College of Liberal Arts

Winter 1988

movement is expressed during a dance class in Pelk Hall studio by (left to right) Denise Placek, Gi Gl Delange, and Keely Jo Cook. Photos at left, Hector Cruz. Photos at right, Kim Flanders.

Photos by Steven Schneider Dance Choreographs Future Steps

By Bill Hoffmann Dance is back on its feet and ready Dance. It was matched with $500,000 and in the Northrop Auditorium's ments, she conducted weeks of evening to soar. from the Permanent University Fund summer series. and weekend rehearsals choreographing After the program came perilously (PUF). There is also a continuing effort • scheduling a fall visit of American The Boys From Syracuse, a Rogers and close to extinction during the 1983 to raise $500,000, which would be choreographer Agnes George de Mille Hart musical, which was presented Feb. campus-wide retrenchments, a ground­ matched by PUF funds, for added as guest lecturer. 12-28 by Dance and Theatre students in swell of love, effort, vision, and funds faculty positions. In addition, further Barker, sitting near the desktop the University Theatre's Rarig Center. from the community and the University funds are being sought for scholarships She also chaired the national confer­ breathed new life into Dance. and department support. ence for the Society of Dance History The program, after 50 years in the • adopting an extensively revised dance Dance is Scholars at the North Carolina School College of Education's Department of curriculum for the B.A. Dance degree designed "to for the Arts, Feb. 12-14. During spring Physical Education, was merged in 1986 and seeking certification by the National train quarter, Barker will teach a new course, into CLA 's Theatre Arts Department to Association of Schools of Dance. Dance ·~merican Popular Entertainment," in form the new Department of Theatre classes cover ballet, modern, ja-.:z, ball­ students to the American Studies program. Arts and Dance. room, tap, international folk, history, be thinking Housed in three small offices, Dance Since then, Dance, with 20 student theory, technique, choreography, perfonners, is located in Norris Hall, a wood and majors and 30 minors, has prepared to improvisation, composition, music for show brick building on the East Bank that also take center stage by: dance, dance for children, teaching to contains gyms and two pools. The • hiring Barbara Barker, 49, a nation­ dance, and performance production. them how dance fits into program has exclusive use of one dance aHy recognized dance scholar previously • planning a high-profile, intensive SOCie•ty . • • • 11 Barbara Barker studio, the use of two other studios, plus at the University of Texas, Austin. 1988 summer dance workshop in which the use of a studio in Peik Gym, a block Barker, an associate professor, arrived in students study performance with inter­ computer in her small Norris Hall away. Barker hopes the office and August as the Dance Program's new nationally known choreographers Viola office, said, with a surprised look on her studios can move one day into a coordinator. The position was formerly Farber, of Sarah Lawrence College, and face, that after arriving here she quickly proposed addition to Rarig Center on the held by the late Nadine Jette Sween. New York-based Charles Moulton, son filled her days and weeks with West Bank. • receiving a $500,000 gift from Sage of Robert Moulton, Theatre professor. commitments. The new Dance Program, Barker said, and John Cowles to hire a series of Farber, Moulton, and the students will In addition to taking on the coordina­ is building a strong curriculum with the visiting teacher/choreographers for the perform new dances at the dedication of tor's duties and directing the national understanding that "the University Sage Cowles Land Grant Chair in the Walker Art Center's sculpture garden search for the Cowles Chair appoint- continued on page 2

INSIDE Dean Lukermann says collegiate untts It's another party for Charnley . . . . . • pA UCollege Bowl team victorious again p.5 Uadministration recommends caught In middle of University's crisis p. 2 Former students will celebrate Professor Emeritus Minnesota's team wins $10,000 in scholarships. CLAspiH ...... ••...... p.6 Hoped tor renewal at resources tor faculty and stu· Mitchell Charnley's 90th birthday. Final Commitment to Focus report wants CLA to split dents held il suspension while Legislature debates future Into two colleges, promiS#Js new money. at University. 2 Photo by Tom Foley

