■ Fun and games at the refurbished Union Billiards, page 4 Inside ■ Elaine Sortino notches 800th win as softball coach, page 6 The Campus Chronicle Vol. XVIII, No. 27 April 4, 2003 for the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts News Briefs As cuts loom, Lombardi Romney opts out of meeting chancellors vows to preserve quality Gov. Mitt Romney this Sarah R. Buchholz cessful that effort will be depends C week canceled a Wednesday HRONICLE STAFF a great deal on how difficult the meeting with the five UMass With a potentially significant [budgetary] problem is that the chancellors after they raised decline in state support looming Legislature faces.” objections that President Wil- in the coming fiscal year, Chancel- Describing the Legislature as liam M. Bulger was not in- lor John Lombardi assured the “on the fast track,” Lombardi said vited to attend the discus- Faculty Senate March 27 that his he anticipated at least a general sion of a proposed reorgani- administration is committed to indication of the size of the Uni- zation of public higher educa- maintaining the quality of the core versity’s state appropriation by tion. of the University. Lombardi indi- the end of April. The meeting would have cated that while the current fiscal “Any kinds of adjustments we been the first between the state of the commonwealth would need to make, the more time we chancellors and Romney likely necessitate some “pain,” he have to make them, the more ef- since the governor unveiled believes that the University can fectively and the more expedi- plans to cut the University’s continue to be strong in teaching tiously we can make them with funding and eliminate the and research. the least damage to the institu- President’s Office. Romney “We’re looking at some serious tion,” he said. “In all reality, we has already met with presi- kind of conversation about a bud- have to anticipate that we will dents of the 15 community get reduction we expect sometime share in the kind of pain that is colleges and nine state col- in April,” Lombardi said. “Exactly being talked about and likely to leges. how much that will be we can’t es- be distributed across the com- Citing Bulger’s statutory timate at this point. monwealth.” Stan Sherer photo authority as the leader of the “The President’s Office is Lombardi said he has a “pretty Top drawer University system, Board of tight focus” on maintaining the working very hard to try and get a MFA art student Victor Signore with one of the drawers Trustees Chairman Grace K. fix on this and at the same time to campus’s commitment to its stu- dents, whom, he pointed out, he has coated with liquid rubber to make the cast. The Fey last week sent a letter to make a very strong case for what drawers, which will be made of beeswax, are metaphors have been covering some of the Romney indicating that she, the University and its campuses for a place where he keeps his memories. The drawers Vice Chairman William Giblin require to be able to continue the appropriations shortfall by pay- will then be mounted in a built wooden room-like environ- and the chancellors would kind of high quality performance ing higher fees. ment. While working on the piece, he began to realize not attend the meeting with- that has characterized our service “Now our job is to persuade that he feared losing some of his earlier memories. out the president. to the commonwealth. How suc- SEE CHANCELLOR, PAGE 3 Meanwhile, UMass Lowell Chancellor William Hogan has proposed a reorganiza- 5 candidates for Research vice chancellor named tion plan that would preserve the University system and Daniel J. Fitzgibbons dent for research at the Univer- tering classes from 220 to 350 per motherapeutic treatments, mecha- create single boards of trust- CHRONICLE STAFF sity of South Carolina, are sched- year, improved the quality of en- nisms of heavy metal induced car- ees for the state and com- Open meetings with five candi- uled to visit campus over the next tering students and boosted the cinogenesis, elucidation of struc- munity colleges sectors, ac- dates for the post of vice chancel- 10 days (see page 3 for schedule). number of women faculty from tures and functions of metallo- cording to the Lowell Sun. lor for Research began this week Goldstein has been dean since five to nine. proteins. He has secured more The Hogan plan also empha- with presentations by Joseph I. 1993 and previously served seven Goldstein has been particularly than $2.5 million in research sizes regional linkages Goldstein, dean of the College of years as vice president for gradu- involved in the development of grants from the National Insti- among all three sectors. Engineering, and Rathindra Bose, ate studies and research at Le- the electron probe