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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 iecord Vol. 21 No. 28 April 17, 1997 Thurtene Carnival continues a near-century of tradition tep right up, ladies and gentle- and the proceeds were donated to the "C men, boys and girls! For a mere Athletic Association. Dual performances 10 cents —just one thin dime of the main show were highlighted by a — you, too, can bear witness to the tightrope act and a quartet that sang t^Jk™ 'Grand Gigantic Galaxy of Gorgeous "Won't You Fondle Me?" backwards. The Glittering Generalities.' That's right, side shows — which included Wahsousa, -v. \ behold aerial acrobats, mystifying magi- The Three-legged Wonder — made outra- \^ 1 ^^ / cians and tenacious tightrope walkers. geous claims of dubious sincerity. And gaze and gape and gawk, if you Wahsousa, alas, turned out to be a three- dare, at Wahsousa, The Three-legged legged chair chained to a post. Wonder...." A crowd of 400 made the event a So went the banter 90 years ago as roaring success. -I*"*' / ; the first "Younnivee Surrkuss" was Nearly a century later, the Thurtene w staged May 9, 1907, at Francis Field. Carnival does bear some familial resem- The proverbial grandfather to the blance to its enterprising ancestor. Char- ^^H modern-day Thurtene Carnival, the ity, comradery and good clean fun still \ J^ Younnivee Surrkuss was conceived by are the driving forces. But Wahsousa has Pralma, Washington University's then- given way to Ferris wheels. The flapping senior-men's honorary. The seven-hour "Big Top" has been replaced by sturdily festival was run much like a real circus constructed facades. And the crowd of i and featured side shows and a main 400 has swelled to a two-day throng of 1 attraction. General admission was about 80,000. 10 cents, side shows were a nickel., Continued on backpage 'It's For the Kids!' on April 19-20 Funnel cakes, facades, and the Popular traditions of Thurtene Carni- wgm Phi Delt movie. Throw in Ferris val will continue, including six facades wheels and fun, and you've got the main (scenic walls from which students per- ingredients for the uniquely Washington form skits), 14 major rides (five of them University recipe known as Thurtene for children), a spread of food ranging 4 J^VT 5 * Carnival. from ethnic edibles to chocolate-covered This year's event, which continues the bananas, and more than 10 games. w 1 tradition of the nation's oldest and largest Proceeds from Thurtene Carnival student-run carnival, will be held from benefit Cornerstone Center for Early 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Learning, an inner-city center that pro- April 19 and 20, in the North Brookings vides high-quality, affordable and com- Hall parking lot at Millbrook and Skinker prehensive care and education to chil- boulevards. There is no admission fee, dren. The Rock-o-Plane lights up the night at the 1964 Thurtene Carnival, one of many but tickets are required for the rides. The For more information, call (314) photographed by Herb Weitman, director emeritus of photography, during the theme of the event is "It's For the Kids!" 935-3125. past 50 years. (University Archives) Professor emeritus Kurt Hohenemser finds answers in the wind

On those rare dry Missouri days helicopter-type rotor with its helicopter- possible helicopter types, but the actual young man pretty well and had no idea with gusts up to 30 mph, Kurt H. type controls is more suitable for wind product didn't even exist, " Hohenemser that he would do something like that." Hohenemser is gone with the wind. turbines than commonly used propeller- said. "He was ingenious as an inventor, Hohenemser landed on his feet by Hohenemser, Dr.Ing., professor emeri- type rotors. Even in areas with high but he was not an analyst. I did the helping design aircraft for a well-known tus of aerospace engineering, scurries into average wind speeds, wind power plants analysis for his inventions. I told him German stunt flier and then began his his car and drives Interstate 44 some are not yet a clear economic alternative to which ones worked and which ones association with Flettner who, like 16 miles from his home to gather wind fossil fuel or nuclear power plants. Thus, didn't." Hohenemser, came to the United States turbine data at Washington University's improvements in wind turbine designs are The association with Flettner lasted a after World War II. Hohenemser's Tyson Research Center. A trail through important. dozen years and happened in a round- harrowing war experience— which Tyson's oak-hickory-cedar forest leads to about way owing to a different turbu- included fleeing with his young family An aviation analyst a 60-foot-tall tower that holds a 25-foot- lence — the turmoil of Germany with from bombed-out Berlin first to Silesia diameter wind turbine Hohenemser There are several remarkable aspects of the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hohenemser then to a monastery in southern designed about two decades ago. The Hohenemser's research. The first: He is 91 received his doctorate in engineering in Germany — set the stage for his turbine's rotor, patterned after that of a years old and has been gathering data at the 1929 from the Institute of Technology, discovery in America. helicopter, needs testing in its various Tyson site since 1980. ^^^^^ HH^^ Darmstadt, An American engineer published in configurations in gusts up to 30 mph. This The second: Since Germany. He English Hohenemser's reports on the is a condition — in the absence of thun- 1985 he has con- While the term began teaching and design of the Flettner helicopter. The derstorms or snowstorms— that occurs at ducted the research researching applied exposure made Hohenemser well Tyson only a few times a year. without being "pioneering" often is used mechanics at the known in American aeronautical circles, At such turbulent times, Hohenemser funded. The third: University of and he came to the United States in receives a research windfall. "The best The design of the loosely to describe Gottingen, Continued on page 6 times are spring and fall," he said. "In wind turbine arose researchers, that is not the Germany, the summer, high winds occur only in thun- from his pioneering following year. In In this issue derstorms. Moisture and humidity disrupt work in helicopter case with Hohenemser. 1933, Hohenemser the electronics." research and devel- was abruptly Elderly challenges 2 Various electronic devices attached to opment, which ^^^" relieved of his Older adults burn less fat during the wind turbine relay data to a nearby launched an amazing academic duties within a week of Hitler's career during a dramatic historic era. exercise, making it harder for shed. There, Hohenemser videotapes the election as chancellor. them to lose extra pounds data — represented by motions of seven While the term "pioneering" often is "I had organized a small discussion different light points generated in an used loosely to describe researchers, that group that met regularly and had invited Lifesaver 3 obsolete oscillograph for which Eastman is not the case with Hohenemser. He a young research assistant whom we all Kodak Co. stopped producing light- began designing and testing helicopters knew to be a Nazi," Hohenemser Saving lives in the trauma room is sensitive paper years ago. In a long video- with the Flettner Aircraft Co. in Berlin in recalled. "We were quite critical of just another day at the office for tape, Hohenemser is happy to find a few 1935 when the concept was being Hitler but didn't think our discussions Timothy G. Buchman, M.D., Ph.D. minutes of suitable data that will take him explored by the famous German inventor would be of any consequence. After Science education 6 hours to analyze. Anton Flettner and the only competition Hitler came to power, the acquaintance Hohenemser, who became professor came from another famous German heli- reported our critical attitude toward Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon emeritus in 1975, gathers electric copter developer, H. Focke. Hitler to the police, and we were hence- Lederman will deliver this year's energy while the wind blows. He is "When I began work on helicopters, forth forbidden to enter university Feenberg Memorial Lecture seeking proof that a properly designed Flettner had developed some ideas about ground. We all thought we knew the 2 Washington University Record Medical Update

Joel Cooper named cardiothoracic surgery division director Joel D. Cooper, M.D., the Joseph C. Bancroft Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has been named director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The appointment, effective June 1, was announced by Samuel A. Wells Jr., M.D., the Bixby Professor of Surgery and department chair. "Dr. Cooper has earned a worldwide reputation as an innovative surgeon, but he also is a talented administrator and an excellent teacher," Wells said. "We are excited to have him lead the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery." Cooper serves as chief of thoracic surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is a renowned lung surgeon whose pioneering techniques have led to marked progress in the treatment of lung disease. Cooper completed the first successful single-lung trans- plant and the first double-lung trans- plant. He also devel- oped lung volume- oe . ooper reduction surgery, an operation that greatly improves the 'Dowton's Kids' breathing capacity of emphysema patients. In the Class of 1999 Show on April 6, second-year students, from left, Jen Smith, Maureen Farrell, Tim Root, Julie An author or co-author of nearly 300 Schwartz and Karen Woolf, perform in a skit imitating School of Medicine faculty. The title of the class show, which scientific articles, Cooper has served on was a take-off on telethons, was "Dowton's Kids." S. Bruce Dowton, M.D., is associate dean for medical education. The annual event took place in Moore Auditorium. many medical advisory and editorial review panels in the surgical field. He is a member of 20 medical societies. Recently, he