Silver-screen Bean is not the man we've grown UM-St. Louis' Jim Brady is the 1997 Collegiate to love. See page 3. Baseball Classic Coach of the Year. See page 5.
THE S TUDENT V OICE C ELEBRATING 31 Y EARS OF UM-ST. LOUIS OF CAMPUS COVERAGE
V OL. 31 I SSUE 902 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS NOVEMBER 3, 1997 Police target repeat offenders with new tire boots
by Joshua Stegeman mobile is moved while the boot is intact. "The person has to contact t.f-te police department staff writer The boots INDEX ~ Professor fears lor satetv While grievance against him slowlY proceeds Bulletin Board 2 I by Doug Harrison Karl Beeler, associate vice chancellor for Odds & Ends 3 l staff writer Student Affairs, contacted her in early t (police protection) is purely a precautionary measure. OptEd 4 University poIic are standing guard out October about "threatening" phone cali s side an Engiish professor's classroom after Sports 5 Onuska allegedly received shortly after -Robert Roe se!er the instructor expressed Co ncerns for his safe Long's allegations were made public. chief of UM -St. Lou is police UnderCurrent 6 ty, police say. "He (Beeler) said someone had been call life in Hell 7 According tc> chief of police Robert ing and threatening Dr. Onuska, and he Roc-seIer, detecti ve James Huelsing has been (Beeler) asked me if I had mad~ any of !.hose members of the COlmrottce immediately. I "Dr. Onuska has asked th at he be allowed "sitti ng outside" the classroom of John calls," Long said. think they're trying to hold this off until next to make his seledion from the new list," Editoria!s: Onuska, associate profe.ssor of English, for '"a Neither Onuska nor Beeler would com semester." N~lson Wrote. "1 believe he is within his couple of weeks." ment about the calls or any :L~pect of Ll'ng's In 11 It:!!cr to Long Oct. 8, Jack Nelson, rights to do so."' "It's purel. a pn-..cautionary measure," grievance. vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, Long said she had already selected Glenn Too few computer Roeseler said, indicating that Huel sing 's Meanwhile, Long, who deniGd any acknowledged that he had "e17ed" in previous White, associate professor of behavioral stud techs to support U assigmnent would likely end "soon."' involvement in the calls, said her grie.vance is correspondence to Long about the timeline ies. and Sharone Hopkins, a business admin Onuska contacted the police after allega being intentionally held up by administrators for the process. istration major and student lellder, from tlte tions !.hm he discriminated against an African in Academic Affairs. Additionally, Nelson wrote that a new original pool !hat r.xpired at the end of Students shouldn't Americ an student became public in "Dr. Onuska hasn't even picked his mem pool of available committee members, September. September. Roeseler said. bers of the (grievance) committee and they approved each year by Chancellor Blanche The new pool of available committee get the (tire) boot II ..1e linda Long, a senior English major still haven 't picked a date for the hearing," Touhiil, would not be available until afte.r Oct. members has not been finalized , and Long did who filed the grievance against Onuska, said Long said. "Yet they told me I had to pick my 13. not say if she would select new members. PAGE 2 NOVEMBER 3, 1997l DOUG HARRlSON Monday, Nov. 3 2:30pm. Leam how to use the Fitness • Introduction to Weight Training: 1:30- dents general knowledqe of basic first aid. editor in chief • Monday Noon Series: "Business, Labor, Center and weight room to achieve the goals Contact: Rec Sports, 5326. 2:30pm. Leam how to use the Fitness BILL ROLFES and the State: The Battle for American you desire. Contact: Rec Sports, 5326. 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Louis, MO Events Bulletin Board is 5 p.m. every Thursday before publication . Space consideration 63121. U ----- U~SL Out Of The Box A weekly running dialogue, [xperience by Ron Medley FSC District Supervisor You want to be heard? Want to have a voice? Control your own destiny? • Well ..... You can do what I did and purchase space in the Current or avoid the financial hassles and write to me via campus mail. I will share your St . OUIS insights, comments and ideas with the entire University Community on a weekly basis. 