■ Friends of Library publish Oswald Tippo memoir, page 7 Inside ■ Hockey team reclaims Alumni Cup from UMass Lowell, page 9 The Campus Chronicle Vol.XVIII, No. 13 November 22, 2002 for the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts

News Briefs Steps to improve campus safety announced Search begun for faculty advisor Barbara Pitoniak tee on Campus Safety. We believe nity policing duties in the residen- NEWS OFFICE STAFF Interim Senior Vice Chan- these proactive steps will help to tial areas on the 7 p.m.-3 a.m. shift. cellor for Academic Affairs Several initiatives to enhance move the campus in a new direc- “We currently provide training for and Provost Charlena Sey- campus safety, including a com- tion to enhance the safety of all resident assistants, and educa- mour has begun a search for munity policing and problem-solv- members of the UMass Amherst tional and safety awareness pro- an academic advisor to the ing effort, a substation in South- community.” grams in the residence halls,” provost for Undergraduate west and a police cadet program, The new initiatives also in- O’Connor said. “But now, instead Education, she announced at will be put into place during the clude a canine safety patrol. of simply responding to calls, we the Nov. 14 Faculty Senate spring semester, according to Jo- “Similar programs have proven can identify problems and work meeting. Anne Vanin, interim vice chancel- successful on other university more effectively with residence She has put together a lor for Student Affairs and Cam- campuses,” O’Connor said, “and I staff to solve them.” search committee compris- pus Life. have every expectation that these The Southwest police substa- ing associate professor of The steps, said Vanin, were initiatives will be effective deter- tion will be established possibly Women’s Studies Alexan- recommended by the recently es- rents to incidents on our campus in space at the Hampden Dining drina Deschamps, senate tablished Chancellor’s Committee as well.” Commons. O’Connor said the secretary Ernest May, depu- on Campus Safety, a recently es- O’Connor noted that 10 new substation will give police greater tablished group that includes stu- police officers have been hired visibility in Southwest, the largest ty provost John Cunningham, Police Chief Barbara O’Connor: dents, parents, faculty, and staff. during the past year, bringing her residential area on campus, and Student Government Asso- “ ...These initiatives will be ef- ciation representative Mark “Campus safety is one of my department to full strength (42 po- the area that attracts the most fective deterrents to incidents Morrison, Mary Deane Sor- major priorities,” said Vanin. lice officers, plus command staff) visitors, particularly from off-cam- on our campus...” cinelli, associate provost for “These initiatives have the full for the first time in many years. pus. In addition, the unit will en- The community policing ef- Faculty Development and di- support of Chancellor John The new staffing level allows able closer interaction between forts, O’Connor said, will be fur- rector of the Center For Lombardi, and have been devel- her to “deploy resources in more students and the police. “The ther reinforced by the creation of Teaching, and dean of Engi- oped through close collaboration effective ways,” she said, includ- substation will hopefully facilitate the police cadet program. That neering Joseph Goldstein, with Police Chief Barbara O’Con- ing now having the flexibility to a partnership with students to cre- STEPS, PAGE 3 who will chair the committee. nor and the Chancellor’s Commit- assign three officers to commu- ate a safe environment,” she said. SEE “It’s important that we as- sure a quality education for all of our students,” Seymour ‘Dark fiber’ said. aids access Baldwin honored for immunology research to Internet Cynthia Lee Baldwin, pro- Sarah R. Buchholz fessor of Veterinary and Ani- CHRONICLE STAFF mal Sciences, has been named Distinguished Veteri- The University is taking ad- nary Immunologist for 2002 vantage of a glut in “dark fiber” by the American Association to lease its own fiber optic cable of Immunologists. so it can get faster, less expensive The award recognizes her access to the Internet, according research achievement in the to Associate Chancellor for Infor- field of veterinary immunol- mation Technology Rosío ogy. Baldwin received a Alvarez. “Dark fiber” is fiber optic plaque earlier this week at cable that hasn’t been “lit.” the annual Conference of Re- The University is leasing it search Workers in Animal and lighting, or activating it, it- Diseases, held in St. Louis. self. The recent acquisition of Her research focuses on cable between Amherst and the the bovine cellular immune Springfield Technology Park has system, especially under- increased the campus capacity standing the biology of 160 percent from 135 megabits for gamma delta T cells; and de- regular Internet and Internet2 traf- veloping vaccines against Music in the air Stan Sherer photo fic to 355 megabits. “Nobody sees it,” Alvarez important microbial patho- First-year student Andrea LeBlanc and junior Fred Sienkiewicz play an etude from L.J. Van- said. “All you do is get a better gens. netelbosch’s “Twenty Melodic Technical Studies.” The two were discussing and practicing the music outside the Fine Arts Center. response time.” Two awarded tenure In order to connect with the cable running to Springfield, the The Board of Trustees campus had to run some cable of voted Nov. 6 to award tenure its own. to Nikolay V. Prokofiev, who State facing hard choices, says Kulik “We actually had to build out also was promoted to profes- Sarah R. Buchholz to the edge of the campus to meet sor of Physics, and to tenure in the current year will likely re- we’ve made a lot of hard choices CHRONICLE STAFF this provider,” Alvarez said. newly appointed associate sult in all areas of the state’s bud- already in fiscal ’03, and it hasn’t get being cut. moved us forward at all,” he said. Because only a few vendors professor Houjon Mo of As- Calling the failure to fund Uni- “The budget picture does con- “It’s almost like we’re standing serve the Amherst area, connect- tronomy. versity employee contracts “a real tinue to be pretty grim,” he said. still or sinking a little bit further. ing with Springfield, where there black mark on the Commonwealth No issue next week “And this is all in the context of It’s frustrating for us as it’s frus- are many vendors, allows the Uni- as an employer,” State Rep. The Campus Chronicle will our having passed the ’03 budget trating for you. versity to pay a competitive rate Stephen Kulik (D-Worthington) not publish on Nov. 29 due to using a very substantial portion “Most people think we’re for its Internet access. told the Faculty Senate the state’s the Thanksgiving holiday. of our budget reserves, the so- looking at probably 18 months of “So we control our fiber from budget picture is not improving. Publication will resume called “Rainy Day Fund,” making difficult times, if not a full two here to Springfield,” Alvarez said. Kulik told the Faculty Senate with the Dec. 6 issue. The significant budget reductions and years before the state revenue “We’re looking to lease more fiber Nov. 14 that the $1.5-2 billion defi- deadline to submit items for spending cuts, and also passing a picture turns around and we can to Boston, thereby decreasing cit anticipated in the state’s cof- that issue is Friday, Nov. 29. revenue package, a tax package begin to restore some of the in- our costs {further], and passing fers during fiscal year 2004 and a For information, call worth $1.1 billion. vestments that we’ve had to cut.” [the savings] on to the campus. possible $150-200 million shortfall 5-4818. “So, you get this feeling that SEE SENATE, PAGE 3 SEE INTERNET, PAGE 3 2 November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle Letters Remembering Sarah Hamilton

I was saddened to read about the pass- listened to me talk about school or my per- ing of Sarah Hamilton last week. I enjoyed sonal life. I remember we had a rare day off my three summers working for Sarah and during the summer and Sarah asked if I the New Students Program. Working for wanted to play a round of golf with her. At her was one of the best experiences I had that time I had just picked up the game while attending the University. Her dedica- which Sarah had been perfecting for years. tion and hard work was an inspiration to We woke up early and played 18 holes at me. Cherry Hill, [which included a] lesson from I still remember my first interview in 1996 the Sarah Hamilton Golf School. I came for the NSP counselor position. The first back to campus and the rest of NSP staff thing Sarah said to me was “I don’t shake was shocked I spent the morning with hands” and then she asked why she Sarah. should hire a sophomore when there are Sarah had such pride for the University. many other students who have much more She expected all of her staff to be hard- campus knowledge than me. I told her to working. If it were not for working for Sarah take a chance on me. Sarah then replied, “I and NSP, I would never have found that I don’t like surprises!” enjoyed working in student affairs. While at UMass and after graduation, The University is known for its high Sarah was a second mother to me. Her door quality of education; in my mind Sarah was was always open for me to talk. She always the best educator I ever met while at UMass. The lessons I learned from Sarah Letters policy Hamilton will last a lifetime. The University will miss Sarah and her The Campus Chronicle welcomes dedication, but the roughly 120,000 stu- letters from readers and may publish dents that passed through the New Stu- those which have a direct bearing on University of Massachusetts issues, dents Program should be grateful for the except issues related to collective services she provided to them. bargaining. Letters longer than 30 lines Sarah, thanks for all your love and sup- may be condensed or excerpted. To port, the University and I will miss you. letters which raise questions of Univer- sity policy, or which criticize individuals, DAVID FOLLICK the Chronicle will invite the appropriate Westbury, N.Y. Stan Sherer photo party to respond in the issue scheduled In-spired to publish such letters. Letters must be David Follick received his B.A. in Politi- The Old Chapel steeple, as seen from Goodell. signed and include a daytime telephone cal Science in 1998 and his M.Ed. in number. Open letters will not be pub- 2001. lished. MHEC schedules products exposition The Massachusetts Higher Education Exhibits will be open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tate to give reading at Smith Consortium’s Fourth Annual Products Ex- Dec. 4 and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Dec. 5. A recep- position is being held Dec. 4-5 at the Stur- tion is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 4. The Poetry Center at Smith College will tional” or “home-spun” surrealism, famous bridge Host Hotel in Sturbridge. Register online (www.mhec.umassp.edu) host a reading by poet and professor of En- for making the genre accessible and popu- The expo will feature 97 vendors with or call 5-4669 to request a registration form. glish James Tate on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at lar in the U. S. for the first time in the ’60s products ranging from furniture to lawn Founded in 1977, MHEC is a public pur- 7:30 p.m. in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. and ’70s, he has also been translated into mowers, according to MHEC chairman Jake chasing consortium that creates and man- Tate was a 23-year-old graduate student over a dozen languages. Tate’s poems are E. Bishop. ages more than 80 contracts with more than when he won the Yale Series of Younger irreverent, hallucinatory, utterly unafraid –– Admission is free and lunch and parking 500 vendors for 83 members colleges and Poet’s award for he says he’s “willing to follow a poem any- are provided. Participants will receive free universities across Massachusetts. MHEC “The Lost Pilot.” A where so long as it promises some insight T-shirts or tote bags, while supplies last, is funded by dues from its members. dozen subsequent or revelation” –– often deadly serious and and there also will be demonstrations and collections have es- riotously funny simultaneously. drawings for door prizes. Biochemistry and Molecular tablished him as one Tate’s latest works include “Memoir of Pharmacology seminar of the foremost the Hawk: Poems” and “Dreams of a Robot Linguistics colloquium John Desjarlais, associate director of American surrealist Dancing Bee,” a collection of short stories. Jon Nissenbaum of the Massachusetts poets and winner of As poet John Ashbery writes, “[Tate] computational biology at Xencor in Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston will Monrovia, Calif., will speak at the UMass every major honor, never ceases to astonish, dismay, delight, present a Linguistics Department collo- from the $100,000 confuse, tickle and generally improve the Medical School on Monday, Nov. 25 at quium on Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in noon in the Hiatt Auditorium in the Goff Tanning Prize to the James Tate quality of our lives.” W-24 Machmer Hall. National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Tate was born in Kansas City, Mo., and Learning Center. He will discuss “Purpose clauses, para- His topic will be “Computational Design Prolific and wildly inventive, Tate has makes his home in Pelham. He has been a sitic gaps and the structure of the VP.” been hailed by the Village Voice as “the member of the UMass faculty since 1971. of Protein Therapeutics.” best American poet born in the 1940s,” by Tate’s reading will be followed by a the New York Times as “an elegant, anar- book sale and signing. chic clown,” and by poet and critic Dana For more information, call Cindy Furtek Telephone Fax Gioia as “the perpetual ‘enfant terrible’ of in the Poetry Center office at 585-4891 or (413) 545-4818 The Campus Chronicle (413) 577-0044 American poetry.” Father of “conversa- Ellen Doré Watson, director, at 585-3368. Editor: Daniel J. Fitzgibbons (ISSN 0888-0093) Published weekly during Five Colleges co-sponsor ‘Nueva Fiesta’ Associate Editor: Sarah R. Buchholz the academic year and biweekly during Janu- Office Manager: Christine A. Davies ary, June, July and Nueva Esperanza, Inc. of Holyoke is order. 