... Dance Draws Faculty From Local Dance Groups

THE DEAN'S LIST continued from page 1 Dean Fred Lukermann I need not tell you that this has been a winter of discontent. Recent events have provided the governor and the state legislature with an easy excuse to cut back the University's programmatic budget request for 1988-89. At the same time, the University's Board of Regents seems either unable or reluctant to press forward on long range plans for improving the relative position of the University among the nation's foremost public graduate and research institutions. As one could predict, media voyeurs are having a field day picking at the bones of personalities in both arenas rather than showing any concern for the future of the institution. Meanwhile, collegiate faculties find themselves caught In the middle, powerless to influence either the politicians' or the trustees' personal agendas for control of the direction of higher education in the state, while students and parents, as usual, pay the going rates for an education that promises much but can't deliver in the present statis created between planning and action. The University of Minnesota and the College of Uberal Arts have been on the move since 1979 upgrading Curriculum, recruiting quality students, enhancing faculty scholarship and soliciting greater community participation in bonding the institution to its constituency. Yet there is a growing perception that all of this is grinding to a halt, and surely it might, if present events cast a long shadow on the future. • We are in a fragile state as a college. We have begun and are well into a single admissions policy that will insure Minnesota college-bound students access to a University degree in concert with qualified community college students. Student Robert Cleary (left) and Dance instructor David Voss. • We have begun and are well into a realistic second language program in collaboration with the public schools and community colleges that will provide Minnesota students with a sound background for involvement in an international economy and community. • We have begun and are well into a writing program across the undergradu­ provides a matrix in which the best of choreography and performance. There ate c••rric•th uu.tb.at.wlll insure Cl,lltural!y literate graduates who can participate .. liberal arts education is brought together expectantly and fully in a world society. were two public dance demonstrations in • We have successfully recruited minority students to attend the University with the extensive dance community in the studio. Winter quarter, these pieces and are developing a curriculum that recognizes and enhances the study of our the Twin Cities." were partially staged. In spring quarter, multi-cultural society. The 12 adjunct faculty in Dance come they will be fully staged on April 15-16, • We have expanded an honors program that has enriched both the opportu­ from professional dance groups in the 8 p.m., at the St. Paul Student Center. nity of choice of disciplinary majors and the broadening of highly specialized Twin Cities. One adjunct faculty Barker, whose academic specialty is curricula so that a truly liberal education is within the reach of every undergraduate. member heads the Minnesota Jazz American theatrical spectacle and the We have done this at the cost of a deteriorating physical plant, a decline in Dance Company. Other faculty members role of dancers and choreographers in laboratory and library availability, and a shortage of student study space. But, come from the Maria Cheng Dance the pageantry ofthe nation, said, "Popu­ above all, we have done it at the expense of faculty and institutional research. In Company and others. lar entertainments reflect the society in the years of federal and state tax shortfalls of the early 1980s, the support for Barker said a goal ofthe new Dance any given period." higher education has fallen as the student load increased. The funding of the curriculum is to "train students to be Her book Ballet and Balleyhoo, for college decreased, the number of faculty and graduate assistants was cut by ten thinking performers, show them how example, sees the theatrical extravagan- percent and more. Nevertheless, the planning and restructuring went on in the dance fits into society, to see dance as a hope of a renewal of commitment and resources in the final years of the 1980s. venue to look at humanity." She said Now in this crucial year of decision we are asked that our faith again be more scholars are studying dance from suspended and necessary resources be denied. To what end? an anthropological viewpoint. "This is not entirely a performance Three figures are proof enough of the dilemma CLA faces. Their contents are 11 well known. Rgure I shows the resource gap created in the last ten years per degree," she added, "but preparation for Popular entertainments student in CLA. Figure II shows instructional gap created between Minnesota pre-professional or professional reflect the society in any training." (CLA) and its peer institutions. Excellence is not attained below the line. given period. " Barbara Barker Dance appeals to students with a wide variety of interests. Carl Flink, who will of Bud et &Enro BOO c be captain of the soccer team next year, was looking for a way to participate in F 700 T movement that didn't have a lot of E competition. The 21-year-oldjunior, F600 zas in the period after the American I with a minor in Dance and majors in Civil War as part of the healing process c u500 Political Science and Women's Studies, for the nation, similar to the escapist I said he gets cast in dance parts because theater and dance in the Busby Berkeley ~400 of his skill level and because there are so musical spectaculars of the depression few men in the program. years in the 1930s. The 1920s, by ~ ~~--~------~ 300 +----->------<---+----+-----< 19n 1980 1983 1986 300 400 500 600 700 BOO Mary Aood, a 23-year-old senior Fllcal- SIII .... Cnolltlloull comparison, saw "a real search for the Figure 1 Figure 2 [TIIousms) majoring in Dance and Mechanical truth" by choreographers. Engineering, said she thinks she'll be Today, American theater has returned The facts have been with us for a long time. Unfortunately, a decision cannot able to use her dance training for a to spectacle, she said, citing Starlight be delayed. It is a decision like daylight savings time-we either spring forward or career in the human factors area of Express now showing on Broadway. fall back. There is no standing still. management engineering. Aood, from "This is a visual age more than liter­ Minneapolis, originally planned to ary ... spectacle is instantly gratifying. major in dance, but switched to engi­ You don't have to think. It appeals to the neering when it appeared the dance senses, rather than the mind." program was going to be discontinued. Originally from Seattle, Barker "I needed to dance," she said, so she worked in Paris after graduating from enrolled in dance classes until it was the University of Washington. She was a possible to major in dance. dancer in the chorus at the famed Lido Voi.10No.2 Barker said that while Dance isn't nightclub. "We kept our costumes on," exclusively a performance degree, the she quickly added. In this country, she program provides opportunities for danced in musical comedy and summer The Universtty of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. students to perform. Beginning last fall, stock. She lived in Texas 20 years and students participated in a works-in-prog­ raised two daughters. ress program of faculty and student Barker received her MFA degree in 3

