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FALL 1995

THE

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Walk Awhile In

My Shoes

EDITOR'S VIEW

Bloomsburg:
The University Magazine.
This university has a good story
to

tell.

In

fact,

we have

lots

pages of this and future

stories. In the

issues of Bloomsburg, you'll read

new worlds

get a sense

to play



about the

and come

opportunities

civility

some of them.

meet students and faculty who are exploring

You'll

brave

of good

on

in

Shanghai and on the Internet. You'll

many roles a college president is called upon

to

understand the challenges of balancing

intercollegiate playing fields. You'll see

and community

among

are



today's college students learn

In the pages of Bloomsburg,

celebrating the

life

why

the important lessons that

inside

and outside the classroom.

we hope

you'll find a university

of the mind. You're invited to the celebration!

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THIS ISSUE

IN

VOL.

NO.

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3 Hand

Bloomsburg
S.

Hand Together

by Vanessa Hranitz

is

new

This story examines the

experiences in

life.

metaphor

a

university's role in helping

PRESIDENT
Jessica

in

Walking into the world

its

for collecting

students walk before

they run.

Kozloff

COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES

8 Using Toons

Ramona H. Alley, Chair
Joseph J. Mowad.Vice Chair
Robert W. Buehner.Jn, Secretary
Jennifer

experience. That's the philosophy behind the Institute
for Interactive Technologies at
3.

Hand

in

learners to

'66,

world,

Secretary

John J.Trathen '68,Treasurer

in

C. Hippenstiel '68, Ex-Officio,
Director of Alumni Affairs

by Markland Lloyd

many

of us have trouble keeping a

our heads. But maybe

that walking in another's shoes

J.Jan Girton, Chair

modern

Vice Chair
Anthony laniero, Executive Director
David Hill, Treasurer
Jr.,

tongue
blackjack

may be key to

civilization.

17 Inauguration of a President

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

The

Lentczner

EDITOR

origins of the

modern

university can be

found

medieval Europe. Inaugurations of presidents

Markland G. Lloyd

other academic ceremonies
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Joan Heifer



in

—and

recall the traditions

of a

medieval past. .and connect scholars today with the
.

17.

Marlin Wagner
Mark Anderman.Terry Wild Studio

SPECIAL

civil

civility is just a velvet

to keep the unprivileged in line. This article suggests

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

T.

young

impressarios.

Notions of civility go back to the Greeks, but in today's

Doug

Elbern H.AIkire

become musical

12 Walk Awhile...

Marvin Metzger '86. President
Sandra Rupp 7 1, Vice President

Maurer

Bloomsburg, where

students create computer programs that challenge

Hand

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Joan

by Eric Foster

participate in the learning

R.Adams

James T.Atherton, Jr.
LaRoy G. Davis
Gail D. Edwards
John J. Haggerty
Anna Mae Lehr
Gerald E. Malinowski
Joseph J. Mowad
Kevin M. O'Connor
James H. McCormick. Ex-Officio,

Clifford

Make Music

to

when they

People learn best

Inauguration

values

and mores of an

earlier age.

THANKS

20 Meeting

Esther Furnace Tack Shop, Bloomsburg
Naturalizer Shoe Store, Bloomsburg

A

DESIGNER

roles. In

John Lorish

the Challenges...

upon
her inaugural weekend

college president

University

EDITORIAL BOARD

called



throughout her

ART DIRECTOR
Gale DeCoster

is



first

by Joan Lentczner

to play a
as she

number of

had done

year as president of Bloomsburg

Jessica Kozloff

found that

all

the world

is

indeed a stage.

Nancy Edwards 70
Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Helwig

22

Address comments and questions

HOW YOU

Play the Game by James Hollister
team isn't enough these days. Sports
has become an instrument of social policy, and so,
today's athletic director must be as adroit as a circus juggler in balancing opportunities for men and women on
It's

Fielding a winning

to:

Editor

Bloomsburg
Waller Administration Building
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA 17815

college playing fields.
22. Playing the

Game

Internet address:

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lloy@husky.bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

member

is

a

32 Commentary

of the State System of Higher

Education. Board of Governors of the State

Eugene Dixon

Jr.,

by Patricia Trosky

A busy mother/daughter/wife/student/worker tells what

System of Higher Education include:
F.

Briefs

chair, Lafayette Hill;

it

James T.
Atherton Jr., Wilkes-Barre; Muriel Berman,
Allentown; Jeffrey W. Coy, Shippensburg;
Glenn Y. Forney, Shavertown; Dr. Eugene W.

means

to have

life

come

full cycle.

Julia B. Ansill, vice chair, California;

Hickock Jr., Secretary of Education; James A.
Hughes, Philadelphia; F. Joseph Loeper,
Drexell Hill;

M.

Kim E.

Lyttle, Pittsburgh;

Nespoli, Berwick;

Thomas

J.

Joseph

Ridge,

Governor; Philip D. Rowe Jr., Wyomissing;
Elizabeth L. Schmid, Student, West Chester;
Jere

W. Schuler,

Harrisburg; Patrick

J.

Cover photograph by

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry,

Mark Anderman,
The Terry Wild Studio

life style,

sexual orientation, dis-

Vietnam era veteran status or union membership. The university is additionally committed to affirmative action and will take positive steps to provide
such educational and employment opportunities.
abilities,

Stapleton,

Harrisburg; R. Benjamin Wiley, Erie.
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A

WHOLE NEW WORLD

The world was

all before

them, where to choose

Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:

They hand

in

hand with wand'ring steps and

Through Eden took

slow,

their solitary way.

-John Milton, Paradise Lost
*

Since the exile of our ancestors from Eden,

human

beings have

been drawn to explore new worlds. Only a few have made
exploration

their

life's

calling



Leif

Erickson,

Christopher Columbus, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong,

many

Jacques Cousteau, Sally Ride. Today, however,

Americans believe that we should be more concerned
with our immediate neighborhood, rather than with
events or people

on the other

side of the globe.

B/oomsburg University Magazine

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3

ronically, America's

time

when

new isolationism comes at a
we inhabit is smaller than

the world

ever before. Telecommunications technology has

created a global village where news and information are available almost instantaneously.

Today,

when

ple in Peoria

the Chinese import wheat, peo-

pay more for a loaf of bread. When

the people of Ukraine face a civil war, America's

armed

on alert.
what should the university

forces prepare to go

Given these

do to prepare

realities,
its

students for the world they will

face outside the college classroom? In

answer to

Bloomsburg University invites students, faculty and alumni to "explore their world."
this question,

It

could be said that Bloomsburg's quest into

global education began quietly, long before
fashionable.

it

was

Almost from the beginnings of the

school in 1839, students could elect to take

some other foreign
They studied European history and British literature.
The study was traditional and western-centered.
But while the world has grown smaller, the university's vision

Latin, French, Spanish or

language.

has expanded.

1993

fall

result

The reasons were practical.
Typically, when Bloomsburg students
exposure to

are talking to people just like themselves.
institution took another

major step to meet the changing

needs of its students

when

ness education in

mission statement soon following the 1992

its

it

included the goal of global aware-

faculty survey.

"The university has

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incoming

must



In addition to providing opportunities for curricular experi-

ences in cultural diversity, the university breaks the physical

boundaries of the classroom.

loomsburg students are encouraged to study abroad.

The

university fosters
in

institutions

partnerships with foreign

Europe, Asia, Africa and South

America. For the same tuition, or on one-to-one
outside of the country.

James Pomfret, professor of mathematics and
treasurer of the Global Awareness Society International,

the ultimate goal

at Bloomsburg University, says that
would be for all students to spend a

semester abroad during their junior or senior years.

But for now, Pomfret

making

this

says,

"we are

—and we work hard

wishes to go abroad

economic

barriers that

might get

Pomfret's son, Jim, studied two

Bloomsbvro University Magazine

with

satisfied

option available for any student

who

to reduce

in the way."

summers and an

academic semester abroad. An archaeology major at

Bloomsburg, the younger Pomfret participated in a
dig in Kenya, near

where noted anthropologist

Richard Leakey discovered the remains of Lucy,
identified strategic directions that

in

gender, race, ethnicity, religion and/or global perspectives.

which was founded

on campus, they
worlds other than their own. Nine out of
7,000 students come from Pennsylvania.
arrive

More than half of that number live within a 75-mile radius of
the Town of Bloomsburg.
Too often, when Bloomsburg students talk to each other, they
The

diversity requirement for

exchange, budding scholars can study for a semester

in the university's general education curriculum.

little

new

earn six credits from courses that are "diversity focused"

of the globalization of education, the faculty, in an

ten of the university's

a

students. All students, as a prerequisite for graduation,

April 1992 survey, urged the adoption of a diversity requirement

have

The Bloomsburg University Curriculum

semester.

Committee added

sister institutions.

As a

national, interna-

Further re-shaping in the curriculum occurred during the

The first authorization to enroll foreign students was issued by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Philadelphia on
Nov. 8, 1966. By 1973, Bloomsburg University was sending
student teachers abroad to Europe, South America and Asia.
During the late 80s and into the early 90s, the School of Extended
Programs could no longer keep pace with international
education objectives. The torch was passed to Academic Affairs.
By 1992, a new office, the International Education Office,
was created to coordinate study-abroad programs for
Bloomsburg students and to enhance academic opportunities
for faculty. The office also offers support for faculty to internationalize the curriculum and helps develop exchange programs
with

programs that emphasize regional,
and environmental concerns...".

include...

tional

one of humankind's

earliest

known

ancestors.

A

WHOLE NEW WORLD

But not everyone chooses to dig for primordial remains in
equatorial Africa.

Some

prefer less adventure

in their lives. If students can't

and more

stability

go out into the world, the univer-

bring the world to them.

sity will

That's the other philosophy behind the international studies

A

"when they

are challenged to

compare and

live,"

she

think."

Another campus-based organization also challenges individbeyond the scope of their world.

uals to think

program on Bloomsburg's campus.
Madhav Sharma is coordinator of the
education.

"American students better understand the way they
says,

office

of international

native of Nepal, a small country nestled in the

Himalyan mountains between China and

India,

Sharma

The Global Awareness Society International (GASI), founded
by Bloomsburg sociology professor and Korean native Chang
Shub Roh and headquartered in Bloomsburg, has members
from El Salvadore, Germany and Hungary, as well
Brazil, Ethiopia, Zampia, India, China and Japan.

as Poland,

advocates the enrollment of foreign students at Bloomsburg.

"Because there

limited exposure to the outside world,"

is

Sharma says, "the goal is to diversify the campus
and bring the outside world inside."

He

says that approximately 100 international

students

—from

Ireland, Brazil,



China and Japan

harma would
not so

Cameroon,

Russia,

are enrolled at the university,

double that figure

like to

much because he's looking to provide

additional opportunities for foreign scholars
to attend

one of Pennsylvania's public

insti-

tutions, but because international students
offer

an informal education in international

relations for Bloomsburg's students.

International students bring a global perspective
to the

American

university.

Nadia Gorlenkova, a Prussian graduate student in
interactive technology, compares the two cultures.
"Everything

is

different here," she says.

lives for granted, until

new way
life

of

living."

we

"We all take our
whole

are confronted with a

She has

many

stories to tell

about

in Russia.

Gorlenkova believes that American students can learn

new

perspectives about their

others

—by being exposed

own

to ideas

society



as well as

from other

cultures.

The
supported GASI since
the

first

institutional

member

university has strongly

its

inception and

became

in 1991.

GASI's primary goals are to promote awareness and understanding of the diversity of

all

ety recognizes that one of the

societies

methods

and

cultures.

The

soci-

to achieving this goal

is

through educational experiences abroad and by establishing
international membership.

GASI conferences
In

May of

are a step in that direction.

