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Former education secretary is among campus speakers Three distinguished women — a Soviet theatre specialist, a former U.S. secretary of education and the president of Radcliffe College — will be giving Assembly Series lectures [next week. The lectures of Alma Law, Shirley Hufstedler and Linda Wilson are free and open to the public. Alma Law, a nationally recognized authority on modern Soviet theatre, will keynote a symposium on Soviet theatre with her talk, "Revolutionary Russian Theatre," at 11 a.m. Wednes- day, Feb. 20, in Edison Theatre. The symposium, "Lifting the Veil: Contem- porary Soviet Theatre," runs Feb. 15- 23 at the University. Her lecture is co- sponsored by the Assembly Series and the departments of Performing Arts and Russian. Law, who specializes in Russian theatre from Chekhov to the present, will show rare film footage of Russian theatre, including early 20th-century productions of Chekhov and Stanis- lavsky. She also is a leading translator of Soviet theatre and has translated Olga Pavlova's "The Passion Accord- ing to Varvara," which the Performing Arts Department will be presenting as Clifford Will, who updated the status of relativity research in a recent issue of Science, illustrates the consequences of general relativity near black holes. part of the symposium. All events in the symposium, except the play, are free and open to the public. Was Einstein right? Law co-directs the Institute for Contemporary Soviet and East Euro- General relativity theory withstands 75 years of scrutiny pean Drama and Theatre, part of the Center for Advanced Study in the It has been three-quarters of a century fundamental interaction of nature and "General relativity," Will says, "is Theatre Arts at City University of New since Albert Einstein revolutionized as such requires the most solid a theory in which gravity is explained York. She also co-edits the center's science with the publication of his empirical underpinning we can or understood as a property of space- journal on Soviet film and theatre. theory of general relativity. Since then, provide. Another is that all attempts to time itself. A fundamental idea is that She has participated in a number researchers have wrestled with the quantize gravity and to unify it with space-time is curved; when bodies of reconstructions of theatre produc- notion that gravity is a property of the other forces suggest that gravity move around, what they're really tions from early in this century and space-time's curves and valleys, and stands apart from the other interac- doing is following the valleys and has written extensively on the subject. have sought to confirm or disprove his tions in many ways. Finally, and most ridges of this curved space-time. Law recently co-authored the book idea with experiments that reach importantly, the predictions of general Within our solar system, gravity is Meyerhold's Biomechanics: Actor literally to the ends of the universe. relativity are fixed; the theory contains pretty weak, so the curvature is quite Training in Revolutionary Russia. Working from a concept that no adjustable constants, so nothing small. It's enough, though, that it Former Secretary of Education Einstein himself described as signifi- can be changed. Thus every test of the produces the motion of the planets Shirley Hufstedler will give the Tyrrell cant primarily for its simplicity and theory is potentially a deadly test." and causes light to follow a slightly Williams Lecture on "The Once and consistency, physicists and astrono- In addition, advancing technology curved path." Future Law" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, mers have examined the properties of has reached such levels of precision These curves in the fabric of Feb. 20, in Graham Chapel. She sat as gravity in the laboratory, Earth orbit that the small corrections predicted by space-time produced anomalies in the the first woman judge on the 9th U.S. and deep space. In the process, they relativity take on important, practical planetary orbits that had been ob- Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the have spun off new scientific disci- significance. For example, the Air served in the mid-19th century but not nation's most prestigious courts, plines and posed questions that the Force's satellite-based Global Position- accounted for mathematically. Studies before her appointment to former German-born researcher never ing System is under current heavy use had concentrated on Mercury, orbiting President Jimmy Carter's Cabinet. dreamed of asking. The most impor- in the Persian Gulf war, says Will. the sun in an elliptical path with the Hufstedler returned to private tant one, though, may be the most perihelion, or point on the orbit Continued on p. 3 basic: Was Einstein right? closest to the sun, advancing forward The answer is yes, for now, by 574 arc seconds per century. Over according to Clifford M. Will, Ph.D., "Although it is re- a period of 2,250 years, the changing Clayton expands professor of physics at the McDonnell path of Mercury's many orbits would Center for the Space Sciences and markable that this trace a rosette rather than an ellipse. no-parking hours author of the award-winning 1987 theory... has managed To their great frustration, none of book Was Einstein Right? Will, a to survive every test, the scientists who observed this along Forsyth theoretical physicist, updates the phenomenon was able to account for status of relativity research in the The City of Clayton has notified the possibility of sud- it with standard Newtonian mathemat- November 1990 issue of Science. Washington University that parking denly finding a dis- ics. Then, in one of the four papers "At the time of the birth of general along the north side of Forsyth crepancy will continue Einstein published in the proceedings Boulevard