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The de- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 partment has acquired a trained Associate vice chancellor police dog to be used for suspect for Facilities and Campus program will recruit college stu- Services Ted Weidner and tracking. dents who are interested in a ca- Physical Plant director Earl reer in law enforcement, and pro- “Max,” the canine being ac- Smith resigned during the past vide them with paid, on-the-job quired by the UMass Police, is a week, according to Joyce experience. mixed-breed dog, from the New Hatch, interim vice chancellor Cadets will be sworn police of- England Canine Academy in East for Administration and Fi- ficers, with police powers, trained Hartford, Conn. nance. to the standards established by “The use of canines is a grow- Weidner, who was ap- the state, O’Connor said. Ten ca- ing trend in public safety on col- pointed two years ago, left Nov. 15 to “pursue consulting dets will be hired initially, she lege campuses,” O’Connor said. activities in his field,” said said, in time for the start of the “In addition to aiding in the inves- tigation of crimes, they have also Hatch. “We wish him well as second semester. Cadets will be he advances his career.” been shown to be an effective assigned to routine patrols of the Before coming to UMass, residential areas, and will work tool in crime prevention.” Weidner served for nine years closely with police officers and O’Connor explained she is cur- as director of facilities plan- the student security force, said rently in the process of determin- ning and management at O’Connor. ing which of her officers will be Eastern Illinois University. “The cadets will be learning assigned to work with Max. Once Hatch did not cite a reason the police profession while work- that occurs, the officer and the for the departure of Smith, ing to enhance campus safety,” dog together must complete a 10- who was appointed to his post in 1995. Prior to assuming his O’Connor noted. “At the same week training program before be- coming certified for patrol duties. position, Smith was director of time, they’ll be able to achieve Stan Sherer photo After Max officially joins the the facilities maintenance their educational goals. Providing Lab entrance service at Rutgers University department, the dog will be cared this kind of opportunity is an inte- Visitors to the office of Anthropology professor H. Martin for seven years. gral part of the University’s mis- for and housed by the designated Wobst are greeted by a “dog hanger” on the coat tree In memos circulated to sion.” officer at home, according to inside. senior campus administrators Upon earning their degree, O’Connor. and deans, Hatch said Pat promising cadets will be encour- Daly, associate director for aged to apply for the federal Po- Utilities and Building Mainte- lice Corps training program. Kulik: Romney should honor pacts nance, has been named Sponsored by the U.S. Depart- interim director of Physical Plant. ment of Justice, the Police Corps SENATE promise to cut $1 billion from the schools to retain all tuition and The process to fill Weid- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 assists law enforcement agencies $23 billion state budget without fees; and to create a secretary of ner’s post will begin “shortly,” in adding officers with advanced Kulik urged the faculty to help adding taxes or cutting “essential education to coordinate state edu- she added. Meanwhile, education and training assigned keep the issue of the University’s services,” might not include cation spending. Physical Plant, Facilities to community patrol by offering unfunded contracts visible. higher education as an essential “That leaves open a question Planning and Campus Ser- scholarships to college students “It really is an unprecedented service. about the Board of Higher Educa- vices will report directly to who agree to serve where needed move, and I think it’s a real black “I think it’s incumbent upon us tion, governance on campuses, Hatch. on community patrol for at least mark on the Commonwealth as an as a legislature to hear his propos- governance through boards of four years. Local agencies that employer not to be treating its em- als, to consider them very seri- trustees and so forth,” Kulik said. NIH awards campus hire Police Corps graduates re- ployees fairly. No matter what our ously and to adopt any good pro- “Tuition retention is certainly a microscope funds ceive $10,000 for each partici- fiscal crisis is, you need to find the posals that he puts forward that long-standing debate that has The National Institutes of pant’s first four years of service. money to do this as soon as pos- we may have missed,” Kulik said. been on this campus for a long Health has awarded the Uni- Two officers recently hired by sible. I’m committed to that. I “But the rub of this, of course, is time and throughout the higher the UMass Police are Police Corps what does he consider to be es- education world. My knowledge versity $324,000 for a new know that all of my colleagues confocal microscope for the graduates. sential services? We don’t know if of the issue here is that tuition re- who represent this area are, as well Central Microscopy Facility at The final initiative to be imple- as a number of other people.” he’s going to pursue further cuts tention, if we were to have it on the University. The Zeiss 510 mented in the spring semester is Kulik said that he isn’t optimis- to higher education.” this campus, would essentially be Meta is designed to provide tic about the issue being resolved Kulik said Romney has indi- a wash with the fringe benefits high-resolution, 3D information in the near future, in part because cated that he’d like to see public paid by employees. But what’s the from living cells. OIT chooses Governor-elect Mitt Romney could higher education limit financial aid flip side of that proposal? Is the “The confocal microscope decide not to take responsibility to those with need; to consolidate University then going to be re- is a very useful tool for biolo- for them. state higher education funding sponsible for the fringe benefits gists who wish to view cellular the ‘dark side’ structures in three dimen- “They are commitments that into a single line item; to allow for all of its employees? He’s not INTERNET sions,” explained Patricia were made by a previous governor specific about that, but it appears CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 that he may put that issue on the Wadsworth of the Biology De- whom he was instrumental in hav- partment. “For example, biolo- table. He also wants to prioritize “We’ve gone from a service ing move on out of office,” Kulik gists who study the develop- where we pay a provider for ac- said. “The easiest thing in the capital and spending based on ment of three-dimensional cess per megabit to being our own world for him to say is probably, student enrollment.” embyros can now see struc- provider,” she said. ‘not my problem.’ He may surprise Kulik said he is happy with tures deep in the embyros that The University also plans to us and say the right thing, which Chancellor John Lombardi’s plans were previously difficult to im- join with Amherst, Hampshire, is that it would be unprecedented to broaden the University’s finan- age. Cell biologists can view Mount Holyoke and Smith col- to continue to break properly rati- cial base, including through sig- dynamic changes in living cells with this microscope. leges to create a one gigabit Five fied contracts and not fully fund nificant outside fund-raising. Molecular biologists can pin- them. They should be fully fund- “But it’s very important, from College network of fiber optic point the location of specific cables. The other colleges could ed. But we’ll have to wait and my perspective as a legislator, that whatever success the University macromolecules.” then choose to have access to the see what he has to say about The microscope optically achieves in that area not be al- Springfield vendors through the that.” sections the sample: that is, University’s link to the Technol- Kulik said his other concern for lowed to supplant the state appro- provides views that are just a ogy Park. the University is that Romney’s Rep. Stephen Kulik priation,” Kulik said. “This should thin “slice’ from any depth in be supplemental to state appro- the sample. The optical sec- priation. We can’t be having you tions are be put together by Officials to launch biomedical program all go out and improve the Univer- the computer to achieve three- sity through private fund-raising dimensional views of the Federal and state officials were Olver and Richard E. Neal and engage in biomedically-focused and then only find yourself penal- sample. expected to attend the formal Elias Zerhouni, director of the Na- studies by combining the research ized with the reduced state appro- Researchers using the new launch of the Biomedical Research tional Institutes of Health, were capabilities of the University with priation. That will be tempting for equipment include Wadsworth; Institute, formerly the Pioneer Val- scheduled to participate in the the clinical expertise and facilities some legislators to see it that way, David Gross, Alice Cheung, ley Life Sciences Initiative, on ceremony. of Baystate. and Susan Cumberledge of perhaps even for the governor to Nov. 21 at Baystate Medical Cen- The institute is a collaboration The Baystate facility was ex- Biochemistry and Molecular see it that way, and it will be our ter in Springfield. between Baystate, UMass Am- panded to 75,000 square feet with Biology; Vivian Budnick and job, those of us who are advo- U.S. Senator Edward M. herst and the city of Springfield. new research labs. A $60 million Peter Hepler of Biology; and cates for the University, to see Kennedy, Congressmen John The goal of the institute is to building in Amherst is planned. Barbara Osborne of Veterinary that it doesn’t happen.” and Animal Sciences. 