western
OntariO

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WRESTUNG

The Bulls lrntshed second of 13 schools at
the RIT lnVJtatiOI'lal 0\fer the weekend UB
scored l 34 5 total PQints to hrst place Kent
State's 155
Three Bulls earned l~rst -place hntshes as
Jason Warttnger at 126 pounds John
Stutzman at 150 and Enc Gross at 177 each
took 1ndrv~dual trtles wtth perfect 4-0 markS
Brian Schaal earned a second-place ltntsh
fallrng 1n the finals of the 1 18 pound class
UB IS back rn actron on Dec 29 and 30 at
the Sunshtne Open tn Ft Lauderdale. Florrda
- Ted Wasko. Sports Information Off1ce

UPCOMING HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
FIIIDAY, O.C. !:il

Men's SwimminQ vs N;;a;ra

Alumnt Arena Natatonum. 6 p m

Men's Basketball vs Maio-an State

Alumn• Arena. 7 30 p m
TUESDAY, D£C. 31

Women's Basketball vs Marshall

at Villa Mana College 2 p m

THURSDAY, .IAN. 2

vs Armv
SATURDAY, .IAN.
Men's Basketball vs Central ConnectiCut State
Men's Swunmtno vs CantSius
Women's Basketball

Alumnr Arena . 7 p m
4
Alumnt Arena 1 p m

Alumn• Arena Natatonum lpm

SUNDAY,' .IAN. 5
Wresthng vs Rtder

Alumnt Arena . 2 p m
SATURDAY, .IAN. 11
Men's SwiiTVTirna vs Marytand-Balttmore County
Alumnt Arena Natatortum 2 p m
Women's Basketball vs Mtssoun-Kansas C•ty
Alumnt Arena. 6 p m
Men's Basketballvs Mtssoun-Kansas Ctty
Alumn1 Arena. 8 15 p m
MONDAY, JAN. 13
Women's Basketball vs Trov State
Men's Basketball vs TrOy State

Atumnt Arena . 5 30 p m
Atumn1 Arena 7 50 p m

UB to host wcnshop on Clean Water/Clean Air bond act
By SUE WUETCHER
News Servrces Assocrate Director

R

EPRES ENTATIVES from muni c ipalitie s throughout W estern

New York w ill gather on Dec . 18

at UB to learn more about acquiring fundi ng for project s through the New

York Clean Water/Clean Air B ond Act that
was approved by voters in November.

The workshop will be held from 8 a.m.

ron mental needs i n their communitu!.!&lt;.," !'t&lt;t td
John Sheffer. in terim vice pres1dent for putr
lie serv ice and urban affairs at U B .
The workshop will bring together repre se ntative s of the state D epartment of
Environment al Co nse rvation. legislative
representatives. area profess ional:, and
o ther ex pens to help municipalitie s ant icipate the processes and reg ul ation!&lt;. bcmg
developed in Albany t o implement the

to I p .m . in the Center fo r Tomorrow on

$1.75 billion bond act.

the UB North Campu s. Sponsored by U B' s

B President Willi &lt;~m R . G re tna noted
th at the bond act wor ~ shop is an o utgrow th of rece nt universi t y partnersh1ps
wit hin Western New Yor~ .
"We think UB can be-and has to bea resource and partner for o ur region ...
Gre1 ner sa id. ··ou r Govcrnan,·c ProJeCt
an nounced a major serie!:l of partnerships
thi s past Februaf) . Th1s works hop is part
of that context. and part of the previous
work of our I nsti tute o f Government to help
Western New York leade rs keep pace with
curren t iss u e~ .
" A' a public umversity. UB has an ob li ~
ga11on to make new i nfonnation and per·
specu vc:s available to ou r neighbors, andespecially to area government leaders," he
said. " The bond act workshop is o ne way to
do thut. Over the nex t few years, the G overnance Project and Institute of Government
aJso will offer o ther training sess ions for
local government and school officials on a
wide range of government topics."

Governance Projec t and ·its I nstitute of
Government, it is geared toward mun icipal officials in Erie, Niagara. Genesee.

Cattamugus, Chautauqua. Allega ny. Orleans, Wyoming and Livingsto n counties.

" Our goal ( in sponsoring the workshop)
is to help Western New York localit ies position themselves to take advantage of bond
act funding and to address pressi ng envi-

U

Sheffer sai d that UB soon will announce

the aw&lt;trdmg of several grant.., for collabor:.l li vc proJech betwe£!n area ... chool dl' tricts. or between school di,tncb and mu nic~alitie.!&lt;. . He added th;.lt !&lt;tlate Sen. Mat)
Lou Rath, R - WiJiiamwill c. c hair of the
Se nate Commi ttee o n Local Governmenb.
has been of "g reat assi stance" in support ing that effort . " M an) new collaboration:.
are springing up a~ a rc!&lt;tult of all the atten tion to i S!&lt;t UC!&lt;t of governam:e '" the reg1nn
over the past year or two ... Sheffer s:ud
''Those of us at the universrt y ha ve rece1ved
a clear signa l from Bill Gretner that we
should participate in th o~e collaboratton'
in every way that we can . The bond aJ..·I
workshop and the grant program are t\\O
of the ways m which 'NC arc pun.uing lh &lt;~t

goal."

OBITUARIES
Edward J . Kroll, UB
laboratory mechanician
Funeral servtces were held Nov 30 •n St Jonn
Gualbert Church lOt Ed"Nard J Kroll a laDOra
lory mechamc•an 1n the UB B•ology Depart
ment Kroll dted Nov 26 alter a shOn Illness
Kroll . who worked at UB lot 27 years
ret1red 1n 1994 · Edd1e." as he was known w•ll
always be remembered lOt hts keen attention
to detatl and spec1hcat10n accordtng 10
M~ehael S Hudeckt research assoc1ate professor Oepanment of B.olog1cal Sc•ences
A veteran of World War II and Ule Korean
confhct. Kroll was a member of Adam
Plewack• Amencan LegiOn Post No 799

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T~n n is

It's the Bulls vs. Niagara
on Dec. 13 In Alumni
Arena NatatO&lt;ium on the
North Campus.

Clinic. Al umm Arena.

North Campos 9 a m

FI,.._IIIIAid

PrLoan Couruwli n g, for Decrmhc: r 1996 g raduates and oon-returnmg scucknts w ith nutstand-

mg Dtrect Student Loans.
Sut rford . Perkins and/or Health
Profess tons loons 330 Scude nt
U mon Nonh C ampus

Feb. 1 for wbmiJsion or proposals to the Off~tt of lbe: VICC
President for- Research. Ou.idelines are available rrom the of·
6ce, 516Capen Hall. North
Campus. or by cal1ina64s-

l30 p.m
Envlr__.ntal

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EIICJneeri..,- Science

Environment Rtmcdl•tion:
Scienee or Rqulat lon Drh·en?
Dr John S mtih. 140 Ke ller
Nurth Campus II a.m
EcOIMNIIIca .._....,.
lffiMtin&amp; Structural Changr
in GA RCH Modds and Mta·
~uri n g lt.J E R'td on Ptnisltnce in Volatility, Prof Yong
Ym 41 4 Froncz.a k Non h Cum pus 3 p ru

iJB CouiM:II MMU..,

TM Ropot"ter publlMH W:.tlnp for ennta

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takJnC pl8ce on c....-, or for off.camPut .....t:a...,. ue c:rouJII . . ~ .,..._., U.t·

d!.te no iftef thM noon on the Th~ prececlnC pubtic:.ation. Add,...a entries to Roportef ~ C~, 138 Crof'b,
(repclllepub..buffalo.edu). OUt FAX,....._ Ill 1415-3715.

tival Orc.hestn and Choru.!l,
C ha uta uqua C hildnn 's Chorale, Doug las Wendt. conduc tor.
M:unstage. Center for the Ans .
Nonh Campus. 7:30 p.m. $ 9 ,
Sl l , $ 14, $1 6. Presented by the
Christi an Foundation for the
Performing Ans. Fo r ticke ls.
call 645-ARTS .

Cblklren and Adotaunts.
Tom Mazur and Pauicia
Michael. Ca fec orium A, Mercy
Hospical. 8:30a.m.

Pedlatrlc:-Rou-

TI'8Cit

-Folk

Congcnilal Lun&amp; Malformat ions, James Gilbert. M.D.
Kinch Audi1orium. Children 's

Trad1. Meet. Alumni Arena.

Track l\1etl. Alumm Arena
North Campus. 4 p.m

llospilal . Sa.m

Int......._ TIM _ _
LectvreSertee
Ten lnte:malional Visual
Artists on I he S tage, Kun
Ko rnacki . Screening Room,
Center fo r the Ans. No nh Campus. J p.m. Free.

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Jm.r..tJonal Folk
Holiday Party. All levels . 2
Diefendorf. South Campus. 8- 11
p.m. Frtt . Sponsored by Graduate Student Association.

Western Nt.W York Indoor

Me ole
The Glory ofCbrit:tmu-Festlval Orchestra and Chorus.
C hautauqua Chlldrtn's Chonk, Douglas Wendt, conductor.
Mainsllge . Center for the Ans.
Nonh Campus. 3 and 7:30p.m.
$9. Sri . $14,$16. ~sented by
the Christian Foundation for the
Pc:rfonning Ans For tickets,
call 645-ARTS .

North Campus. 4 p.m.
~

Alleyway Tbeatrr'a "A C hristmas Carol'" by Cbarlt.s
Dickens. Rockwell Hall. Buffalo Stale College. 8 p.m. $10,
$15 , $20. Co-sponJOrcd by
WBFO.

Hulls vs. Niagara. Alumm
Arena Natnlorium. Nonh Ca m-

pus. 6 p.m.

Bulls vs. Morgan State.
Alumn i Arena. Nonh Campus.

7:30p.m.

Muale
The G lory of Christmu-FH-

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Fourth Annual Winter Confer-ence-Sp«:ial Populalioru: as
Consumers: Client Fudbaek
on Alcohol and Other Dn~g
Abuse Servicts. Center for Tomorrow. North Ca mpus. TBA.
Sponsored by Institute for Addictions Studies and Training. For information. call
645 -6140.

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Gt.ne:lic and BioC-hemical AnalysiJ of Yeast
RNA ?olyattra..te IJ
TraDSCriplion, Dr. Fred

Poncicelli. Biochemistry. 134B Farber. South
Campus.
4p.m.

P..--RouThe Year in Review. Kinch Audicorium. Children's Hospical .
8 a.m.

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AU kvels. 2 Diefendorf. Sooth
Campus . 8-11 p.m. Fr«. Sponsored by Graduate SIUdent Associal ion.

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C hlnew Mountalnxape ArU.i-ledure. Phocographs by John
Valentino. text by Beverly foil Albert. James Dyett Gallery.
334 Hayes. Souch Campus. 9
a.m. Throu&amp;h Feb. 21. Gallery
hours 9 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayFriday

ThNter
Alkyway Theatre's "A Christmu Carol" by Charles
Dkbns. Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College. 8 p.m. $1 0.
$15. $20. Co-sponsored by
WBFO.

SAT21
. ... . . .

-

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C ellular Mecbanb:ms or Pep-tide Chain Foklinaand Transmembrane Pusaae: A Revlnt&lt;
of Recut DeVc&amp;opme:nts,
Gabor MarkUs. M.D., Biochemistry. Kil'('hhofer Room. RPCI.
!2:30p.m.

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ThNter

Alleyway Theatre'• .. A Christ·
ma5 Carol" by Charles
Dkkens. Rockwell Hall, Buffal o S tate College. S and 8 p.m.
S I0. S 15, $20. Co-sponsored by
WBFO.

H...... ~ ...

A dult and Pediatric CPR
lrainlna. Location to be announced. 4--8 p.m. Prc.Knted b)'
School of Nursing. For informa-

tio n. c:all829-3291 .

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The lalemet u • n.cldna

Addreu:in&amp;IM Sexuality of

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SEE "A CHRISTMAS
CAROL,"ID be-

Dec.19-21 •

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ColoiL W8R)

IMM!oC

AU ~ve:k. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Spon·
sored by Graduate Student Associal ion.

Tool, Kenmcn leachen. 170
Millard Fillmore Academic Cen·
ter, Elliron. North Campu.s.- 7:30
p.m. $20 for the series. To reais-ter, call 64S-6800, ext 2020.

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bcdStalf

Co.•u.abtioD SkWL Lunch
included. Dakota Grill, -4224

C ommunity sinaers arr invited
10 join students in the Uni'lttlity

Maple. Noon-2 p.m. SIO. For
infonnation, call Professional
Scaff Senate. 645-2003.

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sity Symphony, and Rheiobefler's "'Stabat Mater" 10 be
pruented on a March 13
propam with nrpn.. Harriet
Simons is director. Rebeanals
are Tuesdays and Thursdays
&amp;om 5:30-7:20 p.DL in Baird
Recital HaJI oa the North
Campus. The first re.heanal is
Jan. 21.

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Stair ~lol&lt; (SlAJ·UIIiver·
sity Facilities, Postina tP-60:55.
Stair Aooodole {SIA)-C.....for lbe Aru., Postina MP-60S6.

w..tenoiNiwY-

TrKk
Wutern New York Indoor
Track Mee:L Alumni Arena.
No rth Campus. 4 p.m.

Track
Wrslt'rn Nrw \ 'ork Indoor

----t&lt;l3321.

CboNs for the: sprina JemeSCet.
Worts to be rehearsed include
Haydn'a "'Creation'" ror performance May 2 with the Uaiver-

ScfeMe Fonl• Lecbtre
Utln&amp;IM lnlernet, Fred Stoss.
Ph.D.. Science and Engineering
Library. 170 Millard Fillmore
Academic Cenu~r. Ellicott.
Nonh Campus. 7:30p.m. S20
for the series. To reaister. call
64S-6800, ext. 2020.

Cou ncil Room, 505 Capen
North C am pu.~o 3 30 p m

Of

YChinese Mountainscape Architecture." an exhibit of photographs by John Vakntino with
text by Beverly Foii· Aiben.
opens Jan. 13 and continues
throuJb Feb. 21 in the School of
Architecture and Planning 's
James Dyctt Gallery. 334 Hayes
Hall, South Campus . Gallery
hours aR: 9 a.m.-S p.m. Monday
throuah Friday.

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An exhibicion of an by raculty
and alumni ce&amp;ebratin&amp; the sa·
quieentennial continues lh.rou&amp;h
Dec. I8 in the Univenity An
Gallery, Center for the Ans.
North Campus. The show includes wort by 17 faculty and
23 alumni. Gallery hours ~
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday·
Saturday, and Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admisston iJ: free .

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''Treasures from lbc: l.ofkwood
Library-An Exhibit Celebnt·
ing UB 's Sc.-squicentennial." is
on view in display cases on the
second noor of Lockwood Li·
brary on lhe Nonh Campus. 'The
exhibit' features books of this
century. mostly from lhc: 1920s
and 1930s, all taken from the
stacks. Timothy Conroy from
the Office of Publkatio ns
curatcd the exhlbil , which continues through Dec. 20.

, . . . . . ., L.f&amp;Mwell ....
We' ve arrived allhe closin&amp;
days of Leonardo Drew's sitespeciftc installation " No. 45-A.''
If you've dawdled for the entire
year, you' re slill new too late.
The exhibit's up until Dec. 20
in the Center for the: Ans'
Ug.btwcll Gallery on the North

Campus.

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IP.jj()S9. Alllll""' Vito Presldtal (MP-J)-Admissions. - in&amp; MP-fi060. Senior Propul·
mer Aulytt {SIA)-Computing
a: Information TechnoJoay.
Postina MP-6061 . bastrwtioul
Supporl Ttthalcloa (SL-3)Compwina a lnformatton Technology, Posting IP--6062. Dftctor of Laboratory A.alaal FadlKiet (SL-6)-labonoto&lt;y Ammal Facilities. Postina IP-6064.
.USW..ot f.c:llities Procrul
Coonll.Dator (S(....3)-Univenity
Facilities. Post ina. IP--606S.

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Assistaai/A5socille Profe:tSOr Media Study, Posting IF-6069.
Asdstaai/Assoc:late{FuU Pro-reaor-Computer Science, Postin&amp; fF-6070. CliaicallutnK"'
tor/Assistani./ADoc:iale Profes-sor-Dermatology, Poslio&amp;
tF-6071 . Asslstani/Aaodate
Profnsor -Pc:diatric:s. Postin&amp;

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Aaittaai/Auodate ProreaorNeutology, Postina tF--6075.

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Oft'JCC of the VJCC Prelidc:nt
for R.etearcb has announced lhe
Multidiodplhwy Pilot Proje&lt;t
Pn&gt;pam fot 1996-97. The pro&amp;f&amp;nl will provide limited seed
ruDdinJ or up 10 $20,000 in di~ COif to enable f~a~lty to be&amp;in muhidixiplirwy ~Uearch in
an area dw iJ DeW 10 them.
Awuds should bean""'""'"" by
April IS, 1997. The deadline is

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To obtDitt ~tt~~rr iliformotilHI Oft
jobs list~d DboW: ctHtltJCt p~ ,..
SDtlll~l Suvk~s.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUfFALO

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Yom

Dece mbe r 5, 1996 Volum e 28, No. 14

Athletics puts UB i~
national spotlight
Townsend sees new surge ofschool pride
is reminiscing about Homecoming '96.
As if scanning the pages of a
photo album, he recalls vividly the
parade on Main Street.
director of the UB Divis ion of Athleti cs is focusthe participants: Buffa lo 's mayor and six council Erie County's c hief exec utive and four legis lators.
of the state Asse mbl y. a state Senator. There
marching bands and a group of Shrine rs. A lso
representatives of every UB athleti c team ,
a
Korean UB students in native costume . playin g
native instruments and an Afri can-A merican stude nt step
group.
''All people who until now would not ha ve been near a

UB homecomin g parade,'' Townse nd stresses.
lntercollegiate athletics. he explains, is ··a bandwagon
business." As a program grows and prospers. outside interest increases. "People join only when it becomes a posi·
tive thing."
Townsend fast forwards to the homeco ming football
game in which the UB Bulls took on the Big Red of Corne ll
University, whose statutory colleges are funded in part by

state taJt dollars.
The sun was shining, the
game was te levi se d Ji ve
across New York State and
UB's football players defeated their opponents in a
ga me that Townsend ca ll s
"a battl e for bragging rights
within the SUNY system. UB'S NEW ATHLETICS LOGO lo unveiled Nov. 26 In
Arone by Noloon Townoond,
And we won the battle."
left, director of athletics, and President William R. Greiner.
T he 4 1-24 tall y gave the
" have no modern hi story of being proud in th is arena."
team its fifth win in an 8·3 season that made it UB's most
says Townsend. "No watercooler bragging rig hts belong
successful foot ball team in more than a decade. with the
10 us
most wins agai nst Division 1 oppone nts since the 1959
But he says th at c hanged wtth UB's defc:at of Cornell
squad. And. according to Tow nse nd , it provided the uni ·
on Oct 5.
versity and all of those who are o r have been associated
Townsend deM·ribcs 11 as a landmark day for the una wi th it so met hing more important : watercooler bragging
vc:rsity on which thing~ happened that "we cou ld not have
right.s .
planned on happening o r ca use to happen on purpose."
he n it co me!&gt;. to talk in g about a uni vers ity He adds : ''Now it\ O K to wave the pom-pom," he
whether it be where you go to schoo l. where you
no tes . " ll' s OK to ~ay ' I'm from UB .' I can point with
work or your alma mater-Townse nd says the
pride and say. 'That 's my football team ' I can 'ay. 'Thai' '\
ri ght to brag about its football team as an important pe rk .
v. here I got my degn:e ....
''Everyone is talking about Mic hi ga n, Notre Dame and
It'' c~pecaa ll y im po rtant to UB alumni - several of
th ey are talking about football. They don't come into the
whom livi ng out of state called Townsend', offict: 10 the
room aski ng how your math department and c hemi stry
day~ after the: game to ask whether the UB menuoned a~
department are doing ."
Unfo rtun ately. UB 's '\tudent!&gt;.. staff a nd alma matn
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Senate considers proposal on teaching, promotion process
By SUE WUETCHER

News Services Assoctate Direc tor

A

PROPOSAL TO give
more weight to fa c ult y
members ' teachin'g ac·
ti vities as part of the process of promotion to full professor received mixed rev iew at th e
Nov. 19 Faculty Senate meeting.
Although faculty members
speakin g about the proposal submitted by the senate's Tenure and
Privileges Committee generally
supported the idea in theory. they
differe d on how to d oc ument
teaching activities and how muc h
weight to put on them.
Provost Thomas Headrick told
se nato rs that hi s orig in al request
th a t th e Tenure and Pri vilege s
Committee review the criteria for
promotion to full professor was
prompted by a concern that there
were faculty memberS who were
not being put forward for promo·
ti o n by the ir departments because
th e ir re sea rc h record did no t
match what is e xpec ted by col·
leagues in thei r de pa rtments "but
who have been exquisite members
o f their departments in terms of
the ir teac hing and thei r serv ice.
" I do not think we should ha ve
people left behind, people who are
loya l a nd devoted to thi s institu·

li on. felt to be left behind by their
colleag ues because the y don't
seem to measure up in some aspec t of what th ei r co ll eag ues
seem to ex pec t. but in fa ct are
do ing extraordinary jobs for this
uni ve rsi ty," Headrick said . " If
we're going to be a first-rate uni ·
versity, we've got to deal with that
problem."
The proposa l by the Tenure
'" and Privileges Committee urges
that dossie rs provide doc umentati on o f teaching activities. includ·
ing personal statement s prepa red
by the candidates describing how
their teac hing. research a nd ser·
vice activities interact in their careers and co ntribute to th e
progress of the un iversi ty; teaching portfolios: evidence of edu·
cationallcadership in artic les and
co nference presc:ntations on
teac hing. and . where appropn ate,
extemallettel3 of pee r eva luation
of teachin g.
argaret Acara , profe ~so r of
pharmaco logy and toxicol ogy and committee chair. said the
goal of the committee wa~ nul to
"devalue research ... but we ended
up believing that it wa.!&lt; important
to reward the o ther m1ssions of
this uni ve rs ity of te:~ c hing and
se rvice

M

"!1hink !he atti!ude
should be !hal research, scholarship
and leaching are...
one thing, like Ying
and Yang. "
MENDEL SACHS

Altho ugh at o ne point it leaned
toward recommending a two-trJd.
syste m o f appoint ment--one em ph asizing re sea rch. the o th er
teac hing - th e co mmitt ee ulri ·
mately decid~d aga1n!&gt;.t it beca use
it was afmid instituti ng .. uch a sy ...
tern would "create &lt;Ida'" of ~e":­
o nd ci ti t.en~ ... Acar.a ~a1d .
The n&gt; mmllt ec in stead pro posed a proces' 10 wh1.:h more
we ight " g1' en tu teal'h lng .. ,n
that it wou ld be' a lu c:d ;a' a nltc·
ri a with full weigh t for the prumotiUn!&gt;. proct&gt;s.!&gt;.." she ,;.ud.
She ad,nowlt&gt;dged th at there
had not alway!&gt;. been .:nnsensu ..
withi n the commiuec . ;.adding thrll
the recommendati on' the panel
had submitted to the Faculty Sen·
ate were "what we were most able
to agree upon .

T

hi s lad of consen su ~ wa.'i ev a·
dent. a~ well. among facuh)
members who spoke about the
recom menda t io ns. ancluding a
member of the Ten ure and Privi leges Co mm itt ee.
" I suppon the ge neral thru~t
that we need to count teaching
and service for more. particularly
in the promotion to full level. but
I don't think this is the way to do
it." said com mittee member Don
Schack. professor of ma the m&lt;.ll ·
ic s. He disputed the notion that a
two·track system of appointment
cla:-.sifie:-. me mbers of the t e&lt;.~ch ­
ing track a!&gt;. second·cla!oo.!&gt;l c ll Jzen!&gt;..
·· t have observed that all of the
di•aingua shed teaching profe~sor~
and all of the distmguas hed serVICe profes!&gt;.o rs don't fail to write
out their full title: they !&gt;.cern to
take some pride 111 it.'' he said . " I
thmk that you would fi nd that
people would feel perfectly com fortable getting promoted and
would happily ca ll them selves
· profe ~sor' thereafter. "
He no ted that he had n lot of
problem!&gt; with the comrni llee's
recom me ndatio ns. includ ing the
persona l statement. He said he felt
promotion committees would
co nsider ho" well th e personal
sta te ment wa.!&lt; wrine n. nather th;,tn

ho" well the cn ndidm e actu:dl~
did ha~ o r her job.
Schack s;ud he aho wa..' conce rned that the comnimce is a.-.kmg the President\ Review Board
(PRB). deans and the provost to
make evaluations for which they do
not have the relevant background
For example. he said. he could submit all the syllabi and exams for hi'
courses "and the on ly per..on up &lt;.~t
that level who might be able to tell
you whether they were reasonable
or not is the vice provost for underg raduate educ;:ata o n (Nico la ..
Goodm:10 . who hold .. a faculty ap·
poi ntmcnr :L' a profe...,or of math ·
ernatic.!&gt;.). and that ', an accident nf
appointment "

T

o promote teachang throughoul
the: carcer-"not merel y at
promotio n time"- thc untverstt )
must find mechana!&gt;.m!&gt;. to get de partment:-. to ev;.alua te teachan!;
se riously. "and it \ not b) load·
ing yet one more thang anto tht.•
promotion dossu! r." he ':.ud.
··sy default" UB ha!oo '\hd trll o
a sta ndard (for promou o n l that ''
much too narrow. noted Wilham
K George Jr.. prufe,.\or o f me chamcal and aerospace engtneermg. It ''no t an UB '!&gt;.best mtere~t

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percent Anglo-European dominated. he
charged. " Who gOI more than IS minults
of Meso-American studies (in school)?"'
Olmos asked. " Raise your hand if you can
name one Chinese-American hem !hat you
studied? One of five people on the planet
is Chinese, and we have no Chinese·
American heroes?
"Education is the key (to overcoming
prejudice). and we are lacking in educa·
tiona! systems all across tbe country be·
cause society would rather pay me more
than leachers."' Olmos s aid . "There
shouldn'l be any profession that 's paid
more than teachers.''
Olmos also decried the culture of violence that has become so per vasive
throughout the country.
"Our society has developed a behavior
that has never been seen before in tbe hu man species. What is it? Children killing
children for no reason." he said.

Education is key, Olmos says
By CHRISnN E VIDAL
Reporter Ednor

E

DWARD JAMES OLMOS
brought hi s message of diversity.
acceptance a nd pride to UB and
the Weste rn New York Hispan ic

co mmunit y during a hi gh-energy
and humorous prese ntati on Nov. 19 in the

Cente r for the Ans' Ma instage.
Olmos. an Emmy-Award wmning ac tor who often 1s referred to as the unoffi ~,.· ,al mayor of Los Angele s, whe re he
helped reMore neighborh oods a fte r the
1992 not~. came to UB as pan of the Dis tm guishcd Speakers Series.
In a pre~e ntati o n punctu ated with comrn~nt~ in Spantsh. Olmos offered hi s views
un 111·~ and e ncouraged li steners to ask
questi o ns.

" Do not wait for me to stop talking to
as k a questi on," he said . In stead . as hands
would go up , without missing a beat he
would point , assign a number to that person. the n continue with hi s comment s before mov ing along to the next question. He
assured students he would sta y for as long
as they wanted. answering questions for
more than two hours.
.. , a m about to share my stories with
ou. and you are a bout to begin sharing
our stories with me. I come from East LA.
m and raised Chicano and I am proud
o · . For t)-_)ose of you who are not Chicano,
welc me to a night with Chicanos," he said

lmos ha s appeared in numerou s
television shows and films. and is
perhaps best known for his role as
Lt. Castillo in the televisi on series ''Mi ami Vice." Not all of his work , however,
1s a'i popularly recogni zed. He received the
Golden Globe fo r Best Supporting Actor

in HBO 's "Burning
Season ." directed
··America Me," a stark
look at the life of an
Hi s panic-American
family, and served as
producer of '' Lives in
Haza rd ," a gripping
expose of gang life in
America.
"1 am not naturally
gifted. not naturally
talented . I did not
co me out of my
mOLher' s womb saying ' to be or not to be'
with a Spanish accent.
I say this to you beca use I see that... we
still ha ve a problem
understanding that the
only thing that makes
us the same is that we
are all different, "
Olmos said. "Racism
is tough . It's a learned
behavior, just like violence is."
He voiced c riticism
over effons to introduce English-only legis lation , ca lling the
move "doll a r-wi se and sense-foolish."
While English is the global language of business. children in other pans of the world are
learning to speak three or four different languages. "If they speak only English, your
c hildren will be behind the eight-ball, ..
Olmos said.
Education is the key to beating a num ber of problems. including prejudice. he

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"We still have a problem understanding
that the only thing that makes us the same
is that we are all different."
EDWAJID J A I I I U -

said. But that education must stan long
before college.
" When universities and colleges have
problems with diversity, then we really
have a problem. [ can't blame it on the college level because by the time you get to
college, beliefs have already been molded,"
Olmos said.
Education in America today is 97-98

iolence is a health problem, not just
a judicial problem. according 10
Olmos.
"Violence is like AJDS. How many of
you have children? Are they vaccinated?
Our children should be vaccinated (against
violence) before binh .... Violence is a virus, it's a cancer that can be cured," he said.
Violence in America has deep roots, but
Olmos said he is optimistic that those roots
can be overcome... Yes, there was a conquest. Yes, it was done oul of force, nor out
of love. America was forged out of a history of violence, but today whal dominates
us is love. More people live together in this
country than in any country in the world."
Olmos' presentation was c~sponsored
by the UB undergraduate Sludenl Association and University Union Activities Board.
The UB Distinguished Speakers Series is
presented in conjunction with the Don
Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund. The
Amherst Chamber of Commerce is affili ate co-sponsor. Conlributing sponsors are
the Buffalo Marriou, UB Center for the
Arts, Makin" Copies and the UB Alumni
Association.
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downing Cornell o n ESPN was "my UB?"
··The y've always loved their alma
mater." says Town send . "Now it 's OK to
admit it. The guy has always carri ed a pompom under hi s coa t. Now he can wave it.
He 's always bled blue a nd white. Now he
&lt;.:an admit it. "
Townse nd says that what a Divis ion I
athletics progra m- and football in pani cul;tr-can do for a univer\ity was unde rscored by thi s year's ho mecoming game.
Those ce le bratin g the football team 's viclOry. he stresses, were ce lebrating the uni versity.
tball "is not a grea t finan cial boost,
t it ca n be n great spiritual boost,"
Tow nsend explains. "And as iJ goes.
other things w.ill follow. It 's not just all
about interco lleg iate athletics per se. It 's
about the uni versit y. We have some wonde rful opportuniti es for the university."
To wnsend note s that some have questioned the university' s decis ion to upgrade
from NCAA Divisio n Ill to Div ision I alh-

"Now it's OK to wave the
pom-pom. It's OK to say
'/'mfrom VB. '"
f~JLSON

TOWNSEND

le tic play. to award sc holarships to athletes
in general, and football players in panicular. In 1998. UB will join the Mid -Ameri can Conference, one of 10 Division 1-A athletic conferences in 1he U.S ., the highest
level of intercollegiate athletic competition.
" Homeco ming this year for me showed
that the entire enterprise, the entire efTon
has been rewarded ,'' he adds. "This university has been rewarded for its efforts in
thi s arena and it is the threshold from which
greater things can happen."
He says it is impon ant to pause to celebrate the accomplishments of UB' s ath·
letes. and stre ss e s that these are the
achievement s of "student athletes.'' no t
those of the division's program or staff.
· But the celebration has to be brief. because " now the hard work stans."
Townsend refers to all of the work that
preceded this academic year-designated
by the divi sion as its fi rst five-year planning cycle-as laying a foundation for a
nationally recognized intercollegiate athletics program. one that is greater than foot ball. one involving 17 men 's and women 's
intercollegiate athletics tea ms competing

at the Division I level.
.. We built the found ation here in our
confines where nobody cared ," he notes.
" But now the hou se is coming up" and it
will be constructed in a national spotlight.
" We now must decide how we present this
product to the nation."
Among the greatest challenges. he adds.
will be sustaining the effort, panicularly
with declining state finan cial support of the
university.
We must now more closely sc rut i-nize
o ur planning . .. posi tioning oursel ves for
the future. but doing it realistically, finding econo mies of scale within which to operate."
There also is a need to develop suppon
for the intercollegiate athletic program both
on campus and ofT.
" We must ma ke our needs known to
every constituent group. as well as our expectations for suppon from every constituent group. h will require every member of
every constituent group to be a partner in
this development."
And just as student athletes are the backbone of the university's sports program,
UB students . particularly its undergradu ·
ates. are the mainstay of its supporters.
One way in which studems support the
university 's intercollegiate athletics program is thro ugh an annual fee, which is
being increased from SIOO to $200 beginning in January for full-time undergradu ate students. Part-time undergraduate students will pay a pro-rated fee based on IO·
tal credit hours .

T

he increase, Townsend says. will be
used exclusively to suppon "non-revenue" sports, those seven men' s teams
and eight women's team s that have not
been able 10 identify external support and
lack "gate appeal." The fee increase will
not be used to support football or men 's
basketball. It will, however. be used to fund
the addition of three new wo·men 's spans
teams-&lt;:rew beginning in 1997. soflball
in 1998 and Jacro~ in 1999-to increase
the divi sion 's and university's commitment
to women's programs.
Townsend stresses that student suppon
through attendance at games a nd meets
involving UB 's sports teams is equally as
important.
"We want them to participate," he adds.
"At the hean of why we exist is to make student life more appealing on campus."
To help build school spirit and address an
identity problem thai 's confronted UB 'salhletic teams and their boosters, the Division
of Athletics last week unveiled a new logo.
Townsend notes that to date, the teams
and their supporters have been identified
collectively as "UB ."
But that has raised so me questions:
What 's a UB?Who'sa UB ?"Ourteamsand
players are not a UB," he conlinues. "They
are athletes representing the institution."
The new logo-featuring a smokebreathing blue bull and the words " Uni versity at Buffalo Bulls" -will be displayed on a gamut of mer&lt;:handise. including clothing items now available at local
J.C. Penney and Dick 's stores .
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Wagi• to chair New York State
United Way for seco11d tenn ·
ENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Robert J. Wagner, UB 's chief financial
officer, has heen elected to a second consecutive one-year term as
chair of the United Way of New York State.
1lle statewide organization was founded
in 1975 to give local United Ways a voice
in state government. and to help them raise

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more money, build strategic alliances to
address community needs, provide vision
and leadership on key issues and maintain
a high le vel of customer service.
Wagner is head of a statewide Board of
Director. that includes local United Way
vo lunteers, three local United Way executi ves and several statewide volunteers from
key consli tuencies suc h as labor. busi ness
and education.
The United Way of New York State provides services unique to the state , such as
state-level public policy or help with the

state employees campaign. The state organization works with the United Way of
America to utilize the best of its training
and research .
In 1996. the United Way of New York
State assisted loca l United Ways through
activities designed to increase their SEFA
c ampaigns and improve their market
shares. In addition, the statewide organization held the I Oth annual state conference, the annual Success By Six roundtable
and a new collaboration with the State Education Depanment.

Ruth Bryant.
assi s tant
dean.
School of An:hitec·
ture and Planning.
is secretary of the
United Way of New
York State.
Wagner has
been a member of
UB ' s professional
staff si nce 1966,
when he joined the
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university as assis tant provost in the faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In addition, he has
served as assistant vice president for academic affairs, assistant executive vice
president, deputy vice president. and vice
president for academic affairs.
In 1985, he was named vice president
for university services, and since the n has
se rved as UB 's chief business officer. He
was named senior vice president for uni versity services in 1991 , and senior vice
preside nt in 1995.
Wagner has received a Chancellor 's
Award for Excellence in Professional Service and the Bro therhood/Si ste rh ood
Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He has served as associate
editor of the Journal of Higher £ducal ion
Managemem. and is a member of the
American Association of University Administrators Publications Commiuee.

Search committee named for
Education, Social Work deans
ROVOST THOMAS E. Headrick
has announced the formation of a
s ingle committee to cond uc t a
search for a new dean for the Gradu·
ate School of Education and a new dean for
the Graduate School of Social Work.
Hugh G. Petrie, dean of the Graduate
School of Ed ucation, and Fredrick W.
Seidl, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, have annou nced that they each
plan to return to teaching next summer after 16 years and I I years as deans of their
respective schools.
Mecca Cranley. dean of the School of
Nursing, will serve as chair of the search
committee.,
Headrick said a dual search is heing conducted because the rwo school s have si milar mi!!.sions.
"I helievethatthese two sc hools should
be significantly involved together in research. education, professional development and service aimed at understanding
~nd improving the co.nditions for children.
panicularly in contemporary urban environments," Headrick said in a letter to
search committee members. " I believe that
together they could provide leader.hip for
a concentrated effort to improve urban edu cat ion by advancing integrative approaches
to the challenges faced by c hildren and
schoo ls in our urban environment."

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The university. he added, is looking to
the two schools for a '1oint commitment ... to
work together and to build a major joint program efTon that melds their expenise in th is
common and shared endeavor."
Due to the continuous budgetary press ures on all unit s a t UB. the Graduate
School of Education and the Gradu a te
School of Social Work are unable to maintai n their historical quali ty and range of
programs thro ugh tradition al modes of
operation. Headrick said.
At the same time. UB has H respon sibility to Qeal with major issues that affect
the long-term soc ioeconomic health of the
region. including the learning and development of its children.

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change in leadership in both sc hools
"allows the university to make choices
ahout leader.hip and direction for the fu ture," Headrick said.
"UB ... has a growing se nse in the academic and policy literature that unless the
schools arc organized to provide social and
psychological suppon s. as well as im proved academic instruction. children will
not learn and numerou s fulure social problems will flow from those failures."
The search commi ttee has been asked to
identify deans who "will devote considerable
effort to this focus on urban education/family/social service ... (and who) can work together and coorcUnate the particular interesb.
expertise and strengths of their schools in the
service of thi s broader set of objectives."
In addition to C ra nl ey. members of the
search committee include Namkee Cho•.
soc ial work ; Gary Cooper. Sweet Ho me
Central Schools; Rodney Doran. leammg
a nd instruction : Howard Doueck. social
work ; Susa n Mango ld. law sc hool; Ann
McElroy. anthropology : Scou Meier. coun·
seli ng and ed ucational psychology; Dorothy Pappas, Buffalo Psychiatric Center:
Nancy Smyth, soc ial work . and Lois We is.
educational organizati on. ad mini stration
and policy.
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Wright is medical school's
interim vice president, dean
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News Services Editor

JOHN R. WRIGHT, M.D., c hair of the Department of Pathology, has been appointed inteiim vice president for clinical affairs and dean of the UB School of Medic ine and Biomedic41 Sciences, effective Jan. I .
Wright fills the temporary vacancy created by the resig·
nation of John P. Naughton, M.D .. who is stepping down
on Dec. 31 after 21 years.
In announcing Wright's interim appointment, UB Provost Thomas Headrick praised Naughton for hi s years of
service to the medical school. UB and the medical community, and for his commitment to improving medical education and health care in the region and the state.
WRIGHT
"'The Naughton era at UB has heen marked by remarkable advances in the quality of medical education. expanded opponunities for di sadvantaged students and the advancement of medical research .•' Headrick stated.
" He leaves a considerable void which we have yet to fill ."
Wrl~

will-me the dutlea of dean and vice presi dent for clinical affairs
until a new appointee assumes o"ffice. An interim chair of pathology w1ll be named
in the near future.
Headrick said of Wright: " John knows the sc hool well and has vast experience
with the area hospitals. He served as interim director of Roswell Park Cancer
Institute in 1985-86, and currently holds office and hoard memberships with several national organizations. The president and I have every confidence that John
will provide the excellent leadership in this crucial period and have given him our
full support."
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Wright received hi s medical degree from the University of Manitoba in
Winnipeg. He came to UB from Johns Hopkins Univer.ity, where he held assistant professor.hips of pathology and o ncology. He was named chair of the Depanment of Pathology in 1974.
ln addition to his duties as chair, Wright has served as acting director of the
Experimental Patho logy Graduate Program and as director of the University Pathology Residency Program. He has heen head of pathology at Buffalo General
Hospital since 1974, and served a I 0-month term as acting head of pathology at
Children's Hospital. Wright has heen a memher of the Board of Visitors of Roswell
Park Cancer Institute since 1981 and its chajr si nce 1987 . He has been a clinical
consultant at Roswell Park since 1975.

FACULTY SENATE
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to have standards that are not directly relevant to the university's primary mission.
" What is our mission? Teaching is our mission. it is our only mission.'' he said. 'Tm
sick and tired of hearing us referred to as a
research university ... .lthink it has created
undue problems for us.
" We teach here. That is all we do," George
said. " We teach in the classroom, we teach
in the laboratory. we teach with our appren tices- we call them graduate students-we
teach with our post docs. we teach in the community-we call that service-we teach. we
teach. we teach. That is our mission. Frankly.
t don' t think publicati ons and research papers and research dollars are a wit more rel evant to promotion than teaching is. and I
mean teaching in all those contexts.'' he said.
Jack Meacham. professor of psychology.
read several sections from the Faculty/Staff
Handbook that stressed the importance of
teaching in the promotion process. includ ing one that slated "excellence in research
is to be valued and recognized but will not
counterbalance failure in teaching ."
" I believe the resolution on the Ooor is
wea ker than what is in the handbook.··
Meac ham sa id. n oting~at th e cri teri a
spe lled out in lhe hand
are adequate
in stressi ng the imponance o teaching in
the promotion process. "The problem is
that we have tenure a nd personnel committee -; and perhaps the PRB that a re not
living up to their responsibilities with re ·
'\pcl·t to the existing procedures."
Mendel Sachs. professor of phys •cs. said
the purpose of research--oriented universit ies
IS to "pursue the truth and comm unicate the
truth,-· and good researchers will automati cally have the inspiration to communicate.
While faculty at teac hing colleges are
good teacher.; , they rely on books and lack
the inspiration of a good researcher, he noted.
" I think the nuitude should be that re-

search. scholar.;hip and teaching are together.
they ' re one thing. like Ying and Yang." he
said. "You really can't separate them."
Headrick told senators he is very concerned about the paucity ofinfonnation about
teaching that gcxs into promotion dossiers.
The teaching capabilities of candidates for
promotion basically are judged on student
evaluations taken in classes over a period
time, "which obviously measures some di ·
mensions of some people's teaching. but it
doesn ' t measure everything.'' he said. Teach ing "is not just what goes on between a student and a faculty member in a classroom.
We· ve got to deal with that prot'llem."
The committee 's proposal is "a step in
that direc tio n." Headric k sa id. He added
that he agrees that portfolios should he evalu·
ated by "people who understand it. .. people
who are good teacher. here or elsewhere and
undersland what goes inro making quality
teaching at a major university."
Moreove r. UB shou ld conlac t former
st udents on a regular basis. "I think that
will improve the quality of information we
get about the impac t of teaching and whal
it really does fo r our students." Such evaluations will be a considered judgment. ruther
than a momentary respo nse to a grade or
an expected grade. he added .
In o ther bus ines s. the sena1e un a ni mously approved the prOJX&gt;sed campus re cyc ling JX&gt;licy that will attempt to increa... . e
recycling to SO percent by 1997
The body also adopted a poliC} requs r·
ing that its resolutions be accompan1(d b) a
brief rationale that addresses financ1al 1m·
plications. if any. of adopting or fai hng to
adopt the proposed resolut ion; potential
impact of the implementation of the reso lution on specific pans of UB, and a method
for evaluati ng the effec ti veness of the proposed policy. including the period o f evaluation. criteria and oLhe r relevant fact ors. C

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Smokers &amp; prostate cancer
Dietary beta carotene may reduce risk

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STUDY BY us·epidemiologisl5
suggests that beta carotene. or a
dietary component associated
with it, may reduce a smoker's
risk of developing prostate cancer.
The study was based on the premise
that beta carotene may protect against the
carcinogenic effect or tobacco smoke.
said Hsien-Hsien Huang, doctoral candidate in the UB Depanment of Social and
Preventive Medicine and lead author on
tbe study.
Her investigation involved 415 men
between the ages of 41 and 85 with prostate cancer and 524 men without cancer
selected from Erie and Niagara counties.
The men completed questionnaires that
included information on smoking history
and the foods they usually ate. Researchers grouped participants according to a
low, medium or high beta-carotene intake, and also by smoking status into
never smokers, light smokers and beavy
smokers. They then assessed the relationship between various levels of beta-cam-

tene intake, smoking levels and risk of
prostate cancer.
Results showed that light smokers
were two-thirds less likely to get prostate
cancer if they ate medium to high levels
of beta carotene, compared to light
smokers who consumed low amounts Qf
beta carolene in their diets .
~vy smokers received a reduction in
risk from dietary beta carotene only
when they consumed high levels in their
diet. At high levels, their risk of prostate
cancer was reduced by about 50 percent,
compared to heavy smokers who had low
levels of beta carotene in their diets.
Among men who had never smoked.
beta carotene intake had no effect on
their prostate cancer risk .
Huang emphasized that the study investigated dietary beta carotene, not betacarotene supplements, raising the possibility that other dietary factors also may be
involved. There is clear evidence, however, of a link between smoking and several types of cancer, she noted, a risk that
can be reduced by stopping smoking. _

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Sleep apnea:_what causes it?
Weak diaphragm muscles may be factor
ByUHSaAKEJI
News Services Editor

Airtines &amp;safety
Computer project aims to prevent errors
By Eu.EN QOLDIIAUM

News Serv1ces Ed1tor

I

NDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS at UB
are developing a computer program
that will allow airline maintenance
workers w determine why an error
occ u?red and to see how other air-

lines have solved similar problems.
The Proactive Error Reduction System
(PERS) program, funded by the Federal
Aviation Administration's Office of Aviation Medicina . is based on a human factors approach to solving errors.
" Human pfac tors research in volves
finding the mi smatc hes between people
and sys tems and looki ng for ways to cor-

rect them," said Colin Drury, UB professor of industrial engineering and principal investigator.
•
The UB researchers are applying ''best
practices" systems rrom quality programs
in manurac turing environ ments to airline
in spections.
For several yea rs. Drury and hi s coworkers have am1lyzed errors by airli ne
workers in detail. They are using this
know ledge to build prac ti ca l tools that allow users to adva nce quickly to solut ions
to errors made by airline worker}.
''The idea behi nd our work is that you
should not just determine the immediate
ca use of the error, but examine all the

things that led up to it," Drury explained.
" PERS not only tells you what to do if
an error occurs. but it also tells you what
to do eve n if what has occurred are not errors. but error-prone situations," he said.
One area under study involves damage incurred by planes while they are on
the ground.
"While such accidents may not affect
passe nger sarety. an ai rl ine may spend
tens or milli ons or dollars per year on
ground damage." said Drury.
PERS provides a way ror airline personnel to analyze an error or a potential
error, to discover why it occurred and
then to see how they might go about
changing system s. equipment or work
patterns co prevent futu re errors.

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ccording to Drury, the analysis
goes beyond the si mple fact that.
for example. an aircraft was hit by
a ground vehicle driven by a mechanic.
The program asks: Why was the mechanic there? What was the mechani c doing ? Why was he in a hurry?
" In one instance, we round that drivers or ground vehicles often put the vehicles into neutral. but did not tum them
off when they got out or the vehicles ror
the si mple reason that the engines got so
cold they would be difficult to restan.''
said Drury.
By providing such detailed inrorma tion about an incident. the airline should
be able to pinpoint a nd address the chain
of events that led up to the error.
The FAA-funded project began in 1989
following Congressional hearings
prompted by an incident in which 18 feet
of roof pulled away from an Aloha Airlines
jet as it was nying over the Pacific Ocean.
A night aHendant was sucked from the
plane and 61 passengers were injured.

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esearch on the respiratory system being conducted at UB may
shed new light on the causes or
sleep apnea. brief episodes during rhe night when brearhing ceases, depriving the brain of oxygen.
Sleep apnea occurs most often among
people aged 30 to 40 who are overweight. It can cause excessive sleepiness
during the day. which can disrupt work
and socia l life.
Using rats as an animal model,
Gaspar Farkas. UB associate professor
of physical therapy and exercise science.
and colleagues showed that weakened
diaphragm musc les. the muscles most
responsible for breathing. may be one of
the factors contributing to the condi tion.
The researchers measured diaphragm
function in lean and obese rats over a normal 18-month lifetime, testing them when

they were young (6-8 weeks), mature (1012 months) and old (17-18 months). They
found that diaphrngm muscles in the
obese animals lost their ability to respond
forcefully as the animal s aged. Diaphragm
response in the obese young anirMls was
not compromised.
'The diaphragm is the only respiratory muscle that is active during REM
sleep, and in obese people it is already
overloaded," Farkas said. " We have
shown that these muscles become weakened with age, at a time when load and
stress on these muscles are already greaL
so it's a double deficit.
'This finding helps to explain why an
obese person may nol have problems
with sleep apnea at 20, but may have
problems at 50," be added.
Researchers rrom the University of
Aorida at Gainesvi lle and the University
of South Dakota also participated in the
study.

Now hear this, couch potato:
Hard jobs protected against heart disease
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from all causes, as well as death from
coronary heart disease .

"TOTE THAT BARGEI UFT THAT
BALEI" may not have much appeal in
today 's job market, but for our fathers and
grandfathers. a physically demansJing job
was the one lifestyle factor that reduced
heart disease. a UB study has found .
Hard work on the job, however. protected only men who weren't obese, accordi ng to the study conducted by Joan
Dom. UB assistant proressor of social
and preventive medicine. The study
c haned work and leisure-time physical
activity in a random sample of white men
between the ages of 15-96 years who
were living in Buffalo in· 1960. The men
were part of a larger population-based
study of blood pressure. Interviewers had
gathered extensive demographic and
lifestyle information. including data
about physical activity.
Dom and colleagues tracked down
survivors and revisited original data to
examine lhe long-tenn association between daily physical activity and death

lbey found tllllt in non-obese men,
having a physically demanding job lowered the risk of coronary heart disease by
35 percent, and of dying from all causes
by 20 percent.
"In this sample. the majority or men
who were active were active mainly at
work," Dom said. "The kinds of activity
lhey were involved in. such as tirting.
carrying. shoveling and other kinds of
physical exertion, probably protected
them because they did it all day. every
day. even lhough they may not have been
very active at other times. They probably
expended a lot of calories on the job ...
Most of today's work force is sedentary.
bowever, and therein lies the problem.
''Our culture has changed," Dom noted
"Jobs that require hard physical labor
hardly exist anymore. We know that being
active belps you live a longer, healthier life.
So if you aren't active during the day, you
can't spend the evening on the couch if you
care about your health."

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Having I Bill In
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Toya Douglas ot' Bullalo Traditional
High School, foregroood, bounces on
ball as she learns about physical
therapy training from Carol Miller,
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Sponsored Programs

Donald L. Davis Foundation gift
to strengthen WBFO programming
By JED NITZIIEIIII
Reporter Contributor

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GIFT FROM the Donald L. Davis

Foundation of Amherst ha..c;; created

the Don Davis Auto World Fund
for WBFO 88.7 FM. the National
Public Radio affiliate operated by the Univers it y at Buffalo. The gift. the largest in
the stati on 's hi story, wi ll allow the station
to develop new program ming and buy new

equipment.

According to Don Davis. the retired
founder of Don Davis Auto World. Inc., his
gifts to the un iversity have bee n made wi th
the goal of benefiting all of Western New
York.
"We're interested in the whole commu·
nity, that there should be something of benefit for the community-at-large," he said.
Davis encouraged others in the community
to make their own gifts to the station. as well
as to become regular listeners.
.. Don and Es ther D avi s ha ve been

fri ends of the University at Buffalo for a
long time," said UB President William R.
Grei ner. "Their lasting contributions to UB
have he lped us put our best resources to
work for Weste rn New York ."
"Their latest ge ne ro us .gift does just
that- helps us ex tend the value and impact

of WBFO. which is oneofUB's finest community resources. We are deeply. deeply
gratefu l to Don and Esther. Their commitment to both the university and the region
we serve means a great deal to UB . and

also to thousands of WBFO and NPR listeners."

The fund will be used to support locally
produced public affairs and ans program -

Advancement &amp; Development
Public Service &amp; Urban Affairs
Student Orga~1zauon
Teaching/Graduate Assistants
UnlveraHy Total

$637,628

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ming broadcasts by the station. The income

generated by the fund also will be used to
improve the sou nd quality of WBFO's signal by providing money to buy state-of-theart produc tion and broadcas.t equipment.

The winner of the Chair's Cup Challenge will be announced at the UB vs. Syracuse
basketball game in Marine Midland Arena on Dec. t 0 . The cup will be awarded to the
un~ that has not only reached its goal. but also has mosl increased ~s rate ol response to the S EFA Campaign.

'The entire staff at WBFO is absolutely
thrilled th at Don and Esther Davis chose
th is stat ion as a public serv ice worthy of
the ir very generous ·suppon.·· said Jenn ifer Roth, the station's general manager.
"An e ndowment for WBFO has been
one of our high hopes for a long while. now
more th an eve r g iven declining govern mental suppon for publi c broadcasting .

The Don Davis Auto Worl d Fund wi ll
strengthen the station's fananci a l security
and will e nable us to continue improving
the qual ity of our programming."

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on Davis was born and raised in Buffa lo and atlended UB . He started his
auto dealership in 1958. It now is bei ng
operated by his son. John .
Davis hopes th at thi s gift to WBFO will
" in some way pay back" the co mmunit y
"that has done so much for me and my fam -

il y."
His fo undati o n made a similar g&amp;ft IU
UB in 1989 that created the Do n Davis
AulO World Endowed Lec tureship Fund.
which supports the universiry's ann ual Distin gui shed Speakers Series. The seri es hils
brought many notab le figures to ca mpu ~.
including form er Pres idents Ji mmy Carter
a nd Gerald Ford, as1ronomer Carl Sagan
and broadcast journalist Sam Dona ldson .

The next speaker for the 1996- 1997 academic year will be Nobel Prize -wi nning
author Toni Morri son. who will speak on

April24. 1997 .

SUNY Trustees approve mid-year
tuition increase for School of Law
THE SUNY BOARD OF TRUSTEES voted Nov. 19 to approve a mid-year tuiti on
increase for the UB School of Law.
The increase, which Will raise tuition $625 per semester, will be used to suppon
c;urriculum changes that were initiated in 1995, including coursework that empha-

sizes practice-oriented slcills.
In addition to supporting the Jaw school 's new curriculum, fu nds ge nerated by
the tuition increase also will be used to enhance schol arship fu nds. The SUNY
trustees have said that any currently enrolled law student who is unable to pay the
new tuition will receive financial aid.
The increase, which takes effect with the spring 1997 semester. will mise annual tuition for in-state students from $6, 100 to $7,350. Out-of-state students will
see tuition go from $10,750 to $12,000 per year.
'Qte recommendation for the tuition increase was approved by the UB Council
at its Sept. 26 meeting before being forwarded to the SUNY chancellor and th e
SUNY Board of Trustees.

Nominations are open for 1997
Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
NOMINATIONS ARE BEING sought for
the 1997 Chancellor's Awards for E.cel ·
lence in Librarianship. Profess iona l Service and Teachin g. Th ese prestigiou s
awards provide un iversity-wide recogniti on of superlative pezfomtance and ouL~tand­
ing achievement by faculty and professional
service employees. Recipients are individu-

als who embody SUNY's hig hest s1andard.&lt;
and who inspire and serve a' role models for
the enti re university commun ity.
Criteri a fo r nominations are as fo llows :

Excellence In UbrerianMip
Nomi nations for the C han cello r 's
Award for Exce ll e nce in Librarianship
mu st have held a full -time appointment a ~
a profess ional li brarian at UB for a mini mum of three years. and m ust possess the
M .L. S. degree . Crite ri a for se lect ion in c lude ex traordinary performan ce and skill
in librarianship , se rvi ce to the university
and to the profession. and sc holarship and
conrinuing profess iona l growth.
A nomination package must incl ude : a
cover letter from Lhe nomi nator summarizing the candidate's credenti als and demonstrnting how the candidate meets criteria for
se lection, the candidate 's currenl vitae. the
candidate's writte n statement of "philosophy
of librarianship." and letters of support from
withi n and/or ex1emal to the university. In
addi tion. the committee requests that the can
didate include ei ther as a sepamte statement
or incorpomted into the philosophical stalement. ev idence of how lhe philosophica l te nets have been successfu ll y impleme nted .
Deadline for completed dossien; is Thurs·
day.Jan. 16. 1997. Jnfoonation is available from.
and nominalions should be sent to Donald
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Hanman. =iau: libmrian.l..ockwood Librol!)'.
645-2818. or Jean Docker. Centml Technical
Services. Lockwood Library. 645-2788.
Excellence In Profeaa!CHYI Service

T he Chance llor 's Award fo r Exce llence
in Professional Service was crc:ated to recog
nin! extraordinary professional achievement and
to encourage the puNUit of excellence.
Nominations for the awanJ must be dr.1wn
from individuals presently servi ng in full 4

time professional service capacities with
more than 50 percent of the assignment in
non-teaching services. Nominees musl have
completed at least three years of co ntinu ou~
full -time professionaJ (not classi fied ) service
in the posi tion for which nominated.
A nominator may be any member of the
university community. and is responsible for
prepari ng a nomination package to inc lude:
a current vitae on the nom inee 's profe..'isional
career. an updmed pos ition descriplion . a
maximum of fi ve letters of suppon (wi th at
leas t one eac h from a supe rvisor. a co lle ague. and a cons tituent) a nd th e
nom inator's summary letter o f support .
Dead li ne for co mpleted dossiers I\
Thursday. Jan . 16. 1997. For more information. nom.inalion packers and guide l ine ~.
ca ll Christine Sauc iun ac. Profess ional Staff
Senate Awards Committee c hai r. 645-354-t
Excellence In Teachln•

The Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching is intended to recognize superior teaching at the undergmduate. grc1duate
or professional level. All full-time instructors. regard less of academic mnk. who have
completed at least three years of teaching at
UB prior to the fall 1995 se meste r are eli gible. Award wi nners are recognized as part
ofthe University Convocation in the fall. and
the phrnse "State Univen;ity Chancellor'sAwanJ
for Excellence in Teaching" is anached to their
name in the univenoity c-Jt.aJog.
Primary critcrioo f15i'the 0\anc-ellor ·, Awan!
for Excellence in Teaching L'i skill m teachmg.
although consideration also 1s l!lvcn 10 sound
scholarship and service 10 the uni vers ity and
the community. Nommaton. shou ld prepare
a Summary Presentation StalcmenL mduding information on the candidate\ mo~t nn rxmamqualifications. major Xh lt: Vemenl~ Ill
teaching. services to Sludents. scholarship and
professiooal growth. The document should 1101
exceed five pages in length.
Completed nomirullion.i. including a Summary Presentillion Statement. an up-to-due VItae and lertt...,-s of support. mUSI be received 10
the 01\ioe of the Voce ProvOSt for Undergr.ldu·
me Education. 255 Capen Hall. by the close of

bu.;iness on TLW:S&lt;lay. Jan. 21. 1997.

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CASTEUAHifANDRIACCIO DUO
TO P£RF0RM AT WHITE HOUSE
Bullalo's Caste!lam/Andr taccto
Duo~~cntlca lly ctted as one ot the
grea test gUitar duos of our t•m e~
nas been tnv•ted to perlorm at the
White House Dec 19 at a pnvate
alfa tr lOt tnvtted d•gn.tanes who w 1U
be tounng the house by spec ta l tnv•tatton of the F•r st Famtly

The celebrated duo •s compnsed
ot .JCNinne Caatela.nl, a lecturer tn
the UB Oepanment of Mustc , and her

husband. Mlcheel Andrtac:clo.
Both are alumnt olthe UB mus•c pertor
nee program
he Whtte House tell the pro-

gr

up to us · sa•d Castellam · and

tnd ated that hohday mus•c was not
wM they had tn mtnd We plan to
pertor several quadrtUes by
Stephen aster arranged lOt two guttars. and Grand Duo lor Two Gwtar s
0

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Ia

from the~r tango collect•on
The compos•hons on the VVhtte
House program have been recorded
by the duo on three recent COs
Those by Foste1 rNeny Bly: "Some
Folks.· ·Farewell my Ltly Dear· and
·cane Break") are on a CD, "An
Amertean Idyll ," scheduled lor February release on Fleur de Son Records
It leatures the duo en performance With
vocal soloist
McCabe and
lortepianest Ron Martin. both on the
faculty of the UB Department of MuSIC The Haydn compos1tion •s on a
second new dtsk . also to be released .n February by Fleur de Son
The Castellane/Andnacc•o Duo
has been the rec•p•ent of many
awards. 1nctudtng the National En dowment for the Arts' prestigeous
Soto Rec1taltsts Fenowsh•P
vor~tes

o.n

COMMUNITY ACTION CORPS
TO SPONSOR
AIDS BENEm CONCERT
Ktd Innocent. Kindergarten, Mystery
Date and Luella Sagebush will be
among the bands to perform at a
public benefit concert tor AIDS Com·

mun1ty ServiCes to be held from 3
p m. to mednlght on Sunday, Dec 8.
at Banana Joe's. 100 Ma•n Place
Tower. The event os sponsored by the
UB Corrm.mrty Acuon Corps (CAC) .,
COr'liUflCUon with The Guitar Factofy
The event w11f feature a raffle of
an Ibanez electnc gwtar Tickets at
the door are $5. raffle tiCkets are S1
For rrore than 20 years. CAC has
pr&lt;Mded """"""" ., the c:orrm.nity !hat
target health and soc181 concerns. Each
year. rno&lt;e than 500 UB students IIOMlteer to partiCipate 111 CAC activiti8S
Recent pro1ects •nclude work
w•th the UB student chapter of Hab1·
tat for Humantly actMttes Wlth the
Un1vers11y He1ghts CommuMy Center. Pro tect Amerrca cleanup campa•gn , work wtth the St Augustine
Center and the planhng of spung
bulbs at area nurstng faclltltes

CELL COMMUNICATION
RESEARCHER TO SPEAK

Or.tldL-.... r;roe=olpharmacology at the Urwers~ty of Texas
Southwestern r.Aedcal Centef 1n Dallas
and a lead1ng researcher ento the
mechanlsms cells use to corrourucate
With each ()(her, wtH be the speaker at
two diSif'IQUIShed lecture senes dunng
avtSittoUBthlsweek
Garbers. holder of the Patnck E
Haggerty OlsllngUished Chaer 1n BaSIC Bl()r'JlediC81 SciE!nce at the Unrver·
Slly of Texas Southwestern , stud1es
how sea urchen or mammalian Spefmatozoa detect chemteal Signals
from the egg He dtscovered the
atnal natnurettc pepltde receptor
guanytyt cyclase
Garbers will lecture at 4 p m. on
Thursday. Dec 5. 1n 114 Hochstetler
Hall. North Campus. as part of the Qe.
panment of BIOM:&gt;gteal SciBOCeS D1s·
llnQUIShed Speaker Seri8S He Will diS·
cuss "The Guanylyl Cyclase Recep-

IO&lt;S. No Longe&lt; Pfa)'lng Second
Fiddle?" The lecture w1ll be co-sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medtcal lnstllute Undergraduate Biological Sctences EducatiOnal Program
l-ie also wtR be guest speaker at the

Oosungu!Shed ScoenUst Semnar Senes
sponsored by lhe departmenls ol
Arlalomy and Cell Btology, Biochemoslry. Biophysics. Mocrobtology. Neurolog;, Pharmacology and TOXJCOiogy.
and Physiology. Topec lor !hat lecture,
scheduled tor 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec 6.
on Buller Audilonun of Farber Hall,
Soulh Campus, will be ·o.verse Funcuons o1 Members of the Guanylyl CyClase Receplor Famly.• Bolh lect'-"'S
are open 10 lhe pubhc.
WOMEN'S CWB PLANS
SOUP'S ON WNCHEON,
GROUP EVENTS
The Women 's Club of the University
at Buffalo Will have its annual
Soup's On Luncheon at the Center

Faculty Invited to participate In Languages
Across the Curriculum project
The Department of Modern Lang uages and Literatures is looktng for
Interested faculty members to participate en its Languages Across the
Cumcutum (lxC) pelot project for the spring semester. The main
premese of LxC •s that wr~tten ma t er~als 1n loreegn languages can and
should be used throughout the uneverslty and the use o f these matenals should be hnked to the subtect matter tnterests of students .
Faculty. regardless of thetr tndiv1dualtanguage p rof1c tency. can
offer an LxC optton 1n the1r courses to broaden and enhven course
content by 1ncludtng loreegn language matenals ' Such matenals pro·
v1de entercu1tural perspectives on course content and foster language
skills tn LxC participating students
The program revolves around Language Resource Spec1ahsts .
(LRSs) usually mternahonal graduate students . who are selected lor
thelf hngwstec background and disciplinary expert•se The LRSs prepare opt•onal substitute course assignments ut1l1Z1ng non-English
source matenals and lead weekly study·group diSCuSSIOns 1n English
w1th part•c•pallng students to help them understand the LxC assegnments and relate them to the content ol the course as a whole The
LRSs are h1red- 1n consultateon wi th the part•c•pat1ng faculty mem·
ber- and tratned by the Department of Modern Languages and Lit·
eratures
• For more 1nlormahon. contact Mark Ashwtll, derector. World Lan·
guages Institute. at 645-2292 or at ASHWILLOacsu .buffalo edu

lor Tomorrow on Wednesday, Dec
11 at 11 :30 a.m . The Soup's On
Luncheon IS a lestl\le occasion w1th
the room surrounded by hundreds
of colorful poinsenias which also
serve as table centerpieces .
Following hers d 'oeuvres and
apple cider. three soups and assorted breads will be served. This
year's soups will be Seven Onion
with Farmhouse Cheddar, Black
Bean and Sun-dned Tomato. and
Chicken Senegal Pumpkin Mousse
with a Wedge of White Chocolate
will follow with coffee and tea. The
menu was planned by hospitality
cha~rs Shirley Buckle and Maria
Coburn. the pr•ce ISS 10 per person. Guests are welcome . For reservations call Mana Coburn at 688·
4508 by

Dec 6

Poinsettia sale orders will be distributed at the luncheon. The proceeds of this lund-raiser go to the
Grace Capen Scholarship Fund.
This scholarship ts proveded by the
Women's Club lor UB students with
a 3.9 or above grade point average
alter three semesters .
The Book Group will meet Monday Dec . 9 at 12:30 at the home of
Nancy Nyberg Ehane Knopp 1s cohostess Professor DaVId Nyberg
will discuss h is book, ~The Varnished Truth .·
The Money and lnves!lng Club
w•ll meet Wednesday, Dec 11 at 7
p m. at the Eggertsvelle ·Snyder Li·
brary Eric Buden , ass1stant manager at the Charles Schwab Buffalo
office. will discuss mutual funds
and d•scount -brokers.
Membership m the Wanen·s Club
1s open to any woman who 1s .nter·
ested tn serv1ce to the umverstty and
purposes ol the club

UB IS HOME TO DISTRICT
COLLEGE BOWL AWARD
At the annual regeonal conference
of the Association of College
Unions lnternalional (ACUI),

Albert
I!I'IIWnovlc•,
associate d irector
o f Student Lite at
UB. and the
Niagara.M'estern
' Ontario District
ERMANOVICS
Representative for
ACUI Region 2. accepted the Oestrict College Bowl Award lor the
· varsity sport of the mind •
Stud ents of the Niagara/Western
Ontario Distnct, which mcludes
public and pnvate colleges and un•·
varsities In Western New York and
Ontario. captured the award at this
year's conference , held in November at the Uneversuy of Toronto.

UB P-, AWM PUBUSH
lONCHIIDOEN MANUSCRIPT
A manuscript about 19th century
Buffalo d eveloper and architect
Benjamin Rathbun that had been
gathennQ dust 1n the Ene County
Histonca1 Soc1e ty for 35 years has
been published. thanks to the work
of Dllvld Gerber, professor of hiS·
tory, and UB alumnus Scott

Eberle.
The book . "The Rise and Fall of
a Frontter Entrepreneur Benjam1n
Rathbun . ·Master Builder and Architect' : was wntten tn the 1930s and
1940s by Neagara Falls ;ournalist
Roger Wh1tman . who died before he
was able to get the book published
Gerber stumbled across the
manuscnpt at the htstoncal soc1ety
and enlisted the help of Eberle . v1ce
pres1dent lor 1n1erpreta!lon lor the
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum m Rochester who receiVed h1s
doctorate •n h•story from UB
The patr edited the manuscnpt- "'geveng II an Interpretative
thrust" - wrote an entroduchon and
found a publisher. said Gerber
They well host a boo~&lt; s•gning

time

Now that clllloel are allfOI't over and you have some
to
relax over tbc looa intenession, here's a aile that woro-pUule
lovers should ~joy. lley1l Owe•'• G..- Pa~ at (bltp:/1
www~-~tml)is anintel'­

estins colleclioo of word-same makers and IO!ven.
If you lib jumbles (words with mixed up !ellen) you' ll love
tbcJumbleMaur. lt generates five- and
I I I ' I t·c'
I•
six-letter words randomly chosen from
tbc dictionary and scrambles them. All
~· '
~:
\
you need to do is select the number of
jumbles you would like. If you get stuck,
this site also has a Jumble Solvt!r which
un-jumbles your jumbles!
You can solve aU
of woro puzzles in the Crossword and
Word-Game Solver section. With the crossworo solver, simply
fill in as many known toners in the woro using perij)ds wherever
a letter is not known , like thi s: ..s .. d.. , choose your diction ary
(English abridged or unabridged) and retrieve a list of four-leiter words that begin with 115" and end in "d... You can even click
on a woro in the list to get the definition.
The Scrabble Helper page has two useful purposes for players. It checks whether a word is valid and it returns all words
that can be made from the gi ven letters. Tile Dictionary Lookup
lets you type in a_word and il gi ves the defini tion (or word synonym if you use the Th~sau rus Lookup) from Webster's dicti onary.
Thjs Game Page site even gives the amount o f time it will
take your searcft to run, such as: "be patient.. for seven letters in
Scrabble or ..six seconds" for a four-letter .. un-jumbulat:ion."
There is a wide variety of word, number and story games to
help keep your mind active. Links to " Yahoo's Puzzle Section."
"Spider's Fun &amp; Games Picks" and other Web game sites are
also found here. Have fun!
For assistance conn~cting to the World Wid~ Web 11ia UB computer accounts, contact the Computing Center J- Help Desk at

tYPes

645-3542.

-Sue Neumeister and Lori Widzinski, University Ubraries

from 4-6 p .m on Friday, Dec 7, tn
Talking Leaves. 3158 Main St.
Rathbun. a businessman during
the 1820s and 1830s and one of the
hrst citizens of Buffalo. spent live
years 1n prison for forgery and
fraud The collap se of h1s ftnanc•al
empire helped b ring on one of the
most severe depressions in U S.
history, Gerber said .

CONRRENCE TO H-UQKT

CIIIADUATE STUDENT PAPERS
International Publishing, a confer-

ence highlighting graduate student
papers, will be held Thursday, Dec.
5, and Tuesday, Dec. 10 lrorn 5-6:20
p .m. in "Friends of the Lib rary· Room
214 , in Lock'NOOd l.Jbrary The conference is sponsored by UB School ol lnlormalion and iJtl&lt;ary SIOOes (SilS).
Lana Peterson. assistant professor. SILS. will give the conference WE»-

oome bolh days: Dec. 5 speakers include John Benson. •Publishing on

lhe Indian Subconlinenl: The Case ol
t-Aoclern Indian·: Darlene M. Lysan: ,

"The Ellecls ol a Free Mar1&lt;et Economy
on the P\JtJiishrog lndusty n Pllmd'":
Nava Fader, "Aulta, Aulhor: Aeadi1g
(V.ffilg) the Ac&lt;:enled English ol Black
ScUh AJrCan Aulhors": .Jonalhan Coe,
-~., Lleralue."

Dec. 10 speakers are Kimberly
Davies . ·ArtiStic Literature or Plain

Old Smul? A Comparison ol Sexual
Literature in France and the United
States: Marisol Hernandez ...The Pubhsheng Industry in Puerto Rico and
the~ of NatiOnalist Publications"
and Wai Sze (Lacey) Chan, "The
Second Channel: The Emergence of
An Active Publishing Industry.· At 6
p .m., conference members will
meet in 223 Lockwood for a demon-

strahon olthe web page buitt by the
students. It can be accessed at
http://wengs.buflalo.edu/academlc/
departmentstsilsJiis522

.,.vln Mllun,

computer sysfem
specialist, Department of Computef
Science. gave an invited talk. titled
"Unix-Specific Security Concerns.·
on Nov. 19 to the Buffak&gt; Chapter of
the Information Systems Audit and
Control Association.

Kulmleft

a-. prolessor ol

theatre and dance. presented a paper on his d irectorial approach to
classical p lays at the lnternabonal
Theatre Festival and Conference on

'"The Class&lt;cs Through lhe Experimental Eye" in Lviv. the Ukraine.
BMrat .,.,.• ......,._ associate
professor. DepartrnPnt of Computer
Science. p resented_a paper, "VISUal·
izing Program Execution" at the
1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages, held in Bould er, Colo.
Co-author was Chark&gt;tte M. Baltus. a
gra d~ te student.

Helene G. Kershner, ass1stant
chair and lecturer in Computer Sc1·
ence . presentQd a wOOtshop. "What
Teachers Should Know!" at the Bureau of Jewish Education's Fourth
Annual Conference in Buffalo.
Apaperby llka~

"Color, Language and Vosual Corrmun&gt;callon." was accepled by the Semic&lt;c
Sociely ol America lor presenlalion al
the Sociely's aonJal ~ "Sanla
Barbara. Galil. K.azrTiercZak is an 8SSIS·
lanl r;roessor and head olthe 1...,.lion Program in the Arl Department

�IHIKilliN
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MEN'S IIASK£T1IAU.

Mike Martinho's three-pointer as lime elapsed
gave the Bulls a thrilling 7S.77 overtime win
over Niagara in the inaugural Big Foor Basketball Doublel1eader at Marine Midland
Arenl! on Saturday.
Marllnho finished with 20 points. but tt
was Rasaun Yoong who rallied the Bulls from
an 11-point defocltln the final 5:31 of regulatiOI'l to force the overtime. Young tied his career high with 34 points and nailing 14 of his
17 free throws, scoring 11 of hts points durIng the run.
Scott McMIIhn's three-potnter with 1:53 remaining gave the Bulls a 63-62 lead and UB
built the advantage to three at 67-64 on a
tree throw by Yoong with 14 seconds left.
Naagara's Jeff O'ConOO( sent the contest 1nto
the extra ses&amp;on With a three-pointer with two
seconds remaining.
Martinho took over '"the overtime, scor'"9 seven points on three-of-four shooting, to
lead the Bulls to their first win of the season.
UB needed to rally from four-point deficits
tw1ce in the extra session to take the victory.
Earlier '" the week. the Bulls traveled to
Cornell falling to the Big Red 70-62. Young
paced the Bulls with 15 points while Martinho
added 13 and Mc Millin and Mah Clemens
scored 10 each McMillin was also high
rebounder with e1ght. The Bulls opened the
season w1th a 78~ 1 k&gt;ss at Miami of Flor1da
MartJnho had 20 ~nts , w1th all six of his field

goals from beh1nd the thtee-po~nt hne wh1le
also pulling down six rebounds. Yoong
added 18 points in h1s first game since the
1994-95 season, after sitting OU1Iasl season
as a medical redshirt.

The Bulls have a pair of contests scheduled tor the Marine Midland Arenl! !his week
as they take on St. Bonaventure In a Big Foor
contest on Salurday, Dec. 7 at 12:30 p.m
UB's marquee game a1 the Marine Midland
Arena is Tuesday. Dec. 10 against naiJOnal
runners-up Syracuse at 8 p.m.

e WOMEN'S 8ASK£TBALL
The Royats are off to a 2..() start af1er thetr f1rst
week of the season. UB opened the year w1th
a 76-62 Win over Cornell at AJumn1 Arena on
Nov. 23. The Royals then hn the road lor the
first time. downing Northern lowa 75-67 on

Women's Basketball vs lou1SV1IIe

THE BUUS COUAPSE Into • pile of joy followln&amp; their buzzer-l&gt;eetln&amp; 78-77
overUme win •calnat Nl..-r• Nov. 30 In ttre M•rfne Mldl•nd Alen•.

Nov. 26.
In the Win over Cornell. Brenna Doly had
the hot hand for the Royals, leading the team
with 23 points, Including six three-pointers
Doty also accumulated three steals as UB
registered 15 steals fOf the game, fOfcing 32
Big Red turnovers. Charissa Gardner added

16 points and eight reboonds. La Toya
Crumpton also had eight rebounds off the

bench for the Royals. UB actually shol belle'
from outside the three-point arc (45 0 per.
cent) lhan from 1nside the line (40.3 perc enI)
At Cedar Falls, Iowa. the Royals won the
contest from the free· throw hne as Doty sank

UPCOMING HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
Men's Basketban vs St Bonaventure

.... u

..-..-7

Marine Midland Arena. 12:30 p m

~-· A/umn1 Arena. l p m
1UHcley, -

10

Women's Basketball vs. C Connecl!cut State

Marine Midland Arena. 6 p m

Men's Basketball vs Syracuse

Manne Midland Arena. 8 p m

Friday, Dec. t 3
tv'len's Sw1mm.ng vs Niagara

Alumni Arena NatatOJium. 6 p m

Men's Basketball vs. Morgan State

Alumni Arena. 7:30pm

all e1ght at her attempts. 1nclud1ng s1x 1n the
f1nal m1nute to 1ce the contest Doty was held
SCOfeless 1n the hrst half by the Panthers but
f1n1shed the game with 12 po1nts UB shot
86.2 percent (25-of·29) from the tree-throw
hne 1n the game Cathenne Jacob led rhe
Royals w1th 14 pomts ( 12 1n the hrst half)
while K1m Coon added 10 oH the bench
Gardner topped the team with seven rebounds and SIX. aSSISts
UB hosts LoUisville 1n the~r next action at
Alumn1 Arena on Sunday. Dec 8 and opens
the1r M1d..con slate with Central ConnectiCUt
State at Manne Midland Arena on Dec tO

• voUEYBAU.
Coach Bob Maxwell's Royals completed the ~r
1996 season w1th a three...garne loss to even·
tual champoo ValparaiSO 1n !he sem1hnals of
the Mld-Cont1nent Conference V"'leyball
Tournament 1n VatparaJso. lnd . on Nov 23
UB f1mshed !he season w1th an 18- t6 mark .
1nclud1ng a 5·1 record 1n the M1d..Con's East
DIVISIOn
Sen1or outSide hitler Cand1 S1ms ted the
Royals With 15 kilts tn her l1nat colleg1ate
march for rhe Royals S1ms also garnered All ·
Tournament recogn111on as well as ne111ng All-

M1d.Cont1nent East 0Ms•on Ftrs!-Team hQn
ors lor the thltd consecutive year
The Royals placed l1ve on the teague's
All-East OMs1on squad S1ms and m•ddle h•t ·
ter Kathy Bnnkworth were named to the hrst
team. wh1le Somer Deschambault . Apnlle
Sweeting and Amy Burda rece1ved seconD·
team hOnOrs

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WRESTUNG

The Bulls wresthng squad opened thelf 199697 season Nov 23 at the Bkx&gt;msburg lnv•ta!lonal 1n Pennsylvama UB had mne placeWinners. tak•ng th1rd overall1n the meet
SenKX John Stutzman led the Bulls w1th
hiS VICtOfy 1n the 15Q..pound Wetght claSS
Stutzman defeated Drexel's nauonally ranked
(18th) 811ty Brown '" oven•me 1n the sem1f1
nals before dec1S1on1ng Duke's Conway
Hams for the utle
Jason Wart1nger at 118 pounds and Et1c
Gross at 177 also advanced to the hnats of
the~r respect1ve we1ght classes. but failed to
capture lilies
The Bulls are on the road at Rochester
lnsutute of TechnolOgy on Saturday. Dec 7
Then hrst home meet •s Jan 5. when they
hosl Rtder

- Ted Wasko. Sports lnformaflon OffiCe

Leners

UUP urges
Administration to
resume meetings with
SA elected officers

To- EdHor:
On N ov. 13, the B urrulo Ce nter C hapte r o f
the United University Professions passed the
followi ng resolution at its board meeting. and
voted to publiciz.e it withi n the uni versity.
''\Vhereas a democratic university requires
free and frequent discussions among under·
graduate and gradua1e student, faculty. starr
and ndministrnt ion, and
"Whereas long·standing practice at the
State University of New York al Buffalo has
established the democratically elected Stu dent Association as the legit imate representatives of undergraduate students. and
"Whereas t~e Admini stration has recentl y
refused to meet with dcmocrntically elected
St udent Association officers, suggesti ng that
it would prefer meeting with undcrgrndunte
representatives of its own designation. thu s
undermi ning establi shed democratic pr&lt;.~ cticc ,
" We theref ore call upon the Administra·
tion o f SUNY Buffalo to resume regular
mee tings with the democraticall y elected
officers of the Student Association ."
On behalf o f the entire Chapter Board,

JIEAH DICKSON,
Chapter Presrdent

Media needs to accent
environmental issues
Editor:
As a 27 year old who is always trying to edu·
cate friends and f amil y on the issues of the
environment , I wou ld like to know w hen the
medi a is goi ng to start helpi ng me out. Sensati onal stories get reported on: Exxon Valdez,
Love Canal , and every now and then we see
or read a story about pesticides. I am always
wondering, how ca n thi s be? H ave we be·

come so used to the fuct that our drmkmg wa·
ter is less than clean. and our air IS unsafe.
that spending a few minutes talking about it
is just bonng'' Do we need to know where
there was nn01her fire. or should we be m fomled about the chemicals and pesticides
used on our htwns and whill they cou ld be do·
ing to our c hildren. grand parents and our·
selves? Where arc our prionlu!:&lt;~? These are
questi ons we need to stan asking ourse h •c:,
and our loca l and national mcd1a .
I recently read an antclc in which a
woman said that she didn't !hmk thc Republi can attempt to roll back the Clean Water Act
was a serious problem because it wasn't cov ·
ered on 60 Minutes. Well. I like 60 Minutel&gt;.
but w here were they for a story that impacts
all of us? Those of us who do care more
about the future of our chi ldren than the latc'&gt;l
ce lebrity scandal need to spea k out and de ·
mand better. more meaningful coverage . lf
you'd like a few minutes of mindless TV.
watch H ard Copy. Certainly we should not btlooking to the news for the latest on

OBITUARIES
Lynna Jean Sedlak, former
personnel staff member
Lynna Jean Sedlak . 58 . co-owner of a Henet
Ave bOokstore . and a former stall membe1 rn
personnel at UB . d1ed Nov 18 al!er be1ng
stncken ill while shopping 1n Kenmore She
ran The Book Revue. a small tndependent
bookstore on Hertel Ave It clOsed July al1er
14 years of operation
Sedlak earned a doctorate .n Enghsh at
UB. working tn personnel at State Umver s1ty
at Albany, then at UB She also managed a
mumctpat park.ng lot and WOfked as a seete ·
tary·admimstrator fOf the Unttanan·UmversatISI Church ol BuHato
She had been a rev1ewer ol books and
claSSICal mus1c concerts for the BuHalo News
s1nce the 1980s

Madonna's new baby .. there an: mo re: than
enough places to get mfo on that '
For instance. our dnnlong wa1er "among
the safest m the world . but maybe that '~ not
saymg much. Timusands of people get std.
each year m th ~:-. country from dnnkmg l:ll)
and tow n water. That docsn' t !&lt;tound ,afc tu
me. Just because 11 1 ~n·t scndmg me 10 the
hospilal doesn't mean 1t ·, good for me• I'll
bet mn"it pcnplc don't even know that man)
wa1cr p t pe:&lt;~ are lined wuh ashc,to!o. whtch . 111
lime. ca n flake off and enter our wuter .;up·
ply Why 1sn'tthts hdng looked mto''
Anmher e~tarnplc come!. from the recent
el1!Ct11m~ The League of Con!tcn.•at1on Voterl&gt;
rated Bill Paxon '!. voung record on env lronmentaltssucs an ab)Oiutc LCro. Why didn·t
the mcdta mfonn the public that Bill Paxon
ga\'e the Senate Republican Campaign Com mince S I 00.000 to redruw ht:&lt;~ dtl&gt;tnct o;o that
at would mclude 50.000 more Republican
voters" Why wasn't th1~ brought to the :utcn tton of \'Oters '!
We all have to educate ourl&gt;e l vc.l&gt; and take
an mt cre&lt;iOt tn the umque and wonderful world
we an· so lucky to li ve m . Televss10n and
ncw!tpapcr:&lt;~ should be mcludmg themselves
1n that re'iponsibility. I t ''a responsibilityJUSt like pay tng the bills and taking care of
your family We are citiZens of this count f)
and of thts eanh. and there's no reason we
"ihould expect it to be an easy expcncnce . It
can be an extraordinary and cnnching one.
though .
STEPHANIE NAFTA.L
SeniOr. Enwonmental Stud1es

Want to carpool?
Internet, bulletin boards.
Rideshare can help
EdHor:
One way to make parking a little en.;ter. whtlc
being environmenta ll y friendl y. is by car·
pooli ng. US offers a variety of way' ru get 1n
touch with others from your area

Commuler Newsgroups arc elect rome
d1scuss1on groups that are 11\' atlahlc on the
mtemet Carpool:&lt;~ can be arranged by accc's
tng the suoya b .ca rpool new,.group Both nd crs and drt\'Cf\ can use tht' system to po!tt
me:&lt;~sage:&lt;~ and meet other comnnnerl&gt; m thctr
area lnfonnauon about ne~A commuter pro·
!!ra1m and !&lt;tCf\' ICe!o 13 ai:&lt;~O a\tlllable b) at·
ccssmg the sunya b.student · lift' .commul ers
ncwsgroup. Th is rc.'&gt;ourcc may ah.~1 tx- u,ed
to offer any concerns llr :&lt;~uggc,t•on' on ho""
Commuter Scrv u:e:&lt;~ can better 'ervc the 'tu·
den ts here at UB
There ts aJ,o a homepagt: •&gt;n UB Wmg'
spcc tfically geared toward commuteN and
off·campus students : hllp:l/
w ings.buffalo.edu/sludenl- lift&gt;/vp·uffairs/
stud ent-lireJcom&amp;o fT.html
The Commutt~r Rideboard l'i a carpooltng board where you can find ndcrl&gt; ami
dnvers from )OUr area Th1' '"located out ·
s1dt.' of Sunc I I 2 HI the Studcnl Unton In the
same area IS thl· Commut er D epol . ""h1c h
has area map.'&gt;. current FTA Metro Bus
schedules and mformatton about car mamtc
n::mce and defcns1ve dnvmg . Commuter
Bulletin Boards arc hx·afed nutl&gt;tde of the
Undergraduate Library m Cupc.~n H all and on
the ground noor of the Studc:nt Unton Thc'c
are updated frequen tly, po:&lt;~ung nc"" mformatlon and activllu:s for UB commuh!rl&gt;
Fmally. there IS the U B Rid eshare
carpooling progr.tm set up by 1he UB Em 1
ronmental Task Force and the NFfA for UB
faculty. starr and students Pamphlet!. to "gn
up for this serv1ce are located :11 thl· Com ·
muter Depot, or you can st~n up clecton~t.:.dl)
by : htlp:l/wings.buffialo.ed u/ n e" l&lt;t/
newsbureau/ridesharr
Carpooling can be a great ~A a&gt; to meet
people and share ndmg ex pen~ I f you ha\c:
any questions. stop by Suite 112 10 the Stu dent Union and the Commuter ServiCe' Of
fice would be happy to help
SHELLY SCHMAUIEISER
Graduate Asststanr
Commute' Se1v1ces Qtf,ce of Sruaem Life

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8

_THI)RS

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Anatomy and Cell BloloC:Y

Mol«u lar Genetic:5 or Ion
C hannehl, Prof Lmda M Hall,
BIUChtnHCIII l~a.rmacology 306

Fa~ r

SoUih Campo~ 12:30

p m Free

Butholo

Lo~

Colloqulu•
Solving the hangm11n pandox,
Maria m Thai~ . Philosophy. 684
Baldy Non h Campus 3:30p.m

Phyalc• Colloqulu•

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~-klentlat

The Di~ne Functions or
Mem ben of the Guanylyl
Cyc lue Reuptor Fam ily, Dr.
David L . Garbers. Univ. of
Tc:us Sou th weslcm Medical
Cemer. Dallas. Buller Auditonum, Farber. South Campus.
3 p.m. Free.
Baron Heterocyc.lel: New
Ligands for Earty Tnnsitton
Metals, Prof. Guillermo Bazan.
Unlv. of Rochester. 215 Natural
Sciences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

Muolc

BloloCJcal Selene••

Buffa~ Pbilharmonk Orch6·

_.,..

""--..ceutlc• ..........
Apoplosi5 a nd t he Production

or Biop harmacrulin l Prodncb:, Prof. Nicholas
Kalogcralas. Chc:mkal Engt nccnng. 508 Cooke Nonh
Campus 4 p.m

Ufe--.,
T ' ai C h i for ~gin n ers, Ron
Ingalsbe 5 p.m. To r'f!gislcr, ca ll
1hc- Office or S1udcn1 L1fe. 6456 125 .

UUAB Fllrn
H11~uiat

(J ulian Schnabtl:
1996). S1ude n1 Umon lllea1cr
North Campus b ]0 p.m. $2 ,
$3.50

CLOWHOICOPY Ill'

,.,. lo on . - In ., exlllllltlon at 8rt bJ t.coo1ty
end • • -· c:elebr8tlnc UB'o ~. The.-­
thrOUC)I Dec. 151n the U-...ty Art Gallery, Center for the Arto.

C-atry Col'-lum

Dy namics of Atoms in Optiul
l.a tlicrs, Dr J. Lawall. Nauonal
Jn,lllule of Scu~ nce and Technnlogy. 2 10 Nal ur.al Sciences
Nonh Campus. J ·45 p.m. Rc frc~ h mems at 3 15 p m tn 245
honc1.ak

The Guanylyl CydaR Rtteptors: No 'onxer playing second
fid dle! Dr. Davnl L. Garbers.
Unw. of Tell.as Sou1hwestcm
Medical Center, Dallas. Daslin~ ui s hed Speaker Semi nar Scnes
11 4 Hochstc ucr. Nonh Campus
.Jp.m

Box Thealn:, Cenler foc !he
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $3.
Opera
Semt.le, Opc:n. Workshop. Gary
Bura:eu. director. Open. by
Handel. Drama Thearre. Center
for the Arts. North Campus.
8 p.m. S4, SS. $6.

UUA.S Fll•
Emma (Dou&amp;bu McGrath;
1996). S1udcn1 Union Tbrau:r
No rth C.mpus 6· 30 and 9 p.m
$2. $3.50.

tra Holiday Conun .
Mainstage. Cencer (or che An.~o .
North Campus. 7:30p.m.
$ 19 .50, $24.SO. $29.50. Pro ·
cceds to benefic Rotary Club of
Williamsville charicics. Fo r 11ck ·
eb, call 645-ARTS.

-

S tudiowuks Da n ce £ruemb"'.
Works chortogr;tp~d by SIU ·
dents and dance facu lly. Blad:
BoA llleatre . Center (or lhe
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m $3

o-

Un lvfl"Sily CboruJ, Harriel
Simons. conductor. Proan.m includes Faure's Requium. Slec.
North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

Semele, Opc:ra Workshop, Gary
Burgess, dirt.c1or. Open:a by
Handel. Drama lbcau-e. Center
for the Arts. North Campus.
2:30p.m. $4. SS. 56.

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AIDS-~

Stmele. Opera Workshop. Gary
Burgess. director. Opera by
Handel . Drama Theulre. Center
for the Arts. North Campus.
8 p.m. $4, $5, $6.