1995, the society held

its

fourth annual conference

in Shanghai, China.

Two Bloomsburg

University students

trips to the conference

Obit

an
African
safari...

won

all-expense paid

based upon an essay competition that

focused on global population issues.

Behzad Noubary, majoring in engineering and physics

at

Bloomsburg, returned from Shanghai more convinced than
ever

that

while

textbooks

may

provide

an

intellectual

foundation for understanding other cultures, "learning from

example

is

priceless

and more enduring."

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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A

WHOLE NEW WORLD

-

"'"^S'S-SH^e.

isstfSW
Noubary himself

a

is

n^ffltiXW
'^

multicultural

student.

Born

in

A small doorway gives

access to the "fire pit,"

Manchester, England, he attended elementary school in Iran,

while a larger entrance for the

completed junior high in Germany and high school in the

Before

United

He became

States.

says,

actually see

The
sal

it

visual

"but you don't really understand

is

it

and performing

arts are

sometimes called univer-

The beauty of the Bolshoi
not lost upon other cultures.

Ballet or the

Kubuki

Internationally acclaimed clay works artist Shiho Kanzaki

has spent his

and

life

communicating with others through

his art

teaching.

Kanzaki, a native of Japan and advocate of global awareness,

came

to

Bloomsburg because of

a chance meeting

Internet with art professor Karl Beamer.

Kanzaki in Japan.

On

his first trip to

Beamer has

on the
visited

Bloomsburg, Kanzaki

helped Beamer build a kiln on his farm near Mainville.

Longer than a

tractor-trailer, Kanzaki's kiln includes

earthy mounds, one behind the other.

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Bloomsburg University Mogozine

two

large

opens off to the

side.

and personally places his
a unique glazing from the fire and

the kiln to create

ashes as they escape through the chimney.
Art, for Kanzaki,

product

for yourself."

languages.

Theater

young
until you

land," the

artist

firing, the artist strategically

work within

a naturalized citizen in 1988.

"You can read about a foreign culture or

Noubary

is

their

is

as

much about

process as

it is

about the

itself.

This past

summer he

returned to Mainville, firing ceramics

and working with Beamer 's students.
What do Bloomsburg's students gain from Kanzaki's visits on
the farm with his friend? "They learn to break away," Beamer
says. "They face up to the conservative and conformist tendencies of society. They discover a culture that's hundreds of years
older than their own."

Some have argued that the great age of exploration is past.
But in the new global village, undiscovered areas may be the
distances that separate people one from another. If the modern
university is to prepare a new generation of students to explore
it must build bridges across these
Bloomsburg University builds bridges.

the world, then

gulfs.

WHOLE NEW WORLD

A

Is

Quest takes

there any better teacher than experiem

ing to

Roy Smith; Bloomsburg's own Indiana

real world.

Jones.

Smithy executive director of Quest, an outdoor adven-_-,Vjture education

program

career out of "learning

by doing."

who

1

feu

open to anyone

has

Mexico, France and,

the desire

ambition

to ...,,

sank by crocojJiles.As this picture
Shows,

nbtiall Smith's

excursions

%re»quite so adverk-uresbme.
.

decide to

live

abroad

fall,

—and

toms

community. They don't

trips are safe

There are practical considerations: Those-with a

have

Tomorrow's

graduates

could

it

applicants

.

wise

On

Students

practices,

more

ence on people's

for

lives.

the

Smith has had more

says.

than

world,

one;'

student

Some have even

on campus or

lose

simple

make

us

A trip down the

Amazon can

help refo-

on simple joys.
Last, we learn more

eus

-"•'

Quest Director Roy Smith has led
two major expeditions supported
by National Geographic.

about ourselves.
Appreciating

and

understanding our

own

culture increases through interaction

not to eliminate traditional

good

Smith

we can

things that

but to complement them.

is

soul,

of the

happy.

in their

about the World bi"

spiritual

In a dog-eat-dog

sight

outdoor adventures discover

is

a

note, questing

says.

The purpose of Quest
educational

know your

to

competition.

flicker

Smith

from other

countries. 'It's always

out there and experience

lives,"

%r

tompeting

be

jobs against qualified

by on The Discovery ChaniieL They get
it. ''Learning by doing has an
emotional component that is the driving force of our

watch

fe

broader world view^may have a leg up in the job market.

to

exett a powerful influ-

just read

cus-

For some, the educational benefits

joined the Peace Corps as a result of their .experiences.

things they Wouldn't encounter

and

incentive to get

with you.

after graduation.

Participants' in Quest's

Scodafid. These journeys

group-oriented.
don't

!

life itself;

\The; experiences can
was

own

may notie enough
them moving, but Smith has several
other compelling reasons to join him on an adventure.

beyond the

and you don't have to
leave family and friends
far behind. In fact, you
can take mom and pop

s

this

teach tolerance of other people, their values

spend 16 weeks abroad,

was

concerned

questOrs to Kenya, the Amazon, Alaska, England,

Quest

Smith's party

is

process, Quest activi-

and

attacked by hippos, and his raft

Smith

that students understand the world, not just their

daily routine.

one.descent of the Otrio River

Quest has an interna-

small section of it Earlier adventures have taken

venture

in .Ethiopia,

at

education as a lifelong

and

On

- Much of the programming

tional focus. Like other educators,

a

Because he sees

ties are
,

made

has

at Bloorrisburg,

and comparison

with others.

who participate in Quest programs actually use

'^What do they

know of America," Smith

asks, "if

only

America they know?"

the concepts and ideas they have learned in class

"

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7

THE MUSIC GARAGE

USING

TO MAKE
BEAUTIFUL
MUSIC
The

garage door opens. Inside,
you find all the equipment you
need to create your band.
"Mick," the cartoon owl, gives you a
mission audition and choose the right
drummer, bass player and guitar players
to form your group. Use a computer's



mouse

to select the instruments

ers for

your upcoming

Oh

—and

and play-

Ron

anything from overhead projections for a
ERIC FOSTER

classroom presentation to desktop pub-

by the way

—while

you're

RON

MILLER AND JOAN HELFER

who

earned

"The Music Garage"

is

a computer

program created by a team of

technology

this past spring,

was one of 50

students.

'95.

MILA

is

at

MILA

Designed

to help children learn

paid

all

kudos that

how

is

Bloomsburg's instructional technol-

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it

was one

Bloomsburg University Magazine

sets

it

Video arcade games are a type of interprogram. So

of only three student projects

from North America

selected for

family computer

is

interactive.

to create educational

is

an international

its

from children

exposition of interactive computer

quest,

program

in Cannes, France.

A

has

had an

business's re-

an agency grant, and a college pro-

fessor's vision

programs

to

beginning ten years ago,

Bloomsburg's

entrepreneurial edge.

apart

training students

programs intended

corporate professionals.

From
inclusion in

the well-known

is

Carmen Sandiego educational game.
Even the golf game that dad uses on the
Bloomsburg's focus

a case study of

ogy program works and what
from other programs like it.

8

harmony and melody,

stu-

dents in college programs receive very

But his project

programs are turning up

Interactive

for audiences ranging

Miller earned for his

project aren't the kind of

often.

about the fundamentals of rhythm,

the expenses for Miller's trip.

The accolades

about instructional tech-

and about students learning to create
interactive programs. These programs
allow the user to "interact" with the computer to affect the outcome of a game or

active

an international conference

on the development of interactive computer programs, also referred
to as multimedia projects. The conference
that focuses

talk

everywhere these days.

graduate students from around the world

chosen to present their projects

when you

to find a specific piece of information.

Bloomsburg graduate

master of science in instructional

his

multimedia software. At Bloomsburg,
nology, you're talking about computers

harmony and melody.

Miller of Allentown,

computer-based interactive

lishing to

PHOTOS AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS BY

gig.

auditioning the band, you'll learn something about rhythm,

Instructional technology can refer to

WRITTEN BY

combined

academic program.

to create a

new

At a time when the Bloomsburg cam-

similar.

The chemical

pus mainframe computer held one-thou-

Nashville

memory that many desktop

EduDisk.

sandth of the

computers do today

—Harold

"Hank"

giant sent Bailey to

check out

to

EduDisk

Macintosh computers to

connecting

CD Rom

Bailey envisioned a curriculum in which

and developing software to

students would learn to harness the

active

burg became

Today, he directs that program and
the related Institute for Interactive

Within a

year, a

instructional technology

companies and agencies. Through the

place at Bloomsburg,

students have worked with clients

program was in
and through a Ben

Franklin Partnership Grant, the Center

such as the Pennsylvania Job Centers,

for Instructional Systems

Geisinger's health maintenance organi-

was

In the program's

com-

in

classes.

he was completing his doc-

more

for

In

Apple

technology program
and the name of the Center
tional

with 64K (kilo-

II

memory.

Over the next decade,
than 200 students

graduated from the instruc-

he

1980,

spending $3,400

splurged,

bytes) of

and

curriculum

in

instruction.

first year,

was taking

a single student

puters began in 1978, while

torate

Development

established.

zation and Dupont.
interest

for the

site

graduate program in

dents and the university to outside

Bailey's

and Blooms-

testing

a

firm's software.

Technologies (IIT), which links stu-

IIT,

drives

create inter-

computer programs.

Bailey was entranced,

teaching potential of the technology.

company,

a

was

Systems

Instructional

for

Development had changed

That's just

to

a fraction of the capacity of

the Institute for Interactive

today's ordinary floppy disk.

Technologies. Today, 35 to

"The computers were so
crude then you couldn't do

year from the intensive 18-

much

month program.

Bailey.

with
"But

was going

them,"

recalls

thought that

I

to

45 students graduate each

this

have grown as
From a single officeroom and later two

Facilities

be more than a

well.

passing fad, that the comput-

sized

would become more powerful
that they would only

adjoining

ers



get better."

Bloomsburg grad Ron

Through the

early 80s, Bailey taught

undergraduate courses in computer edu-

of three

who

Miller

work

in

Cannes.

camps

summer

Bloomsburg for children to
computer language suited
for children. And Bailey wrote and
collaborated on several books: Apple
Graphics Activities Handbook, Commodore 64 Graphics, Apple Logo and
at

Center for

The

happen



fast.

physician at nearby Geisinger Medical

Center

asked

instructional

Bailey

interested

in

to

program

Dupont heard about

McCormick

Services.

university's

commitment

to

other ways.

The IIT has created
that are being

of

them,

several

programs

marketed nationwide. One

"Attributes

Successful

for

Employability," has generated $140,000 in
royalties for the university.

As the program's student body and

Logo.

In 1984, things began to

A

Human

instructional technology has paid off in

learn Logo, a

Commodore

of

cluster

a

with high-tech equipment in

cation and gave workshops for teachers in

school districts. There were

in

classrooms and labs loaded

was one

North American Students

exhibited

students

offices,

now work

develop
for

an

nurses.

the project and was

developing

something

facilities

have grown, so has

tion. Students

China,

Russia,

Netherlands,

its

have come from
Turkey,

Spain,

reputaBrazil,

Israel,

the

Philippines

and

Puerto Rico to earn graduate degrees in
instructional technology at Bloomsburg.

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The

world
edge to

program designers have to work

connection of the academic

program

—of

theoretical

hands-on know-how

involved

knowl-

—remains

Miller

created

their

and

computer programming

class,

to master

his three partners

program,

Garage," they weren't just

these

"The Music
making it for

many

tional technology

Shelley Gross-Gray found in the pro-

work experience

working 13 years
"I

ing a project, students define a client's

program

to see that

For

Tim

the

Miller,

at the

client

was

the

Bethlehem MusikFest,

Phillips, assistant

director of the

"I told the

as a real estate appraiser.

to get into a

Gross-Gray,

studies in 1994.