4 November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle Research project determines that novice drivers often don’t anticipate dangers Grain& Chaff Elizabeth Luciano that teach new drivers to be alert to situations that de- Exporting experts NEWS OFFICE STAFF mand extra caution. The scenarios “drive” through each Sociology professor Jay Demerath recently received a Younger, inexperienced drivers seldom anticipate dan- situation, and then detail safe and unsafe responses. A new Fulbright Senior Specialists grant to work in India gerous situations on the road, according to recent re- narrator describes the driving choices as the virtual car during January. The award came around the same time he search projects headed by Donald Fisher, professor of moves. was being recognized, earlier this month for his book, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. In an effort to make the driving scenarios as effective “Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Poli- In an effort to address the problem, Fisher has ex- as possible, Fisher is asking area driver-education teach- tics.” panded the projects by making hazardous driving sce- ers to look at the program and offer responses on how it The awards program, which recently completed its first narios available on the Web, so that teenagers can learn year, is designed for established scholars to bring exper- how to safely respond to unsafe situations. The findings “We tested the participants tise for short periods, from two to six weeks, to areas out- are detailed in a paper recently published in the journal side the U.S. Faculty apply to be “on call” with their exper- Human Factors and will be presented at the upcoming an- in the driving simulator, and tise and, once approved, can be offered the opportunity to nual meetings of the Transportation Research Board in followed their eye go to a country that has requested an expert in their area. Washington, D.C. movements, to determine These approved “candidates” can be called upon more The research was funded by the Link Foundation for than once over a five year period, though preference is Simulation and Training; the AAA Foundation for Traffic whether they really know given to candidates who have not yet received awards. Safety; and the Massachusetts Governor’s Highway where the danger is, and the Just entering its second year, the program has made more Safety Bureau. simple fact is, they don’t.” than 200 grants for specialists to travel to nearly 80 na- “We know that new drivers understand the basics of tions and has roughly 800 approved candidates. operating a car,” said Fisher, “but problems arise when DONALD FISHER, PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL AND Economics professor Donald Katzner was a recipient these new drivers are faced with potentially hazardous INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING during the first year, giving six lectures in Mongolia in Au- situations, such as a hidden stop sign, or a bicyclist riding gust, including a paper at the International Conference on toward a vehicle. Our research shows that, unlike more ex- Optimization and Optimal Control. perienced drivers, people who are new behind the wheel might be best used in a school or driving-school setting. Demerath will be bringing his expertise on India’s caste don’t necessarily identify these situations as being poten- Toward that end, he has invited driver-education teachers system and violence between religious groups with him tially dangerous, and therefore they often don’t respond to a meeting at the University in early December, to show and will be studying them and India’s relationship with Pa- in the safest way possible.” them the programs and listen to their ideas. kistan. The study was conducted in the campus’s Human Per- In one particular scenario, in which a driver’s view of “I’ll take some soundings,” he said of the Kashmir re- formance Laboratory, a facility that features an advanced the traffic in the opposing lane across the intersection is gion, over which India and Pakistan have been struggling. driving simulator in which a sedan is placed before three partly blocked by a truck slightly ahead of the driver and Demerath said India also is seeing a great deal of change screens, onto which highways and neighborhoods are in the left-turn lane, almost none of the new drivers, (de- as the population shifts from rural to urban and many projected. The “car” reads the driver’s speed, direction, fined as those on the road six months or less), looked at people at both the top and bottom of the caste system be- and even eye movements as input. Researchers tested 24 the right-front corner of the truck to see whether a vehicle gin to leave it. teenagers and 48 more experienced drivers and then com- might be turning from the opposing lane. However, 30 per- “There is a lot of leakage for Buddhism, Christianity, pared their responses to various driving situations. cent of 20-year-olds looked for danger, and 70 percent of and Islam,” he said. “I call it caste-ing off. People on the “We tested the participants in the driving simulator, 60-year-olds looked. “The younger drivers, for the most bottom of the system have been leaving for some time. But and followed their eye movements, to determine whether part, are just not aware,” said Fisher. I’m more interested in why people who are at the top, who they really know where the danger is, and the simple fact Fisher’s co-authors on the paper are N. E. Laurie of benefit from it, are leaving. is, they don’t,” said Fisher. He used the advanced driving Kodak, alumnus Robert Glaser of Supply Chain Consult- “People make a kind of announcement of their indepen- simulator to evaluate the effects of training and experience ants, Karen Connerney of IBM, John Brock of the Mile- dence of it. Some of them feel it is an undue constraint for on drivers’ behavior in risky traffic situations. stone Group, and Psychology faculty members Alexander a democratic society. The series of virtual “drives” on the World Wide Web Pollatsek and Susan Duffy. “I’ll see what kind of research is needed in that area.” helps teach new drivers to anticipate dangerous situations Demerath’s expertise also won him the Distinguished –– without endangering themselves or others. Fisher and The driving scenarios are online (www.ecs.umass.edu/ Book Award for 2002 for “Crossing the Gods,” which was his research team created a series of 16 driving scenarios hpl); click on “Link Foundation.” presented earlier this month in Salt Lake City, Utah, by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. “I’m pleased about it,” he said. “It’s a nice tribute.” On the shelves Assistant professor Márgara Russotto of Spanish and Portuguese has books published this year in Spain and Venezuela. An award-winning poet in Venezuela, Russot- to’s collection, “El diario íntimo de Sor Juana (Poemas apócrifos),” was published in Madrid, while her work of lit- erary criticism, “Dispersión y permanencia: Lecturas Latinoamericanas,” was issued in Caracas. ... Kluwer Aca- demic Publishing this month published “Applied Molecu- lar and Materials Modeling,” co-authored by Chemical Engineering professor Phillip Westmoreland with Peter A. Kollmann, Anne M. Chaka, Keiji Morokuma,Matthew Neurock, Ellen B. Stechel and P. Vashishta. With detailed analysis and examples from around the world, “Applied Molecular and Materials Modeling” describes the science, applications, and infrastructures that have proven suc- cessful — and those that haven’t. The book makes use of the authors’ extensive experience and of specific reports on site visits and interviews with 91 companies and other organizations in the U.S., Europe and Japan, plus citations of more than 600 other company, academic, and govern- ment activities in the field. Strictly speaking English professor Arthur F. Kinney last week delivered the George Summer Endowed Shakespeare Lecture at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Kinney’s talk, Stan Sherer photo On view “Shakespeare’s Mirrors,” was based on a chapter of a Justin Griswold of the University Gallery levels one panel in the “Shadows & Sojourners” photo exhibit book which he is currently writing. During his visit, he as the DEFA Film Library’s Barton Byg and Sky Arndt-Briggs look on. The exhibit is on display also taught classes in Shakespeare and Renaissance through Dec. 18 at the east end of the foyer on the second floor of the Herter Hall Annex. Culled from drama and theories of new historicism in the Renaissance. the archives of the Film-museum Potsdam and never before exhibited in North America, the film stills and production photographs lend insight into the breadth of style and approach undertaken by East Team player German directors and complement the “Shadows & Sojourners” film series. The exhibit is supported, Board of Trustees chair Grace Fey is serving on a 14-mem- in part, by grants from the UMass Arts Council, the DEFA Stiftung in Berlin, and the vice chancellor ber group advising Governor-elect Mitt Romney on educa- for Research. tion issues. The group is chaired by Tripp Jones, execu- tive director of MassINC. The Campus Chronicle November 22, 2002 5 NSF official to address researchers Margaret Cavanaugh, who is part of the National Science Foun- dation Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Edu- cation and instrumental in its Biocomplexity in the Environment Program (BE), will visit campus on Wednesday, Dec. 4 to talk to re- searchers about funding for a va- riety of programmatic priorities in the biocomplexity area. The presentation, sponsored by the Office of Research Affairs, will focus on Biocomplexity in the Environment: Integrated Research and Education in Environmental Systems, a NSF-wide initiative. Funding includes interdiscipli- nary, multi-investigator research and education programs of three to five years with awards up to $2 million. Campus researchers are en- couraged to take advantage of this opportunity to hear about the BE program. The talk will take place at 10 a.m. in 911 Lincoln Campus Center. Stan Sherer photo The Biocomplexity in the Envi- Reports from the trenches ronment Program is intended to Engineers from Handford General Contractors meet with UMass planners in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center to discuss the promote comprehensive, inte- ongoing replacement of steamlines from the Isenberg School of Management to North Pleasant Street. Clockwise from left grated investigations of environ- are John Welch and Mike Marion of Handford, Ted Davis, senior mechanical design engineer for Facilities Planning, and mental systems. The concept of Lewis Louraine, associate director of Operations for the Fine Arts Center. biocomplexity stresses the rich- ness of biological systems and their capacity for adaptation and self-organizing behavior. This year, the five topical areas that will Baystate, SPHHS scientists share diabetes research be emphasized include: dynamics of coupled natural and human Researchers from the Exercise The event will be introduced are as follows: tor for SPHHS and the School of systems, coupled biogeochemical Science Department and Baystate by Barry Braun, assistant profes- “Changing Exercise Behavior Nursing. “People with diabetes cycles, genome-enabled environ- Medical Center will share their re- sor of Exercise Science, and Dr. with Continuous Glucose Moni- will be interested in attending.” mental science and engineering, sults at the Glass Symposium on Stuart Chipkin, chief of the divi- toring,” Nancy Allen, Baystate A reception follows at 3:30 p.m. instrumentation development for Exercise & Diabetes Reversal on sion of endocrinology, diabetes & Medical Center and a student in The symposium is supported environmental activities, and ma- Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2-3:30 p.m. in metabolism at Baystate. the UMass Amherst and Worces- by a gift from Robert and Sandra terials use: science, engineering, 917 Lincoln Campus Center. The scheduled presentations ter joint Ph.D. in Nursing program. Glass of Northampton. Their do- and society. “Impact of Short-term Endur- nation supports collaborative re- For additional information ance Training on Substrate Selec- search by UMass and Baystate about the event, contact Lisa tion in Untrained Women,” Steve Medical Center. Lipshires in the Office of Research Black, Ph.D. student in Exercise For details, call the School of Affairs at 5-5282 or by e-mail Science. Public Health and Health Sciences ([email protected]). “Hospital Management of Dia- at 5-1766. betes,” Dr. Lee Methcick, endo- crine fellow, Baystate. “Acute Effects of Exercise on Ahern wins national award Resting Cardiac Autonomic Func- tion,” Dave Pober, Exercise Sci- for greenways research ence Ph.D. student. Jack Ahern, professor and “Dose-response Relationship head of the Department of Land- Between Exercise Volume & Insu- scape Architecture and Regional lin Sensitivity,” Carrie Sharoff, Planning, received the sole honor Ph.D. student in Exercise Science. Stan Sherer photo award for research from the Drifting by The symposium is free and American Society of Landscape A snow goose joins the resident Canada goose flock at open to the public, according to Architects in the 2002 Profes- the Campus Pond. Paula Sakey, Development direc- sional Awards Competition. The research was published as the book, “Greenways as Strategic CFT offers session on teaching large classes Landscape Planning: Theory and Application.” Ahern’s studies re- “Finding Your Lecturing Voice that best complement their teach- Response System that shifts stu- viewed literature and conducted in the Forest of Technology ing style to further enhance stu- dents from passive to active par- case studies and original applica- Tools,” the second workshop in dent learning. A variety of tech- ticipants in lectures. tions to explore the arguments the Center for Teaching’s fall nology tools will be surveyed, The workshop includes a lun- that greenways are a promising seminar series on “Teaching Large from the basics of using e-mail cheon beginning at 12:15 p.m. Jack Ahern planning strategy to support Classes Well,” will be presented and Web sites to the more ad- with the session starting at 12:30 sustainability; that it is gaining in- tional Historic Park. The work in- by Resource Economics professor vanced use of the internet to de- p.m. To register for the workshop, ternational acceptance and appli- cluded theories and applications Richard Rogers on Tuesday, liver interactive student assign- contact the Center for Teaching at cation; and that it offers advan- from The Netherlands, where Dec. 3. ments with immediate feedback. In 5-1225 or by e-mail (cfteach@ tages by realizing multiple, Ahern spent a sabbatical year and This workshop will assist fac- addition, technologies to enhance acad.umass.edu). For online regis- complementary goals. researched projects including the ulty in the daunting task of navi- lectures will be examined, includ- tration, visit the CFT Web site Examples and applications from National Ecological Network, and gating the “forest” of teaching ing overheads, videos and (www.umass.edu/cft). Massachusetts include the Quab- an innovative pilot project for res- technology tools available on the PowerPoint, as well as feedback The deadline to register is bin-to-Wachusett wildlife corridor toration of the Rhine River flood- market and help them select tools technologies such as the Personal Wednesday, Nov. 27. study, and the Minute Man Na- plain. 