between Olympian Way relativity, experimental confirmation of the Prussian Academy of Sciences was almost a side issue," Will writes. and Big Bend Boulevard will be to drive experiments in November 1915, he corrected their "To be sure, Einstein did calculate prohibited between 3:30 and 6 p.m., for years to come." calculations to allow for the curvature on a trial basis, beginning Feb. 18. observable effects of general relativity, of space and neatly accounted for such as the deflection of light, which Currently, no-parking hours are from 4 — Clifford M. Will every arc second of Mercury's orbit. were tested, but compared to the inner to 6 p.m. In the same set of papers, Ein- According to Clayton officials, this consistency and elegance of the theory, stein made a second important asser- change will be in effect for a 90-day he regarded such empirical questions tion. A light ray passing very close to period, after which time a decision as almost peripheral." "Using hand-held G.P.S. receivers, the sun, he wrote, would be deflected will be made whether to permanently Will has studied some 100 allied forces can determine their precise from a straight path by the dip in the maintain the 3:30 to 6 p.m. parking experiments in his efforts to determine location to better than 100 feet," says fabric of space-time around the sun. restriction. how well Einstein's theory has held Will. "In order for this system to Four years later, British astrono- University faculty, staff and up under the piercing scrutiny of achieve such accuracy, the relativistic mer Sir Arthur Eddington led a team students should be aware that cars modern physics. Why bother to effects on time measured by the atomic that studied a 1919 solar eclipse from parked in this area during the prohib- continue testing a theory that has clocks on the satellites MUST be sites in Africa and South America and ited times will be ticketed and towed stood for 75 years? accounted for. If they weren't, the proved Einstein right. This verification by Clayton authorities at the owner's "Although it is remarkable that system would be useless for accurate brought him the scientific and popular expense. this theory, born 75 years ago out of navigation." attention that made his name a almost pure thought, has managed to Clayton indicates that expanding In the public mind, Einstein is household word. survive every test, the possibility of 2 the prohibited parking hours will forever associated with "E = mc ." That Will has analyzed and critiqued allow more time to clear parked cars suddenly finding a discrepancy will equation, however, of energy being 75 years of general relativity experi- continue to drive experiments for from rush-hour lanes, thus expediting equal to mass times the speed of light ments, evaluating them for accuracy years to come," Will says. the flow of westbound traffic along squared, belongs with a different and reliability. He has traced the Forsyth. "One reason is that gravity is a Einstein theory — special relativity. evolution of experimental procedures Continued on p. 3 Photographer Serrano will open art lecture series Photographer Andres Serrano will lead off the Gallery of Art's Spring 1991 Visiting Artist Program with a lecture at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, in Steinberg Hall auditorium. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the School of Fine Arts. The visiting artist lecture series, titled "Tactics of Posture: Personal, Political, and Social Readings of the Body," looks critically at important questions regarding the existence, site and surface of the body. The series will continue with presentations in Steinberg auditorium by Elizabeth Diller at 8 p.m. March 4 and Jana Sterbak at 8 p.m. April 4. Serrano's lecture is titled "The Bloodstream and Other Vital Bodily Fluids." Known for his large color photographs, which are simulta- neously representational and abstract, Serrano has said in an interview with Art In America's Lucy Lippard, that he hopes to "take a formal tradition and Selsmically sound: A worker from Peterson Business Systems Inc. in St. Louis reinforces Olin Library's shelving units with a seismic strut as part of subvert it by inverting the images, the Washington University Libraries' plan to upgrade book stacks to meet current seismic zone codes. Officials developed the project after receiving abstracting that which we take for information on damages that occurred at San Francisco libraries when a major earthquake hit the area on Oct. 17, 1989. The project began at Olin Library granted, in an attempt to question not Dec. 26 and workers are now securing the stacks at departmental libraries throughout the University. only photography, but my own experience and social reality." He addresses cultural and social Olin Cup challenge issues including religion, race and the Third World. Using a complex iconog- Business students to take environmental stand raphy, he explores the theme of spiritual ambivalence and the formal "Environmentalism and Profitability: Students are judged on their ability awards and their names placed on the investigation of unorthodox materials. Conflict or Opportunity?" is the theme to develop a strong position on a Olin Cup plaque in the business Since late 1986, Serrano's art has of the third John M. Olin Cup — an business issue and defend their pre- library. Each member of the top three literally been made from body fluids, annual business school competition in mises before a panel of distinguished teams at both levels will receive a which he sees as "visually and sym- which student teams are judged on judges. Teams are given 15 minutes to cash prize: $1,000 to each first-place bolically charged with meaning." Says their ability to make a stand on a make their case; an additional 10 team member; $500 to second; and Lippard, "Aside from its basic beauty controversial