"And

Institute for Interactive Technologies,

my two

some
Like
Berwick



and

her

to support

students, Gross-Gray of

entered the program

computer back-

any

also

computers,

found a ready outlet

for skills

she'd developed in business.

"Having a business background
strength,

particularly in

is

a

writing and

designing programs," she says.

who designed

Connecticut

and teaches the course.

own band by

needed

know about

she needed to

do three things. It had to be 'bulletproof it wouldn't crash when put in a
kiosk. It had to be interesting to middle
school students, and it had to provide
music instruction," says Tim Phillips,

"The Music Garage" allows children

creative

ground. At Bloomsburg, she learned what

team that the program had

assistant director of the IIT,

I

more

who began

children."

without

summers.

to

create their

wanted

designed and teaches the course.

where Bloomsburg University has exhibited for several

a chance to change careers after

field," says

it

meets those needs.
Technoplatz

program has often

been a source of opportunity.

was intended

than simulation. More than simply mak-

the

work in teams

the group for their projects.

gram

test

one person

for

in class, but they

with the emphasis on real-world rather

needs and



Students are exposed to

all.

For students, Bloomsburg's instruc-

technology program, their "advanced
to simulate real-world

them

skills

als in

classes in the instructional

instructional design" course

program

a

and draw upon the strengths of individu-

but for a client as well.

Like

creating

in

in teams.

specialized skills

videography, computer graphics, writing,

a

defining characteristic of the program.

When

many

There are too

business

the

to

found

to

in

program an

auditioning a

native

Jennifer

Gynn

the instructional technology
ideal

way in which

to indulge

variety of cartoon character musicians.

her long-time interest in computers and

The

dren about the fundamentals of music.

complement the teaching degree she'd
earned at Bloomsburg. For Megan

When

goal of the project

is

to instruct chil-

mix of

Johnson, specializing in instructional

musicians to play rhythm, harmony and

technology was a way to make herself

melody, the cartoon musicians perform

more competitive

together as a band.

after earning a

"We

a child chooses the correct

program with students
from the Bloomsburg Middle School and
made changes and adjustments from
their reactions," says alumnus Miller, who
managed the project. "I had a brilliant
team working with me, and we were able
to finish the project on time. It helped
that everyone in the group had played a
musical instrument at some time."
In the case of "The Music Garage,"
some of the feedback from children was
tested the

unexpected. For example, they often
chose one particular character for their

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Hank

in a tight job

market

communications degree

at

another university.
Bailey, IIT director,

for an Apple IIC back

in

spent $3,400

The

relationship that the

program has

1980.

developed with the business world helps
the

program boast of

placement
band, even though he was obviously

"We

can't

keep up with the market-

incorrect, simply because the character

place," says Bailey.

was so funny. Miller and

two

his colleagues

adjusted for this "glitch."

"Most students have

to five offers for jobs before they

Bloomsburg graduates are courted
by AT&T, Bell Atlantic, IBM, Unisys and
Eastman Kodak. Other grads, like Miller,
leave."

Like the cartoon characters in "The

Music Garage," teamwork

a 100 percent job

rate.

is

a defining

characteristic of Bloomsburg's

In the real world, interactive

program.

computer

choose to go to small companies that do
contract work.

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COVER STORY

A

weary wife returned home

to

her husband after a day at work.

She sank gratefully into the couch, sighed deeply,

removed her heeled shoes and rubbed her feet.

'What's wrong?" her spouse asked from an armchair across

the room.

"Have a tough day out

there in the rat race?'

x

No," she said. "I can run with with rats just fine.

"But you should walk a day

Toward

New

a

Civility:

Promoting the Values of Community

Walk Awhile
WRITTEN BY MARKLAND LLOYD

Behind
about

anecdote

this

is

an assumption

human behavior: we would

develop

greater tolerance for our differences

we could understand
Could
one

it

be that wearing shoes



else's

is

if

only

another's problems.

—some-

the key to civilization as

we

know it?
The notion of civility
Aristotle wrote

Cicero spoke of societas

The English word
the Latin root

and
its

"civil society."

civility

comes from

source for

FALL 1995

it

city, civil

Although the word traces
has

come

to include a

Bloomsburg University Magazine

In

My Shoes

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK ANDERMAN AND JOAN HELFER



much broader territory from teatime
manners to behavior on a basketball court.
In recent years society seems to have

become less civil.
A number of

— including

national political lead-

Clinton and
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
ers

President

pnave spoken recently about the decline.

Even Newt Gingrich, chief apologist

for

new Republican majority in Congress,
has become a champion of civility. In his
best-selling book To Renew America,
the

civilis.

origins to the political forum, since the

18th century,

12

civilis,

civilization.

itself is ancient.

about a

in these shoes.

Gingrich writes that "The central challenge to our generation

renew

American

is

to reassert

civilization

.

.

.

[

and

and]


COVER STORY

embrace a

of values and living habits

set

that have flourished here

400

Gingrich and

become

has

Unfortunately, there's ample evidence to
suggest that, as a society,

much about

years."

Civility, for
ers,

for nearly

many

oth-

Ours

polarized by race, ethnicity, religion and

examined

behavior,

as

well

gender,

as

clothing,

age,

sexual

diet

and

is

increasingly

are

about our

recent issue of

Newsweek indicated
Amer-

48 percent of blacks, 26 percent

from now "the

believes that 100 years

[no longer] exist as

will

Civility

is

—but one

Psychiatrist

is

M.

Waiting

to

Born:

be

1

A

Anheuser-Busch

says,

born

as...

unconscious

we humans are not born civil.
We only become civil through development and learning."
creatures,

Wearing another's shoes

is

for the act of learning

just a

euphe-

about others.

the ways par-

today don't have models.

More than 30

percent of the children born in this country last year were

born out of wedlock.

Nearly half of all children
least, in

live,

for a time at

single-parent households.

Public Broadcasting

CEO Ervin Duggan

same houseSun

frequently lived in the

laws.

is

the basis for

glorify "feeling good," rather

live

sands of miles

hundreds

—away.

Marion Mason,

mes-

These messages undermine the notion

and

who

City and

Don't think, drink!

society

[And]

civility in

hold. Today's grandparents retire to

on the

out of unconsciousness

They see

ents treat each other. But often, children

In other times and in other cultures,

right."

feels

of civilized behavior that

for 14

behavior.

children learned to venerate grandparents,

just

Civility

list

he explains, children learn models of

lies,

Brewery giant
"Why ask why?

and

whose

Scott Peck,

declines

the family dies."

plunk down $20,000 on a 626 because

"It

sensus, as well as our shared view of rights

York Times best-seller's

since children are

mism

Car-maker Mazda urges us

sages threaten the traditional moral con-

weeks, says that "Incivility generally
arises

rules."

declar-

Planet Reebok, there

an unnatural

Rediscovered remained no.

New

"On

do

necessary for people

essentially
that

living together in a civilized society.

World

"Just

says that these kinds of advertising

a nation."

act

to

no



Drink Bud Dry."

of whites and 38 percent of Hispanics

United States

tee-shirts with the

Reebok responds by

ing,

are

that a substantial minority of



it!"

meet

to

ability

Gingrich's "central challenge."

icans

purveyor Nike

corporate sales pitch

Many Americans

A

and immediate gratification.

Sports
emblazons

University,

In traditional, loving, two-parent fami-

a society that celebrates the unlife

Bloomsburg

at

says simply that "civilization

when

apparel

personal habits.

skeptical

walking in another's shoes

Christopher "Kip" Armstrong, a sociol-

ogy professor

Reasons abound for our resistance.

holds together a society increasingly
language,

don't care

these days.

kind of band-aid that

a

we just

—perhaps

thou-

a psychology professor

Bloomsburg with a special interest in
of moral development, agrees that
the family plays a primary role in moral
at

issues

development. In

many modern

she says, where there are



to transmit values

no

"role

families,

models"

"a love for learning, a

respect for others, a concern for the

than our obligation to others.
In other words, the underlying attitudes

future"



children can have trouble learn-

behavior.

are fundamentally uncivilized.

ing

Another cause for the decline in
may be the meltdown of the
nuclear family mother and father and

a by-product of a growing social tension in

civility



children.

And

the disintegration of the

extended family

and

—grandparents,

uncles, cousins.

aunts

civil

Some
our

believe that the rise in incivility

is

society.

"Sometimes," says Bloomsburg English
professor Ervene Gulley, "'good manners'
pass as a class distinction that separates

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people.

The

rude, 'in-your-face' behavior

many

that characterizes so

of our interac-

"may

tions today," she says,

actually be a

Oliver Wendell

Holmes had it

right

where the other person's nose

influence in society. As

begins.'"



Too many

America cannot

or Married with Children are series "devot-

in the 21st century if incivility at

ed to rudeness as a blue-collar

tolerated or rewarded.

and

social

New

says

character

title

cheer

Times writer William

York

Grimes. "Week

art form,"

he

after week,"

on Roseanne

says, "the

Bronx

gives a

her natural enemies: middle-

[to]

management weenies, bankers, lawyers
and the phony, dim-witted jerks who hand
out layoff
tions to

slips

and bottom-line explana-

in American society
espeon political left, says the former Ghanaian diplomat and congressman have become tolerant of incivility.
cially

those



Incivility,

psychology department and a

community psychology,

specialist in

says that civility

is

he

effectively lead the

world

home

is

insists, is intolerable in

a

chologist
ty's

been to function

If

American society

through time and space, and among people

of different races, creeds, colors,

national origins, sexual orientations.

—mutual respect
and code of
those values— can

reflects

a

civilization survive?

leaders

encouraged by the emer-

is

who

new

individual's

explains,

happen

having beliefs

But not

issues.

all

people

to

"it's

the things that

—having

a

sister

raped, being part of an organization,

having a roommate of a different

background
our beliefs."



Sometimes,

generation of political

have begun to speak candidly

about social

moral develdepends upon an

says that

Mason
opment

to develop a

fails

and understanding of others,

gence of a

says, a universi-

to "transmit values"

challenged. Sometimes, she

new reverence for civility
conduct that

is

as a civilizing

Bloomsburg psy-

Marion Mason

mission

civilized society.

Agbango

union workers."

Professor James Dalton of Bloomsburg's

of the traditional roles of the uni-

versity has

mannorms that the powerful
have used to put them down."
Examples abound in pop culture.
Television programs like The Simpsons
response of the powerless against the

ners

One

when he

opined that '"swinging your arm ends

racial

that cause us to confront

it's

simply getting into a

discussion that challenges these beliefs.

We

social

don't necessarily have to change

often the privileged's instrument to preserve their position of dominance.
"It's easy,"
tell

he

says, "for the privileged to

the unprivileged, 'shut

up and act

can be a velvet

"Civility"

nice.'"

hammer

preserve one person's privilege and

to

power

against others who want a share of the
American dream. For the underclass in
society, there's

even

less

reason to act nice.

Being polite doesn't get you any place.

William Grimes, writing in the Times,

among some

that

says

"Skepticism [about
outright rejection.

rap [music]

is

.

.

classes

shades into

Part of the appeal of

.

that

social

civility]

refuses to

it

buy

into

commentators share

the civility model."

University political

Bloomsburg

professor

science

Agbango,

a

former

George

member

of

Ghana's parliament and former

Ghanaian chief delegate
United Nations,

rejects

Richard

Mouw,

J.

upbeat mood.

his

president of Fuller

Seminary

Theological

Pasadena,

in

and author of Uncommon

California,

Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil

to the

World.

any notion that

have a

Mouw

says that, as a nation,

civility deficit.

"Unless

we can

we

find a

society's underprivileged are "entitled" to

way

behave with

ing at each other or shooting at each

incivility.