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One, the powers that be are concerned that this large segment of the campus population are unable to either Historyonics • "Nicholas and Alexandra: The Inside Story of the Last of the Romanovs" find or have the time to visit services in the Underground & Cove and secondly, that November 15,1997 we here at Food Services want their money. Oh come on, Quick Trip wants your money, One of history's most dramatic times comes to life in the actual words of Nicholas and Alexandra, last czar and Wendy's wants your money, and so do we. czarina of Russia. $10.00 refundable attendance deposit Funny thing about spending where you live and work, it tends to defer the costs of services Holiday Lights· "Tilles Park, AS Brewery and Our Lady of the Snow" for other things in the community, like tuition, housing, new labs, new classrooms, December 5,1997 quality professors, and general improvements. While I admit that in a town or city, the Tour the lig.hts and wonders of these three SI. Louis holiday traditions. $5.00 refundable aHendance deposit influx of additional revenue through sales and employment taxes do help somewhat, in a University environment, more than just 6 or 7% of your purchases are applied to these St. Louis Science Center· "Rockin Laser 3·0" ever expanding costs. It's not like we are asking for "new" money or "donations" but January 23, 1998 rather that you spend your hard earned bucks for food, beverages and yes even entertainment The sounds of Aerosmith, U2, Smashing Pumpkins .. Stone Temple Pilots - laser lights and 3-D glasses make this an awesome, unforgettable Sight and sound experience. It's a lot of rock. $5.00 refundable attendance deposit where it will do you the most good, and in most cases get more bang for the buck at the same time. St. Louis Symphony: "Take 6" I know, I've heard the "why should I support" theory at every University that I've ever been to January 31, 1998 and the answer is always the same. If you want to be PART of something great you have to With seven Grammies, this a cappella sextet brings its trademark vocal and instrumental sound for a program of help BUILD something great. Gospel, Jazz and R&B and more. $10.00 refundable attendance deposit In 1978 I found myself doing the very same job at the University of Miami (Go Canes) and the COCA On stage: "Scraping the Surface" apathy level was pretty astronomical. My wife, Susan and I attended the homecoming February 21, 1~8 football game in the Orange Bowl (capacity 100,000). We watched a spirited game where It's a razor-sharp story about learning to live by learning to shave. Born with Cerebral palsy, Albert faces head·on O.J. Anderson, then a senior, broke all school rushing records and was cheered loudly by the challenges of welding a razor and blade in his "jumpy" condition. A testament to one man·s indomitable spirit and sense of humor. $10.00 refundable attendance deposit us and 2500 other attendees. That's right, 2500!! There was no national or even local TV coverage, no ESPN, just 2500 souls trying to help build something. St. Louis Science Center· "The Greatest Places" March 20, 1998 Sure, it was disheartening at the time, but in two short years the homecoming game sold out all OMNIMAX. Take this stunning tour of the world's ultimate geographic locales and their inhabitants. 100,000 seats and had demand for more. I feel a part of that process and still watch the $5.00 refundable attendance deposit enormous crowds and vitality surrounding the program and figure I own a piece of it. St. Louis Symphony: "The Boys Choir of Harlem" Traditon comes to fruition. Find the Cove, bring some friends, bring some enemies, munch April 16, 1998 down, enjoy an A B product or two and start somethjng, Monday nights at first and then more The gifted and versatile chorus returns for an evening of poignant spirituals, roof-raising gospel. pop Jazz and often as you desire. mo~e . $10.00 refundable attendance deposit Sf. Louis Black Reparatory Theatre: "The Spirit North" Support the offerings and I promise we will never be guilty of standing still, we will continue to explore ALL options for selVices to the UMSL community. April 18,1998 Leslie Lee explores the complex issue of race loyalty when a lawyer defends a young man accused of murder. Tile defense attorney's wrfe. a teacher who knows the defendant to a "thug." is outraged when her husband plays the "'race card" in his client's defense $10.00 refundable attendance deposit c NOVEMBER 3, 1997 PAGE 3 ODDS & ENDS ." , colwnn • 1 , We the People A.rtist's exhibit focuses on Constitution, issues affecting democracy . , by Becky Rickard I a generic offering staff writer JillBarrett Gallery 210 is now featuring a new exhibition from artist Dui Seid, columnist whose mild nature opposes his bold artwork. The exhibition, Dui Seid: We the People . .. Reflections on the Constitution, opened on October 22. There are three pieces on display that represent Seid's emphatic belief in just finished rereading the the first amendment to the United States Constitution. "Betsy Ross Writes book "Fire in the Brain: the Constitution" is a piece dedicated to the flag burning controversy. This I Clinical Tales of piece includes an American flag with the first amendment burned into its Hallucinations" by Dr. Ronald white stripes. Facing the flag is a log cabin that contains swatches of ~he Seigel, a professor at UCLA. He red, white and blue cloth and star patches that constitute the American flag . does not study just drug-induced '''Betsy Ross Writes the Constitution' poses these questions. What is a hallucinations-he studies