issue. minutes is reserved for questions from $300 to third. as a series of objects, Serrano's work "The Olin Cup is one of our the judges. Three teams from each level Winning teams at the MBA and intentionally raises more questions school's signature special events," said advance to the finals. BSBA levels are scheduled to repeat than it answers." Robert L. Virgil, D.B.A., dean of the Students reaching the finals this their presentations at a special break- "Our current year's offerings range John M. Olin School of Business. "It year will have to defend their views fast meeting of the business school's from the traditional art of Carl Wimar provides our students a unique before a panel that includes Richard Century Club on Feb. 22. A continen- to the very contemporary views of the opportunity to develop and defend a M. Furlaud, president of Bristol-Myers tal breakfast will be served at 7:30 artists in this series, and represent a thoughtful position on a topic of Squibb Co.; Charles Knight, chairman, a.m. in the Kiefer Foyer of Simon Hall. balance between the two ends of the importance to American business and president and CEO at Emerson The program in The May Auditorium spectrum," says Christopher Scoates, to be recognized by an audience of Electric; and William Simon, former will begin at 8 a.m. and adjourn no gallery curator. "We're proud of that alumni, business leaders, faculty, secretary of the treasury and current later than 8:50 a.m. The event is free diversity, and we're excited to be able administration and peers." chairman of the Olin Foundation. and open to the public. For reserva- to present these outstanding artists." The public is invited to attend the Winning teams receive cash tions, call Jill Williams at 889-5872. For more information, call the finals of this year's competition, which Gallery of Art at 889-5490. will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 19 in The May Auditorium off University sets 1991-92 tuition, fees Simon Hall. Other events are planned Undergraduate tuition and fees at federal, state and institutional sources, throughout the day as part of a Washington University next fall will be with awards averaging approximately business school "open house." The $16,110 for the 1991-92 academic $12,000 per student. schedule includes a free lunch at year, a 7.8 percent increase above the The University also has the Cost RECORD 11:30 a.m., announcement of winners current year, according to Chancellor Stabilization Plan (CSP), which freezes at 1 p.m., and various live musical William H. Danforth. tuition and room and board costs at Editor: Susan Killenberg, 889-5254, events. For more details or lunch Tuition and fees for the current the charges in effect during the first Campus Box 1070; P72245SS at WUVMC reservations, call Ida Early at 889-6398. year are $14,948, and include a $148 year of the agreement. These costs are Assistant editors: Deborah Parker, 889-5235, The environmental theme of this Campus Box 1070; P72245DP at WUVMC; required student activity fee. Typical not covered by financial aid. The CSP Carolyn Sanford, 889-5293, Campus Box 1070; Olin Cup promises to bring forth arr room and board charges will be allows monthly installment payments P72245CS at WUVMC abundance of both viewpoints and $5,127 — a 6.2 percent increase over over as many as 10 years at competi- Editor, Medical Record: Joni Westerhouse, controversy, as students offer their the current charge of $4,826. 362-8257, Medical School Campus Box 8065; tive fixed interest rates. C72245JW at WUVMD insight on issues as diverse as the For 1991-92, tuition will be Contributing writers: Debra Bernardo, Joyce Clean Air Act, alternative energy $15,950 plus a $160 required student Bono, Kleila Carlson, Gerry Everding, Tony sources, the timber industry, recycling activity fee, for a total of $16,110. Fitzpatrick, Fran Hooker and Virginia Perkins Foreign students Photographers: Joe Angeles, Tom Heine, and landfill management. Many of the In a letter to parents, Danforth David Kilper and Herb Weitman presentations are expected to focus on said the increase was necessary to sought for group Record (USPS 600-430; ISSN 1043-0520), the role businesses can play in attract and keep an outstanding Volume 15, Number 20/Feb. 14, 1991. Published weekly during the school year, except school addressing these issues. faculty and staff at Washington Washington University's International holidays, monthly during June, July and August, The Olin Cup Competition was University through competitive salaries Student Resource Group is looking for by the Office of Public Affairs, Washington first held in 1988 as part of ceremo- and benefits. These people-related University, Box 1070, One Brookings Drive, new members. St. Louis, Mo. 63130. Second-class postage paid nies celebrating the naming of the costs are outpacing inflation, as are The group comprises international at St. Louis, Mo. business school for St. Louis entrepre- the costs of library books and periodi- students who serve as goodwill Address changes and corrections: neur and philanthropist John M. Olin. cals, laboratory equipment, and ambassadors by visiting local schools Postmaster and non-employees: Send Plans call for the competition eventu- scientific supplies. He noted that and speaking about their countries. address changes to: Record, Washington ally to be opened to students from tuition remains the largest source of The students also become acquainted University, Box 1070, One Brookings Drive, other business schools. operating income for the University's St. Louis, Mo. 63130. with American culture through tours Hilltop Campus employees: Send to: Person- Business undergraduates and MBA five undergraduate schools. to local cultural institutions and nel Office, Washington University, Box 1184, students compete separately, with one Danforth emphasized that