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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Record Vol. 18 No. 25 March 31, 1994 Benefit changes designed to meet employees' needs Faculty and staff can expect to see significant changes in health insur- ance and retirement benefits as the open enrollment period approaches next month. Gloria W White, vice chancellor for human resources and affirmative action officer, said the changes are the result of input from faculty and staff. "Health and welfare plans available to Washington University faculty and staff result from University community input," White said. "It is important for benefit plans to meet the needs of employees and their families. These changes in health insurance and the retirement plans are designed to meet these needs." Health insurance Faculty and staff should be aware of three major changes in health insurance that will benefit participants in several ways. The changes affect monthly premiums, University allowance and domestic (same-sex) partners. . The University will offer open enroll- ment for its health and dental benefit plans April 15 through May 15. During the open enrollment period, faculty and More than 4,600 high school seniors will receive congratulatory acceptance letters in the mail this week. Above, employees staff may initiate changes, additions and in the Office of Undergraduate Admission busily prepare the packets. Pictured, from left, Jewell Parker, application proces- terminations to health and dental cover- sor, Mary Monahan, secretary/receptionist, and Mary Jo Farhatt, application processor. age. Current monthly premiums for each of the health insurance plans will remain the same on July 1, 1994, when the enroll- A Washington welcome ment changes become effective. In fact, health insurance premiums will not go up until July 1, 1995, and, in the future, University invites more than 4,600 admitted high school seniors to campus premium changes will occur at the begin- ning of the University's fiscal year, July Four thousand six hundred and fifty "Our philosophy this year is to make the market simulation. Students interested in 1, instead of in December. Previously, acceptance letters were mailed to ad- students who visit feel like they're con- environmental issues can tour the Environ- there was a six-month gap between the mitted high school seniors this week. nected to the Washington University com- mental Engineering Laboratory. Prospec- date employees received their University After the congratulatory letters, munity so they'll want to come back as a tive engineering students can meet with allowance and when they were notified of admitted students will receive an invitation to student," Clift said. "With the help of the senior Malcolm Early to discuss the Hybrid increases to monthly premiums. Premium visit Washington University as part of its Student Admission Committee, we have Electric Vehicle project and learn about rates for dental insurance, however, are second annual April Welcome program. found new ways to give current students an other research opportunities. And the list subject to change on Jan. 1, 1995. April Welcome organizers expect about active role because interacting with current goes on. "There will be no increase in health one-fourth of the admitted students to students is really the most important activ- The Student Admission Committee insurance premiums until the next open accept the invitation and visit campus next ity for visiting students." (SAC) is seeking current students to host enrollment and employees will really be month. Since December, a 25-member task The recruitment process begins as soon the visiting students overnight and partici- able to see an increase in healthcare force has been meeting regularly to prepare as an admitted student calls the special pate in student-organized activities, like allowance. It will go up to $190 on July for their visit. Members say they're ready. April Welcome Visit Hotline to schedule a evening discussions about social life at the visit. Admission employees who started University. As part of its recruitment 1," White said. The University allowance "Because we had more time to prepare has been $176 per month toward the cost and because we have done this once before, manning the hotline March 30 expect about "blitz," SAC has distributed special April of health and dental insurance for full- people have a sense that April Welcome is 1,800 April Welcome calls during the Welcome cups at the Bear's Den and hosted month. They will ask prospective students a luncheon last weekend for current student time employees. better coordinated this year," said Harold The University also has opened its Wingood, dean of undergraduate admission. their interests in and out of the classroom leaders to rally support. This year, host and create an individual itinerary for each students will have "business cards" to give health insurance plans to domestic (same- "April Welcome is a great opportunity for us sex) partners. Domestic partners of Uni- to show the admitted students how special visiting student. A student interested in to prospective students with whom they business, for example, will be able to interact, encouraging the high school versity employees will be eligible to our University is." enroll in Blue Cross and Blue Shield Increased competition for highly re- participate in a computerized economic Continued on page 5 plans and in Partners HMO. In addition to cruited high school students was one impe- health insurance, dependent life insur- tus behind the creation of April Welcome. ance, dependent dental insurance, depen- Its goal is to increase the yield (number of Students bridge cultures during spring break dent tuition assistance, the spending plan accepted students who enroll at Washington Brian Hull, a first-year student from in Clarksdale, Miss.; worked with abused and access to the library and athletic University). Last year, after 889 admitted facilities will be available to domestic students visited the campus in April, the Towson, Md., realized how privileged children in Tijuana, Mexico; and helped Continued on page 8 yield increased about 46 percent. he is as a college student. repair a school at a Haitian camp outside "There is a lot of competition out there. Rachel E. Wing, a first-year student Santo Domingo in the Dominican Repub- We have a better understanding of what it from North Ridgeville, Ohio, became lic. YMCA volunteers, Habitat for Human- In this issue ... takes to enroll qualified students at Wash- aware of America's multiplicity of cultures. ity staff members and Cherokee people ington University," Wingood said. "The visit And junior Bridgette Devaney from supervised the students' work projects and A* risk —.-.2 to campus is very important. St. Louis is an Salisbury, Md., learned people of different introduced them to different ways of living unknown commodity to lots of people. If nations can communicate effectively. and working. Researchers have found that we're going to make Washington University These students were among 50 who Helen Davis, executive director of the children of alcoholics are at high a real option to admitted candidates, the best participated in the Campus Y's Alternative Campus Y, said, "Our expectation, based on risk for developing disorders that thing is for them to come here and experi- Spring Break program March 12-19. The the experiences of three previous Alterna- could lead to alcoholism tive Spring Breaks, is that these 50 Wash- ence the University and St. Louis on their program offers students an educational and Rigorous reader 3 own terms." community service alternative to a more ington University students will return to Visiting students will have the opportu- traditional "fun-in-the-sun" spring break our campus more appreciative of different William Gass, Ph.D., teaches nity to attend classes, meet with professors, trip. Students organize the program, which ways in which people relate and work; students mat every word counts go on a tour, spend the night in a residence this year featured two international and more deeply committed to continuing to hall, work out in the gym and hang out in three domestic trips. Students renovated work for the common good; and grateful 'Changing of the Guards'.... 5 the Quadrangle. The success of April Wel- playground equipment for children attend- that they have had this opportunity to leave King symposium tributes past and come requires the participation of everyone ing the Cherokee Nation Headstart Pro- a tangible contribution of work in their host present African-American student on campus, said Nanette Clift, associate gram in Tahlequah, Okla.; repaired homes communities." director of admission. in Covington, La., and helped build them Continued on page 6 2 Washington University Record Medical Update

Children of alcoholics may develop disorders that could lead to alcoholism Researchers at the School of Medi- alcoholic parents, researchers found that Alcoholism has a genetic component, as sive follow-up studies with the children cine have found that children of children with at least one alcoholic parent do many illnesses. Data suggests children of and families involved in this initial study. alcoholics are at high risk for were at increased risk for oppositional and alcoholics are four times more likely than Plus, she said, these data will be tested and developing behavioral disorders conduct disorders. Those disorders may other children to become alcoholics them- expanded in a new study now being con- that may contribute to the development of contribute to drug and alcohol problems and selves. Genetics, however, are not the only ducted at Washington University and five alcoholism in later life. other associated disorders in adulthood. If factor. Researchers believe environmental other centers in the United States. The In a comprehensive study, investigators both parents were alcoholic, the chances of factors also can influence the development objective of the Collaborative Study of the found that while children of alcoholics these behavior disor- ^^^ ^^^ ofalcoholism.' Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) is to find probably have fewer disorders than had been ders were even higher. The gene or genes the genes that govern the inheritance of believed, they do have some specific disor- The oppositional connected to alcohol- alcoholism. Reich heads up the child ders that may be connected to the develop- and conduct disorders If left untreated, ism have not yet been committee in that study. The co-principal ment of alcoholism in later life. can grow into major identified, but Reich investigator of the entire COGA study is Co-principal investigator Wendy Reich, problems as the chil- opposition and said this study helps to her husband Theodore Reich, M.D., the Ph.D., research assistant professor of child dren of alcoholics clarify particular Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, said grow into adulthood. patterns of behavior Psychiatry and Genetics at Washington this is the most comprehensive study to date About half of the conduct disorders that seem to be con- University. The COGA study will provide of psychiatric problems in children of alco- children diagnosed nected with at least data on a much larger scale, involving as holics. Where past studies often have focused with conduct disorder can lead to a some alcoholics. many as 600 children of alcoholics. on only one disorder, this work combined a will grow out of it, but "Previous research in • In her previous study, Wendy Reich's number of assessment sources and looked at she said the other half dysfunctional the children of alcohol- team of researchers garnered data from a multitude of problems. In all, the research- develop serious psy- ics has indicated that parents, children and teachers. They also ers checked for 14 disorders ranging from chological and psychi- adult life. they have numerous had a clinician look at the interviews and attention-deficit disorder to bulimia. The most atric problems in problems," she said, develop psychiatric diagnoses for the 125 prevalent diagnosable problems encountered adulthood, from alco- tssssss* ■ssssssi "but our research children, ages 6 to 18, involved in the study. were oppositional and conduct disorders. holism to anti-social found only opposi- The researchers based their diagnoses on "Oppositional disorder refers to a nega- personality disorders. tional and conduct disorders with slightly guidelines defined in the Diagnostic and tive, stubborn sort of child who won't do "They're not lost by any means," Reich elevated rates of anxiety." Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd anything you want him to do," Reich ex- explained. "It may be that if the parents Reich said what they did not find in edition (DSM-III). A child report was plained. "He or she won't cooperate or clean would stop drinking and suddenly provide a these children was as exciting as what they prepared, as was a report based on parental up after themselves, or be polite." really good home life for the children, the did find. Past studies had suggested the observations. Those two data sets were Conduct disorder children have more children could recover as they get older." children of alcoholics had higher incidence combined to form a third report. By using serious problems, such as truancy, shoplift- The reality for many, however, is that they of attention deficit disorder (ADD). This all of those diagnostic tools, Reich said ing, and drug and alcohol abuse, Reich said. continue to have problems as their parents study did not find that connection. the researchers were able to compare Studying 125 children with and without continue to drink. Reich said she hopes to conduct inten- several different sources of information to produce a more complete and representative diagnosis. If left untreated, opposition and conduct disorders can lead to a dysfunctional adult life.- Reich pointed out that it only takes one alcoholic parent to contribute to the development of these behavioral disorders in children. Reich said it is impossible to make any predictions about particular children in the study. "The best way to test our findings is to follow these children into adulthood, and learn how their lives progress," she said. It also will be important to learn whether the problems of children whose parents have been successfully treated for alcoholism differ from those whose parents continue to drink or who relapse following treatment. Such future studies will help investigators understand more about the relationship between social and home environmental factors and the development of psychiatric disorders in the children of alcoholics. — Jim Dryden Record Editor: Deborah Parker, 935-5235, Box 1070 Executive director, University Communications: Judith Jasper At the recent Health & Science Career Fair at the School of Medicine, David Menton, M.D., associate professor of Executive editor: Susan Killenberg anatomy, explains his work as a histologist. He is using a video microscope. Many medical school faculty and staff Editor, medical news: Diane Duke, discussed their jobs with local high school students at the fair, which was sponsored by the School of Medicine and the 362-9662, Medical School Box 8065 St. Louis City/County School Partnership Program. Assistant editors: Carolyn Sanford, 935-5293; Susannah Webb, 935-66Q3, Box 1070 Production: Galen Harrison School of Medicine to establish breast cancer tissue registry Record (USPS 600-430;1SSN 1043-0520), The School of Medicine is one of four school, led by Donis-Keller, will enter Beginning in 1995, scientists studying Volume 18, Number 25/March 31,1994. Pub- information into the data base for an esti- lished for the faculty, staff and friends of U.S. medical centers designated by breast cancer will have access to the data base, Washington University. Produced weekly the National Cancer Institute to mated 8,000 tissue samples from the fol- which will include patient information re- during the school year, except school holidays, develop a regional breast cancer tissue lowing seven area hospitals: Barnes Hospi- garding tumor type, diagnosis, treatment and and monthly during June, Jury and August by registry. Information gathered from the tal, St. Louis University Hospital, DePaul outcomes. At that time, an estimated 20,000 the Office of Public Affairs, Washington regional registries will be pooled to create a Health Center, St. Anthony's Medical breast cancer tissue samples will be available University, Campus Box 1070, One Brookings national, computerized breast cancer tissue Center, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, for study, said Donis-Keller. Researchers will Drive, St Louis, Mo. 63130. Second-class postage paid at St. Louis, Mo. data base. St. Luke's Hospital and Deaconess Health be able to request tissue samples through the Address changes and corrections: The National Cancer Institute is funding System. National Cancer Institute. Postmaster and non-employees: Send to the local project, called the St. Louis Breast Record, Washington University, Campus Box Tissue Registry, with a $500,000 grant to 1070, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, the School of Medicine. Kindergarten applications being accepted Mo. 63130. The data base is being established to Hilltop Campus employees: Send to Office help provide breast cancer tissue to re- Applications are being accepted for certified elementary education teacher of Human Resources, Washington University, searchers studying the disease, said Helen entry into St. Louis Children's Hospital assisted by a co-teacher. Total enrollment for Campus Box 1184, One Brookings Drive, Donis-Keller, Ph.D, professor of surgery Child Development Center's Kindergarten the kindergarten classroom is 20 children. St. Louis, Mo. 63130. program. Morning curriculum with after- Medical Campus Employees: Send to Payroll and the grant's principal investigator in St. Children must be 5 years old by July 1. Office, Washington University, Campus Box Louis. Progress in identifying a particular noon enrichment activities are offered daily, However, the child development center 8017,660 S. Euclid, St Louis, Mo. 63110. gene or genes that may predispose women and full- and half-day programs are avail- considers early entry children, whose birth- to breast cancer has been hampered by the able. The center's hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. days are between July 1 and September 31. lack of available tumor tissue from patients with extended evening care available until 8 For more information, contact Rose with known outcomes. p.m. Rudert, curriculum and community pro- jj Washington WASHINGTON -UNIVERSTTY- IN • ST- LOUS A team of investigators at the medical The kindergarten program is taught by a grams associate, at 533-6737. March 31, 1994 3 Washington People Writer Gass sees light at end of The Tunnel William H. Gass does not consider writing "When you get to know something about him and see "I love philosophy," said Gass. "I love talking about it. I a rejuvenating activity. the writers he brings to Washington University from all love teaching it. It's made to be taught: that's what it's all "I don't enjoy it," admits Gass, Ph.D., over the world, you realize that this man reads everything. about. David May Distinguished University That's when you have to try to internalize his great critical "But I do not think of myself as a philosopher," said Professor in the Humanities and director faculty, because, even if you're not showing him your Gass, whose 1954 dissertation at Cornell University was of the International Writers Center. "But I have to do it writing, he will most likely read it. He reads everything, titled "A Philosophical Investigation of Metaphor" "That's a because if I'm not doing it, I'm really unhappy. But it is after all." very hard business. Only a few people can do it. I teach difficult and annoying enough to me that I find lots of other Gass said that like most writers, he tends to "look with philosophy. That's quite a different thing. To teach philoso- things to do instead. the greatest fondness" on his most recent work, "just be- phy is to explain and ponder other people's ideas. To be a "I don't find writing exhilarating the way some writers cause you've finally got the damn thing done. You don't philosopher is to create them." do. It's a process of facing your shortcomings every second. have to think about it anymore. It's off your back. The most As director of the International Writers Center, which is It's not, 'Oh boy, how good I am!' but 'After all these years important work for me is the work I just got rid of." housed on the lower level of the West Campus facility, Gass I still can't write a decent sentence!'" His most recent work is a 1,200-page manuscript titled offers resources to writers in St. Louis, across the country The native of Fargo, N.D., decided he wanted to be a The Tunnel, a novel on which he worked for 26 years. Since and around the world. writer at age 8 but did not publish his first novel, he began the project in 1966,20 sections of the book have "Literature in this country is multiracial, multilingual, it's Omensetter's Luck, until 1966. He was 42. been published. Alfred A. Knopf will publish the long- in a sense international," said Gass. "Writers don't see For a longtime, Gass said, he was "getting nowhere." awaited book in January. language, race and nation as barriers anymore. So that when Gass said he believes being a writer and establishing one- "Most people around here know Bill Gass as genial a good writer publishes a book in Italy, that's as important as self as a writer are two separate entities. Critics and col- interlocutor and winner of awards," said Charles Newman, one published in the United States. Every American writer leagues say he clearly has accomplished both. Ph.D., professor of English. "They know nothing of his is immediately interested." Yet Gass believes that everybody, Since the New American Library published the critically early struggles and disappointments, nor do they know the regardless of where he or she resides, is part of a locality. acclaimed Omensetter's Luck, which has been translated costs of perservering with a work as complex and ambitious "So what we want to do is bring people from their locale to into more than six ours." foreign languages, The center is well Gass has written two known throughout the novels, a short story international literary and three books of community, particu- essays, as well as larly in Europe, China newspaper and and Japan, Gass said. magazine articles. Since its inception, Among his works the center has pre- are the novel Willie sented readings by Masters' Lonesome writers such as Nige- Wife and a book of rian Ben Okri, Austra- stories titled In the lian Janette Turner Heart of the Heart of Hospital, Somali the Country, both Nuruddin Farah, published in 1968. South African Breyten His three books of Breytenbach and literary essays are: Polish poet Adam Fiction and the Zagajewski. Figures of Life In 1992 the center (1971), The World presented its first Within the Word biennial conference, (1978) and The "The Writer in Poli- Habitations of the tics," featuring Peru- Word{ 1985), for vian writer and former which he won the presidential contender National Book Mario Vargas Llosa, Critics Circle award among other writers. for criticism. The The subject of the book is a collection 1994 conference, to ofessaysonsuch William Gass, Ph.D., David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, talks with graduate student Sharon be held Oct. 23-26, is writers as Plato, Wahl. "The Writer and James Joyce and Religion." Gass said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gass' 1976 booklength essay, "On writers have a common interest in political and moral issues Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry," detailed the meta- that endanger freedom of speech. phorical meanings of blue. For Gass, one such issue is the case of writer Salman "I respect his writing as highly as I respect anyone work- "'I'm going to retire Rushdie, who has been sentenced to death for writing The ing today," said Stanley Elkin, Ph.D., Merle Kling Professor Satanic Verses. On Feb. 14,1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah of Modern Letters. Elkin, a critically acclaimed writer who and play golf is my Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death, stating that the has published 16 books, has known Gass for 35 years. 