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AA-EEO on the cover: features Front - Artist's illustration attempts to capture the anxiety and uncertainty that prompt some youngsters to 5 Searching for Answers refuse to go to school. The q~wtionsemanating from UNLV sociologist Back - Robert L. Bigelow Y annick St. ] ean)s 1'esearch area are probably Physics Building. Photo by m01'e numerous than the answers. But that doesn)t Studio West. stop her from looking for them.

BY SUZAN D IBELLA

Editor: Suzan DiBella

Assistant Editors: Diane Russell, 8 A Spirited Approach to Research Susie Greene Whether he)s in a1~800 -year-old castle 01' his lab Art Director: John Hobbes at the universit)) Dean Radin explores the Contributin g Editor: Tom Flagg unconventional and the unexplained, hoping to ra Contributing Writer: Barba Cloud uncove1' what some wo~tldcall the unlmowable. Illustrator: John Hobbes But, hey, in the world of pa1-apsychology, you have Photographers: Tom Flagg, to sta1't somewhere. John Hobbes BY DIA NE RUSSELL Publications Manager: Donna McAleer Director, University News, Publications & Reprographics: Les Raschke On Track Vice President for Development and UNLV alttmnus Scott Miller has visited vi1'tually University Relations: Lyle Rivera every corner of the state of Nevada, studied its biology extensively, and collected imp01-tant pieces of its past. Who bette1' to luep N evada)s museums UNLV Alumni Association Officers on t1'aclz? President: Pamela Hicks l st Vice Pres.: Kevin Page BY BARBARA C LOUD 2nd Vice Pres.: Rafael Villanueva Treasurer: Jim Zeiter Secretary: Ray T untbnd Tantrums, Tension, and Tears: Member·at·Large: Jim Kirkwood Past President: Greg McKinley When IGds Won't Go To School UNLV professor Chris K earne/s clinic helps Alumni Association Board Members children learn to cope with the stresses of the Art Jimenez Ralph Piercy Russ Petersen Bob Rather class1'00m. Adam Keith Bruce Ford BY TOM FLAGG Ron Drake Mary Westbrook Pamela Moore Kirk Hendrick Randy Campanale Sharlene Flush man depa1-tments

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S PR ING 1 995 + NEWS NEWS

Rebecca Mills Named 1994 Nevada Professor of the Year New Bigelow Physics Building Dedicated

UNLV education professor Rebecca In a personal statement she was asked about themselves. UNLV recently dedicated me as well. They give tl1e impression of a Mills has been named the 1994 to submit with her entry form, Mills at "Teacher education is the key to new 70,000-square-foot Robert L. work in progress, which, in fact, is tlle Nevada Professor of the Year by the tempted to describe her contribution to educational reform; if our students are Bigelow Physics Building, which was case. As research projects Carnegie Foundation for the Advance the field of teaching. challenged to rethink the purposes and completed in 1994 at a cost of more change, communication and "'~ ~~~~~~=~~======t==r ment ofTeaching. "My students literally fill the class methods of schooling, it is likely that than $11 million. power lines can be changed to Mills, an associate professor in in rooms of our nation's schools; I can schools will become better places. I The building, named for me father support them without tearing structional and curricular studies, joined think of no more significant contribution hope that my students are better of Las Vegas businessman and UNLV up the building. the UNLV faculty in 1987. While at to be made as a teacher," she wrote. teachers themselves because their think donor Robert M. Bigelow, was de Almough the new facility has UNLV, she has taught 14 different "I hope that I've influenced their think ing has been clarified, their successes signed by Holmes Sabatini Associates plenty of open, well-lighted public areas, lengths and to undergraduate-, master's-, and doctoral ing about learning, about students, have been celebrated, and their voices Architects and built by Sletten Construc me labs are windowless, tile air is llighly create the semi-enclosed exterior court level courses and has been an active about assessment, about schools, and have been heard." 1.1 tion ofNevada. filtered, possible sources of electtical in yard- a place for students and faculty to member of numerous professional orga Wim teaching and research facilities terference are isolated, me room tem enjoy a protected external environment. nizations and university committees. for some 1,000 students and the 15 peratures are carefully controlled, and Several of tl1e labs are equipped She has authored several teacher faculty members ofUNLV's physics me floors are isolated from me walls . All with traveling cranes capable of moving oriented journal articles about her re Bank of America Scholarship Established department, tl1e structure itself offers of these features are incorporated into heavy pieces of equipment, such as a search, which is classroom based and symbolic representations of some of me the design in order to protect sensitive 500-pound vacuum chamber. The focuses on the act of teaching, especially Bank of America has contributed minority students who otherwise would scientific principles and legends of physics. lasers and oilier equipment from un teaching labs are located on tl1e second at the middle-school level. $400,000 to UNLV to establish a not be able to afford a college educa Because tl1e study of physics depends wanted environmental influences. floor, along witl1 tl1e astronomy dome The Professor of the Year program, scholarship endowment and a scholarship tion," said BofA Nevada Chairman and so heavily on matl1ematics, tl1e architects The building consists of 13 research and telescope pedestals. which was started in 1981, salutes the fund for minority students majoring in CEO Richard A. Etter. incorporated a sine curve into tl1e two and eight teaching laboratories, two as This building greatly expands botl1 most outstanding undergraduate instruc business administration. "This scholarship wo story undulating glass wall tl1at faces tl1e tronomy labs, and two demonsu·ation teaclling and research facilities. It will tors in the country. The Carnegie Foun- The goal of the scholarship program gram, however, is ~re building's canyon-like courtyard. labs, along with faculty and adminisu·a enable tl1e physics deparm1ent to accom is to increase the number of minority than just pro> v~mgL::=:~:: Vaulted roofs above laboratories are tive offices. modate growtl1 in tl1e faculty that will students studying business and subse students with ~-~:!!!allill reminiscent of tl1e Quonset huts that The research labs, all located on come as me Ph.D. program is fully quently increase tl1e pool of qualified assistance. It's served as research facilities at Los the first floor, are staggered along the implemented. It will also meet the in minority graduates who will enter tl1e providing them with Alamos, N.M., where the atonlic bomb soutllern wing to reduce corridor creasing demands of students. 1.1 banking industry, according to Bank of hands-on training and was born during World War II. America officials. skills that go beyond Vertical banners in red, orange, yel The donation, which was made the classroom." low, green, blue, indigo, and violet through the UNLV Foundation, will In addition to the scholarship pro the colors of the visible spectrum - be used to create the Bank of America gram, Etter said, the bank will be setting hang from tl1e ceilings of corridors and Nevada Scholarship Endowment for the up internships and mentoring programs lobbies throughout the building. College of Business and Economics and that will further bridge the gap between In the courtyard, palm trees march in UNLV Magazine and tlle tl1e Bank of America Scholarship Fund. the classroom and workplace. mathematical progression, beginning at Alumni News have gone Up to 25 scholarship awards of "UNLV is very committed to the the intersection of the structure's two Education professor Rebecca Mills $2,000 each will be made annually to support of minority students," said wings and leading out into an open full-time undergraduate or graduate UNLV interim President Kermy Guirrn. plaza. They represent me expanding uni dation for the Advancement of Teaching business administration majors in tl1e "This scholarship will certainly enhance verse posited by tl1e Big Bang Theory. sponsors an annual national competition College of Business and Economics. the opportunity for minority business Concentric, colored circles in tl1e from which the state winners are also Applicants must be minority students students, and me university is grateful to plaza concrete radiate like tl1e ripples selected; 494 candidates were nominated who can demonstrate financial need, Bank of America for making it possible." from a pebble dropped into calm water. for this year's U.S. competition. have a minimum GPA of2.75, and are Tllis year 13 awards have already The first set of rings begins at the "Big Award recipients were selected on Nevada residents; preference will be been made. Current recipients are jun Bang" palm trees. The second set starts the basis of the following criteria: service given to students from Soutl1ern Nevada. iors Leeman Abdulai, Jennifer Brekke, at an apple tree - representing Sir Isaac to students, institutions, community, Applicants must have also completed Laura Nevarez, Bret Prescott, Carmen Newton's meory of gravity- planted and the profession; teaching informed by their first year of college and demon Robles, Bernadette Roldan, David near the building's main entrance. scholarship; impact on and involvement strated involvement in educational and "Jason" Westbay, and Roger Wong; and By intention, the building has an with students; and support from col community programs. seniors Sandra Johnson, Nichole Lovely, industrial, functional look about it. leagues and current and former under "We are proud to join witl1 UNLV Anna Manrique, Starla McFarling, and Conduit and wires are exposed at ceiling graduate students. in offering tl1is scholarship program to Ramiro Santos Jr. 1.1 level - not just in labs, but in hallways,