WHAT THE STUDENTS ARE DOING

Nicolas Carter

• Nicolas Carter knows what it's like Relations honors, is working on an to be on the "hot seat." That's because economic development project in the Bachelor of Individualized Studies Senegal through Minnesota Studies in rnajor spent last summer biking through International Development (MSID); Sue Central America while gathering infor­ Grady, Medicine Lake, Geography, mation for three independent study also in association with MSID, is gath­ courses. Averaging 70 miles on wheels ering data for a paper on medical and $7 on food and shelter daily, the geography while working as a nurse in senior studied Mexican masks, Mayan Colombia; Cathy Grant, Reston, Va., ruins, and slang terms Latin Ameri­ English, is an editorial assistant for cans use to describe North Ameri­ Hurricane Alice, a newsletter devoted cans. Upon graduation, Carter-who to feminist issues; Rita Hammons, was born in the United States but raised Minnetonka, International Relations in Paraguay-hopes to return to Latin honors, is a trial assistant for the Hen­ America to do theater work. • Honors nepin County Defender's Office; Jilene student Eyenga Bokamba, Milwau­ Hansen, Shoreview, Speech-Com­ kee, Wis., has been elected a student munications, is working in the video representative to the Board of Regents. department at K-1WIN Communica­ Bokamba, who plans to design her. own tions; Jeremy Kahn, Minneapolis, major, also is a semifinalist for the Harry Psychology, is a counselor and edu­ S. Truman Scholarship, established by cational assistant for Minneapolis South Instructor David Voss and student Hector Cruz (background). the U.S. Congress to help outstanding High School's drop-out intervention students prepare for public-service program; Phu Tai Phan, Minneapolis, careers. Scholarship finalists will be Political Science, is a member of the announced in March. • Leisa Knych­ TaSk Force on Prejudice and VIOlence, theatre history from the University of published in March. Barker's next book Johnson, Journalism honors, has which recently held hearings through­ Texas and her Ph. D. in performance is to be a text on the history of Western receive-d the 1987 Altan T. Blutrm out Minnesota to docun 1e11t il1star 1ces· studies from New York University. In theater and dance. Award. The honor, given to "a mem­ of hate crimes against minority-group New York, she was the research assistant Jobs in dance used to be available ber of the junior class who has shown members and to propose legislative for Agnes George de Mille, 83, choreog­ only in New York, but now there are jobs exceptional leadership and service {and) solutions to this problem; Beth rapher and writer. De Mille's latest ballet in regional dance companies, Barker who has earned funds toward his or Wegener, Appleton, Wis., Journalism of Irish dances opens in Los Angeles in said. Non-performance positions, such her education, '' also includes a trophy honors, is helping produce the public­ March and in New York in May. as arts management and dance archi­ and cash stipend. • Ten students have affairs program, "Prism," at KARE-TV, While in London three years ago on a vists, usually require a graduate degree. been awarded alumni-funded intern­ Channel11; and Dawn White, St. Paul, Fulbright grant, Barker researched Jobs are also available in TV commer­ ships for winter quarter from the Office Political Science honors, is research­ large-scale outdoor spectaCles that took cials, musical theater, as well as video of Special Learning Opportunities. ing labor issues for state Rep. Sandy place in the 1890s. The productions, taping, dance therapy, and teaching. Cynthia Anderson, White Bear Lake, Pappas. • The University of Minne­ precursors of films by Griffith, Melies, The Dance Program is ready to take Art History honors student, is creating sota Jazz Ensemble, under the direc­ and Eisenstein, employed casts of thou­ off at a time when the number of dance a high school-level teaching kit on tion of Music professor Frank sands and were performed live before groups and dance audiences is growing. Medieval and Renaissance art at the Bencrlscutto, won the college jazz audiences in the tens of thousands. "There's a lot of interest in dance," Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Karen ensemble category at the First Minne­ Barker's book, Traps & Transforma­ Barker said. ·'It brings so many things Bispala, Minneapolis, International sota Jazz Awards in November. tions, a biography ofBolossy Kirally, a together, especially with the fitness Hungarian who was the best-known craze. It feeds the body, it feeds the showman in Europe and America mind. It's a great release."O between 1890 and 1910, is to be Frenzel Foundation Donates

For information about donating to the Dance Liberal Arts Chair Program, please call (612) 625-5031, or write to CLA Institutional Relations, 202 Johnston Hall, The Frenzel Foundation of St. Paul gift of the Winton Chair in the Liberal 101 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. II has donated $375,000 to CLA for a Arts was announced in the fall issue of Chair in the Liberal Arts. The gift will CLAToday .• be matched with funds from the Perma­ nent University Fund. The chair will be called the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts, in honor of Paul Frenzel, who was a graduate of the Law School. The initial appointment to the chair will be made in literary studies, medie­ val studies, international relations, or art and archeology. Appointments for seven-year terms will be determined by the dean and the donors. "This is the second chair in the liberal arts given during the Minnesota Campaign," said Julieann Carson, asso­ ciate dean for institutional relations, "and we appreciate the foresight of our alumni who will give the college the Donors of endowed chairs are given a flexibility to place the chair where we University of Minnesota chair think it will do the most good at the designed for the Minnesota time." David and Sarah (Penny) Winton's Campaign. Mitch Charnley's Students Are Top Journalists in State and Nation