the Uni- businesses. Approximately 60 students One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. team winning in each group. Teams versity remains "committed to a strong Medical Campus employees: Send to: Payroll from 10 foreign countries are current Office, Washington University, Box 8017, may consist of up to four students, the student aid program" to help deserving members of the group, which is open 660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, Mo. 63110. majority of whom must be from the students and their families meet the to undergraduate and graduate business school. Several students from rising costs of a quality education. international students. outside the business school are About half of the University's under- For more information, contact competing in the current Olin Cup. graduates receive need-based aid from Beverly Abrahamson at 889-4787. NOTABLES

Carolyn Baum. Elias Michael Director ence in Madison, Wis. During the ple- of the Occupational Therapy Program nary session he made a presentation, Speakers - continued from p. 1 at the School of Medicine, and Dor- "Ethnography of Legal Discourse." He othy Farrar Edwards, Ph.D., assis- also presented a paper tided "A New practice in 1981 after stepping down Wilson, a chemist, is a nationally tant professor of occupational therapy Way of Practicing Law: The Lawyer as as secretary of education. She served known expert on science policy who and neurology, presented "Quantita- Translator" to a section of the first-year on a three-person delegation from the supports cooperative working relation- tive Approach to Functional Assess- class at the University of Michigan U.S. State Department and the Ameri- ships among universities, governments ment in Senile Dementia of the School of Law, where he led a follow- can Bar Association to negotiate the and industry. She served as an assis- Alzheimer's Type and Normal Elderly" up workshop discussion and discussed exchange of legal scholars and judges tant vice chancellor for research at at the 66th annual meeting of the his paper with the school's law faculty. between the United States and the Washington University from 1968-1974. American Occupational Therapy Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary. A She chairs the National Research Association. Baum and Edwards had Martha N. Ozawa, Ph.D., Bettie guest lecturer at countries ranging Council's science and engineering three other presentations on Bofinger Brown Professor of Social from Nepal to Sweden, Hufstedler has personnel advisory council and sits on Alzheimer's disease at meetings in Policy in the George Warren Brown been a visiting professor at several a National Science Foundation advisory Boston and Greenville, N.C. School of Social Work, has been American law schools and has written council on education and human elected to the National Academy of numerous articles on law, government resources. She also is a member of Martin L. Bryant, M.D., Ph.D., a Social Insurance, a non-profit, non- and international affairs. several national task forces, including a fellow in the Division of Infectious partisan organization of 200 members Hufstedler also serves on several National Academy of Sciences round Diseases in the Department of Pediat- who are devoted to furthering the corporate boards and on the board of table, and has been a consultant for the rics, received the Young Investigator knowledge and understanding of the John D. and Catherine T. Mac- National Institutes of Health. Award at the 1990 Interscience Social Security and related social Arthur Foundation. She is a trustee of Radcliffe's seventh president, Conference on Antimicrobial Agents insurance programs. The academy the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- Wilson is the first woman recipient of and Chemotherapy in Atlanta. He was members are noted for improving the tional Peace. an award for distinguished contribu- among four researchers nationwide to quality of research, teaching, adminis- The Tyrrell Williams Lecture, tion to research from the Society of receive the award. tration and policy-making in the field established in 1948, honors the late Research Administrators, which she of social insurance, which, besides Tyrrell Williams, a Washington School received in 1984. Daniel Cotter, an adjunct instructor in Social Security, includes Medicare and of Law faculty member and alumnus. The Compton Memorial Lecture the University College Communications unemployment insurance. Radcliffe President Linda Wilson honors Arthur Holly Compton, a and Journalism Program and marketing will deliver the Arthur Holly Compton Nobel Prize-winning physicist and manager for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bernard Reams, JD., Ph.D., profes- Memorial Lecture on "Shaping a Washington University chancellor has received the 1990 Gerold Zarwell sor of law and director of the law Vision for a New Era: Science Policy from 1945-1953. Award for excellence in newspaper library, has been elected president of and the American Research University" For more information on these research. The Newspaper Research the Washington University chapter of at 4 p.m. Feb. 21 in Graham Chapel. lectures, call 889-4620. Council presented the award to Cotter the American Association of University at a Zarwell Luncheon held during the Professors (AAUP) for the 1990-91 council's conference in Toronto, academic year and Edward continued from p. 1 Canada. Cotter's award, the top honor Greenberg, Ph.D., professor of Einstein given for newspaper research, was economics, has been elected secretary. from Eddington's crude eclipse photos extremely small and difficult to check, based on a three-part research study to The officers elected to the AAUP to precise measurements taken some in some cases requiring further techno- determine the promotional direction of committee are: Patrick C. Gibbons, 60 years later of the orbits of twin logical development to bring them into the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after the St. Ph.D., professor of physics; Sheldon neutron stars. In the course of those detectable range." Louis Globe-Democrat ceased publica- S. Helfman, professor of architecture; six decades, agreement between If Will and others are so certain tion in 1986. Robert P. Morgan, Ph.D., Elvera and observation and the general relativity that general relativity will not fail any William Stuckenberg Professor of theory has climbed to within 0.1 of its deadly tests, why do they Susan Crawford, Ph.D., professor Technology and Human Affairs; percent. ' continue to study it? The answer lies and director of the School of Medicine Sondra Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor In the 1960s, Will says, the in the enticement of the phenomena Library and Biomedical Communica- of molecular microbiology; and reliability of general relativity experi- the theory predicts, especially the as- tions Center, chaired the Sixth Interna- Michael W. Friedlander, Ph.D., mentation improved dramatically. yet unproven existence of black holes tional Congress on Medical professor of physics, ex officio and After four decades in which relativity and gravitational waves. Librarianship in New Delhi, India. She past president. studies stagnated, the development of While there is strong evidence for also presented "The Electronic Library" radio astronomy and work on plan- black holes, Will says, their existence at the event, which is held every four etary probes catapulted general has not yet been verified. He looks to years and focuses on international and Have you done something noteworthy? relativity into a golden era of concen- the Hubble Space Telescope and 1996 technological developments. trated research and observation. AXAF (Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Have you: Presented a paper? Won an award? In 1964, physicist Irwin Shapiro Facility) mission to do so, by selecting Clark D. Cunningham, J.D., associ- Been named to a committee or elected an used general relativity to predict that likely targets to search and scanning ate professor of law, will have his officer of a professional organization? The Washington University Record will help radar echoes from Mercury and Venus the center of galaxies for X-rays article titled "Why American Lawyers spread the good news. Contributions regarding would experience a retardation in emitted by matter about to be pulled Should Go to India" published in the faculty and staff scholarly or professional passing through curved space close to into the hole. October 1991 issue of the Law & activities are gladly accepted and encouraged. Send a brief note with your full name, highest- the sun, which would cause a small Gravitational waves emanate from Social Inquiry publication. He orga- earned degree, current title and department delay in the return signal. "Einstein collisions of black holes, supernova nized and chaired a plenary session along with a description of your noteworthy never even thought of having signals explosions or a double star system titled "The Clinic as Laboratory" and a activity to Notables, Campus Box 1070, or by electronic mail to p72245SS at WUVMC. Please going somewhere else and returning, falling in upon itself. They have not workshop called "Clinical Scholarship" include a phone number. so he never conceived of this effect," been detected, even though theory at the annual Midwest Clinical Confer- Will says. predicts they should be impinging on He may also not have thought of Earth, Will says. "They are very weak interplanetary space probes, but and require extremely sensitive detec- physicists used the Mariner and Viking tors," he explains. "Although this is Students host Special Olympics missions to make observations that probably the hardest problem in More than 1,000 Washington Univer- and Special Olympics chair Andrew agreed with general relativity to within general relativity, I believe we will be sity students are busy making prepara- Caplan, a senior at Washington. 0.1 percent. able to detect gravitational waves with- tions for the fifth annual Special KSHE-FM disc jockey Asher Benrubi, The discovery of quasars and in this decade." Detecting gravitational Olympics Basketball Tournament, known to his listeners as SMASH, will pulsars, coupled with advances in radio waves will be useful not so much as a which will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 serve as emcee. astronomy, also improved the accuracy proof of general relativity, Will adds, p.m. Feb. 17 at the athletic complex. Each 10-member team of Olympi- of attempts to verify general relativity. but as a next-generation tool to comple- The Special Olympics, free and ans is sponsored by various Washing- Very Long Baseline Interferometry, ment optical and radio astronomy. open to the public, is one of Washing- ton University student organizations used to study the rotation of the Earth Another Einstein prediction is that ton's largest student-run philanthropy and groups, whose members are by triangulation with distant stars, gave a rotating body, such as the Earth, events. It is sponsored by the Zeta paired with an athlete for the day and scientists another method to study how could drag space-time around with it as Beta Tau Fraternity at the University serve as the athletes' buddies. light travels. The technique is impor- it turns. A Stanford University experi- and radio station KSHE-FM. Missouri's Awards will be given to the best tant, Will says, not just for its precision ment is set to fly aboard the Space Area 13 Special Olympics will conduct teams and athletes. Winning teams but because it requires an Earth-based Shuttle in 1996 to look for this effect. the games, which will feature approxi- will advance to