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I would like to compliment Elizabeth In "How Many Ways to Tell About Brayer .and the Review for enlightening me Time," John Cage is listed as "four score on an item of national and University his­ and 15" but since he was born September tory. I would like to suggest, however, that 5, 1912, according to Baker's Biographical LETTERS "Republic" should be capitalized in the Dictionary ofMusicians, it should have current version of the Salute to the Flag, read "three score and 15." That would just as it was in the original. Do you agree? make him 75 instead of 95, right? 10 THE Russell M. Lane, 'SSM Adele Page Manson '38E Sunderland, Mass. Tallmadge, Ohio It would seem to make sense. But the Cage is indeed young for his age, but the lower-case version now seems to be the discrepancy is not so great as the Review's generally accepted one - Editor. (faulty) fancy arithmetic would have it. From now on we think we'd better stick to Editor About Time Arabic numerals-Editor. Your article "How Many Ways to Tell About Time" in the Spring edition was in­ A Matter of Discrimination The Review welcomes letters from read­ tensely interesting in itself, but it also The Spring 1988 issue carried a nice story ers and will use as many ofthem as space touched a long-silent chord of nostalgia. about Todd Rosseau. However, I was ap­ permits. Letters may be edited for brevity During my freshman year (1940-41) I palled to read the statement that dyslexia and clarity. was one of the "pioneer" students in "does not discriminate between the mental­ Philosophy 10 the first year it was offered, ly gifted and the disabled." and it was a felicitous choice. The instruc­ I have been disabled since the age of 9 Salute to Bellamy tor was Robert J. Trayhern, and this was (many years ago) and while I will not claim the beginning of an academic association the description of mentally gifted, I did and personal friendship that lasted for receive a Ph.D. from Rochester in 1975. nearly 10 years. Perhaps it does not take any mental gifts to Bob Trayhern had one of the most bril­ successfully pass the course for a Ph.D. liant minds that I encountered in an exten­ from Rochester, but I would not want to sive academic career and was a superbly make such a statement. effective teacher. Needless to say, the two Perhaps the writer meant that all of us qualities do not always coincide. He was are disabled except for a few who are men­ also a genial companion with a delightfully tally gifted. This interpretation would fit dry sense of humor. He never tried to over­ Todd's statement in the article that "Every­ power me (or any student) with his supe­ body's got some sort of problems, what­ rior intellect, but I never had an encounter ever they are." While that viewpoint is one with him, in or out of the classroom, that which disabled people are continually pre­ did not leave me mentally refreshed and senting, I really do not think the article stimulated. was intended to be so far ahead of contem­ I read with a great deal of interest your Philosophy 10 in its first year was frank­ porary prejudices. article on the life of Francis Bellamy ly experimental, and the content was varied I am dismayed that Rochester Review ["Our Most Quoted Alumnus," Spring and somewhat eclectic. What makes it stand would allow the stereotype of disabled per­ 1988]. However, I was disappointed that out so clearly and pleasantly in my memo­ sons as not very bright to be printed on its you didn't mention that the author of ry was that it was my first real experience pages. Sure, some of us mumble and drool, the Pledge of Allegiance was born in in learning to think, both creatively and but then so does Stephen Hawking. As long Mt. Morris, New York, where I have lived critically. Bob gave us the basic tools of as these stereotypes continue to be accepted and taught. The house in which he was logic, and we used them (with varying suc­ (and in this case reprinted in a journal pub­ born is designated with a historical plaque. cess but great enthusiasm) on such disparate lished by a university) the barriers of big­ A short while before I read the article, topics as Plato's Dikaion and the Baconian otry will continue to impede the disabled the Colonial Dames of Florida, of which and Oxfordian theories on the authorship citizens of this nation. I am a member, passed a resolution that of Shakespeare's plays. Qavid Pfeiffer '750 a stamp be dedicated to Bellamy on the We also spent several days attempting Boston lOOth anniversary of the writing of the to evolve a logical definition of time. After The author simply meant to indicate Pledge. I hope we are successful this time. a lapse of over 40 years, I can't pretend to that dyslexia in no way equates with lack Eleanor N. Duffy quote it verbatim, but I'm sure that this is ofintelligence and that it could indis­ Leicester, N.Y. a very close approximation: criminately strike the mentally gifted, the As mentioned in the article, those who Time, as a measurable quantity, is mentally disabled, or those ofus whose wish to support the movement to honor a purely synthetic concept devised intellectual capabilities lie somewhere in Bellamy with the issuance ofa us. postage by man to define and explain the between. The Review apologizes to anyone stamp may write to: Citizens Stamp Advi­ apparently sequential nature of who may have read it differently-Editor. sory Committee, US. Postal Service, 475 his experiences in contact with his (continued on page 46) I.:Enfant Plaza S. Jv., Washington, D.C environment and his fellow men. 20260-6300. Incidentally, I once tried this definition on a group of my students in an adult edu­ cation class in Vietnam with rather amaz­ ing results. Robert C. Brown '44/'47, '480 Orlando, Fla. University of Rochester Summer 1988

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Departments Features From the President 2 A Place Called Hope 3 Rochester in Review 30 by Denise Bolger Kovnat Alumni Gazette 38 Child abuse is a painful subject, equated in our minds Alumni Milestones 42 with blaring headlines and tales of appalling brutality. But usually the truth is far less sensational- and far Rochester Travelers 45 more complex. After/Words 48 "There's No People Like Show People Like Vicki Brasser '79E" A Short Course in the 10 Black Arts of Manipulation Rochester Review by Peter Regenstreif Editor: Margaret Bond Assistant editor: Denise Bolger Kovnat If you want the world to pay attention to what you Staff writer: Shinji Morokuma have to say, you'd better say it before 9:30 at night. Design manager: Stephen Reynolds That's one of the things you find out in Regenstreif's Graphic artist: Susan Gottfried Staff photographer: James Montanus classes in Politics and the Mass Media. Editorial assistants: Joyce Farrell, Tim Fox Design: Robert Meyer Design, Inc. Editorial office, 108 Administration Of Sound and Mind 16 Building, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-4117. by Stephen Braun

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Meaning and Mishmash My concern about the Stanford cur­ Modern Western universities came riculum is not content, it is form. The about through the merging of "alien" "Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Western Civ problem of de-Westernizing the curric­ traditions. Maimonides had to reassure has got to go!" This intriguing chant ulum is much more complex than in­ the Jewish community of Cairo about from ardent student protesters appar­ serting a section of the Upanishads Aristotle, and Aquinas did the same ently has won the day at Stanford. after Homer. The major issue is the for the schools of Paris - not without The faculty of U.S. News's top-ranked meaning of the university itself. The being condemned for heresy by the lo­ university has voted to expand a tradi­ university is - unfortunately perhaps­ cal bishop. Thus, to incorporate "alien" tional required Introduction to West­ a Western invention, and that raises traditions into the university seems no ern Civilization to include representa­ fundamental problems with ecumeni­ great issue and should be pursued. But, tion from non-Western cultures and the cal urges in the cultural curriculum. I suspect that it will have to be pursued writings and traditions of women and The university as we understand it in the Western mode of verification minorities. emerged in the Western tradition of and moral decision. No sooner was the vote announced the late Middle Ages. This curious The Western university is concerned than it was roundly attacked by Secre­ form of educational organization re­ with truth and the advancement of hu­ tary of Education William Bennett. sponds to some fundamental trends man life. (At Rochester we of course Bennett saw the Stanford move as yet which are especially characteristic of have distilled the issue in Meliora.) another proof of the moral emptiness "Western" culture. To oversimplify The content of the curriculum exists of university studies. Instead of teach­ a very complex story, the university only to advance truth and life. This ing the basics of the tradition that draws upon two dominant traditions: high-minded notion has sharp edges. created and nurtures the Republic, the Biblical religion and Greek science. Higher education is not a species of faculty had given in to fashionable The medieval university emerged in cultural tourism; it is a form of cultur­ political expediency. Classical greats full flower at the point when those two al critique. We should welcome all sig­ would be replaced with trendy tracts. traditions were forced into an accom­ nificant others, majority and minority, On its surface, the Stanford curric­ modation. Greek science contributes North South East and West. But they ular change has everything to recom­ the notion of verification to the uni­ will also be welcomed to the tests and mend it. If one glances at the flash versity while the Bible gives a universal trials of the university tradition. points of current history, one will find moral earnestness to the educational The university should expand across little guidance in traditional Western enterprise. Both notions seem to be all cultures provided that the forum is studies to understand the conflict of essential to the meaning of our univer­ cultural critique. Equal time for Africa, Shiites and Sunnis, Hindus and Tamils. sities. Aristotle, and Jane Austen - rightly Western Civ courses often do seem to University mottos often indicate regarded by some modern philosophers be the march of maleness in time and reality. My undergraduate alma mater as the last great moral philosopher in place. Even in the days when I was favored Lux et Veritas; my graduate the West - is appropriate in a mode of studying American history in college, school blazoned Crescat Scientia Vita verification. It is, I believe, the assump­ David Potter's essay on American his­ Excolatur. Science and veritas lead life tion which takes the great world tradi­ tory, People ofPlenty, noted in a foot­ forward. Greek science alone may not tions with the seriousness that they de­ note that this story of general prosper­ have been sufficient to create an educa­ serve. The university is not, after all, ity applied to all Americans - except, tional institution. Mere theory may be the Phil Donahue Show with tuition. of course, blacks and native Ameri­ the contemplative indulgence of philos­ cans. Neither group deserves to be left ophers. The Biblical tradition of moral Dennis O'Brien a perpetual curricular footnote. responsibility within this historical world contributed a practical edge which initiated the social instrument of schools.

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Child abuse is to be found among all kinds offamilies~ at all levels ofincome. How do you help its victims? And how do you prevent it from happening again? It is the business of the Mt. Hope Family Center to find out and to do something about it.

By Denise Bolger Kovnat

"Parenting is like the domestic Peace Corps. The hours are long. The work is hard. The pay is zip. "Babies smell. They throw up. They cry when you're asleep and sleep when you're awa ke. They get sick and can't tell you what is wrong .... They put tension in a home and a marriage. They are capable of testing your endurance to the limits and ripping a path through your emotions like a tornado...." Erma Bombeck

Lunchtime at the University's Mt. Hope Family Center is a study in sen­ sory overload - something like having a pizza at Chuck E. Cheese's. It could be a scene at any day-care center, anywhere. As the noonday sun pours in through a wall-full of win­ dows, about two dozen pint-size pre­ schoolers are munching on, smoosh­ ing, dismembering, or (surreptitiously) pouring orange juice all over their grilled-cheese sandwiches. When the children aren't eating, they're talking, and they don't waste a heckuva lot of time eating. Next to them, fully grown teachers sit in tyke-sized chairs trying to keep a lid on all this energy.

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Over in the corner, three children are children are now reported as maltreated The center's biggest effort, in terms all engaged in hugging one teacher at each year. Although child abuse is to of the population involved, is a pre­ the same time - that is, Jason* is hug­ be found among all kinds of families, school for some sixty 3- to 5-year-olds ging Lisa, who's hugging Danny, who's at all levels of income, commonly it who are at risk of or who have already hugging the teacher, in a melee that occurs in a single-parent family of experienced maltreatment - physical, combines the techniques of Leo young children headed by a mother on sexual, or emotional abuse, or physical Buscaglia and Hulk Hogan. public assistance. or emotional neglect (usually, some To the unschooled eye, Mt. Hope Children in such families might be combination of any of these). may look like a typical day-care compared to flowers planted in rocky There's no doubt that most of Mt. center- but it is, in fact, a nationally soil: Some will bloom in spite of it Hope's preschoolers benefit in some recognized program for research and all-but many won't. It is the business way. One mother describes her 4-year­ treatment in the area of child abuse of Mt. Hope to find out what makes old as more verbal, more cooperative, and neglect. All of the children in the the difference and to apply that knowl­ newly interested in his artistic endeav­ center's preschool program are at risk edge to the families that need it most. ors, and on a better sleeping schedule of or have experienced some form of "Lots of these kids are going to after just a few months in the pro­ maltreatment. make it based on their ability to rework gram. "It's just a lot of little things Child abuse is a painful, sensitive their experiences, to latch onto another that have added up, so that there's a subject, one we tend to recoil from person, or to develop an inner strength great big improvement," she says. even as we gape at blaring headlines that gives them the belief that they can "And now I know the meaning of go on," says Dante Cicchetti, the sleep! " center's director. While the preschool is central to "Sometimes, it only takes one per­ Mt. Hope's treatment efforts, there's son to make that connection," he says much more - an array of programs with an emphatic snap of his fingers, that reflects the array of needs of Jason is "so that a child doesn't just lie down troubled families. The center works and give up and not fight. But we with the parents as well as the chil­ hugging Lisa, who's don't yet know the mechanism dren, providing therapy for both. It hugging Danny, who's that makes it work." runs a diagnostic clinic, children's Cicchetti, also a professor of psy­ speech-therapy programs, and parent­ hugging the teacher, in chology and psychiatry at the Univer­ training groups, and operates a sum­ sity, has throughout his career and in mer camp and an after-school program a melee that com bines his writings called for extensive, inten­ for older children. And it's all free of the techniques of Leo sive research on child abuse and espe­ charge - with transportation thrown cially on how abused children adapt in - conducted by a team of certified Buscaglia and Hulk to their environments -largely for the special-education teachers, clinical practical value of dealing with this psychologists, speech therapists, and Hogan. knotty problem in treatment and in social workers. public policy. Moreover, as a University facility, But Cicchetti isn't just calling for Mt. Hope is engaged in the education and stories of appalling brutality. Like more and better research - he and the and training of graduate and under­ the headlines, the characters appear in staff at Mt. Hope are actively doing it, graduate students in psychology, black and white. here and now. At the same time, they're education, medicine, social work, But, usually, the truth is far less applying their research directly, in pro­ and speech pathology. sensational-and far more complex. grams that benefit the children and But it's research - more specifically, More often than not, child abuse takes families who walk through Mt. research under Cicchetti's direction­ the form of neglect or emotional mis­ Hope's door. that has brought the center national treatment rather than overt physical recognition. Ann Cohn, executive injury. And, again more often than director of the National Committee not, it involves ordinary people under for the Prevention of Child Abuse, extraordinary stress. confirms that "Dante's work helps give Estimates range as high as 10 to 20 us the answers we need." percent for the number of families in One of the major research projects which some form of child abuse takes now going on at Mt. Hope is its place. In the United States, one million "After-School Program," a weekly recreational get-together for 7- to ll-year-olds. *None of the Mt. Hope clients referred to in this article have been identified by their real names.

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Pursuing a Pacesetter "I have a great regard for Dante, and so do many in the field," says Garmezy Thlking with Dante Cicchetti is like in a phone interview. being paced by a track star: You'd better "For example, I think he has done keep up with him, because this guy's some of the best investigations there are not about to stop for a friendly chat. of maltreated children. It's that unique Our meeting begins as he breezes into combination of knowing development his office, checking his messages and and knowing psychopathology that mail as he greets me. He grabs two con­ brought him to the forefront. tainers of yogurt and a couple of amino "In fact, he's now assuming a journal acid tablets (he's a weight lifter in what­ from one ofthe great university presses, " ever remains of his spare time), sits down he says, referring to Cicchetti's editor­ in his chair, and begins lunch and our ship of Development and Psychopa­ interview simultaneously. thology, published by the Cambridge "I guess what I've always been inter­ University Press. "To be the editor-in­ ested in is doing the difficult thing. In chief is a rare tribute for a young inves­ sports, I'd always do what I didn't have tigator." innate abilities in. I'm always drawn to Cicchetti is only 38 years old. And­ the challenge, because the problems you although he might scoff at armchair solve then are really important," he says psycho-social history- in many ways he of his work. is a child of the '60s. "There are not many places around Physically, he's an image flash-frozen the world that can help kids with prob­ in that time: extravagantly long, wavy lems like this. There are so many kids black hair, a black shirt with a satin-like Dante Cicchetti: "I guess what I've always who have nothing and won't make it. sheen, white jeans, running shoes. been interested in is doing the difficult The kick we get out of this kind of And his thinking retains some of the thing." work is that we know that a greater idealism and social concern of those percentage are going to make it." years. Certain themes appear again and "I wouldn't wish bad experiences on As he polishes off one cup of yogurt again in his writing: the call for more anybody; I just wish that everybody and reaches for another, he adds, "I and better research that will lead to better could be resilient in the face of adver­ could have sat in an ivory tower and policy-making; the empathetic insight sity. I don't have a spun-glass theory of written books and books and not done that maltreated children are not one the mind, the idea that one bad experi­ anything to help people. " homogeneous group but, rather, indi­ ence can ruin you." He could have - and would have been viduals who adapt to their environ­ So, when all is said and done, the highly regarded, at that. After earning ments in a diversity of ways; the director of the Mt. Hope Family Center his doctorate at the University of Min­ reminder that there is no clear line is, like the name of the place itself, nesota, he taught at Harvard for eight between "normal" and "abnormal" hopeful. years, last serving as the Norman Tisch­ development but that knowledge of "Yes, I believe that in some cases man Associate Professor of Psychology. one can help illuminate the other. exposure to bad experiences may ulti­ If you ask the experts-like Professor And what is the end of all this hard mately lead to some children's func­ Jerome Kagan at Harvard, Yale's Edward work? If he had his choice, would Dante tioning extraordinarily well." Zigler, Minnesota's Norman Garmezy­ Cicchetti wish a comfortable, secure, you'll find that Cicchetti's work is middle-class upbringing on everyone? widely known and respected. "I really believe that diversity can bring about more interesting outcomes, can increase heterogeneity," he says.

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To the children, it's a time for fun 1) Say exactly what the problem is. when a problem exists. When they and friendship. (One youngster, in a 2) Decide on your goal. don't feel so good and have unhappy group of eight 8- and 9-year-old girls, 3) Stop and think before you act. feelings, we try to get them to see that says, as her friends giggle in response: 4) Think of as many solutions as those kinds of feelings usually accom­ "I like coming here because I like to you can. pany a problem," says Jan Gillespie, get away from my little brother. He's 5) Think of what might happen director of research. driving me bananas!") But for the next. Aside from this specific problem­ researchers at Mt. Hope, it's an oppor­ 6) When you have a good solution, solving tool, she says, the environment tunity to learn how to help children try it. in general is therapeutic. "For many of identify their interpersonal problems these kids, it's the most prolonged ex­ and find solutions for them. posure they have, other than in school, The research design divides the chil­ to adults who are empathic, supportive, dren into 12 groups, with six of them and predictable." getting a weekly lesson in social prob­ Says Doug Barnett, a graduate stu­ lem-solving and the other six partici­ place like dent in clinical psychology who works pating in purely recreational activities A with the program: "The children defin­ without that instruction. Half of the Mt. Hope has been on my itely learn the problem-solving model, children in each group have been iden­ and they definitely know the principles tified as experiencing some form of mind since 1970. It took behind it, and they definitely under­ maltreatment (some of them are Mt. me 15 years to get here­ stand it. Now, whether they actually Hope graduates), while the other half apply it when somebody's been teasing have, to the best of the researchers' to a center that combines them is another story." knowledge, not been abused but are One of the goals of the research matched to the others in terms of fam­ treatment, education, and project is to find out whether they ily income and other characteristics. research. " indeed apply it- and to what effect. The problem-solving model in use at Theoretically, the results of this Mt. Hope seems eminently reasonable research could find a concrete use in - and applicable to many situations, "We're trying to teach them what a Mt. Hope's treatment and educational for many of us. It goes like this: problem is, to develop a sensitivity to programs. Cicchetti views the relation­ ship among research, treatment, and education as reciprocal. "We take all the research that has been done in the past and apply it in treatment and education," he says. Studies in language development offer an example. Developmental psychopathologists have found - as common sense would dictate - that children's language skills are directly related to their social and emotional development. That's why at Mt. Hope you'll often hear teachers urging chil­ dren to "use your words," rather than fists or feet, in confrontations with other children. The results are easily seen - or, rather, heard. In Meg McCandlish's preschool class, 4-year-old Colin happily plays "Mommy," wearing a large, floppy, patchwork hat and carrying a purse and a jangly set of keys. Danny, another 4-year-old, ap­ proaches with avid interest and asks, "Can I have those keys?" "One minute," answers Colin, and walks away from Danny, unchallenged.