2 + UN L V iii!A G AZ T N E S P RING 199 5 + 3 NEWS

Home Away From Home Program Created

Even students happy at college some program coordinator Sharlene Flushman. McKinley and times feel homesick and lonely when "Students feel a sense of security know Searching for An~Ncr~ they are far away from their families. ing that they have families Weisner Receive To help combat that problem, the who truly care The questions emanating from Yannick St. Jean's UNLV Alumni Association has created them. The memo ~ Alumni Awards the Home Away From Home Program nes students area ofstudy - interracial marriage - are probably to pair students with local families. will UNLV graduate Greg more abundant than the answers. But that doesn't stop So far , 75 students have been McKinley and university sup matched with Southern Nevada families the UNLV sociologist from looking for them. porter Tom Weisner recently through this innovative program. The received awards from the families stay in touch with their students BY SUZAN DIBELLA UNLV Alumni Association. by phone and see them at least once a graduate." McKinley, a past president month. Students might join their local Those inter- of the Alumni Association, re ssues of race consciousness were not families for a meal, a movie, or a holiday ested in volunteering for the program ceived the Outstanding Alum of much interest to Yannick St. Jean celebration. should call Flushman at 794-2888, assis nus Award. 1un til ilie last few years of her gradu "It is heartwarming to hear these tant program coordinator Susie Godown Weisner, owner ofBig ate education. Up to then, she simply students tell me time and time again at 456-4838, or the alumni office at Dog's Hospitality Group, re hadn't spent much time thinking about how much this program means," said 895-3621. r.1 ceived the Silver State Award, a racial issues. tribute given periodically to "I was born and raised in Haiti, someone who is not a UNLV which is a black country, as you know," graduate, but who has made Public Invited to Join UNLV Alumni Trips says St. Jean, now a UNLV sociology outstanding contributions to professor. "And we don't place iliat the community and to UNLV. much importance on race." Friends ofUNLV are invited to Dublin, Portrnarnock, Royal Portrush, McKinley, a partner with She went on to live in both Canada travel with UNLV alumni to far-away and Royal County Down golf courses. Cragin & Pike Insurance, has and France, where, similarly, little em destinations including China, Greece, For non-golfers, a deluxe motorcoach worked with the Alumni Asso phasis was placed on skin color. Even Italy, and Ireland as part of the 1995 tour of the Irish count:J.yside will be ciation for many years, serving after she moved to Texas to work on her UNLV Alumni Tours program. provided. The trip begins June 8 and as both first and second vice bachelor's and master's degrees, her aca The 1995 tours begin with a 15-day will cost $2,575 per person for president. He has been an ac demic interests led her elsewhere. trip to the People's golfers or $2,095 for tive association committee But then St. Jean began her research Republic of China, non-golfers. member as well, raising funds for her dissertation, focusing on the goals which will include vis In July, a Canadian for the Richard Tam Alumni and aspirations of black middle-class its to Shanghai, tour to Victoria, Center and for scholarships. He Americans. She was overwhelmed at what Hangzhou, Xian, British Columbia, has is also active in several commu she found as she examined 209 inter Guilin, and Beijing. A been planned. The tour nity organizations. views from a national study of that stop at the Great Wall is will include golfing at the Weisner, a former Clark group. included in the trip, Olympic View, Cordova County commissioner, is in "What was interesting was that these which begins March 15 Bay, Victoria, and Royal Colwood volved witl1 many community middle-class men and women wanted and costs $2,800 per person. golf courses, as well as tours of scenic UNLV sociologist Yannick St. Jean groups, including the Rotary some basic rights and privileges and In May, an eight-day trip to New Victoria. The trip begins July 17 and will Club, the Las Vegas Jaycees, couldn't get them," she says. "I was re York and Boston is planned. It will begin cost $1,599 per person for golfers or and United Way. He is a past ally surprised. They kept talking about after the dissertation iliat if we could being at opposites ends on the spectrum May 16 and will include a guided tour $1,300 for non-golfers. chair and charter member of ilieir goals and aspirations, but also about have a society where there was not of racial contact. and a Broadway play in New York City, The 1995 tours will conclude with a the UNLV Foundation Board ilie barriers iliat they were encountering so much race consciousness, what "Interracial marriage is naturally a as well as sightseeing in Boston, Con cruise aboard the Pacific Princess to Spain, of Trustees and a member of in trying to reach iliem. It seemed iliat would happen?" more intimate form of racial contact, and cord, and Lexington, Mass. The cost is Monaco, Italy, and Greece. The tour the President's Inner Circle color or race was the factor that kept That question opened up a wide immigration is more distant. What these $1,908 per person. leaves the United States on Aug. 16 and and the UNLV Football iliem from achieving iliose basic rights paili of discovery for St. Jean. It has led forms of racial contact tell us, whether Next up is a 10-day trip to Ireland. ren1rns Aug. 29. The price per person, Foundation. ld and privileges - simple iliings, like buy her to examine a number of race-related we are talking about immigration or in Called "Tee and/or Tea for Two: Ire which includes airfare, is $3,195. ing a house . subjects, including immigration and in termarriage, is how a society iliinks land," the tour includes golfing opportu For more information, call Claude -~e was so much talk of race in terracial marriage - two of her favorite about color and how a society sees color. nities at Bally Bunion, Lahinch, Royal Rand at 895-3621. r.1 their conversations that I began thinking research topics, which she describes as They tell us how the way a society sees

SPR I NG 1 99 5 + 4 + UNL V M AGA ZI N E 5 Jean and sociology department colleague what the numbers are. It's a sad reality, primary source of identification, she says . Robert Parker, that has· been accepted because ilie numbers don't often tell "The race consciousness in this country for publication In a book containing a us much. We have to do qualitative is amazing. And every group seems to be collection of articles on racial and eilinic atlalysis also." race conscious." family issues in tl1e United States. Ultimately, St. Jean hopes to conduct Though she is reluctant to speculate Both of tl1e tvvo survey questions both more focus groups and a telephone on the origins of this phenomenon, she used in d1eir study - one which asks survey on the subject in order to com is dedicated to the pursuit of a greater how respondents would fed about hav~ pare tl1e results and dms form a more understanding of it and its effects on ing a close relative or family member complete picture. Americans, how they deal witl1 each marry a black person and anotl1er iliat In the meantime, she finds herself otller, and how they deal witll newcom asks if respondents think iliere should be pondering tl1e larger questions produced ers to their com1try. laws against intermarriage - had tl1eir by the issue of interracial marriage. The And, besides, she says, searching for weaknesses, according to St. Jean. She one she returns to time and again is elusive answers is what sociologists do. acknowledges that neither accurately why racial consciousness is so prevalent "After I took my first sociology color affects the racial thinking ofthe •

6 + UNL V iiJAG AZINE SPRING 1995 + 7 A

Approach to Research

Whether he)s in an 800-year-old Swedish castle or his lab at UNLV, Dean Radin explores the unconventional and the unexplained, hoping to unveil what some would call the unknowable. But, hey, in the realm ofparapsychology, you have to start somewhere.