1988 book was "... against Islam, the Prophet and the Ko- Robert Coover, author of numerous works and a writer idea of hell." ran." Rushdie remains in hiding. in residence at Brown University, said he would rather be Gass and Lorin Cuoco, associate director of the center, reviewed by Gass than anyone. "He would tell me things are founding members of the Rushdie Defense Committee about myself I wouldn't already know," Coover said. "And USA based at PEN American Center in New York. At the he would do it in a way that would bring me delight even if as The Tunnel — the scope of which is simply beyond the Modern Language Association's recent annual meeting held he was being critical." ken of most contemporary American writers. That is what in Toronto, Gass spoke at a forum on Rushdie and handed Coover said Gass has an intense focus on language. is instructive to me — his tough-mindedness and out buttons that read "We Are Salman Rushdie." Parts of his "He's very much a kind of intellectual spokesman for new persistance and indifference to conventional success — talk were published on the editorial pages of major newspa- writing in America. He has impatience for anything that without the psychopathic meglomania so prevalent in pers in America and abroad. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch smacks of convention. Every sentence that Bill puts to- American letters." reprinted his entire speech. gether is a new sentence. It hasn't been written before." The lead character in The Tunnel is a historian at a The case of Rushdie, a successful writer from India, "is Gass, who joined the Washington University faculty in Midwest university who is sympathetic to the Nazi regime. simply a famous instance of what's happening to all kinds of 1969 as a professor of philosophy, first became attracted to Although political movements form the backdrop of the people who are put in jail or executed without anybody writing through a "reading binge." As a youngster he was a book, its focus is family politics, or what Gass describes as speaking up for them," says Gass. The Rushdie case became slow reader and often behind in class. But he soon became "the tyranny of the breakfast table." The Tunnel, he summa- famous, he says, because of its "outrageous mode. If a very fast reader — frequently reading at least one book a rizes, examines "the fascism of the heart." Rushdie had been a citizen of Iran he would have just been day. "That sudden spurt of reading ability fueled the desire The character, a historian and college professor, is very quietly squelched. But this was so flagrantly public, in to produce what I was consuming. Then I found that I could smart and a bigot. By detailing the professor's interactions which they put out a contract on the life of a citizen of do it. It was something I found I did relatively easily. I took with his family and colleagues, Gass shows how a humanis- another country. It's outrageous." a great deal of satisfaction in it, and initially I received a lot tic education fails to save one from becoming a bigot or a With the demands of writing, teaching and serving as of praise and good response." fascist. "What I'm thinking about is all the bigotry and director of the center, one might think Gass would not have Graduate student Ethan Bumas noted that Gass is a fascist mentalities underlying the surface of American life, time to pursue other interests. Not so. He also is an enthusi- voracious reader. Bumas has taken several philosophy which bad times could reveal, just as it did in Germany and ast of traveling, photography and architecture, not necessar- courses taught by Gass and completed independent studies elsewhere. It's there ready to come out. I worry about this ily in that order. Gass "knows everything," said Elkin. "He in writing with the author. Bumas' own book, The Price of all the time. understands the forks of good living." Tea in China, will be published in November. "I'm really trying to construct a complex and devious Gass has nearly completed a book on photography and "Gass doesn't teach writing so much as he teaches consciousness which will raise the question of whether the another on the relationship between literature and architec- reading, how to create an entire world by reading a sen- study of art can make a humane person. Can the study of ture. He likes to compare books to buildings and often tence, a paragraph, a story," Bumas said. "Perhaps, he is literature? Can the study of philosophy?" lectures at architectural schools across the country. His wife, such a great writer in part because he is such a great reader. Throughout history, Gass points out, there have been Mary, is an architect. "As a teacher, he shows students just how seriously they numerous professors, religious leaders, philosophers and Despite a hectic pace, the multifaceted Gass is not about must take each word they write to truly live up to their own other highly educated individuals who were Nazi sympa- to slow down. "It's essential for people to have a career potentials. He teaches you how to read your own work with thizers, fascists, or other types of bigots. which allows different interests to develop. It isn't a good rigor. A great lesson. To repay his generosity, you find your- Writing is not Gass' only passion. He is equally commit- idea to retire from life. That's deadly. 'I'm going to retire self writing better just so that he won't have to read ugly prose, ted to teaching and serving as director of the International and play golf is my idea of hell." which for him is almost as bad as living in an ugly world. Writers Center. — Carolyn Sanford Calendar March 31-April 9

and Literatures. Room 219 South Ridgley 4 p.m. Dept. of Music lecture. "A Discus- Architects, San Francisco. Willis, a graduate Hall. 935-5156. sion of His Music," Hale Smith, guest of Washington University, will lecture on composer, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. the current state of architecture by discuss- Wednesday, April 6 Room 8 Blewett Hall. 935-5581. ing his own work. Room 116 Givens Hall. 7 and 9 p.m. FUmboard Foreign Series. 6 and 8:30 p.m. WU Association Travel 4 p.m. Assembly Series Association of "Ballad of a Soldier" (1959, B&W), in Lecture. "The Real World of the Philip- Korean Students lecture. "Is Good Gov- Russian with English subtitles. (Also April 7, pines," Rick Howard film producer, free- ernment an Oxymoron?" Wendy Lee same times.) Room 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. lance writer and photographer. Graham Gramm, former chair, U.S. Commodity Chapel. Cost: $4.50. 935-5212. Futures Trading Commission. May Aud., Exhibitions Friday, April 8 Simon Hall. 935-5495. 7 and 9:30 p.m. FUmboard Feature Series. Saturday, April 2 4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "The Pauson- "Orlando" (1993). (Also April 9, same "Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years." Exhibit 9 a.m. Saturday Morning Neural Sciences Khand Reaction," Marie E. Krafft, prof, of times.) Room 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. continues through July 15. Glaser Gallery, Seminar Series: MRN — Magnetic Reso- chemistry, Florida State U, Tallahassee. School of Medicine Library. Hours: 9 a.m.- Midnight. FUmboard Midnight Series. nance Neuroscience. "MRI: Introduction Room 311 McMillen Lab. 9 p.m. weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. 362- "Harold and Maude" (1971). (Also April 9, and Basic Physics," Michael Vannier, prof, 4 p.m. Social thought and analysis lec- 7080. same time.) Room 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. of radiology and asst. prof, of surgery. ture. "In Praise of Distributed Citizenship," Center of Contemporary Arts Annual Erlanger Aud., McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-7470. Michael Schudson, prof, of sociology and Juried Exhibition. "Caje '94: America's communications, U. of California, San Cultural Diversity," a print exhibit by Jeffrey Diego. Room 140 McMillan Hall. Sipple. Continues through April 30. Sipple is Monday* April 4 an artist and director of education at Tama- 4 p.m. Biology seminar. "BCL-2/Bax: A 4:30 p.m. Math colloquium. "Integral rind Institute, U. of Mexico, Albuquerque. Rheostat That Regulates Cell Death," Formulas in Complex Analysis," Lev Exhibit is held in collaboration with Kevin Stanley J. Korsmeyer, prof, of medicine and Aizenberg, prof, of mathematics, U. of Garber, lecturer/research assoc. in art, pathology, Howard Hughes Medical Insti- Maryland College Park. Room 199 Cupples printmaking division, School of Fine Arts. tute. Room 322 Rebstock Hall. I Hall. Center of Contemporary Arts, 524 Trinity 4 p.m. Immunology seminar. "Pathogen- Friday, April 8 Ave. 935-6571 or 725-6555. esis and Latency of Murine Cytomegalovi- "38 Hands." Exhibit features the work of Lectures rus," Herbert W Virgin, asst. prof., Dept. of 4 p.m. Assembly Series lecture. "Today's first-year master of fine arts students. Medicine. Third Floor Aud., St. Louis Young and Gifted Student: Bringing Some- thing to the Table Other Than an Appetite," Continues through April 17. Pierce-Arrow Thursday, March 31 Children's Hospital. 362-8748. Gallery, 4814 Washington Ave. Hours: 12-6 Star Jones, attorney and legal correspondent 11:15 a.m. Social work seminar. "Evaluat- 7 p.m. Molecular biophysics seminar. "In for NBC news. Keynote lecture of the 1994 p.m. Wednesdays; 12-7 p.m. Fridays; 12-6 ing Outcomes in Mental Health Services," Search of the Molten Helix," Garland p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. 935-4761 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium, "A Paul R. Binner, research assoc. prof, of Marshall, prof., Dept of Biochemistry and Changing of the Guards." Graham Chapel. "Junior exhibit" features a collection of psychiatry, Missouri Institute of Mental Molecular Biophysics. Room 423 (Reception: 5:15 p.m. in Holmes Lounge, artwork by junior fine arts students. April 4- Health, St. Louis. Administrative Center, McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. (Din- Ridgley Hall.) 17. Reception: 5-7 p.m. April 8. Bixby Second Floor Conference Room, 1130 S.' ner: 6:30 p.m.) 4 p.m. Microbial pathogenesis seminar. Gallery, Bixby Hall. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hampton. 935-5687. 7-10 p.m. Office of Continuing Medical weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. 935-4643. "The Bortdetella Virulence Regulon," Noon. Genetics seminar. "Genome Data Education seminar. "Internal Medicine Jeffrey Miller, asst. prof., Dept. of Microbi- "The Authenticated Word: Victorian Analysis," Philip Green, assoc. prof, of Review." The topic is neurology. Steinberg ology and Immunology, U. of California Illustrated Books, 1820-1900." April 8- genetics. Room 816 McDonnell Medical Amphitheatre, Jewish Hospital. For sched- Medical School, Los Angeles. Room 775 July 1. Olin Library, Special Collections, Sciences Bldg. 362-7072. ules and cost info., call 362-6893. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. level five. Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. week- 1:10 p.m. Social work lecture. "Unfaithful days. 935-5495. Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned Tuesday, April 5 Its Mission," Harry Specht, dean, School of 5 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- Social Welfare, U. of California, Berkeley. sium discussion. "Conquering Hatred," Brown Hall Lounge. 935-4909. Duane Ingram, People for the American Way. Women's Bldg. Lounge. 935-5994. 