By George Hage He was the new professor in the next to me in J-13 became the editor of lovely redheaded sprite named Debbie II Department of Journalism. I was a the Lit Review our senior year, and and a mischievous redhead named Blair, new student. The year was 1934. The suddenly she was too preoccupied with as well as getting a master's in social course was Introductory Reporting, the magazine to go dancing with me at work at the University. Journalism 13. the Terrace Cafe of the Lowry Hotel. I had been home, discharged from the It met in a drab classroom in the base­ Gradually it became apparent that the Air Force, only a few days when Mitch ment of Pillsbury Hall. Creaky floor­ magazine was not the only cause of her called: "Would you consider teaching? boards, chairs grooved and splintered preoccupation. The veterans' bulge is upon us. Weve with initials carved by generations of "My parents don't think much of my got to open new sections of the report­ geology students. dating Mitch," she confided one day. ing courses. Why don't you come in and That first day of class he made a "Catholic, you know, and Mitch was we'll talk about it." strong impression on the young woman divorced." Thus began a new phase of our rela­ seated next to me. My Presbyterian sensibilities were tionship. I was raw in the classroom, but He had red hair and blue eyes and a equal to' the shock, and we often double­ not unprepared. Mitch was rigorous in reddish, trimline mustache. In the small dated that spring. After graduation and his briefing for us novices. "You have to southern Minnesota town I came from, a on my first job in Columbus, Ohio, I got take time to check papers for accuracy," mustache like that denoted world trav­ a telegram one day: "Mr. and Mrs. he would say, punching his desk with eler. London, at the very least. I wasn't Robert Emmett Clifford Denounce the that index finger. ')\n inaccuracy rates surprised to learn, months later, that he marriage of their daughter Jean Mary to the grade of E You can use the split Mitchell Charnley had been a waterfront reporter (water­ Mitchell V. Charnley." grade AJF if the paper has merit other­ front reporter? wow!) for the Honolulu jobs on the Daily. Good-bye band. I saw them whenever I got back to wise. Never return a paper without Call Bulletin. Farewell, French horns. Minnesota, and they were flourishing. I comment, but don't be brutal, no matter He wore a brown tweed jacket, of The Minnesota Daily. He watched couldn't believe that Mitch could how much you're tempted. You know course, and brown calfskin wing tips, over it like a broody hen. When his obli­ continue his devotion to the Daily now what to do about faulty grammar, punc­ and smoked a pipe, though never in the gations to the classroom were over for that OUR generation had moved out, but tuation, syntax, style, diction. Assign­ classroom. the day, he'd saunter down the hall to he did. Now the students with careers to ments should be returned at the next The young woman next to me where the Daily news room was coming watch were named Tom Heggen (author, class meeting so that students get the prevailed on a friend to sketch him. But alive. He was available to anyone who Mr. Roberts) and Max Shulman (author, benefit of your criticism promptly. If you that came later. needed advice on that day's perplexing Barefoot Boy With Cheek) and Geri run out of lecture material, send the That basement had ground-level, newsgathering or newswriting Joseph (U.S. ambassador and columnist) students out on an assignment. Make rounded arch windows, but I can't problems. and Martin Quigley (author and humor­ them write, write, write. That's how they remember what they looked out on Later, about the time the first batch of ist) and Vic Cohn (science writer, Wash­ learn." because I was always watching Professor copy was due downtown at the printers, ington Post) and Harry Reasoner and He set the example. I was amazed at Charnley. After that first day, he always we might see him cross the street to the Otto Silha (publisher, Minneapolis Star his capacity for paper grading, in addi­ brought a stack of papers into class, parking lot where Nolte Center now Tribune) and the Harolds, Nelson tion to handling a lot of administrative OUR papers, yellow copy paper, folded stands. That's where he usually parked (former director, School of Journalism, chores for the main office. The depart­ once mid-page and bound with a rubber his convertible. (A convertible in Minne­ University of Wisconsin) and Chucker ment had a single secretary then, and band, and vivid with his red ink correc­ sota? But, of course; what else?) There (editorial