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"Nice talking, Danny and Colin!" says Meg. She and her teacher's aide Real Courage "They've experienced neglect, or sheer nod at each other, visibly pleased with abuse, and how can they trust? And still this uneventful transaction. they do. They just demand love and And that's just the point: Nothing Trouble, it's been said, is always show love in inappropriate ways." comforting when it isn't yours. Those demonstrations of love are happened. Since many children at Mt. And yet, every day, Mt. Hope's what keep others at Mt. Hope going. researchers, therapists, teachers, and Doug Barnett, a first-year graduate aides take the troubles of parents and student in clinical psychology who children and, in a sense, make them works with the center's After School theirs. Program, recalls one 4-year-old who How-or why-do they do it? was new to the preschool and with­ "Something about the children calls drawn to the extent that he talked to More often out to me. Everything they do calls out no one. than not child abuse takes to me for help," says preschool-teacher "For some reason, he really liked me Meg McCandlish, sitting back in a child­ and took to me," he says with the trace the form of neglect or sized chair in her classroom after hours. of a smile. "I remember we took a bus "You look for the positive things in trip somewhere, and one of his first emotional mistreatment the child, in spite of all the hurt and statements was, 'Doug, come and sit anger. They've got this little ray of hope with me.' And he just started to do rather tha n overt physical in them; they always find something to better and better." smile about and play with. You think, Barnett adds that "some people who injury. And, again more 'If I could only get through to that part do this kind of work have had a difficult often than not, it involves of them!'" childhood. It's one coping mechanism. With an M.S. in special education You become very empathetic and you ordinary people under and an undergraduate degree in early­ want to help." childhood education, McCandlish is Dante Cicchetti, Mt. Hope's director, extraordinary stress. well trained to keep her emotions in is such an example. check. But, she says, "I have cried "I come from a very lower-class back­ here before. ground in a big city. I was a kid of the Hope have a hard time controlling "I've never had to walk out of the streets, and exposed to a lot of things aggression, it's a very important point, room because I was so upset; I've been most people in academia don't see. As a indeed. able to maintain control until the kids result, I was somebody who always Another point you'll often hear went home. But one little girl, I remem­ cared about the underdog." being made at Mt. Hope is that the ber, had fallen out of a car; she'd lost In other words, Mt. Hope's director staff tries to work with the strengths of all the skin off her chest," she says, doesn't spend much time thinking about the children rather than focus on their waving her hand across her torso in how hard his work is. He thinks about disbelief. the underdog instead. weaknesses. As Cicchetti wrote in an "Not only are these children hurt­ "There's no question that it takes article in the Harvard Educational but they have lost some of their faith in some courage to work here-but damn Review, "The emphasis on the coping their parent. The child feels some sense it, to be an abused kid and not give up behavior and strength of a child, rather of 'I've been failed.' takes·real courage." than deviant behavior and weaknesses, helps ... combat the temptation toward therapeutic nihilism which is so natu­ rally and dangerously a part of the child-protection professions." This attitude is one of the reasons Pearl Rubin, president of Rochester's Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation, be­ came interested in helping to support the center. "I think you could call it an 'optimistic' program," she says. "They really mean it when they use phrases like 'helping the child and parent to achieve their maximum potential.' "

Meg McCandlish: "Something about the children calls out to me. Everything they do calls out for help."

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But to Cicchetti, what Mt. Hope is "A place like Mt. Hope has been doing today isn't enough, largely be­ on my mind since 1970. It took me 15 cause he knows he must work with the years to get here - to a center like this extended families as well as children of that combines treatment, education, all ages to combat effectively the causes "S ometimes it and research," he says. In 1980, he and results of maltreatment. only ta kes one person to wrote, again in the Harvard Educa­ "I'd like to see this place grow into tional Review, "Few treatment facilities a multidisciplinary 'lifespan' center make the connection, so a offer the comprehensive array of serv­ where families of all kinds could come ices needed to deal effectively with the for help. Right now, we're in the proc­ child doesn't just lie down multifactorial nature of child abuse." ess of creating a toddler center for and give up and not fight. Clearly, he has a vision - and, in maltreated children from 18 months many ways, he's been able to shape to 3 years. And we're even thinking But we don't yet know the and broaden the center according to of studying the parents' parents - and mechanism that makes it that vision. When Mt. Hope began in working with adolescents as well." 1979 as a preschool program for chil­ He has big plans, but he's also work. " dren at risk of maltreatment, it oper­ moved a long way since 1985, when ated on an annual budget of $100,000 he assumed the directorship of the and occupied a converted 19th-century center. mansion on Mt. Hope Avenue, from which it took its name.

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a 3- or 4-year-old who, initially, seems Defining the Field withdrawn, lacks self-awareness and adequate language skills, and is inse­ If you never heard of "developmental cure in his relationship with his parent. "Through a therapeutic environ­ psychopathology" beforet you are not alone. ment, and by working with the mother ICs a relatively new field that came to and the family," Cicchetti says, "we be viewed as a separate area of research can change the nature of his relation­ in the 1970s. ship to secure, improve his sense of Ifs also an interdisciplinary study self, improve his peer relations, and that draws on developmental psychol­ teach him to talk about what he feels. ogy, clinical and traditional academic "Then, ideally, he's ready to gradu­ psychologYt and psychiatry. The disci­ ate into a normal classroom." pline is based on the knowledge that a A desirable goal, at least in the eyes number of factors - genetic constitu­ t of therapists, teachers, and researchers. tionalt psychologicalt environmental, familial, sociological-have a bearing on both normal and abnormal develop­ ment. But it's best defined by a man who is defining the field. As Dante Cicchetti has written: "Developmental psycho­ "Lots of these pathology emphasizes the argument put forth by many of the great synthetic kids are going to make it, thinkers in the behavioral and neuro­ sciences that we can learn more about based on their ability to the normal functioning of an organism by studying its pathology and, likewise, rework their experiences, "He runs down the stairs in the more about its pathology by studying to latch onto another morning to get on the bus, and he its normal condition." takes his time in the afternoon getting person, or to develop an off the bus. Then he stands on the porch and waves bye-bye. inner strength that gives "It's real good; it's brought him out Since 1985, when Cicchetti took of his shell." over as director, the budget has nearly them the belief that they As her younger son sits down next doubled to $1 million. And last fall the can go on." to her, she puts an arm around him center moved to much larger facilities and whispers to him, then looks up to in a newly renovated school building in add perhaps the ultimate endorsement: Rochester's Corn Hill neighborhood, But what about the people at the heart "I told some of my friends about it­ to accommodate the larger numbers of of all this - the parents and children? and they want to get their children families being served. What do they think? in, too." But, still, the focus of all these Although there's no way to ask a 4­ facilities and funds and studies is the year-old "Are you benefiting from the "What do you get for taking on [parent­ children themselves - how to prevent programs at Mt. Hope?" and parents hood], the most awesome job in the their maltreatment, how to help them are understandably reticent, an anec­ world? A bond of love I cannot begin to develop, how to keep them with their dote may shed some light. describe...." families. Jane Smith, a young single mother Erma Bombeck Cicchetti says, "The adult may have of two boys, ages 4 and 2, sits in her been inured to pain for so many years neat but spare apartment on Roches­ - it's easier to work with the kids." ter's southwest side, smoking a ciga­ And this work can produce results rette and watching her children play. With two children, aged 3 and 1, Denise quickly. When asked for his definition The stereo is tuned to a rock station Bolger Kovnat is a veteran ofthe domestic of success, he describes the progress of and the television blinks silently in the front. corner. Her elder boy, John, is a newcomer to Mt. Hope's preschool program; his brother will come, too, when he's 3. Smith herself is a shy woman of few words, but she talks enthusiastically of how John enjoys the preschool.

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A talk by Peter Regenstreif

Acouple of months ago They didn't do it by themselves. The Well, there is a lot of misperception rest of the media picked up the chant, floating around about the media, and Peter Regenstreif was in and the politicians responded, and then some ofit is pretty ridiculous. Through­ it dawned on us: "Hey, you know, out all societies we have had a tenden­ Boston, talking to alumni there is something there and we ought cy to shoot the messenger because the about what he teaches to be studying it and teaching it." messenger brings us bad news, or news In the last 15 years Politics and the we don't want to hear about. So we Rochester students in his Mass Media has become a respectable blame the message bearer. Now, if there course in university curricula: We are is anything my students learn, I hope, classes in Politics and now engaged in inoculating young it is that you don't blame the media. the Mass Media. This is minds against cant and myth while The media exist as a device for all of preparing them for the realities of life. us to use. a transcript of that talk, The mass media that we study to­ The problem for us as common cit­ slightly edited for day constitute an enthralling kind of izens is that this is a one-way game­ activity. always somehow or other failing to re­ publication. We know we need the media. We flect our own desires, needs, or aspira­ know they serve a basic public need­ tions except peripherally. a need for information- because Why is that? If you had been a political science without information there can be no Because in politics there is a sym­ student 20 years ago, we never would knowledge, and without knowledge biotic relationship between the politi­ have told you about the black arts of there can be no understanding, and cians on the one hand and the media manipulation. Basically, I suspect, that without understanding there can be folk on the other. The politicians was because we felt - perhaps in a sex­ no action. without the media to spread the word ist or generationally prejudiced way­ We cannot communicate, you and would be helpless. The media without that the real truth about politics, like I, one-on-one anymore. We used to do anything to write about would equally sex, ought not to be taught to young it over the back fence. We used to do be helpless. So they coalesce against people and to women. it in small groups. We used to have us: the politicians using the media to But there was also this: Twenty years extended families. send their message; the media in effect ago the mass media hadn't penetrated We don't anymore. creating a filter for the message - a our consciousness to the extent that So the mass media are a surrogate. prism, if you like, refracting the rays we, as political scientists, recognized They are a message device; yet we are into a different direction, a different what was going on. The media were so enthralled with the device that it form, a different coloration for the just sort of "out there." has developed a life of its own. And common man. Then the Watergate experience came now we say that the media people are So where do I, the ordinary citizen, along, and a couple of enterprising controlling our lives. fit in? How can I too use the media journalists did quite a deed: They drove effectively? How can I understand what a president from office. is going on? How can I make sense of these strange and marvelous things that take place almost daily, and- we all feel sometimes - uncontrollably.

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Remember this about the media: Journalists have their own model: They are somebody's agenda. If you "What you see is what you get." They command that agenda, you'll com­ say, "Listen, I can see what is going mand the political process. on. The stuff I write, what I show you That is why, for example, the candi­ on the screen, is purely a reflection of dates for the Democratic presidential events." nomination had the debate at the East­ Well, that's their view. We have other man Theatre last spring. All very inter­ models. One is the professional model esting, all terribly exciting. But why? that sees journalists as gatekeepers. Be­ Did we need a huge audience in the fore anything can appear in the media, Eastman Theatre? Did anyone really the journalist has to work it through want to influence those particular peo­ his sieve, or her prism, or their ways ple? Of course not. They were essen­ of looking at the world, and when it tially a backdrop, part of a media comes out, they have transformed it event. into something else. LJJ The journalists who were sitting Another model sees news as a prod­ g there were also part of a media event. uct of organizational and technical ~ The politicians were using them to factors - such simple things as "We've ~ send messages - all kinds of messages got a deadline at 9:30 at night so we ~ - and to make the whole thing real can turn out a paper that will be on ~ instead of just three guys in a room, your doorstep at 6 in the morning." "The media have always been influential in the which obviously isn't all that exciting That cuts off the news in a certain way. presidential nominating process," says Regen­ in itself. If you want anyone to notice what you streif. "It's only recently that it has become chic New York's was a crucial primary, are doing, don't do it after 9:30 at to talk about it." Regenstreif, who was talking the kicker, the one that could deter­ night. about politics and the media even before it was mine the outcome. So they were using Other technical matters enter in, chic, is well equipped to do so: Professor of us to talk to the voters, white voters such as the fact that 65 percent of a political science, he is also both a journalist and black voters, Jews and non-Jews, newspaper is advertising - and, frank­ and a political consultant. One more credential: Upstaters and Downstaters. ly, if it isn't, that newspaper is going He's an experienced hockey coach. Fascinating business, but it was a to go out of business. media event. It was not real-or was And if a story doesn't lend itself to Well, the complete answer to that it? good pictures, you likely won't see it means the long lecture on "the mean­ With the media, there is no truth, on television because nobody wants to ing of the media" and all the rest. there are just appearances. We live in a look at talking heads anymore. That's Instead, let me give you some basic democracy, not in a platonic world of old and that's boring. aphorisms about the world. universalistic means and ends - sug­ There are organizational constraints. First: The message reflects the in­ gesting that we will determine out­ If you're not making a profit, pretty terests of the sender, not the receiver. comes by the device of numbers, of soon you're not going to be running a When you send a message, you are power, of influence, of manipulation. station anymore. not going to serve someone else's in­ Let's think about some of the ma­ If you have a bad niche - publishing terest, you're going to serve your own. nipulable things that go on out there in the afternoon, for example - you're (Remember that the next time the in the media. going to go out of business. The two­ phone rings and you break your neck There is a bald statement that I newspaper town is ancient history in trying to answer it. Someone else make once a semester in my Politics the United States. Why is that? Be­ wants you to answer it, and if that per­ and the Mass Media course. It is sim­ cause there are organizational con­ son wants you badly enough, he or she ply this: There is no fundamentally straints. will ring again. Walk, do not run, next nonideological, apolitical, nonpar­ There is yet another model, a polit­ time you answer the phone.) tisan, news-gathering and reporting ical model, that says that news is a So the media are sending a message. system. I repeat: There is no funda­ product of ideological biases and that But who is sending the message via the mentally nonideological, apolitical, it has to be that way because journal­ media? All kinds of people out there: nonpartisan, news-gathering and re­ ists are only human. special interests, stakeholders, actors in porting system. Which of these models is accurate? the arena. They all want us to do some­ Having taken this in, we are ready to Well, of course, the accurate model thing. understand the process. is a combination, and we spend a lot The media, perceiving themselves Political scientists have constructed of time describing to students how this to be critical to the operation of the certain models of how it all works. whole mix works: What the media are political process - which clearly they interested in. What their constraints are - send their own refracted message. are in what they can and cannot use. Between the two of them, the media And a whole range of other things and the politicians, they are doing a such as taste, perspectives, underlying number on us. understandings of the American process.

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We talk about enduring values in the American mass media. What are they? Presidents and following on the heels of Kennedy and Truth, beauty, and the American way? therefore paling in comparison. John­ Forget it. Let me give you some ideas, the Mass Media son's entire style was jarring to the for most of which I am indebted to media: He played favorites flagrantly; Herbert Gans and his pathbreaking • Franklin Roosevelt ranks as one of the he occasionally gave way to towering Deciding What's News. most effective manipulators of the media temper tantrums; and his manipulations First and foremost is ethnocentrism. because he was not afraid to be open were too transparent and overt. In short, with the press while using it to further he didn't understand the media. Americans are ethnocentric. Pick up his aims. Of course, he lived at a time • Richard Nixon didn't like the media, the newspaper, watch television: 300 when members of the media respected and its representatives soon reciprocated people killed in a plane crash in Tur­ confidences and adhered to a code the sentiment. His approach ranged key. Belongs on page 16. Who cares which recognized that "off the record" from self-pity to arrogance; from out­ about a bunch of Turks, right? One meant that what was divulged under right lying to direct attack on his ene­ local person on that plane. Front page. that heading could not be reported or mies in the press. He generated fear­ That makes sense. Most of us don't attributed. and, on occasion, hatred. He was his give a damn for a bunch of Syrians, • President Eisenhower could reach out own worst enemy. Frenchmen, Italians, or even Cana­ beyond the press to the American peo­ • Ronald Reagan deserves the title dians, unless of course we are in Can­ ple because he generated a sense of trust "the great communicator." He was the and credibility that no opposition, criti­ "teflon president" because he under­ ada. Here in the United States, we cism, or problem within his own camp stood that being president means play­ care about our own. And if the news could shake. ing a role, a role that combines a heroic happened in Des Moines instead of • JFK's success with the media was the stance, an easy manner, and constant our home town, well, tough on Des result of his supreme confidence in his good humor. Above all, his countrymen own ability to manage the news and be­ like him even while they disagree with cause he genuinely liked the press. And many of his policies. They have forgiven that liking was often reciprocated. him a lot. • Lyndon Johnson's difficulties with the RkUP media were only partly the result of his Peter Regenstreif a newspaper, watch television: 300 people killed in a plane crash in Turkey. Belongs on page 16. One local person on that plane. Front page. Here in the United States, we care about our own.

Moines. We are interested in right here. You want to read about Des Moines, go to Des Moines. Another perspective: altruistic de­ mocracy. We expect American politics to be democratic and that everybody Bob Dole was what people thought leave a little behind for the weak and can play. We are good guys, right? Of we needed in a presidential candidate. the unfortunate and the widows and course, many political processes do not And then he went out and did the the orphans. If you don't behave that reflect that value, but it is remarkable same thing he did in 1976. He showed way, if you don't act responsibly, you that, at the hands of a good journalist, he was mean and suggested he was are going to get hurt. failure to adhere to appropriate proc­ small. He couldn't take a hit. He Take Johnson & Johnson. They ess, or behaving in a mean-spirited whined about it. And he was out of understand this. When they had the manner- in short, contravening altru­ the game. problem of someone tampering with istic democracy-will take down a can­ We have similar standards for cor­ their product, and people died from it, didate as sure as anything. porations. We expect them to behave Johnson & Johnson became a paragon Think about Bob Dole. Around the as capitalists, sure, but as responsible of responsibility. Remember what their Beltway, in Washington, he was every­ capitalists, whatever that means. We president did? He said: "It's our re­ body's candidate. Democrat and Re­ have a vision: You know, leave a little sponsibility. We are going to take every­ publican alike. Why not? Bob Dole on the table. When you're reaping your thing off the shelf. We are going to fix had guts. He was smart. He was artic­ field, don't cut the corners too sharp; it." He claimed the problem for his ulate. He knew what he stood for. own, and he told us he was going to 13 Rochester Review/Summer 1988 make good on it. And we all said, how individualism works. A lot of Jesse as a serious candidate. The poll­ "Hey, that was terrific." people were dying but nobody impor­ sters went out and they showed us that But how many other corporations tant died. The media couldn't find a in fact a Dukakis-Jackson ticket beat have you seen make a different re­ news peg to hang it on and it wasn't a George Bush-and-whoever-else by five sponse? "Oh no, he did it, not me.... big story. And then a famous man got percentage points, which of course They made me do it.... I don't know it. Remember? Rock Hudson. Sudden­ made the Republicans laugh their about it, ask George." Well they can ly AIDS was a big issue and they start­ heads off. * Well, we will see who will forget about that. Those guys are go­ ed covering it. Fascinating, isn't it? be laughing later on, if not in 1988, ing to get beaten to death in the media. More on individualism: There's a perhaps in 1992. And why not? They deserve it because great tragedy, a plane crash. Three Another very important point about they don't understand how the system hundred and fifty people die, of whom the media is their attempt to give us a works. 60 were this and 20 were that. That is balance. I am referring here generally Another basic news value: small­ not a story. That is a statistical sum­ town pastoralism. How many Ameri­ mary. An accountant can give you cans live in a small town or on a farm? that. The newsman will find a sweet Two percent? One percent? old lady, or some kind of story about We are so fortunate today. I have a family, to make the peg, to catch a sense, when I look at a map of the your attention. public United States, that three guys sitting Remember that nice little girl who Ie on a combine that's big enough can fell down the well last year? Do you doesn't care about probably plant the entire states of know how many people died during Kansas, Nebraska, all those farm the course of that same week? How somebody's profit, not states. They're all you'd need. The rest much tragedy, misery, hunger, and even in America anymore. of the people could go and work at privation there was in the world? But, McDonald's and watch movies and front page, lead story on all the news­ Profit means "You get it television. casts, was this little girl whose mother In essence that's what has happened. obviously didn't have enough care to and I don't and the heck So why is it that virtually every night, make sure the holes in the backyard with you." But if I talk were covered, but nonetheless we were captured by her "bravery." I'm almost about health and public being cynical about it and I don't mean safety, it's" I love you, to be. But she is a famous little girl to­ day. Her story arrested our attention. darling. " Before Last point: moderatism. What a beaut that is! Americans have one of anything can appear in the few societies in the history of the to print media but I could be talking the media, the journalist world based on a successful revolution. about audio-visual as well. You know, one where you have a begin­ Balance in the electronic media, by has to work it through his ning, a middle, and an end and it's the way, is written into the federal com­ finished. There was no counterrevolu­ munications act itself, and the reason sieve, or her prism, and tion. We didn't go back and establish is that while there is no way you can when it comes out, it has a monarchy. No sir, we have a real re­ interfere with print, the airwaves be­ public. It has endured over 200 years long to you and me as citizens of this been transformed into and, with good luck, it will endure a country. So if they don't give us bal­ hell of a lot longer. ance - the right of rebuttal, provision something else. This is a moderate society- maybe for equal time - then someone has conservative is an even better word. We been unfair. And unfair is a no-no in when you watch a newscast, you always don't do things radically, and if you are our system, isn't it? It's also in this see a little scene from a small town as a radical you're out of the game. case illegal. if somehow or other we are reaching For years, Jesse Jackson was seen as There are other kinds of balance back to our roots? There is something a radical, and (the thinking ran) if he that are also worth paying attention to. appealing about the small town and is radical, he can't be successful. So he Any time you see a news broadcast, there is something frightening about didn't get the coverage he deserved. So any time you pick up a newspaper, you the big city and the hardness of its by last spring he was starting to be a will note the components of balance in ways. moderate. How come? Well, he could the story mixture: Not all mean, not The small town, the farm - it's a see the prize coming up, the light at all happy, not all tragedy, not all crisis. piece of America. But think of it, we the end of the tunnel. Suddenly he was Some short and some long. There is a are being manipulated, aren't we? talking nice about Jewish people and subject balance too. A little bit of poli- Here is another basic news value: he was saying how he won't sit down individualism - relating everything to with Yassir Arafat anymore either. So *Regenstreif notes that subsequent polls indi­ an individual, personalizing it. 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tics, a little bit of economics, certainly the sports, and you've got to know about the weather. There is yet another balance in the news: a geographic balance, a commit­ ment by the networks to make certain that the various regions of the country are covered. Now, of course, nothing ever happens in Indiana and very little happens in Kansas, so they don't get an awful lot of coverage. And some of what happens there you really would rather not know about: Some kid has lost it and blown away his family and all his neighbors. So mainly you have New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Wash­ ington. (Boston is always some kind of science story; there is some myth about the people there, that they have higher IQ's than the rest of the country.) Maintaining some kind of geograph­ ic balance is a necessity, obviously, for the news media to cover everything that is going on. There is a demographic balance, too. Responsible news media will make cer­ tain that there is representation of the variety of ethnic, religious, racial, age - and now sex - groupings in our soci­ ety. When they do a story, they will make sure that those kinds of compo­ is timely. You need something that has I have a step up on some guy who is nents are covered. bearing on a local area or has some talking about such things as competi­ And there is political balance. You kind of long-term potential. tion (it's a nice word but it's a second­ can't do a Republican without doing a If you've got a story of a sensation­ level word) or (and you can forget this Democrat. You can't do the ins with­ al nature, if it's different, then you've one, too) profit. out doing the outs. really got something going - as long The public doesn't care about some­ There is also such a thing as com­ as you don't violate the basic norms body's profit, not even in America any­ petitive balance, and that is a real of society, and if you play along with more. Profit means "You get it and problem in one-newspaper towns or some vital points, the tried and true I don't and the heck with you." But if in towns where the guy who owns the notions that always give you solid I talk about health and public safety, newspaper also owns the television ground (and often high ground) from it's "I love you, darling." See how it station. which to launch yourself. works? Another point for consideration: What are these vital notions? So, we are in a game of manipula­ criteria for choosing news stories. Health, number one. Everyone is in­ tion. And using the media is a case of What makes a story interesting enough terested in health. If someone's health being on your guard, being aware, un­ to the media to get them to cover it? is endangered, people get really upset, derstanding that the media have a life And why are other stories ignored right? Safety, number two. It's not the of their own, and recognizing that when they shouldn't be ignored? same thing. Health is one thing; we all you - acting for a corporation, acting That's where notions like timeliness want to live forever. Safety is someone for a group, acting for the public enter in. And notions having to do else doing something - or not doing interest - can have a tremendous im­ with high impact: "If it's the President something - and you could die, or get pact. You just have to bear in mind of the United States, we have to cover hurt. certain very important things that I it even though it really doesn't mean If I tell you, "You know, that guy is have tried to sketch out for you here. very much." spewing whatever the hell it is into the A good practitioner on the outside local water," then he is dead meat. He who understands all these things- is out of the game. He has violated a A well-known political consultant andfre­ and who wants to make a point in the basic norm. And if I play the business quent commentator for- and about- the public arena- knows what to do. He about heritage and our children, then mass media, Peter Regenstreijis professor or she knows that when you approach ofpolitical science and coordinator ofthe the media, you need something with University's Canadian Studies program. some impact. You need something that

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By Stephen Braun

With remarkable acuit~ William O'Neill's mustached bats Usee" through their ears. Could humans ever do the same thing?