4 p.m. Architecture lecture. "Mercenary or Professional?" Richard Sommer, visiting 5:05 p.m. Central Institute for the Deaf asst. prof, of architecture. Room 116 Givens seminar on progressive sensory loss. Hall. 935-6200. "Progressive Loss of Vision Related to Ocular Fluids and Circulation," Martin B. 4 p.m. Assembly Series John and Penelope Wax, assoc. prof., Dept. of Ophthalmology Biggs Residency in the Classics lecture. and Visual Sciences. Second Floor Aud., "Sappho's Aphrodite and the Changing Central Institute for the Deaf. Music Films Woman of the Apache," Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Wednesday, April 6 Monday, April 4 Literature and prof, of comparative litera- 8 p.m. String chamber ensemble perfor- Thursday, March 31 ture, Harvard U., Cambridge, Mass. May 7:30 a.m. Obstetrics and Gynecology mance. "A Concert for Chamber Music," Grand Rounds. "Breast Disease for the 7 and 9 p.m. FUmboard Foreign Series. Aud, Simon Hall. 935-5285. directed by Elizabeth Macdonald visiting "The Exterminating Angel" (1962, B&W), Gynecologist," Eric Reinertson, chief resi- 4 p.m. Biology and biomedical sciences artist in music. Women's Bldg. Lounge. 935- in Spanish with English subtitles. Room dent, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 5581. 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. For 24-hour student-organized seminar. "The Increas- Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. ingly Marvelous Complexities of Gene FUmboard hotline, call 935-5983. 12:15 p.m. Molecular microbiology semi- Regulation Mechanisms," Stephen Johnston, Thursday, April 7 nar. "In Vitro Evolution of Ribozymes," Friday, April 1 Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. 8 p.m. Duo piano recital. Performance Erlanger Aud., McDonnell Medical Sciences Gerry Joyce, Dept. of Molecular Biology, features Sally Pinkas, asst. prof, of music, 7 and 9:30 p.m. FUmboard Feature Se- Bldg. 362-1421. Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and Evan ries. "Europa, Europa" (1991), in German Con Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-7258. Hirsch, concert pianist, Brandeis U, Waltham, 4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "The Use of and Russian with English subtitles. (Also 3 p.m. Math analysis seminar. "Boundary Mass. Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-5581. Organotransition Metal Complexes to Acti- April 2, same times, and April 3 at 7 p.m.) Accessibility of Simply Connected Domains Room 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. vate Carbon-hydrogen Bonds in Alkanes and Saturday, April 9 Other Organic Molecules," Robert G.. and Hausdorff Dimension of Exceptional Midnight. FUmboard Midnight Series. 1 p.m. Piano master class. Instructors are Bergman, prof, of chemistry, U. of Califor- Sets," Steffen Rohde, prof, of mathematics, "Battlestar Galactica" (1978). (Also April 2, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Room 199 Sally Pinkas, asst. prof, of music, nia, Berkeley. Room 311 McMillen Lab. same time, and April 3 at 9:30 p.m.) Room Cupples I Hall. 935-6726. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and 4 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences 100 Brown Hall. Cost: $3. 4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular bio- Evan Hirsch, concert pianist, Brandeis U, colloquium. "Mechanisms of Strain physics seminar. "Physical and Genetic Waltham, Mass. Tietjens Rehearsal Hall. Tuesday, April 5 Accomodation in the India-Asia Collision 935-5581. System," Dave Rowley, assoc. prof., Dept. Studies of Lactose Repressor Protein," 7 p.m. Chinese FUm Series. "Street Play- Kathleen S. Matthews, Dept. of Biochemis- ers" (1987), in Chinese only. Sponsored by of Geophysical Sciences, U. of Chicago. Room 362 McDonnell Hall. 935-5610. try, Rice U, Houston. Cori Aud., 4565 Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages McKinley Ave. 362-0261. 4:15 p.m. Philosophy colloquium. '"The Travel-broken Shade of Oedipus': Taint and Thursday, April 7 Calendar guidelines Morality," Johann Klaassen, graduate stu- Noon. Pediatric research seminar. dent in philosophy and winner of the Helen Events sponsored by the University — its "Germline Manipulation of Glucose Trans- Stenner Memorial Essay Competition for departments, schools, centers, organizations port in Muscle," Bess A. Marshall, instruc- 1993-94. Room 30 January Hall. and its recognized student organizations — tor, Dept. of Pediatrics. Third Floor Aud., St. are published in the Calendar. All events are 4:30 p.m. Math colloquium. "Non-linear Louis Children's Hospital. 454-2713. free and open to the public, unless otherwise Commutators and L/7-theory of PDEs," Noon. Genetics seminar. "The Molecular noted. Tadeusz Iwaniec, prof, of mathematics, Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease," Mark Performances Calendar submissions should state time, Syracuse U., New York. Room 199 Cupples Keating, Program for Human Molecular date, place, sponsor, title of event, name of I Hall. Biology and Genetics, U. of Utah, Salt Lake Friday, April 1 speakers) and affiliation, and admission City. Room 816 McDonnell Medical Sci- 8 p.m. Performing Arts Dept. presenta- cost. Quality promotional photographs with Friday, April 1 ences Bldg. 362-7072. tion. "The Beggar's Opera," a satire on the Noon. CeU biology and physiology semi- conventions of Italian opera, is directed by descriptions are welcome. Send items to 2:30 p.m. Mechanical engineering nar. "Sensory Transduction in the Muscle Jeffery Matthews, artist-in-residence in Judy Ruhland at Box 1070 (or via fax: 935- colloquium. "Normal Modes and Localiza- Spindle: Source of the Generator Potential drama. (Also April 2, 8 and 9, same time, 4259). Submission forms are available by tion in Nonlinear Repetitive Structures," and Mechanical Factors," Michael Chua, and April 3 at 7 p.m.) Edison Theatre. Cost: calling 935-4926. Melvin E. King, research asst., Dept. of research asst. prof., Dept. of Neurology and $7 for the general public; $5 for senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineers, U. of The deadline for all entries is noon Tuesday Neurological Surgery. Room 423 citizens, WU faculty and staff; and $5 for Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Room 100 one week prior to publication. Late entries McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. students. 935-6543. will not be printed. The Record is printed Cupples II Hall. 935-6047. every Thursday during the school year, 4 p.m. Microbial pathogenesis seminar. "Legionella Infections — From the Bedside 4 p.m. Architecture lecture. "Fourplex: Saturday, April 9 except holidays, and monthly during the Water, Transportation, Governing, Housing," summer. If you are uncertain about a dead- to the Bench," Lucy Tompkins, assoc. prof, 8 p.m. "Stage Left" series presentation. of medicine, microbiology and immunology, Michael Willis, principal, Michael Willis "Rever-Ber-Berations," presented by line, holiday schedule, or any other informa- Associates Architects, and vice president tion, please call 935-4926. Stanford U, Stanford, Calif. Room 775 Spiderwoman Theater, a trio of American McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. and president-elect, American Institute of Indian sisters who translate their dreams Washington University Record / March 31, 1994 5 into stories of their lives with movement Ngoma, a St. Louis-based African drum and narrative. Drama Studio, Room 208 and dance group. Holmes Lounge, Ridgley King symposium recognizes strong Mallinckrodt Center. Cost: $12 for the Hall. 935-5994. general public with discounts for students and senior citizens. 935-6543. Wednesday, April 6 African-American student leadership 7:30 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sym- posium tribute. "Ordinary Men Doing The 1994 Martin Luther King Jr. Black Manifesto" is a 26-page document Extraordinary Things." Wydown Multipur- Symposium will be held April 3-9 in released by the Association of Black Colle- pose Room, South Forty. 935-5994. conjunction with the 25th anniver- gians (now ABS) in 1968, highlighting a sary of the Association of Black Students wide range of grievances and concerns. Thursday, April 7 (ABS), the symposium's major sponsor. "Conquering Hatred" is the title of a talk 7 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- The symposium theme is "A Changing at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, by Duane sium discussion. "Empowerment Through of the Guards." All events are free and open Ingram, field coordinator of People for the Multicultural Organizations." Representa- to the public, unless otherwise noted. American Way. The 300,000-member tives from various student groups will "The African-American students before organization is a non-partisan, constitutional discuss why their organizations are needed us were so active," said senior political liberties group based in Washington, D.C. on campus. Friedman Lounge, Wohl Center. Miscellany 935-5994. science major Janeen Nelson, program- Ingram will speak about conquering what ming chair of he considers die "anti-progressive strategies Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 8 ABS along with of the religious right" in the Women's 6:30 p.m. American Medical Women's 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Office of Continuing Kelli Washing- Building Lounge. Association dinner. "Domestic Violence: ton. "They real- At 7 p.m. "South Africa Revisited," a Our Role as Healthcare Providers," Susan Medical Education workshop. "Frontiers Dersch, Women's Health Coordinator of in Ovulation Induction" in Philadelphia, Pa. ized things do not musical program and discussion, will be A.W.A.R.E. (Assisting Women With Advo- For registration and cost info., call 362- change on their held in Ridgley Hall's Holmes Lounge. The cacy Resources And Education). Co- 6893. own. You have to program features Ngoma, a St. Louis-based sponsored by Domestic Violence Action. 9 a.m. Conference on Ethics and Cogni- change them. African drum, dance and "songoetry" Brown Room, Jewish Hospital. 362-6236. tive Science. "Minds and Morals." Open- These students group ("songoetry" is a mixture of song ing remarks by Roger F. Gibson, prof, of left us a legacy of and poetry). Saturday, April 2 philosophy. (Continues through April 10.) ■ being involved. A tribute to black men will be held at 8:30 a.m. Thurtene Throng Five-mile At Washington University and the Holiday As our theme 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in the multi- Road Race. Start and finish at Bates Inn, 7730 Bonhomme, Clayton. Registra- Star Jones implies, we want purpose room of Wydown Hall. The pro- Memorial in Forest Park at the north end of tion fee: $35; free for WU students and gram is titled "Ordinary Men Doing Ex- faculty. For schedules and to register, call to build on what they have accomplished so Fine Arts Drive. Meet at 8:30 a.m.; race that ABS will continue to be a powerful, traordinary Things." begins at 10 a.m. Top finishers receive 935-6670. trophies in three age categories. Awards proactive force at Washington University." An informal discussion on "Empower- 10 a.m. St. Louis Symposium on Ger- Star Jones, an attorney and legal corre- ment Through Multicultural Organiza- will be given at the finish line at 12:30 man Literature. "Knowledge, Science p.m. Pre-registered participants receive T- and Literature in the Early Modern Pe- spondent for NBC News, will deliver the tions" will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, shirts. Cost: $10. Proceeds will be given to riod." Opening remarks by Provost Edward keynote speech, titled "Today's Young and April 7, in Friedman Lounge. Representa- charity. 