UUAB Fllm
Emma (Doualas McGrath;

~~~-~~~d;:~ ~n~~; ~~~~;~50.

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EnvlfOINftental

E,..._..,_klence

~ EcMystem Ma nagement
Require a Fu ndamenta lly Dif·
frre nt Ki n d or E n vironme nta l
taw? Dr. Errol Meidinger, Law
School. 1-10 Keller. North Campus I I a .m

MlcrobloloCY

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S-Ad tnosylmtl hion int ttt r labolism in Afrita n Trypanow mt s JU a Basis for Drug Design·, Prnf. Jllmce R. Sufrin.
Phormacnlogy 244 Cary. South
Ca mpus. Noon

AaJ• Studlea Pro,_...
~lling Up Optntioru in Ease
Asia, Fronc1s C han, prestdenl
lntcmat/Onal. The Menl hoJatum
Co. Inc 205 Natural Sl'iences
North Campus 2 p.m

Computer Science
t..cture
Rtarrangtabilily of Mulliratt
Swil ching Ntlwork.'l, Dr. Dmg·
Zhu Du. Unl\'. of Mmnesoca
110 KnOll. North Cu mpu ~ .
;\p.m.

SEE~ PYTHON'S
"The -..wotl.llo" Dec.
6 In Student Union n.n.t.

UUABnl•
Monty Python's l ht Mnn ing
or Lift (Ten-y J ones; 19&amp;3).
Studem Union Theater. Nor1h
Campus 11 :30 p.m. $2, $3 .50.

-leooVICII
A Nigh t Under lhr St a rs. Doug
Pcpe, Residence Life Food and
clol hing donauons for lhe Bur.
falo Cit)' Mission moy be
dropped orr from 6-9 p.m. Il l a
srudenH:taffcd Site at Porter
Q uad Loop across frum the
Fargo parlong 1111 . Fargo North
C:un pu!o. 6 p.m -6 a.m

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S tudlowerks D111nct Ensemble-.
Works chorrographed by slu·
den rs and dance facully Blad:

BUFF.\1.0 PlfiUIARMONIC'S
. _ , . Cancert .. Dec. 6 In
Center lor tho Arb.

Cb&lt;!mkal Dope_, Tral·
m~nl . Jamieson Pany. Oaemcn
College. $60. Sponsored by In·
stitute for Addictions Studies
and Training. For infonnation.
cau 645-6140.

Jeu

-

UB J au. Ensemb~. Sam
Falzone, dir«toc. Baird. No nh
Campus. 8 p.m. Free .

·oclub

Aanual Soup's On Lu ncheon.
Center for Tomorrow. Nonb
Campus . $10: guest~ welcome.
For reservations, call Maria
Coburn, 688-4508 by Dec. 6.

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Roowell Peril Sbrff

A.sl•n Studl•• Pro&amp;raftt
Th~ WNV Prutnce in

East

A!l:ia. Carlos Rosa Gonza lez, in·
lcmationaltntdc spccialisl. Empire State Developmenl. 205
Natural Sciences Building .
North Campus. 2 p.m

Mu ..c
UBu rTalo Sympho ny, Mag nus
Manensson. conductor, with
Stephen Manes. piano. Program
tncludcs lvcs's Fugut in Four
Keys. Chopin's Grand Polona1sc
in E-Oat for piano and orchestra.
a nd Shostakovich 's Fiflh S)'mphony. Sltt. North C1mpus
8 p m. $3.

Pedlllttlc:GnlndRoundo
Updalt on Pedi.atrk AIDS,
Kyt1a Balcarek, M.D. Kinc h Au·
duo num, Chtldren ·~ tlospirol
8a .m.

MakJna EII'Ktive Prison to
Community lnmltioa.s in

Kid l ano«nl. Klnd erpnen,
M ylt~ry Dale, a nd L uell11
Saaebwb. Bana na Joe's, 100
Main Place Tower. 3 p.m .
Midnight $5.

lntei'IUitloftel Folk
~
All levels. 2 Didendorf South
Campus. 8· 11 p m. Free. Sponsored by Grnduale Stude nl
Assoc1a1ion.
Ope,.

Muolc

St udtowerkl Dance Ensemble.
Works choreographed by SI U·
dc:nl.s and dance"facully. Black
Box 'Theatre, Center for lhe
Arts. North Campus. 2 p.m. S3

EconoMic•.._....
Keynesian Involuntary Untmploym t n t in a n Overlapping
Generatio n M odel, Prof. James
M Ho lmes. Economics. 414
Fronczak. Nonh Campus 3:30
p.m.

ldulif.nlion and Initial
Cbaractt:riutton o r a Novel
Human Melanoma MttastasisSuppr't:S!iOr Gtne, KiSS-1,
Danny Welch. Ph.D.. Pennsy lvan ia Stale: Univ. College: of
Medicine, Hershey. Hilleboe
Audi aorium, RPCJ. 12:30 p.m.

Cotaftlwe Science
Colloqulu•
Ctnler for Cognitive Science
P.nel, 280 Pvk. North Campus.
2 p.m .
~NewY­

k ' - Fonl• t..cture
Bird Behavior. Prof. Michael S.
Webster, Bio logical Sciencc:s .
170 Millard Fillmore Academic
Cenle:r, Ell iron. No nh Campus.
7:30p.m. $20 for the series. To
~g is ter, call 645-6800, ell I.
2020.

Muolc
UB Wind Enstm ble., Sarah L.
Mc Kain, conductor. Slee. Nonh
8 p·.m. $3.

C:a mpu~ .

Ufe--..

Narnutt, Ro n Ingalsbe and
Tracy Collingwood . .S p.m. To
register, calllhe Office of Stu dent L1fe. 645 -6 I 25

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IEIIVI-

EftCI_IOII_klEnvironment Remfllialion:

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Scic~~tt or Rqulalion Dri~n'!
Dr. John Smith. 140 Ketttt.
North Campus. II a.m.

Pr...-atlca
Loao Couatelia&amp;. for Decem·
be:r 1996 graduates and non-

returning sludents with outstanding Di~Ut Student Loans.
Slaffotd. Perkins andfor Haith
Professions loans. 330 S1uden1
Union. North Campus.
3:30p.m .

u•--..,

CouDCil Room, 505 Capen .
Nonh Campus. 3:30 p.m.

-

Ex..._• eldolblt , _

" Area 51 : Crouing the Line"
rontiniJCs through Dec. II in !he
An lkpartmenl Gallery located
in the Center for the Arts. "The
show is an eJ~change exhibil
from Queen's Universily,
Kingslon, Ontario. Gallery
houn: an: 10 Lm.·S p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. WednesdayFriday, and 1 I a.m.-8 p.m.
Salurday. Admission is free .

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Art_..,the

An c.xhibi1ion of an by rnculry
and alumni celebrating the: seiquicenlenniaJ conliniJCi th rough
Dec. I.S in the Unive:niay An
GaUery, Cenler for the: Arts,
North Campus. "The show incl udes work by 17 facuhy and
23 alumni. Gallery boors are
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. WednesdaySacurday, and noon· 5 p.m.
Sunday. Admission is free.

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'1'reasurt:s from the Lockwood
Library- An Exhibit Ce:lebn.l·
ing UB 's Sesquicenlennial,., is
o n view in display cases on lhe
second floor o r Lockwood Library on the North Campus. The
exhibit fellures books of lhis
cencury, mosll)' from 1he 1920s
and 1930s, all Iaten from lht
itiCks. Timothy Conroy from
the Office of Publicat ions
curaled the exhibit, which con·
linue:s through Dec. 15.
F•eweH,~etlw., l

We' ve arrived al the closing
days or l...conardo Drew 's !lite:·
specific installation "No. 45-A."
If you've dawdled for the enlin:
year. ycm'n: still not too late.
The cxhibil's up unlit Dtc. I 5
in the Center for the Ans '
Lightwell Gallery on the Nonh
Campus.

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Community si ngers are invircd
10 join s1udcn1s in the University
Chorw (or lhc: spri ng Kmesltr.
Works to be rehearsed include
Haydn's "Cre:alion" for pcrfor-

mance May 2 with the: Uni\lersity Symphony, and RheinberJer'• '"Stabou Maier"' lobe
prelenled on I March 13 proeram wich orpn. Harriet
Simons is director. Rehtan:als
art Tuesdays and lbllt'ldlys
from .S:».7:20 p.m. in Ba.ird
Recilal Hall on the: North Cam·
pus. 1be first re:hc:&amp;rAI is
Jan. 21 .

...

_

Cou.udor CSL-J)-I.ntemational
Student a Scholar Services.
Postina tP-6052. ScatJ AtMc~
(SI,..I)-Unive:rtity Facitities.
Posting IP-60.S.S. Stair A.JIOCi..
ate (SIA)-cenJer for lbt Arts.
PoAin&amp; IP..fl056. Director SCv·
at~

dnl A&lt;tlvilles (SIA)-Dia!Ml ·
ity Services. Posting IP~ 8 .
Dinclor
PlouuoJoc aad
DevdopaM:at (SL-5)~
Ptannina and Placement. Posting IP-6059. Atsistaal VIce
Prtsidtn l (MP· l )· Admiuions.
Posting IP-6060. Senior Pro.
cra•mu Aaalyst (SIA)-.Com·
puling a lnfonnation Techoolo&amp;Y. Polling IP-6061. IUinac·
tionaJ Sup port Teduddaa
(SL-3)-Computing &amp; Informalion Tec:hnolon. Pos1ing
IP· 6062 . Diredor of Ad minbtralivt Sn-vkt:s (SL-6}-Stude:nt
Finances and Records. Postina
tP-6063. Dirtetor or Labor-alory AA.imal FKiliUu (51.4)l.a.boratory Animal Facilities.
Posting JP.(,()64.

c.,_

F-lty
Aaistaa l Professor-Counseling
and Edocllional PsychoiOCY.
Pos1in1 tF-6062. AasistnC Pro-ft:SJOf.Counseling and Educa·
tiona! Psyehok»gy, Posting
tf-6063. Asmlaol ProftUorLcaming and lnslructio n. Posl·
ing IF-6064. Fu ll ProfHIOr
a nd Chalr· Archiuxtun:, Post ·
in&amp; IF-6065. Assislant/A.aodalt/FuU ProftsSOr (four poQtiou avt~ilable)·~ of
Nursina. Posting IF· 6066.
A.tsistantJADodate Proftuor·
Medicine, Posling IF-6067.
Assi!lla.al Profeuor-Arc: hitecture, Posting IF--6068 . AWt.ant/Aisociatt Profegor-Mcd1a
Study. Posting IF-6069. AssistantJAuodalt/Fu ll ProftuOr·
Computer Sc1e:nce. Posting

•F-6070

R_,elt
Rtsnrt.h Aide-Sponsomt Programs Personnel. Open. Scaior
Director of Dndopmt-at Systems-Dc\ltk»pmcnt. Posting
IR-96064. Senior Palitnt Care
Speoc.ialist· Mfllicine. Posting
IR-96090. Deati:st-Oral Biology, Posting IR· 9609 1.

To obtai" Mof? infonno.Ji011 on
jobs fistt•d Q~1\'f', COIHOC1 Pf'f'·
sCNtn~l 5.-n·ic'ts, 104 Crofts
Hall. To obwin injormntiotr Oft
Rueorc-lt jobs, ron tact Spon·

sorrd PrvJroms
4 16Crofts.

Pusoon~l.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW VORl AT BUFFALO

UNIYIIISITY AT BUFFALO

State University ofNew Yom

November 21 . 1996 Volume 28. No. 13

Athletics to increase commibnent
to women's programs, add 3 sports
lly SUE WUETCHEII

News Services Associate D1rector

U

B WILL ADD THREE WOMEN ' S intercollegiate
sports-in lacrosse, crew and softball--&lt;luring the
nexl two years to increase the Division of Athletics' commitmenl 10 women 's programs, Nelson
Townsend , director of the division, told the Faculty Senale
Execulive Comminee at its Nov. 13 meeting.

lAIN GOODHEW of University of Re... lnc woll&lt;a with robot at UB.

Robot Teachers
Internet is cyber-classroom
lly DUN -.-AUM
News Services Editor

T

ALK ABOUT DISTANCE LEARNING!
The Universi ty at Buffalo on Friday was the si te of
one-halfofthe world's first cyber-experiment in which
robots on different continents communicated over the
Internet. The other' half took place around the world at
the Universily of Reading in England.

1be experiment was judged a success as two members of a troupe
of three-wheeled, six- inch-by-six inch robots resembling a child's
remote-wntrol toy auto and dubbed the "Seven Dwarfs" by their

creators took turns teaching each other a lesson about movement.
"Happy" at UB and " Bashful" in England took turns being mentor and student. demonstrating to the experiment's human designers that robots can use the Internet to teach each other new skills .
The experiment was sponsored by the UB Depanme nt of Electrical and Computer Engineering. which provided the computing
platform, and a group led by Kevin Warwick, professor in the
Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading . wh ich
created the two robots and the artificial-intelligence programs.
UB Professor Mohammed Safiuddin said the experiment's success shows that scientists ·•can begin to design intelligent machines
that fO uld 'debug ' themselves when problems ari se, based on in structions rece ived through Internet link -ups like thi s one."

T

he fact that the robots were able to communicate via the
Internet proved some important basic principles.
'The object of the demonstration was to show that robots
can exhibit some intell igence," added Safiuddin, advanced technology applications professor in the UB Depanment of Electrical
and Compute] Engineering and an ex pen in industrial automation.
Each robot participating in the experiment has its
own small brain and the ability to learn
from and
communicate with other "dwarfs.··
Endowed, or programmed. with only
two basic instincts, " Happy" and " Bashful" demonstrated that they can bui ld on
those insti nc ts and learn from their environments .
"The rules or instincts we gave the
robots were simply that one, it's good to
go forward, and two, it's'good to move away
from objects," explained lain Goodhew, doctoral candidate from
the University of Reading. who was in Buffalo for the demonstration.
Once swi tched on. the robots required no remote control or
human intervention.
The goal of the experiment was to get one robot t.o instruct its
transcontinental counterpart on how to move gracefully around a
cubic le. The two would then sw itch roles and the robot that had
learned the lesson would teach it to the other robot. (All of the
learning that one robot gained from the other. is immediately erased
Continued on page 5

Doing so. Town s end ex plained, will increase funding for
women 's programs, making the
proportion of total athletic funding spent on them renect the per·
centage of females in the student
body, as required by Title IX of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
During a wide-ranging disc us·
sion of athletics-including consideration of UB ·s conference af.
filiation and the role of the Faculty Senate in athletic s Townsend told committee members that the university dropped
out of compliance with Title IX
when it started awardi ng football
scholarships. Up until that time.
with a !iitudcnt-populati on make-

up that was about 57 percent male
and 43 percent female . UB had
been spe nding about47 or 48 percent of its athletic funding o n
women 's programs. he sa id.

U

nder Title IX . spendin g o n
intercollegiate athletics ts
to be made mlhe same proportion as found in the student
body.
"Since the day we started to
upgrade. it was never an issue,"
Townsend sa id. "Once we started
to upgrade football. it was automatically understood and recognized that we mu s t upgrade
women 's programs as well in order to achieve th is equity."
AI Price. associate professor of

plannmg and chair of the Interco lleg ia te Athletics Boa rd
(IAB)- the body lhal has JUri Sdi c ti o n over athl eucs-pointed
out that during the recent NCAA
cer11fica1Jo n process. UB was
asked to restudy minority oppor·
tunll y and gender eq uit y and
··w hethe r or not we were sau ,fied
with what we saw.
··we were not satisfied, gtven
what our posuion was at that time
and gtven the umver.;i~y ·s generJI
commitment to minorit y opportu nit y and gender equtt y." Pri ce
udded. " We committed oursel ves
to adjust the five·year plan internally in order to be able to have
an o rderly timetable.
'This is not a resource envi ·
ronment where we can snap our
fingers and make money fall out
o £ the sky," he noted." Accepting
that. we needed to be able to move
in a systematic way to achieve the
balance that faculty o r the instiConunued on page 2

UB research shows abnormal
brain activity after concussion
By LOIS BAKER

News Servtces Ed1tor

R-chers at UB have shown
that a concussion result !&lt;. in abnormul brain activity within the first
few weeks JX)St-injury. and that the
abnormality can last for months.
This activity correlates with patie nt complaints of phy,ica l a nd
emotional discomfort early on. and
later with various cog niti ve im pajrments. researc hers found . A
muhidi sc ip linary research team
headed by Richard Linn. assistant
professor of rehabilitation medici ne . unc overed the abnormal
brain activity in a small group of
patients with recent concussion.
using positron emission tomography. or PET. scans.
Thl• ultr•sensitlve imaging
technology allow s researchers to
witness the brain's ac ti vi ty. such
as it s use of oxygen or glucose,
as it is taking place. rather than
showin g it s struc ture . as with
magnetic re so nanc e imaging
(MRI) sca n&gt;.
Linn. progmm direciOr of the
UB Traumatic Brain Injury Reha·
bilitation System and a specialist in
the evaluation and treatment of persons recovering from serious head
injury. is one of the few researchers using PET scanning to understand mild traumatic bmin injury,
the medical term for conc ussion.

PET SCANS SHOW abnormal bnlln activity 2-3 weeks after Injury,
left, and Inc reasing and persisting after 3-4 months, right.

" In most instances. a concus·
sion is not going to cause signifi ca nt disability." Linn said. "The
question is. · Are the se people
thinking. less clearl y?' ' Yes.· ' Are
these changes in thinking rl!lated
to brain abnormalities?' ' Ye !&lt;o .·
"Does the co ndition pers1st for
several months?" Again. the ;m swer is 'Yes ....

"'The amount of di sabilit y de pends to some extent on the type
of day -to-day activity the individual performs." he stated. ··A
person whose job requires quick
renexes , focu sed concentration
a nd good coordination may be
more affected than someone per·
forming less demanding worl ."'
Linn ' s research is funded by
the National Institute of Disabil ity and Rehabilitat ion Research.
Concussion traditiona ll y has
not been considered a significant
med ical probl em. If patients don't

have a fracture or other compli ca ti ons. and they re~po nd normally during neuro logical exami ·
nat ion in the emergent) room .
they are se nt home.

"'In the first few weel !l postinjury. so me ma y ex pen e nce
headache. irritabilit y. di a iness or
fu zzy thinking. " Lmn sa id. "The y
may have an MRI scan. wh1ch
typicall y shows no abnormalit1e,.
Many may co me away sti ll fed ·
ing that their thinlmg 1sn' t n ght.
but they don 't knm~o wh) . We no"
are abl e to show that th ese 'y mpt o m ~ are related to a defin11~
change 10 brain actl\' 11). and th:J.t
th ese patienh are not m en~ ! )
1magming their sy mpt om~"
PET scans of six people who
had sustained a mild traumatu:
bra in injury admimstered dunn g
the first two to three week s afler
Cont.nued on page 3

�2

Davies $besses importance of involving undergraduates in research
tropoDC compounds. If they poss toxicol. ogy studies II NIH, thcz! the ncxtlllep could
be clinicll trials.
Davies said the move to UB had all vantages beyond his professiooa!life as a researChtr and teaclJer. Tbe move come with
"perfect limilig." since his children wer-e
nearing school age. "'The school systems
here are great, much better than North
Carolina," he said.
0

ORE UNDERGRADUATE

involvement in research
projects is the emphasis that
Huw M .L . Davies would like
to see developed in the UB
Chemistry Department
"How do you make UB stand out? 1bat's
one of the ways, .. he said. Davies sees undergraduate research as "a way of allowing individual interaction to occur in what
is a very large university.'"'
He brings the concern for involving undergraduates from Wake Forest University,
where he was a professor of chemistry before coming to UB in 1995.
Four UB undergraduates currently are
working in Davies' lab as part of his team
of aP&lt;Jut a dozen- he bas had more than
20 undergraduates as co-authors in past
publications. Davies feels that research
experi ence lets undergraduates deve lop
s kills for the chemistry job market.
" 1 have great fun teaching," emphasized
Davies, who has developed s pecial prob-

II)'IU.IN--News Services Edi!Of

A IIIIEAK1WlOU8II IN basic chemistry
HUW M. L DAVIES, , . - _ at~. Is -.,In his .....

making tropanes (chemical compounds

that are very selective in their interactions

students, "like a tutorial ." At UB, he has
used that approach both in a small class and
in a large undergraduate class of about 200

with the central nervous system) that is
very flexible, with the potential to target
drug addiction and depression. The research may have implications for treating
Alzheimer's disease.

studenrs.
The opponunity to work in a more re-

other offshoot for the tropane research is the possibility of develop

search-oriented program was the main at-

g diagnostic agenlS for various
central nervous system diseases.

lem-solving sessions for his undergraduate

\

Discovery may aid
cocaine treatment

traction of UB for Davies, lead investigator for more than $1.9 million in grants,
three from the National Institutes ofHcalth
and one from the National Science Foundation. ~d UB 's new chemistry building
and facilities definitely added to the advantages, he said.
His team has developed a method for

self," Davies said, "until I started a project in
aboutl985thatcontinuedtoblossom. We've
continued to expand with it since tbeo.
"We developed a rather esoteric liule
chemical reaction that turns out to have a
lot of flexibility as far 8s what son of compowtds it can make," he said.
"In the drug abuse area, we found that
our chemistry allowed us to make what
looked like really valuable compowtds in
terms of potential medications for cocaine
addiction that simply hadn't been made bo-

"It's a very practical chemistry, so that if
it does work, we would plan for itlo be very

fore and yet they seemed obvious

usefuJ in many d..irections;• Davies said.
"I used to have this philooophy that one
should do research for around a llut:c-year
period in one area aod then hopefully move
into a fresh area and totally rejuvenate one-

ones ... They've been very difficult to
make," he said, but "using our chemistry,
(the research) lwned out to be very straightforward."
Davies' research groups are testing the

bility in the area of athletics bas been limited primarily to poticy as it affects the academic program, such as the good-standing
requiremen~ academic requirements tike the
physical education requiremen~ or the quota
admissions poticy. Tbe body's chief involvement, he stressed, should be the way in
which it is consulted by the president in
terms of the composition of the lAB.

she spoke with many groups, including
deans, other administrators and students.
"You are a huge research university; you
are a federation," Duffield said. "You are a
place that has very strong areas and some
that aren'tsostrong. You have a fragmented
image; some of your parts are probably
fairly well-known with their specific constituencies and some of them are not. You
are nO! a place that's known in totality."

WOMEN'S SPORTS
Continued from page 1

tution, I believe, are commiued to and the
administration as well. And that has now

been done and we're on that track. ..
Townsend added that Brown University
was spending more money on women 's

athletics than any other institution in the
Ivy League and was found to be out of compliance because it didn't provide locker
rooms or other opportunities for women

athletes lo have the kinds of things that
male athletes had. "So that"s where the

greater concern is, that women have been
denied opportunity," he said. "It is possible
to have the same opportunity and not have
the same dollars," he said, noting that the

facilities available for women at UB .. mirror" those avm.Jable for men.
"Our problem right now," Townsend said,
"is we do nO! have equal amounts of money
being spent in our program, and that's what
we're auemptiog to address to make sure
there are opportunities for all of the women
wbo desire to play a particular sport."

F

or example, he n~led, while UB does

not have a lacrosse program for men,
there is a very strong women's la-

croose club program that is being upgraded
to the intercollegiate level, along with crew
and softball, within the next two years.
.. We recognize that we are not in com-

pliance as we want to be in compliance, as
we meet the letter of the law from OCR
(Office for C ivi l Rights in the Department
of Education, which has enforcement authority over Title IX) , we're closer than

most institutions in this country...
Claude Welch, chair of the Faculty Sen-

ate, told committee members he expects the
body to hear more on the issue during the
year from the lAB, as well as from a s ubconunittee on gender equity of the senate's
Afrmnative Action Committee.
He noted that Faculty Senate responsi-

P

resident William R Greiner agreed.
"Tbe jurisdiction of the Faculty Senate with regard to athletics is different than it is with regard to a variety of other
things," Greiner said. Tbe lAB specializes
in intercollegiate athldics, while FSEC members must be generalists because of the wide
variety of topics they deal with, he said.
Greiner said be would tike to alter the process in which he makes faculty appointments
to the lAB. Instead of taking recommendations from the FSEC and tbeo making appoinbnents, he would rather offer names of
interested faculty members lo the FSEC, and
have that body make the appointments. "I
think this (athletics) is a very complicated
set of issues, regularly walched by a body of
faculty members ... they're specialists . .. For
this thing to be periodically dmpped into the
Faculty Senate, which then has to pick it up
as a kind of a special-interest item, I don't
think is fully functional," he said, urging the
FSEC to work closely with lAB.

In other business, UB's marketing consultant told FSEC members that the university projects a fragmented image to the
outside world. Ann Duffield, senior associate and director of communications for
the University of Pennsylvania's Institute
for Research on Higher Education who has
been working wilh.UB 's development office on communications for the upcoming
capital campaign, conducted a communications audit of UB. In doing so, she said

B, Duffield noted, is seen, both in
lemally and externally, as being
somewhat impersonal, "a little daunting as an environment." People inside the university don 'I know what the commoo mission of the institutioo is, she said "This is
not atypical," Duffield says. but that finding
leads to a set of questions that must be addressed "Does the university want to present
a unified image, or does it want to have a sl&lt;xy,
or does it want to have a series of stories that
are not tied together?" she asked.
She noted that there are some institutions that are known by their parts, such as
Penn and its Wharton Sehool, and others,
such as the Uruversity of Michigan or the
University of California at Berkeley, that
are known by their whole names:
If UB wants to be known by its wbole
name, it needs to have some component of
its pubtic relations aod other outieach efforts
unified," she said "That has to be a conscious
decision and it 's a tough decision because it
means that parts of the institution give permission for decisions to be made about bow
the institution is going to pn:sent itself," she
said "II means some very tough and JlUlll050"
ful discussions, with faculty at bean of it"
• .. . The good news is you are doing
probably just as well as most of those other
research universities out there; the bad
news is you do not distinguish yourself
from them, nor they from you."
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achie~ by UB scientists bas the potential to expand drama.tically the variety and
potency of new phannaceutical compounds.
So far, the chemistry, which is based on
the use of a chiral catalyst, is being applied
by the UB team to develop a variety of new
chemical structures.
Among them is a compound to t=t cocaine oddietioo that is undergoing toxicological studies lithe Natiooa!lnstitute of Drug
Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.
Another compound developed by the
UB team bas demonstrated success in animal studies as an antidepressant.
Tbemethod is basedona~syn­
thesis stmtegy, ao extremely efficient method
where two large structural components are
brought togelber to aeate a compound.
This approach makes it possible to control the synthesis of a wide range of biologically important compounds that, until
now, could not be synlbesized efficiently
in the laboratory.
A patent on the method bas been filed.
The chemistry and some of the compounds that have been synthesized using it
wer-e described at the national meeting of the
American Cllemical Society in Orlando, Fla.

W. have developed a powerful, flexible method of synthesizing very important building blocks in organic synthesis,"
said Huw M.L. Davies, professor of chemistry at UB and lead investigator.
One of the most biologically active groups
of compounds to which the nevi synthesis
method is being applied are the tropanes,
which show very high selectivity in their interaction with various regions of the brain.
Past efforts lo develop a chemical treatment for addiction to Cocaine, which is a
tropane, have been haropered by the lack
of a reliable synthetic method.
Acconlisg to Davies, a major challenge
in contemporary cbemistry is the controlled
synthesis of chiral molecules. He explained
that such syntheses are important because
cbiral molecules and their mirror images
are different structures and each can display different properties, especially when
interacting with living organisms.
Pharmaceutical companies therefore
prefer to develop new chiral drugs as a
single isomer so they can avoid concerns
about the possible negative interactions of

the inactive mirror-image structure.
However, many existing methods of
synthesizing tropanes and other biologically important chemicals produce an equal
mixture of t11e two isomers.
By using a small amount of a chiral metal
catalyst, the UB scientists have found a way
to predetermine that only one structure-and
not its minor-image-will be produced.
In addition to compounds developed by
the UB team, Nobel Laureate E.J. Corey
of Harvard .University bas used the UB
method lo synthesize the active isomer of
the antidepressant sertraline.
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at Sunrise
Technology makes daily life easier
ORK BY THE UB Cen1er
for Assistive Technology 10
make life and daily living
easier for the physically
challenged was the focus of
William C. Mann, chair of the Department
of Occupational Therapy and center director. at the Nov. 13 UB at Sunrise program.
A high-tech slide show provided an
overview of services offered by the center. as well as a look at the !eehnologies
being developed in the center in Kimball
Tower on UB 's South Campus.
Assistive technology, Mann explained.
is work that takes any product or piece of
equipment and modifies or customizes it
so that when it is used, the item increases,
maintains or improves the functional abilities of people with disabilities.
Mann offered numerou s examples of
common and not-so-common devices and

equipment that have been adapted to fit individual needs. Some have proved valu-

able to clients, Mann said, although not
always for the reasons their developers
expected. A few. he admitted, are "overengineered" and too expensive o r specialized 10 be of practical use.

B

ut for persons who need help with

daily Jiving-ea ting . dre ss ing .
walking-even small changes are
very important.
For example. Mann said. the walker has
been in existence for 100 years. But modifications can make a world of difference for
some users. A walker that the Center for
Assistive Technology put together "has a 1m
of features not available on the·first walker,"
he noted, including wheels, brakes, a basket
and a tray that can be removed so the walker
can be used to sit on. 1be center gave this
walker to a woman in a nursing home; it was
so well·rc:ccived that six months later, 15
other residents were using the same model.
Not all assistive devices are as success·
ful. Mann shuwed a slide of a powered
wheelchair that had been adapted so the
seat opened up and the chair could be positioned over a commode "for people who
are having problems toileting." But the
modification didn't work well, he said. At
a cost of $20,000 each, the wheelchair was
an "over·engineered device. It didn't sell

and I don ' t believe it's on the market."
Mobility is not the only focus of the
center's work. For its vision ~ impaired eli~
ents, the Center for Assistive Technology
developed a magnifier that can be used
hands-free and has a built-in high-inlensity light. The advantage of the device,
Mann said, is not just the power of the
magnification, "it's the amount of light the
person has on the task they 're doing."

T:

center offers a number of devices
designed 10 assist people with their
daily tasks. Researchers have modified
!elephones 10 provide the visually-impaired
with auditory feedback on the number they're
dialing. They have modified laptop computers to display information in braille. For the
hearing-impaired, there is a device called
"quiet wake," which can be placed under a
pillow and vibrates to awaken the user; it can
be tied in to ftre alanns and lelephones as
well as alarm clocks, Mann said.
1be center also has modified television
remote controls with surprising results. The
prototypes featured large bunons and good
color contrast, but were big and bulky, which
designers thought clients would dislike. But
the devices were well received. "I won't lose
it," was the most common reaction to the
oversized remole-rontrol devices, Mann said.
"We didn ' t design it to be big, but we
discovered that losing the remote is one of
the concerns of clients," Mann said.
'There also areassistivedevices for people
with memory or cognitive impairments.
Medicine dispensers can be tied in to the telephone to remind people when it's time to take
their prescriptions. And ..there are a number
of devices that can alert a caregiver if a per·
son wanders off." Mann said.
The Center for Assistive Technology.
Mann said. offers tours of its facilities, which
include an electronics lab, a fabrication shop
and a small model house equipped with
assistive devices to be tried out.
The center also provides evaluati ons of
home environments. " How we design ou r
environments and modify them is impor·
tant and the focus of our work," Mann said.
The center works with the School of Ar·
chitecture and Planning to help clients
make adjustments to their living space.
While th e center designs devices for
people of all ages with disabilities. the
majority of the ce nter's focus is on de vices

CONCUSSION
Continued from page 1
injury and again three to four months later
revealed small but significant areas of in·
creased glucose metabolism in a region of
the cerebrum called the anterior cingulate,
more pronouACed in the right hemisphere
than the left.
All patients in the study with abnormal
PET scans had had normal MRI scans, and
showed few outward signs of injury. PET
scans appear to be more sensitive than MRI
scans or other techniques in detecting these
changes. Linn said.
The Increased UM of glucose may be
a sign that the cel1s are repairing them·
selves after injury. or that their ability to
function is diminished and they need more
·energy to perform the same work, Linn
said. Regardless of the mechanism. they
are behaving abnormally. he noted.
In the early stages after injury, this abnormal activity com:Iated with patient complaints.
such as headache, initability. anxiety, depression. dizziness and lack of concentration.
symptoms so common to concussion suffer·
ers tha~ if they pe111is~ are dubbed collectively
··post~oncu ssive syndrome."
After three to four months, the areas of
abnormal activity had enlarged somewhat

and were correlated with impaired atten·
tion span, verbal memory. motor function
and information processing. but not with
post ~ concu ssio n sy mptoms. findin gs
showed.
"'The abnormalities in the brain renected
how well patients performed on cognitive
tests," Linn said. "The greater the abnormality, the worse the patient 's performance."
Unn . .td the only treatmen t for mild
traumatic brain injury is education and pa·
lienee. ''People just have to wait it out.
More than 50 percent of patients are bad
to normal by six months: more than 95
percent are fully recovered in a year."
Patients and health·care professional!o
need to be educated that mild brain injuries definitel y produce br.1in abnormalitie ~
that lead to cogniti ve and emotional symp·
toms, Linn said.
"Patients need to know they aren't gOing crazy, and that what they are experiencing may be a normal pan of the recov ery process."
The researchers currently are conducting
further research using PET scans to study
bmin function following brain injury.

WIWAM C. MANN opeoks at Center lor Tomorrow.

to assist the aging. Mann nored that be·
tween 1970 and 1990. the number of
people ages 85 and older doubled, and that
that age group is expected to continue to
expand. "The highest number of disabled
is in the population over age 85." he said.
'The impact on the quality of life can be
dramatic with assistive devices ...

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tion and UB's Office of Conferences and
Special Events, News Services and Office of
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Technique gives scientists first peek
at atomic interaction between proteins
By Eu.EN GOLDBAUM

News Serv1ces Editor

N AN EXPERIMENT th at they expect
will prove applicable to the whole cas·
cade of biological communications
known as signal transduction. research·
ers at UB's Center for Structural Biology
have for the first time produced and ob·
served the separation of two kinds of
atomic interactions between proteins.
They did it using a new device they de·
veloped, the first that combines a high·pres·
sure capability with state·of~ th e~art. threedimensional nuclear magnetic specltOSCopy.
The cost of the new method is a frac ·
ti on of that of other techniques that have
been used in attempts to conduct similar
experiments.
A pape r describing the research was
published in the Nov. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society .
The research provides scientists with the
first tool that will al1ow them to determine
which kinds of interactions involved in the
association of proteins are more nece sary
in a particular protein comple x.
These protein· protein interactions are not
only at the hean of many biological functions. but also are critical in the develop·
ment of disease states, such as cancer.

I

P

roteins associate because of two kinds
of interactions: ionic interactions involv·
ing the attraction of opposite charges and
more subtle interactions often tenned van der
Waals' or 'hydrophobic' interactions," said
A. Joshua Wand, profeSSQr of chemistry. biological sciences and biophysics at UB and
director of the Center for Structural Biology.
"Until now, it has been nearl y impossible to
cleanly determine which class of interaction
or force is the dominant contributor to the
a'\soc iat ion of two proteins."
The ability to determine which kind of inter·
action is more necessary is critical in drug de·
velopmenL "Ifyou'redesigningadrug, you need
to know which is more important: the grea~y.
hydrophobi surface contacts that occur be·
tween two p eins or the ionic inte.rnctions
between them."
· . "Now we may have
a tool to routinely solve that question."
In 1he experiments conducted at UB . the
rt!searchers were ab le to seleclivel y break
the ionic interactions between two proteins
while keeping the complex intact.
"What this means is thilt in this case.

the ionic interactions thai were broken were
responsible for specific ity. and were not
necessary for general binding," said Wand.
Consequently. if pharmaceutical scientists
were designing a drug that needed 10 bind one
of these proteins. !hey would focus oo compounds that woold promou: surface contact.
Wand said the research provides a way to
settle a long~standing argument in chemistry
over which kinds of interactions confer af·
finity. which confer specificity and whether
or not they are different inter.1ctions or the
same. Affmity detennines the ability of two
proteins to stick together. while specificity
allows for recognition between them.

T

o find out. each interaction must be iso-lated and s1udied. But until now. scientists have not had a reliable method; they
have traditionally used mutagenesis. a process by which they ge neti cally alter one
amino acid in a protein complex m separ.1te
and study the two interactions.lbe alteration
of the a(llino acid has actuall y changed the
proteins themselves. so that the results are
complicated to analyze and often inaccurate.
Researchers also have tried to isolate the
interactions in a protein complex by subjecting it to very high pressures. Ionic inter·
actions are extremely sensitive to pressures
of 500-600 atmospheres. or I0.000 pounds
per square inch. Under these conditions. in
contrast. hydrophobic interactions are much
less sensitive to hi gh pressure.
lberefore, Wand explained. pressure can
be used to selectively break ionic interactions
while leaving the hydrophobic interaction~
intact. 'This allows one to see 1f ionic inter·
actions are necessary for binding.'' he added.
The UB researcher.i were successful with
the inexpensive devict! they deve loped. wh1ch
combines state--of·the·an, three--dimensional
nuclear magncti&lt;.· spec tro~opy. an atomicscale technique. with h1gh pressure
"Advanced NMR techm4ue' allo" u~ to
examine the structure of protem~ m atomll'
detail under condition.., where the IOmt· Interactions can be removed b) pre~!'lure." ~a1d
Wand. "For the finitllme. we are able to get
a detai led look at the structurJI role of aonK
interactions betwec:n protein......
P.Jper co-author.; are Jeffrey L Urb:u.,r. nosearch assistmt profes."" of chemistry; M:ul.
R. Ehrhardt. doctoral candidate; Ramona J.
Bieber, research specialist. and Peter F. Aynn.
research assi!~-'tan l professor of chemistry.

�1996 SEFA campaign very close to goal
-...oN-, .......... oC llbletica aad 1996 SBPA cb1ir. boa
-ma

IODOIIIICed lb8t the univenity COIIIJIIIIIIity is
liB p i Ia this year'll......,.;gn.
Al:cordia&amp; 1o Towmmd, "1be U1liled Way bows lhat It em C0U111 .., UB.
They've alreody budgded far as to .make Dill' $63'.000 pl. and we' re aJmoot
tbete. That flull pen:all could make a big difl'ereace for many people Ia
New York. Makin&amp; 011t ga.l is Important to our SBPA beaeficiari&lt;s, and wiD be a
great DIDIIIeDt for all the bardWillkias volun~~:e~S oo both caJilPI*&amp; wbo llave
worked 1o get the wonlou1 about SBPA.
-n.erc are probably people oul !bono wbo bavc planned to pledge but blw:o•t
yet turned Ia tbeU SI!PA forma. We bopc they'll reopood sooo.• be aaid, "811dlhal
we•JJ be able 1o brio&amp; this year's campoisn 1o a cloee by reportiaJ aDOtber great
UB victory for people in our COIIIIDIIIIlty.•

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Management programs rank high
a Y - DIUA CON'IItADA

Reporter Contributor

TIE MilA AND UNDEReRADUATE business programs in the UB School of Management are among the best nationwide, according to a recent rating of the top business

Weather outside is frightful? Here's
what UB _emplOyees need to kilow
hen winter weather conditions
become so severe that the university cannot o perate e ffec,
lively, an announcement to that
eel will be made over local mdio Silins, incl uding WBFO-FM 88.7, which
y broadcast more dellliled information.
llie ini tial announcement will be made by
6 a.m. and will be repeated mquently.
Before this decision can be made. we
must determine local road conditions, the
abilit y o f o ur bus service to provide transponat ion within and among the campuses,

W

Campus Parking Issues
winter bus, parking Info
The OffiCe of Campus PaOOng and Transportation SeMCes has issued the follovring
statements

Winte r - ...,lc- . J Dela~o

Winter will soon be upon us. and not unlike
other winters, this one is sure to bring the

Western New YOfk area ampk3 snowfall.
Given the inevitable.

we would like to ask

that students allow' themsetves extra time to
get to classes, as poor weather and road
condltioos on those extremely wintry days
will undoubtedly create some Blue Bird

-·

"ansportation delays

Owernltlht ~-- ..-Jng

Campus Parking and Transportation Services would like to remind you that winter
parlting rules will be enforced ~15
through April15. There is no overnight parl&lt;ing (mldnight-6:30 a.m.) except in designated spaces or loes. Please be parking
considerate. Do not park M1 fire lanes or
triple pari&lt; (making three lanes out of two).
Tnple parking inconveniences 8V9fY008 and
your vehicle may be towed.
Overnight parking is restricted to the lc&gt;'lowing lots:
South
(designated areas only)
• Abbon {student tal)
• Dielendor1 "
• Main-Salley
• Michael"
• Townsend
• Parker

campus

North Gampus {entire lot. except as noted)

• Governors E
•
•
•
•
•
•

BairdB"
Cooke A
FUfnas· (designated area only)
Goverl10fSB
Spaulding , Riclmond. Fargo (EIIICOI1)
Arena

·tscutty/stalf lots-student permits not vafid

la.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday.

and our ability to keep the campus roadways and parking lots open. Once the announcement is made, however, only essential service employees are expected to £Coo
port to work. Heating Plant, Chilled Water
Plant, University Facilities, Security, Animal Care, Food Service, Health Service and
other employees who are essential to maintaining the university's vital services, to
providing food for dormitory residents, and
to cleaning the parking lots and roadways
should make every effort to get to the university. In order to ensure that those in your
area who should come in know who they
arc, it is advisable that they be notified
again (or initially) at this time each year
so that there is no misunderslllnding if and
when a snow anno uncement h as to be
made. All others are expected to silly away
from the campus for the dumtion of the
announcement period.
'W'hose employees who work on these days
I should, of course, be marked present.
All others must charge the time to personal
leave credits, e ither vacation, personal
leave or compensatOry time. Anyone who
docs not have sufficient accruals may bor-.
row from future accruals. Only the Governor can officially declare that the University at Buffalo is closed and only he can
authorize employees to remain away from
work without usc of leave credits. In all
other cases, a UB employee must charge
this time not worked to vacation, personal
leave or compensatory time.
Notwithslllnding the above, no person
who is able to and docs get to work will be
deprived of the opportunity to work. Furthermore, if it is determined during the
course of the work day that the university
&lt;;llllDOI operate effectively, no employee
should be ""Juircd to leave at that moment;
employees should mther be permitted to
leave then or any time thereafter. Only the
time that they arc absent should be charged
t o leave credits.
We cannot guarantee that those employees who g et to campus o r those who stay
after a sno w anno uncement is made will

be able to work at their nonnal work places.
Adequate supervision may be unavailable
or it may be that the building in which the
individual wor ks is n ot open. Provisi o n

should be made for alternate campus work
l ocations and alternate work for those who

do get to the campus but who cannot go to
their regular work places or cannot perform
their regular work assignments.
~J.W-

Senlor VIC6 President

schools in America.
The Gourman &amp;porr, released this month by National Education Standanls, ranked
the UB MBA program 41st among the top SO MBA/management schools in the U.S. and
the undergraduate division 24th among the top 45 programs in the counuy. The UB
accounting and doctoral business programs also received "strong" rccommcndations by
the report.
·
Published biennially, the Gourman &amp;porr measures the ovcrall academic quality of
more than SOO accredited U.S. business schools based on 18 criteria for evaluating student quality, faculty quality, research and libraries. First issued in 1980, Gourman is
considered the most comprehensive of several publications that rank colleges and universities. It is used as a rcscan:h tool by students, educators, business executives and
corporate recruiters.

pr.-•--

1'he UB MilA
...,t (rom 1994's ranking and was given a score of
4.40 on a 5.0 scale; the undcrgrad program remained at 24th from 1994 with a score of
4.46. The University of Rochester MBA program was ranked 37th by Gourman and was
the only other Western New York business school included in this year's report.
"While not as widely known as ranltings by popular magazines, The Gourman &amp; porr is held in very high cstccm for its more qualillltive method of rating business schools,"
said Frederick Wmter, dean of the UB School of ManagemcnL "We ' re proud to be in
such good company."
The UB MBA program also was cited as a "distinguished" program, placing it in the
top 50 among 750 accredited programs nationwide, in the 1996 edition of "The Best
Gmduate Business Schools" published by ARCO.

OBITUARIES
John R. Border, pioneer
in trawna research
A memorial service wilt be held at 1 p.m. on
Dec. 6 in Baird Hall on the UB North Campus
lor John A. Bofder, 70. an internationally
knoYm researcher at UB who d ied Nov. 11 ot
a heart attack at his South Wales home. His
pioneering work continues to save thousands
of accident and
injury vk;tims from
multipte-system
organ failure.

1.111lfii~;J

Border. who joined
the UB faculty in
1965 as a member of
!he Department ol
SUrgery, was director
of the trauma service
at Erie County Medical Center (ECMC)
.__.-._. and director of !he
JIOIItOER
l{auma Research
Program in the UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences from 1968 until his
retirement in 1991. when he became professor emeritus of surgery and orthopedics .
In the early 1970s. he led a team of UB
researchers In developing treatment plans to
prevent the stress of severe, multiple trauma
from producing a chain of biochemical events
that. if not treated with combination protein
and glucose therapy, could lead to death.
Before the group's Vt'Ork was universally
accepted. many who suffered severe injuries
improved following surgery and other treat·
ment. but suddenly took a downhill course
and died
In a 1982 lntervtew. Bolder explalried that
when the body does not receive adequate
amounts of protein to meet increased demands to maintain func tion and begin repair
of damaged tissue, it draws on it~ own resources from muscle and other vital organs.
"The fatal sequence--multiple-system
organ failure-must be recognized and
treated as soon as possible aher the original
trauma. • he emphasized.
Much of the lilasaving research over the

1'1

years was funded at UB through grants from
the National Institute of General Medical
Servk:es.
Although officially "retired," Bofder continued his wort&lt;, both locally and internationally,
to improve the treatment of trar..ma patients.
Wearing his tredemarl&lt; flr&amp;-engine-red
suspenders. white shirt and tan slacks, he
regularty visited his office at ECMC.
In October, he had attended protesskxlal
and scientific meetings in Scotland.
The modest, so11-spol&lt;en Border trained
hundreds of UB medical students and reoidents during his career, insp iring them by his
example to not only b4f good surgeons, but to
practice the ·an· of the profession.
It was not unusual for him to sleep over·
night in his office at ECMC in case a patient
he was especially concerned about needed
him during the night.
A 1956 graduate of Harvard Medical
School. he did his undergraduate work at
Harvard and Indiana universities. He served
in rhe U.S. Navy SUbmarine Service from

1944-48.
He and his wife. the former Donna
Orvedahi. continued to en;oy his love of the
sea. traveling on the Great Lakes and down
the East Coast after his relirement on their
sailboat, DooJon II.
In 1985, The Butfalo News honoced htm as
a Citizen of the Year. He served on the American College of SUrgeons Convnittee on
Trauma from 1982-91, was on the board of the
American Trauma Society and a former president of !he Buffalo Trauma Society.
He was a member of more than a dozen
professional organizations, authored or co-authored more than 200 scienlific articles and
text materials, and delivered more than 200
lectures woftdwide during his career
In addition to his wife, he Is survived by
sons John, of Rochester: Peter, of Minneapolis; and Charles, of South Wales; two sisters,
Mildred Bofder and Barbara Hale, and tour
grandchildren. A daughter, Ame Ruth, preceded him In death.
A funeral service was held Nov. 151n St.
Mallhlas Episcopal Church of East Auro&lt;a

�MRS. IRDIE PAI.MER, left, whoFeculty Club ..-ptloollat " - 19571971 , . - her-.

UB'a c.. pw: Ctub, wbldl is plualaa a Mries of
evutt ladud'-a alleiWay ,...,, fer -a~ ben H
lle&lt;. l :l,lo..,. locoUdlaGeod,...-lld. Tloodo~,
wbida ..... to buDd a ttalt of co.•uaitJ ud coiJePaUtJ be!Wfto r.a.Jty oad pro(aoloool .wr,
has • loaa aDd colorfUl history, to.e ol whkll lt
recorded bU'f by Robert Daly, Dlatlaa.Jdr:d
Ttodda&amp;l'nlf...,. ef &amp;.&amp;liM oad c-ponllvt
Llttntu.re aDCiaiMmba-oflbt C..puJ Club.

A Community of
IndividualistsOur Paradoxical
Campus Club
As an old definilion suggests, a professor
is a person who thinks otherwise. That
rugged individualism pervades university
culture so it's paradoxical that almost all
major universities have something called
the faculty or university or campus club
and that this phrase refers, not to the
weapon of choice, but to an organization
in which persons selected for their competitive visibility are expecced to become
colleagues. ll 's a difficult task, and it is
to UB's credit that we embarked on it in
October of 1953, with the formation of
the Faculty Club. On 31 Jan uary 1954
the club moved into its first clubhouse.
the building now known as Beck Hall .
But woe. members tended to leave the
building, afler eveni ng functions, with
windows unlocked and even open,
thereby exposing the clubhouse to a particularly threatening band of potenti al

miscreants. The time had come for a
stem admonition to these~lackers. and
Frederick H. Thomas, head of Industrial
Engineering and president of the club.
was up to the task. On 16 March 1955.
he dressed them down and shaped them
up in language emphasizing that they
were each other's keepers. This language
of collective responsibiJi ry is also an ancient university tradition, and we need it
to balance (not to replace) our own language of individual self-assenion and
self-inflicted self-esteem.
"We have one problem," he wrote. ··in
which each member must panicipate,
and this is one of protection," protecti on
from a group of malefactors: "Considering thC trouble we have with the grade

Childproofing your home for the holidays
" KEEP IIOUDAY HOUSEPLANTS and

Christmas trees out of the rench of small children and pets," warns Debrn A. Quadrani.
clinical preceptor of pharmacy at UB and
director of the WNY Regional Poison Control Center at Children's Hospital of Buffalo.
Berries from holly, mistletoe and Jerusalem
cherry, if consumed in quantity, are poisonous to children and pets. Christmas tree decorutions, as well as plant pans, can cause choking on children and pets.
other point...:
• Remind guests to keep medicines and
tobacco out of the reach of children and pets.
• Place an tifreeze, windshield cleaners

and mher liquids for cars and snow blowhigher garage shelves. Don ' ttransfer these to old milk cartons or co nt a in e r~
that children assoc iate with food or drink.
• Remove glasses with leftover alcohol products from surfaces where children
can reach them.
• Remove ball oo ns from the reach of
children. Children can easil y choke on balloons that arc not inflated. as well as pieces
of balloons that have been popped.
• Do not give toys to children unless
the minimal age requirement is met Small
pans and pieces from toys can cause choking in small children.
ers on

Leners

Volunteers needed as
English language tutors

Dear Editor:
1 wo uld o nce agam like to mvue me mbers of
the U B community to vol unteer a!l Eng li sh·
language tutors for new cm1 gres fro m the
former Soviet Umon. Emigres contmue to ar·
nve a nd are m g reat need of one-on-one con·
vc rsut1o n with Amen ca ns. You don"t need to
kno w un)' fo re ign lang uages. JUSt ha ve a
fn c nd ly manner and an mtcrest in peo ple
PlcaM: coa ll Julie Lcwitzky at 883- 19 14. MWF
9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Yo ur he lp will be grca!ly appre·
c1atcd
Smccn: ly yours.
EMILY TAU
Assoctate Professor ol Russ1an

ROBOTS
Continued from page 1
when the robot is switched off. )
The two communi cated via radio-frequency signals sent to personal computers
in their respective university laboratories
that then were transmitted via the Internet
During the ponion of the experiment in
which " Happy" assumed the role of student.
the r'obot at UB stood still while it accumulated infonnation being sent from "Bash·
ful" via the lntemeL A few moments later.
it began moving erratically. Soon. it was
gliding across the floor confidently, successfully steering clear of the cardboard retaining wall that had been erected around it.
Four ultrasonic sensors enable the ro-

sc hool children this is an invitation to
them to enter and possibl y cause considerable damage."
Apparently, the letter worked. The
club grew. and in the '60s. it moved out
of its original home and into a wing of
what was then H a rriman Library. The
elegant Mrs. Irene Palmer, club receptionist from 1957 to 1971 , moved with
the club, sat at a desk with a vase of
fresh Ouwers on it. and welcomed colleagues. We continue to welcome you
still. to a club imperiled. even in good
times. by the carelessness of its own

bats to detect how far they are from nearby
objects in the same way that ult rasound
helps a bat avoid obstacles.
At one point, the experiment took an unexpected tum as either the slippery noor, or
possibly a buildup of dust on its wheels. had
"Happy" bumping into the retaining wall.
But this proved a learning opponunity
because moments later the robot slowed
down. demonstrating its ability to take what
it had just learned and adapt to its en vironment.
"lt"s like when a baby is learning to wulk
and it keeps bumping into things: · ex·
plained Safiuddin. "After a couple of tries.
the baby knows not to bump into them. It
has learned from its environment. In much
the same way, these robot s are demonstr::H·
ing a very simple form of intelligenct&gt;.""
He added that with today's increasingly
global economy and the spread of prod w.&gt;
tion plants throughout the world. the time
has come for robot s that can perform tasl.. s
intelligently in industrial senings.
"Our demonstration shows that we do not
need any extraordinary hardware or soft ware in order to conduct communicati ons
between robots in different locations. even
in different countrie.'i," Safiuddin explained.
"We can tap into the existing infrastructure of the infom1ation superhighway."

Hatefulness has no
place in academia
To -

Editor 1111d Academic

Community:
In li ght of se veral recent d isplays of hateful
rac ist. sex ist. anti ·gay graffiti . and o the r &amp;n ·
1o le mn1 behav1or o n campu s. the Umver-ilt)
Commillee for the Pro motio n of To lcr•.mcc
and Diversit y fee ls compell ed to rc!~po nd . An
import:mt part of the commiuec"s charge is to
seck ways to unify the cu mpus commumty of
stude nts. facult y and !llaff and to addres!l in·
tolerJ nt behav1or. We are deeply concerned
that indi viduals who c reate graffiti mo tivated
by hat r:fulncss may have an ultim ate a im to
(.·au .. c harm to a hum an be mg. Such hatcful ne'' ha!&gt; no pi act: m our :u:adenu c co mm u·
nil)" O ne of the dee pest va lues we ho ld as an
acadc m1c community 1!1 the tolc r.mce of d l·
"er..e \ 1cws and life styles. unt1l they mfnnge
o n thr n ghts of o thcn..
Thl' conun iuce i!&gt; Lled1c:.J ted to the pn n·
n plc of free speech uphe ld by the um versi!y.
Everyone on ca mpu ~ h :.~s a ri ght to ex press
hl !t or hCr personal views, even when those
VICW!o ..cern rigid o r into lerant to o then .
Morcu ver. it is essential to the nature of the
uni ve n.ity that it serve as an o pen fo rum for
the di,c uss ion of all ideas. e ven whe n those
1 dea ~ are thre atening to some of it s members
Ne vertheless, we must stri ve to conduct the
di scu).sio n in a way that is rational. ca lm and
o pen to other points of view. Eac h of us must
be will ing to state o ur views publicl y. ro lake

constituents and by such outside forces
as those nefarious grade-school children,
waiting like goblins to crawl into any
window left open at night, but also to a
cl ub still fun. since a commun ity of individualists is the most interesting kind of
community. and to a club still necessary.
smce we are all and always in th is toge ther.
With thanks to ~ o lleagu es in Archi ves.
-IEJI'TDAJ..Y
DistingUished Teachmg Professor of Eng11sh
and Comparative Literature
Campus Club member

responsibility for o ur v1ews and to listen to
crittc isms of o ur vie ws. Only tn th1s way ca!l
di scussion serve the educat1ona l pu rprn.e!o to
wh1c h the um versity is ded icated.
lndJ\IIdunls responsible for hatefu l gr.tffi tl
and mto lernnt acts that vio hue the right s of Olh·
en. should reali1.e that every cffon will be mude
to apprehend them. Individuals also need to be
awllf"C of the consequences of their octs. Crimt ·
nal charges for aggr.wated harassment and
cnnunul m1schJcf can be lodged agamst anyone:
wriung o n property belo nging to UB. Harmful
acts against individuals, including gruffitl. are
acLJvely mvestigated by Public Sa fety and are
tncd by the Student-Wide Judiciary. lncidents
of th1s nuture can ~ult in both criminal and adm i n istro.~t ive charges, leading to suspension
from the uni versity.
The committee in vites all students. facult y
• and sta ff to provide info rmatio n, e xpress con·
ccm s o r make suggestio ns to us that will asSISt us in add ressi ng proble ms of into lerancr.
In pam cular. we ask all me mbers o f the UOI ·
versit y community to help us create an envi ronme nt o f mutual respect in whic h we can
free ly di sc us!~ o ur differencrs. e ven when
those d ifferences are painful or divisive . We
must usr our d iffe rences to learn from each
o the r. To further these ends. the committee io;;
pl anmng to o rgani ze to wn meeting fo rum ~
and related ca mpus e vcnb in whic h all v1ew!l
can be ex pressed in a c1vil manner and in
wh1 ch mutual to lerance can be e nhanced All
of U!l must wo rk toget her 1n o rder to build a
bcll cr a nd to lemnt communit y where d1ffer·
encc 1). accepted and cele brated .
R!!spon scs to the call ror s ug~:esll o n '
'iho uld be fo rwarded to· Conun111ee for the
Promot iOn ofToleranle and D•vcrsny. D1 \ •·
s1on of S tudcm Affa1P.. 5~2 Capen Hall. tck
phone 645 -.2982 or fa.-: ~5 · 5%6
Respect full y.
THE COMMITTEE
DonnaS Rtce
co-cha,
Mtchael Stokes
CO· Ch81f

Madtson Boyce
Barbara Campbell
Trmothy J Contoy
Slneue Densoo
Alexts Deveaux
Bnan K Doyle
Mtehset Gendruc

Stuart Goldberg
Nick Goodman
JoflnGrela
Jorge Gul!art

Ma rta [lena Gu1terre.!
SungJ-..tm
Yolanda K1ng
Lynn lion
Teflell fvfonroe
Frank Schtmplhauset
Ton1 Schunke
Toby Shaplfo
..John Staley
Helen $!evens
Stmley WaJket
Betty w,u,ams
Manuel Wong
Lana Z1nk

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Talks in December sponsored by
the Asian Studies Program will
cover a variety of management
subjects.

J"""'-o H-., UB ass!stant
professor of communication. will
speak on "Management Style in
Chma· on Monday, Dec. 2 at 2 p .m.
•n 205 Natural Sciences Building ,
North Campus.
laaohul Zltang, assistant pro-.
lessor of government at Daemen
College. will speak Wednesday,
Dec 4 at noon in 4 79 Baldy Hall on
"Ftscat Recentralization and the Fu·
lure of Cenuat-Local Relalions In
Chtna • The event is the final one lor
!he fall semester in the Asia at Noon
senes o f brown bag luncheons
sponsored by the Asian Studies
Program at UB. Campus and community are invited . Zhang, a spectalist on the polillcal economy of
Chtna. is a native of the Peopkfs
Republic of China and l'loJds a
Ph 0 from the University of Texas.
Coni N . Snoclvra•a. cha•r.
Management/Marketing Department. Canisius College. will speak
on "Management Style in Japan· on
Wednesday. Dec 4 at 2 p m in 205
Natural Sciences Building. North
Campus
Fr~~~tele CMn, Pres1dent International ol the Mentholatum Company. Inc., will speak on "Setting Up
Operations •n East Asia" on Fnday.
Dec. 6. in 205 Natural Sc1ences
Building, Nonh Campus.
Caito. Ro- Gonu-.z, International trade specialist for Empire
State Development , will speak on
"The WNY Presence In East Asia "
on Monday, Dec. 9 at 2 p .m In 205
Natural Sc1ences Building , North
Campus.

8AITEJIIS- AS
1 - MIIIOIIITY 8USINUS
ADVOCATE

Helen L GaHer, associate director of purchasing at UB , was honored by the U.S.
Small Business
Administration
with the Butlalo
District Mlooriry
Small Business
Advocate Award
for 1996 for her
efforts in reaching
out to the minority
and women-owned business COfll-.
munity.
The awards. presented at a
Small Business Awards luncheon in
the Radisson Hotel and Suites, recognize successful entrepreneurs
and the people who help them.
Gaiter has been invotved in the
recruitment, promotion and devel opment of mll'lQrlty business in the
Purchasing Department for the past
live years. The Purchasing Department Minoriry Business base has
Increased over the past five years
from $1 .3 million to $2 million.
She has served on many corrmlttees at UB and has been active In the
Upstate New York Minority PurchasIng Association . seMng as an officer
and on the board of directors. She ts
aJso involved in the Wf'('( Governmental Purchasing ConsortiUm, begl.fi in 1989 by UB and comprised ol
purchasing personnel from 15 governmental agencies

STUDY SUIIS ADULJS WITH
DIAIIETES, IUDNEY DISEASE
Adults ages 30-70 with Type II diabetes m ellitus. kidney disease and
high blood pressure are needed to
help UB researchers evaluate the
safety and effecttveness of an investigational med icine to treat diabetic kidney d isease.
The two-year study is being conducted by Theodore Herman and

par1ners of Nephrology Associates
of Western New York. Herman Is
clin~ assoclate professor of medtclne at UB and chief of the Nephrology Sectloo In the Department of
Medicine at Millard Allmore Hospital .
Participants will receive free
study-related physical examinations
and laboratory, urine and EKG
tests. They will be reimbursed $575
for time and travel expenses upon
complatloo of the study.
Anyone interested In participating should call Patricia A. Topolski
at 1133-1295.

The Center lor Intensive Language
and Culture at the Monterey Institute of International Studies In california is offering an Intensive Korean or Vietnamese language program on the Monterey PenWlsula
from Jan. 6to March 14, 1997.
More than 25 hours of weekly
classes, excursk&gt;ns and evening
acHvitles will help students gain
rapid acquisition of one of these
languages.
Scholarship funds are available
to assist qualified students. For
more informaUon, contact Mark
Ashwill, Director, Wor1d Languages
Institute, UB Depanment of Modern
Languages and Uteratures.
645-2292 or at
ASHWILLOacsu.buffalo.edu

MilA STUDENTS RECEIVE
MaTFn.LOWSIGI'S
An annual fellowship supported by
First Empire State Corp. and its
subsidiary, M&amp;T Bank, has made
the road to earning an MBA a little
smoother tor two students In the UB
Schc:KM of Management.
Sarah Ro and . .ttltw
Parwhon have each received a
$7.500 M&amp;T Fellowship toward their
MBA. The two-year feUowship is renewable based on academic standing.
Ro is active In many on-campus
organizations, including the Management Information Systems Association; Jacobs Hall Journal, the
MBA student newslener and Datta
Sigma PI , a business fraternity.
After graduating from GMI Engineering and Management Institute
in Aint, Mich., with a bachelor's degree in accounting and management Information systems, Ro went
on to work as sales director tor a
computer software company.
Panahon, who SCOfed In the 99th
percentile on the GMAT exam,
earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Cornell University, then worked in China tor
three years as chtef representative
for the Beijing offices of Clemente
Capital {Asia) Ltd .. an Investment
management firm.
In 1995, she returned to the U.S.
and was accepted 1nto business
programs at top 25 universities , but
M&amp; T provided ·a tremendous opportunity to attend a leading MBA
program , as well as allow me to
stay at home close to my tamity. •
A member of Women in Management and the lnternaUonal Business Club. Panahon serves as treasurer ol the Filipino-American Association of Western New York.

Hardy UB Sludents wiH experience
·A Night Under the Stare" on Dec.
7-8 aa they steep outdoors in boxes
donated by toca1 bualnesses to
raise money and nor&gt;-pertshable
food ~ems. blani&lt;8ts and clothing
lor Buffalo's City Mlssloo.
The "sleep-out" will be held from
6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7, to 6
a.m . on Sunday, Dec. 8, on the ter·
race OlJtSkje of Fargo Hatl in the
Ellicott Complex on the North

cam-

Ill

pus.
Individuals horn the community
can drop off donations for the mla.
slon from 6-9 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the
student-statfed site at the Porter
Quad Loop across from the Fargo
par1Ung lot UB's Black Student
Union also will collect unwrapped
toys at this sfte lor d istribution to
needy youngsters served by local
toy drives. All donations are tax·
deductible.
A forum on religious dtversity will
be held from 6-10 p.m. In the Fargo
Lounge adjacent to the ·steep out.·
The annuaJ event Is sponsored
by the Offtee of Residence Ute and
residence advisors and students in
the Elticott dorms of Porter, Fargo
and Red Jacket halls.

IIEICti8EII8DS 1.£\1)
MIED STUDENTS'

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P'AMHIS' COUNCIL

Mel........,, ~presidents of
US's Medical Students Parents'
Council, are leading a group of 15
volunteers to gain support for the
medical school and Its students.
Funded enlirety by private support
and serving as the onty known
council of its IOnd in the U.S., the
group has assisted UB's School ol
Medicine and Biomed ical Sciences
for almost 10 years , raising from
S16,(X)() to $20,1X)() each year.
Robert Heichberger, professor
emeritus at Fredonia State College,
said the councft's rote In supporting
the med"rcal sch&lt;Joj is becoming 8V8Il
more important In times of state budget cuts. Elaine Heichberger is a retired teacher with the Gowanda Pub-

lic School District
In addition to purchasing items
such as fax machines. furniture for
the student lounge and computer
software, the cooncll plans to supplement costs lor medical ~ts to
anend prOressional meetings.
The group also serves as a
·suppon post• for parents and stu-.
dents and as a famity away from
home for medical students who are
unable to be with their O\NO families
during the holidays. In May, the
council will hold its annual GraduaUon Dinner Dance on the day before graduation .
For more information , call the
Heichbergers at 532-5884 ..

IRA -

TO SI'EAII. DEC. 3

ONDPOWIIIIN81DUCAJIOH
IN - · professor of Eng~sh at the
College of Staten Island, City University of New York. will speak Tuesday.
Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. in Room 210. Student Union. on tvhal is Critical and
Empowering Educatloo?"
Shor advocates a dialogic
method of teaching derived from the
work of Paulo Freire. whose book,

IIWIY

wa-

llep ~by ofto tbe llllihot'l10 a= wbat else be
or lbe 11M avaiWIIe
in print, l brief plot syDOplis. .. ~ l'rol!l• review, aad lbc
opportullity 10 bring ocbez similar tillea up on your c:ampurer

screc:n.

Amuoii.COID customers are invited 10 review titles (there
aqe monthly prizes for tbe most weU-aafted reviews) aad authors and publisbcr&amp; of books are eDCCMII'lged 10 COIDIDe1ll on
their books. Amaz.o~LA»m is eager 10 inlaview ltllbors. Micbael
Moore of DoWIISiu This/ fame and lawyerjoovel.ist Scou 1\irow
are featured as of this writing.
Become 8D Alllazon.OOID "regular custome:" with their pet·
sooaJ notificationser.oice which will notify you every two weeks
via a single o-mail message wbco books are added 10 tbe dalabase based on a persooal profile specified by you. (There is 110
obligation to make a purchase.) Or shop for tbe holidays using
the following book categories to guide you: • Avid Gardeners,•
"Hopeless Romantics," "Woodworkers," "Jazz Enthusiasts,"
"Civil War Buffs," "Bosses with a Sense of Humor," "Jane
Austen Freaks," "Wme Snobs," etc. And as tbe Alllazon.oom
folks say: "We don' t mind if you shop in your pajamas."
To reach AmazoiLcom Boob point your Wtb browser ro hltp:/
/www.alftiiZ,Drc.com. For itiformation on using J!'UT waivuSity
compuler account to access the Web, conlDCt the Compllling
Ctnttr Help Desk at 645-3542.
-Gemma DeJiinney and Don Hartm/l/1, University LibrariLs

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed,. has

won a large following. St.-,ts in
Shot's classes take responsibility lor
their Intellectual grow1h.
Shor's tal&lt; is sponsored by the
Graduate Student Ass«nbby, the Department of English, the English
Graduate Student As9oclation, the
Graduate Americanlst Group and the
Graduate Group lor Marxist Studies.

U8STAFF--

-~-

Two UB staff memben;, Cllrt.to. , . . _ _ , archivist, and
· ~ ol. Colwol'o UB Olfrce of
Publications, wiH be chain; of the
Dec. 4 session-of Book Collectors
of Western New York. to be held at
7 p.m. at St. Simon's Episcopal
Church, 200 Cazenovia St .. Buffalo.
The """'organization
to
stimulate interest In collecting bool&lt;s
and other materials on paper IncludIng maps, pmts, ~auto­
graphs, marurrcripts, " ' - music,
postcards, docunenls. advertising
ert. sports memorabilia. photos,
magazj:les, catalogs, posters and
crate labels. Interested persons 8f8
Invited to attend.

oms

Sixty healthy aduhs ages 18-70 are
needed to help UB dental researcl&gt;ers evaluate the whitening effects of
three over-the-counter toothpastes.
Those selected will use the
toothpastes at horne and make
three brief visits during a two-month
period to the UB Department of Periodontics In Squire Hall on the
South Campus. They will receive a
free teeth-cteaning and $100 for
time and travel upon completion of
the study.
Those interested In panicipating
shoul4 call 829-3850 between 9
a.m . and 4 p.m . weekdays.

TRELLA IS WINND Of'
FIRST ¥-NESS AWARD
l'llllllpTrella, a senior majoring
in anthropology, Is the recipient of
the first Justin A. VanNess Award,
given to a senior 'Nhose major interests are in anthropology and the en.
virorment. Trella received a certifi..
cafe and $500 at a ceremony held
Oct. 28 In the olfJCe of 5arunas
Mifisauskas, professor and chair of
anthropology.
The award comrninee. chaired by
profBSSOf Ezra Zubrow, Included
Ann McElroy. associate professor:
Anaslasia Johnson. resean;h associate and assistant to the chair and
Maureen McMahon, undergraduate
secretary. Trella plans to anend
graduate scl'lcd next year to study

archaeology.

l.8cU9s. "der'"' "'uni!IO"""miorrn.IS. """"'·
audions IWld 10Ul1W8 being plamed
by a --.g """"*""thai ilctJdes
Densmore. Corroy, Jed&lt; T. Ericson. 81chMst d the Dariet A. Reed ltlnlry,
Fracb1ia State Colege: Loos.
water d rare books, Bul!alo IWld Erie
Ccuty Pubic L i l r a r y : - . , ; J&lt;n W. w.Dty, Fmald L Cozzi.
Jacqueti1e Trace, .M Bradish BroYon
Mari¥1 L Haas, Kevin T. Ransan, Tan
~end- MaltheM; IWldDon Barr}&lt; For rrae inlonroltlJn cal
Eric9on at 326-4335.

~ UB professor
present a senW1ar,
"Sarah, Miriam and Ruth: Issues ot
FarrOiy, f'l&gt;wer, and Position,· as pan
cl the "Issues lor the Ages" Bible
Women program Dec. 2 at the .l!&gt;wi5h
eorm-..nty Ce!lter of Great..- Buffalo.
Her senW1ar wilt be held at 7:30p.m.
in the JCC~ Bendenlon Building,
2640 North Forest Rd .. Getzville".
rrckats are required tor the senW1ar.
which wilt be , _ by a receptlon.
For t!ckst lntormatlon caD 688-4033.
of English, will

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• BUUS COMPLETE SlOirftOOI( SEASON
The Univenlity a1 Buffalo football team CXlfT1)Ieled one olthe
most dramatic turnarounds In Oivfslon 1-AA history with a pulsating 35-31 victory """' the Unive&lt;slty CJI Maine on Saturday
afternoon.
The wi&lt;llef1the Bulls with an 6-3 regular season marl&lt; after
f111ishlng 3-8, 3-Sand 1-10 in their previous three seasons
since returning to Oivfslon I foolball in 1993. To accomplish
thel faalthe Bulls scored on a 14-play drive 10 lake the lead
with 1:04 remaining , only to haw to stop Mains (7-'1) at the
UB four-yard line as the clock expired.
The lead changed hands nine times during the see-saw
game between two teams hoping to keep alive their post-saason playoff possibilities.
"We've been in a couple of siluallons In the fourth quarter
before and our players have responded, and this game is
very indicative of the chatacler CJI our football team. Our kids
have raalty responded and we salute our 19 seniors who haw
broughllt1is program from 1-10. It's a big testamen110 the
chatacter of 1!1is learn. II was as exciting a college football
game as you can have:
The Bulls look the lead when UB quar1e&lt;back Marl&lt; Tay-

lor-who threw IO&lt; 309 yards and three touchdowns In lhe
gam&amp;-llll Jamie Gasperre from four yards out with 1:04 le~.
That touchdown was Gaspane's second of lhe game and
10th of the season, matching the UB single-season record for
touchdown receptions.
However, Bob Jameson-who had given Mains a 31-28
lead with 7:10 left on a 14-yard touchdown rur&gt;-&lt;elurnect the
kickoff 42 yards to the Buhalo 48. Maine took eight plays-&lt;nduding a fourlh-and-10 conversior&gt;-to move to the UB fouryard lina wilh :01 le~. Quarterback Mickey Fein's last-&lt;IUch effort went off the hands of wida recalver Rameek Wright. who
had 17 catches IO&lt; 173 yards in the game.
"We had success offensively moving lhe ball especially
with our quick passing game. Marl&lt; did a great, great job and
the receivers did a great job of catching the ball. Our running
game was not where I wanted illo be In the first hail. We had
a big, big drive at the end when the ser11on! look conlrO (converting two fourth downs en route lo the touchdown).~This was absolut~y the best game I was ever in in my
entire life: said Taylor. ~ It was just up and down and up and
down. In the huddle I thought we were very aggressive . yet
very relaxed. I don1think for one second the players in 1l]e
offensive huddle thought we were going to lose that game.The Bulls got a career-high 147 yards from fullback Todd
Pace, lnctuding a career-best 71-yard touchdown burst in the
first quarter. UB dialed long-distance all day on the Black
Bears as Taylor also threw touchdown passes of 60 (to
Gasparro) and 87 yards (to Kali Walkins) in the second half.
Gaspane fmished with 129 yards receiving on eight catches,
while Watkins had five grabs for 147 yards.
Andre Pam finished with 143 yards rushing for Maine, who
did not lose In the Northern Division of the Yankee Conference
during lhe regular season. Cornerback Steve Blake paced
the UB defensa wi'" nine solo tackles. a blocked foeld goal
and an Interception.
The Bulls have never won eight games as a Division I
team, having gone 7-.3 in 1968.

• MEN'S BASK.E1BALL
Although 1hey were just exhibi~ garnas and don1 count in
the standings. the Bulls played two nail-biter conlests against
learns from Marathon Oil last week. UB defeated Marathon
76-n In the first matchup, while Marathon took a thrilling 10299 overtime decision on Sunday.
In the Nov. 12 contest, juniO( Scott McMillin hit a key threepointer with just 1:38 left to break a 74· 74 tie and ensure the
Bulls of a llictO&lt;y. Rasaun Young's 24 points and eight rebourids led the way while McMillin added 15 off the bench induding four three-pointers. leonard Tangishaka also pulled
down eight reboUnds.
In Sunday's game, Young's short leanar in the lana lieQ the
contest at 86-86 and forced the game into the extra session.
Young scored six of the Bulls' final 10 points of regulation as
he look conlrO of the second hall after scoring just three
points in lhe first half.
Young put the Bulls in the lead 96-95 with just 1:23 to go In
overtime as he connected on a pair of free throws and fcj..
lowed that with a driving layup with a minute to go to give UB
a 98-95 advantage.
Steve Showalter. 'Nho finished with 22 points, hit a key
three-pointer wilt1 16 seconds left thai gave Marathon a 100-

7

96 lead that proved 10 be the ditlerence. UB's anamptto lie
the conies! and send ~ into a second overtime fell short as
the Bulls llKned the ball over with three seconds left when
Young was whistled for trave!ing.
YOIXlg look game-high honors with hos 25 points, eight
rebourlds and six assists. McMiRin added 17, while Mike
Martinhoconnacted for 16 and Robert Harris had 12 points
with eight boards. The Bulls shot an imp&lt;essive 51 .6 percent
{33&lt;&gt;1-&amp;4) from the floo&lt;.
Showal18r and Kenny Williams nanect 22 aach fO&lt; Marathon, which hit 18thre&amp;-p0inlers in the contest Darrick Leak
pufied down 12 rebounds.
The BuNs open the season on the road Friday night at MiMli 10 bailie lhe Hurricanes. followed by a contest a1 Cornell
on Nov. 26. The Buns christen the Marine Midland Arena on
Nov. 30 when they lake on Niagara in the r..t contes1 of the
Big 4 series. UB faces Canislus In lhe hOfna opener at Alumni
Arena on Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m.

• WOMEN'S 8ASK£I1IALL
The Royals pmpared fO&lt; their season opener this Saturday
with an 88-43 exhibition win al Alumni Arena last Sunday over
the Buffalo All-Stars, a group CJI fooner Western New YDI1&lt; collegians that included sevens! former UB players.
The AI1-S1ars proved to be no match fO&lt; the Royals as UB
look a quid&lt; 6-Siead on Catherina Jacob's coast-to-coast
drive fO&lt; a layup at the 15:15 mart&lt;_ UB built on that lead, takIng command of the contest and haading into the locker room
with a 41-24 halftime advantage.
In the second half, was much of the same as the Royals
opened the final 20 minutes
by going on a 9-0 run to increase their lead to ~24 .
Brenna Doty scored live
points, including one of her
teanH1igh five three-pomters of the night, to kay the
run. The All-Stars got no
closer than 21 points in the
second half.
Doty led the Royals with
17 points, while Charissa
Gardner and Megan
McCray aach added 14.
Jacob and Usana Prinzing
edded 10 each. Alicia
KollmO&lt;gen did lhe WOf1&lt; on
the boards pulhng down a
team-high 10 rebounds In
just 17 minutes of 'NOfk.
FO&lt;mer UB star Anne
Gallagher led the vtsitors
with 10 points and 10 reUB ROYALS' Clwloaa
bounds while Lalita Grant

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left, Ioomer UB !Myer,,.

trle- bell fuf llullafo AI~

Stan_ Royolo

won SUnday

exhibition game, 86-43-

also added 10 points.

The Royals open the season on Saturday n1ght

ZAID ALKHAS of UB Bulls basketball dofends scorlng
attempt by Marathon 011 e•hlbltlon team Sunday In

Alumni Arena. Bulls lost In overtime, 102-99.

• MEN'S A WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
US's men's cross country squad finished fifth at last weekend's IC4A Championships as Chris Keenan placed 11th on
the course in Boston. Mass . in 31 :34. Patrick Nolan was the
Bulls' next f•nisher in 16th. The Royals were 16th out of 22
teams in the women 's race. Jennifer Folckemer was the top
finisher lor the Royals 1n 18:30.
-Ted Wasko, Spcxts lnfrxmaiKXI Olfoce

UPCOMING HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

~-23

Women's Swlrrmlng
vs Niagara.

to lace Northern Iowa on

Nov 26 and Siena on Dec 4

All.I'Tili Arena, 7 p.m.

~No...

against Cornell at Alumn•

Arena beginn•ng at 7 p .m
From there. UB hits the road

A1urmi Arena Nal.alOrioo'l, 1 p.m.

WornenS Basketball vs. Cornell

Men's Basketball vs. Niagara

30

Manne Midland Arena, 6 p .m

1\1Hd8y, Dec. 3
Men's Basl&lt;elbali vs. Ganisius

Alurmi Arena, 7:30p.m.

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
ton: No loogu playlog serood
fiddle! Dr. David L Garbers.
Univ. of Texas Southwestern
Medica] Center, DaJias. Distinguisbed Speaker Seminar Series
114 Hochstecter. Nonh Campus.
4 p.m.

Sooth Campus. 1be show is paJ1
of a series of exhibitions pre·
sented by the School of Archi·
lecture and Planning . Gallery
hours are 9 a.m.-S p.m. Monday
through Friday. Admission to
the show is free .

"'-maceutlce S.mln•

Art celebratlnl tbe
Mequlcentennlal

Apoplosis a nd the Production
of Biopharmauutital Prod·
ucts, Prof. Nicholas
Kalogerakis. Chemical Engi·
nceriog. 508 Cooke. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

64S-6125.

An uhibition of art by facully
and alumni celebrating the scsquicemennial continues through
Dec. 15 in the University Art
Gallery. Center for the Arts,
North Campus. Tbe show includes work by 17 faculty and
23 alumni . GalJery hours are
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday·
Saturday, and Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free .

UU/UI Fit•

Beautiful-.

B.uqui.at (Julian SchnAbel;
1996). Student Union Theater.

lreasures from the Lockwood
Library-An Exhibit Celeb~t­
ing US's Sesquicentennial,~ is
on view in display cases on the
second noor of Lockwood Li·
brary on the North Campus. The
exhibit features books of this
cemury, mostly from the 1920s
and 1930s. all taken from the
stacks. Tunothy Conroy from
the Office of Publications
CWlllted the exhibit, which con·
tinues through Dec. IS.

Life_......,

T'al Chi for Beginners., Ron
Ingalsbe. S p.m . To register. call
the Office of Student Lif~,

North Campus. 6' 30 p.m. S2,

S:l.SO.
UU/UI Film
Emma (DouKlas McGrath:

1996). Student Union Theater.
Nonh Campus. 9 p.m. $2, $3.50

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Opeaillll exlllblt fTom

51 : Crossing UK Line~
cootinues through Dec. II in th~
~Area

Art Department Gallery located
in tbe Center for the Arts. The
show is an e:..change exhibit

from Queen 's Unive~ity.
Kingstoo, Ontario. GaUery
hours an: 10 a .m.-5 p.m. Tucs·
day, tO a.m.·8 p.m. Wednesday·
Friday, and II a.m. -8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free.
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"Scbiod1CI' and the Small
House.. continues through Nov.
29 in tbe James Dyett Gallery
located in 334 Hayes Hall on tbe

Ua:trtwell ••II extended
Leonardo Drew's site-specific
installation ~No. 4S-A ~ was de·
signed for the Lightwdl Gallery
in the Center for the Arts. North
Campw;, and is there through
Dec. 18.
.

Pickup date is Dec. II

Are you the retlrtnc
type?
If you're thinking about retiring
you may want to meet with a
New York State Employees' Retirement System representative
Nov. 22 in 102 Crofts Hall on
the North Campus. To schedule
an appointment, aU 645-2646.
e:..t. 101 or 102.

Profeulonal
Coun..se.lor (SL-3}-lntemationa.l
Student &amp; Scholar Services,
Posting fP-6052 . lnslruc:liooal

Support T«.hnici.an (SI.r3)Lockwood Memorial Ubruy,
Posting fP-6053. l nstruc:liooaJ
Su pport A.ssoci.al~ (SL-2)·Uni ·
versity Publications, Posting
MP-6054. StafT A.ssociat~ (SJ,
4)-University Facilities, Posting
IJP-6055. St.tr Associate (SL4) -Center for the Ans, Posting
MP-6056. Sen ior Staff AsJbtant
(SL-3)-AJumni Relations, Post·
ing MP-6051 . Oirtetor Stu d~nt
Activities (SL-4)·Disability
Services. Posting IP-6058. Director Career Planning aod
Developm ent (Sl,S)-Career
Planning and Placement, Post·
ing IP-60.59. Assi.stanl Vice
President (MP~3)-Adm issions,
Posting fP-6060.

Faculty
Assi..rtan t/Associ.ate Prnressor·

0nJ Health Services and
lnfonnatics, Posting IF-6038.
A.uistan t Professor-Music,

sor-Biological Sciences. Posting

IF-6061. Assistant ProressorCounseling and Educational
Psychology, Posting fF-6062 .
Assistant Proresso.--Counsc:ling
and Educational Psychology,
Posting IF-6063. Assistant Professor-Learning and Instruction.
Posting IF-6064 . F u ll Professor
aod Chair-Arc.hitecture. Posting IF-6065 . As.sist.ani/Associa te}'Fu ll Profe560r (rour pos.i·
lions availabl~) -Scbool of
Nursing. Posting fF·6066. ~
sbtant/As.soc::iate ProfessorMedicine, Posting fF-6067 . Assistaat Prores.sor-A.rdtitecture.
Posting fF-6068 . AsJbtant/A.ssoci.at~ Proressor-Media Study,
PostinJ IF-6069. Assi.stanfJA.ssoc::iate{Fu ll Professor-Com·
puler Science, POsting IF-6070.

Re--cti
Rescanh Aide· Sponsored Programs Personnel. Open. Sec~
tary 1-Psycbology, Posling

IR-96014. Projec-t Administra·
live Officer-Social &amp; Preventive Medicine, Posting
II'R-96086. Resean::b Tec::bni·
ciao 1-Biological Sciences.
Posting IR-96087. ~tary
Ill-Social Work Research Center, Posting IR-96088. 5«-rt-t.ary It-Office of the Controller,
Posting IR-96089

Competitive Claulfted
Civil Service
Keyboard Spedalisl (SG-6)
Chemistry, Unc 120917
~-petlti••/ La­

Cinslflecl Civil Service

Janitor (SG-1)-Un.iversity Res• ·
dence Halls, Li~ f430t5 .

Posting IF-60S7. AWslanV

Flow.,. In winter
Poinsettias may be ordered
through Dec. J from the UB
Women's Club by caJUn1 839·
9710. Prices vary with the
plants-from $1 .50 to $18.

A.uoci.ate Proreuor-Med.ia
Srudy, Posting IF-6058. Assbtant/As.soc:.i.ate Prol'euor-Media
Study, Postina IF-6059. A.uistaat/AM«i.ate Prof'essor· Modem Language:s/Lite~tures., Posting tF-6060. Assistant Prores-

To olHam morr i'lformation on
JObs lured abow, coltlact Per-

sofUid Senius, 104 Crofts
HaiL To obtain itifor1fl4tiott ott

/huarchjobs, colllact Spon sored Programs Pe~L

&lt;16 Crojb.

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Nishimura. 414 Pronc:r.ak. North
Campus , I I a.m.

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Art lc Art lrtStory. 223
Lockwood. Noon. Register by
calling Gemma DeVinney, 645-

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28 17.
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Sharpening Communkation

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Optional Practial Training

11nd Bryood. 14 SA SIUdrnt

645-2258.

Plllloaoplty Col'-lu•
Atomic Independence a nd lndivl'iibiJity, Prof. Istvan Bodnlir.
Lo r.i nd Ei&gt;cvOs Univ.• Budapest.
6H4 Baldy. North Campus.

l 30 p.m.

Pllylllcs Col'-lu"'
Supercondutlivity in Low Dimen5ional Systems, Prof. D.
C Mfe y. Physics_ 21 0 N a1ural
Sc 1ence!l. . N orth Campus.
J 45 p.m.

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Blol.....,.l Sci....,..

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TbcslJIDi.uertalion Suppor1
C roup, Barbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To regisler, call the Office
ofStudc:nl Life. 645.{) 125.

ur.-...op
T'ai Chi for BqlnMrs. Ro n
Ingalsbe. 5 p.m. To regisler, ca ll
the Office of SIUdent Life.
645-6125.

UUABFIIta
T he Man Who Knew Too
Much (Allred Bitcbcoc.k :
1956). SIUdenl Union Theater.
North Campus. 6:30p.m. $2,
53.50.

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....,_

Th~ Skin You A~ In:
Stratagies To Ketp Your Skin
litallby, Hlli'Vcy Arbesman,
M .D., 'Thomas Udm, M .D .. and
Ke vin Kulick , M .D. Jewish
Co mmunity Center. 2640 N. Forc:-.1. Ge1zvillc . 7:30-9 p.m. Free .
Reserve by calling 688-4033

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--tStyleloJBuiklina. Nonh Clmpus.. 2 p.m.

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C..ter rorcocoitive Scloeco

Puel.lstvu Bodnar. Univ. or

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Budapesc. 2JO l'lu1t. North Campus. 2 p.m.

Se.zual Victimi.ution: A Conftrenu on Awarerte55 and R~­
!fOurcn. Center for Tomorrow.
Nonh Ca mpus . $60; $45 (students). Sponsored by lnslituae
for Addictions Sludies and
Traini ng. For infonmu ion. call

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C ANCELLE D, HelenS. Astin .
Moot Hall. Buffalo Slate College. 8- 10 a.m. Presented by
WNY Higher Education ConJOrtium. Payment will be applied 10
Apri l 4 presentation at ECC
North by Dr. Michael Nettles.
For information, caJI 645-2471 .
Em~rcin&amp; Cooccpts

i.a tb~

'J'ftatmeot of A.llbma, Mark
Ballow. M.D., Madeline Lillie.
M.D .. and Sujalha Ramesh .
Kinch Audilorium. Children 's
Hospital. 8 a.m.

Aoiii81-

Nwan's National Aspin.tions
and Cross-SI.nit DneloprMnts.
Ronald J.L Berlel:. 250 Student
Union. North Campus. Noon.

.... Plootldlr. .... ., .........
~CudAnldleloloolc

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Add, K. Murakami. Btocbemical ~. Cotrceal
3:45 p.m. 307 Hodmener.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

C uba! : E-Motions. Lc:andro
Soto. Black Box 1llcaare. Ce nter
fo r tnt Arts. North Campus.
8 p.m. $5, $ 10.

Muir String Quartet . Slee.
North Campus. S p.m. $4. S5 ,

S8. SIO

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LEANDRO SOTO appearo In Cuba:
E-Motlono Nov. 22 23 In Black
Box Tbeatre, Center for the Arta.

UUAB Fll•

Sln.Jin&amp; Beauty (BH'nardo
BHtolucd; 19M). Saudent
Union 'Theater. Nonh Campus.
7 and 9 p. m. $2, $3.50.

Taiwan u a Trading Nation,
Ro nald J .L. Berlcl. 205 Noaural
Sciences . Nonh Campus. 2 p.m

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Asbutosb Shanna,
Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur.
206 Furnas. North
Campus. 3:45 p.m.

L8w Coftt'erence
Rtlhinklng Federal Criminal
Law. 106 O' Brian. North Campus. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $40. For info nnation, call Buffalo Crimi nul
La w Cenaer. 645-3407.

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Mokcular Monolayer~ Studied by STM, AFM, Surface
SpKtroKOPies aDd Molecule
Com b., Prof. Thomas Beebe.
Univ. or Utah . 2 15 Natural Sci ences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

_

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... _...,..,.
The Geometry of Deser1 :

UUABFIIao

Mu.alc
UB Ttombon~ C hoir. Slec.
North Campus. 8 p.m . Free.

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Dlotl_l_ Sc-ot

Kine toplast DNA: Th~ Remarkable Mitochondrial DNA
or African Trypanosoma.,
Prof. Paul T. Englund. Johns
Hopkins Medical Sc hool. Butler
Audilorium. Farber. So uth Cam·
pus. 4 p.m.

Science• Alulllftl Lecture
Parts ror

Peopl~ :

Tusue-

lntexrattd Implants for tbc
Future, Dr. R•n E. Baier,
School of Denial Medicine . 2 10
Naaural Sciences. North Cam·
pus . 7:30 p.m. Free .

1-.....Uoul TIMieter

of Tartini, Scbubett, Hubly,
Korngold. Allen. South Campus.
1 p.m. Fru:, Coocen to be
broadcast the followina Sunday
al4 p.m. on WBR&gt;-FM 88.7.

So4o. Black Box Theatre. Center
fo r the Arts . North Campus .
8 p.m. S5. SIO.

lluolc
UB Pertussion EMemble. Slcc
Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. Free

Mualcal Theater
Cabaret, Jerry Fi nnegan. d irec·
tor. Presented by Dept of The·
aare and Dance. Drama llleatre,
Cenler for the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5, S IO.

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H....U.,MttbadoaeaadRoc:overy: A Collabontln Model
That S..ppo&lt;U llo&lt;b CU...t
and Maa.alfll Cart: Outcomes,
Donald Bain and Ken Bossert.
Daemen College. $60. Sponsored by Institute for Addictions
Studies and Training. For informalion, call645-6140.

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Maa.ac~ment Sty$e In China,
Junhao Ho ng. u sistanl prof. of
communicalion. 205 Natural
Sciences . North Campus. 2 p.m.

-

DI~-Sc:lentlot

A MoiKular Mod~l for

Mec:hanotnasduc:Uoi., Dr.

Martin Chalfie, Col um bia Un iv.
Butler Auditorium. Farber H:tll.
South Ca mpus. ~ p.m.

lluolc
UB Contemporary Ensemble,
Jeffrey StadelmllD, director.
S lee. North Campus. 8 p.m.
Free. Program includes works
by Foss and Pendered.:i.

Buqulol (Jullaa Schoabd;
lJ'H'). Student Uaion lbe:a&amp;er.
North C.mpu~. 6:30p.m. S2.
S3.50.

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Book CoUec::ton ot Waten1
New York. Oirisaopher
Densmore, UB Archives, and

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Timothy J. Conroy. UB PubHcations. hosts. Sl Simon's Episeopal Oiurch. 200 Cauoovia St.
Buffalo. 7 p.m. Call 326-4335.

Tho Blrtb ol A . . - . Video:
App.--chlaa Narntlve-

--y--Yct8re
"'l"bftoe Are Prob~ to be

Solftd!• (Proanm 11) Screenin&amp; Room. Ce-nter for the Arts.
Nonh Campus. 7:30p.m. Free.

Forensic: AntbropOkt&amp;Y, Neal
Hodgson, Erie Coun1y Medical
Examiner's OfrlC'e. 170 Millard
Fillmore Academtc Center,
EJlicou. Nonh Campus. 7:30
p.m. $20 for the- series. To regis·
aer, ca11645-6800. e JU. 2020.

Mualc
University Choir, Harriet
Simons, conductor. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $3 .

UUAB Fila
Emma (Dou&amp;la.J McGrath;
1996). Student Union lbeater.
North Campus. 9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

Plt)'alca .......Ma&amp;neto-Lumlncscena: Study
of N-l'yp&lt; Modulotloa'Doped
ZnSe/ZnCdSe Quaotum Well
Structures, George Kioseoglou.
Physics. Refreshments 3:30 in
245 Fronczak. 210 Natural Sci ences. North Campus. 3:45p.m.

ur.-.......
Namaste, Ron Ingalsbe and

Tracy Collingwood 5 p.m. To

..

register. call the Office of S!udent Life. 645-6125.
~

Mu..,n...tw
Cabaret, Jerry Finnegan. direc·
lOr. Presented by Depl . of Theatre and Dance:. Drama llleau·c .
Center for lhe Arts. North Ca mpus . 2 p.m. $5, $10.

c.-.

F.nlllalloo"'"'
lor Ploywlolosy.Prof. David L.
Garbers., Univ. of Tens. 20S
Natun.l Sciences. North Campus. 5 p.m.

UUAII-

Cuba: E-Motions. Lc:andro

_...,

~-a
Foi"'US a ad Interactions In

whb Aatlooay Mlnuoda. per-

cu..uiotl. Program includes
Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos
and Percussion, and worts of

·-'~Mater

Sl- ll..thoven C)'cle

Analysis of Benthic ln...ertt ·
brat ~ Counts Using Spatial
Statlstics, Dr. David
Dolan. 140 Keuer
North Campus .
2p.m.

-

n.hlatlooololpo-

F ri.. Ancbaukaaad
K&lt;awya Bold4 duo plaallb,

All levels. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by Graduate Student Association.

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Brahms. Johann Sltauss, and
Mozart. Slee. North Campus.
3 p.m. S2. S5. 56. S8.

Aaa.. Studlee Pro,_..

Activity and Stability or Eozymts
Enapsulated ip
Uhraflnc Aluminum Hydrol.id~
Nanopar1Je:les,
Kristil..eonard.Me·
· dicinal Chemistry.
121 Cooke. Nonh
Campus. 3 p.m.

Stealiag Beauty (Bernardo
Bertolucd; 1996). Student

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Mu.ac..l Theater
Caba ret, Jerry Finnegan, dirtt·
lor. Presented by Dept. of The :u~ and Dance. Drama lncatre,
Cenler for !he Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5, 510.

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Cabaret, Jei'T)' Finnegan, directo r. Prrsena~ by Dept. of 'Theatre and Dance. Drama llleatre,
Center for the Arts. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $5, S 10.

Kantian Co1151tquntialk m,
Shelly Kagan, Yale Univ. 280
Part. North Campus. 4 p.m.
Fr«. For infonnalion . call 6452444, ext. 707 .

DNA Rrplkatioo, DNA Damand Cancer, Prof. William
C. Burt.ans, Cellular&amp;. Molecular Biology. 244 Cary. Soulh
Campus. Noon.
a~,

'C-

N - ' Slpol Truoohoclloo

645-6140.

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Conol N . S.........._ Can.iJius
.College. 205 Natural Sclc:nces

Unio n Theau:r. North Campus.
9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

-·-- P--•ouTow~ Advaoctd Hlp-Spttd
Biosensinc, Prof. Frank v.
Brighl, Chemistry. 508 Cooke.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

-laCIIa..,ProC.
Boollui Zband. Doomea CoHea&lt;.

D r. ...ul Uu, Notional C..IC'
foe Human Genome Research.
NIH. Kln:hhol" Room. RPCI.
J2;30p.m..

MUIR QUARTET, rfCht,
performo In !11M Concert
H.,l Nov. 22 et 8 p.m. •
part of Slee Beethoven
Cycle.

IIICM&lt;-

Folding catalytic RNA: Group
I spiking ill •itro aod in rivo ,
Dr. Sarah Woodson. UniY. of
Maryland. 114 Hochsleuer.
No rth Campus. 4 p.m.

lilo F...... elCNtroi-L«oo

N...,.

Um on. N orth Campus. 3- S p.m

Preregistration requ1red. Call

lafonnalioa. call 6J6..3626.

479 Baldy. North Campus.

Skills: A Praclkal Approacb,
E. Roger Stephenson, Pb .O.
Lunch iocluded. Dakota Grill.
4224 Maple. Noon-2 p.m. SIO.
For infonna1ion, cal l Professwnal Staff &amp;nate, 645 -2003

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Tomom&gt;W. Nonb c.o._.a:15•• :30 Lm. SliO. Spoosorul by
thew....,. New Yort Tc&lt;baoi"'Y Developmml
For

O~n Mit. Harriman. Souah
Campus. 8 p.m.

lluolc
UB Sympbonlc Band. Slee.

North Ca mpus. 8 p.m. Frtt.

NutrttloftPCB c:ongmen as biomarkers
or e.ovironment.al rs:posure ln
human populations. Prof. Pnul
J. Kostyniak, Clinical Lab Sci·
ena-s and Pbannacology &amp;
Toxicology. 306 Parker. Soulh
Campus. 4 p.m.

ur.-.......
Namastt, Ron Ingalsbe and
Tracy Collingwood. 5 p.m. To
register. call lhe Office of Stu·
cknl Life. 645-6125 .

..

~

O~ft Mk. Harriman. South
Campus. 8 p.m.

llloolc
Winter Solstict Conctr1:
1\.trtlt lslud Strine Quart~t.

UUAII Fila
Tk Man Wbo Knew Tho
Much (Alfmt Hltcbrock;

Opuo: Claoolco Uve

1956). Studenl Union 'Thealer.
North Campus. 2 p.m. $2, Sl.SO.

Matbew TWorek. violin, and
J011nne Sc.blq:el. plano. Music

pi.alllst PbiUp

Aaber&amp;oand

Tuc:k &amp; Prittl, voice and 1uitar.
Rockwell Hall. BufTaJo Swe
College. 8 p.m. $20, $22. C~&gt;­
sponsorcd by WBR).

-

. THURS
.. .. . . . . .

-y-CeiiB-.r

M okcular CeMtics of loa
Channels, Prof. Linda M. Hall.
Biochemical Pb3nnacology. 306
Farber. S01.uh Campus. 12:30
p.m. Free.

Buffalo

LoCJc ~

Solvin&amp; U•~ ban&amp;m.an paradox.
Mariam Thalos, Philosophy. 684
Baldy. Nonh Campus. 3:30p.m.

PllyalcoCel'-lua
Dynamics of Atoms la Optical

l..altkn. Dr. J. Lawall, National
lnstitule of Science and Technology. 210 NaauraJ Sciences.
Nonh Campus. 3:45 p.m.

::::;--The Caanylyl Cycla.X Rec~p-

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFA LO

UNIYIItSITY A"1 BUFfALO
State University ofNew Yen*

November 14, 1996 Volume 28. No. 12

Senate unit proposes larger role for
teaching effort in prOmotion process

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teachi ng, and where appropriate,
extemalleners of peer evaluation

ORE WEIGHT SHOULD be given 10 faculty
members' teaching activities as part of the process
of promotion to full professor, the Faculty Senate's
Tenure and Privileges Committee has proposed.
A fepon outlining the committee's recommendationswhich advocate a personal statement and teaching ponfolio as part of the promotion dossier-was forwarded on Nov.
6 by the Senate's Executive Committee to the full Faculty
Senate. which will consider it at
its Nov. 19 meeting.
Margaret Acara, professor of
pharmacology and toxicology and
chai r of the Tenure and Privileges
Committee. noted that the current
promotion criteria as stated in the

1993·94 Faculty/Staff Handbook
"give exceptional weight to re search. These criteria have not
been addressed in many years. and
the times are changing."

T

he committee is not about to
degrade re search, Acara
said ... But we believe it's important to recognize those other
sc holarly contributions which
faculty make to our mission. Outstanding efforts in teaching. as
well as in service. should be an
important part of the promotion
and tenure process at this institu tion ."
Although the committee ori gi-

nally thought of proposing a twotrack system of appointmento ne emphasizing re searc h, the
other teaching-it felt " the teach-

ing track would be interpreted by

all as one for second-class citizens." she said.
Since the committee did not
want to leave that impression. it
instead decided to propose a pro-

cess of placing increased weight
on teaching criteria. she said.
The committee, which. Acara
noted. did not reach consensus on
all recommendations. urged that :
• The provost instruct the
President's Review Board (PRB ).
deans and department chairs
about the imponance of teaching
in cases of promotion and require

that dossiers inc lude documenta tion of teaching activities.
Thi s documentation may inc lude personal statements pre pared by the candidates describing how their teaching, research
and service activities interact in
their careers and contribute to the
progress of the university; teaching portfolios; ev idence of edu cational leaders hip in articles and
conference presentations on

of teaching.
• The university designate a
modest but consistent amount of
funds to reward excellence in
teaching.
• The universi ty make a budgetary commitment providing
funds to assist faculty in the improvement or teaching.

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cara said all members of
her committee thought
th e personal s tatement
would be "a worthwhile addition
to the dossier and bring together
in a more meaningful way the activities of the candidate."

As for the ponfolio, she noted
that since each schoo l has different 1echniques and types of teaching , the portfolio might best be
developed in a school-specific
manner.
She said that since thl" Faculty/
Staff Handbook is under revision.
the commi ttee did not try to put
its recommendation s 1nto that
fonn . But, she said. it would urge
its recommendation s" ~ knit into
the handbook" if the)' a re ac cepted by the Faculty Senate and
the administration.
William Fischer. vice provost
for faculty development , pointed
out that the personal statement al ready is being inc ludeJ in d o~ ­
siers. "The PRB expect!- thi s perCont1nued on page 2

Snaoking,bDeaStcancer:genesnnay
explain why sonae wonnen are at risk
liJ LOIS IIAIIEII
News Services Editor
THE ANSWER TO the question of whether smoking increases a women's risk of developing breast
cancer may lie in her genes, researchers at the
University at Buffalo and the National Cancer
Institute have found.
Results of their study, the first to consider genetic variability as a factor in a person's breastw
cancer susceptibility to the carcinogens in cigarette smoke, was published in the Nov: 13 issue of
the Journal ofthe Amuican Medical Association.

· Tile reult• ~llowH that postmenopausal
women born with the slow·acting gene for Nacetyltsansferase (NAT2), an enzyme known to
detoxify carci nogenic compounds in cigarette

smoke, and who smoked more than a pack of
cigarettes a day 20 years before diagnosis, had
seven times the risk of developing breast cancer
than women born with the fast-acting gene.
The risk was highest for women who began
smoki ng before the age of 18.
The two genotypes are refened to as slow or

fast acetylators. No relationship was found between genotypes and ri sk of breast cancer amQng
premenopausal women who smoked .
Christine Ambrosone, who conducted the research while a post-doctoral fellow in the UB
Depanment of Social and Preventive Medicine.
said the findings provide new insig ht into why
previous epidemiologic studie s rna)' have failed
to show a consistent association between cigarette smoking and breast cance r, when the association is clear in many other organs.
. , . . . . ........,. on breast cancer require s ubstantial replication. but the potential implications
may be important," said Ambrosone. now a research e pidemiologist at the National Center for

Toxicological Research in Arkansas.
"If further investigations in other study populations reveal similar associations between NAT2
genotype, cigarene smoking and breast-cancer
risk. it would be an imponant insight into the eti·
ology of this disease," she add~d. "Jt is one more

Myunc -Hee Na, UB doetoral student In physics, holds a·nextble

s e miconductor that s he he lped de vetop.

Creative 'error'
Flexible semiconductor is a first
By ELLEN GOLDBAUM
News Services Editor

T FIRST. THE PHYSICS DOCfORAL students working
with a new kind of semico nductor they developed wi th two
UB faculty member!~. thought they had made a mistake.
"They were trying to glue a semiconductor to another
pi ece of semiconductor. but it didn' t glue very well and it
just came off." recalled Hong Luo. assistant professor or physics. who
led the group with Athous Petrou. profe~sor or ph)'sic!t. "They tho ught
it was ruined ...
Despite that feelin g, the next duy the students exerc1~d the1 r sci entifiC curiosity and tested the " ruined" M!m iconduc tor for optical properties. only to find they were still intact.
The UB team had . they diSCOVered. created the world'!-. lirst nexJble se mico nductor.
The first si ngle -c rysta l. se miconductin g nanomateriah that bend.
but don't break were described recently in Applied Phyl'I CS Leiters
They can be peeled right off their supports almost a~ though one
were peeling an address label from a ~heet of labels and some of them
were made using ordinary weatherstripping si licone .
Semiconductors lie at the hean of micro-electroni c device!&gt;. ··When
we think o f se miconductors. we think of a crystal. something that is
very hard and very frngile. " sa1 d Luo . .. But these semiconductors can
bend like rubber."

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ecause they reta in both their struc tu r~lmtegri.ty and opt.ica~ properties. the semiconductors arc see n as particularl y s1gn1ficant
for future advances in opti cal computing. where information
will be carried by light instead of by electrons.
"These semiconductors could help expedite the tr.:msi uon from electronics to optical computers by allowing us to exploit optics in se mi conducLors much more efficiently than has been possible." said Lu o.
The new semiconductors are ideaJ for optical computmg because
they will allow for optical waveguides--the optical equivalent of wiresand se micond uctors to be contai ned ins ide the same component.
Their flexibility a lso makes it possible to transmit optical signab
10 three-dimensional optical circuib. making their applil·auons far more
efficient and allowing for far more versatile design than now ~ ~ possible with two-dimensional transmission of light
Other applications lie in optica l waveguides for telecommumcations and in high -e fficienc y solar cells for the military, wh1ch ~ho uld
be lig htweigh t but sturd y and fle xible enough to withstand rocket
blastoff and battlefield conditions.
" We have developed a general tec hnology to be used wHh all se mi conductors," Luo explained.
He said the new semiconductors are flexible because the) are de posited on substrates in such thin layers by molecular-beam ep1tax)
(MBE ). a technique that involves the deposi tion of thin films on substrates in an ultra-high-vacuum chamber.
"Theoreticall y, if you cou ld make it thin enough. even a diamond

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are not eligible.) The recipe (one to a contestant) Should be typed In cookbook.styte wtth Ingredients first, directions following.
Put-your name. address. department, your UB
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We'll judge your recipe for taste appeal,
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sonal statemen t to be included. It's an opportuni ty for the candidate , not to describe
how good he or she is. but to characlerize

the evolution of the work and perhaps provide a context for the assessment process ...
"The personal sta tement is really an
opportunity for candidates to say whatever
they want to say about who they are and
what they're doing, " said Bernice Noble,
professor of microbiology. "It's the last
thing rd like to see eJimina1ed. There's no
way in which lhe personal statement is
anyth ing but to the advan tage of the can·
dictate and allows him to even introduce
issues that might not be dealt with fairly
or appropriately . .

J

ames Faran, associate professor of
mathematics , wondered abo ut the
types of materials that might be in·
eluded in a teachir.g portfolio.
.. My dean isn' t going t.o be able to take
a look at one of my exams and tell one way
or the other about whether I'm a good teaCher.
much less anyone on the committee except
the guys who are recusing themselves be·
cause they're in my department," Faran said.
As for grade distribution. ''does a good
teacher give all 'A's?" he asked. ''There's
very little here , it seems to me. !hat can be
properly evaluated outside a department.''
It's for that reason, Acara replied, that
!he portfolio mighl best be school-specific.
Faran also questioned whether, in light
of the uni versity's heavy emphasis on research, it should set aside money for teach·
ing exce ll ence or 1~ develop teachi ng and
"m islead our (u ntenu red ) junior faculty
in to believing that they ought 10 spend their
time ... improving their teaching when what
they ought to be doing is concentrating on
their research because it doesn't matter
what they've done with teaching." He won·
dered if. instead, th at recommendation
shouldn' t limit money to improve teaching to tenured professors.
Fische r noted that faculty. under the
presenl promotion-and·tenure criteria, already"expe rien ce tension among their tri partite responsibilities. particularly be·
tween teac hing and research.
"The whole po int of thi s (recommendations) is to try to shift the cultural per·
ceptions abou1 the weight and value of
teaching in our entire enterprise." he said.
addi ng that he considers the documenta·
tion process to be of utmost importance

because it ..can play a role in raising
people's awareness and consciousness
about teaching."
Having a framework !hal clearly shows
the ways a candidate's research, teaching
and service are all COJlnCCted "will do a lot
10 really help people feel il's nola Hobson's
Choice," noted Michael Frisch, professor of
American studies. He related what he called
a "worse-case model" in which a junior faculty member he knew asked n011o be nomi·
nated for a Chancell or's Award for Excellence in Teaching because "she was afraid ,
given a tough case on her scholarship. she
would be marked as 'bad researcher-good
teacher' and carry. in effect. a kind of stigma
of simply being a good teacher and !herefore vulnerable on her research."
The personal statement and making a
more sophisticated case about teaching ex·
cell ence can only help candidates, he said .
Maureen Jameson, associate professor of
modem languages and literatures, expressed
concern that the university doesn't have the
same strict standards for teaching as it does
for research. While outside referees for re·
search review must come from the most pres·
tigious universities, leiters endorsing teach·
ing proficiency may come from inside the
university, she pointed out. 'This is clearly a
second, a lower caste" she said. ''I'm just
suggesting thai we move in the direction of
pushing these teaching criteria up to a level
of rigor where people would respecl il and il
would be taken more seriously."

F

ischer sajd UB does not have a peer·
review process for teaching that is the
equivalent to lhal for scholarshi p. "Bul
I think we can move toward it and put some
pieces in place .. . I agree; until we have some
kind of cred ible peer review, it's (leaching)
not going to occupy an equal status."
George D'Eiia. professor of infonnation
and library sludies, agreed, noting 1ha1 peer
review of teaching would eliminate what he
called a "check·li st mentality" and " the
inane se t of so-called empi ri cal data by
which we attempt to demonstrate that we're
good teachers." It also would get senior fac ·
uhy involved in mentoring junior facult y
and would reinforce to junior faculty the
message that teaching is important because
it is built into the ongoing review proces:s.
" l just want to second the notion thai the
sooner we move 10 peer-review of teach·
ing, !he beuer ofT we ' ll be," he said.

Study to focus on helping hip
replacement Patients·to walk
IIJPAULA-U.

Reporter Contributor

D

EVELOPING NEW METHODS
to correct unhealthy walking palterns in patients with degenerative
joint disease who have received
bip replacemeniS is !he focus of a study
being conducted al UB .
According to Scou While, lead researcher for the study and an associate professor in the Department of Physical
Therapy and Exercise Science, the number of hip replacemeniS performed in !he
United Slates exceeds 150,000 per year. " If
this research can help reduce health-care
costs, thi s could have an immense economic impact and change treatment for
arthritis patient-s," said White.
The UB study is being funded by a
$20 I ,000 three-year grai'u from the Arthritis Foundation.
To reduce pain when walking, patients
with degenerative arthritis in one hip aJe apt
10 reduce force on !he painful hip, which
tends to increase force on the opposite side
of !he body. Since some patieniS wilh !his
type of· arthritis oflen postpone surgery for
a number of yean, explained While, !his
walking pattern can become an unhealthy
habit Even after surgery, some patients continue to walk while a ppl ying un even
amouniS of force on each side of !he body.
"Patients with a compensatory walking
pauem place abnormal force on otherwise
heallhy joints, which could potentially
cause a secondary injury," White said. "We
are tryi ng to detennine if we can correct
the movement pattern to stop the patient
from using the adaptive strategy."
White and Roben Lifeso, co-investigator of the study and a clinical professor in
UB 's Departmenl of Orthopedic Surgery,
have devised for the study a technique.

called real -time dynamic visual feedback,
aif(led a~ · changing ibe walking pallem of
patieniS who have had a single hip replacement.
The challenge in correcting an awkward
walking pauem, nOied While, is !hal it is
caused by body motions generated by
"forces you cannot see." Visual feedback
of these forces while walking on a treadmill allows patients to see how forces are
applied by each side of the body.
treadmill designed by Kis~er lnslrumenls Corp .. and equipped wilh force
plales, is being used to measure such forces
slep-by-Siep. They are displayed on a
screen located in front of the treadmill so
that the patient can visualize and undersland how much force is being placed on
each side of !he body and auempt, wilh the
assistance of a therapist, to correct the
walking pauem.
·•sy giving a patient information about
!he amnunl of force used while walking and
with some coaching, we ' re hoping to belp
!he patient recover a normal walking paltern faster and reduce !he potential for secondary joint problems 10 develop," said
While.
Individuals who have had hip replacement due to unilateral degeneratal arthritis
and are interested in participating in the
study should call829-2941, ext. 103.
Carole Brevorka. president of !he Ar·
tbritis Foundation Western New York
Chapter, said research like !hal of While's
and strong support programs are viiRI 10
helping arthritis patieniS.
"Although we can•t cure "the disease,
through supporting research like thalal UB
and through outreach programs, we can
make !he quali1y of life much beUer for
people who have arthritis ," added
Brevorka.

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SMOKING
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cancer site in which cigarene smoking has
been implicated."
Earlier studies showed that smokers
with the slow-acetylation genotype for
NAT2 had higher levels of tobacco 's carcinogenic compounds in their blood·
stream. and were al higher risk of developing bladder cance r. a disease known to
be associated with cigareue s moking.
Components of cigarene smoke also have
been shown to cause breast cancer in rodents.
To invesligate the possibility that slow·
versus-fast acetylation could affect the incidence of breast cancer among smokers,
the researchers used data from an earlier
case-control study of the disease. Extensive data were gathered on medical andreproductive l)islory and blood samples were
co ll ec ted for DNA analysis. Researchers
were able to obtain genetic data from the
blood samples of 398 postmenopausal
women ( 185 cases and 213 controls), and
233 preme nopausal women ( 119 cases and
213 controls). All participanls were Caucasian.
A food·consumption record for the two
years prior to the interview and a lifetime
smoking history also were obtained.
Analysis showed a strong association
between smoki ng and breast cancer in postmenopausal women with the slow-acetylation genotype. The risk was highest for
women who began smoking before the age
of 18. lnlensi ly of smoking-the number
of cignreuessmoked per day allwo, 10 and
20 years prior to the interview-appeared
to be more significant than du ration of

smoking. Among slow acerylators, !here was
a four-fold increase in risk for women who
smoked more !han a pack a day in both !he
distant and recent past
Among rapid acetylators. there were no
significant associations between breast cancer ri sk and total years smoked, packs
per average year or pack-years smoked.
Neither genotype nor smoking history was
associated independenlly with cancer risk.
Ambrosone said that the differences in
cancer risk for pre- and postmenopausal
women could be caused by a number of
factors, among them:
• Pre- and postme;nopausal breast cancer may be different diseases, with differ·
ent etiologic factors.
• Younger women may have smoked
for a shorter period of time.
• Not enough time may have elapsed
among premenopausal smokers to allow
the entire carcinogenic process to develop.
• Other enzymes may mediate th e
NAT2 effect
Additional researchers contributing to
the study were Jo L. Freudenheim, Saxon
Graham, John E. Vena, John R. Brasure:
Arthur M. Michalek, Rosemary Laughlin,
James R. Marshall and Takuma Nemoto.
all from lhe UB Depanmenl of Social and
Preventive M~icine .
Also, K. Gillenwater. Anita Hnrrington
and Peter G . Shields. from !he Lahoratory
of Human Carcinogenesis. Narional Cancer Institute.
Portions of this study were presented at
the American Association for Cancer Re·
search meeting in Toronto in March.

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Real-world Edge
Program brings classroom theory to life
•1 -

D1LLA CONTIIADA
Reporter Contributor

BA STIJDENTS gained a rnre

glimpse into the marketing
slnltegies of global toy manu·

facturcr Fisher-Price Friday
as part of a new program that
gives classroom theory a real -world edge.
Lisa MacPherson. senior vice president

for worldwide marketing at Fisher-Price,
led students through an eight·year retro·
speetive that detailed the market identifi·
cati on. la unch and refinement o f Fisher

Price's ve ry successful make-be lieve
kitchen center.

'This product ca me to be the way all
successful products co me to be." said
MacPherson, a graduate of UB 's Executive MBA program . " We met an unmet
consumer need. That's where all market -

ing begins."
MacPherson's story about the ri se. fall
and ri se agai n of the toy included act ual
co mpany memos. market studies and

analysis of competitor Little Tykes' attempt

to capture the same markel. She detailed
modjfications made to the product, and its
advertisements, in response to focus group
stud ies and a decrease in the toy's retail
sales . She also demon s trated how th e
kitchen center regained its market share after beating back " the enemy" Little Tykes'
hold on an affiu e nt consumer segment that
threatened Fisher-Price's core franchi se.
"Her presentati on added an element of
realism to the theories we learn in the classroom," said MBA student Chuck Giarrizz.o.
" It tied together bits and pieces of theories
and showed tha t they ' re really being used
in the business world."
MacPherson 's talk was the latest ex a mple of the MBA program's " Adopt-A Course" component, in which prominent
Western New York executives lend pract ical business expertise to courses taught by
School of Manage ment professors. Th e
goa l is to bridge the gap between the classroom and the corporate workplace.

Arun Jai n. professor and chair of ma rketing. said he believes the program g ives
students a better understandi ng o f the co mplex decis ions th at managers ma.ke daily
a nd a better appreciation of how business
concepts provide a foundation for those decisions.
··s wden ts appreciate more the valu e of
what's on a professor 's ye ll oWing pages

when they see those concepts demonstr..tted
in the real world." sai d Juin . ··It makes it
more meaningful and rele va nt. "
Other companies that have "adopted '"
cou rses at the School of Management incl ude Pri ce Wmerhou se. Graphic Controh.
Cymphony Ne1. Interna tional l mag 1ng
Materials. Marine Midl a nd . We!\twoodSquibb and Xerm.

Reinhom is chair of Department of Civil Engineering
By ELLEN GOLDIIAUM
News Serv1ces Editor

ANDREI M. REINHORN , professor of
civil e ngineering at the University at Bu rhas been named c hair of the Department of Civil Engineering in the UB
School of Enginee ring and Applied Sciences.
The dep ar tment ho u ses th e
seismi c si mulati o n
fa c ility. the New
York Sta te Center
for
Ha za rd o us
REINHORH
Waste Management
and the Great Lakes Program.
Reinhom came to UB in 1979 as a vis·
iting assistant professor from Techni on Israel -In sti tute ofTechnology and became a
full -time fac ul ty member at UB in 198 I.
A s a teac her and researcher. he focuses
on se ismic evaluation of structures and on
the development of bui lding codes. active
a nd passive protective systems for structures. and new computerized design programs that predict how much damage a
building will sustain i~ a temblor.
Reinhorn was among the UB facully
members who developed the universi ty's

SEMICONDUCTOR
Continued from page 1
could be flexible," he said. "Bu..t such thin
materials are, of course. extremely fragi le.
They need to be supported by something.
which makes it a physicist's problem. We hnve
figured out a way to give mechanical suppon
to this type of semiconductor structure.··
''The flexible se miconductors we deve loped arc man-made structures that are fabri cated usi ng conventional se miconductin g
elements." he said. "Such materia ls possess supe rior optical properties and can be
combi ned with polymeric mate ri a ls beca use both are flex ibl e."
So far. the UB researche rs have fubncated semicondu ctors that a re about one
ce ntimete r in diamet er. but Luo said th at
in facilities used to make industri al prod·
ucts. samples of up to five inches in diameter and even larger could be fabricated .
Co·authors on the paper. which appeared in the Se ptember issue of Applietl
Ph ysics Letters. are Jen s J . Haett y.
Myunghee Na and Huicheng Chang. all
doctoral candidates in physics at UB .

seismic simula ti on facility. participating in
its design . construc tion and stan·up operations. That facility even tually helped attract
the National Cente r for Earthquake Engineering Researc h !NCEER) to U B.
Relnhorn ' a work Ia funded primarily
by the National Science Fou ndation. NCEER
and other agencies. He is the deve loper of
IDARC- lnelastic Damage Anal ysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures-a computer
program that models reinforced concre te
buildings that experience nonelastic deformation s befo re co ll apse. Engineers u s~
IDARC to design laboratory experimenL&lt; and
shaking-table tests. and to conduct seism1c
evaluation of buildings and bridges.
He also is the co-author. with UB profes·
so r of civ il engi nee rin g Michalak.i ~
Constant inou, of the 3D·BASIS computer

progr..tm series used by engineers in Otlifornia and Japan to design modem seismic iso·
lations to prolect structures from destruction.
With Tsu-Teh Soong. UB professor of
civil enginee rin g. Reinhorn dc:veloped a
"smart" bracing sys tem to control vibr.ttions in skyscrapers. Tested in an expenmental building construc ted in se ismicall y
active Tokyo, the system performed successfully during seveml moderate eanhquakes.
Relnhorn w as a member of the
NCEER recon naissance tea m se nt m to
cx&lt;~mi n e and eva lu ate damage following
Califomius 1994 Nonh ridge eanhquake
He recently received awards from thl!
Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council for outstanding contributions
to the advancement o f s ta te·of· th e-art
st ructural analys 1 ~ techniques a nd for the

Outstanding 1995 Journal Paper en titled
"Seis mic Performance Analy!r~b of a Mul ti story Steel Momt:nl Frame Bu1 lding
Damaged Dunng the 1994 Northridge
Eanhq uak.e ...
A fellow of the Amencan Society of
C1v1l Engineer~. Reinhorn is the au thor of
more than 250 JOurnu l articles. book chapters. confe rence pr oceedi ng!~~ and technical
repons and ~ ~ the co-a uthor of two parents.
He received the New York Sta te Profes&lt;.;u1 nal Eng ineers· Educa to r of th e Year
;1ward and the American Society of Civtl
Engmecnng Award for outstanding service.
Remhorn •~ past president of the Bu ffalo sec u on of the American Society of
C'1vtl Engmeers. wh1ch is invo lved in promotmg engineering in Western New York
sc hools. as well as other activities.

John Spagnoli named senior university fellow
OHN J. SPAGNOLI. former direc tor
of the Buffalo region of the Ne w York
State Depa rtment of Environmental
Conservation (DEC). has been named
a senior universi ty fellow at UB .
Spagnoli . who spent 31 year.; with the
DEC, will take hi s expenise to the New
Yo rk State Center for Hazardous Was te
Management at UB. where he will provide
strategic planning for the ce nter and assist
in developing an externall y funded. indu s·
tri al. no n-haza rdous-waste- ma nagement
research program .
"The center is trul y fortunate to have a
person of John 's stature and expertise on
stafT." said A. Scott Weber. executive di rector of the center and UB professor of
civil engineering. "Throughout his career.
he has shown an ability to brin g imagina·
tive solutions to co mpl ex e nvironment al
iss ues. I look forwa rd to John continuin g
thi s trend in hi s new role at the l"ente r."
Spagnoli began his career in government as a marin e ecologist in the DEC'!~~
Long Island o ffi ce. He later becamt! the
DEC's c hi ef fish a nd wildlife el·ologi-.t.
where he was responsible for long -term
rcse~uch on the impac ts of polluta nh on
fish a nd other aquatic resources.
In 1978. he was appointed the DEC'
Region 9 direc tor. managing environmen tal quality. natural resources. e nforcement
and pe rmitting programs for the six West·
e rn New York counties .
During his tenure as director of a region
that is home to half of the swte 's ha zardo u ~
waste dump sites. includin g Lo ve Canal.

J

and the o nly hazardous-waste trea tme nt fa ci lity in the Northeast, he worked intensive ly
on hazardous a nd solid waste iss ues.
He has taught e nvi ronme ntal scie nce at
UB's Rachel Carson College. C .W. Post
College of Lo ng Island University a nd
Rensselaer Po lytec hnic In stitut e. He also

serves as a professor of c hemis try at
Can isim College.
A graduate o f C.W. Post. Spagnoli. rece ived a master's of scietlce degree from
Long Isl and U niversit y and a Master of
Public Administration degree from the State
Uni vers ity of New York at Albany.

Black Panthers-Co-founder is Speaker
Black Panther leader Bobby Seale brought a message of seH-empowerment in
a 1alk .Nov. 7 in Mainstage theater, Center for the Arts. Seale's talk, In which he
described his role and life as an activist In the 1960s, was part of the People's
Spaaker Series sponsoi'Qd by the undergraduate Student Association at UB.

�4

I NTERSESSION
As previously announced, the University
at Buffalo wi ll be implementing an
lntersess ion Curtailme nt Program. As in
previous years, the savi ngs to be realized
through lower energy consumption and
other features
the curtai lment will assist the universi ty in operating with in this
year 's budget .

or

All umvers1ty offices Will br closed and rc:lepho nes w1ll not be answered except by depanmcn·
111 1 answenng machmcs from the close of busu\eS5
on Fnday. December 20. 1996. unulthe beginnmg
of bus me~s un Thur!iday. January 2. 1997 Thi5 will
uppl )' lu the umvc~•ty 's North, South and EOC
ca mpul&gt;tl&gt; Nou: A number o f cnucal library. compotmg and ca mpu ~ mail functron s wall be sustained
dunng lntcr§CSSIOn C unarlmcnl Sec details below:

e Tcmpcra tu ~s m bu1ldmgs that are closed
e
e
e
e

Will be reduced 10 S0°. und hoi water will
not be available
Nurmal W\I VerMt y ~e:nK~!o . ~uch a'\ food :.cr·
v1ce and cumpu!&gt; bosmg, w1ll not ~ ava1labk
Bu1ldmgs w1ll be lod :ed for secunty reasom.
In the e,·cnt o f sno wfall, o nly roadway~
needed for emergency access otnd u fe w se·
lc;,:h:d par~mg lou w1ll be plowed
Publu: Safety ami Umvcrs1ty Fucihtu:s staff
w1ll rnov 1dc ncccssary cu mpus and buddmg
~arc t y and scl·unc y

Exemption•
In accorda nC"c Wllh chc lntche!l.slon C urta1hnc111
Program Po lu.:y and EAcmp11on ProcedurcJo, th&lt;"
!oiJOv.lllg Uni VCC"S II Y fauht leli/aCIIVItiC'lo have been

\

granted autumatiL' c110empt•ons dunng th1s year·,
l n t c:r~!l~ I U II C urtailment
e All labor:uory an1mal fanl111e s
e The Oorshc:uncr Greenhouse
e All emergenL·y d!mcal/treatment fac1 11t1elo
• Alumm A~na cfur sc heduled lntc-:rcolleg 1ate
athlel!c c-:venllo only)
e All research butldmg' when: there · ~a ~~~
nllicut perrcnlage of "wc:t· laboratury .. fa ·
c •lit1e ~ m the bu1ldmg
, The foll o wmg btuldu1gs Will rcmam uva llablc1
dunn~ the cunalimcnt
~ . D unner Hall
b. Campus Mad Cc:ntet
c. CaryiF!lrhc:r/Shc:rnmn Halh
d . Cuo~c/Hoch'i t Cffer Hall\
~- foloter lh1ll
r. FrunCLII~ Hall
It· Fuma!l Holl
h. Jatv1s t-!:111
i. Ketter Hall
j. Natu ral Sc1eocelo and Mathc:mauc' I
k. School of Mc:d!cme Bu1ldmg
I. Squ 1re Hall

PU..A
·SI:. NOTE Ht'qunrs for e1 bu1ldrng t'U' mplwn
flf'wmtl lh f' pmgwmxlfunlrllt'J /u;lt'd u/Hwt' Wr'rr' 111
IIUI't' hrt•n rt'l't'll"t'cl In NtWt'm~r 12. 1996 m u
prtKf'tluff' P"''WUdl' uullmt'd

Ubrorle.-Exempted
Tht• fnllowmg

lihra n c~

wtll n·nuun open dunng

~·url ll lllll cnt

.111 The C.111 pen l.ibn~ri es (bolh lhc Underf(nld uatr Library (UGL) and th~ Scien ce and
E n~tine-e r ing Library (SEL)-opc:n from 8 a .m
unlll -1 p.m. on Dc:c~mber 2.l. 26. 27 and )0. No
rcf~ rc:nt•e scrv tcc: avuilablc: '
b. The: He.allh Science!~ Llbnry (liSL)-open
from 8 :r..m. unti l 6 p.m. on Monday. December 23 .
from 9 a m unti l 5 p m o n Thursday and Friday.
Dece mber 16 and 27 . and frum 8 a m. unlll 5 p.m
o n Monday, December 30. Rdtren c~ servic~ will
be: a\'3Jiable

Computln&amp; Center
The machi ne room and supportmg off1t:c.s only of
the": CompUiin·g Cc:nler Will be open . (See COM ·
PUTING for addil ional details. )

Rooldence H•llo
Sclccl ~s idence halls w1ll be: open to
s1u1knts dunng che curtailment .

Employ"

mt~mBI!oiUll

Os&gt;tJ-o: Altemeto -

Site

Employees who wish to work o n any or all of the
regular workday s. but who are not ~mployed in
urc:a.s !hat wtll be open as 11 result of an e xemption.
ur who cannot makt ahcrnate ammgc:rrn=ms. will
be ~tccommo(hucd at the alternate work sire, wh1ch
•~ Lodwood L1brary .on !he North Campus. 11uu
"'c: w1 ll be heated to the normal university winter
t cmptralu~ Individuals u1i hzmg !he all~malc:
~urk &lt;; lie mus1 bnng adcqualc: work su pp l i~d by
then dc:p:.rtmc:nl o r w11J be supplted work by the
\l tC'SUpet\'l&lt;;or
Sl'-

PtEAS£ NOT£ . Swtr' nnplu!"f'U '"·hu ,·housf' rhu
fiJ'IHm '"111 " Cf'll'f' tl mt'morandum m f'urly Df'cf'm ·
,.., 1h01 prm'Uit's SfH'C"ific mstrucliOnJ on proc~ ·
durf'J I(IH'f'rtl lng lhl' Cllff'rtiOll' 'I'I'Urk Silt .

St•t• Employ. .•
State c:mploy«s who choost to take umc: o ff durmg the c urtailmrnt can u1ilize accumu lated vaca·
tum . persona l. or compensatory leave accrua ls or
..::111 c h&lt;IOSC: to take the days o fT without pay. Em·
plnycc:\ who plan 10 make use of l h~ latter opllon

URTAILMENT

should write a letter 10 their supervisor indicating
the specifte dates they wish to take without pay.
Sick leave accruals may noc be used.
For those employee~ who do not have six days
or vacation and/or compensatory accruals. but who
wish to be ofT with pay durin&amp; chis period, the uni·
versily will advance up to six days or vacation accruals. Slate e mployees who choose lO wort on
any or a ll of the six workdays thai fall within the
c urtailment, and who are not employees of a department that has been annted an exemption. or
who are unable to make altema1e arranacmenu,
must ooc.ify Adrienne Collier, Employee Relations
Associate, at 645-2646. eat 117 or Mary Ann
Lawson. Secretary I. II 64S-2646 ext. 106, o( that
fact no later than December 2. 1996. to requesJ a
copy of the 1996-1997 lnterKSSloo Cun.ailme:nt
Request to Work at Alternate Work Sit~ form . This
fonn requires the sia.nature/approvaJ or !be
employee's superv Uor.
'

R... arch Foundation Employ...
Research Foundation employees may be required to
work all or part or the curtaHmc:nt, depend.ina on
whether the unil in which they worlc. will remain
open. Employees who are not required to wort. but
wish to do so. may be. assigned to the aJtemate work
iltc: in the Libraries (see EMPLOYEE OmONS).
Employees who do n01 work, and who do not
have suffid~nt accrua.ls may request leave without
pay or an advance up to six (6) days . Req uests for
an advance . or for leave wi thout pay, and requests
for altc:male work site must be sent to Rosemary
Tnp• . Sponsored Prognms Personnel , 416 Crofts
Hall . 1n wnling by ~mber 2. 1996.
PLE.A.S£ NOTE: Du~m/Hr is th~ Res~ai'C'h
Foundauo n S duigtUJlnl molllhfor orwn t'nrollmt'nl for h~ollh IHnrftu. Mat~riD I " 'ill ~ s~nr di·
rr'rtl ~· 10 all Rtuurrh "nployuJ rr1arding dot~s.
ttmrs and locutiom pno r to th~ cunailmLnt. -wht'n
pusunn~l staff ~tt•JIIIH Dl'flilablt' 10 assisl with
h~allh msurat~ rt' C"hungu

Public Sllfety
Pubhc Safety w11\ o pc:r.ue full shifts 1hro~;~ghoot 1 ~
curtai lment penod Several steps will be taken to
guard against theft and pro\•idc: pc:,.,onal prolection
for !he limited number of emplo)'C:~s and slulknt s
un campus

Accountlq and Payroll Service•
Tuesday. December 24 . is a Slate and UBF payday
In an effort to provute service to um versity employees. all State and UBF payc heck$ and direct
dcpusll statemenls will be mailed to State and UBF
employees (including !hose working in local hospi·
tals) via firs! class mail They will be: mailed to the
address that is on the ~mployee 's potyc:heckldirect
deposit stalc:ments. No paycheck/direct deposit
statc:menl will be o btainable on campus. All w1ll be
dc: h vc:n:d to the post office:. lo ensu~ local delh·ery
by Tuesday. December 24
Plra5~ nutt' thtll for lht' SWtt' Sludt'nl A..uuwm
pa\·Juy on ThurJtlay, Jhc~miHr 19. chukJ wii/IH
tli.u ribulf'd b,\' Campus Maif OJ usual.

Employees have brtn reminded o f the necessity
of an accurate mailing address on 1he1r paycheck/
direcl deposit slatemcnt. as ~·ell a.&lt;r lhe advamtages
of enroll ing in 1hc: Direct Deposit Program. Change
of address forms are available in the UniverSity
Telephone Directory or in Personnel Services. 104
Crofts Hall, 645-2646. exlc:nsions 10 1 or 102 for
State employees. UBF employees can change their
address by advising !he UBF Pc:I'$OIIOC:I Office: in the
Ce nter for Tomorrow, 645-3011.
If it is necessary to withhold any State employees December 24 paycheck. or their direct deposit .
il is critical the univenity departments notify Payroll Services by Thursday, lnttmber 19. Payroll
Services wi ll notify the employee by mail if his/her
paycheck is withheld. UBF mus1 also be notified
by December 20, and will nocify the employ~ by
mai l if hislhtr paycheck is withheld.
During lnlerscssion Curtailment: Plyroll s~r·
vices will have a staff member checking it&amp;tel~­
phone answering device and responding to any
questions. The telephone number is 645-2600.
UBF will have staff ava il abl~ eac h workday dunng
the c unai lment, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 answer
qu~ sti o ns. The telephone number is 645-30 11 .
Questions regardinJ the procedure for dislributing paychecks during lnlersession Curtailment
should be: &amp;dd~ssed 10 Brian Sirrn=t, Manager, Payroll Se,.,.iccs for State employees. and Joseph in~
Zenosky. Payroll Supervisor (or UBF employtes.
For lnvel a n d pelly cub, completed reimbursemc:OI requests are due in the traveVgenc:ral
ledger offices by Wednesday, Dc:ccmber II , to ~n ­
su~ potymc:nt prior to the: cunailmc:nt. Documents
received after D«c:mbc:r II. will continue to be
processed ; however. thert is no gull"l.nlee that pay·
mcnt will be received pnor to the c unailmcnl

C-oMell
11M' C~tmpus Mail Scrv•cc-:s Cenler w1ll be open
each busmess day (December 2 1-0ecembc:r 30) 10
son incoming Federal mail inc luding )eller mail.
regisleredlctnifiedlprioriry mtil. and Parctl Post .
The Campus Mail Services Center wi ll be
closed on Dece mber 25 and Jtn uary I.
All hough there wi ll not be: ~tny mail ddivenes

during lhe curuilmc:oe. Camput Mail ServM:es will
loed its delivery ttUCts for Rna day Nek delivery
or aU accumula1ed mail. Expect Thunday. January
2, 1997to be 1 heavier than usual day.
All accum ulated Parcel Post will be delivered
011 Jan uary 2. 1997.
Departments !.hat wish to receive their mail dut·
in&amp; the curtailment should contact lhe Campus Mail
Setvk:cs Center no later than December 16, 1996 at
64S-274) 10 make lhe: nc:ceuuy amtnJemc:nlS 10
pick up lheir mail at the Mail Center. ~'Will be
no dlstribution of .all cO lnd.ivlduak (i.e .. mail
can be picked up for departments only).
Houn o( operation will be 8 L m. to 4 p.m.
~

-and

The Heolth Sci&lt;nca Library (HSL) and the Capen
Ulxvi&lt;s. both the U~uale Lib&lt;vy (UGL)
and the:
Ea&amp;io«rioa U bnry (SEL).
will be open durina pan or the curtailmern . HSL
will be open from 8 Lm. until 6 p.m. on Monday,
December 23; from 9 a.m. uatil .S p.m. on Thursday
and Friday, December 26 and 27; and rrom 8 a.m.
until5 p.m. on Monday. December 30. UGI.. and
SEL will be open from 8 a.m. until4 p.m. on lhe
same day1. Rererence ICI"ViCCJ will be provided 11
HSL only. All other library units on both the North
and South Campuses will be closed during the curtailment, and all Universily Libraries wiiJ be closed
on lhe two cun ailmenl weekends, December 21 and
22 and December 28 and 29. as well as on December 24 and 2S and December 3 I and J~uary 1.
Barring unforeseen mai nl~n.ancc or upgrade
work on the univers.ily mainframe, BISON will be
avtilable 111he open libraries as well as via dial-up
and network connections. HUBNET will also be
available.
As in past yean, emerctncy retrieval of materiab will be. provided for UB faculty on December
23, 26. 27 and 30 from those libraries that are
closed durina the curtailment. Faculty who need
k.nown items from !he closed collections (Arc.hiteclure and Pltnning. Law. Lockwood, Mathemat·
•cs and Music) can ctll 645-2116 between 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m. to place requests. Journal anicle&amp; will
be copied for pick-up at Lockwood Library or
faxed at no charze. Books will be charged ror pick ·
up at Lockwood betw«n 8 a.m. and 4 p.m . 'IWo
hour, same-day rupon. wfll be pro\llded for
calls ma d e befo~ l p.n1.

~"'

The Computing Center will close its central facili·
ues and all public si tes during the cunailment.
During this period, one operator will be on duty a1
1hc Computing Center between 8:30a.m. and 10
p.m. weekdtys, except Christmas (Oecc:mbc:r 2S)
and New Year's Eve and Day (lkttmbc:r )I and
January I). to monitor the. compt.uers and networks. do backups, and handle a limited number of
requesh ror tapt mounls. No output will be
pnnted. distributed or delivered from the Comput•ng Cen t~r or any of iu remote facili lies.
Frum 10 p.m. 10 8:30a.m. weekdays and all
day on w«kends. the systems will be left in open·
lor· unaucnded mode. meaning thai no tape moont
~quesb 14'ill be po5~ ibl~ . Also. during unattended
lime, should e ither the system) or networks be·
come inoperative for some reason. restoration will
not occur untillhe nex1 sc h~du l e operato r-attended
shift. ( PI~aR see complecc: Computing Center
lnterseuion Curtailment schedule .)
Outside or providing access to mainframe com·
pulers, there wi ll be no other servied IWailable
during the curtailment such as consulting. com·
purer ~pair or network services.
Due to the li mited disk space o n the IBM sys·
tern for electronic mail and print files and the
Compuling Center 's inability to monitor use of this
space. users are ctutioned that some E-mail messages and print files could be lost if the space: allocalc:d for thi s data beoomc:s full .
As was the case last year•.thc Computing Cc:n·
tc:r recommends that all cri tical data files be
backed up before powering down your computer
equipment on December 20. 1996.
If there are any special concerns relating to the.
c:ffecb o n compuling during c urtailment, please
t·nntacl Dr Hinrich Martens 111 645-3580 or Dennis

--·
Henneman If. 645-3.504.

All Sponsored J&gt;roatanH clcpottments
closed durina the cW"ta.ilmenL

wm be

SpciM«od . . . . . , _ _

Anyooe ncedina assistance from • member of the
Spamored Proanms AdnUnisal&lt;ioa m/f .. hondlo
ut"J'CIM business should kave a1eicphoDe mei$IIIC 11
645-2980. A meml&gt;a-ollhe m/f will .....,lhecoll
and_
makr.
10 _
provide
needed
s
. .arnnaemenu
s..._g
_
_ ISiiJtanoe.

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T ravd relmburx.me111 vouct.:n and advance requeru mu.sl be recciYCCI in Gnnu and Cootrw:ts on
or before December 6, 1996 for paymen110 be made
by December 20. 1996. This aliO applies 10 petty
cub n:imbunemenb and ochc:r paymau requesu.
Project Directors will be c:on.tiCled by a aafT
member reprdina projects terminatin&amp; Decc:mbtt
31 . 1996, to provide usi&amp;eance in compl~in&amp; processing prior to Drecember 6 , 1996.

Sponoo&lt;od Procnomo Payroll
Followin&amp; are dates for 1ubmission of hourly time
1hcet vouchen for the laged payroll :

HOURLY TIME SHEET VOUCHER (Lag Payroll)
PAYJtOU. POIOD

DU1 DATr

~a,y

Doc. 7-0cc. 13

Dec. 17
Jan. 8
Jan. 8

Jan. 3
Jan. 17
Jan. 17

Dec. 14-Dc:c. 20
Dec:. 21 -Jan. 3

DATI:

SPONSORED PROORAMS PERSONNEL
Following are lhe dates for submission or Employee Appointmenl and Cbanat: forms:
~AYJIOU.P£Rt00

Dec. 7-lkc. 20
Dec. 21 -Jan. 3

........
Dec. II
Dec. II

~AYCM;TI

Dec. 20
Jan. 3

Procrams

Spoeored
PurchMJnC
Requisition&amp; for materiab and supplies needed dut·
inglhe cun ailmc:nt must be received by December
II. 1996. Vendon with pending arden will be COO·
t.acted to request delivery prior to December 20,
1996, or after January 2, 1997.

r......,.._.

A reduced schedule of telephone operator tervices
will be: provided. Operators will be on duty December 23, 24. 26. 27,30 and ) I (rom 8 Lm. 10 5
p.m. At all other times. calls to the unlvenity's
main number will be handled by the telephooe a nsweri na service.
For ~mergenc:ies in Physical Plant call Customer
Service at 71 or 645-2025 and e~ in Pu~
lie Saf~y to 645-2222. No moves, adds or cbanacs.
or- routine n:pairs to !he university telepbone tystem
will be. done during the curtailment . Requests for
repair of emeraency or essential servtces telephones
should be directed to campus operators during the
day or to Public Safety after houn.
Depanments that have answering machines a~
rc:quesled to ~program them to furnish an lppropriate me&amp;sage ~titled to the cunailment. If the
machine: is not associated with a dc:p.artrrn=nl's main
listed phone: number, call forwtrding could be used
to direct the calls to the machine .

FuMec:IIIIMo
Fax messtges sc:nt lo the university's listed rax
number (64S ·289S) will be directed to the: Campus
Mail Office:. M~ssagc:s will be placed in campus
mail and deli vered after l.anuary 2.

F-lty-S- - -

The FSA operations will not be staffed. All Food
Service faciliti~s will be closed. No vending machine&amp; will be serviecd. All lobby counten will be
closed. All rttreation centers and the Creative
Craft Center will be: dosed. CFT Ca t~ring , Inc .•
will noc provide any ~trvice .

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Tbc: center will be: cloltd during the cunai i ~Mn t .

All btnlring machines in campus buildings will be
turned off. All funds s1ored in the": machines will be
removed be(ore the curta ilment.

�Chung develops new method
of evaluating bond •gth
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News Services EditO&lt;

A

UB PROFESSOR has developed
the first accurate, nondestructive
way to evaluate the strength of a
bond between two materials.
The new method, called electromec hanical pull-out testing , can be used
throughout the construction industry and
in any composite
application
where neither of
the interface materia ls is com pletel y electrically insulating.
"Th is tech ni que takes the
guesswork out of
d eter m i nin g
small , but imporCHUNG
tant , differences
i n bond stre ngth."" sa id Debo ra h D .L.
Chung, Niagara Mohawk Professor of
Materials s'cience at U B. professor of me chanical and aerospace e ngi neering and
principal investigator.
Chung described the me thod recentl y
at the Thi rd International Conference on
Composites Engineering. Xuli Fu. a doc toral candidate in the UB Department of
Mec hanical and Aerospace Engi neering, is
co-investigator on the project
When two material s are bo nded togethe r. the new composite will prove onl y

as strong as the connection, or interface.
that holds them together. When steel and
concrete are connected, for example, the
interface is the potential weak link in the
system . " If the interface is bad, then the
stee l's strength cannot be utilized." Chung
explained.
The new technique makes use of a di rect correlation Chung discovered between
the strength of the hood between materials
and the electrical resistance associated with
the interface.
,,

he traditional method of meas uring
bond strength invol ves embedding a
si ngle fiber of a materfal , such as steel or
carbon, in the matrix , such as cement, and
measuring the amount of force it takes to
pull it out. The bond is the connection between the fiber and the matrix.
With the new technique. after the fiber
is embedded in the matrix , electri cal contacts are applied to the fiber and to the
matrix near the fiber. An electric c urre nt is
passed through a contact on the fiber and a
co ntact on the matrix . The e lectrical resistivity is calculated based o n these voltmeter readings.
" We can then plot the contac t resisti vity versus bond stre ngth ." exp la ined
Chung. "The curve of the plotted poin ts
represents that correlation. A different formulation or surface treatment would cause
the whole c urve to shift. From that shifl.
one can tell clearly what the c hange in bond
strength is."'

Caribbean women's rights leader
to give lecture, worbhop at UB
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Ed itor

T

HE WOM EN"S STUDIES Program at the Uni versity a t Buffalo
will present a free publi c leclUre
a nd work s hop next week b y
Cynthi a Ell is. a leader in the women' s
right s move ment in Belize and the Caribbean and director of women ·s stud ies at
the Univers ity o f G uyana.
Her lecture , " Rural Women in Belize:
Considerations for the 2 1st Century.'' wil l
take place at 3:30p.m. Monday. Nov. 18
in 280 Park Hall on UB 's Nonh Ca mpus.
A reception will follow.
The UB Caribbean St udents Assoc iation wi ll sponsor a lunch in connec tion
with Ellis ' visi t fro m noon-2 p.m. Tuesday. Nov. 19 in 1458 Student Union. The
public is invited to attend A small fee will
be charged : reservations are not necessary.
The lunch wi ll be fo llowed at 3 p.m. by
workshop conducted by Ellis in 280 Park
Ha ll titled. " Networking Between
Wo me n's Studies Programs in the Carib-

bean and North America."
Ellis has a long hi story o f working wiLh
deve lopment projects sponsored by government agencie s and private foundati ons.
She is know n in particu lar for her worJ...
wi th th e Rural Women ·~ Associati on of
Belize. an organization she helped to found
I 0 years ago. The association e mpl oys the
research-action me thod s de ve loped by the
noted Dutch a nthropologi~t and fe mim st
scholar Maria Mies. who ha~ faci litated the
publicatio n of many third-world scholars .

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II is has been a part icipant in
several U.S. conferences. incl uding a
meeting on " Women. Informal ion and Tech nology·· O&lt;ganized by the Schlesinger Libr.ll)'.
Ellis' visit is co-sponsored by the Dean"s Office, Faculty of Ans and Leners: the Depanmenl of Sociology and the Department of Anthropology ; the Dean"s Office. Faculty or Social Sciences: the Gmduate Group in Feminist
Studies; the Graduate Group in Hum an
Rights; the Gr.lduate Student Association: the
Anthropology Club. American Studies Club
and Caribbean Student Association.

State Museum exhibits Rogovin works
THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM in Albany has mounted an extensive ex hibiti on
of the works of photographer Milton Rogovin. Rogpvin, known for his ponraits or
Buffalo steelworkers and the working poor of the Lower East Side. holds a master 's
degree in ·Ameri can studies fro m UB and is a member of the adjunc t faculty in the
Department of American Studies.
" Hope and Heartache: Milton Rogovin's Ponraits of Ordinary Li ves·· includes photographs from several of his series: photographs of African-Ameri can st orefront
churches made in the 1950s, those of Lower East Side people taken during a 20-year
period, photographs of Na tive American and Yemeni people from the Buffalo area
and ponraits of steel and auto industry workers and their families.
The show, which includes more than 200 phot&lt;&gt;gn~phs, will be on view at the Albany
museum through March 3. then will travel to additional sites. Rogovin's works are in the
collections of the Cleveland Museum of An, the Metropolitan Museum of An. the George
Eastman House and the Museum of Modem An. among others.
He has published five hooks, including " Ponraits in Steel," wrinen by UB history
professor Michael Friscb. and has held shows nationwide in such prestigious institu tions as the An Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of American History.

AGenerous Boost lor SEFA CBIIIPBiUn
John Karrer, left, and Elias Eldayrie present check from Student Ftnanees &amp;
Records Nov. 7 in Alumni Arena to Nelson Townsend, right, UB's SEFA campaign
chair. Department events (a golf tourney, raffle , balui, craft and candy sales) raised
$5,817.40, with staff contributions boosting the total to $14,907. Student Finances
&amp; Records' S!OFA committee included Christine Denny, Hugh Ganser, Janessa Givens-Daniels, Jennijer Mengay, Deborah Morris, Kathy Penrod, Joyce Sheldon and
Margaret Taylor.

Slide lecture set on Slovakian photography
By PATRICIA DONOVAN

News Services Editor

L

UC lA BENIC KA . c urator o r contemporary photography and ans [or
the Tatranska Galeri a in Poprad.
Slov akia , will present a sl ide lecture on rarel y see n con temporary
Slovakian photography at 4 p.m. on Thu rsday. Nov. 14 . in the Screen in g Roo m.
Roo m 112 o r the Ce nter for the Arts on
UB"s Nonh Campus.
The talk wi ll be co-sponsored by the UB
Depart ment of Arl . Hall walls Contemporary
Ans Center and CEPA. The presentation wil l
1x rree of charge and ope n 1o the public.
Be n1 c ka will present photographic
worh by 23 photographe rs through which
she will illuminate trend s in Slovakian art
[rom the late 1980s to the early 1990s. This
IS the peri od du ring wh ich the Slovak Ne w
Wave developed out or the staged- photog raph ) move me nt that took place in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia.
He r lecture will feature exa mples or
documentary pho tograph y a nd works m

mi xed med1 a aod include a di sc ussion of
the anistic exchange betwee n the older and
younger ge neration of Eastern European
anists . Bentcka also will talk about the radical social and c ul tural transfonnations tak·
ing pl ace in Easte rn and Cen tral Europe a!'&gt;
a way of contexwaliz.ing the cultural climate from which this work evolved.

B

enicka is a graduate of the Un iversJty
Komenskeho in Bra tisla va. where she
received her d egrees in art history and ae ...
thetics. She lectures on conte mporary photogra ph y at the Academy of Fine An~ m
Bratis lava.
She has brought Slovak1an anl!&lt;ob. t.:rll ·
•cs. thcoretiCians and art histona ns together
th rough workshops. conferences. !&lt;.emsnars
and prese nt at ions or th!!ir work. Be nid. a
also h;:1s lec tured o n Slova kian photogra·
ph y to ga llery and uni ve r~ 1t y audiences
throughout England and wa!-&gt; a Fulbright
Fellow and visit mg researc her at Columbia University and Chicago ·.., Museum of
Contemporary Photography.

OBITUARIES
Joseph P. Runfola, Law School Distingui shed Alumnus
A Mass ol Chnst1an Bunal was held Nov 5 for J oseph P Runlota a graduate olthe UB Law

School and w1nner tn 1976 ol1ts OtSMgwshed Alumnus Award whOse actiVItieS revOiuhomzed
the pres1dency of the Ene County Bar Assoc•at1on RunfOia 81 d1ed Oct 31 1n Cahlorn.a Pactftc
Med1cal Center of San Franc1sco
As bar pres10en1. Runfota cnhctzed the pardorung of lor mer Pres1den1 A1c hard N1xon as a
· posstbte eros tOn of pubhc respect lor the taw· and stunned the legal communtty when he
warned JUdges not to berate tunes lor acqu•tMg cr1m•na1 defendants He held every ofhce of the
Ene County Bar Assoc1atton and created sever at new commmees. 1nclud1ng the Comm111ee on
Sex DISCriminatiOn . WhiCh was ahead oi1IS ttme He was named DIStingUished Lawyer of the
Year 10 1976 by the bar assoc1atton
Runlola graduated lrom CantSIUS College and earned hiS law degree lrom ue In 1950 alter
work1ng lor many years lor h1s lathers company Runfola Coat &amp; Coke H1s law fum was Runlola
and B1rzon
He served as pres•dent of the W1tham Paca Soc•ety nameo lor the only 1tat1an-Ameucan to
s1gn I he Dectarahon of Independence prestdent ol tne Jushn•an Legal Soc•ety and as a member
of the State Bar Assoc1atK&gt;n ·s Comm111ee on Jud•cra1 Selechon

Robert Secrist, clinical assoc iate professor emeri tus of medicine
Robert Secust. cltntcal assoc1a1e pro tessor ementus at the School of Med1c•ne ano 8 1omedtca1
Sc1ences. d1ed Nov 5 '" BoOdy Health Care Fac1hJy Lockport alter a long 11fness He was 78
A nahve ol Lockport over the course of h•s career Secrrst cevetoped a reputatiOn tor com
pass•on. mak1ng house calls to pahents all over Buftalo and !01 treat•ng them regardless ot theor
ab1hly to pay He retued 1n 1988
From 1937 to 1939 he attended Cornell Un•verstty on a scholarsh•P He Jell schOOl to ro•n
Bethlehem Steel where he worked unlit he was !lraltec 1nto lhe Army 1nlantry tn Apnl 19J 1 Ht·
was. on guard duty at Fort Shatter on the ISland of Oahu lrve m•les from Pear l Har r when the
Japanese auacked on Dec 7
Later ass1gned to combat duly '" France and Germany Secr•st rece•veo the Purple Hean lor
a wound rece1ved 10 combal Alter l1ve years of serv1ce he left the Army as a l1rst lieutenant
Followtng the war Secnst went bac k to school under the Gt B 11l He recetveo a bacnetor or
arts degree from Columb1a Un1vers1ty and entered the UB med1cat schOOl In 1947 He gracuareo
In 195 1
Sacnst. a member ol the Er~e Coumy and New York State Med•cat soCieties ana the Amencan
Med1cat Assoctatton was board cer 11hed 1n Internal med 1c1ne'" 1958 and recentf1e0 •n 1977
He was a member of the Ameuc an College of Chest Phys1c1ans
Serv1ces w1ll be held at 5 p m today tn Beach- Tuyn Funeral Home 5541 Mam St
W•lhamsv111e

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can find at bltp:/Jwww.bulfalo.ecla/UIIIIa beea widely pabli~ wilb good reason! Thesillo
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1WO ...__.PLANNED
n AllAN ITUOIEI

the university and was instrumental

mincreasing endowments to uso
by 45 percent . and headed a $5.5
million campa•gn to restore the old·
est higher education build1ng In Dakota territOI"y. COJder previously
served as assoc1ate executNe dtrec·
101 and d1rector of major and
planned giving at the foundatJon.
A certified fund·raising executive. Corder worked at UB Foundation as a senior development omcer
and associate directOf for community relations from 1989-92. Prior to
that, she served as d irector of de·
velopment research and records at
Bryant CcNiege in Rhode Island.

The Asian Studtes Program has announced the following upcoming

programs:
Masuo NIShtbayasht, Deputy
Consul General of the Consulate
General of Japan tn New York. wtll
dtscuss · The Nat•onal Security of
Japan· at 2 p m. Monday. Nov 18
'" 205 Natural Sctences Butldtng .
Nlshtbayasht has served the
Japanese M tnisuy of Foretgn Affairs
'" MalaySia and Switzerland and dtrected 11\e Lalln Amencan and CartObean Otvtston In New York he
serves as dtrector of the Japan tnlormatiOO Center Hts lecture as sponsored by the Astan Studtes Program
Ronald J L Berlet. rettred from
the Trade CommFSStoner Servtce of
the Government of Canada, wilt
present two programs at UB on Fn-

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VOWN'IEERI ARE NEEDED
FOR u• EMI'LOYU
AIIIITANCE ..-AM

aay. Nov 22
Berlet wtll present a brown-bag
luncheon at noon on ' Tatwan's National Asptrattons and Cross-Str611s
DeveJopmeflls· tn 250 Student
Unton as pan of -As1a at Noon ·
He aJso w1U speak on · Ta1wan as
a Trad1ng Nahan · at 2 p m 1n 250
Natural Sc1ences Bu1ld1ng
Berlet , whose career 1n Canad1an
trade has spanned 32 years. served
as d1rector of the Canad1an Trade
Off1ce from t992to 1995 He has
served '" a var~ety ot ass•gnments
•ncludmg Vienna Prague. London.
Hamburg. Ta1pe1 and the Umted Nat•ons His VISit •S sponsored by the
Astan Studies Program and the tnternattonal Bus1ness Club

1110111AI WEBER
NAMED AlEE FELLOW
Thoma. W. Weber, professor
and acting cha•r of the Department
of Chemtcar Eng•·
neeung . has been
named a fellow of
the Amencan So·
c1e1y for Engmeering Educat•on
ASEE fellows
are selected
based on outWEBER
stand ing contobutions to eng1neenng or eng•neer tng technology educalton
A UB faculty member s1nce
\963. Weber 1s the author of the
textbook 'An Introduction to Process Dynamics and Contror
(Kneger) and of vanous papers 1n
chemical eng1neenng tournals H1s
research has been .n the areas of
' adsorption and process control
Weber also IS a fellow of the
Amencan lnsUtute of Chem•cal
Eng1neers He IS a rec1p1ent of the
ASEE's AT&amp;T Foundat1on Award. the
Tau Beta Pt Teacher Award 1n 1965
and 1982. and the SUNY ChanceliOf's Award tor Excellence 1n
Teactun(J
He served as chau of the UB
Department of Chem•cal Eng1neer.ng !rom 1982-89

CORDER NAMED MAJOR
GIFTI OFFICER FOR
UB IIIEOICAL SCHOOL
Llnct. ol. Corder has romeo the
Oll•ce of Un1versity Development as
mater g•lts olllcer lor the School of
Med1c1ne and Btomed!Cal Sc•ences
Corder. lormerty ch•el develOpment officer and execut1ve d~tector of
lhe Un111erS11y at South Dakota FoundatiOn. w1ll be respons1ble 101' plan·
n1ng and executtng a program to
ldent•ly new sources of support lrn
the medical school and ra1se map
pnvate gifts from •nd•vtduals. corporattOns and loundat1011s natoowtde
At the USO Foundat1on . Corder
oversaw the un1verS11y's fund-ralstng
actM!Ies. mclud•ng annual g1v1ng .
majOI' g1fts . hon01 roll of donors and
g1lt acknowledgments She also
started a planned gMng program IDf

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The UB Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is seeking volunteers to
ftll two coordtnator pos111ons.
EAP IS a free. confidential. voluntary consullahon and referral serVICe It can provide assistance w1th
many types of problems-personal.
family or marital . emotional. sub-stance abuse. medical. legal or financtal Th1s referral serv•ce does
not prov•de counseling . but serves
as a Unk between un1versity employees and the skilled profess•onal, counseling, med1cal and allied resources Within the community
The EAP coordinator 1S a conli·
denhal personal advisor ava•lable to
an state. Research FoundatiOn and
UB FoundatiOn employees and the1r
lam11Jes Coordinators report to the
Employee Assistance Program Commlltee, and wOfk w1th comm1ttee
members to 1ncrease awareness of
EAP servtces. expand relerral serv•ces and coord•nate EAP acllv111es
w•lh o ther umverSity programs.
Individuals ehg1ble to serve as coordinator 1nclude un1verstty emplOy·
ees and rel!rees The pos•t•on re·
qu1res a 25 percent time commitment. Departments are compensated
tor the •nd•v•duars release t•me. and
rehrees rece•ve a small stipend
Persons cnterested 1n serving as
a coordinator should subm•t a resume and a letter at applicatiOn by
Dec 10 to Ch81r. EAP Search Com·
m•ttee. c/o Personnel Serv1ces . 104
Crofts Hall . North Campus

5211,000 GRANT IUPI'ORTI
COMI'UTER UI'GRADE
AT UB NURSING SCHOOL
E.xpans1on and upgrades 1n the
School of Nursing's computer labOratory are complete. thanks to a
$25.CXJO grant from the Helene Fuld
Health Trust . lor which Marine Midland Bank acts as trustee The grant
provided the rematn•ng fund s necessary to carry out a $55.CXJO pro)Bct
Computer-ass1sted classroom
•nstruction w•ll be •mproved w1th an
equ•pment network of 16 IBM per·
sonal computers loaded w1th W•n·
dows '95 and fully eqUipped w1th
CO-ROM They r9ptace e•ght·yearold computers Course ass•gnments
and 1nstruct10n w11l be enhanced
wtth the use of CD-ROM soltware
and headphones . 1n place of slide
protectors
lntegrat•on ol the new computer
network has been completed and
the new computers are •n operat•on
The new computers allow stu·
dents a·ccess to the Internet. BISON
· and HUBNET. as well as the opportumty to create thelf own webs•te tn
addthon . the Hewlett -Packard
pnnter 1n the lab 1S the most stateof-the-art pnnter on campus
·students need access to resources such as the World W1de
Web and e1ectron1c ma11 : sa•d
Jud•th S Ronald. UB assoc•ate prolessor of nurs1ng ementus -n IS •mportant for students to communicate
eas1ly and effectively Wlth faculty,
students and health professionals

throughout the WOfld These new
computers also wtll provade students
with Important learn.rlQ opportu01118S
using clinical simulatoos •

IY-IUM TO FOCUI ON
11'0111'1/INTERTAINMENT LAW
The law schoot's Buffalo Entertain·
ment and Sports Law Soc1ety w111
present "The Fall· Sympos1um on
Entertainment and Sports Law •n
Western New York' at 7 p .m Mon·
day. Nov. 18 in the Center for Tomorrow. Ncwth Campus
Lynn J . Wolfgang . pres1dent of
the Entertainment and Sports Law
Society, is cha!f of the event Panel·
ists will include Keith Schuleland.
an entertainment and sports lawyer;
Janet Snyder, rooming personality

at WKSE KISS 98.5 FM; Ross T.
Runlola . partner. Siegel. Kelleher &amp;
Kahn and an award·winning sportswnter: and Mike lgoe, 'Money Mat·
ters• reporter for WGAZ· TV Channel
2 and an attOfney. Jean Hill. of
WKBW· TV Channel 7, w111 moderate
the panel discussion
Panelists will d1scuss ISSues that
1nciude differing perspectives of the
med1a and how 11 aflects sports and
enterta•nmentlaw. 1lv1ng w ithan the
FCC regulauons and non-traditional
careers 1n the industry.
The symposium. whtch •s sponsored by the New York State Bar
AsSOCiation . the UB School of Law
and the University Union Ac11v1ty
Board. is free and open to the putr
he For more mlormation. call
Wolfgang at 636-9866.

MIUARO FILLMORE COLLEGE
OFFERI SPECIAL STUDENT
REGIITIIATION PERIOD
For the flfSIIIme. M1ilard Ftltmore
College (MFC) will open reg1strat1on
lor courses to be held dunng the
Spnng 1997 semester to MFC stu·
dents before ll LS opened to the rest
of the US's student body More than
350 courses are available durtng
the spec1al regtslrat•on penod .
wh1ch runs through Dec 6. tor the
semester that w1il begm on Jan 21
MFC . us·s eventng d1v1s1on. has
a 7Q.year hiStory of helptng thousands ol adult. non-trad!IJonal students ach1eve personal goals and
career success. Most of these students work lull· or part-lime and
need to juggle family and job schedules to attend the evenmg courses
MFC students can earn associate degrees and baccalaureate degrees. The Spec1al Stud•es Program
allows students to earn a baccalaureate degree •n an md!VIduahzed
major of their own des1gn
Students also may use the Alternative Methods Plan to shorten the
11me requared to earn a degree by
rece1v1ng up to 30 semester hours of
elective credit lor tndNiduatlearning
el(penences or exam•natiOOs.
MFc·s catalog and class sched·
ule tor the Spnng 1~7 semester IS
available by calling 829-2202 . or
lax1ng a request to 829-2451
The pubhc also can access MFC
1nlormatton on the Internet through
http.//W1ngs buffalo edu/mfc

SHIPPAM NAMED lENlOR
DIRECTOR OF OEVELOI'MENT
The Un•vers1ty at Buffalo Olllce of
umvers1ty Development has appomted Michael J . Shlppam as
sen1or dlfector of development.
Sh1ppam . wno bnngs more than
15 years of development expenence
to UB . wtlt be responsible tor management of several key programs
w11htn the un1vers1ty development of.
l1ce . tncludtng the annual appeal.
leadership g11t clubs . and special
and regiOnal Q1111ng 1n1\iahves
Formerly v1ce pres1dent of sales
and marketing at Honorer aft Inc in
Stoughton . Mass.. Sh1ppam deSigned markel!ng and sales strata-

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3-D animation page.
Other significant related celebntiom include tlie University
Libraries celebration of the aequisitioo of their 3 millionth and 3
miltionth-and-first volumes. The Web resource 1o commemorate these events is called " Remembering the Past, Promoting
the Present: 150 Years of Libraries at the University at Buffalo.~
This elaborate site (bllp:/fwinp.bulfalo.edll/librarier/Ublbils/3mill) offers a great archival retrospective of the libraries at
UB through rare photos that vividly recreate the growth of the
libraries. The site includes a Directot:S Gallery, UB Library
Scenes, UB Library History, and more.
Another great UB celebration captured on the Web is the 70th
birthday celebration ofUB poet Robert Creeley. " Robert Creeley:
A 70th Birthday Celebration" reproduces a Jim Dine painting
made for the event and includes a list of events that took place
during the celebration, a review with event photographs, excerpts
of poetry by Creeley, links to o ther Creeley resources (including
sound files of Creeley reading in LINEbreak) and a recognition
of the Arshi/e 6 tribute to Creeley. You can explore these rich
literary offerings online at hllp:/fwings. bufl'alo.edu/ep&lt;/authors/creeley(70tb.
Anyon~

with a UB e-mail accounl can access the Wt!b. For

informtJtion about getting an e·maU account please con tact the
ASC/T Help Desk at 645-3542. UB's spirit of celebration is just
a Web page away.'

-Loss Pequefio Glazier and Nancy Schiller. University Ubraries

gies lor clients within the organization·s North American territOfy that
generated over $2.25 million in an·
nual sales. as well as coordinated
prOduct devefapment w1th Honor·
craffs production management. He
also previOUsly served as a marketIng manager at the organizatiOn
Pnor to his posiuons at Honor·
craft. Shippam was d1rector of sales
and marketing for Outreach Affiliates 1n New York City, and served •n
development capacities at Rutgers
University and the Universi1y of
Massachusetts-Amherst.

WOMEN' S CWB ANNOUNCES
ANNUAL P'OINIETTIA IALE,
UPCOMING EVENTS
The UB Women's Club 10th annual
poinsenia sale is now in progress.
The club offers red . white. pink and
red/white combination plants 1n Pots
and hanging baskets ranging from
3-1/2 inches to 10 inches. with
pr1ces ranging from $1 .50 to $18.
Proceeds of the sale support the
Grace Capen Scholarships
Dea.dline for prepaid orders is
Tuesday, Dec . 3. and pickup w1il be
on Wednesday. Dec. 11 at the
club's -Soup's on· luncheon. to be
held from 10 am ·3 p m . 1n the Center lor Tomorrow For more Information . or to place an order. call
Winme Doran at839-9710.
The Women's Club also has an nounced its upcoming schedule of
events
The Art History Group will meet
at 1 p .m Fnday, Nov 22 at the Buf·
I ala Museum of Sc1ence lor a tour of
the exh1bit "Tnbes of Buffalo · Swiss
Artists on the American Frontier -

The Need~work Group will meet
at 12:30 p .m . Thursday. Nov. 21 at
the horne of Joan Ryan. Members
will work oo their own projects and
share a hghtlunch
The Even1ng Gourmet Group Wi ll
meet at 7:30p.m Thursday. Nov.
21 . Lucille Gasparini will be hostess
lor La Nuova Cucina Italians. {For
each meeting , a theme is chosen
and a committee selects rec1pes
and prepares the foods to be
sampled .)
The Bndge Group wtll meet !rom
10 a.m .-2 p .m. Monday, Nov. 18 at
Dandelions Res\auran\ for intermediate and advanced play. Bndge
Right sessions will be scheduled at
the convenience of roembers . Marie
Schillo is coordinator for the group
Bowling meets at 10 a.m. every
Monday at Sheridan Lanes for three
games of open bowling .

The Gourmet Techniques Group
will meet at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Nov. 14 atlhe home of Helene
Connolly for a demonstration of
Buche Noel.

The Tenn1s Group. chalfed by
Mane Schillo and Ann Shub , meets
1 30-3 p .m at the Amherst Hills
Tennis Club
The UB Women's Club IS a SBf·
v1ce orgamzatK&gt;n to US and •ts
commuMy. Members paniCtpate 1n
educauonal and chantable activities
that directly sponsor the Grace
Capen Academ1c Awards 1n Apnl
and the FinancLBI Atd Scholarships
1n September Membership 1s open
to any woman who 1s •nterested 1n
serv1ce to the un1versJty and the
purposes of the Women's Club

�7
QUARTERBACK MARK TAn.Oil,

- · · Ktlonln _ _ , ••

_.."""nat New Hav•, .,.,... hlpa In

com.,.._, Ill·

tempb-yaru.

e SENIORS 80 OUT IN STYLE Willi

Crumpton. ~aymg hef hrst contesr r1
a Royals' un1form after srttJng 0Uilas1
season as a uansfer from Perr1 Stale.
had ntne jXMOIS and SIX boatdS lfl jUSt
15 mtnutes of act100
UB concludes the11 exhtbrttOn
schedule on Sunday. hostong the ButfakJ All Slats a group of fOfmer. Western New York collegtans tnck.Jd.ng
many from UB The contest ups oft at
5 30 p m followed by the hnal men·s
exhtblll()('l vs Matathon Ott at 7 30
p m The Royals open thelf regular
season on Nov 23 at Atumru Arena
aga1nst Cornell

FOOniAU. WIN

The UB Bulls senior class . so responsible for the program's
turnaround this season, came up big in their final horne game
with a 24·20 win 0118r New Haven on Saturday.
Tramng -20-17 In tha four1h quarter. senior linebacker Crarg
Guest jarred lhe ball loose from New Haven receiver Tyrone
Seabrooks late in the tourth quarter and senior quarterback
Marl&lt; Taylor-in the finast game of his career-brought the
Bulls back
Tayb' h•t JuniOf flanker Jamie Gasparre. who had a careerh•gh 11 catches for 155 yards, with a 30-yard touchdown
strike with 4:291eft. Tayk)r fln•shed with career-highs in
cornpletJons (26), attempts (42) and yards (4 11) and threw
three touchdowns. The Bulls twice carna back from second·
half deficits to claim their second stra1ght win.
Tailback Anthony Swan bacame just the third Bulls player
to go over 1.000 yards in a season wrth 104 yards on 20 carnes. Swan I10'N has 1,056 yarps on the season and added
three catches for 60 yards in lhe game. Sophomore Kali
Watkins added six catches for 127 yards, including a 7S.yard
touchdown strike from Taylor for the Bulls
Oefensivety, the Bulls forced four New Haven turrlOIIers as
cornerback Mike Chichester led the way with 10 tackles and
a fumble recovery. Adam Tardif added nine tackles. while
Anthony Scot1 had seven tackles. 2.5 sacks and a forced
fumble. Cornerback Steve Blake (career-lligh). Craig Guest
and Bill Tipton all added seven tackles for lhe Bulls. Tardif.
Scon, Guest and Tipton all forced fumbles for the Bulls.

e VOIJ.n'BALL
The Royals travffied to Kansas City where they split a patr of
matches, rallying to defeat Mid-Continent West Division foe

UMKC in fM! games and falling to nationally ranked Oral
Roberts In three.
In the win over the Kangatoos. UB overcame a twogames-tCH&gt;ne deficit downing their hosts 15-10 in the fourth
game and 15-13 in the rally-scoring fifth game. Amy Burda

came up big for coach Bob Maxwell's Royals, leading the
way With 16 kills Candl Sims and Kathy Brlnk\Yorth also
added double figure kills with 12 and 10 respectively
Bnnkworth also accounted for e1ght bk&gt;cks. Freshman Chnsuna Gtanino, plaYing in place of the inJured Somer Deschambault at setter, led the Royals with 35 ass•sts and 12 digs
UB was overpowered by a suong Oral Roberts club 1n JUSt
47 minutes falling 15-5. 15-2, 15-4. Sims led the Royals w1th
seven kills. six digs and four blocks
UB Will have this week off as they prepare /Of the Mtd-Cont•nent Conference tournament 1n Valparaiso. Ind. UB , the second seed in the East Division . wm meet West Dlv1S1on leader
Valparaiso tn the opening round Troy State and UMKC lace
off tn the other semifinal. The winner of the tournament moves
on to the NCAA Play-tn round to face the champton of the
Ohk&gt; Valley Conference

e

e MEN'S &amp; WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The UnNersny at Buffalo men's swimm1ng team defeated St
Bonaventure 146-90 at the Alumnt Arena Natatonum Saturday
to raise the1r rBCOfd to 2-0 tn dual meets The Royals lost to St
Bonaventure 185-115 '" a dual meet Saturday also at the
Alumni Arena Natatorium to drop to 1-1 tn dual meets
Korry Mtller paced the Bulls in thett v1ctory tak1ng the 200

Individual Medley ( 1:57.20) and the 200 backstroke ( 1 53 tO)
Miller also was part of UB's winntng 400 Medley Relay squad
1n 3:32.45. Freshman Aaron Roof was also vtetonous tn a patr
of freestyle races, taktng the 50 tn 21 94 and 100 1n 47 98
Roof anchored the Bulls' w1nntng 400 free relay squad tn

3 •13.06.
In the women's meet. UB dtver Andrea Sktllman won both
the 1-meter (241 .60) and 3-meter (272.25) competitions
Alexandra Barrera took the 200 backstroke for the Royals 1n
2 10.56 whik! Uesel~ Tnntdad took the 100 bunerfly tn
t :00.13.
The Bulls are off unt1l Dec 6· 7 when they ttavel to the
Notre Dame Invitational The Royals host Ntagara
at 1 p .m . for their neld action

on Nov 23

e WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
The Royals opened the1r exhtbitton season Saturday mght
wtth a conVlnctng 87-52 WJn over Off ICtal Sports of Canada at
Alumn1 Arena
UB never trailed 1n the contest as they opened an early S.O
lead and dtdn't look back. holdtng a double-chgit lead much
of the contest The Royals led 43-33 at the hall Offtctal Sports
c ut the marg•n to e1ght. 45-37 . early 1n the second half. but
UB then went on a 19-2 run over the next SIX mtnutes to w1den
the gap and coasted to the easy vtctory
Four Royals scored tn double-ftgures. led by preseason
AII·Mtd-Conunent selechon Brenna Doty wtth 2 1 potnts
Megan McCray nened 19 wtlh Charcssa Gardner add1ng 12
and Ahcta Kollmorgen sconng 10 and lead1ng the Royals wtth
e1ght rebounds Cathenne Jacob had 10 asststs whtle Latoya

MEN'S SOCCER

The Butts completed thetr 1996 season w1th a 2~ loss to
Colgate Umvers1l't' tn men·s soccer actton Tuesday at UB 's
RAC Field hntshtng wl!h a 2- 13· 2 mark
Josh Vtel scored both Colgate goals on unass1sted rnaJ1(
ers Vtel talhed hts hrst goal JUSI 4 35 1nto the match as his
shot htt the left goalpost and caromed past UB goalkeeper
Justin Oemtng Vtel scOfed h1s second goal at the 78 39 mark.
Demtng made hts t~rst colleg.ate start tn the match mak1ng
stx saves tn the contest UB outshol Cdga1e t 5· t 1 With Red
Ratder keeper Jeff Lipman stopp1ng ntne Bulls ~s
Although the Bulls d1d no1 reach the postseason. several
players were honored w1th AII-Mtd-Con11nent Conference East
O!VlSIOfl honors SenK&gt;r m1dhelder Joe Mefc1k and JUno
m1df1elder TI!Tl Mernck piCked up ftrst-team recogMtOn, wh1~
sophomore backs Bnan Cru1ckshank and Doug Geller and
run101 goalkeeper J1m Schoenberg made lhe second -!eam

e

MEN'S TENNIS

Two players represented coach Russ CnspelJ's Bulls at last
weekend's Rolex Intercollegiate Tenms Champ1011sh1ps lf'l
Pnnceton, N J The doubles team ol M 1ke M tnter and Mike
Proulx won thetr fttst-round contest. defeattng LaSalle'S John
Coller and John Elder 8-3 The duo fell 1n the second round to
Vitg1n1a Tech's number two doubles team of Andrew Krafft
and Mark Tepes 8- 1 M1mer was ehm1nated from the sing1es
tournament In a 6-2. 6-4 dectstOnto M1ke Passarella of
Harvard

- Ted Wasko. Sports Information OffiCe

THIS WEEK'S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
SUNDAY, NOV. 17

Women·s Basketball Exh1bt!K&gt;n
vs Buf1ak&gt; All Stars
Men·s Basketball Exhtbthon

Alumn1 Arena 5 30 p m

vs Marathon Otl

Alumnt Arena 7 30 p m

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
on WBFO-FM 8&amp;.7

VldM Docu-nt.ry
The Birth of A mcrkan Vidro:
lnvtsti&amp;ations of th~ Phenomenal World-Spa«-, Sou nd ,
and Ll&amp;ht. Screening Room,
Center for the Ans. Nonh Campus. 7:30p.m. Free.

w..tem New Yortt
Science Forum Lecture
Somtlblng N,:w In Assa:sment : Tbe SEPUP Em~dtd
Systtm, Richard Duquin.
Ken~ Middl~ School. 170
Millard Fillmore Academic Cen·
tcr. Ellicou. Nonh Campus. 7:30
p.m. $20 for the series. To reg1s·
t~r. call 645-6800, ext 2020

UUAB Fll111
Stealln&amp; Beauty (Bc:rna,rdo
Bertolutti; 1996). Studem
·union Theater. Nonh Campus.
9 p.m. $2. $3 .50.

THUR21

.... . .. . . ..
lntetMt Clinic
Art &amp; Art D b-tory. 223
lockwood . Noon. Register by
calli ng Gemma DeVinney. 645 28 17.

Pr-ISUff
-.Mp
Sharpening Communication
Skills: A Practical Approach,
E. Roger Stephenson. Ph.D
Lunch included. Dakota Gnll.
4224 Maple. Noon-2 p.m. SID
Sponsomt by Professional Staff
Senate and UUP Health Sci ·
c:nces Chap1cr.

_.._

I n t - I Student
Optional Practical l'r'aining
and Beyond. 145A Student
Union. Nonh Campus 3-5 p.m.
Preregistration n:quired Call
645·2258.

Phllo.ophy Colloquium
Atomic Independence and Indivisibility, Prof. lstv6n Bodnlir.
l....orind E6tvtis Univ .. Budapesl
684 Baldy. Nonh Campu1o
3:30p.m.
Phyalca Colloquium
Superconductivity in l..o" Dimensional Systems., Prof D
Coffey, Physics 210 NaiUral
Sciences. Nonh Campus
3:45p.m
BloiOCJcal Selene••
Setnlnar
Folding catalytic RNA : Group
1 splicing in t&gt;ilro and in .,;.,o,
Dr. Sarah Woodson, Univ. of
Maryland. 114 Hochstetler.
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.
Pltarmeceutlca .._lnar
Toward Advanc:td High-Spttd
Biost:nsing, Prof. Frank V.
Bright, Chemistry. 508 Cooke.
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.
Ufe-.Mp
Thesis{Disset1alion Support
Grou p, Barbara Umikcr. 4:30
p.m. To register. call the Office
of Student Life, 645-6125
Ufe-.Mp
T ' ai Chi for Begin nus, Run
ln ga l s~ . 5 p.m To reg1s1~r. call
the Office of Studc:m Ltfc. 6.1~ 6125.
UUAB FUm
The Man Who Kntw l'DO
Mucb ( Aif~ Hitchcock ;
1956). Student Union lllea1c:r
Nol1h Campus 6:30p.m. S2.
SJ.SO.

o.nn.toloCY
·The
Skin You Are
In:· Stratagles To Keep Your Skin
Healthy. Harvey Arbesman.
M.D.. ThQfTlas Helm. M .D.. and
Kcvm Kulick. M .D. Jewi sh
Community Center. 2640 N
Forest. Getzvi lle 7:30-9 p.m

Free ReM!rvc h)

~:all 111M

6Mb

JOB

Mualcal Tbeeter
Cabaret, JcrT) Finnegan. t11rcl·
tor Pre~n1cd by Dept ufThe·
atrc and Dance Dr.!m!l Thcatr~ .
Ccntl!r for the Anl&gt; Nonh Campus 8 p.m S5. SIO

UUAB Film
St~11 1ing

Beauty (Bernardo
Bertolucci; 1996). Studen1
Union Theater Nonh Campu ~
9 p.m. S2. 53 .50

Openlnc exhibit from
Onllorlo
" Area 5 1: Crossing the L~nc·· 1'
the show opening today ~o~. tlh a
reception from 5-7 p.m m the
An Dc:panmcnt Gallery lo&lt;;atcd
in 1he Center for the Ans The
show is an exchange cxh1b11
from Qu~n ·~ UnivcnHt}.
Kingston . Ontano. Clusmg dale
1 ~ Dec. II. Gallery h our.~ arc Ill
:t..m -5 p.m Tuesday. 10 am .g
p.m. Wcdncsday-Frida) . mnd II
a.m ·II p.m Saturday Admi'!'&gt;IOn
tJofrtt

Architecture exhibit
"Schtndler and 1he Small
H ouse~ COnllllUC"' through Nu\
29 111 Ihe James Dycu Galler)
located 111 334 H ayc~ Hallun lhl·
South Campu~ The s ho ~o~. I!'&gt; pan
or a series or exhtbll!ons pre
~ntcd by the School of Arl"hl
tecturc and Plann1ng Galler)
hours :ue 9 a m ·5 p m MunJ:t}
through Fnday AdmiS!'&gt; ton 1o
the show 1s free
Robert Culley exhibit
Paintings by Roben Culley
1hrough Nov. 12m tht- An Dc-panmeot Gall~ry loc.:ued m thc
Center for tht- Anson lh~ Nonh
C'ampus Gallery hours 1011 m ·

5pm TucMil} . 10am · 8pm
Wednco,da) ·Fnda} . II am ·8

p m Saturday Free

adnH!'&gt;~Ion

Art celebrattn.: the
Maqulcentennl•l
An e).hlbllnm of an by flll'Ult)
and alumm celebr.!llllg the loe!&lt;o ·
ljUICCnlcnm31 COnllnUe) through
Dec 15 m the Unn e~ll) An
Galle f) . Center for the An).
Nonh Ca mpu ~ The shu" In clude~ "or\. b)' 17 facult) and
2J alumn1 Gttllery hours art'
10.30 a m -8 p m Wednc )d.ti) ·
Saturda) . and noon-5 p m Sun ·
da) AdmiSSIOn '' free

Be•utlful booka
" "TreaJour~Jo from !he Lod.. ¥&lt;ood
L1hraf) - An Exh1h11 Cclcbr.u
mg uu· .. ScsqUICC:nlcnnml ." I~
on \ te" Ill d1spl:t} CiiSC\ On the
'ccond fluor of Loc\.wood Ll ·
brnr) un the North Campus The:
cxh1b11 features bookJo of th1~
ce nlu~ . mostl) from the 1920.:.
and 1930,.. allta\.en from the
s1acb TtnlOih) Conro) from
the Office of Pubhcuuon'
curatcd the e.-. h1b11 . wh1ch con
tmucs through lkc I~

u.,..twell wall extended
Leonardo Drew ') Jollt'·Speclfic
mstallauon "'No 45 -A'" was dc.. 1gned for the L1ghtwdl Gallel)
m the Cemer for the Ans. Nonh
Campu, . and 1\ I here through
Dtl' 18

NQT_I~~$
Flowera In winter
POinsettiaS may be ordered
Dec J from the UB
Women 's Club by callmg 8J9.
97 I 0 Pnecs vary with the
plant\- from Sl 50 1u SIS
P1c\.up d:ne 1 ~ Ike II
thruu~h

Are you the retlrlnC
type?
If )Ou"rc lhmlmg abuut reltrlll f
you rna) ~o~.anttu mcel ~o~.uh a
Nc~o~. Vorl S1a1e Empln) cc' · Retirement SyJolem rcprc...clllatt ve
NO\ 21m 102 Crufh Hall on
the Nonh Campu ' To 'oC" h~duk
an appmntmcnt. call bJS-2bJ6.
cAt 101 ur 102
Last day of art . .ae
The An Ocpanmenl S1udcn1 An
Sale conclude) 1oda) rmm J .
9 JO p m Ill lhc C~n t er for the
An!&gt; :unum . Nunh Campu ~

JOBS
Profeaalonal
Counselor (SL-3)-Inlernatmnal
Student &amp; Scholar Sen 1 cc~.
Po~un g NP-605:! lnstructiomt.l
Support TKhnidan (Sl-3) ·
Loc kwood Memonal l1br:tf).
Postmg I!P-6053 l n'lltructional
Support A,&lt;jsocialt (SI.-2) -l 'm
\"Crs1ty llublication s. P11 ~ tm g
,~~~p . 6()5J Starr Associate (SL4)-Um\ers uy Fanhh~' - Po..tmg
NP -605S Starr As.wciale (Sl4)-Cc:mcr for 1hc An!&gt;. Posunt:
iP-6056 M nior Starr Assistant
(Sl-3)-Aiumm Rclauum. Po1ot
mg I!P-6057
Faculty
Assistan t/Associate Prores.wr
Oral Health Scrv1ceJo and
lnformaiiCS. PoJottog lfl·-6038
Assistant Profes.&lt;oOr-Mudem
Languages anJ L1teratun·s.
PO!&gt;ting lfF.6055 Assistant Pn•fnsor·Modcm Language) and
Lucr.nure'lo, Pos1mg •F-605b
A."sistant Professor-Mu"c·
Po:oting •F-6057 . Assi.!ltant/A'·
SMiate Professor-Med1a SIUdy.
Po:o.ltnJ IFF-6058 A.ssistant/~­
SMiatr Profes..&lt;oor-Mcdta Stud) .
Posung IJF-6059 Assi"t an t /A~ ­
MKittte Professor·M•"Idcm Lan -

guagc..JlttcrJ ture... Pos:t1ng
lfF-6060 As..&lt;jistant Professor
B1olo1!1Cal Sc1enl"CS. Postml!
•F·b061 As.&lt;ji...-tanl Prof~r
Cou n!'&gt;Cimg and EducatiOnal
Ps}chol\tg} . Pusung •F-6062
Assist11 n1 Professor-Counseltng
and Edul'llttunal P!&gt;ychology.
Pl"llng "F -6063 Assistant ~
ft'S.SOr-Uammg ond Instruction .
• Posung • F-rotH fo.~ull Professor
ttnd Cbair-Arthtlecture. Po~ ·
mg IIF·b06S Assi!il ant/A.ssoci-attWu ll ProfHSOr·School of
Nursmg. POl&gt;llng IIF-6066 ~ ­
sistant/Associllte ProfessorMedtcmc. Postil ·!! lfF·6067 A.Josistanl Professor-Archltet.·turc .
Po,ung •F-6068

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grnm~ Pcl'onncl Open. Secrttary I or 11 -Chcmt§tf)'. Postmg.
ltR -96025 Mtdiul lab Trch·
nieian 11 - Soc~:ll &amp; Prrvenll\'t'
Medtcmc. Pn~ ung IIR-96048
Edueatton Specia l ist·~)lftul
og). Posung •R -96072 SecrTtar~· I· P))Chology. Po;.tln!! IIR
%07J St'C~ t ary 11 -Famll)
Mcd1emc . Postmg ,II!R -96080
~rflllll") 11 -Chcml'&gt;lf). PoJot tn!!
.;!( .9NJS I Resun;h Trchni-cia n l li ·Bullog1cal Sc1cnee~ .
Po\l mg 1tR -9N)M:! Proj«-t
Starr As.'iOCiatt' -Dc'elopmcnt.
Posung ltR -96010 Data Mao·
litger/Stati.Joticilln· Dcvctopmenl .
Pnsung lfR ·9608-l Reseanh
Support Specia list-Buxhcm1
cal Pharmacolng}. Postmg
•R -%01iS Project Administratin Offict'r-Snc1al &amp; Pre\ en
II\ c M ~d1cme. Pm ung. ltR
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Rtt&gt;lug1c:1l Sct~no:e~ Pu)ttng.
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Addiction•

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l ntroducUon to Ratiotu~l~ a nd
of Program Evalua·
t.ion In Human St:rvi« Agendes, Dr Namkc~ Chot Daernrn
Cutlegc S55 ; S40 (studc ntlli)
Sponw red by Sue tal Wnrk Conunumg Ed u~:a t mn For mfonna
llun. call M 5·6 140
M ~: thods

Po.trr Talk
Poet ry, C rilki~ m a nd lnstitu tiunal Negotiation~ . Banl.
L.azcr. prur or E n g h ~ h . Um v of
Al aba ma 4JK C l emen~ North
C'u mpm Pan or Wcd ~~ay ~ al
4 Plu ~

Senior Alumni Pro"am
Luncheon
Men 's and Women 's iAnguages: SM Said. He S~t id !
Uul Whal?? Prof. Jeanneuc M
Ludw1g. Modem Languagt l&gt;
Crntcr for Tomorrow Nonh
Campus Noon S 10 Sponsort'd
by Alu mm Rd ations To rtg1ster
or gain •nfonnat10n. call H2Q
21&gt;08.

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end Cell Bloloo

Mualc
Buffalo Pbilbarmonk On:hn ·
Ira with the- Dave BrubKk
Quartet. Conductors Arie
Lrpsky and Russell Gloyd. With
Bobby Militello, alto saxophone
and Oute Kle inhans Music HaJI
7·30 p.m. $14. Sponsored in pan
by WBFO.

People' • SP4Nker Setiea
Chal Ling. Scrc:ening Room.
Cemer for the Arts. North Cam·
pus 7:30 p.m. Presented by the
undcrgradu:ue Stude nt Assn.

Concert
C rash Test Dumm tes • ·ith Spetial Guest Ashle-y Macisaac.
Mams.tagc:, Cemer for the Ans
Nonh Campus. 8 p.m $22.50.
S20. Call 645- ARTS

Mualcal Theater
Cabam, Jerry Rnnc"gan. d1reclor. Presented by Dept o( The·
atrr a nd Dance. Drama Theatre .
Ce nter for the Aru. Non h Ca m·
pus. 8 p.m. S5. S IO.

UUAB Fll01
Tniru~ poUin g

How Eledrk a nd Elecromagnet ic F\eld.s Affect lntnl""C'IIulu Calcium a nd Cell
Prolifentnn, Dr. Sek· Wen HUI .
Depl. of Biophysics. RCPI
306 Farber Souch Campus
I 2:30p.m.

Stu-Art

1996). Sn.Kient Umon Theater.

Nonh Campus. 6:30 p.m. S2.
$3.50.

a...

UB Art Departme.nt. Center
for tht Ans Nonh Campm 39:30p.m.

Phliooopi!J ..... F-nlot
Studlea
Autonomy or Advocacy: A
Fal!ie Dichotomy, lorn me
Code. Vorl: Univ. 6&amp;4 Baldy
Non h Campus. 3:30p.m

Phralce Colloquium
Correla t«&lt; Elettrons In a Mil ·
lion Ga uJJs, Dr. G 8 0C'bmger,
Dell Labs. 2 10 Natural Sciences
North Ca mpus. 3:45p.m.
Blololfcal Selene••

-~-

A model for the stok.hiometrk
packaging o~t he three ~nomic
se.gme.nlS of dsRNA bacttriopha&amp;e 416, Dr L.conard
Mindich. Public Health Resrarch
lnslll ute, New York. 114 Hoch·
stcner. Non h Campus. 4 p.m

MetiMoaetlco Col'-lum
Pror. Morwen T histlet hwaile,
Umv. ofTenne s.scc . 103 Diden·
dorf South Campus. 4 jf.m.

"Pharnwtceutlca s..a...,
Hepatobllia.l")' Ext1"11dion of O rganic Catiorul: Implications for
Drug Scl'ftfling, Prof. Marilyn
Morris. f'tuumaceut ics. 508
Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m

utew-......,
T hesi /Dissert.at kln Support
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To regislc::r. call the Office::
o( Student Life. 645 -6 125

Art ClpetaiiiC
Cross ing the Line: An Ex·
c ha ngr Exhibil with QuHn's
University, Kln&amp;Sion, O ntario.
Ar1 Department Gallery. Center
fur the Ans. Non h Campus. 5· 7
p m Free . Through Dec I I
Gallery hours 10 a.m.- 5 p.m
Tuesday: 10 a.m.-8 p.rn
Wednesday-Friday: I I a.m.·
8 p.m. Saturday.

utew-...op
T ' al Chi ror Beglnnen:, Ron
Ingalsbe. 5 p.m. To rraister. call
the Office of Student life. 645 ·
6 12S .

uu.u Fll•
The l...ul Supper (Stacy Til ~ ;

(Danny Boyle;
1996). Student Union Theater.
Nonh Campus. 9 p.m. S2. $3 .50.

FRI15
...... . .
Pedlatrtc ar.nd Rounde
Bronc.bOKopy: Do W~ Ntfll
It In Ped i.alria? Karen
Mc Dowell. M.D. Kinch Aud ito·
num. Childrc:n·s Hospital
8a.m.

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ACE/ NIPBreekfaot

The Human Genome. Projec.t.
Prof. Pamela l..e.in. Canisiu.s Col·
lege. StudeR! Center Facully
Dmmg Room. Canisius College
8 a.m SIO. Presented by Amencan Council on Education Nat1onal Identification Progrum
(ACE/N IP) fOf the Advanceme nt
of Women in H ig~r Educauon.
For inronnation. call Kim
Pocbc::tti , 64S-2 18 1.c:xl 531 .

Health Cwe Sympoalum
Ethics a nd Valua in HeaUh
Care a nd Medkine on the
Fronlie.n or t be 'J\t·enty-First
Century. Keynote address by H.
Tristram Enge lhardt Jr.• M.D ..
Ph.D., R1ce Univ. Buffalo
Marrioll, Mille"por1 Highway.
Amhent. 8:45 a.m. S90; S30
students. Sponsored by Sc hool
of Medic1ne and Biomedical
Sciences in collubor:uion with
Center for Clinic!LI Ethics and
Humanities in Heallh Can:. For
mfomuuion. call James Bono,
645 -2282. tJtl. 553. For rt..~ rva ·
lions, call ~5-310.5 .

--

E&lt;p«~Juo&lt;y/Coplll.. Risk ror
Ak:HoliAI a Dd its lta.Uoa lo

Peisoaality, Greaory Smith.

Ph.D.. Univ. of K.cnu.cky. Research Institute on Addictions.

$~...~·

Hl-.y Colloqool••
La ndxa ~, Cuhure and Soci·
dy. Center for the Ans. Room
11 2. North Ca mpus. 1:30-5 p.m.

Free. Sponso&lt;cd by Dept. of
History. For information. call
64S-2 18 1.

Hu..,.RI&amp;IrtaForum
In Re K.a ln&amp;a. Jessic.a
Neuwir1h of Equity Now and
Prof. Nkiru Nzegwu. SUNY
Binghamton. S4.5 O'Brian Hall.
Nor1h Campus. 1:30 p.m Span·
sorc:d by Gradllate Group for
Feminist Studies, Philosophy
and Women's StiKties depts.

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M~,...C-otry

Rec-ent Advancu in t he Deli\·ery or O lip nudeotide TMnpeut k Acent.s, Kristi Leonard.
Medicina l Che mistry. 12 1
Cooke. North Campus. 3 p.m.

C-lotry Col._hl,.
Vanadium Chemistry: Pbosphate Compounds a nd Oddalion Readklns, Dr. David
Tbom . DuPont. 2 15 Naturnl Sci ·
ences. Non h Campus. 4 p.m.

~~ea~t~~c..a,_....,

Etbks and Valua lo Htall h
Care and M«&lt;klne on t M
Frooders or the Twenty-First
Ce ntury. Center for the Am .
North Campus. 9 a.m. S90: $30
students. SpooiOred by School
or Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences in cnllabonlltion with
Ce.mer for Clinical Eth1cs and
Humanities in Heallh Can:

·~

....

Crif Riedd, Mkbelle Dea n
Sloe!.: and Diane Eva ns.
Roclcwell Hall. Buffa lo Stair
College. 2 p.m. $4. Co-spon·
sorcd by WBFO

Mu.ac..Jn...ter
Cabartt, Jerry Rnnegan, dutt·
tor. Presented by Dept . of The.
acre and Dance. Drama llleatrt,
Crmer for the Ans. Non h Campus. 8 p.m. S5 , $ 10.

$1),,.._~.,
utew-...op

lntemetiOftel • t u Group
Enluation and Ren ection.
\ 14 Richmond Quad. Nonh
CAmpus. 4 p.m. Registration
requested: call 645-2720

s.o......,

1976). Student Union Theater.
Nonh Campus. 11 :30 p.m. $2.
$3.50.

102 1 MainSL I:JO p.m. Free.

Dialo&amp;ue on R.aclsm. 2-6 p.m.
To rc:Jister. call the O ffi ce of
Student Li fe. 64.5-6125.
I'&gt;

UUAB Film
Tnlnspotting (Danny Boyle:
1996). Student Union Thea ter
Non h Ca mpus 6 JO and 9 p.m
S2. S3.50.

atorytelllnc
J ohnny Moses. Nootb. ShM·
ma n a nd Storytelle.r. Rockwell
Hall , Buffalo State College
7.30 p.m. S1 , $7.50. S8. Cosponsored by WBFO

International Folk
Dencl,..
AllleveiJ. 2 D1efendorf. South
Campw. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Spon·
sured by Grad u al ~ Student As·
sociation

Muok:
Gothic Voices. St. J ose ph '~ R C.
Church. 3275 Mam St 8 p.m
$10, $ 12. SIS

Mualc81 Theater
C a baret , Jerry Rnnegan. d•rc:c·
tor. Presented by Dept . or Theatre and Dance. Drama lllerurc:.
Center for the Ans. NOflh Cam·
pus. 8 p.m. S5 . S IO.

Muekaln...ter
Cabant , Jerry R nnegan, dutt··
tor. Pre~n ttd by Dept . of The·
alrc and Dance. Dr.ama lbeatn:.
Cencer for !he An~ North Cam·
pus. 2 p.m. SS. SI O
lntenwtJCMial FUm
Fedlval: • About WoMen "
The Goat 's Horn (Bulg.a ria,
1995). Calumel . 54 W. Chippcwa. 5 p.m. $4, S5. For informnti on, call Graduate Student
Association. 645 -2960.

ON18
Aalan Studlea
The Na tional Security of
J apa n, Ma.suo Nishibayashi.
Oept.lly Consul Genersl of lhc:
Consulate ~nenl of Japan in
New Yodt. 205 Natural Sciences
Building. North Campus. 2 p.m.
Sponsored by As1an Stud1es
Pmgr.am.
Pe.,..•Lecture hftea
Stability a nd lf!mponl replacement or fossil com m unilies: exampJe.s from Lower Pa·
leozok Trilobite fa unas. 228
Natural Sciences. Nonh Cam·
pus. 3:30p.m.
Wolnen'a StucK. .
L.ecture, Workaltop
Run ! Women in BeUu: ConsideralioM ror the list Centu ry, Cynthia Ell is. Univ. or
Guyana. 280 Park. North Cam·
pus. 3:30 p.m. Also. 3 p.m. No"
19 workshop, Networking Be!ween Women's Studies Programs IR the Canbbe.an and
Non h America.

Phliooopi!J end Femlnlot
ShHMea
Di.'JC'. USSion or Issues llliwd In
Previous-Day Colloquium,
.lorraine Code. York Univ. 684
Baldy. Nonh Campus. 9 a.m

Eavlro...lltal

--ry-

~-

Sclence-lner
Stalklnc t he W ily Hydrophobe, Dr. John Hassett . 140
k eller. Non h Ca mpus. II a.m

Tarce.lin&amp; lbe Cell Drt.alb Path way: llsi.n&amp; Bd-2 to Eumi•
the SubtotUular Loea.Uzatioa of
Apoptoslt, Dr. Oavld Andrews.
Dept. of Biochemistry,
Mc Master Univ., Ontario. 1348
Farber. South Campu.s. 4 p.m.

La-...olpPrOraanlz.ational ElfKiiveness
and Fortune 500 Forum,
Stephen Covey. Last session
Nov. 15 in the downtown Con·
vent ion Center. Buffalo Convcn·
lion Center. Noon-4:30 p.m.
S349 for four programs. Spon·
sored by the Center for Entre:preneurial Leadership.

UU.U Fll•
Tul on..r (Mania

SEE Al.fliED IIITCIICOCK'S

'111e-.Who-Too

-·-20-21111

-~~

oay. I08 Shennan.
South Campus.
4 p.m.

-

-Law-..u
·~FaU Sy• posium

on Entutainmenl
and Sports Law
io WHtera New
York. Lynn J.
Wolfgang, chair.
Center for
Tomorrow. Nonh
Campus. 7 p.m.
Call l ynnJ .
Wolrgang.

636-9866.
Art &amp;Art Hi.tory. 223
lockwood. 7 p.m.
Register by calling
Gemma

DeVinney. 64S28 17.

Muok:

EDWARD JAMES
w1nn1nc -

OlMOS , ~

. w111 , _ -

CulsheciS.......,._IectunNov.
19 at 8 p.m . In M81notace theater.

Amherst Sa~:ophone Quartet. Slee.. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $5. S 10.

.r~~~~
Ufew-...op
Fresh Start: How lo Quit
Smokinc. 4:30p.m. To rc:1ister.
call the Office of Student life:.
64S-6125.

utew-...op
Aromatbenpy for Mental
Clarity and Fotus. S- 7 p.m. To
register. call the Office of S!u·
dent Life, 645-6 125 .

fice of Student U fe. 64.5-6 12.5

c.c-m-~-

Aristotle'• Theory or Plaa:
a nd Its Rdn-anu for Copilive Gq.rapt.y, Istvan Bodnar.
Univ. of Budapest. 280 Part.
N0r1h Campus. 2 p.m.

-.rl.acbore
Cavu, Klint, and Ground.,.ter, Dr. Arthur Palmer.
4S4 Fronczak. North Campus.
3:30p.m.

-.. _

.... Lacbl.-

--~

NamaJte, Ron Ingalsbe and
TtllCy Collingwood. 5 p.m. To
rc:gistc:r. call the Office of Stu·
dent li fe, 645-6 12.5.

The Geometry of Desa1: Puftttion - MoraJ •nd lm.moral,
Sbtlly Kapn, Yale Univ. 280
Part . Nonh Ca mpus. 4 p.m.
Frtt. For infonnation. call 64.52444, Ul. 707.

utew-...op

Law Lectllre

utew-...op

Begi nninc Sign Langua~
St'mlnar. 5:30p.m. To rc:gi ster.
call the: Offi ce of Student life,
645-6 125.

utew-...op
Buying a Home (Section 8 ). 1·
9 p.m. To rc:g1ster. call tttc: Orficc: of Student Li fe, 645-6 12-S.
~

..

Open Mk. Harriman South
Campus. 8 p.m.

-·

DI .......I-Speakero

Edward J ames Olmos.
Mai nstage. Center for the= Ans.
Nor1h Campus. 8 p.m. SIO. S IJ,
$ 16.

-xlat Fll• - ·

.The Uprising or '34 (1995).
Introduced by Mark Frankel,
Screening Room. Center for the
Ans. NOr1h Campus. 8 p.m.
Free:. For infonna tion, call 886·
2 170.

utew-...op
l m prov Comedy. 10 p.m. To
ft'gistc::r, call the Offtee of Stu·
dent Life. 645-6 125 .

W.~.~ ~Q
Pollllcelklence
Col.......
n motby P. Hanisoo. 280 Park
Hall. North Campus. 10 a.m

Ufe--..

Hktorical Review or Chlld
Abuse a nd Nt&amp;l«t Lqislalion, Prof. Susan V. Mangold.
law School. Faculty louD&amp;e.
.. fifth Ooor. O ' Bnan. Nonh Cam·
pus. 4 p.m.

-

MM...., eoo.tlnul,..
Barrier PruautioM and laftc:·
tioa Control MnsurH. Localion to be announced. 4-7 p.m.
~nttd by School of Nursing
For information . call 829· 3291 .

p_,._,.

Third Annual Frinc.h Poetry
Festival, Josh Lapcym-e. Yves
Di Manno. Bernard Nofl. Bilin·
gual. Univn-sity Gallery. Centrr
for the Ans. Nonh Campus.
4p.m. Frtt.

-

..__,PrectJce

The: Elfttts of Postmenopttusal
Hormone Replattment 1ber-

apy on l he Rbk of Coroaary
Hnrtllbeue, Sauzanne
Khalilieh . 248 Cooke. Non h
Campus. 4:30p.m.

Architecture Lecture
Fnnk Fantaunl. 301 Crosby
South Campus .5:30 p.m.

uu.u Fll•
T he Man Wbo Kn"'' Too
Much (AI.ftotd Hltcbe.od.;
1956). Student Union Tbeater
North Campus. 6:.30 p.m. 51.
$3.50.

......,__

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Opota: Cleeelco Lhe
J oe Schoenhals. pi.aoo. MusK:
of Beethoven and Chopin.
Allen. South Campiu.s. 7 p.m.
Free. Concen 10 be broadcast
the followina Sunday 11 4 p.m.

B lah-a lt itude «:rtbral t.dtma.
Dr. John A. Kmney, Physiol·

Study Abroad (Section C).
Noon. To n:gistc::r, call the Of-

Conlinued on page 7

PllyUoiGCJ-

Buildiac Self-ConrKience.
Noon. To register. call the Of·
fice of Student Life, 645-6 12.5.

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                    <text>STAT E UNI VERSI TY 0F NEW Y0-R I · AT BUFFA L0

UNIYIIISITY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew York

Nov e mber 7 1996 Volume 28. No 11

Later 'fall start

recommended
FSEC supports beginning Sept. 2
a1 SUI WUITCIIIII
Ney.ts Services Associate Director

Ross Perot addressed
an SAO crowd when
he brought his presidential C81Jlpaign to
UB's Mainstage theater on Oct. 31 .

F

OR THE ARSTTIME rN RECENT memory, UB
next year could be starting the fall semester after
Labor Day.
A recommendation from the Calendar Commission that would start the fall 1997 semester on Tuesday, Sept. 2, was supported by President William R. Greiner
and members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee
at the committee's Oct. 30 meeting .
.. Greiner is expected to make a final decisio n on the 1997 ~98 aca-

Some UB otuclenb ,..,. "olt..,.,• lneludlnc.
cloekwtoe, from rtc~rt: JMI Nucci, Joe

demic calendar after receiving input he has requested from UB 's deans.
Starting classes before Labor Day is ··an anomaly that we' re stuCk
with for a whole variety ofreasons," Greiner said at the meeting. "But
every four or five years the calendar falls in ~uc h a way that cl ~se s
can begin after Labor Day and the university sfill ~ftieet owe.guidelines requiring 15 weeks of in s tru~ tion per semester, including exam
days.
"When you get a shot at it. lhe way we have thi s year, it seems to
me we ought to take that ," he said.

F

SEC members agreed, voting overwhelmingly in a non-binding.
straw poll to support the draft calendar that would start the semester on Sept. 2 and end it on Saturday. Dec. 20. The spring
1988 semester would run from Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1998. through Thur.;day. May 14. Commencement weekend would be held from May 15-

17.
The Calendar Commission also had submitted a second draft cal endar in which the fall semester would start a week before Labor Day
and the spring semester would start on Jan. 12, with commencement
set for May 10. The commission had proposed this calendar to the
FSEC at its Oct. 9 meeting, but the group asked the commission to
reconsider the proposal, citing concerns that the earlier-than-usual
Continued on page 2

Mroozc..k, Grec&amp;ory Schwartz and Gene Wu .

-T.-10 list-recommended by
faculty to be basis for new class
a, PAJIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

K

ENNETH DA U BER .
professor and chair of
the UB Department of
English surveyed more
than 2,100 of hi s fell ow faculty
members at the uni versity thi s
past summer.
He planned to deve lop an un dergradu ate co urse based on their
responses and as ked them to list
the 10 literary wo rks they would
mos t like their o wn child ren to

Council hears plans to develop housing
a, CHIIISnNI VIDAL
Reporter Editor

THE UNIVERSITY IS going
ahead with a pilot project to develop off-campus liousing for students, President Greiner told the
UB Council Oct. 31.
The project will consist of 110
units off Sweet Home Road. and
house 400 sludents. Occupancy is
expected to begin in January
1998. with full occupancy by the
fall of that year.
Calling apartment-style housing for students "in many ways ...a
make-or-break issue" for the univerSity. Greiner told the council
"we should be much more of a
residential institution."
UB "has the geographical re sources," Greiner noted, and developing additional housing on campus "would end a lot of sources of
frustration and irritation" for students. However, permission from
the state legislature is needed in
order to build on campus.
So the university is "trying to

systematically walk lhrough the
ahematives. Where we are now is
having UBF (the UB Foundation)
build off campus," Greiner said.
"Ciminelli Development is doing
the site work. and this will be bid
out once we have a desigri."
These " new attractive units''
wou ld offer bus service to campus and be wired into UB 's computer mainframe. Lease costs wi ll
be competitive with the residence
hall s and "safely competitive··
with housing offered anywhere in
Western New York. Greiner said.

The council aiM heard a re porl by Provos t Thomas E.
Headrick on UB 's academic fu ture. one that he said may include
combined baccalaureate/master's
programs and fewer doc toral programs.
Headrick described UB as a
"multi -versity" with a commitment
to undergraduate education whose
undergraduate programs ought to
draw on the strengths of the its

graduate departments. "We have a
broad amy of faculty with an ar·
ray of expenise. and thi s can play
back into undergmduate education
if we do it right.'" Headrick said.
He said UB plans to maintain
ils current enro llment of 16,000
undergradualeS and 8.000 gradu·
ate students, a rati o "appropriate
for thi s institution. We ma y want
to expand our post-graduate enrollment. but not a large amount ."

Headrick Mid the uni versi ty is
going to have to make strategic
cho ices in research and graduate
educa ti o n . perhaps o fferin g
fewer. but better. doc roral programs. It may have to phase o ut
weak prog r.un. bu~ o t necessaril y the facult y in volved in those
programs. he said.
The provost said UB needs a
new focus on master 's-level programs. possibl y co mbining more
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have read by the lime they fin ished college .
When the answers were collated and bo iled down to a list o f
the 10 mos r frequ e ntl y cited
work s. they all turned out to be
by dead white men .
Dauber said. "Pace to Aristotle
on man being a political animal.
my guess is that th inking about
wh at we 'd want our children to
read turns us back to a response
more primal than politica l.
··on the other hand." he said.
" mo re po liti ca l typ es mig ht
counter that. after all. our faculty
is comprised principall y of li ve
white men.··
Also surprisi ng: With the exception of Shakespeare 's " Hamlet."
there are no works authored between the second century A.D. and
1776 and none from this century.
A s promised. Dauber will teach

l'lan Engli sh course that incorporates the list arrived at by fac ulty consensus in the Spri ng 1997
semes te r. The course. En gli sh
2 14. is lit led "The Top I0 Books·
and will be taught on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 9:30- 11 a.m.
The I 0 works on the reading
list are Freud 's "Interpretation o f
Dreams"; Darwin's "Origin of the
Spec ies .. : lhe B ible , Sha ke ·
s peare's " Hamlet " ; Dic ke ns'
" Grea t Ex pec tatio ns"; Pl ato 's
" Republic" ; Homer 's "Iliad" or
.. Odyssey": Herman Melvilles
"Moby Dick"; a unit combining
the Declarari on of Independence.
the Constituti on and the Fedeml ist Papers. and n yet-t o-be-se lected Tolstoy nove l.
While stude nt s will be re -

qui red to read onl y 7 of !he I0.
all o f the bonks will be taughl by
Dauber. along with fac ulty members wh o speciali ze in vario us
authors or periods.
aub e r ad ded that th e re ·
sponses to his survey ind icated an unexpected pass io n for
nove ls and. "despite all the polemic of the past several years.
demonstrated a strong sense of
shared culture. These books commuu icate what it is we want to
tnms mi t to our chiktren and- i"
loco parefii is-to o ur stude nts."
But did n' t anything th at we
value happen be twee n the second
centu ry A.D. and the late 1700s?
Anyt hin g in this cen tu ry worth
relishing'l
"Well. as keepers of the sac red
name . I g uess tholl th e fac uh y
consider these tex ts the best ve hi cles for the ideas they'd like to
see passed o n. " Dauber no ted .
" It 's as if the other ce nturies
didn ' t ex ist. especiall y our ow n!
··1 think we got what we asked
fo r here. though:· he added. "and
that is a Jist of books that incorporate the ideas and va lues thai an
educated person li vi ng in America
in the late 20th ce ntu ry would like
to be conveyed to the nex t ge nerati on. The cho ices were somewhat
surprisi ng to me in total. but we ' ll
go with the list we ca me up wi lh
here. Students who have n' t been
introd uced to these books wi ll fi nd
them good company."
Beyond the ··winners" of the
s urve y, fac ult y members ' rc ·
sponses revealed ano mali es ga -

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FSEC
Con tinued from page 1
~ pnng start· up would stine sc holarship
during the intersession.
The commi ssion then submitted the two
draft calendars to the FSEC on Oct. 30.
In addi ti on to the FSEC. the draft calendars have been sent to US's deans for
their cons iderati on, said Donna Rice, as·
socia te vice president for student affairs

and a member of the Calendar CommisMon.

Facult y members reiterated their opposui on to a spring semester that sraned a
week earlier than usual.
'The idea of the extnt time in January,
g1ven the intersess ion shutdown orthe periods of time when some pans of the uni versity are not avai lable, to a lot of folks.
myse lf included ... is when you hurry up and
wri te those papers and proposals before the
onslaught of the second se mester," noted
Robert Welherhold. assoc iate professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering. "So
that was n block of time that was kind of
unpon:.tnt to keep and th at was why some
people were interested in having a longer
pe riod of time then when you don't ha ve
10 be teaching ...
"As a faculty member, makin g sure that
o ne does faculty things. it's imponant to
have that space (between se mesters)." added
William Miller. professor of stomatology.
icolas Goodman. vice provost for
undergradua te ed ucation and a
member of the Calendar Commiss o n. noted that there are things that need
t be done between the fall an~ spring i;em '\ters. such as recording grades and conduct g rhe academic review. that take a
ce nai amount of admini strative time.
'' I' worried that if we follow your first
suggestion and end the fall semester ln accordance with our second drafr (on Dec.
20), then f'm uncomfortable with starting
the (spring) semester quicKly because there
isn' t time to do all these things."
G reiner agreed. "If we do push a litt le
bit to start after Labor Day. trying to do
the earlier start -up in the spring really does
co mpress things too much."
The FSEC also had asked the Calendar
Commi ssion to reconsider the issue of the
un iversity not observ ing the second day of
Rosh Hashanah. Herbert Schue!, professor
o f an atomical scie nces. said UB was placing itself at a disadvantage in competiti on

for undergraduate students because peer
institutions within the SUNY system observe the day.
Greiner said the issue was considered
"exhaustively.. a year ago when the current compromise--in which only the first
day of Rosh Hashanah is observed as a
religious holiday-was reached. Some of
US 's peer institutions, which , Greiner
pointed out, encompass more than just
SUNY schools, don ' t observe Rosh
Hashanah at all. Moreover, university
policy insists faculty make accommodations for students' religious beliefs.
"I think that issue was put to bed a year
ago; I see no reason to reopen it," he said :J

Edward 1c1nes onos
to speak Nov. 19
ACTOR EDWARD JAMES OlMOS, who
won an Emmy Award for his role as Lt.
Castillo in the popular television stries
" Miami Vice." will speak at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday. Nov. 19, in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Anson the Universi ty at Buffalo North Campus.
Olmos' lecture is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series, presented by UB
in conjunction with the Don Davis Auto
World LeclUreship Fund. The Amherst
Chamber or Commerce is affilia te sponsor.
Co-sponsors of tbe Olmos presentation
are the UB undergraduate Student Association and Unive~ily Union Activities Board.
Olmos also has appeared in numer.o~s
television shows and films . He won a
Golden G lobe for Best Supporting Actor
in HBO's "B urning Season."
He also directed "'America Me," a srark
look at the life of an Hispanic-American family, and served as producerof "uves in Hazard," a gri pping expose of gang life in

America.
Perhaps less known by the public is
Olmos· role as "unofficial" mayor of Los Angeles, where he helped restore neighborhoods following the 1992 riots.
Contributing sponsors of the Distingui shed Speakers Series are the Buffalo
Marriott, UB Center for the Arts. Makin '
Copies and the UB Alumni Association.
Caii645-ARTS for ticket information.

Make 'em laugh
Mirth is medicine, Lynch says
IIJ LOIS IAII£It

News Services Editor

F RINGLING BROS. and Barnum &amp;
Bailey clown John Lynch were in charge
of health care, he'd have doctors carry
Groucho glasses and a whoopie cushion
along with their stethoscopes.
Lynch, the son of a Louisville endocri. nologist; ~ - ~~a humQr ~~pist,
but couldn't lind a college that offered a
curriculum. lnstead, he earned a "Bachelor
of Fun Arts" from the Ringling Brothers
Clown College in Sarasota, Fla.
Weari ng baggy pants, oversized clodhoppers and tufts of orange hair. he has be- •
come a therapi st without portfolio, delivering his message that mirth is medicine
to hospitals and medical schools along the
route oflbe Greatest Show on Earth.
Oct
while the circus was in town ,
Lynch visited UB to praise the mirthful experience and to show and tell medical students how laughter can make their job easier.
His primary message was that laughter
heal s. and while medicine is serious business most of the time, it doesn ' t have to be
serious all or the time. The aerialist doesn't
crack wise while he' s walking the tight-

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rope. Lynch noted. but when he reaches the
opposite platform, the jokes ny.
"h'sOK to play," the clown said. Lynch's
slapstick routine that gets him all tangled
up in a physician's white coat may be beyond the talents or inclinations of most, but
a doctor can easily sl ip-on Groucho glasses
to inspect a set ofX-rays or trade a joke-aday with long-term patients.
He demonstrated bow to pretend to snap
your nose with a rubber glove and showed
how to play radio-talk-show-host with a
stethoscope. He used an otoscope to see
CNN in a kid's ear, and popped a tongue
depressor into his moutJrlike a lollipop.
Acknowledging that humor isn ' tappropriate in every cin:umstance. Lynch offered
some guidelines to follow:
• uBe sensitive to the patient's situation. If she just lost her hair through chemotberapy, don't start telling bald jokes."
• uDon't alienate with humor: we all
know this can happen."'
• "Stop if it's not helping you do your
work.''
"And don ' t say. "Hi! "I'm Doctor Kevorkian," Lynch quipped. "I can't think of
a time when that would be appropriate."

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lore . Odd allian ces of taste and va lues
could be discerned among tnembers of the
variou~ facult ies and professional sc hools.
Some of the surpri ses found by Dauber
m collating hi s 10 best:
• Civic religion. forsooth '! Works by
S h~ke speare were listed three times more
o ften than th e Bible. When individual
Shakespearean plays were counted as separate works. however, the Bible waS cited
mo re frequentl Y than any other book.
• The on ly female author who showed
up on rhe li sts consiste ntl y was Jane
Ausren
• The faculties whose choice of authors
demonstrated the most si milar values were
those from the humanities, medicine and
natural sciences. Social sciences facully
members were the odd profs out.
75 percent of books listed by humani ti es professors were literary texts
84 percent of those listed by biomedical science professors were literary texts
66.6 percent of the books listed by naturul scientists were literary texts.
In comparison, only 25 percent of books
li sted by social scie ntists were literary
texts. "Social scientists apparently are different animals.'' said Dauber. "I literally

had never heard of the authors on many of
their lists."
• The UB English Department has historically been a hotbed of radicalism. but
Clemens Hall may be a nest of cryptoWhiggery as well. lAissez-fain! economist
Adam Smith turned up twice as frequently
as Karl Marx on lists returned by English
professors. In every department but English. Marx beat Adam Smith two to one.
• Bes ides Freud and DlliWin. the most
popular science texts cited were Thomas
Kuhn 's '"The Structure of Scientific Revolution" and Watson a nd Crick 's ''The
Double Helix."
• The most common ly ci ted African·
American author was Ralph Ellison. followed by W.E.B. Dubois.
• In the area of modern foreign literaiu re, faculty members from vinually all
departments most frequently listed
Dosteovsky. Tolstoy. Marque z and
Cervantes among their top 10 authors. The
favorite choice of faculty members from
the Department of Modem Languages and
Literatures. however, was Goethe.
• ln a similar vein, the Shakespearean
play cited most frequently by non -English
Department faculty was "Hamlet." The

The recommended
reading list
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Freud's "lnterpretalion ol Dreams·
Darwin's "Origin of the Species"
The Bible
Shakespeare's "Hamiel"
Dickens' "Greal Expectations"
Plato's "Republic"
Homer's "Iliad" or "Odyssey·
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
A unit combining lhe Declaralion of
Independence, lhe Constilulion
and the Federalisl Papers
• A yet-to-be-selected Tolstoy novel
English Department faculty members most
frequently listed " King Lear." A promise
is a promise, said Dauber. It is the young
Dane who n.t!lde the list.
• The most popular philosophers listed
after Plato were Aristotle and Descartes.
'This surprised me, given UB 's reputation
as a seat of postmodemist thought.'' Dauber
said. 'There was no consensus on Kant.

Wiugenstein, Russell, Lyotafd actually
on no one born after 1596.
Were there any criticisms from the fac·
ulty about the idea of compiling ;uch a list ?
"Oh, well , yes. of course!" Dauber said.
"Yes! One serious objection was that the
English Department was being imperialistic by proclaiming that it would teach whatever the faculty wanted. I agree and hope
that every serious discipline would be similarly imperialistic."
Another critic said that the s urvey itself
promotes the idea that books are central to
education.
'"This is a legitimate point," Dauber
said. "After all, there are many, many ways
of educating. In this case we asked only
for books."
''There were also objeclions to the fac1
that any instructor who undertook to teach
this course would have to teach outside the
area of hi s or her area of expenjse,
"It's true that professors tend not to be
experts on Melville and Tolstoy and Freud
and Plato and Darwin and Dickens and
Shakespeare. I expect to mitigate the consequences of that by bringing in faculty
expens to lecture the class on several of
the books discussed.'' Dauber said.

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University/indusby partnership vital in global marketplace
Education is key,
says Augustine
DUCATING ENGINEERS for
sUccess in the global environment
must be more than a four-year process of engineering oounes_IICCO&lt;ding to Noonan Augustine, chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin.
Augustine advocates training engineers
wilh !he basics of their field and "a lot more
of lhc things !hat help a per5on function in
society," such as law and economics.
He described hi s vision of the future direction of engineering as keynote speaker
for Universitynndustry Day, presented by
the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Center for lhe Arts Oct. 30.
The event was pan of the school's commemoration o r its 50th an niversary.
"Engineers will have to have a muc h
stronger bac kground or liberal ar1s" to acquire the abili ty to communicate as they
work in the demanding international marketplace, Augu stine said. "Engineers compete on a nose-to-nose basis with engineers
in other countries."
" We ' ll need people who are very good
81 things besides cranking numbers," Augustine said . Citing Darwin, he said the
most successful engineers are those who
are ab le to adapt to c hange a nd move
arou nd in the international envi ron ment of
today 's business world . 'Thi ngs a re do ne
so much differently aproad," he noted.

G

lobal competition is large ly responsible for another trend . industry' s
declining inve stment in research
a nd de ve lopment, Augu stine sa id. Hi s
company learned that lesson bluntly. he
said, when investors literally ran out of the
room as officials described a plan for major investmc:nt in researc h. As the investor5 rushed to sell their stock , shocked
company executives learned that the average shareholder only stays wilh a company
18 monlhs. " Didn't we know !hat it takes
10 to 15 year5 for R&amp;D to pay off." they
were told.
" As a result. corporatjons fund less and
less research." Augustine said. " We ' re hoping to depend more and more on govern me nt and university."
Yet governme nt also is spending less on
research. he noted. and the news media has
been slow to recognize the consequences
of that c hange. " How quickly you can fall
behind," A~gustine said. adding. ''it's hard
to calch up."
"With the half life of most technical articles at about two years." he sa id that "by
30, an engineer is middle-aged in terms of
hi s career." urelong learning is essential,
he said.

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artnership betWeen industry and uni versity has become even more im ponant in lhe global marketplace.
Augustine said . Obstacles to overcome in clude a difference in basic timetable of four
years in academics contrasted with
industry' s focus on the financial quaner,
only one-quaner of a year. In industry,
where surprise is an advantage. the climate
is autocratic. contrasted with the democ ratic atmosphere of uni vers i.lies. where
publishing ideas is expected. In addition.
he notes that universi ties tend to rely on
inta ngible incentives, while corporations
thrive on tangible ince ntives.
Despite differences. Augustine believes
uni vers ity and industry can be more erfecti ve working together. Sharing people and
facilities are the two basic points or the
pannership. with advantages for bolh partners. " You can hire a graduate stude nt for
about 1/IOOth of what you pay them after
graduation," he noted. By the same token,
he sees corporate fund-raising to support

global contest "will determine !he quality
of Iives of our chi ldren and grandchildren."

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universities as "good investment for ou r
companies."
He believes !hat industry must speak ou1
to emphasize to government and the public the importance o f funding for un iversity research and development. As U.S .
companies compete against foreign businesses whose costs are much lowe r. in the

•·terrible sq ueeze to c ut costs." research and
development are suffe ring. Industry mu st
rely o n uni ve rs iti es to suppl y talen t and
ideas. just as universities rely o n industry
as a market ror tale nt and ideas.
'The American way or life can be no
better than its businesses and un iversities,··
Augustine said. The consequences or the

is speech was sponsored by UB. Ihe
School of Engineering. the Business
Cou nci l of New York State and the
Greater Buffalo Partnership to hi ghlighl cooperative effons between the School of Engineeri ng a nd indu stri a l panners. The
school also presented a new marketing
video describing ways in which the- e ngi·
neering school has helped area businesses
compete more effecrive ly.
Augustine became c hairm an and CEO
of Lockheed Martin in 1996. after servi ng
as president when the compa ny formed
from rhe merger of Martin Marietta and
Lockheed in 1994. AI Man in Marietta. he
became preside nt a nd chief operating orficer in 1986. CEO in 1987 and cha1rman
1n I 988 . He rece1 ved bachelor ' s a nd
master 's degrees m aeronautical engmeering from Princeton University.
He is o n the board of d1rectors o f
Phillip ~ Petroleum Corp .. Proctor &amp;
Gamb le C o a nd the New Americi.tn
School.!. Developmem Corp. He 1s chairman of the Nat1onal Academy of Engmeering. In 1994 . he co-c haired a study by theAmerican Societ y for Engineering Education on future direc ll on' in enginc.:ering
educa tio n

Scholars to ponder medical ethics and values at
sesquicentennial
symposium to be held Nov. 15-16
•r
LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Ed•tor

I

NTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED
scholars of philosophy, literature. hi story and other fields will address the
theme "Ethics and Values in Health
Care and Med ici ne o n the Frontiers of the
2 1st Century" at a UB sesquicentenni al
symposium. to be held Nov. 15- 16.
The symposi um . sponsored by the UB
School of Medi ci ne a nd Biomedical Sciences. will address critical issues ari sing
from c hangi ng tec hnologies and health care delivery systems. the human ge nome
project and new develo pme nts in the patient-provider relationship.
Sessions on Nov. 15. will be held in the
New Buffalo Marriott. Millerspon High way, Amherst. Sessions on Nov. 16, wi ll
be held in the Center ror the Ans on the
UB North Campus. There is a regi strati on
fee . The sy mposium is presented in co llaboration with rhe UB Center for C lini ·
cal Ethics and Humani ties in Hea lth Care .
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.. professor of
philosophy atlhe Center for Medical Elhic&gt;

and Health Policy at Rice University. will
present the keynote address ''Bioethics at the
End or the Millennium: Fashioning Health Care Policy in the Absence or a Content-Full
Mora l Vision" at 8:45a.m. Nov. I 5.
Engelhardt, who also holds appotnt ·
ments as professor in the depa nme nts of
Medici ne. Community Medi ci ne a nd Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College
or Medicine , will lecture again late r 1n the
morning o n the topic ''Toward Multipl e
Standards of Health De li ve ry : Taking
Mora l and Economic Di vers ity Seriously."

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Addltlonatlnvlt...
their
presentation• • • :
• La urence B. McCullough. professor
m the depanme nts of Medi ci ne. Commu nity Medi ci ne and Med ica l Ethi cs in 1he
Baylo r Co ll ege or Medicine. "A Preve ntive Et hics Approac h to the Managed Pral··
(I CC or M ~d icin e"
• E. Haavi Morrcim. professor or hu man va lues and e thics at the Univcrs uy of
Tenn e~see Medical School. "Saving Lives.
Saving Money : Shepherding the Role of

UB cooks-are you ready for
the Holiday Recipe Contest?
Family and lrielids always ask for the recipe ...so why not share tt wilh friends and
colleagues at UB-end win a prize, too? H's time to reveal your favorite holiday
recipe, the one that's sooo good. Hcan bring you fame and fortune-you could
have Hpublished in the Reporter and win a handsome coffee-table cookbook!
Ou r annual recipe contest begins today. The rules are simple:
Irs open to faculty, s lafl and s tudents. (Contest winners of the past five years
are nol eligible.) The recipe (one to a contestant) should be typed in cookbook style wilh lngredienls lirs1, directions following.
Put your name, address, department, your UB
title and phone number at the top of the page.
We'll judge your recipe lor taste appeal ,
ease of prepamtion and originality.
If there's a brief "story" about the
recip&amp;-l"low you created it. what kind ot
trad itions H represents, how many years
you've served Hto mve reviews . etc .. include
that, too.
Mail or lax to: Reporter Recipe Contest.
136 Crofts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo.
N.Y. 14260. Or e-mail to
reporterO newsb.buthllo.edu
Deadline for receipt of entries Is Nov. 26.

New Technology··
• Eric Juengst. assoc iate proressor at the
Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case West em Reserve University Medical School. '"The
Chullenge of Human Genome Research for
the ProfessionaJ Ethics of Medici ne"
• Dor01hy Nelkin. professor in the Depan men! of Sociology and the School of
Law at New York Universi ty. " From Promises to Progress to Ponents or Pe ril : Pubh c
Responses 10 Gene Therapy..
• Diane Paul . of the Department of Political Science at the Universit y o f Massa chusetts/Boston. ''Lessons from the History
of PK U Screening'"
• Kathryn Montgomery Hunter. proressor in the departments of Medici ne and
Medica l Ethics and Humani lies at Northwes tern Univers it y Med ical School. "A
Medi cine o r Neighbors"
• Juli e Rothstei n of Ya le Univers ll ) .
"Can I Trust Ypu Now? Trust and the Phy sician-Pa tient Relationship: Impli ca ti on~
fo r Cont inuity of Care"
• Howard Brody. professor 10 the departments o f Fa mil y Medicine. Medical
Human iti es and Philosophy. and director or
the Cemer for Et hics and Humanitic ~ m the
Life Sciences at Mi chigan State Unive rsi ty.
··can Relati onships Heai-Chcap·t ·
Panicipating US faculty are sympo~ 1um
&lt;:o-chairs James J. Bono. :bSOC iate profe,sor in the UB departmenL\ or Hi!!o tOf) and
Medki ne. and Gera ld Logue . proressor m
the Oepartmem of Medici ne and med1cal
director of the Vete ran' Affa1r' We~tcrn
New York Hea lth Care System .
Also. Mecca Cranky. dean of the UB
School of Nur~ing : Tom R o~cmhal. professor and c ha1r of the Depanment of Family Medic me: Duv1d Nyberg. pro f.:ssor m
the Depanment of Educational Admlnl ' ·
tratiOn, OrganizatiOn &lt;md Pohq. Da\ 1d
Triggle. dean of the UB Graduale School.
and Stephe n Wear. a ~ soc • ah: proft.'~'or m
the Depanment o f Ph•h ,~ophy i.lnd n:sca rL·h
associate pro fessor in the depanmcnh of
Medici ne and Gynccolog) ;.md Oh ... tetnc~
Susan G. Regan. an an orne) "llh the
Buffalo Ia" fi nn or Magavem. Maga\ern
&amp; Grimm a nd a member of the New Vo rL
State Com mittee on Managed Cure. aho
will panictpate. For reserva ti on~. caiiMS 3705. For more mfo rmati on. call J ame~
Bono at 645-2282. exl. 553.

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Dunnett receives prestigious
award from Jagiellonian University
BJ PAliiiCIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

STEPHEN C. DUNNETT, VICE PROVOST for international education at UB, has received
the Merentibus Medal, the greatest distinction of merit confened by Poland's Jagiellonian
University. He accepted the award during ceremonies held in Kn!k6w on Oct. 1.
Dunnett.. who is internationally recognized for his contributions to the field of international education, was honored for
bjs many contributions to the development of the extensive studen~ faculty and professional staff exchange programs between
UB and the Jagiellon ian.
He also was cited for creating many opportunities to move
Polish faculty and students into the international arena and for
.promoting the Jagiellonian University abroad. particulariy in
the United States and in Japan, where Dunnett has established
a number of education-exchange pro&amp;nmJs.
Past recipients of the medal have included major figures in
the sphere of international education, many holding senior poQUNNETT
sitions at major American universities. UB President William
R. Greiner received the award last year.
A leader in the promotion and facilitation of international education, Dunnett has for
25 years headed UB 's English Language Institute. Considered one of the best of its kind
tn the wor ld, it has trained more than 18,000 students and professionals here and abroad.

In June, Dunnett r-Ived the " - • HI.._ Award, one of the most distingui shed hon ors in hi s fie ld, from the Association of International Educators, the premier
pro fessional association of international educators in the United States.
The formal relationship between the two universities began in 1989 when Dunnett
signed a letter of intent on behalf of UB with the Jagiellonian that placed special empha·
sis on the social sciences, law and the humanities. The first exchange activities began in
1990 when the Jagiell on ian hosted 20 U B students in a summer program in Polish language and culture.

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UB profs book says active researchers are better teachers
Br SUE WUETCHER

News Serv1ces Assoc1ate Otrector

T

EACHING WILL NEVER be as
lucrati ve as research in the reward system of higher education
and continuing 10 blame the emphasis on researc h fo r· a per·
ceived neglect of teaching is fooli sh and
counterproduclive, a University at Buffalo
sociologist maintains.
In fact, most colleges and universities
should lighten the teaching loads of fac ulty members so they wo uld have more
time to conduct research , says Lionel S.
Lewis. UB professor of sociology.
In a new book, "Marginal Worth: Teaching and the Academic Labor Market•·
( I996. Transaction Publishers), Lewis notes
that it is the pursuit of scholarship that
makes a college professor more than just a
school teacher.
··He or she has the responsibility to enlarge the knowledge of his or her di sci pline:· he writes, adding that "people who
do research are beHer teachers.
"Those who want to teach without doing re sea rch mu s t accept the consequences," he says.
Using concepts from economics. par·
ticularly from the labor- market model and
sociology, Lewis eJtamines the contempo·
rary academic labor market to explain why
teaching-which is almost universally ac·
knowledged to be at the center of the
American educational experience-is only
modestly rewarded.

T:

e evidence collected and analyzed by
Lewis-including letters, reports and
other documents provided by I 5 academic administrators and senior faculty
from across the country-suggests that this
is not the case because teaching is not a
particularly productive activity. its quality
is hard to measure , it does not generate
automatic prestige. most students do not
learn a great deal and in many instances.
ot her matters absorb the attention of fac·
ulty.
It is research that brings prestige 10 an
institution. Lewis says. It is an activity that
can be easily assessed; research can contribute to teaching. but teaching does not
contribute to research, he adds.
''To reward teaching would be to go
against all economic theory."

Facuh y are
paid what the
market think s
they are worth .
he says, notin g
thai the market
value ri ses for
those with· special abilities or
unique charac·
teristics because
they cannot be
LEWIS
easily replaced.
'Those who teach and do research are rarer
than those who simply teach, and they get
paid more ," he writes. " lf the remunerati on for those who only teach and those
who teach and do research were made more
comparable, then the supply and demand
would be thrown out of balance and fewer
academics would spend time doing research.'"
Moreover. there is liule evidence that
students want to learn much beyond what
is needed to graduate or to get a job.
"Learning simply for the pleasure of learning is not highly valued in student culture,"
he says, noting that most undergraduates
learn next to nothing, forget most of that
and are hardl y changed by the college ex·
perience.

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ven the best and the brightest students do not select the most prestigious colleges or universities-those
where undergraduates are said to be ignored-because of the quality of the teaching. In fact, they chose a school largely
because of its reputation and the prestige a
degree from that institution will bring to
their career prospects.
"Given what students get from their
undergraduare years, there is no way to
determine if colleges or universities are
going a good job. There is no way of know ing if teaching were assessed beuer, and
effort and outcome more adequately re warded, s tudent s wo uld get a better
education .. .Thus. there is little reason to
change the distribution of rewards in colleges and uni versi ties if the goal is primarily to improve the education of undergraduates."
The academic marketplace operates in
such a way that teaching is at most a marginal consideration in the evaluation of in-

dividu als, Lewis writes. Academics are not
rewarded for teaching and only marginally
for research. Longevity and seniority bring
merit rai ses. as docs administrative work;
discipline, i.e., physicists earn more than
historians, and type of institution, with fac_ulty membe~ at research ipstitutions earning more than those at liberal arts colleges.
The disparity in how the academic labor market works, how it is thought to
work. and how it is thought it should work
frustrates academics. making lhem feel
unappreciated, he says. In addition, the fre·
quent and public criticisms of higher education and the quality of teaching by people
such as William Bennett, Allan Bloom and
Lynne Cheney add fuel to the fire .

Teaching is an intrinsically motivated
activity, Lewis contends. " h is a calling.
rather than a career. if one enjoys teaching
that should be reward enough." he says.

T

eaching will be rewarded only if it
goes hand in hand with research.
Lewis assens. Research is so important. he says. that faculty members with
heavy teaching loads might need to have
them reduced to make time for research.
"It cleariy makes more sense than the
oft-heard contention that the definition of
scholarship should be broadened to include
teaching (or the preparation for teaching).
This would have no effect on the academ ic
labor market," Lewis concludes.

Frank Zagare named chair of UB's
Deparbnent of Politicai.Science
BJ SUE WUIETCIIER
News Services Associate Director

FRANK C. ZAGAR£, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE at UB. has been

named chair of the department.
Zagare also has received a $50,000 National Science Foundation Research Grant
to study "Limited WOI. Crisis Escalation and Extended
Deterrence."
He will use the grant ·•to explore war dynamics and
conflict resolution using incomplete information and
game theoretic models."
' A UB faculty member since I987 and department
chair from 199 I -94, Zagare has been called "one of the
major contributors to game theoretic approaches m international relations." Game theory deals with interac·
live situations in which the outcome depends on the player.;' actions. The theory is applied to the study of the
strategic ramifications of nations' strategies and tactics.
Before coming to UB , Zagare was a facult y member
at Boston University, where he also was an associate of
th e univers ity's Center for International Relations.
The author of several books and monographs. including "The Dynamics of
Deterrence," Zagafe has published numero us book chapters. articles and book
reviews, as well ~ presented papers at national and international meet ings and
sy mposia.

He Ia e ~~~en~ber o f the American Political Sdence Association. the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society. and served as a councilor for the peace society.
He received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University and master's and
doctoral degrees from New York University. all in political science.

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Cost control
plays role in

infecton control

Research shows

division of labor
for nude fibers

Studies link resistance
problems to cost cuts

Findings may affect
physical therapies

T

lly ElUN QCKHAUM

News Services Editor

HE GROWING PROBLEM of

bacterial resistance to antibiotics
is a clirect result of the antibiotic
management strategies hospitals
have used to control costs, according to re sults of three studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for

II)' LOIS IIAIIIII
News Services Editor

HYSICAL THERAPY researchers ~t UB have shown for the
first time that abdominal-muscle
fibers have a specific division of
labor, with different fibers an swering the
ca ll to action, depending on the task. The
findings in thi s study shed new light on
how abdominal muscles fu nction during
breathing and other tasks, and point to
the need for new therapies that enli st the
appropriate specific muscle fibers for
maximum rehabilitation.
.. We used to think that all abdomi ·
nat-muscle fibers pl ayed an equal role in
all tasks the abdominals perform. such as
n ov in g a nd breathing," sai d Frank J .
erny, UB assoc iate professor of physial therapy and exercise scie nce and lead
uthor on the study. '' Knowi ng that si tps strengthen the abdomina ls. we may
ave recomme nded sit -ups as a therapy
improve breathing capabi lity.
1 " Now we know that doing sit-ups is
not goi ng to help with breathing, but a
the rapy such as breathing again st resistance would . We kno w that wi th abdomi nal muscles, therapy mu st be very spec ifi c to the task. because few musc le fi bers perform multiple tasks."
Cerny presented the results May 30 at
the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medic ine in Cincinnati .
Also participating in the research were
Threethambal Puckree. UB doctoral candidate in exercise science who has since
received the degree, and Beverl y Bishop.
UB Distinguished Teaching Professor of
physiology.

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ate more quickly than if they pursued the
degrees separately. This is "one of the ways
we can set ourselves off from other institutions in SUNY and maybe in high educ ation in general," the provost noted.
" I think if we begin talking to undergraduates about the 21st century... we can
talk them through to master 's (degrees).
This will t;listinguish us if we ffiove on thi s
quickly and do this well."
Headrick added that the university c annot be built totally around academics, however.
" We want to s pend effort, time and
money to improve the quality of student
life," he said. "We have to work on making this a quality place where students enjoy getting their educations." Student housing, athletics. entertainment and other ac tivities all are part of that picture, he said.
UB needs to bring in more out -of-state
and international students ··so we have a
very representative and diverse student
body." And the university needs to find
ways to further shape programs for people
to come back on a pan-time basis to fur ther their education."
The university also needs co expand its
revenue sources through philanthropy. private-sector partnerships, differential tuition
and out-of-state tuition, Headrick said. 0

Microbiology.
The studies
show that using
alternative strat egies, such as
increasi ng the
variery and dosages of a nti biot·
ics admi ni stered
to a patient . in
conjunction
wi th trad it iona l
methods of con - SCHENTAG
trolli ng infec tion, such as isolation. hand washing and
decontaminati on. causes res1stant organ isms to dis&lt;tppear. while still produci ng
dramatic cost-savi ngs.
The re s ult ~ were presented by Jerome
J. Schent ag. professor of pharmace ut ics
at U B and d irector of the C lini cal Phar·
macokme ti cs Laboratory at Mill ard

Peril by the Pound

Fillmore Health System (MFHS) in Buffalo. Schcntag is lead ing resea rc h o n rela tion ships between bacterial resis tance a nd
an tim icrob ial use at UB and MFH S .

Obesity raises risk regardless of lifestyle S
BJ LOIS BAJ(£11
News Services Edttor

BESITY STANDS ALON E
as a ri sk fa ctor for death , par·
ticularly from heart di sease.
and the ri sk increa ses as
people put on pounds. UB re searchers have shown . The results cha llenge the notion that if othe r health hab~
its are good, people don ' t have to worry
about their weight.
" It has been postulated that obe sit y
alone was not a ri sk fact or," said Joan P.
Dom. US assistant professor o f socia l
and preventive medicine and the st udy's
lead author. "It was thought the real culprits were high blood pressure or smoking or inactivity, health problems that
frequently accompany obesity.
"But in thi s study, we adjusted for all
these fac tors, and body mass index (a ratio of weight to height and a standard indicator of obesity) came out by itse lf as a
risk factor for dying from any cause. and
especially as a ri sk for death from coronary heart disease ."
Dom presented the result s recently at
the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Cincinnati .
Researchers conducted a 29-year fo llow-up of 611 men who participated in a
1960 population-based st udy in Buffalo.
Health data, including height , weight and
physical activity, were collected from the
participants , who were between the ages
of 20 and 96 in 1960. In the 29 years
since the initial interviews. 295 me n had
died, I08 from coronary heart di sease.
Body mass index (BMI). a number arrived at by dividing weight by height
squared, was used to determine obesity. A
body mass index of between 20-25 is considered acceptable for most people, Dom
noted, but even within that range, the ri sk

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of potent ial health problems increase.!'&gt; as
weight increases. (An example of a person
with an acceptable body mass index
would be an indi vidua l 5'5" tall weighing
120- 126 pound s. whi ch results in a body
ma.'ts index of 20 to 21 .)
om and co lleagues fo und that a
bod y mass inde x of 27 or higher
was significa ntl y assoc iated w ith
death from a ll causes. and the relationship was stro nger ye t for death from
coronary hea rt di sease.
" With every six- or seven-pound increase in weight. whic h represents approximately one- unil increase in th e BMI.
our results show that there is an 4 pe rcent
increase in risk of dying from any cause,"
Dom said . " For heart disease. one unit of
increase in the BMI was assoc iated with a
9 percent increase in ri sk.
"The bottom line is, even if you are
physically active and otherwise hea lth y.
if you are obese. you are putting your life
at ri sk." Dom sa id.
Contri butors to the stud y were
Maurizio Trevi san, professor a nd c hai r

D

of the UB Department of Soc ial and Preventive Medi ci ne. and Warren Winkelstein. fonnerly of UB. now at the School
of Public Health. Unive rsit y o f Californi a
at Berkeley.

c hen tag said tha t it is not lapses in in
fection-control procedures. but effo rt ~
by hospi tal s to cut costs. that have created
condit ions for the antibiotic-resistance
problems that now account fo r an enor·
mous additional health -care expense and a
rapidly increasing public -he:..ilth threat.
·· For the past 15-20 years. hospitals
have bee n c rea ting an ad vantage for the
bacteria in the name of cos t contro l. .. sa id
Schentag. " Predic tabl y. as man aged care
plays a grea ter ro le in the rest riction of
choice in the co mmunity, bacte ri a l resistance patte rn s wi ll fo ll ow the lead into
the outpati e nt se tt ing." •
Sc hentag explained that drug fonnularies -li sts of approved drugs drawn up
by hos pita ls a nd health insurers-were
created d uring the 1980s to restrict a nti ~
mi crobial use to onl y a few, usuall y Jessexpensive antibiotics. The traditi onal
prac tice is to prescribe one drug 3t a time .
When onl y one antibimic is administered to a patient at a time. he explai ned.
bacteria onl y need to conce ntrate their resistance efforts on th at one drug.

"The res ult has been the rapid devel o pment o f resista nce as a conseq uen ce of
cost-cont ro l effort s." Schentag said . "The
end result for the health -ca re institution i~
considerabl y hi gher expe nditures down
the road, as evolving re sistance fo rces th e
use of more and more o f the 'big gun' an tibioti cs."

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H.Y. Un and S . K . - - . Other
Heallhy adult women, adults wtlh
Ctrthosts or ktdney tmpatrrnent and
men wtth htgh blood pressure are
t&gt;etng sought to parhctpale tn stud·
tes betng conduc ted at the UB
Pharmacoktnet •cs Center at M tllard
Ftllmore Hospttat-Gates Ctrcte
• Healthy. non-smok1ng women
ages 20-40 will be retmbursed
$ 1 000 lor parttctpahng 10 a study 10
determine tnteractton between the
medtcatton predmsone and a new
hormone tablet tor the treatment of
lupus er y1hematosus Those selected must spend three n1ghts and
three days at the Chn1cal Research
Center at the hOSpital Those tnterested can call 887 -4584 and leave
the1r name telephone number and
tndtcate an Interest •n ~ study Gl •
• Men ages 18-60 w1th h1gn
t&gt;lood pressure are betng sought to
parhctpate tn a study requmng lour
36-hour stays at the center Those
selec ted w1ll be retmbursed $800
upon c ompletton ol the study Anyone •nterested 1n par11c1pattng can
call 887 -4584 and leave the1r name
and phone number and tndtc ate Interest 1n the "BP study·
• Adults ages 18-65 wtth c.rthoSIS d ocumented by biOpsy or scan
are needeO to help evaluate the
metabohsm and excrehon rates o f a
med1Ca11on for treatment of depresSIOn Part1c1pants must spend three
l•ve- mgtlt-hve-day study peoods at
the center Those selected Will be
re1mbursed $1 .500 Anyone Interested can c all887 -4573 and leave
thetr name and phone number and
tnd•cate tnterest '""study 1237 •
• Adufls over the age ol 18 wtlh
k•dney tmpatrment or k1dney d1S·
ease who are not on hemocUatys1S
are be1ng sought to part1c1pate 1n a
study PartiCipants must complete
two 14-hour stays and up to e1ght
bnef VISitS to the center Reimbursement Is $750 Interested parues
may call887· 4573 and leave thetr
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INFORMA110M-TECHNOLOQY
EDUCATION ..-AM
TO AWARD CERTIFICATES
Twenty -five sen1or-levet executiVeS
from Samsung Corporation. named
by Fortune magaz1ne as one of the
top 20 globalltrms. have been
spend1ng stx weeks 10 the U S 8ttendlng UB's Executtve lnlormattonTebhnology Educalton Program
They will recetve certthcates Nov 8
tn a ceremony at the Center lor
Tomorrow
The program has 1ncluded lec tures by a UB faculty team, guest
lec tures by chtef •nlormat1on olltc ers (CtOs) and semor managers
lrom Industry, Industry Site visits
and 1nlormauon technology expo
vtstts Management Sctence &amp; Systems 1n the School of Management
d eveloped the program lor
Samsung's CIOs
Samsung sent three dtrectors as

team members are from Samsung
ekK:tron+es, chemicals . heavy tn·
dustry, engtneenng constructton,
aerospace, insurance data systems
and research and development
areas. among others
Members of the School of Management faculty team are Gat!

Pagels. prolessor. Management Scoence &amp; Systems, program director .
Hejarnadt Rao. associate professor.

Management Science &amp; Systems.
academiC dH'ector: Ron Krul. director

of lhe Cenll!f for Managemenl !level·
opment, administrati\te dlrector
Also part of the team: Stanley
Z1onts. profesSOf: Ramaswamy
Ramesh. assoc1ate professor , G
Lawrence Sand ers , associate p rolessor . Donald Frase . adtunct asso·
c 1ale professor, all from Management Sctence &amp; Systems: alOng
wllh Kahkyung Cho. Disttngu1shed
Teachtng Professor, phi'osophy, and
Churyang Wie. professor. electrical
and computer engtneenng
Two doctoral students. Ba1k
Yang and Wonseok Woo, as well as
Bo Ch01 , project COOfd1nator. made
maror contnbuhons to the success
o f the program

GRADUATE GAY/U!SBIAN
AWAHCE TO IIOU)
CONFERENCE ON NOV. I
The Graduate Gay and Lesblan All iance of the Universuy at Buffalo 1s
organ1z1ng ·Preaching IQ the Converted an InterdiSCiplinary Queer
Stud+es Graduate Conference· to
be held on Saturday. Nov 9 at Hall walls Contemporary Arts Center on
fourth lloor of the Tn-Matn Center.
2495 Matn St The dayk&gt;ng conference IS free and open to the publiC .
Ron Ehmke, ptaywnght . actor
and author. will be keynote speaker
and UB Women's Studtes professor
Ellzalteth Kennedy will dehver
closing remarks Twenty graduate
students from umvers111es across
New York , New Jersey. Virg10ta .
Pennsytvama and Ontauo will
present papers dealing wtlh a vanely ol gayllesblan/blsexual 1ssues
For mote tnformat1on c all Gary
Devore. 645- 2154

-H

COUOQUIUM TO DISCUSS
THE WAYS IN
CULTURE SHAPES SOCIETY
A coliOQutum exam1n1ng the com·
plex retat1onshtp between culture
and soc1al practtces will be held
from 1·30·5 p m on Fnday, Nov 15.
1n Room 112 tn the Center tor the
Arts on the UB North Campus
The colloquium. "Landscape .
Culture and Society,· 1S sponsored
by the UB Department of History as
a un1verstty sesqutcentenmal event
It IS free of charge and open to the
pubhc
In recent years . scholars 1n several fields have begun to reconceptuahze the link between culture
and soc1ety. says Jonathan
Dewald, prolessor and chatr o f

Seniors EII!Oble for CIIPUSO Crelltlve
. Wrltlq.Award
Any senior undergraduate at UB Is eligible to enter original creattve
wn11ng work lor consideration lor "The Gregory Capasso Creattve
Wnttng Award · Deadline lor submission of entnes 1s Dec. \ , 1996
The annual award was created in memory ot Gregory Capasso. a
UB student who was killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103 when a terrorist
bomb exploded over Scotland Dec 21 . 1988 The award w1ll be g1ven
th1s year lor the s1xth time Tne rec1ptent rece1ves a cash award and 1s
recognized on a plaque in the Student Union .
There is no page-length speciftcation. Only sentors are eligible Interested students can send submissions to Student Affairs, 542
Capen Hall. North Campus
Works will be judged by a comm1ttee from Student Affairs and stu·
dent editors of campus publiCations . Announcement of the winner will
be made in campus publications at the beginning of the spring semester

the UB Department of HIStory. While
art and literature once were seen as
·rellecuons" of soc.ary and "products" of undefly1ng SOC:&amp;al forces. a
new group of hterary cnttcs and an
h istorians has shown the numerous
ways '" wh+eh culture does. 1n tact
shape soc1ety, Dewald says. And , 1n
the process. they have redrawn
some of the boundar~s between
conventiOnal and academiC d iSCI·
pltnes.
The COllOQUIUm Will bflng tO·
gather three ktad1ng prachhoners ot
thts new form of cultural study They
are NOI'man Bryson. professor of art
histOI'y at Harvard Umvers1ty and
the country's leading spectalistln
the history of 18th-century French
art who has begun a study of Japanese art and its impact on soc1al
change: Laura Meixner. assoctate
professor of art hiStory at Cornell
Unrversily who has wt1llen on 19thcentury Amencan responses to
French impressionist patnung . and
Oav1d Mtller. associate professor ol
English at Allegheny CcMiege who
wntes on Amencan understanding
of nature
FOI' more 1nformat100 about the
collOQUium . call 645-2181

UB TO OfFEJt HEAUK-CARE
-INISlltATION
CERTIFICATE ,._RAM
Registration began Nov 2 for a new
health-care admin1strauon certtftcate program to be otfered in the
sp110g semester by M1llard Fillmore
~lege at UB
The program. whtch ts designed
tor chntctans who are enteung admtmstr&amp;tlve postl!ons and m1ddle
managers who want to develop further management SkillS 1n health
care sellings such as health care
agenc1es . nurs1ng homes . hospitals
and climes . has been approved by
the ContlnUtng Educatoo Program
of the New York State Board of Ex·
amtners of Nursmg Home Adm1n1suators
The cumculum emphaSizes
problem-solvtng SkillS and practical
techmques
Stx of the program's courses wtll
be offered dunng the spnng semester. whtch wtll begtn Jan 2 1 They
are: Introduction to Computers and
tnlormauon Systems. Ouahty Management 1n Health Care , Thtrd-Party
Reimbursement . IntegratiOn ol
Leadership Sk1lls and Total Ouahty
Management. RegulatiOn 1n the
Health-Care Envtronment and Managed Care Impact on Health-Deliv ery Systems
AJI courses 1n the certthcate
program w1ll be oHered at least
once dunng any two--year penod
Courses also may be taken by stu·
dents to fulfill assoc1ate and baccalaureate degree requtrements or to
expand the~r career-related goats
For more tnlorma110n or to obtatn
a free brochure . call 829'-2022

IS YOUR FAMILY EU81Bl£
FOil -ITY I'IIEYENTION

I'IIOJEcn
II one or both parents IS overwetght
and you have at least one th1n chtld
between 5 and 10 years of age your
lamtly could be ehg1ble lor UB's
Childhood We1ght Control Program .
dlfected b y Leonard H Epstein , UB
professor of psychotogy, soc1al and
preventive med1ctne and nuUttlon.
Thts research program . funded
by the·NattOnal lnstttutes of Health. ·
IS des1gned to find out causes and
treatments of chtldhood obestty
The next fam1ty-base d research
program focuses on preventiOn of
obesity tn young children who are at
rtsk for becoming obese
The program features tnstruc tlon
on changing exerc1se and eating
habits . health and htness assessments and exerc1se and nutnlton 1n-

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"E-MOTIONS," •
ritual pertormanoo
in dance conceived.
directed and performed by Solo.
Based on lhe concepluaf ootlon of lhe
dancing dead, it will
be presented at 8
p.m. NaY. 22 and 23

inlhe Blaoi&lt;Box
Theatre , Centet for

lhe Arts. Soto will
perform with special
guest artists who
are faculty members
in lhe UB Department of Theatre and
Dance: assistant professor Maria S. Horn and associate professor
William E Thomas. Kurt Kornackt. 1nvited mask designer and art1san .
also will participate in the program Kornacki Is curatOf of the US Art

Departmeol Gallery.
The performance 1&amp; sponsored by the UB Department ol Theaue
and Dance and co-sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Letters. the
Melodia Jones Chair (Raymond Federman). The James McNulty
Chair (DeMis TedktCk). the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures, and lnter-Amencan Art Theatre , Inc.
Soto. stage d esigner in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance .
recently received the 1996 award tor "best design of the year.· for h1s
design of the play. "Matecumbe ," a production ol Avante Theatet.
conferred by the Association ol Art Crit1cs and Reviewers (ACCA) In
Miami , Fla. He won the same award in the category of "best ballet of
the year" with his design of "FustOn.· a presentation of the Hispantc
Ballet Company in Mia.m1 tn 1995

lormatoo to benefit altlam1ly members. It also includes pract1cat lessons l'or developing effecttve
parenting skills .
There is no cost. although there
is a dePosit fee that wilt be refunded 1n segments as you pro.
grass through the stages of the program. Meetings are one-hour long.
one evening a week for e1ght
weel&lt;s. followed by biwee!&lt;ly meel·
1ngs for up to s1x months. There will
be fcMiow-ups at one year and annually after that. The clinic is located
on the US North CampuS, R()()C'T'l 4,
Baldy Half
For mot'e tnformation on the program. call645-63 16.

I'D, UUI' CIIAP1EII OfFEJt
COMMUNICATIONS
w~

A series of three luncheon workshops on sharpening communicahons skills will be presented Nov
21 . Jan 16 and March 19 by the UB
ProfessOOal Staff Senate and UUP
Health Scl8nces Chapter.
Speaker lor all the workshops
will be Rot~er Stepheftaon, a
consultant with the UB School ol
Management and professor and
former chatrman ol Enghsh 8t
Canisius College . Stephenson. who
has conducted workshops lor k&gt;cal
businesses, recently took part 1n a
res4)arch projec t on writing funded
by the Department of Educatoo He
receiVed hts bachelor's degree 1n
English from Boston Coflege and
his doctorate in American Clvtltzahon from Brown UmverSI!y
The workshops are a conllnuattOO of the programs organ1zed by
the PSS development commmee .

destgned to help UB personneltm·
prove their skills and enhance thetr
performance .·
The hrst workshop, Thursday.
Nov. 21 . will tocus on devek&gt;plng
effective speaktng and listening
skills in the workplace. 'Norkshop
No. 2 on Thursday, Jan. 16. 1997
will cover improvtng writtng and reVlSing techniques. The final workshop Wednesday, March 19, 1997
will address devek&gt;ping skills 1n edIting lor brevity and clanty.
Cost of each workshop, to be
held from noon to 2 p .m in The Dakola Griff. 4224 Maple Rd .. will be
$10, whk:h includes lunch.
For fllOfe inlormauon. call the
PSS office at 645·2003

- I N RESIDENCE AT
UNIVIIISITY OF COSTA RICA

Wllllant L 1'1tomaa, UB assoc.ate professor of theatre and dance .
recentty spent 10 days tn residence
at the National Un1verstty of Costa
Rica's Schoof of Dance. through the
tnternaOonal ArtJSUc and Cultural
Exchange program of the Center lor
the Arts and as part of tts foreign
scholar exchange
He taught workshops 10 modern
dance and chOfeographed a new
work of UNA, the unrvers1ty's dance
company The tnp was co-sponsored by the Nattonal Un1verstty of
Costa R1ca. Faculty ol Arts. and UB
Faculty ol Arts and Letters
Thomas has co-wnnen and w1ll
star 1n A Day 10 the Ltle. to be presented at Hallwalls Contemporary
Arts Center He has also choreographed a new work lor Orches1s
Contemporary Dance Theater tn
Fk&gt;nda

�7

e 8UUS POST HUQIE WIN AT HOFS1RA
The UB Bulls football learn achieved a dramatic and inspiring
14-10 win Saturday at Hofsva Uniwrsity, beating a team that
had claimed three svaight wins CNer the Buns.
Wilh the win, the Bulls are assured of the first winning season since 1986, when UB was 9-2 as a Division Ill program,
and the first Division I winning season since 1969. The Bulls
have won only 7 games since returning to Division I in 1993.
The Bulls came back from a 1Q.O dafiCH at halftime, the
boggest second-half comeback since UB rebounded from a
15-0 hofetobeatBuffafoState, 19-15on0ct. 15, 1992.
The Bulls held !he normally potent Aying Dutchmen to a
total of tour first downs in the game and limited their offense to
139 yards total.
The game turned on a school-record 91-yard touchdown
pass from quarterback MarX Taylor to junior Jamie Gasparre
earty in the third quarter. Two possessions later. the two
hooked up again from six yards out. The Bulls' dafensd also
had several outstanding performances.
Craig Guest led the charge with 11 tackles, a forced
fumble, a fumble reccNery and a pass breakup while Dan
Curc1011e and Anthony Scott had eight tackles each. Curcione
and Steve McDuffie had 1.5 sacks while Keith Hansen had a
pau of sacks and now has 8.5 on the season.
The Bulls host D1visOO II po.yer New Haven Saturday afternoon at UB Stadium for !he home finale. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m

• ROYALS CAPTURE MIDeON CROSS
COUNTRY TITLE; BULLS SECOND
Gu1ded by live All-Conference perlormances. the UB
women's cross country team captured their third consecutive
league title Saturday winning the M id-Continent Conference's
Champ1011ship Meet at Valparaiso. Ind. The victory was also
the 10th coosecuttve conference title dating back to 1987.
when the team was in the DiVISIOn II Mideast Conference
US finished second behind Youngstown State in the men's
championship trailing the Pengutns by jUSt seven points.
Three Royals earned RrsHeam AII·Mid-Continent Confer·
ence honors by finishing in lhe top live in the SK race. Stacey
Strothmann led lhe Royals with her second-place finish in a
school-record setting 17:38.74. breaking her old mark of
17 39 set last month at the Notre Dame lnvttatiOnat. Freshman
Jenntfer Folckemer was fourth tn 18:21 .27. earntng her the
league's Newcomer-of.the-Year award . Casey Spencer was
fifth at 18:27.40. also picking up lirsHeam honors.
Mane Macander and Gretchen Welch earned secondteam Ali·M id..Con honors with ninth and 1Oth place finishes
respectivety. Head coach Dick Barry was ptcked by hts peers
as the le~ague's Coach-of-the-Year

In the men 's race . Chns Keenan finished fifth to eam Ftrstteam A!l~id-Contlnent honofs Keenan completed the 8K
course tn 25:51 42 Chns Bossert finished seventh at 25:59.88
to take second-team all-league. Freshman Patrick Nolan ftnished 11th in 26:08 81 and earned the M•d-Con's Newcomerof-the-Year Award
Troy State's John Stanley captured the tndMdual IItie and
the Athlete of the Year award with hiS flntsh of 25: 18, a ume
ldentk:ai to his winning time last year. Youngstown State's

Brian Gorby earned Coach of the Year honors

e UB YOI.La'BAU.ERS QUAUFY FOR MIDCON TOURNAMENT
The Royals earned their first trip 10 the Mid-Continent Conference Volleyball Championships with !heir showing at last
week's East Division Cluster matches in New Brrtain . Conn
US is rtON 5-1 in the conference, thanks to their 2-1 showing
CNef the weekend, good fOf second place in the divtStOn. and
17-14 overall. The top two teams 1n each div1sion move on to
the tournament. US's first-round opponent will likely be delending conference champiOI"I Valparaiso. the current leader
1n the West Division.
US began the weekend with a four-game Win over host
Central Connecticut State as Candt Sims led the Royals wtth

17 kills and added nine digs and five blocks Somer
Deschambault registered 43 ass,sts and team-best 17 dtgs
with five bklcks while Aprille Sweettng led the block party w1th
eight. UB finished the night with 17 5 total blocks
The onty blemish on the Royals' conference showing was
their four-game loss to Troy State Sims agatn led the way wtth
11 kills and 18 digs, while Deschambault had 32 ass1sts and
four blocks before being forced to leave the match wtth an
ankle inJUry. Deschambault also m1ssed Sunday's Youngstown
State match wtth the injury Oesptte mtsstng half the weekend.
Oeschambault's 23 digs and n1ne b locks '" two matches shll
netted her the M id-Conhnent's Delens•ve Player-of-the-Week.
the second lime thts season she has won the honor Mtddle·
httter Kathy Snnkworth also mtssed the Troy State and Youngstown matches With an '"Jury
On Sunday. the Royals assured themselves of second
place WJth a four-game w1n over Youngstown State Chnsttna
Gtamno stepped 1n lor the •nJured Deschambault by tally•ng a
career-best46 ass•sts and 12 d1gs. Stms. Amy Burda and