BY DIANE RUSSELL

eep in a castle in Sweden in some sort of commmucation. Eventu iliat Radin, a parapsychologist, would use where tl1e cluck stone walls ally, ilie presence twisted free and disap to describe himself, it wouldn't be ilie D created an eerie silence and peared with a flash, apparently frustrated first time iliat he has heard himself char tl1e air was unnaturally calm, UNLV's by its inability to communicate. acterized iliat way. He is ilie director of Dean Radin found himself drawn to a UNLV's new Consciousness Research particular room. hat is all iliis prowling Laboratory in. ilie Harry Reid Center for What precisely led !urn to iliat spot, ilirough castles in ilie Environmental Studies, where he investi he can't say. It was a sense iliat somehow WSwedish countryside? And gates a variety of unusual phenomena iliat room was different from ilie 20 who are tl1ese guys, Radin and Moody? that involve ilie effect of ilie hlll11an oiliers in tl1e castle. (Hint: "Who ya gonna call?" ) n1ind on its surroundings. "In this place on tl1e third floor in a Ghostbusters! Ghost detection work, such as particular room, I felt sometlung un While iliat n1ight not be tl1e word what took place in ilie aforementioned usual, like a rumbling noise," Radin says. "At a particular spot I felt like there was a motor or someiliing under ilie floor making a low rumbling growl." Yet, no cause for it was to be found. After Radin exited, his colleague Raymond Moody entered to see if he could detect anyiliing unusual. He had not been briefed on Radin's experience. Out of all ilie rooms in tl1e castle, Moody picked ilie same one to analyze. As he sat quietly before a mirror in iliat room, he felt an electrical presence come out of tl1e mirror and try to engage him

In the field, Dean Radin searches for the authentic counterparts to the gauze sculpture of a ghost that he keeps in his lab. He uses electronic devices like the one pictured here to detect paranormal phenomena.

8 + UN L V M A GA Z I N E SPRI N G 1 9 9 5 + 9 Radin says. "People Radin, whose background is in both open nund is important, too, he says. By testing participants repeatedly over a control norm) or "missing" (by produc- are always interested psychology and electrical engineering, "I have notl1ing against skepticism. period of months and cross-referencing ing results slower or less frequent than in mysteries. But I tried using electronic equipment to You have to be skeptical to be a scien- tl1e results witl1 data from a variety of the norm). think it's more impor "measure" ilie phenomenon that tist," he notes. "But what I do object sources- including the U.S. Weather "Missing" can be just as significant tant than that. This Moody witnessed but vvas unable to to are people who are skeptical to the Service, tl1e FBI, and the Metropolitan as "hitting," according to Radin, because mystery suggests that turn up anything. point of hostility because tl1ey let their Police Department- Radin hopes to it n1ight mean that a subject's mental there is a realm which "I found notl1ing, absolutely notlung emotions sway tl1eir judgment, and come up with some answers. intention is still influencing the outcome is invisible and yet con unusual," Radin says . "So all you're left then their goal is just to make you stop The types of tests he uses to assess of the test - just not in tl1e way the sub- nects us. If [we could witl1 is a shrug if you are looking for your research. There's no room for that participants' psychic ability appear ject intended. prove that] one ghost physical evidence." in science." deceptively simple. In one, subjects sit Once all of the tests are completed, was actually a living Radin says he would like to do addi Altl10ugh he recog1uzes that it's often before a computer screen on which is he plans to write several articles on the person at some point, tiona! measurements there, but at this difficult to fmd widespread acceptance displayed a circle and a square of light. experiment and submit them for publica- it would suddenly open point he is uncertain what further steps when one's work is on the edge oftl1e The subjects are told to concentrate on tion in refereed academic journals. a huge door for the could be taken. Perhaps in the future, he mainstrean1, he doesn't let that get in his the square and, by doing so, keep the possibility that there is says, new techniques will be developed way. "What I'm doing is standing at the square moving in a clockwise direction 'din', mwch h" not ruw'Y' something that sur that will aid in the detection and mea edge at1d diving way off." around tl1e circle. Rbeen in the field of parapsychol- vives deatl1. That's a surement of such occurrences. In another test, tl1e subjects are told ogy. With a bachelor's and big motivator." What does he believe happened in n hi' lob in tho Hmy Rdd Conttt that 50 small dots on a computer screen master's degree in electrical engineering His visit to tl1e Sweden1 "I believe I experienced some I for Environmental Studies, Radin represent a flock of ducks and that tl1eir and a doctoral degree in psychology, castle in Sweden was thing unusual, but I don't know exactly conducts tests under controlled job is to use mental concentration to Radin began his career traditionally made last summer what it was. I guess I would not rule out conditions to find out which results can keep tl1e ducks from straying so far that enough, doing research at AT&T Bell along with trips to the possibility that tl1ere n1ight have be replicated and wluch cannot. In his any one of them hits tl1e edge of tl1e Laboratories in Oluo. two Danish castles - been sometl1ing like a real, independent first major experiment at UNLV, wluch computer screen. In a third test, a small Willie there, he began doing some Jl one allegedly haunted entity of some type tl1ere. I can't rule it is currently underway, he is testing robot stands on a table. To its right is a less- ilian-traditional research as and the other not. out." However, he also says he isn't about l 00 participants in an effort to peanut M&M, to its left, a small cup. well, combining Ius psychology back- The latter was useful convinced that what he experienced was Radin works on an electronic circuit board study n1icro-psychokinesis, one type Subjects are told to "think" the robot ground witl1 Ius knowledge of electrical as a "control" castle, a ghost or entity because he doesn't that he will use in one of his upcoming of psychic phenomenon. into reaching over and picking up the engineering. have tl1e hard, scientific evidence to laboratory experiments. Radin says. Specifically, he is looking for a few M&M. The subjects must then mentally He decided to try to test a piece of In Sweden, Radin back it up. good subjects with psycluc ability suffi- direct the robot to swing tl1e M&M over lab folklore - tl1at some people have and Moody, accompa That, in part, is why Radin prefers cient to influence ilie outcome of to the cup and drop it in. Eventually, tl1e "black thumbs" when it comes to com- Swedish castle, is really only a small part nied by a third researcher, William Roll the experiments he conducts in his certain experin1ents. Once he culls those robot would drop it in on its own, but it puters and that, as a result, the comput- of the job for Radin, who spends most of Parapsychological Services Institutes UNLV laboratmy to the field work he few subjects from the initial group, he could tal

10 + UNLV MAG A Z I NE SP RI N G 1 995 • 11 ON TRACK

UNLV alumnus Scott Miller has visited virtually every square inch of the state, studied its biology extensively, and collected pivotal pieces of its past, including steam locomotives and a violin once owned by Abraham Lincoln. Who better to keep Nevada)s museums on track?