hallu flag? What does it symbolize~ What is desecration? Is the flag merely fab cinations from any source, from ric?" Seid said. : i sleep deprivation to illness. Seid strongly opposes the addition of the Flag Protection Amendment to r do remember reading that I the first amendment. he is governmentally certified to 4· : "We cannot dictate to anyone what the flag symbolizes. The view from dispense LSD. When I read that, the penthouse may be different than the cardboard box," Seid added. I thought Wow, what a thing to "Cleansing," another of Seid's powerful pieces, expresses the artists be able to put on your resume. abhorrence of Something like that would cer ce.1sorship. The tainly distinguish you from the exhibit contains > ·est of the herd. two library Of course, if I really wanted tables, a desk '- : to, I could put some really inter and books that esting things on my resume. have been Nothing to compare with the banned or have legal ability to distribute acid, created similar but unique enough to frighten types of contro the human resources drones. I versy, such as have turned everything from lis Alice Walker's tening to static to sleeping to "The Color navel piercing into an important Purple" and part of my career. Shell When I was in college, I was Silverstein's a die-hard lab rat and I actually "Where the Sidewalk had a steady job in an experi Ends," are dis ment on hearing. Every day persed on the after classes, I would spend a library tables in few hours holed up in a sound cages. The proof booth trying to hear a tone background of Daniel HazeltonfThe Current against a background of static. the exhibit is The pay was good and got a I painted a cold. harsh silver that reflects the artist's opinion toward govern lot of breaks. Had I been moti mental censorship. vated enough I could bave,.g>n The third piec bing displayed in the gallery is nanled "Smokescre n." verted my litt1e corner of the Although not an original piece created for this exhibition, "Smokescr en" universe into a tanning booth. forces the audience to understand Seid's view of censorship. After the first two weeks, I had "1 wanted to make a piece that woul d argue that censorship is desecration it all planned out-toss some alu to the meaning of the fl ag," Seid sai d. I, minum foil on the walls, replace The charred book. at the base of the glass encased !lag reveal the impor ~ e light bulb and be sure to tance of book burning as freedom of peech, or rather, non-speech. If the pack tanning lotion and goggles Daniel Hazelton/The Current books were actually being burned, the smoke would then ri se into the in my backpack each morning. encasement and fill with smoke, thus hiding the flag and making the sand The reason it never came about Above and at right, artist Dui Seid's works now on display in Gallery 210 blasted quotations from Thoma Jefferson and the Bi ll of Rights is fairly obvious-a person who from his exhibit We the People ... Reflections on the Constitution. indiscernible. gets paid for doing nothing is Seid is not taking the flag burning controversy lightly nor is he lelting his not your most ambitious kind of mild manners and fri endliness speak his position. He adam antly opposes the \folk. Fl g Protection Amendment and use his artistic talents to relay emotion Lab ratting led to all sorts of that words may not be able to describe. wacky jobs. One such task I "It is not an i sue of the flag but an issue of our constitutional rights," undertook was as a subject in a Seid re ounded. Seid's work has been exhibited around the world, including Gennany, PET-scan study. For the experi We the People runs through Dec. 6 ment, I had to have radioactive France and the U ni ted States. There is a help desk Gallery 210 'ontaining water (with a half-life of 30 sec Mondays closed Fridays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. books showing the ori",i ns of Seid's arti stic inspiration. Al o. a quick onds) injected into a vein and lie Tuesdays noon to 8 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. thu mb through of Seid's portfolio displays hi s artistic interpretations of per sonal political opini on~ toward controversial issues, such as AIDS , od sexu 'absolutely still for approximate- Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays closed ality. • ly two hours. For this, I got paid Thursdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 516-5976 $75 it was a lot harder than it sounds. First off. I've always been restless so lying still was agony, and although I knew that ------110\~ERE~EW------the radioactivity of the water ~\;as incredibly low, that did not Silver-screen Bean not what we'Ve come to love stop me from calculating the odds (I was taking a statistics 'Amercanized'movie (shatters the image' of England's beloved buffoon .1 course at the time). All I kept thinking-as my body grew Bean-The Disaster Movie The curator forgets - of course - to tell the wife and stiffer-was that it only takes one Gramercy