6 November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle Recent titles from the University of Massachusetts Press The following books have been recently issued by the UMass Press. Tymoczko, Gentzler edit “Painting in Boston: 1950-2000,” ed- ited by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Nicholas essays about translation Capasso and Jennifer Uhrhane, features es- With decades of experience between them and a book each in says by five experts who present and ana- print, Comparative Literature professor Maria Tymoczko and lyze the work of 67 artists. Translation Center director Edwin Gentzler set about compiling Although the history of painting in Bos- their new volume, “Translation and Power,” five years ago. The ton during the first half of the 20th century book was recently published by the UMass Press. has been well documented, with particular Since the mid-’90s, the pair had been coordinating a series of attention to the so-called Boston School, Translation Center lectures, which considered the relationship the latter half of the century has been rela- between translation and power. tively neglected, despite the remarkable “The quality was so good that we decided to ask [the body of work produced during that period. lecturers] to submit their papers for publication,” Gentzler said. This volume, created by the DeCordova Composed entirely of original essays, the book posits that rather Museum and Sculpture Park in conjunction than being a movement of meaning across language boundaries, with a major exhibition, addresses that translation is actually a new creation with ideological implica- oversight. tions, created for a “target culture” for ideological reasons. Along with an introduction, the editors “Our book explores the component of power in these new have provided an extensive chronology of creations,” Tymoczko said. “We used approximately 12 case important events, an exhibition checklist, a studies provided by our contributors to show how translation bibliography, and a brief biographical pro- can be powerful — to control and subdue people and also to file of each artist whose work is included. show the ways the power of manipulative translation can be Lafo is director of curatorial affairs, resisted. Capasso is curator, and Uhrhane is cura- “The other implications have to do with the practice of torial fellow at the DeCordova Museum and translation. If translators see that translation has to do with Sculpture Park in Lincoln. creation and power, we think they will reconceive their own task. The book costs $44.95 in hardcover. “I’m really happy about it,” Gentzler said. “It’s the fruition of about four years’ work, and it represents a synergy between the “‘Venus in Boston’ and Other Tales of Translation Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Nineteenth-Century City Life” reprints for language departments and the University Press.” the first time since the 1850s three short SARAH R. BUCHHOLZ works by George Thompson (1823-c. 1873), one of antebellum America’s most success- ful and prolific authors of sensational fic- (Kenneth B. Clark, John Henrik Clarke, St. preoccupied Americans at least as much as Menace” costs $34.95 in hardcover. tion. Clair Drake, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope the fear of communist subversion. At the Beginning in the 1840s, Thompson Franklin, John Glover Jackson, Hylan beginning of the decade, the televised “Word against Word: Shakespearean wrote stories for sporting papers, edited Lewis, Frank Snowden Jr., and Robert C. hearings of Sen. Estes Kefauver’s crime Utterance,” by James R. Siemon. the humorous New York weekly “The Weaver); one Sri Lankan who lives and committee, focusing on colorful mob fig- “Word against Word” offers a new ap- Broadway Belle,” and contributed regularly works in Britain (A. Sivanandan); and one ures like Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello, proach to Shakespearean drama — in par- to the sexually explicit “Venus’ Miscel- white American (Herbert Aptheker). Most attracted far more attention than the spy ticular “Richard II” — through an extended lany.” He also published dozens of novels, of these men began their careers before trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In the engagement with the Bakhtinian concept of most of which were set in northeastern World War II, in a time when biological years that followed, public concern about art as a form of social utterance. The book cities. His writing blends entertainment and conceptions of race dominated public gangsters and racketeering continued un- is the first to explore this central Bakhtinian social protest, combining commentary on policy and severely limited the opportuni- abated, even after the anticommunist fever conception and its associated notions of such issues as urbanization, poverty, race, ties available to people of color. By strug- of McCarthyism had begun to subside. social accent, dialogism, and heteroglossia and class with some of the era’s most gling with these impediments in their per- Drawing on a broad range of evidence, in the context of drama and of Shakespeare shocking depictions of sex and violence. sonal and professional lives, each in his from government records to films, televi- studies. The three works in the volume offer a own way helped redefine race as the social sion shows, and pulp novels, Bernstein ex- Siemon begins by examining the variety rich representative sample of Thompson’s and cultural construct it has always been. plains how the campaign against organized of accents, discourses, and behaviors that writing. The two novels depict the Ameri- To highlight both the similarities and the crime reflected deep social and political competed for the social space of early mod- can city as a place of dark mystery, bawdy differences in their experiences, the editors anxieties. Just as the inquisitions of Sen. ern England. He surveys Shakespeare and humor and near-universal corruption. In asked each of the subjects the same set of Joseph McCarthy fed on popular fears of his contemporaries, including dramatists, each novel, a complex narrative structure general questions about formative influ- international conspiracy and alien infiltra- poets, and other writers, in order to docu- interweaves multiple stories of exploited la- ences, major obstacles, and principal ac- tion, the anticrime investigations of the ment early modern attitudes toward the im- bor, abuse of power, seduction, intrigue, complishments. These were followed by 1950s raised the specter of a foreign-based plications of sociolinguistic behavior in a and crime. Thompson’s autobiography, more narrowly focused queries about spe- criminal cartel — the Sicilian Mafia — prey- heteroglot environment. While ranging “My Life,” presents the author’s life in cific writings. Most of the responses were ing on a vulnerable American public. The broadly, the book takes “Richard II” as an terms nearly as lively as his fiction. recorded on tape as interviews; several association of the foreign-born with crimi- exemplary instance of Bakhtinian utterance, Thompson’s zestful, unconventional writ- were submitted as written reminiscences; nal activity led to the creation of state and showing the play to be, despite its appar- ings fly in the face of the stereotypical view and one, the essay on Du Bois, was the local citizens committees, to calls for new ent thematic and formal unities, an arena of Victorian America as straitlaced and sen- shared recollection of two associates who restrictions on immigration, and to a dra- marked by struggles among competing timental. Ideal for use as a classroom text, worked closely with him for many years. matic escalation of penalties for drug law groups and orientations, with their socially this new edition includes a scholarly intro- The result is a collection of autobio- violators. Labor unions also came under at- defined languages and assumptions. The duction and an extensive bibliography. graphical accounts that not only testify to tack, particularly after the McClellan Com- figure of Shakespeare’s King Richard The book is edited by David S. Rey- the personal courage of these individuals mittee and its chief counsel, Robert F. emerges as a revealing example of a form of nolds, Distinguished Professor of English but also document their contributions to Kennedy, claimed to have found a link be- subjectivity constructed amid the demands at Baruch College, City University of New the establishment of a vital anti-racist tradi- tween the Teamsters, led by Jimmy Hoffa, of conflicting voices. York, and Kimberly R. Gladman, who tion in American thought and culture. and the Mafia. Taking his lead from V. N. Volosinov’s teaches English at New York University. Bowser is professor of sociology and As Bernstein points out, despite signifi- stress on the social implications of formal The book is available for $22.95 in paper- social services at California State Univer- cant changes in the way organized crime elements of utterance, Siemon argues for back and $70 in a library cloth edition. sity, Hayward. actually operated, and despite repeated the utility of formal analysis in historical Kushnick is professor in race relations protests from Italian-Americans, the popu- and new historical study. His analysis ex- “Against the Odds: Scholars Who and director of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race lar image of the sinister gangster persisted, tends not only to “Richard II” but also to Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Cen- Relations Archive at the University of because it served a profound need. In an the materials on which historians and new tury,” edited by Benjamin P. Bowser and Manchester. era marked by widespread uncertainty and historians have based arguments about the Louis Kushnick, with Paul Grant. The an- Grant is a lecturer in sociology at the rapid social change, the fight against a sociopolitical location of the theater, the thology is available for $34.95 in a jacketed University of Wolverhampton. common enemy, real or imagined, helped role of honor culture, the rise of agrarian hardbound edition. forge a Cold War consensus across shift- enclosure, and the cultural polarization of Over the course of the past century the “The Greatest Menace: Organized ing lines of race, class, and ethnicity by re- English society. struggle against racism took many forms, Crime in Cold War America,” by Lee defining what it meant to be an American. Siemon is professor of English at Bos- from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and Bernstein. An assistant professor of American ton University and the author of marches. This book records the testimony The term “Cold War” has long been as- studies at San Jose State University, “Shakespearean Iconoclasm.” of 11 scholar-activists who challenged pre- sociated with the red “menace” of commu- Bernstein is currently a visiting professor “Word against Word” is the latest vol- vailing racial beliefs and practices while en- nism at home and abroad. Yet as Bernstein of American culture at Vassar College. ume in the series “Massachusetts Studies gaging in resistance and reform. Included shows in this illuminating study, during the The latest volume in the series “Culture, in Early Modern Culture” and is available in this group are nine African-Americans 1950s the threat posed by organized crime