BY BARBARA CLOUD

hen Scott Miller tells you have that kind of depth of history out about the Inyo, his eyes here in the West." Wsparlde and he speaks lovingly Miller's own connection with the about the shiny black steam locomotive West started in 1954, when, at the age that holds a place of pride in the State of 4, he moved with his family to Las Railroad Museum in Carson City. Vegas from Illinois. They settled in Blue But then Miller is clearly infatuated Diamond - his stepfather was a mining not only with the railroads that helped engineer with the gypsum mine at Blue build Nevada, but with all of the Diamond - and he recalls that he and state's history. his friends spent the vast majority of Miller, who obtained his bachelor's their adolescent years "wandering around and master's degrees in biology from tl1e desert. UNLV in 1972 and 1974 respectively, is "That was about all we had at our dis director of the Division of Museums and posal for entertainment," he says. History for the state of Nevada. He over The lizards, tortoises, and other wild sees history and natural history museums life he observed in the desert and brought in Carson City, Las Vegas, Overton, and home as pets sparked his interest in the Reno, and railroad collections in Carson study of biology. An inspiring biology City, Ely, and Boulder City. teacher at Bishop Gorman High School "I'm enthralled almost daily by some and the encouragement of UNLV engi of the things we see here that unveil the neering professor Herb Wells , at one layers of our history," Miller says. time a Blue Diamond neighbor, removed He cites as an exan1ple a violin ac any doubts. cepted by the museum that has been "Herb took me down to tl1e biology UNLV alumnus Scott Miller, seen traced to a man who received it from department and introduced me to some here on one of the state museum's President Abraham Lincoln. "It's this people who showed me around. That fully functional vintage railroad engines, is the director of the phenomenal little vignette of history, pretty much cinched it." Division of Museums and History for involving the Civil War, Lincoln, and Miller remembers his freshman year the state of Nevada. All photos for our statehood, all being intertwined so at UNLV as "pretty much like anyone's this story were provided courtesy of tightly. It was amazing. We were stand freshman year." But as a sophomore, Scott Klette, staff photographer for ing there holding this violin that he summoned up his courage and the Nevada State Museum. Abraham Lincoln had held. According volunteered to work in the mammalogy to some folks , we're not supposed to museum run by biology professor

12 + UNLV MAGA Z INE S PRI NG 1 9 9 5 + 13 which he remains grateful. history at the Nevada State Museum,' I full-time employees around the state the Ely and Boulder City locations, the here 120 years ago, wonying about all tl1e He also appreciated the fact was absolutely floored." and about 250 "hard-core" volunteers long-range plans call for restoring loco new Welshmen, Irishmen, and Chinese, that the department "was On Aug. 1, 1977, Miller took up his without whose help, he says, "We'd be motives and cars to operating condition and all the people showing up who have driven by guys who believed new duties. The biggest immediate chal hamburger meat." as they are in Carson City. no appreciation whatsoever for the history very strongly that your great lenge, he recalls, was the limited nature of Over tl1e years, Miller and his staff Miller acknowledges that he enjoys of the place. But they have become the est asset was your ability to tl1e museum's collection. A sizable area of have expanded the collections, and the seeing the pieces of dilapidated equip fabric of our histmy. Our job is to malce think, as opposed to your the state- Southern Nevada, in particu museums have been u·ansformed from ment come to life. "There is a power and sure iliat we don't get eaten up in tl1e ability to just learn things. lar- had not been adequately collected storehouses for specimens into centers a grace about them that is truly amaz financial and political struggles of any "I always look back on and analyzed. "Being a southerner, that of education. Most displays at the state's ing," he says. given time." that as probably being the had an impact on me," Miller recalls. museums now provide context and un His ability to move from the biologi Miller, who is married and tl1e fatl1er most fundamental starting In addition, the exhibits at the mu derstanding for the items shown; the cal to the mechanical is evidence of a of iliree, counts himself lucky to have point for me in life as an seum largely reflected tl1e old-fashioned museum in Carson City even talces visi versatility that has enhanced his adminis grown up in tlus state when he did, lucky adult," he says. museum approach of displaying speci tors into a simulated mine shaft. trative advancement. In 1993, anotl1er to have been exposed to the people he By the time Miller en mens according to species rather than in Another major project undertalcen reorganization was approved, and Miller was exposed to. He says he can't imagine tered the master's program, an ecological context. Miller was deter during Miller's tenure has turned him became the director of tl1e Division of living anywhere else. he met another UNLV figure mined to bring the exhibits up to date. into an engineer of sorts: Miller has over Museums and Histmy in the Department "I will never feel comfortable in who was to become instru Miller had been at his post two years seen the transformation of stacks of old of Museums, Libraries, and Arts. He says another place to the degree iliat I feel mental in his future. He took when tl1e state Legislature created the wood and metal into an operating rail the new arrangement facilitates what the comfortable in Nevada. It's comfortable a course from ornithologist Department of Museums and History, road, the Virginia and Truckee line, various entities were already doing in because I feel like I've visited damn near Donald Baepler, now which included tl1e Nevada Historical which runs around the railroad museum terms of coordinating and sharing exper evety square inch ofilie 110,000 square UNLV's interim associate Society in Reno, the Nevada State Mu property in Carson City. It showcases tl1e tise. "We had been doing tl1at long be nllies of this state at one point or another, vice president for research, seum in Carson City, and tl1e Lost City state's premiere collection of restored fore it became popular in government because I know the biology, and because who was serving at that time Museum in Overton. The Legislature also cars, as well as offering rides to tl1e public to consolidate." I understand ilie foundation of what this Miller displays a stuffed great horned owl, as vice president for aca authorized the creation and construction behind steam locomotives such as tl1e Although Miller says that the biolo state is." one of the many specimens of Nevada demic affairs. Miller became oftl1e Nevada State Museum and Histori famous Inyo, which has been used in gist in him still likes to get into the field And, he says, if he can spread tl1at wildlife in the museum's collection. intrigued by birds, and for cal Society in Las Vegas. At tl1e same movies and displayed in Las Vegas. and the classroom, he has become in comfort around to his fellow Nevadans, his master's thesis he studied time, the state parks division turned over But the V&T comprises only part of creasingly involved with administrative then he's doing his job. r.1 William G. (Glenn) Bradley. the community structure of birds from a collection of old, run-down equipment the department's railroad holdings. When problems, both by necessity and from a "That biology department was a the creosote desert to the aquatic com Kennecott Copper closed its operations in growing interest in the process. The evo from the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Miller, shown here with a violin traced Ely, it turned over the Nevada Northern lution of museums within the political unique place then, very small, populated munity of the Las Vegas Wash. After to the new department. back to a man who received it from by a pretty hard-core group of field graduation in 1974, Miller continued to As a result of the reorganization, Railroad- rolling stock, facilities , records, system - "where we fit into that system, President Abraham Lincoln, says biologists and professors- Bradley, Jim work with Baepler and others on various Miller became director of tl1e state mu everything- to Miller's department and where we're going to be in 20 years, how people are often Deacon, Mo Yousef, Wes Niles, Chad research grants. seum in Carson City. But by July 1982, tl1e Nevada Northern Railway Foundation. we're going to look" -now absorbs surprised by Murvosh - guys who had a lot of fire in When the position of natural history he found himself once again in Las And when Union Pacific announced plans much of his attention as he looks to the the depth of their bellies. They really wanted to take curator of the Nevada State Museum Vegas; he had been assigned the job of to tear up its line between Las Vegas and continued development of tl1e division. history in the world of biology on, straight ahead." in Carson City opened in 1977, Miller opening the newly created museum by Boulder City, which was built to facilitate He says it's a challenge to try to pro the West. The biologists were housed in what applied. "I took the tests, and when the Legislature's deadline. the construction of Hoover Dam, then tect and maintain what is important to is now the Lilly Pong Geoscience Build they told me I was second on the list, I "We worked like fools for four and a Gov. Richard Btyan moved to get the the preservation of the state's histmy in ing, then a "funky, rundown su·ucture" figured I wouldn't get the job. So, I half months, and it was one of the most train track donated to the state. ilie face of fiscal constraints and pressures. that he says had a certain charm. Miller went out into the field to collect speci impressive things I've ever seen," he says, A museum is now open in Ely, and a "It's hard to get people to realize tl1e also remembers "Lake Taco," the name mens for Don." referring to the way the staff at the state locomotive to be acquired from New importance of histmy. If you could boil it given to the fish study progran1 that The field in this case was the Smoky museum and tl1e historical society in London Railroad of Utah- known as down to one simple iliing, you might say Deacon ran out of plastic swimming Valley in central Nevada. At the agreed Reno pulled together to develop displays the Heber Creepe1' - and otl1er stock will that when you have a feel for where you pools - and anything else that would upon time, Baepler met the field crew at for Las Vegas. "On Nevada Day, 1982, provide tl1e genesis for a railroad museum are, where you come from, or what has hold water- behind the building. "There Peavine Creek to get the specimens. That we opened to tl1e public." in Boulder City. Miller says he hopes to occurred in ilie place where you are cur was pool after pool of all these different evening when they gathered around the In the midst of tl1e furor to open the start consuuction on a maintenance facil rently living, it's a much more comfort fish. Deacon did a lot of good hard sci camp's picnic table, Baepler produced a facility in Las Vegas, tl1e head of the de ity tlus spring and predicts a full-scale able environment." ence out of those tiny pools. Those are bottle of champagne. Popping the cork, partment retired, and Miller was called operating facility will be built eventually, While he acknowledges that Nevada's the sorts of things nothing else will ever he said, "I've got a toast." back to Carson City to take over. "I com depending on funding. tremendous growth in ilie last decade has compare with." "I realized something good must muted to Vegas at least a couple of times "We're talking in tl1e $20 million brought many newcomers who have little Although small, the department of have happened," Miller recalls, "but had a week for about tl1e first year, trying to range," he says, "so we are tiling it one short-term interest in Nevada lustory, he fered the young scientist the opportunity no idea what was coming. When Don run both facilities ." But Miller is quick step at a time. I'm sure it will be a com takes a long-term view. to work on a great variety of projects, for said, 'Here's to the new curator of natural to share credit with his staff of about 70 bined public-private venture." In both "We probably could have been sitting

