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FALL 1995
THE
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Walk Awhile In
My Shoes
EDITOR'S VIEW
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get a sense
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—
about the
and come
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civility
some of them.
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brave
of good
on
in
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to
understand the challenges of balancing
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and community
among
are
—
today's college students learn
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why
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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."
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A
WHOLE NEW WORLD
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"'"^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
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open to anyone
has
Mexico, France and,
the desire
ambition
to ...,,
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Shows,
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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
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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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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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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]
—
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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,
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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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standing
nels,
of
its
glare. Tall
like
the
1800s.
hymn
brates the
senti-
arrangements
lilies
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cele-
power of
grace in transform-
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defined
mans
a
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following a
From somewhere
at sea. Increasingly
off-stage
words,
came
troubled
the
inhuman
unadorned
and without accompaniment:
"Amazing Grace.
the sound...."
.
.
how sweet
The words are
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.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
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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
NEWS
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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
a charitable
more than $18,000
paid to you annually
Bloomsburg
deferred annuity.
For
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
have 4,600
gift will
help
educational mission.
more information about
the benefits of a charitable deferred
annuity, call the office of university
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at
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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
BRIEFS
for 1995-96
next year.
later
this winter.
American Culture
NEWS
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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
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through
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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.
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BRIEFS
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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HEY LADY. ..WANNA SEE
Psst. .Hey, lady.
.
.
.Wanna
Wanna visit
rain forests?
ruins? Give Quest a
Quest
some tropical
Mayan
Climbers can see the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. Off the summit, travelers will raft
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
journey to the "Cloud Forest" and perhaps
be about $1,550. For more information
climb to the summit of the mountain.
the Quest office at (717) 389-4323.
call
three join Robert
The
H. Preston
Anthony
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
ation
Educational Management.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
—
requires the
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
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purchase enough credits for a
development and director of
four-year degree, a two-year
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WBUQ reunion to honor
BRIEFS
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.
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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.
30
14,
noon.
FALL 1995
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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I
THE LAST
WORD
Dear Doctor Kozloff
7
met you recently at a reception
you held at Buckalew Place for
graduate students. If you can
recall the night, I was the
woman
middle-aged
women and
child.
I
man
a
lege to
PRESIDENT JESSICA KOZLOFF
for
BYPATTROSKY.MA'95
I
married and having children anyway.
with a small
spoke with you about the
lieu-
I
the
fall
had
you what a wonderful experience attending Bloomsburg
has been for me. Because this is your first
year there, I wanted you to know how
well. If
rewarding
I
I
cannot begin to
tell
has been].
[it
have been a newspaper reporter for 14
years
and an editor
While
worked
I
pursued
two
for the past
my
I
full-time, carried a full-time class
schedule for three semesters and also
worked
ried,
as a graduate assistant.
I
am mar-
have 14- and 19-year-old sons.
My
me in my
survivor. When I
elderly parents also live with
home.
am
I
a cancer
hear people say they don't have enough
time to do something,
what
I
I
have done, and
want
to
tell
just think
I
I
about
laugh.
you a story about how
my
graduation from Bloomsburg University
my life full-circle.
When I was a high school senior in
has brought
70,
Bloomsburg was among
My guidance
lege choices.
enough
wasn't smart
added,
nice
"Why
don't
boy and
until the right
my
1969-
three col-
counselor said
to go to college
you
I
and
just find yourself a
get married.
Be a
secretary
guy comes along."
Of course, I ignored him and applied to
all
three colleges.
thrilled
My parents
about college for
me
weren't too
either.
They
my brother should attend.
then, my parents believed that
thought only
Back
college
was
a waste
woman who would
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of
just
money
for
a
end up getting
Bloomsburg University Magazine
of 1970, but Bloomsburg said
summer
to attend
I
did,
I
I
—and do
school
would then be admitted
my
In
heart,
Bloomsburg, but
selected
I
wanted to attend
didn't want to wait, so
I
I
completed three semesters before
get
married
—
just as
my
parents
had predicted. Twelve years and two
dren
later,
I
I
chil-
considered college again.
felt
I
had
left col-
he was responsible
never finishing school, so he
me to
go back.
more
associate's
year to package
all
my
credits together for a bachelor's degree.
.
and another four semesters to earn my
M.A. from Bloomsburg the school of
—
my choice 25
finally
century
years ago.
started out as a
came
dream
18
at
to fruition a quarter of a
later.
Thanks
one of the other schools.
realized
took nine years to earn an
What
into the school in January, 1971.
left to
master's degree,
my
degree, one
was accepted to two of my choices for
tenant governor and graduation.
I
marry him,
encouraged
sitting in
the corner near the kitchen with two
other
My husband, who
A LETTER TO
for
helping
to
make
my
educational experience a memorable one.
Share
my
story with anyone
middle-aged
women
who might need
a
—
especially
sitting in corners
little
inspiration.
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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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the
THIS ISSUE
IN
VOL.
NO.
I
I
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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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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FALL 995
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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
FALL 995
1
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."
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5
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
"
lbetd*en.
«-ot*
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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 MUSIC GARAGE
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.
Join the
Join a walking trip to
Europe next summer and
discover the best way to see the country and
meet the people. • You can travel along footpaths and trails, through beautiful rural land-
—
scapes,
on any one of four excursions
across
England, Scotland, Ireland or France. After
your daytime treks of 10 or 15 miles, you'll
stay overnight, in
more
you might want to take a canoe
vigorous,
trip
down
the
Suwanee River in Florida or a four-week trek
through the Andes of Peru. If you're a bit
more adventurous and if
you're
—
a woman— how about
a trip through the rain
forest of
Costa Rica?
