University of North Florida UNF Digital Commons UNF Soundings UNF Publications Fall 1989 UNF Soundings Winter 1988-89 University of North Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/unf_soundings Recommended Citation University of North Florida, "UNF Soundings Winter 1988-89" (1989). UNF Soundings. 3. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/unf_soundings/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the UNF Publications at UNF Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UNF Soundings by an authorized administrator of UNF Digital Commons. For more information, please contact Digital Projects. © Fall 1989 All Rights Reserved Beach. Dr. Herbert will assume his UNF Foundation, Inc. UNF duties shortly after the begin­ marr Will ning of the new year. William A. Hightower "We shall continue to build at UNF President ·D a regional university which is re­ W. Patrick Cusick (BB garded by its peers and this commu­ President/Elect Regc Charles A. Clarkson •A nity as one of the nation's best," Vice President/Governmental Relations and John J. Diamond President Herbert said. "We shall do last Vice President/Facilities so within a climate of openness, Celeste Hampton Onu mutual support and concern for all Vice President/Programs ·s· of those we serve." Delores M. Pass (BB Vice President/Financial Development and President Herbert earned B.S. and Pamela Y. Paul M.P.A. degrees from the University Vice President/Community Relations •R of Southern California (USC) and Past President 1986 bee; Edward L. Baker sum the Ph.D. in urban affairs and public Margaret M. Black administration from the University teac James P. Citrano Sch of Pittsburgh. Past President 1987 WELCOME, David Clavier •E Prior to assuming his current FlU James E. Cobb (BE President Adam Herbert!! post, Dr. Herbert served as associate Ohlyne B. Coble Flo1 academic vice president/chief Charles Commander III •S Dr. Adam W. Herbert, Jr., was Daniel W. Connell, Jr. academic officer for FlU's North James E. Davidson, Jr. (BP chosen on Dec. 5 by the Florida Miami campus; dean of the FlU Isabelle T. Davis Cot Board of Regents (BOR) to become School of Public Affairs and Serv­ Dorothy S. Dorion sci< the University of North Florida's ices; and in academic and adminis­ Francis I duPont III Sev Past President 1985 •I new president. trative posts at Virginia Polytechnic Mary Elizabeth D'Zamko Dr. Herbert, vice president, chief Institute and State University, the Faculty Association is a administrative officer and professor Washington, D.C.-based Joint William E. Flaherty Ri of public administration at Florida W. Thomas Hale ·~ Center for Political Studies, and at David C. Hammers (M International University's North USC. Linda Harmon we· Miami campus, was nominated by Osprey Club He has taught or lectured at FlU, Lowell D. Harmon tea State University System Chancellor Virginia Tech, USC, Howard Uni­ Elizabeth M. Head Sci Charles B. Reed, approved by the versity, the University of Pittsburgh, David M. Hicks •I Charles E. Hughes BOR Presidential Selection Com­ New Mexico State University, and is 1 Hugh H. Jones, Jr. mittee and confirmed by the full Texas Southern University. HyW.Kiiman Co BOR membership, the latter two Selected as a White House Fellow William C. Mason de~ actions by telephone conference call Roy E. McTarnaghan and Special Assistant to the U.S. Alford C. Sinclair from Jacksonville. Secretary of Health, Education and Past President 1983 "Dr. Herbert has been chosen to Welfare (1974-75), he also served as J.P. Smith •• I lead one of Florida's most dynamic Jay Stein Special Assistant to the U.S. Under­ Robert L. Stein public institutions," Dr. Reed said. secretary of Housing and Urban De­ Chris Stockton III "He is an innovative, energetic velopment (1975-77). Alumni Association leader who brings to UNF a broad President Herbert co-authored with John Walker Student Government Association range of experience and skills and a Henry B. Thomas a book, Govern­ Joseph Walter solid understanding of Florida public ment by Remote Control: Privatizing Michael A. Walters higher education to lead UNF into the Public Sector, currently being Ex-Officio the 1990s." reviewed for publication by Simon Thomas E. Quinlan President Herbert, 45, was chosen and Schuster. He also has contrib­ Executive Director from a field of 180 national candi­ Curtis D. Bullock uted numerous articles for the pro­ Treasurer dates. The third permanent presi­ fessional literature in his field. Thomas S. Paullin dent to lead UNF, he succeeds Dr. Dr. Herbert is married to the former Director of Development Curtis L. McCray, who left in Karen Y. Lofty of Washington, D.C. 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This public document was primed at a cost of $ 16.894.60, or $1. 13 per copy, to inform interested publics of UNF programs in teaching, research and service and of members of the UNF community involved in such programs. iJ I () I I I (' ', UNF Professor Analyzes Soviet MIND OF TBE BEAR, Life and Times '73 By Tony Burke •MA Associate Editor is mar for Fit •TH Winds of change are (BBA accou blowing the Bank across Banke steppes of the Soviet •JA Union, spreading MED ofPi1 Elem seeds of a reform Ellen m~ movement that has '7! the potential to •Tl (BA man liberalize the political, emp is er social and economic Schc life of the world's mai He a largest nation. '7 •V (BJ and TV (BJ Gri lasnost and perestroika reforms introduced by anc En: Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the me •I Communist Party, have already liberalized So­ (R viet politics, historical perspectives and mass Ell • I media, according to Dr. Theophilus C. Prousis, associate (M Al professor of European and Russian history at the Univer­ su· sity of North Florida. m; (B continued on page 12 2 p r o f 1 I c s I UNF Fulbright EYE OF TBE TIGER Scholar Shares Oriental Insights By Tony Burke There is a story of a poet who had a vision of China. By chance, the poet was allowed to travel to the country he had come to admire, but quickly became disillusioned with what he saw there and lett. The poet claimed to prefer "the China in my head to the one I saw•... " hina is difficult for most Americans to accu- rately visualize, because Western perceptions blend visions of "ancient" China with popular­ ized media pictures of recent "revolutionary" China. The truth lies somewhere in between, said Dr. William R. Slaughter, professor of language and literature at the University of North Florida who returned home in August after spending nearly a year in China as a Fulbright Scholar. continued on page 15 3 golfer ha ual toum Hall, U1 two title~ coached America! .... -~. Thorsen . Whil prime m• teams, it drive the program In 1 athletes< America: Athlete c any prev UNF's fi history. NAl letes mu: grade po finish an Illustration, Susan Daly Andrew A. Farkas ss-one wall, its book- . / ves'- invite curiosity, some volumes stacked sidewise and oth- .- '):.;....: ~ ers buried under bric-a­ beckon to visitors. Con­ with such terms as ''cutting efficiency," "customer "computeriza- ...~ tio ... " Can this be a library? 5 Thomas G. Carpenter Library Where is the stereotypical is to work. We read at home, of service. That's our library's I "Marian the Librarian" with whom except for minor instances." product." we've grown up ..