page editor, Minneapolis Casey kept her busy. "The Doc" tions and comments. Or he'd have a was some speculation as to the Star), and Chuck Roberts (White House depended on Mitch's judgment in copy of that morning's Tribune or ROMANCE that awaited him when he correspondent, Newsweek). Mitch's matters major and minor, and anything Pioneer Press in which he had spotted a left the campus. office door was still open to all comers Casey wrote for publication he asked particularly good job of reporting or His concern for the Daily didn't end, at all times, but the office was now in Mitch to edit. And Mitch was writing his some bad writing that he wanted to call however, with his departure from Pills­ Murphy, not Pillsbury. At home in Pros­ to our attention. Jaunty, he would toss bury. Some nights there were telephoned pect Park, Jean was busy nurturing a continued on page 8 the papers on the podium and read from appeals from the printer for his services them, punching the podium with his as mediator. (Outraged night editor: index finger to stress a point, but when "The damned business manager says he really wanted to emphasize some­ we've gotta run a half-page ad that wasn't thing, he'd come out from behind the scheduled and it will mean killing must podium as if he didn't want any barrier copy or bumping the size of the paper.") between him and us. On other nights, alternate weeks, Former Students, Faculty Gather He was gentle in his spoken there were meetings of the Board of for Mitchell Charnley's 90th Birthday; comments about our work, but he could Student Publications on which Charnley be scathing in his condemnation of served as either adviser or representative Plan to Endow Chair sloppy professional work. We learned of the Department of Journalism (yet to very quickly that he cared passionately be upgraded to a School). Ralph Casey, A 90th birthday party for Mitchell Contributions to the Charnley Chair about journalism. department chairman and a legend in his Charnley on Saturday, April16, will may be sent to the Minnesota Journal­ He expected us to care too. To the own time, wanted someone of strong kick off a fund raising effort to endow ism Center, 111 Murphy Hall, 206 exclusion of almost everything else. In principles as well as strong rapport with the $1 million Mitchell V. Charnley Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN those days, I had more than a passing students on that board, and Charnley Chair, which will support the profes­ 55455. interest in University Theatre. was the man. The thirties were troubled sional program in the School of Jour­ Reservations for the 6 p.m. party at "You won't have time for it," he told times on campus: rallies for peace, nalism and Mass Communication. the University Radisson Hotel may be me firmly the day he insisted that I apply demonstrations against compulsory MaryAnn Yodelis Smith, director of made by sending $30 per person to the for a job on the Minnesota Daily. "If you military drill (not abolished until1934), the School, said the chair will School of Journalism and Mass give the Daily your best, you won't have student activists joining the striking "strengthen the professional side of the Communication, c/o Linda Wilson, time for the theater." (There was no truck drivers assaulted by police in undergraduate program by allowing us 111 Murphy Hall, 206 Church St. S.E., question that the Daily would get only downtown streets. The liberal Jacobins to hire, on a rotating basis, distin­ Minneapolis, MN 55455. my best.) were thwarted by a conservative Univer­ guished professional journalists both in Friends are asked to help celebrate Mine was not the only brilliant career sity president in their effort to name Eric print and broadcasting. In addition, our Charnley's birthday by sending individ­ in the arts that he thus subverted. (then Arnie) Sevareid Daily editor. graduate professional program will be ual birthday messages, which will be Graham Hovey (editorial writer, The Charnley had his hands full. enhanced by giving those students an compiled into a birthday book to be New York Times), George Moses (AP The Daily was not the only student opportunity to work closely with some­ presented to him at the dinner. bureau chief), were fine trombone horn publication under the supervision of the one who is renowned in his or her field." players, both of them assured of berths Board of Publications. There was the in the University marching and concerts Gopher yearbook, the Ski-U-Mah, the bands. Until Mitch (he was Mitch by humor magazine. And the Literary that time) prevailed on them to apply for Review. The young woman who had sat 5