"Even poor people have morals," he
explains. "After
is

all,"

he continues, "poverty

an economic condition. Morality

state

is

a

of mind."

behaving badly just won't do.

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he says sadly,

other,"

Mouw

new moral

fact,

consciousness or

civility.

In

she says, sometimes our experiences

and our discussions

reinforce beliefs.

A college or university has an important
role to play in this

developmental process.

"Bloomsburg has done wonderfully well,"
says Agbango, "in sponsoring programs
at making the
more civil."
During freshman

that

aim

university

commu-

orientation,

even

before students begin their educational

way can be found,
fit

a

nity

over."

not sure we have found

University faculty,

people
jurist

is

"it's all

the way.
If a

Lashing out against social injustice by

According to Agbango, American

to live with diversity without scream-

attitudes or values, she explains, to develop

it

say

Bloomsburg

may be

into others' shoes

mile in their moccasins.

in helping

—walking

a

careers at the university, they discuss sce-

narios that focus attention
date rape, alcohol abuse,
racial tension.

on

cheating,

homophobia,

COVER STORY

The University- Community Task Force
on Racial Equity allows people to confront
issues of discrimination and racism.
The university includes courses on diversity in its curriculum and sponsors lectures,
banquets, art shows to expand students'

Values are revealed in the "visible curricu-

experiences with other cultures.

teachers,

Skeptics sometimes argue that these initiatives are

mere window-dressing. They're

expensive,
negligible.
civil

the

uncertain

results

or

No one, after all, becomes more

simply by attending a diversity work-

shop or an international dinner in the
student union.

lum"



in the materials that

consciously selects for discussion or presentation. But values are also

Mason, but progress

That's true, says

demonstrated, she

is

in

"slow." Research has

says, "that

it's

the accu-

modeled

in

behaviors exhibited by faculty.

"We demonstrate

civility

she

behave,"

equipment that

our willingness to

by the
the

listen to

treat

by

new ideas, even

another

before

as

"We

how we

act of our failing to erase notes

board

begins

by how we,

in the classroom,

sits

moral reasoning," he

from

professor

tant civil

not to teach values.

It

teaches consciously

and unconsciously.

Furthermore,

that's

been
since

must develop, he

ability to resolve conflicts



more just ways and without violence."
Few people would disagree.
"First, we must teach each other to listen
better, more competently," says Dalton.
"We must be willing to hear disagreeable
ideas voiced
and discuss those ideas
in



with respect."

250 years ago, Lord
commentator on English

than

Chesterfield, a

manners, said that "listening

man

the civilized

Bloomsburg English

that society

skill

may be "an

More
impossible for a university

"and

university

medieval times." Today, the most impor-

class."
it's

says,

of the

province

the

says,

explains.

demonstrate our values by

In short,

moral development

an instructor

the act of

is

acknowledging the

sig-

nificance of another person."

we must "take

mulation of challenges, plus maturity and

professor Ervene Gulley says, the

time, that causes us to develop our moral

public university has a special

actions to ensure just treatment for peo-

obligation to the society that

ple.

awareness and sense of civility."
If

provides

the university fails to address the chal-

its

funding.

As a

"We have

society,

says,

We can't teach civility by words alone."

And

finally,

pared to
ty.

Dalton

he

celebrate,

Tolerance

is

says,

we must be

not just

pre-

tolerate diversi-

what you have

for barking

dogs in the night.
"We're after something

else."

What are we after? What does it mean to
celebrate diversity?

Dalton likens

to the pleasure that

it

comes from shopping

in a

new

store with

lots

of products to choose from or dining

at a

new restaurant that boasts an especialmenu.

ly diverse

We

go on vacations to

shake away the dust of our everyday

lives,

new experiences.

to encounter

These diverse experiences help make
interesting

lenges of "civihzing"

humankind, she

asks,

who else is likely to take up the charge?
Some in our society believe that a university should focus

on teaching

Faculty should convey
social values.

complain,

is

not promote

Moral education,

critics

Mason

agrees.

But too

of America's families are "disrupted

households," she says. Too

people leave

home

community.

But Mason also believes
to separate values

many young

without the values

essential to life in a civil

it's

impossible

from what goes on

college classroom. "There

is

on

in a

no such thing

as a value-neutral classroom," she observes.

issues of tolerance

and
our

Universities can provide

workshops

responsibility to the diverse society that

and multicultural programs that promote
diversity. They can develop curricula that

funds the university."

explore

respect for others," she says.

Teaching

civility is

"It's

not a modern phe-

nomenon practiced by the state university.
"The university

a parent's responsibility.

Moralist Marion

many

facts,

content.

to take a stand

life

and enjoyable.

as a social institution

has been in the business of building
character for

a

long time," explains

issues

sexism,

racism,

But providing these opportunities
act of faith, says
cult to

measure

Marion Mason.

experiences,

member

try on,

it's

is

an

It is diffi-

their effectiveness.

If the university is a

psychology professor James Dalton, a
of the University-Community

of

ageism, any-ism.

purveyor of new

new "shoes"

that people can

as individuals that

we put on

Task Force on Racial Equity and an
organizer of a recent university

the shoes and start walking. To walk

conference on The State of Hate in

teristic

the

Commonwealth.

"Character has often been described as

upright,

on our own two

of the

Walking
humanity's

human

in
first

feet, is

another's shoes
step

charac-

species.

may be

toward civilization.

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spotlight froze the solitary

grand

captain of an English slave ship

and

white,

in

piano

in

standing
nels,

of

its

glare. Tall

like

the

1800s.

hymn

brates the

senti-

arrangements
lilies

His

cele-

power of

grace in transform-

ing

defined

mans

a

life

storm

the stage's margins.

following a

From somewhere

at sea. Increasingly

off-stage

words,

came

troubled

the

inhuman

unadorned

and without accompaniment:
"Amazing Grace.
the sound...."

.

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how sweet

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his trade,

Newton

left

enter the ministry

by

the

aspects of

the sea to

and preach

the remaining 43 years of his

life.;

INAUGURATION

Members

of platform party at Kozloff inauguration.

mazing grace, how sweet

.

.

Then, Grammy-award-winner
Judy Collins appeared on-stage.

A

he

was there he could

make

It

was

said,

a difference.

"who taught me

my

father," she

that education

is

Kozloff had stood on that same

want

terms of

you

in

and enriching lives.
"And through that transformation we
can make the world a better place."
Jack Sledge, Jessica Kozloff 's father, had

of

my

been a school superintendent in a small

As president designate, she

to introduce myself to

who

I

am,

as a reflection

Texas community.

family," she said then.

She introduced her husband, physician
Steve Kozloff.

"No one

who

He

her

shortly before

On

Judy Collins' con-

this night, at the

cert introducing her

weekend inaugural

celebration, Kozloff was

on stage once again.

At the close of the performance,
Collins invited the president to join her

on-stage and share the spodight.

The Grammy-award winner closed the
Amazing Grace. Its rendi-

concert singing
tion

was simple,

died

elegant.

"I

16th

want

to dedicate the

number

last

you,"

to

Collins told Kozloff, stand-

wife and two children and

ing alongside her. Collins

more supportive than

serious financial problems.

she said. She recalled Steve's caring

During her husband's

is

fundamental democracy.

its

behind a

birthday, leaving

—male or female —could ask

for a spouse
is,"

because

it

the key to empowering, transforming

addressed the university and community.

he

instead

thought, for him,

year ago last April, Jessica

stage.

"I

teaching

chose

the sound,

that saved a wretch like me.

invited the president

women

in

lengthly illness, Ann Sledge

her.

graduate school pursuing her doctorate

took up the challenge. She

embraced. Seconds

had few

the president was

for their

two children when she was

in political science

and commuting 40

minutes each day to

class.

"Steve
tial,"

is

also

used to

my Pennsylvania

live, legislators

when you

credenI

become very upset

don't choose a Coloradan as

president of a public university.

And

while you haven't chosen a Pennsylvanian as your president at

did choose someone
sense to

choices.

"Mother showed me,"

she said. "Back in Colorado, where

Bloomsburg, you

who had

the

good

marry one."

woman

can be a loving mother and

wife and also pursue a career."
It

She spoke proudly of their son, Kyle, in

that time.

Kozloff went to the nearby state university so she could live at

home and

reduce the expense of attending college.

Her education

France on a business assignment, and

little girl at

fessional

life.

there influenced her pro-

She came to understand,

deeply and personally, "the role that state

their daughter Rebecca, finishing her sec-

universities play in providing

ond

quality education" to working-class families.

year in law school.

She described her parents.
initially

I

8

father

considered the ministry, but

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"My

Bloomsburg University Magazine

She

is

American

a

product

institution,

of

two

The following

an affordable,

a

uniquely

an instrument of

later,

handed

a

roses.

on that same stage,
would receive the
medallion and carry the acadday,

Jessica Sledge Kozloff

university

was, Kozloff says, an all-too-rare

experience for a

The

bouquet of red

Kozloff told us in her April address, "that
a

and

the audience to sing with

emic mace, symbolizing her leadership
responsibilities

woman



18th

as

—and

first

president of the university in

156-year history.

its

Although Kozloff took

office

on

July

1,

—her inaugura—would

1994, this rite of passage
tion,

nine months

later

represent

the "official beginning" of her presidency.

Inaugurations are symbolic

ous

acts.

Sometimes

—not

acts, seri-

always

—the

symbols can mask personality and

away spontaneity.

strip


INAUGURATION

Son

Kyle, daughter Rebecca,

Bloomsburg

as president of

on center

stage.

husband Stephen watch as mother and wife

A maroon and gold ban-

ner bearing the university seal

hung from

the rafters.

Family members
Steve

Jessica

S.

Kozloff wields the academic mace,

symbolizing the

power and authority

—wore



and

Kyle, Rebecca

academic

their

So

regalia.

through times of turbulence and

trial,

the university as an social institution

has survived for almost a thousand years.

Her inauguration was to celebrate the
of the college she had come to love.

Board of Governors and members of the
faculty, staff and trustees. More than 60

hours of her inauguration weekend play-

visiting delegates represented their

academic

own

ing

on

would not be one of those serious
ceremonies. Surrounded by several

crepe paper that
hall

by

in procession, led

Uand
before

two days

the event, Kozloff looked

out over an empty auditorium and

the Kehr

Union

residence

it

I dents of "her"
Friends

wound

into

lished to

Haas

the five

perished in the

Center for the Arts.

Alumni, students, townspeople

sat

cereless

earlier.

played to raise

the procession as

The

Mitrani Hall had ended

n this Sunday morning, she stood
on a Softball diamond with stu-

International students in ethnic cos-

tume greeted
its way from

asked for the technical director. "Bring up

want to
to them if

hung from

bristled against the stiff

at

than 24 hours

April breeze.

members of her platform party
staff at a rehearsal

windows

a different kind of stage.

monies

institutions.

would march

Jessica Kozloff spent the last "official"

the swirl of the bagpiper. Banners and

inauguration

She reminded her audience

obliquely.
that,

life

All

Kozloff's

installed

did representatives of the State System's

of her office.

essica

is

University.

Jessica

They

university.

money

for the Five

Memorial Fund, estabcommemorate the lives of
young people who had
fall.

Kozloff, as

18th president of

the lights tomorrow," she said. "I

in attendance.

see the audience.

They faced a stage that Jessica Kozloff
had come to know well in her brief

Bloomsburg University, has often
climbed upon the stage. Certainly, one of
her most appreciative audiences has been

tenure at the university. There, as presi-

the university's students. Before intro-

dent designate, she had spoken of her

ducing Judy Collins, the student govern-

I

look out

I

at a sea

can't relate

of darkness."