received the Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons, an Older adults burn less fat during exercise award that honors living surgeons who have developed new surgical techniques. Many automobiles don't come "The older people had a decreased The physiologic reasons that elderly Previously a professor of surgery at the with spare tires anymore, but ability to oxidize fat during exercise, people burn less fat are not known. University of Toronto, Cooper joined the many of us already have them. both at the same absolute exercise inten- Klein's team did not find any defect in School of Medicine faculty in 1988. We couch potatoes often loll in front of sity — the same exact workload — and the ability to mobilize body fat. There Cooper succeeds James L. Cox, M.D., the television instead of taking our extra at the same relative intensity, which is a was little resistance of body fat to cate- the Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery, pounds for a jog around the block. But lower workload because older people cholamines, the hormones used to who has accepted a position as chief of the new research shows that inactivity is not tend to be less fit than younger people," mobilize fat tissue for conversion to Section of Cardiothoracic and Vascular the whole problem. When an aging couch Klein said. energy, and fat breakdown produced Surgery and director of the Georgetown potato waddles into the gym to exercise, plenty of fatty acids for muscle to Cardiovascular Institute at Georgetown Substituting fuels those extra pounds are harder to lose, oxidize. University Medical Center. In the past partly because muscles lose the ability to Average fat oxidation was 25 to 30 per- Klein believes the answer lies in the 14 years, Cox has built a program with an burn fat as people get older. cent lower in the older people than in the muscles themselves. "It appears the international reputation and recruited Researchers at the School of Medicine younger people at both the same absolute muscle tissue of older people is not able outstanding faculty for the division. and at the University of Texas Medical and the same relative intensity. As a to — or prefers not to — oxidize fat as Branch in Galveston reached this dismal consequence, carbohydrate oxidation was a fuel," he said. conclusion. They reported their results in 35 percent higher. "Carbohydrate and fat Changes that occur in aging muscle a recent issue of the American Journal of might help explain why our muscles no Physiology — Endocrinology and longer oxidize fat as they did when we Metabolism. In the study, they found that "It appears the muscle were younger. Muscle cells lose some of Record older people burn less fat than younger their mitochondria, the cellular struc- people when the two groups do similar tissue of older people tures that produce energy. Loss of mito- Acting editor: Martha Everett, 935-5235, exercise. chondria might contribute to a loss in Campus Box 1070 Principal investigator Samuel Klein, is not able to — or the ability to oxidize fat. Associate vice chancellor, executive director, M.D., associate professor of medicine University Communications: Judith Jasper and director of the Center for Human prefers not to — oxidize The good news Executive editor: Susan Killenberg Nutrition at Washington University, But even before the precise mechanisms Editor, medical news: Diane Duke, compared six adults whose average age fat as a fuel." are understood, there's good news for 286-0111, Medical School Box 8508 was 73 with six adults whose average age elderly people. The paper mentions that Assistant editor: David Moessner, 935-5293 was 26. Both the young and the old — Samuel Klein an intensive 16-week exercise program Production: Galen Harrison subjects were sedentary and not exercis- helped the elderly subjects oxidize fat Record (USPS 600-430; ISSN 1043-0520), ing regularly at the time of the study, more like younger participants. Volume 21, Number 28/April 17,1997. Pub- are the two major fuels used during "If older people train rigorously for lished for the faculty, staff and friends of which was supported by grants from the Washington University. Produced weekly National Institute of Diabetes and Diges- exercise — glucose from carbohydrate about four months, they have more during the school year, except school holidays, tive and Kidney Diseases. and fatty acids from fat," Klein said. "If normal patterns of fat oxidation," Klein and monthly during June, July and August by The researchers monitored fat and you use less fat as a fuel, you automati- said. "It comes back to about where it is the Office of Public Affairs, Washington cally use more carbohydrate. So it makes in younger adults. Apparently, training University, Campus Box 1070, One Brookings carbohydrate break-down products in Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130. Periodicals blood samples from the two groups while sense that if elderly muscles have diffi- either corrects the defect or compen- postage paid at St. Louis, Mo. culty converting fat into energy, they have the subjects peddled stationary bikes for sates for it in some way." Address changes and corrections: to use more carbohydrate to compensate." 60 minutes. Measuring oxygen consump- Normal muscles use two sources of Postmaster and non-employees: Send to tion, the investigators learned how hard In the young adults, about one-half fat. There is the fat our bodies store in Record, Washington University, Campus Box the two groups were able to exercise. The x>f the fuel metabolized during exercise adipose (fat) tissue. It is broken down 1070, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, older subjects were asked to peddle at a came from fat, with the other half and released into the bloodstream, MO, 63130. rate that made them consume oxygen at from carbohydrate. In the elderly which delivers it to muscles. The Hilltop Campus employees: Send to Office of subjects, about two-thirds came from second source of fat comes from Human Resources, Washington University, half their maximum rate. The younger Campus Box 1184, One Brookings Drive, subjects also peddled at half their maxi- carbohydrate and only about one-third muscles themselves. Muscle tissue St. Louis, MO, 63130. mum rate so that they could exercise at the from fat. contains its own triglyceride droplets, Medical Campus employees: Send to Payroll same relative intensity as the older adults. 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Carbohydrate oxidation leads to stream than fat stored in muscle or vice hour of exercise at the same absolute quicker fatigue and depletes blood sugar versa, but Klein now is starting to evalu- intensity, the elderly subjects oxidized levels more rapidly, he said. As a result, ate the use of intramuscular triglycerides sedentary elderly people cannot exercise and plasma fatty acids during exercise less than one-third as much fat as their WASHINGTON • UNI VERSTTY- IN • ST- LOUIS younger counterparts. for as long as sedentary young people. in elderly subjects. — Jim Dryden April 17, 1997 3 Washington People Buchman thrives on the challenge of saving lives

On a summer day in 1995, a professional passed his Ph.D. preliminary exams before deciding to genes that lead to widespread inflammation, which, if motorcycle racer hit a guardrail at become a doctor. Switching to herpes virology, he sustained, can cause multiple organ dysfunction. 120 mph, crushing his lungs and pelvis. earned his Ph.D. in 1978 and his M.D. in 1980, both Other cells commit apoptosis, or cellular suicide. The same day, an obese diabetic from the University of Chicago. Buchman said evolution never intended for humans to woman went to the hospital with severe Before he completed his M.D. program, Buchman survive 120-mph crashes or multiple stab wounds, and stomach pain. Flesh-eating bacteria were destroying her decided to become a surgeon, an unusual choice for cells just don't know how to respond. If doctors can abdominal wall. someone with a Ph.D. and years of laboratory experi- find a way to keep traumatized cells from destroying Also on that day, a young U.S. Air Force officer ence. Many people told him that his degree and his themselves or the rest of the body, more patients will smashed his liver in a car crash. Doctors weren't sure laboratory training would be wasted if he took up survive their injuries, Buchman said. they could stop the internal bleeding. surgery. But he pressed on to Johns Hopkins Hospital "The impact of this cannot be overstated because Timothy G. Buchman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of in Baltimore, where he did an internship and surgical widespread inflammation and multiple organ dysfunc- surgery, of anesthesiology and of medicine, treated all residency. tion syndrome remain the leading causes of death in three of these patients after other hospitals sent them to Buchman got into trauma surgery the way many surgical intensive-care units," he said. "The notion Barnes-Jewish Hospital. As a trauma surgeon and chief patients do — in a car crash. Buchman sufferd a hip that we might have a chance to sustain these people is of the Burn, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Section injury and major internal bleeding when he was terribly exciting." of the Department of Surgery, Buchman can't predict struck by a reckless driver in Baltimore. "I spent the Buchman joined the School of Medicine in 1994, what calamity he'll see next. He just waits for the next next three months of my rotations in a wheelchair and where he now studies the treatment of multiple organ patient and does what a failure and the cell- he can. is to-cell communica- One of those three g tions that lead to patients died. But two 3 cellular suicide. are walking around today with few physical Trauma team signs of the experience. Buchman couldn't "What's most ap- save the woman pealing about our suffering from Intensive Care Unit flesh-eating bacte- (ICU) is we can take ria. Her abdominal deathly ill patients and wall dissolved in send them home," front of him. He cut Buchman