Nancy Rose. tn place of the tnjured Bnnkworth , came up b•g
With 12. 11 and 10 kllls respeclivety. Rose and Burda also had
stx blocks apiece as UB collected 14 team blocks
This weekend the Royals lace Mtssourt-Kansas Ctty, who
clinched second place tn the West DIVISIOn. on Frtday and
meet nat1onally ranked and future Mtd -Con member Oral Rob·
erts on Saturday. The Mid-Conttnent Volleyball Champ1onsh1p
ts the weekend of Nov. 23 tn Valparatso. lnd

• MEN'S a WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The Bulls and Royals opened thetr 1996-97 seasons wtth v•ctones over Ed•nboro Coach Budd Term•n·s men's squad
downed the Fighting Scots 123-4 7 wh1le Oars• Raynolds ·
...vomen's team took a 138-30 wtn

•
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• IY1en 's SWII'nmlng vs

St Bonaventure

Alumni Alena Natatet•um t p m

• FOO(ball vs New Haven

UB Stad•um. 1.30 p m

• Women's Swtmmtng vs

St Bonaventure

Alumn1 A{ena Natatol'lum 3 p m

• Women's Basketball ExtubttiOI"I vs
Otfictal Sports

AJumm Alena. 7 30 p m

-,,Nov.12
• Men's BasKetban Exhtbthon vs
Marathon 011
Alumn• Alena 7 30 p m

Korry Miller htghhghled the Win for the Bulls. taking the 2(()
backstroke tn 1·56.58 and teammg With Oart Ganson. Pat
OUinlan and Aaron Roof to Win the 400-medley relay tn
3 ·35 36 Carlson also won the 2(() breaststroke 1n 2 14 55 and
Outnlan ltn•shed lust tn the 500 free tn 4·50 57
Megan Connolly and Sue Bohnet were tnple Winners lor

the Royals lndovodually, Connolly took llhe 400 IM (4 46.87)
and 200 fty (2· 15.68) . while Bohnet was v1ctor10Us tn the 50

free (25 85) and 200 breaststroke (2 32 65) The duo alsc
were part of the w•nntng 400-mectley relay ( 4 1 1 20) Wllh
Laura Hernck and K1m Theetge
Both squads open thetr home season w•th a dual meet
agatnst St Bonaventure on Saturday

• WOMEN'S SOCCER
UB routed vtstttng Howard Un•vers!ly 5-Q Saturday morn•ng
at RAC F~d The vtctory moves the Royals past the 5CX&gt;
mark wtlh an 8-7-3 record , whtle the B•sons arop to 3-14
Freshman Dawn Oe!Gutdtce haC three ass•sts tn the contest Senter Lon PenUo added a goal and an ass1st Ntcole
Trestno started the scor•ng 4 19 tnto the match taktng a Penile
pass and ltnng a shOt past Howard goalkeeper Bobbett
Plummer UB added two more ttrst-half goals as Beth CostellO
(It 46) and Penllo (24 15) htt the mark on OetGu•dtce passes
UB lead 4-0 earty •n the second hall as Lauren Hartmayer
scored on OeiGutdtce 's thtrd asstst Kelly Starchok added a
goal late 1n the match on an ass•st by Aflna Ventresca
The Royals ftred 35 shots whtle the defense allowed
Howard to get away only fiVe shots UB goalkeeper Mary Mar
gan needed JUSt three saves to reg1ster the shutout the fifth
by the Royals th1s season

• MEN'S SOCCER
Edtru Okpewho nelted the game-wtnnJng goal as the Bulls
Sal ·
shutout M1d-Conttnent Conference foe Oneonta State
urday 1n Oneonta Okpewho scored the goal oH of corner ktck
at the 70 15 mark of the match US goalkeeper Jtm
Schoenberg recorded four saves to earn hts th•rd shutout of
the season and ptcked up M td..Cont1nent Conlerence Player
ol -the-Week honors The IIICtory moved the Bulls to 2-12 ·2
and 2-3-1 1n the Mid--Con's East OMSIOO

t-o

- Ted Wasko Sports Information Off1ce

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
soprano, Brya n Eckenrode,
cello , Doro1hy Linzey. pi ano.
Allen Hall. Sooth Campus. 7
p.m. Rebroadcasl 4 p.m. Sunday
o n WBFO 88.1 FM .

Ingalsbe . 5 p.m. To rcg isler, cull
the Office of Stuc.lenl L•fc. ~5 6125 .

UUUFII81

v._ _ _,.

The l..ast Supper (1996). Stu·
de nt Union Thea 1er. Nonh Cam ·
pus. 6:30p.m. $2. $3.50.

The Birth of American Video:
Performance of Video Imagine
Tools (Pfocr~~m 9). Screening
Room. Center for the Ans.
Nonh Campus. 7:30p.m. Free.

People'• s.,.-er Sertee
C hai Ung. Screening Room.
Center for !he Ans. Nonh Campus. 1 .30 p.m. Pr-esented by the
unde rgraduate Student Assoctation.

UUA. Fl._
fuin.spottlna (1996) . Stude nt
Unio n Theater. Nonh Campus.
9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

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lnlroduction lo Rationale and
Methocb of Pro&amp;ram Evaluation in Human Servke Agendes. Dr. Namkee Choi. Oacmen

College. $55; $40 (students).
Sponsot"Cd by Social Work Con·
tinuing Education. For informal io n, call64 5-6140.

Selllor Al••nl Pro&amp;ram

Loo-

Men's and Women's Lao·
guaaes: Sbe Said. He SaMI!
But What?! Prof. Jeannen e M.
Ludwig, Modem Languages.
Cen1er for Tomorrow. North
Campus. Noon. SID. Sponsored
by Alumni Relalions. To rt:gisler
or gain informalion,.call 829·
268.

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H ow Impost'&lt;~ DC and AC
Eledrit Fields ln.nuenct lntractllular Calcium Level and
OscUlation. Prof. Sc:k-Wen Hui ,
RPMI . 306 Farbtr. Sooth Cam·
pus. I 2:30p.m. Frt:e . .

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Autonomy or Advocacy: A
False Dk:ltoto•y, Lorn.inr
Code, Yottr: Univ. 684 Baldy.
No nh Campus. 3:30 p.m.

Concert

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W.S.MERWINwlll-'"
P011try R.-.., Nov- 1l'llyalca ColloquiuM
Corrclated Elt'd ron.s in a Mil·
lion Gauss, Or. G . Boebinger,
Be ll Labs. 2 10 Nalurnl Sciences.
Nonh Campus. 3:45 p.m.

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C rash Tc:st Dummies wilh S~­
cial G uest Ashley M ad S»ac.
Mainstagc:. Center forth~ Ans
Nonh Campus 8 p.m $22 ~II.
$20. Cn ii 645 · ARTS

Muolcal
C aba~t .

Dcpl of Theatre and
Dance. Dmma Theatre. Center
for lhe An s. North Cnmpu~
8 p.m. S IO. S5

UUAB Fllm
Tra inspotting (1996). Swtl~nt
Union Theater. Nonh Cunpu ~
9 p.m. $2. S3 .50

Selene••

A model for t he stokhiometric
packa&amp;lng of the tbru
genomic.' sqmen U o r dsRNA
bllcteriopba&amp;e 416, Or. Leonnnl
Mindich. Public Health Rr·
search lnslilule, New York.
11 4 Hochs1en er Nonh Campu!\
4p.m.
~tk•

S.ntlrutt

Hepalobili.llry Extndion or
Organk Calion.s: Implications
for Dru&amp;Scruning, Pror.
Marilyn Mo rris. Phannacrutu:s
S08 Cooke . Nonh Ca mpus.
4 p.m.

ur.-...op
Thab/Disser1ation Support
Group~ Barb&amp;ra Um iker. 4:30
p.m. To register, callihc Office
o r S1udent lire. 645-6 125 .

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T ' ai Chi for Bqianen. Ron

Art e e l _ . , _
Mequleentellftlal
An ex.hibilion of an by facu lty
and alu mni celebraling !he ses·
qu•cenlc nnial con11nues lhrough
Dec . 18 to I he Untversily An
Gallery. Center for the An s.~
Nonh C'ampu10 1llt show in cl udes work by 17 faculiy and
23 alumni Gallery hours arc
IO:JO a m -8 p.m. Wednesday·
Salurduy. and nOOn ·5 p.m Sunday Adm1 ss1on 1s frtC"

a.-tlfulboob
"Treasures from !he Loc.,wood
Library- An Ex.hibll Celchrut ·
mg UB's SesqUicentennial ." •~
nn \' IC'-' tn d1splay case~ on lhl'
~cu nd floor of Lock wnotJ L•·
brary on lhc Nunh Campu ~ The
C).hlbll fen lure\ book!&gt; of lht .~o
ct· mur} . mos1ly from the !921h
and IQ\Os. alllnke n from !he
l&gt;la~·h Timothy Conroy from
the Office of Pubhca110ns
curau:d I he ('X.hibil. wh1ch con·
IIIIUC&lt;; through DeC ::!0

u.,..twell w•ll extended
Leo nan.lo Drew ·,. sne-spec1fic
mslall aliun "No 45 · A" W8!&gt; de.
~ 1 gncd lor !he Ltghtwcll Gallery
111 !he Center for the An). Nonh
lampu,, and 1s !here through

lkl'

Architecture exhibit
"Sch indler and lhc Small
House" conti nues thmugh Nm
29 in the Ja.mes Dyc:u Gallery
located 10 334 Hnyes Hall on !he
Soul h Campus The show i ~ pan
of a series or ex.hibllions pre ·
sented by the School o f A reb• ·
ICCiurc alld Plan nmg. Ga.lkry
hours arc 9 a .m.· 5 p.m. Monda}
lhrough Frida)· Adm1ss1on to
!he shO'-'' 1.1. free

Robert C1llley exhibit
Pain1 ings by Raben Cu lley
1hrough Nov. 12 in lhe An Dcpanmem Gall ery locllled m 1hc
Center for the Anson Ihe No nh
Campus. Galle ry hours 10 a .m ·
5 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m ·8 p.m
Wed nrsday-Friday, II a.m..S
p.m. Salurday. Fr« admission

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Do you have • Pfoblent?
The Umversily at Buffa lo's Em ·
ploy~ A.~osls l an..:c Progmm
rEAP) wtll help wuh work n: la!ed nr personal problems
ynu may have Pe rson:. you may
callmcl udc Barbara J . Chns1y.
tH5 -31b6; Judilh Dmge lde)'.
b-lS - ~398: Richard Lobaugh .
829·2113: and Bcuy Slone.
829·2238. EAP serv tces arc of·
feted withoul charge 10 UB employ~~

Retlre-...t COilSUttatlone
A New York State Employees·
Re1 1rcmem Sys1em Representative will be avai lable for tndi VIdual consu ltauons on Fnday.

Nm 22 tn the Personnel Scr·
\'ICes Confe rence Room. 101
Crofts Hall. Nonh Campu.1o To
schedule an appomunent. call
645-2646, e~~;t 101 or 102

Study, Post •ng *'F-6059 As.'l"is·
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Thursday, Nm· 13 and 1~ . 1n !he
;unum of the Cemer for the
Arts. North Campu~ In add1
unn. the annual S!udcnl An:o.
Gala wi ll lx- held 5- 10 p.m Nm
tl. abo tn the Center fnr the
Arhalnom

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Doln&amp; BusinHJJ In C hina, Dr.
7..hongjun Hao, C. V Starr C hair
1n Internationa l Busmc.n.
Hofstn Univ. 3!5!5 Fillmore,
Elhcou . Nonh Campus. 9:30
a.m. Co- sponsored by Geography Dept. , Asaan Studies Pro.
gra m, and lnle mJU!Onal Business C lub

Poetry Lecture
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Poetry Lecture
From BASIC Enclisb to
Under &amp;Hurt: IJ TM~ a

IMPOSSIBLE TKADEUS, a by Robert ~In o i l - wax, 1e on axlllllt
tlwouCh No¥. 12 In the Art~
Qellery, Center lot the Arts.

Mtt.lancu•ce' Bam:u Wauen
438 C lemens. North Campus.
12·30 p.m. Free . Pan of
Wed~sday s at 4 Plus.

Telk of the Unlvenlty
Live radio open forum with
UB President William R.
Greiner. WBFO 88.7 FM 3-4

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a.m.-2:45p.m. Prc:re&amp;i.strattoo
required: ca11829--2j;J1.

p m Call 829-6000

Buft.lo l.oCic Colloquium
What iJ H llh~ry ? Part U:

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~arc bin&amp; for ntw axiom!li, Euge ~ Kleinbcra . Malhematics.

Optloul

l'&gt;odlcal
Tralnhla and
_lleyood. 305
Dierendorf.
South Campus.
10 a.m.· Noon.
Prerc:gistnuion
required. Call
645·2258.

684 Baldy Nonh Campus
1 )O p.m

ur.w-A M nM of Humor Makrs
Sen.st. 3 30 p.m To reg1ster.
c all the Office of SIUdenl L1 fe .
fl-15-6 125

Phyalca Colloquium
At'rogrl in JHe-Adding lmpuritie_~ to a S u~rfluid , Pmf
J M Parp1a, Cornell Um \ ~ 10
Natural Scrc nce' Nnn h Ca m
pu' J :-13 p rn

Seminar
dsRNA Mdenosint dumin11.sr
a nd o ther prole ins that bind
double-st randed RNA, Dr
Brenda 811.'15 , Um v of Utah
II~ l-l ochstcner North Cam pus
4 p.m

Pharmaceutk:s .._,...,.
Aminoauanidioe Uptake: The
Polenli.al Ro~ for Cationic
Tr11 nsport, Kelly Mahar 508
Cooke. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m

ur.-...op
T hetU[Dissertadon Support
Group, Barbara Umikrr. 4:30
p.m. To register, call the Office
of Student Life , 645-6125.

Pedl.trlc- Roulldo

10

Growth in C hildrrn, Margare1
MacGilli vray, M.D. Kinch Au dliOnum. Chtldren's Hospital.

C!leMiotry ColloquiUOI

8• m

ur.-...op
DHiaoln1 a Web Page (Section
8 ). 10 a.m. To register. cull the
Office of Studenl life. 6456125.

-

EnvlrONWetttal

E..........,_klence
T be EtTect of Ozone on CoIIJUlltion and Fillntion., Dr.
Bill Becker, O'Brien &amp; Gc:re,
Maryland. 140 Ketter. Nonh
Campus . 11 a.m.

Aol.oatBrown baa lunch o n UB pr&amp;cranu rellrll•&amp; to Vietnam,
Mark Ashwill , dircctor of World
Langw.ages Institute. and Hoang
Vu Cuong, Vietnamese Instructo r. 250 Student Union. North
Campus. Noon. Call 645-3474 .

UUAB FilM
Delicatessen ( 1991). Student
Union ~at er Nonh Campus.
6·30 p.m. 52. $3 .50

ur.-...op
Massage T her11py for Head,
Neck and S houlders. 1 -9 p.m.
To regi ster, call the Office of
Student Life. 645-6125

People'•

Spe~er

Series

Bobby Sule. Mainstagc, Center
for the Ans. Nonh Campus.
7:10p.m. Pre5entc:d by the un ·
dtrgradualc: SIUdc:nt AssodaIron.

Jazz
C huck ManaioM Quartet.
Also. Williamsvi lle East, Nonh.
and Sooth jan enKmbles.
Williamsville Sooth High
School . 59.50 Main St ..
Williamsville . 8 p.m $1 5

UUABFI ...
Independence Day (1996). Studcflt Umon TI\c:ater. Nonh Cam ·
pus . 9 p.m. S2. $3.50.

.FRIS
. . .. . .
AddlctkNoo-...op
Int roduction to 8.-it:fTherapy
In AddkUon 1'reatmenl : A
Road Map, Dr. Perry Fuller
SCT BOCES. Elmira. $60.
Sponsored by Institute ror Add re t ions SuJdies and Troining
For in fonnation, call645-6140

Campus. Noon. Preresistra.lion
required. CaJJ Gemma DeVinney at645· 2811 .

-.c:.Mer-,
-u.c

The Ualven.ity and lhe City,
Bruno B. Freschi. dean of Architecture and Planning. UB
Emeritus Center, South Loongc.
Goodyear Hall. South Campus.
2 p.m. Board meeting, I p.m.

Lacbore

Behind lhe C urtain. Ccnlc:r for
I he: Arts. Nonh Campus. 5· 7
p.m. To register, call the Office:
of S ludc:nt Life. 645-612.5.

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Govt:m..eal Raourca oe the:
Web. II 0 Lockwood. North

1-lluoi-

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T ' ai C hi for &amp;ginnen, Ron
Ingalsbe . 5 p.m. To register. call
the Orfice of Student Life . 64561 25.

Ceff

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. I p.m.

CampuJ.

Joloo . . . _ ..............

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John KinsciiL 438 C lenvn.s.
Nonh Ctmpus. I 0:30 a.m. Frtt
Pun of Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

Blolo&amp;lcal Sciences

call the Off1tt of Studt:nc Ufe.
64s.612S .

MlcrollloloCY

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Reaulalion of Inositol
Trisphospha te Reaptor Ex·
prnsioo by Eatrocens in Osteoblasts: Mo&amp;tcular IMigbt.s
Into Potential Therapies for
OsteoporMis. Pmr. Peter G.
Bradrord. Pharmacology and
Toxicology. 244 Cary. South
Campus. Noon.

Health Care.

Photoelectron Sp«:trGKOpy of
C lu-'ler Anions, Prof. Kit
Bo wen. Jo hns Hopkins Univ.
21 5 Natural Sciences. Nonh
Campus. 4 p .m. _ _
Int........_...

Qr-p
Session with American Studen'-'. 250 Student Union.
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m. Registration is requested; call 645-2120.

Statlotlce Col._ ....,
Markov Chalo Monte Carta
Methods for Portfolio ~k&lt;·
tion, Dr. Manin Young. Univ. o r
Michigan. 252A Farber. South
Campus . 4 p.m.

UUA. Fll•
lndepe.ndmce Day (1996). Student Union lbeater. Nonh Campus . 6:30 and 9:I 5 p.m. $2,
53.50.

1-...tiOMIFolk

-~·

All ~veb. 2 Diefendorf. Sooth
Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free:. Spon·
sorcd by Graduate Student Associlll ion.

Poetry R-IIC
Silverman Potlry Read in&amp;.
W.S. Merwin. 250 Baird. No nh
Campos. 8 p.m. Fret:. Pan of
Wednesdays at 4 Plus .

Lecture/-otntlon

.._ VloltlftC Artlot

Rit ual a nd Tbuter In Con·
tempon~ry Maya-Choland
C hontal C ultu l'fS, Leandro
Soto, Mexican perfonnance anist. Screening Room. Center for
the Ans. Nonh Campus. 3 p.m.

!:-'

FO&lt;C.
U ..... lotleo Colloqulu•
Dn~ga ZK, Comc:ll Univ. 684

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Makolm Bilson, fortepia no.
Works of B~thoven , Mozan .
and Haydn. Slee. North Campus. 8 p.m. $4 , S5. $8 , $10.

UUUFII•
U1ual S u p«:IJ (1995). Studcnl
Unton 'Theater. Nonh Campus.
11 ·.59 p.m. S2. $3 .50.

Baldy. North Campus. 3 p.m.

-lnaiC-Iotry
Mec:hanb:III.J of EnzyaaaUc Reactions or FUTOttDe Derivatives. Prof. Alexander D.
Ryabov, Moscow State Univ.
12 1 Cooke. Nonh Campus
3 p.m.

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·
Leslie fiedkr. Samuel L
C kme.m Prof. or Enalisb, J aek
Frur, UB clinical auodate
pror. or Medicine, Tim
Mad1aan, UB Philosophy doctol"lll eandidalt, and Stephen
Wear, UB dept:J. of MC'didne,
GYN/08 and PbUotopby.
Center ror Inquiry, 1310 Sw~t
Home Rd., Amherst. 4 p.m.
Sponsored by UB Center for
Clinical Eth ics and Humanities

SAT9
.......
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Pruchin&amp; to the Connrted:
An Interdisciplinary Quter
Stud ies Gr~~duate Confennl'e,
Ron Ehmke , keynote speaker:
UB Prof Eliubcth Kennedy.
closing remarks. Hallwalls. Tn Main Center. 2495 Main St ..
Buffalo 8:30 a.m. Sponsored by
UB Gradu:ue Gay and Les bian
Alliance.

E--.......

For students
lntt.ruted in
atc:ountinz. finantt, human·
rHOurtn m.anaaemeat, management-information systems,
marketlna. Nonh _ampus . 1()a.m.· l p.m. Cali64S-3201. Cospon5NC'd by Admissions and
School o r Management.

FootiMII
UB Built vs. New Haven. Univcrsit)' Stadium. North Campus .
I:30 p.m. Call 645-6666.

CulturaiCBarrio Flcsta. SUJ&lt;knt Union
TI\c:ater. Nonh Campos . 1:30
p.m. S5 in advance, $1 at the
door. Presented by Filipino
American Student Association.

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Punished by Rcw.,.ds: Second

Kohn. Gymnasium, Put School
of Buffalo, 4625 Harlem Rd.
9 a.m.-Noon. $20. For in forma -

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c -totlotN&lt;t. 718
1GmbaJJ Tower. Sowth Campus.
la.m. .... :lO p.m. Ptacnaed by
School of Nuniaa- Por iaf'onnatioo. call 829-3291.

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El'lectlftSiadoallloblll.
Nooft. To ~&amp;i*"· call the orrtcC of Studeol Ufe, 64.5-6125.

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"MaklaaS..."ofComplu
Appllaotlou

Thomas JacobtoA. CommuaPtion. 280 Put:. Nonh Campus.

2p.m.

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Rt&amp;UiolloooiPMI·TroDJia·
tional Mec:han.dms Duria&amp;
Neurite Oulvowtlil. John M.
Aktta. PhannacoiOI)' ud To.1.r ·
coJocy. 307 Hochstrtter. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m.

....._, llhMinC
lafonaaUonaJ Mfttln&amp; for Ad·
misftoa lalo tM FaU lf97
Badwlor of Sde.Dce in PbarOIOC)' Pro&amp;rom. 22S Natunl
Scimces. North Campus. 4 p.m.
Poetry~

Hank l..aur and Susan
Sebu.ltL University Gallery.
Center ror the Ans. North Campus. 4 p.m. Part of Wednesdays
at4 PillS.

R--- -*·F1uid 'IUrbaktKe: Wtlral is
tbe Proble:m? Prof. K.R.
Src:enivasan, Yale Univ. 2 10
Natural Sciences. North Campus. 3:45p.m.

M-wMrVIco,-.cnOAd

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R01aba1, UB Di.stinauis.hed

Prof. Emeritus., who died May 5.
Slec. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Roouodtololo.- of

Dulell- Goldlao&amp;H'•

_,_..__.

'nibesoftbeiMfalo, Judy
Thaler, Buffakl Museum or Sci·
c:~. 1020 Humbold1 Put: way.
4 p.m. S20 for the series. 1b reaislet, call 645--6800. ext. 2:020.

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Tbon....lk laopllaotlouof

On! Goalclovlr iA !lot BJY

DiaJoaue on Raeb:m. 2-6 p.m.
To register, call the Office o r
Student Life. 645-6125 .

I _ Fl._
Festlvel:·--·
Fac.a of Women (Ivory Cout,
1985). Calu~pCt , S4 W. Chippewa. 5 p.m. $4, $5. For informal ion. call Gnduate Student
Associalion. 645-2960.

Concert
A Vetuaru Day Sa lute lo
Amerka, West Point Glee Club
and Buffalo Choral Ans Society.
Main!Uage. Center for the Arts.
North Campus. 8 p.m. SS. Call
645-ARTS .

MON11
. .. .. .. ..

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LESSER KNOWN I'IIIRTS ol tile beftter lot the Arts, ouch
utile OrMn Room,
wtll be part of the Nov. 7

Ufe WO!bhop, Behind tile Curtain.

·loc-otry - -

Protein KJnue: C boz.yme.
Rrtulation of t.be CeO Cyc:le in
lntm inal Epithelial Cetls, Dr.
Jennifer D. Black. Depe of Experimental 'Oltnpc:utics. RPCI.
I J4B Farber. South Campus.
4 p.m.

......,..""rorolol -

NeurotnMm ltter rt:kue:
tbroulh uoeytolic nasion
pora., Dr. J.M. Fernandez.
Mayo Foundation Clinic. 108
Shennan. Sooth Ca mpus. 4 p.m.

book '"Hitler's WiJUna Exec:u·
tiooe:n: Ord.ina.ry Ge.rmaJU
and the Ho&amp;oeaust. • Pinel or
historians who will discuss the
boot: William Sheridln Allen.
Gear&amp; lgers. Patricia Muon.
and Larry Jones. 330 Student
Union. Nonh Campus. 4· 6:30
p.m. Free. For information. call
645·2181.

ur.--.,
Frtsh Start: Bow to Quit
Smokiaa. 4:30p.m. To register.
call the Office of Student Life.

645·6125.

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Tbouatlrts About A's, PniK.
Stkkt:n &amp; Contests, Alfie

The Ctlralle.nge ror Korea In
the 2lst Century, Park No h·
Soo. Korean Consul General in
New York. 106 Jacobs. North
Campus . 3 p.m. Co-sponsocxM
by Asian Studies Pfoa.ram. Ko-rean Language and Cultu~ Progr~m o r Work! Languages Institute: . and lntc:mationa\ Businc:n
Club.

Iao ...... C-y. IOp.m. To

reJis&amp;er, call tht OffK:e of Sl•
denr Life, 64S-61Z5.

Nt1rslltC Coavocatloa
Your Future lo ~unlna,
Catherine Dodd. American
Nurses Assoc.. kcynoce spc:akc:r.
A Iso features workshops. Stude.nt Union. Nonh Campos. 8:30

NaiDUte., Ron Ingalsbe and
T'racy Collinawood. 5 p.m. To
reaister, ctlllhe Offic:c of Student Ufe, 645-6125.

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Bqlnaln&amp; Sian Laaaua.ce
Semiaar. 5:30p.m. To reaister,

Population, Lori Swick. 248
Cooke. Nonh Campus.
4:30p.m .

ur.--..

Exrrdsina ro r Spiritual F"'ll·
aas. 6 p.m. To register. call the
Office of Student l1fe. 6456125 .

UUABFI. .

-c-

The Last S upper (1996). Student Union Theater, Nonh Cam·
pus. 6:30p.m. $2. $3.50.

Govrm.meor Raourus oa lbe
Web. 110 Lockwood. North
Campus. 7 p.m . Prereaistn~tion
required. Call Gemma DeVinney
at 64.5· 2817.

a.-;c-uVocl d ' An.on, Cristen GreJOtY.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORX AT lUFFALO

UNIYIHITY AT BUIPMLO

State University ofNew Yom

October 31. 1996 Volume 28. No. 10

SUNY Trustees hear Ryan, Steffey
discuss enrollment, marketing efforts
I)' C-.sTINE VIDAL

Reporter Editor

W

hile the number of first-time , fulltime students is up. overall SUNY
enrollment has declined by about
I 3,000 students. according to John
W. Ryan, interim SUNY chancellor.
Ryan reponed these figures to the SUNY Board
of Trustees, which held its Oct. 24 meeti ng at UB .
Ryan said he is surprised that SUNY's enrollment
"held up as well as it has," since "the applicationfor-admi ssions ex perience, preparatory to thi s semester, wa s such tha t there was considerab le co ncern over what the enrollment would be."
The increase in firsHime, full-time student enro llment bodes well for the future, he added.
.. My experience over many years is. it's thi s pipeline investment that sustains enro llment over the nex t
fo ur years ," he told the hoard.
The full -time fres hman class increased 1.2 perce nt, with 56.927 stu dents enrolling thro ugho ut
SUNY, compared to 56,229 in the fall of 1995 .
SUNY's overall enrollment is 369,88 1, compared
to 382,859 in the fa ll of 1995. The overall full -time
enrollment is 238.047. compared to 237.674 in I 995,
an increase of 0.2 percent.
The ove rall number of part-Lime students fell to
him to "The Aclleraft, Devoum of
Avaricious" In this Illuminated ....,.uscrtpt fnlm the library of Marcaret of York.

Heaven &amp; Hell
•r

New course to surf the abyss
PATRICIA DONOVAN

News Services Editor

A

ND WHY THE HELL NOT?
For years, UB scholars Dorothy Glass. professor of an

history, and Diane Christian, professor of English, have been

trolling images and texts for cu ltural explications of hell.
heaven and the in-betweens.
With some glee, they divulge tales of hell -be nt sexual " luxuriants,"
medieval ghoul braziers and the second-class celestial home of "the
good but not very good." There's also visionary marzipan that illus·
trntes the heaven ly glory awai ting good monks and nuns (and satires
o n the same) pl u"s films like "Ghos~" "Heaven Can Wai t" and one in
which RAF pilot David Niven confou nds the heavenl y host by refusing to shuffie off his mortal coil.
Christian and Glass discovered their mutual affection for the aby ss
many years ago and have talked often about co-teaching a course to
explore its meaning to people throughout the centuries. This year. they
decided to take the plunge.
The spring semester will offer the results-an interdisci plinary romp
through the afterlife from 3000 B.C. to the dawn of modernism. The
course, "Heaven, Hell &amp; Judgment" (English 375/An Hi story 3 18). is
o ffered through Millard Fillmore College and will run Monday eveniqgs from 5-7:40 p.m.
And what a trip it will be--&lt;:olorful, complex and exquisi tely illustrated by great artists of Western civ ilizati on and infonned by imaginative works based on lore, literature, popul ar culture. biblical texts
and preachings.
It's also going to be dead serious. The course will survey the hi story of ethical ideas about human action and its eternal reward or punishment from many cultural and religious perspecti ves.
''There are large issues here," Glass said. " I think that the way in
which the afterlife is viewed is an important index of a culture. The
course will deal with major ethical and philosophical themes, and there
is certai nly no paucity of literary and artistic tropes to be uncovered ."
Continued on page 2

86.389. from 97.156. a decline of I 1.1 percent. Ryan
attributes the decline to an improved economy.
"When the emp loyment si tuation improves, persons
who have been pan-time don't have the time or feel
the pressure to continue (their educati on)," he said.
The hoard also heard a report by Scon Steffey.
SUNY vice chance llor for uni versi ty relations. on
the need for a marketing initiative that would focu s
on enrollment management, incl uding out-of-stale
and international student enrollment.
" At any given time. an estimated 11?.000 Ne""
Yorkers are gett ing a co ll ege education outside the
state," Steffey said.

S

UNY's marketing effons need 10 focus on recrui tment of "in-state students. transfer stu dents, the adult ret uming -st udem population .
first-year studems from other states. internati onal
st udents and the world wide market for State Unive rsit y c lasses through dis tance- learning technology." he sa id.
Those recommendati ons are based o n the work
of a 13-member steering committee Of sen ior campus ad mini strators and presidents. and a 23-member work group of syste m practi ti oners and ex pens.
whose findin gs are prese nted in a report ti tled "S tu Continued on page 2

Center focusing on assistive devices
awarded second $2.5 million grant
I)' LOIS BAKER
News Services Editor

THE ONLY CENTER IN the U.S.
devoted to the study and development of ass isti ve de vices for
older persons wit h disabili ti es,
housed at UB, has received $2.5
million in federal fu nds to continue its work through 200 I.
The grant for US's Rehabi li tation Engineering Research Center on Aging is fro m the National
Institu te on Disability and Rehabilitation Re search, whic h provided a$2.5mi lliongrnnt in 1991
to help establish the center.
During the cente r's first· five
years. its researchers initiated the
fi rst study of the need for assisti ve
devices by o lder persons li ving at
home. and developed several new
devices.

Tiley also conducted architec·
tural research into home modifi cation s for the agi ng di sabled. es·
tablished a research database on
patterns of assistive-deYice use.
and began multiple new education, resource and service program s for cons umers, health care
professionals and device suppliers and manufacturers.
William Mann. chair of the UB
Department of Occupational
Therapy and director of the center,
said the new grant will allow the
center to expand its ini t.iaJ projects
and begin several new ones.
.. O ne of the major research

suc h as post-polio syndrome .
Th e ce nt e r' s
wor k for the
next fi ve years
will cover four
major areas:
• Re searc h10 projects. in c luding device
assess me nt 10
th e home a nd
commu nity. mi·
nority assist ive
technology .
DIANE HURREN, senior research support specla ~
n ur si n g h o me:
lat with the RERC on Ag1ng, Interviews a client.
in terventio ns.
components o f the center is the
problem assistive devices and enCons umer Assessments Study.
vironmental interventions m the
which is a long itudinal investi gahome .
tion of the health. psyc hosocial
• Device Development-for
and fu nctional stat us of frail older
aut omobi les. obesi ty. mobility.
persons liv ing at home and how
balance. stai rs and public seating
they cope with impairments. The
• Ed ucation - four projec ts
new funding will allow us to colai med at st udents. gradua te stu lect data for a total of 10 years.
dents and health care professionand to continu e to follow particials in rehabili tation and agi ng.
pants who move into nursin g
• Informati on- !{) project~.
homes. During the first five years
including video3. booklets. train of the study, we stopped fo llowing manu als. resources for hotel !&lt;o
ing participants when they left the
and motels.
home setting."
The Reh abil nation Engmeer·
ing Research Center o n Aging I!&gt;.
Canter raMarc:hers also will
housed in the UB Center for
investigate ways to help the frail
Assistive Technology. a multi e lderl y integrate fully int o the
million-do llar. multidisci plinary
community, and will begin studyproject devoted to researc h. eduing the need s of persons aging
cation and service for pe rsons of
with congenital di sa bilities or
all ages livi ng with disabilities.
with conditions acquired in youth .

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H~p students develop responsibility for

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. , ELUN IIIOI.NAUM
News Services Editor

P

ROFESSORS OF increasingly

popular college courses in environmental science must help their

students accept responsibility for
the natural world, rather than simply providing harsh. scientific facts that can
engender feelings of denial or despair. according 10 a geology professor from UB.
"'What we tell our students about our
present behavior. its consequences and future prospects if it continues, amounts to a
lot of bad news," Paul H. Reitan said at the
annual meeting of the GeologicaJ Society
o f Ameri ca held Oct . 28 in Denver, Colo.
" II may lead to hopelessness and desperation or denial . We have to help our stu -

~
.,

dents get beyond this point,
to go beyond

science to fundamental philosophical ques-

tions of values
and of what hu-

mans are capable of being."
He presented his
paper, "Human

Interactions

with Earth Systems: Part of a Holistic Education About a Sustainable Human Society
on Earth," at a GSA symposium on " Interdisciplinary Strategies for Teaching About
Earth as a System."

planet, UB prof urges

Reitan. who teaches a course at UB
called "Global Environmental Seience,"
said instructors need to take an
"ecophilosophical" approach by adopting
behaviors that are consistent with holistic
ethics, such as an acceptance that humans
live in an integrated, complex system.

0

nly when people know what is re-

quired-the scien&lt;»-and adopt an

ethical system that causes them 10
want to act aa:onlingly--&lt;he philosophycan sustainable behavior occur," said Reitan.
"When students learn that they live in
such a system, in which the animate and
inanimate parts of the Earth influence one
another, then their concerns extend beyond
themselves to the larger community," he
continued.

HEAVEN&amp; HEU
Contmued from page 1

.. And we ' If trace the story," said Chrisllan, ''by treating verbal and visual texts
equally as interpretatio ns and renderings
of human though1."
'The road is interesting and varied ,"
Glass pointed out. ''In some cultures, when
you ' re dead. you ' re dead. In others, death
is regarded as the beginning of an important journey. In an iconic traditions , like that
of the Old Testament. we have literary text
but no "gruven images" for visual reference.
In other cultures, painting, illumination and
sculpture depict the pleasures of heaven and
the horrors of hell with great relish."
Much of the visionary effluvia to be explof1:!1 is linked to prophesies about the coming of the first millennium. an event that terrified Europe with promises of Satan's return . Glass notes that Christianity actually
began with St. John's apocalyptic vision and
that ilS inOuence can still be felt as we approach the second millennium.
The course will offer students a twoand-a-half hour weekly holiday in the

"great below" with the lusty goddess~ueen
lnanna, a chance to sip blood with the woeful shades of Hades, then tap dance through
the moral heroism of the Book of Dani•l.
ook VI of Virgil's A~n~id is on the
menu . as is the Iri sh Visions of
Tonda/ , a vastly popular, widely
translated visionary text that blew through
medieval Europe like a tornado through a
ll"a.iler coun. These two works are particularly significant for the extentiO which they
informed Dante's lnf~mo and Paradiso,
also required reading
TondaJ's near-death experience offers
intriguing possibilities for ultio dei (the
revenge of god), Glass said. Catalogs of a
brilliantly illuminated 14th-century edition
of the book, now held in the collection of
the Geuy Museum, will allow students to
personally visit Tondal's side show of hell.
hs fun spots include special containment
facilities for "The Perversely Proud and
Presumptuous," .. Giunons and Fornicators" and "The Bad But Not So Bad."

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Web page, electronic library reserve list
set for 'Heaven, Hell &amp; Judgment'
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

" HEAVEN, HEU A JUDGMENT" will have a web page
and among the instructional tools used will be what co-instructor Diane Christian, professor of English. calls "a CD
ROM on Hell" published recently by ltalica Press.
The UB Libmries will post an electronic reserve list for
the course, a "totally experimental" endeavor. ac ording to
Karen Senglaup. Lockwood Library coordinator for access
serviies. When the list is completed, it will be available via
the Lockwood electronic reserve page (bull"alo.edu/libraries/services/reserve) . Senglaup added that there also is the
possibil ity of linking students to databases that will provide
full texts of reserved books and articles.
In addition to the reserve page, Senglaup said the libraries wi ll work with Christian and co-instructor Dorothy
Glass, profess.or of art history. to extend access to course
material. Through the course web page and the library reserve pages. they will offer students access to other elec· L.A-.-hel-knouth--:-.- lrom--12tll---'
tronic resources related to this subject matter on the world century Wlnchelter Psalter.
wide web.
"These will include web sites throughout the world and links to other libraries-the
Vatican Library. for instance, so that students can look at specific works of art, literature
and illuminated material," Senglaup said.

The lllu8tratlon Pr...,....ln the UB Department of Art will be involved as well.
A course taught by Visiting Professor Elka Kazmierczak of Poland's Jagiellonian Uni·
versity will present an exhibition of her students' illustrations of hell from Jan. 23 through
Feb. II in the Art Department Gallery on the lower level of the Center for the Arts.
Although the course will not formally cover material beyond that of William Blake, it
wi ll end wi th a wi ld leap into the 20th century to demonstrate how the course material
informs contemporary treatments of the post-death experience.
On April 28, Glass and Christian. who also is a film scholar, will sponsor a public
screening of the filmatically intense 1946 British afterlife fantasy flicl:., "Stairway to
Heaven," a tour de force piece of movie making that describes a vast. hygienically clean
Other World in which the Bri tish dead, gamely and wi th good humor, maintain their
dignity at any cost.

It will be a visual carnival, for sure, featuring Egyptian renderings of the weigh·
ing of the soul against the Feather of Ma' at,
Signorelli's resurrection of the bodies of
the just and the unjust; Hieronymus Bosch
and his guilty orifices, the paintings of
Michelangelo and Giouo and the mysticism of Joachim di Fiore.
These will be accompanied by an examination of such texts as the .. Book of
Revelations" and Milton's "Paradise Lost."
'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," 19thcentury poet/mystic William Blake's "per·
feet marriage of image and text," also will
be studied. It satirizes the visions of Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, who described the discrete abodes of heaven and
hell in precise detail. Blake, unsympathetic
to a religious tradition that so offended reason, mockingly depicts his own afterworld
" vision" of an altar below which lies a deep
pit. Behind the pit stands a stench-filled
house of brick in which ex-angels,
transmogrified into baboons, gnaw on one
another's tails and pick the flesh off one
another's bones while reading Aristotle's
(Posterior) Analytics.
Both Glass and Christian are award-winning teachers and scholars who hold doctorates from The Johns Hopkins University,
where each studied under legendary biblical scholars. Christian says she "sal at the
feet" of William Foxwell Albright, the greatest biblical scholar of this century. Glass was
recruited to Hopkins by Adolf
Katzenellenbogen, perhaps the most famous
medieval iconographic scholar of our times.

Reitan said !bat once equipped with Ibis
kind of worldv.iew, students wiU no lonser
feel that !bey are making a sacrifice when
they do the "right" !bing fcir the environment.
"This is the worldview that we have 10
bring to our students if bumans are 10 be
long-term participants in the life of planet
Earth, and if tbere is to be a sustainable
future for us," he sttid.
Reitan noted that in his coune and others like it, certain fact.s about !be extent of
degradation that has resulted from human
activity cannot be avoided. They include
statistics. such as:
• Humans now use more than 50 perceo! of the available surface water runoff
from rain and SDOW
• In !be past 40 years, nearly one third
of the world's arable land has been lost 10
erosion
• Humans now appropriate for their
own use more than 40 percent of global
plant growth.
He noted that the best scientific guidance available has revealed that unless
major changes are made in the way we live.
there will be seri011s worldwide collapse
of human social systems within the nexl
cenrury.
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TRUSTEES
Continued !tom page 1

dent Migration and the State University."
The number of high-school graduates in
New York State is projected to increase by
12 percent overthe next decade. The State
University wiU need to enroU greater num·
bers of these residents, as well as more students from outside the state.
''We are going 10 have to get more focused
about how we go about recruiting kids," including 0111-of-state students, Steffey said
SUNY enrolls 3,400 0111-&lt;&gt;f-state-students, one of the lowest numbers of out-ofslate students enrolled in university systems
in the Northeast. " We need to augment the
markeL One option is to lower 0111-of-state
tuition, so long as it exceeds marginal costs
and the in-Slate tuition rate," Steffey said.
Developing the out-of-state student
body would not occur to the exclusion of
qualified New Yorli: State students and does
not call for adding facilities to accommodate more students, according to William
J. Murabito, associate vice chancellor for
student affairs, wbo also participated in the
presentatjon to the board.
In other business, the board:
• Voted to allow campuses to raise inhey cite a number of other ways in
ter,ollegiate athletic fees to $100 per semeswhich they are frighteningly alike.
Both their first names begin with the . ter from the current $50 level. The increase.
which is optional by campus. will be in efletter "D," for instance, a nd both are prone
fect starting with the spring 1997 semester.
to spontaneous rounds of "sit-ups."
• Approved a measure that w011ld allow
Because their fields of study have focampuses to aul/lorize mandatory student
cused on early Western philosophies, lithealth
insurance, a program that five SUNY
erature. art and religions. Christian and
campuses, including UB, have conducted on
Glass say that they regret that the course
a pilot basis for20 years. Students with cornwill not include such topics as Sartre ("hell
parable insurance, or who object to coveris the Other'') or eastern visions of the afage because of religious beliefs, would not
terlife in any depth, at least this time
be
required to participate.
around. Although they will cover some
aspects of the Mahabharata, there will be
no hike into the Buddah-field or across a
field of stars to P' eng Lai.
When the class is over, they said, st udents will have a literary and iconographic
vocabulary with which to explore many
other imaginings of heaven or hell, including those that exist right here on earth.
Christian said students also will have a
much better understanding of how cultures
pass on notions of '"the right thing" and "the
wrong thing" and how people then try to
o rganize their lives in accordance with
what they hope or fear will follow the Big
Goodbye.
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�to research.
UB software speeds ion channel analysis
ay I1.UN --.uJM
News Services Editor

T

HE INTERPRETATION of the
activity of ion channels-the protein slructures that regulate the

flow of electrical current in

cells-can be so difficult and
time-consuming that many researchers
have simply given up on it.
But compn:hending the properties of ion
channels. which control the activity of the
body"s organs. including the brain. is key
to understanding normal physiology. It also
is criticaJ to understandjng various genetic
diseases. including cystic fibrosis, as well
as some neuromuscular disorders and some
cardiac arrythmias.
Now. biophysicists at UB have devel oped software programs that can perform
ion-channel analysi s with remarkable efficiency and speed.

The researchers have received a fouryear, $1 million grant from the National
Institutes of Health to enhance the programs and to move them from the current

UNIX environment to Windows.
The current version of the software may
be downloaded from the World Wide Web
at http://barnl.med.buffalo.edu
"Our software make s analyzing ion
channels so much easier and faster that researchers will be able to try things that were
too painfully slow to even try before." said
Frederick Sachs. professor of biophysical
sciences at UB and principal investigator.
Co-investigators are Anthony L. Auerbach ,
associate professor of biophysical sciences
at UB, and Qin Feng, postdoctoral research
fellow.
With the new software programs. named
QUB. a researcher can di scover in minutes
how long it takes for an ion channel to
change from one conformation tQ another.
Previously. such measurements could have
taken months.
According to the UB researchers, this
information will provide biophysicists with
a powerful tool useful for both basic and
applied research.
Sachs explained that bener information
on these proteins could make a tremendous
difference in drug design . particularly for
co nditions where ion channels are implicated.

F:

rexample, "i n people who have some
inds of inherited neuromuscular diseases, an amino acid in the receptors
for the neurotransmiuer has been altered,"
he said.
These ahemtions cause the ion channels
either to stay open too long or not long
enough. resulting in clinical disorders
where the mu scles are ei ther too weak or
too excitable.
By analyzing the currents that are pro-

Two Buffalo men
charged in attack
A UB STUDENT REQUIRED numerous
stitches following an attack Monday night
at the Fugees concert in _Alumni Arena. 1Wo
Buffalo men have been charged.
YusefL. Jackson. 24. of E. Amherst SL.
and Royce A. Mitchell. 23. of Goulding
Ave .• boll!_ have been charged with ftrst degree assault in connection with the attack.
Neither are UB students. according to Pubtic Safety. In addition. Jackson was charged
with cri minal possession of a weapon.
According to officers, the victim was
slashed wi th a razor and received cuts to
his face. scalp. shoulder and hand. He was
treated and re leased from Mill ard Fi ll more
Suburban Hospital.
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duced by the ion channels that bind the
transmitter, scientists have been able to tell
which part of the channel operation is affected and suggest possible treatments.
QUB also is expected to be a boon to
researchers who want to study protein dynamics in general. Since the flow of current through a channel makes many of the
conformational states of ion channels visible, it is possible to see kinetic details that
in most proteins are invisible.
.. An ion channel can pass more than I
million ions per second," Sachs said.
'That's a big enough output 10 measure in
real time. The programs allow you to not
only 'watch' an ion channel molecule at
work, they provide specific quantitative
results on how it works, on how fast protein molecules change shape."

T

hat information will give scientists a
critical window into a protein 's fourdimensional structure (in space and
time), which detennines its function , he explained.
The software uses algorithms based on
the work of Russian mathematician Andrey
Andreyevich Markov, similar to those currently used by computers to conven speech
and handwriting to text.
It analyzes data obtained from experiments in which the electrical current produced by the ion channel in a cell is monirored and amplified.
That infonnation is then fed to the computer.
The program then allows the researc her
to develop accurate model s of ion-channel
behavior based on the experimental data.
''The program says, 'Give me a dataset
and the models Ihat you think apply":· said
Sachs. ''h then calculates which of the
models pro vides the most likely explanation for the data and how much confidence
to have in the results. It summari zes millions and even billions of experimental data
points into a few constants and it will do it
in about a minute."

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Dental clinic on wheels will serve
children in Chautauqua County
By LOISaAKEJI
News Services Edator

FACULTY MEMBERS, STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS from rhe UB School of Dental
Medicine Will be addressing the dental-care needs of unserved and underserved children
in Chautauqua County in a new dental clinic on wheels that was unveiled this week..
A ribbon-cuuing ceremony for the mobile facility was held Tuesday. Oct. 29. on the
UB South Campus, in the atrium of Squire Hall and in the adjacent parking lot.
Called the Success for Life Mobile Dental Van. the mobile clinic was made possible
throu gh a grant from the Gebbie Foundation and its Success by Six program. The project
also received supplemental funding from the Southern Chautauqua United Way. the
Northern Chautauqua Commu nity Foundation and the Chautauqua Region Community
Foundation.
The 39-foot. custom-made van contains rwo fully equipped dental ope:ratories with
the capability to provide a wide range of pediatric dental services. including cleanings.
regular check-ups. fillings. sea lants, X-rays. referrals and dental-health educarion.
Louis J. Goldberg. dea n of the UB dental sc hool. said the school appreciares grearly
1he Gebbie Foundation's generosity and reaffirmed the school' s commitment to pub\\c
service. partic ularly to c hildren whose access to care is limil ed.

Rese•rch luis shown that poor dietary habits in infants and chi ldren can have an
adverse effect on their oral health," he said . .. Early intervention has been shown to be
effective in reducing tooth decay. and gingival and periodontal diseases. This project
wi ll have a significan t impact on the health of children and will funher the dental school's
co mmitment to disease pre vention."
The van will visit selected sites in Chautauqua County throughout the year and serve
chi ldren who are not receiving cnre from a dentist. It will be staffed by UB dental ~!-tool
personnel. The targeted populations are children covered by Medicaid or those havang
little or no dental insurance.

Malcolm Bilson heads November music calendar
ay PAYIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

F

ORTEPIANIST Malcolm Bilson.
one of the country's most celebrated instrumentalists, will perform a long-awaited concen on Friday. Nov. 8, in Slee Concert Hall at UB.
Bilson heads a program of concert performances by the renowned Muir String
Quartet and the UB Percussion Ensemble.
Trombone Choir. Symphonic Band and
Wmd Ensemble. Also on the agenda are
performances by clarinetist John Fullam.
organist Wolfgang Rubsam. the resident
Amherst Sl!xophone Quartet and duo-pianists Frina Arschanska and Kenwyn Boldr.
Performances will take place in-S lee Con·
cert Hall on the North Campus. Tickets may
be obtained from the UB ticket office. 645·
ARTS. or from any Ticketmaster outlet
Friday, Nov. 8, 8. p.m .: Fortepiano concert by Malcolm Bilson. celebrated as much
for his chann, humor, passion and wit as for
his virtuosity. For Concert U of the Slee Visiting Artist Series. he will present a program
of Viennese classical sonatas.
Bilson's performances on original fiv~ ­
octave. late I 8th-century pianos, princ1 ·
pally known as fonepianos. and on their
replicas. have been the impetus for thereturn of the fonepiano to the concert stage.
Bilson performs and teaches throughout
the world and directs keyboard studies in
18th-cenlury musical performance at
Cornell University, where he is Frederick
J. Whiton Professor of Music.

MALCOLM BILSON will

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Tickets
are
$ 10. general admission; $8,
faculry. staff
and alumni ; $5.
senior citizens :
$4, st udents.
Friday, Nov. I ,
8 p . m .: The
Mu ir
String
Quanet. one of
the world"s finest
string quartets.

will present the
second in the sixpan Slee Beethoven Siring Quanet Cycle.
S und ay, Nov. 3, 5 p .m . : Wolfgan g
Rubsam, an organist known internationally
for more than 100 acclaimed recordings of
organ repertoire from the baroque and romantic periods, will present Concert II in the
UB Organ Recital Series. Tickets are $8, general admission: S6. faculty. staff and alumni :
$5. senior citizens: $2, students.

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ubsam is professor of church music
and organ at Northwestern University
and University Organisl for Rockefe ller
Memorial Chapel. University of Chicago.
Wed nesday, Nov. 6, 8 p. m .: Concen by
the UB Wind Ensemble cond ucted by Assis tant Professor Sarah L. Mc Kain . All
tickets are $3 .
Thesd ay, Nov. 12, 8 p.m.: Faculty recital by clarinetist John Fullam. lecturer in
the UB Department of Music. Fullam will

be accompanied in a program of clarinet
quintets by violinists Frances Kaye and
Richard Kay. violist Donna Lorenza and
cellist Mary Artmann. Tickets are SS. general admission: $6. faculty. staff a nd
alumni; $5 . senior citizens: $2. scudents.
The Nov. 15 concert by Gothic Voices
at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
3275 Main St., has been canceled.
Monday, N.ov. 18, 8 p.m.: Concert II
of the UB Resident Quartet Series by the
Amherst Saxophone Quartet. Tickets are
$10. general admission and $5. UB co mmunity and senior citize ns.
Friday. Nov. 22, 8 p.m.: The Muir String
Quanet presents Co ncert 111 of the Slce
Beethoven String Quartet Cycle. Tickets are
$10. general admission: $8 . faculry. stall and
alumni: $5. senior citizens, $4, students.
Sat urday, Nov. 23,8 p.m.: UB Percus·
sian Ensemble conducted by Anthon)
Mirdnda. No admission charge
Sunday, Nov. 24, 3 p.m. · Duo-p•amsb
Frina Arschanska and Kenwyn Boldt w•ll
be accompanied by percuSSIOn iSt Anthon)
Miranda in a program featunng Bela
Ban6k's Conct"rto for Tll'o Ptmws and
Perrussion. Tickets are $8. generul adrmssion;, $6. faculty. stall and alumni. $5 . senior citizens: S2.studenb.
Sunday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m. Concert by the
UB Trombone Choir. conducted by Rich ard Meyers. No admissi.o n charge .
Thesday, Nov. 26, 8 p.m.: Concert by
the UB Symphonic Band conducred by Sarah L. McKoin. No admission charge.

�Panel of historians to discuss
controversial book on Holocaust
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F

OUR HISTORIANS of modem
Germany will discuss the controversial new book "Hitler's Will ing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and lhe Holocaust" during
a roundtable discussion to be held from 46:30p.m. on Thesday, Nov. 12, in Room
330 in lhe Student Union on the UB Norlh
Campus.
The discussion is free of charge and
open to lhe public.
No recent work in European history has
provoked as much controversy, or as much

interest among non-specialists, as ..Hitler's
Willing Executioners .. by Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen, assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University and an associate of Harvard's Minda
de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
Goldhagen argues lhat "ordinary Germans." rather than Nazi leaders. must bear
primary responsi bility for the Holocaust.
Most Germans approved of Hitler's plans
to remove Jews from Gennan society and a
large number-much larger than is usually
imagined-participated in the removal.

Goldhagen mainutins that this active involvement cannot be blamed on Hitler's
police state, since Germans showed lheir
dislike of Nazi policies in other areas and
often succeeded in achieving changes. There
were no such protests about lhe regime's
policies regarding Jews, he says, witb ordinary Germans demonstnting liteir approval
of lite policies in a myriad of ways.

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pecialists in lite field have raised a variety of questions about Goldhagen's
worl&lt;. ranging from concerns about source
materials to broad criticisms of his treatment of lhe German character.
1be panel of historians who will discuss
lhe book include William Sheridan AUen ,
UB professor of history; Georg lggers,
SUNY Distinguished Professor of History
and a member of lhe UB Department of
History faculty; Patricia Mazon, UB assistant professor of history, and Larry Jones,
c hair of the Department of History at
Canisius College.
The event aims to encourage dialogue
between specialist and non-specialist readers. both inside and outside the university.
For more information, calllhe UB Department of History at64S-2181.
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Western New York office of Sea Grant moves to UB
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Services Editor

'fi4E WESTERN NEW YORK&lt;Jreat Lakes
o ffi ce o f the New York Sea Grant has
moved to the Depanment of Civil Engineeri ng at UB .
Sea Grant, which operates under the
auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides infonnation and education
about coastaJ resources in individual states.
The move is the culmination of several
years of increased cooperation between
UB 's Great Lakes Program and lhe New
York Sea Grant office, which previously
operated out o f the Cornell Cooperative
Extension office in East Aurora.
'11\is was a logical move because Sea
Grant 's mi ssion is ex ten sion and o utreach.
and so is that o f the Great Lakes Program,"
said Joseph V. DePinto. executive director

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of the Great Lakes Program and UB professor of civil engineering.
'The result will be closer linkages between Great Lakes researchers at UB, who
are the people collecting the data and doing the analysis. and the extension specialists whose job is to take the research res ults to a much wider audience, said
DePinto. 'The additi01ial service role UB
can play by ha ving Sea Grant here is very
val uable."
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Dave Green.
New York Sea Grant extension specialist.
is now located at UB. Green, an 18-year
veteran with New York Sea Gran~ is a specialist in several areas, including the environments of Native American communities. Ellen George, an administrative ass istant wilh New York Sea Gran~ also has

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....._ IUNACa AMt DECADeNCe of antebeUum Berlin will be e•oked 011 Nov.
14 when lite UB Department of Theatre and Dance presents Kandet and Ebb's hit
musical "Cabam."
"Cabatet" is hued on lobn Van Druten's l9SI play, "I Am a Camera," which,
in tum, was hued on Christopher Isherwood's book. "Goodbye to Berl.in."
Performances wiU take place in lite Drama Theatre in lhe Center for the Arts on
lhe Norlh Campus at8 p.m. 011 Thursdays-&amp;turdays and 2 p.m. 011 Sundays through
Nov. 24.
"Cabaret" opened ·o n Broadway in 196710 nearly unanimous critical praise and
audienoe appreciatiop. It went on to win eight Tony Awards and the New York
Drama Critics Award.
The plot focuses on Sally Bowles, a self-dramatizing English girl, half-tart,
half-&lt;:hild, who works as a singer in the lively world of 1930s Berlin cabaret, and
basks in the last glow of a dying world about to explode in war. A second featured
player is Isherwood himself, a homosexual Englishman who admires Sally from
alar and becotnes, for her, a platonic friend and a camera.

At the end of the pleJ, lhe "camera" leaves to develop the ponentous "pictures" he 's taken of life among Berlin's wodcing classes, denti-mondaines and Nazis.
The subsequent film starred Liza Minelli in her major screen role and won eight
Academy Awards.
Gerald Finnegan directs lhe UB production, wilh choreography by Lynn
Kurdziel-Formato. They intend, they say, to capture lhe play's frenetic, chaotic
mien and lhe dark underside of lhe times. Finnegan sees in the play conespondences to contemporary life, in which self-interest and hedonism often deflect us
from lhe hideous social problems lhat populate lhe world stage.
Ticket prices are $10 for general adntission and $5 for students, seniors and
children. Tickets may be obutined through lhe UB Center for lhe Arts bOx office,
645-ARTS, or through al11icketmaster outlets, 852-5000.

moved to the new office at UB.
DePinto noted lhat the connection between UB 's Great Lakes Program and lhe
local Sea Grant office began to strenglhen
in 1993 when Helen Domske was hired to
be associate director of lhe Great Lakes
Program and serve as a New York Sea
Grant extension specialist at UB .

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l1ll8 helpe
our efforts," said
Domske. " It will provide for stronger interactions among Sea Grant specialists and
allow us to take better advantage of the
universi ty setting.•·
Projects on which lhe UB Great Lakes
Program and New York Sea Grant have
cooperated include a recent conference on

environmental issues facing Native Ameri can communities in the region and devel opment of a computer-based watershed
management program for junior high and
high scbool classes. 1bey also are work ing on an Environmental Protection
Agency-funded program on lakewide man-.
agement for lakes EPe and Ontario, and
will co-hosi, along wilh Buffalo State College, the International Association for
Great Lakes Research meeting next summer.
"Together, bolh organizations try to
reach all categories of stakeholders in lhe
Great Lakes and that's a strong reason for
this partnership," said DePinto.
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UB librarians publish new guide to
government reference materials
lly 1'1\'IIIICIA -VAN

News Services Editor

OW ABO liT HUNDREDS of tiny
black-and-white photos of every
member of the U.S. Senate and
House and lheir chaplains? A resource gu ide to Yiddish-American popular songs? Information on fisb culture?
Electoral processes? Duck stamps?
Libraries Unlimited has published the
second edition of the "Subject Guide to U.S.
· Government Reference Sources" by Gayle
J. Hardy-Davis, associate librarian in lhe
reference department of UB's Lockwood
Library, and Judilh Schiel&lt; Robinson. associate professor in lhe UB Scbool of Information and Library Studies.
The new guide offers reliable and accessible data wilh which library professionals, government officials, students, researchers and olhers can find lhousands of
U.S. government publications on a wide
variety of topics, from aging, aquaculture
and astronomy to demographics, stamp
collecting and taxes.
The book is a guide to reference resources that range from traditional books
to lhe latest technological f011t141S: COROMs. diskelle&amp;, Internet sites, databases,
agency bulletin boanls and even specialized information clearinghouses. 1be book
also lists addresses for items that are free,
as well as agency toU-free numbers, e-mail
addresses and Web URLS.

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• The first edition was written by
Robinson, a prolific author who has published several books and many jurored articles in her field. For this edition. the aulhors have added 900 new titles, updated
all olherentries and in lheir fonnatting and
editing have emphasized easy access to
information.
The book is available in lhe reference
section of Lockwood Library and soon will
be o n reference shel ves in public, corporate and university libraries lhroughoutlhe
country.
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�- ..... -Memorial
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semce, concert Nov. 12

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will hOnor Robert H. Rossberg

Procedures need revising for
graduate student instructor awards
nce a year the university gives
war$ 10 graduale studeniS who
an: slellar instructors. The Gradule School seiS lhe rules governing these competitions. It is the contention of Ibis article lhal these rules should
be revised: A si mpler system will give
fairer resuiiS al a fraction of lhe cost and
effort involved. Afler having labored to
bring Ibis about for many years via bureaucratic channel s (Albino, Sirianni,
Triggle) 1 now tum to the wider university community to make thi s case.
This is lhe problem: Identify from
hundreds of graduate studenr instructors
the very best. Current procedures require
a nomination package consisting of a
vita of the candidate, a two-page personal statement by the candidate, leuers
from the chair, the dean, and the course
coordinator; up to three. letters from stu dents. from peer instruc tors, and from
faculty; and course data (enrollment.
grading, evaluations, level, materials,
delivery methods). For good meas ure:
eig tfold.
is dossier is transmitted via the
to the Graduate School. A commit! e will judge the 40 or so dossiers, and
p nounce a 1- 1r2 handful of winners.
Th winners are feted in a gentle ceremon with agreeable speeches and tea
and pe it fours.
I su mit:
It is unwise to get the candidates involved, for it creates many losers for a
few winners. and even the losers arc glorious contributors.
Writing lette rs of ~prpmendation is
an art in iiSelf, and lhe danger lurks !hal
one ends up honoring the best dossier

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rather than the best insttuctor.
The committee to select the final winners is asked to compare classroom instruction in English (20 students?) with
laboratory experimeniS in chemistry (50
students?) with recitation drills in &amp;&lt;:counting (80 studenu?) and so on: on its
face, quire impossible.
Contrast with Ibis the following procedure: The Graduare School in vir ea&lt;:h
decanal area to recommend at most on~
for eacb 20 eligible instructors. The dean
asks the chairs for recommendations. ln a
chairs' meeting, agreement is reached on
one or a few truly deserving candidates,
(or, absent agreement between the chairs,
lhe dean makes a final ruling .) The win ner is (winners are) submitted to the
Graduale School, which orchestrates the
ceremony where they will be recognized
and receive an award.
In this scenario the instructors themselves are not in the loop: The winners
will be happily surprised, but there will
be no "losers.. (who went to great effort
for a futile cause). The persons with lhe
relevant information, personally acquainted with the candidate and possessing a track record of knowledge which
invites comparisons, make the infonned
choices. and bounce them off equally respected and infonned colleagues and the
dean. There are no octets of fat dossiers,
no letters to ask others to write and to be
written, and there is no committee to
make impossible comparative dec isions.
As intimated above, it is cheaper. simpler, fairer.

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Chair and professor. Management
Science and Systems

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(CBL) in the UB School of
w i U - its l OCh arudversary with a gala diener celehratiDa 111 role in !he powth of biiJidteds ofbuaiDeaes lhroughoot Wesiem New Yorl&lt;.
Spoosored by MI:T Bank. the bl1cll:-lie affair will be held at 6:30p.m. on Sat. urdly, Nov. 2, in the AlbriJbt-Knox Art Gallery.
The dinoer will recognize CBL gradulles wbo have used techniques and strale&amp;iea pined lhroush !he program to launch and enhance various business ventures
lhroughoot the recioo"The dinner ia a celehrotion of both penolll) llld community successes." said
CEL Director Marianne SuUivllll- "In recocnizin_g lhe achievements of these entre~

pnmeun, we also pay tribote to ~!'&lt;&gt; positive impoct they've had on lhe Weslem
New Yorlc economy."
The CBL was established by lhe UB Scbool of Management as a way to develop companies that would be headquartered in 'Western New Yodc and wtiose
owners would be loyal to the local economy. The CBL's 10-month program is
~igned to enhance lhe talents and operating abilities of practicing entrepreneurs
through lhe analysis of business problems and opportunities. Access to the expertise of local business executives and School of Management faculty also is provided.
~ INdrepNI_,. ......ted from the CEL's first class in 1987 ; 26 are
enrolled in lhe program this fall.
According to Sullivan, of lhe more than 200 businesses that have participated
in the program during the past decade, 94 percent an: still in operation. She estimaleS that completion of lhe program bas resulted in a 10-lS percent increase in
jobs at businesses owned or operaled by CBL graduates.
Included in me list of CEL alumni an: entrepreneurs from prominent Western
New Yorlc b usinesses like Botanicus, Inc. ; Buffalo Office Interiors; Casilio Real
Estale and Development; FSI,Inc.; Manitoba Corp.; Tapecon, Inc., and Woodstrearn
Nurseries.
The eEL is open to business owners llld operalors wbo have progressed beyood lhe start-up phase of operation and wbo seek to develop stralegies for meeting futun&gt; or exialing business challenges. En~neun interested in enrollment
in lhe program can cootact Sullivan at64S-3200.

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News SeMces EditOI'

MEMORIAL SERVICE. concert
and reception honoring Robert
H. Rossbe rg . who served the
University al Bu ffalo for 40
years before his death on May 5, will be
held at4 p.m. on Tuesday. Nov. 12, in Slce
Hall on lhe UB North Campus.
Rossberg, who retired in 1994, was Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counseling and Educational
Psychology. A former vice president for
academic affairs, be had held numerous administrative positions at UB during his ca-

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reer.
He also was lhe producer and host of
several popular jazz shows lhal aired on
WBFO-FM 88.7,1he National Public Radio affiliate operated by UB .
Rossberg's nationally syndicated program. "The Sound of Swing," featuring lhe
Big Band era. continues to air via archival
tapes from 10-11 a.m. Sundays on WBFO.
In 1994. Rossberg received the UB
President's Medal for "signal and extraordinary service to the university." The
Newman centers at UB Ibis fall posthumously ho nored him with their first Father
Raymond Murray Campu s Mini s try
Award.
Robert (Bert) Gambini, WBFO music
director, will officiate at the memorial program. Speakers will include UB President
William R. Greiner. Provost Thomas E.
Headrick and Jen nifer Roth, WBFO general manager.

ROBERT H. ROSSBERO
A musical tribute 10 Rossberg will be
offered by the Amherst Saxophone Quartet and the UB Jazz Ensemble. directed by
Sam Falzone.
The service will open and c l os~ with
Rossberg's signature themes, "It Do n ' t
Mean A Thing If It A in ' 1 Got Thai Swing"
and " I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart,"
recorded by 1vie Anderson and the Duke
Ellington Orchestra.
Memorial contributions. which are tax
deductible. may be made to The Robert H.
Rossberg Fund. Checks. payable 10 lhe UB
Foundation, lnc., may be sent to the UB
Graduate School of Education. 367 Baldy
Hall. Buffalo. N.Y. 14260.

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Olive P. Lester, 92, professor,
UB 's ftrst woman department
chair in Arts &amp; Sciences
A memooal servtce
wtll be held Saturday.
Nov 9 al 10 a.m tn
the Zurbnck-Am1gone
Funeral Home. 5615
Broadway, Lancaster.
for Ohve P Lester. a
dedtcated teacher
and scholar tn the
held ol psychology,
and US 's hrst woman
department cha•r '"
Arts and Sctences
Lester. who dted
Oc! 10 at age 92 tn Mtllard Ftllmore Suburban
Hosptlal . headed the US Departmenl of Psychology from 1954 to 1964 She rettred tn
1974 af1er 49 years of dtSitngutshed servtce to
the Umversity of BuHak&gt;
She studted at Cornell Umverstty belore
translernng to the Untversity of Buffalo. whtch
then was located .n old Townsend Hall on
Ntagara Square She recetved her 8 A degree With honors from UB 1n 1924 and 1n
1926. earned a master's degree at UB In
1931 . she rece1ved her Ph D from lhe Un1vers1ty of Ch1cago
Her early 1ntent1on had been to follow 1n
!he footsteps of her father. Lavant D Lester. a
lawyer But her academ•c Interests soon
turned to a career m teachtng and she jo1ned
the UB faculty'" 1925 as an •nstructor. progress•ng through the ranks as ass•stanl prolessor and assoc•ate professor. atta•n•ng the
rank of full professor 1n 1946 In 1954. she
was named chatrman of the psychology
department
For 20 years. •n addition to day11me teach•ng . she 1nstructed evemng students 10 Millard
Fillmore College and from 1944-46. she conducted a program '" human relations at a
local a•rcraft plant
She planned and taught the f1rst course 10
psychok&gt;gy oHered to local student nurses at
Meyer Memorial . Children 's and Deaconess
hospitals .
The rec1pient of numerous awards, she
received a Distinguished Alumn1 award in
1973 from the Uiliversity of Buffalo in recogni tion of her service to the university, to Buftalo
and to her home community. She recetved

three c•tauons lor outstanding teachtng from
lhe US SchOOl of Nurs•ng. as well as an award
from the College of Arts &amp; Sc1ences •n 1971
A member of Ph• Beta Kappa and Ph1
Lambda Theta education honorary soc•ety.
she served as prestdent of the Acaderruc
Psychologists of the State Un1vers1ty of New
York System tn 1971 A fellow of the Amencan
Psychological Assoc1ahon and a member of
the Eastern PsychOlogiCal Assoc1ahon . she
was a board member of the New York State
League of Nurs•ng and a member of the
Nurse AOV•sory Council . New York State
Department of Education
She was the author or co-author of numerous papers pubhshed 1n scholarly 1ournats
tnctudtng the Journal ot Personality and the
Journal ol Soctal Psyc hology
There are no SUNIVOrs

Robert Parke, first director
of UB Student Union
Robert Parke. who was the hrst d1rector of the
Norton Hall Student Unton at the Umvers1ty ot
Buffalo, d 1ed Oct 15 1n AlelCandna. Va wtlere
he had retocated from Amberle1gh Retlfement
Community 1n Amherst A real estate agent
ana outdoorsman, Parke had lived unttl 1991
'" the Zoar Valley near Spnngvllle
Parke was d•rector of 1ndustnal research
from 1927 to 1934 lor Parke Hall and Co a
realty f1rm established by h1s Iatner Fenton
He served as Student Umon d•rector at UB
from 1934 to 1941
Dunng World War It, he was a tra1n1ng and
safety officer wtth Sterling Eng1ne Co Alter a
year wllh Nat100al Gypsum Co he returned to
the larmly l1rm , where he was a d1rector and
secretary
Parke organ1zed the kx:al chapter ot the
Soctety ollndustrtal Realtors 10 1965 ana
became tiS v1ce president Alter h1S retirement. he became secretary '" 1971 of the
Route 219 ASSOCiatiOfl, one Ol the many CIVIC
orgamzations 1n wh•ch he was act•ve
Parke stud.ad tor 8 bustness degree at
AntiOCh College . Yellow Spnngs. OhiO While
there . he worked as an atrplane mechaniC
and served as an observer on 8 cross-country
flight wuh flying ace J•mmy Ooolttle
A m&amp;ITIQ(ial service was held Oct 26 1n
Little R•ver United Church of Christ.
Annandale, Va. A serviCe Will be scheduled
here in the spnng

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FOCUS OF SYMPOSIUM

Leelte Fiedler, a g•ant in the field
of literary and c ultural c riticism, will
discuss the overlap between hu·
man111es and b10eth1cs at a sympos1um to be held
at4 p m on Fn ·

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d ay. Nov 8 , 10 the
Center for lnqu.ry.
1310 Sweet Home
Road. Amherst
Sponsored by the UB Center lor
Cltntcal Eth1cs and Humanl!tes 1n
Health Care. the event wtU feature
presentatiOns of three papers related to Fiedler's latest book, "The
Tyranny of the Normal Essays on
BtOethtcs . Theffiogy &amp; Myth .• and
Ftedler's response to the papers
The event ts free and open to
the public
Ftedler, Samuell Clemens Prolessor •n the UB Depanment of Enghsh. has been an tmportantltgure
on the tnlernatlonalllterary scene
104' more than 40 years
The authors of papers to be presented at the sympos1um are
Jack F,..r, UB chmcal assoc•a te professor of medtc1ne and an
tnternlst at Millard Fillmore Hospital.
wtll present · tmages of the Doctor
tn L1terature and the Popular Arts •
Tim lladl. .n, execut1ve edttor of Free Inquiry and a doctoral
cand td ate tn the UB Department of
Phtlosophy, wtll d tscuss hiS work
"Why Organ Transplant Programs
Do Not Succeed •
Stephen Weer hOlds appotntments ln the UB departments ol
MediCine. Gynecology/Obstetncs
and Phtlosophy, and has wntten
and lectured w1dely on the tssue of
medtcal ethics. Hts paper ~s 1t1led
· The Tyranny of the Abnormal .·
The Center lor Climcal Ethtcs
and Humantties in Health Care was
formed at UB in 1994 to support
and enhance dtalogue on ethical
and humantstic issues surround1ng
health care 1n Western New York

RICHAIIOS A~ON SBI'I'£NWCIU' CIIITICISM
Davtd G. Rlcta.rda, UB pratessor of German . 1S the author of
· Herman Hesse's Steppenwoll and
tis CritiCS,· published in May by
Camden House Inc .. Columbia S C
At ·steppenwoll's· publication tn
t927. readers werl\ offended by
Hesse's wilt1ngness to explore and
attempt to come to terms with the
dark stde of h1s self and of a SOCiety
1n uanstuon. precisely what appealed to rebellious readers tn the
'60s and '70s and helped make 1t
the most widely read German novel
of the 20th century.
Alter tracing the development
ol Hesse's popular reception.
R1chards surveys the crittcal writtng
on "Steppenwou- from Hugo Ball's
remarks tn the first bK&gt;graphy of
Hesse p ublished the same year as
the novel and o ther studies of the
prewar period through face ts o f the
work in German d issertations of the
'50s, the expansion of scholarship
'" the '60s and '705 to the tT'IOfe
modest achievements and consoh·
dattng studies of the '80s and '90s
Richards' ·previous p ublications
on Hesse include "The Hero's Ouest
lor the Self: An Archetypal Approach to Hesse's Dem ian and
Other Novels .· He has also publtshed books on Georg Buchner

8JIIAUI FINNEUN
HCEIVU I'ENDIIICK 8ltANT
Buffalo actor and director GeNkl
Flftnegan, assistant professor of
theatre and d ance at UB. has been
selec ted to receive the 1996 David
Fend rick Fund g rant by the board of
d irectors o f the David A. Fendrick

Foundation.
The S t .250 grant wiH make rt possible lor Fimegan to repcesent the
Buffalo lheater conmunily this year in
Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Theetre

Festival with his production of Samuel
Becl&lt;en's "Krapp's Last Tape:
Finnegan has a long associatoo
Mth BuHalo theater companies. includ1ng the lnsh Ctasslcat Theatre
and Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
His perfOfmance in p roductions

- . - U T -SOCII:TY
11M eTII ANNUAL . _ _
The UB chap ter of tha Golden Key
Nationet Honor Soc10ty conducted

its 91h annual induction ceremony
Oct 2 t In Sloe Hall on the UB North
Campus. This year. 6 13 juniors and
senk&gt;rs w1th grades p(acJng them in
the top 15 percent of their class.
were honored. along with f1ve new
honorary members and rwo awards
to distingu$hed students.
The 1996 hgnorary members

of work by Becken is well-estabhshed through stag ings of ·waiting
lor Godot . • ~Endgame a and, most
recenlty, "Krapp 's Last Tape, a which'
represented the U.S. last fall in the
First lnternauonal Theatre Festtval
for Young Audiences tn Algentina.
The Fendrick Fund ts one of few
phtlanthropic funds available to in·
dtvtdual actors. d irectors, technictans. designers and producers. II
was founded tn memory of David
Roos Fendrick. a crilically applauded WNY actor. dtrector. wnter
and scholar known in part for the
roles he played for Shakespeare tn
Delaware Park when it operated under the auspices of the UB Department of Theatre and Dance
Several past Fendrick Fund
grant recip ients have been assoc1ated wtth UB. Robert Waterhouse,
who received hts doctorate in comparattve literature from UB. received
the 1991 grant. Vincent O 'Neill. UB
adjunct professor of theatre and
dance. received the award in 1995

nominated by members of Golden
Key are: Stephen Halpern . p rofessor of poUUcaJ science: Donald
McGuire, Instructor in classk:s:
Murali Ramanathan, assistant pn;
lessor, pharmaceutics; Mary Anne
Rokitka, clinical assoctate professor
of physiology; Henry Sussman. prolessor of comparative literature.
Kevin Nusz, a junior majoting In
biochemistry, and Heath Miner, a
senior mathematics major. were
honored for high academic and extra-currlcutar achievements. They
received a KPMG Peat Marw1ck I
Golden Key Scholars Award, which
included a certifiCate and cash
award . Patrtck B. Barrett performed
on the Fisk organ .
Peter Gold . associate dean of the
Undergreduate College, heS been
chapter advisor since the UB chapte&lt;
was formed in 1988. Amanda
Matthews, a biok&gt;QICBI scteneeS I'Tl&amp;o
,or. Is this yeats president

SCHOOL OF EN411NIERIN41

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-

CIIAIIUS FOGEL

Charlea M. FoeeJ, professor
emeritus of civil engineering at US ,
who helped establish the School of
Engtneenng and
Applied Sciences
at the university
50 years ago, has
received the
school's Engineer
of the Year Award .
Fogel. whose association with UB
as student , faculty
member and administrator spanned
a half-century. was honored at the
school's anniversary banquet held
earlier this month.
When he retired in 1984. Fogel
enjoyed the distinction of having
been a UB faculty member longer
than any other individ ual and of
having served under six UB chan·
cellars and presidents
He received bachelo&lt;~ and
degrees in physics from UB on
the lale t!l:lls. Mer !18dual• SIUdies a1

mast..-s

CoLmbia and Ohio Slate I.WliYetsilies.
he retu'ned 10 UB in t942 as~
of physics instruction in the- training
program. Following a brief 1&gt;a1us 10
oonduc1 indus1nal reseerch. he pined
the laculty in the new UB engineering
scroot in 1946 and remailed there until
his retirement.
Fogel served as assistant executive vice p res1den t, acting dean
of the Graduate School and ass1stant to the president for educational
affairs. At his retirement . he was d i·
rec tOI' o f the engineering school's
Industrial Liaison Office.
First recipient of the President's
.Medal in 1990 for exemplary service
to the university, he has also received
the UB AIU&lt;ml Association~ Dislinguished SeMce Award and the
Dean's Award I:om the School of Engineerlng and Applied Sciences.
His community service has
earned awards from the Boy Scouts
of America. the National Conference of Christians &amp; Jews and
Buffalo's International Institute . A
former d irector of Rotary Internetiona!. he is a member of the Amencan Association of University Prolessors. Sigma XI. the American Instilute of Electrical Engineers and
the American Society of Engineering Education.

AW-MANTS
The Greater Regional Industrial Technotogy (GRIT) program. a St million
industry/univOfs;ty program deslgned
to help Western and Central New
York manufacturing companies become more competitive, has
awarded grants 10 etght compames.
UB is the lead Institution in the
program. a consortium that also tneludes Syracuse University, the Universlty of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technok&gt;gy.
Under the program. faculty,
graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying engt·
nearing and related subjects at
these universities help se~ted
manufacturers incOfporate the latest
technology into thetr products.
The compantes and awards are:
BUD Medtcal Dev1ces of Hoi·
land. $20 ,098: D1versil19(t Manufactunng . Inc of Lockport, two grants
ol $44 ,420 and St9, t66, Taylor DeV1Ces of North Tonawanda, $49,489:
Trek, Inc. of Medtna , SSQ,()(X); Ap·
plied Image. Inc of Rochester.
S60,()(X); Applied Instruments, Inc.
of Rochester, $56,953: Diemolding
Heatthcare Division of Canastota.
$56,014 ; Buffalo Brake Beam Co. of
Lackawanna, $24 ,278.
WUOTO~

C H U C K - CONCDT
lnteri'\Btionally knowt:l }8ZZ trumpeter
Chuck Mangione and the Chuck
Mang ione Quartet will perform at B
p .m . on Thursd ay. Nov. 7. 1n
Williamsville South High School .
5950 Main St .. WilhamsviUe
The concert w111 be sponS()(ed
by the Wilhamsville Mus1c Boosters .
WBFO 88.7 FM . the Natoooal Public
Radio affiliate operated by UB. and
WSJZ-FM. Also featured wtll be the
Williamsville East. North and South
High School JSZZ ensembles.
Ttekets are $15 each and are
available at the door: at J &amp; E lnstrumont Service, B030 R&lt;&gt;t Road. Eest
Amherst, and at AI Herner Music Corporation. 4t90 N. Buffalo St.. Orchard

Pal1&lt;. Proceeds win beneln scholar·
ships and instructional music pro.
grams sponsaed by the Williamsville
Music Boosters at W~iamsvitte high
schools and middle schools.

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f.fllll.-9idlo _...., Yldeodhca. IIIOCioe ~ IDII
alidel
s.pncL---s rec:onliDg ('OOice or llllllie)
m.fml.--amic: ICOI'CIIDCI -mop
d.fmi.--&lt;:OIIIpllll:r fiJco IJid ~For eumple. k.....-- ... u.t. will mrieYe a listo f videos. filml. or alides about die aupreme court. Typiq
k-heart _ . . 111111 l.pld. will produce a list-of audio reconlinp of heart IOWida. h ia very lmportanllo ioclude all die peri·
ods in die code when llliD&amp; lhia -.eh llr8legy. When a lilt of
lilies is~ the bnct.eted words &lt;mosic&gt;, &lt;datafile&gt;. &lt;VI·
sua!&gt;, and &lt;iouod&gt; indicaae an audiovisual item.
The Univemly Libraries Catalog oontains audiovisual bold·
ings for all the libnuy units, u well as the Earthquake lnfonnation Center. Instructional Technology Services located in 24
Capen, and the VISUal Resoun:es Center In Hayes 332. l!ach of .
tbese locations bas different loan policies. It is usually noted on
the cstalog record if an item is on reserve, or does not circulate.
Ir lhe AV materials you are looking for are not held by UB,
you might also try the WorldCat database available on the Li·
bmries bomepage (BISON m at hllp:/fwillls.butralo.eduJUb rarles(e-rtSOurces(ftntsearcb(worldcat.btml WorldCat is
part of the FtntSearch family of databases. Once connected to
WorldCat. select "All Areas"" on the FintSean:b "Database Area"
screen. 1b limit your sean:h to audiovisual items. From the open·
ing WorldCat page, select SEARCH. When the search fonn
screen appears. select ADVANCED SEARCH. A wi ndow will
appear containing a TYPE menu. Scroll down and select ME·
DIA. Continue by entering your search term(s).
For morr infonnntion on locating AV materials using the Li·
braries Catalog and/or Wor/dCat, contact Lori Widunski, H&lt;ad,
M&lt;dia Resourus C&lt;nt&lt;r. H&lt;alth Sci&lt;nces Library at829-36/ 4.
-Sue Ntumtistt r and Lori Widz.inski, Univtrsity Ubrarits

~·1'110ENT

INFO-an
Students interested in transferring
to US to pursue an undergraduate
degree in business administratton .
nursing, pharmacy 01' health-reJated
professions should attend one of
the free specialized infOI'mation programs to be held in November.

A program prtMding i"bmalion on
degl8e requirements, ii'Oemships and .,._ oppor1lriies in
health-nllaladlieldswl be held from tO
a.m. 10 t p.m. on Sah.rday, New. 2. on

the SOlAh C&lt;rTl&gt;us. IVeas of study 10
be feall.Wed are exercl!le science. modi-

cat teclrdogy, nucleer-medicina technology, rusing, physical and occupationalthenlpy. phartTa:y and pharrr&amp;
t:euical scion:es. 5ponoors are the
schools o f - - -.
Nusing and f'llMracy in a4onc1ion
with the Office of Admissions. Cal 64&amp;66481ar ltlSOIVBiions.
Students interested in studying
accounting, finance, humanresources management. manag ement-infOfmaUon systems and marketing may attend an information
session from 10 a.m to 1 p .m. on
Saturd ay. Nov. 9. on the UB North
Campus. Call 645-3207 10 reserve a

space lor thts p rogram, co-spon·
SO&lt;ed by the Schoof of Manegemont and the OHice of Admissions.
~NAMED~

OF T E C - T TIIANSI'III
- •. - . . . . . hasbeen
appointed Campus director of
tech~ transfer, it has been
announced by Dele M . Landi. UB
vice president for research.
Massing will be responsibkl for
disck&gt;sure. d evek&gt;pment, marketing, protection and licensing of
intellectual and tangible property
developed b y faculty and staff of
UB. including the filing and prosecuUon of patent applications in the
U.S. and foreign countries.
He has served as associate
director oltechnok:&gt;gy transfer services al UB since t 992. Before
joirung US, he was director ol engi-

neering at Keller' Technology Corp.,
vice president lor rnarv.JfactL&lt;in at

KJstlef lnstn.rnen! Corp. and -

in

engineemg ~at the Y&amp;atron
Corp., the Calspan Corp. and the
~Corp. He holds

a B.S.

degree in elec1ricat and mechanical
engineemg and en M.S. degree in
eng"-ing. both from UB.

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OriS 18
e

ROYALS YOU.EYBAU. ON HOT S1REAK

The Royals needed just 50 minutes to defeat visiting Robert
Morris 1~ 10. 1~5. 15-6 Friday nlght 81 Akmni Arena.
UB used a balance allacl&lt;, playing all 14 squad members
in the three games and gMng the starter11 much of the night
off. Aprille SWeeting and Corinn Hirst led the Royals with four
kills each, while Somer Oeschambaull racon:led 11 assists
and four digs iri two games. Sweeting and Gandi Sims led UB
with lllree blocl&lt;s each.
UB needed a 20-18 come-from-behind, rally-scoring fifth
game to deleat Siena Saturday night 81 Alt.mni Arena. The
Royals downed the Saints 1~13, 15-6, ~15, 12-15,20-18.
The Royals placed four players in doubl&amp;-fiQUra kills, led
by Amy Burda's 19. Sims, playing her final contest 81 Akmni
Arana, added 17 with a team-best 20 digs white Hirst and
Sweeting tallied 15 and 1 t kills respectillely. Burda also
added 19 digs
Deschambaun. lhe fras!Ynan sette&lt;, had a career-high 59
assists in the match along willl 11 digs. SWeeting led UB with
six blocks. The Royals (1~13) have now won two in a""" and
seven of their last eight
The Royals will now play lhe remainder of the season on
the road beginning with the second Mid-Continent East Division cluster at Central Connecticut Stale on Friday. UB leads
lhe East Division willl a 3-0 record.

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1III.IIPI'UCAIIIIII 01' 'I8IIIIOLCMIY for periODS With
diubilllieo will be the focuo ol the next UB 11 SUNRISB
pn&gt;pllllto be held 117:30 LJD. Wetloladay, Nov. 13, in the
Cenler fo&lt; TOIDOnOW on UB's North~-

"ALoolt at UB's Center for Aaaistive Technoloai" will
be~ by wmwn c. Monn, dW( of UB 's Departof OccupoDonal Tberapy and director of the Center
for Aaaisti ve 'feclulology.
.
BsW&gt;Iisbed u a IIIUitidisciplinacy caner in 1987, the
Center for Auistive TechnolosY is intetnatiooally recoanized for iiJ . - . b, educatioa IDd device developiDOIIt
WOtt. Mann will prcaent an overview of the center's resean:h IDd services, and show otides of assistive technolot!Y in action. •
.
UB ll SUNRISB is a aeries of brealcfut progmns pro~by the UB Alumni Auociation and UB's Office of
,coateroaces IDd Special Bvmts, Ne'wa ~- and Offie•&gt; bf PllbiJColioili: It abo i...uppii&gt;Nd by the Ofl'lce, of
Uaivenlly Developmealllld Office for Pllbtie Service IDd
Orban Alfain. The Buffalo Marriott is cocponote lpOtiiOt'
of UB ll SUNRISB.
.
The price of the (II'OIPIII. which will include a full breakr..i, is SIO for UB Alumru AlloCWioo loembens IDd $12
for au-..
Farii!Die infonnatiao,- the alunmi--=illioo 81829-2608. 1ldlr:l ordcn li'IISl be roaived by Mcaday, Nov. II.

e 'NOlaN'S SOCCER
The Royall le!l to 6-7-3 over the weekend wrth lhair road
1ossas to Detroit Marcy, 4-0, and Toledo. 2-1
In the loss 10 the Titans, UB goalkeeper Joanne
Chiilingsworth stopped eight shots. The win by Oetroil was
their 10111 straight and gives them a 13-3-1 record.
The Royals allowed two early first-half goals against Toledo, lolling behind 2-0 at the hall. UB cut the margin in haff
with just 1:40 remaining in the malch as Lori Perillo netted her
ninth goal of the season off of a corner kick. it was also the
senior's 37111 of her career, moving her onto third place on lhe
Royals' al~time goal scoring list.
The Royals travallo Siena for a match on Thursday before
returning to AAC Foeld for the home finale at 10 a.m. Salurclay
against Howard. UB concludes lhe regular season on Nov. 4
at American.

e MEN'S SOCCER
Buh played a pair of Mid-Continent Conference East Dovision matches over the weekend, falling 10 Howard 4-0 and
lying Central Comecticut State 0-0. UB is now 1-12-2 on the
season and 1-3-1 in league play.
UB was held lo just two shots against lhe Bison as
The

Howard's Mike Lawrence scored all four goals. Lawrence
scored three goals when Howard defeated UB 7-2 aarher thos
season al AAC Foeld.
In the match against arch nemesis Central Connecocut.
UB goalkeeper Jim Schoenberg slopped 12 shots in 120 minutes of acdon. Schoenberg made some criUcal saves to pre·
serve the shutout. In the 73rd minute, Schoenberg stopped a
shot by Paul Wrighl deep in lhe UB end. Schoenberg ca.,.,
out and knocked away the anarnptlrom point-blank range. A
minute later, Schoenberg came lllrough again. knocking another Wright attempt out of bounds from the leh corner ollhe
box.
US's best scortng opportunity came late '" the overt•me
when Joe Marcik's blast from about 18 yards JUSt mossed the
crossbar. UB was outshot by
16-5.
The weekend's loss and tie elimmates the Bulls from making the Mid-Con post-season tournament for the first time 1n
UB's tllre&amp;-yaar membership in the league. The Bulls conclude the season with a pair of November matches First up •s
a conference meeting with Oneonta on the road on Saturday
UB concludes the season with a Nov. 5 meet1ng aga•nst
Colgale at AAC Foeld at 7 p.m.

ccsu

e MEN'S a WOMEN'S TENNIS
Both squads comp~led their tall dual seasons Saturday w1th
wtns over Niagara and Youngstown State. The Bulls frnrsh the
Jail willl a 6-3 mark while lhe Royals end a1 ~2
Royals captain Warnillie Arellano led Kathy Twosl's
women's team Saturday at number-two srngles. dowmng
Nl8gara's Christine Kawalski 6-3. 7-5 and then defeating
Youngstown's Allison Gatta 6-3, 6-0. Arellano teamed with
Stacey Gargan to post victOfies in the number~ doub~s
matches. winn111g a 7-4 tiebreaker over YSU's Mary Hall and
Corey lngam The Royals defealed Noagara 5-2 and Youngstown 6- t

UB women'l volleyball te•m Ia winner over Siena~ Oct.
28 In Alumni Arena. In action, from left: Somer
Deechambault (No. 2) , Cortnn Hirst (No. 12) ond
Aprtlle SweetlncThe Bulls meanwhtle blanked Ntagara 7.Q and defeated
Youngstown 4-3 Andrew Garber led the SuUs tak1ng the deckiing match tn the Win over the Pengutns

e MEN'S a WOMEN'S SWIMMING
The Bulls and Royals hit the waters this weekend as they
open up the1r dual-meel seasons Saturday at Edmboro The
Royals, defeodrng M1d-Conunent Conference champk)rls, return a strong nucteus rrlCiuding las! season's Mrd..con S-Mm·
mer-of-the-Year Sue Bohnet. as well as Ali-M1d-Cont1nent
member AJexandra Barrera, the ~ague's newcomer~·the·
year IWO seasons ago. Sanoors Megan Connolly and Martoe
Duffett also return, gMng Dors1 Raynolds' squad strong leadership.
Looking to rebound from last season's thlfd-place Mid-Con
hn1sh. the Bulls return Aii·M•d·Con selectiOfl Mark Horgan to
anchor thetr freestyle and tndMdual Medley events. Aiso return•ng tor coach Budd Term1n are AII-Conterence hOnOrees
Korry Miller, Kev1n Jessop and Carl Garlson
- Ted Wasko. Sports Information OffiCe

THIS WEEK 'S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

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Women's Soccer
Men's Soccer

CALENDAR

vs

vs

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Howald

Colgale

RAC F.ald. 10 am
RACFoeld. 7 pm

Continued from page 8
SecoDdary Utblum Batteria,
Chris Fries, Wilson Grcalbalch
Ltd. 170 Millard Fillmore Aca·
dcmic Center. Ellicon . Nonh
Campus. 7:30 p.m. $ 20 for the
series. To register. call 645·
6800, ext 2020.

·-

UB Wind EnMmb~. Sarah L.
McKoin, conductor. Slec . North
Campus. 8 p.m. $3.

UUMFI._
IDCiepeockD« Day (1996). SIU·
de nt Union 'Jl)c:aler. Non h Cam·
pus. 9 p.m. $2, Sl.SO.

purities loa Supui1ukl, Prof.
J. M. Parpia, Cornell Uniw. 210
Natural Sciences. Nonh Campus. 3:45 p.m.

-

llloloCic&lt;ll d sRNA adeDOSiot dumlnue
and other proldDJ lbal bind
doub~nled

RNA. Dr.

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Poetry Lecblre
Oo New Austnllan Potlry,
John Kinsella. 438 C lemens.
Nonh Campus. 10 :30 a.m. Free.
Part of Wednesdays 11 4 Plus .

P'oetr)' L.Kture
From BASIC En&amp;llsb lo Un·
der Ensure: Is Tbtrt a
Metalanauaaef Barrett Wauen.
438 C lemens. North Campus.
12:30 p.m. Fru. P.rt of
Wednesday• 11 4 Plus.

-IAtiJc C:OUO.I••
What " ld tbtory! Part 11:
SeardUq for Dt'W adotm, Eu·
gene KleinberJ, Mathenulics.

684 Boldy. Nonh Campus.
3:30 p.m.

ur.-......

Tbosb/Dboertallon Support
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4 :30
p.m. To register, call the Offi~
of Studenl Life, 645-6 125.

ur.-.......

Btblad lbe Curtain. Center for
the Arts. North Campus. 5-1
p.m. To register, call the Office
of Studenl Life, 645-6 125.

ur.-.......

T ' al Cbl for Bqlnn.ers, Ron
lngJlsbe . 5 p.m . To regisler, call
1he Office of Studenl Life. 645-

6125.
UUMFIIM
6:30p.m. $2. $3.50.

ur.-.......
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....,_Col._...

~y

645~1 25 .

Auoatllii ' Be-Addln&amp; lm-

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-ace

7:30p.m. Presented by t h~ undergraduate Studem ASSOC III·
lion.

Jau
Cbutk Maaaione Quau1et.
Also. William.swillt" Easa. Nonh.
and South jan ensembles .
WilliamsvHie South High
School, 59.50 Mai n St..
WiU Wnsville. 8 p.m. $15
l.adtpHdtn« O.y (1996). Slu·
dent Union Theater. Nonh Cam·
pus. 9 p.m. Sl , SJ.SO.

_--

call the• Office of Snldent Ufe,

for Hood,
Neck IUid Sloooddon. 7-9 p.m.
To reaiuer. call tbe Office of
SIUdent U f e. 645-61 25.

A .sn..otHumor Makes

Seut. 3:30 p.m. To resister,

Funk-

HARRY CONNICK JR . and
hlo
- r Nov.
8 lit eem.r lor liMo lit 7:30p.m.

uuum.

Delkalt:Detl (1991 ). Sludent
Union Theater. North Campus.

Seale. Mainstqe, Cenler
for the Arts. North Campus.

m !he Cemer ror 1he Ans. Nonh
Campus, and as Ihe~ rhrough
Dec 18.

R - t Cr-leJ Exhibit

Do you t...ve • probl•m?
Uninrsity at Buffalo's Em·
ploy« ASSlSW'ICC Program
lEAP) Will help with work·
related or personal probl~nu.
you may hue. Persons you rna~
call include Barbara J. Chnsl) .
645· 3166: Judith Oingeldcy,
645 -2398: Richard Lobaugh.
829· 2113 : and Beny Stone.
829-2238. EAP scrv1ccs arr offt'rr'd wilhout c harge ro UB t'm·
ploytts

Paintings by Roben Culley
through Now. 12 in the An De·
pattntent Gallery local~d in I he
Cen ter for the Anson the Nonh
Campus. Gallery hours 10 a.m ·
5 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a. m.-8 p.m.
Wednesday-Friday. II a.m.-8
p.m. Saturday. F~ adm1ssion

Brenda Bus, UJtiv. of Utah.
114 Hochstelter. North Campus.
4p.m .

Am~ Uptake: Tho
PotutlaJ Ro~ for Calioak
Trauport, Kelly Mahar. S08
Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m.

South Campus. The show is pan
of a series of ~x h ibi t ions presenled by the School of Arch• ·
lecture and Planning. Gallery
hours a~ 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Admission ro
the show is rree.

"Schindler and the S null
Houte.. continues through Now.
29 in the Jamet Dyetl Gallery
localed in 334 Hayes Hall on the

Th~

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Art_..,_

An exhibition of an by facull)
and alumni ce lebrating thesesquicentennial contiriues through
Dec. 18 in the Umversll)' An
Gallery. Ccnt~r for the Ans.
Nonh Campus. The show an eludes work by 17 focull y and
23 a lumni . Gallery houn arc
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday ·
Saturday, and ooon·!i p.m Sunday. AdmiSSIOn IS r~

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""Treasures rrom the Lockwood
Library-An Exhibu Cclebrat·
tng UB 's Sesquicentennial." 1s
on w1ew sn display cases on the
second floor of Lockwood Li ·
brary on the North Campus. The
exhibit reatun:s books o[ thiS
cenlury. mostly from the 1920s
and 1930s. all taken from the
stacks. Timothy Conroy from
the om~ of Publications
cunted the exhi bit, which con·
linLtes through Dec. 20.

.......

~

Leonardo Drew' s sitt-specific
inStallarion "No. 45-A" was de·
signed for the Lighlwe ll Oallery

,

Lnd Procnmmn Analyst
(Slr3)-Health Sci~nc~s Node.
Pos1ing •P-6036, lfP~6037 l osl ru~l io n• l Support Assodatr
(SL· 2)-0ral Health Serv1ccs and
lnrormatics. Posting •P-6040
~lale Cou nselor (S L ~l ) ­
Siudent Hc:a.hh C~nter. Posling
lfP~6048 . Senior Staff As!btant
(SL~J) · Ai u mni Relations. Post·
mg IP-6049. Senior Staff Asislanl (SlrJ) -Aiumni Rcla·
tions. Posting IP-6050. l nslrut'·
lion.al Support Techllidan
(SL--3)-Lockwood Memorial I.J.
brary. Poslin&amp; IP-6053. l n.struc:·
Uonal Support Aa oda lr (Sl2)-Uniwen:ity Publications.
Pos1ing IP-6054.

fKtllty
As:sistanl/Associale ProfKSOr·
Onl Heiilth Services and

lnronnat1cs. Poslmg •F-6038

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C ha ir· Med icm~.

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~ralurt:s , Post1ng IF-6055. A!lslshnt ProfHSOr-Modem lan·
guages and Lilcnllu~s. Pos1mg
IF-60!i6 As.sistaut ProfessorMusic, Posung lff-6057 . As..~is·
tanl/Assodatr ProfHSOr ·Med• a
Stud). Posung lfF-6058 Assistant/Assodatr ProfHSOr- M~d l3
S1ud) . Pos:ung fF-6059 Assis·
tani/Associatr Professor-Mod·
em Languagts1L1tt'ra1ures. PoSI·
In}!. lff-6060

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Rrsnrch Aidr-Sponsored Prngrams Pcrsonnd Opc=n SKrTtary 1-Psy-:-hology. Posung
IR-96074 Clerk III · Spec1al
Servt~s. Post•ng •R -96075 Se-c·
t'dal")' LI ·Sul·1al &amp; Prt:v~nll\' e
Med1C U\~ . 1\hlmg •R -9607b
Rtstarcb Anal)"St · Prt:,~m,,e
Mcd!CII\C, Pos11ng •R -96077
Resean:h Technician 1-Mcd•
nne &amp; M1crobaoloxy. Po)lln~
IR -96078 Ttainlac Procnm
Coonfln.ator 1-CEP/RRCEP II
Postmg •R-96079

c.o.petltlve Cl•utflecl
Clvtth&lt;vtce
Keyboa rd Sp«iallst I (SG 06)-Nutnhon Program. Lme
130747 Keyboard Sprciatist
2 (SG-09)-Ckogr:aphy. Lin~
121 733

To obtom morr mfonntJ II OII on
jobs lut~d obfw~. t"OnliU'I Puson.n~l St-n••c~s. /04 Crofts
Hall. To obtain mformotw n 011
R~s~orrlt jObs. rontoct Sp&lt;Jn·
sorrd ProgromJ Pusonnf!l. 416
Crofts.

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busineu and deVc.topmenl op..
portunitica. Advance Training
Center, 27$ Oak Sl. 8· 10 a.m.

Free. SponloC:Rd by Office of
Urban lnitiltives. For informa-

,........ ...........

HilowBen
HlfiWI
Union Theater.
North Campus. The
film has been
called ·one of the
cinema's mosl perfectly engineered
devices for saying
'Boo!'"

through the Niagara Falls-based

2425 Niagan Falls Blvd.,
Amhent . 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $200.
S37S For information, cal l 829220'2.

....... - ( l q t l

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shown tonight at 9
p.m. in the Student

~

Waste Resource AJsoc::ia&amp;.el lnc.
and Millard Fillmore CoUeae.
Classics V Banque1 Facility,

----

Jamie Lee Curtis
wields the weapon
in the 1978 shocker
"Halloween," to be

tion, call 829-2306.

SaaapHq Sl• pl ~. Offered

--.--.......

-Life, 645-6125.

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llle-NewYud&lt;T-"'Y Devclopmeol
call636-l626.

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Human f.'~r1iliutio n : lnsiabts

...

From Assisted Reproductive
Tecbno iOJin. Prof. Kent
Criclr:ard, Obstelrics and Gynecology. 306 Farber. South Campos. 12:30 p.m. Free.

RestrktH Random Walks., Dr.
Donald S1 . P. Ricl\ards, Univ. or
Virginia. 244 Cary. South Campus. 4 p.m.

ur.--.,
Tbnis/DI.ssertat lon Support
Group, Barban Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To rcgislcr. call the Office
of Sludcnl Life. 64.5-6125.

ur.--.,

T ' al Cbl for Beginners, Ron
Inga lsbe . 5 p.m. To rcgiSier. call
the Office of St udent Lire. 64.S612l .

UUAI Fll•
Hellral.scr (1987). Student
Union Theater. Nonh Campus.
6:10p.m. $2 , Sl ..SO.

TIIMter
Ha ppy Journ~y a nd T'bt: Put
l.s the Pa.d, S tephen Henderson,
director. A pair of OBC-acters.
Black Bo x Thellre, Center for
the An ll. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m.
S3 .

UUAII Fll•
Balioween (1978). Student
Union Theater. North Campus.
9 p.m. S2. SJ.lO.

FRI1

lloo. call829-3291 .

For

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280 Par\:.

North Campou. II ,30 LilL-I
p.m. Pmenled by o;m;o.
Ploblic Servic%and Uot.aM-

or

fain.

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S71L

Pllrolco Col'-1••
Uydroaenk Ions in On~Oi­

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Council Room, SOS Caprn
No rth Campus. 3:30p.m

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Umv 6&amp;4 Baldy North Campus.
J 30 p.m.

protein tnmcking, Dr. Ari Hellenius, Yale
MedicaJ School. 114 Hochstetler. North Campus. 4 p.m.

...

LID.•l :JO p.m. PretQIIed by
Sc:bool oiNunioa.
iofanna-

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lntnc:~IJular

T.,..... s-b Campus. 1'30

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......
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Plolloeoplor Col._ •••
lndu.kal Meanin&amp;and
Prtjudamental Experkn&lt;:e,
Marieljt van der Schaar. Leiden

llloloC)cel kleaceo

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HistoriCIII Rewarcb lid t~
W~b. 223 LOckwood. Noon.
Register by c1llina Gemma

-;~~~oslo nal and Quasi Oo~Di ­
inenslonal Systems. Prof. Y.C
Lee, Physics . 210 Natural Sciences. Nonh Campus. 3:45p.m.

.....
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by-callioa GenunO o.v.....,..

64-S-21 17. 110 l..oetwood. North
Campus. Nooo.

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........
-

SU.. .._...,._ Nooo. To
tt&amp;iJier, taU the Offtee: or Stu-

....,, ure. 645-6125.

Children, Toronto. Kinch Audi torium. Children's Hospital .
8a.m.

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n .. Filii, Rloe and Fall? or t1x

G...., LUes Sol-'&lt;~ Flobuy'
ISO Yeon olH. . . . llopocta

Black Box lbc.atre. Center ror
the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m.
$3.

UUAII fl._
Frnkl (ltll). Student Union
Theater. North Campus. 11 :30
p.m. $2, $3.50.

......... eo......

................

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Mlu '!U.Mt~Mum CFr"&amp;&amp;ltto

SAT2
.... . . .

19f5). Series tickets $16, $20.
Other dates Nov. 10, Nov. 17.
Calumet, S4 W. Chippewa. 5
p.m. S4, S.S. For information,
call Graduate Student Associ•tion, 64.5-2960.

lliUpllc c....., Moclulor
r .... ..., H-Tiooory.

Pn&gt;f. Mar\: Mahowald. Nortbwestem Univ. 146 Diefendorf.
South Campus. 4 p.m•

......,.__
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Tllelldlon ... 'lwloolkoued
1o be, Dr. David Triute. Sc:hool
l'harmacr- 108 Sbennan.
Sooth Campus. 4 p.m.

M kUel T. Lot-, M.D., Univ.
. of PittsburJh. Kitc:bhofer Room,
RPCt. 12:30 p.m.

c..,.....-

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Dddk£..,- .. Diocova, Marielje V1D dcr Schur,
Univ. of ~ideD. 280 Part.
North Campus. 2 p.IIL

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Dr. James Haynes, SUNY Col-

lege 11 Brockport. 140 Ketter.
Nonb Campus. II Lm.
~

........ -Telk

Murny Edmood . 438
Clemens. Nonh Campus. II
a. m. F~. Pan of Wednesdays
4 Plus.

.........

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...

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11

Hnlillc Modalities. Harriman Student Center. South Campus. 8:4.5 Lm.4:30 p.m. Presented by School
of Nursing. For infonnllion, call

829-3291.

fimperalHnt.ltislt-'nlkinl.

and Ado&amp;H.teat Subltaoce
Ute: Analysl.s or • MMI.aUonal
Model, Thomas A. Wills, Ph.D.,
Alben Einstein College of
MediciM. Research Institute on
Addictions. 1021 Main St. 1:30
p.m. Free.

c-,Col._...

Tbt Radkal MecbaDJaa in
Am.loo Group MJantioa Catalyzed by LysiH 2, ~Amlao­
muta.te, Prof. PaTy Frey, Univ.
of Wisconsin. 21.5 Natural Sciences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

-p

Makia&amp; Friends Wltb Americans. 145A Student Union.
Nonh Campus . 4 p.m. Registra-

tion is requested:

e~1164.S-2720.

uu.un.

BeUra.Jxr (1987). Student
Union lllcater. North Campus.
6:30 and 9 p.m. $2. S3.l0.

ur.--.,

Lalla R.bythm Daocina (or
Slap. and Couples of All
Ap. 7 -9 p.m. To register. call
the Office of Student Life, 6456.125.

_..,.

Allleftk. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8- I I p.m. Free. SponSOttd by Gnduare Student As-

North Campus. 8 p.m. $4, U.
SB, $10.

-.-..

Happy JouJ""My aod Tbe Pul
II 1... Pul, Siephen Heodenon.
di~tor. A pair of one-acten. ,

Wolraanl R.Ubam , orpn. Cosponsored by the Buffalo chap-

ter of American Guild of Orpnis:ts. Slce. North Campus. S p.m.
S2. Sl. S6. $8.

ur.--..

. . , _ .,._.for Slap.
ud CoupD. 7:4S p.m. To reaister, eall tbe otr"tce: of Student
Life, 645-6125.

ute-...ep

c......,.

w.......

ud
Du&lt;"'" 8:4S p.m. To resister. call
the Office of Student Life, 64S-

612S.

For studeatJ iGteratH in

bUJiM:ss admialstntioa, aun-

ina, pbarmacy or hcalth"'leatH prol'asioas. South
Campus. 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Call
64.5-6648 for reservations.

--..

Tbe Chatleate or Cbanae:
Keeplna C urnat ud Competltlw.. ContincntaJ breakfast.
and luncheon at 12:15 p.m. The

Sbort-Ttrm Solutioa Focused
T'benp)' wlt.Ja Couples, Bonnie
Collins. Daemen College. SSS ;
students $40. Sponsom:l by Social Wc:wt Continuina Education. For information, call 6456140.

Hon. Samuel L. Green receives
I 996 Edwin F. Jaec.kk: Award at
luncheon. Center for the Aru.
North Campus. 9 Lm. $35. S45.
For infonnation. call645-2107.

Sean Shinners.. 930 Clemens.
Nonh Campus. 3 p.m. Free.

L8w-

How to Do 8uaJMU Ia lluula.

ute-...op

Qiaoaalulllu.. Mmbt&amp;- 210
Student Urtion. North Campus.
5-7 p.m. Also Sunday. Nov. 3.

Free.

CILAMI-r-

Centr.r ror Eatreprnturial
LH.cknb.J• lOth Aaatvuury
Dlaaer. AlbriJht-Kno,; Art Gal lery. 6:30p.m.

Happy .JCM~..naey aDd T'be Put
b tlx Put, S1ephen Hendenon.

director. A pair of one--actus.
Black Boa l'bc-aue, Center for
the Arts. Nor1h Campus. 8 p.m.
S3 .

_$~N~

JOCiatioo.

Muir Stria&amp; Quartet- Slee.

o.a-•-

or

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Dia.1ope oa llaeil•. 2--6 p.m.
Th re1istcr, call the Office or

Student Life, 64S-612S.

~

Happy Jou.....,.

and

The Put

Gnat Dndopatnt Workshop. 3-S p.m. To re&amp;ister, calf
the Office of Scudent Life , 6456 125.

_,_._.

A ooliUII Gopta, Pruair, btc.
206 Fumu. Nonh Campou.
3:4S p.m.

ute-...ep

Vola•tetr-lt Cu Cbup
Your l.Jfe! 4 p.m. To rqi.s&amp;er,
call the Otr"sce of Studcal Ufe.
645-6125.
~

Jolla "'-''a aad llunU
Wattn.. University Gallery,
Cencer for the Arts. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m. Free. Part of
Wednesdays at 4 Pll.l$.

lat-.- Malia&amp; for

Adtalaalua bolo U.. F.Uifn
Bac.bdor ol Sc.ieD« ia J't&amp;ar.
maey J'&gt;-o&amp;raa- 110 Knox.
North Campus. Nooo.

H..-IR.......... oiTGF-

..... 2, Prof. Saadn Goliad.
Molecular Medicine. RPO. 2()j:
Natural Sciences. North Campus. lp.m .

N....,...... oolid l . .or

cella aWoJe t1oe.........,... or

,,.......,..., Prof. s..r..
Cohen, Medicine, VA Medical
Center. 306 Parter. South Campus. 4 p.m.

ur.-......

Mlebod Webb. 301 Crosby.
Sooth Campus. s,JO p.m.

ur.--..

RlW and Rewards

or o.nw.a·

YoarOwo ......__ 6: 30-~30

p.m. To reJiSkr, call the Office
of Student Life, 645-6125.

-...--

Fresh Start: Bow to Quit
Smolda&amp;- 4:30p.m. To rc&amp;ister,
call the Office of Student Life,
64l-6125.

uu.um.

Aynn, Doris Oordoo. John
Walker. Scudent Union lbcatcr.
North Campus. 3:30 p.m. Spon...-ed by P!Uiooopby. Forum '"'
Real Debate. ud Ceorer for IDquiry.

ute-...ep

Union lbealer. North Campus.
6:30p.m. S2. $3.50.

N.....u., Ron laplsbc: and
Tnlcy C&lt;&gt;llinpood. l p.m. To
re&amp;iJlc:r, taU tbe Off'tce of Stu·
denr Ufe., 645-6125.

a a.., Coouoldt Jr.

Libertariu Pt:npectlvet OD
Abor1ioa, Ttbor Mach.an, Tom

S'

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13 'rtFJ . . . . . .

ur.--..

.......... Sip J.aopqe

............ ud s....t..l ol
t1oe EBV C - l l o u i q
Prof. Jolin L
Yues. Humu GeDetics. ll48
Farber. Sooth Campus. 4 p.m.

Se.lur. 5:30p.m. To re&amp;isr.tt,

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...... a.-.ra.. Rc-Jister

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S)'1111oaia ud lllolo&amp;kal
Enlualloll ol t:..cllyso&lt; A.oli1.....- Aptlb, Pn&gt;l. Onham

Jones, Ckmaon Univ. 2 15 Natu.-al Sc:knces. North CampuJ.
4 p.m .

call tbe Offaoc of Studc:at life,
645-6125.

by eallina Gemma DeVmney.

645-2817. 110 l.Dcltwood. North
Campw;. 7 p.m.

Ddkal.,... (1!91). Student

and

Hla
1\uak. Bud. Mainst~.~C-o Cezuer
r.. 11&gt;e Aru. North Campus.
1,30 p.m. ru.so. S28.50.

V....D1
t&amp;J
Tbellllrtlo ol"-ricao Vidoo'

Getockncl
.....
2-Sc:le- llfti&amp;loo

a

(Pnoanuo 1). Sc:=ain&amp;
Room. Center for tbe ArU..
North Campou. 7:30p.m. Free.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIYIRSITY AT BUFFALO

State University ofNew Yoric

October 24 . 1996 Volume 28 , No. 9

UB law school creates new center

to advance study of criminal law

International conference Nov. 23 is inaugural event
ay SUE WUETCHEII
News Services Assoc1ate Editor

T

HE UB SCHOOL OF LAW has established the
Buffalo Criminal Law Center to advance the study
of criminal law, an area of study generally neglected in U.S . law schools.

The center has a thnoe-pronged
mission. said Markus Dubber, UB
associate professor of law and center organizer. It will provide support for legislators in matters of
criminal justice policy, and will
attempt to reinvigorate the study of
criminal law in the U.S.. which,
Dubber said, declined after many
states. iocluding New Yorlc, revised
their penal codes in the t %0s.
The center also will provide an
intensive learning experience for
UB law studenls specializing in
criminal law who will edit the
center's journal, Buffalo Criminal
ww Review; plan confereoces, and
prepare poticy analysis for the New
Yorlc and federal legislatures.
Oubber hopes the new center
will tum UB law school iniD the primary center for the study of criminal taw in the U.S. Criminal law
generally has
been a ne glected area of
study in U.S.
law sdlools. he
said, noting
that the Buffalo
criminal law
initiative "proDUIIIIER
vides us with a
unique opportunity to be national
lea&lt;lm in the SIUdy and future evolution of criminal-justice poticy."
The center will hold its inaugural event. an intema1ional conference on "Rethinking Federal Criminal Law," from 8 a.nHi p.m. Nov. 23
in O'Brian Hall, North Campus.

T

he conference will bring to
gether scholars from across
the U.S. and Europe to reconsider substantive federal criminal
law as part of an ongoing effort 10
re-examine federal sentencing law.
"Federal criminal law needs substantive reform," noted Oubber.
Although many stales reformed
their penal codes during the I%0s.
"the federal code is outdated.
bloated and inconsistent," he said.
Topics for discussion a1 the confere nce wHI include .. Federal
Criminal Law and Sentencing Today," "Federal Criminal Justice
Policy and Politics,'' ''Women, Minorities and Federal Criminal
Law,'' "Comparative Perspectives
on Federal Criminal Law" and "Reformi ng Federal Criminal Law and

Sentencing." Conference proceed·
ings will be published in the inau·
gural issue of the Buffalo Criminal
LawRevi~.

Criminal legislation has reached
a crossroads as rehabilitation has
been discredited as a principle of
punishment, said Dubber, who also

serves as the faculty editor of the
Buffalo Criminal Law Re1•iew.
Although politicians continue to
push fo r harsher sentences and
prison construction. a long-term answer to the crime problem has yet
to be proposed. he said. Without a
sound criminal justice policy. releasing an offender into lhe general
population after decades in prison
does little more than leave the problem for another day, he added.
ConfereoceSJXlOSOI'are Mitchell
Lecture Fund. the Conferences in the
Disciplines progrnm and the Baldy
Center for Law and Social Policy.

Gospel Showcase
Noelene Leader-Hunon, above. is soloist for Gospel Showcase, a spectacular evening of gospel music presented Oct
19 in UB's Mainstage theater. Center for the Ans. The performance. pan of the university's sesquicentennial celebration,
featured gospel giants Richard Smallwood and Horace Boyer

Senate to develop policy on conflict of interest
SJ SUE wunctiEII

News Services Associate 01rector

T

HE FACULTY SENATE

Committee on Research

and Creative Activ ity
(RCA) is seeking input
from faculty as it attempts to develop a policy on faculty connict
of inter.est.
UB doe s no t hav e suc h a
policy, Philip Yeagle, committee
chair and professor of biochemistry, told the Faculty Senate Executive Committee at its Oct. 16
meeting. "We as facu lty would be
best served by having a policy of
guidance in areas where we no w
are getting encouragement to explore more and more," such as entrepreneurship and new sources
of research funding, Yeagle said.
WhiJe the commiuee with in

"You can get a sense
here that there are a
variety ofethical issues
and professional issues
... on which universities
have muddled through
on occasion.
CLAUDE WEU: H

the past few years deve loped. in
conjunction with the Office of the
Vice Pres ident for Researc h, policies on the "narrower" issues of
financi al disc losure and standards
for research. any pol icy on con-

tlic t o f int erest. also referred to
as co nfl ic t of com m it me n l.
woul d cover much broader i~­
sues. he noted.

Y

eagle read from a docume nl
from the American Associa tio n of Med ical Coll eges that
states th at co nflic t of commitmen t uri ses whe n a facu lt y
me mbe r 's acti vi ti es "interfe re
with the paramoum obligations to
swdents. coll eag ues and th e pn mary missions of the acade mic'!&gt;
institut ion ...
Moreove r, the po li cy statement on conflict of interest and
co mm itme nt fro m T he Jo hn s
Hopkins Uni ve rsi ty notes tha t
"the primary comm itment. in the
professional se nse. of full -time
fac ulty is to the institut ion."
Yeagle no ted, " Yo u see th e

UB/Bosnia health care partnership
announced at White House ceremony
a,LOtSaAIID

News Services Editor

OFFICIALS FllOM 1'IIE U8 School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the UB English Language Insti tute gathered at the
White House on Monday for a
ceremony to announce an innovative health care partnership between the Buffalo institutions and
the Tuzla Clinical Center of
Bosnia- Herzegovina to help
Bosnia rebuild its health care delivery system after years of war.
UB personnel, along with personnel from the Buffalo General
Hospital System and the city of
Buffalo, were guests of Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Among those
representing UB were John P.
Naughton , vice president for

clinical affai rs and deOJ n of the
School of Medici ne and Biomedi cal Scie nce s. and Ste phe n C .
Dunnett. vice provost for interna tional educatio n and director of
the English Language Institute.
Tile , . , _ l p is being funded

by a $2 mill ion grant from the
United States Agency for Intern ational Development (USAID ). in
cooperation with the Ameri ca n
International Health Alli ance .
Buffalo General has had an
infonnaJ relationship with Tuzla
Clinical Center for two years.
through the efforts o f Jaco b
Bergsland, a cardiothoracic surgeon and UB ass.o ciate professor
of surgery. Bergsland went to
Bosnia to volunreer at the Tuzla
center in 1994.

He inili ated an exc hange of
medi cal perso nnel be tween Buffa lo Gen eral and Tu zla at th at
time, and raised more th an S 1.5
million in suppl ies and equipment
for Bosnia through Internat ional
Medic al Relie f o f Western New
Yo rk . a philanth ropic orga nizati on he heads.
The mission of the new form al

partnership is to help improve
health care in Bos nia thro ugh
educational programs. including
classes in medical Eng lish. and
the exchange of clinical pe rsonnel. The two-year projecl will
address se veral priorities:
• Health -se rvices ma nage me nt. including fin ancia l and
Continued on page 2

kinds of questions that immediately starts to raise."
He sa id the com mitt ee wa nts
input o n the iss ue from as wide a
range of fac ult y as possi ble. and
is in vestigating the possi bility of
pos ting no tices o n a bull e tin
board on wi ngs and in the Spull sored Prog ram Nntes that is ci rcul ated to researc hers. He inv it ed
fac ulty members to send him lheir
co mm en ts \' Ia e -m ai l at
pyeagle@u bmedg.buffalo.ed u.
"We need to learn a who le lot
about. .. wh at thi s issue is in our
envi ron ment. what our fac ult y are
enco ~nt ering. what ki ndsofprobleffis. where is guidance needed.
These are the things we need to
know. we need to learn abou t " he
said.
n orde r to get FSEC membe r~ ·
"thoughIs goi ng:· Ric hard Hull ,
professor of phi losophy and an
RCA committee me mber. pre ·
sented several "scenanos" of conni ct o f interest. They inc luded
si tuations when: :.t fac ult y mem be r discovers the son of a g&lt;XKI
friend is a stude nt 10 h1s class. a
professor ca ncel)t cta)t .. to att end
a conference in Europe but make!&gt;
his class responsi ble fo r m2tena l
he woul d have cove red m class.
and a psychologist who teac hes
all her classes and performs her
uni ve rsity duti es o ne day a weel
and consults OJS an industrial psychologist the other fo ur days. billing fo r her time.
··You ca n get a ~e n se here that
there are a variety o f eth ical ,,_
sues and professional issues that
co me in o n whi c h un ivers ities
have mudd led th rough on occasion:· said Fac ulty Sena1e Chair
Claude Welch. Distinguished Pro-

I

Continued on page 2

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Korean traditional music to be presented in eotDri at UB

8J I'A'IWICIA VAN
News Services Editor

T

HOSE WITH AN AFFECflON

for transve rse bamboo nutes,

double-headed drums and six Siring zi lhers will be happy 10
lea rn th at they're co ming to
town-together!-tod.iy.
The UB Facuhy of Arts and Leuers will

present ''The 1996 Korean Cuhure Program: A Celebration of Korea's Traditional
Performing Ans" tonight at 8 o'clock in
Slee Conce rt Hall on lhe North Ca mpu s. II
i!&lt;. free of c harge a nd open to the public.
The popular and elegant international
program will be co-sponsored by The Korea Sociely of Wa shi nglon. D.C .. and lhe
Korean Cu hure Program o f the Korea
Foundati on in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Last year, the lwo co-sponsored a program
on Korean visual arts that was presented
to maJOTmt1se ums. galleries and uni versities throug hou t the United States.

Performers include Byung-ki Hwang,
an internationally recognized artist. composer and university educator in Korean
music who plays lbe 12- and 17-string
Korean ka yagum , a board zither with
moveable bridges. Hwang, who has leelured 1hroughou1 lhe world , also will
presen1 lhe opening llllk on his country's
traditional music.
The concert that follows will feature
Hwang 's solo performance of an original
composition ...Ch'imhyangmu;• a work
lhal broke new ground in the field of
kayagum music.

Korean vocal music will be sung by lbe
prizewinning Korean traditional voealiSl
K wansoon Kang, whose perfonnance IOUni
have covered Japan, Canada, Soulheasl
Asia and Europe during the pasl eighl
years . .

I

n addition 10 Hwang, inslnlmenlalisiS
will include Chung-soo Kim, acknowl edged masler or lbe changgo, a doubleheaded, hourglass-sbaj,ed drum wilh which
folk performers are able 10 create powerful rhythmic excitement.
Yong-gu Lee, a member oflbe National

On:hestra of Korea, will perforin on lbe
ltugwn, a large transvene bamboo nu~e
whose souod is moving even 10 Iist.enen
of different cultural backgrounds. Dae-seog
Cheong, an award-winning musician who
works wilb lhe Korean Traditional Music
On:hestraoflbe Korean BroadcastingSys~em, wiU perfonn on lbe kom~n~go, a siAslring zither plucked wilh a bamboo rod.
Finally, II Won, one of lhe mos1 acclaimed
young maSiers of lhe piri (oboe) and
t'atp'yongso (conical oboe), will perform
on those instruments.

A fishy creature appeared Saturday night
in Alumni Arena pool to
menace students innocently watching the
dive-in lllOIIie, "The
Creature from the Black
t..agoort.• That's Ron
Ingalsbe, director of the
Living Well-Center,
garbed as the creature,
grabbing onto the inner
tube.

B is o ne of only eight venues o n thi s

U

year' s tour itinerary. The others are
the Metropolitan Mu se um of Art ,
Smilh Co llege. Cleveland Museum of Art,
Temple University in Phi ladelphia.
Smithsonian Institution. Duke University
and Indiana University at Bloomington.
The program will include a 50-minute
i,nrrod uctory talk on aspects of Korean t.ra iti ona l mus ic, foll owed by a musicaJ performance on lrdditional instruments by six
of Korea's most outstanding musici ans.
Several works on the program are of the
hni9al ly and artistically demanding solo
ins ment genre known as sm1jo. which
dev lo ped in the late 19th century.

SENATE
Continued from page 1

fessor of Political Science.
.. And ye t in a litigious society in a setting where we ' re expected 10 have and to
uphold standards of performance and professional ethics, we need to have. some
would argue, an effective way of approaching issues as proposed here. None of us can
claim answers, and it may be at times th at
the best policy is no policy. But in order to
decide what policy to have or what policy
not to have. you ha ve to wrestle with is·
sues such as those that are hypotheti ca l"
and o lhers like lhose relaled by Hull.
''They ' re not hypothetical. '' coum ered
Provost Thomas Headrick. The state contro ller is responsible for the expenditure of
state funds for proper state purposes. he
sa id. " If it appears that spmeone is us in g
state resources in order to further their own
private gain of one kind or another unrelated to purposes of the univenoity, the state
controller will investi gate."

H

eadrick noled lhallhere probably will
be more investigations in the future "as
fac ulty divide their time without making it
clear what the di vision of time is." Such
investigations. he added, can lead to civil
pe nalties as well as criminal action. 'This
is not 3 hypothetical question; it's 3 very
serious question." he said.
Michael Frisch, professorofhislory and
American st udies, noted that of Hull' s scenarios. the most dramatic ones in tenns of
ethical issues. involved a conflict between
missio ns. between classroom responsibilities and something else. "What we need to
wrestle with is that there are connicts
within the missions . .. particularly the research mi ssion as it gets more involved in
public serv ice definitions, as we broaden
out the notion of what research is, who we
do it with, who we do it for ... ," Frisch said.
" You might say that institutionally, the direction we are moving is getting people in
more trouble , or at least risking more

1rouble."
II would be easy lo avoid alllrouble, he
says, but that would lead in the direction
that some community colleges have gone,
with faculty members required to account
for every minute of their time. "As institutionally we look for ways to become more
involved in' soc iety, get people functioning in different ways, thi s is going to be a
natural. and in so me ways a healthy tension, but one really worth exploring."

J

ack Meacham, professor of psychology.
said. ··conflict of interest often arises because we' re unclear as to what our real in terest is. It seems to me that if you are going to formulate a policy. it ha s to be
grounded someplace, a nd probabl y the
place to ground it is in the university 's
mission statement. Perhaps if we have difficulty on this campus, it's because the
miss ion statement itself is not sufficiently
focused , is not publicized often enough. is
too broad, has conflicts within it, tell s us
areas in which we should be moving ,
doesn ' llell clearly whal is not lbe miss ion
of this campus. what is not our mi ssion of
lhe faculty."
Maureen Jameson. associate professor of
modem languages and lileralures, asked
Yeagle if lhe commiuee was planning 10 consider "personal" conflicts of interest. such as
a conflicl bel ween wort and family.
"While I'm scandalized a1 lhe professor who takes four days a week to go off
. and have some lucrative job and only work
here one day a week, I don ' t know what
kind of guidelines you would come up with
about minimum number of hours present
on campus. or minimum degree of attention you would be paying to your work
while doing these things that wouldn't
similarly be applicable to faculty members
in lbe years when !heir children are young
and when lhey are moSl often called away
or distracted from lheir work or for some

reason nol performing al full capacily because their kids are small," Jameson said.
.. I'm wondering if your deliberations are
going 10 lead you 10 propose solulions 10
conflicts where the choice is between gelling rich and doing lbe righllhing, whereas
1he connie I 1ha1 I lhink lhe pareniS of my
genern.tion face is between doing one right
1hing and doi ng anolher righllhing."
Many people have elderly paren1s or
sick children and face lhose kinds of personal situations. Hull noted. Some of these
conOicls now are handled by providing
notice to immediate supervisors. he said,
adding lhal lhe comminee will look a1
whether that is an adequate mechani sm for
resolving appearances of conflict of intereSI or for balancing lbe variely of tasks frequenlly required of facuhy members.

Y

eagle said the committee's discussions,
holh in lhe pasl and presen1ly, have focused on the professional arena. and have
nol deall with lhe personal connicts faced
by facuhy members.
Emes1 Slemberg, associrue professor of
planning and RCA committee member, worried lhallhe commiuee mighl make iiS mission 100 broad and suggested lhe commiuee

limil iiS focus 10 professional activities.
"I would urge you , however, if you say
you're nol going lo handle such a problem-( think lbe family one is a particularly importanl one-thai you at leasl acImowledge lbe problem exisiS in your report and don '1 say, 'forgel ahoul il.' ll's a
very critical issue," said William Miller,
professor of stomatology.
..It seems to me from the university 's
point of view, it shouldn't matter if I take
off Mondays and Fridays to work on my
private business and earn extra money, or
whelber flake off Mondays and Fridays 10
lake care of an infanl because my wife has
a part-lime job, because either way lhe
university lose-s me on those two days."
Meacham said. "II seems 10 me from lhe
university 's interist, t~e issue is merely
whelher I'm fulfilling my responsibilities
to the university, and the reason for the
conflict, I don ' t see how that enters in.
" Is lhe lopic here really connie! of·commitmentlconflict of interest, or how do we
police ourselves. how do we make sure
each of us fulfill s our responsibililies 10 our
profession and to our careers here at the
university?" he asked.
-

HEALTH CARE
Continued from page I
quality management, infonnation systems
and sttalegic planning
• Nursing, including management and
expanding the role of nurses in patient care
• Pediat'iics. including reducing neonalal morbidily and mortality, eslablishing
scree ning programs, improving orthopaedic surgery, and caring for refugee children
• Women's health, focusing on cervical cancer prevention.
To support Ibis effort, Bergsland asked
John K. Filzer, assislant director of UB's
English Language Institute, lo develop a

medical English program 10 enable
Bosnian beallh care personnel to re-eslablish professional contacts and to communicate effectively with medical personnel
during lhe exchange.
Nearly 120 heallh care professionals are
enrolled in lbe four-monlh program, which
began in August al lhe Tuzla Clinical Center. The institute also is hosting a Bosnian
ins1rue10r who will complele a leacher-training program 111 UB in November and return
10 Bosnia to leach English allhe clinic. AI
least one additional Bosnian instructor is
expecled 10 comple~e the program.

�3

Members of the "Class of 2000" project have come to UB from the
four corners of New York State: Buffalo to Oceanside, Vestal to Oswego. The New York City area is well represented. Ranging in age
This week, the Reporter begins aseries of ar·

'

from 17 to 19, a' few are commuter students who live at home; the
majority live on campus.

"mean ...

ticlt) on the Class of 2000, a project thai we

The fir s t

hope will allow 1he campus •ostw&lt; lhe educa·
tional and penonal experiences of25 UB stu-

denlsas lhey proceed lhrough college.

Students for the project were se lected by the

omce of Studenl Life, and ,.p.. sen1abroad

cros.s·section ofUB freshmen. Students who
have agreed to participate in this series of articlcs began by filling out a survey about themse lves. including information on why they chose
UBandwhallheirhopesii'Cforlhcireduca~ion
and the fumre. The Reporter will be in touch

wilh lhese SIUdeniS by e-mail and telephone a

Nine weeks into their college careers, they all speak highly of ,

meant ··not much

• UB . In fact, it is that high regard for the university that has brought •

sleep. mega reading.

1

too much fun ." says

' most of them here, coupled with UB's affordability and size.
What have they enjoyed the most about UB so far? Friends, free- '
: dam and fun .
1

'

1w o

mon1hs " us have
Erin.

Location and
reputation were im pon ant factors in her
deci s ion to atlend

The downside of life at UB? The food. roommates. and the self-

UB. and she's glad
s he did . It' s been a

diSCipline required by COllege StUdieS.
' "good overall experience SO far. Lillie or no
:~u!~;~~e::~ ~;.m;:~~~·.~;! ~i~s7:.; ~~~les 1 A couple are homesick, but most are having a terrific time . What : :~~~~tmenl 10 being away from home ," she
forrccdbackonissuesimportaniiOSIUdenls.
' would they change about their firs t two months at UB? For many, 1'
She's enjoyed selling up her room and
'

and as a sounding board on curn:nl !rends in

highereduca~ion.

The Reporter wou ld like

10

thank the Office

of Sludenl Lirefor all their help identifying SIU ·

getting to know her room - nnd suite-males.

not a thing. Others wish they had studied more , kept up better with , bulthe food is "bad. bad. greasy. queasy·
1
'

their reading , made more friends. One student noted , "I would not

dents for this articles. as well as lhe sludents.

them,.,)ves. for !heir lime. honeSiy and insighls. ' have experimented with th ings that I was not able to handle yet."
Their views of the future? Some are certain they have a promis-

Jennifer Abbata

ing life ahead . Some find the future a little frightening . Others think

~!,.n: Websler

there is a lot of hard work up the line. Two said they consider the
Major: compu~er science
' future "bleak," with jobs and opportunities uncertain at best.
Location and repulalion were the deciding '1
Meet the Class of 2000.

factors when Jennifer decided to attend UB .
"I chose UB beca use it s a good

school, especially for

BY

CHRISTINE

VIDAL,

REPORTER

EDIT0/1111

1

making, fattening , same-every -day food ...

How are classes going? "Fifly.fifty. Good
and not so good." she says. She's had to ad-

juSI 10 "keeping up wilh lhe workload (and)
learning each prof's acadt: mic style and rising to it."

Jennifer Cotignola
Age 18

Hometown Brooklyn
MaJOr bus•ness
A beautiful campus, a good business program
and affordabili ty combi ned to
Jennifer
10 UB. Although the
first tw o months
were hard . she 's
happy wi th he r
c hoice . " 1 \ove it
here . I made so many
friends and my
classes arc really interesting."
Classes are going
"just OK ." she sa id.
She has to do a lot
more studying to survive in college. and ,.'the classes are so big. I
cannot ge t the o ne·on-one teacher-student relationship· like I had in high sc hool. l like
sma ller classes. but I will have to adjust."
Bu t the Methods of Inqu iry class she 's tak ing is helping a lot. " It's teachi ng me ho w to
1 succeed in my lecture cl asses." Jennifer said.
The buses and doing laundry arc the thing!&lt;.
she likes 1he least about UB . The most diffi • cult personal adjustment is having to share a
1 room after always having her ow n. she says

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Another reason is because it' s only an
Classes are more d ifficult and the SIZC o ft he
hour and a half from
differentl y. "Whe n I
lectures make it "hard to pay attenti on and
my hou se. I'm far
registered for classes,
get individual help." Sharing a room with
enough away from
9o'clock seemed late
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three other people. and soning out issues such
home. but if 1 want
compared t o 7
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(need) to go home.
o'clock in high
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it 's easy."
school. But as the
But she's also enjoyed the people she \
The fir st two
year goes on, I find it
met at UB . "I've made such good friends in
months at UB have been heclic, she says. "It 1 harder and harder to
a
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time . I feel like we've shared so much
is definitely a new experience. Living away 1 get up."
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Sharing a room
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with two other people
ln fact, if she could change anything about : has been an adjustthe past two months, Jennifer says, it would 1 ment, but it's also had
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spend less time studying, and have a little
around. I feel I have settled in quicker than
more fun ."
1 if I was living with freshmen."
She enjoys the new friends she's made, 1
He's also had to adjust his study habits.
but finds donn life has it£ drawbacks. "It's t " I never studied in high school," Brian says.
most definitely hard living with someone ; Classes are going well. but ..a couple could
who dOes things that I don'tagrec with .'' Stu- 1 and will be better.''
cause of its size ar'ld
repu ta ti o n. and is
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sion.
" I'm having a
work all the time and then finally going to
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says. In fact. there is
1 The first two months at US have been fun .
Mater: pharmacy
Another thing is the idiots who pull the fire
nothing she would
interesting and very busy. says Susan . She
alarm at all hours when you're trying to
As the only state sc hool with a School of
change about her first
chose UB over Syracuse and Hoban and Wil 1
two mo nths here.
liam Smith Coll eges
Pharmacy, UB was an easy. affordatHe choice
sleep."
1 for
And she's happy with her deci She's enjoying the
because " I liked the
social atmosphere of
, campus a lot and 1
sion to come to Bufcollege. " Everyone is so nice," she says. But 1 liked the architecture
falo . " ) love the
living away from home presents the greatest 1 program . It also was
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people, the fast pace
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personal challenge. especiall y "getti ng used
the least expensive."
and how much is of·
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Classes are goi ng
fered here," she say !I
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Brian has done some comparison shopping,
month s at UB hav e
found her professors
and he's glad he chose UB . " I' ve talked to
been a lot of fun. as
willing to he lp outpeople attending the schools I got accepted 1
well as a learning ex side c lass. And she 's
to and turned down , and they don't like those
Age 18
perience. "I have to
learning a lot about
schools. I'm happy here."
Hometown Jamestown
budget time and
time m a nagement.
The first two months at UB have been fun , 1
money, and I didn't 1 Ma1or undec1ded. perhaps psychology
"The te sts cover more than tests in ' hi gh
although he wished he'd studied harder for 11
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first
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to
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hool. You can' t study for the first time the
She toves the freedom . but hates the food .
his first tests. " l wish I had known how much
more difficult the tests are from high school
learn it myself."
Loves English and abnonnnl psych. but hates 1 night before tht: exam. Especially in archi tecture. I need to s1art early o n projects or
How are c lasses going? "Not good, but • the "poor quality of profs in required en trytests," he says. And if he had it to do over, 1
else I'm up all mght before a project is due ."
Brian would have chosen his classes a little 1 not bad. It 's an adjust ment ," Susan says.
level courses ." And the toilet paper is

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Keeping up with hercoursework has been
a reaJ adjustment., Susan says. In fact. lhac's
the o n)y thing she would change about her
lirs1 two months at UB . ..1 would have kept
up with my reading for my classes. h 's easy
to fall behind when lhe professors assign so
much !''
She's also adjusting to life in the residence
hall s. "Living with fo ur people is hard. especially in the morning when everyone gets up
at different times. You have 10 be considerate of your roommates," she says. " I don't
e njoy caning my stuff back and fonh to 1he
bathroom. I mi ss my bathroom the most ··

do with the friends
I've made and people
I've met. My room·
mates are wonderful
and we all gel along.
My classes ~ challenging, but not impossi ble, ana I like
everyone I meet''
Her most diffi cult personal adjustment has been the increase in responsibility. ..I'm in charge of everylhing I do. Tbere's no one 10 lclJ me !hat I
can '1 go out. or !hal I have 10 auend classes, or
that I should go to bed at a reasonable hour, or
that I can't spend all my money at the mall."
And her most diffiCUlt academic adjustment has
been "forcing myself 10 get up for classes. I
don't have any 8 a.m. classes, but since there's
no one pushing me out the door, and no anendance policy, it's easier to 00( ger out of bed in
the morning!"
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Although it's difficult to get going in the
morning. her classes are going very well . she
says. although two "require a little more effon on my pan.''

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Age 18
Hometown H1c ksvtlle
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cause of its reputalion and price. One of
the things he 's enjoyed the most about
UB so far is the independence. Allhough
hi s classes are going
reasonabl y well, he
says classes are .. boring ," and ac tu a ll y.
classes and studying are the things he has en joyed the least so far about UB .
Hi s lhoughts abou t his future are uncertatn. but he does know he wants an exciting
career, and doesn't want a desk jo b. Chris.
who descri bes himself as self-motivated. independen t, daring and adventurou s, li sts
jumping out of a plane and ski ing double
black d iamond among his accomplishments.
He 's also a deejay at UB 's student-run radi o
stalion. WRUB , which he says is what he 's
enjoyed the most about UB so far.

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wants to be an oral
surgeon a nd to per·
feet a new dental surgical technique. He's
got it all pictured in
hi s head , and now
just has to figure o ut
how to do it.
UB fits nea tl y
into those pl ans. He
wants to finish col·
lege. then attend the
UB School of Dental
Medicine. He chose UB because it has a
"great science program and dental school. It 's
e ight hours from home and it gives me a
chance to meet all new people."
He's happy wi th his decision to attend UB .
"It 's a huge school with many things to do
and see. I h;lve made many new friends and
connections with peo ple who will make great
recommendatio ns later in life . My roommates
arc great and we have a Jot in commo n."
His classes are challenging, "and force me
to do more work than actually is needed in
order to surpass my peers." In fact, "for the
first time in my life I have to actually study
and do real work." If he could change anythin g about the first t!No mo nths, David says.
it would be "a lot more studying for Chern
I0 I." But the compet itio n for grades is o ne
of the things he's enjoying the most.
What ha.'\ he enjoyed the least so far? '1'he
food . It 's fanening and gross.'' TransportatiOn also is diffi cult . "The bus sto ps runn ing
at an early time in the evening, and it's very
d ifficult to get to a shopping area.''
In addition to hi s bu sy academic schedule,
David also is a deejay at WR UB. is captai n of
the intramural soccer tea m and vo lunt ee~ at
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Hometown: Oceanside
Major Enghsh

Ma;or· physical therapy Of exercise science

Locarion, cost and reputation were the rcasons Brad says he chose UB . And he's glad
he did . ··so far I'm loving every minute of
school. The students are great, classes are going smooth and the overall atmosphere is
awesome."
The only thing he'd change about his flnl
two months of college, says Brad. who lives at
home, is the amount of time he spends on campus. "I'd stay on campus more. since I' m a commuter, and explore more of what the campus
has to offer."
He 's a bit put off by UB's size. he says.
''My classes (two of them) have over 300
people in them, but that's expected."
So far classes~ going well . " I could he
doing better, but I could be doing worse . The
work isn'ttoo bed, but it 's only going to get
harder." But he's confident that he will do
well. ''I take each day one by one and try 10
do my hest. I am hoping to do well enough
in my classes to make it into physical thernpy.
I have confidence in myself to do whatever I
set out to do. I am also hoping to go on to
graduate school.

At first, Michelle says. she was incredibly
homesick and lonely, but after two months at
UB, "that changed and now I don 't want 10
leave."
She chose UB ''because 111y parents could
afford it. because !here was a 1atge Jewish population. and because I didn't wan110 go 10 Albany after being wait-listed at Binghamton."
And she's glad she's here. "I've made some
really good friends up here and I'm loving dorm
life (excepl for the food) because my floor is
really great."
How are classes going? ''So far, so good,
except for my science class. I onJy have lecture
now, so it's hard to discipline myself to do the
reading by myself." And what has been the most
difficult academic adjusunent?lime management, she says.
The only things Michelle says she would
change is e-mail, which she uses to keep in
to uch with friends from home. 'i'he Blake
Center in Ellicou used to hnvc it and now they
don't and it's a real inconvenience ."

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Age: 19
Hometown Wilhamsv1lle
Ma1or managemen1 1nlormat•on systems

Age 17
Hometown: Rochester
Ma,ior: nursing

Chris chose UB "because it is a good school.
inexpensive and right in my back yard.'' A
co mmuter. he's faced many of the same challenges as his o n-campus peers: more chal lenging course work. large c lasses, more freedo m. But instead of getting used to Ji ving
with new people, he's had to get used to park ing on campus.
Th e only thing
he says he would
change about his first
two months at UB is
his grades , Chris
says. "I like m y
classe s a nd the
people I have met so
far. Everybody is
helpful and very nice.
I would like to have
gotcen a liul e more
.
involved, but getting
used to college outweighs that for now."
College is demanding. he says. " I spend a
lot of time srudying, but my grades aren' t
what they should be. I ha ve never read so
much in my life. And o nl y three tests a se
mester- if I screw up, I am done!"
But he likes the freed om of college. " I like
the feeling of being treated like an adult . I
am in control of my own future . I have
learned more here than I have in high school."

Ericlp

Age t8
Hometown Oswego
Ma,or undec1ded. perhaps med•c•ne spec•al·
tz•ng tn pedtatnc s

Age 18
Hometown Brooklyn
Ma,or mus1c performance

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Coming to UB is like a dream come true , say~
Eric. "I have wanted to attend this school ever
since! I was a sophomore in hi gh school. My
brother is n st udent at UB and I had visi ted
the school several times. I really liked the
atmosphere and the size of the campuses. And
UB is one of the best SUNY univenities ."
The first two months have been very ex ci tin g, he says. " It 's very different from the

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and organizations to join that help expand
your mind." But "it 's been hard adjusting be·
cause UB is very large," she says.
"I'm used .to having a lot of people to ronfide in. and here I don 't trust too many people
because everyone here is so different, so I
don't know what to expect. In high school,
you knew everyone :md people are basically
the same. I guess I'd say I'm lonely."
Adjusting to the demands of college also
has been difficult, she says. " I never studied
in school. so it's taking its to ll now. I'm doing all righl. but not as good I want to be
doing ."

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The first two months at UB have been "a
quick and easy adjustment" for Kaya. who
chose UB for its big-school environment and
the o pportunit ies it presents. " It also was the
right di stance from ho me- not too close. not
too far. I had good experiences whenever I
visited the school. "
So far. she says. she 's ha ving a great time .

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Age 17
Hometown· B,_lyn
Ma,or med1c1nal pharmacology

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The firs t two months at UB have been stressful, entertaining, interesting. eventful and
weird . says Neene. 'These are all ways I can
explain UB, but I love it, I feel like all my
dreams are slowly coming true. Anything I
want can happen.''
Neene chose UB because it's cheap, huge.
prestigious and offers lots of opportunities,
she says.
While there are a lot of familiar faces on

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campus (about SO
fellow students from
her high school also
are allending UB),
she's enjoying meeting new people, as
well as coping with
the challenges of !he
academic curricuJum
and all the new experiences she 's having.
Classes ~ going
well. " I have terrifte
grades so far," although she says, she's had
10 adjust to the reading requirements and
what she calls " active learning."
She also feels a tremendous sense of obligation to the furure. "A lot of the Class of
2000 care about what happens in the world.
We have the ability to send this country in
the right direction, as long as we agree to take
the challenge. We~ being handed the eanh
and all its problems. and we need 10 hand it
to the next generation in better condi1ion than
it was given to us. h wouJd be a shame if we
waste it."

Gabriel Santos-Wiite
Age: 18
Hometown: Butfalo
Major: psychology/biology

Gabe has been acquainted with UB for quite
some time. A graduate of UB 's Minority Academic Achievement Program (MAAP) and
Science and Technology Enrichment Program (STEP). he 's also already done two
years of research at Roswell Paric Cancer
Institute and has take·n classes for c red it
through Millard Fillmore College.
He chose UB because of its location. his
familiarity with the
campuses and the
low cost. The first
tw o mo nth s have
been busy, and if
there were anything
he would change it
would he " my first
test and quiz grades.·•
As a co mmuter
st udent. Gabe has
found the most diffic ult adjustment at
UB to be the fre e
time between classes. His classes are "pretty
easy. I look most of them in high school.''
Calculus has presented the most difficult aca·
demic adjustment. " I took AP in high school .
I know what my teacher is doing. but not what
he is saying. Easy things are taught differently," he says.
What has he enjoyed the most so far about
UB? "Not having co get up at 6:30a.m. any more."

�freshman meetmg groups to hear about other I the resl of the year. I look forward to gening
freshmen's feelings about UB. to know how I more involved in the school and being able
to th ink of it as my home away from home.•·
other people are. where they are at, how they
are feeling. A freshman group of 20 to 30 I
people can make getting adjusted a lot
easier."
The wide range of courses, low COSI and repuShe enJOYS her small classes and friends. I Age t8
tation
influenced
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Elana 's ~cision to
I only a number here ," she says. Overall . her Mapr tlUSifleSS management
attend UB.
He ' ~ made a~ of great friends , and the night
classc~ are going "quite well . My English
"I chose UB belife is ··awesome." In fact. Sean says. probclass is challenging. My large lectures are
cause tbls school has
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very difficult to concentrate in. I have learned
a vari9'&gt;' or majors, it
I to improve my studying habits. and realize two months at UB is the number of times he's
affordable beis
that it is impossible to study and understand ' moved. "I staned on South (Campus). moved
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and because I
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I enJOY it up here a lot"
have only heard good
He chose UB because "some of my fnerl(h
things about it.-It has
an: already here. plus I love the campus."
a beautiful campus as
classes arc "OK. I am trying to adJUSt
His
welL I'm glad that I
. 1 Age 18
to them. but they are all right" but the studychose UB because I realize that I' m going to I
ing he needs to do has been an adjustment.
get an excellent education.....,_ Also, because r - - - - - - - ·~ l a te - night studies and pulling all-nighten.
this school is so large, 1get a chance to meet
The first two months have been hect1c, but
to study for two tests on the next day" are the
people have been surprisingly nice. says Janew ~Je each day."
things he ' ~ enjoyed the lca'it about UB so far
While she's enjoying her independence,
son. '"The thing I have enjoyed most so far i~
1llc first two mont~ have been "very full,"
there have been personal adjustments to
how helpful and friendly the teachers and stusays Sean. whoS3ys he tne.'&gt; IO maintain a pan·
dents have been in helping me make the tranmake. '1be most difficult has been learning
11me JOb in add1110n to kecpmg up with h1S
sition from high schoo l to college. Every ·
to be without my own bed, in my own room.
school work .
with my family around," she says. "I also
body. incl uding myself, is looking for friend~
But the ngof"i of studymg are offset by the
and for the most pan
people he 's comc 1n contact w1th. In fact . what
hnve not enjoyed the bus ride from South
everybody has been
(Campus) to North (Campus) and back each
he ' ~ enJoyed the fll0'\1 about UB '" " mectmg
re ally nice and
tons of people I feel that I have made n lot or
day. or sharing a bathroom with 15 to 20
rricndly."
good friends "
people."
H e chose UB
Academically, s he 's going 1hrough
because it was "inex changes, too. Elana says she has realized
pensive and it offered
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more. It is much more competitive and harder I
Hometown Vestal
f'arhe"sgladhecame
to keep up with all the work. t never had to I
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here because " I have
Sara has wanted to attend UB all her llfe. she
make it here. I will have to work much harder
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ochool In Brooklyn.
just to be considered average."
here and have
every single holiday
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in Buffalo. I know my
l ing well in her classes "so far. I only hope 1 and I'm doing well in my classes."
way
around. and tf I
The down side to attending UB is he's
I that I can keep it up."
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thing.
someone is just
Hometown Chestnut A1dge
1 ably rhe most difficult adjustment he's had
five minutes away"
Major. bus1ness
to make "is having to say goodbye to my
So
it's
no surprise to
friends and having to make all new ones.
Busi ness is in Steve's blood. He's ow ned his
hear that she's happy
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However. I have stayed in close contact with
own company, Steve's Lawns Inc ., since he
atUB.
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them, and my best friend from high school
was 14 years old. So
Her first tw o
came to UB as well. which has helped in the
when it came time to I So far sc hool has been exciting. difficult.
months have been
transition ."
look ror. college, he I tense , fun and overwhelming all at the same
busy.
but
s he
He 's had to set aside more time than betime , says Tanya .
looked for something
wouldn't change a
fore to write papers and do homework. " I also
"There are times
large with a good I
thing. except maybe
find myself staying up until the wee hours of
when I'm very un business school. UB I
to drag a couple of friends from home to school
the morning doing homework and studying:·
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happy here. but there
with her. "But that's it," she say~
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She's enjoyed mectmg new people. and
The work must be paymg off. ··For the
thought that being I
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even ha~ put together an intramural softOOII
most pan. my classe~ are going really well .
such a large school , I
team . But "I wish I had more time to keep 10
choice. I realize what
However. I'm taking World Civ as part of
UB would h ave a
touch with my old friends and my family I
I have here and who
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cold reeling and that
mi ss them ." In fact, the most difficult pan
I have here and I feel
my wor~t class ever." The instructor docsn ' t
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about UB h a~ been "not scemg my fam&amp;ly
fortunate."
speak Engli sh well "and teaches things that
personable . It wa s I
every day. especially my sister."
She c hose UB
have absolu tely nothing to do with the clas~
Sara·~ c lasses are going OK. although
just the opposile. It is a very wann sc hool I
because it's a good
or the readings. I also find myself doing more
they're a bu on the hard side. she says. She·'!&gt;
and the staff is extremely personable and
school academically.
work ror this clas~ than any other."
found that she needs to put a lot more t1mc
helpful. The social life is amazing. but at I and affordable, but it's too big. Tanya says.
mto studying and ha.li to do a lot more wort..
Overall, Jason IS pleased with UB . "A~
times it is hard to find time to study."
I At times she's glad she chose UB, "but somean incoming fre shman. I was sligh tl y tntlml ·
on her own.
Learning to live with others has presented
times I regret it. I need 10 feel that I am an
dated by this school. Not because of liS s1zc.
the greatest challenge. "Someone urinated in
asset to my school and when I am here that
my bed and in my roommate's cologne." he
for I went to a rat her large high school. but
feeling is hard, mainly because it is such a
becau"e I was afraid of being lost in the
says.
large school. But UB offers so much, acaAge t8
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crowd. I was afra id of being a number and
demically and socially. It is a fun school if
Home'Own New York C•ty
tremely large class sizes and being just a
not being able to get involved in sc hool like
you make it that way."
MaJOr architecture
number. I am now finally staning to get
I was in hig h school. Nevertheless. so far
There's not much that Tanya would
Maggie wouldn't change a thmg about her
se ~tled and study more. I'm only having a
aside from the amount of work that I must
change about her first two mo nths here . "I
first two months at UB. she say~ . It's been "a
do. my college experience has gone quite
hard time in Psych 101."
wish 1 would have realized that things could
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learnmg experience. interesting.
well . I have met a number of people and
be a lot worse .... I think sc hool would have
stressful. fun and weird." but she wouldn't
joined a coupl e of clubs and team!. . As for
been easier if we were put into introductory
I want to change it .
Like many of her peers. she chose UB
because of 1ts cost and
and be·
cause she "wanted to
1 get
away
from
to attend UB because it was
home ." In addition,
"close to home but
UB offered an exce lfar enough that I can
lent architecture probe on my ow n." she
gram. and a lot of stu says.
dents from her high
The first two
sc hool came here.
month s have been
which . s he says.
"very fun and interhelped her become
esting . I 've met
even mnrc comfort·
people who co uld
able with her deci end up being long sion .
time friends." s he
She ha!oo enJoyed dorm life the belli. so far.
.says. In fact . if there
"because my floor i!oo a bunch uf great. mcc: .
were anything s he
~~tercst~.ng people " But th~ food . she '") ' ·
could change about these first two months,
such.
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more people."
admits . "English cla!oos. m:unly Arch\le(.·turl·
Her biggest challenges have been "living
classe!oo arc challcngmg. math~ ~ an ca~) · A.·
with people I don't know" and "studying
UB I 0 I ~~ mtcresting," she say ~ .
more often to get the grades I want and need ."
The future . Maggie says. ~ccm' "hlcal.. ."
Her classes arc ''OK. (but) sometimes they
and "doc!-.n' tlook too cheerful or full of o pcan be hard."
ponuniues. hut no maller what. I'll 'urv1ve
The future looks a little scary at times,
I 3lwnys find a way 1 hope to have a pro fc, .
Erica says. " but 1 think everything is going
S!On I CnJO) and tO live com(ort:lbJ y"
to be all right. 1 really think I'm going somewhere in life ."

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RECEI'TION PLANNED ~AS

IUIIIIOWI

Thoma• aUt'f'Owa, 1ntenm dtrec- .
tor of the Center lor the Arts . will be
welcomed at a reception to be held
by the Campus Club . the Faculty
Senate and the Professional Staff
Senate on Oct 29 '" the Student
Umon. North Campus The receptiOn . from 4 30 10 6 p m . wlll1nclude
a welcome and tnlfoduchons
Burrows. who has worked as a
consullantto several Canadtan
!heaters as well as to St Peter 's
Lutheran Church tn New York C•ry.
previOUsly served lor hve years as
manag•ng director ol theater operaltons and asststant to the dean of
the Yale SchOOl of Drama and the
Yale Reperlory Theatre Company
Please call Rosemary Mecca at
645-2258 tl you plan to attend

GREAT LAKEI CONIDRTIUM

WINIGRANTLAKE ONTARIO RESEARCH
The New York Great Lakes Research Consorttum has recet'Jed a
one-year $75.000
grant from EPARegtOO II lor research on Lake
Ontano The goal
IS to develop a

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cal exposure and
bK&gt;accumulat10n 1n the N1agara
A.111er1Lake Ontauo System
The grant was obtamed on the
baSIS ol a proposal submJtted by
1
UB on behalf of the consort1um
.Joseph V. l)eptnto, d1recto1 of
the Great Lakes Program at UB and
research d~rector for the Great
Lakes Consort1um. w1U be pnnc1pat
tnvest•gator/protect d~tector Co-•n·
vest•gators are Thomas C Young of
Clarkson Un1vers1ty and Wilham
Booty o f the Nat1ona1 Water Research fnst•tute of Canada

CAMPUI CWB GEARI UP
FALL WTTH IEIIIEI OF
PARTIES AND , _ M l l
A senes ol events and act1vtt1es are
planned for thts year by UB's Campus Club . beg•nn•ng wtth parhc•pa t•on •n a reception for Thoma•
Burrow•, 1ntenm d~rector of the
Center lor the Arts on Oct 29
Other actlllll!es •nclude sponsonng
a Facully/Sta H Day Nov 9. which mcludes the Bulls football game and
a pregame brunch and a traditional
hohday party lor members. planned
lor Dec 12 Alter the holidays . the
club expects 10 anend a Zodtaque
dance product•on 1n February and a
program by the Amherst Saxophone Ouartet1n Apnl
The Campus Club a1ms to "ulld
a sense of commun•ty and collegtal·
ny between faculty and proless•onat
staff The group encourages all lac ·
ully and professiOnal staff who are
part of the UB commun1ty, including
acuve or retired constituents of
State, Research Foundation, UB
Foundat1on and Faculty Student Association . as well as members of
the UB Alumni Associauon . to io•n
the club The club's headquarters 1S
now tn Goodyear HaU

Reporter has
new number
The Reporter, now part of

News Services, has a new
telephone number-6452626. Please use that number to reach the editors with
news and story suggestions.

To obta•n mofe details on programs , contact Jane DISalvo. pre;
grams chair, at 645-2592, ext. 743
()(bye-mail :
&lt;disatvoOacsu.buffalo.edu&gt;

Ronald lllchanla, a member of
the UB musk: faculty, will be guest

conductor at the
opening concert
of the Amherst

Symphony Sunday, Oct. 27 81 7
p .m . in Amherst
Middle School .
Richards. a lecturer '" oboe at
RICHARDS
UB , has been a
member of the Amherst Symphony
s1nce its founding in 1946. He
to•ned the orchestra when he was
a h1gh school sophomore. and this
spring , was honored lor hts 50
years of serv•ce
Richards IS a 1954 graduate of
the UB School of Pharmacy and rece•ved a master's degree 1n mus1c
h•story from UB in 1969. For many
years . Atchards balanced dual careers as a pharmaCISt and musiCian A wtdely accta1med oboist. he
jOined the UB muSIC faculty 1n 1958

I'ROF TO RUN IN MAIIATMON

TO FIGNT LEUKEMIA
Salah Qutallllwt, US BSSIStant
clinical professor of microb•ology,
will ;o1n runners from across the
country for the Manne Corps Mara·
than taking place Oct 26 in Wash·
ington . D.C
Along w1th 50 runners represent·
tng the. Leukem1a Society o f Western New York's ·Teams tn Tra1n1ng. ~
he part•cipates •n marathons across
the country 10 help the Leukem•a
Soc•ety continue the~r efforts to l1nd
a cure IOf the d1sease
Outa•shat, who tS d•rector of
ep1demK&gt;logy and educat1on at
Lockport Memonal Hosp•tat. w111
dedicate h1S 26.2-m1le run to Chnstopher Petruzzi. a tO-year-old North
Buffalo child recovenng from teuke-

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STUDENT AIIOCIAnON
PLANI II'EAKER IERIEI
Black Panther leader Bobby Seale .
performer Gregory Henderson and
Ch1nese diss•dent Chai L1ng w1U be
featured In th1s fall's People's
Speaker Series sponsored by the
undergraduate Stud ent Associahon
ISAial UB
A lecture by Emmy Award·w•n·
n1ng actOI' Edward James Olmos.
part of the university 's D•sllnguished
Speaker Series, also w1t1 be cosponsored by SA
All lectures will be free ol charge
and open to the publk: on a first·
come. first-served basis. except lor
the Olmos lecture. While students
will be admitted free. there will be a
charge lor members of the pubhc .
Call 645-ARTS for Olmos tk:ket informatiOn .
Versatile performer Gregory
Henderson will appear at 7:30p.m
Oct. 29 , in the Student Union The·
ater on the NOI'th Campus
Henderson. who won New York 's
1995 Back Stage ~ B istro Award· lor
Outstanding Characterization, has
been described by The New York
T1mes as having the extraordinary
ab1hty to ·uuerly transiOI'm his face .
hts at!llude. h•s shghtest gesture •
Bobby Seale. one of the ·ch•·
cago Seven· activists of the 1960s
who IS now a writer and lecturer. Wi ll
speak at 7 30 p m Nov 7, 1n the
Mainstage theater in the Center for
the Arts on the NOI'th Campus
A founder of the Black Panther
Party, Seale helped ini118te numerous community programs. •nclud•ng
those prov•ding breakfasts to

scl'lc:d children and free busing to
senior citizens, as well as organi.z·
ing mass voter-registration drives.
Chai Ling , who was commandet'ln-chtef of the Defend nanarvnen
Square Headquarters during the
1989 democracy protests in China,
will speak at 7:30p.m . Nov. 14. in
!he Screening Room in lhe Ceoler
for the Arts. A student at Harvard
El&lt;Jslness School, Ling has IWice
been nominated lor a Nobef Prize.
Emmy and Golden Globe
Award-wiMlng actor Edward James
Otmos, a lead•ng spokesman tOt the
Htspanic community. will speak at
8 p .m . Nov. 19, in the Mainstaoe
theater in the Center for the Arts
For more informalion on any of
the lectures . contact SA President
Fernando Maisonen at 645-2950

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QIPT WILL 11ENEF1T IIB'I
~1-TION

The UB Libraries have received a
gift of live multimedia workstations.
valued at $28,000, from Sun
Microsystems Computer Co. This
will augment efforts to increase the
libraries' corrvnitment to digital in·
• fOfmatton resources.
wants to continue distributing comprehensive lnlormatton to
uSBf's of the University Libranes. but
needs a more flexible and sophisticated environment than is now
available,· said Stephen 11~
•rta. associate d irector of University libraries. ·rhe workstations are
the 11rst major phase in developing
the next generation of information
interface that's graph1cal in nature
and tied into the Internet environment."
Worksta tion users will be able to
access a variety of b ibliographic .
full· text and multimedia resources
v1a three newly installed UNIX
servers at Univers•ty Librafles or
through connectoos to remote Information servers around the world
over the Internet. Presently, 400,(X)()
transactiOns per day are togged
onto the Unrversity L•brafles' BISON
online catalog and bibliographic Index. W1th Sun's powerful and userfriendly workstat•ons. the number ol
library network transactionS is expected to Increase
In addition to electrontc tournals.
the workstations will prov1de direct
links to other resources. 1ncluding
local databases .and Internet access to sub;ect-ouented electron•c
discussion groups that procnote
communicatiOn and scholarly interchange among colleagues around
the world.
US's library system IS nearty a
year into its five--year D1g1tal Library
lniiiBtwe. wh1ch will make US's hbranes vastly more efficiBnl and
place them among tl\e top university libraries, technologically, '" the
country, acc0fd1ng to . .rbllra
von w.Ncle, UB associate vice
president lor University Libraries.
The initiative also will bring the vast
resources of the librarY network and
the Internet directly to the desktop
comp uters of students and staff

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CONVOCA110N lET OCT. H

-ENGUIHMAIORI
A convocation lor Enghsh mators
sponsored by The We~tern New
York Organ•zalion of English Departments. will be held Saturday,
Oct. 26 from 9·30 a m. to 3:30 p .m .
on the second and lhLtdiloors of
Clemens Hall. All undergraduate
English mators are invited 10 this
first cooperative convocation offer·
1ng WOJkshops and performances,
where they can meet and exchange
ideas, entoY literature and consider
career choices.
The event wiH include a~
ing coffee session at9:X&gt; am .. a buf.
let lunch and a conversatK&gt;n hour.

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Tbe la...,..MooleDetabew, balll~y thtoughvoluo._ elrart, il lbe laiJCII siftale li1c on lhe lnlemel for bivia
lbout movies. 11Jil Fl1l of a ~. wbicb has in'formation
on ow. 7G,OOO IIMWicis, also provlcla lws&gt;dleds of tbouunds of
tidbits of data about ICiors, actJesses, directon, producen IIIII writers. The database can be sean:hed by movie title, name

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ofiCior/acttess, character's name, year of
~le.ue, genre, ratings, produclion company, c:ounlry of origin, and several other categories.
The site ranks lhetop 250 movies of all time (ranki ng is bued
on votes cast by visitors to the site). There's a feature called
''On This Day in Movie HistOJy," which i.o forms you of what
movies were released, who was born, or who died, on that day
of the year as well. Tbe Internet Movie Database contains
links to sound clips and image archives for individual movies.
The site is also starting to provide convenient djrect links to
places where the mQvies or associated goods such as posters or
T-shirts can be purchased.
Even though the lnteroet Movie Database is a great place
for movie buffs, it is only one of several hundred sites on the
Web SPecializing in information about cinema. Almost all of
the major film studios have a PfeSeDCe on the Internet, and many
sites provide information about actors and actresses, reviews,
film festivals and trivia. For a hefty listi ng of such silos go to
Yahoo! · Enterlainmtnl : Movies &amp; Films (blip ://

www.yahoo.com/EnlertalnmentjMovies_and_Films/).
For assistance in connecting to the World Wide Web via UB
computer accounts, contact the Computing CenterS Htlp Desk
at 645-3542.
-Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartman. University Librariu

S.x panels will be offered, as
follows:

to a.m.:
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Col.... to a F-Year
l c - , Dr. Michael Pikus. NCCC .
Dr Robert Durante, Canisius: Counselor Larry Bolsler. NCCC .

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"Huckleberry Finn· will be read .
The Sitverman Room. lhtrd floor.
will serve tor lnfofmat ccxwersa-- "'
tK&gt;ns; several other rooms will be
devoted to presenting works of art
and vkSeotape interviews.
For more information. cau VICtor
Doyno. 634-9221 .

. . rtlolntJ, how to . ., a Job
MMI ......,_ • career, Blair

Boone, Ph .D .. wnter and president
of The Wnter's Block: Art Directors
and Commumcators of Buffalo;
Dom Cunei , vice president and ex·
ecutrve d•rector. Marketing Resources of New York: Nancy
Hargrove. creative services manager, Carr Marketing and Communications.
11a.m ..

Would You like to c,..te •

c.,.., In Col. . . .?

Dr. Kathleen
C Boone. associate dean of academic affairs and acting dean of
student affairs. Daemen College

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Ptoceae, Robert S. Newman. UB

The Undargradoale Libraty (UGL)
is offering uel.union. a sateilite
reference servk:e located on the
second floor of the Student Unk&gt;n.
UGL librarians will be available
from 11 a .m . to 1 p .m every Man·
day, Tuesday and Wednesday from
Oct. 21 through Nov. 22 to assist
students with research questions.
lha UB Libraries Ca!alog, BISON II.
and the lnternln. Pk!ase stop by to
see what we have to offer. If you
ha...a questions about ugl.umon.
contact Laura Bushallow-Wilbur at
LBWOacsu.buffakl.edu or 6452943. ext 236

associate professor of English.

1pm.:

.lout"'\allam •• a C.reer, Lee
Smith. retired senior editor. Buffalo
News.

Ad-

lnternahlpa, Work bpert.

encea Law lchool
lftlaalona, VICtor Doyno. UB professor of English

2p.m.:
Eric 'o.neworth, NCCC . will
read and discuss the composition
of his published short story. "The
Ballad of Plastic Fred .·
3p.m.:
Some ....,.....cl aectlona of

UUAB will present The Fugees and
A Tribe Called Ouest at 8 p .m . Oct
28 in Alumm Arena . North Gampus
The Fugees recentty hit the top
of the charts with "Killing Me Sohly.•
and their album, ~The Score· is
making ma;or waves throughout the
music industry. A Trit»e Called
Quest is familiar to hip-hop tansthe ground-breaking trio was on the
House of Blues' "Smokin' Gt'OO'Jes
Tour· this past summer ak&gt;ng with
The Fugees.

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Sims end Aprille 8weetJng also addad SIX blocks api8C8
Somer Deschambault cl&gt;ppad in wrth 36 8SSistS and 13 digs
The wiming streak came to an end Sunday afternoon wtlh
a 15-10. 15-13, 15-Bioss to Pinsburgh at Alumn1Arena 10
13-13.
Sims and Corrin Hirst led rhe way w1th n1ne kills each
Deschambautt addad 17 d1gs and 23 assiSts while S.ms end
SWeeting each had lour blocks.
The Royals are back 10 actJon thts weekend lor a pall ot
matches. On Friday night they host Robert Morns at Alurm1
Arena at 7 p.m. while on Saturday, Sfena comes to town to
lace 1he Royals at 7 p.m.

even 1he Royais record at

• FOOTUU.
The Buns fell to 5-3 Salurday alte&lt;noon with their 41-20 loss at
Massachusetts before 8,819fans at Warren P. McGuirl&lt; Stadium.
Tailback Anthony Swan and fullback Todd Pace each
rushed lor over 100 yards lor 1he third time this season. Swan
rushed lor 111 yards on 26 carries and one touchdown. He is
roN just 106 yards shy ot 1,000 yard,s lor the season. Pace
p1ckad up 102 yards on 20 carries
UB cut 1he gap to 14-7 at 1he hall as quarterback Erik
Rusin hit Drew Haddad with a 21-yard TO pass. However, the
Minutemen scorad two third-quarter touchdowns to put the

game away.
Rusin passed lor a career-best 195 yards, completing 15
of his 29 attempts with a pair of TOs. Haddad was Rusin's favente target, hauling in six receptbns fOI' 111 yards.
Defensively. 1he Bulls were tad by Eric Lee with 10 tackles.
CraJQ Guest addad eight stops while Anthony Scott had seven
tackles along wrth a sack, a lorcad fumble and a pass breakup
The Bulls have the week off before tangling with Hofstra on
Sa!urday, Nov. 2 at Hempstead

e VOLLEYBAlL
The Royals played three matches over the weekend winning
a pair of local rivals Niagara and Canisius but falling to Pittsburgh to snap a five-match winning streak.
UB needed just three games to defeat Niagara 15-6, 15-7,
15-8, evening their record at 12-12 Fnday night at Alumni
Arena. The Royals got solid play from Condi Sims and Kalhy
Bnnkworth who each talhed eight kills. Brinkworth became the
first player in UB histOfy to recad 500 kills and 500 blocks in
a career. She reached the kill plateau in the first game of the
match after having achieved the bk:lcks milestone the prevl·
ous weekend at the Mid-Continent Conference's East Div1sk&gt;n
cluster matches in Troy, Alabama. Christina Gianino led the
Royals With 20 assists and added seven digs.
US continued their winning streak with a four-game victory
overCanisiusatlheKoesslerCenter 14-16.16-14,16-14, 15-8.
Sims and Amy Burda registerad 12 kills each while Burda lad
the defense wilh 17 digs and s1x blocks, including lour solo.

e WOMEN'S SOCCER
Keny Starchok's goal with 10 seconds remalnmg 1n regu!at10&lt;1
provad to be 1he game-winner as the Royals downed
Can1sius 1-() last Wednesday.
Starchok, one of the first Royals off the bench. re.-entered
the contest with 1:45 to go in the SCOI'eless contest to get a
shot on net before tha end of the match. Starchok took a pass
from Tracey Britton and sent the ball tnck11ng 1nto the net past
Canisius goalkeeper Jennffer Silata
The goal avoided what would have been the th1rd strrught
overtime contest lor 1he Royals UB outshot 1he Gnffs 21-8
UB keeper Joanne Chlllingsworlh stoppad seven shots 1n the
shutout. UB has now shut out four opponents this season
On Saturday the Royals scorad a !ale second-half goal
and kept the pressure on Eastern Michigan but fell short 1n a
2·1 loss RAC Fteld in a match played under terrible weather
conditions
Senior Kalhleen Magner scored her filth goal of !he season
at the 70:06 mark of the match off a pass from Beth Costello
to ck:Jse the deficit to 2·1 but that was all the scoring the Roy ·
als could muster. UB had a chance to tie the match and force
overtime but was unable to convert . Chlihngsworth stopped
six Eastern Mdugan shots.
Eastern Michigan SCOI'ed a pa1r of f~rst·half goals m1dway
!hrough 1he period on marl&lt;ers by Amy Knott and Tara B&lt;lolius
The Royals are roN 6·5-3 as !hey head on !he road th1s
weekend playing at Detroit-Mercy on Fnday and Toledo on
Sunday.

e CROSS COUNTRY
The Bulls finished third at the Albany Invitational Chns
Keenan led the Bulls. fimshlng the SK course 1n e1ghth place
in 25:59.49. Pat Nolan hn1shed 11th 1n 26:09.41
The Royals traveled to the prestigiOUS Penn State lnvna tionat, racing against some of the country's best women 's
squads. The Royals finished e1ghth With 190 pomts. beh1nd
first-place Missoun (46) and second-place Penn State (48)
Gretchen Welch was the Royals' top f1n1sher compleung
the SK course in 19:23 for 37th place Jennifer Folckemer f1n·
IShed 40th in 19:26.
Next up fDf both squads IS most 1mportant meet of the
season-the Mid-Continent Conference ChampionshiPS The
meet 1s set for Nov. 2 at ValparaiSO, lnd
-Ted Wasko. Sports lnformar1011 Office

UB center to manage

environmental -fund .
111 D.UII-.&amp;IeAUII
News Services Editor

T

HE NEW YORK STATE Center ror Haz-

ardous Waste Management at UB has been
selected by the Office or the Attorney General and the New York State Department or·
Environmental Conservation (DEC) to administer the
S2.S million Niagara County Environmental F und.
It is the only part or the Love Canal settle ment
between New York State and Occidental Chemical
Corp. that is being channeled directly 10 local organizations in Niagara County.
The fund will support projects by citians ' groups.
neighborhood clubs, schools and other organi1.ations
to restore , care for and increase public enjoyment o f
Niagara County's natural re!l.ources. panicularl y its
shoreli nes and open spaces. It also will support ef·
forts 10 educate the public about environmental prot&gt;.
lems through schools. museums and other institutions
and -through teacher-training programs
Projects to be funded emphasize environmental
education and restoration, but not remediation . For
example , the fund might support such projects as
nature walks, habitat restorations, cleanups. canal
paths and walkways, and bikcpaths.
.. Our participation in c hanneling these resources
to local groups shows an expanding mission for the
center," said A. Scott Weber. executive director of
the center and UB professor of civil engineering .
" With our role in this rund , we will be taking a much
more active role in environmentaJ stewardship."
He said that past di sposal or toxic wastes has degraded the ecosystem or Niagara County, causing
significant deterioration of soils and water, as well
as negatively affecting fish and wildlire . 'The purpose or the rund is to help repair the damage to land.
air, water and so il that the citizens of Niagara County
h ave endured over many years,'' Weber explaifted.

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
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Web. 22J l..ockwood. 7 p.m.
Register by calling Ckmma
DeVinney. 645·2817 .

ute-...op
For Ha Uowttn: Cullu rall m·
age~ or EviL 7·9 p.m. To regis·
ter. call the Office or Student
Life, 645-6125.

VIdeo Docu•enW)'
The Birth or Amerkan Video:
Gende~ Conrrontationi,

Part 1-Bistory, Family &amp;
Friends. Screening Room, Cen·
ter for the Arts. North Campus.
7:30p.m. Free. '

-NewYOft&lt;
SciMoe Fonl• Lecture
Human Gflwtics, Kathy
Verdu.sdonk. Children's Hospi·
lal. 170 Millan:t Fillmore Aca·
demic Center, Ellicott North
Campus. 7:30p.m . $20 for the.
series. To reaister. call 645·
6800. en 2020.

UUA• Fll•
Hellralser (1981). S tudent
Union '~'heater. North Ctmpus.

9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

Uistorial Rewan:b via lh ~
Wd». 223 Lockwood. Noon.
Reaister by calling Gemma
DeVinney, 645-2817.

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no m k: J&gt;t:nlopmenl Zone.
Public forum aimed 11 minori·
ties and wQme:n interested in
busioeu and development op·
portunities. Advtnce Training
Center, 275 Oak St. 8-10 1.m.
Free. Spoasored by Office or
Urban lnitittives. For inrorma·
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w- ~~oooun:e Associoles 1nc.
aod Millacd Fill...,.. College.

OwK:s V Banquec Facility, 2425
Niagan Falls Blvd.• Amht-rsc. 8
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Artcet-.un~tlle

Mequlcentennlal
An c:xhiblllon o r an by racuh)
and alumm celebr.umg the se!o·
qutcentcnn111l co ntinue ~ through
Ike 18tnthcUm versuyAn
Gallery. Cenlc:r for Ihe Arh,
Nonh Campus 1lK- ~huv. m
eludes work by 17 (llCully and
23 alumnt Gallery huur,; an:
10 30 a.m.·8 p.m Wc:dnt"«ia) ·
Saturday. and nonn-5 p m Sun
day Admt ss1on ~ ~ free

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TechDoJoaies, Prof. Kent
Crickard. Obstetrics 1nd Gync·
cology. 306 Farber. South Cam·
pus. 12:30 p.m. Free .

l'loliMoploy Col'-lum
lndexk:al Meanin&amp; a nd
Prt-judc-.atal Expe.rience,
Mtrietje van der Schaar, Uickn
Univ. 684 Baldy. Nonh Campus.
3:30p.m.

Beautlfut..Tn:asun:lo rmm the lol.:kv.oud
Librury- An Exh1b1t Cdcbr:l.l ·
mg us·s ScSQUICentenmal ... I\
on v1ew 1n display cases on the
second nuor or Lockwood L1 ·
brary on the North Campus The
e1o:h1bll fc:t tu n:s books of lhtl&gt;
century. all taken from the
stacks 1imothy Conroy from
the Office of Pubhcau on,
curuted the e~r.hibu. whtch wn
tmues lhrough Dec 20

ua eo.lldl -.c
CouDtU Room, 50S Ctpen.
North Ctmpus. 3:30 p.m.

....,._

cono.~~o.

Bydroa&lt;ole lou Ia Oae-Dl- l o o d Qual o ... o tmeaPonal Syste1111, Prof. Y.C .
Lee. Physics. 2 10 Naturtl Sci-

-

U~ellw•ll

ences. North Campus. 3:45 p.m.

Lt:onardo ~w ·s snc:-spectfu:
ms tallat10n ~ No 45-A .. was de·
s1gned for the L1ghtwell Galler)
m 1~ Cen1er for the Ans. Nonh
Campus. and 1s then: through

llloloCicai -

J ntracdlular protein traffickIn&amp;. Or. Ari Hellen!us. Ytle
Medic•! School. 114 Hoch·
stetter. North Campus . 4 p.m.

lluei. . . . Foru•
Ffllenl Enterprist Commu·
nlly and New York State Eco-

Fnday. and II am -8 p m Sat ·
urday AdmiSSion 1s free

-...tClllllc:

·
- -Random
C:OUO.Ito•
RHtrkted
Walks, Dr.
Dontld St. P. Richards. Univ. or
Virj:i ni1. 244 Cary. Sooth Campus. 4 p.m.

Life--..

Tbtsll/l)islel1ation Support
Group, 8 8Ibara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register. call the Office:
or Student LiJe. 645..6125 .

ur.--..

T 'al ChJ ror BeainKn. Ron
ln&amp;tlsbe. S p.m. To reaister, ctll
the. Office or Student Ufe. 645·

Ocl~r

LESUE HEYWOOD'S performance on Oct. 30, " Building
llacklaoh BodiH, Vlolblo lnvtalbllltlea," Ia part of
Wednesdays at Four Plus sertes .
lMMer
Happy Jou..mey and Tbe PaSI is
tbe ~ Stephen Henderson, di rector. A pair of OOC· actm. Black
Box 1'heatre. Center for the Am
North Campus. 8 p.m. S3

uu.u FUoo
HaUowecD ( 19'78). Studem
Union "Theiler. North Campus
9 p.m. $1, $3.50.

6125.

UUUFI'Hd.lra.J..M:r (1.987). Student
Union Theater. North Ctmpus.
6' 30 p.m. $1, $3.50.

Arotlltecture ellhlblt
"Schindler and the Small
Hou se" continues through Nuv

29m the James Dyett Gallery
m 334 Hayes Hall. South Cam·
pus. The show IS pan of a scnes
or exhtbitions presented by I he:
School or Architecture tnd Pltn·
mng. Gallery houn are 9 t .m.-5
p.m. Mondty through Friday.
Admtsston to the show is free .

R - C•lley Exhibit
An exhibit or pai ntings by Roben Cu lley opens Oct. 24 with a
reception from 6--8 p.m. in the
An Oepanmenl Gallery located
m the Center ror the Ans on the
NDr1h Campus. The show con·
tinue~through Nov. 12. Gallery
hours an: 10 l .nt.·5 p.m. Tues·
day. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday·

llealtllbe.. Heahh Insurance Chotces .. for
1997 ror New York State em·
ployees will arrive in mid-November. Tile publication ex ·
plai ns the health insurantt op·
tion transfer penod. plans you
can choose from in 1997. and
the pre·lllt program. 'The prc · lll\
program deadline il Dec. 2

strucltonal Sup port Associllt~
(SL~2)..Qnl Health Services and
lnfonn:u1cs. Posung lfP-6040
Associal~ Counselor (SL-1)·
S!udent Health Ccnlc:r. Posting
lfP-6048. Senior Staff Assislant
(SL-3)·A iuntnl Rela110ns. Post·
mg lfP-~9 Sen k.r Staff As·
sislant (SL-J) ·Aiumnt RdaIIOnS. PO:oiiiRg IP-6050. IMirut·
tlonal Support TKhnidan
(Sl.-3) -Lod:wood Mcmonal Ltbrary, Posttn!l IP-605.'\ lnstrut·
tiona! Support Associat~ (SL·
1)-Unt\·ersll) Pubh cauun ~.
Pt\'illng lfP-605J

Fac:utty
Professor and C nair· Mc:dh.'lnc: .
Po-.tmg lff. 6()53 L«tu~r -En
ghsh Lan~uagt" lnsl ilutc. Post ·
mg lff-6054 Assistant Pro rrs·
sor-Modem Languages and Lll c.ratun:s, Poslmg lfF-6055. As-!iMianl ProrHSOr-Modem lan ·
guages and Lnc:nuures. Posung
lff.6()5b

Re...,.cb
Research Aidr--SpnnliOI'C'd Prn
grams Personnel Open Ofr.aAid~ · Health Sctcnces L1brary.
Posung I!R -96069 Ed ucation
Spedaltst -Psychology. Post1ng
IIR -96072 RHean:h Technician
li ·PhiU1Tlacolog)' &amp;. Toxicology.
Posung lfR -96073. SKrttary I·
Psychology. Posttng lfR-9607-'
Clerk UI -Spec1al ~fYIC'CS . Posl·
mg fR -96075 Sttrttary 11 -So
cud &amp; Pn=\·enll\"e Medicme,
Posung IR -96076 Rt:sa.n::b
Analyst-Pn=venii\Ot MediCine: .
Pusring IR -96077 Researa
Technician I-Med1c1ne &amp;. Mtcru·
biology. Postmg fR -96078.
Training Program Coordinator
l -CEPIRRCEP II. Postmg
IR-96079

ColllpetttJwe Claaalftecl
Clvtlh&lt;vlce
Cakulat k.ns C lerk I (SG-06) Ciinical

.JOBS
.... ...
l'rofeooloMI
Lead Programm~r Anlll)sl
(SL.-3)·Health Science' NoJc .
Posting lfP-6036. lfP-MH 7 In ·

Denlt~try,

To obtam

Lme

U73~

''to" mform,111CHI em

JabS Juud ub01~. rontact Pt&gt;r·

Srrwus. flU Cmfts
llall To obtam mformatuHt un
Rruarrlt jobJ. n.mlilcl Spmt sorrd PmftrtlmJ Prrw nnrl. 4 /h
SOflllt.f

CrojtJ

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8

...

............... w..

Union Thea1er. Noeth Campus .

7 and 9:30p.m. $2, SJ.SO.

-__
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o..doploa ud ' -......•Ilea

Cue~Serrica

....... 1M Ctofta,

n-e.u..t, R..ebecca Part and

1-1·
OW FAX......, II 145-

•.,.L

Alooloal ood 0t1oer Drua

lo

Carol Storms. Sponsoml by JnlliiUic for Addictions Srudic:s
and Tninina. Dac:men CoUe1e.
S60: Sl~Mientl $45. To re&amp;iller.
ct~ll

.,

645-6140.
t

,

,,.......,

.. _ . . loCult....SS...Ietol
ud Cllnlloc Myoeyta: Role
ood
oltbe Colpola
Prot._
Prof. TeChuna Lee. Biochemi511')'. 1348

Mt&lt;......_

s,...._,

Farber. Sourh Campus. 4 p.m.

Book ....
l.ock,•food Cl'~bniH

c:oaa.....

" 't 9 etlca
Low ll&lt;&amp;rft Polyaomlol Equotiou: Aritbooelk, Geoooetry
ood Topolo&amp;r, Plof. Jinos

Th~

MiiHo nth Volumto and uu ·~

St'squktntl'nnial. H an.J~,.·o \'c:o ,
pa~rbacks . ptn()(hcals-50
l:t' nl&lt;i lo $2 Em ranee 111 lht' .. a lt'
'' frum !he comdor kadm~ In

KoiJU, Univ. o f Utah. 103
Diefendorf. South Campus.
4p.m.

....,........,._
.........,__

C h:mt'nl&gt; Fnc:nds Koom,
Lu•.: kwuod L1brary Nnrlh Cum pu' IU a.m -4 . p.m

.:m

The •uld..ioft nature ol ~n
ponaeotlon tbnMocb clpaed K •
challMis, Dr. Ted Bcgenisictl,
Oniv. of Rochester. 108
Sherman. Soulb Campus. 4 p.m.

EnvlrCNtMental
Vkleoconterence
ISO 14000. Advanced Tram111g
Ccmer. 215 Oak St Noon-3
p m S35 Sponsore-d by M1llartl
F1llmorc: College and New Yorl.
Slide Center for H az.an.lou~

Ufwl-.....

Bailroom Oancio&amp; for Sin&amp;Jes:
a nd Couptet. 7:45 p.m. To reg-

Waste Ma nagcmcm For •nformal•on. cull 829-2202

-·-

ister, call the Office o f Studenl
Life. 64S--612S .

--rand C•ll BloloC)

\

Cyloskdt:lal Control of Endothelial Conl r¥tioo, Prof. Roben Wywlmerski , St. Louis Umv
School of Medi ci~ 306 Farbrr
South ·campus 12:30 p.m. Free

"-try
A ConversaUon with LHite
1 S.:alaplno. 438 Clemens. Nonh
Campu' 12:30 p.m. Fn:c: r:m
of Wednesdays at 4 Plus

Ufwl-.....

La!ltlnc Memorin: C ultlvatlnc Long-Term Rfltation for
Acadtmk ExttlkD«. 3 p.m
To ~sister, call the Office of
Student life. 645 -612S

ut.-...op
Diversity a nd lhe St udent
Lead tr. 3:30-5 p.m. To register,
ca ll the Offil.:e of Student Life.
64S-6 12S .

....,.. Col._•••

Dark Matter in the Galuy,
Prof. Ira Wasserman. Cornell
Univ. 210 Narunl Sciences
North Campu5. 3:45p.m.

UUAB~

JANE MARINSKY'S " Only The

a.on.lr" Is on view In exhibition of art by 18culty and

alumni In University Art Gellery, Center for the Arts.

UUAB Fll•
Tbe Bi&amp; Slftp (1946). Studem

-

Union Thc:aler. North Campos
6:30p.m. $2, $3 .50.

F dd Ballet. Rockwell Hall.
Buffalo State Collear. 8 p.m.

S20, $22. Co-sponsored by
WBFO.

Z odiaque Fall Dan« Conc~ rt .
Dnma lbealre, Center fdr 1~
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. S5,

$ 10.

Muelc
The 1996 Korean C ulluf"t Pro-gnm : A Cetebnlkln or
Koru'J'I'radiUonal Perform ·
in&amp; Arts. Slee. Non.h Campus.
8 _p.m. Fttt.

Jr.• M.D.. Allergy: lmmunology
and Rheumatology. 244 Cary.
South Campus. Noon.

---

Psycholocklll Studies on Add ktkln. Mk:Mel Sayeue. Ph .D..
Univ. of Pinsburah. Resnreh
Institute on Add ictions. 102 1
Main St. I :30 p.m. Free.

c-.v,

Col._..,.

Rodin l.atermediates: Carboxylic Add Eoots and Other
Umtable Sped.., Prof. Jeny
Kresge. Univ. of Toronto . 215
Natural ScieRCes. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.
I~

Stuclellta

Qr-p
My Own C ultural Values.
145A Student Union. Nonh
Campus. 4 p.m. Registntion is
requested : call 645-2720.

--·
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·---·Bl~k-

M icrobial Ecoloc in lhe
Great lAkes. Dr. Hunter J .
Canid:. Bufrolo Stale College.
114 Hochsleller. NonhCampus .
4 p.m.
Jolnll~ly G~nenltd Sub-mod·
ules of the Hardy Spa«., Prof.

Michael Stessin. SUNY a t AI·
bany. Special analysis seminar
103 D1dendorf. South Campus.
4 p.m.

.........

~

Allosterism in lbe Insulin
Huamer, David Smith, Ph .D..
Hauptman-Woodward Medical
Research lnstilule. 508 Cooke .
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.

ut.-...op
Thn:ls/Diuertatkln Support
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4 :30
p.m. To register, call the Office
o f St udent Life, 645-6125 .

Ufwl-.....

-.........

T ' ai Chi for BqinMrs. Ron
Ingalsbe. 5 p.m. To register. call
lhe Offic-t of Stl.ldc:nt Life. 645 -

6125.

,~

Modem 'l'heories of the Unlvent, Prof. Ira Wasstnnan,
Cornell Univ. 170 Millard
Fil lmore Academic Center,
Ellicon Complex. North Campus. 5:30p.m.

Art~

DJ.ap-a.u: PalaUnp by Robert C uney. An Department Gallery, Center for !he Arts. Nonh
Campus. 6-8 p.m. Free. Throuah
Nov. 12. Gallery hours 10 a.m.·
5 p.m. Thesday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Wedncsday-Fricby: II a .m.- 8
p.m. Satu rday .

1'Mirte&lt;
Happy J ourney and The Past
is the Past. Stephen Hendenon ,
director. A pair of one-ac:ters.
Black Box Theatre, Center for
the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m.

Resident Advbor (Goodyear)
BuketbaJJ ToumameaL Clark.
South Campus. 6 p.m.

$3.

Vol .., _

The Birth of AIIHrkan VIdeo:

UB n. Robert Mor'T'b. Alumni
Arena Main Gym. North Campus. 7 p.m.

Exploria&amp; Bealia&amp; and
Hcaltha.re. Hall walls, 2495
Main St. 8 p.m. $4 , S5.

UUABFIIIa
Dead Man (1996}. S tudent

Union Theater. North Campus.
9 p.m. $2. $3.50.

p----

Z odiaque Fall Daatt Conctrt.

Drama Theatre, Cente1" for the
Ans. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5,

A M1ddle Stratum Ia tM Cutral Provi.Dtt: KalfH&amp; Jews ln
tb&lt;Mia~'lnnsllioa ,

Prof. Roser Des.Forges, History.
250 Student Union. Nonh C.mpus. Nooo. For infonnation , call
645-3474.

~­

The Role oiiL-141a B CeU
Rf'IUlat&amp;oa, Julian L. Ambrus

Royals Volleyball Touru.mt.nL
Alumn i Arena Gymnastks
Room. North Campus . NoonIOp.m.

,_..

Men •s and Women '• Tennls.
Ellicott Tennis Courts. North
Campus. 3 p.m.

_,....

_,....

Canisius VL Robe-rt Morris.
Alumni Artna Main Gym. North
Campus. 5 p.m.

-

Association.

_,....
Royall Volleyball Tounaa.menl.
Alumn.i Arena Main Gym. North
Campus. 8 a.m.·7 p.m.

......,c.._

The Coavocatioa: Opportunities, Tooctia, ud Fwd w;m
workshops and pcr10fTI\IJIICes.
Clemens. North Campus. 9:30
a.m.-3:30p.m. Presented by the
EnJiish Departments of Western
New York. For infomwion. call
Vic Doyno, 634-9221 .

--.....

1'1'-Worluloapfortbe
Plt)'llcolly CllaiBa&lt;d.

..............

c.....,.a-Stodeat

Unioa Theotcr. Compos.
7:30p.m. Pmenled by lbe. ....

-

deraraduaJe Srudent Anoeiation.

O pn Mlc. Harriman. South
Campos. I p.m.

ut.-.....,

c.-

Staaci-Up
1• M.wt
Condon. 8 p.m. To ~aiaer. call
the Office of S1Ltdt-n1 Ufc, 645·
6125.

ut.-.....,
t......,.

C.-ely. 10 p.m. To
reaister, callrhc: otfi«- of Student Ufe, 64S-612S.

--

~T=~h

Campus.

,.......,.

Cbem....,.

ror N..-C-Ws.
Offered lhn&gt;up the N;.pn
Falls-boscd Waste R&lt;towoe
Associates Inc. ud Millard
Fillmore College . Clusics V
Banquet Faciliry. 242S Niaaara
Falls Blvd .• Amherst. 8 a.m.-5
p.m. ~$375 . For information. call829-2202.

1'be Furta and A Tribe C1l~

ut.-.....,

Quat. Alumni Arena. North
Campus. 8 p.m. S21. For information. cali64S-2957.

Prottu:tkaatloa. Noon. To reaister, call the Office of Studrnl
Life, 645-6125.

-·- -N-Ufwl-.....

Cou.atry aDd Westero Daocina,. 8:45 p.m. Th reais&amp;er. call

the Office of StudeR! Life. 645·
6125.

,.......,.

Cbemlstry for Non-Cbt.mists.
Offered l.hrough the: Ni&amp;Jara
Falls-based Waste Resoorce
Assoc:iales Inc. and Millard
Fillmore College. Classic• V
Banquet Facilily, 242S Niaaan
F1lls Blvd., Amhent. 8 a.m.-S
p.m. S200-S37S. Also Oct. 30.
For lnformattoo. call 829-2202.

lroo •ulrit.ioa ud •etabolism
In the ldJcrade: nt. Prof.

_

. . P-Stllft'

' n.e Foactloa ol the COIC
Julbltor pl71Cipl, 1 - .
fro- ac.ock...ut Mke., Andrew
Koff,J'h.O., Memorial Sloan·
Krtrering Cancer Center.
Kirdlbofer Room. RPCJ.
12:.30p.m.

.............

P ol,_er Su.rfac:t Ctlnlktry:

Syatloals,CbonderiDtloa
and Su.rfact Strud~ Property llelotloosblpo for BlolocJcaland EnvinNI.ntal Applications. Joseph A. Gardella.

Chemistry. 206 Fumu. North
Campus. 3:45 p.m.

~..-.....

Tbe New Zealand Fata.Uy
Group Coalereoet ia Javnile
Just... ood Cblld Pn&gt;tocrioa,

UB v&amp;. Sie.na. Alumni Arena
Main Gym. North Campus.
7p.m.

ZodlAque Fall Dan« Concert.
Drama Theatre, Center for the
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $5.

$10.
. . .lc

Snenletntb Auual Higb

School Booon Chorale,
Harriet SirJ¥)ns. conductor. Slcc.

-...

All !nels. 2 Diefendorf. Soulh
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by Graduate Student

Box 'Thea!~. Center for the Arts.
North Campus. 8 p.m. S3.

---

Ellicott Tennis Courts. North
Campus. Noon.

_,_

North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

IEII-

Apptico"billly ol GlbboDoa.naa Burel Con«phl lo
Enviroa..ental Proble.IIUI Eft.
c.'OUntend whb SoUl, Fulvic
ud Hu•ic S..MtaDea, Surfactanll and Micd)n., Dr.
Jacob Marinsky, Cbemistry. 206
Furnas. Nor1h Campus . II a.m.

Men'• a nd Women •• Tenn ts.

1'Mirte&lt;
lbppy Journey aad The ..... ;,
tho Pltot, Slephcn Hcndenoo. d;-

-Folk

1'Mirte&lt;
Happy Joumry mel Tbe Past il
tbe Pltot, Slephcn llendcnon. d;.
rm:or. A pair of onc:-lders. Black

-

.....

,

$10.

S univlnc Cbaaac. Greu
Broffman. M.D. Kinch Auditorium. Children's Hospital.
8a.m.
~-kleftcto

Through Jan. 16. Alumni Arena
Gymnasrlcs Room. North Campus. 10:30 a.m.

...

Naa Simpoon. Off..._.
~:»-9:30 p.OI. $1. 10 ,..;-.
eoUiheOfruots.-ure.
64S-612$.

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Of

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toV--.-oad

_.....,

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I'CICWr. A pair o f onc:-acten. Black

Box lllcatre, Center for the Art$.
North Campus. 8 p.m. $3.

-

Michael D. Garrick. Biochemistry, Pediatrics. 306 Parter.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

Zocliaque Fall Danft Concert.
Dnma 'Theatre, Center for the:
Aru. North Campus. 2 p.m. S5.

$10.

Ufwl-.....

DiaJoiue oa Rarila. 2--6 p.m.
To resister, call the Office of
Student Ufe, 645-6125.

n.Nt.r

J.......,.

lbppy
oad Tloo Pool II
tbe.Pitot, Siephcn Hcodcnoo, ctim:10f. A pair of CJnC-.IICierl. Black
Box TheMre. Cmarr for lhe Arts.
North Campos. 2 p.m. $3.

UUAB-

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n. ... SWp (I!N6). Sludenl
Union Thealer. North Campus.

2 p.m. $2, SJ.SO.

Dad

TH£ IIIQ Sl&amp;P .. tile UUA8 Oct. 24 - 1:30 p.lll.
•nd Clq. 27 .t 2 p.m. In S-..t Union Thellter.

~

(IJIM). Sludeot

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Fresla Start: Bow to Quit
SIIMtklaa. 4:30p.m. To reaistcr.
call the Offtce of Student Ufe.

...........
645-6125.

Meet Ote Diredor of the CeakrFort•Arb-~ Bu.r-

. rowa. Social Hall. Student
Union. North Campus. 4:306p.m.

ut.-.....,

N-. Ron lacalsbe and

They Collmawood. 5 p.m. To
reaister, call tbe Office of Studenll.ife. 645-6125.

ut.-.....,

Jloala.... Sipl.oaiiWiae

Se-.laar. 5:30p.m. Tb reJiller,
caJI the Office of Student l;ife.
64S-6125.

Prof. Murray l..t.Yine. Psycholoey and School ot Law. Facully
Lounge. fiflh floor. O'Brian.

,_,_
North Campus. 4 p.m.

Pw ...

I

Bulldla&amp; Bo&lt;klosb Bodies'
Visible l•visibllilies, Leslie
Heywood. Uruvem1y Gallery.
Center for the Ans. North Campus. 4 p,m. Free. Part of
Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

-

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--

Oru&amp; Tloonpy, Ten:sa

Lubowski. 248 Cook.e. Nonh
Campos. 4:30 p.m.

llollowHto (IJ7S), SIUden1
Union Theater. Nonh Campw..
6:30p.m. $2, SJ.SO.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF lEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIYIIISIIY AT BUFMLO
State Univmity ofNew Yorit

Octolwr 17 1996 Volume 28. No 8

Fulfilling the,Promise
Looking at public service role of universities
0 INSTITUTION IS as central to solv·
ing the problems of the American ci ty as
the American research university, one of
the nation 's leading authorities on service
learning told UB faculty, staff and admin·
istrators attending a symposium on Monday in Park
Hall.
.. lf we focus our attention on this. if we genu -

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inely tie research. teaching and service ... universities

It's book number 3 million
.,for Uliiversity Ubraries
,_. Seolicea EdKor

HE UNIVERSITY LffiRARIES of the
University at Buffalo will co~morate
the acquisition of the'ir 3 iiiilliontb and 3
million-and-first volumes-a 400-yearold obstetrical text and a new CD ROM featuring UB 's Poetry Collection-with a day long prograin on Sunday, Oc.t. 20.
ntled ''RememberiJia the Pul. Promolina the Future," the proaram commemorate~ 150 yean of libraries at UB and the
Wlivenily's sesqulcealeMial.lt wiD fanJre sevual events, includpresentations by.._ former~
National Ubrary of
Meilkina llld by poet, p!aywrlalllllld critic Jerome McGann. II
also will be marbd wldlllpfiCial eUibllioos in several libraries in
tbe UB Libraries' ~ llld OllliDe c:anputer exhibits.
The celebration will lqinwilb the annual mtJeliDg of the Friends
of the Health -scieoceo Library II 10:30 Lm. in the Austin l'lint
Main Reading Room of the Health Sciences Library on the UB
South Campus. .
l'oDowing a cbam~ brunch. Marlin Cummings, M .D.,
"fonncr direclor of the Nlllional Library of Medicine, will give a
preaentation on Jobn Sbaw Billillp. the 191h-ceaiUJ)' surgeon and
librarian whose orpnialioft of U.S. medical iDIIilulions played a
central role In the moclemizalion of bospital cue.and maintenance
of public health.
In 1864, Billings aealed the libnry lhal developed into lhe
National Library ofMediciDe, todly ibe world'a lugeot medicalnoference-. He alan Is the founder oli.Jtdu Mcdww (1879).
mootbly Juldo to Clllftal medicallilaalllre lhal still is regarded
u oae ol the primary medical bibliop11pbies if) the Ulliled States.

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be Health Scieocea Ubrary, founiled in 1846, was lhe fmt
ullit of lhe Uaivcnity Libraries to be emblisbed.
The University Librari~ will accept the 3-rniilionlh and
3-rniilion-and-first volumes c1urinJ a ceremony 10 be bold at3 p.m.
in the Special CollectiODS ReediDg Room. 420 Capen Hall on the
UB Nonb Campus. A receplipn wi ll foDow.
.
.
BIJbara von Wabldo, associate vice 'president for university h braries who wiD accept the new 'texiS, notes that the selection of
tbese historic volumes emplwizellhe long marriage of artS and
sciences al UB , foun&lt;1ed In 1846 u a medical coDege.
1be event also will featwe a talk by Jerome J. McGann, Jobn
Stewart Bryan Profeuor ofEnglisb at the Ulliversity o~ Vugin~
11 will be tided "Radiant 'ICxlllality," a reference 10 t,he VISual radtancc of lhe ilOIIIpUier acreen, a medium that hu novolutioniz.ed
librariea llld the field at library and information studies, and virtually an other scbolarly dilciplioes. McGann, wbo wrote a bonk
of lhe 111111t tide, will diacua aucb Issues u lhe "return of lhe
library," tcholanhip in the aae of norwortted archives, "radiant"

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will better fulfill their promise of advancing and

transmitting knowledge to advance human welfare,''
said lrn Harkavy, an associa1e vice president at the
University of Pennsylvania and the director of
Penn's Center for Community Partnerships.
"'And if we really fulfill that pro m ise. then
America has a very strong probability of achieving
its promise as a fair. decent and just society for all
of its citizens."
Harkavy was keynote speaker at the symposium
on linking public service, or service learning. with
research and scholarly activities held for fac ulty and
staff by the Office of the Vice President for Public
Service and Urban Affairs.

ollowing hi s remarks. members of a panel of
UB deans and faculty members. many of
whom are involved in service projects, dis-cussed the issue of service learning at UB. While
they applauded Harkavy's viewpoints. some panelists wondered if the effort could thrive at UB under
the current award system.
R. Nils Olsen. vice dean for academic affairs and

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Ira Harkavy opeeks ot oymposlum In Perk Hell.

director of the clinical studies program in the School
of Law, noted, for e~ample . th~t in the past, "there
has been a very inflexible definition of scholarship
and teaching at the uni versity level that has hampered even the professional schools" because it
does n't take service learning into consideration
when it comes to granting tenure.
He added: ..If there isn't an effective reward system that encourages people to do thi s. we will continue our record of talking grandly about having a
major impact in the community but having that impact largely segregated in the professional sc hools.··
Continued on page 2

Commission will reconvene, reconsider
proposed 1997-98 academic calendar
II)' WIIETCHIDI
News Services Associate

D1rector

UB'S CALENDAR Commission
will reconvene to reconsider the
proposed 1997-98 academic cal·
endar after the Faculty Senate Ex·
ec utive Commiuee. meeting on
Oct. 9, objected to the early starting dates for both semesters and
the failure to consider. the second
day of Rosh Hashanah as a uni versity holiday.
Many faculty members at the
meeting complained that the proposal to stan the spring semester
on Jan. 12. t998. about a week
earlier than nonnal, wou ld reduce
what they consider a key block of
time for productive research .

.. It Is of , . .1concern, thi s issue of not having enough time in
the break."" said William Miller.
professor of stom;:uology. He
noted the issue is something the
dental sc hool has had to deal with
for years since it begins classes
shortly after New Year 's.
•That has screwed up, to put
it bluntly, a lot of academic issues
and pc&gt;kntial development of new
ideas in that interim between the

semesters," he said. 'The effect
is to suppress scholarship during
that period ... ! would strong ly
urge agains t contracting that
space because it severely impacts
on scholarship."'
Robert L. Palmer. vice president for student affairs and chair
of the Calendar Commission .
noted that although there are sev·
era! faculty members o n the commission. no one had strongly objected to the earlier starting time.

He Mid t h e . - - for moving
up the stan of the semester. which
would set commencement weekend from May 8· I0. is to leave
more time for summer sessions run
by Millard Fillmore College.
He denied a claim by Mill er
that the semester was moved up
to accommodate a fund-rai sing
event in the spring. He said there
has been ··no pressure from the
president's office or otherwise" to
end the semester earl y...It was
suggested (as something) to consider. There were no marching
orders given."
In light of the objections raised
at th e meeting. Palmer said he

will reconvene the commission to
reconsider the proposed 1997-98
academic calendar.
He no ted that the Calendar
Commission does not set the calendar. but sends a recommenda tion to the president. who makes
the final deci sion.

He pointed out that he has no
preconceived noti on about what
the calendar should loo k like.
''I'm a convener: I've got to facilitate movi ng that (the process
lead ing to a recomme nd ati o n),
that's why we have broad-based
consultation." he sa1d.
"What troubles me. 1s at th1 ~
pomt, when we' re trying to put a
calendar to bed for next year for
a whole variety of reasons. th at
after month s and months and
months of discussio n, th1 s item
comes up as a major 1ssue
In other busi ness. the FSEC
asked its Committee on Academic
Freedom and Respon sibili ty to
examine the issue of consensual
relations between student s and
faculty and report to the FSEC
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PUBUC SERVICE
Continued from page 1

Harkavy said American universities have
had a deep tradition of the integration of research. teaching and service, and of having
service ar the very core of their function .

orld events, however. have im~
pacted negatively on that tradition.
World War I. Harkavy noted, led
to a model that questioned whether .. ideas
could change the world for the better, that
human beings could promote progress .. . "
Following World Wai II. competition with
the Soviet Union led to the development
of "big science" and the predominance of
universities that focused on the physical sciences. Once the Soviet Union fell apart in
1991. he added. "long-festering. chronic
crises. long denied, became highly visible."

W

Harkavy said that not only can universiues ··no longer tum their back," but the whole

mi ssion structure of higher ed ucation has
changed . ..The question is. given these developmen ts, and given what has occurred
in terms of American society 's deep service tradition in education. whal strategies
can take us from here 10 there?'' he asked.
He noted that many valuable servicelearni ng activ ities involve students working
in the field and taking their experiences back
to the classroom for discussion.

!though some say the role of univ~r­
sities is to educate people to be citizens. 00110 solve problems. "my assumpti is that is not what major research univers ies aie about Thatlcind of relationship stiU
ews poor people as subjects to be studied."
He added: "The (correct) strategy seems
to a servii:e-leaming strategy that engages
the
e of acadentic resoun:es.and other resou
of an institution to solve problems
and ad'\'U&gt;CO learning and advance teaching."
"The OOiioo h= is that. in fact. se&lt;Vice is
bolh ai)OOJ and a molivatar, and progress could
and shooJd go hand in hand; students are 001
just reflecting on an experience, but ttying 10
improve the quality of life, 001 just in terms of
'what I have learned, but what good I may do'."
In the panel discussioo that followed. Olsen
noted that over the years. the UB School of Law
has integrnted clinical education. which be described as "learning through application." into
the curriculwn. into the promotion and tenwe
standards for faculty, and into the school's definition of schola!ship. "As a resul~ the program
has been enriched because it hasn't been lr&lt;lUed
as something separate ... and it has become a
remarkable part of the community."
He cited the school's Affordable Housing
Clinic. which has leveraged $26 ntillion in

outside funding.and created approximately
350 units of housing-in the Buffalo area in
partnership with the Archdiocese of Buffalo,
and the Community E.cxJ!tomic Development
Oinic, which is devising effective models for
affordable, sustainable day care, which Olsen
called critical in light of welfare reform.
·~ his is all done by tenure-lniCk profes·

sors who aie hired to do this. They
teach courses in the law school, they
write about what they do."
Faculty in the law school have a good
record of recommended tenure based on
teachi ng. service and scholaiShip, Olsen
said. 'The problem is when we get over to
the university where there is a very narrow. cramped definition of scholarship,"
which has created serious tenure difficulties for some individuals, he said.
Hugh G. Petrie, dean of the Graduate
School of Education, said that four years
ago it approved a statement that broadened
the concept of scholarship to include original scholarship. the scholarship of teaching, the sc holarship of integration and the
scholaiShip of interpretation. The statement
also included professional service, which
depends on a faculty member's scholaiiy
expertise, insread of public service . .. It's
nor coaching Little Lcigue;· Petrie said.
Professional se rvice, teaching and
scholarship. he added, are the three categories the school uses for considering recommendations for promotion to full professor. Professional service. however. is not
considered in recommending promotions
from assistant to associate professor.
G. William Page, professor and chair of
the Department of Planning, noted that if a
university has faculty tackling serious urban
problems, "it seems tbete should be a way to
write something that is publishable and to
work for tenure from that experience. While
there. may be a pbHosophical dMde· over.
higher learning and experientialleaining, it
does not seem to me _they shoulcj not be insurmountable," he sail!. " If you were advising someone starting an academic career,
advising them to tackle real problems, serious problems. is generally good advice."
Haikavy noted that for public se&lt;Vice to fit
into the current faculty reward system. .the argument must be made that it will produce substantive scholarship and belter teaching. Moreover, there must be a coounitm:nlto public service at tbe top, at the pesidenlial and provostial
level. ''It won'toome fromea::h school and discipline doing its own thing," be said.

Prorams a. "CPIIIey i 70"
Three days of poetry readings, lectures and musical performances as well as an exhibitioo, honorad the 701h birthday of pioneering poet Aobert
Greeley, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English
OKOMTC
and Samuel P. Capen Chalr of Poetry and HuVER. ES
man~ies at UB. The events, held Oct. 10-12•
which also helped mark UB's sesquicentennial.
included a "Conversation wi1h Robert Greeley,"
and readings by the poet, shown above, on
Oct. 11 in the Katharine Cornell Theatre. Celebratad l~erary, visual and jazz artists and composers perticlpeted in the tribute
to Greeley. UB's Poetry/
Rare Books Collection has opened an exhibition, curated by Robert Bertholf, "HERE: Fifty
Years of Poetry In Buffalo.· in the Special
Collections Poetry Room.
420 Capen Hall, NQrth CampuS. The exhibition features Greeley's
work. including the IIOilXI16S shown here,
as well as Important editions.
marllJ6Ctip~ and photps of major_poets
writing In English who have
visited. taught or read at UB.

•

3 MIWON1H BOOK
Contiqued.!rpm page 1

scholaiShip and criticism, and the effects
of technology on pedagogy and the scene
of leanung, that is. the effect of c:Omputer
distance leaining on teaching and learning.
\blwne number 3 million is a significant
volwne in obs1ettics, a rare first edition af De
concqJtu et gmerrrtionL hominus published in
Zurich in I 554. The book is a classic work on
generation, conception and birth wriaen by
Jacob Rueff, a swg&lt;Qn and professtr af obstetrics at the University of Zurich. There ardewer
than five copies of this rare edition in the US .•
according to Lilli Sentz. curator of the 12,!mvollJ!TIO Robert L Brown History of Medicine

University,Ubraries open special Sesqui exhibitions
8y PATRICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

EIGHT Of THE NINE U8RAJIIU in the University Libraries system are presenting special
exhibitions in connection with the sesquicentennial and new acquisitions:

• lockwood Memorial Library, "North

c.,.,pu•

.

-rrt:asures from the Lockwood Library"
showcases fine press books created to be cul tural, anistic objects, as well as a means of communication. These are not fllJ'e materials of great
monelary value, said Lockwood Library Director Judith Adams, but examples of printing that
conveys both know ledge and beauty. The exhibit is curated by Tim Conroy.

• Music Ub1'11ry, Baird Holl, North Compu1
"Treasures In tb&lt; Music Library" includes
such items as concert programs from UB music
history and from principaJ venues in the Western
World; posters like that announcing an 1817 concert of Haydn's Crration, and Georgia O'Keefe's
poster.i for the Santa Fe chamber music series;
materials documenting the histOI)' of American
music librurianship: recordings and lectures by
UB 's Slec Visiting Professors including Aaron
Copland. LeOn Kirchner and Ned Rorem; excerpts
from the Jan Williams Archive and a coUcction

of 19th&lt;entury full seo&lt;es.
• Science • EniJneerlnc Ubrory, Copen
Holl, North Compuo
"Sc.ientilk Literature of1846" feat~ in-

leresting journals and articles from the library's
rich collection dating from the yearofUB's founding. It will include examples of scholarly articles,
treatises and popular publicatioos. Afearured tide
will be the beautifully illustnued set, ~Agricul ­
run: of New Yod: Swe" by Ebenezer Emmons.
published between 1846 and 1854.

•taw Ubrory, O'BIIon Hall, North C""'pua
"Hlatorical J.maaes" features photos and
other images tracing the evolution of the law
school, its. professors, students and assorted
buildings from late 1880s to its present incarnation in O'Brian Hall.

• HNIIh Sciences Ubrary, Abbott Hall,
South

c....pu.

"History or tbe Health Scle.nc:es Library,"
"Tbe Bonnie 1011d Vern Bullougb History of
Nunlug Collection" and "The M&lt;Gulro Blstorlcal Medical butn~ment Collection."
• Poetry/Aero Booktl Colfectlon, 420
Copen Hall, North Compuo
"HERE: FlftyYeanofPoetryln Buffalo"

features imponant editions. manuscripls and

photos of major poets writing in English who
have visited, laught or read at UB, contributing to its reputation as a principal hot spot or
postmodemism.

• Unlvel'llty Archlv... 420 Copen Holl,
North

C..._

"University at Buffalo Sesqui&lt;t:nteoaial
Ezhlbit: The Foundio&amp; or the Unlvenlty"
produced and put on line by Christopher
Densmore, acting director of lhe Archives. For
the archivCs' electronic uhibit, featuring phoros, historic documents and other memorabilia.

go to bttp:/fwiop.bull'alo.edll/llbi-orlef/uDill/
arddves(nhlbll/
"Remembering lbe Put, PromoliD&amp; tb&lt;
Future: ISO Yean of Ubraria at VB, • an
on-line emibition designed and consttucted by
ce ntral technical services librarian Ellen
Greenblatt, with assistance from John Edens
and Christopher Densmore. Find it at bllp:/1
winp.buffolo.edll/llbraries/ubiblb/3mill/

• Oscor SIIYermon ~· u-,.,
Copen Hell, North c..._ ,
"UB Libraries: Put,...._,. and Futtii'O,"

a look at the UB libnries through photos. objects and memorabilia lhat de.mon.strate historical changes in information-search technology.

Collection, wbiclt will house the historic 1101wne, valued at $7,500.
De cmcepru was tbe first text io obstelrics
to use true anatomical pictures and many of its
68 woodcuts portray physioiogic:al abncnnalilies. The illustnlioos also rom:c( SM'Ie repe-

St:lUiions of the female rqxoc~Qctive OlplS.
They originally were derived froin Andreas
Vesalius, the Renaissance Fl&lt;mish physician
wbo wmtc and illustnlled the first~ in
anatomy and thus revolutioni2z:d the study of
biology and the ptiClice of medicine.
The Rueff book will be presented to the
libraries by Joseph N. Ellis, M.D., a 1945
graduate of the UB Schoo.l of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences. The gift will be made
in the name of James Piau White, M.D.
(1811-1881), principal founder of the UB
medical school and its first professor of
obstetrics and diseases of women and children. White's collection of'"""' than 1,000
volumes of medical texts, strong in obstetrics.and gynecology, was bequeathed to UB.
Volume 3 million and one is nota traditional book at all. ·It is a CD ROM tilled.
"HERE: Fifty Years of Poetry io Buffalo,''
an interactive program published by the UB
libraries' Poetry/Rare Books Collection to
document UB 's rich history io the field of
20th-centiuy poetry in English.
The CD ROM calls on materials from UB's
Poeuy Coll&lt;clion. Rt&gt;cognized asoneofthe finest poe1ty an:llives in the world. it houses manuscripts. books, tapes and tnemOnlbilia of such
writers as Wtlliam Carlos Williams, James
Joyce. Robert Graves, Robert Duncan and
Olarles Olson. Poeuy/Rate ~ Collection
QullfOr Robert J.lledolf said the imeractive program will allow usas 10 view a wide range of
edilions and original manJSCripts and bear pods lil&lt;t thooecitld above, in addition 10 Robert
Deeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Ltvertov.
Robinson Jelfers and hundreds of otbers. ~

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Archivist spins witty tale at Sunrise
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I'AJIIICIA
News
Services
Editor

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HONNIEFINNEGAN, archivist
eme~tus, gave UB history a run
for its money Thursday morning
in the second in the 1996-97 "UB
at Sunrise~ lecture series with an
engaging, edifying and witty chronicle focused principally on the university's formative years.
Finnegan is as well known for her sly,
wry, ironic observations as she is for the
thoroughness of her scholarship, and her
presentation offered ample testimony to
both. Archives are her life's
work and Finnegan is admired · openly and secretly as one of UB's
cultural treasUres.

Her "sesqui centennial slide
tour"
began
with a look at
the City of Buffalo in 1846, the
year the univer·

sity was chartered and hegan

school's impressive
early dedication to

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democratic, non-sectarian
education and devotion to intellectual freedom . Her discussion of lofty goals
and profound intention was spiced with
amusing anecdotes. such as the one about
the mere $20 financial investment made in
the new endeavor by Millard Fillmore. the
best-known of UB 's founders and its first
chancellor.

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he explained the arcane iconography
of the ftrst UB seal (that isn't a severed femur over Hippocrates' he!'d ,
it's the lamp of knowledge); showed its flrst
school buildings and introduced Mary Blair
Moody, a 40-year-old mother of six, who,
in 1876, became UB's ftrst woman graduate and went on to enjoy a successful c;areer in preventive medicine.
The personalities and particular intellectual and admi nistrative talents of UB 's
chancellors, presidents and deans also were
on parade.

One was Teddy Roosevelt's Harvard
classmate, the intensely patriotic and religious Charles Norton (Norton Hall), called
by Fmnegan, ..a man of vision and endless
effort." He, along with John Lord O' Brian
(O'Brian Hall). worked for years to scrape
together enough money to buy the acreage
surrounding the Erie County Almshouse
and Insane Asylum, in an area then called
the "Buffalo Plains." for campus developmenL This feat was accomplished in 1909,
wben the university was sited in separate
buildi~gs all over downtown Buffalo.
Fmnegan also disc~~d the significant
contribution by the women of Buffalo toward the development of the College of
Arts and Sciences, which transformed
UB from a loose confederution of
professional schools into a ..true
univ.ersity" with a liberal-arts curriculum.
This effort was assisted by
Buffalo's socially progress ive
Women 's Educational and Industrial Union, which worked
on hehalf of working women.
women's health issues, women
prisoners and education for
women and children. The union.
headed by Harriet Townsend
(Townsend Hall), was operated by
many of the city 's
prominent, reform minded women , who donated-their own building to
the university for the express purpose of founding
a college of arts and sci·ences.
Finnegan offered a
well-rounded portrait of
UB 's first chancellor,
Samuel P. Capen (Capen
Hall), who was largely responsible for defining
UB's mission in higher
education. She showed
pictures of Capen in hi s
simple Hayes Hall office.
which was decorated with
an elegant spray of lilacs;
Capen in academic procession, and a slide
of his home on Linwood Avenue. One of
the nation 's best-known, distinguished and
liberal educatQrs, Capen made a distinctive

Kohn to challenge teaching 'myths'
11J SUI WVE1'CIIIII

News Services Associate Director

Eat) clllldbood educlltor Allie Kolin
may shatter some common myths about
raising and teachjng children during a presentation to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on
Saturday, Nov. 9, in the gymnasium of The
Park School of Buffalo, 4625 Harlem
Road, Snyder.
The presentation, titled "Punished by
Rewards: Second Thoughts About A's,
Praise, Stickers &amp; Contests," is sponsored

by the UB Child Care Center, Inc., in conjunction with the Association for the Edu cation of Young Children of Western New
York, the Park School and the Preschool
Evaluation and Treatment Clinic in the
Division of Child &amp; Adolescent Psychi atry at Children 's Hospital.
A fonner teacher turped author and lecturer, Kohn is an outspoken critic of Lhe
use of rewards and competition in childrearing, noting that the practices actually
prove counterproductive. Studies show that
children who are rewarded frequently are
Jess generous than their peers and that
emphasizing grades tends to undermine
chi ldren' s interest in learning, he says.
Kohn speaks widely on human behavior, education and social theory to school
faculties and parent groups. and audience!&lt;!
at universities and corporations. He is the
author of five books. the best known of
which are " Punished by Reward s: The
Trouble with Gold Stars, incentive Plans.
A's, Praise and Other Bribes" and "No
Contest: The Case Against Competition.··
The cost of the workshop is S20 and can
be paid at the door. Registration will be held
from 7:30-8:45 a.m. For further information.
call Tamar Meyer at 829-2226.

mark on American higher education and is
sti ll widely quoted today on issues of free
speech, the meaning of a university and
support of innovative educational programs.
innegan illustrated universi ty life
through several decades with slides
of students in dark, shiny laboratories and classrooms. almshouse inmates
watching the groundbreaking ceremonies
for Foster Hall on the Main Street Campus: students carousing, students socializing, engaged in athletics, band performance, at the prom, and sitting, stiff with
cold, with President Clifford Furnas and
his exuberant wife, Sparkle, at a Bulls foothall game.
Biflboards, capital campaign posters

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and bulletins spok.e to the strong. enthusiastic town -gown relationship between UB
and the people of Buffalo and their shared
progressive vision of education as key to
ciVic development and the American
dream. Finnegan also introduced the audience to Kate Butler. publisher of Th• Buffalo Evening News, who donated the
money for the Hayes Hall bell tower and
inscribed bells: to the Foster family. whose
donations built Foster HaJJ-the first new
building on the Main Stree t Campus; the
fir.&gt;t Phi Beta Kappa banquet. and the Red

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buy land lor campua development; Mary Blalt Moody, M.D. 1876,
left, ftrot _ , _ UB
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Friars Club, which today enjoys cu lt starus as a son of "dead poets' society." ll was
actually a lun cheon club that
fueled the founding by UB
women of "The White Nuns·
Club."
There was more. much more.
from studentlfacu\ty activism in
rhe 1960s to UB's incorpoi'ation
into the SUNY system and the
subsequent move to the Nonh
Campus, for which then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller broke
ground on Halloween. 1968.
A scholar with a yen for the
tenderly articulated eccentricity.
Finnegan is known for her ubiquitous purple socks (they match
a noi sy pair of cotton gloves) and
for boldly going where no archivis t has gone before-to this
month's Sesquict!:ntennial Gal a
in a tuxedo.

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fellow and past president of the Society of Am~rican Archivists, she
serves as a member of the board of
manager.; of the Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society, the Erie County Records
Commission and the Town of Amherst
Records Commission. Finnegan has served
on several national and statewide archivaJ
advisory boards and is a recipient of a
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Librarianship.

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Continued from page 1
whether a formal univ ersity policy is
needed. and if so. to develop a policy.
Miller, who told the committee that he
married one of hi s students. said he did
not believe a formal universi ty sta tement
was necessary in the case of two conse nt ing ad ults. as long as there was no interference with the academic progress of the
siUdent. "'How you me et is beside the
poi nt. If it interferes with the academic
lhing. yes there is the concern. ll ' s the academic issue, not the personal relatio nship.
that is of concern," he said.
But Jack Meacham, professor of psychology, pointed out that a relationship that
may stan as consensual may not continue
as such. "What appears conse nsual at o ne
point in time, sometimes appears. in ret rospect, not to have been consensual; ei-

ther party might change th e1r views on th is
matter. I think it's abso lutel y esse ntial we
have such a policy in writing." Margaret
Acara. professor of pharmacology and toxico logy. ag reed . ..This needs to be considered. Yes. sometimes it works fine. and a
lot of times it doesn't."
The FSEC al so:
• Heard a brief presentatiOn on a re quest for research proposals for public-ser·
vice research projects by John Sheffer. in terim vice president for public service and
urban affairs. Proposals. which could be
funded at up to $10.000, are due Nov. I.
• Sent to the full Faculty Senate, with
recommendation for approval. the
university• s proposed recycling policy.
whose objective is to achieve a minimum
level of 50 percent recycling by 1997.

�A new award and ui'Weraily tracfotion has been established with the aeatlon of
the SEFA Chair's Cup by Nelson E. Townsend. director ol the OMsion ol Alhletlcs and UB's 1996 SEFA Qwnpaign chair.
The cup Will be given annually with lhat year's SEFA chair choosi"lg the crit&amp;ria for wtlich ~will be~In~ first year, Townsend has designated that the cup will be~ to the
vtce-presidenll or faculty unit thatn-'S or exc:eeda h 1996 SEFA awnpaign
goal and shows the highest inc- In percentage ol responderns fNfK the
1995 C81\'1)8ign.
The 1996 cup, a trophy that wilreaide with the winning lrll for ooe year,
will be presMied at the UB-Syracuw Univar.ay bllklllblll giWIIIIIO be held
Dec. 10 In the new Mama Midland At-. The wtrfWlg tnt wlllliCIINe 12 tickets to the game or two tickets per unft lialaon piL8 bl' ticiiiiiB for . ..llllll '-:1.
whlcliever is Q1881ar. to the pre-game celebratlor! and the ~ beaketball games to be held that night

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Bulla to~ MIMII Nov. 22 In MMOn ..-r

UB vs. Orangemen: Dec. 10 game

highlights basketball schedule
A BATTLE AT MAitiNE Midland Arena
with national runner-up Syracuse University highlights the UB basketball schedule,
which was announced recenUy by head
coach lim Cohane.
The Bulls, favored by many to be the
ream to beat in the Mid-Continent Conference, once again have a pair of battles
against Big East teams in the early going.
The Bulls open the season at Miami (Fl.)
on Friday, Nov. 22 and will batUe the Syracuse Orangemen, who lost to Kentucky in

the NCAA Championship last season, on
Tuesday, Dec . 10 at the new Marine Midland Arena.
1M auKs will - . _ Big Four rivals Niagara (Nov. 30) and Si. Bonaventure
(Dec. 7) at the MMA and will host crosstown rival Canisius College at Alumni
Arena on Dec. 3. The Bulls will conclude
their non-conference schedule with a pair
of games at the Toledo MVPCiassic where
they will play Dartmouth College-where
Cohane once coached-in the first round.
A match up with the host Rockets. who the
Bulls will play with in the Mid-American
Conference starting in 1998, could await
UB in the finals.

Conference Tournament. with an automatic berth to the NCAA
Tournament at stake. will be played March
2-4 at the Mark of the Quad Cities in
Moljne, Ill. UB was 13- 141ast season but
TheM~

lost only one semor and returns the top two

sophomore scorers in sc hool history in
Mike Martinho and Rasaun Young.
The Syracuse-US game at the MMA
will be sold as part of UB 's season ticket

package. All Bulls basketball games home
and away can be heard on WWKB-AM
(1520).
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Faculty art, Culley works on exhibit
By PATRICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

T

HE UNfVERSITY AT BUFFALO Art Department Gallery, located in Room 845
of the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus. opens two new exhibitions
in October.
Gallery· hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ; Wednesday-Friday. 10 a.m. to 8
p.m.. and Saturday, II a.m. to 8 p.m. There is no admission charge.
FACULTY ARTISTS: A FUND-RAISER. which opened Oct. 4, features small works
by faculty painters, prirttmakers, photographers, illustrators and sculptors.
All works shown are reasonably priced and will be available for sale throughout the show,
with proceeds to benefit students in the Department of Art. The show runs through Oct. 22.
DIAGRAMS : PAINTINGS BY ROBERT CULLEY will open on Thursday. Oct. 24.
with a reception in the gallery from 6-8 p.m., and will run through Nov. 12.
Culley is an abstract expressionist whose cryptic visual elements include scientific

iconography and references to autobiography and magic.
Gallery Director Kurt Kornacki says that to Culley. "science and art are rel ated fonns
o f investigation and celebration.
"Topological forms, a schematic drawing by Thomas Edison, an illustration from an

alchemical treatise are all sources of imagery for Culley," he says. "He is a finn believer
in the mystery of art and works from what he knows into lhe inexplicable. As Braque

said. 'a piece is complete when the idea disappears.' So, too. with Culley."
Ko'macki says that a great love and respect for materials penneates his paintings and
construclions.
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Samuel L Green to receive
law school's top honor Nov. 2
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News Services Associate

Ed~or

T

HE HON. SAMUEL L. GREEN
will receive the 1996 Edwin F.
Jaeclde Awanl--me UB School
of Law's highest honor-at a
luncheontobeheldat !2:15p.m.
on Saturday, Nov. 2, in the Atrium of the
Center for the Ails on the UB North Campus.
UB President William R. Greioer will
present the award following the law
school's 21st annual Alumni Convocation,
"'The Challenge ofCbange; Keeping Current and Competitive."
The award, named for UB law alumnus Edwin F. Jaeclde, is given annually to
an individual who has distinguished bim-self or herself and has made significant
contributions to the law school and the legal profession.
member of the UB law school Class
of 1967, Green is senior associate
justice of the Appellate Division,
Founh Judicial Depanment, State Supreme Coon. A former criminal defense
lawyer, be moved steadily up the judicial
ranks from Buffalo City Court in 1973 to
the State Supreme Coon. Ei-ghth Judicial
Department in 1978 to the AppeUate Division in 1983. At that time, be was the
first Afri&lt;;an AmeriCl!ll to be named a New
York State appellate judge outside the New
Yort City area. He has been recommended
twice by the Commission on Judicial

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Nomination to the
state's Court ofAppeals.'
The law coovocation, which will
be&amp;in ·at 9 a.m. in
the Center for the
Ails, will address
bow lawyers can
cope with the con-stant change in the
legal profession by
rcc:Ognizing and understanding the major
trends affi:cting the legal business and the
professioo.
Among the topics to be discussed are markelin&amp; and pra:tice dcvdopmcnt, C&lt;llllpUier
technology, govemment rep!atioo of law·
yen and lawyering. and disciplilllty ~panel of experiS includes as special
guests the Hon. Joseph J. Traficanti,

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deputy ehief lldministralive judge for

cowu ootside New York City, and Joel A.

Rose of Joel A. Rose &amp;: AssocilleS, Inc., a
natiooally known law office management
consulting firm located in Cherty HilL NJ.
Local paneli sts include Paul Ivan
Birzon, a lawyer with the firm of B i~
&amp;: Davis, P.C.; Jeffley M. Freedman, Jeffrey Freedman Attorneys ; Maryann
Saccomando Freedman , Cohen &amp;:
Lombardo, and Dan D. Kohane, Hurwitz
&amp;:Fme,P.G.
For more infonnation, contact Ilene

-Aeischmann at 645-2107.

ac- o p e n - Nov. 2311t Alumni~

Royals to face Louisville, Kansas
and S%1Cuse in '96-97 season
NON-CONFERENCE FOU Syracuse,
Kansas and Louisville highlight UB 's
women's basketball schedule, wbich was
announced recently by head coach Sal
Buscaglia.
The Royals, 23-8 last season and MidContinent Conference runners-up, open the
season at Alumni Arena on Nov. 23 against
Cornell. Highlights of the season include
a Dec . 10 Mid-Continent Conference
match up with Central Connecticut State at
the new Marine Midland Arena. The game
is a doubleheader with UB's men's S&lt;juad,
who wiil faee Syracuse.
Oilier ' - ~ in December for
the Royals include a Dec. 8 showdown with
Louisville, who reached the NCAA Tournament in 1995 and a New Year's Eve game
against future Mid-American Conference rival Marshall at Valla Maria College. The Royals in December will also travel to Syracuse and
play in the SL Joseph's College Hawks Oassic
where their first round """""""' is Kansas22-10 last season, champions of the thm-Big
Eight and s...e.t I6t&lt;am iD 1996 falling to eventual national champioo Tt:nness&lt;e in the East
Regionaf Semi1inaJs.
UB's conference schedule continues in
January, bighlighted by the continuation of
their series with last year's Mid-Contioent
champion Youngstown State. The Royals
meet their rivals in Ohio on Jan. 18 and host
the Penguins at Alumni Arena Feb. LO. The

season culminates with the Mid-Continent
Conference Thumament on March 6-8.
The Royals return two-time All-MidContioent first team selection Brenna Doty
and Mid-Coo All -Newcomer selection
Catherioe Jacob in their backcourt. Doty
led the Royals atl6.3 points per game last
season and Jacob set the school record for
assists in a season with 163.
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n compliance with
the requirements
of the federal law,
and in an effon to
promote the personal safety of the
academic community, the
following information bas
been prepared for campus
review. 1be information is
pdated on an annual basis
and is available to all current students and employees, and to prospective students and employees on requesl
This report focuses on
University programs, proprties and facilities owned
or controlled by the Univerity. UB has campuses 1&lt;&gt;cated within the City of
Buffalo and Town of
AmhersL 'and each municipality has law enforcement
gencies and maintains
rime statistics. For infer·
mation on safety and crime
in the local communities,
contact the Depanment of
Public Safety. (Consult the
' Living Off-Campus brohure produced by Commuter Services--Office of
Student Life and the Personnel Safety Committee).
The University is concerned about crime in the
community and works with
local law enforcement
gencies to promote safety
awareness, in an effort to
reduce the number of incidents' and assist in the investigation of crimes.

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The Department of Public Safety is the University's law enforcement
agency. It bas an office on
the North Campus (BisseU
fWI) and a sub-station on
the South Campus (Clement HaU) to facilitate the
reporting. prevention, and
investigation of criminal
activities and to provide for
prompt response to other
emergencies.
Members of the academic community and visitors to the campus are encouraged to repon crimes
to the Department's dispatcher by telephone (6452222). Crimes and emergencies can also be re·
poned by using one of the
campus' 28 strategically
located "blue light" telephones that immediately
connect the caller with
Public Safety. This dispatch
office is operated 24 ho\u's
a day, seven days a week
and dispatches patrols to
emergency calls and re·
ports of criminal activity.
As appropriate, the Depanment interacts with local
crisis service agencies, law
enforcement units, emer·
gency health care agencies
and prosecutors in responding to reports of criminal
activities or emergencies.
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SUNY/BUFFALO CIIIIIE STAI'IStiCS )
CALENDAR YUitS 11DM

These statistics reveal the nature and frequency of
reported crime on the University at Buffalo campuses.
In the category of burglary, forced entries are rare: the
majc1rity of incidents are thefts from unlocked student
rooms. One of the most challenging tasks we have is
to educate students to lock their rooms at all times.
Murder
Robbery
Aggravated Assault
Burglary
Motor Vehicle Thefts
Sexual Offenses •

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1994

1995

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5
8
217
36

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210
40

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Arrested for:
Liquor law violation

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forcible sodomy. suual abuse end sOXIml misconduct) end nor&gt;
forcible acts (statutory rape, Incest, certain cases of sexual misconduct}. From 1/1.,/92·7/31/92, before the roporUfll c.tegory
was chtJnged from rape to stJ.Wal assault, there were 2 reported
rapes on campus.

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which conducts facilities
audits from a safety perspeCtive. Deficiencies are
identified and corrected
when reported. Campus
community members with
security concerns should
contact the Depanmenl or
Public Safety directly.
Most campus facilities
are open to the public under existing campus policies. Residential areas are
limited to resident s and
guests. Residential rooms
are lockable and exterior
doors on the South Campus
and the North Campus
Governor 's Complex, and
the Joseph Ellicott Complex are controlled through
a card reader system.
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The campus has an active crime prevention and
awareness program. The
Department of Public
Safety conducts a series of
campus programs on topics
related to sexual assault,
self defense, personal
safety and general crime
prevention. Presentations
are made in the residence
hall s, al employee and student orientation programs,
campus activity fairs, and
for campus bargaining
units on request. To make
arrangements for a group
presentation, call Public
Safety directly. Information
aboul Public Safety is also
available on the computer·
ized campus-wide information system ''Wings," under
.. University Services.. or
"'Student Life."
The campus Perso nal
Safety Task Force prepares
an annual report on campus
sec urity for review. The
Task Force also conducts
open forums. di stributes
printed information, and
arranges for appropriate
campus safety related
signage. The Director of
the Depanmenl of Public
Safety serves as chairperson of the Task Force.
ln addition, safe ty and
sec urity programs for students are offered by Residence Life and Student Life
offices. Residenlial stu dents discuss safety issues
at mandatory fl oor meetings and are provided with
security related printed
material s. Student Life
conducts orientation programming on campus.
which include security information in printed student guidebooks. distribu tion of a personal safely
brochure, and a sexual as·
sault prevention brochure,
and related presentation s
o n these topics. The presentati ons are conduc ted by
Student Life, Public Safely,
and the UniVersity Counseling Center.

full slllte authority to enforce and investigate all
laws and regulations. The
Depanment is in daily conlllct with the City of Buffalo and Town of Amherst
police departments, che
Erie County Sheriff's Office and the New York Stllte
Police . The Department
maintains 24-hour-a-day
radio and teletype contact
with area law enforcement
agencies.
Jurisdicti on of campus
law enforcement personnel
as peace officers is limited
to the campus and high ways that are adjacent to or
travel through che campus.
Personnel may engage in
The followlnC Ia UB 'I campua
"hot" pursuit into the su rpolk:y eoncemfnc the monltot·
rounding community.
1n1 ...r rec&lt;&gt;&lt;dlnc "''...., toDepartment personnel ·
cot pollee
of cnmlnol
conduct crime prevention
IICtMty .t off.almpua 1tudent
and awareness programs
for the campus encouraging
nlzed b)' the lnatttutlonl Mel
members of the community
th•t •re enc.,.ed In by ltllto take responsibility for
denta •ttendlnC th• lnatlt~
their own safety. The protion, lnclucllftC tttoM 1tudent
grams include safety vid.........--~
eos, distribution of materials, presentations to stu Local community law
dent. faculty, and s taff
enforcement agencies are
groups. newspaper alens.
encouraged to monitor and
and participation in camrespond 10 off-campus stupus- wide events.
dent and student organization criminal activities. The
11te followlnc deacr1b. . the
campu s participates in a
typo Md - - o f compuo
neighborhood advisory
_ _ __,_to Inform
board to monilor student
ac tivity in the a rea surc.mpua HCurtty procedure~
rounding the South CamMd pract1cea end to encourpus. Law enforcement per·
ace ltudenta •nd employ...
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leaders are invited to meet
annually with student-&lt;&gt;rganizatioo leadership, particularly the campus fraternities and sororities.
Students are advised if
they are apprehended for a
violation of law of the community, State, or nation, it
is the University's position
not to request or agree to
special consideration for
the srudent because of hi s
or her student status. Students who violate a local
ordi nance or any law ri sk
the legal penalties prescribed by civil authorities.
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The campus complies
with Stllle and federal laws
regarding the possession,
sale. and consumption of
alcohol and iUegal drugs.
All students are provided
with an annual Drug Free
Schools and Community
Act compliance statement.
which details campus policies, treatment and counseling programs, and education efforts. Faculty and
staff members receive this
statement and the campus
Drug Free Workplace
Policy.
For additional copies of
these policies, contact Studen! Affairs (542 Capen
Hall) or Personnel Services
( 108 Crofts Hall ).

sanctions and advise the victim of his/her rights to notify law enforcement au thorities and the University's willingness to assist in
doing so. If victims wish 10
preSS charges, the University will arrest and charge
the accused offender on
campus. Disciplinary action
could include dismissal
from the Universiry. The
accuser and the accused will
have tl\eir legal rights maintained and both will be informed of the outcome of
any inlemal and external
proceedings. The victim is
notified or available counseling. menllll health. and
other services both on campus and in the community.
Public Safety and the Uni versity Health Services will
provide a Crisis Services
Sexual Assault Advocate
and female officers are
available to assist at all
times. Victims also have~
right to change their academic and living situations
and will be assisted in doing so if they choose. Information concerning 1he
UniVersity's sexual assault
protocol and prevention are
available in a number of
University brochures which
receive wide distribution on
campus. There is also a recorded sexual assault information line. (645-3411 ) for
information on aclion to
take in the event of a sexual
a,ssault, options in reponing.
and resources available ro a
victim.
The foUowlnc: la UB'a campu..
poUcy on timely reporta to the

-·--campua community on crimea

conaldered to be a tttre.t to

that •e ,.ported to campua
~ecurtty

The followlnC: deaerlbe• the
current campu1 policy with

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The University conducts
a number of training and
information programs to
familiarize faculty. staff.
and students with the procedures to follow should a
sex: ual assault occur. These
programs are conducted by
the Public Safety Department, the University Health
Services. the Student Life
Depanmenl. and by numbers of student groups including the Anti-Rape Task
Fo rce and the Sexuality
Education Center. Resident
studen ts attend mandatory
floor meetings on thi s
topi c, and the topic is covered in the University's ori·
entation sessions.
Students are informed
that the University will impose maximum disciplinary

recard to HJtul

or loc•l l•w pollee
.,encin. Such reporta atwll
be provided to ltudenta and

empkty._ In • manner that Ia
tlmoly Md thot will old In prevention of 1lmllar occur·
rene ea.

The Department of Public Sa fel y publishes a
weekly listing of crime on
ca mpus that detail s the
date , time. location and offense of all campus criminal incidents. The listing is
ci rculated to campu s offices and is summarized
weekl y in the campus
newspaper. the Reporter.
In addition . Publi c
Safety uses the s tudent
newspaper, The Spectrum.
telepho ne caJ is. posters and
local media to communicate more urgent security
information and can provide bullet ins to de part ments and un its on crime
activity as warranted.

For ......., lafolwetloa, contJM:t:
Department of Public Safety .... .... ... 645-2222
Office of Student Ute ....... .............. 64!X&gt;125
Office of Residence Life ..... ............ 645-2171
University Counseling Center .......... 645-2720
Student Affairs ...................... .. .. .... 645-2982
Personnel Services .......... .. ............ 645-2646
Prrparrd by: Ojfiu of lh,. Viu Prrndl'nl for St~,.,tt A.J/Qirs
und th,. INpartm~nt of Publ1c Saf~ty m complmnu wuh thl' f,.d
.-ral Studl'nl R1ght·to-Kn11w and Campus Sn·unt'' A.ct (Till~ II
Cr1 mt' A.warrnrss and Campus Si'rUFII)'I. 9J9.;1

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Cyrua 1(. llacMlat 8SSISI8nl professor of mechamcal and aerospace eng•neenng at UB. has been
awarded a grant under the NattOnal
Sc•ence Founda!lon's Faculty Early
Ca reer Development Program The
awards based on outstanding mem
•n bOth research and educauon .
prov•de to JUOK&gt;f faculty early support to recogmze the lull integrauon
of research and education
Madn•a works in UB 's Computat•onal Flutd Dynamtcs Laboratory
He w1U use the lour-year grant to
conttnue hts research into the fun damental IOtces tnvolved 10 combust•on By 1ncreastng the basic un derstand•ng o f combusllon . h1s
work wdl have apphcallon to the atrcralt engtne and automouve •ndustnes . as wen as the computer tndustry tn areas such as the des•gn of
actiVe heat Sinks lo r cooling of Integrated ClfCUII ChipS
Mad ma rece1ved bachelor's,
master 's and doctoral degrees. all
•n aerospace engtneenng, !rom the
Untverstty o f Mtchtgan
A w•nner of the Ralph A TeetOf
Educational Award from the Soctely
of Automotive Engtneers '" 1996.
Madnta was a vtstttng sctenttst at
the Theorehcal Flow Phystcs Branch
of the NASA Langley Research
Center

PHARMACISTS TO I'IIOVIDE

FREE

*'- EVAWATIONS

Unhke bacon and eggs , cake and
tee cream. and other things tn life
that · go together.· some medtctnes
are no\ deSigned to be taken togeltler 01 aren't as effecUve when
taken wtth food or on an empty
stomach
Reg1stered pharmacists will provtde free . personalized evaluatiOns
to persons who bring the medicalions they're taking-both prescnp lion and over-the-counter-to a
pharmacy lair being held from 1 l
a.m to 6 p .m . on Sunday, Oct. 20.
tn the Walden Galleria Mall.
In add1tion to the drug evatuaIIOns. there also will be a video puppet show IOf ktds and adults on pot - .
son prevention
Thts event. betng held dunng
Nat tonal Pharmac y Week . wtll be
provtded by pharmactsts from the
Pharmactsts' Assodation of Western New York and the Western New
York Soctety of Health Systems
Pharmactsts. and lacully and students !rom the UB School of Pharmacy.

PIANIST MARC COUIIOUX

TO GIVE CONCERT AT UB
The lnstHute for Contemporary Mus•c Perlommnce will present ptanlst
llarc Coutoux, Canada's leadtng
tnterpretar of the 20th-century
tdiom . •n a recital on Wednesday,
Oct 23 at 7 p .m tn Allen Hall on the
South Campus. He witt perform
works by contemporary composers.
•nctudtng Mtchaet Finn•ssy. Bnan

Ferneyhough and James Harley
There will be no adm1SSIOI'l charge
Couroux. who worked wath master ptanist Lo01s-Phllippe Pelletier at
McGill Umversity, Montreal, where
he recerved a master's degree in
1994, has been descnbed as "the
Glenn Gould of contemporary muSIC.· The recipient of numerous
scholarships and grants. he perlorrned at the 1994 and 1995 June
1n Buffak&gt; lestivals and was a soloist
wath the McGill Symphony Orchestra 1n 1995.
Beginning Oct. 2 1, Couroux will
also conduq a week-long residency
that will include conlemporary mus•c master classes. pt"&amp;sentations
and composer workshops. AdmissK&gt;n to these events is also free.
For more tnlormauon. call 645-2921 .

SCIIENCU AWMNI LECTURE
TO fOC(IS ON
COMPUTmt CIIESS MATCH
Computer chess arid the match between Russaan world chess champion Gary Kasparov and a computer will be the focus of a lecture
to be given at 7:30p.m. on Monday,
Oct. 21, tn Room 210 of the Natural
Sciences Complex on the UB North
Campus.
The lecture. entJtled ·can Cak.u·
tatoo Beat Th1nking? Lessons from
the Kasparov-Oeep Blue Chess
Match.· is part ol the UB Sciences
Atumnt Association lecture set"les. II
•s free and open to the public and
geared to both chess enthusiasts
and 00\tiCeS.
ltenneth
Rftean, assoct·
ate professor of computer science .
IOI'mer childhcxld chess star and
holder of the lifetime title of tnternahonal master from the World Chess
Federation. will d iscuss how computer chess programs work and examine d ifferences In the style of
play betWeen 'cOmputers and humans as demonstrated in his analysis of the six games from the
Kasparov-Oeep Blue match.
In additk&gt;n. Regan will d iscuss
the developments in computer
chess that ted to this unprecedented challenge and give h1s
pred ictions for the rematch between
Kasparov and IBM that will be held
in May.
The Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics comprises the departments of BiologiCal Sciences .
Chemistry, Computer Sctence. Geology, Malhematics and Physics
For more information . call Cindy
Nydahl al 645-2531 .

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STOSS JOINS UB IN SCIENCE
AND -NEEIIINCIII.IeltAIIY
Frederick

w.

8toaa has been
named associate librarian fOf btological sciences in the Sc1ence and
Engineering U brary.
Stoss comes to UB from the Energy, Enwonment and Resources
Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxvtlle. where he served as
a research assistant s1nce 1990 He
was d irector of Ltbrary and lnforma-

Lockwood Ubrary plans
book .... Oct. 23, 24
Lockwood L•brary will have a book sate from 10 a m. to 4.30 p m
Oct 23 and 24 tn the Fnend's Room of the library Hard cover and pa perbacks as well as peuochcats will be sold. w1th hard covers at $2 .
paperbacks . $1 and penodtcals. 50 cents. Profits wtll be used to sup·
port enhancement of the library's collect1ons. fac•lities and servtces
Items to b e sold are drawn from gifts not needed in the collections
Entry to the sate will be through the door factng comdor leadang to
Clemens
Want to donate used books to the hbrary? Bnng them to
Lockwood's ctrcutat•on desk or to the colleclion devek&gt;pment office .
room 321. addressed to Charles D'Anteflo. coord inator for cottectton
development. Include your name and address. so g ifts can be acknowledged Gilts are used to replace damaged volumes or to add
hiles or cop aes that are lacktng , some are sold at a book sale

lion Servtces at the Actd Ra1n lnfOfmation Clearinghouse and New
York State Acid Ra1n Documentaoon
Center, Center IOf Envtronmentallnformahon . Inc. •n Rochester from
1987-90.
He holds an Ml.S frtm Syn~CUSe

I.Jrlfllefsity, a mas1er's degtee ;, zoology han Suite lJnovenoly College at
Brockport and a bachelor's degree In
biology frtm HarlWlCk College.

- O N STVTTUliNCII
TO BE . .LD AT UB
What do actor James Earl Jones.
country and western musk: star ~
Tillis and ABC·TV's "20120" reporter
John Stoessel have In common?
They're part of the 1 percent of the
U.S. population who stutter.

The pros and cons of current
therapkts and techniques to help
those who stutter gain self-confl·

UB Depar1ment d Theelm and Dance presents "F1o1tiets I, • a
dance concert nterpreting lhe lherre d UB's sesquicentennia, at
8 p.m. Thufsdays through Saludays and at 2 p.m. &amp;.rtdays,
IIYough Oct v n lhe 0nm1 Theatre, CenJer lor lhe Arts.

dance will be addressed during a
'NOfi(shop to be held from 9 a.m . to
5 p .m . on Saturday, Oct. 19. in 280
Parl&lt; Hall on lhe UB Norlh Campos.
The workshop will be led by
Tim 118cke-v, an Atlanta·
baS8d , certifoed speech-language
pathologist. He also IS a person
who stoners.
An active member of the National Stuttering Project (NSP) lor a
decade, Mi\ckesey often presen\S
lectures to audiences of speech
professk&gt;nals and those who stutter.
WOO&lt;shop fees are $35 ;, advance for NSP members: $40 fDf f'lOf'l.o

membenl. and SlO for studeots. Fees
are an additional S5 at the door.
The Buffalo chapter of NSP
meets bi-weekly in the Speech ,
Language and Hearing Clinic In
Park Hall on the UB North Campus.
For nl()(e informatOO on the
workshop and local NSP chapter
meetings , contact the NSP at
1-800-364- 1677.

Waste managers from the publiC
and private sectors 10 Western New
York are invited to part•cipate in the
first live , Interactive videoconference on ISO 14000 to be held
from noon to 3 p.m . on Thursday.
Oct. 24 , at the Advanced Training
Center. 275 Oak St .. Buffalo.
The satellite conference is sponsorad locally b y MFC 0 UB (Millald
FillrtlOfe College at the University at
Buffalo) and 1he New Yori&lt; State
Center lor Hazardous Waste Management headquartered at UB.
ISO 14000 is a series of voluntary environmental-management
standards and gUidelines developed by the International Organization for Standardization .
Developed by representatives
from industry. research and consumer and regulatory agenctes in
the public and private sectors, ISO
14000 is designed to reduce env•ronmental-management cost, decrease liability, increase effic iency
of product productoo and improve
ftrm or governmental competitiveness 1n the global marketplace.
Presenters at the sateHite conference will ulCtude Joe Csscao. vice
president of lhe Global Environmenlal

Technology Foondauon (GETF) and
cha11man of 1he Technical Advisory
Group (TAG) that developed lhe standards, and Mary McKiel, dJraciOr of
the Enworvnental ProtectiOn Agency
Voluntary Standards Ne~.
Additional speakers will include
the presidents of the American Society lor Tesling and Materials (ASTM)
and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and a representative of the National Institute of

Standards and Technology (Nisn.
· Deadline for reservations for the
videoconference is Oct. 21 . For
more Information, call Millard
Fillmore College at 829-2202.

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You llliallt- 1D ..... .,....._ II FtliT Uu of Copy• rlgluwl Mbrtr Pfllduced by catJ8, • - a - of diD s' Univepjty or 'Haw York.'lbe talltbmia Stale UDI-uty SysICIII, lllld diD City Uai-uty cl New Yort. amJS -lianaod
Ill expkn
•ilted tlal:biDa. .......

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lllld JaCIICb. lllld 0110 dill~ 1110 iDW&gt;IIipte IIIII cllrify
issuea relaled 10 diD obarins or infonulioo reiOIIICel llld lbe
protection of iatelleelual property. The pU1J101e of lbe documall
on fair~ wbi!:h Clll be found on lbc World W'ule Web llllap:/
fwww~ is 10 "t'w1hct an lllldenlandiDg of illleUectual property ri&amp;bts and lhc critical role of fair liSe
in 1caehioa.lelminc. and scbolanhip." The document also contains links to fair IISC Jllidclines and other resources oo lbe
Internet related to copyriaht.
Next, for those of you wbo want more iD-&lt;Iepth coverll&amp;e of
the issues, we recommend the Stanford Unmnity Llbnries
Copyriaht &amp; Fair l!se Site at llttp://falruse.staalord.edu/,
which contains lints to the fuU text of related statutes, judicial
opinions, regulations, current legislation, and cases, including
an analysis of key issues and developments. 1be Stanford site
also provides links to other WWW sites. discussion lists, and a
collection of articles that allow you to explore tbe many facets
of copyright and fair use. Articles include "Copyright Law in
the Electronic Environment" by Georgia Harper from the Office
of General Counsel for the University of Texas System; "Copyright Law, Libraries, and Univenities: Overview, Recent Developments, and Future Issues," by Kenneth Crews, Associate
Professor of Business Law, San Jose State University; ''Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing," by Wtlliam
Strong of Kolin, Crabtree, and Strong, AllOmCys at Law, Boston, Mass.; and ''Can Fair Use Survive Our Information-based
Future?" by Jo hn Erickson of the interactive Medi a Lab,
Dartmouth Medical School and Thayer School of Engineering,
Dartmouth College.
To connect to the Wo rld Wide Web, contact the CIT Help Desk at

645-3542.
-Loss Pequeiio Glat..ierand Nancy Schiller. Universiry Libraries

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The UB men's and women's basl&lt;elbaU teams kick off their
seasons Oct 18 With the amuai'Midnight Madness' celebration at Alumni Arena. Admisaion Is free. The evening begins
With a women's volleyball match at 7 p.m. with the Royals facing Niagara. followed at 9 p .m. by the band 'God's Ch~dren ."
Coach Sal Buscaglia's women's basl&lt;etball team. last
season·s Mid-Continent Conference runners-up. take the court
at 10:45 p.m. The Royals will warm up and scrimmage for one
hour. Promotions and music will count dawn the final 15 minutes to midnight. At midnight. coach T1111 Coh8ne"s Bulls hit
the floor for the first time in 1991l. The team also will warm up
and scrimmage for the fans. A three-point shooting contest
and a slam dunk competition will conclude the exhibition.

OBITUA RIES
Lee Bryant, ·ronner technical director
at VB research center
Lee Bryant. 55, a IOfmer director of technical services. UB
Survey Research Center, died of cancer Oct . 2 at Teresa
House in Geneseo.
Bryant , who spent most of his academic life in the computer

science f~ld . had been associated with Geneseo State~­
iege since 1973. when he joined the faculty as assistant professor of computer science. He also served for several years
as manager of academic computing at the college. In the late
1980s, for lour years , he was c hairman of the computer science department.
Before joining Geneseo State. he was director of technical
services for the US Survey Research Center.
He held a bachelor's degree In physics from Syracuse
University, a master's degree in physics from State University
at Albany and a Ph.D. in research and evaluation from US.
Bryant was the author of numerous papers and reviews and
presented WOfkshops throughout the state .

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
Tracy Collingwood. 5 p.m. To
~gisrcr, calllbe Office of Stu·
de nt Uf~, 645-612;.5 .

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Bqhualn:a Si&amp;a Laaauage

Se..laar. 5:30p.m . To register,

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call lhe Office of Student Life,

645-6t25 . .

Search EoP- 223

Lockwood. North Campus.
7 p.m . Prerq:istration required.
Call Gemma DeVinney, 645·

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28t7.

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Mottvaaioll for Chllaae. 7-9:30
p.m. To resister, call the Office
of S1udeot Ufe, 645-6125 .

Tbt TtiUaa Ston:. Harriman.
Soulh c..mpu.. 8 p.m.

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Stud Up Comedy, M.,tt
Condon. 8 p.m. To register, call
~Office of Student Life, 645-

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25.

laaprov CoiDC:dy. 10 p.m. To
register, call the Office of Student Life, 645-6125 .

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.

S..n:~ Eopn.s. 223 Lockwood. North Campus. Noon.
Preregistration requimd. Call
Gemma DeVinney. 645-2817 .

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Eavlroameatal Liabiti.lia or

Property o.n..n.

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To register, call the Office ol
Student Life, 645-6125.

Off•~«~

through the Niagan Falls- ~
Waste Resource Associates Inc.

and Millard Fillmore College.
Classics V BanqUd Facility,
2425 Niagan Falls Blvd ..
Amhent. 8 a .m .-S p.m. $200·
S37S. For information. call 829·

-2202.

Lockwood Celebntes Th.ru
Mlllioatll VoiUJHud UB's
Stsquicat.nuUal. Hard covers.

pape&lt;bo&lt;:ks. periodkal&gt;-50

cents to S2 . Entrance 10 the sak
is from the corridor leadinato
C lemens. Friends Room.
Lockwood Library. Nonh Cam·
pus. 10 Lm.-4 :.30 p.m.

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Caru.r A: Life PlanaJaa. Noon.

A Pvblk Ullh'e.nJty ud the
Pu.blk Good, John B. Sheffer
II, Public Service and Urban Af·
fain . Ceater for Tomorrow.
North C.mpus. Noon. SIO.
Sponsored by Alumni Relalions.
To register or gain information .
call 829-2608.

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Group Effedtftoea, Stephen
Covey. Lase session Nov. IS in
the downtown Convention Center. Buffalo Convention Center.
Noon-3:30 p.m. $349 for four
proarams. SponSOO&lt;d by lhe
Center for Entrepreneurial

Leadentup.

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Coa:a tdoe,. Not Co•putatioft: The. Arp.latat rrom lrnvusibillty, Selmer Bringsjord,
Renssel11C1" Polylechnic Institute.
280 Parle. North Campus. 2 p.m .
-.oLKt~ore

Morpbolotk Cbaro&lt;kristia
of Vokuk: Doaaes OD Earth
ud Ve.aus, Dr. David Crown.
454 Fronczak. Nonb Campus.
3:30p.m.

I Ia

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........-.uRole or Pbospboll- c 1n
C•U Sfpolia1, Randall D.

Shonridgc, Pharmacology and
Toxicology. 307 Hochstetler.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Ledie Sa.laplDO. University
Gallery, Center for the Ans.
North Campus. 4 p.m. Free. Pan
of Wednesdays 1.1 4 Plus.

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The UIC of Noasteroicial Anti·

lolluuutory Apllln Cystk
Flbr'am. Christine Topolski.
248 Cooke. Nonh Campus . 4:30
p.m.

Arc:MtecrWre Lecblre
Dr. EUal&gt;db c,_~oy.
.301 Crosby. South Campus .
5:30p.m.

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Therapeutic Touch. Location
IO be an.nouoced. 6 -9:30 p.m.
Presented by School of Nursing.
For information. call 829-3291.

e iiEVIRUL OIF RIRTUNE FOR BUUS IN LOSS

e WOMEN'S SOCCER