At another point in the rehearsal, sensing the

mood was

too somber, the presi-

dent turned abruptly from the lectern,

family. There, just six

faced the platform party, placed her

autumn, as the leaves were turning
she had stood before a grieving campus
community, joined together to remember five young people killed in an off-

thumbs firmly in her ears, wiggled her
fingers and stuck out her tongue.
"This is supposed to be fun!" she
insisted.

Her audience laughed.
For her inauguration, the Mitrani stage

was adorned with bright yellow and burgundy flowers in front of an oak lectern

months before

in

campus fire.
The mood that autumn had been
somber as Jessica Kozloff stood on stage.
But on this day, in her inaugural
speech, Kozloff recalled the tragedy only

ment president observed

that

it

was

and com-

Kozloff's "strength, leadership

passion" that "helped the university, and
particularly

its

students, through this dif-

ficult time."

The boxscore
Jessica

doesn't

Kozloff scored

Sunday's ballgame. She

have taken a turn

But

show whether
a

run during

may

not even

at bat.

Jessica Kozloff has

made

Bloomsburg University Magazine

a hit.

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NAUGURAL ADDRESS

M

M

m

men

Sixteen

m

They have served

I HI I

times

and

perseverance of those

to

have entrusted

am

to

the

my

the

has become a symbol of our struggle to defeat

battlefield.

the institution through

good

ignorance and advance knowledge. As the medieval knight

the leadership, vision

who preceded me

in this office.



and

So today,

Board of Governors and Council of Trustees

It

brandished the mace against enemies on the

battlefield, today's

up arms against ignorance and narrow-mindedness,

scholar takes

against hopelessness

and

despair.

The struggle

is

just as intense



the stakes equally high.

If there

is

any word associated with

stand at the threshold of a

new

this decade, it is change.

We

millenium. The prospects before us are
exciting and dangerous.

care.



also particularly con-

scious, because

mayhem on

no longer a device for committing

is

past.

with two of my predecessors on the platform beside me,

me and which

The mace

its

awesome responsibility for preserving the legacy they have

I feel the

I

this

bad. [Bloomsburg] has prospered

thanks in part

left

have guided

institution through the challenges of

^^^ ^^^

especially,

me

before

conferences

of the pomp and

and on

At national

the newspapers

in

television newscasts

—we

hear about the forces of change

circumstance of this inaugural

and how they

ceremony, that

we

are celebrat-

ing not just

my

presidency,

institutions... the family,

govern-

but the traditions that have

ment, the church, schools

None

been with us for hundreds of

of us

—almost a
years — extending

world,

the first

to

immune. American higher

is

education, which

thousand

years

engineer"

during the 11th century.

its

the



the distinctive caps...

many

of the symbols we see

here



derived from

are

that

itself so

are some

modern

the

it

"re-

to

can bring

on the most

resources to bear

vexing problems of

gowns and multi-colored

hoods,

the envy of the

is

being asked

is

universities, established in Italy

The regalia we wear today

are buffeting our

society.

There

who doubt whether

the

university can respond to

the remarkable events

that are

occurring about

am

I

us.

we can respond

con-

great universities that began in

vinced that

medieval Europe.

challenges before us. It has been

Some people see

these symbols

as anachronisms, vestiges of a

past that has

little

meaning for us

chamber today was,

after

all,

today.

The mace carried

into this

an instrument of war used

in battle

the

merely a spiritual contest, monks often wielded the mace on
the battlefield because

Holy Orders prohibited clergymen from

tell

20

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ecclesiastical associations

of the academic



us something about the role of the university

11th century

995

—and

again.

it

.

.

—the

Tradition, our sense of history, can be the ballast

element

— that

steadies our course in

stabilizing

the midst of change.

in today's world.

bloomsburg University Magazine

in the

that

holds us back.
That's

why

I feel such

awe

today.

For a thousand years, the

university has survived

The medieval university that I seem

shedding blood by the edge of the sword.

mace

do

—and can—

We must

Tradition should not be just "dead weight"

Middle Ages, when the good fight of faith was not

The military and

before.

—something

by medieval knights.

During

done

to the

not a perfect institution. In
admirable.
closed to

It

many

to celebrate

ways,

was not democratic...

most people

in society, closed to

It

it

here today was

wasn't especially

was a closed system

new ideas.

But, as

an



insti-

THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS

tution,

made

created a language for philosophy,

it

respectable

and ended

the

mental adolescence of the Dark Ages.

And, most importantly, over time, the university adjusted
change, shed old skin to live a

This university's

respond

own

Bloomsburg

is

itself to

Bessie Edwards' wonderful history of

aptly titled Profile of the Past:

instrument

A

between

Commonwealth was
1869— two
pletion

its

and

and



name

dream dreams,
This

is

Of all
tution

our past



it is

also

we know as

the university, this

instability

we must preserve: We must

We must

continue

the

to brave

new worlds.

may change.

may

be re-engi-

neered.

may

tradition,

and

be irrevocably altered.

intellect

the

and

challenges

power of human
spirit to

confront

and invent

solutions

remains unchanging. At

—grounded

lands.

versity

in

this uni-

academic

traditions that offer context

preserve

timeless

and

—we

values

aspire to celebrate intellectual

1875 that destroyed the

curiosity

school's only dormitory.

1904 destroyed a portion of the

school's

Another

main academic

fire in

building,

including the school of music.
tragic death of a student in

1884 brought public criticism

students' behavior while residing at the school.

—and

the

of inquiry that empowers people
is

the purpose that

empowers

overcrowded conditions and condemnation of

was, laid the foundations that define

criticized

the quality of teachers

this fledgling university, as

what we are

world.

.

.

.

us,

This

we

and

who

imperfect as
today.

.

.

it

teach the discipline

to seek solutions to challenges.

seek to celebrate. This

is

is

our weapon

—our mace—

to

This

the instrument that

liberates us, gives us the capacity to

change our

be wielded against

ignorance and prejudice, and to enable our
students to approach the world fearlessly,

regional press—frequently

new curriculum and

were graduated. But

The nature of institutions

But

was a per-

life-

time, career options

Organizations

There was a devastating fire in

officials

to

change and embark on journeys

downright bat-

school's

of

life

become

with each other.

the experimental

mostfundamental value

that our graduates can confront

superintendents

often engaged in

Public

the

the

who owned

leases for the buildings

about the

.

the mind.

problem. Sometimes, dis-

putes broke out about

The

.

to

community.

continue to celebrate the

our early years were not perfect.

tles

is

that

that has bequeathed

and

This university has always

.

After all in the course of a

much of our academic

Trustees

.

the traditions associated throughout history with the insti-

many of our symbols and so

sistent

.

our future.

Like the history of the medieval

Economic

of the

continue to serve as a reservoir

to fulfill their potential, to serve their

Sixth District.

us so

needs

excite intellectual curiosity so

Normal School of

institution

the

an

the

Commonwealth authorized
Institute to

We

service.

building,

his

addressing

to serve as

been a place where dedicated faculty have empowered students

Living Legacy.

the people of the

people.

years after the com-

which now bears

the State

of public policy,

In

forged.

of Carver's

Bloomsburg

this university

Bloomsburg continues

university,

Commonwealth and

In her history, she details the early years of this proud institution

A public partnership

a public

for applied scholarship

life.

history provides clues about our ability to

Eda

to the future.

new

As

learning

welcome change,

to seek

to

answers that go beyond

the scope of vocational training.

Today, I ask you to take up arms with
join the battle.

The cause

is

just, the

me

—and

company good.

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THE ART OF JUGGLING

Mary Gardner, Bloomsburg's

r» thletic directors throughout the
/A\ country are being called on to
juggle the demands and expecta-

athletics since 1988.

UU

tions of student-athletes, parents,
istrators

and supporters



all

admin-

made

is

accommodate women

as well as

achieving gender equity.

The law

to

under the

director of

"Every effort

men.
"We've made great strides toward
our philosophy," she

didn't

"We

watchful eye of college sports' ruling

dictate

body, the National Collegiate Athletic

on our direction and have
worked to maintain consistency and bal-

Association

And

decided

(NCAA).

today, the

NCAA

has a

ner overseeing college sports

new

—the

ance, while giving the coaches the neces-

part-

sary resources to continue

Office

of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of

It's

balanced in ways never considered before.
is

up
These

words

in the

just

one of the

athletic

playing

intercollegiate

academic
lars

IX

of

the

Rights Acts,

at

were men, 44.6 percent women.

college athletics has

at a

about 60 percent of the student body.

Colleges

and

universities

that

People go

to the circus

sports were chal-

more balanced pro-

to see skillful juggling

women athletes.

They now expect the balance

to reflect, not a 50-50 approach to men's

and women's sports programming, but
rather to reflect the make-up of the instistudent body.

If,

and balancing acts.
But they can

see

many

of the same

skills

1

Bloomsburg University Magazine

OCR

when

it's

asked to determine a school's compliance

OCR

asks three questions:

(1)

are

opportunities for athletics participation

performed by today's

substantially proportionate to enrollment

by gender;
college athletic

programs.

(2)

has the institution estab-

lished a history

and continuing

practice

of program expansion for members of

to be proportional.

At Bloomsburg, having a balanced
program has long been the goal.
"We are committed to total programming, something for everyone," says

partner, the Office of Civil Rights.

with the courts' expectations.

campus populaexpected

Bloomsburg bases its male squad sizes
on national norms and middle and season-ending numbers, and is working to
increase participation in women's sports
like field hockey, soccer and swimming.
So far, the efforts have met with
approval by the NCAA's new policing
uses a three-pronged approach

for

women for every 40

the general

tion, athletic opportunities are

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the very

been profound

Recently, courts have taken the ruling a

22

among

is

PSAC, but it's not good enough
university where women make up

best in the

historically fun-

men among

for

This gender balance

neled most of their athletic budgets into

example, there are 60

athletes, 49.3 percent to

$2,100.

The impact on

overall

male

varsity participants last year, 55.4 percent

award

ruling upheld

Federal funds.

tution's

year, 50.7 percent of those dol-

to

female athletes. The average amount of

fields.

schools that receive

step further.

went

discrimination

Civil

for their

in schol-

prohibiting gender

Title

high-visibility men's

women. Of the $293,890

arship dollars passed out in the 1994-95

pro-

men was $1,794, for women,
Of the 152 students receiving
scholarship aid, 54.6 percent were men
45.4 percent were women. Of the 460 total

The

gram

remar-

There are nine varsity sports for men,
nine for

grams do business. In 1972, the courts
determined that all was not fair on the

lenged to provide a

is

vided between men's and women's sports.

issues

fundamentally

changed the way college

nation's

easier said than done.

kably balanced. Things are about evenly di-

air.

two

sometimes

Bloomsburg's athletic program

College athletic programs have to be

Gender equity

and sustain

those efforts."

Education.

that's

says.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOAN HELFER

institution fully

modate the

and

interests

underepresented

sex.

and

(3)

does the

effectively

accom-

the underepresented sex;

WRITTEN BY JIM HOLLISTER

and

abilities

of the

The purpose of the
intent that neither

inated against

test is to

ments. Another 50 received similar

enforce Congress'

men nor women

will

academic honors.

be discrim-

when being provided opportunities to

"We're proud to have one of the most
successful Division

participate in athletics.

an institution meets one or more of the

If

ria, it is

deemed

in compliance.

Norma

According to

programs

crite-

as

II

intercollegiate athletic

in the nation," says Gardner, "as well

having one of the best gender equity records in

the PSAC."

Cantu, assistant secretary

for civil rights in the

Gardner admits that balancing the quality of the

Office of Civil Rights,

university's athletic

Department of Education's
no part of the three-part
test is preferred by the OCR. The agency doesn't
use any one criterion exclusively to test compli

An

ance with the law.

with which of the three

While

institution can choose
it

will

comply.