WHAT THE PROFS ARE DOING

Stan Engebretson

• Stan Engebretson, Music, toured Professor program brings distin­ Israel as a member of the American guished scholars to campus. VIsiting Choral Directors Association in Janu­ scholar for winter quarter is John Fer­ ary. The Israeli government sponsored guson, author or co-author of nearly the trip to acquaint American choral 70 books and scores of articles on 1987 Minnesota College Bowl Championship Team members during the match conductors with Israeli choirs and choral topics such as latin, Greek, and English with Georgia Tech which was televised Dec. 20 on the Disney Channel were (left repertoire. In March, Engebretson will literature; ancient philosophy, religion, to right} Mark Erdahl, Robert Maranto, Matt Marta, and Bruce Simmons. accompany the Varsity Men's Chorus and history; contemporary Christian­ on a performance tour of Arizona, New ity; international affairs; and education. Mexico, and Colorado. • Rey Chow, Ferguson, former president of Selly Oak Mental Athletes Beat Comparative Literature, Charles Colleges in Birmingham, England, will Fletcher, Psychology, and Ann Walt­ teach courses on Horace's Odes and ner, History, have been awarded on Roman religion and early Christian­ Competition For National McKnight-Land Grant Professorships. ity for the Classical and Near Eastern Winners receive a $16,500 annual Studies department. • The 1987 Min­ research grant for the next three years, nesota New Rrms Study reports that College Bowl Title a year's leave with pay. and two targeted programs may be better than Sue Quinlan months' summer salary through 1990. blanket attempts in stimulating eco­ By The award is made possible by the nomic growth among new busi­ College spirit is often built around Maranto of Baltimore, who recently McKnight Foundation and is matched nesses, according to a survey of more Ill winning teams. But those teams earned a Ph.D. in Political Science; with monies from the Permanent Uni­ than 1 ,000 area firms. Principal inves­ don't have to be involved in athletic Virginian Bruce Simmons, who versity Fund. • Carla Phillips, His­ tigator in the study was Sociology pro­ competition, as the University's College completed his bachelor's degree in tory, received the Leo Gershoy Award fessor Paul Reynolds. • The Bowl team demonstrated by winning the Mathematics; and Hopkins native Mark for her book, Six Galleons for the King American Ethnological Association, the 1987 championship. Erdahl, a Theater major who claims his of Spain. A study of maritime and eco­ nation's largest social and cultural The championship match was taped specialties are "vagaries, obscurities, nomic history in the late 16th century, anthropology organization, has named in June at Walt fmney \\brld -in Orlando, and irrelevance." the work was judged by the American Stephen-Godeman; H\tfiropoiOgy, ifs Aa., but the results were kept secret until The team and its adviser, Barb Tuck­ Historical Association as the best book president-elect through 1988 and its television broadcast in late Decem­ ner of the St. Paul Student Center, were on European history published in 1987. president from 1989-91. • Ellen ber. The Minnesota team defeated honored by the Board of Regents at its • Judith Martin, Urban Studies pro­ Stekert, English, will be a visiting folk­ Carleton College in the regional final January meeting. Board chairman David gram coordinator, taught a course on lore scholar at the University of Oregon and then beat teams from Cornell, Lebedoff was especially pleased by the contemporary American cities in during winter and spring quarters. • Georgetown, and Western Connecticut team's success; he was an alternate on Amsterdam, the Netherlands, through John Archer, Humanities, has received State to advance to the finals against Minnesota's 1959 team. Lebedoff and the University's Amsterdam Exchange a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the Georgia Tech. The Minnesota team won other alumni joined with 1987 team Program in February. • Terence Ball, romantic suburb of Great Britain and $10,000 in scholarships. members and split into two teams for a Political Science, held a fellowship at the United States before 1870. • As The 1987 team was captained by mini-bowl during a fund-raiser in late the Woodrow Wilson International Ever, Gene, co-edited by Nancy Rob­ Chicagoan Matt Marta, a senior in January. Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian erts, Journalism and Mass Commu­ Economics and English, who was also a Maranto, Erdahl, and new team Institution in Washington, D.C .. fall nication, was published in September member of Minnesota's 1984 College members Josh Jacobson, a CLA senior, quarter. While there, he began work­ by Farleigh Dickinson University Press. Bowl championship team. While he and Pete Nickitas, a first-year Law ing on a book about intergenerational The work-a collection of 130 letters acknowledged that luck was involved in School student, won this year's regional justice. • Patricia Hampl, EngUsh, written by playwright Eugene O'Neill to the team's success, Marta told reporters College Bowl tournament at Mankato received an Outstanding Achievement drama critic and friend George Jean that "It's a tribute to the education of the State University in late February. They Award from the St. Paul YWCA in Nathan between 1919-49-was pro­ University that we could do as well as now advance to district competition to December. Hampl was chosen for her duced with her father, Arthur Roberts, we did against some of these Ivy League defend their national championship title. "leadership excellence and commu­ an English professor at the State Uni­ schools." Dave Dorman of Coffman Memorial nity involvement" as a scholar and versity of New York College at Morris­ Other team members include Bob Union is the team's new adviser.D author. • Each year the Hill VISiting ville.

Deluxe Check Printers Gift Creates Writing Program CLA-- A $1 million gift from Deluxe ture, and General College. A year ago, Ill Check Printers will help launch a the College of Liberal Arts' governing Ford Hall was named after Guy Stan­ University-wide program for research body approved tougher writing require­ ton Ford, University president from and development of methods for improv­ ments for admission and graduation for 1938 to 1941. When first opened in ing the way writing is assessed and students entering CLA in 1991. The 1947, Ford Hall was a two-story wooden taught. number of required writing courses will structure that had been moved from a The gift, which will be matched by double to four, and a 10- to 25-page naval air station to accommodate money from umestricted gifts to the writing portfolio will be required for increased enrollment following World Minnesota Campaign, will support admission. War II. Originally called "Mrs. research in a Center for Interdisciplinary "The ability to write clearly and Murphy" because of its proximity to Studies in Writing. The center will focus effectively is essential for success in all Murphy Hall, Ford Hall now houses the on an approach to writing instruction, walks of life," said Harold Haverty, pres­ American Indian Studies, Anthropology, which is known at the university as Writ­ ident and chief executive officer of Chicano Studies, Humanities, and ing Across the Curriculum because of Deluxe Check Printers. "We are pleased Philosophy departments, the Women's its emphasis on improving writing in all to support the University of Minnesota Studies program, and the School of areas of study. in this unique program, which will help Social Work. Proposals for an integrated writing students of all disciplines develop the program have originated in the College writing skills necessary for their chosen Ford Hall of Liberal Arts, the College of Agricul- fields."D 6