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ings folded, hanging are confined to a small room, simply by their toes in their by the differing way sound behaves in large, glass-walled those two kinds of spaces. Blind peo­ cage, the mustached ple by necessity are adept at sensing bats look surprisingly the "feel" of sound and can use it by Wsmall-like little dark-brown mice, only clicking their fingers or tapping a cane not so cute. to produce noises that bounce back at But tap the cage wall and several them from their surroundings. will let go of the netting draped from Bats, along with dolphins and the ceiling and fly around in large whales, have refined these primitive swooping loops, displaying the agility abilities over millions of years in re­ and speed for which they're both sponse to their needs for perception in admired and feared. environments where vision fails - in These bats - about 50 in all-belong pursuing dinner on the wing in the to William O'Neill, associate professor dead of night, for instance, or navi­ of physiology. They're called "mus­ gating in the lightless depths of ocean tached," he explains, because of the waters. Bats, incidentally, are not blind, small tufts of hair around their though their visual acuity is not as mouths. great as ours. Generally, they use their For the last eight years O'Neill has eyes for finding their way on long­ been studying bats to find out more distance flights. about what they hear and how they Since high-frequency sounds give a hear it. Learning how bats process and much more accurate "picture" of ob­ interpret sounds, he says, may shed jects than do those in the lower fre­ light on how humans do the same quencies (long wavelengths tend to thing. bend around obstructions instead of "Vocal communication is at the reflecting off them), bats have evolved nterestingly, he says, even pinnacle of human evolution," he says. ways of producing very high-pitched though the signals bats use for "It is what distinguishes human be­ cries - sounds that are far above the echolocating are very simple havior, makes us unique, and is the range of human hearing. sounds, they show similarities ancient basis for civilization. Under­ The primary frequency used by to human vocalizations. The standing how the brain processes mustached bats is about 61,000 cycles Ibat cries are acoustically similar to cer­ sounds is therefore fundamentally per second, or 61 kilohertz. The range tain phonemes (the basic syllables that important to understanding human of the human auditory system is fairly make up words) in human speech. An behavior. " wide - between about 20 hertz and understanding of how the bat's brain O'Neill is one of a handful of in­ 18,000 hertz - but it falls far below the analyzes the information it receives vestigators across the country who are hearing capabilities of echolocating from its echoed squeaks may help us using bats in this kind of research. bats, and most other mammals for understand how the human brain proc­ (He worked up to them through earlier that matter. (Bats also produce other esses the strings of phonemes that con­ studies on some of the best noise­ sounds that humans can hear, but they stitute language. makers in the insect world, katydids are usually analogous to the vocaliza­ O'Neill's research has shown that the and crickets.) tions of birds and other mammals and bat's auditory system takes in many What makes the mustached bat so it isn't thought that they are used for signals at once and deals with them interesting to O'Neill is its remarkable, echolocation.) simultaneously- an ancient example built-in, sonar device. O'Neill says bats make excellent sub­ of the kind of parallel processing now About half of the approximately jects for his study because the sounds being pursued by the contemporary 1,000 species of bats in the world have they produce are unusually pure. The designers of supercomputers. evolved extraordinary abilities for pro­ growl of a dog, the chattering of a More important, the different ele­ ducing high-frequency sound waves chimpanzee, and the speech sounds of ments of a sound, such as its frequen­ and for receiving echoes of those waves a human are in contrast exceedingly cy, duration, or intensity, are processed returning from the objects around complex and are very difficult to ana­ by specific neurons within the bat's them. These abilities, a natural form lyze and reproduce electronically. In brain. These neurons are expressly of sonar, are called echolocation addition, even though a bat's brain is tuned to particular kinds of stimuli. systems. about the size of a pea, its auditory When a bat hears a sound, it integrates Bats are not unique in this capabil­ system is proportionately much larger the response from a large number of ity. O'Neill points out that toothed than is a human's or some other non­ neurons to fashion a precise reflection whales are excellent echolocators, and echolocating mammal's - making in­ of reality. even we humans use a crude form of vestigation easier. echolocation all the time - we're just not normally aware of it. For instance, you can easily tell, in the dark, wheth­ er you are standing in a large hall or

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use for navigating. When you cover Their distinctive batwings, very differ­ Bats in the Belfry and their mouths, they act, well, blind as a ent from a bird's, are constructed rather Other Fraudulent Factoids bat. like an umbrella, the finger bones serv­ Then there's all the vampire lore­ ing as struts. (Chiroptera, the order that Holy Chiroptera! What is it about Dracula and all that. Bram Stoker's designates bats, literally means "hand­ bats that evokes such fear and loathing 1897 horror story didn't help the cause wing.") Rather than trying to catch - and weird bits of rdsinformation? of bats one whit. some of the larger species of insects Take the one about "bats in the bel­ But they do have their defenders. with their mouths, O'Neill says, bats use fry" as an allusion to insanity. Actually, "Bats are among the gentlest of their wings: "They scoop them up using according to Merlin D. Tuttle, founder animals," says Thttle. "They're really their wing and tail membranes like a and science director of Bat Conserva­ shy creatures who have just had a bad catcher's mitt." tion International, bats do not live in press." Bats have undersized legs, attached to belfries, preferring more secluded spots. Bats are so shy, in fact, that little is the wing at the ankle. The knees point "Birds in the belfry" would be a more known about many of their habits. A backward, enabling a fast takeoff from accurate observation. 1949 field-study guide to British bats, a cave wall. Some bats occasionally Or "blind as a bat." Not true. Some for instance - the first book on bats ever walk around; others have been observed species of bats have acute vision. Others published in Britain-details with en­ swimming. Brian Vesey-FitzGerald notes see perfectly well but prefer to rely on thusiasm the 12 species native to the in British Bats that he used to watch their built-in sonar. British Isles, but in each case, under some of his neighborhood bats taking a Or-aaargh!-the one about "bats "Gestation Period," lists a bald "Un­ refreshing dip in his birdbath. will dive right at you and try to nest in known." Even today, says Thttle, no A number of species carefully segre­ your hair." As one self-styled expert un­ one has a handle on such basic facts as gate the sexes except during the mating helpfully put it, "Bats would never do whether or how bats teach their young season. Vesey-FitzGerald writes that he such a thing. They'd be afraid of getting to fly. has seen enormous male and female their feet tangled and not being able to Part of the confusion arises from the colonies living side by side under the escape." numbers and varieties of bats that in­ same roof, with "a little space - perhaps Bats are outside the norm, which may habit the earth. It is estimated that there no more than an inch or so - between help explain our misgivings about them. are over 1,000 species, together consti­ the nearest male and female." They're mysteriously up and doing when tuting nearly one fourth of the world's Females give birth to one pup at a "normal" creatures are asleep. And they mammals. In size and dietary preference time, once a year. Since this usually fly. The birds and the bees are supposed they range from the tropical fruit bats happens in a cave with Mom hanging to fly, but not mammals, for heaven's (wingspan of five feet and more) to the from the wall by her toenails, the ques­ sake. (The bat is, incidentally, unique as tiniest of the insect-eaters (wingspan of tion arises as to why she doesn't drop a flying mammal. The so-called flying less than two inches). Some bats fish, the infant. It seems she uses her wing as squirrel can only glide. And although taking their catch out of the water. a hammock, cradling the newborn until they are frequently referred to as "flying Others prefer sipping honey or nectar. it attaches itself to a teat. mice," bats are not rodents. They have And, notes Rochester's William O'Neill, Bad press to the contrary, bats do been evolving as a separate line since associate professor of physiology, there perform a number of essential func­ the earliest mammals roamed the earth.) is a group of carnivores that eat rodents tions. For one thing, they pollinate a And let's admit it, bats - most of them or even other species of bats. number of species of plant life that de­ - are not pretty. Their faces, loaded with It wasn't until the development of pend on this service. For another, they sonar equipment, are built for function, radar and sonar in World War II that it act as an efficient natural insecticide. not looks. The fact that they swoop was verified that bats had been using a One small insectivorous bat can con­ around, mouths in a rictus, displaying similar system all along. sume up to 1,000 bugs per night. For a all those razor-sharp ivories isn't going Gradually, other facts about bats are vermin-free house, Tuttle recommends to help them win any beauty contests coming to light. Among them: keeping a couple of his flying friends either. The bared teeth don't signal ag­ They are amazingly long-lived. Some as pets. gression, however. Bats fly with their bats in captivity have been known to For free plans on how you can con­ mouths open so they can emit the con­ survive for over 30 years, making them struct a "bat house" for your own back­ stant stream of ultrasonic pulses they for their size the longest-living mammal yard, O'Neill says you can write to Bat on earth. Conservation International, P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716.

The detailed contours of the sound extremely subtle shifts in the frequency the sound waves are stretched out, low­ picture can tell the bat that it is head­ of the returning echo. They do this by ering it. ing full tilt toward a thick stone wall utilizing the Doppler effect, the change In the same way, mustached bats de­ and at the same time divulge the in frequency caused by the movement tect the rising or falling pitch of their equally useful information that just in of an object. A common example of a echoes and can instantly interpret that front of that wall and a couple of cen­ Doppler shift is the drop in pitch of a as movement. O'Neill has found that timeters to the right is a tiny, darting train whistle as the train rushes by an certain neurons in the auditory cortex insect, just right for a snack. observer. As it approaches, the sound of the bats' brains are sensitive to spec­ Mustached bats can accurately per­ waves of the whistle are compressed ific amounts of Doppler shifts. ceive such moving targets by detecting in the direction of the speeding train, raising the pitch. As the train recedes,

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ut while he has found evi­ dence of neurons special­ ized to detect discrete kinds of sounds, he also suspects that other neurons are more Bgeneral and are stimulated by a wide range of sound frequencies or ampli­ tudes. O'Neill's research demands a broad spectrum of skills, from a sophisticat­ ed knowledge of computer program­ ming to an earthy tolerance for dank, guano-filled caves. Once a year O'Neill and his col­ leagues travel to Jamaica to catch mustached bats for study. Back in Rochester, O'Neill and crew must in­ dividually hand-feed their recruits to get them used to their new diet of mealworms. "It's hours of drudgery," O'Neill says. Keeping the bats healthy and happy is a challenge also. The key, he has found, is keeping their feet in good Physiologist William O'Neill's research demands a broad spectrum of skills, from a sophisticated shape. An important element here is knowledge of computer programming to an earthy tolerance for dank, guano-filled caves. the mesh that goes in the flight cages for them to hang onto. It has to have Once wired up, the bat is presented This understanding could, for one just the right size holes. Holes that are with a variety of sounds that mimic thing, result in the development of too big won't give them a good grip; those it makes itself. The sounds are artificial echolocation systems for the holes that are too small will cause their produced from an array of electronic blind. O'Neill says he's tried out a toenails to catch and bleed. equipment located outside the room. prototype produced in New Zealand. Another problem is preventing the By systematically varying the kinds of It involves a compact ultrasound toenails from growing so long they can sounds and monitoring the probe, transmitter and receiver mounted in a no longer grasp effectively. O'Neill O'Neill can tell when a particular neu­ headband. The transmitter sends out solved that one by placing the bats' ron or localized section of the brain is pulses, which are reflected, picked up water dishes next to a wall with brick stimulated by a given sound. By also by the receivers, and transformed into facing. They must cling to the brick to methodically shifting the probe, he can audible beeps that are relayed to ear­ drink, and this abrasion keeps their make a rough map of the bat's audi­ phones. toenails filed nice and short, serving tory system. He says the device he used was sen­ the same function as the cave wall O'Neill's research is primarily basic: sitive enough to allow him to locate back home in Jamaica. research simply for the sake of re­ and stack small blocks with his eyes The bulk of this research takes place search. closed. in a small, double-walled, souild-insu­ "Personally, I'm in it for the curi­ Bats may not be blind themselves, lated room. A live bat is placed in a osity," he says. "I want to know how but they may well end up helping hu­ kind of sandwich board that is molded auditory systems operate." mans who are. to receive its body. The secured bat is But there could be practical appli­ then firmly clamped facing a metal cations. frame that looks like a cutdown ver­ Although there are profound differ­ Stephen Braun has been a frequent con­ sion of a dish antenna. ences between a bat's auditory equip­ tributor to Rochester Revie\v, writing on The dish-shaped frame is simply ment and a human's, the neurons that faculty research projects. that: a frame on which small speakers transmit sound signals from the ears can be affixed at precise distances and to the brain- and the neurons in the angles from the bat's ears. brain itself- are essentially the same. Under anesthesia, the bat's thin An understanding of what's going skull is surgically exposed and ultra­ on in a bat's brain may lead us to an thin wire or glass electrodes are insert­ understanding of what's going on in a ed to different areas of the brain. (As human's. in humans, the bat brain contains no sensory nerves, thus the bats feel little or no pain from the probes.)

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An.d now for something completely

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Mix in equal parts of CCMacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" and HLet's Make a Deal"-and you have the lively spectator sport known as an Oxford debate.

By Thomas Fitzpatrick The Oxonians - Matthew Leigh, "It's a species of performance art, Michael Gove, and Edward Vaizey­ really," Vaizey says, and the two teams' ooking like a page out of are all well below middle height, with choice of costumes bear him out. The Esquire, the razor-cut, sleekly unkempt hairdos in various stages of Brits, by their studied aloofness to tuxedoed members of the Roch­ lank. But it is in their choice of dinner fashion, aim to go one up by down­ ester Debate Union betray little jackets that the fabled Oxford insou­ playing from the start. The Yanks, who in the way of nerves as they ciance is flaunted. Where did they get have witnessed the Oxford tactics on shuffleLtheir notes and sneak an ap­ these boxy, lumpy, double-breasted an­ two occasions, checkmate with a uni­ praising glance now and then at their tiques? From the back of their fathers' f0rm mode of dress that implies ear­ opponents across the room - and from closets? From the wardrobe room of nestness, on the one hand, and a kind across the pond. a provincial touring production of of neo-Gatsbyesque romantic quest, The Rochester students are here this The Holly and the Ivy? Gove has on a on the other. The green light on the April afternoon to take on three de­ shimmery gold bow tie, Leigh an elec­ end of their pier is an upset win over baters from the Oxford Union Society, tric blue job. Only Vaizey of Merton Oxford first time out. easily the most famous debating group opts for the conventional black tie, but The debate is the featured attraction in the world. Founded in 1825, the he adds his own sartorial flourish - red of this Wednesday's University Day Oxford Union enjoys something of an socks. This is blithe indifference with a half-holiday, Rochester's scheme of edge in longevity: The Rochester de­ vengeance, and the first clue that this clearing the deck of classes one after­ bating club, in its present incarnation, Oxford style of debate is not going to noon a week to allow students to come is all of a year and a half old. follow the usual format of American together to experience something a lit­ For this first formal, head-to-head forensics. tle off the usual academic beat. They confrontation between the two teams, "Forensics" -not in this case some­ amble in to take their seats in the the contrast in physical appearance thing "Coroner to the Stars" Thomas lower-level meeting room of the Inter­ couldn't be more pronounced. The Noguchi used to do on an autopsy faith Chapel, making a fashion state­ Rochesterians - sophomores Seth table, but a formal, reasoned argumen­ ment of their own: acid-washed jeans Levine and Adam Perri and senior tation based on rules of evidence - is slopped over unlaced, high-top sneak­ Scott West - are all on the tall side, on the back burner. As J. W. Johnson, ers, John Deere tractor caps worn dark-haired, carefully barbered, and the professor of English who helped backwards, tufts of hair poking out elegantly turned out in identical wing­ coach the Rochester team, says: over the "Ad-Jus-To" straps. Many are collared black-tie outfits.!* "Americans usually see debate as a on a lunch break, so there is munching means of arriving at objective truth. of nacho-flavored tortilla chips and *Evening dress is customary for Oxford­ This is not necessarily the main Polly-O string-cheese treats, and much style debates, from the tradition of sched­ Oxford motive." At premium here is hallooing back and forth. uling them, on home territory, after dinner. intellectual one-upmanship, the clever phrase, the witty retort.

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understanding." Johnson, the English prof, putting on his coach's hat, sniffs out some strategy here. He thinks that this is a gambit employed by Oxford, which is determined not to get out­ flanked by the Americans on the "ear­ nestness front." Leigh, however, cannot completely hide his peppery nature. Perri rises to interject, towering at least a foot over the diminutive Oxonian, and Leigh recognizes him with, "Big boy, come forward and throw me your best pass!" Perri makes a good point, chastising Oxford for its "naive" view of glas­ nost, but it is largely lost in the chuck­ ling over Leigh's wisecrack. By the end of the debate, Perri is no doubt as heartily sick of short people as Randy Newman, because he can hardly make a move without hearing that "big boy" business over and over again. To demonstrate to the audience how The tradition of debate at Rochester is as old as the University itself. In fact, it's even older, stu­ it could participate, it was planned dents having organized the Delphic Society - for the purposes of debate and declamation - two from the outset that Deanna Morell, days before the school opened its doors on November 5, 1850. The debaters shown here (in their the most active female member of the 1914 yearbook picture) have just been handed an upset by a team from Ohio Wesleyan, gamely RDU, would question the first speaker described in The Campus as "gentlemanly representatives of the western university and it was a from the audience mike. For her, it was pleasure to meet them." The earnestly debated topic: Should the U.S. engage in intervention in also a matter of putting some courage Latin America or maintain a hands-off policy? Maybe things donl change so much after all. to the sticking place. "I tell you, I could hear my heart pounding in my They have been lured here with the that is, interrupt him at any time with chest," she says later. "I had never de­ promise of something more exciting a refutation or any kind of verbal by­ bated before on this level, and I'm go­ than high-school debate stuff, and play. Even a certain amount of heck­ ing up against guys who are ranked in have given up a sunny day's basking to ling or cat-calling is allowed, as long the first five in the world. But I made fill the seats and line up against the as the audience avoids "unruliness." up my mind not to be intimidated; I walls. It is SRO. They cast bemused But participation by the crowd is en­ was going to be a rock." And the jun­ eyes at the young gents in evening couraged, and the winner of the de­ ior from Palmyra, New York, is stone dress in the front of the hall; the mood bate will be determined by an audience cold imperturbable as she reasserts is casual interest with just a touch of a vote. The students rustle about at this Perri's point that a warm feeling "show me" attitude. They'll get their news. They were led to expect a witty toward the Soviet Union's new "open­ wish: As John Cleese might say, now show, but not necessarily to be part of ness" among Westerners might be for something completely different. it themselves. unwarranted. No sooner does a Rochester student, First up for Oxford to speak in favor "There, ladies and gentlemen," Robert Weissflach, take the podium to of the motion is Leigh, who surprises Leigh replies, "is the voice of extre­ announce that he will serve as modera­ by coming all-over serious. "I find it mism." Some disapproving murmurs tor, than Oxford begins some sideline unfortunate that the posters advertis­ from the crowd make him realize that heckling. Weissflach is momentarily ing our arrival emphasized our pro­ he has gone a tad far, so he adds, rattled, but quickly recovers enough to pensity to make 'witty remarks, '" he "I have done a bad thing. I have just state the debate proposition: "This says, "because the subject of NATO is called this fine young woman an ex­ house decrees that NATO has outlived an inherently serious one." tremist. And that's an abusive term." its usefulness." The audience, taken Promising he "won't crack cheap When he is through scrambling desper­ aback by the Oxford behavior, mur­ jokes," he puts Oxford on the side of ately for a rhetorical foothold, the murs nervously, but all's fair, Weiss­ "humanity," which is constantly being argument seems to be that NATO is flach explains, as he goes through the thwarted by "irrational barriers put up responsible for his abusing of Morell, ground rules. The speakers may go on against it by power blocs like NATO that power-bloc politics has under­ as long as they like, unless the moder­ and the Warsaw Pact." Oxford speaks mined humanity's natural propensity ator cuts them off for being long­ for humanity, which of course leaves to be polite. winded or dull. Members of the audi­ Rochester to defend "the money men But Leigh is nonetheless shaken, and ence may "interject on the speaker," and the military men" who distort the falls back on some of the inexpensive true, "popular impulse to peace and