935-1276. Macias. Brown Hall Lounge. (Continues Gifted Student: Bringing Something to the tives from various student groups will 2-4 p.m. Fine arts lithography demon- through April 10.) Lectures Saturday and Table Other Than an Appetite," at 4 p.m. discuss why their organizations are needed stration. Jeffrey Sipple, artist and director Sunday at West Campus Conference Cen- April 8 in Graham Chapel. The lecture is on campus. of education, Tamarind Institute, U. of New ter. Registration fee: $25 for the general part of the Assembly Series. A reception in At 7 p.m. April 8, individuals will Mexico, Albuquerque, will hold a photoli- public; free for WU community. For sched- her honor will be held at 5:15 p.m. in gather under the Brookings archway to thography demonstration in collaboration ules and to register, call 935-5106. Ridgley Hall's Holmes Lounge. Both the commemorate the 1968 march on with Kevin Garber, lecturer and research Noon. Woman's Club luncheon and lecture and reception are free and open to Brookings, when black students occupied assoc, School of Fine Arts. Room 109 orientation. Program by two local chapters the public. Brookings Hall to support Elbert Walton Bixby Hall. Cost: $10 for the general of "The Questers," an organization that Jones has made many appearahces on Jr., a black business student who accused public; free for WU fine arts students, studies antiques. Presentations and exhibits members of Center of Contemporary Arts television shows, such as NBC News' campus security officers of brutality. by Magdalin Szabo, club member and past "Today," "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Robert L. Williams, Ph.D., professor and "Caje '94" artists. 935-6571 or 725- president. Cost: $5 for members and 6555. guests. Pre-register by April 5. Women's Brokaw, "Dateline NBC" and "The Tonight emeritus of psychology and African and Bldg. Lounge. 991-0885 or 721-3573. Show" with Jay Leno, discussing various Afro-American studies, will speak about Sunday, April 3 subjects, including the trials of William the significance of the march. 7 p.m. Reenactment of the march on 7 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- Brookings. Robert L. Williams, prof, Kennedy Smith, Michael Tyson and From 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, April 9, sium student talent show. "Puttin' on the emeritus of African and Afro-American Rodney King. "A Changing of the Guards" formal will be Hits!" May Aud., Simon Hall. 935-5994. Studies and psychology, will discuss In October 1992, weekend "Today" held in the America's Center ballroom of significance of 1968 march. Event is part launched a segment titled "Star Jones for the Cervantes Convention Center. Alumnus Monday, April 4 of the 1994 Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- the People," where Jones addressed legal Robert Johnson III, Ph.D., of St. Cloud 7 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- sium, "A Changing of the Guards." questions mailed in by the program's view- State University in Minnesota, will be the sium forum and discussion. "The Black Brookings Arch. 935-5994. ers. guest speaker. He is a former president of Manifesto," a 1968 document released by the Association of Black Collegians (now 7 p.m. School of Fine Arts weekend Jones received her law degree in 1986 the Association of Black Collegians. Tick- Association of Black Students) highlight- workshop. "Seeing Color With Phyllis from the University of Houston Law Cen- ets are $20 for students and $25 for faculty, ing grievances and concerns. Friedman Plattner." Instruction by Plattner, artist and ter. She has been named by Children's staff, alumni and friends of the University. Lounge, Wohl Center. 935-5994. teacher, Maryland Institute of Art. Work- Defense Fund (CDF) founder Marian The 1994 symposium also will include a shop includes a slide lecture Friday evening Wright Edelman to the advisory board of reunion for black alumni, along with a Tuesday, April 5 in Room 104 Bixby Hall. (Workshop con- the Black Community Crusade for Chil- student/alumni picnic and brunch. For more 7 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Sympo- tinues through April 10.) Work in your dren, an arm of the CDF. chosen medium Saturday and Sunday in information, call the Office of Student sium drumming, dance and discussion. Her honors include the 1992 Young Activities at 935-5994. "South Africa Revisted," a part of the Room 212 Bixby Hall. Cost: $225. For registration info., call 935-4643. Lawyer of the Year Award from the Na- In addition to ABS, symposium spon- "Power to the People" series. Features tional Bar Association and the 1992 sors are Student Union, Student Educa- President's Award from the National Asso- tional Service, Assembly Series, Black • ciation for the Advancement of Colored Alumni Council, Black Panhellenic Coun- Printmarket proceeds to benefit Gallery of Art People. cil and the Division of Student Affairs. The King symposium begins with a The keynote lecture is co-sponsored by The Gallery of Art will host the 11th across the country with varying special- student talent show, "Puttin' On The Hits!" the Assembly Series, Association of Black annual St. Louis Printmarket April 8 ties. at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 3, in May Audito- Students, Black Alumni Council, Black through 10. "Our 1993 event was the most suc- rium, Simon Hall. Panhellenic Council, Office of Student St. Louis Printmarket features both cessful Printmarket ever, breaking A forum on "The Black Manifesto" will Affairs, Council of Students of Arts and local and national print dealers offering a records in dealer participation and atten- be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Sciences, Student Educational Service and wide variety of contemporary, old and dance by the public," Ketner said. "We Friedman Lounge, Wohl Center. "The Student Union. modern master prints, posters, Japanese hope to build on that success this year." woodblock prints, Australian and Ab- A benefit cocktail party and preview original prints, photographs, Western will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. April 8 at travel and Missouri items, antiquarian the gallery. Tickets cost $50. maps, American historical prints, botani- Printmarket will continue from 10 cal prints, architectural prints and much a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9 and from noon to 5 more. p.m. April 10. General admission is $5, For the fourth year, all Printmarket student admission is $2, and children proceeds will benefit the Gallery of Art. under 12 will be admitted free of charge. Cecile Lowenhaupt, chair and co- Washington University fine arts founder of Printmarket, said the event has students from the Collaborative Print Baseball Women's Tennis raised much-needed funds for the gallery Workshop will demonstrate many Last Week: Washington 18, Westminster 5; Last Week: Washington 6, William Woods and raised public awareness of its out- printmaking methods throughout the Simpson 4, Washington 1; Washington 5, 1; Washington 5, Northeast Missouri 4; standing collection. weekend. Students' work will be for sale Illinois Benedictine 5 (called after seven Southwest Missouri 5, Washington 0 Joseph Ketner, gallery director, said at the show. innings due to darkness) This Week: 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, St. Louis Printmarket draws dealers from For more information, call 935-5490. This Week: 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, at vs. Southern Illinois University-Edwards- St. Louis University, Billiken Sports Com- ville, Tao Tennis Center; 3:30 p.m. Thurs- plex; 10 a.m. Saturday, April 2, vs. Illinois day, March 31, vs. Webster, Tao Tennis All encouraged to welcome students -fwmPage i Wesleyan University, Kelly Field; 3 p.m. Center April 2, vs. DePauw University, Kelly Field. Season Record: 7-2 students to call with questions about life at will be available in Mallinckrodt and Wohl Season Record: 12-9-1 ' Washington University. centers. Visiting students will receive special Faculty and staff also are encouraged to play identification cards, which will give an active role as "greeters." An April Welcome Men's Tennis access to residence halls, one free meal Booth will be set up at the Brookings Arch, Men and Women's Recent Matches: Washington 6, Univer- on campus, emergency numbers and the where brochures and parking passes will be sity of Chicago 1; Washington 5, North- dates of freshmen orientation. Campus available for visiting students and parents. By Track and Field east Missouri State University 3 Last Week: Idle tours will run at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on this time, all faculty and staff should have This Week: 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, weekdays, at 10:30 a.m. and noon Satur- received their April Welcome buttons. This Week: 10 a.m. Saturday, April 2, at vs. Jefferson College (Exhibition Match), days and at 12:30 p.m. Sundays. Exten- "I hope everyone will welcome these SEMOtion Relays, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Tao Tennis Center. sive calendars that list activities on students and help them feel like a part of the 11 a.m. Saturday, April 2, at Principia campus and throughout St. Louis will be campus community," Clift said. Invitational, Elsah, 111. Season Record: 4-4 distributed to each visiting student and — Susannah Webb 6 Washington University Record Philosophers, scientists to attend conference on mind and morals The connection between ethics and cognitive science will be explored during a conference to be held April 8-10 at Washington University and the Holiday Inn in Clayton. Philosophers and scientists from across the country will attend "Mind and Morals: A Conference on Ethics and Cognitive Science." Pre-registration is required for the conference, which is open to the public. The $35 registration fee will be waived for Washington stu- dents and faculty. Cognitive science is an interdiscipli- nary field drawing on research in psy- chology, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy. Often termed the "sci- ence of the mind," it investigates the psychological and neurological processes that underlie perception, thought and action. Cognitive science's bearing on ethics will be addressed in sessions that include "Moral Judgments and Structures of the Mind," "Judgment, Justice and Folk Psychology," and "Sympathy, Empa- Highwayman Jemmy Twitcher (played by senior Matthew Kaplan) makes off with Mrs. Slammekin (played by junior Julie thy and Moral Objectivity." Newman) in the Performing Arts Department production of 'The Beggar's Opera." Just as actors brought clothes to wear The conference is sponsored by the as costumes in the original 18th-century show, so the student actors of 1994 bring their own clothing and ideas to this Department of Philosophy, the new Phi- production. "The Beggar's Opera," a satire on the conventions of Italian opera, will run April 1-3 and 8-10 at Edison Theatre. losophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) program, the College of Arts and Sci- ences and The McDonnell Foundation. Students forego 'fun in the sun' for community service yfork-jmmpagei Marilyn Friedman, Ph.D., associate pro- One of Devaney's most memorable child development center, which Washing- seem really petty." fessor, Larry May, Ph.D., professor, and experiences during the trip to Santo ton students helped build in 1992. Before Wing went to the self-governing Chero- Mark Rollins, Ph.D., assistant professor, Domingo was her conversation with a 19- Devaney went to Mexico, she said she had kee Nation area in Tahlequah, Okla., where all of the philosophy department, are year-old substitute teacher at the Haitian preconceived notions about how her labor she painted playground equipment for the conference organizers. camp near DonGregorio, where more than would vastly help the residents. But children enrolled in the nation's Headstart "A basic question of the conference 300 Haitians lived and worked as agricul- Devaney later discovered that she had put program, the second largest Native Ameri- will be: To what extent is a scientifically tural laborers nearby. The camp consisted of too much emphasis on the labor aspects of can Headstart program in the country. grounded ethical theory possible," said concrete and wood houses, a school and a the trip. "Work itself wasn't the essence," Washington students also painted the entire Rollins. "The answer