said. "It's an out most of the enormous intellectual wall, but the bacte- challenge, and it's ria already had immensely rewarding." inflicted a fatal Winter in St. Louis wound. means blunt trauma The trauma team from falls and car at the medical crashes. Perhaps a school holds highly family will be seriously choreographed burned while huddling performances every around a kerosene day. The medical heater. In the summer, school has the area residents start region's only getting stabbed and nationally verified shot. They squirt outra- level-one trauma geous amounts of center (meaning it lighter fluid on hot offers the highest barbecue grills. They level of emergency also drink and drive. care), so it gets the Through it all, the ICU most severe cases. manages to keep its Perhaps a St. Louis survival rate above man is shot in the 95 percent, and it has Timothy G. Buchman, M.D., Ph.D., discusses a patient with students during rounds. chest, a common maintained its status as scenario. The the premier trauma center in the region. "If it can't be trauma center might receive a dozen gunshot victims done at Washington University, it can't be done any- on a busy day. Realizing the man is nearly dead, the where," Buchman said. paramedics at the scene immediately alert the trauma The first hospital that saw Jeff Eklund after his "He thinks like a team. Within five minutes, a team of 12 people — motorcycle crash couldn't handle his injuries. A emergency physicians, specially trained nurses, anes- 120-mph meeting with a wall does incredible damage. computer, but not a thesiologists, trauma surgeons, radiology technicians He was bleeding to death in his pelvis, and his crushed and respiratory therapists — assemble to treat the lungs weren't getting air. That hospital sent him to the standard computer. He's patient. Barnes-Jewish Trauma Center. The patient, shaky from blood loss, has a vague By the time he arrived, Eklund's skin was dark blue. feeling of being surrounded as his stretcher rolls The trauma team inserted a breathing tube, and the more like a computer that through the front door. The doctors and nurses around orthopaedic surgeons drilled pins into his pelvis, him have specific jobs with consistent tasks. They attaching a metal frame to Eklund to keep his bone hasn't been invented yet." resuscitate each patient the same way and look for fragments together. Interventional radiologists snaked injuries according to set protocol. The patient is out of a catheter up his pelvic artery, successfully creating a — Pamela Lipsett the resuscitation room in minutes. In that time, the clot that stopped the bleeding. Eklund's skin remained team took X-rays, inserted intravenous injections and blue, and Buchman knew that standard ventilation catheters and cross-matched his blood. wouldn't be enough. In desperation, Buchman tried a Sticking to a routine helps eliminate mistakes even then-experimental therapy using nitric oxide gas. on crutches," Buchman said. "It was a personal in the most stressful situations, Buchman said. "You Eklund began to get just enough oxygen to survive. epiphany, and that's when I decided to go into trauma can well imagine that if you have a critically ill patient Six weeks later, Eklund flew home to California to care." followed by a screaming relative, it would be very start the long process of rehabilitation. After a fellowship in traumatology at the easy to get distracted," he said. "This is a kid who came in here literally breathing Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service The Air Force officer's liver bled profusely. Doc- his last breath," Buchman said. "Without the resources Systems, Buchman became the first director of tors found that shoving gauze into the body helped, and expertise we have here, he would have died — no trauma at Johns Hopkins in 1987. Pamela Lipsett, but how could they replace the gauze on a daily basis question." M.D., director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at without leaving the abdominal cavity wide open? Buchman recently received a picture of Eklund, now Johns Hopkins, remembers Buchman as a rare qua- Buchman covered the wound with a piece of silicone 28, water-skiing. "I wanted him to see how far I've druple threat: a talented clinician, teacher, scientist rubber that had a zipper fastened down the center. come," Eklund said from his home in California. "He and administrator. "He thinks like a computer, but not Doctors unzipped the cover every day to replace the didn't give up on me, and I owe my life to him." a standard computer," she said. "He's more like a gauze. The officer recently visited Buchman and the Eklund has some trouble moving his right arm, but he computer that hasn't been invented yet." rest of the team just to say hello. said he plans to start racing again soon. As his career progressed, Buchman realized that Although Buchman says his wife, Barbara A. Zehnbauer, Ph.D., research associate professor of 'A personal epiphany' those years in the laboratory had been anything but wasted. As one of the few trauma surgeons in the pediatrics and of pathology, has the more interesting Buchman once seemed destined to spend more time country who could clone genes and handle DNA, job, he clearly thrives on the challenges of trauma with organic molecules than with mangled motorcycle Buchman found himself entering exciting avenues of surgery. "A lot of people come in on death's door, and racers. A native of New York City and son of an research. a lot of them will never be the same," he said. "Still, obstetrician/gynecologist, Buchman went to the Since the mid-1980s, Buchman has been studying it's very satisfying to be able to save a life. The chance University of Chicago to become an organic chemist. how trauma can alter gene expression in cells. Cells to make a difference is felt nowhere more strongly He earned his master's degree in chemistry and even have many responses to trauma. Some cells activate than in the trauma rooms." — Chris Woolston Visit Washington University's on-line calendar at http://cf6000.wustl.edu/calendar/events/vl.! Calendar April 17-26

Halliday, prof, of geological sciences, asst. prof, of neurology and of neuro- U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Room 362 logical surgery. Classroom C Forest McDonnell Hall. 935-5610. Park Bldg., 4444 Forest Park Blvd. 4:15 p.m. Philosophy lecture. "The 286-1400. Problem of Necessity," Valerie Lloyd, 3 p.m. Math analysis seminar. Topic to graduate student in philosophy. Stix be announced. Speaker is Albert International House living room. Baernstein II, prof, of mathematics. Room 935-6614. 199 Cupples I Hall. 935-6726. 7:30 p.m. African and Afro-American Exhibitions studies/English lecture. "Can Rabbits Wednesday, April 23 Have Interracial Sex," Werner Sollors, 6:30 a.m. Anesthesiology Grand Music "Curtain Time: Student Performing prof, of English, Harvard U. Hurst Rounds. Topic and speaker to be Arts at Washington University." Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. announced. Wohl Hospital Bldg. Aud., Saturday, April 19 Through May 30. Special Collections, 935-5690. 4960 Children's Place. 362-6978. 8 p.m. Graduate piano recital. Program level five, Olin Library. Hours: 8:30 a.m. 1 p.m. Solid-state engineering and includes Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata in to 5 p.m. weekdays. 935-5495. Friday, April 18 applied physics seminar. "Plasma Ashing C minor, op. 111. Benjamin Binder, piano. Master's of Fine Arts Thesis Show. 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. Iron of Photoresist," Barry Ives, graduate Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-4841. Opening reception: 5 to 7 p.m. April 18. Toxicity Symposium — Part I: Exog- student in electrical engineering. Exhibit runs through May 4. Gallery of enous. "Iron Poisoning: Commonest Room 305 Bryan Hall. 935-5565. Sunday, April 20 3 p.m. Seventh Annual Chancellor's Art, upper and lower galleries, Steinberg Cause of Poisoning Death in Children," 4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular Hall. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. week- Milton Tenenbein, prof, of pediatrics, of Concert. Featuring the WU Symphony days; 1 to 5 p.m. weekends. 935-4523. biophysics seminar. "Structure and Func- Orchestra and the Chamber Choir of WU. pharmacology and of community health tion of Apolipoprotein E: Lessons From "Midway." First-year master's of fine arts sciences, U. of Manitoba, and director of Program includes music by Franz X-ray Crystallography," Karl H. Schubert, Igor Stravinsky and Ottorino students host an exhibit representing a emergency services, Winnipeg Children's Weisgraber, assoc. director, Gladstone range of styles and media. Through Hospital. Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Respighi. Directed by Dan Presgrave, Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, U. of director of the orchestra; Elizabeth April 25. West Campus Bldg. Hours: Place. 454-6006. California at San Francisco. Cori Aud., 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. 935-4761. Macdonald, director of strings; and John Noon. Cell biology and physiology 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-0261. Stewart, director of the choir. Saint Louis seminar. "Transcriptional Regulation of 4 p.m. Eugene Feenberg Memorial Lec- Symphony Music School, 560 Trinity Ave. the Osteocalcin Promoter: Convergence ture. "A Physicist Mired in Science Educa- (See story on page 5.) 935-5581. of Msx2- and FGF-regulated Calvarial tion," Leon Lederman, director emeritus, Gene Expression," Dwight Towler, asst. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, prof, of molecular biology and pharma- Tuesday, April 22 Batavia, 111. Room 201 Crow Hall. (See 8 p.m. Student recital. Program includes cology and of medicine. Room 426 story on page 6.) 935-6279. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. the music of J. S. Bach. Charles Wall, 362-6950. 4 p.m. Pathobiology seminar. Lucille P. guitar. Graham Chapel. 