Pictures kids that they' ll be having a house guest. The wife and cell to mutate for it to be bad Rated PG-13 kids pack suitcases after meeting the "expert" and b y news. Bean-The Disaster Movie is not what I expected, but down the law. "Either he goes or we go." Mr. Bean stays. (Rumor had it that the reason it is appropriately named. He also manages to destroy the painting (and replace 'experimentees could only par Is that a good thing? I don 't think so. it with a fake that nobody detect ), save the life of a cop ticipate in the study every three Not that I didn 't necessarily like the and pull the curator's daughter out of a coma. Then he to four months was that one stu movie. it just wasn '( the Mr. Bean r ve flies back to England where everything returns to nor dent kept coming back far too come to know from TV I guess that's mal. The End often.) why they made a movie - to show I guess the reason I, and my companion, don't feel Although I've stopped lab what they wouldn't on TV especially kind about this flick, is that it doesn't real ratting, I still find myself getting For those not familiar with ly develop the 'bits' fully. There are sight gags galore, r:.lid to do interesting things. I the Rowan Atkinson and some very good situational comedy along with a might not be paid well, I might creation, Mr. Bean is a few reha~hed skits from the BBC pro not be paid steadily but I might usually silent, well· grammes, but they get only cursory as well be paid. intentioned buffoon treatment in the movie. l: . My next goal? Recreational with a bit of a nasty The change of venue from tree-climbing. streak and a penchant England to America, the use of more Yup, in Atlanta kids and for causi ng trouble, but than a few lines of dialogue and the .ldults can learn to climb trees the abili ty to reali ze that addition of an American family all safely-safe for both the trees and what he has done is combine to shatter the image that has the people. I just like the idea of wrong. become Mr. Bean. getting up, going to the office, As can be imagine.d, this leads to This should not really come as a sur and climbing a tree or two. some rather ell1barrassing and honestly hilarious situa prise; when have we, on this side of the pond, ever seen Doesn't sound like 1'm ask tions and, eventually, to the heart-warming (or heart a British mO\'ie that hasn' t been "Americanized"? ing too much. does it'} wrenching) ending. Al least that's how it worked on the Therein lies the crux of the matter. BBC programme. Do you like your comedy from L.A. or from London? Beall-The Movie is about a museum guard from If you expect to see London humor, take some advice - Jill Barrett's column appears every other go rent one of the videos. week. You can write to her at The Cu rrent England, fal sely made an art expert, who is sent to L.A. 7940 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis to deliver "Whistler's Mother" to an art gallery. The If your tastes run toward boorish American slapstick. 63121. email her at [email protected] curator of the American gallery decides that the "well with a touch of sexual innuendo, see this one during a By phone at 516·5174 or by fax at 516- matinee. 6811. known expert" will spend his time in America with the Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) manuevers about the United States curator's fami ly. -Scott Lee as a secret agent in Mr. Bean - The Disaster Movie. I. I PAGE 4 NOVEMBER 3, 1997 mfJC Q[urrent 1 OPINION/EDITORIAL Your response is an important part of the weekly debate on this page. Everything in moderation? 1 . Letters should be brief, and those not exceeding 200 words will be given How to respond preference. We edit letters for clarity. length and grammar. All letters must I ,don't think so It be accompanied by your name and daytime telephone number. Editorial Board Members t seems we are fast becoming a society that knows THE nothing of moderation. Take soft drinks for example. Doug Harrison CtJ [{R. £MT I editor in chief Try buying a fountain soda at a convenience store that Bill Rolfes comes in sizes smaller than extra large, super big or some managing editor MAIL superlative moniker like Belly Buster. Wendy Verhoff LETIERS-THE CURRENT And even if drinkable sized cups are available, they cost as community relations director 7940 NATU RAL BRIDGE FAX : E-MAIL: TELEPHONE: much or more than a cup four times their size. Unsigned e ------~USICPROFILE------ DJ lethal discusses his future after House 01 Pain I by Ken Dunkin album. be good. staff writer Lethal: It should be out around the middle TC: Do you have problems with Everlast ~ After working with House of Pain, one of of summer. It is going to be or Danny Boy? most successful rap groups "Judgment Night Year Lethal: I just talked to Everlast today. It's of the '90's, DJ Lethal has 2000", some really crazy all good. We each wanted to do our own thing. set his eyes on conquering stuff. I've already got Gino Instead of beating a dead