For the second trne this season the Bulls came up on the
short end of the takeaway battle. dropping a tough 17-6 decosion to Youngstown Slate last Saturday at UB Stadium.
The Bulls. who were No. 1 in the country in takeaways. had
five giveaways and never gol their offense on track. The Bulls
saw a inishandfed snap on a field goal and a fumble inside
the YSU 25 end first-half scoring opportunities and a fumbled
kickoff return led to another Penguin score.
The !lUis trailed 17-!) in the ttird quarter before they went 80
yards on 10 plays and An1ln1y SW!Ml tx.rst in from the one. Swan
finished wilh 119 yards on 'Z1 carries and went fM!Jf the 2,()()0.
yard..,_ rT18I1&lt;. Todd Pace added B6 yards on 19 carries. UB
quarterback Erit Rusin. starting his first game. canpleled 3-of-15
passes for 28 yards and was intercepled twice.
Defensively. the BlAs gal b i g - from lilebad!er Craig
Guest and nooeguard Keith Hansen. Guest had 16tackles to go
OJe( 400 in his career. Hansen had 7tackles and 1.5 sad&lt;s. Defen.
siYe and Hardy Mitchell added 1.5 sad&lt;s for the BUis. The BU!s.
OON 5-2. hit the road for a contest Sa!u"day al Massachusetts.

The Royals played to a poi- ol deadlocks at RAC Field &lt;Net
the weekend. Frkjay. UB and D.Jquesne played 120 rmutes ol
scoreless socx:er: &amp;.nday. the Royals bed Radford 1-1. Coach
Jean-A. Tassys bocJte&lt;s are OON 5-4-3. In &amp;.nday"s match
against the~. UB gal on the scoreboard ear1y n the
first haH as ~ Magler hit the net with her fo.Jrth goal ol the
season on an assist from Tracsy Britton. Radford tied the score
as Jill McFartanes shot ga1 past UB goa1&lt;eeper Joame
Cl&gt;llingS'Mlrth. In the second haH. Mary Morgan C3Tl8 on to play
what would become 75 mrotes ol scoreless action. The Royefs
host Eastern Michigan Saturday a1 RAC Foeld at 1t a.m.

e ROYALS WIJ.EY8AU. ROLLS TIR.I ALABAMA
The Royals left Alabama Sunday as leaders of the Mid-Continent Conference"s East Division following their sweep at Troy
State. Coach Bob Maxwell"s squad is now 11-12 overall and a
perfect 3-0 in league play. UB opened the weekend with a
fove-garne win CJVer Youngstown State. Kathy Brinkworth fed
the team on bolll sides of tile net scoring 17 kills and a .593
hitting percentage while adding six blocks. Corrin Hirst. Aprille
Sweeting and Candi Sims also added double-figure kill totals.
Sah.rday. the Royals klok lou" games to doM1 the host Trojans.
15-6. 15-11 . 9-15, 16-14. UB registered 55 digs and 15 _ ,
blocks. AAtt Btroa ~ 14 digs; Brinkv.orth had 10 blocks and
added eiQit. Brinkv.orth a1so led the Royals with nine kills.
Sunday. the Royals rolled aver Central Connecticut State
15-7. 15-13. 15-7. Hirst had 10 kills; Burda and Somer
OeschNnbautt picked up three service aces and nine digs
apiece. The Royals host Niagara Friday night and Pittsburgh
&amp;.nday altemoon. Sah.rday. the Royals tra\lel to Carisius.

srns

THIS WEEKS HOME ATHLETI
Yoleyball vs.

a

Alumni Arena. 7 p.m

Women-. Soccer vs. Eastern Michigan
RAC F'teld, 11 a.m
au.»AY, OCT. 20
Volleybell

AlurTl(ll Arena. 1 p m

vs. Pinsbur

UUUFI. .
Tbe Bl&amp; SIHp (1946). S&lt;udeno
Union Theater. North Campus .
6:30p.m. $2, S:J ..SO.

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Sclellce Fan• Lecture

Tak.ina tbe Mystery Out or the
S uperfUnd, Manin L. Doster.
NYS DepL Environmental Con·
servacion. 170 Millard Fillmore
Academic Center. Ellicott.
North Campus. 7:30p.m. S20
for !he series. To register. call
645-6800. ex1. 2020.

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Robtrt Olea Butler. Hallwalls.
2495 Main St . 8 p.m. Free . Part
of Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

uuu Fll•
Dead Mao (1996). Student
Union Theater. Nonh Campus.
9 p.m. $2. SJ.SO.

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Lockwood Celebntes Thrtt
Mlllioclh Volume and US's
Stsqukentean.lal. Hard covers.

paperl&gt;acks. periodical. -50

cenlS to S2 . Entrance to the sale
is from the corridor leading to
Clemens. Friends Room.
Lockwood Library. North Campus. 10 a.m.-4:30 ~ . m .

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Cyt..Uie.W Control or End otbe:Ual Coatnctioa, Prof. ROO..
en: Wysolmerst.i, St. Louis Univ.
School of Medicine. 306 Farber.
South Campus. 12:30 p.m. Free.

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A Coavenatioa wllh Lalit'
ScalaplDo. 438 Clemens. Nonh
Campus. 12:30 p.m. Free. Pan
of Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

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Lutloa Me.morles: C ultivatina Loaa-TenD lt.dflation ror
Acade.IDk Excclleatt. 3 p.m.
To register. call the Office o f
Student Ufe, 645-6125 .

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Divenlty and the Student
Leada-. 3:3()...5 p.m. To ~gister.
call the Office of Student Life.

645-6t25.

e MEN'S a WOMEN'S TENNIS
On Oct 8 the BUis and Royals tennis teams rdled past Canosous
Coach Russ Crispell's cto.b defeated the Griffs by a 6-1 margon:
Kathy Twists Royals were \IOC!onous by a 5-2 COISll. Danoelle
RakaNsky led the Royals past Ganis&lt;us •-.ooget~ng• Ama
Khailtov 6.Q. 6.Q at number six singles and lelmng with ArnJiett
Oillon to defeat Khai~CJV and Meg Heighberger 8-Q n the number
!tYee doubles match Dillon downed Hilary Nochols 6-3. 6-3 10
take the fOUith singles match
For the men, Wibtsono Murdono and Andrew GBibef were
double Winners. In stngles play, Murdono defeated Ryan
Thayer 6-2. 6-3 at number three while Garber defeated Jay
Palmer 6- 1, &amp;0 at number lour The duo combtned at number
two doubles to d efeat VICtor Vanov and Ed Bauman 8- 1

Saturday. the Bulls fell to Eastern Michlgans Eagles 6- t at
Univefsity Tenrns Center. Mike Minter was the Butls' la1e Winner
The BuHs are OON 4-J in dual matches thos season. the Royals
are 3-2. Both squads are off until Oct 26 when they host Youngsto.vn State at noon at the Unoversity Tennos Center
- Tea Wasko. Sports Information Office

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Hultbcart (Ptoenm 6).
Hallwall s. 2495 Main St. 8 p.m.

Mkroblal Et.oloc in the

S4 . $5 .

Grat Lllkes, Or. Hunter J.
Carrick. Buffalo State College .
114 Hochstetler. North Campus.
4 p.m.

--y- ----.......
Gene.alocY tor Bqinners.
7 p.m. To register, call the Of·
ficeofStude.nt Ufe. 645-61 25 .

e MEN'S SOCCER
Coach John Asludillos Bulls pocked up the&lt; first Wl1 ol the season with a 4-2 Mid-Contonent East OMsoon \IOC!ory &lt;Net Oneonta
State. The win raised the Bulls" oecord to 1-t 1-1 &lt;Netali and 1-2 on
league play. Liam McHugh sco-ed the game-wimer late on the
first haH as the Bulls scored four straight goals on the Red Dragons after spoiling their goosts a 1.0 advantage
Edtru Okpewho knotted the score at 1- 1 at the 31-mtnute
mark. Four mtnutes later, M cHugh scored on Bnan
Crutckshank's free kick to giVe the Bulls the lead In the second hall. the Bulls picked up goals from Tom Mernck and
Chris Klink. Buffalo goalkeeper Jom Schoenberg stopped 1 I
Oneonta shots. The Bulls take the week off before a road tnp
to Howard (Oct. 25) and Central Connectocut State (Oct 27)

Finitely ~Dented
Submodu lesortbe Hanly
S pan:, Prof. Michael Stessin,
SU NY at Albany. Special analy sis semi nar. 103 Diefendorf
Soulh Campus. 4 p.m.
AUosterism in the Insulin
Beumer, David Smilh, Ph.D..
Hauptman· Woodward Medical
Research lnSi itute. 508 Cook.e .
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.

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Thesis/Dissertation Support
Group, Barbara Umik.er. 4:30
p.m. To register, call the om~
of Student Life, 645-6 125 .

ute-...op
T'ai C h i for Be&amp;fnaers. Ron
Ingalsbe. 5 p.m . To register. call
the Offic~ o r Student Life. 645·

6125 .

Art()pealn&amp;
Di.agnms: Paintincs by Rob-

ert Culley. An Department Gal ·
l~ry. Center for the Ans. Nonh
Campus. 6--8 p.m. Free. Through
Nov. 12. Gallery hours 10 a.m.·
5 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Wedn~sday- Friday: II a.m.-1!
p.m. Saturday.

UUUFI._
The Bi&amp; Sleep (1946). Student

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Union lbeater. No rth Campus.
6:30p.m. S2. S3.50.

Fekl Ballet. Rockwell Hall.
Buffalo State College. 8 p.m.
$20. $22 . Co-sponsored by
WBFO .

UUUFII•
Dread Ma.n (1996}. Student
Union 'Theater. Nonh Campus.
9 p.m. S2. S3 .SO.

J;~"~lji_I:J:$
--reellhlblt
"Schindler and the Small
House" opens Oct. 2 1 in the
James Oyen Gallery loc_a ted in
334 Hayes Hall on the South
Campus. 1be show, which con tin ues through Nov. 29, is pan
o f a series or exhibi1i011s presented by the School or Archi ·
tcclure and Planning. Gallery
hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Admi ssion to
the show u free .

P•llotiiiCSby R CUlley
An exhibit of paintings by Rob·
en C ulley opens Oct. 24 with a
receplion from 6--8 p.m. m the
Art Depmment Gallery locat~d
in the Center fo r the Ans on the
No rth Campus. ~ show con·
tinues through Nov. 12. Gallery
hours are 10 a .m.·S p.m. Tuesday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday Friday. and II a .m.-8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is rree.

eel_.. _

--Art

An exhibition of an by facult y
and alumni celebrati ng the ses quiccntennial continues lhrough
Dec. 18 in the University An
Gallery. Center for the: Arts.
Nonh Campus. The show ineludes work by 17 facult y and
23 alumni . Gallery hours are
10:30 a.m.·8 p.m. Wednesday·
Saturday. and noon-S p.m. Sun ·
day. Admission is free

~Docu-,.

Tbe Birth of American Video:
Expk)riaa Heallaa ud

Work for sa le by f11c uh y

SIO.
TIIMter
Happy Journey aad The Past
is the Put, Stephen He nderson ,
director. A pair or one-acters.
Black Box Theatre, Center for
tht' Ans. North Campus. 8 p.m.

$3.

LJCIItwell ....
Lronardo Drew's site·spttific
installation "No. 45-A" was de·
signed for the Lightwelt Gallery
in the Center for the Ans. Non h
Campus, and IS 1hc:re th rough
October.

HQJ'_I~J;$
Tu.-y,....r-The UB Toastmascers Club
meelS the second and fourth
Tuescby o f each month from
5:30-7 : 15 p.m. in 250 Student
Union on the Nonh Campus.
For information. call Sally
Claydon at 645 -2484.

..,_~()..$
Starr Assistant (SL-Z)-Un1ver·
sity Art Gallery. Posting
lfP-6046. As!ociate Counselor
(SL-2)-Studc.nt Health Center.
Posting MP-6048. Se.nior Staff
Assistant (SL-3)-Alumni Re lalions. Posti ng •P-6049. Senior
Staff Asslstaat (SL-3)-Aiumnl
Relations. Postmg MP-6050.
Counselor (SL-3; Internal
Promotional Opportunity) ·
l nt~matio nal Educat 1on. Postmg
lfP-6052

F.-c•tty
Assistant Librarian -Health
Sciences Library. Posting
"F-6052. ProftsSOr and C h•ir·
Medicine, Posllng lfF-6053

-·- ·''Treasures from lhe Lockwood
Ubnry- An Exhibit Celebral mg UB 's Sesquicent~nnial,'' 1s
o n view in displa)' cases on the
second floor of Lockwood L1 brary on the North Campus. The
ex hibit features boob of lh1s
century, mostly from the 1920s
and 1930s. all taken from the:
slacks. 1imoth)' Conroy from
the Office of Publications
curatt'd the exhibit. which continues: through Dec 20

Zodiaque Fall Daace Coacert.
Drama lbeatre, Center for lhe
Ans. Nonh Campus. ·8 p.m. SS.

is on view lhroogh Oct . 22 m
lhc An Department Gallery loca\ed in lhe Ce.n\er roc \he ""-'"·
Nonh Campus. Gallery hours
art lO a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday. 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.
and II a.m.·8 p.m. Saturday.
Admission is free .

Art,.... ....

Research A kit-Sponsored Programs Personnel. Open. Patit'nt
CarT Spec:lalist-Oral B1o logy.
Posling lfR -96052 . Project
AMit-Onl 81o logy. Posung
"R-96065. Otr'JCC Aide-Hea lth
Sciences li bn.ry. Pos1mg
MR-96069. Research Scie:ntb"t Geology. Postmg lfR-96070
C linical Nurse Spec:ialist -Famil)' Medicine. Post1ng lfR -9607 1
To obtain morr infomwtJon on

pJbs list~d abo1·~. contact Prr·
sonMI Srn•u·rs. IO.S Crofu Hall
To ob1o111 hrformntlon on Rr·
uan:h JObs, contact Sponso tWJ

flrtl!&gt;b

Programs Prrsonnrl, 4/6 Croju

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Oct. 20 lit 3 p.m.

THUR17
...........

ltd ion. 7 p.m. To register, call
1~ Office of StudtnJ Life, 64S6 125.

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Pharmacy Colleze Admission
THt. 1458 Su.wJent Unio n.
Nonh Campus. 12:30 p.m. Presented by School of Phannacy
S tudt:n t A.n n All studtn ts
mvued.

Zodiaque Fall Da.nft Coourt.
Drama llKau~. Center for the
Aru. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $5,
SIO.

P-try Tolk

(J996) . Student Union Theater.
North Campus. 9 p.m. Sl. $3.50.

TranspoeUcs : The-ory a nd
Models, Serge Gavronsky. 438
Clemen$ . Nonh Campus 12:30
p m. Free. Pan of Wednesdays
at 4 Plus.

Butr.lo ......... ColloquiUM
Freae's PbUosopby or Math·
emalks: Contemporary Vwwpolnts, Wi\\iam Dcmopouloa.
Univ. of Western Ontario. 684
BaJdy. Nonh Campus. 3:30p.m.

ur.-.....

Grouptbiak: Bow To Avoid IL
3:30p.m . To recister, caJI the
Office of Student Life. 6456125.

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I'IIJolca
TM Story or QuaDtum Cbromodyulll.ics. Prof. Tun&amp;· Mow
Van, Cornell Univ. 2 10 NaturaJ
Sciences. North Campus.

Cbolr. "The Social and Culnual
Functions of Gospel Music in
Churches Today," lecture by
Troy A. Bonner, 7:30p.m.
Mainstage, Cenler for the Ans.
North Campw. 7.p.m. For information, call 645-ARTS.

YolleJMII
UB va. Nillpn. Alumni An=na
Main Gym. North Campus.
7 p.m.

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UU.U FilM
Kids ia the Hall: Brain Caady

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Red Jac:ktl RA f'n&gt;anun BukdbaJJ. Clark. Sooth Campus .

7:30p.m.

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Zodiaqu~

Buffalo Gl'ft.n Ca mpus Work-

shop. Student Union. Nonh

Campus. Fat infonnation, call

Fall Dan« Con~rt.

Dnma Theatre, Center for the
Arts. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $5 .
SIO.

Joseph Gardella 11 64.5-6800,
ext. 2J II , or' Walter Simpson at
645-3528.

Cystk FibnM.h:: Thea ud
~ow, Orucy Borowirz. M.D.

--Kioc:h Auditorium, Children 's
Hospital. 8 a.m.

Mediaol ~leo!_,..
.,.. ..,_...!or SUNY CUolcal FKUhy (Advaaced), A ca-

M- -..,.,Rich-

ani Smallwood. Baird. North
Campus. 9:45 Lm. For infonna-

tioo. call 645-ARTS.

M_odkal ~leo 1_,..
...,..._r..-SUNYCilolcal FIICtolly (Buk), Academic:
Health ProfessionaJJ tnsu.n.nce
Assn. ECMC Auditorium.
IOa.m.

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R oyals VL £uta-a MklaJpa.

u . - y. Vani1y Socc:er

Fidds. North Campus. t I a.m.

................veat
&lt;Mpoi-...W.......... :
lalrodu&lt;lq &lt;Mpoll'laao,
Honcc BoyCT. Baird. Nonh
Campus. I I :30 Lm. For information. call 645-ARTS.

lrr•h••tr ..... E...t
Gospel Sbo,..... FOI'WII: Tho
Sodal aad Cu.b:ural FuiiClioaJ
or Gospel
Ia Cburcha
Today, Putor Alvin Parris,
Bishop David Bowman, Putor
Jerome Ferrell, Jesse Nuh, and
Pastor Steve Sue. Baird. North
Campus. I p.m. For information. ca11645-AittS.

M-

• n 'd Ewellt

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All '"els. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by Oraduate Student A slOci at ion.

........... SuDpbooe Quartet.
Slec. North Campus. 8 p.m. $.5,
SIO.

uu.um.

O . . p e l - t ' . . , . . . : Bow
lo KtOJ&gt;I... GospelS...... :
Callio&amp; ..... Allolooliloalllo
Cbolr M ........, Ella RobiMOn.
Lincoln Academy. Abo, William
E. Thomu, ..Movemc:DI for
Choir and Utu~ic:al Dance.. :
and Joyce Robinson. " Voice
Training." Baird. Nonb Campus. 2:30p.m. For information,
call 645-ARTS.

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Social Wort Conlinaina Ed.:atioo. For lafonnatioa. call 6456140.

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_,_
ua ft. Pitt. Al.W Arena Main

Gym. Nonh Campus. I p.m.

ZodioqDe Falllluco ea-rt.
Drama l'licatre, Center for the
Aru. North c.m,.... 2 p.m. 11.
SIO.

Life~

D1oJoiuo oa ....... 2-6 p.m.
To reJjster, caiJ the OffJCC: of
Student Ufe, 645-6125.

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R .-n..loa.ooproao.

MaiJlstaae, Cco~e:r for the Ans.
Nonb Campus. 3 p.m. S 15. S20.
S25. Pmealed by-QRS.

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Traia.i.ll&amp;

l.utit utt for Advaactd Social Work l'nlc:·
tke- Trulia&amp; Clilld.re.a a ad
A-:Problo-.U.Ua

.......'""........ """Oct.

22. Ccn&amp;cr for Tomorrow. North

c.m,.... Spi&gt;IIJOml by Social

-

Wc:wt Conlinuing Education. For
infonnation, call 64S-6140.

l •ttf"Udouu Edoe:atioa: n.r

Pe.ce Bridet- Buffalo Hilton.
Annual rqioaaJ coaference of
Association of lacemalional
F.duca10n. Thn&gt;olfb Oct. 23.

Ar-·-

Schlodlor udlllo s...u
B - . J._, Dyell Oallety.
334 Hayes. Scull&gt; Campus. 9
a.m. Free. lbrou&amp;h Nov. 29.
GaJiefy hours 9 Lm..-!5 p.m.

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C---llorioilllo

,....................... Pro!.
David Samols. Case w.......
Reserve Uaiv. 1348 Fattier.
Sculb Campus. 4 p.m.

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Na-wllllllloo.......,

I. . . N - . Dr. Doaicla
Rotia. Un.lv. of Toronto. 101
Shcrmaa. Soulb Campus. 4 p.m.

Pa*7-.....c
c ..... 930 Clc:meas.

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North Campus. 4 p.m. Free. ~
of Wcdnctdays as 4 Plus.

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hlraductloo,. Mldllatloa. 7-

9 p.m. To rqillt:r. c:aJI tbc Of.

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fic:oo!SII&gt;Cicno

ur.. 645-612.1.

E"'!!o* .......... Lull&lt;..._

Musk: by OuterCirek ~­
tra. Center for the Aru. Nonh
Campus. 7 p.m.

Juz
-Plock aadlbo Fie&lt;........
Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State
Collep. 8 p.m. $18, $20. Cosponoorcd by WBFO.

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3:45p.m.

llloloCic8l

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MechrinlsDH of papovavinu
DNA replkaUoo, Dr. Tom
Melendy, Microbio loay &amp; lm·
munolo&amp;Y. 114 Hochsteuc:r.
Nor1h Campus. 4 p.m.

JSJ-Splltllaas for Plnit~ly Preanted Groupt, Prof. Michah
Sagccv, MSRI. 103 Diefendorf.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

~?.t-.:~Jf~::.: Ia
Ex ~rimental M~o.laaJt b!

David bworowicL 508 Cooke.

North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Eatllut ln.a tbt C urn.at Meaa
of Procturr Subject to Abrupt
Chria au, Dr. Emmanuel
Yuhchin, IBM . 244 Cary. South
Campus. 4 p.m .

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Tbft:f.t/I)Werta lion S upport
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To rcaister. ca ll the Office
of Student Life, 64!5-6125 .

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T 'af C hi for Bqinncn. Ron
lnaalsbe. S p.m. To resister. call
ttK Office of Student Life, 64!5-

6125.
Nu
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Ubor Re.bltiofts. Student Cen·
ter, Harriman. South Campus.

6-9:30p.m.

demK: Health ProfesstonaiJ In-

swance Assn. ECMC Auditoriuot. 12:30 p.m.

Pareatal Akoltol Coasumptton
a nd Dnlu&amp; Child Behavior :
Redprocal Effect&amp;, William
Pe lham, Ph.D., Psychology. Re·
sean::h Institute on Addictions.
1021 Main Sl 1:30 p.m. Free.

C~Col....-

A U..k lletwfta Studylq Syo-

.... Dyaua1a .....

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Aaalyalo, Prof. Fronk V. Briahl.
Cbemistry. 215 Nlllllnl Scienccs. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Eavtroe..eat ud Evolut.ioa of
Early a ........ 1o East AI·
rica, Dr. Be...... Haileab. 218
Natunl Sciences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Tho
ollleoort: CompontM: Deotr1, Shelly Kagan,
Yale Univ. 280 Part.. Notth Campus. 4 p.m. Free. For infonnation, ca1164S-2444, ext 7CJ7.

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Gtttia&amp; to K.IIOW and U ad ~
stand Amtrieau. 210 Student
Union. North Campus. 4 p.m.
Reaistration is requested: ca11
645-2720.

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N~w

Musics iD Podry: Sbt5a

ot SouDd, AI Coot. 420 Capen.

Nooh Campus. 4 p.m. Free:. Pan
of Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

uu.u-

Scarface (1913). Student Union
'Theater. North Campus. II p m.
S2. S3.50.

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EdueaUoa : lJ"tM

Pa.ct Briclae- Buffalo Hillon.
Annual reaionaJ conference of
Association of International
Educators. Worbhops also Oct.
20. Conference Oct. 21 -23.

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Bufl'alo Grtea C..pu1 WorkIMp. Student Union. North
Campus. For information. call
loscpb Oonlclla at64S-6800.
e•t. 2111 , or Walter Simpson at
645-3528.

••••1.... 1•1111 EYellt

O..pel S........ W.......... :

l•provlM&amp;ioa Udaa DUJ~rut

[Ditna.IMIIts, M~lvin Bryant,

Fir1t Shiloh Baptist Ch~h.
Baird, North Campus. 8:30a.m.
For information. caii645-ARTS.

O..pol Sbowtut Wlll'bbot"
Prodocloa aad Studio
Pastor Jerome Ferrell, Greater
New Hope Church of God in
Christ. Baird. Nonh Campus.
8:30 L m. For information, ca.ll
645-ARTS.

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UBYS.NlopnWdlaad.
Alumni Arena Main Gym. North
Campus. 7 p.m.

l!otolollololll•..,.,._,
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Dr. Ttdd Habbaf.teld. Cenlcr for
l'l&gt;monvw. North CompuL I
p.m. S.,........ by Social Wad:
ContirwinJ: Educ:atioa. For infonnatioa. call645-61-40.

~~oa,-c
-·
Buffalo........
Mamon.
1340
Millersport. 8 a.m.-5:30p.m.

Presm&amp;cd by School ofNuninJ.
· For information, call 829-3291 .

o.emew oi'I'Uloi • Senal

lllalory o l l l l o - ' - ~
m4 WiUiam Kelly. Ceoter for

y..,..,.,.._North Campus. 9

a.m. Spoaoor.d by Social Wort

............. Vlolaoco .....

Z odloque Falllluco"C....,._
Drama Theatre, Center for the
Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m . SS,
.SIO.

.............,.l_rtodCeotnl
Callleler U.S (PICC) .._,..

vnU..PelrEaadoa
Modo~ Sudro Mobl&lt;y·TctT)'.
~nter for Tomorrow. North

~- I p.m. Spi&gt;IIJOml by

Cootinuina Educadoa. For ;• •
formation, eall645-61-40.

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Woftlo&amp;"""
A_..,BelhAIWioae.

Center for Tornorroyi. North
Campus. I p.m. Sponsored by
Social Work CootinuinJ Education. For informalion. call 64561-40.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFA LO

UNIVIIISII'Y A'l BUJMLO
State University cfNew Yorit

October 10. 1996 Volume 28. No 7

rwe scholars find five ways to say the body does maHer
basis of knowing in relation to
cultural contexts and changing
technologies.

Humonity on threshold ofnew,era
in study of brain, Edelman says
OES THE BODY MATTER?"
The question posed as the theme of the
UB sesquicentennial academic symposium held on Oct. 4 refers to the fact that
western culture for hundreds of years has devalued
the physical body while celebrating the products of
the mind.
Viewing lhc question from
separate perspectives, five internationally regarded scholars from
different disciplines who participated in the program answered
the query with a collective "Yes,
the body dots maner."
Several hundred people attended the symposium held in
Slee Concen Hall. Morning and
afternoon sessions were followed

by panel discussions featuring
UB faculty members.
Leading off the program was
1972 Nobel Laureate Gerald
Edelman, one of the world's most
distinguished physiologists, di -

rector of the Neurosciences Institute and chair of the Depanment
of Neurobiology at the Scripps
Research Institute.

oted for his research in bio-

N

physics, protein chemistry,
cell biology and neurobiol ogy, Edelman al so is a symphonic
musician and lover of language.
He introduced hi s ta lk wilh
MariannA Moore's poem, '1'be
Mind is an Enchanted Thing," and
proceeded to argue that the mind
is so enchanted that its psycho-

logical function cannot be under-

stood in isolation from the biology of the brain, which, in tum ,
can't be fully understood at all.
Edelman's presentation, illuminated by slides, film and vi4eo.
argued that humanity is on the
threshold of a new era that will
be marked by the realization of
William James' dream of a true
set of insights as to bow we carry
out our neurological functions.
Edelman's principal proposition
was that the metaphor of the brain
as computer is far less appropri ate than the metaphor of brain as
primeval garden-wild, mysterious and richly layered with secrets we can barely imagine.
is talk was a celebration of
the intricate operation of
the physical brain from its
embryonic development to its rna·
ture function .
His oral and visual explication
included the presentation of as·
tonishing somatotopic maps dem·
onslnlting that each of us develops unique neural configurations.
Like snowflakes, they are simi·
lar, but never identical, and func·
tion somewhat differently to facili tate similar perception .

H

H

memory and other brain opera·
tions associated with consciousness.
"We are not Turing machines,"
Edelman said, referring 10 reduc·
tive views of higher brain func·
tion that hold that the brain function can be formulated as an ide·
alized mathematical model. For
every brain, he said, "every acl of
perception is an acl of creation.
Every act of memory is an act of
imagination."
"The brain," he added, quoting Emily Dickinson. "is wider
than the sky. Indi viduali ty is real

and significanl. Genes are not a
blueprint fo r your every action.

There is an open.endedness in our
physical construct that offers the
opportunity for creativity at ev·
ery tum. Allending to the body
prepares us to ne go ti ate the
boundaries between the mind and
body. lf there is to be a resurrec·
tion, Ithink it will be of the body.
The body mailers."
Katherine Hales followed
Edelman with a talk, "Living and
Writing the Posthuman Body."
Hay les. professor of English at
UCLA. writes about the bodily

ayles guided the audience
through mid -20th century
thought about our position
on the frontier of new technologies that have produced
cyberspace ··communities;" vir·
tual·reality technologies that dis·
tribute subjectivity between an
"embodied subject" sitting before
the screen and a computer simu·
lation inside the screen. and artificial neural nets that can Jearn and
evolve. eve n though they have
"bodies" that are completely different from biological organisms.
She pointed out that this new
and complex realm raises difficult
questions about two interacting
polarities: those oft he "the body"
and "embodiment," and of"incor·
poration" and "inscription"
Hay les proposed a conceptual
framework thar cmpioys a consid·
eration of these polarities. This
makes possible, she said, a more
critical stance toward various
ki nds of theories. technologies
Continued on page 2

No shortcuts to ethnic hannony, Gates
tells Distinguished Speakers audience
11J CHIIISnNE VIDAL
Reporter Editor

E

THNIC
IDENTITY,
multiculturalism and affir·
mative action all were on the
slate. and Supreme Coun
Justice Clarence Thomas took it on
the chin. as Henry Louis Gates Jr.
opened the 1996-97 Distinguished
Speakers Series.
Gates, Distingui shed W.E.B.
DuBois Professor of Humanities at
Harvard University and a fierce de ~
fender of affirmative action. spoke
Ocl 2 in the Center for the Ans Mainstage. His lecture was among the marquee events of UB 's sesqui·
centennial celebration.
Gates, who also is a professor of English, chair
or the Depanment of Afro-American Studies and
director of the DuBois In stitute for Afro· American
Research at Harvard. titled his talk at UB "The Ethics of Identity."
" It 's easy enough to poke fun at identity
potitics ... but all politics are identity politics," he said.
People too often think that gender orientation is some·
thing that only women have, sexual orientation is
something that o nly gays have and racial orientation
is something that only blacks have. "White boyism
is a collective identity. too," he said. "Eihnicity-we
can't live with it and we can't live without iL"

W

hile complete tolerance is impossible. Gates
said, "multiculturalism is mutual accommoda·
tion. a stance of mutual tolerance and a willingness
10 err 00 the side or tolerance ...
Consider nationalism in the wake of the Soviet
empire, which, he noted, now has ethnic violence

in no less than 48 states.
problem of the 21st century
the problem of ethnic ide n·
Gates said.
problem with talking
identity politics is there is no
identity without politics ...
Identity politics are especially important in America, he said, because
the U.S. has always seen itself as a
plurul nation. However. "the melting pot was never an uncontested
ideal.. .. Piuralism isn't supposed to
be about policing boundaries. It is
about breaking those boundaries down."
But breaking down boundaries is not easy. '"There
are no shortcuts to ethnic harmony and those who
look to multicuhuralism as a shoncut are bound to
be disappointed;' Gates said. "We must learn to live
without the age·old dream of purity." and instead
find contentment. solace and fulfillment in the rou gh
cu ltural mix in which we live.
or the African· American culture. he sa1d. today
..is the best of times and it is the worst of times."
There current! y are 280,000 black men in prison. as
opposed 10 23,000 who will graduate this year from
college. a ratio of 99 to I .
"You don ' t have to fail in order to be black ... he
said. "You think that sounds ridiculous, don ' t you ?
We need more success individuall y and collectively.
The black community must stop feeling guilty about
success."
Even in a perfect world~ he added, one cannot
pretend that 35 million blacks will share the same

F

Continued on page 2

�Gift .funds nursing lecture series honoring Bonnie
IIJPAIIU~

Reporter Contributor

N

ATIONALLY PROMINENT
leaden; in the nun;ing profession
will be featured in a new UB
School of Nun;ing annual lec-

ture series in honor of Bonnie

Bullough, fonner dean of the school, who
died in April.
The se rie s will be s upported by a
SI00,000 gift from Vern L. Bullough to
honor the memory of hi s wife and col-

league.
The Dr. Bonnie Bullough Endowed
Lecture Fund, scheduled to begin in fall
1997 . is expected to attnlet speaken; from

across the country to address topics of in-

terest to the nursing community.
Vern Bullough aaid be established the
fund as a tribute to his wife's steadfast dedication to the nun;ing profession and the UB
School of Nun;ing.
"Bonnie devoted her life to building the
nursing school's distinctive presence in
higher education," noted Bullough, who
served as dean of natural and social sciences at Buffalo State College while his
wife was a dean at UB. "'Ibis lecture series is a way to bring new points of view
on many different issues to nun;ing professionals, students and the community,
and to malcc them aware of the different
trends occurring in the profession."
Mecca S. C{anley, dean of the UB nun;-

inJUShool, said the lecture fund wiD "bring
ideas about current issues in the nun;ing
profession to the forefront and will help
make prontinent leaden; in nursing mono
accessible to the professional nun;ing community of Western New York."

T

he Bulloughs, also strong propooents
of preserving nun;ing history, presented a gift to.UB io 1991 to establish the Bonnie and Vern Bullough History
of Nursing Collection in the UB Health Sciences Library.
Bonnie Bullough, whose nun;ing career
spanned nearly SO years, headed the UB
nun;ing school from 1980-91 and was a
professor on the UB faculty until 1993,

when lbe BuUougha moved to North Ridge,
Calif.
.
A prolifiC author and aulbority oo human sex:uality, she wu certified u a family nune practitioner and a pediatric nune
practitioner. Bonnie Bullough was inducled
as a fellow or the American Academy of
Nun;ing in 1978, and wu named Nm.-1
Nune Practitioner Reaean:he:r or lbe Year
in 1992 by the New York State Council of
Nurse Practitiooen;.
She received doctorate and muter's
degrees in sociology from the Univcnity
of California, Los Angeles, 1 master's degree in nursing from UCLA, and 1
bachelor's degree in nun;ing from Youngstown Univen;ity in Ohio.
0

UB, Father Belle Community Center join to win Shapiro named
grant to establish neighborhood wellness center Computer
11J MAllY KTII SPINA
News Services Editor
A COI.UaORATION IIETWEEN UB and
the Father Belle Community Center. Inc.
has enabled the center on Buffalo's Lower
West Side to receive a $55,000 grant from
the Office of Minority Health in the New
York State Deparunent of Health to establish a weUoess center.
Ronald Ingalsbe, director of the Living
Well Center at UB, provided technical expertise for the proposal, which was the only
one funded by the Office of Minority
Health thaJ addressed the " wellness" concept at lh&lt; grassroots level. The UB Liv ing Weli Center will continue to provide
technical expertise and other resources for
the new wcl\ness center.

The elTon demonstrates a positive intel'liCtion between UB and the community,
says Michael Rivera, president of the Father Belle Center's board of directon; and
a senior associate in the UB Office of Career Planning and PlacemenL The proposal
was the "brainchild" or ~odesto
Candelario, executive director of the Fa-

ther Belle Center; assistant director
Michael Szymanski: Ingalsbe, and Rivera.

a..

More
lullf to three-&lt;juartenl of the
adults living in the neighborhood served by
the Father Belle Center live below the poverty level, according to U.S. Census tract
information. Many· are at risk for chronic
medical problems such as diabetes, hyper-

tension, cancer, heart/lung disorders and
other conditions that can be positively af-

fected by "wellness" education, 'says Rivera.

....... tile ..... of the center, which
expects to begin some programs thi s
month, are:
• Promote the weUness concept using
qualified bilingual and culturally sensitive
staff
• Promote good nutrition and healthy
eating habits
• Provide physical fitness and other activities to reduce stress and encourage appropriate exercise programs
• Provide a bilingual wellness library
and resource area
• Provide Information on 'health-care

Larour took the audience on a roller·
coaster ride through the acrimonious de·
bate between Socrates and Callicle ~ desc ribed by Plato in hi s dialogue "Gorgias."
The debate invented the concept of the "impossible body politic"-&lt;he collective body

of"common" people that requires governing. Both men hated the "common" people,
he said,,but agreed that they needed to be

brought to heel in order for democracy to
nourish. For centuries. Socrates seemed the
embodiment of virtue and courage since
he promoted using reason toward this end.
The cynical aristocrat, Callicles. advocated

is a senior member
tronics Engioeen.

Lcwontin argued that these metaphors are
contradicted by biological reality.

body renect the assumptions embedded in

..Every organism is a \lnique consequence of the interaction between internal,
genetic causes and external, environmental causes and the way in which they interact varies enormously from characteristic
to characteristic," Lewontin said, suggest·

that nature is best understood as a neutral,
ahistorical domain entirely separate from
social and political relations.
Drawing on her major epidentiologieal
study of concepts and treatments of menopause in medical practice in the U.S. and
Japan, Lock contested this view and offered
a pen;pective evolved from critieal anthropological practice. It is that all knowledge
and pl'liCtice related to the body are historically and culturally produced. The body

modem scientific thinking, which assumes

ing that the body itself is hardly the sole
deterntinant of what the body is.
The final speaker was Margaret Lock,
medical anthropologist at Montreal's McGill
Univen;ity, and author of "East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan" and other cross-cultural
studies in medical anthropology.
Her talk postulated that Euro/American

·•mauers" most, it seems, as a cultural production whose value varies according to
its age, sex·and the social value ascribed

representations and practices involving the

to its assorted traits.

0

GATES
Continued from page 1

economic class. "Even if racism were to

at the Clarence Thomases. Who 's benefited

virtua l sai nthOO&lt;l, by Neit zche who agreed

di sappear, we'll still be facing class dif-

more from affirmative action than me?

with him that only inhumanity can squash
inhumanity. Latour pointed out, however.

ferentials," Gates said.

Weii ... Ciarence Thomas," he said. "Those
of us who care about diven;ity have to keep

" If Bill Clinton or Ross Perot had
turned up at the Million ¥,an March and
handed over a $500 million check, would

sophist" agreed on vi rtually everything.

anyone have known what to do with it to
el iminate the problems of the innercityr'
African Americans need to assume new

and in particular. how to ensure that the
"common" people do not have a say in the
discussion between farce and reason.

community, even though being ·a leader
does not mean being loved during one's

said. the "man of reason.. and the "brutal

Harvard Professor Richaro Lcwontin, a

scientist central to the development of the

leaden;hip roles for, with and in the black

lifetime. "What is at stake is nothing less
than the survival of thi s country," Gates

field of molecular biology, opened the af-

said. "We must accept our historical re-

remoon session with a discussion of ''the

sponsibility and accept Martin Luther
King Jr.'s credo that none of us are f=
till all of us are free."

political economy of production transferred

to the sphere of the living cell." to wit, the
claim that genes or the DNA of which they

arc made are "self-reproducing" entities
that "determine" the nature of the organism thai carries them. Like Edelman,

ment of Computer Science. A

member of the UB faculty since 1977,
Shapiro served as chair of the depanment
from 1984-90 and as acting chair from
1978-79.
A fellow of the American Association
for Artificial Intelligence, Shapiro also

of tbe Institute of
Electrical and Elec-

the use of force. Callicles was raised to

that in the dialogue, "the love o f the people
did not sti n e Socrates' breath! "
Contrary to popular assumption, Latour

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TUART C. SHAPIRO, profeasor
of computer science at UB , bas
been named chair or the Depart-

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achieved.
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and inscribing practices.
Next on the dais was the Bruno Latour.
a major international figure and distinguished writer in the field of science stud·
ies from the Centre de Sociologic de
\' Innovation at the Ecole Nationale

Science chair

The importance of affirmative action
cannot be overstated, said Gates, who
noted he never would have gone to Yale
without it. "That's why I get so ticked off

the best of affirmative action."
White women have bell!'filted perhaps
the most from affirmative action, he said.

"The transformation in the status of
women, th~ugh not sufficient, has gone
much more quickly than the transformation of people of color," Gates said "'f
course, there were terrible things done in
the name of afflml8tive action, but there
:;Jso were marvelous things done."
He said the Democratic Party needs to
wise up about its need for the AfricanAmerican vote. "I reallydon'tlike the way
the Democrats take the black vote for
granted ....That's why I was hoping Colin
Powell would run (on the ~epublican
ticket) .... How can you not vote for a
brother, unless he's Clarence Thomas?" 0

He bas ser-ved as
chair or lbe Special
Interest Group on
Artificial Intelligence or the Association for Computing Macbinery.
His research interests inclode cognitive
science, computational linguistics, knowledge representation, reasoning, semantic
networks, belief sysljOms, natural language
understanding and generation, expen systems and logic programming.
Shapiro bas developed a computerized
knowledge representation and reasoning
system, called SNePS, the Semantic Network Processing System. The computerized agent his group is designing, CASSIE
(Cognitive Agent of the SNePS System-

an

Intelligent Entity), communicates in

natunil language and is able to perform
reasoning tasks. Purpose of the research is
to build a model of how competence in
natuml language that is on a par with hu man ability can be achieved.
Shapiro, who is affiliatOd with the UB
Center for Cognitive Science, is working
with Amherst Systems and NASA to build
a robot controlled by the CASSIE software.
The author of more than I 00 technical
articles, papen; and presentations, Shapiro
has published four books, including "The
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence"
(John Wiley &amp;: Sons, Inc., 1987), which
was named Best New Book in Techoology
and Engineering in 1987 by the Association of American Publishen; Professional
and Scholarly Publishing Division. It also
was named Outstanding Reference Soun:e
or 1989 by the American Library Association-Reference Book Bulletin.
Shapiro has served as a consultant for
the Rand Co!poration and for Analysis and
Simulation, Inc., and has been an external
fellow in the Univen;ity of Rochester's
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Cognitive Science Program.

�Workshop to focus on environment
TUDBNTS, FACULTY and
stall' from colleges and universities in Western New York and
SoUthern Ontario are invited to
attend the first Buffalo Green
Campus Workshop, to be held Oct. 18-19
in the Student Union on the UB North
Campus.
Tbe program is designed for students,
fac ulty and Slllff who want to conserve both
financial and natural resources by learning more about instituting "green" practices
on their campuses. It is sponsored by the
UB Environmental Task Force and the
National Wildlife Federation (NWF), in
conjunction with the Association of Higher
Education Facilities.
Keynote speaker will be Julian Keniry,
director of the NWF's campus ecology program and author of "Bcodemia: Campus
Environmental Stewardship at the Tum of
the 21st Century." She will discuss "Environmental Stewardship and Higher Education: Progress on Green Campuses" at9: 15
a.m. in the Student Union Theater.
he program will feature speakers who
have instituted a broad range of environmentally friendly practices on
mpuses throughout the U.S., including
ochester Institute of Technology ; Brown.
mel I. Syracuse and Rutgers uni versities;
the
iversity or. 'toronto, and UB. Represents ves of local and state government
and in ustry also will be featured.
'"'b re has beeru nationwide acknowledgment that institutions of higher education -need to trans(m:m education and re . .
search in environmental technology, policy
and engineering into public policies both
oh ana off tbeir&gt;carnpuses.".said Joseph A.
Gardella, chair of the UB Environmental
Task Force and professor of chemistry.
"We at UB are proud of our environmental accomplishments and anxious to
learn from our colleagues at other campuses about their successes so that we can
continue to improve.
"We hope that a regional working group
will result from this conference so that we
may continue to meet and cooperate on
ways to improve the 'greening' of campus
operations in this community."
AI the same time, he said, the program
will address the realities of campus environmental stewardship at a time'when campus budgets are tight.
Ronald Nayler, UB associate vice president for university facilities who served as
the ftrst chair of the Environmental Task
Force and who, along with Senior Vice
President Robert Wagner, was responsible
for instituting many of UB 's enviroomental initiatives, will discuss "Competing Pri-

orilies and the Challenge of Campus
Greening."
'"The competing priorities that face campus leaders today mean that advocates for
change and for environmentally responsi ble practices must take into account the
administrative realities and the fiscal climate at their campuses, •• said Nayler.
"Building credibility through evolutionary
changes often sets the stage for future lnlnsformative efforts."
oncurrent workshops will be held on
Friday, Oct. 18, that discuss environmental innovations in dining services, energy. hazardous materials and
waste, landscaping, grounds and lnlnsportation, purchasing and office practices, and
solid waste and recycling.
Tbe session on Oct. 18 is geared to administrators, operational staff, faculty and
students concerned about these areas, while
the session on Oct. 19 is designed to provide training to student environmental leaders and activists.
For more information, contact Joseph
Gardella at 645 -6800, ext. 2111 . or
gardella@acsu .buffalo.edu. or Walter
Simpson, UB energy officer, at 645-3528
or enconser@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu .

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bave noceived a $1.6 million Jn111 from t11o
-.:11 to m-tipaelhe relMioDIDd " ' - - .
Jo Ptwdlabelm. auoc1ale prota.w of IOCial and lftYelllive ........ wiD iDwlw -'Y 4.000- from Brie aDd Ni8pra COUIIIieL
Tbe 1-.a:b II• aft'sbooc of., J8 million. mullifar::dod a.-iptioo oC alcohol and ill reladoaobip to c:broaic ~ bein&amp; cmied - joiDIIy by UB'a Celller
for Preventive Modic:iae and the a-rch lllslitute oo Addicdoos in Buffalo.
Tbe study groop will be compooed ofl.3~ women with confirmed breul cancer, and 2,030 ntlldomly-ulecled beallby women to serve as controls. Participants
will be betM!ell the qes of35-79.
"There il a fair amouol oC evidence that alcohol may be related to breast cancer," aid Freudenheim, "but most reaearch has used inadequalc measures of alco-

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hol intake. We will be maldng careful measures of lifetime alcohol consumption,

as well as collecting data oo diet. physical activity and reproductive history."
'llle n I I 1rcllera .e.o . . geoelic differences in the way individuals
metabolize alcohol, and will compare cancer rates among " fast" and "slow"
metabolizen. A specimen bank wiU be created to store blood samples for current
and future research.
Freudeobeim said researchers theorize that alcohol may influence the development of breast cancer by changing the body's steroid hormone levels. or by increasing oxidation. Both of these mechanisms. and others, will be investigated via
subgroups of the study population.
" ln a well-run study. scientiSts can answer many questions," Freudenheim said.
'There is so much we don 't know about breast cancer and how it develops. People
have been looking at the question for a long time. We need to look in more depth at
lifetime habi ts. This study provides an excellent chance 10 get some new. potential1y significant insights into breast cancer prevention."

UB Law Professor Lucinda Finley to argue case on
abortion clinic protest limits before Supreme Court
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T'S THE PINNACLE OF a trial
ltlwyer's career. arguing a case before
the U.S. Supreme Court. And UB Law
Professor Lucinda Finley will lind herself in that enviable position on Wednesday, Oct 16, as she presents arguments
before the court in "ooe of the very highprofile cases of the whole term."
The case, Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network o/Wt:sl t!m Nt!w York, which involves
limits on protests at Western New York.
abortion clinics, has attracted all sorts of
national media allention. Finley said she's

spoken with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN. Court
TV and National Public Radio.
Although Finley said she was "not nervous yet," she did admit to havi ng a case
of"adrenaline-kind of nerves. like a prizelighter waili ng to go into the ring ...
his will not be Finley's first tri p to the
nation's highest court , however. In
addition to writing several amicus briefs in
significant women 's-rights and reproductive-rights cases, she wrote the brief and
served as cc&gt;-counsel when her father argued
a taxation case before the court in 1991 .
The arguments next week are the culmination of six years• work for Finley. who

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University of Illinois at Chicago as a recipient of a prestigious Women's Health
Policy Fellowship.
She commenced the Schtnck case in
1990 on he half of area abortion providers
and the Pro-Choice Network. and obtained
an injunction to thwan an ongoing series
of blockades of abortion clinics. This injunction played a significant role during the
"Spring of Life" protests otganized by
Operation Rescue in Buffalo in 1992 when
Finley used the injunction to initiate successful criminal contempt prosecutions of
blockade leaders.
he has shepherded th is inj uncti onwhich provides a 15-foot buffer zo ne
around clinics and limits on "counseling'"
by anti -abonion proteste rs -ltuough two
appeal s to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Ci rcuit and now to the U.S.
Supreme Coun.
Since the case in volves the limi ts that
may be placed on protesters consiste nt with
the Fi rst Amendment. Finley believes it has
serious implications for colleges and universities. as well as abonion clinics.
Finley said her time was totally consumed with the Schtnck ca~ during the
spring and the summer. up until lhe brief
was filed on July I. Writing the brief. which
outlines her side's argument in writingwas. in a word, " intense ...
Life has been a little less hectic since.
although she did return to Buffalo in midSeptember to attend a fund-raiser for the
Pro-Choice Network and trave led to Wash·
ington a few days later to anend a press
briefing on the case sponsored by the Na tional Organization for Wome n's Legal
Defense Fund.
But things will begin to heat up again
soon. She has two moot arguments sched uled, one in New York City on Oct. II . and
another in Washington on Oct. 14. On Oct.
15, she will spend time with lawyers from
the U.S. Justice Department. which is suppaning her position. and take measurements of the courtroom to help the justices
better visualize the 15-foot buffer zone. =

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WBFO to broadcast
Sesqul concert
ON SU!eAY, OCI'.U at 4 p.m., WBFO's
Opus Classics will broadcast highlights
from the special concert given in honor of
UB 's Sesquicentennial. Performers include
the Amherst Saxophone Quartet; the
Castellani-Andriaccio Guitar Duo; Laura
Aiken, soprano, accompanied by Roland .
Martin, piano; Anthony deMare, piano and
James VanDemark, double bass, accompanied by Paul Transue, piano.
Tbe broadcast will conclude with the UB
OlOir, directed by Harriet Simons and the UB
W'md Ensemble, directed by Sarah McKoin.
Tbey will perfonn "Celebntion" by Lukas
Foss, composed in honor of UB's birthday.
WBFO's Bill Raffel is producer and
ho~t of the special broadcast. Tbe concert
was .recorded by Stephen Bradley of the
UB Music Department.
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for Research on Women and Gender at the

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A
birthday party .
lor UB brought Parsons
Dance Company, top, to Center lor the Arts Oct. 4. s.quJ
Gala audience, left, continued
the oalebfallon at reception

lnd party following the show.

�·Music Deparbnent
opens concert series.
Fuller, Muir Quartet perform this week

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Sopnm l..aiJa Ai&lt;en, ...., pianiat Aclencl E. Mri'l. lacUer i"' nulc. UB. I808Mis
applause fran enltullastic CIOMlat t.t.ac AUml Seequicenlerdal Concert held
Oct 3 n 5lee Hal. Ai&lt;en, a UB gaduale, appeared on the Pftli1WTl willa rurbar
ci ahJmi and'faa.jty perbmers in the 1M!11t celelllll61g UB's 1501h bitlday.

First look at UB for graduates
of former China MBA program
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JOHN DELLA COIITIIADA
Reporter Contributor

lWEHTY GRADUATES of the Univer.ity

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at Buff'!]o's fanner China MBA program.
some. of whom were getting their first
glimpse of their alma mater, traveled thousands of miles to campus last week to help
the university celebrate its sesquicentennial.
The group of prominent Chinese nation ~
als included UB graduates who never at·
tended the required semester of study in
Buffalo or graduation ceremonies because
of a travel ban imposed by the Chinese gov ernment following the Tiananmcn Square
uprising in 1989.
Their arrival signified the UB School
of Managemenl's renewed interest in the
country, as well as improved diplomatic
and economic relations between the U.S.
and China. It also brought a sense of closure for those Chinese graduates w~o were
not permitted to study in Buffalo or attend
graduation.
'They consider UB to be 'our university,' even though many of them have never
stepped foot on campus," said John Thomas. associate d~n for international programs in the School of Management.
'Their decision to travel thousands of miles
at their own expense shows a deep attach·
mentto UB."

Award-winning gospel music g iants
Horace Boyer. above, and Richard
Smallwood . right. take leading roles in a
series of events lhat include workshops.
leclures and a Gospel Showcase 10 be
held Oct. 18 and 19 on the UB North
Campus. Presentalions are part of UB's
sesquicentennial observance.

Many of the alumni are employed in
high-level positions by top Chinese and
American-based businesses in China. In
addition to attending events marking UB 's
I 50th birthday, the Chinese alumni participated in lectures and social events arranged
by the school.

n.. UB Chi- MBA .,....,._ was established in 1984 in Dalian, China, as the
fir.t and only accredited American MBA
program in that country. It graduated 200
students before it ended in 1990.
The school is involved in discussions
with Renmin Univentity in Beijing to develop a management certificate program to
complement Renm.in 's MBA curriculum.
It once again seeks to be an international
leader in management education in China
and is ~mong other prominent business
schools, including MIT, Rutger. and Duke,
seeking to establish linkages with major
Chinese universities.
The school's proposed Chinese Management Education Project is a response
to increasing demand for business training
within China's growing business sector,
says Thomas, and will help Western New
York companies penetrate the Chinese
market through exporting, licensing and
direct investments.
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HE UB DEPARTMENT of Music wiU open its Slee Beethoven
Cycle and Organ Recital Series
illtis month with perfonnances
by organist David Fuller and by
the internationally accWmed chamber ensemble, the Muir Siring QuartetThe Slee Resident Quartet Series also
wiU open with the fllSt of four concerts by
the Amhem Saxophooe Quanet.
All events wiU take place in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus.
Back by popular demand, the Muir
Siring Quartet wiU present all six concerts
that comprise UB's annual Slee Beethoven
String Quartet Cycle. The·series wiU open
at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. II , with a program featuring Beethoven's Quanet No. 12
in Ejlat Majo~ Op. 127; Quartet No. 1 in
F Major. Op. 18, No. I, and Quartet No. 9
in C Major. Op. 59, No. 3.
Founded in 1979, the Muir String Quartet was named for the great environmentalist John Muir. By 1981, the group, now
comprised of violinists Peter Zazofsky and
Wei-Pin Kuo, violist Steven Ansell and
cellist Michael Reynolds, had won the

Evian International String Quartet Compe- .
titian and the Naumbwg Cbamber Music
Award_U advanced quickly to become one
of the world's premier string qtWtets
The remainder or the Slee Beelhoven
Cycle will be presented at 8 p.m. on Friday eveniop in Slee Coocert Hall as follows: Concert U, Nov. I; Concert Ill, Nov.
22; Concert IV, Feb. 21; Concert V, April
4 and Concert VI, April .2S.
Noled organist· David Puller, professor
of music and director of the UB Organ Performance Program, will open the Slee Orgao Recital Series at S p.m. on Sunday, Oct
13, with a presentation of one of the greatest organ worl&lt;s of the 19th century, 1M
Ninety-Fourth Psalm by Julius Reubke.
Ruebke was a German pianist. composer
and pupil of Liszt who died at the age of
26. 1be program also will include Prrlud•
and Fugue in E minor and sh0&lt;1liturgico,l
pieces by Vicenzo Petrali.
wier holds a doctorate from Harvard
Univer.ity and is a distioguished musicologist as well as curator of UB 's
magnificent F"tske organ. Highly regarded
as both a concert and cburch organist. he
also performs and teaches harpsichord performance in the UB music program.
The Organ Recital Series continues at S p.m. on Sundays throughout the year with concerts by Wolf
RDbsam (Concert 0 : Nov. 3); Josepb Gabalski (Concert m: Feb. 2);
Roland E. Marlin (COOcert IV: Feb.
23), Mic.hael Burke (Concert V:
Man:b 9) and Pauick Banen (Concert VI: April 20).
On Friday, Oct. 18, the Amher.t
Saxophone Quanet will open the
1996-97 Slee Resident Quanet Series with an eYening of ragtime and
jazz by Dizzy Gillespie, Dave
Brubeck, Eubie Blake and other
composer.. The fun starts at 8 p_m.
The quanet-Salvadore Andolina, Ru ss Carere, Stephen
Rosenthal and Harry Fackelmancelebrates its 20th season this year
and since itsTouodiog has become
one of the most active suophone
quanets in the world.
The ASQ will perform four concerts in this series: Concert H.
Monday, Nov. 18; Concert Dl, Friday, Feb. 7, and Coll!'ert IV, Monday, April 7 (Music of the Ba0
roque). All begin at 8 p.m.

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Homecoming Highlights...
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The Big Game...

UB couldnl have chosen a better day for Homecoming Saturday~rfect fall wealhef. a farge and enthusiastic crowd wearing UB blue. and a foollball game lhal warmed lhe hearts of UB students and al·
urns. The Bulls' stellar performance in defeating Cornell's Big Red, 41·24. capped a weekend of festivi·
ties marking lhe university's !50th birthday. Parents/Homecoming Weekend events began Oct 4 wilh a
bonfire and pep rally on lhe South Campus, sponsored by lhe undergraduate Student Association. fol·
lowed by a carnival in lhe Townsend Hall Parking Lot. Lectures and tours of campus sites took visitors to
view lhe Rsk Organ in Slee Hall, the Pharmacy Museum and Apothecary and the Marian F White Mu· .
seum and archaeological survey. Game-day events included a morning parade that wound its way down
Main Street from LaSalle station to lhe South Campus, with marching bands. athletes, cheerleaders. floats
and antique cars. one carrying lhe Grand Marshals, President and Mrs. William Greiner. Parents/Homecorning Weekend concluded Sunday w~h a brunch in the Student Union .

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CANI'OII SCHOI'RI. .
An endowed undergraduate scholarship for UB students who plan to
enter the hetds of social work , vocatiOnal rehabilitatoo or anthropology
has been established In honof of a
Iarmer cha1r of the universtty's Department of SociOlogy through a

SSO,OOO g1ft hom .,olin Cummlq•• a 1930 graduate of the department

The NaH'Ian•el Cantor Scholarsh•P Fund. the second set Up by

Cumm1ngs. wdt prov1de an annual

vention.
The conference , to be held Oct
17 and 18 at Chautauqua Institution , will also feature ...... Q.

...u.tt, professor of medicine
and chief, dfvision of infecUOus diseases. at The Johns Hopkins University Schclof of Medicine. Banlett.
at the forefront of AIDS treatment for
many years. was recently appointed

to the AIDS Clinlcel Trials Group executive committee. He will speak
Oct.1 8.
For ITIQ(e tnformation , call6453705.

sc holarsh•P lor socl04ogy or anthrt&gt;-

potogy undergraduate students .
Cantor. who JOHled the UB faculty'"
1928 served as cha•r of the soc•ology and anthropc»ogy departments
hom 1944 unht h•s death'" 1957
Frednck W Se1dl. dean of the
UB Graduate School of Socaal Work.
emphas•zed that th•s support will
enable many undergraduate students to fulfill the•r educational and
profess•onal goals
As a student. Cumm•ngs respec ted and adm~red Canlor's
teachtng abtltttes , whtch touched
thousands of students More than
65 years after anendtng UB.
Cummtngs ts paytng homage to hts
mentor Rehred dtrector of the Voca·
Ilona! Rehabthtahon DivtSIOO of the
state Department of Educahon,
Cummtngs ltves tn Sun Ctty, Anz
"Dr CaniCH" was a ktnd . under·
standtng person: added Cum·
mtngs "I Saw htm as an outstandtng teacher. as well as a chenshed
frtend •

FCMtMEII SU-Oit QENEIIAL
TO SI'E.Ul AT CON~

.loreetyn Eklef's, former United
State Surgeon General . will be a
keynote speaker
at a Tri-State Conference on AIDS

Oct. 17spoosored by the UB
School ol Medicine and Biomedical Sctences
'='~~&lt;-~ and the Erte
County Medical
Cenler Heallhcare Network.
Elders is a pediatric endocnnologtst and a professor at the UntverStly of Arkansas Medical SchOOl
She will speak on psychOsocial tS·
sues related to HIV and AIDS and
WIU diSCUSS the state ol HIV and
AIDS '"the U.S.• and tts effect upon
young people. Elders will emphastze the tmportance ol health and
human sexuality educauon tn the
schOols as a means of AIDS pre-

A New York City law firm has donated a 74-plece artwork collection,
valued at $80,CXX&gt;, to the Untvefslty

at BuHalo Art Gallery.
Donated by Sidley &amp; Austin . the
collection features works by several
well-known artists , including OeMis
Oppenheim , Michael Kenna. Uta Albuquerque. Grace Knowlton and
Dan Graham. An exhibit of photographs. prints and textiles from the
collection was held recently in the
gallery, which falls under the ausptces of the UB Faculty or Arts and
Letters.
1'he academiC and surroundtng
community will have lhe opportunity
to view various dlstinctive pieces by
many outstandtng artiSts,· said Jack
Bnmm. director of administration for
the New YOII&lt; branch of Sidley &amp;
Austin. headquartered in Chicago.
"Sidley &amp; Austin is committed to supporting higher educatoo.• The firm .
one of the largest in the U.S.. has
750 lawyers who represent Fortune
100 businesses. associaii()('IS and
prominent individuals.

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IIAILIA8 TO UClUIIE
OltNUILD-,

Haileab~ firslleclu&lt;e' part of 1he
Department of Geology Pegrun Lecl&gt;Jre Series. Is "Tephra Slratiogrephy
end Geoctvono1ogy of PJb.Piels.

locene Sedinen1S from Turi&lt;ane Basin. ScMhern Elhioj&gt;a end Northern
Kenya." to be given Wednesday. Oct
16 at3:30 p.m. in 454 Fronczak Hal.
ltls directed a11he problems of deter·
rrWling the abso1u1e ages of 1he layers in wl1lch fossKevidence is ""-"d
etdifferentsiles.
A special &amp;ecture, "Env1rcwvnant

end Evofulion of Early Hominids in
East Africa.· on the Ol'igin and evolution of humans as determined by
studies of pa)eoanthropotogista and
geotogists working together in the
birthplace of humanity. will be presented Oct 18 at 4 p.m . in the

cal
!ideal
table of

Natural Sciences Complex.

pdllt~IUCb•MaicJTwor;p,...,ar~.

His vlsil Is sponsored by the Department of Geology, Graduate
Group on Evolution and Environ-

ment, Depanmen1 o1 Anlhropology.
Council

on International Studies

end Programs Departmenl of Biological ScJences. Faculty of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics and ·
Faculty of Social Sciences

O.Yid a.rtuca, associate librarian. University Libraries-Central
Technical Services . Don Hart·
man, associate librarian. Lock·
wood Library. and Sue
Neulnelater, associate hbrarian.
University L.ibrartes-central Technt·
cai .Services. are authors of a new
book. The Worlds Columbisn Exposition. A Centent'lial BJbUographK;
Guide (Greenwood Press. 1996).
The 440..page volume comprehensively documents the influence of
the exposition on American cutture
during the 20th century.

-IEYOUITION

OCJ. SA SYIIPOSIUII Kf
Olt SIIIVICI.,_

- - of Carleton
College . Northfield. Minn .• w ill be

-FACUUY,STAIF

the special invited guest speaker at
lectures on fossil dating and the artgin and evolution of humans Oct

Ira ~ associate vice president and director, Center for Community Partnerships, University of

16 end 18 al UB

Pennsylvania will be keynote
speaker Oct 14 at a symposium for
faculty and staff on service learning.
The symposium, to be held in
280 Park Hall from 9 a.m . to 12:30

Do.

Haileab, a native of Entree,
worked with the UB research team
In Eritrea the past two summers. He
worked closely with the Richard
Leakey paleoanthropologtcal group
1n Kenya and has done field work in
many East African countries.
He is co-author of two papers
wnh Paul H. Reitan. UB professor of
geology, which have been accepted fCH" presentatOO at meetings
of the Geok&gt;gicat Society of
America in Denver later this month.

Lockwood exhibit celebratll'l( Sesqul
• shows UB book v -....
"Treasures from the Lockwood LIbrary-An Exhibit Celebrating US's
SesqUtcentenniar is on view in
seven display cases on the second
floor of Lockwood Library. Curator
tor the exhibit Is Timothy Conroy.
The exhibit , which features
books of the 20th century. all ·excellent examples of book art.· according to the curator. demonstrates the visual beaCJty of the
book and the printed page. with an
accent on fine printing. fine paper
and typography.
Books in the collection. mostly
from the 1920s and 19305, were all
selected from the stacks. Many are
ltmited editions. including a number from Thomas B. Lockwood's pnvate.coHectK&gt;n and some from US's Art-Music collection. later inte·
grated into the Lockwood coUectton.
Some of the h~hllghts include intr~te wood engravings In several books by Eric Gill . David Jones. Eric Ravilious , Robert Glbblngs
and Paul Nash; the magnificent calligraphy of typeface designer
Hermann Zapf and a stunning Alfred Stieglitz photograph of Georgia

O'KeeHe lrom a calalog published by lhe National Gallery of Art.
The exhibit will be on view until Dec . 20.

p.m .• will explore the goal of successfully linking public service 01'
service learning with research and
scholarly activities.
Harkavy, one of the naliO('I's
leading authorities on service learning and building community partnerships , has written and lectured
extensively on the need for greater
convnunity Involvement by institutions of higher education. He has
received numerous grants to further
research in this field and his recent
wont to revitalize West Philadelphia
neighborhoods surrounding the

University of Pennsylvania campus
has become a national modal.
A distinguished panel of deans
and senior faculty will Jaad a discussk&gt;n on opportunities for service
learning and public outreach at UB.
focusing on their place in the tenure
and promotton process.

Do you suHer from sudden rushes
of Intense fear and arOOety that appear out of the blue? Ale these fearlui epiSI)des accompanied by rapid
heartbeat, shortness of breath.
·
sweating and tlembling?
If so. and you are at ~ast 18
years of age, you may be eligible to
panicipate in research on panic

diSO&lt;der being conducled by the
UB departmen1S o1 Psychology,
Physical Therapy end Exercise Sci·
ence. end Psychialry.
Perticlpalion wil begin wi1h 8 ell~ interview. wi1h appoinlments

willl-- ~;!!~:;~~~

Java
Advis..,
table of~

If' Ilia • .,

matioD ........ It-' .loun8l

"eloclroeic oaly" ia llldDcL
Seleclina a Iitle will lab you to a pep ""'- more dolailcd
illfonnalion can be fout!d. Publilber, ..,. of fint iaue, ~
holdio&amp;• (wbal ~ .... oaliDe). IDe lbnnltl (RI'ML. Aaobll
PDF, PostScripl files). subjects, ln!quency, and noces are entered for each individual title. It even llaleS if the journal is ref·
creed! For those electronic journals thai the UB Libraries have
formally subscribed to, site ID and puswonl information on
how to access these journals is included UDder "Access."
A "Glimpse" keyword search fonn is provided so thai you
may search for an electronic journal by area of interesL You
may search for specific words in the title of 8 journal (unfortunately Not in the title of an article) or search for a familiar
subject word (i.e., physics, poetry, law). If. for example. you are
interested in physics and you want all the refereed journals on
this topic , you need only to type in "physics and refereed" on
the search form to set a listing all the titles at UB that are peer
reviewed in physics.

Electronic journals continu• to be adtkd to BISON 11 I!Dch dDy.
Qu~.rtions, title .ruggestions or comments may be senlto the UB
Ubrories El&lt;ctronic Journals T&lt;am (IJIHjdHaLbl4/fllfD.IdM).
For informarwn on acctssing BISON 11 (the Ubrories horMpagt
on UBWings) contact IM Compuiing Ctnt&lt;r Htlp Desk at 645·
3542.
-Sut Ntu-is~r and Lori Widlinsld, Univu•ity Ubrories

being scheduled a1 individuals" con"""""""' at the UB North ~­

Participants will receille $50 upon
completion of 1he procedt.n!.
Individuals wilh heart "' lung
disease. seizure disorders 01' who
are pregnant are not eligible for the

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study.
Anyone interested In participating should con1ac11he UB Center

,.

for Anxtety Research at 645-3650,

ext. 337.

-OF-lOOK

- A . ........,UB professor emeritus of cotH"'sefing and
educational psychology, is the author of e new book. The 1JnmsJcinQ
of A Ccilege President, poblished in
Sanborn. NY. Slggetkow~ book is a
fictional accoun1 of how foor inside
cendidales compale for a coflege
presidency that Is - ired also by
o1he&lt;s not officially In the chase .
Slggelkow. who spenl 48 years
in hlghe&lt; education. served under
five presidents at the University at

Buffalo, ratlrlng in 1992. Ha received his Ph.D . in counseling from
the University of WISconsin In 1953.

where he 1augh1 end served es assoelale dean ol the school of education. Ha came to UB In 1958. In
addiUon to 50 articles in educe-

tional joofnals. he authored Dissen/
and Disruption: A Uni1lfJfslty Under
Seig8 (Promelheos Books) in 1991 .

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AJ_,.~

- - . . . . UB proleSSOf o1
English, will speak Nov. 18 et
AmherSl Cof1age under the 8US·
picas of the Amherst Library. The
talk; •Autoblbliograplly. e Place In
Time: On Shaping a Ccilection,"
and an exhibition will mart~; the 25th
year o1 a co11ection lhel Wolf hes
been building In the Special Ccilec·
lions unit of the Amhersl College Library since 1971 . WaH. a graduate
of Amherst, received an M.A. from
Columbia Unlve&lt;oity and 8 Ph.D.
lrom the University o1 Michigan.
The conectiOn incJudes writings.
poblished end unpublished. of a
number of UB's iijerary feculty
members past end presenl, lnc1ud·
ing Prof8SSOf Cart Dennis; Lyle Glazier, professor emerttus and Mac
Hammond. proi8SSOf eme&lt;itus.
Included are descriptive Ntrters,

personal and hlslorlcal. so the cof·
leclion blends eu1Dbiography with
bibliography end constnules whel
Wolf cells en "outobibliogrephy,• es
weU as a sodal his10ry ol the Amari·
can literary academy during the period 1950-2000.

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Teams Player of the Week.

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PUn HELP Ia DIFEAT
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The Bulls found a , _ wwy to win during lt1elr
'96 renais8ance: a brassy bacl&lt;up QU8rt8&lt;back, big plays on offense and !heir usual
bend-but&lt;lon'-breal&lt; defense.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Erik Rusin
came all the bench to lhrow lhraa toucl&gt;down
passes in place of injured starter Marl&lt; Taylor
to eng._ the Bulls to a 41 -Z4 win ave&lt;
Cornett in front of CN9f 9,000 Homecoming
I~ largest attendance of the season.
The UB offense averaged ave&lt; 7.0 yards
per play. UB's first score was a '70-yard jaunt
by tailback Anthony SWan, who had 14Z
yards in the game. Aller Taylor left wilh a
knee injury, Rusin lhrew a 1!1-yard TO strike
to.Jamie Gasparro, a 68-yard bomb to Kali Watl&lt;ins and a 35-yard stril&lt;e to Watl&lt;ins, who
had a career-high 152 yards on live catches.
Gerald C8r1son ,.. the game- Wilh 1:56
left with a 47-yard field goal afler Cornel had
rallied t&gt;wilhin 31-24 on a safety. Carlsen connected on M&lt;&gt; field goals and had a tremeodous dey pt.rlting the loolball. For his ellorts
against Cornel, he was recognized as the
NCAA Division 1-AA Independent Special

Leners

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Records fell Friday afternoon in South Bend.
Ind., at the Notre Dame Invitational. The Royals finished 10th in a field of 17 teams wllile
the Bulls raced in the Gold Division of the .
men's meet, placlng 1Zih of zo teams.
Stacey S1rolhrnam bra&lt;elhe UB recad lor
live ki:meters linlshing in 17:39 to cut live seconde off ..IJdilh- recad set in 1994.
Strntrnem, wllolinished 21st in a field of121
n.mera, eer1ier in t h e - earned the Mid-Con
~'sAihlete ct lhe Month award.
For the Buls, Ctris Keerwlbra&lt;e the men's
9Ch:lol recad OClfT1Jieting the eiglt k.iometers in
25:1 nine seoonds laslar than Charlie
Maynilerl's rner1&lt; in 1995. Keenan crossed lhe
finish line 15111 ct 140 n.mers in the Gold race.
Satl.rday, UB's B ~ caTll81ed atlhe
Hany F. Anderson Memoriallnvi1Biional at Rob-Wesleyan College. The Buls placed third in
the lax-team race. UB's IMliTll!rl did not f181d a

s.

public document it is wise to check lhe meanin.g

oftlw word by substituting ano&lt;herword_ say
"cabbage" (in honor of the long lost School of
Agriculture at UB), for it It is surprising how
often the speaker's or writct's meaning shines

through after this substitutioo is made.

Word substitution can
help illuminate writer's,
speaker's meaning

To The

The Buls- the sooring with ~ fifth
del..-.sive tcur:lldcM&lt;1 of the season IMlen Bill
T¢rl pld&lt;Bd off his lw1h inlel!:eption oflhe
-and A!Uned ~ 3Z yards lor a score. Defensively, Craig~ led the way wilt115 tackles
-Eric Lee had a .,.._-N!1111 Slllps. Mike
Oichester added nine tackles and lhraa pass
breel&lt;ups; Mlhrnt Sooct had eigtt tackles, a
sack and two loR:ed fl.rmles. Sanlday, UB wit
host 'mLr1gat&gt;wn Slate at 1:30 p.ln.

r.etor, . _ . . ,

GENTLEPERSON:
The economists tell us that one can n:cognize
the value of a coinage by observing the substitutes therefore. Thus, a debasement in the
coinage can be recognized when a given coin
may be substituted for increasingly trivial
goods or services. The same is true of lan·
guage. Consider that " professional" used as
an adjective quite often can be replaced with
..good" and .. professional" used as a noun
can equally often be replaced with ..good

person."
Similarly, wbcncvcr an academic uses "excellence" as a noun at a public occasion or in a

Sincerely,

SCIIUIIEl,
ProiBSSOf
of Law

A signal day for UB:
time to recognize (and
enjoy) success
DEAR EDITOR:
Last Saturday was a perfect day ! Who could
have imagined more than a decade ago that
on a beautiful October day in Western New
York, the UB football team would be playing
Cornell before nearly 10,000 enthusiastic
fans? And with a starting quarterback who is
actually a real studen.t-in fact, in. o ne of my
engineering classes. And a coach who is a n
alumnus-and from the Engineering School,
of all places! And a director of ath le tics who

v.a...-, ... T
~e learn racing only lax

n.mers.

Sophcm:xe WesJet Zech led the Bulls in
Rocllestar finishing lhe 8K in 27:38 and placing
1Sih. Jolvl JapJ was tein in 27:39. Theresa
tUrmenyj was the Royals' t&gt;p linisl1er at 19:44
lor SK in lllrd place. Andrea BistqJ at 20:06
and Barbara Rabinollici at 20:44 were lo..r1h
and sixth respectillely. Bolh teams ha\le lhe
--.doff and wil be back in action Oct. 19.

e MEN'S TENNIS

major role as UB's Joame ~
stopped 15 shots Colgate's Kelly Tyrell

had eigtt saves. UB cxrirues lhe tonestand
wilt1 matches Friday liS. D.Jquesne. Su:-day liS

Radford and oa_ t6 against CanisaJs.

e MEN'S SOCCER
UB opened the~ Conference portion ct their scl1edlJe at horne last weekend
dropping a par ct matches and laJing t&gt; 0.11 -1
for the season. Friday, UB lost a hear1breakng
1.0 to East Division rival Certral Comedicut
State. Ediru Okpewllo's Mo second-l1all penalty
kick goals were lhe rrlt poir1s lhe BlAis caJd
rruster as UB lei to Howard 7-2 in a Mid-Con
Conference mens soccer match Su:-day at
RAC Field. The BlAis are in action again next
Su:-day when lhey host Oneonta at 1 p.m.

The Bulls tennis team was represented welt by
lhree players at last week's ECAC Championships held at Vassar College. UB tied lor third
out of16 taams. The dcxmtesteam of AndrfNI
Garber and Wlbisono Murdono fell in the fltlals
wllile nUT1ber three singles player Orrin
Pridgen advanced to the fiOals but had to default the~ match due to an injury.
-Tedw..sko. ~lnfamaticx&gt;Oifice
UB returns to dual
meet match play on
THIS WEEK ' S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
Saturday when lhey
host EastBfn Michigan
at noon at the Univer·
sity Tennis Center.
e wa~EN'S

SOCCER
Coach Jean-A. Tassy's
Royals dropped a Z.Q
decision to a powerful
Colgate squad Friday

right at RAC Field.
Goalkeeping played a

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Wornens Soccer vs. Duquesne

Football

vs

Youngstown State

RAC Field. 7 p.m

UB Stadium, I :30 p.m

Men's Tennis vs. Eastern Michigan

University TenniS Center. noon

.-......Oct.ta
RACFIBid. I p.m

Men's Soccer vs. Oneonta

wornen·s Soccer vs. Radford
wt

RAC Field. 3 p.m

••••t•Oct.te

Women's Soccer vs. Canisius

knows that there is a city and a universi ty
here· beyond Alumni Arena. And we not only
played Cornell . UB WON !
Football and athletics. of course, do not
make a great university. But they cenainly
can make for o ne which is a Jot more fun..
And maybe I am the o nJy one who thinks so
(or maybe I just spent too much time away on
sabbatical last year). but UB is a lot more fun
now. Even the alumn.i seem to think there is
now more to do here than come and watch
the bulldozers. And miracle of miracles. there
is hardly a Buffalonian left who doesn't know
that UB and Buff Slate are not the same
school: UB is the one with the great academ ics AND the Division I athletic program.
The answer to the question in the first hne
is : A lot of us did imagine it! There really was
a vision shared by man.y that UB could have
an athletic program which would contribute
to the academics instead of competing with it
There really were people who thought you
could find coaches who knew that there was
more to going to school than football . There
really were faculty who believed that there
were athletes who cou ld play at the top levels

RAC Fteld. 7 p m

and still be dedicated studen.ts.
Often we allow o ur successes ro pass un noticed because we are so overwhelmed by
the challenges of the future. Also, they usually occur so gradually that by the time they
succeed we have fori;otten the efforts and risk
that went into them. But Saturday was a perfect day-because it captured in o ne si ngle
day the culmination of the effons of all of us
to have a qualiry athletic program here. So to
Steve Sample and Bill Greiner who champi oned this cause , to the students of the 1980s
and al umni who demanded it. to my col leagues who by their intense debate and scruti ny not only overwhelmingly approved it.
but detennined its character, let's enjoy this
moment and draw strength from lL
To Nelson. Townsend and his co-workers.
to the coaches, and the athletes, thank you.....:...
not just for the way you do your athletic
thing. but for being a real pan of thi s uni versity. Our lives have been. enriched by your efforts.
WIWAII 1L IIEOIIIiiE

Professor
Mechanical and Space Engineering

C~LENDAR
Continued from page 8

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Sln:aiHutus. 6 p.m. To register, call the Office of Student
Life, 645-6t25 .

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T benpeutk: Touch. Location
to be announced. AJso Oct. 23.
6--9:30 p.m. Presented by School
of Nursing. For informalion. call
829-3291.

UUUfll•
Mliybt, Maybe Not (1996).
Gennan with English subtitles.
Student Union Theater. North

Campus. 6:30p.m. $2, $3.50.

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Genealoc7 for Bqiancrs.
7 p.m. To register, call the Of·
lice of Student Life, 645-6 125.

-

Royall vs. Caaisius. Varsity
Soccer Fields. North Campus.
7 p.m. Free.

(19M). Student UAion Theater.
North Campus. 9 p.m. S2, $3.Sil.

Crtllq- or Art aad Media as
spectack
(P'ropul 5). S~ning Room.
Center for the Arts. North Campus. 7:30p.m. Fme.

C••u•••IIIJ ••d

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Owl Facts, Sharon Tiburzi, U.S.
Fish Wildlife Service. 170

a

Millard Fillmore Academic Center, Elltcott. North Campus. 7:30
p.m. $20 for the series. To regis-

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ter. cali64S-6800,

Clt.

2020.

UBulfalo Sympbooy. Worics by

Haydn, Stnvinslcy, Sibelius.
Slce. North Campus. 8 p.m. S3.

uuuKkb to IK Ball: Bnolo Caady

UUUFIIot

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Kids in tbc HaU: Brain Candy
(1996). Student Union Theater
Nonh Campus. Q p.m. $2. $3.50.

Truspoetlcs: Theory aad
Modds, Serge 0aYTOouky. 438
Clemens. Nonh Campus. 12:30
p.m. ~ree .

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ArtceMbnotl ... -

Fro&amp;&lt;'• l'blloooplty of Mathematics: Coaltalporary Viewpoints, William Demopoolos,
Univ. of Western Ontario. 684
Baldy. North Campus. 3:30p.m.

An e~;hib i tion of an by faculty
and alumni celebrating the. sesquicentennial continues through
Dec. 18 in the University An
Gallery, Center for t~ Ans,
Nonh Campus. 'The show tnclude.s work by 17 faculty and
23 alumni . Gallery hours are

Life--..

Groupthiak.: Bow To Avokllt.
3:30p.m. To register,..allthe
Office of Student Life, 6456125.

10:30 a.m.·8 p.m. WednesdaySaturday, 11nd noon-S p.m. Sun-

, _ ColkMttoo...
The Story Or Quaatum Cbro-

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VIdeo~
Tbrt Blrtlt of A..ericaa Vkleo:

Dnlmn Theatre, Center for the
Ans. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $5.
SIO.

day. Admission is

Art for ....

aaodyna•ks. Prof. TUng· Mow
Van. Cornell Univ. 210 Natural
Sciences. North Campus. 3:45
p.m.
.

flloloCIAIM ecbaa.iuu of papovavinu
DNA rqoticalioG, Dr. Tom
Melendy, Mtcrobiolol)' aImmunology. 114 Hocbstctttt.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

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JSI-Splildop l'w ~ 1'&gt;-ec;,-po, Pn&gt;r. Mlcbah

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~. Univ. ollfousroo. I03
[);e(endorf. South~.

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4p.m.

NO aad PG~: C"'IJucllve
Mediaton etlan.. . .tioa ia
~M'.......,a!,

David JaworowicL 508 Cooke.

f~ .

Work for sale by facult y an1sts
is on view through Oct. 22 1n

North Campus. 4 p.m.

S--Col'-1••
E.dlmatlna the Currtnt Mean
ol P'roeHies SubjKt to Abn~pl
Cb.a..a.cts. Dr. Emmanuel
Yubchin,lBM. 244 Cary.
South CampUs. 4 p.m.

Life-.....

'I'besii/Diatrtation Support
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register, call the Office
of Student Life, 645--6125 .

Life--..

T •ai Clll for Bqlnoers, Ron
Ingalsbe. S p.m. To register, call
the Office of Student Life . 645 ·
6125.

the An Depanment Gallery lo..

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cated in the Center for the Ans.
North Campus. Gallery hours
a~ 10 a.m.·5 p.m. Tuesday. 10
a.m.- 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday,
and I I a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday.
Admission is free .

UUUFiha

IJCII!well ....
Leonardo Drew's site·spec:ific

L lbor RtlatJons. Student Center, Harriman. Sooth Campus.
6.9:30 p.m.

Mayb&lt;; Mayb&lt; Not (I 9!14i).
German with English subtitles.
Student Union Tbe.ater. Nonh
Campus. 6:30p.m. $2, ~3 . 50.

Life--..

installation "No. 45-A" was designed ror the LiJhtwell Gallery
in the Center for the Ans. Nonh

6 125.

Zodiaque Fail Dan« Concert .

For inrormation. call Sally
Claydon at 645-2484.

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Starr Assistant (SL-2)-Umvcrsity An Gallery, Postmg
*P-6046.
FIICUity
C linical Assistant ProressorOcrupauonal ~rapy. Post •ng
-F-6051. Assistant Librarian Health Sd ences Library. Posting
•F-6052.

H.Research Aide-Sponsored Programs Personnel. Open. Patient
Ca~ Spedalist-Oral B1o logy.
Posting IR ·96052. RettaJ"C_b
Ttc:bnkian 11-B•olog•cal Sc•·
ences. Posting •R-96056
Project Aide-On.! Biology.
Posting MR-96065 OfT'tu Aide-

Health Sciences Library. Posung
MR-96069. Rcsunh Sdcntist Gt:ology. Posting lfR-96070.
Clinical Nui'W Spec:ialist-Fam ·
1ly Medicme. Postmg MR-96071
~CiaulfleciCtvtt

..me.

Mainten.ance HeiJK'r (SG-{)6).

University Facilities, Lmc• 3 1388 and MJ4618

Campus, and is there through
October.

Se:ll Dd'ea.se and ~noDal Pro-.
tedion. 7 p.m. To re1i1ter. call
the Office of Studr.nt Life, 645-

-

meets the second and fourth
Tuesday of each momh from
5:30-7:15 p.m. in 250 Student
Union on the Nonh Campus

TueMa)o for T - t...
The UB Toastmasten Club

To obtam trJOrr ~nfo ri'IJDI/Ott on
jobs liste-d ubow, contoct Pt'r·
sonnc-1 Sc-n••u.s. I ().I Crofu
Holl. To obtain mformauon on
Rc-sl'art·h jobs, contact SponsorPd Programs PusonMI. 416
Croju

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Ul.t . ._
150: A Saqulctatunlal Slide
Tour or UB' t History, Shonnle
M Finnca•n . Archives. Center
for Tomorrow. North Campus.
7:30a.m. SI O. $1 2. For infor-

mauon. call 829-2608.

--u.c

....... 111 CNfta, .,

Tec.bnoloain in PrKtke:. Also
DeL I I . BuffalO Convention

-

Center. 8 a.m.-4:30p.m. $ 10Sl JO. Spon~ by UB Dental
Alumni Assn. For information.
call829-206 1.

O.MX...._ .. ...._

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-loEuy..lloouociSub........ Prof. Vemoo Anderson.

-

Case Western Reserve UDiv. 2 15
Natunol S&lt;ieoces. Nonh Cam-

pus. 4 p.m.

oounced For mformarion. call

438 C leme ns Non h Campus.
12:30 p.m. Free.

•••
Loc.kal

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First ..Order TbtoriH:
Pnsuppo~IUons of Contrmp&amp;rary A.d omatk Method, John

Corco111n. Philosophy. 684

CAROL FREDETTE olrtcOct. 12 In a Jazz concert
at Hallwello, part of
Creeley 8t 70 celebnotlon.

UUAI Fila
The Rock (1996). Scudem
Union lbeater. Nort h Campus.
9 p.m. S2. Sl.SO.

8 a.ldy. North Campus . 3:30p.m.

c:--Fw
Tecbnkal Job Fair. Atnu m.
Center for !he Arts. Nonh Campus. 3-6:30 p.m. For infonnallo n, call M S-6860.

Ufe~
You're Not Listenina.. 3:30
p.m. To realster, call !he Offic~
o f Student Uf~. 645-6 125 .

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Cou&amp;tu., AafJ-I'erTOIIUI·
netism ud Supn'CODductiv-

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Couuelor lssuts Ia Outpatiult Dttox, M ic:hael Nerney.

Spon~ by Institute for Add ictions Studies and Training .
Daemen Colleae . S6S. To regis·
ter, caU 64 S~6\40.

-

Roya.J:s vs. Duquesne. Varsi1y
Soccer Fields. North Campus.

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IIA&gt;bert Croeley: A 7Dtla Birth·
clay C.lel&gt;nolloe. Ben: Filly
Yean of Poetry Ia Buffalo.
Poc:ttyiRart: Books, 420 Capen.
North Campus. 5 p.m. Free.

uuun.

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The Rock (I"'J. siudem

Union n,ea~er. North Campus.
6'30 and 9 p.m. S2. SJ .SO.

Plcl&lt; olllle Crop. Chon:ography
by l.aun Dean. Elaine Oanlner.

Itzik Galili, Nicholas Rodriguez.
and Colin Connor. Rockwell Hall
Audilorium. Buffalo State College. 8 p.m. SIO. SU.

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All levels. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. &amp;-1 t p.m. Free . Sponsored by Ciraduale Srudenl
Associatio n.

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Bishop, Bell Labs. 210 Na1ura1

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c:riUcal rqu..tor of mammalla.a dt've&amp;opmeat. Dr. Trevor
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Wby We Need Good S&lt;bools
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for Tomo rrow. North Campus.
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a.m.-4 :30 p·.m. For informatio n,
call 829-2061.

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Cun-tat Pndke. Jill Crollick ,
M.D., Kinch Auditorium.
C hildren 's Hospi1aJ. 8 a.m.

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C lusics Banquet &amp;. Conference
Cencer. 2425 Niagara FaJJs
Blvd . 8 a.m.-4:30p.m. Spon sored by UB and National Association of Purchasing Managers.

North Campus. 8 p.m. S4. S5.

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HaJiwalls, 2495 Main St. 8 p.m.
S4. $5.

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Roba1 CrMiey: A 70tb Birth-

day Cdtbndoa, Jim Dine and

Roben Creclc.y. Katharine
Cornell Theater. Ellicott. North
Campus. 8:30p.m. F'".

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p.m . To regisler, call the Office
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Power LIDH for Musch!- Work:

Symmorphosls In tbt Oxyae.n
and Fuel hthways, EwaJd R.

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Harriman. South Campus.
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lncroduccd by Robert Crceley.
Hallwalls, 2495 Main St. 8 p.m.

3 p.m. Free.

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829-329 1

Poetry Lecture
Local Voub: Hawai ' l's Pidcia
Literalure. Performance, and
Posteotont.lity, Susan Schu lu

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SocceT F~elda. Nonb Campla.
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Union lbeater. Nonh Campus.
11 :30 p.m. S2. $3.50.

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Harriman. South Campus. II
a.m. Sl ()..$35. Also Oct. 12. For
info rmation, caJI 645-2460.

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A dvuced Wute Charad.eriutioa aDd New Approac.b ror
Envlf'OIUDtal JteiDtdiatJon. Dr.
Mohamed E. Labib, Civil and
EnvironmentaJ En&amp;inec:ring. 140
Kener. North Campus . ll a.m.

Mlssiooary Di.,ioau.cy: Tbe
Ro~ of Chrill.la.a Mildoaaries
la tbe Foraatloo of AIM.rkan
Relotloas wltll Cblaa, Mkhael
Lazich. 250 Student Union.

North Campus. Noon.

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Virallahiblton lA Oral S«fttloa.s, Prof. E. James Bergey.
OBI Biology. 244 Cary. South
Campus. Noon.

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Robert Croeley: A 70th Birth: : ~;a!:_~,;tino
Cornell lbeater, EJiicotL Nonh
Campus. 3 p.m . Frtt.

_.._._.

TloeSoodudFinloortbePoUdt 'l"bba.ter, Dr. Kuim.ien
Bnun. Scrceniaa Room. Center
for lbe Arts. North Campus.
3 p.m. Free.

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F..utHD Mkbipn.

Ellieou Tennis Courts . North
Campus . Noon.
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Robert Croeley: A 70tb Birth·
day Cekbnlioc, John Ashbery.
Katharine Cornell Theiler,
Ellicou . North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Plcl&lt; or .... Crop. Chon:ography

by Laun De.an. Elaine Gardner.
llzik GaJili. Nkholas Rodriguez.
and Colin Connor. Rockwell Hall
Auditoriwn. Buffalo Swe College. 8 p.m. SIO. SI S.

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Robert Credey: A 70th Birthday Cdebradoa, Sieve Kuhn
and Carol Fredetle. HallwaJls,
249S Main St 8:30p.m. flu.

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music: director. "Mina.J.in&amp;
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Mainsoagc. eo- fO&lt; .... Ans.
Nonb Campus. 4 p.m. SIS. S24.
S28. Second Bernice Poss
MemoriaJ Concen:.

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North Campus. 5 p.m. $4, $5 ,

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVIBITY AIIIUJIMLO
State University ofNew Yorlt

Octohcr 3 1996 Volume 28. No 6

Tribute to Creeley at 70
Celebration to ho!Wr pioneering poet, professor

--IA-YJUI
News Services Editor

T

IDS MONTH, UB will host
a three-day tribute to one of
its own on the occasion of his
70th birthday. The celebration also will help mark the
university's sesquicentennial and offer an opportunity for audiences to
hear and meet several of the finest literary, visual and jazz artists of the past
40 years.

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DuVoll, S A l i A H -

Research center helps bring

assislive devices to market
-I.MSIIAIIIII
News Services Editor

EVERAL useful prod-

S

ucts that might never

have reached the market
will appear this fall, due
to an innovative collaboration be-

tween inventors, persons with disabilities, a private economic development firm and UB.
B illy Decker, born with
Down's Syndrome, will be able

to ice skate wearing skates designed espetially to accommodate his feet.
Terra Prescott will be more
independent and able to cook for
herself using a new product called
a kettle holder, designed for persons with spasticity or limited
grip sueogth.
Persons with hearing impairments will be able to purchase a
flashing timer small enough to fit
in the palm of the hand, usable in
the classroom. gym. pool and at
home.
hese and other helpful
assistive devices were. made
possible through the UB Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Center for Thchnology Evaluation
and Trilnsfer, the only organization in existence devoted exclu-

T

sively 10 bringing assistive devices that are needed, but not
available, into the marketplace.

The research center was esta~
lished in 1993 with a grant from
the National Institute on Disabitities and Rehabilitation Research,
an arm of the U.S. Department of
Education. One of its charges was
to find inventors who had de-

signed promising. but untested

devices, and to move them from
the workshop to store shelves.
"Really helpful products often
never reach consumers with disabilities because many designers
and inventors don 't have re sources to develop their ideas and
make them marketable, and don't
know how to link up with a manufacturer," said Joseph Lane, directorofthe research center. "On the
other hand, manufacturers often
lack knowledge about consumer
needs and product requirements
for persons with disabilities. Our
center provides the knowledge
and resources to fill those gaps."
This Is bow the process work.s:
• Private and corporate inventors and designers are invited to
submit prototypes of devices of
potential use to persons with.disabilities.
• Experts in the UB Center for
Assistive Thchnology screen the
submi ssions and assess their designs. If the technology passes
mus1er, or if design flaws are easily modified, the prototype is advanced to consumer evaluation.
• People with disabilities recruited by Independent Living
Centers in Buffalo and 14 other
sites across the U.S. are paid to
evaluate the product prototype for
convenience and usefulness.
• The Western New York
Technology Development Center.
Inc., an agency promoting economic activity in Western New
York, detennines if a market exContinued on page 4

Pioneering American poet Robert Ct-eeley. SUNY
Distinguished Professor of English and Samuel P.
Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities at UB.
will ~-the subject of the celebration. He will be
joined in the program by artists from several fields
with whom he has had longtime collaborations.
Creeley is internationally recognized as one of
the most prominent poets of his era. having helped
establish a poetic tradition that occupies a central
place in the 20th-century literary canon. With Allen
Ginsberg and John Ashbery. he first carne to public
attention as a leading figure in New American Poetry. the literary efllorescence that helped define the
post-World War II American cultural renaissance.
Creeley and his cohort came of age in the 1950s.
They did for poetry what jazz artists like Miles Davis

ROBERT CREEI.EY

did for music and abstract expressionists tike WUlem
De Kooning, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollack did for
painting: 1bey revitaliu:d native American an and
placed it atlhe centerofr.be international artistic scene.
thereby helping to define the "American Century."
UB Gray Chair Professor of Poetry Charles
Bernstein, himself an influential writer and critic.
points out that because of his exceptional and continuing influence on younger poets. Creeley has remained a major figure in the field throughout hi s
40-year career. 'This has been true in every period."
said Bernstein, "because of his importance as an essayist and poet and through hi s collaborations with
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Council supports law tuition increase
-C..nal~NEVIDAL

Reporter Editor

THE UB COUNCIL HAS unani mously supported a recommendation that the School of Law raise
tuition by $1 ,250 a year. starting
with next semester, to suppon
curriculum changes that were initiated in 1995.
The recommendation was presented to the council Sept. 26 by
. Provost Thomas E. Headrick,
who said President William R.
Greiner will send a letter to
SUNY Interim Chancellor John
Ryan asking ihat the request be
placed on the agenda for the next
meeting of the SUNY Board of
Trustees. It is the first time UB
has in itiated a tuicion-increase
request. Headrick said.
The increase would raise annual tuition for in-state students
from $6.100 to $7.350; o ut -ofstate students would see tuition go
from S 10.750 to$ 12.000 per year.

aekl,.

UB le
that the additional
funds generated by the tuition increase be allowed to stay on campus. In addition to supporting the
law school's new curricu lum.
funds generated by the tuition increase would be used to enhance
scholarship funds, according to

"The new curriculum
will better prepare
graduates to go into
firms and in some
cases, practice on
their own."
I'IIOYOST IIEADIIICk

Headrick.
The new curriculum emphasizes practice-oriented skills. But
itdoesn'tcomecheap.lthasadded
S 1.5 million to the law school's
annual $5 million budget.

Tile law school in 1994 received a general appropriation in
the state budget of $875.000 over
two years. plus other one- time
state funding, to implement the
new curriculum. which was formulated by faculty members after more than two years of meetings with various law-school constituency groups.
While the school received special state funding to launch therevised curriculum. Headrick told

the council. the only way for the
university to go forward with the
projec-t is to find some way to
gene rate additional annual revenue of $925,000. The tuition increase will acco mpl is h thi s.
Headrick said.
Changes to the law-school curriculum were needed to offset
those that have occurred in the
legal profession. Students need to
co me out of law sc hool much
more ready to practice. Headrick
said. Whereas law firms used 10
lrain new lawyers. today "they
need people who are ready 10 go
to work," Headrick said.

The new curriculum is de signed to accomplish that through
courses that focus on legal problem solvi ng. intensive research
and wriLing projects. and a "perspectives class" that encourages
students to apply wha t th ey've
learned in all the1r classes. In ad dition. the law sc hool has set up
internships with law finns. pub·
lie offices and elected officials.
''The new curri culum will better prepare graduates to go into
finns and in some cases. practice
on their own." Headrick said .
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$500,000 Brown endowment to provide rare
books for UB Histoly of Medicine Collection
Robert L Brown was medical school~ first associate dean
II)' PAULA WIYMMLL
Reporter Contributor

A

DDITIONALACQUISITIONS
of rare medical books for the
extensive History of Medicine
Collection in the UB Health
Sciences Library will he possible with a $500,000 endowment established by the late Robert L. Brown, M.D.
It is one of the largest endowments ever
received by the University Libraries.

The first associate dean of the UB

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School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Brown made outstanding contributions to thC historical collection spanning
more than 25 years. In 1985, the collection was named the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection in honor of hi s
many years of loyal support.
"Dr. Brown played a significant role in
developing the History of Medicine Collection," said Lilli Sentz, curator of the
collection and a longtime colleague of
Brown. "He was involved in the preservation of the rare books at the Health Sciences Library before the collection became
a separate entity of the library in 1972."
Brown 's gift, added Sentz, will "enable
to acquire books that we otherwise
ould never have been able to obtain."
Ronald H. Stein, vice president for unirsity apvancement and development
ted. "Dr. Brown's generous support will
reatly enhance a collection that is vitally
portant to preserving the rich history of
rhedicine in Western New York.

higher education ...
UB's History of Medicine Collection, consistin&amp;
I
of more than
12 ,000 volumes. is one of
only
tbree
comprehensive
collections of
medical history
connected with _ , .
medica)
schools in New York State. 1be oldest volumes date back to 1493. The collection
contains extraordinary books from private
collections as well, including those of
Roswell Park, first director of the Roswell
Park Cancer Institute, and James Platt
White, M.D., a founder of the UB medical
school.

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preserving the history of the UB medical
school," abe said. "With the medical
scbool's aesquicentennill heing celebrated
this year, this generous support for the collection couldn't have come at a 10ore appropriate time." ·
Brown, a 1944 UB medici! school
llumnus who died in 1995, served as chief
of medical service of the I 24th General
Hospital in Austria and as a major in the
Office of the Surgeon General in Washington, D.C.

n addition to the rare books, the unique
collection includes the Memorabilia
Collection, which documents the hislOry of medicine in Western New York and
UB 's health sciences schools. Among the
invaluable items in this part of the collection are yearbooks. alumni catalogs and
faculty publications.
Another component of the collection· is
the McGuire Historical Medical Instrument
Collection. Sentz explained, "The instruments add interest and depth to the entire
collection. lt is different to read about an
instrument used for procedures performed
years ago, as opposed to actually seeing the
instrument. which makes it seem more real.
"Dr. Brown was a strong believer in

rior to joining the medical scbool as
its first assiSiant dean in 1959, be was
medical and tecbnicll director of the
Amer Co. In 1960, be became acting dean
of the medical scbool and directed the plan-'
Ding for UB medical scbool's merger into
.the State Uoivenity of New York system.
He later was appointed the school's first
associate dean.
A history enthusiast. Brown was named
medical scbool archivist in 1974. He started
a search for the historical records of the
scbool and preserved many items from the
scbool's early years ihat would have been
lost otherwise. Brown also designed and
meticulously crafted the medical scbool's
symbolic mace and marshal's baton, as well
as designing the scbool's academic gown.
At the time of his retirement in 1985,
Brown was appointed consultant to the
History of Medicine Collection and continued his close association with the collection until his desth.
Brownn:ceivedtheDean's Awardin 1967
and 1973 and the Medical Alwnoi Award in
1974. Active in many local organizations, be
also served as a direcllrofthe VISiting Nurses
Association from 1975-78.
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visual anists like Jim Dine, FnuriscoCiemente,
Bryce Mardan and Susan Rothenberg. Jazz musicians and c:omposers like Steve Swallow and
Steve Lacey have set Creeley's work to music
over the years." Bemstein points out. Sevend
of the writers and performers cited abovo; will
participate in "Creeley at 7fJ' events.
The celebration will open at 8 p.m. on

Room, across from the theat&lt;r.
'1\1.&lt;! of IIJday's IDJSI e=ptiaoal jazz 1111is1s,
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Oct. 12 at Hallwalls, incaponlting works by
Steve Swallow that employ Creeley's poetry.
New-wave group Men:ury Rev will perfam
its "Ooeley-waks" as weD.
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Oct. 10, in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts
Center, 2495 Main St., with a reading by poet
Eileen Myles in tribute to Creeley. The event
will be sponsored bydust Buffalo Literary
Center. a community arts group with which
Creeley has been associated for many years.
Two distinguished writers with whom
Creeley has had lengthy association, Amiri

oor,llotieftOeeltywao•~oftlle"Biock

"As UB and rhe medical school ceJebrat~

their sesquicentennial, ongoing sup-port for the university is critical for our
future growth and continued excellence in

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Baraka and Gil Sorrentino, will JlR'S"llt a joint
reading from J-5 p.m. Oct. II in the Katharine
Cornell Theatre in the EllicQtt Complex,
North Campus. UB Pre$ident William R.
Greiner will open the program with a welcome.
At 5 p.m that day, UB 's Poetry/Rare Books
Collection will open an exlu'bition curnted by
Robert Bertholf, "HERE: Ftfty Years of Poetry
in Buffalo" in the Special Collections Poetry
Room, 420 Capen Hall, North Campus. The
exhibition will feature Creeley's worlc.
Creeley 's intense interest in relating the language and visual arts will be expkxed at 8:;!0
p.m Oct. II in the Katharine Cornell Thealre
when artist Jim Dine presents a talk followed
by"Cooversation with Robert Creeley" and a
program of readings by the poet. On Oct. 12.
Rochester native, Creeley oohoo1 and Pulitzer
Prize-winner John Ashhery will make one of
his rare WNY appeamnces atareadingat 4 p.m.
in the Katharine Cornell Thealm. It will be followed by a public reception in the Jane Keeler

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Foundation board
11)'-.A-.&amp;.
Reporter Conlributor

EGINALD B. NEWMAN 11,
president of NOCO Energy Corp.,
has been elected chair of the board
of trustees of the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
Newman has been affiliated with the
board since 1989. Prior to becoming chair,
be was vice chair of the fouodatioo and
previously served as chair of the investment committee.
The fouodation promotes the activities
and programs of the Uoivenity at Bulfafo
by providing support and advice on fund
raising, managing gifts and grants on hehalf of the uoivenity; a wide range of financial services for various units of the university, developing and managing tell
property on hebalf of the university, and a
broad base of private-sector support for the
university through the foundation's trustees and directors.
1be board of trustees; which participates
in the university's development program,
is responsible for raising community
awareness of the need for private support'
for UB , soliciting gifts on its behalf and
managing assets received by the fouodition. As requested, the board also provides
advice·and counsel to the president of the
university on matters involving the UB
community and its constituencies.

F

rank J. McGuire, chairman of The
McGuire Group, has been appointed a
new board trustee. Newly appointed directors are William L. McHugh, executive
vice president of Independent Health
Corp., and William P. Montague, president
and chief operating officer of Mark IV Ind ustries, Inc.
The foundation also re-elected several
trustees for three-year tenns: Lawrence P.
Castellani, president and chief executive
officer, Tops Mark.ets, Inc.; Jeremy M.
Jacobs Sr., chairman and chief executive
officer, Delaware North Companies, Inc.,
and Carol V. Kociela, senior vice presiden~
Regional Commercial Bank, Marine Midland Bank .
The following directors were re-elected
to three-year tenns: Richard E. Heath, partner in the law ftrm of Hodgson, Russ,
Andn:ws, Woods and GOodyear; Nortluup
R. Kno&lt;, chainnan, Marine Midland Banlc;
Kenneth W. Paulin, senior vice president.
Manufacturers and 1'raden Trust Co., and
Donald A. Ross, former president and cur.rentboardmemberofRandCapitaiCorp. 0

�City/Suburb

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., Conference to explore the issues
News Services Editor

U

NNERSITY at Buffalo educators say public discussion constantly reinforces falsehoods about city versus suburban life that have serious social,
economic and educational consequences to Buffalonians and
those living in its surrounding
towns and villages.
UB will present a public conference in
October to explore these issues with com-

munity planners. educators, social workers, librarians aod three speakers of national distinction.

The conference, "Deconstructing Urban-Suburbao Mythologies," will open at
II a.m. on Friday, Oct. II, in I 05 Harriman
Hall on the UB South Campus and continue tbrougb Saturday, Oct. 12.
Registration is $35 (entire program),
$20 (one-day session) and $10 (entire program, students). For registration information, call 645-2460.
The prognun. developed jointly by the UB
Graduate School of Education, the UB
School of Information and Library Studies,
and the UB Graduate School of Social Wort,
is funded by gmnts from Conferences in the
Disciplines and Conversatioos in the Disciplines.
Conveners say it will be a forum to bring

a number of controversial issues to the surface and to explore the reasons for public
intransigence to changing ntisperceptions
and stereotypical beliefs abOut what urban
life is like and what suburban life offers.
These misunderstandings, they say, affect
the value we place on institutions in both
kinds of communities and can result in decisions by Jegislalors, budget directors, school
boards. tbe press and individuals that produce
unexpected and unwanted outcomes.

L

orna Peterson, a professor in the UB
School of Information and Library
Studies who helped organize the conference, says the interdisciplinary nature
of the event should appeal to the generalist and specialist alike.

'There are many of us who are concerned with the health or urban institutions
in "'' increasingly suburbanized America.
We're working to fi nd solutions that will
help our schools, libraries and social services agencies again become vibrant and
strong," she adds.
Lecture topics will include racism and
the suburbanization movement, what it
means about Americans that they "diss"
their own crlies and new relationships
emerging between urban schools and public and academic library communities.
Participapts wiU be involved in smallgroup discussions facilitated by nationally
distinguished thinkers and writers in the
fie ld of planning and community development, education and libraries.
The lecturers will be:
Andrew Hacker, nationally regarded
political scientist and author of "Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile
and Unequal." He will open the conference
with a lecture, " Dissing Our Cities: What
it Says About America."
Carole J. McCollough, associate dean
of the Wayne State University Library System and researcher in the field of public
administration, urban libraries and library
youth services. She will discuss the architectural and financial particularities of
bringing information technology to urban
schools and libraries.

Henry Louis Taylor Jr., UB associate
professor of planning and American studies, author, director of the UB Center for
Urban Studies and nationally recognized
expert in the field of public policy and urban affairs.
Peterson points out that the euphemistic use or the terms "urban" and "suburban" says that the problems to be approached during the conference are imbedded in the terms themselves-identity
issues like social class and economic
power, race and etbnicity.
Jennifet Beaumont, UB assistant professor of education and one of the conference
organizers, says these terms are now euphemisms for the "haves" and "have-nots."
'l h e w ord ' urban' suggests acommu.
nity whose residents live close to, at
or below the poverty level and are
low-achievers with little regard for education," she says. "In general, they are understood to be people who require governmental and philantbmpic support for the
variety of social services they need."
Suburban residents, Beaumont says, are
understood--and often unaerstand themselves-io be middle- and upper-income
earners who are "advantaged" high-achievers living in above-standard communitiescommunities forced to support the unemployed denizens of the inner-city. This ignores the fact that there are economically
disadvantaged people living in virtually every suburban cOmmunity, she says.
'The situation is not nearly so simple,
but these stereotypical, often unconscious
interpretations of common terms come into
play when observations are made about
urban and s uburban school systems and library systems, and when political and budgetary decisions are made," she says. "Thi s
is information that needs to be placed in
context before we make public policy." . ,

Architecture hosts
ACSA conference
The School of Arcllltecture and Planning will host the northeast regional meeting
and conference or the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). to be
beld Oct 3-7 in the Buffalo Hilton.
The conference is tilled '"Triangulating the
Bodies of Architecture" in keeping with the
theme ofUB's Oct. 3 Sesquicentennial Colloquium "Does the Body Matter?" which has
been incorporated into its program.
ACSA papers and discussions will explore
architecture's complex overlay of theory, research and "making" as the basis or critical
investigations or the human body in terms or
scale, presence, kinestbetics and tacti lity to
immateriality and disappearance.
Speakers will include archi tectural
scholar arid a uthor Sanford Kw i nter.
C larkson Visiting Chair in the UB School
of Architecture and Planning, ancfarchitectur.il historian and urban geographer Paul
Groth.
Call 829-3485 for more information. :::_

A red-tailed hawk, handled by Paul Schnell of lhe lnstitule fa( EnvironmentaJ
Learning, was on display Sept. ~ with other birds of prey for a demonstration
in 170 Fillmore, Elllcoll Complex. The demonstration was part of UB's Environ-_
mental Studies Program of Soclel Sciences' lmerdisciplinary Degree Program.

International educators to meet;
reception will note Rl's 25 years
. , I'Al'IIICIA -VAN
News Services Editor

tural orien tation that has had enonnous in·
nuence on the fie ld of inte rnational edu cation.
HE ASSOCIATION of Inte rn aSince that time , the insti tute has trained
tional Educators will t;Onduct its
more than 18,000 stude nts from most naannual regional conference in Buftions around the globe and has set the stanfalo this month and is expected to
dard for such programs in universities here
draw more than 300 professional s in the
and
abroad. In virtually all of its activities,
field of international education from the
the ELl has contributed in an important
states of New York and New Jersey.
way to making UB and Western New York
The conference, .. International Educabener kno wn overseas.
ti on: THE Peace Bridge." will take place
Originally called the Intensive English
Oct. 21-23 in the Buffalo Hilton. with preLanguage In st itute or LEU. the program
conference workshops on Oct. 19 and 20.
had its antecedents
Helen Stevens, diin UB 's Foreign Sturector of Intern adent English Protiona_l Studenl and Presentations will emphag ram
(FSEP )
Scholar Services at
founded in the early
UB and chair-elect of size the important role in1960s by the late
the regional associaJudith Malamed.
tion . will chair the ternatioTUll educators play
-five
conference.
in promoting ... understand- yearsTwenry
ago, Dunnett,
Stevens said that
then an administraJ.or
co nfe r e nce work- ing across...borders.
and instructor in the
shops and presen taHEUN STEVENS FSEP. was appointed
tions will emphasize
the important rol e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - to organize and direct
a new. year-round .
that international
non-crt!dit intensive English program at UB.
educators play in prom oting improved
The
result
of
hi
s
effort
was the institute,
communication and understanding across
which originally offered English training
linguistic, cultural and political borders.
and orientati on to foreign students preparThe program will address such topics as
ing for university st udy.
English language training, srudy-abroad programs, recruitment and admission of inter·
ince th at time. many ELI g raduates
na tional students , community-based prohaveeamedadvanceddegrees from UB and
gramming and inunigration regulations for
other U.S. universities and several occupy high
international students and scholars. and inpositions in academe. business or govcrnmalt
temational student advisement
in their own countries. The EU has provided a
professiooal apJttllticeship for staff and instruceynote speaker will be Hans de Wit,
tor.; who went on to establish their own Englishvice president for internatio nal affairs
language institutes in the U.S. or in their native
at the University of Amsterdam and past
countries. using the UB progr.un as a model.
president of the European Association for
Jeffra Flaitz, a forme r faculty member
International Education. He will be introin the UB Graduate School o f Education.
duced by Stephen C. Dunnell. UB vice prowill attend the confe rence under ELI sponvost for international education and direc sorship to present a workshop on language
tor of the university 's English Language
Institute (ELl ).
learning. Aaitz, ass istant professor of lin Dunnett will host a reception in the UB
guistics at the University of South A ori da.
directs USF's Englis h Language Institute.
Center for the Arts on Monday, Oct. 21. in
connection with the conference to celebrate
Among UB faculty and staff involved in
the 25th anniversary of the ELl and the
conference planning an:: Barbara Campbell. EU
university 's sesf!iuicentennial year.
assistant director. Kathy Cwtis. John Fitzer. Jan
Founded in 1971 , the UB English LanNersinger, Linda Silvestri. ELl staff members:
guage Institute was one of the fir.a English
Lisa Felix. Rosemary Mecca. Diane Stolarski.
language institutes in the nation. It was
lntemational Student and Scholar Services staff:
marked then by virtues that have become
Sandra Reinagel director of UB 's study abroad
its trademarks: innovative c urricula, outprograms. is conference registrar. Mary ldzior.
standing teaching by professional instrucimmigration specialist with lnternatioc"!i Stutors sensitive to the needs of international
dent and Scholar Services at UB, directed planning of special conference events.
students, and effective academic and cui -

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Program, lab
dedication Oct. 9

FibawforUfe
progr. . seeks
participants

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ARTICIPANTS ARE being oouaJ&gt;t
for UB Fitness for Life, a new
Wallrin&amp; program desiped to help
university .staff and fllcully
18-40 to incorponte modenle eltelcile iDio
their daily routines, iix:Iuditl&amp; tbe workday.
The program is part of study being conducted by Karen Coleman, UB research
assist&amp;Dt professor of psychology, in conjunction with the departments of Psychology, Social and Preventive Medicine and
Physical Therapy and Exercise Science.
UB Fitness for Life will employ several
approacbes to help all participants eventually walk.30 minutes for up to six days out
of the week.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention have recently released recommendations that adults should
accumulate 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, and
preferably all, days of the week. Moderate
physical activity is defined as the equivalent of brisk walldng at 3-4 miles per hour
for most healthy adults.
UB Fitness for Life is not a group-&lt;&gt;riented wallcing program, hot instead will
focus on self-motivational skills including
self-monitoring, self-reinforcement, goal
setting and preplanning.

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DEDICATION AND renaming
ceremony, and the flCSt Robert M .
Cooper Memorial Program will
be beld on Wednesday, Oct. 9, on
the North ~pus in honor of the late Robert M. Cooper, UB professor of pharmacy
practice. Cooper died in July 1995.
The pharmacy products laboratory will be
renamed the Robert M. Cooper Professional
Practice Laboratory in a ceremony to be beld
at 3:30p.m. in Room 222 of Coolce Hall.
The fust Robert M Cooper Memorial Program , "Changing the Scope of Pharmacy
Practice," will be beld at 7:30 p.m. in the
Center for Tomorrow. The program will focus on proposed New York State legislation that would result in the expansion of
pharmacy practice. The legislation would
permit pharmacists to prescribe and, where
appropriate, administer to patients certain
drugs. immunizations. diagnostic tests and
medical devices.
Opening remarks at the memorial program will be made by Wayne K. Anderson,
interim dean of the UB School of Phannacy.

anelists will be Lawrence H. Mokhiber,
executive secrelaly, New Yod&lt; Stale Board
of Pharmacy; Michael A. Cimino, clinical roordinalorof pilarmacy and co-directa", Clinical
PharmaCology Center for Women and auidrm
at auldrm's Hospital; Lconanl G. Feld. JXOfessor of pediatrics at UB, vice chairman for
practice in pediatrics at UB, chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology and director of the
Children's Kidney Center at Children's Hospital. and Leo Fedor, associate dean of student
affairs, UB School of Pbannacy and chair of
the curriculum commiuee.
Cooper joined the pharmacy school in
1967 as a professor and went on to serve
in other capacities, including assistant and
associate dean, and chair and vice chair of
the Department of Pharmacy. In 1993, he
founded "Pharmacy Law," a newslener on
New York State practice requirements.
He was twice appointed 10 the New Yak
Board of Pbannacy, served as its chairman for
two yean; and received the Chancellor's
AwardfcrExcdJenceinTcachingin 1976. 0

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Alcohol, Depression
UB study finds gender differences
lly LOIS IIAIIDI
News Services Editor

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NE OF THE FEW longitudinal studies to investigate the relationship berween
gender, depression and alcohol problems in a large community sample has shown
that in women, depressive symptoms may lead to alcohol problems over time,
while in men, problems with alcohol might subsequently lead to depression.
The results were presented in Boston at the annual meeting of tile Society
for Epidemiologic Research.
Beth Moscato, research assistant professor in the UB Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and lead author of the study. found that for women, depression predicted subsequent alcohol problems.
Women who initially were classified as depressed were 2-1/2 times more likely to
have alcohol problems after three years, than women who were not depressed, she said.
In men, results suggested that alcohol problems appeared first, and were somewhat
more likely to lead to depression after three yean;.
'These findings should be a nag to health practitioners," Moscato said. "If a woman
has a high level of depressive symptoms, the practitioner should also evaluate drioking
problems over time. If a man has a drinking problem, he may need to be monitored for
depression.•·
This community study was based on 986 adults who were followed for seven years.
Contributing researchers were Maria Zielezny and James R. Marshall, UB Department of Social and Preventive Medicine; Marcia Russell and Pamela Mudar, Research
Institute on Addictions in Buffalo; Gladys Egri, UB Department of Psychiatry, and Evelyn
Bromet. Department of Psychiatry. SUNY at Stony Brook.
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Ewald Weibel, expert on hmg function, to present
Fifth Annual Hermann Rahn Lecture on Oct. 1b
lly LOIS IIAIIDI
News Services Editor
~ALD R. WEIIIEL, known worldwide
in the field of physiology for his seminal
work in lung structure and gas exchange,
will present the fifth annual Hermann Rahn
Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday,
Oct. I 0. in Butler Auditorium of Farber
Hall on the UB South Campus.
His lecture, uPower lines for Muscle
Work: Symmorphosis in the Oxygen and
Fuel Pathways," is sponsored by the UB
School ofMedicine and Biomedical Sciences. It is free and open to the public.
Weibel is professor emeritus at the University of Berne, Switzerland, where he
was professor and chair of anatomy for 27
years. He also is vice-chair and secretary
of the Maurice E. Muller Foundation.
Weibel 's scientific contributions have
spanned 40 years. His career began at the
University of Zurich, where he received his
medical degree in 1955 and served as assistant professor of anatomy. He later was
on the facu lty of Yale University, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and
Rockefeller University. He returned to
Switzerland in the early 1960s and assumed
his posftion at Berne in 1966.

His work
has been concentrated in the
area of functional anatomy
and, specifi cally, in lung
morphology .
He is respon sib1e for major
advancements
in understanding the rela- lloi.JiL..L_.IIa.l.J
tionship between lung structure and function, and has
detailed the structural pathway for oxygen
from the lung to the mitochondria, the principal site of energy production in the hody.

He co-wrote 81111 ..-ted two series of
landmark papers on this topic, which were
published in special issues of Respiration
Physiology, and authored a definitive monograph, ' The Pathway for Oxygen," published in 1984 by Harvard University Press.
Weibel is president-elect of the Swiss
Academy of Medical Sciences and vice
president of the International Union of
Physiological Sciences. ·

His accolades .include: foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences;
an honorary degree from the University of
Edinburgh; honorary memberships in numerous academies of sciences in Europe,
and the Marcel-Benoist Prize from the
Swiss Government.

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T

he program will run from October to
February, with a follow-up in June or
July. Since the program NOS through the
winter montbs, a large focus will be on
wallcing in the cold.
The prognun will begin with a 2-112 hour
introductory screening, including a medical
interview and-questionnaires, an ex=ise test
on a stationary bike and measurement of
blood pressure, heigh~ weight and hody fat
percentage. Participants will be asked to wear
an activity monitor and record their activity
for two weekdays and two weekend days
before beginning the prognun.
Not everyone applying to UB Fitoess
for Life will be accepted due to the limitations of the study. All persons accepted into
the program will be required to pay a $50
entry deposit, which will be refunded
throughout the study in exchange for participation and cooperation in the program.
UB Fitness for Life will consist of 16, 3(}.
minute.weekly group m&lt;elings beld one night
per Week after W0Jt. Participants will meet
briefly with a counseloc one-on-one to assess progress. Counselors will wod&lt; with each
participant to identify obstacles to be&lt;:oming
more active as well as possible solutions.
Measurements taken at the beginning of
the prograin will be assessed at the end of
the 16-week program. There win be a
check-up period four months after it is over.
For more information. call645-6315.

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DEVIC£S
Continued from page 1
ists for the product and defines that market.
• AZtech, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation directed by and for persons with disabilities and the commercialization ann of
the UB center finds a manufacturer for the
product and facilitl!tes contract negotiations between inventor and manufacturer.
Research center technical experts have
wrilted witll mere than 1.500 inventDrs to date
and have evaluated nearly 200 devices. 33 of
which were deemed marlcelable; 22 products
areinvariouspbasesof~ with
the first devices to be available this fall.
Inventors s uch as Joseph French of
Joppa. Md, creator of the Echometer, a device used to assist people with communication disorders, pay an initial fee of $50.
"Because of than." said FrerdJ of the research cent£r, '"this is the first time that my de-

signs have had a chance in the marketplace."
Other products developed or marlceted
throu gh tbe researdl eenter IDdude:
• Ao inexpensive. personal lift system
introduced by Columhus-McKinnon in June
• A support ann that permits people
with spasticity or poor muscle control to
feed themselves, being developed with a
California company
• A small, inexpensive band-wrist roller
for rehabilitation of persons recovering from
stroke, surgery or other impairments, avail able in November through a firm in Atlanta
• A~ microscope for
people who can't operB!e standard controls,
can' t see through the eyepiece of a standartl
microscope a-can only wadi: at the instrument
fora limited time. Federal agencies and research
labs have shown interest in the device. ·C

�l.etlers

Counseling Center offers information, advice to UB
community on ways to prevent acquaintance rape
DUit IIDITOII;
Thank ~ou for brinainalhio information 10
the attention of the univcnity community.

To all members or the Campwo
C ommwalty:

DO YOU PLAN ON HAVING SEX
WHILE YOU'RE IN COLLEGE?
Whether you do or if you don' t-man or
woman- you are not immune to the possibil·
ity of acquaintance rape. Being at UB means
being pan of a community and respecting the
rights of others. Make no mistake about itacquaintance rape is an act of violence and an
infringement upon the rights of others.

WAYS TO PREVENT
ACQUAINTANCE RAPE
Men

Understand chat forced sex is not accepl·
able and that rape is af~lony.
Stop if your partner says "NO," is reluctant, or is not clearly consenting. Do not take
silence as consent. If you feel you are getting
a double message. speak up and ask for clari fication.
Respect the word .. NO." When a woman
says " no," believe her.
Do not assume that a woman wants to
have sex because she drinks heavily, dresses
in a particular manner. or agrees to go to your
room. Do not assume that if a woman agrees
to tcissing or other sexuaJ intimacies that she
is willing to have sexuaJ intercourse.
Never have sex with anyone who is drunk
or passed oul.

Women
Communicate your sexual desires and
limits clearly. What you say and hOw you behave may create conflicting messages. Do not
give mixed messages.
Learn to be assenive, to express your feelings, and to say "NO." Forget about being
''nice" if you feel threatened. You have the
right to pro1.ec1 yourself.

Exercise caution while dating. Have initial
data in public places. l..etiiOmeOIIC know
where you .... aning and when you will return. Try to provide your own transponatioo.
Trust your instiDCU. U you feel uocomfortable or feel you may be 11 risk, leave lbe
situation immediately and go to a safe place.
Remember that leaving 1 pony or other social
event with someone you have just met can be
dangerous.
Avoid anyone who pull you down, talks
negatively about women, is physically violent.
or does not respcal you or your decisions.
If you feel your rights have been violated
or you know you have been usaulted, go to
someone who can give you emotional support. Public Safety (Exlension 2222 on both
campuses) employs officen specially lrained
to assist you; you may request a female officer, if you prefer. Call the Counseling Cen·
ter, 645-2720, or Crisis Services Hotline.
834-3 131, or ask Public Safety or a facully or
staff member to put you in contact with a
counselor.
Remember that acquaintance rape: is never
the victim's fault.
Yours truly,
~

IITAPF fW

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A Mass of Christian Bunal was held Sept. 23 in
St. Gregory the Great Church. Williamsville. for
Russell J. Gugino, 67. founder of the Gugino
Insurance Agency and a past president and
active member of the UB Alumni Association.

sity~~~:~~~~~ ~~~~~::~ ~C:~~e~~~,v~~
UB General Alumni Board He organized the
"Gray Bulls," a group of former UB alhletes
and In 1992 founded the Gordon Bukaty
Annual Memorial Golf Tournament to support
UB athletics.
After college, he J&lt;&gt;ned the U.S. Navy,
serving on the USS Niagara dunng the Korean conflict.
Gugino was employed as a salesman lor
Metropolitan Life and later was promoted to
assistant sales manager.
In 1965. he managed the Tabor Agency as
financial services manager, found1ng his own
agency in 1969. He retired In 1991
He was a life member and off1cer of the
Buffalo Life Underwriters Assoc1alion. serving
on its board of directors.

Marilyn Hutchings, UB
secretary, advocate
for brain-injured
A memorial service was held Sept. 21 in St.
Peter's Episcopal Church , Eggertsville, lor
Marilyn M. Hutchings, 72. who had served as
a secretary in the departments of nuck!ar
engineering and electrical engineering at UB.
She died Sept. 13 in Kenmore Mercy Hospital
after a long Illness.
NatlonaJiy recognized as an advocate for
the brain-Injured, she began working to build
a network of relatives ot bfaln·injured people
across the state after her daughter, Susan,
suffered a severe skull fracture in 1969. She
also assembled stallslics and helped coordi·

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COUNAUN8 CENTER

Counselors available
to deal with grief issues
TO IHE EDITOR:
We are all saddened by the death of student
Troy Angelini. Dealiilg with grief often is a
difficult, upserting process. Students who
would like lo talk over their thoughts and
feelings about Troy's death are encouraged to
phone the Counseling Cen1er at 645-2720.
Counselors will be available to assist in
working through this sad human experience.
Counselors will be available at the Counseling Center on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. in 120 Richmond Quad.
Yours truly.

cou-- CENTER liT""

OBITUARIES
Russell J. Gugino, UB
alumni past president

DB Bell Ready to SuiQIPI SEFA
Nelson Toiinsend, right, UB's.SEFA CM1p8ign chair, and Tern Doyle a University Facilities, are shown at Aint Loop with lhe first a etghl scoreboards pointing up UB's
conlrlbulions lo SEFA One a lhe UB 8ll9llls 1o benefit SEFA will be held Friday by
lhe School 0enta1 Medici1e in lhe quad behind Squim Hall oolhe South C&lt;rnpus. Fac:Uty, slalf, administration tm students will lake part in Octoberfest 8ll9llls
beginning at 5:3:1 p.m and feallling races, clowns, pizza, ral!les and an auction.

nate a sympos1um at UB 1n the 1980s on bra ~n
injuries.
As correspond•ng secretary lor Headway
for Braln lntured. she lobbied heallh care
providers and lawmakers on local. stale.
natkmal and international levels lor serv•ces
and vestmentS for the brain·IOIUted The
organization became known worldwtde
through her efforts
A secretary at UB from 1961 to 1985. she
continued at US as a contract worker lor two
more years following her reurement

A C1l1l 8tlow of tile Ufe

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A. celebnlioo of tbe life of Livingston
Clcldwt, UB proCeaor emeritus of mulic, will be bcld Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. in Slee
IIIli. OeodWt, who died July 14, was a
c:ompooerand c:oncert pianist who made
mmlY m:ordlngs over tbe course of his
c:m.r_ He retitcd from UB in 1985.
1bc program includes a welcome by
Mattba Gearltart; Bach Adagio in G-minor from Sonata No- I, Pritz Gearllatt,
violin; remarks by Ben PhiUips and
Maria Runfola; Rachmaninoff Ave
Maria, University Choir directed by
Haiiict Simona; A. Tribute to the Man in
lbe Clocbca-Pin, Kim Gearllatt; Bach
GoadorValerwohn uns Bie, Roland E.
Mmln, OIJIII.
.
Coolribulions may be made to the
UviaptoD Clcarlwt Fund, Department
of Millie, 222 Bainl Hall University
It Bu«Uo. 14260.
A. collection of Livingston
Clearbart'a wGrt is Ctllt'CIItly on display
ill lite Bainl Hall Muoic Library.

Fall is here: check out information
on '96-97 Campus Heating Policy
Offlc:ea will be ~eel to 68 degrees
Fahrenheit from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and classrooms will be heated to this temperature
from 8 a.m. 10 J0 p.m. For the rest of the
lime, and on weekends and holidays, the
temperature will be allowed to drop to 55
degrees Fahrenheit before heating occurs.
In most spaces, the temperature will not
drop to that level before the normal working day heating cycle begins again. However. during a severe cold snap or during
an extended weekend/shutdown , or due 10
the particular characteristics of some of
UB 's facilities , there will be instances when
the temperature will drop to 55 degrees
Fahrenheit.

Heatlna; for acedemlc program purposes will be provided on off-hou rs and
weekends as needed. Each dean 's office
sho uld provide the University Facilities
Customer Servi ce Department with a lis t
of individual s in each departmental office
authorized to request off-hou r/holida y
heating. The request for off-hour/holiday
heating must be received by Customer Service (extension 71 or 645-2025) by noon
of the preceding business day. University
Facilities will utilize the most energy effi cient means of suppl ying heat for approved

off-hou r/ho liday requests.
Due to an inabili ty to precisely control
temperatures. it may be the case that some
spaces may be warmer than planned. h may
also be the case that ce ntral controls will
not permit the temperature in specific
spaces to be raised to 68 degrees Fahrenheit without significantly increasing the
temperature in the rest of the facility. In
those situations. University Facilities will
permit the use of ponable space heaters.
Please note, however, that portable heat ers not authorized by University Facilities
will be removed . Please call University
Facilities. Customer Service (extension 71
or 645 -2025) in the event you experience
heating problems. Please report overheated
as well as underheated areas .

-"'nltlea

If you llll)'
for energy savings or wish to suggest an energy
conservation project. please ca ll Walter
Simpson. the university's energy officer(6453528). Any general questions regarding efforts ln the energy conservation area should
be directed to Ronald Nayler, associate vice
president for university facilities(645-3643),
who also is chairman of the university 's Energy Policy Committee.

COUNCIL
Continu"ed from page 1

"We're very excited about the curriculum
and want the project to go forward ."

Councllmember J ohn Walsh asked
Headrick whether the new curric ulum will
a llow the UB law school 10 remain competitive. "or will we become JV (junior varsi ty) over time?''
" In the present context , I think w~ · ve
slid." Headrick responded . "You have to
acknowledge the fact that we· ve been slid ing over the last seven or eight years ."
He quickly noied that the problem is not
the fault of the law faculty.
The law school has " more inventive.
creative faculty" than it is give n credit for.
and implementation of the new law curriculum ..will make a significant impacl on
the way people per&lt;:eive the law school."
Headrick said. 'This move will put us in
position to get where we think we want to

get in the shan term ."
Richard Quodomine. student representative to the UB Council. questioned
whether changes to the law schoo l curriculum will affect the perception of the qual ity of a law degree .
"The only way law sc hoob do that over
the long haul is people hue our graduate~
and they do the work. ." Headrick. re sponded .
In other bu siness. the counc il heard an
update on the 1996-97 budget presented b)
UB Seni or Vice President Robert J
Wagner. und Ronald H. Stem . vice presi dent for advancemenl and development.
received an endorsement from the Councillo begin a capital campaign.
In his repon to the council. President
William R. Greiner recapped his Sept. 24
presentation to the full voting faculty.

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AMINAJtS SO FOa DEHJAL
MIEETIINI OCT. 10, 11
Seminars on new practice technolo-

gtes and the treatment ol spec1a1
populatiOns will be featured at the
Greater Niagara Fronuer Dental
Meeung, to be held from 8 a.m to
4 30 p m Oc1. 10 and 11 . tn the

School of Dental Medicine and dental·medlcine professionats.
Some 500 students have completed the two--semester, tuition-free
program during the past 25 years.
About 95 percent of graduates are
I)Jaced in jobs, primarity in hospital
and university· based dental c linics
and private dental offices.

Buffalo ConventiOn Center
The mee11ng •s sponSOted by the
UB Dental Alumni Assoc•ahon Ma,or presentatiOnS InClude day-long
sem1nars on the lollowmg toptcs

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1-MSOCIA~

· c ontemporary Concepts '" Esthellc Denttstry, • Douglas Lambert.
spec•ahst '" esthehc and sports
dent•stry, Oct 10
"The Art of Endcxmucs Concepls
and Tecl"noquojs lo&lt; lhe New Millennun.· L Slepllen Buchlw1an. leading
expen ., eododonllCS and faculty member oflhe lJ&lt;we&lt;slty oflhe Pacmc
School of Oenustry. Oct 11
Barbara J Ste•nberg, p.-olessor of
med•c•ne and surgery, Allegheny
Unrversity of the Health Sc~enees and
c lln ~c;al assoc•ate Pfofessor ol oral
med•c •ne at lhe UniverSity of Pennsyivan•a School ol Dental Medictne. will
present liNO hall-day semu1ars Oct

r"""::==-';.:..;;....:,

t O on "A Team Approach to Treallng
the Med•calty Compromised Patl80t. •
!rom 9 a m -noon. and "Mecbcal and

Dental ConsldefatiOOs of the Female
Pa llen !." 1 3().4 30 p.m
Sess1011s also will be offered on
manag1ng oral comphcauons of caner treatment . dentiStry's rc:Me 1n the
rosthellc reconsuuctiOfl ol head and

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neck Injuries, 8 hiStory of dentistry

rough art. lilm and photography.
dographiCs. usmg the tnuaoral
camera; 1nlect100
and
hS.zardous chemiC&amp;\ exposure. and
computenzed esthetiC imag•ng

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EOC DENTAL -ASSISTIINI

PROQRAM IIIACCIIEDI"I'EII
The dental SSSISIIng program 1n US's
Educatrona.J Opportunity Center

(EOC). 465 Wasmng!On St .. has been
reaccredited lew seven years by the
CommiSSion on Dental Accfeditatoo
of \he American Dental Association
The commtsstOn IS a speciahzed
accrediling body recognized by the
Commission on Recognition of
Postsecondary Accreditation and
!he U.S Department of EducatiOn.
Preparation lor the accreditation
.nvolved lacully. staff and advisory
c ommittees at the EOC . the UB

..._ N. - , pnolessot of
science at US and dWactor

of UB's Centec of

EJa:etlonce ""
Document AAaJysis and Recognition (CEDAR), has
been named a leitow of !he lntecna·
tional Assoclation
1o&lt; Panern RecogSRIHARI
nitlon. Fewer !han
50 of the assoc:iaUon's 1,(((1 1'1"181'noers have been named fellows.
Srihari was cited foe his contrlbu1101'\S to character recognitk:Jn and
document-understanding systems.
As director of CEDAR. Srthari
supervises and conducts research
in developing methodok&gt;gtes. algonthms . sohware and hardware with
a focus on machines that can read
A member of the UB faculty since
1978. Srihan is a lelk1.Y of the tnsti·
lute of Bectrical and Electronics
Engineers and has co-authored
several U.S. patents , as well as a
book on computer text recognition
He received bachelor's degrees
en physics and mathematics from
Bangalof"e University and a
bachelor's degree in electrlcal COI'llmunicatiOO eog\neering trom the In·
dean Institute of Science, Bangak&gt;re.
He received master's and doctoral
degrees '" computer information SCI·
ence from Ohio State University.

--CEJYUIIEU'IINI- AWAJID
Sharon Green, instructor In

Women's Studies. was a recipient of
the 1996 Women Helping Women
award given by the Buffalo and Erie
County Chapter of the National Organization for Women. She received
}ler award fOf teaching ~women in
Contemporary Society, ~ through
Millard RUmore College , for 22 se·
masters, writing essays, articles
and editorials on women's issues fOf

Freshmen may IIPPIY for Howard HuJ&amp;he•
Sc:hohlnhlps; Dec. 1 .............
US freshmen . particularly women and minority students, who are con·
s1dering majoring in biOlogy are encouraged to appty for scholarships
be1ng offered thlough lhe Howard Hughes Medical Institute Under·
graduate S~ icaJ Sciences Education Program at UB.
The application deadline is Dec. 1.
The scholarships cons1st of a S500-a-semester stipend and
S3.000 lor a research projectc onducted during the summer aher the
JUnior year
From the1r hrst semester. scholars develop cJose relationships with
fac ulty mentors and parlicipate in monthly research colloquia , semi·
nars and meetings. Hughes scholars also have access to a network
of peer and faculty tutors in science and math .
During their junior year, scholars begin independent research
projects under the supervision of a facutty research advisor. In past
years. topics have ranged from research on potential therapies for
muscular dystrophy to the classification of Gorgonian corals .
The research scholarship program at US invotves the acUve par·
hc •pation ol more than 60 faculty as mentors and research adv1sors
and more than 80 undergraduates.
·
The Hughes initiauve is administered through the Department of
BIOlogical Sc18nces
Gerald Koudelka , assoc1ate professor of b1olog1cal sciences. dl·
reels the program with Ronald Serezny. chair of the Oepanment of
B10tog1ca1 Sciences.
In addition to fund1ng the scholarshtps . the $1 .5 m ilhon Howard
Hughes grant UB received 1n 1994 has supported biology·laboratory
enhancements. a new course in advanced human ~ecular genetics
lor nonsctence ma;ors and summer training fOf' local high-school SCIence teachers.
Information and apphcatoos may be obtained from the program
oH1ce at 1098 Cooke Hall. by telephone at 645--2363. by fax at 645·
2975 Of' by electronic mail by sending a message to
capOubvms.cc.buHalo.edu.

various publications and coordinat·
ing events to celebf'ate Women's

HISIOI'f Month at D'Youville College,

where she Is a reading and wr~ing
specla.Ust in the Learning Center.

stUDY HillS AIIUUS Wlftl

D!Aa'ID, ~-­
Adulls ages J0.70 with Type II diabetes mellitus, kidney dtsease and
high blood pressure are needed to
help UB researchelli evaluate 1he
safety and effectiveness of an jo..
vestigational medicine to treat dis·
betic kidney disease.
The ~year study Is being condUcted by Theodore Herman and
partners of Nep/1rology Associates
of Western New YO&lt;It. Herman Is
clinical associate pnolesaor ofn-.
cine at UB and chief of the Nephrology Section in 1he Department of
Medicine at Millard Fillmore Hospi1al.
Participants will receive free
study·related phy~l exams and
labor&amp;IOI'f, urine end EKG tests.
They will be reimbursed $575 few
t1me and travel expenses upon
completion of the study. Those inter·
ested in participating should call
Patricia A. Topolski, 882-3452.

2S NAMED TO LAW K - .

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COUNCIL

The UB School of Law has appointed 29 distinguished alumni
and friends of the school as members of its newty established Dean's

Advisory Council.
~ Council will meet twice a
year to assist the dean and faculty
in the development of pof1cies and
plans for the law school .
Council chair is Ge&lt;ald S . Uppes
reciplenl of lhe 1995 Edwin F. Jaecl&lt;le
Award, hlghesl honor bestowed by
lhe law school and the Law School
AJUIMi Association. He also il chair
of !he university's Regional A&lt;Moory
Board. a trustee of lhe Universily a1

Bunalo Foundation and a merooec of
1he President's Board of V&gt;Sitors.
Col.ncil members are: Frederick
G. Anea, Thomas R. Beechel, Hilary
P. BmdiO&lt;d, Thomas R. Bremer, N&gt;
thony J. Colucci Jr., Terrence M.

Connors. J. Mason Davis Jr., Hoo. M.
Dolores Dervnan. Richard J . Evans.
Herald Price Fahringer, Kenneth B.
Fo&lt;resl, Hoo. Paul L Friedman. Sue
S . Gardner. Hoo. Samuel L Green,
Richard E. Heath, Judith B. lnlg,
Rolland E. Kidder. Eric D. Undauer.
/W&gt;: James L t.lagavem, Cat1 J.
t.1a1tar&lt;8 Sr.. WJiiam A Niese.- WJiiam
Schapiro. Hen Rooe Hamlin Sooriers,
Jom H. ~. Jeffrey L Tanonllal&lt;n.

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wmie F. Tayi:Jr, Hoo. Michael A
Telosca. Michael R. Wollord.

Gerhenl Le"l't UB Distinguished
Professor of Pharmaceutics. has
been appointed by the president of
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(o serve as chairman of an intern&amp;·
tiona! visiting committee to review
graduate and undergraduate programs of the university's School of
Pharmacy. He will assess the
school's research programs and
WOfk with the faculty on develop·
ment plans for the school.
7 ALUMNI TO

liE-

.V SCHOOL fW N U -

Seven alumni of the UB School of
Nun;lng wiH be honored IO&lt; outstand·
ing contributions to the fiEHd of rus· ·
ing at a dimer and ceremony begiornng a1 7:30 p.m. Sa!urdey, Oct. 5, in
1he Center 1o&lt; Tomorrow.
The ceremony will be the culmi·
nation of a day-k&gt;ng celebration
marking the 60th anniversary of the
founding of the nursing school .
Those to be honored are:·
Georgia M. su-r-, B.S. '55, MS
'81 , former- of rusing lor

Patk Csnoer c:..r..... and Bullslo Paychislric Center: Michael D.
Fa1aawo. M.S. '84, D.N.S. '93, CXHliactcr oflhe lJljruse . , _ _ progran
.m msrrber of lhe New \btl&lt; State
Boord of ~'Using. Jane J. Melding, M.S.
'63, former adminlstrSY wilhlhe NY
Statei'UsingAsaociation: ~A.
Hagberg, BS '63. M.S. 'liT, former d19CtDr of Erie C&lt;u1ty Madic:al Center's
rusing progran
a longtina ECMC

.m

rusing"'*'""/W&gt;: Hazel H. Hatvey, B.S. '35,
UB associate pnolesaor of nursing
administration from 1950-75: Sharon
G. McGrath. B.S. '84 , loooder and
executive director of C.O.P.t.N.

House, a treatment lacillty lor peesons wi1h po&amp;t·traumalic: stress syndrome and/or chemical dependency:
Pamela J . May, B.S. '89, health setvices administrator lor 1he
Cassadaga Job Conte&lt;.

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Three fourth-year students at the

UB School of Pharmacy have been
awarded $1 ,000 scholarships by
lhe Women's Club Fund of 1he Columbia University College of Phar·
are
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recipients
macetJtlcal
Sciences.

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The UB Division ol Alhletics will sponsor a parade to celebrate UB's Sesgutcentemial Amiversary and Homecoming
Weel&lt;end at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
Slanr1g at 1he l.aSalo SlatiOn p8l1dng Ia. 1he ~ wiltravel
along Main SliD 1he UB SOlAh ~ Slalion p8l1dng Ia. Presidenl and Mrs. William A.~- grand IT&amp;Shals, wl be ;roo
by Buffalo Ma)« MltY::ni ~- Erie Coooly ElcecW.'e Demis
Gorski, Unillersity Dislrict C&lt;ulc:imln KeM Helfe&lt; and Miss New
York State, Tarrrny Harris, a 1996 UB grad.
The parade also will feature marching bands, including
the Cornell Universl1y and Lancaster High School Bands, the
UB Pep Band, and the Gordon Highlanders Pipe Band and
Coio&lt;guard. Former UB football AII-Amellcan, and long-time
NFL quarterback John Stela also will participate.
~ ol UB's 17 lniBroolegiale alhlelic _ , . wil march,
along wilh UB ~and spor1s lllllSCOOl Spyke (Blizzard), SabrekxJito ollhe Sabres, and Buster Bison. The~
precedes the 1-tomecorrWlg foolbal garn11 at noon _ , UB
and Cornel at UB Sladll.m on lhe North~- The giWT19 wil
be shown lille on lhe Er!1&gt;re Sports NeMorl&lt;.

e IIUUS STOP sccns 17·7
The llo.Jis pooled an~ 17-7 win fN8&lt; Edinboro Unillersity
Sah.rday righl at UB Sladll.m !hanks 1o ,., oppcrt.rlistic defense
and some geat special-teams work. The win was 1he 3Xltf1 in
school hislory and rm1&lt;ed lhe first lire lhat UB had defeated
lhe Rghiing Seas. II gave UB a 4-1 record ll1is season including
a IIYee-game winning streak, longest since 1992.
The Bulls trailed 7-0 when the Fighting Scots loOk the openIng drive eo yards for a score. Edinboro had 185 yards in the
first hall but was limited 1o just 52 after intemlission and to 29
yards of net rushing. The Bulls responded as kicker Ge&lt;ald
Carlson broke the school record by Aaillng a 54-yard fiE!Id goal
to cut the lead to 7-3. Carlson also ave&lt;aged 42.0 yards per
punt on the night, including a career-best 79-yarder.
The Bulls took lhe lead for good when quarterback Mar1&lt; Taylor hit frestrnan flanker Drew Haddad from seven yards out. II remaned lhat way untilseOOr cornerback Mike Chict'ester
stepped in front of a CIYis Hart pass and raced 51 yards dc&gt;M1
lhe near sideline to put lhe giWT19 away for the Bulls.
Senior linebacker Greig Guest broke lhe school record for
tadcles in career wilh 15 stops, IT'O'oling past '96 gred Pete
Conley. Guest roN has 384 tad&lt;les. Freshman Dan Curcione
added a career-high 13 tadcles- noseguard Keith Hansen
thad 11 tadcles, tv.&lt;&gt; sacks and a forced furllle. DefensM&gt; end
Steve McDuflie had """ furllle rec:OYeries and nine stops.

a

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e ROYALS SOCCER...,... PDT, VALPARAISO
The Royals are riding a three-game winning streak following
weekend victories aver Pittsburgh and Valparaiso. UB is now
5-3-1 CNerall. Coach Jean-A. Tassy's squad doWned Pittsburgh 6-3 Friday night in a driving wind and rain storm that
made for sloppy play at RAC FIE!Id. The Royals picked up two
goals from Kelly Starchok and a goal and a pair of assists
from Kathleen Magner in the victory.
Pitt opooed the scoring early in the first hall as Vanessa
Madison directed a shot pest UB's Joanne Chillingsworth to
give the Panthers a 1-0 lead. The Royals immediately r&amp;-

CALENDAR

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WUdlift: IDSpedion Procram
and Eaclul&lt;ftd Speda,
Margo PfohJ . U.S. Fish &amp;. Wildlife Service. 170 Millard
Fillmore Academic Ce•ter.

Ellicou. North Campus. 7:30
p.m. $20 for the series. To regis-

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ter. call 645-6800, ext. 2020.

UB Wind EDHmbte, Sarah L
McKain, conductor. Slee. Nonh

Campus. 8 p.m. $3.

uuuTbe Rock (1996). S1uden1
Union lbcater. North Campus.
9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

!'-,Lectllre
Local Voeals: Bawai'i 's Pidc:ia
U teratuR, Pe.rformarttt, aad
PoslcoloniaUty, Susan Schultz..
438 Clemens. North Campus.
12:30 p.m. Free.

J:.ocka1

PresuppositloDJ of Coo temporary Axiomat ic Metbod, John
Corcoran, Philosophy. 684
Baldy. North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

c-F8k
Tec.bak.al Job Fair. Atrium,
Cenler for the An.s. North Campus. 3-6:30 p.m. for informa-

tion. call 645-6860.

ur.-.....

You're Not Usttllial· 3:30

p.m. To register, call the Office
of Sludenl Life, 645-6125.

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JSO: A StoqukoateaAW Slide
Tbur of UB's History, Shonnie

M. F'mnegan, Archives. Center
for Tomorrow. North Campus.
7:30a.m. $10. $12. For- information. call 829-2608.

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'l&lt;dmoloalos Ia Practk&lt;:. Also

OcL II, Buffalo Convention
Center. 8 a.m.-4:30p.m. SIOS130. Sponsoi'M by UB Dental

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Alumni Assn . For information.
call 829-2061 .

HIUICia-Oa Worbbop for tbe

C010pukr CballeafiOCI N une.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. l..oeltion to be an-

oounced. Fbr information, caJI
829-3291. '

sponded as Nicole Tresino found net on a breakaway QMng
Magner he&lt; first assist ol the night
Magner gave the Royals lhe lead for good, 2- t. when he&lt;
corner kick sailed inlo the net past Pitt goalie Sarah Stout.
Starchcl&lt; th&lt;in scored her first goal assisted by Leanne Ricci.
Starchcl&lt; collected he&lt; second goal early in the second hall
on an assist by Magner. Tracay Britton added a penalty kick
goal in the half to increase the lead. UB outshot Pitt 17-10.
ChillingsWorth stopped lour shells while allowing tv.&lt;&gt; goals in
71 minutes o1 action while Mary Morgan played the final19
minutes stopping one shot and alfowlng a goat.
On &amp;may senior capiMl Lori Perillo, IMlo missed Friday's
match due to back spasms, returned lo lhe lineup scoring two
goals and adding an assist in UB's 6-0 win fN8&lt; Valparaiso.
Magner added 8 goat and""" assists while the goalkeeping tandem ol Cl1iltlngswor1h and Morgan held the Crusaders scoreless. Chitfingsworth picked up the win In goal for
UB, stopping five shells in
minutes.
Tricla DiQuattro opooed scoring on an assist from Magner.
Pe&lt;illo then scored he&lt; first of the ganne assisted by Magner.
Perillo added an assist on the Royals' third goal scored by
Dawn DelGuidice. In the second hall, Perillo netted he&lt; second of the ganne off an Allison Branca assist Magner scored
and Anna Ventresca netted the final goal of the match assisted by Gina Tatusko. The Royals are back in action Friday
when they host Colgate at 7:30p.m.

eo

....,.... c:ono.oConiltla.&amp; A..atJ-FtrTOIIIqoetism IUid Sup&lt;t&lt;Ondu&lt;tlvlty-Wbat Happens to tbe
Flux Lattke? Dr. David
Bishop. Bell Labs. 210 Na1unl
Sciencci. North Campus.
3:45p.m.

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TrL.."'IeriptioD factor AP-2: A
crltieaJ rquiator of mammaliu ~ t, Dr. Trevor
Williams, Yale Univ. 114 Hoch11elter. Non.b Campus. 4 p.m.

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Wby We Need Geod Schooil
for Ewr-y... IUid II It Poolib'e! Deborah Meter. Cen1er
forTomonow. North Campus.
4 p.m. SpoBJOmd by Oradualc:
School of Education.

Babies "jogged" along with parents Sept 29 at
annual Linda Yalem Memorial Run, which promotes safety awareness on C811'4llJS. Event was
part of UB Sesquicentennial observance.

e VOLLEYBALL

to place 24th in a 39-runner held Mane Macander was nght

Coach Bob Maxwell's Royals broke their four-match losing
streak Sapl 25 when they rallied to down St. Bonaventure in

behind at 21 :15 to finish 25th. Sophomore Lisa Reaves was
27th In 21:3 1. The meet also was scored as a dual meet The

liveij8meS at the Reilly Cente&lt;. The win mCNed the Royals to
7-9 OVIIfall. UB got strong play offensively and defensively
from ju&lt;ior middle hitte&lt; Kathy Brinkworth, who registered a
team-best 15 kills with just one hitting error and an incredible
.500 hitting percentage. On defense, stiE! had 12 total blocks.
/&gt;my Burda also tallied a doubf&amp;-double with 11 kills and
11 digs. Burda also added four service aces and four blocks.
Candi Sims had eight kills and a team-high 17 digs while
Somer Deschambau~ added 39 assists. The Royals have
three matches this weekend , a Friday night clash at Alumn1
Arena against Duquesne at 7 p.m., then UB travels to Ithaca
to face Hofstra Saturday and Cornel on Sunday.

Royals defeated Kent 28-31 . but suffered their first dual
bsses of the season falling to Ohio and Western Michtgan
The Royals are ncJIN 10-2tn d uals while the Bulls drop to 4-6
US is in two meets this weekend Fnday. they lace some of
the country's top competition in the Notre Dame lnvitatl()(lal
Saturday, UB is at the Roberts Wesleyan lnvttat!Oflal

e

CROSS COUNIRY

Both squads were in action Saturday at Kent State's Black

Squirrel Classic. racing against some of the top teams in the
Mid-American Confe&lt;ence. Both teams finished fiftll in the
five-team fteld . Chris Keenan was the Bulls' top finisher in the
men's 8K race. He finished 13th in a field of 49 runners in
27:23. Chris Bossert was 23rd in 28:01 .
In the women's race. the Royals got top pertormances
from a pair of their freshman runners. Laura Folckemer was
US's top women's finishe&lt; completing the SK course in 21 :14

e MEN'S SOCCER
The men's soccer team traveled to the Flonda Atlantic Tournament in Boca Raton over the weekend where they leU to
Florida Atlantic 3--1 and Central Flortda 7-0 UB •s now 0-9- 1
In the match against the Owls on Saturday. US's Bnan
Meyers registered the only tally for the Bulls Earher tn the
week. the Bulls dropped a 3- 1 dectsoo at St Bonaventure
Joe Mercik scored the UB goal off an asstst by Enc Adhola
Aller spendiog September on the road, the Bulls return t-one
to RAC FIE!Id whElfe thay will play ttvee consecutive matches

against the Mid-Continent Conlerence's East DMslon. UB opens
their homestand Friday aganst defendlnQ league champion Cenual Connecticut State. The Bulls face Howard Sunday afternoon

• MEN'S TENNIS
The BuUs took four of the SIX cl1ampionsh1p flights 111 last
weekend's lall "Big Four" Men's TenniS Classic. UB got Singles VICiones lrom Mike Proulx
in the B fl~ght, Wrbisono Murdono"' the C
flight and Dave PaJame in the D flight Omn
Pridgen and Andrew Garber took lhe F flight
doubles cllampionship. Of the three UB

THIS WEEK ' S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
..ww.r,Oot.4
RAC FJeld. 5 p m
Men's Soccer vs. Central Connecticut State
Alumni Alena. 7 p .m
Volleyball vs. Duquesne
Women's Soccer vs. Colgate
RAC F101d. 7:30pm
Football

vs. Cornell

Men's Soccer vs. Howard

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RAC F10td. 1 p.m

,.._,Oct.. '

University Tennts Center. 3 p .m

- -- --EIKtrospray Fourier Transform MS In the Bioaa.~~lytkal
Lab, Prof. Troy Wood . Chemis·
try. 508 Cooke . North Campus.
4p.m.

Tba:is/DisRrtation Support
Group, Barban Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register. call the Offict
of Sludc:nt Life, 645-6125.

-·-·-1

a-blre
Power Llna for Muscle Work:
Symmorpbo.is ln the. Oxyz~n
and Fuel htbways, Ewald R.
Weibel, M.D.. Unive~irlU Bern.
Butler Auditorium, Farber.
South CampUs. S p.m.

ur.-.....

T'aJ C bl for Bqinners, Ron
Ingalsbe. S p.m. To register. call

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the Office of Sludem Life, 645·

6t25.

Buclttt'DI for lbe Middle Manaaet"· Studenl Center, Harriman.
Sou1h Campus. 6-9:30 p.m .

uuuNortll By Nortllwest (1959).
Student Union 'Theater. North
Campus. 6:30 p.m. $2. $3.50.
~..-.
Rolxrt Crttlcy: A 70th Birthday Cele:bradoa.. Eileen Myles.
lnuoduccd by Robert Crecley.
Halt walls. 2495 Main St. 8 p.m.
Fn:e.

UUUFI._
'!'be Rock (1996). Studenl
Union Theater. Nonh Campus.
9 p.m. $2, $3.50.

singles champiOfls. the Bulls dtd not lose a
set to thetr opposition. Murdono took his
championship wtth a 6-1 7-6 (7-4) Win over
St. Bonaventure's Chns Wehler. Pndgen
and Garber went extras in the doubles
champiOflshtp defeating St Bonaventure's
Nate Herendeen and Mat1 Traub 9--8. tOeluding a 7-5 tiebreaker

UB Stadium. noon

Men's &amp; Wcmen's Tennis vs. Canisius

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Flrst-Onler Theories:

7

Campus. and

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- Ted Wasko. Sports lnformatiOf'l Office

!hcrt lhrough

Octobc:r.

Art.-.... -

An exhibition of an by facully
and al umni ce lebrati ng the ses·
quicenlennial opens Oct. 4 wilh
a r«eplion from 6-8 p.m. in the
Universi ty Art Gallery. Center
for the Arts , Nonh Campus. The
show, which closes Dec. I 8, in ·
eludes work by I? faculty and
23 alumni. Gallery hours are
10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday·
Saturday, and Noon·5 p.m. Sun day. Admission is free .

Art,.,.. ..,.

Work for sale by facully ani SIS
is on view Oct. 4 through Ocl.
22 in the An Depan~nt Gal lery loc:ared in the Center for the
An.s. North Campus. lbere is an
opening receprion Oct. 4 from
6-8 p.m. Regular gallery hours
~ 10 a.m.-5 p. m. Tuesday. 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.
and II a.m.-8 p.m. Sa1urdly.
Admission is free .

Aldlltecture exldbttl011
"Projects from liquid Cilies."
Mehrdad Hadighi . Sponsored by
the School of Architecture and
Planning. the exhibition can be
seen in the James Dyeu Gallery.
334 Hayes Hall on UB's South
Campus, through Oct. 5. Gallery
hou~ are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

LJCI!twellwllll
Leorwdo Drew's site-specific
install'tion "No. 45-A" was de·
signed for lhe Lightwell Gallery
in !he Center for the Arts. North

Gollllll -

-kmllllllt

Schussmeislers Ski Club is ac cepring new members-srudents, faculty. staff- until Dec
6. The club makes regular oul ings to Kissing Bridge . Holidmy
Valley. and Tamarack. Information may be obtained by slopping at rhe cl ub office, 360 Stu den! Union on the North Cam pus. or by cal ling 645-3 100

Craft w orllaMpa
K.niuing. photography, ponery.
and stained glass are some of
the craft~ you' ll begin 10 master
by enrolling in workshops offered by the Creative Craft Cen·
ter beginning the week of Oct
28 . The c~ nter is located at I 20
Fi llmore in the Ellicott Comple1
on rhe North Campus. Adult
workshops are held one night a
week for six weeks. Children 's
workshops are on Sa!unby. F«s
are $30 for sludc:nls and $50 for
others. For informalion. call
645-6125 mornings, or 6452434 afternoons and evenings.

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Starr Assistant (SL-2)-UnJVersily Art Gallery. Posling
ffP-6046 . Senior Staff Assistanl
(SL-l; lnlera.al PromotionaJ
Opportun.ity)-Aiumni Relations. Posting ffP -6049 Senior

Staff Assistanl (SL-3; Internal
Promotional Opportunlty)Aiumni Relalions. Posting
IP-6050. Staff Assistant (SL-2;
lnte.rnal Promotional Opportunity)~ffice of the Pres•dc:nt.
Posting lfP-6051

fKMity
Auistant/Auociatr{f'ull Pro-fe.ssor-Archilecture , Pos11ng
liF-5052 C liniul Anistanl
Profes.sor-Occupattonal
Therapy. Posting lfF-6051 . Assistant Librarian-Heahh Sct·
enccs Library. Posung lfF-6052
Re..ardl
Resean:b Atd~- Sponsored Progll'lms Personnel. Open. Rrsean:b Support Spe-cialist-Psy ·
chology. Posting lfR-96033 . Rrsearc:b T«hnkian li -Bio logi ·
cal Sciences. Posling lfR-96056
RHt'arc:b 'IMhniciaa 1-Biolog•cal Sciences. Posttng MR -96068
~Hive Ciaulfled

CIYII Servlce
Keyboard Specialist I (SG·
06)-Student Health Center. LIR('
•J02S7 .

. . - c taultled Civll

hrvlce
Cleaner (SG-05)-Unt\'erstty
Residence Halls. L1ne IJ4) 183
and 143185. Maintenanrt
He.lper (SG-06) -Univers!ly
Faci lilies. Lme •31 388 and
lf34618.

To obtain mo rr Information nn
jobs lwrd abovl', contart Prrsonn'l s,.rvici'S. 104 CroftJ
Hall. To obtain informtJuon on
Rn,.arrhjobs. t:Qntact Spon ·
sorl'd Prox roms Prrsonnl'l, 41 6

Crofts.

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I p.m. Sl6. S20. SlA •

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ahemooa. acsaims " CCIIIcr for
Tomorrow. Nonb Camp.. Buffalo MarrioCL 7:A3 a.m. For iDr......moa.c:all~3209.

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RPCia,_..
Molcculu Approac:bu lo Cancer TMrapeulkl. Hilleboe Au·
ditorium , Research Studies Center, RPCI 7:30 a.m. Call 8455860.

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Corpo,..lt Uoivt.nily In lbt
htformaUoa,A&amp;t• Pror. Kenrw=th Knoespc.l , Georgia Institute

or Tccbnofogy. 410 Ckmens.

Q os!YW-- u.m-o.

'Healtb Can Froatit.n Trade:
Fair. Student Union. Nonh
Campoa. 10 a. rn.-6 p.m. For information , caJ I 64.5-2768.

~-Cell.-.,

P byliolot;r aDd Patbopllyaiol00 of Loa Dneto,.N:at.
Pror. Bruce Holm, Obstc:uic:s
and Gynecoloay. 306 Farl&gt;&lt;f.
South Campus. 12:30 p.m. Free.

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Ftstlval. Sc~ nlna Room. Center ror the Arts. North Campus.
4:)(} p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Free.

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T'al CbJ for ~Jt&amp;Uaaen, Ron
Ingalsbe:. S p.m. To register, call
the Office of Student Lire. 6456125.
~LMD..

Noa~Ap­

proecbet to tM Pr-tvotioa

"""Muoce-ot oro..

Quality llllprovtiiDOot·Eahuclaa Outco.a.. Student
Center, Harriman. South Cam·
pus. 6-9:30 p.m.

CA RL: Tbt At0111k ~loa of
• Fret El«troo Lutr, Pror. N.

Bigelow, Univ. or Rochester.
210 Natural Sciences. Nonh
Campus. 3:43p.m.

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Novel Alptdl of RNA. B~o&amp;t-a ·
eslJ Rtvtakd By Studyllla the
Ro ud t. A.utoutllflll.,
Or. Sandra Wolin. Yale Univ.
114 Hochstener. North Campus.
4p.m.

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Poteat£.1 EDtrc SurfKtt for

Cbaaic:al Rtac:doDJ from Gu

Pbu&lt;O,..._IcstoHDeOUt Catalysis. Pror. Keiji
Morokuma, Emory Univ. 306
Natural Sciences. 4 p.m.
........ I:IHtlce . . . . . . . .

Neural Co•pat.taa: Allllltroductioa.. Jogano Oobbwu,

Pharmaceutics. SQ8 Cooke.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

Life-....

Tbais/1)'-utAUoa Suppor1

Group. B&amp;lbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register, call the Office
or Student Life. 645.6125.

~-··­

The History or lod&lt;potld&lt;at
Film ud Vldm Makiaa i.D

WNY. Scrcc:nina Room, Center
ror the Ar1s. Nonh C.mpus.
4:30p.m. Free.

---··Tbt Buffalo .. Home Mov~·

..._..,.._.~,.

nc

--Piltac~'s,

l'lllloeoploJ
CoudouJDttt aad tbt MindBody Prob~m, Junkhi Murata.

....,_Col.........

ru ot Studena Ufe.. 645-6125.

-

Student Union.

North Campus. 10 a.m.-DOOO.
Caii64S-23S3.

- c : -...
.._....

Univ. or Tokyo. 684 Baldy.
Nonh Campus. 3:30p.m.

.... _......,

$12. $14.

SESQUI 8ALA: p.,_ DMCe ~-Tile lily TIIYIOf Trio.,....-..,. fDr
"Step Into My llfNm," the cl8nce- 1- ...,.,.._~the UB - . , . - 1
a.r. Oct. 4 on the Mlolnsta&amp;e In the c-. fDr the Arte.

ttop011111i1, Dr. Beu DawsonHughes. Katharine Cornell The·
ater. North Campus. 6 p.m.

-

S llaapi-La Cblaae Acrobalo.
Rockwell Hall. Buffalo State:
CoUcge. 7:30p.m. SlO, $12.

Co-sponsor&lt;d by WBFO.

~-·­

Music Aluaal Coacort. Perfonnen include the Amhent
Suopboo&lt; Quartet. soprano
Laura Aikin, bullst James
Vandenwt, tbe CastcUaniAndriaccio auit.ar duo, pianist
Anthony dcMae, and the UB
Wind Ensemble and Choir conducted by Sarah McKoin. Slce .
Nonb Campus. 8 p.m. S4. SS.

$8. SJO.

----

Trau. . ~Uoa: A. New
Tnuaa VKdat:, Martin
EichelbetJer, M.D.• Oeoi'Jt
WuhinJton Urtiv. Kinch Auditorium, ChildR:n's Hospital.
8a.m.

. . . . tr ......... lveM
Doa the ladyMBIUr1 Sym·
poaiurn oo frontiers of knowl-

ed,e in rwure. IOciely and culture. Ske. North Campus.
8: 1$ a.m.~ : 30 p.m. Free:.

III'CI.,__

_..__,_

MolealarA~ to Caactr 'l'btrapfttka. Hilleboc: AudilOrium, Research Studies Center, RPCI. &amp;:30 a.m. Call 84S-

SI60.

E• ..._.,... the Procltoclloa or
Epflllelloload M_..yooal
.......lalbyla.oer-.,IEp~

lbelll: l•plicaHou for tbt
llA&gt;Ie or HEllS 1a 1a1t1a1
Ct..atatoaaalt, Dr. Dieter D.
Bouhardl, Un.iv. or Montreal .
2 1S Foster. South Campus.
Noon.

...

_,~

M&lt;laiC....._Moltlpl&lt;
Boacb,Boed--

.............. -or.Polar
....... Pro!. Gennl Parkin. eo.
lumbia Uaiv. 21$ Natural Scic:oces. North Campus. 4 p.m.

....................
._

...................

Art~ llaculty"""
AJ....U Its......... Univenity
Al1 GaJlery. Cc:ruer for tbc Arts.
N&lt;&gt;rth Campus. 6-8 p.m. .....
Opeoina rocep0on. Thn&gt;uab

Dec. II. Galletybounl0:30

Lm.·8 p.m. Wednetday-Saturday; Nooo·S p.m. Sunday.

UUAaJ ... Eyre (IJM). Student
Union Theater. Nonh Campus.
6:30 and 9 p.m. $2. Sl.SO.

_.._.

The PatJooloPcallaponU.e:
or wut 1o • 11oc1y Capobl&lt;!.
Dr. Sanford Kwintc:r. 1996
Cla.rbon V11itina OWr. Butler
Audhorium. Farber Hall. South
Campus. 7 p.m.

.....................

-

VB: ~ Mov~ Screeninz

Room. Center for the: Arts.

NonhCampus. 7:30p.m. Free.

Royals VL Colple Ua.iv.

Soceer F'teld. North Campus.
7:30p.m. Free.

..............
_....,

~

All ....... 2 D;c!endorf. South
Campus. 8-11 p.m. F,.... SpooSOfed by Graduate Student
Associadoa.

a •' allta••l., 1veat
PanoaiO..C.C-paayOAd

Cub"" Slloc:k OAd C......Cultura1AdaplalloaSidllo.ll4
RJcbmood. Nonh Campus. 4
p.m. Rc:Jistration is rcqueSled;

-·- ---_......,

Solutioa-Focaed laterwa-

llq ..... I!8Mloul Dflll&lt;ulties, Mary McHugh. Dacmc:n
CoUezc. SSS; students $40.
Sponson:d by Social Wort Continuinz Education. For inronnation. call 64S-6140.

~-·­

'l"ri.eaJulat.ia&amp; tbe BodJtt of
Ardlittct:ure. Assn. of Collegiate Schools of Architectun:.
Nonbeut ReaiooaJ Mcetinz,
hosted by UB Scbool of Architecture: and Ptannina. Throuah
Oct. 6. Buffalo Marriott Hotel
and other sites. Foe information.
ca11 829-3483, at. 223.

L ......... c...taart (1916IJM). Slce. Nonb Campus.

3 p.m.

-

........_.DewrfiJ

nt

T ecUicol Dota JWisoaao,
Thoaw J. Piro and Lawreaco S.
Micbalec Jr. Ceatc:r for Tomar~
row. Nortb Campus. 8:15-11:30
Lm. $60. Spc&gt;IIIOml by the
Wcotenl New Yorlt T&lt;dulolal}'
DcvdopmctU Celdcr. For ialor·

,_~-.To

_......,

Alcolooload CocoiM Addfotlotl,lloaald Bala. Spc&gt;IIIOml

~==:=J!~

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~-­

torium, RPC't. 12:30 p.m.

lege. S3S. To n:Jistc:r, call 6456140.

-

T he Stnxtunlllub forProt&lt;la Klaue Speclllcfly, Prof.
Lewis C. Cantley, Harvard
Medical School. Butter Audiw.
rium. Fasber. South Campus.
4p.m.

M.U'K ud p53, Gocqe P.
Vude Woudc. Pb.D•• N..._..
Caaocr lnstiwte. Hillcboc Audi-

~­
~

- c . . · t Will, lkd It
C.. Draw, Eric. Dietricb.

SUNY Bina)wnton. 2liO Pod:.

_.....,.

Life-....

North Campuo. 2 p.m.

-

J...awrace ltlld.. Univc:nil)' An
Gai~ery. c..... r.. the""'·
N&lt;&gt;rth Campuo. 4 p.m. Fme.

Coaatry llaaciq,
Wtlliam Miller. 7 p.m. To n:Jis.tc:r, call tbe Office of Student
UUAa
_
_
urc. 64S-612S.

nwt A--. Mainstq:c:, Cc:oltt
for tbe Arts. Nortb Campus.
8 p.m. SI6.SO. S20.SO. S24.SO.
S26.SO.

----

Life-.... '-a&lt;
......-...Sip

Saalaar. 3:30 p.ai. To repster.
ca11 the otr... or Studeat ur•.
64S-612S.

.... _......,
Abood-

WUt 1!_,- Sllould Kto&lt;n•
a Eurdao. s :30

_...,._..,

p.m. To n:Jistcr, call the Office
of Student Ufe, 645-6125.

w-...·.u.,.
Rc:~

-

T h&lt;npeutle Toucb. ~
10 be ......need. Allo Oct. 16.
23. 6-9:30 p1m. PreseniCd by
School of Nun.in&amp;. For informa·

sic::s V Banquet Facilil)', 24:23

lion. call 829-3291.

Nt.pra falls Blvd, Amhctst.

UUAaNorllallyNorlla-(1959).
Studellt Unioo Tbc:aler. North
Campuo. 6:30 p.m. S2. Sl.SO.

!lUNY ........ Slote. ........,_
blymaa Sam llo)'t. EmerilUI
board mcetin.&amp; at I p.m. South

...._......,

-- --.......... Goodyear. South Campu.J. 2 p.m.

An

sk::t: V Banque1 Paciliay, 2425
Nia&amp;an Fallt Blvd., Amberst.
I a.m.~S p.m. ~73. For
inlonnaJ.ioa. calll29-2202..

deat Urc. 64H12S.

- ........

Vilitinz OWr. 301 Crosby.
Soulh Campus. S:JO p.m.

dale.Offct&lt;dthn&gt;uablhe
Niepn FallJ-bucd Waae Resource Auoc:Wes lac. ud
MiUanl F~l..... CoLJeae. Clu-

Life--.

8 a.m.-S p.m. $200-$373. Also
Oct. 9. For iDformation. call
829-2202.

s p.m. Frte.

,..........

--...·.u.,.

,.lis=. call lheOific:eofSbo-

Millan! pm,... Collea&lt;. Clu-

-~
Sufonl
Kwlatu. Clarbon

-mation. call 6)6.3626.

throu&amp;h the
Ni.apra Falls-based Wute
IOW'Ce Auociases lDc. and

BuJ .. VL CtDtral CO&amp;D«tkuL
Soccer Focld. Nonh Campus.

o-~o~Yfor ...........
7 p.m. Tb repscer. caiJ the Ofrscc: of Student Ure. 645-6125.

C ........ llaoScopoorl'lloJ:.

Facutty Artlsb: A FUDd-nber.

An Department Gallery, Center
for the Arts. Nonb Campus. 6-8
p.m. Free. Opc:nina reception.
Thn&gt;Uah Oct. 22. Gallery bou&lt;1
10 a.ra..-3 p.m. Thcsday; 10
a.m.-&amp;p.m. WcdDCiday~ Friday;
II a.m.-8 p.m. Sa!urday.

A Cd&lt;brBlfoD or the Lif• or

Eoo.........

lioDI for Clalldrea Wbo

-la--S&lt;t-

Proc.

...... Offct&lt;d

Uavt:UiDa UB'• Brout Buffalo. Alumni Arena. Nonh Campus. S p.m.

10 p.m. To reJiJtc:r. cell tbc: Of.

-- -----B uill n. Boward Ualv. Soccer
Field North Campus. I p.m.

,..........

call64S-2no.

_u,~. w.n:

CoodoL I p,m. To,..;-. coli
ur.. 645612:1.

.... Oftlco of Studcat

U 8 .... n. Conell. Univer·
uty Stadium. Nortb Campus.
Noo.. Coli 64H666.

sa.

""EYaloa or~ w1111

Traulatkm. John Felsliner.
Armand Schwc.mer. Also,
Jerome Rothenbera. DeMis
Tedloclr:. Rly Federman. 420
C.pen. North Campus. 12:30
p.m. Free.

Col._...

10

Lm.-- .
SIO. $12. For
iut......moa. call829-2608.

u

North Campus. 9:30a.m.

\h-.--~-

NM~~Compu.

................ Alumni
AJona. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m.

Border Db putts: Commuaicah---~·­
tions, Commtrus1!! aod Cu.J-

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.,..,.....,,....

cloatllfe.~I2S.

-~lp.a.

ud l"rab.ntt ol
Addldod CU..Io Willi l'wnoeollty Dloorilon, Dr. Nancy
Smyth. Sponsorul by lnstitute
for Addictions Studies and naln·
tng. WCA Hospital, Jamestown.
$60. To reaister, cai i64S-6140.

-

I

~-....~

~

\

C~.._,...7p.m.To

...-.......... omcoor-

--.....-. ......
M I.
.... _......,
t

Mala ud Henclto ....... Hall
oa the Soadl Campu&amp;. 9 a.m.

_......,

turu: A Symposium . 120
C lemens . North Campul . 9

--...

6-9:30p.tll.

N...... t. lllelltt Catwy: A

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_.........,.

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Campus. II :30 p.m. S2. Sl.SO.

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M. Scllte.- UoiY. 2A4

......
....
--.._
.............

c......_-.lamvt.

Mystery rlOII!lllst l.awlence
Block gives a reading Oct.
9 814 p.m. n Universlfy
Gallery, Center for the Arls.

,_..,Prof. Mdaavan P. Nair,
Modicincud ~. 306
Pod:cr. South Campus. 4 p.m.

-~

The 3-Sipo Rule, Dr. Thomu

_,. Pnctlce, Lawreaco
Mokbibcr. U.O Fedo&lt;. Lcoaud
Feld. Miehael CUnino. c.r.. Tomorrow. Nortb Campus.
7 p.m. Free.

Continued on page 7

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UINIYERSITY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Yorlt

September 2S 1996 Volume 28 , No. 5

Sesqui at high point
Planners bring major events to campus
or - - - - - -- ,------""T=-.,

. , CIIRISliNE VIDAL

Reporter Editor

Y

EARS OF pl an ning
wilh come to a high
point in October as the
univers ity ce lebrates
the !50th anniversary
of irs founding. While UB's sesquicentennial observance actuall y
began laSI J anuary a nd
conlinues through the
1997 commencement
ac1ivi1ies. 1he co ming
weeks will see the grea1- ~tk:a- tR
es1 concen trarion or events that
have been planned to commemorate 150 years or academi a in
Buffalo.
The celebrdtion has required
lhe long, palienl and lhoughlful
efforts of many people. particularly lhe co-chairs: Barbara Bono.
Carole Smilh Perro and Claude
Welch.

!,fj(l

named provost.

Bono.

a lso

ap-

Planning Co m ·

The duration or their involvement has diffe red somewhat , but
they all agree: a tremendou s
amount or planning has gone into
the sesquice ntennial ce lebration.
Petro, associate vice president
for University Services. has been
co-chair or the Sesquicentennial
Pla nning Commiuee s ince the
group was appoinled by Presidenl
Greiner in Ocrober I 993. Thomas

de,_.

presented to Irving H. Freedman.
SUNY vice c hancellor for capi·
tal faci lities and general manager
of the State University Construction Fund. Freedman has helped
s hape th e construction of the
North Campus, one of lhe largeSI
construclion projects in Western
New York hi srory.

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Also 10 be honored are four
UB faculty members recen tl y
SUNY HONOiiARY
named a SUNY Disringuished
will be presented to two commuProfessor and UB facull y and
nity leaders and long-time supstarr members who earlier thi s
porters of UB , and I he Presidenl's
year were named recipients or the
Medal wi ll be prese nled 10 a
SUNY Chancellor's Award for
SUNY official instrumenlal in
excellence in the areas or teachconsrruction of I he North Campus
ing. librarian-ship and professional service. They will be
recogni zed by Interim
SUNY Chancellor John W.
Ryan and UB Presiden1 William R. Greiner.
The convocation will
open with an academic procession. and be declared
open by Claude E. Wel ch.
SUNY Distinguished SerSEYMOUR H. KNOX 111 NORTHRUP ~. KNOX vice Professor and chair of
the Faculty Sen:He, who will
at the 1996 University Convocabe macebearer.
lion a1 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Ocr.
Gr-tlqa will be offered by
2. in 1he Center for lhe Arts.
Grei ner. Closing remarks will be
A SUNY honomry doc1ora1e in
presented by ProvoSI Thomas E.
humane letters will be presented
Headrick.
lo Northrup R. Knox and a SUNY
Frederic V. Salerno. immedi honorary doctorate in humane letate paSI chair of 1he SUNY Board
ters will be conferred pOsthu or Tru s te es. will b e keynote
mous ly on hi s brother. lhe !ale
speaker at the convocation. being
Seymour H. Knox Ill.
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Honorary degrees, medal
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Headrick . I hen
special counsel to
the presi dent . also
was appointed cochair, a position in
which he served
until he was

quicentennial
ce lebrar ion .
Salerno is president a nd chief ex ec ul ive officer o f NYNEX.
The co nvocation also will feature the pre miere or a musica l
composition , "Celebration," by
Lukas Foss dedicated to the uni versity on the occasion of its sesConrinued on page 2

mittee in 1993. and Welch were
named co-chairs along with Petro
when Headri ck stepped down .
Philip Wel s. c hair of 1he UB
Council. is honomry chair.

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hile three years ma y
ha ve see med like more
than eno ug h time to
plan, there were a lot of details to
be decided. " Whe n you· re planning three years out. there 's a tendency to delay a little. but eiTons
really picked up steam about a
year ago," Petro said.
The theme, Fro ntiers. was selected early on. A decision was
made 10 concentrule lhe sesqui ~
cenlennial ac1ivi1ies around the
universiry 's fall convocation. And
plans were made for the academic
symposium.
"Carole had a s1rong sense or

Good Morning, America
Students and staff get into the sesquicentennial sp1rit dunng the

filming of spots highlighting US's 150th b1rthday for ABC's
"Good Morn1ng Amenca • and the local "Good Morning Western
New York" on WKBW-TV Channel 7 That's Dennis A Black. associate v1ce president tor student affa1rs and dean of students.
front and center, 1ead1ng the participants 1n the Student Union

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Faculty must provide 'core leadership'
for UB to realize its mission, Greiner says
By SUE WUETCHER

News Serv1ces Assoc1ate 01rector

B FACULTY musr provide the core leadership in
order ror the uni vers it y to
overcome the realities or
life in New York State and forge
ahead into the 21st cenrury. Pres ident William R. Greiner told an
audience or about 200 Tuesday at
his an nual address to the voting
facully.
·The o nl y way we will go forward is if th e fac ulty of thi s insti tution are as committed to it as
they are to their disciplines and
their own careers." Greiner said.
" We have to ha ve mutuality or
commi tment ; we need that from
ou r staff, we need it from our students and our al umni, but we especially need it from our faculty.
We have to be lhe leaders for lhis
institution; it can not be the president, the provost, the admini stration ... we have to, as colleagues,
go forward. The facully have 10
provide the core leadership."
UB's mi ssion is well -defined,

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Greiner sa id. "Our prob lem is
how do we realize our mission
under c urrent and fu ture ci rcumstances?"
Usi ng a se t or overhead s lides.
he set "t he con tex t in which we
find o ur selves in New Yor L
State ." He s tressed that while
some of the ·•vit a) signs•· he QU I lined cou ld a ppear negat ive.
man y provide oppo rtuniti es for
the universi ty " to make le monade
rrom lemons ."

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e pointed ou t tha t alt ho ugh
the state's population is projec ted to grow at a slower rare
than that or other stales. it still will
experience significant growth in
the traditional cadre from which
t.he university draws its first-time.
full-lime fre s hmen . And lh e
working-age population also will
need more "support education ...
suc h as training and re train ing
programs.
.. Even tho ugh the growlh is
slow here in New York , I think
there 's slill an opportunity because
the markets of people we serve for

~:ducation

wi ll grow." he said.
G rei ner noted that almost 18
percent orNe" York's collegeage populauon an end~ college out
of Male ," it h many young peop le!
deciding to 'it:lllc where thq go
to school.
··r thinl the State of Ne" YorL
should WOrT) ubout thai: th &lt;H·~ an
ind 1cator of a bra1n drain. " he
sa1d. po1n1mg ou1 th ai man y of
these are better-than average !tiU·
denb who are lea vmg the sw re to
aHend pubhc un1versitie!'oo. rather
than elite private :-.c hooh. he sa1d.
.. What ':-. th e oppo rtun1t )
here ?'" he asked . " We ough t to be
out on the Thruway. all or u~. nag gi ng their cars as the y head to
Mic hi gan. 'No. no. turn nght.
there' s a Big 10 ahematlve nght
here in New York State at Ne"
York prices· ."
"We o ught to be able to tum
that (brain drain) around. To do
that. we're going to have 10 do
some things about relative prioriConunued on page 2

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Continued from page 1
quicenlennial. h will be perfonned by lhe
UB Wind Ensemble and UB Choir. A sesqui cenl ennial poem wriuen by Irving
Feldman, SUNY Dislinguished Professor
10 lhe UB Departmenl of English and a poe!
of national distincljon, will be read by him.
The family of Northrup R. Kno• and lhe
lale Seymour H. Kno• Ill has had a long,
di stinguished relationship with UB. In
19 16. th eir grnndmother, the late Grace
Knox. assured the future of the ans and

sc ie nc e s at UB by e s tabli s hing the
umversit y's fi rst endowment. in memory

of her husband, Seymour H. Knox I.
Their son, Seymour H . Knox II, was a

founding member pf the UB Council. He
served as chair of the council and chai r

emeritus for more than 40 years.

Hi s
son s,
Northrup R. and
the late Seymour

H. Ill, have carried on the famil y tradition of

Ule a.,-r H.

8Qox Foun-

da~ion.

ey have supported arts education,
higher nd. secondal}' eflu.calion , human
services recreatioh . and O.:itOiife preserva-

tion and protection organizations . The
foundation has generously supported special cultural events and artistic exbibitions
ot UB. as well as many charitieS and cultural institutions in the eastern U.S.
The. Knox brothers also have been .active in the life of the university.
Seymour H. Kno•lll . who died in May,
was a member of the UB Arts Advisory
Council. His wife. Jean , continues as a

member of lhe University Founders.
Northrup R. Knox is a member of !he
Presidenl's Board ofVisilors, a member of
lhe Uni versily at Buffalo Foundation Board
ofTruslees and served as national chair of
the university's Pathways to Greamess
Campaign. He aod his wife, Cella. are
members of the University .founders.
Also lo be honored during lhe program
are four faculty members who lhis spring
were named a Dislinguished Professor, the
highesl facully rank in lhe SUNY syslem,
by 1he SUNY Board of Truslees.
They are SUNY Dislioguished Service
Professors Saul Elkin, professor of lheatre
and dance, and James P. Nolan, professor
of medicine, and SUNY Dislinguished
Teaching Professors Perry Hogan, professor of physiology. and Kennelh F. Joyce,
professor of law.
ThoM ....... ~eel for receiving
Chancellor's Awards for excellence are:
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Teaching: Christina L. Bloebaum, assislanl
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering: Joseph A. Gardella Jr., professor of chemistry and biomaterials; Francis
M. Gasparini, professor of physics and aslronomy: Gerald B. Koudelka, associale
professor of biological sciences; James R.
Meindl, professor of organization and human resources. and Joseph R. Naliella, professor of oral palhology.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Librarianship: JeanS . Decker, head oflhe
serials clllaloging section for lhe UB. Li-.
braries. and Donald K. Hartman. coordinajor for on-ljne seryift~ and associate librarian in Lockwood' Memorial L:ibrtiry
Reference and Colleclion Developmenl
Departmenl.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Professional Service: Peter G. Avery. in structional .support technic ian in the Departmenl of Geology; Dennis R. Black. associate vice president for student affai rs
and dean of students; Henry J. Durand.
executive director of the Center for Academic Development Services. and Joseph
P. Lane. associate director of the Center for
Assistive Technology.

GREINER
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ties in New York State, includin.g relative
priorities within SUNY. That's a problem
for New York; I thi nk that's an opportunity
for us," he said.
An additional "opportunily for UB" is an
increase in the immigrant poJ&gt;\IIation in New
Yorl&lt;., which, Greiner said. UB is in a greal
position to rake advanl.3ge of because of it5
lop inlemational programs and diverse facuhy.
Greiner stressed that New York is last
among the states in higher education expenditures as a percentage of all state/local government expenditures. "New York does ]lave
problems in 1enns of public spending ... bull
don'llhink public higher education has been
a major contributor to that," he said.
"We know New York has got to rein in
spending and keep taxes down . But it
doesn't have to continue to do that by try ing to thoughtlessly, with no strategic planning. continue to nickel and dime higher
education. That's what we 're down to now.
There are no dramatic amounts of money
to be swept out of higher education. To put
it into the vernacular ofb.udget cutters. there
isn '1 much fal lefl in 1he SUNY syslem lo
be cut out."
In laldng advanmge of !he opportunilies
that he outlined. UB must measure what it
does in lerms of qualily, ralher !han quanlily.
Greiner said. He added !hal UB. given ilS size,
probably has too many programs and should
do more consolidating and collaborating.

Greiner also noled !hal UB should:
• Mark itself as an institution noted for
superlative undergraduate education. "the
place where lhe besl and mosllalenled sludents come and we train them ."
• Mainlain ilS undetgraduale enroll men!
and expand ilS pos1-bacealaurea1e programs
allhe masler's level. "In lhe2l slcenlury,lhe
traditional baccalaureateedocation won't be
near enough for mos1 people and UB ough1
to get out in front of the curve."
• Move up greally in 1he Na1ional Research Council ratings.
• Develop more research centers.
• Increase lhe use of lechnology.
• Increase the quality of s1uderi1 life.
include building more student housing on
campus using more creative ways.
• Expand .and differc;ntiate revenue
sources. including bringing more out-ofstate students. at a higher tuition, to UB .
Greiner said lhal while UBdoesn'l inlend
10 ask !he slale 10 significantly increase funding. "Whal I lhink we should be saying is
don'llake any more oul and lhink in letms
of how you can help us rebuild ourselves.
"And we have to have a faculty that will
help us with this and be leaders on campus
while we try to make that case ofT campus.
We've got 10 have !hal oommittnenl and leadership, especially from lheseniorfacuhy, if we're
going 10 do what llhink we should do, which is
10 realize our mission and vision."
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Cast members tell UB what it's like
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neee~sarily mirror whal ac,tually goe• on.
All bad 10 adjust lo lhe reality of living
his is lhe true story about Julie,
wilh camet11S filming !hem day in and day
Joe and Healher, who were
oul. "AI f11Sll was really self-&lt;:onscious,"
picked lo live in a house wilh
said Julie.
toull s1rangers, and whal hap"You never know how muCh you cherpened when !hey slopped being
ish your privacy until you have a camera
nice and started getting real.
in your face all lhe time," said Joe. He
Real, as in MTV's "The Real World."
added lhallhe guys' shower in lhe Miami
Julie, Joe, and Heather, former cas1 memhouse was "the only off-limilS place, so lhal
bers of MTV's hil show oow in its fourth seawas where we'd all go" for privacy.
son, came 10 UB Sept 19 foriWO shows in !he
ven deliberale atlemplS 10 be alone
$1~1 U)liQo. ~!hey~ erJ!bus¥it : .
~re lhwJU1ed, sometimes accidenaudiences WJuit II was liki 10 be on !he show;
ially by llie caS! membeii lhen!selves.
and what's happened in !heir lives since.
Joe once wenl 10 a pay phone 10 have a
-A! diffen:nt .as !hey 1ln&lt;, tbe.y·lllnded l&gt;ll . p&amp;.late cohvorsa!K.t~ lie sai!l..:then for&amp;Ol
lhe popular show lhe same way-on a fluke.
to tum his microphone off. Producers even" I had anlS in my panlS 10 get out of lhe
lually !aped lhe on/off swileb 10 lhe "on"
Soulh," said Julie, a native of Alabama and
position. eliminating even that option.
a member of lhe f11Sl season's New Yorl&lt;.
Asked l!y the I!Udience .whal was eoing
casl. "I was enrolled ioc&lt;!lle&amp;e sludying !he- · 10 happen on an upeoming show, ·Joe
a1er and dance, flunlcing oul of everything,
smiled and said, "You' ll see." Their conand heard aboul lhe auditions on lhe radio
lraclS prohibil.Cil;t mer,nbers froG!~
while driving-fi(,me for Chtfsti.las break."
aooul lhe stiows before !hey air, be said.
She auditioned, along wilh "every hillbilly
Bullhal didn 'l prevenl him from giving his
you ever beard of," bul didn '!lake il particu- opinion aboul a eouple of cast members.
larly seriously. "I was so nonchalanl lhal I
"Flora, you lhink she's really bad, bul she's
didn't even bocher to attach a resume."lben
worse !han she seems." And Melissa, who
!he phone rang. '"We' re looking for Julie:
is portrayed as really swee1? "I dever wanl
!his is MTV,' and I was, like, 'Yeah, righ~ '"
10 see her again far !he rest of my life."
she said. Bul lhe offer lo live in New Yorl&lt;.
The lake on MTV wasn'l all !hal Oanerand be on !he first season of !he show was
ing eilher. Asked aboul Pedro. a member of
real. "II was hard lo go back 10 sehool !hal
!he San Francisco cast who had AIDS and
second semester when I was thinking, has since died, Heather snapped. "II was sick
'Damn, I'm going 10 New Yorl&lt;.."'
and palhelic. They cast him on lhe show
Joe, a business owner and former eollege
knowing what was going 10 llapf¥n 10 him."
RA, said he found oul aboul auditions on lhe
Julie was equally acerbic. "They'rejusl
lnlemel and senl his !ape as ajoke: "A friend
bloodsuckers." Cas!_members are jusl
of mine who owned a cameorderpullhe fOOlaboul money lo MTV, she .added.
age 1ogelher. I said SlUpid sluff like, 'This is
While MTV used 10 pay full freigb~ !he
my sofa and lhese are my walls' ." He admost recenl cast had lo earn !heir keep. The
milS, "II was only somelhing lo do beeause
New York cast lived in !heir upscale loft for
we were bored." Then !he call came. "You
13 w&lt;dcs, all expenses paid. ''NOI only wen:
gOl i~ you' re on "The Real World." Pack your
we given a check at !he end of each week, we
bags and gel down here in a week." Joe was
wen: also given money fa' food and spendchosen 10 be a part of !he Miami cas! of '"The
ing." said Hea1her. "I guess MTV learned from
Real World," which is currently-being aired.
ilS mislake: we lried 10 milk !hem for everyealher didn 'l know
aboul
lhing we could" Joe said !hat he and his cas1
the .search for a cast until
weren'l paid until lbe 22 weeks of filming
a mend dragged her along wilh him 10
were complete. 1bey did this so that we
!he audilion--&lt;lnd she was chooen. '1just had a
would be forced 10 aclively .earch for
simple life going. !hen I moved in10 lhe (New
jobs-! guess 10 make !he show more real."
York) loll. Prople ask why'd I do il? II was free,
SludenlS in the audience asked aboul the
il was just free," she said. Today she'sa!1!&lt;Xllllshow !hal reuniled cas! members from preing artisl wilh EMl Ra:mls.
vious seasons. "Heather and I initially
Conlnlry 10 lhe show's name, lhings aren'l
lhougbt of blowing !he whole lhing off, bul
always as !hey appear on '"The Real World,"
il ended up being a 101 of fun," Julie said.
according 10 !he lhree cast members.
Joe resides in New York and is lOUring !he
Part of li ving in lhe MTV Real World
counlly. Healher also lives in New York. where
house included weekly inlerviews wilh each
she owns a hair and barber salon. She's set 10
casl member where producers ask questions
leave Sept 28 fa' an East-West Coast Rap Tour.
inlended lo elicil a particular response. "And
Julie'sallllinuing herdaru Sludy and living in
!hey edil like mad," added Julie. lnlerviews
California wilh a former cast member.
and inleraCtioo wilhin !he house are blended
Herschele
Melson
conlribuled
lo
this
stO&lt;y.
1ogelher 10 creale a new realily lhal doesn 'I
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I~ scholars here Oct. 4 for 'Does the Body Matter?' ·
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HE RELATIONSHJP between
consciousness and the body will
be the focus of " Does the Body
Matter?," a sesquicentennial academic symposium on frontiers of
knowledge in nature, society and
culture 10 be held from 8: IS a.m.
10 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, in
,r-:
Slee Concert Hall on the North

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Campus.

"The appeal of ~ topic is that it eros;..
so many of the disciPlines of the arts and
sciences ... said Charles Stinger, associate
dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and
professor of history. "People in computer
science or biology or literary and film studies will find the whole matter of interest"

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The symposium will bring together internationally 'known scholars, including Nobel
laureate Gemld Edelman, to discuss the mindbody topic from diverse disciplines, including neuroscieoce, genetics, philosophy, computer science and cultural studies. II will be
free and open to the public.
James Bono, associate professor. Departments of History and Medicine, and a
member of the medical school sesquicentennial committee. tlllplained that western
culture has long assumed that there is a
duality between the mind and the body, and
Lhat the mind is superior.
However, new perspectives on the physical properties of the brain raise the possibility that consciousness is closely interrelated with the body. Research into comput·
ers and artificial intelligence also rai ses
questions about the nature of the mind.
These issues affect how people view themselves in politics. literature and culture.

n addition. "it's a provocative subject that
will stimulate considerable disc ussion
and debate," said Stinger, who is chair
of the Sesquicentennial Universi ty-wide
Programs Committee.
Edelman received the Nobe l Prize in
Physiology or Medici ne in 1972 for his
research on antibodies. He also has made
significant research contributions in the
fields of biophysics, protein chemistry, cell
biology and neurobiology.
He has wrillen three books, N•ura/ Dar·
winism, The Rememberttd Preunt, and
Bright Air. Brilliant Fi~. outl ining a theory
called neuronal group selection 10 explain
the development and organization of hi gher
brain functions.
Edelman is the director of the Neurosciences Institute and the president of the
Neurosciences Research Foundation. He
also is chainnan of the department of neu·
robiology at the Scripps Research Institute.
The symposium's other distinguished
presenters are:
• Katherine Hayles, a professor of English at the University of California at Los
Angeles, who writes about the bodily ba-

The appeal of this topic is

that it crosses so many of
the disciplines of the arts
and sciences.
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sis of knowi ng in r~lation to cultural con·
texts and changing technologies. Her published works incl ude Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature
and Scienu.
• Bruno Latour, a major fi gure in the
world of science studies. who is a profes·
so r at the Cen tre de Sociologic de
I' Inn ova tion at the Eco le Nationale
Su~rieure des Mines in Paris. His books
include Laboratory Ufe: The Constmcnon
ofSci~n tific Facts and We Haw• Ne\'t&gt;r Been
Modern .
• Ri chard Lewontin . A lexa nder
Agassiz Professor of Zoology and professor of biology at Harvard Universi ty. He is
the author of Not in Our Get1u: Biology.
Ideology, and Human Nature and Biology
as ld•ology: The Doctrine of DNA . and is
also a frequent contributor to The New York
Review of Books .
• Margaret Lock. a medical anthropologist, who is a professor in the Depanments
of Anthropology and of Social Studies of

Paula,.partying and a pre-game parade-plenty to
please the crowd at ParentsiHomecoming Weekend
sored by the Office of Student Life. there will
be escorted tours of campus si tes. incl uding
the Center for the Arts. Fisk Organ in Slee
Concert Hall and the Phannacy Museum and
Apothecary, leaving from the Student Union at
9:30and !0:30a.m. An open house is set for 10

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HOMECOMING parad e on
Main Street, a prC-game tent
p_arly foll owed by a football
game between UB and Cornell
University and a comedy night
with Paula Poundstone. all on Sal- ~
urday, Oct. 5, wi ll hi ghlight this
year's Parents/Homeco ming
.~
Weekend , Oct. 4-6.
The Division of Athletics is re· i~ u'
introducing a homecoming parade
as part of its celebration of the university's
sesquicentennial.
Starting at 9 a.m. at the LaSalle rapidtransi t station, it will proceed on Ma in
Street to Allen Hall on the South Campus.
President and Mrs. William R. Greiner.
the grand marshals, will be joined in the
paraclf by Tammy Harris. a 1996 graduate
of UB who is Miss New York State.
Other dignitaries expected to participate
are Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello, Erie
County Executive Dennis Gorski and University District Councilman Kevin Helfer.
Music will be rrovided by the UB Pep Band.
as well as by marching units, including the Gordon Highlandeis Bagpipe Band and Color
Guard. the CorneD University marching band.
a unit from Lancasler High School, the Shrine
Bond and the Oriental Shrine Band.
In addition to floats and antique cars, the
parade will feature vehicles from the Buffalo Frre Department. Amherst Police Department 1111d UB Department of Public Safety.
Marchers will include members of UB 's in·
tercollegiate athletic teams, the UB cheer·
leaders. clowns. mascots from local professional sports teams and corporate sponsors.
The Office of Alumni Relations will hold
a tent party at 10 a. m. prior to the homecom·
ing football game, in the end w ne of Univer·
sity Sllldium. Featured will be a brunch, as
well as entertainment by student groups. To
purchase tickets, contact Debra Pall:.a, Office
of Alumni Relations, at 829-2608. A limited
numberofticl:.ets will be available at the door.
The homecoming football game between
the UB Bulls and the Cornell Big Red will
kick off at noon. The game, originally sched-

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a m. 10 4 p.m. by the Marian F. While Museu m and archaeological su rvey in 261
Fillmore, Ellioott Complex. Parents Weekend
concludes Sunday. Oct 6. with a brunch at I0
a.m. in Pi.Wrlllo's in the Student Uni on.

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Meaicine at McGill Uni versity. She is the
author of East Asian Me.dicine in Urban
Japan: Varieties of Medkal Experience
and Encounters with Aging.' Mythologiu
of Menopause in Japan and North
America.

istinguished Service Professor Alan
J. Drinnan. of UB's School of Den
tal Medicine. will moderate two panel
djscussions with UB faculty members.
The morning session will iOCludc UB
faculty members Michael A. Bozarth. as·
socia te professor of psyc hology : Mark
Goudiener. professor and chair in the Department of Sociology : Carolyn W.
Korsme yer. associate professor of philosophy: Alan H. Lockwood. professor of neu·
rology; Will iam J. Rapapon . associate professor of computer science; Jim Swan. aS·
sociate professor of English : and Barbara
H. Tedlock. professor of anthropology.
In the afternoon session. the faculty
co mmen tators will be: Michael S. Al vard.
assistant professor of anthropology: James
J. Bono. associate professor. Departments
of History and Medicine; John T. Kearns.
professor and chair in the Depanment of
Philosophy ; Thomas E. Keirstead, assistant
professor of history: Sheila Lloyd. assis·
tant professor of English: Christopher A .
Um~tz. associate professor gf biological
scit n es: and Donald K. Pollock. associ·
ate professor of anthropology.

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Bulls/Cornell game

at noon Saturday
The UB Bulls/Cornell University football game will take place at noon
Saturday, Ocl. 5. Time of the football
game, a highlighl of Homecoming
weekend, was switched from 1:30
p.m. 10 lhe noon hour so it can be
broadcast live on lhe Empire Sports
Network

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PAULA POUNDSTONE

uled for I :30 p.m.. has been moved up because it will be broodcast live by the Empire
Sports Netwotk. Ttckets for the football game
are available a164Yl666(829-U:re for alumni).
Paula Poundstone. who has tickl ed
America's funn ybone as a guest on the 'The
Tonight Show" and 'The Late Show With
David Lettennan," will perform in concen
at 8 p.m. in Alumni Arena. Doors will open
at 7 p.m. Tickets for her peformance, spon·
sored by the Office of Student Life in the Di·
vision of Student Affairs; are avai lab le
through UB Student Union Ticket Office.
64S-23SJ:{'entcr for the Arts Box OffJCe, 645·
ARTS, and tocketrnasteroutlels (&amp;52-S&lt;XXl).
Check-in for parents weekend will be in
the lobby of the Student Union from 4-8 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 4, and 9-11 :30 a.m. on Oct. 5.
Parents/homecoming events Oct 4 will
include a bonfU'C and pep raHy at 8:30 p.m.
on the lawn of Goodyear Hall. South Campus. Sponsored by the undergr•duate Student
Association. they will be followed by a carnival in the Townsend Hal l parking lot.
The Campus Ministries Association will
host a coffee reception at 8:30a.m. Oct. 5 in
Suite 109, The Commons. North Campus. A
Shimini Atzeret Yiz.kor Memorial Service
and Kiddush luncheon. sponsored by Hillel.
will be held at 10 a.m. in the Campus Center
for Jewish Life. Suite 210. The Commons.
In addition to educational presentations
beginning at9:30 a. m. and 10:30 a. m.. spon·

this:· and focused on having the Western
New York community become pan of the
sesq uicentennial celebration. said Bono, as·
sociate professor of English.
For Bono and We lch. SUNY Disti nguished Service Professor in the Depan·
mcnt of Political Science and chair of the
Faculty Senate. planning the intellectual as·
pects of the sesq uicentennial. particularly
the academic symposium. "Does the Body
Matter.'' provided the grea test fulfillment.
"My goal was to make sure that the qual·
ity of UB's faculty work was represented,
and the promise and future of this univer·
sit y we re represe nted" said Bono.
It also was impon.ant that the sympo·
si um be interdiscipl inary. bringing topnotch researchers and distinguished schol ·
ars to the un iversity to attract faculty, staff
and students from both the uni versi ty community and throughout Western New York.
The three co-chairs made a special effon
to get as many un iversity depanments as
possible involved in the core celebration.
The decision was made to incorporate
into the Sesquicentennial celebration on·
go ing events such as the Distingui shed
Speakers Series. the unive rsi ty convoca·
tion. homecomin g activities, the Linda
Yalem Run , and other activities. Schools
and departments were invited to put tO·
gether special programs of their own as pan
of the core celebration. Seed money of up
to S 1.000 was set aside as matching funds
to help departments organize the events.
"While there was not as much response
as I'd hoped in the development of pro·

g r am~ by 1nd1vidual depa rtments and
sc hools. said Welch. "those that did are of
hi gh qua lity."
The th ree co-chair!&lt;. noted their appre·
ciation for effons throughout the univer·
c;;ity co mffiunit y that have b:-ought 1he Sesquice nt en ni al celebr:Jtion together.
..The planning commiuee developed a
fm mework fo r eve nts. but most of the work
wa"i done by fac ulty. stilff and students from
all across the uni versi ty,'' said Petro.
And now the co-chairs wait to begin the
celebration and to enjoy the resul ts of so
much work by so many.
"Now 1he word is out and the banners
and billboards are up. Awareness IS grow·
ing and I think there 1s a lot of exc11ement
and interest ."' said Petro.
" I'm looking forward to seemg a lot of
people come onto campus and partacipaLe
in the sl!squice ntenni al. lt hink there 's a lot
of community Interest." she sa~d . "I hope
the un iversity community will come out for
event!-.. I think there w1 1l be more people
from throughout Western New YorL on
campu!-. than there have been 1n a long
time
Welch noted th at UB has ~urvJ\ed
threats to its survival earl y in 1h e.l'i.IS tl!nce .
the drdmatic growth of the 1960s. and most
recently the recalibr.ttion of goals. These~ ·
quicentennial celebration IS a tribu te .. to
how far we've come. and how much we ' ve
improved," he said . .. 1 hope it will provide
a real balance shee t of what UB has ac·
compli shed , which has been extraordi ·
nary:· said Welch.

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Fildey, Sept. 27
Athletic Hall of Fame Awards Dinner and
Historical Tribute
SponSOfed by UB Alumni Assoctahon to honor
athletes bemg tnducted tnlo UB Alumnt Assoc•auon AthletiC Hall of Fame. leatunng htstori·
cal lobule to OtvtstOn of Athle!lcs
6 p m cocktatts '" A lumn• Arena followed
by dtnner at 6 30 p m •n Center lor the Arts
Ttckets and reservahons. Debra Palka .

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Greeley 11170 • Day 3
• Keynote pcetry reading by Robert Greeley

829-2608

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Participate in the;e stellar
seiqllirentennial e\ffits!

linda Yalem SK Mefnorial Run
Annual run sponsored by Otvlsion of Student
Aflatrs and Otvts1011 of AthletiCS

in mefl"'()()' of

UB student and to promote safety awareness
programs on campus. Starts ( 10 a .m } and
flntshes '" front of Alumni Arena
RegtsUation and fees · 645-3141

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Unlversily Convocation
To honcx recipient of the UB President's
Medal. new SUNY OisiJOguished Professors
and recipients of SUNY Chancellor's awards
for excellence. Premiere of Lukas Foss composttlon and poem by Irving Feldman. both
dedtcated to the umversity on the occasion of
tis sesquicentenma l. At 3 p .m .• Center lor the
Arts . loHowed by reception

UB and Buffalo In Aim: The History of Independent AlmN'odeo Mal&lt;ing In Western New
Yortt • Program I
Macha Study Department
compilation of silent films
the tUrn of the century. At
tog Room t t2, Center lor

sertes opens wtth
depk:ting Buffalo at
7:30p.m .. Screenthe Arts

Distinguished Speaker Se~es Presents
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Sponsored by UB and Don Davts Auto World
Lectureshrp Fund Gates tS W.E B Du Bots
Professor of Humanl!tes at Harvard Un.verSIIy.
professor of Enghsh. chatr of Alro-Amertean
Studies Departmetll and direct()( of Du Bois
lnst•tute lor Afro-American Research AI 8
p m . Center lor the Arts
Ttekets : Center lor the Arts Box Olftce.
645-ARTS

Oct.

and John Aohbery. Sponsored by 0epertment
of English. From 4-5:15 p.m.. Katharine
Cornell TMatre; ~by reception in Jane
Keeler Room.
• Jazz concert with two of the country's moot
celebrated jazz musicians: composer and
ptanist Steve Kllln and singer Carol Fredette.
Reception, party feewmg MerQiry Rev. At
8:30p.m.. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Cooler, lourlh floor. Tri-Maln Center. 2495 Main St
(entrance in rear of buikfong).

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"Frontiero I"

OCTOIIER

n..rsc~oy,

English Deportment From 3-5 p.m .. Katharone
Cornell TMatra, EJiicOil Complex.
• Opening of "30 Years of Poetry at UB.• ex·
hlbltion in honor of Robert ~ aponsored
by Poetry/Rare Bool&lt;s Coflectoon. Recep&lt;lon
from 5-6:30 p.m .. Poetry/Rare Bool&lt;s Room ,
420 c_. Holt .
• Talk by noted Amoricari artist Jm Dine.
friend and collabor- o1 Robert
fol.
lowed by ·A Conversation with Greeley" and a
reading by him of his poetry. Sponsored by
Department of English. From 8:30-10 p.m..
Katharine Cornell TMatra.

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· eorder Disputes: Communications ,
Commerces and Cultures•

Nobel...._ in physiology or medicine; N.
Katherine Heyles. scholar, author of wor1&lt;a on
bodUy basis of knowing in relation to cutturaf
contexts 8lld changing tachnologies: Bruno
Latour. author of books and 1111ctes on soclety
and technology: geneUca- and author
Richard Lewontin. Agassiz Professor of Zoofogy and professor of biology at Harvard , and
medical anthropologist Margaret Lock, who
has wrinen on the d ifference in cultural sense
of body and mind. Sponsored .by James
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Fenton Lectureship Foundation and UB 589- · •
Quicentennial Committee. From 8: 15a.m . to
4:30p .m . in SkMt Concert Hall.

Parsons Dance Company and the Billy Taylor
TriO. At 8 p.m .. Moinologe. Center lor the Arts:
with poot-ishow blfthday party.
TICkets: Center for the Arts Box OffiCe.

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645-ARTS.

Nursing for the 21st Century

Celebration of nursing's peal and future spon·
sored by UB School of Nuroing in honor of ~s
60th anniversary. Daytime events in Buffalo
Marriott Hciet and UB Center for Tomorrow.
with dklner and alumni recognition ceremony ·
at 7:30p.m.

TriangulatlnQ the Bodies of Arch~ecture ·

Homecoming Parade

The 1996 Assocla~ of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture North6ast Regional Meeting ,
hosted by School of Atchitecture and Ptanning. Through Oct. 61n Buffalo Marriott Hotel
and at other sites.

SponSO(ed by Oivi~ion of Athletics. Begins at
9 a.m . On Main Stfeet and South Campus.

The Legacy of Student Leadership
UB Sesqulcentenmal Student Leadershtp
Conference. sponsored by DIVIsion of Student
Affaus and Leadership Program tn Off1ce of
Student Ltfe UB student leaders from recent
decades return to campus to meet w ith current student leaders and explore issues of
student leadership at the univerSity. Opens
wtth recept1on tn Student Umon. conlinues
Sa!urday. Oct 5

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ParenlsiHomecomlng -end
Lectures and tours sponsored by Office of
Student Ute begin at 10 a.m . ~
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Information: Toby Shapiro, 645-6125
Homecoming Pre-!3arTI8 Tent Party
Sponsored by Offoce of Alumni Relations. casual brunch and entertainment In University
Stadium end·zone. 10 a.m . to kickoff at noon.

Tickets: Debra Palka, 829-2608. Limited
number of tickets available at door.

Homecoming Football Game • UB Bulls vs.
Cornell University
Gates open at 11 a.m .• kickoff at noon in University Stadium; special hall-time activities.
TICkets: 645-6666. Alumni ttckets: 8292608.

Sympostum sponsored by Department ol En ghsh and Department of Compara!lye Litera ·
lures wt11 use U S and Canadtan border as organrztng metaphor to tnvesttgate edges of
vanous tdenttlleS . pollc tes and practtces
From 1-5 p m . 120 Clemens Hall

Parents Weekend Check·ln

Unveiling of UB's Bronze Buffalo

Parents/Homecoming Weekend Comedy

Health Care Frontiers

Ltfe-stzed bronze buffalo. rephca of one that
graced concourse of Buffalo's old Central Termtnal. w1ll be unvetled tn the lobby of Alumnt
Arena At 5 p.m

Sponsored by DMsion of Student Affairs. At
8 P-rT'! ·· doors open at 7 p.m .• A lumni Arena .

~ealth care trade lalf wtth presentattons and
lectures Sponsored by School of Engtneettng
and Apphed Sctences. School of Medtctne
and Btomedtcal Sc•ences and Health Care
Trade Fatr Assoctatton From 10 am to 6
p m , Student Unton

UB and Buffalo in Film: The History of Independent FilmNideo Making In Westem New
York • Program II
Medta Study Department Senes conttnues
with commentary and panel dtscusston of
amateur ana tndepeneient medta htstory At
4 30 and 7 30 p m . Screentng Room 11 2.
Center lor the Arts
Music Alumni Sesquicentennial Concert
Co-sponsored by Music Depanment and UB
SesQUicentennial Commlltee Featuring performances by several alumni/faculty performers soprano Laura Atkin. ptan•st Anthony de
Mare double basstst James Vandemark. gUttar duo of Joanne Caste/tan• and Mtchael
Andnacc10 and Amherst Saxophone Quartet
8 p m . Slee Concett Hall
Ttekets Center for the Arts Box Of1tce . 645ARTS. and Tteketmaster outlets (852-5000)

Fildey, Oct• •
Sesquk:entennial Academic Symposium :
Does nE Boov MA.TTER?
Examtning the lronlters of knowledge tn nature. soctety and culture . sympos1um will explore tl and how the body matters tn the neurosc+ences and the digital world of computer
technology and will examtne embod1ed nature
of change in the realms of bi()k)gy and culture ParHc•pants · Gerald Edelman . 1972

From 4-8 p m . 9-11 .30 a m Sa!urday. Student
Unton lobby
Information Toby Shaptro. 645-6125

Art Department Faculty Exh ibition and In·
vited Alumni Exhibition

-Dual- show
-sponsored by Untverstty Gallery

Opemng and receplton 6-8 p m . Untverstty
Gallery. Cenler lor the Arts

UB and Buffalo In FUm: The History oil odependent FilmNideo Making in Western New

Vorl&lt; • Program Ill
Medta StUdy Department Sertes continues
wtth screemng of films made specthcally
about UB dunng past 50 year;. At 7 30 p m .
Screening Room 112. Center fOf !he Arts
Sesquicentennial Gala: MStep Into My
Dream•
A tazz and dance collabOratton leatuttng the

Dance concert interpreting theme of UB oesqulcentennlal, explores new and old lrontiers
in movement and music. Sponsored by Department of Theatre and Dance. 2 p.m..
Drama n-tre. Center tor file Arts. Perfor.
mances continue at 8 p.m. on Thursdays
through Saturdayo and 2 p.m. on Sundays
through Oct. 27.
TICkets: Center for the Arts Box Offoce.

Night Featuring Paula Poundstone

Ttekets: Student Union Ticket Office, 645:
2353. Center fOf the Arts Box OffiCe, 645ARTS, and Ticketmaster ouUets (852-SOCX&gt;)

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Parents Weekend Brunch
Sponsored by Division of Student Af1atrs.
From 10 a.m . to noon. PistachiO's. Student
Un10n
T1ckets Office of Student Life . 645-6t25

Tloio.....,., -.10
"ISO: A Sesquicentennial Slide Tour of UB's
History"
UB arch1vist elll8fitus Shonn1e Finnegan address~s UB at SUNRISE breakfast program.
AI 7·30 a m tn Center fOf Tomorrow.
Ttekets· Judith Schwendler. 829-2608

Greeley at 70 • Day 1
Three-day birthday tnbute to distingUished
American poet Robert Greeley. SUNY OtslinQUIShed ProfesSOf and Samuel P. Capen Prolessor of Poetry and the Humanities . opens
wtth readrng by poet Eileen Myles SponSOfed
by Just Buffalo Literary Center. At 8 p .m ..
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. fourth
floor. Tn-Main Center. 2495 Main St (entrance
tn rear of building)

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Greeley at 70 • Day 2
• Welcome by President Wilham Gretner.
readings by poets Gil Sorrentino and Atmn
Baraka celebrate Robert Creeley's literary
achievements and his enormous influence on

making of poetry In English. Sponsored by UB

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Snqulcentenniat Gospel Music Worl&lt;sl&gt;op •

Day1
Gospel music; to be explored and catebrated
with IOctures. aemlnai. and great singing io
event sponsored by OffiCe of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs.
At 7 p.m..· UB Gospel Choir and gUest choirs
open program: 7:30p.m.. discussion of 'The
Social and Cultural Functions of Gospel MuSic
in Churches TOdaya by .the Rev. Troy Bronner.
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. Malnstage ,

Center for the Arts. ·
Ttekets· Center for the Arts Box otftce.
645-ARTS.

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Sesquicentennial Gospel Music Worl&lt;shop •
Day2
• Morning, afternoon workshops and seminars in Baird Hall feature recording artist Richard SmaUwood and l-lorace Boyer. Un.versity of Massachusetts professor and noled
scholar, arranger and performer of AfricanAmerican gospel music . All p .m ., panel dts.
cussk&gt;n of aThe Social and Cultural Functions
of Gospel Music in Churches Today...
Tickets: Center fOf the Atts Box Offtee ,
645-AATS.
• Gospel Music Showcase with presentation.
"The Old Ship of Zion: African-American Gospel Music: by Horace Boyer foltowed by concert featuring Richard Smaltwood. At 6:30
p .m .. Maklstage. Center for the Arts
rtckets: Center for the Arts Box OffiCe.
645-ARTS.
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Celebration of ISO Years of the University
Ubrarles
• Annual Meeting of Friends of the Heatth

Sciences Ubrary. Talk by Martin M.
Cummings, former director of Nationalltbrary
of Medicine, on 19th-century library ~der
John Shaw Billings. From 10:30 a m -1 p .m ..
Austin Fl1n1 Main Reading Room. Health Sciences Library.
• Acquisiuon of The1r Three Millionth Volume
Sponsored by University Librane!t. tncludes
exhibitions tn all UB tibranes from 1·3 p .m.
and presentation of CD-ROM on history of poetics produced by Poetry/Rare Books Collec ·
tton at 1 p m tn Poetry/Rare Books Room . 420
Capen Hall

NOVEMBER
Frlll8y, ..... 1 5

Medlcel Ethics Symposium
National symposium on Issues of medtcal ethICS sponsored by UB School of Medic•ne and
Biomedk:al Sciences. OJstingutShed scholars
and authors from medicine, biomedical sci--

ences, philosophy and other fields will dts·
cuss toptes Including human genetiCS and
public policy, heatth-ca're poficy, ethteal Implications ol new technologies.
Through Nov. 16 in Buffalo MarrK&gt;U and UB
Center lor the Arts.

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Top performers in 'Step into My Dream '
ay PAJIIICIA DOHOVAN
News Services Edifor

CORES OF SPECIAL EVENTS will be presented by the
University at Buffalo this year in connection with its sesquicentennial celebration. Few, however, will match the
artistic value and sheer good time of the UB Sesquicentennial Gala Performance on Friday, Oct. 4.

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The performance. titled "Step~
into My Dream," will be a superb

program of improvisational jazz
a nd dance de ve loped and presented by two of the country's preta
emjnent performance groups.
They are the Parsons Dance Company.
one of the hottest tickets in American
Dance, and The Billy Taylor Trio, a jazz
ensemble headed by one of the nation 's
great jazz music ians and educators, a winner of the nation's highest award for di stinguished accomplish ments in the arts.
The show begins at 8 p.m . on the
Mainstage in the Center for the Arts on the
VB No
Campus. It will be followed by
a rece 'on and !50th birthday party for
the u versity.
Ti kets are $24, $20 and S 16. They are
avai la le at the Cent~r for the Arts box office (
-ARTS) a nd at all Ticketmaster
locations Kaufmann ' s, Movies Plus and
Music Plu stores). The performance is
sponsored y the UB Sesquicentennial
Committee and the Center for the Arts.
What can we look forward to here? In a
word or two, the superb choreograph ic
work of David Parsons. hailed as one of
the most promising choreographers of his
generation, coupl ed with the improvisa-

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DR. BILLY TAYLOR will INIIIC his lmprovlu tkmal Jazz to Se•qulcentennlal Gala .

tionaljazzofDr. Billy Taylor, who holds a
Ph.D. from the University of Massachusells plus an impressive array of honorary
degrees in recognition of his contributions
to American music and music education.

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he nine-member Parsons Dance Company is a relatively new one, founded
in 1987, and internationally recognized for excellent work . II has performed
in some of the most prestigious venues in
the world from Rio's Teatro Municipal to
Lincoln Center, to the accompaniment of
kudos from critics and audiences alike.
" ...Terrific performers, energized, eager
to please and rehearsed to within an inch
of their lives;· wrote the Toromo Star.
Called by the 11om&lt; &amp;publim. the ''heir of
Nureyev and Baryshnikov," Parsons is distinguished by its exuberant wit, high energy,
athleticism, rich dance vocabulary and by the

News Services Editor

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NTER,NATIONALLY KNOWN gospel giants Richard Smallwood and
Horace Boyer will be featured in a
Gospel Music Workshop to be held Oct.
18-19 on the VB North Campus.
Being held as part of the
university's sesquicente nni al cele bration, the workshop will inelude a Gospel Showcase at 6:30 !I;/)
p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, in the u:Ura:IK
Mainstage theater in the Center for the Ans.
It will open wi th Boyer 's presentation ,
"The Old Ship of Zion : African -American
Gospel Music," followed by a concert fe aturing Smallwood . A comm unit y ma ss
choir with members from throughout Westem New York also will perform.
The showcase program, which will in~
elude selections from Smallwood's awardwinning albums. promises an evening of
spectacular gospel mu sic a nd a fasci nating look at its history for the Western New
York comm unity. says Mary Gre sham. as-

UB will unwell Ita • • .___.,life-size b,.;,nze buffalo -at 5 p.m. on
Friday, Oct. 4.
The bronze buffalo--a reproduction of the original buffalo statue that
.for years was the focal point of the old Central Railroad Terminal in Buf~ falo--will be temporarily installed in the lobby of Alumni Arena.
The statue was to have been installed permanently on a simple bronze platform
in Coventry Loop in front of the Center for the .t\,rts, but the university needs more
time to design the base and possibly raise more funds to cover the cost, sa id Ronald
Nayler, assoc iate vice president for un iversity facilities.
Nay ler said UB will continue to work with Ciminelli Construction, which has
offered to work on the base and installation as an in-ki nd contribut ion. The target
date to permanently install the statue in Coventry Loop is so me time next spring.
he added .
The buffalo statue was funded with $25,000 gifts from Gerald Goldhaber. UB
associate professor of communication, and Burt P. Flickinger Jr.. a prominent Western New York businessman and community leader.
It was produced by Messmo re &amp; Damon, Inc .. a New York City company whose
founder, G. H. Messmore, sculpted the original Ce ntral Terminal buffalo for New
York Central Railroad in the 1930s.
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illy Taylor's more than 50 years in
music have been lived through the
history of the jazz he plays and di scusses. He maintains a busy touring sched-

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In Amet1can dance.

ule with the Billy Taylor Trio while serving as artistic advisor for jazz for the
Kennedy Performing Arts Center, and hosting a new weekly National Public Radio
program, "Billy Taylor 's Jazz from the
Kennedy Center."
He has spent more than 15 years as jazz
correspondent for "Sunday Morning'' on
ABC TV, for which he won an Emmy
Award. He augmenlS his trio performances
with a wide variety of projeclS that have
fo und him performing with symphony orc hestras, the Turtle Island Spring Quartet
and the Parsons Dance Company.
Taylor has received many distingui shed
honors, including two Peabodys and the
National Endowment for the Arts· Jazz
Masters award.

Gospel 'giants' here for workshop, concert
ay MARY liE1H SPINA

UB to·unveil its br-.ze buffalo
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PARSONS DANCE COMPANY: lt'o called- of
chon:ognopher's keen eye for the theatrical.
His choreography is included in the repertories of the celebrated PatJI Taylor Dance
Company, the American Ballet Theatre, the
New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet,
Feld Ballets/NY, The National Ballet of
Canada and Nederlands Dans Theater I and
Ill, among others.
In addition to a repertoire of more than
30 works by Parsons, his company is widely
recognized for its community outreach activities, including master classes video workshops, lecture/demonstrations and seminars.

socia te vice
pre s ident for
public se rvice
a nd urban affai rs at UB and
chair or the
Gospel Music
Workshop
committee.
Lectures
and workshops
on Friday. Oct.
18. and SaturAWARD-WINNING
day. Oct. 19 . songwriter Richard
are des igned for Smallwood wltl take part
those who want In Gospel Woft(shop .
to Jearn more
abou t this uniquel y American music and for
others who simply enjoy gospel music.
The event is sponsored by the Office of
the Vice Preside nt for Public Service and
Urban Affair&lt; and co-sponsored by the UB
Depanment of Mu sic and Episcopal Campus Mini stries .

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mall wood,
an
awa rd -winning
songwriter, arranger. composer and pro·
ducer, has performed at the Whit e House
and has been honored by th e Smithsonian
Ins titu tion as a ··gospel innovator."
Recording on the Ve rity la bel. he i:-.
mus ic director of ' 'The Chi ldren of the
Gospel." a 300-voice choir of youth spo nsored by the Washin gton Performing Ans
Society. The choir performs annually to a
so ld -out audience at the Kennedy Center.
Professor of mu sic theory and AfricanAmerican music at the University o f Massac hu setts at Amherst. Boyer has been
mu sic director for productions of such
shows as "Purlie ." "Blues fo r Mr. Char lie"
and "Do Lord Reme mbe r Me ...
He has directed the famed Fisk Jubilee
Singers, toured around the world as a vocali st. authored book c hapters and anicles
on spirituals and gospel music , and furni shed liner notes for Col umbi a Records.
The workshop/lecture ponion of th e
two-day program ~i ll begin at 7 p.m. on
Oct. 18 in the Mainstage with selections
by the UB Gospel Choir.

A lecture on ''The Social and Cultural
Func tio ns of Gospel Music in Ch urches
Today" by Troy A. Bronner will follow at
7:30p.m. Pastor and teac her at the 2.550·
member Calvary Baptist Church in Buffal o. Bron ner is a faculty member at
Co lgate Rochester Divinity School. where
he earned a master's of divinity degree .
Saturday work shops will be held in
Ba1rd Hail on the Nonh Campus.

The schedule :
• 8:30-9:30 a.m. -"lmprovisati on U&gt; ing Different Instrumen t!-.." Melvin Bryant.
c hoi r director of the First Shiloh Baptist
Church
• 8:30-9:30 a.m. -" Producing and Stu ·
dio Time.·· Pastor Jerome Fe rrell of Greater
New Hope Church of God in C}lrist in
Buffalo.
• 9:45·1 1 a.m. -"Gospel MuSIC Industry.'' Richard Smallwood
• II :30 a.m.-··Jnt rodu ci ng Gospel Pi ano.·· Horace Boyer
• 1-2: 15 p.m.-"The SoCial and Cul tural Function s of Gospel Music in
Churche!&lt;&gt; Today," a plenary forum moderated by Pastor Alvin Parris of New Life
Fellowship Church in Roc hester. Panelists
wi ll include Bishop David Bowman of the
Episcopal Diocese of Western New Yorl-.. :
Ferrell : Jesse Nash. socio logy professor at
Canisius Co ll ege. and Pastor Steve SaKe:
of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Buffalo.
• 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.-··How to Keep the
Gospel Sacred: Calling and Anointing the:
Choir Member." Ella Robinson, a mu ~1c
teacher at Linco ln Academy. W Y repre sentative for the Gospel Mu sic \Vorkshop
of America and music director m Great Hopt·
Mission;.uy Baptist Chu rch : ··Movement for
Choir and Liturgical Dance:· William E
Thomas. associate professor. UB Department
of Themre and Dance: "Voice Training:·
Joyce Ro binson, a teacher at the Buffalo
Academy of Visual &amp; Performing Ans and
outreach coordinator for the Buffalo Phil harmonic Orchestra.
Tickets for the Gospel Showcase and
workshops are available through the Center for the Ans box office .

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Gates to kick off 1996-97
Distinguished Speakers

Outsta

Leading African-American scholar Henry Louis

Gates Jr. will Ieick off US's 1996--97 Distinguished Speakcn Series with a lectu~ at 8 p.m.
oo Wednesday. Occ 2. in lhe Cen1&lt;r for lhe Arts
Mainstage theater on the North Campus.

Other speakers in the series are Emmywmmng actor Edward James Olmos on Nov.

19 and Nobel and Pulitzer-Prizewinning author Toni Morrison on April 24 .
A fierce defender of artirinativc action.
Gates is a prolifi c essayist on such diverse is!&lt;.ucs as the First Amendment, anti-Semitism.

cthntc identity, rap music and what he conside rs a crisis in black leadership.
He IS the Distinguished W.E.B. Du Bois
Professor of Humanities at Harvard Univer.~&gt; tty, where he also serves as a professor of
English. chair of the .Department of AfroAmcncan Studies and director of the Du Boi s
ln !&lt;~o lltutc for Afro- American Research .

Nursing program to note
60th anniversary Oct. 5
Jcunne ttc Spero, professor and fonner dean o f
the College of Nursing and Health atlhe Univcr..tty of Cincinnati , w ill deliver the keynote
addrcs'i Oct 5 at a symposium celebruting the
60th anniversary of the US School of Nursing.

The program. '' Nursing in the 21st Cen tury : A Celebr.:Hion of Our Past and A Look

to the Future: · will be: held m the Buffalo
Mam ott and the Center for To morrow. Nonh
C ampu!o An evening ceremo ny will recog nt ze seven alumni for thetr co ntributions to
the field of nursing.
Alumni and faculty ure retummg to pan•ci -

pat m the annivei"'S&lt;jry of the school. formed
m 936 a~ a division of the UB medical
ool. It became an mdejX'ndcnt unit in 1940.
The sympos tum . wtth remarks by US
cstdent William R . Gre iner and Mecca S .
C nley. profe ssor and dean of the UB nurslo

mg . ·hool. wi ll feaiUre a tal_k by Kathleen A.
Powe ·. professor und cha1r of nursing at St.
John F shcr Coll ege in Rochester. a panel di scuss mn\on emerging roles for nurses, and
prese ntations b)' four nurse/attorneys. al l UB
nursing alumni . on their work in this emergmg field

Linda Yalem Run set for
Sept. 29 on North Campus
More than 1.600 runners , joggers. raccwalk crs and stro lle rs are expected to panicipate in
the seventh annual Linda Yalcm Memori al
Run on Su nday, Sept 29. on the UB North
Cam pus.
The 5-K, U.S.A. Track and Field-certified
eve nt . wh1ch will begin at 10 a.m. near Alumni
Arena. is held 10 memory of Valem. a UB student who was assau lted and murdered while
running near campus, and to promote safety
awareness programs on campus. Valem was
training for the New York City Mar..1thon.
The run is part of The Buffalo News Runncr of the Year Series.
Raffles. entertainment and refreshments
~A' III follow the r.Jcc.

Inventor of MRI to lecture
at health care fair Oct. 3
Western New York's contributions in the
areas of medicine and engineering are the
themes of "Health Care Frontiers," a trade
fair being held on Thursday. Oct 3. to ce lebrate the 50th anniversary of the UB ~ hool
of Engineering aOd Applied Sciences and the
sesquicentennial of the UB School of Medi cine and Biomedical Sciences.
Free and open to the public and geared to
health-care practitioners, industry executi ves
and students, the trude fair will run from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Student Union on the
UB Nonh Campus.
In additioA to exhibits from more than 40
companies. hospitals and health -care providers, researchers at local companies and institutions wi ll . throughout the day, make presentations about the newest .technologies in
medicine and engineering.
Along with the schools of engineering and
medicine. the fai r is co-sponsored by the Health
Can: Industries Association. 1lle UB Sesquicentennial Committee also is a co-sponsor.
Raymond Damadi an. M.D.. inve ntor of
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI ). will lecture at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Audito-rium . The talk is free and open to the public.
A reci pient of the National Medal of Technol ogy and a member of the National Inventors
Hall of Fame, Damadian is president and
chief ex.ecuLive officer of Fon.o.r Corp. in
Mel vi lle , which makes MRI scanners.

Alurrmi music stars to give Sesquicentennial concert
11J PATIIICIA -VAN
News Servtces Editor

A

SESQUICENTENN1AL MU SIC Alumni Concert featuring
performances by several of the

University at Buffalo·s most
outstanding music performance
al umni-s tars of international~
stature who have earned critical
acclaim for their arti stic and tech·
nical virtuosity, innovative musi·

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cal sty le and consistently ucel· ~ ••
lent level of performanco&gt;-will be held at
8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Slee Conce rt Hall on the UB North Campus.
The co nc ert . in celebration o f the

university's I 50th birthday. will be sponsored by the UB Department of Mu sic and
Sesquicentennia l Committee.
Perfo rmers will in c lude

Jame s

Vandemark ('76). critically applauded as
one of the most brilliant virtuosi ever to

perform o n the double bass. and pianist
Anthony de Mare ('83). an astonishing.
creati ve anist recognized throughout the
world as a leading ex po nent of 20thcentury mus ic .

Al so performing wi ll be soprano Laura
Aikin ('86). a prize-winning operatic performer and member of the Deut sc h
S taatsoper Berlin. where she ha s per·

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peo1lorm Oct. 3 In

concert-.otiiCII8'a ~

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atic roles, her concert and lieder performances with the world"s leading orchestras. and for a repertoire that ranges from
Baroque to works of the most contempo--

rary composers.

direction of Danie l Barcnboim. Aikin is

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recognized here and abroad for her oper-

has a reputation for varied and innovative

formed a broad range of roles under the

brilliant Castellani-Andriaccio guitarduo-Joanne Castellani ('74. "76)
and Michael Andriaccio ("74, '76}-is on the program as well. The duo. which

programming, is known ~ staunch proponents of new music. It has been widely and
internationally praised by critics as One of
the elite chamber ensembles on the mUJic
scene today.
Also performing will be the Amherst
Saxophone Quartet (Stephen Rosenthal ,
' 87; Salvatore Andolina, '80; Harry
Fackleman. "87, and Russ Carere). now in
its 20th season of international concert performances. The group maintains a permanent repertoire ensemble of the highest international caliber and works with composers to develop a 20th- and 21st-century
repertoire for saxophone quartet to rival
thai of the contemporary suing quartet. The
quarte~ which has recorded on three labels,
hu performed in the U.S. from Maine to
Hawaii and in 1993 added Japan to its touring·list.
Finally. the UB Wind Ensemble and UB
Choir. under the direction of conductor
Sarah McKoin, will present a performance
of ··celebration" by Lukas Foss, a work
commissioned for the UB sesquicentennial.
Tickets for the event are $10 (general
admission) $8 (U B faculty, staff and
alumni), $5 (senior citizens). $4 (students).
Tickets may be obtained from the UB
Center for the Arts ticket office (645ARTS) from noon to 6 p.m., Monday
through Friday. or from any Ticketmaster
location (Kaufman n's, Movies Plus or
Musi c Plus stores or at 852·5000).
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Student leaders, past and present, to compare ~
IIJPAJIIICIA-YAN
News Services Edit"'

HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo will

here." Black said, ..are whether or not the
role of student leadership has changed over
the years and what variables inHuenced the

bring st udent leaders from th e

campus climate over these 60 years.

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1940s. ' 50s, ' 60s, ' 70s and '80s
back to the campus on Oct. 4-5 for

a student leadership co nference. "The

Legacy of Student Leadership." ~
The conference will be held
during UB's Parents/Homecoming Weekend in connection with

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the university's sesquicentennial '
celebration. It wi11 explore some of the differences and commonal ities experienced
by different groups of student leaders dur·
ing their enrollme nt at UB .
Pane l discussions featuring student

leaders past and current will offer the opportunity to discuss the relationships, connections and rich experiences that evolved
from students ' involvement in campus life.

Dennis Black, dean of students at UB.
was instrumental in convening the confer-

ence, which he said also will address the
impact and tradition o f student leadership
in campus and community activi ties.

"Among the questions to be addressed

"'It will be interesting to lcnow if different generations of students see similarities
in the issues that concerned them and in the

actions they took in relation to those issues.
Panelists have agreed to share some of the
most significant aspects of their university

experience and will tell us how their lead·
ership involvement affected their lives.··

One participant will be Richard
Siggelkow, professor emeritus of counseling and educational psychology. who was
named UB dean of students in 1958 and
served as vice president for student affairs

from 1967-8'3. His tenure as an adminis·
trator coi ncided with years of enormous

change and disruption during which UB
ceased to be a private university and began to operate as the largest campus in the
State University of New York system .

S

iggelkow is the author of "Dissent and

Disruption: A University Under Siege."
a book that explores the campus political

At Sunrise: rare photos from archives

uproar of the 1960s that earned UB the trite
sobriquet, ""The Berkeley of the East."
The conference program on Saturday. Oct.
5. will open with a welcome from Robert.L, .
Palmer Jr., iJB vice president for swdenl affairs. and William J. Evitts, executive director of the UB Office of Alumni Relations.
The opening address will be delivered by
Jonathan A Dandes,presidenlofthe UBSwdent Association in 1974 and now president
of the UB Alumni Association and a member of the UB Council. Dandes is vice president and general managerofB.R. Guest Ltd.

P

articipants in a panel discussion. "Gen
erationsofStudent Leaders," will include
Grace Busch (M.D .• ' SO), one of only nine
women to graduate from the JJB niedical
school in 1950; Burton Stulberg (M.D.. ' 52),
who. while at UB, was president oftheM&lt;dical &amp; 'r&gt;ental Student Association. and Robert Baier (Ph.D .• '66). who helped f;,.,oo the
UB Graduate Student Association. He now
is a professor of biophysics at UB.
Panelists also will include Robert Dugan
(M.S. ' 74). who will discuss his experiences
as a representative and later president of the
Graduate Student Assoc iation. and Art
Lalonde (BA 'TI). vice president of the W&gt;dergraduate Student Association in 1975-76
and now conaoller for Wolson Greatbou:h.I.Jd.
Cordell Shachter (B.A .. '83). president

lalllo• MN pbotolll'...... froM tiM UniY...rty at Buffalo ""hives will be

of the undergraduate Student Associat ion

used to illustrate " ISO: A Sesquicentennial Slide Tour of UB"s History," a UB at
SUNRJSE program to be held at 7:30a.m. on Thursday, Oct 10, in the Center for
Tomorrow.
The .program will be presented by Shonnie M. Finnegan, university archivist
emeritus, who was UB archiv ist for 28 .y ears and has insights shared by few others
when it comes to the topics of the history of UB and its traditions.
UB. founded in 1846, is celebrating its sesq uicentennial with 18 months of
aciivitles that began in January.
'"UB at SUNRISE" is a series ofbreak.fast programs produced by the UB Alumni
Association and UB"s Office·of Co1nferenc'es and Special Events. News Services
and Office of Publications. ll also is supported by the Office of University Development and Office for l'ublic Service and Urban Affairs. The Buffalo Marriott Is
corporate sponsor of "'UB at SUNRISE. ••
The price of tile program. which will include a full breakfas~ is $10 for UB
Alumni Association members and $12 for all others.
For more information, contact the alumni association at 829-2608. Ticket orders must be received by Monday. Oct 7 .

in 1982-83, also will be part of the discussion. President of the Faculty-Student Association from 1980-81 and a member of
the Student Assembly from 1981 -82, he is
assistant chief of technical services for the

New York City Parks Association.
Jennifer Bucklin (B.A .• '92; Ed.M .. '94).
treasurer of the undergraduate Student As·
sociation in 1990-91, also will participate.
Bucklin is coordinator of " Welcome lo

Michigan," the University of Michigan ·s
post-orientation program for new students.
Black said he expects attendance at the
conference to number ITI()re than 200 CWTCnt
and past student leaders. On Friday. Oct 4.
participants will tour the campus and anend
a sesquicentennial an:hival exhibition and a
reception with faculty, staff and alumni. -

�who had 12and 11 kills respectively. Sophomore Aprille

.-.gadded,..., kilts and
loor blocks.
Following lhe Win over Syra·
cu.e, lhe Royals dropped lour
maJches at the East Tamessee State Invitational over the
weekend to put their record at
6-9. Sophomore Amy Burda
earned All-Tournament recognition with 41 kills, 52 d1gs
and three service aces. Both
Burda end Sims picked up 20
kills in the fMl-game loss to
the host Buccaneers.
Oeschambautt also eclipsed

D.Ouanro. NICOle Trestno and Beth Costello scored markers

lor the Royals. OOH 3-3- 1
The Royals a patr of contests thts weekend starting With a
Fnday ntghl clash With Pittsburgh at RAC F!B:Id beg1nn1ng at 7
p m Sunday UB hosts ValparaiSO at neon

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MEN'S SOCCER

The Bulls dropped to 0--6- 1 w11h a pa.r of losses th1s week to
(2-1) and Siena (1.{))
In the loss at Cants1us. UB took a 1-0 lead 1n the ftrsl half
as Frank Butcher scored the goaltn the 13th mtnute off a pa1r

Can!SIUS

A dominating running game and a pair of defensive touchdowns led lhe UB Bulls to an imp&lt;esof passes from Trrstan Burton and Bnan Meyer
sive 34-20 victory at LOO!gh Univenllty. lhe deUB played the second half down one man as Edlfu
fending Pa~iot League Champions, last Saturday.
Okpewho PICked up a red card tn the 43rd m1nute and was
The Bulls racked up a sellSQfl-high 348 yards
dtSquahhed from the match The Bulls stepped up lhe1r deon the ground with running backs Anthony Swan
tense tn the second half but the Gnfltns scored the deCidtng
and Todd Pace each going CHef tOO yards in lhe
goal in the 80th minute to take the 2· 1 lead
same game for lhe second time this season. Swan
Coach John Astudillo's club IS on lhe road th1s weekend
had 29 carries for a career-high 2 15 yards and
her career-high set a lew days
play1ng 1n the Florida AtlantiC Tournament tn Boca Raton UB
scored the game-clinching touchdown. Pace had
eartier with 48 assists vs. East
takes on the UnNersity of Cenual Flonda on Saturday and
127 yards on 22 totes and also scored once.
Tennessee State. The Royals
laces the host Owls on Sunday
Despite giving up 479 yards in lhe game, lhe
will host Csnisius at Alurmi
Bulls defense forced live turnovers, tal&lt;lng two of
Arena at 7 p.m. Oct. 2.
MEN'S WOMEN'S TENNIS
them to the end zone. Cornerback Bill Tipton
CROSS COUNTRY
Ra1n on Sept. 17 moved the men's and women's tenn1s
scored UB's first touchdown, picking off an Aaron
matches against St. Bonaventure tndoors to the Htl!on Hotel
The Royals cross country team,
Brown pass and returning it 89 yards for the
The Bults f~l ~ 1 to put thelf fall record at 3-2 wh1le the women
lhe defending MicJ.Conlinent
score-one yard off the UB record. Trailing 20-17
ROYAU VOI.l.EYIIAI.IBIS - ·
.tct0&lt;J
over Syrecuoe Sept. 1B .t
were d e feated 6-1 eventng the.r fall mark to 2-2
in the fourth quarter. senior Steve McDuffie
Conference champions. - AI....... Arenll.
Coach Russ Crispen's Bulls piCked up a SJngles wm at
eled to London, Ontario to take
sacked Brown, forcing a fumble that nose guard
number ~x as Andrew Garber defeated Drew Crawford 6-2
part in lhe Western Ontario lrMKeith Hansen scooped up and reiL&lt;ned 48 yards lor lhe go6-4
. Garber also teamed Wtth Ornn Pndgeo to take the numtalional, clowrWlg 13 ArneriCSfl end Canadian schools. The Bulls
ahead score. Hansen had two sacks. two fL&lt;nble recoveries,
ber three doubles 8-3
finished filth of 13 in lhe , _,
a forced fumble and a pass breakup in the game, while WneThe
Royals p icked up a Singles Win at number 5 as Amy
UB's women finished with 90 points, 27 ahead of second
backer Craig Guest led the Bulls with a season-high 19 tackSnyder downed Sara Morttmer 6· 1. 6-1
place Guelph. Stacey Strolhmann finished fourth ind1v1dually
les. Anthony Scon added two quarterback sacks and a
Both
teams host th1s weekend's UB Fall Class1c a1 the Un•·
along lhe 5K course in •18:15.8 to lead the Royals.
forced tumble lor the Bulls.
vers1ty Tennis Center. Can1S1us, St Bonaventure and N1agara
Chris Keenan's 10K time ol33:13.8 was the Bulls' top linSwan and Hansen earned NCAA 1-AA Independent Offenare
also
in the tournament f1eld
ish. good for 11th place Individually. Both squads compete
s•ve and Defensive Player of the Week honors. It was the sec·
- Ted Wasko, Sports lnfcxmauon Offrce
on Saturday in lhe Kent State Invitational.
ond consecutive week and third of four weeks that a UB
player has earned the defensive award. Tipton and Mike
THIS WEEK"S HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Chtehester have garnered the award previously. It is the secUB's women's soccer team
-27
ond time in four weeks that a Bull has earned the offensive
opened a twO-game road
Men·s &amp; Women's Tennis host US Fall Classic
award. Pace earned the recognition against Illinois State.
Untvers•IY Tenms Cemer. 2 p m
swing
over
the
weekend
with
a
The Bulls host Pennsylvania State Athletic Coolerence memWomen's Soccer vs . Pittsburgh
RAC F1eld . 7 p m
5.{) loss at Boston College.
ber Edi1bom lor a 7 p.m. kickoll at UB Stadium on Saturday.
A tight 1.{) contest through
YAU VOLL£YBALL DOWNS SYRACUSE
Men's &amp; Women's Tennts host UB Fall Classtc
Umvers11y Tennis Center. 11 a m
most olthe match slipped away
from lhe Royals es Boston ColThe oyals pulled off one of the biggest wins in school history
Football vs. Edinboro
UB Stad•um . 7 p m
lege scored lour unanswered
raJ · from two games down to defeat Syracuse 3-15, 7- 15,
goals in lhe final 15 minutes to
15- 0, 15-10. 1S.9WednesdaySept. 18atAiumni Arena.
Men
's
&amp;
Women's
Tennis
host
UB
Fall
ClaSSIC
Untversl!y Tennts Center. 2 p m
lake lhe win. UB goalkeeper
B's rally began when Syracuse decided to rest a couple
Joanne ChiHingsworlh stopped
Women's Soccer vs Valparatso
RAC Field , noon
of st ers 1n the third game. The Royals grabbed the momen15 shots in the contest.
tum
lrestvnan Somer OescllMlbault who lied her career
UB rebounded Sunday With
hiQh with
assists in lhe five.garne match. Atlhe net. lhe RoyAlumn1 Arena . 7 p m
Volleyball vs. Can•sius
a 3-1 at Stony Brook as Tricia
als were
by senior Candi Si:ns and junior Kathy llrir'l&lt;mrlh.

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regi5ter, call the om~ or Stu·
dent Life. 645-61U.

Capen. North Campus. 12:30
p.m. Free.

ler for the ·Ans.·Nonh
7:30p.m. Free.

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UB vs. Caalsius. 7 p.m Alumm

PhlloeophJ Col'-lu•

S.aqulceftt...a..t Event

Bqianlna Sip Uncuage
5:30p.m. To n:giscer.

North
Campus.
.AKna.
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Consc:iousM:U .ad the MiodBody Problem, Juntchi Murata.
Univ. of Tokyo. 684 Baldy.
North Campus. 3:30 p.m.

Music Alumni Conttrt.
Amhenl Saxophone Qu111e1.
soprano Laura Aikin, bassist
James Vandemartc, Caste llam Andriaccio guitar duo. p1amst
Anthony deMare. Slee . Non h
Campus. 8 p.m. S4 . $5, S8. SIO

Tracy Collingwood. S p.m. To
resister, cali che Office of Stu·
dent Life. 645-612.5.

~alinar.

call lhc Office of Scudent Life,

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64S-612S .

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c:-dftoolllll

L qal Aspects of Nu..ninc. Student Center, Harriman. Sooth

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Harriman. Soulh Campus. 8 p.m.

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Stand Up Comedy, Mart

Condon. 8 p.m. To regi scer. call
the Office of Student Life . 6456125.

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Elfective Publk Spnk.la;.
Noon. To regi ster, call the Of-fice of Scudent Life, 645-6 12.5.
-well P- SIAoff

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Robut J•ckson, Ph.D.,
Agouron, San Dieco. Kirchhofe r
Room. Roswell Park Cancer In·

stiiUie. 12:30 p.m.

CeCioltlve ~Ecoloaital ApproKb To CocnltJve

Sc.~

John T. Sanders,

Rochester Institute ofTcc.hnol-·
ogy. 280 Part. Nonh Campus.
2 p.m.

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Dotl&amp;nloa a W•b Pac&lt; (Section

A). 2 p.m. To register, call the
Off.ce of Student Ufe, 645-6125.

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Unlnnity Con"·Oeatiea. Cen·
ter ror the Arts. North Campus.
3p.m.

Ecoloc EcoryttttU: a...c~....

l'llyllco Col'-tu•

r.lo. Sc:reening Room . Center
for the Ans. North Campus.
7:30p.m . Free.

CARL: The Atomk Analog of
• FrH Eledroa Laser, Pro f. N
Btgelow. Univ. of Roc~s ter.
210 Natural Scacnces. North
Campus. 3:4S p.m.

.......cl-....efEvent
Distinguished Speaker Se:riH-

Campus. 6-9:30 p.m.

Applylna the Principia of Sucttaful hople. Joseph Argenio.
'7 p.m. To register, call the Office
ofSiudent Ufe, 645-6 125 .

1'he O.wn of Ci.oe.ma In Bur-

Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Harvard
Univ. Mainstage. Center for the
Arts. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. S I0.

JOHN FELSnNER comeo

to UB Oct. 3 lor Weclneodayl .t Four PIUI Ht1H.

'On TtacbiDJ Activities ror
Te.chblc Plaat Scieacts. Maria
Gc.rbracht. Buffalo Botanical
Gardens. BuffaJo BotanicaJ Gardens. South Put and McKinley.
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m. $20 for
thr series. To register. call 6456800. ext . 2020.

:::::;'1-N&lt;W 'l'roatmeot ot H. Pyloriauodllttd PUD, Jennifer
l..owerison, P'twmacy. 248
Cooke. North Camput . 4:30p.m.

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lnt~iate Sip Lanpaae
Sealinar. S:30 p.m. To reaister.
call the Office of Su.Mknt Life.

St). St6.

THUR3

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AddlctloM Studlea

~ nl •nd Thnlmenl or
Adclkted C Uents With Persona lii)' Dborden. Dr. Nancy
Smyth. Sponsortd by Institute
for Addictions Studies and
Training. WCA Hospital.
Jamestown. $60. To register. call

64S-6140.

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Bordu Disputes: Communica·
lioas, CollliMrut!!! a nd C u i·
tures. 120 Clemens. North
Campus. 9 a . m.~ I p".m. For m·
rormation, call 64S-257S.

64S-612S .

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Eqlhb. Dntouaocy •nd I he
Cor-ponte Uaiw.rsily in lhe
lntW-a.tioe A&amp;c:, Dr. Kenneth
Knoespe.l, GeorJ:ia Ttth. Spon ·
sored by the English Oepan ·
ment through the Butler Cha~r
410 Clemens. North Campus.
9:30--IO:SO a .m.

NutritJoa From • Clllroprwt k:
Prnpectlw. 6 p.m . Th 'register,
c:all the Office or Student Life.

64S-612S .

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lltenpntlc Touch. Loc:ation
to be announced. Abo Oct 9 ,
16. 23. 6-9:30 p.m. Presented by
Sc:hool of Nursinc. For information, c:all 829·3291.

uuuJue Eyre (19M). Student
Union n.eater. North Campus.

6ol0 and 9 p.m. $1, $3.50.

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Eatlna Ddorden. 7 p.m. To

,_,...

••• . .h•M....aiEv...t:
Beah.b Care Frontien. Student
Union. North Campus. I0 a.m.·
6 p.m. For information. call

Novel Asp«ts or R NA Biogenesb; Revultd By Studying tbe
Ro and La Autoanticens, Dr.
Sandra Wolin . Yale Uni v 114
Hochstf:ller Nonh Campu~
4 p.m

.....-..ceutlca Seminar
Neural Computing: An l ntroduclion, Jogarao Gobburu.
Pharmaceutics . .S08 Cooke
Nonh Campus. 4 p.m

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Thnis/Disser1aUo n Sup por1
G roup, Barbara Umiker. 4 :30
p.m. To register, call the Officf:
or Student Liff: . 645-6 125

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ua- ...,... •• Fll•

TM H istory of ladepeodeot
Film a ad Videe .M•kin.g in
WNY. Screening Room . Center
for the Ans . No rth Campus.
4:30p.m. Fn:e

ur.-.....
T'ai Chi ror Bqlnners., Ron
Ingalsbe 5 p.m To n:gtstcr. call
the Offi~ of SuJdent Ltft . 645·
6125 .

-

Milne ColrtiMII"'

Q uality lmprovemrnt-En·
hanc:in&amp; Outton~ts. Student
Center. Harriman. South Cam·
pus. 6--9:30 p.m.

... ____ . _

_,._._

645-2768.

--

BloloCJc81 kletoc:eo

'l'ra.ul.tion, John Felstiner,
Armand Schwaner. Also.
Jerome Rothenbera. Dennis
Tedlodl: . Ray Federman . 420

Sbancri·La ChlDae Acroballs.

Campo ~

Fulbrlllht -~~ . .

Architecture exhibition
"'Projects from Liquid Cities."
Mehrdad Hadighi. Sponsored by
the School o f Architectu re and
PlanniRg. the exhibition can beseen in the James Dyeu Gallery.
334 H•yes Hall on UB's South
Campus. through Oct. 5 Galler)·
houn are 9 a.m.-5 p.m Mo nday-Fnday

u.,m.ellw..l
Leonardo Drew's site·spec1f1c
tnstallation " No . 45·A •· waJo dt ·
signed for the Lightwell Gallery
in the Center for thr Art!i. North
Campus. and is there through
October

......... today
''IJB Prints Today;· an exhlb111on
of sc:lected student worts from
1996. will be on display through
Oct. I m the An Oepanmem
Gallery. 845 Center for the Ans.
North Campus. Artists rqmo·
sc:nted are Ole nka Bodnardsky.
Susan Buduh. Jim Bums, Alan
Coburn, Rebecca Costanzo. Ben
Dunkle. Nathan DOOley
Hochstecler. David Jablonski. Jason Jones, Mes Kasper, Suzanne
Lewke. Mic:hael Parker. Rebecca
Rabideau, Kyok.o Roszma n.
Adam Selbst. Mk:hael Smelli"Cr.
Amy Swanele, Daa~l Walker,
and M ~hael Yeomans. Art IX·
pa.n.mcnt Gallery houn are 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m.·8
p.m. Wednesday-Friday; and t I
a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday. Admiss1on
IS frtt

Rockwell Hall. Buffalo Slate
Collece. 7:30p.m. SIO. $1 2.
Co-sponsored by WBFO.

----Eveort:
The Buffalo "' Ho~

Mov~"

Festlv•l. Screening Room. Cen-

uunallberap)' Program arc en·
couraged 10 an end one of the In·
formational meetmgs Oct. I
from 12:30-J ·JOp.m or Oct 2
from 2.30-3 :20 p.m. in 126
K1mba ll on the South Campus
The Dcpanment of Occupauona l Tberap)' is pan or the
School of Health Related Professions. For •nfonnat 1on. call
829-31 41.

--OT
Students interested in applymg
for admi ssion to the Ocrupa-

Campus deadline •s Se~ 27 for
applications for 1997 ·98
fulbnght and rtlated gran1s adminiStered by the U.S . ln funna ·
11on Agency The grani.S aJT for
gradua1e st ud y or research
abroad in academ1c field' and
for pr.tettcaltrainmg in the cn:- au ve and perfonmng ans Applicat ion fnrms and runhrr 10·
forma uon art avallablf: from
Barbara Bttnker. Fulbright Pmgmm Adviser. Oepanmem of
Psychology. 362 Park Hall.
Non h Campus The phone 1~
6-15 -3650 The compe11 t1on
closes Oct 2J

.JQ..$
Profeuloftlll
Associate Counseku· (SL~l : l.n·
ternal Promotional Opportu·
nity) ·Student Health Center.
Post mg 1tP-60J8

Feculty
Assistaot/As.wcillte/Full Pro·
fessor -Architecturr. Posting
ltF-5052 Assistant/Associate
Proressor-Acrounting and Law.
Posting ifF-6050. Cl.inic•l As·
sislanl Prof'essor-Oc-cupa11onal
Therapy. Posting •F-605 I

R-

Researc.h Aidr-Sponsorcd Programs Personnel Open Re·
search Suppor1 Spedallst -P!oy ·
chology. Posting MR·96033 Re·
se•rc.b Ttchnkian 1·810log•t·al
Sctences. Posting •R -96068

To obtain morr mformtllwn tm
JObS Ustni abtn't'. nmtacl Pnsonn ~l Mn·1crs , 104 Crofu
/loll. To obtom mformatwfl em
Rrsraf'C"h JobS. •·onwct Sp4m·
sorrd PmgramJ Prr.wnnt'l. 4/0
Cmfts

�..-w.-:
·au.a.... Foru•
Communily Reinvestment Act
(C RA). Public forum aimed ut
mmoritics and women snteresled
m btc.tness aod de velopment op·
ponunities. Advance Training
Center. 275 Oak St 8 10 a.m.
Free. Sponsored by Office of
Urban lnilialives. For inronnat•on. call 829-2306.
4

Ascn--.,
4

dows, Part I. 9 a.m. Resi51er

-·-.. -

645 -3540.

tbe Coun5tkw m

Su«esstw Muaa&lt;d c~ Alli-

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EIIiotl C. L.auer, MD., will be

Campus. 12:30 p.m. Free

ASCITW-...op
SAS on UNIX . I :30 p.m. Regtster through the Academic User
l.ta1snn Office. 2 15 Computing
Center, 645· 3540.

RoM .ad AI PatH

a..ctur•SerM•
Emcrgin&amp; lnfecHon.s and the
GJoballmpad of Pediatric
AIDS: Roundtable 11- lmmu
nu logy a nd Microbiology Programs in Emerging lnfeclioru~ ,
I Hay. Ph D, P LoVerde.
Ph.D . A LcsloC. M D.. Umted
Nalltm' and WoriJ Hea lth OrguII IIUiilt n Guests Stdano
Benoa.t, M .D .. Ph .D .. Umted
Nonions Pro~ra mme on HIVI
AIDS (UNAIDS) and Davad
Heymann . M .D .. Wo rld Health
Orgam.rutmn L1ppshutz Room.
810mcJ1GI.l Educat10n Buildang
South Campus. :! p.m
4

.....

-~- to...._.-.

Rqi~ SIO to Sl6. For in
f..-ion, caii64S-3141.

Ep~11t0Jo&amp;y Be Un.Jfkd?
Reaistntion 8:30a.m. Speakers
include Cheryl Misak, Robert P.
Amico, MW1'11y 'C larke, Richard
Fumerton, lyM Hankinson
Nelson, and Hilary Komblith.
Center for Tomorrow. Nonh
Campus. 9 a.m.-6 p.m . Through
Sept. 28. For information. call
64S-2444.

C aa

The llo~

Se---E-

honored as Distinguished Medical Alumnus. Puk Country Club
of Buffalo.

or

Law School Claa 19" R~
union. Hyan Reaency HOlel and
Saturn Cl ub. Also Sept. 28. For
information. call645-2 107.

c-

c--•DI_.,.
Central Auditory Proc:essinc:
Mostly Management. Sheraton
Inn Buffalo Airport. 8 a.m.-4:30
p.m. $75 10 $250. 1\vfHlay confeN!nce sponsored by Depart
ment of Communicative Disor
ders and Sciences. For information. caJ I 645-3705.
4

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Joo&amp;. 2SO Stuclo:nl Unioo, Nonb
Campus. Noon.

ASCIT-...op

=
~""'=""C.::Y
Noon.

lnlroducdoa to Uab:: and eomputbtJnv~ ottbe: CIT
IIIMSiaarlaa eqalpaat. I p.m.
Regisler through ~Acade mic
User Liaison Office. 21S Computing Center, 645 3S40.

UB C...._ 2 p.m. Ellicon T,._
nis Couru. Nonh &lt;:.mpus.

4

ASCIT_...,.
Ovcrvkw ot XUR6 oJOd
OpeaWiDdowlsyllees avail
able oa Sua MkrosyllUll
workslatiofts. I p.m. Regjs1er

o,....

4

Gayle. Mai ....... Ceatcr for lbe Ana. North CangJus.
7 p.m. Sl9, S22.50, S'l6. For

through the Academic User li ·
aison Office. 215 Computing
Center, 645-3540.

dilloerlshow ......... ondgroap
rates, call 1 -800-~34-

.................

Alpntlne---- ---

T.....o

UB ClaJsk. 2 p.m . University
Tennis Center. North Campus.

_.._.

-.....

LATIH 27
CUU'UII£:
Sept.
and 281n the 8leck sOx~. eent.rlorthe

~Scleooce

IActure

Arlo, lor lnternatlon8l TMater Perlormlnce -

Mladin&amp; tM Gap and Otber

R&lt;I'Oia Depndoa&lt;y, Dould
Baht. Sponsored by Institute for
Addictions Studies and Trainina. Daemcn CoUeae. $35. To
register. call MS-6140.

·

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Running Elfecllvt M~t&gt;lings,
Ed Brodka ..l :JO p.m. To rc:gts ·
1er. call1he Office: of Stullem
l ife . M5-6 125 .

Why U.. Worid Wl8 Nat Belh&lt;

s.... ApiD, Dr. Nooo-din Sop;c&lt;.
Malaysian lnsrinne o(SualegKand ln&amp;emalional Studies. S5S
&amp;ldy. Nonh Cam,..._ 2 p.m. For
infonnation. c:all645-3474.

UB Council MHtlnCoohcil Room, 505 Capen
Nnrth Campus. 3.30 p.m.

ASCrr-.....
IDtroductioa to Sua Xw&amp;adowiaa Systc.... 3 p.m.
Register throu&amp;b lbe AQdemk
·user Liaison Office. 2 15 Computing Center, 64S-3S40.

Phyalc• ColloquiuM
Crilic11lity and lht Thermodynamlt limit: Finitt-Siu Effrcts und Dimrn.ooional Crm-sov~r. Prof. F. Gaspan ni. Physu:s. 2 10 Natural Sc•ences. Nonh
Campus . 3:45p.m.

-·-

Membrane Dydunction in Aging Plant Tissue!~, Dr. John
Thompson. Uni v. of Waterloo.
11 4 Hochstetler. North Campus.

..._._ .........
4p.m.

Determinants ol Pbarmac:odyoamk Variability, Prof. Gerhard
Lrvy, Pharmaceutics. 508 Cooke.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

Statlotlca Col'-hlm
Group Sequential Methods
and Applications To Clinical
Trials, Prof. A!lhim K. Mallik .
244 Cary. South Campus. 4 p.m.

utew-...op
Thtsis/Dis.wrtation S upport
Group, Barbaro Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register. ca ll the Office
of Student life . 645-6 125 .

R--AIPIActureEmcra;in&amp; Jnfec.Uons and the
G&amp;oballmp.~d of Pt'd.illtric:
AIDS, Stefano Benoni . M.D ..
and David Heymann, M.D.,
United Nations and World Hea lth
Organiz.ation. Kinch Auditorium.
Children's Hospital. 8 a.m.

-

ACE/NIPT he lntegraUon of Community
St:rvice into Coune Work:
What Works, Dr. Marilynn
Aeckenstein, Niagara Univ. Presented by American Cooncil on
Educatia. National Identification
Program. For inrormation. call
Kim Pac.hetti . 645-2 181, ext.
537 . Heritage Room. Clec Hall.
Niagara Univ. 8: 15a.m. $ 10.

Topics in Handwriting Rccog
aiUon, Squr N. Srihari. CEDAR. Ito Knox. North Campus.
3p.m.