14 + UNL V MAGAZINE SP RI NG 1995 + 15 sychology professor Chris Kearney started the School PRefusal Clinic at UNLV to serve a very specific clientele: the children in Clark County who won't go to school. Kearney, who specializes in helping children who have problems with fear and anxiety, became interested in work ing with those who refuse to go to school while he was doing his doctoral work in clinical child psychology at the State University of New York, Albany. While working at SUNY-Albany's Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, he was seeing so many children who re fused to go to school that he established a program to deal with their problems. Later, he developed a similar program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he was doing an internship. UNLV School Refusal Clinic founder and director Chris Kearney "So when I came to UNLV, it seemed like the natural thing to do," he says of creating the clinic, which was established The students Kearney treats range in other words, school gives them bad feel in the psychology department in 1991. age from 5 to 16. Some haven't been in ings, such as general depression, anxiety, And he has found a natural market school for two or three years. Others go or some specific fears . for such a clinic in the midst of one of virtually every day, but from 6 to 8 a.m., "We had a child once who was terri the nation's largest, fastest growing they are throwing tantrums, refusing to fied of tl1e fire alarm," Kearney says . school districts. The size of the district, go into the school, and clinging to tl1eir "But usually these kids won't be able the newness of many of its schools, parents. But once they get inside tl1e to tell you what it is they are uncomfort double sessions, and the fact that many school, they are fine . able about." youngsters have only recently moved Some of his clients become anxious into tl1e Las Vegas area all add to the any of the students that seek in social situations. They have a great potential for school-refusal behavior. therapy at Kearney's clinic deal of trouble malcing and keeping "What's happening is kids come here have established a pattern of fi·iends. Others have trouble in "evalua from California or from some rural place intermittently refusing to go to school. tion settings." These include situations in in Nevada, and they are overwhelmed by But for some, the behavior arrives seem which their behavior and performance tl1e size of the schools," Kearney explains. ingly without warning, catching parents are being evaluated and monitored, such "They may have been in situations in and school officials by surprise. Students as during academic examinations, oral which tl1ey were very comfortable, and in tl1is group typically fall between tl1e presentations, or athletic competition. now they are facing tl1is gigantic place. ages ofl1 and 13. Often, it is at the Some of Kearney's younger clients They have had no problems whatsoever time the student is ready to move into have problems with separation anxiety. in the past, but now they are unable to middle school or a sixtl1 grade center. They want to stay home and get lots of go to school at all." "They are overwhelmed by the pros attention from their parents; tl1ey may get Some children and their families pect of having to go to all these classes, control of the situation by throwing tan have a difficult time adjusting to the half see all tl1ese people," Kearney says . trums until their parents give in to tl1em. day sessions that tl1e local school district "Maybe tl1ey have been zoned into a "Then we get kids who simply refuse has resorted to because of overcrowding, school where they are not with the to go to school because it is more fun to he says . friends they are used to being with. They be out," Kearney says. "They are watch "I have clients who go to school face a lot more homework, and they are ing television, visiting friends, going to from noon until 6 at night, and others having a difficult time." daytime parties, hanging out. They don't who go from 7 in tl1e morning until One of the most common reasons have fear and anxiety problems, but tl1ey 1:30," Kearney says . "That creates havoc youngsters refuse to go to school is what are not in school." with family schedules." Kearney calls "negative affectivity"; in Kearney sees 20-30 clients a year in