22 Rochester Review/Summer 1988 jollities he had earlier forsworn. On "Students who found the American Oxford is clearly the Muhammad Michael Dukakis: "Beware of a Greek way of debate overly structured and Ali of this ring, flicking quick, darting wearing lifts." On Western unreason­ boring were excited by the free-wheeling jabs, dancing away to the ropes, clos­ ing fear of the Soviets: "You mean to Oxford style," Levine says. Involve­ ing again to slash at the opponent's say, 'I'm not paranoid, but there's ment in debate was sparked, the Roch­ argument. With one eye on Levine and somebody lurking behind me.'" He ester Debate Union was formed, and the other taking in the audience reac­ recovers sufficiently to move to an elo­ Levine made plans for the Americans tion to their sparring, they score and quent conclusion, and turns the podi­ to go to Oxford for another exhibition score again. The Americans are really um over to Levine, Rochester's first in the spring of '87. Travel funds were not at their best in verbal rejoinder; speaker. a problem, but another vice president, Levine is like Smokin' Joe Frazier, No one has been more responsible Roger Lathan '54, got into the act and determined to stick to the game plan, for reviving debate on the Rochester contacted Martin Messinger '49 of the hammering away with body blows, campus than this sophomore history New York investment firm of Neuberger ignoring when possible the counter­ major from New York City. Always in­ & Berman. A former Yellowjacket de­ punching of Oxford, looking for a terested in speech and debate, Levine bater himself, Messinger was pleased knockout opportunity. was disappointed in the fall of 1986 to hear of this Oxford connection, and After the debate, a peek at the when he arrived on the River Campus supplied the students with travel money. teams' notes reveals that Rochester's to find that the debate club was more The upshot is that Rochester is the remarks are painstakingly prepared be­ or less moribund. However, an Amer­ only American university officially forehand, while the Oxonians content ican studying at Oxford, one Frank affiliated with the Oxford Union, and themselves with just a scrawled outline Luntz, appeared on campus with the Levine has every hope that the RDU on which they improvise with great aim of including Rochester in an can continue this home-and-away se­ freedom, and to great effect. You could ries of debates every year. Fortified by call this style versus substance, except "15 hard-core members, and about 20 that in debate, style is substance. It's more who have also shown interest," the art of persuasion: The audience is the Rochester Union plans to renew the judge, and its response so far has intercollegiate debate soon with other Oxford ahead on points. 'A mericans UAA schools like Emory and Johns Hopkins, and take a shot at the World usually see debate as Debate Championships held at Prince­ a means of arriving at ton every year. The Rochester debaters have orga­ objective truth. This is nized themselves into a kind of varsity­ jayvee arrangement, with tyro debaters not necessarily the main expected to help the first string in re­ Oxford motive." searching issues before they get their own chance at the podium. And the researchers have done their work well American tour he was trying to put on this day. together for the Oxford Union. As Levine begins his rebuttal, one Levine volunteered his services, can see that the Yanks are determined which were accepted, and then franti­ to argue the facts of the Western Alli­ cally ran about trying to scare up a ance in weighty terms. He scores West­ group of local debaters to engage with ern Europe for political disunity, ques­ the Englishmen. Johnson, who had tions its will to defend itself in the been teaching some speech classes, absence of NATO, quotes Benjamin signed on as coach, Donald Hess, vice Franklin on the mixed results of hang­ In an Oxford-style debate, audience participa­ president for administration, and Ruth ing separately, and worries aloud tion is an essential ingredient. Freeman, University dean, were eager about "the Finlandization of Europe. " to help Levine with the logistics and But he is constantly beset by the gadfly "When I learned that we were hav­ arrangements, the Students' Associa­ interjections of the Oxonians, who rise ing this debate in a chapel, I thought I tion funded the project, and Oxford to question America's common sense, might give my Jimmy Swaggart imita­ came to Rochester. The American stu­ defend Europe's preference for provid­ tion and dump hellfire and brimstone dents Levine recruited formed ad hoc ing health care and education for its on you. But I see Mr. Levine has beat­ teams with the touring Oxonians (two populace rather than engaging in the en me to it." This is Vaizey, who is Yanks and a Brit on one team, two arms race, and criticize both the Soviet half-American (and took the chance Brits and a Yank on the other), and Union and the United States for con­ the tour gave him to visit his mother's they put on an exhibition debate be­ ducting "surrogate conflicts" across people, who still live in Brooklyn), fore a thronging audience in the May the globe. and has a flair for Robin Williams-like Room of Rush Rhees. aggressive stand up. He impishly baits Rochester for ponderousness ("heavy,

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ing recovered the Rochester position from a deep slumber by the previous with one of the best speeches of the Uncivil Waugh speaker's mention of Wales. afternoon. British Prime Minister W. E. Glad­ "Mr. S. F. Villiers-Smith made the Content up to now to float like a stone (1809-1898), an early and devoted sort of speech which one associates with butterfly, sting like a bee, Oxford sends member of the Oxford Union Society, aged colonels. up its ace for heavier going in the final once intoned: "To call a man an Oxford "Mr. Nobbs actually used the expres­ round. Gove turns in a virtuoso per­ man is to pay him the highest compli­ sion 'made the Empire what it is.' formance. Marshaling facts and wit, ment that can be paid to a human "Mr. H. J. V. Wedderburn addressed easily turning back or incorporating being." some of Shakespeare's more unre­ That spirit of politesse did not long strained love poems to the President in interjections into his own argumenta­ survive in Oxford-style debates, which a most shameless manner. tive flow, he is both quick and a heavy have become famous for the verbal "Mr. D. 1. Dawson was brief almost hitter. When a Rochesterian brings barbs they evoke. Not all of the well­ to the point of insignificance. up the Boer War, he swipes, "And we honed insults, however, are necessarily "Mr. I. B. Lloyd said something in a know who is winning the 'bore war' let loose during the debate itself. Some foreign tongue of which I happened to this afternoon." Sarcastic, charming, of the best have been reserved for post­ know the meaning, but could not see and informative by turns, he makes a debate reviews in Oxford student publi­ the interest. fluent and compelling case against cations. "I detest all that Mr. A. Gordon NATO: "Democracy cannot be saved Here from Isis, for example, are a few Bagnall says always." by recourse to computer-driven mis­ skewers from a young Evelyn Waugh The wielder of the skewer was by no writing as an undergraduate in the early means immune to riposte. From the siles," and the arms race is a "diseased 1920s: pages of The Cherwel/, another Oxford fantasy." Benjamin Franklin, Rambo, "Mr. R. H. Bernays was, as always, student paper: Robert Burns, and the Prime Minister vehement, long-winded, biblical, home­ "1 November 1923-Mr. E. A. of New Zealand are all brought in to ly, and not ineffective. He quoted French St. 1. Waugh uttered the most outra­ buttress his argument. Although he is with an accent for which he thought he geous collection of twentieth-century joking when he says, "I must move need not apologize. Hobbist aphorisms the Union has ever now to the majestical peroration of my "Mr. H. Lloyd-Jones gave the im­ listened to." pression of having been suddenly stirred blunt, and simplistic arguments which gap between a collegiate career as a "I welcome rely solely on statistics"), and comical­ Marxist revolutionary and a career ly pretends to be aghast at the Yanks' later in life as an investment banker." our visitors from Oxford, implication that "Europeans couldn't A palpable hit, Horatio. Perri has the only university whose organize a piss-up in a brewery." He found the chink in the Oxford armor, sidles up to the crowd by saying he is the suspicion that beneath the verbal students are able to sure they do not share the "monumen­ flash and filigree is just glib insincerity. tally moronic paranoia that my oppo­ The Oxonians squirm under this accu~ bridge the gap between nents call 'American' when they shout sation of ideological dilettantism, and a collegiate career as a 'Armageddon!' and 'the Atlantic Arch glance nervously at the audience to see will topple!'" if Perri's right to the midsection has Marxist revolutionary and The audience is really getting into hit home there as well. a career later in life as an the spirit of things now, rising to make "Oooooh! Low bloooow" is the ap­ points, booing, hissing (but "hissing is proving moan from the crowd. This is investment banker." simply not done at debates," Vaizey great. This is like Julio and the guys says later), shouting out "shame!" at ranking each other out down at the what it regards as noxious statements. schoolyard. speech and hold you spellbound for Vaizey has the crowd firmly in hand His basso profundo larynx shifting only a few minutes more," he is closer as he relinquishes the microphone to into high gear, Perri gets on a roll. He to the truth than is comfortable for the Perri. pillories glasnost and its "dewy-eyed Rochester team. But the Oxonian's ·comedy has also adherents in the West" who think that Scott West attempts to recoup the served to loosen up the Americans, they will march arm in arm with Gor­ Rochester fortunes, but he is distracted and Perri takes some measure of re­ bachev towards "the New Jerusalem of by some in the audience, after two venge for all the cracks about his peace and understanding." He charac­ hours of speechifying, having to get up towering height. terizes his opponents as "John Reeds and leave to make other appointments, "I welcome our visitors from Ox­ of the '80s," and excoriates them for and is sorely beset by Oxford, which ford," he says, "the only university naIvete. Perri has summoned up a real never leaves off popping up and down whose students are able to bridge the Old Testament prophetic scorn here, and cannot be deterred from it by in­ terruptions from Oxford. He sits, hav-

24 Rochester Review/Summer 1988 with interruptions. What can West do manship. The audience is getting a bit political scene, and a spokesman for when he attempts a small witticism out of hand at this point too, with much of what Oxford has argued to­ about the Scotsman Gove usually de­ more and more hisses escaping, and day. West is left momentarily speech­ bating in a kilt, and then Gove jumps cries of "sit down!" greeting argu­ less by this Oxonian chutzpa ("I really up and obligingly pulls up his pant ments it finds tiresome. couldn't think of a thing to say"), but legs to show off his hairless gams? The heat of debate, of course, traps he carries on regardless, bringing the Sensing that a last-minute flurry every speaker into making indefensible last speech of the afternoon to a grace­ might ensure them the win, the Oxon­ statements. West finds himself refer­ ful conclusion. ians go after West like dogs baiting a ring to his opponents as "card-carrying Crunch time now. The "tellers," or bear. Leigh, in particular, is an obstrep­ members" of the Labour Party. The vote-takers, count raised hands, and the erous pup nipping at the Yank's heels. few auditors over 40 in the audience verdict of the audience is: Oxford 105, West mentions an EEC controversy collectively wince at this buzz phrase Rochester 88. British decorum and over sheep, and Leigh "baas" in the left over from the bad, sad '50s, but it public-school nonchalance vanish as background. The Rochester debater doesn't seem to bother Oxford much: the Oxonians leap for joy and give passes a remark about Leigh's lack of "And proud of it," pipes up Leigh. each other high fives all over the stage. height, and the Oxonian explodes in West attempts to belabor Oxford with Rochester smiles ruefully, and takes mock indignation: "I resent this sizeist reference to Tony Benn, whom he calls defeat like a gent. Hands are shaken, bigotry." Perri can only roll his eyes a "NATO-basher" and a leader of the Levine presents the Brits with Univer­ heavenward at this injustice. Labourites. Leigh comes back with, sity of Rochester sweat shirts, and West's success in preserving his poise "Tony Benn is as much a leader in the Gove reciprocates with "official Oxford and good humor in the face of this on­ Labour Party as Lyndon LaRouche is boxer shorts." Last laugh to Oxford­ slaught is remarkable, but his efforts at a leader in the Democratic Party." and all, debaters and audience alike, maintaining his train of thought aren't This is what Mark Twain would call a swarm to the punch bowl. helped when, out of the blue, someone stretcher. Benn is the latest in a long A new era in Rochester debate has in the back of the hall shouts out, line of left-wingers who take the place been inaugurated. The students who "What about Ireland?" and the Ox­ of the bogeyman in Tory nurseries, but attended have obviously found a novel ford team rises to defend British states- he is a significant player on the British kind of spectator sport, composed of equal parts "MacNeil-Lehrer News­ Hour" and "Let's Make a Deal." Le­ vine, Perri, and West are relaxed now, glad the first one is under their belt. They took some lumps, dished some out, but they're ripe for more. Levine, RDU president and founder, says that "the Oxford style is much to be pre­ ferred. It's entertaining for the audi­ ence, and it's entertaining for me. Debate is a marketplace of ideas; who­ ever sells the best, reaps the profit." Oxford will be back on campus next year, and Rochester hopes for another "angel" to help it cross the Atlantic for a rematch. West, the group's treasurer, is a graduating senior and will turn over the bankrolling chores to Morell. She hopes to set up a small endowment for the Union's future, and debate her­ self next year. But before that can hap­ pen, she and storied Oxford have a small problem to work out. "They told me I'd have to wear a floor-length black gown to debate at Oxford. It's traditional, supposedly. Well, nuts to that. If they wear tuxedos, The Oxonians, Matthew Leigh, Michael Gove, and Edward Vaizey, pose (sort of) on the quad with so will I." England, the Yanks are their souvenir Rochester sweatshirts, gift of the home team. Unwilling to forego the last laugh, the coming. Brits reciprocated with three pairs of "official Oxford boxer shorts."

Like mostformer college debaters, Thomas Fitzpatrick (so he tells us) sees all sides to every issue.

25 Rochester Review/Summer 1988 "Historic preservation is almost like a religious calling~ " says preservationist John Doyle '81. Part ofhis job is encouraging neighborhood revitalization. And part of it~ he admits cheerfull~ is being a "required pain in the butt. " --...dfly

By Denise Bolger Kovnat What it takes, he says, is a sense of As Doyle puts it, the "urban re­ community. And this, more than any moval" mentality prevails here - with mong the blocks of other single quality, is what Camden not much replacing what has been re­ boarded-up storefronts has lost over the past 50 years. moved. Camden is where you'll find and gutted dwellings of The city is a still-very-busy port in the county's sewage-treatment plant, Camden, New Jersey, southwestern New Jersey, just across a state prison, a junkyard for scrap there's a street of freshly the Delaware River from Philadelphia. metal, and parking lots -lots and lots Apainted Victorian row houses bordered In the early part of this century, Cam­ of them. by herringbone brick sidewalks and den was also a thriving commercial, "Sometimes you feel like you're on newly planted trees. shipbuilding, and manufacturing cen­ the Titanic," Doyle admits. Along the spindle-trimmed front ter, home to the head offices of indus­ So what is an up-and-coming young porches, a string of little white lights trial giants like Campbell's Soup and historic preservationist - one who hails glimmers through the freezing rain on RCA. from picturesque Saratoga Springs, no this late December afternoon- a small But the port of entry soon became less - doing in down-and-out Camden? but steady signal that there's hope for a port of exit. In the 1920s, the new "I'm trying to preserve the cultural this ailing city yet. Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Philadel­ heritage of a 19th-century community," "There are 435 lights up there. I phia diminished Camden's importance he says. "And I'm kind of excited be­ know because I put everyone of them as a transportation center. (And, com­ cause it is Camden. It's an underdog. up myself/' says John Doyle '81. Doyle pounding the injury, says Doyle, "it "I'm getting a lot out of the experi­ is by profession the historic preserva­ ripped right through the most affluent ence. In a job like this you're always tionist for the City of Camden. But he section of town.") being tested; you get pushed around, strung the lights up on his own time. In the following decades, as in many and you learn how to push back." Practicing what he preaches, Doyle other urban areas, Camden's middle­ Besides, he says, "Where else can owns and is renovating a townhouse class white population began an exo­ someone this young achieve such an on this block in the city's Cooper Plaza dus to the 'burbs - a tide that swelled immediate rapport with the local Historic District. Not content with after two devastating race riots in 1971 movers and shakers? I'm a big fish in decorating his own house, he went and 1973. a small pond, however murky that ahead and lit up the whole block. Today, much as Newark is to New pond is." It's a shining example of Doyle's be­ York and Oakland is to San Francisco, And there's one more reason: "I lief that neighborhood revitalization is Camden is a sort of step-sister to Phil­ couldn't just go to work for General synergistic. adelphia. The city's population stands Foods, General Motors, General "I stuccoed the back of my house, at about 85,000 (down from a high Dynamics. I didn't want to be just and the next thing I knew, the neigh­ near 120,000 around 1970). The bulk another hired gun." bors did it, too. They did the same of the residents are black and Puerto In truth, John Doyle's personality thing with their front porches - they Rican, and their median income is and background - an admixture of painted theirs after I painted mine," he $10,000 per household. Of the 25,000 business sense and artistic sensibility­ says with a trace of surprise. existing residences, some 4,000 to would never allow him to fade quietly "It's the people who make the differ­ 5,000 lie vacant, owned by the city, into industrial generalities. ence. They're the ones who'll pick up and, consequently, lost to the tax rolls. the trash and fix the broken windows."

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His appreciation for architecture be­ gan early. When John was a child, he often went on business trips with his father, a real-estate appraiser for New York State working in the Adirondack Park region. As a senior in high school Doyle pursued that interest, taking courses in architectural history at near­ by Skidmore College. Fatherly influence may have con­ tributed to his bent for business as well: The younger Doyle earned his degree from Rochester in economics. "I got through it by the skin of my teeth," he remembers. "It was brutal." But he also managed to come within one course of a degree in a second major, in art history. He followed up with a master's in historic preservation from the Univer­ sity of Pennsylvania. "If I had this business skill, I wanted to utilize it in a field I was interested in - and that field was art and architec­ ture," he explains. Fellow alumnus Mark Moloznik '78 tipped him off to the Camden preser­ vation post when he saw it advertised in the newspaper. Doyle applied and got the job. His primary duties, as he defines them, are to establish historic districts in Camden and to introduce investors to the real-estate opportuni­ ties they provide.

oyle explains that he makes recommendations for certain areas, based on their significance in architectural and social Dhistory, to be set aside as historic dis­ tricts. The city then designates them as such, with the approval of the state and the National Park Service. Once it's official, investors can take advan­ tage of substantial federal income-tax credits as well as city tax abatements. "Historic preservation really rides on the tax laws," he says. "Without the tax incentives, nothing much would happen. I really have to be up to date if I want to talk turkey with investors, so I spend a lot of time going to tax seminars and consulting with representatives of the Big Eight accounting firms. "Another important responsibility Home is where the heart is: John Doyle '81 really lives his job as historic preservationist for is acting as agent for the state and fed­ Camden, New Jersey. The nineteenth-century townhouse behind him is where he hangs his hat eral governments in reviewing the city's when he gets home from work. He bought it for $5,000 at a city auction and has been rehabbing use of government funds for historic it into apartments. preservation. Say Camden has a multi-

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million-dollar urban-development people he refers to as his "watchdogs" an amphitheater, a marina and dry grant that it loans to a developer to in the city. At home in the evening, the dock, the New Jersey State Aquarium construct new homes in the city- but phone calls keep coming. complex, a Festival Market, and a 250­ the contract with the dev~per also If some of Doyle's constit\.lents see room hotel-cum-conference facility. calls for the demolition of 27 existing him as a pain-in-the-butt gadfly, his Camden's hopes are also resting on buildings. I review the proposal to see top boss, Camden's Mayor Melvin R. two spanking new train terminals that whether the city is losing anything it Primas, Jr., has a different view: stand "just about ready to open," ought to be hanging on to. "We're in the process of a major Doyle says. "That kind of review is required by a revitalization effort, in which we've "One of the new stations is sitting federal law established in 1966. I think really looked at existing structures and right in the middle of a really huge a lot of people don't fully understand created several federally designated parking lot. It looks rather strange all the restrictions that go along with historic districts around them. now, but the idea is that someday there government funds. Often they just see "All this has fostered a great many may be a high-rise office building next me as a gadfly who's got his own per­ private dollars for development. And to it." sonal agenda. They just don't realize for that John is largely responsible­ that there are federal laws involved and by focusing attention on the historic nd then there are that I represent those laws, just like an significance of many properties in the Camden's pockets of affirmative action representative or an city and their importance as a means Victoriana, which in­ environmental quality representative." of economic development and urban clude the Cooper Plaza In other words, he concludes: "I'm a revitalization. " Historic District and the required pain in the butt." To its advantage, Camden does have CooperAGrant Historic District, both a base on which to build. Both Camp­ established just before Doyle arrived n a typical day, the bell and RCA have kept their head­ on the scene. These districts attract phone calls start at 8 a.m. quarters in town, and Camden is where city-dwelling professionals like Ken at home, before he takes Campbell has established its popular Jackson, wide receiver for the Phila­ the five-minute walk to soup-tureen museum. The city is also delphia Eagles; Mayor Primas, who his office. One or two home to the Walt Whitman Museum has renovated a house in Cooper Odays a week he spends away from his (he spent his last years in Camden), Grant; and Doyle himself, who pur­ desk, roaming through buildings, talk­ one of the Rutgers campuses, and chased his own home from the city for ing with property owners, checking Cooper Hospital, this last, says Doyle, $5,000, rehabilitated it, and then for construction sites, watching out for "a major anchor" employing some $20,000 more purchased a second violations, and educating himself, as 2,000 people. property, which he is now converting he puts it. When he's in the office, he Moreover, the city is in the midst of into two apartments. spends a lot of time "just being a fire­ constructing a $150-million waterfront Doyle estimates that the salvage of man," answering phone calls from the development project to include a park, vacant 19th-century properties has gar­ nered Camden between $10 and $15 million in new investments, not to mention substantial sums in tax reve­ nues. He points to other reviving small cities like Troy, New York, and Lowell, Massachusetts, as examples that Cam­ den can follow - towns cited by one student of urban renewal as exhibiting "industrial roots and a contemporary pluckiness. " There is hope for Camden, indeed, but there are obstacles. In a city this poor, grand schemes for preservation can crumble under financial pressure. Doyle cites the loss of six 120-year­ old stained-glass windows from the facade of one of the city's oldest churches. The pastor had replaced them with double-hung vinyl windows, complaining (justifiably) of yearly heating bills topping $10,000. Cam­ den's Historic Review Committee issued a stop-work order, so no more windows can be removed - but to date it appears that the anachronistic vinyl will also remain.