935-4841. Markey Special Emphasis Pathway to Noon. Earth and planetary sciences Human Pathobiology. "Oral Tolerance in Wednesday, April 23 brown-bag lunch/lecture. Topic to be the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease," 8 p.m. Black repertory composers' con- Films announced. Speaker is Alan D. Howard, Caroline C. Whitacre, prof, and chair, cert. Program includes the music of Dept. of Environmental Sciences, U. of Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Im- Erykah Badu and Take Six. Directed by All Filmboard movies cost $3 and are Virginia, Charlottesville. Room 104 munology, Ohio State U., Columbus. Daniel DuMaine, choral director, music shown in Room 100 Brown Hall. For Wilson Hall. 935-5610. Room B Eric P. Newman Education Cen- dept. Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-4841. the 24-hour Filmboard hotline, call 4 p.m. Information management ter. 362-3364. 935-5983. research colloquium. "Information Saturday, April 26 Economics and Value," Robert Benson, Thursday, April 24 8 p.m. WU Chorus concert. Program: Tuesday, April 22 prof, of information management. 11:15 a.m. Mental health seminar. Liebesleider waltzes, op. 52, by Johannes 6 p.m. Chinese Film Series. "The Story Room 104 Lopata Hall. 935-5484. "Overview of Research Project: Gateways Brahms; choral dances from "Gloriana" by of Qiu Ju." Room 219 South Ridgley Hall. 7:30 p.m. Astronomical Society meet- and Pathways Project," a follow-up study Benjamin Britten; music of the Renais- 935-5156. ing. "Finding Planets of Other Suns," on the Youth Services Project. Room 353 sance by Thomas Morley and Guillaume 7 and 9 p.m. Filmboard Classic Series. William Hayden Smith, prof, of earth and West Campus Administrative Center. Costeley; "Sacramento Sis Joe" by Jackson "It Happens Every Spring." (Also planetary sciences and fellow, McDonnell 935-5687. Berkey; and "Missouri Waltz" by Eppel/ April 23, same times.) Center for the Space Sciences. Room 162 3 p.m. Cancer Center lecture. Logan. Graham Chapel. 935-4841. McDonnell Hall. 935-4614. "Endoradiotherapeutics for the Treatment Friday, April 25 of CNS Malignancies," Michael Zalutsky, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Feature Monday, April 21 prof, of radiology, Duke U. Medical Cen- Series. "After Hours." (Also April 26, Noon. Molecular biology and pharma- ter, Durham, N.C. Third Floor Aud., same times, and April 27 at 7 p.m.) cology seminar. "Protein Trafficking in St. Louis Children's Hospital. 747-0359. Thyroid Epithelial Cells," Peter Arvan, Midnight. Filmboard Midnight Series. 4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "Patterned assoc. prof, of endocrinology and of Membranes: A Tool for Surface Science "Follow That Bird." (Also April 26, same developmental and molecular biology, time, and April 27 at 9:30 p.m.) and Membrane Biology," Steven Boxer, Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, prof, of chemistry, Stanford U. Room 311 NY. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. McMillen Lab. 935-6530. 362-7078. 4 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences Noon. Social work seminar. "African- colloquium. Topic to be announced. Performances American Adolescent Perceptions of Speaker is Robert R. Gillies, asst. prof, School and Environment and Decisions of plants, soils and biometeorology, Utah Friday, April 18 to Stay in School," Larry E. Davis, prof, State U, Logan. Room 362 McDonnell 8 p.m. Student dance concert. Co-spon- of social work. Room 300 Eliot Hall. Hall. 935-5610. sored by Thyrsus and CS40. (Also April 935-6691. 19, same time, and April 20 at 2 p.m.) 4:30 p.m. Math colloquium. "Deforming Cost: $4; $3 for senior citizens and stu- 4 p.m. Biology seminar. "Evolution of a Gorenstein Singularities," Anthony Flower Color Polymorphism in the Desert dents. Dance Studio, Room 297 Iarrobino, prof, of mathematics, North- Mallinckrodt Center. 725-9156. Lectures Annual Linanthus parryae: Was Wright eastern U, Boston, Mass. Room 199 Right?" Douglas W. Schemske, prof, of Cupples I Hall. 935-6726. botany, U. of Washington, Seattle. Thursday, April 24 Thursday, April 17 Room 322 Rebstock Hall. 935-6860. 7:30 p.m. Art lecture. "The Complex and 8 p.m. WU Performing Arts Dept. pre- Noon. Pathobiology lecture. Lucille P. the Non-relational in (my) Painting, With sents the winner of the 1996 A.E. Hotchner Markey Special Emphasis Pathway to 4 p.m. Biostatistics seminar. "Needles in Some Attention to the Attractive as a a Haystack: Searching for Signals Against Playwriting Competition, "Oldies on the Human Pathobiology. "Epstein-Barr Problematic," Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Rocks," by Daniel Sullivan, senior in Virus: The Paradigm for Human Tumor a Noisy Background," David Siegmund, painter and art critic, Pasadena, Calif. prof, of statistics, Stanford U. Room 1112 English. (Also April 25 and 26, same time, Viruses," Bill Sugden, the James A. Miller Steinberg Hall Aud. 935-4761. and April 27 at 2 p.m.) Drama Studio, Professor of Oncology, The Mc Ardle Old Shriner's Bldg., 706 S. Euclid Ave. 362-3614. Room 208 Mallinckrodt Center. Cost: $8; Laboratory for Cancer Research, U. of Friday, April 25 $6 for senior citizens. (See story on Wisconsin, Madison. Seminar Room B, 4 p.m. Immunology seminar. "Genetic 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. Iron page 5.) 935-6543. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. (Time Analysis of Mammalian Signaling Path- Toxicity Symposium — Part II: Endog- and location changed since the last ways," George R. Stark, chair, Research enous. "Iron Overload Syndromes," Record publication.) 362-3364. Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Z. Leah Harris, asst. prof, in pediatrics, 1:30 p.m. Mental health seminar. "Mea- 362-8748. Division of Critical Care. Clopton Aud., suring Outcomes of Interventions With 8 p.m. Fumihiko Maki Endowed Guest 4950 Children's Place. 454-6006. Runaway and Homeless Youth" and Lecture. "Image, Figure and Materiality," 12:15 p.m. The 44th Annual Alpha "Evaluation of a Group's Program for Fumihiko Maki, the Ruth and Norman Omega Alpha Lecture. "Whirling Cancer Patients," David E. Pollio, asst. Moore Guest Visitor and principal archi- Disease of Trout: A Vortex of Fishing, prof, of social work, and Sanna Thomp- tect, Maki & Associates, Tokyo. Steinberg Science and Public Policy," Marshall E. son, project coordinator, Homeless and Hall Aud. (See story on page 6.) 935-6200. Bloom, research medical officer, Labora- Runaway Youths Evaluation, and graduate tory of Persistent Viral Diseases, National student, School of Social Work. Tuesday, April 22 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Miscellany Room 295 West Campus Administrative Noon. Molecular microbiology/ Disease, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Center. 935-5687. microbial pathogenesis seminar Hamilton, Mont. Clopton Aud., 4950 Thursday, April 17 2:45 p.m. Physics lecture. "Light Quark series. "Evolution of Sex and the Children's Place. 362-6251. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Human Resources Masses," Rajan Gupta, laboratory scien- Molecular Clock in RNA Viruses," 4 p.m. The Third Vainer Lecture. Training and Development Center semi- tist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lin Chao, Dept. of Zoology, U. of "Polypeptide Signaling for Plant Defense nar. "Managing Change and Stress," Juli New Mexico. Room 241 Compton Hall. Maryland. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Genes," Clarence A. Ryan, Institute of Einspanier, training and development 935-6242. Ave. 362-7258. Biological Chemistry, Washington State specialist, Office of Human Resources 4 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences 12:10 p.m. Physical therapy research U, Pullman. Room 162 McDonnell Hall. Training and Development Center. Suite colloquium. "Plasmas — The Early Solar seminar. "Defining Cerebral Ischemia in 935-6860. 100, Room B West Campus Administrative System and Climate Dynamics," Alex N. Acute Brain Injury," Michael N. Diringer, Center. 935-6970. Washington University Record / April 17, 1997 5 10 p.m. Catholic Student Center event. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Hillel Center, "Crumpets and Trumpets," a free coffee 6300 Forsyth Blvd. 726-6177. Hotchner contest-winning house. Catholic Student Center, 6352 7:30 p.m. Women's studies feminist read- Forsyth Blvd. 725-3358. ing group. Levi Lounge, Room 220 Busch Friday, April 18 Hall. 935-5102. student play to be performed 11:30 a.m. N'avajo sandpainting demon- Friday, April 25 The truth about what really happens in high school — and said, 'Is that what stration. Part of American Indian Aware- 7:30 a.m. Office of Continuing Medical on prom night will be laid out like goes on in my basement?' My dad smiled ness Week. Blackhorse Mitchell, Navajo Education seminar: "Common Cancers — a freshly pressed tux this month in and said, 'It reminds me of my college artist. Lower level, Mallinckrodt Center. Prevention, Detection and Therapy." The "Oldies on the Rocks," an original play days.' (See story on page 6.) 935-4510. Ritz-Carlton, 100 Carondelet Plaza. Call by senior Daniel Sullivan, winner of "There is a sense of nostalgia in the 6-9 p.m. Catholic Student Center event. 362-6891 for more info, and to register. Washington University's 1996 A.E. play," Sullivan continued. "Some people Twilight Retreat: "Radical Discipleship and 5-8 p.m. Painting students open house. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. will smile and think how great it used to Trust," John Kavanaugh, Jesuit priest, Saint Features the work of undergraduate and Students in the Performing Arts be. Others will look for a deeper mean- Louis U. Catholic Student Center, 6352 graduate students. School of Art painting Department in Arts and Sciences will ing. I wanted it to appeal to a variety of Forsyth Blvd. Call 725-3358 to register. studios, third floor Bixby Hall. 935-4761. bring Sullivan's work to life at 8 p.m. different people on a variety of different Saturday, April 19 April 24, 25 and 26 and at 2 p.m. April levels." Saturday, April 26 27 in The Drama Studio, Room 208 Director Annamaria Pileggi, artist in 10 a.m. Workshop on traditional Navajo 1 p.m. Book arts workshop. "Paper Mak- song and dance. Part of Indian Awareness Mallinckrodt Center. residence in performing arts, describes ing in China: Slide Lecture." Charlotte "Oldies on the Rocks" follows a Week. Presented by Navajo artist Johnson, Southern Illinois U, Ed wards ville, the work as multilayered and complex. Blackhorse Mitchell. New music classroom will show paper samples and share paper- group of teen-age boys and girls through "It's very entertaining and funny, but it's bldg. (See story on page 6.) 