horse we just wanted 8.Dother music genre, hard from the Deftones and Page to go do our own thing. It will always be what 5 alternative. from Helmet. it was, a part of history. He recently sat down with Everybody is going to be TC: How have things changed since you The Current for an inter- on there it is going to be joined Limp Biskit? d WHAT IS TIlE BFSf IIALLoWEEN JOKE vIew .. extreme hip-hop and alter Lethal: It is a whole new vi be. Instead of The Current: Since native. I'm taking it slow, I just pressing play on the DAT machine I'm up YOU'VE IffiARD? House of Pain broke up what just want there buggin' out like have you been doing? it to be another guitar. Everything DJ Lethal: Since we good. that I do on stage is what broke up I'm not going to TC: I'm feeling. " Why couldn't the skeleton limit my musical dreams. There TC: You toured at a cross the road? He didn't have That is one thing I did that OJ Lethal were a lot young age did you enjoy it 'I the guts to do it." started me off. 1'm just tak- of prob then? 1 ing things as they come. I'm just happy to be lems with House of Pain and Lethal: I went on tour doing music. DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill. when I was 16. I said Mom - An gie Villani TC: You've really done a lot of things to What happened·) I'll see ya' later I'm going freshman/music ed change the way that Y·ju've DJ"d, why is that? Lethal: That \-vas on tour with Ice. T. Lethal: I still like doing clubs but it's been between Everlast and That was an experience. done. That stuff is tired. Most guys are just Muggs. That was business. I haven't stopped yet. doing the same thing. It's almost the year " What's the difference between We. wanted to do our own TC: How did you hook 2000 and people are still looping Rick James. thing. We didn't want old up with Limp Eisket') sex and Halloween? On House of Pain W hen I scratch I try to do something differ Cypress Hill tracks. So we Lethal: They opened up Halloween you can wear a ent, really crazy stuff. I have pedals hooked did our own thing. for us on the St. Paties tour Batman mask and no one thinks up and I want it to s ound like another guitar. I'm still cool with Sen Dog though. I'm in Florida. Things were going bad with House you're kinky." There is a lo t you can do with a turntable. going to be doing his new group's (SX-IO) of Pain and I went in with them to do the TC: 1' ve heard rumors of you doing a solo album. It's going to heavy punk, it is going to album. We became friends and here ram. - Julie Williams sophomore/education ------~USIC REVIEW ------'TlS {"~ " At Halloween, hookers have it s~~s o~ (0 easy - trick or treat isn't taken Honevrods debut with decent, sell-titled release the wrong way. You ng teenagers b~ Fk..ftZ IN'! on the other hand ..." the honeyrods the honeyrods he honeyrods do not sound like o~ 15 IT? Capricorn Reco rds ~cJ'~f !;d:.~is (.r~e.J "Jv;<~ - Inga Smithe the famous southern blues/rock The self-titled debut from the honeyrods is upbc:.lt • . Nl(1l -to ill freshman/performance arts nor country. This band has its own and energetic. 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MasterCard, Discover and personal checks accepted UM-St. Louis M-F: 8 a.m. - 10 p.m 8434 Rorissant Rd Sat: 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. (314) 521-5656 Sun: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Offers Expire December 17, 1997 PAGE 8 '(![be QCurrent NOVEMBER 3, 1997 ~ ~ University reaches, Asbestos not a major problem on campus, officials say by David Baugher each situation is judged on a "case-by-case" staff writer basis. Removal is usually done when an area is exceeds United Way Despite its abundance on both the North and remodeled or asbestos is exposed. Hickerso[l Asbestos at a glance South campuses, asbestos is not a danger here at estimated about two dozen small removal pro I 111'>1-St. Louis, campus officials say. jects take place on campus every year. goa in recent drive "As long as its encapsulated or enclosed, or "It's at least a job every other week," Where it's at never touched at all. its not a problem," said Jim Hickerson said. Older buildings like: by David Baugher Hickerson, director of environmental health and He said the University budgets almost gain, the cam Mark Twain and Stadler Hall staff writer safety_ $100,000 annually for these small projects but The University's annual United A pus community Asbestos was commonly used as an insulator, that have asbestos coating above these costs don't include larger renovations such Way campaign wrapped up last has demonstrated soundproofing material and fire retardant until as the one just completed at 110 Clark Hall, the ceiling as a fire retardant week by collecting nearly $49,000 its compassion and the late 1970 's when it was found to be haz where removal expenditures were more than in donations. ardous pollutant. $'+0 ,000. Where it's not The month-long drive distrib commitment to the Hickerson said that the while