Bloomsburg's

program and the need for
and one



gender equity has been challenging
that gets tougher
called

upon

to juggle

social in-equities.

all

the time as college athletics

is

performance and to redress long-standing

Court decisions and society's expectations
have redefined what it

wo-

means to be successful
on college playing fields.
The juggling act is only

men

in the college's gen-

part of the balancing an

eral

population,

athletic

proportion

of

athletes does

not match

female

the proportion of

ceeds the

OCR's

it

ex-

Sometimes, achieving
a

may seem
numbers game.

bility

to be



—on

is

the

people

not

"re-focused,

schedules

just

their

that

privilege

the

in

program. She

athletics

seek numbers in

to

expectations

accompany the
of competing

the field and

getting

and meetings

with every team to detail

But Gardner says that

off

eligi-

reviews for each of

the athletes

the key to Bloomsburg's
success

re-

is

Gardner juggles

ship dollar expectations.

balance

director

quired to do.

scholar-

more

than

325 events each year with

recruiting efforts,

institutions

throughout

but also to concentrate

the country. She oversees

on

distribution of dollars to

quality."

Bloomsburg's

support the individual

teams

have been remarkably successful over the years.
each of the past eight years, the university's teams

Bnhad an

overall



better

best

winning percentage of .580 or
14 universities in the PSAC.

among the

budgets of the Huskies' teams and support

staff,

and

coordinates the use of two gymnasiums, a stadium,
18 tennis courts

and more than 20

acres of practice

and playing venues.

In the 1994-95 academic year, Bloomsburg's 18 inter-

She deals with an intramural program that

programs recorded a winning percentage
Teams have posted top four finishes in

involves another 3,000 students, along

collegiate

of .660.
the

PSAC

in their respective sports 95 times in

activities affecting

most of the uni-

versity's 7,000 students.

the decade.

They have won 33 league championships
in the past ten years. Thirteen of the university's 18 intercollegiate sports

programs

have had winning records every year since

Today, success on the playing
field is

judged, not just by whether

you win or

lose,

but especially by

how you
play the

1988.

game.

Individuals have also excelled.
Last year, nearly

conference,

with club sports and recreational

100 athletes earned

regional

and

national

honors for their athletic accomplish-

Tomorrow's Nurse

-

Bloomsburg's nursing chair-

has looked at the future of

and

isn't

it

neces-

offers

preparing to
for the

anesthetist

The nurses of the future
act more as case managers,

program. "The

advanced health nurse

Council of Accreditation of

practitioner.

Nurse Anesthesis Education
is

submitting

could admit
1996.

its first

Programs has advised Geisinger that

nurse anesthetis

its

program must be

which

practitioner program,

bilities.

also talking

Center to develop a nurse

is

a proposal for a graduate nurse

they will have greater responsi-

is

program and

sarily in hospitals.

fewer nurses in hospitals, but

university

with the Geisinger Medical

The department

"In the future, there will be

The

an

advanced nurse practitioner
develop a program

person Christine Alichnie

nursing,

Bloomsburg

specialty.

outside the hospital

students in

The new program would

t

a master's

degree program by 1998.
Hospitals are not permitted to

join Bloomsburg's accredited

grant degrees, only certificates,"

while bedside care will be

graduate as well as undergradu-

explains Alichnie.

performed by a technician

ate nursing

will

Alichnie.
will
ties

"And

far

more nurses

be working in communi-



at clinics, in

may have

offer the core

provide the clinical experience

benefit

for students."

gifts

can provide a

matches the needs of the

will

become

increasingly

important in the future, says



the advanced nurse

Alichnie

practitioner

and the master's

prepared nurse in a

clinical

University's

attention of a physician. In

private duty nurses."

nursing career options

Bloomsburg

problems that don't require the

healthcare agencies and as

Two

scholarship totals

accounting program will

routine

Bloomsburg

those cases nurse practitioners

home

"We would

and research

courses while Geisinger would

"Clients

by an RN," predicts

directed

programs.

Accounting
program adds to

level

of care that

client," says Alichnie.

to health care changes at the

baccalaureate level as well.

"People

Students' clinincal experience

on community-

are beginning to see that nurses

will focus

have the

based health

skills to

responding

is

adapt to a

Students will

care.

from two

recently

Foundation.
Jack L.Mertz, a 1942 alumnus, has donated $50,000 to

the university as a charitable

annuity

trust.

annuity allows the donor to

creating unlicensed groups in

economic theory

receive a

health care."

in their college experience.

at early stages

monthly lifetime
payment based upon a negotiated interest rate. Donors may
claim a portion of the

sponsoring a semester-long series of

and other events

lec-

this

series

His book, In
his experiences

and

works by Tatana

gallery talk

class, a

and author Yaron Svoray

workshop and
8, at

Kenneth

L.

lecture

on Wed-

returned

Friday, Nov.

4 p.m.
play,

Children
will

be performed Nov. 9

at 8

of.

p.m. in Gross

temporary Jewish

neo-Nazi groups in Germany

posing as an American businessman.

A

family's dealing with

its

Holocaust survivor.

film series will be

shown throughout

the semester most Thursdays at 7 p.m. in

Old Science

Hall,

room

122.

The second

gift

of $5,000

from Magee Industrial
Enterprises will establish a

scholarship in

Kenneth

memory of

E. Nadel. Nadel, vice

president of finance

and

of the board of

Magee

Industrial

Enterpise Inc., Hotel

Auditorium. The drama documents a con-

patriarch's legacy as a

recent library campaign,

directors of

.

Gross Auditorium as part

Svoray, the son of Holocaust survivors,

major

donating $500,000 to

officer

4 and 8 p.m. in Carver

of the university's Provost's Lecture Series.

infiltrated

who

The

to the public.

Israeli journalist

nesday, Nov.

on

14, at

also a

contributor to Bloomsburg's

the university.

Kellner, a daughter

of Holocaust suvivors

of events has been planned

will give a

society.

to Auschwitz. Kellner will give a

In connection with the

open

that Nazi

embraced by a

of Art will exhibit large and dramatic

in

Luke Springman.

Hall's

is still

an honors seminar

language and cultures professor

is

and demonstrates

ideology

Throughout November, the Haas Gallery

the humanities being taught by

that

Shadow, documents

grows out of "Holocaust

Constellations,"

series

racist

Hitler's

wide spectrum of German

concerning the Holocaust.

The

gift as a

tax deduction.

Mertz was

fall

A charitable

be exposed to management and

Bloomsburg's Honors and Scholars Program

tures, films, exhibits

to the

Bloomsburg University

wide variety of roles instead of

FOCUS ON THE
is

charitable

made

Magee

Inc.,

and M.I.E. Hospitality

Inc.,

died in March.

A Danville resident, he
had been with the Magee
organization for 19 years.

Nadel was a

member of

Bloomsburg's College of
Business Advisory Board.

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NEWS
Southern discomfort

Foundation

Carolina Press has published
Jeanette Keith's Country People

New South:

Tennessee's

Upper Cumberland. Keith

is

an

associate professor of history

Bloomsburg. The book will

at

be

available in the

member

Baldrige evaluator
Elbern "Ed" Alkire,

Emmaus, who
chair of the

Jr.,

of

serves as vice

Bloomsburg

University Foundation, Inc.,

and was formerly a member
of the university's College of

fall.

In the book, Tennessee

Business Advisory Board, has

native Keith examines con-

been named an evaluator for

flicts

over culture and progress

in Tennessee's hill country

between 1890 and 1925.

^^^^
1^ of the railroad's
^j
^^ arrival in the late
She traces the impact

1800s and the

^^

clash of cultures that

followed between the
region's small farmers

town

the 1995

Malcolm Baldrige

National Quality Award pilot

program in education.
The Baldrige Award was
established

by Congress

in

1987 to recognize quality

pilot

program has been

established to help determine

whether the Baldrige Award
should be expanded to include

as a

categories for health care

and education. Alkire

is

one

measure of how conservatives

of about 60 experts selected

successfully resisted, co-opted

from across the nation

or ignored reform efforts.

Baldrige evaluators.

as

save taxes,

In recent years, the results

of that work have been fea-

—and Clark

tured regularly in magazines

about computers and

Clark and his work are
featured in the

which

book

profiles artists

the software

art.

Painter,

who

same name. He has also been
selected to exhibit work in

experiment. For the past ten

the Senate Building in

Washington, D.C.

charitable deferred annuity permits

marketable securities
for

life



In addition, you

an income

may

and

to

and

donate cash or

receive a guaranteed

and your spouse,

if

you wish.

get

tax deduction

• a reduction

you

to the university

for you,

use

program of the

years, Clark has focused



income and "do good"
for Bloomsburg?
;

He

Computers eventually
developed in power and
sophistication, and Clark
found working with them
became less of a chore, and
more of an opportunity to

income

generate retirement

of his energy on

creating art with computers.

have come a long way.

A

How can you

15 years ago.

Computers

successful quality strategies.

and economic modernization.

"Monkey Law"

some

art

wasn't impressed.

The

much

Gary Clark remembers early
demonstrations of computer

companies and to publicize

called for cultural, political

Keith uses Tennessee's anti-

Art for a new age

achievements of U.S.

and

dwellers. Progressives

evolution

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selected as

The University of North

in the

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when you make

the

gift,

deferral of capital gains taxes,

• the satisfaction of

making a generous

gift to

Bloomsburg.

Here's an example:

If

Answer: Establish

you are 45 and contribute $25,000

that begins

deduction of

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paid to you annually

Bloomsburg

deferred annuity.

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to

a charitable deferred annuity

payments when you turn 65, you may earn an income

when you

fulfill its

for 1995. You'll also

retire.

And your

tax

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more information about

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NEWS
In print...

Walter Brasch, professor of

mass communication
Bloomsburg,

books published

at

have two

will

Enquiring Minds and
Space Aliens: Wandering
through the Mass Media and

for

December

College of Business

names interim dean

Bloomsburg's Council of Trus-

Gene

tees has elected officers for

named

A

College of Business. As inter-

im

business program that enrolls

Mowad will be vice chair, and

more than

as secretary.

John
Lehr,

is

interim dean of the

consecutive term, Joseph

Atherton,

Study

of Newspaper Management,

Ramona Alley will

Remoff has been

R.

serve as chair for her second

members

release.

Betrayed: Death of an

American Newspaper,

Trustee officers elected

Robert Buehner will continue

scheduled

is

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for 1995-96

next year.

later

this winter.

American Culture

NEWS

BRIEFS

Other council
Gail Edwards,

Anna Mae
James H. McCormick (ex
Haggerty,

J.

scheduled for production in

officio),

January, 1996.

and Kevin O'Connor.

Gerald

E.

Remoff will

direct a

1,400 undergradu-

majors and

offers degrees

Malinowski

tration,

computer and

infor-

mation systems, finance and
business law,

management

Remoff retired from

Introducing the

new and

exclusive

the

s

in

accounting program will enstudents next

fall.

having served as

accounting department,

"more than 30

states require

corporate vice president for

either a total of 150 hours

human resources for ten
years. One of the largest pri-

education or 30 hours of edu-

nation,

ARAMARK employs

130,000 people.

cation

of

beyond the bachelor's

degree as a

minimum

educa-

tional requirement for Keen-

sure as a Certified Public

Remoff has taught

as

an

Accountant (CPA).

adjunct instructor in the Col-

Visa Card...

A new master of science

Baker, chairperson of the

vate sector employers in the

Bloomsburg University

in

accounting

According to Richard

ARAMARK Corporation in
after

Business
to offer

roll its first

and marketing.

1993

College of

master's

in accounting, business

education and office adminis-

are James T.
Jr.,

ate

dean,

lege of Business at

Blooms-

burg and serves frequently

"We

expect the

Common-

wealth to follow this national
as

a guest lecturer for college

seminars and symposia.

trend in the next several
years,"

he

says.