935-4510. making experiences. Cost: $5. Room 104 the rites of passage of prom night at an also very dark," Pileggi said. "At the end 11 a.m.-8 p.m.Thurtene Carnival 1997. Bixby Hall. 935-4643. all-boys Catholic school. The play is told of the play, you wind up questioning North Brookings Hall parking lot. (Contin- in three scenes: dinner before the dance; everything that you thought was funny. I ues April 20, same times.) (See story on driving to the dance; and the party after want the audience to have a very good page 1.) 935-3125. the dance. "The dance itself is skipped," time, but when they leave the theater, I 1-10 p.m. Seventh Annual WU Pow Wow. said Sullivan, who is majoring in En- want to see some furrowed brows." Part of American Indian Awareness Week. glish. "It's the activity surrounding the Sullivan said he is happy with how his American Indian dancers, music, trading prom that, in my experience, is what play has evolved from words written on booths, food and special ceremonies. Field everyone is really looking forward to. paper to words spoken by actors. "It's House, Athletic Complex. (See story on Avoid the dance — it's boring." fun seeing people interpret in ways I had page 6.) 935-4510. The play is presented as a slice of life, not thought of." Tuesday, April 22 explained Sullivan, with multiple story The annual A.E. Hotchner lines tied together by the common experi- Playwriting Competition is open to all 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Human Resources Train- Vienna Fest 1997 ing and Development Center seminar. ence of the prom. The work explores current Washington University students "Leadership — Facilitating Change," Rich- "Dream City: Viennese Medicine as a issues and emotions important to young and those who graduated within one year ard L. Jouett, director, Training and Human Benchmark for St. Louis Physicians." people and presents teen-agers in a light of the competition's date. The staged- Resource Management. Open to WU staff Exhibit of photographs, rare books and seldom found in the popular media. reading element of the competition was only. Suite 100, Room B West Campus documents on the scientific developments "Young people are typically portrayed as implemented last year, and Sullivan's Administrative Center. 935-6970. of late 19th-century Vienna. Drawn from fairly non-thinking," he said. "You get the work was one of two plays selected to be the School of Medicine's collections and 8 p.m. CS40 Coffee House. Guitarist Vance drugs and rock 'n' roll, but you don't get presented in this format. From the read- archives. Glaser Gallery, seventh floor, The the brains. My intention was to portray Gilbert. Cost: $7 for faculty and staff; free Bernard Becker Medical Library. 362-7080. ings, his play was chosen for a fully for WU students. Ike's Place, Wohl Student the thoughtfulness as well as the crazi- staged production this year. Two new Center. 935-5037. Friday, April 18 ness." plays currently are being selected in this Wednesday, April 23 4 p.m. Music lecture. "Schubert's Pendu- As part of the playwriting competition, year's competition for staged readings in lum," Hugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett "Oldies on the Rocks" was performed as the fall. 8 p.m. Poetry reading. Features Jeremy Professor of Music and chair, Dept. of Music. a staged reading last year. Reactions to Admission is $8; $6 for senior citizens. Countryman, Ross Martin and Gregory Room 102 new music classroom bldg. the work varied depending on the age and Tickets are available at the Edison Theatre Vargo, master's of fine arts candidates in the 935-4841. writing program. Hurst Lounge, Room 201 experiences of the viewer, Sullivan said. box office, (314) 935-6543, and at all Duncker Hall. 935-5190. "When my mother saw the reading, she MetroTix outlets, (314) 534-1111. For Friday, April 25 turned to my little brother — who is still more information, call (314) 935-6543. Thursday, April 24 4 p.m. Music lecture. "Schubert: Legend and Reality," David Cairns, British writer on 7:15 p.m. Hillel Center event. Annual music. Room 102 new music classroom Annual Chancellor's Concert features meeting. Introductory remarks by bldg. 935-4841. Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra A great 20th-century choral work by eliminates the use of violins and violas Igor Stravinsky, along with the from the string section. Stravinsky music of Ottorino Respighi and Franz himself described the work as "not a Schubert, will be performed in the Sev- symphony in which I have included the enth Annual Chancellor's Concert at Psalms to be sung; on the contrary it is 3 p.m. Sunday, April 20, at the Saint the singing of the Psalms that I am Compiled by Mike Wolf, director, and Kevin Bergquist, asst. director, sports information. Louis Symphony Music School, 560 symphonizing," noted Perkins. For the most up-to-date news about Washington University's athletics program, Trinity Ave. Respighi's "The Pines of Rome" is a access the Bears'Web site at www.sports-u.com. The Washington University Sym- dramatic work requiring a large orchestra phony Orchestra and the Chamber Choir that includes piano, organ and aug- Baseball Bears win This week: 9 a.m. Friday, April 18, to of Washington University combine mented brass. Written in 1924, the piece Sunday, April 20, at UAA Champion- forces to feature Stravinsky's innovative creates an aural picture — complete with two in a row ships at Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.) and challenging "Symphony of Psalms." bird sounds — of Rome's countryside. In its only game of the week, WU The concert also includes Respighi's Schubert wrote the incidental music extended its winning streak to two games Men's tennis readies "The Pines of Rome" and excerpts from to the 1823 play "Rosamunde" by with a 3-0 road victory over Greenville for UAA Championships Schubert's choral and instrumental Helmina Chezy. The orchestra will (111.) College. Junior pitcher Thor Larsen music for the play "Rosamunde." perform excerpts from the score, includ- hurled his third shutout of the season, WU's four-match victory string was put The concert will be directed by Dan ing the popular melodies from the ballet allowing only two hits in seven innings. on hold as the Bears' only scheduled Presgrave, lecturer in the Department of section. The choral music that Schubert Snow and rain prevented the Bears from match of the week — vs. Saint Louis Music in Arts and Sciences and director wrote for the play is seldom performed playing three other scheduled contests. University on Thursday, April 10 — was the orchestra; John Stewart, head of these days, so the concert offers a rare canceled due to snow. This week, WU vocal activities in the music department opportunity to hear the choir sing several Current record: 9-16 will seek its first UAA men's tennis title. and director of the choir; and Elizabeth choruses, including a jaunty hunting This week: 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, Current record: 6-5 Macdonald, director of strings in the song. The Schubert work is performed in at Illinois Wesleyan University music department. tribute to Vienna Fest 1997, a yearlong This week: 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, vs. (Bloomington); 2 p.m. Thursday, April Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms" is event honoring the 200th anniversary of Principia College, Tao Tennis Center; 17, at Principia College (Elsah, 111.); one of the most influential choral works Schubert's birth and the 100th anniver- 9 a.m. Friday, April 18, to Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, vs. Fontbonne of the 20th century, said John Perkins, sary of Johannes Brahms' death. April 20, at UAA Championships at College, Kelly Field; 10 a.m. Sunday, associate professor of music and an The concert is free and open to the Emory University April 20, vs. Wittenberg University expert on Stravinsky. The work is distin- public. For more information, call (Springfield, Ohio) at DePauw Univer- guished by a unique orchestration that (314)935-5581. sity (Greencastle, Ind.) and 12:30 p.m. at Track and field squads DePauw University place first, second ' Wonder drug' is focus of play, discussions Sophomore sprinter Claudine Rigaud Women's tennis team bettered a pair of NCAA Division III The legacy of DES — the synthetic "My Virginia" is co-presented by That shoots for UAA title provisional qualifying marks Saturday, estrogen hormone diethylstilbestrol Uppity Theatre Company and Joan E. April 12, as the men's and women's track that was prescribed to millions of women Lipkin, artistic director of the company WU's women's tennis team heads to this and field teams hosted their annual invita- between 1947 and 1971— will be the focus and lecturer in the Department of Per- week's 10th annual University Athletic tional. Rigaud improved her national of a one-woman show and open discus- forming Arts in Arts and Sciences. Association (UAA) Championships on a provisional qualifying time in the 100 sions featuring School of Medicine faculty. Picoult will perform the show at 8 p.m. roll. The Bears have won nine of 10 meters to 12.39 seconds and set another The show, "My Virginia," is based on April 25 and 26 at The Center of matches, including victories last week provisional mark in the 200 meters New York actress Darci Picoult's experi- Contemporary Arts (COCA), over Nebraska Wesleyan University (:25.44). WU topped the 17-team men's ence as a DES child and was created after 524 Trinity Ave. (Lincoln), Principia College and field with 152.5 points, while the women four years of interviews with DES- Both performances will be followed Augustana College (Rock Island, 111.). scored 135.5 points in finishing second to exposed women and men and their fami- by discussions with Picoult and a panel Junior Wendy Lehmann became the Augustana College (162) in a 16-team lies, as well as doctors, government of medical experts, including Janet S. second current player to record 100 field. Freshman Kristin Meade posted a officials and lawyers. Rader, M.D., assistant professor of ob- career victories as the Bears celebrated 35-foot, 11-inch effort in the triple jump Considered a "wonder drug" in the stetrics and gynecology, and Valerie S. their newly acquired No. 3 ranking in the to break the WU outdoor record in that fight to prevent miscarriages and prema- Ratts, M.D., instructor in obstetrics and Intercollegiate Tennis Association's event. ture labor, DES actually left millions of gynecology. Midwest regional rankings. This week: 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19, at women and men with a legacy of cancer, Tickets are $16; $14 for students and Current record: 10-7 Grinnell (Iowa) College Invitational infertility, immune disorders and repro- senior citizens. For tickets or more infor- ductive problems. mation, call (314) 725-6555. 