to that will likely be store on dirt roads. Washington students she said. "The people wanted to know how alphabet and a clown on the playground found in the discussion of other issues of stayed at the YMCA near the camp. In we were doing, how we felt about being walls for the youngsters, who were away on far-reaching interest: What is the relation addition to scraping paint off the school there and our perception of their culture. I their own spring break. between reason, emotion and intuition in walls so the school could be repainted, the realized that the attitude I came with about Wing, a math and psychology major, moral thinking? Do men and women students played with the Haitian children helping poor people verged on being conde- said she participated in the Alternative typically embody different forms of and interacted with village residents. scending: I needed to go there to help out." Spring Break program because she wanted moral judgment and behavior? Are there "I spent a long time talking to the That mode of thinking wrongfully implied to see how another culture lives. While in biological predispositions to certain teacher," said Devaney, who added that the that the residents were inferior just because Tahlequah, the students discussed various morally significant behaviors, such as teacher spoke only Spanish. "I spoke a little they were poor, she added. aspects of Cherokee culture, ranging from altruism and aggression? bit of Spanish. It was awfully difficult for "I did help," she said, "but I came away misconceptions people have about Ameri- "Two traditional strengths of the phi- me to understand (her). Some of the most with more than I gave. They were so warm, can Indians, to traditional Cherokee foods, losophy department at Washington Uni- important communication was nonverbal. so caring." games and ceremonial dances. The Chero- versity have been the philosophy of By using gestures, we had a different kind of Hull, a computer science major, traveled kee people are committed to their culture science and value theory, which includes exchange. She was interested in me and the to Clarksdalp, Miss., with nine other Wash- and traditions, Wing said. "In our country, ethics," continued Rollins. "The recent other people in our group. She rode back ington students to help Habitat for Humanity there are so many different cultures right growth of the department has further with us to DonGregorio. She showed me her members build homes in a low-income next to us. You don't have to go too far to solidified those strengths and provoked a home. We had meaningful exchanges. It was neighborhood. The students lived in a nearby find them." lively and stimulating interchange of an attempt at mutual understanding that Habitat house during their stay. The students In Tahlequah, Wing attended an informal ideas. The conference on mind and mor- transcended cultural and language barriers. worked alongside future homeowners as well Baptist church service. During the church als is an outgrowth of that interchange." "Barriers can be transcended," added as Habitat representatives. As part of Habitat service and throughout the week, she felt Friedman and May, both specialists in Devaney, an international studies and Italian regulations, families must work on the homes the strong sense of community among the ethical theory, joined the department in major. "You can end up sharing jokes and for a specified number of hours. The home is Cherokee people. In church, for example, 1991. Andy Clark, Ph.D., professor of thoughts with people who live in totally then sold to the families at cost. everybody held the children, regardless of philosophy, was hired last fall as director different worlds from you." Hull helped build a house porch. "(I who the youngsters' parents were. "I was of the PNP program. The trip to the Dominican Republic, ' realized) that the priorities I have are privi- envious. I wish I had that sense of commu- In addition to Clark, faculty partici- which included cultural and educational leged priorities. College isn't the real world. nity. They all helped each other," she said. pants are Keith Butler, Ph.D., assistant activities while the students were in Santo We're so far removed from experiences like The Headstart staff at Tahlequah also was professor, Roger F. Gibson, Ph.D., profes- Domingo, was Devaney's second time building your own house or growing your grateful for the students' help. The students sor and chair, Margaret Walker, Ph.D., participating in the program. Last year she own vegetables. What it all comes down to did a very good job, said Regina Martin, visiting professor, and Carl P. Wellman, traveled to Tijuana, Mexico. is survival. Here we don't have to deal with compliance monitor for the Headstart pro- Ph.D., Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distin- During last year's visit to Mexico, stu- these issues. I'm privileged not to have to gram. "I was surprised how hard working guished Professor in the Humanities, all dents helped build a youth center, cleaned worry about food or the condition of my they all were. They were willing to go out of the philosophy department. out a garbage dump to make way for a family. The bigger picture is what those and do something different" during spring For more information about the con- garden and painted classrooms in the new people are living. It makes my priorities break, she said. — Carolyn Sanford ference, call 935-6670. German symposium explores early thought Campus Watch Finding rational explanations for irratio- "Scientific and geographic discoveries, nal events during the early modern religious controversies, discussions about The following incidents were reported to the Hilltop Campus Police Department March 21-28. Readers with informa- period (1453-1700) is the focus of the 12th the nature of man and woman and curiosity tion that could assist the investigation of these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This list is provided as a public annual St. Louis Symposium on German about the vast storehouse of facts hidden in service to promote campus safety. Literature to be held April 8-10 at various distant lands led people to inquire about the locations. relationship of traditional knowledge to March 22 11:14 a.m. — Graffiti was discovered on the northwest and southwest stairwells of the Historians, literary scholars and art scientific inquiry," said Williams. "As 9:27 a.m. -— Jewelry was reported stolen from South Forty parking garage. historians from the United States and Eu- cosmological and geographical perceptions a residence hall room in Wydown East some- rope will lecture during the symposium, changed, so did the ideas about divine and time between 3 p.m. March 11 and 2 p.m. March 25 which is titled "Knowledge, Science and human inspiration, sexuality, political power March 20. There was no sign of forced entry. 10:11 a.m. —Two fire extinguishers and Literature in the Early Modern Period." The and social dynamics. The symposium will March 23 name and room number signs were reported symposium is free to members of the Wash- explore many of these issues." stolen from North Brookings Hall sometime 3:25 p.m. — A staff member's wallet was ington University community. There is a The symposium begins at 1 p.m. on April between 6 p.m. March 24 and 7 a.m. March reported stolen from Room 206 South Brook- 25. Entry was gained from the north tower of $25 registration fee for the general public. 8 in Brown Hall lounge and continues ings Hall sometime between noon and 2:15 p.m. "Around the 16th and 17th centuries, through April 10 at the West Campus confer- North Brookings. Europe experienced an explosion of knowl- ence center. Randolph D. Pope, Ph.D., profes- March 24 March 26 edge and information," said Gerhild Scholz sor of Romance languages and literatures, and 7:17 a.m. — Graffiti was discovered on the 7:19 a.m. —A vehicle belonging to the Williams, Ph.D., professor of German and chair of the Committee on Comparative sidewalks and surrounding areas on the east Athletic Department was discovered damaged co-organizer of the symposium along with Literature, will be the banquet speaker. and west sides of Mallinckrodt Center. on the loading dock of the Athletic Complex. Stephan Schindler, Ph.D., assistant professor The conference is sponsored by the 9:09 a.m. — Graffiti was discovered on the of German. "The printing press and the Department of Germanic Languages and walls, steps and a metal sculpture at Steinberg March 27 development of more affordable paper made Literatures and The German Research Gallery and on the sculptures at the west side 1:33 p.m. —A loudspeaker belonging to the it possible that larger numbers of people had Association, Bonn. For more information, of Givens Hall. The vandalism occurred Department of Music was reported stolen from access to an increasing amount of informa- call the Department of Germanic Languages sometime between 5:30 p.m. March 23 and 9 Room 2 Blewett B Hall sometime between 3 tion about things far and near. and Literatures at 935-5106. a.m. March 24. p.m. March 24 and 1:25 p.m. March 27. March 31,1994 7 Introducing new faculty members For The Record The Record is running a series profiling new faculty on the Hilltop and Medical campuses. For The Record contains news about a wide For the next two years, he will help On assignment variety of faculty, student and staff scholarly Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Thomas E. Conturo, M.D., Ph.D., and professional activities. Mo., develop an undergraduate creative Mary Ann Dzuback, Ph.D., assistant assistant professor of radiology at the writing program. ... professor of education, was elected vice School of Medicine's Mallinckrodt Of note Carlos A. Perez, M.D., professor of president of the American Educational Institute of Radiology, comes from radiology at the School of Medicine's Research Association's history and historiog- Ronald J. Himes, adjunct instructor in raphy division. Her term runs from 1995-97. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, African and Afro-American studies, won Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and where he completed a residency and a 1994 Missouri Arts Award from the director of the Radiation Oncology To press postdoctoral research fellowship in Missouri Arts Council. Himes, who Center, delivered a talk titled "Carcinoma diagnostic radiology. His research received a bachelor's degree in business of the Uterine Cervix: Past, Present and Keith A. Hruska, M.D., Ira M. Lang focuses on developing magnetic reso- administration from Washington in 1978, Future" at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Professor of Medicine, wrote an abstract nance imaging techniques for studying is the producing director and founder of Houston, where he received a Distin- titled "Matrix Protein Stimulation of Endo- brain function and blood flow through the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. guished Alumnus Award. ... thelial Cell Migration Through Integrin the brain. He received a bachelor's The awards honor arts organizations, Martin S. Silverman, Ph.D., assistant OyBi Requires Activation of Cell Signals degree in chemistry and biochemistry artists, individuals, businesses and educa- professor of ophthalmology and visual Producing an Increase in Cytosolic Calcium in 1981 from the University of Pennsyl- tors. ... sciences, director of the Division of Retinal and Is Inhibited by Parathyroid Hormone." vania in Philadelphia. He received a Timothy M. Lohman, Ph.D., profes- Cell Transplantation and assistant professor The abstract, which Hruska wrote with two doctorate in molecular physiology and sor of biochemistry and molecular bio- of neurobiology, presented "Retina: Photo- others, was published in the Journal of the biophysics and a medical degree, both physics, received a $90,000 grant from receptors and Interneurons" during the American Society of Nephrology. Hruska in 1989, from Vanderbilt University in the American Cancer Society for a Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting presented the abstract during the society's Nashville, Tenn. project titled "E. Coli Rep-catalyzed held in Washington, D.C. He spoke at the meeting held in Boston. DNA Unwinding."