"Bloomsburg

already has one of the largest

undergraduate accounting
Classicist

named

programs in northeastern

associate dean

Pennsylvania.

Michael B. Poliakoff has been

named

anticipates the state's

associate

dean of the

College of Arts and Sciences.

He began

changing business climate."

gram

his duties in August.

the

ities

Bloomsburg Alumni Association and the

Bloomsburg
the

through

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MBNA America.

Current Mellon Visa credit

card holders are encouraged to re-apply for the

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that supports

University Visa Card.

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It is

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University every time you use

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since 1992.

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enrolls

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More than 40

each year.

percent of Bloomsburg's
graduates take the

CPA

examination.

When

mature, the Blooms-

it!

approve

examination, and

make

schol-

arship recommendations.

26

students and graduates

between 110 and 150 students

Georgetown University and a
visiting professor at George
Washington University.
As associate dean, Poliakoff
double majors and credit by

calling.

program

between 500 and 600

adjunct associate professor at

will advise students,

Be sure

ate accounting

as

for a

Bloomsburg's undergradu-

National

During that

time he also served

University Foundation have endorsed

new Bloomsburg

officer for the

Endowment

To better serve our alumni, students and friends,

mandate

and prepares students

Poliakoff has been a pro-

Apply Today

We think our

new master's program

burg program could have as

many as

50 to 60 students

taking graduate courses in

accounting each year.

NEWS

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Bloomsburg University

web

has
If there

nation,

were
it

a tangible

You can depend on friends' notes when you

symbol of procrasti-

might be the college term paper

miss



class.

on a computer but not spellchecked. The student didn't have the time.
Three Bloomsburg University psychology

Your

professors have written a guide to help stu-

may be

written

.

discussion question," says Beck. "College

when

Their 34-page booklet, Succeeding in

the

with the company's

book.

and

this year

—Connie

is

is

to class,

excited,

test.

is

—they

"It's

have time,"

most

it

"I

throughout the semester and
take the night before

the test

or

thing else
entirely, to

give their

mind

Myths, say the profs.

may say, 'I

what they did

a rest

and reduce

spent ten

hours studying,'" says Beck, "but
at

off,

study some-

studied for

just didn't help," or

under pressure."

you look

day

a horribly ineffi-

common of all, "I work better

"Students

the

new information due

of those excuses have to do with time.

and

test."

exam

better for students to study gradually

have heard just about every excuse students

"I didn't

and you know

to the increased anxiety," says Astor-Stetson.

have for doing poorly in school, and most

ten hours,

tell

"Right before an exam, or

cient time to process

Schick,

as

to

you can

going to be on the

even the night before,

professor, Brett Beck, associate professor,

and Eileen Astor-Stetson, professor

away with not going

when you go

the teacher

before the

new psychology text-

Among the three

to get

Around campus,

time that students have

You've got to study for a big

packaged

is

But,

first

that material

Psych. ..and in College, has been published

by Prentice-Hall

Bloomsburg loaded with

formation about the university.

class.

too.

.

at

been able

and yes, have some fun

"The Web

the

Of course,
procrastination,

the most universal

to friends, watching TV."

campus-wide information

system will use the
bilities

Succeed includes tips

most from the

mistake that students

Web, a multimedia form of
the Internet.

So
site"

far,

Bloomsburg's "web

includes general informa-

tion about the university, includ-

ing the history, location, pro-

grams, admissions procedures,
fees,

academic and events calen-

dars, the graduate catalog

community services

centrated

on

make, often cancels plans for a relaxing

on how to get orgaexams and

evening before the big
"Procrastination

body does and

professors. Schick con-

getting organized,

taking notes and Astor-Stetson
nicating with professors.

cial,

is

the

new material

activity

is

attempts to

"And we usually work

understood, group

for going to

When fully implemented, the
campus- wide information

sys-

tem will include everything from
catalogs to faculty/staff and student directories, and take full
nology that the Internet

The Web

Project will

many things

offers.

mean

to different con-

For example, a stu-

may wish to check the
menu for today,
tomorrow, or next week. An

is

Once

food service

area resident will be able to
learn about

upcoming

A high school student
where

in the

and schedules,
Alumni would be able to
electronically "stop in" and
specific courses

leave a note

about themselves,

or order

the material."

football tickets.

"When

I

have

I

heard students

say,

get out in the real world,'"

adds Schick. "Wherever you are
the real world."

—might

world

investigate not only majors, but

have to assume responsibility for learning

"How often

concerts.

—any-

too.

professor," says Astor-Stetson, "but they

groups to be benefi-

can be useful for projects."

no substitute, no shortcut,
and reading the book.

"Students will complain about a class or a

the

new material,"

for the first time.

is

class

every individual in the group must

it

all

All of the professors stress that there really

already be familiar with the material. This

not a time to learn

defeats

longer than necessary as a result of it."

material. "Studying with friends

says Schick. "For study

says Schick.

on commu-

Along the way they

learn

test,

one thing that every-

organize," says Schick.

Studying with a group will help you learn

way to

it

is

Beck on

explode a few myths as well.

absolute worst

and a

directory.

dent

How to

nized, take notes, prepare for

communicate with

capa-

full

of the World-Wide-

stituencies.

get the

known

Project," because

advantage of the evolving tech-

hours, a lot of it was getting food, talking

To help students

it's

in-

stress."

if

in those ten

time they spend on school work,

in the

world with a computer and a

hood' do not translate well into a two-page

dents find the time to spell-check their term

place,

A person anywhere

modem can reach a computer

friend's notes 'Freud. .sex. .child-

papers, write die papers better in the

first

"Notes tend to be very individual.

connections.

now is

To see

Homecoming

how the team

progressing, use your

Wide Web

is

World

software to locate

Bloomsburg University

at

"http://www.bloomu.edu"

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some tropical
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Climbers can see the Atlantic and Pacific
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ancient

on

call.

the Rio General, which winds

sponsoring a

is

women

trip for

see

RICA?

to

its

Costa

Jan. 12, 1996.

President Kozloff

Bloomsburg President

secluded white sand

Participants will

by

travel

river,

and bus.

foot

Jessica

San

Kozloff completed the

formation of her cabinet by

Costa Rica's

From

appointing vice presidents of

and
The

affairs,

seeing in San Jose. Finally,

moving on

Jose,

the base of Mt. Chirripo,

academic

beaches after a day of sight-

They'll begin in the capital
city,

student

life

university advancement.

tallest

you'll

mountain.

cost of the trip

is

expected to

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climb to the summit of the mountain.

the Quest office at (717) 389-4323.

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three join Robert

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Tapping into your

Herring

Ianiero was

children's future

began

latest to

on

arrive,

July l,was

academic

affairs.

had served

president for

president for

university

student

advance-

^^\/-^L^

"Brad" G.

i^^^

Bradshaw,

Herring

named

university's residence hall

the position as an interim

system,

appointment

Bradshaw

for five years as

vice president

and dean

for

graduate studies and research

Georgia Southern Univer-

»
is

its

^H

intercollegiate

his doctoral

work

at the

University of Pittsburgh.

He

continued his research

and student standards.
formerly associate

is

careful

same kind of

advance planning. Like

everything

else,

the cost of

college rises every year.

Pennsylvania offers a pro-

gram

that

let's

you purchase

college education for

children in the future

a

your



at

today's prices. Using the

Foundation since 1984, when

Pennsylvania Tuition Account

he came to Bloomsburg.

Program (TAP), you can lock

Ianiero reactivated the

in a price for tuition at

any of

Foundation shortly

and

arrival. In the past ten years,

since 1981. There,

after his

he was actively involved in

the university has received

expanding RIT's health educa-

$20 million in cash and

tion

program with

special

emphasis upon AIDS educaabuse and eat-

He

the creation of a

also directed

campus-wide

program

and developed

program

for students

a conflict

for dispute resolution.

as

medi-

an alternative

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had worked

the Harvard Institute for

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one child today can cost as
and
as buying a house

much

Technology (RIT), where he

wellness

a 1994 graduate of

director of the

Bloomsburg University

for

Pennsylvania's 33 state-owned

Rochester Institute of

ing disorders.

He

months.

assistant vice

Providing a college education

Bloomsburg University

affairs at

fellow at the Massachusetts

Cambridge.

for 20

He had been
and executive

activities, financial

aid, multicultural activities

tion, substance

Technology in

in

having served in

student

activities as a post-doctoral

Institute of

after

president for development

psychology from Florida

psychobiology

March

and career development,

vice president for student

and

ment

in February.

responsible for the

Bradshaw earned bachelor's
and master's degrees in
Atlantic University

life

program, counseling

athletics

He was

sity in Statesboro.

completed

named vice

his

duties as vice

Wilson

provost and vice president for

28

a stop at the Arenal

volcano in Costa Rica.

The

there, travelers will

administration.

in

make

Volcano, the only erupting

Parrish, vice president for

at

lush

You can comb beaches,
snorkel and relax on

Rica from Dec. 28, 1995, to

completes cabinet
appointments

way through

tropical forests.

kind

in-

gifts.

Since

TAP was

years ago,

started

more than

two

12,000

children have been enrolled in

Prior to that, he was
assistant director

and

state-related colleges

community colleges.

of college

the program. Families

may

purchase enough credits for a

development and director of

four-year degree, a two-year

alumni

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affairs for

Trenton

State College in Trenton,
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Recent recruit

fessor of

university TV director

Christopher

WBUQ-FM, the radio voice of
Bloomsburg
celebrate

during

its

University, will

Homecoming this

J.

Keller has

Buffalo

He

director of admissions.

on campus on Aug. 1.
Keller had served as director

fall.

at the State University

University in Wingate, N.C.,

to feature Surgeon

expected to

York

of New

at Buffalo.

since 1993. There, Keller start-

General candidate

ed an aggressive recruitment

memorial

Henry K. Foster, President
Clinton's nominee for

program targeting honors students, which resulted in a 75

Surgeon General of the United.

point increase in freshmen

Dr.

Thomas
who

Joseph,

had served

as the university's

States, will

director of

TV and radio ser-

speaker at Bloomsburg's 1996

increase in freshmen enroll-

Health Sciences Symposium.

ment over

vices for nearly a decade.

summer in

SAT

be the keynote

The two-day symposium,
heldAprilllandl2, 1996,

a

swimming accident.
Former and current staff
members of the student-oper-

sessions

A after the football

the past two years.

as director

Villa

Maria College of Buffalo.

He was

and poster presenta-

of admissions at

director of communi-

County

tions. Additional details will

cations for the Erie

be provided

Legislature, District 14, in

West Chester on

later in the year.

For information about the

October 28.

and a 15 percent

scores

Prior to that, Keller served

includes concurrent education

ated station will meet in

against

and a mas-

degree in communication

of admissions at Wingate

Health symposium

plan a

game

degree in media communications at Medaille
ter's

alumni are

Studio

Keller earned a bachelor's

arrived

Returning

Joseph died this

from 1983 to 1988.

joined Bloomsburg's staff as

tenth anniversary

to

media communica-

tions at Medaille College in

symposium

call

Buffalo, N.Y.,

717-389-4423.

1990,

and

as

from 1988 to

an

assistant pro-

Nursing grant means
additional

equipment

Bloomsburg's nursing depart-

ment has been awarded

a

$30,000 grant from the

Helene Fuld Foundation to

add additional equipment to
the department's simulated

PASSION FOR ROMANCE
Donna Boyer graduated from Bloomsburg
State College

back

in 1981.

Soon

A Return
a

working

was soon followed by

com-

original book, set in Kansas

grants this year; 121 grants

and San

Francisco in 1879, appeared

on

September 1995.