Politics, and the Cold War,” “The Greatest for $39.95 in a hardbound edition. The Campus Chronicle November 22, 2002 7 Friends of Library issue Cold War-era bunker reopens as book depository Forty years ago, the idea Tippo book that an Air Force communi- cations bunker in South Emily Silverman Amherst would become a SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE library storehouse would The Friends of the Library has have been almost incon- published its first “occasional pa- ceivable amid the threat of per,” a profile of the late Oswald nuclear war. Tippo, the Class of 1932 graduate But with the Cold War who became a campus institution fading into history, as provost, its first chancellor and Amherst College and the as a well-regarded Botany profes- other Five College consor- sor. tium members are now lin- “Oswald Tippo and the Early ing the four-foot thick con- crete walls with bookcases Promise of the University of Mas- To p, David G. Spoolstra, project manager of the Five Col- sachusetts” was crafted by Irving lege Library Depository, exits the former military bunker that will hold an estimated Seidman, professor of Teacher that now houses the storehouse. At right, Spoolstra un- 500,000 lesser-used vol- Education and Curriculum Stud- packs some of the books delivered to the depository. Be- umes from the schools’ li- ies, who based the work on a se- low, the Cold War origins of the bunker are illustrated by a braries. ries of interviews with Tippo in door marked “Senior Battle Staff Members Only.” Occupying about a quar- 1983. ter of the facility’s 40,000 The book traces Tippo’s path square feet, the storage from Milo, Maine, through his un- area is being leased by the dergraduate years at Mass Aggie Five College Librarians to his return 32 years later as pro- Council from Amherst Col- vost. The volume also covers his lege, which acquired the years as chancellor and as faculty bunker in 1989. member. David G. Spoolstra is Tippo tells of the unparalleled serving as project manager growth of the campus and the sto- for the book depository, ries behind decisions that shaped which officially began re- the University as it is known to- ceiving shipments from the day. The book clearly reflects Five Colleges earlier this Tippo’s great love for his alma month. mater. Built into the side of Professor emeritus of English Bare Mountain in 1957, the Ellsworth “Dutchy” Barnard, ’28, bunker originally served as calls the memoir “the story of a re- a secure communications markable individual” that offers center for the Strategic Air “an inside view of the problems Command base at Westover and procedures involved in the Air Force Base in Chicopee. administration of institutions of Designed to withstand a higher education in the United nuclear attack, the bunker States ...” was intended to house up According to Margo Crist, di- to 350 SAC personnel for rector of Libraries, Tippo was “a up to 35 days in the event firm believer in the library’s vital of war. SAC closed the bun- role in the academic mission of the ker in 1971 and the Federal University. He believed that a Reserve purchased it for records storage. first-rate faculty and a first-rate li- Stan Sherer photos brary were essential to the ongo- ing perfection of the school he had first known as a botany stu- dent. He was, as provost, the MHEC selected for Massachusetts philanthropy listing moving spirit behind building the The campus-based Massachu- who created the listing as a charities.” said McCully. “Charities are cho- ‘tower’ library.” setts Higher Education Consor- trustee for the Phillips Founda- MHEC is a 25-year-old public sen for general excellence, cost- “The Friends are a volunteer tium has been selected as a Mas- tion, “The catalogue is designed purchasing consortium that cre- effectiveness, and general interest organization dedicated to the sachusetts 2002 Catalogue for to be a showcase for Massachu- ates and manages more than 80 to the public.” view, embodied in Tippo’s life, Philanthropy charity, according to setts philanthropy and a one- contracts with more than 500 ven- Since its introduction in 1997, that a fine library is essential to a MHEC chairman Jake E. Bishop. stop-shop for a family’s charitable dors for 83 Massachusetts col- the catalogue has raised more fine university. The Tippo memoir Conceived and supported by giving. A single check, electronic leges and universities. The mem- than $11 million in gifts and is a most appropriate initial publi- the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation transcation over the Web or stock ber schools use MHEC contracts pledges for individual charities in cation by the Friends,” said Lewis with help from other foundations transfer can be allocated to as to buy more than $150 million in the Bay State. Now independently Mainzer, president of the Friends and corporations, the catalogue many charities as the donor goods and services annually. incorporated, the catalogue is be- of the Library board and professor profiles 80 of the state’s educa- leases.” MHEC receives no state funding, ing expanded to provide donor- emeritus of Political Science. tional, environmental and human Because the catalogue is spon- instead relying on member dues friendly systems nationally. The group is in the midst of a service agencies. MHEC was cho- sored and paid for by its philan- based on purchasing volume. campaign to raise $1 million in sen from more than 200 appli- thropic sponsors, added McCully, MHEC was chosen after a rig- For more on the Catalogue for new gifts and pledges for the cants, said Bishop. “One hundred percent of every orous review by senior profes- Philanthropy, visit its Web site Library’s endowed funds by 2005. According to George McCully, donation goes to the designated sional grant-makers in the area, (www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org) As of September, gifts and pledges totaled $407,275. Copies of the 116-page book Dependent Care Assistance Program enrollment ends Dec. 12 are available for purchase at the Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, 55 Active state employees can en- day care, after school programs, check. Participants then submit re- via a link at the DCAP section of South Pleasant St., or as a gift to roll in the Group Insurance day camp and nursery school. ceipts to Sentinel Benefits, the the GIC Web site (www.state.ma. anyone who makes a tax-deduct- Commission’s 2003 Dependent Participating in DCAP can re- program administrator, which pro- us/gic/dcap.htm). ible contribution to the Oswald Care Assistance Program (DCAP) duce both federal and Massachu- cesses reimbursement claims and Enrollment applications and Tippo Library Endowment Fund. through Thursday, Dec. 12. DCAP setts income taxes. Before enroll- sends direct deposits to the par- DCAP brochures are available at The Tippo Endowment was es- allows employees to pay for cer- ing, employees should figure how ticipating employee’s financial in- the Human Resources Information tablished in 2000 with an initial tain dependent care expenses with much they want to contribute for stitution. Center on the third floor of Whit- gift from Randolph W. Bromery before-tax dollars. the coming year. Employees can Employees can determine their more or online at the GIC Web for acquisition of special materials Expenses must be necessary contribute up to $5,000 each cal- possible savings by using the site. to build Library collections. Gifts to enable employees or their endar year, but money not spent flexible spending calculator on For information, call Sentinel to the endowment may be sent to spouses to be gainfully employed, is forfeited at the end of the year. Sentinel’s Web site (www.myfsa. benefits at (800) 819-9833 or Hu- Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du seek employment or attend school The amount selected in deducted com/MyFSA.Depend.html). The man Resources at 5-1478 or Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way. full-time. Eligible expenses include proportionally from each pay- calculator can also be accessed 5-6115. 8 November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle Obituaries Celia H. Bussiere Celia H. Bussiere, 87, of Hadley, a retired Institutional Domestic Worker in the Dining Commons, died Nov. 14 at St. Vincent’s Hospi- tal at Worcester Medical Center. She served the University for 18 years before retiring in 1980. She attended Hadley schools and was a communicant of Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley. Her husband, Dolor Bussiere, died in 1990. She leaves two sons, Raymond of Thornton, Colo., and Thomas of Centennial, Colo.; three daugh- ters, Constance Niedielski of West Springfield, Dolores Berestka of Princeton and Jacqueline of West Exeter, N.Y.; and other family. Memorial gifts may be made to the American Heart Association, 1111 Elm St., West Springfield 01089 or Jimmy Fund Clinic, Dana Farber Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston 02115. Dorothy Cleveland Dorothy “Dolly” Cleveland, 70, of Amherst, a retired telephone operator died Nov. 14 at home with her family by her side. She served the University for Picture perfect Stan Sherer photo nearly 31 years before retiring in Sophomore Terri Oliva (left) demonstrates how to set up the microfilm printer to senior Tony Dawodu and sophomore 1997. She also worked as a tele- Catharine Furtado in the Microfilm Room of the Du Bois Library. phone operator for the Town of Amherst. A graduate of Amherst High School, she enjoyed bird watch- ing and crossword puzzles. COMECC gifts to United Way aid many agencies Her husband, Earl B. Cleve- land, died in 1994. Hampshire Community United and Family Services took a lot of need of legal assistance, adults with gives 81.4 percent to the charities She leaves three sons, Earl B. Way is a network of agencies that time and effort to show the family developmental or emotional dis- in its network. of Leverett, Bruce and Mark, both comprises 30 local organizations how important brothers and sis- abilities, and people in need of emer- There is plenty of need in the of Amherst; four daughters, Mary that provide critical programming ters are to each other. We now are gency services; 12.4 percent for area. According to a 2000 study Osborne of Amherst, Cheryl and services to those in need. together, and best of all, part of a providing health care; and 10.8 per- by the Massachusetts Family Tidlund of Shutesbury, Lynn Through this network, HCUW great, caring family.” cent for strengthening families. Economic Self-sufficiency Project, Raskevitz, maintenance working reached out to over 45,000 people HCUW uses HCUW more the 26 percent of people in foreman in Housing Services, of in Hampshire County last year. A more than 75 spends more the HCUW service area have Amherst and Julie Carantit of gift to United Way addresses a volunteers — ex- of its money “great difficulty making ends meet Charlemont; two brothers and full spectrum of social service perts in identify- on program- and paying for basic needs, such other family members. needs. ing and evaluat- ming than is as clothing, shelter, food and Memorial gifts may be made to An example of how one United ing human ser- required by health care.” the Amherst Fire Department, P.O. Way agency, Children’s Aid and vice needs — to the national UMass employees may sup- Box 654, Amherst 01004-0654. Family Services, can help is the help distribute standard, ac- port the Hampshire Community story of Linda, a young girl who the United cording to a United Way through COMECC had been separated from her Way’s Commu- Better Busi- contributions, using code 477488. brother and was living in foster nity Fund where the organization ness Bureau and National Chari- Donations may also be made to homes for four years. believes it is needed most. Stopping ties Information Bureau survey. the United Way of Pioneer Valley “Harry was adopted when he child abuse and domestic violence The national standard for using code 472588 and to United was seven through the Special receives 22.5 percent; 21.4 percent spending on administration and Way of Franklin County using Adoptions Program at Children’s goes to helping children and youth; finance in a charity is 35 percent, code 496188. For information, con- Aid and Family Services,” she 20.3 percent is put toward meeting leaving 65 percent for program- tact Gloria Fox at 5-4203 or by e- said. “They were a great family, people’s basic needs, such as food ming. HCUW spends 17.6 percent mail ([email protected]). but it took almost a year for them and shelter; 12.6 percent is for on fund-raising and administra- to realize what a great team we “reaching out” to a variety of needy tion. It sends 1 percent to the Submitted by the Hampshire would be together. Children’s Aid populations, including those in United Way of America, and it Community United Way.