•
Your trips are escorted by
Bloomsburg University
faculty or a
England
3-15) You'll walk across the breadth of northern
island's most beautiful mountains
and moorlands. The trip begins in the Lake District and crosses the
North Yorkshire Moors from St. Bees on the Irish Sea to Robin
Hood's Bay on the North Sea. Your last day is spent in the ancient
(July
England, through some of the
—
city of York.
Scotland
(September) From the shores of Bonnie Loch Lomond,
walk north through the magnificent Western Highlands,
finishing on the remote and romantic isle of Skye, the last hiding
place of Bonnie Prince Charles. Your last day is spent in Edinburgh.
you'll
France
charming country inns and
bed-and-breakfasts. • For the
Quest
(June) You'll travel along the vineyards, past medieval
and through the countryside of the Alsace region of Eastern
France. Along trails and footpaths through the Vosges Mountains,
with spectacular views of the Rhine Valley and the Swiss Alps,
you'll experience a rewarding immersion into the culture and
cuisine of this beautiful region. Your last day is spent in the ancient
ruins
city of Strasborg.
Ireland (July) Experience the land of scholars and saints. Your
walk follows much of the coastline of the Dingle peninsula, a wild
and beautiful part of Ireland. You'll walk from the Slieve Mish
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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]
—
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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,
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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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A single
He was
Captain John Newton's.
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...."
.
.
how sweet
The words are
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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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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9
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
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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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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
BRIEFS
selected as
The University of North
in the
NEWS
BRIEFS
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
a charitable
more than $18,000
paid to you annually
Bloomsburg
deferred annuity.
For
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
have 4,600
gift will
help
educational mission.
more information about
the benefits of a charitable deferred
annuity, call the office of university
advancement
at
717-389-4524.
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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
BRIEFS
for 1995-96
next year.
later
this winter.
American Culture
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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HEY LADY. ..WANNA SEE
Psst. .Hey, lady.
.
.
.Wanna
Wanna visit
rain forests?
ruins? Give Quest a
Quest
some tropical
Mayan
Climbers can see the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. Off the summit, travelers will raft
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
journey to the "Cloud Forest" and perhaps
be about $1,550. For more information
climb to the summit of the mountain.
the Quest office at (717) 389-4323.
call
three join Robert
The
H. Preston
Anthony
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
ation
Educational Management.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
—
requires the
had worked
the Harvard Institute for
FALL 1995
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
degree, or just a semester or
affairs for
Trenton
State College in Trenton,
N.J.,
where he earned
his
two. For
and a
more information
free brochure, call the
undergraduate and
Tuition Account Program
graduate degrees.
toll-free at
800-440-4000.
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WBUQ reunion to honor
BRIEFS
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.
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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.
30
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.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
FALL 995
1
3
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THE LAST
WORD
Dear Doctor Kozloff
7
met you recently at a reception
you held at Buckalew Place for
graduate students. If you can
recall the night, I was the
woman
middle-aged
women and
child.
I
man
a
lege to
PRESIDENT JESSICA KOZLOFF
for
BYPATTROSKY.MA'95
I
married and having children anyway.
with a small
spoke with you about the
lieu-
I
the
fall
had
you what a wonderful experience attending Bloomsburg
has been for me. Because this is your first
year there, I wanted you to know how
well. If
rewarding
I
I
cannot begin to
tell
has been].
[it
have been a newspaper reporter for 14
years
and an editor
While
worked
I
pursued
two
for the past
my
I
full-time, carried a full-time class
schedule for three semesters and also
worked
ried,
as a graduate assistant.
I
am mar-
have 14- and 19-year-old sons.
My
me in my
survivor. When I
elderly parents also live with
home.
am
I
a cancer
hear people say they don't have enough
time to do something,
what
I
I
have done, and
want
to
tell
just think
I
I
about
laugh.
you a story about how
my
graduation from Bloomsburg University
my life full-circle.
When I was a high school senior in
has brought
70,
Bloomsburg was among
My guidance
lege choices.
enough
wasn't smart
added,
nice
"Why
don't
boy and
until the right
my
1969-
three col-
counselor said
to go to college
you
I
and
just find yourself a
get married.
Be a
secretary
guy comes along."
Of course, I ignored him and applied to
all
three colleges.
thrilled
My parents
about college for
me
weren't too
either.
They
my brother should attend.
then, my parents believed that
thought only
Back
college
was
a waste
woman who would
32
FALL 1995
of
just
money
for
a
end up getting
Bloomsburg University Magazine
of 1970, but Bloomsburg said
summer
to attend
I
did,
I
I
—and do
school
would then be admitted
my
In
heart,
Bloomsburg, but
selected
I
wanted to attend
didn't want to wait, so
I
I
completed three semesters before
get
married
—
just as
my
parents
had predicted. Twelve years and two
dren
later,
I
I
chil-
considered college again.
felt
I
had
left col-
he was responsible
never finishing school, so he
me to
go back.
more
associate's
year to package
all
my
credits together for a bachelor's degree.
.
and another four semesters to earn my
M.A. from Bloomsburg the school of
—
my choice 25
finally
century
years ago.
started out as a
came
dream
18
at
to fruition a quarter of a
later.
Thanks
one of the other schools.
realized
took nine years to earn an
What
into the school in January, 1971.
left to
master's degree,
my
degree, one
was accepted to two of my choices for
tenant governor and graduation.
I
marry him,
encouraged
sitting in
the corner near the kitchen with two
other
My husband, who
A LETTER TO
for
helping
to
make
my
educational experience a memorable one.
Share
my
story with anyone
middle-aged
women
who might need
a
—
especially
sitting in corners
little
inspiration.
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Bloomsburg University is getting
the recognition
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among
—
We've
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is a
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regional universities.
deserves.
it
Bloomsburg Universty has
first-
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September 25, 1995
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