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COLLEGE 0 Mahnomen """"""3 5 4 Split Recommended for CLA; Clay Becker CLA Wants Definite Money Commitment 18 11 cartton OtterTail The final Commitment to Focus plan granted or would be delayed until a vice 32 drew mixed reviews from CLA faculty provost and new deans were in place, 42 Geographic when it was released in early February. in approximately a year and a half. The Distribution The ClA Assembly voted to postpone Board of Regents is continuing to dis­ Grant Douglas splitting the college until there is more cuss the proposal and will make a 7 28 of Fall1987

assurance of new funding. The plan, decision in the spring. Stevens Pope "Academic Priorities,'' called for split­ In January, Dean Fred Luker­ 4 CLA ting CLA into two colleges, the College mann said the delay in the presenting Swift Students of Social and Behavior Sciences and Commitment to Focus proposals has the College of Humanities and Rne Arts. made it difficu~ to recruit professors tor A Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engi­ some vacancies and to persuade oth­ neering (FASE) would be established ers not to leave. CLA usually begins under a vice provost. FASE would hiring professors winter quarter for the include CLA's two new coHeges, plus foHowing academic year. The admin­ 3 the Institute of Technology, College of istration's plan originally was sched­ Uncoln '""' Biological Sciences, University Col­ uled for release in December. 9

lege, and General College. It would Approximately 20 to 30 openings need Pipestone Mum~y Cottonwood serve as the entry point for all fresh­ to be filled for 1988-89. 13 13 16 32 men. Substantial new funding was CLA falls behind nine peer institu­ Rod< Nobles Jadlson Martin promised, including $1.5 million each tions in the number of faculty and for the two new colleges, plus addi­ teaching assistants. The average fac­ Compiled by CLA Data Services tional funds for advising, lower division ulty size of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mich­ education, international programs, igan, Michigan State, Purdue, Texas, instructional equipment, and research Washington (Seattle), and Wisconsin centers. Funding depends, however, is 605.08 faculty members. CLA has on receiving $25.3 mitUon from the State 476.17 faculty. CLA has requested Legislature, and the CLA Assembly did funding under Commitment to Focus not consider that promise definite to bring that number to 545.8. The Profile of CLA Student Body enough to consider splitting. There was average number of teaching assist­ also concern that CLA's request for 47 ants at the other schools is 296.65, new faculty members would not be compared with CLA's 201.33. Shows Signs of Shifts, Changes

By Jeanine Halva-Neubauer Arnold Caswell, Music Education John McNally, associate professor professor, died Jan. 14 in Minneapolis. emeritus in English, died Dec. 16, at Ever wonder what the CLA student pronounced-more than 90 percent of He was 65. He had been fighting tung his home in Clearwater, Ra., shortly II body is really like? CLA undergraduates hail from a four­ cancer for four years. Caswell, who after returning home from heart by-pass Geographically, enrollment has a state area. taught at the University since 1953, surgery at University Hospital. He was strong regional component. Four-fifths A slight geographical shift is begin­ taught the Ortt method of teaching 63. He retired in 1984. McNally was a of CLA students (13,500) are from ning. Only 60 percent of first-year music, which involves teaching both specialist in the teaching of medieval Minnesota-two-thirds (11 ,200) come students are from the metro area, while music and composition to young chU­ literature, especially Chaucer, and he from the seven-county metropolitan area 23 percent (a new high) come from other dren using instruments modeled after was known as a wonderful reader of alone. When including states with which states. More Wisconsin residents are folk instruments. his own and others' poetry. the University has tuition reciprocity enrolling in the college. Matt Dion, (Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South director of CLA Prospective Student Dakota), the regional nature of the Services and Admissions, predicts this college becomes even more number will rise as long as the reciproc-