4

IActure
An Ovenitw of Contemporary Aftmti.M neater, Hector
Bamiros. Screening Room.
Center for the Arts. North Campus. 3 p.m . Free.

C-letry c.._luM
Capillary BkHDolecular Separations, Prof. Milos Novotny.

-p

Indi ana Univ. 2 15 Natural Sciences. North Campus. 4 p.m.

·-.....uo-~·­

Study SkUls and Time Management 250 Student Union .
North Campus. 4 p.m. Registrvtion ts requested; eall 645 2720.
4

.._.__E_
Athlt:Ue Hall of Paate Awards
Dinner and Hlltorical Trtbut~
Center ror the Arts. North Cam
pus. 6 p.m. $2.5 $30. Sponsored
by Alumni Association. For
tickets and n:servations. call
829-2608.
4

4

...,._,_,

ASCrr-......
VlsuaiBosk-t.lroductioa. 3
p.m. ReJister tbrou&amp;h tbc Aca·
demic User Liaison Oft"'tee., 215
Computing Cencer, 645 3540.

lnn Buffalo Airport. 8: 15a.m.4:30 p.m. •$75 to S2SO. Second

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day or two-day conference
apon.sored by l&gt;epart.mcnt or

Welpt~edNa·

Commuainlive DiiOI'ders and
Sciences. For information. call
64S-J'IQS_

tritioa. 5:30p.m. To rq:ister,
calllhe Offltt or SIUdent Life,
645-6125.

--....,.
_.,...

Cold Comfor1 Farm (1996).
Student Union Theater. North
Campus. 6:30p.m. and 9 p.m.
$2, $3.50.

Val LatonL 7 p.m. To regi.lltt,

Robctl Brandorq. Junes
Montmarquer. Mariam Thalos,
and Bruce W. Brower. Center
for Tomorrow. North Campus. 9
a. m.-6:30 p..m. For in.fonnadon.
call 645-2444.

call the Office or Student Life.

---·. - -T-.... .............
-·
Royals vs. Pittsburgh. Varsity

Soccer Fields. North Campus.
7p.m.

All '"ek. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus . 8- 11 p.m. Free. Spon·
sored by Graduate Student As

VInyl Madaaa. Allen. South
Campus. 9 a.m .-6 p.m. $2 . For
i nformati~, ca!1829-2880.

Me Queda La Palabra (We
Kept Their Laqu.qt), Hector
81UT'C iros, Argentine: actor.
Black Box 'Thc:atn:, Cen1er for
the Arts. No rth Campus. 8 p.m.

6 125.

Sept-SS, SIO.

Delivery Systems: Developing

Oasis Movie Ni&amp;bt. Oasis,
Ellicott. North Campus. 9 p.m .

a nd Mtasuring Competencies.

Sept-

Studenl Center, Harriman. South

-. . - - :

Campus. 6-9:30 p.m.
W.lco-:
UUAB FilM
The Player (1992). Student

UUAIIFIIM

Blue Velvet (1986}. Student
Unton 'Theater. Nolth Campus.
11 ' 30 p.m. S2 . $3.50.

Unio n Theater. No rth Campus.

6'30 p.m. S2. SJ.!O.

llatho Yop: Ao lalrodudioe,

.... _.....,
645-6125.

~ 7p.m. Toregister. call the Offtcc of Student
Life. 645-6125.

...._....,.
c ...
Scoltlsb

__

Roll..- Blade WO&lt;Itsbop. 330
Student Union. North Campus.
7p.m .

Marian Ptfehrtland, piano.
Rockwell Hall. Buffalo Stale:
College. 8 p.m. Sl6. $18. Cosponsored by WBFO.

TUE1
........

VleltlootiArlhl

AaillatDr. Noordia Sopift. Malaysi.an

S aaford Sylvan, Nritone., and
O.vkl Brt:itmu.. pbino.
Schubert 's .sona cycle "Die
scbdne Mnllerin. " and Three
Piano Pieces (D. 946). Pre-con
cen lecture by Susan Yooc:ns a1
7: 15p.m. Slee . North Campus. 8

lnslilute of StrateJic .and lnternaltonal Studies. 378 Student
Union. Nor1h Campus. Noon.
For information. call 64S-3474.

4

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c..rt-·
.....-.-

Expklring Your Dreams. Carol
Marychild. 7 p.m. To reg ister.
ca ll the Office or Student life.

Alumni_A~na. Norlh Campus.

645-6 125 .
F-PIII-.,tiJ
~

Faculty/AIUIDi Art Sin
UB grad Barry Frtzgerald, whose wor1&lt; is shown above,
is among outstanding alurmi and faculty represented in
exhibit celebrating UB's sesquicentennial, opening Oct
4 in University Art Gallery.

GrHk l.adenJUp Coat~.
Scudent Union. North Campw;.

-,_y-

-

Mnstly - - L Shenlnn

...........

Persoul Etl'edlveaeu,
Stephen Covey. Remaining
dates Oct. 23 .and Nov. IS ia the
downtown Convention Center.
Buffalo Convention Center.
Noon 3: 30 p.m. $349 f&lt;M' foor
programs. Sponsoml by the
Ct:nlcr for Entn:prenewial
Leadership.

Me Qued.a La Palaibra (We
Kept Tholr Luauaael. Heclo.Batreiros. Arxentine actor.
Black Box Thea~re, Cenler for
the Arts. North CampuL 8 p.m.

4

SS. SIO.

.

' tlw• ot.on1ers

c..lnl AadilorJ ............, ,

~

p.m. S4, S5, S8, SIO.
.,_..

Aiumni Arena. North Campus. 7
a.m.-Sp.m.

c

.._.

Aa latrodudiotl .to tbe
lntemtt from • Westera New
York .PoUlt ofView1 Jim
Gcrland. 210 Natural Sciences.
North Campus. 7 : 30p. m. ~-

Jan

-

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.....-.-

UB BuJls vs. Edinboro. Univers ity Stadium. North Campos.
7 p.m. Call 645-6666.

-

a~ry

WiUiam Miller. 7 p.m. To register. caJilhc: Office or Student
Life, 645-6125 .

,

UB Classic. II a.m. Ellicon
Tennis Coons. Nonh Campus.

'~~Mater

Nurse Contlnulnc:
Education
Management in Htallh Care

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Cu ~Be Ullifkd!
Speaken include John Zeis,

4

T ' ai C hi for Beginnc:n&gt;, Ro n
Ingalsbe . 5 p.m. To n:gistcr. call
the Offic~ of Student life. 645 ·

4

UUAII FilM

sociation.

Ufew-...op

Can Epistemology Be Unifted'!
E pistemolo&amp;:kal Fiulon, Paul
Moser, Loyola Univ. Registrll tion 6:30p.m. Open in&amp; remarks.
Mark Krista! ; chair. Peter Hare.
Marrioct Hotel , Aim and
Millerspon. 7:30p.m. Through
Sept. 28 . For informalion, call
64S -2444 .

4

V O . , I - Alleo. Souch
Campus.. II LIIL.... p.m. Sl . For
iafonna1ioD, can 829-2880.

UfeW-...op

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through the Academic User U aison Office, 2t'S Computing
Center, 64S-3S40.

Figure!. Daemcn College. $.55:
students S40. Sponsored by Social Work Continuina Edoc&amp;lton.
r-or information. cal l 645-6140.

PoetryT81k
Piu~ Joris. 438 Clemens.
Nort~

latroduction to SPSS for Win-

Cokl Comfor1 Farm (1996).
Studenl Union lbcatn: . North
Campus. 9 p.m. $2. $3 ..50.

ances: A Workshop for Counsekws and Mana~""- Jeanne

Unix Pine for VMS MaU U1
en. 10 a. m. Register through
the Academic User liai son Or.
rice. 2 15 Computing Center,

fiiQOf I ,

ASCIT-...op

IIUAIIFIIM

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N....te, RM ln&amp;alsbe and

CroftAJuiiiLDi Arena.. North Campus.

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                    <text>STATE UIIVERSITY DF NE-W YORI AT BUFFALO

UNIVIIISII'Y AIBUfMIO
State University cfNew Yorlc

ScptL'mher 19 1996 Volume 28 No -l

Suicide outranks homicide in risk
to polce oflicers, UB study shows
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"'

P

OLICE OFFICERS are eight times more
likely to die by their own han&lt;\ than by homicide, a study by UB epidemiologists has
shown. They also take their own lives at a
much higher rate than other municipal employees,
the findings indicated.
The study is one of the few empirical analyses of
police officers' risk of suicide, homicide and accidental death, and the only study to compare their
risk to that in other occupations.
"We are hoping this study will make the police
community aware that suicide is a problem, not a
myth, not something that should be shrugged aside,"
said John M. Violanti, UB assistant clinical professor
of social and preventive medicine, a 23-year vetenln
of the New York State Police and lead author on the
study.
And while the study was based on data from the
Buffalo Police Department. Violanti said the Buf- •
falo statistics mirror those of police departments
around the country. "We looked 11 five other cities,
and all five departments were higher in suicide than
other occupations. 1 think tbis is a pretty good indicator of whll's going on out there."
Results of the stlldy appeared in a recent issue of
Amtrican Journal of Industrial Mtdicint.

__

Violanti and colleagues from the UB Department
of Social and Preventive Medicine analyzed mertality data for Buffalo police officers and other municipal workers who died between 1950 and 1990
of elltemal causes (causes not related to disease). A
panel of medical examiners verified each cause of
death and ended up reclassifying the demise of four
police officers and one municipal worker from "undetermined" to suicide.
Police suicides are often misclassified for a variety of reasons, Violanti said, which leads to an underestimation Qf the risk.
The 138 people in the study, all white males, con-.
sisted of39 police officers and 89 municipal workers. Analysis of cause of death determined that:
• Among the 39 police officers, 25 deaths were
classified as suicide, three as homicide, six as accidental and four as uodetermined.
• Among the 89 municipal workers, 13 deaths
were suicide, four Were homicide, 67 were accidents,
and five remained undetermined.
• Police officers' risk of dying from suicide was
eight times greller than from homicide and three
times greater than from accidents.
Possible reasons for the high risk of suicide
among police officers are many, according to the
study. They included: continuous exposure to huContinued on page 5

.,FSEC hears ·Durkin on admissions outlook; UB to recruit out-of-state
News Services Associate Director
HE TARDINESS of the
stale budget and the uncertainty about a tuition increase that never occurred
crxnplicated the admissions effort
for freshmen and uansfer students, making it "a very difficult
year," Kevin Durkin, director of
adrllissions, told th e Sept. II
meeting of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
On the plus side, he noted that

T

there was an increase in the number of applications from residents

of the eight counties of Western
New York &amp;Old in the number of
applications in which UB was the
only choice or the first choice on
the four-&lt;:hoice SUNY application.
University administrators announced at the meeting that UB
will be undertaking a massive effort to recruit domestic out-of-

state students for the fa ll 1997
semester, as well as developing its

own application process for those
students.
Durkin said the Office of Admissions processed 19,932 completed applications for the fall
1996 semester, and made 14,469
offers of admission, both numbers
representing aggregate figures that
included freshmen, transfer students and students enrolling via
such programs as the Equal Opportunity Program and the Individualized Admissions Program.
Preliminary indications are that

4,727 new students have enrolled,
a 32.6 percent aggregate yield.
He stressed that 'the entire
SUNY system experienced a decline in applicants for the current
academic year.
"If I were to display on a matrix of some sort. every unil in
SUNY a n~ every category. we
would see a decline in ·all." he
said. "Every program, every type.

Freshman, transfer. in-slate, outof-state, male. female. resident,
commuter, matriculated. non-matriculated, full time. part time. All
negative."

D

urkin described the enrolling

freshman class as having a

·mean high-school average of
about 90, a rank in class of between 77 and 80 percent, and a

mean SAT combined verbal and

math score of about 1150.
''We're all delighted we 've
made the numbers, but the concern around this table and among
our facuhy colleagues is the issue of quality," said C laude
Welch. chair of the Faculty Senate. While he said he was satisfied with the freshman class' rank.
in class. he found it distressing

Fall student 'snapshot' met freshman target
~FORth isfallwill

ment numbers stack up as follows:
allow the university to meet its
• 15,57 1 undergraduates, 379
fewer than targeted for 1995-96.
tuition revenue budge~ according
to Robert Palmer, vice president
368 of whom were part time. The
for student affairs.
· number of freshmen enrolling for
Palmer said the 'annual aver~
the fall of 1996 exceeded the tarage full-time enrollment for the
get of 2.500 by 75. but the numyear is estimated at one-half perbers for transfer and continuing/
cent. or 120 full-time equivalents.
returning students came in at 146
below the 1996-97 budgeted tarand 308 undertarget. respectively.
get of 20,400.
• 8,006 graduat e students
The uni versity's fall enroll(headcount), six over target. The
ment was budgeted at 543 fewer
number of new graduate students
students than enrolled in 1995-96.
was 63 over target; however. 57
The actual full headcount enfewer continuing/relurning
rollment is about 373 students
graduate students enrolled.
less th an the campus targeted,
Enrollment 1argets, Palmer
Palmer added, noting that much
noted, are the basis for the budof this is accounted for by slightly
get. and are based on the
reduced part-time enrollment.
university's ability to maintain the
'"One need not be overly conquality and in tegrity of academic
cerned about headcount." said
programs and suppon services.
Palmer. "Headcount is important
··we look at the number of stuonly as it cootributes to FfE."
dents we .can reasonably accomUB'a f8111 . . . full- and part- modate," he said.
time student headcou nt enroll"Our 'snapshot' found we met

our fresh man target, which was
set at 2.500. We're very close in
transfer numbers and down in
continuing and returning student
projections. At the graduate level
we met our new student enrollment targets and we're slightl y
under with continuing and returning students," said Palmer.
The source of th is year· s
headcount shortfall was pan time
and con tinuing/returning stu dents, he noted. "You can better
projec1 outcomes with respect to
new full-time students. It is more
difficult to project pan-time and
returning student enrollment. ..
Palmer noted th at UB 's actual
fTE enroJlment is less than one
percentage under the overall target. "'The ideal would be to be
slightly over, not slightly under...
he said . .. We may need to make
some minor adj ustments for the
mid-year."

~

that UB accepts roughly threequarters of the student·s who apply, and less than a third oflhose
accepted are matriculated.
"Those who arc applying are
increasingly local. and for our
sense of serving New York State
as a whole and in particular the
hope to increase the number of
out-of-state students and make
some changes in tuition policy. I
think this would be an item for
concern," Welch said.

H

e added that he also was concerned about the decline in
applications for transfer students.
despite major recruitment and
other effons.
"We're glad about the numbers; but we're concerned about
some trends ...
Raben Palmer. vice president
for student affairs. revealed that
UB has put togerher an aggressive
plan to recruit students from outside New York. State.
"We plan to aggressively go
after out-of-state students and signifacamly expand applications
from transfer students," he said.
Durkin noted that his office
has the names and addresses of
more than 40,(X)() non-New York
State high-school seniors. and
will attend college and career
fairs in Cleveland, Pittsburgh.
BosiOJl. and Sourhem Ontario, to
name a few cities.
""Can we change 60 or 70

Continued on page 2

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....... . . ....
Physics: Nobel Laureate relates whole stoly in about an hour

2

11J DUll -.HAUM

And so mythology,
which he described as
"the best science of the

News Servoces Editor

W

ITH
HAND - DRAWN
charts, slides of cartoon stick
figure s and some playful
jibes at deans, graduate students and those responsible
for the death of the Superconducting
Supe.Collider, the man who is probably the
most imponant phys icist alive today took
only 60 minutes Friday evening 10 relate
the whole story of physics.
Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman,

time and a literature of

now director emeritus of the Fenni National Accelerator Laboratory, presented
the whirlwind CniSh""""" in a talk, "Miletus
1o the Supe.COIIider (With a Pause at the Big
Bang)," thai was the fourth in the RuSigi

Memorial Lecture series. 1be discoverer of
the muon neutrino and the bonom quark addressed an SRO crowd in Room 201 of the
Natural Scienoes Building.

He noted that it was in Miletus. an anciCnt city on the west coast of Asia Minor,
duu the basic ideas of science had their roots.
"Let's start science ," Lederman
quipped, alleging to quote some of the
prominent thinkers of the day.

splendid proportion and
depth." was put aside in
favor of a logical explanation to the world.
Specifically, leading
philosophers sought an
underlying simplicity,
which he said remains
the guiding principle of
physics today.
"Around 400 B.C ..
Democritus had the notion of a primary substance too small 10
see, which underlaid the structure of all
matter," he said.

Democritus called that substance
atomos, which means ''that which cannot
be cut."

Carpool campaign aims for fewer one-person cars
BJ ElUN CIIOUIBAUM
News Services Editor

" DON'T BE AN S.O. V." is the theme of a new campaign to promole carpooling at UB that begins this week.
SOVs-or s ingle-occupancy vehicles-are the transportation
mode of choice for UB students, faculty and staff. The campaign
10 change the slatus quo is being sponsored by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and the UB Environmental Task Force.
"Every year, students complain lhatlhere isn't enough parking
on-campus," said Lynda Schneeldoth, professor of an:hitecture and
planning at UB and chair of the ETF campus planning subcommiltee. She no10d that new parking lots actually encoorageeven more people
10 driYO, adding 10 coogestion and calls for more parking lots.
'\It's a vicious cycle," Schneckloth said ...and the only way to
Slop it is by making available alternative modes of transportation ,
such as carpooling and improved public transportation."

Ride..._•

UB
uses geographic-information software to match
commuters with similar destinations and daily routines.
NFTA is developing UB
Rideshare as a model for similar programs in Western New

Don't bean

York . Other candidates for
carpooling in Western New
Yor~

include office and industrial parks in the suburbs. some
of which have already contacted NFTA to di scuss transponation options.

__
so.v:
,_

pn UB Ridesharel

"During the next 12 months.

!he NFTA will be advancing a
major transit restructuring conce pt ca lled Hublink ," s aid
Karen Rae. deputy genera l
manager or Metro at the NFTA.

"Meeting significant shifts in travel demand involves looking
at traditional (bus and rail) and nontraditional mobility options
for the community," she explained. "We are pleased to be working hand-in-hand with UB to develop one such pilot-the UB
Rideshare program." NFTA is targeting SOVs as part of a strategy to reduce the demand for new highway construction.

"Tile ._.... volu- ol tnlfflc is the workday commute,"
explained Dan Gajewski, NFTA transit product manager, "and all
highway building is based on iL With fewer cars on the road,
fewer new highways will need to be built and air quality will
improve." And with fewer SOVs driving onto campus, the air
will be cleaner. congestion on campus roadways will be reduced
and convenient parking spaces will be easier to come by.
But, noted Gary Day, professor of architecture and planning at
UB and an ETF member, carpooling has an even stronger incentive for students living on typical shoestring budgets: it's a moneysaver. According to the American Automobile Association, driving a 12-ntile, one-way commute every weekday costs S 156/month
for gas, tolls. maintenance and wear and tear. Auto insurance and
car payments hike the estimated cost even ttigher.
Day noted that the carpooling program and other transportation alternatives to SOVs could save the university money, too.
He cited a Cornell University study that a university's cost for
maintaining a single parking space -lighting, resurfacing, snow
removal, etc.-ranged from $200-$500 per year.
Support for UB Rideshare 1otals $110,000, which comes primarily from the Federal Transit Administration. with contributions from the NFTA and the Stale of New York.
Funds are being used to purchase dedicated software and hardware and to pay for training, advertising and staff time.
Information and applications for UB Rideshare will be availab le for students, facully and staff at a table in the Student Union
today and tomorrow, from II a.m. to 2 p.m. They also are avail able a1 hup://wings.butlalo.edulnews/newsbureau/rideshare or by calling 645-6066.
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From the development or that idea in
G!'l!eee, Ledennan went oo to chmoicle the
achievements of-the Renaissance and the
road science has since taken.
"Zooming down the reductiooist road ,
physicists then zoomed into the nucleus.
using technologies developed in Wand War
ll," he said. " By studying the debris coming off the nucleus, they could understand
the forces in the nuc;leus."
But, as seems to be 1he case in physics,
simplicity is elusive and these collisions
created many new particles.
'"The new particles didn ' tlive for very
long, but they w= great for graduate students," he chuckled, noting 1ha1 each new
particle represented at least one physics
doctoral dissertation.
"11le Greeks had said that as you go
down in structure, you will find simplicity, but here was this ugly mess," Ledennan
said.
Further studies led physicists to the discovery duu many of these new particles were
actually collections of more elementary particles called quarks, which, along with leptons, are stiU believed 10 be the~ elementary particles underlying matter.

~

ederman concluded his talk with a discussion of the joining of particle physcs and cosmology, studies 1ha1 he said
will help unravel the earlieSI moments of
the universe.
"All the data consistent with the standard model show that about I 0-15 billion
years ago, all matter was compressed and
exploded in the Big Bang," he said. "So if
you run the film backwards. all things will
coalesce to a single point."
The Rustgi Memorial Lecture series is
supported by contributions from the Rustgi
family and the'ir friends to honor the late
Moti Lal Rustgi , who was a faculty member in the Department of l!hysics.
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FSEC
c_o_n_trn_u_ed~~--pa-~ t ----------------------·------------------freshmen (from outside New Yo rk State)
int o 120 or 150? Absolut ely. Can we
change 250 out-of-state tran sfers into 350?
I think we can. We ha ve to spend some
money and we ha ve to spend some time,"
he said.
Provos t Thomas Headrick said UB
would like to gel o ut of &lt;he SUNY system
admiss ions process and plans to develop
its own appli cation process for out-of-state
student s.
'"One of our problems with encourag·
ing out-of-state student s (to attend UB) is
that we encoui-age them to come to Buffalo and they get an application that is sent
to Alban y. It 's a little confusing," he said.
''We 're going to start there (wi th transfer
students) and then we hope to broaden it
to all applications."
Headrick noted that there are so me
roadbl oc ks to such a plan. &lt;h e chief of
which is opposition within the SUNY ad-

mini stratio n.
In other admi ss1o ns- related maile rs.
FSEC members rece ived a written report
from Durkin on the Individualized Admissions Program. which takes students' special talents into consideration as part of the
admi ss ions process.

C

harles Fourtner. professor of biologi cal sc iences and a member of the Indi ·
viduali zed Admi ssions Committee, pointed
out that a comparison of the grade-point
average of students admitted through the
lAP wi1h that of SIUdeniS admined through
the regular admissions process will show
the average "does n' t diverge to any great
extent" from the GPA o f the "regular"
freshmen. which is somewhere about a 2.5 .
Judith Adam s, director o f Lockwood
Library and a member of the Indi vidualized Admis sio ns Co mmiHee and the
senate' s Admissions and Retention Com-

mittee, emphasized that admissions stan dards are not ignored in the cases of students admined through lAP.
'These srudent.s do relate to the admissions standards we have; they might be
somewhal below, but they do relate 10 those
admission standards.'' Adams said. "And
they may be below in one area. rather than
in all areas, which pulls !hem below the
"T' score."
She said the commillee looks for "special talents. outstanding talent in some area
that we feel. when looking at them indi vidually. gives them a certain edge or reason to be here.
"So I don't th ink we're throwing out the
admissions standards; these people are
looked at in terms of what our standards
are and whether there are some factors
which would mitigate a problem in a certain area."
Mitchell Harwitz. associate professor of

economics and ch&amp;r of the Admissions and
Retention Commiuee, told FSEC members
that hi s committee's most pressing concerns were items that would improve student retention. Retaining 85-90 percent of
freshman cl asses would mean another 150200 students would stay in the institution
and would not have to be replaced in succeeding freshman classes, he no.ted.

Thecommittee this semester will conduct
I what Harwitz called "an e~periment,"
in conjunction with Academic Advisement,
to determine if freshmen who participate
in an ··aggressive advisement program" are
more likel y to continue as students. A
sample group of 50-60 freshmen who will
meet approximately once a month with faculty advisers will be compared with a con11'01 group to detennine if enhanced advisement has any effect on retention.
The commiltee has sent letters to faculty seeking volunteer advisers.

�Jackson at Sunrise
Professor wears his storyteller :S hat
IIJ--.ctANews Services Edit"'

S

UNY DISTINGUISHED Professor BJUCe Jackson is well-known
hither and yon as a pedagogue,
writer, folldoris~ audio archivis~
gourmand-gourme~ pal of Dustin
Hoffman, documentary filmmaker, fleethinker, sc~nwriter,pananlitre and intel~
lectual bon vivant.
He doMed his hat as story teller when
he kicked off the 1996-97 " UB at Sunrise"
Sept. 12 with a discussion of the personal
narrative.
Or to be precise, the way we construct
our narratives in hindsight to describe an
unchanging universe that doesn' t really
exist. Our stories, Jackson told an audience
of more than 120. serve many informationaJ, emotional. political and entertainment needs. And what we say happened

serves every one of us in many ways, some
of which escape our conscious awareness.
Jackson recalled, for example, how, as
a graduate studen~ be drove British poet
Steven Spender from the Indianapolis airport to Indiana University, where he was
to present a reading. Enamored of the Span-

ish Civil War, in which Spender had fought.
Jackson told the poet that one or hi s professors had seen combat in Spain as well
and bad called it "the last good war."
"I'm sure it was," Spender replied laconically. A pause; then, "I'll tell you about
Spain."
Instead of the expected tale of privation,
heroism. fear. and courage, Spender told

Jackson a most unnerving story. One
evening. Spender's commanders, deeply

interested in raising money among a bathos-loving British public. suggested to the
young soldier that one thing that would
move thi s public to conlribute 10 the war
effort would be "the death or a young poet
in combat.''

S

ubsequen~y. Spender was informed
that to this end he would "go into

combat tomorrow and not return ." N o

doubt awash in other-worldly weirdness.
Spender packed up and escaped into the
night and returned to England. hi s corpus.
if not his idealism. intact.
Jackson discussed the poet's narrative
style and the reasons he may have elected
to convey thi s particular information to a

BRUCE JACKSON dlscuaseo aopeets of storytellln&amp; for UB at Sunrise IIUdlenc:e.

kid he'd never seen before and would never
see again. He discussed the occuh mean·
ing that lay beyond its simple factual tell ing and how he himself has since used the
story for sundry purposes.
"Stories about us are living thing~:·
Jackson said, "waxing and waning in con·
text and emphasis from one day to the next.
depending on many things. including the
. audience." He sugges ted that thi s particu·
lar story served both Spender and his audience not just as a cynical anecdote about
one throw·away poet. but as a comme nt
on the nature of all wars. where boys. the

Medical alumni president activist, advocate for youth
ay LOIS IIAKEII
News Services Ed1tor

J

ACK F. COYNE has been elected
presiden t of the Medical Alumni Association of the UB Sc hool of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Also
elected were Jared C. Barlow, vice presi·
dent. and Elizabeth L. Maher. treasurer.
Coyne, a pediatrician and ordained priest.
is medical director of Memorial Pediatrics
at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
A 1985 graduate of the medical school. he
holds bachelor's and master's degrees from
St. Louis University.
Ordained into the Catholic priesthood in
1971. he changed from Roman to Eastern
rites in 1984, joining the Greek Orthodox
Oturch. A=mined activist. he woriled with
youth in SL Louis' inner city while in col·
lege and graduate school, and volunteered at
various hospitals. He also has worked in refugee camps in Thailand and Haiti.
In the 1960s, Coyne performed with the
singing group, '"The Mission:· which appeared on the Ed Sullivan. Steve Allen and
Mike Douglas shows. He later became a
vice president of Crunch Records . a subsidiary of Paramount Recording Co.
Once he became a physician, his activism centered on medicine. He served con·
currently as medical director of the Erie
County Holding Center and as medical dioector of the Robeno Clemente Pediatric
Center of Children's Hospital on Buffalo's

JACK COYNE It • - • with younc patients at Memorial Podlatrtco In Nlap1'11 Falls.

Wesl Side. By the time he left the clinic in
1993. patient visits had increased five-fold.
In 1991 he spent. several weeks setting up
medical clinics for northern Kenya ·s nomads.
He has broadened significantly the reach
and services provided by Memorial Pediatrics. which opened 10 new pediatric rooms
in 1994. He helped create the Child Advocacy centers in Niagara and Erie counties.
which serve children who have been physi·
cally or sexually abused. and continues to
serve as medical director of both agencies.

Barlow. an anesthesiologist. is medical
director of the Millard Fillmore Surgery
Ce nter in Williamsville. and chair of anes·
thesiology for Millard Fillmore Heallh
System. A UB clinical associate professo r
or anesthesiology. he graduated from the
medical school in 1966.
Maher is a 1985 graduate of the medical
school and a UB clinical instructor of medi·
cine. A specialist in family medicine. she is
emergency depanment attend ing phys ician
at Medina Memorial Hospital.

fodder of choice, were plenty and cheap
and ullimalely betrayed by all of us .

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n a section o f hi s talk he called "What

Words Do, .. Jackson discussed how chi).
drcn are good witnesses until they reach
the age of narrative ability, at which time
they begin to edit what they saw in order
to "make sense'' of the data and present a
cohesive tale. Like adults. they begin to
speak in the passive voice when trying to
avoid responsibility. Plates are said ro ha ve
just " fallen o rr the !able:· clothes "gol
diny;· someone just "got killed" by a pislol we happen to be holding. In th is way.
he said, words and the narratives they form
are used to make the past manageab le and
bearable.
Jackson delved into the political function of the family story-how the same
s10ry rold in the same way can either embrace or exclude the listener and how the
target audience comes to se nse which is
going on.
Jackson also looked ar how famil y slo·
ries are manipulated for political ends. ci 1 ~
ing AI Gore 's teary tale at the Democ rati c
convention about his sister' s death from
lung cancer as a reason for his newborn
opposi rion 10 the robacco lobby.
"He neglecled to add;· sa id Jackson.
"that for many years after her death the
family continued lO make a fonune by leas ing their land to the tob.3cco companies w
grow wbacco.··
Current examples of the manapulative
politi al narr.Hive abound. Jackson said. and
politicians love them because if a s10ry
makes sense in its ow n tenns. it "seems" to
make se nse in its application.
He pointed to George Bush's chest·
thumping tale of Iraqi soldiers dumpin g
Kuwaiti babies our of their incubators (later
auributed to a public relations finn work·
ing for the Kuwaiti government) and to the
infamous World War I narratives of"H uns"
bayoneting Belgian babies, which were told
on thousands of posters and in news stories
used to generate public suppon for the war.
··such stories are very useful because you
can' t really tell if a slory's
Jackson said.
"You can only tell if it's a good srory:·

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Procedure for preemies effective, New England Journal reports
11J LOIS 11AKE11

News Services Editor

A PROCEDURE TO TREAT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS in premalUre infants. devel oped by a UB professor. is safe and effective, accordjng to a repon which is the lead
article in last week 's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine .
A five·center trial of partial liquid ventilation to treat life·threatening respiratory distress syndrome in extremely premature infants has shown that the procedure is safe and
effective, and improves lung function in some children who failed to respond to conven·
tiona I treatment, increasing their chances of survival.
Corrine Leach. UB assistant professor of pediatrics. headed the muhi·center in vestiga·
tion of the procedure. which was developed by Bradley Fuhrman. UB professor of pediatrics . Leach and Fuhrman also are affiliated with the Children' s Hospital of Buffalo.
Respiratory distress syndrome, the leading cause of death in premature infants. de vel·
ops because the lungs of these tiny babies have yet to secrete surfac tant. the substance
that prevents the air sacs from collapsing. Conventional therapy for this conditi onincreasing the pressure and oxygen concentration inside the lung in . an effon to force
more oxygen into the blood stream--can cause permanent lung damage and result in a
chronic disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Panialliquid ventilation involves introducin g an oxygen·rich liquid ca lled perflubron
into the baby's lungs. The liquid allows the lungs to inflate with Jess press ure than air.
and permits oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass through the air san and into th~ blood
stream more easily and efficiently.
"The successful introduction of liquid into the lung and the ability of mfants to breathe
with liquid allows us to ventilate the lung at lower pressu re . which causes less damage.''
Leach said . ..If we can decrease the amount of lung injury. we can greatly improve 1h ~
patient's outcome and perhaps prevent chronic lun g disease."

Tile pilot atudy Involved 13 l nf8nts born between 24-34 wee ks of ges1a11on All
had failed to respond to conventional therapy and were at risk of dying .
Carbon-dioxide leve ls improved in all patients while on PLV and lung funcllonmg
improved in 11 infants.
Seven of the 13 critically ill infants survived. Of those who died. three succ umbed to
their acute lung disease, and one from bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Two patients died
of non· respiratory complications of premnturity.
Clinicallrials using PLV to treat children and adults with severe respiratory di stress
sy ndrome are now under way and results are promising. Leach said.

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Showcasing Arts

Center for Arts offers varied menu

T

HE CENTER for the
Arts will offer someth ing for everyo ne in
1996-97 with a new season of performing arts ranging
from family programs to an innovative dance and jazz collaboration.
In addi tion to bringing in a wide variety o f famous. as well as little-known, performers. the center will continue showcas mg the work o f UB ·s gifted facu lty and stu-

den ts. Local ans organizations also will
presen1 cri tically acclaimed works in US's
~tate-of-the-an facility.
Among the events scheduled for the
1996-97 season at the Ce nter for the Ans:
Crystal Gayle, who many consider o ne
o f the biggest country music stars of all
time. will bring her unmistakab le voice to
the Ce nter for the Arts Mainstage at 7 p.m.
Sunday. Sept. 29. Gayle·s debut. released
whi le she was still in high school. was her
first hit; almost three dozen hit records have
followed . inc luding ·wrong Road Again:·
''I'll Get Over You" and the Grammy-win ning ··Don·t It Make My Brown Eyes
Blue:·
In a special arrangement for faculty,
staff and students, the Center for the Arts
has a "buy-one-get-one-free licket offer for

the neXt two events, the Parsons Dance
Company and The Billy Taylor Trio; and
the London Chamber Orchestra. Tickets
must be purclaased at the Cem er [or tl1e
Arts Box Office. The special offer will be
given upon pnsentation offa culty, staff or
student /D.

he Parsons Dance Company and

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The Billy Taylor Trio will bring their

unique combination of modem dance

and live jazz to th e Center for the Ans
Mainstagc at 8 p.m. Friday. Oct. 4. when
they present ..Step Into My Dream" as pan
of UB 's sesquicentennial celebration. Parsons. who left the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1987 10 form his own modern dance
compan y, has since bui lt a hot company of

nine dancers, who perform a repenoire of
40 of hi s works to freshly created scores.

"Step Into My Dream" is just such a collaboration-set to live jazz by the Billy Taylor Trio. This event will be followed by a
UB birthday pany in the Atrium.
The London ChamberOn:hestra, perhaps best known for bringi ng orc hestral
mu sic into the 20th ce ntury, wilt perform
at 4 p.m. Sunday. Oct. 13 in the Center for
th e Arts Mainstage . Infu si ng works by
Prokofiev and Stravinsky. as well as Philip
Glass and Pete r Gabriel. the LCO, with
music director Christopher Warren·Grcen,
draws audiences of all ages. The ensemb le
is one of the British mu sic establi shmenl' s
most re spected . Billed as The Second
Bernice Poss Memorial Concen, thi s event
ha s been made poss ibl e through the generosity of the Poss fami ly.
wo of today's cha rt -topping jazz artists wi ll perform to$ether on Friday.
Nov. 8, as the Cente r for the Arts pre-

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~ n ts singer-songwriter Cassandra Wilson
and saxophonist James Carter. Wilson,
dubbed "the most accomplished jazz vocalist of her generation" by Time maga-

zine, and Carter. who has performed wi th
Wy nton Marsalis. the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra and Lester Bowie, will perform
at 8 p.m . in the Ce nt er for the Arts
Mainstage.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo will perform at 7:30p.m. Tuesday. Feb. 25. in the
Cen ter for the Ans Mai nstage. Already the

No. I group in Africa when Paul Simon
came cal ling. the group's appearance on his
landmark Grace/a nd album and tour
brought it into fu ll world view. Tile group
became political emissaries in 1993, accompanying President..:lect Nelson Mandclato
his Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo.
Tile Center for the Ans 1996-97 season
also will include a performance by
Maynard Ferguson and His Big Bop
Nouveau Band at 8 p.m. Saturday, Man:h
I. in the Mainstage. An internationally famou s trumpeter and big-band leader,
Ferguson is now in his fourth decade as a
leader of a multitude of bands. His Big Bop
Nouveau boasts a nine-member, beboporiented, acoustic-jazz. big-band sound that
initiall y established Ferguson in the '50s.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will
perform Thursday, March 20 at 7:30p.m.
in UB·s Mainstage. Taylor'sco mpany has
performed in more than 400 cities in 60
nations, the toast of every town it sets foot
in. This project is made possible in part by
Mid Atlantic Ans Foundation.

A

madcap evening is guaranteed when
the Flying Karamazov Brothers
bring their program, Sharps, Flats
and Accidentals. to the UB Mainstage at
7:30p.m. Tuesday, April 8. Don' t let the
name fool you. this troupe is neither flying nor acrobatic. but they are fun . ln fact,
the Flying Karamazov Brothers will bet a
standing ovation against a P.it in the face
that any patron can bring a "unjugglcablc'·
item to the stage.
The Magic School Bus will present
Arnolds Fa1·ori1&lt; Field Trip Friday. April
II. at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 12. at II
a.m. and 2 p.m. in UB 's Mainstage. This
best-selling book series-cum-wildly popular animated television program is now a
traveling stage show. Critics have said The
Magic School Bus is the Sesame Street of
the '90s and because of that, elementarysc hool science will never be the same.
ick of the Crop Dance, one of
Buffalo's foremost professio nal
dance companies, will prese nt
Hansel and Grere/ on Saturday, April 26.
at 7:30p.m. and Su nday, April27. at 2 p.m.
in the Center for the Arts Mainstage. Choreographer Elai ne Gardner and composer
Curt Steinsor bring new life to this class ic
Grimm fairy tale. This eve nt is co-sponsored by· the Center for the Arts.
The International Artistic and Cultural Exchange Program (lACE) will
welcome visiting artisls from all over the
world to the Center for the Ans in 199697. The fall 1996 schedule includes:
• Me Queda lA Palabra (We Kept
Their lAnguage), 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Sept. 27 and 28. Black Box Theatre.
• E-Motions, A Theater-Dance Performance, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 22 and 23. Black Box Theatre.
• The lACE International Theatre
and Lecture Series: Programs will be held
in the Screening Roo m: admission is free .
The series includes Overvi~w of Cont~m­
porary Argentine ThtaJre, 3 p.m. Friday.
Sept. 21 ; Soul and Flesh of the Polish
ThtaJer, 3 p.m. Friday. Oct. II ; Ritual and
TheaJer in Contemporary Maya-Chol and
Chontal Cultures. 3 p.m. Friday. Nov. 8;

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International Vuual Artists on the

Stage. 3 p.m. Friday. Dec. 13.
Tickets to Ce nter for the Arts eve nts are
avai lable at the UB Center for the Ans Box
Office. by fax. by mai l. and at all Ticketmaster locations.
New info nnation is added frequently to
the Center for the Ans calendar. For latebreaking news, caii645-ARTS or access the
web site at http://win(!S-bulfalo.edu/news
and click on ·-center for the Arts.••

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Three alumni to be inducted into
Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 27
i1J MAllY IIEllt aPINA
News Services Editor
THREE UB AWMNI WHO DtSTIN41UISHIED THEIIISELVES in athletics during their
college careers will be inducted into the UB Ath letic Hall of Fame at a dinner to be beld
at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, in the Center for the Anson the North Campus.
Gerald J. ("Faker") LaFountain of Scottsdale, Ariz.; George V. Lesser of Amherst.
and Edgar Greenan! Poles of Buffalo will be inducted into the ball of fame by UB
President William R. Greiner and Athletic Director Nelson E. Townsend.
The dinner is open to the public; tickets arc $30 per person and reservations must be
made by Sept. 20. Call 829-2608 or 1-800-BUILD-UB.
LaFou ntain. Lesser and Poles also will be honored at balftime of the UB Bulls-Edinboro
University Fighting Scots game, which will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Sept. 28. in UB
Stadium on the North Campus
LaFou ntain, who earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1966. received
honorable men tion in 1965 for the NCAA Division I football all-star team. He also won
three intercollegiate sk iing championships. and was named to the All-East NCA-A Division I first team in 1965. He played professional football for seven years with the Edmonton
Eskimos. He is a real estate executive.
Lesser. D.D.S. ·39, earned first place in the C lass ··A·· epee in the 1939 Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championships, winning 12 consecutive marches and upseuing the
defending champion. He also earned second place in sabre and fifth in foil in the 1939
championships. He retired from practicing dentistry in 1993.
Poles earned bachelor's degrees in social welfare and business administration. both in
1973. He was undefeated as a freshman in the wrestJing unlimited weight class. and
suffered onl y one varsity defeat as a sophomore wrestling in the 191-pound class. A
defensive lineman on the football team. he was named to the Associated Press All -East
second team in 1965 and received honorable mention for the AP All-American team in
1965. He played professional football for the Edmonton Eskimos and tbe British Columbia Lions for four years. receivi ng the Joe Clark Memorial tropby as the outstanding
rookie in 1966.
He twice has been named Black Achiever of the Year in Buffalo. He is supervi sor of
distribution operations at the William Street Post Office and also serves as coordinator of
the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc.'s income-tax assistance program.

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believe public holds stereotypes that barcode blackS

Study reveals

negative racial
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News
Services
Editor

AMERICANS believe
the average person coolinto hold stereotypical beliefs about black males, including assumptions that they an:
lazy and stupid, criminally minded and
mean, according to a major survey conducted by a professor emeritus at UB.
The study by Herbert L. Foster contends that these stereotypes .. bar code"
black males from an early age and may be
responsible, in part, for the assignment of
a disproportionate number of black males
to special-education classes for the mildly
retarded or emotionally disturbed.

oster 's sample consisted of 3.130 subjects; 1.627 of whom were educators:
teac hers, sc hool administ rators or
guidance counselors. Subjects were asked

to .. list all the stereotypical beliefs. feel -

dents-the majority of them white and
more than haJf of them educators -were
published recently in The Journal of African American Men , the quarterly journal
of the National Council of African Ameri can Men.
Foster, professor emeritus in the Department of Learning and Instruction in the

UB Graduate School of Education, is ana-

reotyped think.ing.
He said the study is the first open-&lt;Onded

Foster says those results occur when
educators interpret the adolescent coping
behavior of even very young black males
through a sc reen of racial and ethnocen·
tric slereotypes. The survey results. he
notes. speak to the need to face the fact
that racism in our sociely and in our schools
is a fact of life that black. children. and partic ularly male black. c hildren: have to con·
tend with every day.

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Results of the survey, conducted over
four years and involving .3.130 respon-

tionally recognized expert on the subject
of educators' racial perceptions and ste·

grams.

survey of attitudes toward black. men and
has a 95 percent degree of accuracy.
For years, education researchers, incl ud ·
ing Foster. have cited the stereotypes un·

derscored by the study and raised serious
concerns about them. They also have raised
an alarm about the "grossly disproportion·
ate" number of black males who are sus-

ings. expecta tions and fantasies that the av.
erage person has about blad.. men." The
survey was administered ove r a four·year
period across the U.S . and 1n Ontano.
Canada.
Among the common be liefs cited by
respondents a!'! being held by the publi c are
that black men are criminally dishon e!'l t.
less intelligent. lazy. have .. negau ve fam·
ily traib" and are belligerent and mean .
Foster w rites: ··Negative stereotype!&lt;!
about black males. long whi spered about.
ha ve now been co nfirm ed through re search. Those of us contin\Jally horrified
by the shun ting of ma les. and black male s
in particular, into special educat ion. or be·
ing suspended from school. ha ve a respon·
si bility to educate teachers and their instructors. as well as in·service educators.
about stereotypical beliefs established and
reported in thi s study."

Fallfest '96 set for Sept. 21;
Better Than Ezra is headliner
a.amtAARIISTS BETTER THAN EZRA
will headline Fallfest. '96, to take place
Saturday. Sept. 21 from 2-11 p.m. The
event. presented by the Student Associa·
lion and UUAB, will be held outdoors at

Baird Point on the UB North Campus. and
will be free to everyone. ln case of bad
weather, it will be indoors at Alumni Arena,
free to UB students with an ID and $10 for

the general public.

Better Than Ezra. whose newest CD and
major label debut, friction , baby was released in August. will top the show. The
band had two hits in 1995, Good and In
the Blood, from their independentl y released CD. Deluxe.
Salsa musician Tito Nieves, who will
bring hi s Latin rhythm s to thi s year 's

Fallfest, has traveled throughout North and
Central America. His fifth album. Un 7ipo
Comun, was released in 1995 .

Bounty Killer, a raaa- artlat with
intense lyrical content and a fast freestyle

delivery. will also appear at Fallfest. A
strong addition to the show. Bounty Killer
has several album~ releCL\'ed in Jamaica. the

U.S. and England.
Adding a hip hop vibe will be Boot
Camp Clik, featuring Heltah Skeltah,
O.G.C. and Smif 'N' Wessun . Heltah
Skeltah 's debut album, NociUrnal, has just

been released, and Smif ·N' Wessun's de but album, Do Shinin , has sold over
300,000 copies. O.G.C .. a group of intense

rappers, round out the Clik. Also taking the
stage will be Sony recording artists Satchel.
Satchel. froin Seattle. has just released their
debu t album, The Family.

Faculty Development Public Service grants to be awarded
The Off1ce of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affa1rs has announced the
Faculty Development Public Service Initiative (FOPSI), a program to prov1de UB faculty w1th
opportunities to engage tn research projects that consider and enhance the role ol pubhc
service in the university..
Preference will be given to innovative proposals that ·
1. tntegrate scholarshtp wtth the untversity's public serv1ce mtss1on, anO/or
2. enhance faculty awareness of the ways that public serv1ce can ennch teachtng and
scholarship.
A limited number of grants averagtng $5,000 to $10,0Cl0 will be awarded All pro1ects
must be completed wtthtn one year of the date of the award. ApplicationS lor th1s tnlltallve ,
Including the objectives of the FOPSI and the guidelines for developing proposals. are
available in deans' off1ces . department chair offices. the Office of the Vice Prestdentfor
Public Service and Urban Affairs (548 Capen Hall). and on UB W1ngs hnp:/1

Wlngs.buffalo.edu/psua/FDPSI/
Completed application are due 1n 548 Capen Hall by 5 p .m. Nov. 1 Notihcatoo of
awards will be made on Dec. 2.
For more infonnat/00 about the FOPSI. call the Office of the Vtee President fOI' Public Service and Urban Affairs at 645-2097 .

Computer previews new look, new hairstyle
Sophorn&lt;l&lt;e Kelly Poem looks into mirror as her "makeover· is performed by
Julie Marlcello, a stylist with Capello Salons. Salon Selectives brought the compuler hair imaging and makeover style tour to the Student Union Sept. t t

SUICIDE
Continued from page l

mao mi sery. an overbearing police bureau·
cracy. shift work. social strain. marital difficulties. inconsisten cie s of the criminal
justice system. alcohol problems. ph ysical
illness. impending retirement lack of control over work and personal Jives.
Violanti sa id he thinks the biggest reason police officers die by suicide at high
rates is because they have nowhe re to go
for confidential help when personal problems or job stress overwhelm them.
"If you look at the data, most people who
commit suicide have never gone for help,"
he said. "Police officers are more hesitant
than the average citizen to get help for ertl()tiona1 problems. Because of their role and

their job, they mistrust many things. and they
especially mistrust mental health professionals. The other balf of the problem is, confidential help isn't always readily available.

"De panments should includ~ !&lt;lOme ~011
of suicide awareness training in lheir stre s~
management program.·· Violanti added .
..The New York City Polu:t" Depa11men1
has such a program and suicides went dov. n
after it was in slit ut ed. The Buffalo depa11·
ment now also has a program in ph.ll·e:·
Compoundi ng the situat ion is the read~
avai lability of a weapon. he said. SuJctdt•
often is an impulsive act and the SUJCJdt•
method of choice by male s 10 Amt"ncan
society-the handgun - 1 ~ literal!)' at a po·
lice officer's side and IS guanmteed to ~
lethal in the hands of an experienced :!.hooter
Other researchers on the project wert•
John E. Vena of the UB Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine and James
Marshall. formerly o f that dcpanmem. The

research wa&gt; supported by a grant from the
National Institute of Mental Health.

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1111 DANCE INSTIIUCTOit
_.,.YDANCE
IIASTEIIS DF AMEIIICA
Thomae P. llalaNte, lecturer in
the UB Department of Theatre and
Dance . rece•ved
the prestigiOus
Ivy Hall Foundation Award from
the National AsSOCIBIIOO of
Dance Masters of
Amenca at 11s re cent !12th naRAI.AIIATE
tional convent•on
Ralabate •s th1rd
reclptent of the award . wh1ch prev• ousty went to Gene Kelly and
Sharon Dante . an mternallonally

recogn•zed dance educator The
award •s presented tn recogn•tton of
dance artiSts' dedtcahon and contnbut10ns to the f•eld
Aalabate d•rects !he JBZZ dance
program at UB and recenlly completeo a nat•onw•de choreography
and teachtng tour In 1993. the Ch•c ago chapter of the Nat•onal Assoc•at•on of Dance Masters of
Amenc a presented h•m w•th an arIISIIC achtevement award
A former U.S and Norlh Amencan LaM ballroom dance cham.
pton . he has taught lor mator oance
organtzat1ons throughout the U S
and Canada A past dtrector of the
Mr 'oance of Amenca Scholarship
C mpet1110n he •s a former tnterna·
11 nal board member altha Fred
A tatre Petformtng Arts Assoc1ahon
C~NUPIN

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BEE

SWEEP

'lie AT UBI

Your he is needed for a clean·up
tob to '"'prove area waterways! Vol·
unteers w11l c lean up the univerSity's

D0'1IOf1 ollhe Great Lakes waterslledLakB LaSaAe and a section o1 Elltcoll
Creek---during !he eigl1lh arruaJ Gleat
Lakes Beach Sweep on Sa!L&gt;"day, Sept
2 1 lrcrn9:~ to 11:XI a.m.
Volunteers aged 16 and older
w1U clean up and document the
type of debris found along campus
waterways as part of the lnterna.
!lanai Coastal Cleanup sponsored
by the Center for Marine Conserva·
tton Data gathered from around the
world •s categorized to determine
steps needed to reduce or eliminate
dumptng of debus
Interested tn JO•ning Beach
Sweep? Contact Helen Oomske, as·
soc•ate director of the Great Lakes
Program/New York Sea Grant Exten·
stan Educator at 204 Jarvis Hall .
634·36 10 or 645-2088. Participants
w111 meet Sept 21 at 9:30a.m . rain
or shtne. near the entrance to ~arv•s
Hall. next to the Furnas Parking Lot
Certiltcates will be awarded to each
parhctpant Garbage bags. gloves
and data cards witl be prov1ded
Last year. more than 50ClO volun·

teers from New York State cleaned
up 82,000 pounds of trash, with 80
diHerent types of trash removed from
more than 228 miles of lake shoreline, creeks and other wat8fWays .

SCIENCES ALUMNI LECTURE
TO FOCUS DN INTEIINET
Anyone Interested in sharpening
their sk1lls on the Internet can come
to ·An Introduction to the Internet
From a Western New York Point of
Vtew. • to be held at 7:30 p .m. Sept.
30 tn Room 2 10 of the Natural Sci·
ences Complex . NDfth Campus.
The lecture, free and open to the
pubhc , IS part of the UB Sctences
Alumn1 Association lecture series.
.lame• R. Oettand, associate
dtrector of the Division of Comput·
tng and Information Technology at
UB. and one of the founders of Buf·
lalo Free·Net . will discuss how to
take advantage of the Internal's in·
lormat1onat resources. including ac·
cess to etectron.c mail. electron1c
news , discussiOn groups and mtl·
I tons ot etectroruc information re·
sources
WNY s•tes such as Buffalo Free·
Net and the WNY Web will be higtr
lighted. The talk is lor those who have
never surfed the Net. as 'HeM as lor
those who have some lamilianty with it
Garland. who IS president of the
UB Sc1ences Alumni Assoctahon of
the Facutry of Natural Sc.ances and
MathematiCs. will explatn what the
Internet offers. how to get connected
to the Internet, what hardware and
sottware are necessary and how
best to use search engtnes

- E IS JUDGE, PRESENTS
PAPEII AT CAIRO fESTIVAL
Marl•

a. Horne, assistant profes-

sor. Department of Theatre and
Dance and director of the Interns·
tiona! Artistic an·d Cultural Ex·
change Program of the UB Center
lor the Arts, has been serving as a
judge lor the Cairo International
Festival lor Experimental Theatre
1996 awards. The festival was held
Sept t · 11 in Cairo, Egypt
Horne was invited to present a
paper, Sociological Aspects of the
Laun Amencan Theatre m the
United States of America. at the
lest•val's matn academic event

' IASSEII IS DISTINGUISHED
MEDICAL AWMNUS
Elliott c . ._.._ will be honored
as Distinguished Medical Alumnus
by the Medical Alumni Association of
the UB School of Medicine aQd Biomedical Sciences at a dinner in his
honor to be held on Friday, Sept. 27,
at The Park Country Club of B uffa)().
Lasser is professor emeritus at
the University of CallfOfnia at San
Otego School of Medicine A pia·

Looking for an OJiporlunlty to be
lha locus of natl•l publicity?
The university's Sesquicentennial Publicity Committee ·is look·
ing for you to participate in a filming thai will occur at 2:30
p.m. today in the lobby of the Student Union.
A CtfM from WKBW-TV, the local ABC affiliate, will be filming a brief segment to be submitted to "Gepd Morning America" for use this fall.
Students. faculty and staff who are available at the time are
invited to participate In the filming--just show up and be
ready to say "Good morning. America I" on cue.
Earlier this week, US's sesquicentennial celebration r&amp;ceivad national publicity on another national morning show:
NBC's "Today."
In response to a request from the Sesquicentennial Public·
ity Committee. weathercaster and all-around-good-guy
Willard sCott took the time during Monday's birthday segment
10 wish UB a happy 150th while holding a scaled-down version ol one of the sesquicentennial banners thet are being
displayed on light posts on the North Campus.

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neer in contrast material research in
diagnosUc radiotogy, he is known
worldwide fOf his work in that d isci·
pllne. His earty rese81ch reported
on X·ray contrast material-protein
lnteracUons that now serve as uni·
versalscreening tests fOf the phar·
maceutlca1 Industry in developtng
new contrast materials.

A native Buftalcrian, l.assef

graduated ""'" Harvard lJrWersity
and earned his medical degree Iran
UB in 1946. He deYeloped an inter8ot
in radiology dl.wing a ~ term in
!he us. Navy, and went on 10 compiets a thr,e.year residency in the
fiOid at !he University a Minneoola
Schooi,Pf Medicine, where he raceiYed a master's degree in radiology.
Lasser returned to Buffalo in 1953
as chief ol diagnostic radiology at
Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He li!fl
in 1956 to head !he Radiology Oepartmenl at !he University a Pitts·
burgh , and in 1968. became professor and chair ol radiology at UC-San
Diego School of Medicine.
He served as acting vice chan-cellor fOf the health sciences at UC.
San Diego in 1979--80, then returned
to teaching and research. Named
PfOfessor emeritus in 1991 , he con·
tinues his research at the university.
Lasser has received many honors, including gold medal awards
from the ttvee ma;or radiology societ·
ies. and the Harry Fisher Awatd for
excellence in radiology research.

MILUIIIS MEMHII DF NSF
COMMITIU, IIIVES LECTUIIES
Rua• Miller, profesSOf of Com·
puler Scieni::e. is a member of the
review committee for the National
Science Foundalion's Partnerships
for Advanced Computational Intra·
structure program, a foUow·up to the
NSF Supercomputer Center Program.
Miller has given several talks in
the past month. 1ncluding an invited
talk In August at the XVII Congress
and General Assembly of the Inter·
national Union of Crystallography in
Seattle. Wash .. at whtch a paper
and poster were presented. He
spoke Aug ~ 9 at the Crystallcr
graphic Software Workshop spon·
sored by the Advanced Photon
Source group of Argonne National
Laboratones He conllnues to serve
as coordinator of education lor the
IEEE Technical Committee on Paral·
lei Processmg .
SILS TO OFFEII QIIADUATE

COUIISES DN INTERNET
The School of Information and Lt·

brary Studies (SILS) will olfer two
distance learning graduate courses
on the Internet during the spring se-mester of 1997. The courses. Intel·
factual Freedom and Academic and
Research Libraries. will be taught
by Associate Professor John
Ellison. Academic and Research
Libraries is an on·line seminar with
the class interacting with 25 profes·
sional academic librarians from
around the U.S. FOf ITK)(C informs·
tion , contact the professor at
etlisionOepix.net Of call326--6915
SULEWSKI~

•y

STATE DIVISION DF WOMEN

Joan Sulew•kl, associate pro-fessor ol gynecology and obstetrics
at UB. was honored Sept 12 with
the GovernOf's Award lor Excel·
lence at a luncheon given by the
New York State DIVision for Women

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l'nm&gt;ll for Pteully Developmeal, In collltbonliaa willlllle Uai-

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venhy U1nriea, bu developed a Wat1d W'ICie Web .-ce for
leiCbiDc and 1e'm1ia&amp; at UB.
Tbe lite, wlaidl is desiaJied 10 ~ elfec:live u..u.:cloe
'lll!IIOcnbolllce llddellllcamioJ, liDks Ill

available bote 011 campus and 0111belDWDet. Reloun:e ceprieo are deliped f« bolb bealnDinl and aperienl:ed ...._

who wish 10 explore different teacbi"' - - - · 10 belll!r UDclemand SIUdenl leamiQJ, to aearcb out new technologies for
leal:lliliJ, and 10 idelllifr other UB faculty interested in specific
teaching and 1earnioJ topics. Pacully from UB wbo have inlbgrated cducatioaalled!DoJosy iato lbeir lleaebiog are highligblcd.
with information
and links to !heir
specific projects ineluding the in·
structional Web
pages they· have
developed.
The UB Teaching and Learning
Web site encompasses a variely of~~ (including bibliographies. anicles. case studies. conference announcements. databases. and electronic journals) and topics (ranging from course
design to classroom evaluation). There is an extensive section

on teaching

~trategies

which covers active learning, lecturing,

conducting discussion, large classes, and seminars. A separate
section is devoted to the concerns of graduate teaching assistants. Connectio"' to selected educational sites on the Internet·
provide UB facully with the opportunity to find out about na·
tional issues and research being done in teaching and learning.
The Web site is being actively developed and is intended to
include information on professional development as well as answers to questions and concerns raised by UB faculty. You can
help in this effort by sending your comments and suggestions to
Norma Henderson .'Coordinator of Teaching and Learning. 2 14
Talbert Halt, 645-3364, tdnorma@acsu.bulralo.cdu.
To connect to the Teaching and Uaming Resources Web pages,

select "Faculty &amp; Staff'" from the main menu of WINGS, the
university's campus-wide information service. Then simply
choose "Teaching " and follow the/ink to "Teaching and Learn·
ing Resources. " Or go there direct using the URL http://
wings.bu/fa/o.eduRibrarievprojects/tlr.
-Loss Pequeno Glazier and Nancy Schiller. Universiry libraries
•n Statler Golden Ballroom.
Sulewski. honored for health ad·
vocacy. is founder and director of a
heallh-care program tor women vet·
erans that serves 1,000 patients
and has more than 2,000 on a reg·
tstry. She conducts outreach programs, wofi(s with military reserve
units and has initiated educational
and nutritional programs for women
at Veterans Administration facilities.
Others honored included Muriel
A. Moore. prestdent of Buffak&gt; State
College and former vice prestdent for
public service and Uiban affairs at

Specialty jazz records, COs and

UB. lor !he field ol education.

cassettes may be made from B a.m.

other higher-value items will be $5.
Rare items will be up !Of b id by
silent auction , including mus1c by
the Rolling Stones, Elv•s. the
Beetles , Jimi Hendri)( and Buddy
Holty. A $1 regtstratiOO fee ;s required
for the auction. Rnal btds will be
taken at 1 p .m . Sept. 29, with names
of high bidders posted at 2 p.m.

Admission ol $1 for the general
public and bargain prices will be featured from 11 a.m. to 4 p .m. at the
sale's "Cleanup Edition- 'Sept 29.

Donations ol records, COs and
to 8 p.m. Sept. 18.and Sept. 25 at

"VINYL MADNESS" SALE

•EHEFITS WWO IIADIO
Thousands of records , COs and
cassettes will be on sale at Vinyl
Madness IV, to be held on Saturday,

Sept. 28. and Sunday, Sept. 29.
The lund-raiser to benefit WBFOFM 88.7, !he National Public Radio
affiliate oper8ted by UB. will be held
in Allen Hall, South Campus.
WBFO members can prev1ew
and purchase items beginning at 9
a.m . Sept. 28. The general public
will be admitted for a $2 entrance
tee from 11 a.m . to 6 p .m .
The event will inctude rock, f&lt;&gt;'k.
lounge, classical, comedy, children's.
pop, jazz, blues and others. Most
records and cassettes will be S1.50.

Allen Hall. For more Information. call

829-2880.

. SCIENCE FOliUM HOLDS
-AL~SEJIIES

The Western New York Science Forum ts holding its 26th annual W!c·
ture series for teachers of all grades

and subjects on most Wednesday
evenings through January.
Most talks will be held from 7:309:30 p .m. in Room 170 in Millard
ROmore Academic Center in the

Ellicott Complex, North Campus.
Goal ollhe program, said George
H. Nancollas, SUNY Distinguished
Prolessor ol Chemistry, who began
the lectlXe &amp;efies n 1970, is to expose
teachers to !he most exciting cleYelop.
ments In science so that they can encourage their students to beoome interested in science. More than SO
WNY teachers now participata.
US faculry taking part in pro-grams include: Chartes E. Mitchell,

UB professor of geology; Michael S.
Webster, UB professor of bk&gt;logical

sctences and Fred Sloss, librarian,
UB SCience &amp; Engineering Library
Lectures are supported by the
UB Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics. For more lnfOfmation,
call 645-6800, ext. 2020, or 64S.

6800, exl. 22t0.

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The meet was a!so SCOfed as a dual meet lor all teams ahd the other opponents UB's
and NiSgara
by identical 15-50 margins
On the men's Stde. UB rolled to four dual Wins over Western OntariO ( 17-43). Sl

Yt'Offi8rl defeated Western OntariO 19-44 , St Bonaventure 17-46, and Fanshawe

e

BULLS IIIQ PLAYS ... RAIIIERS 3tr18

The Bulls improved to 2-1 on the season on the strength of biQ plays and specoat teams tn a
36-16 win at Colgate last Saturday.
UB led by just 9-7 tate in the first half when quanerbacl&lt; Mar1&lt; Taylor hit junior flanker Jan-.e
' Gasparre lor a 24-yard TO strike on 4th-and-2 with :20 remaining in the half. That score was set
up by a 39-yerd interception return by senior dalensive beck Bill Ttpton.
The &amp;Jtls took oontrot of the game as the Taylor-Gasparre oonnection struck again aNer
Colgate had cut the UB lead to 16-10. Taylor hit Gasparre on a 70-yard strike to put the Bulls in
control to stay. Fullback Todd Pace added two touc11downs while fUnior taflback Anltlony Swan
had t 17 yards on 19 carries offensively.
Gasparre led the Bulls with140 yards on just frve catches, an average of 28 yards per reception. Defensively Craig~ led the way with 10 teckles to become just the second player in UB
htstory to record 350 tacldes in a career. The all-lime leader is former tearrrnate Pete Conley who
had 376. SliM! McDuffie loroad two hrnbtes and Dan Poulsen had a pair of recovenes.
The Bulls special teams came through all during the game as Tipton blocked a field goal.
senior Mike Chichester blocked his second punt of the season setting up a Pace touchdown.
and senior kicker Gerald Carlson booted three field goals and averaged 46 yards per punt.
Tipton earned national honors fN8r the weekend winning NCAA DiviStOO t-AA lndependient
Defensive Player of the Week award. It was the second time in three weeks thet a UB defender
has earned the honor. Chichester took the award in the season's opening week fOf his play
against Illinois State. Taylor matched his career-11igh in passing by connecting on 16;)1-26
passes lor 218 yards.
The Bulls hit the road again fOf a contest at Lehtgh on Saturday. Ktekoff •s 1 p m

e ROYALS, IIUU.S ROLL TO CROSS COUNTRY WINS
The University at Buffalo's men's and women's cross country teams, racked up the w1ns Satur·
day aNernoon at Akron Falls Park taking the UB Invitational Meet.
The Royals . Mid-Continent Conference champions, SCOfed 21 pcxnts en route to taking the
team I!Ue. Western Ontario was second with 54. followed by St. Bonaventure (66), Niagara
(101) and Fanshawe College ( t46). The Bulls also swept past the competition scoring 17
points to outdistance Western Ontario's 52. St. Bonaventure was third with 70 followed by
Niagara (117) and Fanshawe (118).

OBITUARIES
Clinton Osborn, 84, retired
biology dept. c
Word has been rece1vo of the death on Aug
17 of Cllmon M. Osborn a protessor and
chatr of the UB Biology
partment from
1952-62 Osborn dted tn
had rettred 1n the early 197
Osborn 101ned UB 1n 1952 s chauman of
the Department of Biology. Du tng the next 10
years . he more than doubled t~e stall in
btology and .naugurated research programs
as well as plannmg and equtpp.ng the b10k&gt;gy
section of Cary Hall
Osborn taught at The Ohto State Untvers1ty
College of Medicme and at Syracuse Untver·
Stty, where he was a professor and dtrector of
the Rad•atton and Isotopes Research Center.
before comtng to UB He was the author of
more than 40 research papers He also
served 1n the U S Air Force . where he dtd
research on the phystological affects olfhght
on men
He held an A B from Bates College and
an M .A and Ph .D !rom Harvard University A
spec•ahst in ammal htstology, development
and phystology, he was a member of the
Amencan Assoc•atton of Anatom•sts and the
Amencan Soctety c;&gt;f Zoologtsts He was also

a member of the Society of Sigma Xt , and a
fellow of the Ohio Academy of Science and
the New York Academy of Sctence

James W. Gargano, 79,
faculty member
A memoual serv•ce was held Sept 14 tn
Washington . Pa , lor James W Gargano. an
English professor and a scholar of Henry
James. who dted Sept 10 tn Washtngton
Hospital
Gargano. who earned bachelor's and
master's degrees from the Untverstty at
BuHalo. taught literature at UB lor seven
years He earned htS doctorate from Cornell
Untverstty in 1955
He taught Enghsh and Amencan literature
tor 31 years at Washtngton &amp; Jefferson Col·
lege . serving as chairman of the Engltsh
Department for 10 years He also taught at
the Un1verstty of Caen tn France on a
Fulbnght Scholarsh•P 1n 1963-64 Gargano
rettred 10 1Q86
In additton to hts scholarly wrtttngs on
Henry James. Gargano pubhshed artic les on
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mark Twatn and Edgar
Allen Poe. and edtted volumes of literary
cnticism

Boroaventure ( 15-46), Niagara ( t5-50) ilnd Fanshawe ( 15-50)
lndMdualty, Stacey Strothmann breezed to her second win thts season fintshtng rhe 5K
course in 18:30 while Gretchen Wek:h and Mane Macander were thtrd and fourth respectiVBiy
in t9:11 and 19:23. UB's women, now 6-0 in dual meets, placed tOot the top 12 runners.
Chris Keenan led tour Bulls to the top four SJX&gt;tS tn the men's race comp&amp;eting rhe BK course
in 26:17. Patrid&lt; Nolan 8126:22, Chris Bossert et 26.4 I and Dan McSherry at 27 tO rounded
out the top four for the Bulls. UB's men are rON 4- 1 tn dual meets
Both teams will be in action agatn next Saturday when they travel for the Western Ontano Invitational .

e WOMEN'S SOCCER
Coach Jean-A. Tassy's Royals are 2-2-t followtng thetr 1- t ue at Weslern Mtch!Qan on Saturday
Western Michigan opened the scoring in the first half on a goal by Shetley Mayer and 1 - a
1..0 lead into halftime. The Roya1s rallied for the tyt.ng goal as seniOf Lori Perillo scored at the
70:02 of the match . It was Perillo's sixth goal of the season to lead the Royals 1n scortng Penllo
IS on pace to shatter her season high of 10, set tn both her sophomore and JUniOr seasons She
also has 34 career goals and has scored tn four of the Royals' frve games thts season

e VOUEYIJAU.
UB's women's voUeyball squad went 2-3 dunng the week to even thetr 1996 record at 5 -5 US
downed Niagara in three games, 15-12, 15-6. 15-11 as Cand1 Stms led the team wtth stx ktlls

and six~ Julia Eisenbach tallied 16 digs to lead the defense
The Royals then traveled to the Golden Flash Classtc where they lost to host Kent State t 5- t 2
15-10, 15-2. Sims led the way with eight kills. Later thet eventng, the Royals lost a heartbreaking
live-game match against Indiana State after leading the Sycamores 2-o Indiana State t - the
deciding ftfth game by an 18-16 margin to win the match Agatn Strns led tile way Wtth14 lolls
wtlh lour Olhers-Amy Burda, Kathy Brinkworth, Aprille Sweeung and Cortnn Htrsl-&lt;&gt;ach tctaltng
double figure kills. Frestman setter Somer Deschambault had 44 aSSists tn the marathon
On Saturday, the Royals rallied to defeat Coastal Caroltna tn frve games after wtnntng the
ftrst two and k&gt;sing the next two. Sims had 15 kills and a 438 hin1ng percentage to go wtth hef
11 digs. Brinkworth registered 11 kills and five bk&gt;cks and Deschambault added 36 assiSts UB
Ulan closed out the tournament wtth a three-game loss to Eastern Kentucky
For her play during the weekend . Stms was named to the All· Tournament team Dunng the
week. the Royals' captatn had 46 ktlls and

a .274 httltng percentage

e MEN'S tENNIS
The Bulls went 2·1 on the week . defeaung local nvals Ntagara and Cantstus by tdenucal 7..()
scores at home and falling to Duquesne 5-2 tn an excthng matc h that took over seven hours to
play tn Pittsburgh.
In the three matches. Mike Minter. play1ng number one stngles breezed to stratght set wtns
over his opponents The transfer from Lander College tn South Carolina downed Duquesne·s
Tom Ktrk 7-6, 6-1 for the Bulls' lone stngles Win on Sunday Teamtng With doubles partner Mtke
Proulx. they took an excittng 9-8 Win over Duquesne's Ktrk and Walt Wtlloughby WJnntng the
tiebreaker 8-6. Minter and Proulx are 4..0 at number one dOubles

e WOMEN'S TENNIS
US's women's tennis team IS off to a strong 2 - 1 stan wtnntng two stratght matches last week
The Royals , under first year coach Kathy TWist. defeated Ntagara 7 .()and Camstus 4..J at the
Unrversity Tennts Center.
In the wtn over Canisius. UB ptcked up three-set vtctones from number two Stacey Gargan
and number three Annulen Dillon Gargan rallted from a set down to defeat Robtn AtcchiO 4-6.
7-6. 7-6 to pace the Royals Both Gargan and Dillon are 2-1 '" stngles play lhts season as IS
Darcy 'Aiheeler, who has seen acuon at both four and ftve thus far

e MEN'S SOCCER
UB fell to 0-4-1 after losing to Ntagara 1..0 and playtng Cleveland State. one o f the favorttes 10
wtn the Midwest Collegiate Conference. to a scoreless lte . on the road last week
Head coach John Astudi\lo remarked that several of his players have had to move to new ~
sthons. Sentor Joe Mercik and sophomore Bnan Crutckshank htghhghted US's defense agBJnst
Clevetand State. The duo was responstble tn keeptng the Vikings' lop players away from the ne1
in the match Goalkeeper J1m Schoenberg stopped 13 shots. record1ng several quality saves tn
120 rrunutes ol WOfk The Bulls had a couple of chances of breaktng the deadlock late tn the ftrst
oven1me but were unable to put •t away and had to settle for the scoreless ue
US IS back tn act1011 th1s week W'hen they travel ro Cantstus on WedneSday an d Stena on
Saturday.
- Ted Wasko, Spans lnformatl(}n Off1ce

Monday Sept 23

Women's Tennis

vs

Can1stus

3 p m . University Tenn1s Center

CALENDAR
Continued from page B
G toballmpad of Pedlalric
AIDS: Roundt.abW: 11- lmmunology •nd Mkroblology Prograou In Em.trJin&amp; Jnfedions,
I. Hay. Ph.D .• P. LoVerde.
Ph.D .• A. Lesse, M.D .. United
Nalions and World Heallh Orga ·
niza1ion. Guests: Stdano
Benoui. M.D.. Ph.D.. Untted
Nations Programme on HI VI
AIDS (UNA IDS) and Oav1d
Heymann. M.D., World Heahh
Organization . Lippshutz Room.
Biomedical Education Building
Sooth Campus. 2 p.m.

Cou.ciiM. .tln&amp;
UB Council. SOS Capen Hall.
Nonh Campus. 3:30p.m

ur.-...op
Run nine Effect ive Metllngs,
Ed Brodka. 3:30p.m. To regtster, call the Office of Studcm
Life. 645-6 125 .

-

a~o~GC~cat

lciiHICeo

- -- - ----and Applicalions TcJ.CIIn kal
Trials, Prof. Ashim K. Mallik .
244 Cary. South Campus. 4 p.m

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Thesis/Dissertation Support
G roup, Barbara Umik.er. 4:30
p.m. To register, cal\ the Office
of Student Life, 645-6125.

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T'al Cbl ror Bqlnntrs, Ron
l ngals~ . 5 p.m. To regisler, call
the Office of Student Life. 645·

6125

Nu,.. Conttnut"'
Educ.tlon
Management in Health Cart
Delivery Systems: Developing
and Mtasurin&amp; Competencies.
Student Center, Harriman. Sooth
Campus. 6-9:30 p.m.
. .pi-WelcoMe
UUAB FUm. Student Union Thea1er. North Campus. 6:30p.m.

Sep1. 28 For tnformatton. call
645-2444.

._;x"•lil.•r$

Architecture exhibition
"Pmjttts from Liquid Cities,"
Mehrdad Hadighi. Sponsored by
the School of Archilecture and
Planning, lhe e.xhibilion can be:
seen in the James Dyett Gallery.
334 Hayes Hall on UB's South
Campus. lhrough Oct. S. Gallery
llouB are 9 a.m.·S p.m. Monday-Friday.

IJCMweltwllll
Leonardo Drr:w's si te -specific
installation "No. 45-A" was designed for the Ligh1well Gmltery
in the Center for the Ans. Nonh
Campus. and is rhere through
Octo~.

Prl-t-J

ur.-.Mp

··us Prints Today." an exhib1 ·

M t.mbnne Dysfunction in Aging Plant Ti!Sues, Or. John
lllompson, Univ. of Wa1erloo
11 4 Hochstetler. Nonh Campus.
4 p.m.

Exploring Your Dreams, Carol
Marychild. 7 p.m. To regisler,
call the Office of Sludent life,
645-6 125 .

Deta-mlnaniS or Pbannarodynamie Vari8bWty, Prof. Oertwd
Levy, Ptwmact:o1M:s . .508 Coote.
North Campus. 4 p.m.

Can Epb:temolou IH: Unined?
Eplstemolotlcal Flukm, Paul
Moser, Loyola Univ. Registration 6:30p.m. Opening remarks
Mart KriSial; chair, Peter Hare.
Marriott Hotel. Aint and
Millenpon . 7:30p.m. Through

lion of selecled student work~
from 1996, will be on display
through Oct. I in the An De·
partmenl Gallery. 845 Cemer
for the Arts, North Campus An ·
ist.s represented are. Olenka
Bodnardst.:y. Susan Buda.sh, Jm1
Bums, Alan Coburn, Re becca
Costanzo, Ben Duni.:le, Nathan
Bradley Hochsteller, David
Jablonski, Jason Jones. Meg
Kasper, Suzanne Lewke,
Michael Parker. Rebecca
Rabideau, Kyoko Ronmun.

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Group Sequentl.al Methods

F----J

Adam Selbst, Mtchael Smearer,
Amy Swanele, Daniel Wall:er.
and Michael Yeomans An ~ panment Gallery hours a~ 10
a m.·S p.m. Tuesday : 10 a.m ·8
p.m. Wednesday-Friday; and II
a.m -8 p.m Saturday Admtsston
1!1. free

NOTICES
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Students interested tn applym}!
for admisston to the Occupa·
!tonal Thenlpy Program ~~~en
couraged to auend one of the tn ·
formational mcet 1ng) Oct I
frum 12:30-J ·30 p.m or Oct l
from 2:30-3:20 p.m m 120
Ktmball on 1he Sooth Cmmplh
The Dcp.a.nmenl of Occupattonal Therapy I ll pan of the
School of Health Rclatl·d Pm
fess1ons For mfonnatton. cal l
829-3 14 1
HUBNET aurvey
A survey of users or
1-IUBNET - Hospttlllll and Um
versity at Buffalo Library Re ·
~urces Network- Ill bemg con·
dueled now through Oct 10 Re ·
suits wt\1 mnuence database acqu tsilion and retenuon dec1stons. lbe survey is avai lable on
the Windows verston of
l·tuBNET. Those wishing a pa ·
per copy should contact Heahh
Sctences librarian Nancy
Stimson. 829-3337

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Introduction to Word Processing u.sio&amp; Microsoft Word for
Macintosh, for students. 10
a.m. Regtstcr through 1~ Aca
demic User Lt tson Office. 215
Compuung C mer. 645-JS40

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aison Office . 2 Compultng
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lnlroducUon to CorriDnw,
Part II . 1:30 p.m. Rcgtstcr
through the Academic User Lt atson Office. 2 15 Compuung
Center, 645-3540.

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Introduction to Mapk for
Window•, a matbt:matic:al
package. I :30 p.m. Resislcr
lhrouch 1he Academic User L•a •son Office: . 2 15 Compulmg
Cc:n lc:r. 6:15 -3540

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Introduction to the syntax tbe
sta li.slical packacc:. SAS, for
malnrramn, Part II. I :30 p.m.
Regisler lhrough the AciKkmic
User L•a•son Office, 215 Compulmg Center. 645-3540

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M au1emc:nt ia Health Ca~
Delivery Systeau: Manaccd
Ca~. Sludenr Cenu~r. Harriman
Sou1h Ca mpus. 6-9:30 p.m.

UUAB FUm.. Sudcnl Umon Theater. North Campus. 6:30 p.m

Ufe-......,
Buying a Home, Peter J

Maurer Jr. 7 p.m. To rcg1s1er.
call the Ortice of Srudcnt Life .
6--'5-612.5 .

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Kalhanne Cornell Thculer,
El hcou No rth Campus 1 p.m .

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Umon. North Campus.

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Dr. Pa ul Groc.b. 301 Crosby
Hall . South Campus. 5:30p.m .

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EpkltmiolocY ud Preventive
Mfllidoe:: Colledive Memo~ and Visions ror the Fut.un:. Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
7:30a. m. Through Sept 21 . For
information and to register. call
Plll11 Chabricl, 829-2975 .

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.

Infant Fc:edia&amp;. Marshall Klaus.
M .D., Univ. of California. San
Fnmc:isco. Kinch Auditorium.
Chiklren's HospitAl. 8 t .m.

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l ntrod ucHoo lo Internet Resou rces on UNIX-Places,
Part II. 10 a.m. Rcgisler
1hrough I he Academic User Liaison Office, 215 Compu1ing
Center, 64.5-3540.
u~~rery-......,

UB Libraries Online Catalog
Demonstration. 223 Lockwood.
North Campus. Noon.

Be PRpared to Lead, Ed

Brodka. 3:30p.m. To regi ster.
calli he Office of Studcnl L1fe.
6:15-6125.

Pllyolcs Coi._IUM
The Cosmic Mkrowave Background-PrKision Measurtments Alrra-co, Dr. Norman
Jaros1k . Pnnccro n. 2 10 Narural
Sc1ences Nonh Campus 3:45
p.m.

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Protei~ Folding a nd Stability,
Dr. Robc:n Fox, UTMB a1
Galves10n. 114 Hoch.ucucr.
Nonh Campus . 4 p.m.

How td Purcbuc: a Mkrocom·
puler, Mart Winer and Kerri
Cabana. Noon. To regisrcr. call
the Office of SIUdcnt Life. 6456125 .
Mlu~-­

Recombin.ant ProteiD Ex.prc:ssion from Prokaryotic to
Mammalian Systems, Dr.
Valentina CiccarOM. Life Technology Laboratories,
Gaithersburg, Md. 244 Cary.
Sool h Campus. Noon.

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Lockwood Ubrary Tour. 223
Lockwood. Nonh Campus. I p.m.

M-Col._lu•

C-otry Col'-ht•

Music, Mathematics and Ma&amp;ndic:: Orderin&amp;, Jack Oouchen ,
Umv of New Mexico. 103 Diefendorf. South Campus. 4 p.m.

tions a nd Procasa: Through
Gu-PbaK lon-Mokcule Stud-

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Etrect or Phenobarbital on the
Deacetylat ktn of Dilliaum In
Rats. Dr. Yong-Bok l...et , Visit•ng Scholar. Ph~ulics. 508
Cooke. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.

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Tbc:sl.s/Dis:sertation Support
Group, Barbara Umiker. 4:30
p.m. To register, call the Office
of Srudent Life. 645-6125.

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T'al C hi for kalnoers, Ron
Ingalsbe:. 5 p.m . To rcgisrer, call
the Office of Suldc:nt Life. 6456125 .

l nslcht loto Orcank Reacies, Prof. Joseph Grabowski ,
Univ. of Pittsburgh. 215 Naruf1! l
Sciences. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m .

Bain. Sponson::d by Institute for

UUAB Fu... Studenl Union Thetier. Nor1h Campus. 6:30p.m.

Addictiocu Studies and Traininc. Dxmen Coi~IC- $3.5. To

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recister. call 645-6140.

All lc:vcls. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8- 11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by Gradua1e Studem Association.

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Ouis Movie Ni&amp;ht. Oasis,
Ellicoc1 . North Campus. 9 p.m.

Mlcri .. IIIII:J .......

p53-p300 .................
volvtd Ia V.,..._M&lt;dlat«&lt;
Traasf.....
Apoptosis., Maria Laura
Avantagiali, M .D., National
Cancer lnstilute, Be1heida. 244
Caty. South Campus. Noon.

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UB va. Culslus. Elltc-ou Tennis
Cowu. North Campus. 3 p.m.

Epkk..WOC ud PRvealive
Medicine: CoUu.ttn Memoria ud Vlsioa.J ror tbc: Futu~ Hyatt Reacncy Buffalo.
For information and to reaister.
call Pa.t11 Chabric:l, 829-2975.

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lnlrodt~c:tioa to Sun XwlndowiaJ Systellll. 10 a.m.
Regislc:r throu&amp;h lhc: Academic
User Liaison Office, 215 Computing Cenlc:r, 645·3540.

-·oChtbLulrisb Claukal Tbealc:r'a
"Cruy Ladta" with Josephine
Hoaan. 11 :30a.m. Fanny's.
II a.m . For infomwion, call
688-4508.

ucn-...op
lntroducUoa to Val.- and computin&amp; environment or tht CIT
llmnb&amp;rinJ equipment. I p.m.
Rcgis1c:r throuJh lhe Acldcmic
User Liaison Offace. 215 Compuling Cen1er, 645-3540.

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Fall Fnt:-Belter Tluia Eua,
Tlto Ninft, Bounty Kille-r,
Boot Camp Clik., Satcbc.l.
Baird Point (Alumni Arena if
inclement wealher). North Cam pus. 2- 11 p.m. Students free :
o1hers SIO if indoors.

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Tennis Exh ibit ion. Alumni
Arena . North Campus, 4- 11 p.m.

Gr..t Lekeo ProcrGrut Lakes Bc:acla Swffp '96.
Clean up I..ake LaSalle and UB
se-ction or Ellicon Creek. Jarvis
Hall next to Furnas parking lot.
to stan. 9:30-11 :30 p.m. Co-sponsored by New York Sea
Grant For informal ton. call
645· 3610.

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of -

Holy Bplrtt
The Nc:-wman Centers wi ll
presenl lhc Father Raymond
Murray Campus Ministry Award
to the laic Robert H. Rossbc:rg.
St Joseph's Univertil)' Church.
3269 Main. 11 :30 a.m.

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St udent Alumal Board Med·
lnJ. 2SO Student Union. North
Campus. Noon.

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UnderstandlDc the U.S. Academic System. 145E S1udcn1
Union. North Campus. 4 p.m.
Rcgistralion is requested: call
645-2720.

Vour Rqjltralloa Wed. Stu-

dent Untoa Lobby. Nonb Campus. ReJ.isttr all week lone.

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Canubil Dept:ndeM)', Donald

VOWNT£ERS ARE NEEDED Sept. 21 to clean up Ulke
LaSalle as part of the Oreal Ulkas liNch s - p '96.

Life-.....

Scottisll Cou..atry Danclac,
William Mmer. 7 p.m. To reaistcr. call the Offi-ce of Student
Ufe. 645-6125.

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JOuraaJ C lubiQuaUty AMuranct. Cafctorium A. Mercy
Hospi1al. 8:30a.m.

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Car Ca~ 101, Howard Hartke
and Peter Evans. I p.m. To rcc·
ister. call the Office of Student
Ufe, 645-6 125.

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lntroduc:tioo to the GNU
Emacs editor oa tbe Uab:
timc:sbariDJ syltaD. 3 p.m.
Register 1hrough the Academic
User Liaison Office, 215 Computing Center, 645-3S40.

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Namutc:, Ron Ingalsbe and
Trxy Collingwood. 5 p.m. To
register, cai11he Office of Stu ·
dentl.;ife. 645-6125.

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NM,_c.ti..,lftll

M anageme-nt in Health Ca~
Delivery Syatems: C~aUn&amp; Aa
Effective Work Environment
for tht- Provision of Cart:. Slu·
dent Center, Harriman. SoUth
Campus. 6--9:30 p.m.

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ApplyiD&amp; the Priac.ip&amp;c:s or
Suceaafu.l People.. Joseph
Argenio. 7 p.m. To rcgisler, call
the Office of SuK1en1 Ufe. 6:156125.

Life-.....

Staad Up Comedy, Mart
Condon. 8 p.m. To regis1er. call
the Office of Student Life, 6456125.

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Coft'H Rouse. Harriman. Soulh
·
Campus. 8 p.m.

•=, ............

Aw-~
Frank L CimiMIII named
" Niagan. Fronricr Excculivc of
the Year'' by School of Management. Hyan Regency Buffalo.
For infonnalion. call 64.5-3224 .

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Bus Tour of Gle.nora Wine
CeUan ud SoD.Maburc Gard&lt;OL $45. S,.,....... by
Alumni Relations. To reJister or
for information. call829-2608.

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Coun,ae, Hurt, BraiDs: Tbr

Nunt1 ot OL Sheraton Inn
Buffa}o Airpoc:t, 2040 Walden
Ave. 8:30 a ,rn.-4 p.m. PR:sented

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by Scbool of Nursing. For information, call 829-3291 .

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l•t.roductioa to Sua XwledcnolqS- 9:30a.m.
Realner through the Academic
User Liaison OfflCe. 215 Computinc Center, 645-3540.

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lntrod..ctioa to PiM Mall for
tbe ....Cktlm-. 10 a.m. Rc:cister through lhe Academtc User
Uai10n OffJCe. 21.5 Computing
Cenler, 645-3540.

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Gndu.ate aDd Law Sclaool
Da]l- 145 Student Union and SU
Social Hall. North Campus. 10
a.m.·2 p.m . F« information,
call 645-6857.

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Anertinoas. Noon. To register, calllhe Office of Studen1
Life , 645-6125.

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AstcrtJnoas Workshop. 210
Sludenl Union. North Campus.
Noon- I p.m.

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at.rr

T homas B. Tomasi. M.D.,
Pb.O., Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Kirchhofer Room.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
I 2:30p.m.

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SPSS 0111 UNIX. 1:30 p.m. Reaister lhrough the Academic User
Uaison Office. 21.5 Computing
Cen1er, 645-3S40.
~l.ectll,.

G&lt;o!op:ai iDCI Goophyslcol
Auly~a of Clarc:Ddoa-Undea
Fauh System : Tbc: Flul (!)
Report, Prof. Robert D. Ja.cobi ,
Geology._4S4 Froncuk. North
Campus. 3:30p.m .

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F luoruceace Lifdbac: a Dd
Yic.ld lm.a&amp;~ l in Random Media a nd TiYucs Usin1 Mta·
suftiMnb of Photon MiJratloa, Eva M. Sevick-Muraca,
Purdue Univ. 206 Furnas. Nonh
Campus. 3:45p.m.

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...._.•r:•t•e....._
l'uriaorp: llt«ptioe

Ia ......
medum, Todd M. Hc.n~y.
Biological Scic:nces. 307 Hoch·
s:teuer. North Campus: 4 p.m.

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Pierre. Joria. Screening Room.
Center for lhe Arts. North Campus. 4 p.m.

FAtobliol&gt;lq G~ for
Pha.lwu r an oeic TriaiJ, Paul
Mudd, Plwmlcy. 248 Cooke.
North

Campus. 4:30p.m.

by ! M S - - .

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"llol&gt;on MeAaodly. 301 Crosby.
South Campu • 5:30 p.m.

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Spioal Bloeecloaola: A CIUroproclk l'&lt;npedlve, Amy L
Schleicher. 6 p.m . To rep.sc.er,
call the Office of Student Lire,
645-6125.

----

UUAB FlloL Student Unloa The·
Norrh Campus. 6:30p.m.

11«.

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lntroduc:tioo to Mkrotoft
WlDdowt for Studt.U. 7 p.m.
Register lhrou&amp;h the Acade.mic
User Uaison Office. 215 Computing Center. 645-3S40.

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Es:ploft 1M Mediclul Value
of CotDIDOIII Herbs. Spint" aad
Super Faock, Pam Gay. 7 p.m.
To rqis1er, call the Office or
Student Life, 645-612.5 .

Vlcleo

Du11••.-,.

Kids ood Vldeo Jad.,.......U
Tl.ke the Politka.l S.att:.
Screening Room, Ccnler for the
Ans. North Campus. 7:30p.m.
F...:.

-NewY-

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Catastrophism aad tht 8Jiv
tory of t.bc: Earth., Prof. Charles
E. Mitchell, Geoloay. 170
Millard Fiiii'I"'IO'e Academic Ce.nlc:r. Ellkott. North Campus. 7:30
p.m. $20 ror the series. To reaister. call 645-6800, c:xL 2020.

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..

Co•au&amp;Aity Relavatmc.nt Act
(CRA). Publtc forum aimed at
minorities and women interes-ted
in business and development opponunities. Advance Trainin&amp;
Center, 275 Oak S1. 8- 10 Lm.
Free. Sponsored by Office of
Urban Initiatives. For infonnation. call 829-2306.

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Unix Pir)C (or VMS Mail U.en. 10 a.m. Register through
the Academic User Liaison Office, 215 Computing Center.
645-3540.

Poetry Talk
Pierft J oris. 438 Clemens.
Nonh Campus. 12:30 p.m.

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SAS oa UNIX. I :30 p.m. RtJISter throuah the Ac.clemic User
Liaison Office. 215 Computing
Center, 64S-JS40.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
State University ofNew Yorlt

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September 12. 1996 Volume 28. No. 3

Cleaner air on campus
VB installs compressed natural gas station
Br ELUN QOL.DeAUM
News Services Editor

EXT MONTH UB will join the growing
number of uni versi tie s that have taken an
impon ant step toward cleaner ai r on campus and reduced dependence on foreign
oil when implementation begins on a new
co mpre ssed natural g&lt;ts (CNG) refueling stati on.
Located un the west s ide of the Helm serv ice area
o ff Service Center Road o n the Nonh Campus and
tapping into existing gas pipelines . the station will
be the first in the Town of Amhe rst It is expec ted to
~gill o peration la ter thi s fall .
Installat ion of new underground di ese l and gasoline s10mge tank s at the s it e, which will con tinue to
offer these fuel s in addition to CNG. has been under
wa y for seve ral weeks . Several BlueBird buses and
UB c argo vans already run on CNG .
The project is a cooperati ve ve nture between UB.
the Town of Amherst, Erie Coun ty and National Fue l
Gas rnrp. Bid.s on rhe in.sra ll a ri on con rrnc r were rf' ·
\..C ivct.l \ast week ami arc hcing evaluated by Fac1h ·
ueo,; Pklnn ing and Desig n
Plann ing for the refueling stati on began four years
ago. at the suggestion o f UB 's E nvironmenta l Task
Force. "The station is part of UB's effort to add ress
the requiremen ts of the Clean Air Acl and its o verall
po licy to be at the forefro nt of env ironmental poli ·
cies and procedures." sa id Fred Smeader, manager
of e ngi neering serv ices in the Office o f Design and
Co nstruclio n.
By the year 2000. 80 percent of new vehicles
purc hased for state and federal government fle e ts
must be running on a lte rn ate fue ls. accordi ng to the
leg1 sla tion.
Tota l cost of the project. including staff services

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and construction costs for the new station, will be
between $500,000 and $600,000, with $275,000
coming from the New York State Energy Research
and Development Agency.
The agency also has funded engi nee ring services,
the des ign contract for the engineering consulting
firms, EA Engineering of Newburgh 3nd Wendell
Engineering of West Amh erst. and future con ver·
sions of UB-owned ve hicles to run on compressed
natural gas.
The Town of Amherst will pa ve the area off Se r·
vice Center Road for the new station. and has pro·
vided design and planning services . The Erie County
Legi sl3ture has funded $30,000 of the project.

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hile CNG costo;; appro xi mately 20 percent
less tha n gasolin e. UB o ffi c ial s noted th at
at least for the ncar future, o;;av ings will be
offset by the need to purchase new CNG -powe red
vehicles. whic h c urrently cost between $3,500 and
$5 ,000 more than equivalent gasoline-powered ve·
hide ~

John P. Hayes. manager of a u10rnoti ve and ware house services. said the uni versity hopes to purchase
two CNG· powered vehicles per year for the next
se veral years. UB has also appl ied for grants that
would a ll o'A the conversion of six add iti onal vehicles to C'NG.
Rece ntly. the Office of Public S3fety began using a CNG -powered C rown Victoria police cruiser.
on loa n temporarily from the Ford Motor Co. as
pan of the U.S . De partment of Energy Clean C iti es
program. which promotes the use of a ltemati ve . fucl
vehicles.
Four Blu eB ird buses th at service UB and two of

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A UB Miss America? We'll know Saturday
BJ WKAS HAUSER

I don' t like to give the impress ion
that I' m above any one el se. I' m
just your everyday person who
happens to be Miss New York ."
Ha rri s credits her experiences
at UB. w here sh e maj o red in
dance a nd psyc ho logy, and he r
close relati ons hip with f;.tcu lt y
members Th omas Ralabate and
Linda Swiniuch with helping her
win the statewide ti tle .
"UB has 3 f3bulous dance pro·
gram." Harri s said. "Especiall y
the professors . 1 was very shy
when I first went to UB . and my
profess o rs were the first o nes
there to help me."

Reporter Contributor

Tammy ttarrts tried six times
to win the title of Mi ss New York .
This year. she won , beating o ut
more than 20 other finalis ts on
June 29.
The Wi ll iamstown, N.Y.. na·
tiv e-a May graduate of UB who
is believed to be .its first a lumna
. to wear th e sta te crow n- h as
spent thi s week participating in
preliminary competitions in At la ntic City.
If she's named o ne of the 10
finali sts. the fo nn er member of
UB's Zodiaque Dance Comp•ny
wi ll find herself Saturday evening
perfom1ing a contemporary dance
to mu sic from the opera Carmi na
Burana before a nationa l televi sion audience.
Ove r w h e lmin g?
Nah .
Ta mmy's been preparin g fo r thi s
for quite a while.
" I think I appreciate it a lot
more because it took six tri e s to
get in ," she said. "After I gradu ated from UB. I put everyth ing
else in my li fe on hold just in case
l won ."
Whil e she won. s he a lmos t

UB NaUonal Leader for SEFA
Heavy rain did hoi dampen spir~s as award recognizing UB
as the national leader in SEFA and Un~ed Way giving was
presented Sept. 7 al UB Stadium by John B. Daly, cenler.
stale lransporlation commissioner and 1995 slale SEFA
chair. President Greiner. righl, holds umbrella. Nelson
Townsend, lefl, is UB's 1996 SEFA chair.

dido ' t make it at aJI- the cutoff
age for contestan ts is 24. and Har·
ris ' 25th birthd ay is j ust a few
weeks from now.

Winning Mlaa New York has
meant li ving in special acco mmo·
dat ions at the pageant 's hcadq uar·
ters in Watertow n and a nonstop
promotional to ur: parades. festi ·
va ls, golf tournament s, tale nt
shows and guest a ppearan ces o n
radi o and TV shows.
" I bring my c rown wi th me
when I make an appearance," said
Harris . "But I don't wear il muc h.

Tom Ralabate Ia a wonderfu l
cho reographer," Harri s sa id .
" He 's good forme-he knows the
page ant sys tem . And he know s
me - what I do and what I do
well . And professor Swiniuc h re ·
ally helped rne come out of my
she ll She let me see dance from
a whole nc\\ perspective- that a
lot o f it has to do with your mind .
Good dancing is not just about
what you do wi th your arms and
legs . What's inside is more im·
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Camp ACHIEVE helps
athletes boost SATs
BJ ELUN GOLDBAUM

News Services Editor

GROUP OF New York
State's top high school
athletes who attended a
sports camp ca ll ed
ACHIEVE held this summer at
UB exceeded their goals-a nd it
ha d no th ing to do with threepo inters or touchd owns.
Their accomplis hment was
measured on practice SAT te s t ~;,
where some of the campers raised
th e ir scores by more th a n 100
po int s . In some cases. the im provement at the end of the week·
lo ng camp was more tha n 200
points.
The camp participants were
se lec ted based on their athleti c
accomp lishmenL"' and the fact that
they were not high scorers in stan·
dardized tests.
The teSt ·score improve me nt
they showed at the e nd o f the free .
acade mi c cam p "was absolutely
amazing ," s aid Nelson E.
Townsend. director of ath letics at
UB .
"As the week went on. you
saw their confidence build ," he
3dded. " They told us that they
came int o the ca mp ready to fail.
but by the end of the week, they
were saying. 'This isn' t as diffi .
cult as I thought it would be · _"
ACHIEVE stands for Athleti c
Ca mp to Heighten and Improve
the Experience and V•lue of Edu·
cation. It was coordinated by Fajri
Ansari. assistant admissions di·
rector at Buffalo State College
and a va rs it y coach at Turner

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Carroll High School .
According to To wn send. th e
impetu s for the camp was the fac t
that many promising local high
schoo l athl etes have been un able
to fully exploit their ta lents at the
collegiate level because o f poor
acade mi c performance in high
school.
"Of the la st 14 seniors "ho
were named Athle tes of the Year
in Buffalo. on ly four were a bl e w
gu on to the instituti ons o f th eir
choice because they didn ' t have
the grades or the SAT scores,'' he
explained.
" My theory was th at if you put
a thl etes togethe r in a di sc iplined
academic setting. the y would suc·
ceed."

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tudents, drawn mostl y from
Buffalo and Rochester high
schools. were recruited by their
coac he s, whom Tow nse nd had
contacted during the spring.
The atmosphere was inten se .
S tudent s s pent eac h mo rnin g
from Saturda y t hro ugh Friday
from 9 to noon in classes at the
Stanley Kaplan Educati onal Ce nter in the UB Commons .
Afternoon se ssions dealt with
aspects of coll ege life. such as
dating. drugs. re ligi on. and finan ·
cia l issues. which we re led by UB
professors and staff and coaches
from local unive rsities. Se~SIOn &lt;.;
o n a thl etic de velopment and
games also were held in the af·
temoon .
Coaches and speakers donated
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Cultural illiteracy of U.S. students rx&gt;ses economic threat
. , PATIIICIA -YIUI
News Services Editor

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TEAM OF TOP international
educaton headed by a UB pro-

fessor is recommendiog major

changes in the policy that defines the educational relationship between the U.S. and Japan.
'They havdound that ignorance of Asian
language and culture among U.S. students

is so widespread that it portends serious
negative consequences for America's economic, political and cultural interests in the
Pacific-Rim region.
'The three-year projec~ "Re-thinking the
U.S .-Japan Educational Exchange," began
in 1994 and is funded by the U.S.-Japan
Foundation. Project Director is William K.
Cummings, professor and director of the
Center for Comparative and Global Stud-

ies in Education at UB.
The project team , which met in New
York City, has spent two years analyzing
the U.S.-Japan exchange policy that has
been in place for nearly 50 years .

Cummings says that U.S.-Japan relations comprise the main axis of Pacific-

Rim economic. cultural and political interaction. Twenty-five percent of America's
overseas trade is with Japan-a percentage equal to its trade relationship with all
of Western Europe. This relation ship is
challenged by persisting disputes over trade
and defense, Cummings said.
He added thai an important long-term
strategy for strengthening Pacific-Rim interactions and containing disputes is to
build skills in cultural diplomacy-the
kind of sensibility that evolves through rich

international educational experiences.
'The Pacific Rim is a region of medium

. growth, with a projected
to h"tgh econonuc
annual growth rate of 6 percent,"
Cummings points out. "Existing and
emerging businesses and industries in this
massive marltet require large numbers of
employees with what we've come to call
'transnational competence.'
'That's a ...competence defined not only
by specific technical, scientific and intellectual skills, but by a refined sense of the
cu lture in which one is operating. In the
case of Japan and other countries, it requires special language ability, as well."

the. American market
American businesses,
ontheothcrhand,hesaid, do1101lmowhow
best to sell to the Japanese because they do
1101 understand Japanese culture.
Among the U.S. recommendations are
new roles for the corporate sector, local
communities and schools in providing intensive transnational learning experiences
for every American high-school student
This would include instruction in critical
Janguages-,languages of world regions in
which business is conducted principally in
the language of the region. Although En-

ummings adds: "Without this competence-and most Americlll) stu-

glish is the international language of commerce, Cummings cites some exceptions,
including Japan, parts of the Middle East.

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dentsdon'thaveit~UnitedStates

ence or education" as weenrerlhe next oentury.
He points out that thecurrentsiJUcture for
educational exchange between the two countries has not functioned effectively for many
years. The most obvious indication of this,
Cummings said, is the modest number of
young Americans who achieve facility in
Japanese language and culture relative to the
large number of Japanese who achieve proficiency in English and an under.;tanding of
American culture and society.
Every year, for instance, only 1,300
young Americans study abroad in Japan, a
number that has decreased for the past two
years. In comparison, 40,000 Japanese
youth study in the U.S. every year-anumber that has quintupled over the past decade
This fact alone, says Cummings, gives

the Japanese an enormous advantage in in·
ternational trade. Their business people
know what Americans like and want hecause they've lived here and learned about

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other countries, such as Canada, in pan because of an inadequate infrastructure for
refueling.
He said that while there ""' about 10
CNG refueling stations between Buffalo
and Syracuse, the"' are nearly 50 stations
between Fort Erie, Ont., and Toronto.
The UB station will service Town of
Amherst vehicles that run on CNG, in addition to UB'Vehicles.
..This is not a new, exotic fuel. " said
Cam1en Rossi. natural-gas vehicle program
manager for National Fuel Gas Corp.,
which will supply fuel to the station. ''This

is the same fuel we use to heat our homes
and to cook our food."
Rossi explained that CNG's clean-burning properties come from the fact that it
has a lower carbon content. Hydrocarbon
and nitrous o~ ide emissions ore signifi -

cantl y reduced, with carbon mono~ide
emissions near zero.
The fuel is considered safer than gasoline because it has a much higher ignition
point and because it dissipates quickly
since it is lighter than air.

being addressed by manufacturers is the

fact that some have a significantly shorter
range than gasoline-powered vehicles.
The CNG vehicle being used by Public
Safety, for example, carries a 10-gallon
tank. The fuel tank on the gasoline-burning model has a capacity of 18 gallons.
''The purpose of the loaner is to demonstrate the drivability and performance of
a CNG vehicle," explained Rossi , "as compared to a liquid-fuel vehicle. People assume thai driving a CNG car will somehow he different, but once they drive it,
they see it handles just as well. The differ-

ence is the large reduction in emissions
coming out of the tailpipe."

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CAMP
Continued from page 1
their time. The only out-of-pocket expense
was the compensation for Stanley Kaplan
instructors, which was paid for by UB .
"We made it very clear to these kids ,"

said Townsend. ''We said, 'If you miss one
day or if you ' re late one day, don't bother
coming back. The program costs you noth·

ing. but you have to make a commitment
and stick with it.· "
There were no dropouts.
Townsend noted that lhe initiaJ goal was
to provide a 10-day residence experience
at UB .

Vehicles that run o n CNG also require

"We wanted them to live in the dorms.

less maintenance. such as Jess frequen1 oil
changeS.
According to Rossi, imponed fuel represents about 74 percent of fuel used in

eat in the dining hall, have a full college

New York State, while nationwide the figure is about 50 percent.
'lhe U.S. has from 100 to 200 years' worth
of its own natural gas supplies," he noted,
"making CNG an attractive alternate fuel."
One concern about CNG vehicles now

A widely held assumption among U.S.
educaton and govemn\ent otl'"ocials is that
Japan has effectively closed ill doors to
American 51Udents by restricting access to
Japan's premier educational institutions.
This enoneous belief and the practices
that result from it, said Cummings, explain
why the energy devoted to strengthening
U.S-Japanese educational exchange over
the past several decades has produced IJ)Odest results at best. "It has led American
policymaken to promote pntetices that discourage international educational and cultural competence among Americao students and scholars," he said.
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will 1101 have the skilled workforoe required
to function well in the 1-eaJms of international
business, banking. law, manufacturing, sci-

CLEANER AIR
US's cargo vans run on CNG . Those vehicles now fill up at the Town of
Tonawanda CNG station on Military Road
that is operated by National Fuel Gas Corp.
Smeader noted that CNG-powered vehicles are less prevalent in the U.S. than in

much of China, and, to some exll:nt, Russia.

living experience,·· he said.
Unfortunately. because a corporate
sponsor could nol be identified in time. the
decision was made to tum it into a day
camp format.
Impressed with the success of this
summer's program, Townsend and Ansari
are looking for corporate sponsors to fund
a sleepaway experience for June 1997. 0

FIIH

Fish named HRP associate dean;
Cerny chair of physical therapy
D... R. Flu, 8SIIOCt.te pror.- and outgoing chair of the Department of
Physical Therapy aad Exercise Science at UB, has been named associate dean for
academic affairs in the UB School of Health Related Professions. The school contains the departments of Clinical Laboratory Science, Nuclear Medicine Technology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Exercise Science, and the Nu trition Program.
Frank J. Cerny has been named to replace Fish as chair of the Department of
Physical Therapy and Exercise Science. Cerny served as interim chair in 1993-94.
Fish holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Toledo, a certificate of proficiency in.physical therapy from the University of Pennsylvania, a
master's degree in physical therapy from Boston University and a doctorate in
anatomical sciences from UB.
A UB facult y member since 1974, Fish served as chair of his department from
1992-96. He also has been appointed director of the school's physical therapy
program, a position he held for the past year on an interim basis. He is a clinical
assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology in the UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences .
Fish's research activities have centered on lhe use of electrical stimulation to
control edema. tissue swelling resulting from trauma. He is author or co-author of
numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters. He received the 1985 Outstanding Teacher Award and the 198:7 Francis V. Hanavan Outstanding Teacher Award,
both from the UB School of Health Related Professions. and the Faculty Recogni tion Award from the UB Program in Physical Therapy in 1985, 1987 and 1988.

He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and serves on
the editorial hoard of the International Journal of Rehabiliration and Health .

Cemy, •

~I•II.t

In •••rdM phy ..oloO, has conducted pioneering re-

search on the effect of exercise on cystic fibrosis. His work led to the incorporation of regular e~ercisc inro treatment programs for this disease.
Cerny holds a bachelor's degree from MacalesterCollege in Minnesota, a doctorate from the Univenity of Wisconsin, and completed post-doctoral work al Medical
College of Freiberg, Germany. Before coming to UB. he was director of research at
the Ontario Exercise-Heart Collaborative Study Satellite Centei in Wtndsor, Ontario.
and an assistant professor of human kinetics at the University of Windsor.
He has been a UB faculty member since 1976, when he was appointed research assistant professor of pediatrics and associate director of the Children's
Lung Center at Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He was named assistant professor
in the UB Department of Physical Therapy and Exercise Science in 1985 and was
promoted to associate professor in 1991. He also serves as director of the
department's doctoral program

Cerny has authored or co-authored numerous articles and abstracts in refereed
journals and has contributed chapters to nine books. He is a fellow of the Ameri can College of Sports Medicine.

�....

Graduate Education
Way it's conducted must change, FSEC told
relatively pess imistic projection of federal
support for research and development, at
HE REALITIES OF higher eduleast in the science and technologies. over
cation. including declining supthe next decade. And that is going to be
port for research and developone of the factors that is going to shape
menton the local, stale and navery much the future of the contemporary
tional levels.
fora: UB to
research university."
change the way it conducts graduate educaTriggle added that R&amp;D figures over the
tjon. David Triggle, vice provost for gradupast 35 years show that when federal supate education, told the Faculty Senate Export for R&amp;D declines, then industrial supecutive Committee at its meeting Sept. 4.
port also declines. "So one should not be
In a presentation that was one of a se·
optimistic in assuming that other agencies
ries of such talks he's been giving to groups
are simply going to step automatically into
on campus. Triggle used statistics and
the gap and make up this funding," he said.
quotes from national - - - - - - - - - - - - - Moreover, finaneducational leaders to
cial difficulties on the
hammer home the "Changes are about to
federal level usually
point that business as
translate to financial
us ual cannot con · occur because of what
difficulties on the
tinue.
state and local levels.
thefederalgovernr,nent
" We h ave one
"A 15 percent tax CUI at
more chance; we have is about to do. "
the federal level sounds
to assume respom•i ·
DAVID 111-.E grea~ except that local
bility." Trigg le said .
taxes tendtogoupcor" We have to define - - - - - - - - - - - - - - respondiogly
equivaour mission. o ur objectives and our priori·
lently, and so we must not look for support
ties."
from that dimension," he said.
He noted that different choices will have
Triggle noted that the Pew Commission
t o be made to be co nsis tent with the
on Health Education and Health Delivery
university's mission, and that likel y wi ll
issued a report in 1995 that offers valuable
mean vertical cuts. "That means you and
comments on health education that are re:l e," he said.
evant to higher education in general.
He placed a familiar. but somewhat al ust as the health-care system will be
tered. quote on the overhead projector: 'Your
held accountable for cost, consumer
ission. Mr. Phelps. should you choose to
satisfaction and overall quality. these
epl it, is to be all things to all people.•
same standards will be increasingly detis not our mission,"Triggle stressed.
manded from educational programs. he
began hi s presentation by noting that
said. "Education must become demand·Ori·
after \World War ll, universities assumed
ented:
knowledge, skills and competencies.
the role of research and scholars hip in reLocation of education must effectively
turn for support from the federal govern·
meet the needs of the students, and not the
ment. But "this contract is now in the pro·
lifestyles of faculty," he said.
cess of being transformed. or broken. some
Other features of the emerging healthwould have il, and in fact ... is being brocare system, as noted by the Pew Commisken in some very severe ways," he said.
sion, that Triggle said could he easily transe offered stati stics s howi ng that
lated to education in general include the in..changes are about to occur because
tensive use of infonnalion, a focus on the
of what the federal government is
consumer, a knowledge of outcomes, the use
about to do."
of constrained resources, a reconsideration
Although Congressional Budget Office
of human value, an expectation of account·
figures indicate that there will be an approxi ability and coordination of services-"mak·
mately S percent increase for non-defense
ing sure we're not all establishing our own
research and development funding in fiscal
individual, competitive fiefdoms which tend
year 1996-97-an election-year budget--the
not to be effectively done."
figu res are not at all rosy after that. he said.
Triggle noted that in addition to the na·
The out years-past 1997-will cause "a
tiona! issues he had outlined, UB also faces
very dramatic projected reduction in real a set of local iss ue s, including an erosion
dollar terms in the amounts of funding avai lof state funding; enrollment pressures; a
able," he said. Overall total funding to redecline in a commitment from SUNY; a
search and development is scheduled to dedeclining reputation , as noted in the Na·
crease by approximately 25 percent in real
tio na! Research Council's 1995 ratings of
dollar figures, he said, noting the projected
doctoral programs. and a lack of a sense of
reduction is a major consequence of the drive
direction by the SUNY system as a whole.
toward a balanced budget amendment.
"Put these together, and they make for
"Only the most foolish of the optimists
a heady mix of uncertainty," Triggle noted.
would take these figures and befteve thai
nnis Malone, Distinguished Service
we're actualiy going to head for prosperrofessor of Electrical and Comity, at least in these sorts of R&amp;D figures.
puter
Engineering and chair of the
in the years ahead," he said.
senate's
Academic Planning Committee,
" I tend not to be an optimist: I tend to
which met with Triggle last spring, emphabelieve that the light at the end of the tunsized three other issues that he considered
nel is frequently that of the oncoming
critical for graduate education:
train," he added. ••And so I believe that we
• Mission. "What are we and what do
really ought to be planning for an overall
we want to be?" Planning is impossible without agreement on a mission, Malone said.
• Q uallty. "What do we mean by qual ity? How do we define it? How do we mea·
sure it?" Of course every faculty member
thinks his or her program is a quality pro·
gram. but in reality it may not be, he said.
• Centrality. ' There are a lot of sacred
cows that perhaps should not be sacred any
more.
"We need to understand how the public
is viewing the university at this moment,"
he said. ''These issues are critical ones. I
believe in peaks of excellence," he said.
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Greetings lor Volunteers atllilgate Party
Nelson Tt!WI1send, UB director of Athletics and !his year's SEFA chair, enlerJalned SEFA IIOiunleers at a Jallgate party held Sept. 7 in UB Stadium. Here.
Townsend greets Charles Paganelli, professor of physiology. Theme of 199697 campaign is "Be a Good Sport:
addi ng that even some very basic:; programs
may not be excellent.
Michael Frisch. professor ofAmerican Studies, noted that change poses a real danger if faculty and staJf get defensive about their own progrnms "and ret=1 into what they know ... II
will be a real challenge to be non-parochial."
MaryTaub, professor of biochemistry and
a member of the Academic Planning Committee, said UB must consider several issues.
including whether it should concenttate its
resources on one or two areas of excellence.
put its resources in the "money-making ar-

eas" and examine its image-is its role in
New York State to educate the masses?
''When we look at change. we have to
think of ourselves as a ship sailing that is
not built for these seas." said James Faran.
associate professor of mathematics. "We
have to rebuild the ship. but we can ' t take
it all apart because it will sink. "Our mi s·
sion has to be something we can latch onto.
something to make the transition possible.··
Triggle urged that change be swift and
that the university "establish a sense of
where it is going" within 18 months. ....,

Study shows stress incontinence
patch improves quality of life
BJ LOIS BAKER
News Services Edilor

W

OMEN WITH MILD to moderate stress incontinence tak·
ing part in a clinical trial of a
new adhesive foam patch to
control leakage reported at least a 50 percent improvement in their qualit y of life
usi ng the patch.
Patricia A. Burns, professor in the UB
School of Nursing. rece ntly reported results
of a 12·center study at a symposium, "AI·
ternntive Approaches to the Treatment of
Female Incontinence," held in Paris by its
manufacturer. Uromed Corp.
Bums. principal investigator of rhe UB
trial center and a recognized expert in th e
field of female incontinence, said the patch
should appeal to women with stress incon·
tinence.
" It's aesthetically appealing. it 's not
bulky and it's very convenient," she said.
"Women like it for those reasons . And for
most women, il provided significant protectioq."
Stress incontinence is the involuntary
escape of a small amount of urine during a
cough, laugh, athletic activity or related
circumstances . It is very common in
women, prompted by childbirth and/or aging. The one· inch funnel ·shaped adhesive
foam patch acts as a barrier to urine loss.
The 21 · week trial involved 346 women.
II consisted of a !-week qu alify ing period.
a 4· week control period when participants
used their usual protection for the condi ·
tion. 12 weeks of device use and 4 weeks
of follow-up.
Results showed that 79 percent of participants reported at least a 50 percent im·
provement in their quality of life. charnc·
terized by an enhanced sense of well-being and a greater ability to go about their

BURNS
daily activ ities without intertllption.
Forty-six percent reported no leakage
when using the patch. while 82 percent said
the product worked beuer than their usual
method. Eighty-five percent of the women
said the patch was comfortable and 97 percent were able to apply it properl y. results
showed.
The women were monitored o nce a
month for adverse reactions to the patch.
Bums said no significant complications
developed. There was no increase in vagi ·
nal or urinary· tract infections. and only
eight of the users reported skin irri tation.
Bums said the product, curre ntly aveil·
able in the U.S. only by prescription, works
only for women with mild to moderate
stress incontinence.

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Co-sponsored by Music Depar11)'111;11111d UB
Sesquicentennial Commii!Be. F
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formances by .....,.,.. alumni/!
'porform""" soprano Laura Alltln.
i!iony de
Mare. double ba8llal James lindematk. gui·
1ar duo o1 Joenno Caslellanl and MlchMI
Andrlacclo and Amhenlt Saxophone Ouartel.
8 p.m .• Sloe Concert Hall.

Tlcl&lt;els: c.ner for lhe Arts Box Offoce.
645-ARTS. and Tfcl&lt;elmasl8r . . - (852-5000).

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with pool-show birthday pally.
~: Center fCM' the Arts Box Offtce,
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Celebrallon of nursing's pasl and fulL"' epqnsored by UB School ol Nuralng . horlclrollla
60th annlvo!rMry. Dayllma e " In 8lll8lo
Marrloll Holel and UB Cenle&lt; (or~·
wilh dinner and alumni recognlllonal7:30p.m.

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Sesqulcenteoolal Academic Symposium:

Hornecomlng Parade

DoeJs THE Boov MATTVI?

"Epidemiology and Prevenllve Medicine:
Collective Memories. VIsions lor the Fu1ure•

Examining the frontiers of knowledge in nature, society and cuhure, symposium will ex·
plore if and how the body matters In the neurosciences and the digital world of computer
technotogy and will examine embodied nature

Sponsored by Division of Alhletics. Begins a1
9 a.m . On Main Street and South Campus .

Symposium sponsored by Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and featuring

prominent alumni and current and former lac·
ully members. In Hyatt Regency Buftalo.

of change In lho realms of biology and culture . Participants : Gerald Edelman , 1972

Friday, Sept. 27

Nobellaureale In physiology or medicine: N.

Alhlellc Hall ol Fame Awards Dinner and
Hlslorlcal Tribule

Katherine Hayies , scholar, author of works on
bodity basis of knowing In relation to cultural
contexts and changing technotogies: Bruno
Latour, autl'lof of books and artdes on society
and technology; genetics scholar and author
Richard Lewontin, Agassiz Prof8SSOf of Zool-

Sponsored by UB Alumni Association to honor
athletes being Inducted into UB Alumni AssoCiation Athletic Hall of Fame. featuring histori-

cal tribute to Division of Athletics .
6 p .m cocktails in Alumni Alena lollowed
by dinner at 6:30 p.m '" Center for the Arts.
r~ekets and reservations · Debra Palka.
829-2608

. .-,,Sapt.H
Linda Yalem 5K Memorial Run
Annual run sponsored by Division of Student
Affairs and Division of Athletics in memory of
UB student and to promote safety awareness
programs on campus . Starts ( 10 a.m .) and
hnishes in hont ot Alumni Arena
Regis lraHon and fee s 645-3 141

has written on the difference In cultural sense

of body and mind. Sponsored by James
Fenton Lectureship FoundaUon and UB Sesquicentennial Comnittee. From 8: 15a.m. to
4:30 p .m . in Slee Concert Halt.

Triangulating the Bodies of Archllecture

Tha 1996 Associallon of Colleglale Schools of
Architecture Northeast Regtonal Meeting ,
hosted by School of Architecture and Plan·
ning Through Oct. 6 In Buffalo Marriott Hotel
and at olher silas.

The legacy of Sludenl leadership

OCTOBER
-....,,Oct.2
Untverstty Convocation
To honor recipient of the UB Presidenrs
Medal. new SUNY Distinguished Professors
and recipients of SUNY Chancellor's awards
101' excellence. Premiere of Lukas Foss composition and poem by Irving Feldman , both
dedicated to the university on the occasion of
ils sesquicentennlal. At 3 p .m .. Center 101' the
Arts; followed by reception.

UB and BuHalo In Film: The Hlslory of lnde·
pendenl FilmNideo Making In Weslem New
Yortt • Program I

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Media Study Department series opens with
compilaUon of silent lilms depicting Buffalo at
the turn of the century. AI 7:30p.m .. ScreenIng Room tt2 , Center fOI' the Arts .

Dlsllngulshed Speaker Series Presenls
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Sponsored by UB and Don Davis Auto WDfld
Lectureship Fund . Gates is W.E.B. Du Bois
Professor of Humanilies at Harvard University,
professor of English, chair of Afro-American
Studies Department and d irector of Du Bois
Institute for Afro-American Research. At 8
p .m ., Center lor the Arts.
Tickels· Center for the Arts Box Ofttce .

645-ARTS.
~.Oct.

ogy and professor of biology al Harvard, and
medical anlhropologlsl Margarel Lock. who

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"Border Dlspulea: Communlcallons,
Commerces and Cultures·
Symposium sponsored by Department of En·
glish and Department of Comparative Literatures wilt use U .S. and Canadian border as Ofganizing metaphor to Investigate edges of
various Identities. policies and practices
From 9 a.m . to 1 p .m ., 120 Clemens Hall.
Health Care Frontlefs
Health care trade lair with presentations and
lectures. Sponsored by Schoot of Engineering
and Applied Sciences. School of Medicine
and Bkxnedical Sciences and Health Care
Trade Fair Association From 10 a.m . to 6
p m .. Student Union

UB and BuHalo In Film: The Hlslory of lnde·
pendenl Film/Video Making In Weslem New
Vorl&lt; • Progrem II
Media Study Department Series continues
with commentary and panel discussion of
amateur and Independent media history. At
4:30 and 7:30p .m ., Screening Room t t 2.
Center for the Arts

UB Sesquicentennial Student Leadership
Conference . sponsored by Division of Student
Affairs and Leadership Program In OHice of
Student Ule. UB student ~aders from recent
decades return to campus to meet with current student leaders and explore Issues of
student leadership at the university. Opens
with reception in Student Unk&gt;n; continues

Salurday. Del. 5
Parenls Weekend Check· ln
From 4-8 p .m ., 9-11 :30 a .m Saturday. Student
Unk&gt;n lobby.
lnfOfmaUorr Toby Shapiro, 645-6125 .

Unveiling of UB's Bronze BuHalo
Ule-sized bronze buffalo, replica of one that
graced concourse of Buffak&gt;'s old Cenual Ter·
minal, will be installed on Coventry Loop in
front of Alumni Arena and Center lor the Arts
At5p .m .

Art Departmenl Facully Exhlblllon and In·
vited Alumni Exhlblllon
Dual show sponsored by University Gallery.
Opening and reception 6-8 p .m .. University
Gallery. Cenrer ICM' the Arts

UB and Buffalo In Film: The Hlslory of lndependenl Film/Video Making In Weslem New
Yori&lt; • Program Ill
Media Study Department Series continues
with screening of films made specifically
about OB during past 50 years. At 7:30p.m .,
Screening Room 112. Center for the Arts .

Sesqulcenlennlal Gala: "Siep lnlo My
Dream·
A jazz and dance collaboration featuring !he
Parsons Dance Company and the Billy Taylor
Trk&gt;. At 8 p .m ., Mainstage, Center ICM' the Arts;

Parents/Homecoming Weekand
Lectures and tours sponsored by Office of
Student Ufa begin at10 a.m .

lnformalion: Toby Shaplm. 645-6125.
Homecoming Pre-Game Tent Party
Sponsored by Office of Alumni Relallcns , e&amp;sual brunch and entertainment in Untv8rstty
Stadium end-zone. tO a.m. to ktckoff at

noon.

Tlckels: Debra Palka. 829-2508 . Llmlled
number of tickets available at door.
Homecoming Foolbell Game • UB Bulls vs.

Coman Untverslly
Gates open at t 1 a.m .• kickoff at noon in University Stadium; special half-lime activiUes.
r~ekets : 645-6666. Alumni Uckets: 829-

2608 .
Parenls/Homecomlng Weekend Comedy
Nlghl Faaluring Paula Poundslone
Sponsored by Division ol Sludenl AHairs . Al8
p .m .. doors open at 7 p .m ., Alumni Arena.
Tickets: Student Union Tk:ket Office .

645-2353: Cenler for lhe Asls Box Office. 645AATS. and Ticketmaster outlets (852·5000).

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Parents Weekend Brunch
Sponsored by Division of Student AHairs
From 10 am to noon. Pistachto's , Student
Union.
Tickets : Office of Student Ute. 645-6t25

Danca concert inlerpreling lheme ol UB sesQuicarmonnlal. explores new and old fronile&lt;s
Jn movement and music. Sponsored by Department of Theatre and Dance. 2 p .m .•
Drama Theatre. Center for dle P.-rts. Perfor·
mances continue at 8 p.m. on Thursdays

lhrough Salurdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays
lhrough Del. 27.
TICkets: Center for the Arta Box Office
645-ARTS.

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SesqulcenleMial Gospel Music Wori&lt;shop •
Day 1
Gospel music to be expk&gt;red and celebrated
with lectures , seminars and great singing •n
event sponsored by Offtce of the VICe Pres•·
dent for Public Service and Urban Affairs
At 7 p .m •. UB Gospel Choir and guest cho11s
open program; 7:3Cl'p.m ., discusskln of "The
Soclal and Cuttural Functions of Gospel Mus1c.
in Churches Today· by the Rev Troy Bronner.
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church . Mainslage.
Center for the Arts.
Tickets: Center ICM' the Arts Box Off1ce .

645-ARTS.

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"1 50: A Sesqulcanlennlal Slide Tour of UB's
Hislory"

Sesqulcenleoolal Gospel Music Wori&lt;shop •
Day2

UB archivist emeritus Shormte Finnegan addresses UB at SUNRISE breakfast program
At 7:30a.m . in Center lor Tomorrow.

• Morning, afternoon workshops and seminars in Baird Hall feature recording artist R1·
chard SmaJiwood and Horace Boyer. University of Massachusetts professor and noted
scholar, arranger and performer of African ~
Amertcan gospel music. At 1 p .m .. panel diS·
cussion of
Social and Cultural FunctK&gt;ns
of Gospel Music in Churches Today.·
TICkets: Center for the Arts Box Office.

Tlckels: Judilh Schwendler. 829-2608
Creeley al 70 • Day 1
Three-day birthday tribute to distinguished
American poet Robert Greeley, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Prolessor of Poetry and the Humanities. opens
with reading by poet Eileen Myles. Sponsored
by Just Buffalo Uterary Center. AI 8 p .m ..
Hallwatts Contemporary Arts Center. fourth
Uoor. Tri-Main Center. 2495 Main St . (entrance
in rear of building).

Friday, Oct. U

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645-ARTS.
• Gospel Music Showcase with presentation.

'The Old Ship ol Zion: Afrlcan·Amerlcan Gos pel Music,' by Horace Boyer followed by conC8ft featuring Richard Smallwood. At 6:30
p .m .. Mainstage. Cent8f for the Arts.
TICkets: Center for the Arts Box OffiCe .

Greeley al 70 • Day 2

645-ARTS.

• WelcQme by President William Greiner,
readi1 ow6 by poets Gil Sorrentino and Amiri
Bar aka ce~brate Robert Creeley's literary
achievements and his enormous influence on

. .~.Oct.20
CelebraiiOn of 150 Years of lha Universily

making ol poelry In English. Sponsored by UB
English Department. From 3-5 p .m ., Katharine

Cornell Thea~e . Ellicoll Complex.
• Opening of '30 Yaars of Poetry al UB.• exhibition In honor ol Robert Greeley sponsored
by Poelry/Rare Books Colleclion. Receplion
hom 5-6:30 p.m .. Poelry/Rare Books Room.
420 Capen Hell.
• Talk by noted Amerk:an artist Jim Dine .
lrkmd and coUaborator of Robert Creeley. fol·
lowed by ·A Conversation with Cree~y- and a
read ing by him of his poetry. Sponsored by
Department of English From 8:30-tO p .m .,
Katharine Cornell Theatre.

_.....,,Oct.12
Creeley al 70 • Day 3
• Keynote poetry reading by Robert Creeley

and John Ashbery. Sponsored by Departmenl
of English. From 4-5:15 p.m .. Kalherine
Cornell Theatre; followed by reception in Jane
Keeler Room
• Jazz concert with two of the country's most
celebrated jazz musicians: composer and
pianist Steve Kuhn and singer Carol Fredette
Reception , party featuring Mercury Rev. At
8:30p.m ., Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, fourth floor. Tri-Maln Center, 2495 Main St.

Llbreries
• Annual Meeting of Frtends of the Health

Sciences Library. Talk by Martin M.
Cunvnings , former director of Natlooal Library
of Medicine , on 19th-century library ~der
John Shaw Billings. From 10:30 a.m - 1 p .m .
Austin Flint Main Reading Room . Health Sc1·
ences Ubrary.
• Acquisition of Their Three MUik&gt;nth Volume
Sponsored by University Ubranes. includes
exhibitions In all UB libraries from 1-3 p .m
and presenlelion of CD-ROM on hislory of poetics produced by Poetry/Rare Books ColkK: ·
tion at 1 p .m . in Poetry/Rare Books Room. 420

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NOVEMBER
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Medical Elhlcs Symposium
Nationat symposium on Issues of mechcal elh·
ics sponsored by UB School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sctences. Distinguished scholars
and authors from medicine, biomedical SCI·
ences. phitosophy and other fields will dis·
cuss topics including human genetics and
public policy, health-care policy, ethical impil catklns of new technologies.
Through Nov. 16 in Buffalo Marnell and
Drama Theatre. UB Center for the Arts

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Prominent scientists will take part in
symposium on preventive medicine
everal prominent alumni of lhe
UB Department of Social and
Preventive Medicine will return
o Buffalo lo participate in a
symposium, "Epidemiology and
Preventive Medicine: Collective Memories and Visions for lhe Future," lo be
held here Sept 19-21.
The program, being held in conjunction
wilh lhe sesquicentennial celebration of lhe
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical

Scieoces, will be co-sponsored by lhe UB
nepartmenl of Social and Preventive Medicine and Roswell Pari&lt; Cancer lnstilUte.
The symposium will feature research
updates by currenl and pasl facully members, presenlalions by graduates who are
leading scienlislS elsewhere and by uorecipienlS of Society for Epidemiologic
Research prizes and olher national
awards.
Meetings will be held al lhe Hyalt Regency Buffalo. with a poster session and
social event scheduled for the evening of

Lecture Oct. 2 by leading African-American scholar
opens 1996-97 Distinguished Speakers Series
Br MARY BETH SPINA
News Services Editor

ading African-American scholar
Henry Louis Gales Jr. will kick
If UB 's 1996-97 Distinguished
peakers Series with a lecture at 8
p.m. on Wednesday. Oct 2. in lhe Center
for the Arts Mainstage theater on the
North Ca mpus.
Other speakers sc heduled as part of
the popu lar series are Emmy-winning actor and unofficial mayor of Los Angeles
Edward James Olmos on Nov. 19 and
Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize-wi nning author
Toni Morrison on April 24.
The series is presented by UB in conjunction wilh lhe Don Davis Auto World
Lect ureship Fund. Co-sponsor is Key
Bank: lhe Amherst Chamber of Commerce is the series affi liate sponsor.
A fierce defender of affumative action,
Gates is a prolific essayist on such issues
as the First Amendment, anti-Semitism,
ethnic identity, rap music and what he considers a crisis in black leadership.
He is the Distinguished W.E.B. Du
Bois Professor of Humanities at Harvard
University, where he also serves as a professor of English. chair of lhe Department of Afro-American Studies and di-

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rector of the Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research.
Educated al Yale and Cambridge uni versities. his hooks include ''The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afri can-American Literary Criticism," ''Loose
Canons: Notes on the C ulture Wars" and
hi s 1994 memoirs, "Colored People."
The leclure is sponsored by lhe UB Offlee of Conferences and Special EvenlS and
Key Bank. Contributing sponsors are lhe
Buffalo Marriol ~ UB Cenler for lhe Arts,
Makin' Copies, UB Alumni Association
and lhe James Fenlon Lecrure Foundation.
Series tickets for Tier I (orcheslra) are
$54; $45 for Tier 2 (rear orchestra) and $36.
Tier 3 (balcony). Discount series tickets for
Tier I are $50 for UB facuily. staff. alumni
and senior citizens and $34 for UB studenlS. Discounl price for Tier 2 is $4 I and
$25; Tier 3 is $32 and $16.
Olmos is lhe "Sludenl 010ice Speaker;"
his lecture is free to UB students.
Indi vidual lecture prices are: $ 16 for
Gales and Olmos for Tier I; $ I 3 for Tier 2
and $10, Tier 3. Morrison's lecture wi ll be
$28, Tier I; $24, Tier 2 and $20, Tier 3.
For faculty. Slaff. alwnni and senkr citizens,
TJC:rl is$14 for0alesand01mos; $26for
Morrison. Tiel' 2 is $11 forGaloes and Olmos:

GATES

$22 for Morrison. Tocr 3 is $9 for Gales and

Olmos; $18 for Morrison. UB sludenl prices
are $ 12, Gales, and $24, Morrison, Tier I:
$9, Gales and $20, Morrison, Tier 2; and
$7, Gales, and $16, Morrison, Tier 3.
Series subscriptions and discounts can
be purchased only by mail order or in person al Cenler for lhe Arts Tickel Office. 0

Friday, Sept 20, in lhe Delaware Part
Casino.
Returning graduates will include:
• Gary Giovino, Ph.D., '87, chief of
epidemiology, Office of Smoking and
Heallh, Cenlers for Disease Conlroi, discussing "Adolescent Cigaretle Smoking:
Epidemiology and Prevention Slralegies."
• Philip Nasca, Ph.D., ' 82, president
of the American College of Epidemiology and professor of epidemiology al lhe
University of Massachuseus, Amherst.
discussing ''The Future of Epidemiology:
Problems and Porenlial Opportunities."
• Robert Wallace. M.D., M.S .. ' 70,
director of the University of Iowa Cancer
Center. discussing "Apolipo Protein E
Alleles and the Progression of Cognitive
Decline: A Population Study." _
• Dee Wesl, Ph.D .. ' 73, executive di rector of the Northern California Cancer
Center, discussing '"Cancer Surveillance.
Pasl and Future."
• Holly Howe, Ph.D.. '79. chief of
epidemiologic studies at the ntinois Departmenl of Public Heallh, di scussi ng
disease prevention versus treatment.
• Michelle Hindi-Alexander, Ph.D ..
'79, health sciences administrator with
lhe National Heart, Lung and ·Blood Institute, discussing " From Buffalo to
Bethesda, A Personal Journey."
Among reluming UB Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine facuily
participating in lhe program will be Warren
Winkel stein, M.D., professor emeritus of
epidemiology, Universily of California 8l
Berlteley and former chair of ilS School of
Public Heallh; Suon Graham. Ph.D., UB
professor emeritus and 1996 recipient of an
honorary doctorate from UB. and William
Mosher, M.D.. former commissioner. Erie
County Heallh DepattmenL
Several currenl faculty members in
UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and Roswell Part Cancer
lnslilule will-report on lheir research. John
Vena, Ph.D., professor of social and preve ntive medicine, is symJXlsi um chair. 0

Works by outstanding alwnni, faculty
Sesqui theme for Theatre, Dance concert· to be shown in tribute to UB art program
BJ PATIIICIA -YAH

News Services Eailor
The UB Department of Thea Ire and Dance will open ils 23rd season Oct 13 wilh
a dance concert, " Fron tiers 1," lhal wiU i nlerprellhe lheme of UB 's sesquicentennial celebration.
Performances will continue through Oct 27 al 8 p.m. on Thursdays through
Saturdays and at 2 p.m. o n Sundays in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the
Arts on lhe U B North Campus.
Ticket prices are $ 10 (general admission) and $5 (sludenls. seniors. children ).
Tickers may be obtai ned before lhe show al the Center for lhe Arts box office.
645-ARTS , or lhrough ail Jickelmasler oullels, 852-5000.
Choreographers Linda Swiniuch, Tom Ralabale, Lynne Kurdziel-Formaro,
Shelley Hai n, Tressa Gorman Crehan and William Thomas will inlerprellhe sesquicentennial theme by exploring new and old frontie~ in music, movement and
music.
Thomas' work will be the result of a collaboration with composer Damien
Simon and based on daily encounters between people on city streets. In a composition tilled " Breaking lhe Re ," Crehan will conlraSI lhe 18lh- and 19th-century music of Bach and Beethoven with a contemporary vision of dancers in
flight Swiniuch 's " Madrigal" will marry lhe vocals by rock musician Pauy
Smilh and jazz vocalisr C leo Lane in a biller tale of love fo und and lost
The program wi ll be directed by Swiniuch. Sel designs will be by visiting Cuban art ist Leand ro Solo.

BJ PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

n celebration of UB's sesquicentennial , lhe UB Art Department faculty
has seiecred work by 23 of ilS oul
standing alumni and 17 facully
members for exhibition in the University
Art Gallery. The show wi ll open wilh a
public reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday,
Oct 4, and wi ll run rhrough Dec. 18.
Karen Emenhiser. associate director of
lhe gallery, said lhe show is a comprehensive lrihule lo lhe UB art program, which
has lUrned our such well-known artiSlS as
Susan Allman, Nancy Dwyer, Chuck Agro,
Ellen Carey and Joel Peter Johnson, all of
whom will be represenled in lhe exhibit
The aJumnj represented also will include Mindy Bremmer, Dennis Goris.
Kurt Feueherrn, Barry Fitzgerald, Thomas F. Insalaco, Daniel Levine, Jane
Mnrinsky, Gina Occhiogrosso, Thomas
R. Payne. Endi Poskovic. Robin S hores.
Robert C. Smilh, Andrew Leighton

I

Strout, Evan D. Summer, Scou Swiles,
Jason Everen Tennant and Anne Turyn.
Facully exhibitors are: painlers David
Schirm, Norine Spurling, Sheldon Beriyn.
Willard Harris; prinunaker/painler Harvey
Breverrnan; prinlmaker Adele Henderson;
collage artist Jeff Sherven; photographers
Marion Faller, Daniel Calleri; iUustralors
Kalhleen Collins Howell, Alan E. Cober.
graphic designer Paul McKenna; sculptors Tony Paterson, Susan Mills, and
digiral artislS Gary Nickard, Anlhony
Rozak, 1)'rone Georgiou.
The gallery is on lhe firsl and second
levels of the Center for the Arts on lhe
North Campus. Hours are Wed. through
Sal., I 0:30 a.m. 10 8 p.m. , and Sundays.
noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free .
A concurrent exhibition in the gal lery's Lighlwell Gallery lhrough Dec. 20.
is Leonardo Drew's " No. 45-A," a mas sive, site-specific installation constructed
as a personal homage to the sensual surfaces of Abslracl Expressionism. n

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UNIVIEitSITY C - 1
WILCOIIU-;

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Like to sing? Join the University

Chorus-It's open to students . faculty, staff- anyone
who enjoys sing ing. Sessoos are
held Tuesday and
Thursday at 5·30

p.m in 250 Batrd
Hall.

..........

Simona, UB professor ol music
and d irector ol the chorus, receiVed
the 1996 award for outsLandtng choral director presented by the New
York State Chotal Directors Assoc:IBhon on Aug 19 at the New York State
School Music Association conference
tn Rochester

Gin FROM AWMNUI, WIFE
TO BENIFIT LAW ITUDENTI

\

A 1956 graduate of the UB School
of Law and his wile have made a
S t16 ,0CXl commitment to the school
through a charitable remainder
11 ust The commitment from Ross
and Jeanette Cellino of West Senec a will be used to establish The
Ross and Jeanette Celli no Scholarship Fund to award scholarships to
academically qualified . lirst-year
aw students who demonstrate sigmlicant financial need . Preference
will be given to sludents from
Caltaraugus and Chautauqua countes. The scholarship will be
awarded each year. over a lhreeear term . as long as the recipient
\Blains good academic standing
The Celllnos want lhe scholarShip to help young, married law
school students because their own
personal experience of being a
young . newly married couple with
children when Ross attended law
school and worked pa rt-lime gave
them an understanding of the
struggle married students lace.
·rhis gilt Is my small contrlbulion lo help provide others with lhe
same opportunity I received: Ross
Cellino noted .
Ross opened a law partnership
tn 1959 with Michael Ukoudis. also
a 1956 graduate of the UB law
school . They were )oined In 1967 by
Alan Bernstein. The law firm flourished lor more than 20 years. Ross
Cellino retired in 1991 .

The first ·worldwide lessons in
leadership Series· featuring leadership gurus Stephen Covey, Tom Peters and Peter Senge Is being presented vla closed-circuit TV this fall
by the Center for Entrepreneurial
Leaders/lip at UB. The four-part series . opening today, is presented In
cooperaUon with Fortune magazine.
Events take place In the Buffalo
Convention Center. with today's prcr
gram . ~ How to Make Your Team Unstoppable,· first-ever joint presentation by Covey, Peters and Senge ,
running from noon to 6:30 p .m .

Covey Is author of 1he 7 Habits
of Hoghly E~ective People," world's
best-selling book on parsonal and
professional development. Peters.
besl·selling business author of
lime. Is the author of 1he Purwh of
wowr Author of "The Fifth Disci·
ptine.• Senge Is considered by many
to be the world authority on the art of

an

building learning organizations.
The series will continue Oct. l ,
with a presentaUon by Covey, "Personal Etfectiveness. •
On Oct. 23. Covey will discuss
·Group Effectiveness:

TheS&lt;WiesooncUlesNclY. t5, wilh
Cowy's presentation, "Clrganizational
Eftectiveness" and the "Fortune 500
Foo.m." with los of the nation's most
adrTWed CEOs discussrog ieadersl'ip
techniques.

COURSE TO TEACH HOW
TO COPE W T T N A course to teach peopk3 how to
idenlify and change negative
thought and behavior patterns that
can contribute to depressk&gt;n will be
offered this fall by the Psychologk:al
Services Cent8f at UB.
Changes In appetite or sleep
habits, or a general sense of worthlessness or guilt all can be signs of
depresston. according to John Roberts. UB assistant professor of psychology and course Instructor.
·Everyone has problems or situslions that make th.em occasionally
feel 'down·: says Roberts. The
course is designed lor people who
find these feelings or signs are occurring more often and interfere with
their normal interest in life activities.

The "Coping Wrth Depression"
adult-educalk&gt;n course wilt meet
once a week for 12 weeks in PBik

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Newman Centers Award
to Honor Rossberg
Newman Centers at UB have announced that the first recipient olthe
Fr. Raymond Murray Campus Ministry Award will be the late Robert
H. Ro~re . Rossberg. who died May 5. 1996.
was Distinguished Service ProfesSOf in the Department of Counseling and Ed ucational Psyc~ogy. He
~MI-.o"l!ilii l held several administrative posts d uring his care8f
at UB , including vice president lor academ ic affairs,
and continued to teach part time frnlowing his retirement in 1994 .
The award will be presented Sunday, Sept. 22 at

the Annual Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit.
to be celebrated by the Most. Rev. Henry Mansell ,
Bishop of Buffalo. at 11 :30 a .m . in St. Joseph's University Church. 3269
Main Street.
Newman Centers honor Rossberg as •the epitome of a committed
scholar, teacher. administrator an d a d ecHcated friend of the
unlversity...committed to the notion of service to others in his 40 years
at UB. Even with the pressing concerns as a senior academic leader.
Bob Rossberg always had lime !Of a junior coneague or a student
with a problem ex a complaint or who simply needed a compassionate shoulder to lean on . Countless students have admired and respected his wisdom and kind spirit over many years •
Fr Murray. lor whom the award Is named, was the first campus
minister at UB. beginning his miriistry in 1936. A pioneer in the new
field of involvement on a college campus . he dedicated his eltorts to
reaching young people who needed spiritual renewal and strength
along with their academic pursuits. The award will be presented by
his grand-niece. Kathleen Stamm. a member of the North Campus
Newman Center Community.

Hall, North Campus. There is a tuition
charge, but potential enrollees wil receive a kee evaluation to detarmine W

they would -~ from the 00&lt;.&lt;58.
Classes will be held on Mondays
and Wednesdays, beginning Sept.
25. Monday classes will be held
from 3-5 p.m.; Wednesday classes ,
from !HI p.m. or 6:»11:30 p.m.
Anyone lnterestad In taking the
course should cal 645-3697 from 1-5
p.m. Monday-Thursday, by Sept 16.

CAl II .IOUIINAL ASIOCIATE
IINTOII,- ucn.u

Jln-YI Cal, associate professor ol
computer sctence. has been Invited
to serve as associate editor of the
Journal of Complexity. Cal presented talks this summer at The
University o1 Ca1Hornta/Ber1&lt;elay, the
National University of Singapore
and the University of Mataysla.
In addiUon, Cal was Chair of the
prograrTVTling committee for the Arl·
nual Conference

on ComputaUonal

Complexity which was held In Phlla·
delphia, co-chair of the programming coovnittee for the Annuat lnternaUonal Computing and Comblnatorics Conference held in Hong
Kong, and a member of the prcr
gramming corrvnittee for the 28th
annual ACM Symposium on Theory

of Computing, held in Philadelphia.

UB HO- STUDENT WINI
SUNY I.EUL EBSAY CONTI!IT
An honor student at UB who has
~n selected for a ptestigk&gt;us U.S
Supreme Court Internship has won
the Benjam in and David Scharps
Memorial Prize.
....,_ A. lt.cldad, a senior, Is

the recipient of the prize. awarded

each year to the student who writes
the best essay on an assigned legal
topic. The competition, administered
by the State University System Administralion. is open to SUNY junklts
considering a legal career
Haddad's essay. ·Expert Testimony and New Technok)gies. Inside
and Outside the Courtroom: dealt
with the admissibility of videotape
analysis b y an expert witness as legal evidence in a theft case. The
selection committee was composed
of academics and attorneys
This fall, Haddad is doing an in·
ternship in the Clerk's Offtce of the

U.S. Supreme Court. At UB. he holds
a 3.83 grade point average. an d is
pursuing a dual ma;or in political science and philosophy with a minor in
general management.
The Scharps competition, made
possible by a bequest from the will of
Hannah S. Hirschhorn, sister o f Benjamin and David Scharps. awards a
S 1.000 cash prize and a commemorative plaque to the recipiem.

BUSINESS FOIIUU SET
FOil WOMEN, Ml-.nEB
Free public lonrns aimed at minorities and women interested in business and dewlopment 9PPO'Iurlities
are being presented by the OffiCe of
Urban Initiatives Inc. (QUI). with fundIng from The Peter C. CorneH Trust
OU t is an l'lOO-profil. 150-member organization that fosters economk: end community develop-ment. Henry Louis Taytor Jr.. director of the Center for Urb an Studies
at UB, Is board president.
The forums are held from 8-10
a.m . in the Advance Training Center. 275 Oak St . Buffalo. The con·
tinuing schedule and topics:
• Sept. 26· Communily Reinvestment Act (CRA) and how it can
help with development ol programs
and lnl!latlves to improve quality of
life for community residents. Dead·
tine lor registration. Sept. 23.
• Oct. 3 1: Federal enterprise
community and New York State
Economic DevekJpment Zone. with

iiiiD mbject ..... ...__ Clll be foalld 011
baJdi; Mill IIIII ~ ttlldwiftlt/J118111111CYiblnb,

COIIIUIDer

oune pncddonen, llld womea 1a lallb , _ _ ,
~ wiU beoeftl from aliJdo&amp; oru.s.feden!JtFnciea ill the "'overnmeat Reloun:ea" ICCilon. n.e .,...._..
oflleooldt ud BIUIWI Seniee! B - .... COII!aills Hab to a
variety qf beallh care edmioialrllioo sites iDClodiug the l'ood
and Druc Admilllltnotloa llld the Cealen for Dloeue ConlroL "Grant Information" lists other valuable resources for researcberallld educiuors. Try Emory Unlftnlty'a MedWebGranll imd Flindbtg directory site for links to gu ides, documents and e-joumals focusing on heallh sciences funding.
Users wiU fiod connections to "College and Univenity
Schools of Nursing," "Professional Nursing Associations," and
"Special Mention" Web pages that are unique in scope. For more
independent Web surfing, click on any of the tools lis1ed in
"Search Engines."
Please direct comments and questions about Nuning Silts on
the World Wide Web to Health Sciences Ubrarians Sharon
Murphy (hs/scm @acsu. buffalo.edu ) or Lori Widzinski
(witk@acsu.buffalo.edu).
-Sue Neumeisur and Lori Widz.inski, Univusiry Librariu
emphasis on geographic areas encompassed by the zone. development incentives. employment benefits and other services. Registra-

of library scktnce in computBf education and cognitive systems II'O'Tl the
University of North Texas.

tion deadline, Oct. 28.
Sponsors Include Antlerst lndus~ial Development Agency, Buffalo
Economic Development Agency,
Cornrr.Jnity Econorric Development
Initiative, Erie County Industrial Development Agercy, Greater Buffalo Partnership, Coelition lor Econorric Justice, Sman Business Administration.
Small Business Development Center.
Buffalo H!deration of Neighborhood
Centers. Citizen Action of , _ Vorl&lt;.
NAACP. Buffalo Urban League. For
registration information caN 829-23Xt

WOMD' I CWB OPENI FALL
I'II08aAII WITH W-ON

ZIMMERMAN OFFICER OF
NA'IIONAL UIIIAitY UNn
Nancw ZJI'Niterman, assistant
professor and coordinator of the
school library media program in the
School of Information and Library
Studies (SilS) at UB , is the new
treasurer of the American Associalion of School librarians (AASl).
She began a three-year term at the
ckJse of the recent 1996 annual
American Library AssociaUon (ALA)
conference in New York City.
AASL, the school library dMsion

of the American Ubrary Association.
Is ihe world's largest organization of
school tibrary professionals, with
7.600 members. Lrnmerman, noN a
member of AASL's executive board,
has chaired and served on many
PJ..A and AASL committees and Is immediate past chair of ALA's Ubrary
Aesealch Round Table. zmnerman.
who earned her Ph.D. In library and
Information studies from Texas
Women's Unlveroity. holds a master

The Women's Club of the University

at Buffalo opens Its 51st year with a
laH membership luncheon at Fanny's
Sept 21 at 11 a.m. Goests and new
~are wetcorne. The irish
Classical Theater Company's production of Crazy Ladies will be presented
at 11:30 a.m .. with Josephine Hogan
perlorrring comedic monologues by
Joyce Grenfen
The iuncheoo at 12:30 p.m ..
planned by Shirley BucJde and Marla
Coburn, win include recognition of
new membefs by Ninfa Straubinger,
president. Dawn l-talv&lt;nerl. vice
president. Is ll'OQI'&amp;m chair: Carol
Greiner is honorary PJBSident.
The program wil also leanre information aboU activly goups and service proQrMlS. Groups and chiWs are
Activity Coordinators: Josie Lapetlna,
Aln!ia Holoway: Antiques, Art History
Aln!ia Holc&gt;Nay, Gerry Ryder; Books.
Pat Lamer. Nancy Golden: Bridge:
NiciQ
Pat Addelman: Bridge
Figli: Male Schlo: Cross-C&lt;x.ntry Skiing: Gloria Piau; French ConYersation:
Jean Jail; Co.rpies Gol.fmet NiciQ
Y -; Ev&lt;ri'lg Gcumet ...._,.
F\Jstlt. Gor.nnet Tectriques: Barbara
Pag;mli, Barbara McQwthy. Su&gt;Mi
Nlog; lr1ematlonal: Jean Jain; Money &amp;
inYestlng: Janel Fedor, Norrre Aubin;
Neeclev.ol&lt;; Lois Sindoni, Arne Male
Natatro; T..-ris: Male Schlo, Am
Sh.b;-Rm: Josie Lapetlna.
ALn!lia HobNay For~ or
luncheon Wormatlon cal SIWiey
a.dde, f18!1-45(1!, by Sept 14.

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RAIN PONCHOS AND UMBRELlAS ,

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• ROYAU CROSS COUNTRY OPEN
SEASON S1RONG; BUU.S SECOND
The University at Buffalo's women's cross
counlly team, two-time defending Mid-Continent Conference champions, opened tlleir
1996 season in Impressive fashion defeating

Colgate 21-37 and Syracuse 19-40 Saturday at
Akron Falls Pari&lt;. The UB men's team lost their
season opening dual meet to Syracuse 24-3.2.
Senior Stacey Strothmann led the way lor
the Royals completing the fMl-kilomeler (3 1
miles) cour · in 18·49 Cofgate's Betsy
Cunning
was second in 19:21 with us·s
Gretchen etch finishing third in 19:23
On the
n's side, unanached runner
Patnck N n crossed the finish line first over
the eight kil
ters (live miles) in 26:18.
Syracuse's M Norton was the top scoring
runner finishing ·n 26:21 . UB's top runner was
Chris Keenan cr
ing the line fourth In 26:58.
The Bulls andlAoyals are in action again at
Akron Falls Park Sept 14 when they host the

UB Invitational. Also competing will be
squads from St. Bonaventure. Niagara. Erie

Community College. Fanshawe College end
Western Ontario. The women's race begins at
11 a.m followed by the men's race.

0 ROYALS ROUT YOUNGSTOWN
STAT£ IN WOMEN'S SOCCER
Lori Perillo and Michella Maiola aach scored
two first-llalf goals to lead the University at
Buffalo Royals to a 6{) win over the Youngstown Stele Penguins Saturday at RAC Foeld.
Perilo started the scoring earty hi1ting the net
3:23 into the match on a breakaway following a
pass from Beth Costello to give the Royals (2·1)
a 1-Q lead. Maiolo tallied her fvst ol the game al
the 34:47 marl&lt; after a crossi1g pass from Nicole
Tresino. Maiolo soared her secmd goalloor and
a haff rrnrtes lat..- on assist by Perillo. Perillo
closed out the first half on another breakaway
goal on an assist by Julie Ustrani at 43:53.
The reserves took over in the second half as
Leame Bridge and Alicia Weems tallied lnarl&lt;ers UB outshot YSU 21-1 as goalkeepers Mary
Morgan and Joanne Chilfingsworth combined
for the shutout. Morgan made the Royals' only
save. Earlier in the week. the Royals picked up

cover devoted lane who ,...... out
to oupport t he UB Bullo footb811
t ..m Sept. 7 In their oecond home
come ocalnot t he Unlvarolty of Connecticut. (S" otory below.)

get the Bulls in the end zona. Sophomore
wideout Kali Watkins led UB with eight
catches for 106 yards while Jamie Gasparre
had 54 yards on six catches.
The BIAs defense was again led by senior
linebacker Craig Guest v.ro made 14 steps. Serio&lt; oorrerback Mike Olchester had SIM!O
taddes, one lor loss: strong safety KeWl McGrrif!
had eig1l taddes and a hnille retXN«Y·
UB flfNI hits the road for the first time with

a matchup against Colgale in Hamihon on
Saturday. Kickoff is at noon; the geme will be
televised live on the Empire Sports Network.

e VOI.UYBALL
UB split their matches over the weekend at

the Toledo Invitational falling to the host
Rockets In four games and defeating Wis·
consin-Milwaukee in ftve games. The Royals

stand at 3-2.
Sophomore Amy Burde led the Royals

fiCffl

with 11 ··:tts. t 7 digs and four service aces in

the loss , Toledo. UB dMded time at the setter position between senior Candi Sims and

freshman Somer Deschambault gar nering 16
assists each. Sims also added 10 kills and
foor blocks.
Against UWM, UB got 16 kills each !rom
Sims and freshman Courtney Lugert. Sims
also had 29 assists while Deschambault
added 26. Lugert and Burda had 21 and 20
digs respectively while Kathy Brinkworth
added nine blocks and 18 digs.
Coach Bob Maxwell's crew faces Niagara

Sept. 11 before traveling to Ohio for the
Golden Rash Classic at Kent State. The Royals will meet Kent State. Indiana State.
Coastal Carolina and Eastern Kentucky dur-

portaot"
Swiniuch. associate professor and cochair of the Department of Theatre and
Dance, =ails that when Harris transfcrnd
to UB as a sophomore, she was "shy, not
sure of her ability. "For me," she said, ''the
most wonderful thing to see is how she has
grown in self-confidence and assunmce."
Swiniuch added: ''She has always been
a terrific young woman to know; very han:!
worldng, meeting her goals. Seeing it all
come together for her has been just terrific."
Ralabate, who has choreographed the
Miss New York and Miss Pennsylvania Sla!c
pageants, as weU as judged the Mis$ Geor- .
gia pagean~ has worked with Harris on the
dance she wiU perform before a national
audience if she makes it to the finals.
"It's contemporary dance using a mix
of modern dance movement with jazz and
European classical balle~ a mixture, blend
of different fonns," RaJ abate explained.
He noted that her costume, based on a
design used in a Zodiaque Dance Company
dance concert, wi ll feature purples and
deep reds in line with the religious nature
of the music to which Harris will perfonm.
Ralabate desc ribed Harris as "very
warm, very giving. She's very easy 10 like:·
a very genuine, honest and sincere person.
She brought a sense of maturity to our
dance company. She was always openminded and easy to work with."
While at UB , Harris also found time to
volunteer as a member of UB's Student
Alumni Board and in the community.
"We' re grateful to her for all the volunteer hours she dedicated to our programs
this past year-she offered lots of energy
and enthusiasm to every project she got involved with," said Debra Palka, assistant
director in the Office of Alumni Relations.
" In fa ct, most of us were not even aware
of the fact that she was preparing for the
New York State competition beeausc she
is so modes~" Palka noted. "We found her
to be articulate, mature, cheerful and a very
well-rounded student."
ln addition to her dance performance,
Harris will be judged in swi msuit and
evening gown competitions and in an interview situation in which she will discuss
her "platform." Harris's platform is tolerance for difference-an issue that evolved
while she was at UB.
'The whole platfonm really comes from

ing the weekend tournament.

my college experience," she notes. "I came

e MEN'S SOCCER
The Bulls dropped to 0-3 following a 2-1 loss
at Piltsburgh on Sept. 4. Freshman Jason
Ballock scored UB's lone goal on an assist
from Jeff Rauber. The Bulls were in action at
Niagara Monday, Sept. 9 and M the road lor a
match at Cleveland State Saturday at 7 p.m.
Coach John Astudillo's team should be proven

from a small town, and my fi rst year, l went
to college in New York City. It was overwhelming-! had ex treme culture shock
f or a while." After her freshman year, Harris transferred to UB .

" UB changed that fear. It has such diversity. ! really learned how to adapt there." In
fac~ about a year and a half ago, Harris
started a program appropriatel y called
ADAPT, for Accepting a Diverse America
by Promoting lbgelhemcss. She had discussions with theAnti-Defa.mation League and
NAFA-the National Association for Fat
Acceptance-as well as interaction with the
Celebrating Diversity program at UB . On
her own, she put together pamphlets and
tJaveled to elementary schools to discuss the
issue of respecting differences.
"I know I'm not going to change the
world," Harris said. " But I hope to make a
small, positive difference.··
When bet year as Miss New York (and
possibly Miss America) is over, Harris
plans to continue sc hool , purs uing a
master 's degree in theater and dance or
possibly social work.
"I may go back to UB for graduate
school," Harris ponders. "I'd like to he a
director of a dance company."
Of course. nothing is sci in stone. "Everything is up in the air for me right now,"
Tammy Harris continues. ''Miss New York
opened many doors. I may take a path I
never could have predicted."
But for now, America. here she comes.

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8

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road warriors by the time rhey return to RAC

their first wi'l. 3-1 over Niagara.

Field for their next home match when they
lace Central Connecticut State on Oct. 4

e FOOTBALL

e TENNIS

The Bulls ran into storms of two sorts SaturInclement weather IOtced the season openday night. Hunicane Fran whipped her rain
... ing men's and women's tennis matches to be
and wind remnants into UB Stadium and the
held indoors at the Hilton Hotel tennis courts
Connecticut Huskies flexed some muscles of
Saturday. Coach Russ Crispell's Bulls
their own in a 20-3 win over the Bulls
opened their fall season with a 7 shutout of
us·was limited to -4 yards rushing-in
Robert Morris while the Royals, under first
great part due to five sacks for 51 yards in
year head coach Kathy Twist. dropped a 5-2
k&gt;sses-by the Connecticut defense and
decision to the Colonials.
could not convert on their scoring opPQftuni·
Mike Minter led the way for the Bulls at rumlies. The Bulls were Inside the Husky 30-yard
bar one singles. disposing cl CIYis O'Brien in
line on live occaskM'ls and managed just a 51 ·
straight sets 6-2. 6-1 . FIVe cl the Bulls' six
yard field goal by Gerald Cartson in the first
singles players won their matches in straight
quarter to open the scoring.
sets. The Bulls goc doubles wins from Mint..Connecticut used the big play on offense
and Mike Proulx at runber one and Orrin
as quarterback Shane Stafford averaged over
Pridgen and Andrew Garber al runber three
25 yards per completion, Including a 70-yard
The Bulls travel to Duquesne lOt a match
pass to freshman John FitzsirMlOOs to put
Sunday. Both squads are at home to host St.
UConn up lor good.
Bonaventure Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m.

-o

UB quarterback Mark Taylor completed
21-of-37 passes for 214 yards but could not

-Ted Wasko, Sports Information Office

UPCOMING UB HOME EVENTS
Men'e &amp; Women's Cmoa
11 a.m., Akron Falla Park
CounlryUBir1'o4lallonal
Men's &amp; Women's Tennis
vs St. Bonaventure

1:30p.m..
University Tennis Centef

w~ t1opt. t a

Women'a llolleybalt vo. Syracusa 7 p.m.. Aluoml Arena

Medical School Dedicates Wall of Fame
Distinguished Professors In the School of Medicine and Biomedical ScienceS
gather with UB olficlals Sept. 5 for dedication of the school's Wall of Fame gallery in Butler Audkorium of Farber Hall. From left: Murray Ettinger, Gulseppe
Andres, Beverly Bishop, Felix Mllgrom, Suk-Kl Hong, Robert Ralvt, Provost Thomas Headrick, President William Greiner, MQdlcal School Dean John Naughlon.
HaroKl Brody, Philip LoVerde, Perry Hogan, Norman Solkoff, Leon Farhl. FollowIng lhe dedication, bDVerdli, p~essor of miciObiology and director of the UB
Center for f,pplled Molecular BIO!Qgy, preseoted stockton Kln}ball Lecture.

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Seaqulcentennlal Event:

ue at sunrt. .

Ptnonal Na rraUn: Tht Stof")'
We'rr Ttllloa When We Tell
Pw ple Wt' rt Ttlling T hem •
l'rut Story, Bruce Jackson. En-

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Rabideau, Kyoko Roszman.
Adam Se lbst. MK:bael Smearer.
Amy Swanele, Daniel Walker.
and Michael Yeumans. An Department Gallery houn are 10
Lm.-S p.m. Tuesday: 10 a.m.-8
p.m. Wednesday-Friday ; and II
a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday. Admission
iJ free .

@hllih Ce nter for Tomorrow

l'rllltayeat...ay

North Campus 7:30a.m Sl 2.
Alumni Associatio n membcn
SIO. For information. call
829-2608.

" Prints and Pbotogn.phs rrom
lbe Permanent Collection" fea tures wort by Lita Albuquerque .
Dan Graham, Michael Keon.a,
Gnce Knowlton. and Dennis
Oppenheim, through Sept. 18 in
the Univen.ily An Oa.llery. Cenltt for the Ans. North Campw.
Free admission. Gallery hours
are Wednesday-Saturday. 10:30
Lm.-8 p.m., and Sunday, noonS p.m .

Nu,.,nac-nulna
EducatiCa ncu Nunlng Update '96.
Also Sept. 13. Radisson Ho tel ,
4243 Genesee. 8 a.m.-4 :30p.m
Presented by School of Nursing
Fo r informati on. call 829-3291

Attic. Sympoalun~
Altica: 25 Yurt Later. Student
Unwn Thea1er North Ca mpus
8 JOa.m.-5· 15 p.m Free
Dmner from 6-7:30p .m m
Pistachio 's ($5, S IO) For infor·
m:uion, call645 -2548

LeMierahlp PreMnU.tlon
Jlow to Make Your Tu m Unstoppable (cl~ d -cin: ui t l e le ­
vislon), Stephen Covey. Tom
Peters. Peter Sengc Other d:ues
(kt \ , Oct D.Nov 15 mthe:
d .. wntown Cun vC"nllon Ccnlcr

Ruffalo ConH nuon Cemer
Nnun·ll 111 p m .S 349 for four
pwgrarm Sponsurctl b) the
(\•n ter for F.ntrepre neuntal
t t•adn~ tu p

CIT Work•hop
In trod uct ion to Pi nt M a ll for
the !l:unC iust t'r {UN I X). 2-4
r 111 To reg1s ter. L:all Anrdenm·
ll'cr L 1ta1~n n Offi'-·e . ()o.!'i ''iJO

Buffalo Logic Colloquium
( r iticul Thinking and E.ducuIOn, John Corc(lran. Pahln
)d ire d! , John Kearn\ , Wilham
Rapa p1.11t h8J Bald) Nunh
·.unpm ''0pm 1l.11nt llll'C tlll{!
th the Ptutosoph) C1•ltuq umm

Ph

Rad isson Horel, 4243 Genesee .
8 a.m.-4:30p.m. Presented by
School of Nursing. For infonnation, ca ll 829-3291.

Pedlatrlc:-Rou .....
Ueallh SUit us of RducHS in
Buffalo. S haron Meropol, M .D .
Kinch Auditorium. Children's
Hospita l 8 a.m
Modern Liquid C h roma togra·
phy: A~ The~ Still Proble ms
R r m a in i n ~? Prof. Jo hn Dorsey.
Flontla State Univ. 2 15 Natural
Sc tcnces Non h Campus 4 p.m

Seequlcentennlal Event:
Ru•t&amp;J Memortat Lecture
M ilt&gt;tus to the S upe n:o llidrr
(With a Pa u ~ a t the Bi g
Ba ng}, Leon M. Lederman.
Nobe l laureate . Fermt Natrona!
Acceh:ralor Laboramry, llata \'la.
lll i n m~ 201 Nrrtuml Sciences
Nnrth ('::am pu s 4 30 p m Free

International Folk
Dancing
Alllrvels. 2 D1dcndurt Suu th
Campus 8 I I p rn Frl'C Sp!JII
~ nred hy the G raduate Student
A~!&gt;OCratlon

Ice Colloquium

14

::~.i~~l i~~~~haS~:~~~":~7~u;~U
N:llural ScJcnccs Nonh Cnm pu ~ 3 45 p m

Cro•• Country
lnvHatlonal

Biological Science•
Seminar

Akro n Pa r k. II a rn

Pharmaceutic• Seminar
l ntt rfrron-beta In tht' "Tt-eat m ent or Rt" la pslng Mulllplt'
Sclt'r osls, Prof. Lawrence
Jacobs, Neurulogy . 508 Cooke
North Campus 4 p.m.

Statletlc• Colloquium

16
CIT Work•hop
Introduction t o Internet Rt"JOurces o n UNJ X- Pt'o ple.
10 a.m .-Noon. To register. call
Academic User Liaison O ffi ce,
645-3540.

Ubrary Wortlehop
Online Libra r iu Cata log
De mo n.~ttratlo n . 223 Loc kwood
North Campus II ta .m
To ur o r Loc k"·ood Library.
223 Lockwood . No rlh Ctam pus

CIT Workshop

CIT Work•hop

Introduction to S un X"indowing Syst ~ m s. b-8 p 111
To regi~tcr , ca ll Academic User
L t a 1 ~ 0n Office. 64 5-3~4 11

Introduction to tht' sy ntax t he
sta t istical package, S PSS, ror
muinfra m rs. Pa rt I. I :J0-4 ;)0
p m. To register. call Academic
User Liaison Office . 645 · 3540 .

UUAB Film. Student Umo n lkater No nh Campus. 6:30pm

Ubrary Wortl•hop

Ubrary Tour

Nooo

Attica Concert

Ubrary Tour
Tour of Lockwood Library.
223 Lockwood. Non h Campus.
8pm

Addiction• Studle•
Workahop
O verview o( Outpa tient Detox
Models, Michae l Nentey. Spon·
sored by Institute for Addiclions
Stud ies and Training. Daemen
College. $65 . To reg ister. call
645-6 140.

Pediatric Conference

13
Hl-"er Edueatlon
Breakfaat Seminar
Trd M a rchese, Amt'rican A ~s n
of Hrghcr Education. Cen1er fur
Tomorrow Non h Campus . 8· 10
n m S5 mcludes continental
breakfast PreKntcd by WNY
Hrg her Educntion Consonium.
For informat io n, call 645-24 7 1

Nu,.,na Contlnulnc
Education
Cancer Nuning Upda te ' 96.

CIT Workehop

Tennl•

UUP Beneftta and
Meeting

Key M a rktn ror Develo pme nt
and Behavior in lnrants an d
C hildren, Brian Rogers. M.D
Cafc tori um A. Mercy Hospi tal
8 30ta.m

CIT Wortleltop
Introduction to lnternrt Rt sourcn o n UNIX - Places,
Part I. 10 a.m.-Noon. To regi ster, call Academic User Liaison
Office, 645-3.540

p.m. To registe r, call Academic
User Liaison Office. 645-3540.

Co...IUve Science
Colloquium
lnforma t ktn Extraction From
Court Reports By Natural
L.anguagr Proccning, Peter
Jackson, Thomson Ugal Publishing. Rochester. 280 Park
North Campus. 2 p.m

Career Fair

Generul Br nd it!l Onrvlt'\\ ,
Gail Ma loy. Social Hall, Stude nt
Union. North Campus. 4 p.m.
United University Professions
general membersh ip meeti ng at
5: 15p.m. in Pistachio's restau ram in the Studt'nt Unio n

CIT Workohop
Introduction to Unix a nd computing environme nt of the C IT
timr-sharlng ~ulpm e nt . 68. 30 p.m. To regi ster. call Academic User Liaison Office . 645 3540.

Nurae Continuing
Education

Health Carttn Info rmation
Progra m . Jane Kee ler Room.
Ellicolt . Nonh Campus. 5-7
p.m. Sponsored by Schools of
Health Re lated Profession s,
Nursing. and Pharmacy. For inform ation. ca11 645· 223 1.

September Welcome
UUAB Film. Sludent Union
Theater. Nonh Campus.
6:30p.m.

September Welcome

18
Nunlq Contlnutn•
Education
Qua lity Improvem ent Lessons
Learned From Businus and
Industry. Sheraton Inn Bufralo
Airport, 2040 Walden Ave.
8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Presented by
School of Nursing. For inronn• ·
lion, ca 11 829-329 1

UB vs. Syrae u!f;t. Alumnr
Are-na. Nonh Campus 7 p.m.

Ubrary Tour
Tour o r Loc kwood Li bnr.ry.
223 Loc kwood Norlh Ca mpus
8 p.m

19
September Welcome
SA Stna te Elections. Student
Union. Nonh Campus

Seequlcentennlal Event:
Social and Preventive
Medicine Sympoelum

CIT Workohop

Collective Memo riu and VIsio ns for the Future. Hyau Regency Buffalo. Through Sept.
2 1 For information and to reg ister. call Pam Chabriel. 829·
2975 .

Introduction to WordPerfect
6.1 for Wlndows for studen U.
9- 11 a.m. To register. call Academic User Liaison Office.
&amp;45· 3540.

MTV 's .. Real Wo rld '" Cast.
Student Umon Theater. North
Campos I p m

September Welcome

Phy•lc• Colloquium

C ultural Awa ~n u.,, Student
Un ion Lobby North Campus
Noun.

T hr Cosm ic Microwave Background- Precision M easurements Alrreuo, Dr. Norman
Jarosik. Princeton. 2 10 Natura l
Sciences Non h Ca mpus
3·45 p.m

Te•t·Taklng Work•hop
14SE S tudent Union. Nonh
Campus Noon- I p.m .

September Welcome

CIT Workohop

Ho me and Persona l Safrty
Fair. S tudent Un ion. Nonh
Cam pus . 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.

lntrnduclion to the syntax lhe
sta tis tlc:.al pa ckage. SPSS, ror
mainfnmH, Part II. 1:30-4:30

Pllar..aceutlc:a Seminar
Effect of Pheno barbita l on the
Oeacetyla lio n o r Dllt lazem In
Ra ts, Dr. Yong-Bok Lee. Visiting Scholar. Pharmoeeu tics . 508
Cooke. Nonh Ca mpus. 4 p.m.

Nurse Contlnuln•
Education
M a nagemr nl in Health Ca~
Delivery Systems: Managed
Ca~. Student Center. Harriman.
South Campus 6-9-30 p.m

September Welcome
UU AB Film. Scudent Union
Theater. North Campos.
6:30p.m.

September Welcome
MTV 's .. Real World ., Cast.
Kachorinr Cornell Theater.
Ellico tt. Nonh Campos. 7 p.m.

Ubrarr Workshop
Onlint' Llbra riH Cata log
Demoru:tration. 223 Lockwood
Nonh Campus 7 p.m.

VolleJI&gt;all

Manageme nt in Hea lth Ca~
Delivery Systems: Learning
O r ga niz.ations.. Student Center.
Harrim an. South Campus. 69·30p.m.

Hea lth Related C a rHt Day.
C lark . Sou th Ca mpus . 2-4 p.m.

17

unauac• oldllo procram

Introd uction to Corel Dra w,
Pa rt I. I :J0-4 p.m. To register.
call Academic User Unison Ofrice. 645·3540
lntrnducllo n to the syntax the
sta t istical package, SAS, fo r
malnrra mes, Part I. I ;J0-4 :30
p.m. To register. call Academic
User Liai.!on Office. 645-3540

,.Y

A survey of uscn of
HUB NET- HospicaJs and University a t Buffalo Library Resources Network-will be con ·
ducted Sept. 16 through Oct. 10
Results will innuence database
acquisition and retention deci ·
sions. The survey is available o n
the: Windows versio n of
HUB NET. Those wishing a paper copy should e.ontacl Hea lth
Sciences librarian Nancy
St imson, 829-3337

CITWorkohop

CorTu Houst. Harrima n. South
Campus. 8 p.m.

C•raer Fair

O nline LlbrariH Catalog
Dt'mo nslratlon. 223 Lod:wOOll.
Nonh Campus . 7 p.m
Pe te St'egu, R a nd ~ Ha rris.
otben. S lce_ No rth Campus
7:30p.m S IO, $ 15. Fo r information. call 645-2548.

HUaNEY ..

Uow To Ket:p Your Htart
Hea lthy, Lawrence H. Golden,
M.D.. Stress Center. Center for
Tomorrow. Norl h Campus.
Noon. S IO plus S5 enrol lment
fee for Senior Alumni Program .
Sponsored by Alumni Relations.
To register o r gain inronnation ,
call 829-2608 .

Me n 's a nd \\'omt'n 's Te nn ~ vs.
St. Bonannlu rt:. Ellicon Tennis Courts. Nonh Campus
I JO p.111

Right-Shin ProcesSt"s amd
So mt' o r Their A pplicatio n~ To
th ~ Study of Epid t"mlcs, Prof
Norman C. Se vero 244 Cary
South Campu~ 4 p 111

September Welcome

be,. will diKuoo •what
Heppeno When Strance,.
Uve TOCeiJMtr• at September Welcome procnorno to
be held Sept. 19.

Cheml•try Colloquium

Exci tion o r J ose- phson
l' las nfu Rrsonu ncr in Anisu-

Ct' IIS kiss a nd tr ll ! Find o ut
"' ith who m , who I they suy a nd
ho" they d o it , Dr Bruce
Nicholson. Biolog rcal Se~ence s
II J Hochstener. Nonh Campos
J p.m

ARST-YEAR CAST •lum
Heather 8nd two other
MTV "'Re•l World" mem-

September Welcome

Mathematic• Colloquium
Mus.k, Ma thematics aod Mac-netic Ordering, Jack Doulhc:n.
Univ. of New MeJiico. 103
Diefendorf. South Campus. 4 p.m.

Archttecture exhibition
"Projects from Liquid Cities,"
Mchrdad Hadighi . Sponsored by
the School of Archi tecture and
Planning, the exhibition ctan be
see n in the James Dyett Gtalh:ry,
334 Hayes Ha ll on US 's South
Campus, through OCI. 5. Gallery
ho urs arc 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday

Intricate textile•
''Textiles from the Permanent
Col lection" is on view through
Sept. 18 in the Universi ty An
Gallery. Ce nter for the Arts.
North Campus. The show in·
eludes intricately designed
pieces fr om Africa and Jndone·
sia Free admission. Gallery
hours arc Wedne5day -Saturday.
10 :30 o.m.-8 p.m., and S unday.
noon-5 p.m.

u.,..••n ••II

Leonardo Drew's site -spec ific
inslall otion "No. 45-A" was designed for the Ughtwell Gallery
in the Center for the Arts. North
Campus. and is !here through
October.

Print• today
"U B Prin ts Today." an exhibitio n o( se lected student works
from 1996. will be on display
through Oct . I in the An Dc panment Ga llery. 845 Center
lor the Ans, Nonh Campus. An ·
ists represented are Olenka
Bodnardsky. Susan Dudash. Jim
Bums. Alan Coburn. Rebecca
Costanzo. Ben Dunkle , Nathan
Brad ley Hochstetler. David
Jablonski. Jason Jones. Meg
Kasper. Suzanne Lewke .
Mic hael Parker. Rebecca

The English Language Institute
at UB is offering a pan -trme Er~ ­
glish language program for nun
speakers. Tht': program. des igned ro r inltmatio nal professionals. sc::holars. students and
homemakers who want Itt im prove their English skills. offe-r "
instruction in Advanced Com
munication for the lnternatromJI
Profe ssio nal. Advanced WntinJ!
and Grammar for the Interna tional Professiona l. Li\ rng und
Working in English C l n termc~oh
ate). Accent Reduction \ uurw
and TOEFL Prcparu tion Cour't·
All classes meet in the: eYenulf
and be8in the wc:tk o r Sept 16
For more information. call
645-2071
Plano• for aale
Roger 's Pia nos. Organs d.:.
Clock..s will hold a sa le of ne"'
and used pianos noon-8 p.m
Friday. Sept 13. 10 o.rn.-8 p.m
Saturday. Sept. 14 a nd I I a. m 6 p.m . Sunday. Sept. 15 in the
atrium of the Center for the
Ans. Nonh Campus. The annual
sale is held in conjunction with
an agreement UB has wilh the
Baldwin Piano Co .. which each
year offert a selection of new
pianos for the uni versi ty '~ use.
free or charge. 11lese and othrr
pianos then arc offered for sale
to the public. A cash donation
also will be made to the uni\'er·
sity fro m proceeds o r the sale
Preview appointment may be
made by ca lli.Pg 636-4434 .

Professional
Pt'rsonnel Associa te (MP-5) Personnel Services. Posting
#IIP-6044 . Personnel Asslstanl
(Tt'111 1ntt) {MP-0)-Personne l
Services. Posting MP-6045 StotT
Assist a nt (S L-2; Inte rnal Promotional O p purtun ity)· Unlversi ty An Gallery. Posting
#IIP-6046.

Faculty
C lin ical Assistant Proressor
(two positio ns avail ablt')-Phar ·
macy Practice. Posting lfF-6039
AssiJta nt Prores50r-Geogra ph ) .
PostinaffF-6040. A.ssistant/Assoclale/FuU ProfUJOr-Sociology. Posti ng lf-6041 . Assista nt
Professor-Philosophy. Posting
iltf-6042. Aubtanl Proft'5SOr Political Science. Posting
MF-6043. Asslsta nt PrortssorPolitical Science. Posting
lff-6044. Aulstant/Assoclate
Professor-Psycholog)'. Post1ng
MF-6045 . Assistant Proressor
(two posiUons availa blt)·Economics. Posting MF-6046. A~~is­
tant Prore!SOr-Psyc hology,
Posting lfF-6047 . Assistant Proressor-Psychology, Posting
lfF-6048. Ass~ ta n t Prort"s.sorPsychology. Posting iltf-6049
Assista nt/Associa te Professor
Accounting and Law, Posting
•F-6050.

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVIIISITY AI .UIPMLO

State University ofNew York

September 5. 1996 Volum e 28. No 2

FSEC links teaching evaluation to
improved learning environment
Asks commitment from administration, students
. , ARl'IIUII News Services Director

T

HE FOCUS WAS ON the evaluation of faculty members' teaching efforts, but the dis-

cussion took on the larger issue of placing
more emphasis on creating an environment
for learning at UB at the Aug. 28 meeting

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of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
While not dismissing their own responsibility
for creating such an environment, faculty members

stressed the need for more commitment from the universi ty administration, as well as from students.
Two members of the Faculty Senate's Teaching
and J..eaming Committee said they are not prepared to
put time and effort into any study of the two areas un-

less resulting recommendations will be supported in

Upgrades in

suppolfed by
IIJ_,_VIDAL
Reporter Ed~or

U

B's technology feewhich this semester in·
creased to $125 per semester from $65, caus-

ing concern among some students

-is providing the kind of technology upgrade that students expeel at a major public research

university.
"Any new fee causes con-

in the Student Union.
technical support
at departmental computing sites.
• An upgmde.in campus security, including a two-year plan
for the installation of a common
SUNY Card access system for all
buildings.

• Increased

Continued on page 2

spirit and funding by the university's admiriislration.
Noting that during his quarter-century at UB
there have been "two or three previous attempts" at
such a study and "a lot of nice ideas." Phillips Stevens
Jr .. assQciate professor of a nthropology, asked,
"Where did they go?
"I don't want to spend time on another... unless
there are some assurances that we're going to be li stened to and our recommendations implemented,"
he added.
Characterizing himself as "the old curmudgeon," Jonathan Reichert, professor of physics. said
he would commit only to being a "quasi member"
of the committee until there is an indication from
the administration of such a commitment.
"If the administration is not prepared to put the

money out, I'm not prepared to spend the last five
years of my life at this institution working on this,"
he added. ''This is a tough problem and I want to
see signals from this administrati on that say 'yes.'"
Reichen said he doesn't see the administration
of any research university niaking such a commitment. "Because," he added, "what still runs this
university is research and grants," not an emphasis
on teaching and learn ing.

M

embers of the FSEC met with the majority of members of the Teaching and Learning Committee following the executive
committee's weekly meeting.
Faculty Senate Chair Claude E. Welch Jr.. outlined five proposed tasks for the committee: examining forms used at UB for evaluation, determining
how teaching evaluations are used to improve instruction. determining how teac hing evaluations are
used to review the performance of faculty members.
suggesting other steps to improve teaching quality
and linking quality of teaching with depth and qual ity of learning.
"We have an opponunity to develop an invigorated dj scussion about the quality of teaching on this
campus through a whole variety of mechanisms,"
Welch noted.
Ronald J. Huefner, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Management and chair
of the Teaching and Learning Committee, said that
while quality of teaching 1raditionally has been meaContinued on page 2

cern," said Valdemar lnnus, senior associate vice president for

Trnding card introductions big hit on campus

university services, "but you can

11J c-nNE VIDAL

immediately see the impac1" of
the technology fee .
"The technology fee," he
added, "provides a reasonable

Reporter Editor

base toward making demon slrable progress toward what students would expect at an institution like this. It provides a de-

cent base for us to make
advancements that we need on an
annual ~asis ."

I

ast year's technology fee was

l..used to provide student· services such as BIRD, which eliminated regislration and drop/add
lines , and BISON, which provided better library service, !onus
noted.
The increased technology fee
is expected to genemte $4.1 million in the 1996-97 fiscal year,
funds that will be used to enhance
UB 's capabilities in educational

technology, student services, computing and information technology
and UB's digital library initiative.
Among the projects the technology fee will be used to support are:
• More state-of-the-an technologically equipped classrooms,
computer Jab sites and LAN sites .
• Technology improvements

HIS YEAR the office of
Student Life \ tacked the
deck at orientation a
lillie differently-with a
unique set of UB lrading cards.
The 1rading cards-50 different ones in all-are bright, fun
and informative. There is a photo
on one side. facts about UB on tile
other. Topics covered include historical information about the uni ~
versity; centers and services im ~
portant to students; cool places to
hang out; annual events; athletics
and the Western New York area.
Developed by the Office of
Student Life. the trading card
project was designed to provide
an ice breaker, a way for students
to get to know one
another
at orientation, acco rding to
Barbara J.

T

each received a deck of 50 identical cards. The goal : to keep
put together a si mi lar
trading cards with other
project , Ricoua
students-who had sets
said. It so unded
of a different card-unlike a good idea,
til they had complete
and Student Life
dec ks. In all, about 2.000
s taff
began
talking last
sets were dis tributed.
year about
The project
putting to~
was a hit.
gether a set
"The first
of UB trading
night I got a
cards. In January the
call at home
project became more well de10
fined , and by March, Ricolla
said, they were off and running .
Much credit for the UB
said. It
trading cards goes to Gerrard ~:::Jiiiiiiiiiil
Godwin, assistant d irec tor of L
w a s
from an orientation aide.
Student Life. who, Ricotta said,
who told her. "You ought to
is a tJB history buff.
"Gerry sat down and came up
see thi s: they' re all sitting
around
trading cards."
with a liSI of 60 card ideas. I'd
add a co uple , and he'd add a
The cards were popular
wi th orientation aides. too.
couple." They then whittled the
list to 50 different cards containEach session, the aides
wou ld hold ou t a
ing information about UB .
Godwin also shot all the phogroup of cards so
new students would
tos that appear on the UB trading cards. "Gerry's also a photographer. so we had many of
the photos we needed in our
files," Ricoua said.
At orientati o n, st ude nts

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too ,"

Ri cotta said.

In fact. the UB trading cards
have been received so positively
that Student Life plans to use the
idea again next year. But thi s
time, Ricolta said, she plans to ask
the university community for input ''We're going to send notices
out to offices with a set of cards
and ask if there 's somethi ng
they'd like to add."
In the meantime. Ricotta and
the Office of Student Life are enjoying how well the trading cards
have been received. "We did it
because we thought it was a good
idea .
We
didn't think

come," she
s a i d
"You're al ways
a
little leery
about do ing these
things beca use of
the expense a nd time. but it's
worked out well. The students

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Historic works on view in 'Birth of American Video' series

---News Se!vlces Editor

I

N 1991, VIDEOAKilSTandcurator
O!ris Hill set out to save scores of imponant early worb produced in her
field and to illuminate the historic role
of video in the development of art
forms based on the moving image.
Over the course of the next four
months, the UB Media Study Department.
in collaboration with Hall walls Contemporary Ans Center, will premiere the results
or Hill's effon, a remarkable series titled
''The Binh or American Video."
The 11-prograrn series, which began
Sept. 4 and runs through Dec. 4, features
70 re-mastered historic worts that repre-

sent landmarks in the early hi story of

American independent video. Each program is one to two hours in length and features from two to 18 short pieces.
Screenings will take place in the
Screening Room (Room 112) of the Center for the Ans on the UB Nonh Campus,
except for Program 4 on Friday, Oct. II ,
and Program 6 on Thursday, Oct. 24, which
will be held at Hallwalls, Tri Main Building, 2495 Main Street, 4th floor (main entnulce is at rear of building).
Programs screened at UB will be free
of charge and open to the public. Admission to Hall walls events is $4 for Hallwalls
members, students and seniors and $5 for
all others.
After its presentation here, the show

will begin a natiooal tour.
"The Sinh of American Video" project
represents the keystone in the effort to preserve significant wort in the field of video
an. Although produced within the last ll)rcc
decades, many imponant early vidcolapcs
arc already at rislr. of loss or decay and this
re-mastered tapecollcction has saved many
significant worts from being lost.

and other areas.

HiD promises Buffalo audiences exciting rediscoveries of this radical artiJtic
vein, including groundbrcaking groups
unrecognized today, such u the People's
Video Tbea!er, Portable Channel and the

inaedible "Queca Molbcr Mollie."
Tllpes in lbc .no. pooduced by
OCIIII'IIIIIistic liprclolcutime: lllilll Vilo
Aa:onci IDd BIUCO ,..,_, diooclor Rlcblld " " ' - . jAiiql. . . Williom ............
and video pioaecr NMI 1.- Paik.
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H

ill, a UB alumnus and former visiting professor, is a Buffalo-based
curator, photographer and video
artist who was the curator of the pioneering video program at Hallwalls for many
years. She has produced oroo-produced 10
worts of video art and her vidcographic
work and photography have been exhibited in major venues here and abroad.
"In addition to preserving and restoring imponant early works." said Hill, "our
goal here is to demonstrate bow video art
is related to the history of film and Jo the
new digital image technology."
The series explores such issues as the
relationship between performance and audience; mediated relationships; video documentation of issues in healing and health
care; analysis of an and video as commodity and spectacle; a loolr. at decentralized
communications projects. narrative f~
gendcred imaging and video imaging tools,
and video investigations of world-space,
sound and light. It features early productions now recognized as landmarks in tbcsc

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&amp;ivin&amp;.
In additioo, awards wiD be~ by 1995 SBPA Clllir Pnderil:t Wiater, dcon of MIIJIIICmenl, to unill! wbo exceeded their goals in the 1995 campaign.
UB is the natiooallcadcr among univcnitics with S,OOO or"""" employees when it comes to pcr-&lt;:apita giving and porticipation pen:eo~~&amp;e for United
Way campaign giving. according to the 1ates1 report prepared by the United
Way of America. UB each year cooducts its SEFA campaign in co0junction
with the annual campaign of the United Way and Erie County.

FSEC
Continued from page 1

sured by evaluations completed by students
currently in a class, there are other fonns
of measurement "that have gotten very
little attention." He added, " It is probably
some or those other areas that need to be
examined more carefully."
Faculty members voiced concern
about how often teaching evaluations are
conducted and the forms that arc used.
Maureen Jameson, associate professor
or modem languages and literatures and an
FSEC member, said forms used in her department "arc not adequate for the thoughts
the students seem to want to communiCate.
They arc not adaptable. You can't. for instance, at the beginning of the semester identify five goals and have questions about
those goals built into the questionnaire that
comes at the end of the semester.
"And the results arc uncrly unintelligible .. .," she added. "You can't begin to guess
whether you relate to some sort or norm, arc
above•average, below average, if there is an
area where you need to improve. You can't
begin to interpret them. It would be helpful
to me to have a better instrument put in place
and worked up conscientiously."

F:

EC member John Meacham, procssor of psychology, said he felt that
the cbarg~ to the conunittt:e "seem to
touch on the output side: How good is the
teaching? How good is the lcaming'r'
He suggested: "Why don 't we loolr. at
the input side and raise questions such
as ... What arc we doing relativetoolhercampuses in SUNY and other major research
centers around the country? What arc we
doing to orient our new licshmcn and trans-

fer students to the learning opportunities, to
the atmosphere, to study habits and so on as
they come to our campus? What arc the sorts
of rcsourocs thai our campus is providing to
assist faculty to be good tcachers'r'
Meacham noted. for example, that at
the University of California at Davis, often used in comparisons by UB, there is an
Office for Teaching Effectiveness with II
full-time staff "merely to help the faculty
to be better teachers." He added: "If we
sec ourselves as a peer with UC Davis,
where do we stand ... in terms or bow we
support our faculty to be good teachcrs'r'
illiam C. Fisher, vice provost for
faculty development. noted that
a proposal bas been submiacd to
the Office of the Provost recommending
that each dccanal area set up a committee
with academic department representation
to focus on teaching and lcliming within
their area, and that a university-wide committee be established to focus on both in
terms of "'broad issues."
Questioning the approach or placing the
responsibility with individual academic units,
WiUiatn A. Miller, professor of stomatology,
asked ''Why don't we have a cenlnll group
that works togctbcr? Maybe the UC Davis
model is a good one. l..cl's put it all together.
Let's malr.e comparisons across the disciplines as to bow teaching effectiveness is
evaluated. l..cl's nollr.ecp it in the unit; let's
lr.ecp it as a general university function."
FSEC member G. Scott Danford, associate professor or architecture, said the
focus or a committee on teaching and learning should not be limilj:d to the .evaluation

W

process ...What we have to focus on is
transactions occurring between faculty and
students, with responsibilities on both
sides. We want to develop a culture of
teaching among the faculty so that they wiD
bring the best they can to the classroom.
But there bas to be a culture of learning
among students." If the lattecdocs not exist, be added, "lcachiog is wasted."

S

Ievens noted that be spent most or
the last academic year serving on a
conunittee on tcachiog in the Faculty of Social Sciences. "We concluded at
the end or our deliberations that we can
spend a lot of effon improving methods of
classroom performance, classroom re·
sources, learn a lot of biclr.s and all, but
they arc wasted if they fall on unrcccj&gt;tive

cars and eyes."
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ber lb.- 101110 sludcra III'P*'IO lodt 'aitical

lbinkin&amp;' skills. Slevals"'*'&lt;l: "TTxa-.oome

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need 10
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like aamding class rcpllrty, tbey arc like
doing lbc assigDmeDIS n:g.dady, tbey arc like
thinking and tallr.ina lboullbc ..-rill ssenled in class. tbey ore like aslr.ina for bdp.
Fundomallal, basic tbinp like Ibis."
He lidded that 10 re-atablisb ..........
ollcamin&amp;. there arc "fundomennaa SIUdcnl
responsibililica which we need to re-inculcatc in our studeols. This~ on lcaming needs to be pan or lbc dclibcralions or
any committee on teaching." 0
....,.. in lbc ......

tECHNOLOGY
Continued from page 1
• An increase in the number of data
connections to belp meet the growing demand for access.
new llJlllliUcs workslatioos
in all lihnlrics to expand convenient access
to information at UB and on the Internet.
• Improvements to on- and off-&lt;:ampus access to computerized information
resources.
In l'ddition, funding has been budgeted
to upgrade the UB WINGS server, install
an Internet aa:ess browser in public computing sites, increase the iiumher or public
laser printing sites and dial-in pons for offcampus data access, upgrade modem speed
and PPP server capacity, upgrade UNIX
platforms and support services, and increase
nctworlt security provisions.
The $125 fee is not the only means
through which UB is funding technology.
"The technology fee is only a partan imponant part-&lt;&gt;fthe revenue streams
we're trying to use in a comprehensive
fashion to addreSs the university's needs
for technology." lnnus said. UB's information systems also are being upgraded
through capital funding, the operating budgets or various units and gifts and grants.

•Additional

He was quiclr.to point out that the tech. nology fee is not intended to malr.c up for
the laclr. of a tuition increase.
"Some faculty, staff and students wonder if the technology fee is a substitute for
a tuition incJ'CBS!O. The answer 10 that is
'no.' We would have needed the technology fee increase whetbCr the tuition increase went through or DOL"
Jnnus noted that the proposed $250
tuition increase was considered only to offset a reduction in the IU suppon, and
would have provided no additional services
or cquipmcnL Tberc was no tuition increase
because the state legislature restored ~51
million in funding to SUNY.
In fact. lnnus said, the institution or a
technology fee is not unique to the University at Buffalo.
"Increasingly across the country, dedicated fees for technology or computing arc
becoming the standard as all universities
sttuggle to identify rcsourccs on a permanent basis for students and the academic
programs they attend," be said
Technology fees at all four SUNY
University Centers, be added, arc "roughly
in the same ballpark."
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�. Obesity prevention
obesity is a contributing cause of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke and other deNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
bilitating conditions of middle·and late age.
bebavioral medicine specialist
Epstein's new study will be the first
Leonord H. Epolein has received to address the issue of prevention of obea Sl.S minion pant from the sity, rather tbao treatment of the existing
Nllional lnstitu!a of Health to condition. The study will focus on workconduct the Mt Wxe study in the
of ing with participant families to change
obesity prevention in hish-ritl&lt; children.
c:hildm&gt;'s physical activity paoems.
Epslein and collco&amp;uea will tecnlit 180
"Lack of physical activity is the bigfamilies from Western New York tba1 have - gest riik actor for the development of obechildren S-1 0 yean of age wbo are of norsity in children, next to an obese parent,"
mal weight for their age and height, but are
Epstein says.
at high risk of becoming obese. Oilldren
He places much of the blame for this
are considered at risk if their parents are lack of activity on television, noting:
significantly overweighL
"There is a direct relationship between bow
A nationally recognized expert in the obese a child is and how much television
research and treatment of obesity in chilis wllebed."
dren, Epstein originated the Stoplight Diet
The study will assess the relationship
Plan, the only weight-loss program in the
between activity, body-mass index and
U.S. to document weight loss and maintepercent of body fat, as well as the effecnance in children over a 10-year period.
tiveness of various physical-activity interEpstein has published widely in proventions. It also will examine the role of
fessional journals. He and his work have several variables thought to have an imbeen fea!W'ed on CBS' "48 Hours" and have
pact on obesity prevention in children, inbeen the subject of numerous articles in the cluding socioeconomic status, age, sex..
print media.
family size and parental obesity.
Obesity in childhood is a major risk
Families interested in applying to parfactor for · being obese as an adult; adult ticipate in the study may call645-6316. EJ

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Ra.icinu gives anew look
to Cllka-HICIIilier
New Insulation and paneling 818 being added 1D the exterior walls of Cooke and
l-lochslllll8r halls on the North Campus as part d a $2.6 million project being
paid fer by the SUNY Conalructian FU!d. The work. which includes inslalla1ion
d111111er wWldow&amp;.- fliiOMIIt.... by delsliolation d mellll panels lhal. . orlgi1ll fllclng an lhe ~opened In 1sn. The wor1t ~In Febtuwy and 1111*' fer compllllon lwei Augult

UB prof is key player in discovery of third branch of life on earth
.,~-­

Newa Services Edttor

A

UNIVERSITY AT Buffalo professor of microbiology is one of
several scientists who played a
key role in research that led to

the recent announcement confirming a
third branch of life oil Eanb.
Joseph M. Mertick conducted computer analysis of the 1,738 genes identi-

fied in .the microbe Methanococcus
jannaschii. Researchers on the team bad

used gene-sequencing to confirm that
archaea, the group of organisms to which
the microbe belongs, constitutes a different branch of life from bacteria and
eucarya, the lattcr including plants, animals, fungi and protozoa.
The study of M.,hanococcus
jllllflllSchU appeared in the Aug. 23 issue
of the journal Sci•nu.
The discovery has been heralded as

one of the major basic science developments of our time; a milestone in mankind's
'

drive to undentand the nature of life, its
diversity and its evolution.
Mertick was part of the research team
that sequeoced the entire genome (DNA)
of M. jannaschii, which lives on the edge
of a volcanic vent on the floor of the Pa-

cific Ocean in a water temperature just
below the boiling point His role was to
carry l&gt;ut computer analysis of the genes
identified in an effort to define their metabolic role. Some of the genes were similar

to those found in bacteria, while othen
were more similar to those found in the
cells of higher organisms, the study noted.
1bc majority, however, are new to science and biology. "Only 38 percent could
be assigned a cellular role with some degree of confidence, which means we
haven't a clue what two-thirds of the genes
in this organism do." Merrick said. "The
cballenge in the future will be to discover
functions of the genes that have no counterparts in existing genetic databases. h is
possible that new metabolic pathways, new
control mechanisms and perhaps even new
signaling processes will be revealed."

M

errick, a microbial physiologist,
spent 18 months at The Institute for
Genomic Research in Gaithersburg, Md ..
one of the three centers involved in the
gene-sequencing project and the site where
the software with which he worked was developed. The director of the center is J.
Craig Venter, a former UB professor who
supervised the work.
Funded by the U.S. Department of
Energy, the research is thought to have vast

implications for biological science.
Merrick said. " Besides the basic science
interest, there is a practical side," he added.
'This organism grows at very high temperatures with an optimum temperature of
85 degrees Centigrade. At this temperature,
most proteins found in other organisms
would be inactivated.
'The genes encode for hundreds of

Student charged in false report of bomb
u•

A
etlldellt w• _.... Friday by West Seneca town police and charged with
falsely reporting an incident in connection with a bomb scare that resulted in three buildings being evacuated on the North Campus.
Police, who identified the student as Steven J. Pudlewsl:.i, 23, said he was held for a
psychiatric evaluation following anaignment before a town judge.
Baldy Hall was evacuated shortly after 8:30a.m. following a telephone call from a
man to the office of a professor.
Bomb experts from the Erie County Sheriff's Department were called to campus
after the professor noted a duffel bag in his office that the caller said he had placed there.
O' Brian Hall and Lockwood Memorial Library subsequently were evacuated.
Investigation of the duffel bag found that it contained items belonging to the student, including a lap-top computer.
Dennis R. Black, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students,
said the student was in the process of resigning from the univenity and bad been expected to leave on Friday.
"Efforts previously have been made to provide him support. both on and off campus," Black added.
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enzymes that are stable 81 high temperature
and wiU likely find use as a catalyst in chemical, food and pharmaceutical processes."

In addition, the organism is a potentially renewable power source. Merrick
said. '"M.jannaschU uses simple nutrients.
such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide , to
grow, and as a by-product, it generates
methane. Thus, this organism provides the
possibility of generating large supplies of
a safe and renewable source of energy."
Merrick also was involved in the study
of the first bacterial genome to be se-

quenced and assembled. Hatmophilu s
influ•nZP&lt;. as well as the second, Mycoplasma genitilium. Results of that research
appeared in Sci&lt;nc. in July and October
1995, respectively.
He and another noted UB microbiologist, Philip T. LoVerde, recently receive&lt;!
funding from UB 's Multidisciplinary Research Pilot Project Program 10 initiate a
gene-sequencing project on schistosomes,
parasites lhat cause the tropical disease schistosomiasis. A grant for this work is pending
with the World Health OrganiZalion.
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Nobel Laureate Leon Lederrrum
to give Rustgi Lecture Sept. 13
11J EUaN -.DIIAUM
News Services Editor

CIENCE. from its ancient beginnings to the presen~ will be the
focus of .. Miletus to the
Supercollider (With a Pause at
the Big Bang)," a lecture to be given by
Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman on Friday, Sep~ 13. on UB's North Campus.
The lecture, geared toward a lay audi ence, will be the fourth in the Rustgi Memorial U.:ture series. Free and open to the
public, it will be held at4:30 p.m. in Room
20 I of the Natural Sciences Complex.
The lecture will review the history of
the quest to learn how the world works.
starting with the 'origins of science in the
ancient Greek town of Miletus and proceedi ng through the Standard Model of
quarks and leptons to the union of particle
physics and cosmology.
Lederman, now director emeritus of
the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
in Batavia, Ill., is internationally renowned
for four decades of grouodbrealdng work
in particle physics.
In 1961, his research group discovered
the muon ·neutrino, which provided the first
proof that there was more tbao one type of
neutrino. He received the Nobel Prize in
Physics for this work in 1988.
In 1977, his group discovered evidence for a new elementary particle, called
the bottom quark.
A broad spectrum of innovative experiments he led 81 Bmokbaven National Labo-

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ratory, Fermilab and the CERN Laboratory
in Geneva have set the paradigm for modem
nuclear physics and particle-physics research.
In addition to his research achievements, Lederman is known for his efforts
to improve the teaching of science at the
college, high-school and elementaryschool levels.
He organized the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a three-year residence public high school for gifted children and the Teachers' Academy of Mathematics and Science in Chicago.
While Director of Fermilab, Lederman
opened the laboratory to countries not previously associated with high-energy physics, especially those in Latin America.

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ederman also is Pritzker Professor of
~ ience at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was professor of physics at Columbia Univenity from 1958 to 1989 and
the Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the Univenity of Chicago from 1989
to 1991.
He has served as chairman and past
president of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. A member of
the National Academy of Sciences, he has
received numerous awards. includjng the
National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize
in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Award.
The Rustgi Memorial U.:ture is supported by contributions from the Rustgi
family and their friends to bonor the late
Moti Lal Rustgi. wbo was a faculty member in the Department of Physics.
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Wednesdays at
Four Plus
ar I'A'IIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

T

HE WEDNESDAYS AT 4 Plus
literary series will initiate one of
its most outstanding guest lineups
in this, the university 's sesquicentennial year, featuring some of !he
country's most influential poets of !he pas!
several decades , as well as unusual prose
an.ists and performance artists.
Under poets Robert Creeley and
Charl es Bernstein. the annual series at UB
has hosted hundrl'{ls of distinguished contemporary poets, critics. fiction writers and
literary perlormance arti sts from five continents. It al so has focused on emerging

postmodemist writers, many of whom have
worked as poetics fellows in the Poetics
Program in the UB Department of English.
All events will lake place on !he UB
North Campus unless otherwise indicated.
All are free of charge and open to !he public.
Individual writer&gt; who will read or lecture a re W.S . Merwin, Pulitzer
Prize winnin g American writer who will

present !he Silvennan Poetry
Reading on Nov. 8; virtuosic
peel Thorn Gunn (Oct. 21);
Pulitzer Prizewinning modernist poet John Asbbery (Oct.
12) ; poet Leslie Scalapino
(Oct. 23-24); novelist Gilbert
Sorrentino (Oct. II); critic and
translator Serge Gavronsky
(Oct. 16); confrontational
poet/playwright Amiri Baraka
(Oct. II), and popular mystery novelist
Lawrence Block (Oct. 9).
"LlNEbreak," a nationally syndicated
arts interview program produced by Martin Spinelli of !he UB Department of English and hosted by Gray Chair Professor
of English Charles Bernstein, wiU premiere
on Sept. 9 on WBFO-FM, !he National
Public Radio affiliate operated by UB. The
show will feature Bernstein's interviews
with poets and fiction writers, some of
whom have visited Buffalo in cgnnect:ion
with Wednesdays at 4 Plus.

On Oct. 3, a Translation Colloquium
will feature translator Jobn Felstiner and
poet-translator Annand Schwemer, with
commentary by Jerome Rothenberg and
UB faculty members Dennis Tedlock and
Ray Federman.
m Oct. 10-12, UB will present a
Oth birthday tribute to Robert
reeley. The founder of Wednesdays
at4 Plus, Creeley holds !he Samuel P. Capen
Chair in Poetry and !he Humanities at UB
and has earned international distinction as
a highly influential 20th..:entury American
poet. Ashbery, Sorrentino and Baraka will
be featured in connection with this event,
as will painter Jim Dine, with whom Creeley
has collaborated on a number of projects.
The celebration will include an exhibition
by !he UB Libraries' Poetry/Rare Books

Collectioo titled "Here:
F'lfiy Yeara of Poetry in
Buffalo" and a performance by jazz greats
Steve Kuhn and Carol
Fredette.
Poetry tr~tnslator
Pierre Joris of SUNY
AJbany wiU present a
talk on· Sept. 25, and
1996 UB poetics fellow Susan Scbultz, author of the critical wort
"The Tribe of Jobn
Asbbery and Contemporary Poetry," will
lecture on Oct. I 0 and
present a reading from
ber work on Nov. 13.
Multimedia performance artist (and
champion weigblliftcr)
Leslie Heywood, author of "Dedieation to
Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Mod·
ern Culture," will present a performance
pit!'&lt;' on Oct. 30. The legendary AJ Cook,
prolific critic, poet and former UB English
professor wbo established the study of poetics' at UB, will lecture on Oct. 18.
On Nov. 20,1he university will present
its third annual French Poetry Festival featuring presentations by psychoanalyst, artist, editor and peel Josee Lapeyrere; poetry editor Yves Di Manno, and novelist.
poet and art critic Bernard Noel.
Other literary visiton to read at UB include essayist Hank Lazer(Nov. 13); Canadian publisher, peel and editor Deanna
Ferguson (Sept. 18); poe! Eileen Myles (Oct.
I0), and poet Barren Wallen and Australian
writer John Kinsella (Nov. 6).
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Music Department to open
60-concert season Sept. 10
UPERB QUALJTY ,low price

AMY SWARTElE'S 1996 lfthoCra)!h Ia -ured In -

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'UB Prints Today' showcases work
of advanced printmaking students
a, I'AJIIICIA DONOVAN

'

News Services Editor

The UB Art De~ Gallery has opened its 1996-97 exhibition series with
" UB Prints Today," a show featuring !he work of advanced UB printmaking students curated by Professor&gt; Harvey Breverman and Adele Henderson.
The exhibit will run through Oct. I in !he Art Department Gallery in Room
845 (lower level) of the Cen ter for !he Arts on !he UB North Campus.
Gallery hour&gt; are Tuesday, Ill a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 10
· a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, II a.m. to 8 p.m. There is no admission charge.
Artists whose work is feat ured in !he show are Nathan Hochstetler, Olenka
Bodnarskyj, Alan Coburn, Susan Budash, Jim Bums, Rebecca Costanzo, Ben
Dunk le, Meg Kasper. Michael Parker. Rebecca Robideau , David Jablonsk.i, Jason
Jones, Susan Lewke, Kyoko Roszmann, Adam Selbst, Michae l Smearer, Amy
Swartele, Daniel Walker. Michael Yeomans.
A complementary show of work by students in inlroductory and intennediate
printmaking classes is on di splay in the northwest corridor of the center's lower
level.
Wltllln the bro..t ..,ectrum offered by ihe printmaking mediums of intaglio.
lithography, relief an.d monotype, lhe artists explore and mix "alternative processes.''
such as digital and photographic images. book art, collotype (a photomechanical
process for making prints directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid
!hat has ink-receptive and ink-repellent parts) and collography.
"Our graduates," Hende r&gt;on says. "have gone on to prestigious MFA programs and arc employed in a variety of fields as independent printmakers; master
printers and print shop owners; museum, gallery and auction-house print curators
and specialists, and as an professors. Anned with a university degree and creative
and analytical skill s. others have entered !he fields of law, investment banking,
business management and consulting. art direction , illustration and scenic and cosILVJlC design."

and splendid variety are once
more the name of the game as
the UB Music Department
opens its 1996-97 performance season with an exciting array of concens featuring world-renowned artists.
The year-long program will presenl60
concerts featuri ng such artists as the Mui r
String Quartet in a presentation of !he entire Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle;
fortepianist Malcolm Bilson; a program of
clarinet quintets perfonned by John Fullam
and guest artists, and a concert by !he UB
Percussion Ensemble led by Anthony
Miranda.
Special events will include Percussionist Kirk Brundage wbo opens !he season
Tuesday, Sept. 10, with " Europ.,r," a program of solo percussion music from !he European continent. The performance begins
at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. Tickets are
$6 and $8. This is !he ftrSI of three programs
by Brundage, a native of Clarence who studied at UB under master percussionist Jan
Williams. While at UB, he won a rare undergraduate Fulbright Fellowship to study
at !he Royal Danish Conservatory and later
earned a master of fine arts degree at !he
California Institute of !he Arts .
Other special events include a concen
by Music Department alumni to celebrate
the Sesquicentennial of the university. the
annual Scholarship Benefit Concert and a
perfonnance by !he Schubert Ensemble of
London.
The Slee Visiting Artist Concert Series opens Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. with a concert celebrating !he
fenile melodic invention of composer
Franz Schubert, in anticipation of !he I 50th
anniversary of his birth. II will be presented
by one of !he most dynamic and exciting
duos in America, baritone Sanford Sylvan

and his longtime
collaborator, pianist David Breitman.
A lecture by
the noted musicologist
and
author
Susan
Youens. professor
or music at the
University
of
Notre Dame. will
precede the concert at 7:15.
The concert program will feature
Schubert 's Drei Klavierstucke, D. 946
(182&amp;) and Die SchOne MUI/erin, D. 795
(1933). Tickets are $10, $8, $5 and $4.
ther events in the Slee series include

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Tbe Meridian Arts Ensemble perfonningaconcertof J.S. Bach and Frank Zappa!
Duo pianists Frina and Kenwyn Boldt will

perform Bartok's Concerto for Two Pianos
and Percussion accompanied by percussionist Anthony Miranda. There also will
be a solo performance by classical guitarin Oscar Ghiglia, choral concerts, an opera workshop, a ttomhone choir and symphonic band-and from !he world of Louis
XIV, Les Violons du Roy (The Violins of
!he King) chamber orchestra.
The Slee Organ Recital Series and !he
Resident Quartet Series with !he Amherst
Saxophone Quanet will again offer innovative programs.
Tickets may be obtained by phone or
in person from any1icketmasteroutlet. 8525000, or in person from !he UB Center for
!he Arts Ticket Office, 645-ARTS (open
Tuesday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m.)
Season subscriptions are available only by
calling Slee Hall Box Office at645 -2921.
You can call up !he Slee Concert Hall
home page on the lnlemel at &lt;http://
wings.buffalo.edulacademic/departmenll
AandUmu sic/events/slee.html&gt;.
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No more needles
for blood tests?
Non-invasive technique
being developed at UB
iiJ PAULA - L L
lot.&lt;Jiuo/'11(1#

...._arelhorm
~blood clot
In Mlde at left.

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News Services Edijor

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F PHYSICIANS KNEW precisely
how blood clots dissolve. they could
tailor drug therapies and reduce patient risks . The answers they need to

accomplish
vided by ne
oped by re
clot dissol ·on using the techniques employed to a lyze chemical reactors.
The compu r model. called

By simulating reaction and transport
processes at and near the clot. CLOTS 1M
provides critical information about the
function of tissue plasminogen-activator
(tPA) and other thrombolytic agents used
to dissolve blood clots in coronary arteries and elsewhere in the body.
The program will help researchers and
clinicians di scover why some blood clots
are harder to treat and eventually will al low doctors to tailor thrombolytic thera·
pies that reduce patient risks . It also is ex-

Computer software:
it simulates way
blood clots dissolve
Program will help tailor drug
therapies, reduce patient risk
CLOTS!M, is described in a paper by
Scott Diamond, associate professor of
chemical engineering at UB , and Sriram
Anand, UB postdoctoral fellow, published in the August issue of Circulation .
The UB research is the first successful
attempt to capture the physics of clOI-&lt;Ils·
solving therapy in a single, accurate model.
Every hundredth of a second. the pro·
gram provides a 'snapshot' of a blood clot
undergoing dissolution," said Diamond.
He recently was awarded a $575,000
National Institutes of Health grant to en·
hance CLOTS!M and to use it to predict
more clinical outcomes.

peeled to shorten the time it takes to bring a
new thrombolytic agent to clinical trials.
"Although tPA has been on the market
since the 1980s. there are still controversies
about how best to use it," said Diamond.
"The goal is to dissolve the clot and re·
establish now through the blood vessels
as quickly as possible," he explained. "If
you use too much drug, you risk bleedi ng
complications. If you use too little. you
don't dissolve the clot It can be very diffi·
cult to predict how best to use these
thrombolytic agents for each patient:·
Under the best circumstances. the clot
will dissolve quickly and uniforml y. How-

ever, many variables can affect the safety
and efficacy of the individual treatment.
"Our program takes the biochemistry
and clot structure into account ," said Diamond. "Based on specific drug concentrutions and methods of administration. it
calculates what happens when the drug is
administered, how quickly the clot dissolves and the chances of it suddenly
breaking apart. which is hazardous ...

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s chemical engineers. the researchers developed the computer model from an unusual
perspective. They analyzed the
blood clot the same way they would a
chemical reactor. For example, Diamond
said. as solid rocket fuels bum, a combusrion front moves across the fuel.
obliterating the fuel as it is consumed.
"In the same way," he added. "the enzy mes in the thrombolytic drugs move
across the blood clot in a dissolution front ,
obliterating the clot's solid structure.··
The approach has provided insights
into the dynamics of clot di ssolution.
" The model predicts how the blood
chemistry is changing in real-time in response to what the clinician is doing. bac;ed
on any thrombolytic agent used or infusion
regimen," Diamond said. "No one could
predict these dynamics and outcomes before."
For that reason. it is expected to help
streamline design of clinical trials for new
cl01-dissolving drugs.
By computationally testing scenarios
that involve different agents. administration
regimens, doses and rates of infusion.
CLOTS!M can predict valuable in forma·
tion about how new thrombolytic com·
pounds will perform. even befon: the first
human or animal study is done.

Reporter Contributor

$179,000 THREE· YEAR grant
from the Whitaker Foundation is
funding a UB study of state-of·
the-an techniques used to detecl
various substances in the body without
having to draw blood samples .
..We are developing non-invasive
techniques for detecting glucose and
other compounds in the blood by analyzing two specific substances-tears and
subcutaneous fluid, a substance that natu rally comes through the skin:· said Luis
A. Col6n, principal investigator and UB
assistant professor of chemistry .
''If we can establish the natural correlation between the amount of glucose in
the blood and the amount in these two
fluids. I envision a sensor that can be at tached to the ski n to monitor the bloodsugar level of diabetics without ever
puncturing the skin for a blood sam pl e,''
said Col6n, who believes that blood·
sugar levels also may easily be obtained
by analyzing tear drops.
This type of se nsor. he added. could
even tuall y be available for home use.
For the UB study, co llecti on of subcu taneous fluid from the ski n is accom plished with a techniq ue called iontophoretic sampli ng, which uses a mild
electric current applied to the skin to enhance migration of the flu id m the skin's
surface for testing. Tear sampl es are collected in a capi llary tube.
"One of the most imponam aspects of
the researc h is that. o nce the sampl e is
obtained, we can analyze extremely
small quantities of the substance with a
tec hnique called capi llary electrophoresis ... said Co l6n. He believes thi s researc h also will be beneficial to pharmacists and researchers 1esting the effects of
drugs o n the body without taking blood
samples. as well as allow for more convenient testing of illegal drugs by elimi ·
nating urine tests.
The study is providing imponant
learning opportunities for UB students.
Michael Gostkowki , who received a
bachelor's degree in chemistry from UB
in May. has served as Col6n's research
assistant for two years.
The Whitaker Foundation is a private,
nonprofit fo undation that primarily supports research and education in biomedical engineering.

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Orange juice helps boost effects of AIDS drug, UB research shows
Increasing stomach acid helps absorption oifdrug

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GLASS OF ORANGE juice ap·
pear.; to enhance the effect of a
potent experimental AIDS drug .
according to research in the
Laboratory for Antiviral Research in the
UB School of Pharmacy.
Too lillie stomach acid, a complication of AIDS. can interfere with the absorption of delavirdine, a promising new
AIDS drug developed by Upjohn. which
is close to filing a New Drug Application
for the drug with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.

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The UB researchers found that 3 glass
of orange juice boosts the level of stom-

ach acid ana. in tum. the level of the
drug in the blood of those receiving it.
Gene Morse. reported in Vancouver July
8, at the International AlDS Conference.
The work was done by Morse, assoc iate professor, chair of the Depanment of
Pharmacy Practice at UB and director of
the Laboratory for Antiviral Research ;
Mark Shelton, UB research assistant professor. and Ross Hewitt, director of im munodeficiency services at the Erie
County Medical Center. It was funded by
the National Institutes of Heahh and

Upjohn Pharmaceuticals.
Morse explained that the researchers

targeted certain concentrations of
delavirdine in patients and st udied
the factors that prevented
achieving those targets.
They found that large
changes in blood levcis of delavirdine
can result
from

I small" Ifchanges
in abSO'l'tion.
patients have reduced stomach

acid. they may absorb less drug and
may not receive adequate therapeutic
benefit," he added.
In the study. 20 patients swallowed a consumable. radiotelem etry device that. upon reaching the
stomach. sent a signal to a com·
puter that recorded their gasuicacid le ve ls.
Patients with low levels were
given orange juice or gluram•c acid
along with delavirdine.
"Both were effective in boostang acid
and drug levels to the point where the eA.pected therapeutic benefit shou ld be
ac hieved." Morse noted.

�FUL81118HT APPLICA'IIONS
ARE AVA'!ABLE

_,.... Wrltlht and , _
have been nomad assistant directors of the department of
Public Safety, aceo&lt;ding to Director
of Public Salaty
Wright. IO&lt;merly chief of police
1n Gary, Ind., will coordinate cover·
age ot special events. He wiU analyze campus crime data and review
performance programs for patrol
personnel.
Woods. a member of the depart·
men! since 1974, served as patr~
officer, lieutenant and acting assistant director. He will supeiVise pa·
trol functions lnctuding hiring, training and evaluating line personnel.
He will 8SSISt in policymaking , for·
mutation of procedures and prioriHas and with labor relations issues.
Other Public Safety changes:
Dave Parolteck, former presi·
dent of Council 82, joins Public
Safety as an investigator; Katftr'
and - - . with
Public Safety since 1987. have
been promoted to Ueutenants.

A $2,000 Cameron Baird Opera
Scholarship enabled DManta
llannlnl, an aspiring opera
s•nger. to pracUce her art at UB
wh•le completing her master of arts
1n the humanities. Manning rece1ved
her degree in May.

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The annuaJ scholatsh•P. funded
by the Baud Fund for ()pefa Program
and established by former UB musiC
department chair Cameron BaKd, tS
awarded to talented UB music students Departmental academic programs. •ncluding orcheslra, chorus.
band, composition and otherS. also
are supported by the lund

Ua FACULTY TAKE I'AirT
IN C U U U R A L UB faculty members participated in
several events this summer through
the lnternatK&gt;Oal Arlisttc and Cultural Exchange Program of the Center lor the .tvts. created 1n 1995 by
Dean Keny L Grant, Faculty ol
Arts &amp; Letters.
Among the events and UB part•c•pants
Symposium on Latino and
lberamencan Theatre. at The Catholic Unrversity of America 1n Washing-

ton . DC.: .......

a. Home, assis-

lobbied '"' national accredita-

component of the XI International His·
paniC Theatre Festival.

The t996-97 UB at SUNRISE sartas
will kick off with a presentauon on
paroonal narrative by SUNY Distinguished Professor Bruce Jackson at
7:30a.m . Sapt. t2, in the Canter IO&lt;
Tomorrow on the North Campus.

Cell L llenaltaw, assistant professor in the UB Department of Ge-ology, has been awarded a grant

cuss "Paroonal Narralive: The Story

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ftCIIYU AWAIID

FOR~AIIVICE

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-Joel S. " - • manager of soh·
ware development in the UB [)e..
partment of Computing and Infer·
mation Technology, has received
the Professional Staff Senate's Out·
standing Service Award.
The award is given to a full-time
professional staff member for out·
standing volunteer service to the
community and excellence within a
professional position.
Rose received a plaque and a
$1 ,000 cash award at a luncheon
held May t5 at UB. A member of
the UB professional staff since

ROSE WEINSTEIN MEMORIAL AWARD
Competition has opened for the annual Rose Weinstein Memorial
Award . sponsored by the Emeritus Center at UB. The $200 award Is
g1ven lor studies on aging .
The competition is open to any undergraduate or graduate stu·
dent in good standing at the University at Buffak&gt;.
The protect (paper, art form. technique , etc.) must be written or
created under the supervision of a member of the faculty, end must
be recommended in writing by that tacutty member to the Emeritus
Award Committee not later than the last day of February each year.
The faculty supervisof of the project shall testify to the scientific or
technc»oglcal validity of the project or to its aesthetic or artistic value.
depending on the category into which it fits .
The project must be submitted to:
Dr. Constantine Yeracacis, Chair
Award Committee. Emeritus Center
South Lounge, Goodyear Hall. South Campus
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, N .Y. t42t4
Phone 829-227t

Appficatlono for F\AbrighC grwg to conduct r.-ch 0&lt; atucly lbtoad
are oow avoltabla '"' undefgradual0. who wiMcomplota their -dognle
by .kn&gt; t997 and for graduatelludenls. The Fulbright Progtom II tho
u.s. goyemmant'l ~ IICholetohip pmgram. It prOIIIdoo . . _ ,

in avfl( tOO countriea 8IOOOd tho WO&lt;Id. Prolessor - · in
362 Pall&lt; Hall has inlonnallon and appflcationo (645-3660, X 382).
APPLICATIONS MUST BE Ftl£0 BY Sept. 28, t9911:
a-ally, the requiramenta 818 to have an excellent academic
record, to have a focused plan Jar IIUdy"' research in a particular
country, to be a U .S. citizen, and to be able to spaai&lt; tho~ of
the country to which you are applying altho lima of application. Over
50 percent of recent raclpiants have bean IIUdents who have jual
· gradualecf from collage.
Graduale lludenls whooa doctoral rM88fCh is in Germany lhould
also apply !0&lt; tho DMD Feliowlhip. ProiOMOJ Georg tggano has information ond appiicationa (645-2t8t , X 582). APPUCATION DEAl).
UNE is Oct. t, t9911.

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vice and urban affairo, "A Public
Univa&lt;oity and the Public Good .•
Oct. 23, Canter for Tanorrow

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sociata proi80S0f of modern lan-

guages, "Man'a and Woman's t..angtJag&amp;s: She Said ... He Saldi But

Wham: Nov. t•. Canter for Tomar-

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under the NaUonal Science
Foundation's new Faculty Earty Car88f Development Program. The
awards, based on outstanding merit
tn both research and education ,
prcMde to juniof faculty earty sup.
port to recognize the full integration
of research and education.
Renshaw. who conducts re·
search in hydrogeology, gaomechanics and structural geology, will
use the tour..year grant to examine
how underground fractures lnflu·
ence the flow of chemtcal contaminants. The data eventually will help
scientists predtc:t , for example, how
far a chemical spill will travel and
whether or not it will contaminate
groundwater.
Renshaw graduated from
Carleton Collage. He received a
master's degree from The Johns
Hopkins University and a doctorate
from Stanford University.

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tion IO&lt; the Boffalo Police Department. He has bean active locally in
111'! national "Nigh! Out" actMtias
and Is a block club founder. Aooa
serves as a senator of the UB Professional Staff Senate and is active
in lJnited University Professions.

Jackson. a factJity ~in the

tant professor. Department of Theatre and Dance . was one of the coorganizers, and a presentm. ak&gt;ng
With ...,.._.. v_....., associate
professor. Modern Languages and
L•teratures;
Mtcturer.
rn ~nguages and Literatures:
SotO, lecturer, Theatre
an Dance .
I International Hispanic Theatre
Festival. at Teatro Avante and Miami
Dade Community College: Maria S.
Horne was rnode&lt;ator of the National
Conference Differences Among Us
Part iii: Hispanic lBiino Women and
crllic/ reviewer for the educational

lblc A. Molnar has been se·
lected as first recipient of a $2,(X)()
A Neville Procter graduate fellow·
sh1p, whiCh will provide partial tuIUon support tor studies this fall in
the MBA program In the UB School
of Management.
Molnar. who graduated !rom US
'" May with a bachelof's degree in
electrical engineering and computer
sc1ence. will concentrate on manu.
fa c tu ring~atK&gt;ns management
The Procter fellowship was
established by the Columbus
McK innon Corp. and the Dunlop
T1re Corp . with a combined pledge
o f $100,(X)() in honor of Procter, who
d•ed 1n 1994. Procter was former
chairman and chief executive of·
hear of Dunlop Tire Corp . and a
former d1rector of Columbus

t969, he haa assisted the Buffalo
Police Department with plano to upgrade its computer systems, a criticallinl&lt; In imptoYing police protection. He also conceived and is
impiamanting a plan IO&lt; a task force
to allow UB staff memb&amp;B to usa
their akin&amp; to asalsl the police department in upgrading and impl&amp;.
mentlng these compu1e&lt; changao.
One of the lira graduates of the
t995 Buffalo Police Citizen Police
Academy, Rose has participatad in
"rida alongs" with patrol officers

UB Qapartment of English, wiU disWe're Really Telling When We Tall
People We're Telling Them a True
Story." Director of UB~ Canter IO&lt;
Studies in American Culture, he has
authorad t5 books and J!'IOfathan
100 articles in major publications on
aspects of Amertcan culture, particularly .methods and means by
whk:h social and cultural "truths"
are constructed for mass consumption . His subtects have included the
Amerk:an West, drug culture, prison
culture. the criminal justice system
and the Attica riots.
UB a1 SUNRISE is producad by
the UB Alumni Association and UB's
Office of Conferences and Spacial
Events, News Sarvicas and Olflca
of Publications . it is supportad by
the Office of University Development and Office for Publtc: Service
and Urban Alfairs. The Buffalo
Marriott is corporate sponsor.
Price of the program, which includes a full breakfast, is $10, UB
Alumni Association members and
$12, others. For more information.
call829-2608. Tteket orders must
be received by Sapt. 9.

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~ ticl&lt;ats are StO each,
plus a S5 ~loa for tho proo
gram. The is $45 and Umitad to
30 participants. For J8MMilions and
JTlOI8 informatiOn. call 829-2808.
The aarias Ia daolgnad '"' senior'
aiUJMI, their apouseo and guests.
UB graduates and individuals who

have compfatad at least t2 semester houra as matriculated students
in a deg&lt;aa program at UB 818 eligible to join the Alumni Association.

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Catrie W. Kahn, MBA '88, praaidanl
CWK Entarprises, deYelopment;

Paul E. Steinle, MBA '94, C01111Uftant. KPMG Paat Marwic1&lt;. mernba&lt;ship; Joaapl1 R. Ktauz, BS '8t ,
praoldent. Advantage Opportunity
Co. L.P., pfacamanl; Chartao C.
SWanakamp. MBA '80, partner,
Saperaton &amp; Dey, P.C ., programs,
and Liaa Ciarl&lt; Driscoll, MBA '82,
vice praaident, buafneaa develop-

ment, National Haaiih Care Aifdlatas. inc., alrataglc planning.
Also alactad: Usa A. Mc:Kigney,
BS '84, controller, Novon lntarnationai , inc., secretary; David R.
Ba&lt;ran , BS '75, partner, Fread
Maxick Sachs &amp; Murphy. P.C .. treasurer; Michael R. Btaca. MBA '94.
financial analyst, Fleet Bank, assis-

tant treasurer.
Now ....,.,_,of the board of clractoro are Matylou - . BS '86.
vice p&lt;aSi&lt;larW. Locl&lt;port Savings

Bank: Marcela J. Cornn. MBA '95,

~.1 . -.,M BA

clinical diracfor of - t i o n modi-

'77 , has bean atectad president of
the UB School of Management
AIUJMI Aaaociation. Zielinski is vice
president IO&lt; ancillary and support
services, Children's Hospital ol Bolfaio and president of Children's
Hospital Home Care. Judith A.
Rucld, BS '83. is prasident-etect.
New vice presidents are
l!a&lt;nardo J . Carotenuto. BS '73, ad-

cine, Buffalo Ganarai

ministrator, Aurora Parit Heatth Care
Center, Inc., community relations :

Gragg, P.C.: Steven J. -

-System:

Artana F. Kaukus, MBA '88, lllC8C:UiYa
vice ~l Unitad Wtrry of Butlalo
and Erie Coooty.
R&amp;-etectad to the board _ ,
l!a&lt;ratt: Rucld; Michael D. Deakin,
BS '68, praaidant, Yai-Kn&gt;, Inc.;

Arthur J. Raga. BS 73, ~~ .
RISE, inc.; Philip J . Szabfa, BS 75,
partner, Albrecht Maguinl Heffern &amp;

· MBA

'88, partner, Saparaton &amp; Dey, P.C .

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Your heart's in the right place. But
how do you kaap healthier by r&amp;duclng stress? That will be the topic
on Tuesday, Sept. t7, when Card~
ologist Lawrence H. GoWen, director of UB's Stress Center, kicks
off the university's Senior Alumni
Program fall luncheon series.
~den . UB clinical profesSOf of
medtcine and a popular speaker on
stress and its role m cardiovascular
haaith, will speak attha iunchaon to
be held at noon in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Gampus:
A UB alumnus, Golden earned a
bachakY's degree in t943 and a
medical degree in 1946.
He Is a consultant to the Veter·
ens AdministratiOn Medical Center.
former d irector of the cardiology
Fellowship Program at Millard
Fillmore Hospital and a member of
the international Society IO&lt; the investigation of Stress. His research.
conducted In conjunction with the
UB Departments of Physiology ond
Psychology, involves stress profiles
and telated areas.
Othaf speakers and events in
the aeries are:
8 A bus tour of the Glenora

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1600 expected to join in Yalem Memorial Run Sept 29
football game 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.
Annudl event promotes safety awareness · 28,
in UB Stadium.
at

1,600 runners, joggers, ra&lt;:cwalkers
and strollers are expected
10 panicipate in the seventh annual Linda Yalem
Memorial Run Sept. 29, on the UB North
Campus.
The S-K, U.S.A. Track and Field-&lt;:ertified even~ which will begin at 10 a.m.
near Alumni Arena, is held in memory of
Yalem. a UB student who was assaulted and
murdered while running near campus, and
to promote safely awareness programs on
campus. Yalem was !raining for the New
York Cily Marathon.
The run is pan of Th• Buffalo N•ws
Runner of the Year Series.
Each participant will receive aT-shirt
designed by CuslOmtee. Drawings for special UB Sesquicentennial prizes and other
merchandise. incl uding two trips for two
to the New York City Marathon, will be
held.
There will be raffles, entertainment and
reficshm&lt;nts after the race.
Advance registration -postmarl&lt;ed by
Sept. 24 or in-penon from 4-7:30 p.m. on
Friday, Sept. 27, at Alumni Arena-is $13
for the general public and $10 for UB stu-

dents. Race-day registration, from 8:309:30 a.m. in Alumni Arena. is $16.
For more information, caii64S-3141
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Registrants who pick up ra&lt;:c packets
on Sept. 27 also will receive a coupon redeemable for two tickets to the UB Bulls

Resul ts will be provided by Emery
Fisher Race Crew and Don Mitchell
Runtime Services.
Sponsors an: UB Faculty Student Association; The Planet FM 10 I; the Student
Association; Century Printing and Graphics, Inc.; Mrs. T's Pierogies. and Coca Cola
Classic.

Support is provided by U.S. Air; UB
Division of Athletics; the Women's Health
Initiative; Customtee Activewear; UB Division of Student Affairs; Anderson's Frozen Custard and Roast Beef; Runner' s
Worid; Gordon Highlanders Pipe Band and
Color Guard; Fastsigns; Tops Friendly
Markets: Health Care Plan; New York
Road Runners Club, Inc .. and Niagara
Walkers.

OBITUARitS
Carmela S. Armenia, 72,
medical school faculty
member, alumni president
A memorial mass ...., held Sept. 4 in St.
Stephen~

Church. Grand Island, for Cormelo

S. Armenia, an obstetrician and gynecok&gt;g1s1
who served as an associate clinical professor
at the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences. Armenia. 72. died Sept 1 in Buffalo
General Hospital.
A 1949 graduate of the UB medical
school , Armenia served with the U.S. Air
Force during the Korean War. He was a past
president of both the UB Medical Alumni
Association and the UB Alumni Association
Amlani&amp; was on the staffs of Kenmore
Mercy Hospital and Buffalo General Hosp1tal.
A member of the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecok»gists. Amencan
Cotlege of Surgeons. American Medical
Association and Erie County and New York

IIUUS ROLL PAST RIDUIDS IN SHOOTOUT
The Bulls used a strong second-performance to down the Illinois Stale

Redb~rds ,

4 1-35, on their

season opener last Thursday.

Todd Pace and Anthony Swan became the first UB tandem to go over tOO yards rushing in
the same game since 1992to lead a Potent UB offense thai scored foor touchdowns in the sec·
and half. Pace rushed for a career-high 120 yards oo 21 carries and scored the game-winning
touchdown, while Swan hit paydirt four times while gaining 115 yards oo a career-high 36 carries. The last lime two UB players went CNer tOO yards was oo Sept. 26, 1992 when Alan Bell
(168 yards) and quarterback Cliff Scott (103 yards) both htt the century mar1&lt; in a 56-42 win
CNer Mansfreld.
The UB defense was led by Mike Chichester who had five tackles, a blocked punt and a
31-yard interception return for a touchdown. Craig Guest paced the Bulls with 16 tackles. including 11 solo stops, while strong safety Kevin McGriff added eight tackles and fresfvnan linebad&lt;er Dan Curcione added six.
Ouarterbacl&lt; Marl&lt; Taylor completed 17-&lt;*-33 passes for a career-high 2t8 yards. includrng six ~lions to sophomore Kali watkins.
The Buffs host Yankee Conference foe Connecticut oo Saturday at UB Stadium. Krckoff rs
set for 7 p.m.

PACE, CHICIBII!IIII!III!a'nlriRIII IIONOIIED AS DIVISION 1-AA INDEPENDENT
PLAYIRS OF n. WIIK
Senior comerback Mike Chichester and senior fullback Todd Pace have been honored as the
national DMslon 1-AA Independent Foolball Players of the Wee!&lt;.
Pace, a senior from East Patchogue, NY, ran for a carOOr-high t20 yards oo 2t carries and
scored the game-winning touchdown in UB's 4 t-35 win over Illinois State. Pace averaged 5.7
yards pe&lt; 011rry and helped the Bulls enjoy a 19-&lt;ninute edge In time of possession CNer the
Redbirds.
Pace also paved the way for teammate Anthony Swan to rush for 1t5 yards and four
touchdowns in the win. Pace's previous career-high was BO yards last season at Illinois State.
Chichester. meanwhile, sparl&lt;ed the Bulls In the first half by blocking a pont to set up one
UB score and returning an Interception 3 t yards for a touchdown to wipe out a 7-0 Illinois State

lead.
Chichester also had five tackles (three solo) and a pass breakup In the game. The touchdown was the senior cornerback's first trip to the end zone, although last season he blocked a
punt at Connecticut tllat teanmate Ibrahim Giles r~ for a UB touchdown.
The Division 1-AA Independent Players of the Week will be selected each week by a nalionaf panel and includes 15 teams: University at Buffalo. Cal Poly-Sa!' Luis Obispo, Charlestoo
Southern, Davidson, Hofstra, Jacksonvllle State, Uberty, Morehead state, Saint Mary's.
Samford, Southern Utah, Towson State, Western Kentucky, Wofford and Youngstown State

VOI.IDIW.L
UBs womens volleyball team opened the season with a three-game win CNer St. Bonaventure
on Aug. 30 at AJurmi Arena. The Royals downed the Bonnles t5-t2. 15-tO. 15-tO. Condi Sims.
moving from setter to weakside hitter, led the Royals with 10 kills and six blocks. Sims also had
a hitting percentage of .320 on the night. Freshman SomerOeschambault. in her first collegiate
match. took over the setting duties leading the team with 17 assists and nine d igs. ApriUe

UPCOMING UB HOME EVENTS

State Medical Soc.eties. he was a past pres•dent of the county medicaJ society

George Leonard Collins Jr.,
75, medical faculty member,
SUNY trustee
A memorial service will be held today at 4
p.m. in Trinity Episcopal Church, Buffalo. for
George Leonard ~llns Jr.. a cardiofogist
who had served as an associate clinical
profesSOI' of medicine at UB and as a member
of the board of trustees of the State Unfversity
of New York . Collins, 75 , died Aug 29 in
Kresge Residence.
Educated at Princeton and Yale umvers•ties, he served in the U.S. Navy and Coast
Guard during WOOd War II. In 1948, herecetVed his medical degree from the UniverSity
of Buffalo Medical School and continued h1s
tra1ning at Cotumbia-Presbytenan Hospital 1n
New York City. ~!ins , who specialized in

Sweeting also tallied six
blocks as the Royals, one
of the top blocking teams
in the country a season

cardiology, was an attend1ng physician at
Buffak&gt; General and Deaconess hospitals as
well as assoc.ate ch~el cancer research
1nternJsl at Roswell Park Caocet' Institute
A member of the UB Counc11. Colhns was
appointed 1n 1979 to the board of trustees of
tne State Un1Vers1ty of New YoOt. where he
served for 10 years.
A past pres1dent of the Ene Counry and
New York State MediCal Socteties, he was a
trustee of the Amencan Medk:al Soctety,
serving as secretary and treasurer
He was a d1rect0f of Houdaille lndustnes .
founder and dtrector of Medk:al Liability
Mutual Insurance Co and mechcal d1rector of
InternatiOnal Life Insurance Co
A member of the board of dtrectors of Blue
Sh1eld of WNY, the Health Plann1ng Counctl of
WNY. the Un1ted Health FoundaHon and the
BuHak&gt; H1storK:al Soc1ety. he was cha1rrnan of
the professiOnal diVISIOn of the Unuep Fund of
Buffakl and Erie County

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ago, registered t3 total
blocks.
The Royals spin a
pair of matches Saturday
afternoon at Ah.rnni

Arena. UB lost a fivegame heartbreakm lo

Eastern Michigan t0-15,
15-7, 9-15, t5-5, 18-16

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and then rallied to defeat clown In Au&amp;. 29 - ·· wn Mmed - 1 DIY. 1-AA
Independent ~yer of Week.
PHOTO PAUL HOKANSON
Colgate in four games

10-t5, 1~ . t5-13, t5-8.
UB now stands at2-1 after the season openong weel&lt;end.
Against Eastern Michigan. Sims led the way with t 3 kills Wllh Chassey Stuhler addrng 11
digs and 10 kills. Sweeting had six blocks to lead the defense Wlth Deschambaulladding 21
assists . In the victory over Cotgate . three Royals, Sims . Stubler and Kathy Brinkv.torth. each tal·

lied t 0 kills while Sims added 17 assists. Stubler led the club with 17 digs whila Brinkworth accounled for four blocks. Courtney t.ugert also chipped in with 15 digs and nine kills.
Coach Bob Maxwell's squad now hits the road the first time this season as they travel for
this weekend's Toledo Invitational where they will face Toledo and Wisconsin-Milwaukee

MEN'S SOCCER
UB fell to 23rd ranked Michigan State 2-1 on the oper1ing round of the UB Fall ClaSSIC After a
scoreless first half. the Bulls tallied the first goal of the season as sophomore forward Eric
Adhola fired a loose ball into the Spartan net during a scratnble on front of the goal at the 48minute marl&lt;. Michigan State rallied with goals from Hal Howell and Jason Wolff on the final 12
minutes to down the Bulls. Woffl 's game winner came with JUSt 4:50 rema1ning 1n regulation

In Saturday's round, the Bulls fell to Akroo 3-1 as Frank Butcher accounted for the lone UB
tally. Akron scored two late goals thirty seconds apart to take the VICtory and finrsh second on
the tourney. UB settled for third with Canisius finishing fourth as a resuh of the goal drfferenllal
tiebreaker. Coach John Astudillo's club placed three on the All-Tournament team-Adhola . Joe

Mercik and Ediru Okpewho.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
The Royals opened their 1996 season on the road in front of 975 at Syracuse on Aug 31 talhng

to the Orangewomen 5-2.
Lori Perillo scored bolh UB goats 1n the second half on ass1sts by Tracey Bnnon and
Kathleen Magner The Royals were outshot by Syracuse 20- 12 on lhe afternoon.
The Royals visit Niagara on Thursday. Sept 5 befOfe opentng thelf 110me schedule
against Youngstown State at RAC Reid Saturday, Sept 7 at 3 p m

CROSS COUNIRY
Both cross country squads open the1r seasons thiS Saturday With a tnangular meet aga1nst
Colgate and Syracuse at Akron Falls Park. Races beg1n at t 1 a .m
The Royals . under head coach Dick Barry, won the Mld..COOIInent Conference last season
f()( the second consecutive year making tour DIVIsion I titles 'Mln by the team and look to con·
t1nue the stnng. The Bulls. runn1ng lcx- coach Dave Hartzell. placed second at last season's
Mid~ champiOnship /US! f1ve po.nts out of first place and are determined to 1mprove on the

mark in 1996

TENNIS
The men's and women's tenn1s squads open their fall schedules th1S week With oual matches
against Robert Morns. NIBgara and CamSJus. All matches will be held at the UnrverSity Tenn1s

Center.
Coach Russ Cnspell's Bulls fimshed last season wtth a t0-2fall record and a 17..S mark

including last spring.
New women's coach Kathy Tw1st takes over a strong Royals squad that completed a pet·
feet 1 1~ fall season in 1995 and was 15-4 overall with the spring season
-Ted Wasko, Sports lnlormalion Olfoce

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                    <text>ITATE UIIVERIITY OF lEW Ylll AT BUFFALO

August 29. 1996

UNIVIIIIIIY A'l...-&amp;0
State CJniveisity ofNew Yorit

Volum e 28. No 1

State budget is a strain for UB,
Wagner, Headrick tell FSEC
Tech fee rises, tuition remains at '95-96level
Wagner echoed the provost's

sentiments. "As resources go

told members of the
Faculty Senate Executive Com-

mittee that while, overall, the
1996-97 state budget maintains
financial support to most UB stude . s, il presents a strain to the
un · versity's operat ing and capital
b dgets.
Committee members were upda
on the status of UB ' s bud-

get

the group's first session of

the ye , Aug. 21.
So, ow, the message that uni versity officers are trying to get
through to the state Department
of Budget, Headrick sa id, is
"You're not going to find (more)
great savings at the State Univer-

sity. You' ve squeezed us as far as
we can go .... Tum us free in terms
of our potential to rdise funds
from other sources. Give us flex ibility so there's incentive to put
some effort into doing lhis."

down , we have to look at what
tools are available," be said. And
if the budget picture doe sn' t
change, he said, the university may
have to charge additional fees in
order to meet student needs.
From a student's perspective,
for this year, little has changed,
according to Wagner. Tuition has
remained at the 1995-96 level.
With the exception of the technology fee. which rose by more than
double from $60 to S 125 per semester. fees also remained stable.

F

nding provided by the Tu ion Assistance Program
(TAP) ,
which
the
governor's budget initially threatened to slash, also was restored to
the 1995-96 leve l, although stu dents will be required to achieve
at least a "C'' grade level to maintain eligibility.
The technology fee increase is
expected to bring in to UB funds of
about $2 million, Wagner said,
which will be used to further the
university' s investment in techno!-

ogy. The fee increase "is not a
substitute for the budget reduction," Wagner stressed, and will
be used to augment UB 's academic
hardware, software and access to
databases. Even with this year's
technology fee increase. he added,
.. the sense is we s till are
underinvested in technology."

Continued on page 3

Stop the violence: surgeon pioneers
program to prevent repeat victims
tar LOIS IIAKIII

Social workers talk with the patients and try to
News Services Editor
find out why they were in dangerous situ ations in the
A u.u.... su111- at the Erie County Medical first place. Theyestablish rapport and respect. They
Center has established a pioneering intervention get to know the patient' s family or other infiuenti31
program aimed at keeping numa patients who are aduhs. Bonding is very important, Simpkins says.
victim s of violence from repeating their mistakes.
Clinical coordinator Neville Francis. who holds a
Cuthbert 0 . Simpkins, an associate professor of master's degree in sociology. develops an individusurgery at UB, became frustrated patching up gun- alized intervention program for each participant.
shot and stab wounds only to find the same
patients back on hi s operating table months
later. It left the physician feeling that he was
treating the sy mptoms, not the di sc.ase. "If l!"'' lool-..·~
these were hernia operations,·· Simpkins said,
"and the patients came back time after time,
you would say, 'Something is wrong here!'"

See related story on victims' need for
counseling, on page 2
His frustralion led him to organize the
Violence and Victimization Prevention Program at the Erie County Medical Center, where
he has practiced since 1994. Eighteen months
into the effort, only two of the 55 people in the
progmm have been re-injured and none have
been re-hospitalized.
De1ennined 10 conquer the disease of violence,
Simpkins has attacked the problem with missionary
zeal. He combines heavily applied reality-checks
with dogged intervention and follow-up.
" I lllw8ya tell my pMieata, 'You almost died.
We can't save you every time you come in here.'
Coming from the guy who just sewed them up, it
means something ... As a trauma surgeon, even the
most violent person is accessible to me," Simpkjns
says. "ll's a strategic time to intervene."

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here are positive aspects to
the 1996-97 budget. While
UB did receive a $2.3 million reduction to its operating
budget, the cut could have been as
high as $14 million, Wagner reminded the FSEC. And SUNY 's
Educational OpponunityCenters.
which the executive budget proposed to move under the aegis of
the state Department of Labor.
remains pan of the State Uni versity.
Although few items of Oexib ilit y were enac ted, the budget
allows the creation of stabili zation accounts, which will allow
two-year carry-overs of fund balances. The budget also includes

Earlier research has shown that unemployme nt is
related to a violent lifestyle, so the program's ultimate goal is to get participants working. If drugs or
alcohol are a problem, patients enter rehabilitation. If
they aren't emp.l oyable, they may be enrolled in a
job-training program or receive job skills counseling. Social workers try to get them out or the violent
environment or change the exisling environment.
"We do whatever is necessary," Simpkins said.
Continued on page 2

ESTERN NEW YORK enthusiastically welcomed back one of its own Aug. 18, as the
Dole-Kemp campaign made a visit to UB.
The old UB stadiu m was filled to the gills,
and crowds lined up outside, as well, to greet
the Republican presidential and vice pn:sidential hopefuls. A
sign on the south benn summed up the sentiments of the day:
Welcome back, Jack.
There were balloons, cheerleaders, fireworks and thousands
of signs to mark the hi storic day. No matter what your politics, the
rally carne off flawlessly .
So what does it take to pull off an event like a pre ~i dential
campaign stop at UB ? According to William J. Regan, director of
Conferences and SpeciaJ Events at UB , some fast action and a
li!Ue luck.
Notified on Wednesday afternoon of the Republican Party's
interest in using the sladium on Sunday, "the biggest challenge
was to decide whether we could do it or not.'' said Regan.
'They wanted to use the old stadium, but the turf was being
refurbished, and that contr.lct wasn't completed. We l!ad to be
sure UB was protected against any liability. We also had to kno w
the contr.lctor.; could delay getting back to the stadium to complete their work."
With assurances that a brief delay would not foul up the
contractor in charge of refurbishing the stadium, Regan said, "we
got the green light from President Greiner and he authorized th~
event."

T:

e Republican Party was responsible for all event costs and
arrangements, including n:nting the stadium and paying a
contingent ofuniver.;ity security: 20 Public Safety officers,
three plainclothes officers, two lieutenants and six Public Safety
aides. Set-up for the rally :was provided by Hale-Northeastern. a
company specializing in service for trade shows.
The logistics didn't stop there, A press corps befitting a
presidential race also had to be accommodated. · AT&amp;T put the
squeeze on Nynex to find 40 phone lines on our campus to have
available to the working press," Regan said. '"They literally had
to pull a blueprint and went down and fished up 40 lines from in
back of !bat south berm. They had a small army out then:."
There was a small army inside the stadium, too, on the day of
the rally. Regan estimated there were at least 7,500 people
attending the rally.
There are more people here than are in my hometown," Bob
Dole, of Russell, Kansas, told the cheering crowd. But the man
of the day was Jack Kemp, the former Hamburg congressman and
Buffalo Bills quarterback.
"f'm pleased to be the man who Jack Kemp brought with him
today," Dole said.
Football metaphors dominated the day .
Continued on page 2

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Reviews mixed in '97 Fiske coll~ge guide:
UB rated strong on faculty, academics
BrSUE~

News Services Associate Editor

U

B GETS MIXED reviews-lauded for its academics but
losing poi·nts for its size-in
the 1997 edition of ' The Fiske
Guide to Colleges."
ne faculty and a variety of academi c
programs have always been UB 's strengths.
and that hasn ' t changed;· the guide begins.

"It' s so big they bad to divide the campus into North and South," it adds.
"Class size can be a problem. especially
for freshmen . Smaller recitation sessions
humanize the largest cour.;es. Scheduling
conflicts are not unusual. and required
cour.;es are often the most difficult to get
into. Students seem to accept that some
degree of faculty unavailability is the necessary trade-off for having professor.; who

'The engineering and business management schools are nati onally prominent. and

architeclure is strong," states lhe guide,
whic h also praises the UB progmms in
occupational and physical therapy, En glish-"norable for its emphasis on poetry""-French. physiology. geography and
music.
The guide gives UB 4 slarS out of 5 for
academics, 2 telephones out of 5 for social
life and 2 points out of 5 for quality of life.
While some students may lament that
the un iver.;ity is far from the Big Apple. the
guide notes, "who needs the ciry when
you ' ve got strong professional schools. a
fine honors program, great professors and

a reason to chug beer and chomp on chicken
wings each time the Super Bowl roll s
around?''
Edited by Edward B. Fiske, former edu·
cation editor of The New York Times, the
guide tells prospective students who have
their hearts set on a small school with individualized auention to steer clear of UB.

I

'Money' moves
UB higher
UB hall ..... ,.... its perennial
appearance in Money magazine' s 100
best college buys, moving up four points
to rank 43rd among the nation's best
values in higher education.
And when it comes to the magazine ' s
breakout of best buys in the Northeast.
UB ranks No. 7.
There are seven SUNY schools in the
top I 00. In addition to UB , they are the
Univer.;ity at Binghamton (No. 9), the
Univer.;ity at Albany (No. 15), Geneseo
State College (No. 21), Fredonia State
College (No. 37), the University at Stony
Brook (No. 40) and Plattsburgh State
College (No. 66).

are experts in their fields at a school where
graduate education and research gets lots
of the attention."
The Fiske guide. hailed by US!. Today
as "the most readable and informative"
college guide in America, includes information about admissions, academics, roomand-board options arid social life from more
than 300 of the best and most interesting
colleges around the country. Information
was gathered from administrators, students
and visits by Fiske staffer.; to some of the
institutions.

I

n addition to UB, the SUNY campuses