Dorothy Cleveland Larson weighs in on wetlands protection Friends to recall Joseph S. Larson, professor ing meadows to create an upland of the wetland for cattle grazing Sarah Hamilton emeritus of Natural Resources vineyard. The corps’ decision has somewhat impaired the function Conservation, is one of 14 scien- been upheld in lower courts, but of the wetland but grazing is a use A celebration of the life of the tists who filed an amici curiae the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed under federal law. late Sarah J. Hamilton, retired di- (friends of the court) brief on Oct. agreed to hear the case. The Massachusetts Depart- rector of the New Students Pro- 25 with the U.S. Supreme Court in The scientists’ brief provides ment of Environmental Protection gram, will be held Sunday, Dec. 1, support of an action by the U.S. the court with the scientific basis last month appointed Larson to 1:30-4 p.m. at the Garden House at Army Corps of Engineers to pro- for protecting this type of wet- serve on its new Wetland Advi- Look Park in Northampton. tect wetlands under the federal land. The result of the deep rip- sory Committee along with repre- Hamilton, who retired last year Clean Water Act. ping brings soil to the surface sentatives from 15 governmental after more than 30 years of cam- The corps has taken a Califor- which, in addition to filling the and non-governmental agencies. pus service, died Nov. 8 of perito- nia commercial farming operation wetland surface and altering its The panel will review ongoing ac- neal cancer. to court for having drained wet- functions, exposes soil to oxygen tivities of the state’s wetland pro- Friends and colleagues are en- lands by deep-ripping furrows causing chemical changes that tection program and potential fu- couraged to bring a favorite story five- to seven-feet deep through a can result in pollution of the water ture new directions that the Joseph S. Larson: Amicus to share. clay layer to drain former wet graz- leaving the wetland. The prior use agency plans to pursue. curiae on Supreme Court case. The Campus Chronicle November 22, 2002 ATHLETICS 9 After 5 years, Minutemen claim Alumni Cup

The Minutemen got hockey coach Don Cahoon a little extra something to go with his 200th career victory last Saturday against UMass Lowell. By downing the River Hawks for a second straight night, Sports wrap-up the UMass squad won the season series and captured its first-ever Alumni Cup, the Men’s basketball annual prize to the winner of the three- game matchup. W vs. Coaches vs. Cancer 90-60 (exh.) The 4-3 come-from-behind win before a All-Stars stunned crowd of 2,194 at Tsongas Arena brought the cup back to Amherst for the Football (7-4; 5-3 A-10) first time in five years. Lowell jumped out to a 2-0 lead midway L vs. Hofstra 31-28 through the first period, but the Minutemen Hockey (2-4-0; 1-3-0 Hockey East) responded to draw within one goal. Junior defenseman Thomas Pöck rebounded his W vs. UMass Lowell 6-3 own shot and fired a rocket past River W vs. UMass Lowell 4-3 Hawk goalie Chris Davidson from a tough angle in the left slot to cut the margin to Men’s soccer (12-5-2, 8-1-2 A-10) 2-1. L vs. George Washington 4-3 (OT) In the second period, the River Hawks A-10 semifinals went up 3-1, but the Minutemen answered with a power-play goal by Tim Turner. With less than 10 minutes left in the final period, the Minutemen tied the game at 3-3 Upcoming schedule as Turner fed Chris Capraro for his first goal of the year. Mike Warner was also Home games in bold credited with an assist. The Minutemen then cemented the win as Warner scored Friday, Nov. 22 on a breakaway. Turner and Capraro were W. basketball Sacred Heart 7 p.m. given assists on the play. The second line of Capraro, Warner and Turner combined Saturday, Nov. 23 for eight points (3 goals, 5 assists). Football Rhode Island noon The night before at the Mullins Center, M. swimming St. John’s 1 p.m. Greg Mauldin and Stephen Werner scored W. swimming St. John’s 1 p.m. two goals apiece to pace the Minutemen to Sunday, Nov. 24 a 6-3 win over the River Hawks. Pöck and Hockey UNH 3 p.m. Mark Concannon also scored. Pöck, who tallied four points over the Monday, Nov. 25 weekend, was named Hockey East Player of M. basketball Indiana 5 p.m. the Week. This is the third straight week a Maui Invit. Minuteman has won a conference award. W. basketball St. Peter’s 7:30 p.m. Now 4-4-0 overall and 3-3-0 in the Hockey East Conference, the Minutemen Courtesy of Media Relations Tuesday, Nov. 26 were scheduled to host Iona (1-9-1) on Thomas Pöck was named Hockey East Player of the Week after he scored four M. basketball Maui Invit. TBA Nov. 21. points during the UMass Lowell series. Hockey Vermont 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 27 M. basketball Maui Invit. TBA Postseason dreams fade after Minutemen lose again Unable to find an open receiver with his halftime, but took a 24-14 lead after three yards on 19 carries. Friday, Nov. 29 team trailing Hofstra 31-28, freshman quar- quarters on a 7-yard touchdown pass. The loss dropped the once-soaring Min- W. basketball Michigan 7 p.m. terback Tim Day was sacked with five sec- The Minutemen (7-4, 5-3) went ahead 28-24 utemen from No. 19 in the country to 24th onds left to play, sending the Minutemen in the fourth quarter when R.J. Cobbs in one poll and out of the top rankings in Saturday, Nov. 30 Hockey Dartmouth 3 p.m. to their second straight loss last Saturday. scored on a 1-yard run and Day scored on another. The defeat also all but eliminates Hofstra (5-6, 4-5 Atlantic 10) trailed 14-10 at a 5-yard run. Cobbs led all runners with 89 hopes for a postseason appearance. Both Sunday, Dec. 1 Maine and Northeastern have to lose this W. basketball Toledo 2 p.m. weekend for UMass to claim the A-10 title. Hockey Princeton 3 p.m. Chaves named The Minutemen play their final regular season game on Saturday at noon at the Monday, Dec. 2 assistant AD University of Rhode Island (3-8, 1-7 A-10). M. basketball Central Conn. 7:30 p.m. Athletic director Ian McCaw has ap- The game will be broadcast on WRNX, Uncasville, Conn. pointed Bill Chaves, one his former North- 100.9 FM and WMUA, 91.1 FM. Wednesday, Dec. 4 eastern University assistants, to the post W. basketball Vermont 7 p.m. of assistant athletic director for Tickets and White recognized Game Operations. Friday, Dec. 6 Like McCaw, Chaves is a graduate of the for academic effort M. swimming Yale all day Sport Management Program, where he Senior placekicker Doug White has been Invitational earned his master’s degree in 1999. selected to the 2002 Verizon Academic All- W. swimming Yale all day At Northeastern, Chaves was assistant District I team. The squad, selected by the Invitational AD for external affairs, with responsibility College Sports Information Directors of W. indoor BU, CCSU 5 p.m. for departmental marketing, ticketing and America, includes players on Division I-A track & Maine promotions. Under his leadership, North- at Boston and I-AA teams from New England and Hockey BU 7 p.m. eastern’s season ticket base for men’s ice New York. hockey went from 480 to 605 and the Hus- White, who was previously selected to kies drew a school single-season record the American Football Coaches Associa- 55,000 fans to their hockey games. The tion Good Works Team, carries a cumula- school’s corporate partner program saw an tive grade point average of 3.73 in Manage- increase of slightly more than 10 percent in ment. Stan Sherer photo Athletics his first year. Bill Chaves On the field, White leads the Minutemen www.umassathletics.com Prior to his appointment at Northeast- in scoring with 53 points so far this season, ern, Chaves was assistant AD for develop- Club, a student-athlete alumni group. hitting eight of 10 field goal attempts and Athletic Ticket Office ment at the University of Northern Colo- Chaves was director of athletics and 29 of 33 extra points. He is UMass’ all-time Mullins Center, 5-0851 rado from 1999-2001. At Northern Colorado, intramurals for the Enfield, Conn. public leader in career field goal percentage (.771), Chaves oversaw the corporate partner pro- schools from 1995-98 and director of sports while ranking third all-time in field goals gram, the school’s Blue and Gold Club and information at Quinnipiac College from made, and second in both extra points its annual campaign, and the Old Bear’s 1990-95. made and points scored among kickers. 10 ATHLETICS November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle 3 named to A-10 all-academic teams Three UMass student-athletes were Chester during the regular season. Monaco named this week to the Atlantic 10 Aca- has a 3.80 GPA and was named to the A-10 demic All-Conference teams. Senior Sarah Field Hockey All-Conference team. Bohonowicz and sophomore Adrianne Mo- As a freshman, Monaco was named to naco were selected to the Atlantic 10 Field the NFHCA Division I National Academic Hockey Academic All-Conference team team. She was also named to the A-10 while junior Michelle Luttati was selected Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the UMass to the Women’s Soccer Academic All-Con- Athletic Honor Roll in 2001. Last season ference team. Monaco was also honored for having the Bohonowicz played in all 22 of the highest GPA on the UMass field hockey Minutewomen’s games, tallying 10 points team when she was named to the Athletic on three goals and four assists for the field Council Honor Roll. hockey team. She also recorded a team- Luttati started in 16 of the Minutewo- high 33 shots. A 2002 Atlantic 10 Field men’s 17 games this season, tallying one Hockey All-Conference selection, goal and one assist for three points. The Bohonowicz has maintained a 3.47 grade 1999 Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team and Soc- point average as an Economics major. cer Buzz Northeast Region All-Freshman Bohonowicz was named to the NFHCA team selection has maintained a 3.86 GPA Division I National Academic squad in 2001 as a Communication major. and 2000. She was also named to the A-10 Luttati, who was a 2000 second team Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the campus Verizon Academic All-District I pick, has Athletic Director’s Honor Roll her junior been on the Dean’s List, UMass Athletic and sophomore years. Director’s Honor Roll and A-10 Commis- Monaco finished the season as UMass’ sioner’s Honor Roll each semester she has third-leading scorer, tallying nine points. been in Amherst. Last season, she was an The sophomore scored four goals on the A-10 All-Academic team pick and earned year and dished out one assist. Monaco the UMass Athletic Council Honor Roll ci- also recorded two game-winning goals, lift- tation for having the highest GPA on the ing UMass over Saint Joseph’s and West team.