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Such conflicts are not easy to re­ solve, and Doyle worries that in too "But I Can't Break Up suading friends and acquaintances to many cases short-term practicality will make similar sacrifices. Unluckily, on hinder long-term gains. a Boat!" the eve of the race, a drenching rain­ "Camden is a hungry town, snatch­ storm flooded out the Main Liner's ing at the first thing that comes along Sure, John Doyle '81 has his hands bathrooms, and Doyle had a dozen and - but I'm afraid it may suffer indiges­ full as historic preservationist for the a half last-minute beds to find. town of Camden, New Jersey. With the crew bus advancing inexor­ tion afterwards," he remarks. But, let's face it, the job that really ably toward Philly, Doyle contacted a One building he hopes to pry from demands the split-second decisions and sympathetic friend in the real-estate the city's jaws is the First Methodist all the powers of persuasion he can development business. The best he Episcopal Church, a handsome struc­ muster is his position as volunteer head could come up with was a vacant house ture built in 1892 of rough-cast granite of the Delaware Valley Alumni Asso­ in West Philadelphia with functioning with what Doyle calls "strong Roman­ ciation. plumbing and plenty of floor space but esque details" in its masonry. Case in point: In recent years, Doyle no furniture. Doyle said he'd take it. On a walking tour of the city, he has arranged accommodations for some Next he called up an acquaintance at stops in front of the church to gaze 40 members of the Rochester crew when­ the American Red Cross ("thefre used admiringly at it. ever they compete in Philadelphia­ to disasters"), who scared up a closetful which they do twice a year, spring and of blankets and swatches of carpeting "Before I leave this job, I am going fall. The Crew Club operates on a shoe­ (good as a bed any day, right?). to save that building. It's well worth it string, and free beds for out-of-town en­ When the bus arrived, Doyle boarded - the whole sacristy is preserved. " gagements form an important element it and directed the driver to the various The winter air is cold and damp, but in its strategy. drop-off points in and around the city. he won't move on until he makes his "I thought it would be a nice thing "Naturally," he says, "I gave an ar­ point. "Historic preservation is almost for our alumni to do," Doyle says. But, chitectural tour as we went along." The like a religious calling. Sometimes I he confesses, finding hospitality in such Red Cross blankets followed in a car feel like an evangelical." huge helpings hasn't always been easy, driven by Doyle's fiancee. especially the first time out. It has gotten easier since then, espe­ he prognosis for the church That was when the Rochester crew cially, says Doyle, since he has learned was to compete in its first Frostbite the trick of "rounding off. " is unclear, he admits. Regatta. The aptly named Frostbite When fellow alums point out that Cooper Hospital has owned takes place in November, at a time they frequently get eight crew members it since 1969, and "right when, says Doyle, "most everyone else to put up - rather than the two to four now, the hospital is saying has long forgotten about water sports they thought they'd agreed to - Doyle Tit's going to be demolished." and their main weekend activity is put­ tells them airily that he's just rounding But, he adds, "I think the hospital ting plastic over the windows. " off the numbers. recognizes that trouble lies ahead for Doyle thought he had solved half his If they protest, he falls back on his that course. There are a lot more peo­ housing problems in one shot when he ultimate defense: "But I can't break up ple out there now who have begun to persuaded the owner of a "very hand­ a boat!" develop a preservation consciousness." some Main Line estate" to take in 18 And - considering the importance of rowers. The rest he planned to accom­ crew-team morale - who can argue with This growing sensitivity to the value modate by vacating his own quarters that? of Camden's architectural heritage can, ("that's an Eight right there") and per- to a high degree, be laid on the Victo­ rian doorstep of the city's energetic historic preservationist. That much accomplished, Doyle is The answer may lie in a story he way," he says - meaning away from the moving on this fall to pursue the next tells in passing. idyllic River Campus. step in his career: an M.B.A. from As a Rochester undergraduate, he There's a pattern here - from Roch­ Northwestern University, in a program lived for three years across the Genesee ester's 19th Ward, to Camden, New in economic revitalization and urban in the city's 19th Ward-a diverse, ra­ Jersey, to studies at Northwestern in development. cially mixed neighborhood of low- to urban development. Thus equipped, he says, he wants middle-income households, where With a track record like this, eventually to head his own community­ trendy fern bars stand side-by-side chances are John Doyle will always development firm. with rundown mom-and-pop grocery feel the need to "ride the other way." Will the future John Doyle, M.B.A., stores protected by bars on the win­ ever abandon the Camdens of this dows. world - chucking it all to go work for Doyle says he took the time to get to Denise Bolger Kovnat has visited Oakland, General Foods, General Motors, or know the neighbors and shopkeepers Newark, and Camden - and admires all of General Dynamics? there. them for their spunk. "It was definitely important for me to get on my bike and ride the other

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The AAU/AGS Project will examine Ph.D. programs in the major research Rochester universities whose faculty conduct the greatest volume of university-based research and who educate the largest number of doctoral students who themselves choose academic careers. To date, 43 of those universities (both public and private) have agreed to con­ tribute financial support and to pro­ vide institutional data. "Educators can find fragmented pieces of evidence, giving us a partial picture," says project director G. Jeffrey Paton, assistant professor of education. "But," he adds, "that doesn't let us re­ AChina Commute cations for treating such diseases as liably evaluate the quality and vitality Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. of doctoral education nationally. Our He sees the BIN as "complementing project will for the first time assemble and extending studies conducted in comparable information from across Rochester and other leading American the country. The effort is long institutions in neural transplantation." overdue." Since 1986, the Chinese have performed 15 autografts of adrenal gland cells Gardner Papers Come into the brains of human patients with Parkinson's, with, Gash notes, "en­ to Rochester couraging results." When Jon Griffin '79G, '86G was as­ The new BIN will eventually com­ signed the task of sorting the exuberant prise 40 resident scientists as well as jumble of papers left behind by novel­ visiting faculty and postdoctoral schol­ ist John Gardner after his death in a ars. Gash also anticipates a compre­ motorcycle accident, Griffin equated hensive scholar-exchange program. the experience to "doing archaeology at the site of an earthquake." Duly sorted and catalogued, the GSEHD to Lead National Study 50 large record-storage boxes of that What is the progress of women and archive have now been acquired by the minorities in being admitted to the se­ University library- constituting, ac­ lect ranks of doctoral-degree holders? cording to Peter Dzwonkoski, head of How well does the supply of newly the Department of Rare Books and minted Ph.D.'s correlate with the de­ Special Collections, the University's mand in the various academic disci­ single most important body of literary plines? papers. If you have your doctorate and can't Among the contents of the collec­ A Rochester researcher, Don - or don't wish to - get a job in aca­ tion are manuscripts and drafts of Marshall Gash, has become the first deme, what are your job prospects in most of Gardner's works, including American director of a biomedical the outside world? The Sunlight Dialogues, Grendel, institute in China. His appointment In other words, what is the condi­ Mickelsson's Ghosts, and On Moral as director of the newly established tion of doctoral education in America Fiction, as well as family papers and Beijing Institute for Neuroscience today? correspondence with editors, other (BIN) was announced in May. The University, through the Gradu­ writers, and admirers. The papers also Gash retains his Rochester appoint­ ate School of Education and Human include manuscripts for works not yet ment as professor of neurobiology and Development, has embarked on a na­ published. anatomy and plans to spend between tional research project to find out the A man of "omnivorous interests," eight and 10 months a year here and answers to these and related questions. Gardner threw nothing away, Griffin the remainder in Beijing. The study will operate under the guid­ says, "not even the dozens of back-up In recent years he has attained inter­ ance of the Association of Graduate sheets he used to buffer his typewriter national prominence for his research Schools in the Association of Ameri­ platen." And in addition to manu­ into the grafting of nerve cells and ad­ can Universities. scripts and correspondence, the archive renal cells into the brains of laboratory includes original paintings by Gardner, animals, studies that may have impli- ephemera related to his teaching posi­ tions such as grade rosters, final exams, committee reports and notes, as well as

30 Rochester Review/Summer 1988 personal items like postcards, ticket antigens by using biological response administration of the pension fund stubs, grant applications, and letters modifiers - substances that trigger the and savings plans, and corporate activ­ from lawyers, accountants, hospitals, body's own defenses against cancer. ities dealing with institutional investors and the Internal Revenue Service. Understanding the biochemistry of and security analysts. She retired in Gardner commanded a reputation as this suppression of the immune system 1986. She has served on the board of one of America's greatest living writers will help researchers find ways to boost directors of more than 10 major cor­ at the time of his death in 1982 at the cancer patients' natural defenses porations. Her present and past affili­ age of 49. The University has long been against the disease. ations have included the American interested in him as an upstate New Economic Association, the National York writer. (He was born in Batavia, Association of Business Economists, and some of his works are set against Dwyer Elected Trustee Head the Conference of Business Econom­ an Upstate background.) ics, the American Finance Association, University representatives had nego­ and the National Economists Club. tiated with Gardner for his papers be­ fore his death. Their recent acquisition Kodak/Fuji Prompts was made possible by a group of friends of the University. Trustee Resolutions At its May meeting the Board of "Peekaboo" Cancer Cells Trustees adopted two resolutions to guide decisions in the event of extraor­ Focus of Major New Study dinary requests by outside parties, as Researchers at the University's Can­ in last year's Kodak/Fuji incident cer Center have begun a major new (reported on in the Fall 1987 issue). study to determine how some forms of One resolution is based on recom­ lung cancer avoid destruction by the mendations of a special trustees' com­ body's immune system, thus allowing mittee, which suggested establishing the tumors to grow unchecked. procedures "to facilitate the coordi­ Some cancer cells, it seems, have a nated participation" of administrators, way of hiding from the immune system faculty, and trustees as appropriate. A - the body's natural defense system New chair of the Board of Trustees similar recommendation, specifically that recognizes, attacks, and kills for­ is Virginia A. Dwyer '43, retired senior in regard to faculty, was made by a eign cells such as bacteria and viruses. vice president for finance at American committee of the Faculty Senate. In a normal scenario, immune cells Telephone and Telegraph Company. The trustees' second resolution said called "T lymphocytes" zero in on for­ Three new trustees also were elected that additional recommendations from eign invaders by identifying a unique at the board's May meeting-Alan R. the faculty committee- on an admis­ combination of antigens, or protein Batkin '66, Scarsdale, New York, a man­ sions policy and clarifications of con­ "fingerprints," on the surface of the aging director of Shearson Lehman fidentiality policies - should be consid­ invading cells. These fingerprints come Hutton; Edmund A. Hajim '58, chair ered by the administration. in two different varieties, and the T of Furman, Selz, Dietz & Birney, a President O'Brien said he intended lymphocytes must spot both of them New York City investment firm; and "to implement those other recommen­ in order to verify the cell as an invader. Alan F. Hilfiker '60, a resident partner dations as quickly as I can." Once the invaders are identified, the of the Naples, Florida, branch office O'Brien said also that he will use the T lymphocytes usually multiply and of the law firm of Harter, Secrest & senate's seven-member executive com­ destroy them. Emery. All are former members of the mittee as the representative faculty com­ But in some cancers, only one of the Trustees' Council, which serves both as mittee with which he would consult. two varieties of antigens is present. So senior advisory board to the trustees "The faculty's policy statement on the T lymphocytes treat the tumor cells and as senior governing board of the admissions [affirming that decisions on as "friendly" and allow the cells to Alumni Association. admission and disenrollment be based keep growing. A trustee since 1979, Dwyer is the on 'maintenance of an academic pro­ Principal investigators in this study, board's 18th chair since the University gram of the highest quality,' fostering funded by the American Cancer Soci­ was founded in 1850. She succeeds a campus social life conducive to such ety, are Edith M. Lord and John G. Edwin I. Colodny '48. quality, and compliance with federal Frelinger, both associate professors of In 1986 Dwyer was awarded the and state laws] is one that is endorsed oncology in microbiology and immu­ Hutchison Medal-the highest honor by the administration, the deans, and nology. the University reserves for alumni - for those on the front lines who are actu­ Using mouse lung cancers that be­ her outstanding achievements in the ally making the admissions decisions," have in the same way as human lung business world. he said. "It will stand as our operating cancers, Lord and Frelinger are inves­ As senior vice president for finance principle. " tigating how tumors manage to block (and AT&T's highest ranking woman), O'Brien also noted that a committee, the production of the missing antigen. she was responsible for short- and long­ chaired by the University registrar, is They are also looking at ways to coax term financing, financial planning, reviewing the University's confidential­ the tumor cells into producing these ity policies.

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Rochester's Churchillians How does a top student get to the top? "When I study, I try to get at the underlying concept. If I can under­ stand where a concept comes from, I can bring it back easily whenever I need to." Words from the wise Leonard Mueller '88, Rochester's most recent Churchill scholar- one of 10 such scholars in the United States chosen Abbott Warfield for a year of study in math, engineer­ ing, or science at Cambridge Univer­ sity's Churchill College. The 138th Commencement at the University's 138th commencement Mueller is one of six Rochester stu­ (the 77th since his own graduation) to re­ dents who have won the prestigious "If you want to be a successt if you ceive the Hutchison Award, the highest award in the last five years. The others: want to be honoredt to receive applause honor the University reserves for its and standing ovations wherever you gOt alumni. John Downie '83, David Plaut '84, all you have to do is live to be more than Commencement speaker (and hon­ Henry Sadofsky '84, Michael Kallen a hundred. t' orary degree recipient) was William '85, and Karl Mueller '85. Rochesterts most celebrated cente­ Warfield '42E, returning on the 46th The duplication of Muellers on the narian - Broadway playwrightt directort anniversary of his graduation. The list of Rochester's Churchill winners and producer George Abbott tll-passed famed baritone challenged the new grad­ is no mere coincidence. Len and Karl along this modest bit of advice to the uates to become "forceful participant[s] are brothers, both of them chemistry 2t200 graduates at the May commence­ in the political scene around you.... majors who were junior-year Phi Beta ment. The much-honored Abbottt who When thousands of people in the world Kappas and graduated first in their received his most recent Tony award for are homeless and hungry, it is all our respective classes. They're only two the 1982-83 revival of On Your Toes, faults. Being an integral part of the po­ has amassed 200 Broadway credits in a litical scene is the only way of having a years apart (Karl is 24 and Len is 22), 75-year career. Still going strongt he was voice in correcting the wrongs of the and they share a healthy dose of sib­ world." ling rivalry. "I'm a little jealous. I'd like to be doing it again," says Karl, now a doc­ toral student in chemical physics at Berkeley. "Someday, actually, I'd love to collaborate with Len - once he learns something," he adds wryly. Len's rejoinder is simply that, al­ though so far he has followed closely in his brother's footsteps, he's aiming for Cal Tech, not Berkeley, for doc­ toral studies. Len is typical of the far-from-typical Churchill winners. He was on the Dean's List for seven semesters and has won numerous awards for achievement George Abbott '11 entertained the crowd with a (to use one of his favorite adjectives) peppy in science. He's also an avid runner rendition of 1911's Class Yell: SON-OF-A-GUN! SON-OF-A-GUN! ONE-NINE- whose participation in out-of-class life ONE - ONE! As can be noted here, the demise of the Class Yell tradition doesn't seem to has included - among other enterprises have prevented the '88ers from emoting pretty peppily also. - service as a resident advisor, mem­ bership in the Meridian Society, and a musical stint as trombonist in the Var­ sity Pep Band. With that background, and judging from what other Churchill winners are doing now, one would predict that he is well on his way to future distinction.

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All of which brings us back to Len Mueller and his study habits. How did he get into this rarified company? "Well," he says, "I don't think I study that much more than most people, but I set priorities; you have to." He pauses, gazing around a dorm room crammed full of posters, books, papers, photos, clothing, sports equip­ ment, and a purloined road sign, and reveals one last secret: "I don't watch TV." Which may explain why someday we could be seeing him on the tube instead of lolling in front of it.

Straws in the Wind The turnout for student-body elec­ tions at the River Campus has gener­ ally been light: Typically, only about 10 to 15 percent of the undergraduates Fraternal footsteps: Karl Mueller '85 (left) and brother Leonard '88 have been treading the same vote for the office of Students' Associ­ prestigious path. Each of them capped off an enviable academic record as a Rochester chern ation president. major by winning a Churchill Scholarship for advanced study at Cambridge University. So a group of civic-minded students asked themselves, "What if voters Brother Karl, for instance, has already "It was for me a first-time oppor­ could register their preference for U.S. been cited in an article in Scientific tunity to see from outside my own presidential candidates on the same American (June 1988) for his work at country how we're regarded interna­ ballot?" Would participation rise Berkeley in quantum holonomy. tionally," he says. among the electorate? Like Karl Mueller, Rochester's other Mueller, too, has gained a different Last spring the question was put to former Churchill winners are engaged outlook: "When I was younger, I had the test. Students marked their SA bal­ in doctoral studies at American univer­ a very idealistic view of the U.S. Not lots with names like Bush, Dukakis, sities: John Downie in optics at Stan­ that I think our country is bad, but Gore, and Jackson as well as names ford, David Plaut in cognitive science now I know that it's not perfect. Most like Ehrman, Farrell, Hutzler, Olsen, at Carnegie Mellon, Henry Sadofsky everyone in the U.S. seems to think Perez, Reimanis, and Wasser. in mathematics at MIT, and Michael that we're the absolute tops. But, you Electoral participation jumped: Kallen in physics at Princeton. know, there's still a lot of great things 1,289 undergraduates voted, two or They all agree on the rich profes­ going on in Europe." three times the usual number. How sional and personal rewards of a year Which all seems to be in line with much of the jump can be attributed to at Cambridge. the goals of the scholarship program. the charisma of this year's SA candi­ "It's the beginning of your graduate In the official words of the Winston dates, and how much to Dukakis's career. I came into Berkeley knowing a Churchill Scholarship Foundation, campus visit the day before the voting little bit more than the other students; "The scholarships ... provide the op­ - or to the magnetism of his rivals­ the experience gave me a bit of an edge portunity to experience the profound would be hard to say. But with 322 over others who were doing graduate educational benefits which come from votes, Kevin Farrell, a junior majoring studies for the first time," says Karl living abroad." in neuroscience and biopsychology, Mueller. Competition for the scholarship is emerged as the winner among student For Downie, who studied radio as­ stiff, governed by a stringent set of candidates. tronomy at Cambridge, it was a great rules. The program is open only to an Among the other candidates, chance to do research at the institution elite group of 41 institutions - includ­ Michael Dukakis polled first with 469 that produced Newton, Rutherford, ing Harvard, Stanford, Yale, M.LT., votes; George Bush took second with and Cavendish: "The pure sciences are Cal Tech, and Princeton-each of 303; Jesse Jackson ran third with 144, definitely the strong point there. They which is invited to nominate a maxi­ and Albert Gore finished fourth with always have been." mum of two students. (In 1984 and 73. But equally valuable - and even again in 1985, both of Rochester's more valuable to some-was what they nominees were selected for the award. learned outside the classroom. The double win in 1984, foundation Plaut cites a broadened perspective officials noted, marked the first time "about what people are like, how in the scholarship's history that two countries work." students from the same school were picked among a single year's 10 win­ ners.)