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ity agreement remains intact. Dion foresees a decline in the interna­ tional student population as tougher admission standards take effect. Currently, the greatest numbers of CLA .ALUMNI ttiJI/7- foreign students come from Japan (22), South Korea (22), Hong Kong (21), and Iran (20). Hammel Awarded Minority students represent more Gold Medal than 7 percent of the CLA population and continue to increase in number. The average age of first-year students The Minnesota Society of the Amer­ remains stable at 18. Transfer students ican Institute of Architects presented are increasing in number, as are their its Gold Medal for distinguished ages upon entering CLA. Adult special achievement and service to the or non-degree seeking students have profession posthumously in Novem­ declined greatly, a trend Dion attributes ber to Richard Hammel, cofounder of to economic factors. the Mineapolis architectural firm of Females outnumber males. Since Hammel Green and Abrahamson. Inc. 1985 , about 55 percent of the entering He died in 1986. class has been female. First-year females Hammel graduated from the Univer­ possess better academic records than sity in 1946 and always was an advo­ their male counterparts; in fact, two­ cate of liberal arts education. He thirds of Honors Division students are received the University's Outstanding women. Achievement Award in 1977. His The academic caliber of all students architecture firm grew to one of the is on the rise. For the first time, entering largest in the state, with 200 employ­ students from Minnesota have a higher ees. It was involved in designing sev­ Ambassador Max M. Karnpelman receives a University of Minnesota hood from eral University buildings, Koltoff Hall, academic profile (i.e., high school class Dean Fred Lukennann (left) and Regent M. Elizabeth Craig at the honorary degree rank and college admission test scores) ceremony during CLA Commencement in December. Management and Economics, the than do nonresidents. In addition, Health Sciences Buildings, and the college-bound students are completing Electrical Engineering and Computer more preparatory coursework, espe­ Science Building now under construc­ cially in math and foreign languages, tion. He also designed the Colonial while in high school. All in a Week's Work: Kampelman Receives Church of Edina and the Canterbury Although Dion noted an increase in Downs racetrack in Shakopee. high-ability students entering CLA from Honorary Degree, Nuclear Treaty Signed high school, be said a-decline in highest ability (top 5 percent) students enrolling Ambassador Max M. Kampelman ment in 1985, in the law firm of Fried, in the college has occurred because received the honorary degree, Doctor Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman. "central administration significantly of Humane Letters, at the December He was appointed by President Carter reduced its commitment to high-ability 1987 CLA Commencement. and reappointed by President Reagan scholarships based on academic merit Kampelman, who is chief arms to serve as Ambassador and Head of rather than financial need." n~otiator for the United States, spoke the U.S. Delegation to the Conference Fall admissions applications by high at the commencement ceremony a few on Security and Cooperation in Europe, school seniors has reached a new high of days after President Ronald Reagan which took place in Madrid from 1980 7 ,500. Applicants accepted into CLA and Soviet President Mikhail Gor­ to 1983. He previously was a senior have dropped from 90 percent to 67 bachev signed the I.N.F. Treaty in adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the percent since 1980, due in part to enroll­ Washington, D.C. United Nations and served as Legis­ ment limits approved by the State Legis­ Kampelman has had an active career lative Counsel to U.S. Senator Hubert lature. Of the high school seniors . in law, government service, education, H. Humphrey. accepted, Dion said that approximately and public affairs. He received his M.A. Kampelman was the founder and 45 percent (about 2,500 people for from CLA in 1946 and his Ph.D. in 1951, moderator of the public affairs pro­ 1987 -88) enroll in the college. both in Political Science. gram on public television "Washing­ He was a partner, until his retire- ton Week in Review.'' 0 Richard Hammel

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continued from page 4 party-the first of many, as it turned own textbook on broadcast news, out-and guests overflowed the main followed by his acclaimed textbook, dining room of the Campus Club. Reporting. But as we found out, retirement (Mitch was-and is-a superb parties only encouraged him. Mitch editor. He's also a compulsive editor. went on teaching (formally) for two He'll doubtless read this, ballpoint at the more years. Jean wrote a letter, cogently ready, even though it will be in print.) setting out the case for an exception to Nonetheless, the Charnley office door the mandatory retirement rule, sent it to remained open, and the students with Met Wilson, everyone's ideal University careers to watch had become Jerry Kloss president, and Mitch became the (feature writer, Milwaukee Journal) and William J. Murphy Professor for two Curt Anderson (former editor, Ladies years. Home Journal) and Todd Hunt (journal­ Even then, the University wouldn't let ism professor, Rutgers) and Paul him retire. He became acting associate Gruchow (author and former editor, director of University Relations for a Worthington Globe) and Jean Worral year, then E. W. Ziebarth, dean of CLA, (Ward) (journalism professor) and Dave lured him to the college office to super­ Burrington (NBC bureau chief, San vise publications and whatever details Francisco) and Jerry Nelson (Gov. were falling between the cracks. After Perich's press secretary and former AP eight years, another retirement party. State Capitol reporter) and Steve Alnes We seem to have run out of retire­ (editoral page editor, Minneapolis Star, ments to celebrate, but his 90th birthday and editor, Minnesota Journal) and will do as well. Dave Mona and Denny McGrath (part­ When I called him to verify some ners, Mona, Meyer & McGrath, public dates for this article, he was understand­ relations agency). ably curious. "I'm just trying to be accu­ The central role he played in the rate, like you taught me," I explained. school became all the more apparent the ')\t your age, it's high time the lesson years he took sabbaticals to lecture in took hold," he said, not atypical of the Italy on Fulbright grants. So it didn't put-down he reserves for people he make sense that he should retire when he likes .• reached the mandatory retirement age of George Hage is a professor emeritus 68 in 1966. in the School ofJournalism and Mass We helped arrange a retirement Communication.