profiled are the university centers in
Albany. Binghamton and Stony Brook
and the colleges in Geneseo and Purchase.
Forty-two schools--including Binghamton1Jniver.;ity and Geneseo State College&gt;--are listed as "Best Buys."
The guide is not error-free. It notes, for
example, that UB's North and South cam:
puses ..are connected by 'the Spine.' a
corridor that enables everyone·to travel to
class and the1ibnuies safe from inclement
weather.••
'The largest of SUNY center.;, UB offers tbe most comprehensive education of
all the New York state schools, but depends on its students to come and ftnd it,"
the guide concludes. "UB students sometimes lose patience with the crowds and
inconvenience of two campuses."
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RBpotter rernai"ls a ptJbfication olthe
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continue to receive support sefVices
from the Office ol P\lbliealions.
Moving the RBpotter to News Services places ~ in an office where
news and the COilYl'lUrliCal ol news
is the only business at hand.
The arrangement places eotmU!icatlon wilh UB's internal and external
aucfi80CeS on a continut.rn, wilh News
Services responsible for increasing the
visibility ol UB through the placement
ol stories in the print and broadcast
media. adding comrrunication with the
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number, 645-3765. The Reportsr
staff continues to woO&lt; in 136 Crofts
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oung violence victims get little counseling, study says

Br LOIS IIAIWI
News Services Editor

N AOOLESCENTwhoanempts
suicide and a youth who sustains
a gunshot wound both are traumatized by the experience and
could benefit from psychological counseling, most expertS would agree.
In reality. one youth typically will get
help and the other will not.
Results of a study led by a UB psychiauist show that93 percent of youthful suicide
attempter.; received some type of psychosocial assessment in the hospital, compared to
49 percent of young victims of violence.
Sixty-one perce01 of young suicide
ane mpte r.; were sched uled for follow-up

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with a psychosocial service provider after
leaving the hospital. compared to only 10
percent of youthful victims of violence.
The study also showed that injured girls
received significanUy more psychosocial
counseting than hoys. Fewer than half of the
injured boys were assessed for psychosocial
functioning in the hospital and almost none
were referred for follow-up counseling.
The studY results were published in the
July issue of Psychialric Services.
While the study was conducted at San
Francisco General Hos pital, Miriam
Shuchman, UB assistant professor of psychiatry and lead author on the study, said
the situation is similar in most hospitals
nationwide. "Kids who have been shot at

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Continued from page 1
"lt"s sort of like trying to hit
a moving target. There are always crises. We are always
going to the home. Sometimes
we have to go to the jail.''
There is no set time-limit on
intervention: The program ends
when patients reach their individual goals and become selfsufficient.
Funds to support the program have come from a variety
of sources.
A benefit concert was staged
by the Satellites, a Toronto reggae band for
which Francis is singer and guitarist. The
hospital has been very supportive. Doc- ·
toral students in social work from UB and
Buffalo State College provide maopower
in return for field training and research
experience. Volunteer.; perform a variety
of jobs. Simpkins and other physicians
have contributed their own money
Simpkins is liying to raise funds to
provide ·pan-time jobs for participants"something ofbeoefit to the community"-

PREVENTION PROGRAM: Cllnlcel coonfl.

lllllor -le F11111Cfa- vtctlm of
violent crime at ECMC.

wbile they look for full-time work.
He also is hoping to generate grant
money for research to find out if his approach is cost-effective and if it works
better than Jess intensive intervention.
'There needs to be support for people
who are injured in this way.'' Simpkins
said. .. lf it works, it could save a lot of
lives."
0

are probably the most suessed and scared

they ' ve ever been in their lives," she said.
'The physical wounds may heal quickly,
but the memory of what happened is likely
to linger in some way. We know how to
deal with that These kids should be talking
to someone about it."
She added: "Adolescents who are injured violenUy typically are not receiving
counseling. A few programs have been
established since this study was completed.
They are usually run by someone in the
hospital with a per.;onal commitment to
working with these kids."

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huchman' s study analyzed lreatment
records of 59 adolescents under the
age of 18 who were hospitalized for gunshot wounds, stabbings or assaults during
1991. and 28 adolescents .of comparable
age admitted during the same time after
suicide attempts.
Gunshot wounds accounted for 61 percent of the violent injuries. and more !han
three-quarter.; of the victims were males.
Sixty-&lt;&gt;ne percent were black., 20 percent
were Asian/Pacific Islander.; and the remainder were white or Hispanic.
The majority of suicide anempter.; were
female, predominately of Hispanic and
Asian descent.
Yoitng people who try to kill themselves
routioely are offered psychiatric assessments
and consultations in the hospital, Shuchman
said. In this study. the hospital charts of93
percentofsuicideanempterscootainedcomments about mood or interpersonal functioning, and 96 percentcootained notes from
a psychiatrist, psychiatric nur.;e, counselor
or social worker. Sixty-one percent were
referred for out-patient follow-up.
Areviewofbospitalrecordsof~young

victims of violeoce found that 49 percent
showed evidence of psychosocial assessment, and 58 percent cootained notes from
acoosullalioo.Only9percentoflheseyouths
were refened for out-patient counseling. 0

Patients not scheduled for consultation ·
or follow-up included a IS-year-old boy
assaulted by youths wielding axes, a 17year-&lt;&gt;ld male shooting victimdescrihed as
"anxious" and "upset" and a IS-year-old
girl who was physically assaulted and
thrown from a car.
Adolescents who end up in a trauma
center are by deftnition a high-risk population, Shuchman said, and are obvious targets for counseling. "Welinow that people
who are injured violently are likely to be
injured again. While these kids are in thi:
hospital ... it'saperfecttimetointerveoe. in
hopes it won't happen again."

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"I can't think of a better place to start our
campaign than liere in New York, in Buffalo, at the State Univer.lityofNew York at
Buffalo and on a football field," said Kemp,
who greeted Buffalo Bills player.; aod
aluinni, many of whom came out to UB to
lend their support to their fonner team- .
mate. "I'm going to be Bob Dole's blocking man for the next four to eight year.;."
Kemp also recalled his football days.
reminiscing about a career that perhaps
positioned him for politics.
"Bob Dole forgot to mention my two
broken ankles, the broken knee, the broken
hand, ihe broken finger, the broken shoulder and the II concussions. There was
nothing left to do but run for coogress."
He also noted that be learned everything
he knows in Buffalo, and lhal no matter
wberebelives,Buffaloisbistruebometown.
"I want to thank the people of Buffalo
for opening a door, aod I waot to thank Bob
Dole for opening a door," Kemp said.
"I want to pledge to all of my old teammates,lo all the people ofBuffalo ....toeach
and every ooe of you, Bob Dole believes
ourpolential bas not yet been reached.... You
ain't seen nothing yet."
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Center,for the Arts
n - 8. Burrows ........... lllterlm.-..ctor
ERRY GRANT, dean of the
UB Faculty of Arts and Letters, has announced the appointment of Thomas B .
a &lt;ounuws as interim di=tor of
the university 's Center for the Arts. The
appointment extends to Ju ly 15, 1997.
Thedin:ctor's position opened last month
when Robert Chumbley left UB to head the
Atlanta Ballet
The Texas-born Bunuws is a professional
ans administrator whose extensive experiM
ence includes the general management of
Ontario' sHamiltonl'laceThealre, Toronto's
O'Keefe Cenue and Canada's Shaw Festival
Theaue Foundation.
For the past three years, be has lived and
worked in Cooperstown as a consultant in
theater management to several Canadian theaters. as well as toSt Peta'sUJtberanChwch.
weU-Imown as "!'he Jazz Chwt:h" in New
Yori&lt; City, which offers a broad range of
performing arts programs, including exceptional jazz programs, opera and theater.
Prior to his wori&lt; in Canadian theater,
Bunuws served for five years as managing
diRctor of theater operations and assistant to
the
oftheYaleSchoolofDramaandthe
penory Thealre Company, widely
as the finest university theater proin the United States. While at the unibe lectured in arts administtation.

P

·or to his tenure at Yale. Burrows
the general manager of New
Y
City's Establishment Thealre
Company uring its salad days. Founded by
Peter Cook.lvor David and Sybil Burton in
the mid-1960s. it was a large and highlyregarded off Broadway producing theater.
Given his experience and interest in
professional collaborati ve arts presentations, Burrows' enthusiasm for the UB
center is evident. ''I love the inherent vi-

sion for the Center for the Arts, a vision thai
is there to inform program choices. I also
like the fact that this is driven by the academic need forinterdisciplinarycollabcra-

tion," he said. "We certainly have an
obligation to create revenue, and we will,"
Burrows said, "but what is exciting to me
is the opponunity to fully realize the potenlial to develop projects that will enrich
academic progrants in the arts at UB.
"For instance," he says, "at Yale, which
has what is probably the strongest theater
program in the country, there' was a perceived need to introduce the best working

professionals as lecturers in a variety of

disciplines."
He added that at Yale there was also the
impetus to create a fully professional resident acting company as a "laboratory" for

students preparing for careers in design,
technical wort, administration, acting, directing and theater criticism.
"Fine educators aren't satisfied that their
students try to be the best among their
i.rnmediate peers, after all, but want them to
aspire to be the bes~ period," Bunuws
said. 'That can' t happen unless students
see and meet the finest anists in their fields
and then get to work with them, to learn
from them."
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B

urrows expresses great enthusiasm
for existing UB arts programs that
incorporate that philosophy-not
only the center itself, but the new international program in the Department of Theatre and Dance and that depanment ' s
upcoming four-week residency with the
Paul Taylor Dance Company, considered
by many to be the finest modem dance
company in the country.
Several other arts programs at UB have,
for many years, incorporated the panicipation of exceptional artists into their academic
programs-the Music Department's June in
Buffalo Festival and Conference and conferences in conducting and performance, the
Eng~sh Depanmeot's Poetics Program, interdisciplinary work of the Media Study Depanmeot and the University Gallery program.
the An Depanment's lllusttation Program
and for decades. the Depanment of Comparative Literature's visiting professorships.
Many of these programs representsignilicanl
collaborations with community's best ans
institutions and organizations as well.
" We can do this," Bunuws said.
has the reputation, the facilities and the

··us

ability to create innovative programming
that will encourage lhe best artists to come
here--and it is a matter of getting the best."
He found the center's staff •exceptional. '
'Their roles have been stretched beyond
everyone's original expectations; the quarter-million dollar budget they expected to

have is simply not there anymore. Nevertheless -they have performed their multiple
functions exuemely well ," he said.
A graduateofTexas' McMurray University, Bunuws is affiliated with several theater
associations including the International Society of Performing Arts Administrators. He is
a former din:ctor of Canada's Niagara Region Tourist Council and the Niagara CollegeTheaueAdvisoryCommitteeandfonner
chairofthe League of Canadian Thealies.:'

Hey, Mom--l'm homel
Fre&amp;lvnan TuUis Johnson with his molher, Patricia, prepares to unsetamble a
pile rl po8ll8ll8ions before rncMng into Richmond Quad in lhe Ellicott Complex
~· 23. Frtltmen
IIWllfer 8IUdenls moved into their ,._ 'homes' In UB
dollnt
dly.lhen -treal8d 10 a September Welcxma picnic.

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DB-developed photonic materials
could revolutionize data storage
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News Services EdiiOf

EW POLYMER-BASED pho--

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tonic materials that could revolutionize data storage have been

developed by UB scientists.
"Stacks" of data can be packed in to the
new materials. like pages in a book.. Made

of extremely inexpensive plastic blended
with new dyes designed at UB, the materials store thousandsof times more data than
conventional compact disks (COs).
UB resean:has also have developed an optical ta:11oo1ogy 10 "read'' the new materials. The
matetialsand technology were described fOI'the
fust time Aug. Z7 at the national meeting of the
American CbemicaJ Society in Orlando, Aa.
CUrret~ CDs stm: informalioo only on their
surfaces. but ''these new matetialscould revolutionize data stor.lgebecause they allow data 10 be
stored in the depth of a disk." said Paras N.
Prasad. professor of chemistry, director of the
UB Phocmics Resean:h laboratory and principal investigator. Other research team member.;
are Jaynnt D. Bhawalkar, Ping.Qlin Cheng.
Ryszard Burzynski, Deepak Kumar, Gary
Ruland. Shan-Jen Pan. Ang W. Shih, Wendy C.
Chang. Wen-Shan Liou and Mtm-Soo Pad&lt;.
The new materials are capable of storing
up to I terabyte of data per cubic centimeter,
one thousand times more than can be stored in
a oonventional CD. "You would have to
stack more than 1,000 CDs ooe on top of the
other 10 get the sam: amount of data that is in I

cubiccauirnelerofooeoflhese new materials."
said Bhawalkar, UB resean:hassistanlprofessor
in the Phocmics Resean:h laboratory.
Prasad showed a video illusttating the

new technique and how a confocal microscope probing deep into the material can
"read'" each frame of a Bugs Bunny canoon.
Several seconds of the canoon are stored in

stacks of data in a cubic volume. each side of
which has the thickness or a human hair.

A

ccording to Prasad, this may be the

first time frames of a movie have been
stored in a stacked format and reproduced
in a three-dimensional, data-storage medium . The method also will make possible

more efficient storage for color movies.
which require three times as much storage
space as black-and-white images.
At the heart of the new materials is 'twophoton absorption.· in which a molecule absorbs two photons of light si multaneously if
pumped with light or sufficiently high intensity. Dyes developed at UB. exhibiting strong
two-photon absorption. are blended with
ttansparenl plastics to make the data storage
medium. "The presence of the dye enables
the polymer to strongly absorb infrared laser
light due to two-photon absorption and this
absorption can be confined to a very precise
area by tightly focusing the laser beam." said
Bhawalkar. The infrared beam penetrates deep
into the material, so data can be stored in its
bulk. as opposed to only on its surface.

FSEC
Continued from page 1
an appropriation for the State University
Tuition Reimbursable Account (SUTRA).
Unfonunately, a mid-year budget repuction is likely , according to Wagner.
' This fall is election time. Following that,
there probably will be a reduction to the
budget." The university has set aside $1
million to offset the anticipated mid-year
cut, he said.
"There's not very good news to the
capital-budget side," Wagner noted. System-wide. capital equipment funding was
cut to $5 million in 1996-97 from $20.9
million in 1995-96. ''Our suppon goes from

S4millionto$1 million. We'vegotamajor
shonfall in capital equipment funding for
' 96-97," be said. 'This is an item that has

great budget implications."
To deal with the budget c uts, units are
being assessed a 3 percent reduction ; the
univenity will reassess its finances "at midyear, probably in December," Wagner said.
ErNI Meidinger. UB professor of law,
asked how unstable are the budget restora-

tions and how turbulent is the upcoming
situation.

has had a significant decline, and has. in

" If you go back and track over the last I 0
years, there' s been an almost slnlight-line
decline," responded Headrick. "II' shard to
paint a pic ture ofthe election changing that
very much. It' s hard to think we're going to

than any other school.
Welch added that '"there are some significant problems with the NRC study ... but
I am concerned." Stony Brook, which has
suffered the same degree of budget constraints, scored ahead of UB, and "we're
barely ahead of Albany. We 'resupposed to
be the nagship campus and rm really concerned." Welch said. Even with GRI. the

get a revenal. The current posture on this
is, stabilize it (the budget)."
In his repon to the FSEC, Chair Claude
E. Welch Jr. noted his concern over the
impact of the 1995 National Research Council (NRC) ratings of doctora_l programs.
Welch sai d that the problems indicated
in the report "are not justof our doing. Ten
budge1 cuts in 8 years have been a signifi -

cant issue." Welch told senators that when
UB was inducted into the AAU, it entered
at same time as Emory University. which
recently was singled out "in a very interesting article" in Chang~ magazine as having
among the most significant increases in its
academic quality. However, the Change
anicle also noted that at the same time UB

fact, declined by more ordinal positions

programs so much more that. relatively
speaking, perhaps we don't look quite as
attractive."
In other business. Welch told the FSEC
that aschairhe has sc heduled monthly meet-

ings with the president. provost and senior
vice president so that they may stay alert to
each other's concerns and to have the oppor·
!unity for dialogue. " I uy to do this because

of the powers and responsibilities we have
as a Senare."llle Faculty Senate is an advi -

university has not made the kind of progress

sory group. he noted, but historically its role

it shou ld have made, he added.

is more significant since the Senate deals
with issues such as admissions criteria.
graduation requirements and curriculum.
"We need to be very much concerned with
the quality andeffectivenessofstudentlife.··

The Faculty Senate through its academic
role should be helping. leading in this role

of exami ning ourselves and trying to im prove UB ' s academic quality. Welch said .
Jack Meacham, professor of psychology. offered a different perspective. " It' s

not that we've declined, but our ra te of
improvement has not kept up with the other
sc hools. So o ur programs might well be

bcucr than they were. say. five years ago
but other institutions have impro ved their

Welch said.
The FSEC also di scussed a draft resolu tion from the FSEC's Budget Priorities Com-

mittee on the budgetary implications of
resolutions from the Faculty Senate. The
draft resolution will be discussed by the full

Faculty Senate at

i t~

October meeting.

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UB will present memorial symposium

and concert, 'Attica: 25 Years Later.'_
IIJI'AYIIICIA-oUI

News Services Editor

I

N SEPTEMBER 1971, AttiCll State
.
Prison just east of Buffalo exploded
in riots that resulted in the death or
injury of 129 people, both prisoners
and the guards they held hostage.
The name "Attica" -representing the
place and the terrible events that took place
there-since has reverberated as an example to many citizens of mayhem produced by deliberate political deceit.
Lawsuits, commissions. prison projects,
documentary films, scholarly publications,

books and investigative series in magazines and newspapers have considered
Attica from many perspectives. The horrifying events that occ urred there have
spurred prison and se ntencing refonn .

On Thursday, Sept. 12, a commemorative symposium, "AttiCll: 2S Years Later"
will be held from 8:30a.m. to 5: 15 p.m. in
the Student Union Theater on the UB Nonh
Campus. it will be freeof chargeandopen
to the public.
The symposium will feature panels discussing two issues-sentencing policy and
drug policy-mat spawned the AttiCll riots
and continue to influence stroogly the criminal justice system today.
Panel I, Sentencing Policy. will be led
by New York State Senator Catherine
Abate, fonner bead of the New York City
Department of Corrections. Panel D. Drug
Policy, will be led by Ethan Nadelmann,
director of the Lindesmith Center in Washington, D.C. and one of the nation's most
articulate advocates of drug policy reform.
A third panel, to examine ~ntencing and
women, will be led by Marc•Mauer.
uests will be noted prison-reform
activists and members of the judi
ciary, including U.S. Federal Coun
Judge John Curtin, "AttiCll brothers" Frank
"Big Black" Smith and Herbert X. Blyden,
former U.S. Attorney and AttiCll defense
attorney Ramsey Clark. and Assemblyman
Arthur 0. Eve and attorney and former
state senator John Dunne, both of whom
were Attica "observers" during the I 97 I
standoff.
The symposium will be followed by a
dinner from 6-7:30 p.m. in Pistachio's Res-

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taurant in the Student Union and a concert
at 7:30p.m. in Slee Concert Hall featuring
Pete Seeger, Rande Harris and other pet·
fanners. Tickets for the dinner are $5 for
students and senior citizens ani! $I 0 for all
othen. Concert tickets are$ I0 for students
and senior citizeqs and $15 for all otben.
For further information, registration and
tickets, call the UB American Studies Department at 645-2S48duringbusinessboun
or fax requests to 645-5977.
This symposium is being sponsored by
the UB Graduate Group on Justice in Democracy and the Department of American
Studies, The NYS Coalition on Criminal
Justice, theNationaJLawyers' Guild, WNY
Peace Center, the Judicial Process Commission and others.
The symposium is dedicated to the
memory of Haywood Burns and Shanara
Gilbert, Attica attorneys killed in an acci- ·
dent this spring in South Africa while on a
National Lawyers Guild tour, and the nationally-regarded civil rigb(4attomey William Kunstler, who, along with Bums,
represented Attica prisonen in the post·
1971 legal proceedings associated with the
riot.
Burns was bead of The Natioo Institute
and forrnerdeanoftheCUNY Law School. genen1l counsel to Martin Luther Kiog's
Poor People's Campaign and founder of
the national counselor of black lawyers.
Gilbert wasaprofessoroflawatCUNY. O

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an opdon on the nall!lorkad ~
dow&amp; version of HlJ8NET rn!
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should taka only.about 6 to 8 mn.
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not be available from the Te1nat or
PCAnywhere (dlaHn) versions.
U10Se who cannot complete the
survey eleclronically are asked to
contact UB-HSL librarian Nancy
Stimson at 829-3337 or
nstimsonOhsS.buffalo.edu to re-

quest a paper copy.
Survey responses will be ar;;ny-

mous since the usemame infonna..
lion and the S1XVfiY responses will
be disassociated and ITlMltaned in
different databases. The data Will
only be analyzed In the aggregale.
The project study is expected lo be
compleled by late fall .

school will dedicate new 'Wall of Fame' gallery.
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News Services Editor

N

fNE OF I 2 LIVING Dis tin guished Professors in the School
of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences at UB will be present
for adedicationofthe UB medical school's
newly installed "Wall of Fame," a gallery
of Distinguished Professors, on Thursday,
Sept. 5. at 4 p.m. in Butler Auditorium of
Farber Hall on UB's South Campus.
Fifteen UB medical school faculty have
been named Distinguished Professor, ihe
highest professional position in the SUNY
system, by the SUNY Board of Trustees.
Following the dedication, Philip T.
LoVerde, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and director of the UB Center for
Applied Molecularlliology, will present a
special Stocktoo Kimball Lecture titled
"Schistosomiasis, a Re-&lt;Omerging Tropical
Disease: Strategies and Progress Toward
Medical Resolution ... LoVerde is an inter-

nationally recognized expert on the dis-

ease.
Attending the dedication will be Distinguished Professors Felix Milgrom, Murray
J. Ettinger, U:on Farlti, Giuseppe A. Andres,
Norman Solkoff, Beverly P. Bishop. SukKi Hong, Harold Brody and Perry M.
Hogan.
UB medical school Distinguished Professors, in chronological order, with their
departmental affiliations and years at UB

ane:
1954-Emest Witebsky, M.D., lmmu·
nology , 1936 until his death in 1969.
1968-Sir John C. Eccles, Ph.D., Pbysi·
ology I 968- I 976.
1971-0iiver P. Jones, Ph.D .. M.D .•
Anatomy and Cell Biology, 193 7·I 976. He
died in 1989.
I 973-Hennann Rahn, Ph.D., Physiology, 1956-1985. He died in 1990.
J98S-Felix Milgrom, M.D., Microbiology, I958-present.

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lng docks ... oonelderecl part of the
It Is the~ of II mambenl of lhe lJ'IIwnlty OCliMU1Iy mobea!ve
this tiiiiOke4lae policy and to remnct Dlhenl of !hair r111poualblly. ~
relaling
lmplan • tlalioo 1of lhls policy ahauld be ralened ID lha appropriate dapar1mant,ldvl head. Na~ cannel be retiChed by the departmanVdivlalon head, the matter should be relarred to either the appropf1ale personnel olfo&lt;;a or in the case of students, 10 the Office of Judicial Atfairsl()m.
budsman. Established rules and regulations regarding policy violations will be
implemented according to one's university status (i.e ., studenl or employee). In
add~ion 10 being charged with failure to comply with the reasonable request,
Public Safety may be involved.
Visitors must ob561Ve this smoke-free policy. Departmenl heads and building
CO()(d inators. and sponsors/hOSts ol university events are responsible for visitors ' compliance with the university's smoke-free policy. Visitors who smoke will
be requested to extinguish the cigarette, cigar. pipe, etc .. and will be informed
of the policy. Refusal to do so will constitute a violalion of the policy and will result in removal from or denial of readmittance to the building or event.

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1989-Murray J. Ettinger, Ph.D., Biochemistry, I 969-present.
1989-U:on Farbi, M.D., Physiology,
1958-present.
1991--Giuseppe A. Andres, M.D., Microbiology, I97(}. I 990.
1991-NormanSolkoff,Pb.D., Psychology. 1963-1995.
I 992-Beverly P. Bishop, Ph.D., Physiology, 1958-present.

1993-Aiexander C. Brownie, Ph.D:
D.Sc., Biochemistry, 1963-1996.
1994-Suk-Ki Hong, M.D., Ph.D.,
Physiology, 1975-1996.
1995-Harold Brody, Ph.D., M.D .•
Anatomy and Cell Biology, 19S4-preleot.
I 996-Perry M. Hogan, Ph.D., Physiology, 1968-present.
1996-James P. Nolan, M.D .. Medicine, I963-presenL .
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'Real World Reunion' comes to
campus for two shows Sept. 19
NYONE WHO thinks UB is not
closely connected with the "real"
world will find out differently
on Thursday, Sept. 19, wbeo the
university becomes one of the first campuses in the U.S. to bost a " Real World
Reunion" featuring CliSt members from the
mega-hit MTV show.
Thr&lt;eCliStmembers-JulieandHeather
from the show's ftnt-seasoo New York
City CliSt and Joe from the CWTent Miami
crew- will visit UB to participate in two
shows: I p.m. in the Student Union Theater
ana 7 p.m. in the Katherine Cornell Theater. The appearances ane being sponsored
by the Office of Studeni Life and University Residence Halls.
The theme of the shows - sure to be a
sell-out and limited to UB students, faculty
and staff- will focus on the topic "What
Happens When Strangers Live Together?"
It's a question that's on the miods of
university students from their liesbman
year, through their first ventune in apartment living, to life after graduation.
And anybody who watches MTV' s "'The
Real World" knows the answer is not always a preuy picture.
For those who haven' t caught an installmen~ the agency promoting campus "Real
WorldReunions" hestdescrihesthehitshow
as "a voyeuristic soap siu:om" that "throws
hip, young adolescents into an apartment

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"The s~s... focus on the
topic 'What Happens When
Strangers live Together?"'
with wall-to-wall cameras so we can spy. on
them and Jearn what happens when people
stop being polite and start being real. ..
To date, millions of viewers (mosl of
them college-age and younger) have been
able to eaves-drop on CliSts Jiving in posh
digs in New York City, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, London and Miami.
At the Sept. I 9 programs, Julie (now
back home in Alabama IC&lt;!Ching dance),
Heather (recording artis~ businesswoman
and aspiring actress) and Joe (going to
graduate school at Fordham University and
running his own cornpurer-&lt;:onsultant company) will discuss topics including conflict
resolution and relationships.
And the three, according to their promoter, wm·•answerany personal questions
audience members may have about them or
the sbow."
Tickets will be sold on a first-come
basis in the Office of Student Life, !50
Student Union, to UB students, faculty lind
staff for a $2 donation to the Student SEFA
Campaign. Ticket purchasers must show
0
their SUNYCard.

�--.---.emorandums of agreement have been signed
establishing exchange
prognoms between UB
and major universities in
Taiwan and Kcna_
Tbe first agreement was initialed in
Taiwan in February by Stephen Dunnett.
vice provost for international education at
UB , and officials of National Central University (NCU), one of Taiwan's leading
research institutions. In Match, Dunnett
initialed an agreement authorizing the creation of exchange prognoms with leading
universities in Seoul, Korea: Korea University and Sung Kyun Kwan University.
The UB School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences will collaborate with the
UB l!nglish Language Institute (I!LI) to
develop a summer program in l!nglish language and engineering for a group of NCU
students who will come to UB in 1997.
At NCU, UB engineering students will
be able to take courses in English and will
be eligible for assistantships. Because of
NCU's strong prognom in Chinese language and culture, it ai.O is expected to be

a major destination for UB students in
Asian studies.
NCU is an important center for research
in the basic and applied sciences and bas,
for several years, bad ties with the UB
Department of Civill!ngineering. George
C . .Lee. Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering and director of the National Cen-

terforl!arthquakeEngioeeringResearchat
UB, bas served as an honorary professor at
NCU, and a number of his former students
are on the NCU faculty.
In working out details of the Korean
excbange prognoms, Dunnett was accompanied by Tai Kang, associate professor of
sociology at UB who was educated in Korea and bas important connections to major
universities there.

S

ung Kyun Kwan University is the oldest in l!ast Asia, founded in 1398 as a
Confucian academy. Today, it maintains a
College ofConfufian Studies and is famed
for its programs in Korean and Asian studies, offered in English and Korean. The
school also bas an impressive prognom in
international studies and offers opponunities for visiting students in scientific and
technical fields . A numberofUB graduates
are on the faculty.
Korea University, founded in 1905, has
30,000 students enrolled in 85 depanments.
Its Korean Language and Cultural Research
Center, which will be open to UB exchange
students, offers Korean and Asian studies
programs in English. In addition to its distinguished prognoms in science and engineering, KUbas an excellent medical school
that hopes to establish ties with its UB
countetpan. Korea University also bas an
outstanding international studies program.
The UB Study Abroad Office is accepting applications from students interested in

pursuing studies at an)! of these universities.
For more information cnll645-3912.

lnnus to head
Information Technology

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_....associate vice president for University Services, will lead the
university's efforts information technology it was announced Aug. 1 by Senior Vice
President Raben J. Wagner.
In appointing lnnus tn this new responsibility, Wagner noted, " Valdemar brings a set
of skills, abilities, background and experience that I believe is unmatched by anyone else
at the university. His position in University Services has given him the institutional
perspective required of a person leading sueh an important university-wide effon.
Benefits to the university of this new organizational structure include:
• a single focus for the university's planning and implementation effons;
• improved coordination and communication with campus constituents;
• improved financial planning for information technology; and
• more progress toward achieving the university •s identified objectives in information
technology.
lnnus wiD work directly with the University Libraries and Computing and Information
Technology (CIT), and Closely with the Provost Office's technology planning effons and
initiatives.
"At thi~ time in our history, given oureffons to streamline administration and expand
our information technology effons, this change represents our best next steps in advancing
information technology at UB ," Wagner noted in his recommendation to the president and
provost.
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N~AA Division INk IIIII Aald
NCAA Division I Track and F1eld Championships will bring athletes to UB from
the nation's largesl colleges and universities in 1998. Track and field's version
of the Final Four, the NCAA competition represents 1,500 people and carries a
projected economic impact of $1 .1 million, according to Karen Miranda, vice
president of convention sales and service for the Greater Buffalo Convention
and Visitors Bureau.
Thecompetitionforthegames,whichwillrunforsixdaysinearly June. 1998.
was between Buffalo and Indianapol is. Indianapolis won the
1997 championships, with the 1998 competition going to Buffalo .
Events will take place on the North Campus. "They were looking for good lrack and field facilities and given our experience in
handling the World University Games, and the WAVA (World Veterans Athletics Championships,) they felt we could make this a
really big event.· Miranda told the Buffalo

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UB center helps companies in
WNY to obtain training grants
11J EI.UN -.DUUII
News Services Editor

W

ITH THE! assistance nf the

Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TC IE) at UB .
seven WNY companies and
one local consortium have applied for and

received training grants from the Economic
Development Skills Training Program
(EDSTP) of New York State.
The grants were awarded by the state
Depanment of l!conomic Development 's
Empire State Development Corporation.
Recipients are Accudie, Inc. of Nonh
Tonawanda, a packaging steel die manu facturer, $15,559; AIM Corrugated Container Corp. of Lancaster, a manufacturer
of corrugated boxes. displays and other
products, S 16,500; The Electronic Compo-

nen ts Di vision of American Precision In dustries. Inc. in East Aurora. a designer and
manufacturer of electronic components.
$13,602 ; Dunlop Tire Corp. of Buffalo. a
manufacturerofhigh-perfonnance tires for
automobiles. light and medium trucks and
motorcycles. $21.221; FEDCO Automotive Components Company. Inc. of Buffalo. a manufacturer of heat exchangers for
the automotive industry . $12,778; Flexovit
USA. Inc. of Angola, a manufacturer of
abrasive grinding wheel s. $15.620; Oliver
GearofBuffalo. a gear manufacturer whose
main product line is custom-made gears.
$10.551 ; Women Mnnufac lurers for Ex cellence. a consortium of women-owned
manufacturers comprised of STI-CO In dustries. Inc.: Irish Welding Supply Corp.;
American Massage Products. and ElectriTech. $19.373.

University aids industry: SPIR
awards grants to six companies
11J EI.UN eo&amp;.lleAUII
News Services Editor

11

1! LOCAL branch of the Strategic
annership for Industrial Resurence (SPIR) program. based in
the UB School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences. has awarded grants 10
six Western New York companies.
The program is designed to help create
and retain manufacturing jobs at small- to
medium-sized companies in New York
State. SPIR aims to bolster the state
economy by promoting the transfer of
knowledge from uni versity to industry.
The idea behind the grants is to help
companies develop new ideas and capabilities by providing an additional researchand-development arm and techni cal expertise.
The following companies have received
SPIR grants, which are funded by New
York State:
Buffalo Computer Graphics. Inc. of

Buffalo, a computer graphics and services
company.$6.451; Peerless- Winsmith. lnc.
of Springville. a manufacturer of wonn gear speed reducers for original equipment
manufacturers and industrial distributors.
$3 ,3 17; As hford Concrete. In c . of
Springville. a manufacturer of mixers.
drums and parts for the ready-mix industry.
$4 .747 ; New Le af Label . In c . of
Lackawanna. a manufac turer of pressure sensitive labels. S6. 109; Globe International. Inc . of Buffalo. a manufacturer of
lightweight co nve yor belts. $2.883:
Ohrnc rafl~ Inc. of Piusford . a manufacturer
of precision high-value re sistors. $8.075.
Western New York grants awarded un der the section of SPIR dedicated to small and medium-sized businesses will be implemented through The Center for Industrial
Effectiveness (TCIE). based in the UB
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and affiliated with the UB School of
Managemenl.

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Jonathan A. Oandes. a 1974 graduate of UB. has been elected to a
two-year term as president of the
UB AJumm Association. Dandes •s
v•ce pres1dent and general man-

ager of B.R Guest ltd and a member ol the UB Council.
Others elected last month to
serve as othcers for the 1996-97
year are Jean C . Powers, J.D 79,
an attorney , Jaeckle. Fleischmann
&amp; Mugel. first v1ce president. Jay
Fnedman. B.A. '86, manager, Food
&amp; Vending Services at UB , vice
pres•dent for athkttlcs; Beverly FoilAlbert . M .A . '75, partner with FaitAlbert Assoc•ates . vice president
lor constttuent associations; Susan
J Gre lick. M.L.S '78 , M.A. '80,
MBA '82. Amherst town clerk, vice
pres•dent for hnance: Donald C .
Roberts. B.A. '93. 1nsurance execu.
live . Poner . Harris &amp; Scherrer. vice
pres•dent tor membership and marketing , and Therese M . Wagler ,
B.A. '90, senior executive assistant
to Assemblyman Robin Schiffi..
minger. vtee president for student
relations

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a cell and molecular biologist and professor of
I sciences at UB. has been
appointed chair of
the Department of
Biological Sciences.
Berezney has
pioneered basic
research an the
nuclear malnxthe internal suuc·
ture of the cell
nucleus-and •s internationally recognized as a ~ader in the ftek1.
During the 1970s, he was the
first researcher to propose the Idea
that the nucleus has an intricate
structure that affects replication of
genetic Information and other genetic processes.
Berezney's research has been
continually supported since 1977
by the National Institutes of Health.
He has authored or co-authofed
more than 60 research and review
anicles , whk:h have resulted in
more than 5 .0CX&gt; citations In Citation
Index. He is preparing an invited article on the nuclear matrix lor Scien·
tiflc American.
A faculty member since t975.
Berezney earned a doctorate from
Purdue Untversity and graduated
magna cum laude from Fairleigh
Dickinson Untversity.

Ronald

AWAIID-CABEII
I'UN-aPU~

UB's Career Planning and Placement Olfice has been honofed with
the 1996 Award for Excellence In
Programming by the State University of New York Career Development Organization, Inc.
The award , presented at the
organization's conference in June.
was given lor the department's
Internet Home Page , in recognition
of the development of a new and or
innovative program among four year colleges , University Centers
and specialized colleges.

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. . . . . - 1 1 . - -,UBassor::iate professor of radiok&gt;gy, was recently appointed chalm\an of the
Department of Radiology at the UB
School of Medicine and Bkxnedical
Sciences. An expen in the area of
head and neck
imaging. he is
also direclor of radiOlogy at the Erie
County Medical
Center.
pe1Balso is also
an associate pro-

fessor In the
School of Dental
Medlclne. He earned his D.D.S..
M .D .• and a master's degree in
pharmacology from UB.
A colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, he is chief of radk&gt;k&gt;gy with
the 865th U.S. Army Reserve General Hospital. Niagara Falls.
Before entering medical school,
he was a rese81ch dental officer at
the U.S. Army Institute of Dental Ae·
search at Walter Reed Arrrr'/ Medi·
cal Center in Washington, D.C .
Upon graduaUon trom medical
school , he en1ered the u.s. Navy.
He was chief medical officer on the
U.S.S. Sumter during operatiOns
north of the Atctic Circle . Del Balsa
left the Navy in 1984 with the rank
of COfMlSnder, returning to BuffaJo
In 1985 as director of maxillofacial
imaging at the UB School of Dental
Medicine. In 1991 he beCame ifl..
terim chairman of radiok&gt;gy at UB.
A past president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial
Radiology , DeiBa!so has authored
Maxillofacial Imaging, considered
the standard facial imaging refer·
ence text, as welt as numerous articles on head and neck Imaging.

St........ C. - t t , vice provost for international education . has
announced staff changes for the
Off~e of International Education.
. 1 - H . - . w - has
been named assistant vice provost
lor international education. A staff
member since 1990, he most re-c ently was program deveklpment
officer. His new responsibilities include management and logistic
support for the Stamford Malaysian
Program and recruitment of international students.
- . _ _.. has been
named director of Study Abroad
Programs. She pr...,ioosly had
served as an international student
adviSOf and as interim Study
Abroad coordinator. A UB graduate, she was a Study Abroad student in London and has visited
UB's Aslan exchange programs.
has been
named director of lriternaUonal Studan! and Scholar Servicas {ISSS).
With UB since 1988. she was as~
ciate director of ISSS and has
served as interim d irector since last
August. Before coming to UB. she
was d irect01 of International Student
Services and Programs at Florida
State University and assistant dirac·
tor of International Programs at the
Untversity of Kentucky

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associate and the Horne Page's creator , accepted the award on behalf of
the olfoce. The Home Page assists
UB students and aiUITYli who are
seeking empk:Jyment, continuing thefr
educauon or making C81eer deciSIOnS as welt as employers who are
seeking job candidates. The Home
Page has been accessed more than
lO.COl times in six months. lhe
Internet address is httpii/'Winp..

buff81o•...,..,.ao:W"*"t

The UB School of Management has
received a $6,410 g ift to suppon
the school's Oepanment ol Accounting and Law from Ernst &amp;
Young LLP. a worldwide public-accounting firm. Part of the Emst &amp;
Young Matching Gifts Program. the
gift brings this year's total support
to UB from the firm to $12,820.
Michael .1. llurnr, a panner
1n the Buffalo office and a cOOfdlna·

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tor for the firm's fund-raiSing efforts,
presented the gih on behaH of Ernst
&amp; Young to - - t -,
chair of the department
In addition to the matching-gifts
program, Ernst &amp; Young provides
doctoral-ktvel grants in accounting,
sponsors profesSOf&amp;hips and faculty fellowships, and offers account·
ing internship opportunities.

-ID-IMAn
- A P Y. U
The role of higher education in
meeting llle needs of today's
changing wor1d will be among topics addressed this fall by national
educators participating in the
Higher Education Breakfast Semi-

nar SerMts.
The series. in its 18th year and
presented by the WNY Higher Educatk:Jn Consortium, Is coordinated

C.- ,

by UB assistant professo&lt; of educaUonal organization, admintstration and poNcy.
The programs win be held from
S..lO a.m. at sites in the Buffalo·
area. Cost for each program and a
continental breakfast, Is $5.
-The series opens Sept. 13 in the
Center for Tomorrow with a presentation by Ted Marchese, vice president of the American Association of
Higher Education, the nation's largest higher-education association.
Marchese has been editor since
1982 of Change, most widely read
magazine in higher educatton.
The series continues Nov. 22. in
Moot Hell at Buffalo State College
with a kK:ture by Helen S. Astin,
profesSOt of higher education and
associate director of the Higher
Education Research Institute at the
University of Csltfornia at Los Angeles . Aslin and her husband, Sandy,
are known for developing profiles of
entering freshmen for institutions of
higher education . She is a former
president of the American Psychological AssociaUorl"s Divisk&gt;n on the
Psychok&gt;gy of Women.

I'IIUMACY--

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ncmvDNIIIaRANT

Gene D. llor'M, associate professor of pharmacy at UB , has been
named chair of the Department of
Pharmacy Practice in the School of
Pharmacy. With more than $1 .5 mll100 in grant support from industry
and gOvernment , Morse is a leader
in the design and analysis 'of new
clinical trials for AIDS treatments .
He directs the UB Laborato&lt;y for
AntMral Research and the ArltMral
Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory
Unit In the ImmunodefiCiency Clinic
at the Erie County Medical Center,
the only facility In the BuHato area
that offers pharmacologic research
protocols for HIV·infected patients.
Morse was recently awarded a
four-year, $306,014 grant by the
National Institutes
of Health to establish an Advanced T.echnology Laboratory
for antiretroviral
pharmacology research. The new
laboratory will be
housed in the UB
Laboratory lor AnUviral Research .
With the grant. the laboratory will
partk:ipate in the NIH's AIDS Clinical Trjats Group, which coordinat~
multicenter clinicaltr'Bls for evaluating new AIDS therapkts. Co-investJ..
gators are research associate Mark
Shelton and post-docloraf fellow
John Adams . who recently received
an American College of CliniceJ
Pharmacy fellowship.
Morse Is a fellow in llle American
College of Clinical Pharmacy, ~
t-onor llle group confers upon .......,.
bers. A UB faculty member since

w........
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Dnt (#6#j.J,SQ.
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1983, he tods a joint appointment as
a research associate professor of
medicine and has been en adjunct
associate professor of rusing.
Morse recelved a bachelor's degree from the State llniverstly at Albany and bachelor's and doctoral
degrees in pharmacy from UB.

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EUcunw
L

w.,. YUJt

c - . chief execu-

tive olfoce&lt; of Ciminefll Development
Company. Inc .. has been named
the 1996 Niagara Frontier Executive
of the Year by the UB School of
Management.
The award, recognizing ex.ecu- •
tive success. civic leadership and
high personal inlegrity, "!!ll be presented at the 47th annual Schpol of
Management Ah.mni Association
Awards banquet, to be held Sept.
25 in the Hyan Regency Buffalo.
ClrnlneiJj has been affiliated with
numerous community organtz.aUons .
Including the Sistoro of Charity Hospital Foundation Board, the
Bishop's Lay Advisory Council and
the UB Foundation, Inc.

The state Labor Department has
been advised that full asbestos
conlainment procedures may not
have been followed by a private
contractor invofved in an etevator
rehabilitation project on the South

CarnP&lt;JS.
The situation occurred dur'ing
the spring semeste&lt; when employees of the contractor were removing
the elevator's door frames In Hayes
Hall. It only recently came to the attenUon of the university·s Offtee of
Environmental Heallh and Safety.
WhUe containmenl procedures
were being followed by the contractor, they may not have been sufftcient to prevent the release of a,s-..
bestos Into llle air. - . -. based
on the contairvnent procedures that
were in place and subsequent air
samplings. it Is unlikely that faculty,

staff. students or visitors lO the
building - e expooed to asbestos,
according to the Dffica of Environmental Heallh and Safety. Nor was
there any -heellh rill&lt; "' alfoel
associated with the aftuation.
Faculty, staff and students in the
School of Atchaectura and Planning, infonned of the wor1&lt; prior to

its COITVT'I8fw;etnenl. were advised of
the possible lapse in containment
proceduras ,d uring a school-wide
meeting on Monday.

T-PUCI·CCWIONcaNA,
DIUYD lniN YIMS,

A conference delayed for seven
years duo to llle uprising in
Squara, ~ place July
8-10 in Vl8flna., Austria, accordtng
to a report by Constantine Tung, UB
associate professor of Modem Languages and Utaratures. Tung had
planned a Sino-American conf0fenc8 on Chinese American war HI·
en1tures for October 1989 with 13

nananmon

ana

Chinese wrltero
critics axpacted to take part: but the June
1989 events ended all plans.
The 1996 confiii80CO, plamed by
Tung and Dr. Gerd KanWliskl, direclDr of Austria's Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, was titled, 'Cillna's Pllrt:eption
of Peace, War and tho World: A

Muftidlsciplina SympooUn. • nwas
~ in the Austrian Military Acaclemy, Voonna. joir&lt;ly sponoorad by the
UB Facolty of Ar1s and ! . - . and
the Ludwig Boit2maM lnstit\rta, with
support from the Austrian Ministry of
Foreign Alfairs and llle Ministry of
Defense, the Sohman-China Fol.ndation {VIOflna) and llle Austrian ~

elation fat China-·
Kerry Grant_ Dean of the UB Foe·
u1ty of Ms and Len... joined with
Austria's Minister of Defense, Dr.
Warne&lt; Fasslabend, presiding and
spea1&lt;1ng at llle conference's opening
_,from
llle u.s.. Austria. China and Germany. UB plllliciparU inctudod
Tung. Gnn, and Jurhao Hoog, assistant professor of cornrru'Ocatlons.

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The 1996 football season kid&lt;s off on Thursday. Aug. 29 as the Bulls
host Illinois Slate at 7 p.m. at UB Sladilm. n will be US's 83rd season
ollnlercolegiate football and the eartiesl dale that a season has
staned In-school history.
The Bulls, under second-year head coach Craig Clrbus. return 12
starters from last season's squad headed by junior rumlng back AAthony SWan, who broke the UB record lor rushing attempts in a sea·
son last year with Zl6 and reu just shy ol the 1.CJOO.yard marl&lt;. finishing with 968, a figure that ranked hin 48th in !he nation and ninth
among sophomores in Division 1-AA.
Ouart- Mark Taylor returns as the Bulls' starting quanerbaclt
Taylor, a senior, completed 11XIf·276 passes last season loc 1,218
yards. The offensive r.ne is anchored by seniors Ed Ellis and John
Sandusky. Ellis was tabbed by Th6 Sporong News as a pre-season
AIHndependent selection.
AII·Armrican candidate Craig Guest leads an experienced da·
tense. The senior linebacker led !he Bulls as well as aH ECAC I·AA
players in tacldes last season with 161 , including a lellm-leading 77
solo stops and 15 tacldes-loc.Joss, earning hin first-team ECAC and
Honorable Mention Foo/ba/1 Gezene AI~Armrican honcn. Guest set a
school record with 29 tacldes last season agaOlsl Maine and eanned
All-Independent honors from Th6 Sportjng News and Bob Griese's

Essence of speed is captured on
lim, right, at Empire Slate Games
held at UB in July. Above: extra effor1
i:llong ju:np from Nadine GeorgiB.

Football Yearboolc.
The Bulls boast one of the best kicking games In Division I·AA with senior Gerald Carlson
handling the punting and place!dcklng duties. The senior already holds 12 school records and
mads of 17-&lt;&gt;f·221iefd goals last aeason Including a pair ol r:Ner 50 yards. His average of 1.5
fiBid goals per game ranked hin fourth in the nation while his punting average ol39.2 yards on
62 kid&lt;s ranked hin 28th among Division f·AA punters.

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Coach Bob Maxwell's Royals lake to the court to begin the 1996 season on Friday. Aug. 30 at
7 p.m. as they host St Bonaventure in !he first game ol the William G. Morgan Invitational Tour·
nament. UB concludes the tourney on Saturday hosting Easl8m Michigan and Colgate.
The Royals return lour starters from last season's 22·13 squad led by junior middle biocl&lt;er
Kathy Brinkworth. Last season, Brinkworth became the first athlete in US's rich athletic tradition to
lead the nation in an individual category .men she topped all NCAA Division I players with 223
blocks, a 1.84 average per game. Brin&lt;worth added 176 kills and a hitting percentage ol .260
and was named to the Mid-Continent Conference Easl8m Division's second-team last season.
Senior seller Candi Sims returns to lead the offense. Sims currently is second on the Royals
all-time list lor assists with 2.235 and could see some time at a weaJcside hitter position this
season with the continued development of some of US's talented freshmen. Sims was third on
the l"'!ffi with 177 kiUs and earned first-taarn Mid-Con Eastern Division recognition last year.

• IEN'SSOCCER

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The Bulls kick off their season with a pair of contests this weekend. UB hosts Big Ten member
Michigan State to open the season on Friday, Aug. 30 at 7:30p.m. and laces Mid-American
Conference toe Akron on Saturday, Aug . 31 at 7:30p.m. Both matches are held at RAC FIE!Id
behind All.mni Arena.
Coach John Astudillo's sqoad finished 9-8-21ast season. Sophomore Sebastian Zawistan
and senior Ediru Okpe-.l.flo retum to head the lineup. Zawistan had a line lreslvnan season
ocoring live goals (tied loc the team lead) and adding an assist loc 11 total points, second on
U PCOMING UB HOME EVENTS

Leners
A buffalo as mascot?
Bull would be better

Street-these are moot points. What the uni versity community needs to focus on is why a
school with over 25,000 students can't seem
to identify itself; why the Amherst Campus is

Your anicle on the bronze buffalo that will be
placed on 1he Amhe"t Campus or UB seeks
to compare UB to Penn State, Maryland and
UCLA. 1 dono1 see !he analogy. Those
schools have their mascots on campus. The
Buffalo has not been the mascot since the
teams were renamed the Bulls early this century from the Bisons. 'The comparisons would
be correct if say UCLA had angels on its
campus, but they don't. How about putting
up a statue of a BuJI or a Royal to join those
other institutions. Or maybe you seck to see

devoid or the camaraderie and spirit that
other schools have in seemingly endless sup-

ply.

Sure.. it'll be a long rood for UB to U'avel if
she ltUiy WlniS 10 bacome Whal she 'should he:
lhe premier public univmil)l of lhe nonheasl
bul bell-at lees! now we can see lhe road.
Thanks IO Dr. Gen.Jd Goldbaher or lhe Com·
munication Department. and everyone else in volved in the project, the campus will be con sidenlbty improved by lhe addition of lhc
bronz.e buffalo that will graze in Coventry

if Elizabeth Taylor aUght want to donate an-

Loop.

olher buD to the school IS her tale husband,
Michael Todd, did when he gave 1he school
Buster the First in the 1950s.

It' s about time. With the arrival of the
buffalo will also come some of the swagger
and charm cum:ntly absent on a campus that
can, on some days. leave you feeling desolate
and forgotten.
or cou.rse you can't just throw a bronu
statue on the front lawn and consider-the job
done. But positive ideas like an annual basketban gunc against Syracuse University, President Greiner's plans for on-campus apartment -

~ULTUI

Vis &amp;-mail

Bronze buffalo is step
in the right direction
DEAR IIU'OIITIR:
Don'tlook now, but UB is looking w.ore like
a campus than a business park every day .
It's far too late now to complain about
why the campus wasn ' t built on the water-

front or why the subway ends on Main

Siyle housing, and maybe even 1 pub in lhe
Commons where students and faculty alike
can congregate. all go a long way toward reaJ izing what this university can be.
un.w..-.--A~
Washington. DC
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the Bulls. Okpewho was third on the team last season wtlh four goals and 10 points

• WOMEN'S SOCCER
The Royals open their 1996 season on the road at Syracuse on Saturday. Aug 31 US's home
opener is Sapt. 7 when they host Youngstown State.
Coach Jean Tassy's team finished 1995 With a stellar 9-3-3 mark. thetr best Wlfllllng percentage since 1986. The team was ranked founh 1n the Northeast Regoo '" sconng at 3 .21

goals per game. Heading the list ol returnees is senior Loro Perillo who lopped the Royals With
10 goals and 21 points in 1995. Perillo's 21 points ranked hef 19th 1n scoring 1n the Northeast
Region. She also led the team last season with three garne-W1nn1ng goals. Also back 1s sophomore Beth Cost~k&gt; who accounted for f.ve goals and two ass1sts last season .

• MEN'S BASKE'IBAU.

The Bulls opened their Italian tour last week. UB was downeO by Montan1-Foch 80-61 as former
NBA star Manute Bot. at 7-leet-7, blocked 12 Bulls shots. UB was led by Mike Martinho's 26
points while Man Clemens added 14. In a second game, the Bulls fell to ReggiO-Calabna 7455 as Clemens and Martinho combined roc 51 points.
- Ted Wasko, Sports tnlocmstion OffiCe

OBilUARilS

Milton H. Brown, 79,
established UB's Fixed
Prosthodontics Department
Funeral services were held Aug. 171or M1lton H
Brown, who established US 's Department of
Fixed Prosthodontics and served as Its chair
Brown died Aug. 14 in Kenmore Mercy Hospttat
Brown received his dental degree from Emory
University In 1940 and anended Ohio State
University lor the study of prosthodontics He
served in the U .S. Navy Dental Corps lor 23
years, reaching the rank of captain He came to
Bulfalo in 1963 to teach at the dental school
aher hiS retirement from the Navy
Until his retirement from UB 1n 1985. Brown
served as chairman of the Department of Fixed
ProsthodontiCS and as director of restorative
dentistry at US. A life member of the Amencan
Dental Association, he was a member of the
E1ghth Oistnct Dental Soctery. Omtcron Kappa
Epsilon , the Academy of Denture ProsthetiCS.
the Academy of Crown and Bridge Prosthodontics and the American College of Prosthodon·
tics. He was past pres1dent of ltleCar1 0 . Boucher
Conference and past president and secretary
of the Amencan Board of ProsthOdontics

Louis F. Ciola Sr., surgeon,
anesthesiologist
Servtces were held July 17 tn Chnst the Ktng
CathOlic Church . Snyder. for lows F C10la Sr
77 , a surgeon and anesthesiCHogtst who had
served as an instructor '" anatomy at the UB
medical school. Ctola d1ed July 13 1n Buffalo
General Hospital after a brief 1llness
Ctola graduated in three years from the US
medtcal school in 1943. then served tn the US
Army
He became a general surgeon on the staffs
of Buffalo General. Sheehan Memorial and Sisters hospitals 1n 1944 Dunng that time he served
as an anatomy instructor at UB.
He reenhsted in the Army. serv1ng as a
captatn in the 66th Tank Battalton from 1946-48.
After 10 year$ as a surgeon. Ctola became
an anesthesK&gt;Iogist. bringing modern methods
to Batavia. where he was chief of anesthesia at
Genesee Memorial and St. Jerome's hospitals,
1n addition to serving on the hospttals' quality
control and executive coovnittees.
Hewas a fellow of several professtonal mechcal socteties, including the American College ol
Surgeons and American College of Anesthesi·
ologists. He also was a member of the Genesee
County Medical Society. the Amedcan Society

of AnestheSiologists, New YOfk State Socf8ty of
Anesthestologrsrs and !tie American Medtcal
AssoctaiiOfl

Robert L. Ganyar d, 72,
emeritus history professor
Robert L Ganyard. 72. ementus assoc1ate professor of hiStory at US. d 1ed Aug 2 1n Sacramento. Calli . alter a short 1llness Ganyard. who
served as d~r ec tor of the tnterdtsctpllnary De·
gree Program of the Faculty of Soc1al Sctences
retired from UB tn 199t After hts rettrement he
relocated to Mtsston. Texas
After serv1ng tn the U S Army from 1943 to
1946. he graduated in 19481rom the Umverstty
of Buffalo and rece1ved h1s master's degree •n
1950. He rece1ved hts Ph .D tn 19631rom Duke
UniverSity. spec1aliz1ng 1n Amen can Colorual
htstory
Ganyard taught at the Un1vers11y of Houston
unul hi returned to UB 1n 1964 He took partiCular del1ght 1n becom1ng a colleague of professors he had known and respected from h1s
undergraduate days. 1nctudtng John T Horton
and Selig Adler
In t 983. he completed hiS seven-year d1rec·
11onol the Soc tal Sc1ences tnterdiSCtphnaryProgram and returned full lime to the Htstory Department. where from 1987 to 1990 he servea
as tts d trector ol graduate studres
He IS best known lor hiS book -rne Emergence of North Carolina 's Revolut1onary State
Gove rnment .~ published 1n 1978. m add•hon to
numerous articles and book revtews Ganyard
was a long tune member of the Amencan HtsiOrt·
cat Soctety and olthe Southern Htstoncal AssoCiation
Contubut1ons tn hiS memory may be made to
the Milton Plesur Scholarship Fund of the Un•·
versity at BullaiO. and may be sent d trectly to the
Depanment of HtSIOfY. Park Hall Ptesur wa s
Ganyard's colleague and the lund 1s used to
support graduate students and undergradu·
ates mapnng 1n htstory

Patricia A. LoBello, 61, UB
maintenance employee
Patnc1a A. LoBello. 61 , an employee olthe UB
maintenance department s1nce t 984 dted Aug
15 in Kenfl'lOI'e Mercy Hospttat altet" a long
illness
In addition to her JOb at US she worked !rom
1980-95 as a sales clerk for Sears. Roebuck &amp;
Co A Mass of Chnsllan Bunat was held Aug 17
10 Infant of Prague CatholiC Church
Cheektowaga

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T aking part in the United Way's Day of Caring has become
an annualtradi!ion and a joy for UB faculty. staff and students.
This year's event look place Aug. 20, with 13teams from the
university provid ing help to various service agencies. including the Blind Association of WNY and the Bethel Head Start
program at the UB Child Care Center ori the South Campus.

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Phyalca Colloq~~l••
C•uc~ Flr:ld Theory Revislteci-So~t hin c Fuudamen·
tally Wrona with tM Standard
Modet. Pror. Hung Cheng, MIT.
210 Natural Sciences. Nonh
Campus. 3:45 p.m.

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UB Prints Today, exhibition of
selecled studenl works from
1996 c lass. An Oepanmc:m Ga llery. Center for the An s. North

fetiOI"-Arcbi~eeture. Pwtina

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Campus. 5· 7 p.m.
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UB Bulb vs. llliooil State. Unt·

Newer T~bniques in Pedlatrk
Pain Mana~tmtnl , Roben
Kaye. M.D. Kinch Audilorium,
C hildrc:n 's Hospita l. 8 o.m.

VollaJNII
UB vs. St. Bonaventure. Main
G ym, Alumni Arena . No nh
Campus. 7 p.m .

Soccer
lklllJ vs. Michigan State. Varsily Soccer Field. Nonh Campus.
7:30p.m.

Septe•Hr WelcOMe
Oasis Movie Nl&amp;bt. Oasis.
Ellicou Complex. Nonh Campus. 9 p.m

SAT31

223 Lockwood. North Campus
II a.m.

UbrarJWorllahop
Lockwood Library Tour.
223 Lockwood. North Campus

Alumni Alt'na. Nonh Campus.

7 p.m.

Poet.,
Wednesday• al 4 PLUS Literary Series. Poetry reading. performance by Catherine Walsh
and Cris Check. Univen ity Gallery. Center ror the Ans. North
Campus. 4 p.m. Free.

Sapt•·-··-

UUAB Fllm. S1udent Union Theater. North Campus. 6:30 p.m.

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TM Birth of Aa:wicu Video,
Proarua I: Expkn'atlou of
Presence, Puf"orm.ance, Audien«. Screening Room, 112 Center ror ~ Arts. Nonh Campus.
7:30p.m.

TUE3
Ull&lt;..yWorlleloop
UB Llbraria Cat.Uot Demo.
223 Lockwood. North Campus.
2p.m.

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Ullnry Workaloop
Lockwood Ubrary Tour.
223 Lockwood. North Campus.
J p.m.

Cotrtt: Houa.. Harriman Hall.
Soulh Campus. 8 p.m.

WED4
UllnryWorlleloop

UB Libraries Cotaloc O.mo.

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1bc:ater. North Campus.
6:30 p.m.

EXHIBITS

Nood.

VollaJNII
Royals vs.. Colgalt. Main Gym.
Soccer
Bulls vs. Akron. Varsity Soccer
Field. North Campus. 7:30p.m.

IF-5052.~-te

~ Heahb Services
aod lof".i:lrmllia. JWcinc
fF-6038. AM~taMJ~iate
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Posliq IF:'OJS. ~M­

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ver:s ity Stadium. North Campus.
7 p.m. Call 645-6666.

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UIIJotwell well
Leonardo Drew' s site-specific
installation "No. 4 5-A.. was designed ror the Wahtwell Gallery
in the Cenler for the Arts. North
Campus. and is there through
October.

. ._ I Exhibit
" UB Rc:memben,.. a univeni ty
sesquicentennial exhibit orga·
nized by Univenity Archives.
continues throoJ.h Sept. 10 in
420 Capen HaJI on the North
Campus. Groups may amnse a
visit by c:alling 645-2916. Exhibit hours are Monday through
Friday, 9 a.rn.-5 p.m.

THURS

Workaloop
UB Libraries CaU.kt&amp; IH.mo.
223 Lockwood. North Campus.
Noon.
Ullnry .............
I..Mkwood Library Tour.
223 Lockwood. North Campus.
I p.m.

Cnoft Workellotte
The Crutive Craft Center, 120
Fillmore, Ellicott Complex. is
offering early faJI ' 96 cnft work·
shops beainninalhe week of
Sepl . 9. Woruhops on: sc:h«&lt;· •

uled in textHe design. knitting

ud Preventive Medkine. Pollin&amp; IF-6036. Salor ~
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Memorial Liblwy, PostinJ
IF.6()37. AiobWII,_
Ocopophy. Postin1 lf.6Cl40.

UB PRINTS TODAY
AUm Selbat'a atct&gt;lnc, ahown Rt rlllrt,
.. part of tha ••.
hlblt, UB Prints Todey, _......today
In tha Art Depart·
ment G.tlery In tha
Center for tha Arb,

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Postin1
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Alliltaal Profnlor..Polilical
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Pooti"'IF-6044. """"'-1/M-

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exhibit will put on
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and croc:hetina. quihina. Brnil-

pus) during regular

ian-embroidc:ry. basic photoara·
phy. colo.- pho«&gt;anphy. odva.nced color pbococraphy, nature
pho&lt;ogrophy, ni&amp;hl pbotosnphy.
basic pottery. intennediate pol·
tery. jewelry con~tNCtion. beginning stained glass, advanced
stained &amp;lass, weaving. intermediate pboloppby. poclCt)' for
children and multimedia ror children. Workshops are held 7- 10
p.m. one niahla week for si.x
weeks.. Feel are $30 for studenu
and S.SO for aU others. For i.oformation, call 645-6125 or 6452434.

hours.

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Effective Monday. Sept. 9. lbe
Offtee of Campus Partin&amp; ud
Transportation Servica will rt:·

quire a valKt plftina permit for
a.ll can parted on univen:hy

campuses. Permits are required
7 Lm.·3 p.m.. Monday-Friday
when the univenity is open.
Pmnits may be obWned at 17
Oidendod Annex (South Campos) oc 102 Spuldin1 Quod.
Ellicott Complex (North Cam-

business

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�STATE

U~VORICAT BUffAlO

not to request or ogru to special CCHUideration
for the sttuhnJ IHcawse of his or her srudent
status. It should be wulerllood that the Univer·
siry is not a law enforcerMnt agency. At thL
sa~

time, the University does not concei~ of

itself as a "sanctiUJry .. for law bnahrs. 1M
University lu:n always /Hen and should con·
tinwe ro IH concenud tltat whenever students
are involved in legal problems they 1H adequately advised and reprrsemed by qualified
couns~l.

A university, ~specially a Stat~ University
sllbject to constitutional requir~ments, m.JUI
guarantu stud~nts th~ rights which the soci~l)'
and its laws protect. An Amuican uni v~nity
guarantus its stud~nts th es~ rights on a cam pus.

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Students who violau a local ordinance, or
any law, risk. th~ l~gal ~nalties prescribed by
civil authoriti~s. Ho~r. violation of law for
which the stud~m pays the fHMity will not
nu~ssarily involv~ a violation of aaulemic
standards or rules of the University. Th~ Univusity can not b ~ held respons ible for
off-campus activities of its individual stud~nts
but moimainsan intenst in all behavior, wMtMr
on or off campus. which may advers~ly affect
the University. In ewes involving violations of
the law which occur offcampus, the Univenity
may be concernul with the incid~nts which. by
their naturw odverst!ly affect the Univusity 's
educationol mission.
In any IJ~ivenirydisciplinary procedure one
of the ltii~st priorities of the Un i'Vt!rsity is to
saf~guard tM student 's right to due process.
Due Process is not an evasive legal concept but
rather simply nquires the nulim~ntary ele~Unts of ''fair play " in an administrative proceeding. To this end, all UniwrsitydiscipliMiy
procedures will at/east afford tilL defeNlanJ a
clear statement ofthe charges and the Mtwn of
tM t!Vidence upon which the chargu are bast!d.
Secondly, t~ def~ndantsha/1 be given a fair
hearing, be allowed to confront and
cross-examine witnesses, and pnsenl Iris or
~r own position, nidrnce and uplonotion.
Lastly, no disciplituuy action wiU be taken
unless the charges an sllbst.anliat~d by tM
t!Vidence. TM couru lvwe indicated dult if
ths~ minimal elenwnu of ..fair play" anfiJfill&lt;d. th&lt; &lt;k/&lt;ndotu will loaw b«n alfarrl&lt;d
due process ""'*-' 1M law.
In .Jwnmary, 1M Un.iwnity up«ts and asks
foritstMIPIMnnogrraterorno/~s.Jfr«domor

liberry titan uists for otlrLr persons in society.
1M Univenity's position. tlrte"fo", is not 10
rrqwst or agrre to speciDI consideration beCOIUeoftMstwtklll'snaru.r. TMUniwnitywill
not interfere wilh law enforut'lftOII and other
agencies. A.J pan of ils edw::tuiotta.lmmtdat~. it
will be eottee1"Mtl about stwlenl reltobilikJliott.
and COtllribtllion to ctJ1ftPfU DNI.JOCiety now and
into IMfutwre.

ARTICLE 1: DEFINITIONS
L The lam "'University" meatllaState UDiven.ity of

New Y.ortc II Buffalo.

a. Tbe

""1tudeat" iacludes all penoas takiq
cowseaat the Uaivenily, both full time and put lime.
punu;DI uoclcrJndowe, poduale, or pro(eWooaJ
IIUdics.
s. Tbo ...... "oaclemic:"""' - . . · ......,
Stbdeab wbo have c:ompaeted • lemC:IIItt or rnc:R at
UB or tnufe:rt"tld 10 UB wilh aediCJ to be in &amp;ood
.. oftlyif:
(I) lbe AIOdeal's cumulalive p1lde poiJIIa....,.
(few wort Mlempled bocb • cb.iJ ..aiven:ity ud at any
otber~iDIC.itutioa tbcltlldeat aaaybave
......w)is2.0orllbove;
•
(ll)lbe-'sc:oa.loli,.QPAOIIhisuoiYO&lt;·
.;ryis2.0orol!ove
(J)Ibe-'splldepoiata....,. forlhe , _
I"CCCaal: ICIIIC:Iklt i12.0 or .tloft;
W • leul " " ol all credit-.o for wbidl the
lfudeat wu rqil:teftd la previous IC:mes&amp;cn at UB
hoveboen.....,......;lllld
(J) M leuc " " ol lhe credit houn for which lhe
student ... re,:isar:rcd Ut tbe lllOit receol ICmCIICt
hive bcea complelcd. or 111cu112 Cftldil: boun have
bciea cocnplded ill tbe IDCIIt rect111 ICIDel&amp;er (tbul
mcctiJ1a the ""'"ircmeot for full-time.._).
A juaior or ICaior is i.a JOOd ltUd.iaa oaly if, i..a
oddiliooto-., ~(I~ (2), (3), (4),1111d
11erm

&lt;'eorollodlao..,.._or_ol'ferioa•m¥&gt;&lt;·
&gt; - ·t h e - - boen IICCOpiOd by ood bas
._ Tbo 1en1 "focuky _ . . -

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employed by the u.;-,. ...,...... a.ipod
admi.rDMndvecwprofeaioul • ; 2 ' 'idee
6. Tbotctot . _ o l d i e Uoi-uy-r"
iacludcs •Y penoa wbo is • ltUdreM. r.c.aty IIIICIDber, UDivenily ofr~~eial cwuyodlct per-. employed
by die Uoi\'Crliry.
7· Tbo...,. ·u.;-,. praDises" iocludcl all . _
bWidiop, foc:illtics.lllldodJc&lt;propcrty Ia .... lioo ol or .......S, uood, or c:ootroiJed by the Uo!Ye&lt;·
•ityoratli.li.Ma.
L The term ..orpa..i.ulioa.. me&amp;a~ aay DUmber of
pononiWbohoYC~ withdleflll'IDOI ~
meats for Univen.iry recopitioa..
, Tbo ..... "judicW body" ..y oulhoriu&lt;l by lbe Dim:tor ol Jodidol Aft"oin 10
de:wmitte wbctbef •lbldcac bas v~ 1beSiudea.t
CodclllldiO......._...s ~ol­
... Tbe lenD .. Appdlale &amp;o.nr' ~De~Muy pcnoa or
penonooutlloriudbytheDim:torolJodidoJAifllin
10CDIIIidec . . -'&amp;om a judicial body's dcoonoi·
rwioothoto..-ba vioLtledthoS-Codcor
from the IOOC1ioos impooed by the Sludoat-W'odo
JudiclM)I.
iL The Vice Pm.ideat for Studc.Dc Atrain ud tbe
o... or Studeou ....... podons .....,._ by die
Uaivenity Prcsidau 10 be telpOftlible for the ldmiD·
isuation of the Student Code.
u. The 1erm -policy" is defUICd u lhe wriaea recu·
lations of the University u fouod ia. bul DOl limited
10, the Coaduc:t
urc lfood.
boolt.lllld
c..Jop.
.,. Tbo ..... "oaclemic: i*FitY . . - . .· ......
theproccuclcfU&gt;Odia-dleU........,_IIIId
G-Catolopfordcolioawilh-OW1Cn(ICC
allo Ankle S: 13).
... The term "c:bcaliai" iocluclcs, but is ootlimilcd
to: (I) use of uy uaaaadloriz.ed lllliMaDCc ia tatiD&amp;
quiz:z.ea, testa. oreuraiDIIioaa; (2) dqadeace upoo
the aid of IIOUR:CI bcyood , _ - by the
instruc10r in wrilina .-pen.~ tqLCIItS, aolvioa problems, « canyiDI ouc otla aaipmenu; or
(3) the xquisitioo.. wilhout pcnaiuioa. ·of ICSb or
o&lt;11e&lt; oaciemic: nw.:riol belooJjftl 10 • member or
the Univmity ftLCUity or aatr.
15- Thctcrm "plqiorism" iocluclcs,butis,..Umilcd
to, the ..... by ponp1&gt;ruc or~ .....,...;., or tho
published or ""f'UbUilbcd wort o r - pcnoa
without full aad clear .cbowlcdJmcot. It abo includes the Uftaelcnowlc:d.J'Cd Ute of mMcria1s Jft·
porod by onotbcr pcnoa or
;o the
lcllinJ or term popcn or o&lt;11e&lt; oaclemic: motetiols.
""Thctcrm~-.......,_.. .....
Stuclcnl AllocisiDo (SA). Gndu&amp;- Aloociotioot(GSA),MillordF"dlmcxcCo!Jop:-Aioociotioot (MIU&gt;A), Poliry SlixlcolCouocil, Daul S&lt;:bool

s - . ...-.
Gnduoi&lt;IU-..-

qcocy.......,

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AllocisiDo (DSA).- !Ia-

Auoc:-

(SBA). Gndu&amp;~Aaocisboo(GMA)ond

odJc&lt;--lbM-beollic:iolly"""'·
...... by lbe Umwnity c1o.rioc •Y year.
, . Tbe term ..suspeosioG" IDCUlJ removiQ&amp; from.
lludcntiOIIIC or all pririJc&amp;cs orr....t by UIOciotioo
with tbe Uaivenity for a specified period of time.
d.. The aenn ..expu.l.aioa" meant pamaaeady removiaa from • JtUdeat all privikJes offered by
uaociatioa with the Ua.iven.ity.
... The term ..clear ud preaen1 claDatt"" meMI immccla.&amp;c ICriouJ violeoce is expected or pat coaducl
funUI.hcd reuon 10 believe JUCb coeduct is cootemplo&lt;Cd; IIIJo, _..w ol immodiolc htturc rcpc&lt;itioo
or Jli')IUbitcd ct&gt;OMiuct. i.e.• uJe~pooxuioo ol drup.
de'liaac sexual behavior, etc.
... Tbo """'
uoclcr
cenaia t::irc:umltaDca • SbiCieal may be doemed 10 be
a a...EAR AND PRESENI' DANOER 10 tbe Uaiva-aity Community .ad may be ll8lpalded iiiUDCidiMdy
pcndiDa • timely bcorioa'"' .... cbqes.
a The term ""bewiitp'" meua u.ciclalu or Rule
Viobl.iou wiU utlaaJ.Jy c...e a lhlde.riO be .......,..
moDCd" to aaswer before a Ua'venily aDCtioDed
JudicW Body or Jodidol Olf"ICU.Sooeboowd bodies
iocloclc c..a..oJtsoc ror lbe . . . _ ol l'llblic

.._.......,.IUipCIIIioo........

..,.-Ored&lt;_

Onlc&lt;.-·W'oclcJIIIidoly,-ur.,c-.
. . . . , ; r y - .......
Puci,AIIO--oodbodies witbio Ua.ivcniry -=ademic: clivisioas.

ARTICLE 2: JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
JURISDICTIOII.OF THE UIIIVERSITY
a. Uoi\'Crliry jorlatfit:tioo ood diodptioc Jboll pcruiD
10 coadltcl wbida oc:c.n oe Uai'ftl"'ity pratiles or
orr.,.._...t wllidl ~Y - d i e uoi-.;ryc-;cy, ioclotlial""l'oiiiiOICIIIbcn. Wid/
or the punoil ol ill objecli-.
a. u.u-,......-lllldpnx:edons 111a11-..
ooioc d i e . . _ . - ol~ bodies ood Appel·
.... -...ooo~-......-~body.Judi­
cioiAdvisorlllldAppcllotoa-dJbollbeiiUthorizcd
co ... ada caee.
• Tbo DUoctor or JudicW Atroin lllallovcnce
the dcoclopDeol ol potidco ror die odlalaiscnooa ol
lbe jodK:iol .....,... ood proccdonl nics for lbe
coooloclol--...
• Doc:isioDIIUIIc by ojudic:isl body udlor Judicioi-Jbollbeliul.poodiacdleoormol-'

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• AjodicW body may be clcsipolod u orbiocr or
ditfoo*Jwldalodle-......,.;,yla.-.wbich
do DOl iDvolve a viobtioo of lbe Studeal Code. All
portica- ....... ood 10 be bouod by
lbe-wkbooripol_..
s. Tbo Vice Prc&gt;-. ror u . . . . . - ood a.u,.
... l l l a l l - .... jottidol-duraoodpotidco foroll_ol_ . - o l
u.;-uy..-~-

.. Tbo o..,.- oll'llbli&lt;: Solely olllccn .......
po;.d_olllccn_llte_Lowood
dleCriJalaol ~u... Tltoy-llte~
.....-oodoll...,._
_ ood_
.. - - - o o d - _
- -_
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J. Tbolenl "Uoivcniryollldal" _ . . , . _

PREAMBLE
Uniwnlty dUt:ip/IMry•proc&lt;utl t..U appropriate actioft when stlllknl COIIdw:t dir«tlytutd
signifreDIIdy inUtfens witlt the Utti~~enity'l
primary &lt;ducotitHID/ nspotUibllity of innlrin1
allm&lt;mb&lt;n afitsCOtfllrUIIIity tuopporuutity to
DIIOin tfu!ir edJicalitH14/ ob}«tives in COtUo-Mnce with the ilutitution 's lntJIIdDJe. TMse
regula/ions gowming stiUhtU behavior /tow
bun forrrulkJted to be reasoMble and realistic
for alllludents.
When a sttukfl! hD.J bun appnlunded for
the violation of a law of tlu comnuurity, tM
state, or Mtion. it is the Universlry's position

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STUDEIIT CONDUCT RULES, UIIIYUSITV ~ AIID ADMIIIJSTiATM REGUIATIOIIS

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-u.t-,....-.-....
.. u...., ..-,... UohoaloJ ...

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S. PHYSICAL~- ..

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VICTIMS' RIGHTS
wm. _ . . o r ICidfyiaa ber... • .....,..joel;.
claJ body. die followloc prillt:iplco apply:

•ne

.. _ , . o l . . , _
.. ni!SPASS/IJNAUI1IORJJ!HB.Y-A per---..,.-.or--,.lao

rial~~ ol• victim eoMve• penoo orpenoaa

olbotorbisc:llolcc_.ybotoriUmthroulboat
die dlsclplm.y bcoriq.
• Tbo rip 10 ....,.;, durinllhe .....

~olllcc,-loail_or..,._

..._.... ol the UaivcnUy • ..,. penaiooioo o r J. lliEFT-A-;. pilty ol llteft - l i e or
lllc."--ac--ll&gt;llcltiaorloor-.,....,propcrty
iwltiaorloor _ _ ,.._._or

proceediaa.

•Tboripc.uatobtislocdiaiWC&lt;riaUoolhave his "'bot Utdcnot put IIClLUOJ bisiOry
discusedtlurlacdlebcorioa.Tbo rip .. - . . "vkdOl . _ _ . .
lllldto-u_...,.;.ocpeoolry ;rdle........t
is foad ia viol.llioa ollbe code.
• Tbo riP&lt; 10 be Jaronood lmmecS;otdy or ....
......... or die heoriaa.
00110

..-..:ood.llteftoi6.RIJSHINGIPU!IlOIAC11V1'111!S-Aoocdriliol.._,._ . . . _ _ _ ...

-..

- - · - o l _ . , _ . . . , _ .... _ol
dle..mty.
HA2l.NO--Hai.ll defiMd • u tel . . . . . CD~die- or pbyalcal- or....., olo
p r i - -. for .... _ o l _ _

-_..,. .. _.......,,.
.... _,...,..... .... .................
7·

SANCTIOIIS
.. Soocboos sbolJ be .. t b c - oldie judieisl
body oodsboll be IUoltcdoftlyby die nt1a . . . -..
1be Uol\'Crliry clisciplioory bocfia. (For 0 1ill ol
spccifoc-wbichmaybeia...tcd.coasultdle
pnx:edons rorcodl spocilic Uol\'Crliry Dilcipliaory
Body. Copies oltbo pnx:edons ollbe-.. Cocomiaee for
ol Pllblic Order Md the
-WlclcJtodM:Iaoy . . ....... OIIIccol
die Dinclor ol Judicial Allain, Room ~ c.,.

the..._

lky......_.

,_DOORS·T~ololoct­

J a c - orllloc:tlq opn • door . _ 1 0
be c:loacd ood locbd.
... RUU!S-V-olpubllsbcdU.;-uypolic:ica,nalcs,or.....-.
a.LAWs-V...-otfodenl.-orloc:allaw
...uoi-uy...--. . . u . . _ , . _ . . . ..
._.;,od
llllaiJ be a vX&gt;IMioo ol Uai-odl)l l:-.lbtlcs ood ....,._.A f1ao1o1 ol a
--tbisnsledoca-noqttireprodol
.coavictioll
ia • --campus
1ep1 JII'OCDIIIIII&amp;.
•
ol.....X:w
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_
a.SUBSTANCBS-Usc.
__
o r__

lloii,North~)
L 1be j.ticial bodies

bave tbe power to ialcibile
aadlor rcc:ommead• lbe foi.Jowi.Qa ....., of MDC-

"'""'

A.W.......
L Ratibdioo.
C.c-J....
Ll..oaolpririlcp.
(I) a......! liomUol\'Crliry ....... fllciUtics.
(II)LoaolmcbpriviJcFsumoybe..,..;wilh tbe offente coaun.incd ud tbe re:MbiUtlboa of
the IIUdcal.
L DildpliDaty ~with or without tho lou
or c!Wpoocd pririJc&amp;cs ror • clcfuUic period oltimc.
Tbo vk&gt;lotloooltholenDsordlsclplm.y ~
or lbe iallactioo ol ..y UolvcnUy 1111e dooriq die
period or clisciplioory ~may be..,.... for
llllpCOiioo or cxpabloo &amp;om die Uol\'Crliry.

oc:ti.-

-~-u
bylaw.

ok:ollotit:...__.....-...-politic-.
..
........,.,.._by

thelaw...tu,.;-,.

byapplicotiooiOdleAiooholltoricw-~

Cojlcolloll,
,._IMPAIRJ!D~a-­

OJ......,..

bidc while oaclcr die;.-. ol dntp
&lt;Sec Scctioo 9 or die ~ Parmc IIOd Tralfic
A._,....
_...
_
RccuJoboos)
iadtttllai
- _
_ , ,_
, alliliry

Ua.ivemity'a judjdal bodies.
•Sflb.i«t 10 /ilflll f'n'inr of tltt Pn•idml, M ocrion
tlwu i.J ~ If nupotsiDfl or upill.lion U r«-

15- SMOKJNO.-Ptoio;biiU. all Uoi,..;cy.l l l l d - - ~ """'""-Y- - . .
docb. llldillllll ad oaadocw nata. ... ill all Yeo0011 oponlod by die u,;-uy. (Sec

a..-.

ol TnuUu ol SUNY,IIIId all
lbeJa..,oldlearyorao~ro~o. tbc r ..... ol Ambcn&lt;.
the Stoic ol Hew Yort. and 1be Uoilod sc- ol
A-nc.apply&lt;Oidle ........ lllld . . - p a n
o l d i e - - lllld ~ Tbo Stoic ol
New Yod: llws btdude. bu&amp; ~ DOtlliDillcd 10. lbe
Hew Yort 5Lolc r.ut Low, lbe Hew Yort Stoic
Vdudc oodTraf!"oc Low, die Hew Yort Sral!dtocotioo Low, lllld lbe A1cobolic ac....,. c-al Low.
AU ollbe nt1a lllld ...,.._ i o - " ' - "
Jboll b e - ................. impl6....... dle_......._oldlea-dolnu.t·
... ood dry,- ood fodcrallawa,lllld sbolJ apply
toolllo_slaco_willbeps.-to
All nt1a oldie -

bavedoae10.,...._.~r.a.u.ut~Me~C~Yet

wilbdleJiollowlaiUal-uy~A&lt;adcaUc

and ~ UaivcnUy l.ibrwy, uo~-,. .
Vcllldc. a . . - . HoUs. Uol-uty Health
IIOdSolc&lt;y,-~~oltloforma­

tioo Todttsoio&amp;Y ..-;,., o l - - . IIOd
01bcr . . . , . . _ - - . . b y Uoi\'Crliry ,.;,.Ia
parwitofdleir ........
A U - . . . . . . . - . - b e -lod--nyll&gt;llteV'ICC..._for_Airain
rorrmcw ror....-y 0 0 1 1 - - _.,.a~.

eoo.p;c- ..,...._ - - --bythe.....-isdoe...-l;ry
oldie iodiritlaal-.. ..,.,..__
"-Y o r r - orilla&amp;
... ot..,.
oldie_
...., ......
'"'-lllbovesloollbe
_
_
ror
lldjudic:alioo before die_....... aoi-uy ttiaci·
plm.ybody.

GEIIEIIAL COIIDUCT RULES AND
REGULA nONS
~- [ouod .. ba.. .....oaocl doe foUoolriq

t:-xs-:;"~:..~=-=-bul ... Wollad .. die rouow;,: .
plapori-. or odJc&lt; r....... ol oco-

c~caUc..-y.

L~folsciaror..iooiO ..yUaiwnity

otrocW. fO&lt;IIIry -orolllcc.
C.l'&lt;trpy.-or-ol•yUoi\'Crliry
--.or-ot--.
L ,._..widtllte_ot..,.uaiwnity

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a. DISaiJPI10N-Dionpll

Hall.....-.....)

16. WBAPON5-IIIoplor~-­
ol-uploal-.--or~
- ... u.u-,.........._(Sec-536.5
s.....-..lbtlcs for d i e - oll'llblic
Onlc&lt;.)

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q.DEMONS'TitATIONS-I'arlicip Ia .......
... - - - . . . d i e - .....
-oldie Uai-uy ood """"-"' .. doe ..... o(
Olbcr...-.oldleiJal...;ry_,.; - . ,
or lacitiq-. ll&gt;dianpl--.......,.

_,

oc:tiriliol'lridola..,._....,.. .. _ _

-ol... ~olllteliooflowolpo-

...
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_

.. - - .. Uai-,. praoioos

ua~-,..,._..

BLADING-I'n&gt;ltil--..............._.. ..

.,._ BICYa.JNO, SltATBMlAIIDING, ROLU!R·

__ _

A. - - I a . . , . Ual...;ry baildiol or raclliry

&amp;--ia•rwctte.or_._

C.-olbicydoa _
_,. Uai...;ryltooUd·
Jacorfacil;ry. (Scca..-.Holl,..-olJO.)
-.DISORDI!RLVCONDUCT-&lt;:-.wllic:ll is
&amp;tiaasdodJ, lewd, o r - - o l - or

d i e - • Ual...;ry , . - o r • _...by,orjiOIIicipolodlaby,llteUai-*Y.
&amp; alNPVTIIR ABUSS-1l&amp;cft o r - - ol

u.-dtoriaed
c. u.-dtoriaed-ol---··-

UDaediO:
A. - - ia&amp;:Jodlalbot
c.ery ..,...
• me.
10 .... tad.«
. . . _ d l e - o r f o r u y - . - -.
LU--olotllo.

-ood-LU..ol--.l'xililiciiO-wilbdle
_ o l _ _ _ , _ o r U a i -• oi!y OllleioL
•
•
L U . . o l _ . . fadlilicoood 1&gt;-...U IO....S
ot.ce.or.t.liw.....-.
f . U . . o t _ . . _ _ ,. _ _
---oldoeiJai-*Y---All.....-ol-1!6olllteN.V.S.Pooall.ow
~IJnoolvlac~)applyMtheUol-·

silyala.tralo.

a. INJURY TO UBRARY

PROPERlY-A per- is piiiJI ollajory 101ibraoy-- lie or
lllc -,.laj&amp;fto. clc&amp;ccl. or-..,. uy
_........,.to.ordcpomcdla.dleUoivcnUy

l...ibr-*.
...
DETEN110N_
OF
PROPERlY-A
-·pllryol
_LJBRARY
_ lilnry _
_ ...

ol

. . ~lacJoodiol Ill

- - . . . - U a i - *·Y -

todoJOis;.,poiredbyllte...,._orillcpl-ol
dn&amp;pordle_..ol.-; to:
.. opentiaa. ll'ldor Wlbide whiJe. ia- iMD.d·

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ARTICLE 3: PROSCRIBED
CONDUCT
APPLICABLE lAWS, RULES AND
REGULATIONS

a-lol.

y,.....;a.d

catioa..~to-.e...,._lle~

·LSIOObodJc&lt;IIOOCiioos
-c:o.-..;,y-umoybe-cdbythc

A.

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Q. ALCOHOL-Usc..........,.. ordilcribodoo ol

f.S . . . . . . . frvmtheUDlvenityforadefinileor
iodefiaire period ot time.
&amp;. Eapulaioa from the University.

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aioaiMo.~.,..«••~•oo.d.

L KEYSIA&lt;X:I!SSCAROIS--U--Iioo. duplk:adoe or - ol toys ,. ..,.. u.;...;ry
premila or ..-.tborizDd ~to or 111e ol Ualliver-

..... 'lriJifltlly-UaivcnUyi.JIInrioaror--tiOJI)'.,._.,. _ _

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. . lilnry.

�STUDENT CONDUCT RULES, UNIVERSITY ST
... UNIVERSli'Y OROUNDS-U• of Uoiwnily
.......-or _ _
... ._._.,IM_..or _ _

_.....s ...... .., •

... ruDICIAI. SYSTI!M--- of doe Jodicial
Sy-locludiJolbol ... u.ioodM&gt;:
A. Pailare 10oboy 1 M - ofajudjcial body
or Uoivenily olficiol.

FalJi--

misropracalatio
of L
iafoommao beflft ajodlcialorbody.
C. Dilnoplic&gt;l or
with the onktly

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c:ooduct of. jodidal.....-...
L laltihllioo of • judi&lt;iaJ pracoodioa kaowioaJY
wilho&amp;ai&lt;*IIC.
LA-"'&amp;oodiacourqeaaiodividual't.....,...
pankipalloo lo, or Ute of, doe jodlcialty110111.
r.~ooioll..... doe~tyofl
member of 1 judicial body prior 10, aod/or duriq the
......., of, tbejodidalpn&gt;ee&lt;dioa.
&amp;. -(-orpllytical)llldloriolimidaticJGofaiiiOIDbe&lt;ofajudicialbodyprioroo, durioa,
aadl« an.. ljudicW pracoodiq.
I.Fallun:oo .......ywiththeiii&gt;Ctioo(t)impooed
uncle&lt; tho Swdcol CAxle.
L Inn.....,. or lllempliq 10 iJIII""""' aoocbcr
pctiOil to COIIU!Ulu. &amp;butt of lbe ~ system.
a6. ANIMALS-AAimals are not permiltcd in any
Univenity buildina • aay time. cxt:ept l.abcnlory
anima!J or Ulimals b'ained to auilc the diubkd
(refer 10 Ruide:ftce HaJJ ndes and rep~ fat pet
infonnatioa).
.,. AMPLIFICA TION-U10 of ounplif-.udioviaual equipll'ICIII. ia aay of tbe te~UValioe flltili·
ties must receive advucc: appoval from the ReacrvationJ Off"ICC and, if JJ'Uied. a.dl DOt ialetfere with
any pubiM:, offiCe, libnry, clauroom. or otbcr University furw:tioo. Requests forreductioo iD volume by
Retctvations ICaff IDdlordcsipee must be complied
witb upoa DOtifte.noa.
... ATil!MPT-A penon is pilly of aa II1Cmpt to
violate the Studeal RuJes ud .Replatiaas. or to
commit acrime.. wbn. beocsbc. with i.ak:lll&amp;oviolale
or commh aame, eapac:s ia coaduct which leads to
effect the vioWicm of such IUideDt Nlc or rcplatioa
or tbc commiuioa of luc.b crime.

.,.coMPUCnY-Aponon;,pillyofcomplici•y
whca hcorsbc aida. bdp1 wotberwiJe UliJU aDOtber
in vio&amp;MiJtc uy nde tpplicable 10 the University.
JL ASSAULT-A pct1011 is pilry of uaault when
he or abe ia&amp;catiooaJiy slapl, kk:b:, shoves« otberwitc strites uotber penon.
J:L HARASSMENT-A penon is guilty of baruJmeat when be or &amp;be iaaeationally.
'- tbradleal or intimidMcs a penon crutina a
ratioaaJ fear within dw petll()ft; or
L CDJIPI in a coune of c:oaduct or repeatedly
commiU lids clitecled at uothcr penon whM:::b would
acriously enoy a Rtional pencm; or
Ca crea~e~a CODditioa wbic.b eodaaaen or thre.alenslbe heallb. Afety or welfare of~ penon
D. pllytically I'OIInins or detain~ '"Y olhcr penon.
or moova aay pcnoa from any place Where he or
she it IUiboriz.cd to remain

p.STALJCINO-.Repe:l&amp;eoen:iveacuoroffenses
wtUcb w.n·tiqly may be ooo--..w.a. bul col~velyiDStillafcwofphyaicallQjuryorbum. Sucb

a peac:m may involve, but it. MM limited 10, the
followiD&amp;: ~ c:alb, pllyticalllld/or VC1IJII con-

froowioot.lxoakinJIIIdenlain&amp;(can, ..,.......u,
loctc:n, etc.), vaadal.iziaa, thepurpoKofwhicb is 10
attcmp110 ruaipu.lue or control uotbe:r penoo.
Do AllSON-A pamn is liable if, by uy 8Ct. be or
lhc commits anoa by ca..W.a• fire or ea:plosioo oo
aoy UDivenity buildiD&amp; o r -·
M- CONVERSION-A prnoo is pilly of conversioa whee he Of the. after baviaa t.wfully obtained
poaetlioa of the of aoocbcr, wroo&amp;fully
UIOII'en, dolaiot. -..lillly chanJet, damqet.
deltroyl, or milutca the property wilboul the permission of the owner.
. . MlSREPRESENTATION-Apenonisauiltyof
mistcpraentalio when he or she iDtentiou!ly perYatllbe tUb for penoaal pia or favor.
JL POSSESSION-I'oucuio&amp; I&lt;Down by
poueuoc to be IIOieo for hil or her own u.se, benefit
or pleasure, or to impede tbt recovery by the owner.
• · DESTRUCTION OP PROPERTY-A penon;,
JUilry of descructioa of property wben he or she
intenlioully:
A. destroys. defaces, materially alten orocherwise
damaacl property DOC his or her own; or
L erea1t1 a CODdifioa which c:odanaers or lhrealens property DOt his or her OWD.
JL PALSE REPORTING-A peB011 is pilty or
fallc:ly reportiq u iocideDt wben be or the conveys
iafonnadoo taowD to be false or bueless lo uy
UDivonity official.
, . PIRB-Fire alarms and fire fiahtin&amp; equipment,
inc:ludina but DOt limited to rue extinp.i.aben, fire
hoses, heat and amokc: detectora. ud aprintlcr systems, arc for tbt pC'O(CCtion of buildin&amp; occupants.
Any tampe:rina with or milule of thiJ equipment is
prohibilcd ud ~be puaishabk io the Univenily
co.n and ia the appt'OpiUie C ivil UJJior CrimiAal
CowlS. Any lime a fue.....,.;, l&lt;livored. all poop!&lt;
are rcquircd to foUow tbc: evacuabola proccdares for
lbell paruaolw buiJdio&amp;. Ocaoponb IIIUit comply
with tbe rcquc:su of Housin&amp; llatf, hbtic Safety
personnel , or cmersenc:y penormel. Any violatioas
will be refc:ned to tbe appropriarc wUvcnity and/or
civiljudicllr)'.
_., REASONABLE REQUEST OP A UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL-A penon is ,Why of failure to
comply whcll he or lhe. bow in&amp; or hiiYiq rason to
toow that the rcquestiaa penon is a Uaivenlry official, fails to comply with • rcuonable ~ For
tbc purpose of this sectioo. a Uaiva'lityofticial JbaU
locludc. but DOt be limited to. an individual iD~tNCt­
in&amp; a cl.au. a libnrian or desipee ill a library. a
Public ~ Oft'"M:er, and any Resident Advisor,
Rcliclace Hall Director oc student employee. and
members of lhe University Slaff canyina out their
dutiet and responsibilities.

_.. OAM.BUNG-No lhldent aball p.mble for
moaey cw ocbcr valubles oa Uaivenily property or
iD aoy Uoi..Uty facility .
... MISUSE OP UNIVERSITY SUPPUES OR·
DCK:l1MENTS-A pcnoD il cWJty of misuse of
Univenily ouppliolllld cloc:uaau wboo be or the
fcxps.. allen. u.te1 wilbout authoricy. receives withQUI IUibority. or poiiCSICI without IUdaity any
Uaivenity IUppi.ia or docu.mc:DtJ_ (Uaivenity aup-

p l j e l l l l d - iocludo. .... - ... limiled 10,
the followiD&amp;: tuppliel, ....._ . . keys. rccordt.
mea. documcau. all forms of computer data, and
olhcrnweriall.)
U. PALSIFYINO UNIVERSITY APPUCA TION
CR.ED£J&gt;.rn.ALStudcDtl found 10 have deliberaaely falsified llpplicllioa iaformalioa arc tubjcct to
immediale dWDiuaJ from tho UDivenity.
... PALSIFYINO GRADE CHAN&lt;lES-ID ldditioa to uy ...actioas which may be il!lp(*d by an
academic deaD, olhcr peulliet may be weued u 1
TUUh of a SWdeni· Wtde Jud.iciary bearina or plea

..........

• ALTERING A STIJDEHTS REOISTIIATION
OR snJDENT DATA-Aay ltudcar who, for pur-

poael of fnud or milrepreacolalioo. faWfoct, rora...
defKCS, aken. or~ in any maanc:r any official Uaivenity doc:iuacnl: Of rcprexatatioa thereof.

ARTICLE 4: STUDENT
ORGANIZATIONS
s. RECOONmON AND REGISTRATION OF
S1VDENT OROANIZATIONS
Students intetesud io establlsbia&amp; an OfJaniulion
oa c:ampu1 abould initially ioquireabout rec:oanition

lbtou&amp;h .. """""'""'IIUdem aovemmem. Applieatioa forms and the: aileria for recoptitioo are
avaiJable ar JIUdeal JOvcnuDCDI offices. Student orpalzatiODS DOl affilialed with 1D appropriate ltudent
JOvcnuDCDI 1111y ,..itlnlioa lbtouah the
Off".c:e of Student Ufe. JleJ,istntioa wiU be panlt:d to
orpDiutioosaflil.i.uedwitb tbcUDivcnity andqrceiD&amp;IO abide by c:amputruiet, ropialioo.s. 11118danls,
llld polieiel. flo&lt; ,....-11 iafomlllioa aboul lludenl
orpDiutioos llld the .....,Uiionlre&amp;itlnlioo proCCSI, coatact the Office of Studeat Ufe, I~ Student
Ua.ioo. For information on the ~lion proceas
fortoeial fratc:mal orpnizal:k:IN, c:oatact lbe Uaiversity Uaisoo for Gtccb, I~ Student Union. Rcx:OJ·
nition and rqisrntioD policies ud procedures will
be developed llld implemealcd by the Offocc of

SwdcolUfc.

a. CONDmONS fOR REQISTIIA TION OF ALL
S11JDEHT OROANIZATIONS
A. When fUDC'tioning oa campus, all reaistered
swdent cqaniwioM will be held resporuible by the
Uaivenlty for abidina by fcdenl. aute, and loal
laws. u well u all Univenily replations. 1be Univenity will ncK become involved in the off-campus
conduct of reaiSlel'ed studeat otpniutions excepl
wbeo web conduct it determined to have asubsi&amp;Otially .tvene effect 011 the Univenity or upoo indi·
vidual memben of the Univenity communi1y.
L No orpni.zalion with restrictive membenhip
ci&amp;UICS discriminatiD&amp; on the buis of race, rcliJion,
sex (ea:cept u cxempccd by FedenJ Reaulations),
physical handicap. qe, or creed shall obtain or-main·
tain uruvenity reJistration . However, special con·
aideration will be Jiven 10 the mcrils of aroups
founded for the purpoiCI of reliJious pnctice.
Ca Only currcnUy reaistcred IIUdenll shall be cliJible for active membc:nhip suaus in s:tudenl organiutioas. Good Ac.:lemk: StaDdina is rcquim:t for the
rollowina:
• to be a candidate for elected offttt
• to serve in an appointed office
• 10 serve throuJhout one's eJected or appoiDICd term
Rcc::Qiniz.cdlreaislered stiMient organiu1ions and
aovemmenu may establilh additional requirements
for ofrtee or memben.hip.
0. Tbe purpose or purposes of a s.tudent orxaniutiOI'l mu.s:t 001 conOict with the educalional functions
or established policies of the University. II is incumbent upoa any penon presentina objections to the
application for reaisttation or continuance of an ora&amp;Dizalion 10 demonstnte bow and in wha1 manner
the reailtnlt.ion or continuance of thai organization
would conflict with the: educalional functions or
es&amp;ablishcd policies or the Univenity.
L Swdcolorpniwioos will1101 begnnled recognition or rqisuation status iftbe reeoplitionlrcgistratioo unit ddcnni.aes 1M: iu propoted purposes or
l\mclioal duplicale- of .. cxistina IIUdcniO!pSIUdcol cxpnizaliool will1101 be pcnnin&lt;d
10 retain recopitionlregislrati IWUI if they do 001
fuJrlll tbcir liMed purpoRI aDd/or ruDCtions or Viol are
catnptU

rules. replatioos, standards. and policies.

f . Reailtc:rcd uudent oraaniutioos may not en·

a•ae in tw:ina acti.vit.iel. Huina is defined as any

action or situation that rcc.tle:uly or intentionally
cndanren the meatal or pbysical health or safety or
a student or that willfully destroys or removes public
or private property for the purpose of initiation or
.dmiu.ion into or affilialioo with. or as a condition
for continued membership in. any regisacred lludent
organization. Hazina iDcludea, but is noc limited to ,
uy bnltality of a phys.ical nature, such u whipping.
bearina. brandina. forced cali.Jtbenics. exposure 1o
the elc:menlJ, forced consumption of any food. liquor. ctrua. or other subsllnCC, or any other forced
physical activity thai could .dversely affect the physical health and aafety of the iDdividua.l, and ~hall
include any activity thai would nbjcct tbc: individual
to extreme mental stress, such u sleep deprivalion,
fon:cd exclusion from social eoDlact, fora:d conduct
that could rcsvlt in extreme cmbarrusmcnl. or an y
otbcr fora:d accivity that ooukl adversely affect ~
meatal bealth or dignity of the hxliYidual, or any
willful deluvction or removal or public or private
property. Any activity u described in Utis deftnition
upon which 1he initiation or .tmiuion inlo or affili ·

YORK AT BUFFALO
DS AND ADloiiNISTRATIV£ REGUlATIONS
atioa with or continued mcmbenhip in • reaistcred
11udeoc orpaization is d.irectly or indiRCtly conditioned Jhall be presumed lObe "forced" IICtivity, the
williopeu of u iadividual 10 pattieipale ia such
ICtivity DOIWithstutdiDJ. Any rcgWcrcd lludent orpaiution thai c::ommits baz.inJ is subjcclto discipliliii}'Ktioa.
J. RELATION DP 111E UNIVERSITY TO snJ DENT OROANIZATIONS
R~ of lllUdenl Olpniulions shall 1101 be
construed u ~~. support. or approval by the
Uni vc:nity. but only u rccoanilion of the riJ.hll or the
orpo.izabon 10 cllillaa the UDivenity,subjectto the
conditions enumc:nled herein.
.. RJQIITS OF S11JDENT QROANIZA TIONS
A. Rcaistc:md atudenl orpn.iza~.ions may use the
name of 1be University in their orr~c:ial titles 10
indicalc location. 001 endonc:ment (~ Article 6 •
Scclioa VUI).
L ReJiscered lludcat oraaniwions may use Univc:nity facilities subject 10 the duly established written ruJc:s aovemina such use.
Ca ReaiJIC"red atudent organiz.ations may petition
ror the use or mandatory Sludent activity fees subject
10 University replalioru, student ocganiulion reau lat.ions and student aovenuncot manuals.

ARTICLE 5: UNIVERSITY
STANDARDS
s. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
A. ACADEMIC FREEDOM-The Univcrsily

supports 1he principle of lademic: freedom u •
concept intrinsic 10 the adtievemcnl or ill institu-

tional Joals. 11tis principle implies 1 trull in tbc
inteJrity ud rcsponsibilily of lhc: mc:mben of the
academic community. Samuel P. Capen. former Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, who is ~mem­
bered for the b'lditioa of acsdrmic freedom be imple·
menled durin&amp; hisleadenhip of the University, said
in 1935:
..Acttptance by 1D instiN tiOO of the principles of
academic fnlcdom implies tbatleac:hers in that institulion are fTCC 10 investiptc: any subjecl, no maner
how much it may be hedged aboul by taboos; lhat
they are free 10 make known the resullJ of lhc:ir
inves:Uaation and their reflection by word Of mouth or
in writina. before theireluses orelsewhen=:; 1ha1 they
are free as ciUzensto take ~ in any public con~
versy ou11tde the institution: that no repreuive mel·
sures, direct or indirect. wiU be applied to them oo
maner how unpopular they may become through
opposing powerful interesll or jostlinJ es1ablished
prejudices. and DO matter how mistaken they may
appear to be in the eyes or members and friends of the
instirution; thai their continuance in office will be in
aJ) instances JOVemed by the ptevaiting rules of
renure and that their ac.demic advancement will be
dependent on their scientifte competence and will be
in no way affeclcd by lhc: popularily or unpopularity
or lbeir opinions or utterances; lhat students in lhe
institution are free. insofar as the requirements of the
sevenl curricula permit, to inqum into any subject
th.al interests them. to organize discussion aroups or
study clubs for the consideration of any subject. and
10 invite lO address them any speaker they may
choose; thai censorship or student publications shall
be based on precisely the same arounds and sha.ll
extend no further than thai exercised by the United
States Poslal Authorities."
L NONDISCRJMINATION-Tbe University at
Buffalo is comnUnc.d to fostcrinaa posi1ive environmen! for Jeantina. and to ensurinJ the safety, ri&amp;hts.
and dianity of every member of lhc: Univrnity communily. To th.at end the University encour~a:es each
and every member of the aadcmic community to
assume individual responsibility for respecting the
ri&amp;hts and di&amp;nily of others and for hclpin&amp; to promote the free: and open exchange of ideas in an
atmosphere or mulual respect.
Cenain types of discrimination art prohibiled by
law. For example, discrimination on the basis of race
is up~uly prohibiled by both feder1l and state
constitutions and by a wide ranae or redcnl and state
statutes. Other swc and federal laws prohibil pat·
1icular forms of discriminllion based on such factors
as su, reliaio n, national oriain. aae. disability, mari111 Slat us. or veteran status. Funhermore, Governor's
Executive Order No. 21.1 prohibill discrimination
on the basis or sexual orientation in employmc.nl and
provision of servkt:s by Slate aa:encies. Students
should be aware lhal anyone who violales laws prohibilin&amp; specific fonns or discriminalion may lead 10
criminal prosecution or civil penalties.
The State University Trustees have adopted 1
policy (Trustee's Resolution 83-216) which dirtt:ts
thatjiMfamenlJ about and actions toward studenls and
employces within lhe SUNY system be based on
their qualificatiOns, abilities and perfonnance.
Trustee's policy goes on to say that aniludes, practices, and preferences or individuals that are ess.cnlially personal in nature. such as privaleexpression or
SeJ.ual orientatioo, are u.nrelated 10 performance and
provide no basis ror judamenl
Finally, it is the policy of the Univenity at Buffalo
10 prohibil invidious caleJOrical discrimination based
on such characteristics u race, set., sexual orientalion. &amp;Jt:. national oriJin. religion, veteran or marital
status or disability in all matters affectina employmen! or educational opportunities within the University itself. II is lhe linn belief of lhe Council. the
faculty, and the administnJion that judgments about
penons wilhin the Uni¥enity should bl; based on
their individual merits. accomplishments, aptitudes,
and behavior, and that invidious caleJorical discrimination is wbolly inappropriate 10 the University's
mission and values. StudeDll who violate this polky
shall be subjcc::t to sanctions within the University. up
to and includinJ expulsion. Any violation of the: rules
which is motivated by bias may be prosecuted and/or
sanctioned u 1 more seriOus o ffense .

n.e

Complainll reJardiDJ any violations of fiODdiscriminatkJa t.ws or policies lbouJd be made to the:
Aff"U1Ntive Action OfT.ce. Room SJ7 Capen H.all.
64S-2266.
C. PETITIONS, INDIVIDU~vcry studcnl
has the riJ.ht to petitioa or diuc:m:itWe information oo
campus. In tbc resWicnc:c h&amp;lls, tbote in&amp;eadio&amp; to
circulate petitions mull idmtify lhemselves 10 the
appropriate Buiklin&amp; Oircc1or before any individual
or poop petition is circulaled. (Note : The intcn.l of
lhis rule is10 respec1 the privacy of the residenla. and
is noc intended 10 deny the individual's ri&amp;ht to
petition.)
a. STATEMENT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT
AND ABUSE
The Univcnity at Buffalo will noc tokrate se1ual
assault or abuse.
Sexual Assault: any IClual or altc:mpced aoo-con·
sensual sexual Ktivity includina. but 001 limited 10.
forcible anal or oral sea. anempted intc:rcow'IC, sexual
touehing, by a penon(s) known or unknown 10 thc:
victim.
Rape: l1lc perpeu.tion or an act of sexLW mter·
course wilh a penon aaainst their will and consen1.
whelhcr their will is overcome by ron:e or fear
rcsuiUnJ from lhe threat off~ . or by dru&amp;s administered without consenl, or when lbc person is unconscious or otherwise physically unable 10 communicalC willinpu.
Reporting Options: locicknts of seaual usaull
may be reported 10 Department or Public Safecy .
municipal police. residence ball offtciab. or Student
Heallh Center by a victim or proxy . Immediate reportin&amp; is recommended. A disciplinary complaint
may also be filed with the Sludc:nt-Wide Judiciary for
action against the aJsailant iflhey arc a student. This
may be done in conjunction with or instead of criminal prosecu1ion.
Another sourtt or assistance, advice, or tnlerven·
tion is the staff in the Equal Opportunity/Affumativc
Action Offtee, S 17 Capen Hall: 64!5-2266. You may
speak coalidenlially lo the Affirmative Action Of.
licer ot: the: Associate Director.
J. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
The devc:lopmeru of intelliaencc and strenJlhenina of
moral responsibility are twooftbe mos1 important airru
of cducalion. PundomcnlaJ ID the """""P'ishmcnl of
lhesc: purposes is tbe duty of lhe srudenl10 perform all
of his or hcl' n&gt;quind wort withOIII illepl help.
A.. The followin&amp; actions constinuc major forms.
but not uclusively all fonns.of aademic dishooesly
among students: (a) wbmissioo: submittinJ academically required material thai has beeD previously submitted in whole or in subswuial pan in another
course. wilhout prior and expressed COMenl of the
insiNCtor: (b) plaaiarism: copying or receivina rna·
terial from a source or sources and subminina this
material u one's own without KknowledainJihc:
pan:icuJar debts 10 the source (quotations, ,.,-.phrues.
ba!llic ideas), or otherwise representina the work of
another as one's owa; (c) c.healina: receivina infor·
mation. or solicitinc information. from another studen! or other unauthorized source, or aivin&amp; information to another student. wjtb the: jo!Cot tp dcqjye
while compklina an eaamination or individual assignment ; (d) falsification or academic materials:
rabricatina: laboratory materials. notes. reports. or
any forms of computer dala: foraina an insuuclor' s
name or initials; ~submiuing an examination or
assignment for reevaluation which hu been altered
withoul the instructor's authorization: or submiuina
1 report. paper. materials. computer data. or cuminalion (or any considerable F&amp;J1 thereof) ptepared by
any penon other than the student responsible for the
assignment; (c) procuremenl, dislribution or acceptance of examinations. laboralory results. or confidential academic materials without prior and ex pressed consent of the instruclor.
All alleged cllJC:I olK.dcmic dishonesay are adjudicated in ac:oonlance wilh the Disciplinary Proce·
dures for Academic lnfBCtions. whtch are administered by the Vice Provosu :or Undergr-'uaae and
Graduate EducaJ:ion. lbc policy u prinlc:d in the Undergraduuc: Cala)OJ and the Graduate School Policies
and Procedura or coptes of the procedure are available from lhe Ofrtcc of the VK:e Presidenl fOf' SIUdent
Affairs, Room S42 Capen Hall. North Campus.
I. Unlawful Salt of DiDertadoos, Thesa and

Trrm Papen
No penon shall. for financial cons1ders1ion, or the
promise of financial considcralion, prepare. orrcr to
~pare . cause to be prepared. sell or offer for sale to
any penon any written material which the ~t:ller
knows. i1 informed or has reason to believe i1 tn·
aended for submission as a dissertation. thesis. tenn
paper. essay , rcpon or other wrillen assignment by a
student in a university. college, academy. school or
other educational inslilution to such institution or to
' cour1e, seminar or de&amp;ree program held by such
instilution.
No person shall sell or offer roc sale to any person
enrolled in the Slate Univcn.ity or New York at
Buffalo any comptuer assignment. or any asststa.nce
in the preparalion, research. or writina of a computer
assianmenl intended roc submission in fulfillment or
any academic requirement
._SEXUAL HARASSM ENT
Sexual harassment of employees and sludents. b
defined below, Is contnry to UnivtrSily policy and ts
a violation of federal and stale laws and regulations
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for snual
favon, and other verbal or physical conducl of a
sexual nature consrirute sexual harassment when: ( I )
submissionlo such conduct is made either upliculy
or implicitly a 1enn or condition of an individual" s
employmcnr or Kademk: advancement: (2) submas·
sion to. or ~jection of, such c:ondUC1 by an individual
is used as the basis for employment or ac:adcm1c
decisions affectina:sucb individual; (3) such conduct
hu the purpose or effect ofunreuon.ably an1erfenng
wilh an individual's work or lCIIdcmic performance,

�STATE UNIVEaSITY

~YORK AT BUffALO

STUDEIIT CONDUCT lut.£5, UNIVDSITY . . , D S AIID ADMINISTIATIYE l£6ULAllOIIS
or cratiaa u
eavi.roame:a.

i.alimidlliJta. bollile.

or otl'calive

NoUDiYalily.......,..afeida,..ollall'a..,._afoeiUIOicoopenlioo aaacoodidooaf
employmtal or IQdeaUc ~ or b:a uy
way coatribule ao or IUppOI'tuawek:ome pbyaical or
vettMJ IC.UI&amp;I bdt.arior.
Ally mombor af lho UDivenily .........uty wbo
~u.ires lddilioaal illfonnMioo, wUha 10 cub •
complainl, or 10 receive a copy o( tbc Ua.ivcnity
pnx:oclwa 10 be followed for comp1aU11s ariliDI
from mattcn related to the policies outlined above
should CORUIC1 the AffimWive Al:lioa Office, Room
S 17 Capen Hall.
.S. DRUGS AND NARCOTICS
Poaeuion wilboul pracriptioo of any IWCOCic, t.rbiwraoe. cSa.,...uus dNa. or of moot ao-callcd "pep
piUs'" and "1ruqu.iUr.cn'" isCODtnry 10 fc:den.l aadlor
state law, Any JWdcnt found 10 be ill ilqal posses-.
sloo of drup must be reponed to the appropriate civil
authorities and may abo be subject to dilcipliaary
action by tbe Ullivcnhy.
6. SMOKING AND FOOD snJPI'
Smokin&amp; is ~bi&amp;r::d ia GIJ Ua.ivenity facilities
• . _ u polled. The ........... a( beYetqeaiiOd
food IIUfJ is probibiced in all WCU 10 deaipaacd by
the c:oru:picuou.l postin&amp; of appropriate sips. These
areu include, but are not limiled to all clautooms,
lecture halls, labol:atories, haJIWI)'I, the JCatbarine
Cornell 1bcater and all Ua.ivcnity Ubnrics. All
lrUb and &amp;ubo&amp;&lt; should be dispooed of properly.

7· souerrAnoN
A. SoHcitatioo ill tbe buildiDp, iac:had.ia&amp; re&amp;ideacc
halls. or oa the lf'OW'ds is strictly prohibiscd.. No
occupant iJ to use his or her room, or permit bil or ber
room to be used, for any COIIUDtCt:ial purpoee whatsoever. Any aod all door-to-door toUcitatioa is reprdcd 11 an llllJlCCCUaiY i.nvuion OD tbe privacy of
the residents or occupuu, and is therc:fote probibiled. Thit ralrictioa applies 10 both c:oa:uncrcial and
non-commerei.al tolicitatioo ud 10 dillributioa or
wrictt:n materials u well u penooa1 CODiaCL
B. ..No autborizatioa wiU be &amp;iven 10 privale
conunercial en~1e110 opc:n&amp;e oa SUie Ua.ivcrsitycampuscsoriDfaciliticafumiJhcdbytbeUrlivcrsity, or in any Rcaidc:nce Hall, other lb&amp;a to provide

for f - lepbeYetqea, campus IJoo!&lt;storo. veodin&amp;. lineo supply, laundry, dry ......... bootia,,
barber aad beautician terVic:es aad c:u.ltun.l eveau.
This raolutioa .U.U 1101. be dcaDcd 10 IJIPIY 10
Au.xiliary Service Corporation activities lppi'O¥'Cd
by tbe U~ty ... (&amp;.ltd of Tnutces Resolwioo)

L POSTING POLICIES
Desi&amp;~ bullcWI boanla ia Nonoa, Capea, Talbert

and Suadeal Ua.ioa we r"CIC1'ided 10 campus activities
and/or Unive:nity at Buffalo related fuadioes.. AtJy
noc.-for-profit orpl\iulio8 oaa:idc. the Ua.ivcnity
must have appvvaf befcn poltiaJ. CoauuerciiJ (for
profit) promotiooal ma&amp;cri&amp;J' are DOt allowed and
will be removed aad d.iK:ardcd.
• Campus lf'OUPI may poSt oet posu:r or notice
per evCDC. per bu.lld.in board aru. Tbe si..: bulletin
board arcas m:: Norton Cafeleria, T.cket Off-.cc.
Capen Lower- Lobby, Capen elevators (Jround. flBI
and aecood)
•Po~~enorflyenmaynocucccd 11 incbcs x 17
inches.
• Use mukina tape only.
•PoslcnorOycnareratriaedtobu.lletinboards.
(No painted swfaces.alau. piiLan. COUDIC:tl or walls.)
• A yen. or poaen in another lanJU&amp;&amp;e must have
an En&amp;li&amp;h tnns1ation.
• A yen or notices m~ carry the name or Joao of
lhc: University or University re1atc:d sponsoring orzanization (J:ovanmcnt, department, offtce, i.aeocy.
etc.)
•Groups may noc remove or cover current noc.ic:es
or posters of Olher campus JI'OUPI out of cowtcly and
respoc1 for others.
• Bulletin boards will be checked and cleared of
inappropriate material throu&amp;boul the week. Boards
'fill be stripped of all posiOd onaleria1s lale Friday
niaht
• SaJes, rentals, employment and services announcements will be restricted to desi.paled CLASSIRED .,....,. boanls kx:aiOd loft of lho Capen
Lobby Sales Cowwcr, Capen eSevalon. aad Norton
Cafeteria. Anoou.ncemenll may DOt C.l:cced s• X 8".
Forms available at Capen Information.
Requel&amp; for JpOCi.al coasidentioo for excepe.ional
situat.iORI and/or unique malerial can be directed lO
lbe Divis~ of Studeal AfJain Off'tet of Student
Ufe.. 150 Student Un.ion from 8:30a.m. to S:OO p.m.
weekdays.
f. RULES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

(PARTS3S)
SIGI' Ut~iwnityofNew Yort

-sn.t_of_

Thefol·
iowia&amp; ndcs m: Mtoptcd in compliance witb aoctioo
64SOoflho Educ:alion Law and aha! I be flied wilh lho
Commiuiooer of Education aad lbc: &amp;o.rd of Rcpu oo or before Jwy 20, 1969, u required by thai
scctioa. Said rules ahall be subject to amendment or
n:vision aad any amendplcnts or revisioas lbemof
shall be fikd wi1h the Commiu.iooer of Education
and Board ofRqenta withia 10 days after adoplioo.
Nothiq herein is iatended, DOf shall it be COftJINC:d,
to limit or restrict the freedom of spccc.h or ~I
assembly. Free inquiry and freeexpreuioa are indispensabte ID tbe objectives of a hiaber cducal:ional
institution. Similarly, expc:rie.oc:c bu dcmoaJiraled
thallhe lnldit.ioul autonomyofthccduc:ational institution (and tbc accompanyiaa inltilutioftal responsibility for the maia.tcrwM::e of order) is belt auited to
achieYe these objectives. Tbtle rukl shall not be
COGJtJ"Ucd 10 preveat or limit communication betwcea aDd amoaa fiCUhy. INdeDts ud admirlistl'tiLion, or 10 reUeve the iutitutioo of iu special responsibilily for ~elf-~tplaltioa ln lhe pre8CIYalioa of pu~
lie order. Tbcir purpQIC is not 10 preveal or rcatrain
COOII'OVUI)' ud disleal but 10 prr:ven1 abu.le of the

npu a ( - .

lllld 10 ......... lUI publi&lt; .....

.....-,toac:ollqeor..avalityallll* widolt

-IMnc:oobooo--aodlhoy
ollall b o - . . - aod applied IOIUIUU
'l'boaO Nla ahall
OI'PIYIOall----aflhoSialo
UDivenily ....... • proridod Ia hn SSO • appli·
c:ailloiOIMSialoUDivenily-CDilep:.Tbeoe
Nlea-ybe---byadditioaalndeaforlho
mai-....ofpubli&lt;...,._orbcralle&lt;
adopiOd for uy iadiridual i . . U - approved and
adopled by lho Sial&lt; Ulli¥alily . . . - and filed
witb lho CoauDiuioaer a ( - _ . a-.1 of

..,.._of-

Re--.. .

ooly 10 lho ..-

eivil---

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a( dae
i a - 7S a(
CiviiSenloo Law, ... piltyaf~ .....
(Jtlfltoiaa _ _ _ _ _ _ _
aubjoctiOGe--..--lo--

ia-(d)aod(e)aftltia-.bo.-joc:l
..,..ao. widtollt pq ar~

10 dila..a,

5]5.6-

(1) Tlto eblef - v e ollice&lt; or bit tlesia·
IIOeollalliafonoiiiiY._"'iDYiooewlao.U
violaoe uy ....,._ a f - nolea (orollho rala
afaayiadi.-Jlaatilolioo__..,orlmploIDC:II&amp;ioa .-.e ndea) IbM WI lic:cMe ar iavilaDoa il
widMbwaudaballdircctbiiDIIOkiaWilbeCMiil*or

..... - - Thenolesbrftby

oflho
-·
lolhoa( Ilia
bit
fail.ae or
n;tuu110
doao -=b
otf'ICCI"
JbaU CIUIIe
ejoctioofromaucb-orpropeny.

penoas.. whctbtr or DOl tbeir pracace il aulborized.
upon lbe campus or uy ialibltioa to which JUCb'

·--fltcullyototbuotalfaanber,daeebief
ollice&lt; or bit-,... ollall iaform
him lbal be is DO( aalbarized to Rllllllill oo lilec:Mipll
orotbupropeny.aflho-aoddindbiaiiO
leave IUCb premiacs. Ia lhe ~ of bia faillft or
refual ID do ao ..:h ollicer ollall_.,... bit ejeclioo
- - . . _ .. propeny. Notbiqiatbia-visioa lbaU be c:GIIIINcd 10 aulborize die preeeace of
U)' such pe:nae It aay time IWior 110 IUCb violatioD
IOlCIOall'cctbitliobililyiO.,._;o.for-or
loderioc•.,.-ialhoPeoall.aw.
(c)lalho.,..afa-ebqeaforviolatioaof
..y a f - noles (or of lho nolea af uy iadiridual
instihdioo attpplemenliaa or iatplemealiaa noles) ollall be (ftlelllcd .... ollall be ....... """
derenniaed Ia lho - - beremaftor proridod in
-ioa S35.9 af dlia Part.
(~ lo lho cue ol a focally mombor baviq a

...~ea ...... -

adopiOd aball ao..... ~~~o_ar........._ faculty
aodotbuotatr,la-.,ia-aodallotbu

noles are applicoblo a n d - - or widt . _ . , .
any ocbcr pm:nilea or property, 111Mk1rlhe c:oatro1 of
auch iastitutioD, UICd iD ill fleiiC:Iaial. racarch, admini..lcniQve, let'Vice. am.r.l, ftiC:ftlalioul, albJetic

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"
&lt;Va',IUiduqeaapiaatuy-forriolaQoaof
" " - - """activiliea; proridod. - . - rulel ......
premiaeaaf..,.- iaodtoolioo
otber tya the one 11 wbicb be is in afteDdaDce shall
be belrd and ddcrmiacd allbe iuticutioa in which he
is earoOcd • alb.tdea.
Ds.J ,........ CIIIIIIIKL No pc:noo, eilhcr
si.a&amp;Jy or iD CODOCrt with ocben., lhalJ :
(o) willfully . . _ pbyslcal iajury 10 •Y OChe&lt;
penon, aor tbrealea 10 do 10 for lbe purpote of
compelliDI or iaduciac ..:h otbu pencoo oo rdraia
from uy aet wbidl be bel allwt.l fiPt to door&amp;odo
any act wbicb be bu a lawful ript aot 10 do;
!') pbysX:ally....,.;, orclocaia uy otbu penoo.
oor remove JUCb penoa from uy place where be il
IUiborizcd 10 rema.la;
(c) willfully damap: or -..y propeny of lho
iDititutioa or wader iu jurisd.iction. DOr remoYe or usc
wcbpropenywilhouiMitborizalioa;
(~ w i - penniMioo. exprosaed or implied.
en&amp;er i.Dio any private otrltCC: of aa tdmiailtntive
offoccr, oneml&gt;e&lt;aflho foaky or otatr...........,
(o).-upooiiOd n:maioiD•ybuiJdiDaotfocilily
for -r parpoee ocher 1b-. ill ~ . a or in
sucbma~CrUIOobeuc:t ilsllllhorized uebyodtcn;
(f) without autboriza1ioa. n:maio Ia uy buildin&amp;
or facility after it iJ aOrmally doecd;
(I) refurc ID lea"' uy bulldiq or focilily an..
beiq requited to do 10 by u aulhorizcd adminillraliveofficer;
( I I ) - lho free .......... of penoos"""
vehlclea in MY place 0&gt; wbic:b noles apply;
(f)deli-ly&lt;tilnlptor...-lhopea&lt;efuiiiOd
orderty conduct of clauc:a. kct.ra ud mcetiDp or
delibenlelyinlerferewitbtbe-afuy......,..
10 c.qnu hiJ vicwa. iDdudiq iariled apcaten:;
Ol toowiaaly ba"' in bit pc&gt;llellloa upoa any
........... wbieb- noles apply, aoy rifle, ......
JWl. piaoJ, revolver, or other firearm or weapxa
wi1houl tbe written authorization of lbc chief adminisln&amp;ive offtcer. wbCtbcr or DOC a liceue 10 poueu
the same bu breeD iaucd to sacb pc:noa;
N willN.lly inci.teOiben 10c:ommi1 any oftbe acts
buein prohibited with specific Uucattoprocure lbcm
to do so; or
take any .aion. crutc. or puticipUc in lbc
aeation of, any aiiUatioa wbicb rcckklaly or inlentionallyendanaenmco&amp;alorpbyaicalbealtborwhich
involves the fon:cd coaswnption of liquor or drua•
for tbe put'liotc of initialioa into or affiliation with
any Olpll.il.alioo. .

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(I) No ltUdenl, f.acWiy or otbu Jlafl' member or
autborizcd visitor ahall be subject 10 any limitation or
penalty lOki)' for tbe expressioa ol his views nor for
bavina auc:mbled with othen (or such purpose. Ptacc-

ful pid&lt;e&lt;in&amp; and otbu orderly in
public ...... of .,.....s""" buiJdin&amp; ... , ... be iotafend with. nw.c involved in pickctiDc and demonltrations may not, however, earpaein specifiC conduct
in violalioo oflho provUiooa aflho .......... oec:tion.
(')In...,.,. afford .,..;...,.putcctioa tolho
participulb and to the iDJtitutiooaJ community, each
Sta1c-opc:nlcd iDitiiUtion of lhe Star£ Ua.ivcrs.ity
ahall promptly adopt""" promulpte.and lhereafte&lt;
coolinue in effect u reviled from lime 10 time,
proccc:1ure1 appropriate to sucb illltitulion for the
pvi.aa of reuoaable advuce DOiict to IUCb iDititurioo or any pliBDCd aucmbly. pickdiq or dcmonuratioa upon lbe pouada of sucb iutiiUtion. its
propoaed · locale and iatcadcd purpooe; provided.
however, that the &amp;ivina of suc:b aotice aball DOl be
made a coaditioo pnx:cdent ID . .y """" uaembly,
piel:din&amp; or demonstntiooJ and provided. fwtbcr,
that lh.iJ provi.Jioo sba.ll nor.lupenede Dot preclude
tbe procedures in elfCCI ataucb i.nstitution for obtainin&amp; penn.iu.ion to ux the facilities tbe:ftof.

~)lndaecueafaoy--.wboitoeilbe&lt;

admiai--..

"""""""""'...,._._-..,.or.....,.
duct in
a r - ndea (or aflho nolea af aay
violalioo

i
n d i . - J _ . . ._
. . , ._
_ ._
. .. ........,.
in&amp;-ndea)aballbe
_
in...,.,..._, --nolea)ollallbeiiiOde, .......
IIOd~ia..,.,..._,widttido DafPart3l8
of lho polieia a( lho - a ( n..-.
(o)lolho.,..afuyotatr_wbo_a
poUtioD iD tbe ct-ificd civil
dclcribcd ia
aeetioa 7S ar lho Civil S«vioe -Law, chqea of
mitcoatltoc&lt; ia riolaQoaaf- rala (oraflho nolea
ofaoyiDdiriduallaatilolioo_._.,.orimple,_;DI-nolesl ollall be mode, beonliad'cldermiacd u pucribed ia lbaiiCCiioa.
(f)AAyotbur.:.llyorotalfmomborwlloollall
violale aay pnw;a;oo a f - nolea (oraflho ndea of
ODY iadi.-J boJtitutioa ~otlmplo­
.-iaa-Nia)ollallbo~·aaifiittliitlor l
......... by lho ............ _ , . , . . . . _ ...
111o polieia ardle a-.~ a r . . -:

acmce.

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lll_
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_ --_ _ _ ,..._..,._....Geaf-

f._ad-~lho-- .......

(c)Stadl-..-lboiawriliAI . . _be
......... G e - 0 &lt; - - - b y
deliveriol
lila o r - . . . . - , , if
~or.il_by....,. • ..,..a r_..-...
lhoi&lt;..rplac:oorplacaaf
_-_ _
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b y . . . - . - . .. - -..
......
................... 0&lt; _ _ _ ..

1M-.,

-ii__ ......., ____ ......

(~Tito-ar-... ......... - - . -

for--.- ..
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cla)'lliaeGe_af
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afllllliliac-~10--by..O.

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. _......,..._ ..........,be-lObe
.. .....,..arG.-.-u.--...aoc~

--.-...--Go--. .....
..,. ...... wbo- ... ....

failediiO .,_., . . . _ .
.,.-ia-Yilioa(c).otill...,-,_..
aod
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IOllo-IOGecltid

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days-lho_lllo
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aballbefi.utd.
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duly . . , _ , -

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....... ot tit ....

b i t . _ ;...
• cop,. a( dae

--by!Mcltidatltaloiatnli... -

u . . . - .. - - . . .... ... _ot..,.
---wiDbe..-atGe-..
ia-afGe~-. ...
tbiaollall---Ge--afwbo
were-.,...
• ..__ _ , _Ge
(I)Titocltid
_

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......ar-..,....,...,... _ _ _

ties,,.... ............- -.

&amp;o.allcwpMflltlle......_,, . . . . . ar--.

(o) T h e - -.. -ollall be ...
aponaibleforlho..-ar-nb{oraflhoi
Nlaafooylodividoialinililtidoa .............,
in&gt;plemeo&lt;iac-Nia)aod_l _ _ .... .
other admiailtntive ot6cers who ~~a tlllhortDd 1Ct
lab: ldioa ia ICCCW'duc:e with aucb Nlcl wla n quiredorll(lpi'O(Irialetocorry-ioloefrod.
!'lIt it DOll- by aay p10Yialoo haoia to
curtail the ri&amp;ht of .......... r-lly ot fDtlf 10 be
heard upoD uy matter atfectiJta dan ia lhair telationswithtbei.ulirulioa...lal:btCMColuy.....violation o f - nolea (or af lho ndea af ooy iodi-

penoos.-

vidual inltitutioo aupplemeo&lt;iac or ....,._...
theJe Nla) b y ia lho~
of the cbicf lldmiai.slradve officer or bia de:llJ-e,
does QOI poiC any immcdille tbtal of iajary 10
pcnoa or property,sucb olfJCCt" may ...tc reuooable effort to icarD: tbe c.use oftbec:o.dact ill que:ttioo and to pemoode- eqapldaereia IOdesilt
and 1D resort 10 pe:nni.uibic llldhodl Cot lbe tei!Wution of any iuuel wbicb may be pracaed.ln doina
so such officer &amp;hall wam IUCb penoes of tbe coucquencea of pcniJoeace in lho probibiled - . _
iochadinalheir ejectiOIUI from uy pre:mUes of tbe
institution where their COBCioucd praeDCC· aad COGduct is in viobtioooftbctc ruks(oroflheru.letofany
individual iDitilvtioo -lemeolia&amp; or illlfl)clnentina tbcsc rv:kl).

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ielforiOGe__,af_or_ .. Ge
premiaeaaflhoiaaOtubooor-"'_•_
llle-afdianopjve _ . . . . . . . .. ..-.ar!Mlaatilolioo'a _ a o d _
proridod. --.IUidae •

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.....-of·

ficer-..----..--ar
..,._
.. __.,._._. .. ,...baaiaror

................... -......-......,~-be-·----

_ol_oi!Mralafor-af
publi&lt;onle&lt;.,.-byorrefomtdiOiatltiaPart.
--ollall~af--afGe

-

.. otatraod--.ottltor.:.Jty,

delipllled by lho d t i O r -

-

· ....

----bedettipllledbytloe--bylhoebief-veollice&lt;.Eacb
&amp;UCb member lhllltene 1llllil Ilia IUICCeiiCif or ~
~ bu- delipllled. No - a r 111o
commiace lhaJ.J tetve ia aay CIIIC where be is a
witDca or is or hll boca diftcdy iavolwed ia lbc
.,..,;,.upoawbiebdaeebqea--lo-10
provideforcues..,_.-...yboiOeba~­
ficatioo ad for ..... a ( - ot diaability, lho
_ ebictf-veollice&lt;ollalldeoipaaaallot-.
(c)la ..y-wbereviolaboaof-noles(oraf
- - o f d a e -.. otatrlllld•-lho Nla of my individualinl&lt;itutioa _ _ . , .
- a ( dae focally, lllld .... prioeipal tlesia·
ori......,_..._noles)doaDOiceaao-..:h
tctYe: ill such cues. luly five meeben ot lk coca......,aodiaotbucueaafwlllfulriolaQoaafaudl
miaeemay..-.bcoriap.,_filldiapand
rub. tbe dUef 8dmillillntivc otrica' « bil dclip£e
ft'lC m •te 1MMw M ~ prorided. AI. MY
sballc:auoelho ejec&lt;ioa.o f l h o - from aay peintttitutioa-tbeebief_.. _
mixs whidl be occupic:a ill such m&amp;aliml ad abaU
-IUIIho_oC.....,.wllidlwillbo
initillle diJcipliDary actioe .. beft:iabeiOie peovided.
ntqllircdtobobeld il,or,.ybe,ao pwtltoltloey
(~The ebictf ~.. oll'occr or bit deli&amp;·
110e may apply to lho publi&lt; autboritia for I8'J aid
odJenrile bo diJpoaod a( wbich he dccml aeceuary ia causi.q lbe e~ of
apeed,be---tltollhobeariqODY o f - noles (or af dae Nla of •Y
iadividual iutrt.tioa 811ppk:mc:Dtiaa ar implemntinl.- noles) and be may -lhoSIMo UDiver·
sily ....... 10 apply 10 aoy court a( _ . . . .

515.5 ,......_, A penoa. wbo lball violate any

ju.risdictioa for ao i.Qjuctioa to reslrain the violalioa.
or lbrcatcecd viol8lioa of sucb ruks.
SJS.I
lD ..am ol the JOlt 10

oftbe proviaioos oftbese rules (oroflhc: rules of any
iodividuaJ institution suppicmcntiaa or imp~t ­
iq thcte ruk:s) sball:
(I) If be iJ a liceDJCC or invitee. have his authori·
z.ation to remain upon the campw: or other propc:ny
witbdnwn and sbaJI be directed 10 leave tbe pre·

wbicbtboaenoles--fltlland-oomIJ!IIIIicalion_all..._aflhoa n d - Ia
hiably desi:rlblc. To tbe ex1a11 IbM time ed cilwm......,.penllil.audl-lhoaldpnteodelho
exaeioeaftbeoutbttrity, diacmioa . . iapoaaibilitioa

mites. In the event of his failurt or refusal to do 10 he
shall be subject 10 ejection.
(It) If he is 1 trespeuer or visitor wiehout specinc
ltceaac Of invitatioa., be subject 10 ejection.
(c) If he iJ a atudetll, be 1Ubjcc11o upulsion or
such leucr diJciplinary ac:tioG as tbe facts of the cue
may wamot. iD&lt;IudiDI _....... prd&gt;atiott.lou
of privilep. reprimaDd or wlf1liac..
(~ If bo it a fac:ulty oneml&gt;e&lt; baviq a term or
""""""""....,...,._,be pihyafmiaaJoductiiOd
be IUbjod
afbia employmeal or IUCb )caerdildpliaary Ktioau chc fiiCtl may
YtWnlll iadw:liJsc IUipCDiioo witbout s-Y or censure.
(.)If he is a .wr member in tbc dusifted service

.,......_.~latboaendea.Totboae-adl

to-.. . . . . .

_ _ ot_, _ _ _ _

oommuaity,

fac:ulty.-

~iaatitatJoaarlhosaoeUDivaaioyaball

empoyaudl . . . . . - . . . - - lonoaland iaformal,aawill-· ·
1

uu-..-... ... -......--

heof

(o)Thelenltebid-veollice&lt;,aa ucd
in-nalea.ollallbe_IO_IIOdlocludt:

aD)' pcnoa llllhorizcd 10 eun:ile lbc powcn oflbal

offoc:edurioaa--ordurioalho.-,.
or-.Jiyaflhoiacumltalt_.for_ofdlia
oec:tiooaballalaoiacludt:aoy-,.....,..._by
saidotrltCC:I'.

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~

............ it made 10 lite chief

..

o~~a~~~-----10

-ve

lball coaailt of six maoben of tbc
!lllllfand six membenaflho r-Jty O&gt;bodettipllled
bybimaodofsill-.wboollallbedettipllledby
lho ............. - . - b y biJo. Ia - - - lho
chief ~ve olficcr aball

clcsi.&amp;a* ooc:

of

..:h momborl a ebalrmao may divide lho
momborlbip a( lho into divisiou
each toCODIUt of two .lllalllben o f l b e - v e
otatr,twol'xallymomborlandtwo-andmay
asip ebuJea ..:h di,..._ for beari...
luay fout members of each IIICb divi.Poa. may eoDductbeatiapiiOd....,-.•bereiDafterproridod.
(II) Jbe .. committ&lt;e ahall ... be bowod by
tbe &amp;eduaicaJ Nlca of evideoce but may bear or
receive aay lleltimoay or evideac:c which is relcvanl

"""-oliO tbe;.....,. .......... by lho-...
IIOdwbiebwiii-Oiar.llaodfttiroooDclor·
.UO.lheftol' ud ~ dleteoL A Ddeol
....... - l h o - . . . - - ...y _ b y
aad with rcpreaca&amp;alives olbil cboice. He may coo..__. ........ _apiDJtbialadmay
prot~uce.n-IIOd-,..-u.bia

owabeball'. ~-be-•G.Jtearial:lho

..,......a.;-

-_ _
- . . ._
. . bit..,.__afGeialti·
lllld wil-

_ . . . . . . . . _ . . ., ... llllleatbe-aball

�_ _______
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.....,
_,

....

I D I ) ' b o - b y l l l e - - - -. A-acrip&lt;olllle ............ _ b o _ .
CI WIIWo 211clays-llle.-ota ...._ ....
- - - - - - · - o lillfioll.
iopolfocla.d
............ of

..........
......-...... . . . . . ..._.....,
. _._.,111_
...
.... &lt;borpato - - - - - ...

..., . _ .... _ _ olr_ _

- - ..... . . . . -... Wldola 10
Dllbbio--1'11111-.yiO
dlsaoiulbo&lt;borpaO&lt;IO--dlepikol-

llalM-dooJ ....... IIIdooeapel,a.paod_or
-

.. diaeipliooe-abollbo-iolllecbief
~.. . lfbolllalloojoctllleliodU&gt;p
ollbobearioc........U.ia-O&lt;iapartbolball
mate-fiodiapwbid&gt;-bobuedoo-...
tial evidc8cc t. tile rooont .-1 •n iadude tbeal i.a
llleootlceolbioliaal-wbicblballbe
JCn'Od l!lpOII tile ll8deal or Jbldc:MJ with respect w
whoalitia...tc.

..e•a.. •·-:;--•.. .,L,

~=::oOo

wbich _ . . .

upoa thee-.- of•y ~ Wtilutiooor
upoo lbo _ , ol10y S-..pcnocd iaocihllion

UIOd few

- - . . . t - lball be problbilcd

from..-w.,.lllec:ooclu&lt;tclctc:ribed iDJUbcllrialoo (I) o{Soct;oo 535.3 ollhls Pan.
~)l'&gt;ocecloro. TbccbldadrDiailln&amp;l .. otr-11
each~

for

lurltutloa oball be-Ole

me aafon:emcat of this

~

aad.. .. UKd

hcrdu. lbo...., cbld -

.. olfoccr lball
iacludc .., - . - llf'POi*d by Aid olf.,...
(I) WbeKvcr .... cbld ~.. offlw -.......soc die boW of a coraplalat « F ·
IOCIII kaowlodec tbal tbcrc is . . . - .,.....S 10
bclle..lbaldoae .... beca. riolalioo ollhls .., .., ................. -~.. off- - «CMKIO bep&lt;q*od wri-cbarJeo
........... orpalu&lt;loa- oball- .... prori•loo proacribiaa .... acd oball opocify Cbc
ult.imllte facu aDc:pd to c:ocutihdc aucb vioa.tioa.
(I) Sacb•wria.. cbOrp be raved upoo
.... prioc:ipal olfw=ollbo orpolzalioa by ..
or ccnif'N:d mail, reQir'D receipt rcqucACd. to the
orpalzotlao'......-addn:uacdoball beoccornpanicd by a aotice that tbc orpolzalioa may rapood in
wriboc 10 .......... witblo ... (10) daya ol rcczlp&lt;
ol..Wootlce. n.c.mocotlllecbqe ooacrvedoball
inch~* ......... tbM: tbe fa1hft to IUbmil • te·
_ . . _ ....( IO)uyaoballbe-IObean
admiasioooflllefCI_iD_cbarJeoandoball
w~tbe impol.itioa of the pc:aalty dclcribcd in
aubdirilloo(e)otlhls-. n.c....,....oballbe
o . -tolheeblef-veolfieeracdJhall

.u-

..----..- ··-lao

of Cbc
oltJ-e fietHIIcpl ialbeebqe. The c hief adminisrrlllfve otncor may allow u ea.lelllion or lbe 1e:a

( IO)day._pcriad.

~ (J) Upi&gt;rl -

-

by .. IWihorized

~ve"olllleorpoizalior&gt;. Cbccbief admlnls-

lnlllveolllc&lt;!r......,..ridcdloreproteallti.. oopDiDiloo 10 """""""" fot"rr· - - . ,. A heariDJ
puoldoai.- by die ehlef adminlstnlive officer
lbaJI bearorRCeive aay leltimoayorevidcDCe which
is reievaat ..S IDI&amp;Crial to chc iuuel prc:KDICd by the
~ IUid wbich wiU coacn'bulc 10 • full and fair
c:oaaidcnliootloaeofuddolormlnallonlbcreon. Tbc
orpa.iulioa's ~ve may conlront and examite wicacuee: apillll it .d may produce wit·
DCUCIIIIIIilld clocameDtlry cvidcDc:e oa its bcbalf. Tbe
heoriroc pMCi obaJl aabmll wria&lt;a f..dlap of fOCI
anda
' "·tsfocdispo&amp;ilionoftbedwJeto
tbe dlief ttdmi:a.isualive offteer within twenty (20)
daya aft« dle'eloae of !he heuina.
W Fiaalauthorily 10 dilmlu lbo cborp or 10
make I ruaa~ dccerminatioa ahaU be vesled in tbccbief
.Jmiailttative otficcr. Noticeofthcdcci&amp;ioa WU be
in writiac: ab&amp;ll iecludre tbc reucinJ supportiq sucb
dcciJioa; aad tball be served oa lbe priaclpal ofrtcer
o( tbc cq\aiuOon by mail iD tbc maruter delcribed
in patiiJ"'pb (l) of this subdirisioD within 1 realoa·
able time after IUCb dcciJioa is tMde.
(c) Pntlhic .. Aay orpaiutioa which IUtboriz.cs
die prohlbilod c:oaduct detc:ribed ia subdivision (I)
of See!loo 535.3 of lhls Pan Jhall be wbjeelro die
reoclaloo of permluloo 1 0 - upon .... campus
or upoo the propert)' of the Stalc-Openled ioslitution
UIOdforedoalioulpoapooes. Tbcpeaallyprovidcd
iD thit IUbdivtao. stall be iD lddilioa 10 any peaalty
wbich.,.ybeu..po.lpunauiiOdlel'tull.awand
any Olherproviaioa ofllw, or10 uypeaalty 10 wbicb
an individMII rDI)' be IUbjccl punuaae to this Pitt.
(., By-IDwo. Seclioo 6450(1) of !he Educ:ation
Law rcquira tMI the proviaiou of this Par1 wb.ieh
prohlbirroetleMor--...t...........,oobeallh
« l«eed COI1IWIIptioo olliqoor or drvp for !he
purpose or i..Ditiatioa lDio or atfiUilion with any
orpalzalloo oball bedeemodiObel*'•fdle by-laws
of all cqaoludoas
upon Cbc campus
or ..yStalc-OpenlediDallludoa.-lf«cduealiooal
pwposes. Tbe a.ruce l'ur1hcrftlquim tbalcecb such
Of'Jani.ulioa abaU review tbesc by· llwt IMU&amp;IIy
with ladividuala atrilialed with the orpai.utioa.
(o) Dlsrribolioft. Ccpies of Cbc provisloal of lhls
Put which prohibit rcctlcu or inaentionll endanacr·
meat to health or forced coasumptioa of liquor or
dnaas for the purpose of initiation ioao or affiliation
Witb any orpa.i.ution lhall be Jiven (O alJ ltudentl
enrolled in each Sl&amp;lt-openled institution.
Filed Octobtr 14, 1969
Ameodod: April 1970, J10uary 1970, Seplember
1980, Oelober 1982
... SIJPI'LEMENTAL RULES FOR 11fE MAJN.

wbldl-

TENANCEOPPUBUC ORDER FOR 1116 STATE
UNIVERSITY OP NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
•uu-~
A penolllS pilty of disntptiort when he or she. by
roctloo, by lhrcat, or otherwile:

AT BUFFAlO
AND ADIIIINISTRATM IEGULATIOIIS

"" _ _ _,_,aedritia:«
oo--..-,aed.-.
u.io;ren;ily acti'lilicl iKNdc. ... ..e . . limited

oo:-...-.-poblleaetY\&lt;e
...........

1Wdioa. or adler~ Ktivity or procram on

SJU-umrt
No~

..U blat dim or illeplly at&amp;er uy
uaivasity buildUta ot roc.; DOl' lbllJ ..,. pct'IOft
CGier or remain ia •Y privlle roGID or otr'tee ol uy
Jtudcat. fK\I..Ity lntmber, ~ve oft"'ICC'I', or
ocber penoa oa Uoiva'lity propaty witboul the cxpreu penaluloo o l l b c - ..-uedoo uoe or
Uvc ia thlt room: DOr tbaU tay .....cborized penon
eo1er or rcmaia ia aay Ullivenily blaildiq or facility
11 a time what t:bll fiCiUty 11011n11Jy il cto.cd or after
Cbe CKility bu beea doled brauc ol lpCICial or
u.uua1 c:itaunsaaaccs. Uaivcnity fll:illties iocludc,
bulare oot llrrllled ro. lbo followioa: bulldlap. putiaa ioU, IIbldic fldds Md all c...- UUL

It'**

a
or • employee, or die para~ or kpl
pardWo of a - i a - at Cbc Ualvenlty.
wholoillerliaorltboMI•yUoivenitybuildittcoruy
part of Uol-.11)' ........ w - wri- penal..
lioll from tbe praideat. QIIIOdial or otbc:r pcnoa ia

· .. io violalloo of pooled ndcs ..
replllioas J'(Wmliq the use l:hcttor. ablll be pilty
ol tretpua. lteplatioal oa C8Cb campus ahall iodudc Cbc ....... b y - - visll.lllooo by
0011--studc:ab tball be developed ia ICCOI'daoce with
the Paa1 Law.
~) Unde&lt; New Vert hnal Law, Seetioo 240.35.
1Ubdivi1ion !5. a penon i.s JUilty of 1oilcriaa whea he

ebqe -

Dlledfor--

or &amp;he ioitcn or remaiftt in or about 11Chool, coUeae
or Uaivenity buUdina or pound&amp;, noc havina any
reuoa or n:lltioatbip iavolvina custody of or rcapoasibility for 1 pupil or llUdenl or any apccirte,
iqitqn.ele reuoa for bciaJ there, IDd noc havinJ
wriaea pcrmiu.ioa from any pet10t1 autbori.zcd to
pant lhe lllmt.
(c) Unde&lt; New Yad Penal Law, oeetlon 140.05. •
penoo is pilty oftn::spuaiaa whea he or lhe knowinJ.Iy en1en or remains UDiawfully in or upon prcmisel. Taapus is 1 ""violatioa"' pwti.shlb&amp;c by 1 fine ,
or imprisoameal of up to 15 days .
(., Unde&lt; New Vert Penal Law Seetioo 140.10 a
penon is piJty of crimiDal b'elpUJ in the third
dearce whea he or she kftowinJI)' enlen or n:mains
unlawfully in 1 buildina or upon real property wb.icb
i.s fCDCed or otherwise eactosed iD a manner delipcd
10 eaciP.ade iatntdcn. This is 1 Clau B Mildemeanor.

tal

516.1--

SM.JTIIUI'AR~Df-.rf

(o) No """"' oballllb:, -.~ . ...... .....,. ..
odtmriJe dlmlae ID)' property 80C his or btr own. on
the Uftiveniryc:ampusoroa ID)' UDivcnity property.
OJ) No pcnoa.. ia •Y ......,. wbluoevcr, lbaJI

:r::o(:6-e":::'!r~=~~
iael- ....... of paiDu. pollen, IUid adveniJe.
IDtllb atrwd ia ...,. areas ocber tban thole dc:si&amp;·
""(c) No oball "-lrraly barbor .. posI&amp;Oko propat)' while: oa or rcsidin1 u the Un.i·
venlty c:unpus.
•Approwd by Uttiwnity Cotuteil ~ptetrtiHr, 1975,

IJoord o{Tnurm AMI"" I, IV16
••~b11MCDtllldloftltt!SuueUniwrsityof

N,_ YM Gtllft/folo Ofl 11111 21. 1911 QN/ Gpprowd
bytlo&lt;/Joordo{Tnuteu. ~r2J, /9/I/ .

5J6A I'IIYSICAL-MDIIAIAIIMUT
A P""" iJ pilry of pbyaiealllbuJe and lwus·
meat wbea:

(l)boor lbe iasentlooally auaulls. llril:a, ll=tleos. or iatimidalea uy pc:noa; or
(II) be or abe cqqes in a course of conduct, over
ID)' period of time, orrepclledJy commiliiCU which
alatm or aerioully IJUtO)' uocbcr penon and which
ICt'Yt DO ieJitima&amp;c purpo~e; CW
(c) be or abe creues 1 c:oad.itioa wbidl un.oecessar·
ily eadaaaert cw tbre:ateDI tbe bealth, safety. or
wdl-beloa ol olher pcnoas or of olher propeny on
uoivcnity property.
5M.S . . . . . . . _MDIDIPUISIYU
Col k io • Yiolalioo of New Vert Suoe Law rondlorUnivcniry Repll6oas .Cor 1 pcnoa 10 pm:KSS 1 rifle:.
~~xqun.ru..m..-.fim:rat:ken.orexplo­

liw:s in or upoa Cbe buildinp or lf'OUIId&amp; ol the univerlll)t _
__...,.._llllhoriza&amp;looftonldle
roman

~ ual&gt;alily ollicial This indudcs
c:aadlcsoraimillr~orexpbivcs.

OONo-eilbt:rllnaJyoriDa&gt;oa:rt wilhotbeB.
st.IJ pDIIICU IDd CIIT)', oa ay pounds or iD any
~ollbeuniwnity, •airpn.orochc:rinstnuneoc
or wapm in wbicb d:ae propdli:aa rome illlir, knife.

didt,--""'F!.bludpon.c:lub,llirlphot.or

lhio&amp; ada!&gt;table 10 Cbc P"'P* of • .........
inch8cbl bllooa. tiDeS c:w limi.Lv .UC.Ics. euludina

olher

onlyortbopcdit:alds.trthldle~andprojc&lt;:tor

c:onoln1Ciloo

.-ws

and oools .. proof of. proper
specific . - or purpoee oa. the dly in question.
(c) No hin:d for purpooes or enlcxcing
scc:urity, wbdbeti.Dlieuol orin llddition todeplnment
ol public safety otr.ccn. IDI)' hive in his or her
pouculon ill« upon Cbc bulldlap and pounds of die
Wlivcnity uty firearm cw Olberdeadly weapon without

spocifw: wriDea -..cboriralion from the Universiry

olfoeiJJ .....,......S ro live ouch audxxizallon.
5J6.6 PICIIITIHMD ..-stwATIOIIS
(.) In reprd to on~pus lludent r.ctions and
cleanoMcntions thai tcod co endan&amp;er life. public or
private property or lO violale Soa.l, State or Fedcnl
laws. e.eh studeilt will take the consequence of his or
u an iadividual before the law. as
well u beina refcm:d to the appropriate Univcnily
ditcipliaary body. The: cost of any darnqe 10 public
or priYIIC property must be borne by those legally

her own IICtioa.s

....,oosible.
(')All membcn of 1 Univeniry conununily must
share the responsibility for nWntainin&amp; 1 clim.~te in
wbic:b divenc views can be cxpreued freely and
without banal;ncDt.
(c)TbeSCatcUniwnityofNew Yort.atBuffalo has
bW:titioa&amp;Uy~ thcri&amp;hlolits RUdents. f-=ulty
acd oarr .. _,.rw - Alway's impllci~y is Cbc
~ tblf'demoraarlllon will not i.nlc::rferc
with or Yiolllc the fi&amp;hts ol otbc:n. h i.s the obliplion
of all 10 aa.isl iD mainlai.nia&amp; Clr'dcl' mel 10 ~
c:ouRcoull'tiCIIlptioa of •Y campus spcUcr or visitor.
(.,The followina pertalno 10 !he conduct ol !hose
memben of the Univusity community who fed
compelled lO ex pus their diuent throu&amp;h picketing
and otbcr forms of dcmoasttatioa:
(t) Picketina &amp;Dd demonstralinJ must be orderly 11 &amp;II limes IDd abould in no w1y jcopardiz.e
publtcordc:rorafctyorinterfcre with c:hc University 's

propnu.
(a) Pic.ketina or demonlcnlin&amp; musa noc interfere with entrances to buildi.n&amp;s or the oonnal now of
pcdcatrian or vehiculu ntftc.
(J) Those involved in pictetina or demonstnttin&amp; may not lntcrfe:re by m.UtalinJ with OIJ&amp;niud
mcdin,porothcrusembliesfocthc:purpo~eofharus·

ment, Iince this inv.dc:s the: ripc:s of otbc:n to asoemble acd die ri&amp;bD of speaken 10 free CllpiOSSion.

W Pieblill&amp; 0&lt; . . may ,.. obinterffft with the imqriry of the
clusn:Jom, the privacy of die raideoce halls. or the
fuoetloniD&amp; of Cbc pbyaieal plan!.

IU\Id or physically

U6.7 LOITIIIIIS Ul TIISPASSIIIS 011
UIIIYUSm SIOII. .S 01 Ill UIIIYIISITY
IUIL81(e) Any penon not 1 student. employee, auest of

Thc judicial bocfies established co conlider cues
i.nvolvinalt\tdmt Yiolalioos of lhc proviatons atatcd
in this section IR lhc ltl.tdenl-wide judiciary and lhc
committee fortbc mainlcDeDceof pubUcordef. These
jodiciaJ bodies have tbc power to ioslirute• the fol lowina ranee of &amp;&amp;DCtions:
(1) waroilla;
~) notaliooocm:ord:

(c) rettlrulloo:
(., loa ol privilep:
(I) denial of use of an automobileoo campus for
a dea.iJU'Cd time;
(a) removal (rom dormitory or other Univcnity
houaina:

(J) lou of 11.teh privHe&amp;es as may be c:oo.sillenr
with the offense commiHed and the rebabiliwioa of
lhelllllictiL
(e) diJc:iplirwy probation witb or withoul kla of
des:ipatcd privilcaes for a derllli~ period of lime.
The violation of the lcrml ol discipli.Aaty probation
or the illfnction of aay univenity rule dwina tbe
period of diJciplirwy probation may be JrOUDds for
IUSpenston or expul&amp;ioa from the Univenity;
(f) auspcnsioa from the University for adefinheor
indcfiniae period of time:
(I) c-.pulsiOIII from the Univcnily;
(It) such o«heraiDCtiollsu m.~ybe approved by the
Univc::rsily's tribuaab.
•SIIbje.ct tD futal rrview of til# p~sidettt, mt action
tlwt is lftiJitdDlory if StupeMiott or up11.Uion is nc·

.......wd.
A ltudent will be subject to iavohmwy ldminis·
trllive wilhdrawal from the Univcn.ity.or from Uni·
venity housina. if il is determined, by clear and
convincina evidcDce, thai the student is sufferina
from 1 psycboloJ:)cal, emotional. or medica.l condition or disorder, ud IS a result:
(1) eopaea, or thtuteos to ena~ . in behavior
which poses 1 dan&amp;crof CIUiing physical harm to self
«olhen. or
{Ill) enpaea. or ~M to enaqe. in behavior
which woukt atuse si&amp;nificanl proputy damage. or
directly and substantially impede lhc lawful .clivities of others.
a. lltcse standards do noc prcc:lude removal from the
Univenicy, or University housin&amp;. in acc:ordance
with provisionsofthc: residence hall occupancy~~­
ment, or othtt Univcniry rules or reaula~ions.
J,. A ltUdenlacculed of viol.atinJ University diKi plinaty reaulations may be diverted from tht di5Ciplinary proc:eu and withdrawn io accordance with
these at.lndarda, if the student. u a result of mental

L

diJorder:
(a) 1-cb the: capacity lo respond 10 pend in&amp; disciplinary chatJes. or
{Ill) did not know lhc nalure or wronaful neuofthe
conduel at the time of the offense.
._The: Vice President for Student Aff•inordes:i&amp;nec
may also convene 1 BchlviorEvaluarion Commiucc,
to consist of u many of the foUowinJ as are appropriate and avail&amp;bk to serve: member of Counselina
Center prof&lt;OISioaal...,, member of Swdeol Heallh
Center profeuiOGI.I staff, member of R.esidcoce Ufc
professional staff(if stP.Mient i.s donnitory reaidenl), 1
member of Academic Advisement Profeutonalataff.
member of Public Safety professionallt&amp;ft, and any
ocher individual(s) whom lhc Vice: Pra.idcnt believes
can provide •iaiuftcant input reaatdin&amp; the student.
The: Behavior Evaluatioa Committee will meet to
review the lludc:nt'a situation and recommend that :
(1) no IClion be taken.
(') ldvisemellt o( student about services IVail·
able. on campus or withiD the community, to resolve
psyc.holoaical. emotiooal. or mcdica1 diff.cultiea.
(d advisement of lludc:ru on voiUfttaty withdrawal
from the University lndlor ruidenoe halls.
(II) invoJUDWy Mlministrative wilhdrawal proceu be initiated.
The Vice: President for Sutdent Affa.in or desi&amp;nce
may refer 1 student (or evaluation by a University
psychiatrist, P'&gt;'choloaist. or ocher appropriale health
~ profiCI&amp;ic:mal if the Vice Pres.ideat or desianee
reuonabty believes dw tbe ltl.tdeat may be autrerina
from 1 pt:ychotop:al, emotioaal. or medical condition or disorder,litd tbe studeal'a behavior poses a
daQaer of a~usinJ physical hann 10 the student or
ocbcrs, cawina property dama.ac. or impedinJ the
lawful.:tivilies of OCben.
6. StudeDb referred (c. evaluation in KCOn1ancc with
this Part lhall be so informed in writina. cilher by

s.

pcnooal.tcli.ay«bycalilicd,..;l, andoballbe
,;..... CGPI' ollht:se- and proeedurca. The
enluadoa m.11 be u.m.d widU five bud- dlys
m..lhe-otdlememllcacr, uolcoa•.-Jao
iJp.-dbylbc Vieel'!aidcrrlcw~iawrifiaa.
1· Aay peadiq tliar:ipllDII}' IICiioo ...,. be wilhbdd
u.atiJ tbe evalutitxl is compldcd. 11 the ditc:rdioa of
tbe Vice Prcaideal for Sb.tdeDI Allain.
a. A ltudcot wbo fails to complete tbe eval.uatioD io
"""""""'"wilh lheoeiiiDdatda acd proeoduroo may
be withdnwn on an iatcrim buis. or referred for
discipliury ICtion, or both.
,. An inurim ldministntive withdrawal ml)' be il:nple-

menacd irnmcdia&amp;ely if 1 studtnl fails 10 comp1ctt: an
c:valuatloo, u provided b y - - and proc:edwa. Abo. an inaUo withtlnowal be implemented imrncdillldy if the Vice Praideal. for Sbldenl
Affairs« dcaipce decennincllttM a saideot DliYbe
suffc:riq from 1 mental, P')"CboioJic:a emoOon.a1. or
medical coaditioa or disorder, aod as a raull. tbe
studeol's behavior pDICian irnmiftent danp ol:
(a) CIUs.inascrious physat hann lO the IIUdeat or
~. or .

(') cauainJ ai&amp;nificanl property

damaae. or di-

rectly and substantially impedina the lawful .clivi·
tiel o f Olhen..
u. A lludcnt IUbjcctlo an inkrim withdrawal shall
be &amp;iven wrin.ea notice of the wi.lbdntwal either by
penonal delivery or by cettiftcd mail. and shall be
&amp;iven a copy of these standards and procedures. The:
studeot shall then be J i•en aa opportunity 10 appear
pc:rsooally before the: Vice President for S1udc:nt
Affain or a des:ipec, upon request, immedia&amp;ely
after lhc interim wilhdtawal. in order to review the:
rollowinJ issues only :
(1) lhc reliability of the information conccmina
lhc 11udcn1' 1 behavior;
{Ill) whet.her or noc tbc: student's behavior poses a
dan&amp;erof causin&amp; imminenl.. serious physical barm &amp;o
the: studenl or Olhers. causin&amp; sip.irtcant propeny
damaJe. or directJy and substantially impedin&amp; the:
lawful.aivities of~ ;
(c) wbelhcr or noc the studeat bas compleled an
evaluatioo, in .cc:ordance with these .&amp;tandatds and
procedures.
u. A uudent subject to interim wilhdtawal may be
usisted in the ~ppeant.DCC befOtt the: Vice President
for Student Affairs by • family member. 1 ticeued
psycholoaist or psycbiatriat, a bealtb caR; professional. or a member of the campus eommuni1y. The
student m~y be IC:COOlpUiied by tep1 counsel. II·
tbouJb the role of COUJliCI will be limited ro providin&amp; k&amp;alldvice to tbe student.
t.a. An informal hearin&amp; will be bdd within fi ve
busincu days after the: student has beea evalualed by
the a.ppropriate mental health care profeuiooal. The
student will n:main widtd:nwn oa an interim buis
pendin&amp; completion or the informal hclrina. but will
be aHowed 10 enter upon the eampus 10 auend the
hcarinJ. or for other necessary purposes. u authorized in writina by Vtcc Preaidcnl for Srudcnt Affain
or desianee.
1). Studenu subject to all involuntary withdnwll
shall be ac:cordcd all informal hcarin&amp; before the Vice
President for Student Affain. or a desipce. lbe
followina JU~I i nes will be 1pplicabk:
(a) Students will be informed oftbc time. date. and
location of the informal hcarinJ, iD writina. either by
persooaJ delivery or cettiftcd mail. at least two busiacss days in advance.
{Ill) The entire case. file. including an ev1lualioo
prepared pursuant to these stan4ards and procedures.
and the names of prospective bcarin&amp; participanu.
will be available for inspection by the: 11udent in the
Vice President for Student Affairs' offtee durin&amp;
OOnna1 busineu houn. The file , whidt should be
1vail1ble ll leas11wo business days befc:n the infor·
mal hearina. need not include the personal and confidential noces of any institutional offtcill or panic:ipant in the eWuation proceu.
(c) Tht informal hcuin&amp; shall be coovenatton&amp;J
and noo-ldvenarial. Formal rules of evidence will
noc apply. The Vice Praident for Srudcot Affairs or
dea.iJMC shall exercise .clive control over the procecdinas to avoid needless c:oosumption of time: and
to achieve thc: ordcrtycompletionofthc: hearin&amp;. Any
penon who disrupts the bcarin&amp; may be ex.ciLMkd.
(f) lbc: 11udc:nt may choose 10 be assisted by a
family member and • licensed psychologist or psychiatrist, 1 health care profeuional , or by a member
of the: campus community. Thc studenl may be accompanied by le&amp;al counsel. allhou&amp;h the role of
counsel will be limited to providina: kgal advitt In
lhc uudcnl.
(e) 1lKJse usisain&amp;lhe student. ex.eepc for k&amp;al
counsel , will beaivenreasonabletirne 1oaslc rdevant
question.s of any individual •ppcarin&amp;allhc informal
hearing, u well as to present n:kvant evidence.
(r) The informal hearin&amp; may be conducted in the:
absence of a audem who f1ils 10 appear after proper
notice .
(I) The health catt: profes.sionll who pre~ tht
evaluation pursuant to these: standards and procc·
durcs may be expected to appear 11 the informal
hearing. and to rnpond to n:levant questions. upon
request of any party. e,;cepc for le&amp;al counsel
(II) The: Vice President for Student Affain or
des:icnc:c may permit Univenity nfftc:ials. to appear
at lhc infonnal hearing and to present evidence in
support of any withdrawal recommendation. if the
Vice President or designee determines that such
partkipation is essential to the resolution of the case.
CO The informal hearina shall be tape recorded by
the Vice Praident for Student Affairs or dcsiJnec
Thc tape(a) shall be kept wilh lhc: pertinent case file
for as long IS the C&amp;K fik is maintained by the
institulioa.
(J) A written decision shall be rendered by the
Vice Praidc:nt (or Student Atlainordes:igno: within
five busineu days after the comptetion of the informal hearin&amp;. The wrinen decision. which will be
mailed certified or pers.on.ally delivered to the: stu·

�STU DENT CONDUCT RULES, UIIIYERSITY

dent, shouLd contain a statement or reasons for any
determin.tion le.dina 10 iavolun~ary withdrawal.
The 11uden1 sbouJd abo be ldvl&amp;cd as to wben a
petitkMI f«re,insta&amp;emeat would becoasidercd. aJooa
with any cooctitioos for reinm&amp;en~me.
(II) 1'hc doeisioa or lbc Vice Presideol for Studeoa
Afrlin Of desiancc lhall be final ud conclusive and
not subject to appeal.
1.\- Rcuonable deviations from these proccdum
will noc invalidate a dcciatoo or proceediq unless
Significant prejudice to a .cudent may ruull.

ARTICLE 6: ADMINISTRATIVE
REGULATIONS
I. VIOLATION OF LAW AND UNIVERSITY
DISCIPLINE
A. Univenity disciplinary procced.inp may be
m.stiluted apinst aaudeat clwzed with vtolation of
I law which is also a vtolalton or this Student Code:,
for es.ample, if both vtola1ioru result from the same
fiCiuaJ situation. without recard to lbc pendc:ocy of
civi lliti&amp;ation incounorcrimin.l&amp;tT"tJtand pros.ccution. Proceedings under this Student Code may be
carried out prior to, simuJtancousJy with, or foUowln&amp; civil or criminal proceedinp off campus.
L When 1 lludcnt is chlrJed by feden.l , state orlocal authorities with a violation or law, lbc University will ncx request or aa:ree to special consideratioa
for thai individual because of his or her status as a
sludc:nt. If the alleged offense is also the sub,;ec:. of 1
proceed in&amp; before a judicial body uDder tbe Student
Code:, however, the Univenity may advise off-campus authorities of the existence of the Student Code
and of how such manen will be handled intemaJly
within the Univenity community. 1be Univen.ity
will cooperate fully with law enforcement and other
agencies in the enforoemc:nl of criminal law oa campus and in the coodittons imposed by criminal courts
for the rehabilitation of studeru violaton. Individual
studenls, facully and staff memben, acting in their
personal capacities, remain free to intenct with governmental repcuentatives u they deem appropriate.
II . FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND
PRIVACY ACT CFERPA)
A. The State University or New Yort 11 Buffalo
complies fully with the Family Educational Ri&amp;hts
and Privacy Act of 1914 in its treatmen1 of student
educational records. This Act wu intended to protect
the privacy or educational rtcOrds, to es&amp;abtuh the
righl of students 10 inspccl and review their educalionaJ r=ords, and to provide auidclinea f« the
COITe.Ctjpn or dc:letioa of inaa:wate or miskadina
da11 thrOugh informal and formal hcarinp. Students
aJso have the riJhiiO file complaints with the Family
Educatiooal Rights and Privacy Act Office (FERPA)
concerninaalleged failures by the inllilution to comply with lbe Act.
This iutitutioo 's poUcy statcmc:ot for- the Family
Edocatioo.al Riabts and Privacy Acl of1974 explai.ns
in detail the proccdwa to be followed by the institution for compliance wltb the proviskwu of the Act. A
copy of the policy is available in the Off.a:. of the
Vice President for Student Affaira, Room S42Capeo
Hall, North Campus. Records which are maintained
by the University and the office in which they are
~loused is as follows:
ADMISS ION~ce of Admissions
CUMULATIVE ACADEMIC-Records &amp;:
Regiltrl.tion
HEALTH-Ceoter for Student Health
FlNANClAJ....-Student Accounts
PLACEMENT-career Plannio,e!Ptacement
DISCIPLINARY-Dean of Studenls
L Students who requell access to their educalional recordJ should fill ou1a request form at Student
AJfairs, Capen Hall. The staff in this office will then;
(I) detenniDe if the records requested by the studenl
eziscs, (2) determine whethc:rthc atudenl has the riJht
or access to these records under the Act. (3) answer
any questions the student may have aboul the Act.
and (4) make arranaemen1 for- the shadc:ntto conllet
a 1pecifi~ person in the appropriate department or
omce to sec hist1ler records. The student would then
&amp;JTange an appointment with the eonlaet person in
that area to review his/her file.
The above procedure will take place within a
reasonable period of lime, but no later than 45 days
after the fil ing or a written request.
C. Students may obtain copies of their educational
records, to whic.h lbey are entitled under the Act. or
ponions thereof, widtin 45 days foUowina their written request, at the cost of reproducin.J such copies.
D. The University will respond 10 all reasonable
requeS1s from studenls forexplanatK&gt;ns and interprc:·
talion.s of contents of lbc:ir educational records..
L StudeniJwillbenotifw:da.nnuallyofthcirFERPA
rights by distribution of the Studcn1 Conduct Rules.
f. lkfinitions
L "&amp;hool Officials, " for (he purpose of this
Act, are defined by the Univrnity as "any employees
who have omciaJ dealinp with Siudenls for le&amp;ill·
male educational interests."
a. "EductJtiotuJI Recon!s " means information
or data defined as dirutly relali:d 10 students for
educational programs and which is maintained by the:
University or a person actina for the University.
By law, the followina information has been
excluded from educational records:
L financ:iaJ m:udJ of the pare:nta of the student
or any information CODL&amp;ioed therein;
lt. security records and documeniS wbicb are
kept separa1e from educationaJ rccordJ, are used only
for security purposes. and wb.icb are available only to
other ofnciall respoosible for aecwity 11. the State
Unive.nity or New Yort 11 Buffalo;
c. roc:cJrdl of pbysicions. poychialriJu. "' .......
"""8Jliud proleosionols."' .....,...reuioooh wiUcll
an:: used only in the provisioa of rre.tmtot to the ibadenl
and which are 001 1vailable to anyone ocher than tboec

.,.....,.. providlna.....,-. (Thooe roc:cJn~~can.

""""-· beroviewoclbylpllysic:IMO&lt; ....... _ . ;IIIepn&gt;(aoiooolollbe-·a - ) ;
.. .......,.. ...... . . . , _ o l _ ......
miDillrltora wbicb are DOC avti1able to My lhird ~
e. coafidea1iallcucn and JtMcmenta of rec:Om......s.boo wltic:b ...,.. piiCOd in lbe eclualioul
roconlpriorO&gt;JliJIIW)' I. 1975-ifaucb lcaen and
sta\emrftll are noc used for purpoees other than thole
for wbich they &amp;R. spcc:iC.eally iMcaded;
f. employmeDI. recon:ls odlet &amp;ban lhoee creaacd
u a resuh of employmena due to oaea status u a
11udent:
.. alumni records created after che penon is no
lonp a student.
J. "Lqitilnate EdMCJUiONII ht1«rr111" sball
consist or lhoae in~aesU withiD u scope of the
school offtcial '1 duties wMcb rwtherlbc iDte.Uectual,
ICidcmic pllyaical. emotioall and monl ..........
ment of lhe studeDI.
5. /UI~az~ of EdMCatiotta./ R«onh
a. 1'be Uaiversity will aot permit access to. or
the reieue of. any portioo of a Radc:al'a educatiooaJ
records, «any otherpenonally ideatif&amp;&amp;ble information other tbu dircctory iaformalion withoul the
written c:onsent of the atudebl., to any party other than
the lollowitta:
L tbole.f&amp;eepCiou ci1Cd i.n the Family EduCIIionll Ripu and Privocy Ad of 1974 and ......
apoodina aoctiona oflbeCodcofFodcnl ReJuWiona
(e.J., Federal, State, or l..ocal olfida1s 10 whom such
information must be reported by !lw).
.... approprille periODJ La a position to deal
with an e:meraeac:y for whkb JUCb iafonnatioa is
ncceuary to prolcct. the bealtb and safety of the
student or ocher penoos.
a. 1'be comeot rcquil'lld for 1he release of any
cducoriocWra:orda.Oibcttbudin:Cioryinfonnodon
if the: student 10 cbooles. shall be in writiaa. siJned
and da&amp;ed by the Jhldenc, and shall iochadc:
L a speciftcatioo or the recon:ls 10 be re·
leucd:

lt. the reuon.s f« web releuc; and
r. the party or pvtiea to whom sucb records
will be relcued.
J. 1'be University wiiJ iochadC with any information releued a written 1tatemen1 infonnina thole
1o whom the infocmation is beina lnDifem:d that
they canaot aubtequenll y rdeue the data, or any
portion ~hereof, without the written coosent of the
sti.Mienl.
-. Upon request, JlUdenta may obcaiD a copy of
the roconl .......... providinJ tbey . . miiCriala
which lhe ICudml bas a riJhl (« has not waived the
riJbl) to see or copy•.
M. Student Recorda Pottc:ies and Procedures
1.. lnfornwion about a uudenc.. inc:ludin&amp; any
personally Uk::ntifiableinfonnadoa, t'flCCX'ds. orfia,
may be re)eucd without the INdebt's wriuen permission in the: foUowinJ cues only:
A. upon reqllelt, the: University will release
the followjoa dinlctory iaformatiOIC the atudent'1
name.curreatlddreu.Jelepbooc number. majorrsdd
of JWdy, dales of artc:ndaDcc, dqrccs. and aw.rd.s.
The University will rdeuc: the above information
ooly if lbe at~Mkrlt i.ndicatea oa his Of her 1a1est
sludenl data form, uDder the appropriate item, that he
onhe wis.hca to be lilted in the studeal directory. 1be
studcnl may 11 any time resc:ind hia or her penniuion
ror the release of dim:tory infomwioa by notifyinJ,
in writinJ, the OffJCC of Recorda and Re&amp;iJb'adon;
L upon requeat of University otrtc:ials., includina Faculty and Staff who have a le&amp;itimate
educational intcresl;
C. in connection with asrudent'sapplic.a!ion
for, or receipt of, financial aid;
D. upon request of authorized repR:sentative
of (l) .the Comp&lt;roller Geocnl of !he Unilcd Sta!O$.
(ii) the Secretary of HEW, (iii) State University or
other swe educational authorities.
a. Ia aU other cuea, ao infonnation aboul
studenls may be rekued in any fonn ·uoJcu: .
A. lhere iS wrirtc:n CODXDI from the SIIJdent
spccifyi.na thc records to be releuod, the rea10n1 for
the release, and the rccipienl of the records; ud a
copy of the records is made available to the Jtudent.
unless they are coofidenrial; or
L sucb information is f'umilhed in compliance with a judicial order or punuaot to any lawfully
issued subpoena, upon c:onditioa thai the studenl is
noriraed by the University of aU auch arden or subpoenu.
). Nothin&amp; conWned in lhis aectioo shall preclude ..lhc&gt;rizal..,..........,o!(A)IheComp&lt;rollerGcncnl of the United S...... (B) !he Secretary of
!he Unilcd Stales Deputment of Helllh. Educotioa.
and Welfare, (C) an administrative head of an education qmcy or(O) State educatioaal authorit~ from
hlvinttcccu to student or Olhc;r records which may
be ncccsary in connection wilb lbe audit and evaluation of Federal ly suppor1ed educalioa proarams, or
in connection with the eofon:emml of the Federal
Jeaal requirements wttic:b relate to sucb procrams,
provided thai, excepc when c:olk:aion of·pertODally
identifllb)e irtfonnatioa is specif.eally aulhoriu:d by
Federal Jaw, any datac:ol5ectecl by sucb officiaJs lhaJI
be proleCU:d in a rnao.Der wbic:h will not permit the
pcnoaol idcntifK:Ition of .............. their .,......
by anyone other than those offlCials. and such per·
sonally identifiabie data shall be destroyed when no
lon,er needed for such audil, evaluation, and enforc:emenl of FedcrallepJ requirementJ.
-. With retpect to lhcJe Kdiona, all persons,
qeodes, or orpaizaliona deairiq ICCtU to the
rccordJor aatudea1 sball bcreqWnd to li&amp;n a written
form which lball be kepi pennaacatly with the file or
............. bul ooly r.. lnapoc&lt;loo by .............
indicatina specifically the ieJitjmaae educaltioniJ orother iD&amp;erelll.baa eacb penoa., qacy, or cquizatioa bas ia seekiq this i.nfonnatioa. Thll form will be
avai labtc 10 the school otfici.alJ reapoaaible for record
mainlenance u a means or auditlnalhe operation or
the ayslem.

D5 AII DAOMIIIISTRATM REGULATIONS

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~ Studeatl aba11 have aa oppcwtu:Dily foe a
hearina!orlbe.,.._ofcllalleoPII&amp;IIoo-of
their'"""""·
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procoduoa c:oo bo from lbe Ollia: ol lbe Vice ........,. lor Si.leor
Affain. Room 542 Capen HID.-~
._ a....do.-epnlioalbe....,_ordileipiU..
ary ........ of ...................... inlhoO!Iia:of
the Vice Pmidcol forSOodcol Alfoin. b Ia........,

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CQaylordlo-ollllaO&lt; .... . . . , _

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pnl&lt;lico!O&lt;-cmployenud~-"'
seek ud revtow this IDIIICrial .
7• The UaiVcnily coonpliellully wllh lhe New
YO&lt;t S i l l &lt; · - of lofonnodon Low'" (Artiele
VI, P\ablicOff.acen Law, u llltle.tedeft'ec:tiveJ.......
ary I, 1971), wbieb wa eucted to -.ure ,.a,tic
IICCOUDlability of"* .,acia while PR*Clial iadiwidu.als ipialt ua.........aed ioVIllioos of penoul
privacy. Recorda ~ made avai.bblc tbroup tbe

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¥1LI!N\IIIU)N)4I!NAL HI!AL11! ANDSAFI!TY

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u-..uvities.-.,.mCirilk.food

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ac:cea to recorda maintained by thc Uniwnity 1ft

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adviled to oooaact:
Roc:cnls Aa:eu Off.ccr
Deoala R. Diad:
Ofrtce of the V'tc:e Prea.ideol for Student Affain
542 Capen Hill

a.'"'""""-' Helllh .... Sofety ...... .... Replltlou ..., ""' ...... ia . . . . cloco.-by
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To 8ppella campus denial ol acceu, penoru may

.ru-: ...... lllopocdbylhcSIMoUoi-*YMflllf·
lolo; ..... of Fedcnl. Swe. and ~
_ _ , and pul&gt;llabcd by..-.
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Mr. Polrick J. """'

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Advice--.. -

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Unive:nilyR.ellaioas
State Un.ivenity of New Yort
Slate Univenity Plaza

Albooy. NY 12A46
IlL CHANG!! Of ADDRESS
Eoch-iareqaircd.,l:.eeplhcOirJCeo!a....do
and ReJialralloo lafonncd o( bia "' ber ol6cilll .,....
maDeD( maiUaa ackha: a weU albcir Buffalo area
addreu. Fallwc 10 ac11ete to dUa ~ il a
violalioo lrilble w ....... sa.daii·Widc Judicilry.
In ldditioo. wben cbqea.,. ......... ttphoOI '"Y
......... the judicilrios .............
in
lhcO!Iia:ola....do..r Jtesi- loroervic:eof
proceu. Servicoofproceu!O&lt;diaclpli.-y..... 1be deemed COIIIplcoe wben- ia
Jtudcat 11 tbe addraa fum.iJbed to the otru of
- a n d Rqialrotloo.
IY.IDI!NJ1FICATION CAJlD
TheiiUdcnl idcolilic:olioac:onl(lbeSUNY Cord) will
be i.SIUCd IO a INdent M tbe lime of bia Of bcr rvst
scmes&amp;er of cmollmcnt. 1hiJ is a permue:a1 4-year
IDcanllhlllwill.....,lbe-uiooJuheO&lt;abe
is a rq:iatered atadeDt at tbe UDivcnity.
1be ID card letVel . . otl'k:ial ideadriCation u a
Swe UniY&lt;nlly of New YO&lt;t01 Bal!olo ............
entitles tbeOWDCriO a wide-raap or te:rVioea lac: INina libnry privilqea. odmluloo ,. bome 111111e11c
events, and campua cuhanJ eveats. prnidpadoa io

No--~y-

beallh and..,..,. procoduoa"' . . . . - liahcd r.. lbe prooec1ioo or.,..._."'_,-.

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ofcnv.......,.. heollhandafotyla•voilableO&gt;all
......... .... Ollia: o { - Helllh
ands.foty. J02 Midloel Hill.
Ylll. USE OF UNIVERSITY NAMES .t
SYMBOLS
rt.copiood -orpnizllioaa may- Uoiversity

-lialcd

_...,aymbolaln-will!lboir-

ud activitiea but lbe ac IDDil be iD ..aood IMie." Ute
prollibllnd,excq&lt;by
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rAII&amp;IDellnd
aymbolac.
~or
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mailed"'.

aiUdcnl·"""""""" oc:Uvities. wcinal•-eloc-

tions. ...... ., ......... builc6apfO&lt;wbicb ........
dent il aut:borized aa::e::u, ..t can abo be UICd Ill )'OW'
dinina oerv1c:e and c1oc1iniaJ bollnce ean1. • c:ampa
cub coni. '" MCI c.Hin&amp; Cord. o Citibool: Delril
Cord. and ... veadlna debil coni.
ID conk oro --.r..-. Cltda lhlllore UJccl
illeplly will be c:oafiJcalcd and 1lll"aed OYa" 110 the
SUNY Cord Ollia: m c:unp~~. Slnco lhc conla lbo
carry a vtuidy of fmancialla'Vices, theft of a c:.rd or
misuse of a card cu lead 10 dwp iD 1be Studeal·
Widc Judic:iaryudincivilcooat.--of
lendinJan!sOIXI usioa_.ac:oodwillbe"""""'
belen the s.-.woc~c Judic:iary...,
vioWiomofopprapriMc-oflbeSOodcolltalea
and Replllliona. IU lhc oii"ICW idoMi&amp;Mioo ol IIUdcnl swua.the mcan! should be c:orricd • 11111mr:s.
Upon request by a University otficial, ltUdenb are
requiredtopf'Ciell(lbc:irUaiven:iryiDanl.lnehecue
or toss or the Clfd, a JtudeD.clhouJd obtU a new card
by c:ontacliq lhc SUNY Cord ollloe - i n Room
230 of !he Sludcnl Union Oft lbe Norm Campus. IOdin
Room 101 of lbrrimon Hllloo lbe Soulb Campus. A

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SIO.OOcborJe. iamoclc!O&lt;~oflhcc:anl.

V. STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE

COUNOL
Election rules and te&amp;Ulations. punuanl 10 s~
Education law, shall be provided to the Vice Prai·
denr for Student Affain oo later than February I o(
each year. Tbeserulea and reJUWiona must be mutually qrecd upoa, by tbe varioua INdeniJOvtmmc:ats
and will aerveu the pide fore1ecti.na lbe IUIX:eedina
ycan~vc..

VI. ABSENCE DUE TO REUGIOUS BELIEFS
a. No pCnoa sbaU be expdlcd from or refUsed
ldmissioa to an institutioa ofhiaber oduc.tioa for the

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n.rion, study, or wort rcqui.temcoll on a putic:uJar
day ordaya.
.
a. Any ltudenl in ao inltiuaaioa of hiJher edlac:ation
who is unable 10 ancnd clules on a particuJar day or
days ductordizious belicfJ lbaU beucused from uy
............ IIUdy. O&lt;_..,...._
,. h ...... be .... rapooaibiliry o{ .... lllculty ...,
adrnlnialntiYO olficiala o{ eocb lnatilulloo of biaber
cducatioD 10 make available 10 e.c:h JIUdcal .a equivaleOI--IyiOmokeup•y ............. IIUdy.O&lt;
wort roquiremeau wbicb be or abc eay bavc .uacd
bec.ouoo o f - m oay particuJardoy O&lt;doyt Wo
10 rdi&amp;iouJ be6oCa.. 1be iutilutioa ilhaU mab aVail·
able to tbe Wdeal aaacpiiv-..
10rep..
le&lt;!O&lt;cilaeoiOdMicoonpleoelbe-,....u.cl
witbour. cbaraiq tbe IIUdai. a fee of aay tiDd.
""'rcw-.. . - . I I U d y.... -roqairomeatt .-e bekl a. Friday after 4:00p.m.. 01' •)'lime
00 Saturday, aimilar Of mate .. c.Laua. uami.utions. IIUdy. " ' - . . . . . - ...... be ......
avail~~* oa oGer da)'l wltc:acYCr it ia poa.ibkl ud
pnctil:obloMicloJO. Na
bec:borpd
10 tbe II:Udeal for these mate •P classoa. cxamioatioos, Sludy, or wort rcquiremeats .

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I« ol Olliee o{ "floodom.tl ..., l..iceaaiac-

OL BUILDING HOURS
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Uoivenily . . . - ; . "
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bulJdUipfacifi.
a1oa11
poolcd.l'acollyud..rr
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b e - · - . 11:30
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lioaollotclooioaboan _ _ _ _ _ _
tioa &amp;o hblic Safety olfi!CCO

Of . .

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wben....-. --rcmaiaia-fll&lt;ili·
lioaaftecclaalaaboan_bo,.-~

lloofruaolbe~lllliY&lt;!'l'Yoi!ifH!I!!I'I- .
provide il"""" ........ o{. Pliblic's.lfilflillider

or u area supervilor.
AUadlalnialrali,.balldiapaloollbe-OIIbecodof--'-boanollbe--..
li,.ol!".,..loc-.Jin-!ocilidoo.AU-buil6i.np.--hollr.ablllbo!la-addol0d
.. 11 :30 p.m. ...... - - paalcd. .. _ ,
hourafteclbe_,....,.of .. -...Uoiveni~y
evcnl.lbeeloUoaofa~bnry.«lbeclaoi.. olofoad
ia ..... buildia&amp;-- ...... ~
maiD in lbelc bcililiea after dtc cbiDC .._, __.
have lllllhorizaDoa and must be lble an....,_
JUCb IUtboriutioD to a Public Safety oftialr or an

aenice--

__...,.. __....

- Anrc-..........
. . ...... _iaiOfUaivaUiyfaociliry-lhc
_ _ willboeo""""ruollbe buildlnJ IOd- be..,....,..,....
AU-balla..,locbdandoolyUniY&lt;nlly penoanel. residcnu and
penninedO&gt;-..
lL RESERVATION OF UNIVERSITY SPACE
AND GROUNDS
Tbc ICVCD raeopUzcd IIUdeDl orpaiuliolta. the IQ-

lbeir-..

dcmic~oflilillcd..........-andlbe

aclminiM:rlliw: uai11 of tbe SC..C Uaivasi.ty of New
YO&lt;t al B.rrlllo may raave . . - 0&lt; ooadcpontaeQ&amp;I.tapece for extncurricular activities.
A.cademic e1aaes tbaU be JCbcduJed r.. mum..m~y ......_.,... apoce. IOd 1-.:ollopae
and intramuraJ llhJetic evenu lbaU bave priority ute:
o f - ..,_and P.Joylna foc:lda. Cllh« ........
dc:mic: rdaced activities will be sc:beduJed on tbe basil
ol ..-:c availability.
~-lln:ovailablelromll&gt;eFocilitiea
~. AdvuconaticooiM-Iai(IO)-·

ina ...,.. ia reqoircd in wrillna lor all iaformalion ... b e - .......... fKili.
lioa ~- Ollia: ol C&lt;laJi:ralca ..., Special
E - . Spoce under joriJdiclion ofReadcac:o H.alla ia
.,.....,..llwouab lhc Readcac:o U!e OlfiCC.
-

RoaiclcQce KaU 1f*C is reserved directly duou&amp;b
the Otr.cc of Reaidenc::e Ufe. Oaly n:coani.zed reaidenc:e hall JfOUps are diaible to retetVe tucb spece.

ARTICLE 7: ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES, ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW
AU proviaiooa of lhc New YO&lt;t Stale Alcobolic
Bev.:rop c-ol Low and Ill Nlea of lhc Swe
Liquor Alllbori1y opply "' !he Slale Univenily of
New YO&lt;t a1 B.rrolo. Special ancnlioo should be
plid 10 lbe lollawiq replaliona;
..
..Ally pertOQ wbo
ace ola penoa
underlbeapof
_llliarepreaeau
_ _ _ _ tbe
!O&lt;Ibe-of
iadociaalbeaaleofuyala&gt;llolic..._udofulcdia lbeala&gt;llolic ................... .. such
-.iiJUillyofaaoiY_IOd_coovictlno
-..rablllbe....-bya!ia(olno&lt;..,..tbu
S200..,..by...,._r,.... .
&gt;"
O&lt;by- auc:b !iaoMII i~" (Aioabolic
Bevenp Coacrol Law, sOc:tio.. 6$.-a) '
a. "Any -under !he ... .,._ncy-&lt;loe ,_.

_,....e.....

�..,-..-.-......
y---.---

....
...- .. .. _,_..-.or....
.......,..or_. _
.......I&lt; ........ -

law......... _

..

_, ......

b«owa. roro~oe,__or,.--. .. - - .

10....._, ......... ..,. ...........
or _

_... ..illoplly,.._..,_......_
i.oajoriodicoiaaoo .-..orlllopltr ,.--.or

op.Ua--11-----=bdoqe
lbecourt or,....;--,..._-....- oo
~roraporiodor

m~~y

... ......-,-.,_,_,
r.. DOC exceodiD&amp; ooe

iD edditM:. it1poec a

- -"(IJcol&gt;olk a..,..c-ro~ Law.

Soctioo 65-b)

,. " ' " ' - • hcroioallt&lt; proridocl. ... lbe qe o( rwt:Dty-ooe yun aball poueu aay alcoholic ........... def....S bo Ibis.._, with lbe
i.Dceatto consume suc:b bevaqe. A pcnoa ...-. tbe
aac of 1weary-ooe yews may poneu aay alcobolic
beverqe with iDtcat to coasume if tbc alcoboUc
beverqe is Jivea:
A. 10 a penon wbo is a ltUdeal ia a c:urriculum

lic:enJcdor,.p-.dbylbeSialcl!ducahoaDepanmena·aod tbe student is required 10 tuee « imbibe
akoboUc bcvaqa: ia cour1e1 whieb are pan of the

required c:u:rriculum, prov;ded such alcobolic bevec- ,.
•aea are u.scct oaly foe iMtructioul JMP01C1 duritlla
clu.s CODducted punuu110 sueb carricalwD; oc
L lathe penoo OIDdcr-y-ooc yean ol . . by
lbalpenoo's _..or panliu." (Ak:ohoiK: a.......
qeControll.aw,ScctioeM-c,JDbdivisioall aad2)
"" "'Wbeaevcr a pace olflCCI' .. c1ermec1 ia IUbdivisloD lhiny-t~ueeor- 1.20ollbecrimiaal poooedute law orpoUcc otficeru ddiacd lo aabdivisioo
lhiny-rooa o r - 1.20 or lbe crimiaal.,.-..
law shall observe a penon UDder the aae of twcDiyooe yean of qe openly in pouc:uioa of u akobolk:
beverqe u ctermcd ill this chapter witb tbe illlleDt to
coasume such bcvcnae ia vioLitioo of this tcetioa.
aaid offiec:r may ICiz.c the bevaqe. aod ab&amp;U deliver
it 10 lbe c:uitody or bil or bet departmeal. (Alcohol K:
a..,.. Coalrol Law. Soctioo 65&lt;, sullctivisioa 5)
~ •No penon lk:ealed to tell alcobolic beverqea
shall suffer or pennit aay pmbliD&amp; oa cbe licensed
premises, or sutrer or permit such premiJcs to bcc:omcdisordcrty. Theuseoftbe Uceucd~s.or
""Y part tbet&lt;of, fortheulc ofloaerytick&lt;u. playboa
ofbinaoorpmcsof cbancc, oru a simulcut facility
or- simulcast theater pursuant to the I'Xioa. paramutua) *~aerial ud brccdifta law, whto duly autboriud and bowfully·conductcd lbetooo,lhallftOl coostituce aambli.Jia 'Nithin the mcanin&amp; of rhis subdivlsioa... r(7\k:oholic BevenJe Control Law, Section
106, subdivision 6)

ARTICLE 8: DRUG FREE SCHOOLS
&amp; COMMUNITIES ACT
ln conjunction with tbe l&gt;ruJ Free Sc:boolt &amp;Dd Commwlities Al!t AmCndmcats of t989,the Ulliversity at

Buffalo ...t t h o - Heallb Systat&gt; sn: commit·
led to dar aad cooeitc polidea on JUbstaace abuse
&amp;Dd a ttronc JWOII1UD. of cou.ueliDJ, trearmeol, rebabilitalioG. ud reentry. StudeMJ should be aware or
the followiac boformatic&gt;G:
• Studeol ndea aacl,.platiool prohibit the unlawful~ac,ordiltribulionofiUicitdrup

&amp;Dd ak:obol oa campus propc:rtica or u I*' or its
activibc:a. All provisiou of Sl* Ak:obolie Bever.,. Cootro1 Law and all rul.es or 1be Stato LiqiiD&lt;
Auchoril}' opply .. .....,... Nopa100uodorthooae
o f - - - . . , poaea uy.........., bevetop
wllh tit&lt; httDtl "' .,.,..__ Scao: and Fpni drua
ud aarcock laWI ate alto enforced OD campus.
Ak:ohoiK: - - may be semd tx1 caatpU1 by
- a n d orpaiuliou providod lbe be-..ea on:
DD(soldandthalsach-.iccll-bylbe
c:&amp;mpUI . . . - Boanl. For iofonnatioo,
........ AIJain (645-2912).
• . . . _ and .......
n:habilitatioa. and reeouy pros:rams are offered in
the: c:ommllllity. Prce, coafMiealial lDfonMtion ud
llaCSIIIIe:MIIIe avaiLable .. tbc Sbldc::DI. Healdl em... bo Micbad Hall by calli.oa lbe Health
Access Uoe (129-2789) for ao _ . _ . Refer-

-...-CDUIIItll.oa.

talswillbe_to.,.,.......,. _

_..,.

if iodicalod. T h o - Coottadilla c.-otrcn •

DUIIIberol-Md&amp;Ciivida~IOauilt

. . . - _ Ja-dll!*nol Alcollolics "-Y·
mout ..S ~~ Cbikft:n ol Alcobolics IDCd RJU•
larly .. JlatPoyees . . by .. Em!lioyoo...- .......... (129-21$5or645-3166).
• Tho Uoivcnily will ~ _.,.u.e tliJt:i-

STATE

UN~ YORK AT BUFFAlO

STUDEIIT CONDUCT RUUS, UIIIVUSITY STrDS AIID AOMIIIISTIATIVE REGULATIONS

..., -

. . reqotirod 10 . . . - . - vcbK:Ia .

- 1 with doe PlltiJt&amp; Oll'tce oa the North Cun·

..... All-,., - u t i - - 1 be i&gt;cJolod by
. . poiiOd uti potbllabotl tntr.. toplalioas .
a. A copoy oltho ........ Slalc Univcnity ol New
Ycot II lloll'alo V-Ie Replatlotta may be obtaittedftDaltho~oll'ltbiK:Safesy.BIII&lt;II

Hall. North C.,..... or Oll'tce ol C.,..... Patttio&amp;
-~Scrviccs,c;.rtlldorf ......... Scuth

C.,.....orEilicooComplcx. Spauidl.oa Quad.. North
~

). PERMITS. All fiiCUity , stall and lludettu will be
iaueda V-leRqiJtnlloD P&lt;tmit upon theccmplc·
tioa of vchick reJistntioa ud the p1yment or lbc.
roquind fee(a). Tho V-Ie RqiJtnlloD Pl:nnit....,
be al'lhed from the rurvicw nUrror. It will be the
....,..Wbillty or 111e mDIDrill to keep the pmnit
visible. Ol:hcr penniu are lO be affixed or displayed
iD KCOrdaDce with the: printed i.nstnactionJ issued
with lbc pcrm.il.

........... _...,r.,lt:nl_ . . .
-,......... """tnlfi&lt;tltoc-.

Viollbool of 1111e laws till result ia tiMS aad u.p to

Ufc bo 11'1- - -.. toltoi'-.
•n..-Mdovenloat:ofillicitclntputlalallw&gt;i
caalcad to pllyaical Md pa)'d&gt;oiolical depa&gt;dcacc,

and .....,. Uniwenil}' cbtqco uacucd ... lbe r1111
acc:ounl JCIIeiDeiiC will be due upoa rca:ipt and an:
t:Otllidefod .... ifoot paid by the pcoalty- ..,.,.....
ia&amp; 00 )'OW 1lllemerM (lbldeats wbo .acmpiCd lO
rqiJta' fuJJ
INI did oat rec:eive all tbeircounes
aft! SliD u.blc for tbe bal-=e due ac tbe ICCDUOt
ICIIanall). 1lre remaiaiq tCIIemc:llb will be: ICQt &amp;I
approxi.aWtly oac-month iDIC:r'Vall durin&amp; the se-

ti•.

-·

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A ........ &lt;Op'f ol the 0.,.. "'"" Scboolt and
Coa&gt;muoiJicl A d - llavallablc for IIUdcat

amouDI due uy audlori.zed defenaeao. These in·
dude TAPISUSTA ..t hlitia. waiV'III'I.. Saadeab

t&lt;Vicw. Dired i8qooirica 1D Tho Uvi.oa Well Ccotcr;
223 Uoioo; 645-2137.

ARTICLE 9: PARKING AND
T1tAffJC REGULATIONS
"' VBIIK1I! III!OIS11tA110N. All - , • ...,

any new or transfer ltudeal attcmpti.Da to Rp.ter for
tbe fltll time on or after die !irA day ol clauel. 1'hiJ
fee wiD apply to a1J ltUdenb iKtudiDJ lhca wbo
rueive •
.smiJaioa 10 cbe Ullivcniry.
s. Faihtte 10 pay lbe .....,. due by 1be penalty
dale will rcsull ia the automatic aues.smeDI of • late
pa)I!DCDI fee ofSJO.OO each lime the account as billed.
This fee is non.oeJO(iabk and muJt be paid.
6. Studertb should apply early ror any fin.ancial
aid thallbcyc.xpcct to use topey their UDiveniry bill.
7· Univenity biUs are tcot 10 the permanent ad·
dreu that is on file: with lhc: Off.ce of Records and
ReciJtmion. ll itlbe IUadc:nl's responsibility to keep

theFailure
concc:t.
to receive a bill will not be accepted as a

a.

a. Eacb ac:couut llMemeDt willlit:l tbc amoun1 due
the Uoivenity. luJy uapald cbtqco from the poevi·
.............. willbe""'"""forwanl,aodadditioaal
- . . . . paymcall. .... credits will b e - The
st.alcmad will alao iaca.le ia lbe c:akulatioa of the

bchavioral...._,pllyaicalandpoydlolocicaldamqe.. ud~blectc.th.Evea lowdoeea-.y sipifi-

..... be paid.
.. A $30.00 .... proc:caitta roc will be t:batpd 10

reuoo to waive the late payment ree .
All paymeoll tthould be made by cbcck or money
orderplyable to the State University of New Yort a1
Buffalo. Personal c:hcckl arc accepted subject to
deposit MdaCard, Visa and DiscovetCatd pay......,.....,... stutleabwlthpertnaDCD!hattdicapmeDlJ ~ KCepiCil Sludc:nts muse. compleu the: top
pi.ac coodiliooa Jbou.&amp;d sceure muaicipal permits
portion of the: bill if payina by MuteiCatd. Visa or
froiD lb£ir bome area Police lleJ-tmcnl or from the
OiscoverCard. Paymcnu forwarded by mail should
New Yo.t: StMe Jlcputmeol of Motor Vehtck:s.
be scm in lhc: returo envelope provided. The lop
5o HANDICAPI'ED PARKINO PERMITS (Tcmpoportion or the account Jlalemcnl sHould be included
ruy). s - . . . w11o occc1 special pattina c:oosiderwith your payment lO insure timely and proper credit
Jiioo due to a tcraponry baadieappiDJ condition
to the student's account Sludenu should include
"'""opply forlpccial permissioo from the orr.a: or
their penon number oo their checks. Students an:
Dilabilil}' Uviqll.eaml.o&amp;Scrviccs. 25 Capen Hall ,
ur&amp;cd to pay by mail in order to avoid lines in the
Norm Campus. A medical certirQlioD of disability
Office or Sludent Accounts. Postmark date: does oot
mUil-ythottpplicatioa.
constitute
receipt of payment
6. PARJCINO POUCY. Automobile parkin&amp; on the
campus is COD&amp;idercd to be a privile&amp;e Jn.Dled by the
C. NEW YORK STATE TUmON ASSISTANCE
UDivenity. The Admittlscntion il awue lhlt then:
PROGRAM AND STATE UNIVERSITY
m.ey be a lhortlac of c:oa.veoient putina spaces
SCHOI..ARSHIPTUmON ASSISTANCE(SUSTA)
Tbc statement of account sent to students will
clutitl&amp; pca1t periods and II ttll&lt;mp&lt;inc10 keep up wilb
the heavy clemaadl or the studeot and '"'"II}' popu· . include all New Yort State TAP/SUSTA amounts
1atioa u ef6ciently u finances and land permit. In
1ha1 an: known to the Office of Student Accounts at
order to make put.ina u equitable u pouible, an
the lime ofbilliDJ. 1belc: amounll will be: inchdcd in
the cakulatioo of the amount due. Sludents receiving
effort 11 made to keep pattina tcplations .....oabie
and strictly eafon::ed. &amp;c:b student is e~pccted to
New York State TAP/SUSTA awards that do not
wotk out a schedule of arrival at the camput whk:h
appeuon theinlatemenlof account mull provide the
will allow bim or her time to find a Jepl parkin&amp;
Offtee of Srudent Acc:ounu with a copy of their
awardcertjf.cate. When this is done, the Sludent may
place. taoonnce or the Rgulaliont is not considered
an excuse for a violation.
deduc11hc amount oftheawatd from the amoun1 due:
f. PartinJ is prohibited al all timet on the roadways
the Univenily. The combination or all New York
(except u posted), sidewalb, laWilS, grounds. lanes.
State: awards may not exceed the amount or tuition
and thtouJbways of partina areas. The University
char'Jcd, except in some cases for special scholumay have iUeaally parked vehicles towed away at the
ships. Recipients of special New York State scbolu·
ships who are not eli&amp;ible forT AP monits must still
'"fncn' expcDJC.
complete a TAP application to be eligible for the
PARKING FINES AND PENALTIES. A Univertity parkinaswrunoru: is issued for any non-moving
special scholanhips.
violation that occun on the campuses of the Stlte
D. TUITION AND FEES COVERED BY
Ua.iYUiit)l pr New Yoct aa Buffalo. Payment or the
WAIVERS . GRANTS. OR GOVERNMENTAL
fiaC auoc(a~cd wilb .such violation is returnable 1o AGENCIES
theorf~eeofStudentAccountJwithinlhclimepc.riod
1bcte an: a variety of luition waivers gnntcd by
spcei.fied oo lhc: summons.
the Univenity. 1belc: include employee tuition waivA plea apiDsl a Urliveniry parkin&amp; summons
en. Gr.duate Student tuition scholarships. and coopmUSI be Rtumed in the II'WlnCf described on the
entive teacher tuition waiven. Any tuition waiver
IWMlOI1S in order to request a bearina before a
received in the orrace of Student Accounts by the
hcarin&amp; officer. An appea1 of the: hearinJ offacer's
billiDJ date will be reflected oo the swemcn1 of
dccis.ioa is nude 10 a three-member Rview panel.
KCOUnt and will be included in the calculation of the
f. UABll.JTY. The Univen.ity accepu no tiabilily
amount due:. ODe type or tuition scholarship. the
for lou or damqe to a motor vehicle or iu contents.
gnduate uudcnt tuition scholan!Up. cannot be fully
This iDciYdes any damage caused by movina or
processed until proor lhal the uudent has filed for •
towina.
TUition Auistance P'roenm Award (TAP) is provided to the Office of Studenl Accounts. Proof ·of
ARTICLE 10: OFFICE OF STUDENT filinJcorllisuora TAP AwudCertifieateorappearon a TAP roster. This requirement docs not
ance
FINANCES AND RECORDS
apply to the otbere&amp;~e&amp;ories or 1uitioo waiven. If •
A. RESIDENCY
Sludent is n:cc.ivinJaiUition waiver and h docs not
Studcats who pay tuition u non-EUidenu of New
appeM" oo the statemen1. of account. the student muu
Yort may apply to be mcopizcd u EUideftu. An
provide the OffiCe ofSwdent Ac:cou.nts with proof or
applic:atioa form and • swemcnt of the cireumreceiviDBihc tuitioa waiver before the tuition waiver
lt&amp;DCCI which permit a11udc:ntto be rccoanized u a
can be deducted rrom tbe amount due. TUition waivresidcac are available lathe Student Accounts Off.ce
ers donotcoverfccs and they. therefore. mull be ptMt
11 232 Capen Hall and Ha)'CI AIIDCX B .
by the due date in order to avowt • late fee.
lntheeventofaltudemwhobureceivcdfinancial
Studc:n" ~by GtaDU and Oovcmmcntal
aid bucd on noo-residcnt IUIUI.. ud is tbl:n pnleid
Aaencies DWII provide documenccd proof to the
New Yort Stille ra.idc:Dc:y, and rhc financial aid
OffiCe or Swdenl Accc:w.mts before ded&amp;actina sponreceived u alliOD-faident is paler than the permisIOfed unou.ntl from their amount due.
sible amount for a ruidcat IIUdent. Wd student is
Where there are two or more mcus of relievina•
CJbli,-t ID .-a the ditr........
Jndu.ate stude:ftt of his or her tuition charJes, the
L PAYMENT OF TUITION AND FEES
University will always tum to the tuition waiver
RI!OULA110NS
budaet lul Ft:w example. a Jrad&amp;Wc assiswu a,&gt;l1lc Ullive:ni()' has a student invoicinJ syltem
poin&amp;cd 10 a research IIUistanlship is also supported
by hit or ber spoasor. Tbc UDiveni()' will bill tbc:
provide&amp; llfiOCific """ Olllllpidc boformatioo
sponsor even thouJb this rctcarCh assistantship posiall dwpt. paymcall. and """"'"""" defer·
men~~. II at.o diJplayl tbc various ltUdeoc statUI
tion provides aiUition waiver.

iAf..-ioo....SO&gt;tioocnaitoclbel&gt;ill. HiJhli&amp;h.. ol
uti.......,_. sa.- . l b e - ... oulliood below:
----t:OtllidefodbythoS..L Studcab wiU receive up to four llatementl of
--Witlellllkiarycitho~forlbelolaittac:coua1: eac:b ...acr. The flllt ltlllemeal will be
maikdtoyowpc:rmaDCIII·.sdraa-..aximatdyone
ofl'ltlllic o.der. s-tiooa may._ from
........, to eq&gt;uilioo lor violalioo of uaivcnily
moodl bcfoR the 11art ol the ICIDCiter. Tuition. fees

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'*

._HANDICAPPED PAilKING PERMITS (penna·
neat). 'The Univenity rcc:opizcs Ollly state or municipality iaued iwldic:oppod pattina penni ....
valid foe usc in desipMed budicappcd patkina

plioory-""-

• Local, - . and fc:detaliaws for tho lllllawflll
pour:aioa ordiJiributioD of illicit chp ud ak:obol
ate cafoR:ed oa ampus. T1lae iaclU tbe S~a~c
Ptoal Code proviaioos tx~lbe poaealoD uti ulc of

any...,..- will be cb«ptta $30.00 ' - pafiD""'
ree pllll a SJO.OO
proccuina: ree for • lOCal of
$60.00 ia lise fees. T'hete foci: ~re IMIIftlleiO(iab &amp;Dd

--

ptOVidc tho Ollia: ol """""- with
proof ol tk ftCICipt ot -=Ia - .-...~ prior to lbc
pcaalry dMe ia order to deduct tbe award from tbeir

J.a-.itoa-tlolltlo-........tvlly
.
rqilea' ...S. tbetefon.. do 80II'CICCiiw lbe flnl biD ot

L STUDENT FEES
Tbc Colleae Fee is • swc asseucd mandalory rcc.
The Studeat Activity Fee is a studeDt uscued mandalory foe. sfudeot He&amp;llb lnmnoce is maotlato&lt;y
ror all full-time ltlldeau. cr-Jualt: students catryin&amp;
rUne hours or mc:wc.. and al' foreip studc:nu. h can be
waived by providina proof of adequare cxillina covcnae 10 the Studc.Dl Health lnsuraoce Off.c:c prior to
the dcadlioc - · TntuportllloD. Health Service.
Athletic. and Tcc:boolol)' fOCI .,. IWCSICd for all
studeols, but may be: waived ia certain cimunst.ances
(e.J., a beallb profcsdoM aftil.ladoa that requires •
INdenl to EUide outJide of Bllffalo for a tcmeslcr).
Studeols should c:oa&amp;act the: offtce~ responsitMc for
fee aucu:meDI to uc:at&amp;in eliJibility and application
~for a waiver.
f. T!JmON AND CREDIT REFUNDS
Whc:D. studeal rqi.stc:n it is spcci6cally under·
stood thai~ he or she will pay iD f\111 for all charzes
assumed aa rqiJtnlion. Pail~n or lnabiliry to atteod
clus docs not cbaap the PIYmenl due or entitle the
ltUdal to • rm.L Studc:au wbo off"tcia.lly rcsi&amp;n.
c:hliqe from full time to part time or oo • per1-time
bail Jedltc:c their IChcdule will be cbarpd on the
fonowiac bais:

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Scvenl.._ionstolbepronoodtduadschedule
doc.lisa.. Studmu who offlri&amp;lly raip from CCMJeS
and provide lbc documealcd proof listed below will
receive a fuU adjustmcnl of lhc:ir 1uitKMI charp for
lbc counes iavolvcd.
t. Medical reuoa.s thai oceut durina the fd half of
the tcmester which prptlibh the: student from eompldioa the ........... Documeutcd proof must be
submitled from a physiciaa. oo the physician· s SUitonery statinJ the be&amp;inninJ dale of iliDcss aod that the
student is: unable 10 attc:nd class.
a. A chance in the itudeol' s wort tchcduledurina the
fi,... half of the liCmes&amp;cr that makes it impouiblc: ror
the student to attend classes. 1bc job mull be ooc that
the swdc:nl bdd whea he: or she R&amp;is:kred- A leuer
must be submincd from the employer oa compuy
t wionety. saatina the beJinn.ina dale of employment
plus the dale of chanJC in the wld schedule.
J- EnteriDJ active military servKe. You must submit
• copy or your military orden.
4- A documcnled processinJ eJTO( made in any Uni·
versity orficc. Lcner oo University stationery it required.
A student who is entitled to a refund has ooe year
from the date or the o~&gt;~crpaymeiU tO request the
refund. or it is forfeiled.
Notr: A./I fu.s and upou~s an Sllbj«t to clton1~
wit how rtOiic~ at 1M discntion of th~ Uniwrsiry.
G.. UNPAID UNIVERSITY ACCOUNTS
A Sludent with an unpawt and overdue univen.ity
account will not be pennined 10 rcJiStc:r for the
rollowinJICmcsler. Nor will a 11uden1 be entitled to
receive a sutemeot or trarucripc or his or her credits
until his or her tuition. fees and all ocher charges
authorized by the State University. including but not
limited toctwz« rordamaJing Residence Hall propeny, have been paid 1be Universi()' doe$ noc act as
a rolkclton •seney ror commercial outside groups or
individuals.
H. PENALTIES
No Sludent is eligible to receive a de&amp;JU. cerufi cate ofaccompli$hmc:nt or hononbk dismissal until
all charJes due to the University or to any or its
related divislons an: paid in full and all Univenity
property has been retwncd in acceptable: condition.
TIM: University reserves the riJht to change 01" add
to ill recs at any time. Offtcial infomwion concc.ming tuition and fees and their payments should be
obtained from the OffK:C of Student Finances and
Reconls (829-2181 ).
lf a student is dismissed from the: University or an y
oriu related divisions for causes ocher lhan academic
deficiency. all rces paid()(" 10 be paid shall immediately become due and payable.

ARTICLE 11: APPROVAL
1bc:sc Rules and Reaulatioru have been approved by
the Council or 1bc: Slate University of New York at
Buffalo on April II , 19Hand canbe made available
on cuset:te tapes ror the visually impaired in the
Office of Scrvkcs to the Handiapped. 2S Samuel P.
Capen Hall, North Campus.. These Rules and ReJulations shall remain in effccl until supenedcd by
legislalion or amended by the Council or the State
University of New York at Buffalo.
QuestiOM. comments and sugcstions related IO
Student Condtx:t Rules. Univenity Standards tnd
Adminiurat.ive ReJul.alioos should be: directed to the
OffJCC of Judicial AffaiRK&gt;mbudsman. 405 Capen
Hall.
STUDENT AFFAIRS. April// . /996

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
AT BUFFALO CAMPUS SEXUAL
AsSAULT PREVENTION
COMPLIANCE STATEMENT

1996-97 Academic Year
Pnparrd in complimtu wirh tlu ~~~rol Stw/~fll
RiJiu to Ktww GNI Ctunp~U ~ct~riry Act (Tit/~ 11Criltv GNJ A.warrwss Gnd CampllS S«~riry. Section
668.47 (a} 12} aNI StGI~ EdMCGtion Llzw (Section
6450(/)a).
As pan ofaconlinuina Un iversity at Buffaloeffonto
promote the. pcnona1 safety oftbc academic cocnmunity, lhc rollowin&amp; informacion bas been prepared (01"
campus considcnlton. Tbc i.nformalioa will be. updated annually and is available to all cumol students
and employees. as well as incomin&amp; studentl. h is
made available to prospective students and employ-

ees on rcques1 .
SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
CoUcae students an: more vulncr.blc: 10 ~ex.ual u uulttbananyothctqe JfOUP· Nuionally. the: majorily or tq)OI1ed victims and offenders are of col lese
qe.. with the rate of victimization hipcst amon&amp;16
10 19 year olds:. Tbc second-hiJ_hest vktimiw.ion
rate is ClipcrieDCCd by women between 20 and 24
yean or qe. Offender popuiDiionJ shows. similar
qedistribu.tioo.
Traditionally qed coUeae students an: vulnerabk
to beinJ victims of vio&amp;encc:. Tbcy an: typically in a
DeW scttinJ with a variety or environmental streuors.
and away from direct parenlal supervision and past
support syswns.. They an: under peer pressure. their
idealities are DOl yet fum,lheircornpct.e.aa: is not yet
esa.blisbed, &amp;Dd lhey oftca have mistakeft beliefs
aboutlhe:iri.nvi.acibility. They livcamonJotbcnwho
are uperimentiaa with acw frccdonu. Tbul. coUcae
IIUdeaU arc a j,opu1aioa M rilL
Tbc mo~~:
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�YORK AT BUFFALO
AND ADMINISTRATM REGUlATIONS

knows o nly casu.lly, from a residence hall, a class, or
through mutual friellds.
Regardless of the relationship between them. if
one person uses force to coerce another into submit·
11nato JCJ.~.&amp;al bchav~. or i( cdnaent is 001 Jiven by
the other party. thtacc iJuoJawful. The woe criminal
laws and penalties apply in cues of acquaintance
rape and stranacr rape, and other forms of JCJ.~.&amp;al
asuulls.
Many acqua.intancc rapes involvinJ coUcae stu·
dents follow similar paucrns. Acquaintance rapes
often occur at parties or in residential tetlin&amp;•· Fre·
quentJy. the students involved in these usauhs have
been drinking heavily or using druas. Detailed UB
crime repons and prevention information can be
obtained from the Dcpartme"nt of Public Safety.
There are many sugestions on how campus com·
munity members can reduce the risks of suual as·
sault, including:
• Walk with confidence and be alen. Auailanu
are less likely to target a person who appean asser·
tive ancJ difficult to intimidate.
• Be aware of your surroundinp and the people
around you.
• A void shrubbery. dark doorways, and other
places of concealment while walking. Shun shoncuu
through poorly lit areas.
• Avoid areas w~ there are few people.
• Leave your car in places that will be lighted
when you return at night.
• Wa lk or ~n with a friend .
• Before entering a room Of car. check to ensure
11 is safe to proceed.
• Change directions if you sense you are being
fo llo wed or someone suspic ious is near. Don't be
afraid to run or call for belp. Go to a store, police or
fire station, or a nearby hou.se.
• Wear clothes and shoes that provide for freedom
of movement .
• Contact the Anti Rape Task Force (ARTF @
829-3322) walk &amp; van escon service for houn: and
locations.
• UK personal safety devices and blue light
telephones which may help deter victimi:z.ation (de.·
vices avai lable: through Public Safety).
• Have first dates io public places. Separate trans·
ponation should be considered.
• Sc:J.ual desires and limits should be clearly
communicated. Be careful to avoid givinz or- rccciv·
ing mi1.cd messages. Remember that leaving a party
or other social event with someone you have just met
can be dangerous.
• Be aware. that use of force , pressure., or coercion
1s unaCceptable: andean lead toscJ.ual assault charJCS.
• Don't take"silence as consent. Respect the word
.. 0 ." Don't have seJ. with anyone who is drunk Of
out. lntc:rc:ourse with someone who is unable
to ~ive consent or is physic~ly helpleu is 111pe, as
defined by st.ate criminal statutes.
• Seek education on rape prevention. Attend or
request workshops and seminars (for both men and
women) that are nailable through Public Safety.
Anti -Rape Task Force, and Eric. County Citizens
Committee on Rape and Se1.ual Ass.lult (CORSA:
858-7879).
• Call the ScJ.ual Assault Information Line (64S34 11 ) fo rinfonn.ationonaction to take in the event of
a suual assault. options in reporting. and resources
avai lable to the victim.
Many acqUIIIntance rapes lDvotn akobol or
drugs. Avoid drugs and eJ.ccssive aJcohol in a dating
situation. Judgment should noc be allowed to become
impaired.
More tbaa 601. or aU reported rapes occur
between acquaintaD«:: and 40% of these occur in
the home.

REI'Om•5 omo•s
Viclims of campiU sexual assaults ar~ advis~d 10:
• Report the u..uult. Ca ll Public Safety at2222
o r, if the assault occurs off campus, the Police at 911 .
F~mal~ offic~rs au lJI'ail4bl1! upon r~quul. The
University at Buffalo sltOn&amp;IY encourages assault
reporting, but reporting does (lOl mean that you must
prosecute. Call the Department of Public Safety
Se1.ual Assault lnfonnatio n Line for information

(645-3411).
• Contact a clMt fritad or relative for 1u pport.
• Sed mfllicalattenUon imtHdiately. Whether
or not you repon the assau lt, you should have a
medica l eum ination immediately. The cum is con·
flden ti al . Medical personnel will test for sexually
transmiued diseases, look fo r physical injuries, and
collec t physical evidence. If you repon the assault,
Public Safety or the police can provide tr11nspona1ion
to t~ hospital and ammge for a Crisis Services
suual assault advocate 10 meet you there. You may
also go to the Student Health Center or call Crisis
Services direcUy . If you choo.se to go to the hospilal
withoul notifying Public Safety or the police, the
hospita l can still collect physica l evidence, while
protu ting your anonymity, in case you later decide
10 prosecute.
Sl!•·~ral options ~xis I f or reponing a sexual assuult:
• File a repon with Public Safety or the local
police. Reponing the assault immediately and pre·
serving evidence will give you a fouadation for
prosuution. If you later decide no1 to prosccuce, the
repon may help authorities identify the: offender and
prevent the victimizatio n of otben.
• You may file an anonymous proxy repon or the
details of the assault with the Counseling Center, or
Student Health Centerorotbereampus uniu. iociOO·
ins the studcnt-opcnued Anti-Rape Task Forcc:ISeJ.u·
ality Education Center. While no police action can be
taken against the assailant, the report may help iden·
tify a multiple assailant or- othet paucms.
• You may aJao file a complaint with the Student
Judiciary for disciplinary action qainst the assailant,
if the usailant in an on-ampus incident is asludcnt.
This can be done in conjunclioo with criminal pros·
ecution, or instead of it.

When you report an usauk, you have the ri&amp;ht:
• To have aJI inc:ide:ot and medical recordJ kepi
conrtdcoliaJ,
• To be trealed without prejudice reJ.If'diq race.
academic class. lifestyle. SCX. ICJ:ual orieot8tioa,
ace. occupation. rcliJious beliefs. or physical diJ..
abilities.
• To be made aware of aQd receive medical trat-

ment. psy&lt;:holoti&lt;oJ- ud leplCOUIIICiina.
• To proaecule Ot not 10 proiCICUie, and
• To answer only thole questions re1evaru to the
crime.
Public Safecy and local public . , . _ . wart
"'Bf1hcr clooely to aptoro oil optical ud to obcaiD
coovk:tions in JUual asuult CUCI. UB pe:t'IODntl will
a.uia srudenls in notifyiq I&amp;Jtbcriliel aDd ~na
ror a sexual assault 8dvoeale, if requested by victim.

• - - . e . . w e -. monlerto..-vethebosc
possible evidence, it is DCICeiW)' thai you not bathe.
douche. comb your hair. cbaa.Jc elotbin&amp;. or dlstutb
the &amp;JU in which the crime oc:euned.
• Do DOt
'fbeusaiiaDI is m;ponsible for the usau.lt. not you. ~le react in various
ways to aexual assault. While some resist. Olben do
not for reuoru such as fear, self-blame, oruawillin&amp;·
neu to bun somcoac tbcy know. 11 is lmportaat to
note that any t'CIICtion is normal aDd )qilimaac. Re·
member, npe is a crl.e CMialtled ...... you,
not by you.

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VICTIM SUI'POIIJ SUMCU
Se1.ual US&amp;llll is a traumatic experieDce, and i1 is
recommendod thai victims seek COURJelinJ. Coun·
aeliDJ services are available lhrou&amp;h tbe Couueling
Center ac 645-2720, the studeot-spoasorcd Sexuality
Educarion Center at 829-2.584, and Crisis Servic.u at
834-3131.
The Univenhy and volunlecr student cqa.niutions maintain a ne1wort of counselin&amp; and support
services for the victims of sexual usauiL 1'bcte
campus proa.rams are supplemented by other se:r·
vices available lo the WCSk:m New York area.
Ooc:ampus.the~ofl'llblicSafe&lt;y(2222 )

IJ"'Vidcs trained respoasc to ~aual auauJ1 calls.
Medical treatment is provided throuch local hospitals and the Stucknt Health Caner. Other victim
support is available thro&amp;a&amp;b the Cowu:elin&amp; Cea&amp;cr.
the Sexuality Educalioa .Cemer. aod tbe Anti·Rapc
Task Force. tn the residence balls. pofeuioaal and
student staff are trained to provide immcdiale sup.
port services to victims while seelda&amp; professional
resources from other campus BJCOCiel. Several off
campus agencies are also available to provide victim
support services. Sec UB "Response 10 Victims of
Sexual Assaults" protocol and attacbed listina of on
and off campus resources.
·

VICTIM AUAIMMOOAnOII
The University at Butra)o is committed 10 accontJllO.
dating requested changes in student ac:ademie and
living siluations after aJlcged ae.x offenses when the
changes are appropriat:e and rcasooably available.
Victim requesu for accommodations can be directed to Public Safety, reside.occ baU offK:ials. the
Student Health Center, JudiciaJ Affairs, or other
appropriate offic:es,·includioa the Dean of Studen&amp;s.

AWUIIISSAIID l'tllYIIITIOII,__MIII5
The Un.ivcnily is committed 10 increasing the academic. community' a awareneu on iuues related to
sexual assauU and prevention.
Awareness and prevention programming is a key
feature of new studenl oricnwion progn~ms. Work·
shops on prevention and report.in&amp; arc conducted by
the Department of Public Safely, Orientation student
staff, and some student organizations, like the Sub
Board I Playen. tn addition. sexual uuult ·~are­
ness and prevention information il highli&amp;htcd in the:
annual sludent guide. which is initiaJiy distributed to
new students., and then updated annually for return·
ing students.
Public Safety provides a variety or programs and
publications on sexual uu.ult, available throughout
the yeu. In addition. il sponsors a Personal Safety
Task Force whtch produces an annual campus secu·
rity repor1 and recoi1')Jntnds safety improvements
throughout the campuses. 1be monthly meetings arc
open to the campus community.
Within residence haJis, an emphasis has been
placed on staff training, includ.ina:appropriatc materials in manuaJ s, programs, workshops, and publica·
tions for the residents.
Other campus units and organi:z.ations provide
infonnation and proJramming as w~ll. These include.
Affinnative Ac1ion. Commuter and Off.CampusStudent Services , Anti·Rape Tuk Force, the Sexuality
Education Center. Counseling Center, and student
governments. Other prevention programs include
annual safety fairs and aSK awareaeu run.
Additionally, crime prevention and awareness
newsgroups are accessible through both the Internet
and WINGS .
.

LAWS AIID COIIDIKT RE&amp;ULAnOIIS
'The University at Buffalo will not lolerate SCJ.ual
assault, abuse., or twusment.
AU federal , state, and municipal laws apply on
e&amp;mpus and are considered part of tbc: U.Uvenity at
Buffalo Student Conduct Rules, University Stan·
dards, and Administrative Regulations (Conducl
Rules). This includes the New York State Penal Law,
which deta.ils the criminalscacuces dealing with se1.
offenses. According to New York Suue statutes.
there are varyin&amp; degrees of sexual usault. SEXUAL

ASSAULT OF ANY KIND IS A CRIME. In compliance with the Univenity Conduet Rules, any student who is found 10 have committed physicaJ vto.
1ence or abuJe (including acquaiotance rape, verbal
abuse. threats. intimidatioll. harusment, coe:rcton.
and/or other conduct which tbrea&amp;cns or endanJ:en
the health or safety of any pmoo) i• subject to
disciplinary ac~ion .
Sexual usault is any actual or attempted non·
consensual sexualiCtivity includina. but not limited
10, forcible anal or oral JCk. anempted inletcOUriC, or

sexualtouchin&amp;.byapenoo(s)kDOwoorunkDownso

the vlc:tiaL
Rape is an ace of sexua.llaeen:ourae with a pencn
qa;,.. biJ/bcr will ud . . . - . wbodlcrhillllcr will
ia overcome by force« fear re.1tiJta ttom tbe tbrelt

oflcxa:, O&lt;bydrupodmini _ _ _ ""
when, boc:auxof.-.1 der!cieDcy, lihe biuaopoble
of ........ O&lt;wbenllbebbolowthelll'l&gt;itnryqeof
CODKOl. or wbco slbe is llDCOIIICioul or odtcrwile
pbyaically UDible to com.muaica&amp;c willinpeu. Be
aware that b.aviaa acx with tomeOPC who is UA&amp;blc to
Jive coaseDI by beiq mcD:tafly i~tated or uconscioos (puled OUI) ia rape.
New York Stile law recopiz.cs that a married
womaa can be: roped by her busbood. Matri.,. does
not neceuorily imply-. Notelbol thethroaof
force is JU.fficietJt muy womea repott fearin&amp; for
their lives even when their artacker iJ oot anyifta a

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DurioaO&lt; upon tbc:COIIIpletioo or ,.;.....;p.ion by
tbe Ocplrtmenl al Pbbtic Safe\)', details o( dtc Ill·
qed .....m m1y be: provided to Judicial Aft'ain.
This may be acc:ompm\icd by a recocnmeadlbon fOf
............. peadiDJ I beariDJ 00 the - · If tbc:
iiiiiiiO&lt;tiMc ..
with lbe l&gt;irectorof'JDdiclal Atfaht ad ode lpiWOpriOic Unlvenity .......,od..., be: ......,..t Sudla
meetiqcanbc:-ooclarilytbc:....,.._ar.,., raolutioo oe tbe
pouiblo
ldmiJailtnrllive raolutiou. wbich could involve witttdrawalln&gt;m UB O&lt;oda saacdou.
PaiUoa•adalioislrabveraotutioo,Studeai-Wode
Jucficiary (SWI) ~ . . illllil&gt;lled. SWJ
mceta c.ch week. but eaa. be called iJIIo eiDCIJ'*)'
scuionifDeeeiUI')'. Ialtial appcanDCCbeforc SWJ is
IO&lt;the....-ofarni-Apka .......... can

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FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS
s.-1996
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-evideDceadadetmae. Tbisoccunbefon:apuelof
tru.. ju~Do;os.
WbcD appeari.Da: or tcstifyin&amp; before a campus
judicial body. tbc: lollowloa priocipka apply:
• The ICCUICt .... the~ hi:"Ye tbc ri&amp;ht 10
have a pc:noa or pe:non:s of their c:boice accompay
them~ diaciplilwy bc:winp.

•Ba&lt;bbavethe ri&amp;htto.....mproaeatdufioa the
..~ proa:cdioa.
• lrTeleYaa&lt; put ...... bisu&gt;ry will ... be: dbcusted durioa tbc: beariD&amp;·

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ud 1 0 - .. _.,pr;a., pooalty lltbc:is fouad In \'iolalioa of the code.
• potties have tbc: ri&amp;bt 10 be: wormed
iJrurllldialdy of tbe OUICOrDe o( the bcari ...
PIIIAI.nUAIII~

Under New York's Penal Law, aiminalscx otreues
.,. claalf&gt;Cd 1n&gt;m ClaP A Mbdcmoanon lhrou&amp;b
Clus B Feloaiel. Tbete offenses, inchadinJICI.u.al
abuse, IC&amp;ual miscondu&lt;t, and rape. ""' punlsbable
by sentences maciDI from six mooths to 2S yean
imprisoruneot, aDd raoes.
On campus, judiciaJ bodiCI: cstablisbcd to consider c:ascs invoJvina studcat violatiofts caa iaslitute
a range of suctiona. includin,: wuninp. notation
on record. restitution, removal from resklcDCC balls,
toss of privileses as may be consisk:ot with tbc
offense committed a.nd the rehabilitation of the stu·
dent, disciplinary probation (with or without lou of
desipatcd privi1e&amp;es for a definite period of time).
suspension• from the University for a definite or
indefinite period of time, or expulsion• from the
Uoivenity. Other J&amp;DCtions as may be approved by
the Uni't'CJ'1ity' s judicial bodies as weU.
• Tltn~ stUtCtiOtU, wM" rrcomtM.tuled. an submit·
t(dfor fiMI nview impiDM-tt14tio" by tM Pnsidcnt
or discipliNJry desigme.
11-~ 011 RCUIIIIT M«&lt;DUUS

The campus c:oramwlity is advised and updated on
safety and security throu&amp;b a variel)' of methods.
These iochkle publication of the Annual Security
report, which focuses on crime awam'ICSJ and personal safety. The report isprintcdanou.ally in campus
newspapc:n.
In additioa. tbe Dep.rtmentofPublic Safety widely
distribuleS other publications on security issues. includill&amp; Sofety AWGrtrti!S.J, PTn~DrriftB Acquainlancl!
RaJN, aod Publ.k Sqfety. Safety and security issues arc
also prominen1ly feaaurcd in tbc Guide to Ruidmu
Hail Livi.ng and New Discoveries Snukm Guitk.
Several times each year, Public. Safety and the
Personal Safely Committee circulate Gmdo~ . a
newsletter on campus safety issues and pe.rsonoel.
Notiftcation is also made to tbc campus commu·
nity, as appropriate, on specific t))reats to campus
safety throu&amp;h campus media, publications, posters.
and Olber methods.
1be:DcpartmentofPublicSafery provides a wcckJy
listing of crime on campus that details tbc dale, time,
location, and offense of campus criminal incidents.
The listin&amp; is circulaled to campus offw:ca and is
summarized weekly in the campus newspaper. the
Reponer and the student ncwspape:r, '1'1fc Sp«tnun.
Many campus uni&amp;s participate in the UniveBity's
crime pn::venlion education program. Tbe Department of Public Safety conducts wortsbops ~ diJ..
tributes safety infon:nation reaularly. 'Ibe campus
Personal Safety Task Force meets regularly to review
campus crio:le policies and procedures aad bas iosti·
tuted an information campajp to iocrease Jlude:Dt
awareness. Each lbldcnl oric:Dtatioa proanm bu a
wortsboponcrimeandJCX.uaJ usault prevcalioa. ln
addirioo. the Raideoce Ufe p1)ll'&amp;Dl and maoy stu·
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Volume 27. No 30

((The university is and must be an institution
without intellectual boundaries. It is and must be
whelly free to prosecute the searchfor truth.))
(SAMUEL p, CAPEN)
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Rich to receive Norton Medal at
sesquicentennial commencement

The Jacobsoos, ...t.oCIDII!d
bachelor's degrees, socialwork catif'JCationand.-'a

degreea iD aocial
By MARY BETH SPINA
News Services Staff

OBEIIT E. RICH SR.,
founder and chairman of
Products Corp., will receive
Buffalo's most prestigious
or
les P. Norton
sesquicentennial
Medal, at the univers
commencement ceremony on May 19.
Also at the ceremony, Jen:my M. Jacobs, chairman and
chief executive officer of Delaware North Companies, will
receive an h0001l11}' degree.
About 5,500 studeots will be candidates for degrees from
the university during 13 scpa·
rate commencement cerem&lt;&gt;niestobeheldMay 17- 19; the
MedicaiScbool'sCOillltlCIICement was held May 12.
UB Presideot William R.
Greiner will speak at the
university's I 50th COillltlCIICement ceremony, to be held at
IOa.m.onSunday,May 19, in
. Alumni Arena on the North
Campus.
Greiner and Provoot Thomas E. Headrick will confer
RICH
degrees on graduating seniors
from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the
Faculty of Arts and Letters and
·
·'
the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The university also will
award honorary degrees dur·
ing individual school commencement ceremonies to Max
B.E. Clarkson, fOTI\W president of Graphic Conrrols, Inc.;
Gaynor
and
Florence
Jacobson, a husband and -wife
who have won international
acclaim for helping hundreds
of thousands of persecuted.
Jews, including survivors of JACOa
Nazi death camps, immigrate
to friendly countries, and Helen M. Ranney, a pioneer in
research on sickle cell anemia.
The Norton Medal is presented annually in public recognition of a person who has, in Norton's words, "performed
some great thing which is ideotified with Buffalo ... a great
civic or political act, a great book, a great work of art, a great
scientific achievement, or any other thing which in itself is
truly great and ennobling and which dignifies the performer
and Buffalo in the eyes of the world." Philip B. Wels, chair
of the University Council, will confer the medal.
As founder and chairman of the board of Rich Products,
the country's largest farnily-owoed frozen-food manufacturer, Rich is a pre-eminent corporate citizen of the Niagara
Frontier, as well as a key partner for the university. Fifty
years lgo, he served as chair of the University Centennial
Committee. He also has served as president of the UB
Alumni Association, as a member of the University Council
and as an advisor on many other major university initiatives.
A 1935 graduate of UB, he was captain of both the
football and wrestling teams. His lifelong commitment to
college and professional sports-as an athlete, coach and
patron- won him one of the ftrst places in the Buffalo Spons
Hall of Fame. He also has been a supporter of the arts, health
care and businesses in Western New York.
A graduate of1he UB School of Management, Jacobs will
receive the honorary doctorate in humane letters from the
State University of New York.
He heads Delaware North Companies, Inc., a $1 billionplus diversified international holding company that be and
his immediate family owo. Delaware North has interests in
the foodservice, sports, sports-facility ownership and management, hospitality, parks services and pari-mutuel industries.
He has served as chairman, director, and currently, trustee
of the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc. In 1983, Jacobs

work~ UB,

will receive boocrary doctoratt:s
inhumane letters
from SUNY at
the School of THE
Social Work
c:ommeocemen1 ceremony, to be held at 6 p.m. on May 19 in
Slce Coocert Hall on the North Campus. The BeD. Barbra

Kavanaugh, Buffalo council member.C.Jar&amp;e, will addres6

donated $1 million to establish Jacobs Management Center,
of the UB School of Management, and to fund two
academic chairs in the school. He was named the school's
Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year in 1985.
In addition, he chairs a groul' of inlemational leaders,
lmowo as the UB President's Board of Visitors, who advise
the university on strategic issues.
bo~

graduates. Greiner will confer degrees.
Gaynor Jacobson worked for30yeustobelp lnmdtedsof
thousands of Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors,
escape discrimination, torture and death, and to aeJ(Itiatc
their safe immigration to new seulemeniS iD the United
States, Brazil, Turkey,lsrad and elsewbere.
He initially worbcl for the American Jewish Joint DiltributiooCommitlee (.!DC) in the 1941laandemly IIISOI,oerving
as country directorOVflllledna the organizlltioo 'a retief a&lt;:livities in Italy, Gr=e, Czccboslovakia llld Hunpry. At ooe
point, he was amoled and jailed as a spy for a abort time in
Huopry. He was insuummtal in keepiDg the Czech borders
open to Jews fleeing fnm Polaod followiDg W&lt;llld Warn.

Continued on page 3

�3

To tfle Members oftfle
University at Buffalo
Clus ofl996:

national ftSCal
reinvention,
about what issues are !be responsibility of
federaJ government, IJid what
issues must be
oddressed by !be
states. Today,
these issues include health
care, civil rights,
welfare reform,
and enviroomeo-

""'""""'""""'I

On this
weela:od, UB is
proud to join you in celebnting !be compl&lt;&gt;tion of your degree. We applaud !be intellectual, profesaiooal, IJid pemooalsuccesses you have achieved.
As you reach this special mllestooe this
year, UB comes to a mllestooe of its owulbe JSOth anniversary ila fOUIIdiDg.ln
1846, JeadeJs of !be rapidly growing city of
Buffalo docided to build a strong univemty
for !be young leaders of their thriving Great
Lakes frootier.
The challenges of !be day mandated
thoughtful, weD-advised leademhip not just
for Buffalo, but fe&lt; !be natioo IS a whole.
The 1846 Oregon Treaty IJid !be MexicanAmerican War-which began on !be day of
UB's founding- added vast oew territories
to !be United Slates. Westward expansion
also reopened debates about !be respective
powers !be federal IJid state governments
regarding !be question of slavery. MiiJani
Fillmon; UB's first Chancellor aud later !be
13th President of !be United Slates, was
among !be political figwes who grappled
with these issues.
Other leaders arooe around these urgeot
issues of 1846. AS the abolitionist movoment gained momentum, Frederick
Douglass was writiog his Autobiography.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were shaping ideas that would lead to
the first women •s rights convention in
1848. Authors like Emerson and Thoreau
were questiooil)g )be ~!Jtipqship of the individual to society and to government
New leaders were also changing !be face
of science and technology in 1846. WiJiiam
Mortoo, a fledgling Boston dentist, used
ether IS an anesthetic for !be fust time.
Samuel Me&lt;se had recently qeated !be first
functioning telegraph line, and Asa Whitney
l)adjust made !be first proposal for alnlnseootinenlal railroad. Aoestbesia would
change !be face of medicine, while !be telegraph IJid traoscontinenlal railroad would
open !be new American West
Many of the chaUenges and pressures of
1846 are still with us in 1996. Back then,
!be United States believed it had a "manifest destiny"to extend across !be CODtinent
Now, near !be end of an • American century" in which our nation has dominated
world politics IJid commerce, we are asking
if the U.S. can, should, IJid will continue to
lead in the 21st century global community.
We are still asking questions, in a time of

or

or

tal management
We are still asking questions about the
relationship between individuals IJid !be society IS a whole-questions being brought
to !be fore once again by !be violent acts of
!iOIDe individuals and groups which oppose
government
We are still asking bow to make our society more equilable, IJid our American dream
more accessible, for people of color and
women. As !be population of !be United
States becomes increasingly diverse, these
questions become more urgent by !be day.
And we are still trying to come to grips
with new technologies-no longer the telegraph IJid railroad, but now the Internet,
which is fundameotaUy changing the way
we communicate, do business, learn, and

meet each other.
Generations of American leaders have
grappled with the legacy of the complex
and pressing issues or 1846. Our responses

to them have in some ways strengthened us,
and in other W&amp;ys left us far short of the
promise America sliD represents.
Your time at UB has offered you the opporomity, !be ttaioing, aud-we hope-!be
inspinotloo to become a leader. Those who
ce&lt;oe after you will look to you to resolve
some of America's 1iogering coocems. and to
create new opportunities for aU.
As you move on io oew things, UB
charges you to accept !be cbaUcnge ofleadership, aud to be aware-in aU that you do---&lt;&gt;f
!be influence you can have on national aud
global issues. To !be extent that you make
that conunitment, your individual achievoments will be achievements for aU of us.
UB is still here to teach and train leaders. We are proud to graduate leaders like
you. We wish you many successes in the
years ahead.

Awards salute students
t Commencement
0 u t -

g achievements of
for academic
excellence IJid leadership at
the !50th annual commencement May 19 in
Alumni Arena.
Among those to be honored with Deans' Academic
Achievement Awards are:
James M. Feeney, Faculty of Social Sciences, majoring in Anthropology/
Classics/English. Feeney,
wboeorolledatUBafiercornhat service as a U.S. Marine
Corps medic in the Pemian
Gulf War, received the
Marion Dickson Award for
Academic ExoeUence in Anthropology in 1994. He has
served with the Baird Point
Volunteer Ambulance Corps
aud the Community Action
Corps, where be tutored
inner-city children. He plans
to attend medical school.
Leah E. Cole, Faculty of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics, majoring in Biostu

logical Sciences. Cole, a
Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow, has &lt;tudied with some of UB 's top
resean:hall. Sbe has participated in intramural sports,
tutoredcbemistry audbiological sciences students and volunteered for !be Anti-Rape
Task- Fora: and Habitat for
Humanity. She plans to oontinueberloveoftcachingand
research with graduate studies in biology and chemistry.
Roberta Rob in Sullivan,
Faculty of Arts and Letters,
majoring in Communication
Design. An expert in digital
imaging, she has developed
an interactive multimedia
computer project for Roswell
Park Cancer Institute. Her

"Cllildbood Cancer lnfonna-

Sinuuly,

tion Center" provides information, roping suggestions

William R- G ,-.,J n e r

SINGH

BAHDOUK

and a support network for
childhood cancer patients,
lbeirfarniliesandclassmates.
Sbeplanstocontinucberstud-

ies at the master's level in art
and education.
Honored with the Division of Student Affairs Senior Leadership Award:
Abhilasha R . Singh,
majoring in Biological Sci~glisb.Cunentlylead­

ing the UB Sesquicentennial
Habitat for Humanity Project,
she has been active in community anduniversityservioc.
A Fellow in the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute and
winner of the 1994 Grace
Capen Memorial A ward for
scholastic achievement, she
has boco a biology research
and teaching assistant An
emergency room volunteer at
ECMC, last year she was
awarded the J. Scott Fleming
Award for outstanding community service. She plans to
attend medical school.
Those taking pan in the
program include:
The Student Speaker for
graduation,l996,isAmyJill
Bandolik. She is -majoring

VARNAY

in Psychology/Social Sciences Inte rdisciplinary Health and Human Services.
An active member of the
Golden Key and Mortar
Board Honor Societies, she
has served through teaching
assistantships and peer advisory roles and bas boco an
ambassador to university
alumni. She bas volunteered
for the UB Anti-Rape Task
Force and has boco a leader
in national organizations
dealing with related issues.
She will pursue a master 's
degi-cc in College Student

Personnel Administration.
Vocalist for the Class of
1996 will be Theresa J .
Vamay. She will graduate
with degrees in music performance and French, and

expects to continue- her studies in France nexl year. Winner of the Depanment of
Music Garabcc Scholarship,
she is a member of the UB
Choir and Opera Workshop.
Varney , who bas sung roles
in Tht Marriage of Figaro
and Hansel and Greul. is a
soloist at Central Presbyterian Church of Buffalo.

SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMENCEMENT
Continued ti-om page 2
In 1953, be joined the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
(HIAS) as director
Latio American Operations. He was
named executive director in 1966 and two ycaJS later became
executive vice president, a post be held until retiring in 1981 .
Florence Jacobson often worked alongside her husband,
putting social-work concepts learned at UB into practice as
she worked with immigrants. She worked with the JDC .in
Czecboslovalda and Hungary, setting up IJid supervising
social services for thouslllds of Jews living in those countries and to those who immigrated to them from Eastern

or

Clarkson, retired dean of the Faculty of Management at

the University of Toronto, will receive the honorary doctor-

doctorate in science at the commencement ceremony for the

ate in humane letters from SUNY at the School of Management ceremonies, to be held at 5 p.m . on Saturday, May 18,
in Alumni Arena. Dean Frederick W . Winter will deliver the
address at the ceremony. Greiner will confer degrees.
Clarkson led Gmphic Controls, Inc. to international prominence during the 1950s and 1960s, and was insttumental in
founding !be AU eotown Community Center in the early
1970s to serve the unemployed and disadvantaged. Renamed
the Clarkson Center for Human Services in 1990, the center
is today one of Buffalo's largest providers of social services.
A fanner visiting lecturer at UB and one-time trustee of
the UB Foundation, Clarkson left Buffalo to become dean of
the Faculty of Management at the University of Toronto. In
1980, be founded the Centre for Corpomte Social Performance and Ethics, where, as director, he continues to advance the principles of corporate responsibility that shaped
his efforts as a community and business leader in Buffalo.

School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, held Sunday,
May 12, in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
Ranney also delivered the commencem~taddress. Greiner
confered degrees.
AmemberoftheUBDcpartmentofMedicinefrom 197073, Ranney also has held faculty positions at Columbia
University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She
was named professor and chair of !be Ocpartmcnt of Medicine at UC-San Diego in 1973, making her the fust woman
to hold such a position at an American medical school.

who will confer degrees are:
• Grad nato School: 2 p.m., May 17, Center for the Arts.
Jules B. LaPidus, president of the Council of Graduate
Schools in Washington, DC, will speak. Headrick will coofer degrees.
• School of Architecture and Planning: 3 p.m., May 18,
lawoofHayesHall, South Campus. Blanche van Ginkel, fonoer
dean of !be School Architecture at !be University ofToronto,
will speak. Dean Bnmo B. Freschi will confer degrees.

Europe.
She later specialized in immigrant cases with the Jewish
Social Service Agency of Chicago; worked with lfiAS in Rio
de Janeiro in programs involving resettlement of intmigrants
fromEuropc,andworltl;dfortheNewYorkCityDcpartment
of Social Services.
Ranney, professor emerita of medicine at the University
of California at San Diego, received a SUNY honorary

Other commencement ceremonies, speakers and those

or

• School of Health Related Professions: 9 a.m., May
18, Alumni Arena. Stephen L. Wilson, director of the School
of ADied Medical Professions at The Ohio State University,
will speak. Degrees will be conferred by Kenneth J. Levy, UB
senior vice provost.

• School of Nursing: 9 a.m., May 18, Slee Concert Hall,
North Campus. Dean Mecca S. Cranley will address graduates and confer degrees.
• School of Information and Library Studies: 10 a.m.,
May 18,Student Union Theater, North Campus. Dean George
S. Bobinski will speak. Headrick will confer degrees.
• School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: I p.m ..
May 18, Alumni Arena. Mark Karwan, interim dean o f the
school , will speak. Greiner will confer degrees .
• School of Law: I p.m., May J8,CenterfortheAns. The
Hon. Michael A. Telesca, U.S . Dis trict Judge, Western New
York, will speak. Headrick will confer degrees.
• School of Pharmacy: I p.m .. May 18. Slcc Concert
Hall. There will be no speaker. Wayne Anderson. interim
dean of the school, will confer degrees.
• Graduate School of Education: 5 p.m .• May 18,
Center for the Arts. The Hon. Gilbert Parent. a UB graduate
and speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. will speak.
Levy wiD confer degrees.
• School of Dental Medkin : 2 p.m .. May 19. Slee
Concert Hall. David A. Nash, dean of the University of
Kentucky College of Dentistry, will speak. Headrick will
confer degrees.

�4

A SALUTE TO

STUDENT
ACI-llEVEMENT

--..

8doK-.illllddltloa,Gow

...........,-

by lhe Ilea's Offia: io Ani ond
1.eu&lt;n.

ARTS AND

ARGITTECIURE
AND
PLAN NG

turally feasible , suitably sited,
and employing available-materials in a J)Bctical and aesthetically
sound manner.

Eleanor Allwork Scbolanbip
Nomiutioo
Nom in~u: Ben Pollard, Tsz Van
Ng

Uodtrgraduat 'n Final Yur
wllb Highest GP
Micbac:l O'Har8 3.82

Underarad uate t.nt ·nc Final
Year with Bigbest GfA
Kimberly Kraft 3.838

Returnine2-yea.- M.Arcb.
with Hl&amp;b ..t GPA
William Greeley 3.U6
Michael LoFnuneoto 3.707

Retumingl-l(l year M.Arch.
with Hl&amp;best GPA
Tbom.u Brennan 3.670

Who's Wbo Am one Student..
in Amtrk•n Universities and

CoU.Ces
Students are oomi.o.ated by the
faculty and selected bucd on a
comblnation of scholarship activity, participation i.n academic and
extra cwricular activities. citizen·
ship and service to the school,
and pocential for fuhJrt: achievement

lbomas Breen, Dennis
Escobar. Adrienne Lcccb, Douglas McCallwn, Aspassia
Papazabaria , Benjamin Pollard,
Sandrl Reicis.

Beary Ad.ams Medal and
Certif"tcalt
Each year the AlA recognizes
the top academic performen in
e~ch accredited Scbool of Architecture i.n the country. lbc award
goes to lhosc fU"St professiooal
degree c:andjdatcs in the Department or Arc.hitec1ure wbo bold
the first and secood highc:st cumulative gnde point averages.
M~dal: Donn. Brok (4.000)
CutijicaJe': James Moore (3.828)
Alpb• Rbo Cbl Med•l
Benjamin Pollard
Alpha Rho au i.u nationaJ
profess.i001l fl"'temlty . Eacb year
it awards a medal to 1 fust professiOOII degree candidlte in

each accredJtcd school of archi·
lecture in the country. The meda.l
is awarded for leadcn.h.ip, service, and merit and is meant to
promote profession~ I qualities in
students.

M•«bew W . Del G•udio

Aword
Michael LoFrumento
Each year, the New York Society of Architects presents the
Matthew W. Del Gaudio A ward

for Eicellence in Total Oe5.ign to
a graduatin&amp; student in various
architectural schools in the State
of New York. The criteria for Total Design embncdl the demonstntion of an imaginative solution of an archhectunl problem

which is functionally ideal. struc-

This award is granted to 1 audeDI who is a resident of New
York City studying arclUtecture
in an accredited fU$t professional
degree program in New York
State. The student must be recognized by the faculty as having
strong academic abilitic::a and fi.
D.I.UCial need. Tbc base award is a
cub priu: up to SS,OOO to be utiliud for tbe student '• hlitioo next

yeor.
AIA/AAP Scbolonbip
Daniel Dwyer ($1,000), Aspusio
Plpoulwio ($1,.500)
This award is administered by
AlA aod lbc NAAB. Nominees
arc submitted from Schools of
A.rdlilCICture in the u.s. aod
CaDIIda. Numben
limited
based on number of graduate stu·
dents. Whmen of the awards are
chosm based on academic

•.re

acrueveinent., recommendations,
ond fimncw need.
Pello/WESTNY Scbolonblp

(livea by Pello/WESTNY
Represeatatives)
Fim Pl.au ($1,000) :
lsrocl Lowry
Second l'lau ($500 ~aclr) : Tsz
Yan Ng, Aspossio Plp&amp;Wwio
For approximately the put 10
YCAB.. the Pella Wlndow Store/A

Divisicm of Pel..b/WESTNY
Building Products Company have
sponsored a competition and

m

award for fenestration arcbJ.
tecture. 1be projects cbosco intogn.te feoesttation irtarctUtectun.l
design in sensitive, unique Wllys
captwing more thao light, air,
and view.

R. Buckminster FuUer Award
Tsz Van Ng
This sc:boolwide award for innovation and inventiveness desip and demonstrated prorniJe
for graduate study will be avail·
able for BPS/BAED grads who
have been accepted and decided
to rctW'D to our M.Arc.b. or MUP..
program. This year's Fuller
Award goes to Archjtecture and
oeit year's award goes to Plan-

m

ning.

Best Gnduatluc Senior
Oaicn Euellf:OC'f Award
MichKJ. O'Hara

not have to mum to our M.Arch..
program to n:ccive ihis award.

Urban PlannlnJ
AJCP O utstandiac Student
A word
Daniel P. Tasman

APA S tude.at of Merit Aw•nl
JiU E. Scb.midle
APA llestl'besls
Gilbert Olin

O utstaodlac Academic

Ac.hinemeot
David J. HAzelton

Certiraeatc of Reeopition ia
Achievill1 the Highest Professiout Es.pec:tatlou l.o
Plonaillc Beyood tbdr YtrSt
Year u • G radu.te Student
Gloria J. Brennan, Tan~ L. Hoyt,
JoAnne B.. Loucbry.
CU1ll'~ate

or R.ecopitioa

for AcbleviDc the Hlgbesl
Scholarly Ezpectatiou ill
PlonaiDclleyoed tbdr First

Year u • GrHute Studeot
Cuistopbcr G. Crawford, Daniel
B. Hess.

Certifiate of Recopition
aod Appreclatioo for CootributloDJ . .d Services to the

O.putmeut Durill&amp;.!h&lt;ir
Fint Year u • G radUIItt
Student
Tan L. Hoyt

Good Cltiuo or the

lleputmeat
He~ther

A. Skapura

ART 1-llSTORY
strlntcoune Awards
Dooova.o Gow, a bacbelor's
dep-ce caodidatc io ... bisuxy,
won the undcrsraduat.e String·
course Aw.rd for a paper tilled
"Erwin Puofsky, ICaJOiogy ond
lhe Art Hlslorian.. The ..per
cfucuucs lhe work of Paoofsky,
ooc of the g:rut figurea in tbc
field of architectural history. He
is DOted for ru. erudition and in·
ventJon of icooology-lhe study
of artistic imlaes. emblems and
symbols.
Irene BrUckle, • master's degree candidate in art history, received the graduate Striogoourse
Award for ber pepc:r, "'The Moomonic Dimension of Pilgrimaae
Accounts.'" which eum.ines pil·
arimqe aocouors wrineo by 12th
cemury European travelers for
evideooe of bow they coostructed
their memories.
Tbe annual awards carry
1 cub prize made available
lhroucb • scbolonbip fw&gt;d endowed by Edna and Arthur
R.mdorf' of Willil.msville.

This "oew'" award given by
the Department of Architecture
recogniz.es gradual.ini; aeniors
who bave demoostnted particular
e.r.ceUCilCe in their design work.
The award bas been esubl.isbcd
(O promote the significAnce and
lhe higher~ of undergraduate design education in the

Stude nt Honors

department which culm.inates in
the setUor studios. Nomlnoei do

Donovan Gow &amp;nd Jennirer Scott,
were givc:a memberships to Phi

Woee.'•T--

AT.a Reimer (Women's ere.

r.,N-r.Amyllordeo

Masr ~ sc.:ey 0orpo

Coaoby/Trodt. field)

_R_,It._
.._...

Aclllev-Aw.,....

Aolbooy c-. (Wmlllio&amp;),lco·
nlf" Devito (Womco's Soc=),
Amle o.t1o&amp;bc&lt; (WOOleD'S flu.

Co«ltu A.......t ADou1ea Dillca
Moot VcaloGbk P/ay&lt;r:
AmyCobco

Afrieao Americoo Stucllor
Keny Tomlinson

ketboll).-...(W001e11's Soc=), Krillio Holl•

Amerlcu Studies

(Womco's-boii),Wodle
Kowv (MeG's TCDDiiJ. Clwllc
Moyui1wl (MeG's Croll Coaoby/
'!'rock A Picld), Colby Ncmx:il·
sky (Volloyboll), Ton Reimco(WOOICD's 0.... Couotry/Trodt
• Pidd), Lourie San!eJ!i (Volleyboii),Kothi Smith (Womco's
Soc=), Mclmie Vosd
(Womco's-boll).

u.. AmiiO, Sunantbo Dow,
Patricio Guloocl.- Luolcy.
Rudolf Baltcro. Roberta R010
Sullivan.

Art Hlstwy
DooovanGow

Cluola
Alicio Joramillo

Eopish
Ell.ubctb U..C., Lcob Cullipo.
Patrick Duon, Jamco F&lt;eoey,
Rcbccco Fllk, J....., Fo&amp;, Judith
Konc, Abbilosb.l Siocb. Doruuo
SteinberJ, Scott Wagar.

Media Study
James PluiBarlcor, Ridwd Tho-

WoB~a~.'t Soc:ct:r

Top Newcomer: Julie l.Jarani.
Most llllpToved: Aimee MaaD
C&lt;&gt;Gdu A.......t Lori Paillo
Most Vol...UX. P/ay&lt;r:

Top Ncwcomu: Andrew Garber
MOSJ/111proved: Joe Hamlltoo

C&lt;&gt;Gcloa A~ Mi1co 1'I&lt;N1z
Most VtJ/IIabk

P~r:

Wadie:Kawar

Volleyball

Music

Top Ncwco111er: Aprille SweetinJ

Mary Coxe, Michelle Upnw1.

Most IMproved:
Kotbyllrinkwortb
CooduAW&lt;Ud:
C.lby Novocilsky
No.st VaiiUlbh Plqyer:
Candi Sims

Theatre aad Daace
Brian Hemcd.iager, Elizabeth
Polito, Gretchea Meycrboc:fer.

ATI-ILETICS
Women's bukett.U player
Brenna Docy aod wrestler Juoo
Wartinaer were oamcd tbc University at Buffalo'• female and
male Athlete~ of tbc Year at the
annual spans banquelat
Samuel's Grande Manor.
Doty, a junior, woo the award
for the sccood coosecut.ive year.
The 7 &amp;uud comod fint .....
AII-Mid-Ccotineol eoor......
booors for tbc tecood yeu in a
row after aven.Jinll6.3 points
per pmc io l..dioc lhe Royols 10
a 23-8 mark. She becatne just the
seveoih player in sc:bool history,
and the lira u a juoicr, to score
1,000 points in a career. Doty's
1;1.16 points places her tecond 011
the aU·time list. A Dean's Lise
student, Doty also ranked fust in
the ICIJUe and ftftb natiooaJ.Jy in
three--point field gO&amp;ls made per
pmc.

s-

Wutinger, in his fust aeuon
with lhe Bulb' ......oiog .........
after IJOnsforrin&amp; from HoC-.
keyed the team'• ba1W'OUDd to a
1()..4 dualiMd marl: io 1995-96.

Wani.ogc:r compiled a 3~ indi·
vidual mark. ioclud.in&amp; a 14-()
record in dual mccu-on.Jy the
ei&amp;bth llblete to 10 unbeaten in
dual competition in a teaon. He
also woo the New York St.te
ClwnpiOOibip io lhe 126-pound
weipt clu:s and qua.Jificd for the
NCAA .._ by winDioa lhe Eut
Coast Wreatling Association title
It 118 pounds. Wart.inger wu defelted in tbe fust round of the
NCAA meet by eventuaJ cham·
pion Sheldon 'Tbom&amp;s of C!arioo
and was'l ·l at the event.
Tan Reimer of women 's
cross country aod tnck and field
eamod tbc Oifford C. Fwnas
Award. The Pumas Award is
given to 1 Sludcnt-athlete who U ·
eels both athleticaUy and in the

cl.usroom.
Tbe Quan1Um Leap Award,
presented annually by University
at Buffalo Director of Athletics
Nelsoo Towusend, was woo by
tbc wrestling team. The award is
given to tbe team that shows the:
bi&amp;&amp;cst improvement in one sea·
SOD. The 1995· 96team, under

fust·year bead coach Jim
Beichner, was 10.4 in dual meets
and qualified two members for
the NCAA meet.

Co«ltuA-: TuaReimcoMO# Volo4ble P/ay&lt;r:
Judith Novak

Mca'sC.-Coutry
Top NtwCOM.er: Dan McSbetty
MOMI.cprot~ttd:

Goora&lt;Newoomc
Co«lou A -: Cllrio Kaman
MO# Volo4ble P/ay&lt;r:
Owlic Moyui1wl
Top NCWCOM~r: Ryan Candia
Most lMprn\iled: Geoff' Warlock
Coodn Aword: Tooy CanoU
Mo.st Valllabk P~r:

Top Newcomer:

Mea'sTt:DJlis

Woynarowsld.

Woat!:~~'l Crou Cou.ty
Top Nrtf/I!COttMr: U.. Raves
Moot/lfi/NVW4: Kerr! Sllpa-

Meo's Tnck a: Fidel

Modern Lanauaaes and

Literatures

Top NetiiiC.t)IWr: W.u WeipDd

Jennifer Devita

McCoaviJle. Jason Cwles Nutt,
Scott Edward W1p.r.

Delora H. Binder. Jeanne Foa.
Hiromi Gnymolo. ~~~.~......
Louder, Kanoo Mlnior, !Wcy
Cameron Nye, Michal

Clloa1oodlea

MootllllPrtW&lt;d: KeJJy Miller
Co«ltu A word: Amy z.bl:wa
MootVolo4blePf&lt;&gt;,&lt;r.
MltttPruco

Mu'sSocur
BriaD Cruickshank
Most IMproved: OtriJ Klink
Coaclru Awcrd: Joe Men:ik
Most ValMabk Plllpr:
MikoBoogioo

mas Marcy, Micbelle Helen

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LETTERS

ou_,

Art

raduation season is a time of recognitionfor hardwon academic ifforts and achievement. Today~
issue of the Reporter points out outstanding contributions made
by UB students in academics, research, community service and
artistic peiformance. Among the awards received this spring are
those listed below. The list, by no means complete, is based on
materials submitted by various university departments.

Other team awvda ue 1iRcd

below.

w....m.,
Top Nn¥COifter: Jobn Stutzman
Most l~r~prowd: Rob PavU
Cooclru Award:
Man:uo Hutdrins
MOSl VahuJbk Player:
Jason Waninger

Mea '• S..krtball
Top Ncwcom~r: Matt Oemcns
Most Improved: Jamie ADdenoo
Dq~ruive. AlWUd:

Kevin Winklc:r

W0111a1'1 Track &amp; Field
Top Newcomer: Sbdly Ham.ihon
MOIII'"f'T"OYed: Orct.c:bcn Welch
Cooclta A'Wdrd: Doaielle lanora
Most VaiMabk Player:
Colleeo!Urt

Mea's SwiauD.ia1
Top Newcowcu: Carl Carlsoa
Most liiCpf'Owd: Kevin Jcaop
Co.u:lou A -: Rlcb Womialt
Most VohuzbU P/ay&lt;r:
Justin Monin

Womaa'• Buk.db.JJ
Top NewctJ~Mr: Catherine Jacob
Most lmprnve.d: a.n.s. Gardner
Unnutg HernAWtUd:
Melanie Voze.l
Heon&amp;.~IAward:

Anne o.t1o&amp;bc&lt;
Coacltu Award: Kristin Holtz
MOSI Vt1/Mabl~ P/ayfer:
Sr....Docy

Wolllal'• Swimmiac
Top.Ncwcomu: Uc:.eu., l)in.idad
MO# flllPIVW!d: Kim llloy
C001:lta A word:
Krilloo KrcaiiSky

l..oocxwUTanpbab

Management Inducts
New Members into
Beta Gamma Sigma
The Scbool of Manogemcn1 ioductod 70 new mcmbcn April-26
into Beta Gamma Siama, the Natioaal Scbolutic. Ma.Daaeman
Hooor Society. Tbc: Center for Tomorrow was tbe Jettina for tbe
ioduclioo c:eraoooy ond rocepcioo.
·
Presidin.&amp;: over tbe iDductioa ceremooy were Prank E.
Ban.cboclc. Gamma Cbop&lt;cr pttlidem; Sanronl C. Guoo. vice
Pft'Sidco~ Atkoc R, a..pan,
ond 1o1m H.

seaewrtueuu=

Sbcllum., ISS.istaat dean.
Frodcrick W. Wio~er, dcoo oflhe School o(Mmagaoco~ owldressed lhe.., membo;u. OC&lt;:CI&gt;Iina lhe priociplcs o ( Gamma Sipa: booor, wisdom ODd....-..... The Gamma of
New York Chapter was establisbed io 1932 to rccopiu out·
SI&amp;Ddin&amp; .....gemcnl studcaiS o( bleb scbolon~Up ond &amp;ood
mont clwoc:ta-. Belo G..,... S i - Is lhe bJai- ocbolutic
rank tbat a ma.na&amp;emeQt atudc:nt can attain.

1'boR iadllded Wfl"'f:
Utltkrgl"tllbuuu: Gerard W. Bent, Jie Qm. Joyce A.
CWkc, Cyntbio A. Dinny.,., Micbael Y. ED&amp;. Eric R. Eynoo.
lames B. Gordoo, Cuistopbcr R. Gr=, Candice K. Jobnsoo,
Plula Kun, Doog Hyuo Kwoo. A1u V. Mlguran. Jolm Mui,
Judi A. Ncssdbusb, Heidi G . Plcskow, Moubab Zakhari
Rizbllab, Michael J. Thomu, Justin R. TyiC&lt;, Kevin I. Wmoo,
VictorS. Zanya.
M./U. SIM&lt;knu: Rbooda L Aiple, Rulb A. Barnes. Barl&gt;ua
I. Bclik, Kious Bnming, Plul E. Bunning, O&gt;ris&lt;opbcr 1.
lluooofodc, Rebooao I . Buswell, Jeanne E. CoJy, Hyuogyun
Chong, K.atio DeFHio, O.vld J. Dictticb. Mark P. Domioo.
Kevin R. Oaweous, Douglas A. Gimbel, Matthew A. On.y,
Hanioc S. Ho...,;. Micboel D. H-.Jopp, Robyu L Hudsoo,
!...,. P. l..cclc=, May D. Ue,!Wmoods l..iekmis. Sbu KC&lt;
Kon Li, Jconifcr A. Mljesld, John S. McNeely, Timothy F.
Mwpby, Djuot Nugrobo, E1i.ubclb S. Puke, Micbocl J.
Pedman, Boooie R. Po!Uoff, Carloo Roy Mlnin. A1u
Roeenbaum, Julio L Schoff, Melioa B.. Scbwuu, Jolm A. SeAtoo. Canine A. Smith, David D. SprieJcl, Sandy Subno, Kevin
J. T•yloc,llormo A. Traiocr, Dennis G . Wllhl, Brion Willcios.
Micbad D. Williams.
Ph.D. SIM&lt;knu: Miog-Cbonj Cbcng, Michael D. lsbman,
Weoyi Un, John N. O'Del, Malini Sridhar, M.ayilnnpm
'Ibirumwthy, Nioi Yang, Yuan-Yi Zbeng.

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Catalaoo, Anlboay CKJpJ., Kyle
D'Addario,llethony Pill. Mepn
Gallivan. Lauric Guthmnan, Han

The rollowiac atudeall ban beta aamed to tht Pi Kappa
Lambda Music Booor Socitty:
Undugradualt

EDUCATIONAL

Twyb Evitts, Kelly Fritt. He.tther Robert.
Graduau
Kim Fornes, Paula Van Houten, Louis Vitello.

Hlp Academic

Aclltevement
Spring 199S

Bart:tua Abad. Lisa Alexander,
Orner Awass, Ta-Tanisha Banks,
John Batt, Melooy Bedford,

- A p o l 2 ! 1 -, flom left: M...- -.-..-.; -~Job.
first.,._; Keny E.~• .-.cl place.

J.- .

Four Honored with 17th Annual
Nancy Welch Awards
Amy J. Ba.ndolik has received fU'St place bonors for the 17th Annual Nancy Welch Award. given annually in hooor of the former residential coonl.inator of Rachel Carson CoUese.
'The award recognizes a currently enrolled undergnduate residential student wbo has made a substanlial coritribution to the university through the development or support of an imaginative and outstanding program or project during the 199S-96 ae~demic year. Recipients receive • cash award and a
pl1que ooting their significant contribution to the Wliversity.
Baodotilt was honored for her "'UB Real Mco" project. Second-place honors went to Kury E.
Sbeeley for
project, '"A Night of Black. Elegance." Mic.Uel Burrows received lhitd-place honors
for OI'Jani . "'Tbe University 11 Buffalo Otips.'" Sleve11 Cbristopber Job received honorable mention for his
tivity in planning the "'Sinaled Out Dating Game Dinner" and ..Broken Hea.n Dance...
An IW
ceremony was held April 29 in the Jeannette Martin Room. Claude Welch, Faculty Senate Clair d Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science, made the presentations.

Department Hooors: Distinction
s. Kimball
Listed in Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges (199S-96).
Wao YtD Lu
Listed in Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleg&lt;s ( 199S-96).
Rtbettll E. Mllltbcws
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
DaDiel

Top Newcom~r: Eric Lee
Most /mpro~d: Mike Ollchester
Cooclus Award: Mark DiNudo
Most VtJIMDbl~ Player:
Pete Conley

Unsuna Hero Award
(Praented by Snuklll-Atltktt
Advi.sory Commitru)
Amy GrinneD (Women's Cross
Counuy(fnck &amp;. Field), George
Newsome (Men's Cross Country/
Track &amp;. Field)

Male Athlete of the
Year
Jason Wartinger (Wrestling)

F...,ale Athlete of the

Year
Brenn~

Doty (Women's Basket·

t.ll)

Quantum Leap Award
Wrestling

CHEMISTRY
S.nlon GraduatlnJ
wtthHononz
Michael L Gootkowskl
Nominal«! Outstanding Sf&gt;
nior, FNSM Dean's Award;
WNY Section of ACS Award;
Department Honors: Highest Distinctioo; EJected to Phi Beta
Kappa (199S); Nominated to Phi
Lambda Upsilon (199S); ACS/
Divisioo of Analytical Olem.isuy
Undergrad.Uite Award ( 1994);
Easl:em AD.a.lytic.al Symposium
Student Award (199.5); listed in
Who's Wbo Amoag Students in
American Universities and Colleg&lt;s (1993· 94); Sophomcne
Merck Index Award (1993),
Stacey Sbt~rd
American lnstitute of Chemists Award; Department Honots:
Highest Distinction; elected to
Phi Beta Kappa.
Danitl A. RuM
Merck Awud; ACS{Oivision
of Analytical Chemistry UndergradUite Award; Department
Hooors: Highest Distinctioo.;
Elected to Phi Bela Kappa; listed
In Who's Who Among Students
in American Universities and
Colleaes (1994-9S); Once w.
Capen Award (1994); nominated
to Phi Lambda Upsiloo.
Trd C. Judd

Marc:..........
Elcctod to Phi Beta Kappa.
Andrew Rllty
Usted in Who's Who Among
Students in American Univctsi·
tics and CoUeges (199.5-96),
Roberto Saoc.ba
Nominated to Phi Lambda
Upsiloo; eJected to Phi Beta

Kappa.
PllalLSZ)'IIl&amp;Dik.i
Listed in Who's Who Among
Studc:Dts in American Uoi"crsities and Colleges (199S-96);
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Jbuthul u

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Junior Awards

Carl E. Mlllor
ACS/Divisioo of Analytical

(l)emisuy Undergraduate
Award; elected to Phi Beta

Kappa; listed in Who's Who
Amoog Studc:ots in American
Universities and Colleges ( 199S96).
Cbristla&lt; Cody •
Listed in Who's Wbo Among
StudeDts in American Univenities and CoUeges (199S-96).
Wllllam L Cuddihy
listed in Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges (199.5-96),
Ktvio. Sbora:
Listed in Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges ( 199S-96).

Eric::Torbf:DSOD
Listed in Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges ( 199S-96).

CIVIL
ENGINEERING
Student Achievements
tor llll'f•llll.
Lisa Lombino bas received a Natiooal Science Foundation undergraduate research CJ:perieoce
award to do re:scarc;:h at Nonh
Carolina State University during
the sununer of 1996.
Andrew Cushing has re-

ceived a National Science Foundatioa undergraduate research eA perience award to do research at
University of Massachusetts at
Anl.heBt during the summer of
1996.
Nild Shute received the
American Society of Civil Engineers award for the student who
rDJtkc the greatest contribution to
the Sludc:nt ASCE chapter during
199S-96.

The foUowing wert inducled
iato Chi EpsUon, tht Civil
EagineeriDg Honor Society:
Manfred Bo!uns, Brian Cnlson.
Jeonifer Cluk, William Conlon,
Jr., Arthur Cosgrove, Steven
Cowley, Andrew Cushing, Matthew Gorman, Angela Hintz.
Catberine Hughes, Ouistopller
Keenan, Kacb.ic Kitchan.yothin,
Vincent Lauricella, Sondra
Milla, Ronald Rauch, Otris
Renn, Sharon Robinson. Kelly
Willdewiu, Daryl J. loTempio,
Brian Glosser, Wadie Kawar,
TomGerbrz.

The followin&amp; are mtmben or
tht Coacrete Caooe Team:
&lt;hi&amp; Aleunder. Keith
Stanctewsld, Mike Mmno. AI
Simeone., Jim Van Loan, Kevin
Zynda. Anthooy D' Angelo.
Maria Ba.liogit, Nik:i Shute.

Music Honor Society

Kim, Oqueodo. Adoin
hatlmoo, Bnndoe Schwalb.
David Seplowitz. Elyse
Shenncr, Jcnnifa Tunkq.
Kristine Westman, Karen Wright.

OPPORIUNITY
PROGRAM

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Charlton Benjamin, Cunardline
Bienvenu, Kauina Boney, Cunis
Brooks, Calvin Brown.
Jacqueline Cansda!e, Johnnie
Caner, Jeannette Castagnola.
Cynthia Owl, Kwoog Chan,
Mkhe.le Clan, Ouistopber Clan,
Xiao Ya.o eben, OU Cheng, Yi
Bin Oleung.
Gar Lung O.i.n, Amy Chin,
Linc:b Ch.iu, SbiJian Chong, Beny
Cbow, Leonor Coronel, Emesto
CUstodio, James Debose, Vera
Oees, Billy Delossantos, Roben
Dibble, Evelyn Disla, Stephanie
Do, Huy Doan. l ody Dom·
browski, Juan Dominquez. KMen
Elliott, April Ezzell, Henry
Fema.ndeL. Trici.a Fitzgenld.
Leslie Fordjour, Jude
Francois, Jude Francois, Jessica
Gallo, Man Gao, Sarah Garcea,
James Gannhausen, Yevgenia
Gitelman. Fidel GomeL, Jason
Goulah, Viocent Grt:gory , Jason
Guffey, Bryan Hochman, David
Hodge, David Hollingswonh,
Linc:b Holu, Haibin Huang, Miao
Huang, Cleatus Hunt, Bruce
lsselbaecher.
Erika Jean-Francois, Michael
Jenkins, Dooald Jochum, Loon.ice
Jones, l...isma.ida Jusino, Lucia
Kang, David KeUy. Daniel
KimbaiJ, Doo Juan King. Jenoifer
Kirkwood, Vl1dimir Korolev,
Marini K.ri\'OOOS, Tr.cy Kyler,
Chuen-Po Lau, Richard Lee,
SbonteUe Lee, Nicbole Lesesne,
Raymood Lew, Hanako Lewis,
Shu-Fen U.
Hong Lin, Daniel Upon,
Keonetb Loncke, Abraham
Lopez. An Ly, Joseph Marciniak,
Samlomena Massaquoi, Rossy
Mated, Jackie Mathurin, Sandn
McKenzie, Angela Mei, Tooy
Mirllglio, Angela Mui, Mogen
Nadal, Jack Ng. Hi.n.g Fung Ngai,
Duyeo Nguyen, Sheung Pang.
Nicole Pelsone, Juan Perez.

Robert Pomal. Riclwd
Piedrahha, Sharon PietTe, Chi
Poon, Fn:deri'k Rboodes.
Michelle Rican, Ana Rivera,
Ouistopbcr Roberts. l...ala:isha
Robinson, Cynthia Rodriguez.
Hugo Rodriguez. Darin Russell,
Roberto Sanchez., Esther Santiago,

Todd Schaffer, Ariel Shea. YaShiuan Sh&lt;:n, !.any Shone. Adesh
Mike Singh. So Siu.
Travis Smith, Oran Spencer.
Monique Stays, Marina
Stepensky, Victoria Stewart,
Raf1el Suartt, Wu Sun, Bethann
Syposs, Tanyeua Tabb, Yosief
Tekl::$te, Felicia Thai, Mitchell
lbomas, Aore-Marie Thomas.
Tyrone lbomu, Danette Tiohan,
Dante Tipiani, Jam.il Tokhi ,
Kerry Tomlinson, Emesc
Townsend, Phuong Tran.
Vi Tran, Andy Tung, Cecilia
Ventura, Demeuios Voiklls,
Heather Vu, Dung Vu, Nguyen
Vuong, Stephanie Waldron,
Nancy Walker, Marc Washing·
ton, Arnie Whec.ler, Raymond
Wong, Josephine Wong, Lap
Wong, Wan Hua (Jody) Wu,
Hennan Wun, Man Ying Yeung,
Cindy Yon, Shannon Zolnowslci .

Fall 1995
Barbara A bad, Ghaffara Abdul ·
Alirn, Kweli Abdullah - Mu.~.
Adel Ahmed. Willy Antony
Airaldi, Lucia Rose Almeida,
Eric Almonte, Daquaua Amar,
Sheldon Anthony. Ingrid Aponte,
Spencer Ash, K.huram Ashraf,
Jonathan Bailey, Emmanuel
Barbier, Willie Herman Barnes,
Jose Bautista, Miguel Belen,
Carlos Belen, Timothy Bell,
Berhane Berhe.
Ray BelTW'd, Stephany Best,
Cunardline Bienvenu, Byron
Blwn. Matthew Bottiglieri, Curtis
W. Bradley. Luz Brieva, Marcia
Brown. Thomas Brown, VanKhoi Sui, Usmah Burney,
Suzette Campbell, J1cquelinc
~le. Henry Cartagena,
Cindy Chan, Cynthia Chan,
Elizabeth Chang, Kenny Chau,
Kenny Cheo, Oli Cheng.
Salina Cheung, lrene Chiu,
Gar Lung Olin, Amy Chin, Unda
Otiu, April Chiu. William Ollu,
Shilian Chong, Betty Chow,
Bbawna Cbowdhary, Wook
Chung, Jose Cintron, Phaedra
Clarlt, Nc:&lt;la Commodore,
Raymond Cooper, Lester Corey.
Asbonte Co~. Kenyani Decker.
Vera L. Dees, Joseph Degweck..
Robert Jobo Dibble, Anna
Marie Dina, Tara Dixon,
Stepha.oie Do, Sandn Easley.
Allison Edward, Rocelle
Edwards, Johnniecc Emmoos,
Felicia Evans, Tawanda Evei'SOn.
Yutiya Fishman, Tricia Fiugerald, 4pora J . Aoumory,
Tamc:eka Francis. Jude Francis,

Jennifer G&amp;rcea, Sarah Garce~,
Susana M. Garci1, James
Gannhauscn, Vanessa Geddes
Yonnas Ghitm11Zion, Fidel E.
Gomez., Jason Gonulez, Maria
GonzaleL, Jason Goulah. Nicole
v . Griffin, Daniel lsidto
Guerrero, Jason Guffey, Eunice
Guillot, Joyce Gyamfi, Tariq
Hakim, Wendy Hennig.m, JakOla
Hill, David Hodge, JermeU D.
Howard, Mary Hoyt, Miao
H1111ng, H.aibin Huang, Wei
Huang, Edward Jp.
Michael Philip Jenlcins,
Michelle Johnson, Michael Jones..
Christina Jones, Dorothea
Keeton. Martha Kharouba.
Biniam Kidane, Samuel Kim .
Julia Knmer, John M. Krause: .
Marina Krivonos, Manuel
Laguer, Debbie Lai, Gennmal
Lantigua., Le:nnoJ. La1cha, Yick
Tung Lau, Rose Le:andre, Kenn y
Lee, Ngar Chun (Julie) Lee.
Danny Lei.
Stt Ming Leung, Kwok Fa1
(Steve) Leung. R.1.ymond Lew ,
Hanako Lewis. Kiml y Lewis,
Meiya Li, Hui Liang, Wei Wen
L. Liang, Daniel Liport, Jimmy
Lo. Omar Long. Ching Ching
Loo, Karen Louie, Duoog Ly,
Natalie Manuella, Oniz. Maritza,
Anlhony Matta. Sam Jr.
Massaquoi, Stevenson McDuffie ,
Sandn Dee McKenzie .
Danny D. Mei, Angela Mei,
Raben Melendez.. Luis Mendez.,
Skarly Mendou. Tiffany Mingo.
Tony Minglio, Yoneu Felicia
Moore, Derrick Moore,
Ondarryle Morgan, Michael
Manis. Larry Neely, Koviena
Nelson, Phanna Nguon, My Kiet
Nguyen, Minh Huu Nguyen, Hai
Tien Nguyen, David R. Nickens,
RebecCI Nieves, Avril Niles.
Bridget O'Brien, Oluyemi
Olawaiye, Amy Lynn PadiJia,
Karen L. Pagano. Shc:ung Pang,
Ternnce Parker, Daniel Parlu:r,
Rassaan Parris, Richard
Peidrahita, Juan Perez,
Ounehc:uane Phakousonh, An
Hong Pham, Andy Ricardo
Phillip, Khai The Pbu, Nicole
Pittaro, Troy Poremba, Bnlndoo
Portis. Jackman Prescod, Kimberly Pressley, Cbunming Qu.
Alekandr Razum.ovskiy.
Suzanna Reese. Tonya Reid,
Frederick Rhoades, Michelle
Ricart, Edward G . Robinson,
Hugo RodrigueL, Ricardo.
Rodriguez. Rebecca Root, Robert
Brian Rowley. Darin Keith
Russell, Paula Sagan, Robeno

The followiD&amp; are members o f
the St..l Bridae Team:
Gn:a Ball, Ttm COoke, l ooepb
Holm. Nild Shute, Maria
Balingit, Brian Carlson, Gnnt
DeRue, Roo Reuch, AI
Ha.nbridge, Chelsea BBndau,
l obathan DePianche, Don
Kellogg, Klaus Weidemann,
Oartto Vian, Dave Evers,
Monica Heavey, Guy Mason.

COMMUNICATION
HIJhest Distinction
Michelle Clay, Nancy Cronk..
Perry Jowsey, Nicole Math, Brian
Phillips, Andrea Ricigliano,
Carol Swain, Jessie~ Wessel .

HIJh Distinction
Kevin Berean, Eliubeth Brooks,
Christopher Connor, Suah Dnr.,
Matt Goergen. Amy Levine.
Jessica Michaelson. Roben
Nucatola, Kristen Sweeny, Amy
White.

Distinction
Jacqueline Bartel, James
Binueski, Jeanette Carroll, April

Super Service at Senior Brunch
Dennis Black, dean of ~tudents, pours coffee for graduating seniors Christine Kempkes and
Herb Thornton at Senior Brunch, held May 3 in the Student Union. This year's turnout for
the annua l event. at which faculty and administrators turn waiters and servers, proved to
be the largest ever.

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Sanchez.. Todd Mid~l Schaffer,

JDOqlbiDe

Yobannca Semcre, Ariel Shea,
t.Wk Sh&lt;em, A&lt;leob M. SID&amp;h,
Sandeep SID&amp;h. l.oveme SloaJo-

,........,
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''"'·Tamib Kewanna SmaU,
Sbarand.ia Smith. Jennifer J.
Smllh. leneUe Sneed, Robetl D.
Snowden, Siu Lon&amp; So,
KaWl:yna Sobc:z:uk. Rodriao

Solar, KinBPI&gt;el Sopbapbooe.
Antonb Stamoa. Moolque Stays.
Amanda Stein. Melvin Stokes.

Letisbl Stokes, Rllfacl Suarez..,
Eliubetb Sue. Anthony Swan.
Bethann Syposs. Yim Tam. Yueo
Ho Tam.
Yosicf Tekeste, Kibrom
Tekcste. Daoene Tmhan. Kit
Hom '111ai, Tyrone Thomas,
Jacinthe AnnJck lbomas, Yuhua
(Julie) TlKI, Mci· Yee Tooa.

K.halilab Toole, Phoooa Tran.
Ra.i veo Trm.tbam. Patty Pui Wai

Tsana. U -Faog Tsens. Anton Yo,
Demctrios Voik.lis, Hcalhcr Hico
Thi Vu, Stephanie E. WaJdron,
Susan Wandell, Bernadette
Wedcr, Arnie M. Wheeler.
Bernard Wheeler, Cecile P.
Wilson. Raymood Wooz, Austin
Woo, Tachellc WriJ.ht, Ryan
Wrobel, Wan Hua (Jody) Wu,
Michael Yang, Rasaun Young,
Stephanie Yu, Karen Yuen,

Danny Jia U Zhlna. Robc:n
Yoog Zhou, Y001 Xin Zhu.

Statewide Awardees:
Graduatlnt S.nton
With 1.•0 Or Bette r
Adel K. Ahmed, Alben
Alagheband, Lucia Rose
Almeida, K.huram Ashnf,
Jacqueline
lc., Jimmy au
Kin Olen Vera 0ees. Lepora J.
Aoumory TlllrloOelta L Francis,

Maria V .

ez.. Michael

Philip J

, Oooa.ld Robert
Joc::hwn, cnnifcr R. Kirkwood.

Bill y Le
Hons Kiet N&amp;uyeo.
Juan Perez.. go R. Rodriguez.,
Darin Keith R
U, Henry Quae
San, Todd Mi
el Scbaffet,
Rafael 0 . S
Demeuios
Voik.lis, Si Nun losephine Wong.
Who' &amp; Who Awardeu
Fall1995
Alben Alagheband, Ingrid S.
Aponte, Benjamin R. Atkinson,
Scott Benjamin, StaBhi.De
Candoff, Mic.bcle A. 0\an, Ncdn
L. Commodore, Patrice L. Cox,
Lac.helle V. Dubose, Julia
Fishma.n, Tameeb Fnncil, Fumu
Oakocti, Suah J. Oan:ca, James
Gannhauseo. Stocey G. Gnnc
Altbia N. Hamillon, Doo.aJd R.
Jochum, DavidS. J01eph, Jenny
Wing K.am, Jennifer R.
Kirkwood.
Debbie L Lai, CUntoo
Lamur, R.aymood lew, Hoog 2lli
Lin, Natalie R. Ma.nuc:Ua.
Sart'llomcna Massaquoi,
Cassandra Molyneaux, Juan
Perez., Hien D. Pban, Brandon
Ponis, Tooya D. Reid, Pmderic.lt
Rhodes. Michelle Riclwt., Hugo
R. Rodriguez., O'Neil C. Spcocer,
Antonia Swnos, YosiefTekeste,
Oanette Tm.ban, Javld Tokhl.
Kerry S. Tomlinsoo. Heather Vu,
Jimmy K. Wang, Dupree Woc:ks,
Arnie M. Wheeler, Si Nun

Hemy Yee.
Yeoaaliy ZbiiDillldy.

Naeeb M. AlderwUb, lolumie
Conet. LiDda CUu, Vloce L
O.Yis, Yen L Ilea,..,_ Uoyd
Den!, Hcrmda Miriom - .
J...ur... Marie
Amha
Mamo Gezollaap. Dwayoo A.
Oonloo, Pel Zl H...... Poda Kim,
0 . , Liu.., Jcamc Patrice
McClain, Mkbelle L Mc:Poddm.
Sondra Dee McKaWc, Shoo
Keith Nix, L.ony l..oube ~
IV&lt;&gt;r Gocqe R.eid, Sbaroo Lyno
Smith. Travis Lwn Smith.
Kaft:em A. Stroman, Tanyeua
Ann Tabb, Yim Tam. MitcbeU J.
Thomas, Andy H~ Yin Tuna,
Soepbanie E. Waldroa, Noncy
Jean Wal.krz, Patricia B.

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Wiseman., HaniJoo Wei· Xin&amp;
Wu.., Jie Mei Wu.

M a y 111116 Graduatu
Adel K. Ahmed, Albert
Alaghebond. Lucia R. Almeida,
Eric R. Almonle. Doquana L
Amar, Vemoo 0 . Arbouin.
Khwam Ashraf, Ta-Tanisha N.
Banlcs, Carloo M. Delee. lofiauel
A. Belen. Scott D. Benjamm.
Byron A. Blum, FJ.SSbaye
Bokurttioo, Lubettc Y. Bovian,
Curtis Brooks, Calvin Brown W,
Wilto Brusseau. Su.zeue A.
Campbell, Jacqueline Cansdale.
Aun A. Cardona.
William Chan., Michael Chan.,
Tae S. Cl!.ang, Jimmy Chi Kio
Cbcag, Bbawoa {])owdh&amp;ry,
Alloette L Collins. Ncdn L
Commodooe, Palria: L Cox.
Maurice V. Cox. Joseph M.
Depcc:k Jr., ADdy Diec.
Johnniece M. Emmoos, Felicia
Evans, Dwayne Audris E.aum,
April N. Eu.eU, Lepon J.
AOUJ"DD()', htrice L Gilbert.
Fidel E. Gomez. Maria v.
Gonzalez. Slacey G. Gnn1.
Sberise N. Oreaory, Umar A.
Hasan, CoUette S. Hendricks,
Karlotta Renita Hkb, Donna
Marie Hiuins. Dinb Cooa

Huynh. lofichael P. lmldns,
Dooald R. Jochum, lofichadl.
lobosaa, Louis Harold lobosaa,
Michele D. laoco,lenny Wing
Yu K.om. Lucia Kana. David
KeUy, Danje.J S. Kinbell, Jennifer

R. Kirtwood. Jinzbu Kooa,
Vlodmir Korolev, Manuel
l.oguer, Vic&lt;orla l . Lam.
Billy Levin, YIDa Qiana Li.
Fnncisco 0 . Uipic:ou. Kameth
C. Loacke, Abnham Ed. Lopez.
VI Quan&amp; Lo, Yao Quan Lu,
Cbrislopber M. Muu:U, Danny
D. Mei, KeUy R. Mootccdcoca.
Raul P. Neeld, Hoo&amp; Kiet
Nzuyen.laureo Nzuyen. Aneello
Nicvt:a, Keata L. Page, Manisb
Patel, Juan Perez, Ja.DDC Pbam,
Vivian Pbam, Richard Piedrahita.
Nicole M. Pittaro, Brandon A.
Portis, Tooya D. Rold, Xlaomin
Ree, Cbristopber G. Roberts,
L¥cisba Robiason. Huao R.
Rodriauex. Dariu K. R....,ll,
Mart• N. S.C.. Henry Quoe San.
Todd M. Schaffer, Shao Yu Situ,
Waneo Smith, Rafael 0 . Suarez.,
Cbarleo R. Swldcnkl, Bc:tlwm

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Ylfal.llaory Yee, Siu Hoaa Yu.

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eap.o...iaa;
Amy Dnix, Meeboaieal
eap.o...iaa; DoooUo-Paul

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Ray Bemanl.lreoe CUu, Lyoeue

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Pmc:ller,T....ebLI'r-=b,
Jamt:~Oarmba.m. YcvaaUa
Dildmm, Oaudia L Ooazalez,
lermdl D. Howord, Doaoy Ld.
llenick Moon; Cryllal Sbirloy,
Kerry TomliDooa, Coc:lle P.

RaiiiiJoclr, l!lodrlcal J!o&amp;iaoer-

Wilsoo.

ENGINEERING
EnJI- I D HIYiDI achieved an •w:taP. cl a1

lcua3.Sin.U~ 't
couneo lakm lhrou&amp;b !he fall

1m ........,,!he ro11ow1na seniors hl.ve been awarded Eoai-"""""a DistiDctiorL Dlhed who
ac!Ucve Ibis level lhroual&gt; !heir

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JloaiDocrioc; Doald , .....

Sddc&lt;,Ovii~Rmce

Marie Spod.loa. IDduottlall!ogj- .
_...., loficbod Anbur

Schroer,lllcctric:al ErJaioeerin&amp;;
Pilla· Yua T-.IDduottlal EDaioeerin&amp;; YUODCJmaaTJCboDa.
Eloaricol eap.o...iaa; Dol v..

v .. Elcc:rric:al JloaiDocrioc;
Brian ~wu-. Eleelrical ErJaioeerin&amp;; Alaa Yousif,
lllcctric:al ErJaioeerin&amp;; ...... E.
ZaraDbo Jr, IDdumlal J!o&amp;iaoer-

ifta; Derek Matlhew Zobda, ID-

duslriai~JnajDccrina.

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Rtt)colo · Nia&gt;le
1lurot:o.
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1'ltl1 D. DoWora&gt;, Comll Payad.
llrlao P. Oropy, David
&lt;Jualle1ml, Holly M. Ourbocld.
~l.Haooler,loocpb M.
Haydell, liUDCO Patrick Hofl'mm,
t.Wk T. lohloab. Kevia P.
Kookoleaold, CJtieo.O&gt;ooa Ku,

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Clwloo T. Loa. Foo K-a Lee,
llrlao Mallbie, CbriatopbeJ A.

Mdildl. N...UO 'Kiompotn,
M. D n i x , - A.
Dnix, Jeffreys. Porto&lt;,"""" M.
Pepe. Carol!. NlcbolooP.Sodowy,Martiol.
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Wolooo, ..,_ Zaranbo Jr.

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finaloe.-...wlll~y

be .. boaored.
Munir Ahmed. Eloctrical
En,u-ina; Chi&amp; Micbael
A I . - , Civil ED,u-ina; Jo.
sepb William Ball, Civil &amp;,1neerina; Brian Kameth BodJdn,
Mochanieall!oaioeerin&amp;; letrr.y
larnco Bombeim, Mecbanlcal ED&amp;inccrinl; CyDdi Lyno llrodboclc.
Cbemieal~JnajDccrina; Deln
Lyno Butts, Moclwlieal &amp;,1oeerina; Jeffrey Maubew Brocoo.
Eloctricai~JnajDccrina; Motlhew
larDel Burpo, Cbemicall!o&amp;ioeerloa; Dmic1 au...,. Cart.
Cbemicai~JnajDccrina;

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Cbee. Mochaniw l!o&amp;ioeerins;
William Brip Cocks, Elcctrieal
l!o&amp;ioeerinr. Ricbud Cale
Cypoovicb, Cbemicall!oai&lt;-IDa; Tboo&gt;as Anhur Carperuer,
CivU Engineerina; Grant Julius
Davidson, Electrieal Eogineerina;
Paul Dou&amp;Jas DeMan:o, Electrical En&amp;inccrina; Joutban lunolhy~Clvill!o&amp;ioeer·

iog; Mark 1'bomu Emley,
Mochanieal IJnajDccrina; David
EYD£om, Mecbanlcal Jla&amp;locerIDa; Carol ~ RomoDowsld.
lnduslriai~JnajDccrina.

sn.n Philip are 1ory, Blccui·
eal Engineerina; Holly Marie
Gurbocki, Mecbanicall!oai&lt;-lng; Dooa1d Huvey, lndusuial ErJaioeerin&amp;; CbriatopbeJ
lob!&gt; Hausl.,., Mochonieal &amp;,1oeerina; l oocpb 1\&amp;hod Hayden,
Electrical En&amp;iocerina; Ja.mes
Palrick Hoffirw&gt;, Eloe1rieall!o&amp;inoerina; Mark Bdwud Juioro,
l!lec:1rieall!o&amp;ioeerin&amp;; Kevin
Patrick Kanl&lt;ola&gt;old, Mochanieal
l!ogiooaiDg; William WalKwool Ko, Elcctrical £naincer·
lng; Chi~ Ku, EIOC!rical
l!ogineerina; Nathan Robetl
Kyser, Aeroopuo l!o&amp;iDoerin&amp;;
Eric P. Krie&amp;. Mecbanlcal l!op"""""a; Burt David LaFounlaio,
Mcchaaical ED,u-lna; Joshua
l obJ&gt;l..aPcnDa, Mochanieal &amp;,1aoorina; Cwleo
Lou,
Cbemieal ErJaioeerin&amp;; Lueo

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Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Inducts
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Bubutl Abod, Protx:IJ{Communlcotioos; Kimberly ApUo, Biolosical sa...:..; Add Ahmed,
Computer Scimce; Lciab Alo.r, Poycboloay/lluliacao Admiolstralioa; s...., Alwine, SSI/h)'cbololy;
Elizabeth Amobile, Soeloloay;llcatlna A...,..;o, Computer Sc:leace; s_. Baloer, PaydJolocy; larDel

- - · Media S!Udy; Kdlie Bebee. Goopplly; J...ur... Bellavia, Malhcmotia/llcoatllllkl;
Vio:!Oril Bill..,..ayo. PaydJolocy; N.llalie B1umm, EDaJilh; Tuio Boa1e. PoydJoloc; MariDit

Borukbova, BioJo&amp;ical sa...:..; EliDbeth ~ ~ EliDbeth Broob, Coauuunk:otioos; t.Wio 1ltowtl, Malbcrtwi&lt;:I/Statlstlco; Chrisllan Bnmclli, SSI,Ilrdemodoaal Stud;es; lloreot
Bryant, SSf/Erlvir&lt;&gt;ameolol Studio&amp;.
~ lluccbl, BioJoaical Scimce; Kimberly Camoslo, Psychology; Deln Conet, Spooch .t lbrinl Sc:leace; Keith Chon, Bioloslcal sa...:..; Sun Chon, Computer Science; Stqlllea Chon, Comput&lt;r
Sc:leace; Sooal Clwldr.. Spocial Major, lellllih:r Coc:, ADthropoloay; Krisdn Coffmu, Biocbomiolry;
Jill Colella. EoaJiah; Mic:bod CoostuttiDo, Poyt:bolocY; luoo Coopenloclr, SSf/Erlvir&lt;&gt;ameolol Sttxlia;
CbriatopbeJ Come1l, Blolocfcal sa...:..; Gino Curiooe. Spooch .t lleuioa Science; Kohily DorocloDo,
Mltlhemotic:o; Rachel Davidson, Poyt:bolocY; David DeSontis, PoycboJo&amp;y; Brian DiCorlo, PaydJolocy;
AmaDdlt DobbiDo, a..lc:o; s.m..t1&gt;o Dow, PSC{WS.
Robetl
Poycboloay; Brendo oru.. Poycbolo&amp;Y;J....._I!ziclr, Malhemotico; Doald Faldoco,
Bloloskal sa...:..; Paul ~ EDa1ilh; Brie Feldsteio, Political Science; ~ 1'nDcbai;
Psychology; David Pnnlr, Geoloskal sa...:..; Man: Pnnlr, Lotio; Matlhew ~ Scicocos; KIDdy 0"'--D, lliolocical sa...:..; T..- OiaMi, Computeo- ~- .
Gilliam. Poycboloay; Maubow Goerpl. Coauuurtlcodoos; Mkbelle GoklberJ, Pl:&gt;pular CUlttft{Spocial
Sludleo; VIIJjnia Goldmao, Amcriam ~ludleo; Donovan flow, Art Hiato&lt;y; Jqmbetly ~