Offensive skills Stan Sherer photo Runners wrap up at NCAA regionals Karen Healy (left) has just arrived in Amherst as a new assistant coach The men’s and women’s cross country senior Dave Hantman, who finished 99th in for the women’s lacrosse team. She is shown demonstrating a play at the teams ended their seasons by finishing a time of 33:27.2. net during a recent conditioning and individual work session at Garber 23rd and 27th, respectively, at the NCAA Columbia University won the women’s Field. Northeast Regional held Nov. 16 in Van team title with 70 points, followed by Provi- Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. dence College (75) and Boston College Iona won the men’s race with 59 points, (100). The UMass women tallied 731 points while Providence finished second (61) and to finish 27th in the 36-team race. Season ends as GW upsets Dartmouth College placed third (95). The Senior Julie McGee led the Minutewo- top two teams earn automatic berths in the men by finishing 134th overall in 24:01.1. Minutemen in A-10 semifinals NCAA Championships later this month in The men’s cross country team is Terre Haute, Ind. The Minutemen tallied coached by Ken O’Brien. Julie Lafreniere is Despite three goals by senior Jeff Deren, 22. The total enabled Deren to become the 580 points to finish 23rd out of 33 teams. the coach of the Minutewomen. the top-seeded men’s soccer team lost 4-3 first player in school history to score over Leading the way for the UMass men was in overtime to George Washington Univer- 50 points in a season with 51 (22 goals, 7 sity in the Atlantic 10 Conference semifi- assists). He ended his career with a school- nals last Friday in Richmond, Va. The loss record 113 points (48 goals, 17 assists). The closed out the season for UMass, the A-10 honor was the latest in a banner year for regular-season champion at 8-1-2 (12-6-2 Deren, who repeated as Atlantic 10 Confer- overall), as the NCAA passed the team ence offensive player of the year. over for an at-large berth in the national Myers tallied an assist in the loss to tournament. George Washington, giving him 23 points GW, which went on to win the Atlantic for the season, and pushed his career total 10 championship, and Richmond, which to 49 points. tied UMass during the regular season, ad- Sam Koch was named Atlantic 10 Co- vanced to the NCAAs. Coach of the Year with Duquesne’s Wade Deren and junior Ptah Myers were se- Jean. Koch guided the Minutemen to their lected to the Atlantic 10 Men’s Soccer All- second league title in three years. He has a Championship Team. 135-81-20 career record in his 12th season Deren’s hat trick versus GW was his with the Minutemen and earlier in the year second of the season and boosted his became the school’s all-time winningest school-record single-season goal total to coach. Bolduc named interim lacrosse coach Former assistant coach Carrie Bolduc has been tapped as interim women’s la- crosse coach for the 2003 season, accord- ing to athletic director Ian McCaw. Bolduc, who spent the last three sea- sons with the Minutewomen will fill the spot vacated by Phil Barnes, who left last summer for an assistant coach’s job at Cornell University. Bolduc spent her first two college sea- sons at Temple, where she was a member of the Owls’ 1997 NCAA Final Four team. Af- ter her sophomore year, Bolduc transferred to Syracuse University and was a key mem- ber of the Orangewomen’s inaugural team, serving as captain during her junior and se- nior years. In 1999, Bolduc earned North- east All-America honors as Syracuse cap- Stan Sherer photo tured the ECAC title. Enmeshed Bolduc graduated from Syracuse in 1999 David Litterer, office manager of the Recreation Department, restores the Interim women’s lacrosse coach Carrie with a degree in art education. She is pur- support cable inside a net for intramural volleyball. Bolduc was a standout player at suing a master’s degree through the Art Syracuse University. Department. The Campus Chronicle November 22, 2002 WEEKLY BULLETIN 11

Rep. Story schedules Sports Luncheons resume Dec. 4 First Friday at ‘Leaders in the Making’ district office hours There will be no Weekly Sports Lun- Renaissance Center scholarship applications Rep. Ellen Story (D-Amherst) is holding cheon next week due to the Thanksgiving The Renaissance Center continues its Applications for the Alumni Associa- district office hours as follows: holiday. First Fridays series on Friday, Dec. 6 with tion’s “Leaders in the Making” Scholar- Thursday, Dec. 5, 8, 3-4 p.m., Pelham The lunches will return Wednesday, an open house from 4-6 p.m. The center’s ships are due in the Alumni Relations Of- Community Center Library Dec. 4 when hockey coach Don “Toot” newest acquisitions of rare books and fice by Friday, Nov. 22. Friday, Dec. 6, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Bangs Cahoon, women’s basketball coach Marnie other materials will be on display. Refresh- “The Leaders in the Making” Scholar- Community Center in Amherst Dacko and men’s basketball coach Steve ments will be served. ship Program was created by the Alumni The hours are set aside for residents to Lappas will be the featured speakers at The center is located at 650 East Pleas- Association to support the academic and talk to Story about ideas or concerns re- noon in 1009 Lincoln Campus Center. ant St. career pursuits of promising sophomores lated to state government programs or leg- The buffet lunch is $6.50. Call 5-4289 for and juniors from diverse campus popula- islative matters. No appointments are reservations. Deadline for submissions to the tions whose records suggest that they will needed. Guide to Undergraduate Programs develop into alumni with admirable leader- Story can be reached locally at 256-6300. Blood drive Contributors to the Guide to Under- ship qualities upon graduation. 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Exercise Science seminar, “Biome- Economic Theory workshop, “Same- Chemical Engineering seminar, “Cel- Seminars chanical Analysis of Tai Chi gait – Impli- Sex Partner Recognition Laws: The lular Response to Mechanical Signals: & cations for Balance Exercise for El- Role of Norms in Institutional Change,” Implications for Novel Biomaterials,” Colloquia ders,” Ge Wu, department of physical Lee Badget; Monday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m., David Mooney, University of Michigan; therapy, University of Vermont; Monday, 9th floor conference room, Thompson Friday, Dec. 6, 11:15 a.m., Math Environmental Engineering seminar, Nov. 25, 12:20 p.m., 153 Totman. Re- Hall. Lounge, 1634 Lederle Graduate Re- “Water Reuse in the Textile Industry: freshments at noon. search Tower. Evaluation of Electochemical Treatment Molecular and Cellular Biology semi- and Ozonation,” Ehoud Leshem, Economic Theory workshop, “Theo- nar, “Cytoskeletal Regulation of Cell Environmental Engineering seminar, UMass; Friday, Nov. 22, 12:20 p.m., rizing the ‘Third Sphere’: A Critique of Growth, Development and Disease,” “Future Directions in Wastewater Treat- 220 Marston Hall. the Persistence of the ‘Economistic Fal- Sheila Thomas, Harvard University; Tues- ment,” William J. Jewell, department of lacy,’” Fikret Adaman, Bogazici Univer- day, Dec. 3, 4 p.m., 319 Morrill Science biological and environmental engineer- Distinguished Lecture in Geotech- sity and Yahya Madra; Monday, Nov. 25, Center South. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. ing, Cornell University; Friday, Dec. 6, nical Engineering, “Design, Construc- 4 p.m., 9th floor conference room, 12:20 p.m., 220 Marston Hall. tion and Maintenance of Infrastructure,” Thompson Hall. Political Economy workshop, “What’s Suzanne Lacasse, managing director, Behind the Recent Rise in Profitability,” Polymer Science and Engineeering Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Entomology seminar, “Insects on Edward Wolff, New York University; seminar, “Reactions of Single-Site Ole- Norway; Friday, Nov. 22, 3 p.m., 131 Small Host Fruit: Patterns of Exploita- Tuesday, Dec. 3, 4 p.m., 9th floor con- fin Polymerization Catalysts with Polar Marcus Hall. Reception to follow lec- tion,” Anne Averill, UMass; Monday, ference room, Thompson Hall. Monomers,” Richard Jordan, chemistry, ture. Nov. 25, 3:30 p.m., Alexander Confer- University of Chicago; Friday, Dec. 6, ence Room, 2nd floor, Fernald Hall. Re- Economic Development and Eco- 3:35 p.m., A110-111 Conte Polymer Re- Organismic and Evolutionary Biol- freshments at 3:15 p.m. nomic History workshop, “Health and search Center. ogy seminar, “Population Dynamics Inequalities: Evidence from Peru,” Doctoral exams of Two Forest Defoliators,” Joseph Fortnightly Breakfast Series, “Collabo- Rafael Cortez, Universidad del Pacifico, Graduate faculty are invited to attend Elkinton, Entomology; Friday, Nov. 22, rative Conversations: Rethinking the Lima, Peru; Wednesday, Dec. 4, 4 p.m., the final oral examination for the doctoral 3 p.m., 319 Morrill South. Teaching of Students Who Struggle in 9th floor lounge, Thompson Hall. candidates scheduled as follows. School,” Patricia Paugh, UMass; Tues- Resource Economics seminar, “Ex- day, Nov. 26, 8:30-9:45 a.m., 225 Chemistry seminar, “From Methodol- Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim, Ed.D., Educa- perimental Studies of Market Power in Furcolo. Breakfast will be served. ogy to Materials: Chemistry in the DV tion. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1 p.m., 151 Hills Emissions Trading,” Bjorn Carlen, MIT Group,” D. Venkataraman, UMass; South. Dissertation: “Evaluation of the Op- Joint Program on the Science and Center for Public Policy and Admin- Thursday, Dec. 5, 11:15 a.m., 1634 pressed: An Alternative Social Justice Ap- Policy of Global Change; Friday, Nov. istration colloquium, “The Politics of Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Re- proach to Program Evaluation.” Bob Miltz, chr. 22, 3:30 p.m., 217 Stockbridge Hall. History in the National Park Service,” freshments at 10:45 a.m. David Glassberg, History; Monday, Dec. Ilhwan Kim, Ph.D., Electrical and Com- Polymer Science and Engineering 2, noon-1 p.m., 620 Thompson Hall. Neuroscience and Behavior Program puter Engineering. Wednesday, Dec. 4, seminar, “Going for the Gold: Nano- seminar, “Computational Power of Neu- 2:30 p.m., 234 Marston. Dissertation: particles as the Next Generation of Ma- Exercise Science seminar with Dawn ral Networks,” Hava Siegelmann, “Quality of Service Support for Wireless terials for Biodetection,” Chad Mirkin, Roberts, UMass; Monday, Dec. 2, 12:20 UMass; Thursday, Dec. 5, 12:15 p.m., Networks.” Aura Ganz, chr. chemistry, Northwestern University; Fri- p.m., 153 Totman. 521B Tobin Hall. day, Nov. 22, 3:35 p.m., A110-111 Mariko Sugahara, Ph.D., Linguistics. Tues- Conte Polymer Research Center. Entomology (Charles Alexander) Inequality and Public Policy Series, day, Nov. 26, 3:30 p.m., 209 Dickinson. Dissertation: “Downtrends and Post-FO- seminar, “A ‘model clades’ approach: “Rediscoverinig the Commons: A Ne- CUS Intonation in Tokyo Japanese.” John Valley Geometry seminar, “Algebraic insights into social evolution, specia- glected Species of Property, A New En- Kingston and Elisabeth Selkirk, co-chrs. Deformations Arising from Orbifolds,” tion, and tritrophic interaction,” Bernard gine of Civic Renewal,” David Bollier, Sarah Witherspoon, Amherst College; Crespi, Simon Fraser University; Mon- author of “Silent Theft: The Private Plun- Timothy Willig, Ph.D., History. Thursday, Friday, Nov. 22, 4-5 p.m., 1634 Lederle day, Dec. 2, 3:30 p.m., Alexander Con- der of Our Common Wealth”; Thursday, Dec. 5, 4 p.m., 601 Herter. Dissertation: Graduate Research Tower. Refresh- ference Room, 2nd floor, Fernald Hall. Dec. 5, 4-5 p.m., 620 Thompson Hall. “Restoring the Thin Red Line: British Policy ments at 3:45 p.m. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m. and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1794- 1815.” Gerald McFarland, chr. 12 ARTS & EVENTS November 22, 2002 The Campus Chronicle