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the center, mostly between August and although not unlleard of, for his clients their master's theses. 13 Hockey: Thunder vs . San Diego. 7:05pm. Thomas & Mack Center. 895-3900. January. He handles botl1 the initial as to have a phobia regarding school, "The students I've worked with March 1995 sessment and the treatment of each Kearney says . In that case, he deals with have been excellent, and I give tl1em a 16 Performing Arts Center: Christopher Parkening. individual's problem himself, with help a client's fears through systematic desen lot of responsibility," Kearney says. 1-5 Universiry Theatre: Kissing Shadows. March 1-4, 8pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. from two graduate assistants and three sitization. The client is taught certain "They actually work wim clients, deal 8pm; March 5, 2pm. Black Box Theatre. 895-3801. 18 Concert: Nevada Symphony Orchestra. 8pm. undergraduate students. relaxation techniques, then relaxation is with school officials, and collect data. Artemus Ham paired wim gradual reintroduction to When you are dealing wim people's lives, 1-31 Exhibit: "Das Pop." Weekdays, 9am-5pm. Concert Hall. !though he occasionally works the school. it carries a tremendous responsibility." Donna Beam Gallery. 895-3893. 895-3801. with only the child- such as Many students also benefit from role Kearney uses interviews and various 2 Master Series: Itzhak Perlman. 8pm. Artemus Ham 19 Communiry in helping a student overcome a playing during their therapy sessions. standardized testing instruments and A Concert Hall. 895-3801. Concert: The specific fear or some situation at school - This allows them to practice appropriate questionnaires to diagnose each client Russian Seasons. Men's Basketball: UNLV vs. UC-Santa Barbara. he more commonly works with the behaviors for situations that make them and to track his or her progress mrough 8pm. Artemus 7:35pm. Thomas & Mack Center. 895-3900. student's parents as well. anxious at school - for instance, making the treatment. Ham Concert "A lot of times there are family issues an oral presentation in class. In their "We have close to a 100 percent suc 3 Hockey: Thunder vs. Kalamazoo. 7:05pm. Thomas Hall. 895-3801. going on," he says. "There may be con sessions, they receive feedback on their cess rate when the families do what we & Mack Center. 895-3900. flicts in the family, or the parents may be performance, which enables them to tell them to," he says, adding mat family 3&4 Universiry Dance Theatre: "Gala Per .~onna1-,e . giving in to what the child wants." fine-tune their presentations and develop compliance is one of the clinic's most March 3, 8pm; March 4, 2 & 8pm. J When there are family issues involved, feelings of control over the situation. troublesome problems. "If the family Bayley Theatre. 895-3801. Kearney trains parents in such areas as doesn't do what we ask them to, the 4 Men's Basketball: UNLV vs. issuing appropriate commands to their lients usually come to the problem continues and mey are likely to children, being firm in certain kinds of School Refusal Clinic through drop out of treatment." 7 :35pm .~jijjliifliill!l~~7: requests, and cutting down on criticism. Creferral from a school counselor On occasion, family members - a He also teaches parents that question or psychologist. Kearney also depends sibling, a parent or grandparent, or an like commands are ineffective in many on me help of school officials in adolescent's dating partner, for example cases. Rather than saying to the child, setting up special schedules for some -will sabotage the treatment process. Richard Soule, flutist, "Why don't you do your math home students, monitoring attendance, and "They don't want to see change or and John Metz, work?" it is more effective to say, "Please making provisions for students with they think what we are doing is contra harpsichordist. do your math homework this evening." special needs. dictory to what should be done," he 7:30pm. Judy Bayley Kearney focuses on such family strat "A couple of years ago, we saw a says. "For instance, if we try to make a Theatre. 895-3801. egies as contracting. The child has, for child who was refusing to go to school child go to school alone or sleep alone, Concert: Invitational whatever reason, found more rewards in because he was very fearful of hallways me family member may feel we are push ltzhak Perlman Choral Festival. 7:30pm. March 2 staying out of school than in attending, and could not go into his classroom," ing too hard, so he or she will give in to Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. so me parents and child enter into a Kearney recalled. "So we talked to his what me child is requesting at home. contract in which the child agrees to at librarian, and she agreed to supervise That can undercut what is being accom 24&25 Hockey: Thunder vs. Phoenix. 7:05pm both tend school in return for certain rewards him in the library during tl1e day until plished at the clinic." days. Thomas & Mack Center. 895-3900. or privileges. we could gradually integrate him into Almough school-refusal behavior 24-26 Baseball: UNLV vs. Pacific. March 24, 7pm; "I just did a contract for a child and the classroom." can come on without warning, there are March 25 & 26, 1pm. Wilson Stadium. parent," Kearney says . "The contract re That sort or arrangement takes a lot often signs that parents can watch for, 895-3207. to quired tl1e student to go school all of coordination with school officials, but Kearney says. 27 Barrick Lecture: Mario Cuomo. 7:30pm. Artemus week, and if he did, he would earn the it kept the student in the school environ "If the child is complaining a lot Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. opportunity to do extra chores on the ment and doing his homework, ramer more tl1an normal about school, if he or weekend in return for a certain amount tl1an having hin1 at home falling furmer she seems to be much more withdrawn 28 Hockey: Thunder vs. Denver. 7:05pm. Thomas & Mack Center. 895-3900. of money. That way, he is not being paid and further behind. than usual, if his or her grades suddenly directly for going to school, but for the Kearney sees great benefits coming drop, or if there is a lot of tension about 29 Master Series: Gilbert & Sullivan's HM S. Pinafore. chores. He only gets the chance to do from his clinic, not just for his clients going back to school after a long time 8pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. the chores by attending school." and the school district, but also for off, mese are warning signs." 11-19 Softball: UNLV vs. CS-Fullerton. Noon. Kearney also emphasizes training in UNLV students. The program provides Kearney encourages parents to talk Rebel Diamond. 895-3207. communication and problem-solving skills. an excellent opportunity for both under to their children a couple of weeks be "We teach the parents ways in which graduate and graduate students to fore school starts to learn how tl1ey feel A LUMNI MEETI NG REMINDER 30 Alumni Event: Dinner/ballet event. 6pm. Richard they can sit down with the child and for obtain clinical experience. Undergradu about going back, particularly if they are Th e Alumni Association Board of Directors meets T am Alumni Center. 895-3621. the third Wedn esday of every month. Meetings mulate a solution to a particular problem ates need clinical experience to get into going to a new school. begin at 6pm and are held in the Ri chard Tam Nevada Dance Theatre: Coppelia. March 30- instead of arguing about it, which has graduate progran1s, and graduate stu "If there is any way mat parents can Alumni Center. For details. ca ll 895-362 1. Aprill, 8pm; April2, 2 & 7pm. Judy Bayley been their norm," he says. It is unusual, dents use it to collect data and ideas for continued on page 24 Theatre. 895-3801.

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30&31 Meeting: Board of Regents. 9am-5pm. Moyer 7-9 Baseball: UNLV vs. New Mexico State. April 7, 28-30 Baseball: UNLV vs . UC-Santa Barbara. April 20 Concert: Bolognini Scholarship Srudem Union 201. 7pm; AprilS & 9, 1pm. Wilson Stadium. 28, 7pm; April 29 & 30, 1pm . Wilson Concert. 7pm. Judy Bayley 895-3207. 31 Softball: UNLV vs. Hawaii. 1pm. Rebel Diamond. Stadium. 895-3207. Theatre. 895-3801. 895-3207. 8 Concert: Las Vegas Gamble-aires. 7:30pm. Artemus 29 Festival: Invitational Band Festival. 8am-11 pm. 29 Holiday: Memorial Day recess. Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. 30 Conference: International 9 Nevada Opera Theatre: Camerata Youth Orchestra. 30 Concert: University Wind Symphony. 2pm. Trombone Association. April1995 2pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Conference runs through Softball: UNLV vs . Hawaii. Noon. Rebel Diamond. 13-15 Baseball: UNLV:vs. CS-Fiillerton. April13 & June 3. For details, call Concert: University Women's Chorus and 895-3207. 14, pm; April15, 1pm. Wilson Stadium. 895-3332. Varsity Men's Glee Club. 7:30pm. Location 895-3207. 2 Concert: Musical Arts Orchestra. 3pm. Artemus TBA. 895-3801. Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801.