microanalyzer, tutes of Health, the U.S. Dept. of vice president for research and high University. scanning electron microscope, Education and the Ohio Board of dean of graduate studies at Kent NPR to air special on Under Goldstein, the college and analytical electron micro- Regents. He has published more State University. started a $25 million campaign, scope for application to problems than 130 articles in refereed jour- Michigan affirmative The other candidates, Amar which brought in the first $1 mil- in materials science and engineer- nals, abstracts and proceedings, action challenge Gupta, co-director of the PROFIT lion gift to the school. The col- ing. He has authored more than and presented numerous invited WFCR-FM will air a one- Initiative at Massachusetts Insti- lege also joined with the universi- 200 articles in scholarly journals speeches at academic institutions hour report from National tute of Technology; Rahmat ties of Connecticut and Rhode Is- along with several books and has around the globe. Public Radio on the landmark Shoureshi, associate vice presi- land to secure a two-year, $12.4 served as editor for several presti- Gupta has been co-director of University of Michigan affir- dent for technology transfer at million ARPA Manufacturing gious journals. Goldstein is the the PROFIT (Productivity From mative action case now be- Colorado School of Mines; and Education grant. The college has recipient of a number of national Information Technology) Initia- fore the U.S. Supreme Court. Harris Pastides, interim vice presi- also increased the size of its en- honors and awards. tive at the Massachusetts Insti- The special airs at 7 p.m. After serving as professor and tute of Technology’s Sloan Sunday, April 6, and will in- chair of the department of chemis- School of Management since clude audio recordings of the Faculty to work with OIT try at Kent State, Bose was ap- 1992. proceedings. pointed vice president for re- He joined MIT in 1979 as a re- For only the second time on resolving SPIRE issues search and dean of graduate search assistant and was ap- in its history, the court is re- studies in April 2002. His divi- pointed in 1991 as the first senior Sarah R. Buchholz the system. sion’s responsibilities include as- research scientist at the Sloan leasing audio of oral argu- CHRONICLE STAFF ments on the day they are “The SPIRE SIS user interface sisting faculty researchers in ap- School. He has been involved in heard. The first time was Citing a handful of problems and, especially, the Mobius report plying for external funding; over- information technology research George W. Bush v. Albert faculty and students have had utility are user unfriendly,” the re- seeing all advanced degree pro- projects totaling about $18 million Gore, Jr., et al. The court has with the new student information port from the Committee on Uni- grams; coordinating all initiatives in external funding, including $2.3 indicated that the case is so system in use for registration and versity Computing and Electronic related to the recruitment and re- million for projects in which he compelling and vital for the advising, a Faculty Senate com- Communications said. The report tention of more than 4,500 gradu- was the sole principal investiga- nation that it warrants the im- mittee asked the senate to ap- called access to SIS “unbearably ate students; fostering interdisci- tor. He is the editor or co-editor of mediate release of the tapes. prove the creation of a group to slow at critical times” and said plinary research and facilitating seven books and the author or Frank Stasio will host the address the issues. At its March that information and reports that the commercialization of univer- co-author of more than 100 refer- special and NPR legal affairs 13 meeting, the senate approved previously had been readily avail- sity-related research. eed articles, journal articles, book correspondent Nina Toten- the creation of an academic liaison able are now difficult to obtain. Bose’s primary research inter- chapters, conference proceed- berg will provide analysis of group to work with the Office of “Increased student empower- est and activities include the ings, technical reports and work- the courtroom presentations. Information Technologies to re- ment in registering for courses identification of key genes in re- ing papers. solve issues in academic use of SEE LIAISON, PAGE 3 sponse to effective cancer che- SEE SEARCH, PAGE 3 2 April 4, 2003 The Campus Chronicle Architecture program is topic of forum A community forum designed to engage area professionals and educators in a dis- cussion of how a Five College program in architecture might be linked with local is- sues and working professionals will be held Friday, April 11, 3-7:30 p.m.