6 Washington University Record Nobel laureate Leon Lederman gives Feenberg Memorial Lecture Leon Lederman, winner of the 1988 experiments that provided major Nobel Prize in physics, will deliver advances in the understanding of weak Washington University's Eugene interactions, one of the nuclear forces. Feenberg Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. In 1956, working with a Columbia Wednesday, April 23, in Room 201 Crow team at the Brookhaven Cosmotron Hall. His talk, titled "A Physicist Mired accelerator, Lederman discovered a in Science Education," is free and open to new particle, the long-lived neutral the public. K-meson, which had been predicted from Lederman, director emeritus of the theory. The accelerator is at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Brookhaven National Laboratory on Batavia, 111., will discuss the importance Long Island in Upton, N.Y. of science education to the intellectual His fundamental experiments on the and economic health of society. Says interactions of high-energy particles Lederman: "If'lifelong' learning is not were carried out primarily as part of the simple rhetoric and in fact attains awe- Nevis laboratory program at the some significance in this education/ Brookhaven laboratory. It was at communication age, then we must look at Brookhaven that the group discovered science education as a K through '100' another new particle — the second problem." neutrino. This discovery was recognized An internationally known specialist in with the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics, high-energy physics, Lederman is the and it initiated a line of study that since Pritzker Professor of Physics at the has dominated programs at the major Illinois Institute of Technology in accelerators. Chicago. He previously was the Frank L. The Eugene Feenberg Memorial Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the Lecture was established in honor of the University of Chicago, where he is now a late professor who retired as Wayman professor emeritus. He was associated Crow Professor of Physics in 1975 after with Columbia University in New York teaching nearly 30 years in the Depart- City for more than 30 years as a student ment of Physics in Arts and Sciences. and as a faculty member and was direc- A pioneer in the application of quantum tor of the school's Nevis Laboratories mechanics to complex systems, from 1962 to 1979. Feenberg was noted for his contributions With colleagues and students from to nuclear theory, approximation meth- Nevis, a center for experimental research ods and the theory of quantum fluids. in high-energy physics, Lederman led an For more information on the lecture, intensive and wide-ranging series of call (314) 935-6279.

American Indian Awareness Week features annual Pow Wow, Navajo sandpainting

A Pow Wow and Navajo sandpainting Navajo song and dance at 10 a.m. Kurt Hohenemser, Dr.lng., looks forward to gusty days when he can study the highlight the American Indian Saturday, April 19, in the Department wind turbine at Tyson Research Center. Awareness festivities on the Hilltop of Music in Arts and Sciences' new Campus this week. The event is hosted classroom building. by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for The week's activities culminate with Harnessing the wind for energy-from page i American Indian Studies at the George a Pow Wow in the Athletic Complex Warren Brown School of Social Work in Field House from 1 to 10 p.m. April 19. 1947 with offers from Flettner in New as at high power, and it also has to conjunction with the American Indian The Seventh Annual Washington Uni- York and James McDonnell in St. Louis, withstand storm winds," Hohenemser Center of Mid-America. All activities versity Pow Wow includes American who also was involved in helicopter said. "Recently, I've incorporated into are free and open to the public. Indian dancers, trading booths, music development. the Tyson wind turbine a variable speed At 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 18, and food. Special ceremonies include He chose then-named McDonnell capability by running the induction Navajo artist Blackhorse Mitchell will gourd dancing; blanket dancing; inter- Aircraft Corp., where he served as chief generator in a self-excited mode instead demonstrate traditional Navajo tribal dance contests; and flag, honor aerodynamics engineer of the Helicopter of excitation from the grid. Off-grid sandpainting in the lower level of and memorial songs. Division for 18 years. In 1965, operation is needed in isolated regions, Mallinckrodt Center. Mitchell also will For more information, call (314) Hohenemser became a professor of and variable speed is more efficient and conduct a workshop on traditional 935-4510. aerospace engineering at the University, reduces blade loads." where he had taught for several years as Early data are encouraging, an adjunct professor. Hohenemser said, indicating that the Maki closes architecture's spring lecture series Shifting gears variable speed mode of the induction generator works. "To my knowledge, no Renowned Japanese architect and 1993 Hohenemser became interested in wind- ment of the school's spring 1997 Monday wind turbine has used this induction- Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki turbine energy in the 1970s in the midst Night Lecture Series. generator mode of operation as yet," he will lecture on "Image, Figure and Materi- of the Arab oil embargo and the near- Botond Bognar, a professor of archi- said. "It will be interesting to leam ality" at 8 p.m. Monday, April 21, in frantic search for alternative energy. tecture history at the University of Illinois more about it in the coming tests." Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Since then, thousands of wind turbines Urbana-Champaign who is writing a book His early wind turbine research was Maki is the School of Architecture's have been erected worldwide, with on Maki, also will speak. carried out through Washington Univer- Ruth and Norman Moore Guest Visitor. Bognar will speak at 1 p.m. Sunday, Denmark leading the way in Europe and sity Technology Associates in conjunc- California leading the United States. He will deliver the inaugural Fumihiko April 20, in Room 116 Givens Hall, fol- tion with David A. Peters, Ph.D., pro- Maki Endowed Guest Lecture, which was Hohenemser has applied his knowl- lowed by a discussion with Maki. The two fessor and chair of mechanical engi- established by a generous bequest from edge of helicopter rotors to the problem also will lecture at the school the next day neering; then-doctoral-candidate the estate of Ernest J. Russell of of generating electric energy from the at 9:30 a.m. (room to be announced). Andrew Swift, Ph.D., now dean of St. Louis. The lecture is the final install- For information, call (314) 935-6200. wind. engineering at the University of Texas, "Today, as in the past, most wind El Paso; and others. Swift since has turbines in operation use propellers with duplicated the Tyson wind turbine and rigid blades, similar to airplane propel- is using it in experiments in Southwest- lers," Hohenemser said. "But these have ern Texas. The work was sponsored by drawbacks. The chief one is that they are the Solar Energy Research Institute Campus Watch not well suited to operate in oblique (SERI), which is now the National flow when the wind direction is not Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department from April 7-14. Readers with informa- perpendicular to the rotor plane. Also, tion that could assist the investigation of these incidents are urged to call (314) 935-5555. This release is provided as Hohenemser has published reports a public service to promote safety-awareness on campus. operation during storms requires their over the years with SERI and NREL use of changes in pitch of their blades, and is planning another on the present April 7 April 12 which involves a complex design." studies. 