ss~ Hiromi Orzymaia. Pralch; Nallw&gt; Guan, Eq1ish.
•
Haddod, Politieal Scimce; Corey Harmon, Hiato&lt;y; David Harpa-, l'olitical Sc:leace; HilWy
Hasan. Arnhropoloay/l'lydx&gt;locy; TbercaH&lt;ory, Poycboloar. Brian llemodiuaer, spociaiStudleo;
)..,.;r.,.~~cmmen, Poycbo1oay; K.,... Hofl'mm, Spooch .t Hcorinc Science; Mary llafmd,., ADdJro.
poloay; Sanh Hoopet-,l!oaJiah; Alan HUll!, Computeo- Science; lleotb..- Jacboo, PaydJolocyfNunlng;
I= Marie lobosaa, Socio1oar. Mkhelle Jom.x.. Poycholoay; SURDJowdy, PaydJolocy/SSI; Jetrr.y
luliaDo, Computtr Scimce; K=in Kuc:bU, l!o&amp;)ilh; David Kelly, Socloloay; Andrew Keabey, Pbyaic:o; Richard Kim, Biocbemisuy.
Hyoo Kim, Blocbemisuy; t.Wk KJm, BioJo&amp;ieal Scier&gt;cer, Yoog-Owt Kim, llcoaomko; Oobrie1la
Kir&gt;ly, lJ.osulstica; Brie KIIUr, Politieal Science; Klop Koblalb, SSI,IlrdemodoaaiSttxlia; Kevia
Kozuo, Poycboloay; Jodie Kucbla, Matbcmatics; Sylvia K...... Soeloloay; lobo LollortJen, Poycboloay; Rmce Lomley, lliato&lt;yfWomeo'a Sludleo; Mauroen Louder, Bus.~
Cbarks Upp, llislory; H&lt;ldi Ludwla,llislory/Pro-Mcd; Maubew Ma&lt;ar&gt;dc&lt;, GoopopbyfSS~ a..,1
Maclolelr, PsycboiOI)'; Karwt Mani.u, Bioloay/Frmclt; Tncy Mantlirtg. SSf/Erlvir&lt;&gt;ameolol S!Udies;
K.alhleeo Martin, l!o&amp;lisb; Roboc:c.a Mauhows, Cbemlslry.
Micbelle Mc:Coaville, Media S!Udy; WI11Wn Mc:ianlon, Economia/Pitllooopby; Sbori lolelmart,
Psycboloay; Julie Mey.,., EDaJilh; Heoth Miller, Matbcmatics; c..! Mill.,., &lt;l&gt;ernlatry; Pamela
MiBaJia. Coatmurtlcodoos; MomiD Mira, Biopbysics .t Computer Science; Waady Milcbe1l, Blolotieal Sciaxzs; David Mood, PoycboJo&amp;y; Shirley Moody, EIJ&amp;lisltiSSI; Ulana M..-... Political Sc:leace;
Cwles Moyullw&gt;.Polilial Science; Dariun Mycllan, BioJoaical sa...:..;
Nicbola, PoycholOSY; Thoodly Noooan. PoycboJo&amp;y; Alex Novopudslty, BioJoaical Scimt:eo; Robetl Nuesloia, Communlcstioa; )...,. Nutt, Media S!Udy/Eoalish; Kasey Nye. Sputisl¥Pbilooopby; Thoodly O' Mc:oro,

oru..

s...,

Gentwl.
O&gt;ad Ollila. Poycholoay; Cuoline Olaoo, Spooch .t Hearinl Sc:leace; J...ur,. OrtweiD, Poycbol- .
oay; David 0!1, Computer Scieoot:; Kimberly Pu., BioJosjcal Sciaxzs; Mam&gt;a Palazzo, CbeaUotry;
Grolwrt Paacio, Compulcr Scieoot:; Rotwtrto Paro1iD, PoychologyfCommurtlcodoos; Rajoev
Puthasarw!hy, Bcoaomlc:o; Danhan Palel, Biochemiatry; J...ur.,. Patel, Biolo&amp;Y;lcrmifer Payne. Biolo&amp;ical sa...:..; Douatu Pepe. Bcoaomlc:o; Sanh htito, Computa" Sc:leace; Brian Pltlllipo. PoycboiOSYfCormrwttlc:atioos; Rloe PiriDclli, Poycholoay/SSI; EliDbeth Pollio, Tbeotre .t Jlu&gt;&lt;:&lt;~Spocial Studies; Amy Pollet, PoycboJo&amp;yfSS~ Joocpb Prislnzuto, Matbcmatics; laD Prcppco, Psychology.
Ricban:I .Ptm. Compul.,. Science; Andrd Ratio, Poycbolo&amp;Y; Soumya Raycbal.dhurl, Matbcmatics;
DouaJu Rayao&lt;, Psyoholoayfllistory; Raopn.llislory; EriD Raortloa, AD111ropolor;y; O.ricl
Rcdmin, Computer Scieoot:; Tara Rolmer, Biolosical Scieoce; Gleen Reisch,~ AdmiDistntioo; Aadmt RlciJIIaoo, Coatmurilc:olioos; Leslie Roehrt, EDa1ilh; Alysia Rodlria, Eaalioh; S...
Rooney, Arnhropoloay; Sara Rubinstein, l!oafuh; Eric Ruskin, Politieal Sc:leace; Maubew Ryclelclr,
llislory; Rcberto SODcbez, Cbemlslry; Tboo&gt;as s..tangdo. Bioebemlstry; Me&amp;)wt Scsbill. Arnhropoloa:r. K.a= Schupp.I&gt;ODce{Theolr&lt;/Spocial Major.
J...ur.,. Scott, l!o&amp;lislYAzl llislory; Curie Secor, Spooch .t lleuio&amp; Scietxc; O.viDdra Seelapn.
Biolosical Science; Alyaa Seidcot. Tbeotte; l.....U.:. Selkirk, EDa1ilh; Mouhsin Shafi, Biolo&amp;ieal Sci·
eoces; Klir Slwnir, Pbilooopby; Mudil Slwma, Bioloay; Kerry Sboeley, Spocia1 Major, Slacey
Sbepard. &lt;l&gt;ernlatry; ler=y Sberliclr, Anlhropology; SWiley Shih, Biochemistry; loooaJ&gt;o Shin, Bloloaieal Sciaxzs; Glenn Slegd, Bioloaiea!Scietxc; Todd Sileo, Poycboloay; Aadmt Silvenldn, Communicalioos(Poyc:boJo&amp;y; )..,.;r.,. Siraey, PsycboJoayfSSI; Max Slwbtilr, PolitlcaiScietxc; S1wtDoo
Smith. SS~ Social Geroololo&amp;Y; Brie Smith. Geoenl SIUdio; Kevio Spoidc. &amp;,lbh.
Aimee SWJialawsld, Biolosieal Scleoces; Lori S..... SSlfSocloloa:y; Nuey Sullivan, Gcolo&amp;Y;
Paul Szymanski, CbeaUotry; J...ur... Taerstein, PoychoJo&amp;y/SSI; Siddlwth TIODibor, Eoooomic:o; Yooid

Teke&amp;te. Blochemlatry; 0,.. TiU, Coatmuniatioa; ~ Toleorino. Biocbemistry; l&lt;XJe Torres
Lumsden, Pbilooopby;

Kri5tal Tripp. TbeoDO; Slava Vayttsltteyn. Pbiloooplty; IODine Vlpso. Spooch

.t Heoring Scimce; Melartio Voael, Anlhropoloay.

Smiles at Med School's I 50th
Medical school grads Katie Marie Dyson, left. and Kimberly Bonlsch Prise are showered with
gifts following school's I 50th graduation ce.--ony May Il in the Center for the Am.

Erilt Vru, l!oaJiah; Miahlriet Vu, Socio1oaY; lblber Worn, BioJo&amp;ieal Scimce; Rachel

w.........,l!o&amp;lish; Maubow WeiPncl. PaydJolocy/Mallqemalt; Cathleeo Weodel, Fine Art; Bryan
Willr, Anlltropoloay; Melanie Wojcik. PaydJolocy; Aqe1o Wojcik. Poycboloay; Amy Wojcik. Poyc:boJo&amp;y; Michal WoyrwowUI. ~tical Science; Alliooo YOUtl&amp;. EDa1ilh; Jill

Zomber&amp;.l!o&amp;lioh; lofichael Zvoleaslty, PoycboJo&amp;y.

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JUDCI a..mt.ua-, Micbelle

Ruao is author or co-author
or more than otO articles aod rcporta. He wu the principal invcstiptor of hJ&amp;b tempenture maeblnery ........Jt, In wblcb bo
ovmaw tbe dc:sip. fabric:ltion.

-..and c~evelopmatt or 1
----fa&lt;producin&amp;II&lt;Odyllowlofwzyhlp
tempenture PIN fOI' various appUc:atioao. He boot ponlciptted In
11t1101pboric peiJUWtt dispenioo
........Jt,and .... lnvol..clialllo
deoip, -..and devdoptueot
or ..-...c~y 11ow eeainca f"'
U&amp;Jttwei... ttlmple power plants.
R. -'1 work oloo boot Included
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oamlcraean:h.
He II 1 member or !he Tec:bnical CUDIIlitLce ror Terre.trlal

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Amcricanlnolitute of Aen:w.utiea aDd Astroolutica. .. wc1J • a number or profCAiobal OI'Jmizatiooa. includina

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A.merican Railway

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Aaodatioo and the
Sociery or utomo&lt;lve EnJineen.
Ruao

dirtdor of the

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Eoafnocrina'1 Delta
Society,
is acdve in a variety
ol comm · ~ activities. He
served ror fi yean Oil tbe
lroquoil
acbool baonl,
iaclodiq ....
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He hu bceo a · school aod
co11eae 11110r and ,... u..Mewed
CIDdi....,. f"' 111o u.s. military
ocademleo.
Ruaao received his B.S. cum
llude In moclwtlcol..,.u-in&amp;
from 111o Univenity or H.Dame; be did paduate work at
Como1J Uoivenity and rocdved
hit Ph.D. iD mccbanicaJ engineerins from us 1n 1969.

HEALTH
RELATED
PROFESSIONS
Tloe Collowlq llvd&lt;llll w..-.
auaed to WM'• Wlto Amoac
St - la Amaicu

Ualvenl.... lltld Collqa:
lennlfu Soc Adoms (Medical
TecbDolol)'), Kcriattn Marie
Amdt (Nucleor Medicine TecbDDIOIJ'), Usa Bayer {Occupo-

tianallbcnpy), Brmda L
Berl&gt;ert (Occupotianal lbcnpy),
MeU... A. Bourque (Occupodooollbcnpy), Hleu Ttuna sui
(Nucleu Medicine Tecbnology),
Ad1m Cacciotti {l!oetclse Sci..,..), Carolyn Mary CUid
(NI)tlear Medicine Tocboolo&amp;Y),
Jamca Collin&amp; (Eaercisc Scicnc:e),
Peter B. ConJey U (Occupational

Therapy).

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Cynthia L Dudas (Medical
TecbnoiOIJ'), Dovid l omes
01liini (Medicol TecbnoiOI)'),
Kristat M. Hcmick (Medicol
TecboolOI)'), Brim Richard Looa
(Medicol TecbnoiOIJ'), Sbanc:
Stcveo Mq:aris (Nuclear Medicine Techoology), H1mal N. Patel
(Medicol TeclmoiOIJ'), Sboron

M&lt;:Cooville, luoo NulL

Artlaad Lelt&lt;n
Uadel'p'oduat&lt;Awarck

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...... Barlu:r, Riclwd 1\!aroy,
Mkbo1lc lllcCooville, luoo Nun,

Scott Wapr.

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W GIIEST HONORS:

Scou M. - · Ralpb Mdillo,

Laura L Bums,!""'" C.
Bambluer, Jamet P. Barb:r,
Dovid B. llockuo, M1cbolle H.

M&lt;:Cooville, Jaooo C. Nun, Scou
E. Wapr.

WGBBONORS:

"""'-H. an-, Doaald 0 .
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cbanl T. 1\!aroy, K......U. S.

Mink.

DISTINCTION:
!cue M. Daly, Kony St.P.
Tomllnooo, Lyle M. Tuclcor,
lltyan D. Dominkk, Kimberly D.
Kine. Mlttbow M . Waitt, Donie!

B. Brookl, Mark c. ....... Erin
M. Koebltt, """'- J. Lllne,

Ctristopilcr R. Paltncri, Brian P.

Stelnbcra. Tcen.wat Touraooot..
Mathieli H. Victor, T'uoothy G.
WaJOCf, Tooja L. Williams.

MEDICAL

1EGINOu::xJY

_..........,

Memorial Award. ~ award wu

booorapdaatitt&amp;-lnlllo
......,._wbo&amp;i-•vi-o(oupcriao- ...............,
ud ability iD the meat.al bealtb
Boccalmu't4u:
Nadiac Marie Matalo
Grodw&gt;t.: Patricia Nlobct
TINt~-,...._

Awanl
Tbl&amp; awud -lnotituted by lllo

lludeololn lllo Sdtool oC Nuroin&amp;
ttnd bt poaatted to I pdaatin&amp;
11Udeotlnlllobo&lt;:cala1treatelx0pam wbo bas made a aipiftcUJl
COO!ributioa to 111o Sdtool or

Numlna tltrooah acti.. puticlpttioo em lbc Student Coundl.
BoccaJmu-.,

Dowttl'darie E. Custer

TIMtllplaT'IIetaTau,
G - • Kappa Cltapte r
Awanl
Tbilaward is JRKD.tcd to ooe
pocluotin&amp;- from lllo Bacc:alaure~te Propam and ooe • u-

cleolpduotltt&amp;fromlllo
Master's Program. 1be recipimts
or 1hlo awud ....... peroooa1
and profeooloaal choncteriotico
that .._
..,..,...w fa&lt; tnaldn1
a aiplificant cooaibutioo 10 fostcriJt&amp; l l l o - ofllloa&lt;poiz.atb:&amp;. Recipients are currc:ot
mcmben or o.mm. Kappt
Olapter, SIIJD.I Tbetl Tau.
BocCGI.a.ltrtate: Cwlotte Bilquin
Gr~Jdw/t: Catberine J. Goodwin
Graduate faculty
Awanl for' Clinical
Excellence
lbe Graduate Faculty Award for
Clinical &amp;a:Ucooe is praented
co a pduate studeot wbo bas
ccosisamtly dcmoostntcd excel~ mclinical nuni.Da pnctice

aw.--.ntou.e

folio-.--.

Mary Cedllll KJcorll.olo
Awardlltld ............
ScMianlllpAward
Kristeo Homkk

Wbo'1 W bo AmoDI StudeaU
Ia Americ:aD Ualvenities aad
C o~

lerutifer Adams, Cynthl1
Dudas, David Oaliml, Kristen
HO&lt;oick, Brim Loog, Pul Sban
Shlu, Puvecn Syed, Himal
Patel.
In addition, junior Amy
Bowen received the Sara Marie
Cic:areiU Memorial Scbolaraltip
Award.

NURSING
Alumni Award
ThiJ award is presented by the
Alumni Asaociatioo or the School
of NunlnJ to ooe pduitin&amp; audc:ot from the Baccalaureate Program and ooettudent from the
Ondu.ate Prognm. The n:c.lpients
or this award hive demonstrated
outstanding .:bolastic ability,
consistc:DLiy positive interper100&amp;1 relatioos. eacelleoce in
nursio&amp; performance and teachin&amp; and leedcrship potential
Baccaltuu~ote:

Judllh Nyobta l oustro

GrodMD.u:

TINt Rutll T, McG,..ny
LeadwolllpAwanl
This award was oriainally esta~
Uslted by Rulh T. McOtuoy In
...,....tioo of 1he COO!ribudooo

......u, atahllsbedln memory of

Tbl&amp; awud II eadowed by a dioliaplll&gt;ed""'""" ....... to

.... demoostratcsspoc:ial promise
ror practice iD tbe future .
Grodw&gt;t.: Cbristine E. Carron

Repn &lt;Ex=ltte Scieoc:o), Pul

M.icbeUe H. McCoovilk received
lllo On:py Capuoo Memorial
Scholulblp Awud f"' OUIIIaodina c:rcadve wodt in Vldeo.
JIIODDC.N... IIIIIofirllteclpicat oC lllo Plom: McAIIooo

Katboriae Elloabetlt Prin&amp;

TIMtDr.S.tt-,.

TINt Clilllcal LaiM&gt;ratory

Slw&gt; Shlu (Medicol TeclmoiOIJ'),
Puveco Syed (Medicol TeclmoiOIJ'), Kan Kristine T1ppenden
(Nuclear M edicine TeclmoiOIJ'),
Sl NIDI l oocpbine WOOJ (Occu-

MEDIA
STUDY

~flllle:

upoc:t of aunio&amp; care.

lbpptllniH6t

Tammy l..eigb Austin-Ketch

pttianal Therapy).

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ollllo Uv)'-Kioa-Wbito Sdoolarttblp.
will rocd..
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ac-loll&lt;&gt;diaStudy.

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of lbe University or Bu.fTalo

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llk:Ororoy'1 death, lllo 1wud wu
renamed iD bc:r memory. Tbe f'Dclplcotl of thiJ award are ooe atu-

cleol from lllo boccalauroatc prolf'IDttndODC-fromlllo
paduate _..,._ Tho awud

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RutiiG, EJclar
Excellence tn Ruearch
Awanl
The Ruth 0 . EJdcr Excellence in
R.c:sc:,ucb Award for Nursing Re-

scon:bll ""*"'ted by lllo podu-

atc tcachiDJ faculty to a graduate
student wbo bas demonstrated
outataodiq koowledae ttnd 1bil·
ity iD the resean:h process. The
rccipiem of this a.ward demonanted spoc:ial promise for leadership in nursing research.
GrGdu.alr: Cynthia McCloskey

Dhtrict I Meml&gt;erslllp
Awarcl
Disttict I Membership Award of
the New York State Nunes Associ.atioa (NYSNA) is presented to
one gnduatina senior hom each
of the area nursin&amp; schools. The
graduating &amp;e:rtiOI' must demonatratc profcssiooalism in nursing
in ber/h.is intetactions with clients
and collcques., and must intc:Dd
to practice nursina in District 1

Amy Pienta Wins Weinstein Award
By Milt- Carlin
Roportor Contributor
Amy M. PieD1a. who Jnduatea this month with a UB doctcnte in sociolop, has discovered that womell
who bave bad positive work experiences tm4 to stay in tbc labor nwk.et lonp than men.
Pienta made bcr c:li,covery as tbe winner of this year' a Rose Weinstein Memorial Award spoosorcd
by the U8 Emeritus Center. Entries were based on resea.n:h in gerontology.
Pn:ac:nwioo of the award. which includes a prize ofS200,took place at the retiree group's fmal for·
mal meetin&amp; of the school )'tar May 14 at the: Emeritus Center in Goodyear Hall, South Campus.
Pienta bolds 1 postdoctoral fellowship at Pennsylvania State University in a program funded by the
National Institute on AJina.
Her winnio&amp; dis&amp;cnation, .. Labor Fora: Behavior of Married Women in Later Ufe,- was developed
Wlder- tbe ,Wdance of Jeffrey A. Bun, associate professor in UB's Department of Sociology. Cootest
rules~ that entries be created wder the: supervision of a U8 faculty member.
As Burr e.tplai.ns, Pienta, usina the most recent national survey data available, discoven:d that
women who have had positive Cl1'flCf work experiences tend to stly in the labor markd longer than
men. In addition, the: studv shows that married men and womco tend to coordinate their labor force decisions, 10 that warneD wi.tb workina husbands (u opposed to husbands who arc: voluntarily retired)
are more l.i.Uiy to cootinuc working.
Olairmm of the Emeritus Center's Scholastic Awards Committee which selected the winnin1 coot $ enll)' is Coostantine Yer.caris, UB professor emeritus of sociology .
lhe late Rose Weinstein. for wbom the award is named, was one o f the founders of the Emeritus
Ccnttt.

(Erie, Chautauqua, Geoesce,
C.ttanUJUS, NiaJan., Orteans
and Wyoming counties).
&amp; cctJlt21U'ealr:
Jennifer Lynn Talarczyk

Milla rd Fillmore
Scllolarslllp
This scholarship was established
by 1he Millord Fdlmorc Hospital
Class of 19S3 to be awvded to a
reaisten::d nurse who gnduated
from the Millud Fillmore Hospital School of Nursina and is pursuin&amp; further study at the Univer·
sity at Buffalo School of Nursing.
RN Program: Sandra Ben

American As.soc•atton
of Critical Care Nunes
( AACN)-Wutern N ew
York Chapter Award
This award is presented to a student &amp;l'duating from the Critical
Care Master's Program. The re-

cipient demonstrates leadership
potential for furthering the role
components of the Oinical Nurse
Specialist in the aitical care setting. Tile award will be accompa-

Mortar Board
Mortar Board is an booor society for colleJe seniors who have
demoostrated outstandina achievemeot in scholarship, leadership, aDd service. The JTOUP strives DOl only to reco&amp;IDz.e and
hooor stude:o.t leaders, but to have those same leaden foster lead·

ership In ocbon.

The follo'W"ia&amp; studea b ban been inducted into thr 1996-

"'Mortor Board class:
Michael Altieri, James Balcarceyk U, Marshall A. Beodelac,
Jconlfer Bishop, Katherine Nelima Otilungu, Nabi Olowdhury,
Laun B. Cornwall. O:vi.stopbe:r Mattesoo Cox, Bil CUddihy,
Dioooe Dillon. Melissa Passel, 'Tberesll Pulcher, Nicole Gantner,
Stuart Ookfber&amp;, k.imbcrly S. Orz.ankowski, Lisa Ann Jacobson,
Maoprect s. Katari.
James C. Kovach. Daniclle U citra, AnJela Oanielle Marino,
Momln A.K.. Mirza, Jc:nelle Orto, Kimberly Pusmlka, Kristen L
Schaffer, ADdrea Silverstein, Andrew Schmitt, David K.
Seicloer, Jc:noifer Selkirk, Max Skolnik, Rioo T1balanan,
Terjuaoa Teruel, MicbeUe 1... Wania.. Matt.bew K. Weber, Matlhew l . WdpDd, Aubrey Wbitcbead, Allisoo Young
Haoorary members or lllo group "" Ocnld Ooldbaber ond
Mary Anne Roldtb.

nied by a one-year membership
to the American Association of
Critial Care Nurses as well as a
one-year membership in the local
Western New York Chapter.
GrtJthuu~ :

Colleen Donley

Slllrley D . D e Voe

Cornrnunlcat•on Awa rd
This award is presented to a
graduating student from both the
aractuate and the undergraduate
program who has demonstrated
superior skill in communicating
with and for patients as a nursing
student. Tbe award is endowed
by Ms. DeVoe, a d istinguished
alumna and friend of the School
or N ursina who reed ved both her
B.S . and M.S. in nursing from the
University 11 Buffalo.
&amp; ccaWurtau:
Annette Lynn Collins

GrtuJ.uate:
Deborah Jackson Fergu.w n

SOCIAL
SCIENCES
INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROGRAMS
De p a rtmental Honon
wm be presented to
tile followlnJ students
durtns a M ay 17
AwarcbCeremony tn
tiM Student Union

1'1'1e aten
Kristie Adams, Elaine R.
A.odc:rson, Carl Aquilina, Carol
Baetz. Alyssa Bagusoo, Velma
Baldelli, Juoo Ball, Amy
Bandolik, Andrea Barbis, Christine &amp;u,
&amp; U-&lt;l&gt;opn.
Melissa 8erpw1, William
Berlinghoff, Michelle Bigenwald,
Jacqueline Blasz, Kristine Boller,
ShaWD 8rad.ia. Michele Brown.
Allison Burlew, Ow:ryl Bunn.
Erin Cole., Joshua DcoL
Non.lyn Dillon. James
DcmWsld, Raymond Dug.,,
Uwe.mab Efobi. Eve Eisenstein,

uura

Kelly Filipiak. Jennifer Finn.
Howard Fisher, Cynthia R. Fofi,

Nancy L. Gesicki, Patrice Gil·
bert, Sbaoi Olusb. Sbonnoo
Gurgol, Luann Gutti, Brian
Gyoerkoe, Ramona Hanna, Linda
Hardie, Eiko Hariu. Patricia
Hasler, Robert Hebert.
Trac:ie Herman, Melissa
Hc.win, T racy Hochstein, Melissa
lzquierdo, Mc.linda James, Mark
Jarosz.ewski, Donald Jochwn.
Otiu Kim. Cathy Kim. Minjung
Jami Kim, Matthew K ing,
Maryanne Kivlchan, Mic:h.ac:l
Kraft, Eleanor Krusuwski , Mary
Ann Lana. Haul Lee, Mitzi Leib,
Lori Liska, Bryan LGcca, Matthew ~bc:ander, Lori Maiello.
Kathryn Marcbc:saDo, Karen
Mulinsk'i, Jodi Martin, Michelle
~ yer, Brian Meade, Carrie
Mendelson, LyM MeU. Sandra
Miceli, Renata Michalski, Jessie
MiUer, Serafll\1. Mitri, Yoanna X.
Moisides. Shirley Moody, Pame la
Mosley, WiJJ..iam Heidel Jr.,
Bonnie Northrop, Bryan PauJ.
Michael Phelps.. Rise Pirinelli.
Amy Pollet, Douglas Powell.
AmyPuuwn.
Palricia Pytlak. Cara lynn
Ross, Donna Ross., Darin Russell,
Ian Salsberg, Lomr.ine Schertzer.
Maun. Schifferle, Kathleen
Schinttius. Brian Scotch.
Jonathan Sefcik., S1epha.n.ie
Sbeusi, Donna Simonick. Jennifer Sif'&amp;c.y, Barbara Smith, Sba.n·
ooo Smith, Nawba Snyder. Lori
Stone, AUisoo Stooks, Kell y
Style$., Marie. Swaru., Lori
Sz.cz.epaniec, Jennifer Taerstein,
Kcrensa T ice, Amy Vance, Brian
Voelker, Christine Walker,
Dancia Wieoers, Mark Wilger.
Katarzyn.a Wrobel, Owles
Yaaer.

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The Class o Z996

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June 16, IHl

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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF lEW YORI AT BUFFALO

UNIVIIIIITY AIIIURALO
State UniversUy q[New Yorlt

One Hundred Ftfty Years
May 9 . 1996

Volume 27 . No 29

Sesqui sytnposimn
~

Kholara

IIJ--VIDAL

Reporter Editor

D

OES THE BODY
matter? At what
point does our biological being intersect with our cognitive being? Does the mind control
the body or does the body
control the mind?
A respected international body
of scholars will examine such questions as pan of .. Does the Body
Matter? A UB Sesquicentennial
Symposium on Frontiers of
Knowledge in Nature. Society and
Culture:·
The symposi um. which will be
held Friilay. Oct. 4 in Slee Concen
Hall. will focus on how and why
the body matters, examining the
significance of the multiple ways
in which academic disciplines and
knowledge itself are transgressi ng
and redefining boundaries andrelationshi ps on the frontiers of the
21st century .
The keynote address will be

to take pert In PfOIP1Im on frontlen of knowlecfC•
presented by Gerald Edelman. a
Nobel Prize-wi nning researcher aod
director of the Neurosciences Insti tute and chai r of the Department of
Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute.
Organizers of the symposium
sought to put together a program
that would be of interest to faculty
and students across the uni versity,
according to Charles Stinger, professor of hjstory and chair of the
Sesquicentennial University-Wide
Programs Committee.

T:

e mind and body "emerged
as a crucial issue or problem
to be considered from a variet·y of disciplinary considerations."
Stinger said. 'The point is to draw
people from a variety of areas, from
the biological sc iences to the hu manities, who are interested in the
question of the body."
The sympos ium will be divided
into two sessio ns. "Mind and
Agency: Frontiers of Knowing in
Real and Vinual Worlds and Frontiers of Actions in Society and Nature" will explore two interrelated

problems: how the body matters in
two vital areas of t.echnoscience-the neurosciences and the digital
world of computer technologies.
The second session. "Change :
Frontiers of Biological and Cultural Change," will examine the
embodied nature of change in the
realms of biology and culture.
..We chose the subject. Does the
Body Maner?. because so much attention in a variety of fields has focusedonthesubjectthatuntilr=ntly
has not been at the forefront of academic study," according to James
Bono. associate professor of history
and one of the symposium organizers. "More and more scholars have
taken an interest in how the body
affects how we comport ourselves"
and how the body relates to emotions
and feelings.
Gerald Edelman. a major ftgure
in the field of neurosciences who
in 1972 received the Nobel Prize
for his work in immunology. was
chosen 10 panicipate in UB 's Sesquicentennial Academic SympoContinued on page 2

Speaker points out new routes to
success with 'managed change'
UB staff development workshop looks at opportunities for change
11J SUE WIIETCIIER
News Services Staff

W

HEN EDWARD F. VOBORIL came on board
as president and chief executive officer of
Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd .. in 1991, he fo und a
company that had been doing business Ihe
same way for 20 years .
But the business environment
had been changing: the technology
hadadvanced,andcustomers' needs
were different. The company had to
go in a different djrcction in order
to be successful. and Voboril was
brought in to do just that.
Now. after five years of ··managed change," the companywhich employs 600 and has S55
million in sa les- rece ntly announced a major expansion of its
operationsaod facilities in Oarence.
This concept of "change man agement" or "quality improvemenl'' was the topic of "Change at
us:· a workshop o rganized by the
University Services Task Force on
Staff Development held May I in
the Drama Theatre in the Center
for the Arts.
"UB is a great institution, but it
can be better:· noted Voboril. the
featured speaker . .. But to do that.
you have to change the ways the

institution operates."
Robe n J. Wagner. senior vice
president for university services.
noted that as in the case of Wil son
Greatbatch, the reality at UB is
changing.
"The reality isn ' t who' s the governor and what is his or her pany.
ll's easy to get caught in the idea
that we ' ll j ust wait o ut the guy,"
Wagner said. "This is not where
New York is going to be, based on
the economic data."

H

e pointed out that the growth
in personal income has declined from an annual rate
of9.4 percent in 1988 to4.3 percent
in 1996, with a projection of 4.2
percent for next year.
Moreover. in 1986-87. 90 percent of UB ' s operating revenues
came from state tax support. That
figure has declined to 49 percent in
1995-96.
'"These simple economi c facts

say a lot about what New York is
able to do in the·public sec1or in the
future. No one wants to face the
economic reality: no one wants to
make the tough decisions," Wagner
said. "We can spend time wri nging our hands or spend time making decisions on how to move the
university forward ."

I

n
describing
Wil son
Greatbatch 's movement to
change. Voboril outlined eight
" basic rules to follow" in order to
tran sform an organization. The
rules, adapted from an artic le.
.. Leading Change: Why Transformation Effons Fail;· by John P.
Kotter. published in the Harvard
Business Review:
• Esta blish asenseofurgency.
Thi initial step, Voboril said. "is
absolutely essential to gearing up
an effective change-management
process. ·• There may be an event.
such as a loss of a funding source.
that the organization's leadership
can use to establish this sense of
urgency . to communicate that
··something has 10 change-business as usual is not acceptable."
• Form a powerful guiding
Continued on page 2

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Engineering to note
50th anniversary
Events Include Oct. 30 bilk by Nonn

IIJIU.EN--News Services Staff

A

N ADDRESS by the chair
of the National Academy
of Engineering, a national
bridge-building competition hosted by UB engineering students and special programs with local
high schools will highlight the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the
University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Founded in 1946, the school will kick off
its golden anniversary celebration at commencement ceremonies on Saturday. May
I 8, with a special presentation by lnterim
Dean Mark K.arwan . h will conclude with a

~stl-,

NAE eMir

banquet and commencement ceremonies in
May, 1997.
A 19-member committee composed of
engineers from academia and industry, faculty members-some of whom have been
with the school since its inception-and

engineering school representatives bas
planned special events to commemorate the
50th anniversary of Western New York's
only engineering school.
CharlesFogelofBuffalo, professoremeritus of engineering, is chair of the committee.

Events......,.... for 11M-1.H7

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• National steel bridge-building competition: May 24-25
• Health-care industry trade show, followed by a lecture by Raymond Damadian,
president of Funar Corp., who invented and

holds a patent for magnetic resonance imag-

ing (MRI): OcL 3. The trade show is cosponsored by the UB School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences and the Western
New York Health Care Industries Association.
• Luocbeoo for university and industry
reJll=lltalives with lecture by Norm Augustine, chairman and chief executive officer of
l..ockheed-Martin Corp. and chair of the National Academy of Engineering: Oct. 30
• High-school programs with the engineering school: Feb. 22
• Concluding banquet, with prominent
alumnus speaker to be announced: May 10,
1997.
tional events that will be featured
pan of the year-long celebration
toe ude a student picnic on Sept. 4, and
a tailgate party on Homecoming weekend
and the Engineering Alumni Reunion and
Recognition Dinner, both in October.
Also to be featured will be Engineers'
Night for UB Basketball on Feb. 15, engineers' week in February, the engineering
scholarship reception and concen on April
9, and commencement on May 17, 1997.
Other members of the golden anniversary
committee are Roben E. Barnes, associate
dean of external affairs for the engineering

school; Michael Colyer, 1 graduating UB
engineering ltlldent; John Davis, preaident
of I Squared R Element Co., Inc.; Richard
Gall.agber, president emcrituJ of Clarbon
Univenity; WiiJon ~president of
Greatbalcb Geo-Aid. Lui.
Also, Interim Dean Katwan; George C.
Lee, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering and director of the Natiooal Center
for Earthquake Engineering Reaearcb; Daniel
Kaegebein, president of TX RX Systems
Inc.; Daniel E. Massing, associAte director
of technology uansfer services at UB ;
Frederick Meli, president of Meli Afsociates; William D. Niblock, sales manager at
R.P. Adams Co., Inc.
Also, Frank N01aro, manager of research
and development at Praxair,lnc.; Michael E.
Ryan, associate dean. uodergraduatcstudeot
services at the UB engineering school; James
Seng, assistant dean for development at the
engineering scbool; Barbara Doedline
Sberman, lecturer at Buffalo State CoUege;
Howard E. Suauss, professor emeritus of
mechanical and aerospace engineering; Wil-

liam Swenson, assistant dean for alumni
relations at the engineering school, and Thomas W. Weber, professor of cbemical engi-

neering .

0

CHANGE
Continued from p ag e 1

coalition. The organization · s leadership
group mu st be committed to change; it can't
be imposed on the troops. ''There has to be
commitment for real change at the top ; if
not , it won' t happen," he said. In addition.
other opinion-makers in the organizations,
such as rank-and-file workers who are not in
leadership positions but who are influential
with their co-workers. also should be in\
1

cluded in the coalition.
• Create a vision. A vi sion statement
should address what type of organization the
institution wants to be. not simply what the
organization wants to do, i.e . sell more products. "You need to have everybody under-

stand what are the most important things
they need to be doing and get everyone on the
same track," Voboril said.
• Communicate the vision. Training is
important to make sure everyone in the organization has the same level of understanding.
• Empower otbers to act on the vision.
Allow employees to use the tools and ideas
introduced by the institution to effect change.
Recognition across the organization is imponant.
• Plan Cor and create short-term wins.
'There may be areas for improvement that
are obvious; focus on these fir.~t, " he said.
''That will convince people that what you are

Five WNYers to -.rve on search

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resigo u chaDt:ellor by June 15.
ThomuP. Bpa,cltairoftheSUNYBoadofTiustecS,innoUDCedformatiooofthe
seucll commiltDe May 2. Bpa wiD chair the commitree, wbic:b IDcludel llllllllben of
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the presiclentforlllliYemty relalioDI at UB; BIKe Walker,-· Sllldeat Aaembly, Buft'alo State CoUeac.
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trying to do, works."
• Consolidate improvements and produce more change. ..Change is a continuous
process," be said, noting that there is a danger that people will slack off if a lot is
accomplished right away. "It's a process of
ongoing renewal. The big paybacks come in
years five to seven. Creating fundamental
change is a long-tenn effon; it becomes a
way of doing things."
• Institutionalize new approaches.
Once change takes hold, it becomes pan of
the institutional culture, he said.
Voboril noted that UB faces many different challenges than Wilson Greatbatch, but
he encouraged the university "to develop a
sense of commitment and vision and gel on
with change ...
Wagner told the audience he sees four
areas that must be the focus of any changemanagement initiative: saving jobs by retraining faculty and staff to fill other jobs
within the institution; improving the quality
of studenr services; streamlining the admin-

istration and investing in technology.
He said the type of change insti~ted at
Wilson Greathatch would not be put in place
at UB. '' It won't be university-wide in the
way (Voboril) described; it wiU be less focused. But every unit could take the eight
principles (of change management) and see
how they can be applied within the unit."
President William R. Greiner agreed that
UB would not be instituting change management on a university-wide basis, conceding
that putting into place the process-and types
of changes Voboril outlined would be difficult on the academic side due to the bureaucratic structure of the various departments.
But University Services, he said .. is in the
leadership mode" in trying to put into-place
some elements of change management. The
division must be dedicated to constant quality improvement-providing good service
to its constituents, wbile helping the faculty
and deans make .the types of changes they
must make in order to reach UB's ultimate
goal of access to quality services.
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SESQUI
Continued from page 1

sium because of his "somewhat controversial and perhaps radical view of the mind,"
said Bono.
"Edelman has insisted that mind and brain
functions aren ' t set from the get go. The
neuronal connections are affected by the
bodily and cognitive factors of childhood."
His views have implications for social and
public policy issues, and raise questions, not
only about nutrition and the kinds of environments to which children should be exposed, but also the roles government and
society should play in childhood.
In addition to Edehnan, symposium presenters will include N. Katherine Hayles,
professor of English at the University of
California, Los Angeles; Bruno Latour, professor at the Centre de Sociologie de
l'lnnovation at the Ecole Nationale
Su~rieure des Mines in Paris; Richard
Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz professor of
zoology and professor of biology at Harvard
University; and Margaret Lock, a medical
anthropologist and professor of humanities
and social sciences in medicine at McGill
University in Montreal.
The symposium also will include a panel
discussion with UB faculty, disti nguished
speakers and other guests.

''The sesquicentennial is an imponant
milestone to the university and as part of the
celebration, it seemed fundamental to have a
major academic event that would address
some fundamental issues about knowledge
and understanding, particularly as they
seemed to point ahead to challenges that
we' reall going to have tO wrestle with in the
future," Stinger said.
..'This is a very interesting and very important event for our university community," added Bono.
The Sesquicentennial Academic Symposium is sponsored by the Fenton Lecture
Series at UB.
0

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Senate OKs academic probation
Robert H. Rossberg, Distinguished policy; hears report by Johnstone
Service Professor Emeritus
'

8y .-.aiCA AIICUJI
Aepo&lt;ter Contributor

OBERT H. ROSSBERG, 70,
SUNY Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counseling and
F.ducat:iooal Psychology at UB,
died May 5 in Milliud Fillmore Suburban
Hospital from complications of diabeles.
Rossberg, who joined the UB faculty in
1956, held several key administrative posts.
including vice president for academic af.
fairs, during bis 40-year career at the university. Hecontinuedtoleachparttimefollowing
his retirement in 1994.
Since 1977, Rossberg had hosted and
produced several popular radio programs
focusing on the bistory of jazz for WBFO
88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate
operated by UB. Among them were 'The
Sound of Swing," distributed nationally over
the National Public Radio Satellite System,
and "The Jazz Singers." WBFO will air a
memorial program to Rossberg from 10 a.m.
to noon on Sunday, May 12.
In 1994, Rossberg was awarded UB's
President's Medal for"signal and extraordinary service to the unjversity." It cited him
for bringing ··rus keen intellect, sensitive
counsel and even-handed leadership to a
vast range of university endeavors."
UB President William R. Greiner praised
Rossfx:.rg's contributions to the university.
He noted: "Bob Rossberg was deeply dedicated to the University at Buffalo, in both
visible and not·so-visible ways. Some of my
happiest days in university administration
were those 1 spent working with him. UB is
a far. far better institution for his presence,
and for what he did here.
"B

obhadalastingcommitmenttoUB .
He led well. He served well. His
focus was always on the best interests of the university. He was a truly great
teacher, not just in a classroom with stu·
dents, but in any setting. He was the best,
most perceptive listener I've ever known.''

Greiner added: "He was also one of the
most delightful people I've ever known:
honest, decent. compassionate. with a wonderful sense of humor. He was a reoaissance
man of enormous breadth, who could talk
intelligently across a range of subjects, from
biomedical science to philosophy to baseball to jazz.
"Bob Rossberg was a genuinely great
human being. UB will miss him terribly, as
wiiN."
As UB's vice president for academic af.
fairs from 1980-84, Rossberg supervised reallocation of more than 100 faculty positions
during a time of severe budget restraint to
restore balance to the university's academic
enterprise. He also initiated a self-study that
led to revita!Wttioo of programs in the arts
and scieoces, and belped initiate major reorganization of programs designed to aid students at risk. including minority students.
In bis last administrative post, he served
as interim dean of the UB Faculty of Arts and
Leners from September 1990 to August 1991 .
He had served as interim dean of the School
of Health Related Professions from 1987-88
and interim chair of the Department of Psychology from 1988-89.
Dean of the old Faculty of Educational
Studies, now the Graduate School of Education, from 1978-&amp;o, be served asactingchairof
the old Department of Counselor Education in
1970 and earlier had belped develop the doctoral programs in educatioo as associate dean
of the old School of Education from 1965-67.
As director of the graduate programs in counseling and educational psychology from 1961 65, be belped develop the doctoral programs in
counseling and educational psychology. From
1956-60, be was director of the Rehabilitatioo
Counselor Training Program.

A

'The former chair of several university·
wide committees, Rossberg had served on
the President's Board on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure and on the executive
committee of the Graduate School. A former
member of the executive committee of the
University Senate, now the Faculty Senate,
he served as its secretary pro-tem from 196970 and was an elected senator-at-large with
the SUNY Senate from 1959-62.
In addition to his UB duties, Rossberg
had served as a consultant to a number of
federal agencies and institutions, including
the U.S. Civil Service commission, U.S.
Office of Education and the City University
of New York. He served as a consultanr to
U.S. Judge John Curtin in developing the
desegregation plan for the Buffalo Public
Schools, as well as on an advisory panel
named by the state education commissioner
that developed methods of evaluating doctoral programs offered by universities in
New York State.
Rossberg was the author of three hooks.
The most recen~ ''Counseling: Theory and
Process," wasco-authored with UB coUeagues
Stanley Cramer and James Hansen and published in 1994. He also had authored chapters
in several hooks and many journal articles.
A past president of the Western New
York. Personnel and Guidance Association
and Psychological Association of Western
New York. he had served as an editorial
associate with Urban Education and Counsdor Education and Su~rvision .
A member of the Thursday Club, Ross berg
was a member of the hoard of directors of the
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo and the
Jewish Family Services of Buffalo and Erie
County. He was honored by the Polish Arts
Club of Buffalo in 1982 for promoting the
interest of Polish culture, iocluding establishment of a Polish studies component at UB.

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ossberg received his bachelor's degiee cum ltJude from 'The City College of New York in 1949. He received a master's degree from Teachers College of Columbia University in 195 I and his
doctorate in rehabilitation psychology from
New York University in 1956. Before being
named an assistant professor at UB in 1956,
be was a counseling psychologist with the
Federation of the Handicapped in New York
City from 1950-5 I and a staff psychologist/
assistant cbief psychologist at New York University Medical Center from 1951 -56.
He served as a flight engineer in the U.S.
Anny Air Force in the Western Pacific Theater of Operations from 1944-46.
A fund has been established in Ross berg' s
honor to enhance the srudy of counseling and
human development. Contributions, clearly
marked for the Robert H. Ross berg Fund and
payable to UB Foundation Inc., should be
senttothe Graduate School of Education. 0

NEW POLICY on academic probation that has been under debate
for much of the year was approved April 30 by the Faculty
Senate, wbicb also discussed proposals for
faculty productivity made by D. Bruce
Johnstone, University Professor at UB and
former SUNY Chancellor.
The academic probation policy now goes
to President Greiner for approval.
For academic good standing, students
would have to achieve a cumulative grade
point average of 2.0.
If they also achieve a 2.0 average for their
most recent semester, complete 75 percent
of all credit hours they register for, and
enroll in a major by their junior year, they
would be considered to be making satisfactory and timely progress toward a degree.
The 75 percent completion requirement
is intended 10 prevent students from abusing
their "shopping" period by registering for
far too many courses and then resigning the
ones they don 'tlike.

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nder the proposed academic probation
poticy, a student who failed to meet good
standing or satisfactory progress standards
would be placed on academic probation and
would be subject to eventual dismissal.
The faculty approved an amendment allowing individual departments to implement
higher standards. However, they rejected an
amendment that would have crea1cd an appeals process for students, because, members said, the Academic Advisement Center
already intercedes for students wrongly
placed on academic probation.
The new policy is a revision of the
faculty's first official academic probation
policy, approved last year.
Also under discussion was a repon, "Pub·
lie Higher Education and the Imperative of

Productivity; 'The Voice of the Faculty,"
developed by Johnstone with colleagues
throughout SUNY and at the CalifomiaState
University Systems.
Johnstone told the Senate that in bis former
job as SUNY chancellor, he often discussed
higbereducation problems with leaders in Albany and Washington. "Almost inevitably, the
discussion turned to what I would have to call
faculty-bashing," be said. ..People out there
really think that you' re the problem.''
Johnstone said potiticalleaders believe that
faculty overemphasize esoteric research at the
expense of teaching, and that tenure destroys
any motive to be productive. This image problem makes it harder to win political and fmancial suppon for pubtic universities, he said.
e suggested that the faculties in both
New York and California consider
adopting a set of principles to improve their
image. The principles would include commitmenlS to do more with fewer resources.
to help refonn primary education. to embrace technology, and to teach necessary
courses rather than merely enjoyable ones.
Under Johnstone's plan, the faculty would
also make a statement in support of continuing evaluation of faculty by superiors and
peers, even after tenure .."Academic tenure is
widely perceived by those outside the academy to mean a lifetime of guaranteed employment with no accountability other than
professional integrity and peer pressure,"
his repon read. Johnstone described his repon as a point of departure for discussion
and action, not a binding proposi tion.
While several Faculty Senate members
spoke in favor of Johnstone's recommendations. Joan Sulewski said that she feared they
could be used against faculty . ''We are in a
process of downsizing, .. she said. Evaluations could be used by universities trying ro
cut payroll costs, she said, or by department
chairs to get rid of faculty they don'tlike.

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A gold mine of medical lore
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News Services staff

Who WM U.. nrst pllyalciM in the U.S. to allow medical students to witness alive birth,
thus precipitating an uproar nationally within the medical community? It was James Plan
White, M.D., one of the leading gynecologists of his day and a founder of the UB medical
school, in 1850.
This and other medical trivia, plus fascinating bits of
Buffalo lore, can be found in a newly published collection of photographs and facts titled "Another Era: A
Pictorial History of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at
Buffalo, 1846-1996."
PubHshed in conjunction with the I50th anniversary of the medical school. it is available at sesquicentennial events and at the Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society. The volume is as much of a
compendium of 19th- and 20th-century life in
Western New York and the development of its
important medical institutions as it is the history
of the medical school.
Among other questions the book answers:
Q. How long was President William
McKinley in surgery after being shot in Buffalo in 1901 at the Pan American Exposition?
A. 91 minules.
Q. What Western New York communi ty lost rwo-th irds of its population in an outbreak
of typhoid fever in 1843?
A. North Boston
The HZ1111Ce, "-'~cover volume contains 250photographs, including images of Park
operating at the tum of the cenlury;The Buffalo General Hospital 's women's ward circa 1886
with its potbellied coal stove, and scenes in Buffalo during the nation-wid~ influenza
epidemic of 1918-19. It chronicles the early days of medicine in Western New York.
beginning with the arrival in 1801 ofCyrenius Chapin, the city 's first physician. through the
founding of the UB medical school in 1846 as the first component of the University of
Buffalo. It transports the reader, via photos and shon text, through the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, detailing the development of Buffa1o's hospitals, important medical discoveries
by Buffalo physicians and medical advancements.
The pictorial history was produced by an eight-member committee headed by Ronald E.
Batt, UB clinical professor of gynecology and obstetrics, and was published by The Donning
Co., Virginia Beach, Va. It is dedicated to the medical-school faculty, both volunteer and full
time, and to all UB medical school graduates. The hook se)ls for $39.95 .
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Fiedler undaunted
by latest firestorm
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ESLIE FIEDLER has been
teaching, writing and criticizing for 57 years. An infamous tangle with the legal
system in the 1960s didn't slow him
down; nor did a recent bout with iUhealth. So, reaUy, there was little reason to suspect that the latest obstacle
in his personal life, a December fire
that destroyed many of his valuable
books, manuscripts and personal papers, would dampen his moxie.

Fiedler. 79, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and a UB English professor
since t 964, will publish hi s latest book, 'The
Tyranny of the Normal.'' a critical examina-

tion of bioethics. medicine and technology,
in July.
And, Fiedler says he has .. at least one
more" book in him. His next project, tcnta·
lively titled "Back to Innoce nce," will be a
revised study of popular culture. It will bring
his brilliant career at the bean of critical

American literature full circle. revisiting the
acclaimed 1955 work, .. An End to Inno-

cence: Essays on Culture and Politics," that
launched him.
This work continues, however. despite
being relegated to cramped, rented quarter.;

since that tragic December morning when
Buffalo firefighter.; plucked Fiedler and his
wife Sally from their second-floor pon:h as
their century-old borne, filled with Fiedler' s

vast collection of manuscripts and literary

works of the last two centuries, went up in
flames around them.
"I found that losing everything in the ftre
was just the fust baz.ard," Fiedler said recently. 'The second baz.ard bas been trying
to get the mooey out of the iosuraoce company." Fiedler recently received a settlement
for the contents of his home, even though
much was irreplaceable.
Wrangling continues over the oost of rebuilding, however. Bolb Fiedler and the insurance company are armed with appraisers, and
binding arbitralion is a possibility. Once a price
is agreed upon. Fiedler says, the aclual reconstruction wod&lt; will take three to six months.

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e ftre apparently began in the early
morning hour.; of Dec. 14 in Fiedler' s
tudy: a study, Fiedler concedes, that
was piled deep with original literature and
prose he had collected over six decades in
academia. "It was a room just made to be a
bonfire. I'm afraid I'm nota very organized
per.;on," be confessed.
Arguably one of the greatest literary critics
of this cennuy, Fiedler bas made a career of
writing that which most would only whisper.
His hallmarl&lt; bas been his unique "power to
distwb." lo fact, some familiar with Fiedler' s
writings; books such as "Fiedler on the Roof,"
'The End of lnnocence," 'The Last Jew in
America," and "Love and Death in the American Novel," might argue that his works were
sufficiently incendiary that spontaneous combustion was a distinct possibility .In fact, it was
believed to be an overworked electrical outlet
that started the blaze.
Valued fir.;t editions of books such as
James Joyce 's "Ulysses," Mark Twain's "A

Cooneclicut Yankee in King Arthur' sCourt."
andBemardMalamud's'TheNatural," were
lost in the blaze. So were bound galley prints
of Thomas Pynchon's "V" and Joseph
HeUer's "Catch-22," along with six decades'
worth of original works collected by Fiedler.
More than 5,000 printed volumes, including
the Fiedler.;' ·extensive poetry collection.
were destroyed.
"I used to throw galley prints out, until
someone told me that they are coosidered
pre-fust editimis and are quite valuable,"
Fiedler explained. The Heller and Pyncbon
galleys alone were likely wortli $5,000.
Fiedler says that the diligent work of
fu-emen and preservationists bas saved nearly
half of his original manuscripts. His reputation as a cynical critic evaporates when be
can find only kind words to describe those
who helped him in his hour of need.
'Theftremen were just marvelous." he said.
recallingthecold Decembernighl The "prompt
and tender work" of the firemeo, Fiedler explained, allowed preservationists to "freezedry" Fiedler's original manuscripts, virtually

all of which were in his Sllldy.
Much pcnonal rnoDoabilia, including leiter.; Fiedler bad written to his wife from the
Battle oflwo flllll, was los! in the blaze as well.
But,hesaid,someold pboCos were saved. as was
his original Ph.D. diploma. "It was appropriately singed around the edges. so I framed it in
a shadow box. Now, it looks like something
recovered from Pompeii." joked Fiedler.
says the ftre was bwtful, but
ids calling it tragic. He, his wife.
tight children and boatload of grandchildren all are safe and well. " At first, we were
reluctant to go in the bouse," rtedlersays. "But
after a while, it all began to seem unreal ; IDOfe
a vivid nightmare than a memory."
Tbe documents that were saved betd up
remarkably welt, says Fiedler. And, this time,
Fiedler bas a student assisting him in cataloging and documenting what is there. After
all, they will be useful if Fiedler can ever
convince himself to fiolsb his often-postponed autobiography. "But, I only belong in
the present, I'm not very good at looking
back," explaioed Fiedler.
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Chancellor's Awards go to 12 UB faculty, staff, librarians
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IX UNIVERSITY at Buffalo faculty member.;, two librarians and
four professional staff member.;
have received 1996 SUNY
Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence
in Teaching honor.; "superb" teaching at the
undergraduate, graduateorprofessionaJ level.
RecipieDIS are Christina L. Btoebaum, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace
engineering; Joseph A. Gardella, Jr., professor of chemistry and biomaterials; Francis
M. Gasparini, professor of physics and astronomy; Gerald B. Koudellca, associate pro-

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fessor of biological sciences; James R.
Meindl, professor of organization and human resources, and Joseph R. Natiella, professor of oral pathology.
They were cited for "mastery of teaching,
dedication to students, adherence to the highest academic standards and continued professional growth and scholmhip:"
The Chancellor's Award for Excellence

in Librariansbip recognizes "sk..ill in
librarianship; service to the campus, the univer.;ity and to the field; scholmhip and professional growth, and major professional

achievements." Recipients are lean S.
DeCker, head of the serials cataloging section for the UB Libraries Lockwood Memorial Library, and Donald K. Hartman,
coordinator for on-line services and associate librarian in the Lockwood Memorial Li brary Reference and Collection Development
Department.
Tbe Chancellor's Award for Excellence in
Professional Service booor.; accomplishments
and sustained performance excellence, "both
within and beyond the position." Recipients
are PeterG. A very. instructional support tech-

nician in the Department of Geology; Dennis
R. Black, associate vice president for student
affair.; and dean of students; Henry J. Durand.
executivedirectoroftheCenterfor Academic
Development Strvices, and Joseph P. Lane,

associate director of the Center for Assistive
Technology.

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bristina Bloebaum was one of only 30
scientists and engineers in the nation

this year to be named a Presidential Fatuity
Fellow. A UB faculty member since 199 t.
she conducts resean:h in multidisciplinary
design synthesis, concurrent engioeering and
artificial-intelligence applicatioos in optimal design. lo these areas, sbe is worlting to
develop new. more efficient and tess co5tly
techniques for design synthesis in complex,
multidisciplinary environments, such as in
ain:raft and automotive design.
Bloebaum is a Univer.;ity Teaching Fellow and a recipient of the Riefler Award,
which recognizes outstandingjunior.faculty
at the UB School of Eogioeering and Applied Sciences. Her research has been funded
by tJj\SA, the National Science Foundation.
~gioeering Foundation and a seed funding program at UB . She earned doctoral.
master's and bachelor's degrees at the Univer.;ity of Florida.
ooepb A. Gardella. a UB faculty member since 1982, conducts surface-science
research. A former co-director of UB •s Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, Gardella
and his co-investigator.; have developed new
surface chemistry for modified Teflon surfaces that could eventually be part of a tissueregeneration or wound-bealing system.
A senior member of the Undergraduate
College, Gardella is also chair of the UB

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Special Creativity. Gardella graduated from
Oakland Univer.;ity and earned a doctorate
from the Univer.;ity of Pittsburgh.
ll!!!'rancis Gasparini is a fellow of the
American Physical Society, an honor
reserved for no more than .5 pen:ent of the
41,000-member society. He bas conducted
important research in quantum fluids and

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explored critica1 behavior and

finit~-size

scaling at the superfluid transition of liquid
helium. A UB faculty member since 1973,
Gasparini previoasty conducted resean:h at
AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories and was a visiting
associate professor in the Laboratory of
Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell
Univer.;ity.
A graduate of Villanova Univer.;ity,
Gasparini received his doctorate in physics
from the Univer.;ity of Minnesota.

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faeulty member since 1988, Gerald
Koudelka is project director of the
Howard Hughes Undergraduate Biological
Sciences Educational Initiative, a $1.5 million grant UB received in 1994 from the
Howard Hughes Medical lostitute to improve undergraduate education in the life
sciences. Koudelka conducts research on the
molecular genetics of DNA protein interactions, and his work is funded by the National
Institutes of Health.

He is an elected member of the steering
committee for the UB ·Center for Advanced
Molecular Biology and Immunology . A
graduate of the State Univer.;ity of New
York at Albany, Koudelka received his doctorate from UB.

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aging, including decision-making, leadership ~ motivation, power and influence,
and interper.;onal and group retatioos.
He also beads the UB School of
Management'sCenterforlotemationaJUader.;bip, which provides teadersbip training
anddevetopmentforintemationaJexecutives.
Meindl earned a bachelor's degree in
psychology and sociology from the University of Rochester and master's and doctoral
degrees in social psychology from the Univer.;ity of Waterloo. He was a post-doctoral
fellow in organizational behavior at the U Diversity of Dlinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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UB faculty member since J968,Joeepb
Natiella' s research interests include tissue repair and regeneration, tissue reaction
to synthetic implants and jaw bone augmen-

tation. Tberecipientofteaching awards from
several different dental student groups, be

also serves as a clinical associate professor
of otolaryngology.
Natietla bas presented numerous lectures.
paper.; and continuing education programs,
and published ITUIJIY abstracts and articles in
scholarly journals.

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ne of the most influential and skilled
member.; of the UB Libraries staff,
Donald Hartman has designed computer
systems, designed and developed training
programs for colleagues and library user.;.
developed an "extraordinary level of exper-

tise'' with successive new information tech·
nologies, and spearheaded the introduction
of computer databases and CD-ROM technology in Lockwood Library.
Hartman also has been called "a most
influential member of the team that created

Environmental Task Force. He is a recipient

ames Meindl, a UB faculty member since
198 t , also serves as an adjunct professor
of psychology at the univer.;ity. Hi s research
interests focus on the social-psychological

Government Documents Reference Center

of a National Science Foundation Award for

processes involved in organizing and man-

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Athletics scholarship drive beats
challenge; receives matching gifts
11J PAUlA WI-.&amp;.
Repo&lt;te&lt; Contributor

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1HLETIC scbolanhips at UB received a funding boost witb
$120,000 raised during tbe UB
Division of Athletics' volunteer
scbolarahipdrive, held Feb. 21 to March 27.
Siocetbedrivemeta$100,000challenge,
long-time UB supporters Bob Rlch Sr. and
Artbur Woelfle will add SSO,OOOeach, bringing tbe total of $220,000.
Nearly 700 supporters gave to tbe sixweek drive to generate annual support for
student-athlete scholanhips.
Given tbe growtb and prominence of UB
athletics, the community showed strong support for funding for student-athlete scholarships, said John F. Dunbar Jr., who chaired
the drive. 'The community is extremely responsive to UB athletics and recognizes its
importance," said Dunbar, a UB alumnus.
'The university has instituted a proven athletics program, which is supported not only
by the local community, but also by alumni

and friends outside of Western New York.
By joining in this fund-raising effort. supporters invested in tbe future of many student-athletes."
In conjunction with tbe scholarship drive,
UB athletics kicked off tbe establishment of
the Blue&amp;: White Club, a new organization
to enhance the visibility and reputation of
tbe Division of Athletics, increase funding
for student-athlete scbolanhips and honor
its supporters. Membership is open to supporters wbo give annual gifts of$50ormore.
Nelson E. Townsend, director of athletics, noted that the club and scholanhip drive
are critical to providing increased opportunities for student-athletes.
"For UB athletics to continue to grow, we
need to broaden our foundation of supporters for athletics," said Townsend. "Contributing to student-athlete scholarships is a
commitment that will help hundreds of outstanding young athletes achieve their goals,
as well as allow the students the di stinction
of receiving a quality education at UB." U

Faculty Development Service Initiative to
offer research grants in public service area

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HE OFFICE OF the Vice President
for Public Service and Urban Affairs
has established, and will be distributing a Request for Proposal in the fall
of 1996, for tbe Faculty Development Public
Service Initiative, a program to provide UB
faculty with opportunities to engage in research projects that consider and enhance the
role or public service in the university.
"In consultation with the Faculty Senate
Committee on Public Service, we have developed a program and are completing the
RFP for distribution this fall, to provide

modest support to projects geared toward
public service research or implementation of
public service projects," said John B. Sheffer
U, acting vice president of Public Service
and Urban Affairs.
Preference wi11 be given to new projects
that integrate scholarship with the
university 's mi ssion of public service and/or
enhance faculty awareness of the ways in
which public service can enrich teaching and
scholarship.
lntenlisciplinary proposals that focus on
some aspect of research examining public
service as a tangible and applicable concept.
the development of innovative programs or
projects that would involve more faculty
engaged in public service projects will be
considered.
Faculty members involved in this may be
asked to conduct at least one symposium
within their department(s) as a means of
sharing their findings with colleagues and
possibly identifying areas for furure study.
"Faculty, working with their respective
schools. faculties and interdisciplin ary
groups. can utilize their expertise for public
benefit," said Claude Welch. Distinguished
Service Professor of political science and
chair of the Faculty Senate. "The application
of our specialized knowledge is at the heart
of public service."
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Leners
Charting university's future: Headrick will take
planning dialogue to campus community
DEAR COU£\QUU:

Because the 1996197 state budget remains unresolved, I want to reach you be·
fore we disperse for the summer in order
to briefly describe the situation as I cur·

rently see it.
These are adminedty difficull umes and
I am aware that uncertainties can take a

collective toll. It is all the more imponant.
then, that all of us remain committed to
d efining and seeing through to completion
a university-wide planning process that
preserves the lntegrtty of our academic re·
sponsibilities both in the short term and
into the foreseeable future .
We are entering the second phase of

that process now, followng upon an ambt·
tious and recently completed self-study by
each faculty and school of its programs
and resources , of its initial mapping of future directions. The deans are now in
open discussion, reporting their current Inventories and exchanging the ir v1ews
about where we go from here As we move
forward. I intend to sustain a cooperative
and open process.
When this phase is complete and some
initial sense of possibility and direction IS
evident, I will take the planning d ialogue to
the campus community at large beginning

in the early fall. From thiS, change will in·
evitably come : decisions about focused
investments in programs with future prom·
ise. about consolidations and r90fganizations in targeted areas to accomplish both

reducttons where needed and building
collaborative strengths where intellectually
promising. These are the k&gt;ng-term academic issues before us.
We are also addressing the short-term
budget pressures that are so much on
everyone 's mind . The President, Senior
Vice President, and I will discuss with the

SUNY admtn istratlon a series of proposals
and related fiscal strategies on behalf of
UB even before the state determines its
own budget We will press our case firmly
and offer specifiC measures for 1ncreased
local control of our revenues
In all of th1s , we particularly value the
centrality of faculty colleagues. are sensitive to your concerns , and soliCit your engagement 1n charting the future of the un1·
vers1ty 1n a ume that has become 1ncreas·
1ngly compltcated for .hrgher education
I wish you a productive summer and
look forward to meeting w1th many of you
m the fall
Best wishes .
T-HEADRICK
Provost

Faculty, staff and students invited to join Team UB,
help in fight against juvenile diabetes
DEAR MEM8ER OF THE UNIVERSITY
COMMUNITY:
On Sunday, June 2. thousands of Western
New Yorkers will undertake a challenge
too large to ignore. They w ill be walking 1n
the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation lOK
Walk at Delaware Park in an effon to ra1se
research funds to find a cure for this d isease that affects 14 million people.
The Walk has grown into an outstand·
1ng event in which the Western New York
community generously g ives of its time
and money. Overwhelming corporate support of this event has created its success.
For the first time ever. the University at

Buffalo is panicipating by entering a team
of walkers-Team UB. We're looking for
faculty. staff and students to join together
to walk as representatives of the university. We encourage you to also invite your
family and friends to join you as members
of our team .
To organize this effort. we need help
from every department on campus Here's

what to do:

• Hang the poster in a h1gh-traff1c area
and make applications available by usmg
the stand·up cardboard holder provided
• Individuals who wish to register for
the Walk should complete the reg istration
form and return it via Campus Mail to ·
Room 130, Alumni Arena.
• After completing the registratoo form.
walkers should begin to find sponsors It's
probably best to get the money at the same
time that you secure the pledge. Rat dona-

ttons may be the easiest to collect. although
an amount per kil001eter can be fun-for example. $1 for each km of the tO km event
• Come to Delaware Park on June 2. All
pledge money and sponsor sheets must be
turned in on the day of the Walk. begtnning
at 9 a .m. The Walk begins at 11 a .m
• Wear a UB t-shtn so you can be
proudly identified as a member of Team UB!
Let's make Team UB a true leader 1n
Western New York's fight against Juvenile

Diabetes. See you on June 21
RME11T J. WAllNER
Senior VICe Presidenr

CHANCELLOR'S AWARDS
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in Lockwood Libruy" and has become a
highly effective and productive subject specialist for economics.
Hartman joined tbe UB libruy staff in
1984 and, in addition to many journal articles and in-house libruy publications, has
written several books, including 'Themes
and Settings in Fiction," which is a major
cited resource in the srudy of fiction, and
"Historical Figures in Fiction," which also
broke scholarly and bibliographic ground in
providing subject access for fiction .
Hartman is currently at work on a guide to
nineteenth-century biographical fiction .

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ean Decker, who joined the UB Libraries
staff in 1972, has headed the Serials Cataloguing Section of the libraries since 1975
and in that capacity has developed cataloging systems and procedures that have earned
her national recognition.
A distinguished and widely-recognired
serialist, sbc is the author of several publications in her field. Her writings have been
praised nationally as "scholarly treatments
of subjects that are often timeless ... clearly
indicative of an in-depth knowledge of se ri -

als cataloging, a highly specialized and technical area .... "
Among her other accomplishments, colleagues and supervisors cite Decker's
achievement of bibliographic control over
the serials held in tbe UB Libraries-a "formidable task" to which Decker devoted herself "with unstinting zest and diligence "
over a 20-year period. says UB archivist
Shonnie Finnegan.
eter Avery curates geological collections for the Department of Geology.
He assists faculty with materials for aca·
dcrnic programs and laboratories. serves as
assistant curator for the Icc Core Laboratory
and coordinates telecommunication and com·
puting functions for the department.
s dean of students and associate vice
president for student affairs, Dennis
Black is responsible for developing, imple·
mcnting and evaluating service and development programs for 25,000 students. He
oversees srudcnt-servicc units, including the
Student Health Center, Office of Student
Life, Career Planning and Placement. Judicial Affairs and Greek Affairs.

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He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the College Srudent Services/Development Program in the Dcpanmcnt of
Educational Organization. Administration and
Policy in the Graduate School of Education.
Black joined the UB professional staff in
1978asexecutivedirectorofSub Board!, Inc ..
a student service corporation. He earned a
bachelor's degree in political science and history and a law degree, both from UB.

enry Durand beads the Center for Aca·
demic Development Services. which in cludes the Educational 0ppor1llnity Program
(EOP) and the Special Services Program. EOP
provides equal acc:ess to UB for educationally
and ftnancially disadvantaged srudents who
possess potential for academic success. The
Special Services Program provides educational
assistance to low·incomc and/or fli'St-generation college srudents, as well as the physically
handicapped who need academic support to
successfully pursue a baccalaureate degree.
He serves as chair of the statewide Council of EOP Directors. A UB staff member
since 1990, Durand also is a senior research
associate with the Center for Urban Studies

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and an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate
School of Education. Durand received a
bachelor's degree from Denison University. a
master's degree from Xavier University and a
doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

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n addition to his position with the Center
for Assistive Technology, Joseph Lane
serves as director of the Rehabilitation Engi·
neering Researc h Center on Technology
Evaluation and Transfer ar UB. The RERC' s
research. business and consumer teams cvalu·
me prototype assistivc devices and work to
bring promising devices to the marketplace.
[n 199), Lane received the Governor's
Productivity Award-which cites state em·
ployccs whose innovative achievements increase productivity and improve management
of programs and services-for a grant devel opment program he designed based on col·
laborativc projects that leverage available
resources in the state.
He received a bachelor's degree in psychology and criminal justice from Buffalo
State College and an M.B.P.A. degree in
marketing and infonnation systems from the
University of California at lrvine.

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ACS AN_,NCU MOVE
TO IEUJCOn COMII'UX
The office of Administrative Computrng Serv•ces has announced it is
moving to the Ellicott CompleK. Alter
May 21 . the address will be: Adm~n­
rstrative Computing Servic es. Compuling and Information Technology ,
2 15 MFAC . Ellicon Complex. Box
610016 , Buffalo. NY 14261-()()16.
ln!Ofmalion about the move also
IS available on the Web: ACS on the
Mo ve! &lt;http://wings.buffalo.eduJ

computing/ade/mov/mov.hrml&gt; For
l'l'\Ofe in!Ofmation. call 645-3587

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SCIENTISTTO SPEAK AT

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Ju,lua A.lr.elrod, co-winner o f the
1970 Nobel Pnze in physiology or
med rcine and chief of the pharmacol-

ogy section at the Nalional lnstltute
of Mental Heatth from 1954-84 , will
speak at UB on Monday. May 13. as
part olrts Drstinguished ScientiSt
Seminar Senes.
The lecture. free and open to the
pubhc . will be held at 4 p .m . in Butler
Audrtorium of Farber Hall on the
South Camp us. His topic w ill be·
"Neurotransmitters, Second Messengers and Psychoactive Drugs.·
Axelrod won the Nobel Prize 101'
h1s work on neurotransminers of the
sympathetic nervous system. He now
1s doing research into the role in biological systems of THC. the active Ingredient in marijuana: anandarmde-the body's own vers100 of THC-and
the receptor with which bolh chermcals 1nteract. Herbert Schue~, UB
profeSSOt of anatomy and cell biology
who also is doing pioneering work in
this area . is host of the seminar .
The UB Distinguished Scientist
Seminar Series Is sponsored by the
departments of anatomy and cell biology. biochemistry, biophysics, mic robiology, neurology, pharmacology
and toxicology. and physi()k)gy in the
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

UB's Asian Studies Program and the
Department of Communication will
co-sponsor the 11th Annual Conference of Association of Chinese Political Studies . Aug . 11-13 at UB
The conference will focus on the
Internal and external challenges that
China faces and the promises that
China holds in Its economic and political development at the turn-of-thec entury. FOf more information. contact Junhao Hong , 645-3351 . or
e-mail &lt;jhongGacsu.buffalo.edu &gt;

K8h .:,.... Cho, UB distinguished
teaching professor of philosophy,
has received the 1996 Sf;Wu authol
prize from the Sf;Wu Foundation In
Korea for his book Bewusstsein unci
Natutsein.
The Sf;Wu Philosophy Prize was
established by colleagues, students
and family of the late Jae-Hee Chol ,
professor of philosophy for /TI()(e than
30 years at Seoul NaUonal University
and president of the Humanist Society , KOrean Chapter.
The prize carries a SS,OCXl award
and air fare to the awards ceremony
in Seoul, where Cho will present a
lecture on June 8.

ENIIICHMENT ~~
IS IIIlAY U AT IIIAIIIIIOTT
The University at Buffalo and Professional Staff Senate will sponSOf a
c onference designed to teach participants the skills needed to cope
with today's dynamic lifestyle.
"Dynamic Balance; Teaching Ourselves to Live Smarter· will be held
from 8 a.m . to 4 p .m . Friday, May 31
in the Buffalo Marrk&gt;tt. The one--day
conference will explore some of the
tools available to help individuals
cope with the ever-changing bounds
of personal and professional lives.
Subtects will include proper d iet.
spiritual health , problem resolving ,
alternative medicine , job enrichment
and conflict management.
Workshops will be moderated by
members of the UB community as
well as noted experts from the local
professional and education communities. Cost of the conference is $25
and includes breakfast . lunch and
breaks. The conference is open to all
UB faculty and staN.
For rT'I()(9 information , call Lani
JendrOWSki at 645-3072.

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grants are available fOf' study or research. Travel grants are avallabkt to
selected countries to suppJement
maintenance awards from other
sources that do not provide funds for
intemaUonal travel or to supplement
1he applicant's personal funds. The
J . William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, composed of 12 education and public leaders appointed by
!he president of the U .S .. establishes
criteria for selectOO of candidates
and has final authority for the awardIng of grants.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens
at the time of application and hold a
bachelor's degree or its equivalent
by the beginning date of the grant.
Creative and performing artists are
not required to have a bachek&gt;r's degree , but they must have four years
of relevant training or study. Candi·
dates In medicine must have an M .D.
or equivalent (i.e .. D.D .S .. D .O.. e1c .)
at the time of applicatton.
All appUcants are required to
have sufficient proficiency in the language of the host country to carry
out their proposed study or research .
Full grants provide round· trip international travel , maintenance for
the tenure of the award , a research
allowance and tuition waivers if applicable. Travel grants provide roundtrip intemaUonal travel to the country
where the student will pursue study
or research . All grants Include heatth
and accident insurance.
UB students should contact the
Fulbright Program AdviSOf , Barbara
Bunker. 362 Pari&lt; Hall , for brochures.
application forms and further Information. Deadline for receipt of applicaUons is Sept. 27. 1996. Applications will be reviewed on campus
prior to being forwarded to liE lor the
Oct. 23. 1996 deadline.

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The U.S. information Agency (USIA),
!he J. William Fuibrigh1 Foreign
Scholarship Board and the Institute
of International Education (liE) have
opened the 1997-98 competition lOt'
Fulbright and related grants for
graduate study abroad in academic
fields and lor professional training in
the creative and performing arts.
Fulbright grants are funded under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 through
an annoal appropr"tlon made by
congress to USIA and by foreign
governments, universities, corpora·
lions and prtvate donors. Fulbright

PAUL KOSTYNIAK NAMED
UB DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Paul Koatynlak, d irector of the Toxicology Research Center at UB ,
has been named chair of the Department of
Clinical Laboratory'Sciences .
Kostyniak joined the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics , now the Department
o f Pharmacology and Toxi~y . as an assistant professor in 1977. He was promoted to associate profesSOf in 1984 and a year later was
named to head the Toxicology Research Center . He will retain this position while serving as
chair of the Department of Clinical Laboratory
Sciences.
Holder of a doctorate in toxicology from the
Untversity of Rochester. Kostyniak is a specialist
in the biological impact of toxic merals on humans. He has been certified
by tt;le American Board of Toxicology since 1980.
He is a co-investigator on the New York State Angler Study, which 1s assessing effects of eating Great Lakes fish on anglers and their families.
Kostyniak has been invotved since 1993 in training workers to clean
up sites containing hazardous and radioactive wastes from the Manhattan Project, and in training personnel In hazardous materials recognition
and response through the UB T oxicok&gt;gy Research Center.
His professional memberships include the American Associahon fOf
the Advancement of Science , American Chemical Society, New York
Academy of Sciences. International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
and the Society of Toxicok&gt;gy, of which he is past president of the met·
als specialty section.
He has published more than 35 papers in professional journals and
has wrinen 10 book chapters.

ate profesSOf of communication, was
named 1996 Scholar of the Year by
the Eastern CommunicaHon Association at the professional group's last
meeting in New York City.
Goldhaber. a UB faculty member
since 197 4 and a former chair of the
UB Department of CommunicaHon .
was recognized for his contributions
in the area of interpersonal and organizational communication.
His textbook. ·organizational
Communication.· is the first book to
develop the basic principles of organizational communication , defined as
the exchange of information. both internally and externally, between organizations. The book examines
such factors as sources, credibility,
c hannels of communication and the
feedback system that Increases or
decreases the accuracy of the exchange of information.
Seven editions of the book have
been published since 1974. more
than any other textbook In the field or
communication. It is used in more
than 250 colleges and untversities
worldwide.
The text was the book most often
cited as being the most influential in
the area of Buslness-ManagementOrganizaHonal Communication
(BMOC) in a 1994 survey of communication professionals.
In addiUon to ·organizational
Communication ,· Goldhaber has
wrinen 10 other books in the field of
communication .
He has won five teaching awards.
and has been listed in YVho's Who in
the World" and '"Who's Who in
Amerk:a .·
Goldhaber also •s the owner o f
Goldhaber Research Associates, a
consulting firm with more than 50
empklyees that specializes in polling
and market research for executives
in politics, industry, the legal profession and the entertainment arts.
He received a bachelor's degree
in speech from tbe University of Massachusens. a master's degree in
communication theory from the University of Mary1and and a doctorate

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pafy, fucialdiJic. fun, ~ pbilnmphica1 llllptlia&amp;. ..
date, allly, aeiamic, popular, obaclll'e, aaeful, aad
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slimy, marly, paranoid, baleful, hideous, barmfu1, JIOniOII'IPbic or

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Yllboolipu! gives kids the opponunity to browae in lbe following sections: "Around lbe World," "Art Soup," "Computers,
Games and Online," "Entenainment," "School Bell; "Science and
Oddities," "Sports and Recreation," and "1'bc Scoop." Kids areaiBo
invited 10 join "Club Yabooligansl" to receive early notification of
contests and cool Web sites.
Anotbersitedcvoled 10 safe Web surfmg by kids is Kid's Wave
(http://www.safeiUI'f.comJsskwavo.btml/). Kid's Wave features
"SafeSurf' approved "Sites for Elementary Ages," "Sites for Older
Kids &amp; Parents," "Space Stuff," and "'ln~etesting Commercial
Sites." Both Kids' Wave and Yllboolipns! provide information
for parents and lcids on staying safe on the Web.
For assistance in connecting to tM World Wide Web via University
computer accounts, conJactthe Computer Center's Help tksk at
645-3542.
-Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartman , University libraries

in organizational/interpersonal communication from Purdue University.

u• CHAP1D1 01' HA.n'AT
TO _ . , IIDIIPIT CONCERT
The UB Campus and Buffalo Chapters of Habitat for Humanity will hold
featuring The Four
Freshmen , an lntemaUonalty ac·
claimed vocaVinstrumental jazz quar·
let. at8 p .m . •Wednesday, June 26 in
the Center for the Arts Mainstage .
North Campus.
The Four Freshmen was founded
in 1948, and the current group was
formed in 1992 and trained by !he
original ~d singer, Bob Flanigan.
The group has been honored as the
.....OOd's best lnstrumenta1 jaZz quartet,
recofding more than 45 albums and
receiving six Granvny nominations.
Tickets tor the concert are $1 2,
$16 and $20 and available at the
Center for the Arts box office or b y
calling Ticketmaster. 852-5000.

a benefit concert

There will be a steeplechase--but
without horses-at UB on May 11.
The UB Newman Centers has p icked
the steeple-dotted perimeter of the
South Campus for their first annual
5K run and fun walk, ~The Steeplechase.· The event will start at 11 a .m .
ln the Parker Hall parking lot behind
St. Joseph 's Church. 3269 Main St.
Participants In the U.S. Track and
Field-sanctioned event will receive a
T-shirt and be treated to a post-race
party at the finish line. The preregis·
tration fee . payable by May 9, is $13 :
registration tee on race day is $10 for
students and $15 for all others .
Prizes will be awarded to firstplace male and female finishers and
to the first three finishers in 12 age
categories. Separate prizes will be
awarded to the first male and female
UB finishers. Registration packets
wiU be available May 10 at St.
JoSeph's Church and at the Newman
Center's North Campus office in
Suite 209. The Commons . For more
information, call636-7495 weekdays
between 9 a.m . and 4 p .m .
Sponsors include Tops Friendly
Markets; UB Student Association;
A.J. Baynes Freight Contractor Ltd .:
Mclaan-Thomas. Inc.: Wholesale
Building Materials. and Weaver Metal
and Roofing, Inc. The event also Is

supported by Bison Brand Yogurt;
Costanzo's Bakery; Custom Tee
Activewear; IBM: Mayer Brothers
Spring Water, Petit Printing Corp.;
Polar Baverages: Spada Advenising.
inc.; Schwebel Baking Co.. and
Frank Wardynski and Sons.

OI'PICEOI'_P_
-.sTO-LOCA~

The Office of Gampus Parl&lt;ing and
Transportation Services has moiled its
VIOlations Office to !he Not1h Gampus.
Effective immediatety, all inquiries
per18ining 10 adjudication (including
ai&gt;peals and hearings), parf&lt;ing permits. violations (including enforcemen1, fines, towing) and special
event parking shouk:f be directed to
102 Spaulding Quadrangle, Building
2: 1elephone 645-2516, fax 645-3944.
The Offoce of !he Director also has
moved, and inquiries pertaining to
access services, administrative servfces, busing, fees, paridng shuttles,
and visitor/guest parf&lt;ing (including
permits, information services and
peid parking) should be diracted 1o
106 Spaulding Quadrangle, Building
1: telephone 645-7329, fax 645-7331 .
The Offica of Campus Parking
and Transportation Services will continue to oPerata a South Campus satellite office in 17 Diefendorf Annex .
That location will change in the fall of
1996 to 22 Diefendorf Annex.

Official UB d iploma frames are being
offered through the University Studen1 Alumni Board (USAB).
The frames are high-quality pol·
ished gold , featuring a blue mat with
a black core , highlighted by the gokt
foil-stamped UB logo.
Frames for bachek&gt;r's, master's
and doctoral degree d ipkM'nas (except dental and medical degree di·
pk&gt;mas) are $39.95 until May 16:
dental and medical deg ree frames
are $59.95. In addition, USAB is offering frames for 8-x- 1G-inch and 5by-7 -inch c lass portraits. During
commencement. frames will be available in the Alumni Arena lobby for
the regular prtce of $49.95.
Proceeds of !he frame sale ben·
efit USAB's Merit Award Scholarship
fund . Frames may be purchased by
calling USAB at 829-2608 or by slopping in the Office of Alumni Relations. 109 Allen Hall, Sou1h Campus.

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Welch speaks May 16
1ltACI( . . . . . . c:o.oLIIE--.- SEASON;
PIIIIPAIIE FOR~
The Bulls~ by Mld~t Conference rival Youngstown State UnM!rslty with 90-89 decision Selurday afternoon al
the UB Open Track &amp; Fleld Meet at UB Stadiun. UB's women's
squad finished second behind Youngstown State in a close
meet 129-124. Canisius was third ol the three scoring teams In
the men's . . - with 23 points v.illte the Ganisius women placed
third ol four with 28 and Cleveland State fourth with seven.
The Bolls' Ryen Candia won the 400-meter hurdles In 56.63
and teamed with VICtor Archibald, Kris Winkler and Fumu
Gal&lt;odl to win the 4 x 400 relay in 3:20.53 just one-hundreth of a
second faster then Youngstown State.
Chris Bossert won the 1,500 meter run for UB in 15:02.50.
Chris Koenen took first In the 3.000 meter steeplechase in
9:43.70. Buffalo also won three field events as Neil Murray won
the pole vault for the second consecutive week. Murray, last
week's Mid-Continent Conference Athlete of the Week for his
perlormance at the UB Invitational April 27. took the pole vault at

4.60 meters (15-1). Thorn Kaye took the long jump at 6 .60
meters {22-3.75) and Ben Atl&lt;inson finished first in the javelin at
48.18 meters (156-1).
On the women's side, Jaime Hirschman was a double winner
for the Royals wimlng the 400-meter hurdles in 1:06.43 and
combining with Megan Sanford. Shannon Hayes end Sue
Mlkovich to take the 4 x 400 meter relay in 4:16.48.
Andrea Bishop finished lirst In the 600 meters In 2:25.32. The
Royals also swept the distance events as Stacey S~othmann
won the 1,500 In 4:47.06, Nilam Shukla won the 5,000 meters on
16:28.62 and Barb Rabinovici won the 10.000 meters in
40:26.52.
Shetley HamiUon won the high jump with a marl&lt; ol t .66
meters {5-6).
Both teams head for Kansas City to compete in next

weekend's Mid-Continent Conference Outdoor Championshops
The field will be strong as the Royals attempt to caprure theor
second consecutive league outdoor crown.
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Chob&amp;nian and de: Falla. Allen.
Sooth Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Taped

by WBFO 88.7 FM for broadcast
the following Sundly at 4 p.m.

p--·-- -SWI Senate.

lleceat Advuca ill X-l.JAbd

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Dl..,..uc Scleaceo

V arlatioulo the Quality or
HuHb Can, Dr. Harry Sult.z. 355
Squire. South Campus. 8 a.m.

•-•DOddidnq, KalhlceG
O'Neil, M.D. Kinch Auditorium.

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Qliklrea ' s Hospital. 8 a.m.

Tbt. Etl'ect of Mec.bankaJ Forus
oa Fdal Luq aad Heart
Growtb, Phillip Glick. M.D .• Pediatrics. 301 Biomedical Researeh
Building. South Campus. 4 p.m.

~k Applialtlocu In
Studif:J or Akobol •ad Dru&amp;
ProbkiU, William F. Wiecunk.
Ph.D., Research lnstitut.c on Ad·
dictions. 1021 Main St. 1:30p.m.
Free. Spon10rr:d by the Rescvch
lnstitut.c on Addictions.

-FolkD..claC
AU kvelL 2 Diefendorf. Soulh
Campus. 8· 11 p.m. Frtt. Spon ·
sored by GSA.

rium. Children' s Hospital . 8 a.m.

Po7c111MryA New Look at aa. OklProblem:
lnmeaJtrv.aJ Dytpboric. Disorder, Kimberly A. Yonkers, M.D..
Univ. of Texas Southwestern

Medical Center. Auditorium. Rehabilitation Buildina. Buffalo Psychi atric Center. 10:30 a.m.

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AU "'nla. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by OSA.

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David Ftldt:r, utistk d.irtdor.
Through June 9. Performances by
BuffaJo Philharmonic, New York
New Music Ensemble. SLRJUS .
Amherst Saxophone Quanet, June
in BuffaJo String Quartet, Rober1
Black. Yolanada Koodonassis.
Slec and Baird. North Campus.
For schedule. call 64S-2921.

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Rudolf Jata.llc.b, Pb.D.,
Whitehead Institute. Cambridge.
Mus. RPCI. 12:30 p.m.
ala~:II•••Rrr

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ll.op 70 Like Protelm, John R.
Subject, Pb.D.• )\PCJ. 1348
Farber. Soulh Campus. 4 p.m.

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NMR. StudJa ror Cerebral •nd
Cardiac Prottd:ion, Roxanne
Deslaurien:s, Ph.D .. Biosystems
NRC. Winnipeg. 301 Biomedical
Research Building. South Campus.
4p.m.

Opuo:c-.u.. ·
Biitory ot tbe Futu~ Gary
Rutkowtki, percussion. assisted by
Kattuyn Monwski. vocalist; Patrick
O' Connell. percussion. Alk:n. South
Campus. 1 p.m. Free. Taped by
WBFO 88.7 FM for broadcast the
following Sunday at 4 p.m.

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R ew:nibly Bypocootndlk
MyocardiWil-Stuaaed. BiberutlDa. ot What! Francis J.
K.Jocke. M.D., Northwestern Umv .
301 Biomedical Research Build·
in1. South Campus. 4 p.m.

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Tbt Four Freshmen. Mainstage ,
Center for the Arts. North Campus. 8 p.m. $12, $16. $20.

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ClrculatlDa P\ateltu: Fritnd.J or
FDH Ia lxbemk: Heart Di.RaJe?
J. L. Mehta. M.D., Univ. of
Aorid.a. 301 Biomedical Research
Buildinc. Sooth Campus. 4 p.m.

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Neurotropbk FKtor Gent
Tbenpy ror Neurodqt:Dt:ntlve
Dlse.-. 0.. Martha C. Bohn.
Univ. or Rochester. 306 Fa.rbtr.
South Campus. 12:30 p.m.

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U B Nlc.bt at Nortb AmeriCare
Park. Pre:game rccepcion 5:30
p.m., Breckenridge Brewery in
Market Arcade ($9 adults, $.4 . SO
children). North AmeriCa.re Park..
downtown . 7:30p.m. $6. 75 .
Sponsored by the Professional
Staff Senate and the Campus
Club.

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AU SnelL 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Sponsored by GSA .

l n t _ . Folk D-lnc
AU tevtls. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8-1 1 p.m. Frtt. Spon·

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somt by GSA.

Americ.aa Cdtbration-Festival

Chorus A: Orc.btstn.. U.S. Marine Military Guard, Cornerstone
Bartx:n.hop Quanet, and 170 musicians. Mairutage , Center for the
Ans. North Campus. 3 p.m. and 8
p.m. $12.50, SIS.

July
Tour-Jtoycroft
aad Mu- -la.n
l'roCrMI

seum. DocWd H. Dayer, Ed. D..
Graduat.c School of Education.
Roycroft Inn, Museum, and Res·
taurant, East Auron. Noon. To
register, c.all Alumni Relations,
829-2608.

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C~bn.l

Blood flow

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Mark.u of Neu.nl FuncUon,
Alan Lockwood, M.D.. Neurology

and Nuclear Medicine. 301 BtomedicaJ Resean:h Building South

\Vednl · ~da\

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Roowei1Pwk8t81f
Su mmer Education Procnm,
Herben Hauptman, Ph.D..
Hauptman· Woodward Medical
Research lnstitule. Kirchhofer
Room, RPCI. 12:30 p.m.

Campus. 4 p.m.

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OPENING EXHIBITS

TltHie Mow
Gradu.at.c n-esis Presemauons b)
graduating master's students from
the Department of Architectu~ and
lhe Dc:panment of Planning ~ on
view May 13 through June 14 1n
the James Dyett Gallery . 335
Hayes lbll, South Campus. 1bc
exhib1t will include models, draw ·
mgs. and bound theses. Gallery
hours are Monday-Friday. 9 m.m·
S p.m. Admission as free .

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C luster lleullion-Cl&amp;Da or
INS-1948. Tours, lectures. lunc.ht:oo. For informatioo, call Dc:br.
!'&gt;lb. 829-2608.

Ar1 in Poland: Ne,.• Dnect.Jon'i"
features wock by eight arti sts from
tht Krak6,.. area. through July 1n
the Umvenity Ar1 Gallery . Center
for the Am. North Campus. Gal
lery hours: 10:30 a.m. ·S p.m
Wednesday-Saturday. Noon ·S p.m
Sunday. Admission is free

AltiRP.,._
M

Po7clol8tr7-Trtalmtnt
or Social Pboblu.
Samue l M. Turner, Ph.D.. Medical

LIIIJrtwelt ••u
Leonardo Drew' s Slle ·Spcc.l fi~o: m

5Ulllation ''No. 45-A.. was desagned
for the Ugtu~ll GaUery tn the
Centrr for the Am.. North Campus.
and IS ~ through October

- F o l k -. .
All k~ls. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 8· 11 p.m. Free . Spon ·
sored by GSA .

Prlntotn~

-otly- MAP ~ Cucack 1D tbt

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habilitation Medicine. Centers fot
Disease Control and Prevention.
National Center for Environmc:n·
tal Health . Disabilities ~ventaon
Program. Queen 's landing,
Niagara-on-the-Lake. Onr 7 a.m ·
4 p.m. $200-$350. For informa·
tion, call 645-2018 .

Univ. of South Carolina. Auditorium, Rehabilitation Building,
Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
10:30Lm.

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National Cent.cr for Environmc:n·
tal Health. Disabilities Prevention
Program. Queen' s Landing.
Niagan-on-lhe-Lake. Onl. 7 a.m.·
7 p.m . $2()()-$3SO. For infonna tion. c.ali64S·2018.

Prognosis and Outc.oma Aner
Tnum•lic Bnln lojury: His·
torical Ptn:spec:livts, Curnnt
Pnctk~ and Futurt Dl.rttHons.
Sponscnd by Department of Re-

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June

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Smartu. Marrioct Hotel. 8 a.m.·
4 p.m. Ptftenled by Profeuional

The ...,.for....,....DIUII peacekeeping and the chances
of it succeeding will be the topic of a " UB at SUNRISE"
program at 7 :30a.m. May 16 in theCenterforTomonow on
the North Campus. Speaker at the breakfast program will be
Claude E. Welch Jr.. SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
in the UB Department of Political Science.
Welch , internationally recognized expert on military topics, terrorism and the age-old conflict between those ~ho
wage war and those who seek peace. will speak on " Wagmg
Peace: How Can International Peacekeeping Succeed?" He
will discuss whether the U.N. can reinvent itself to address
the world's needs in international peacekeeping.
" UB at SUNRISE" is produced by the UB Alumni Association and UB 's Office of Conferences and Special Events,
News Services and Office of Publications. It also is supported by the Office of University Development and Office
for Public Service and Urban Affairs. Price of the program,
including breakfast. is $9 for UB Alumni Association mem bers and S 10 for others. For more infonnation, call 8292608. Ticket orders must be received by Monday. May 13.

Coatrol at CeU Cyde Eatry, 0..
JIICQUCS Pouysseser. ~ntre de .
Biochemie. CNRS. Uruv. de Nta: .
France. Part of Distinguished Scientist SeminN Series. 134 Cary .
South Campus. 4 p.m.

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S um.JHr Ed.atioa Prop-am,
David TriQle, Ph.D.. Onduatt
School. Kirchhofer Room. RPCI.
12:30 p.m.

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Traa. . tk Bn.ln l.Uury: Blstorkal Penptd.lvts, Currtnl
PrKtk:t., ud Fulu..re Di.rectiollS.
Sponsored by Department of Rehlbilitation Medicine, Centers for
Disease Co ntrol and ~vention .

An exhibit of work by pnnt·
makers Susan Dudash and Ben
Dunkle IS on v1cw through Jul ) 8
in lhe Capen Hall Gallery located
on the fifth noor of Capen on the
North Campus.

.._t.utblt
" UB Remembers," a unwcnuy
sesquicentennial exhibit organu.cd
by Unh-enity Archives, contanues
through Sept. I0 in 420 Capen
Hall, North Campus. Groups may
arnnac: a visit by caJiing 64S· 291b
Exhibit houB are Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m

Crafta Ia Ju. .
The Creative Cn.ft Cen~er, 120
Fil.lmore, Elhcou CompleJo, I) offering " Early Summer Cr.ft
WOI"k.shopsMswting June 3
Wort.shops include textile desagn.
k.Mting &amp;: crocheting. we.a vmg.
qu1ltang, Brazilian em.broidery,
photography, pottery, jewelry,
stau~d glass. computt!r graph1cs .
and mulu -media for chaldren
Adult wocbhops are weekly for
stA weeks from 7-10 p.m. Ou ld ·
ren 's wcwksbops lll"l:! Saturday
mornings and aft.cmoons Most
workshops are SJO for studenl5,
and $50 for othcn. For infonna uon, call 645-6125 or 645-2434

Hu..,.n- ~....
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The World Languages ln st1tu1 ~
will offer Hunganan 191 and
Hungarian 192 1·"3 p.m. MondaysThursdays from June 3 to July 24
lnd1v1duals mteresle:d m Sigmng
up foe the class lhould contact the
World languages Institute For
more information all Mark
As.hwill. 645· 2292. or
&lt;ASHWlLL flacsu.boffalo .c:du&gt;

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Psych1atry. Posting •F-6015. As·
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Pos11ng •F-6017 . AssodattfFull
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Professor-Edocatto nal Orgamz.a ·
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Therapy, Posl!ng IIIF-6023 A.ssis·
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Work. Posung irF-6024 C llnK:al
lnstn.act or·Phys1cal ~r.tp) and
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829-2608.

CEI.EJIIIATm PIANIST - Y • • ~ pel'fofma
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Arts. North Campus. 3 p.m.

Eorly Mule Duo-G..,..
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conlu, ud Rkluanl Stotx.lute.
Allen. South Campus. 3 p.m. $10.
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Ado~t Subltuc:t Ute aad

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Abutt, Michael Wiodle, Ph.D.
Kinch Auditorium, Children's
Hospital. 8 a.m.

OniiiJoloO-

Strudurol BloJov or Poptlde
Antibiotics u.d Aatk:ucer
~ptutlc

Attnll, Antony Raj

Periathamby, Ph.D., Oral Biolol)'.

215 Foster. Soulfl Campus. Noon.

The NNrobebavMmi.J Bub of

AkoboUsm: Ralloule for CombiD«~ ~bcropy ond
P'lyc.bothenpy, Raymond F.

Amon. M.D., Mc:dical Univ. of

South Carolina. 1021 Main St.
I :30 p.m. Free. Sponsored by the
Research Institute on Addii tions.

G ildk., Buffalo City Ba!Jel Drama
Theab"C:, Center for the Arts. North

Campus. 8 p.m. Sll, Sll.

All 5tvtls. 2 Diefendorf. South
Campw:. 8-11 p.m. Free. Spon-

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Tncllla&amp; Soda) Wort from an
Ecluc:atioa Tbcol'}', Dr. Wilburn
Hayden. Ftnt day ohwo-day
workshop. Dac:men College. $I .50.
Sponsored by Social Work Continuing Education. For infonna-

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AU IevelL 2 Oiefendod. South
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Free. Sponson!&lt;lbyOSA.

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Scheuerman, aueatspeak:er. UUP.
Duffel dinner 11 .5:4.5 p.m.
Pisaac:hio's, Student Urlion. North
Campus. .5:1.5 p.m. For information. caii64S-2013.

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Aaaual MtdlDJ aDd A-nrds
Dtaoer. Hyau Regeocy BWfalo.

5:30 p.m. S35, S50, S75. For ;nformation, call 64.5-2107.

Clplla: Uve
Settlap of E.Uy Dic.bnsoo,
Vocci d'Amore: Cristen·GreJory .
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School olL8w. Center ror the
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Pallavollita. M.D., Cardiology.
301 Biomedical Rcsearc:h Buildin&amp;. South Campus. 4 p.m.

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North Campus. I p.m.

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J....U. P.nodototlllo, Prof.
Mute Wobon. Onl BKIIOSY. 215
Foster. South Campus. Noon.
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Sludlts or Ak:olool """ Dru 1
ProblnaJ, William F. Wieczorek.
Ph.D., RIA. 1021 Majn S1. 1:30
p.m. Free. Sponsored by the Re·
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Plaaaht&amp;- Hayes Lawn. South

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Nudoollda, Leroy B. TOWDJtOd.
seuion chair. Uoiv. or M.icbipn.
22.5 Natural Sciences. North Campus.. 8:30 a.m.-NOon. $2.5-53.50.
Pot informatica, caU Coafemaoes
A Spoc:W J!venll. 645-2018.

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1:30-4: 10 p.m. SlS--$3.50. Fotin-

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formatioo. c:aU ConfercDOCI &amp;.
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Toman., sessioo chair, City Univ.
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call Conlerenct~ A Spoc:W

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4-9 p.m. $2.5-$3.50. For information, call Conferences &amp;: Special
Evenu, 64.5-2018.

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W0111ea'a RdaUoashlp to

MODty.• Talking Leaves, 31.58
Main St. .5-7 p.m. Sponsored by
Women's Srudies.

B MPI: Multlf'llactioDOI Rqulaton of Vertebrate Em.bryoak
~t. Dr. Bricid Hogan,
Vandefbih Univ. Kirdlhofcr

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call Confercnce~ &amp;. Special

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C..puloo, Jock
McGowan. Michael EVIIICO, and
Melina KeUy-Mc:Cibo. Oeoio&amp;Y21SNotuno1Sc.,...._NonbCampus. 7:30p.m. Free.

Scbool of Nuniq. Slee. Nonb

Updotc oa Slddo Cell "-lo,
Mluro Gtoui, M.D. Kiocb AINlitorium, Cbildrm't tu.pital. 8 a.m.

Mnseaac:n. ud Pl)'cboad.Jve

Teadaia&amp; Sodal Work tro. ••
Edueolloe 'l'loecN7, pr. w;lburn
Hayden. Daemen Colleae. $1.50.
Sponsoml by Socw Wort Continuing Education. For informa-

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Farber. South Campus. 4 p.m.

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Dllonlen, Drs. Mel Roten~.
Mittie Neiden. and Alfredo
ApUn:. 355 SqWn:. South Campus. 8 a.m.

lltporu _ , . , . _ . 10-

Slpol , . , . _ _ c-plu, Do-. Wall.w:e McK&lt;dwl.
mwru~~B~BdT~~

cal Science. Center for Tomoaow.

North Campus. 7:30a.m. $10 aen·
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Thtoua.h June: 14. Gallery hours
Monday~ Friday 9 a.m.-.5 p.m.
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South Campus. 9 a.m.-.5 p.m.

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Board mcc:lina at 1-p.m. Goodyear. South Campus. 2 p.m.

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Day, M.D.. Univ. of Florida.
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Willi.adl L Cbilian. Medical College o( WisconsiD. 301 Biomedical Research Bu.ildina. South
Campus. 4 p.m.
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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVIanT AT IIUFMLO
State University ofNew Yom

One Hundred Fifty Year.5
May 2 1996

Volume 27 . No 28

Medical School to celebrate sesquicentennial May 9-12
Special events mark I 50th commencement
11J LOIS ILUID

News Services SlaH

T

HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will celebrate its sesquicentennial with a series of
special events May 9-12 that will be capped
by the school's I 50th commencement.

The weekend will begin on
Thursday. May 9. with the IOOth
D.W . Harringlon Lecture. lo be
delivered by Helen M. Ranney.

professor emerita at the Univ.ersity
of California at San Diego and a
pioneering researcher in the field

of sick.Je cell anemia.
The festivities will continue at

II a.m. on Friday. May 10. with
I he

dedication and unveiling of a
plaque marking the site of the medi cal school"s firsl home at Wash-

ington and Seneca streets in
downtown Buffalo. On Saturday.
May II . the UB Medical Alumni
Association will host ilS 59th annua l Spring Clinical Day. highlighled by the Stockton Kimball
lecture.
The medical school will graduate its I 50th class on Sunday, May
12. Ranney will deliver the commencement address.
In addition , the medical school
will be co-sponsoring and hosting

the 69th annual meeting of the
American Association for the His tory of Medici ne May 9-12 in the
Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The meeling is being held in Buffalo in honor
of the medical school' s sesquicentennial.
The Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society is mounting a
special exhibit, "Good For What
Ails You! Health and Healing in
WNY," which will open on Satur·
day, May 4. and continue through
Nov. 17. Buffalo General Hospital,
Sisters Hospital, and the Millard
Fillmore Hospital System also will
sponsor exhibits.
A pictorial history of UB medi cal school will be available for sale
at the special events.
D.W.

-otetoa IActure

R

anney's Harrington lecture,
to be presented at 4 p.m. in

Butler Auditorium in Farber

Hall on the UB South Campus, is

titled 'Thalassemia-Lessons from
the Youngest Science."

Thalassemia is a group of inher·
ited disorders characterized by a
defective gene that causes faulty
hemoglobin production. lt is preva·
lent in the Mediterranean region,
the Middle East and in families
originating from these regions .
The lecture is free and open to

the public.
Ranney graduated from Barnard
College and received her medical
degree from Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons. A member of the UB Department of Medicine from
1970-73. she also has held faculty
positions at Columbia University
and Albert Einstein College or

Gov. Pataki, Mrs. Greiner invited to serve on
university's Sesquicentennial Honorary Committee
By ARTHUR PAGE
News Services Director

G

OV. GEORGE E. PATAK.I has accepted an invitation to serve
as_chair of the university's Sesquicentennial Honorary Com·

mmee.

Mrs. Carol Greiner, wifeofUB Presidenl William R. Greiner,
is serVing as co-chair of the Sesquicentennial Honorary Committee.
One-hundred-four community
leaders, elected officials. and special friends of the university have
accepted the invitation from President Greiner to serve on the committee, fonned "to make longtime
UB friends and supporters ... a part
of the traditions and transitions
which we are celebrating."
The university is marking its
I 50th birthday and that of the UB
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a vast array of PATAKI
GREINER
special events that began in January and will continue through June 1997 .
Philip B. Wet s, M.D .. chair of the UB Council, is a member of th e
committee, as are council members Roger I. Black well ; Lawrence P.
Caslellani; Frank N. Cuomo; Jonathan A. Dandes; John F. Kopczynsk.i
Sr.; James Phillips, M.D.; John N. Walsh Ill, and Michael Pierce. Also on
rhe committee is council member emeritus Mary E. Rando lph.
other .....,.,. of the com•ttt. . are:
SUNY Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlen; D. Bruce Johnstone. Ph .D., former
SUNY chancellor and now Univc~ity Professor at US ; Muriel A. Moore, Ph.D ..
president of Buffalo State College; Louis M. Ricc i, president of Erie Community
C'ullege.

Thomas F. Egan.chuirofthe SUNY Board ofTru stees: Erland E. Kailboume.
co-chair; SUNY tru stees Arnold B. Gardner; Miles L. Lasser: Edward F. Cox;
Candace de Russy. Ph .D.: Judith Lasher Duken: Hazel N. Dukes: Edward S.
Nelson. N. Theodore Sommer. Harvey F. Wachsman. M.D.: Pame la R. J acobs.
and Diego G Munoz.
State Transponauon CommiSSIOner John B. Dal y. state Attorney General
Dennis C. Vacco. state senators Mary Lou Rath. Da le M. Volker. William T .
Stachowski, George D. Maziarz. Stephen M . Saland , and assemblymen Sam
Hoyt . Richard R. Anderson, Anhur 0 . Eve and David E. Seaman.
Sen. Alfon se D' Amato. Sen . Daniel P. Moynihan , Rep. John J.
LaFalce, Re p. Will iam L. Paxon. Rep . Jack Quinn , former Rep
Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo Mayor Anthony M. Masiell o. Eric
County E,;ecutive Denni s T. Gorski and Amherst Town Supcrv1 ·
sor Thomas J. Ahem
Buffalo Councilman Ke vin J. Hel fer. State: Supremt: Coun
Justice Rose H. Sconiers, Stale Appeals Coun Justi ce M Dolores
Denman. State Supreme Coun Justice Barbara Howe. Federal
Judge John T. Cunm and former Stnte Appeals Coun Just 1ce
Manhew J. Jasen .
Anthony H. Gtma : Lmda J. Wachner: Randall I. Bendcrson:
Ellen Grant Bishop. Ph .D.: FrankL. C iminelli : Carol V. Koc1cla:
Reginald B. Newman ; Willi am H. Pearce; Elizabeth P. Olmsted.
M .D.; Jeremy J. Jacobs Sr.: GeraldS . L1ppes: Roben G. Wilmers ;
Sal H. Alfiero; Robcn E. Rich Sr .. and Nonhrup P. Knox .
Seymour H. Knox Ill ; George F. Goodyear; Bun P. Flickinger Jr.: Thomas M.
Fricano: George M. Ellis Jr .. M.D. ; AnhurWoelhe ; Henry A. Panasc i Jr .; Wil son
Greatbatch ; George J. Meuser; Jack Conne~ : John D. Rei nhold; Joseph E.
Goodell ; Douglas Schultz. and Brian J. Wyatt .
Roben M. Benncn: Willi am Siener. J. Mi chael Collins: John E. Friedlander:
Joseph A. Ruffo lo; Paul J. Candino: Sister Kathy Sweeney: Charles Y. Van
Vorst : Thomas B. Tomasi, M.D .. Ph .D.: JohnJ . Maher: Ric hard Droske: Timoth y
J. Finan; Charles E. Balbach. Jose ph Ryan, and Anhur A. Russ Jr .
John R. Wright. M.D.: Sister Marie Bums; Jane Du ga n Ba1rd. Willard E.
Genrich , and Alben R. Mugel.

Medicine. She was named professor and chair of the Department of
Medicine at rhe University of California at San Diego in 1973. making her the first women to hold
such a position at an American
medical schoo l.
Ranney won the Dr. Mart in
Luther King Jr. Medical Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Sickle Cell
Anemia in 1972. A fellow in the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and a master
in the American College of Physicians. she has received the Di stin ~
gui~hed Alumni Award from
Barnard College and the Mayo H.
Sole y Award for Ex:cellence in
Re searc h from the Western Society for Clinical In vestigation. She
ha s published and lectured widely
in her field.
After leav ing the chair at UC San Diego in 1986. she was named
distingui shed physic ian by the U.S
Depanmcnt ofV elcrans Affairs and
professor emerita at the universi ty.
She is now medi ca l monitor fo r
Alliance Pharmaceut ica l Corpora+
tton tn San Diego.
Ranney also will rt:ceivc an hon+
or.uy doctor of sc iem:e degr~ from
th e State Universi ty of New Yo rk
during the UB medical ~ hoo l com*
mencement.
P ~•

-lcatlon
he pl aque to be dedicat~ a t
II a.m. on May 10 at Washington and Seneca streets. sHe
of the former First B:.1pttst Church.
is one of three be1ng placed m
downtown Buffalo to mark the
medical sc hool's earl y presence 10
the ci ty. Plaques a),o will be in stalled at Mai n and V1rginia streets.
where classes were held from 1849-

T

Contlnued on page 3

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Johnstone discusses American universities at 'Sunrise'
Br JEMICA ANCKER

vale colleges opposed auempiS 10 fouod
publ ic universities that might become com·
petiiOrs. When New York did fouod SUNY,
it cbose a series of sites across the state
instead of a single, dominating campus.
Now, SUNY is facing new concerns, including what JohnsiOne called the "inevitable conflict" between research and
undergraduate teaching, and the tensioo between high standards and !be need 10 make"
education accessible 10 tbe public. There is
also a conflict between the need for greater
professional accountability and !be fact that
researcbers need independence to be productive and creative, be added.

Reporter Contributor

A

LECTURE ON the
American research
university last Thursday allowed D. Bruce
Johnstone to share insights from
hi s experience with SUNY and
put new problems in historical
perspective.

-

The UB professor and former SUNY chan·
cc ll or said the public university system has
heen hampered by the "extraordinary intru·
~tveness" of a state govemmenl that is un ·
willing to grant much independence.
Also, New York politicians are suspil.'IOus of academics, and see SUNY more as
a bu rden than as an asset, he said.
Despite its high taxes. Johnstone said,
New York spends less per capita on its public uni versities and colleges than almost any
o1hcr state. He considered thi s a reason for
hope !hal !he stale could be persuaded lo
spend more on SUNY .
"Tm tremendously proud of SUNY for
ove rcomi ng all these restrictions," Johnstone
~ai d at th e Center for Tomorrow in hi s .. UB
at Sunri se" breakfas t talk. ..1 am proud to
have played a small role in (U B" s) matura·
I ton , and even pro uder now to be one of its
sors."

M

D. Bruce Joh...t--.. .....-Ine~~Maon ---.ere~~-:
Johnstone found plenty of other reasons
for pride in hi s discuss ion of the history of
American research universities, which be
cal led the best in the world. In their early
years, he said, American institutions adopted
the best attributes o f their European pnede·
cessors--the nunuring environment of the
British residential college and the scholarship of the Gennan university. They mixed
those traits with the community orientation
of the local American college.
American institutions rejected the Euro-

pean model of a faculty dominated by powerful senior professors in favor of academic
departmcn!S with elected, temporary chairmen, JobnsiOne said. The new syste m encouraged freedom a nd inlellec lual
cross-fertilization.

N

ew York was late in establishing its
own public university system. The
stale gave the federal "'land·granl"
money il received in the 19th century 10 the
private Cornell University instead of found·
ing a state university. Later, the state's pri-

ooey. ofcourse, will contin ue to be
a problem. with government trying IOdecide what kind of research
to suppon with public funds.
While the conservatives in power at the
stale and national levels arc generally hostile
to the public sector, Johnstone said, public
universities can win conservative suppon if
they show they arc high quality-adaptive.
entrepreneurial. open and accountable.
"SUNY at Buffalo can be all of that," be
said. ''I'm optimistic about the fulllrc of tbe
American research university, public and private." Johnstone, a professor in UB 's Graduate School of Education. was president Of
Buffalo State College for eight years and
SUNY chancellor for nearly six. He resigned
0
as chaneeUodn I994 due 10 illness.

uriel Moore named president
: Buffalo State College

M

URIEL A. MOORE. UB"s vice
president for public service and
urban affairs, has been named
preside nt of Buffalo Stale College. She will be installed as Buffalo State"s
seve nth president in ceremo nies later this
year.
Moore. who had been servin g as interim
president o f the college since Jan. 2, was
n:1med to the post by the State University of
Ne-w York Board of Trustees at lheir April
:!-l mee ting in the Maritime College in the
Bronx .
The appoi ntment follows her recomme n·
dation by SUNY Chancellor Thomas A.
Barllen. Bartlen. who acted after rece iving
the recommendatio n of the Buffalo State
College Council, had named Moore interim
pres ident of Buffalo Stale late las! year after

.

Bartlett
Resigns
..............,ofNewYodcOwlcdlor"lbomaA.Birtlettteoipod n.day ofterreponsofOD-JOiuldilfaencea
with !be SUNY Boord of~.
Bartlett wu llallled chancellor in
1994 by tt.:n.OOv. Mario Cuomo and
took office less lhan one mooth after
George Patalci wu elected governor.
His tenure has been plagued by reports
of conflict with the SUNY Board of
Trustees, whicb since l'ebruiJY has
been controlled by Pallki appointees.
Banlctt Is former chancellor of the
University of Oregon and University
ofAlabamasyS!emS. He also has served
as president of Colgate Univenity.
According to !be Buffalo News,
Bartlett bas agreed to Slay on until
June IS or until an interim chancellor
is appointed.

the resignation of former president F .C.
Richardson .
"Muriel Moore is an outstanding choice
for the presidency of Buffalo State College.
In the dozen or so years !hall have worked
with her, she has demo nstrated great insight.
keen instincts and a genuine gift for bringing
colleagues together and building teams. She
is a person who can both articulate a vision
and make il happen. I am proud to be her
colleag ue and friend, and-like many others
at UB-I am very, very proud to see her
move into thi s new role." said UB President
William R. Greiner.
··us is cenainly sorry to see Dr. Moore
go. She was a tremendous asset to us as vice
president for Public Service and Urban Affairs. But she will continue to be a tremendous asset to colleagues throughout SUNY.
and to our Western New York. community,
as Buffalo State's new president."

M

oore joined UB in 1974 as assistant
director of the Uni versity Learning
Center and in 198 1 was named director.
From 1984 to 1987 she served as director of
UB's Educational OpponunityCemer. when
she was appointed associate vice provost for
special programs .
She was appointed an assislanl lo the president in 1990. and deputy 10 the president in
1991. In 1992 Moore was appoinled vice
preside nt for public service and urban affairs.
She had been serving concurrently as assistant professor (adjunct) of educational organization, administration and policy since 1986.
Moore received SUNY"s Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Profess ional Ser·
vice in 1990. the Black Educators Associa·
tion of Western New York 's Educator of the
Year Award in 1991 and Project WIN "s
Award of Excellence in 1993.
A graduate of CUNY" s Richmond Col·
lege. she ho lds a master's degree in education
and a doc1orate in educationaJ organization.
...]
administration and policy from UB .

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Video-on-Demand?

And. Stringer took strong exception with
last week's TV -Free campaign in schools
around the country. " It is simply a myth that
all TV is bad and that passive entertainment is
somehow wrong." he said. Moderation in
television. as in all things. is fine. says Stringer.
"By all means, read a book. But when kids
today give up television. what is that for?
What, so they should play a video game'!'

Fonner CBS ,.eldent poiNd for communication revolution

•rReporter Staff

SftVECOX

F

ORMER CBS Television President Howard
Stringer has had it with
network programmers.
Now, he wants you to be your
own network programmer.
Stringer, who left CBS a year ago to head
up a telephone company joint venture into
interactive broadcasting, was the fourth guest
lecturer of 1995-96 Distinguished Spealcers
Series. Stringer spoke Thursday, April 25 at
the Center for the Arts MainstBge.
Tele-TV. the upstart company Stringer

now heads, is at the cutting edge of what may
well be the next comm unications revolution:
Video-on-Demand programming. "Say yo u
like British Mysteries o n A&amp;E on Tuesday
evenings as J do," explained the 54-year-old.
Oxford-educated Wel shman. "you could use

our ' black box' to set your tele to receive it
whene ver is most convenient for you: say,

Thursday at I0 p.m."
Te le-TV has in vested more than $1 bil lion in an entirely new system of communi cations distribution. even though it doesn ' t
yet have a sing le customer. Stringer explained. The company. when fully operati o nal , will offer microwave dig ital
1ransmi ss ion o f between 120 and 150 channels in competition wirh traditional Cable
com panies. ' That's been the one constant
among my careers: I've always competed
against cable,'' Stringer observed.
Last week 's merger of NYNEX and Bell
Atlantic, the two largest ''baby Bells," has
made Stringer's new joint venture ''less joint."
Tele-TV had been fonned by the CEOs of
NYNEX , Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis.
" I' ll have one less boss, which should malce
things even easier," said Stringer.
The telephone companies, Stringer explained, have a strategic advantage in this
competition over cable: Power. " If the power
goes out, copper phone li nes still carry their
own power. That's why you don ' t lose phone
"ervice. But. you can lose cable service."
Eventually, the digital signals could be carried over standard copper telephone lines.

A

year ago,just before CBS was sold to
Westinghouse, Stringer left after 30
years with the network. Stringer explai ns that he took the Tele-TV job after his
agent andiriend Michael Ovitz and the CEOs
of the three phone companies involved in the
joint venture "ganged up on me in a hotel

room." Ovitz was the Hollywood mega-agent
who negotiated the deal with Stringer that
brought David Letterman from NBC to CBS.
Stringer' s leadership brought CBS from
last place to firs t in the all-imponant network ratings. Landing Leuennan was one of
his major coups at CBS. Although the comedian gets his share of ribbing over his S14
million salary, Stringer confesses, the network made $100 million on his "Late Show"
during its first year. "I'd say that' s a pretty
good return on investment."
Stringer remains a televi sio n enlhusiast
and, he con~. the major networks aren't
going away anytime soon. However, he
agrees with critics who contend network
programming is, at best. mediocre. ''It was
different when I first started. This business
was producing episodes for $25,000 each.
Today, one episode of Roseanne can cost S2
million," he observed.
"Everyone in Hollywood has earnest intentions of producing good tele visio n,"
Stringer told a news conference Thursday
afternoon. " But they also must get a 30
share. That leads to a lot o f formula producingand follow-the-leader. You get a ' Friends'

B

HOWARD SllltNGER

and it's a big hit. so all of a sudden there are
15 'Friends' knockoffs on TV ."
Network television has n't cornered the
market on mediocri ty either. Stringer said.
Cable channel s are forced lO play items repeatedly to cover the demand at different
times of day . 'That's why you can have an
80-c hannel-pl us cable system yet still sit
there with your remote surfing at 9 p.m. and
conclude there is nothing on televi sion."

Despite fewer applications, UB may make
fall enrollment targets, Durkin tells FSEC
By STEVE COX

Reporter Staff

U

NIVERSITY ADMISSIONS Director Kevin Durkin told members
of the Faculty Senale Executive
Committee last week that, despite
a dramatic drop in applications. UB coul d
still make its fall enrollment targe ts. but
added, "Trust me. I'm worried."
UB is shooting for a freshman class of
2,500 and seeking another 1,500 transfer
students. Durkin explained at the April 24
FSEC meeting, " I am cautiously optimistic
that we will make the freshman number. and
fearful about the transfer number." The deadline for prospective freshman to acce pt a seat
in the class was May I. said Durkin. and the
transfer deadline is June I .
Applications systemwide are down 12 perce nt.. and applkations to UB are off nine percenL"Even the number ofoffers we have made
so far are down eight percen~" Durkin said.
'This has been an incredibly difficult
year." Durkin continued. "In 20 years, I' ve
ne ver seen anything like it. It' s hard to un -

derstate the problem. II is down and 11 i~
pervasive . Statistically. nol a smgle trend
line is holding." Durkin did poi nt out . however, that among SUNY appli cations. lhe
nu mber of st udenls who made UB their firs!
choice was up.
Also. Durkin suggested. it is possible thai
pan of the reduction could si mply be a ..,·orrection" to SUNY's inordinately simple application process. The adj ustmenl th is year
could brin g dow n what may have been an
artificiall y hi gh number of applications previously. since students can appl y to multiple
SUNY schoo ls on a sing le application by
simpl y chec king off boxes.

W

hil e uncertai nty over aid and tui tion
leve ls su rely had a great deal to do
with the application drop. Durkin also pointed
a fin ger at naysayers. "Every time UUP or
any other well-intended group indicates their
frustration with SUNY. the public. upon
whom we depend for applicants. hears them.
'The public reac hes the conclusio n that
there is a disinvestment in the public sector.

MEDICAL SCHOOL
Continued from page 1
1893. and at 24 l-!igh St .. the site of the
sc hool from 1893- 1953.
Thomas Headrick, UB provost; John P.
Naughton, UB vice president for clinical
affairs and dean of the UB med ical school;
Margaret Paroski. president of the UB Medical Alumni Association, and William Siener,
exec utive director of the Buffalo and Erie
County Historical Society, will officiate at
the ded ication. The plaques are part of the
Historical Society's markers program.
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theme of the day' s presentations in the
Buffalo Marriou will be "End of Life!
Quali ty ofDeath." Sherwi n B. Nu land, cli nical professor of surgery at Yale University
and author of the best-sellin g book, "How
We Die," will present the Stockton Kimball
lecture, tilled " Death, the Doctor and Hope,"
at I p.m.
Mornin g prese ntations, which will begin
at 7:30a.m., wi ll include the following:
• "Dying Healed-The Nature of Care at
the End of Li fe" -Roben A. Milch, medical

orn in WalesandeducatedatOxford.
Stringerrecalled " I arrived here early
in 1965. got a job in May and you
drafted me in July." Stringer served a oneyear tour of du ty in Vietnam and points out,
'"When I left. we were still winning."
After returning from southeast Asia.
Stringer began as a researcher in the news
departme nt of C BS . writing for Walter
Cronk ite and other network correspondents.
He rose through the ranks of the news division. as a writer. director and producer. before becoming C BS CEO in 1988 .
Poking fun at the '60s. Stringer chided.
'"II was a time when the informau on highway
was Route 66. a chip was still a potato and
the internet was some intramural basketball
league, Michael Jackson had hi s original
face and Bob Dole was cons1dered too o ld to
run for presiden1.
.. But my favorue vJslon of 1he ·oos." he
conti nued . .. , ~ pictunng Bill Gales coming
home from hi s first day of JUnior h1gh and
asking. 'Momm y. whal' s a nl!rd 'l"

director of Hospice Buffalo Inc .. and UB clinical associate professor of surgery and adjunct
assis!Bnt professor of family medicine
• "Delivering Bad News with Compas·
sion and Hope"-Judith Skretny. vice president , Life Transi tions Center. Hospice
Bereavement, Buffalo, and adj unct assistant
professor in the Canisius Coll ege Department of Religious Studies
• ·'Confronting Difficult Emouom\1 and
Ethical Issues in the Care of the Dying"panel di sCussion featuring UB facult y
The program is open to the public for a
$45 registration fee, which includes presentations, lunch and the Nu land lecture. The
fee is $10 for UB medical-sc hoo l int ern s.
residents and fellows . Dues- payi ng members of the UB Medical Alumni Association
and membe rs of the classes of 1925 and 1945
may attend at no charge, but must register.
. . _lcentennlal com-ment
ne-hundred-seventy· fi ve physicians and
scien tists will receive the M.D. and/or
Ph.D. degree at the sc hool's sesquicenten -

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nial commencement. to be held at 3 p.m. in
the Center for the Anson the Nonh Campus.
Helen Ra nney will receive an honorary doctorate of science and delive r the commencement address. To symboli ze their contin uing
commitment to the practice of medicine. 30
members of the class of 1946-the 50-year
class- will renew the Hippocratic Oath on
stage in fu ll academic attire.
Hl.tory of Medicine Conference
peakers will include faculty from Eu ropean. Canadian. South American. Korean. and U.S. uni versi ties. as well as the
Smithsonian Instituti on. About 500 participants from across the nati on are expected to
altend .
J ame~ J . Bono. UB associate professor of
history. and Richard V. Lee, UB professor of
medicine. pediatrics and gynecology/obstetrics. are local co-chairs of the meeting. Lilli
Sentz. curator of the Roben L. Brown History o r Medici ne Collecti on at US. coordinated the books and ex hibits fair.
Registration for the meeting is $100.

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and thai th at d1~mvestment 1s long term:·
Durkin sa id.
Related ly. Mitchell Harwitz. chair of the
Faculty Se nate admissions and retention commince. reponed I hat his commiuee had determined there is a corre lation between access to
advisement and suppon services and retenti on. Harwitz. an economist. explai ned "If
you want someone to choose to stay at UB.
you must enable them to choose to stay."

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arwitz poi nted to the Ho nors Program
and EOP as having markedl y hi gher
rates of retention and grddu ation than the
university as a whole. "Both these progr-&lt;~m s
have intensive advisement structures in place
and they seem to wo rk."
Clyde Herreid. director of the Honors
Program. also add ressed the FSEC. The program. now in its I Sth year. is still grow in g
and may soon look into offering additional
places i.n the program for gifted st udents
without fi nancial incentives attached.
Last year's anonymous donation of S2.4
million has ena bled the Hor.ors Program to
do its most successful national recruiting
ever. explained Herre id_"We have attracted
21 top high school sc ho lars for the program
so far. " he said. "and they come from New
York. but also from places like Washi ngton
State, Connecticut, Minnesota. Nonh Carolin a. Kansas and Pennsylvania."
Fac ulty Senate Chair Claude Welch informed the FSEC that he would instrucl the
chair of the Educational Policies and Programs committee. Mic hael Metzger. to in vestigate a course in the Women' s Studies
depanment. The investigation. Welch ex plained. comes after a letter to the editor in a
recent edition of the st udent newspaper. The
Spectrum. "raised my blood pressure."
The leuer in question called a co u~ connected to the Anti-Rape Task Force. offered
through Women's Studies. as being ··an easy
·A· if you need 10 raise yourGPA ." The la1 est
computer run of grade di stribuu on. Welch
said, showed the letter wa~ accurate. There
were 22 ·A~· and 3 ' Bs' m the last sect1on of
WS 497that \VaS uffcn:d. "Cenamly the work
of the Anti-Rape Ta...;k Force '' 'aluable and
I don't intend to disparage 11 alan:· cautmned
Welch, who explai ned that it was the issue of
receivi ng letter grades for internship-like e&gt;. pcriences that mus t be examined.

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Distinguished teaching,
service profs named at UB
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WO FACULTY members at UB have been named Distinguished Service Professors and two have been named
Distinguished Teaching Professors, the highest rank in the
State University of New York system, by the SUNY Board
of Trustees.

Kathy Kozak of Adml1alon1 and dauct.ter Katie , 8, t our the Center for t he Arta.

Job Experience
Parents, daughters join UB's first 'Take Our Daughters to Work'
By JESSICA ANCKER
Reporter Contnbutor

A

MANDA LEFAUVE. 9, loved it.
Rachel Bernstein. II. was bored by it.
Bu.' even tho~gh they. had different reactions to the working w~rld they
,
expenenced Apnl 25 dunng "Take Our Daughters to Work" day, neuher had
any doubt that they would someday excel in it Amanda was considering
hecoming president of the United States, or maybe a UB professor. Rachel loves working
ith young children and was determined to become a teacher.
Celebrating and reinforcing the self-confidence of girls like Amanda and Rachel was the
oa l of UB 's first univers ity~widc "Take Our Daughters to Work" event. Organizers
timated at least 150 girls accompanied mothers, fathers , relatives. or famil y friends to work..
Fo r the first time, UB also organized workshops and talks for lhe girls to introduce lhem
lo'cvcrything from careers in athletics to the possibilities of the World Wide Web.
The Ms. Foundation For Women established ''Take Our Daughters To Work." in 1993 in
response ro research showing thai adolescent girls ofren experience discrintination by
teachers , a preoccupation with appearance, and falling self-esteem. The event is now held the
founh Thursday of every April.
At an assembly in lhe Student Union Thursday afternoon , Mo llie Mc Keown , deputy to
President Greiner, told the girls about the revolution in expectations and attitudes that had
happened since her youth, when girls assumed they would stay home to raise families.
McKeown described her own experiences as proof that women can defy expectations and
shape lheir own lives any way they want. A onetime housewife who volunteertd on behalf of
women 'sandchildren's issues, she ended up working for two state senators before coming to UB.
McKeown also told lhe girl s lhey were lucky not to be judged by lhe prejudices she
re membered, which held lhal smart girls couldn 't be attractive or popular. When she was
named high school valedictorian. she recalled, she burst into tears and to ld her molher, "Now
r II never get a date."
The adul ts who broughl girls to work said they hoped the experience would provide
inspiration and role model s.
"It 's very important to me to bring her here," said Rachel' s mother, assistant admissions
director Frances Bernstein. "I' m happy that she's able to observe women in the professions.
When she observes them in posi tions of authority,l think that shows herherown p&gt;ssibilitics."
Rachel liked meeling her mother's colleagues, and was looking forward to a workshop on
computers. But she was di sappointed that she had to spend her morning in a "very boring"
staff meeting. It didn't take long for her to plan revenge. "I'm going to bring you to school
on a day when we have social studies," she told her mother.
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Thee&lt;Hqual designations are a rank above
full professorship.
Two faculty members were named Dislinguished Service Professors: Saul Elkin,
professor of lheatre and dance, and James P.
Nolan, professor of medicine. This rani: recognizes extraordinary service 10 the community , slate or nation.
The rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor was conferred upon Perry Hogan,
professor of physiology. and Kenneth F.
Joyce. professor of law. This designation
recognizes outstanding teac hing compelence
at lhe graduate. undergraduate or profes·
sionallevel.
Saul Elkin has
established an internationaJ reputation as
an actor, director and
producer. As fonner
chair of lhe UB Department of Theatre
and Dance, he
brought lhe department from a subsidEUUN
iary program offering
acting and drama courses to a full academic
department.
Among Elkin's foremost services to UB
and Western New York was his successful
effon to save the PfeiferThcatre in the downtown Buffalo Theatre District and acquire il
for the university.
He also contributed greatly to lhe cultural
life of the region wilh his founding and
continuing tenure as artistic director of the
summer Shakespeare in Delaware Park Festival , one of the area' s top five annual cui·
tural events for more than 20 years.
He transformed lhe festival from a university activity into an independent corporation funded by New York Slate, lhe City of
Buffalo and corporate and private donations.
The productions. often lhe public's only
opponunity to see live thealer free of charge,
have become one of the region's strongest
laboratories for familiarizing young acrors
wilh lhe professional stage.
James P. Nolan, fonner chair of the
Department of Medicine in lhe UB Schoo l of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. is an

Membership support plays important role at WBFO
By STEVE COX
Reporter Staff

Ju.t • y-IIINI• half qo, when Speaker
Newt Gi ngrich vowed to "pulllhe plug" on
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
ICPB ). the futu re of public broadcasting
looked bleak. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain,
repon s of its imminent death , it turns out,
were greatly exaggerated.
In fact, UB's own public radio affili ate,
WBFO. recently concluded anothersucce$S·
ful $125,000 membership dri ve and is copmg well wi th the funding cuts it did sustain,
arcording to WBFD Radio General Man·
al!e r Jennifer Roth.
Airing at 88.7 o n lhe FM band, WBFO
offers news from the National Public Rad io
INPR ) network and jazz. as well as specialtzed programming. The stati on is a maj or
public servi ce of UB .
The rece nt nine-day ca mpaign brought in
more than $119.000. and a steady now of
m::til renewal s and additional pledges will
put the station over its $125 ,000 goal shonly ,
said Roth . Realizing thai the membership

drive is a necessary ctistraction to listeners,
Rolh explai ned that WBFO plans to continue to hold on ly two drives per year. Nu merous public radio and television stati ons
now solici t funds threeorfourtimes a year to
make up for lost suppon at the state and
federal level.
Rather th an immediately eliminate the
CPB , a no n-profit suppon organization for
public radio and television affiliates nat ionwide, overnight, Congress voted to phase
out funding for the organization over fi ve to
seven years, Roth explained. While some in
Congress are still worki ng out "different
ways of funding public broadcasting." she
continued, it has created a ··much more in·
tense need for local suppon."
M....bershlp support now accounts for
more than one-third of lhe smtion' s annuaJ
budget. Institutional support from the Cor·
poration for Public Broadcasting. the state
government and UB , account for the rest.
UB offers the station considerable non·monetary suppon, such as rent-free space in the

Soulh Campus' Allen Hall and suppon services. explained Roth.
The station has nine full·time and nine
pan-time employees, as well as "a wonderful crop of student interns and community
volunteers ... we just couldn 't function with·
out them." explai ned Roth.

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Format
implemented last fall.
which brought more news. but sli&amp;htly less
jazz. have been well received, according to
Roth. NPR 's Morning Edition now airs be·
tween 7 a.m. and IOa.m. and the stan lime for
the popular, live national evening news program, All Thin gs Considered, was moved an
hoUI earlier. to 4 p.m .. and runs until 7 p.m.
Also. a national NPR talk radio show ,
Talk of 1he Nation, now airs live between 2
p.m. and 4 p.m. Previously. only the first
hour of Ta/kwascarriedand that was on tape
delay. explained Roth. At 7 p.m .. UB alum·
nus Terry Gross hosts an hour-long NPR
feat uie program. Fresh Air. ..That still leaves
13 hours a day of jazz programming," explained Rolh .
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internationally recognized expen in the
area of liver research
and cliseasc, focusing
on endotoxins, liver
function and injury.
AschairoflheDepartment of Medicine
for nearly 20 years,
hiseffonsinthe 1970s
led to a full and fair NOUN
affirmati ve action policy and a deparunentwi de commitment to upholding that policy.
Largely through his work. UB has been
recognized as a national leader in recruiting
and retaining students and faculty from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Nolan ha s been a me mber of the
Governor's Council on Graduate MediCal
E.ducation, chairi ng the Subcommittee on
Consortia, and was president of the New
York Slate chapter of lhe American College
of Physicians. His oulStaoding service led to
his being named a Masler of the American
College of Physicians, an honor awarded to
only a few oflhecoUege's 80.000 members.
Perry Hogan has
taught at lhe underg raduate, g rad uate
and professionalschool levels in the
areas of cardiovascular physiology. cellmembr a ne
phenomena and the
electrophysiology of
exci tabl e cells. His
main teaching assignment for many years has been instruction in
the principles of canliac and circulatory
physiology to first-year medical and graduate students.
An active research mentor for graduate
students. Hogan received lhe Louis A. and
Ruth Siegel A wan! for Outstandi ng Teacher
in the Preclinical Sciences four times during
a 16-year period. He also has received commendations a half...&lt;Jozen times for the award,
which is based on medical ~s rudenc nominations and a final-review by a medical·student
review committee and facuhy involved in
the first two years of
medic a l -sc h ool
courses.
Kenneth F. Joyce
has taught what is be·
Iieved to be lhe largest numberofstudcnlS
of any member of lhe
law faculty in what
are purely elective
courses.
In addition to lhis heavy load, Joyce has
devoted much time to a radically different
fonn of law school instruction. the clinical
seminar. Since 1985, he has taught a seminar
in "Law Refonn Through Legislation" lhat
provides students an opponunity 10 work. on
legislative refonn projects pending before the
New York State Law Revis ion Commission.
He has successfully combined teaching
responsibilities ranging from the largest lecture class to intensive, individually super·
vised research and writing clinical
ex periences.
He has received the pri ze for teaching
excellence from the grad uating class of lhe
UB law school II times si nce it was inaugu·
rated in 1980.
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Art Department
names student
award recipients
Scholarships provide
travel, studyfwuls
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HE UB DEPARTMENT of Art
has announced the recipients of
awards funded through several

endowments established as

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morials by Univen;ity at Buffalo
students, faculty or staff.
·Olenka Bodnarsky, a junior st udent in
the bachelor of fine arts degree program in printmaking. ts the rec ipient of the
Evelyn Rumsey Lord Award. The Rumsey
award, established in 1959. is the most pres·
ti gious prize awarded to an undergraduate
ar1 student. It is presented annually to one or
two junior an majors to fund travel for per'\onal o r artistic enri chment, or for tuition
assistance in a summer studi o an program
outside of UB.
Candidates submit a travel proposal and
exhi bit se lected work in the annual Rumsey
Ca ndidates' Competition. The winner is selected by art department faculty .
Bodnarsky' s summer project will take
her to the South Meseta region of Spain,
whose eastern section is dominated by the
region of La Mancha. She will visit muse.
urn s, pan ake of local c ulture and vis it
printmaking co·operati ves and st udios. Our·
ing her senior year, Bodnarsky will share her
ex periences with the department via an ex·
hi bit in the department gallery or by making
an oral presentation or written report .

ohn De Marco,ajunior in the bachelor of

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fine arts degree in painting, has been
awarded the Philip C. and Virginia Cuthbert
Elliott Painting Scholarship.
The scholarship was established by a grant
from Virginia Cuthbert Elliott. She and her
late husband, Philip C. Elliott_ served for 30
years as noted artists and art educators in
Western New York, including lengthy tenures at the Albright Art School and at its
successor, the UB Department of Art.
From 1941-69 Philip Elliott served successively as director of the art school and the
department' s first chair, while Virginia
Cuthbert taught art at both institutions !Tom
1941-61 . Both were a strong force in shaping
the UB art department during its formative
years.

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ristinn Rzepkowski, a junior in the
bachelor of fine arts degree in commu·
nication design, has been awarded the Julius
Bloom Memorial Scholarship.
The Bloom scholarship was established by
UB staff memberT.oby Bloom Schoellkopfin
memory of her father, who was instrumenta.J
in organizing the International Center for the
Typographic Arts and helped coordinate iiS
firs I international conference in the mid·l960s.
Bloom, who worked for several well-known
printing companies in Western New York
during his career, had a lifelong interest in the
typographic arts.

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im othy Phillips, a bachelor of fine arts
candidate in sculpture. has received the
Sall y Hoski ns Potenza Award.
The Potenza award is a cash prize estab·
lished by the farni ly ofSally Hoskins Potenza,
a painter and grad uate st udent in the UB an
department at the tifne of her death. One of
her works is held in the coll ection of David
Rockefeller.
The award winner is selecled annu ally by
a co mmittee compri sed of the art department
chair, a member of the local art co mmunity
and n member o f Potenza's family from
among the candidates exhibiting for the
Evely n Rumsey Lord Award.

Ooziest: UB's annual tribute
to good clean fun
April showers may bring May flowers elsewhere. but at UB
they bring mud-and Oozfest-to a field off St. Rita's Lane on
UB's North Campus. Ninety-six teams from the U.S. and
Canada participated in the 12th annual volleyball-in-the-mud
contest, which was held April 27 .

Indian percussionist ensemble to peiform May 3
BJ MAllY Btml II'UIA

News Services Staff

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N ENSEMBLE of internationally
known Indi an percussionists ,
headed by Grammy-winner Ustad
Zakir Hussain, will perform on
Friday, May 3. atllle Univen;ity at Buffalo.
The concert at 7:30p. m. in Slee Concert
Hall on the North Campus, is sponsored by
the local non-profit group Tri veni. which
annually brings the best in Indian music and
dance to the Buffalo area. The UB Department of Music is a co-sponsor.
Hussai n also will give a free lecture on
indian percussion music from noon to I p.m.
in room B· l in Slee.
Advance tickeiS are S 15 for the public
and $10 studen ts and senior citizens, and $20
and $12, respec ti vely. at the door. For more
information call Super Bazaar at 835-4770
or Travel House International at 835-2 t 41 .
The ensemble features:
• Hussain, master tabla player who is
known in the West as one of the chief archi·
tects of the world music movement and coproducer with the Grateful Dead's Mickey
Hart of the Grarnmy-winning album, "Planet
Drum." He 's equally at home playing Indian
classical music and perfonning with Western

jazz. fusion and rock anists. Among his "works
in progress" is a spectacular 100-percussion
production number on which he and Han are
collaborators for opening ceremonies in At·
lanta at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
• Ustad Allarakha. tabla master and
Hu ssai n's father. He toured fo r lwo decades
with Indian performer Ravi Shankar and has
scored music for more th an 35 fi lms. He has
received the "Padma Shri" award from the
President of Indi a, am ong others, for hi s
cultural contributi ons.
• Fazal Qureshi, Hussain's brother, soloist and accompanist on the tabla. He is noted
for hi s ease in accompanying veteran and
young Indian classical musicians-featuring
the distinct styles of Northern and Southern
lndia-as well as Western instrumentaJists.
• Bhavani Shankar, performer on both
the tabla and pakhawaj . He has composed
music for many fil ms and recordings.
. T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram,lndia's leading ghatam player. He has performed with the
great co ntem porary world mu sic band
"Shakti" and on the "Planet Drum" album.
• Selva Ganesh. who specializes in the
kanjira and is the recipi ent of several awards.
including " Best Young Kanjira Artist. ..
• Ustad Sultan Khan, one of the foremost

Faculty, staff raise $20,000 for .UB
n..lla .. tile -..art ef an estimated 90 University at Buffalo faculty and staff,
nearly $20,000 wu raised during the university's ''1ake Stock in Our Future" fundraising effort.
The six-week appeal, held from Man:h I to April 15, was the fin;t directed to UB' s
4,500full-time faculty and staff, and wiU bean important part oftheuniven;ity's annual
appeal.
"We are app=iative of the 111llny faculty and staff who responded to the appeal.
Their participation exemplifies their commitment and wiUiogness to invest in the
future of the University at Buffalo," said Philip Wels, M.D., Univen;ity Council chair,
who also chaired the new appeal. "By offering critical funding to UB ' s revenue base.
the faculty and staff are building upon this institution's long-standing devotion to
higher education, research and lbe Western New York community."
Ronald H. Stein, vice president for un iven;ity advancement and development,
explained, "As weenhanceoureffons to increase private support forUB, it's important
to demonstrate to our UB alumni ljlld friends that11)e univen;ity's faculty and staff
believe eoough in the value of UB to invest their own charitable dollars."

to tile t..ltr and staff appeal are still being accepted, and may be paid
lhroogh payroll deductions. The gifts can be designated for undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, the university's libraries, the Center for the Arts, a
particular faculty/school, WBPO 88.7 FM, athletics or unrestricted use.
Pledge cards aod payroU-deducti.Qn forms are available by calling the Office of
University DevelopOICDt 81645-3312.

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players of the sarangi. a stringed instrument
that some say is most like the human voice.

Khan in 1974 joined Bea~e George Harrison
and Ravi Shankar on the"Dark Ha...e"tour.

Supporters thanked
atApril25luncheon
BJ PAULA WmtER£U
Reporter Conrriburor

CHOLARSHIP and fell owship
recipients from the UB School of
Management were able to meet
and thank their fi nancial supporters at the universi1y ' s fi rst Appreciation Lun·
cheon held April25 in the Univen;ity Inn and
Confere nce Center.
The scholarships and fellowships provide
not on ly much-needed financial support. but
also allow students to gain valuable experi·
ence and expand networking opportunities.
Execu t ive MBA s tudent Lynne
McFarland was among those who attended
to ex rend her appreciation to UB supporters.
" In addition to meeting executives from
local co mpanies, this event provided students ao opportun ity to put a face with the
name of the fe llowship supporters and to
thank them for their generosity." she said.
MBA srudent Michael Benfanti noted that
supponen; of the univen;ity help students fulfill their goals and expand career opportunities.
"With funding assistance provided by an
interest·free loan from the (George F.) Rand
Memorial Endowed Fund.!' II be traveling to
China thi s summer to enhance my studies in
international business and marketing:· he
said. "Meeting Calvin Rand , who established
the fund. made it more personal and allowed
me to learn more abou t Mr Rand's strong
ties to UB ."
The lu ncheon also was an opponunity 10
promote the School of Management' s new
Adopt·A·Ciass program. through which a
corporation "adopts" a management course
and works with the faculty member to pro·
vide real work experiences and application~
as part of the course work . To date. two
courses have been pan of the program. and
three more are expected tu pan1 c1pat&lt;:" m th&lt;:"
program in the near future
"The Appreciation Luncheon allowed
School of Management student~ and facult)
and their supponers to meet personally and to
visualize the impon.ance of sc holarship and
research opponuni ties," said Frederick W.
Winter. dean of the School of Management.
Nearly two dozen scholarship recipients
and su pponers atte nded the event.

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Distinguished law alumni to be honored at annual dinner
8 y SUE WUETCHER
News Serv1ces Staff

IVE GRADUATES of the UB
School of Law will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Law
Alumni Association 's 34th annual
meeting and awards dinner. to be
held at 5:30 p.m. on May 15, in the Hyau
Reg ency Buffalo.
The awards, established by the assoc iat •on · s board of directors in I 963, recognize
the va luable contributions that law school
alum ni have made to their profession and
community.
In addition . John B. Sheffer ll .acting vice
president for publi c service and urban affairs
at UB, will receive an award ''for hi s distinguio;,;hed service to the commu nity a nd effec ti ve advocacy for the UB law school."
Awards will be presented to:
• Honorable Jacq ueline M. Kosh ian
'59, Supreme Court justice for the Eighth
Judicial District, ''for her
conscientious and diligent perfonnance in the
judiciary." A fonnercity
court judge in Niagara
Falls. Koshian was the
first woman appointed
as deputy corporation
counsel in Niagara Fall s
in 1964 and the first
woman ap pointed as
New Yo rk State estate tax attorney for
Nmgara County hy Gov. Hugh Carey in
llJ75 . She has served on the board of direc·
lOr!&lt;. of the Salvation Army , the United Giv·
,. ,·Fund , the YMCA and the Boys' Club of
A 1erica. She is a member of the Board of
Tr stees of the Niagara Falls Memorial
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• H. Kennet h Schroeder Jr. '61,a pan·
ner in the Buffalo law finn of Hodgson,
Russ, Andrews, Woods
&amp; Goodyear, "for hi s
leadership by example
as a private practitio·
ner.'' A se nior trial attorney and chainnan of
the Litiga tion Department at Hodgson Russ.
his practice includes
general civil and criminal litigation , as well as
appellate practice in state and federal courts.
He also has served as U.S. attorney for the
Western District of New York, a special

assistant U.S. attorney for the District of
Columbia and a trial attorney in the U.S.
Depanment of Justice.
• Honorable Kevin M. Dillon '76, Erie
County district attorney , "for his commitment to public service." A lecturer in criminal
in the UB law school, Dillon
was first appointed as
Erie County district attorney in June I 988 and
re-elected in November
I 988 and I 992. He also
has practiced as a sole
practitioner and with the
firms Dillon &amp; Cataldi
and Condon, LaTona,
Pieri &amp; Dillon. He
DILLON
served as a panelist for
the Governor's Law Enforcement Forum
that addressed major issues involving criminal justice and also as a member of the state

• Brian D. Bair d '83, an auorney with
Kavinoky &amp; Cook, "for his many contributions to the be.uerment of our community."
Baird is a member of the Development Commiueeandco-chairofthe Annual Fund Drive
Foundations Division of
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, a
trustee of the Nichols
School, a director of the
Greater Buffalo Opera
Company, a trustee of
The Cameron Baird
Foundation and a director and treasurer of the
BAIRD
Western New York
Grantmakers Association. He also has served
as a director, Executive Commjttee member
and chair of the Endowment Campaign for
the Philharmonic.

Law students are regional champs
By StEVE COX
Reporter Staff

The UB Law School'• Trial Technique .,...,.m recently received a major feather in
its cap when its top team competed in the nation's premier mock trial competition and was
named regional champion.
Law School seniors James Grable. Craig Brown and Jennifer Runfola earned last month 's
trip to the national mock-trial competition for law schools, sponsored by the Young Lawyers
Association of Houston, by first winning New York State·s competition in Albany in
January. The team was coached by Assistant Erie County District Attorneys Timothy
Franczyk and Dianne LaValle and defense attorney Robert Murphy.
The Regional Championship is the highest honor yet earned by trial teams from UB , who
have only competed for seven years, explained Murphy. "Essentially, weare neophytes, but we
won it.'' Twent'y-two law schools compete in the northeast region and only 26 schools from
across the nation fielded teams at the invitation-only event in Houston.
In the weeks prior to the competition. members of the team put in 40-plus hour weeks
preparing. explained Grable, who is also editor-in-chief of the UB Law Review. "We practiced
every night during the week, and all weekend for three straight weeks to get ready," he said.

The students were Mlected from among the top students in a semester-long Trial
Technique course, taught last fall in downtown courts by area trial attorneys. Murphy, who
has taught in the trial technique program and coached competition teams for seven years,
called the students a testament to the quality of UB ' s program. "1 said after the first year we
competed that someday UB wi ll own this competition," said Murphy, adding that he predicts
a UB team would soon win the national championship.
Franczyk, now in his third year with the program, says the students' success reflects well
on the law school, and it bolsters effons by the law school to expand its trial technique
program. Franczyk is no stranger to the competition. He competed on a team from Syracuse
Univers~ty that placed second in the nation in 1982. His own trial coach from Syracuse came
to help coach UB ·s national team, and, ironically. UB beat two Syracuse teams along the way
to its regional championship.
Following graduation, Grable, of Buffalo, will serve a tenn as a clerk to Federal District
Court Judge William Skretny and Runfola, also of Buffalo, plans to become a local trial
attorney. Brown, of subur ban Orange County. will be a prosecutor in the office of the Queens
County District Attorney.
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SportsView

BWE TEAM RAWES IN SECOND HAIJ'
Junior transfer Jamie Gasparre had six catches for 108 yards and a 52-yard touchdown as the
Blue Team SCOfed a 17- 12 win over the White Team at the annual University at Buffalo Blue-White

lootball game.

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Gasparre .helped the UB offense as three UB quarterbacks completed 22~f-37 passes for 268
yards. The junior. who transferred from C.W. Post and had to sit out last season, had four catches
1n the second half for 86 yards. Starting quarterback Mark Taylor was 13-of-20 lor 141 yards, in·
eluding 9-of-12tn the first half.
Erik Rusin hit 6-of·9 passes lor 11 2 yards including the 52·yard strike to Gasparre that put the
Blue Team (oHense) ahead for good in the game. The White Team, which scored points on a system that rewarded turnovers and changes of possession. had taken an 8..0 lead in the first half
and recorded nine sacks in the game
The defense was led by Craig Guest. Keith Hansen and Angelo Zucaro. Guest had 12tackles
and a tumble recovery while Zucaro (eight tackles) and Hansen (seven tackles) each had two
quarterback sacks.
Jun1or Anthony Swan had 50 yards rushing to lead the Blue Team and scored the game's first
touchdown on a Six-yard burst. He also added five catches for 42 yards .
The Blue-White scrimmage concluded UB's 15 spring practices under second·year coach
Cra•g Cirbus. The Bulls will open the 1996 season on Thursday, Aug 29 versus Illinois State at UB
Stadium. Tickets are now on sale for aU UB home games this fall .

BUUS, ROYALS POST SCHOOL RECORDS AT UB INWAT10NAL
The UB men's and women's track &amp; field teams set four school records Saturday at the UB Invitational meet. The tnvitational aJso served as a dual meet against Canisius with US's men earntng a
24&amp;-154 win while the Royals also downed the Griffins 235· 147.
Ben Atktnson broke hts own UB school record to win the men's decathlon. Atkinson tall ted 5.334
bettenng his old mark by nine potnts. Atkmson INOO live of the 10 events Including the decathlon's
ftnal event. the 400-yard dash, in 54.62.
Neil Murray set a school mark with his win 1n the ~e vault. Murray cleared 15-3 to take the event.
Both squads also set school records in the hammer throw. Rashtde Greene won the men's
. hammer with a toss of 137-9 while Rachael Refermat took the women's hanvner throw at 120-6.
The Bulls 4~x ·400-meter relay squad of Kris Winkler. Ryan Candia. Victor Archibald and Chris
Franklin were victorious with a time of 3:31 .20. Kweli Musa took first place in the BCXHneter run in
1:57.04 while Fumu Gakodo (23.42) and Kevin Winkler (23.57) were the top two finishers in the 200

• Gordon R. Gross ' SS, senior panner
in the Buffalo law firm of Gross, Shuman,
Brizdle &amp; Gilfillan, " for his exemplary perfonnance in business." A specialist in corporate, real estate and securities law, Gross
was a founder, trustee and officer of Dominion Mortgage &amp;
Realty Trust, formerly
of Buffalo. He has been
involved in numerous .
community activities,
and currently serves as
vice chair and a member of the Governing
Committee of the Buffalo Foundation. board
member of the Buffalo
GROSS
Philharmonic Orchestra , president of the Foundatjon for Jewi sh
Philanthropies, a directoroftheJewish Cen·
ter of Greater Buffalo and chair and presi dent of Kleinhans Mus ic Hall Management,
Inc .
• John B. Sheffer D, former New York
State senator, "for his distinguished service
to the community and effective advocacy for
UB law school." After his retirement in I 993
from the Senate, where he served as chair of
the Higher Education
Subcommittee
on
SUNY Access, Sheffer
took a position as a senior fellow in the UB
schools of Law and Architecture and Planning.
He assumed the position
of acting vice president
for public service and ur·
SHEFFER 11
ban affairs in January.
He is co-director and coauthor of the US Governance Project oq Erie
County, a multidisciplinary study of the structure and functions of governance in Erie
County.
Reservations for the dinner must be made
by May I. Checks should be made payable to
the UB Law Alumni Association and mailed
to 309 O'Brian Hall, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260.
The cost is $35 per person for graduates of
1991 or later and $50 per person for nonalumni or graduates of 1990 or prior. The
cost is $75 for dinner patrons. Finn and
corporate reservations cost $500 for a table
of 10 and $750 for a firm/corporate patron
table of 10.
For further infonnation, contact Ilene
0
Fleischmann at 645-2107.

meter dash.
Thorn Kaye earned a win in the long jump with a distance of 21 feet 3· 1/2 inches -while
Archibald won the triple jump at 13.49 meters.
On the Y/Oill8n's side, Refermat was a double winner taking the shot put with 38-5.5 as well as
her harrmer throw record.
Megan Sanford. Jaime Hirschman. Sue Mikovich and Usa Kragbe combined to win the 4·x· 100meter relay for the Royals in 50.41 . Kragbe also finished first in the 400 hurdles in 1:08.46 with

Hirschman (1 :08.74) and Mikovich (1 :16.03) placing second and third respectively.
The Royals also took a pair of distance events as Usa Reaves finished first in the 3,(XX) in
11 ~06 . 27

and Tara Reimer was victorious in the 1,500 in 5:04 .73. Shelly Hamilton won the women's

high jump at5-3.75.
UB also had a pair of runners 1n the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphta. Stacey Strothmann

(36:45) and Gretchen Welch (37:30) finished 18lh and 24th respectively in the 10,000 meter run
Both squads will be in action al home again this weekend as they host the UB Open.

ROYALS FINISH SIXTH AT Ml~ TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Royals competed at the Mid..COOtinent Conference Tennis ChampOOship in New Britain.
Conn .. last week finishing sixth in the t~team field . The Royals went2-2 during the weekend defeating Chicago Stale (by forfeit) and Missouri-Kansas City and falling to Eastern Illinois in the
tourney's first round and Valparaiso in the fifth-place match. UB concludes their season with a 5-4
spnng record and 16-4 record including their fall season .
US's Amy Cohen, the Royals' number one seed this season. earned ftrst team All-Conference
hooofs. Cohen was 8-4 for the Royals this spring.
- Ted Wasko, Sports Information Office

UPCOMING UB HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

Atllllt• ..., 3
Men:s &amp; Women's Outdoo&lt; Track &amp; Reid UB Invitational

4 p.m. at UB Stadium

Men's &amp; Women's Outdoo&lt; Track &amp; Reid UB Invitational

9 a.m. at UB Stadium

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RUTH llltYAHT TO RECEIVE
YWCA ACHII!VIMINr AWARD

a.yent. assistant dean in
the School of Archilecture and Planning , has been sektcled to receive
the 1996 YWCA

RYl.h D.

Outstand•ng
Achievement
Award. The award ,
one of three. w1U
be presenled at
'===-::-'"'--J the YWCA's 18th
annual Leader Luncheon Friday. May 31 at the Hyatt
Regency Buffalo.
Bryant. a graduate of the Un•vers•ty ol Buffalo, 1s a lonnef cha1r of the
ProleSSIOOSI Staff Senate She is a 30year emplOyee of the university. and

has served on numerous campusw•de corM'littees A PSS Senator. currently she serves on the Task Force

on Women at US and the Governance
Committee of the Faculty Senate.
Among her community activities are·
Board Member, United Way of New
York Stste. Medai11e College Board ol
Trustees. The Buffak&gt; Foundation and
Board President of Rental Ass•stance
Corp and the Erie County Cultural
Resources Advisory Board
Bryant received the PSS Outstand ing Serv•ce Award in 1990.

BROWN, AUIABUA TAKE
PART IN SYMPOSIUM
UB faculty and stall members part•c•pa ted Marc h 2 1n an oral h1story sympos•um at the Burchfield Center . Bull ala State College Two p anels of

speakers presented their mernones
of Chattes Burchfield as ne•ghbor .
frtend and cofleague.
Taking pan in the program were
Ann Raaanann arown, production manager. UB Publicattons Department . who wrote her mast8f's
thesis on Burchfield and the Birge

Wellpape&lt; Company and ,...,
Albarell8 1 associate profesSOf.
Educational Opportunity Center , a
former next-door neighbor of the
Burchfield family who with her
mother , has donated drawings an d
objects from Burchfield 's studio to
the Burchfield Center.
BUSINESS DAYS SEMINAII
TO BE HEUI JUNE H
'
Business Days, a two-day seminar
sponsored by the offices of AccountIng and Payroll Services , Budget,
Personnel Services and Purchasing
will be held Monday and Tuesday .
June 3 and 4.
The seminar. which is open to the
umversity community, will oHer the

following sessions:

Accounting end Payroll SeMces:
Accounting Classification Structure. ln-lormation System Overview, Overview
ol Regular end TNGA Payroll. Student
Assistant end Work Study Payroll.
Budget: Income Fund Reimbursable. Personal Service Regular Expenditure Protection.
Personnel Services: Position Classification (Classified Service Positions: Professional and Facully Pos•t•ons}. Retirement Processing
(Cta ssi f~ed Service Employees; Profess•onal StaH Employees and Fee-

Project Muse: The Future
of Sdtolarly Journals
BverwllhfOU couldJCiajowDaluiOOD u.it wu publisbed, at off
boon, or be able l o - an orticle while someone else wu using it7
The good ~~CWI iJ that full text acbolarly journals are now available
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pleased to announce that UB is
participating in 1'1-oject Muae,

an initiative that eoables worldwide oetworbd access to the full
te.xt of Jobns Hopkins University
Press' scholarly jownals. 1'1-oject
Mua makes wades of scholarship more widely available within
individual university communities by using online tecbnology to
produce affordable electronic jownals.
Journals currently av8ilable througb 1'1-oject MUie include
Confi!N'rtJJions, Ml.N (Modem Languages Notes), EUl (English
Uterary History), Modem Fiction SIJUiies, Reviews in American
History, American Journal ofMathematics, Cal/aloo, The Uon and
the Unicorn. NUI(NewUreraryHistory), Diacritics, Henry James
Review, UteratureandMediciM, Modemism!Modemiry, The Yale
Journal of Criticism, and American Quarterly.
Only current issues of these journals are available at present.
However, 1'1-oject Muse will not remove these issues as new ones
are added, so the number of issues available for each journal will
continue to grow. In addition, lhanlc.s to funding from the Mellon
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humini1ies,
within the nex1 three years 1'1-oject Muse will publish online more
than 40 of !he Press' journals in the humanities, social sciences and
mathematics.
A subscription to a Project Muse journal is a subscription in !he
truest sense. As a subscribing institution, we may distribute articles
freely within the contiguous UB campus community. Users may
download, print and malr.e unlimited paper copies for archival
purposes, orfor classroom.andpersooal use. In addition, new issues
of these journals are placed onl ine in advance of the printed version
(approximately four weeks).
Members of the UB community may access electronic journals
by title through the UB Libraries Electronic Journals Web page at
bttp://wings.bufralo.eduJ!ibraries/e-resources/ejoumals, or if
you arc specifically interested in Johns Hopki ns' journals, you may
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ulty), Appointment Process•ng (Cias·
sified Servtee Appotntments. Proles·
sional Staff and Faculty Appotntments). and Time and Anendance
(Classified Serv1ce Stall. Proless1ona1
Staff and Faculty).
Purchastng . Speedy Order System. Procurement Card , System Contracts, Purchasing Regutat1011s tn the
Current Cltmate
Business Days partJc 1pants must
reg tster b y May 8 For more 1ntormation. contact Sue Krzystohak, Accounting and Payroll Serv1ces. 330
Crofts Hall. 645-2663 ext 260

more than 3.0CX&gt; hours of votunteef
servtee performed dunng the past
year by 86 Ementus Center members
at a meet1ng to be held at 2 p m
Tuesday. May 14 1n the Emerttus Center . Goodyear Hall. South Campus
The Rose We1nste1n Memonal
Award lor research by a UB student
10 the field of gerontok&gt;gy also wilt be
presented The meet1ng wtll be preceded by a board meehng at 1 p m

CAIIPANAIIO IS DIRECTOR
OF - M I I N I FOR

lessor .n the Departmen! of Ptanmng
School of Arch1tecture and Ptann1ng.
has had her book accepted lor publication b y G9()(getown Umversity
Press The book. tilled Specraf Delrvery Specrai-Purpose Governments
and the Polmcal Economy of Metropolitan ServJCBS Delivery, examtnes
the c auses and tmphcatlons ot the
trend toward speclal·purpose gover nance 1n U S. meuopohtan areas
She recently d elivered an 1nv1ted
lecture on "The Fish Stores of Government Spectahzatton 1n the Publtc
Sector· 1n the Techmcal Experttse
and Pubhc Pettey Lecture Senes at
Pnnceton UntVerSlly

CDITEII FOR 1HE ARTS
Connie Campanaro, d trector of
marketing and public relatiOns at the
UB Center lor the Arts. has been
named the facihty's d trector of marketing and programming .
Campanaro will be responsible
lor negolialing c ontracts . booking
artists and developing partnersht ps
tor events tn the $50-millton Center
lor the Arts on the North Campus
She wlll b e the prtmary contact lor
national talent agenc ies and others
interested tn brtngtng p erformers to
the Center for the Arts
Campanaro wlll conttnue to be responsible lor media buytng. markettog , publtetty and box ofhce supervision at the Center for the Arts
Pnor to )O!ntng UB in 1993 . she
was prestden! of 8 -Sharp Promolions, Inc and dtrector of entertainment . advert1stng and promotions at
the Trallamadore Cafe tn Buffalo
Ounng her career. she has bOOked
hundred s of arttsts and thousands of
concerts across the entertatnment
spectrum, rangtng lrom Dana
Carvey, Tort Amos. Kenny G . Tracy
Lawrence. Buddy Guy . Boboy
Brown . Blood. Sweat and Tears . and
Le Ballet Nat1onal Du Senegal

FOSTER TO PUBUSH BOOK,

GIVE UEC11JRE AT PRINCETON
Kethryn A. Foster, assistant pro-

tHEORETICAL PHYSICIST
AI'I'OINTED CHAIR OF
PHYSICS DEPART111ENT

Rve members of the US Publtcauons
Department were wtnners Apnl 19 at
the Proless•onal Commun1cators ot
Western New York and the Art Dlrectors/Commumcators of Buffalo awards
show. held at the BuNalo Mamou
The awards . 1nctud ing one gold
two Stivers and one bronze. were as
follows Gold award lor School of Eng lneenng and Applied Sctences
book, ~Dehn1ng the Future of Engt ·
neenng," to Rebecc• F•rnham,
des1gner and Judson lle•d, wnter
Stiver award lor the School of Man·
agement's Execut1ve MBA program
recruttment book to Rebecc•
F•rnlwm, des1gner and Judson
.... d, wnter. Sttver award lor AdmiSsions' ~ o1sllngu1shed Honors broc hur e~ to AJ•n Kegler, destgner
Bronze award for UB Ltbranes ~Ac·
cess· newslener to Scott Frtcker,
destgner and Ann Whitcher, wnter

Richard J . Gonulv•a, professor
of phys1cs at UB. has been ap·
potnled chaJt of the UB Oepaflment
of Phystcs A UB faculty member
s1nce 1980. Gonsalves conducts research 1n the areas of theoretical
htQh·energy phystcs quantum held
theofles and computational phystcs
In recent years . he has made dtscovenes about predtcltons ans1ng
from the Standard Model. the model
that umhes the strong . weak and
electromagnetiC forces
Gonsalves now tS studytng gauge
theones about elementary partiCles .
such as quarks and bosons. and Ulelt
1nteract10ns. and maktng predtcllons
about these theones lor expenments
at htgh-energy parttcle colltders He
also ts us1ng computers to study
problems 1n f•eld theory and to Simulate other complex phystcal systems
Hts research funded pumarlly by
the Naltonat Sc1ence Foundallon . has
Oeen published tn numerous sc1enttftc
tOurnals Gonsalves also has developed a new course 1n computattonal
phystcs lor undergraduate and
graduate students. and tS explortng
ways to use computers to teach the
tntroductory phys.cs course
Gonsalves was recogntzed 1n
1994 wtlh the SUNY Chancellor's
Award lor Excellence 1n Teach1ng
A nauve of lnd1a . Gonsalves
graduated from Loyola College 1n
Madras and rece1ved a master's degree from the Un1vers1ty of Madras
He earneo h1s doctorate from Cotum bta Untverstty

PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR
STUDY ON DRUG
TO TREAT DEPRESSION

HOOT IS PRESIDENT OF
ASSOCIAnON FOR CHILDHOOD
EDUCAnON INTERNAnONAL

Volunteers are needed to parltctpate
tn a 10-week study by UB researchers to evaluate a chntcaUy tnvestlgattonal medtcatton tor treatment ol depresston UB tS one of 10 centers to
part1c1pate tn th1s nattonat study
Symptoms of depresston may tn
elude sleep dtSturOance. 1rntabthty.
tat1gue restlessness and poor conCentratiOO
Anyone tnterested '" obta1n1ng
lunher tnlormatton or parttctpahng •n
the study may call UB Department of
Psychtalry at 898-5089 or 898-5446

James L. Hoot, professor ol early
childhood education at UB has oeen
elected prestdent of the Assoc1ahon
!()( Chtldhood Educahon lnternattonat
(ACE!) the pnnc1pat profeSSIOnal or gamzahon •n hiS fteld He was vtce
prestdent of the aSSOCiation from
1993-96 and ts current v1ce pres1dent
of the New York Assoctalton tor
Childhood Educahon International
Hoot. who has dttecteo the UB
Early Chtldhood Research Cente•
stnce 1986. coordtnates the UB
Graduate School of Education pro
grams 1n early ch1ldhood educatton
where he also spec1ahzes tn com
puter educahon and technology tor
young children . and 1ssues tn tnter nauonal education
He has held many proleSSIOnat
posts tn h1S held wn11en a number ol

PUBUCAnONS STAFfERS WIN
DESIGN, WRmNG AWARDS

EMERITUS CENTER AWARDS
HONOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Sentor Vtce Prestdent Robert J.
W•vner will parttc1pate 10 the presentatiOn of awards tn recogn1110n of

OOOks and serves as assoclClte edttor
of the Journal of EaHy ChlldllOOO
Teacher Educatoo
He haS echtecl 10
teacher educat)()n
texts. and has
se&lt;vedasseruo&lt;
ed1tor or guest edt·
tor lor several
lher'n!l iSSU8S ol lhe
Journal ol the A~
oatKXt for ChrldHOOT
hood EdiJCBtiOn lntematiOnBI, and fllOfe than 35 of htS
artiCles have appeared ll'l numerous
educaoon JOUrnals He also has presented scores of lectures to natiOt'lal
and tnternatiOtlal educattOO auchences
Hoot recetved tus doctorate tn
early ch1ldh00ct educatiOO from the
Un.verstty ol llltno1s Urbana. and hiS
master's degree from Vtrg1n1a State
College . Petersburg
He has served as a consultant lor
such tnstttutiOfls as IBM. Texas Instruments Products OtvtSIOO, and tor the
Reg100 V and VI Head Start Program
lor ttte Admlntstrauon lor Children
Educattonal Youth and Famthes

SUSAN HUSTON NAilED
DIRECTOR OF ACS

Suun Hueton, a manager tn Admtntstrallve Computing Serv1ces
(ACS) at the Umverstty at Buffalo
has been named liS d~rector
Currently responSible for US's ongotng data warehouse protect
(MIDSS), Huston recently gutded
ACS 10 the 1nsta1tatton of the Alumnt
Development and Advancement System (ADA MS) ADAMS comb1nes two
databases conlatntng tnformat10n on
more than 200.000 UB a1umn1
lnends and donors
She also coordtnated ACS's ellort
to tmptement the Degree Audtt Re
qu~rements System (OARS) that asSISts students and adv1sors tn as sesstng students' progress toward
degree complelton and ptanntng
course schedules
Huston IS a member of numerous
protess1ona1 organ1zattons tncludtng
College and Unrverstty Systems Ex change (CAUSE) and College and
Unrverstty Users Conference
(CU MREC) She IOtned UB tn 1978
as a programmer analyst

UB CATERING MANAGER
WINS RECIPE CONTEST

Tom lng•lla, manager of the Cen ter for Tomorrow/South Campus
Catenng Depanment has been
awarded a thlfd pnze 1n the recent
• Golden Ladle Rec•pe Contest sponsored by the food servtce depanment of the Campbe,l Soup Company He w11t rece•ve a cOOkbook
!rom a preshgtous cooktng school
Ingalls ' Oftgtnal rec1pe lor ~Souper
Salsa~ was selected by a panel of
load edttors trom wtthtn the food ser vtce 1noustry All the wtnnmg rectpes
lea lured Campbell's soup as an tngredlent They wilt become part of
Campbell's rec1pe collechon w1th
potenhal lor use tn rec•pe cards
1r a de pubhctty and aemons!f a !Ions
fhe rec1pe wtnne1
chopped dtced tomatoes (hesn)
small d1ced red on•on
Campoell's tomato soup
small d•cea tatapenos
fresh m•nc ed Cilantro
very small d1ceo chtooue oeope1 s
(smoked ,ataoet'los that ado a spe
Ctalltavor l
lresh hme 1u1Ce
salt and black oepoe• (to rastel
choppec sc all tons
Otced yellow oell peppers
Duc kwneat none.,_
One o f !ne great lhtng s aDoul tnts
rcc tpe Ingalls says •s '' s Betty
C rocker - proof ~ - anyone c an make 11
tnetr own un•Que rec tpe Dr varymg
the proporttons ol •ngred•ents F01
example to make 11 honer aoo a
hllle more ch1pot1e or ,atapet'lo to
make tt a ltllle sweeter ada more
buckwheat hOney

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Garlapo. )55 Squ1re. South Campus 8 a.m.

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Campus. II a.m.- 1 p.m. LAst day.

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pnus. Student Union Lobby.
Nonh Campus. II a.m.- 1 p.m.
l.asl day

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lbrou&amp;h Ocoober.

, _ .. c.An exhibit of wort by printmakers
Susan Buduh and Rea· Dunkle is
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Capen Hall Gallny loaoled no lhe
fifth flocw of Capen oa tbc North
Camf'U'.
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" UB Remembers," a ua.iversity
sesquicentennial eah.ibit orp:a.iu:d
by Uaivcnity Archives, contiDues
lbrou&amp;h Sepc. 10 in 42&amp;Capen
Hall oa the North Campu..
Groups may arnnae a vW1 by
callina64S· 2916. Exhibit boun
... Moaday lhro&lt;&gt;Jh Friday. 9
a...m. to p.m.

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l nter;raUoa of TyrosiDt KiDUt
and G-Prote:la-Medillted Sipal
Transd ucdon Palbwa.fllo the

P.e:gulaUoo of Mammal.l.ul
Spttnn Fuocdoo, Dr. Grcaory S.
Kopf, Univ. of Pennsyl vania
School o f Medicine. 306 Fllber
South Campus. 12:30 p.m.

Phrolca COI'-Iu•
Instability Cascades lo Droplet
Fi~sloo,

Prof. Sidney R Nagel,
Un iv of Chicago. 220 Natural

Snences Nonh Campus
l-'5p.m
Blol~l

aiancd fOf' t.hc Li&amp;hcwell Oallay in
the Ceoeer for lhc ArU. North
Compus, ood DOW Q lodpd tboro

Selene••

Seminar
Molrcular Approac hes lo Olfac tory Rec:epdon, Dr. Dc:nnas

ker to • lrM hair·
cut •nd atyle u

aheopenatheS..
nlorTNUUN

A mcmorialttrviee for Spukle
MC110re Pumas will be bc:ld May 4
at 2 p.m. i.a Foresll.awa Qapd.
A reuplion follows at 3:30p.m.
in &amp;he Fumu Memorial Room.
531 Capen Hall. North Camf'U'.
Mrs. Fumu wu the widow of
Clifford Cook Furnas. rormcr
cbaDcrUor and president of the
University of Buffalo. Sbe puscd
away Feb. 21 in Duranao. Col~
BOO. where abe had been Iivia&amp;
for some time. Donations may be
made to lbe Clifford C. Fumu
Eminent Profeuon Fund i.a cart:
or the abe UniY"tTSity at Bufralo
Foundation, loc.

ChestlntheSb&gt;dent Union Lobbr.
Part of Senior
CeJebratlon, to-day Ia the lut
d8y for aenlora to
pick a key that
could unlock the
tre•aure chest of
prizes.

Rhoads. Monmoulh Un1v 121

Cooke Nonh Campus 4 p.m
M.the...Uce Colloqulu111
Prindplu or Know~ge: Foun·
dalion ' of Non·Staocbrd Analysi~
f Jean Benabou. Univ of
Pans Nord 103 Diefendorf
'inut Campus. 4 p.m.

Ph
eutlca Sellllnar
Pul
n~~ry IHiivery aod AblfOrpti of Drugs. Christ1nc
Fnlcoz. P D .. Glaxo-Well come
Resurch. 8 Cooke. North C.llmpus . 4 p.m.

ut.w--.,
T ' ai C h i for Bq.ioM:n, Ron
Jnl!alsbe. S:J0-6:30 p.m.. To ~gu ­
u:r. ca ii64S-61 2S.

Movlea
T he Madna1 of Kina Georae..
Sluttent Union llleater. North
Campus. 6:30p.m . S2 students:
S"\ SO generul public. UUAB film

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.-Folk_l,..
AU levels. 2 Dierendorf. South
Campus. 8-1 t p.m. Free: . Sponsored by GSA.

Movr..
Btyoad the Valley of tbe Dolls.
Student Union 'Theater. North
Campus. II :30 p.m. $2 students:
$3 .~ general public. UUAB film

!

Movlea
Fou r Rooms. Student Union The·
ater North Campus. 9 p.m. $2 studenrs: S3.SO general pubhc.
UllA B film series.

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Padl.trlc llnM Rou-

· · knlce,...
st-kleFurau
Forest Lawn Chapel. 2 p.m. Re·
ception at 3:30p.m .. Furnas Memorial Room, 531 Capen Hall.
Nonh Campus. Mrs. Fumas
passed away Feb. 2 1. She was the
widow of fonner UB chancellor
and president C lifford Furnas.

S•nlor Celebration

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Or•l BloloO kmlftU
Jon Channeb: in Dtntal Pulp,
Prof Robert Dav1dson, Univ. of
Connecticut School of Dental
Medicine 2 15 Foster. South Campus. Noon .

Vouna C bort()Jn pben Workshop, Tbelue and Dance. Black
Boa Theattt, Center for the Arts.
North Clmpus. 8 p.m. $3.

VolceRDaaiel c.&amp;dl.tet.or. With Victoria
Rubincbik, piano. Donna L..orenm,
viola. and Maty Schwaruwaldcr,
hom. Wotb or Scbllbert. Vaughan
Williams. Tosti. Sloe. Nonh Cam·
pus. 8 p.m.

lt.rnaa cis Ekmeat.J., Dr. K.P.
Oopinathan, Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology. Indian lnstilUle of Science . 134B Farber.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

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Youna C b o~gra phen Workshop, Tbc:atre and Dance. Black
Box 1bcatre, Center for the Aru.
North Campus. 8 p.m. SJ.

Goodie Mob. Luciano, Tommy
Keene, and Dishwalla . Rain site
Alumni Arena. (If indoors stu·

:a~~ ~:r~ 1~ e~~~~ ~~t;!i;u~~O.)
2p.m.

UB Suophonr Ensemble, Ed·

Scif:nlirK' Computing and t.ht
lnkrncl. James Harlos. Ph.D.•
Scientific Computing, RPCI
Hil leboe Audito rium, RPCI.
12:30 p.m.

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and Latt Transit ion Metal Comp1urs, Prof. Michael D. Fryzuk.
Uu'''· of British Columbia. 2 15
N:llurnl Sc1ences. Nonh Campus.

Nitric Oxide a nd Enrclse In the
Horse, Paul Mills. Animal Health
Trust Center for Equine Studies.
301 Biomedical Research Building. South Campus. 4 p.m.

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Athl•tlca

--..:.Lecture

Men '11 &amp; Women 's O utdoor
Track&amp;: Field UB Invitationa l
VB Suadium. North Campus.
.$p.m.

LaP lace and Darbou.x Transforma t ions and Euctly Solvable
Scbrodlngrr Operators. Pror.
Sergei Novikov, Univ. of Maryland. College Part.. and Moscow
State Univ. 103 Didendorf. South
Campus. 4 p.m.

Movlea
Four Rooms. Student Umonllleater North Campus. 6:30 and 9
p.m. S2 studcniS; $3 .SO general
public . UUAB film series.

Opua.: Claulca Uve

D•nce
The UBufl81o srmi&gt;honr. directed by c1u1rr.. Peltz, the UB Chorua, directed br H1rrlet Simona, will perform
M•r 6 In Slee H•ll.

eo.-~
hruellar Aat:urysms : CU.a..k.al
Futures. ladialdou artd Re-

mits of T rat.aleat, Anbur L
Day. M .D., pror. of Neurological
SurJCfY, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville. Buffalo General Hospital. 8
a.m . Call859-2567 .

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Development and Function of
lbt Bto&amp;enk Amint htbways in
OrosopbU., Pror. Jay Hirsh.
Univ. of Virginia. 307 Hochsteuer. North Campus. 4 p.m.

Family Fun Walk and SK Race.
Alumni Areoa. North Campus. 10
a.m. Call Leila Baker, 691 -5972.

Chemlatry Colloquium
Nrw Ligand Dalgns for Early

Youn&amp;Cboreogra pben Workshop, Theatre and Dance. Black
Box Theatre, Center for the Ans.
North Campus. 8 p.m. SJ .

llaaln•I*Y......_
Dilferr:atial Esprasioa of tRNA
Gmes frot111 wltiWa • Mukl&amp;eM
v..u, 11 Jtqulal&lt;d by rar u.,.

UB Chorus a nd UBufl"ak) Symphony, Harriet Simons and
Charles Pehz. conductors. Slcc.
North Campus. 8 p.m. $3.

Mrn'• &amp;: Womrn's Outdoor
Track &amp; Field UB Invitational
UB Stadium. North Campus.
9 a.m.

Co nstipalioo: Diapostic a nd
Thtraptulic Dilem mas, Anthony
Vetruno. M.D .. Thomas Rossi.
M .D., and Robert Demerath,
Ph .D. Kinch Auditorium.
Children's Hospital . 8 a.m.
Senior Brunch. Pancake-and-sau·
~ a~e breakfast cooked and served
h )' faculty , staff. and alumni. Student Union Lobby . North Campus.
10 a.m.-Noon . Free for graduating
~mnrs: coupon required.

The Profeuiooal Staff Serwe and
the Campus Club want to take you
out to the ball pme June 14 whea
the Bisons host the Omaha Royals
at Nonh AmeriCare Put. Fin:t
pilCh is 7:30p.m. A pre-p.mc
party (wines etcet:era included,
beer and soda exua) starts at 5:30
p.m. at the Bn:ckcnridce Brewery
in tbe Market Arcade. Game tickets are $6.7S. Party tickets are $9
for adults and half that for childrt:n. PSS in 543 Capen Hall.
Nonb Campus. wants rt:tetVations
by June 3.

Classical Guitar MuDc: lnsplred
by Musk or C hina, Turkry,
Bruil and Ameriea, Alison Ben,
guitar. Allen. South Campus. 7
p.m. Free. Taped by WBFO 88.7
FM for broadcast the rollowing

An M.f .A. thesis exhibit of photographs by Patrick Lord eonlinues
through May 6 in the An Depanmcnt Gallery. Center for the Ans.
North Campus. Gallery houn are
Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.: and
Saturday, II a.m.-8 p.m. Admission is free.

.,.......,

" Negotiated Construction." a de·
sign exhibit. continues through
May 3 in the James Dyeu Gallery.
335 Hayes Hall . South Campus.
The exhibit is described as "a col·
labontive design project done in
conjunction with the Junior Studio
curriculum" showing "aspects of
the dc.sign·build proceu." Gallery
hours are Monday-Friday 9 a. m.Sp.m.

Artlni'-A rt in Poland: New Directions"
features wort by eight anists rrom
the Krak6w area. through July in
the University An Gallery in lhc
Center for the Aru, North Cam ·
pus. Gallery hours art: 10:30 a. m.8 p.m. Wcdncsday· Saturday,
Noon-S p.m. Sunday. Admission
is free .

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Leonardo Drew's site-specific
stallation "'No. 45-A" was de-

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TechnoiOI)', Poaina IP-6013 .

Senior Starr MsbtaDI (SL-3; In·
teraaJ Pro.-oUoaal Opportu·

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Services, Posting IP~16. ~
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POSiing IP-6018.

F-lty
Assislaat Profc,uor-Mcdicine.
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MedK:ine. Posting IF-6022. AssistantJAssot.lattfFuU ProftsSOr·
Occupational Therapy. Posting
IF-6023. Assistant ProftsSOr·
School o r Social Work, Posting
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Projed Staff Au«late--Developmcnt. Posting IR -95090. Resurcb Tu.haiclan -Biological
Sciences. Posting IR-96019.
RHH.t't.h Suppor1 Specialist Psychology. Posting IR-96020.
Rt:seart:b Support SpeclaHstMedicine. Infectious Diseases.
Posting IR-96021 . O.ta Man•&amp;ft'-Oevelopmcnt. P051ing
IR·96022. Resart:b Technician
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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

April 25 , 1996

UNIVIIISITY AT BUFMLO
State University ofNew Yorlc

Volum e 27 . No 27

Back to Nature on the
North Cam.pus
Ground

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IJ IUDI -.DIIAUIII
News Services Staff

I

T BEGAN on Monday-Earth Day--and will continue

for the next five years: grounds crews at UB working to

restore more than 100 acres of the North Campus to the
woodlands that existed before the campus was built.
This is the tint phase of UB 2025. a dramatic. 30year project designed to transform the North Campus into a

greener. more inviting physical environment.
In this nt year of UB 2025's initial phase, a total of
nearly 60 res will be returned to a natural state, the largest
total area . at will be restored in one year.
Stude ts and members of the UB grounds crew took the
fint steps pril22 toward naturalizing areas near the campus
periphery
planting seedlings near Crofts Hall off of
Audubon Par way. About &amp;0 new trees were planted between Crofts II and Audubon Parkway by member&gt; of the
UB grounds ere~ and the following students: Eric Kulpit, an
environmental studies major in the interdisciplinary program in the social sciences and Upal Ghosh, Jill DiTommaso,
Peiliang Shen and Todd Snyder, all graduate students in the

environmental engineering and science program of the civil
engineering department.
The UB 2025 plan. created by students, staff and faculty
on the Campus Planning and Development Subcommittee of

UB •s Environmental Task Fon:e, has been
in the works since the early 1990s.
'The UB 2025 plan envisions a university that is more sustainable and more
livable," said Lynda H. Schneckloth, UB
associate professor of architecture and
subcommittee co-chair.
'The university has a responsibility to
be the tint in new ways of thinking and, as
we enter the 21st century, nothing is more
important than for human beings to learn
to live more sustainably on earth. UB
2025 is a small, but important. step in that
direction."
For the first time since the 1970s when
the campus was developed, UB grounds

staff will not mow in the designated areas. ~~~===~]~~=!'--=::~
Instead, they will let the grass grow.
allowing for these areas to gradually be- L,--...,..,-.,-:--.11....-== -,..-,----,-------------,-'
come self-sustaining. intact ecological systems.
The seedlings are aboul 4 years old and stand up to a foot
All spring, grounds staff led by William C. Marshall,
high. Shrubs that will be planted this spring include forsythia
grounds construction supervisor, will plant between 400 and
and red and gray dogwoods.
500 seedlings of lan:h, sumac, ash. hybrid poplar, Northern
Continued on page 2
red cedar, river birch, Auslrian pine and white spruce trees.

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FSEC looks at early retirement implications, 'Teach Out Tuesday'
By C - N E VIDAL
Reporter Editor

ment options and the effect they
could have on UB's budget.
Thla rear'a ..tr retirement inUB mus1think of the retirement
cenlive and its implications for
incentive as a long-range developUB'sbudget, and"TeachOutTuesment effort, since it is impossible
day" ·were on the agenda when the
to calculate how many faculty will
Faculty Senale Executive Committake advantage of the option and
tee met April 17.
what impact their retirement will
FSEC Chair Claude Welch told
have overall on the budget, Fischer
members that an ad hoc studenl \ said.
group. the Student Alliance Against
Like last year' s opportunity. he
Budget Cuts. sought his support
for its planned protest which was
to take the form of a two-hour
boycott of classes on April 30.
About 20 members of the student
1J S1EVECOX
Reporter Staff
group attended the April 17 meeting to ask for FSEC support.
LLUSIONS COME in many
Noting thai "it is not in my role
forms: some accidental and
as chair to speak on behalf of the
some purposeful, explained
Faculty Senate," Welch opened up
Joe Nickell, UB's re sident
the subject to FSEC input.
sleuth of the supernatural, to a reCalling the Teach Out " th e
cent luncheon of senior UB alumni.
wrong way to make a statement,"
Nickell should know. His entire
John Boot said "faculty should not
career has been based on illusion.
even think of canceling classes. lf
A Senior Research Fellow with
it's an officially sanctioned class.
the Center for the,Scientific Invesit should be held."
tigation of the Paranormal
(CSICOP). Nicke ll is a worldStudents ....S f8culty "have a
renowned paranormal investigator.
right to participate, but not during
Headquartered in the new Center
a regularly scheduled class," said
for Inquiry building on Sweet Home
Dennis Malone. Faculty should not
Road, across the street from the
in a formal sense cancel or reNorth Campus, Nickell and his felschedule classes. but should be
low CSICOP skeptics specialize: in
willing 10 meet with students infinding
scientific, rational explaformally. He added that he considnations for "unsolved mysteries."
ered make-up classes to be
He was the guest speaker Thunappropriate.
day, Aprill8, at the Senior Alumni
The FSEC also heard a report
Program luncheon, held in the new
by William Fischer, vice provost
Inquiry building.
for faculty development, on retire-

said, the retirement incentive is
available to faculty age 50 and
older who have IO ormoreyearsof
service with the university. Unlike
last year, however. there will be
two windows of opportunity for
retirement. Those dates have not
yet been determined, Fischer said.
About 250 faculty member&gt; are
eligible for the incentive; of those.
about 20 percent are age 65 or older.

'There are no obligations here.
no binding policies for retirement.
It's an individual decision-making
process." he noled.
A ... rvey of people who participated in last year's incentive indi caled that continued "access to the
ambiance of lhe institution" was
important to retirees. and UB is
"looking closely now at providing

more enhanced soft benefits to retirees to improve that relationship,"
Fischer said.
In other business. the FSEC
heard an interim report by Margaret Arcara of the Faculty Tenure
and Privileges Committee on review criteria for promotion to full
professor. The FSEC will continue
Conttnued on page 3

'Sleuth of the supernatural'relies on real world research

I

or------------------.,

fromguestappearances on
talk shows including
"Oprah," and
" Larry King
Live ,"
to
Learning
Channel and
Di scove ry
Channel programs. such as
"lnSearchO[.
with Leonard
Nimoy ."
Joe Nickell . - mac1c trick to debunk tall tales.
In the late
Once a resident magician al the
1970s. Nickell gained fame. or as
Houdini Magical Hall of Fame. and
he points out, "infamy," for his
a former private investigator with research into the Shroud of Turin.
theworld'slargestdetectiveagency. an ancient cloth in which it was
Nickell today travels the globe clari- alleged Jesus was laid to rest. In
fying claims of close encounters, fact, Nickell showed the gathered
taking the gas out of suspected
Ujl alums how they, too, could
ghouls and truncating tall tales. U leave their own lasting impression
he looks familiar, it is because he on their own holy shroud ... withour
has a long list of television credits, having to rise from the dead.

Nickell explained that his book.
" In Search of the Shroud ofTurin ...
made him '"an international whipping boy" and "drew plenty of hate
mail." Nevenheless. based largel y
on Nickell's research. the Catholic
Church later conceded that the
Shroud was not the genuine burial
cloth of Jesus.

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ickelleasily recited the entire.
20-century history of the
Shroud. pointing out inconsistencies in the story along the way.
"First of all. this was clearly not the
slyle in which the Jew s buried their
dead at the time," he explained.
··what's more. the Gospel of John
says Jesus was buried with mul tiple cloths. So far, there have been
a reponed 40 'true Shrouds' discovered."
But the most damning evidence
came when Nickell created his own
likeness on a Shroud. using chemiContinued on page 2

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UB 's Vietnamese Executive Program aims
to encourage business contacts, trade
lly PATIIICIA -VAN

News Services Staff

T

HE WORLD Languages Institute
at
is coordinating a new program that will bring a group of
Vietnamese business executives
to Western New York this summer. An estimated 15-20 executives from
smaU- and medium-sized Vietnamese companies will be here from July 27 through Aug. 10
to learn about American culture and business
prnctices in both formal and informal settings.
The Vietnamese Executive Program is
one of the first-if not the first-&lt;&gt;f its kind
in the United States to facjljtate interaction
between Vietnamese and American businesses to the end of encouraging international trade, according to George Buchanan,
director of the international Trade Administr.ltion in the U.S . Department of Commerce.
" Any interaction like this one !bat ~
place in Western New York serves to stimulate
profitable trade between the two countries, and
benefits businesses in this region seeking to
engage in such trade," Buchanan added.
One highlight of the program will be meetings between the visitors and local execu-

ua

tives representing a variety of businesses and

industries that are interested in doing business in Vietnam or are already doing so. The
meetings will assist the local business executives to establish contacts with their Vietnamese counterparts and exchange
information, ideas and trade possibilities.
Other activities for the visitors will include an orientation session on American
cu lture, business and society; visits to local
imponlexport-oriented companies and tour

"Any interaction like this one
that takes place in Western New
York serves to stimulate
profitable trade between the two
countries, and benefits business
in this region. "

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production facilities; lectures (translated into
Vietnamese) about business and economic
developmentinNewYorkState, WestemNew
York and Southern Ontario; a two-day
sightseeing visit to New York City, including
avisit to Wall Street, andanovemigbtbomestay
as a guest of a Western New York family.

T:

e Vietnam Executive Program will be
coordinated by Hoang Vu Cuong, a
Harvard-Yenching Fellow and doctoral
candidate in International Trade in the UB
Department of Geography.
Hoang, wbo is a Vietnamese ianguage tu10r
at UB, also directs UB ' s new "Summer in
Vietnam" exchange program. a language and
culture program at the Dong Do University of
Science and Technology, a private univer.;ity
founded by a group of eminent Vietnamese
educators and scientists in Hanoi. The program
is open to all Western New York residents.
Mark Ashwill, director of the World Languages Institute, said the Vietnamese Ex·
ecutive Program was suggested to UB by
faculty and staff at Dong Do University.

The new venture is DO( as academically
oriented as UB ' s International Executive Program. which emphasizes language education
and management trainiJig over culb.tral familiarity. personal and business relalionships.

••Jn order to successfully conduct business in Vietnam," said AsbwiU, "it is very
imponant for foreign business people to establish personal contacts with their Vietnamese peers and become familiar with the
business situation in that country.·•

T:

s is particularly imponant in the jewlty business, Asbwill added, and sevral of the Vietnamese executives wbo
will be coming here in July are in that field.
Asbwill ooted that the program is a prime
example of the way in which UB, its faculty
and various departments use their considerable resources to serve a need in the Western
NewYorkcommunityatnocosttoeitherthe

community or the institution.
Besides the lntzmalional Trade Administrntion, entities working with UB's World Languages Institute, part of the Department of
Modem Languages and Litenllures, to make
the progn!!Il possible are UB School of Man~ UBEnglishLanguagelnstinR, CanadaU.S. Trade C..Z. at UB, Western New York
lnlmlaliooal Trade Council. Cwncil on inlmlational V!Sitas and sevemllocal oompanies.

Cooperating Vietnamese institutions are
the Executive Training Center for Non-State
Enterprises and the Department of Business
Administration at Dong Do University. 0

SLEUTH
Continued from page 1

cal and photographic techniques known to
have existed for centuries. The "Shroud of
Nickell" appears on the cover of his book,

and is such a good likeness that it was once
inadvenently circulated by the Associated
Press at Easter time as a photo of the Shroud
of Turin.
Nickell alleges the Shroud was created by
uslng glass-plate negatives. "A positive image. or photograph, has highlights in white
and shadows in darkness," Nickell explained,
showing slides of the real shroud and his
lilceness. "So, it follows logically that the
image on the cloth, with dark highlights and
light shadows, was a negative image." Nickell

went on to explain that he and other researchers carbon dated the Shroud, finding it to be
far younger than · the burial cloth of Jesus
would have been. Also, they discovered tr.lCes
of tempera paint on the cloth. Thus, they were
able to date the age of the cloth to the exact era

NAtuRE
Continued from page t

Areas will be clearly marked with signs
that say "UB Natural Regeneration Area."
Marshall explained tha&amp; the new trees and

shrubs witt attract more bird species to campus, and will provide a beuer habitat for the
small animals, such as woodchucks and rabbits. that already malce the Nonh Campus

their home.
'This project has multiple benefits," said
Ronald Naylor, associate vice president for
university facilities. "It gives UB an opportu-

nity to benefit the environment, to return a large
ponion of the campus to a natural staU! and to
avoid mowing, which cuts down on emissions
and gasoline consumption, and produoes more
greenery to absorb carbon dioxide."
Naylor added that the areas that will be
re&lt;tored to woodland also will be visible to

commuters who drive down Sweet Home
Road or exit the Lockport extension of the
Youngmann Hi ghway onto the North Campus.
Naylor said that out-of-pocket expenses

when a forger is known to have confessed to
of between $500 and S 1,000 for the purchase
of the first group of seedlings and shrubs

represent an investment that will save money
in the long run.
Marshall estimated that grounds staff will
save approximately I 00 hours during the
first year.
"We'll be putting !bat time into more pruning and other hands-on maintenance of vegeta-

tion instead of mowing these areas with blg,
gas-guzzling machines that have a negati.ve
impact on the environment," said Marshall.
The areas that will be pan of the UB

regeneration project are:
• 5 acres north of Lalce LaSalle
• 13 acres between the 1-990 and
Letchworth Woods
• 20acres between the 1-990 and Rensch
Road
• II acres between Rensch Road and the
bridge near Crofts Hall
• 9 acres adjacent to Sweet Home High
School propeny.
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ACTING DIRECTOR Of PUBLICATIONS

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forging a Shroud of Turin.

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recreated, from the ground. drawings which
most believed could only be seen from thousands of feet in the air. "Did I solve that
mystery? No. I just showed one technique,
using nothing but cross sticks and knotted
cords, that could have been used to make
these drawings from the ground."
Drawings like these were declared products of alien visits to the earth in ""Chariots of
the Gods," a 1970s book by Erich Von

Daniken. However, consider the source,
Nickell cautions ...Von Daniken is now serving a prison tenn for fraud and forgery," he
said.

nown ps&gt;:chological events su~h as

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"waiting dreams" frequentlyexplam unexplained sightings of ghoot&lt;. Nickell ' s latest work. due to be published soon. examines
13 people who have had the most widely
reponed UFO abduction experiences. He
fou nd that all suffer from classic symptoms
which psychiatrists would say make them
"fantasy-prone."

ickell's unofficial anthem when inves-

'Think about the dramatic similarity in

tigating ghosts, UFO sightings or su-

the stories told of alien abduction and the
likeness one person's drawing of an alien
has to the next." suggests Nickell. explaining that fantasy-prone people are more open
to suggestion about things they recollect
than most.
Nickell impressed upon his guests that

pernatural occurrences, is ..Maybe there is a
simpler explanation." With that in mind,
Nickell showed the alums how he solved

other long-tenured mysteries, including an
allegedly haunted house in Toronto and mysterious thousand-foot-long drawings etched
into plateaus high in the Andes Mountains.
" Not everything is explained," conceded

Nickell, ..but that doesn't mean there is anything out there that is unexplainable."
The "Ghost of MacKenzie House" had

chased two sets of caretakers from the historic Toronto home of a Canadian patriot.
However, Nickell discovered the mysterious noises and sightings h8d rational explanations, most emanating from the echoey
offices of a publishing finn next door.
In South America. using simple rope and
sticks and techniques known to be available

at the time of the ancient Peruvians, Nickell

paranormal investigation is serious work.
Nevertheless, he related one story of going to
a "seance" in which all the panicipants were
instructed to remain still and hold hands in the
darkness to summon spirits, who would speak
through a vase in the center of the table.
" You only need to free your hand for a
minute, by telling your neighbor you have to

scratch your nose, in order to dump some
soot from your pocket into the vase," explained Nickell. Then, imagine everyone's

surprise at the conclusion of the seance when
your medium ' s face is blackened. "But. remember, we don't have any fun at this." 0

w.M. • ASSOCIATE EDITOR JD.U1 . , . . . • ART DIRECTOR , _ ~ • http J/IJtWWO plb.t)uftM:I .wlre(XIIWI

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lnnus briefs
PSS on status
of state budget

It's Dr. Billy Joel!

lly8ftVII COX
Reporter Staff

V~

'-a, senior associate vice

president for university services. briefed
members of the Professional Staff Senate on
the status of the New Vorl&lt; State budget and
distributed a copy Gov. George Pataki's
budgetary "contingency plan" at the April
17 PSS meeting.
lnnus explained that the state budget is
now late for the 12th straigbt year. An overdue and uncenain f~ral budget. as well as
legislative elections slated for this fall, could
make this "the worst year yet" for adopting
a budget, he observed.
lnnus indicated that TAP appeared to be
a high priority among legislators, so restoration of some or all of the fuods cut by the
governor is possible. He also predicted that
"some portions" of the management flexibility legislation proposed by SUNY are
likely to be adopted. in some form, for 199697.

M-whlle, he-ed, SUNY employees
are covered by a revised early retirement
program that already has passed the legislature. The benefits appear to be virtually the
same as those of last year's program, Inn us
explained, except that there will be not one
but two different time periods during which
early retirement will be available.
In other business, the PSS continued dis·
cussion of the "Rethinking SUNY" document, paying particular attention to ways it
couid impact the worl&lt;place and workloads
in SUNY. A summary of the discussion will
be forwarded to the PSS Executive Committee for wider distribution.
Lani Jendrowski of the Staff Development committee reponed lhat PSS will sponsora workshop entitled "Dynamic Balance,"
on Friday, May 31. The day-long conference, to be held at the Buffalo Marrion Hotel
in Amherst. will feature a panel discussion
and six. workshops on '"techniques to enhance everyday living."

FSEC
Continued from page 1
its review of the process in the fall semester.
In his report to the FSEC, President
Greiner again expressed his unhappiness with
student conducl at the April 9 protest in
Capen Hall.
"In order for openness to be preserved. it
is incumbent on us to protect the rights of
others," yreiner said. And, if necessary. that
protection will include enforcing rules about
trespass, assault and disorderly conduct as
they apply to both UB's Student Rules and
Regulations and New York State law.
"On my watch, I will work very hard to
protect on this campus aU points of view ,"
Greiner said. But, he added, not all methods
of eK:pression are• appropriate, particularly
~· hen they are made in private spaces .. or in
ways that cause fear or intimidation.
"I will be patient, I will be kind, but! will
not tolerate 'uncivil behavior,'" he said.
Students have every reason to be concerned over the future of higher education,
Greiner said. "I think frankly they have a
right to be angry at my generation and the
generation behind it.''Those generations have
"squandered some assets arid turning that
around will be very difficult."
He encouraged students to continue to
make their concerns known to UB' s administration, but noted that how the message is
delivered has an impact on how it is received.
"I do not think displays of bad temper will
influence anyone," Greiner said.
He added he is willing to meet with groups
of students "on request. not demand" at times
and places that are mutually agreeable, to
discuss UB 's future. "We have to do a little
0
mutual learning together," he said.

ll.LY JOEL has not traded in
his ivory keys for the ivory tower
yet, but he probably could.
Last week, a standing-roomonly crowd in Center for the
Arts found out that the 25-year rock-n-roU
veteran is not only a talented musician, but
an endearing character. a opinionated reviewer and , it appeared. a frustrated college
professor.
Joel spent nearly three hours on Mainstage
April IS, fieldJngquestions on his music, his
career, his successes, his suuggles, and even
his former wives, including supermndel
Christie Brinkley. And, he treated the crowd
to some of his most popular songs, including
'The Entenainer," "Scenes from an Italian
Restaurant," and "Piano Man," the 1974 hit
for which Joel is most widely recognized.
Joel's UB visit was the latest stop on a
unique six-month college campus tour. It was
nota concert. noralecture("Pieeze, no," Joel
deadpanned, his head falling forward into the
microphone.) It was more like an after-&lt;!inner
discussion amoog a family of 2,000.
"When I was starting out.! didn ' t get a lot
of advice," explained Joel. "I made all the
mistakes you can, and I'm still here to lellthe
tale. I always wished there was someone I
could ask." Offering aspiring performers the
advice he never got is the reason for his
current tour, says Joel.
Well, there may be one other reason .
" I really always wanted to be a teacher,"
he confessed.
"You would have been great...the best,"
an audience member replied, stopping Joel
in mid-sentence.
"What, benerthan Socrates?" Joel retorted.

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oel says he has a1ways considered himself, first and foremost. a composer. In
fact. despite huge success as a recording artist. he confessed, " I don ' t like my
voice yet. I'm just getting now to where I
hate il a little less." Classical music has had
the grcalest impact on his work., says Joel.
who is currently composing classical music.
In fact. he concedes, "the stuff I'm writing
now is so good. I don ' t dare record it myself.
I'd just ruin it.''
Strolling to his synthesizer. Joel interjects
some little known music trivia--his words
for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
"What. ..Does ...lt. ..Mean?, What... Does ...
lt .. Mean?" he sang to the familiar score. He
went on to share with the audience his vision of
what Beethoven's MTV video for that song
migbt have looked like.
Joel explained that he always writes the
music first. drafting words that fit the tune
later. Almost always , at least. " Remember
this," Joel quips. as he begins the tune "We
Didn't Start the Fire."
"I wrote the words first, and it sounds like
a mosquito bu:tzing," says Joel.
Although many of Joel's hits. including
" Leningrad," " Goodnight Saigon" and
" Allentown," touch on social themes. Joel
insists he is not an activist musician.
"Left wing, Right wing , Buffalo wingit doesn't matter to me," said Joel. "1 just
write about people: 'Allentown' was about
unemployed people, 'Goodnight Saigon' was
about some of my own buddies who went to
Vietnam."
ln case you're interested in having a ''bonJe
of red" or a "bottle of white" in the restaurant
from "Scenes from an Italian RestauranV' as
one questioner was, it is named for Rome's
Trevi Fountain and is located at 151 W. 57th
Soreet in New Vorl&lt; City. directly across from
Carnegie Hall. "If you want to go see it for
nostalgia. fine," Joel cautioned, "but the food.
as far as I remember...it was only so-so."
"I got turned down by everyone three
times when I was 19 and 20 years old," Joel

music. There are real opportunities there for
pop stuff."
Answering a questioner who sat high atop
the Mainstage balcony, Joel explained that
he started a tradition at his concerts 12 years
ago of refusing to sell the front couple rows
of seats.
"It started at Christmas time. ! would send
the crew up to the worst seats in the house
and have them give away the front row
tickets." Joel explained.
··orcourse. you have to realize this was in
Madison Square Garden. In N.e w Vorl&lt;, when
some guy in a Santa suit offers front row
tickets. he gets a lot of ' Ya. buddy, whatta I
gotta do for theez?' But. eventually, they
figured it out and came down ." These fans.
Joel found, were so excited and grateful that
their enthusiasm enhanced hi s performance.

S
admitted to one aspiring performer. Joel
advised anyone poised to sign a contract
themselves, "First, go hire a lawyer to advise
you. Second, go hire another lawyer to watch
the first lawyer." Joel has had hi s share of
legal and managerial difficulties over the
years, including being sued on severaJ occasions by fans who submitted songs 10 him.
"Next thing you know, I get this letter
from a lawyer saying. 'There is an eK:Iraordinary likeness between your use of the word
' the ' and our client's," Joel bristled ...so we
are suing you for all you ' re wonh."
Joel advised budding songwriters to copyright their works and surprised some by
advising students looking to break into the
business to go south, not west.
" Nashville is now lhe center o f
song writing in America." Joel declared. " And
it's not the o ld, twangy Country and Western
music I remember. It 's open to all kinds of

o , Joel has contin ued the tradition
right through last summer's tour with
his good friend. Elton John. Although
a sea of hands would go up each time Joel
sougbt another questioner. one woman quickly
caught his anention by calling out " Dr. Joel.
Dr. Joel." Joel is particularly proud of earning
two honorary doctorates in music, even though
he never finished higb school. She asked.
"Whatever happened to Brenda and Eddie?'"
"Brenda and Eddje," Joel fans remember.
were "the King and Queen o f the Prom,"
featured in his song. "Scenes from an Italian
Restaurant. " They were drawn, rougbly, from
a popular couple Joel had envied growing up
o n Long Island. A few years back, Joel went
to his 20th high school class reunion .. .to
catch up on " Brenda and Eddie."
"See, I couldn' t make it to my ten-year
reunion." the high school dropout explained.
''I was doing Saturday Night Live that night"
But. at the 20th reunion, Joel was reunjted
with the popular couple. "Let me tell ya :
Eddie was. like. old and all shriveled up," he
chuckled, "And. Brenda. forget about it,
man. She didn't look good."
What he did notice about his classmates.
however. was 'the nerds.· "They were all
the successful ones now, with the beautiful
wives. It was very surreal."

Study says athletes' immune system
compromised by very low fat diet
By LOIS lAKER
News Services Staff

T

HE ARST STUDY to investigate
the combined effect of diet and
exercise on the immune function.
conducted by researchers from UB.
has shown that competitive di stance runners
who adhere to a very-low-fat diet in hopes of
improving performance may compromise
their ability to fight infection.
Their research showed that white-blood
ce lls collected after maximum exercise from
trained athletes on a moderate-fat-30 percent-diet multiplied faster than white-blood
cells from the same athletes after spending
four weeks on a low-fat- 15 percent--diet.
White-blood cells, or leukocytes, are the
body's infection fighters.
In addition. moving from a low- to mod erale-fatdiet dramatically increased the num ber of natural k.iller cells. said Jaya T .
Venkatruman, UB assistant professor of nu trition and lead researcher on the study .
Blood analysis showed that secretion of a
protein called interleukin 2 or IL2, known to
enhance immune function. increased when
runners went from a low- to moderate-fat diet
IL2 levels decreased slightly when runners
increased dietary fat from moderate to high.
but still remained higher than when on a lowfat diet Study results were presented this month
at the annual meeting of the Federotion of
American Societies for Experimental Biology.
"Athletes are continually seeking the right
diet and ideal prorocol for increasing performance," she said. " Immune function is an
imponant factor. We have shown that a lowfat diet, adhered to by many competiti ve
athle1es. may not be best for the immune

system, while increasing dietary fat to moderate levels improves it. Even when we raised
dietary fat to 45 percent, there was no negative effecl on the immune response ."
Venkatraman ' s subjects were seven men
and seven women who were pan of the
larger lfB study investigating the effect of
different diets on performance and cardiovascu lar risk factors in trained runners. All
participants ran an average of 40 miles a
week: some were top-ranked regionally. They
all spent four weeks on three successive
diets composed of 15 percent fat. 30 percent
fat and 45 percent fat, respectively .

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o study the influence of dietary -fat level
and exercise on the immune response.
Venkatraman collected blood samples from
the 14 runners before and after they completed each diet regimen , at rest and after
they performed a maximal exercise test.
She found that exercise significantl y increased the number of leukoc ytes. but when
challenged in vitro. the ability of the white
cells to multiply and meet the "assault" was
impaired on the low-fat diet .
''Moderateexercise enhances ammune status," said Venkatraman. "but when athletes
exercise to the maximum. it stresses the
immune system. This leaves them susceptible to upper respiratory infecti ons. It is one
more piece of evidence that a diet very lo w
in fat may not be beneficial for performance
athletes.''
Other researchers were Jill Rowland. a
master'scandidate in UB 's Nutrition Progrnm.
Emesto G. DeNardin. assistanl professor of
oral biology: Peter J. Horvath. associate professor of nutrition and physiology. and David
R. Pendergast. professor of physiology.

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Six to receive awards from
UB Alumni Association
aJ MAllY aEJH SPINA
News Services Staff

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FORMER MEMBER of the
State University of New York
Board of Trustees, the speaker
oftheCanadianHouseofCommons and an Emmy Awardwinning director will be among those honored when the UB Alumni Association holds

it s annual awards dinner in May.
UB's 1996Alumni Awardsdinnerwillbe
held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May I, in the
Center for Tomorrow on the university's

Nonh Campus. Tickets are $30 and must be
purchased in advance from the UB Office of
Alumni Relations at 829-2608. Thereservari on deadline is April 26.
Nancy H. Nielsen. a 1976 graduate of the
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical

Sciences and fanner member of the SUNY
Board of Trustees, will receive the Samuel
P . Capen Award. the UB Alumni
Association's most prestigious award.

This award is given to alumni who have
made ··notable and meritoriouscontributions

ro the university and its family ... influencing
growth and improvement of UB and stimulating others to give their active interest and
material support to the university."

The Hon. Gilben Parent. speaker of the
Canadian House of Commons. and Emrny
Award-winning director John Patterson will
receive Distinguished Alumni awards.
Also to be honored are Erich Bloch. who
wil l receive the Clifford C. Furnas Memorial
Award; James P. Nolan, who will receive the
Walter P. Cooke Award to a non-alumnus.
and Jane Aanigen Griffin. who wi\1 receive
a Distinguished Alumni Award.

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ancy Nielsen, the first woman to be
elected president of The Buffalo
General Hospital medical staff, is past
president of the Erie County Medical Society
and serves as regional medical director for the
Board of Professional Medical Conduct in the
New York State Department of Health. She is
speaker of the House of Delegates for the
New York State Medical Society. Nielsen

was influential in providing guidance to the
future of SUNY's teaching hospi\.BIS and

UB 's eight-hospital teaching consortium. A
specialisl in internal medicine and infectious
diseases, she is a clinical assistant professor
of medicine at the UB medical school.
G ilbert Parent has been a member of
Parli"''"'"t since 1974,and was elected speaker
of the House of Commons two years ago. He
earned a master's degree in education from
UB in 1972. An0ntarionativeandresidentof
Ottawa, Parent formerly taught at Notre Dame
High School in Weiland and Dennis Morris
liigh School in St. Catheri nes, and was vice
principal of Thorold High School. He has
represented Canada at the United Nations and
several congresses of the International Labour
Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
John Patterson, who won an Emmy in
1987 for the television movie "A Mother's
Courage: The Mary Thomas Story," earned
a bachelor's degree in political science from
UB in 1965 .
Given his break by "Dragnet" star Jack
Webb , Patterson is a U.S . Air Force veteran
who served during the Pueblo crisis after
five years on active duty. Among his directing credits are episodes of"Cagney &amp; Lacey,"
" Iii II Street Blues." "Han to Han," "Scarecrow and Mrs. IGng" and "Magnum P.l."
Patterson earned the Nancy Susan
Reynolds Award in 1985 for an episode of
" Hill Street Blues" and the Cowboy and
Rodeo Association Best Western for Television Award in 1987 for the television series
pilot "Independence."
James P. Nolan, internationally recognized
researcher and physician in the field of liver
disease, willrtceivethe WalterP. Cooke Award
for exceptional service to UB by a non-alum-

nus. This award is given to ooo-alwnni in
recognition of notable and meritorious contributions influencing the growth and improvement of the univenity.
Nolan is a major investigator of bacterial
endotoxins and their interaction with liver
cells. He bas published more than I 00 scientific papers related to liver research and
issues of medical work force planning and
national health policy. He is a former councilor and president of the Association of
Professors of Medicine and a leader in the
American Gollege of Physicians.
He joined the UB medical faculty in 1963,
serving as cbair of the Department of Medicine from 1979-.1995. Heisaformerandfirst
president of the faculty council nfthe School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and
former chair of the Erie County Medical
Center Department ofMedicine. From 196979, Nolan was chief of medicine at Buffalo
General Hospital. He holds bachelor and
medical degrees from Yale University.

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rich Bloch, former director of the
National Science Foundation, will
receive the Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award. The award was established by
Furnas' widow, the late Sparkle Moore
Furnas, to honor a graduate of the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences or the
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics who has distinguished himself or herself
in the field of science, thereby bringing honor

to the university.
Bloch, who earned a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering from UB in 1952,
serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, a non-profit, private
organization whose goal is to improve the
country's competitiveness in the global marketplace. The Washington, D.C .. resident
received the National Medal of Technology
from former President Ronald Reagan in
1985, and also has received II honorary
degrees, including one from UB. He is chair
of the Dean' s Advisory Council of the UB
school of engineering.
J ane F1anigen Griffin, associate research
director at the Haupeman-Woodward Medical
Research Institute, will receive a Distinguished
Alumni Award. Griffin, who received a doctorate in chentistry from UB in 1974, also
heads the Deparunent of Molecular Biophysics at the research institute.
An expen in the field of X-ray crystallography, she is a member of the U.S. National
Comntittee for Crystallography. Sbe is author or co-author of more than 160 scientific
papers, abstracts and book chapters, and is
on the advisory board of the Journal of
Medicinal Chemistry. Active in community
organizations, Griffin also serves in several
national and international professional organiz.ations.

Pataki lifts restrictions on campus
recruiting by military personnel
a, CHIIISliNE VIDAL

tation. The order provides specifically, how ~
ever, that SUNY campuses shall not bar or

from America's youth." The order goes on to
note tl)at in addition to defending and protecting the country, the military serves as ooe of
the nation's leading employers, and "all New
York State students deserve an unfettered
opponunity to become aware of the extraordinary educational, occupational and career
opportunities offered by the military."
Also, the order notes, ''the U.S. Depanment'of Defense annually sponsors tens of
ntillions of dollars of research at the State
University of New York. and this valuable
tontribution to New York State's economy

restrict the military from access to campus
recruiunent facilities and services.
In lifting the ban against military recruitment on SUNY campuses, the Executive
Order cites the need for the ntilitary to be able
to recruit "the best and brightest prospects

is conditioned on allowing military recruit·
ers access to the State University's facilities
and services."
The amendment was made as pan of an
overall review of EXecutive Orders from
previous administrations.

Reponer Editor

NORDER SIGNED this month
by Gov. George E. Pataki bas
lifted restrictions that barred ntilitary personnel from recruiting on
SUNY campuses.
Executive Order No. 34, signed by Gov.
Pataki on April9, continues to protect state
workers or those applying for state jobs

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Capen Scholarship Winners
Presl- and Mrs. Willa- R. Grel-r will host a reception April29 for 1996
Grace W. Capen Scholarship recipients and their parents. Winners of the scholarships
funded by UB Women's Club activities, are:
Carrie Banolotta, Pharmacy; Joseph Batt, Physical Therapy; Diana Blahyj, Physical Therapy; Svetlana Blitshteyn, Biochemistry; Michael Bruce. Physics (Mathematics). Elaine Chow. Architecture; Kevin Erreger. Biophysics; Adam Fass, Computer
Engineering; Rodney Coodger. Industrial Engineering; Amy Hamister. Classics/
Eng lish; Sulayman Hassan, Marketing; Keren Hoffman, Speech and Hearing; Nancy
Johll. Psychology; Karn Foo Koh , Management; Karen Lee, Pharmacy; Patricia
Lewis, MUE; Warren Lewis. Biochemistry ; Jin (Elai ne) Liang, Pharmacy: Margaret

Jane Mateer, Accounting; Joseph Morgante Jr., Pharmacy; Jessyca Nadler, Industrial
Engineering; Kevin Nusz. Biochemistry (Pre-med); Joseph Prisinzano, Math Education; Brian Roberts, Chentical Engineering; Craig Rosslee, Chentical Engineering;
Cynthia Rudin, Mathematical Physics and Music Composition; Max Skolnik, Political Science; Robert Sobaszek Jr., Biological Sciences; Anne Wolpiuk, Psychology
(Pre-med); Elowyn Yager, Geology and Geography; Seu (Sharon) Ching Yarn.
Chemistry.

issued by fonnerGov . Mario Cuomo

in 1983. and amended in 1987, Execu-

tive Order No. 28 was construed to deny, on
account of federal laws and policies related

to sexual orientation. representatives of the
U.S. armed forces access to SUNY career
development facilities and services. In 1993,
the State Supreme Coun enjoined SUNY

from providing services to any employer
that discriminates on the basis of sexual
orientation. ThecounconcludedthatSUNY,
by allowing the military to use recruitment
facilities and services on campus. was violating Executive Order No. 28.
As a result, the military was prohibited
from using university employment recruitment facilities and services, but still allowed
access to other campus facilities, in keeping
with policies that allo"' scheduling the use of
facilities by non-commercial organizations.
Access also was allowed to student directory
information under the Fantily Educational
Rights and Privacy Act.
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Computers in
the classroom

Student cable
TV shows
to be screened

Workshop will help
teachers keep pace
with new software

Program May 1
in Center for Ans
to accent comedy

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HE UB DEPARTMENT of Media
Study and UB Student Association
Video will present a retrospective
screening on Wednesday, May I, of

the first two non-news campus cable-televi-

sion shows produced by UB students.
The program, tiUed 'The Best of 'The
Baclc.door' and 'The Rahn and Neil Show',"
will begin at 8 p.m. in the Screening Room,
Room 112, in the Center for the Ar1s on the
UB North Campus. It is free of charge and
open to the public.
The screening will feature selected comedy sketches and other provocative video
pieces dealing with a range of relevant issues
from the two programs.
'The Rahn and Neil Show" was inaugurated in the spring of 1995 by Neil Katcher
and Rahn D' Agostino, both then sophomores
in the UB media study department.
Theirorigina1 goal was to produce sketch
comedy that students and faculty would appreciate and enjoy. The comedy material
developed was a mixture of abstract and

conceptual humor colored by teen angst.
The four-membercast included D' Agostino,
Katcher, Scott Lifton and Neil Driscoll. They
wrote, directed, produced. edited and acted
all the sketches.

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n the fall of 1994, D' Agostino left UB and
took up studies at the Rochester Institute
of Technology. The show has continued
si nce then with anew name, 'The Backdoor."
The show airs every Sunday and Monday at
10:30 p.m. on Campus Cable Channel 13 .
'The Backdoor," however, is more than a

continuation of the earlier show, Katcher
says. "Cast members grew creatively and
intellectually and so did the material. Although the show is considered by many of its
viewers as a sketch-romedy program, the
cast has often explored serious and personal
issues in what has turned ou1 to be some of
their best worlc.," he says.
In addition to Katcher, Lifton and Driscoll,
the sh&lt;l+" ' s cast also included Brian Steinberg,
Mikey J ackson , Jon Nissenbaum and
Michelle McConville.
Katcher said that by compiling the best of

Art, Animation
Exhibit, - • • showcase works from Poland
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HE UNIVERSITY at Buffalo Art
Gallery is presenting an exhibition
of contemporary art from Poland
through May 3l .ln connection with
the exhibi~ the gallery will present
an evening of eye-opening animated films by
Poland's Jan Lenicaand Walerian Borowczyk.
two of the greatest animators of our era.
Tbe exhibi~ " Art in Poland: New Directions," iscurrenUy in the University Gallery in
the Center for the Ar1s on the North Campus.
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5
p.m. Sundays. For information. call the gallery at 645-6912 or 645-6976.
The exhibit, featuring the work of eight
emerging Polish artists, is presented as part of
the University Gallery's Curatorial Initiative
Program. which offers UB faculty and staff
the opportunity to curate an exhibitions.
The show's curators are Carol Zemel.
professor of art history at UB , and Maria
Hussalc.owska-Szyzlc.o, professor of modem
an at Krak6w 's Jagiellonian University and
participating scholar in the UB-Jagiellonian
University exchange program during the
spring. 1996 semester. Zemel and
Hussalc.owska-Szyzlc.o selected the exhibitors during a 1995 tour of museums and
galleries in the Polish cities of K.rak6w ,
Lodz and Warsaw.
Exhibitors are photographer Piotr Jaros.

well-known feminist photographer Natalia
Lach-Lachowicz, printmaker Han n a
Michalska. painter Jaroslaw Modzelewski.
sculptor Maria Peninskaya-Beres. installation/performance anist Joanna Rajkowska,
visual artist Robert Rumas and sculptor
Brigida Serafin.
Coinciding with the ''Art in Poland" show
is a second Curatorial Initiative project organized by Brian Henderson, professor of media study at UB. It features work by two of
the world's greatest animators, Jan Lenka
and Walerian Borowczyk. considered among
the best of our age.

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he screening will take place from 4-6
p.m. on Thursday , April 25. in the
Screening Room in the Center for the
Ans. It is free of charge and open to the
public. Borowczyk will be represented by
"Les Astronautes" (1959). "Joachim's Dictionary" (1965) and " Renaissance" ( 1963).
The exhibition oflenica' s work will include
"MonsieurTete" ( 1959). "A" ( 1965). "Laby rinth" and his monumental work. "Landscape" ( 1965).
In his 1973 book.. "The Animated Film:·
film historian Ralph Stephenson wrote that
"between them , Lenica and Borowczyk have
done more than any other cartoonist. not
only in Poland but anywhere. to raise the
status of the cartoon to a serious an. one that
can move us to pity and terror. one that can
match in range and depth the tragi-comedy
of the human condition.··

Want tO design your own book?.

the two shows and presenting the material to
students, faculty, staff and the general public. he hopes to communicate the purpose of
campus-produced television programming

and encourage ffiore segments of the campus
community to produce video work to entertain and infonn their peers.
For further infonnation, contact Katcher
at 645-4819.
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We~ ...... __..., art sbows and even in upscale gift stores--&lt;iplendid,
ollea jewel-lib llollb, hudmode by artisls of many different sensibilities.
Some are apleaclldUttled'~~prtr IIQlure productions with leafy handmade papeni and
uDique bladiDp. wilb Jlllel blank, others with commentary or images, all handaiped by lbe ll1iiL 'Ibis kind of handmade book, however, is just one example of the
uDique tiDd powerfalllatements made by book artists throughout history.
For lbole inlriped by lbe art of book design and who would like to produce a
"bookwork" oftbeirownconccption, the UB Department of Art will offer a new course
tbii tl1lllllller, "Boolc Dealgo" (Art 341)(). It will introduce students to the book format
as a meus o( elplllldina their image-malc.ing ideas and as a device to house and display
a variety of other kinds of work.
The course wiD be taught by noted book artist Lynn McElhaney, UB adjunct
profeaor of art tiDd associate professor of art at Buffalo State College.
ltwillNDfrom9am. to I p.m. July 15-Aug. 2 in 146CenterfortheAr1son the UB
North Campus.

1 J wll lilllnMIIIoe ~tiona! and non-traditional book structures and
COOIIlnon tiDd will demoostnte adhesive and non-adhesive fonnats. Topics covered
williDclude lllnlciWe development as a physical and visual entity, image manipulation,
tiDd JII80 ll'llllitioa, CODIICC!ioet And flow.
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Studenb will cxplocetbeleoptioos and aeate a bookworltoftbeirowo by pursuing

lbelr illdhidull-· Some printmaking facilities will be available to students
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.: AirbkllllbnDIIIoa.calllbe VB Department of Artat64S-6878. To register, call
~s.a-atm--2202.

LTHOUGH MUCH ado has been
made of the usefulness of computers in the classroom, many
teachers find it difficult to keep
pace with the hundreds of computer·geoerated instruction aids and software programs
on the market today . This summer. the UB
Department of Art will offer a three-hour
graduate workshop, "Electronic Media." to
assist teachers with these issues.
The workshop is the first in a series of
continuing educational opponunilies using
the depanment 's extensive computer facilities. It will run from 9 a.m. to I :40 p.m. June
24-July 12 in Room 136 in the Center for the
Arts on the UB North Campus.
The course will investigate the use of
personal computers in tea~hing using innovative software applications. Among them
are several that allow teachers to produce
their own multimedia classroom presenta·
tions.

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lasses will be conducted as intensive.
hands-on workshops involving the development of interactive multimedia on a
Maci ntosh platform. No experience in educational applications is required of partici pants, although basic Macintosh experience
is preferred.
Tony Rozek. UB professor of an. was
involved in the development of the course .
One way for teache rs and students to evaluate their classwork., he says. is through portfolio assessment.
In thi s course. he said. participants will
develop their own electronic portfolios using a variety of software applications that
involve scanning images, recording sound
and grabbing video. By the time they complete the worlc.shop, teachers will be able to
produce high -level prese ntat ions us ing
"authoring " so ftware that includes
SuperCard. Hyperstudio and Power Point. as
well as software to develop graphics, audio
and video.
Tiie authoring soft ware:
PowerPoint is a tool for making presentations to a group of people on computer. lt
has " wizards"-intelligent helpi ng agentsthat lead users through the steps. teaching
them to build slides. 35 mm transparencies.
painting tools.and imported graphics into the
program. A teacher can produce "a snazzy
presentation" in a couple of hours.
SuperCard is an application that will
help teachers develop their own hypertext
programs for teaching on computer. Many
applications are already written for classroom use. but teac hers can personall y des1gn
their o wn as well.
Hyperstudio is a softw are applicau on
that produces multimed ia prese ntati ons with
sound. voice. video and mu sic
ourse instrucwrs are Beth Troy. adJunct
professor of learning and Instructi on m
the UB Gradua te School of Education and
technology director at Frontier High School .
and Louis Mang. interactive research devel oper and research associate at the Educational Testing Service in Pnnceton, N.J ..
who is a frequent presenter and speaker at
international conferences addressing educational technology .
For more information, call the UB Department of Art at 645-6878. To register for
the course, Art 537X. call UB Summer Sessions at 829-2202.

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Faculb&amp;StaHBillboard
GIIANTS A W - ' - D£VELOPMEHY OF

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IN EAST .UlAN STUDIES
W1th suppon from a U.S. Department
of Educalion TrUe VI grant. the Asian
Stud•es pt"Ogram has funded two summer grants lor course development m

East Asian SllJdies. The awards go to
Sharmlathe llagcfii..Sen, ass•stant
professor of geography and ltlroMJ
Nata, associate professor ol architec·
lure rn urban des1gn.
Bagch•-5en will Incorporate matenat on East and South Asia tn Geography 425 · Industrial Geography.
Hata Will develop three short courses
on trad•t•onat and contemporary

Japanese architecture This course
Oevelopment will 1mpact c urricular
helds where there has been little coverage of As1a rn the past The new
and ennched courses wilt serve as a
new optrons lor advanced courses rn
the m1nor m East As1an Stud1es
A subcommlltee of the As1an
Stud•es Advrsory Counc1l under the
d lfec t•on of Law Professor Dav1d M
Engel ass•sted 1n the selec tion ot
awardees

DURAND lO RECEIVE
0111STANDINQ AWIINUS
AWARD,_ DENISON
H.nry J. lhwand Jr., execullve
d1rector of the UB Center lor Academrc Develop·
ment and Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP). w ill
be honored as an
outstanding alumnus by Denison
University in ceremonies to be held
DURAND
on May 17. at Ihe
unrversity rn Granvrlle. Ohro
Durand, 'Nho received a bachelor's
degree frOOl Denison In 1971 . pined
UB in 1990. He is a senior research
associate with the Center for Urban
Studies and an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Education He also is chair of the statewide
Council of EOP DirectOfS.
A training program he developed .
whiCh cOOlbines psychology, educa·
hon and self-defense techniques in cri·
s•s management and confliCt intervention , has been taught to hundreds of
staff at Kentucky and OhM&gt; youth facilitres and facilities for the mentally ilL
Durand , _ with police officers and
posed as a mentalty iH patient in an iflsti...
tuhon to galhef data for his program
Before coming to UB. he was on
the faculty }u Notthern Kentucky UniverSity. Listed in "Who's Who in Black
Amenca· and "Who's Who in American Education.· Durand received a
master's degree from Xavier Univer·
srty and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati .

'FATMER OF RE.£1fGINEERING'
TO GIVE LEC1VRE
Michael 118mmer, the "Father of
Re--engineefing, • will p resent a program. "Re-engineering the Corpora·
hon ." from 9 a.m . to 4 p .m. May 14.
10 Hearthstone Manor, Depew. The
program is part of the "Lessons in
Leadership" distinguished speaker
series presented b y the Center lor
Entrepreneurial Lead ershtp m the UB
School o f Management.
He-engineering is the systematic
approach to business processes
that . when properly executed , leads
to quantum leaps in performance ,
quality, speed, competitiveness. cost
savings and customer satisfaction .
Hammer . author of "The As-eng ineering Revolution: A Handbook.·
has almost single-handedly driven
the re-eng ineering movement world·
wtde. according to management
consuttant and author Tom Peters In
the program, Hammer will explain the
bask: requirements o f re·engineerlng
and some specific techniques. as
well as provide case studies lor busi·

nesses and individuals to adapt to
the changing business environment
and take their organizations to new
levels of excellence . Fee for the program ranges from $349 to $399 per
person , and includes lunch , coffee
breaks. handouts and Hammer's
book. Group discounts are available.
For more information, call645-3200.

Comparative Literatures, is the au.
thor of a new book,

1he Supreme Indecision of the Writer,
pub lished as a co.
operative intBfnational venture IJe-.
tween the UB
PoetrytRare Bool&lt;s
Collection and the American Studies
Department of Hacettepe University
in Ankara, Turkey. The book is a col·
lection of lectures presented by
Federman on a tour of Turkish univer·

M-.a. SEJrYICE SPARKLE FU-IS MAY 4
A memoriaJ service for ap.rtde
Moore Furnas, widow of Clifford
Cook Furnas, former chancellor and
president of the University Q! Buffalo.
will be held at 2 p .m . on Saturday.
May 4 , in Forest Lawn Chapel.
Following the service. a reception
will be held at 3:30p .m . in the
Furnas MerTIQ(ial Room , 531 Capen
Hall on the UB North Campus.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to the Clifford C. Furnas Eminent
Professors Fund in care of the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
Mrs . Furnas , 94. died on Feb . 21
tn Durango. Colo .. where she had
lived with family members.
The Furnases. who met while they
were students at Purdue University.
came to Buffalo in 1943 when Clifford
tOOk a job as director of research for
the Curtiss-Wright Corp . He was Inaugurated in 1955 as chancellor of
the University of Buffalo. and later as
president of the State University of
New York at Buffalo.

GREATIIATCH RECEIVES
ACHIIYDIIDn AWARD

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Wllaon
u..tch, whose research led to the devek&gt;pment of the
first implantab le human-heart pacemakBf. received the Ufetime Achievement Award frOOlthe lemelson·Mas·
sachusetts Institute of Technok&gt;gy
Prize Program during ceremonies held
earlier this month in Washington . D.C .
The inventor was presented with a
distinctive hologram award. designed by MIT's Media Laboratory.
lor his scientific contribu tions over
lour d ecad es . An adjunct prolesSOf
in the UB School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences. Greatbatch holds
150 p atents. A lifelong innovator . he
has helped to launch n ine compa. nies . cloned African violets. devel·
oped a solar·powered canoe and run
engines on alcohol. He is also active
in community projects .
Recently, his research has focused
on the HIV virus associated with AIDS
Work with John Sanford of Cornell Uni-versity has resulted ln a patent on a
process that stops reproduction of a
virus ln cats similar to HIV.
The Lemelson-MIT program is administered by M IT-the nation's
leader in patents award ed to a unr·
varsity-on behalf of the Lemelson
national program.

RAYMOND FED£RMAN
A~OFNEWaooK

Rllymoncl Feclennan, UB Distin·
guished Pro fessor of English and

sltles. sponsored by the U.S.I.A./U.S.
Information Agency.

JAPAN fOUNDATION

GIIANT FUfiDS POST IN
JAPANESE UTEIIATURE

The Japan Foundation has awarded
a grant of $110,000 to UB. to provide
support lor the initial three years lor
the tenure track appointment of a
specialist in Japanese literature in
the Department o f Comparative literature. The appointment strengthens UB 's Asian expertise in the humanities .
The Japan
Foundation , w ith headquarters in Tokyo, is a semi·government agency
which supports the study of Japan in
universitfes around the world.
The grant was co--authored by the
Asian Studies Program and the 0&amp;partment of Comparative Uterature,
chaired by C.rol F. Jacoba. An
international search will be conducted during the 1996-97 academic
year for a scholar in modern Japa·
nese literature. The appointee will
teach undergraduate and graduate
courses. Long-term support for the
position will be provided by the Faculty of Arts and Letters.

The work o f US sociologist

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MooN has been recognized in a
special congressional p roclamation
issued by U.S. Rep. Jack Quinn.
Moore, assistant professor of sociology and an expert on women in
the U.S. military, was honored lor a
special Women's History Month lee·
ture she d elivered March 14 at the
VA Medical Center. and for her recently published book. "To Serve My
Country, To Serve My Race.·
The book tells the story of African-American 'WOfTl8n in the Women's
A/my Corps f.'t/AC). drawing on experiences of members of the 6888th bat·
talion. first U.S. WAC unit of African-American 'NQm8f"' to serve overseas .
Moore's research found that the unit.
which served In England and France
during World War II, played a rokJ in
bringing about changes in segregationist U.S. military policy.
'Dr. Moore has established herse~
as one of our nation's most prominent
speakefs on contributions 'NOOl8Tl
have made in our armed services. evidenced by her representation in Presi·
dent Clinton's ceremoniaJ visit to
Normandy on the 50th anniversary of

Call for University Commencement 1996
Undergraduate candidates ln the Faculties of Arts and Letters . Natural
Sciences and Mathematics. Social Sciences and Special &amp; Individualized Majors are urged to register nfJIN to participate in University Commencement on Sund ay. May 19.
The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m . in Alumn i Arena. Forms are
availabk3 in the University Commencement Office
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526 Capen Hall . or at the Information Desk in the
~
Student Union (North Campus) or Harriman Hall
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(South Campus).
The final d eadline for registering has

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been extend ed. Onty students who are registered will be allowed to participate. Direct
any questions to the Commencement Office

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pealllllll)' public inquiries coveriQa a wide l'lllpOfiOpica IIIII the
"EDcycJopoccla Smidlsonim" wu c:telled 10 1111wer some of lbe
111011 ~asked questions. Tbl: "Eocyclopodia Smilbsoaiao"
can provide you with a complell: hislory of Olcr Ami, the heroic:
World W11: I carrier pigeon, answer almoslany question you could ·
possibly have abGullbe American Plag. and provide you with facll
aboutlbe Hope Diamond, Foucault' sPendulum, and lbeSttadivarius
Violin; it even gives you hints on storing antique lcxtiles at home!
No trip 10 lbe Smithsonian is complele without ~ visit 1o one of
its gift shops, and with the Smithsonian Web even the virtuBfloUrist
can indulge in some shopping pleasure. 1bc site's " Shopping
MaD• (http:/,.,....sLedu/produdf/sbopmaiJ,I) allows visilors 1o
browse the Institution' s vasl &amp;ml)' of toys, books, clothes, and COs.
Online ordering is not ~vailable Y.et. b~.t an 800 number is provided
for those interested in ordering by phone.

For assistanc~ in connecting to the World Wide Web via UB
computu accounts, contact the Computing Center's Help Desk a/
645-3542.

-(]emma DeVinney and Don Hartman, University libraries

the Allied invasion, and further represented our country as a delegate at
last year's United Nations International
Women's Conference in Beijing.
China,· the proclamation says.
A U.S. Army veteran and UB lac·
ulty member s ince 1988, Moore has
published articles on African· Ameri·
can women in the military in such
journals as Armed Forces and Soci·
ety and The National Journal of Soci·
ology. She was appointed to the
American Battle Monuments Com·
misston by Clinton in 1994 . and it
was in that role that she accompanied him to Normandy. Rome and
Paris lor D·Day commemorations .

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APS Educational Committee.
Last year. she was appointed to

the editorial board of the American
Journal of Physiology: Advances in
Physiology Education. She recently
completed a three--year term as a
member of the APS Career Opportu·
nities in Physiology Committee .
NeXt month she will be a presenter
B1 UB's Scieooe Exploration Day ses-

sion '"' high school science teachers.
In June, she will represent the APS at

the SMual meeting of the Hunan
Anatomy and Physiology Society in
Portland. Ore.

._to FEATURE

4IIN • ...,._. ON MAY 4

AW-WINNINQ STUDEHT
POETS lO READ,_ WORKS
The UB community is invited to attend a Student Poetry Reading on
Thursday. April 25, at noon in the
Special Collections Reading Room.
420 Capen Hall , North Campus.
Featured will be winners of the
following contests: Academy of
American Poets annual Poetry eon..
test; Friends of the University librar·
ies Undergraduate Poetry Prize; the
Anhur Axlerod Memorial Award and
the Scribbler's Prize.
Reading from their works will be:
Jeffrey Chiu . Samantha J . Chugh, Jill
Colella. David Goldfarb, Pholios
'Giovanls and Karen A. Kuehmeier.

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at 645-34 14.
Cand idates sched uled to graduate wtth o ther
academic unity should consult those specific
registration deadlines with the appropriate commencement COOfdinator .

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ltlaly Anne lloldtb, clinical associate p ;ofessor of physioiDgy. has
been elected to a three-year term as
councillor ol the Teaching Section of
the Amertcan Physiological Society.
Rokitka will serve as liaison to the

The Undergraduate Student Associ&amp;·
bon and University Union Activities
Board will present Gin Blossoms May
4 as featured head line perfonners for
Springiest, 1996. Along with other
performers. Gin Blossoms will finish
the day-long . end-of-the-academic
year celeb ration.
Beginning at 2 p .m., the lineup in-cludes Son Volt (alternative rock),
Goodie Mob (hip-hop). Luciano
(reggae). Tommy Keene (new music)
and Dishwalla (alternative rock) with a
fifth Latino-Salsa act to be added .
Scene of the annual event Is
Baird Point on the North Campus.
The program will be moved indoors
to Alumni Arena in case of inclement
weather. It's free to everyone if it's
held outdoors; if the event goes in·
side the Alena, UB students will be
admitted free and the general public
will be charged an admission fee of
$ 10 for the entire .day. Artiest. an opportunity for kx:al artisans to sflooN
their wares, is also included in the
day's activities. For more informa6on .
call 645-2957.

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UPCOMING UB HOME ATHLETIC EVENTS

Leners

UB invitational Men's &amp; Women's
Outdo()( Track &amp; Field
4 p.m. at UB Stadium

Internet addiction: margin of error
too great to draw conclusions

TO nw: IDmiR:
Ellen Goldbaum's April 11 article on Internet addiction
was Quite Interesting. However, in spite of the highly probable existence of addiction, as Indicated by the cited
study, the extent of such a problem (t7 percent of respondents spending over 40 hours per week online) cannot be taken seriously. in ali fairness, it must be commended that the authors of the study recognized that it
was plagued by selection bias. Yet, the article was content to leave the reader with the Impression that this is
nevertheless e widespread problem.
The truth is that the presence of selection bias permits
only the conclusion that Internet addiction exists. First,
consider that only a fraction of the users of the Net would
come upon the study slta. Second, of those that did discover the site, a fraction would ignO&lt;e it cO&lt;npletely, either
fOf reasons of time Of interest. Finally, of those taking note
of the study itself, only a fraction would bother to respond
to the questionnaire. This Is exactly the problem: Addicted users would be the most likely to find and respond
to the survey. Most others are in search of SOfnething specific, and couldn't be bothered.
Among the many parameters which must be estimated
are the fraction of users who actually respond. The truth is
that the margin of error Is so great in estimating such
things that nothing of substance can be concluded regarding the extent of the problem. This should have been
mO&lt;e clearly emphasized in the article .
Sincerely,
STIPMDIIL NSCK, PH-D.

ANNUAL RUE AND watE FOOYBAU. GAME
ON TAP FOR SAYUIIDAY
The University at Buffalo's annual Blue and While foo«baal game
will be Saturday 814:30 p.m. at UB Stadium. The game is !he
culmination of !he Bulls' spring preclioe schedule and will give
fans fhefr first look at coach Craig Cirbus' t996 squad. Admis·
sion is free.
Fans may also purchase fhefr 1996 season ticl&lt;efS at !he
game Saturday. Three ticket options are available including !he
TO Plan with chairbeck seating at midfleld and free parl&lt;ing ad·
)aceotto !he stadium '"' $84. The F'oefd Goal plan is available '"'
$50, six games for !he price of fiV8 and great sealS. The Extra
Point Plan is also available with a limned number of sealS '"' just
$25. That means an entire family of four can go to all six of the

Bulls games !his season for St~t's $4 per tickel!
MEN'S 'IENNIS

The Bulls finished sixth in !he 10-team Mid-Continent Confer·
ence Temls Championships over !he weekend in Montgomery.
Ala. Western lllioois defeated Troy State'"' !he secorid consecutive season to take !he title. UB went 2-2 during !he tourney
to finish fhefr spring season with a 7-ll dual meet mark. The
Bulls - e 11-a including !he fall season.
UB opened !he II:Jl.m..-r1ent with a~ win CNef 10th-seeded
Nor1heastem llfirois. Aridrew Garber (rurbef lou') and Orrin
Pridgen (rurbef five) each "doubie-bagefed" their opponents taking&amp;&lt;&gt;, &amp;&lt;&gt; victories to lead !he Bulls. UB then moved on to the
second ran:l where !hey lei to second-seeded Troy State~-

Coach Russ Crispell's squad picked up a 4-2 victay over
Valparaiso as Pridgen and Garber took straight set wins. The
Bulls earned !he match victay as number six Joe Hamilton defeated !he Cnusaders' Derick Schmidt7-5, 5-7, 6-2. The Bulls
concluded !he tournament falling to Missouri-Kansas City ~ in
!he fifth-place match.
Although top singles player Wadle Kawar missed !he tournament with a foot fracture, he earned AII-Mid-Gontinent Conference first team honors. Kawar compiled a 17-4 overall record
including a 7-3 slate in the spring and was 3-0 against Mid Continent opponents.

OUIDOOR TRACK • FIELD
The Bulls and Royals will host !he upcO&lt;ning UB lnvitatoonal on
Friday and Saturday. Friday's events begin at 4 p .m . with
Saturday's events starting at 9 a.m. Eight teams are entered in
!he meet Including UB, Youngstown Stale. Canisius, St.
Bonaventure, Erie Community College, Houghlon, Rochester In·
stitute ol Technology, and St. Francis of Pennsylvania as well as
several club teams from Canada. Also entered in individual
events are a pair Olympic caliber athletes. Sharon Stachetka.
!he previous New York State record holder in !he high jump and
1992 Olympic Trials qualifier. will be in !he heptalhalon. On the

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UB Invitational Men's &amp; Women's
Outdo()( Track &amp; F'oefd
9 a m. at UB Stadium
Blue arid While
Football Game
4:30p.m. at UB Stadium
men·s Side, Paul Just, a natrve of Maple, Ont .. and member of
!he t 988 Canadian Olympic Team in Seoul. is entered in !he
pole vauU. Just holds !he Canadian record for the pole vault at
18' 1/Z'. Many of UB's top athletes also will be CO&lt;npebng
-Ted Wasko, Sports lnfoonalion Office

O BI!UARI[S

Richard E. Dollinger, 47, assoc. professor
of electrical &amp; computer engineering
Private funeral S8fVlCes will be held for Rtehard E ~hnger . 47 . an
associate professor of electrical and computer eng1neenng at US's
School of Engineering and Apphed Sc.ances. Dollinger dl8d Apnl 15
A facutty members1nce 1977. he was the ma)Of advisor lor many
master's and doctoral students. A dedicated and adm1red teachet .
Dollinger received recognition 1n 1995 from the Mu Alpha chapter
of the National Order of Omega for h1s work w1th student orgamza·
Uons. in particular. the Institute of Electrtcal and ElectroniCS Engtneers. for which he was an actv1sor
An enthusiastic supporter o f secondary sc1ence and eng1neer1ng educatton, Dolltnger d eveloped Innovative exhibitS and demonstrations with graduate and undergraduate students lor presentation before aspiring young sc18nUstS/ eng1neers lor the unrverSity's
annual Science Exploration Day In 1995. Buffalo-area Engu-.eenng
Awareness for Minofities (BEAM) recogntzed h1m for h1s outstandtng support of their program by hosttng young mUlorities in h1s
laboratories dunng summers
In addition to his dedicated WOfk as teacher and mentor . Oothnger
developed an excellent research reputation. He concentrated htS
etfOfts on pulse power technology and ektctromagnehcs and S8fV9d
as deputy director ol the UB Space Power lnsulatOO Institute He
authored or co-authored more than 50 papers and articles, and was
an 1nv.ted speaker at workshops and S8l'lllnars across the country
His memberships 1ncluded the Institute of ElectriCal and ElectronICS Eng1neers. American Society of Engineering EducatJon. American
Phv&amp;'cal Soc.ety. Amencan Institute of Physics , Eta Ke.ppaNu. Tau
Beta Pi. Sigma Xi and the Tesla Memorial Sociery He was listed tn
'v'Vho's Who in the East and Who's Who 10 the WOI1d. He recetVed
bachelor's master's and doctoral degrees from Texes Tech UniVei'Sity

CALENDAR

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M..t G-.. Lopoo. t.opos is
newly appointed dean or Millard
Fillmore Colleae. Student Union

Social Hall. Nonh Campus. 4:306p.m.

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T'•l C hi tor Btaiantrs. Ron
Ingalsbe. Tuesdays and Thursdays, through May 2. 5:J0..6:30
p.m. To register, ca11645-6125.

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UB Trombooe Cboir, Richard
Myers, condUCior. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m. F~ .
O pen Mk. Haniman. South
Campus. 8 p.m.

MAY

~Colloqoo . . .
Md.bodoloc of IDdependence
Ia Alodoat Locla, George
Boser. Canisius College. 684
Baldy. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Tbe Madnea or Kina Georv.
SlUdent Unioo Theater. North
Campus. 6:30 p.m. $2 students;
$3.50 general public. UUAB film
series.

Oplle: Ca.ulc:a Uve
Rotea.Dn Dm1, dariHt; James
M 1bry, trombooc ; Linda
M• bry, pluo. Music of
Schubert, Cords, Schroder.
Gershwin and James Mabry.
Allen. South Campus. 1 p.m.
F=. Toped by WBFO 88.7 FM
for broadcast the following Sunday at4 p.m.

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UB Wind Enlemb., aod WNY

Youth Wlad Ememble, Sanh

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Utt of ProvutatlD. l.a tbe Prim•ry PreveatkMI of Coroury
Artery Dllt:ut, Jennifer
Lowerison. 248 Cooke. North
Campus. 8 a.m.

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McKoin, conductor, with John
Fullam, clarineL Progrtm includes premiere of Allen Sigel' s
" Nostalgic Suite" for clarinet
Slee. Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $3 .

Four Rooms. Student Union
Theater. North Campus. 9 p.m.
$2 students; $3 .50 general public .
UUAB film series.

Ttsl Auitty. Noon-1 p.m. To
~sister. caii 64S-612.S .

Campus M1nlstriel G radua tes
Luncbeoa. The Commons. North
Campus. Nooo.

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LF\JDCtioas, Prof. V. Kumar
Murty. Univ. of Toronto. 103
Diefeqdorf. South Campus. 3 p.m.

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Mkroblal Dqndotioto o(Potyaue ~ Arolutk Bydroc&amp;J"o
bons., Dr. Harish Sikb, Buffalo

State College. 140 Ketter. North
Campus. 4 p.m .

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l nlqraUo n or Tyroslnt Kioue