4 Community Concert: Ralph Markham & Kenneth Broadway. 8pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. May_ 19 2 Summer Session I: Session 895-3801. ends. 5 Spring Semester 1995: Instruction ends. 5 Chamber Chorale: "Home Concert." 7:30pm. 5 Summer Session II: Sierra Winds: "New Music." 8pm. Black Box Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Instruction begins. Theatre. 895-3801. 6-16 University Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross. April 6- 1 0&11 Musical Arts 7 Concert: Jazz Ensemble II. 2pm. Black Box Theatre. 8 & 12-15, 8pm; April9 & 16, 2pm. Black Orchestra: "Pops 895-3801. Box Theatre. 895-3801. Concert." June 10, 8pm; Christopher Parkening Performing Arts Center: Doris Humphrey June 11 , 3pm. Artemus 6-17 Exhibit: "Juried Srudem Exhibit." Weekdays, March 16 Dance Co. 7pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. 9am-5pm. Donna Beam Gallery. 895-3893. 895-3801. 23 Dance Concert: Merluzzi Dance Recital. 6:30pm. 7 Chamber Music Southwest: "A Tribute to Jim 9 Concert: Jazz Ensemble I. 8pm. Judy Bayley Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Huntzinger." 7:30pm. Artemus Ham Concert Theatre. 895-3801. Hall. 895-3801. 25 Dance Concert: "Class Acts." Noon & 5pm. 12 Exhibit: "Michael McCollum: Retrospective." Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Weekdays, 9am-5pm. Donna Beam Gallery. 29&30 Meeting: Board ofRegems. 9am-5pm. Moyer Coppelia 895-3893. (thru June 23) Srudent Union 201. Nevada Dance Theatre March 30-April 2 Graduation: University Commencement Ceremony. 7pm. Thomas & Mack Center. 1995 13 College Diploma Ceremonies: Health Sciences, 9am, Artemus Ham Concert Hall (HCH); 1-8 University Theatre: "Technical Workshop." For Education, 9am, Thomas & Mack Center details, call 895-3666. (TMC); Human Performance & Development, Diamond. 895-3207. 1 Oam, Judy Bayley Theatre QBT); Science & 4 Holiday: Independence Day recess. Mathematics, noon, HCH; Liberal Arts, noon, 25 Concert: Collegium Musicum. 7:30pm. Black Box 7 Summer Session II: Session ends. Theatre. 895-3801. TMC; Fine & Performing Arts, 1pm , JBT; Engineering, 3pm, HCH; Hotel Administra 10 Summer Session III: Instruction begins. 26 Softball: UNLV vs . New Mexico State. 1pm. tion, 3pm, TMC; Business & Economics, Gpm, Rebel Diamond. 895-3207. TMC; Architecture, Construction Management 10-28 University Theatre: "National Stage Combat & Planning, details TBA; Greens pun School of Workshop." For details, call895-3666. 27 Alumni Event: Dinnerlrheatre evem. 6pm. Communication, 7pm, HCH. Richard Tam Alumni Center. 895-3621. 28 University Theatre: Friday Knight at the Fights. 14 Concert: Myron Heaton Chorale. 2pm. Judy 8pm. Judy Bayley Theatre. 895-3801. Concert: Mariposa Trio. 7:30pm. Black Box Bayley Theatre. 895-3801. Theatre. 895-3801. 15 Summer Session I: Instruction begins. University Theatre: Guys and Dolls. April. 27- August 1 29 & May 3-6, 8pm; April30 & May 7, 2pm. 19-21 Baseball: UNLV vs. UCLA. May 19, 7pm; May 11 Summer Session III: Session ends. Judy Bayley Theatre. 895-3801. 20 & 21, 1pm. Wilson Stadium. 895-3207. 28 Fall Semester 1995: Instruction begins. 28 Performing Arts Center: Marilyn Horne. 8pm. 19-25 Nevada Opera Theatre: South Pacific. May 19, Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. 20, 22, 24 & 25 8pm; May 21, 2pm. Artemus Ham Concert Hall. 895-3801. Events are subject to change/cancel/afton