A fourth

secretary in a Lancaster

romance

law

publication in August 1996.

office. Later,

she

State

from Penn

and worked in

"two sons, two

domestic law.

Along the way, a

by order

shelves or

Her first completed work won the 1993
Golden Heart Award for "best single title

store chains

romance" from the Romance

A

Touch ofCamelot

Borders,

at the national

(Waldenbooks,

etc.),

the Manderly

they

may be

will

inter-

computer system and

software along with a wide
variety of instructional

video tapes.

"We

expect to complete

all
fall

semester," says Alichnie.

The Helene Fuld Foundation awards financial assis-

Touch of Camelot and Broken Vows
are still in print. If not still available on the

spondence course in novel-writing.

Writers of America.

and

A

corre-

be used to purchase an

of the upgrades during the

and laundry."

Donna Grove took a

historical

cats

in

a houseful of tinker toys

couple of children arrived.

Then,

scheduled for

Donna Grove lives
Manbeim with her

earned a paralegal
certificate

is

were awarded. The grant
active

bookstore shelves in

as a legal

nursing department, 303
schools applied for Fuld

Camelot, a spinoff of the

to

with her degree in English,
started

It

Broken Vows In March 1995.

she graduated, she married classmate

Ken Grove, '81.
The newlyweds settled down into
fortable life, and Donna, armed

According to M. Christine
Alichnie, chairperson of the

was published by Harper Paperbacks in
September 1994.

after

learning lab.

book-

B. Dalton's,

ordered through

Romance Readers

Catalog.

Call 800-722-0726 for a free catalog.

tance to promote the health,
welfare

and education of

students enrolled at accredited

nursing schools nationwide.
Schools are eligible to apply
for grants every

two

years.

Bloomsburg has applied for,
and received, grants from the
trust three times.

Bloomsburg University Magazine

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Young Person's
Concert

Academic
Calendar

Thanksgiving Recess
Classes

22,

1

:50 p.m.

perform

For information, contact

call

the

Gross Auditorium.

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m., Kehr Union.

Tickets are $20.

activities sticker,

Saturday, Dec. 9.

Central Ballet

Suzuki String

of China

Workshop

Saturday, Nov. 11,8 p.m., Mitrani

Saturday, Oct. 28. Call Bloomsburg's

1

6.

Commencement
Saturday, Dec. 16.

8 p.m., Mitrani Hall.

community

$2 for others.

Preparatory Program at 389-4289

Philadelphia Boys
Choir and Chorale
3, 3 p.m.,

Mitrani Hall,

Homecoming
Pops Concert
Oct 29, 2:30

Tickets are $20.

Sunday,

La Traviata

Hall, featuring

New York

City

Opera National Company, Thursday,
Feb. 8, 8 p.m., Mitrani Hall.Tickets

are $25.

Beauty and the Beast
Friday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mitrani

Hall.Tickets are $20.

James Galway,

Art

Sunday, March

Exhibits

Tickets are $30.

flutist

Mitrani Hall,

3, 3 p.m.,

Hours for the Haas Gallery of Art
Friday,

& Husky

Oct 4, and Thursday,

Oct.

7 and 9:30

Fall Orchestra
Concert

Center; Saturday,

Sunday, Nov.

1

2,

Mark jelinek

will direct
will

Nov.

9.

Reception, Nov.

9,

9 to

noon,

Hall.

and the

be Glenn Dodson.

Haas Gallery of Art.

Admission

Tatana Kellner
Photographs, Nov.

1

3 to

is

free unless

otherwise noted.

Dec.

1

6,

Dec.

1

,

will direct

the Concert

3, at

7:30 p.m. at

Church.

death camp. Reception.Tuesday,

a

Nov.

$2 for others.

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14,

noon.

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B/oomsDurg University Mogozine

community

is

free with

activities sticker,

Oct

and

18,

Friday,

Oct 25, and

Friday,

Oct. 27, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.,
Sunday,

Oct

29, 7 p.m.,

Haas Center.

Nine Months
Wednesday, Nov.

1

,

7 p.m. and 9:30

Student Recital

p.m.,

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.,

7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Kehr Union

Hall,

Gross Auditorium.

Kehr Union. Admission

Auschwitz

Apollo 13

Species

who

revisited the

and 7 p.m.,

p.m., 3 p.m.

Wednesday,

Eric

Haas Center;

Nov.

Friday,

Ballroom; Sunday, Nov.

5,

3,

7 p.m.,

Kehr Union Ballroom.

Poinsettia

8 p.m.,

1

Market Streets, Bloomsburg.

Pops Concert

6,

8,

Haas Center.

Sunday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., Haas Center.

7:30 p.m., First

Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.,

Oct.

Friday,

Oct.

Presbyterian Church, Fourth and

Carver

David Binder

Haas

Concert

World,

a

p.m.,

7, 3 p.m.,

Oct. 20, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.,

daughter of Holocaust survivors

is

Oct

Joy of Christmas

l969:TheYearThat Rocked the

Haas Gallery of Art. Kellner

p.m.

Wednesday,

First Presbyterian

Concerts

5,

Kehr Union Ballroom; Sunday,

8 p.m., Mitrani

guest soloist

Sunday, Dec.

Prints and ceramic tiles, Oct.

Batman Forever

by Eric Nelson and Grace Muzzo.

Singers, directed

Choir. The program will be repeated

Kevin Garber

Films
Wednesday,

Ensemble

Nelson

9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

p.m., Mitrani

performances by the

Concert Choir, Women's Choral

Friday,

Monday through

free with a

is

for details.

Performed by the

are

Admission

Hall.Tickets are $25.

Sunday, Dec.

at 389-4128.

Soprano, Sunday,

Miller,

Classes End

Exams End

ticket information, contact the

Oct. 22, 2:30 p.m., Carver Hall,

Saturday,

Final

from Santa Claus. Proceeds

benefit music scholarships. For

Development Center

Monday, Nov. 27, 8 a.m.

Saturday, Dec.

light

The Badlees

The Lettermen
7,

be

will

Faculty Recital

Celebrity Artist Series box office

Oct

be provided

will

cost There

refreshments, a carol sing-along, and
a visit

Stokes at 389-4293.

evening of family-orient-

ed entertainment

will

Ann

at (717) 389-4409.

Resume

will

An

at nominal

music with a Halloween theme for

Wendy
For ticket information,

p.m.

school groups. Directed by Mark
Jelinek.

Celebrity
Artist Series

I

University

Community Orchestra

Wednesday, Nov.

Muzzo.

Tuesday, Oct. 10, 10 a.m. and

The Bloomsburg

Mark Jelinek and Grace

directed by

Waterworld
Kehr

Tuesday, Nov.

7,

and

Friday,

Nov.

Union Ballroom.The University-

7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Kehr Union

Community Orchestra and

Ballroom; Sunday, Nov.

Chamber

Haas Center.

Singers will perform,

12,

1

7 p.m.,

0,

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Women's

Basketball vs. Shippensburg

Wednesday, Nov. 29, 6 p.m.
Men's Basketball

vs.

Sports

Men's and

Men's Soccer

Oct

Wednesday,

Men's Soccer

Women's

14,

1

Hockey

Saturday,

14,

Men's Soccer
Tuesday,

S,

Oct

Hockey

Men's Basketball

vs.

Wednesday, Dec.

6,

Hockey

Yaron Svoray. Kenneth

Clarion

6 p.m.

Auditorium

8 p.m.

Reception at 24 West

Wednesday, Nov.

Magee's Main Street

and author, Svoray

vs.

Pittsburgh

Thursday, Dec.

7,

neo-Nazi groups

7 p.m.

and wrote

Dinner at 24 West

documenting

Tables

PA

vs. California,

Door

PA

Germany

his

Shadow

experiences.

prizes

DJs Bob

p.m.
vs. California,

SeifertTier '84.

PA

Sunday, Oct. 29

Scranton

vs.

3 p.m.

Oct 28,

Men's Swimming

1:30 p.m.
vs.

Oct 28,

1

Montclair St
p.m.

Men's and Women's Swimming

Special Events

1

a.m.

University Store opens

Homecoming
Weekend
Saturday,

Oct

and

20 percent

1

for the

weekend

Saturday, Nov.

1,

1

1

1:30 a.m.

1

remain

2:30 p.m.

Singers and

9 to

will

Featuring the Concert Choir,

Saturday, Oct. 28
p.m.

Store

until 3 p.m.

Homecoming Pops Concert

as follows:

a.m.

Cheney

off clothing

28, to Sunday, Oct. 29.

The schedule of events
is

1

insignia items.

open

Bloomsburg Relays
Saturday, Nov. 4,

With

Tier '84 and his wife, Jill

Special sale:

Ensemble

Husky

Women's Choral

in

Mitrani Hall, Haas

Wrestling, Bloomsburg Invitational

Registration/Refreshments

Saturday, Nov. 18,9 a.m.

In

Men's and Women's Swimming

Kehr Union. (You must

register in

4 p.m.

vs. Ithaca

order to be

door

prizes,

Party for Concert Choir Alumni

be awarded at the

picnic,

At the Good Old Days

Saturday, Nov.

1

8,

1

p.m.

St Thomas Aquinas

Tuesday, Nov. 2

1

,

7:30 p.m.

Basketball vs. Caldwell

which

will

eligible for

game and dinner dance.You

must be present to

Alumni who need help

9 a.m.

Men's Basketball

and

insignia items (mugs, etc.).

will

remain open

Caldwell

20 percent

until

off clothing

5 p.m.

in locating class-

mates, friends or former roommates,

University Store opens
Special sale:

vs.

Restaurant,

East and Fifth streets, Bloomsburg.

win.)

Wednesday, Nov. 27, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 27, 8 p.m.

Center for the Arts.

the Multicultural Center of the

football

Men's Basketball

Women's

in

In Hitler's

at 24 West

Featuring "The Party People."

Football vs. West Chester

vs.

8 p.m. Journalist
infiltrated

be awarded during dinner.

Dance

1

Football vs.

Gross

9 p.m.

22, noon.

Oct 24,

Saturday,

8,

L.

Hall.

be reserved for each

will

reunion class or group.

Johns Hopkins

vs.

Men's Soccer

Saturday,

Carver

East Stroudsburg

vs.

Women's Soccer

Tuesday,

Inn.

7:30 p.m.

p.m.

vs. Indiana,

Oct 22, 2
Oct

in

17,2 p.m.

Men's Soccer

Sunday,

Provost Lecture

6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m.

Sunday,

Lectures

awarded during

the third quarter.
6,

Tuesday, Oct. 17,3 p.m.
Field

prizes will be

Basketball vs. Clarion

will

Field

be invited to attend.

4 p.m.

17,4 p.m.

Women's Soccer
Tuesday,

group. Current and retired

Pitt-johnstown

vs.

Oct

1

Tables will be

p.m.

vs. Millersville

Oct

may be ordered.)

reserved for each reunion class or

Women's Swimming

Wednesday, Dec.

Wrestling
Field

and McCormick

Sutliff Hall

2 p.m.

Bloomfield

vs.

Oct

Saturday,

1,

1

es

Door

Lock Haven

vs.

on the mall

Between

Shippensburg

Tuesday, Dec.

11,4 p.m.

Women's Soccer

:30 p.m.

faculty/staff will

Lock Haven

vs.

Oct

Wednesday,

Lock Haven

only.
vs.

1

Center. (Berrigan's sub or box lunch-

Saturday, Dec. 2, 2 p.m.

home games

Includes

vs.

a.m. to

1

Picnic

Shippensburg

Wednesday, Nov. 29, 6 p.m.
Men's Basketball

1

Store

may

call

the alumni office at 1-800-

526-0254, and the staff there

will

do

their best to assist you.

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met you recently at a reception
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