u d G-Protd.D· Mediated Slp.al
T nuududJoa Pathways In tht
Jlr&amp;ulation or Mamm.all.an
Spttm Fuadion, Dr. Gregory S.
Kopf. Univ. of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine. 306 Farber.
~outh Campus. 12:30 p.m.
~Col._

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lnstab Uity Cucades In Droplet
Ftssion, Pror. Sidney R. Nagel.
Univ. of Chicago. 220 Natural
Scieoces. North Campus .
3:45p.m.

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M okadar Approaches to 01r.ctCH')' Rec:eptioo, Dr. Dennis
Rhoads, Monmouth Univ . 121
Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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PriDc1p1es or KDowlecla&lt;: Founda.tloou or NOD-Sl&amp;Ddard Analysts, Prof. Jean Benabou. Univ. or
Paris. Non!. 103 Diefendorf.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

Plmnancavtlcs a..Aur
Pulmonary Delivery and AbJOrption of Drugs, Christine
Falcoz.. Ph.D., Gluo-Wellcomc
Research. S08 Cooke. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

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UfeWorbloop
T'al Cbl for BqlnKn, Ron

T be Meclleal Model or Dbuse

as a Buil for Ratonttve
Treat.nt Dtdllou, Dr. DIViS
Garlapo. 355 Squire. South Campus. 8a.m.

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Studalt Ualoa Lobby. Nonli
Campus. II a.m.- I p.m. Last day .
Pkk a key and tty to unlock the
ttea.sure chest filled with fun

ll'rtntai• C -

prizes. Student Union Lobby .
Nonh Campus. II a.m.· I p.m.
Last day.

Ingalsbe. Tuesdays and Thurs.
days, through May 2. !5 :30-6:30
p.m. To register. caii64S-6 12S

Tbt Madat:u of Kinl GeorJe.
Student Union Theater. North
Campus. 6:30p.m. Sl Sludenls;
$3.50 general public. UUAB film

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Four RooDll. Student Union
Theater. Notth Campus. 9 p.m.
$2 students; $3.50 general public .
UUAB film series.

EXHIBIT
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An

M.F.A. thesis exhibit or pho·
tographs by Palrick Lord opens
with a reception April 25 (rom S1 p.m. in the Art Department Gal ·
lery. Center for the Ans. North
Campus. The show continues
through May 6. Gallery hours are
Tuesday. 10 a.m.- S p.m.;
Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8
p.m .: and Saturday, II a.m.-8
p.m. Admission is free .

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An exhibit of wort by printmakers Susan Dudash and Ben
Dunkle is on view through July 8
in the Capen Hall Gallery located
on the fifth noor of Capen on the:
North Campus .

koqutexldblt
"UB Remembers; · a umvers1t)'
sesquicentenmal exhibit orga·
niz.ed by University Archives.
continue~ through Sept . 10 in ~20
Capen Ha ll on the Nonh Campus.
Groups may arrange a visit by
calling 645-2916. Exhibit hours
~Monday through Fnday . 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.

COHTINUIIIQ EXHIBR'S

.. Negotiated Construction.'' a de ·
sign exhibit. continues through
May 3 in the James Dyeu Gal ·
lery , 33!5 Hayes Hall, South Campus. The exhibit is described as
- a collaborative design project
done in conj unction with the Junior Studio curriculum" showing
-aspects o r the design-build process ." Gallery hours an- MondayFriday 9 a.m.-S p.m.

Art laP.,._
"An in Poland: New Otm::t1ons"
features work by eight artists from
the Krak6w aru. through July in
the University An GaJkfy in the
Center roc the Ans, North Campus.
Gallety boors are 10:30 a.m.-8

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p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Noon·
S p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.

A collection or worb by gradual·
mg seniors in the UB An Depan ·
ment, '1be Senior Show" contin·
ues through April 2S in the UB
An Gallery. Center fo r the Ans.
Nonh Campus. Gallery hours are
10 a.m .-S p.m. Wednesday-Fri ·
day. II a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday.
Admission is free .

IJCMweiii-Leonardo Drew's site-specific Installation " No. 45-A" was designed for the L1ghtwell Gallery
in the Center for the Arts. Nonh
Campus. and now is lodged there
through October.

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A memorial ~rv i ce for Spart.Je
Moore: Furnas will be held M~ty 4
at 2 p.m. in Forest Lawn Chapel.
A reception follows at 3:30p.m.
in the Furnas Memonal Room.
53 1 Capen Hall , North Campus .
Mrs. Furnas was the widow of
Clifford Cook Furnas. fonner
chancellor and president or the
University of Buffalo. She pas~
away Feb. 2 1 in Durnngo. Colorado, where she had been hving
for some time. Donat1ons may be
made to the Clifford C. Furnas
Eminent Prores.sors Fund m care
or the University at Bufrato
Foundation, Inc.

SL IIIt.o' o L - . . St . Rita ' s Lane will be closed to
all but emergency vehicles from
8 a.m. to S p.m. Saturday, April
27 to accommodate the annual
Oozfesttournarnent. Please arrange to usc an alternative route.

Se:nior St•lf Assistant {SL-3;
I nternal Promotional Oppor1unity)- Undergraduale Informatio n
Services, Posting IP-6016. Jnstructiotul Su pport A.uodate
(SL-2; lnterul Promotiotul
Oppor1unlty)-Law Library . Posl ·
ingtP-60 17.

FacuiiJ
Assistant Proressor-Med1cine.
Posting IF-6014. Assistant/As·
socl.att Proressor (tltrft positions av•illblt) · Psychiatry. Post·
ing ofF-60 15. Assoc.Uite/Full
Proressor-Psychintry, Posting
IF-6016. Assistar.;t/Auoei.atc
Professor-Pediatrics. Posting
NF-60 17. Assodate/FuiJ Prores·
sor-Pediatrics. Posting lfF-(1018
Asslst.ant/Aisociate Proressor·
Educational Organization. Adminislnltion and Policy. Posting
fF-6019 . Assistant Pro(esJOr·
Medicine. Posting lrF-6020. As·
Jistant Pro(esJOr-Medicine.
Posting ltF-6021. A.ssistanl Professor (lwo posilioos avt~llablc) ·
Medicine. Posting IF-6022

Re..arch
Project Staff Associatt-Devc:l·
opment. Posting •R-95090. Buslnrss Maueer-Pnmary c~ Resourtt Center, Posu ng MR -9601 8
Rtse.~b Tt&lt;:hnicdn-Biologlcal
Sciences. Posting lfR-96019. Re·
sea~b Support Sptdalist -Psy·
chology. Posting fR -96020
Resea~b Suppor1 SpecialistMedicine. Infectious Diseases.
Posting i!R-9602 1.

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smitb) (SG~) - Facilities &amp;. Sys·
tc:ms Mllintenance . Line t2t611

To obkJilt trtOre UtfonM/i(lft
on jobs lUted @ow. aM141Cf
PenDitMI Services. UU
Crofts HaiL To obtllitt Uifor.
mari011 on Ru«~rch jobs,
CDttloct SJKHUO~d Pro--

lrtllnl Personnel. 416
Crofts.

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Michael Cimino. S23 Cooke.
No&lt;tb Campus. 6-9:30 p.m.

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Dr. Lyoda B. M. Ellis,
Uruv. ol Mllmesola. 216 Natural
Scieoceo. North CampiS. Nooo.

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ElfKt.J of CoDdilio•iaa Films oa

lmplriat Success, Dr. Anne
Meyer. 3SS Squin:. South Campus. 8 a.m.

Peter Ruttenlocbu. 280 Park

Hull. North Campus. 8:30a.m.

Lockwood Library Book Sale.

Friends' Room, Ux:k.wood Lj.
brary . North Campus. 10 a.m.-

4 p.m.

Mk:I'OIIIoloO
Use of De.ndrilkCelliiD Cancer
Immunotherapy, Dr. Eli Gilboa,
Duke Univ . MedicaJ Center.

G raduate student invitational
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ar. Lippschutt Room. 125

Ca -Farber-Sherman Complex..

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Campus. II :45 a.m.

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I A want. Ceremony.
Molly cKeown, deJ)ilty for univcrsily lations, Office of the
President Student Union n,eatre.

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U PoltiDo. Studc:nl Union Ute-ate:r. North Campu.s. 6:30p.m. $2
atudenu : $3 .50 genera] public.
UUAB film series.

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Tbe: lDform.atioo Suptrfli&amp;llway,

Howard Stringer, former CBS
president. Mainstage, Center for
the Ans. North Campus. 8 p.m.
$15 , $18. $21 . Student tickets S9.
Sl2, SIS.

Jazz
UB Jau Combo, Lou Marino,
director. Baird. North Campus.
8p.m.
Mooolc:ai'IMMer
Chkaao, Lynn Ku.rdziei-Formato
and Tom Ralabate, directors. Theaue &amp;. Dance. Drama lbcaue.
Center for the Arts . Nonh Campus. 8 p.m. $2.SO. $5.
MoYIM
ll Mookeys. Sntdent Union lbeater. North Campus. 9 p.m. $2 srudenu; S3.SO generaJ public.
UUAB film series.

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the Federal Republic of Germany

Loaa Couue:Uaa PreRilbltioa,
Offices of Financial AKI and Stulkm Accounts, For prospective

graduates and non-renuuing students with outstanding Stafford,
Perkins and/or He~lth Professions
loans. Student Union lbcater.
Nonh Campus. 3:30p.m.

Phyolca COl._. . .
The Standard Model and Lallice QCD, Dr. Andreas Kroofeld.
Fermi Lab. 220 Natural Sciences.
Nonh Campus. 3:45 p.m.

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Lire Rlstory or Rec:r Soft Corab:
Pallerns, Mcc.banlsm.s and Con-\
wq utnus., Or. Yehuda Benaya.hu.
Ttl Aviv Univ. 121 Cooke. North
Campus . 4 p.m.

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Stralqits aod Examplr:s of Mrtabolism and Pharm.Koldnetk
Support of Dru&amp; DrUnry, Griff
Humphreys, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers
Squibb. 508 Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Poll.., A i d -

Les Astroaautes (1959),
Joacblm's Dictionary (1965),
ReaaiUaoce (1963), Moa.itur
T&lt;le (1959), A (1965), Laby·
rinlb. Landteape (1965). Screening Room. Center for the Arts.
Nonh Campus. 4-6 p.m.

AD ....._ 2 Diefendorf. South
Campua. 8-11 p.m. Froe. Spoo-

R. Lana, Ph.D., Florida State

Ciabp, LJ'D" Kurdziel-Formato
and T'"" Ralabate, c!i=tan, Tbo-

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Slarilla&amp;
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Univ. 1021 Main St. 1:30 p.m.
Froe. Sponsorod by &lt;he Resean:h
Institute on Addictions.
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Aa Object.Qrlear.d T.....,.. for
tbt Evoluotloo of Cbt&lt;lspoialiD&amp;

and Recovery s,.ae..., Dina
R.amamunby, Computer Science.
210 Natural Scieneea. North Campus. 3 p.m.

Voice Dllordtn in Cbildrt:D,
Michael Pizzuto. M.D. Kinch

Auditorium. Children' s Hospital.
8a.m.

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Eaabrac.laa CbaM: Paradox or
Paradip:~~ '!-a Leackn.blp Conftrtaet for Womta in Bl&amp;bu
Edua.tioa_ Center for Tomorrow.
North Campus. 8: IS a.m.-2 p.m.
$40. Sponsored by the Western
New York Regional Committee or
the American Council on Education/National Identification Program for tbe Advancement of
Women in Hiahtr Education
Administration (ACE/NIP).
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discuuioa. Day-long program includes Exhibition of Sacred
Afrieana SculpNre at 2 p.m.• and
Africana Follcmusical Festival at 7
p.m. Center for the Arts. North
Campus. II a.m. Presented by
Africana Research Museum/New
York International African lnsti·
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lbbtaa Reefa to ReatouJ Eavl-

roDJDeataJ Chaap:, Dr. Ann F.
Budd, Dept. of Geology, Univ of
Iowa. 205 Natural Sciences. North
Campus. 3 p.m.

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Buaerl'a l'btao......toa:Y,
Joanna Tito. 280 Park. North
Campus. 3 p.m.
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Luer Ablatloa Plume Dynamla
la Vacu.UJD and Back&amp;J'ou.nd
Gua, Dr. David B. Geohegan.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory .
215 Natural Sciences. North Campus. 3:30p.m.

Tbt University or Minat:SOta

PI'· 8 p.m. $S, SIO.

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Union Tbeat.er. North Campus.

II :30 p.m. $2 students; $3.50 general publ~ . UUAB film series.

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Tou.ntf:y. Alumni Arena. North
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l'llyUoloORqulatory Medwlisml of Glucoot Tnuupor1 by laaulin, Dr.
Monis J. Birnbaum, Univ. of
Pennsylvania. 108 Sherman.
South Campus. 4 p.m.

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UB lavitalioaa.l Tnck Mec:t.
Unive!'lity Stadium. North Campus. 4 p.m.

12 Moaktys. Student Union Theater. North Campus. 6:30 and 9
p.m. S2 student&amp;: $3.50 general

public. UUAB ftlm series.

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Aotbony Miruda. dinctor. Slec.
North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

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Muolc:al 'IIINter
Cb.ic:ap, Lynn Kutdz.iei-Formato
and Tom Ralabate, directors, Theatre &amp;: Dance. Half-price for the
matinee. Drama lbeatre, Center
for lhe Ans. North Campus. 2
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rreuure cbcsl fllkd with fun
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Toumey. Alumni Arena. North
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Second Aaaual UB Soceer Es:po.
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m.u.sk by Curt Steim:or, Pick of
the Crop, Elaine Gardner, director
and choreographer. Mainstage.
Center for the Arts. North Cam-

Natulta and.tM wOlf. Russii.D

PI'· 2 p.m. S8. SIO.

with English subcitlea. 120
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Modern Languages and Li&amp;.cratures. Rus.siaa Club. and UniversicyUbnries.

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U B Coa~mporary EMtmblt,
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North Campus. 8 p.m. Free.

UB Cbolr A UB Cbonrs, Harrier

Simons. conductor. Slee. North
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Center for the Arts. North Cam-

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AIDS/BIV Epidemic, Prof.
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UNIVIItii1'Y AI BUIFFALO
State llniversity ofNew Yorlt

One Hundred Fifty Year.5
Apr~l18

1996

Volume 27 . No . 26

Digital Library Initiative places
UB at top level in technology
111 . , . , . cox
Reporter Staff

T

ECHNOLOGICAL ad-

vances and the rapid

growth of the Internet are
bringing tidal waves of
change to the hi storically
stoic libflliY business. And, according to Associate Vice President for
University Libraries Barbara von
Wahlde, UB is out front riding the
crest of that wave.
In recent years, computerized ·
topical searches have made the card
catalog obsolete and World Wide
Web addresses have probably be-

come more important that the
Dewey Decimal system. Now, the
Digital Library Initiative is opening new doors to researchers and
students at UB. without expanding
the stacks.
The Univenity Library system

is now nearly a year into its fiveyear Digital Library Initiative. That

"initiative, which will cost more than
$6million. will make UB's library
vastly more efficient and place it
among the top university libraries.
technologically, in the country,
according to von Wahlde. It will
also bring the vast resources of the
library and the Internet directly to
the desktop computers of students
and staff.
One of the stops along the World

CD-ROM computer In Undergraduate Ubrary Is used to search for
&amp;eneral pe~odl calo on disk.

Wide Web is the University at
Buffalo Library homepage. That
page itself is lhe launching point
for the new Library Web-a vasr.
organized view of UB · s library
holdings and related resources.
"The Internet is mostly chaos:·
explained Loss Glazier, Lockwood
Library's associate librarian, "bur
our library professionals try to
comb through it to find what is
relevant and use it to supplement
o ur material.·· Glazier explained
that the Library Web uses menu s
and "hypertext links:· which are
software tool s that carry the reader

from a highlighted word in one text
to a more developed menu or site
on that topic. to make the large
amounr of infonnation easily man·
ageabl e.

U

niversity Libraries is also
directing more and more of
its acquisition funding to
acquiring electronic resources lO
supplement, and someti mes re·
place, printed volumes. With a key·
stroke. one can call up any entry
from the Encyclopedia Britcanica,
retrieve a detailed biography on
Continued on page 5

Laser researchers use light to detect
early malignancies
111 LOIS BAKER
News Services Staff
R~ lit UB are using
lasers, combined with the natural
response of tissue to light, tn detect
the earliest stages of tissue trans·
formation from normal to malig·
nant.
The results of two UB studies
being presented this week at the
annual meeting of the American
Society for Laser Medicine and
Surgery, Inc. demonstrate two new
procedures that may help cancer
specialists diagnose malignancies
at tbe very earliest stages, wben
they an: most treatable.
One new technique, called optical spectroscopy, allows cancer
specialists to determine the malignant status of tissue without using
a chemical photosensitizer used in
companion studies by building on
atissue's.autofluorescence, ornatu·
rat response to light.
Photodynamic therapy. one of
the most recent and promising
fonns of cancer treatment, relies
on the propensity of cancer cells to
absorb a chemical photosensitizer
more readily than normal cells.
When light activates the chemical,

causing it to fluoresce, cancer cells
stand out from surrounding tissue.
Now hyper-light-sensitive,thecancercells can be destroyed by expo·
sure to light.
UB researchers demonstrated in
a companion study that by subjecting precancerous tissue to small
doses of a photosensitizer that is
usually used in large doses in photodynamic therapy and observing
tissue uptake of the drug during
transformation to malignancy-a
procedure called in vivo fluorescence photometry-4hey could predict the timeframe when the
transformation begins.

Tills lillY~ w ill allow
cancer specialists to detect microscopic malignancies that would be
undetectable by any other means.
Once thoroughly studi~. the procedure ultimately will allow specialists to diagnose a malignancy
in its earliest stages-when it is
most readily treatable-and will
help cancer surgeons define the
margins of a tumor with pinpoint
accuracy prior to surgery.
"Ultimately, we hope to use this
procedure routinely to diagnose

early changes. which will result in
better outcomes. said Thomas S.
Mang. UB research associate pro·
fessor of oral surgery and lead researcher on the study. ''We also
think it can be used to perform
fluorescence ·guided biopsies.
which will be much more accurate
than any method we have now."

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Dependl!lll on tiNo
dosage, however, patients would be
sensitive to natural light from days
for diagnostic use to a few weeks
for treatment dosages.
Now , UB laser researchers have
demonstrated in animal studies that
they can make a .. first approxima·
lion" characterization of suspicious
tissue without injecting chemical
photosensitizer.;.
In this study, the new, diagnostic technique-optical spectroscopy-is based on the natural and
unique light spectrum produced by
each tissue in response to light.
' 'When light goes into a tissue.
ir interacts with tissue components
and structures in a specific way,"
said Mang, who also was lead author on thi s study. " Each ti ssue
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Senate oks resolutions on governance, pay increase for chair
lly &amp;l'EVE cox

Re porte r Staff

T

HEFACULTYSENATE=ently
passed 14 resolutions, arising from
a report drafted by its Governance
Committee, that seek to give fac-

ulty a bigger stake in university

management and bridge the gap between

faculty and administrators.

The specific resolutions were brought forward by Governance Committee Chair Victor
Doyno. at the Senate' s April 9 meeting, after
the Senate returned an omnibus report containing therecommeodalions, lastmonth. The
Senate had not agreed on the parliamentary
procedure for debating the lengthy report
during its March meeting; instead, requesting
that the committee draft distinct resolutions
for each recommeodalion.
Among the changes approved by the Senate, most without debate, were new "minimum content guidelines" for academic (unit)
articles of governance, along with a Senate
committee to review those articles, and sev·
eral proposals to link ideas of faculty governance and university administration. One
resolution requested tbat the Faculty Senate
chair be appointed to "decision making presidential and provostal groups," while another
pledged to appoint " relevant administrators"
to Faculty Senate committees. Another resolution urged tbat the provost and senior vice
president meet annually with the Faculty Senate to assure faculty representalion on "ad-

ministrative and programmatic" committees.
The Faculty Senate also reconstituted it-

self somewhat. moving elections for campus
senators. SUNY senators and Senate office rs backward in time from the spring to fall

semester, requiring that all Senate committees be filled and put to work at the first

meeting of the Senate each August and calling for by-law amendments that would rna.ke
the vice provosts of Graduate and Undergraduate Education non-voting members of
the Senate. Recently,the Senate amended its
by. Jaws to make the university's various
deans ex-officio, non-voting members.

T

he Senate also voted to increase the
pay for Faculty Senate chair from

Assoc iation of University Professors
(AAUP), with the secretary receiving five
percent oftliat figure . Currently, the average
UB full professor earns $78,900, according
toAAUP.
The only proposed resolution which was
not passed was returned to the Governance
Committeeforfurtherconsideratioo. Thatresolution would baveestablisbed ground rules for
Senate intervention in academic units wbose
governance strucoJre "brooce down_"
In other business_ Faculty Senate Chair
Claude Welch reported on a proposal to
name Arts &amp; Letters Dean Kerry Gnlllt
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences while he remains at Arts &amp; Letters.
Welch said the potential appointment was
aimed at achieving "enhanced Arts &amp; Letters and Social Sciences coUaboration."
Welch was joined by other Senators in
opposing the plan. Claiming there was too
little faculty consultation regarding the interim appointment, Welch pledged to remain "committed to collegiality" and
promised " full, open discussion" of the proposal. Some faculty memben believe the
joint appointment could be a prelude to

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Reportet' Editor

A

REPORT ON S1UDENT service
enhancements and good news and
had news abOut the state budget
highlighted the April II meeting
of the University Council. VicePresidentfor
Student Affairs Robert L. Palmer and professional staff members demystified new acronyms, including, BIRD. DARS and VlEWne~
and presented inforntalion on technologies designed to improve student life.
"We truly are serious about providing
those support systems that can enhance the
university," Palmer said. "We understand
and appreciate that students are not only our
product but our customers ."

BIRD-Billing Inquiry , Record s and
Drop/Add-is an in tegrated voice response

system used for student registration ac tivi-

The pay increases were modified frqm earlier proposals whi ch could have resulted in

ties and grading, according to Joanne Plunkett
o f Student Finances and Records .

stipends of $20.000 or more, Doyno e x-

h's also a tremendous time-saver. Students used to wait two months between reg istering and learning their class schedule.

stipend for chair be "10 percent of the University at Buffalo average (salary ) for a full
professor," as plculated by the American

~dent William Greiner briefly ad
dressed the Senate, calling for fewer
Senate resolutions but greater "deliberate dialogue" between faculty and administration. "The Senate has a heavy focus
on resolutions," be said, "but that shouldn't
be the only way-maybe not even the dominant way-we communicate." Last fall, the
Faculty Senate released a SO-page compendium of almost 100 resolutions it has passed
during the last decade.
Discussing recent budget developments
in Albany, Greiner "'*&lt;! tbat althOugh the
legislature is a way from enacting a state
budge~ be thinks that '"1'AP will get fiXed
pretty well" and tbat SUNY will receive at
least some restoration_ The recent drop in
applications, including a "severe drop" in

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transfer applications, and supportive editorials across the state bave prompted new concern on the part of the 1ntstees about SUNY's
quality, Greiner observed.

H

e also referred to a recent report
drafted by community college presi
dents statewide. The "Community
College Initiative" was to be the community
college equivalent of Rethinking SUNY,
explained Greiner. However, when their report to the trustees called for deaigoating
community colleges as the "expen.s in lower
division instruction" and the "preferred point
of access to SUNY," it created "a tremen-

dous stir." Greiner said.
'"The report would essentially see us relegated to upper division work only," Greiner
continued. "It proposed to assign the EOPs
(Educational Opportunity CenteR) to the
community colleges and would make them
responsible for all high school interaction."
such as advanced placement instruction. The
report has been submitted to the Owlcellor
and will be CODJidered when the community
college "mission" is reassessed sometime in
the future. Greiner said.
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University Council updated on improvements in_
student services, SUNY issues in state.budget

$3,000tonearly $8,000and the pay for
secretary from $1.000 to roughly $4,000.

plai ned. The resolution stipulates that the

eventual merger of the two faculties. Current
Social Sciences Dean Ross MacKinnon will
depart thi s summer to become Dean of Arts
&amp; Sciences at the University of Connecticut
Provost Thomas Headrick later explained
that he has consulted with faculty from Arts &amp;
Letters about " possibleconfiguration changes"
but tbat no decision has yet been reached.

and often stood in the drop/add line for four
to six hours, Plunkett told the Council. Those

same processes now can be accomplished
over the telephone. Grade and transcript
information also is available through BIRD.
Additional services soon will be available over phone lines, Plunkett said, to allow
studeots to pay tuition and fees without standing in line in Student Accounts. Students
also will be able to clear outstanding debts
with ·a phone call and a credit card and to

receive financial aid infonnation online.
'l"echnology also has changed the face of

I advising, said Karen Noonan, associate
vice provost for undergraduate education.

The Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS)
has transfonned a difficult and complicated

record-keeping system into a much simpler,
more efficient and more effective process.
DARS offers students a compilation of
university, faculty and departmental degree

requirements. It' s a planning device, a tracking mec hanism and an analytical toni that
allows students to look at their records.
The benefits to students are tremendous,
Noonan said. DARS provides students with
accurate information on their progress toward
degree, allows them to plan ahead, reduces
anxiety and enhances the advisement process,
she said. And the technology will be even
more avai lable in the future . By spring, 1997.
UB hopes to bave online access in departmental offices as well as Internet access.

The Council also heard an overview of
UB 's SUNYCard, presented by Clifford B.

Wilson, associate vice president for Student
Affairs. More than 33,000 of the multi-pur-

pose identific4tion cards have been issued to
date to UB students, faculty and staff. The
university plans to expand the cards' func-

tions to include building access, Wilson said.

I
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magine being able to conduct a face-toface interview with an employer halfway
the world for little more than the cost of
a long-distance phone call. That technology
existstodayatUB,accordingtoEugeoeMartell,
director of Career Planning and Placement
VIEW net is an integrated PC picture-voice
transmission that ·~puts you in face-to-face
voice contact with the person on the other end
of the line," Martell said. The state-of-the-art
technology is an extension of UB ' s Automated Placement Service, and offers links to
130othercolleges around the world as well as
35 national employers.

In other business, President William RGreinerdiscussedwilbtheCouncilrec:entl:\'elliS
oo campus lbat have received publicity, inchding repons tbal28 pen:a!l ofUB's tmdoqraduate Sllldenl body is 00 -=adc:mic probation. the
resul~ Greiner said, of "running an old set of
rules against the current student body."
He also told the Council that the state and
SUNY "may get a budget sooner than we
though~ " in part because of the upcoming
election year. Greiner noted tbat he is getting
" very good vibes" on the restoration offunding for the Tuition Assistance Program
(TAP), although he is not as optimistic about
restoration of operating budget funds.
The state legislature, he said, is anxious
about SUNY's enrollment and application
data, and proposed tuition increase. "What' s
emerging is the legis lature understands
SUNY is a Long Island and upstate concern.
A lot of people in the legislature still like
SUNY a lot" And they don' t want to carry
the negative effect of SUNY and TAP bud -

get cuts into the eJection. Greiner said.

'W'he end result is there may be a shoe for
I restoratiOD- That's the good news on the
budget," he said. But the had news, the "reality
cbeclc," is the possibility of a post-.:loction
mid-year reduction. " It's going to take us a lot
of hard work and time to build SUNY as a
budget priority in the State of New York,'Greiner added. Funding is 001 the only bwdle
UB and SUNY face. There is ltreluctance to
pass management flexibility legislation needed
to overcome the budget sholtfall. Although
SUNY trustees are in favor of the changes, the
legislature is slower to accep1 the need. he said.
He also briefed the Council on the most
recent Cemetery of the Innocents controversy.
as well as on student protests, during which
demonstrators briefly occupied his Capen Hall
office. Greiner was not in his office at the time.
Greiner outlined to the Council the parameters of the Student CodeofConduet, as weU as
the civil laws regarding assault and trespass,
both of which he recommended be strictly
enforced "We cannot bave a public forum
wben people do not conduct ,themselves civilly," he said '1t' s a time in our history when
it' s appropriate for a lot of young people to be
anxious. It's a time in our history when it' s
appropriate for a lot of young people to be
angry,'' be said The challenge. he added. is to
teach them to respond appropriately.
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Study shows a low-fat diet
may hinder, not help, athletes
ESEARCHERS AT UB have
shown that, contrary to prevailing recommendations. trained
athletes who consume a very
low-fat diet may be hindering
lh&lt;:ir performance rather than enhancing iL
Results of a study of 25 long-distance
runnen from Western New York who consumed diets consisting of low, medium and
higb percentages offat-15, 30 and 45 percent. respectively-showed that endurance
time increased and that there was more
muscle strength afta an exhausting run wben
the percentage of dietary fat was increased.

In addition, levels of lactic acid. a measure of oxygen delivery, decreased after
four weeks on the high -fat diet, indicating an

increase in energy reserve.

Howard Hughes
awardees honored

StudyresultswerepresentedAprill4atthe
annual meetingofthefedetationof American

Societies for Experimental Biology.
The athletes couldn't consume enough

caJories to meet the energy needs of their
training on the low-fat diet. lo addition,

HDL cholesterol levels were lower on the
15-percent-fat regimen, indicating implica-

Certltlc:MM ..-ted to tim claM In sa- lniU.Uve
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News Services Staff

T

HEFIRSTCLASSofundergrnduate students at UB who received
Howard Hughes scholarships to
pursue majors in the life sciences
were honored April 16 in the Cen-

ter for Tomonow .
Joseph J. Tufariello, dean of the Faculty

of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: David
J. Triggle, dean of the Graduate School, and
William C. Fischer, vice provost for faculty
development. gave introductory remarks .
The 18 students who received certifi-

cates, gave research presentations.
The scholarships are part of a$1.5 million
grant UB received in 1994 from the Howard
Hughes Medicallostitute (HHMI).
The emphasis of the Howard Hughes
Medical lostitute Undergraduate Biology

Initiative is on students learning about science by "doing" science. An important goal
of the program is to improve the retention
rntes of students, particularly women and
underrepresented mi norities, majoring in life
sciences through the scholars program for
biological sciences students.
From their fltSt semester, scholars par-

ticipate in research colloquia, seminars and
meetings. D uring their junior year, Hughes
Scholars begin indepeodentresean:h projects
under the supervision of a faculty resean:h
advisor. Topics range from resean:b on potential therapies for muscular dystrophy to
the classificatiO!l of Gorgonian corals.

The HHM1 Undergraduate Biology Initiative is administered through the Department of Biological Sciences and involves
the active participation of more than 50 UB
faculty as mentocy and resean:h advisors and
more than 80 UB undergraduates.
Gerald Koudelka. associate professor of
biological sciences, directs the program with
Ronald Berezny, chair of the Department of
Biological Sciences.

'W"beHoward Hughes grant funded several

I initiatives at UB , including student biology laboratory enhancements, a new course
in advanced human molecular genetics for
nonscience majors and summer training for
high-school science teachers.
Students who were honored and their

majors are:
Semina Atanacio, computer science;
Daniel Avos so , biological sciences;
Vivek:ram Bellur, biological sc iences;
Cynthia Casucci, biochemistry; Leah Eliza-

articipants in the study were male
and female runners between the ages

of 18 and 53 who ran an average of
40 miles per week. Some were top-ranked

.regional competitors. Before beginning the
study. the researchers established the fat

max~xygen

consumption--tests.

All subjects then spent four weeks on the
low-and medium-fat diets, with original assessments and testing repeated between diets. Only 12 subjects were able to raise their
dietary fat close to the 45-percent level. This
group spent an additional four weeks at that
level and all initial tests were repeated at the
end of the study.
Results of the performance tests on the
medium-fat diet compared to the low-fat diet
showed that endurance time increased 14 percent while the decrease in forte aftathe endurance run was significaoUy less- II perceDL
While endurance time did not increase on the
high-fat diet, lactate levels were lower. indicating more effident energy metabolism.
''The dietary intake of vitamin E, calcium,
magnesium and zinc were at or below the
recommended levels on tho low-fat diet. As
individuals increased their total calories and
dietary fa~ levels of zinc. magnesium, calcium
and vitamin E also increased," Horvath said.
Body fat. total cholesterol, blood pressure and
heart rate stayed the same on all diets.

distance runners in this study did
not have any negative effects on perrmance, nutrition or health on the highfat diet," Horvath said. ''Endurance athletes
require a lot of calories. A very-low-fat diet for
these athletes may not provide the required
nutrition. A higher-fat diet may result in more
energy availability and other metaboUc, nutritional and performance advantages."
Other resean:hers in the study were CoUeen
K. Eagen and Jill Rowland, master's degree
candidates in UB' s nutrition program; John J.
Leddy. UB cli nical assistant professor of
orthopaedics. medicine and family medicine,
and David R. Peodergas~ UB professor of
physiology. The study was funded in part by

an educational grant from Mars. lnc.

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A day to take daughters to work
exposure of young girls to opponunities for

cai'6Ciences; Kristen Hornick, medical tech -

The ..__..., granddaughters. sisters,

servei as co-chair of the Task Force on

nology ; Kristen Kittle , biological sciences;
David Kulju, biochemistry; James Lagowski,

nieces and friends of UB faculty, staff and

education and work," said Noble. who also

biological sciences; Katrina Lustofm, biological sciences; Amanda Matthews, biological sciences; Kimberly Paa. biological
sciences; Elaine Paik. biological sciences;

students will have a variety of activities to

Women at UB. " In addition, we thought thi s
program would be a good morale booster for

choose from during UB's first universitywide "Take Our Daughters to Work" program being held April 25, in conjunction

lhe women who work at UB. as weU as an
educational experience for young girls."
The Ms. Foundation for Women began

Peter Trabold, biol!lgical sciences; Priya

sponsored by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

in 1993 as a response to research findings on

In addition to visiting a parent's, relative's

the development of adolescent girls. Studies
by Harvard University. the American Asso-

Venkataraman, biological sciences: Elizabeth Zanet, biological sc iences.

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sure of LDL and HDL-and serum triglyc'
erides were measured. Subjec1s also were
put through a series of endurance and VO,

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This study is a follow-up to resean:h
reported in 1994 that showed similar results.
''Our conclusion is, for trained distance
runners, a very low-fat diet may not be the best
practice for their performance," said Peter J.
Horvath, UB associate professor of nutrition
and physiology and a lead resean:her. "If you
want the calories necessary to do high-intensity training, you need to liberate yourself from
a low-fat diet.' We found also that in tenns of
cardiovascular risk factors, runners on a highfat diet did not increase their cardiovascular
risk factors, whileonalow-fatdie~ some of the
cardiovascular risk factors were increased,
similar to those of sedentary individuals."

apoprotein levels-a more definitive mea-

beth Cole, biological sciences; Dawn Dolan,
biology/psychology; Kara Grosser, biologi-

them to
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tions for cardiovascular risk factors.

level ofeach participant's current diet. which
averaged about 20 percent. Blood pressure,
heart rate, percentage of body fat. body
weight, total cholesterol. HDL cholesterol,

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with the national public-education program

or guardian 's work site, girls ages 9-14 can
attend workshops on North and South campuses on topics ranging from self-esteem and

the "'Take Our Daughters to Work" program

Engineering Research, visit the Center for
the Ans and lour the UB site of the Women · s
Health initiative. the largest research study
of women's health ever undenaken.

ciation of University Women and the Min nesota Women 's Fund indicate that in
adolescence, girls often receive Jess attention than boys in school and youth programs,
suffer from lowerexpectations than do male
counterpans and tend to like or dislike them selves based on aspects of their appearance.
The Ms. Foundation 's solution was to prevent these problems from taking root by helping girls to strengthen their resiliency. In

A special awards ceremony is scheduled
for I p.m. in the Student Union Theatre on
the North Campus. Molly McKeown, deputy

selves. girls begin to believe in themselves .
their abilities, and by extension. their futures.

assertiveness to computers and careers in such
fields as athletics. dentistry and radio.

They also can tour the seismic simulator
lab at the National Center for Earthquake

for university relations to UB President Wil·
liam R. Greiner; will give the presentation.
While campus units have hosted activi-

taking part in a day that celebrntes them-

UB's ''Take Our Daughters to Work'"
program is sponsored by the Association of

Women in Science, the DepanmentofChem-

ties for "Take Our Daughters to Work" day
in past years, this is the first univer.;ity-wide
program. said Bernice K. Noble, UB professor
of microbiology and organizer of the event

istry, CSEA, Office of Conferences and Special Events, Office of the President, Office
of Student Life, Partner' s Press. PEF, School

•we r.tt tills • • •

Task Force on Women at UB , United Uni-

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portunity for UB to open itself to the community and take on this particular issu~e

of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the
versity Professions. University Counseling
Center and Women 's Health Initiative.

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Music Department offers organ
concert, Thibaudet performance
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News Services Staff

T

HE UB DEPARTMENT of Music
will continue its spring 1996 con-

cen series with an organ concert by

David Craighead on Sunday, April
2 1, and a rescheduled performance of a pro-

gram of Chopin and Schumann by internati onally distinguished pianist Jean -Yves
Thibaudet on Friday, May 10.
All concerts will take place in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus. Tickets may
be obtai ned through the UB Center for the
Arts box office at645-ARTS or through any
Ticketmaster location, including KJiufmann' s
and Movies Plus . Call 852-5000 for
Ticketmaster information.
Sunday, April21, 5 p.m. , Organ Recital
Series, $8. $6, $5, $2; Concert IV. "20th
Century Organ Music of America and
France, " David Craighead, organ.

Program: Sympbony No. 6, Op. 59, Louis
Vi erne; Suite BretoDDC, Marcel Dupn!; What
a Friend We Have in Jesus, from Three
Gospel Preludes, William Bolcom; Sonata
for Organ, Op. 86, Vincent Persicbetti;
Organbooklll, WiltiamAlbright; Hommage
A Igor Strsvinsky, Naji Hakim.
Friday, May 10, 8 p.m., Slee Visiting
Artist Series, $10, $8, $5, $4; Pianist JeanYves ThibaudeL Thibaudet is, at the age of
33, a major presence on the international
concert scene, and bas long been acclaimed
here and abroad for his extraordinary ICChnical abilities and deeply musical,sensibilities.
He performs regularly with leading orchestras, conductors and chamber ensembles
around the globe.
Program: Three Nocturnes, Three Etudes,
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, Frederic
Chopin; Etude Symphoniques, Robert
Schumann .
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Taktics Quartet peiforms for
UBs 1996 Slee Beetlwven Cycle
HEIR GUTSY and vibrant performances have been known to bring

audiences to their feet with excited
whistles, hoots and shouts of eellion-proof of the unique powerofbrilliant performed chamber music to electrify and amaze. The Tak4cs Quartet, a
muchLiauded Hungarian ensemble thai conducts an international career from its residence a11hc UnivcBiryofColorado, performs
the last two concerts in the UB 1996 Steel
Beethoven String Quartet Cycle.
Concert V took place Wednesday and VI
will be heldat8 p.m. on Thursday, April18 ,
in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus.
Tickets areS I 0, $8, SS and S4 and can be
o btained through the UB Center for the Ans
ticketoffice(645-ARTS)andatTicketmaster
outlets. including Kaufmann's and Movies
Plus. Cal l 852-5000 for Ticketmasler information.
The April 18 program will feature the

Quartet inC Minor, Op. 18, No. 4; Quartet in
F Major, Op. 135 and the Quartet in E Minor,
Op. 59, No. 2, one of the three Rasoumovsky
quartets, each of which incorporates a Russian theme. They are dedicated to Count

Rasoumovsky, Russian ambassador to
Vienna. whoplayedsecond violin in bjs own
quartet and tried out Beethoven' s chamber
music for the composer.

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ritics here and abroad have proclaimed
the Tak4cs Quanet a superbly skilled,
bold, passionate, discerning performance ensemble. Tbe group bas achieved international prominence, performing an annual
series of concerts in London, Paris and Washington, D.C., as well as regularly receiving
ovations at the world's leading festivals,
from Mostly Mozan to Salzburg.
The players perform on a matched 16th-

century set of Amati instruments that produce a gorgeous vibrant tone: Edward
Dusinberre, first viotin; Karoly Schranz, second violin; Roger Tapping, viola, and Andras
Fejer, cello.
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Budget cuts, rising costs, stir rz"as
~-- .......... fl# ................. reacbed the boiling point
last week as students held ralllea to voice their concerns about the-possibility of more
tuition increases and a "rw&lt;&gt;-tiered" system of differential tuition for SUNY.
Students gathered April9 in the Student Union to protest SUNY budget cuts that
organizers say could raise tuition by as much as $2,300. The gathering was organized
by the new Student Association leaders, ainoog others.
Speakers, wbo included Jean Dickson of United University Professions, Judy
Francois of UB' s Educational Opportunity Program Student Association, and Mark
Frankel of the Graduate Student Association, urged students and others in the
university community to work together to light the proposed cuts to SUNY.
Following the campus rally, students boarded two SA-sponsored buses to State Sen.
Mary Lou Rath's Williamsville office, wbere they continued the protesL
Afterward, students returned to Capen Hall, where they attempted to enter President
Greiner's Capen Hall office to protest support of campus-based tuitiOD- Tbey were met
by Robert Palmer, vice president for Student Affairs, wbo atlempled to prevent
students from entering the president's office. Greiner was not in his office at the time.

StudMta .............. WednesdaynightatSarnuel'sGrandeManorinClarence,
wbere Gov. Pataki atlended the Amherst Chamber of Commerce dinner and UB was
honored for its work oo the Governance Project As Pataki left. groups of students
marched in the restaurant's entrance, briefly blocldng the governor's departure before
they were pushed back.
The demonstrations come in the wake of a recent Buffalo News report that four UB
students were arrested for trespass March 7 following a protest outside the Williamsville
office of Congressman BiU Paxon. The students were arrested and' handcuffed after
they allegedly walked through the building's parldng lot following a rally protesting
Paxon's voting record against the direct student loan program_

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Bonnie Bullough dies at 69; former
dean of nursing was prolific author
MEMORJAL SERVICE will be
held April 21 in Los Angeles,
Calif. and on May 9 in Buffalo for
Bonnie Bullough, former dean of
nursingirtUB. Bullough, 69, diedAprill 2in
Los Angeles after a long illness.
A prolific author and an authority on
human sexuality, Bullough, who headed the
Nursing School from 1980 to 1991, was a
professor on the UB faculty until 1993. She
and her husband, Vern L. Bullough, moved
to Southern California in 1993, in hopes that
the climate would improve her health.
The Bulloughs were known as the "dean
team" while they were.iit Buffalo. He-served

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as dean of natural and social sciences at
Buffalo State College while she was a deati
at UB . They were well known nationally as
sex researchers and were co-authors of several volumes on the subject, including
"Sexual Attitudes," "Prostitution: An Ulustrated Social History," and "Contrsception."
A prolific author in her own right, Bonnie
Bullough published more than 120articles and
20 books. including "Sin, Sickness and Sanity:
A History of Sexual Attitudes," ''Tile Law and
the Expanding Nursing Role," "Women and
Prostihition" and "Social-Psycbolngical Barriers to Housing Desegregation." At the time of
ber death, she also had a patent pending on a
urinary incontinence device.
Certified as a family nurse practitioner
and a pediatric nurse practitioner, she was
inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1978. She was a major
force in the organizational development of
the New York State Coalition of Nurse Prac-

titioners, Inc .• and
was actively involved at the national level in
establishing an organization comprised solely ·Of
nurse practitioners. From 199091
she
was
president of the
New York State
IIUU.OUQH
Council of Nurse
Practitioners and in 1992, she was named
National Nurse Practitioner Researcher of
the Year.
Before coming to UB , Bonnie Bullough
was a professor of nursing and a coordinator
of the graduate program at California State
University at Long Beach. She had been an
associate professor of nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles, a professor
of sociology at San Fernando Valley State
College, Northridge, Calif. and a Fulbright
lecturer at Cairo University, United Arab
Republic.
She earned a doctorate and a master's
degree in sociology from the University of
California, Los Angeles, a master's degree
in nursing from UCLA and a bachelor of
nursing from Youngstown Universit y,
Youngstown, Ohio.
Besides her husband, she is survived by
three sons, James, Steven and Robert. and a
daughter, Susan, all of California.
A memorial service will be held in 250
Baird Hall on Thursday, May 9 at 5 p.m. 0

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Ulana Moroz, a senior at UB, performs a
traditional Ukrainian dance at International FieSta '96, held April12 in the
Student Union Theater. FieSta events
included cultural exhibtts and a dinner
featuring foods from around the world.

Johnstone will study faculty productivity
8JPAUU~

Reporter Contributor

UB FACULTY MEMBER will
bring faculty productivity in higher
education and new evaluation standards to the forefront with a new
research project fwided by a $22,000 grant
from the TeacheNl Insurance and Annuity
Association College Retirement Equities
Fund (TIAA-CREF).
D. Bruce Johnstone, UniveNlity Professor
and formerchancellorofthe State UniveNlity
of New York system, will produce a study
tiOed "Public Higher Education and the Imperative of Productivity: The Voice of Faculty."

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As public colleges and univeNlities like
UB face cutbacks, a greater emphasis is
being placed on improved faculty-productivity pn~ctices . 'The Voice of Faculty"
project will bring together core faculty senate and union leaders to discuss differing
teaching loads. as well as evaluation and
accountability practices.

ohnstone explained that exploring these
issues is essential to increasing awareness of productivity among faculty, wbo are
"capable of gnsping the problem and contributing to its solution." h will add not only
to the discussion of faculty productivity in
the SUNY system, but also in public university systems across the nation.

his critical for SUNY faculty to be fully
engaged in open forums on higher education ," said Johnstone. "Faculty leadeNl and
university administrators are now beginning
to encourage faculty in the quest for solving
productivity issues and in how to deal with
faculty who are quite clearly no longer productive."
Recent feedback on productivity from
SUNY -wide faculty and union leadeNl made
it clear that this study WaS needed. Faculty
productivity at SUNY schools can have a
widespread effec~ Johnstone said.
..We need to address the question of how
we plan to continue teaching students, serving the community and perfonning research,
aU with less revenue."
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to the university network or through your
ow n PC via a campus e-mail account. Soon,
Roberts explained, an "authenti cation" process will be available so that members of the
campus community can access the library
Web directly through commercial Internet
access providers, such as America Online ,
then verify their student/faculty/staff status
when they connect. "Many of the electronic
acquisitions must be restricted only to stu·
dents, faculty or staff, in accordance with
our licensing agreements," explained Roberts.
So, what does all thi s technology mean co
the future of books? " Books may become
more of an historic artifact," predicts von
Wahlde, " but it is, in itself, still good technology." More and more information will
likely be distributed electronically in the
future, She said, .. But it's still much easier to
curl up at the beach with a paperback than
with a laptop."
One issue von Wahlde and Roberts both

see emerging from the new technologies is
an opponunity for academicians ro regain
control over their intellectual propeny and
the publishing process itself. "Right now.
most academics write because they need to
be published; for their own careers and to
contribute to their fields," von Wahlde said.
'They are generally not paid for their works.
but the publisheNl tum around and sell these
journals to the university for preny substantial sums of money."
All of this technology is being added
within the consuaints of diminishing state
resources for UB, said von Wahlde. "Historically. we receive about three to five percent of the university's overall budget," she
said. However. in the last two years, over a
milliQn dollm has been cut from the library 's
acquisitions funding, now down to under $4
million. The new student technology fee
covers pan of the cost, and redirecting funds
from other areas covers others. von Wahlde
C.
explained.

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LASER
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gives you a fingerprint. As a tissue starts to
undergo change, its fmgerprint changes."
Mang and colleagues tracked and characteri zed the changing fi ngerprints as tissue
underwent the transfonnation froin nonnal
to mal~gnant. using an animal modeL In this
manner, they were able to detect when early
tissue change begins.
Results showed that stages of tissue transfonnation showed up in two different ways
using laser-induced autofluorescence-the
ratio of red· to-green in the nonnal versus
abnormal tissue, and the intensity of the
response. Both ·changed markedly as tissue
became malignant. 'The most striking feature is the change in the intensity of the
signal of the malignant tissue," Mang stated.
'This result indicates thai the intensity index
is a good indication of tissue status, and
could be a real aid to early cancer detection."
The research is a cooperative effort of
membeNl of the Great Lakes Biomedical
Lase r Center. Contributin_g to the investigation were James Kost and Brian C. Wilson of
Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario Cancer
lnstilute in Toronto, and Charles Liebow,
UB professor of oral surgery .
The companion study was a joint effort of
the UB School of Dental Medicine, Roswell
Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo and Buffalo
General Hospital, site of a new Photodynamic Then~py Center, which Mang directs.
Other researchers involved in that study
were Liebow: Seema Khan, assistant professor of surgery at Syracuse University, and
Jean Haar, UB ·cli n ical p rofessor of
otolaryngology and oral surgery.
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any of more than 20,()(X) authors or read the
latest edition of a major academic journal;
all without leaving yourofficeordonn room.
Shortly, even the 20-volume unabridged
Oxford English Dictionary will be available
online, explains Glazier.
The online journal selections come via a
recent acquisition of 14 top academic journals through an electronic link to Johns
Hopkins Press, according to Stephen Roberts, associate director of libraries. 'This is
significant because these are some of the
finest journals in their respective fields,"
explained Roberts. Still, only a small percentage of the 23,000-plus journals the libraries currently receive are available
electronically, concedes Roberts.
"Titis should grow rapidly, however. The
advantages of electronic availability are immense," explained Roberts. One UB professor recenUy confessed to Roberts that he saw
an article he wrote for a major journal online
even before he received a printed copy. While
the cost is still roughly the same as it would
be for printed copies of these journals, Roberts expects that will not be the case for long.
"Electronic media should become less expensive as it becomes more .avai lable,"' he
explained. ·'Not to mention the shelf space
and Xerox.ing it saves."
Currently, you can access the Library
Web through a library workstation or an other campus PC that is directly-connected

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''With the increasing complexity to almost every aspect of society. effective tr.Uning can and should be a vital pan of
collaborations such as thi s one-particularly
in the area of education." he said ...We are
hoping this project will be the beginning of an
innovative and ongoing training component."
In addition to the training component
matching grants will be avai lable. on a competitive basis. to implement efficiencies and
collaborations iden tified by the project.
Schools in Erie and Genesee counties will
be eligible to appl y for the gn~nts. which
should be in place by the fall.
As outlined in the recent Governance
Project repon. effective collaborations and
efficie ncies will be essential if Western New
York is co successfully compete in che global economy of the 21st century. In the
effort to stabilize property taxes and provide
public services, including educational services, auenlion to the inlerrelationship of
cost, quality and efficiency will be essential.
The educalion project will have practical

results , Rath , Greiner and Loretan emphasized.
'The point is not to issue a repon." said
Rath. "Our intention is to have a very direct
and helpful impact through careful research
and the pragmatic implementation of project
goals. such as the grnnt program. training
component and reform effon in Albany.
"It also is important to understand that
this endeavor is not only going to be of value
to our educational st ructure. but to the taxpayers who fund that structure," she said.
"Like the work of the Governance PmJI!Ct.
we are going to be focused on gl\•mg area
residents a real value for their Ia). dollars."
The education project will be coordina ted
through the Office of Pubhc Service and
Urban Affairs at UB . under the d1rection of
Acting Vice President John Sheffer. Other
university units participating in the effon. in
addition to the Governance Project. will be
the Graduate School of Education, the School
of Law, the School of Architecture and Planning and the fnstitute of Government.

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FaculbiSiaffBillboard
LAW IIEYIEW T O KENNEll! JOYCE
The ll&lt;Jffalo Law Review of lhe UB
. . . . . . . . Schoc&gt;f of Law will
honor K - I l l F.
.Ioyce, profeSSC)(
of law, allhe Sev·
enth Annual Law
Review Dinner to
be held April 25 at

Delaware Park Casino. Kevin M.
Dmon. Erie County
dtstrk:t attorney,
and a lecturer on criminal law tn the
law school , is the guest speaker

JOYCE

·we are honoring ProfeSSOf Joyce
for his 32 years of distinguished servtce to the students of the University
at Buffalo School of Law.· satd
James Grable. editOf-in~hief of the

Among topics to be addressed at
lhe conference will be "Convnunity
Across Cultures,· "That's News I
That's Programming! That's Entertainment! ,· ~The American Dream:
Lost and Foood,. 'The Mulllcullutal
Fa.miy,' 'The Divefse History ollhe
1~-&lt;lld Univ9&lt;sily al Buffalo,.
"Skin Deep: A Video Worl&lt;slxlp," "To-

ward a Deflllition ol 'Cormulity'."
'Corrvoonicating Across Cuftures' and
'Learned Mloconceplions ol Diversity.'
Rounding

out the event on April

2a will be lhe Second Annoal UB
Soccer Expo, to be held near Blicoll
Tennis Couns. Semifinals will begin
at10a.m .; finals at 11 :30 a.m . Registration fee for the conference, whk:h
Includes Saturday lunch and refresh-

ments. is S15, public; SS. students.
Call 645-2258 fa more information.

Buffalo Law Review "Prof8SSO(
Joyce represents all that a great law
teacher should be.·
Joyce JOined the faculty of UB
Law tn 1964 aher earning a B.A. and
Ll B from Boston College and an
l l M from Hatvard University. where
he was a Ford Fellow. He served as
taw clerk to the Supreme Judicial
Coun of Massachusetts and the U.S.
Court of Appeals. District of Columt&gt;ta Cucuit. He has been executive
or of the New Ycwk State Law
e is the author of Chapter l 7 of
th treatise . Judicial Control of Ad·
mi 'strative Action (with former UB
Law

an louis Jaffe) and numerouS
federal taxation His

laxahon . trusts and estates .
According to Dean Barry Boyer ,
the courses Joyce teaches are always 1n high demand and he regularly w1ns the Faculty Award at commencement ceremonies . aKtm Joyce
1s appreciated by faculty and students alike lor h1s keen intellect,
wonderful sense of humor and marvelous teaching ability , ~ Boyer said.
All alumni of the Buffalo Law Revtew are invited to attend the dinner.

rtes

of avolutoo , such as

Oarw~n ' s .

heve 10 do wilh lhe p&lt;ocessas by
which evolulion has taken place.·
Mitchell said lhe distinction is
compatable to the one that concerns

lhe pheoomena ol gravity and lhe
- - explain lhem. 'We obS8MI lhal people stick lO lhe face ol

ol
lhe earth, bullhen !here "'e gravity !hat explain how lhel ocan.•
he said. 'By lhe same lOken, Darwin's
lheory p&lt;ovldes an explanaJion ol how
evolution l8l&lt;es place. In bolh if&gt;.
stances, lha - . . . , . , . txlst lndepandendy ollhalr axplanationo..
The talk is sponsored by lhe UB
ScienCes Alumni Association of lhe
Facully of Natural Sciences and
Mathemalica. F&lt;&gt;r more lntonnation.
contac1 Cindy Nydahlat 645-2531 .

-WAI.Il~TIIOIYUII

..,._·scw.

and professor in the UB Department

Final event ollhe UB Women's Club
Celebrate 501 year, lhe Family Fun
Will&lt; and 5K Race, will l8ka place on
lhe secured roedways ollhe UB
Not1h Gampua on Sunday, May 5. The
walk begins at 10 a.m. and lhe run al
10;30 a.m. al Aiufml Arena. The Buffalo community is lnviled 10 enler.
Awards will be p&lt;esented 10

of Geology. Mitchell, a paleontologist , will locus on the distinction between the observable fact of evolution and the theorJes that explain it.

receive ribbons. The UB Sesquicentennial and the Women's Health ln._
tiative are underwriters for the event.

'Evolulion: Fact and Theo&lt;y' will be
the topic of a lecture to be gtven at
7:30p.m. on Monday, April 22, In
Room 215 of the Natural Sciences
Compiex on lhe UB North Campus.
The talk, free and open to the
Public. will be presented by
Chartee llttohea. associate chair

"The common understanding of
theories-that they are just half·
baked truths-has more to do with
Sherlock ~mes and the O .J. trial
than it does with science,· he said.
"There are elements of the history
ol lite on earth that are clear evidence ol the tact that organisms
have evolved.· said Mitchell. "Theo-

group wtnners and all finishers will

Proceeds will benefit the Grace

Capen Scholarship Fund and lhe Exercise Science Majcn Club. Purchase
ola comnemonllive 1-sNrt for $15 is
lhe individual en11y !ae. F&lt;&gt;r more in!ormalion can Leila Bai&lt;ef, 691-5972.
Group events are as f()(kwts:
Money &amp; Investing, May 8. 7 p .m .,
Eggertsv!II&amp;-Snydef Public Ubrary;

the United States
seal. It's also the
locus of a lively,
thought-provoking
public conference

BENITEZ

cellor al the Cavey CamptJs of lhe
Untversity of Puerto Rk:o. A graduate
ol CcMumbia University, she has
taught at hef ak"na mater, as well as

at Fordham University, SUNY/Albany
and universities in Spain.

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ua.-.._.

- - , - , oxecutlve direC1or
of the American ;.--,Chamber
of Corrmerce Iince 1985, w!!! apeal&lt;
at UB AprH 22 at 3:30 p.m. in Jacobs
106 on
lrdonoela- Relationo: Ale lhe Ties Strengthening?'
Forrest is • regular contribulOr lO The
Eoonornist on Indonesian aHan. The
event is apontOf8d by lhe Depar1menl of Geography, lhe lnlarnatlonal
Busineoa Club and Asian Studies.

·u.s.

I..OPOI5 ' 1 0 . AT AI'B. .lllaPIIOII
The Boerd ol Dlraclara of lha Campos Club. lhe Facully Senala, Professional StaH Senate and lhe Millatd
RHmore College Stlrdent Association
will honor Millard Fillmore College's
newly appointed dean, - . .
" - al a recaption AprH 30 In lhe
social hell of lhe Student Union on
lhe North Gampua.
The event. acheduled for ·~
p.m., wilincUia a welcome and Introductions at 4:45 p.m. AI univeBily fac·
ully, SlaH and aiLmni are inv!led. Torespond lO lhe invilaiion, caii645-225B.

Concer1S and WBFO-FM.
Vincent is a mustcian and folk
singer whose tyrics touch on global

- - oflhe Depal1·
menl of Periodontology In lhe School
of Denial Mediclne. has one ol her designs for a lavendar and lace pin, e
tiny herb-fHied hear1. featured in a special publication ol Better Homos and
Gatdens, 'Aoral and Nallle CraflS .•

themes-ecologtcal. social and racial. Touring for 15 years, he has appeared in 120 countries and has cof..

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lec1ed many impressions and
experiences. Voncent says, 'My songs
are ln1erpret8tions of !hose exper;.
eoces. I write aboullhlngs in i!e lhel
!OuCh me, such as love. pollution, casual encounters: The New Yorl&lt; Trnes
says, 'His music is universal.·

lo be held al UB
April 26-28. ,

H1spank: studies and former chan-

Union. North Campus.
Tennis, Wednesdays, 1:30-3 p .m ..

Atrllerst Hills Tennis Club; Marie
Schillo, Ann Shub, co-chairs.

sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French . Compass

"E Pluribus Unum· -one out of

..._ . . . - . . , pro!esSO&lt;ol

chairs, Pal Addelman, Nicki
Yeracario. Bridge Aighlaessions will
be scheduled at convenience ol
rnembera; Marie Schillo. coordinalor.
Evar*'o Gcurret. O*leae BlrqJel,
May 16. Alia's Qystat Place; '--"'
F\.oslgi. Norma fUlin. CC&gt;&lt;:hairs.
Gourmet Techniques, May 10.
10:30 a.m.. home ol Meena Rustgi;
Soulhwes1em cooking -.onstration.
French Conversation, May 17,
12:30 p.m., home of Bill Blanchard,
light lunch. short story reading.
lnternalionsl, May 21, monthly
coffee. 10 a .m ., Room 210, Student

SI'UIIIII '10 ..a..

llrlo VIncent, French singer,
songwriter and recording artist. will

, . - - - - - - - , many-appears on

sociation of International Educators.
Luncheon speaker wi" be

ona Restaurant, 10 a.m .-2 p .m.; ~

perlorm April21 al 7 p.m. In Allen
Hall, South Campus . The concert is

AT UB APRIL 26-.27

Support also is p&lt;ovided by lhe U.S.
lnlonnalion Agency, lhe Cooperatlve
Grants Program ol NAfSA and lhe As-

Slorr, arrtV'Q8Il'8'll
Bridge, April2 and 16, Dandeli-

L.ara; -

let division ollha Embasoy of lha
Federal Republic of Germany.

AT ALLDIIIAU.

CONFERENCE ON DIVDSI1Y

Several hundred
members of the UB
and WNY communi11es are expected to attend this
event. which will run from 3-5:30 p .m .
on Fr•day . April26 and 9 a.m . to 5:30
p m on Saturday. April27 in the Stu·
dent Union on the North Campus.
Cultural diversity in media/entertainment , educalio"n and other aspec ts of daily life will be the focus of
more than two dozen presentations
and panels. A mix of viewpoints, research and discussiOn featuring edu·
c ators , students, community and
bustness leaders. and members of
media and the entertainment industry
w111 address ways In which diversity
ts an asset in today's America .
Sponsors are the offices of International EducalJOn. Student Life and
Multicultural Affairs, and the Commit·
lee on T~rance and Diversity at UB.

Glenn Sheikun, financial pianne&lt;,
apeakat'; Janel Fedor, Norma Rubin,
co-chelra.
Antiques. May 1. visft 10 Oclagon
House In Al&lt;ton. with lunch at Al&lt;ton
House; Judy BelMTI8&lt;, Katrina
Wobschall, co-chail8.
- . . May 13. planning meeting ;
Nlml Baht. hostess, Irene Swlatowy,
co-hostess.
~. ll.bldayl. 10 a.m. Sherld51

Admisskln is $10 fa adutts: $5 ,
students and senior citizens. To
make reservations. call 759-9136.

ollbo pll
sociedOIIO IIOl

lei ap llllliilel lilel, but to~

usin&amp; diem u • -

olpublilbiDJ tbilr lleWalellen aad joumlla.
The lire maiJIIailll ao an:hiw of IICllalarty lerial publlcatioas
available ooliDe. For each IIOcicqr publi&lt;:alioo, ao IJIDOialioo indi-.
cates whether lbe fuJI text, table ol COIIIeDII, ll!d/or abotract are
available aad wjletbec _ , 10 lbe publi&lt;:ation is free or for a fee.
1be site also .includes a series of essays on lbe history of lbe
scholarly society and lbe evolution of lbe scholarly jo urnal. The
essay DOleS that ~in spite of lbe proliferation .of noo-SO&lt;;iebil
journals in lbe last two centuries, scholarly societies continue 10
play ail imponaot role in encouraging research aod publisbiog lbe
results of it" The escalaling subscription costs of many research
journals, particularly those published by certain commercial publisbetS. is docwneo1Cd in IIOOCberessay, "The Crisis ioScbolarly Publishiog." A concluding edil&lt;lrial discusses the impact this has had on
joumalcollcdions in academic libnries and calls on scholarly societies
10 help influence the future of scholarly publishing.
Th e Scholarly Societies Project is located at llllp:/1
www.Ub.Mwalerloo.ciiiiDCNIJI on the World Wide Web. For IJ$Sistanct with cOMtcting to the World Widt Wtb, conJactthe Computing Ce(lter's Ht lp Dtsl at645-3541.

-Loss Ptqwtffo Giaxitr and Nancy Schilltr, Univtrsity Librarits

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'The German/Jewish Relationship' will
be lhe topic ola speech by 11e1n1c1te, consul and head ollhe
pol~ical division ollhe Consulate General of lhe Federal Rapoblic of Ger•
many in New York, to be presented at
7:30p.m. April24, in lhe Jewish Community Center in Arrllen;t
Reink:ke's presentaUon is spon-

oored by lhe Community Relations
Convninee of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Buffak&gt;, the Department of
Modem Languages and Uteratures

al UB, and Hillel ol BuHalo.
wiladdiess 'llagal lelk,.
• nogu!or gabring oll.6 . - - . lD begin 81 notrl in fb;m 210,
The Corm1on&amp;. l.6 North~
Aeink:ke atudted law at the unl-.lties of Giesoen and Lausanne.
and did postgreduate wont al Cambridge Universlly. Ha was allaCM at
lhe Ministry of F&lt;&gt;rolgn Affail8 in Bonn
and from 1987-1990 oervedln Tel
Aviv as heed of the legal and consu-

-·he

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A thousand game players aro axpeeled to lake pa111n UBCon. the
Seventh 1lnnuaJ Gaming Compeli1ion

al UB April19'21 , In which mora !han
150 action and role-playing boerd.
card , live acUon games and historical
miniatures will be featured.

'UBCon '96: Ou1 ollhe Ashes' is
sponSO&lt;ed by the UB Strategists and
Role Playe~ Association. An" added
attracUon will be Optimus Design
Systems premiere of their new game

system, "Blood Down.·
Featured guests include Derek
Pearcy. graphic designer for Steve
Jackson Games. creatOI' of Pyrarmd
magazine and Sam Chupp, freelance
game designer, author of ~Sins of the
Father." a new novel from HarperPrism and writer for White Won Sys·
tams game books. Speclal events
include a medieval combat demonstration, dealers room and 24-hour
gaming tn the Student Unton.
Registration and most events will

be held in lhe Student Union, wilh
others to be held in Baldy Hall on the

North Gampus.
Players of any age and ok"llevel
are welcome 10 par1Jcip8la. Registration begins Friday, Apr~ 19 1116 p.m.
and conlinuea at 9 a.m. Saturday
and Sunday. Event limes ara: Friday,
a p.m.-midnight, Saturday. 10 a.m.-2
p.m.• 3-7 p.m. and a p.m.-midnight;
Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 3-7 p.m.
Gall Samuol Koepel al 645-3028
tor registration or other infonnation.

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and Massachusetts' Dana Dingle. Anderson averaged 13 4
points per game and 5.0 rebounds thiS season for the Bulls as

SportsView

a senior co-captain.
Anderson was second on the team with 61 three-pointers
and was named to the All-Toumarnent team at the Utah State
Classic in December. All except100al athJete, Anderson trans-

ferred to UB from Keene College, where he ied the nation tn

BULLS, ROYALS AMOHQ NA110NAL LIEADERS
The University at Buffalo men's and women's basketball teams
are wail represented among the national leaders in final statistiCs released this week by the NCAA.
Royals' guard Branna Doty finished fifth nationally In three·
poont field goals made per gaJne at 3.0. The junior from Rexford.
NY. scored 94 treys in her 31 games. The average also was
tops among Mld.COOtinent Conference members. Doty shot
39.8 from thr001l&lt;&gt;int range this season and had a career-high
seven in the opener at Hawaii Dec. 1.
A staple among Sal Buscaglla-coached teams is field goal
percentage defense with UB finishing seventh nationally in the
category at 35.9. Last season, the Royals were 10th at 36.0.
US's scoring margin of 13.6 also placed them 14th.
As a team, the Royals, 23-8 this season, also ranked among
the leaders in lhf991)0int percentage (seventh at 38.2) and
three-pointers made per game (27th at 5.5).
Sophomore center Nicole Blakeslee, who set a Royals record
with 70 blocked shots in one season, f111lshed 21st nationally in
blocl&lt;s per game at 2.3. The Howell, Mich .. native currently has
97 blocked shots to rank third in UB history.
The Royals also posted a singl9ilarne bast wihen they defeated Valparaiso 87-71 on Feb. 19 by canning 66.0 percent of
their field goal attempts. The Royals were 33-&lt;lf-50 on the
evening and the percentage was slxtll highest nationally during
the season.
Bulls' guard Mike Martinl-o finished among the men's leaders
tn lh&lt;991l&lt;&gt;inters per game ranking 12th at 3.5. The sophomore
tram Rahway, NJ,Is US's all-time leader with 157 career treys.
Martinho drained 10 against Troy State on Feb. 22, tying him for
third for single game lhfee-poinlertl.
Freshman Bernard Wheeler was tied for 27th with 2.4 steals
per game. Wheeler, a 5-10 guard from New Yorl&lt;, was one of
only two frashmen on the list. He ied the Bulls with 66 steals and
had career-best six three times.

Affti»ERRION DRAFim BY USBL TEAM
Bu s senior Jamie Anderson was selected last week by the
necticut Skyhawi&lt;s of the Un~ed States BaskellbaJI League
(U BL).

son, a 6-7 fOfWard from MilfOI'd, Conn .. was the
Skyti wks' third pick in the territorial draft. Anderson was selected y the Connecticut entry behind UConn's Rudy Johnson

soorlng as a sophomore. He led the Bulls in scoring on 10 occasions this past season and seo&lt;ed a career-high 28 poonts
against Mississippi Valley State

.rt'STENNIS

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rival Youngstown State.
Steve Datvn and Pradeep RabaJa won at numbers one and
three respectively in the win over the Colonials. Dahm defeated
Marc Brezina 6-2, 6-1 while Rebala rallied to defeat Chris
O'Brien 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

M1ke Proulx at number t'NO and Joe Hamilton at rll..mber six
captured Wins over the PenguinS Proulx downed YOlllQstown's
Zach Veres 6-2. 6-4 whtle Hamlton took hiS first Singles VICtory
of the season With a three-set win over Kamal Khanna 2-6, 6-3.
6-1
Oahm moved up to hrst s1ngles due to the LOJUfY of co-capta1n
WadLe Kawar , who was out with a fractured foot Kawar had
been named Mid-Con Player of the Week after h1s stenar play
dunng the Bulls' spnng oreak matches at Hilton Head Island.
SC Kawar was thud '"the league'" f~rst smgk!s w•th an overall
spnng record of 7-3
·This ts the b•ggest loss thts season !Of the team.- satd head

coach Russ CnspeH · He has been the honest sports player at
US thrs sprtng season and to lose htm ts a great loss •
The Bulls hope to have Kawar back for the upcOffilng MtdContJnent Conference Tournament The tourney runs Thursday

through Sunday in Montgomery. Ala
- Ted Wasko, Sports lnlcxmauon Office

Leners
Ukrainian Student Association events
remember Chornobyl disaster victims
DUll EDn'Oit:
April 26,1996 marf&lt;s the 10th anniversary of the world 's
worst environmental and nuclear d isaster. which occurred
in Chomobyl , Ukraine. Due lo contemptuous disregard
and criminal disdain for the welfare of its citizens . the
former Soviet Union Is responsible for the most catastrophic disa~ter known to mankind. The effects of this explosion are still being felt by many and will continue for
generations to come. 3.2 million people have been affected by radiation, with over 1 million being children.
17,000 square miles of forests are contaminated by radiation, and almost 16,000 square miles of agricultural land
has been contaminated.
The Ukrainian Student Assoc iation is sponsoring a
week-long schedule of events to commemorate the victims of the 10th anniversary of Chornobyl from April 1519. During the week we will have informational displays
set up in the Student Union: there will also be info. show-

case displays in the Student Unton, and the Lockwood
and Undergraduate Libraries. A showtng of the documentary "living Under the Cloud" and "Chornobyl: A Challenge for Our Generation: a lecture by Dr. Alexander
Kuzma, Director of Development, Children of Chornobyl
Foundation, will be held on Thursday at 6:30p .m. in the
Student Union Theater preceding a candlelight vigil in
Founder's Plaza. On Friday we will be donating books to
Lockwood Library at 12:30 p.m. All donations will benefit
the Children of Chornobyf Foundation.
In remembrance , we invite the University and Buffalo
community to partake in our week. Please help us bring
to light this world's worst environmental disas ter wh1ch affected not only the territory and population of Ukraine, but
was felt the world over.
Sincerely,
O&amp;.a:NKA aooNAitSIU,
President of Ukrainian Student Association
LAIIIUA HrtCYK,
Ukrainian Student AssOCIBtlon
Chomobyl Commtttee

CALEttDAR
Continued from page 8

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Sulfonamide Byprne.asltlvllitt
in H IV-Positive Paliea U. Lori

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Sw •ck. 248 Cooke. Nonh Campus 8a.m.

Lotkwood Library Book Sale.
Friends' Room, Lockwood Li ·
bn~ry . Nonh Campus. 10 a.m.·
4 p.m.

S.,e!Talk
lnro rm a l l u nc h~on

ta lk, with
Dr. Andreas Reinic k.e. consul and
head of the political division.
Cnn!iulate Genen.l of lhe Federal
Republic of Germany in New
Ynrk City. Food will be provuled. Campus Je wish Life Cenler, Suite 2 10, The Commons.
Non h Campus. Noon.

L.lfeW-....,.
W om~n aad Body lmace, Pre·
sented by Counseling Center starr '
as part of their Food for Though1
Kries. Noon· I p.m. Caii64S6 125 to register.

PhtloooploJ UctooN
1'he Dos:a or DiJTerence~ Rita
Fel'lld . The Commons. North
Campus . 2 p.m.

Co&amp;nlti••Coll-1•
T he Effects or Cateaorics In
RttOnstrudin&amp; Er~rit oca
rrom M emory, Janellen
Huuenlocher. Dept. of Psychology. University of Chicago. 280
Park . No rth Campus. 2-3:30 p.m.

FlnMC181 A l c i i - Loan CouGKUoc Praeatatioo,
Offices of Financ ial Aid and Stucknt Accounts. For prospective
graduates and non-returning stude nts wllh outstanding Stafford,
Perkins and/or HWth Professions Loans. 146 Diefendorf.
So ulh Campus. 3:30p.m .

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John Home. Great Lakes Center.
Buffalo State College. 140
Ketter. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Non-W~l1 Founded Sets, Jacek
Pasnicz.ek., Maria CurieSklodowska Uni v. (Lublin). 684
Baldy. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m.

-.. Uctll ..
Buck~y Fuller and the Design
or UB't Pbytkal Education
Compkx. Robert T . Coles. 30 I
Crosby . South Campus . 5:30p.m.

UUAII Fit•
II Postino (Italian. w;th subcitles).
Student Union Tileater. North
Campus. 6:30 p.m. $2, $3 .50.

L.lfeW-...op
Guealou ro r Bqinners. Off
campus. 7-9 p.m. $2. To register,
call 645-6125 .

Opuo:c-.uve
BuJJa lo PbUbarmo nic C horus
C ha mber S ingers, Thomas
Swan, conductor. Allen. South
Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Taped by
WBFO 88.7 FM for broadcast lhe
following Sunday at 4 p.m .

UctooN-

DI--

Tbe G~rman .Jewish R~lationshlp Today, Dr. Andleas
Re inick.e, Political Division of
the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Gennany in New
York City. Lippman Lounge.
Jewish Community Center. 2640
Nonh Forest Rd .• Amherst. 7:30

p.m. Call 688-4033.
UB Jan Ensemble, Russell
Owens, director. Slee. Nonh
Campus. 8 p.m.

UUAII Fll•
12 Monkeya. Student Union Tileater. Non.h Campus. 9 p.m. $2,
$3.50.

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l ncorporaliDJ Spatial Va.riaace
In l ......rJdla Modell, Prof.

Clnil

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klenceo

Eft'edJ or Condittoning Films
on Im plant Su«as, Dr. Anne
Meyer. 35!5 Squire. South Campus. 8a.m.

Copltlve Selene•
Colloquium

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Neurology Seminar, Pe1cr
Hunenlocher. 280 Pllrk Ha:l l
North Campus. 8:30a.m

Lockwood Library Book Sale.
Friends' Room, Lockwood Library. Nonh Campus. I0 a.m.4 p.m.
·

Political Science Lecture
T he l ntqration or Ge-rmany in
lbt European Union, Dr.
Andreas Reinicke, Political Division at the Consulate General of
the Federal Republic of Germany
in New Yort. City. 106 Jaco bs.
North Campus. 3 p.m.

Fl-a.IAicl""-t-on
Loan Coun.sdinc Praenlation,
Offices of Financial Aid and Student Accounts. For prospective
graduates and non-returning stu ·
de nts with out.sumding Stafford.
Perkins and/or Heallh Professions
loans. Student Union Theater.
North Campus. 3:30p.m.
I'II~Celioqulll•

The S taadird M odc.land Lal tic:e QCD, Dr. Andreas Kron feld.
Fenni Lab. 220 Natural Sciences.
North Campus. 3:4!5 p.m.

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llloleCic.l L ife H istory or Red Soft CoralJ: httems, Mechanisms and
ConJICCittCDCU. Dr. Ye huda
Benayahu. Zoology Depc .• Tel
Aviv Univ . 121 Cooke. North
Campus. 4 p.m.

The M yhill Lectures: Fermat's

M« baaodoctri&lt;ol Stpol

IEIIwtl

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_Col._,...

Canll111•t.•.ry illoloO
T nuducUoa aDd lbe Gneration of Arrloytluolu, Dr. Fred
Sachs. Biophysics . 30 1 Biomedical Research BUilding. South
Campus. 4 p.m.

Professions, University Counsel ing Center. Women's Health lhltiative. Call645·2646 eJ.L 127.

Last

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Take Our Daqbten to Work
Day. Sponsored by Association
for Women in Science. Chemistry
Dept., CSEA. Office of Student
Ufe, fanners ' Preu Inc., PEF.
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Task Force o n
Women 11 UB. United Univenity

'I'beoft-. COftiTUtnces

u d L-Functlou, Prof. V.
Kumar Muny, Univ. of Toronto.
Last of three lectures dedicated to
the memory of Prof. John R.
Myhill. 148 Diefendorf. South
Campus. 4 p.m.

"'--•t: I utica ........
Strat.tpe. aod EUJDpta or MetaboNMn ud Pbanurold netk

Support of Drug DtllYtry, Gnff
Humphreys. Ph.D., Bristol-Myers
Squibb. S08 Cooke. Nonh Campus. 4 p.m .

St.ti.Uca Colloquium
Some Modtb ror Prediding lht
AIDS/BIV Epid~mk , Prof.
Lynne Billard. Dept. of Statistic~.
Univ . of Georgia. Athens. Ga..
and Presidenl. American StatiSii ·
cal Association. 246 Cary South
Campus. 4 p.m.

L.lfeWorl&lt;ollop
T ' ai C hi for Bq:inners, Ron
Ingalsbe . Tuesdays and Thursdays, through May 2. !5 :30-6.30
p.m. To ~gis ter. cali64S-6 12S

M-unc

Gradua te Gay am d Lesbian As·
sodatlon. 362 Student Union
North Campus. 6 p.m. For infor mation. call 836-6148.

PhMmacyiActuN
C hildhood Immunization,
Michael Cimino. 523 Cooke
North Campus. 6-9:30 p.m

UUAII Fit•
II Postino (Ita lian, with sublilies). StudeRI Union Theater
North Campus. 6:30p.m. $2.
$350.

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DlaiJnCul- Speeken

'l'ht lnrormatlon

S u ~ rh igb ·

way, Howard Stringer, fanner
president CBS. Mainstage, Center fur the Am. North Campus
8 p.m. SIS . $ 18.$21

Jau
UB Jan Combo, Lou Manno.
d necto r. Baird. North Campus
8p.m

Mu.ac.ll'heatet
Chicago, Lynn Kurd.u ci · Fonnato
and Tom Ralabatc, directors,
&amp; Dance . Drama The·
a1re . Center for the Arts North
Campus. 8 p.m. $2.50. SS

Thea t ~

UUAII Fl...
12 Monkeys. Student Unson Theater. Noeth Campus 9 p.m. $2,

SJ.SO.

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"Negotiated Consuuction," a de·
sign eJ.hibit. opens Apri l 22 an

lhe James Oyeu Gallery. 335
Hayes Hall . South Campus. and
continues there through May J
The exhibit is described as "a
collaborati ve design project done
in conjunction with the Junior
Studio curriculum" showing ""as·
pecu of the design-build proces!i." Gallery hours 3~ Monda) Friday 9 a.m.·S p.m.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS
Art ....o l .. Art 10 Poland · New Dtrccttun ~'"
features work by e1ght an1 ~ts
from !he Krak6w area. lhrough
Jul y m 1he Un1vers1t)' An Gallery
an the Center for the Ans. Nonh
C:ampus. Gallery hours art 10·30
a.m.-8 p.m W~dncsda y-Sa t urdny .
Noon-5 p.m Sunday AdmiS~ Jon
1s fn:c .

Profound Expreulona
M.F.A thesis exhibil "'Carol
Vacanti: Profound EJ.pre.'iS IOn ~""
w1 ll be o n display lhrough Apnl
23 m the Art Department Galle!) .
Center for the Arts. North Ca m·
pus Gallery hours: 10 a.m.·5
p.m. Tuesday; 10 a..m.-8 p.m.
Wednesday-Friday, II a..m -8
p.m. Saturday. AdmiSSion 1s fn=c
The SeniCN' Show
A co ll~ llo n of worls b)· gruduat mg scmon in the UB Art Depart ·
ment , '1'he Senior Show'" contin·
ucs through April 2S in th~ UB
An Gallery. C~nter for the Arts.
North Campus. G11llery hours art
10 :a.m -5 p.m. Wednesday-Fn day, II a.m.· 8 p.m. Saturday
Adm1ss1o n is free .

U&amp;Jitwelf lnotalllltton
Leonardo Drew's sJte -spccific
install ation ''No. 4S· A"" was de·
ssgned for the Light well Gall~ry
an the Center for the Ans, Nonh
Campus, and now IS lodged there
lhrough October.

_.........,. Exhibit
M.F.A. lllctis EJ.hibit MPatnck.
Lord: PtKM.ographs" will ~ o n
display April 25-May 6 tn the
University Gallery. Center for the
Ans. Opening reception 5-1 p.m.
Aprii 2S. Gallery hours: 10:30
11.m.·8 p.m. Wednetoday-Satur day : Noon-S p.m. Sunday.

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An exhibit of wort. by pontmakers Susan Buda.sh and Ben
Ounkk is on view lhrough July 8
in the Capen Hall Gallery loc111ed

on the fifth floor of Capen on the
North Campus.

s..,..lexhlblt

··us Remembers," a untYersuy
5esquicentennial exhibit orga·
mzed by University An:hives.
contmues lhrough Sepc 10m 420
Capen Hall nn the Nonh C~tmpus
Groups may arrange a visit by
calling 64!5 -2916. Exhibit hours
are Mo nday lhrough Frcday.
9 a.m. to S p.m

A •tep up for Print A ·Mall
Umverslly Prim &amp; Mail S~rvices
wi ll be= mol'ing its North Campus
copy ce nter A't'ril 25 from the
basement of Jacobs Cenler to the
Jacobs li«ond-floor amum-and
10 celebrate IS offcnng o 20 per·
c~nt discount off convemence
(walk-m) cop1es wtth a coupon
IWili labJe m various campus pub·
hcations and in fl yers. Final
grand opemng sale-day!&gt; are Apnl
18- 19. Pnnt &amp; M a11'~ m:un locatio n IS 250 Wmspear o n lhe Soulh
Campus.

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Lead Prognmmer Analyst (SL3)-Compuung and lnfonnat1on
Technology. Postang "P-6013
Senior Progn~mmer Analyst
(SL-4; Internal PromoHonal
Opportunily) -Um,·ersil)' Facih ·
ues. Pos11ng IP-60 1-'

F...,ltJ

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Assistant Profnsor-McdiCine,
Post ing IF-6014

Project Starr Auociate-Devcl
opme.nt. Posu ng MR .95090
Spon50rtd Prognm.s Assislant
IJ -Sponsored Programs Admml ~ ­
trauon. Postmg MR·960 17. Busi·
nw Mana~Cr - Pnmary Care Re·
sourc~ Ccn1cr. Postmg IR-96018

To ob1am mo r~ mfonnonon on
abo\~, rontact Puson ·
nC'I St!T'\IICn, 104 Crofts Hall To
obtain injoT7f'IDIWn on R~srarc h
JObs. contact Sptmsor~d Progrom.s Prrsonnrl. 416 Crofts
JobS fistrd

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Mystft'ia, Joe Nickell. Ph.D..
Comminec for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranonnal. Center for Inquiry,

1310 Sweet Home Rd. Noon. To
register. call Alumni Rclalions.
829-2608.

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VIPI ............•·

1q .... 100. .............,. ot tbe

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D~su~or,

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sponsored by Ukrainian Student
Auociation . Founders Plaza.

Non.b Campus. 8:30p.m.

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HeaL Student Union Titeau:r

North Campus. 9 p.m. $2 JtudenUI; $3.50 geocral public.
UUAB film series.

(: e zn

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L«ture, Robert J. Bcnholf. Powy/Rare Boob. Poetry/Rare
Books Collcc:lion, 420 Capen.
North Campus. 2:30

p.m.

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How Old b U~ Uni·
vcne? Bow WW ll Eod!
Prof. Donald Goldsmith.

Umv. of California atBcrtc-

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Campus. 3:4$ p.m.

Dideodorf. Soulh
Campus. 8-11 p.m. Spon·

~­

"""'by GSA.

A n:hitKtunJ Orpalutloo of
Nuckk Add MdaboU.m, Dr.

Cblcqo, L)'1Ul Kunhiei -Fonnato

Jeffrey Nid::cnon. Massachusens

and Tom Ralabue, diredon. 'J'be..
atre a. Daooe. Drama Theatre.
Center for tbe Atu. North Cam·
pus. 8 p.m. SS , $10.

ln~ t i tu tc o fTeclulology . 121
Cooke . North CampuJ. 4 p.m.

M_Col._...

-Prvf. A. Carboal, Univ. of r

1-2 p.m.
To register.
call 64S-2943.

Genoa. I OJ Diefendorf. South
Campus . 4 p.m.

In Vivo Cytoklae Gt..e TMnpy
of Human Lwac Tumor Xe-

nocnft.J in SCJD Mice Usia&amp; UpMOme-Mt'diltc DNA ~Uvtry ,
Ncjat Eailmu.. Ph.D .• RPCI. S08

Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m

R_Du_C_
Dnmatk Readln&amp;-A~m '•
Way. Poeuy/Rart BooU Collec IJOR, 420 C.pcn North Campus
4 p.m.

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Cop!tl. .

ac.._.

Dlot..,..l_..,_...,
Concepts or Self, Pror Jerome
Bruner. New York Umv 22.5

NAtural Sctences. North Campus

5p.m.
North~ New Muak:
Featlval
Burraao Pbllbarmook: On:hts·
tn, with duo-pianirtJ Sbirky
Ink and RoMrt Chumbky,

Gerhardt Zimmermann, guest con-

duclor. Works of Kenneth
Fraze lie, Alfred Schninke. Nicholas Maw. Mainstage, Cenler for
the Arts. Nonh Campus .5 p.m.
S!i . Sl2.

UfoW--.,
T'al C bl for Bqianen.. Ron
lnj!alsbe. TUesdays and Thurs·

days, through May 2. .5:30-6:30
p.m. To regi.ner, call 64.5-6125.

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Living Under tbe Ctoud,
Chomobyl documentary by Teresa
Metcalf, co-sponsored by Ukrai·
nian Student Association and
UUA B, followed by Chomobyl: A
Chal lenge for Our Generation, \eel~ by Or. Alexander Kuzma.
Children or Chomobyl Foundation.
Srudent Union Thellter. North
Campus. 6:30p.m. $2, $3.50.

ur.w--.,
Uatba Yop: Aa la.troduclioa.
6:30-8 p.m. To register. call 64.5-

-~m .

UDdu tbe Cloud. Student Union
Theater. North Campus. 6:30p.m.
$2 studenlJ; $3.50 general public .
UUAB film series.
_.,._~

Poe1ry RudlDa: Sua.a Ho1R
ud NatbaaW:I Matkey.
Hall walls, 2495 Main St. 7:30
p.m. Free:
Art LMtloN
Art at tbe EAd of Ow Cutury:
Pand and Opn DlKw:aioa , AI
Harris F.• moderator. with
Roberlcy Bell, Ronald Ehmke. Richard HuntinJ ton, Carol Zemel.
Albright-Knox An Gallery Auditorium . 8 p.m. S3. $4; UB faculty.
staff. students, AlbriJ.ht mernbc.n,

htt. Co-.sponsored by Univenily
at Buffalo Art

Galkry/R~b

Cenrer in Al1 + Culture.

-CreloVI
Takkl Quartet. Slce. North
c~ mpus . 8 p.m. $4. ss. $8, $10.

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C~lcqo, Lyno Kunhiel-Fonnaoo
and Tom Ralabele, din:aon. The..,. ... Duco. Dnma .........._
~-lor lhc ArU.
Campus. 8 p.m. $2.$0, $5.

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lcy. 220 Natura! Sciences Nonh

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ServtcCS, 6452646, xiO I or 1021

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Tbrombocyto

Sharon Smith.
Kinch Auditori •
Chi ldren 's Hosp1 I.

8a.m.

First Butralo Environmental Bca.llb
Scleacu Conference,
Sponsored by Envi ·
ronme n1al Heahh Sciences Graduate

Group, Toxicology
Resean:h Center, Canadian-American
Studies Committee,
and Great We~ Program. University Inn
and Conference: Center. 2401 N. Fon:st
Rd. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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$15 : students $5.
Registntion and

continental breakfast
8-8:30 a.m. Call
829-~319 .

~

Paael: Marjorie
Perlolf, Natlw&gt;iel
MKkey, and JORpb
Coate. Poetry/Rue
Books Collection, 420
Capen. Nonh Campus.
IOa.m.

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P ud: .lloblo
Blooer, S.....
Bowe.aod

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McGann. Poetry/
Rare Books Collection. 420
Capen. North
Campus. 2,30
p.m.

='

Tberapeutk
Stratqia ror
the Control or
B. Pylori U. the
Trahllentor
Gutrolatestloal
Dileut, Tom
Manilje, gmduate
student. Medicinal
Chemistry. 11 4
Hoehstcner. North
Campus. 3 p.m.

- Loctll..

Duooencylo
1lllllia attbt

Subaotlooal ......~

Prof. Jeffrey W. Hahn,
Dept. or Polilical Science, Villanova Univ.
S02 Park. North Campus. 3 p.m.

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EaP-rfnc

Pick of tho Crop O...C. wtll IJvo th- porfo........,.. of
H•IIMI Gretel Aptll 27 28 In tho Conter for
tho
port of t h o - New Music Futlv...

Arts_.__ ..

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Neurolaqlq U. hyeklatry,
Sanjay 0\lpt&amp;. M.D.. Olean Genenl Hospital. Auditorium, Rehabilitation Building, Buffalo Psychiatric Center. 10:30 a.m.

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AI:Ia at Nooe, Prof. lbomu
Kelrstud, Japanese hislOrian, History: Lany Chisolm. American
Studies, convenor. 2.50 Student
Union. North Campus. Noon- I
p.m. Open to faculty and students.

-llleloCr-

Aoalylil ot Coupled ...........
eaa: Computat5oaal Medaaak:l
Ap~ Dr. Guy DUJUSh.
Civil Eaalneerina. 140 Keuer
Hall. North Campus. 3,30 p.m.
c:-,~

Mierotokleatloo ot a Cbealeal
Labonto&lt;y: Wloal An ..........
pe&lt;llf Dr. Michael RamJcy, Oak
Rldge National Labonlory. 21S
Natural Science&amp;. North Campus.
4p.m.

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GrHt Follils. Alumni An:na

A Tribute to Sa..takovkb-a
Pf'OII"'Ul of cU.ber aatk.
Burcbfaeld-Pmney Art Center,
Rockwell Hall Buffalo Swe Col·
leae, 1300 Elmwood Ave. 8 p.m.

1Ackwoo4 Likwy Cloclr-MIIyl
8ook o...aJ.a. Oooatiou benefit the CbHdrea or Chomobyl
Foundation. L«kwood Libnry.
North Campus. lB O p.m. Call
Olenb, 636-1300. .

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B- U~Li ·

brary, 127 Capea. North Campur .

Oymnasticl Room. North Campus. 6-JJ p.m.

HeaL Studcat Ulli0111bcaler.
North Campus. 6 and 9 p.m. $2
........., S3.SO ....... public.
UUABfilmiCrica.

Se:Uw ...._ Hyan Reaency Buffalo. 7 p.m. roceptioo. followed by
dinner • 8 p.m.

"'*'7 .......: - -

HallwaiiJ,
249!1 Main SL 7' )0 p.m. Proe.

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

Volloyboll.
AIIIIIIDl Alma. North Campus.
8 a.m.-8 p.m.

a

Aa Aile.- w111t Mania
......... Datuty Glover and

Felix Justice. 'Tbcatrical read.iop
bued on the wordJ of Martin
Luther Kina Jr. md-LI.Dpton
HuJ.bes. Mainstaae. Center for- the
Arts. North Campus. 2~ p.m. $8,
SIO, $12. Spon"""' by 01!"100 or
Conferences and Special Evems.

A Trit.te to CoplaDd-a pro-

ss. $8,$12.

crooo .,...._........_

B lula1 Soddleo (1974). Student
Unioo Theater. North Campus.
II :59 p.m. S2 studentl; $3..50 genenl public. UUAB 61m w:ries.

RoctweU Hall, Buffalo State Colleae. 1300 Elmwood Ave. 4 p.m.

BurcbC~e\d-~rmey

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- l ! ' o d u d 'lltaory,
Prof. Cbarla Mitchell, Geolo&amp;Y.
215 Nsrural ScM:nces. North Cam·
pus. 7,30 p.m. S.......... by UB
Sciences AJumni Auociation.
Call 64S.2531.

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                    <text>STATE UN IVERS IT Y 0F NEW YO.RI AT 8UFFA L0

A1ml 11 1996

UNIVIItiiTY AI BUFFALO
State University ofNew York

Volume 27 No 25

Results of fiist online survey
reveal addiction to Internet
Some users spend 40 hours a week on the Net
RELIMINARY re sults of the ftrst online
survey of the psychological effects of
Internet use and abuse
provide the first indication that there
is a subset of users who may be
·'addicted" to the Net.
Seventeen percent of 185 indi viduals who completed the survey,
designed by a UB doctoral student,
sa id they spend more than 40 hours
per week on the Net, although it is
not known what percentage of that
time is job-related.
Scores that panicipailts were
assigned based on their answers to
questions about Internet use interfering with other activities indicated that almost aU of them at
"orne time have exhibited some

addiction-like behaviors related to
their use of the Net.
'The survey shows that there is
a subgroup of people who, as a
result of Internet use, experience
more interference than normal with
their other roles in life," said Vik:tor
Brenner. a UB doctoral student in
psychology.
'"The survey is important because at this time, there are no
other data available about the psyc hologi cal effec1s of lmernet
usage. There does seem to be such
a thing as Internet 'addiction' and
we need to look. at it more closely."
A total of 408 users visited the
survey site on the World Wide Web
in its first 30 days, resulting in the
completion of 185 valid surveys.
Brenner explained that although
"addiction .. may not be the most
accurate way to describe exces-

H

e added that because participants themselves chose to be
pan of the survey, its results must

be interpreted with caution.
The survey includes questions
about the respondent's background
and then asks how much time he or
she spends on different parts of the
Net and whether or not their use of
the Net has interfered with other

things they were planning to do.
Each response that indicated such
interference counted as one point
toward the total score.
'The high number of hours users
averaged online-more than 20--suggests that most people who use
the Internet use it a lot." Brenner said.

A

• rc-YJDAL
Reporter Editor

U

B ISREADYTOtak:eits
Sesquicente nnial celebration 0::1 the road.
A traveling exh ibit,
showcasing selected public service
initiatives at the university, will
make its debut April 13 in the Center for the Arts atrium as pan of
Open House.
The 8-by-10-foot display celebrates UB's !50 years of community partnelship and continues a
legacy of public responsibility. It
focuses on four categories: community involvement. business and the
economy, education on and offcampus. and health and well-being.
"We thought it would be a neat
way to show UB to the surround·ing community," said Mary
Gresham, associate vice president
for public service and urban affairs
and co-chair of the alumni, student
and community subcommittee of
UB 's Sesquicentennial Committee.
"We thought a well-done piece
would convey the service message
we want to get out there."

H

slve use of the
Internet because
physical dependency cannot develop, it has
become an accepted tenn.
He noted that
"In ternet addiction"mightbeclosest to pathological
gambling in th at
both are a behavioral failure to resist an impulse that
leads to interference with a user's roles in li fe.
such as those concerning family.
friends and employment.

ex-

ighlights of the traveling
hibit:
• UB is a good neighbor. in volved in its local community
through the university-community
ini tiative, a planning and development project for the mature neighborhoods surrounding the South
Campus. Its long-tenn vision is to
build a lively, multicultural community offering a high quality of
life.
• UB plays a major role in the
ongoing resurgence of Western

New York's economic well-being.
The university provides direct support to industry through programs
such as The Center for Industrial
Effectiveness, which has helped
regional companies improve their

productivity and
competitiveness.
• us· s medical
education and research program is
tied tO the mi ssion
and work of its
eight teaching hospitals; faculty are
located at UB as
well as the teaching
ho spita ls.
where medical students receive their
training.
• UB's Center Wr Assistive
Technology (CAT) conducts service, education and research programs on assistive technology for
persons with disabilities. thanks to
a team of professionals represent-

ing multiple disciplines, including
architecture. gerontology. law.
medicine. occupational therapy,
physical therapy, rehabilitation
coun seling. rehabilitation engineering. social work. special education. speec h pathology and
augmentative communication.
• UB · s commitment to education exte nds far beyond its two
campu ses. Continuing education,
tutoring, and developmental programs for children and teens in a
variety of settings also are part of
UB's mission . A case in point:
Hamlin Park School, located on
Buffalo's East Side, where anumber of UB faculty and students
have been involved in various
school programs. This collabora-

lmost everyone who answered
the survey seems to have exhibited some addiction-like behaviors related to their Internet use at
some point, with 89 percent scoring above five on the survey and
the average score ranging between
IOand 11.
"For that to be the norm suggests that most people who use the
Internet use it a lot and, at some
time, it has interfered with something else they were going to do,"
be said. "Only one person scored a
zero. which showed that they had
no evidence of such behavioral
interference."
Brenne;- was surpri sed to discover that about 40 percent of
respondents had tried to meet inperson individuals they had met
lhrough the Net.

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FSEC studies academic good standing, governance issues
111 STEVE COX

Reporter Staff
TIM Faculty Senate Executive Committee embraced a new draft of
the policy on academic good standing at its April 3 meeting.
Grading Committee Chair Thomas Schroeder presented a new ve rsion
of the policy, which bifurcates academic good standin g into separate
requirements for good grades and "satisfactory and timely progress
toward a degree." The latest draft loosens restrictions whi ch had placed
students on academic probation for failing to maintain a 2.0 grade point
average in any one semester. regardless of overall academic performance.
and eliminates a requirement that students be placed on probation if they
fail to complete 75 percent of the credits for which they registered in any
one se mester. The current policy, enacted last summer. came under
scrutiny when the fall grades were released. placing one-quaner of the
undergraduate student body on probation. _
Several FSEC members agreed that this latest version satisfies concerns they had with the policy and Vice Provost for Undergraduale
Education Nicolas Goodman, a supporter of the currCnl policy. declared.
"I can live with thi s." The revised policy draft was sent on to the full
Senate for consideration later thjs spring.

President William Greiner appeared briefl y to refute a report published in the st udent newspaper that major donors had affected the
decision requiring a security bond for a pro-life display. Charges Lhat
benefactors had threatened to stop contributing to UB if the '"Ce metery
of the Innocents" was allowed to return. appeared in the April 3 edition
of the student newspaper, The Spectnun. The statement was attributed to
UB Students for Life leader Robert Lau1a.
wlhe bottom line Ia, we treated this request just as we do any request
from a student organization.·· Greiner said. "It appeared to us that security
for thi s proposed display would cost the university. so we required a bond
of this organization for that amount of money .·· For example, the Student
Association posted a bond for security when Nation of Islam leader
Kahlil Mohammed spoke on campus two years ago and recently posted
an $8,()(X) bond for the upcoming "Springfest" celebration. Greiner
pointed out.
Greiner characterized the charge that donors had threatened him as a
"blatant untruth" and criticized the st udent newspaper for "continuing to
repeat this as truth." "I even received a phone call from one prominent
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Conflict in Bosnian region has personal import for UB prof
Sr STEVE COX

Repo&lt;ter Staff

T

O UB MEDICAL School
Professor Boris Albini, the
strife in the states of the
former Yugoslavia is not
s imply a tragedy in a far-away landit is a tragedy in his homeland.

Albini was bom in Zagreb, Croatia, but
ld1 when he was seven years old. He traveled to Israe l and Austria. where he attended
medical school, before coming to the Buffalo in 1974.
Today, Albini remai ns in touch with relaII VCS who still live in Croatia and visits the
region once or twi ce a year. " My cousi n and
hi\ wife are both doctors in Zagreb," says
Albini . 'They don ' t live in luxury , but are
probably a little better off than many there.
Nevertheless. their incomes are off sig nifi cant ly from what they were before the war."
Fonunately. Albini adds, there has been very
little! direct combat latel y in Zagreb. the
Croatian capital.
"When I was on sabbatical in Austria in
199 1. I was no further from Zagreb than
Alban y is from Buffalo," Alb ini recalled. In
June 199 1. Scrb-controlled forces attacked
Slovenia. the nonhwesternmost state of the
fnnner Yugoslavia, and then Croatia. "It was
ccn and shocking to be on the phone with
my, co usin and suddenly hear si rens in the
h;1 kg rou nd sig nalin g them to proceed to the
ho b s helter." he said. lamenting that
' umr r' s bombing of the 500-year old city
11f DuO vnik and the reduction to vinual
nun s of he great Croat city of Vukovar.
Soviel domination of Yugoslavia created
an air o f oppression roughly through the
lime of Albini 's childhood. "J remember
gomg into the lobby of a hotel in Zagreb
which usually had a painting of (Ru ss ian
Leader Jose ph) Stalin at one end and
(Yugoslav Dictator Joseph Broz) Tilo at the
other." said Albini. "But the one of Stalin
was gone and I asked. ' Where is Uncle
Stalin?' My father quickly hushed me. Many

people were anested during thi s time, for no
apparent reason." Shonly thereafter, Yugoslavia broke away from the Soviet sphere of
influence, although it remained a communist
state. With the death of Tito in 1980, those
vestiges of communism that remained,
quickly unraveled. Failing to agree on a new
system of governance, the Serbians became
military aggressors, starting the protracted
battle, said Albini.
Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Serbia were
all "federal states" of the fonner Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, an uoco~­
fonable federation of states forged after
World War I. " It was uncomfortable," Albini
explained, "because the Western pans of
Yugoslavia were historically influenced by
Western Europe, while theeastem pans were
under Turkish rule."

T

he region ' s tensions also have deep
religious roots, continued Albini. Descendants of the ancient Kingdom of
Bosnia Catholics are today called Bosnian
Croats, comprising roughly 20 perce.. of
modem Bosnia. Descendants of Eastern Orthodox Christianity are now Bosnian Serbs,
accounting for just over 30 percent of the
population, and those who accepted Islam
over Christianity are today known as Muslim Slavs and comprise almost half the population. "Despite all this, up until the 1990s, I
used to look at Yugoslavia as living together
peacefully," says Albini. "But the breakup
has intensified these religious and ethnic
differences."
Both Croatia and Slovenia have endured
some fighting on their soil. However, the
smaller state of Bosnia· Herz.egovina, about
the size of the state of West Virginia, has
endured the most extensive damage. Bosnia
had nearly 4.4 m.iiHon residents unlil 1992.
Intense ethnic fighting since has killed hundreds of thousands of Bosnians and forced
nearly one-half to nee the region altogether.
Albini believes that, although outside
observers may explain the conflict in thi s
hi stori c co ntex~ "many of the residents were
very surprised that fighting erupted. There

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donor:· Greiner continued. "'He had heard of
thi s and called to say he didn'tthink anyone
would give to a university that was applying
that son of unreasonable pressure on student
~ roups

Vice President for Student Services Robert Palmer discounted the organization .as
h~ in g disingenuous when describing itself
;~o,; a "student" group. "'It is my understanding
that th is organization only involves three to
five students max. with considerable outside
mnuences," he said.
In other business. the FSEC sent on to the
rull Senate 15 resolutions arising from a
Governance Committee report. whi ch the

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tive effon enriches students ' education and
encourages them to set goals fo r higher education, and also provides opportunities for
"t11dentsand parents to become familiar with
UB through regularly sc heduled activities
on campus.
The Sesquicentennial traveling exhibit
al so lists nearly !50 of the public service
ini ti atives in which UB is involved, ranging
from the Adaptive Environme nts Laboratory to writing internships.
It will be on display during UB's Sesquicentennial celebration at locations such as
the Erie County Fair and other locaJ festi vals. " You're going to notice il," Gresham
sa id. "It has a presence all its own." LJ

Senate received and filed last month. The
resolutions were requested by the Senate.
Among the resolutions was a scaled-back
proposal to increase the stipend for Faculty
Senate president The new moasure calls for
the president to earn a stipeod equal to " 10
pen:ent of the average full professor'! salary at
UB ," as calculated by American Association
of University Professors (AAUP). At present
salary levels, that would mean a stipend of
$7,900 for the president, who currently earns
$3,000. Earlier proposals had linked the
president's stipend to hi s or her own salary,
which could have resulted in a much higher
stipend. The Senate was due to consider these
proposals at their April 9 meeting.
Associate Vice President for University
Services Carole Petro brought FSEC members up to date on UB's recenUy launched
Sesquicentennial Celebration. "We have already started with informational items. like
Time Capsu les in the Reponer and UB To day, " she explained.
Substantia] planning has also gone into
~vents planned for the fall Academic Convocation, scheduled for Oct. 2-5, 1996, Petro
said. "We will host a panel sympos ium on
The Frontiers of Knowledge in Nature, Society and Culture." The featured speaker
will be Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman.
director of the Neurosciences Institute at
Scripps Research Institute. "II also coincides with Parents' Weekend," Petro said,
"so we hope it will be an exciting and wellattended event."
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local plastic surgeon. RecenUy, the chief of
surgery aod the director of the largest hospital in Tuzla, the Bosnian city bousing the
headquarters of United Nations peacekeeping forces, came to UB to enbance the relationship between the Buffalo and Tuzla
medical communities. "Dr. B0Jg$1aod is from
Norway but had been stationed in Tuzla, and
developed close ties to the hospitals there,"
explained Albini.
ough his father was both a music
blisher and a copyright lawyer,
bini remembers his childhood as
difficult. "II was after World WarD wben the
communists had taken over," recalls Albini.
"'The standard ofliving was quite low and it
was difficult to leave." Albini 's father ooce
served on the Croatian equivalent of the
SupremeCoun.HehadbeenborninS~~n~jevo

has always been peace among the sects and
extensiveinter--ethnicmarriages.''ToAlbini,
the roots of war lie in Serbia's ultra-nation·
alistic ·ruthless politics.' "Serbia was the
largest republic and it was the banking and
impon/export beadquaners of the confederacy,'' he explai ned. "Croatia was more a
' blue-collar' and tourism state and Bosnia
was the poorest of the states. But, Serbia
wanted to dominate the region and sought to
claim any areas where any Serbs resided."
bini has been active in the effons of
International Medical ReliefofWestm New York, a group of area physicians who have traveled to Bosnia and
have brought Bosnian doctors and nurses to
Western New York for specialized training.
The organization has been spearbeaded by
Buffalo General Hospital hean surgeon Dr.
Jacob Bergsland and Dr. Riyaz Hassanali, a

and had Jewish relatives in Israel, where be
eventually was able to go. "He was a copyrightlawyer and a musical composer, but his
disagreements with the commuri.ist leadership in Bosnia earned him a job in the cement
export business," Albini said.
S~~n~jevo , Bosnia's capital and host of the
1984 Winter Olympics, represents the greatest tragedy to Albini. Not only was the physical beauty of that city completely devastated
by shelling, says Albini, but ..the greatest
loss was that it was one area in Europe where
Jews, Muslims and Catholics had peacefully
coexisted."
Recovery is coming slowly to the Bosnian
region, but Albini is confident they will
rebuild. American troops are committed to
remain in the region patrolling the peace
until at least the end of this year and international aid is trickling in. Just this week.
Bosnia joined the World Bank and became
eligible for nearly $300 million in loans to
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rebuild its devastated infrastructure.

The 1996-97 UB TeiapltQ1e ~has been dellwred, and distribution 10 departmerdB on bolh ~will canti1Je lhrough !he end of April.
The dlredcry ollersllstlr1glt at dllliertnllli tiB end student Ofganizallons as wei as
Individual listings d faculty and
In alphabelical Ol'der and Olher campus inbmation. It also oilers an academic calendar, emergency numbers and maps.
Distribution conceins should be l!ddressed to Shirley McNamara. Communication Services, 645-3050.
Pirecloly infonnation also is available electronically via WINGS. Onfine since No-

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vember, !he electronic dlrec101)1 lists phone nt..mbers and other lnfolmalion about
UB faculty, staff and students, and Is searchable. The URL for the elecllonic version of !he departmental 'blue pages• is w".ng1 1M 1181a .......,_......,

...,_.,, The URL for Individual faculty, staff and student phone numbers Is

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Other results included:
• Users spent an average of 21 hours per
week online.
• Nearly half fell that their work may
have suffered as a result of their time online.
• Fewer than 10 percent reported getting
into trouble with employers or schools as a
result of their Internet use .
• The average survey respondent was 32
years old and twice as likely to be male as
female.
While the responses showed that many
people who use the Net may allow it to
interfere with their other roles in life. no
clear pattern emerged of an addicted Internet
user, according to Brenner.
That finding, he added, may be intrinsically related to the nature of the Net.
"Because there are so many things to do on

the Internet, and because it appeals to so many
people with so many different interests, there
is probably not a single pattern that describes
people who are abusers," he said.
Brenner. whose eclectic background includes work with anxiety disorders-and managed-care issues, designed the survey based
on his clinical knowledge of alcohol and
drug addiction. He is currenUy employed at
the Marquette University Counseling Center.
Brenner' s Internet usage survey may be
accessed by pointing any .graphics-based
World Wide Web browser to http ://
www.mu.edu/dept/ccenterlintro_srv.html.
The results may be accessed by pointing
your browser to http://www .ccsnet.comlprep
and connecting to the psychology preprint
bulletin board.
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Adult justice.for kids:

it's not working
Reform falls to curb crime, profe-•s book . ., .
day political and organizational interests.

Although the book focuses specifically
LTIIOUGH implementation of
a law that lowered the age at
which juveniles in New York
State can be prosecuted as
adults for some cri mes has
cal med many critics of the juvenile justice
system, il has done linle to hold juveniles
accountable for their offenses or reduce the
rate of violent juvenile crime. a UB socioJo.
gis t maintains.
Moreover, the likelihood that juveniles
will be prosecuted in criminal court, rather

than juvenile court. varies accord ing to race,
ge nder, time and county in which they are
prosecuted in. says Simon I. Si nger. UB
a"'soc iate professor of sociology .
For example, juveniles arrested forcer·
101in" offenses in Albany County are much
more likel y to be prosecuted in criminal

court than those arrested for the same offenses in Erie County.
In a new book. '' Recriminalizing Delinque ncy: Violent Juveni le Crime and Juve·
nile Justice Reform" (Cambridge U nive~it y
Press. 1996). Singer e ami nes how one
'\late- New York-atte pled to control violent juvenile crime by r efining certain acts
or delinquency as crime ·. and delinquents as
juvenile offenders. It be ·ns with the brutal
\ iolencc of a 15-year-old c onic delinquent
and the subseq uent passag or legislation
that t-ransferred jurisdi ction ver juveniles
from juvenile court to criminal court.

The 1978 Juvenile Offender (JO) Law:tlso referred to as waiver legislati on-lowered the age of cri minal responsibility to 13

fnr murder and 14 for rape, robbery, assault
and violent categories of burglary. The law
also allowed criminal justice officials dis·
cretion in charging a juvenile as an adult.
Juveni les who were considered amenable to
treatment in the juvenile justice system could
he removed to that system through a process
known as reve~ waiver.
Singer argues that the reasons for bring·
ing juveniles into criminal court go beyond
0\C nsationalacts of violence and the immediate concerns of elected officials to do somethin g about viO len t juvenile crime.
Recriminalization. he says. is a product of
earlier juvenile justice reforms and modem-

on New York State, Singer notes that other
states have enacted their own versions of
waiver legislation. And 73 percent of respondents in a 1993 USA Today/Gallup survey favored transferring juveniles to criminal
court for violent crimes.
Singer studied the development, implementation and effect of the JO Law in New

York by analyzing data collected by the state
Division of Criminal Justice Services between Sept. I, 1978, when the JO Law took
effect, and May 30, 1985.
He found that the four largest counties in
the state-all located within New York Cityaccount for 85 percent of JO arrests. Brooklyn
alone produced one-third of the JO arrests.
Bronx officials charge juveniles on average
with more serious offenses than do officials in
the other New York City counties.

E

rie County, which includes the state's

second-largest city, Buffalo, recorded
little more than I percent of the total
JO arrests, although the county' s population
of nearly I million is compamble to other
downstate counties where JO arrests are more
common. ln Albany County. officials seem to
follow the letter of the JO Law by charging a
larger proportion of juveniles for less serious
JO offenses. ln Albany, more juveniles are
arrested as JOs than in Erie County. based on
the counties' juvenile populations. The rate in
Albany is 93 per IOO,OOOjuveniles. compared
to 35 per 100,000 in Erie County.
Singer interprets these variations as differences among jurisdictions as to what constitutes a JO offense. "Officials in Buffalo
and Rochester appear more inclined to follow the letter of the JO Law on Iy for the most
serious, violent offense charges," he says.
''In these Western New York counties, juveni les who commit the less-serious JO o ffenses are less likely to be arrested as juvenile
offenders and are more often charged as
juveniles."
This may be due, he says. to a more
loosely coupled crimi nal justice system in
which a difference in opinion and concerns
among law enforcement offi cials may keep
all but the most seri ous cases exclusively in
the j uveni le justice system.

S

inger's analysis also found that the
majority of cases of juveniles ar·

rested for offe nses for which they

were criminally responsible are dismi ssed or
removed to juvenile court. Only 25 percent
of juveniles arrested as offenders were ulti mately convicted in criminal coun-1 0 per-

cent if "youthful offender" (YO) status is
eliminated. YO status includes the possibility of probation or a reduced term of imprisonment.
In addition, the analysis determined that
the incarceration rate for JOs was linked to
the temporal cost to a coun ty of incarcenll·

ing the offe nders. During 1979. the first full
year under the JO Law, less than 4 percent of
eligible juveniles were incarcerated. The
incarcemtion rate increased until I 983 . when
it peaked at 21 percent. In 1984. a year after
the cost-sharing fonnula for cou nties of jurisdiction kicked in-whereby counties
gradually were required to increase the cost
they paid for the incarceration of a JO from
I 2.5 percent to the 50 percent that it cost to
incarcerate a juvenile delinquent through
family court-the percentage of juveniles
incarcerated started to drop. By the time the
cost of incarceration increased to the full 50
percent in 1988. the rate of incarceration
plunged to 6 percent or juvenile-designated

felony arrests.
Is the JO Law "more bark than bite?" Yes
and no. Singer says. noting that it all depends
on the offe nse and offender. Juveniles who
are charged with more serious offenses face
a higher probability of conviction in crimi·
nal coun and a lower probabilit y of YO
stat us, or havi ng their cases removed to
juvenile coun or di smissed. Older juven iles.
boys and minority youth are more often

adjudicated as JOs.
Moreover, justice also appears to depend
on jurisdiction and timing. he adds , with the
manner in which the JO Law is imp lemented
being different in various parts o f the state.
Singer evaluated the impact of the JO
Law on crime by comparing the number of
monthly juvenile arrests both before and
after the law was implemented. He found
little evidence that the JO law produced a
decline in arrests.
There are several explanations for thi s.
Singer says. The law may be too weak to
produce a measurable effect on crime pat·
terns. In addition. juveniles may not have
been deterred by even a marginal ancrease m
the certainty and severi ty of pumshment
promised by the law.
Moreo\'er. the loose tit between cnme
and punishment for juvenile offenders in
criminal court runs contrary to an imponant
principle in the theory of de terre nce that
stresses the certainty of punishment. he says.
Although most juveniles appearing before
juvenilecouns have received relatively little
punishment. the probability or pumshment
is "cenainly not zero. "The additional. harsher
penalties of the JO Law may not have appeared significant enough to deter potential
offenders, he says.

S

inger recommends that sta tes enact a
more tightl y coupled system ofJUVe·
nile justice in which recriminalization
is more narrowly focused and confined to th e
most serious vio lent offenses. A combination of legislative waiver-in which juve·
niles cannot be convicted in criminal coun
except for the most violent offenses. such as
murder-and judicial waiver-which in·
eludes a wider range of offenses-would set
limits as to the kinds of offenses for which
juveniles wou ld enter criminal couns. He
doesn' t believe. for exampl e, that the current
provision for automatic waiver for "C'' felo·
nies for 14-year-olds for crimes such as
assault and burglary makes much sense.
At the same time. a tightly coupled system of juvenile and criminal justice would
require that criminal ccun officials be aware
of an adu lt" s earl ier juvenile coun convictions for violent designated felonies.
"Juven ile justice has developed into a com·
plex. bureaucratic system with all sons of
legal avenues and legal categories." Singer
says. "With this, you have all sons of bureau·
erotic interests and conflicts that deve lop in-

dependent of the needs of the child and the
needs of the state. We need to have a more
tigh tl y coupled system of juvenile justice that
is less suscl!ptible to pol it ical whims and
really takes to hean the best interesb of the
chi ld and that of the community ."

Study shows store appearance affects consumer rating ofstore brands
lr SUE WUETCHER
News Services Staff

W

IDER AISLES and brighter
colors in a supermarket may
not only make shopping a
more pleasant experience for
the consumer, they also may increase a store's
bottom line, marketing researchers at UB
h:we found.
The appearance of a store, they have shown,
strongly influences consumers' evaluations of
private-brand grocery products, which repreo;enta greater profit margin than private brands
and which belp build store loyalty.
Upgrading less-attractive stores, they suggest. can be a way to boost sales of each and
every store-brand product on the shelves.
Consumers shopping at "aesthetically pleasing" stores are more likely to judge the overall
quality of private brands to be significantly
better-21 percent-than those shopping at
less attractive stores, according to results of a
&lt;tndy by two UB marketing professors and a
colleague from Loyola University.
However, the researchers found no dif·
fcrence in ratings of national brands, based
nn store aesthetics.
The study, to be published in an upcom-

ing issue of Product and Brand Management, was conducted by Arun K. Jain, Samuel
P. Capen Professor of Marke ting Research
and chai r of marketing at UB : Alan Dick, UB
ass istant professor of marketing. and Paul
Richardson , assistant professor of marketing at Loyola University in Chicago.

T

he study results are based on data pro·

vided by 99 shoppers randomly chosen

inside two stores of the same major North·
eastern grocery chain. The stores--one aes·

thetica ll y

pleasing

and

one

le ss

attractive-were chosen by managers of the
chain. The aesthetictllly pleasing store had
wider aisles; creative layouts: brighter col·
ors; newer, more modem fixtures, and a
cleaner retail environment. The less·at tractive store had cluttered configurations of
narrow aisles; darker interiors; older fix ·
tures. some of which were in need of replacement, and in general was considered by the
managers to be less well-maintained than th e
more-attraclive store.
Shoppers in both stores were given one
product 10 taste- test: either the stores' brand

of grape jelly or Welch's grape jelly-a
national brand with a stro ng image that is the

leadi ng brand in the market.

Shoppers tasting thestore-brandjelly rated
th e overall quality of th e product much lower
at the less attractive branch of the chain than
at the more aesthetically pleasing store. There
was no significant difference in the evaluation of the national brand among the stores.
Moreove r. shoppers at the aest heti cally
pleasing store found no significant difference between the pri vate·label brand and the
Welch's jell y. But at the less-attractive store.

the Welch' s jelly was judged to be of better
quality than the store brand.

J

ain points o ut that the profit margm for
stores is substantially greater on sales of
their own pri vate-label brands thnn on sales
of national brands. And preference for pri vate brands contributes to store loyalty. re sulting in hi gher sales of borh store and
national brands. Yet consumers prefer national brands by a large margin. with store
brands languishing with a paltry 14.9 perce nt of the market. he notes.
But if consumers shopping m aesthetically pleasi ng stores judge s1ore b[ands to be
of better qual it y than do shoppers in lessattractive stores, upgrading less-a ttractive

stores co uld increase sales of private· label
brands, Jain says. "An investment in the
aesthetics of the store. i.e .. upgrading the
qualit y of ftxtures. making the aisles easy to
navigate. making the store bright and cheerful. keepmg the store clean and making tm·
mediate repairs when needed. can, indeed.
help in enhancing the overa ll quality perceptio ns of store brands." the study says.
"Making an investment in store aesthetics provides a big "bang for the buck' be·
cause the effect is not product speci fi c," 11
continues. "Unlike national brands. which
must advertise each product individually in
order for them to remain competitive. an
improvement in store aesthetics should increase the anractiveness of each and every
store brand offered by the chain .
"If retailers can convi nce consumers th at
their store brands are better than those of the
competition. then these store brands may be
used as a hook to lure consu me rs into the
store ," the study says. "Once in the sto re .
consumers buy not only more store brandsincreasi ng store profitabil ity-bu t they are
also more likely to fill their entire grocery
basket. This g ive!!&gt; retailen, a weapon with
which to combat prke c:ompctition."

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American Chemical Society honors
Ruckenstein with prestigious award
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Ll RUC KENSTEIN, Dis tin guished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
at UB, has received the American Chemical Society' s prestigious E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial
and Engi neering Chemistry.
The award, sponsored by the Exxon Research &amp; Engineering Co. and Exxon Chemica l Co .. is given to "stimulate fundamental
research in industriaJ and engineering chemistry. the development of chemical engineering principles and th eir applica tion to
industrial processes."
A UB professor since 1973, Ruckenstein
was cited for the breadth of his research.
which covers a wide spectrum rare ly seen in
the work of a single scientist. and for its
pioneering characte r.
His contributions have ranged from applied mathematics and cata lys is to polymers. enzyme catalysis. surface phenomena.
coJloids and emulsions.

H

e has performed pioneering work on the
theory of transfer phenomena.. the chemistry of supponed metal catal ysts. catalytic
combustion , detergents and the thermody·
namics of micro-emulsions and other complex nuids. He also has developed colloidal
and emu lsion pathways .lo prepare polymers
and discovered catalyst for important chemjca l reactions.
In add ition. he h
tcin·separarion meth
gies 10 prepare membr. es for separation
processes.
Hi s invesrigari ons of co loids and emul sio ns led to th e modern the ory of
microemulsions.
In 1992, a new technology he devised for

preparing pasleS with high-thennaJ conductivity to be used in computers was patented and
has been licensed to a major U.S. corporation.

Ruckenstein was previously a professor at
Polytechnic Univer.;ity of Bucharest, the University of Delaware and Clarkson University.

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News Services Staff

OWARDSTRJNGER,president
of CBS/Broadcast Group from
1988-95 and internationally recognized expert oo the "information superllighway," will speak
on Thursday, April 25, as partoftbe 1995-96
Distingwshed Speaker Series at UB.
The lecture will begin at 8 p.m: in the
Mainstage Theater in the Center for the Arts
on the UB North Campus.
The series is presented by the Univer.&gt;ity
at Buffalo and the Don Davis Auto World
Lectureship Fund. Key Bank is the series
sponsor. The Amher.&gt;t 'Chamber of Com-

H
EU RUCK£NSTEIN

He has held visiting professor.&gt;hips at the
Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium;
Technion in Haifa, Israel; Bayreuth Universit y in WeSI Germany. and Carnegie-Mellon
University .

H

e has been honored by the American
Institute of Chemical Engineer.&gt; with its
most prestigious awards: the Alpha Chi Sigma
Award in 1977 for excellence in chemical
engineering research and the Walker Award
for excellence in contributions to chemical

engineering literature in 1988.
Ru ckenstein also received the 1986
Kendall Award of the American Chemical
Society forcreati ve theories and experiments
in colloid and surface science .

In 1985, he received the Senior Humboldt
Award of the Ale under von Humboldt Foundation in West Germany for his work: related
to detergents and the Creativity Award from
the National Science Foundation for his work
on protein separation.
Ruckenstein is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.
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Research aids asthma treatment
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News Services Staff

ReMai'Chen 8t UB Mve found that strong emotions can stimulate--or lessen-airway

constriction in as~hmatic children. and they believe they may have identifiedoneofthe neural
pathways that carries the stimuli.
The discovery suggests new possibilities for treating persons with asthma.
Pediatri c psychiatry researcher.&gt; Bruce Miller, UB associate professor, and Beatrice
Wood, UB ass istant professor. reported the results of their study at the annual meeting of the
American Psychosomatic Society, held March ~-10 in Williamsburg, Va.
To determine the effect of emotions on airway constriction in asthma, Miller and Wood
asked 24 asthmatic children to view the video of "E.T.- The Extraterrestrial," while
monitoring their heart rate, respiration and the oxygen saturation of the blood. The children
were between the ages of 8- 18 years.
The researchers we~ particularly interested in the children's physiological responses
during the strongly emotional scene in the movie in which the young boy, Eliot, gazes upon
and talk s to hi s presumably dead friend , and then discove/!; that E.T. is alive. The scene shifts
from sadness and hopelessness to relief and joy.

Re.ults ehowed u..t during the sad scene. heart rate and oxy gen saturation beeame
unstable, renecting airway constriction. During the happy scene, heart rate and blood oxygen
stabilized, indicating open airways.
In addition, the researchers noted that changes in activity of the vagus nerve, known to
influence both heart rate and airway constriction, correlated closely with changes in the
children's emotional responses. They believe the finding points to the vagus nerve as one
pathway by which emotions affect asthma symptoms.
'These findings are clinic3lly important because they suggest that emotional conditions, such
as depression and bopelessness, may be important trigger.; of airway·constriction in asthmatic.
patients," Miller said. "Knowing that the vagus nerve is a specific pathway for inducing these
psychophysiologic responses, we can now Ulrget this pathway for treatment intervention."
Depression is common, but often unrecognized, among children living with a chronic
illness such as asthma, Wood said. If diagnosed, depression should be treated vigorously.
wit h counseling and/or medication, she noted.
Miller said their ftndlft&amp;alead them to believe that certain antidepressant medicationsthose with strong anticholinerg.ic (i.e., anti-vagal) properties- may be the medication of
choice in treating depression in asthmatic children.
'These medications may have the dual effect of treating depression, while at the same time
lessening vagal responsivity, which would directly improve asthmatic symptoms," he said.
"We suspect that when a patient suffer.; from both asthma and depression, there may be
undertteatment for the depression," Miller noted. "We need to point out to physicians that
treating the depression can improve asthma symptoms, as well as mood."
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merce is the affiliate sponsor.
The Stringer presentation also will be
sponsored by the UB School ofManagement
Alumni Association.
Contributing sponsor.&gt; are the Buffalo
Marriott, UB Center for the Arts, Makin'
Copies, UB Alumni Association and the
James Penton Lecture Foundation.
During his presidency at CBS/Broadcast
Group, Stringer was credited with the
network's turnaround, with dramatically
strengthening all broadcast divisions of CBS,
Inc. and in bringing David Letterman to CBS
late night.

HOWAIID-

Regardedasoneofthemostpowerfuland
respected media executives, be now beads a
bold, multimillion-dollar media venture created by Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific

Telesis, pioneering the use of the nation's
telephone networks to offer homes an arrtly
of direct programming and interactive video
services.
Ticket prices range from $15-$21. Discountsare$3 for UB faculty, staff and alumni,
and senior citizens; $6 for students. A 10
percent discount is available for groups of 10
or more. Discounts can only be purchased
and processed by mail order or in person at
UB 's Center for the Arts ticket office.
Subject to availability, tickets may be
purchased at the door. For more information
call the Center for the Arts ticket office at
645-ARTS.
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Senior Celebration program, events
pay tribute to 1996 graduating class
EN! OR CELEBRATION begins
this month, saluting the accomplishments of UB 's 2,800 senior.;
who will complete their undergraduate education this spri ng. In preparation for UB 's Sesquicentennial Commencement Weekend May 17-19, planning for
Senior Celebration began last semester. A
campus-wide program coordinated by the
Office of Student Life, it will include parties,

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athletic events, a luncheon, brunch and a
variety of speaker.;.
Senior Celebration '96 activities begin
with the Senior Bash April 19 at the Hyatt
Regency Buffalo, Oozfest on ·April 27 and
Senior Week, April 29-May 4, that will include a chance to open the Senior Treasure
Chest for special prizes. Continuing events
are Campus Ministries Association Gradu ates Luncheon on May I, Senior Brunch,
free for senior.&gt;, on May 3 and Springfest,
featuring the Gin Blossoms, on May 4.

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he program also includes events designed
to.address transitional college-to-career
issues, including a Career Planning and Place-

ment panel discussion , "Survival Tactics for
the Pir.&gt;t Year on the Job," on April 17 at 3
p.m. in Room 330, Student Union, North
Campus, with presenter.; representing recent

graduates of UB and corporate executives
working with newly hired college graduates.
On April22, Herbert E. Knoll Jr., a corporate executive. author, professional speaker
and a UB alumnus, will explore ·•career
Strategies for Students with a GPA under
4.0." Along with di sc ussing the importance
of business etiquette to career opponunities
and advancement, he will offer tips to help
students gain a competitive edge in the job
market.
Seniors have received a brochure which
gives suggestions for making arrangements
for Commencement Weekend, such as ordering cap and gown, making .boteUdinner
reservations for family, and taking care of
campus business (returning library books,

paying parking fines and setting up a career
placement file) before moving on to the next
phase of their lives. For more infonnation,
students may call the Office of Student Life
at 645-6125.

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ffices working on the Senior Celebration program with the Division of Student Affairs/Office of Student Life include
Career Planning and Placement, Division of
Athletics, OfficeofUniver.;ity Development,
Residence Life, UB Alumni Affair.&gt;, Undergraduate Student Association and University Union Activities Board. Among other
contributor.&gt; to the program are Academic
Development Center/ EOP, Alling and Cory,
ArtCarved, Cora P. Maloney College, Phi
Eta Sigma, School of Management and Univer.&gt;ity Honors Program.
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Smoking cancels estrogen benefits to teeth
ESEARCHERS FROM the UB
School of Dental Medicine studying hormone replacement therapy
{HilT) and smelting and their relationship 'to oral health found that postmenopausal women Mt receiving HRT had
50 pereent more bone and tooth loss than
premenopausal women or women receiving
HRT.
Current smokers on HRT, however. received none of estrogen' s benefits, indicat-

national Association for Dental Research in
San Francisco.
"We know estrogen has a bone-sparing
effect in the skeleton," said Sara G. Grossi,
UB clinieal assistant professor of oral biology and clinical director of the Periodontal
Disease Research Center. uwe wanted to
determine if it .had the same effect on the
bone around the teeth, the bone loss associated with gum disease. We found that women
who took estrogen had significantly le ss
bone loss and they also lost fewer teeth.
'The protective effect of estrogen on the

ing smoking negates estrogen's protective

teeth is an imponant observation," Grossi

effects.

added, " because we accounted for all other
factors that could contribute to loss of bone
around the teeth and tooth loss."
Resul ts showed that among never-smokers, postmenopausal women on HRT had
significantl y less tooth loss than postmeno-

The results are from two swdies-one
assessing jaw bone loss; the other, tooth
loss-&lt;:onducted by the UB Periodontal Distilse Research Cenrer. They were presented
March 14 at the annual meeting oft he Inter-

pausal women not on HRT.
'This tells us that estrogen supplementation improves oral health in older women
and allows them to keep their teeth longer,
therefore improving their overal l quality of
life," she noted.
The researchers don' t know precisely how
smolting negates estrogen' s protective effects,
Grossi said. but she speculates that it could be
in one of two ways: by preventing estrogen
from being used by the body or by the action of
smelting on the bone itself.
" We know that smolting is a risk factor for
bone loss," she said. "Maybe the effects of
estrogen aren' t enough to overcome iL It •s one
more reason why women shouldn' t smoke."
Presenting the results in San Francisco
were Nada El-Ghora6, a postdoctoral fellow
from Egypt, a nd Carlos Ferreira , a
postdoctoral fellow from Brazil.
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Gum disease may point to heart problems
It's indicator of risk to men, research shows

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ESEARCHERS FROM the UB
Schoo l of Dental Medi cine have
shown for the first time that gum
di sease in men may be an in ' icator of future hean disease.
The stud y, conducted by the U Peri odontal Disease Research Center a d the
UB Depanment of Social and Prev rive
Medicine, involved 655 men aged 25- 4.
In vestigators created an index of de ntal di eases, assigned an index score to study pru\.
ri cipants after examining their tee th and
gums, and compared the index with their
hi story of bean Qisease. They found that
me n who had a hjgh dental-disease index
also had more cardiovascular disease.
Results of the study were presented on
March 14 at the annual meeting of the International Assoc iation for Dental Researc h in
San Francisco.

" We are not say ing to men that if you
have gum disease, you are goi ng to have a
hean attac k," said Sara G . Grossi . UB clini ca l assistant professor of oral bio logy and
clinical director of the research center. " We
are say ing th at in the prese nce of other ri sk
factors for heart di sease, such as smoki ng or
high blood pressure, gum di sease is an indi·
cator of future problems. This indicator of
ri sk has just recently been recog ni zed.
" Dentists who find high leve ls of peri odontal di sease and dental caries in their
male patients who are older than 45 and
smoke should advi se them to get a cardiovasc ular assessment," she said.

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esearchers developed the dental-disease index based on the amount of gum
detachment from bone, amount of bone loss,
the presence of bacteri a associated with periodontal di sease and the number of de cayed, miss ing or filled teeth.
Participants also comple ted a medical

questionnaire, on which they reported thei r
inci dence of angina, myocardial infarction.
stroke or aneriosclerosis, as well as their
smoking hi story.
Relating the dental-di sease index to hi story of bean di sease. researchers fou nd that
the dental-disease index was significantl y
assoc iated with cardiovascul ar disease, in dependent o f poss ible confounding effects
of age, education and smoki ng .

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rossi said the relationship is probably
greater than thi s study impl ies, because
the incidence o f heart disease was self-reported, and peop le often aren 't a ware they
have hean problems.
The c ulprits in thi s relati onship are the
oral bacteria that cause periodontal disease.
"Bac teria from the mouth can enter the blood
stream. cl ump pl atelets and the n block aneries:· she stated.
The research was supported in pan by
grant·s from the National Institute for De ntal
Research.

Unguistics prot
1o give lecture
George Lekoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. will talk a bout how
conservative and liberal differences
arise from two d ifferent models of
the family and of the nation a s family-the strict father model and the
nurturing parent model-in a lecture
titled "Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know that Liberals Don ·r to
be presented a t 5 p .m Thursday,
April I I in 280 Park Hall on UB's
North Campus.
Lakoff will d iscuss how these
ideas explain why conservatives
and liberals ohen view the other
group as illogical. Conservatives. for
example, tend not to understand
how liberals can be for protecting
children while upholding the rights
of criminals , such as child moleste rs . Liberals don 't understand how
one can be pro-life and for the
death penalty. Lakoff will show how
conservatives have so far done a
better job than liberals of spelling
out the links between Amencan polllies. morality and the family
Sponsored by the UB Center for
Cognitive Science and the UB Depanment of Linguistics . the talk 1s
pan of an international conference
to be held at UB April 12-14 on
"Conceptual Structure. Discourse
and Language II . Conference ses·
s1ons will be held at the Center for
Tomorrow. on Friday, April 12. 1n
Wende Hall I 14 (South Campus) on
Saturday, April 13, and in Knox 104
on Sunday. April I 4. Conference cosponsors are Conference in the Disciplines. Council on Interna tional
Studies. Intensive English language
lnsmute and World Languages Institute . For more information, contact
the Center for Cognitive Sc1ence at
645-2177

Bridge builders come to UB
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News Services Staff

P

ICTURE A COMMUNITY bamraising on fast -forward and you
have an idea what the 1996 National Steel Bridge-building Competition will look like on May 25 at UB.
During the event, about 40 teams of college students will be building-in as little as
six or seven minutes to demanding specifi cations-the best, most structurally sound, most
economical and aesthetically pleasing onetenth-scale steel bridge, spanning 18 feet.
But while contestants will clearly be having fun, the competition is more than an
effon to beat the clock. The steel bridgebuilding competition tests students on c riti cal aspects of professional engineering.
'These are not canned textbook problems."
. said Joseph Holm. a UB senior and team member. 'This is our fma chance to appl y what w.e
have learned in school to a real-life situation."
The competition is the c ulmination of a
semester' s worth of hours of designing, testi ng
and bui lding a bridge, as well as taking pan in
and winning regional competitions.
Students design their bridge in response to
a problem statement that outlines construc tion
requirements. One concern is paramount: 'The
bottom line is salety," said Holm. " In the real world, real people are going to be dri ving
across your bridge, and if it fails. they' re going
to die." Teams pay penalties if there 's a collapse, if they use unapproved components or
temporary shoring and ifconstruction is deemed
negligent in any way. They pay penalties if a
team member fails to wear a hardhat, or if a
construction crew member or part of the bridge
equipment touches the '"river," over which the
bridge is being built "We' re designing and

testing the bridge just as if we were doing it at
a job." said Holm.
One of the most important lessons the
students take away from the contest is that
designs that look good on paper don ' t necessarily work in the field. "Some times engineers design struc tures that can't be built."
said Ho lm. "and that was one thing we di scovered in this exercise."
!tho ug h press ures a re subs tanti a l.
they're unanimous in their enthusiasm for
the experience. They note that the bridgebuilding contest is one of the few social outlets
for engineering students. ''Engineering courses
are very competitive," said Niki Schute, an
undergraduate engineeri ng student at UB and
student coordi nator of the contest " But the
bridge team is like a fraternity."
Bridges are rated on stiffness. lightness .
construction speed. effi ciency, economy and
aesthetics. Members of the New York State
Steel Fabricators Association, assisted by
pro fess ional engi neers and arch itects. will
be judges. Teams compete for first, second
and th irdprizesof$3,000,$2,000and$1,000.
The competition is a featured event of the
50th anniversary of the UB School of Engineeri ng and Applied Sciences. whic h was established in 1946. The event is sponsored by
the American Institute of Steel Construction. a
non-profi t association representing the fabri cated structural steel indUstry in the U.S.
National co-sponsors are American Society
of Civil Engineers, James F. Lincoln Air: Welding Foundation and American Iron and Steel
Institute. Local co-sponsors arc Associated
General Contractors. Association for Bridge
Construction and Design. Buffalo section of the
American Society ofCivil Engineers, UB Engi neering Alumni and other organizations.

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Faculty&amp;SiaHBillboard
AFRICAN U•ERATION WEEK
SET FOR Al'ltiL 28
Alncan Ltberation Week wtll be oO.
served Aprtl 26 from 11 a m -11 p .m
at the Center for the Arts. North Campus The program theme tS "Faces of
Our Alncan Ancestors lnterprettng
Alr•can Arts from an Alncan Perspect•ve • The pubhc IS tnvtted to anend
Among the events scheduled are
lectures on AfriCan and Alncan-Amen·
can arts at 11 a m . a sacred Alncana
MS exh•btl at 2 p m and a folk mustc
testrval by the Free Sptnt BapttSI
Church Ma)&amp;Shc Choir and the
Kak•tambe Folk Performers of the A Incan Amencan Cultural Center at 7 p m
Speakers WJU be Salah Hassan. dt·
rector and professor. Afncana tnsttlute .
Cornell Unrversity. Philtp RavenhtU .
c htef curator . Nat100al Museum of Alnc an Arts, The Smllhsoman lnslllutK&gt;n .
Sam Pmee-Polkah Toe. founder and
prestdent , Alncana Research Museum/
New York InternatiOnal Alncan Jnsll·
lute Inc and consultant, AfriCan Development Bank lor Museums/At ch1vesl Schools. lbrah1ma Sy,
ambassadOf . Orgamzauon ot Alncan
Un1ty to the Umted NatiOns
Moderators will be Kev1n Sm1th .
c urator o f anthropology , Buffalo Mu seum of Sc1ence and Kary·s Enter pnse ' d.rector Dennes Pnsenzano
ong the sponsors and cospo sors are the Department of An
H1st ry at UB . Amencan Studtes Dent at UB . the Graduate Stupart
dent A ociallon . !raman Graduate
Student ub , Anthropology Graduate Stude 1 Club : Enghsh Graduate
Student Cl~b. the Alncan American
Cultural Center . the Free Sp1nt Miss•onary Sap\lst Church, the New York
lnrernat•onal Alncan lnslilute. Inc ..
Afncana Research Museum/New
York International African, Inc ; Organ•zatlon of Afncan Unity to the U .N.:
ChemieToe Africans Business World :
BCAM-Bullalo Pubhc Access and
Kary Enterprises, Inc

COLE OUTSTANDIIHI SENIN NATURAL ICIENCU, MAlH

Leah Ell.aabeth Cole, a b lolog1cal
sciences maJor at UB . has been
named Outstanding Senior in the
Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics lor 1996.
Cote and others nominated lor the
honor will receive a certificate and a
grant at a luncheon to be hosted
Apnl 30 by Dean Joseph J. Tufarietlo.
Cole , who has a 3.99 grade-point
average . 1s a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and the Golden Key Honor
Soc1ety She is a recipient of a
Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellowship and the Grace Capen Memor~al Award . She also is active Jn Habitat lor Humanity , the "Buffalonian"
yearbook staff. •ntramural sports and
the G~rt Scouts of America .
F•ve other students nominated lor
!he award by the1r departments wtll
be honored as runners-up :
Mlch8el L Qoatowakl, 8
chemiStry ma,ar . has a 3.96 GPA. A
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi
Lambda Upsilon. he has been a volunteer for the Muscular Dystrophy Soc•·
ety and Amencan Canc8f Society.
Tere- Ann oa.nnl, a computer sc•ence major , has earned a
3. 78 GPA She rs a member ol Ptu
Beta Kappa and Golden Key . and 1s
a rectp•ent of !he Grace W Capen
Award and a Senator Byrd Scholarshtp She IS an lntervarstty Christian
fellow and IS a member of !he UB
theater group EGATS
D•vJd Frank, a geology mator.
has a 3.62 GPA. He is a recipient of a
Na!ional Sctence Foundation fellowship and a member of Golden Key. He
1S vlce president and co-captain ol
ue ·s fr~sbee team and a member of
the Undergraduate Geology Club.
Heather A. Dr•, a mathematICS major, has a 3.77 GPA. She is a
member of Golden Key. Phi Beta
Kappa and the Undergraduate Math-

ematk:s Club . A staff member olthe
UB student magazine Generation,
she is a volunteer at the Brothers of
Mercy Nursing Facility.
Hlcleftort Taah&amp;ro, a physics
major, has earned a 3.94 GPA. He
previously attended Senshu University in Japan .

STUIIINI'1IIIECEIVE 'COURAGE

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«:a. IIACit' AWARDII

Two UB students. - 1

O.vlaon and- W-wrltlht.
have been honored with Courage to
Come ijack awards, and were introduced Aprll 3 at a recepUon in the
office of County Executive Dennis
Gorski. The awards. to be presented
April 24 at a d inner in Hyatt Regency
Buffalo, recognize achievements of
WNY individuals who contribute to
the quality of life 101' othBfS despite
their own adversities.
Rachel Davidson, who received
the award in the category of mental
health, struggled for several years
with an eating disorder. Since regaining her health , she has been a frequent speaker at area junior and
senior high schools for the Eating
Disorder Association of WNY. She
chose to get involved to increase
awareness of the problem ol eating
disorders to help foster prevention
and early recognition.
Beth Wainwright received the
award in the area of economic adverSity. A s ingle mother with four children . she was once a high school
dropout. She has returned to the
work force and to school and last
year was named one of the state's
top 10 community college students.
After finishing at Erie Community College. she was accepted into the hanOf'S program at UB. She volunteers
for Hospice Buffalo and, through her
church, is involved with the Prison
Fellowship Angel Tree Program and
other volunteer endeavors.

OOZFEST VOLLEYBALL TOURNEY IS APRIL 27
Monsters. • "Mudmirals .• "Mud euppies· and "Monkey Love in
the Mud" will be. among the monikers ol mud mavens playing volleyball
at UB's 12th Annual Ooziest. to be held from 10 a.m to 5 p .m . on Saturday . Apri127 . on the North Campus . Doughty, dirty denizens from the
UB and Western New York communities and teams from nearby states
and Canada are set to "slip and slide· on a lield behind Alumni Arena
The event has grown from a modest . muddy beginning with a few local
teams to th1s year's version. which can include up to 96 teams.
Jennifer Rinaldo of the University Student Alumni Board says all
teams , wh1ch each pay a $100 entry fee. must be registered by 5 p .m
on Fnday. April 12. She encourages teams from businesses and other
non-US groups to s•gn up before the deadline by calling 829-2608 or by
FAX at 829-3901
listed in natiOnal wnter Usa Birnbach's "New and Improved College
Book.· Ooziest is descnbed ~s UB students· "fa vorite tradition.·
IllS also believed to be the largest continuous volleyball-in-the-mud
contest on a college or university campus .
H F Oarl•ng &amp; Sons Construction Co., Inc and the Getzville Fire Co
w11l prepare the field for the event. WKSE-FM . KISS 98 .5 radio. and sev·
eral bands. Including the Sklmmy Clark Trio and Nurse Brown . will add to
the entertainment. along with other · mud-mad " competitions and games.
Campu5 sponsors include tt-e Eng"-ing AJc&lt;OOi Assodation, Faculty·
Student AssoCiation, Rc&gt;tng Rhm's men's volleyball team. UB Alumni AsroCI8t1011. undel'graduate Student Association and University Prill and Mail SerVlCOS Among tt-e corporate sponsors are Campus Tees &amp; Sweats. Coca-C&lt;&gt;a
Boql•ng Co.. CVS at tt-e Corrmons. David's Photo SeMce. Domino's Pizza.
Harbour Tent &amp; Party Rentel. ~ers restaurants. Kaplan Co., Makin" CopEs,
The New Buffalo Marriott and Volleyball Unfmted Pro Shop

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These directories can be readily accessed through Loekwood
Onlim's Ready Reference homepage (hJtp:/lwinp.bu.f!aiD.edul
librarUs/uniJsllml/Refennce/rr.hJml). For information regard·
ing lntunet acct!Ss via Univt!rsity e-17Ulil accounts, call the Computing Center's Help Desk at 645·3542. Those having questions
rt!garding onliM telt!phont! boOks may contact Don Hartman.
unldon@aesu.buffaiD.edu, Lockwood Library, 645-2817.
-Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartman, Univt!rsity Libraries

COMPANIES RECEIVE IIRAHTS
wmt HEll OF u• CIEN1DI

SKAI'IRO IS SI'EAKEit AT

With the assistance of The Center for
Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) at UB .
six WNY companies have received
grants under the locar arm of the
statewide Strateg ic Partnership lor
Industrial Resurgence (SPIA). The
SPIA program was designed to help
local companies improve their competitiveness and productivity.
Based in the UB School ol Engl·
nearing and Applied Sciences . SPIA
aims to help create and retain WNY
manufacturing jobs.

Stuart c ............ professor of

lf!dw.,.. Sterr, a clinical psyctx»

computer science and a member of
the Center lor Cognitive Science,
was the invited speaker at nme .
Space and Identity: The Second International Colloquium on Deixts .
held at the Centre de Recherche en
lnformatique de Nancy (CAIN) ,
Nancy. France. March 28-30.
Shapiro spoke on ·use of Oeixis
by a Comput~tional CognitiVe Agent.·
and gave a demonstration of Cassie.
the computational cognitive agent
which he developed with his colleagues and students. Using the
Internet, Shapiro ran the program on
a computer housed in the Department
of Computer Science at UB. while
supplying the input and displaying
the output on a computer at CAIN in
Nancy. The computer display was
projected onto a large screen so that
attendees at the colloquium could
watch the demonstration

gist at UB. has been selected by Rotary District 7090 and its Clarence
Chapter to visit-sweden in May as part
of a U.S.-Canadian team promoling international and int8fcultural understanding. Starr is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling
and Educational Psyq1ology In the
Graduate School of Education.
Chautauqua County Legislator
Nancy G. Barger will escort tt-e team
in SWeden. Sponsored by Rotary
Foundation"s Group Study Exchange
Program. the team will meet with leaders in the Swedish govemrnent. legal,
education and business comnunities.
A Swedish team wilt visit the U.S. and
Ganada. Starr . a UB graduate. has
done research on alcohol use among
Native Amertcans. He also is working
with individuals who suHer from posttraumatic stress syndrome.

DOCTORAL STUD£NTS WIN

II'IIAIIMACY STUDENT WINNER
OF NATIONAL ESSAY CONTUT

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listings go beyODd lara fitma 10 the Web itself with its "Sbopping
AdvisoJ" complete with links 10 online bed and breakfast listings 10
sitea for sroping out Broadway shows and ·more. Also, BlcYellow
provides linlcs to phone books around the world from the "Dutch
Yellow Pages" 10 Antarctica's "Little White Book" of South Pole
researchers.
Fmally, not 10 be outdone, AT&amp;T offers its ToO-Free 800
Directory (http://alt.Det/db'IIOO) for searching on the Net. A
wide-range of companies are listed by name or by category. Pick the
category letler "F' and fmd not only florists, but fairgrounds,
feathers, fingerprinting equipment. floor degreasing, foreign trade
consultants, and fraternities as well.

of Niagara Falls . a manufacturer ol
coated abrasives. adhesives and
grain technologies . has received a
$36.225 grant to develop a new technology that will allow the company to
increase product consistency and
quality and reduce waste .

International Imaging ...t ..
rial•• inc. of Amherst. a manufacturer of custom-engineered thermal
transfer ribbon products. has re·ceived a $17,408 grant to continue a
training assessment .
Strlpph, Inc. of Akron . a manufacturer of metal-fabricating equ•pment and tooting , has received a
$16,525 grant to develop alternative
annealing processes .
FatiMI' Sam'• Syrian

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Inc. ol North Tonawanda. a manulecturer of pita bread . has received a
$10,250 grant to conduct a training
assessment. The company expects
to add 30 jobs
American ........ Pf'Od.
ucta Co. of Silver Creek. a manufacturer of massage products and
health-care devices. has received a
$1,632 grant to develop an improved
controller lor products.
Globe International, Inc. of
Buffalo. a manufacturer of lightweight
conveyor belts. has received a $750
grant to improve bell products .

STAIIII TltAVELS TO · -

CCIU.OQUIUM IN FIIANCE

AS PART OF ROTARY TEAM

LEADERSHIP' P'AI'ER AWARD
A paper on leadership has won two students fn the doctoral program at the UB
School ol Management first place in tt-e
competition for tt-e Kenneth E. Clarf&lt;
Research Award presented by tt-e Center for Creative Leaderstlip. The paper
written by ~ ~ and
Pastor, . Leadership in the

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Context ol Gender Divf:rsity: A
Wor1&lt;team Analysis.· will be considered
tor publication in a future issue of the
journal Leadership Ouarterty. It alsO
earned Mayo and Pastor $1 .500 in
prize
and a trip to the cent8f
Greensboro, N.C. to present thetr wor1c..
The award is named for Clark, a
distinguished scholar, fooner president and board chairman. end current
Smith RIChardson sentor scientist at
the Center for CreatiVe Leadership .

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.,..,.lne A.. WNver, a UB pharmacy student is one of three nationally to win a Ahone-Poulenc Rorer/
Drug Topics Essay Award. A fifthyear student In the School of Pharmacy, Weaver received a $4,000
savings bond and a trip to the Amencan PharmaceuUcal Association's
annual meeting in Nashville .
Her winning essay focused on
ways in which presidents of drug
companies can encourage pharmaceutical care . The competition , sponsored by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals. Inc. tn association with
Drug Topics magazine . encourages
the exchange of inventive and practical ideas to improve industry-professional relations .

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Alumni cable show to
focus on women's health

BUU.S SWWI11'1ERS POST TOP QPA IN MAllON
The University at Buffalo men's swinYning team posted the top
grade point average In the country lllf the second time in lhree
years ~ was announced last week by the College Swimming
Coaches Association of America &lt;=AA).
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The Buffs. coached by Budd Termin, posted an overall grade
point alierage of 3.36 in the Fall of 1995 to top second-place
Saint Louis University (3.34) and lhiTd·place Dartmouth (3. IS).
The UB men also topped the nation In the Spring 1993 semester wilh a 3.11 GPA under Termin , who has been the coach at
Buffalo since 1987.
The team's success In the classroom has nUrrored its work in
the pool. Since upgrading to the Division !level ftve years ago,
the Bulls have won lour conference championships, had lour

0 B I 1 U A '· I l

Charles W. Pankow, 82, oral surgeon,
dental school associate professor
A memonat service wilt be scheduled in May for Charkts W.
Pankow, an oral surgeon who taught his specialty and served as an
associate professor in the UB School of Dental Medicine. Pankow,
82. d1ed April 1 in his Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., home after a lengthy
1llness
Pankow served as chief of the oral surgery department at
Buflalo General Hospital until h•s retirement in 1978, when he
moved to Florida He had also been an assistant attending oral
surgeon and consultant with the fomler E.J. Meyer Memonal
Hospital 1n Buffalo: Wyom1ng County Community Hospital in War·
saw. and Genesee Men10nal and S!. Jerome Hospitals in Batavia.
A graduate of the UB School of Dental Medicine. he served In
lhe U S Army 1n the European Theater during World War II as a
mator wtth the 23rd General HoSpital
A fellow olthe American College ol Dentists and the American
Colleg e of Oral Surgeons. he was also a member or the New York
State Soc1ety of Oral Surgeons. the Amencan Dental Assoc iation.
!he 8th D•stnc t Dental Society, the Ene County Dental Society,
Omtcron Kappa Ups1lon. the Soctety of Military Surgeons and the
tnternauonat Soc1ety ol Oral Surgeons
Pankow rece1ved a number of profess1onal awards and pubI•Shed a111cles tn professional ,10urnals. 1ncludtng the Journal of Oral
Surgery. A frequent conference speaker on new surgtc al techniques . he produced instruclionatlilms used throughout the world

Swinvners ollhe Year and Termon has been honored as Coach
of the Year by the East Coast Conference, lhe Eastern Colle·
giate Alhletic Conference and the Mid-Continent Conference
UB saw a string of six straight conference championshipsone of the longest In the naiion in any sport-snapped this sea·
son when they finished third in the M id~tinent. The Bulls also
were 10th in the nation in 1994 in grade point average In ligures
released by the CSCAA.
"Since moving to Division I in 1991, I have been lucky to
coach some of the most dedicated student-athletes ;;, the
country," said Termin. "What they have accomplished not only
in the pool but in the classroom is a testament to their lremendous Yv'Ork ethic and speaks well for the entire universtty. I'm
very proud to have had two groups of student·athletes be hon·
Ofed by the =AA as the top GPA team in the nahan •
Members of the '95-96 Bulls SWim team are: Rob Auer (Buf·
lalo, NY), Carl Carlson (Jamestown, NY): Dustin Ceran (Wotcon,
NY), Daniel Cotter (Buffalo, NY), Mark Horgan (Orchard Park.
NY), Kevin Jessop (Newark, DE) , Joseph Kanelsky
(Williamsville, NY), Korry Miller (Hamburg. NY). Justin Monon
(Tonawanda, NY), Josh Pieczonka (Virginia Beach. VA). Karom
Rozadowski (Graat Neck, NY), ian Salsberg (Delmar. NY).
Steve Smith (Fairport, NY), Bill Snyder (North Tonawanda. NY)
and Rich Wozniak (Grand Island. NY)

'IRACK • FIElD
The Bulls and Royals traveled to Williamsburg. Va . lor the annual Coklnia1 Relays over the weekend , sett1ng three records
along the way.
For the second consecut•ve week. Thorn Kaye set a Bulls
record in the long jump The junior extended hts record SIX
inches with a jump of 23--5 1/4 to f1n1sh 1n fifth place Kaye trnished 12th at the Raleigh Relays the previOUs week woth a long
jump of 22· 11 1/4.
The Bulls atso set a schcd record '" the spnnt medley f1msh1ng seventh in the event. Terrance Parker. Victor Archibald, Kr•s
Winkler and Geoff Warlock set the mark 1n a ume of 3 31 12
Tile Royals were led by Shelley Hamolton's second-place hn·
ish in the high jump in a school-record 5-9 1/2 Harmtton. a
freshman from Lockport, broke her own record of 5-6 that she
had set earlier this season at the Wake Forest Invitational
Also for the Royals, Usa Kragbe finished th•rd 1n the 100
meter hurd}es in 15.2 and Stacey Strothmann took Sixth 1n the
5,000 meters in 17:50.
The squads are back 1n actoo thts weekend when they travel
to the Miami of Ohio Invitational
- Ted Wasko. Sports Information Offtce

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SUE WUE:TCIIEit

News Services Staff

he Women' s Health lnitiari ve, the largest clinical
heallh study ever undertaken in the United States.
will be the focus of !he April broadcasts of " UB

T

Today," a 30-minute, monlhly UB "alumni maga-

zine on cable" that airs on Adelphia Cable 's community
access channel, Channel 18.
The show will air at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, and
be rebroadcast at 6:30p.m. on the remaining Sundays in the
month.
It was filmed at a "UB at SUNRISE" program last monlh
that fea tured Jean Wactawsk.i· Wende , cli nical assistant professor o f gynecology and obstetrics at UB. which is one of 16
lead research centers in the nati onal study.
Wactawski -Wende also is a co-princi pal investigator for
the Buffalo portion of the study. which will receive $11
million over che li fe of the 12-year prOJeCt.
The Women 's Health Initiative, funded at $625 million
by the National Institutes of Health, aims to enroll 160,000
women between the ages of 50 and 79 at45 centers across the
U.S. The women will take pan in identical studies designed
to investigate the causes of. as well as the effectiveness of
various treatments for coronary hean disease. breast and
co lorectal cancers, and osteoporosis in o lder women.
The "UB Today" television progr.1m, which has the same
name as the UB alumni publication, is designed to provide
viewers with highlights and sampl es of interes ting people.
pl aces and things on campus. says Willi a m J. Evins. executive director of alumni relatio n) at UB.

We Want to Hear Your Voice
The Reporter is US's community newspaper and we want
your comments on current top1cs relating to the University and h1gher educatoon as well as on t1mely subf8Cts 1n
areas of your expertise We welcome articles. ViewpotntS.
Leners to the Editor and news items Mail to Chnstine
Vidal, Reporter Editor, 136 Crotts Hall. Buffalo NY .
14260 Or use e-ma11. reporterilpub.buffalo.eclu

CALENDAR
Continued from page 8
ArcNtecture Lect:llre
G uiw Hariri: Recent Work. 30 1
Crosby . South Campus. 5:30p.m.

UfeWMbloop
Jkoglnala1 Siaa Lan&amp;uaae Seminar, Diane Cwthoys. Direct Exrcrience Method (OEM). Condudi n8 seminar. 5:3G-6:45 p.m.
Tn register, ca ll64 5~ 1 25 .

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TWa Quartet. Slee. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $4, $5, $8 , $10.

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North Campus. 9 p.m. $2 students; $3.SO general public.
UUAB film series.

UfeWMbloop

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Wh~n, Wby ud How of Bru.sl
Stlr·Euminalion.. 5:30-6:30 p.m.
To ~gister. ca1164S·6 125.

UfeWorkallop
l': ffectlve Rtsumts &amp; Cover
btl~rs. 6-7 p.m. To rcgisler.
caii64S-6125.

UfeWMbloop
Good Ettina: An Introduction
to Vt&amp;darianlsm. OH campus.
6:30-9:30 p.m. $3. To register,
call 645~ 1 25 .

Movlea
Under the C Loud. Student Unaon
Tbca1er. Nonh Campus. 6:30p.m.
S2 students: S3:SO general public.
UUAB film series.

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Alullllll PnJCNm

Mytterles., Joe Nickell. Ph.D ..
Commiuee for the Scienlific
Investigation of Ciainu of the
ParanonnaJ . Cenler for Inquiry.
1310 Sweel Home: Rd. Noon. To
regisler. call Alumni Relacions,

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829-2608.

R-Duncan
L«ture, Roben J. Bertholf. Poetry/Rm Books. Poe1ry/Rare
Books Collection. 420 Capen.
Nonh Campus. 2:30 p.m.

Uvi... WoiiWorkallop

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Kkki.Da Butts: Bow to Quit
Smoldne. 145A Studenl Union .
Nonh Campus. 7·8 p.m. Sponsored by Living Well Center. To
regisler. call 645-2837 .

-Col._tum
Prof. A.. Carboni, Univ. of

UfeWorkallop •
Gene:aloc for Bej:lnnen. O ff
campus. 7· 9 p.m. $2 . To rtgister,
call 645-6125 .

Opua: CIMolce Uve
Anita F'inDaa. aopnDO.
Pasquale: Caputo, tenor, and
S.r..Sbalom Stron&amp;t pia.no. PrOgram includes Final Scene of
M-:~dama Bunerlly, and ''Cherry
Duet" from L' Amico Fritz. Allen.
South Campus. 7 p.m. Free. Taped
by WBFO 88.7 FM for broadcast
the fo llowing Sundly 11 4 p.m.

UfeWMbloop
lntrrmtd.late: Sl&amp;a Lanau.aae
Seminar, Di ane Curthoys. Direct
EJt:rcrience Melhod (OEM). Cond uding seminar. 7-8: 15 p.m. To
rcJ!ister, caJI 64S-6125 .

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Anne Robe:r-bon in Penon: rtw
, .,.. Diory, Suicide, and Apol&lt;&gt;~.:Ws. Screening Room. Center for the
Ans. North Campus. 7:30p.m. Fme.

•loloCJc81 klenceo

Arc:bite:c:tural Orpnlution of
Nuc:lek: Add Metabolism , Dr.
Jeffrey Nickerson, Massachuscus
Institute ofTechnoloay. 121
Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Genoa. 103 Diefendorf. Soulh
Campus. 4 p.m.

In Vivo Cytokine Gftw Tbe:rapy
oC Ru.maa Luna Tumor
X....,-.11!1 iD SCID Mlco Ustug
Uposome:-Mediate DNA Ddivery. Nejat Egilmu. Ph.D., RPCI.
S08 Cooke. North Campus. 4 p.m.

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Dn.JUtk Readina-Adam 's
Way. Poetry/Rue Books Colleclion, 420 Capen. NOf'th Campus .
4p.m .

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C-oiSdf, l'l&lt;lf. J&lt;rome
BNnC:r, New York Univ. 225 NuuNorth Campus. 5 p.m.

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Nortll A8Mf'k:.an New

S.oqut elllllblt

MIMalc Featlval
Bulf'alo Pbllharmoa.ic Orc:hestra, with duo-pianists Shirley
lre:k and Robert C humbley,
Gerhardt Zimmc:nnann, guest
conductor. Works of Kenneth
Frazelle, Alfred Schniltke.
Nicholu Maw . Mainstage. Cen·
ter for the Arts. North Campus 5
p.m. $5 , $12.

"U B Remembers," a um versny
sesquicentenmal exhibit orga·
nized by University Archives,
continues through Sept. tO in 420
Captn Hall on the: North Campus
A bnght item m the exhibit. orga mz.cd by c hid archivist Shonn1e
Finnegan, is the state c haner 1ncorporuting the Univ~ nity of
BuHalo o n April 22. 1846. An
exhibit hc:re celebralingthc cen1enmal had to senle for a pho1ogruphtc copy of 1he' document now we can SC"e !he real McCoy
Cwh1ch up to no\\ ha . . no1 bei!!n
allowed 10 leave Albany). Gro ups
may arrnng~ a visit by calltng
~ 5 - 29 1 6 Exh1bi1 ho urs a~re
Monday through Fnda), 9 a m to
5 p.m

UfeWorkallop
T ' aJ Cbl (or Bqinners, Ron
Ingalsbe. Tuesdays and Thurs days, through May 2. 5:30-6:30
p.m. To register, call 645 -6125

Art In Poland
Eight contemporary antsts from
the Krak6w aru display a collec·
lion of their works •· Art in Poland: New Directio ns" in the Uni ·
versily An Gallery in lhe Cenler
for the Ans. North Campus. Gal lery hours are 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m.
Wednesday -Saturday, Noon-S
p.m Sunday AdmiSSIOn IS r~c

Profound Expreaalone

Under tb ~ C lo ud. Student Umon
Thealer . Nonh Campus. 6:30
p.m. $2 students: $3.50 general
public. UUAB film series

M.F A. them exhibit''Caro\
V:.canti · Profound ExpreS-siOns"
wall be o n display April t I -23 tn
the An Oepanment Gallery , Cen ·
1er for the Arts. Nonh Campus
Ope nang reception 5-7 p m. Gal\ery hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tue . . day. 10 a.m -8 p.m Wednesday·
Friday. II a.m ·8 p.m Saturday
Admi SMOn IS free

R-Dunun

TIM Senior Show

UfeWorkallop
Ha tha Yoga: An Introd uction.
6:30-8 p.m. To register, c.tll 645 -

6125 .
Movlea

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Poetry Reading: Susan HoM ~
~ad Nathaniel Mackey.
Ha ll walls. 2495 Mai n Sl 7 30
p.m. Free.

Art Lecture
Art at the End or I he Century:
Panel and Open Discussion, AI
Harris F.. moderato r, with
Roberley Bell, Ronald Ehmke.
Richard Huntington. Carol
Zemel. Albright-Knox An Gallery Audi torium. 8 p.m. $3. $4 .
UB faculty, staff, students,
Albright members. f~e Co-spon sored by University al Buffalo
An. Gallery/Research Cen1er m
An+ Cuhure.

- • e n Cycle VI
Takaes Quartrt. Slee. Nonh
Campus. 8 p.m. $4, SS. S8, S 10.
MMalc.IIIT'IIeMet
Chkaeo, Lynn Kurdz.ie i-Fonnalo
and Tom Ralaba.te. directors.
Theatre&amp;: Dance. Drama The atre, Center for the Arts. North
Campus. 8 p.m. $2.50. S5.

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Heat. Student Umon Theater.
North Campus. 9 p.m. Sl stu·
dents; $3.50 general public .
UUAB film series.

A collection of worts by graduattng semors 1n lhe UB Art Depart ment. ''The Se n1or Show" show
opens with a recepuon from 6 -7
p.m. ThuOOay, April 11 m th..:
UB Art Gallery . Center for the
Arts, Nonh Campus. Show runs
through April 25. Gallery hours
are 10 a.m -5 p.m. WednesdayFriday, II a.m -8 p.m. SaiUrda)
Admission is free .

CONTINUING EXHI•na
U&amp;Mwell l..t.llatton
Leonardo Drew' s site-specific tn stallation " No. 45-A.. was designed for the Lighlwell Galli!!ry
an the Cenler for the Arts. North
Campus, and no w is lodged thert
through October.

Dutcll llulldl...
" Dutch Modem Arch i 1ectu~" IS
on view through April 12 in the
James Dyelt Gallery localed in
335 Hayes Hall, South Campus.
Hours an- Monday-Friday, 9
a.m.·S p.m.

Prl-lnC..
An exhibit of work by pnnt·
ma.ken Susan Dudash and Be n
Dunkle is on view through July 8
tn the Capen Hall Gallery located
on the fifth n oor of Captn o n the
Nonh Campus.

Biennial buy•
The Bienmal Slude:nl An Sale
take~ place Apnl 12 and I] from
J. 7 p.m. each day m the Atnum of
the Center for 1he Anll on the
Nonh Campus Work b) under
graduate and gradual~ an ~ludcnb
IS available 1n nnous med1ums
Pan of the proceeds goes 10 suppon Department of Art program . .

.H.iJM£4
_Open!,.
In-

Facult)' promoUon •nd the
PRB
1be Office of the PmvMt and the
FGCulty Senn~ are sponsoring a
general meeting of interesled
foculty wtth the Chau of the:
President' s Review Board (PRO),
Apnl 16 at 3 p.m. tn the Assembl}
Hall (Room 330) of the: Student
Union. North Campus. Prof.
Dav1d Nyberg. Chuir of the: PRB.
and Dr Ken Levy. Sen101 V1cc
Pro'-'OSI, Will discuss the promouon process and answer quesiJon.,

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Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3)
Archtves, Posling lfP-60 10. FacititiH Program Coordinato r
(MP-4) -Uni\'CBIIY Facililtes,
Posting lfP-60 12. Lead Pro-gram mer Analyst (SL-3; Int er·
nal Promotional Opportunity)Computing alld lnfonnauon
Technology, Posttng lfP-6013
Senior Programmer Analyst
(SL-4; Internal Promolionat
Opportunity) -Un•vers• ty Facah ues. Posung ifP-60 1-l lnst ructiona I Support Te-chnician (SL·
) ; l nt ~rnal Promotional
Opportunily)-Reslor.Ua\t Dent1stry. Pos1mg lfP·60 1S

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Faculty

University Pnnt &amp; Ma1l Serv1ces
has moved to the Jacobs second·
noor atrium. and to celebrate as
offering a 20 ptrttnl discoont off
convenience (walk-in) coptes
with a coopon available in vanous campus publications and 1n
Oyers. This Grand Opening eel ·
ebratio n will be held April 15-19

Mslstant/Associat~ ProfrssorPed1a1ncs. Posung ifF-60 11 As·
sb1ant/Associatr Profrssor-Ped1atncs. Posung ifF-6012
Assi!tit.aot/Assoc:iate ProfessorPedtatnc:., Postmg WF-60L.\

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UGL -olllte In -

The Undergraduate Library
(UGL) is offering a new servace
called ugl.union. a u.cellttc refer·
ence desk localed near the theater
entrance on the: second noor of
lhe Studenl Union, Nonh Campus. Librarians are available
Monday throt~gh Thul"5day from
II a.m. to 2 p.m. Reference ass•s·
tance IS provided through BI SON
(Buffalo lnfonnation System
ON line) and the Internet .

Re....-ch
Projtcl Staff A.ssocia1 ~ - Devel opmc:nt. Posting NR-95090 Secrttary 11 -0ffice of the Control kr. Posting •R-960 1.5 R~n:h
Technkilln II or 111 -Medtc mel
01\'tston of lnfecuou s DascaK:.,
Postmg •R-96016. Sponsore-d
Proanms A5sistant 11-Spon!IOred Pmgramili Admtmstrat •on.
Posung •R-960 17
To obtam mort' mfo rmallo rt Ort
jobs l1Sil'd obo1•t. c-orttact Pa~un
nf'l Strl'IC"t~. /04 Croju Hall To
obuun mformatwn ()II Hr:u-urC"h
jobs. rolltart Sportsorrd Programs Pusonntl, 416 Crofts

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Rdtftnce-Polat Su bjtct Constructkuu, Ronald Lanpcker.
Un iv . ofCali fomi&amp;., San Dieao.
280 Park. North Campus. 2 p.m.

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llomtpart oa the World Wide
Web. 2-3 :30 p.m. To register. call

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Vlrw: Klnuea, Pbos--

phatutt, Polymtra.ws, Dr. Paula
Traktman, Cornell Univ. Medical

College. 121 Cooke . Nort h Campus 4 p .m.

M-oColloqlllu•
Quanlum and Braided Ceomt'l ry, Pror. S. Majid. H &amp;n~ard

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'-trchanlml or Nltroelycuin

AntiplAtdtt Activity, Brian
Bouth . Ph.D. SOB Cooke Nbnh
\a pus. 4 p.m

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hu:WI&gt;Wutatioo Su ppor1
( rou p, Barbara Umikc:r. 4 :30' 30 p.m. To register. call645-

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nm . Ber~eley . 280 Pan: . North

rampus. 5 p.m.

UfoW-...op
T'al C bf for BqJnntn, Ron
Ingalsbe. Tuesdays and Thurst.lays. through May 2. 5:30-6:30
I" m. To register, call645-6125.

Art Opoal. .
T he St.nk)r Show. An Departme nt Gallery, Center for the Arts.
Nonh Campus. ~8 p.m. Free.
Through April 2S . Gallery hour&gt;
Tuesday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wcdncst.l.:ay-Friday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturd.:ay I I a.m.-8 p.m.

Mov...
Si lent Mobius IDd Nco-Tokyo.
Student Union Theater. North
Campus. 6:30p.m. S4 students; $6
~tncn l public. UUAB film series.

Movie•
T he ProresslonaL Student Union
Thtater. North Campus. 9 p.m. $2
.;tudents; $3.50 general public .
UUAB film series.

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Social
A Soct.l Worktr'J Ba1 or

Tricks, Maria Picone. Dacmen
College. $60; students $30. Sponsored by Social Work Continuing
Education. For information, cal l

645 -61411.

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Asl hmaUc Children, Bruce
Miller. M.D. Kinch Auditorium,
Children's Hospital. 8 a.m.
Polltlclll~~,.

Llnklna Environmental and Human Rl&amp;hll CODtffllS: The Ca.w
or lh• Ozonl of N....,., On. 0mo
Omoruyi and Claude Welch. 545
O'Brian. Nonh Campus. 9:30 Lm.
Art~

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330 SIUdcal
Nortb Campus. 3 p.m. 1be subject ia criteria
aad prac:edum I&gt;)' PRB ia
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Michad Rosenbluth, M.D., Uoiv.
of Toronto School or Medicine.
Auditorium. Rehabilitation Building, Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
I 0:30a.m.

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io z,Mulol
Prof.
Brian Spencer, Mathematica. 220
Natural Sciences. North Campus.
3:45p.m.

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urb, Philip Langdon. 30J Crofby.
South Campus. 5:30p.m. Followed at 6:30 p.m. by reception
and opening of student and alumni
exhibits.

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Bomepaee- Undergraduate Li brary, 127 Capen. North Campus.
1-2 p.m. To register, ca11645-

DoYid A. PlaiiiOcl, UlliY. of Nonb
Caloliaa_ Qapd Hill14 Kaox.

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2943.

Treatmeol lssua for Addicted
Women, lris Smith, Dept. of Children and Youth Services. Ailanta,
Ga. 1021 Main St 1:30 p.m. Free.
Sponsored by the Research Institute on Addictions.

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lu.m : The Binpamton Experieoce, Prof. H. Stephen Strllight.
Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology &amp;
Linguistics and Dinxtor, Languages Across the Curriculum.
SUNY Binghamton. 830 Clemens.
North Campus. 2 p.m.
l'llllooopllrAverroa and His Jnft~nct: Rtmemberin&amp; Georae Houranl
Center for inquiry. 13 10 Sweet
Home Rd. 2-8 p.m. fof'informa tion, caJJ 636-7571.

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South Campus. 3-5 p.m.

Art-

Stuck.at Art Salt. Atrium, Center
fiX' the Aru. Nonh Campus. 3-7
p.m.

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Last Decode-A Globa!Pu-•p«t.h-e, Dr. Luis Molina Lopez.
Latin American Center for Theam:: Research and Creation. Bilingual leCture. Screening Room.
Center for the Arts. North Campus. 3 p.m. Free.

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Structunl Enpeoering: Cast
Studies in AD&amp;.Iytls aDd Btallb
MonJtorin&amp;. Christopher BaUard,
Civil Engineering. 140 Ketter.
North Campus. 3:30p.m.
MuM:
Butra&amp;o Phllbarmonk Orc.but.-.-C~CELL£0 . Center for
the Ans. North Campus. April 28
RPO concert also cancelled.

Cloalrot
P'nlldeM'allntew Board
(PilB): FO&lt;IIIty-, Prar.
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                    <text>STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO

UNIVIIISI'n' A'f IIUfFALO

State University ofNew Yorlc

One Hundred Fifty Years
Aprol 4. 1996 Volume 27. No 24

FSEC discusses policy on academic
good standing, technology progress
IIJSBVE COX

Reporter Staff

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Photonics
Research
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CANCER THERAPY that flanens deep tumors using only
light as its weapon. A "stacked'' CD that could easily pack
a thousand times more data than today's hard drives. The
obility to see for the first time thick samples in lhreeldiimensioru with a microscope, whether it' s DNA molecules undergoing replication or layers of paint on an aircraft component.
Theae are just a few of the breakthrough applications that already are
possible as a result of a new generation of organic, photonic materials
developed recently by scientists at the Photonics Research Laboratory
(PRL) in the UB Department of Chemistry and the Polymer Branch of the
Materials Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton.
The work is funded by the U.S. Air Force.
Photonics-&lt;&gt;ften called the information technology of the 21st cen-

tury-is the counterpart of electronics, using light instead of electrons to
acquire, transmi~ store ana process data.
Whqeas most university laboratories tend to focus either on the
fundamental science behind new materials or on industrial applications
for them. the research team beaded by Paras N. Prasad, director of the
Photonics Research Laboratory, emphasizes both.
The work is a collaborative effort with the Polymer Branch of the U.S.
Air Force Wright Laboratory, UB's Advanced Microscopy and Imaging
Laboratories (AMTI..), UB's Department of Biological Sciences and the
Photodynamic Therapy Center at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.
Three patents"have been filed by the PRL group on the new materials.
including one that covers a new approach to photodynamic cancer therapy.
e new materials are novel chromophores or dyes. Representative
ompounds are ASPT (trans-4- [P-( N-ethyi-N-hydroxylethyl·
amino)styryi]-N-melhylpyridinium tetraphenylborate) and APSS
((4-[N-(2-hydroxyethyi)-N-melhyl) amino phenyl]-4'-(6-hydroxyhexyl
sulfonyl)sti lbene).
They demonstrate a phenomenon called multiphoton absorption, which
was predicted as early as 1931.
"Usually, when you excite a fluorescent material with light, you
produce an emission that is "Shifted toward the red--or lower energy~od
or the optical spectrum, which means it has a lower photon energy than
thin or the pump source," explained Jayant D. Bhawalkar, research
assistant professor in the Photonics Research Laboratory.
'1lte emitted photon has a lower energy because part of it is lost
internally."
He noted, however, that it is well-known that molecules of certain
fluorescent materials can absorb two or more photons simultaneously
(multiphoton absorption) if pumped with a light or sufficiently high
intensity. ~uch as light from a pulsed laser. This produces fluorescent
emissions with higher energy than the pumping photon, a process called
upconvetsion.
.
Until now, most materials have been capable only of a very weak

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Continued on page 5

HE FACULTY Senate
Executive Committee.
during its March 27
meeting, revisited the
policy on academic good
standing and heard plans for making UB classrooms more technology-intensive and user-friendly.
Although academic good stand·
ing policy propo nent Nicolas
Goodman, vice provost for undergraduateeducation, maintains that
the policy is merely a codification
of rules that have existed for some
time, others argue that it unfairly
prejudices students with decent
academic credentials who simply
suffer ··a bad semester.''
The policy places students on
academic probation for not achieving a 2.0 grade-point average or
faiJing to complete 75 percent of
the credits for which they registered. Probation can cause studentathletes to lose NCAA eligibility,
student government leaders to lose
their offices and it can prevent
students from panicipating in extracurricular activities.

Last fall. the first semester during which the policy was put into
effect. morelhan4.000undergr•du·
ates, over one-quaner of the undergraduate student body , found
themselves onacademic probation.
By contrast, at the opposite end of
the academic spectrum, only 1.186
students made the university 's
"Dean's List ," according to
Goodman.
rading Commiuee Chair Thomas Schroeder, whose com mittee had been charged with fixing the policy, offered a lukewarm
endorsement to a draft amendment
from his committee which, he said,
"pleases at least some people."
However, after extended discussion, the FSEC sent Schroeder back
to tty again. Additional amend·
ments to the policy are due to be
considered by the FSEC today.
Several FSEC members criticized the formulaic nature of the
policy, arguing that people, not computers, should make judgments
about individual cases. Goodman
disagreed. however, arguing that the
policy should be kept "objective,
not subjective," and that it would be

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very difficult to make individual
decisions on 4,000 studen ts.
Law School Profe ssor Errol
Meidinger criti cized the policy for
imposing unintended consequences
on students. "I recently re viewed a
law school application in which a
panicular app licant explained why
she had been placed on academic
probation, even though we don't
ask that question on our applica·
tion. ·· he explained.
"However, I believe man y Jaw
schools do ask whether you have
ever been on academic probation.
and if the answer is yes. I suspect
the applications are rejected ."
Meidinger called the current policy
.. not intelligent" and ..not particularly rational."
On the budget front , Chair
Claude Welch informed FSEC
members that. according to Senior
Vice President Robert Wagner.
SUNY was now expecting significant TAP restoration and full restoration of the Capital Equipment
budget, but that there is linle likelihood that any form of differential
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New program builds professional skills
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booked on every·
thing ," !IIuzzi
added. "But Bob
(Wagner) made it
clear from the first
meeting, don't let
family obligations
1&gt;\! compromised
by this program."

Reporter Ed~or

As

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budge~

there are a lot of unknowns.
How much state funding will the
university get? What will tuition be
next year~ How will this affect UB ?
While there are many questions
about the future, one fact is certain:
things will be different. And different times mean people may need
different ski lls.
The Professional Development
Opportunity program was initiated
by Senior Vice President Robert J .
Wagner in September 1995 to ad·
dress that need.
Designed to introduce University
Services staff to the processes of
leading and managing at the senior
level in a research universily. the
year-long program also gives par·
ticipants an opponunity to gain new
knowledge as well as develop new
skills and reinforce current skills that
can be used in their jobs.

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"I wllllteci to
the big picture
and to be exposed to leadership
skills." said JoAnn Illuzzi, who
was selected for the Professional
Opportunity Program this year
along with Joanne Fletcher.
Both have been members of the
UB staff for II years. Uluzzi is man·
ager or network software support,
technical services in Computer and
Information Technology (CIT).
Aetcher is director of human resources for University Facilities.

Reu:bercontinued.

They have become good friends
as well as valued
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colleagues since
they beganthepro-

. -b f - .,.,.,...._ (lppoltlnty pqram. gram Sept. I. they
They divide their time between
their currentjobs and the Office of
the Senior Vice President, where
they work 20 hours a week. attending meetings, coordinating programs and providing input on a
variety of issues. Their staffs in
CIT and University Facilities have
picked up some of their responsibil ities to make their partic.ipation
in the program possible.
Some days require more juggling than others. but Fletcher and
Illuzzi both say the time constraints
are not overwhelming. and they
find everything can be accomplished-&lt;:almly.
"We have lists. This necessitates an extraordinary amount of
time management skills. You just
can't be everywhere." Fletcher said.
"! think Joanne and I are double

say. not only be·
cause they are the first participants in
the program. but al59 because or the
respect they 've developed for each
other. "We'resonoftheguineapigs."'
Aetchersaid. "We didn't know what
we were getting into. and I'm not
sure they (the Office of the Senior
Vice President) had any expecta·
lions either."

Fletcher end llluul are enthusi·
astic about the Professional Opponunity Program and the skills it
has allowed them to develop. Both
acknowledge they work about 50
hours a week. "You work longer.
but you work a lot smarter.··
Fletcher said. "You get to be a lot
more efficient. ."
llluzzi said the experience has
taught her to make choices about
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VERY YEAR. students from the
U.S ., Canada, Europe and San
J~just over the mountaintravel to the rural Costa Rican
town of Monteverde, adjacent to
that nation' s magnificent and seriously endangered " Qoud Forest." They come to study
and work in co nun unity projects that support
a sustainable future for the area, as part of a
UB summer-abroad program.
Started in 1991 , ''Sustainable Futures," an
eight-week program =ted by UB, bas developed community projects in Mooteverde in
planning, an:hitectwe and landscape an:hittx:ture that support a sustainable future DO( only for
the endangered fares~ but for the communities
that surround il The program, which features
hands-on community projects and a sevenweek homestay with a Costa Rican famil y. is
co-sponsored by the University of Maryland
and the University of Costa Rica.
It is offered in cooperation with the

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Monteverde Institute, the internationally re-

garded Costa Ri can nonprofit educational
InStituti on founded by membe rs of the
Monteverde community.
This year, the UB program will include:
Studio practicum: Participants will enro ll in a six/seven-credit -hour stud io
practicum that offers supervised application

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of architecture and planning principles. Students wiU work with faculty and local organizations to define and respond to some
need or opportunity that both supports the
changing economy of the area and encour-

ages rain forest conservation.
The projects developed through this studjo course over the past fi ve years include:

• MMaster Plan ror the Monteverde
Institute and the Monteverde ConJeJ"Vation League," a physical development plan
for two local institutions that included programming and archittx:rural design.
• MProcJoc:tores deMon~" assistance to the local, coopentively owned dairy
plant for immediate site improvements and

UB to host national conference focusing on work
ofrevolutionary American poet Robert Duncan
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OBERT DUNCAN , the revolutionary post-war American poet
who helped pioneer critical new

movements in American post-war
poetry, will be the subject of a national
conference to be held April 18-20 at UB.
The conference, titled 'The Opening of
the Field," will focus on the poetics that
Duncan developed with his life partner,
painter/collagist Jess Collins, and the poetic
forms, some of the mosl innovative of the
20th century, that developed from it.
Discussions and lectures will take place in
the UB Poetry Collection Reading Room,420
Capen Hall on the North Campus from 2:3().
5 p.m. on Thursday, Aprill8; 10 a.m.- 12:30
p.m. and 2:3().5 p.m. on Friday, April 19. and
10:30 a. m.-1 p.m. on Saturday. April20.
In addition, evening poetry readings wiU
be held at Hall walls Contemponuy Arts Center. Suite425. 2495 Main Sl Susan Howe and
Nathaniel Mackey will read at 7:30 p.m. on
April 18, and Michele Leggon and Robin
Blaser will read at 7:30p.m. on April 19.
The poetic system devised by Duncan
and Jess was based on mythic traditions and
the high rol1;)ance of 19th-century romantic
writers, composers and painters, as well as
on fairy tales, myths and legends. George
MacDonald novels, Celtic riddles and stories by Hans Christian Andersen.
From these they derived a network or
"grand collage" of images and ideas that
erupted throughout Duncan's poetry and Jess '
visual art. This allowed for a variety of tradilions to be articulated in Duncan's work, and
offered the reader entry to it through many
channels. It is considered an all-important
contribution to the direction of what became
known as 'The New American Poetry."
The movement included not only Duncan.
but Charles Olson and Robert Creeleyboth of whom became professors at UB.
where Cree ley still holds the Samuel P. Capen
Chair of Poetry and the Humanities.
Olson and Creeley also were associated
with Duncan through the revolutionary Black

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Mountain College, where they all experimented with open form poetry or ''open field
composition." These poets, along with poet
Denise Levertov, John Ashbery and others,
enacted a revolution that changed the writing of American poetry after World WOI D.
Duncan visited the UB campus several times
between 1968 and 1983 to deliver lectures
and visit colleagues, and the UB Poetry/Rare
Books Collection now includes many of his
important art work, unique productions, ftrst
editions and manuscripts.
illi poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser,
Duncan was also part of the litenuy
movement known as 'The San Francisco
Renaissance," which, among other things,
generated a new kind of poem, the "serial
poem," which in Duncan' s case was published in parts in several of his books.
Conference participants will include:
• Marjorie Perlofl', Sadie Dcmham ProfessorofHumanities at Stanford University,
one of the outstanding litenuy scholars of
her generation and an indefatigable champion of avant-garde thinking of all times.
• JeromeMcGann,JohnStewart Bryan
Professor of English at the University of
Virginia andauthorofmany influential books
that have changed the direction of textual
criticism in America.

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• Susan Howe, UB professor of English
and author of the groundbrealting critical
study, "My Emily Dickinson" (1985). A
poet and scholar of great innovation and
distinction, she is also the author of 'The
Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in
American Litenuy History" ( 1993) and several notable collections of poetry.
•RobinBJaser,oneoftheoriginalmembers of the 1947 " Berkeley Renaissance" of
poetry and a longtime friend and associate of
Robert Duncan. Blaser bas been publishing
poems and essays for 50 years and 'The
Holy Forest" (1993) established him as one
of the distinguished poets of his generation.
• Robert Bertholr, curator of the UB
Poetry/Rare Books Collection. UB's collection of 20th-century poetry in English is
generally considered the finest in the world
and its holdings include many of Duncan's
rare and ftrst editions, manuscripts and personal artifacts. Bertholf is theautborof"Rol&gt;ert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliograplty"
and editor of " Robert Duncan, Selected Poems" (1993) and "Robert Duncan. A Selected Prose" (1995).
•Joseph Conte, UB associate professor
of English and author of articles on modernist and postmodemist poetry and of the fulllength study, " Unending Design: The Fonns
of. Postmodern Poetry" (1991).
• Mlcbele Leggott, a poet and critic who
teaches at the University of New Zealand.
•NatbanieiMackey,professorofEnglisb
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and
author of many articles on Duncan, as weU as
many books of his own poeuy and prose.
• Peter Quartermain, professor of English at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, and an enthusiastic champion of
Duncan's poetry. He is the author of critical
work on poet Basil Bunting and on "disjunctive" poets like Gertrude Stein and Susan
Howe.
• David Levi Strauss, a former student
of Duncan, currently an art critic and essayist for several magazines incJuclingArt News.
His early poems were collected in "Maneuvers: Poems, 1977-79."
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long-nnae plonnina tbol helped clean up and
prevcai future wbey pollutioD ol the riwr by
instituting a new animal busbondry propam.
• •Eoo~~oce Verde, • the plauning and development of a "green necklace" or "green
corridor" along the Rio GuocimaJ, which
borden the Ooud Forest. 1bio entailed establishment of CODJt:rVation easements with
many ownen of private property in oriler to
preserve the rain forest environment on private land so that animals could migrate, feed
and move mely to the river and Olbez areas
witboutleavingtheirhabitaL "Enlace Verde"
bas been very successful in developing community support for the idea of a~ environment It is now being expanded.
• ·~r Plaa ror El 8aeq1le Etemo
de Loo Ninoo,• programming and site development for the Children' • Rain Poreot Project.
a site-5pecific education program. as weU as
a worldwide education and conservation
project based iD Monteverde, through which
children around the world purchase. and thus
preserve, existing tracts of rain forest.

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n addition to studio work, students
will take part in a tltree-credit-bour seminarthat is an investigation ofthe tbecoy and
practice of sustainable futures. They also will
take a one-to-three-credit-boor coune on
placemalting and intenoeotioo thecoy, which
will support the sllJdi&lt;Hlued work.
Students for wbom Sponisb is 00( a first
language must take the equivalent ol two credits of Spanish through the Monteverde Institute while in the program. They may attend
lectures by local and visiting scholars and participote in field trips .to pmjects working toward
sustainability, to institutes and forest~
Faculty includes Robert Shibley, professor of architecture and planning, UB ; Lynda
Scbneeldoth. professor of architecture, UB ;
William Page. professor ol planning. UB, and
Margarita Hill. professor of landscape architecture, University of Maryland. Adjunct
faculty from the U.S. and Costa Rica also will
be involved in instruction and planning. C

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Cole receives major
humanities fellowships
Aw.,.wlnnlng c:lasalc:a and history prof plana new book
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and drama.
Cole is the aut horof'lheoJ Megaloi:The
Cu It o f the Great Gods at Samothrace" ( 1984 )
and ~ ~comp l e tin g a second book ... D,o nys iac
Inscriptions o f As1a Minor:· a co llection of
m scripti o n~ . with commentanes. relating to
the c ult of D1 onys us in Asm Minor
Sht: also ha~ published a number ofJOUrnal
anicl cs and book chapters on such topics a.s
the sacred and the feminine in ancient Greece.
the literacy of
Greek women.
Greek sa ncuons
against sexual assault , archaeol ogy and religion .
the
cha nging
world of classical
studies. superstitions about the female body in
Greece and Greek
rirual obscenity.
SUSAN OUETTEL COL£
In 1990. Cole
presented a series of invited lectures at the
&amp;ole Pratique des Hautes Edudes in Paris and
co-directed an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers at the American School of Oassical Studies in Athens.
She is a graduate of the University of
Minnesota, from which she holds a doctorate in Greek and Latin. She joined the UB
facu lty in 1992 afterservi ng for 10 years on
the facu lty of the University of lllinois at
Chicago. She was the Benedict Distinguisbed
Visiting Professor of Classics at Carleton
Coll ege in Minnesota in 1986, and visitinll
associate professor of classics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1988.
Cole was a junior fellow of the Center for
Hellenic Studies in 1979-80, and is the recipient of a number of notable fellowships
and granrs, including those from the American
Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities. the University of
Illinois lnstiiUie for the Humanities and the
David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

News Services Staff

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Using car phone while you
drive: it's risky, study shows
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News Services Staff

F YOU TIUNK PEOPLE who talk on
cellular phones while driving are ask ing for trouble, a new preliminary study
by researchers at UB and Rochester
Institute ofTechnology suggesiS you're
bably righL
Their srudy of the relationship between
use o f cellular phones and traffic-accit risk shows that drivers who have car
nes are 34 percent more likely to be
invplved in an acc ide nt than people who
don't.
Big talkers are at an even greater risk .
ResuiiS showed that people who use a car

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phone for more than 50 minutes a month are
five times more likely to be involved in an

acc ident than those who use their car phones
less or not at all
The study, authored by John M. Violanti,

clinical assistant professor, and James R.
Marshall, professor, both of UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
appears in the current issue ofAccuu/11 Analysis and Prevention, a journal published in
Great Britain. Violanti also is a member of
the Department of Criminal Justice at the
Rochester Institute of Technology.
Driver inattention is a contributing factor
in 35 percent of traffic accidents, according
to a 1993 report from the New York State

subjects also spent twice as much time on the
phone while driving as those without accidents. They also engaged in more business
and intense business calls.
Phone use was more strongly associated
with accideniS than lack of dri ving experience and most activities known to be distractions, such as drinking beverages, adjusting
the radio, looki ng at the scenery or thinking
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urprisingly, researchers said, the lone
distraction of talking on a car phone was
associated with a higher risk of accidents
than phone use combined with other distractions. such as smoking or drinking a beverage.
" Apparently, cellular phone use as a single
behavior may affect accident risk to a greater
degree than many other in-car activities while
driving," Violanti said.
He pointed out that the study shows a
statistical association between car-phone use
and accide nts , not cause and effect.
" Many factors cause traffic accidents,"
Violanti stated. ' The task of future research
is to study these factors further."
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USAN GUETTEL COLE. associate professor of cl ass ics and
history a t UB. has been named
a fellow of the National Hu manities Center (NH C) for
1996-97. She also has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH) for the 1996-97 academic year.
The National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park in North Caroli na provides an institutional base for advanced
scholarship in the humanities. The center offers fellows the company of leading scholars in
a variety of fie lds,' plus offices, equipment and
research support during their fellowship year.
Cole was among 30 NHC scholars selected thi s year from a field of more than 500
applicaniS. The NEH fellowship will provide her with a stipend during her NHC
fe llowship year.
While at the center, Cole will prepare the
manuscript of her new book, " Bodies of
Water, Fields of Grain." Tbe book is a siUdy of
howtheGreekpolis(city-state,ormorebroadly,
conununity) recognized the rec iprocal roles
of males and females through irs creation of
ritual space and organization of ritual aciS.
" Most recent discussions of gender difference in Greek ritual practice," she says...... concentrate on single ii.sues and offer si ngle
explanations-Uull female rituals reflect the
marginalization of women in the Greek community or that rituals retlecr a subversive
and deliberatecounter-cultureamong women."
Cole argues, however. that the well-docu meotedexclusion of women fromcenain Greek
civic and religious rituals did not imply the
social marginalization of women. but aniculated the mutual correspondence between the
community functions of men and women.
In exploring this topic, she wi ll exploit
archaeo logical, epigraphic and literary evi dence ranging from the nature of sanctuaries
and votive gifts to gender differences described in medical texts. oratories. poetry

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Depanment of Motor, Vehicles. Previous
studies have shown that the use of ce llular
phones in vehicl es may distract the driver,
but few have looked at what may happen as
a res ult, i.e., actual accidents, the researchers
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o investigate that relationship. Violanti
and Marshall analyzed the a-ccide nt-risk
fac tors of 200 New York State motori siS,
half of whom were selected randomly from
drivers who had an accident in the past two
years. and half from drivers with no accidents in the past 10 years . All drivers received a mail survey asking how often they
are involved in 18 activities known to cause
distractions while drivi ng, such as drinking
beverages, smoking, talking with passengers, adj usting seats or mirrors, as well as
ce llular-phone use. Demographic information a1so was collected.
Results showed that 13 percent of the
accident group and 9 percent of the nonaccident group used cellular phones while
driving. Further analysis showed that usi ng
a ce llular phone more than 50 minutes a
month was strongly and significantly associ ated with traffic accidents.
In general, phone users who had accidents we~ younger and had less driving
experience and more previous accidents than
the non-accident control group. Accident

what is most imponartt. and her communication skms have improved. "People I work
with have noticed it." She· s also learned the
importance of building a team atmosphere.
llluzzi added .

DIMd J. T~. vtce pr011D611or graduate education and dean of the Graduale
School, ~ Graduate Sludei'lt Excellence in Teaching Awards March 29 In
the Center lor the Ms. Awards went to David Barclay, Helen Chuang, Steven
Conahan, Thomas Diggins, Sharon Kirsch, James O'l.Qughlin and~ Osman.
Honorable Mentions MOt to Rosanne Higgins, Stephen Horan, Chnstine
Ingersoll, Karen Kitrmelt. Tamar Ubemlan-Goule~ Emily Niemeyer, Jennifer
Railey, Kevin Swindin and Andres Zlotsky.
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The extra time
at the office is well
worth it.llluzzi and Fletcher said. They meet
regularly with the Senior Vice President.
who has taught them about packaging informarion for different audiences, working
through several viewpoints toward the same
goal. and long-term planni ng strategies.
Admini strators in Capen Hall have been
very generous with their time and the informa·
lion they have shared about their operations.
Aetcher said. Time at the university has taken
on a different meaning. too .. ;It' s not measured
in days. ProjeciS truly are long-term. It 's a
sense of vision," Illuzzi said. 1be experience
has helped her to develop more patience and
tolerance of the unknown. she said
The first three months, Fletc her and II Iuzzi
agree. were a "learning c urve" that they
spent reading . gening up to speed o n issues
and learning acronyms . ''The next people
will have it eas ier," A e tcher said. si nce they
plan to leave lists of reading materials and
acronyms for their successors.
While it 's been a lot of work, they will ha te
to see the year end. they said. "My only regret
is it won ' tl ast longer," A etcher said. ·This has
surpassed everything we'd both hoped for."

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Saying 'good-bye' important
to bereaved, UB study says
It affects the ability to cope with loss of loved one
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HE OPPORTUNITY to say
"good-bye" to a loved on.,..._.,;.
ther before or after his or her
death-is significantly related to
an individual's outlook and ability to cope with the bereavement process,
accordi ng to a study by researchen at UB.
In a study of312 adults who had experienced the death of a loved one within the
year, they found that 82 percent of those who
had an opportunity to say good-bye were
optimistic about the future, compared to 60
percent of those who said they'd "sort or·
said good -bye and 59 percent of those who
didn't have a chance to bid farewell to their
loved one .
Forty -seven percent of the subjects reported having .. contact" with the deceased
and virtually all indicated that it was of a
positive, reassuring nature. This experience,
howe ver, had no significant effect on either
the subjec ts' future outlook or on their abil it y to cope. or the subjects reporting such
co ntact , however. fewer than half listed be lief in an afterlife as the source of great
co mfort.
'Those ho deal with grievi ng people
know that it' s not uncommon for them to
report ha\ ·ng contact with the deceasedperhaps
ing the body or hearing the voice.
having a m. ingful dream or seeing some
well-timed phy ical sign like a rose blooming
tn Buffalo in Feb ary,"saidThomasT. Frantz.
Frantz. profe'l"or and chair in the Department of Counse\tng and Educational Psychology in the UB Graduate School of
Ed ucation, was lead author on the study,
reported recentl y in Pastoral Psychology.
Also on the research team were Barbara C.
Trolley, UB adjunct professor of counseling
and educational psychology , and Michael P.
Joh ll. a doctoral cand idate in the department.
The researchen concluded that taking the
opportunity to say "good-bye"to loved ones
before their death makes the bereavement
process less difficult. Telling people you
love them. clearing up disagreements or resentments with the dying pe11i0n, being at
peace with the one who' s dying-aJI prevent
unfinished business from co mplicating the
process of grieving.
They recommend that where sudden death
has prevented such a good-bye, the bereaved

write a letter to the pe11i0n who has died,
pouring out their feelings on paper.
The study was designed to evaluate the
overall importance of religion to the bereaved, identify aspects of religion perceived
to be helpful in dealing with grief and determine the relationship of religion to the
bereaved's perception of the future and his
or ber overall coping status.
The researchero reported !bat belie flo life
after death or in a heaven is an important
source of comfort to the grieving and that
religious or spiritual beliefs were helpful 'to
the subjects during their grief.
Forty-two percent of subjects said that
their religious or spiritual beliefs bad helped
them very much during their grief, with
another 35 percent reporting that they had
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ubjects reported that the most helpful
aspects of their religious or spiritual
belief systems in their time of gri ef were
first. the belief that their loved ones were at
peace. in heaven. in a better pl ace and no
longer suffering; second. prayer, faith in
God, attendance at church and temple services and other religious funerary or memorial rituals . a nd third , a belief in
life-after-death. whi ch was cited by 20 percent of the subjects as being a great comfort.
Twenty-three percent of those interviewed
said that religion was not a help to them
during their grief. in that they found no
comfort in it; didn ' t have a religious belief.
or, as a result of the death. had lost any faith
in God or religion.
Frantz said that one interesting finding
was that people who said their religious
beliefs were of no help were more optimistic
ahout the future than those whose beliefs
were "somewhat helpful" or "of little help."
"We can only guess that grieving people
who find religion of no help may not be
religious or have a spiritual faith," Frantz
said, "and have found another philosophy or
belief system that helps them be upbeat about
their future, despite the death of a loved one."
Frantz said that overall the subjects, wbo
had lost a loved one on the average of 13
months before they were interviewed, were
coping very well. Sixty-four percent of the
respondents said the future looked hopeful
or optimistic, with 36 percent unsure or
discouraged ahout the future.
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tuiti on will be adopted thi s year. Wagner
spoke ahout the budget items during a meeting of the Budget Priorities Committee ,
We lch explained. On Monday, for the 12th
slraight year, the state entered the new fiscal
year without a budget in place.
D. Scott Danford, chair of the Facilities
Planning Committee. and Richard Noll, Manager of Planning &amp; Programs in Univenity
Facilities, briefed FSEC memben on progress
being made in bringing state-of-the-art teaching technology to as many of the 153 centrally
sc heduled classrooms as possible.
To date. explained Danford, 15 rooms
have been converted into "E-Tech Rooms."
These classrooms offer televisions, VCRs.
personal computers, satellile hookups and
the like. he explained. at a cost of roughly
S I 00.000 per room. "Our dream would be to
equip 40 to 50 rooms like this," said No ll ,
exp lai ning that input from faculty would be
important in detennioing how best to spend
limited funds in the future .
Student Representative Laura Cornwe ll
to ld Noll that more technical help needs to be
providCd for faculty members in utilizi ng the
new teaching aids. ''Too much time gets wasted

when a teacher can't figure out how something works and sends for help," she said.
Another limitation, Noll explained, is that
only a small portion of the campus' classrooms are centrally scheduled. Roughly 80
percent of classrooms are owned by schools
or departments. However, Noll hopes to
bring more space under the control of central
scheduling
' This summer, for instance, we will completely renovate the Moot Court Room in
O'Brian Hall into a ftrst-dass, centrally
scheduled E-Tech Classroom." said Noll.
"and we· will build the law school a more
usable Mool Court Room elsewhere in
O'Brian."
Noll said that the Pataki adrninislnltion
had placed a freeze o n new SUNY construction, putting a halt to the planned Student
Services and Natural Sciences &amp; Mathemat·
ics Phase li projects. However, negotiations
are under way to allow construction of a
scaled-back version of NSM II, which would
bring a small, two- story structure to house the
Mathematics and Geology faculty, as well as
the Dean· s offices, to the North Campus. but
include no additi onal teaching space.

OpenlnC event: Don Hurtln 'o IIMNiter

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on lk&gt;bal politico ond tM lndtYiduol.

New Music Festival
opens April12
TINNitrlcal, musical comblnlltlons ec:heduled for -..el event

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HE 13THANNUALNorthAmerican New Music Festival, renowned
for its powerful performances and
in-depth examination of the arts ,
opensFriday, Aprill 2attheCenter for the Arts
Foonded in 1983 by the late pianist Yvar
Mikhashoff, the celebrated festival will run
April 12-28 in the Center for the Arts on
UB 's North Campus, !be Burchfield-Penney
Art Center at Buffalo State College, and the
Marquee at the Tralf.
Robert Chumbley, director of the Center
for the Arts, is artistic director of the festival ,
which will focus on "M usic as Theater,"
showcasing artists and works that incorporate music and theater inlo theirperfonnances,
and concerts of modem and contemporary
works from Russia and America.
Admission prices range from $5-$ 12 per
event. For tickets and infonnation call the
Center for the Arts Box Office at645-ARTS.
Opening event is'the provocative political
performance of Dan Hurlin "NO (Thing so
Powerful as) TRUTH," a group of solo/theater pieces to be presented Aprill2 and 13 at
8 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. The performance is inspired by William Loeb, fonner
owner and publisher of the Manchester, N .H.
Union Leadtr, an ultra-conservative newspaper. Hurlin exposes the hmh reality of the
buman condition as he shifts roles from innocent child to rotten politician. The piece
showcases a musical score composed and
performed by Daniel Froot.

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lso on April 13, Hallwalls will present
Grachan Moncur III with the New Jazz
Orcheslnl of Buffalo at 8 p.m. at Marquee at
the Tralf, 100 Theater Place. The internationally lmown African-American avant-jazz
composer and trombonist will present a spicy
new work fo r Hallwalls' 15-piece resident
ensemble. Moncur. one of the founding fathers of avant-garde jazz, will perform with
and conduct the orchestra.
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orcheslnl appe= April 18 at 5 p.m. in the Center for the
Arts Mainstage under the di rection of Guesl
Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann. presenting contemporary works , all premieres. by
Kenneth Frazelle, Alfred Schnittke and
Nicholas Maw, the last considered one of
Britain's most admired composers.
Guest soloists are Robert Chumbley and

Shirley lrek, perfonning Schnittke's Conceno for on&lt; piano,four hands. Chumbley.
a sought-after composer and director of the
Center for the Arts, will perfonn as a duopianist with his wife.lrek, a leading collaborative pianist who is a visiting professor of
piano at UB.
On April 19, the Center for the Arts, in
collaboration with the Burchlield-Peoney Art
Center, will bast " A Tribute to Sbostakovich."
The Russian composer' s music represents
part of the roodem music component of this
year' s festival . The performance features violinist Lynn Chang, cellist Christopher
Costanza, violinist Debra Foog, violist Hsiny un Huang, and pianists Shirley lrek, Michael
Lewin and Stephen Manes.

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ean Kopperud, a member of the New
York New Music Ensemble and a wellmown clarinetist, will present Harlekin, an
unusual piece by K.arlheinz Stockhausen, in
which she simultaneously dances and plays
clarinet, on April20 in the Black Box llleatre.
AlsoonApril20, theBuffaloGuitarQuartet, a pioneer in the field of ensemble guitar
performance, plays at 2 p.m. in the
Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Memben Len
Biszkont , Richard Falkeostein , Jame s
Piorkowski and John Sawyen will present a
prog11im of works by Com posen Alliance of
Buffalo, including Penis Vehar. William
Ortiz. Jeffrey Schanzer and othen. The perfonnance is free.
A musical presentation of modem World
War II -&lt;Ora music by American composer
Aaron Copland will be beld April 21 in the
Burchfield-Penney Art Center. " A Tribute
to Copland" will be perfonned by Lynn
Chang, Christopher Costa nza, Robert
Chumbley, Debra Fong, Hsin- Yun Huang,
Jean Kopperud and Michael Lewin. Presented by the Center for the Arts in collaboration with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center.
the program will include Qua net for Piano
and Strings: Sonata for Piano: Vittbsk and
Stxlt!t for Clarintt, Piano and Strings.
The festival concludes with perfonnances
April27 and 28 with Pick of the Crop Dance
performances of Hansel and Gretel. to be
given at2 p.m. and 7:30p.m. April27 and at
2 p.m. on Apri l 28 on Mainstage, Center for
the Arts. Choreographer Elaine Gardner and
composerCun Steinzorbring new life lo this
classic Grimm fairy tale by setting it to a new
musical score.

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Danny Glover, Felix Justice here April 21
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News Ser'llices Staff

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OLLYWOOD STAR Danny Glover and actor/
director Felix Justice will present "An Afternoon
with Langston and Martin" on Sunday, April 21, at
the 20th annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration at the University at Buffalo.
The one-of-a-kind performance of the works of Langston
Hughes and two of the late Dr. King's most memorable and
inspiring speeches is set for 2:30 p.m. in the Mainstage
Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
Prognom sponsor is WKBW-TV, News Channel?.
Glover, a native of San Fraocisco, received widespread
critical acclaim as cotton farmer Moze in the Academy
Award-winoing film, " Places in the Heart" and earned an
Emmy nomination for his role in the to!&gt;'rated television

mini-series ''Lonesome Dove." He was inducted into the

Black Filmmakers Hall of F(lll\e in 199 1.
He gives theatrical readings from the works of Langston
Hughes, the celebrated writer, and also shares insights into
how Hughes' work has touched and inspired him.

Justice, a native of Aorence, S.C., and an actor and
director for nearly 30 years, transforms himself into the Rev .
King, recreating the man and his message.
His one-man Martin Luther King Jr. show, "Prophesy in
America," premiered in San Francisco 15 years ago at the
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and has since toured throughout
the
Orchestra seats for "An Afternoon with Langston and
Martin" are $12; rear orchestra seats $10 and balcony $8.
Senior discounts of $2 and UB student discounts of $4 are
available only through the Center for the Arts Ticket Office.
Tickets may he purchased with cash only at all TicketMaster
locations. They also will he available at I :30 p.m. at the door

u.s.

hefore the performance.
Tickets charged to Mastercard and VISA or paid by
money order can he purchased by mail or fax through the
MLK Jr. Commemoration, Ticket Office. Center for the
Arts, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260-6000; FAX 716-645-6973.

Theatre and Dance program celebrates life and times of Pablo Neruda

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PA'IIIICIA DONOVAN
News Services Staff

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HElNTERNATIONALArtisticaod
Cultural Exchange Program of the
UB Department of Theatre and
Dance will present a performance
celebrating the life and poetry of the late
Chilean Nohel Laureate Pablo Neruda on
Apri ll 2and 13.
The presentation, "Neruda, Dejame Caotar
porTi" ("Neruda, Let Me Sing For You"), is a
Spanish-language presentation by Franklin

Caicedo, one of the most prestigious teachers
of acting in the Spanish-speaking world.
It will take place in the Screening Room in
the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
Tickets are SIO for general admission and $5
for students. The poems, anecdotes and recol·
lections that comprise the solo performance
will he simultaneously tnnslated into English
by Irving Feldman, SUNY Distinguished J&gt;ro.
fessor in the UB Department of Engtish.
The performance is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Leuers, with the support of

the Centro Latinoamericano de lnvestigacion
y Creacion Teatral (C.E.L.C.l.T.), the De·
partment of Theatre and Dance, the Depart·
ment of Modem Languages and Literatures
and the Melodia Jones Chair in French
! Raymond Federman).

Neruda, who ranks among the greatest
poets in any language, is noted in particular
for the freshness and inventiveness of the
language through which he expressed a range
of erotic, openly autobiographical and political themes.

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eruda was focal point of the Academy·
Award-nominated motion picture, II
Postino, which deals with a shy small-town
mail carrier and his unlikely friendship with
the poet. The film, which earned five nominations, won an Oscar for its original dramatic musical score.
A devout communist, Neruda had hecome
one of the hest-known Chilean poets by the
age of20 and as a young man enjoyed several
years as a consu lar representative of his nation in Latin America, Europe and Asia. These
were years rich in poetic development and
marked by his friendships with Garcia Lorca
and other Spanish poets who publicly recog·
nized the distinction of his work.

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he outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the
execution of Lorca and the onslaught of
World War II matured Neruda's poetry and
his political attitudes, which in tum expanded
his fame. When he returned home in 1943. he
received a tremendous welcome from every

country along the Pacific coast. He became a

demonstrated for the first time hi s highly
personalized poetic technique that became
known as nerudismo. In his poetry. Neruda
expl ored a wide range of subjects and sryles
that include highl y perso nal Jove poetry.
accusatory poems of social and political crit icism. and imposing epi cs.
eruda was awarded the Nobel Pri ze fo r
Literature in 197 1. two years befo re hi s
death, which occ urred one week after the
assassination of his friend Salvadore Allende.
president of Chile. He continues to be revered
not only for the impact he made on his own
country's literary life. but as one of the greatest poets of thi s century. a man who produced
a courageous and beautiful body of work
enriched by hi s passion, depth and nuance.
Franklin Caicedo has produced and appeared in lheatrical productions since he was a
child in Northern Chile. He studied at Santiago's
School of the Performing Arts, joined the
University of Chile' s Experimental Theater
company and later became a theater professor at the university. He artained national
stardom through his appearance in Marat/
Sade and later as Estragon in Waiting for
Godot. In 1969 Caicedo relocated to Argen·
tina. where he joined Buenos Aires' most
di stingui shed theater ensemble. He directs
hi s own theater school in Buenos Aires. ·-

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PABLO NERUDA

Chilean senator and served his country po litically for the rest of his life.
His poetry, which speaks to the kinds of
changes every person experiences throughout a lifetime, has been translated into vinuaJJy every language. Among hi s mosr lyrical
works are early poems like Crepusculario
and Viente poemas de amor y una can ciOn
desesperada. Later works of a more spiritual
nature include Ttmta viva del hombre infinito
and £1 hondero entusiasta. One of his most
important books, Residencia en Ia tierra ,
explores the domain of the inner seiLln it, he

PHOTONICS RESEARCH
Continued from page 1
absorption of two photons, making them
inadequate for most applications.
In contrast, the materials developed at UB
and the Polymer Branch of the Wright Laboratory exhibit strong multi photon absorption,
as well as strong fluorescence emission.
Some of these new materials also have
exce llent two-photon pumped lasing prop·
erties, whic~ allows them to be used for
producing frequency upeonverted laser light.
This makes possible the development of
solid state dye lasers and fiher lasers that
convert infrared laser emission to visible
blue light. "Such lasers are required to in·
crease the number of channels (bandwidth)
in optical communic4ti ons, to increase the
density of optical data storage and for under·
sea communications." said Guang S. He,
senior research scientist at the Photonics
Research Laboratory. A scientific paper on
an upconversion laser authored by Prasad
and his colleagues was published in Applied
Physics utters (Dec. 18, 1995).

R..chlq Deep Tumors
One of the most exciting appl_ications for
the new materials is in enhancing photodynamic cancer therapy. ln collaboration with
Thomas J. Dougherty, one of the founders of
photodynamic therapy, the UB scientists have
"hown that their dyes can help to ex tend thi s
new cancer therapy to treat deep tumors.
Dougherty is chief of the Department of
Radiation Biology and the Photodynamic
Therapy Center at Roswell Park and a UB
;11\Sociate research professor of biophysics
and research professor of radiation oncology .
" Photodynamic therapy works with a
chemical photosen sitizer. which is injected

One of the most exciting
applications for the new
materials is in enhancing
plwtodynamic cancer
therapy.
into the patient and which selectively accu mulates in a tumor," said Bhawalkar. "When
the laser light iOuminates it, the photosensitizer reaches an excited state and converts
the oxygen in the tissues to a highly reactive
form, which proves deadly for the tumor."
Current technology utilizes visible light
to shine on the tumor. But, Bhawalkar said.
visible light has poor ti ssue penetration. so
the promise of photodynamic therapy has
heen largely unfulfilled for deep tumors.
Now, the scientists in the PhotOnics Research Laboratory have found that when the
photosensitizer is inj ected into the patient
with one of their new dyes. infrared light can
be used on the tumor, allowing for deeper
tissue penetration. Working with Dougheny.
the UB team has demonstrated that in animal
tests, the new treatment destroyed deep tu ·
mors and produced no side effects.

Lloyers of c111ta
The strong muhiphoton absorptio n of the
new chromophores also has dramatic applications for more efficient infonnation storage.
'1'hese new materials could revolutionize data storage," said Prasad, "because they

allow data to he stored in the depth of a disk ."
Currently, compact disks store infonnation only on their surfaces.
UB scientists. together wi th the sc ientists
at Wright Laboratory. have demonstrated
volume or 3D storage in polymers doped
with one of the new dyes. 'The presence of
the dye enables the polymer to strongly ab·
sorb infrared light due to multiphoton ab·
sorption and this absorption can be confined
to a very precise area by tightly focusing the
laser heam,'' said Bhawalkar.
The absorbed light causes the material to
change properties, such as the color or the
fluorescence emission. and corresponds to
the " writing" process. The " writing" of the
data will occur only at the focal point. where
multiphoton absorption is possible because
the laser intensity is at a maximum.
'; Now it is possible to optically penetrate
the depth of the disk and access any given
spot in it precisely. because the multiphoton
absorption occurs only at that spot," said
P.C. Cheng, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the
Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Labora·
tories at UB . "The spot where absorption
occurs gets bleached. thu s reducing the flu orescence emiss ion from that spot," he expl ained. The presenceorabsence ofbleached
spots then becomes the data that is "read ."
The UB team demonstrated thi s using a
confocal microscope to "write'' several stacks
of data inside a polymer disk. They also were
able to record seve ral seconds of an animated Bugs Bunny movie in a cubic volume .
wi th eac h side of the cube about the thi ckness o f a human hair.

Nondeatructlve probe IUICI other
-.,..llcmlona
By using the new chromophores, materi al s scientists employing confocal microscopy now will be able to view thick samples
in three dimensions.
"Conventional confocal microscopy using visible green -laser light generally limits
the sample thickness to about 20 microns
because the light does not penetrate any
deeper," said Cheng. "With these new chromophores and multiphoton excitation. it is
possible to use infrared light, which allows
us to nondestructively probe deeper into
polymers, coatings and other samples. up to
a depth of more than 250 microns."
Cheng. Prasad and co-workers have a
paper on this application in press in the

Journal of Scanning Microscopi~s .
The strong multiphoton absorptio n of
these compounds also makes it poss ible to
construct an optical power limiter. This de vice passes low-intensity light, but cuts off
high-intensity laser light, wh ich wo uld be
useful for eye and sensor protection.
A paper on thi s kind o f device was published by the UB researchers in Applied
Physics uttus (Oct. 23. 1995).
"We are tryi ng to understand the relallonship between the mo lecul ar structure and
both the strength o f two-photon absorpt ion
and th e inte nsi ty of the flu o resce nce
emmission." said Bruce A. Rei nhardt. prOJect
leader at the Polymer Branch of Wright
Laborabory. "Once that re lationship is beuer
understood. we should he able to modify th e
molec ul ar struc: tu re to opti mize the twophoton absorpt ion. the flu orescence emis·
sio n and the color of the emission.··

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Faculb&amp;slaUBillboard
SENIOR BASN SCHEDULED FOR
APRIL 11 AT HYATT REQENCY
Hyan Regency Buffalo will be the
scene Apr1l 19 of the Seventh Annual
Sen10r Bash. ·r,me to Remember."
tlononng lhe graduallng class ol UB's
SesQutcentenn•al Year The c ash bar
receptton beg•ns at 7 p m tn the
Hyall s Atnum . w1th d1nner at 8 p m '"
lnf' Grano Ballroom lo11owed by a
nrog ram and one -hour open bar
Dress •s sem•-lormal
After d•nner Prealdent Greiner
dnd UB Atumn1 Assoc•allon Execut•ve

n•rec tor Wllll•m Evltta will address
•tle group bnelty and k1ck of! the n1ght
•\I nany•ng and danc tng 10 SohO Gold
Sound Hosts are Pres•dent and Mrs
Gre.ner M•ndy Lepar a and Kelly
I ane co-cl1a•r the event sponsored
ov USAB . Undergraduate Student Assocaatton and UB Alumnt Assoctattan
T•ckets at $25 are ava1lable unt1l
Apnl 10 fr om the SA O ffice. 350 Stu·
den! Unton. and 109 Allen Hall For
more tnformat!On . call 829--2608

HONORED FOR OUTSTANDING
SERVICE TO BEAM
Etght tndividuals and two area firms
rece1ved awards for outstanding servtce to the Buffalo Area Engtneermg
Awareness lor Mti"'Iftttes . Inc (BEAM)
at the annual meeting last month
BEAM. headquartered tn UB's
Scnool of Engineenng and Applied Set·
ences. 1s a cooperat/V8 , educational·
ennchment program to prepare teen
women and minority youlh for careers
tn sc.ance. enQineenng and atchitec·
ture II is sponsored by 30 WNY compantes : UB: Erie Community College .
North Campus: Buffalo State and
Cantstus colleges: the Buttalo and
Ntagara Falls Public Schools and the
Tuscarora lndl8n School
Also hohored at the meeting was
BEAM's vtMunteer executive director .

selected to partictpate , as wtlltwo tnservice teachers who are mtnonties
or teach tn a predomina ntly mti"'Iflty
htgh schooL Students selected wtfl
recerve a weekly stipend of S 160
Teachers wtll receive $478 a week
Parucipants Will conduct research tn
connectN&amp;-tiSSUB physdogy, bact8C'181
ITI06ecular genetcs. structure-function
relatJonshtp of macn::mcMecules. ceflular
and humoraltmmllflOk)gy, baetenal
phySIOlogy Of tmmunoc:hemtstry
Students and teachers wtll work
w11h an e•penenced UB researcher
on a protect . and share research expenances 1n weekly semtnars
Teachers also w11l parttctpate tn,a
course on tra1ntng students in cellular-molecular biologtcal techniques
and the apphcahon of their research
expenence to the classroom.
The deadhne for applications for
the program has been extended until
Apnl 8 Applications are available
from high school principals or guidance counselors, or from the US Department of Oral Biology at 829-3827.

BIIEVERIIAN

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H.,.y llrevennan, professor of
art, has prints representing the
United States In
1he "XIII Premlo
lnternazk&gt;n-ale Per
L ' lncisioni. in
Biella , Italy and
•tnternaUonal Triennis~

Nuremberg.·

Ano1her ol his WOI1&lt;s Is included In

lhe "WoOd a Ex Ubrls." at Belgrade's

Musetrn of Applied Arts, wllich "avels
In 1996-97 10 London, I.Busame. Rome
and Buenos Aires. T1'e Srilish Musetrn
and Washlngron's NalionaJ Portrail Galle&lt;y recenlly acqui'ed Br8\18fTT\8r1 d&lt;awlngs for !heir coltections.

Dororhy GQQel •.wiJo &lt;lied.Feb. 19.
Gogel. lnvotved with BEAM since its
tnceptton. became its unpaid executtve director in 1991 follaNing her re·
t1rement from General Motors.

Special awards went "' Jlwnes
Mazza. BEAM Ganisius Coaege SlmTlel'
prognvn:w. Miller Jr .. lhe eng'
'-"''land architecll.&lt;aJ rrm a Wendel,
who seNeCI as BEAM lr8aSUref: AOOert E.

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Barnes. UB ~school , who
seNeCI as a BEAM olficer: Darrel
Peebles, Delpi'O Thermal Syslems, chair

a BEAM's program~: Richard
A Adamy, Ford Mocor Co., for continuous

suppon a BEAM

lnduslry Technical Mvlsa Awards
..., 10 Keme&lt;h ~domes, a Moog. Inc .
and Vl&lt;kr Hr.;cOOy Oocidenlal Cllemtcar Co. The Facufty Mirsa Award was
grven 10 Richard Ploch, who v.aks at Seneca Vocalb:lal High School eoo_.,.
awards were presenled 10 Moog. Inc and
Supenor Desrgn Co.. Inc
New BEAM officers are. Arthur

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McKinnon. General Molor~ratn ,
pr~1dent: Anthony Campagna. ABC 's
to College Counseling Associates, VJC8
prestdent; Jean PaJka, U.S. Navy Rec rwung OffiCe. secretary. and Drexel
Gtdney, UB School of Engineering and
Apphed Scieoces. treasurer.
Marilyn Helenbrook . BEAM school
coordtnator . who was formerly with
the Maryvale Community Education
Program. has been named acting executive dtrector of BEAM. Sherecetved a bachelor 's degree 1n medt·
c al technolOgy from UB in 1964

SUMMER RESEACH SET
FOR YOUNG SC:IICIUIIS
The Department of Oral Biology tn the
UB School of Dental Medicine is ollertng a "Young Scholars· summer program destgned to provide minority
htgh school students wllh hands-on
research expertence The eight-week
commuter program . funded with a
Nattonal Institutes of Health grant wtll
oe held July 8- Aug 30
Eight mii"'If1ty students entenng
thetr senior year of high school will be

ber of the Amencan Academy of Neurok&gt;gy and the Amencan EEG Soc•·
ely. she •s med1ca1advtsor for the
Western New York Mul11ple Scteros1s
Society
Coyne . a ped1atnc1an. ts
chmcal assistant professor of pechatrics at Ntagara Falls Communny
Med.cal Center He IS a 1985 graduate of the medtcal school.
Barlow, an anesthesK&gt;k&gt;Q1st. 1s
medical directOf of the Millard Fillmore
Surgery Cent8C' tn Wilhamsvtlle, and a
US chnteal assoc~ate professor of anesthesdogy. He graduated from the
medteal school in 1966

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EMERITUS MEETING
IS DOUBLE FEATURE
A talk by a UB dental surgeon who
has carried out several missions in
Africa, and a p iano program memorializing the late ap.rtde Fumaa,
will highlight the April meeting of the
US Emeritus Center Tuesday, Apri/9
at 2 p .m. at the center In Goodyear

Gampus.
cart, who has per·
formed dental surgery on natives In
Hall, Sou1h

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several African nations-at times in
open ftelds and jungles-will speak on

"Travels In Africa Among 1he People,
Mountains, Plains and Deserts.· He is
an associa1B professor In 1he UB
School of Dental Medicine.
Florence O.Lulao, Emeritus
member and a US librarian for many
years, will perform piano selecttons to
open and close the program as a memorial tribute to Spantle Furnas,
widow of fOfmer UB Chancellor
Clifford Furnas. Sparide Furnas died
Feb. 2 1. A board meeting at 1 p .m .
will precede the regular meeting .

IJMAK and FISher·Price each have
· adopted• a course in the US MBA
program as part of a pilot program designed to help augment course material and help bridge 1he gap berween
1he classroom and 1he WO&lt;kplace.

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Dinosaur bones . climate change and
seismk;ity in the Northeast were
among the environmental and scientific issues discussed by about 1.000
goologisrs who galhe&lt;ed allhe Buffalo
Hyatt March 20-23 for lhe 31sl Nonh~tem Section Meeting of the Geological Society ol America. sponsored
by UB's Depanmenr of Geology.
Ptlrker Calkin, UB professor of
geology, was conference chair.
The program included presents·
tions on local geological and enwonmental issues, including the West
Valley nuclear site . Clarendon-Linden
Fault. status of the Buffalo River and
the collapse of the Retsof salt mine .
"People think geology 1S only
about rocks and minerals.· sa id
Paul Reitan, professor of geology
at UB and media COOI'dinator of the
conference . · aut it's much mora than
that At this conference. geologists
discussed questions concerning how
much water we can pump ou1 of .the
ground before the well runs dry, the
chances of a damaging earthquake
hitting New York State and why the
beaches are disappearing .·

faculty who teach a linancial-management course; East Aurora-based
Fisher Price has adopted a course in
marketing management. The courses
are required ol all US MBA students.
·eusiness schools absolutety must
bndge the gap between classtoom
and workplace.· says Frederick
Winter, dean of the School of Management. "And many executives I've
spoken with would like to pass on the
knowledge they've learned in the field
to students. but there aren't formal
programs in place fOf this type of ex·
change. The adoption program satisfies both objectives.· Winter says

,.._KI NAMED PRESIDENT
OF MEDICAL AWMNI

MCNAIR SC:IICIUIIS PRESENT
RESEAIICN AT CONFEREJICE

~- hasbeen

M..-a.len and ~

birthday. Mother's Day and Father's

elected presktent of the Medical
Alumni Assoctation of the UB School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
tlohn F. Coyne is vice president.
and ..a.r.cl a-tow. ueasurer
Paroski . a specialist tn neurology ,
•s an assistant professor of neurology
and physiology at UB and clintcal dt·
rector of neurology at ECMC A 1980
graduate of the medical school. she
holds an undergraduate degree from
Canis1us College
She Is a member of the UB medi·
cal school's Dean's AdviSOl'Y Committee and is president-elect o f
ECMC's medicaVdental stall A mem·

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Day gifts.

Ex8cUiives from IIMAK (lmemalionaJ
Imaging Male&lt;ials, Inc.) and FISherPrice will worl&lt; wilh UB , _ _ ,
professors to keep them CUITOOI on ISsues facing managers. This informalkln
wiU be used in classroom discussion.
wilh st.-.ts applying lheory 10 real-lne
examples. Execulilles also may help
evaluale siUdenl projects, offer lours o1
their facilities and talk to students about
their own business experiences.
llMAK . in Amherst. is working with

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two outstanding student

scholars in the Ronald McNa ir Program at UB . have been selected to
present academtc reseatch at the
10th NatiOnal Conference on Undergraduate Research {NCUA· 10) at the
Unrversity of North Carolina at
Ashevtlie The McNair Program ts designed to prepare talented students
lor graduate school
The annual conference . to be held
Aprtl 18-20, will feature mora than
1.800 undergraduate students from
290 U .S. colleges and universities
who will present their research or creative work through lectures. posters .

-Loss Pequeiio Glazier and Nancy SchUler, Univenity Ubran'es

performances

or exhibits.

The oonfer8nce, wl1icll began ...
1967. travels each year to a different
academic site and. in addition to giving
an oppor1lrily 10 prnsem original researdl, a-. !hem 10 meet..-.
gaWates In siniar lields and 10 learn
about research in Olher di:sc:pjnes.

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TO SU....owl AJn PIICMIIIAIIS
Art students at UB will offer their work
lor sale Friday. April 12 and Saturday.
April 13. with a portion of each sale
going to support programs in the US
Department of Art. Thera is no admisskw'l charge and the public Is invited
The sale, a biannual event, will be
hetd from J.7 p .m. In the atrium olthe
Center for the Arts, North Campus
Artwork by graduate and l.flder·
graduate students executed in a vanety ot mediums-painting, drawing.
sculplure, pholograplly, prinrmaking
and itlustratioo-will be otf8C'ed for
sale. They make greal graduatioo.

social and polittcal forces that
threaten U.S. research universities
and what the future holds for them.

Head of SUNY from 1968-94,
Jolvlstone was ~~ ol Buffalo

Srare College from 19J'9.88.1n 1995,
he Was awarded a $50.000 Ford
Foundatton grant to form a Leeming
Productivity Network to share information and best practices in •teaming productivity" in higher education .
"UB a!SUN'!ISE" is prodJced by

ue AILnri Associalion. ue·s Of!ice a
CcrleteneeS and Spec;al Ellents, News
Services and Of!ice a~ 11
a1so is supported by lhe.Of!ice a lJniller.
sily Dellelopmer'&lt; and Of!ice for Public
Service and U!ban Allairs. T1'e Buffalo
Maniol1 is corporate sponsor.

Price of the program. whk:h tn·
eludes a lull breakfast. is $9 for US
Alumni Association members and
$10 for others. For more informatton.
call 829--2608. Ticket orders must be
received by April 19.

- T O FOCUS
ON HUIIAN

~CONCERNS

Claude Welch, distinguished ser-

D. 8ruce ........one, University
Professor at UB and fOfmer State
University of New York chancellor .
at SUNRISE" prowill address a
gram at 7:30a .m . April 24 . in the
Center lor Tomorrow. North Campus.
Johnstone's topic will be ·A Sesqwcentennial Look at Higher Education •
Johnstone will discuss how U S
research universilies like UB have
reached worldwide prominence . the

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vice professor of political science.
and Omo Omoruyt of Harvard Untversity will lead a discussion on ·unking
Environmental and Human Rights
Concerns· The Case of the Ogoni of
Nigena· at 9:30a.m. Friday . April12
tn 545 O'Brian Hall. North Campus

n-.. diSCussion falows lhe November execution of Ken Saro-WM'8.
WO!fd.&lt;enowned playwrjgh1 and leader
ollhe Movemenrlor lhe SuMval ollhe
Ogoni People (MOSOP). For """" informatton. contact the Baldy Center for
Law and Social Policy, 645·2102.

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Missing the Forest
and the Trees
Amherst Politicians Flunk Environmental Test

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PINION POLLS have clearly
demonstrated that the public
overwhelmingly supports environmental protection. Presumably, that would hold
true in an affluent, well-educated community like Amherst. Ye~ ironically, one of
the key liabilities of living in Amherst is
lack of political representation on environmental issues.
The Amherst Town Board is dominated
by Republicans who, for years, have been
bending over backwards to satisfy developers. The net effect on Amherst has generall y been negative. More blacktop and
congestion, less open space and a deteriorati ng quality of life .
Over--development crea~ the now famous "deer proble~ " a conflicl between
about 1,000 deer and I00,000 humans who
reside in Amherst. The Town Board's solulion to this problem is to continue policies of over-development while conducting a campaign of violence against the
deer. A recent vote on the deer issue went
6 lo I in favor of a resumption of the " bait
and shoot" this spring. Only Councilmember Peggy Santillo voted to oppose
killing the deer.
What goes around, comes around. The
henchmen who do the town 's killing are
also casualties of the bait and shoot. I am
referring to the Amherst Police Department, whose reputation is being significantly damaged in the minds of many resi ~
dents because of its panicipation in this
slaughter. One has to wonder whether the
off-duty officers are enjoying the opportunity for target practice on helpless. live
creatures.
If the Town Board level of Amherst
politics is disappointing from an environmental perspective, consider our represen~
tat ion at other levels of government.
I used to enjoy voting Republican when
John Sheffer was on the ballot representing us in the New York State Legislature.
But when John left the Senate in order to
continue his di~tingui s hed career of public
service at UB, his environmentaJ conscience left with him.
Amherst residents are now represented
in Albany by Assemblyman Rick Anderson and Senator Mary Lou Rath . Prior to
Governor Pataki' s recent decision to reject
loggi ng for Allegany State Park, neither
Anderson nor Rath came out publicly
agai nst the logging plan. I am tempted to
say that opposing logging in a magnifice nt
state park is the environmental equivalent
of a "no brainer," yet neither politician
took this step.
The Environme ntal Advocates, a well respected Albany-based environmental
lobby (previously known as the Environmental Planning Lobby). rated Ander.on
57 and Rath 25 o ut of a possible score of
I00 on their votes on statewide e n viron ~
mental issues during the 1995legislative
season-indicating some room for im·
provement.
Against this backdrop. I recently at·
tended a · ~own meeting" organized by
Amherst's Congressman. Rep. Bill Paxon.
The March 2 meeting was held in the
Harlem Road Community Center in
Snyder and was attended by over about
125 people, most of whom belonged to the
Bill Paxon fan club.

Bill was his masterful self, taking questions and firing back his responsiblesounding answers, most of which were
canned Newt Gingrich.
At times, this "town meeting" came
close to degenerating into a Republican
pep rally. One woman stood and read a
poem describing President Clinton as the
cause of all problems. Her remarks produced enthusiastic applause. Another
woman, holding an infan~ spoke against
abortion with similar results. It was unclear whether the baby in her arms was
real or just a theatrical prop.

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ventually, one member of the audi ence did get to ask Paxon about hi s
votes on environmental issues. Titis
speaker noted that a national environmental group (apparently the League of Conservation Voters) had recently rated
Paxon's voting record on environmentaJ
issues an absolut~ z..ero, the worst of any
congressman or senator in New York
State. This person then described some of
Paxon's votes and explained how he
thought the Republican war on the environment was adversely affecting the health
of children.
Bill Paxon's response was clever and in
my opinion completely deceitful. He used
the "big lie" approach to dismiss criticism
of his appalling environmental voting
record.
Without missing a beat. Paxon proclaimed himself to be an ardent environ~
mentalist! He briefly talked about parenthood (Paxon 's wife. Republican Congresswoman Molinari, is expecting in May) and
how much he wants a clean and healthy
environment for his child and all children !
Paxon then said he doesn't pay any atten ~
tion to the voting record analyses cond ucted by "those groups." According to
Paxon, they on ly look at select votes that
suit their political agenda, which he apparently believes is anti-Republican Party .
I begged to differ and was anxiou s to
point out that the only political agenda the
League of Conservation Voters has is environmental protection. And Bill. you got
a failing grade! Yo u flunked the test! You
are the worst of the worst!
But Paxon didn ' t call on me. Again and
again. we made eye contact and he studi~
ously passed over me and selected so me ~
one else to speak.

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n retrospect, I wish I had just stood up
and laid into him and his lies. But I
found myself in the uncomfortable position of playing the mild mannered, respectable Amherst resident-instead of the
"mad as hell and I'm not going to take it
anymore" father-of-two activist that I am.
When the meeting ended. I was frustrated. I specifically came to express the
anger and genuine despair I feel over the
catastrophe that is occurring in our
nation's forests . But I never got a chance
to address this issue.
ln national forests througho ut the coun try , clear-cutting, road-building into previ ~
ously roadless wilderness areas and loss of
old growth forests are being accelerated by
a law dreamed up by the Republican anti environmental revolutionaries. This law.
the Timber Sal vage Rider. was passed as a
"rider" to an appropriations bill. Senator
Alfonse D' Amato and area Congressmen
Paxon and Jack Quinn voted for it. The
rider was signed into law , somewh at reluc ~

tantly, by Bill Clinton last July.
The rider is a give away to the timber
industry. It was prentised on a "forest
·beaJth emergency" that doesn't exist. Taking the Republican revolution to its logical
conclusion, this rider-known to environmeotalists as "logging without laws" -actually suspends all existing environmental
laws as they apply to logging. This iocludea the Endangered Species Act, the
Wild and Scenic Rivers Ac~ the National
Forest Management Act, the Clean Water
Act and the National Environmental
Policy AcL
The Tunber Salvage Rider also cancels
the public's right to challenge ill-ronceived
timber deals in court. What's left to do?
Many people. especially in the Pacific
Northwes~ are putting their bodies on the
line committing acts of civil disobedience in
attempts to block logging operations. Others.
myself included, are lobbying for a complete
repeal of this insane, destructive law.
This isn't just an abstract issue I'm
somehow concerned about. I've been in
the woods enough to take this personally.
believe the senseless destruction of ancient
forests and wilderness represents a spiritual crisis for our country, not just an envi ~
ronmental one.
I brought to Paxon· s meeting an aerial
photo of an area in the Pacific Northwest
that shows how the U.S. Congress. the U.S.
Forest Service and the timber industry have
teamed up to destroy forest resources. The
pboto depicts in heart-wrenching clarity the
ravages of clear-cutti ng . the timber extraction method of choice. Everything is cut
down over huge areas. If any trees are
spared, they are the trees at the very edge
along roads so tourists driving through
won't see the devastation.
I have been to Oregon and have seen
what is going on. I went beyond the
"beauty strips" and rode the logging roads
to see vast areas that were clear-cut. I saw
no evidence of. replanting any trees.
though at best replanting only creates tree

plantations. It can never recreate the few
remaining ancient forests with tbousandyear-&lt;&gt;ld tnes.
The cutting I saw was done in terrain so
steep that nothing could be replanted anyway. All that was left were denuded slopes
and massive erosion. 1be soil was gone
along with the tnes. The landscape looked
as barren as the surface of the moon.

ill Paxon and his Congressional co-

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horts share responsibility for this.
Moreover, they claim ro care about
the federal deficit yet they have approved
logging in national forests that is 14below
cost," meaning the U.S. Forest Service
spends more taxpayer money o n building
roads and preparing for timber sales than
is received from the timber companies that
cut the trees and destroy the forests and
the land. The whole thing is obscene.
I wanted to confront Paxon with this
sorry legacy of government working round
the clock to serve special interests while
destroying the environment. But I ne ver
got my chance. Before I knew it Paxon
wrapped up and was whi sked off by his
faithful staff to hjs next "town meeting" in
some other pan of his long and winding
distri ct. jerry-mandered to Republican perfection in 1991 as a result of a S I 00,000
contribution he made to the Senate Republican Campaign Commission.
As I was leaving, I got into an argument
with one of Paxon 's supporters. He tried to
give me a Jesson in the gospel acc·ording to
Saint Newt. He said that the Republicans
are protecting the environment by getting
rid of all those useless regulations and
laws. Then he said something that sent me
over the edge. He said, "Your environmental pass ion is misplaced. You are missing
the forest for the trees!'·
I shoved the aerial photo of what used
to be forest and wilderness in Washington
State in front of him and demanded that he
look at it.
·-can' t you see?!" I said. "There is no forest! There are no trees! They're all gone."

OBITUARIES
Ruth Krauss-Kidder, retired
associate professor of pediatrics
Memorial serv1ces wilt be scheduled lor Ruth F
Krauss-Ktdder. a retlted clin1ca1 asSociate prolesS()( ol pediatriCS 1n Department ol Neurology of
the UB School of Medtctne and Biomedical Sciences Krauss-K1dder . who d•ed March 29 1n
Niagara Lutheran Home, was 75
01rec tor o f electroencephalography at
Chlldren·s Hospttal before her re t~remenl. KraussKtdder graduated from UB med1cal school tn

1943 and pract•ced ped1a1t1CS prrvately IOf a year
before JOlnmg the med1cal staff at Children 's A
rehabihtauon specialist. she prov1ded counsel
d unng her c areer lor many parents whose chil dren suffered from cerebral palsy. epilepsy . men·
tal retardation and other med•cat cond1110ns expla•n•ng poss•b•htJes as well ilS hmJtal•ons
The author of a number of pubhcat•ons •n
pedtatrtcs . neurology and pathologyt()Urnals , she
was a member of Stgma Xt and Alpha Omega
honor SOCIBtiBS

ortsView
ntAoCK a REID
The Buill' Thorn Kaye set a school record CNe&lt; the weekend as UB participated IIi the Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State. Kaye, a graduate of SWeet Home High School. broke
the old mark In the long 1\J'np with a dlstance of 22-11 1/4. Kaye finished 12th in the event at
the prastJgioUs meet against some of the top competition in the East.
The BUis aleo sent a aquad to the l!.-slty of Rochester meet as Neil Murray took the
pole V8IJl with a leap of 1~ and Tony Canol! wen the discus at133-6.

vounuu.

Four Univer!li!Y.at Buffalo women's volleyball players have been honored lor their success in
the clasoroom earning spots on the Mld.COOtinent Conference's Women's Volleyball AI~Aca­
demic T8f011.
Seniors Calhy NoYocilolcy and laurie Santelli, junior Cendi Sims and sophomore Nancy
Rose -e named to the lllam last week by 1he conference.
Novocilll&lt;y completed the fall1995 - w i t h a "3.833 grade poi-It average and has a
3.305 GPA overall. Sroleli and Sims each ~ 3.800 marks last fall. Santelli's overaU
GPA Is 3.498 and Sims' Is at 3.414. Rose earned a3.417 GPAdurlng the fall and currently
stands with 3.235 overall mark. Aa a - .; the RoyeJs earned a 3.088 GPA last fall.
NoYocilolcy - e d in 51 games last......, registering 45 kils and 46 total blocks. She
will be g&lt;aduating In May with a degree In physical anthropology:
Santeltf, who was also aelected to the league's second teM1 ~Division . led the
Royals with 368 digs in 117 games and accounted for 330 kltls. She will also be graduating
In May with a politlcal aclence degree.
Sims, a businel8 "'*'*'islration rnajo(,led U8 with 1,104 assists (8.76 per game) and was
selected to the Mid-Con's firs! team All-Eastern Division. Rose, an exercise science major,
collected 145 kJis and 116 blocl&lt;s last season.
The Royals ware 22-13 c:Ne&lt;alllast season and 3-3 in the Mid-continent Conference for
OOed coach Bob~ .
-Ted Wasko, Spotts /nlonnation OffiC8

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