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Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 8-27-1992 Washington University Record, August 27, 1992 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, August 27, 1992" (1992). Washington University Record. Book 591. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/591 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]. .it* 1<! „se WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS iecord Vol. 17 No. 1 Aug. 27, 1992 Authors Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wiesel among Assembly Series speakers Sen. Robert Kerrey, D-Neb., was Vonnegut has topped the best-seller lists scheduled to open the University's repeatedly with books like Cat's Cradle and Assembly Series Aug. 26 with the Slaughterhouse Convocation address, "Building for Great- Five. His works, ness." The annual Convocation ceremony is which have sold targeted primarily to freshmen and other millions of undergraduates, although all members of copies and the University community are welcome to appeared in attend. Kerrey's talk was scheduled for 11 numerous for- a.m. in Graham Chapel. eign editions, Kerrey, who campaigned for the Demo- also have been cratic presidential nomination earlier this adapted for the year, serves on two U.S. Senate commit- stage and screen. tees: Appropriations, and Agriculture, He is a member Nutrition and Forestry. In addition, he has Kurt Vonnegut of the National been actively involved in health care issues. Institute of Arts and Letters and the Au- The Assembly Series, now in its 33rd thors League of America, PEN. year, offers free lectures to the University Texas journalist Molly Ivins, author of community and the public. Lectures are the best seller Molly Ivins Can't Say That, supported by Student Union, academic Can She? will discuss "Politics and Other departments and others, as well as the Bizarre Happenings" at the Woman's Club Assembly Series. Unless otherwise noted, Lecture Sept. 9. A journalist for more than all of the lectures are held Wednesdays at 20 years, Ivins is a columnist for the Fort 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel. Worth Star-Telegram and winner of this On Wednesday, Sept. 2, author Kurt year's Headliners Award for best column in Vonnegut Jr., a master of contemporary Texas. fiction, will talk about "How to Get a Job Jonathan D. Spence, George Burton Like Mine" for the freshman Orientation Adams Professor of History and director of Lecture. Washington University identifica- the Graduate Studies Council on East Asian tion will be required for this lecture. Continued on page 5 Hilltop Campus parking changes under way Several parking developments are under director of the Transportation Department, way at Washington University's Hilltop reports shuttle parking at the former Fa- University Archivist Carole Prietto examines materials in a Brookings Hall vault. Campus, from the installation of Clayton mous-Barr location on Forsyth Boulevard A graduate student recently discovered that the vault held two deed boxes parking meters along Forsyth Boulevard to has been "very successful." During the containing documents about Washington University's first three decades. additional parking spaces. 1991 -92 academic year, the first year the Spaces reopened — Progress on con- program was established, between 250 and struction of the Natural Sciences Building 300 people parked their cars at the location on Tolman Way has reopened 55 yellow- each weekday and rode the shuttle to the Dusty detective work permit parking spaces. An additional 20 Hilltop Campus, he said. Shuttle service this spaces will be available when the building is academic year began at 6:40 a.m. Aug. 19. completed late this fall. Shuttle buses run every 10 minutes from Sleuth finds records on University's early years Metered parking — The City of 6:40 a.m. to 6 p.m., and every 20 minutes Clayton has installed 66 parking meters from 6 p.m. to 12:40 a.m., Monday through A bit of dusty detective work by a to get specific information about a certain along Forsyth Boulevard following a trial Friday. graduate student has turned up the gift." city-managed permit system on the street Green permit lottery—A total of 250 first known collection of official So Robertson headed down to the vault last spring. Additionally, University and faculty, graduate students and staff were documents concerning the first three with Patricia Giles of accounting services. Clayton officials are reviewing a plan selected in the lottery for the right to pur- decades of Washington University's his- Giles is one of the few people who knows whereby Clayton will lease Washington 26 Continued on page 6 tory. The only information scholars previ- the combination to the 90-year-old lock parking spaces from east of Tolman Way to ously had about that period were minutes