12:58 a.m. —A student reported that a 8:24 a.m. — A staff member reported that The helicopter-type rotor avoids All funding was dropped after 1985, pizza was stolen from a table in the Bear's white paint was splattered on the north side these drawbacks because it readily but Hohenemser has continued the Den in Wohl Student Center. of Tao Tennis Center. accepts oblique flow conditions. A see- research on his own time with the April 8 April 13 saw hinge at the hub of the two-bladed assistance of Tyson personnel, who 11:33 a.m. — A student in Wydown Resi- 10:34 a.m. — A student reported that a rotor allows the turbine to rapidly adjust keep the access to the turbine clear, and to wind direction changes. In traditional dence Hall reported that unauthorized pur- wallet containing credit cards was stolen with the help of a retired helicopter- chases totaling $382 were made to a credit wind turbine design, wind following is from a backpack in the lower-level lounge of engineering colleague from McDonnell card. Mallinckrodt Center. associated with rather large aerody- Douglas Corp. 4:30 p.m. — A faculty member reported that namic and inertia blade loads. While the perfect data day — dry April 9 The main problem turbine designers a gym bag containing clothing was stolen and gusty — is a rarity for Hohenemser, 5:32 p.m. — A student reported that a watch from outside a racquetball court in the confront is that the wind power available he visits Tyson at least every other week was stolen from a desk in an unlocked suite Athletic Complex. to a wind turbine increases with the in warm months to check and maintain in Lee Residence Hall. cube of the wind speed. For example, a 5:32 p.m. — A student reported that driving the equipment. 11:16 p.m. — A student reported being lights were stolen from a vehicle parked in speed of 50 mph yields a thousand times "I love working out at Tyson, followed from Anheuser-Busch Hall north the South Forty. more power than a speed of 5 mph. although it is not the best place to cap- on Throop Drive by an unknown white male "A wind turbine is a rather difficult- who attempted to make conversation. University Police also responded to two ture the wind," Hohenemser said. "But automobile accidents and impounded a to-design system because it has to work then, this is not Texas or California." 11:16p.m. — A staff member reported that bicycle on Brookings Quadrangle. efficiently at low wind velocities as well — Tony Fitzpatrick a leg was broken off a chair in Olin Library. April 17, 1997 7 Best health books listing includes

For The Record contains news about a wide Babu Joseph, Ph.D., the Edward Interactions with Korean Students" at the WU authors variety of faculty, staff and student scholarly C. Dicke Professor of chemical engineer- 31st annual international convention of and professional activities. ing, has received a $200,000 two-year Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Works by three Washington grant from the National Science Founda- Languages, held March 13 in Orlando, Fla. University authors are Of note tion for a project titled "Intelligent included on a list of last Control of Quality in Composite Manu- Speaking of year's best health sciences books. Linda M. Davidson, manager of clinical facturing Processes." The objective of the Doody Publishing, an independent Ronald M. Levin, J.D., professor of law, support services at the Mallinckrodt research is to lower manufacturing costs reviewer of health sciences and recently spoke at a subcommittee meeting Institute of Radiology, recently was named of polymeric materials, such as of the Consumer Finance Committee of nursing books, recently released a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial fiberglass-epoxy-resin composite lami- the Section of Business Law at the annual its 1997 edition of "Doody's Rating Management Association (HFMA). She is nates, through the use of advanced Service: A Buyer's Guide to the among the fewer than 7 percent of health- convention of the American Bar Associa- model-based control techniques. 250 Best Health Sciences Books." care professionals nationally who have tion held in Orlando, Fla. Levin addressed Currently, these advanced materials Making the cut from its database of successfully earned the designation. the administrative law implications of the primarily are used in the defense indus- more than 2,700 titles with a 1996 Candidates are assessed for their technical U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in try, but lower costs would make the copyright are: proficiency as well as their understanding "Smiley vs. Citibank." In addition, the materials more attractive in many civilian • "Management of Diabetes of professional and managerial responsi- Council of the Section of Administrative industrial applications, such as for light- Mellitus: Perspectives of Care Across bility. In earning the fellowship, Davidson Law and Regulatory Practice endorsed a weight automobiles and structures. the Life Span" (second edition), by demonstrated specialized knowledge in resolution and report drafted by Levin. Debra L. Haire-Joshu, M.D, research managed care. HFMA is the nation's The resolution suggests guidelines for associate professor of medicine; leading organization for more than 34,000 On assignment reviewing courts to use when they • "Pitfalls, Variants and Artifacts professionals involved in the financial Wendy Hyman-Fite, director of the remand an administrative action to an in Body MR Imaging," by Scott management of health-care institutions English as a Second Language Program, agency without simultaneously vacating A. Mirowitz, M.D., associate professor and providers. ... presented a session titled "Examining Our the action. of radiology; and • "Clinical Immunology: Principles and Practice" (two-volume set), by Benjamin Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical medicine. The books chosen for Doody's Rating Service are determined after consulting Doody Publishing's network of 3,000 reviewers and review-group chairs, the 200 participating publishers and Doody's editoral staff. Book reviews now online An archive of reviews from Doody's Review Service now is available via The Bernard Becker Medical Library's World Wide Web site. The service, which offers free access to current peer reviews on newly published books in the health sciences, can be accessed at http:/ /medschool.wustl.edu/webcites. Once there, select Doody's Book Review Service and visit the "guest area" to find general information about the service and an electronic registration form. Once registered, a personal identifica- tion code will be issued within a week (via e-mail) that will allow no-cost entry. The service features weekly e-mail bulletins with information and reviews of newly published books, as well as a database of more than 8,000 titles and 4,500 expert reviews. The list is updated weekly, providing information Undampened spirits on 50 new titles and 30 reviews, on Despite an unexpected spring snow, Lanetta Greer of Milwaukee, Wis., (standing left) and Phyllis Broussard of average. In most cases, a review is Lafayette, La., (with camera) enjoy an indoor barbecue at Mallinckrodt Center on Thursday, April 10. The cook-in was available as early as 10 weeks after a part of Washington University's Multicultural Celebration weekend, which drew more than 225 prospective students to book is published. the campus. The barbecue was co-sponsored by several student groups, including the Association of Black Students, For assistance with the registra- ASHOKA (the American Indian students association), the Asian Multicultural Council, the Asian Students Association, tion form, contact Barbara Halbrook, the Chinese Students Association, the Association of Korean Students, SHADES (a multiracial student organization) librarian, at (314) 362-3786 or at and the Association of Latin American Students, as well as the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. [email protected]. Obituaries The following is a recent release available at the Campus Bookstore in Mallinckrodt Center on the Hilltop Campus or at the Washington University Medical Bookstore in the Olin Residence Hall. For more information, call John Grant, associate professor of clinical medicine (314) 935-5500 (Hilltop Campus) or (314) 362-3240 (School of Medicine). John Mosby Grant, M.D., associate Clinic, where they felt they could best professor of clinical medicine, died of serve the community. The Socially Responsive Self cancer Tuesday, April 1, 1997, at his John Grant was an enthusiastic commu- Social Theory and Professional Ethics Central West End home. He was 70. nity activist dedicated to improving the (The University of Chicago Press; Chicago & London, 1996) A graduate of Princeton (N. J.) Univer- Central West End. He was a leading officer sity, Grant received his medical degree of the Second Presbyterian Church, and Larry M. May, Ph.D., professor of philosophy in Arts from the Washington University School he was one of the founders of the Joint and Sciences of Medicine in Community Board, a church group that A book about social responsibility — especially in 1953 and joined the addresses neighborhood problems. In the professional life — "The Socially Responsive Self" faculty in 1959. 1960s, Grant served as president of the explores the nature of social institutions and the role He conducted his interracial Mid-City Community Congress. these institutions play in shaping and limiting our respon- clinical practice at A funeral service was held April 6 sibilities. These categories of integrity, authority, role responsibility and advocacy the Grant Medical at the Second Presbyterian Church. are re-examined in light of recent work in social and moral philosophy, especially Clinic, founded by Contributions may be made to the John in critical theory. his father, Samuel M. Grant Book Fund, c/o Central West May argues that socially responsive individuals need not be self-sacrificing or B. Grant. He also End Bank, 415 DeBaliviere Ave., overconscientious. According to May, a person's integrity and moral responsibil- served on the staff St. Louis, MO, 63112; to the Second ity are shaped and limited not just by conscience but also by socialization and of Barnes-Jewish Presbyterian Church, 4501 Westminster John M. Grant Hospital, of moral support from the communities to which he or she belongs. Place, St. Louis, MO, 63108; or to the Applying the theory of responsibility to professional ethics, he contends that St. Luke's Hospital and of the St. Louis Quartet Seraphin, 6963 Columbia Place, current methods of professional socialization should be changed so that profes- Regional Medical Center. St. Louis, MO, 63130. sionals are not expected to ignore considerations of personal well-being, family An internist with a strong interest in Survivors include his wife, Dionne or community. For instance, lawyers should not place client loyalty above con- psychosomatic ailments, Grant showed D. Grant of St. Louis; a daughter, Natalie cerns for the common good; doctors should not place the physical well-being of remarkable compassion for his patients. T. Grant of Huntington, Vt.; his mother, patients above their mental and spiritual well-being; scientists and engineers When some doctors began leaving the Natalie N. Grant of St. Louis; and two should not feel obliged to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption unless their city in the mid-1970s, Grant and his brothers, Neville and Samuel B. Grant, professional groups protect them from retaliation. brother, Neville Grant, M.D., professor both of St. Louis. His first wife, (Excerpted from book introduction and jacket text.) of clinical medicine, stayed aLthe Grant Margaret T Grant, died in 199X portunities SE^nel