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The Nine Lives of Methuselah living Xenopus in captivity. But one day amidst dinner preparations, Mrs. Methuselah, at long last, has Forest came upon the withered corpus NEWSCLIPS croaked. At age 23-plus years, the and, with a shudder, tossed it out. frog succumbed to the infirmities of Forest says he will always remember amphibian antiquity. But you can't fondly the way Methuselah used to Readers ofnational publications, as say Methuselah - who surpassed previ­ hang about the edge of the water, half well as ofscientific and professional ously published longevity records for submerged, looking like a well-fed journals, regularly come across refer­ Xenopus leavis (popularly known as politician. ences to the scholarly activities- and the South African clawed frog) - didn't Requiescat in pace, Methuselah! professional judgments- ofpeople lead a remarkable life. at the University. Following is a cross Methuselah's adventures began, section ofsome ofthose you might while he was still wet behind the ears, have seen within recent months: in a University laboratory back in 1964. That was when he caught the eye of biologists J. K. F. and Hiroko Holt­ Owings Mills (Md.) Times freter, who kept a colony of the frogs "If I'm remembered for anything, for embryological study. Rather taken it'll probably be for my arrangement with the jaunty fellow, J. K. F. fished of Twist and Shout," jokes Eastman him out of the lab and offered him as School of Music faculty composer a pet to fellow biologist and friend Christopher Rouse in an article in the Herman S. Forest, who teaches at the Owings Mills Times. SUNY college at Geneseo. Rouse-whose serious works have The frog found a rewarding life in been performed by major orchestras in the quiet routines of the Forest house­ the United States and Europe as well hold. He loved the tidbits of raw liver as by many soloists - happens also that Mrs. Forest saved for him, but she to be a rock fan and historian who didn't like the way the liver fouled his teaches a popular course on the sub­ water. The Forests switched his diet to ject at Eastman. His arrangement of earthworms, which the frog downed the Beatles' Twist and Shout met with like a trencherman. wildly enthusiastic audiences during At age 4, he escaped the Forest the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's house in Rochester to spend the winter tour of the Soviet Union last year. in a small frozen pool. To the amaze­ That kind of accessibility and vis­ ment of the Holtfreters and the ceral appeal is missing from contem­ Forests, he reappeared the following porary classical music, Rouse believes. spring, all thawed out and energetic Part of the problem, he says, is that as ever. Sometime after this episode composers have been writing for other - though no one remembers quite composers: "Given that the classical when - the Holtfreters began calling Feast and famine: Sure, everybody knows mal­ music audience is already a tiny minor­ "that frog" Methuselah. nutrition can be disastrous to your health. But ity, within that minority composers Though frogs of Methuselah's stripe how do you dramatize to affluent Americans have to recognize the need to commu­ rarely sing in captivity, Forest says, the perniciousness of Third World Hunger? A nicate with the lay listener." Methuselah sang not only in the spring group of medical and nursing students came Rouse, who has built a worldwide but whenever else the spirit of joy up with the idea of staging a "banquet" at reputation for dissonant, fast-paced moved him, in a counter tenor best de­ which ticket-holders were randomly assigned and hard-to-play music, says he's now scribed as "finger rubbed on wet glass." a meal representative of the First, Second, or moving away from these allegro com­ His final big adventure occurred in Third Worlds. The Third-Worlders here are hav­ positions toward a style intended to be his 24th year: Methuselah managed to ing lentils, rice, and water, while the First­ more easily appreciated by those who escape the predatory attentions of two Worlders behind are enjoying their sparkling aren't authorities on classical music. cats when he was carelessly left in a wine, baked chicken, candlelight, and crystal. bucket on the floor. Though he sur­ The event raised more than $1,000 to finance a vived, he was never quite the same, summer student-exchange between Rochester Health Forest says, and he died soon after. and sister-city Bamako, Mali. Here's to your health, as the saying Forest kept Methuselah's body in goes. the freezer for a while, should any sci­ In this case, "here" is the City of entist wish to autopsy the longest- Rochester, which ranks as one of the 10 healthiest cities in America, accord­ ing to a study by Health magazine. That distinction is due, in large part, to the University's Strong Memorial Hospital, which the magazine says is

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"rated one of the best in the country have been lost to the flames by their skills, asking questions like what is in a national survey of doctors." authors' deathbed recantations, says their buddy's favorite color or school The article goes on to cite "Roches­ J. W. Johnson, professor of English in subject or what their partner does ter's commitment to women's health the College of Arts and Science, in an when happy or disappointed. ... evident through the Center for article in the Herald Statesman. At other times, they solve together Early Breast Cancer Detection at the He cites the autobiography of 18th­ such hypothetical problems as what University of Rochester Cancer Cen­ century giant Samuel Johnson as an they'd buy if an approaching storm ter." It's the only such center in the example. Another: the writings of the were going to snow them in. country to offer free mammography to Earl of Rochester- poet, playwright, "The results so far have all been all women. libertine, and intimate of Charles II. positive," says Hightower. "We've seen Health adds that the city was one of "As he faced death," the article a decrease in the number of unexcused the first in the country to conduct city­ states, "he repented his rakish past. absences and in tardiness. We've also wide screenings of cholesterol levels, His family therefore destroyed his seen an increase in math aptitude this through a program of the Univer­ impious account of court intrigues­ scores. " sity's Medical Center in cooperation something that today would be invalu­ with Wegmans supermarkets. able to historians of the Restoration Period." Science News For decades, scientists have hoped The New York Times that fusion energy could provide an If George Bush becomes president­ The Los Angeles Times essentially unlimited and relatively safe and if the budget is balanced once and Will schoolchildren who get along source of electricity. for all during his administration - you well with others achieve greater success In March - as reported in the Spring may have a Rochester dean to thank, in school and as adults? issue of Rochester Review - researchers at least in part. (And if taxes go up, Two University psychologists believe at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics you may have him to blame.) they will and, based on that belief, (LLE) moved a step closer to realizing Paul W. MacAvoy, dean of the have developed a program called that hope, and their achievement was William E. Simon Graduate School "Study Buddies" now being tested in trumpeted in Science News, The New of Business Administration, is one of the Rochester City School District. York Times, and many other publi­ four top economic advisers to "the "Most adults have jobs that require cations across the country. Using de facto Republican Presidential nomi­ them to get along with others," ob- ultraviolet light from the laboratory's nee" George Bush, according to the serves A. Dirk Hightower, a psychol­ 24-beam OMEGA laser to strike Times. ogist at Rochester, in an Associated deuterium-tritium fuel capsules direct­ In a front-page article, the Times Press wire story reported in The Los ly from all sides, the Rochester team writes that the four fit "a convention­ Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning was able to compress these capsules ally conservative mold, with a tradi­ News, and other papers. uniformly to a density of two to four tional Republican emphasis on bal­ There are rewards for those who re­ times that of lead - the highest fusion ancing the budget, while the fervent, late well, he adds: A waiter gets bigger fuel density ever measured directly. tax-cutting supply-side economists tips, a saleswoman sells more products, Since actually igniting the fuel will who helped devise the initial Reagan a manager gets higher productivity take another to-fold increase in com­ policies have minor roles." from employees. pression, LLE plans to upgrade its The article describes MacAvoy as But in schools, he notes, children system from 2,000 to 30,000 joules ­ a specialist in energy and regulation who help their classmates are often which, according to LLE director who previously served as a member of viewed as cheaters. So he and another Robert McCrory, should be enough President Ford's Council of Economic psychologist, Rachel Robb Avery, de­ for ignition. Advisers. signed a pilot program to change that "He has been a friend of the Vice attitude and promote cooperation President since the early 1970s, was an among elementary-school children. Attention, readers: The Office of adviser ... to Mr. Bush's failed 1980 Twice a week for 45 minutes, stu­ University Public Relations is asking Presidential campaign, and, like Mr. dents get to work in pairs on such its network ofalumni readers for their Bush, rejected Mr. Reagan's proposals classroom activities as math or spell­ help in compiling clippings ofpub­ then as 'voodoo economics.' " ing. Typically, buddies develop their lished references to the University, own "company," name it, form by­ its faculty members, and its alumni. laws, and even choose company colors. When you come across such items, if Yonkers Herald Statesman They then fill out reports charting the you would take a minute to clip out Which are more valuable: the dying progress of their company in reaching the article, identify it with the source words of great writers, or their undying its goals - usually the number of math and date ofpublication, and send it works? problems or spelling words that they along to the Review (l08 Administra­ Since friends and family tend to get correct. tion Building, University ofRochester, heed the former, many great books They also spend time interviewing Rochester, NY 14627), the office would one another to improve their listening be grateful. A number ofyou did just that after our last request, and we thank you all.

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country and track; and countless other Benzoni graduated in May and will awards and prizes for picking them up enter the Graduate School of Educa­ SPORTS and putting them down faster than tion and Human Development this fall anyone else around. with hopes of becoming a secondary­ To her teammates and friends, she's school biology teacher. But lest her a running animal. To most of her op­ weary opponents hope to begin breath­ Dippy Benzoni: ponents, she's a distant blur that hap­ ing a little easier, they should know She Runs Them Ragged pens to leave a large and very dusty that because of her abortive forays wake. onto the soccer field and the basketball "A lot of my success has to do with court, Benzoni is still eligible to com­ Jackie," says Benzoni, speaking of pete one more season in both cross Coach Blackett, who herself was a country and indoor track and field. national-caliber track star at Roches­ That suits Benzoni just fine, thank ter. "I met her as a freshman and real­ you. Suits us too, because, as sports ly took to her as a person; she's very fans know, you can't have too much of dynamic." a good thing. And it's a good thing Benzoni is as good as she is. Otherwise, she would gain more notoriety for her dubious­ Yellowjacket Football Turns 100 sounding nickname - "Dippy" - than According to Arthur 1. May's his­ for her running. Actually, the same tory of the University, during Roch­ goes for Dippy's twin sister, Elisa, a ester's first four decades football "was star runner at Indiana University in considered too rough and dangerous Pennsylvania, whose nickname is the because local usage permitted 'a man equally dubious "Weezie." "Our third carrying the ball to be tripped or youngest brother, Tommy, gave us thrown or caught in any way.' One those names when we were younger," commentator observed that 'football is explains Dippy. "We asked him once for colleges with more men and more why and he couldn't remember. They money' than the University of Roch­ just stuck." ester. " Let's be thankful for the good things The good thing that is Benzoni's Well, times have changed. This fall in life. (that is, Dippy's) running career be­ varsity football marks its centennial It's a good thing that Josefa Benzoni comes a still greater thing when one year at Rochester, and the Yellow­ '88, fresh from years of soccer success learns that while she was off winning jackets, with 16 starters returning from in high school, didn't make the cut for championship after championship, set­ last season's record-breaking 9-2 cam­ the women's varsity soccer team her ting record after school record, she was paign, display few worries about being freshman year at Rochester. also maintaining a 3.00 average in the tripped, thrown, or caught in any way. It's also a good thing that in her particularly difficult major of biologi­ In fact, they're raring to go. next favorite sport, basketball, she cal science/neuroscience. She was also In celebration of the anniversary, lasted only one frustrating season­ putting in three days a week on a re­ the Jackets are planning a number of mostly on the bench-with the varsity search project at the Medical Center. special 100th-year observances, includ­ team. "We're studying the memories of mon­ ing the announcement of a Rochester And it's truly a good thing that keys, trying to find exactly what part Centennial Football Team. If you want despite these disappointments, she de­ of the brain controls memory," she ex­ to try to catch one or more of the cided to have one last try at a varsity plains. "I've always been interested in games, here's the schedule: berth, this time in track, her weakest everything about the human body, why Sept. 10 at Chicago (UAA) high-school sport. It's a good thing be­ people are the way they are." Sept. 17 Union cause that's when Benzoni met track That incumbent intellectual interest, Sept. 24 at Washington (UAA) coach Jackie Blackett '81. The rest is however, has been sharing Benzoni's Oct. 1 Canisius Yellowjacket sports history. energies these days with her relatively Oct. 8 at Hobart From the word "Go," Benzoni's newfound athletic pursuits. "I just love Oct. 15 Trinity (Tex.) running career at Rochester has been running; it's probably my top priority Oct. 22 at St. Lawrence nothing short of phenomenal: 19 New here," she confided to a reporter earli­ Oct. 29 at RPI York State Championships; the nation­ er this year. "But I won't tell my father Nov. 5 SUNY Brockport al Division III indoor record for 1,500 that. I don't think he's paying to put a (Homecoming & Parents meters; school records both indoors runner through school." Weekend) and outdoors in the 800-, 1,500-, and Nov. 12 Denison 3,000-meter runs, and for the 5,000­ meter run outdoors; a couple of hand­ fuls of All-American honors in cross

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Year-end Scorecard Women's Tennis: 2-2 dual-match record under head coach Joyce Wong. Placed 4th Continuing the pleasant news of re­ at MIT Doubles Invitational. Top perform­ cent years, the 25-sport varsity program er: #1 singles player Gita Subramaniam (a chalked up its 12th consecutive cam­ freshman) who was 3-1 in dual meets. paign above the benchmark 50.0 per­ Men's Outdoor Track & Field: 8-1 dual-meet cent winning rate. The year-end com­ record under head coach Timothy Hale. posite: 191-125-1, adding up to a tidy Placed 2nd at UAA Championships, 3rd at 60.4 percent success figure. the New York State Collegiate Track & Added to that, Yellowjacket varsities Field Association Championships, and set school records for the number of 79th out of 99 squads at the NCAA Div. teams represented in post-season play III Championships. Yellowjacket UAA champions: senior Mike Henry (3,000­ (21) and for first-place finishes in team meter steeplechase), junior Gene Johnson competition on invitational, associa­ (triple jump), and freshman Dave Fladd tion, state, and national levels (34). (pole vault). Individual winners at the Headlining the statistics were the NYSCT&FA Championships: soph Al achievements of the 27 individual Yel­ Smith (5,000-meter run) and junior Fritz lowjackets who among them earned a Repich (javelin). At the NCAAs, Smith was total of 36 All-American honors. In 10th in the 5,000-meter run. University Athletic Association com­ Women's Lacrosse: 7-4 record under head petition, the Yellowjackets won team coach Jane Possee, setting school records titles in 8 sports and finished second in for most wins and goals scored in a season 6 others - out ofthe 17 UAA champion­ (100). Sophomore attacker Virginia Leete paced Rochester in goals (32), assists (8), ships they entered. and total points (40), setting school one­ On the national scene, the Yellow­ season marks for goals and points. jackets garnered two NCAA champion­ Men's Lacrosse: 1-13 record under head ships: the top spot for the second year coach Erv Chambliss. Frosh attacker Matt in a row for the women's soccer team, Jackson paced the Jackets in goals with and a first-place finish for senior Josefa 24 and added 9 assists for 33 points. Soph Benzoni in the women's 1,500-meter attacker John Curry scored 24 goals and a indoor run. Right on their heels were Dave Weiss '89, voted top golfer in NCAA team-best 10 assists to pace Rochester in two other Yellowjackets who placed District II total points with 34. second in NCAA national competition: Men's Golf: 3-1 dual-match mark under freshman Liz Cahill (high jump), senior head coach Don Smith. Won UAA title, junior Carolyn Misch in women's Lindis Hoyte (200- and 4oo-meter dashes), with junior Dave Weiss achieving medalist cross-country and sophomore Scott junior Jennifer Shaver (8oo-meter run), honors with a 74. At NCAAs, the Jackets Milener in men's tennis singles. and two relays - the 400-meter (Anderson, placed 11th in the 21-team field, with Weiss freshman Shawna Capps, Derks, and Hoyte) earning Honorable Mention All-American and the 1,600-meter (Anderson, Capps, honors with a 25th-place berth. Weiss, Spring Stats Derks, & Hoyte). At the NYSWCAA Cham­ voted the top player in NCAA District II Total spring varsity sports: 8 pionships: Benzoni was voted the Most (N.Y., N. J ., Pa.), finished with Roches­ Composite won-loss record: 38 Valuable Performer after winning the 800-, ter's lowest 18-hole stroke average at 78.0 wins, 51 losses 1,500-, and 3,000-meter runs; Hoyte won for his 25 competitive rounds. Tournament titles won: 3 the 200- and 400-meter dashes, freshman Men's Tennis: 7-7 in dual meets under Rachelle Perman the discus, and the Yellow­ head coach Peter Lyman. Placed 2nd at the Teams represented in post-season jackets won the 400-meter relay (Anderson, UAA Championships, where soph Scott play: 4 Capps, Shaver, & Hoyte) and 800-meter Milener was named MVP after winning the Individuals earning All-American (Anderson, Capps, Shaver, & Hoyte). At first singles title and finishing 2nd at first honors: 4 the NCAAs, Benzoni injured her ankle and doubles with partner Marc Lowitz (senior). All-American honors earned: 6 finished 12th in the 1,500-meter run (in The Jackets finished as the #10 team in the Some details: which she had last winter set the national NCAA Div. III National Top 25 Coaches Women's Outdoor Track & Field: Head indoor record); Hoyte was 9th in the 400­ Poll. At the NCAA Div. III Champion­ coach Jacqueline Blackett's squad won meter dash. ships, Milener reached the finals of the 64­ the UAA Championships, placed 3rd at Baseball: 10-23 record under first-year player singles draw before falling by scores NYSWCAA Div. III Championships, and head coach Bob Mollenhauer. Top players: of 6-4,7-5. ended up 55th in the 87-team field at the soph outfielder Kurt Doyen (.336 BA, 28 NCAA Div. III Nationals. First-place RBIs, voted to Upstate NY. NCAA Div. III finishes at the UAAs: junior Natalie All-Star Team), soph outfielder Bob Hartz Anderson (lOO-meter dash), senior Josefa (.342 BA, 25 RBIs, 8-9 in stolen bases), Benzoni (1,500- and 3,OOO-meter runs), and freshman outfielder Tom Havens (.332 soph Debbie Derks (400-meter hurdles), BA, 23 RBIs). freshman Anita Acre (100-meter hurdles),

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who come up to me and say, 'I haven't heard the marimba since the 1930 World's Fair, '" laments classical marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens '75E. ALUMNI Since graduating from Eastman with a B.M. in percussion and a prestigious Per­ former's Certificate, Stevens has been work­ ing hard - and successfully- to dispel those associations with the rumba and the mam­ bo. His new album, "Bach on Marimba," released in October on the Musicmasters label, was recently nominated for "Album of the Year" by the classical-music maga­ zine Ovation. That same magazine also nominated him for "Artist of the Year." Which is fine with Stevens, who plainly loves the instrument and is convinced it in Brussels, then to Belfast to cover IRA deserves no less respect than the piano or violence; April in the Middle East covering the violin. Secretary of State George Shultz's visit; "When Renee Montagne of National May in Geneva covering talks between Public Radio interviewed me, she put it Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard better than I ever could: She said some­ Shevardnadze; then June in Moscow. thing like-'It has a musical sound made But Moscow, he says, was the highlight, entirely of water, a sound of liquid being one of the travel goals he set for himself poured,'" he says. when he began working as a foreign cor­ Indeed, when you hear him play Bach's respondent. He came home with first-hand Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, you impressions of Gorbachev and Reagan. might think of countless drops of water AView from the Summit "Gorbachev," says Katz, "is so full of vi­ spilling into a clear pool-or you might just From his hotel room, he could see St. tality. At his news conference, when some wonder how in the heck the guy does it. Basil's in Red Square and hear the Kremlin reporters were having trouble with their Time magazine has called Stevens "the bells - but, on the other hand, his tiny headphones, he stopped right in the middle world's greatest classical marimbist," and room was "paltry," room service was non­ of his speech and asked, 'Can't you hear for good reason. He plays unbelievably existent, and, in the spirit of glasnost, there me?' Then he told some Soviet officials to fast, as if his mallets were extensions of were no shower curtains. get out of their chairs and let the reporters his fingers - or his fingers themselves. His So reports Steve Katz '79, a foreign sit where they could hear him. sound has the precision and clarity of a correspondent for AP Radio who, as the "People say that he's like that, that he synthesizer but is, at the same time, other­ Review went to press, had just returned likes to take charge. " worldly. from the Soviet-American summit in June. Of Reagan's speech pressing for greater (For those of you who can't distinguish Even better than his views of the Kremlin human rights, Katz observes: "I think what the marimba from the rumba, the former is - and of the world's two most powerful he did was pretty remarkable. And what a wooden keyboard instrument with tubular leaders - says Katz, "was just meeting the was more remarkable was the fact that resonators, played with four mallets across people, talking to them. " Gorbachev felt confident enough to let him more than four octaves. It's Asian or Afri­ "I remember," he says, "one woman who do it." can in origin, and came to the U.S. via Cen­ worked in the film industry. She said to me, But, for now, it's back to the everyday tral America and South America - hence totally unsolicited, 'I love Gorbachev.' life of a foreign correspondent. For those "Tico Tico.") "She was reading a magazine and she of us who envy him the travel and the ex­ Stevens says he fell in love with the in­ explained, 'See this poem? It's written by a citement, consider this: Even Katz has strument as a teen-aged percussionist audi­ poet whose work used to be forbidden. I paperwork. tioning for the New Jersey all-state orches­ remember reading his poems as a child at "I'm trying to plow through two weeks tra: "I had my little balsa-wood xylophone night under a blanket with a flashlight. '" of it," he grumbles. "It'll probably take me and there was this other guy playing a ma­ On the other hand, Katz relates, "I also another two weeks just to do it all." rimba. It looked like a xylophone with a spent one morning way on the southern glandular problem- but the way the notes edge of Moscow in the flat of a refusenik. were sustained, the richness, the way the There were about a dozen dissidents meet­ tone blossomed...." ing there in a tiny cramped apartment, the Over the years, he's turned this romance kind that's typical for someone who's not into a career. Stevens is one of perhaps two on the 'ins' in Moscow. Most of them spoke people in the world to make a living as a English and they were telling me what their concert soloist on the marimba, having re­ life was like and how things hadn't changed, cently toured Poland, France, and Norway that they still weren't allowed to leave." and, this year, debuted at the Kennedy Katz says he was one of 5,000 reporters Center. "of every nationality you can imagine" in His quest to make the marimba "a legiti­ Moscow to cover the summit. In his job, he mate solo instrument" doesn't stop with says, he spends between a third and a half Knocking Wood performing, either. He has singlehandedly of his time traveling. The first few months Bach on marimba? Isn't that the instru­ - or, more to the point, ambidextrously­ of this year, for example, have gone like ment of Lawrence Welk and "Tico Tico"? revolutionized the playing of the instru­ this: February in Canada covering the "I get a lot of elderly folks at my concerts ment with what he calls the "one-handed Olympics; March at the NAlD summit