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d1e Clark County School District diabetes educator consultant and as a Kimberly Schaller, '86 BS Hotel Mike Middleton, '89 BS Hotel Pri.madonna Resort & Casino, and the trauma department, emergency since 1968 and currently serves as basic life support CPR instructor. Administration, is d1e national travel Administration, is an assistant Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino, all on medical services, and five patient administrator on special assignment industry sales manager for the 42 front office manager at The Mirage d1e Nevada/California border south units. She was d1e runner-up in the to develop d1e implementation of Omni Hotels across the country. Hotel in Las Vegas, where his of Las Vegas. She previously worked nursing administration category in alternative scheduling for middle duties include overseeing front '90s at the Palace Station, Showboat, and d1e aruma! Nurse of the Year con '70s She arranges hotel accommodation schools. She began her career as a packages for the film and entertain desk operations. Sands hotels. test, sponsored by the March of school nurse, taught at Rancho High ment industries. She lives in Santa Bradley D. Brown, '90 BS Busi Dinles in Southern Nevada. Jim Pumphret, '70 MBA, is an School, and later held several school Monica, Calif. Kathy Noziglia Volpi, '89 BS ness Administration, is a partner in Norman W. Jalhn, '91 Master of international issues examiner with administrative positions, including Business Administration, '91 d1e accounting firm of Allen Public Administration, is a patrol Elvia E. J untti, '9 3 BS Electrical the Internal Revenue Service in principal of O'Callaghan and Smith Ellen Burrasca Govan, '87 BS MBA, works as manager of three Bloomgren & Co. in Great Falls, lieutenant with the Las Vegas Met Engineering, works for the U.S. Austin, Texas. He is serving as vice middle schools. Hotel Administration, operates a day areas at d1e Cedars-Sinai Medical Mont. Previously, he was a senior ropolitan Police Department. He Department of Transportation's president of the Austin chapter of care center in her home in Sonoma, Center in Los Angeles - the accountant in Las Vegas for works out of the nord1east area Federal Railroad Administration as the Texas Society of Certified Najeeb Ur Rahman, '81 Calif. Her husband, Bill Govan, '86 division of hematology/ oncology, Deloitte & Touche. command center. He also teaches a an electrical engineer. She lives in Public Accountants for the BS Hotel AdminiStration, is director the bone marrow transplant pro community policing course for Sacramento, Calif. chapter's 1994-95 membership Najeeb Ur Rallman, '81 BS Hotel of food and beverage at the Sonoma gram, and the general internal UNLV's crinlinal justice department. year. The chapter has 1,200 mem Administration, is the president of Mission Inn and Spa. medicine division. Her husband, bers throughout central Texas . P.T.A. Travel, which has offices in Joseph Volpi, '88 BS Hotel Ad Inga M. Vaughan, '92 BS Ad1letic Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Dallas, Rita K. Roe Carter, '87 BS Educa ministration, '91 Master of Eco Training, is in medical school at the Allim!Um Alumni-The ONLY College of Osteopathic Medicine of Kris Rosenberg, '71 BA Psychol Chicago, and New York. He is also tion, teaches special education in nomics, is pursuing a career in Alumni AuncJIIlicm off.ers .a VDrlely ogy, '73 MA Psychology, teaches d1e president ofT.I.E.P.T.A.lnc., grades kindergarten through 12 playwriting and screenwriting. the Pacific. She volunteers at high of'loclaJ and CJJ.Itutlil deliVII/fJ. psychology at La Roche College an import and export business with d1roughout the Nezperce School One of his plays, Partying on schools as a certified athletic trainer Fen·men« lnfo!m"Dl/!1tH11 t11 {Oin the and also has a private psycho Kenneth W. Fong, '78 offices in Las Vegas, Pakistan, District in nord1western Idaho. She Ma1'x's G1'ave, was produced off and also does AIDS awareness work astocJiillon, c¢16~5•1611, therapy practice in Pittsburgh. She Hong Kong, Dubai, and the United was recently selected as teacher of Broadway. Several of his plays at several schools. She lives in .~.l!e·~·~Oillle Pomona, Calif. is the author of the book Talk to Kenneth W. Pong, '78 BS Business Kingdom. the year for Nezperce and received a have been produced in Los Ange Gina Richardson, '90 pcpu[atjty· ofthe C~Notes:StCiioo, Me: A Therapist's Guide to Break Administration, is a partner-manager teaching excellence award from the les, including Backm-okes and D.NlV MO!IOI!nt caflllotme . ~enlly ing Through Male Silence. ofFong & Associates, a company Art Jimenez, '85 BA Communica University ofidallo, from which she Liquid Lady, both of which he Gina Richardson, '90 BS Hotel Barbara D . Fraser, '93 BS Nursing, tl$lOOI!.O$.JtQI{IVqs,JIIhe1ntoJmt:llton /ttl'(e,SiibrrJitJedfor (fC/asfNole$ that manages more than 500,000 tion Studies, is director of sales at is pursuing a master's degree in wrote and directed. In 1991, one Administration, is the national sales is clinical director of emergency and you enlly~s~~subrnlf· square feet of commercial property, Wet 'n Wild, where he previously special education. She lives in of his plays, Sunset at TuleLake, manager for Prinladonna Resorts telemetry services at Sunrise Hospital anewenlly lllld~ot~ •-llle.tonn offices, and shopping centers. He is worked as senior sales manager and Nezperce, which is located 60 miles was produced at UNLV. The Inc., which owns and operates & Medical Center. In that position, , 1/latitfS.a~~ married to Haeran Pong, '91 BS sales manager. Before joining Wet 'n southeast of Lewiston. couple lives in Burbank. Whiskey Pete's Hotel & Casino, the she oversees the emergency room, Hotel Administration, who works as Wild, he worked as an advertising a property manager for the company. account executive with Design Arts. Paul R Kirst, '87 BA Liberal Stnd ies, is an attorney in general civil practice wid1 an emphasis on domes tic and constmction law. After earn r------~--1 ing his law degree from the Univer I Kris Rosenberg, '71 sity of San Diego School of Law, he I I We a • l i K e • l 0 • H e a r • r r 0 m • y 0 u ! served as a law clerk for Nevada I Lena Van Dusseldorp, '74 Mas '80s District Judge Nancy Becker. He I We would like to invite all UNLV alumni to submit information about themselves to UNLV Magazine for inclusion in the Class Notes section. Please fill I ter of Education in Special Educa now serves on the continuing legal I out the form below completely, type or pri nt clearly, and avoid abbreviations. 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22. UNLV lviAGAZINE SPRING 1995.23 Spirited Approach or it's beyond tl1e reach of conventional they are real," Radin says. "Four U .S. electromagnetic signals," Radin says. government scientific review boards all continued from page 11 "Willi a device that allows you to com independently reached tl1e same conclu municate mentally with a machine, the sion during the 1980s: The scientific of my time on it." machine can basically be anywhere. evidence suggests that we are dealing Eventually, this type of research took "For example, in August of 1993, with genuine anomalies associated with him to a number of places, including SRI NASA lost the Mars Observer satellite. It the human mind." International, a California think tank was a billion dollar hunk of hardware Besides intensifYing basic research on where he did research for the U.S. gov tl1at just disappeared as it approached these phenomena, what remains now is ernment; Princeton University, where he Mars. The only way we had of talking to to harness that knowledge and find use served as technical director of the human it was conventional elecu·omagnetic sig ful applications for it, he says. information processing group; and the ruling meiliods." While something like a sophisticated University of Edinburgh in Scotland, If the mind-machine interface had mind-machine link may be quite some where he was a visiting research fellow. been perfected at that time, Radin rea time off, something simpler, such as tl1e He came to UNLV in 1993 as the sons, perhaps the satellite could have proposed mental on-off switch, is not, result of a generous donation from been retrieved. he says. UNLV benefactor Robert Bigelow, who, Radin believes that such an interface But working toward very long-range Radin says, has long been interested in can become a reality in the not-too goals doesn't botl1er Radin. parapsychological phenomena. Radin distant future. In a previous job, he "It seems like 30 years down tl1e line, notes that the creation of his lab means worked on such a project, which he de but you have to start somewhere, and that now UNLV and Princeton are tl1e scribes as a mentally-controlled on-off tl1at's what universities are for. You start only two universities in the United States switch. He conducted a successfi.ll in funding people for fi.rture-oriented work. with laboratories dedicated to tl1e full house demonstration of a prototype and In any case, all new technologies sound time study of tl1e subject. was close to applying for a patent. Be like magic until they become widely fore he cmlld do tl1at, however, his com available in your local Wal-Mart. Many ut where, you might ask, will this pany was sold to anotl1er company, and of the technologies I worked on at Bell type of research lead? To Radin, the funding disappeared. Now, he's in Labs in tl1e early 1980s are only now Bthe answer lies in tl1e mind the process of replicating mat device in being brought to the market." machine connection; he believes that his UNLV lab. The long-term payoff of understand someday a person will be able to control Although the public may not be ing and harnessing ilie power of the lm a machine using only mental power. A generally aware of it, Radin says several man mind could be tremendous, Radin physical connection between man and psychic phenomena, such as telepathy, says, likening it to the discovery of machine would no longer be required. remote viewing ("seeing" something atomic power - only greater. While such technology could be used that is taking place at a remote location), However, before that can happen, for sometl1ing as relatively simple as do precognition (knowing sometlung is much more work needs to be done ing away with ilie need for, say, tl1e re going to happen before it actually oc probing the nature of the human mind, mote control devices for garage door curs), and micro-psychokinesis (the abil Radin says, noting that such exploration openers, there are potentially many more ity of the mind to affect matter in a mi is no small task. useful applications. croscopic way), have already been scien "It has been said that we know more "Let's say we wanted to communi tifically proved to exist. about the moons of Neptw1e tl1an we do cate with a spacecraft in deep space or a "The databases in four or five realms about the workings of the human mind. submerged submarine someplace where of phenomena are so su·ong that there That's what makes tlus research so frus

you either don't know where the thing is basically is no reasonable doubt left tl1at trating- and so exciting." 11'.1

Tantrums, Tension anxiety, and the idea of starting at a new year, to include treatment of children school wouldn't be nearly as aversive for witl1 general anxiety disorders, panic dis continued from page 18 the student," he says. orders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, The School Refi.rsal Clinic is doing so and posttraumatic su·ess disorder. take their kids into tl1e school for a tour, well that Kearney hopes to broaden the For more information about Kearney's

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