Galleries Vocal Jazz concert set Augusta Savage Gallery New Africa House Vocal Jazz majors Abby 5-5177 Richards, Josh Sprague, Krissy Mon. & Tues. 1-7 p.m. Skare, Nora Ritchie and Marta Wed.-Fri., 1-5 p.m. MacRostie will perform a wide range of music with the Vocal Jazz “Islamic Art: Peace & Ensemble on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at Beauty,” 8 p.m. in 36 Fine Arts Center. Arabic calligraphy According to Catherine by M.J. Alhabeeb through Nov. 22 Jensen-Hole, director of the en- semble, “This concert will present Central Gallery a variety of repertoire and styles Wheeler House for vocal jazz ensemble that will 5-0680 appeal to listeners. The concert Monday-Thursday, 3-6 p.m. also offers challenging repertoire Sun., 2-5 p.m. that will stretch the boundaries of our student performers.” “Julia Ferrari: New Work” Two premieres of arrangements through Dec. 8 by Jensen-Hole will be included in the concert: Washington and Hampden Gallery Young’s “My Foolish Heart” and Southwest Residential Area Comprised of Music majors, the Chamber Choir often performs at official University events. 5-0680 Cole Porter’s “You’d Be So Nice Mon.-Thurs., noon-6 p.m. to Come Home To.” Taiwanese Sun., 2-5 p.m. singer-producer David Tao’s ar- Chamber Choir performs at Bowker rangement of a traditional Manda- “David Henderson: New “Musicians Wrestle Every- caught the transcendental idea, piece “Selig sind die Toten,” a rin song entitled “Ye Lai Xiang” is Work” where” and “Heart No So Heavy and what she [Dickinson] was new gospel arrangement by Paul in the style of Take 6 and is sung through Dec. 8 As Mine” –– both poems by getting at.” Rardin of an old spiritual entitled a cappella. Other pieces include Amherst native Emily Dickinson Also on the program will be “Walk in Jerusalem,” William “Strollin’,” music by Horace Silver INCUBATOR PROJECT: and lyrics by Jensen-Hole; Monk “Claimed Baggage,” which were set to music by Elliott Paul Halley’s arrangement of Bird’s “Mass for Four Voices,” and Hendricks’ “Suddenly”; and sculpture by Carter in 1945 –– will be featured “Agnus Dei,” which will feature and an arrangement of a Venezu- Amy Margaret Corey in a performance by the Chamber faculty member Lynn Klock on elan folk song by Rene Rojas. Nelson and Murphy’s “Stolen Choir on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. saxophone. “In the academic set- The choir, which is comprised Moments,” a ballad arranged by “Hair Trigger,” in Bowker Auditorium. ting, we try to explore as many of Music majors, has represented Damar Meadu, arranger, musical sculpture by “The poem ‘Musicians Wrestle periods and styles of music as the University at official functions director and singer for New York Sally Curcio Everywhere’ is transcendental, a possible,” said Abercrombie, for the last decade and, in 1999 Voices. mystical vision of what the after- “and we want our audience to do took a concert tour of Italy. Admission is free. “The Journey,” life is like,” said professor E. the same.” Tickets are $10 general public by Nora Valdez Wayne Abercrombie, director of The concert also will include a and $5 for students, children un- through Dec. 8 University the Choir and head of the Choral romantic period work for four der 18 and senior citizens. Call the Herter Gallery Program for the Department of voices by Johannes Brahms, Fine Arts Center Box Office Dancers plan 5-0976 Music and Dance. “Elliott really Heinrich Schutz’s early Baroque (5-2511). Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. varied show Sun. 1-4 p.m. Combining rock, pop, jazz, Campy ‘Mineola Twins’ coming to Rand stage classical, romantic and modern “Richard Yarde: Paintings” “The Mineola Twins,” play- camp,” says Sertz. “it’s fun to in the Rand Theater. Tickets to music with ballet, jazz and modern through Dec. 1 dance, the University Dancers will “Connie Fox: Recent wright Paula Vogel’s long look at work on, and fun to see. Because “The Mineola Twins” are $10 gen- gender through the middle to late of the campy quality of it, you en- eral public and $5 for students and present their annual dance con- Paintings” cert Dec. 5-7 at 8 p.m. in Bowker through Dec. 1 20th century, will be performed joy the ride.” senior citizens. Call the Fine Arts Dec. 5-7 and 11-13 by the Depart- All performances are at 8 p.m. Center Box Office (5-2511). Auditorium. The performance’s choreogra- Student Union Gallery ment of Theater. 5-0792 Through the characters of phers come from diverse back- Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Myra and Myrna, the comedy Related events celebrate ‘Twins’ grounds and teach at different in- Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tackles the difference between tra- stitutions in the Pioneer Valley. The Theater Department is Dramaturg Megan Smithling will ditional and new women’s roles, They include Kenneth Lipitz, ar- planning several events to moderate the discussion. “Introspection” homosexuality and reproductive tistic director of the University BFA thesis exhibit by complement its upcoming pro- Also after the Dec. 6 perfor- rights — issues where the ideo- Dancers; Jim Coleman, Rose Heather LaPenn duction of “The Mineola Twins.” mance, stage manager Glenn J. logically distant twins pull apart Marie Flachs and Terese Freed- through Nov. 22 On Thursday, Dec. 5, Sturgis will lead a backstage and come together in their man of Mount Holyoke College; Natasha Pravaz, a Ford Fellow tour. struggle to define themselves as Mark Allan Davis of Smith Col- University Gallery at the Five College Women’s Theater professor Patricia lege; and Shelley Ziebel, guest Fine Arts Center women. Studies Research Center, will Warner, a scholar of costume choreographer and director of the 5-3670 Directed by MFA candidate present a pre-performance talk, history, will give a talk entitled Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Danielle Sertz for her thesis New England Dance Academy. “Performing Gender — Feminist “Archetypes, Stereotypes and Sat. & Sun., 2-5 p.m. project, the play will feature five Two works will have their theory and the body in ‘The Fashion — How bras, body actors portraying 16 characters. world premieres at the concert. Mineola Twins,’” at 7:15 p.m. in types, and hemlines drive char- Helmut Newton/Garry The twins, one a suburban house- Davis’ contemporary piece, “Tick- the Upper Rand Lobby. acter in Paula Vogel’s ‘The Winogrand: Two Portfolios wife and the other an “evil” radical ing: Cantados de Tiempo,” uses a through Dec. 13 Following the Dec. 6 perfor- Mineola Twins’” on Wednesday, feminist, are being played by the collage of sound and music by mance, History professor Joyce Dec. 11 at 7:15 p.m. in the Upper same actress. Split-second timing Prince, Evis Costello and Elton “Private Eyes: Image and Berkman and members of the Rand Lobby. will be the name of the game as the John, while Flachs’ ballet piece Identity,” production will participate in a All of the events are free and actors furiously switch jackets, features the sound of loons and with photos by Barbara Ess talk-back with the audience. open to the public. Prokofiev’s “New Year’s Waltz.” and Ann Hamilton, wigs and personalities from one Representing her vision of video of Derek Jarman’s film scene to the next. “Blue,” The idea of “camp” is the guid- America a few months after Sept. computer-generated portrait ing principle in Sertz’s production. Theatre Guild stages ‘Arcadia’ 11, Ziebel’s modern piece is en- sculpture by Karin Sander, When the graduate student met titled “Red, Black and Blue” and video installation Vogel during a visit to campus last The Theatre Guild will present sees the events of 1809 unfold. is set to the music of Fat Boy by Israeli artist Miri Segal year, the playwright said she wrote “Arcadia,” a theatrical play by Admission is $8 general public Slim. A member of the Elms Col- through Dec. 13 the main character as “a woman in Tom Stoppard, Dec. 5-7 at 8 p.m. and $5 for Five College students lege faculty since 1985, Ziebel drag as a woman,” that is, putting in the Student Union Ballroom. and may be obtained at Tix Unlim- spent 10 years with Winnipeg’s A brilliant comedy-drama set ited in the Student Union. Contemporary Dancers and Bos- For more information, visit on the stereotypical trappings of womanhood. Thus the lead ac- in two time periods, 1809 and A registered student organiza- ton’s Concert Dance Company. the Fine Arts Center’s Web present day, the play takes place tion, the Theatre Guild produces Tickets are available through site (www.umass.edu/fac/ tress will switch from twin to twin on a beautiful manor in Derby- two shows each semester: a musi- the Fine Arts Center Box Office calendar/centerwide). with the aid of over-the-top cos- tumes and bad wigs. shire, England. Scientific theories cal and a traditional play. (5-2511) for $10 general public; $5 “This is not realism. Every- as well as theories about love are For information, call the The- for children under 18 and senior thing’s in quotation marks in tossed around as the present-day atre Guild at 5-0415. citizens; $3 for UMass students.