on the vault. When the door swung open, the front of Steinberg Hall. The University from board meetings and the private Robertson saw much more than he ex- would use the spaces for yellow permit Missouri law requires papers of William Greenleaf Eliot. pected. Books were packed into the parking. The plan is subject to final ap- The documents date from 1854 (one cramped space on shelves that ran from proval by the Clayton Board of Aldermen sales tax at bookstore year after Washington ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ floor to ceiling. The later this month. Informational signs about Recent legislative action by the Mis- was incorporated) vault measures 7 feet the permit parking would be posted in the souri General Assembly and signed through 1882. They "I noticed they were thick wide, 8 feet high and 9 area. into law by Gov. John Ashcroft requires were the office records 1/2 feet long. The Forsyth Boulevard meters, which that all customers of the Washington ofSethRanlett, the in dust without a single "Once I saw how were installed Aug. 10, run from Tolman University Bookstore and the Computer first treasurer and many old books there Way almost to Big Bend Boulevard. Indi- Store be charged sales tax for purchases, secretary to the Board fingerprint on them. They were in the vault, I viduals may use the four-hour meters from 8 effective Friday, Aug. 28, 1992. ofTrustees. figured the most a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, According to Missouri House Bill The collection was probably hadn't been efficient response to excluding Sundays and holidays. 1155, a sales tax must be paid by persons found by James this trove was to Clayton is the sole operator of the Forsyth buying products or services from campus Robertson, research touched for 50 years." systematically survey Boulevard meters. Washington's Transporta- bookstores. The tax, which is 5.725 per- assistant to Ralph E. the contents of the tion Department continues to manage the cent, will be added by the bookstore to the — James Robertson Morrow, Ph.D., profes- vault," says Robertson. meters on the Hilltop Campus and the purchase price at the time of sale. Univer- sor emeritus of history ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ "First I tried just South-40. The University's meters operate sity departments making authorized busi- and former provost. climbing up the from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through ness purchases from the bookstore and the Morrow is writing a history of Washing- shelves, but when I nearly fell off one of Friday, excluding weekends and holidays. computer store are not required to pay ton University. Robertson was trying to them, I went and borrowed a ladder. Shuttle service — Gary L. Sparks, sales tax, under this new law. determine the repercussions of the De- "Way up high, right in a corner, pression on the University when Morrow wedged on top of the gas and electric suggested he speak with Dolly (Maia) lines were these two old tin deed boxes," Schultz, director of university funds in says Robertson. "As I pulled them down, accounting services. they almost fell on me, they were so In This Issue... It was Schultz who told Robertson and heavy. I noticed they were thick in dust Medical Update: Division of Dermatology opens center to treat Morrow about the vault in Brookings Hall without a single fingerprint on them. severe psoriasis Page 2 "I've always had a deep sense of his- They probably hadn't been touched for 50 tory," acknowledges Schultz, who has years." Washington People: James E. McLeod, dean of the College of worked at the University for 37 years. Robertson opened both boxes and Arts and Sciences Page 3 "And I knew many of the documents in found, to his surprise and delight, that the the vault were very, very old. We have old records dated from the last half of the Campus Authors: Peter Riesenberg surveys western ideas of gift records that are handwritten. Often I 19th century, when Washington Univer- civilization from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution Page 7 would need to go through the documents Continued on page 6 2 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RECORD Medical Update Washington University opens University collaborates to develop treatments center to treat severe psoriasis for cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases The School of Medicine will receive $5 Gross will focus on the three forms of The Division of Dermatology at the under control, Forsman said. The center's million under a five-year collabora- PLA2 known to exist inside cells. He and School of Medicine has opened an "day treatment program" provides the tive agreement with Sphinx Pharmaceuti- his colleagues discovered two of these outpatient facility to treat severe therapy to people with psoriasis on at least cals Corp.