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roll": One hand plays two notes tremolo It's social criticism in the vein of Chris­ sort city of Sanibel, Florida, where, if any­ while the other picks out a tune. (To give topher Lasch (chair of Rochester's Depart­ thing, helping hands outnumber needy you an idea of the impact of this innova­ ment of History and author of the best­ causes by a wide margin. tion: before Stevens developed it, Bach's selling Culture ofNarcissism, whose work A tiny strip of land anchored a few miles Two-Part Inventions were published as a Brumberg admires): incisive, insightful, out in the Gulf of Mexico, Sanibel is lush marimba duet. On his album, he plays and visionary- in the sense that her views with species of flora and fauna not found them solo, with seeming effortlessness.) may be common currency in, say, a few elsewhere. "The first people who came here Stevens says he's making his greatest in­ decades or so. appreciated the critters that lived here, so roads with younger audiences. Brumberg notes that her first experience they established a strong conservation "They haven't seen Lawrence Welk or with anorexia was here at the University. foundation," says Mayor Klein. That "do­ Ted Mack; they're used to fusion jazz like "I was a student in need of money and I right-by-your-neighbor" philosophy of the Spyro Gyra, so they don't have the cultural tutored at Strong, in the hospital. I was as­ founding fathers has long since infected prejudices. They just know that, suddenly, signed a young woman whom I'll never for­ and inspired the island's 5,000 or so peren­ they're listening to Bach and, for the first get. I thought she was about 11-turns out nial residents, half of whom are retired time, they're enjoying it." she was 16, that was how emaciated she folk. All this adds up to a city-wide corps And if Stevens has his way, even Bach was. It was 1965 and at that time it was an of ready, willing, and able volunteers that devotees will enjoy hearing the master on extremely exotic and rare disorder. would be the envy of the National Guard. marimba. "The people at Strong told me very little Or Greenpeace. of what was wrong with this girl. Since I "Sanibel operates primarily by volunteer was someone who always battled weight, I committees attending to such community remember joking, 'Oh, I wish I could be a needs as injured wildlife, the local museum, little anorectic.' And the number of women the elderly and infirm, and house cats gone z ~ who have said that to me since I wrote the wild," says chief volunteer Klein. "Any­ o z book is incredible." thing you can think of, there's a volunteer 0;: ex: Sad proof of the pressures to be thin. committee for it." 0( :I: Though Fasting Girls offers no remedies, The hardworking citizens of Sanibel have __,).'[u.... ~ we asked Brumberg if she had any obser­ been particularly successful in preserving ex: 0( :I: vations on what families can - or ought the island's valuable wetland areas and in U to-do. strictly regulating the lands that are sacri­ "I think the basic thing is to raise girls in ficed to development. Starvation Diet a gender aschematic environment, where It was in the mid-1970s on the city's We skipped lunch to read Fasting Girls: there's no particular privilege that goes Vegetation Committee that a newly retired, The Emergence ofAnorexia Nervosa as along with being female or male. newly arrived Mike Klein got his first taste a Modern Disease (Cambridge: Harvard "The point is not to underscore beauty of civic pride, Sanibel style. He's now serv­ University Press, 1988) by Joan Jacobs and the primacy of social presentation of ing his second four-year term on the city Brumberg '65, director of women's studies self. It's good to encourage girls to be ath­ council and his second yearlong stint as and associate professor of human develop­ letic as well as boys, to be smart as well as mayor. The bulk of his time is spent bat­ ment and family studies at Cornell. boys. tling to protect the island's sensitive envi­ In her exhaustive study, Brumberg traces "You know that women are judged by ronment from the constant onslaught of the long tradition of female food refusal their physical appearance in this society, equally insensitive developers. He also from its medieval religious roots to the but you don't want all of a woman's re­ helps marshall Sanibel's considerable vol­ spiritual icons of Victorian "fasting girls" sources in that area. And you don't want unteer forces to combat the city's other and on up through what she terms "the constant control of appetite to be a per­ problems. "I'd say there is more volunteer post-1960 epidemic" of the disease. She son's most important activity." activity here than in most of America," attributes the high incidence of anorexia Her own personal approach? says Klein with just a hint of hard-earned today to broad social pressures that have "I would go with Jane Brody of The New self-righteousness. "It's gratifying to work been building since the 19th century. York Times: The best answer is to stop diet­ on these city jobs; we're very proud of the This evolution, she says, reflects the in­ ing, eat sensibly, and exercise quite a bit." place." creasing secularization of Western society. Healthy food for thought. And now, if This, however, is Klein's last tour of duty Rather than aspiring to sainthood, today's you'll excuse us, we're going to have lunch. on the city council. The retired optical-lab anorectic is responding to images of Chris­ director plans to retire a second time this tie Brinkley and Jane Fonda: "The modern November when his mayoralty expires. visual media (television, films, video, maga­ What next? Well, both Klein and his wife, zines, and particularly advertising) fuel the Evelyn Theis Klein '41, are serious amateur preoccupation with female thinness and artists - he a potter, she a handweaver. serve as the primary stimulus for anorexia "But then again," muses Klein, like a nervosa." She also indicts "the cult of young soldier eager to return to the front, strenuous exercise." "I'll probably volunteer for some more In sum: "Intelligent, anxious for personal committees." achievement, and determined to maintain control in a world where things as basic as food and sex are increasingly out of con­ trol, the contemporary anorectic unrelent­ Volunteer Island ingly pursues thinness - a secular form of These days, it seems nearly every leader perfection. " of nearly every volunteer organization is be­ moaning the dearth of good, reliable help. But not Myron Klein '43, mayor of the re-

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"Keeping a mentally ill patient in the marketing, planning transportation and hospital costs $190 a day; you can do a lot security, working on leader-board scoring of other things with that. Despite what you and hospitality," he says. may believe, these people are capable of There are economics (Brewer's college living productive, happy, and independent minor) involved, too: The Open is expected lives, as long as they have the support they to generate $25 million for local businesses need." -which is nothing to shake a nine-iron at. If Corcoran seems up on the issues, it's Oak Hill was the site of two previous no wonder. After a nursing degree at Roch­ Opens, in 1956 and 1968. The club has two ester, she earned dual master's degrees in 18-hole courses, known as the east and the health finance and nursing administration west, and the Open will be played on the Reforming Mental-Health Care at Case Western Reserve University. A more-difficult East Course - the one which, Ohio has clearly made up its mind about member of the nursing faculty at CWR, incidentally, the University's golf team uses caring for the mentally ill. The state recent­ she also served as assistant director of for practice. (The golf club and the Univer­ ly adopted a new Mental Health Reform medical/surgical nursing at the University sity share some common geographic ances­ Act that will include the option of normal, Hospitals of Cleveland. Such credentials try by the way: The club's original location individual housing for mentally ill people won her the job on the governor's staff and was on the banks of the Genesee, on the who previously might have been banished a spot on his Committee on Health-Care top of Oak Hill. In the 1920s when the to hospitals or shipped off to group homes. Cost Containment. Her service has earned University acquired the property as the site We learned about Ohio's cutting-edge her honors as a CWR 1987 Alumna of the of its new River Campus, the club moved social-services policies from a source right Year and a listing in Who's Who in Ameri­ to its present location, taking the name in the thick of it all-Maureen Corcoran can Women. with it.) '78N, assistant deputy director for program The upcoming presidential election could Selection as the site of the Open is a and policy in Ohio's Department of Mental be the watershed for the future health of prestigious designation, one which indi­ Health. the nation, warns Corcoran. "Human serv­ cates the excellence of the course. "Our state is way ahead of the country ices is an area where current federal poli­ "Of the four major championships - the in mental-health-care policy," says Corco­ cies have really left us in a lurch," she says. PGA, the Open, the British Open, and the ran. "We've been recognized by several na­ "A pretty clear choice exists between the Master's, it's only the Open and the PGA tional groups, including the Robert Wood current administration and Dukakis, who that clubs like ours are eligible to host. Johnson Foundation, for improving mental­ because of his own experience in Massa­ And those two probably get about a hun­ health services faster than other states." chusetts, has focused upon the importance dred requests a year from would-be host She is more than a bit proud of that of these issues." clubs," Brewer says. "We started in 1980 to fact; in her last post as executive assistant secure the Open, and we didn't know we to Ohio Governor Celeste for human­ got it until 1985." services policy, she was instrumental in For Brewer, whose position is voluntary, helping to put together the new reform act. all the planning and decision-making and Now, as policy liaison to five state agencies meetings and worry are a labor of love: - health, human services, mental retarda­ "It's one of those things where you happen tion, mental health, and aging - she makes to love the game and you're trying to give sure the reality matches the policy's ideals. something back to it." And there are other The reform act passes full responsibility rewards - for instance, the opportunity to for managing state social-service funds, meet greats like Arnold Palmer and Jack and for planning and delivering commu­ Nicklaus. nity mental-health services, from the state But what about the ultimate perk, a to local county boards. Rochester Lin ks chance to ride in the vehicle that anoints "People who used to get bounced around Allen Brewer '40 says he majored in geol­ any important sporting event as truly now have one place - their local board­ ogy but never got to use it in his subsequent important-that is, the Goodyear Blimp? they can turn to for help. It also means career as president of a printing company. Is it his for the asking? that the local boards can tailor their social Now it looks as if he's finally getting "I don't know if it'll be here, and I don't services to the specific needs of their com­ down to earth: As co-chairman of the 1989 think I'll get a ride if it is," Brewer says munities," she says. U.S. Open to be held at Rochester's Oak modestly. "Ohio believes that severely mentally ill Hill Country Club, Brewer has become a Well, we think he should use all his con­ people, even schizophrenics and manic­ careful student of the hills and valleys and tacts-call Arnie and Jack, if he has to­ depressives, should be able to choose be­ sand traps and water holes of his home to get it here and get a ride. After all, how tween individual or group living situations course - along with the other groundwork many geology majors get to study the ter­ if they wish. The local boards provide sup­ involved in organizing a tournament of this rain from a dirigible? port services through the ups and downs magnitude. Brewer says that if you're interested in of mental illness, from minding patients' "This is the World Series, the Super Bowl attending, you should buy your tickets homes while they're hospitalized, to help­ of golf. It's probably the biggest thing that's soon; they're just about sold out. Dates are ing them find appropriate work. going to happen in the Rochester commu­ June 12-18, 1989. For tickets, write Oak "Used to be if you succeeded in a group nity for the next 25 years," Brewer says, Hill Country Club, 1989 U.S. Open, P.o. home, you got kicked out to fend for your­ adding that the Open will be telecast across Box 1989, Rochester NY 1461O-0989-or self; that doesn't make any sense," says the U.S. and in Spain, Great Britain, Ger­ call (716) 248-0PEN. Corcoran. Now with the reform act, there many, Japan, and Australia, while radio cov­ is a strong financial incentive for the local erage will be broadcast in eight languages. boards to give their all to support these "We've been working on it for two years people in their preferred living and work­ already, preparing the course, doing the ing situations; it's considerably cheaper than hospitalization.

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She goes on: "It was an illustration for motocross manager in the professional­ Look about the three civil-rights workers racing department of the American Motor­ who were killed in Mississippi. The paint­ cyclist Association and president of the ing is so graphic that they used a study for American All-Terrain Vehicle Association. z it rather than the final piece. It's very stark, His work involves rough-riding through ~ the monstrous logistics of organizing the Z using only blacks and grays and whites ::J ::E with splotches of red. You see one man professional motocross competitions held (;) ::J holding up a body, and, unlike Rockwell's in the United States. In his previous post o Cl other drawings where he reproduces real as land-use coordinator in the government­ faces, the faces here are indistinct," she says. relations department, he worked with the "There aren't any humorous touches; U.S. Forestry Service on the legal and envi­ An American Romantic there's very little humanity in it, no iden­ ronmental issues of off-road motorcycling. Seated on the running board of his dfiable people or scenes." And far from being an ethical thorn in father's truck, a young man waits, head Another painting on a similar theme has his side, his knowledge and love of the great held high in expectation, for the bus that frequently been requested for loan, she says. outdoors, he says, are precisely what com­ will take him to college. He's dressed in his "It's called 'The Problem We All Live mit him to wise use of natural resources. Sunday best (marred by a rather loud tie), With,' and it shows a little black girl in "Our track record for managed areas ­ and his faithful collie rests her head on his sneakers carrying a book. She's accompa­ trails designed with noise, erosion, and knee. Next to him, preoccupied, jaded, his nied by four U.S. marshals in armbands, safety factors in mind - is very good," says father crouches in worn boots and dirty and there are tomatoes being thrown at Janson, who teaches trail-construction work clothes, a cigarette dangling from his her. courses for the forestry service. In fact, he mouth. "It was something for a mainstream says, the AMA's environment-conscious This is a scene from Norman Rockwell's American illustrator-and at that point he approach and rider-education programs America, one of hundreds of images from was in his late 60s and 70s - to be doing such as "Tread Lightly" have earned the the covers of The Saturday Evening Post this." group recognition from the forestry service, that helped define our nation's sense of it­ Hennessey reminds us that Rockwell's the federal government, and several states. self before and after World War II. images are still very much a part of how A long-time motorcycle enthusiast and Never mind if the headlines in those same we view ourselves, appearing in everything former professional racer, as well as an magazines shrilled, "Case History of Col­ from the recent movie Broadcast News to avid bird watcher ("I hate to have my bird lege Communism" or "How Will America a nationally distributed AIDS poster to count disturbed"), Janson understands well Behave If H-Bombs Fall?" - Rockwell Rochester's 1979 Interpres yearbook. the conflict that rages between trail bikers, showed us life as we hoped it was, and we Yes, it's true. Not only does Rockwell's who like to see nature from atop a saddle, could smile and forget, for a moment, life famous G.I., Willie Gillis, appear on that and nature lovers, who consider motorcycles as we feared it might be. year's Interps cover as a post-war college and ATVs to be the fossil-fuel-powered That was his special magic, according student, but Saturday Evening Post covers equivalents of James Watt. to Maureen Hart Hennessey '78, a former and other Rockwell illustrations appear "Riders have no blank check to override Rochester history major who is the newly throughout the book, interspersed with other people's recreational experience," he appointed curator of the Norman Rockwell photos of Class of '79 pranks and parties. says, at the same time pointing out that Museum in the artist's hometown of Stock­ Perhaps Hennessey should secure a copy modern trail bikes are quieter than cars. bridge, Massachusetts. for the museum - to serve as her alma "That's why we must look toward educa­ "His paintings are, I think, important mater's testimony to Rockwell's ability to tion to prevent people from altering muffler in and of themselves, but there's a whole reach yet another generation of Americans. systems and such, and to management, to other level of interpretation when you real­ locate activities for less conflict." ize when and why they were painted. They "I am a pragmatist," declares Janson. were a reflection of how people saw them­ Mr. Mota "We must avoid 'good recreation, bad rec­ selves at the time, how they wanted to see If life were a game of "Jeopardy," Roy reation' judgments. Whether it's downhill themselves, whether it was in the '30s, when Janson '81GU would be a $1,000 answer skiing, ultra-light flying, or off-road biking, they needed cheering up, or in the '40s, just begging for a question. The question: Americans have shown they want to partic­ when they were consumed with the war "Who holds degrees in environmental ipate in high-risk recreation. We have to effort. science, lists bird counting as a favorite be up front about the problems and risks "You have to remember, he was a com­ hobby, and holds prominent posts in and find the best ways to manage all of our mercial artist, so that's how he viewed what motocross and all-terrain-vehicle racing?" activities. he was doing. He didn't view it as 'Art' with Roy Janson, nature lover and bird "Our national forests were designed for a capital A. He knew what the patrons of watcher-with a master's in environmental multiple purposes, including mining, lum­ The Saturday Evening Post and Boys' Life science from Rochester- is also a biking bering, and recreation. Between the hard­ wanted to see." man. A former professional racer, he is core environmentalists and the hard-core But, she says, there's another side to the motorcyclists, there is a middle ground. man who immortalized America's town We can and should strive for that middle gossips and Little League players. ground." "In the late '50s and '60s he began to deal with issues that, at that time, were Denise Bolger Kovnat fairly controversial. He did a number of and Shinji Morokuma paintings dealing with civil-rights issues, for example." She points to "one very striking painting called 'Murder in Mississippi' which," she says, "if it hadn't been in the Norman Rock­ well Museum, I never would have suspected he painted."

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Paul Stein '47

RIVER CAMPUS David Herrick '69, appointed chair, Dept. of Anne-Louise DePalo '84, established law Chemistry, University of Oregon-Eugene. office, Hylan Professional Plaza, Staten Career Moves Thomas McKinley '69, appointed assistant Island. Paul Stein '47, formed a consulting business dean of administration, Greenfield Com­ Stewart Ashkenazy '85, passed Part 5, actu­ in California, having retired after 39 years munity College. arial examinations; attained "Associate of in the aerospace business, most recently as Gilbert Scherer '69, qualified as licensed the Society of Actuaries" designation; and senior project engineer and chief design social worker in Ohio. is currently working in the personal insur­ engineer, aircraft environmental control Alan Radin '70, named medical director, ance planning dept., Metropolitan Life systems at Hamilton Standard, a division Wilton Meadows Health Care Center, Insurance Co., New York City. of United Technologies. Wilton, Conn. Eric Roberts '85, completed first year as Beth Bishop Flory '48, '50G, appointed chair, Bonnie Linton Sturdevant '70G, named direc­ optical design engineer, Ball Aerospace Dept. of English, Darrow School, New tor, Dept. of Continuing Care, Waterbury Systems Division, Boulder, Colo.; he is also Lebanon, N.Y. (Conn.) Hospital Health Center. pursuing an M.B.A. at the University of Ann Hurlbut Prentice '54, named associate Jean Willis '73, appointed director of nurs­ Colorado. v.p., Library and Information Resources, ing, Bry-Lin Hospitals, Buffalo. Gary Crane '86, named director, telecom­ University of South Florida, Tampa. Charles Zettek, Jr. '73, '80G, appointed munications, Division of Information Gabriel Cohen 'SSG, appointed executive di­ director, Monroe County (N.Y.) Dept. of Technology and Services, University of rector, Jewish Education Council, Seattle. Purchasing and Central Services. Rochester. Robert O'Mara '55, appointed chair, Dept. Richard Michelstein '74, joined gastroenter­ Bruce Youngman '86, named production of Radiology, University of Rochester ology staff, Bloomsburg (Pa.) Hospital. engineer, Laser Alignment, Inc., Grand Medical Center. Stephen Hoffman '75, '76G, named manager, Rapids, Mich. Beverly Borst Kingsley '59, promoted to IBM marketing office, Buffalo. Stephanie Seeman '87, named administrative assistant manager, Welbourne & Purdy Donald Anthony '76, promoted to project assistant, human resources, Savings Banks Realty, Inc., Niskayuna, N.Y. engineer in charge of software automation Association of New York State. Peter Kirby '61, named associate professor, contracts, Automated Dynamics Corp., management, Saint Leo (Fla.) College. Troy, N.Y. Timothy McKee '63, '87G, promoted to sen­ Richard Klein '76, named partner, specializ­ Advanced Degrees ior consultant, management consulting ing in corporate litigation at Willkie, Farr Nicholas Ambulos, Jr. '82, Ph.D., microbiol­ services dept., Price Waterhouse, Detroit. & Gallagher, New York City. ogy, University of Maryland-Baltimore Robert Young '63, joined Dean Witter Rey­ Barry Bergen '78, appointed visiting assist­ County. nolds as v.p., convertible securities. ant professor, history, Auburn University, Brian Cutler '82, Ph.D., social psychology, Lois Brenner '64, named head, matrimonial Montgomery, Ala. University of Wisconsin-Madison; accept­ and family law dept., Herzfeld & Ruben, David Levine '80, named managing editor, ed faculty position, psychology dept., P.C., Wall Street. CAPITAL Region magazine, Albany. Florida International University, The State James Frost '64, appointed senior v.p., The Larry Margolin '80, named associate, University of Florida-Miami. Boston Company, following relocation specializing in litigation and real estate law, Christine Branche '83, Ph.D., epidemiology, from London. Aaron Gelbwaks law firm, Manhattan. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Stephen Maloney '64, '670, '71G, appointed Drew Powles '80, named chief technologist, now working with Centers for Disease assistant v.p., editorial services, corporate BBN Communications Columbia Profes­ Control, Atlanta. affairs division, Aetna Life & Casualty. sional Services, Columbia, Md. Stacey Merkin '83, J.D., Temple University George Park, Jr. '67, named publisher, Karin Roberts '81, promoted to slot editor, School of Law. Finger Lakes Times, Geneva, N.Y. Albany Times Union, where she gives final Karen Stern '83, M.A., clinical psychology; Mark Welch '67, named v.p. and general approval to all local, national, and interna­ she is completing predoctoral internship, counsel, College of Financial Planning, tional news headlines. Springfield Hospital Center, Maryland. Denver. Sarah Gorsline '82G, named assistant v.p., Elliott Gruskin '84, Ph.D., biochemistry and Kenneth Daniels '68, elected v.p., The Goldome, Buffalo, where she is partnership molecular toxicology, Vanderbilt Univer­ Equitable Life Assurance Society of the representative, special investment dept. sity; he will begin postdoctoral position at United States, Southern Operations, where M.I.T. this fall. he is regional compliance director.