the South cam " It just turns out that it keeps cropping up in Newer buildings like: utes pledge cards to all faculty and St. Louis region. pus has larger concentrations because its build different places and one can n ver forecast just staff members to solicit funds for ings are generally older, the material was also exactly how much of your annual budget to Computer Center Building the United Way of Greater St. used widely on the North campus, mainly in pip dump into one location." Hickerson said. and -Kathy Osborn Louis. United Way supports more ing insulation and floor tile. Hickerson estimates UM-St. Louis has spent the Center for Molecular vice chancellor for than 140 organizations and mo "Almost all 1100r tile in the old buildings is more than a million dollars on asbestos since Electronics grams around the area. Last fall the University Relations asbestos-containing material," Hickerson said. removal began in the mid-1980's. but he said campaign collected more than Hickerson said that asbestos is not dangerous cost is not the only reason immediate removal of How much it can cost to f ; $51,000. to make the dri e possible. unless it releases microscopic fibers into the air. all asbestos on the campus is not feasible. . 1 Though complete totals were "They are just. very quietly, the For this reason exposed asbestos is sealed with a "Its more than funding," Hickerson said. remove not available by press time, this backbone of the campaign," spray-on latex paint or removed. Asbestos above "Think of the disruption if you had to shut down A few hundred dollars to as year's effort had clearly surpassed Osborn said. ceilings may not need to be sealed or removed major sections of buildings and displace class its $47,0CX) goaL according to vice Osborn stressed that this year's because the ceiling constitutes an enclosure. es.)' much a $100,000 per project. chancellor for University Relations success was the result of small and While the University does not have a sweep He estimated the total cost of removal would Kathy Osborn , who headed this large contributions alike, with ing asbestos removal program, Hickerson said run into the millions of dollars. year's etfort. She expressed grati don ations ranging from a few dol tude to those "who have made the lars to $2,000. choice to make a difference." Even though the campaign is "Again, the c.lmpus community over, Osbom said late onations has demonstrated its compassion may push the fin al total even high Pie on Your Face and conuninnenl to the St. Louis er. region and the service organiza "Usually, for about 30 days J tions which serve residents in after, we still get people who just need," Osborn said. have n't filled out their pledge cards She also credite the dozens of yet," Osborn said. "I suspect before secretaries and other "unsung it's all over, probably several thou heroes" \vho volullteered their time sand more dollars will come in. " Halloween pie eaters Bernie Roth, first place, left; Tatyana Kranskya, third place, center; and Michael H" NEWSWIRE second place dig into pies as University Health Services will administer flu part of holiday shots on Tuesday in Room 127 of Woods Hall from 9-11 activities spon a.m. and .1-3 p.m. Cost is $10. Call 5671 for details. sored by Student Kathryn Welch of University Counseling Service Government will discuss "Stress Management" at 12: 30 p. m. Association. Tuesday in the Women's Center, Room 211 of Clark Daniel HazeJtonfThe Current Hall. Call 5380 for details. E. Louis Lankford, the Des Lee Endowed FOOD, from page 1 Professor in Art Education, w ill discuss "Art Education and Ecological Stewardship" at 7 p.m. menl. Medley said both arts Tuesday in the Pierre Laclede Honors College should now pro ide more ariely He's on a mission so secret, even he doesn't know about it. Convocation Hall. For more information, call 5446 . fo r patrons. "[T he selecti on] is much wider than what students had to choose Loucas Tsilas, Greek ambassador the the United from in the past, especially in the States, will discuss "Stability and Peace in Southern area of pastrie ," Medley said. Europe: A Role for the United States and Greece" on Ph at City, the new barbecue Tuesday at the University Club, 1034 S. Brentwood smoker and tent located behind the Blvd. A reception will begin at 6 p.m., followed by a din Th mas Jefferson L ibrary, opened ner at 7 p.m. Cost is $35 per person. Call 727-9988 for Oct. 20. It will offer a variety of details. smoked foods ranging from turkey and brisket by the pound or as a Nasser Arshadi, associate professor of finance, sandwich, to whole and half chick will discuss "NYSE, NASDAQ, and Alternative Trading ens for carry out. Systems: Fragmentation in the Equity Marker' at noon Medley said the University Friday in Room 212 of the Computer Center Building. plans to install space heaters in the Call 6272 for details. tent and make the smoker a year round operation. 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