... society's Ophthalmology Conference.... Michael L. Dustin, Ph.D., assistant Robert F. Owen, M.D., instructor in Michael Valente, Ph.D, associate Guidelines for submitting copy: professor of pathology, recently com- professor of otolaryngology (audiology), clinical medicine, was elected a fellow in Send your full name, complete title, depart- pleted a postdoctoral fellowship at the American College of Physicians. He was the invited speaker for the Illinois Washington. His research interest chapter of the American Academy of ment, phone number and highest-earned was inducted at the convocation cer- degree, along with a typed description of focuses on understanding how white emony during the college's annual session Audiology's meeting held in Chicago. He blood cells communicate through direct spoke on "Experiences With Program- your noteworthy activity to For The Record, held in Washington, D.C. ... c/o Carolyn Sanford, Campus Box 1070, or contact. He received a bachelor's degree Carter Revard, Ph.D., professor of mable Hearing Aids." He also presented a in biology in 1984 from Boston Univer- [email protected]. Items must English, won a 1994 Oklahoma Book talk titled "Critical Evaluation of Digitally sity and a doctorate in cell and develop- Programmable Hearing Aids" during the not exceed 75 words. For information, call Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Sanford at 935-5293. mental biology in 1990 from Harvard Book in Oklahoma City. He was honored Seminars in Audition held in Toronto. University in Cambridge, Mass. for his 1993 collection of poems titled An Mark Haacke, Ph.D., professor of Eagle Nation. He received the award radiology at the School of Medicine's during a ceremony held at the National Edison Brothers executive Lee Weeks Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western comes from Case Western Reserve Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. He named chief financial officer/controller University in Cleveland, where he was a also served as guest editor of the Ne- braska English Journal for a special issue professor of radiology. Among his Lee Weeks, executive vice president years." Prior to joining Edison Brothers, research interests are developing mag- on American-Indian literature. ... Laura Savoldi, a secretary in the and chief financial officer of Edison Weeks worked for 21 years with Armco netic resonance imaging techniques for Brothers Stores Inc. in St. Louis, has Inc., a diversified, multinational corporation studying brain function, cardiovascular Department of Music, has been selected to participate in the Notes From Home been named the chief financial officer/ based in Middletown, Ohio. He began work magnetic resonance, fast imaging and controller of Washington University, effec- at Armco as a senior auditor in 1964, rising signal processing methods. Haacke program to be held at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis on June 14. The Sheldon tive summer 1994, according to Richard A. to the position of vice president in 1978 and received a bachelor's degree in math- Roloff, executive vice chancellor. chief financial officer in 1980. In 1982 he ematics and physics in 1973, a master's Arts Foundation sponsors the program, which promotes talented performers from Weeks will be in charge of all financial became Armco's group vice president for degree in theoretical physics in 1975, activity at Washington, including accounting international divisions, and shortly thereaf- and a doctorate in theoretical high the St. Louis area. Savoldi performs as jazz vocalist Lauren Wilson.... I and related busi- ter, was named group vice president and energy physics in 1978, all from the ness areas. He chief executive officer of the corporation's University of Toronto. Ilka R. Warshawsky, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. Program, received the 1994 joined Edison manufacturing and services group. Barbara Jakschik Award. Established in Brothers as vice Weeks has been a member of the Ameri- Darryl A. Zuckerman, M.D., assistant president-finance can Institute of Certified Public Accoun- professor of radiology at the School of 1993, the $150 award is presented annu- ally to an outstanding female graduate and chief financial tants, the American Management Associa- Medicine's Mallinckrodt Institute of officer in 1985 tion, and the Financial Executives Institute. Radiology, comes from the St. Louis student whose thesis focuses on meta- bolic regulation. Warshawsky is conduct- and was named He has served on various committees within University School of Medicine, where executive vice the Financial Executives Institute and on the he was an assistant professor of radiol- ing her research in the laboratory of Alan L. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., Alumni president in 1992. American Iron and Steel Institute's Commit- ogy. His research focuses on applica- "Washington tee on Accounting, Taxation and Statistics, tions of new diagnostic and interven- Professor of Pediatrics, professor of molecular biology and pharmacology and I University is as well as the Machinery and Allied Prod- tional vascular techniques. Zuckerman Lee Weeks extremely fortu- ucts Institute's Finance Counsel Committee. received a bachelor's degree in biology director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. nate in having someone of Lee Weeks' A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Weeks in 1979 from New York University in outstanding background and experience to received a bachelor's degree in business New York City, and a medical degree in Speaking of provide leadership in our financial adminis- administration from the University of Cin- 1983 from the State University of New tration," said Roloff. "He will be invaluable cinnati in 1957. He also is a 1975 graduate York at Syracuse's Upstate College of At the Show Me Symposium for teachers in continuing the University's unbroken of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Medicine. of the hearing impaired held in Columbia, record of balanced budgets for the last 25 Management Program. Mo., Christine H. Gustus, lecturer in education and a coordinating teacher at the Central Institute for the Deaf, pre- Students place second sented "Assessment Measures for Speech Performing Arts Department announces and Language." ... at College Bowl regionals During the upper Midwest region's winners of Hotchner playwriting contest annual meeting of the American College A team from Washington University The Performing Arts Department has Einsohn to direct the winning entries last and University Housing Officers placed second at the Region 11 announced the student winners of semester. Rehearsals were scheduled to begin Association held in Kansas City, Mo., College Bowl Regional Championship the A. E. Hotchner Playwriting Com- after spring break. The department has not Chris Loving, associate director of tournament recently held at Kansas State petition. Hotchner, a renowned author and selected a director for "The Sign Shop." residential life, spoke on "Loving Leader- University in Manhattan. During College alumnus, endows the annual competition. James Nicholson, artist-in-residence in per- ship." ... Bowl, students are quizzed on topics The winners are senior Michael Holmes forming arts, will make suggestions on re- At the American Association for the ranging from current events to medieval and graduate students Patrick J. Huber and writing the scripts and will handle any differ- Advancement of Science's annual meet- philosophy. The competition is billed as Ethan Bumas. The judging committee chose ences between the writers and the directors. ing held in San Francisco, Robert P. "The Varsity Sport of the Mind." j the winners from Morgan, Ph.D., Elvera and William The team members were Jason D. a field of 18 Stuckenberg Professor of Technology and Clevenger, a graduate student in philoso- submissions. Competition opens May 1 Human Affairs and director of the Center phy; Ericka V Hayes, a senior in chemical Competitors for Technology Assessment and Policy, for Fulbright study abroad engineering who served as team captain; ranged from first- chaired a session on "Nuclear Weapons Stephen Martin, a sophomore in math- year to graduate The U S. Information Agency, the J. Dismantlement and Its Aftermath." He ematics; Scott M. Oser, a senior in phys- I students. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship also was reappointed to a four-year term ics; and Joseph F. Zawadzki, a senior in Holmes' play, Board and the Institute of International on the association's program committee mechanical engineering. Washington 'Funny," and Education have announced the May 1 for the annual meeting. ... University placed first at the regional Huber's play, opening of the 1995-96 Fulbright Grants Eric Pankey, assistant professor of tournament last year. "Ghostway," will competition for graduate study abroad. The English and director of The Writing 1 The other finishers in the 20-team be performed at 8 grants are for research in academic fields Program, participated in a panel discus- Hotchner competition were: first place, Northeast p.m. April 28-30 and for professional training in the creative sion on curriculum development at an Missouri State University; third place, and at 2 p.m. May 1 in the Mallinckrodt and performing arts. The deadline for Associated Writing Programs' conference Oklahoma State University; and fourth Center Drama Studio, Room 208. Bumas' applications is Friday, Sept. 23. held in Virginia Beach, Va. He also led a place, the University of Oklahoma. play, "The Sign Shop," will receive a staged About 800 Fulbright Grants are awarded small group workshop on program Greg Lyon, who received a bachelor's reading. The date and location for the read- each year. Fulbright information sessions organization and curriculum at the con- degree in computer science from Wash- ing will be announced later. will be held on Monday, April 4, and Fri- ference, which was titled "Constructing ington last year, serves as the team's Joshua S. Einsohn, a senior majoring day, April 8, at the Stix International Literary Foundations: Creative Writing coach. Kim Martino, coordinator of in drama, will direct "Funny" and House, 6470 Forsyth Blvd. For more infor- Programs at Historically Black Schools." student activities, is the team's adviser. "Ghostway." The department selected mation, call 935-5175 or 935-5958. portunities news