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Ann Hurlbut Prentice '54 Kenneth Daniels '68

Marjorie Bloss '65

Honors/ Elections Books Published Renee Fleming '83GE, named a winner, 1988 Metropolitan Opera National Council Samuel Stratton '37, congressman, New Leon Hollerman '39, author, Japan Disincor­ Auditions; in 1984-85, she received a Ful­ York's 23rd Congressional District, honored porated (Hoover Press) and Japan's Eco­ bright grant and spent the year in Germany. in Schenectady with "Sam Stratton Day" nomic Strategy in Brazil (Lexington Books). David Mosley '83GE, assistant professor for his many years of public service. Agnes Nasmith Johnston '43, author and of music, Goshen College, won Summer Elmer Conway '41, chair, Mack Truck, Roch­ illustrator, poetry collection, Beyond the Fellowship, Indiana Committee for the ester, received "Truck Dealer of the Year" Moongate (Lotus Press, Detroit). Humanities; he will analyze recordings award; he was also East Regional winner, John Stroupe '62G, editor, Critical of Dylan Thomas poetry and attend the with annual sales of $50 million. Approaches to O'Neill, 12 essays honoring Welsh National Eistefodd music and James McHugh '50, retired senior engineer the Eugene O'Neill Centennial of 1988 poetry festival. in rotor dynamics, General Electric, (AMS Press, New York). Kamran Ince '84GE, awarded this year's Schenectady, named Fellow, American Sharon Rodgers '68, co-author, Food $4,000 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Society of Mechanical Engineers. Science and You, high-school textbook prize. D. Allan Bromley '52G, Henry Ford II Pro­ (Glencoe Publishing Co.). fessor and director, A. W. Wright Nuclear Robert Bly '79, author, Ads That Sell Structure Laboratory, Yale University, (Asher-Gallant Press). Performances/ Recordings awarded honorary degree from Trinity Col­ Claire Deene '34E, performed violin sonata lege, Hartford, Conn. with Betty Schien, pianist, in Williams­ Francis Rowe Dowling '54, executive director, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC burg, Va., and performed works of Handel, Family Services, Dutchess County, N.Y., Mozart, and Beethoven at Dundalk Com­ re-elected chair, Dutchess County Mental Career Moves munity College, Baltimore. Hygiene Board. Igor Hudadoff '51E, retired from his position Alfred Mouledous '49E, 52GE, pianist, per­ Mark Hampton '64, partner, Wright, Wright as district director of music, public schools formed as guest artist in a Gershwin and & Hampton law firm, Jamestown, N.Y., and community, Farmingdale, N.Y. All-American Pops concert with the Cedar appointed to Norstar Bank's Southern Raymond Premru '56E, appointed professor Rapids Symphony Orchestra. Chautauqua advisory board. of trombone, Oberlin College. Anthony Crain '60GE, professor of piano, Marjorie Bloss '65, manager of resource James Richens '60GE, appointed to newly SUNY Oswego,-presented a recital in sharing, Online Computer Library Center, formed position of "composer-in-resi­ Dublin, Ohio, awarded Bowker/Ulrich dence," Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Serials Librarianship Award. where he is also assistant conductor. Anthony Bottar '72, partner, Cherundolo, Mark Laubach '84GE, appointed assistant Bottar & DelDuchetto law firm, Syracuse, musical director and rehearsal pianist, Key appointed to North Syracuse Central Wyoming Valley (Pa.) Oratorio Society. School District Board of Education. Steven Staruch '86GE, accepted a radio­ RC - River Campus colleges Lee Gray '76G, '85G, assistant professor, broadcasting position with public radio G- Graduate degree, River Campus geology, Mount Union College, named station WXXI-FM, Rochester; he has his colleges College Great Teacher for 1987-88. own six-hour classical-music program. M- M.D. degree Bradley Radwaner '76, elected to fellowship, GM - Graduate degree, Medicine and American College of Cardiology. Dentistry Dennis Curran '77G, '80G, associate profes­ Honors/Elections R- Medical residency sor, chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Jude Nitsche '74GE, v.p., BBN Laborator­ F- Fellowship, Medicine and Dentistry named recipient of American Chemical ies, Inc., elected Fellow, Acoustical Society E- Eastman School of Music Society 1988 Arthur C. Cope Scholar of America. GE - Graduate degree, Eastman Award; last summer he received the Re­ Esther Jane Kulp '81E, '83GE, awarded N- School of Nursing search Career Development Award from Rotary Foundation Scholarship for 1988­ GN - Graduate degree, Nursing the National Institutes of Health. 89, which she will use to study music at the FN - Fellowship, School of Nursing Valerie Schmid '81, assistant actuary, CIGNA Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana, U- University College Corporation, Philadelphia, recognized as Siena, Italy. GU - Graduate degree, University College Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

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Kathy Lynn Lindstrom '73N Karin Roberts '81

Charles Zettek '73, '80G

Lanigan Hall, performing works of Bach, Christopher Hettenbach '85E, '86GE, tenor, Jonathan Dehner '70R, elected president, Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. sang the principal role of Tom Rakewell in Greater St. Louis Society of Radiologists; David Cowley '63E, assistant professor, Uni­ Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, at the he is currently diagnostic radiologist, Scott versity of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, performed Hartt School of Music Opera Theatre, Uni­ Radiological Group. a cello concert in the Fine Arts Recital Hall versity of Hartford, where he is an Artist Ralph McKinney, Jr. '71GM, professor and at UW-Milwaukee. Diploma candidate in opera. chair, Dept. of Oral Pathology, Medical Jerry Neil Smith '63GE, professor of music, Laura Zaerr '86GE, harpist, was featured College of Georgia School of Dentistry, University of Oklahoma, attended the pre­ artist at the Rogue Valley (Ore.) Symphony named international treasurer, Interna­ miere of his "Suite of Modern American Guild's annual "Tea and Symphony." tional Congress of Oral Implantologists for Dances" at the 1988 Music Educators 1988-89. National Conference in Indianapolis. Reed Alan Winston '73GM, elected president, William Quick '71E, adjunct instructor of MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY medical staff, Liberty Medical Center, Inc., percussion, Colgate University, and in­ where he is also chair, emergency medicine structor of music, Liverpool, N.Y., schools, Career Moves dept.; associate attending physician, inter­ presented an evening of percussion and Thomas Panke '68GM, '70GM, named direc­ nal medicine; and director, advanced car­ poetry at the Humanities Fest, Cazenovia tor, pathology and laboratory medicine, diac life support course. College. Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati. Richard Ratliff '73E, '75GE, '82GE, associ­ George Fouse '76GM, '80GM, named to ate professor, University of Indian"apolis, medical staff, Dept. of Emergency and NURSING performed C.P.E. Bach's Sonata in A Minor, Ambulatory Care, Altoona (Pa.) Hospital. W. 49/1 ("Wurttemberg"), Beethoven's Norman Walton '77R, achieved board certifi­ Career Moves Sonata in A-flat Major, Opus 110, and cation, EEG, neurological specialty; he is Phyllis Frankson Bricker '58N, chosen selections by Rochberg, Beall, and Albright on the Corning (N.Y.) Hospital Medical president-elect, Virginia Association of at the university's recital hall. Staff. School Nurses. Ellen Rowe '80E, '82GE, director, UConn Edward Goldstein '79RC, '84M, named to Nancy Leach Houyoux '67N, president, NLH Jazz Ensemble, performed music of Styne, provide supplemental staffing, emergency & Associates, health care consulting firm Parker, and Dobbins in a jazz concert in dept., Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam, for management marketing, named in von der Mehden Hall, University of Con­ N.Y. Who's Who in Professional & Executive necticut. Scott Glickstein '81M, joined staff of Park Women. Cynthia Carr Loebl'81E, assistant professor Nicollet Medical Center, Edina, Minn. Kathy Lynn Lindstrom '73N, inservice edu­ of music, Lawrence University, was fea­ John Gatell'85M, received Maimonides cation instructor and diabetes educator, tured French horn soloist in a performance Medical Research Grant for his study, W.C.A. Hospital, Jamestown, N.Y., passed by the University Symphonic Band; she re­ "Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring certification exam for Diabetes Educators. cently spent a year as an ITT International Utilizing ,Indocyanine Green." Cheryl Weber '82GN, board member and Fellow in Oslo, Norway, where she per­ Mark Hoffman '85F, principal investigator, program chair, Western N.Y. League for formed with the Norwegian National Eastern Cooperative Oncology Research Nursing, earned recertification from the Broadcasting Orchestra. Group, received subspecialty certification, ANA in Community Health Nursing; she Sg1. Howard Potter '82GE, mallet percussion­ cancer medicine, American Board of Inter­ also presented a paper entitled "Transdis­ ist, performed in a recital at the Eisenhower nal Medicine. ciplinary Approach to Dysphasia" at the Hall Ballroom, West Point, as part of the New York State Speech Language and 1988 Chamber Music Recital series spon­ Hearing Association. sored by the United States Military Acad­ Honors/Elections Teresa Mason '85GN, assumed head-nurse emy Band; he recently received his D.M.A. Erling Johansen '55GM, dean, Tufts Uni­ position, surgical ICU, Eisenhower Army from the Manhattan School of Music. versity School of Dental Medicine, named Medical Center, Augusta, Ga.; she has Jeff Mclelland '83GE, assistant professor International Educator of the Year by the received ANA certification as a medical­ of music, William Carey College, presented Academy of International Dental Studies. surgical clinical nurse specialist. a faculty organ recital in the First Baptist Joe West '61GM, named president-elect, Church, Hattiesburg, Miss.; he is also Mis­ Texas Academy of Veterinary Practice; he sissippi District chair, American Guild of is also incumbent president of the Brazos Advanced Degree Organists, and organ-area chair, Mississippi Valley Veterinary Medical Association. Eileen Kelly '82N, M.B.A., University of Music Teachers Association. Texas-San Antonio.

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Romance of the Danube­ is music, palaces, horses, pastries, and October 24-November 6 countless other civilized delights. A new Two days in Vienna precede a floating itinerary to old places. All meals in Poland trek through the Balkans to the Black Sea and full breakfasts elsewhere, air from Rochester and a crossing to Istanbul. Along the way Berlin to Warsaw, deluxe motorcoach are visits in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia), Warsaw to Cracow to Budapest, hydrofoil Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Yugo­ on Danube to Vienna, and orientation slavia), and Bucharest (Romania). An un­ tours in all cities included. $2,795 from TRAVELERS forgettable journey through old empires JFK. Group arrangements from Rochester. and kingdoms. $2,800-3,200 from NYC. A sellout. . Wings Over the Nile - October Two weeks and the best of Egypt, with Mexican Riviera - February 9-18 key transfers by air. Cairo (Giza); Alexan­ Two nights at the legendary del Corona­ dria; Suez Canal flyover; St. Catherine's do in San Diego precede a relaxing 7-night Monastery (at the foot of Mt. Moses) and cruise aboard SS Bermuda Star, with ample Sharm EI-Sheikh in the Sinai; Nile River visits at Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Cruise with visits to Luxor and tombs of University ofRochester Alumni Tours and Mazatlan - an ideal, untiring mix of the West Bank, Edfu, Kom Ombo, and are planned with two primary objectives: sea and shore time. Beginning and ending Aswan; and Abu Simbel. An exciting en­ educational enrichment and the establish­ the cruise in San Diego makes a pre- or counter with antiquity. $3,499 from NYC. ment ofcloser ties among alumni and post-sojourn in Southern California an Group arrangements from Rochester. between alumni and the University. Des­ easy plus. From $1,295, including two tinations are selected for their historic, nights at the "del" and free air from 70 Vikings, Czars, and Emperors­ cultural, geographic, and natural resources, major cities. October 3D-November 15 and for the opportunities they provide for From NYC to Copenhagen (3), Moscow understanding other peoples: their histo­ Portugal- Spain - May 18-30 (3), Beijing (3), Xian (2), Hong Kong (3), ries, their politics, their values, and the A unique Iberian adventure - 3 nights in and return via San Francisco. Perspective roles they play in current world affairs. Lisbon, 2 in the Algarve, 3 in Seville, and from the Mermaid to the Kremlin; to the Programs are designed to provide worry­ 3 in Madrid. Includes full-day excursion to Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, and Forbid­ free basics such as transportation, trans­ Jerez de la Frontera aboard luxurious AI­ den City; to a mythical army of 7,000 terra fers, accommodations, some meals, bag­ Andalus Express. Full orientation tours in cotta soldiers and horses; to the singular gage handling, and professional guides, Lisbon, Seville, and Madrid, deluxe motor­ scene from Victoria Peak and the bustle and still allow for personal exploration of coach transfers, and all baggage handling of Hong Kong, in an unbelievably manage­ individual interests. Escorts, drawn from included. $2,495 from NYC. Group arrange­ able Round-the-World program. Over-the­ the University faculty and staff, provide ments from Rochester. water flights on SAS and Cathay Pacific, special services and features that add both two of the world's finest airlines. Many personal and educational enrichment. Russia's Imperial Treasures - June inclusions. $3,295 from NYC to San Fran­ All members ofthe University com­ A repeat of the sellout-plus program cisco; favorable group and individual· munity are eligible to participate in these in 1988. Fourteen days in Georgian and domestic connections available. tours. Non-associated relatives andfriends Armenian republics, Sochi on the Black are welcome as space permits. Those­ Sea, Moscow, and Leningrad. All meals Cruising the Mississippi - April 1-10 other than spouses, dependent children, or and local tours included. Lectures by Soviet Downstream on the mighty Mississippi, parents ofalumni and current students­ scholar en route. $2,995 from JFK. from Memphis to New Orleans. A scenic, who have no direct connection with the historic, educational, and highly enjoyable University will be requested to make a tax­ Canadian Rockies-July 14-25 sojourn in the Old South, with visits in deductible donation of$50 to the University. An ll-night program which includes Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, and Vancouver, Victoria, Lake Louise (Chateau Nottoway Plantation. Seven nights at the Grand European Cruise­ Lake Louise), Jasper (Sawridge Hotel), and Royal Orleans, in the home of Dixieland. September 24-0ctober 7 Banff (Banff Springs Hotel), relaxing and All meals aboard ship, transfers, and bag­ From Copenhagen to the Canary Islands scenic tour-transfers, all breakfasts and 10 gage handling included. $1,795 to $2,295, on the Ocean Princess via Hamburg, Am­ dinners, plus city tours of Vancouver and depending upon cabin selection. Favorable sterdam, Tillbury, London, Le Havre (ex­ Victoria. $2,495 from Rochester or NYC; air add-on - $200 from anywhere in the plore the Normandy beaches), Bordeaux, $2,075 from Vancouver, with attractive U.S. -to Memphis and return from New Lisbon, and Funchal. Fourteen nights, all air supplements from major cities to Van­ Orleans. meals. $1,995 from major East Coast cities. couver and return from Calgary. Note: Allprices are current best realistic Hawaii, Cruising - October 22-29 Culture of Eastern Europe - August 15- 28 estimates, subject to final 1989 tariffs and Fly to Honolulu, cruise and live aboard Berlin (3), Warsaw (2), Cracow (2), significant fluctuations in international ex­ 30,000-ton SS Constitution during visits to Budapest (2), and Vienna (3). Experience change rates. Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, and Oahu. No un­ the present in a region from which much packing and rep~cking. Special r.t. air from of our intellectual and cultural heritage 100 cities. Rates begin at $1,195. Bonus for derived, and which has experienced such For further information or detailed early reservation: 2 free nights (pre- or devastating upheaval and remarkable re­ mailers (as they become available) on any post-cruise) at Hawaiian Regent in Hono­ covery in the 20th century. Berlin reflects ofthe trips announced, contact John lulu. both East and West Germany; Warsaw Braund, Alumni Office, University of and Cracow show the heart and the beauty Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, (716) of Poland and permit a sobering visit to 275-3682. Auschwitz; Buda and Pest bridge the Danube in storybook fashion; and Vienna

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Most important, my Freshman English About "grey-panther" type seniors on professor is probably turning over in his alumni committees: As always, we are grave! No matter, the main thing is we paid delighted to hear from any ofour alumni­ LETTERS tribute to Bruce Lansdale. in any age group - who would like to (continued from inside front cover) Albert Barr '56 volunteer- Editor. San Rafael, Calif. Well, it does matter. The Review doesn't like to carelessly misrepresent our contrib­ Changeless More on Lansdale utors that way. Our apologies-Editor. The Spring Rochester Review was, to me, one of the most interesting issues. President O'Brien's article ("Down with 'Academics''') Query was so apropos of the 1980s - but curiously, I am researching the life of G. S. Fraser strongly reminiscent of Dexter Perkins's for my doctorate at Nottingham University. comments to incoming freshmen in Sep­ Fraser came to Rochester as visiting profes­ tember 1925. Plus ra change, plus ra ne sor of English from 1963 to 1964, and I am change pas. anxious to trace any of his former students. Cherry Bahler '29 If any readers remember having been Williamsville, N.Y. taught by, or having met, Mr. G. S. Fraser, they might care to write to me at: 16 Hawkswood Close Picture to the Editor Chilwell Nottingham NG9 5FX Janet Hopewell Nottingham, England

Coed Suites Am I interpreting correctly the issue in the latest Review about the president giving some qualified approval to coed suites? Are coed suites what I think they are? Places for Re: Bruce Lansdale '46 and the American students to shack up? Is my interpretation Farm School in Greece [Winter 1987-88]. correct? If so, do they want the alumni to I think I was on the same football team help pay for this stuff? as Bruce. In fact in 1944 I made one of the Ask any of my classmates. I was a real All-Service All-American teams at Roches­ fun-loving kid at Eastman - but a sanc­ ter, on the team that beat the great Colgate tioned dorm to shack up! Come on now. team. But I never ever saw any girl cheer­ Please tell me that I am wrong. leader. Was I too busy on the field or were One more thing: How about more Bruce and other teammates protecting the seniors (grey panthers) on alumni and ad­ girl cheerleaders by hiding them from this visory committees? Also, the present group Marine officer candidate? seems oriented to business, corporations, Bill Adler '45 and executives. Barrington, Ill. Glen C. Law '47E You were probably doing just what your Waldorf, Md. coach told you to, which was to keep your For the last 20 years (since about the This photograph of the new Wilson eye on the ball, not on the sidelines. In the time most colleges and universities started Commons (still glassless) against the old photo reprinted here from the 1947 Inter­ treating their undergraduates as adults and library dome was taken on the cold clear pres yearbook, Tad Krihak Lansdale '47, stopped trying to act in loco parentis), evening that President Sproull was inaug­ is the one on the right - Editor. schools have been offering coed living urated in 1974. It was extra-special to find space as an option students can choose the dome lit at this time since during the Thanks for printing my letter regarding in their residence halls-usually with men energy crisis such lighting seldom hap­ Bruce Lansdale [Spring 1988]. and women living on separate floors or by pened. But because it was such a special However, your typesetter made a mistake random room assignments on the same night, the University was on stage in all in the second sentence of the second para­ floor. Rochester is no exception, andfor its glory. graph. It should have read that Thessaloniki the most part it has worked well. Be as­ No special tricks to this shot. I took " ... had a large Jewish population which sured, however, that the experiment of it via tripod-guided 200 mm shooting was lost during the war," not "has." The extending this option to the six-person, through the empty Commons against sentence lost some of its meaning as you single-bedroom suites in Hill Court is to the lit dome. printed it. be considered no more ofa sanction to the Bill Sacks '75 kind ofcoed living arrangements you are Chappaqua, N.Y thinking ofthan are any ofthe other con­ figurations ofroom assignments currently offered.

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Then, there's a little thing known as her 1979: "Star Quality" Met debut with Kiri Te Kanawa, Thtiana Troyanos, and Judith Blegen in Strauss's Die Fledermaus, in which Brasser sings the role of Ida. ("They hired me as an actress, but when they found out I was a trained singer who went to the Eastman School of Music, they were delighted," she says.) More recently, Brasser starred in Made­ moiselle Colombe, a musical based on a Jean Anouilh play, which had an extended off-Broadway run and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. She and her co-star, Tammy Grimes, received strong re­ views from The New York Times. (What's more, she cherishes a "lovely note" she re­ ceived from Hal Prince about her perform­ At Eastman, Brasser says, "I took every­ 1988: There's No People ance.) thing, everything, everything. I had mega Brasser's story does leave one a bit star­ credits per hour, but I didn't really star in a Like Show People struck. As she says, "Dreams do come lot of productions. It's an institute of learn­ Like Vicki Brasser '79E true" - at least, one might add, for some­ ing, so I took every course I could." one as talented and determined as she. Still, Thomas Paul, professor of voice "I've always known I was meant to do who coached Brasser on several occasions, this," she says. "When I was a kid I was remembers "a very lovely performance of playing National Velvet and pretending to The Fantastiks which she conceived and be Elizabeth Taylor. Performing is the only directed and sang in. " thing I could possibly do. He continues, "I was impressed with her "And I would say to someone consider­ at the time and I knew that this was some­ ing going into this business: If anything one who had the right combination of flair else appeals to you, do that instead. I think and talent and drive - underline drive. I the stage is only for those who can do only knew she was an artistic personality who this." was going to assert herself over the long And we're talking drive here - not lack haul." of gainfully employable skills. Drive and a Mirta Borges Knox '54GE was alumni belief in oneself. director of the Mu Upsilon chapter of the Victoria Brasser's story reads like an in­ "For as many people who take a liking international music fraternity Mu Phi Epsi­ genue's dream: Fresh off the train (all right, to you in this business, there are as many lon at the time Brasser presided over the it re~lly was her father's car), a young who don't - and you can't let your head be collegiate chapter. She remembers Brasser woutd-be actress aims to make it in New turned either way. as "very cheerful, outgoing, a person who York. The head of the temp agency where "Some people are going to see you differ­ had great enthusiasm for everything. " she works ("of all people," she says) sends ently from what you know in your heart She adds:, "I just knew that she had star her off to audition for Stephen Sondheim's you are, and you can easily be led astray if quality, because she had the determination Sunday in the Park with George. Without you don't know who you are, if you aren't and the self-confidence. You have to have Broadway experience or the essential union centered." it. " card, she lands a job as an understudy and, And centered she is, on stage in the spot­ However well she did at Eastman, her when one of the stars leaves, joins Berna­ light. But as if that weren't enough, Brasser friends can't help but turn the spotlight on dette Peters on stage. wants to make the leap from the Big Apple her present-day success. The rest, you might say, is Playbill fare. to the Silver Screen. Her plans include a "Have you seen her act and dance?" says Stephen Sondheim recommends Brasser for move to Los Angeles in hopes of appearing Knox. "She's really quite something." the starring role in the New York revival of in films. On the Twentieth Century, in which she "Because of Mademoiselle Colombe, performs to critical acclaim. Following that, there are some people in film who are in­ Denise Bolger Kovnat she replaces the leading lady in an Off­ terested in me. It's a side of the business I Broadway production, Olympus on My don't know a whole lot about, so that's Mind. what I'm planning. "I'm looking to get into a production out there and, I hope, into film - although I'm not closing the doors on New York," she says. Which is good, because it looks as if New York has been opening all kinds of doors to her.

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