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Thurtene is nation's largest, oldest student-run carnival from page 1 How Thurtene Carnival evolved and day, however, its meetings, selection Phi Delta Theta fraternity captured first grew is shrouded in nearly as much process and ritual remain secret. prize by selling the most game tickets. mystery as the honorary for which it is Nearly as clandestine are the roots of Thurtene, which ran a game in which Memories of named. The roots of Thurtene go back to the carnival, which was directed by contestants toppled milk bottles with the late fall of 1904, when three men's Pralma for nearly three decades. Part of baseballs, placed second. Thurtene Carnival honor societies — Pralma (for seniors), the puzzle is that the event's name and its The reins were permanently passed Thurtene (for juniors) and Lock and spelling were changed numerous times as from Pralma to Thurtene in the spring of Daniel Shapiro Chain (for sophomores) — were formed part of an ongoing joke — a display of 1935 after George Stephens, dean of Late in the 1970s, when Daniel by an anonymous alumnus. Members collegiate humor. Before a general con- men, spoke with Thurtene president Shapiro was three years old, his were chosen on the basis of outstanding sensus of "Univee Surkuss" was reached Harry White. The dean opened the parents picked him up at the Wash- leadership, character and participation in in 1912, the event went by such monikers meeting by saying: "Harry, it is an honor ington University nursery school one campus activities. Members truly were as Younnivee Surrkuss, U-N-I-V Surrkuss, to be in Thurtene and an even greater spring day — and brought him to his considered to be the "Big Men on Pikeway Surrkuss and Univee Surrkuss. honor to be elected president. But an first Thurtene Carnival. Campus." The nature of the Surkuss changed in honorary should have a purpose." He's missed only one since, when In the first few years, only the mem- 1910 when the main attraction shifted And so the carnival, an event that had he attended American University in bers themselves knew who belonged to from a ring circus to a vaudeville show. no future, was salvaged. The tradition Washington, D.C., as a freshman. Thurtene. While the other societies Rides debuted in 1914 with the inclusion assumed the name of its rescuers and Now Shapiro is seeing the carnival allowed publications to print rosters and of the "Freshman-powered Merry-Go- has been known ever since as Thurtene from a new perspective — from group photographs, Thurtene was repre- Round." A dance sponsored by Lock and Carnival. within the traditional yellow sented in the University yearbook, "The Chain was added that year. For the inaugural 1935 event, Thurtene jacket. Hatchet," by illustration only. A person's The 1916 Surkuss was noteworthy for Thurtene contracted for the rides with Shapiro, who transferred to Wash- membership could be verified only when the debut of a student-produced silent D.D. Murphy Carnival Shows. More ington University prior to his sopho- the individual in question was a senior. movie titled "The Maid of McMillan" than 15,000 game tickets were sold at more year, is serving as treasurer for Then a small "13" could be found in the (McMillan Hall was the women's dormi- 5 cents each and Sigma Chi fraternity Thurtene this year. list of credentials that bordered a tory at that time). The 14-minute, took first place in receipts with its "As a kid, I remember the carnival student's senior picture. 16-millimeter film, which was billed as egg toss. The profits from this "first" as magic," Shapiro says. "Both my the first movie made by college students, carnival were split between the Emerging from obscurity parents were involved with the carni- centered around the romance of "Jack Campus Y and the Athletic Association. val as undergraduate students, and Over the years, Thurtene has evolved Tower, Captain of the Track Team" and The format remained the same for my Uncle Max was selected for from an esoteric society of which virtu- his soon-to-be wife, "Myrtle Maroon." several years but did become part of a Thurtene in 1964. My uncle was a ally nothing was known to a highly vis- The film, which is the oldest surviving larger all-University festival from VIP every year and he'd let me wear ible coed campus organization. To this footage of Washington University, was 1940-42. This immense event — which his Thurtene armband. I feel a real subsequently released to local theaters. featured a track meet, fraternity open connection — a tradition that is very A year later, the Surkuss became a houses and physics demonstrations — important to me." Memories of casualty of World War I. "No Surkuss" was intended to attract area high school — David Moessner Thurtene Carnival was the banner headline of the May 5, students to the University. 1917, edition of Student Life. The Great As with the Great War, World War II War also claimed the 1918 Surkuss. drew the carnival to a halt in 1943. That Thurtene members were able to "cancel Herb Weitman The soldiers and the Surkuss returned marks the last time the event was not the cancellation." Herb Weitman quite possibly in 1919, and the early 1920s was a period held. More daunting was a 1982 resolution has attended more Thurtene when the St. Louis community took A growing success by University officials to cancel the Carnivals than anyone. notice. Films of the 1921 Surkuss were carnival — permanently. The verdict was shown in local theaters — the equivalent Since then, each successive group of prompted when the construction of the Weitman was Washington Thurtene honorary has tried to outdo its University's director of photographic of today's television coverage. new athletic facilities made relocation In the mid-1920s, Pralma began to predecessors, and the carnival has grown inevitable and, it was argued, cost- services from the time of his gradua- in size and scope. In 1949, the carnival tion in 1950 until his retirement in shift its attention and efforts to another inefficient. Thurtene mounted a cam- was relocated to the tennis court parking 1994. He also was an undergraduate of its events, the "Pralma Vodvil." As a paign to bolster support, enlisting the lots, where it remained until 1983. member of Thurtene in 1949. result, the Surkuss lay dormant in the help of several student groups. The springs of 1927, 1928 and 1929. Another Through the years, unique attractions president of Chimes, then the junior "The very first picture I took at such as live shows, a barber shop, a Washington University was at student group, the Women's Self- women's honorary, instigated an idea that kissing booth and a synchronized swim- Thurtene Carnival," recalls Weitman, Government Association, attempted an called for a three-year temporary raise in indoor revival of the festival in Decem- ming exhibition in Wilson Pool were the student activities fee. The plan, which who captured tens of thousands of implemented. Phi Delta Theta introduced Hilltop images over the years. "It was ber 1929, but poor attendance and van- in only two days blossomed from an idea dalism made the event a questionable its annual movie in 1955, easily taking to a petition to an official motion on the 1947 — fifty years ago — and I went first prize. Facades, in which live perfor- to the carnival on my own, for myself, success. The Surkuss was not seen in any ballot, passed with a resounding 84 per- mances are shown, have became increas- and shot some photographs. Some- form from 1930 through 1932. cent approval. February 24, 1933, is a significant day ingly elaborate. Today, Thurtene Carnival remains the where along the line, someone said, The carnival has weathered two 'You really should take those pictures in the history of Thurtene Carnival. That largest and oldest student-run carnival in day marked the establishment of a Wash- threatening storms under Thurtene's the nation. Nearly 40 student organiza- to Student Life.' Then, as now, they direction. The first, in 1962, nearly blew were always in short supply of pho- ington University chapter of Omicron tions take part in the two-day event, away the event — literally. During final tographers. So I took the photo in — Delta Kappa (ODK), then the national which this year features six facades, senior men's leadership honorary. By preparations the evening before the 14 major rides, a dozen games and an it was of a clown — and walked out carnival, fierce winds caused the with a job. May 1934, Pralma and ODK had agreed array of food. wooden facades to collapse. Two student "From there I got hired by the to merge. Pralma's last hurrah would be All that's missing is Wahsousa. the rebirth of the Surkuss that spring. workers received minor injuries. The — David Moessner yearbook and then by the University. damage was extensive enough that local And it all started with Thurtene The event, which featured games, con- Special thanks to Mitchell Walker, radio stations announced cancellation of Carnival." —David Moessner cessions and two rides, was held on the Thurtene Class of 1983, for access to his parking lot south of the tennis courts. the carnival. After frantic rebuilding, research.