department and do preliminary schedule for written communication skills; professional Secretary II Hilltop Campus the days, times and rooms for each course; manner with co-workers, volunteers and 940582-R. Psychiatry. Requirements: High The following is a list of positions avail- maintain and operate copying equipment and vendors; ability to deal with multiple tasks school graduate or equivalent; three years able on the Hilltop Campus. Information postage meter; mail graduate school applica- in an organized, accurate and timely manner university experience; neat, accurate and regarding these and other positions may tions and maintain files of students applying with minimum supervision; willingness to able to organize work; confident and courte- be obtained in the Office of Human Re- for admission; requisition supplies from work extra hours when necessary; typing 60 ous manner; knowledge of WordPerfect; sources, Room 126 North Brookings Hall, central stores; copy and mail placement wpm with accuracy. Clerical tests required. typing 60 wpm. or by calling 935-5990. Note: All posi- applications; establish, maintain and revise departmental files. Clerical tests required tions require three letters of recommenda- Departmental Secretary Medical Research Technician tion. 940210. Major Gifts. Requirements: Some 940655-R. Anatomy. Requirements: Communications Technician I college or other research-related experience; Bachelor's degree, preferably in the biologi- Programmer/Analyst III 940202. Communications Services. Re- strong capacity to use online data bases and cal sciences; one year undergraduate chem- 940107. Computing and Communications. quirements: High school graduate, some library-related sources of information; istry course work; strong biology back- Requirements: Bachelor's degree; good college preferred; training and/or experience excellent typing 50 wpm with accuracy and ground; experience with microscopy and language and people skills; ability to work in concepts of operation and maintenance of proofreading skills; capacity to conduct and molecular biology; familiarity with comput- with minimal supervision; ability to learn communication equipment; strenuous work keep track of several jobs at once with a flair ers, preferably Macintosh. quickly and adapt to new circumstances; and heavy lifting; flexible hours and over- for detail; good oral and written communi- time required; use of personal vehicle cation skills; professional telephone skills. experience with use and management of Statistical Data Analyst desktop computers; knowledge of desktop, required with mileage reimbursement. Clerical tests required. data base technology in a client/server envi- Resume required. 940663-R. Biosta'tistics. Requirements: ronment highly desired; familiarity with Bachelor's degree, master's degree pre- DOS, Macintosh systems; knowledge of Medical Campus ferred; SAS experience with data analysis or Operation Clerk I, Part-time data management; aptitude for numbers; Novell, Appletalk, Windows and TCP/IP The following is a partial list of positions 940204. Computing and Communications. strong communication skills. networking highly desired. Resume required. Requirements: High school graduate; good available at the School of Medicine. Em- physical health (able to safely handle a ployees who are interested in submitting a Graduate Student Coordinator Counselor loaded two-wheel dolly up and down stairs); transfer request should contact the Human 940142. Student'Educational Service. Re- able to work extra hours, weekends and shift Resources Department of the medical 940688-R. Biology and Biomedical Science quirements: Master's degree; experience in changes. Scheduled work week will be school at 362-4920 to request an applica- Graduate Affairs. Requirements: High secondary, post-secondary or higher educa- Tuesday through Saturday. Resume required. tion. External candidates may call 362- school graduate or equivalent, some college tion preferred; knowledge of physiological 7195 for information regarding applica- preferred; three to five years experience in testing; familiarity/experience with the tion procedures or may submit a resume to an independent responsible position; good Administrative Assistant III the Human Resources office located at oral and written communication skills; problems of academically high-risk and 940206. Performing Arts. Requirements: disadvantaged students; familiarity with the 4480 Clayton Ave., Campus Box 8002, St. excellent organizational skills; experience Bachelor's degree, master's degree preferred. Louis, Mo., 63110. Please note that the with personal computer and word process- problems of disabled students. Resume, Duties: Administer departmental budget, required. medical school does not disclose salary ing; typing 55 wpm. responsible for all accounting functions, information for vacancies, and the office purchasing and allocations; serve as producer strongly discourages inquiries to depart- Contract Administrative Assistant Secretary/Receptionist for all performing arts department produc- ments other than Human Resources. 940157. Computer and Communications tions; appoint, hire and write job descriptions 940692-R. Planning. Requirements: for work/study students; responsible for on- Associate's degree from two-year paralegal Research Center. Requirements: Some Social Worker MSW college; typing 50 wpm with accuracy. campus recruiting for prospective freshmen; or legal assistant program; knowledge of Duties: Maintain calendars, schedules and administrator of summer theatre in London 940428-R. Psychiatry. Schedule: Part-time, business law, especially contracts and war- files; make travel arrangements; type rou- program; process payroll and maintain 20 hours per week. Requirements: Master's ranties; strong written and verbal communi- tine correspondence, classwork; assist in payroll records; serve as undergraduate degree in social work or ACSW licensed cation skills. fiscal activities of center; assist in annual adviser for drama majors (as needed); admin- clinical social worker; ability to identify the report preparation; assist in coordination of ister arts management internships; administer critical unit to work within therapy. Will be Secretary II research progress reviews; coordinate center external rentals of facilities (studios, class- doing assessments and intervention in family therapy. 940696-R. Administration. Schedule: Part- technical report distribution; coordinate rooms); schedule and supervise musical time, 20 hours per week, days flexible. mailings of networking and communica- accompanists. Resume required. Requirements: High school graduate or tions program; assist in departmental ac- Medical Research Technician equivalent, bachelor's degree preferred; two counting procedures; maintain office sup- Executive Secretary 940468-R. Pediatrics. Requirements: years secretarial experience; excellent plies. Clerical tests required. 940207. Alumni and Development Pro- Bachelor's degree; one year experience in a organizational and communication skills; grams. Requirements: College degree or lab setting; ability to prepare buffers for individual with IBM personal computer Assistant Outreach Coordinator, Part- equivalent knowledge; three years general electrophoresis; experience with molecular experience preferred; typing 60 wpm. time office experience; strong background in biologic techniques, such as blotting and Position is located at Monsanto, 800 N. 940178. Biology. Requirements: Some personal computing; excellent oral and hybridization preferred. Lindbergh Blvd. college; typing 35 wpm with accuracy; excellent verbal and written skills; strong organizational and interpersonal skills; University encourages more employees to save for retirement - from page 1 capable of working independently, exercis- partners under the same conditions as longer will be required to contribute 5 "We hope that more employees will ing sound judgment and handling multiple spouses. percent of their salaries to participate in participate in the plan and thus have tasks simultaneously; demonstrated ability "Domestic partners who are on the annuity plan. Full-time faculty and some retirement benefits upon leaving to take projects to closure; able to deal record are entitled to the same benefits staff and part-time employees working the University," White said. cordially, accurately and responsibly with as people who are married," White said. 50 percent of the time or more receive a In another change to retirement ben- the public, especially on the telephone; "Faculty and staff will have to enroll University contribution of 7 percent, 8.5 efits, new faculty and staff who are hired attentiveness to detail; good telephone these individuals and identify them by a percent or 11.5 percent of their salary, after Oct. 1, 1994, will have to wait two skills. Clerical tests required. change of status form." depending on age. The current retire- years before the University will match The University has delayed imple- ment plan requires a mandatory 5 per- their contributions, even if they partici- Assistant Coordinator of Prospect mentation of a flexible benefits policy, cent contribution by faculty and staff in pated in a retirement plan at another Management which would have allowed greater order to receive the University contribu- institution. However, new faculty and freedom in using University contribu- tion. Many lower paid staff employees staff may voluntarily contribute to a 940181. Major Gifts and Capital Projects. tions toward existing benefits. An em- Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equiva- feel they cannot afford the minimum 5 retirement plan up to the maximum ployee who is covered under his or her lent knowledge; superior stenographic and percent contribution and have elected not allowed by IRS rules. spouse's health insurance plan, for to participate in the retirement plan, computer skills; knowledge of journalism Helping with these transitions will be example, would have been able to use White said. As a result, they do not Sylvia Tumbough and Alane Stemme, style and skill in writing; experience in the University's healthcare allowance receive the University contribution and who have been promoted from senior preparing mailings; typing 50 wpm with toward a different benefit, like life do not receive benefits when they retire. personnel specialists to the positions of accuracy. Clerical tests required. insurance. In addition, White said, the manager of benefits and associate man- "We had discussed adopting a flex- University's current plan does not com- ager of benefits, respectively. Mary Services Coordinator ible benefits plan but due to the uncer- ply with an Internal Revenue Service Walsh, benefits specialist, and her staff 940200. The Software Library. Requirements: tainty of the Clinton healthcare plan and (IRS) rule that requires employers with at the medical school will assist employ- University degree with technical background; what it will mean to us, as well as the plans like Washington University's to ees on the Medical Campus. experience in customer relations and/or in likelihood that we will have to provide make similar percentage contributions to services organization; demonstrated ability to health insurance for all employees who lower paid and highly paid employees. Resource Manual use computing tools for business manage- work 50 percent or more and their "In recent years, we have failed to All members of the University commu- ment; ability to manage technical informa- families, it was not helpful for the satisfy a mathematical formula that must nity now should have access to the Of- tion and provide services in a multiplatform University to change to a flexible plan be applied to test for nondiscrimination, fice of Human Resource's recently and multivendor computing environment; at the time," White said. "In fact, it and some members of the highly com- released Resource Manual. Marked by a excellent interpersonal and communication appears that flexible plans might be pensated groups in older age brackets bright red cover, the 22-page manual skills." Resume required. outlawed under healthcare reform." have not received the full tax advantages lists every department and office on of the plan," White said. campus alphabetically — from Account- Retirement benefits ing Services to Women's Studies — and Department Secretary A committee of faculty and adminis- Washington University has reduced the trators was appointed to study retirement includes a description, mailing and 940201. Department of Philosophy. Require- mandatory employee contribution to its plan designs and optional features and campus address, and names and tele- ments: High school graduate; typing 50 wpm retirement plan and has instituted a two- recommended reducing the mandatory 5 phone numbers of key contacts. Addi- with accuracy. Duties: type occasional corre- year waiting period for new faculty and percent contribution. A smaller required tional copies of the Resource Manual spondence for faculty members; receive staff to receive matching contributions contribution will be necessary. The exact may be obtained by calling Karen Boher telephone calls and personal callers for the from the University. amount will be determined after pending at 935-5158. department; answer routine inquiries; type Effective July 1, 1996, employees no government regulations are issued. — Susannah Webb the semester course listings for philosophy