the state competition. investigator to take into account how The Relativity Gyroscope Experiment mately 400 mentally handicapped An Ail-Star game between the athletes light is deflected over the entire will place four superconducting athletes divided into 39 teams. and KSHE-FM's own basketball team celestial sphere and not just near our niobium-coated spherical quartz "Watching the athletes compete is will be played at the end of the event. sun. The results agree with Einstein to gyroscopes in a low polar orbit, and an inspiring display of courage and In addition to the basketball about 0.2 percent. scientists will measure the precession of determination best described by their tournament, the students also will In 1974, the fortuitous discovery of the gyroscopes relative to distant stars. oath: 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, sponsor a Feb. 17 lunch and carnival, the binary pulsar PSR 1913 + 16 gave By continuing the work of Albert let me be brave in the attempt,'" says which will be held at the athletic physicists another chance to verify Einstein, tomorrow's theoretical junior Andrew Grossman, public complex. The lunch and carnival are Einstein's theory, this time to within 0.8 physicists will do more than confirm relations chair for the event and a Zeta for athletes only. Food for the lunch percent. The effect seen was the slow the validity of a 75-year-old theory. fraternity member. will be donated by Domino's Pizza decay of the orbit, caused by the loss of "The issue is not so much to test The Special Olympics begins with and other area businesses. Among the energy radiated into space in the form general relativity," Will stresses, "but opening ceremonies at 8 a.m. and carnival activities will be face painting, of gravity waves. to learn more about quantum mechan- includes a torch-lighting activity and miniature golf and clowns. Since 1980, Will says, the field has ics, cosmology and the beginnings of speeches by Chancellor William H. For more information on Special entered what he calls "an Era of the universe, black holes — in short, Danforth, KTVI-TV anchor Dana King Olympics, call Grossman at 721-5249. Opportunism." "Many of the remaining how the universe works." interesting predictions of the theory are — Maura Mackowski CALENDAR Feb. 14-23

Friday, Feb. 22 Hall. Cost: $6.25 per person. Limited seating TECTURES 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds, EXHIBITIONS available. To register, call 889-5010. "Hypoglycemia in Insulin Dependent Diabetes Saturday, Feb. 16 Mellitus," Philip E. Cryer, WU prof, of medicine. Thursday, Feb. 14 Clopton Aud., 4950 Audubon Ave. "Roman Republican Coins." Through May 19. 7 p.m. Woman's Club Dinner Dance. Cash 11:30 am. George Warren Brown School of Gallery of Art, lower gallery, Steinberg Hall. bar opens at 7 p.m. Dinner will be served at 8 Noon. School of Medicine Transplant p.m. Music for after-dinner dancing will be Social Work Lecture, "African-Americans and Seminar, "Hepatitis C in Liver Transplant Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 1-5 the Black Media," Patricia Washington, p.m. weekends. For more info., call 889-4523. provided by "CELEBRATION." The Living World Recipients," Heather M. White, WU instructor, at St. Louis Zoological Park. Reservations: $35 managing editor, St. Louis American. Co- Dept. of Medicine. Third Floor Aud., Children's "Washington University Art Collections." sponsored by the Society of Black Student Through May. Gallery of Art, lower gallery, per person. Open to members of the Woman's Hospital, 400 S. Kingshighway. Club and staff. For more info., call 725-6427. Social Workers. Brown Hall Lounge, Room 218. Noon. Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology Steinberg Hall. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 4 p.m. Dept. of Anthropology Lecture, Seminar, "Ionic Currents in Isolated Heart Cells weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. Wednesday, Feb. 20 "Development and Change: Social Change and Under Conditions of Anoxia and Reoxygen- "Carl F. Wlmar: Chronicler of the Missouri 5:30 p.m. University College and the Career Reform in Postwar Japan," John W. Bennett, WU ation," Klaus Benndorf, U. of Koln. Room 423 River Frontier." Through March 24. Gallery of Center Present "Internships in Advertising, prof, emeritus of anthropology. Room 106 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. Art, upper gallery, Steinberg Hall. Gallery hours: Public Relations and Journalism," featuring a Simon Hall. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. 3 p.m. Dept of Biology Seminar, "Sex and panel of former interns and site supervisors. 4 p.m. Assembly Series Lecture with John the Male Foreleg," Hampton Carson, Dept. of "Romance and Reality on the Frontier," in Program will include discussions on career Jacob, president and CEO, National Urban Genetics, U. of Hawaii. Room 309 Rebstock. conjunction with the Carl F. Wimar exhibit. benefits of internships, how to develop an internship, and creative ways to schedule an League Inc. Lecture is in conjunction with 4 p.m. Dept of Biology Seminar, "Meiotic Through March 24. Gallery of Art, lower gallery, Cultural Celebration Week, Feb. 11-17. Graham internship. Brown Hall Lounge, Room 218. For Defects in the Mitotic Mutant Quartet," Chris Steinberg Hall. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Chapel. For more info., call 889-4620. more info., call 889-6777. Cheney, WU Dept. of Genetics. Room 309 weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. 4 p.m. Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology Rebstock Hall. "Heritage and Mission: Jewish Vienna." Thursday, Feb. 21 Seminar, "Glutamate Receptor Channels in Through Feb. 22. Hillel House, 6300 Forsyth 4 p.m. Microblal Pathogensls Seminar Noon. Hillel Chai Week Discussion, "How Central and Peripheral Neurons," Jim Huettner, Blvd. Hours: 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday through Series, "Monoclonal IgA Antibodies for Mucosal Jews Can Respond to Jews for Jesus." Lambert Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School. Friday; closed Saturday. Protection Against Enteric Pathogens," Marian Lounge, Mallinckrodt Center. For more info., Room 423 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. Neutra, GI Cell Biology Laboratory, Children's "A Temple of Texts: 50 Literary Pillars," call 726-6177. 4 p.m. East Asian Colloquium, "Russian selected by William Gass, WU David May Hospital, Boston. Room 322 Rebstock Hall. 7:30 p.m. Hillel Chai Week Presents "The Lysenkoism and Chinese Revolutionary Culture," Distinguished University Professor in the Investigation," a play about the Nazi Crime Laurence Schneider, faculty of social sciences, Humanities. Through April 10. Special Collec- Trials in Nuremberg. Discussion will follow. SUNY-Buffalo. Room 30 January Hall. tions, Olin Library, Level 5. Exhibit hours: 8:30 Graham Chapel. For more info., call 726-6177. 8 p.m. Dept. of English Colloquium, "The PERFORMANCES a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Story of the State of Nature," William Gass, WU "Annual High School Art Competition." Friday, Feb. 22 David May Distinguished University Professor in Friday, Feb. 15 Through Feb. 17. Bixby Gallery, Bixby Hall. 5:45 p.m. Hillel Shabbat Dinner Program, the Humanities. Hurst Lounge, 201 Duncker. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; 1-5 "Tikkun Olam: 101 Ways You Can Repair the 8 p.m. Performing Arts Dept. Presents an p.m. weekends. For more info., call 889-4643. World," focusing on the environment, the Friday, Feb. 15 English-Language Premiere, Pavlova's "The homeless and the aging. Hillel House Lounge, Passion According to Varvara." (Also Feb. 16, 9:15 am. Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Evolving 6300 Forsyth Blvd. (Shabbat services will be 17, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m., and Feb. 24 at 2 p.m.) Treatment for Severe Forms of Congenital Heart held at 5:45 p.m. A dinner at 6:30 p.m. will Mallinckrodt Center Drama Studio, Room 208. Disease," Arnold W. Strauss, WU prof, of follow. Pre-paid reservations are needed for Cost: $7 for general public; and $5 for senior SPORTS pediatrics and of biochemistry and molecular dinner. The program begins at 8:30 p.m.) For citizens, students and WU faculty and staff. For biophysics. Clopton Aud., 4950 Audubon Ave. Saturday, Feb. 16 more info., call 726-6177. Noon. Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology ticket info., call 889-6543. Seminar, "How Proteins Enter the Yeast Friday, Feb. 22 1 p.m. Men's Junior Varsity Basketball. WU Saturday, Feb. 23 vs. Maryville College. Field House. 6 p.m. Black Alumni Council Third Annual Nucleus," Pam Silver, Princeton U. Room 423 8 p.m. Edison Theatre "OVATIONS!" Series Scholarship Dinner-dance with guest speaker McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. Presents Moscow Studio-Theatre. (Also Feb. Monday, Feb. 18 Susan L. Taylor, editor-in-chief of Essence 12:15 p.m. Irene Walter Johnson Institute of 23, same time.) Edison Theatre. Cost: $18 for 7:30 p.m. Women's Junior Varsity Basket- magazine. Proceeds provide scholarship Rehabilitation Grand Rounds, "The Wheel- general public; $14 for senior citizens and WU ball. WU vs. East Central College. Field House. assistance to African-Americans enrolled at WU chair and Seating Program — A Case Study," faculty and staff; and $9 for students. For ticket and launch the establishment of an endowed Linda Hunt, WU occupational therapy, and info., call 889-6543. Saturday, Feb. 23 Betsy Malkus, WU physical therapist. Clopton 6 p.m. Women's Basketball. WU vs. U. of scholarship fund for African-American students. Aud., 4950 Audubon Ave. Chicago. Field House. Adam's Mark Hotel, Fourth and Chestnut streets. Tickets: $38 per person, $380 for table of 10. 8 p.m. Men's Basketball. WU vs. U. of Tuesday, Feb. 19 For more info., call 889-5690. MUSIC Chicago. Field House. 3:30 p.m. Dept of Chemistry Marcus 7 p.m. Hillel Chai Week Presents Coffee Colloquium, "Chromium Carbene Complexes House with David Broza, featuring Israeli in Organic Synthesis," Louis S. Hegedus, Sunday, Feb. 17 music. Holmes Lounge. For info., call 726-6177. Colorado State U. Room 458 Louderman Hall. 2:30 p.m. Dept of Music Presents a WU 6 p.m. Dept. of Germanic Languages and Symphony Orchestra Concert featuring MISCELLANY Carolbeth True, piano soloist. St. Louis Art Literatures Lecture, "Kafkas Tagebucher-neu Thursday, Feb. 14 ediert, neu gelesen," Volker Hage, Max Kade Museum Theatre in Forest Park. Free. For more Calendar Deadline Critic-in-Residence, and editor of Die Zeit. info., call 889-5574. 7 p.m. Cultural Celebration Presents an Room 241 Simon Hall. For info., call 889-5106. International Fashion Fair. The May Aud., The deadline to submit items for the Feb. 21- Friday, Feb. 22 Simon Hall. March 2 calendar of the Record is Feb. 15. Items Wednesday, Feb. 20 8 p.m. Dept of Music Presents a Graduate must be typed and state time, date, place, Friday, Feb. 15 11 a.m. Assembly Series Lecture, "Revolution- Piano Recital with Joanne Rust, featuring nature of event, sponsor and admission cost. ary Russian Theatre," Alma Law, prof, of works of Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms and 11 am. Cultural Celebration Presents World Incomplete items will not be printed. If Russian, City U., New York, and specialist in Chopin. Graham Chapel. Free. Bazaar. Booths showcase artifacts and books available, include speaker's name and identifica- contemporary Soviet theatre. Edison Theatre. from various countries. Gallery and main floor, tion and the title of the event; also include your Mallinckrodt Center. 4 p.m. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular name and telephone number. Send items to Biophysics Seminar, "Strategies for Transcrip- 5 p.m. Cultural Celebration Presents Deborah Parker, calendar editor, Box 1070, or tional Control: E. coli Sigma 54, and Sigma 70 FILMS International Dinner Theatre. Wohl Dining by electronic mail to p72245DP at WUVMC. and Simple polll Promoters," Jay Gralla, Molecular Biological Institute, U. of Calif.-Los Thursday, Feb. 14 Angeles. Erlanger Aud., McDonnell Medical 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Foreign Series, Sciences Bldg. For more info., call 362-0261. "The Adversary." Room 100 Brown Hall. $3. Soviet playwright to see his work 4 p.m. Assembly Series Presents Tyrrell Friday, Feb. 15 Williams Lecture, "The Once and Future Law," performed for the first time Shirley Hufstedler, former U.S. secretary of 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Feature Series, education. Graham Chapel. "Cinema Paradiso." (Also Feb. 16, same times, Soviet playwright Alexander Buravsky, teaching acting to a group of talented and Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.) Room 100 Brown. $3. 8 p.m. Dept. of English Presents Readings author of "The Teacher of Russian," schoolchildren in 1974. In 1977 his From the Writing Program with WU graduate Midnight Filmboard Midnight Series, "Sugar will see the play performed for the most promising students began giving students Catherine Rankovic and Margaret Cane Alley." (Also Feb. 16, same time, and Feb. first time when it is presented by the daily performances in a makeshift Schoerke. Hurst Lounge, 201 Duncker Hall. 17 at 9:30 p.m.) Room 100 Brown Hall. $3. On Fit and Sat., both the 9:30 p.m. and midnight Moscow Studio-Theatre at Washington basement theatre. Through the years Thursday, Feb. 21 films can be seen for a double feature price of University on Feb. 23. the ensemble's reputation grew and in 12:10 p.m. Gallery of Art Talk, "Early $4; both Sunday films can be seen for $4. Two performances by the com- 1987 the Moscow Studio-Theatre was American Prints of the Plains Frontier," Anna Monday, Feb. 18 pany, in St. Louis on its first U.S. tour, granted official status. Construction Vemer, asst. to the director, WU Gallery of Art. will highlight the University's week- 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Classic Series will begin soon on a new theatre to Gallery of Art, lower gallery, Steinberg Hall. long symposium on contemporary house the company permanently. Lecture is in conjunction with the Gallery of Presents "Monster on the Campus." (Also Feb. 19, same times.) Room 100 Brown Hall. $3. Soviet theatre, Feb. 15-23. Presented as In recent years the Moscow Art's Carl F. Wimar exhibition. part of Edison Theatre's "OVATIONS!" Wednesday, Feb. 20 Studio-Theatre has become a feature 4 p.m. Assembly Series Presents Arthur series, The Moscow Studio-Theatre will of international arts festivals in Stutt- Holly Compton Memorial Lecture with Linda 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Foreign Series Wilson, president of Radcliffe College. Graham Presents "Diary of a Lost Girl," a German film perform "My Big Land" by Alexander gart, Munich, Edinburgh and Avignon. Chapel. For more info., call 889-4620. with English subtitles. (Also Feb. 21, same Galich at 8 p.m. Feb 22 and "The As a result of his work as founder and 4 p.m. Dept. of Chemistry Seminar, "The times.) Room 100 Brown Hall. $3. Teacher of Russian" at 8 p.m. Feb. 23. artistic director of the Moscow Studio- Chemistry and Transformations of Silacyclo- 7:30 p.m. Dept of Romance Languages and Both plays will be performed in Theatre, Tabakov has been awarded butadienes," Mark J. Fink, Tulane U. Room 311 Literatures Film, "Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Russian; audience members will hear the title of "People's Artist" and the McMillen Hall. (Coffee: 3:45 p.m.) Night at Maud's)," a French film subtitled in simultaneous translations on ear- Soviet Union's State Prize. 4 p.m. Performing Arts Dept. Symposium English. Room 210 Ridgley Hall. Free. phones. Following the Feb. 23 perfor- The production of "A Teacher of on Contemporary Russian Theatre, with Friday, Feb. 22 mance of "The Teacher of Russian," Russian" marks the return to the stage Olga Pavlova, author of "The Passion According to Varvara"; Oleg P. Tabakov, the Moscow 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Feature Series the playwright will lead a discussion of Maria Mironova. Called "a living Studio-Theatre founder; and Alma H. Law, co- Presents "Die Hard 2." (Also Feb. 23, same of his work. legend of Soviet theatre," Mironova has director of the Institute for Contemporary Soviet times, and Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.) Room 100 Brown The Moscow Studio-Theatre, the been a popular theatre and film star in and East European Drama and Theatre, City U., Hall. $3. Soviet equivalent of Britain's Young the Soviet Union for more than 65 years. New York. Mallinckrodt Center Drama Studio, Midnight. Filmboard Feature Series Presents Vic or America's The Acting Company, Tickets for the performances are Room 208. "Death Race 2000." (Also Feb. 23, same time, developed from founder Oleg Taba- and Feb. 24 at 9:30 p.m.) Room 100 Brown $18 for the general public; $14 for 8 p.m. Gallery of Art Lecture Series, "The kov's training program at the Moscow senior citizens and faculty and staff; Bloodstream and Other Vital Bodily Fluids," Hall. $3. On Fri. and Sat., both the 9:30 p.m. photographer Andres Serrano. Co-sponsored by and midnight films can be seen for a double Art Theatre's Studio-School. Tabakov, and $9 for students. For ticket infor- the School of Fine Arts. Steinberg Hall Aud. feature price of $4; both Sunday films can be considered one of the leading experts mation, call 889-6543. For information seen for $4. of Soviet theatre and film, began on the symposium, call 889-5858.